D’Angelo has just been announced as the latest addition to the Samuel L. Jackson hosted awards program. The news was announced Thursday by Stephen G. Hill, the BET president of music programming and specials, via his Twitter page. “Yes!! D’Angelo will perform on the #BETAwards July 1!!, wrote Hill. “It will be his first televised performance in over 12 years! Boom!”

No word on what the soul singer will perform when the 2012 BET awards air July 1 at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium.Following next month’s BET awards performance, the singer will take on the ‘Essence Music Festival.’

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