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03.05.2024 - 02:45 / foxnews.com
Mary J. Blige is bringing her mission to empower women beyond her music to her hometown — with the help of the singer’s superstar friends. Taraji P.
Henson, Tiffany Haddish and Jill Scott and other stars and experts will join Blige for her Strength of a Woman Summit and Festival starting May 10. Her three-day event during Mother’s Day weekend in New York will feature concerts, comedy shows, a gospel brunch, panel discussions along with workshops focusing on technology, beauty, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. On Thursday, organizers announced additional speakers including Henson, Marsai Martin, Method Man, Larenz Tate, Tasha Smith, Michael Rainey Jr., Angie Martinez and Pinky Cole.
The event will be hosted by comedian Jess Hilarious and podcaster Gia Peppers.
"We’re teaching each other, holding each other and uplifting each other," the R&B singer said in a recent interview. "We’re helping each other to sustain in our businesses and sustain in the mental health and everything." Blige launched the Strength of a Woman event in 2022 after years of seeing women at her concerts "hanging on every word like my life is theirs." The singer felt she connected with concertgoers when she delivered her own deep stories of overcoming pain. "I was thinking to myself, ‘Let me do something more than just sing to them,’" said Blige, a nine-time Grammy winner who has won an Emmy, earned two Oscar nominations and will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later this year.
"In the middle of my songs, it just jumps out of me," she continued. "Some kind of words of inspiration. People love that.
A rare opportunity to live and work on a beautiful Scottish island has just come up.
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