The Multi-Generational Joy Of ESSENCE Festival Of Culture
W hen ESSENCE Festival kicked off in 1995, featuring main stage performances from artists like Anita Baker, Luther Vandross, and Frankie Beverly & Maze, several of our headliners were just children. Usher was 15 and just beginning a soon-to-be legendary R&B career. Victoria Monét was only 5 years old. Megan Thee Stallion had just been born.