Gregory Porter: Last News

The Cure, Jessie Ware, Scissor Sisters and more will be featured on ‘War Child Presents Secret 7”.The charity initiative, which first launched in 2012, takes seven tracks by seven musicians and presses each one to seven inch vinyl 100 times, creating 700 records.The sleeves for each are then designed by 700 creatives, ranging from renowned artists to newcomers. All sleeves will then be available to purchase via auction after the exhibition.

After another exciting round of dancing from all 15 of this year's contestants, Layton Williams and Nikita Kuzmin topped the Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard with a score of 65 points! The exciting development came after the duo performed a Quickstep to Puttin’ on the Ritz by Gregory Porter, something which saw them receive high praise from the judges, with Motsi Mabuse even branding the performance the "dance of the night." However, despite their success, another star was hot on Layton’s heels, as Amanda Abbington and Giovanni Pernice only narrowly missed out on the top spot with a score of 61. The latest leaderboard shake up comes just one week on since the debut live show of the season, which saw Nigel Harman beat some stiff competition to score 32 points with his first dance.

Teyana Taylor has criticised Grammys bosses for failing to shortlist any female artists in the Best R&B Album category for next year’s awards.The nominations were unveiled on Tuesday, with John Legend’s ‘Bigger Love’, Giveon’s ‘Take Time’, ‘All Rise’ by Gregory Porter, ‘To Feel Love/d ‘by Luke James and Ant Clemons’ ‘Happy 2 Be’ Here all receiving nods for Best R&B Album.But Teyana, who released her third record ‘The Album’ earlier this year, was among those to criticise their omission from the list.Sharing the Recording Academy’s nominations , she wrote on Twitter: “Y’all was better off just saying best MALE R&B ALBUM cause all I see is dick in this category.”Responding to one fan who jumped to her defence, she wrote: “HA! i don’t think