::THE SLICE REPORT WITH MONA AUSTIN

The socially distant CMAs will take place live from  Nashville's Music City Center  tonight.   Country music stars Luke Combs, Eric Church, Maren Morris, Miranda Lambert and will take stage Wednesday at the  54th annual CMA Awards . Due to the coronavirus pandemic, artists and industry members will be spread eight feet apart and serve as the night’s in-person audience.  Together they will cheer on all the performers and nominees in the building awhile everyone else joins in from a distance.

(SILVER SPRING, MD)  -  November 14, 2019 -   Cathy Hughes , Urban One Founder and Chairwoman, announced the honorees, performers and presenters for the prestigious annual  URBAN ONE HONORS   event on Thursday, December 5, 2019, at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. The two-hour telecast will air on  TV One , a division of Urban One,  on  January 20, 2020, the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. This year's honorees include: veteran music executive  Sylvia Rhone  (Lifetime Achievement Award); Grammy Award-winning recording artist and producer  Missy Elliott (Music Innovation Award); Academy Award-winning actor  Jamie Foxx  (Entertainment Icon Award); and actor/dancer and star of "Pose,"  Ryan Jamaal Swain  (Represent Pride Award). Performers include: Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter  Ne-Yo ; Grammy-nominated rapper  Wale ; Grammy Award-winning R&B superstar...

CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF MOTOWN RECORDS' ICONIC SOUND WITH AN ALL-STAR LINEUP OF PERFORMERS PAYING TRIBUTE TO THE HISTORIC RECORD LABEL THAT CHANGED AMERICA The Special Airs Sunday, April 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS Diana, Stevie, and Smokie.  They were all there just like back in the day. Earlier this year the Grammys recorded a tribute event in celebration of the  60th anniversary of MOTWON.  On Easter Sunday, The Recording Academy ™ , AEG Ehrlich Ventures, and CBS will celebrate historic American record label Motown Records by presenting "Motown 60: A GRAMMY ® Celebration." Hosted by Cedric the Entertainer and GRAMMY winner Smokey Robinson, the tribute to the iconic sound that changed America features Chloe X Halle, Ciara, Lamont Dozier, Fantasia, Brian & Eddie Holland, Thelma Houston, Tori Kelly, John Legend, Little Big Town, NE-YO, Pentatonix, Martha Reeves, Diana Ross, Valerie Simpson, Mickey Stevenson, Meghan Trainor, and Stevie W...

buzzz worthy. . . IYANLA VANZANT, WENDY RAQUEL ROBINSON,  LETOYA LUCKETT, HEZEKIAH WALKER, JASON NELSON,  JONATHAN MCREYNOLDS, DORINDA CLARKE COLE AND MORE ADDED TO TALENT LINE-UP AT THE  31st ANNUAL STELLAR GOSPEL MUSIC AWARDS Yolanda Adams, Donnie McClurkin, Karen Clark Sheard and Marvin Sapp Collaborate in Star-Studded Performance Stellar Awards to Premiere on TV One Sunday, March 6 at 6 p.m. ET LAS VEGAS -  - Iyanla Vanzant, Wendy Raquel Robinson,   LeToya Luckett, Jason Nelson, Jonathan McReynolds, Hezekiah Walker, Dorinda Clarke Cole, Alexis Spight, Briana Babineaux, Maurette Brown Clark, T.C. Stallings  and  Tim Bowman, Jr.  are among the artists added to the talent line-up at the 31 st  Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards  this  Saturday, Feb. 20 , at the  Las Vegas Orleans Arena .   Produced by Central City Productions, the l...