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*On what would have been her 96th birthday, Google is celebrating jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald with a doodle on its homepage. The singer, born April 25, 1917, made her stage debut at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, when she was just 17 years old. Over the next six decades, the “First Lady [...]
*Patti Labelle and Mary J. Blige will be among the singers honoring Chaka Khan when the singer is inducted into New York’s Apollo Theater Hall of Fame. Khan will be celebrated during a special ceremony on June 10, and former inductee LaBelle and Blige, who won a Grammy Award with Khan in 2008 for their [...]
*Comedian and actor Chris Tucker will make a triumphant return to stand up comedy with his “Guess Who’s Back Tour” presented by AEG Live. As part of the tour, Tucker will take the Apollo Theater stage for two nights on Thursday, December 13 and Friday, December 14 at 8pm. Tickets will go on sale Friday, [...]
*Usher thanked his friends for their support as he made a return to the stage Saturday night for his first performance since the death of his former stepson. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Kile Glover, the 11-year-old son of the singer’s ex-wife Tameka Foster, died last month due to head injuries suffered in a jet [...]
*Gladys Knight has been announced as an addition to the judging panel for “Apollo Live,” a new singing competition series set to debut this fall on BETs sister network Centric. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Knight will work as lead judge” on the series, which is filmed at New York’s famed Apollo Theater and puts [...]
*Chaka Khan will perform a tribute to the late Whitney Houston at the Apollo Theater’s upcoming gala and awards ceremony. It was confirmed on Friday that Khan will perform in her friend’s memory. Lionel Richie and the late Etta James will be inducted into the theater’s hall of fame during the June 4 gala. Soul [...]
*After video of the president singing the first line of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” went viral last week, the R&B classic posted its best download sales week since 2003. Since President Barack Obama broke out in song at the Jan. 19 fundraising event, the tune enjoyed a 490 percent weekly sales increase, selling 16,000 [...]
*The original Dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday will make her dream debut on the Apollo Theater’s famous stage on Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at the Opening Night of the 2012 season of the legendary Theater’s signature weekly live show, Amateur Night at the Apollo. The dream show marks the 78th year of the world’s original amateur talent [...]
*There were as many stars roaming about on Ronald O. Perelman’s opulent 57-acre East Hampton estate on Georgia Pond as there were in the sky on Saturday, August 20, 2011 when The Apollo Theater trustee Perelman, chairman of the board, Revlon, Inc., and chief executive officer and chairman at MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, hosted his [...]
*The historic Apollo Theater – where dreams are made and stars are born – just made dreams come true for over 100 graduating students of the inaugural class of The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) on Thursday, June 2, 2011 at one o’clock in the afternoon. As their proud parents, family and friends looked [...]
*Stevie Wonder took his place in Apollo history Monday night as he was honored during the famed theater’s spring gala with induction into the Legends Hall of Fame, which includes Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald and James Brown. Though Wonder was the main attraction, the audience was also wowed as he collaborated with a [...]
The Apollo Theater announced on June 6th the complete lineup for its sixth Annual Spring Gala Benefit Concert honoring cultural icon Stevie Wonder, who will be inducted into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame. The Benefit supports the preservation of the non-profit Theater’s unparalleled legacy, its current initiatives for emerging artists, and community and educational [...]
*How many of you have been to the historic Apollo Theater for an event and imagined what it would be like if you were on that great stage where stars were born and legends made? Well scores of women can cross another thing off their bucket list as they finally made it to the great [...]
*Harlem, NY – On Sunday, April 3rd, the world famous Apollo Theater will hold Spring auditions for its signature program, Amateur Night, at the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), current home to the Apollo’s exhibit Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing. The exhibit explores the Theater’s rich history and notable influence on [...]
*A new exhibit honoring Harlem’s famous Apollo Theater begins today and runs through May 1 at the Museum of the City of New York. Titled “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” the exhibit displays images, videos and artifacts including instruments, shoes and costumes from music greats such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Miles [...]
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