Lady Gaga, Travis Scott, Dua Lipa, St. Vincent, Mark Ronson, Yolanda Adams, Fantasia, Andra Day and Chloe x Halle all joined the performance line-up for the 2019 Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy tweeted the latest announcements on Wednesday. Lady Gaga will perform with Ronson — and though no specific song …
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You were instructed to call her “Ms. Franklin.” In 2014, Aretha Franklin sat for her last extensive Rolling Stone interview to promote 2014’s Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, her first project in years with her former Arista Records boss Clive Davis.The timing of the interview was unfortunate: it …
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The trappings are all there: the smattering of polite applause, the tinkling piano laying out the chord changes of a familiar tune — Erroll Garner’s “Misty,” in this case. But with the entrance of the singer, something shifts; suddenly the record isn’t jazz as usual. Aretha Franklin lands on an …
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Elton John hosted a gala in New York City on Tuesday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his AIDS foundation. Luminaries from politics (former President Bill Clinton, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo), pop (Maxwell, Billy Joel), and film (Glenn Close, Alec Baldwin) attended the event, according to the Associated Press, …
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