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AP's top music documentaries of 2024: Taylor Swift, ABBA, the Boss and more โ and where to watch
Read full article: AP's top music documentaries of 2024: Taylor Swift, ABBA, the Boss and more โ and where to watchHere are some of The Associated Pressโ favorite music documentaries of the year โ in no particular order โ along with where to find them.
Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
Read full article: Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly HillsA representative for Jamie Foxx says the actor required stitches after getting hit in the face with a glass while celebrating his birthday at a restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.
Remembering Quincy Jones: 10 career-spanning songs to celebrate his legacy
Read full article: Remembering Quincy Jones: 10 career-spanning songs to celebrate his legacyFew artists have legacies so mammoth their very name could be considered synonymous with the music industry, but then again, most musicians are not the prodigious producer Quincy Jones.
Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, dies
Read full article: Jim Stewart, co-founder of Stax Records in Memphis, diesJim Stewart, the white Tennessee farm boy and fiddle player who co-founded the influential Stax Records with his sister in a Black, inner-city Memphis neighborhood and helped build the soulful โMemphis sound,โ has died at age 92.
New this week: 'Becoming Cousteau,' Gaga and Tony Bennett
Read full article: New this week: 'Becoming Cousteau,' Gaga and Tony BennettThis weekโs new entertainment releases include the first ever album of covers by Deep Purple, an acclaimed documentary about undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau on Disney+ and a concert video of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.
Black lawmaker hopes highway project can right an old wrong
Read full article: Black lawmaker hopes highway project can right an old wrongTennessee state Rep. Harold Love Jr.'s father put up a fight in the 1960s against rerouting Interstate 40 because he believed it would stifle and isolate Nashvilleโs Black community.
Eddie Murphy to be inducted into NAACP Hall of Fame
Read full article: Eddie Murphy to be inducted into NAACP Hall of FameFILE - In this Jan. 12, 2020, file photo, Eddie Murphy accepts the lifetime achievement award at the 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. Murphy will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame this month. The NAACP announced Thursday, March 11, 2021, that Murphy will be inducted during the March 27 ceremony, which will air on CBS. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)LOS ANGELES โ Eddie Murphy will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame this month. The NAACP announced Thursday that Murphy will be inducted during the March 27 ceremony, which will air on CBS. The NAACP Image Awards honoring entertainers and writers of color will also simulcast on BET, MTV, VH1, MTV2, BET HER and LOGO.
New this week: 'Coming 2 America,' Camilo and a dragon movie
Read full article: New this week: 'Coming 2 America,' Camilo and a dragon movie(ABC/Paramount+/Amazon via AP)Hereโs a collection curated by The Associated Pressโ entertainment journalists of whatโs arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIESโ Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are back in Queens as Prince Akeem and Semmi in โComing 2 America,โ the sequel to the 1988 film, which is now coming straight to your living room Friday on Amazon Prime Video. Set to becoming the King of Zamunda, Murphyโs character returns to the U.S. to find a son heโs never met. Adโ A more family friendly streaming option this week is the Walt Disney Co.โs computer animated โRaya and the Last Dragon,โ featuring the voices of โStar Warsโโ Kelly Marie Tran as Raya and Awkwafina as a dragon. The big-voiced Grammy-winning singer self-produced โBaby, Iโm Hollywood!โ โ which is a mix of soul music, piano ballads and funk sounds.
Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music star
Read full article: Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music starAnd he did it by winning over millions of country music fans. Until the early 1990s, when Cleve Francis came along, Pride was the only Black country singer signed to a major label. โThen it was โfirst Negro country singer;โ then โfirst Black country singer.โ Now Iโm the `first African-American country singer.โฒ Thatโs about the only thing thatโs changed. Throughout his career, he sang positive songs instead of sad ones often associated with country music. Even a country singer,โ said country singer Rissi Palmer on Twitter.
Carol Burnett puts variety, and music, back in her show
Read full article: Carol Burnett puts variety, and music, back in her showFILE - Carol Burnett arrives at the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 6, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif.. Sixty-five episodes of The Carol Burnett Show have been restored and expanded and are streaming for the first time on services including Hulu and Tubi. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES โ Carol Burnett is so glad we had this time together, as she sang in her signature song. And of course in television the โvโ of vaudeville became the โvโ of variety show," Burnett told The Associated Press this week. One restored episode from the showโs first season ends with Burnett, Lawrence, comic Phyllis Diller and dancer Gwen Verdon wearing psychedelic โSgt. โItโs just me and Vicki now,โ Burnett said with a sigh.
Johnny Nash, singer of โI Can See Clearly Now,โ dies at 80
Read full article: Johnny Nash, singer of โI Can See Clearly Now,โ dies at 80Johnny Nash, a singer-songwriter, actor and producer who rose from pop crooner to early reggae star to the creator and performer of the million-selling anthem โI Can See Clearly Now,โ died Tuesday, his son said. Nash, who had been in declining health, died of natural causes at home in Houston, the city of his birth, his son, Johnny Nash Jr., told The Associated Press. Nash was in his early 30s when โI Can See Clearly Nowโ topped the charts in 1972 and he had lived several show business lives. Music is for the ears and not the age,โ Nash told Cameron Crowe, then writing for Zoo World Magazine, in 1973. He had loved riding horses since childhood and as an adult lived with his family on a ranch in Houston, where for years he also managed rodeo shows at the Johnny Nash Indoor Arena.
Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77
Read full article: Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77Hibbert, frontman of Toots & the Maytals, had been in a medically-induced coma at a hospital in Kingston since earlier this month. Hibbert even recorded an album of American hits, โToots In Memphis,โ which came out in 1988. Grammy nominations for Hibbert included best reggae album of 2012 for โReggae Got Soulโ and best reggae album of 2007 for โLight Your Light.โ Hibbert was ranked No. Married to his wife, Doreen, for nearly 40 years, Hibbert had eight children, including the reggae performers Junior Hibbert and Leba Hibbert. Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert ("Toots" was a childhood nickname) was born in May Pen, Parish of Clarendon.