{"id":2458441,"date":"2026-06-14T02:34:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2458441"},"modified":"2026-06-14T02:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:34:34","slug":"chaka-khan-kelly-rowland-honoured-at-2026-black-women-in-music-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chaka-khan-kelly-rowland-honoured-at-2026-black-women-in-music-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaka Khan, Kelly Rowland honoured at 2026 Black Women in Music event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chaka Khan and Kelly Rowland are among the women honoured at the second annual Black Women in Music dinner.<br \/>The event in Los Angeles is billed as an evening celebrating &#8220;the Black women preserving and protecting the music industry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how long we&#8217;ve been trying to pull it together, but I think that Black women finally found the beauty within ourselves and each other,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;I feel so overwhelmed right now, this evening, with high spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rowland&#8217;s award was handed over by her mother, Tina Knowles, who gushed, &#8220;Kelly, you are a rare gem. You&#8217;re a superstar in every sense of the word, and you are also the best wife, mother, sister, friend and daughter anyone can ask for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year&#8217;s honorees also included choreographer Fatima Robinson, music executive Natina Nimene, Billboard&#8217;s Gail Mitchell and Gender Amplified&#8217;s Ebonie Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Connie Orlando, executive VP at BET, produced the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This gathering is the living answer to a prayer,&#8221; she noted. &#8220;We are here to support one another, protect our presence, and build a legacy of love that lights the way for the girls coming behind us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;As Black women, we are constantly asked to labour and be the backbone, often while our own wellbeing is ignored. We live in a climate that tries to minimise our power and rewrite our truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Singers Chant\u00e9 Moore and David Michael Wyatt and violinist Yuli performed at the event, which was hosted by comedian Zainab Johnson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaka Khan and Kelly Rowland are among the women honoured at the second annual Black Women in Music dinner.The event in Los Angeles is billed as an evening celebrating &#8220;the Black women preserving and protecting the music industry&#8221;. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how long we&#8217;ve been trying to pull it together, but I think that Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2458442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[117162,364670,369018,347049],"class_list":["post-2458441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-black-women","tag-chaka-khan","tag-kelly-rowland","tag-tina-knowles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Chaka-Khan-Kelly-Rowland-honoured-at-2026-Black-Women-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458443,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458441\/revisions\/2458443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2458442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}