Amazon Music Presents +44 Podcast Live - A Black History Month Special

18 October 2023 - Press release

AMAZON MUSIC PRESENTS: +44 PODCAST LIVE - A BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL SUPPORTED BY PALMER'S WITH HOSTS ZEZE MILLZ AND SIDEMAN

GUESTS INCLUDE TINCHY STRYDER AND MEGAMAN

Today, Amazon Music announces +44 Podcast LIVE - Black History Month Special supported by Palmer's. A live recording celebrating black history within music. Taking place on Wednesday 18th October at Pigott Theatre in The British Library, the live recording will include two panel discussions hosted by +44 Podcast hosts, Zeze Millz and Sideman, and will feature exciting guests from the music industry to celebrate Black music. The podcast will be available to listen to first on Amazon Music/Wondery on Friday 27th October, then across all Podcast platforms and YouTube from Sunday 29th October. 

Guests so far have been revealed to include Ghanaian-British rapper, singer, songwriter and entrepreneur Tinchy Stryder and founding member of the So Solid Crew, Megaman. As well as GRAMMY nominated artist Carla Marie Williams, singer, songwriter Fuse ODG, Komali Scott-Jones the A&R Director at AWAL and presenter Chuckie Online.  

The panels will discuss themes such as the current state of Black British music, trailblazers of modern Black British music and the different genres of music in the industry. 

"Palmer's is delighted to be sponsoring the +44 PODCAST LIVE - A BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIAL.  As a brand that has a strong ethnic heritage it is important to be celebrating Black History Month and what better way than through music and culture, and this live Podcast.  As a brand, whose roots stretch back over 180 years, we know that music brings people together, just as the use of Palmer's products, particularly our Cocoa Butter range is used by the whole family, and is handed down as the skincare brand of choice from generation to generation," comments Zahira Baddou, Marketing Director of Palmer's UK.

The +44 Podcast, is also now available on other platforms and the Amazon Music YouTube channel, so listeners can enjoy bi-weekly episodes from the Amazon Original production wherever they listen to podcasts.

The +44 Podcast builds on the success of Amazon Music's flagship Black music playlist, +44, which also has four further genre specific playlists; +44 AFRO, +44 RAP, 44 R&B & +44 Caribbean. +44 exists as a space to celebrate and amplify Black music genres, the artists that make the music, as well as the culture behind it – connecting audiences to the artists they love via original content.