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An Overview of Carnegie Hall First Appearances by African Americans

1892–1900

15
George Boardley
Paul Bolen
Harry T. Burleigh
Will Marion Cook
Walter F. Craig
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Lulu Hamer
Sissieretta Jones
Mount Olivet Baptist Church Anniversary Service
The Phonetic Quartet
Deseria Plato
W.T. Talbert
Tillie Jones Thomas
Rev. Charles T. Walker
Booker T. Washington

1901–1910

11
Ida Burrell
Melville Charlton
Ida E. Chestnut
W. E. B. DuBois
Hampton Quartette/Institute Singers
Ernest Hogan
J. Rosamond Johnson
Charles J. Mahoney
Mass Meeting of Negro Democrats
P. G. Lowery and His Famous Band
Marie A. Wayne

1911–1920

38
15th Regiment Band
369th Regiment Band ("Harlem Hellcats")
Afro-American Folk Song Singers
Marian Anderson
Sara Bird
Frank de Bronte
Frederick M. Bryan
Clef Club Orchestra
Florence Cole-Talbert
Joseph H. Douglass
Fannie H. Douglass
James Reese Europe
Lloyd Gibbs
Mattie Harris
Roland Hayes
E. Aldama Jackson
Leonard H. Jeter
John Turner Layton Jr.
Andrades Lindsay
David I. Martin
David I. Martin Jr.
F. Eugene Mikell
Abbie Mitchell
Robert R. Moten
Music School Settlement Choral Society
Negro Symphony Orchestra
New Amsterdam Orchestra
Elizabeth Payne
Adam Clayton Powell Sr.
Ethel Richardson
Royal Poinciana Quartette
Fred W. Simpson
St. Philip's Church Choir
Daisy Tapley
Tuskegee Quintette
William H. Tyers
Versatile Entertainers Quintette
Felix Weir

1921–1930

39
Cora W. Alexander
American Church Institute for Negroes Sextette
Mary McLeod Bethune
Arthur Boyd
Bernardin Brown
Sidney Brown
Minnie Brown
Lillie M. Carr
Louetta Chatman
Marion Cumbo
R. Nathaniel Dett
Carl Diton
Leon Du La Platte
Tom Fletcher
Taylor Gordon
Josephine Hall
W. C. Handy
W. C. Handy Jr.
Katherine Handy Lewis
Joseph McDonald Hayes
George E. Jackson
Hall Johnson
Ella Francis Jones
William Lawrence
Edward Margetson
Alice May
Negro String Quartet
New Negro Art Theatre Players
Nettie B. Olden
Packer Ramsay
William H. Richardson
Paul Robeson
Russell Smith
Carmen Sousa
United Colored Chorus
Fats Waller
H. C. Williams
Clarence Williams
Hemsley Winfield

1931–1940

103
Abyssinian Baptist Church Choir
Henry "Red" Allen
Albert Ammons
Thomas Anderson
Andrew Dorsey's Negro Choir
Louis Armstrong
Bertha Fitzhugh Baker
Clyde Barry
Count Basie
Reginald Bean
Sidney Bechet
Lee Blair
Eubie Blake
Jules Bledsoe
Big Bill Broonzy
Sterling Brown
Willie Bryant
Cab Calloway
Harry Carney
Sidney "Big Sid" Catlett
Minto Cato
Charlie Christian
Buck Clayton
Rupert Cole
Shad Collins
Colored Orphan Asylum of Riverdale Chorus
Charles L. Cooke
Ralph Cooper
Ida Cox
Merrill R. Dames
William L. Dawson
Wilbur De Paris
Thomas Andrew Dorsey
Eddie Durham
Harry "Sweets" Edison
Roy Eldridge
Hershel Evans
George "Pops" Foster
Joe Garland
Mercedes Gilbert
Gala Glenn
Golden Gate Quartet
Freddie Green
Wilbert Griffiths
Jester Hairston
Lionel Hampton
Robert Harvey
Shelton Hemphill
Fletcher Henderson
J. C. Higginbotham
Johnny Hodges
Charlie Holmes
Claude Hopkins
Helen Humes
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra
Pete Johnson
James P. Johnson
Otis Johnson
Willie Johnson
Jo Jones
Joseph Jordan
Juanita Hall Choir
William L. King
Tommy Ladnier
William Langford
Meade "Lux" Lewis
Ed Lewis
Jimmie Lunceford
Bingie Madison
Eddie Mallory
Dorothy Maynor
Viola McCoy
Dan Minor
Mitchell's Christian Singers
Benny Morton
Henry Owens
Walter Page
Luckey Roberts
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Jimmy Rushing
Ernest Shaw
Noble Sissle
Ruby Smith
The Southernaires
William Grant Still
Maxine Sullivan
Sonny Terry
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Henry Troy
Joe Turner
Tuskegee Institute Choir
Earle Warren
Jack Washington
George Washington
Ethel Waters
Dickie Wells
Wilbert Griffiths and His Harlem Swing Club Orchestra
William Lawrence Negro Art Singers
Cootie Williams
Teddy Wilson
Orlandus Wilson
Lester Young
Jessie Zachary

1941–1950

267
Mabel Alexander
American Negro Opera Company
Cat Anderson
The Angel Lites
Irving Ashby
Buster Bailey
Harold Baker
Danny Barker
Charles Bateman
Harry Belafonte
Lionel Belasco
Belleville Choir
Emmett Berry
Denzil Best
Barney Bigard
Earl Bostic
Wellman Braud
Carol Brice
Jonathan Brice
Bridge Street A. M. E. Church Choir
Jimmy Britton
Brother Bones
Lawrence Brown
Anne Brown
Hillard Brown
Ray Brown
John Brown
Milt Buckner
Dave Burns
Garvin Bushell
Thelma Carpenter
Joe Carroll
Al Casey
Henderson Chambers
The Charioteers
Arnett Cobb
Cozy Cole
Nat "King" Cole
Bill Coleman
John Collins
Lee Collins
Janet Collins
Joe Comfort
Willie Cook
Cornerstone Baptist Church Gospel Choir
James Crawford
Sonny Criss
Ed Cuffee
Wendell Culley
Joe Darensbourg
Kay Davis
Ellabelle Davis
Miles Davis
Mary Cardwell Dawson
Dean Dixon
Todd Duncan
Katherine Dunham
Andy Duryea
Blanche Eckles
John Eckles
Billy Eckstine
Duke Ellington
Marie Ellington
Gus Evans
Stanley Facey
Kansas Fields
Ella Fitzgerald
Pat Flowers
Benny Fonville
Jimmy Forman
Charlie Fowlkes
William Franklin
Lorenzo Fuller
Edward "Montudi" Garland
Donald "Little Reverend" Gay
Joe Gayles
Dizzy Gillespie
Tyree Glenn
Wardell Gray
Theresa Green
Bennie Green
Lisle Greenidge
Sonny Greer
Oscar Griffin
Fred Guy
Joe Guy
Kenny Hagwood
Edmond Hall
Al Hall
Minor "Ram" Hall
Jimmy Hamilton
Otto Hardwick
Wilson Hardy
Charlie Harris
Joe Harris
Wynonie Harris
Clyde Hart
Johnny Hartman
Chauncey Haughton
Erskine Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
Roy Haynes
Al Hayse
J. C. Heard
Ernest Henry
Al Hibbler
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
Baby Hines
Earl "Fatha" Hines
Billie Holiday
Lena Horne
Bob Howard
Sam Hurt
Calvin Jackson
Alberta Jackson
Milt Jackson
Bull Moose Jackson
Quentin Jackson
Mahalia Jackson
Illinois Jacquet
Caterina Jarboro
Eva Jessye
J. C. Johnson
J. J. Johnson
Howard Johnson
Bunk Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Budd Johnson
Buddy Johnson
Wallace Jones
Slick Jones
Claude Jones
Hank Jones
Jonah Jones
Taft Jordan
Katherine Dunham Company
Kenneth Kersey
Al Killian
John Kirby
Don Kirkpatrick
Eartha Kitt
Billy Kyle
The Landfordaires
Ellis Larkins
Lead Belly
John Levy
Ruth Avery Lipscomb
Joseph Lipscomb
Joe Louis
Al Lucas
Billy Mackel
Kaiser Marshall
Wendell Marshall
Mary Bruce's Starbuds
Brownie McGhee
Howard McGhee
Al McKibbon
June McMechen
Velma Middleton
Lucky Millinder
Harry Mills
Herbert Mills
Donald Mills
The Mills Brothers
John Mills Sr.
Little Brother Montgomery
James Moody
Freddie Moore
Joe Morris
John Morris
Mother McClease
Ray Nance
Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
National Negro Opera Company
Fats Navarro
Frankie Newton
Sylvia Olden
Roy O'Loughlin
Kid Ory
Oran "Hot Lips" Page
Dave Page
Aubrey Pankey
Charlie Parker
Delores Parker
Massie Patterson
Cecil Payne
Andrew Penn
Jay Peters
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Pettiford
Tommy Potter
Bud Powell
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Josephine Premice
Sammy Price
Pearl Primus
Russell Procope
Fred Radcliffe
Alvin "Junior" Raglin
Muriel Rahn
Philip A. Randolph
Irving "Mouse" Randolph
The Ravens
Frances Kraft Reckling
Napoleon Reed
Theresa Richards
Rodney Richardson
Max Roach
Jackie Robinson
Betty Roche
Ernie Royal
Curley Russell
Hazel Scott
Arthur "Bud" Scott
Al Sears
Edith Sewell
Charlie Shavers
Arvell Shaw
Joya Sherrill
Teddy Sinclair
Willie "The Lion" Smith
Willie Smith
Soul Stirrers Evangelistic Singers
Eddie South
Gerold Spearing
O'Neill Spencer
Kenneth Spencer
Alphonse Steele
Rex Stewart
Slam Stewart
Teddy Stewart
Ruth Stewart
Sonny Stitt
Billy Strayhorn
Alma Sutton
Talley Beatty and His Dance Company
Jesse Tarrant
Art Tatum
Tennessee State Collegians
Helen Thigpen
Joe Thomas
Bobby Tucker
Union Star Gospel Singers
Sarah Vaughan
Bettye Voorhees
"Jersey Joe" Walcott
George T. Walker
Clara Ward
Ward Singers
William Warfield
Dinah Washington
Ben Webster
Harold "Doc" West
Josh White
Johnny Williams
Skippy Williams
Mary Lou Williams
Francis Williams
Camilla Williams
Lawrence Winters
Wilson Woodbeck
Elman Wright
Lammar Wright Jr.
Jimmy "Papa" Yancey
Estelle "Mama" Yancey
Max Yergan
Trummy Young

1951–1960

195
Ahmed Abdul-Malik
Faye Adams
Elma Adams
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
Adele Addison
Betty Allen
Martina Arroyo
Pearl Bailey
Dave Bailey
Eddie Barefield
Everett Barksdale
Paul Bascomb
Joe Benjamin
James Berry
Alfred "Pepsi" Bethel
Leon Bibb
Walter Bishop Jr.
Ed Blackwell
Art Blakey
Edward Boatner
McHenry Boatwright
Margaret Bonds
Ronnell Bright
Eugene Broadnax
Clifford Brown
Marion Bruce
John W. Bubbles
Lord Burgess
Kenny Burrell
Camp Minisink "Show of Shows"
The Caravans
Benny Carter
Paul Chambers
Ray Charles
Kenny Clarke
James Cleveland
The Clovers
Henry Coker
Helen Colbert
John Coltrane
Ray Copeland
Israel Crosby
Daniels Singers
Larry Darnell
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Richard Davis
Sammy Davis Jr.
Gloria Davy
Kenny Dennis
Vic Dickenson
Bo Diddley
Mattawilda Dobbs
Bill Doggett
Eric Dolphy
Dorothy Donegan
Carl Drinkard
Frankie Dunlop
George Duvivier
Mildred Falls
Addison Farmer
Art Farmer
Ethel Fields
Five Blind Boys
The Five Keys
Tommy Flanagan
Frank Foster
Hope Foye
Panama Francis
Andrew Frierson
Fran Gaddison
Earl Gaines
Erroll Garner
Leonard Gaskin
George Goodman
Amelia Goodman
Evelyn Greene
Al Grey
Johnny Griffin
Reri Grist
Gigi Gryce
Chico Hamilton
Slide Hampton
The Harmonizing Four
Karl Harrington
Starling Hatchett
Marvin Hayes
Eugene "Fats" Heard
Percy Heath
Jon Hendricks
Robert Henson
Eddie Heywood
J. Earle Hines
Milt Hinton
Lynn Hope
Lightnin' Hopkins
Langston Hughes
Rhea Jackson
Baby Laurence Jackson
Al Jackson Sr.
Ahmad Jamal
Etta James
Herb Jeffries
Gus Johnson
Osie Johnson
Jimmy Jones
Philly Joe Jones
Reunald Jones Jr.
Reunald Jones Sr.
Louis Jordan
Connie Kay
Wynton Kelly
Matthew Kennedy
Juanita King
Kings of Harmony
Harold Land
Arthur Lawson
John Lewis
Melba Liston
Gildo Mahones
Miriam Makeba
William Marshall
Inez Matthews
Seth McCoy
Robert McFerrin
James McFerrin
Norsalus McKissic
Butterfly McQueen
Carmen McRae
Clarence "Big" Miller
Charles Mingus
Modern Jazz Quartet
Thelonious Monk
George Morrow
Phineas Newborn Jr.
Joe Newman
The Nightingales
Odetta
Babatunde Olatunji
The Original Gospel Harmonettes
Georgia Peach
Charlie Persip
Brock Peters
Benny Powell
Richie Powell
Seldon Powell
Specs Powell
Leontyne Price
Paul Quinichette
Gene Ramey
Zizi Richards
Jerome Richardson
Sugar Ray Robinson
Timmie Rogers
Sonny Rollins
Charlie Rouse
Jimmy Rowser
Wyatt Ruther
Philippa Duke Schuyler
Shirley Scott
Selah Jubilee Singers
Shep Sheppard
Sihab Shihab
Don Shirley
Horace Silver
John Simmons
Zutty Singleton
Memphis Slim
Otis Spann
Rawn Spearman
Idrees Sulieman
The Swanee Quintet
Buddy Tate
Billy Taylor
Francena Taylor
Arthur Taylor
Lucky Thompson
Joseph "Big Joe" Turner
Shirley Verrett
Mal Waldron
Frances Walker
Charles Ward
Isaac Washington
Muddy Waters
Julius Watkins
Laurence Watson
Noble "Thin Man" Watts
Frank Wess
Lucretia West
Randy Weston
Josh White Jr.
Paul Williams
Joe Williams
Willie Webb Gospel Choir
Shadow Wilson
James Wilson

1961–1970

145
Raoul Abdul
Nat Adderley
Rashied Ali
Lisle Atkinson
Josephine Baker
James Baldwin
Kenny Barron
Obie Benson
George Benson
Chuck Berry
Keter Betts
Rhoda Boggs
Roscoe Lee Brown
Garnett Brown
Ray Bryant
George "Mojo" Buford
Grace Bumbry
Jerry Butler
Jaki Byard
Donald Byrd
Godfrey Cambridge
Wilbur Campbell
Diahann Carroll
Betty Carter
Jimmy Cobb
Billy Cobham
George Coleman
Johnny Coles
Alice Coltrane
Barbara Conrad
Junior Cook
Bob Cranshaw
Ted Curson
Ossie Davis
Osceola Davis
Spanky De Brest
Ruby Dee
Jack DeJohnette
James DePreist
Wayne Dockery
Lou Donaldson
Kenny Dorham
Mercer Ellington
Simon Estes
Abdul "Duke" Fakir
Otis "Candy" Finch
Alpha Floyd
The Four Tops
Carlos Garnett
Jimmy Garrison
Paul Gonsalves
Grant Green
Dick Gregory
Herbie Hancock
John Handy
Hilda Harris
Richie Havens
Louis Hayes
Albert "Tootie" Heath
Joe Henderson
John Hicks
Richard "Groove" Holmes
Nora Holt
Isaac "Redd" Holt
Son House
Freddie Hubbard
Roger Humphries
"Mississippi" John Hurt
Isaiah Jackson
Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson
Thad Jones
James Earl Jones
Elayne Jones
Elvin Jones
Clifford Jordan
Gwendolyn Killebrew
Albert King
B. B. King
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
John Lamb
Everett Lee
Ramsey Lewis
Henry Lewis
Harold Mabern
Moms Mabley
Julian Clifford Mance
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
Big Maybelle
Billy Mitchell
Blue Mitchell
Dwike Mitchell
Arthur Mitchell
Hank Mobley
Lee Morgan
Oliver Nelson
Patterson Singers
Lawrence Payton
Duke Pearson
Coleridge Perkinson
Sidney Poitier
Julian Priester
Arthur Prysock
Sun Ra
Lou Rawls
Beah Richards
Larry Ridley
Ben Riley
Mickey Roker
Willie Ruff
Nipsey Russell
Pharoah Sanders
Woody Shaw
Marlena Shaw
Archie Shepp
George Shirley
Bobby Short
Fred Shuttlesworth
Nina Simone
Jimmy Smith
James Spaulding
The Staple Singers
Levi Stubbs
Grady Tate
Clark Terry
Big Mama Thornton
Bobby Timmons
Stanley Turrentine
Veronica Tyler
McCoy Tyner
Freddie Waits
T-Bone Walker
Cedar Walton
Dionne Warwick
André Watts
Marion Williams
Big Joe Williams
Buster Williams
Nancy Wilson
Flip Wilson
Jimmy Witherspoon
Britt Woodman
Sam Woodyard
Leo Wright
Eldee Young

1971–1980

148
Muhal Richard Abrams
George Adams
Don Alias
Andrae Crouch and The Disciples
Dwight Andrews
Nick Ashford
Ashford and Simpson
Carmen Balthrop
Leon Bates
Kathleen Battle
Hamiet Bluiett
Joseph Bowie
Boys Choir of Harlem
Gwendolyn Bradley
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Cecil Bridgewater
Hiram Bullock
George Cables
Valerie Capers
Roland Carter
Ron Carter
Doc Cheatham
Don Cherry
Stanley Clarke
Natalie Cole
Ornette Coleman
Bill Cosby
Stanley Cowell
Philip Creech
Andrew Cyrille
Albert Dailey
Clamma Dale
Dance Theatre of Harlem
Sarah Dash
Angela Davis
Anthony Davis
Alan Dawson
Carmen De Lavallade
Fats Domino
Cornell Dupree
Christiane Eda-Pierre
Maria Ewing
Jon Faddis
Roberta Flack
Ricky Ford
James Mtume Foreman
Sonny Fortune
Al Foster
Redd Foxx
Aretha Franklin
Chico Freeman
Curtis Fuller
Eric Gale
Nikki Giovanni
Dexter Gordon
Sir Roland Hanna
Billy Harper
Barry Harris
Jimmy Hayes
Jimmy Heath
Barbara Hendricks
Nona Hendryx
Billy Higgins
Natalie Hinderas
Major Holley
Ben Holt
John Lee Hooker
Linda Hopkins
Fred Hopkins
Thelma Houston
Cissy Houston
Alberta Hunter
Oliver Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Paul Jeffrey
Leroy Jenkins
Howard Johnson
Eddie Jones
Isola Jones
Robin Kenyatta
Coretta Scott King
Earl Klugh
Labelle
Patti LaBelle
Oliver Lake
Yusef Lateef
Hubert Laws
Jerry Lawson
Joe Lawson
George Lewis
Jimmy Lions
Jon Lucien
Nellie Lutcher
Benjamin Matthews
Roy McCurdy
Charles McPherson
Jay McShann
Jay McShann
Leona Mitchell
Danny Mixon
Melba Moore
Ralph Moore
Morgan State University Chorus
Sunny Murray
Amina Claudine Myers
David "Fathead" Newman
Jessye Norman
Sy Oliver
Jimmy Owens
Gail Palmore-Archer
The Persuasions
Noel Pointer
Don Pullen
Bernard Purdie
Florence Quivar
Dewey Redman
Rufus Reid
Herbert "Toubo" Rhoad
Dannie Richmond
Sam Rivers
Paul Robeson Jr.
Smokey Robinson
Faye Robinson
Marshall Royal
George Russell
Gil Scott-Heron
Norman Simmons
Marietta Simpson
Valerie Simpson
Lonnie Liston Smith
Carrie Smith
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
Taj Mahal
Cecil Taylor
Charles Tolliver
Ike Turner
Tina Turner
Norris Turney
Cicely Tyson
Ben Vereen
Jayotis Washington
Kenny Washington
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Tony Williams
Paul Winfield
Bill Withers
Stevie Wonder
Reggie Workman

1981–1990

152
Paul Spencer Adkins
Donnie Ray Albert
William Duncan Allen
Geri Allen
Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble
Clifton Anderson
Vanessa Bell Armstrong
Harold Ashby
Audio Two
The Badgett Sisters
Benny Bailey
Afrika Bambaataa
Thurman Barker
Patricia Baskerville
Alvin Batiste
Aaron Bell
Harolyn Blackwell
John Blake
Terence Blanchard
Arthur Blythe
Walter Booker
Lester Bowie
Horace Boyer
Bobby Bradford
Bunny Briggs
William Brown
Ronnie Burrage
Red Callender
Terri Lyne Carrington
Baikida Carroll
John Carter
Nell Carter
Vincent Chancy
Tracy Chapman
Alvin Chea
Steve Coleman
Ira Coleman
Albert Collins
Jerome Cooper
Anthony Cox
Marilyn Crispell
Roger DaCosta
Kenwood Dennard
Cedric Dent
David Dinkins
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Akua Dixon-Turre
Ralph Dorsey
Mark Doss
Ray Drummond
George Duke
Arthur Duncan
Charles Dutton
Charles Earland
Kevin Eubanks
Alex Foster
Rodney Franklin
Von Freeman
Life Gee
Savion Glover
Milford Graves
Omar Hakim
Adelaide Hall
Eugene Hancock
Bill Hardman
Roy Hargrove
Craig Harris
Jerome Harris
Donald Harrison
Billy Hart
Edwin Hawkins
Gordon Hawkins
John Heard
Julius Hemphill
Eddie Henderson
Gregory Hines
Jay Hoggard
Bertha Hope
Whitney Houston
Rhetta Hughes
Bobby Hutcherson
Herman Jackson
Freddie Jackson
Joseph Jarman
Al Jarreau
Stanley Jordan
Duke Jordan
Joe Kennedy
Chaka Khan
Mark Kibble
Billy Kilson
Cleavon Little
Longar Ebony Ensemble
M.C. Lyte
Wynton Marsalis
Ellis Marsalis
Branford Marsalis
Marvis Martin
Kevin Maynor
Cecil McBee
Bobby McFerrin
James McKissic
Claude V. McKnight III
Jackie McLean
Melle Mel
Jymie Merritt
Mulgrew Miller
Harold Minerve
Roscoe Mitchell
Charnett Moffett
Buddy Montgomery
Rose Murphy
David Murray
Lewis Nash
James Newton
Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas
Jefferey Osborne
Eugene Perry
Herbert Perry
Ralph Peterson Jr.
John Purcell
Bruce Purse
Derek Lee Ragin
Dianne Reeves
Vernon Reid
Marcus Roberts
Wallace Roney
Carolyn Sebron
Avery Sharpe
Sister Sledge
Jimmy Slyde
Marvin "Smitty" Smith
Hale Smith
Lorice Stevens
Delcina Stevenson
Bob Stewart
John Stubblefield
Sweet Honey In The Rock
Take 6
David Thomas
Malachi Thompson
"Sir" Charles Thompson
Henry Threadgill
Abdul Wadud
Mervyn Warren
Jeff "Tain" Watts
Felicia Weathers
Joe Wilder
Julius Williams
The Williams Brothers
The Winans

1991–2000

132
Yolanda Adams
Gerald Albright
Roberta Alexander
Muhammad Ali
Kenneth Amis
Wes Anderson
Maya Angelou
Tyler "T.D." Bell
Charlie Binson
Brian Blade
Charlotte Blake Alston
Avery Brooks
Ruth Brown
Elder Brown
Angela M. Brown
Erbie Browser
Samuel Bryant
Peabo Bryson
Willa Mae Buckner
Jonathan Butler
Don Byron
Ernest Carrington
James Carter
Ravi Coltrane
Diamond Teeth Mary
Dillard University Choir
Howard Dodson
Rita Dove
Will Downing
William Dunn
Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble
Jordan B. Evans Jr.
Rachelle Ferrell
Herbert Field
Lynn Foddrell
Turner Foddrell
Charlie Forbes
Nnenna Freelon
Guitar Gabriel
Gandy Dancers
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg
Wycliffe Gordon
The Gospel Christian Singers
The Gospel Soul Seekers
Denyce Graves
Macy Gray
Lawrence Hamilton
Harlem School of the Arts Choir
Stefon Harris
Howard Haskin
Cynthia Haymon
The Heavenly Tones
Eddie Herring
Moses Hogan
Shirley Horn
Gregory Hutchinson
The Impressions
James Ingram
Jackson State University Choir
Blind Willie James
William Johnson
Otto Johnson
Anita Johnson
Allen Jones
Carmella Jones
Willie Jones III
Gladys Knight
Charles Lloyd
Clyde Long
Margaret Love
Russell Malone
Johnny Mathis
Howard Matthews
Christian McBride
Audra McDonald
Anthony McGill
John Mealing
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Sam Moore
Morehouse College Glee Club
Robert L. Morris
Toni Morrison
Gary Powell Nash
Aaron Neville
New World Ensemble
Eric Owens
Nicholas Payton
Charles Rangel
Toshi Reagon
Joshua Redman
Eric Reed
Rev. Essie Reed
Rev. Willie Reed
Frankie Reed
Willie Reed Jr.
Sheila Reed Loud
Jackie Reed Mackie
Merenda Reed Miller
Brenda Reed Smith
Diane Reed Tootle
Ric-Charles Choral Ensemble
Herlin Riley
Nile Rodgers
Diana Ross
Richard Sample
Sonia Sanchez
Jeff Scott
Jimmy Scott
Wayne Shorter
Percy Sledge
Southern University Choir
Randolph Swain
Antina S. Thomas
Antoinette R. Thomas
Iesha Thomas
Andre Thomas
Indra Thomas
The Thomas Sisters
Robert Todd
Johnny Tootle
Louise Toppin
Luther Vandross
Voices of Freedom Ensemble
Tahirah Whittington
Vanessa Williams
Cassandra Wilson
Olly Wilson
Alfre Woodard
Cornelius Wright Jr.
Cleveland Young
Nina Young

2001–Present

68
Mariam Adam
India.Arie
Gregg Baker
Mary J. Blige
Bobby Broom
Terri Lynne Brown
Nicole Cabell
The Campbell Brothers
Dave Chappelle
Maurice Chestnut
Valerie Coleman
Derrick Cummings
Destiny's Child
Aaron P. Dworkin
Monica Ellis
Harlem Gospel Choir
Joe Herndon
Vincent Herring
Lauryn Hill
Imani Winds
Leela James
Wyclef Jean
Gareth Johnson
Kem
Beyoncé Knowles
Lenny Kravitz
Spike Lee
James Martin
Ronnie McNeir
Marcus Miller
Mos Def
Tai Murray
Steve Nelson
Desmond Neysmith
Nokuthula Ngwenyama
Greg Osby
Rokie Payton
Clayton Penrose-Whitmore
Theo Peoples
Phylicia Rashad
Morris Robinson
Chris Rock
The Roots
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Kelly Rowland
Mark Rucker
Jill Scott
Ann Sears
Ryan Shaw
Robert Sims
Anna Deavere Smith
Nate Smith
Toyin Spellman-Diaz
Angie Stone
Darryl Taylor
The Temptations
Russell Thomas
Ron Tyson
James "Blood" Ulmer
Terry Weeks
Melissa White
Michelle Williams
Otis Williams
Bruce Williamson
Victor Wooten
Roy "FutureMan" Wooten
Lizz Wright
Thomas Young


Since complete biographical information is not available for every performer who has appeared at Carnegie Hall, this overview of African American artists is not intended to be complete.


Carnegie Hall gives special thanks to Tyron Cooper for researching and compiling the List of Honor.



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