Category Archives: R&B News

Mariah, Miley, Beyonce Join Voices to Fight Cancer

August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Ciara, Mariah Carey, Mary J Blige, Music, Pop News, R&B News, Rihanna

What would it sound like if 15 of the hottest female singers joined voices? The answer will be revealed Sept. 2.
That’s when “Just Stand Up” hits airwaves and iTunes. The song features Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, [...]

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Bobby Brown Sued Over Big Legal Bill

August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Bobby Brown, R&B News, Whitney Houston

Every little step Bobby Brown takes these days leads him back to court.
The erstwhile King of New Jack Swing is being sued by his former divorce attorneys for allegedly failing to pay a $90,217 legal tab covering expenses related to his divorce battle with ex-wife Whitney Houston.
The complaint, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court [...]

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Hollywood Joins Memphis for a Farewell to Isaac Hayes

August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Isaac Hayes, Music, R&B News

It was easy to tell the Hollywood Scientologists from the Memphis music people as they passed the gantlet of television cameras and entered the suburban Memphis megachurch to pay tribute to Isaac Hayes. They were on the whole paler and skinnier and showed rather more cleavage than is considered properly funereal here in the South.

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Soul Icon Isaac Hayes Dies in Memphis At 65

August 11th, 2008 | Posted in Isaac Hayes, Music, R&B News

Oscar-winning soul singer Isaac Hayes who, along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black artists in the early 1970s, died in Memphis on Sunday. He was 65.
His friend and former manager, Onzie Horne, told Reuters he spoke to Hayes’ wife, Adjowa, who confirmed that Hayes had died.
Hayes, [...]

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Lawsuit: Blige Stole Tunes, Including IPod Ad

August 8th, 2008 | Posted in Mary J Blige, Music, R&B News

Mary J. Blige has been sued in New York for $2 million by a company that says she stole some of the music she used on her latest hit album, including one used on an iPod commercial.
The Drama Family Entertainment company filed the lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The lawsuit claims the [...]

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