Journal - Kelly Rowland-400-Derek Blanks

New York, NY; May 6, 2015 – Kelly Rowland, the GRAMMY® Award winning artist who rocketed to fame as part of Destiny’s Child, will headline the Diamond Empowerment Fund’s Diamonds in the Sky Las Vegas gala on May 28 at the Four Seasons Ballroom in Las Vegas.

The star-studded event will salute Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Government of the Republic of India for their progress towards national sustainability and the advancement of the diamond industry.

An accomplished singer, songwriter, and actress, Rowland elevated pop R&B to stratospheric heights as a member of Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling groups of all time. She’s been honored with 5 Grammy Awards, 16 Billboard Music Awards, 15 Soul Train Awards, four American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, 1 BRIT Award, 1 BET Award, 1 NAACP Image Award, a Star on the “Hollywood Walk of Fame”, and more.

She has starred in numerous television shows and feature films, including American Dreams, The Fashion Show alongside style icon Isaac Mizrahi, and as a judge on The X Factor UK. Rowland was also honored as one of People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful People in the World” in 2013, and has acted as a spokesperson for companies TW Steel and Caress, amongst others.

Rowland is also no stranger to giving back. In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Rowland co-founded the Survivor Foundation with Beyoncé Knowles, her former Destiny’s Child bandmate, in order to provide interim housing for victims and storm evacuees in the Houston, Texas area. To this day, Ms. Rowland still donates her old clothing to her local church in Houston.

In 2006, Rowland was featured along with other artists in ads for the ALDO Fights AIDS Campaign; and in 2008, she became a Global Ambassador for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation, which fights HIV through youth education campaigns worldwide. In 2010, Kelly Rowland helped establish her own charity, I Heart My Girlfriends, which focuses on the comprehensive empowerment of women and girls.

“We are thrilled to have such an enormous and big-hearted talent on board,” says Diamond Empowerment Fund Board President and Mercury Ring CEO, Phyllis Bergman. “It is so important to us to show how diamonds do good globally; and Ms. Rowland’s strong commitment to giving back is an inspiration and a testament to that message.”

Premier Presenting Sponsors of the event include Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited, the De Beers Group of Companies, Rio Tinto, and Signet Jewelers Ltd. Partner and Patron Sponsors are Rosy Blue Group and Le Vian Group, respectively.