Julianne Hough says she won’t be coming back to “Dancing With The Stars” next season. She tells Ryan Seacrest that she really wants to focus on her music and “be taken seriously.” She says it’s hard to be on “Dancing With The Stars” and be singing at the same time. But her personal life...
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In her first album since 2004, Brandy is singing in the rain – literally! The soulful singer got drenched shooting her music video for “Long Distance,” a brand new single from her upcoming album, Human. Debuting Dec. 9, the album also includes her hit single “Right Here (Departed).” According to Brandy, Human is her...
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Then there was her genre: contemporary country. It’s probably not news that there isn’t a whole lot of great songwriting coming out of Nashville these days. Yet Taylor Swift is not just another pretty face with a pretty voice singing pretty little twang-pop ditties. Her sophomore album, “Fearless,” is definitely “pop” and there is...
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There’ll be no more kidding around for 50 Cent. At least, not in court. The rapper and his former girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, have reached a settlement in their ongoing and bitter custody dispute over 11-year-old son Marquise, announcing this morning they have managed to broker a visitation schedule outside of court, thus avoiding the...
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Hundreds of people paid their last respects on Saturday to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba, whose death last weekend plunged South Africa into mourning. The public memorial in a Johannesburg concert hall drew some of South Africa’s most prominent politicians, musicians and artists who used song and poetry to hail the woman...
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