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ACTOR AND COMEDIAN CHRIS TUCKER ANNOUNCED 
TO HOST
THE 2016 BMI R&B/HIP-HOP AWARDS HONORING 
TONI BRAXTON 
WITH DJ KHALED & FRIENDS CONFIRMED TO OPEN SHOW 

**Top R&B/Hip-Hop songwriters of 2016 to be honored in Atlanta September 1st**  

Atlanta, GA, – Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) recently announced that actor and comedian Chris Tucker has signed on to host the 2016 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta, GA alongside BMI President & CEO Mike O’Neill and BMI Vice President of Writer/Publisher Relations Catherine Brewton. This special occasion will celebrate multiple Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Toni Braxton, who will receive the evening’s highest honor, the BMI President’s Award, in recognition of her illustrious career and outstanding contributions to popular music over the last 25 years. The private event will be held at The Woodruff Arts Center’s Symphony Hall on September 1st.

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Hip-hop heavyweight and mega producer DJ Khaled & Friends will open the show, with confirmed attendance by R&B and hip-hop’s elite including Kenneth “Babyface” EdmondsBig Boi, Tamar BraxtonRae SremmurdRich Homie Quan, Kent Jones and more.

The BMI President’s Award is presented on special occasion to an individual songwriter, composer, producer or executive who has made exemplary contributions to the art of music and has profoundly influenced the entertainment industry. As the 2016 honoree, Braxton joins fellow recipients Ludacris and Will.i.am in sharing this distinction.

The songwriters, producers, and publishers of the past year’s most-performed R&B/Hip-Hop songs in the US from BMI’s repertoire of more than 10.5 million musical works will also be honored. The BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Songwriter, Producer, and Publisher of the Year will be named during the ceremony.  The BMI Social Star Award will also be presented to the winner of the BMI Social Star contest, which aims to find the songwriter with the most engaged social media audience. The three contenders vying for the top honor include hip-hop recording artist Joey Bada$$, rapper/comedian Lil Dicky, and rapper/producer Logic. Voting is open now through Sunday, August 28th. Click herefor more information on voting and the contestants.

Before she became an international sensation, Toni Braxton began her career performing alongside her sisters as one-fifth of the singing group, The Braxtons, and with the help of Antonio “L.A.” Reid and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, she launched a successful solo career selling more than 40 million albums worldwide.  Some of her hit singles include, “Another Sad Love Song,” “Breathe Again,” “You’re Makin’ Me High,” “He Wasn’t Man Enough” and “Unbreak My Heart” which became her signature song earning her a coveted Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1996. She has received a total of seven Grammy-Awards, most recently for Best R&B Album in 2015 for her collaboration with Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce (2014), and many other accolades including nine Billboard Music Awards and seven American Music Awards.

In recent years, Toni has appeared on “Dancing with the Stars,” starred on Broadway (Beauty and the Beast and Aida), and headlined “Toni Braxton Revealed,” a Las Vegas residency at the Flamingo Hotel.  Beyond the stage and screen, she is a humanitarian who currently serves as a spokesperson for Autism Speaks, is actively involved in the American Heart Association, and has been incredibly vocal regarding her battle with Lupus. Toni currently stars in WE tv’s hit show Braxton Family Values with her four sisters.

For more information on the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards and BMI’s Social Star, please visithttp://www.bmi.com/genres/rb_hiphop. To join the conversation, use hashtag#BMIRnBHipHopAwards.

To request press credentials visit http://www.bmi.com/press#credentials. Press credentials will be for red-carpet arrivals only. A limited amount of media will be credentialed to cover the awards ceremony.

ABOUT BMI:

Celebrating over 75 years of service to songwriters, composers, music publishers and businesses, Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®) is a global leader in music rights management, serving as an advocate for the value of music. BMI represents the public performance rights in more than 10.5 million musical works created and owned by more than 700,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers. The Company negotiates music license agreements and distributes the fees it generates as royalties to its affiliated writers and publishers when their songs are performed in public. In 1939, BMI created a groundbreaking open-door policy becoming the only performing rights organization to welcome and represent the creators of blues, jazz, country, and American roots music. Today, the musical compositions in BMI’s repertoire, from chart toppers to perennial favorites, span all genres of music and are consistently among the most-performed hits of the year. For additional information and the latest BMI news, visit www.bmi.com, follow us on Twitter @BMI or stay connected through Broadcast Music, Inc.’s Facebook page.

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