Brooklyn-raised soul singer Sharon Jones, leader of the Dap-Kings, is often mistaken for the understudy to boozy British singer Amy Winehouse. And that's grating to Jones, 52, who helped push the Dap-Kings sound into the American spotlight.
I used to look forward to Sundays in the summertime. As a college kid and salesgirl at the mall, there were few things better. I got off work early on Sundays. It was family day. To my stepmom, nothing was more important. So we met at her mother’s house. Her mother was known to us as “Nanny.” I was never a stepsister or stepdaughter in that house. I was family.
Isaac Hayes, Oscar-winner, R&B legend and musical icon, got two sendoffs in two days here in his Tennessee hometown, and each was as strange as it was surreal.
Isaac Hayes got an all-star send-off fit for the Black Moses. Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes were among those attending Sunday's private burial service for the
When a character played by Keenen Ivory Wayans finally begins to fulfill his destiny as a black superhero in "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka," he gets the best advice possible from his mentor, played by Bernie Casey. Every good hero, Casey says, needs a theme song. The guy who knows the most about that could have delivered the line himself, if his character in the movie hadn't just accidentally shot
Isaac Hayes, William Bell, Otis Redding made Stax the sound of young America Isaac Hayes, William Bell, Otis Redding made Stax the sound of young America
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