Abby Phillip
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
CNN News Anchor
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event VIP Guest”
American CNN news anchor who anchors CNN NewsNight and CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five. She previously worked for Politico covering the Obama White House, The Washington Post as a national political reporter, and ABC News as a digital reporter for politics.
Arianna Huffington
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Author, Syndicated Columnist and Businesswoman
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event VIP Guest”
Greek American author, syndicated columnist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of HuffPost, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She has been named to Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list
Bobbi Brown
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Make-Up Artist & Business Mogul
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Honoree / Time Magazine’s Icon of The Year”
American professional make-up artist, author, and the founder of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. She created ten natural-shade lipsticks which according to Entrepreneur "revolutionized the beauty industry".She has written nine books about beauty and wellness.In 2025, Time magazine listed her as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
After leaving Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in 2016, she launched Beauty Evolution, LLC, and became certified as a health coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.Brown also started a line of beauty-inspired wellness products.[and launched a second beauty line, Jones Road, in 2020. Brown curates an editorial website. She and her husband Steven Plofker redesigned The George, a boutique hotel located in Montclair, New Jersey.
Holly Zuelle
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Actress
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Guest”
American actress, model, writer and digital artist. Holly can currently be seen on the Hulu/Disney+/Duplass Brothers Productions series Out There: Crimes of the Paranormal in Episode 4, "Jersey Witch Hunt", Amazon Studios The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Law & Order SVU.
Josh Koskoff
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Attorney
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Honoree / Time Magazine’s Innovator of The Year”
Koskoff represented nine families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims (Newtown, CT), who agreed to a $73 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against defunct gunmaker Remington.
Chef Kwame Onwuachi
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Celebrity Chef & Restaurateur
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Honoree / Time Magazine’s Innovator of The Year”
American chef based in New York City, New York. He has opened or owned several restaurants including Shaw Bijou, Kith and Kin, and Tatiana. A published author and restaurateur, he also appeared as a contestant on Top Chef in 2015.
Chef Nok Suntaranon
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Celebrity Chef & Restaurateur
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Honoree / Time Magazine’s Innovator of The Year”
Thai chef and owner of Kalaya in Philadelphia. In 2023, she received the James Beard Foundation Award for best chef, Mid-Atlantic.
Padma Lakshmi
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Celebrity Chef & Restaurateur
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event VIP Guest”
New York Times bestselling author, Emmy-nominated producer, and television personality. She's best known for hosting and executive producing the Bravo cooking competition show Top Chef from 2006–2023. She also created and hosts the Hulu docuseries Taste the Nation, which explores the American palate through immigrant and indigenous communities.
Raquel Willis
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Author, Journalist and Black Trans Activist
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Honoree / Time Magazine’s Icon of The Year”
African American writer, editor, and transgender rights activist. She is a former national organizer for the Transgender Law Center and the former executive editor of Out magazine. Her memoir, The Risk It Takes To Bloom, was published in November 2023.
Yoshiki
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Japanese Musician, Songwriter, Composer, Record producer, Film Director, and Fashion Designer.
Event: 2025 Time 100 Gala l 4.25.2025
Location: Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center I Manhattan, NYC
"Event Honoree / Time Magazine’s Icon of The Year”
He is best known as the leader of the visual kei rock bands X Japan and the Last Rockstars, for which he is the drummer, pianist, and main songwriter.
He is the first Japanese artist to have his hand- and footprints memorialized at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. He recently donated half a million dollars to support victims of the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year, benefiting seven organizations.
Big Scott
Renowned Event Producer, Promoter & Owner of Big Scott Entertainment
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
Big Scott Entertainment has been instrumental in the hottest corporate, sports and entertainment events for over 30 plus years. Founded by Scott “Big Scott” Shepherd, his mission was to promote sports, entertainment and fundraising events that would stimulate the economy and enhance the image of the South Jersey area as an event destination, thus provide outstanding entertainment opportunities for its local citizens. His experience also encompassed strategic planning, marketing, fundraising, and communications, so he relied on his strong work ethic to make Big Scott Entertainment a huge success. Scott is single-handedly responsible for bringing some of the biggest A-list celebrities, athletes, entertainers and philanthropist to the South Jersey area.
Bobby Bown
R&B/Soul Music Artist
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
Bobby is a singer, songwriter, rapper, and dancer who helped pioneer new jack swing, a fusion of R&B and hip hop. Known for hits like "Don't Be Cruel" and "Humpin' Around", Brown won a Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Every Little Step" from his 1992 album Bobby. Brown's music blends swing beats, raps, and melodies, and includes the singles "My Prerogative" and "Every Little Step".
He is also famously known as a member of the R&B/Soul Legendary Group “New Edition”
Dave Huie
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Two Dollar Dave, Vio/k Marketing Group, PowHERful. Founder of UNK NBA & Founding Partner of DADA & Erika Lynn Huie Downs Foundation
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Birthday Honoree”
Dave is now embarking on a new venture as the Co-Host of a new Podcast entitled “Just The $2 of Us” with Hip Hop Legend, Chubb Rock
DJ Wiz
DJ & Music Producer
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
DJ WIZ ™ (a.k.a. Mark “WIZ” Eastmond) is a Hip-Hop icon and a graduate of hip- hop’s classic era who broke onto the rap scene in 1988 as the DJ mix-master for one of the genres most revered and popular groups, KID ‘N’ PLAY. While throughout the 90’s, KID ‘N’ PLAY along with DJ WIZ™ continued to make their mark on the music industry on the road, touring with the likes of Salt ‘n’ Pepa, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, MC Hammer, Big Daddy Kane, Digital Underground, Bobby Brown, Guy, Heavy D and the Boyz, N.W.A, J.J Fad, Too Short and Naughty By Nature.
He is the founder/owner of a company and brand called THE VIDEO MIX PARTY™. THE VIDEO MIX PARTY™ actually “mixes and scratches” music videos LIVE in real-time, using the newest audio-visual technology, combining the video classic hits of the past with today’s popular music videos. DJ WIZ™ and The Video Mix Party™ have been utilized for corporate parties and events in brand marketing for advertisers and companies that want to feature products in the marketplace while entertaining the crowd with the hottest music videos.
Eric Price
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
CIBC Managing Director and Head of U.S. Capital Markets
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
Eric Price joined CIBC Capital Markets in 2009. He is currently Managing Director and Head, U.S. Capital Markets. Having built the U.S. desks for equity derivatives, commodity index, private placement and more, Mr. Price specializes across the platform at U.S. Capital Markets.
Mr. Price has extensive Capital Markets expertise. Prior to joining CIBC, Mr. Price managed institutional sales at AIG London 6 years. From there, he spent many years as Head of U.S. Institutional Foreign Exchange Sales at other competing firms in the U.S.
Greg Nice
Hip Hop Music Artist
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
Greg Nice is a part of the Hip Hop Legendary duo “Nice & Smooth” Nice & Smooth is an East Coast hip hop duo from New York City that consists of Gregory O. "Greg Nice" Mays and Darryl O. "Smooth B" Barnes. The duo released four albums between 1989 and 1997.
Their first collaborative appearance was on the single "Dope on a Rope"/"Skill Trade" on Strange Family Records in 1987. On the strength of that underground single they managed a guest spot on the song "Pimpin Ain't Easy" by Big Daddy Kane on his 1989 album It's a Big Daddy Thing.
Joeski Love
Hip Hop Music Artist
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
He is best known his platinum-selling 1986 single “Pee Wee’s Dance,” whose trademark hook, based on a key-switched interpolation of “Tequila,” has been sampled numerous times, Joeski Love was originally part of a hip-hop group that was signed by Vince Davis to his Elektra-disributed Vintertainment label. After the group disbanded, Love stayed on with Davis, who produced “Pee Wee’s Dance’ as well as another single, “Say Joe” b/w “My Girl.” A chance meeting with producer Hank Shocklee caused Love to team up with Salt-n-Pepa producer Hurby Azor, who aided Love with his 1990 debut effort for Columbia Records, “Joe Cool.” To date, this is his only album.
Mikey D
Hip Hop Music Artist
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
He is famously known for being a lead member of the groups Mikey D & The L.A. Posse and Main Source. As a member of Main Source, he replaced Large Professor,[4] who parted ways with the group due to business differences. In 1994, he appeared on Main Source's second album, Fuck What You Think, as the lead MC.
Milk Dee
Hip Hop Music Artist
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
Milk Dee came to prominence as one half of the ground breaking hip-hop duo Audio Two. In the late 80’s he scored with the classic hit Top Billin' which Rolling Stone Magazine lists as one of the top 50 hip-hop songs of all time. Top Billin’ has been sampled over 200 times across the musical spectrum by artist including Jay-Z, Kanye West, 50 cent, Mary J. Blige, Notorious B.I.G, R. Kelly, Ne-Yo and P. Diddy, to name a few.
Along with a successful rap career, Milk also has a stellar career as a producer working with artist such as MC Lyte, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Bilge and Sinead O’Connor. He also produced the multi-platinum worldwide smash single “Fuck It (I Don’t Want You Back)” by Eamon.
Rahzel
Hip Hop Music Artist, Voice Actor & Beatboxer
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
Rahzel is a 3 x Grammy Award winning Vocal Percussionist and Voice Actor. He is best known for an ability to sing or rap while simultaneously beatboxing, as evidenced in his performances of "Iron Man" and his signature song "If Your Mother Only Knew", a hidden track on Make the Music 2000. His talents are showcased in various solo projects as well as on Ben Harper's 2000 single "Steal My Kisses." He also provided his own voice on video games SSX and SSX Tricky, as well as the EA Sports BIG logo from 2000 to 2008. Rahzel was featured on the album True Love by Toots and the Maytals, which won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album, and showcased many notable musicians.
Ronnie Devoe
R&B/Soul Music Artist
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest & Performer”
Ronnie is famously known as one of the members of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and the R&B/hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe.
Supreme
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Urban Legend
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
Tajiri Swindell & Sukari Barnes
Wife & Sister-In -Law to the late Hip Hop Legend Kangol Kid
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guests”
Kangol Kid hip hop producer, songwriter, break dancer, and emcee. Kangol is best known as a member of the old school hip hop group UTFO.
Kangol Kid was the first hip-hop artist to endorse a product through his official sponsorship with Kangol headwear.His signature hat has been inducted into the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Kangol Kid is considered to be one of the "pioneers of hip-hop".
Terrence Floyd
Civil Rights Activist & brother to the late “George Floyd”
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
George Floyd was an African-American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, on May 25, 2020. Derek Chauvin, one of four police officers who arrived on the scene, knelt on Floyd's neck and back for over nine minutes, fatally asphyxiating him. After his murder, a series of protests against police brutality, especially towards black people, quickly spread globally and across the United States. His dying words, "I can't breathe", became a rallying slogan.
Tyesha Montford
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Dave Huie’s Better Half
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
Tyesha was the event Organizer and curator for Dave Huie’s 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration
Dr. Yolanda Ragland
INTERVIEW COMING SOON!
Podiatric Surgeon
Event: 55th Private Celebrity Birthday Celebration for Dave Huie aka $2 Dave l 4.13.2025
Location: Dear Brooklyn I Brooklyn, NYC
"Event Guest”
Clear Touch
Freestyle Music Group
Event: Birthday Celebration for Frankie Cutlass l 1.18.2025
Location: Paradise Island I Staten Island, NYC
"Event Performer”
Born and raised in the Bronx, John Sanchez, KC Rodriguez and Angel Solis formed Clear Touch.
The success of Clear Touch began in the Mid 90’s when their hits from their self-titled album "Surrender Your Love" and "Fallen Angel" hit the Billboard music charts. "Surrender" topped the charts in only a matter of weeks.
On a different side of this artistic spectrum, Clear Touch can be seen in the movie “Living in Paradise”. They have performed at the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem as well as performed The National Anthem at Major Sports Events including live on HBO for the Michael Grant and Andrew Golata Fight, The New York Yankees, New York Knicks, New York Nets, and New Jersey Red Dogs, and Clubs and Arena’s all over the states.
Fascination
Freestyle Music Artist
Event: Birthday Celebration for Frankie Cutlass l 1.18.2025
Location: Paradise Island I Staten Island, NYC
"Event Performer”
Born as Elsie Rodriguez in The Bronx, New York, Fascination, has always dreamed that one day she would be a successful recording artist. With that in her mind, she studied music, drama, and dance. Her love for dancing is what actually gave Fascination her big break in the Freestyle business. She was discovered dancing up a storm at the Copacabana in New York City, where she was introduced to producer Todd Terry.
Fascination's first release, "Why Ya Wanna Go" under Vinylmania Records, was a huge success that it was later followed by another huge hit, "Don't You Think It's Time". After the success of her first two releases, Fascination was signed to Lumar Records. In 1990, "Remember" was released and hit Billboard's Dance charts which then led to a major endorsement deal with Coca-Cola. During the time "Freestyle Lives" was released, Fascination had just released her next single under Cutting Records entitled "Still Miss You", and is/was currently collecting material for her a future album.
Fascination can be seen throughout the New York, Chicago, and Miami Club seen doing all of her hits. With recent performances including Mohegan Sun, Resorts Casino in New York City, and more, Fascination is still making the club seen through North America move.
Tonasia
Freestyle Music Artist
Event: Birthday Celebration for Frankie Cutlass l 1.18.2025
Location: Paradise Island I Staten Island, NYC
"Event Performer”
Born and raised in the boogie down Bronx from Italian immigrant Anthony Annunziata aka Tonasia always had a love and appreciation and passion for the arts and music. Being raised in a musical family there was no doubt he would follow. His mom loved music and played a mean piano and sang all the time , she was an incredible voice stress that ‘s where he gets it from, he says with a grin on his face ……He was signed to Mic Mac records in the late 80’s and his first hit single Wondering became an instant hit in the summer of 88 ‘and was dubbed a classic in the genre of the dance / latin freestyle music circle, radio and mix shows soon followed around the world. It was when he released his second hit single, “Games of Love” in the fall of 89 that became a huge sensation right out of the box as a test press and was added to prime time high rotation on clear water channel radio station Hot 97 fm , 103.5 kTU and Power 96 in Miami Fl. It became a huge national hit reaching all the main stream radio station nationwide including the Casey Kasem Top 40 countdown and moving its way down the charts in the top tens spots followed by his third hit single “Tears of Tears” with its strong drum patterns and base lines it was a instant hit with all the dj’s and fans ..after recording those hits with Mic Mac Records Tonasia pursued a freelance music career working with different producer and releasing different styles of music with numerous record labels releasing his first freelance hit single ( It Must Be love ) which was released on Metropolitan records in the 90’s …. collaborating and working together with numerous producers , friend , Dj’s and recording with them and coming up with all different types of elaborate edits , mixes and songs on different record Labels there was no stopping the music and magic that was being infused in ideas and different talents that was coming together in these production with Tonasia. There collaboration and compilations series with different genres of music and record companies through out his musical career was the right choice !!!! Truly a fun and magical experience.
Tony Moran
Freestyle Music Artist
Event: Birthday Celebration for Frankie Cutlass l 1.18.2025
Location: Paradise Island I Staten Island, NYC
"Event Performer”
DJ, record producer, remixer, singer and songwriter known for remixing popular songs. In 2007, he hit number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart twice with "Walk Away" featuring Kristine W and "Keep Your Body Working" featuring Martha Wash. Moran also has a total of seven number one hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs music charts in the United States and he has recently had four number one Billboard chart hits in the years 2016 and 2017.
As a remix producer, Moran has remixed work from top music artists including Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Michael, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Cher, Selena Gomez and many others.
In December 2016, Billboard ranked him as the 92nd-most successful dance artist of all-time.
