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HOSTS CHOSEN FOR PIONEER AWARDS: Warwick, Butler, Brady and Raitt to help pay homage to honorees.
*Wayne Brady joins music legends Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt and Jerry Butler as co-hosts of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's 20th Anniversary Pioneer Awards gala, to be held at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia on Sept. 9.
The event will pay homage to Chaka Khan with the Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, Bill Withers, Teena Marie, and singer-songwriter Sugar Pie DeSanto will receive the Foundation's Individual Artist Award; The Whispers and Kool & the Gang will receive the Foundation's Group Artists Award; Motown session players the Funk Brothers will receive the Foundation's Sidemen Award; soul legend Donny Hathaway will posthumously receive a Legacy Award in recognition of his influential output in the 1970s; and Al Bell, former president of two renowned record labels, Stax Records and Motown Records, will be given the Ahmet Ertegun Leadership Award.
Patricia Wilson Aden, executive of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation, commented on the organization's 20th anniversary: "Over the years, the active support of Jerry Butler, Dionne Warwick and Bonnie Raitt has been enormously beneficial to the work of the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. It's only fitting that they serve as co-hosts as we celebrate our accomplishments over the past twenty years and prepare to meet the challenges that will come in the next twenty years."
For more information about the Rhythm & Blues Foundation and to purchase tickets for the 2008 Pioneer Awards, please visit www.rhythmblues.org or call 215-568-1080.
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