Instrumental hip hop is hip hop music without an emcee rapping. Derez is a Vietnamese and Black hip hop artist and URL battle rap emcee. He was the headliner of a radio series with comedian Robert Benchley as emcee. He later formed the rap group Novelists with former Ill Again emcee Andrew Johnson. She became the first female emcee to be inducted into the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. In live performance, Alvin assumed the role of emcee and storyteller. Queens resident emcee MC Shan and the Juice Crew. Amber Riley portrayed Emcee, the lead singer of the song "Daughters of Triton". Kuo served as a guest emcee at the event. Some clubs employ a host to emcee the show, in addition to a DJ. The pageant's longtime emcee, Bert Parks, hosted the event from 1955 to 1979. Barrows is choir director, platform emcee and radio-television program director. Soon after, the two remaining members met Natti, a fellow Kentucky emcee. She is a winner of the India's Best female Emcee Award in 2013. The production starred Paul Capsis as the Emcee and Chelsea Gibb as Sally.