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“Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin To Perform at Newport Jazz Festival On August 9th
July 6, 2008 - Twenty Grammy Awards winning star soul singer Aretha Franklin will make for a special appearance at the next JVC Newport Jazz Festival.
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John Legend Honoured as Humanitarian
 July 7, 2008 - Famous R&B singer, pianist and composer John Legend is not only an accomplished musician (winner of 5 Grammy Awards), but he is also known to serve various humanitarian causes. More.
Long Beach Jazz Festival
 July 7, 2008 - The 21st edition of Long Beach Festival will take place August 8th, 9th and 10th in Long Beach. The festival will host an amazing line-up of contemporary Jazz artists. More. |
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Festival organizers say the Grammy winner, whose hits include “Respect”, “Chain of Fools” and “I Say a Little Prayer” will perform her gospel-charged soul on August 9th at Fort Adams State Park.
Other performers include sax giants Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter, best-selling trumpeter Chris Botti and pianist and composer Herbie Hancock among others.
Aretha Franklin’s next album titled "Aretha: A Woman Falling Out of Love” should come out later this year. The soul diva will release her long-awaited CD on her own independent Aretha's Records label. Franklin is joined on the set by gospel greats Shirley Caesar, Karen Clark-Sheard and the rest of Detroit's Clark Sisters, plus multi-platinum Nashville singer Faith Hill.
So five years after her latest studio album “So Damn Happy”, we all look forward to listening to the ‘Queen of Soul’( Did you hear that Beyonce?) next musical project.
More information: www.festivalnetwork.com/jvcjazz/newport/sched.php - By Akbar Nour
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Robin Thicke Juggles Cats With Ease
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Al Jarreau Ready with New CD
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Aretha Slams Beyonce's Grammy Tina Tribute
February 13, 2008 - Pretentious, self indulgent and cheesy
are just a few words that describe Beyonce's intro to her Tina Turner tribute at the Grammy's on Sunday night. More below. |
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Beyonce Gets £500,000 for One Show
 July 3, 2008 – What would you do with £500,000? Maybe buy a dream home? Help a downtrodden charity or you could go really nuts and hire Beyonce? That’s right, for a measly £500,000 you could have Beyonce all to yourself – well kind of. More.
Queen Latifah Inks Deal for Fragrance!
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Franklin has her own words. The "Queen of Soul"
was not happy with Beyonce calling Turner the queen of anything. She released this statement
yesterday, "I am not sure of whose toes I may have stepped
on or whose ego I may have bruised between the Grammy writers
and Beyoncé, however,
I dismissed it as a cheap shot for controversy," Franklin
said. "In addition to that, I thank the Grammy's and the voting academy for my 20th Grammy and love to Beyoncé anyway." Franklin who has easily earned the title of
"Queen of Soul" started performing, like Turner
in the 50's. Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich, noting that Beyoncé idolizes Franklin, says he was baffled. "It was an innocent
remark," Ehrlich said. "It certainly wasn't meant
to disparage Aretha. Aretha has been and continues to be a
very important part of the music industry and transcends labels.
That's why the Recording Academy gave her the honor of MusiCares
Person of the Year and invited her to perform on the Grammy's." Beyonce's father/manager
treated the incident in his usual "Sensitive guy"
fashion. He released this statement, "I'm not even going
to take this to her," he said. "Something this ridiculous,
it's childish, it's unprofessional. And it's a sad day when
egos get bruised because somebody used the word king, queen,
prince or princess." Let's see how he reacts when Beyonce gets called the "Queen of Cheese." That's just around
the corner I'm sure.- by John Beaudin |
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