​Brenda Michelle

Detroit music legend Billy Wilson, founder of the prestigious Motown Alumni Association (MAA), and Co-producer of The Detroit Black Music Awards announced the nomination of Brenda Michelle as the 2014 Best R & B Performer. The Motown Alumni Association is made up of Motown artists past present and current and proudly honors the ongoing legacy of Detroit entertainment industry greats such as greats Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and many others.

 

The announcement was made following Brenda Michelle’s stellar performance at the 5 O’clock RUSH Free Concert Series presented in Detroit’s historic Metropolitan UMC Church every Tuesday from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The Music Ministry of Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Detroit began an outreach to the Detroit community in February, 2009. The purpose is to invite people - who do not frequent or belong to a church - into a warm, inspirational, musical environment and experience a faith community in a novel setting. Brenda’s crowd-pleasing show initiated the official debut of Bracey Entertainment Networks’ management of this Detroit Community-based free concert series to lift spirits and raise funds to benefit the Metropolitan UMC’s community outreach initiative.

 

“I feel honored to be nominated,” Brenda Michelle said. “Truly talented Detroit artists have been nominated and have received this award previously. I am thrilled to be considered among these stellar Detroit Black Music Award recipients and nominees.”

 

Brenda Michelle is the consummate entertainer performing throughout the Detroit area and abroad, and is the host of her own internet radio shows called “So Funkdafied” which can be heard every Sunday at 6:00pm EST and The Writer’s Block every Thursday from 7:00pm to 8:00 pm on SV Mix Media www.SVMixMedia.com/4. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oakland University and studied sound engineering at the Recording Institute of Detroit in Roseville, MI.

 

In 2000, Brenda was chosen as female lead singer for a band project called Motor City Millennium and worked in Nagoya, Japan with the band for several months, performing Motown classics by the Supremes, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas in a group called Pure Honey. She also played bass in a band behind singer Joe McClemore and Martha Reeves’ brother, Amin. Brenda is also a member of Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and has acted in various movies and television shows, including “The West Wing” and “CSI.”

 

Brenda says, “The Motown Alumni Association has validated my life’s work by recognizing my work with this nomination.”

 

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