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*Fantasia’s ready for a change in her career. The controversial singer who enjoys the company of married men said she’s going to take her music to a different genre – Rock-Soul. She told HipHollywood.com that she’s feeling a fusion will be a better fit for her musical talents and interests. “I’m doing something different. I [...]
*On Aug. 5, Tower of Power will celebrate 40 years with a show stopping live performance at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. The iconic band, known for “What is Hip?” and “You’re Still a Young Man,” still knows how to get down and get funky. Honoring tradition of big band music, Tower of Power [...]
*Now that the Essence Fest is out of the way, D’Angelo and Mary J. Blige are about to hit the road together on a late summer “Liberation Tour” with 20 dates across the U.S. D’Angelo is making his great comeback, bringing funk back to R&B with his upcoming album, his first since 2000’s “Voodoo.” Scheduled [...]
*Popular award-winning Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is getting ready to pen a memoir, expected to be released in 2014. “Quincy Jones is a dear friend of mine and he keeps saying to me, ‘You’ve got to do a book,’” Hancock said Tuesday during a telephone interview with TheAP from Shanghai, where he is currently on [...]
*Funk legend George Clinton is in the hospital with a staph infection in his leg, TMZ is reporting. Clinton’s rep tells the website that Clinton, 69, went to see his doctor for a routine check-up when the decision was made to keep him in the facility so he could receive proper treatment for a staph [...]
*I kid you not: late Sunday afternoon, August 15, I was at home in front of my computer trying to decide what music to play, when I had the sudden urge to hear “Shake” by the Gap Band. It’s not like I’d have to search for the track to hear it. Though it was the [...]
*R&B/Funk guitarist Phelps “Catfish” Collins, a veteran of James Brown’s J.B.’s, Parliament-Funkadelic and his younger brother William “Bootsy” Collins’ Rubber Band, died of cancer last Friday at his home in Cincinnati, reports the AP. He as 66. Bootsy Collins said in a statement that “my world will never be the same … Be happy for [...]
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