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 ...
This month we will salute our male Board members, just as we introduced our female members in March. We start by remembering beloved members Dr. Jerry Boulding and A.D. Washington. Jerry was one of the founders of the Living Legends Foundation, ap ...
In celebration of #BlackMusicMonth & our 30th Anniversary, we will remember the past awards dinners. We kick it off with a message from founder Ray Harris: “The Living Legends started out as an awards luncheon at the Urban Network conference in L ...
THE hottest in club in Cleveland was Mirage On The Water, owned by Dean Zapis. Â Everyone went there - artists, athletes, elected officials, business professionals, regular folk. Â You knew you were gonna have a good time because the hottest DJ in the ...
We’re remembering various clubs in Detroit that were very supportive of the record labels and the radio stations - Club Chic, The Warehouse Club, Rivertown Club, The Lady, Club UBQ and Club Taboo!  WJLB and WGPR hosted weekly events and the labels s ...
In LA between 1985-1989, one of the hottest clubs was Paradise 24, at 6215 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood. Â It was run by Felipe Darrell, Greg Lites, Ray Moore, Artris Leftage, Larry Wallace and Greg Thomas. Â The partners had outgrown their prev ...
R & B LIVE, founded by Manager Ramon Hervey II & Event Producer Bill Hammond, was a legendary LA weekly entertainment series which became a haven for top R&B, jazz, rap/hip hop, gospel, & pop artists from 1991-95. It launched on 1/16 ...
