DETROIT (WXYZ) — Jennifer Hudson, who is an EGOT winner, will perform during the North American International Auto Show's Charity Preview on Friday, Sept. 15, organizers announced Tuesday morning.
Channel 7 is proud to be the official broadcast partner of the Charity Preview, and you can catch our live special during the event which airs Friday, Sept. 15 starting at 7 p.m.
Hudson portrayed legendary singer Aretha Franklin in the 2021 film "Respect" and also performed "Amazing Grace" at Franklin's funeral in 2018.
“It’s a thrill to have such an incredible talent, especially one who portrayed the Detroit music legend Aretha Franklin, grace our auto show stage on a night that celebrates everything great about this city,” said Detroit Auto Show Chairman Thad Szott.
It’s a blue carpet now, but in a couple of weeks, part of it will be swapped out for red for the world to see what’s new in the automotive industry from downtown Detroit.
“We’ve been working really hard to get more brands than we did last year,” said Szott “So, we’re really excited about making a couple of announcements coming up, but we’ll have double the brands represented at this year’s show than we did last year so there’s a big buzz in the industry about that.”
The big buzz is about the EVs.
“We announced earlier that we were going to have a track set up in the back of Huntington Place, right on the show floor and it will be an EV all-track so we have 15 different models that will be represented on that track,” said Szott.
The Charity Preview has raised more than $100 million for children's charities across metro Detroit over the past 25 years. The charities it benefits are: Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, The Children’s Center, The Children’s Foundation, the Detroit Auto Dealers Association Charitable Foundation Fund, a fund of the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Detroit PAL and the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Tickets are available now for the Charity Preview and start at $400 for one ticket or $700 for two tickets. They are available on the Auto Show website.
The event will kick off with a ribbon-cutting ceremony from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the auto show floor open from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hudson will perform on the main show floor from 7:45 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.
Related stories:
