‘Music Is A Ministry:’ Tichina Arnold Set To Host First-Ever Paramount Music Showcase In NYC

Award-winning actress and singer Tichina Arnold will probably be bringing her internet hosting prowess to the upcoming Paramount Music Showcase in New York.

The first-of-its-kind occasion is about to happen on Thursday, October 27, at Chelsea Music Corridor, the place three rising artists from traditionally underrepresented teams could have the prospect to carry out and shine.

The Neighborhood star, who acknowledged her love and pure expertise for singing at an early age, is honored to assist launch the subsequent section of the artists’ musical journey.

“Singing was my first, nicely, is my first love and it’s the first present that I realized that God gave me,”  Arnold informed BLACK ENTERPRISE.

“It’s vital that younger rising expertise and gifted individuals have a platform, so Paramount is giving that to them.”

She continued: “So many individuals that love music, they dwell and breath it. I’ve at all times had a large respect for music. So to have a platform for people, for them to showcase their abilities and their items, what higher means to do it than me host it?”

This invaluable expertise additionally granted a chance for the chosen artists, Pardo, Rellz, and Synead,  to obtain mentorship with numerous influential figures within the music and media enterprise. They had been every assigned to Jessie Maldonado, SVP, Promotion & Operations, RCA Information, Charlie Adelman, Advertising and marketing Director, Crush Music and Bianca Nicole Edwards, Director of Advertising and marketing, Roc Nation.

“We as artists, these artists, you study alongside the means, however you study from the individuals who’ve already paved the path for you,” Arnold defined. “You have a lot of up and coming artists that have by no means even hit the stage. How do you know how to current your self on stage? How do you know what to do on stage? Simply as a result of you know how to sing doesn’t imply that you know how to current your self as a model.” 

“Music is a ministry. I suppose that the artists that do specific themselves via music ought to have an alternative at that and they ought to have an alternative at being seen and acknowledged so they can culminate and develop,” she added.

Properly established within the New York theater scene, the Queens, NY native attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive Faculty of Music & Artwork and Performing Arts. Her theater credit embrace “The Me No one Is aware of,” “Hair,” “Romance and Exhausting Instances,” and “Haggadah.”

Though she didn’t pursue the music trade, Arnold’s singing items have translated to tv and movie, like Little Store of Horrors and her first award-winning iconic function of Pam on the hit sitcom Martin

However her success wasn’t with out inspiration.

“I suppose it’s fantastic to have mentorship, however it’s vital,” Arnold defined. “You can’t do it with out mentorship. I’ve had mentorship from individuals that didn’t even know me, however I’m watching their careers. I’m watching how they transfer, I’m watching the selections that they make in their careers, and I’m permitting them to affect me and my selections as a result of I like the path that they’re taking or I see one thing in myself in them. 

“And I suppose it’s vital that every one train one, so I simply at all times needed to be consultant of a Black lady who did the greatest that she might.” 

All through the years, the 53-year-old mother has dedicated to supporting the humanities and paving the best way for a lot of, together with her teenage daughter, Alijah Kai Haggins. 

“My daughter, for occasion, she’s pure instance of she desires to be in the music trade. She desires to be a music artist, so I’m at all times trying out for alternatives for her as nicely,” mentioned Arnold.

When advising younger expertise, she mentioned she tells them: “You see the finish end result, however it’s all the work and steps and the course of that it takes to get to the finish end result, however you at all times need to do good work. You need to be ready to take pleasure in what you do.”