Boyz II Men and Bell Biv DeVoe

Saturday, January 30 | 7 pm
Legends Theater

Ticket Prices: $82.00 | $62.00 | $47.00 | $42.00

It’s all about the boys as Boyz II Men and Bell Biv DeVoe come together for a concert that will make you nod your head as they take you back with your favorite classics and new songs about love , Saturday, January 30th at Route 66 Casino Hotel.

It’s hard to believe it has been twenty years since we first heard the harmonious melodies from R&B performing artists Boyz II Men. Four-time Grammy-winning Boyz II Men has touched the heart and soul of cities across the globe with passionate ballads about one very important emotion, Love. Now after selling 60 million recordings, in celebration of their 20th year creating music, Boyz II Men is on tour with their new album, “Love.”

Working once again with Motown producer Randy Jackson, Boyz II Men (Wanya Morris, Nate Morris, Shawn Stockman) bring their distinctive individual voices and peerless harmonies to bear on songs made famous by Bonnie Raitt, The Manhattans, Journey, The Spinners, Sam Cooke, the Beatles, and Cyndi Lauper. Boyz II Men weaves these diverse selections together into an album-length symphony, one that flows seamlessly from an impassioned “I Can’t Make You Love Me” through the shimmering a cappella sound of “Time After Time” to “When I Fall in Love,” a beautiful reworking of a great American standard featuring Boyz II Men’s special guest Michael Bublé.

Love is the successor to Boyz II Men’s Decca label debut, Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA (Decca/Universal), released November 13, 2007. This collection of Detroit soul classics took the international music scene by storm to a degree that surprised even the group members. Motown rose to No. 27 on the Billboard Top 200 and to No. 6 on the trade’s R&B Albums chart.

As Nate, Wanya, and Shawn look ahead to their 20th anniversary, they reflect on the things that have kept Boyz II Men not just together over two decades but on track in pursuit of new career highs and horizons.

Bell Biv DeVoe was hatched in the minds of its members, New Edition’s Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, upon the departure of lead singer Bobby Brown in 1986. But it wasn’t until after New Edition completed its supporting tour for the album Heart Break in 1988 that the trio gave in to the urgings of Heart Break producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and decided to chart its own course.

Bell Biv DeVoe enlisted a variety of producers for its debut album, Poison, including Jam and Lewis and Public Enemy producers Hank and Keith Shocklee. The results were quite unlike anything in New Edition's repertoire: The beats were funkier, the lyrics and vocals were sexier, and the overall sound had a harder, hip-hop-tinged edge. The album’s title track, “Poison,” became a number three smash, and it was followed by the equally successful “Do Me!” and the R&B hits “B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me),” “When Will I See You Smile Again?,” and “Dope!” The album itself went on to sell over three million copies and was followed by a remix album the next year. Meanwhile, Bivins assembled the East Coast Family, discovering and producing debut albums for Another Bad Creation and Boyz II Men.