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Saving the best for last? Vanessa Williams nearly scores another first…one no one thought she could and one she likely would have never known about
(October 15, 2022). To interpolate the title of her ten-year-old memoir, we had “no idea.” Former Miss America and famous author, actress and singer Vanessa Williams nearly accomplished yet another…
You didn’t have to know country music to know that Loretta Lynn (1932-2022) was an American icon: tribute
(October 7, 2022). There are certain names in music that are just transcendental. A kid born in 2002, for instance, knows that Elvis or the Beatles or Michael Jackson were…
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Nicki Minaj, Cardi B & others combine for a historic first, but it’s overshadowed by a petty beef among female rappers.
(October 5, 2022). An amazing first-time milestone has occurred on the Billboard charts this week, thanks in part to superstar rappers Nicki Minaj and Cardi B who, in an ideal…
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The Isley Brothers finally turn one of their most beloved/sampled songs into a No. 1 hit…47 years after its original release
(October 1, 2022). The Isley Brothers iconic 1975 album The Heat Is On has been groundbreaking on so many fronts over the past nearly half-century. The original LP, which became…
Tribute: Coolio’s biggest hit made him the first rapper to accomplish this feat; only five rap acts have done it since
(September 30, 2022). When then-up-and-coming rapper Coolio (real name Artis Leon Ivey, Jr.) borrowed the haunting melody of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” for his own song in 1995, it was…