Anthony Hamilton returns to Columbus for another New Year’s concert

If your taste in music is rhythm and blues, then there will be no better way to begin the new year than being in the Columbus Civic Center Sunday night.

Grammy-award winner Anthony Hamilton will be performing and is bringing along Calvin Richardson, Teddy Riley and Guy.

The show begins at 7 p.m.

Working with Al Green, Hamilton got a 2009 Grammy in the Best Traditional R&B Vocal for the song “You’ve Got the Love I Need.”

His albums, “Comin’ From Where I’m From,” “The Point of it All” and “Back to Love,” were also Grammy-nominated for Best R&B Album.

The North Carolina native began singing as a young boy in church and is well known for hit songs such as “Charlene,” “Can’t Let Go,” “So in Love” and “Why.”

With Elayna Bolton, he performed “Freedom” for the film “Django Unchained.”

Hamilton made a brief appearance as a singer in the film “American Gangster.” His music was part of the soundtrack.

“Creatively, I ‘d like to achieve not only being an artist but being a businessman and having my own music home...producing groups, developing acts and being on that end of things. I want to be in a few more movies,” Hamilton said in a Grammy.com interview.

This is Hamilton’s second New Year’s Day show at the Columbus Civic Center. He performed last year with Monica and Lyfe Jennings.

This story was originally published December 27, 2016 at 12:03 PM with the headline "Anthony Hamilton returns to Columbus for another New Year’s concert."