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Moments after finding her mother’s body, the sister of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson sobs as she pleads for help in a disturbing 911 recording released to the news media Monday. “Oh my God…. Somebody’s killed my mother,” Julia Hudson says, while a dispatcher tries to get her to calm down and repeat her address. “She’s […]
BRIAN MCKNIGHT talks with TJMS about releasing “If You’re Ready To Learn” on iTunes today. Last week the video went viral. As you probably know by now if you’re anywhere near a working Internet connection, crooner Brian McKnight recently released a graphic song about, well, the va-jay-jay, although he used a common but more graphic […]
Queen Latifah is set to headline the Long Beach Lesbian & Gay Pride Festival. The award-winning rapper, actress and singer will give her first performance celebrating gay pride. The two-day festival, which is considered as one of the nation’s premiere pride events, has also featured musical performances from Jennifer Hudson, Maya, and India.Arie.
It takes a certain type of person to get on stage under a name taken from a building renowned as one of the most beautiful ever constructed, without being laughed out of the room. Henry Saint Clair Fredericks is that type of person, and he has long preferred the name Taj Mahal, which he says […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Usher debuted new songs in an unconventional way Friday night: The singer danced to his new music as part of the off-Broadway play “Fuerza Bruta: Look Up.” “Fuerza Bruta” is the fast-paced and acrobatic play in which the audience stands as performers dance and jump around on the walls, onstage and […]
The R&B crooner recorded a song that’s raising eyebrows because of its explicitness. If you haven’t heard it, he previewed it in a viral video posted on Monday. In the video, McKnight in the recording studio, offers a taste of a new “adult mixtape.” The song he previews is called “If You’re Ready To Learn.” […]
Chris Brown is delivering more than hit songs — he’s selling puppies. A rep for the singer confirmed Tuesday that Brown is selling two-month-old pit bull puppies on a website. Maureen O’Connor called Brown an animal lover and says the pups were born to dogs he keeps at his family home in Virginia. She says […]
People Magazine has put Beyonce at the top of its “World’s Most Beautiful Woman” list, but the singer is attributing the honor to the inner beauty that comes with having a child. “I feel more beautiful than I’ve ever felt because I’ve given birth,” she says in her cover story. “I have never felt so […]
Jennifer Hudson shut her eyes tight Tuesday, holding still on a spectators’ bench, as a police officer at the trial of the man accused of killing three members of the Oscar winner’s family described coming across bloodied bodies at the Chicago home where Hudson grew up. Before prosecutors projected dozens of photographs of her mother […]
Music legend and “Godfather of Go Go,” Chuck Brown has been hospitalized. The 75-year-old performer was taken to a Washington, D.C. area hospital for “joint pain and inflammation that has prevented him from performing.” He was scheduled to go on stage Saturday at the Howard Theater in D.C., but the appearance has been postponed until […]
An attorney for Bobby Brown has entered a no contest plea for the singer to one count of drunken driving stemming from an arrest last month. City attorney’s spokesman Frank Mateljan says Brown was sentenced to three years of informal probation and a 90-day alcohol education course. Brown’s attorney Tiffany Feder entered the plea Wednesday […]
The otherwise blank-faced defendant accused of killing Jennifer Hudson’s family appeared to cry at his trial Wednesday when prosecutors projected photographs onto a large screen of the bloodied body of the youngest victim — Oscar winner’s 7-year-old nephew. It was the third day of testimony and the first time Hudson’s former brother-in-law, William Balfour, showed […]