Taméca Jones, Alesia Lani, Maya Sampleton, CHERRI

Austin’s preeminent R&B songstress Taméca Jones – armed with her fantastic 2024 full-length Plants & Pills – headlines a super-stacked lineup for Her Majesty: A Celebration of Black Women in Music. As for the bill’s other songstresses: Alesia Lani preps to drop another smash with upcoming single “What You Want,” featuring New Orleans-bred vocalist Shvkiel, while multihyphenate Queen Deelah brings vocals, bars, and a well-deserved crown. Cherri imbues R&B with a pitch-black nightcore R&B sound, as featured in the spectacular “Dinner Time,” and “Mind Made Up” suggests Maya Sampleton, a former collegiate hooper at Columbia and BLK ODYSSY backup singer, is another star in the making. – Kahron Spearman