PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Traffic stopped outside of the Kimmel Center along Broad Street on Wednesday as eight of the city\u2019s biggest names in music received their place in Philly history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Earl Young strutted his stuff in a bright pink suit beside his plaque on the Philadelphia Music Alliance\u2019s Walk of Fame as one of eight 2026 inductees.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I\u2019m here at 86 years old, and I\u2019m still, Burn, baby burn, that disco inferno,\u201d said Young, who received a lifetime achievement award as the legendary drummer of the Trammps.<\/p>\n
Hip-hop pioneer Lady B was also honored. Her friend and mentor, Mimi Brown, remarked on the glass ceilings she broke through in the music industry. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to women, she was the first woman to ever have a rap record,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n
Representing the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra was 102-year-old Marshall Allen, who recently became the oldest artist to release a solo debut.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a wonderful feeling,\u201d he said. \u201cI started out trying to wake the people up to the space age.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inductee Pablo Batista, an award-winning percussionist who has toured with Grover Washington Jr. and Alicia Keys, among others, teared up a bit, calling the ceremony a full-circle moment for all of them.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of love in the room, so I\u2019m super excited and proud,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause I\u2019ve been working with a lot of these people for decades \u2014 recordings, experiences, tours and gigs. I\u2019m overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also inducted were Philadelphia Orchestra music director Yannick N\u00e9get-S\u00e9guin, multi-instrumentalist Adam Blackstone, \u201cGospel Queen of Radio\u201d Louise Williams Bishop, Broadway star Hugh Panaro and the Philadelphia Boys Choir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Traffic stopped outside of the Kimmel Center along Broad Street on Wednesday as eight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":796451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,171,90952,975,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-796450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kimmel-center","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-pa","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116574475237132438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}