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 โa 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
โNatural-haired beautyโ Montana (Serayah) has broken up with her boyfriend because she doesnโt want to โlive in sin,โ but luckily one of the churchโs matriarchs has a billionaire son (Ne-Yo) who needs a nanny. The โnanny who falls for her bossโ is a classic holiday movie trope, so Iโm not going to pretend I donโt know how this one ends. The official synopsis says Montana is โequipped with the power of music and a loving heart,โ which means weโll almost certainly get a duet between Serayah and Ne-Yo. Thereโs no release date yet, but letโs assume it will be sometime in November or December.
But before Ne-Yo starts ringing in the holidays, heโs set to heat up summer as one of the headliners at Baltimoreโs AFRAM Festival. According to CBS Baltimore, heโs joined by soul icons The OโJays, R&B legend El DeBarge, actor/singer Rotimi, gospel star LeโAndria Johnson and rapper Yung Bleu. With Ne-Yo and Yung Bleu both scheduled to appear, itโs a safe bet fans might get a special performance of their recent collabs โWalk Through The Fireโ and โStay 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: โIf youโre old school like usโฆwe 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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