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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 [...]
*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 Just don’t give up what you’re trying to [...]
*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 Just don’t give up what you’re trying to [...]
*Ebony/Jet founder John H. Johnson is making history once again. The U.S. Postal Service’s black heritage stamp for 2012 is honoring the deceased publisher. After moving to Chicago with his family, the visionary started Johnson Publishing Co. in 1951 with a $500 loan using his mother’s furniture as collateral. From the beginning, Johnson understood the [...]
*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 Just don’t give up trying to do what [...]
*“My foundation is from the church,” said gospel singer, Tre’ Thomas. The District of Columbia resident has been making an impact in the industry with his musical talents, radio persona and community awareness. The New Orleans native infuses his fresh R&B sensibilities with messages that address real-life issues and has upstart a musical movement that [...]
*Born Ella Jane Fitzgerald on April 25, 1917 in Newport News, Virginia. After a troubled childhood, including the death of her mother in 1932, Fitzgerald turned to singing and debuted at the Apollo Theater in 1934 at age 17. She was discovered in an amateur contest in Harlem and joined Chick Webb’s band and recorded [...]
*Nearly 50 years after he first took the Apollo Theater stage as a 12-year-old music prodigy, the Harlem venue has announced that Stevie Wonder will be inducted into its Hall of Fame during a ceremony scheduled for June 13. The gala will include a concert and awards ceremony, according to NPR. Wonder has recorded more [...]
*Bobby Hebb, whose pop song “Sunny” crossed racial and genre lines to become a huge hit, died Tuesday at a hospital in Nashville, officials said Tuesday. He was 72. A spokesman at Nashville Centennial Medical Center did not disclose the cause of death. Hebb, the son of black musicians who played city streets as “Hebb’s [...]
Jazz pianist and composer Hank Jones, a musician who has made hundreds of recordings and played with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, has died, his manager said Monday. He was 91. Jones, whose 70-year career included a 2009 Grammy lifetime achievement award and a 2008 National [...]
*New York’s Apollo Theater began laying down its own Walk of Fame today with plaques that will honor entertainers including late singers James Brown and Michael Jackson. The famous Harlem venue had been celebrating its own Hall of Fame list of legends every year, but on Monday began installing bronze rectangular plaques on the sidewalk [...]
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