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(Rolling Stone) – Bunny Wailer, a founding member of the Wailers and a reggae music giant whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 73. Wailer’s manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed that Wailer died on Tuesday at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica (via the Jamaica Observer). No cause of death was given, but Wailer […]
(Page Six) – The Weeknd is staying in style in Tampa this week as he prepares for Sunday’s Super Bowl 2021 halftime show. We hear the “Blinding Lights” crooner plunked down $100,000 to stay in a swank $9.1 million six-bedroom manse on nearby Davis Island. The 6,000-square-foot spread features a pool, bay views and a […]
(NPR) – The great South African trombonist and composer Jonas Gwangwa, who was an ambassador for his country’s music around the globe and an advocate against apartheid at home, died today. Gwangwa’s death was announced in a statement published on the web site of the presidency of the Republic of South Africa. He was 83 years old. […]
(CNN) – Rapper YFN Lucci is wanted in Atlanta on multiple charges — including murder — in connection with fatal shooting last month, Atlanta police said Tuesday. Officers responding to calls of a person shot around 5:20 p.m. on December 10, found James Adams, 28, lying in the street with a gunshot wound to his face, […]
The Weeknd sure is embracing “new year, new you.” The 30-year-old singer sports some disturbing alterations to his face — akin to extreme plastic surgery — in the video for his new song, “Save Your Tears,” which premiered Tuesday and is from his “After Hours” album. Mike Marino, the artist behind the Canadian star’s look, has […]
King of birthdays Sean Combs proves that no one parties like Diddy. This time, he went all out to celebrate his mom, Janice Combs’ 80th birthday on Monday. The music mogul threw a birthday dinner where he and his children showered her with gifts. Combs’ son, Justin, gifted her a diamond necklace with her moniker “Mimi” […]
(CNN) – K.T. Oslin, a country music singer and songwriter who came to fame with her anthem “80’s Ladies,” has died, according to a statement from the Country Music Association. She was 78.Oslin became the first woman to win the CMA Award for song of the year in 1988 for “80 Ladies.” She also won […]
(CNN) – Dionne Warwick had some fun on Twitter this past weekend. The singer had some questions about the names of Chance the Rapper and singer The Weeknd and posed them on Twitter — much to their delight. She began with Chance the Rapper. “Hi, @chancetherapper. If you are very obviously a rapper why did […]
(Billboard) – Teyana Taylor is doubling down on her recent comments about retiring from music. On Friday (Dec. 4), the nearly 30-year-old R&B singer-songwriter wrote on Instagram that she feels “super under appreciated” as an artist after receiving “little to no real push from the ‘machine,’” and announced that she’s “retiring this chapter of my story.” Her comments left many […]
(Variety) – The Thanksgiving break has done little to calm the anger over the Grammy Awards’ baffling shutout of The Weeknd and several other artists from the 2021 nominations, and on Saturday Halsey — who was herself shut out from nominations — took to Instagram to air her feelings on the issue, as have Drake, Elton John, Kid Cudi, Charlie Puth […]
