Other awards included the Rhythm and Blues Foundation Pioneer Award (2006), the NAACP Image Awards Lifetime Achievement Award (2024) and a TV One Urban One Honors Living Legend Award (2024).

Cleveland’s story as an early torchbearer of rhythm and blues begins in the late 1940s when this new genre of pulsating, dance-oriented music was broadcast on local stations like WJMO and WABQ.

Shania Twain and Miranda Lambert didn't have to sing a note at the ACM Honors awards show on Aug. 24 in ... the 44-year-old Stapleton, a country blues master, paid tribute to his famously high ...