PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.prweb.com PRWeb.com Press Release Feed - Press Releases en PRWeb Distribution Newswire http://www.prweb.com/images_v4/prweb_logo_hv.jpg http://www.prweb.com 200 46 xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Rhythm & Blues Foundation Announces Pioneer Awards Co-Hosts Music Legends Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt and Jerry Butler http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/09/prweb1260924.htm Music legends Dionne Warwick, Bonnie Raitt and Jerry Butler will co-host the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's star-studded 20th Anniversary Pioneer Awards gala. The event, to be held at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia on September 9, 2008, will pay homage to Chaka Khan with the Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition, Bill Withers, Teena Marie, and singer-songwriter Sugar Pie DeSanto will receive the Foundation's Individual Artist Award; The Whispers and Kool & the Gang will receive the Foundation's Group Artists Award; Motown session players the Funk Brothers will receive the Foundation's Sidemen Award; Soul legend Donny Hathaway will posthumously receive a Legacy Award in recognition of his influential output in the 1970s; and Al Bell, former president of two renowned record labels, Stax Records and Motown Records, will be given the Ahmet Ertegun Leadership Award. (PRWeb Sep 2, 2008)

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