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EU Band
About EU Sugar Bear
Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliott is a Washington DC legend, go-go pioneer and founding member of the Washington DC go-go band E.U. (Experience Unlimited). The band chose the name Experience due to their respect for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and Unlimited because they did not want to limit the range of their music.
Keke Wyatt
Ke'Tara Shavon "Keke" Wyatt is an American singer-songwriter and television personality. After performing in a number of girl bands and working as a songwriter during her teenage years, in 2000 she garnered national attention after her successful collaboration with fellow R&B singer Avant, In 2001 her rendition of "Nothing in This World" led to a nomination for the Best New R&B/Soul/Rap Artist award at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. After a number of charting collaborations and solo releases, in 2012 she starred as a cast member in TV One's R&B Divas: Atlanta, which featured the lives of five 1990s chart-topping R&B singers. She was featured in all 3 seasons of the show. She also performed with the group at events such as Essence Music Festival.
In her career, Wyatt released official studio albums, including Soul Sista, Who Knew?, Unbelievable, and her latest and recent release, Rated Love. All of these albums charted prominently on Billboard, as did her first and only EP release, Ke'Ke'. Wyatt has also released a number of charting singles, with the lead single "Sexy Song" from the album Rated Love peaking at number 29 on the Adult R&B Songs chart.
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Sunshine Anderson
Artist, Author, Speaker, Networker .. I AM the business, man!
Yo-Yo
Yolanda Whitaker, also known as Yo-Yo is an American rapper and actress.
Much of Yo-Yo's music advocates female empowerment. She is the protégé of gangsta rapper Ice Cube. Yo-Yo has dubbed her crew the IBWC, Intelligent Black Woman's Coalition.
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NEXT
NEXT is an American R&B musical trio, popular during the late 1990s and early 2000s. They are best known for their Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit single "Too Close". They are also known for "Wifey", "Butta Love" and "I Still Love You", all of which still receive frequent airplay on Urban Adult Contemporary radio stations in the U.S. and internationally.
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Lyfe Jennings
Chester Jermaine "Lyfe" Jennings is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He plays the guitar, bass, and piano which he integrates into his music. The New York Times referred to him as a "socially minded R&B singer". Wikipedia
Jon B.
Grammy nominated Jon B is a consummate artist, an accomplished musician and noted songwriter and producer with several gold and platinum records under his belt. His beginning was seasoned by the early influences of Duran Duran, INXS, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Babyface, Prince and Sade. He spent the summer after high school writing, producing and recording 40 incredible songs and began making his rounds to all major record labels.
GapX Band
GAPX - THE BAND is bringing back the Funk!
GAPX - THE BAND is the funky, rocking, dancing, soulful, gospel, and country inspired mega band brought to life by the original players of the legendary group, The Gap Band. The music flows through their veins – united on the stage again – to bring back the funk via the original and unique sound that fans have always known and loved.
This is not a tribute band – it is the core players who wrote, recorded, and toured the World originally as The Gap Band. The amazing hits such as “Outstanding”, “Yearning For Your Love”, “All of My Love”, “Burn Rubber On Me”, “You Dropped a Bomb On Me”, and “Early In The Morning” – are all performed live, loud, and with a lot of love.
Yung Joc
Jasiel Amon Robinson, better known by his stage name Yung Joc, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 2006 hit single "It's Goin' Down", and as a feature on T-Pain's 2007 U.S. number-one single "Buy U a Drank".
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KEKE
WYATT
SUNSHINE
ANDERSON
YO-YO
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NEXT
LYFE
JENNINGS
JON B.
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GAP X
THE BAND
RAPPER
YUNG JOC
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