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BET Awards Prince tribute adds Stevie Wonder

The legendary Wonder brought his tour celebrating his landmark album, "Songs in the Key of Life," to Atlanta, performing to a sold-out audience at the Philips Arena. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC) Stevie Wonder will help honor Prince. Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC.

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

The legendary Wonder brought his tour celebrating his landmark album, "Songs in the Key of Life," to Atlanta, performing to a sold-out audience at the Philips Arena. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC) Stevie Wonder will help honor Prince. Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC.
By Melissa Ruggieri
June 23, 2016

The list of artists preparing to pay tribute to Prince at the Sunday BET Awards just received a high-wattage jolt.

Stevie Wonder will join The Roots, Sheila E. and Janelle Monae and pay homage to the singer during one of the Prince-related performances that will take place throughout the show.

Wonder joined Madonna at last month's Billboard Awards to sing "Purple Rain" at the end of her polarizing tribute.

Also hopping into the performance parade are Young Thug, Jennifer Hudson, Erykah Badu, French Montana, Fat Joe, Remy Ma, Tori Kelly and Beyonce's rising music duo, Atlanta natives Chloe X Halle.

Previously announced performers include Usher, Future, Alicia Keys, Maxwell, Bryson Tiller and Desiigner.

The 16th annual BET Awards will air live from Los Angeles on BET at 8 p.m. Sunday.

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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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