Meet "Heavy" A.W.B., Anthony Williams' Band, the 2026 Van Stone Radio Philly Funk Radio Live Concert Podcast Host by Shera Minor frontpagenews1@yahoo.com (215) 760--1294
Above: "Heavy" A.W.B., aka, Anthony Williams' Band.
The Van Stone Radio Station, West Philly Van Stone Radio (WVSR), www.wvsrwpmr.com, and its affiliate Philly Funk Radio station, WPMR-DB, https://phillyfunkradio.com announced its 2026 Live Concert Podcast Host yesterday. Philly's own Safe Music keyboardist "Heavy" A.W.B., aka, Anthony Williams' Band will lead the talk podcast and music podcast about both jazz musicians and family advocates. The new podcast show host is a keyboardist and producer; he is a percussionist and creator who will share the load of helping Van Stone Radio serve the community becoming a broadcaster.
Heavy A.W.B. represents a jazz, r&b, inspiration, funk and soul generation that mostly came of age in the 1970s and '80s. Anthony Williams' dazzling career began in his native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the 1960s, and went on to include extensive work with the legends like Gamble and Huff and and many live concert performing bands. He has released several of his own single music cds, often with his fellow music collaborators, collaborators of the music group called M4U Entertainment Band.
Williams is the perfect music artist of a multiple music genre, having hit the scene in the early '70s as a keyboard and organ player prodigy who has a successful music career. (In music culture, he's best known for his 2021 cover hit "It's About Faith," by Sade.
Above: M4U Entertainment Band, Cover ,"It's About Faith - Sade Music Video
Some of Heavy A.W.B.'s sound have taken on sociopolitical themes, including stopping gun violence, sand stopping pollution. But his music singles also have its share of love songs.
Heavy A.W.B will be a steadfast presence on the airwaves at WVSR1360 and Philly Funk Radio. Heavy will be a part of the professional broadcaster team that will help establish more solid Black radio broadcasting in both Philadelphia as well as Virginia. Public Radio. Williams will be a new voice of independent music programming, a chief executive, a radio-TV journalist on Van Stone Radio. Now based on the east coast, he can be heard on the air at www.fpnnews.org, a newspaper and magazine and music station affiliated with West Philadelphia.
"Van Stone Radio and Van Stone Productions is proud to be adding musicians who have played a significant role in music arts," says Van Stone, Founder and Radio Station Director of WVSR.
For more information about the new Heavy A.W.B, program, the concert and the talk show podcast, visit www.environmentreading.org.
