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Showtime at the Apollo has won an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Variety Series/Special" in 1991. The show was nominated in 1996, 1998, and 1999 for the same category. In 2000, the show was nominated by the NAACP Image Awards for "Outstanding Youth or Children's Series/Special" for the "Apollo Kids Finals" special episode. However, that ...
Marquee for Amateur Night at the Apollo. Amateur Night was first hosted in 1934 [284] [367] or 1935 [32] [245] and has been hosted nearly continuously since then, except from the 1970s to 1985. [23] [368] Schiffman had introduced an amateur night at the Lafayette Theater, where Ralph Cooper had hosted Harlem Amateur Hour; [34] Cooper hosted the ...
Ryan convinced him to take her to an audition for Star Search, where her performance of "Think" impressed the judges and shocked her father. "I'd never heard her sing like that." [10] During the Junior Singers competition, Bianca Ryan lost to Spensha Baker. [11] Ryan later won Amateur Kids Night on Showtime at the Apollo. [10] [12]
Akron pianist Kofi Boakye wins final round of Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater an goes home with $20,000 prize. Akron pianist Kofi Boakye wins grand $20,000 prize in Apollo Theater competition ...
It is the final night of auditions for America’s Got Talent before judges Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum and Sofia Vergara will make the judges cuts as to which of the acts that got at ...
View the 33 images of this gallery on the original article. American Idol Photos! See All 16 Acts Auditioning on Night 4. Anna Grace, 18 Pembroke, NC College Student. Alyssa Raghu, 22 Orlando, FL
Cooper is best known as the original master of ceremonies and founder of amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, in 1935. He wrote, produced, directed and acted in ten motion pictures. Titles include The Duke Is Tops, Dark Manhattan, Gangsters on the Loose and Gang War. Because of his debonair good looks, he was known as ...
As a child performer, Carpenter had her own radio show on WNYC in New York and won an amateur night at the Apollo Theatre in 1938, where she would be honored and perform nearly 60 years later on the 1993 all-star NBC-TV special Apollo Theater Hall of Fame, hosted by Bill Cosby. [2]