MAY 19-25, 2016 FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE | WWW.WHATZUP.COM 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com -----------------------------------------------------------------May 19, 2016 whatzup Volume 20, Number 40 e hear that this summer is going to be so special that Doc West has already given it a name: The Summer of ’16. Maybe it’ll be remem- bered that way. Or maybe it’ll be remembered as the summer of WRingo, or the year Heart tore down the Foellinger with an encore featuring three Led Zeppelin numbers. However you wind up remembering it, one thing’s for sure: it’s off to an incredible start. And it’s even more incredible when you GO TO OUR WEBSITE consider that, according to the calendar (not to mention the weather), summer hasn’t even begun yet. 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June 13 Sunrise ........................................... June 20 Behind the Screen ...................... June 22 The Ten Commandments ............ June 27 Johnny Mathis ...............................Oct. 16 Joe Bonamassa ............................... Dec. 2 Moscow Ballet: Great Russian Nutcracker Dec. 7 Embassy Theatre 125 W. Jefferson Blvd. Fort Wayne, Indiana This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. ticketmaster.com May 19, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ------------------------------ Feature • Keith Sweat ------------------------------ 20 Past 4 and More ..........................................................11 All That Jazz .......................................................................11 Arts United/Kickstart ........................................................6 Bar 145 ..............................................................................11 Beamer’s Sports Grill ..........................................................8 C2G Live/The TV Show ......................................................15 Mister Rhythm & Blues C2G Music Hall......................................................................3 By Ryan Smith Sweat’s debut album, Make It Last Forever, for me, the kind where you are hurting so Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits ............................8 in 1987, which went on to be a massive hit, much you have to find someone to talk to or Columbia Street West ......................................................10 “My songs are pretty much relationship selling 3 million copies. The album featured go crazy. I didn’t really have anyone to talk songs,” R&B singer Keith Sweat said in a the hits “I Want Her,” which reached No. 1 on to, so what I did was talk to my album.” Cute by Nature Jewelry .......................................................3 recent interview. “You can be a couple or the R&B charts and No. 5, on the pop charts, The remarkable success and influence of Dupont Bar & Grill..............................................................11 single and looking for that significant other along with the title track, “Something Just Make It Last Forever was never quite rivaled Embassy Theatre ..................................................................3 with my music. You can be with that signifi- Ain’t Right” and “Don’t Stop Your Love,” by any of Sweat’s subsequent efforts, but he cant other and it works for both parties.” all of which were Top 10 R&B tracks. continued to have chart-topping hit singles Embassy Theatre/Jason Isbell ...........................................5 That basis in relation- and Platinum records. His Fort Wayne Dance Collective ...........................................17 ship songs has sustained follow-up album, I’ll Give Fort Wayne Museum of Art ................................................3 Sweat’s three-decade-plus All My Love to You, was career in R&B and pop, a another Platinum success Fort Wayne Musicians Association ................................11 career that has seen multi- and spawned the hit single Fort Wayne Parks Dept./Hotel California ......................10 Platinum and chart-topping “Make You Sweat.” His Hamilton House Bar & Grill ..............................................11 records, production work, third album, Keep It Comin’, the launching of his own was another success. After Honeywell Center/Aaron Lewis ...........................................9 record label and even into its release, Sweat moved to Hot 107.9 Summer Jam .................................................18 an ongoing gig as a radio the Atlanta area, founded personality. his own record label (Keia Indiana Center for Middle East Peace/Arab Festival .....9 Born Keith Douglas records, named after his IPFW/Community Arts Academy ....................................17 Crier in 1961 in Harlem to daughter) and began adding Latch String Bar & Grill ....................................................11 Juanita Sweat, a hairdress- production and talent devel- er, and Charles Crier, a fac- opment to his repertoire. Nick’s Martini & Wine Bar ....................................................8 tory worker, Sweat showed Groups like Silk and NIGHTLIFE .......................................................................8-11 an early predilection to- Kut Klose soon benefited Northside Galleries ..............................................................3 wards singing. “When he from Sweat’s influence, and was four years old, he’d he continued to expand his Pacific Coast Concerts ........................................................2 go outside and sing to the repertoire, establishing a re- PERFORMERS DIRECTORY .............................................12 girls,” Juanita told People cording studio and a night- Riverpalooza ..........................................................................5 Weekly. “I’d say, ‘Stop that club, while continuing to noise.’” release records like Get Up Sweetwater Sound ....................................................... 9, 20 As a child he even had on It and the simply-titled The Venice Restaurant......................................................19 dreams of performing that Keith Sweat. In the mid- seemed portentous. 90s he also instigated an WBOI 89.1/Wine Pairing Dinner .........................................6 “People might think R&B supergroup of sorts, Wooden Nickel Music Stores ..............................................7 I’m lying about them, but LSG, which consisted of WXKE 96.3 .........................................................................18 as a kid I used to go to bed himself along with fellow and dream