An all-star lineup has been assembled for the third annual Heineken Red Star Soul concert series. The nine-city series kicks off August 6 at Boulevard3 in Los Angeles, CA with performances by Ashanti and Goapele. Following the launch, the tour will continue throughout the fall and feature Grammy-nominees Raheem DeVaughn, Chrisette Michelle and Dwele in addition to Lyfe Jennings, Bilal and Musiq Soulchild. Kenny Burns, emcee of the BET show “Black Poke Stars International, returns as the host for the third year.

At each Heineken Red Star Soul concert, the Heineken Independent Achiever Award will be presented, which recognizes the qualities of hustle, integrity and drive while serving as an inspiration to others through their work in music.

“Heineken Red Star Soul was created to celebrate soul music, shine a spotlight on emerging artists and showcase prolific performers in soul and R&B music,” said Shane Hoyne, Heineken senior brand director, Heineken USA, in a statement. “We’re excited to welcome soul music superstars like Keyshia Cole and Musiq Soulchild to the Heineken Red Star Soul stage and look forward to also bringing new and promising artists to our consumers.”

In addition to the concert series and the Independent Achiever Award, Heineken USA also has a two-year sponsorship agreement with the legendary Apollo Theatre in New York and the creation of the Heineken New Legends Concert Series, which kicked off in February.

Heineken Red Star Soul concert series:
Dates subject to change

Last night, I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Keyshia live once again. The show was amazing and Keysh looked beautiful. She ran through a lengthy set list and was on stage for about an hour. The highlight of the night was when she made two very exciting announcements. As we already know, Keyshia has been in talks to tour with Lil Wayne, and last night she officially confirmed it to a sold out crowd in Buffalo NY! Keyshia also stated that she had just wrapped up a brand new song with Wayne in NYC. Of the song, she stated “Its fire.” If you ever have the opportunity to see her live, check Keyshia out because she will not disappoint. Click here to view a larger version of the picture above.

In other news, “Heaven Sent” is currently sitting at #3 on the Billboard R&B charts after ONLY 8 weeks. This is a promising chart position and definitely holds the potential to be Keyshia’s third number one single. Support Keyshia by requesting the song on your local radio stations, or by buying the single via iTunes.

MTV caught up with Keyshia and Lil Wayne this week to discuss possible tour rumors.

Wayne stated, “I think I might go out with Keyshia Cole. You’re bringing two different types of people in there. You got people coming to soothe their souls with Keyshia, and you got people who wanna throw their hands up with me. It’s like listening to the radio. I think a concert should be like listening to the radio. When you listen to the radio, and your top-five or top-eight songs come on, it’s hip-hop, it’s R&B. … I think you gonna get that from me and Keyshia and whatever in between that.”

“I’mma kidnap him and take him on tour with me,” Cole told us Thursday, on the set of the new Game video, ‘Pain.’ “I think it’s a little harder to get him on the stage than it is to get me,” she smiled. “We gotta make sure we get together on that.”             MTV News Thank you to MIMS of the OK Forums for posting!

Keyshia and the rest of the Double Up Tour rolled through her hometown of Oakland, California on December 15th. Check out the gallery to view pics from the show!

“Double Up” Tour Oakland, CA
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OnlyKeyshia has finally updated the gallery with some recent Keyshia photos we never got around to. Check out the gallery in the links below! Also, you can check back soon for scans of Keyshia’s recent Vibe and Dub Magazine features.

MTV’s MiTRL
http://www.onlykeyshia.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=308

Young Jeezy’s Birthday
http://www.onlykeyshia.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=310

BET Season 2 Promos
http://www.onlykeyshia.com/photos/thumbnails.php?album=309

Tour Afterparty in Houston
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Here’s a review of Keyshia Cole’s performance at a ATL show, thanks to RoJay from Middle Child Promotions for sending it in:

What’s good? I just wanted to drop in and let you know I went to see Keyshia Thursday night in Atlanta and I really enjoyed her the most of the entire concert. She was fly as fuck in her silver space outfit. lol…Naw, but for real she was rocking a silver short set with knee high boots, super blonde hair and definitely doing her steps. She added two extra back up dancers from last I saw her, giving her a total of four male dancers, her two female backup singers, a full band and props that included a park bench, street lights and a phone booth. Here is her setlist.

Intro w/ Didn’t I Tell You
Shoulda Let You Go (Amina came out to do her rap but was clearly lippin and messed up horribly because her vocals were going and she started to soon, turned back to walk off stage and then realized it was going and she returned. I just don’t see her doing well as an artist.)
Just Want It To Be Over
I Shoulda Cheated
Give It Up To Me
Just Like You
I Changed My Mind
I Remember
Love
Last Night
Let It Go w/ suprise guest Missy Elliott. (Missy got so excited she almost forgot her part and even announced it….”When the song come on in….I done forgot the words.” *laughs*)

I really enjoyed her and if fans haven’t seen her yet, please check her out! I’ve included pictures of Missy joining her onstage (this was of course after Keyshia had removed her jacket.) and Monica with her backstage!

Click here for the pictures!

To no one’s surprise, R. Kelly won’t be in court this holiday season. Instead, the multi-platinum selling R&B dynamo will be taking his show on the road and bumping and grinding in cities across the country.

And get this: the self-proclaimed “Pied Piper” taking some of the hottest young R&B chart-toppers out on a cross-country trek.

Hip-Hop Soul princess Keyshia Cole, du jour songwriter/crooner Ne-Yo breakout newcomer J. Holiday will all support Kelly for his “Double Up” tour, which kicks off Nov. 14 in Columbus, Georgia. The near 40-city tour, presented by the Atlanta-based concert promotion firm Rowe Entertainment Inc., helmed by industry veteran Leonard Rowe, will make stops in New York, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles and Kelly’s hometown of Chicago.

Confirmed tour dates are listed below:
Nov 14 Columbus, GA Columbus Civic Center
Nov 15 Atlanta Phillips Arena
Nov 16 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
Nov 17 Birmingham BJCC
Nov 18 Charlotte Bobcat Arena
Nov 21 Philadelphia Wachovia Center
Nov 22 Newark Prudential Center
Nov 23 New York Nassau Coliseum
Nov 24 Baltimore 1st Mariner
Nov 25 Washington DC Verizon Center
Nov 29 Little Rock Alltel Arena
Nov 30 New Orleans New Orleans Arena
Dec 1 Dallas American Airlines Arena
Dec 2 Houston Toyota Center
Dec 6 Minneapolis Target Center
Dec 7 Kansas City Sprint Center
Dec 8 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse
Dec 9 Memphis Fed Ex Forum
Dec 13 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay
Dec 14 Los Angeles Staples Center
Dec 15 Oakland Oakland Arena (Oracle)
Dec 16 Sacramento ARCO Arena
Dec 20 Chicago United Center
Dec 21 Chicago United Center
Dec 22 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
Dec 23 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
Dec 27 Charleston North Charleston Coliseum
Dec 28 Orlando Amway
Dec 29 Columbia Colonial Center
Dec 30 Jacksonville Veteran Memorial
Dec 31 Miami American Airlines Arena
Jan 4 Cleveland Wolstein Center
Jan 5 Louisville Kentucky Expo Center
Jan 6 St Louis Scottrade
Jan 9 Savannah Savannah Civic Center
Jan 10 Greenville Bi-Lo Center
Jan 11 Richmond Richmond Coliseum
Jan 13 Hampton Hampton Coliseum

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