The 2011 Essence Music Festival marks the 17th Anniversary of the concert series of three days. Many people do not know the origin of the music festival.
Essence Magazine, gave a lifestyle magazine for black women giving birth to the Essence Music Festival in 1994 on the 25th Celebrate the anniversary of the magazine. According to the Houston Chronicle, the first festival attracted 142 000 people and reaches more than 250,000 people in recent years.
Before the creation of the Essence Festival, Essence Magazine Music Showcase in New York with performances from artists such as Freddie Jackson instead.
The Essence Festival is a celebration of black American music and culture known. For 10 years, there has always been a lineup wide spectrum of contemporary R & B, soul, hip-hop, jazz and gospel were.
In 2001, the range of artists such as Destiny’s Child, Frankie Beverly and Maze, Patti LaBelle, Kelly Price, Jill Scott, Teena Marie, Joe, Erykah Badu and many others.
The festival took a solemn tone in 2003 when one of the biggest headliners, Luther Vandross, who died. A wonderfully diverse hip-hop and R & B artists such as common for an all-star “go home” is a tribute to Luther, that the artist Nelly, Anita Baker, Jamie Foxx, P. Diddy and Bad Boy family featured with New Edition, Faith Evans, Frankie Beverly Maze, Smokey Robinson, Jaheim, Chaka Khan, Wanda Sykes, Heather Headley, Nappy Roots, and not even begin on the surface of many newly popular artists that the life and music of Luther Vandross and the Essence Festival came to celebrate.
In 2005, The Black Eyed Peas is a late edition to the range of artists and Aretha Franklin, Destiny’s Child, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Mo’Nique, and with Frankie Beverly Maze, Lionel Richie, John Legend was, Teena Marie, Fantasia, Ruben Studdard, Kem, and many others.
The range 2011 Essence Music Festival offers an eclectic mix of hip-hop, R & B, funk, jazz, gospel, soul and New Orleans brass bands on the spot. The range has recently announced offers Kanye West, Trey Songz, Mint Condition, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, a super lounge Dwele, and many others. In essence, traditional fixed-mode expect more people to the area in March or late April to add.
Many people expect a tribute to R & B artist Teena Marie, the 26th Died in December 2010, and was a favorite of the Essence Festival.
