Category Archives: Singer

Singer, actress Kaye Stevens dies in Florida

By doris | Published: January 1, 2012

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Singer and actress Kaye Stevens, who performed with the Rat Pack and was a frequent guest on Johnny Carson’s “The Tonight Show,” has died at a central Florida hospital. She was 79. Close friend Gerry Schweitzer confirmed that Stevens died Wednesday at the Villages Hospital north [...]

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Swift releases ‘Hunger Games’ song: ‘Safe and Sound’

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at MarqueeBlog.CNN.com When she’s not busy winning awards or working on her upcoming album, Taylor Swift has been lending her talents to the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games.” The 22-year-old country star tweeted a link to the single, titled “Safe and Sound,” on Thursday, teasing, “Something I’ve been VERY excited about for a [...]

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Unborn son’s struggle inspires Christian singer

By doris | Published: December 25, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com PERRYSBURG, Ohio (AP) — Told that his unborn son had only half a heart and little chance to survive, the lead singer of the Christian rock band Sanctus Real began pouring his fears and doubts into music. The songs were meant to comfort his family while they searched for answers and [...]

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Grammy-winning singer Cesaria Evora dies at age 70

By doris | Published: December 24, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com LISBON, Portugal — Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in the bayside bars of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy in 2003 after she took her African islands music to stages across the world, died Saturday. She was 70. Evora, known as the “Barefoot Diva” because [...]

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Sold! Auction sells furnishings from Michael Jackson’s last house

By doris | Published: December 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Los Angeles (CNN) — A mirror that Michael Jackson looked into as he dressed in his final months and onto which he scribbled a message to himself sold for $18,750 at auction in Beverly Hills this weekend. Julien’s Auctions sold 524 items that furnished the 100 North Carolwood mansion in Los [...]

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Neil Diamond discusses new CD & his best year yet

By doris | Published: December 13, 2011

Full Story atnews.Yahoo.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — Neil Diamond has been a hit maker for more than four decades, but the 70-year-old singer-songwriter says that when he’s alone in his studio, he sometimes wonders who will hear his music. The answer, of course, is almost everyone, as evidenced by a stellar year that saw the [...]

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Michael Jackson household items set for auction

By doris | Published: December 9, 2011

Full Story at Scoop.today.msnbc.msn.com Michael Jackson spent his final days in a beautifully appointed private home that was not his own. But the fact that they were his final days now potentially can turn into a financial bonanza for the house’s actual owners, who are selling off over 600 items the late singer and his [...]

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Jon McLaughlin releases “Forever If Ever”

By doris | Published: December 6, 2011

Full Story at CBS News Singer-songwriter Jon McLaughlin recently released third CD debuted at the top of iTunes’ singer/songwriter top 200 albums chart. Chances are you’ve heard the charming Midwestern guy’s music in films and on television. In fact, in 2008, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his hit “So Close” from the [...]

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Jack Wagner reunites with long lost daughter

By doris | Published: November 27, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (PEOPLE.com) — There may be an extra place setting around Jack Wagner’s dinner table this holiday season — and not just because he and longtime girlfriend Heather Locklear are no longer together. Wagner, 52, discovered earlier this month that he has a long-lost 23-year-old daughter from a “fling” he had with [...]

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Former ‘Idol’ Lauren Alaina flubs national anthem

By doris | Published: November 25, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msn.com She performed live in front of a television audience of millions week in and week out on Season 10 of “American Idol,” but at the Detroit Lions/Green Bay Packers game on Thanksgiving, Lauren Alaina’s nerves got the best of her as she flubbed the National Anthem. Unlike Christina Aguilera, who, at [...]

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