After a four-year hiatus, America’s most
inspirational singing competition, “Sunday Best,” makes its triumphant
return to BET, as a new and improved Season 9 takes over Sunday nights
beginning in June. The well-established gospel show welcomes back Grammy
Award®-winning music legend Kirk Franklin as host, gospel songstress
and host of “Get Up Mornings,” Erica Campbell as a judge; and adds two
Grammy-Award® nominated artists Kelly Price and Jonathan McReynolds as
new additions to the panel. With a brand new stage and exciting themed
challenges, this season will be the toughest one yet.
The new season kicks off with in-person auditions
in front of the judges as they narrow the field from 20 to the top
10. For the first time the contestants were able to use an online
submissions process, after which the team lead a global search for this
year’s contestants, leading up to the much-anticipated live auditions in
Dallas, TX, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, GA, and Detroit, MI, Lagos,
Nigeriaand for the first time-ever London, England and Johannesburg,
South Africa, which were open to select international contestants.
Jesse Collins, CEO of Jesse Collins Entertainment
(BET Awards, The New Edition Story), will serve as executive producer of
season nine of Sunday Best along with showrunner Josh Greenberg (The
Sing-Off, Lip Sync Battle). Dionne Harmon (The Bobby Brown Story, Hip
Hop Squares) and Jeannae Rouzan–Clay (Dear Mama, Black Girls Rock!) and
are co-executive producers.
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