Essence Festival 2013: The Stars Come Out To Celebrate !

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The stars came out this weekend as they celebrated the annual Essence Festival 2013. Essence has been the staple magazine representing people of color. For as long as I can remember, there has not been one African-American home who didn't have a bundle of Essence Magazines in their home, preferably their bathroom or living room table. 

Left To Right: MC Lyte,  LeToya Luckett & Niecy Nash

This year the star line of performances sky rocketed as entertainers such as Beyoncè, Maxwell, New Edition, Keyshia Cole, Brandy, Solange, Emeli Sande, Charlie Wilson, Trey Songz, Bridget Kelly, LL Cool J, Janelle Monae, Jill Scott, Anthony David, Blackstreet, Water Seed, Stooges Brass Band, Faith Evans, Mint Condition and much more as they took the stage.

The weekend brought out many of your favorite athletes, singers, actors/actresses, models and TV personalities to celebrate the Essence brand worldwide. Everything from good music, food and talk all served as entertaining ingredients to complete the annual festival as always.

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Left To Right: Lance Gross, ??? & Wale

R&B Diavs: LA Cast Revealed

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With the success of season one's R&B Divas with Faith Evans, Syleena Johnson, Monifah, Nicci Gilbert and KeKe Wyatt it was only right they bring in a new set of R&B Divas to share their stories of their careers in the music industry. 

The official LA cast are Lil' Mo, Kelly Price, Chante Moore, Claudette Ortiz, Dawn Robinson and Michel'le Toussaint and just the cast alone looks like some drama will stir up between EGOS; this is one cast I would not want to be in the middle of. 

May I tell you each of these ladies has been through a tough struggle in the industry and in their personal lives, so it will be new and refreshing to hear the stories the ladies have to share. Hopefully, we'll get a full understanding of what really happened to 90s girl group EN VOGUE (Dawn Robinson) as well as RnB trio City High (Claudette Ortiz). I'm pretty sure Chante Moore has an interesting story because for some time in the 90s, you couldn't tell Chante Moore she was the up and coming Sade. Don't be so sad about the original R&B Divas, they are currently shooting their second season and added two more Divas to the roster (Angie Stone and LaTocha Scott). 

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