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*R&B icon Chaka Khan turned the big 6-0 over the weekend and celebrated with a star-studded birthday bash in Hollywood. Natalie Cole, Anita Baker and David Foster were at LA’s Yamashiro restaurant on Thursday to help Chaka celebrate the milestone. Her actual birthday fell on Saturday, March 23. The event also marked her 40-year career [...]
*Songwriter, performer, producer and R&B icon Anita Baker will perform her hit single “Lately” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, February 4th, 2013 at 11:35pm E/P, marking the single’s television debut. “Lately” was recently nominated for “Best Traditional R&B Performance,” the 16th such Grammy Award nomination of her career. Baker has won eight previous Grammys. “Lately” [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE “Ask for what you want and be prepared [...]
*Props to Anita Baker who recently garnered her 16th Grammy nom for her hit song “Lately.” Madame Baker – who’s already got 8 trophies on her mantle – was nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Watch the Grammy Awards February 10 on CBS to see if she bags number 9. *Former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” [...]
*Anita Baker may not have a reputation of being the easiest diva to get along with, but no one can deny the lady has always been in a class by herself. No one sings a song like Anita Baker. No one tells a story like her; which makes getting props from her a big deal. [...]
*She may be in her 50s and divorced, but Anita Baker still gets out to meet new single men. The singer is among those in the American population waiting for the right companion. But she’s not the conventional type who tries to force a spark or fish for chemistry. She says it’s got to be [...]
*In the words of J. Anthony Brown, watch out dere now! Anita Baker is on the move. The classic soul-singer is bragging about her first album in seven years, “Only Forever.” But it’s something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. “I just had this concept of walking into a digital universe with an analog [...]
*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE The small choices and decisions we make a [...]
*Even though the 2011 BET Awards gave props to Patti LaBelle and Steve Harvey, as well as emotional tributes to several stars who passed away, Sunday night’s show belonged to Chris Brown. The dancer/singer dominated the show with 4 awards and performed twice during the telecast from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. It was [...]
*Where should I begin? First off, the evening started out with the red carpet arrivals outside the Cobb Energy and Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, GA with a crowd of both audience members and media gathered to welcome all the celebrities and get photo ops while a group of Soul Train dancers kept up an [...]
*Soul Train rolled out the purple carpet for its 2010 award show taping Wednesday night in the ATL. Hosts Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard posed for pics, along with Faith Evans, El Debarge, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Ginuwine, Tank, Free, Jazmine Sullivan, Chilli, and many more. [Scroll down to view.] The 2010 Soul Train Awards will [...]
*Sometimes you have to shake things up, push a little farther, reach a little higher – even when you’re a contemporary jazz foursome that’s been operating at the top of its collective game for two decades. After twenty years and a dozen albums, in an industry that has undergone sweeping transformations in the past decade, [...]
*Four days after Alicia Keys got a gift from the stork, she joined Usher in receiving a leading four nominations from the Soul Train Awards. The nominees were announced this morning — four days after Keys gave birth to her first child, a son named Egypt. Drake was another multiple nominee with three. Double nominees [...]
*Anita Baker is being sued by her own house painters. Ray A. Smith Painting and Decorating alleges that the singer owes $15,239.60 for work at her Grosse Point, Michigan home last year. “The plaintiff has frequently and repeatedly demanded payment, but Defendant Baker has neglected, failed and/or refused to pay said amount to Plaintiff, despite [...]
*In celebration of Black Music Month, ESSENCE.com chatted with the incomparable Anita Baker, who is working on a new album and wanted to give them a sneak peek. The songstress had just landed in Los Angeles, where she was in the studio recording when we spoke with her about her passion in life: making music. [...]
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