A two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of singer Whitney Houston. Oct. 7. Tim Johnson, 77. The former U.S. senator was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South...
the guard sang out, as loud as he could roar. "Yo there! Stand! I shall fire!" The pace was suddenly checked, and, with much splashing and floundering, a man's voice called from the mist, "Is that the Dover mail" "Never you mind what it is!" the guard retorted. "What are ...
Though she sang gospel in church and worked as a backup singer, her career did not take off until she was 40, with the release of a single, “Damn It’s Hot.” As she sang on “I’m Still Here,” despite her show-stopping talent, she was continuously turned down by music executive...
Despite his success in comedy, Henry admitted in the 2009 bookAnd Here's The Kicker(viaVulture) that he doesn't actually watch comedy much. "I just don't find comedy as interesting as the forms that I don't do myself," he said, adding, "It's harder to make me laugh than it is...
When I sang this part live on stage, I would often become furious, thrashing at my guitar until I could thrash no more, frantically forgiving my mother, her lover, my grandmother, her lovers, and most of all myself." ---Chapter Nine, Acid in the Air "Seeing Jimi play for the first...
Between 2008 and 2010, Evancho entered talent competitions, sang the US national anthem at a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game, issued her first album, Prelude to a Dream, and attracted interest on YouTube. In 2010, at the age of ten, she gained wide notice with her 2nd-place finish in...
Brian Alford first met Colin Day when they both sang in a Fulham church choir but Brian would first pursue a career in music with his own youth club band called ‘The Shadows’ (no not that one) before John White and him broke away as a duo called The Shadows brothers’. They ...
Cavaliere sang vocals on six of their successful singles and played the Hammond B-3 organ. Age: 82 Birthplace: USA, New York Maria Sansone VJ, Actor Maria Grace Sansone (born February 26, 1981 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American television personality. Sansone co-anchored Good Day LA ...
Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but I'm trying to figure out how the news on this wasn't shoved in front of me more. Swifties are always on top of each and every move of Taylor Swift so I am sure more, if not all of you already know that Taylor Swift is going on tour. Th...
For now.” Having chosen Ricky Skaggs to produce—he also played several instruments and sang background—she found herself facing “a lot of flak. Ricky hadn’t had any hot records in a while, this was an important album for me, so everybody kept sayin’, ‘Why Ricky Skaggs? And I ...