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The highly anticipated and long awaited Raymond and Brown, the R & B Tour kicks off in Denver, Colorado tomorrow, Friday, June 25,2025 at the Empower Field.
Eager fans, well respected titans and old school influencers of the industry have been commenting about this historic tour for months including Jermaine Dupris who's comment was motivating and deferential. He shared it in his customary laid back style. It can be found here on YouTube:
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While it was recently announced that $1 from each ticket purchased from the upcoming Raymond and Brown, R&B concert tour will be donated to FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, both Usher and Chris Brown have been contributing to the Global and local communities over the years in admirable ways. Each one of them has enriched the lives of artists and youth through various community enrichment, support and outreach programs of their own. Usher already serves as a Global Citizen Ambassador and will continue his commitment to that project on this tour. For more information about FIFA Global Citizen Fund click here and view the video.
Usher recently in partnership with Big Sean contributed a million for a start up that invests in the creativity of Detroiters. Its a space where they can go to create podcasts paint, design in an arts and music studio at Michigan Central a newly renovated train station in Detroit.
The Detroit R & B concert is scheduled for July 2 and 3 at Ford Field. Pre-sale concert tickets are currently live and tickets go on sale officially April 27. For more information about what you need to do to be added to a list, get ticket codes or to purchase, click on this link.
Usher also has been quietly grooming and training up and coming artists for years through his foundation's special training program. Many of the artists we know. Once they go through the program they return as instructors and mentors to the new trainee artists, investing 15 million of his own money. See more in this Instagram post by Prime Source Media here.
Chris Brown has been active in a number of special youth programs throughout the years in the Los Angeles area donating clothes, gym shoes, hugs and basketball moves at a High School's Unity Day in particular. To get a glimpse of these past events, view the YouTube video, Funny Chris Brown. The Crenshaw event is halfway through the video.
He was honored with an award from the 2nd Call organization in 2014 for spreading hope. Check out an archived post from his archives. More recently Breezy lost one of his dancers and committed to take care of her child. The dancer passed away several months ago. See more here.
Just a reminder and brief vignette of those god has blessed with fortune, fame and favor and how they give and have given back to the community. Two brothers who made good became famous, made fortunes and do good works we don't often hear about,see, or read about in the news broadcasts.
Its important to spread the good news of celebrities and others who are doing good things and give credit where it is truthful and due.
Tonight Chris Brown takes the stage in New Orleans at Caesar's palace to a sold out venue.
Tuesday night, October 14, Raleigh North Carolina news station WRAL reported that mega star, r&b icon Chris Brown drew an audience of 50,000 Lenovo Center capacity crowd of enthusiastic fans who patiently streamed in through gnarled and congested traffic and waited in line hours to see Brown perform on stage in a highly anticipated concert event. He was last there ten years ago. So fans were anxiously awaiting this concert after the decades long wait.
I believe Chris was performing in the European leg of his Breezy Bowl tour which began on June 8, 2025, in Amsterdam at Johan Cruyff Arena and scheduled to end in Paris on July 5, 2025.
