This year, the activity and excitement expands with the first ever BET Experience at L.A. LIVE! This three-day festival filled with comedy, gospel and soulful music concerts, seminars, film screenings, “106 & PARK” tapings and so much more will build anticipation for the finest BET Awards show yet.
Hosted by actor and comedian Chris
Tucker, the BET Awards ‘13 will take place at
the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Sunday 30
June. The show will also include exciting performances by R.
Kelly, Miguel, India Arie, Chris Brown and Kendrick
Lamar. Hollywood actresses Angela Bassett, Gabrielle
Union, Paula Patton and La La Anthony are
among the talented line-up of presenters. Miami Heat basketball star Dwyane
Wade will be honoured with the Humanitarian Award,
while R&B singer/songwriter Charlie Wilson will receive
the prestigious Cadillac Lifetime Achievement Award.
Over the course of his career, Stevie
Wonder has amassed 32 number one singles, and has sold more than
100 million albums worldwide. Stevie Wonder has
demonstrated extraordinary humanitarian and philanthropic leadership and is
universally acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians in the
world. Wonder has previously been honoured by BET
Networks for his outstanding contributions to music having received BET's
Lifetime Achievement Award, induction into BET's Walk of Fame and last
year being awarded the BET Honors Musical Arts Award.
Entertainment icon and multi-platinum artist Snoop Dogg, a.k.a Snoop Lion, is one of the most well-known and respected hip-hop artists of all-time, with over 30 million albums sold worldwide. In 2012, he re-invented himself under the new alias, Snoop Lion, and released his twelfth studio album, a reggae album, Reincarnated, featuring other prominent artists including Drake, Akon, Busta Rhymes and Chris Brown.
Mariah
Carey, the best-selling female artiste of all time, with
eighteen Billboard #1 singles and over 200 million albums sold, is sure to
deliver the most anticipated performance of the year. As a singer/songwriter/producer, Carey
has defined modern pop history with her prolific songwriting, five-octave vocal
range and global success.
Hip-hop superstar Nicki Minaj
is currently the most charted female rapper in history, with 44 Billboard Hot
100 hits. Minaj has sold over 60 million singles as a featured artist
alone, 20 million singles as a lead artist and almost 5 million albums
worldwide. She is the first female rapper to chart in five countries and
have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.
GRAMMY® Award-winning performer Ciara
has had tremendous commercial success. She’s sold over seven million albums
worldwide and has had eight top ten singles on Billboard’s Hot 100. In addition to performing at this year’s BET
Awards ’13, Ciara will debut her newest video “I’m Out” ft. Nicki
Minaj during the BET Awards Pre-Show, “BET AWARDS PRE-SHOW: LIVE! RED!
READY!” hosted by Bow Wow and Friends on Sunday 30
June.
For the fourth year in a row, BET
Music Matters artists will have the distinction of gracing
the BET Awards stage. BET’s Music
Matters will again cast the spotlight on new talents who are on
their way to being the next BET superstars. Austin Brown and Curtis
Fields will take the stage during BET Awards'13 to
give the world a sneak peek of their talents.
Join the conversation about the BET
Awards ’13 on social media by following the awards on multiple
social media platforms, including: Twitter and Instagram @BETAwards,
using the hashtag: #BETAwards; on Facebook at www.facebook.com/
The BET Awards ‘13 will
premiere across Africa on BET International on Tuesday
2 July at 20:00 CAT.
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