R&B Live

R&B LIVE New York SIZZLE REEL

R&B Live New York 2008

R&B Makes A Come Back!

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R&B LIVE New York Highlights!

R&B Live is a sexy showcase series, that brings great live R&B to New York City.
An invite-only event, R&B Live takes place at Spotlight Live in Midtown Manhattan. The beautiful venue allows our guests to wine and dine while watching live R&B performances by music legends as well as up and coming newcomers. The event is brought to you by 1st Class Entertainment's Eric Nicks & Shanti Das, as well as Lenny The Barber (LTB Entertainment) and Dante Simpson (DSA Media).
R&B Live New York's premiere on June 12th brought performances by Jaguar Wright, Def Jam recording artist Deemi as well as Blackground/Universal artist Tank. A spontaneous Jam session also included performances by Ron Grant and Floetry's Marsha Ambrosius.
June 19th's event was also star-studded as Babyface, Q-Tip and Olivia came to watch performances by Def Jam recording artist Chrisette Michele, Universal Motown new signing Gritz and Sony recording artist Lyfe took to the stage. Click here to watch Lyfe Jennings' performance at R&B Live New York!
July 10th brought Raheem Devaughn on stage. Matthew Knowles and Diddy were in attendance!
July 17th's showcase was hosted by AJ and featured great performances by up and coming R&B artists.
July 24th had the stars come out. Claudette Ortiz, Mya and D-Nice spinning. Click here to watch Mya's performance at R&B Live New York!
August 7th, R&B Live brought Cheri Dennis, Bilal and new superstar J Holiday to the stage for a sparkling night! Click here to watch J Holiday's performance at R&B Live New York!
August 14th had up and coming R&B artists Trezhur, Brad Marquis and broadway start Keith Robinson grace the stage. R Kelly also came to support! Click here to watch Keith Robinson's performance at R&B Live New York!
August 21st, R&B Live presented Music World Entertainment. Solange, IB3, Miredys, 1 Crush, Lady Lux, Vikki O'Neil and Katy Shotter. Beyoncé came out along with Bow Wow and The Simmons sisters (Run's House).
August 28th brought a STELLAR performance by Fantasia, who had the crowd on their feet while she was singing up on the tables! Emily King and Usher's Once Chance also took the stage. Click here to watch Fantasia bring the house down at R&B Live New York!
September 11th took the crowd back when Brownstone, Next and Lil Mo took the stage! Click here to watch Lil Mo's performance at R&B Live New York!
September 18th, R&B Live hosted unsigned talents Sebastien, Devon Howard, Ahmir and highlighted a stellar performance by Keke Wyatt.
October 2nd brought an awesome and overwhelming crowd to R&B Live. Performances by Ray Lavender and Trey Songz had the spot dancing! Check out our picture section for a star studded turn out by Terrence Howard, Gabrielle Union and Diddy! Click here to watch Trey Songz' performance at R&B Live New York!
October 9th, Brian McKnight surprised R&B Live with an impromptu performance of One Last Cry. Other performers were the beautiful Chrisette Michele, Singer/Songwriter Gordon Chambers and Bad Boy artist Nelson. Click here to watch Chrisette Michele's performance at R&B Live New York!
October 16th, R&B Live brought out Soul For Real and Slim from 112 along with Floetry-member Amanda Diva. Ne-yo, The New York Giants, Judge Hatchett and Chingy enjoyed the performances!
November 6th, R&B Live featured performances by Jean Baylor (formerly of Zhane), Columbia artist Tiffany Evans, Starr featuring Jim Jones and Juelz Santana, Q of 112 and Marsha from Floetry!
November 13th, Tamika Scott (of Xscape) and Sammie performed. Brian McKnight stopped by to show some love.
November 27th, R&B Live featured performances by Marsha of Floetry, Mario and Cassidy and many more!
January 15th 2008, R&B Live brought in the New Year with a BANG!! Feauturing performances by Ne-Yo and fellow artists of Compound Entertainment!
January 29th 2008, Diddy took over R&B Live and brought out Cheri Dennis, Making the Band, Janelle Monae and Jeff Redd!
February 12th 2008, Lil Mo came out to celebrate Valentine's Day with NYC! Also present were Remy Ma and many more!
February 26th 2008, Ludacris brought out Bobby Valentino, Shareefa and others from DTP! Also in the house were Jadakiss and many other celebs!
March 11th 2008, R&B Live brought CASE to the stage! He performed his classic hits Happily Ever After and Missing You! He also had the house singing Touch Me Tease Me.
April 1st 2008, Koch/Epic came through with their young stars Casely, Yung Berg and Ray J. Actor Anthony Anderson took the stage and impressed the audience!
April 22nd 2008, despite mayhem at the door with half of New York City clamoring to attend R&B LIVE NYC hosted by Universal Motown and The Inc. Records, the stars came out one after another. The Inc./Universal recording artists Ashanti and Lloyd along with Universal Motown’s Ryan Leslie, Gritz and Suai each brought their individual flavor to the stage as a multitude of celebs, music execs, and tastemakers looked on.
May 20th, 2008. The lovely Estelle tore the house down with her beautiful voice!
July 23, 2008 (NEW YORK) – Pure soul was in the air last night at R&B Live NYC as Epic Records’ new artist Noel Gourdin celebrated the release of his debut album After My Time along with the talented singer/songwriter Eric Roberson. The night began with the smooth stylings of Vaughn Anthony (the brother of John Legend) who sang the single, “Humpin’ to the Beat.” Then Eric Roberson wowed the crowd with the thoughtful songs “Couldn’t Hear Me” and “Pretty Girls.” In true creative fashion, Eric even freestyled a hilarious song by asking the audience to shout out six subject words which were: “panties,” “stilettos,” “money,” “robots,” “diamonds” and “Obama.” By the end of his set, he had everyone laughing and chanting “Obama” to the impromptu tune.
However, the man of the hour was definitely Noel Gourdin, who steamed up the room with the sexy tune, "Summertime." The evening’s grand finale, of course, was Noel’s soulful hit single, “The River,” which had everyone swaying to the melody. Guests in the room last night included Sony Urban Music VP of A&R Chad Elliott, Kedar Entertainment/Korus Wines’ Kedar Massenburg, Latina Magazine’s Editor-At-Large Bev Smith, singer/songwriter Gordon Chambers, Stalin Entertainment’s Larry “Lucky” Fernandes and Trakaddix’s Tommy Oliviera.
Look who showed up:
Quotes:
“R&B live is a necessary tool in providing performing artists with a platform to learn their craft and hone the skills of entertaining live. Our industry is in desperate need of true artistic development... This can clearly help.”
- Antonio “LA” Reid, Chairman Island Def Jam
“A wonderful location for great music right in the middle of Times Square , where the stars wander... BUT once you go into R&B LIVE for a couple of hours, the stars descend there!!! It's great to see LIVE music again & really cool to see industry execs come together to enjoy good music!!"
- Universal Motown Artist, Q-Tip
“I absolutely loved it, I think it’s important and necessary. Seeing live music in a setting with our musical peers is something that has been missing. Venue was amazing and talent was great. Loved the fact that aspiring artists and unsigned artists are allowed to perform in front of that type of crowd. Countt me in as a regular!”
- Helen Little, PD from Power105
“It’s better than Mom’s fried chicken to have live soul music in NY again. Say what? Real instruments? R&B Live is my new Tuesday hangout.”
- Stephen Hill
“R&B Live is exactly what the music industry needs right now.”
- Rhonda Cowan

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