Miramar to host fireside chat with Grammy-winning record producer. What to know
You can celebrate Black History month with an icon of Black music, Teddy Riley.
The two-time Grammy Award winner’s concert is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14, and the day after he’ll tell his story to another crowd.
At the Miramar Cultural Center’s ballroom, Riley will join Mayor Wayne M. Messam on Sunday, Feb. 15, from 5 to 8 p.m.
The city is throwing the Black History Month Business Awards and Fireside Chat to “celebrate black excellence in business and leadership,” they wrote in an Instagram post. Free registration is required.
This discussion will highlight the songwriter and record producer’s work in the music industry. They will also give away his book, “Remember The Times: A Memoir by Teddy Riley,” which describes his journey from growing up in Harlem to becoming a musical prodigy. It is set to be released Feb. 10.
Riley is known for breaking out in the early 1980s with a new hip-hop and R&B genre called New Jack Swing.
Today, he is a member of the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame, has the Soul Train Legend Award and his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He won Grammy Awards for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Michael Jackson’s “Dangerous” in 1993 and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” in 1998.
You may also remember him from the group Guy.
He will perform some of his hits at the Teddy Riley and Friends concert at the Miramar Cultural Center on Feb. 14, featuring Guy 2.0, Shai and Kut Klose. Tickets range from $75 to $125 at MiramarCulturalCenter.org.
