Highlights of 2001 Gospel Inductees
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) Career highlights of 2001 Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductees: DORIS AKERS: Singer, arranger, choir director and songwriter responsible for ``Sweet, Sweet Spirit'' and ``I Cannot Fail the Lord'' and co-writer of ``Lord, Don't Move the Mountain'' with Mahalia Jackson. Akers ...
| Maxwell: A born romantic
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The sultry, sexy R&B sounds of Maxwell have fans demanding his album "Now." And that's no exaggeration. The CD, a follow-up to the well-reviewed "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite" (1996) and "Embrya" (1998), recently debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts. To R&B fans, Maxwell, 28, ...
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My Music: Mica Paris
LONDON, UK (BBC Radio 2) - Singer Mica Paris is presenting a major new radio series about the history of soul, which looks at the stories behind seven records and seven artists who changed the sound of the genre. Seminal Soul is broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on Wednesday nights from 5 September. Paris, who ...
| Cypress Hill To Release 'Stoned Raiders' November 13
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Cypress Hill will promote its forthcoming album Stoned Raiders on this fall's Smoke Out tour, which kicks off in Holmdel, New Jersey, at the end of the month. The new album, slated for release November 13, features hip-hop and hard rock tracks, and boasts guest appearances ...
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Fans, Artists Pay Last Respects To Aaliyah
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - The inscription at the bottom of Aaliyah's picture at a memorial here on Friday may have best described her years of touching people's lives: "We Were Given a Queen, We Were Given an Angel." Even in the afterlife, Aaliyah remains the epitome of class and grace. Her white casket ...
| Detroit Memorial For Aaliyah Planned, Scholarship Fund Created
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A memorial is being planned and there is now a scholarship fund that honors the memory of Aaliyah in Detroit, the city where the New York-born singer-actress was raised and attended high school. The fund created by the Detroit-based organization Operation Get Down will annually ...
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Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule, Beenie Man Busted For Swearing
NEW YORK (AP) - In the sunny resort town of Montego Bay, Jamaica, where the smell of marijuana fills the air and peddlers line the beaches, authorities take swearing very seriously. Rappers Snoop Dogg and Ja Rule and reggae star Beenie Man learned that lesson Thursday when they were charged with using ...
| Aaliyah's Final Video 'Very Special,' Director Says
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Video director Hype Williams said the time he spent working with Aaliyah during her last days was among the most memorable of his life, and he wants the world to see the footage they shot for "Rock the Boat." "Those four days were very beautiful for everyone. We all worked ...
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Erykah Badu Mistakenly Receives Jill Scott's Soul Train Award
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Good thing Erykah Badu wasn't around to pick up her Album of the Year trophy at Tuesday night's Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards � she'd have to mail it to Jill Scott. Show organizers said Thursday (August 30) that Badu's Mama's Gun was erroneously announced as Soul/R&B Album ...
| Atlantic Records: A label with soul (Book celebrates 50 years of hits)
(CNN) - At their best, record labels can conjure a sound as surely as a needle on a phonograph. Chess Records and late '50s gutbucket blues. The Motown Sound of 1960s vocal groups. Stiff Records and the late '70s British New Wave. When it comes to Atlantic Records, however, not just one sound will ...
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Family, Friends & Fans Say Goodbye To Aaliyah
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - A glass-paneled carriage towed by a pair of tan horses brought actress-singer Aaliyah's silver coffin from the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home on Manhattan's Upper West Side to the St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church a short distance away on Friday morning (August 31). ...
| Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule & Beenie Man Charged With Using Indecent Language At Sumfest
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Snoop Dogg, Ja Rule, and Beenie Man are in hot water for allegedly using profanity at the recent Reggae Sumfest festival in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The three musicians were charged Thursday (August 30) with using indecent language at Sumfest, and were asked to appear in a magistrate's ...
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Musiq Soulchild & R. Kelly Win At R&B/Hip-Hop Awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Soul crooner Musiq Soulchildtook home four 2001 Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Awards--including top R&B/hip-hop artist, top R&B/hip-hop artist-new, top R&B/hip-hop artist-male, and top R&B/hip-hop singles artist--when the winners were announced at the New York Hilton on Thursday (August 30). ...
| Aaliyah Funeral today
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - A private funeral for Aaliyah will be held tomorrow in Manhattan. Funeral arrangements for the twenty-two-year-old R&B singer and actress are being worked out by the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in New York as well as her label, Virgin Records. A public memorial for fans ...
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Sisqo A Bloodsucker On 'Sabrina'
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Sisqo will make his small-screen acting debut for the season premiere of the WB sit-com, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, airing at Friday September 14 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The pop star plays alongside show star Melissa Joan Hart as a real-life vampire looking for a role in a movie ...
| I BELIEVE I CAN SAIL!
LONDON, UK (AP) - R&B superstar R Kelly will travel to the UK for his first live shows in almost six years on the massive cruise liner the QE2, dotmusic can exclusively reveal. Kelly, who is in the midst of a media black-out in America, following the death of his former wife Aaliyah, has an intense ...
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Jermaine Dupri, Hype Williams, Others Recall Aaliyah As 'Risk Taker,' 'Groundbreaker'
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) -Although Aaliyah was only 22 years old when she was killed Saturday in a plane crash, the musicians and movie directors who remembered her this week almost unanimously noted her artistic maturity - both as a singer unafraid to push R&B's envelope and as an actress whose commitment ...
| David aims to repeat Mobo coup
LONDON (Reuters) - Craig David has been nominated for three prizes at the Music Of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards following his Mobo Award hat-trick last year. The 20-year-old R&B singer will face competition from five other acts who have all been nominated for three awards as well. And So Solid Crew, ...
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Aaliyah Plane Crash Investigation: No End In Sight
BAHAMAS (AP) - Authorities in the Bahamas are looking into reports that engine failure and overloading contributed to the crash of the plane carrying Aaliyah and eight others Saturday, but they haven't ruled anything out and say there's no end to the investigation in sight. Investigators have moved ...
| Lauryn Hill, RZA Say Goodbye To MuchMusic VJ Master T
TORONTO (AP) - Just hours before Aaliyah's short life came to a tragic end in a plane crash on Saturday (Aug. 25), Lauryn Hill and numerous Canadian artists were in Toronto for a street celebration in honor of much loved MuchMusic VJ Master T, the country's most visible champion of urban music. The ...
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