The 1994 Essence Awards (1994)

Sinbad and Vanessa Williams are hosts at New York's Paramount Theater. Honorees Eddie Murphy; Dr. Benjamin Carson; Spike Lee; civil-rights activist Robert P. Moses; Quincy Jones; Denzel Washington; Jesse Jackson; boys club director Joseph E. Marshall.
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[@SPJ918]

When it actually meant something to watch an award show 🙌🏾

[@MusicGirl8447]

Yes!! Unfortunately, I was born in '97 and missed most of the 90s era but this is just very legendary right here.

[@freemygrandma8752]

I'm convinced Morgan Freeman been looking 70 years old ever since he was three.

[@autumnjade815]

😅😂🤣

[@mspierre10100]

😭😭😭😭

[@portraitofalady1598]

Not looking 70 years old at 3. 🧓🏿👶🏿🧓🏿👶🏿🧓🏿👶🏿🧓🏿👶🏿🧓🏿

[@lelelum4103]

Man I miss 1994! I was 14 yrs old those were some great times!

[@Realone_since94]

I was born in that year 94 is the golden year

[@ZJtheLegend]

Sinbad was always on my TV in the 90s. I miss him!

[@ReadLoveListen]

Black award shows in the 90’s were top tier.

[@nlee4566]

Damn right! So much to offer back then!

[@Samantha12c]

12:41 & 14:16 & 36:48 Michael Jackson in the audience

[@tienthuy4465]

Thank youu so muchhhhhh!!!!❤❤❤

[@mrs.jackson5872]

THANKS

[@cinet3544]

I just waiting for Michael to do something. Oh well….. it still was a awesome show. Thanks for uploading!

[@alfredcowans880]

I Love Nostalgia 👍🏾💪🏾💯💯💯..Gotta Love The Good Ole Days✊🏾

[@nycnycBarb]

I NEEDED SOMETHING ELSE TO WATCH. THANK YOU.👏🏿👍🏾👸🏽✊🏿🤜🏽🤛🏿

[@Spaceman-X]

I miss true "black culture". Also I had a chance to meet Sinbad, he's the man!

[@ZJtheLegend]

Oh! Luther's voice is like a bell! My goodness! The clarity and vibrancy! A rare find today! What a treasure!

[@StraitTalkMedia]

Love how you take us back in time

[@nycnycBarb]

THAT PART

[@wblk]

Looking at this show makes me feel we've lost something that made us special

[@r.m.90]

Yeah, talent being a requirement to be famous is what we lost.

[@auntieeva4098]

We have

[@cupcakes7015]

When award shows were worth watching. Great 👍upload. 6/3/2022

[@moobot20]

Such class and excellence. Thank you for uploading this! I used to love watching awards show with my family as a little girl

[@freemygrandma8752]

"You don't notice how bad the picture looks until you see a better picture" ~Larry Hudson~

[@gracegreen1859]

Angela and Denzel 😍😍😍 they need another movie together

[@auntieeva4098]

Brian was so young then "brand new artist".

[@ZJtheLegend]

MICHAEL WAS THERE!! 😍😍😍

[@RP.123]

I mourn this era! Award shows use to have an element of class to it. Now anything goes.

[@anniemijackeepmichaeling]

Anyone time stamp all Michaels part ❤

[@mrs.jackson5872]

please !!!❤

[@firouz4296]

So much class, talent and style!

[@jeffreyyounger5772]

I think this is one the best essence,award I saw in a long time! I miss it.

[@reneishabrooks5187]

I miss quality tv and awards like this.

[@keshia520]

Wow .. how times have 😢 changed , god bless our people

[@LifeIsNotorious]

Damn we will never see an award show like this again. Sadly

[@808kiker]

So many legends gone. 😪😪😪

[@moon230686]

Thank you for the upload! When black excellence started!!

[@imackmusic7924]

Skip up to 2022,Our Women Half Naked & Our Men Kill Each Other and Flash Money & Cars...😑

[@TheLovesnowangel]

They did that then too. You act like pimps and ho's weren't glamorized then too. Also gangs we're created then as well

[@SparkleInYourEyes2024]

That was going on back then, too.

[@ZJtheLegend]

Lawd, how did Pauletta put up with all of that? Everybody would be fainting over Denzel!

[@shottabwoi3985]

The ONLY one missing::: THA VOICE! 💜💜 She couldn't attend because she had just given birth a few months earlier. 💞👶🏾

[@anhiirr]

crazy that i know who ben carson is bc he ran for president, and in this event sinbad talks about how jesse jackson ran for president. I found that aspect pretty amazing

[@SaraShakur94]

What a time to be alive

[@THEREALSOURCE]

Back when everyone loved Dr. Carson.

[@TeddyStrongBear]

Back when Carson was a renowned brain surgeon, before he lost his mind….

[@THEREALSOURCE]

@@TeddyStrongBear lol!

[@auntieeva4098]

When he was a proud Black man

[@evelyns7510]

Wow back when award shows had a MEANING I’m here to watch Chaka Khan 🤗🤗🤗

[@khalilahwestindies2224]

Wow! I was in tha 11th grade in 1994! I miss these days❤️

[@nlee4566]

I was in 4th grade 😂. I wish I was in High School in the 90s tho. Amazing time to be a damn teenager I bet.

[@SparkleInYourEyes2024]

​@@nlee4566It was!

[@nesoldier74]

Wow. Thx for sharing.

[@mspierre10100]

Whatever happened to the Essence awards? Why did they stop airing it?

[@judah105]

Birth Year Salute Sir awesome awards show 👏🏿

[@dashawnnewton9615]

How do you have all these gems?

[@sweetdreams4321]

Mariah should have sung Hero!😔

[@charnelle713]

Aretha, Luther & Xscape ❤

[@milesandcoffee]

Thank you!

[@ZJtheLegend]

Aww... so many of these folks have gone on to thee uppa room! RIP!

[@rockie00_]

wait a minute ?? mj was there a no one ever noticed or was it me 😭

[@lashaisrael2151]

RIP Bob Moses 👑

[@monicdavis6150]

The world I’m used to…. Maya Angelou giving awards! 👏🏾

[@nycnycBarb]

so far best performance i like so far was THE QUEEN HERSELF LATIFAH🦄 oh and XSCAPE

[@TeddyStrongBear]

u missed Vanessa Williams! 🔥🔥🔥

[@nycnycBarb]

@@TeddyStrongBear definitely did lmao

[@BlackGreedy18]

Xscape 🔥🔥

[@firouz4296]

Never knew Aretha covered Mariah’s “Hero”!

[@jeffreyyounger5772]

It show , what excellent we could do as 🌍 afrocentric people.

[@lisafoster3868]

I miss these days

[@jamalphipps2209]

Can you upload any Soul Train Awards before removing it? I plan to rip it off on KZbin.

[@MusicGirl8447]

Hey I enjoyed some of the videos on your channel. You're doing a great job showcasing the black culture. Idk if you do requests(and forgive me if you don't but), do you have any interviews of the following artists of the following years: 1999: Marc Nelson and Eric Benet 2000: Gerald Levert,Shaggy, Monifah,LV(singer of Gangsta's Paradise), and Kandi Burruss Again, forgive me if you do not do requests but let me know if you got any interviews of these singers of these years.

[@reelblack]

Not yet. But Nelson and LeVert are featured on the channel

[@MusicGirl8447]

@@reelblack Ok when you said not yet, are you saying you don't have any interviews or footage of those singers from those years yet? Plus while you said Marc is on the channel, which video had him on there(Edit: I just found out what video that is)? Also I was about to say I know Gerald Levert's performance on UNCF Evening of Stars is on this channel along with his performance of Casanova as well.

[@r.m.90]

What the heck is Barbara Walters doing there lol

[@LifeIsNotorious]

To present an award. The same reason why Martin Scorsese is there.

[@r.m.90]

@@LifeIsNotorious Are you on the spectrum?

[@PastorFunK]

❤️‍🔥💪🏾🙌🏾

[@jeffpiegari4942]

Anymore please

[@blackbeauty_77]

Look at these sisters honoring black men and Quincy Jones and Eddie Murphy is with a.......🐰 I'm still watching

[@moviegirl8648]

Eddie's ex is mixed.

[@TeddyStrongBear]

Eddie’s wife is Creole!

[@moviegirl8648]

@@TeddyStrongBear She has a white mother and a black father.

[@blackbeauty_77]

@@TeddyStrongBear His new wife is white. Look it up.

[@blackbeauty_77]

@@moviegirl8648 look up his current wife. We honor and they get the wealth.

[@mashup8902]

Spotted Michael Jackson woohoo

[@Ab_alanjeri]

Back when humans had identity and self esteem

[@BlakeGildaphish76]

Queen Latifah killed that performance!

[@auntieeva4098]

Tanya Lee was mean muggin tho...

[@fadetablack817]

1:10:53 omg xscape was a hot mess! and all those harmonies were prerecorded smh

[@BlackGreedy18]

They sounded just fine, and damn sure better than any singer of today.

[@THEREALSOURCE]

I'd love to know how the boys club is doing today. Is it still doing this good work?

[@shadowmoon2162]

36:49

[@jahkarimirza7286]

Ben Carson at 47:00.

[@jeffreyyounger5772]

🌍🌍🌍👏👏👏🪙🪙🪙🪙🕐🔥💕💕😍🌅🎂🎂😊😊🏫🥰☮️☮️⏩💗🤑✂️😜💸🐈‍⬛💗🌆🌆🌆💗📞🧳🥝😍🤣

[@lazaromarinrosasr]

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