ROOTS-REGGAE singer Tarrus Riley, who captured the imagination with his sensational album, Parables, won four awards at the inaugural Reggae Academy Awards, held Sunday evening at the National Indoor Sports Centre.
Riley won the Best Reggae Song, Best Solo Male Vocal Performance, Breakthrough Reggae Artiste and Most Popular Song categories.
His ballad, She’s Royal, earned him the Best Reggae Song and Most Popular Song awards.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Legendary soul singer Etta James recently spoke out publicly in response to news Beyoncé will play her in the movie Cadillac Records.
After learning that Beyoncé had been cast to portray her in the upcoming picture Cadillac Records, James told the New York Post’s Page Six she is pleased with the decision.
“It’s a privilege and an honor to have somebody like that girl,” James said. “I don’t think she looks like me, but that’s all right. They can fix that up.”
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Sean “Diddy” Combs may wear many hats, but the rap mogul is determined to carve a niche for himself as a versatile actor, while exposing TV viewers to something new in the small screen adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun.
The drama, which is set in 1950s Chicago, focuses on the Younger family as they await a $10,000 insurance check. Combs plays Walter Lee Younger, a man with big dreams of using the money to help start his own business, but encounters conflict with his widowed mother, Lena (Phylicia Rashad), ambitious sister, Beneatha (Sanaa Lathan) and wife, Ruth (Audra McDonald).
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
R&B crooner J. Holiday was arrested Thursday night (Feb. 21) on drug possession charges.
The rising star was pulled over in Salisbury, Md. while driving home from a performance “at a high rate of speed” along with another vehicle, Sgt. Frank Russo said.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Dr. Dre is an equity owner in a new beverage venture with Drinks American Holdings Inc. that will produce and market both non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages it was announced today (February 25).
The first product under the deal is a new super premium cognac, followed by a new sparkling vodka, which is currently being developed.
The super producer also plans to enter the imported premium tequila business in the future as well.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Vanessa Simmons is best known for being the oldest daughter of rap legend Rev Run so it’s only right that she plays a rapper in her first major theatre role. In this SOHH exclusive we talk to the up and coming actress about her role in The Actor’s Rap and the expansion of her Pastry footwear brand.
The Actor’s Rap is a comedy about a group of actors frustrated by all the “rappers turned actors” who shamelessly steal their roles.
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