Life & Work with P. Ann Everson-Price of Ohio

Today we’d like to introduce you to P. Ann Everson-Price.

Hi P. Ann, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
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Rev. P. Ann Everson-Price is an Ordained Minister, actress, radio personality (celebrating over 40 years in broadcasting), business owner, author, event planner and funeral celebrant for J. C. Battle & Sons Funeral Home, and female african american band leader for the All-Star Band- a 14-piece Premiere show band in Cincinnati.

She has received numerous honors; Proclamations, Keys to the City and other awards for her musical contributions and work in the community and the City of Cincinnati. Including: serving as the only female African American band leader for a 14-piece show band in Cincinnati providing musical entertainment for Country Clubs, casinos, secular, gospel and corporate events. (for over 25 years) She was the recipient of Applause! Magazine’s Imagemaker Award for Entertainment and of the Cincinnati Enquirer’s Cammy Award for Vocalist of the Year. She is the VOICE of the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame and produced and performed in the awards pre-show 3 consecutive years in a row.

P. Ann has served as the host and founder of Ladies Chat: Kitchen table Series, (locally and on the Radio-One Love Cruise) where women come together to live, laugh and learn about this thing called “Womanhood”. Topics include: Learning How to Love Yourself, Dating, Starting Over: after divorce or other bad decisions, How To Be a Good Wife, How to Bring Balance Into Your Life, etc.

For over 20 years, on Tuesdays, she served as mentor to over 70 voices (ages 5-25) as the Director of the Cincinnati Super Choir. This group worked with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and The Cincinnati Ballet. They have performed at annual, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations around the city. They were extremely blessed to sing before President elect, Barack Obama, twice.

On Mondays, she provides personal vocal coaching to adults and children. Some of her students have successfully auditioned for The Lion King, Annie and The Showtime At The Apollo, American Idol, also locally for School for Creative and Performing Arts. She also serves as Life Coach to healing women seeking spiritual support and career guidance.

For over 26 years, P. Ann was a part of the Artist On Tour Program, sponsored by the Cincinnati Arts Association. She would take history and music to thousands of students in schools throughout Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana as part of her “Jazz to Motown: A Musical Journey” presentation.

Celebrating over 40 years as a radio personality, many years as an Actress, Producer, and business owner, Rev. P. Ann Everson-Price has shown that one should never give up on their dreams and aspirations of going higher and achieving bigger and better things.

Three times she has, taken a leave from a successful radio career, to pursue theatrical roles off-Broadway, with Mega- producer Donald Lawrence and national tours, co starring with Peabo Bryson and Ann Nesby, of Sounds of Blackness. She has even toured, worked and lived twice in Japan.

P. Ann is wife: to Eddie S. Price, Jr., Mother to 3 grown children and “Nanna” to 15 beautiful grands, and 9 Great-grand babies.

Her Testimony is that “I am living my dream and God continues to bless my LIFE”!!

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I can still recall when a girlfriend called me and said she heard that Cincinnati’s only R&B, and African American owned radio station in Cincinnati, was looking to hire someone to host their midday gospel format. Well, dhallling, this had never been done. The powers that be (in the Cincinnati market) were convinced that the saints only wanted to hear GOSPEL early morning — or ONLY on Sundays.

But Mid-day? On an R&B station? Even I thought privately, “NOT GONNA HAPPEN”!!

Marsha Watts-Visher bet me $5.00 that if I went over and applied for the job that I would be hired. I laughed and told her I would be over later to collect my money.

The joke was on me! I was hired as the first salaried, African American female to host a mid-day Gospel show on an R & B station in the Cincinnati Urban market.

No prior experience- no broadcasting school or training — just NERVE!!

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Rev. P. Ann Everson-Price is an Ordained Minister, actress, radio personality (celebrating over 40 years in broadcasting), business owner, author, event planner and funeral celebrant for J. C. Battle & Sons Funeral Home, and female African american band leader for the All-Star Band- a 14-piece premiere show band in Cincinnati.

We’d be interested to hear your thoughts on luck and what role, if any, you feel it’s played for you?
I’m wired for MIRACLES!

Going where NO ONE has gone before. . . .

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.pannevents.com