If there is an example of leading powerfully with inclusivity, compassion and style, that would be Jon Platt and we are honored to have him on our Board of Directors. Jon is Chairman & CEO of Sony Music Publishing, the number one global music pu ...
We’re rolling along to 1997 and still part of the Impact Super Summit. In celebration of #BlackMusicMonth & our 30th Anniversary, we are remembering our past awards dinners and honorees. The Impact Super Summit left Atlantic City and moved their ...
A Detroit native, Miller London was hired by Motown Records in 1969 as the first black salesman for the company or any major record company at that time. He hadn’t even completed college yet, that’s how bad he is! He moved to LA with the company’s e ...
Were you at the 1995 awards dinner? In celebration of #BlackMusicMonth & our 30th Anniversary, we remember that night!  We held the dinner again at the Impact SuperSummit at the Bally’s Park Place Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Elroy Smith was t ...
Today we celebrate board member Varnell Johnson, President of the Living Legends Foundation and head of Junes Entertainment. A Philadelphia native and Vietnam veteran, Varnell, affectionately known as VJ, started his music career at A&L Distribu ...
In celebration of #BlackMusicMonth & our 30th Anniversary, we remember the 1994 awards dinner.  We were once again at the Impact Super Summit at the Bally’s Park Place Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. Vinny Brown was the Dinner Chairperson with a ...
Today we celebrate board member David C. Linton, Chairman of the Living Legends Foundation and Program Director of Jazz 91.9 WCLK owned by Clark Atlanta University, one of the country’s leading Jazz stations. David has been honored over the years ...
In celebration of #BlackMusicMonth & our 30th Anniversary, we remember the 1993 awards dinner. It occurred to Ray Harris that since most of the record companies were on the East Coast, we should hold the awards dinner closer to them. We moved th ...
Ray Harris is founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Living Legends Foundation.  He brought his idea of creating a Foundation to Jerry Boulding and the rest is history. Ray was a rare executive of color in the early ‘80s to have total responsibility f ...
In celebration of #BlackMusicMonth & our 30th Anniversary, we remember 1992, our first stand-alone dinner during the Urban Network Power Jam Conference. We honored 19 people, which everyone said was too much but there were so many deserving peop ...
