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Legendary jazz singer Al Jarreau brings a message of love to the HubAl Jarreau eats, breathes and sleeps his music - and makes no apologies for it. "When you've done it for a long, long time, you get a sense of who you are as a performer," he told the Banner. "You begin to have a sense of the musical world, and a sense of who you are inside of that." More » |
TV One plans party for Obama, reveals new programmingJust shy of its five-year anniversary, cable network TV One unveiled its programming plans for the fourth quarter at the annual Television Critics Association press tour last month in Los Angeles. More » |
Actor and comedian Bernie Mac dies at 50Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died last Saturday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor childhood to stardom as a standup comedian, in films including the casino heist caper "Ocean's Eleven" and his acclaimed sitcom "The Bernie Mac Show." More » |
Hayes, 'Shaft' singer and disco presage, dies at 65MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose "Theme From Shaft" won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65. More » |
