Ne-Yo To Star in BET Holiday Movie, Headline AFRAM Festival with The O’Jays, El DeBarge

The "So Sick" singer will lead Sound of Christmas at BET.

Singer/actor Ne-Yo has a busy year planned. Deadline reports he will star alongside Serayah (of Empire fame) in the BET holiday movie Sound of Christmas.

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Based on the book The Replacement Wife by Tiffany L. Warren, the film follows โ€œa down-on-her-luck woman facing eviction just before Christmas who must navigate budding romantic feelings for a handsome but grieving billionaire when she takes a job nannying for his two children right before Christmas.โ€

โ€œNatural-haired beautyโ€ Montana (Serayah) has broken up with her boyfriend because she doesnโ€™t want to โ€œlive in sin,โ€ but luckily one of the churchโ€™s matriarchs has a billionaire son (Ne-Yo) who needs a nanny. The โ€œnanny who falls for her bossโ€ is a classic holiday movie trope, so Iโ€™m not going to pretend I donโ€™t know how this one ends. The official synopsis says Montana is โ€œequipped with the power of music and a loving heart,โ€ which means weโ€™ll almost certainly get a duet between Serayah and Ne-Yo. Thereโ€™s no release date yet, but letโ€™s assume it will be sometime in November or December.

But before Ne-Yo starts ringing in the holidays, heโ€™s set to heat up summer as one of the headliners at Baltimoreโ€™s AFRAM Festival. According to CBS Baltimore, heโ€™s joined by soul icons The Oโ€™Jays, R&B legend El DeBarge, actor/singer Rotimi, gospel star Leโ€™Andria Johnson and rapper Yung Bleu. With Ne-Yo and Yung Bleu both scheduled to appear, itโ€™s a safe bet fans might get a special performance of their recent collabs โ€œWalk Through The Fireโ€ and โ€œStay Down.โ€

Surrounded by City Councilman Robert Stokes, City Council Vice President Sharon Green Middleton and City Councilman James Torrence, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said: โ€œIf youโ€™re old school like usโ€ฆwe want to have that mixture so everybody in African-American culture and our Black culture here in Baltimore has a reason to come to AFRAM.โ€

The free festival is returning to an in-person celebration Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 19, at Druid Hill Park.

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