Taking up Park MGM on the Vegas Strip from September 21- 23, the three-day JBL Fest will kick off with the launch of its latest premium speaker line – the primary range of WiFi Home speakers. Moreover, JBL will serve because the exclusive audio partner for Life is Beautiful, the premiere music and humanities festival in Las Vegas, and can feature a special experience bringing the JBL’s True Wireless line to life.

With notable figures corresponding to Bruno Mars, D’Mile, Evan Ross, and Halima Aden, amongst others, all attending the launch, this yr’s festival will certainly be one to recollect. Actor, entrepreneur and JBL enthusiast Jay Ellis, who will even be appearing at Park MGM, spoke to ESSENCE concerning the importance of this iconic audio company.

“I’m an enormous fan of JBL,” he says. “I feel I’ve had a Flip in my backpack on every trip I’ve been on for probably the last six years, simply to have a little bit portable speaker with me each time I move around. I own a few Pilates studios and we actually use JBL speakers in our studios for our sound system. So I’ve all the time been an enormous supporter.”

JBL Fest can also be expanding its reach by collaborating with the Life is Beautiful festival for its tenth anniversary, going down September 22 – 24. Along with providing shopping opportunities on your favorite JBL products, the partnership will even see show-stopping musical performances equipped with high-quality sound experience on the official JBL Stage from a few of this generation’s seminal artists.

“Truthfully, I’m just excited to be there,” the Insecure star says. “I’m excited to fulfill a bunch of the oldsters from JBL. There’s this recent speaker that’s coming out that I’m super excited to see. It’s the Authentics, it form of looks like a little bit boombox with a handle on it and every little thing. Form of just like the old fashioned boombox, but smaller. I’m excited to ascertain that out, see that. After which just good times, good music, and good folks.”

Like many individuals, music has been such an enormous a part of Ellis’ life. When asked about his favorite music memory, the 41-year-old brought up an exciting performance from two Latest York legends. “It wasn’t my first concert on the Hollywood Bowl, nevertheless it was my first hip hop concert on the Hollywood Bowl and it was Jay-Z, and Jay was performing with Mary J. Blige,” he responded. “They were on tour together and it was my first time ever seeing Mary, period. I had seen Jay before, nevertheless it was my first time ever seeing Mary, period. And bro, it was probably the most amazing live music moment I ever had in my life.”