LOS ANGELES - Marylandian -- Sansu Ramsey was born and raised in the Philippines, a child of a famous veteran entertainer, Elizabeth Ramsey, the Philippine's Queen of Rock N' Roll. Sansu performed with her mother in various live and television shows and entertained deployed US military troops stationed in the Philippines. Sansu sings a wide variety of music collaborations from Contemporary Jazz, Pop to Classical music. She has produced and directed fundraising fashion shows for the US Army Community in Honolulu, HI, Fort Leonard Wood, MO, Bamberg, Germany, and Fort Drum, NY to benefit military community families and produced and directed a benefit variety show collaborated with her mother for the starving children in Africa performed at the San Jose Civic Auditorium.

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Tributes will be performed by entertainers such as international recording artist Eugene Cole, accomplished recording musician Michael Raye, April Diamond, a Billboard Charting Recording Artist who was #1 on the National New Music Radio Charts in 2021, Mezzo Soprano Hiroko Yoshinaga, and up-and-coming artist Natasha Mar.
Red carpet, Hors d'oeuvres and Happy hour is from 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm. Come join us for a unique, magical International Women's Day Gala, a 5 Course Dinner with a specially prepared menu, live music and a fashion show highlighting the designs of international fashion designer Gordana Gehlhausen (GOGA), a Project Runway finalist, Rohini Bedi, Oksana Grigorenko, and fashion designer and creative director Tommy Le along with Art by VLADI, from 6:30 - 10:00 pm.
The Key-note speaker will be Katherine Sellery, world renown parenting expert and best- selling author. MCs will be Kim Estes, award winning actor and member of the Board of Directors for the Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences, and Meredith Thomas, award winning actress and producer. We will also be awarding the Women's Inspiration Awards which honors women who have made contributions in their communities as well as in the world at large. Some of the honorees who will receive the Women's Inspiration Award include Ava Kaufman, Gail Gibson, Lori Boody, Pam Atwal, Sansu Ramsey, Susan Irvine and Starla Lewis.

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This year's event will be benefitting Ava's Heart Foundation, a 501c3, which allows people who require a heart transplant to meet their 6 month residency requirement to be able to live near a Heart Transplant Center in order to be able to get on the heart transplant list.

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