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Music celebrities in the growing entertainment industry.
Y'all, DMX is gone, forever...
Profound sadness swept over me when I heard the news that DMX died. For the sake of context, DMX, born Earl Simmons was a legend, not just in the culture, but iconic at large. When the beat dropped, everyone who has been alive for the last few decades could add the lyrics, "Y'all gone make me lose my mind, up in here, up in here. Y'all gone make me act a fool, up in here, up in here. Y'all gone make me go all out, up in here, up in here. Y'all gone make me lose my cool, up in here, up in here."
By Ida Lenoir3 years ago in Beat
Funke Akindele, Ebuka, and More React to Adesua's Miscarriage.
So sad. Nigerian singer Banky W and his wife Adesua Etomi sat down at Waterbrook Church in Lagos on Easter Sunday to open up about the message behind Banky’s song Final Say as well as talk about their fertility experience in the hopes that it would inspire and encourage people. According to Banky W, he said:
By Jide Okonjo3 years ago in Beat
3 Struggles Only Women In Music Have To Go Through - Simi
Simi speaks out. It is no surprise to anybody that the human experience is different for every single person on this earth. If you're born a man, the way you navigate life will be very different from if you're born a woman. This is no secret.
By Jide Okonjo3 years ago in Beat
Lil Nas X Does Not Need Your Approval
This video is ridiculous in the best way. I remember when Lil Nas X first became a household name due to his incredible cowboy aesthetic catchy song, Old Town Road. He was fresh, he was strange, and most of all he was unafraid to put himself out there for our entertainment.
By yanina maysonet3 years ago in Beat
Versatile Actor, Recording Artist, and Filmmaker Amir Royale Releases New Single “Paradox”
From Amir Royale "Paradox" is about overcoming one's insecurities and becoming free of your personal demons. You are meant to soar higher than the brightest star. You are meant to outlive the wisest turtle. Thus, truthfully, the only thing really stopping you from doing that -- is YOURSELF. Why is it so hard for us to stay sane? Why does it take us so long to recover from heartbreak? Why are we so fragile? Why am I STILL not enough? Where "People Say" teeters the line of dangerously falling prey to the naysayers and our dark thoughts -- I wanted "Paradox" to be the exact OPPOSITE of that. My hope is that it helps others find solace in the love they've always secretly had for themselves. Why? Because just writing this all down helped me. Yet for some odd reason, it still doesn’t even feel like I wrote it all for myself... </3
By StageScene Magazine3 years ago in Beat
Dear Tina Turner, toughest woman I never met!
Born November 26th, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, her parents, Floyd and Zelma Bullock, were sharecroppers. After they separated in the early 1950s, Turner went to stay with her maternal grandmother in Nutbush, Tennessee. At age 16 she moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where she eventually began her music career. The first band she ever saw on television was Ike Turner, so she joined his band and went thru 25 years of hell, then he sued her for all the rights to her music, and she gave it all to him! all except for his name...that she kept because she built her career around that name. She said "I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class". she also stated in an interview "I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up". and she was asked about love, she said this: "I want a man without shame" also she said "I will receive it when I have earned it"! I just watched that on television. Ike Turner took everything he could take...but he never took her spirit or her name! After Ike, she came alive! Once she realized how sick he was, she started to let go of her hatred for him, even when he was beating and raping her. She realized some 53 years later, that holding onto all that hate, made her miserable and took away all of her serenity. She met, fell in love with and married her producer Edwin Bach in Zurich Switzerland in 2013, has been there ever since. She said she loves it there and considers it home because the people are so nice and friendly and the home and it's surroundings are breathtaking.
By C. M. Sears3 years ago in Beat
THE NIGHT I MET ROY ORBISON
It was a hot summer day, the kind of heat that would blister your backside if you were lying outside trying to snatch a tan au naturel. As I struck a match and waited for a flame to light my second joint of the day, the telephone rang. Sucking back a toke, I held my breath and slowly let it out. As a cloud of smoke filled my small art studio, I listened to the phone continually ringing. Wiping a film of sweat off my brow, I had another hit. Then, deciding it might be a potential customer, as soon as I exhaled, I answered the phone.
By Len Sherman3 years ago in Beat
Nothin's Gonna Come My Way: Otis Redding's Posthumous Hit
Who remembers the day that Otis Redding died? It happened on December 10, 1967, at 3:28 pm, a rainy, foggy afternoon. Ben Cauley, the lead vocalist of the soul-and-R&B group known as the Bar-Kays, suddenly woke up. He felt a strange sensation, almost as if he was spinning through the air. He was on a plane, a Beechcraft H18 owned by Redding. He and his bandmates were traveling with Redding to Madison, Wisconsin to perform as his backup. Cauley looked over at Phalon Jones, the band's tenor saxophonist, and heard him exclaiming at something outside the plane window. Cauley quickly took off his seatbelt -- and suddenly, impact. The plane hit the icy waters of Lake Monona, breaking apart on contact. Cauley held onto his seat cushion for dear life. He heard Ronnie Caldwell, another bandmate, calling for help. By the time he got to Caldwell, the organist had already sunk below the surface. He heard Carl Cunningham, the band's drummer, yelling in the distance, but he was too far away. Already unable to swim well, Cauley had no choice but to swim to shore, using his seat as a flotation device. He was the sole survivor of the crash.
By Jamie Lammers3 years ago in Beat
Nobel Prize
How could someone who wrote popular music win such a prestigious award as a Nobel Prize? The answer is that musical lyrics are a type of literature, which is one of the six Nobel Prize categories - the others being chemistry, peace, physics, physiology/medicine, and economics, the latter of which was added in 1968.
By Julie Lacksonen3 years ago in Beat