Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Irreplaceable," Beyonce; "The Pretender," Foo Fighters; "Umbrella,"...
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All Jamie Foxx really needed to know about show business he learned as a child.
He developed his most marketable skill, comedy, as a youngster in church. ("Comedy is...
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The party vibe established at MTV's Video Music Awards continued long after the last moon-man trophy was presented.
Post-show soirees all over town boasted star-studded...
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A stylist who claims Jamie Foxx failed to pay for her services cannot expand her lawsuit against the actor to include allegations he mistreated her, a judge ruled...
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Even velvety pipes get rundown every once in awhile.
Jamie Foxx missed a tour date in Washington Wednesday after a doctor advised him to skip the show in...
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Can they really call it an awards
show if most of the winners don't turn up?
That could be the conundrum facing the organizers of
Saturday's decidedly low-key Soul Train...
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Following is a list of winners at
the 21st annual Soul Train Music Awards, which were held on
Saturday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Highlights will be
broadcast in...
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Jamie Foxx is quietly enjoying one
of the most successful concert tours of the year, even if raw
numbers indicate otherwise.
The Oscar-winning actor/comedian/singer's...
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And DreamWorks and Paramount are telling you, Dreamgirls is not going there.
The studios behind the Oscar-nominated film did not react lightly to R&B star Smokey...
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With great power comes great responsibility. And with great wealth comes great big bills.
Jamie Foxx was sued Wednesday by a fashion stylist who claims she was hired...
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Mary J. Blige has a leading eight Grammy nominations and her triumphant comeback was the feel-good story of the 2006. So it seems as if her coronation on Grammy night is all...
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Nick Lachey strolled right through the lobby, new girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo on his arm, an entourage of about a dozen in tow and a few paparazzi out front.
Terrell...
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In six short years,
songwriter/producers Harvey Mason Jr. and Damon Thomas, aka the
Underdogs, have amassed an extensive and diverse list of
credits that stretches from...
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Entertainment industry honchos and NAACP leaders went to sleep last night with visions of Dreamgirls dancing in their heads.
The critically acclaimed musical is...
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Girl Power is alive and well.
With the film doing record business at the box office and picking up plenty of awards mojo going into the Oscar season, the Dreamgirls...
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It was a year marked by
head-scratching sales downturns as well as a revolving door for
the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
While R&B and hip-hop's command...
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Jamie Foxx is hitting the road hot on the tails of Kris Kringle.
The Oscar winner has announced plans to kick off a 19-city tour Dec. 26 at the San Diego Civic...
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Jamie Foxx is hitting the road hot on the tails of Kris Kringle.
The Oscar winner has announced plans to kick off a 19-city tour Dec. 26 at the San Diego Civic...
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Ciara may have evolved, but fans still can't get enough of her goodies.
Two years ago, the Austin-born R&B songbird broke big with her Hot-100 chart-topper "Goodies."...
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Scorned by country music radio, the Dixie Chicks are all right by the Grammys.
The finger-pickin' trio, just about nixed from Nashville for lead singer Natalie Maines'...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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Nickelback has all the right reasons to be among the top contenders for the 2006 Billboard Music Awards—namely, the Canadian rock outfit outsold virtually everyone...
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As the saying goes, every time an American Idol alum becomes a star, Simon Cowell's ego gets new wings.
"We have our history together, don't we, Jennifer?" the...
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It was a more-than-unpredictable night for Oscar winner Jamie Foxx at the American Music Awards program Tuesday at the Shrine Auditorium.
Not only did he snag his first...
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Pop diva Mariah Carey, whose
commercial success has not translated into awards show acclaim,
was snubbed at the American Music Awards on Tuesday, despite
scoring three...
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Can a voice from the grave earn a
Grammy?
That question is swirling around music circles this week as
nomination ballots for the upcoming Grammy Awards -- the
industry's...
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For more than a dozen artists, nominations for the American Music Awards came in twos and threes.
Mariah Carey, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas and...
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Producer Gregg Field
says that creating the new Ray Charles album "Ray Sings, Basie
Swings," due October 3 from Concord Records and Starbucks Hear
Music, was "like painting...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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For years, the motto of the Essence Music Festival, a soulful three-day concert that has become one of the largest music festivals in the country, has been "party with a...
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The Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel ballroom was filled with some of pop's biggest hitmakers, but even the most ardent music fans would have had a hard time finding a familiar...
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Former teen idol Leif Garrett has
been sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years probation on
charges stemming from drug possession.
Garrett, 44, was sentenced late on...
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Christina Aguilera will take the stage at this year's MTV Movie Awards.
The event, hosted by Jessica Alba, will be filmed June 3 at Sony Picture Studios in Culver City,...
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He can hop on couches, denounce psychiatry and pooh-pooh postpartum depression — and his supernova Hollywood heat doesn't cool a whit.
Tom Cruise has been box-office...
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Yahoo acquired playlist-sharing site
webjay.com in January. But it seems it may have bought itself a
problem. Webjay.org makes downloading the Beatles' music or
Kanye West's...
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Who says you can't go home again?
A decade after
releasing their last album, Home Again, the now grown-up members
of boy band New Edition--Bobby Brown included--are...
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DJ Premier was surprised when he got
the phone call last spring. It was RCA Records, saying that
Christina Aguilera wanted the producer, best known for his
gritty work with...
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Ne-Yo's so sick that he can't be denied.
The rookie R&B
crooner, whose debut single "So Sick" already topped the
Billboard Hot 100 radio, now has a number one album to...
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A movie deal. Check. A new jewelry line. Check. Another bunch of
music awards. Check.
Not a bad week's work for Mariah Carey,
who capped a busy seven days--and an...
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Last week it was a jungle out there. This week it's a ghetto.
Ending the single-week dominance of the Curious
George
soundtrack, R&B crooner Jaheim spanked the monkey...
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There's some serious monkey business going down on the album
charts.
While Grammy winners got their traditional
post-ceremony sales spikes, the top branch of the...
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Crank up the band, it's party time at the Copacabana.
In a battle of retro pop and opera for chart supremacy (now there's a
phrase we don't write often enough), Barry...
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In less than a year's time, Mariah Carey managed to escape pop's most dreaded fate — faded superstar — to become its reigning queen, ruling the record charts with...
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There will be a bit more breathing room this year for the A-list celebs who attend Clive Davis' swank pre-Grammy shindig.
Tuesday night's exclusive party and concert is...
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The Teflon R. Kelly is cruising on the Soul Train.
The R&B star, embroiled in an ongoing kiddie porn case, leads the nomination list for the 20th Annual Soul Train Music...
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R&B singer R. Kelly, the soulful
crooner who let his libido loose in a passionate album, led
contenders for the 20th annual Soul Train Music Awards, which
honor the leading...
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The Grammy Awards will open with a meeting of the Material Girl and the virtual world.
Madonna and the Gorillaz will perform together for the first time at the 48th Annual...
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Apparently pop stardom is as easy as Simon Says.
The
Simon Cowell-shepherded pop opera foursome of Il Divo is following in
the footsteps of Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken,...
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Move over, Cher, Destiny's Child is giving you a run in the
longest-goodbye department.
Three months after giving their
much hyped "farewell performance" on Jimmy...
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Another week, another game of musical chairs between Mary J. Blige
and Jamie Foxx.
Ever since their albums opened in the top
two spots on the Billboard 200 late last...
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Per the Chinese calendar, 2006 is the Year of the Dog, but it's
shaping up to be the Year of the Foxx on the charts.
Jamie Foxx continues digging gold as his sophomore...
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Album sales were slow for the week and down for the year, but the
final lap proved to be a neck-and-neck thriller.
After
spending nearly the entire year as the...
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Joaquin Phoenix, whose portrayal of Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line" has made him an early Oscar front-runner, returned Tuesday to the scene of one of the musician's most...
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Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx will spend New Year's Eve at a swanky South Beach hotel performing songs off his newly released album.
On Friday, as songs from his album...
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This year's Grammy Award nominees
for record of the year collectively have logged 28 weeks at No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Of the five contenders, Mariah Carey had the...
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A comeback story, a living
legend, an established frontwoman making her solo debut, the
world's biggest rock band and an opinionated rapper recorded
the projects that make...
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Looks like Mary J. Blige made Santa's nice list.
The
Queen of Hip-Hop Soul handily held off strong challenges from Jamie Foxx
and the Notorious B.I.G. to lead the...
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Got the latest "Death Cab for Cutie" tune on your iPod phone?
That's so 2005.
With the new year about to begin, it's time to upgrade your electronics, reprogram your...
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Nothing quite captures the holiday spirit like American Idol
stars fighting for stocking-stuffer supremacy.
And once again
Bo Bice's strong showing was no match for the...
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Jamie Foxx is on such a roll that he didn't even need to put out an album to become a chart-topping singer. The Oscar-winning actor became a Grammy-nominated singer thanks...
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The emancipation of Mariah
Carey from all things that
Glitter seems
complete.
The songbird soared with eight
Grammy nominations
Thursday, including an Album of the...
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50 Cent is lighting up
movie houses, but Saturday night at the Gibson Amphitheatre,
Kanye West proved that he's hip-hop's brightest star: His
100-minute set showed the...
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Jamie Foxx stepped into the spotlight at his latest movie premiere with more than the usual publicity drill in mind.
Don't let it happen, the actor urged — don't let...
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Rapper Snoop Dogg, once
a member of the Crips gang, called on Saturday for authorities
to spare Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the gang's co-founder, as
hundreds gathered...
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Rapper Snoop Dogg urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday to grant clemency to convicted murderer and Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams so he can continue his...
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Rapper Snoop Dogg will attend a rally Saturday outside San Quentin State Prison to support a former gang leader scheduled to be executed next month, according to an advocacy...
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LIFEbeat — the Music Industry Fights AIDS will honor World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 with an Internet auction featuring some 1,000 items from stars in music, film, theater and...
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Much as Broadway's "Chicago"
razzle-dazzled cinemas in 2003, two new transplants from the
Great White Way are hoping to cause a sensation among holiday
moviegoers.
For...
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Kanye West can handle gold diggers, but he'll need the best lawyers
money can buy to fend off a big-bucks court battle.
West has
been hit with a $10.5 million...
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For the seventh week straight, Kanye
West's "Gold Digger" featuring Jamie Foxx is in the top spot on
the Billboard Hot 100.
Chris Brown's "Run It!" is heating up the Hot...
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Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring
Jamie Foxx logged a fifth consecutive week at No. 1 on the Hot
100 singles chart Thursday, while Mariah Carey's "Shake It Off"
was No. 2...
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Disturbed has given Bon Jovi the fist.
While the
latter scored a career-best sales week, it wasn't enough to keep
Disturbed from landing its second straight number one....
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Joaquin Phoenix did not have to learn just to sing and play guitar. He had to learn to strum the strings in the distinctive freight-train rhythms of Johnny Cash and sing in...
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Kanye West might not be NBC or President Bush's favorite rapper,
but they're the exceptions.
The Grammy-winning hip-hop star,
who generated controversy last Friday when...
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Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno, Master P and Dave Matthews are contributing star power to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
DeGeneres, a...
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The warm voice of the late singer Ray Charles filled the neighborhood near his recording studio Wednesday during a ceremony christening a post office in his name.
As...
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Kanye West turned out to be the best BET of all.
The
rapper-producer was a double winner at Tuesday night's Fifth Annual
Black Entertainment Television Awards, picking...
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Brad Pitt is among the A-list celebrities featured in new public service announcements for a campaign led by U2 singer Bono to fight poverty and AIDS.
The campaign was not...
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A look back at the week in entertainment from The Associated Press:
Oscar Replay: Jamie Foxx 's passionate acceptance speech for his best-actor award for "Ray" was the...
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Thrilled by Jamie Foxx 's Oscar win for his portrayal of Ray Charles in "Ray," the Georgia House is hoping the actor will visit the Capitol and re-enact a 1979 visit by the...
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The cover of 50 Cent's second CD transforms a photo of the hugely successful rapper into a character out of a cartoon or graphic novel, splatters of black paint around his...
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Bail was reduced for a longtime sound engineer of the late Ray Charles following his arrest two weeks ago on allegations of stealing the singer's master recordings,...
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Jamie Foxx 's Oscar win has solidified him as one of Hollywood's A-list actors. But what he really wants to be is a chart-topping singer.
Foxx, who nabbed an Academy Award...
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Stop us if you've heard this one before: A high-profile hip-hop
album's street date is being moved up due to Internet piracy concerns.
The Massacre, the highly...
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The late Ray Charles might have loved company on his final album,
but he's all alone at the top of the charts.
After landing
five posthumous Grammys on Feb. 13,...
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During Oscar season, it's all about building buzz. Here are the leading contenders and how they've fared thus far:
SIDEWAYS
Best picture: Oscar nomination, Golden Globe...
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Monday mysteries: What were people watching instead of the Grammys ? What will Kobe Bryant say on Michael Jackson 's witness stand?
_ Ray Charles' "Genius" didn't have so...
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Ray Charles' Genius racked up plenty of company in the form
of gramophone-shaped statuettes.
The late soul legend won a
total of eight awards at the 47th annual Grammy...
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She was dressed all in white and played a white grand piano, but Alicia Keys' Grammy performance was far from vanilla.
Unlike many canned awards show performances, Keys...
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Performing at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy bash has been a good omen for a lot of rising stars. Alicia Keys hadn't even put out a single when she wowed the crowd with her...
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Genius will be served, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will be
outed as a couple, and Melissa Etheridge will hit the comeback stage.
Those are three of the storylines...
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Ray Charles, posthumously nominated for seven Grammys — including album of the year for "Genius Loves Company" — will be honored in a tribute at next month's...
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Ray Charles was an international
star for five decades, but in Hollywood the complicated piano
man was long considered box-office poison.
When director Taylor Hackford...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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The soulful New
York-bred trio the Holmes Brothers lead the nominees for the
2005 W.C. Handy Blues Awards, presented annually by the
nonprofit Memphis-based Blues...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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The Golden Globes are shaping up as a reprise of "The Jamie Foxx Show." Foxx, star of the sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001, earned a record three Globe nominations...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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A friend who's fond of
the imminent Bobby Darin biopic "Beyond the Sea" has often
asked in recent weeks, "Why isn't anybody talking about this
film?"
Good...
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Less than six months after his death, Ray Charles may be more popular than ever with a movie about his life and a posthumously released album.
Now he is being recognized...
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After a three-year hiatus,
Destiny's Child is picking up where it left off: at the top.
"Lose My Breath," the first single from the R&B trio's
hotly anticipated album...
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Landing a hit on the
charts can sometimes be a surprise. Just ask Randy Edelman.
The composer is finishing work on his score for "Son of the
Mask." Edelman penned music...
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Looking for inspiration, Jamie Foxx didn't see it in Ray Charles — but he could hear it.
The 36-year-old actor is winning raves for his portrayal of the genius...
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Actor Jamie Foxx , who plays Ray
Charles in the upcoming movie "Ray," has signed a record deal
with J Records, home of Alicia Keys and Luther Vandross.
His first album for...
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An eclectic lineup of musicians honored Ray Charles in a tribute concert, praising the late singer's rich life and his ability to transcend race and musical genres.
"Make...
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Stevie Wonder, Usher and Norah Jones
are among the artists who will celebrate Ray Charles at an
October tribute concert that will be taped for later broadcast
on...
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They died 31 years apart, but Ray Charles and Bobby Darin got to jam together at the Toronto International Film Festival thanks to Jamie Foxx and Kevin Spacey.
Over the...
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Is Kanye West's "The College Dropout" a gospel album? The rapper-producer's debut album includes one explicitly Christian rap, "Jesus Walks." But other tracks have lyrics...
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Rick James said goodbye to Hollywood Thursday.
Hundreds of fans and close friends of the R&B/funk singer tearfully
paid their respects at Forest Lawn cemetery in the...
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Add Babyface and Missy Elliot to the growing list of artists
looking to get out the vote in the months before the Nov. 2 presidential
election.
The R&B star and hip-hop...
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MTV executives are aiming to build
the appeal of MTV2 among hip-hop listeners through a series of
marketing initiatives, including the network's first
sponsorship of a film...
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Usher's laughing all the way to the bank.
Yeah!
The R&B singer is trading in on his mega-platinum success to launch the
first-ever celebrity debit card.
Uh,...
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When it comes to the VMAs, the biggest problem Jay-Z may have
is where to put all those Moon Men.
In what could be a
last hurrah before his pending retirement from...
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The soundtrack to the forthcoming
Ray Charles biopic "Ray!" features a combination of studio
tracks and live recordings from the late "Genius of Soul."
The 16-track set,...
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With two prizes apiece, Beyonce,
OutKast and Usher stood proud in the winners' circle during the
fourth annual BET Awards at Hollywood's Kodak Theater Tuesday.
In addition...
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After a tribute that carefully
avoided any mention of his jail stint for violent crimes, funk
pioneer Rick James wasted no time alluding to his dark days as
he picked up a...
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Comedian Billy Crystal called it "Woodstock for really, really rich people" as Hollywood's artists came out to raise $5 million to put Democrat John Kerry in the White...
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Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73.
Ray...
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The fire-breathing metallic bat made the pretend Paris Hilton and substitute Snoop Dogg visibly nervous.
During rehearsals Thursday for the MTV Movie Awards, the two...
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Hip-hop singer Frankee has knocked Eamon
off top spot in the U.K. pop charts with a song that is
believed to be a response to his expletive-filled lament about
his...
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Beyonce, Denzel Washington and Venus Williams are among the nominees for the 2004 BET Awards, which honor musicians, actors and athletes.
The awards, announced...
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When Twista made his debut 13 long years ago, it seemed only a matter of time before the Midwest motor-mouth would be a platinum success.
Twista's wicked, rapid-fire style...
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OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" won two awards, including R&B/soul or rap album of the year, to lead the winners at Saturday's 18th annual Soul Train Music...
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Jada
Pinkett Smith and Britney
Spears are taking a trip to Europe together.
Smith
and her band, Wicked Wisdom, will be opening for the platinum pop
princess before...
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Who would have thought a Kamikaze with a twist could stop 2004's
sobering sales slump?
Chicago emcee Twista, named the
world's fastest rapper by the Guinness Book of...
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Ray
Charles unchained his heart decades ago. Now it's time to fix that
hip.
The 73-year-old genre-bending music master has undergone
successful hip-replacement sugery,...
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Though Ray Charles has been sidelined through December with a hip ailment, that won't stop production on a new film about his life. Directed by Taylor Hackford, the film,...
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Nelly, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Smokey Robinson, and Chaka Khan have been tapped to perform at this summer's Essence Music Festival. The three-day event happening July 3-5 in...
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Celebrated R&B diva Gladys Knight is preparing to record a duet with Jamie Foxx on a song for her forthcoming album, At Last, due November 21.
Producer Shep Crawford says...
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