Friday Night Soul feat. Jermaine Holmes, Jubu Smith, & Kaybass Diggs

7466 Blackmon Road,Columbus GA 31909

08 October, 2021

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Grammy Award Winning Vocalist Jermaine Holmes and Special Guest Legendary Guitarist Jubu Smith and Bassist Extraordinaire Kaybass Diggs Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jermaine Holmes began embarking on his musical career at the age of four as a member of his grandfather’s choir of Mount Calvary Baptist church. Being molded as a serious artist by older relatives who played in bands with popular music acts such as TLC, Tony! Toni! Tone!,and Janet Jackson helped groom Holmes into becoming a more crafted performer. It was also under the influence and teachings of relative Stephen T. Bellamy that he was sculpted into a better audio engineer, vocalist, and keyboard player. Jermaine performs as lead singer for Pete Rock and The Soul Brothers, and appears alongside artists like Nicole Bus, Keyon Harrold and many others on albums and stages around the world. Previously he had become an active member of the group The Vanguard since 2012 with popular R&B/Soul artist D’Angelo. The Vanguard toured successfully worldwide with little media promotion – success stemming predominantly from the fan base. A comeback tour titled “The Second Coming” followed in the same manner with show dates in New York all the way to The Netherlands. Jermaine Holmes can proudly say he is a part of the now 2x Grammy award winners, The Vanguard, who won for Song of the Year and Album of the Year. Jermaine debuted his first album Stronger Than My Fears in December 2019 and is about to embark on his own musical journey to share this project with audiences around the world. John “Jubu” Smith has worked as a sideman for 41 of his 45 years, beginning as a harmony vocalist in his father’s Oakland gospel quartet before adding bass, then guitar, to his responsibilities in the group. At 19, he began playing guitar for the Oakland R&B band Tony Toni Toné, whose front man, Raphael Saadiq, he’d known since both were kids playing on the local quartet circuit. Smith spent a decade with the Tonies before going on the road for a year and a half with Whitney Houston. For the past 15 years, he’s been touring internationally eight months per year, primarily on weekends, with Maze, featuring Frankie Beverly. Those credits don’t include countless recording sessions with the likes of Luther Vandross, Mary J. Blige, Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton, George Duke and George Benson. Jubu, who moved from Los Angeles to Atlanta two years ago with his wife and three children, is establishing himself as the front man of his own soul-blues band, Legally Blynd, a sextet that includes his brother Eric “Pik Funk” Smith (Rihanna’s bassist for the past eight years) and others who work as sidemen for Stevie Wonder and Saadiq. He’s cut way back on doing sessions, although he has recorded during the past year with Eric Benet, K. Michelle. KENNETH ALEXANDER DIGGS II, affectionally known as " kaybass" in the music industry has lived his share of professional experiences for his young life thus far. He has always been attracted to music at a very young age. His mother directed and sung with various artist as Shirley Ceaser and The Caravans while his father played the piano and bass guitar at various jazz clubs on and abroad. " Kenneth as a young chid always used to go into the kitchen and pull out my pots, two wooden spoons and bang away..." quoted his mother. At the tender age of three, Kenneth would go to rehearsals with his mother and bang on his legs and mimic everything any musician at the time would do. At the age of 7, he was baptized at Sweethome Missionary Baptist Church in Miami, FL and was offered the chance to play for the youth choir for the church. He played there till the age of 12 when his mother up-rooted and moved to Temple Hills, MD. There, he continued his musical gift at Thurgood Marshall Middle School where he became 1st chair of the Honors All-County Band consisting of all Southern Maryland High Schools. But it was not until, at the age of 14, that he found his love for the bass guitar! " It was like a child who's been searching for his father his whole life ...finally finding him.." Quoted Kenneth in a bass guitar magazine published in St. Louis in the late part of '05. Ever since picking up the bass, God has taken his talent and gift to a whole new level!! His first major engagement at the age of 16 was with gospel artist Dorinda Clark-Cole at Praise in the park at Six Flags in MD. Right after that engagement, Dorinda took him back to Detroit to meet her sisters and thus after that he began playing and touring with the Clark Sisters and then young Kierra "kiki" Sheard. Thru out the tour, one of the cities that the tour stopped in was Louisville, KY where after the show, he was giving the opportunity by, minister of music Joclynn Clayborn, to move there to become the musical director for Canaan Christian Church. Kenneth gladly accepted and moved to KY. There at the age of 19, he served as the musical director for the music department of Canaan. While there, he hooked up with Jason Clayborn and Thee Ensemble and was giving the opportunity to become the bassplayer for the group. " Jason is my partner in ministry but also my brother!!!" Jeffrey Dunn instilled in me the fear of God, the theory of music, and how to lead a music department. "He was the father i've never had and its because of him that my walk with God would never be the same!!" Quoted Kenneth. He continued to travel and perform at such venues as AIM Convention, Thomas A. Dorsey Convention, Perry Stone Conference, Winterfest over Texas, Bobby Jones and Countless T.V. appearances. Artist of whom Kenneth has traveled, played, toured or even did sessions with include:The Dunn Sisters, The Clark Sisters, Kierra " kiki" Sheard, The 7 Show( Kansas City), Restine Jackson,Kevin Terry, Rodney Posey, Gary Mayes, Stephen Hurd, Fred Hammond, Vashawn Mitchell, Chrisette Michele, Maranda Curtis, Teeya Skipper, Fantasia, BSlade, Gospel Chops Vol.3, Etc. Kaybass Proudly Plays and Endorses Gallien-Krueger, BassMods Guitars, Bartolini, Alclair In-Ears Entertainment company that produces music and shows