This past weekend K. Michelle was welcomed with open arms by the city of Memphis. The home town singer was in town to perform for her Memphis fans with a FREE concert and cd signing. Memphis Mayor A C Wharton presented her with the “Mayor’s Ambassador Award” for her music and her community service.
K. Michelle shared the message below:
Today I was honored by the Mayor and the city of Memphis. I received the ambassadors award for Music and my community service efforts. I know I’m not perfect but it really feels good to have someone focus on all the positive things I’ve been trying to do. God is good.
“This is an honor. I absolutely love my city. “I want to thank everyone. It’s been a struggle and a fight, but I’m just getting started in this business. You have to fight if you want to be a musician. If this is what you want to do, you can never give up on it.”
Mayor Wharton:
“We often hear the question, ‘What can we do to keep our talent in Memphis? What can we do to get our talent to come back here?'” Wharton said. “The first thing we can do is show them that they’re honored in their own home. Sometimes we just take it for granted, and we really don’t honor our own. I made it a point to reverse that failure. It gives me so much pleasure today to honor one of our own. I proudly give her the Ambassador Award…I say ambassador because this is someone who was raised up here, so she found out what this great city was about. She went to Overton High School. She stayed in Whitehaven, right in the middle of our great city. She is our story. She is the Memphis story. Not only is she keeping that story to herself, everywhere she goes she tells the Memphis story; personifies the Memphis story.”
Congratulations on your success K. Michelle.
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