By Mark Kennedy AP Leisure Author
NEW YORK (AP) — Kool and the Gang, Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Sade and hip-hop teams A Tribe Known as Quest and Eric B. & Rakim are among the many Black entertainers comprising the 2024 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. Pop goddess Cher, the late Sinéad O’Connor and heavy metallic’s so-called Prince of Darkness are additionally a part of this 12 months’s consort, a large musical internet that additionally contains Britpoppers Oasis.
Ozzy Osbourne, who led many mother and father within the Nineteen Eighties to clutch their pearls together with his satan imagery and sludgy music, will get the nod as a solo artist, having already gone into the corridor with Black Sabbath.
Nominations additionally have been handed to delicate rockers Foreigner, singer-guitarist Peter Frampton, alt-rockers Jane’s Habit and Dave Matthews Band, and dance icons Kool & the Gang.
“Persevering with within the true spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, these artists have created their very own sounds which have impacted generations and influenced numerous others which have adopted of their footsteps,” mentioned John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Basis in a press release.
Ten of the 15 nominees are on the poll for the primary time, together with Carey, Cher, Foreigner, Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Kravitz, Oasis, O’Connor, Osbourne and Sade. Sade, whose Nineteen Eighties delicate rock hits embrace “Easy Operator” and “The Sweetest Taboo,” is having a second, having final 12 months been inducted into the Songwriters Corridor of Fame.
Carey, with 19 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Scorching 100, Blige with eight multi-platinum albums and 9 Grammy Awards, and Cher — the one artist to have a No. 1 music in every of the previous six many years — would assist increase the variety of girls within the corridor.
Artists will need to have launched their first business recording not less than 25 years earlier than they’re eligible for induction. The induction ceremony will happen in Cleveland this fall.
Nominees will probably be voted on by greater than 1,000 artists, historians and music trade professionals. Followers can vote on-line or in individual on the museum, with the highest 5 artists picked by the general public making up a “followers’ poll” that will probably be tallied with the opposite skilled ballots.
Final 12 months, Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Chaka Khan, “Soul Prepare” creator Don Cornelius, Kate Bush and the late George Michael have been among the artists who obtained into the corridor.
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