Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle (Courtesy photo)

Legendary soul singer Patti LaBelle is being honored Tuesday in her native Philadelphia with a street bearing her name.

The stretch of Broad Street that will renamed Patti LaBelle Way is located between Locust and Spruce streets.

โ€œIโ€™m so excited that Philadelphiaโ€™s Broad Street is being renamed Patti LaBelle Way during the cityโ€™s Wawa Welcome America Festival,โ€ LaBelle said in a Facebook post last week. โ€œPlease join me for the dedication ceremony on Tuesday, July 2nd at 4 p.m. on the southwest corner of Broad & Spruce Streets. See you there.โ€

LaBelle, a two-time Grammy award winner and former lead singer of the all-female group LaBelle, is scheduled to speak during the ceremony.

This correspondent is a guest contributor to The Washington Informer.

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