6th annual detroit black music awards
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The Detroit Black Music Awards honor those that have made a significant contribution to music associated with R&B, Soul, Urban, Hip Hop, Jazz, Blues, Motown, and all other music affiliated with the African-American culture in Detroit, Michigan. The association of this multi-genre of music extends beyond race, creed or color and is recognized around the world.TRANSCRIPT
With great pleasure DBMA PRODUCTIONS and the Motown Alumni Association is proud to
present the…
6th
Annual Detroit Black Music Awards
The purpose of the award show is to recognize Detroit’s rich Rhythm &
Blues music heritage. The legacy of Detroit’s Soul, Blues, Hip Hop, and
jazz scene is entrenched into the Motor city’s educational history. We
would like your backing as an advertiser, to support the music awards
efforts to give Detroit entertainers their honors while they are able to
be recognized.
Your promotion dollars can be as minimal as a business card
advertisement to a VIP sponsored table. A generous sponsorship will
help to validate your support for great artists of the past, present, and
upcoming. Detroit artists such as Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Freda
Payne, Della Reese, Dinah Washington, Anita Baker,
and Laura Lee are just a few that have been the
staple of the time steady soul music scene for
Detroit. Then you have the Motown stars such as
the Supremes, the Temptations, Martha and the
Vandellas, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the
Marvelettes, Mary Wells, Stevie Wonder and
Marvin Gaye that are the ambassadors’ of
Detroiters beloved city all over the world. The 6th
annual Detroit Black Music Awards will be honoring Detroit’s finest entertainers at:
Bert’s Warehouse Theater 2739 Russell St., Detroit, Michigan, Sunday August 3, 2014.
Doors open for the VIP Reception at 5:30pm, doors will open to the general public at 6:30pm,
and Showtime is at 7:00pm. Tickets are $40 per person for VIP, $25 at the door.
For more information on sponsorship, options continue to read the following page to make
your contribution. You can also call customer service at: (702) 575-3741
Cordially,
Misty Love
President/ DBMA Production
PLATINUM SPONSOR – $6,000 (only 1 sponsor per brand)
Exclusive company product branding opportunities: In-house plasma screen commercial, front stage banner,
full color page in program book, local TV ad logo placement & sponsorship mention in radio ads, plus one
table gift per sponsored tabletop.
VIP Celebrity Reception table(s) for 40 (4 tables) {special placement during award show}
GOLD SPONSOR - $3,000 (multiple sponsors per brand is allowed)
Table tent advertising branding, half page color ad in program book, still 30sec. Ad on the in-house plasma
screen * standard local TV logo display.
VIP Celebrity Reception table(s) for 20 (2 tables)
SILVER SPONSOR - $1,500 (multiple sponsors per brand is allowed)
VIP Celebrity Reception Table of 10
Still 30sec. Ad on the in-house plasma screen
PROGRAM BOOK ADVERTISING SPONSORSHIP
Full Color (Back of book) - $700 ▪ Full Color Page (inside) - $500 ▪ Half Page (Color) - $250
¼ Page Color) - $125 ▪ Standard size business card ad - $50
Send color ads in Jpeg, png, gif, tiff, or bmp format 300 res. or more.
Submit to: [email protected]
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Detroit Black Music Awards
Send to: DBMA Productions 2925 Elmwood Detroit, Michigan 48207
Company Name: ___________________________ Address: ______________________________________________________
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Platinum □ Gold □ Silver □ Program Book Ads: Full Color (Back of book) - □ Full Color Page (inside) □
Half Page (Color) □ ¼ Page Color) □ Standard size business card ad □
Who is Misty Love? A music maverick in her own rights, Misty Love
has stood the test of time in life, and the music industry. She was born
in Tallahassee, Florida, she was a born singer. Her ambition to sing was
fueled by her innate ability to harmonize with the songs she heard on
the radio in the 60s. After doing the standard “pay your dues” shows
with many Detroit based groups, Misty got a break by replacing
Caroline Crawford the lead singer of the pop 70s group Bohannon. The
group had a major hit song that revolutionized the disco era title “Let’s
Start The Dance”.
After her stint with Bohannon, she
went back to Detroit and started
performing with virtually all of the
great musicians and artists on the
Detroit scene, namely keyboard great
Rudy Robinson.
Rudy was the music director and right
hand man for Mike Hank’s Detroit Based record label D-
Town; he taught Love the ins and outs of the fine-tuning she
needed in the music industry. In the late 90s Misty had a
chance encounter with an up and coming Detroit rapper by
the name of Robert James Ritchie from Romeo, Michigan. That artist
would later become international recording artist Kid Rock. She and
Kid traveled in station wagons in the back woods of Michigan & Ohio,
performing to what would be future fans of the artist.
Love performed and recorded in Kid’s band the
Brown Truckers with one of Detroit’s most
talented vocalist Shirley Hayden (Lead singer of
the funk group the Parlett). The result was Love participating in the
creation of Kid’s smash 1998 hit album “Devil Without A Cause”,
which garnered her 10 Diamond, 6 Platinum, and 1 Gold record for
her collection.
Throughout the years, Love has done a multitude of things to
enhance her career goals. She is one of the background singers in
the Grammy Award winning 2002 hit docu-film “Standing In The Shadows Of Motown”. This
docufilm talked about the Motown musicians that played behind all of the Motown stars, the
entertainers were known as the Funk Brothers.
She sung background for LA LA Brooke of the Crystals, the former
lead singer of the group on the ‘My Music’ PBS Series. Her career
continues to expand as the producer of numerous productions “The
Tribute to Kim Weston”, “The Tribute to Mary Wells”, and “Tribute
to the Motown Divas” all of which are co-produced by the Motown
Alumni Association.
She is the founder of ‘Misty Love and the Motown
Sound’ band that travels the country performing for
corporations, and concerts.
Misty is the producer of the second largest award
music award show in the city of Detroit. The Detroit
Black Music Awards is an annual event honoring
Detroit’s most talented and major Black artists in the
metro Detroit area. For the last 4 years this event has
colminated into the premier essence of class and
glamour. Detroiters flock to see and be seen for this
event. The Black tie affair is the crowning jewel in Detroit’s music scene. Partnering up with
Billy Wilson President of the Motown Alumni Association, and Love have joining forces for 6
years. “I’m proud to have partnered with Misty” said Billy Wilson. “She has a vision on what
she wants to do, and my job is to help make that vision happen… we are a good team” he said.
In a recent conversation with Love she
said “I lived in Vegas for a while, and
wanted to come home to honor and give
flowers to the artists in Detroit while
they were living; if they are dead its to
late to show our appreciation. That’s why
I produced the Detroit Black Music
Awards.”