Category Archives: Singer

Former Beatle Ringo Starr on his new album

By doris | Published: February 5, 2012

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Ringo Starr walks into the hotel suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel carrying a brown paper bag. It’s his sack lunch, and he’s packed it himself. He’s also driven himself to the hotel and arrived alone — no entourage, no bodyguard, no assistant, no fuss. It’s fitting that CNN’s [...]

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Michael Jackson’s children cement his legacy

By doris | Published: January 29, 2012

Full Story at TODAYEntertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com Late pop star Michael Jackson was immortalized in cement on Thursday when his three children stamped the “Thriller” singer’s glove and shoe prints in the hallowed concrete courtyard of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Well over a hundred fans of the King of Pop and celebrities including Justin Bieber and Jackson [...]

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Hospital must pay Garth Brooks $1 million

By doris | Published: January 25, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com An Oklahoma hospital in Garth Brooks’ hometown must pay $1 million to the country singer because it failed to build a women’s health center in honor of his late mother, jurors ruled Tuesday evening. Jurors ruled that the hospital must return a $500,000 donation to Brooks plus pay him $500,000 in [...]

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Singer Etta James dies at 73

By doris | Published: January 22, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com Etta James’ performance of the enduring classic “At Last” was the embodiment of refined soul: Angelic-sounding strings harkened the arrival of her passionate yet measured vocals as she sang tenderly about a love finally realized after a long and patient wait. In real life, little about James was as genteel as [...]

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Brooks chokes up testifying about hospital gift

By doris | Published: January 21, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Country singer Garth Brooks told jurors Friday that he believed he had a “done deal” to honor his late mother with a women’s health center in his Oklahoma hometown, and said he still doesn’t understand how he received nothing for a $500,000 gift. Brooks is suing Integris [...]

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‘American Idol’ Returns for Season 11

By doris | Published: January 18, 2012

Full Story at ABCNews.go.com It’s Ba-a-a-ck! The 11th season of “American Idol” arrives on Fox tonight, and host Ryan Seacrest says for some viewers, the return can’t come soon enough. “I’ve been hearing a lot of ‘We can’t wait,’” Seacrest told ABC News Radio. “Actually, I’ve been hearing more ‘I can’t wait for ‘American Idol [...]

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Best Bets: ‘American Idol’ turns on the music

By doris | Published: January 17, 2012

Full Story at  Entertainment.msnbc.msn.com The biggest reality show of the year cranks up the music again this week, as “American Idol” returns. Some thought the singing competition could never survive the loss of Simon Cowell, but judges Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler proved them wrong. This week kicks off with the infamous auditions, [...]

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Perry, ‘Potter’ win big at People’s Choice Awards

By doris | Published: January 12, 2012

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katy Perry is in the popular clique now. The singer-actress won the most People’s Choice Awards at Wednesday’s 38th annual fan-favorite extravaganza, but viewers wouldn’t have known it from watching the ceremony. An absentee Perry was honored in five categories, including favorite female artist, tour headliner, song of [...]

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Peter Frampton reunited with guitar 31 years after plane crash

By doris | Published: January 5, 2012

Full Story at Entertainment.msnbc.com Peter Frampton has an axe to grind. A long lost axe. The legendary guitarist has been reunited with his prized Gibson electric guitar 31 years after it was presumed lost in a cargo plane crash in Caracas, Venezuela. Frampton, who used the black 1954 Gibson Les Paul on the 1976 solo [...]

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Fred Milano of Dion and the Belmonts dies at 72

By doris | Published: January 4, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK (AP) — Fred Milano, who made rock and roll history on doo-wop hits with Dion and the Belmonts in the 1950s and continued to perform while starting a late-in-life career with the New York City Department of Correction, has died. He was 72. Milano died Sunday, three weeks after [...]

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