Tag: Music
Exclusive: Stephanie Mills Gets Candid on Kanye, Kim, Michael, Prince, Rolling Stone and More
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
After gaining global acclaim for playing Dorothy in The Wiz, which set the Broadway stage on...
Mississippi Lawmakers Commend Country Trio Chapel Hart
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators on Wednesday honored Chapel Hart, a country music trio that sang their way to...
What Happened to all the High School Bands? Advocates claim Funding has Disrupted the...
By RayJaun Stelly, Word in Black
Have you noticed the atmosphere is different when you’re at a high school football or basketball game? The aesthetic...
IN MEMORIAM: Thom Bell, Co-Creator of The Sound of Philadelphia, Dead at 79
By Post Staff, Black Press USA
Songwriter Thom Bell, a classically trained instrumentalist who wrote songs for 1970s singing groups Delfonics, Spinners and Stylistics, passed...
Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters Dies at Age 74
By Associated Press
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer...