Sheryl Lee Ralph considers her entire life a song. The 65-year-old actress has spent over four decades making a name for herself in the entertainment industry. Her first film, A Piece of the Action, was directed by Sydney Poitier, one of her instructors was famed German actress Uta Hagen, and …
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Twenty years ago, the AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot unveiled Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a tribute record that recruited over three dozen artists in celebration of the Nigerian musician. Now, after two decades, the record has been made available on streaming for the first …
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Replay, Spotify Wrapped, and the year-end Billboard Hot 100 lists are out! This week, the top streaming service shared personalized data about the top songs, artists, and albums that each of its users listened to in 2022. And they also shared data on the top-streamed songs worldwide — and a …
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Las Vegas hasn’t seen the last of Carrie Underwood. The singer and songwriter will return to Resorts World Theatre next year for the latest stretch of her ongoing residency, Reflection. The theatre show, which initially debuted a year ago, was extended into the spring earlier this year before being halted …
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CNN is facing a $17 million lawsuit accusing it of using hundreds of songs in international broadcast segments without acquiring a license or paying the proper fees. The lawsuit was filed by Freeplay Music, a production music library company with a catalog of over 50,000 songs to be licensed and …
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In recent months, Ashanti has begun pulling back the curtain on the misogynistic and predatory power imbalances she has encountered working in the music industry for the past two decades. Her latest divulgence arrived during an appearance on the Breakfast Club, where she resurfaced claims that an unnamed producer offered …
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It’s a good time to be a fan of survival horror games. The genre has seen a resurgence in popularity for the last few years but with a slew of hotly anticipated titles just around the corner, a gory renaissance of terror is upon us. Leading that charge is The …
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were declared legally single at ahearing back in March, but the settlement took months as West dragged his feet on the divorce. They finally filed paperwork to settle their divorce on Tuesday Nov. 29, Rolling Stone has learned. As part of the agreement, Kardashian and …
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Last year, Rolling Stone declared Nigerian singer-songwriter Tems “the future.” Today, as Dazed‘s latest cover star, she shared that her outlook on tomorrow is bigger than her. “What I’m trying to do,” she said, “or what I hope that God does through me, is for the image of the African …
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Metro Boomin enlists a set of A-listers (and some incarcerated friends) to tease his upcoming album, Heroes & Villains. On Tuesday, the musician released a short film trailer — featuring appearances from Morgan Freeman, Lakeith Stanfield, Gunna, and Young Thug — to tease his upcoming record, out Friday. In the …
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