Rickey Minor is an American
bass player,
music director,
composer
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and
music producer
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. He was the musical director and bandleader on ''
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' from 2010 to 2014, taking over after
Kevin Eubanks left.
Minor worked as musical director for ''
American Idol
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''.
Minor has served as musical director for numerous superstar tours, including
Whitney Houston
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,
Christina Aguilera
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,
Ray Charles,
Alicia Keys
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and
Beyoncé
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and for television productions, including the
Grammy Awards, the
NAACP Image Awards and the
Super Bowl
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. He has received twelve
Primetime Emmy Award
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nominations for
Outstanding Music Direction, winning two of them, for ''Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America'' (2017) and ''
The Kennedy Center Honors'' (2020).
References
External links
https://www.rickeyminorentertainment.comRickeyMinor, Twitter*
1957 births
21st-century American composers
21st-century American male musicians
American male composers
Living people
Musicians from Monroe, Louisiana
Place of birth missing (living people)
Primetime Emmy Award winners
The Tonight Show Band members
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