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Back in February, Questlove debuted his documentary Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) at the Sundance Film Festival. The movie unearths lost footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, also known as the "Black Woodstock," which saw acts like Stevie Wonder, Sly & The Family Stone, and Nina Simone all perform.

final night of Knockout Rounds was so good, it had John Legend second-guessing himself!Blake Shelton pitted the 19-year-old singer against Connor Christian for his team's final showdown ahead of the season 20 live shows, but Cam proved that he was in a world of his own when he took the stage for his performance of «Feeling Good,» singing the version of the song made famous by the legendary Nina Simone.«My main thing for this round was to find something that I could lose myself in,» Cam said during rehearsals.

Questlove is gearing up for the release of his directorial debut with documentary Summer of Soul, and now a trailer for the anticipated film has been released.With a full title of Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), the documentary is about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969 – otherwise known as “the Black Woodstock” – which took place the same summer as Woodstock.The trailer initially premiered during the 93rd Academy Awards, which Questlove served as music producer for.Watch it below:Footage from the 1969 festival sat in a basement for 50 years, with performances from the likes of Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, B.B.

Soul picked up its second Oscar win of the night for Original Score and Jon Batiste called out Duke Ellington, Bach and Nina Simone in a stirring celebration speech.

Jon Burlingame The trio of composers behind Disney-Pixar’s “Soul” won the Oscar for best original score Sunday night. It was the first Academy Award for jazz artist Jon Batiste and the second for Nine Inch Nail rock writers-turned-film composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Finch.Batiste becomes only the second Black composer to clinch the original score award in the 86-year history of the category.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn 2002, when Halle Berry won the Oscar for her performance in “Monster’s Ball,” becoming the first African American woman to take home the Academy Award for best actress, after 30 seconds of convulsive tears she said, “This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll…And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance, because this door tonight has been opened.” To have achieved something by standing on the shoulders of others is a profound feeling.

Deshawn Goncalves delivered a heavenly performance on the latest episode of “American Idol”.

first number one on the UK Albums Chart with her debut project Not Your Muse last month. Not since Jess Glynne topped the charts in 2015 has a British female singer achieved this feat.

Brittany Howard has released a cover of Jackie Wilson’s ‘(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher’.Howard’s cover remains fairly loyal to Wilson’s original version, which was released in the late ’60s. The new cover was recorded exclusively for Amazon Music and is only available through the streaming service.Listen to the cover below:Howard’s cover of ‘Higher & Higher’ follows her rendition of Nina Simone’s ‘Revolution’, which she performed in November for Colbert.Howard released her debut solo album, ‘Jaime’, back in 2019.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Shaka King tasked singer and songwriter H.E.R to bring home the end of “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Her challenge was what tone to go for.The original song contender “Fight For You” is a hopeful one. As a fan of Fred Hampton’s story, the songwriter knew she could make a masterpiece drawing on artists such as Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone and Sly and the Family Stone.

CHARLOTTE Crosby stripped to her lingerie for a very cheeky video promoting a sex toy. The former Geordie Shore star was sure to command many of her fans' attention with the risqué post, which she shared on her Instagram last night.

Chris Willman Music WriterThe part-documentary/part-drama “The Social Dilemma” deals in part with the spell that Silicon Valley tech companies have cast over a willingly mesmerized populace, and so Nina Simone’s version of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ classic “I Put a Spell on You” was brought in as a musical accent mark for the film. For the soundtrack album, producers thought that maybe a new and lyrically updated version of the tune could be hypnotic in its own right.That led to recruiting the surprising team of Brandi Carlile, the singer/songwriter who has come to be a recent Grammy queen, and Renée Elise Goldsberry, the singer and actor best known for her Tony-winning performances as the fiery Angelica Schuyler.

Two days after picking up Sundance’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize, Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) has been picked up by Searchlight and Hulu.

Not many people know his name, but half a century ago Tony Lawrence created something extraordinary in the middle of New York City. And few people know the name Hal Tulchin, but he documented the feat.

virtual Sundance Film Festival on Thursday, documents the shockingly little-known Harlem Cultural Festival that took place in the summer of 1969. The free festival, which included star headliners such as Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight & the Pips, was born out of the social and political unrest that was sweeping the country at the time.“As far as seeing the state of how things are now, it definitely was not lost on us that the very circumstances that caused that concert to be in the first place, kind of the question of safety and civil unrest in the air and all those things, that 50 years later the same exact thing was happening,” Amir “Questlove” Thompson, 50, said in a Q&A following the premiere.

During the same summer as Woodstock in 1969, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and more played a series of free concerts in Harlem intended to be a celebration of Black pride. Called the Harlem Cultural Festival and attended by more than 300,000 people, the shows were largely forgotten, and the recordings languished in a basement for decades.

Whoops! Chrissy Teigen will think twice before chewing on a Fruit Roll-Up again. The 35-year-old model and cookbook author took a break from posting about Inauguration Day festivities to share that she had suffered a dental setback.

Chrissy Teigen will think twice before chewing on a Fruit Roll-Up again.

John Legend is celebrating Joe Biden officially becoming the new President of the United States!

After helping President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in 2020, John Legend was happy to perform for them during the TV special, “Celebrating America”, which aired on Wednesday, Inauguration Day.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail in 2020, John Legend was happy to perform for them during the TV special,, which aired on Wednesday, Inauguration Day.Legend performed seated at a piano at the foot of the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and belted out a flawless cover of the soulful Nina Simone classic «Feeling Good.»The notably optimistic song choice seemed to reflect the beaming Legend's mood following the swearing in of Biden and Harris earlier in the day.«It's a new dawn/ It's a new day/ It's a new life for me/ and I'm feelin' good,» Legend sang with a smile, as the iconic memorial gleamed in the background.Legend also performed for Biden the day before voting day, Nov.