The seventh annual Black Music Honors will celebrate the achievements of some of the biggest names in music during a two-hour ceremony on May 19, live from the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.

R&B group Dru Hill will receive the Urban Music Icon Award, after landing five hit albums on the Billboard 200 chart and 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. “Can We Talk” hitmaker Tevin Campbell will be honored with the R&B Icon Award after placing four albums on the Billboard 200 and 13 tunes on the Hot 100. Sister duo Mary Mary, who released four No. 1 projects on the Top Christian Albums chart, will be presented with the Gospel Icon Award.

Fan-favorite singer Karyn White, who placed three albums on the Billboard 200 and released eight Hot 100 hits, will be recognized with the Soul Music Award. “Pretty Girl Rock” songstress Keri Hilson, behind two Billboard 200 albums and 10 Hot 100 hits, will receive the Music and Songwriter Icon Award. And for their decades-long discography and influence, iconic R&B group The Whispers will receive the Legends Award. The legendary singers have released 16 Billboard 200 albums and 12 Hot 100 hit songs.

Singer and actress LeToya Luckett will co-host the event alongside actor/comedian DeRay Davis.

“We are more than excited to return to in-person taping for the first time in nearly three years with a live audience,” Don Jackson, founder and executive producer of the Black Music Honors, said in a statement. “The pandemic had an unprecedented impact on the music industry and we’re honored to celebrate, commemorate and honor music trailblazers who have paved the way for the next generation of music and culture.”

Tickets to attend the live taping on May 19 are available for purchase via Ticketmaster. The TV special will air via national broadcast syndication from June 4 to July 3. It will also air on Bounce TV on June 25 amid Black Music Month.

TikTok has announced the launch of a new program dubbed #Rompiendo, which is meant to “highlight the success and impact” of Latinx music and artists on the app. According to the social media company, the program includes promotion, playlisting, inclusion on TikTok radio and a feature on @MusicOnTikTok socials.

The first #Rompiendo artist to be featured in the new program is Brazilian star Anitta, whose “Envolver” has been used in more than 2 million videos after the song and its dance challenge went viral on TikTok. A new #Rompiendo artist will be announced every two weeks.

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Most recently, Anitta made her Coachella debut with an epic set that brought Brazil to the desert and featured surprise guests such as Snoop Dogg, Saweetie and Diplo. In mid-April, she dropped her long-awaited album Versions of Me, which includes “Envolver.” The cheeky reggaeton track peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart earlier this month, marking the first leader on the list by an artist from Brazil.

#Rompiendo is TikTok’s latest effort to propel Latinx creators on the app. Last year, during Hispanic Heritage Month, TikTok and MACRO — a media company that represents the voices and perspectives of Black people and persons of color — teamed up to launch a new incubator called TikTok Latinx Creatives in an effort to help further grow the Latinx creative community on the platform. The 10-week program focused on “nurturing and developing” 150 talented Latinx creators and music artists.

“We’re driven to spotlight and support Latinx talent with a platform that amplifies their voices and a community that is moved by them,” TikTok said in a statement at the time of Latinx Creatives’ launch.

According to TikTok, popular Latinx community hashtags — including #Latino, #Latina, #Familia, #Hispanic — generate “significant” community engagement and have accumulated billions of video views.

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Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years. The Masked Singer’s Baby Mammoth has also gone the way of the Dodo, as the latest celebrity was unmasked on Fox’s surprise hit.

Unlike the prehistoric furry beast, The Masked Singer’s cute, pink Baby Mammoth managed to belt out several musical numbers, including a version of Cher’s “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss),” before America got the chance to vote.

On Wednesday night (April 27), it came down to a duel between Space Bunny, who performed “Me Too” by Meghan Trainor, and Baby Mammoth, who hit Culture Club’s debut “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”.

It was the big Baby who got the flick. When the mask came off, it was Golden Globe winning actor Kirstie Alley in the hairy suit.

With Alley the latest celebrity sent home from The Masked Singer, she joins Rudy Giuliani (Jack in the Box), Duane Chapman (Armadillo), Jennifer Holliday (Miss Teddy), Penn and Teller (Hydra), Christie Brinkley (Lemur), Jorge Garcia (Cyclops), Jordan Mailata (Thingamabob), Duff Goldman (McTerrier) and Joe Buck (Ram) on the outside.

Watch the unmasking below.

🚨 SPOILER ALERT 🚨 #BabyMammothMask is…#TheMaskedSinger pic.twitter.com/RlzasTJI5N

— The Masked Singer (@MaskedSingerFOX) April 28, 2022