Exclusive: Alicia Key presented Questlove's documentary 'Summer of Soul' with a Peabody Award.
and so many others…in this beautiful summer of 1969 that you captured in your film,” Keys said. “It just blew my mind. It blew all of our minds and it opened us up and it introduced us to the greatness, the power, the strength, the fashion, the flavor, the songs…the spirit of this summer of soul and our culture and the energy…So, thank you for bringing to the light such a powerful moment in music and in history and our Black excellence.
The artists who appeared at the Harlem Cultural Festival included many of the finest R&B, pop and jazz musicians of their time. A partial cast list includes The Chambers Brothers, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, David Ruffin, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Staple Singers, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mongo Santamaria, Ray Barretto, Herbie Mann, Sly & the Family Stone, and Abbey Lincoln & Max Roach.
. The multi-hyphenate couldn’t resist bragging just a bit in his acceptance remarks. “I can’t wait to put that Peabody right next to my first Peabody right there — a two-timer!”
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