Jennifer Holliday Set to Perform at Trump's Inauguration Concert


Jennifer Holliday, who rose to fame in her role as Effie White in Dreamgirls, is set to perform at Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration, inaugural celebration for President-elect Donald Trump, according to a press release for the event.

The Tony and Grammy winner will welcome the President Elect to Washington on January 19 at the Lincoln Memorial. The lineup also includes Toby Keith, Jon Voight and 3 Doors Down.
Holliday's rendition of "And I Am Telling You (I'm Not Going" has a become a classic and she just concluded a run on Broad in the role of Shug Avery in revival of The Color Purple.

According to the event's website, "For the first time ever, this inaugural event will be a fully produced broadcast event freely available to all U.S. networks, and features the first planned remarks by the President-elect in Washington, D.C. The Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration will also be a pooled event."