Aretha Franklin: Last News

Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with jazz great Louis Armstrong as headliner.“It was terrific … They loved me,” Uggams, now 81, told The Post about her 20-minute act, which included singing, tap-dancing and impressions. “I remember one of the songs was ‘When You’re Smiling.’ And another song was ‘Exactly Like You.’ And also ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street.’ ”The Harlem native — who earned her coveted spot on the Apollo stage by repeatedly winning a radio contest — wasn’t even nervous about not getting the local love when she was known as “Little Leslie Uggams.”“I was a ham,” she said with a laugh.

the O.G. pop diva Diana Ross — The Boss — and her classic queer anthem “I’m Coming Out.”Miss Ross was my first crush long before I realized what “coming out” meant in the LGBTQ community.

Abbi Jacobson and Jodi Balfour are officially married after four years together!

Britain’s Got Talent fans were left confused after a message appeared at the end of Saturday night’s episode. The ITV show was once more on our screens as judges Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden, Bruno Tonioli and Simon Cowell looked for the UK’s next star.

Fans of Britain's Got Talent have questioned if the show is a "fix" after discovering a Golden Buzzer act has worked with a major pop star. Viewers are debating the fairness of the popular ITV talent show after it was revealed that the act had previously appeared on another television programme.The hit talent show made its comeback this Saturday, featuring a medley of acts from around the country.

A special educational needs teacher has wowed the nation and earned the golden buzzer from Bruno Tonioli on Britain's Got Talent, thanks to her 'unique' vocal talent.Taryn Charles, a 39 year old teacher who integrates music into her work with students with special educational needs, left everyone in awe with her powerful rendition of Aretha Franklin's hit (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman during Saturday's show.The audience and judges were were upstanding, showering Taryn with applause, as Bruno hailed her as a "very special person". Before her performance, the Surrey-based singer shared that her passion is to "make people smile" and she believes her voice is "all right".

Britain’s Got Talent viewers questioned judge Bruno Tonioli’s decision to hit the golden buzzer during Saturday night’s episode of the ITV show. It came after teacher Taryn Charles wowed the audience with her audition.

The cast of A Different World has reunited for a national tour of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). During a stop in Washington, D.C., hosted by Howard College, they appeared at the White House to meet Vice President Kamala Harris and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Diego Ramos Bechara editor Grammy-nominated R&B group New Edition will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame on March 16 when the awards return for its 55th installment — with Queen Latifah set to host. Recognized as one of the most distinguished multicultural award shows, the ceremony aims to “uplift values” that inspire equality, justice and progressive change while highlighting artists “committed” to those values, says the NAACP.

Josh Homme has announced his one-night-only ‘Josh Homme & Friends’ benefit gig with Dave Grohl, Matt Helders, Beck and more.The Queens Of The Stone Age frontman took to the band’s official social media accounts to share the details of the benefit gig. Taking place on March 20 at The Belasco in Los Angeles, California, ‘Josh Homme & Friends’ will be held in support of the Sweet Stuff Foundation.Other acts set to perform include The Kills, Jesse Hughes, Bill Burr, St.

Saturday Night Live set its sights on The Floor, Fox’s new game show hosted by Rob Lowe that has contestants facing off in a series of quiz duels.

Todd Gilchrist editor From a filmmaker’s perspective, it’s always fortuitous when the name of an artist’s signature work encapsulates the journey that they made in their life and career. What else to call a film about Johnny Cash? “Walk the Line,” of course.

according to Billboard.The deal would also be the biggest ever for the work of a single musician, the BBC reported.Jackson, who died in 2009, remains immensely popular on music streaming services like Spotify, where he averages 40 million monthly listeners.Just two of his countless hits, “Billie Jean” and “Beat It,” have each been played more than one billion times on Spotify alone, according to the BBC.The deal comes just as an upcoming biopic about Jackson’s life and career starring his nephew is set to hit the big screen next year.The deal also reportedly includes tracks by other artists that had been acquired by Jackson’s Mijac publishing group — including hit songs by Ray Charles, Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, the BBC reported.The Jackson deal is as big or bigger than the $1.2 billion deal sought by Queen, which includes royalties for streams and other uses like the Freddy Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and theatrical productions, according to Billboard.Sony’s deal with Jackson’s estate does not include royalties from the Broadway play and other theatrical productions featuring his music, the outlet reported.Sony paid $100 million in 1991 to buy the first half of what became Sony/ATV— ATV being the catalog that Jackson purchased in 1985 that included the Beatles catalog, according to Billboard.

Luther Vandross‘ voice was the soundtrack of many Black millennial childhoods. Personally, I would wake up every Sunday to church music followed by his hit single “Never Too Much” which still stops most people in their tracks to this day. In the documentary, Luther: Never Too Much, director Dawn Porter chronicles a his journey to stardom and how he manifested the career he desired.

Todd Gilchrist editor Although it isn’t structured any differently from dozens of other cradle-to-grave documentaries about artistic luminaries, “Luther: Never Too Much” sheds light on much more than just the life and career of R&B singer Luther Vandross. Drawn largely from interview and performance footage of Vandross over his almost 40 years in entertainment, and bolstered and contextualized by retrospective talks will collaborators and confidantes, director Dawn Porter’s film exposes some uneasy truths about the music industry and the media we may now know, but whose seeming ubiquitousness at the time he was alive may be difficult to fully comprehend.

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Pete Davidson is revealing new details about the Aretha Franklin funeral in his new special.

Omg. He didn’t?!?

Pete Davidson has revealed that he was high on ketamine when he attended Aretha Franklin‘s funeral.During his new one-hour-long Netflix special Turbo Fonzerelli (released January 9), the comedian explained (via the Independent): “I was on a drug for the past two and [a] half, three years called Ketamine. What a time.”He continued: “It’s embarrassing when you’re not on ketamine anymore, though… I’m embarrassed. I was out and about like that.

ketamine — the drug that wasin Matthew Perry’s system at the time of his death — while attending Aretha Franklin’s 2018 funeral. Davidson, who attended the Queen of Soul’s service with his then-fiancée Ariana Grande, recalled the experience in his new Netflix special “Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli,” which hit the streamer Tuesday.“It’s embarrassing when you’re not on ketamine anymore, though… I’m embarrassed,” he started. “I was out and about like that.

Maya Jama has touched down in Cape Town, South Africa ahead of the Love Island All Stars launch.The spin-off show will start on Monday, 15 January, and it will see some old Love Island stars from across all series enter a villa for a second chance at love. Maya, 29, is once again the host of the show and she's already in South Africa, as she gave her fans plenty of updates from her journey.