Singer Jeffrey Osborne Highlights Lincoln University’s 150th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, D.C. as America’s First Historically Black University on Sat., April 17, 2004

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“On the Wings of Love,” “Love Ballad” and “Stay With Me Tonight,” are among Osborne’s big hits as a solo artist and lead singer for R&B group L.T.D

WHO: R&B and pop singer Jeffrey Osborne.

WHAT: Brown, a 1949 Lincoln graduate, is expected to perform with a Lincoln “all-star” jazz/blues combo.

WHEN: Saturday, April 17, 2004 TIME: 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

WHERE: National Museum of Women in the Arts / 1250 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.

DETAILS:Singer Jeffrey Osborne will perform many of his hit songs at Lincoln’s 150th Anniversary Gala in Washington, D.C. Osborne has been on the cutting edge of the R&B and pop music scene for more than three decades. Osborne recently introduced a new CD, Music Is Life. From his years with the soul/R&B group L.T.D(Love, Togetherness and Devotion) in the 1970s, to a successful solo career that began in 1982, Osborne is clearly one of America’s most recognizable voices. With such hits as “Stay With Me Tonight,” “On the Wings of Love” and “We’re Going All The Way,” Osborne’s love songs have achieved popularity on both the R&B and pop charts. Osborne’s first taste of success came as lead singer for L.T.D. with the 1976 hit, “Love Ballad.” The song was number one on Billboard’s R &B chart and 20th on the magazine’s pop chart.

Tickets for the event are $250. For tickets, contact Lincoln's Office of Special Events and Community Relations at 610-932-1235.


Located in Pennsylvania, Lincoln University is nationally recognized as a major producer of African Americans with undergraduate degrees in the physical sciences (biology, chemistry and physics); computer and informational sciences; biological and life sciences. Lincoln has the unprecedented distinction among all colleges and universities of having two of its alumni – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and poet Langston Hughes – honored with first-class commemorative postage stamps in February 2003, and January 2002, respectively. Lincoln University combines the best elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet the needs of students living in a highly technological and global society. The University enrolls approximately 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. 

Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU), educates and empowers students to lead their communities and change the world. Lincoln offers a rigorous liberal arts education to a diverse student body of approximately 2,200 men and women in more than 35 undergraduate and graduate programs.