Just when you think you can’t get enough Idris Elba, he gives you another great performance to adore. Over the weekend, his new film Prometheus, about a team of explorers who encounter alien life while looking for clues to the origins of mankind on Earth, hit theaters. Elba plays the captain of the space ship. Um, two tickets please!
All you Maxwell fans are in for a real treat this summer. He will embark on a special six night tour with two nights in three cities — Atlanta, Newark, New Jersey, and Los Angeles. With help from his 11-piece band, he will perform all four of his hit albums in full. On night one in each city, he’ll perform Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite (96’) and Embrya (98’), and on night two he’ll perform all of Now (‘01) and BLACKsummers ’night’ (’09). This concert is sure to be an epic moment in live music history.
Debonair darling Blair Underwood is making headlines with his superb performance in A Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway in New York City. The play, which has all Black cast, has earned rave reviews. Not planning on being in the New York City area this summer? You might want to rethink that — getting a chance to see Blair, shown her backstage in costume, live and up close is so worth the trip.
The sultry crooner with the curly hair has always known how to sing his way into our hearts, and this summer he’s back with another musical fix just for the ladies. He dropped his new album The One last week and he’ll be headed to a city near you this summer performing recent favorites like “Sometimes I Cry” and “Real Love.”
Swagalicious R&B king Trey Songz, and his devoted “Trey’s Angels” of course, return to the ESSENCE Music Festival this summer, and he’s got another sweaty set for the ladies to help them keep warm inside the Superdome.
His powerful new love ballad “I Want You” is all over the airwaves lately, and now new artist Luke James is bringing those lips, and that sweet falsetto, to the SuperLounge at the ESSENCE Music Festival this July. Get your tickets now.
Just when you think you can’t get enough Idris Elba, he gives you another great performance to adore. Over the weekend, his new film Prometheus, about a team of explorers who encounter alien life while looking for clues to the origins of mankind on Earth, hit theaters. Elba plays the captain of the space ship. Um, two tickets please!