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Chante’ Moore signs new record deal prepares to release ‘Moore is More’ in April, 2013 *“I’m better than ever, I’ve grown vocally,” said Chante’ Moore about her upcoming studio release, “Moore is More,” on her new label Shanachie Entertainment. “The album comes out in April and the single probably before that. I want the single [...]
*Brandy Norwood is back with her feet on the gas pedal with appearances – since 2010 – that include a reality show with her brother Ray J on VH1, “Brandy and Ray J: A Family Business;” ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars”; CW’s “90210”; BET’s “The Game,” a recurring role as Chardonnay; her recurring role as [...]
“We fund the arts year after year,” said Neil Portnow, president of the Grammy Foundation which recently hosted their 3rd Annual Grammy in the School Live Concert at the University of Southern California. “Kids are at risk of not having the opportunity to be exposed to music, dance, art, theater, all things one learns about [...]
*As I was listening to the new CD of Natalie “Floacist” Stewart, “Floetic Soul,” I was taken back in time when clubs where full of poets doing their spoken word thing in a delivery manner that made the audience just as excited as any other act. Well, with this highly anticipated solo project of the [...]
*Playwright John Ruffin’s stage play “Love Me or Leave Me” makes it to television with the GMC presentation to premiere on Saturday November 13, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. ET (with encore at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m.). The comedy/drama, directed by Ruffin, stars Elise Neal, Shirley Murdock, Clifton Powell, Terri J Vaughn, Terrell Carter and [...]
*As I type this “K-Ci and JoJo Come Clean” reality show is premiering on TV One with two back-to-back episodes. “K-Ci and JoJo Come Clean” is a nine-episode series that will air on Tuesdays at 9 p.m.ET. The Hailey brothers go through 30 hard days of sobering treatment (physical, mental and spiritual) for family and [...]
*ASCAP invited me to a Pre VMA event honoring the achievements of Jermaine Dupri and his Ocean 7 team with a private party in Beverly Hills. The location was so secret that we had to be transported there from another location. Unfortunately the secret location wasn’t secret for long because soon a caravan of cars [...]
*Multi-award winning guitarist/actor Vernon Neilly (Walk Hard) took time from globetrotting with his band to share their masterful skills at a community event in Santa Ana, California at Memorial Park. Neilly’s band – Grammy Award winning Juan Nelson on Bass, Edward Neal on keyboards, Mekiel Rueben on sax and Preston Nelson on drums – featured [...]
*“I put the funk,” said Bluey, founder and leader of the UK group Incognito that gave us Maysa and other industry singing sensations. The funk that Bluey talks about is found in his newest Incognito CD project titled “Transatlantic R.P.M.” recorded in celebration of 31 years in the business for the popular assembly of musicians [...]
*“Oprah has her network, why can’t I have mine,” Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott) said about his new network TeenNick. TeenNick, of which he is chairman, has launched this month a new series, “The Nightlife,” which features the latest trends in fashion, music, dance and entertainment for teens. ”It’s about teens. Where teens can come to [...]
*When I heard Dru Hill was back with their original manager Kevin Peck I looked up to the Heavens and mouthed “thank you Lord.” Yes, finally I will hear that Dru Hill Baltimore sound again. This week Kadar Entertainment released the fourth anticipated CD of the multi-platinum R&B group Dru Hill titled “InDRUpendence Day” executively [...]
*Being on a reality show can make or broke you – literally – but the platinum selling R&B group Dru Hill has taken on the challenge in an attempt to repair “the brotherhood” that once made four young guys from Baltimore a house-hold name. The group – Nokio, Jazz, Sisqo and new comer Tao (also [...]
*Chicago native Michael Colyar drove to California to be an actor appearing in the film Hollywood Shuffle (USA), television series “Dragnet” and “227,” but it was seeing a friend bringing in the money as a comedian in Venice Beach, CA that gave him the idea to go the comedic route. His nine years on the [...]
*Louisiana native actress Denise Boutte’ received her first acting role a year after moving to Los Angeles, but what the stunningly beautiful actress didn’t know is that her world would go into high-gear after meeting Tyler Perry at an audition for his sit-com “Meet the Browns.” “I only saw Tyler as Madea so I didn’t [...]
*Jazz saxophonist/flutist Tia Fuller takes a break from Beyonce’s all female band to release a third CD titled ‘Decisive Steps’ and tour with her own all female quartet Girl Power. The tour arrives in Harrisburg, PA Saturday June 12, 2010 at Central PA Friends of Jazz. “People have a misconception of what Jazz is,” said [...]
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