They are really back! Just one week after shutting down the BET Awards, Xscape took their reunion to New Orleans and hit the Essence Festival stage together, and FreddyO was in the building to capture their first Essence performance together in years. Kandi, Tiny, LaTocha and Tamika Scott stepped out in front of a packed crowd and delivered the classics like they never left, and the fans loved every second of it.
The road back started earlier this year when the group announced on Atlanta radio that they had reunited, putting years of distance behind them for the fans who never stopped asking. Their performance at the BET Awards last month was the moment everybody had been waiting for, and Essence weekend, the biggest celebration of Black music and culture in the country, was the perfect place to prove this reunion is more than a one-night moment.
From the first notes, the crowd was on its feet singing every word back to the stage. Hearing those harmonies on the records that made Xscape one of the defining girl groups of the ’90s, performed live by all four original voices, gave fans in New Orleans a real piece of R&B history. Between Kandi holding it down on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Tiny’s Family Hustle and the Scott sisters keeping their gospel roots front and center, each lady brought her own star power back to the group.
If Essence is any indication, the Xscape reunion is only getting started, and we will be front row for whatever comes next. Welcome back, ladies. Atlanta missed you! Press play and relive the performance everybody in New Orleans is still talking about.
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