Diana Ross will headline artists performing at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in honor of the 2008 laureate, Finnish peace mediator Martti Ahtisaari, organizers said...
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Diana Ross' second solo album, "Everything Is Everything," will come out on CD for the first time on June 17 with a selection of bonus tracks, including a previously...
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We always knew he was a goodfella.
Fresh off his long-coming Oscar win, Martin Scorsese is among the quintet of legendary artists being feted at the 30th Annual Kennedy...
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She was an "amazing talent," a young singer with a wonderful voice who wrote beautiful songs. But she was no beauty, plus flat-chested and overweight to boot.
Remembering...
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PHOENIX (AP) — Billy Crystal has been friends with Muhammad Ali for 33 years. That's why he showed up Saturday night for Celebrity Fight Night, the glitzy gala that...
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After forgetting the words to his song on Tuesday's American Idol, Brandon Rogers can forget about going any further in the competition.
The 28-year-old Los Angeles...
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Vote for the Worst might be Sanjaya Malakar's best chance of winning American Idol.
The anti-Idol Website has thrown its weight behind the 17-year-old contestant from...
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The 12 American Idol finalists are in for a Supreme experience.
Diana Ross is slated to make her debut on the Fox talent competition this week, coaching the contestants...
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And DreamWorks and Paramount are telling you, Dreamgirls is not going there.
The studios behind the Oscar-nominated film did not react lightly to R&B star Smokey...
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Three-time Grammy winning pianist Joe
Hunter of the Funk Brothers studio band behind numerous Motown
hits has been found dead in his Detroit apartment, the Detroit
Police...
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More than 8,500 James Brown fans filled an arena bearing his name Saturday in a final, joyful farewell to the singer that seemed as fitting for a civil rights leader as for...
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Producer Gregg Field
says that creating the new Ray Charles album "Ray Sings, Basie
Swings," due October 3 from Concord Records and Starbucks Hear
Music, was "like painting...
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Diana Ross will perform, and Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Chris Evert and Venus Williams will participate in next week's opening night ceremony at the U.S. Open.
The focus...
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Copycat musical groups will face penalties if they misrepresent themselves as the original artists under a new Illinois law that was championed by Mary Wilson of the...
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Here's something for Diana Ross fans to get jazzed about.
Three decades after she earned an Oscar nomination channeling Billie
Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues, the...
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Yoko Ono's longtime friend and
spokesman on Tuesday said an upcoming TV seance to contact her
late husband, ex-Beatle John Lennon, was tacky, exploitative
and far removed...
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Looking for the Temptations on Super Bowl Sunday? They'll be in Charlottesville, Va. Smokey Robinson? He's playing down the block from Ford Field the night before. Diana...
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A former member of Motown group The Supremes has a warning for copycat musical groups: Stop, in the name of fraud.
Mary Wilson has urged Illinois lawmakers to make it...
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The year is 1972. Five
young men are boosting the ratings of any one of the dozen-odd
variety shows on which they appear regularly, laying down a
mainstream-safe version of...
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Shayne Ward, the winner of Britain's
ITV1's talent show "X Factor," is expected to take the coveted
Christmas number one spot in this year's UK pop charts, music
stores and...
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Here is a look at some of the
notable artists who died in the past year.
Swing-era clarinetist/bandleader ARTIE SHAW, 94, died
December 30, 2004, in Thousand Oaks, Calif....
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In LOS ANGELES story headlined "Diana Ross ends 9-year
absence from singles chart" please read the headline as "Diana
Ross ends 6-year absence from singles chart" and the...
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Call it a confab of Motown all-stars: the cast and crew of "Lady Sings the Blues" gathered on the Paramount lot to celebrate the DVD release of the 1972 Billie Holiday...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Three years ago, when Rod Stewart decided to reinterpret pop standards with "It Had To Be You ... The Great American Songbook," it didn't seem like a...
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Disturbed has given Bon Jovi the fist.
While the
latter scored a career-best sales week, it wasn't enough to keep
Disturbed from landing its second straight number one....
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Grammy-winning soul singer and
songwriter Luther Vandross, who suffered a serious stroke two
years ago as he was about to relaunch his career, died on
Friday in a New Jersey...
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Motown Records won't
celebrate its 50th anniversary until 2009, but its Universal
Music Group parent is getting the party started early.
Hip-O Select, Universal's Web-only...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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Snoop Dogg was too hot to drop
from the top of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday as
his hit tune "Drop It Like It's Hot" featuring Pharrell logged
a third week at...
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Thirty-four years after his death,
Jimi Hendrix continues to enthrall his fans and attract new
ones.
In a control room at Electric Lady Studios, the facility
Hendrix was...
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A 12-hour series about the famed Motown Records music empire and its founder, Berry Gordy, is being developed for NBC.
"Berry Gordy's Motown" will dramatize Gordy's rise...
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Gospel artist Andrae Crouch will
receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 4 in Los
Angeles.
The 61-year-old music patriarch is only the third gospel
artist to...
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Motown is emptying its archives into
Apple's iTunes Music Store to mark its 45th anniversary.
The famed label is making available the first 45 singles it
issued as well as...
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Last summer, the state Department of Management and Budget got an unusual request from the governor. Jennifer Granholm called to ask if something could be done about the...
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Glitzy gowns that helped shape the sophisticated image of the Motown trio the Supremes are being pulled out of storage closets and footlockers for a...
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Lil'
Kim's apparent tall tales are causing the diminutive rapper some
trouble.
Kim is free on $500,000 bond after being indicted
Wednesday on eight felony charges...
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Diana Ross , who served her sentence for an Arizona drunken-driving conviction in Greenwich, Conn., won't have to return to Tucson to spend more time in jail.
On Monday, a...
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A city magistrate won't decide before Monday whether pop diva Diana Ross has fulfilled a jail sentence for a DUI conviction or must return to Tucson to do so.
Lawyers for...
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Viewers who tune into the upcoming
TV special celebrating the 45th anniversary of Motown Records
might find themselves asking "What's going on?"
Two decades after Michael...
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British recording company EMI Group PLC has reached a deal to become the sole owner of Jobete, the Motown song catalog established by Berry Gordy Jr.
EMI's Music...
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Producer, songwriter and singer Johnny Bristol, who worked with almost everyone, including Michael Jackson , Diana Ross , Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye has died.
Bristol...
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Chart-toppers Westlife announced Tuesday
that singer Bryan McFadden was quitting the group, a move that
could signal the beginning of the end for the Irish...
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If someone compiled a list of the
most commercially successful and prolific producers in
R&B/hip-hop, Timbaland's name would likely be near the top of
the list.
In less...
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As three major TV networks shifted broadcast plans in reaction to the racy Super Bowl halftime show, Janet Jackson 's publicist said she may back out of Sunday's Grammy...
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For five decades, names like Ella Fitzgerald and Jimi Hendrix have blared out in neon letters above the doors of the Olympia concert hall.
The famed Paris concert hall...
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CBS, MTV, the NFL, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson are all sorry — but none of that is deterring the federal government from looking into the Super Bowl's...
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Elvis Presley is the all-time singles king in Britain, nearly a half-century after he first crashed into the pop chart here, according to a new list published...
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Attorneys for Diana Ross argued Thursday that a Superior Court judge should review a lower court's ruling that allows the pop diva's breath test results to be used in her...
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Everything old is new again.
For nine weeks, beginning in the Billboard for the week of
Oct. 4, remixes of Elvis Presley 's "Rubberneckin"' and the
Rolling Stones'...
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Drummer Tony Thompson, who died
in an Encino, Calif., hospital Wednesday, proved his
freewheeling musical approach at his first audition for Chic,
according to...
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Diana Ross didn't make any friends among animal-rights activists last week. The diva appeared at a high-profile fur show in New York City where she strutted down the catwalk...
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Marvin Gaye would have been 64 years old today (April 2). The musical legend was shot and killed by his father while trying to protect his mother during a domestic violence...
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Diana Ross is writing a new book about her life over the past decade, and it will reportedly include frank talk about her recent drunken driving arrest, the breakup of her...
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Diana Ross--who still faces charges of driving under the influence (DUI) after her December 30th arrest in Arizona--was pulled over in Greenwich, Connecticut, last weekend....
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Diana Ross's pre-trial appearance in a Tucson, Arizona court was rescheduled Friday (January 31) by a judge for March 12. The singer was not present, according to a court...
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Diana Ross is due in an Arizona court on Friday (January 31) for a hearing in which she'll face charges of alleged drunk driving--charges to which she has already pleaded...
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Nile Rodgers will thank Diana Ross for the work she's done on behalf of his We Are Family Foundation on Wednesday (January 29). Court-TV CEO Henry Schleiff will also be...
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Mary Wilson is one of the many artists showing their concern for Diana Ross following her December DUI arrest in Tucson, Arizona.
When asked if she's had a chance to speak...
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The one video that Diana Ross likely doesn't want the public to see--the videotape shot during her arrest for alleged drunk driving--will be released to the media as early...
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Diana Ross is scheduled to appear in court on January 31 for a hearing concerning the drunk-driving charges she received last month.
Ross was scheduled to be arraigned in...
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Diana Ross has pleaded innocent to charges of drunk driving and will not be required to appear in an Arizona court Monday (January 13) for her arraignment.
Ross's attorney,...
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Diana Ross has won a temporary restraining order against the city of Tucson and Tucson police, preventing them from releasing the video of the pop diva's December 30 arrest...
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Diana Ross claims she had gotten lost on her way to a video store on Monday (December 30) in Tucson, Arizona, when she was stopped and then arrested for suspicion of drunk...
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Singer Diana Ross was arrested Monday (December 30) on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol in Tucson, Arizona, according to reports.
Ross was arrested...
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The announcement of Diana Ross's summer tour cancellation last week was reportedly prompted by the singer's health problems.
Ross's reps at Creative Artists Agency (CAA)...
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Diana Ross has canceled the remaining dates on her summer tour. The former Supremes diva was due to kick off an 11-date outing August 9 with two shows at the Cerritos Center...
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Diana Ross checked herself into an addiction rehabilitation clinic in Malibu, California, more than 10 days ago, according to her publicist Paul Bloch. The former Supremes...
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More than 75 artists, actors, entertainers and athletes came together last weekend to participate in recording sessions for a remake of the Sister Sledge hit "We Are...
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Diana Ross and Clear Channel Entertainment (formerly SFX Entertainment) have issued a joint statement announcing their resolution of all outstanding issues regarding the...
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Ronnie Spector has a lot of positive things going on in her life these days. In June, Ronnie and the two other members of her Sixties girl group the Ronettes were awarded...
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Diana Ross is standing by her statement about the recent cancellation of the Supremes tour. Reports circulated Tuesday (July 11) that only selected dates of the tour had...
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Forget about Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. As far as Diana Ross was concerned, her Return To Love tour with the Supremes started in her hometown of Detroit -- or...
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Rumblings about slow ticket sales for the upcoming Diana Ross & The Supremes Return To Love tour, have been heard for weeks. Now LAUNCH has learned of a canceled date,...
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The Divas 2000 - A Tribute To Diana Ross performance, which airs tonight (April 11), hit a few technical snags during its four-plus hours of taping in New York on Sunday...
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Diana Ross is the featured performer at this year's Divas concert, which will tape on Sunday (April 9) in New York City. At the press conference announcing the Diana Ross &...
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Diana Ross wants everyone to know there's a reason the Supremes tour has a title. The outing will be called Return To Love, and at Tuesday's (April 4) press conference,...
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Diana Ross and
Supremes Lynda Laurence and Scherrie Payne announced plans for a summer tour at a press conference today (April 4) at one of the busiest spots in the...
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Diana Ross will announce the dates for her controversial summer reunion tour with the
Supremes Tuesday (April 4) at Grand Central Station in New York City. There's...
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It's official - Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong will not be involved in the upcoming Supremes reunion tour. Recent negotiations between Wilson, Birdsong, and
Diana Ross to...
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One of the great things about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is that it provides a venue for legendary performers to honor their peers. Such was the case last night (March...
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The prospects for this year's proposed
The Supremes reunion tour do not look good. Original plans called for
Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Cindy Birdsong to hit the road...
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**Diana Ross** and her husband of 14 years, Arne Naess, divorced on Friday (Feb. 11) in the Dominican Republic. Ross was not present in the Santo Domingo court where the...
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Pop legend Diana Ross spent a few hours cooling off in a London police station today after allegedly assaulting a female security officer during a standard security check...
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Anaid Films, the production company headed up by legendary diva Diana Ross, has announced plans to produce a new, four-hour miniseries for ABC that will chronicle the...
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A pop-music legend and one of today's brightest young stars--Diana Ross and Brandy--join forces in the TV movie Double Platinum, which airs Sunday. The film is about a...
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During a roundtable discussion with reporters in New York last week, Diana Ross broke away from trying to hype her new album Every Day Is A New Day and her TV movie with...
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Motown Records' 40th anniversary celebration will coincide with the auction of one-of-a-kind artifacts from artists who performed for the record label, including Marvin...
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Ewart G. Abner, who served as president of Motown and several influential R&B labels, died December 27th at age 74.
Abner's long career included stints at Vee Jay Records,...
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