*The Residing Legends Basis (LLF) at the moment pronounces its newest honoree for the group’s 2023 Awards Dinner and Gala. The LLF’s Vice President and board member Jacqueline Rhinehart will probably be offered with the Inventive Visionary Award and can be part of the eight beforehand introduced honorees at this 12 months’s award ceremony. Additionally becoming a member of this 12 months’s historic Hip Hop At 50 Celebration will probably be 102.3 FM KJLH Los Angeles air character Tammi Mac, who will function the occasion’s first-time gala host; and DJ Battlecat will present the leisure. There will even be a tribute to the late Varnell Harris Johnson, veteran music govt and former president of the Residing Legends Basis. This 12 months’s occasion will probably be held on Friday, October 6, 2023, at Taglyan Cultural Advanced, 1201 N. Vine Road, Hollywood, CA. The crimson carpet and cocktail reception start at 6:30 p.m. with the awards dinner at 7:30 p.m.
Rhinehart’s greater than 30 years in music, media, and advertising is known. A masterful omni-media and advertising strategist, her profession included a stint as senior vp of selling at Common/Motown Information, the place she charted the course for Common’s city music advertising. She labored with the legendary Motown label and with artists and label imprints together with Nelly, Erykah Badu, Money Cash Information, Boys II Males, Grasp P, and P. Diddy’s Unhealthy Boy Leisure. Earlier than Common/Motown Information, she was the senior director of publicity at Arista Information, the place she served two tenures below the management of legendary music impresario Clive Davis.
Throughout her tenure at Arista, she coordinated the media launch for each LaFace Information and Unhealthy Boy Information and created media campaigns for numerous label artists together with Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, TLC, Deborah Cox, Monica, The Infamous B.I.G., Sean “Diddy” Combs, Lisa Stansfield, and Kenny G, amongst others. Rhinehart’s numerous roles within the music and recording industries additionally included senior positions at PolyGram/Mercury and Uptown/MCA Information — including such artists as Vanessa Williams, Oleta Adams, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Third World, Brian McKnight, Mary J. Blige, and Heavy D, to her rising roster of shoppers.
In 1986, she began her profession within the recording trade because the Director of Artist Improvement at Hush Productions, a full-service leisure firm that produced Melba Moore, Freddie Jackson, Najee, Meli’sa Morgan, Ray Goodman & Brown, in addition to award-winning songwriters McFadden & Whitehead, Barry Eastmond and Kashif, amongst others.
Rhinehart is the creator of MY ORGANIC SOUL: From Plato to Creflo, Emerson to MLK, Jesus to Jay-Z: A Journal to Assist You Uncover Your self by way of Phrases of Knowledge from Visionaries Previous and Current. She is a contributor to Girls Behind The Mic: Curators of Pop Tradition, Quantity One (Renewing Your Thoughts Ink), Inside The Minds/CMO Chief Methods: High Executives on Creating and Delivering Profitable Advertising Campaigns That Influence the Backside Line (ASPATORE Books), and Deal with Your Leisure Enterprise (Grand Central/Warner Publishing).

Rhinehart will be part of the eight different 2023 honorees, who’re additionally among the many first era of music executives in hip-hop and media, together with Rocky Bucano, govt director of the Common Hip Hop Museum, who will probably be offered with the Hip Hop Visionary Award; Nelson George, creator and filmmaker, will obtain the Media Icon Award; Ed Lover, syndicated air character of The Ed Lover Present with Monie Love, will probably be offered with the Jerry Boulding Radio Award; Walt “Child” Love, radio legend and syndicated air character of Gospel Traxx, will obtain the Ray Harris Lifetime Achievement Award; Lionel Ridenour, founder and CEO of Anchor Promotions, will probably be offered with the Music Govt Award; Tracey Jordan, a associate of Jordan/Lazin Productions, will obtain the Mike Bernardo Feminine Govt Award; Vernon Brown, Esq., founding father of V. Brown & Firm, will probably be offered with the Leisure Advocate Award; and Shanti Das, former music govt and founding father of Silence The Disgrace, will obtain the A.D. Washington Chairman’s Award.
Tammi Mac, a Houston native and three-time NAACP Picture Award-winning broadcast journalist was handpicked by the long-lasting Stevie Surprise to host the primary afternoon radio present, “The Tammi Mac Present” from 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. day by day on Surprise’s Los Angeles 102.3. KJLH station. She was additionally voted the Finest Radio Persona by the Los Angeles Occasions. Her voice is featured on nationwide commercials together with Amazon’s Alexa Tremendous Bowl spot Ellen, Pepsi’s Tremendous Bowl spot that includes Cindy Crawford, and Walmart that includes Kevin Hart. She can also be the brand new voice on the tv sport present, “Pictionary,” hosted by Jerry O’Connell.
Kevin Alexander Gilliam, publicly often called DJ Battlecat is a local of South Central, Los Angeles, and internationally identified for his manufacturing and deejaying everywhere in the world. He has collaborated with multi-platinum and multi-genre artists together with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, WC, Xzibit, Dogg Pound E40 Nate Dogg, Ice Dice, King T, Tha Eastsidaz, Religion Evans, Kenny Lattimore, Tyrese, Raphael Saadiq and The Dramatics, amongst many others.
This 12 months’s Dinner Chairs are Skip Dillard, model supervisor and program director for Audacy’s WXBK/94.7, the Block, New York Metropolis; and Woman B, air character of Classix 107.9 in Philadelphia.
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