2021 Soul Put collectively Awards Location To Be Held At NYC’s Legendary Apollo Theater
This year’s uncover can comprise an ultimate time the 50th anniversary of ‘Soul Put collectively.’
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The 2021 Soul Put collectively Awards will most likely be hosted on the historic Apollo Theater in New York Metropolis on Nov. 20, making it the foremost time the award uncover will most likely be based mostly completely mostly in NYC in its 34-year history. For the interval of its first 20 years from its 1987 start unless 2007, the uncover aired from venues in Los Angeles. It moved to Atlanta between 2009-2011, then Las Vegas from 2012-2019 unless it become held almost this capability that of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apollo govt producer, Kamilah Forbes, expressed thru statement, “The Apollo has long been a center of Shadowy cultural and creative innovation for Harlem, the metropolis of New York, and the arena. It has equipped a platform for Shadowy artists at all stages of their careers, and a gathering remark for audiences to particular themselves freely. The Apollo is extremely jubilant to partner with BET to host the Soul Put collectively Awards, bringing collectively three iconic brands that represent Shadowy culture and excellence below one roof.”
This year’s uncover pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of Soul Put collectively, which debuted on Oct. 2, 1971. When the series aired its final episode in 2006, it become notion of the longest working first-bustle, nationally syndicated program in tv history.
Connie Orlando, BET’s EVP of specials, song programming and song method, honored the late Soul Put collectively host and founder, Don Cornelius in an announcement. “Don Cornelius’ finest imaginative and prescient created a revolutionary uncover that become a cornerstone in American culture. Fifty years later, the Soul Put collectively Awards continues to make bigger his indispensable message of esteem, peace and soul to a world target market. We’re honored to be a fraction of the Soul Put collectively legacy and partner with the national like that is the Apollo to comprise an ultimate time Shadowy excellence and culture,” she expressed.
Cornelius helmed the program from its inception unless 1993. He died by suicide at age 75 in 2012.