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EW Toasts L.A. at Post-Grammy Party
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
LOS ANGELES - How fitting that one of the last parties of the Grammy Awards weekend here would be an amalgamation, of sorts, of earlier events.
There were a number of high-profile music types at Entertainment Weekly’s salute to Antonio “L.A.” Reid, a former Atlantan, and current New York-based chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group. Among them: His Island/So So Def president, Atlanta’s Jermaine Dupri; Alicia Keys’ manager (Jeff Robinson) and reported boyfriend (Kerry Brothers); Ludacris’s manager and business partner Chaka Zulu, with their new Disturbing Tha Peace Steph Lova; multi-media gossip Perez Hilton; Atlanta attorney Donald Woodard; film power Jarrod Donoman and the Three Brown Girls’ Nicole Johnson.
There was a high quotient of product placement: Entertainment Weekly and ew.com on the pillows, as well as the candles; and free Ciroc vodka flowing, courtesy of its new endorser, Sean “Diddy” Combs (whose picture was on cards laid out around the bars. Another “touch” at the Berry Gordy/Jimmy Jam luncheon.)
The setting - the black-heavy STK Restaurant -was high in aesthetics; much like the Vanity Fair/Louis Vuitton brunch at Chateau Marmont, also in West Hollywood.
But the highlight of the swank gathering early on may have been the music. Like at Dupri’s party, DJ Cassidy was focusing on the feel-good music of the ’70s and ’80s, spinning such artists as Minnie Ripperton, Stephanie Mills and Teddy Pendergrass. A nice way to ease out out of the nonstop activities of Grammy 2008.
Going forward, Grammy-winner Terence Blanchard mentioned that he has been campaigning to bring the ceremony to new Orleans. For a long time, attorney Joel Katz has made the same efforts for Atlanta. Where do you think the music industry’s highest honor should be handed out next?
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