Musicians
The world’s #1 blind DJ, touched down for another set at Lady B’s Holiday Basement Party, this time around it was something of particular importance. The night of December 17th marked another milestone in DJ Touchtone’s illustrious career, it was Touchtone’s 25th year as one of the most premier DJ’s in the world. The beauty […]
This is NOT a drill. The British R&B group is working on new music. During an interview with Billboard, French producer and composer Damien Quintard may have mistakenly revealed Sade’s plans for the future. Quintard recently linked up with Brad Pitt to rebuild and co-own Provence, France’s Miraval Studios. The 2,200 acre Chateau Miraval now […]
Universal Music Group just announced that Janet Jackson’s sixth album, The Velvet Rope, will get a 25th anniversary deluxe edition. The 1997 album originally touted 23 tracks produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Throughout the album Janet embraced the themes of female sexuality, domestic violence and mental health, through the lens of a black […]
In a shocking (but not surprising) report by Rolling Stone, the Federal Bureau of Investigation collected information about Aretha Franklin using false phone calls, surveillance, infiltration, and staged sources for a whole 40 years. The investigation took place from 1967 to 2007 under the premise that Aretha was tied to “Black extremists” during her time […]
Anita Baker is one of R&B’s most prolific artists of all time. She like many other artists of her generation and before, released most of their music under record deal contracts that were mostly unfavorable to the artist making the art. Many Black artists like Prince, George Clinton and Frank Ocean have fought record labels […]
Little Richard: I Am Everything has just been put into commission by the two media giants.
On Sunday, at the 64th Annual Grammys, representatives from Philadelphia were collecting their things and going home with a smile. Jazmine Sullivan has been nominated for a Grammy 12 times prior to Sunday’s proceedings. The singer/songwriter phenom was nominated for Best R&B Performance and Best R&B song for “Pick Up Your Feelings”. She was also […]
A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg died on March 22nd, 2016. He suffered years of battling diabetes and died shortly before ATCQ’s come back and final album, We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service. Their first album in an 18-year absence was only titled that way because Phife liked it, fellow ATCQ member […]
The 45-year-old “King of Reggaetón” is calling it quits after 32 years of making music. Daddy Yankee released a short video on all of his social media accounts explaining the decision to make his next ride his last. Yankee speaks in Spanish throughout the duration of the video and keeps it candid with himself and […]
The multi-talented Jennifer Hudson is soon to be a daytime talk show host. The Jennifer Hudson Show has just been announced in press releases from her new home at the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show is going to have the length of one hour and is prepared to debut this fall. Jennifer Hudson is just coming […]