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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 ...
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 ...
Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan head to Nashville, L.A., Santa Barbara, Tuskegee, and Leesburg, Va., to audition the talent for ‘American Idol’ Season 7 on ABC.
Pianist Kofi Boakye, born and raised in Akron, making the most of second shot competing in Amateur Night at the Apollo Feb. 16.
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 ...
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]
PHOTOS: Eddie Murphy at Amateur Night. Essentially, it's safe to say that the evening was all about the ladies and despite Eddie' star status, all eyes were on his gals.