The offering to Baker featured an all-star cast, with artists dig Chrisette Michele, Goapele, Lalah Hathaway, Dionne Farris, Kem, Tamia, Faith Evans and El DeBarge covering a goulash of the singer's greatest hits. Baker told the thrust that the biggest honor of the tenebrosity for her was that physical musicians were performing subsist with an existent band. "It's astounding because you've got children behind you singing 'Rapture' - it's lovely," she said, adding, "Let's do it again!" Ronald Isley, co-founder and example chorister of the Isley Brothers, also received a specialized respect that featured Jeffrey Osborne, Freddy Jackson, DeBarge, Tank, Eric Benet, Bilal and Peabo Bryson.
Isley also came out to knock off his own omnium gatherum of hits and was joined onstage by Chanté Moore and R. Kelly for a interpretation of "Contagious," their 2002 isolated that featured the Isleys. In addition, Cee Lo Green closed the show with a duet on the Isleys' archetypal 1959 hit, "Shout." Among the event's other highlights was Cee Lo's play of his smash "Forget You," which took position on a blest contrive that resembled a querulous between Kanye's Egyptian fusion and an green light to Go video, and found the chorus-boy gliding down conveyor belts while belting his number.
Erykah Badu delivered a stripped-down reading of her 2010 breakout "Window Seat" that featured the chanteuse perched on the shock over a trap of lights while appearing to orchestrate the vibrations of spry flickers with her hands. Soul minstrel Eric Benet performed "Sometimes a Cry" - a melody that Lil Wayne cited as one of his favorites while in cooler - bringing down the company with a soaring falsetto that bested his studio performance of the track. The evening's other performers included Bruno Mars, who sang his creative hit "Grenade," and Jazmine Sullivan, who did a mixture of "10 Seconds" and "Holding You Down (Goin' in Circles).
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