TV ONE Features World Premiere Of “Jill Scott: The Real Thing Tour (Live In Philly)” Sunday, June 29 At 10 PM ET

Jill Scott: The Real Thing Tour

Jill Scott performs one of her unreleased songs, "Whenever You're Around." The entire concert will air on TV One on June 29th.

From TV ONE: tvoneonline.com

TV ONE FEATURES WORLD PREMIERE OF “JILL SCOTT: THE REAL THING TOUR (LIVE IN PHILLY)” SUNDAY, JUNE 29 AT 10 PM ET

June 18, Silver Spring, MD -- Superstar R&B, jazz and soul singer, songwriter, actress, and poet Jill Scott delivers the real thing for the TV One audience with the world television premiere of the original music special Jill Scott: The Real Thing Tour (Live in Philly) Sunday, June 29 from 10-11 PM ET.

During the one-hour special, the multi-talented singer wows a packed house with her special blend of poetic rhythms and up-tempo beats, offering TV One viewers a front-row seat at one of the year’s hottest shows. Fresh off the release of her third studio album, THE REAL THING, Scott takes the stage in front of a hometown audience to perform a mix of her latest releases – including Hate on Me – and classics that include A Long Walk and Golden. The special was taped in March 2008 at the Liacouris Center in Philadelphia.

Encore airings are scheduled for 1 AM Sunday, June 29, as well as Thursday, July 3 at 9 PM Saturday, July 5 at midnight, and Friday, July 11 at 10 PM (all times ET).

Passion as expressed through her music has been the essence of what has made Jill Scott one of the most important artists of the new millennium. The North Philly native became part of the international music consciousness with the release of “Who Is Jill Scott?” Words & Sounds Vol. 1, which achieved double-platinum status and earned her NAACP Image Awards, trophies from both Billboard and Soul Train and the honor of sharing the stage with Aretha Franklin for VH1’s Divas Live. She graced magazine covers (and was voted among People’s 50 Most Beautiful for 2001), contributed editorials and blessed the national television stages of Oprah, David Letterman, Jay Leno and “The View.” After touring the world, she released a real, live album with some new cuts, 2001’s “Experience: Jill Scott 826+” which spawned the Grammy-nominated “A Long Walk.”

During the ensuing three years, Scott stayed busy, touring consistently, directing a video for Hidden Beach labelmate, trombonist Jeff Bradshaw, appearing on “Sesame Street” in celebration of its 33rd year. Her original compositions were featured on the soundtracks for “Brown Sugar,” “Rush Hour 2,” “Down to Earth,” “Kingdom Come” and the “Red Star Sounds” compilation. Scott made her primetime sitcom debut with a four-episode run on UPN’s “Girlfriends,” starred in Showtime’s “Cave Dwellers” and crafted a book of poetry, entitled simply, “The Minutes, The Moments, The Hours” (St. Martin Press).

With the 2004 release of “Beautifully Human,” Words & Sounds, Vol. 2), Scott experienced a continuation of the acceptance and recognition she enjoyed with her first two albums; the anthemic standout cut “Golden” reflected her life experience.” The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Album and won the Best Urban/Alternative Performance Grammy for the single “Cross My Mind.”

After another stint on the road, Jill began working on THE REAL THING in 2006, stopping during the process to appear in the Dakota Fanning movie “Hounddog,” in which she plays Big Momma Thornton, the artist who originally sang the Elvis Presley hit. She also took time for a starring role in Tyler Perry’s 2007 blockbuster feature film, “Why Did I Get Married?,” which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination.

THE REAL THING is filled with impactful cuts that resonate with Scott’s loyal existing audience – and beyond. There’s “I Don’t Know” which Jill describes as a song based on “seeing someone and being blown away by them, not knowing why you connect with them but you do.” The real life experience of “being the woman and being the ‘other woman,’ feeling extreme pain and extreme happiness” is expressed with “My Love.” A lament for a man who’s ‘disappeared’ “Insomnia” is a song Jill wrote “when I was around twenty, when I was feeling that kind of desperate, sad longing you feel for someone that you can’t get out of your head”; while “Whenever You’re Around” is an ode to “the loneliness that can exist inside of a marriage which is the worst kind, staying in a marriage for the sake of staying there.”

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