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SHAWNA STEWART

This edition of “MIDWEST BEAT with Tom Lounges” originally aired on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2017

Musical Guests:   SHAWNA STEWART with GENE STEWART & DAN PORTER

R&B singer, songwriter, performer SHAWNA STEWART flew in from Seattle, Washington to discuss her career and projects.  

Joining her in-studio was Chicago entertainer, GENE STEWART, the CEO and President of Bound For Glory Music Productions which currently represents Shawna.   R&B vocalist DAN PORTER joined in on the conversation by phone.    Although best known for their work as members of The Spaniels Forever, Gene and Dan have a new project together -- "A Tribute to Sam Cooke" -- that is  also discussed on the program with Gene performing a Cooke song live, accapella and solo in studio.   Other recorded tunes by Shawna and Gene are heard.

Tom Lounges has been a radio personality and music journalist since 1979. For the last 43 years, Tom has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly music columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper.