News from 2007 HRC Carolinas Dinner/Jennifer Holliday to perform

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Bert Woodard, 2007 HRC Carolinas Gala Public Relations/Marketing Co-
Chair, 704-332-9060, woodardbert@...

Broadway star Jennifer Holliday to perform at HRC Carolinas 12th
Annual Gala

Original star of the Tony® Award-winning Dreamgirls also a hit on
TV's Ally McBeal

Charlotte – January 22, 2007 – The Human Rights Campaign's (HRC)
Carolinas Gala committee has announced that Broadway singer Jennifer
Holliday will give a special performance at the 12th Annual HRC
Carolinas Gala on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at the Charlotte
Convention Center.

Holliday's portrayal of the heroine, Effie Melody White, in the
Broadway production of Dreamgirls catapulted her to stardom and
national recognition. Her performance garnered her the 1982 Tony®
Award for Best Actress in a Musical and her first Grammy® Award for
Best R&B Female Vocal Performance for her signature torch song and
Top 40 Hit "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." Her second Grammy®
would come three years later for her rendition of Duke Ellington'
s "Come Sunday," a moving tribute to the late Mahalia Jackson.

Currently, Holliday gives concerts throughout the world and performs
with many symphonies across the country. She made her motion picture
debut in The Rising Place, an independent film for Flatland Pictures.
She was also a recurring special guest star on the hit Fox TV show
Ally McBeal during its entire five-year run as Lisa Knowles the
outspoken choir director at Ally's church.

In addition, Holliday has performed at the White House for Presidents
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush,
and she recently performed in The Singer and the Song: In Performance
at the White House, a primetime special for PBS. In 2000, she
received an honorary doctor of music degree from the Berklee College
of Music in Boston.

Founded in 1980, HRC is America's largest civil rights organization
working to achieve LGBT equality. HRC effectively lobbies Congress,
provides campaign support to fair-minded candidates, and works to
educate the public on a wide array of topics affecting LGBT
Americans, including relationship recognition, workplace, family, and
health issues. In addition, the HRC Foundation engages in extensive
research and provides education and programming. HRC currently has
over 500,000 members, including more than 18,000 in the Carolinas.

HRC hosts annual fundraising Galas throughout the country to support
its mission of building an America where LGBT people are ensured of
their basic equal rights, and can be open, honest and safe at home,
at work and in the community.

For more information and to purchase Gala tickets, e-mail
info@... or visit www.hrccarolinas.org.


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