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*The public still doesn’t know what’s ailing Aretha Franklin, but she’s “recovering and her spirits are high” after surgery for the undisclosed health issue, according to her friend, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. http://www.eurweb.com/?p=69366
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/24031 R&B music sure has taken its share of blows in the last few years. Singers were out, rappers and recycled beats were in, and songwriting seemed more like an anachronism than anything current artists were interested in preserving. Musicians were putting more creativity into their red carpet appearances than their often subpar CDs.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23993 The O’Jays have long been one of soul music’s most enduring groups.
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=69132 *Winner of the 2005 NAACP Image Award as the “Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture” for Ray, Kerry Washington is a versatile, talented and fearless actress who has built an impressive list of credits over the course of her relatively brief career. She has also garnered critical acclaim for recent roles in Mother and […]
TMZ is reporting that Jermaine Jackson owes so much in back child support that his driver’s license has been confiscated and won’t be returned until he pays roughly $100,000. By: EURweb.com
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68863 Aretha Franklin is out of surgery and has calling the undisclosed procedure “highly successful.”
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68617 *This month, “Desperate Housewives” actress Vanessa Williams graces the cover of Ebony magazine, accompanied with a saucy feature about how she passed up a $600,000 tell-all-book deal.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/entertainment/blak_music_month/23895 If there has ever been a more amazing comeback in modern R&B history than that of El DeBarge, we don’t know what it is.
Bob Marley sales are expected to go up, too, as parents across the globe look for a way in which to stop their children crying. The Jamaican singer-songwriter died in 1981 of cancer. He was just 36 years old. He remains the most famous reggae artist of all time, the man who brought reggae music […]
Since Cee Lo Green dropped his amazingly catchy — and amazingly obscenely titled — summer jam “F— You,” everyone from radio hosts to journalists have had a tricky time figuring out what to call the song in front of the kids and the FCC. Now the Grammys are getting in on the fun: “F— You” […]
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68575 *A rep for the Boyz II Men said that a technical glitch was to blame for one of the group’s songs being played twice during last night’s NBC Christmas special — once when the band wasn’t on stage — and that the band was not lip-syncing during its performance.
http://www.eurweb.com/?p=68442 *On Tuesday EURweb.com was on the scene at an event sponsored by Belvedere Vodka. It seems as though those cats are sponsoring something every time you turn around. Anyway, as the drinks were following, and New York City’s beautiful people began to pile into the confines of the Gilda Hall downtown, we found ourselves […]
