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In this award year the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has launched "Celebrate the Movies," a digital exhibition spotlighting iconic moments from 84 films. The exhibition appeared on digital billboards in Los Angeles, and on ABC's digital "SuperSign," an electronic landmark in New York's Times Square... http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=174In this award year the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has launched "Celebrate... more
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PASSINGS: Howard Tate
Howard Tate, a soul singer who got a second chance at musical career, dies at 72.
Howard Tate, seen in 2003, had three top 20 rhythm-and-blues hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s, including “Get It While You Can,” written by his longtime producer Jerry Ragovoy (who died in July) and later recorded by Janis Joplin. (Brian Branch-Pric / Associated Press)
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Howard Tate, 72, a soul singer who got a second chance at a career three decades after being derailed by disputes with industry executives, personal tragedy and drug addiction, died Dec. 2 in Burlington, N.J., said a spokesman for the Burlington County medical examiner.
Born in Macon, Ga., and reared in Philadelphia, Tate had three top 20 rhythm-and-blues hits in the late 1960s and early '70s, including "Get It While You Can," written by his longtime producer Jerry Ragovoy (who died in July) and later recorded by Janis Joplin.
Tate toured with Aretha Franklin as her recording of "Respect" climbed the charts in 1967. But he eventually walked away from music, disillusioned that he was not receiving the royalties he thought he deserved, and became an insurance salesman in suburban Philadelphia.
"I got rid of my own records, and I didn't listen to other people's records because I didn't want to flash back," he told the Associated Press in 2003.
Then, Tate later recounted, tragedy struck. A daughter died in a fire. His marriage fell apart. He began drinking heavily, became addicted to crack and was homeless for a decade in Camden, N.J. Ragovoy and others thought he had died.
By the mid-1990s Tate had overcome his addictions and became a minister. He returned to the recording studio in 2003 to make the Grammy-nominated album "Rediscovered," with Ragovoy producing and doing most of the writing. Tate later toured and released four more CDs.
"A call from God" had brought him back to an industry he had "hated and despised so bad," Tate once said.
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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
Edwards, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, performed with the founders of the art form, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son House, Tommy McLennan, Sonny Boy Williamson, Big Joe Williams. He was the last of the bluesmen from his generation.
PHOTO: David "Honeyboy" Edwards performs before students of Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Md., in 2007.
(Joe Brier, McClatchy-Tribune / August 30, 2011)
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By Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
August 30, 2011
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and had been in declining health with heart problems.
Edwards picked cotton and pulled corn on Mississippi Delta plantations from age 9, living the hard life that the blues were created to address. As a young man, he hoboed across the South with a guitar on his shoulder, rode the rails, got thrown in prison for vagrancy and on various trumped-up charges and, along the way, made music with the founders of the art form: Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son House, Tommy McLennan, Sonny Boy Williamson and Big Joe Williams.
"Honeyboy — that's the end of the line," said veteran Chicago blues musician Billy Branch, who recorded and performed with Edwards. "He's the last of the bluesmen from his generation. He was that direct connection with the fabled Robert Johnson, and with [Edwards' death] it is the end of that particular style."
Said Bruce Iglauer, president of the Chicago blues label Alligator Records, "Honeyboy was one of the very last links to the real world of the Delta blues, a crucial world in the development of American popular music. He was a truth teller.
"He understood that this music can't be separated from the culture in which he was born and grew up. It can't be separated from the reality of the racial situation in the South at that time, and what black people were and weren't allowed to do."
To listen to Edwards' soft-but-searing tenor and cut-to-the-bone guitar playing was to hear the field hollers and laments, the work songs and hymns of a black underclass and, equally important, to hear that music performed as it was roughly a century ago.
"I always considered him a walking jukebox of the blues from the '30s through the '50s — he just had so much music stored up in that memory of his," said Frank, who worked with Edwards for 39 years.
Edwards told his remarkable story in a memoir that has become a landmark of American musical history, "The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards." The musician detailed the brutality of life on the plantations around Shaw, Miss., where he was born June 28, 1915. He told of lynchings that dotted the landscape and of the hardships of being picked up and sent to the penitentiary for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
But he also spoke eloquently of how blues music gave outlet to the pain experienced by those who created it, heard it and needed it.
"You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing — it was a feeling," he said in a 1997 interview with the Chicago Tribune. "The blues is nothing but a story.... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing … what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?"
Edwards first picked up a Sears Roebuck guitar at age 12 and was working as a musician by 14. Though he collaborated prolifically with the first-generation creators of the music, he was perhaps most famous as one of the last musicians to visit Robert Johnson as the seminal bluesman lay dying in Greenwood, Miss., in 1938.
Along with a generation of blues musicians and others during the Great Migration, Edwards traveled north to Chicago in the mid-1950s to get work. He toiled in factories as a machine operator and on construction sites as a laborer. At night, he played the blues.
He recorded for Chess Records, the primary Chicago label of the day, but he never attained a fraction of the fame of Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon or his other blues contemporaries.
The rediscovery of the blues in the 1960s, in the wake of the British rock 'n' roll invasion, made Edwards a desired performer on stages around the world, and he performed steadily nearly through the end of his life. He last performed in April in Clarksdale, Miss.
Edwards won a Grammy Award in 2007 for best traditional blues album with "Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas" and was honored with another Grammy last year for lifetime achievement.
Survivors include a daughter, Betty Washington, and her children and grandchildren; and a stepdaughter, Dolly McGinister.
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Jazz pianist, Kyoko Oyobe, leads the late night jam session in New York City, Lower Eastside's newest bar, cafe and jazz venue, The Moldy Fig, Tuesday nights in July. The establishment presents it's jazz offering with an assortment of casual diversions like chess, shuffleboard, Scrabble, and backgammon, and a small plate menu from the kitchen. Poets will feel welcome in this Lower East Side element. Kyoko Oyobe (http://www.facebook.com/kyoko.oyobe?ref=ts) who writes original compositions, is from Okayama, Japan, and has released her first album, 'Cookin' at Smalls', recorded live at Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, now available on the web at cdbaby. Finish story at: http://actorschecklist.com/wordpress/?p=137Jazz pianist, Kyoko Oyobe, leads the late night jam session in New York City, Lower... more
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Weeks before his first Grammy win at Stanley Clarke’s label launch party for Roxboro Entertainment Group we caught up with Ruslan Sirota to talk about his new Album.Weeks before his first Grammy win at Stanley Clarke’s label launch party for... more
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Desde el año 2009 se rumorea la existencia de un proyecto para una película sobre la historia del dúo Milli Vanilli. Hoy, el rumor fue confirmado, con la elección del director de la película.Desde el año 2009 se rumorea la existencia de un proyecto para una... more
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Muchas celebridades lucieron espectaculares y otras no tanto en el gran evento de los premio Grammy 2011.Muchas celebridades lucieron espectaculares y otras no tanto en el gran evento de los... more
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Justin Bieber's Grammys Night 2011: Photos
Justin Bieber walked the red carpet at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13th. The awards show was held at the Los Angeles, California.
Justin Bieber didn't select for the Best New Artist category at the 2011 Grammy Awards. But between the pop star's plastic smile and polished style, Justine was looking good and energetic with his luminous skin and brilliant white teeth and cute bow tie!
After the show Justin Tweeted to his fans that:Justin Bieber's Grammys Night 2011: Photos
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Lady Gaga participó del programa ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’, usando ropa interior y una bata transparente, y llevó los tres premios grammy que recibió el domingo 13.Lady Gaga participó del programa ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’,... more
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Congratulations to the entire Stanley Clarke Band for their Grammy win, best contemporary jazz album.
Here is part 3 of an amazing interview with an amazing bassist and a sweetheart of a guy, Stanley Clarke.Congratulations to the entire Stanley Clarke Band for their Grammy win, best... more
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Justin Bieber 2011 Grammy Performance Video
Justin Bieber is nominated for 53rd Grammy Award for Best New Artist for his hit song “Baby.” Justin Bieber is one of the biggest acts in the Pop music industry, and Justin Bieber was spotted hamming it up at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Justin performed his Grammy performance with sang “You8 Got it Bad” and back in 2007. And he also performed an acoustic version of ‘Baby” on his guitar.
Justin show off his moves side by side with Usher at Grammy performance and all loved them to seeing these.
Let’s enjoy the Video of Justin Bieber at the 2011 Grammy Awards.Justin Bieber 2011 Grammy Performance Video
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Breaking News Updates Who will take the Grammy home tonight? See the complete list of Grammy nominations. While there is no telling who will come away with what awards, there are definitely some top picks for tonight’s 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.Breaking News Updates Who will take the Grammy home tonight? See the complete list of... more
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Grammy Awards: Grammy prizes 2011 Grammy Awards Live View, as fine as performances by Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Eminem and Justin Bieber tonight in HD. Finding the finest way to see The 2011 Grammy prizes live tonight? It's simple. Just download the new TV satellite direct award-winning software and watch the 53 Grammy prizes. More than 850,000 people already use the software to view live Grammy prizes.Grammy Awards: Grammy prizes 2011 Grammy Awards Live View, as fine as performances by... more
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Breaking News Updates Today On February 13 the 53rd Grammy Awards will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
With over 100 awards to hand out and a much-anticipated line up of live performers (including Eminem, Ms. Lady Gaga, and Mr. Justin Bieber to name a few) this year’s Grammys is set to be an amazing event.Breaking News Updates Today On February 13 the 53rd Grammy Awards will be held at the... more
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Breaking News Updates Today The 2011 Grammy Awards will be held Sunday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Who will win best album at the Grammys this year? And should the award be retitled best collection of tracks available for individual downloading? And what will Lady Gaga wear to the show? Will it be edible, flammable or both?Breaking News Updates Today The 2011 Grammy Awards will be held Sunday at the Staples... more
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Westminster Dog Show, Halo defines a front paw fur within the sacred ring of the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the Samoyed will get the equivalent of a half-day spa – pamper that most women would kill for the Valentine weekend.
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Breaking News Updates The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show will air today (Feb. 12) on CNBC and USA networks. Chopper, a Cane Corso is shown during a news conference to introduce the new dog breeds ahead of the 135th Annual Westminster Kennel Club dog show, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011 in New York. The dog show runs Feb. 14-15 at Madison Square Garden in New York.Breaking News Updates The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show will air today (Feb. 12) on... more
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El rapero blanco, Eminem, encabeza la lista de los nominados a los premios Grammy, que se llevarán a cabo éste domingo 13 de febrero.El rapero blanco, Eminem, encabeza la lista de los nominados a los premios Grammy, que... more
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