By MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Diana Ross, John Legend, Bad Bunny, Kane Brown and Ella Mai will be among the stars celebrating at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Macy’s said Thursday that Martina McBride, Pentatonix, Rita Ora, Sugarland and Anika Noni Rose also will participate in the 92nd […]
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Home of Late Music Icon Aretha Franklin Listed For Sale
By The Associated Press BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The suburban Detroit home of the late “Queen of Soul” is for sale. Aretha Franklin’s 4,148-square-foot (385-square-meter) brick Colonial-style house in Bloomfield Township is listed for $800,000 . It offers five bedrooms, seven bathrooms and access to the gated community’s pool and tennis courts. In this […]
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Beyonce in ’90s Halloween Mood with Toni Braxton Salute
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Beyonce is in a 1990’s mood as she salutes singer Toni Braxton for Halloween. Beyonce appears on Instagram in a pixie wig, leather jacket, white tank top and jeans to re-create Braxton’s 1993 album, which she labeled Phoni Braxton. In the last of the three images, Beyonce […]
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Ava DuVernay to Make Prince Documentary for Netflix
By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay is making a multipart documentary on Prince for Netflix with the support of the late musician’s estate. The director on Tuesday confirmed Twitter reports late Monday that she’s working on the film. The documentary will be made with extensive use of Prince’s archives and will […]
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Janelle Monae on Lauryn Hill, Vinyl and ‘Dirty Computer’
By MESFIN FEKADU, AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Janelle Monae doesn’t remember the first album she owned as a child, but the first one she spent her hard-earned money on? “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.” “I just connected with Lauryn on many levels. The fact that she was a young black woman in America […]
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ASCAP Hosts All-Female Songwriting Camp to Improve Diversity
By KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a spacious recording studio in Nashville, two singer-songwriters, Priscilla Renea and Jillian Jacqueline, were working through a song idea, trading suggestions for lyrics and melody on the theme of resurrection. “When you least expect it.,” Jacqueline started off. “Resurrection!” says Renea with a flourish. Shortly […]
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Kanye West Makes Cameo Showing for Chicago Mayoral Hopeful
By The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Fresh off his bizarre Oval Office visit with President Donald Trump, hip-hop megastar Kanye West drew a crowd when he joined a Democratic mayoral hopeful and Chance the Rapper in a sidewalk appearance on Chicago’s South Side. West didn’t say anything during Amara Enyia’s event in Woodlawn Tuesday […]
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Childish Gambino Cancels Appearance at Voodoo Fest Show Due to Foot Injury
By The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Childish Gambino has canceled his Saturday appearance at the 2018 Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans because of a foot injury he suffered last month. News outlets report Gambino’s 9:45 p.m. slot has been filled by rapper Travis Scott. In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2018 […]
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Remembering Hamiet Bluiett
By Nyame-Kye Kond, Special to the AFRO Dating back to the days of Black Broadway, When the U street corridor was an important destination for Black musicians, and later on when it became a poetry, and Go-Go hotspot in the 1990’s to the early 2000’s, Washington D.C. has always been an artistic mecca for progressive Black […]
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Tracy Chapman Sues Nicki Minaj for Copyright Infringement
By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Nicki Minaj is being sued for sampling a Tracy Chapman song without permission. Chapman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Monday in a Los Angeles federal court. The Grammy-winning singer says Minaj’s unreleased track “Sorry” incorporates the lyrics and vocal melody from her 1988 single “Baby Can […]
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Ambassadors For Motown Sound Seek More of It in Hometown
By JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — From the auditorium of Detroit’s main library on a recent weeknight emerged the sound of Motown: Spirited takes of tunes that sprung from a studio just a few miles away and made their way around the world. Some of Detroit’s best singers and musicians breathed new life into […]
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Old-School R&B Group The O’Jays Get into a Political Groove
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The iconic R&B group The O’Jays has always made music for the heart. Now the group is going for the jugular on what it says is its last album. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees known for the classic song “Love Train” on Friday […]