JFH News: Tamela Mann Receives First Billboard Music Award Nomination

TAMELA MANN RECEIVES FIRST BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARD NOMINATION

NEWS SOURCE: TKO Marketing
April 11, 2017

Dallas, TX. (April 11, 2017) -Tillymann Music Platinum-selling artist Tamela Mann has garnered her first Billboard Music Award nomination for Top Gospel Artist. The awards show recognizes the hottest names in music today. Tamela is currently on the Mann's World Family Tour, co-headlining with husband, actor and comedian David Mann. The 25-city spring leg of the tour is making stops across the country, including three sold-out shows last weekend in New York City, NY, Trenton, NJ, and Washington DC.

"This has been a truly amazing year. It is an honor to receive my first Billboard Music Award nomination," said Tamela. "Congratulations to all the nominees!"

The Grammy® winner is on the road promoting her Billboard multi-week chart-topping No. 1 album One Way. The project is executively produced by Tamela, David Mann and son David Mann Jr., and produced by Myron Butler and David Mann. The album's all-star guest producer credits include Kirk Franklin, Eric Dawkins, King Logan, Shaun Martin and Timbaland. "God Provides," written and produced by Franklin, is the sophomore single from One Way and held the No. 1 slot on the Billboard Gospel radio chart for 13 weeks. Tamela's new single "Change Me" entered the Billboard Gospel radio chart Top 20 this week and is her highest debut ever on the Billboard Gospel radio chart.

The 2017 Billboard Music Awards will air on ABC live from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 21, 2017.

Upcoming Mann's World Family Tour dates are as follows:

April 15	Shreveport, LA
April 21	Richmond, VA
April 22	Fayetteville, NC
April 28	Baton Rouge, LA
April 29	Pensacola, FL
May 6	Augusta, GA
May 7	Spartanburg, NC
May 12	Chicago, IL
May 13	Detroit, MI
May 14	Toronto, ON
May 19	Jacksonville, FL
May 20	Orlando, FL
May 26	Atlanta, GA
June 3	Durham, NC

For tour information and tickets: www.MannsTour.com

For more info on Tamela, check out:
GOD PROVIDES MUSIC VIDEO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugS_wlFhcus
WEBSITE: www.tillymannmusic.com/

FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/davidtamelamann

TWITTER: @DavidandTamela
INSTAGRAM: @DavidandTamela

ABOUT TAMELA MANN
Tamela Mann is a Grammy® Award Winner, NAACP Image Award winner, BET Award winner, multiple Stellar Gospel Music Award and GMA Dove Award-winning singer, actress, songwriter, producer, and businesswoman. Tamela's Stellar Gospel Music Award-winning, GMA Dove Award-winning album Best Days debuted at No. 1 on multiple music sales charts and includes the No. 1 RIAA-gold certified single "Take Me To The King," which earned Tamela her first Grammy® Award nomination for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance. Tamela set a historic personal and industry record as the first Gospel lead artist in Billboard Gospel radio chart history to score three consecutive No. 1's from an album. The string of hits includes "Take Me To The King," "I Can Only Imagine," and "This Place." Tamela and husband and business partner, actor David Mann, star in the docu-series The Manns (TV One) and the comedy Mann & Wife (Bounce TV), both airing in their third seasons. Tamela's fourth solo studio album and Billboard No. 1 release, One Way, which features her Grammy® Award winning song, "God Provides," is available online and in stores.

For more information about Tamela Mann, visit www.TillymannMusic.com