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Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta (
/ətˈlæntə/, stressed /ætˈlæntə/, locally /ætˈlænə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia with a 2010 population of 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest in the U.S. It is a major component of a growing southeastern megalopolis known as the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion. Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County.
Atlanta began as a settlement located at the terminus of a railroad line, and it was incorporated in 1845. Today, the city is a major business city and the primary transportation hub of the Southeastern United States (via highway, railroad, and air), with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport since 1998. The World Cities Study Group at Loughborough University rated Atlanta as an "alpha(-) world city." With a gross domestic product of US$270 billion, Atlanta's economy ranks 15th among world cities and sixth in the nation. The city is a center for services, finance, information technology, government, and higher education. Metro Atlanta contains the country's third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies, and is the world headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, AT&T Mobility, UPS, and Delta Air Lines. As of 2010, Atlanta is the seventh most visited city in the United States, with over 35 million visitors per year.
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Los Angeles area
The Greater Los Angeles Area or the Southland is a term used for the Combined Statistical Area (a group of interacting metropolitan areas) sprawling over five counties in the southern part of California, namely Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Ventura counties. It has been one of the fastest growing regions in the United States for decades, first in Los Angeles County, then in Orange County, and currently in the Inland Empire area. As of 2005, the official estimate of the population of the Los Angeles metropolitan area is more than 12.9 million, while in 2009 the larger five-county region had a population of over 17.6 million. Either definition makes it the second-largest core-based statistical area in the country, behind the New York metropolitan area.
The agglomeration of the urbanized Greater Los Angeles area surrounds the urban core of the county of Los Angeles, California. The urban term[clarification needed] is defined to refer to the more-or-less continuously urbanized area stretching from Ventura to the southern border of Orange County, and from the Pacific Ocean to the Inland Empire. The Greater Los Angeles area is generally taken to include the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the Inland Empire, and Ventura County - all part of the Census Bureau defined Combined Statistical Area. The term "Greater Los Angeles" does not include San Diego and Imperial counties, whose urbanized areas are not geographically continuous with the urbanized area surrounding Los Angeles. Rather, San Diego is part of the San Diego–Tijuana urban area.
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African-American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States that have ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.
African Americans make up the single largest racial minority in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States. However, some immigrants from African, Caribbean, Central American or South American nations, or their descendants, may be identified or self-identify with the term.
African-American history starts in the 16th century with African slaves who quickly rose up against the Spanish explorer Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón and progresses to the present day, with Barack Obama as the 44th and current President of the United States. Between those landmarks there have been events and issues, both resolved and ongoing, including slavery, racism, Reconstruction, development of the African-American community, participation in the great military conflicts of the United States, racial segregation, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Keys was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
Keys' debut album, Songs in A Minor, was a commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide. She became the best-selling new artist and best-selling R&B artist of 2001. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002, including Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Fallin'". Her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003 and was also another success worldwide, selling eight million copies. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005. Later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, which debuted at number one in the United States. She became the first female to have an MTV Unplugged album to debut at number one and the highest since Nirvana in 1994.
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Beyonce
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (née Beyoncé Giselle Knowles; September 4, 1981), known mononymously as Beyoncé ( /biˈjɒnseɪ/ bee-YON-say), is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. Knowles rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time.
During the hiatus of Destiny's Child, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in 2003, which spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100—"Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy"—and became one of the most successful albums of that year, earning her a then record-tying five Grammy Awards. Following the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Knowles released her second solo album, B'Day, in 2006, which spawned the top 10 singles "Déjà Vu", "Irreplaceable" and "Beautiful Liar". Her third solo album I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), spawned the hit singles "If I Were a Boy", "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", "Halo" and "Sweet Dreams". The album helped Knowles earn six Grammys in 2010, breaking the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. Knowles' fourth solo album, 4 (2011), became her fourth consecutive number one album on the Billboard 200 as a solo artist. This made her the third artist in history to have her first four studio albums debut atop the chart.
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Ciara
Ciara Princess Harris (born October 25, 1985), known mononymously as Ciara, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and fashion model. Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during her childhood, only to land in Atlanta, Georgia where she met music producer Jazze Pha. With his help, she signed a record deal with LaFace Records.
In 2004, Ciara released her debut studio album Goodies, which debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 and included the hit singles "Goodies", "1, 2 Step" and "Oh". The album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and earned her four nominations at the 48th Grammy Awards. She released her second studio album Ciara: The Evolution in 2006, which spawned the hit singles "Get Up", "Promise" and "Like a Boy". The album reached number one in the US and was certified platinum. Her third studio album Fantasy Ride, released in May 2009, was considerably less successful than Ciara's first two albums. However, it produced the worldwide top-ten hit "Love Sex Magic" featuring Justin Timberlake, which earned her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. The following year, Ciara released her fourth studio album Basic Instinct, which was met with low sales and continued a downward trend in her commercial success. In 2011, she signed a new record deal with Epic Records.
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Dorian Gregory
Dorian Gregory (born January 26, 1971) is an American actor most notable for playing Darryl Morris on the television show Charmed, and as the fourth and final permanent host of Soul Train, replacing Shemar Moore.
Dorian was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Cleveland, Ohio until age nine when he and his family moved to Los Angeles, California. Gregory began his acting career with guest roles on such series as Baywatch, Beverly Hills, 90210, Sister, Sister, among others. He played his first major role in Baywatch Nights, where he belonged to the regular cast from 1996-97.
In 1998, Dorian Gregory received the role of the police officer Darryl Morris in the successful series Charmed, which he played until 2005. In 2002, he replaced cosmetic surgeon Jan Adams as one of the hosts of the male-oriented daytime talk show, The Other Half, which was cancelled the following year.[citation needed]
He has hosted several events like BET Anniversary and Achievement Awards with Debbie Allen and Shirley Moore, Black Stuntwomen Beach Competition, and Elite Lee Jeans Model Look with Roshumba Williams and Angelica Bridges. He has also hosted a radio show on Black Writers, supports minority Film Makers, appeared at high school dedication to support better educational opportunities. He is a founding member of Epiphany Theater Group, established by writer/producer/director Bill Duke.[citation needed]. In 2010, Gregory made an impromptu appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in the "Jaywalking segment". Jay Leno was apparently unaware of who Gregory was until he informed him.
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Everette Harp
Everette Harp (born August 17, 1961 in Houston, Texas), is an African American blues, jazz and gospel saxophonist who has recorded on Blue Note and Capitol Records. Harp's 2006 album, In the Moment, debuted in the number one position of Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart.
Everette Harp started playing piano at two, and began practicing saxophone at the age of four. The youngest of the eight children of a minister, gospel music was one of Harp's earliest influences. Harp started playing jazz in high school, and graduated from North Texas State University with a music major in the early 1980s. While there he joined Phi Beta Sigma. Working as an accountant for a short time, Harp played in local Houston bands, most notably a local jazz/funk group called The Franchise, which released its own album locally, which included the first recording of Harp's "There's Always Hope" in 1987. Harp moved to Los Angeles in 1988. He immediately toured briefly with Teena Marie, and then internationally with Anita Baker. In 1992, Harp released his self-titled solo debut.
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Gamble and Huff
Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and record production team who have written and produced over 170 gold and platinum records. They were pioneers of Philadelphia soul and the in-house creative team for the Philadelphia International Records label. On March 10, 2008 the team was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the non-performer category.
Kenneth Gamble's childhood in Philadelphia shaped his adult life: he recorded himself on various arcade recording machines, assisted the morning show DJs on WDAS, operated a record store, and sang with The Romeos. In 1964, before there was "Gamble & Huff" there was "Gamble & Ross." Gamble was discovered and managed by Jerry Ross when Gamble was only 17 years old and they collaborated for many years. Gamble teamed up with Leon Huff (keyboards) for the first time on a recording for Candy & The Kisses. Ross then signed Gamble to Columbia Records in 1963 as a solo recording artist, releasing "You Don't Know What You Got Until You Lose It". Gamble & Ross & Huff collaborated on the hit song "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me", recorded by Dee Dee Warwick and later by Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations.
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George Duke
George Duke (born 12 January 1946 in San Rafael, California) is a multi-faceted American musician, known as a keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer in both jazz and popular mainstream musical genres. He has worked with numerous acclaimed artists as arranger, music director, writer and co-writer, record producer and professor of music. He first made a name for himself with the album The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio. He is known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums as well as for his collaborations with other musicians, particularly Frank Zappa.
Duke attended Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley before earning a bachelor's degree in trombone and composition with a minor in contrabass, from the San Francisco Conservatory in 1967. Playing initially with friends from garages to local clubs, Duke quickly eased his way into session work, which refined his abilities and expanded his approach to music. (He later earned his Masters Degree in composition from San Francisco State University. His website mentions a short stint teaching a course on Jazz And American Culture at Merritt Junior College in Oakland). Beginning in 1967 Duke experimented further with jazz fusion, playing and recording with violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, as well as performing with the Don Ellis Orchestra, and Cannonball Adderley's band, while he acquainted himself with the avantgarde musician Frank Zappa. Duke appeared on a number of Frank Zappa's albums in the early and mid-1970s, including Chunga's Revenge, 200 Motels, Waka/Jawaka, The Grand Wazoo, Apostrophe, Over-Nite Sensation, One Size Fits All, Bongo Fury and Roxy & Elsewhere.
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years. The youngest child of the Jackson family, she began her career with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976 and went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
After signing a recording contract with A&M in 1982, she came to prominence following the release of her third studio album Control (1986). Her collaborations with record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis incorporated elements of rhythm and blues, funk, disco, rap, and industrial beats, which led to crossover appeal in popular music. In addition to receiving recognition for the innovation in her records, choreography, music videos, and prominence on radio airplay and MTV, she was acknowledged as a role model for her socially conscious lyrics.
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King Curtis
Curtis Ousley (February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophone virtuoso known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, funk and soul jazz. He was adopted, alongside with his adopted sister, Josephine Ousley Allen. They both grew up in Texas, together. Variously a bandleader, band member, and session musician, he was also a musical director and record producer. Adept at tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, he was best known for his distinctive riffs and solos such as on "Yakety Yak", which later became the inspiration for Boots Randolph's "Yakety Sax" and his own "Memphis Soul Stew".
King Curtis started playing saxophone at the age of twelve in the Fort Worth area. Josephine, took interest in him, knowing that she was also into music and singing as well. He took interest in many musical genres including jazz, rhythm and blues, and popular music. As a student pursuing music he turned down college scholarships in order to join the Lionel Hampton Band. During his time with Lionel Hampton he was able to write and arrange music and learn guitar. In 1952 Curtis decided to move to New York and became a session musician, recording for such labels as Prestige, Enjoy, Capitol, and Atco. He recorded with Nat Adderley and Wynton Kelly,Buddy Holly and Andy Williams.
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Luther Vandross
Luther Vandross (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times. He won four Grammy Awards in 2004 including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the track "Dance with My Father", co-written with Richard Marx.
Luther Vandross was born on April 20, 1951 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, United States. He was the fourth child and second son to Mary Ida Vandross and Luther Vandross, Sr.
Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City in the NYCHA Alfred E. Smith Houses public housing development, Vandross began playing the piano at the age of three. He grew up in a musical family that moved to the Bronx when he was thirteen. His sister, Patricia, sang with the vocal group The Crests, who had a number two hit in 1958 with "16 Candles", though she left the group before the recording. Vandross's father died of diabetes when Vandross was eight years old. Luther Vandross was in a high school group, Shades of Jade, that once played at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He was also a member of a theater workshop, "Listen My Brother" who released the singles "Only Love Can Make a Better World" and "Listen My Brother", and appeared on the second and fifth episodes of Sesame Street in November 1969.
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Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey. The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records, including Emotions (1991), Music Box (1993) and Merry Christmas (1994), established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. Daydream (1995), made music history when the second single, "One Sweet Day" a duet with Boyz II Men, spent a record sixteen weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, and remains the longest running number one song in US chart history. During the recording of the album Carey began to deviate from her pop background, and slowly traversed into R&B and Hip-hop. After her separation from Mottola, this musical change was evident with the release of Butterfly (1997).
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Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige ( /ˈblaɪʒ/; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional rapper and actress. She is a recipient of nine Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards, and has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. She is the only artist with Grammy Award wins in Pop, Rap, Gospel, and R&B.
Blige started her musical career in 1992, releasing her debut album, What's the 411? on MCA Records and Uptown. With her tenth album, My Life II... The Journey Continues (Act 1) (2011), she had ten consecutive albums debut in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Blige's work has defined the course of R&B/Hip-Hop music. My Life, in particular, is considered among the greatest albums ever recorded according to Rolling Stone (279/500),Time, and Vibe. For her part in combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s and its subsequent commercial success, Blige received the World Music Awards "Legends Award". In 2007 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded her its "Voice of Music" Award. ASCAP official Jeanie Weems stated that "[Blige's] music has been the voice of inspiration to women worldwide in both struggle and triumph." That same year, Time included her in its "Time 100" list, a collection of the year's 100 most influential individuals around the world. In a documentary by BET television, Mary J. Blige said that when she hears music, she sees colors. In other words she has Synesthesia.
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Maxwell (singer)
Gerald Maxwell Rivera (born May 23, 1973), better known by his stage name Maxwell, is an American R&B, funk and neo soul musician. He played an important role in the development of the soul sub-genre, neo-soul.
Maxwell was born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was Pentecostal and raised in Vieques, Puerto Rico. His mother grew up in a devout Baptist household in Haiti.
Maxwell began working with songwriter Leon Ware and noted guitarist Wah Wah Watson to record his debut Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite in the early 1990s. When the album was finished Columbia had doubts about its potential and shelved it for two years. The album was finally issued in 1996.
Heavily inspired by the sound of classic soul music, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite did not catch on with audiences until the release of its second single, "Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder)," which became a hit. BET's groundbreaking show, In Your Ear would introduce him to more than 58 million homes and Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite would go on to sell over 2,000,000 copies, earning 2X platinum status, and was nominated for a Grammy Award.
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Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Often referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971.
In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool, and the popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame. Videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" made him a staple on MTV in the 1990s. Through stage performances and music videos, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive musical sound and vocal style influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop and rock artists.
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Mystro Clark
Mystro Clark (born December 29, 1966 in Dayton, Ohio) was the American host of the syndicated version of the series Soul Train from 1997 until 1999. From there, he went on to become a film and television actor, and a writer for the show Cousin Skeeter.
He starred in TV series such as The Newz, The Show,Off Limits, and starred in Lovespring International. He made several guest appearances in television shows, and also has starred in the movies Chairman of the Board and Storm Catcher, the 2006 film Out at the Wedding.
He has been interviewed by Dayton Daily News.
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Naughty by Nature
Naughty by Nature are a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from East Orange, New Jersey that at the time of its formation in 1989 consisted of Treach, Vin Rock, and the DJ Kay Gee. They are known for being one of the few rap acts who were able to balance success on the pop charts with hardcore rap credibility.
The group formed in East Orange, New Jersey (colloquially referred to as "Illtown" in the 1980s) in 1988. They first appeared on the music scene in 1989, releasing an album called Independent Leaders under their then name the New Style. The album generated the minor hit "Scuffin' Those Knees". After the release of their first album, the group was mentored by fellow New Jersey native Queen Latifah, and subsequently changed its name.
Their first hit as Naughty by Nature was a track called "O.P.P.," which sampled the Jackson 5's hit "ABC" and was released in 1991 on their self-titled album Naughty by Nature. The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it one of the most successful crossover songs in rap history. The song has become well known in pop culture, being mentioned in TV shows and films such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Malibu's Most Wanted, Monk, and The Office. "O.P.P." also gained critical acclaim, being named one of the top 100 rap singles of all time in 1998 by The Source magazine, and being ranked the 20th best single of the '90s by Spin magazine
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O'Bryan
O'Bryan McCoy Burnette II is an American singer/songwriter known by the one-name moniker O'Bryan.
Born to O’Bryan Burnette Sr. and Glenice Burnette in Sneads Ferry, N.C., O’Bryan McCoy Burnette II was playing the piano at 6 years old and then began singing in the church and at local talent shows. In 1974, he and his family moved to Santa Ana, Calif. O’Bryan was singing in the Second Baptist Church young adult choir when his friend Melanee Kersey approached him about considering a career in music. Melanee Kersey introduced the young singer to her husband, producer Ron Kersey.
A former keyboardist for The Trammps and a veteran of the ’70s Philadelphia music scene, Kersey invited O’Bryan to join a group he was putting together. That group quickly folded, so Kersey later introduced O’Bryan to "Soul Train" television show creator and host Don Cornelius, with whom Kersey formed Friendship Producers Company. Cornelius took the young artist to Capitol Records, where O’Bryan released four albums that charted on the Billboard R&B charts.
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Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards (born May 24, 1944), better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry. LaBelle spent 16 years as lead singer of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, who changed their name to Labelle in the early 1970s and released the iconic disco song, "Lady Marmalade".
LaBelle started her solo career shortly after the group disbanded in 1977 and crossed over to pop music with "On My Own", "If Only You Knew", "If You Asked Me To", "Stir It Up" and "New Attitude". She has also recorded R&B ballads such as "You Are My Friend" and "Love, Need and Want You".
LaBelle possesses the vocal range of a soprano.
Patricia Louise Holte was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 24, 1944 . Her father, Henry Holte (alternatively, Holt), was a railroad worker and lounge singer. Her mother, Bertha Holte, was a domestic and housewife. Holte was one of four daughters (Vivian, Barbara, Patricia and Jacqueline). Holte recalls having a happy childhood but said being sexually molested at the age of seven led her to be shy and withdrawn. Holte's parents had an unhappy marriage. When Holte was twelve, her parents split up and Bertha Holte raised her daughters as a single mother. Holte's mother later adopted Claudette Grant, who would become one of Holte's closest friends.
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R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967), better known by his stage name R. Kelly, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Often referred to as the King of R&B, Kelly is recognized as one of the most successful R&B artists of all-time. A native of Chicago, Kelly began performing during the late 1980s and debuted in 1992 with the group Public Announcement. In 1993, Kelly went solo with the album 12 Play. He is known for a collection of major hit singles including "Bump n' Grind", "Your Body's Callin'", "I Believe I Can Fly", "Gotham City", "Ignition (Remix)", "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time", "The World's Greatest", "I'm a Flirt", and the hip-hopera "Trapped in the Closet". In 1998, Kelly won three Grammy Awards for "I Believe I Can Fly".
Kelly has written, produced, and remixed songs for many artists including The Winans, The Isley Brothers, Charlie Wilson, Quincy Jones, K-Ci & JoJo, Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Michael Jackson, Hi-Five, Nivea, Ciara, Mary J. Blige, Luther Vandross, Gerald LeVert, Raheem DeVaughn, Ruben Studdard, Jaheim, Kelly Price, Tamia, Maxwell, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Usher, B2K, Twista, Tyrese, Jennifer Lopez, Trey Songz, and others in the U.S. and abroad.
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Shemar Moore
Shemar Franklin Moore (US: /ʃəˌmɑːr ˈmuːr/, born April 20, 1970) is an American actor and former male fashion model. His most notable roles are that of Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless from 1994 to 2005, Derek Morgan on CBS's Criminal Minds from 2005 to present, and as the third permanent host of Soul Train from 1999 to 2003.
Moore was born in Oakland, California, the son of Marilyn Wilson, a business consultant, and Sherrod Moore. Moore's father is African American and his mother, who was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, is of Irish and French-Canadian descent. His mother, who has a degree in mathematics, worked as a teacher in Bahrain and Denmark. Moore moved with her to Denmark as an infant, and then to Bahrain when he was four where he attended a British private school until the age of seven. Moore cites civil unrest, interracial relationships being taboo, and racism in the US in the 1970s as part of the reason his mother moved abroad with him. Returning to California in 1977, the family moved to Chico, California, where his mother worked at a clinic, before later moving to Palo Alto. Shemar Moore graduated from Gunn High School in Palo Alto. He attended Santa Clara University, majoring in Communications and modeled to pay his bills.
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Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967) is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide. She has a contralto vocal type.[citation needed]
Braxton topped the Billboard 200 with her 1993 self-titled debut album and continued that streak with her second studio album Secrets, which spawned the number-one hits "You're Makin' Me High" and "Un-Break My Heart". Although she had successful albums and singles, Braxton shortly filed for bankruptcy, but then returned with her chart-topping third album, The Heat. In 2009, she returned to the spotlight with "Yesterday", a #12 R&B hit which serves as the first single off her new album Pulse, released on May 4, 2010, which debuted at #1 on Billboard R&B Album Chart. Braxton was involved in the 7th season of the reality show Dancing with the Stars. Her professional partner was Alec Mazo. She was voted off in week five of the competition. It was announced on October 6, 2010 that Braxton once again had filed for bankruptcy. A reality series entitled Braxton Family Values, starring Toni and her sisters, debuted April 12, 2011 on WE tv. WE tv ordered a 13-episode second season of the show after the third episode of the first season. On September 18, 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
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Usher (entertainer)
Usher Terry Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. Usher rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his second album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, "Nice & Slow". The album has been certified 6-times platinum by the RIAA. His follow-up album, 8701, produced the Billboard Hot 100 number one hits "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad". The album has been certified 4-times platinum by the RIAA.
Usher's 2004 album Confessions sold over 10 million copies in the United States, and been certified diamond by the RIAA. Confessions has the highest first week sales for an R&B artist in history. It spawned four consecutive Billboard number-one hits—"Yeah!", "Burn", "Confessions Part II", and "My Boo". Usher's 2008 album Here I Stand sold over 5 million copies worldwide, and its lead single "Love In This Club" peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100.
On March 30, 2010, Usher released his sixth studio album Raymond v. Raymond, which became his third consecutive album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA, and spawned another Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "OMG". The song became his ninth number one in the United States, making him the first 2010s artist to collect number one singles in three consecutive decades. He later released an extended play and deluxe edition of "Raymond v. Raymond", entitled Versus, which debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart. Its lead single "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love" reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published nude photographs of her. She relinquished her title early and was succeeded by the first runner-up, Suzette Charles of New Jersey – who was also African-American. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, earning multiple Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations.
Williams released her debut album The Right Stuff in 1988, which spawned the hits "The Right Stuff", a #1 on Hot Dance Songs, and "Dreamin'" a #1 on R&B and #8 on Billboard Hot 100. Her second studio album The Comfort Zone in 1991 topped the Billboard R&B Album Chart, which spawned the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit "Save the Best for Last". In 1994 she debuted on Broadway in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 1995 she recorded "Colors of the Wind", the Oscar-winner for Best Original Song from the Disney animated feature film Pocahontas, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time. Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
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Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968), also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood. Smith has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won multiple Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for nearly six years (1990–1996) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. In the mid-1990s, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office and the only one to have eight consecutive films in which he starred open at #1 spot in the domestic box office tally.
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(HQ) Fantasia, Erikah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone - Tribute to Chaka Khan
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Fantasia, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone in a Tribute to Chaka Khan. Video by RaniaC. Thanks Rania.
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Fantasia, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone in a Tribute to Chaka Khan. Video by RaniaC. Thanks Rania.
Tribute To Anita Baker - Soul Train Awards (HD)
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Whitney Houston Tribute @ Soul Train Awards (1998)
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- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Performed By: Monica, Ronald Isley, Terry Ellis, Kenny Lattimore - Live - (1997)
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Performed By: Monica, Ronald Isley, Terry Ellis, Kenny Lattimore - Live - (1997)
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Michael Jackson ~ Remember The Time (Live @ Soul Train Awards．1993
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Michael Jackson ~ Remember The Time (Live @ Soul Train Awards．1993
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Michael Jackson ~ Remember The Time (Live @ Soul Train Awards．1993
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R Kelly Soul Train Music Awards 2010 Performance
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R Kelly's Performance at the Soul Train Music Awards! Check It out!! with Maurice Mahon of www.newfaceofsoul.com
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R Kelly's Performance at the Soul Train Music Awards! Check It out!! with Maurice Mahon of www.newfaceofsoul.com
- published: 29 Nov 2010
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Gladys Knight Tribute at the Soul Train Awards
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- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
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Michael Jackson at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989
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Michael Jackson at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989 with Eddie Murphy and Elizabeth Taylor. Comment, Rate, Subscribe, and Enjoy! PS i dont own any of this...
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Michael Jackson at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989 with Eddie Murphy and Elizabeth Taylor. Comment, Rate, Subscribe, and Enjoy! PS i dont own any of this...
- published: 17 Nov 2010
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Cee-Lo Green & Melanie Fiona 2011 Soul Train Award
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Fool For You
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Quincy Jones - The Secret Garden [Live - Soul Train Awards 1991]
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Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge & Barry White... The 1991 Soul Train Music Awards aired live on March 12, 1991 (and was later syndicated in other areas), honoring the best in R&B;, soul, rap, jazz, and gospel music from the previous year. The show was held at the Shrine Auditorium and was co-hosted by Patti Labelle, Luther Vandross and Dionne Warrick.
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Al B. Sure!, James Ingram, El DeBarge & Barry White... The 1991 Soul Train Music Awards aired live on March 12, 1991 (and was later syndicated in other areas), honoring the best in R&B;, soul, rap, jazz, and gospel music from the previous year. The show was held at the Shrine Auditorium and was co-hosted by Patti Labelle, Luther Vandross and Dionne Warrick.
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Beyonc� performance Soul Train Awards 2012
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2012 Soul Train Awards Highlights: Jamie Foxx, New Edition, Don Cornelius Tribute
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The 2012 Soul Train Awards Winners are: Best New Artist-- Elle Varner Centric Award -- Leah Labelle Best Gospel/ Inspirational Performance -- Whitney Houston & Jordin Sparks' "Celebrate" Best Hip Hop Song of the Year -- Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz "Mercy" Best R&B;/ Soul Female Artist -- Beyoncé Best R&B;/ Soul Male Artist -- Miguel Album of the Year -- Frank Ocean's Channel Orange Song of the Year -- Tyrese's "Stay" The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award --"Tonight (Best You Ever Had)": John Legend feat. Ludacris Best Dance Performance: Beyonce -- "Love On Top" CENTRICTV.com: Best Caribbean Performance -- Sean Paul's "Tomahawk Technique" CENTRICTV.com: Best International Performance -- Estelle's "Thank You" CENTRICTV.com: Best Independent R&B;/ Soul Artist or Group -- Eric Roberson CENTRICTV.com: Best Traditional Jazz Artist/ Group: TIE between *The Robert Glasper Experiment -- Black Radio *Tony Bennett -- Isn't It Romantic CENTRICTV.com: Best Contemporary Jazz Artist/ Group -- Esperanza Spalding-Radio Music Society bit.ly - Subscribe to ClevverMusic!!! on.fb.me - ClevverMusic Facebook Fan Page! Twitter.com - Follow Us! The train kept rolling last night at the 2012 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas! Happy Monday everyone, welcome back to ClevverMusic. Cedric the Entertainer hosted the 25th Annual Soul Train Awards last night on BET and Centric, broadcast from Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The show which honors soul, R&B;, and hip-hop artists, saw a ...
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The 2012 Soul Train Awards Winners are: Best New Artist-- Elle Varner Centric Award -- Leah Labelle Best Gospel/ Inspirational Performance -- Whitney Houston & Jordin Sparks' "Celebrate" Best Hip Hop Song of the Year -- Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz "Mercy" Best R&B;/ Soul Female Artist -- Beyoncé Best R&B;/ Soul Male Artist -- Miguel Album of the Year -- Frank Ocean's Channel Orange Song of the Year -- Tyrese's "Stay" The Ashford & Simpson Songwriter's Award --"Tonight (Best You Ever Had)": John Legend feat. Ludacris Best Dance Performance: Beyonce -- "Love On Top" CENTRICTV.com: Best Caribbean Performance -- Sean Paul's "Tomahawk Technique" CENTRICTV.com: Best International Performance -- Estelle's "Thank You" CENTRICTV.com: Best Independent R&B;/ Soul Artist or Group -- Eric Roberson CENTRICTV.com: Best Traditional Jazz Artist/ Group: TIE between *The Robert Glasper Experiment -- Black Radio *Tony Bennett -- Isn't It Romantic CENTRICTV.com: Best Contemporary Jazz Artist/ Group -- Esperanza Spalding-Radio Music Society bit.ly - Subscribe to ClevverMusic!!! on.fb.me - ClevverMusic Facebook Fan Page! Twitter.com - Follow Us! The train kept rolling last night at the 2012 Soul Train Awards in Las Vegas! Happy Monday everyone, welcome back to ClevverMusic. Cedric the Entertainer hosted the 25th Annual Soul Train Awards last night on BET and Centric, broadcast from Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The show which honors soul, R&B;, and hip-hop artists, saw a ...
- published: 26 Nov 2012
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2012 SOUL TRAIN AWARDS/ JAMIE FOXX CALLS BARACK OBAMA "OUR LORD AND SAVIOR" (NOV 26, 2012)
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Stars Gets Sinful At The Soul Train Awards! - HipHollywood.com
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The Soul Train Awards hit Las Vegas to celebrate 25 years! Check out all the stars who hit the carpet then catch the show when it airs Sunday, November 25th.
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The Soul Train Awards hit Las Vegas to celebrate 25 years! Check out all the stars who hit the carpet then catch the show when it airs Sunday, November 25th.
- published: 20 Nov 2012
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Soul Train Music Awards 2012 with Performances from Fantasia & Ne-yo Part 1
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Check out part 1 of My Soul Train Awards 2012 from the Preshow to the Main Show. Checkout Fantasia and Neyo Performances Watch and Like now Twitter, Facebook & Instagram : Darealrastabwoi
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Check out part 1 of My Soul Train Awards 2012 from the Preshow to the Main Show. Checkout Fantasia and Neyo Performances Watch and Like now Twitter, Facebook & Instagram : Darealrastabwoi
- published: 26 Nov 2012
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BRKDWN - Soul Train Awards 2012 Exlusive
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2012 Soul Train Awards Exclusive Cynthia and John decided to make an impromptu trip to Vegas to bring you the latest from the red carpet. Cedric The Entertainer hosts the show with a star studded list of performances featuring John Legend, Neyo, Keyshia Cole and Gladys Knight. The BRKDWN crew brings you the latest from the Red Carpet. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette @JonScarlett
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2012 Soul Train Awards Exclusive Cynthia and John decided to make an impromptu trip to Vegas to bring you the latest from the red carpet. Cedric The Entertainer hosts the show with a star studded list of performances featuring John Legend, Neyo, Keyshia Cole and Gladys Knight. The BRKDWN crew brings you the latest from the Red Carpet. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette @JonScarlett
- published: 09 Nov 2012
- views: 1166
- author: KscopeNetwork
BRKDWN - Live from the Soul Train 2012 Awards! -Las Vegas
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- Updated: 17 Dec 2012
Cynthia Luciette and Jon Scarlett report to you on location from Las Vegas, NV for the 2012 Soul Train Awards! Ne-Yo, Marcus Canty, New Edition, and more were interviewed by the two on the red carpet to find out what the awards mean to them, what they're wearing, and their favorite dance moves. Watch Jon and Cynthia BRK it DWN. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette
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Cynthia Luciette and Jon Scarlett report to you on location from Las Vegas, NV for the 2012 Soul Train Awards! Ne-Yo, Marcus Canty, New Edition, and more were interviewed by the two on the red carpet to find out what the awards mean to them, what they're wearing, and their favorite dance moves. Watch Jon and Cynthia BRK it DWN. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette
- published: 09 Nov 2012
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- author: KscopeNetwork
2 Chains soul train awards
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2 Chains soul train awards posted by BIG CRAIG
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Soul Train Awards 2012, Las Vegas - NeYo, Elle Varner, Fantasia!!! -Red Hawt Gossip
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- Duration: 3:55
- Updated: 06 Dec 2012
Soul Train Awards 2012!!! Cynthia & Jon take on the 2012 Soul Train Awards!!! On the Red Carpet Cynthia Red Hawt Gossips with Celebs!!! Magic Johnson, Ne-Yo, Marcus Canty, Elle Varner, Fantasia, and more join us on this Red Hawt Gossip Live from the 2012 Soul Train Awards! Host Cynthia Luciette is joined by BRKDWN's Jon Scarlett on the Red Carpet of the Award Show for interviews with some of today's hottest urban stars. The Soul Train Awards air November 25th on Centric TV, but until then we have you covered. Check out what these stars dished to Cynthia on this episode of Red Hawt Gossip. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette @JonScarlett
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Soul Train Awards 2012!!! Cynthia & Jon take on the 2012 Soul Train Awards!!! On the Red Carpet Cynthia Red Hawt Gossips with Celebs!!! Magic Johnson, Ne-Yo, Marcus Canty, Elle Varner, Fantasia, and more join us on this Red Hawt Gossip Live from the 2012 Soul Train Awards! Host Cynthia Luciette is joined by BRKDWN's Jon Scarlett on the Red Carpet of the Award Show for interviews with some of today's hottest urban stars. The Soul Train Awards air November 25th on Centric TV, but until then we have you covered. Check out what these stars dished to Cynthia on this episode of Red Hawt Gossip. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette @JonScarlett
- published: 09 Nov 2012
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SOUL TRAIN AWARDS NOMINATIONS 2012 - NEW EDITION Honored!!!
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The Soul Train Awards 2012 Nominations - The upcoming Soul Train Awards 2012 will take place on November 8, 2012 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and will air on BET and Centric on November 25th. Hosted by: Cedric the Entertainer New Edition will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and will perform. R&B; artist R. Kelly earned a place in history as the Soul Train Awards brought his nominations total to 21 for his career, more than any other artist. Usher received the most for 2012, with five nominations. Kelly received two noms, while the late Whitney Houston was nominated for Best Gospel Inspirational Performance and the late Amy Winehouse was nominated for Best International Performance. No. of Nominations: Usher - 5 Estelle - 4 Nas - 3 Beyonce - 2 Trey Songz - 2 Wale - 2 R. Kelly Robert Glasper - 2 Tyrese - 2 John Legend - 2 Esperanza Spalding - 2 Emeli Sandi - 2 NOMINEES and AWARD CATEGORIES: Best New Artist ■ Elle Varner ■ Emeli Sande ■ J. Cole ■ Luke James ■ Robert Glasper Centric Award ■ Daley ■ Esperanza Spalding ■ Gary Clark Jr. ■ Leah Labelle ■ Santigold Best Gospel/Inspirational Performance ■ BeBe Winans-America America ■ Fred Hammond-I Feel Good ■ Marvin Sapp-My Testimony ■ Mary Mary-Go Get It ■ Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks-Celebrate Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year ■ 2 Chainz feat. Drake-No Lie ■ Wale feat. Miguel-Lotus Flower Bomb ■ Nas-Daughters ■ Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz-Mercy ■ Young Jeezy feat. Ne-Yo-Leave You ...
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The Soul Train Awards 2012 Nominations - The upcoming Soul Train Awards 2012 will take place on November 8, 2012 at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas and will air on BET and Centric on November 25th. Hosted by: Cedric the Entertainer New Edition will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award and will perform. R&B; artist R. Kelly earned a place in history as the Soul Train Awards brought his nominations total to 21 for his career, more than any other artist. Usher received the most for 2012, with five nominations. Kelly received two noms, while the late Whitney Houston was nominated for Best Gospel Inspirational Performance and the late Amy Winehouse was nominated for Best International Performance. No. of Nominations: Usher - 5 Estelle - 4 Nas - 3 Beyonce - 2 Trey Songz - 2 Wale - 2 R. Kelly Robert Glasper - 2 Tyrese - 2 John Legend - 2 Esperanza Spalding - 2 Emeli Sandi - 2 NOMINEES and AWARD CATEGORIES: Best New Artist ■ Elle Varner ■ Emeli Sande ■ J. Cole ■ Luke James ■ Robert Glasper Centric Award ■ Daley ■ Esperanza Spalding ■ Gary Clark Jr. ■ Leah Labelle ■ Santigold Best Gospel/Inspirational Performance ■ BeBe Winans-America America ■ Fred Hammond-I Feel Good ■ Marvin Sapp-My Testimony ■ Mary Mary-Go Get It ■ Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks-Celebrate Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year ■ 2 Chainz feat. Drake-No Lie ■ Wale feat. Miguel-Lotus Flower Bomb ■ Nas-Daughters ■ Kanye West feat. Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz-Mercy ■ Young Jeezy feat. Ne-Yo-Leave You ...
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BRKDWN - 2012 Soul Train Awards- Fans Speak Out
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The 2012 Soul Train Awards took place in Las Vegas over the weekend, and Jon Scarlett talks with fans of the show about their favorite moments. Jon hits the streets, asking fans what their fondest memories of past Soul Train Awards shows were. From the dancing, singing, and Don Cornelius' fall, the people of Las Vegas tell Jon everything. From there we head to the Red Carpet to meet with Cynthia and the nominees for the coveted award. See all of this and more on this episode of BRKDWN. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette @JonScarlett
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The 2012 Soul Train Awards took place in Las Vegas over the weekend, and Jon Scarlett talks with fans of the show about their favorite moments. Jon hits the streets, asking fans what their fondest memories of past Soul Train Awards shows were. From the dancing, singing, and Don Cornelius' fall, the people of Las Vegas tell Jon everything. From there we head to the Red Carpet to meet with Cynthia and the nominees for the coveted award. See all of this and more on this episode of BRKDWN. Follow us on Twitter:twitter.com Like us on Facebook: on.fb.me Host: @CynthiaLuCiette @JonScarlett
- published: 13 Nov 2012
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BRKDWN - Does TV need a show like Soul Train? Soul Train Awards 2012
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Cynthia Luciette and Jon Scarlett BRK it DWN in Las Vegas from the 2012 Soul Train Awards. Subscribe! Jon and Cynthia are coming to you from Sin City Las Vegas for the 2012 Soul Train Awards! Soul Train has a long and storied history, from a dance show created by Don Cornelius in the 70's to becoming a staple of black culture. Soul Train Has influenced music shows for generations, but is no longer on the air. But does TV need a show like 'Soul train' back? Jon and Cynthia BRK it DWN in this episode.
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Cynthia Luciette and Jon Scarlett BRK it DWN in Las Vegas from the 2012 Soul Train Awards. Subscribe! Jon and Cynthia are coming to you from Sin City Las Vegas for the 2012 Soul Train Awards! Soul Train has a long and storied history, from a dance show created by Don Cornelius in the 70's to becoming a staple of black culture. Soul Train Has influenced music shows for generations, but is no longer on the air. But does TV need a show like 'Soul train' back? Jon and Cynthia BRK it DWN in this episode.
- published: 24 Nov 2012
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Soul Train Awards 2012: Charlie Wilson "My Love is all I Have"
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Charlie Wilson "My Love is all I Have"
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Daley feat. Marsha Ambrosius Alone Together Soul Train Awards 2012
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Luther Vandross & Dionne Warwick ~ medley ~
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Soul Train Music Awards 1987
~ medley ~ Stevie Wonder
Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross
0:12 " My Cherie Amour "
0:53 " You Are the Sunshine of My Life "
1:31 " All in Love is Fair " 2:58
3:14 " I Just Called to Say I Love You "
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Soul Train Music Awards 1987
~ medley ~ Stevie Wonder
Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross
0:12 " My Cherie Amour "
0:53 " You Are the Sunshine of My Life "
1:31 " All in Love is Fair " 2:58
3:14 " I Just Called to Say I Love You "
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Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross " That's What Friends Are For "
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Soul Train Music Awards 1987
That's What Friends Are For 2:54. 3:29. 3:35. 3:57
Dionne Warwick 0:31
Stevie Wonder 1:42. 2:22
Whitney Houston 2:54
Luther Vandross 2:00. 2:10. 3:29. 3:36. 3:38. 3:36. 3:38
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Soul Train Music Awards 1987
That's What Friends Are For 2:54. 3:29. 3:35. 3:57
Dionne Warwick 0:31
Stevie Wonder 1:42. 2:22
Whitney Houston 2:54
Luther Vandross 2:00. 2:10. 3:29. 3:36. 3:38. 3:36. 3:38
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 1984
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Luther Vandross " So Amazing "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Luther Vandross
" So Amazing " 0:12. 0:28. 0:53. 1:17. 1:41. 1:48. 2:19. 2:55
http://wn.com/Luther_Vandross_So_Amazing_
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Luther Vandross
" So Amazing " 0:12. 0:28. 0:53. 1:17. 1:41. 1:48. 2:19. 2:55
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 4719
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Destiny's Child " Say My Name "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:41
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Child
" Say My Name " 0:31. 0:59. 1:15. 1:48. 2:24
http://wn.com/Destiny's_Child_Say_My_Name_
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Child
" Say My Name " 0:31. 0:59. 1:15. 1:48. 2:24
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 567
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Whitney Houston " You Give Good Love "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Whitney Houston
" You Give Good Love "
http://wn.com/Whitney_Houston_You_Give_Good_Love_
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Whitney Houston
" You Give Good Love "
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 219
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Alicia Keys " Girlfriend "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Soul Train Music Awards
Alicia Keys
" Girlfriend " 0:30. 1:51. 4:14
http://wn.com/Alicia_Keys_Girlfriend_
Soul Train Music Awards
Alicia Keys
" Girlfriend " 0:30. 1:51. 4:14
- published: 25 Aug 2012
- views: 1897
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Cameo " Word Up "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Soul Train Music Awards
Cameo
" Word Up " 0:21. 0:59. 1:24. 1:57. 2:14. 2:38. 3:03. 4:16
http://wn.com/Cameo_Word_Up_
Soul Train Music Awards
Cameo
" Word Up " 0:21. 0:59. 1:24. 1:57. 2:14. 2:38. 3:03. 4:16
- published: 25 Aug 2012
- views: 568
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Destiny's Ghild " Bug A Boo "
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Ghild
" Bug A Boo "
http://wn.com/Destiny's_Ghild_Bug_A_Boo_
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Ghild
" Bug A Boo "
- published: 25 Aug 2012
- views: 239
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Queen of POP janet jackson i get lonely live at soul train music awards 1998
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
enjoy and comment!
http://wn.com/Queen_of_POP_janet_jackson_i_get_lonely_live_at_soul_train_music_awards_1998
Quincy Jones The Secret Garden Live Soul Train Awards 1991
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:05
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Quincy_Jones_The_Secret_Garden_Live_Soul_Train_Awards_1991
Tribute To Anita Baker - Soul Train Awards (HD)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 12:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Tribute_To_Anita_Baker_Soul_Train_Awards_HD
Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Soul Train Music Awards 1993)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:11
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Michael Jackson
Remember The Time
Soul Train Music Awards 1993
High Definition (HD)
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Michael Jackson
Remember The Time
Soul Train Music Awards 1993
High Definition (HD)
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- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 1130
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
BABYFACE @ SOUL TRAIN MUSIC AWARDS 1993 "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:25
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Another vid from my dusty VHS collection.
Here Babyface sings "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS" live off the FOR THE COOL IN YOU album and displays a beautiful performance which is far from todays raunchy "let me put it in you girl" type of R&B; we hear today. No auto tune, no lip synching. A true gentleman pouring out poetic words of apology to a woman that he truly loves and wants back so they can spend the rest of their lives together. Another time machine classic of why the early 90's were so dope back than. I mean don't get me wrong I dig the current stuff, I''m far from a hater. Back than as a kid recording this on VHS I didn't appreciate it as much as I do today aka I'm just getting old lol
Lastly I recommend that you get yourself some BABYFACE albums especially this song.
IT"S ALL LOVE!!!
-mega7981
****I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS FOOTAGE OR AUDIO*** ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE RESPECTED COPYRIGHT OWNERS***
http://wn.com/BABYFACE_@_SOUL_TRAIN_MUSIC_AWARDS_1993_NEVER_KEEPING_SECRETS
Another vid from my dusty VHS collection.
Here Babyface sings "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS" live off the FOR THE COOL IN YOU album and displays a beautiful performance which is far from todays raunchy "let me put it in you girl" type of R&B; we hear today. No auto tune, no lip synching. A true gentleman pouring out poetic words of apology to a woman that he truly loves and wants back so they can spend the rest of their lives together. Another time machine classic of why the early 90's were so dope back than. I mean don't get me wrong I dig the current stuff, I''m far from a hater. Back than as a kid recording this on VHS I didn't appreciate it as much as I do today aka I'm just getting old lol
Lastly I recommend that you get yourself some BABYFACE albums especially this song.
IT"S ALL LOVE!!!
-mega7981
****I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS FOOTAGE OR AUDIO*** ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE RESPECTED COPYRIGHT OWNERS***
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 6223
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Ashford & Simpson perform at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989).
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:28
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Ashford & Simpson perform "I'll Be There For You" at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989). Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1454657
http://wn.com/Ashford_Simpson_perform_at_the_3rd_Soul_Train_Music_Awards_1989
Ashford & Simpson perform "I'll Be There For You" at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989). Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1454657
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 23554
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Whitney Houston
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Hold Up The Lights-Live at Soul Train Music Awards 1989
http://wn.com/Whitney_Houston
Hold Up The Lights-Live at Soul Train Music Awards 1989
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 3318
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
The Soul Train Award Shows
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
November marks the return of the legendary Soul Train Music Awards which will broadcast November 29, 2009 on the Centric network. Bridging the gap between traditional Soul and present day Hip-Hop and R&B;, the landmark Soul Train Music Awards first aired in 1987 and became an annual event through 2007. In addition to award presentations and acceptance speeches, each Soul Train Music Awards show included outstanding musical performances.
http://wn.com/The_Soul_Train_Award_Shows
November marks the return of the legendary Soul Train Music Awards which will broadcast November 29, 2009 on the Centric network. Bridging the gap between traditional Soul and present day Hip-Hop and R&B;, the landmark Soul Train Music Awards first aired in 1987 and became an annual event through 2007. In addition to award presentations and acceptance speeches, each Soul Train Music Awards show included outstanding musical performances.
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 8995
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
The Soul Train Christmas Starfest 1998!"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 80:01
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The 1998 Soul Train Starfest!" w/
Lou Rawls!"
Take 6!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Luther Vandross!"
Jeffrey Osborne!"
Patti LaBelle!"
Kenny G.!"
Chaka Khan!"
The Whispers!"
Donald Lawrence,Hezekiah Walker,Karen Clark-Sheard,& Kirk Franklin!"
Tamia!"
Natalie Cole!"
Yolanda Adams!"
Chante Moore!"
Take 6!"
Patti LaBelle!"
Kirk Franklin!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Dru-Hill!"
Lou Rawls!"
http://wn.com/The_Soul_Train_Christmas_Starfest_1998!
The 1998 Soul Train Starfest!" w/
Lou Rawls!"
Take 6!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Luther Vandross!"
Jeffrey Osborne!"
Patti LaBelle!"
Kenny G.!"
Chaka Khan!"
The Whispers!"
Donald Lawrence,Hezekiah Walker,Karen Clark-Sheard,& Kirk Franklin!"
Tamia!"
Natalie Cole!"
Yolanda Adams!"
Chante Moore!"
Take 6!"
Patti LaBelle!"
Kirk Franklin!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Dru-Hill!"
Lou Rawls!"
- published: 06 Dec 2012
- views: 2218
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
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SYLVERS ON SOUL TRAIN BOOGIE FEVER
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:44
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
SOUL TRAIN
http://wn.com/SYLVERS_ON_SOUL_TRAIN_BOOGIE_FEVER
BETTY WRIGHT ON SOUL TRAIN
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
SOUL TRAIN
http://wn.com/BETTY_WRIGHT_ON_SOUL_TRAIN
DENISE LASALLE ON SOUL TRAIN RUN AND TELL THAT
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:52
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
SOUL TRAIN
http://wn.com/DENISE_LASALLE_ON_SOUL_TRAIN_RUN_AND_TELL_THAT
Michael McDonald - Soul Train
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:31
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Michael McDonald - Soul Train - 1982
http://wn.com/Michael_McDonald_Soul_Train
Janet Jackson - I Get Lonely ( LIVE Soul Train Awards 1998)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:35
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Such an emotional song and still the dancing makes it a sexy song.
Only Janet could combine sexy and sad nicely.
Sorry for the low volume, you have to turn your speakers up.
http://wn.com/Janet_Jackson_I_Get_Lonely_LIVE_Soul_Train_Awards_1998
Such an emotional song and still the dancing makes it a sexy song.
Only Janet could combine sexy and sad nicely.
Sorry for the low volume, you have to turn your speakers up.
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 94858
- author: Tim Jones
THE WHISPERS ON SOUL TRAIN 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:15
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
SOUL TRAIN
http://wn.com/THE_WHISPERS_ON_SOUL_TRAIN_4
SHIRLEY BROWN ON SOUL TRAIN
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
SOUL TRAIN
http://wn.com/SHIRLEY_BROWN_ON_SOUL_TRAIN
Soul Train Music Awards 2010 (Full Tribute Anita Baker & Speech)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 14:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Anita Baker tribute at the 2010 Soultrain music awards
http://wn.com/Soul_Train_Music_Awards_2010_Full_Tribute_Anita_Baker_Speech
Anita Baker tribute at the 2010 Soultrain music awards
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 114513
- author: Tim Jones
THE EMOTIONS ON SOUL TRAIN BEST OF MY LOVE
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
SOUL TRAIN
http://wn.com/THE_EMOTIONS_ON_SOUL_TRAIN_BEST_OF_MY_LOVE
Soul Train Make That Move Shalamar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:13
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Soul_Train_Make_That_Move_Shalamar
Vanity 6 (Soul Train) Nasty Girl
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:56
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
VERY RARE FOOTAGE OF THE ORIGINAL VANITY 6 ON SOUL TRAIN
SEE MORE VIDEOS @
THE HIP HOP REPUBLIC/ THE HHR
http://www.thehiphoprepublic.com
FOLLOW US: @PURPLECITY360
http://wn.com/Vanity_6_Soul_Train_Nasty_Girl
VERY RARE FOOTAGE OF THE ORIGINAL VANITY 6 ON SOUL TRAIN
SEE MORE VIDEOS @
THE HIP HOP REPUBLIC/ THE HHR
http://www.thehiphoprepublic.com
FOLLOW US: @PURPLECITY360
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 419274
- author: Tim Jones
Soul Train Line Control Janet Jackson
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:59
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/Soul_Train_Line_Control_Janet_Jackson
Deniece Williams - Free
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:38
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Deniece Williams - Free Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1419585
http://wn.com/Deniece_Williams_Free
Deniece Williams - Free Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1419585
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 104881
- author: Tim Jones
(HQ) Fantasia, Erikah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone - Tribute to Chaka Khan
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:37
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Fantasia, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone in a Tribute to Chaka Khan.
Video by RaniaC. Thanks Rania.
http://wn.com/HQ_Fantasia,_Erikah_Badu,_Ledisi_and_Angie_Stone_Tribute_to_Chaka_Khan
Fantasia, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone in a Tribute to Chaka Khan.
Video by RaniaC. Thanks Rania.
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 569496
- author: Tim Jones
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Eine Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe Kreation! The Pioneers, The Temptations, NYCC. Visuals courtesy Mad Vision - http://soultrain.com/
http://wn.com/Papa_Was_A_Rolling_Stone
Eine Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe Kreation! The Pioneers, The Temptations, NYCC. Visuals courtesy Mad Vision - http://soultrain.com/
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 2612487
- author: Tim Jones
![Janet Jackson - Soul Train 1982 - Say You Do [www.janeticon.com] Rare video](http://web.archive.org./web/20121223035128im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Cx8s7vokZU/default.jpg "Janet Jackson - Soul Train 1982 - Say You Do [www.janeticon.com] Rare video")
Janet Jackson - Soul Train 1982 - Say You Do [www.janeticon.com] Rare video
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://www.janeticon.com
http://wn.com/Janet_Jackson_Soul_Train_1982_Say_You_Do_wwwjaneticoncom_Rare_video
S.O.S. Band performs Take Your Time (1980).
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:07
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
S.O.S. Band performs "Take Your Time" (1980). Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1231781
http://wn.com/SOS_Band_performs_Take_Your_Time_1980
S.O.S. Band performs "Take Your Time" (1980). Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1231781
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 227337
- author: Tim Jones
brenda russel piano in the dark
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/brenda_russel_piano_in_the_dark
New Edition performs Lost In Love 1984
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:39
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
The original New Edition performs Lost In Love, plus interview. Classic NE
http://wn.com/New_Edition_performs_Lost_In_Love_1984
The original New Edition performs Lost In Love, plus interview. Classic NE
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 101501
- author: Tim Jones
the boys dial my heart
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:26
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/the_boys_dial_my_heart
Rachelle Ferrell and Deborah Cox - Natalie Cole tribute
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:53
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
Originally aired in 1999 on the Soul Train Lady of Soul awards
http://wn.com/Rachelle_Ferrell_and_Deborah_Cox_Natalie_Cole_tribute
Originally aired in 1999 on the Soul Train Lady of Soul awards
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 22039
- author: Tim Jones
kiara & shanice this time
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:33
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
http://wn.com/kiara_shanice_this_time
P!nk - There You Go (Live Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:22
- Updated: 01 Jan 1970
P!nk - There You Go (Live Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards)
http://wn.com/P!nk_There_You_Go_Live_Soul_Train_Lady_Of_Soul_Awards
P!nk - There You Go (Live Soul Train Lady Of Soul Awards)
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 987
- author: Tim Jones
4:18
Luther Vandross & Dionne Warwick ~ medley ~
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
~ medley ~ Stevie Wonder
Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross ...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Luther Vandross & Dionne Warwick ~ medley ~
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
~ medley ~ Stevie Wonder
Dionne Warwick & Luther Vandross
0:12 " My Cherie Amour "
0:53 " You Are the Sunshine of My Life "
1:31 " All in Love is Fair " 2:58
3:14 " I Just Called to Say I Love You "
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 1746
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
5:12
Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross " That's What Friends Are For "
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
That's What Friends Are For 2:54. 3:29. 3:35. 3:57
Dionne Wa...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross " That's What Friends Are For "
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
That's What Friends Are For 2:54. 3:29. 3:35. 3:57
Dionne Warwick 0:31
Stevie Wonder 1:42. 2:22
Whitney Houston 2:54
Luther Vandross 2:00. 2:10. 3:29. 3:36. 3:38. 3:36. 3:38
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 1984
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
3:40
Luther Vandross " So Amazing "
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Luther Vandross
" So Amazing " 0:12. 0:28. 0:53. 1:17. 1:41...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Luther Vandross " So Amazing "
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Luther Vandross
" So Amazing " 0:12. 0:28. 0:53. 1:17. 1:41. 1:48. 2:19. 2:55
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 4719
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
2:41
Destiny's Child " Say My Name "
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Child
" Say My Name " 0:31. 0:59. 1:15. 1:48. 2:24...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Destiny's Child " Say My Name "
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Child
" Say My Name " 0:31. 0:59. 1:15. 1:48. 2:24
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 567
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
4:38
Whitney Houston " You Give Good Love "
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Whitney Houston
" You Give Good Love "...
published: 20 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Whitney Houston " You Give Good Love "
Soul Train Music Awards 1987
Whitney Houston
" You Give Good Love "
- published: 20 Aug 2012
- views: 219
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
4:51
Alicia Keys " Girlfriend "
Soul Train Music Awards
Alicia Keys
" Girlfriend " 0:30. 1:51. 4:14...
published: 25 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Alicia Keys " Girlfriend "
Soul Train Music Awards
Alicia Keys
" Girlfriend " 0:30. 1:51. 4:14
- published: 25 Aug 2012
- views: 1897
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
4:32
Cameo " Word Up "
Soul Train Music Awards
Cameo
" Word Up " 0:21. 0:59. 1:24. 1:57. 2:14. 2:38. 3:03. 4:16...
published: 25 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Cameo " Word Up "
Soul Train Music Awards
Cameo
" Word Up " 0:21. 0:59. 1:24. 1:57. 2:14. 2:38. 3:03. 4:16
- published: 25 Aug 2012
- views: 568
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
3:49
Destiny's Ghild " Bug A Boo "
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Ghild
" Bug A Boo "...
published: 25 Aug 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Destiny's Ghild " Bug A Boo "
Soul Train Music Awards
Destiny's Ghild
" Bug A Boo "
- published: 25 Aug 2012
- views: 239
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
4:35
Queen of POP janet jackson i get lonely live at soul train music awards 1998
enjoy and comment!...
published: 01 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Queen of POP janet jackson i get lonely live at soul train music awards 1998
enjoy and comment!
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 228
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
6:05
Quincy Jones The Secret Garden Live Soul Train Awards 1991
...
published: 01 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Quincy Jones The Secret Garden Live Soul Train Awards 1991
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 20844
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
12:52
Tribute To Anita Baker - Soul Train Awards (HD)
...
published: 01 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Tribute To Anita Baker - Soul Train Awards (HD)
- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 333892
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
6:11
Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Soul Train Music Awards 1993)
Michael Jackson
Remember The Time
Soul Train Music Awards 1993
High Definition (HD)
by ...
published: 01 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Michael Jackson - Remember The Time (Soul Train Music Awards 1993)
Michael Jackson
Remember The Time
Soul Train Music Awards 1993
High Definition (HD)
by MJWorldEntertainment
© MJJ Productions Inc.
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- published: 01 Sep 2012
- views: 1130
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
3:25
BABYFACE @ SOUL TRAIN MUSIC AWARDS 1993 "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS"
Another vid from my dusty VHS collection.
Here Babyface sings "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS" li...
published: 19 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
BABYFACE @ SOUL TRAIN MUSIC AWARDS 1993 "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS"
Another vid from my dusty VHS collection.
Here Babyface sings "NEVER KEEPING SECRETS" live off the FOR THE COOL IN YOU album and displays a beautiful performance which is far from todays raunchy "let me put it in you girl" type of R&B; we hear today. No auto tune, no lip synching. A true gentleman pouring out poetic words of apology to a woman that he truly loves and wants back so they can spend the rest of their lives together. Another time machine classic of why the early 90's were so dope back than. I mean don't get me wrong I dig the current stuff, I''m far from a hater. Back than as a kid recording this on VHS I didn't appreciate it as much as I do today aka I'm just getting old lol
Lastly I recommend that you get yourself some BABYFACE albums especially this song.
IT"S ALL LOVE!!!
-mega7981
****I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS FOOTAGE OR AUDIO*** ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE RESPECTED COPYRIGHT OWNERS***
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 6223
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
3:28
Ashford & Simpson perform at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989).
Ashford & Simpson perform "I'll Be There For You" at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989...
published: 19 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Ashford & Simpson perform at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989).
Ashford & Simpson perform "I'll Be There For You" at the 3rd Soul Train Music Awards (1989). Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1454657
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 23554
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
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3:54
SILENCE OF DEATH directed by Mani Nasry (16MM FILM) 1ST YEAR RYERSON UNIVERSITY STUDENT FILM
IMDB PAGE
www.imdb.me/maninasry
This Scene expresses- FEAR- noun: an emotion experience...
published: 22 Jun 2009
author: MANI NASRY
SILENCE OF DEATH directed by Mani Nasry (16MM FILM) 1ST YEAR RYERSON UNIVERSITY STUDENT FILM
IMDB PAGE
www.imdb.me/maninasry
This Scene expresses- FEAR- noun: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight). noun: a feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or nearness of danger, evil, pain, etc.; timidity; dread; terror; fright; apprehension. Terrify not your soul with vain imaginary fears. By realizing that you are the one feeding the fire, you can start to take control of your fears. Panic is a vicious cycle that can be broken. When you start to have irrational fears you need to take action quick. Eleanor Roosevelt once said: "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing, which you think you cannot do." We must stop running away from things that frighten us, face our fears head on, and do the thing we fear the most. Most of the time we'll find out that the "thing" was not that scary after all. Our imaginations had behaved like a super fertilizer and grown a grotesque monstrosity in our minds. Remember, our imaginations are incredibly powerful. They can work against us, creating horrible images that leave us paralyzed with fear and they can also work for us, building a world where everything we do is an adventure, a miracle. And the most amazing thing is that we hold the power to control our minds - we allow fear to dominate our lives or we choose to dominate fear. Those are our only two choices.
Links of Interest for Producers and Filmmakers
Canadian Film Exhibiton Listing http://www.aflick.ca
Festival Info - Worldwide
Box Office-theatrical box office figures
film releases - chronologically listing of theatrical releases
Coming Soon- trailer archive and other stuff
Indie WIRE -Independent film and dialy new
Academmy of Canadian Cinema - www.academy.ca
Toronto Film and Television Office (for permits, etc.) - www.toronto.ca
Canadian Filmmaker (great site for producers and independent film development) - canadianfilmmaker.com
Writer's Guild Development Funding link - www/wgc/ca
LIFT Film co-op - - www.lift.on.ca
Jobs-Crews - Indie Access - www.indieaccess.com
Mandy.com - Cast and Crew - www.mandy.com
National Screen Instistute - - www.nsi-canada.ca
Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund - - www.cifvf.ca
Ontario Media Development Corporation (former OFDC) www.omdc.on.ca/
Telefilm Canada http://www.telefilm.gc.ca
Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/bcpac-cavco/index_e.cfm
(CAVCO)
Harold Greenberg Fund - - www.astralmedia.com
National Film Board http://www.nfb.ca
National Film Board - Seven week training for docs
BRAVO Fact fund - www.bravofact.com
Canadian Film and Televsion Production Association (CFTPA) http://www.cftpa.ca
Toronto Arts Council http://www.torontoartscouncil.org/
Ontario Arts Council http://www.arts.on.ca/?source=renaissancefaire.ca
Canada Council for the Arts http://www.canadacouncil.ca
Canadian Film Centre http://www.cdnfilmcentre.com
Directors Guild of Canada http://www.dgc.ca
Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC)
I.A.T.S.E.- Cameraman http://www.iatse667.com/
I.A.T.S.E.- Technicians http://www.iatse873.com
ACTRA http://www.actra.ca
Writers Guild http://www.writersguildofcanada.com
Canadian Copyright: Infringement, Fair Dealing, Ownership CIPO
Canadian Authors Association CAA
Music Rights and Licenses SOCAN
FilmToronto.com http://www.filmtoronto.com
Women in Film & Television (WIFT) http://www.wift.com
Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) http://www.imdb.com
Playback Magazine http://www.playbackmag.com
My Mediabiz http://www.mymediabiz.com
Links of Interest for Producers and Production Managers
Toronto Film Office - permits, etc.
Film Locations in Toronto
PS Production Services
William F. Whites
Panavision
Cinequip
Sim Video
Video Scope
Digital video supplies
Film Stock - Kodak
Fuji
MANI NASRY FILM AND TELEVISION RESUME Performer Profile Gender: Male Height: 5 feet 7 in Weight: 140 Age Range: 21 - 29 Physique: Athletic Hair Color: Brown Eyes: Brown Film Family Curse (2003 TV movie) Cast-Apr 01, 2003 SHADOW WALKERS PRODUCTIONS LTD Dawn of the Dead (2004) Cast-May 25, 2003/Jul 20, 2003 CORPUS VIVOS PRODUCTIONS INC Beautiful Girl (2003 TV movie) Cast-Aug 31, 2003 NEVER TIME PRODUCTIONS LTD New York Minute (2004/I) Cast-Sep 07, 2003 NY MINUTE FILMS INC Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (2004 TV movie) Cast-Oct 18, 2003 ADJUSTMENT BULLOCH Childstar (2004) Cast-Nov 23, 2003/Dec 07, 2003 RHOMBUS MEDIA The Coven (2004 TV movie) Cast-Dec 07, 2003 COVEN PRODUCTIONS CORP Man of the Year (2006) Cast-Feb 14, 2006 AXIUM ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES CANADA HOOKED ON SPEEDMAN Cast-Mar 08, 2006 PLAYING ARMY PRODUCTIONS INC "WHAT DO YOU SEE 1" Cast-Mar 14, 2006 ARNOLD WORLDWIDE CANADA Roa
4:58
Jesse Boykins III -Come To My Room(Official Music Video)
When I created The Beauty Created I aimed to make music that symbolizes moments of love at...
published: 24 Nov 2010
author: LightUp Film
Jesse Boykins III -Come To My Room(Official Music Video)
When I created The Beauty Created I aimed to make music that symbolizes moments of love at every level. It has been 2 years since the task and I feel as if I have made these very moments with all of you. I know the best way to show my appreciation is to continue our connection by making more passionate music. I am truly grateful for every ear that has heard a song from that album, and shared a song with their loved ones. I will continue to insist on romance in every lyric I put melody to. Thank You. Also Thanks to Soul Train & Centric for my award nomination.
http://jbiiimusic.com @jb3music
http://lightupfilm.com @LightUpFilm
0:30
Soul Train Award Opening Animation
Character design, original art, and direction by Thunderdog Studio. Animation by Interspec...
published: 25 Nov 2009
author: BERNSTEIN & ANDRIULLI
Soul Train Award Opening Animation
Character design, original art, and direction by Thunderdog Studio. Animation by Interspectacular.
Youtube results:
4:29
Whitney Houston
Hold Up The Lights-Live at Soul Train Music Awards 1989...
published: 19 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
Whitney Houston
Hold Up The Lights-Live at Soul Train Music Awards 1989
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 3318
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
1:35
The Soul Train Award Shows
November marks the return of the legendary Soul Train Music Awards which will broadcast No...
published: 19 Sep 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
The Soul Train Award Shows
November marks the return of the legendary Soul Train Music Awards which will broadcast November 29, 2009 on the Centric network. Bridging the gap between traditional Soul and present day Hip-Hop and R&B;, the landmark Soul Train Music Awards first aired in 1987 and became an annual event through 2007. In addition to award presentations and acceptance speeches, each Soul Train Music Awards show included outstanding musical performances.
- published: 19 Sep 2012
- views: 8995
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
80:01
The Soul Train Christmas Starfest 1998!"
The 1998 Soul Train Starfest!" w/
Lou Rawls!"
Take 6!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Luther Vandross!"
J...
published: 06 Dec 2012
author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
The Soul Train Christmas Starfest 1998!"
The 1998 Soul Train Starfest!" w/
Lou Rawls!"
Take 6!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Luther Vandross!"
Jeffrey Osborne!"
Patti LaBelle!"
Kenny G.!"
Chaka Khan!"
The Whispers!"
Donald Lawrence,Hezekiah Walker,Karen Clark-Sheard,& Kirk Franklin!"
Tamia!"
Natalie Cole!"
Yolanda Adams!"
Chante Moore!"
Take 6!"
Patti LaBelle!"
Kirk Franklin!"
Mary J. Blige!"
Dru-Hill!"
Lou Rawls!"
- published: 06 Dec 2012
- views: 2218
- author: Oohbabyyeahbaby
4:35
Janet Jackson - I Get Lonely ( LIVE Soul Train Awards 1998)
Such an emotional song and still the dancing makes it a sexy song.
Only Janet could combin...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
Janet Jackson - I Get Lonely ( LIVE Soul Train Awards 1998)
Such an emotional song and still the dancing makes it a sexy song.
Only Janet could combine sexy and sad nicely.
Sorry for the low volume, you have to turn your speakers up.
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 94858
- author: Tim Jones
14:23
Soul Train Music Awards 2010 (Full Tribute Anita Baker & Speech)
Anita Baker tribute at the 2010 Soultrain music awards...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
Soul Train Music Awards 2010 (Full Tribute Anita Baker & Speech)
Anita Baker tribute at the 2010 Soultrain music awards
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 114513
- author: Tim Jones
3:56
Vanity 6 (Soul Train) Nasty Girl
VERY RARE FOOTAGE OF THE ORIGINAL VANITY 6 ON SOUL TRAIN
SEE MORE VIDEOS @
THE HIP HOP REP...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
Vanity 6 (Soul Train) Nasty Girl
VERY RARE FOOTAGE OF THE ORIGINAL VANITY 6 ON SOUL TRAIN
SEE MORE VIDEOS @
THE HIP HOP REPUBLIC/ THE HHR
http://www.thehiphoprepublic.com
FOLLOW US: @PURPLECITY360
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 419274
- author: Tim Jones
5:38
Deniece Williams - Free
Deniece Williams - Free Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=ch...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
Deniece Williams - Free
Deniece Williams - Free Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1419585
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 104881
- author: Tim Jones
7:37
(HQ) Fantasia, Erikah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone - Tribute to Chaka Khan
Fantasia, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone in a Tribute to Chaka Khan.
Video by Rania...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
(HQ) Fantasia, Erikah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone - Tribute to Chaka Khan
Fantasia, Erykah Badu, Ledisi and Angie Stone in a Tribute to Chaka Khan.
Video by RaniaC. Thanks Rania.
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 569496
- author: Tim Jones
Vimeo results:
3:54
SILENCE OF DEATH directed by Mani Nasry (16MM FILM) 1ST YEAR RYERSON UNIVERSITY STUDENT FILM
IMDB PAGE
www.imdb.me/maninasry
This Scene expresses- FEAR- noun: an emotion experience...
published: 22 Jun 2009
author: MANI NASRY
SILENCE OF DEATH directed by Mani Nasry (16MM FILM) 1ST YEAR RYERSON UNIVERSITY STUDENT FILM
IMDB PAGE
www.imdb.me/maninasry
This Scene expresses- FEAR- noun: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight). noun: a feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or nearness of danger, evil, pain, etc.; timidity; dread; terror; fright; apprehension. Terrify not your soul with vain imaginary fears. By realizing that you are the one feeding the fire, you can start to take control of your fears. Panic is a vicious cycle that can be broken. When you start to have irrational fears you need to take action quick. Eleanor Roosevelt once said: "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing, which you think you cannot do." We must stop running away from things that frighten us, face our fears head on, and do the thing we fear the most. Most of the time we'll find out that the "thing" was not that scary after all. Our imaginations had behaved like a super fertilizer and grown a grotesque monstrosity in our minds. Remember, our imaginations are incredibly powerful. They can work against us, creating horrible images that leave us paralyzed with fear and they can also work for us, building a world where everything we do is an adventure, a miracle. And the most amazing thing is that we hold the power to control our minds - we allow fear to dominate our lives or we choose to dominate fear. Those are our only two choices.
Links of Interest for Producers and Filmmakers
Canadian Film Exhibiton Listing http://www.aflick.ca
Festival Info - Worldwide
Box Office-theatrical box office figures
film releases - chronologically listing of theatrical releases
Coming Soon- trailer archive and other stuff
Indie WIRE -Independent film and dialy new
Academmy of Canadian Cinema - www.academy.ca
Toronto Film and Television Office (for permits, etc.) - www.toronto.ca
Canadian Filmmaker (great site for producers and independent film development) - canadianfilmmaker.com
Writer's Guild Development Funding link - www/wgc/ca
LIFT Film co-op - - www.lift.on.ca
Jobs-Crews - Indie Access - www.indieaccess.com
Mandy.com - Cast and Crew - www.mandy.com
National Screen Instistute - - www.nsi-canada.ca
Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund - - www.cifvf.ca
Ontario Media Development Corporation (former OFDC) www.omdc.on.ca/
Telefilm Canada http://www.telefilm.gc.ca
Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/ac-ca/progs/bcpac-cavco/index_e.cfm
(CAVCO)
Harold Greenberg Fund - - www.astralmedia.com
National Film Board http://www.nfb.ca
National Film Board - Seven week training for docs
BRAVO Fact fund - www.bravofact.com
Canadian Film and Televsion Production Association (CFTPA) http://www.cftpa.ca
Toronto Arts Council http://www.torontoartscouncil.org/
Ontario Arts Council http://www.arts.on.ca/?source=renaissancefaire.ca
Canada Council for the Arts http://www.canadacouncil.ca
Canadian Film Centre http://www.cdnfilmcentre.com
Directors Guild of Canada http://www.dgc.ca
Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC)
I.A.T.S.E.- Cameraman http://www.iatse667.com/
I.A.T.S.E.- Technicians http://www.iatse873.com
ACTRA http://www.actra.ca
Writers Guild http://www.writersguildofcanada.com
Canadian Copyright: Infringement, Fair Dealing, Ownership CIPO
Canadian Authors Association CAA
Music Rights and Licenses SOCAN
FilmToronto.com http://www.filmtoronto.com
Women in Film & Television (WIFT) http://www.wift.com
Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) http://www.imdb.com
Playback Magazine http://www.playbackmag.com
My Mediabiz http://www.mymediabiz.com
Links of Interest for Producers and Production Managers
Toronto Film Office - permits, etc.
Film Locations in Toronto
PS Production Services
William F. Whites
Panavision
Cinequip
Sim Video
Video Scope
Digital video supplies
Film Stock - Kodak
Fuji
MANI NASRY FILM AND TELEVISION RESUME Performer Profile Gender: Male Height: 5 feet 7 in Weight: 140 Age Range: 21 - 29 Physique: Athletic Hair Color: Brown Eyes: Brown Film Family Curse (2003 TV movie) Cast-Apr 01, 2003 SHADOW WALKERS PRODUCTIONS LTD Dawn of the Dead (2004) Cast-May 25, 2003/Jul 20, 2003 CORPUS VIVOS PRODUCTIONS INC Beautiful Girl (2003 TV movie) Cast-Aug 31, 2003 NEVER TIME PRODUCTIONS LTD New York Minute (2004/I) Cast-Sep 07, 2003 NY MINUTE FILMS INC Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story (2004 TV movie) Cast-Oct 18, 2003 ADJUSTMENT BULLOCH Childstar (2004) Cast-Nov 23, 2003/Dec 07, 2003 RHOMBUS MEDIA The Coven (2004 TV movie) Cast-Dec 07, 2003 COVEN PRODUCTIONS CORP Man of the Year (2006) Cast-Feb 14, 2006 AXIUM ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES CANADA HOOKED ON SPEEDMAN Cast-Mar 08, 2006 PLAYING ARMY PRODUCTIONS INC "WHAT DO YOU SEE 1" Cast-Mar 14, 2006 ARNOLD WORLDWIDE CANADA Roa
4:58
Jesse Boykins III -Come To My Room(Official Music Video)
When I created The Beauty Created I aimed to make music that symbolizes moments of love at...
published: 24 Nov 2010
author: LightUp Film
Jesse Boykins III -Come To My Room(Official Music Video)
When I created The Beauty Created I aimed to make music that symbolizes moments of love at every level. It has been 2 years since the task and I feel as if I have made these very moments with all of you. I know the best way to show my appreciation is to continue our connection by making more passionate music. I am truly grateful for every ear that has heard a song from that album, and shared a song with their loved ones. I will continue to insist on romance in every lyric I put melody to. Thank You. Also Thanks to Soul Train & Centric for my award nomination.
http://jbiiimusic.com @jb3music
http://lightupfilm.com @LightUpFilm
0:30
Soul Train Award Opening Animation
Character design, original art, and direction by Thunderdog Studio. Animation by Interspec...
published: 25 Nov 2009
author: BERNSTEIN & ANDRIULLI
Soul Train Award Opening Animation
Character design, original art, and direction by Thunderdog Studio. Animation by Interspectacular.
Youtube results:
3:23
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Eine Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe Kreation! The Pioneers, The Temptations, NYCC. Visuals courtesy ...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Eine Dr Heinz Funkenpumpe Kreation! The Pioneers, The Temptations, NYCC. Visuals courtesy Mad Vision - http://soultrain.com/
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 2612487
- author: Tim Jones
3:33
Janet Jackson - Soul Train 1982 - Say You Do [www.janeticon.com] Rare video
http://www.janeticon.com...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
Janet Jackson - Soul Train 1982 - Say You Do [www.janeticon.com] Rare video
http://www.janeticon.com
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 13416
- author: Tim Jones
4:07
S.O.S. Band performs Take Your Time (1980).
S.O.S. Band performs "Take Your Time" (1980). Watch more videos like this at http://soultr...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: Tim Jones
S.O.S. Band performs Take Your Time (1980).
S.O.S. Band performs "Take Your Time" (1980). Watch more videos like this at http://soultrain.com/videos/?uri=channels/397041/1231781
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 227337
- author: Tim Jones
photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster
20 Dec 2012
Obama held a White House news conference on Wednesday to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an interagency effort to craft new gun policies. The group is expected to offer its proposals in January. “We know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply held passions and political divides,” Obama said. “But the fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing.” ... WAKE-UP CALL ... ....(size: 6.1Kb)
photo: AP / Fahd al-Bakoush
20 Dec 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior U.S. State Department officials were asked to resign after an official inquiry harshly criticized their offices for failing to provide adequate security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, before it came under attack in September, a U.S. official said on Wednesday ... State Department officials declined to comment on the matter, saying it was a personnel issue ... Joint Chiefs of Staff ... facilities....(size: 5.4Kb)
photo: AP / Alfred de Montesquiou
21 Dec 2012
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council on Thursday authorized military action to wrest northern Mali from the control of al-Qaida-linked extremists, but it demanded progress first on political reconciliation, elections and training African troops and police ... Instead, it set out benchmarks to be met before the start of offensive operations, starting with progress on a political roadmap to restore constitutional order ... U.N ... On Nov ... ....(size: 3.1Kb)
photo: Public Domain / Tm
21 Dec 2012
In parallel to political efforts to draw the Tuareg rebels into a coalition against the extremist groups, European nations and the international force, to be known as the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA), will first train Mali’s army ... The resolution emphasized that “military planning will need to be further refined before the commencement of the offensive operation.” ... Agence France-Presse ....(size: 1.9Kb)
photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon
20 Dec 2012
SEOUL, South Korea — Park Geun-hye's election as South Korea's first female president could mean a new drive to start talks with bitter rival North Korea, though it's unclear how much further she will go than the hard-line incumbent, a member of her own conservative party ... On Thursday, Park mentioned the North Korean rocket launch during a nationally televised speech ... Ties between the Koreas plummeted during Lee's term ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
Skiddle
23 Dec 2012
Katey Brooks - Singing folked-up soul in a rich, deep voice lilting effortlessly across the scale, INDY Music Award finalist Katey is on the road to becoming a phenomenon and will also be sharing a duet with Nikki ... Lee has an amazing soulful rock voice and has spent the last few years fronting a "Free" tribute band. He is currently lead singer in Led Zeppelin tribute band, "Whole Lotta Led." Boy does he have Soul!....(size: 2.5Kb)
The Examiner
23 Dec 2012
Awards (Male Artist of the Year/Single of the Year Redeemer) and also received a national contract with Central South Distribution, Inc ... Inman’s song, “Unleash Your Power" won the 2012 En Sound Music Award (Best Choral Performance). Additionally, he won New Artist of the Year at the 2012 DMV Christian Music Awards last month ... Gospel Music Awards....(size: 2.8Kb)
Skiddle
23 Dec 2012
Nubian soul bringing to Manchester one central 80s 90s soul ... These tickets are on sale for Nubian soul ... event info venue news Nubian soul details. Lineup and Details for Nubian soul on Wed 26th December 2012 ... the very best in 80s/90s old Sokol soul reggae & R&B. Soul diva PAULINE HENRY (THE CHIMES)....(size: 1.8Kb)
Joystiq
23 Dec 2012
Fans of From Software's Demon's Souls and Dark Souls games sure like a challenge ... Dark Souls ......(size: 0.5Kb)
The Observer
23 Dec 2012
Has football lost its soul? I don't think so ... Has football lost its soul? I don't think so ... Has football lost its soul? The Olympics certainly produced some fantastic role models by comparison – but I don't think football has lost its soul ... Has football lost its soul? Undoubtedly the game has been affected by the racism, squabbles and the rest, but the soul of the game was always based to a degree on controversy and tribalism....(size: 16.2Kb)
The Observer
23 Dec 2012
Has football lost its soul? It's become a corporate behemoth. But for as long as Jack Wilshere and his ilk continue to honour their one-club promises, there are some last vestiges of soul ... Has football lost its soul? Yes, but it's not Villa's fault ... Has football lost its soul? I loved the Olympics but it still didn't come close to the feeling of exhilaration when Chelsea score....(size: 16.5Kb)
The Independent
23 Dec 2012
What are we talking about? An action thriller about the US military's hunt for Osama bin Laden ... Again, she's working with a script by Mark Boal, who also won an Academy Award for The Hurt Locker. The stars Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life; Lawless) plays Maya ... The early buzz Deafening ... It is also a wrenchingly sad, soul-shaking story about revenge and its moral costs, which makes it the most important American fiction movie about Sept....(size: 2.4Kb)
Skiddle
23 Dec 2012
Saxophonist Nat Birchall remains one of the UKs hidden jazz treasures, a spiritual, soulful saxophonist happily based in a quiet village in the Northern hills ... My music is very simple, harmonically and melodically, so you have to play with as much conviction and soul as possible because there's nothing to hide behind, just the truth of how you feel the music ... Classical, Funk, Jazz, Soul....(size: 2.6Kb)
The Examiner
23 Dec 2012
What could be better than celebrating the season with the Ovation Award-winning Troubies as they offer a rock re-telling of the classic holiday Ruldoph tale? Great dancing and singing, plus some of the best costumes ever (hats off to Sharon McGunigle) and a winning wig design for Hermey the elf who yearns to be a dentist, Rein-Doors is a not-to-be-missed delight....(size: 2.5Kb)
noodls
23 Dec 2012
Houston Texans) The Texans have selected QB Matt Schaub as their 2012 Ed Block Courage Award winner ... The Texans have selected QB as their 2012 Ed Block Courage Award winner. Recipients are selected by a vote of their teammates to recognize extra efforts both on and off the field and their ability to overcome great adversity ... Houston's Ed Block Courage Award winners.....(size: 3.9Kb)
Skiddle
23 Dec 2012
The Bulls Head, Moseley Sat 29th December 2012. As usual you can expect heaps of Funk, Soul, Reggae, Breaks, Hip Hop, Glitch Hop, Bass Music and loads of mashups. Date. Saturday 29th December 2012. Venue. The Bulls Head ». Location. Birmingham ». Doors ... Short url ... As usual you can expect heaps of Funk, Soul, Reggae, Breaks, Hip Hop, Glitch Hop, Bass Music and loads of cheeky mashups ... WHEN ... WHERE ... Breaks, Funk, Hip Hop, Reggae, Soul ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
The Independent
23 Dec 2012
Audiences often invest a lot of emotion in CGI creations, however obviously artificial ... "Mumbles the Penguin saved his community by dancing across Antarctica. What did you ever do – loser?" ... "Animals have souls," Pi insists, and the film's bet is to convince us that CGI animals have souls too. Pi's tiger nearly persuaded me – but while it may have a kind of soul, it doesn't have the smell of a tiger, if you know what I mean ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
Tampa Bay Online
23 Dec 2012
"I've always felt that it should be easier for a young player to make the team season in progress as opposed to out of spring training," Maddon said. "When they make the team out of spring training expectations get raised even higher, and I think if you're really looking for a young man to apply pressure to himself it's then, when he makes it out of camp and Opening Day comes and all the stuff is being written and it's tough....(size: 4.2Kb)
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The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication, and honors the best in Black music and entertainment. It is produced by the makers of Soul Train, the program from which it takes its name, and features musical performances by various R&B and Soul recording artists interspersed throughout the ceremonies. The special traditionally used to air in either February, March or April, but now airs the last weekend of November (in most years, Thanksgiving weekend).
The Soul Train Music Awards voting body includes active professionals in the fields of radio programming and music retail and management and recording artists with records that have charted in designated music trade publications in the year prior to proceedings.
Past hosts for the show include such R&B luminaries as Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Patti LaBelle, Will Smith, Vanessa Williams, and Gladys Knight.
The Soul Train Music Award trophy has featured an African ceremonial mask since its 1987 introduction. R&B singer Janet Jackson holds the record for the most Soul Train Awards won.[1]
The 2008 ceremonies were not held due to several factors, including the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the ill health of Don Cornelius at the time, and Soul Train distributor Tribune Entertainment terminating operations in the wake of the sale of Tribune Company to Sam Zell. With the rights to Soul Train acquired by MadVision Entertainment, the Soul Train Music Awards were presented on November 24, 2009 on Centric. MadVision now holds the rerun rights to Soul Train.
The 2009 ceremony was held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, marking the first time in the show's 22-year history it was held outside of the Los Angeles area. The 2010 awards was held on November 10 just outside Atlanta at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, and aired on BET and Centric on November 28.[2] The 2011 show was once again held in Atlanta and aired on BET November 27th.[3]
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Soul Train Music Awards by year[link]
- 1987 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1988 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1989 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1990 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1991 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1992 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1993 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1994 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1995 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1996 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1997 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1998 Soul Train Music Awards
- 1999 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2000 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2001 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2002 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2003 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2004 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2005 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2006 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2007 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2009 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2010 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2011 Soul Train Music Awards
Award categories[link]
- Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year
- Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year
- Best New Artist
- The Michael Jackson Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video
- Best R&B/Soul Album, Female
- Best R&B/Soul Album, Male
- Best R&B/Soul Album, Group Band or Duo
- Best R&B/Soul Single, Female
- Best R&B/Soul Single, Male
- Best R&B/Soul Single, Group, Band or Duo
- Best Gospel Album
- Best Jazz Album
- Best Rap Album
Special awards[link]
- Quincy Jones Award for Career Achievement
- Heritage Award - Career Achievement
- Sammy Davis Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year
- Artist of the Decade Award - for Extraordinary Artistic Achievements
- Stevie Wonder Award for Outstanding Achievements in Song Writing
- Legend Award
Defunct Award Categories[link]
- The Sprite Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap Dance Cut
- Best Rap - Single
- Best Gospel Album - Solo
- Best Gospel Album - Group or Band
- Best Jazz Album - Solo
- Best Jazz Album - Group, Band or Duo
Most Wins/Nominations[link]
- Most Wins
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist | Janet Jackson | Mariah Carey Alicia Keys |
R. Kelly Michael Jackson Anita Baker |
Mary J. Blige Beyonce TLC Boyz II Men |
Whitney Houston Luther Vandross Erykah Badu Toni Braxton Maxwell Lauryn Hill Ciara |
| Total Wins | 13 wins | 9 Wins | 8 wins | 6 wins | 5 wins |
- Most Nominations
| Rank | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist | R. Kelly Janet Jackson |
Mary J. Blige | Whitney Houston Luther Vandross |
Mariah Carey Boyz II Men Michael Jackson Beyonce |
Alicia Keys Usher |
| Total Nominations | 19 nominations | 18 nominations | 16 nominations | 15 nominations | 13 Nominations |
References[link]
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Janet_Jackson#Soul_Train_Music_Awards
- ^ http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2010/07/14/soul-train-awards-returning-to-atlanta-november-10
- ^ http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2011/07/05/sixth-annual-bet-hip-hop-awards-soul-train-awards-will-return-to-atlanta/?cxntlid=thbz_hm
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| Soul Train | |
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| Format | Musical variety |
| Created by | Don Cornelius |
| Starring | Don Cornelius (1971–1993) various guest hosts (1993–1997) Mystro Clark (1997–1999) Shemar Moore (2000–2003) Dorian Gregory (2003–2006) |
| Narrated by | Sid McCoy |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 1,117 (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Don Cornelius |
| Running time | 45–48 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Don Cornelius Productions |
| Distributor | Tribune Entertainment |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Syndication |
| Original run | October 2, 1971 (1971-10-02) – March 25, 2006 (2006-03-25) |
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Soul Train is an American musical variety show that aired in syndication from October 1971 to March 2006. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by R&B, soul, and hip hop artists, although funk, jazz, disco, and gospel artists have also appeared.
As a nod to Soul Train's longevity, the show's opening sequence (during later seasons) contained a claim that it was the "longest-running, first-run, nationally syndicated program in television history," with over 1,100 episodes produced from the show's debut through the 2005-06 season.
The series was created by Don Cornelius, who also served as its first host and executive producer, and aired first-run episodes from 1971 to 2006. Production was suspended following the 2005-2006 season, with a rerun package (known as The Best of Soul Train) airing for two years after that.
Despite this, in years on air, Soul Train will continue to hold the honor of the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated program in television history until at least 2016, if and when its nearest competitor, Entertainment Tonight, completes its 35th season. (If ET does not complete a 35th season, Wheel of Fortune would pass in 2018 if it continues to air.)
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History[link]
Chicago origins[link]
The origins of Soul Train can be traced to 1965, when WCIU-TV, an upstart UHF station in Chicago, began airing two youth-oriented dance programs: Kiddie-a-Go-Go and Red Hot and Blues. These two programs—specifically the latter, which featured a predominantly African American group of in-studio dancers—would set the stage for what was to come to the station several years later. Don Cornelius, a news reader and backup disc jockey at Chicago radio station WVON, was hired by WCIU in 1967 as a news and sports reporter. Cornelius also was promoting and emceeing a touring series of concerts featuring local talent (sometimes called "record hops") at Chicago-area high schools, calling his travelling caravan of shows "The Soul Train". WCIU-TV took notice of Cornelius's outside work and in 1970, allowed him the opportunity to bring his road show to television.
After securing a sponsorship deal with the Chicago-based retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co., Soul Train premiered on WCIU-TV on August 17, 1970, as a live show airing weekday afternoons. The first episode of the program featured Jerry Butler, the Chi-Lites, and the Emotions as guests. Cornelius was assisted by Clinton Ghent, a local professional dancer who appeared on early episodes before moving behind the scenes as a producer and secondary host.[1]
Move to syndication[link]
Its immediate success attracted the attention of another locally based firm—the Johnson Products Company (manufacturers of the Afro Sheen line of hair-care products)—and they later agreed to co-sponsor the program's expansion into national syndication. Cornelius and Soul Train's syndicator targeted 24 markets outside of Chicago to carry the show, but stations in only seven other cities—Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Francisco—purchased the program, which began airing on a weekly basis on October 2, 1971. By the end of the first season, Soul Train was on in the other seventeen markets.[2] When the program moved into syndication, its home base was also shifted to Los Angeles, where it remained for the duration of its run. In 1985 Chicago-based Tribune Entertainment took over the show's syndication responsibilities.
Though Don Cornelius moved his operations west, Soul Train continued in Chicago as a local program. Cornelius hosted the local Chicago and Los Angeles-based national programs simultaneously, but soon focused his attention solely on the national edition. He continued to oversee production in Chicago, where Clinton Ghent hosted episodes on WCIU-TV until 1976, followed by three years of once-weekly reruns.[3] The syndicated version was picked up in Chicago by CBS-owned WBBM-TV at its launch; the program moved to WGN-TV in 1977 and remained there for the balance of its run.
Later years[link]
Don Cornelius ended his run as host at the end of the show's 22nd season in 1993, though he remained the show's main creative force from behind the scenes. The following fall, Soul Train began using various guest hosts weekly until comedian Mystro Clark began a two-year stint as permanent host in 1997. Clark was replaced by actor Shemar Moore in 2000. In 2003, Moore was succeeded by actor Dorian Gregory, who hosted through 2006.
Production of first-run episodes was suspended at the conclusion of the 2005-06 season, the show's thirty-fifth, though several episodes were apparently produced for a thirty-sixth season that never aired. Instead, for two seasons starting in 2006-07, the program aired archived episodes (all from between 1974 and 1987) under the title The Best of Soul Train.[4] This was because in recent years, Nielsen ratings dropped to below 1.0; however, the classic episodes seemed to revive interest in the series and received a mostly positive response. In the process, some of the stations that used to air Soul Train on Saturday afternoons started burying it to middle-of-the-night time slots.[5] The future of Soul Train was uncertain with the announced closing of Tribune Entertainment's syndication division on December 18, 2007, which left Don Cornelius Productions to seek a new distributor for the program.[6] Cornelius soon secured a deal with Trifecta Entertainment & Media.
Revival[link]
When Don Cornelius Productions still owned the program, clips of the show's performances and interviews were kept away from online video sites such as YouTube due to copyright infringement claims.[citation needed] Cornelius also frowned upon unauthorized distribution of Soul Train episodes through the sale of third-party VHS or DVD compilations.
In May 2008, Cornelius sold the rights to the Soul Train library to MadVision Entertainment, whose principal partners come from the entertainment and publishing fields. The price and terms of the deal were not disclosed.[7] However, by the start of the 2008-09 television season, the Tribune-owned stations (including national carrier WGN America) that had been the linchpin of the show's syndication efforts dropped the program, and many others followed suit. Soul Train's website acknowledged that the program had ceased distribution on September 22, 2008.
Following the purchase by MadVision, the Soul Train archives were exposed to new forms of distribution. In April 2009, MadVision launched a Soul Train channel on YouTube. Three months later, the company entered into a licensing agreement with Time–Life to distribute Soul Train DVD sets.[8][9] MadVision then came to terms with Viacom-owned Black Entertainment Television to relaunch the Soul Train Music Awards for BET's new spin-off channel, Centric, in November 2009, a move that may be one step into reviving the program. Centric, which launched on September 28, 2009, is currently broadcasting archived episodes of the program. Archived episodes of the series can also be seen on Bounce TV, an Atlanta-based television network that launched on September 26, 2011.
MadVision sold the rights to Soul Train to a consortium led by basketball player Magic Johnson in 2011. Johnson's group plans on a potential film project Cornelius had briefly mentioned prior to selling the franchise, as well as producing potential stage adaptations and a cruise.[10]
Cornelius continued to appear for Soul Train documentaries and ceremonies up until his death in February 2012.
Influence[link]
During the heyday of Soul Train in the 1970s and 1980s, the program was widely influential among younger African Americans, many of whom turned to it not only to hear the latest songs by well-known African-American artists, but also for clues about the latest fashions and dance trends. Moreover, for many white Americans in that era who were not living in areas that were racially diverse, Soul Train provided a unique window into African-American culture. Some commentators have called Soul Train a "black American Bandstand", another long-running program with which Soul Train shares some similarities. Cornelius, however, tended to bristle at the Bandstand comparison.[11]
Dick Clark, host and producer of American Bandstand, attempted to divert viewers from Soul Train with a similarly themed program called Soul Unlimited, whose brief run on ABC in 1973 was controversial for its pronounced racial overtures. Clark ended Soul Unlimited after a handful of airings and agreed to work with Cornelius on a series of network specials featuring R&B and Soul artists.[12][13]
Cornelius was relatively conservative in his musical tastes and was admittedly not a fan of the emerging hip hop genre, believing that the genre did not reflect positively on African-American culture (one of his stated goals for the series). Even though Cornelius would feature rap artists on Soul Train frequently during the 1980s, he publicly would admit (to the artists' faces such as Kurtis Blow for example) that the genre was one that he did not understand; as rap continued to move further toward hardcore hip hop, Cornelius would admit to be frightened by the antics of groups such as Public Enemy. Rosie Perez testified in the 2010 VH1 documentary Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America that Cornelius also disliked seeing the show's dancers perform sexually suggestive "East Coast" dance moves. Cornelius admittedly only had rap artists on the show because the genre was becoming popular among his African-American audience, though the decision alienated middle-aged, more affluent African-Americans like himself. This disconnect eventually led to Cornelius stepping down as host in the early 1990s and the show losing its influence.[14]
Program elements[link]
Within the structure of the program, there were two enduring elements. The first was the "Soul Train Scramble Board", where two dancers are given sixty seconds to unscramble a set of letters which form the name of that show's performer or a notable person in African-American history. In describing the person's renown, the host concluded their description with the phrase "...whose name you should know". There was also the popular "Soul Train Line", in which all the dancers form two lines with a space in the middle for dancers to strut down and dance in consecutive order. Originally, this consisted of a couple - with men on one side and women on the other.
In later years, men and women had their own individual line-ups. Sometimes, new dance styles or moves were featured or introduced by particular dancers. In addition, there was an in-studio group of dancers who danced along to the music as it was being performed. Rosie Perez, Damita Jo Freeman, Darnell Williams, Carmen Electra, Nick Cannon, MC Hammer, Jermaine Stewart, Fred "Rerun" Berry, Laurieann Gibson, Pebbles, and NFL legend Walter Payton were among those who got noticed dancing on the program over the years. Two former dancers, Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel, enjoyed years of success as members of the R&B group Shalamar after they were chosen by Soul Train talent booker/record promoter Dick Griffey and Cornelius to replace the group's original session singers in 1978. [15][16] Watley would later enjoy success as a solo artist after leaving Shalamar.
Each guest usually performed twice on each program; after their first number, they were joined by the program host on-stage for a brief interview. The show was also known for two popular catchphrases, referring to itself as the "hippest trip in America" at the beginning of the show and closing the program with "...and as always in parting, we wish you love, peace... and SOUL!"
Spin-offs[link]
In 1987, Soul Train launched the Soul Train Music Awards, which honors the top performances in R&B, hip-hop, and gospel music (and, in its earlier years, jazz music) from the previous year. Soul Train later created two additional annual specials: The Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, first airing in 1995, celebrated top achievements by female performers; and the Soul Train Christmas Starfest, which premiered in 1998, featured holiday music performed by a variety of R&B and gospel artists.
The Lady of Soul Awards and Christmas Starfest programs last aired in 2006. In April 2008, Don Cornelius announced that year's Soul Train Music Awards ceremony had been canceled. Cornelius cited the three-month-long strike by the Writers Guild of America as one of the reasons, though a main factor may have been the uncertainty surrounding Soul Train's future. Cornelius also announced that a motion picture based on the program was in development.[17] However, new owner MadVision appears to be following their own agenda for the program, which included reviving the Soul Train Music Awards in 2009.[8][18]
Theme music[link]
Soul Train used various original and current music for theme songs during its run, including:
- 1971-1973: "SoulTrain (Hot Potato)" by King Curtis (Curtis Ousley) and later redone by the Rimshots as "Soul Train, Parts 1&2". [The original 1962 version Curtis recorded 9 years before the show was named "Hot Potatoes (Piping Hot)"]
- 1973-1975: "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", composed by Gamble and Huff and recorded by Philadelphia soul studio group MFSB with vocals by the Three Degrees. Released as a single, this song became a pop and R&B radio hit in 1974 and the show's best-known theme.
- 1975-1976: "Soul Train '75" by the Soul Train Gang, which was later released as a single for the newly formed Soul Train Records
- 1976-1978: "Soul Train '76 (Get on Board)", also by the Soul Train Gang
- 1978-1980: "Soul Train Theme '79", produced by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band with vocals by the Waters
- 1980-1983: "Up on Soul Train", first by the Waters and later by the Whispers, whose version appears in their 1980 album Imagination.
- 1983-1987: "Soul Train's a Comin'" by R&B artist O'Bryan[19]
- 1987-1989: "TSOP '87", a remake of the original "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", composed and produced by George Duke
- 1989-1993: "TSOP '89", a remixed version of "TSOP '87", also by George Duke
- 1993-1999: "Soul Train '93" (Know You Like to Dance)" by the hip-hop group Naughty by Nature with a saxophone solo by Everette Harp
- 2000-2006: "TSOP 2000", with rap vocals by hip hop artist Samson and music by Dr. Freeze, and again featuring an Everette Harp saxophone solo. However, a portion of "Know You Like to Dance" was still used in the show's second-half opening segment during this period.
References in popular culture[link]
- In I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), the lead character, Jack Spade, and his ex-girlfriend have a flashback about their experience of dancing on Soul Train. They dance down the Soul Train line (to the song "Dancing Machine" by the Jackson 5) but are so terrible they knock out all the other participants.
- A sequence in Charlie's Angels (2000) featured actress Cameron Diaz dancing on Soul Train.
- In 1974, Junior Walker recorded a song called "Dancin' Like They Do on Soul Train".
- The sketch comedy show In Living Color parodied Soul Train in 1990 with a sketch called "Old Train," parodying Cornelius's (and the show's) age and increasing disconnect with modern black music.
- An episode in the 36th season of Saturday Night Live parodied The Best of Soul Train by advertising a collection titled The Worst of Soul Train, featuring various bizarre or spoof performances.
- On the television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, it is revealed that Philip proposed to Vivian on an episode of Soul Train in the 1970s. They are asked to return on a special anniversary show. Don Cornelius played himself in the episode.
- An episode of The Steve Harvey Show featured Steve and some students going down a Soul Train line during detention.
- At the end of the movie This Christmas the main cast danced down a "Soul Train" line to Marvin Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up" (before the credit roll).
- IGT acquired the rights to create a slot machine based on the series.
- The show is parodied as The Soul Mass Transit System in The Simpsons' episode Rosebud.
- In the season 3 episode of The Cleveland Show titled "The Men In Me", Cleveland decides to take a trip on the 6:30 Soul Train as a staring point to go back to his roots.
See also[link]
- Lists of Soul Train episodes
- Guests on Soul Train
- SOLAR Records
- Soul Train Music Awards
- Showtime at the Apollo
- The Midnight Special
- Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
References[link]
- ^ Shamontiel L. Vaughn (2009-01-26). "Soul Train reunion to honor show host, Ghent". chicagodefender.com. http://www.chicagodefender.com/article-3052-soul-train-reunion-to-honor-show-host-ghent.html. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
- ^ http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/misstrenee/15SecondsApril.html&date=2009-10-26+02:44:26
- ^ Jake Austen (2008-10-02). "Soul Train Local: The show that put Aficrican-American music on TVs across America got its start in Chicago—and even after it moved to L.A., Chicago kept its own version running daily for nearly a decade". chicagoreader.com. http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/soultrain/. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ http://www.soultrain.com/stweekly/libraryframeset.html Soul Train - Don Cornelius Productions, Inc
- ^ The future of "Soul Train"
- ^ ffd([1])
- ^ Stelter, Brian (2008-06-17). "After 38 Years, ‘Soul Train' Gets New Owner". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/business/media/17soul.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=soul+train&st=nyt&oref=slogin&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2010-04-09.
- ^ a b . http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/music/news/e3i70172e607ddc1be9b409953d18cfe6f9. [dead link]
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- ^ Associated Press (February 21, 2012). What's next for the Soul Train brand?. MSN.com. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
- ^ In an episode featuring Rick James, featured in the Best of Soul Train reruns, James begins cavorting with audience members only to have Cornelius stop him and tell him "This ain't Bandstand!"
- ^ Don Cornelius biography from Answers.com
- ^ Jake Austen (2005). "TV-a-go-go: rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol". Chicago Review Press, Inc.. http://books.google.com/books?id=GYa5olqdl4UC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=dick+clark+soul+unlimited+ABC&source=bl&ots=6eYatvjvF9&sig=NrmX8BNylea37kvaUV1zTTB2x7M&hl=en&ei=tpolTPPGKIKClAeLz6nxAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCUQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=dick%20clark%20soul%20unlimited%20ABC&f=false. Retrieved July 22, 2011.
- ^ See the 2010 documentary "Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America."
- ^ [3] Black, Stu (Dec. 13, 1987) "She Took The Soul Train To Stardom
- ^ DeCurtis, Anthony (June 18, 1987) "Jody Watley's New Love, Tired of Her Role In Shalamar, A Soul Diva Breaks Away For Solo Success", p. 23
- ^ Dean Goodman (2008-04-18). ""Soul Train" movie rolling into theaters". Reuters.com. http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN1542409420080418?sp=true. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- ^ A statement on the official Soul Train web site states "We are working diligently on a number of new projects to bring you more of the iconic Soul Train experience in 2009."
- ^ http://lanier2.imeem.com/music/qhqYbbih/soul_trains_a_comin_remix_1983/ O'Bryan Soul Train's A Comin' (Remix) - 1983 - Song - MP3 Stream on IMEEM Music
External links[link]
- Official website
- Soul Train DVD from Time-Life
- Soul Train at the Internet Movie Database
- Soul Train at TV.com
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| Angie Stone | |
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 Angie Stone at Berns, Stockholm |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Angela Laverne Brown |
| Born | (1961-12-18) December 18, 1961 (age 50)[citation needed] Columbia, South Carolina, United States |
| Genres | R&B, soul, neo soul |
| Occupations | singer-songwriter, record producer, actress |
| Instruments | Singing, keyboards |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Arista, J, Stax |
| Associated acts | The Sequence, Vertical Hold, Mantronix, Devox, Joss Stone, Anthony Hamilton |
| Website | www.angiestoneonline.net |
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Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown on December 18, 1961) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. She has been most successful on the R&B charts, with four Top 10 albums, including a number one album, and ten singles, including a Top 10. She has sold over 1.4 millions albums in the U.S. and over 5 millions albums worldwide.
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Biography[link]
Stone was born in Columbia, South Carolina, where she began singing gospel music at First Nazareth Baptist Church, under the leadership of Reverend Blakely N. Scott.
She has a daughter and son. Her daughter Diamond (born 1984) is from her marriage to Rodney Stone (also known as Lil' Rodney C!, from the hip hop group Funky Four Plus One). Diamond contributed background vocals to her 2007 song "Baby",[1] and gave birth to Stone's grandson in 2008. During the 1990s Stone dated neo soul singer D'Angelo. Their son Michael was born in 1998. Stone lives in Atlanta, Georgia with Michael and fiancé Ashanti, an airline auditor who has two children of his own.[2]
Musical career[link]
In the early 1980s, Stone (then known as Angie B.) was a member of The Sequence, a female hip hop/funk trio consisting of Cheryl The Pearl and Blondie. They were the second rap group signed to the Sugar Hill Record Label after auditioning for Sylvia Robinson backstage at a Sugar Hill Gang concert in South Carolina. They had a hit in 1980 with "Funk You Up", which reached number fifteen on the U.S. Top Black Singles chart, and a minor hit with "Monster Jam" featuring rapper Spoonie Gee. The Sequence enjoyed a series of rap hits as the first female rap group during the early years of Hip Hop. Such hits as "Funky Sound (Tear The Roof Off)" kept The Sequence touring with many of the Soul Bands of the day. She then worked with Mantronix, before singing background on Lenny Kravitz's fifth studio album, 5. The Sequence faded into obscurity as Hip Hop changed from its original party sound to a more gritty street art form.
Stone emerged during the 1990s as part of the R&B trio Vertical Hold which released the popular single "Seems You're Much Too Busy" as well as two albums: A Matter of Time (1993) and Head First (1995).
In 1996, she teamed up with Gerry DeVeaux (Lenny Kravitz's cousin) and together with Charlie Mole they formed Devox. They recorded one album, Devox Featuring Angie B. Stone. Released in Japan by Toshiba EMI and selected cuts featured on Gerry DeVeaux's Front Of The line via the UK Expansion Records, which also included Stone-penned material.
Stone shared songwriting credits on D'Angelo's first two studio albums, Brown Sugar (1995) and Voodoo (2000), as well as providing backing vocals on tour with him.
Her solo debut album, Black Diamond, was released on September 28, 1999 on Arista Records; the album would eventually be certified gold by the RIAA. She has since also released, on Clive Davis' J Records, Mahogany Soul on October 16, 2001 (which also went gold), and Stone Love on July 6, 2004.
Much of Stone's solo material has significant soul influences and features notable samples. For example, her first solo single, "No More Rain (In This Cloud)" samples Gladys Knight & the Pips' 1972 song "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)", while "Wish I Didn't Miss You" samples The O'Jays' 1972 song "Back Stabbers".
Stone sings the theme song for the UPN/The CW's sitcom Girlfriends.
During an interview to BBC 1Xtra on August 27, 2006, Stone announced that she had signed to the reworked Stax Records. Her fourth studio album |- The Art of Love & War was released on October 15, 2007. The lead single is "Baby" and features Betty Wright. Its music video features cameo appearances by comedian Mike Epps and America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3 winner Eva Pigford. The song was nominated for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Angie released her fifth studio album titled "Unexpected" in the UK on February 8, 2010 on Stax Records. Speaking to noted UK R&B writer Pete Lewis of the award-winning Blues & Soul in January 2010, she explained her ideas behind 'Unexpected': "Being as I've delivered four decent albums already, I felt it was safe to switch up and do something different this time. And musically overall I just wanted to have FUN! I wanted to do something that embodied a jam kinda feel, so that we could have some fun in concert and show people everything doesn't always have to be so serious."[3]
Tours[link]
Stone recently finished a stand-up theatre play tour entitled Issues: We've Got Them All in which she had a leading role. She appeared on the VH1's reality television series Celebrity Fit Club for the fourth season, which began on August 6, 2006. While on the show, Stone lost eighteen pounds, the second lowest loss in the history of the show.
Stone has had various Summer Festival dates lined up across America and also three headlining American shows in June and another two in the Netherlands in August.
Stone toured with Sisters in the Spirit in 2007; toured in Europe in May/June 2008; toured on various Summer Festivals in the U.S. in summer 2008 (including three headlining June shows); and two in the Netherlands in August 2008.
Discography[link]
Main article: Angie Stone discography
- Studio Albums
- 1999: Black Diamond
- 2001: Mahogany Soul
- 2004: Stone Love
- 2007: The Art of Love & War
- 2009: Unexpected
Filmography[link]
Films[link]
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2002 | The Hot Chick | Madame Mambuza |
| 2003 | The Fighting Temptations | Alma |
| 2008 | Caught on Tape | Diane |
| 2009 | Pastor Brown | Rick Fredericks |
| 2010 | School Gyrls | Headmaster Jones |
| 2011 | Dreams | |
| 2012 | The Wonder Girls | Betty |
Television[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 2000 | Moesha | Herself | "D-Money Loses His Patience" (season 5, episode 22) |
| 2002 | Girlfriends | Darla Mason | "Blinded by the Lights" (season 3, episode 51) |
| 2004 | One on One | Herself | "It's a Mad, Mad Hip Hop World" (season 3, episode 92) |
| 2008 | Lincoln Heights | Octavia | "Prom Night" (season 3, episode 9) "The Ground Beneath Our Feet" (season 3, episode 10) |
Theatre[link]
| Year | Title | Role |
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| 2003 | Chicago | Big Mama Morton |
Awards and nominations[link]
Wins[link]
- 2000 Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards: Best R&B/Soul Single, Solo for "No More Rain (In This Cloud)"
- 2000 Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards: Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist, Solo
- 2004 Edison Award for Stone Love
Nominations[link]
- 2003 Grammy Awards: Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "More Than a Woman" (with Joe)
- 2004 Grammy Awards: Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for "U-Haul"
- 2008 Grammy Awards: Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Baby" (with Betty Wright)
- 2008 BET Awards: BET J Award
- 2008 BET J Virtual Awards: Album of the Year for The Art of Love & War
References[link]
- ^ Angie Stone Interview on Michael Baisden Radio show
- ^ Angie Stone Planning To Wed In The Bahamas
- ^ Angie Stone interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' February 2010
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| Chaka Khan | |
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| Birth name | Yvette Marie Stevens |
| Also known as | Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi Khan, Queen of Funk |
| Born | (1953-03-23) March 23, 1953 (age 59) Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Genres | R&B, jazz, funk, soul, disco, adult contemporary |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1964–present |
| Labels | ABC (1972–1978) Warner Bros. (1978–1998) MCA (1979–1982) NPG (1998–2001) Burgundy (2005–2010) |
| Associated acts | Rufus, Prince |
| Website | www.chakakhan.com |
Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953), frequently known as the "Queen of Funk", is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus.
While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career. Her signature hits, both with Rufus and as a solo performer, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing" which she wrote for her then husband Richard Holland, "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
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Biography[link]
Early life: 1953–1972[link]
Khan was born Yvette Marie Stevens in Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Chicago's rough South Side housing projects, Khan was the eldest of five children to Charles Stevens and Sandra Coleman. Her sister Yvonne Stevens later became a successful musician in her own right under the name Taka Boom. Her only brother Mark Stevens, who formed the funk group Aurra, also became a successful musician. She has two other sisters, Kathleen Burrell and Tammy McCrary, who is her current manager.[1] Unlike many of her musical contemporaries, Khan was raised as Roman Catholic. Khan attributed her love of music to her grandmother, who introduced her to jazz music as a child. Khan became a fan of R&B music as a preteen and at eleven formed her first all-female singing group the Crystalettes, which also included her sister Taka. In the late 1960s, Khan and her sister formed the vocal group Shades of Black and joined the Black Panther Party after befriending fellow member, activist and Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967.[2] While a member, she was given a name change to Chaka Adunne Aduffe Hodarhi Karifi by an African shaman. In 1969, she left the Panthers, dropped out of high school, having attended Calumet High School and Kenwood High School (now Kenwood Academy),[3] and began to perform in small groups around the Chicago area, first performing with the group Lyfe, which included her then boyfriend Hassan Khan, whom she'd later marry. Khan was asked to replace the late Baby Huey of Baby Huey & the Babysitters after Huey's untimely death, in 1970. The group disbanded a year later. While performing in local bands in 1972, Khan was spotted by two members of a new group simply called Rufus and soon won her position in the group. The group later signed with ABC Records in 1973. Prior to Khan signing with the label, she married her on-again, off-again boyfriend Hassan Khan, changing her stage name to Chaka Khan.
Early career and success: 1973–1978[link]
Main article: Rufus (band)
In 1974, Rufus released their self-titled debut album. Despite their fiery rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Maybe Your Baby" from Wonder's acclaimed Talking Book and the modest success of the Khan-led ballad "Whoever's Thrilling You (Is Killing Me)", the album failed to garner attention. That changed when Wonder himself collaborated with the group on a song he had written for Khan. That song, "Tell Me Something Good", became the group's breakthrough hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974 later winning the group their first Grammy Award. The single's success and the subsequent follow-up, "You Got the Love", which peaked at number-eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 helped their second parent album, Rags to Rufus, go platinum selling over a million copies. Between 1974 and 1979, Rufus would release six platinum-selling albums including Rufusized, Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan, Ask Rufus, Street Player and Masterjam. Hits the group would score during this time included "Once You Get Started", "Sweet Thing", "Hollywood", "At Midnight (My Love Will Lift You Up)" and "Do You Love What You Feel".
The band gained a reputation as a live performing act with Khan becoming the star attraction, thanks to her powerful vocals and stage attire, which sometimes included Native American garb and showing her midriff. Most of the band's material was written and produced by the band itself with few exceptions. Khan has also been noted for being an instrumentalist playing drums and bass, she also provided percussion during her tenure with Rufus. Most of Khan's compositions were often collaborations with guitarist Tony Maiden. Relations between Khan and the group, particularly between Khan and group member Andre Fischer, became stormy. Several group members left with nearly every release. While Khan remained a member of the group, she signed a solo contract with Warner Bros in 1978. While Khan was busy at work on solo material, Rufus released three albums without Khan's participation including 1979's Numbers, 1980's Party 'Til You're Broke and 1983's Seal in Red.
Early solo career and final years with Rufus: 1978–1983[link]
In 1978, Warner Bros. Records released Khan's solo debut album, which featured the crossover disco hit, "I'm Every Woman", written for her by songwriters Ashford & Simpson. The success of the single helped the album go platinum, selling over a million copies. Khan also was a featured performer on Quincy Jones' hit, "Stuff Like That", also released in 1978.
In 1979, Khan reunited with Rufus to collaborate on the Jones-produced Masterjam, which featured their hit, "Do You Love What You Feel", which Khan sang with Tony Maiden. Despite her sometimes-acrimonious relationship with some of the group's band mates, Khan and Maiden have maintained a friendship over the years. In 1979 she also duetted with Ry Cooder on his album Bop Till You Drop. In 1980, while Rufus released their second non-Khan release, Party 'Til You're Broke, Khan released her second solo album, Naughty, which featured Khan on the cover with her six-year-old daughter Milini. The album yielded the minor disco hit "Clouds" and went gold. Khan released two albums in 1981, the Rufus release, Camouflage and the solo album, What Cha' Gonna Do for Me. The same year, Khan appeared on three tracks on Rick Wakeman's concept album 1984. In 1982, Khan issued two more solo albums, the jazz-oriented Echoes of an Era and a more funk/pop-oriented self-titled album. The latter album's track, the jazz-inflected "Bebop Medley", won Khan a Grammy and earned praise from Betty Carter who loved Khan's vocal scatting in the song.[4]
In 1983, following the release of Rufus' final studio album, Seal in Red, which did not feature Khan, the singer returned with Rufus on a live album, Stompin' at the Savoy - Live, which featured the studio single, "Ain't Nobody", which became the group's final charting success reaching number twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 and number-one on the Hot R&B chart, while also reaching the top ten in the United Kingdom. Following this release, Rufus separated for good.
[edit] I Feel For You and Solo success: 1984–1996
In 1984, Khan released her sixth studio album, I Feel for You. The title track was the first single released. Originally written and recorded by Prince for his eponymous follow-up to his debut album in 1979, it had been previously recorded by The Pointer Sisters and Mary Wells. Khan's version featured a harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder and an introductory rap by Grandmaster Melle Mel. This version of the song became a million-selling smash in the U.S. and UK, and it helped to relaunch Khan's career. I Feel For You topped not only the U.S. R&B and dance charts, but achieved great success on U.S. pop charts, and reached number one in the United Kingdom as well. The song reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1984, and remained on that chart for 26 weeks, well into 1985. It was listed as Billboard's number 5 song for the year 1985, and netted Prince the 1985 Grammy Award for Best R&B Song. In addition to the song's successful radio airplay and sales, a music video of Chaka Khan with break dancers in an inner-city setting enjoyed heavy airplay on television and helped to solidify Chaka Khan's notoriety in popular culture.
Other singles which helped the I Feel For You album to go platinum included "This is my Night" and the ballad "Through the Fire", the latter which was also very successful on the adult contemporary charts. Khan was featured in Steve Winwood's 1986 number one hit, "Higher Love". That same year, a duet was planned with Robert Palmer for his album Riptide, on the song "Addicted To Love". However, her manager declined to allow the duet to be released, citing the desire to not have too much "product" from her in the marketplace at one time; she was still credited for the vocal arrangements in the album's liner notes, and the song became an international hit.[5] Khan followed up her successful I Feel For You album with 1986's Destiny and 1988's CK. Khan found more success in the late 1980s with a remix album, Life is a Dance - The Remix Project, which reached the top ten on the UK albums chart. As a result Khan performed regularly in the United Kingdom, where she maintained a strong fan base.
In 1990, she was a featured performer on another major hit when she collaborated with Ray Charles and Quincy Jones on a new jack swing cover of The Brothers Johnson's "I'll Be Good to You", which was featured on Jones' Back on the Block. The song reached number-eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number-one on the Hot R&B chart, later winning Charles and Khan a Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance By a Duo or Group. Khan returned with her first studio album in four years in 1992 with the release of The Woman I Am, which went gold thanks to the R&B success of the songs "Love You All My Lifetime" and "You Can Make the Story Right". Khan also contributed to soundtracks and worked on a follow-up to The Woman I Am which she titled Dare You to Love Me, which was eventually shelved. In 1995, she and rapper Guru had a hit with the duet "Watch What You Say", in the UK. That same year, she provided a contemporary R&B cover of the classic standard, "My Funny Valentine", for the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack. In 1996, following the release of her greatest-hits album, Epiphany: The Best of Chaka Khan, Vol. 1, Khan abruptly left Warner Bros. after stating the label had neglected her and failed to release Dare You to Love Me.[6]
Later career and current work: 1998–present[link]
In 1998, Khan signed a contract with Prince's NPG Records label and issued Come 2 My House, followed by the single "Don't Talk 2 Strangers", a cover of a 1996 Prince song. Khan later went on a tour with Prince as a co-headlining act. In 2000, Khan departed from NPG and in 2004 released her first jazz covers album in twenty-two years with 2004's ClassiKhan. She also covered "Little Wing" with Kenny Olson on the album Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Three years later, after signing with Burgundy Records, Khan released what many critics called a "comeback album" with Funk This, produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
The album featured the hit, "Angel", and the Mary J. Blige duet, "Disrespectful". The latter track went to number one on the U.S. dance singles chart, winning the singers a Grammy Award, while Funk This also won a Grammy for Best R&B Album. The album was notable for Khan's covers of Dee Dee Warwick's "Foolish Fool" and Prince's "Sign o' the Times". In 2008, Khan participated in the Broadway adaptation of The Color Purple playing Ms. Sofia to Fantasia Barrino's Celie.[7]
In a 2008 interview Khan said that she, unlike other artists, felt very optimistic about the current changes in the recording industry, including music downloading. "I'm glad things are shifting and artists – not labels – are having more control over their art. My previous big record company (Warner Music) has vaults of my recordings that haven't seen the light of day that people need to hear. This includes Robert Palmer's original recording of "Addicted to Love" – which they took my vocals off of! We are working on getting it (and other tracks) all back now."[6]
In 2009, Khan hit the road with singers Anastacia and Lulu for Here Come the Girls. In 2010, Khan contributed to vocals for Beverley Knight's "Soul Survivor", collaborated with Clay Aiken on a song for the kids show Phineas and Ferb, and performed two songs with Japanese singer Ai on Ai's latest album The Last Ai. Khan continues to perform to packed audiences both in her native United States and overseas.
On May 19, 2011, Khan was given the 2,440th Hollywood Walk of Fame star plaque on a section of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Her family was present when the singer accepted the honor, as was Stevie Wonder, who had written her breakout hit "Tell Me Something Good".
On September 27, 2011, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame committee announced that Khan and her former band Rufus were jointly nominated for induction to the hall. It was the collective's first nomination 13 years after they were first eligible. The group were nominated partly due to Khan's own storied reputation, including her own solo career in conjunction with her years with Rufus.
Recently, Khan Rerecorded her song, Super Life, under the title "Super Life: Fear Kills, Love Heals" with Eric Benet, Kelly Price, and Luke James in tribute to Trayvon Martin, a teenager who was killed Feb. 26. A number of celebrities also joined in the recording including Loretta Devine, Terry Crews, Eva Pigford, and reporter Kevin Frazier.
Personal life[link]
Khan has been married twice and is the mother of two children, daughter Indira Milini and son Damien Holland. Khan's first marriage was to Hassan Khan, in 1970, when she was 17. They divorced a short time later. Milini's birth was the result of a relationship between Khan and Rahsaan Morris.[1] Khan married her second husband, Richard Holland, in 1976. The marriage reportedly caused a rift between Khan and several members of Rufus, in particular, Andre Fischer. Khan dated a Chicago-area schoolteacher in the mid-1980s in the middle of her solo stardom. Following their separation, Khan moved to Europe, first settling in London, later buying a residence in Germany.
In the past, Khan struggled with drug abuse and alcoholism. Her drug use, which at times included cocaine and heroin, ended sometime in the early 1990s. Khan would have an on-again, off-again struggle with alcoholism until 2005 declaring herself sober. In 2006, her son Damien Holland was accused of murder after 17-year-old Christopher Bailey was shot to death. Khan testified on her son's behalf defending her son's innocence. Holland claimed the shooting was an accident and was found not guilty.[8] Though she sang at both the 2000 Democratic and Republican conventions, Khan says that she is more of a "Democratic-minded person".[9]
In December 2011, Khan won permanent custody of her granddaughter, Daija Jade Holland, after reporting that her granddaughter's mother, girlfriend of Khan's son Damien Holland, was unable to raise her due to her drug addiction. It was reported that Khan's son was also addicted to drugs.[10]
Awards[link]
Grammy Awards[link]
To date, Chaka Khan has won 10 Grammy Awards, including two as a member of Rufus. She has received 22 Grammy Award nominations, including three as a member of Rufus.
Soul Train Awards[link]
- 1998 Lena Horne Award (Career Achievement) (Recipient)
- 2009 Legends Award (Career Achievement) (Recipient)
United Negro College Fund Award[link]
- 2011 UNCF: Award of Excellence (Recipient)
American Music Award nominations[link]
To date, she has had four American Music Award nominations.
- 1985 Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Tina Turner)
- 1985 Favorite Female Video Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Tina Turner)
- 1982 Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Stephanie Mills)
- 1981 Favorite Female Artist - Soul/Rhythm & Blues (Nominee only. Award recipient was Diana Ross)
Discography[link]
Main article: Chaka Khan discography
- Chaka (1978)
- Naughty (1980)
- What Cha' Gonna Do for Me (1981)
- Chaka Khan (1982)
- I Feel for You (1984)
- Destiny (1986)
- CK (1988)
- The Woman I Am (1992)
- Come 2 My House (1998)
- ClassiKhan (2004)
- Funk This (2007)
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ a b "Chaka Khan (I)". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451193/bio. Retrieved 2010-08-24.
- ^ "Chaka Khan - Biography on Bio". Thebiographychannel.co.uk. http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/chaka-khan.html. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ^ "Kenwood Academy High School". CPSalumni.org. http://www.cpsalumni.org/school/kenwood-academy-high-school. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ allmusic ((( Chaka Khan > Overview )))
- ^ Wolf, Buck. "Robert Palmer Never Meant to Turn Us On - ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=101024#.TrfT7LKwXAg. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
- ^ a b Interview, thestar.com February 9, 2008
- ^ McGee, Celia (2007-12-30). "The Many Shades of Chaka Khan, Now in ‘Purple’". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/theater/30mcge.html?ex=1215061200&en=660d853e43d071cd&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=TH-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M010-ROS-0108-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click&mkt=TH-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M010-ROS-0108-HDR. Retrieved 2008-01-09.
- ^ a b Arnold, Chuck (2007). "Chaka Khan Through the Fire". People: pp. 115–117. http://web.ebscohost.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=9&sid=38820f2a-6b88-44ac-bc73-cbeeda037cf0%40sessionmgr14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a2h&AN=27180285. Retrieved 2010-05-18.
- ^ Rosen, Craig (2006-11-06). "Chaka Khan Siding With The Democratic Ticket". http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/12046343.
- ^ "Chaka Khan Awarded Custody of Granddaughter". Essence. 2011-12-16. http://www.essence.com/2011/12/16/chaka-khan-awarded-custody-of-granddaughter/. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- ^ Chaka Khan @ The Envelope Awards Database
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This article is about the person. For her 1985 eponymous album, see Whitney Houston (album).
| Whitney Houston | |
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 Whitney Houston performing at Good Morning America in Central Park on September 1, 2009 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Whitney Elizabeth Houston |
| Born | (1963-08-09)August 9, 1963 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | February 11, 2012(2012-02-11) (aged 48) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Genres | R&B, soul, pop, dance, gospel |
| Occupations | Singer, actress, model, film producer, record producer, songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano |
| Years active | 1977–2012 |
| Labels | Arista, RCA |
| Associated acts | Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick, Dee Dee Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Jermaine Jackson, Mariah Carey, Enrique Iglesias, Bobby Brown |
| Website |
 Whitney Houston's autograph |
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all-time.[1] Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.[2][3] She released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know",[4] influenced several African American female artists to follow in her footsteps.[5][6]
Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits.[7] She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts.[8] Houston's 1985 debut album Whitney Houston became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[9] Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[9]
Houston's first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard (1992). The film's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Its lead single "I Will Always Love You", became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. With the album, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period under Nielsen SoundScan system.[9] The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the best-selling albums of all time, at number four. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their soundtracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996). The Preacher's Wife soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history.[10]
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1963–1976: Early life[link]
Whitney Houston was born in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey, the second child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. (September 13, 1920 – February 2, 2003), and gospel singer Cissy Houston (née Emily Drinkard).[11] She was of African American, Native American and Dutch descent.[12] Her mother, along with cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, godmother Darlene Love[13] and honorary aunt Aretha Franklin[14] were all notable figures in the gospel, rhythm and blues, pop, and soul genres.[15] She met her honorary aunt at age 8, or 9, when her mother took her to a recording studio.[16] Houston was raised a Baptist, but was also exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the family moved to a middle-class area in East Orange, New Jersey, when she was four.[17]
At the age of 11, Houston began to follow in her mother's footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano.[18] Her first solo performance in the church was "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah".[19] When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Caldwell, New Jersey, where she met her best friend Robyn Crawford, whom she described as the "sister she never had".[20] While Houston was still in school, her mother continued to teach her how to sing.[5] In addition to her mother, Franklin, and Warwick, Houston was also exposed to the music of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack, most of whom would have an impact on her as a singer and performer.[21]
1977–1984: Early career[link]
Houston spent some of her teenage years touring nightclubs where her mother Cissy was performing, and she would occasionally get on stage and perform with her. In 1977, at age 14, she became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band's single "Life's a Party".[22] In 1978, at age 15, Houston sang background vocals on Chaka Khan's hit single "I'm Every Woman", a song she would later turn into a larger hit for herself on her monster-selling The Bodyguard soundtrack album.[23][24] She also sang back-up on albums by Lou Rawls and Jermaine Jackson.[23]
In the early 1980s, Houston started working as a fashion model after a photographer saw her at Carnegie Hall singing with her mother. She appeared in Seventeen[25] and became one of the first women of color to grace the cover of the magazine.[26] She was also featured in layouts in the pages of Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Young Miss, and appeared in a Canada Dry soft drink TV commercial.[27] Her striking looks and girl-next-door charm made her one of the most sought after teen models of that time.[27] While modeling, she continued her burgeoning recording career by working with producers Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell and Martin Bisi on an album they were spearheading called One Down, which was credited to the group Material. For that project, Houston contributed the ballad "Memories", a cover of a song by Hugh Hopper of Soft Machine. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called her contribution "one of the most gorgeous ballads you've ever heard".[28] She also appeared as a lead vocalist on one track on a Paul Jabara album, entitled Paul Jabara and Friends, released by Columbia Records in 1983.[29]
Houston had previously been offered several recording agencies (Michael Zager in 1980, and Elektra Records in 1981), however her mother declined the offers stating her daughter must first complete high school.[22][30] In 1983, Gerry Griffith, an A&R representative from Arista Records, saw her performing with her mother in a New York City nightclub and was impressed. He convinced Arista's head Clive Davis to make time to see Houston perform. Davis too was impressed and offered a worldwide recording contract which Houston signed. Later that year, she made her national televised debut alongside Davis on The Merv Griffin Show.[31]
Houston signed with Arista in 1983, but did not begin work on her album immediately.[1] The label wanted to make sure no other label signed the singer away. Davis wanted to ensure he had the right material and producers for Houston's debut album. Some producers had to pass on the project due to prior commitments.[32] Houston first recorded a duet with Teddy Pendergrass entitled "Hold Me" which appeared on his album, Love Language.[33] The single was released in 1984 and gave Houston her first taste of success, becoming a Top 5 R&B hit.[34] It would also appear on her debut album in 1985.
1985–1986: Rise to international prominence[link]
With production from Michael Masser, Kashif, Jermaine Jackson, and Narada Michael Walden, Houston's debut album Whitney Houston was released in February 1985. Rolling Stone magazine praised Houston, calling her "one of the most exciting new voices in years" while The New York Times called the album "an impressive, musically conservative showcase for an exceptional vocal talent".[35][36] Arista Records promoted Houston's album with three different singles from the album in the US, UK and other European countries. In the UK, the dance-funk "Someone for Me", which failed to chart in the country, was the first single while "All at Once" was in such European countries as the Netherlands and Belgium, where the song reached the top 5 on the singles charts, respectively.[37]
In the US, the soulful ballad "You Give Good Love" was chosen as the lead single from Houston's debut to establish her in the black marketplace first.[38] Outside the US, the song failed to get enough attention to become a hit, but in the US, it gave the album its first major hit as it peaked at No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and No. 1 on the Hot R&B chart.[32] As a result, the album began to sell strongly, and Houston continued promotion by touring nightclubs in the US. She also began performing on late-night television talk shows, which were not usually accessible to unestablished black acts. The jazzy ballad "Saving All My Love for You" was released next and it would become Houston's first No. 1 single in both the US and the UK. She was then an opening act for singer Jeffrey Osborne on his nationwide tour. "Thinking About You" was released as the promo single only to R&B-oriented radio stations, which peaked at number ten on the US R&B Chart. At the time, MTV had received harsh criticism for not playing enough videos by black, Latino, and other racial minorities while favoring white acts.[39] The third US single, "How Will I Know", peaked at No. 1 and introduced Houston to the MTV audience thanks to its video. Houston's subsequent singles from this, and future albums, would make her the first African-American female artist to receive consistent heavy rotation on MTV.[26]
By 1986, a year after its initial release, Whitney Houston topped the Billboard 200 albums chart and stayed there for 14 non-consecutive weeks.[40] The final single, "Greatest Love of All", became Houston's biggest hit at the time after peaking No. 1 and remaining there for three weeks on the Hot 100 chart, which made her debut the first album by a female artist to yield three No. 1 hits. Houston was No. 1 artist of the year and Whitney Houston was the No. 1 album of the year on the 1986 Billboard year-end charts, making her the first female artist to earn that distinction.[40] At the time, Houston released the best-selling debut album by a solo artist.[41] Houston then embarked on her world tour, Greatest Love Tour. The album had become an international success, and was certified 13× platinum (diamond) in the United States alone, and has sold a total of 25 million copies worldwide.[42]
At the 1986 Grammy Awards, Houston was nominated for three awards including Album of the Year.[43] She was not eligible for the Best New Artist category due to her previous hit R&B duet recording with Teddy Pendergrass in 1984.[44] She won her first Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for "Saving All My Love for You".[45] Houston's performance of the song during the Grammy telecast later earned her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.[46]
Houston won seven American Music Awards in total in 1986 and 1987, and an MTV Video Music Award.[47][48] The album's popularity would also carry over to the 1987 Grammy Awards when "Greatest Love of All" would receive a Record of the Year nomination. Houston's debut album is listed as one of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and on The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list.[49][50] Houston's grand entrance into the music industry is considered one of the 25 musical milestones of the last 25 years, according to USA Today.[51] Following Houston's breakthrough, doors were opened for other African-American female artists such as Janet Jackson and Anita Baker to find notable success in popular music and on MTV.[52][53]
[edit] 1987–1991: Whitney, I'm Your Baby Tonight and "The Star Spangled Banner"
With many expectations, Houston's second album, Whitney, was released in June 1987. The album again featured production from Masser, Kashif and Walden as well as Jellybean Benitez. Many critics complained that the material was too similar to her previous album. Rolling Stone said, "the narrow channel through which this talent has been directed is frustrating".[54] Still, the album enjoyed commercial success. Houston became the first female artist in music history to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and the first artist to enter the albums chart at number one in both the US and UK, while also hitting number one or top ten in dozens of other countries around the world. The album's first single, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)", was also a massive hit worldwide, peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and topping the singles chart in many countries such as Australia, Germany and the UK. The next three singles, "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional", and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" all peaked at number one on the US Hot 100 chart, which gave her a total of seven consecutive number one hits, breaking the record of six previously shared by The Beatles and The Bee Gees.[55][56] Houston became the first female artist to generate four number-one singles from one album. Whitney has been certified 9× Platinum in the US for shipments of over 9 million copies, and has sold a total of 20 million copies worldwide.[57]
At the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988, Houston was nominated for three awards, including Album of the Year, winning her second Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)".[58][59] Houston also won two American Music Awards in 1988 and 1989, respectively, and a Soul Train Music Award.[60][61][62] Following the release of the album, Houston embarked on the Moment of Truth World Tour, which was one of the ten highest grossing concert tours of 1987.[63] The success of the tours during 1986–87 and her two studio albums ranked Houston No. 8 for the highest earning entertainers list according to Forbes magazine.[64] She was the highest earning African-American woman overall and the third highest entertainer after Bill Cosby and Eddie Murphy.[64]
Houston was a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement. During her modeling days, the singer refused to work with any agencies who did business with the then-apartheid South Africa.[65][66] On June 11, 1988, during the European leg of her tour, Houston joined other musicians to perform a set at Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate a then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday.[65] Over 72,000 people attended Wembley Stadium, and over a billion people tuned in worldwide as the rock concert raised over $1 million for charities while bringing awareness to apartheid.[67] Houston then flew back to the US for a concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City in August. The show was a benefit concert that raised a quarter of a million dollars for the United Negro College Fund.[68] In the same year, she recorded a song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, "One Moment in Time", which became a Top 5 hit in the US, while reaching number one in the UK and Germany.[69][70][71] With her world tour continuing overseas, Houston was still one of the top 20 highest earning entertainers for 1987–88 according to Forbes magazine.[72][73]
In 1989, Houston formed The Whitney Houston Foundation For Children, a non-profit organization that has raised funds for the needs of children around the world. The organization cares for homelessness, children with cancer or AIDS, and other issues of self-empowerment.[74] With the success of her first two albums, Houston was undoubtedly an international crossover superstar, the most prominent since Michael Jackson, appealing to all demographics. However, some black critics believed she was "selling out".[6] They felt her singing on record lacked the soul that was present during her live concerts.[25]
At the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards, when Houston's name was called out for a nomination, a few in the audience jeered.[75][76] Houston defended herself against the criticism, stating, "If you're gonna have a long career, there's a certain way to do it, and I did it that way. I'm not ashamed of it".[25] Houston took a more urban direction with her third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, released in November 1990. She produced and chose producers for this album and as a result, it featured production and collaborations with L.A. Reid and Babyface, Luther Vandross, and Stevie Wonder. The album showed Houston's versatility on a new batch of tough rhythmic grooves, soulful ballads and up-tempo dance tracks. Reviews were mixed. Rolling Stone felt it was her "best and most integrated album".[77] while Entertainment Weekly, at the time thought Houston's shift towards an urban direction was "superficial".[78]
The album contained several hits: the first two singles, "I'm Your Baby Tonight" and "All the Man That I Need" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart; "Miracle" peaked at number nine; "My Name Is Not Susan" peaked in the top twenty; "I Belong to You" reached the top ten of the US R&B chart and garnered Houston a Grammy nomination; and the sixth single, the Stevie Wonder duet "We Didn't Know", reached the R&B top twenty. The album peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and went on to be certified 4× platinum in the US while selling twelve million total worldwide.
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Houston met with President George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office in 1990, while in Washington, D.C., to participate in the Youth Leadership Forum
In 1990, Houston was the spokesperson for a youth leadership conference hosted in Washington, D.C. She had a private audience with President George H. W. Bush in the Oval Office to discuss the associated challenges.
With America entangled in the Persian Gulf War, Houston performed "The Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991.[79] Due to overwhelming response to her rendition, it was released as a commercial single and video of her performance, and reached the Top 20 on the US Hot 100, making her the only act to turn the national anthem into a pop hit of that magnitude (Jose Feliciano's version reached No. 50 in November 1968).[80][81] Houston donated all her share of the proceeds to the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund. As a result, the singer was named to the Red Cross Board of Governors.[79][82][83]
Her rendition was considered the benchmark for singers and critically acclaimed.[84] Rolling Stone commented that "her singing stirs such strong patriotism. Unforgettable", and the performance ranked No. 1 on the 25 most memorable music moments in NFL history list. VH1 listed the performance as one of the greatest moments that rocked TV.[85][86] Following the attacks on 9/11, it was released again by Arista Records, all profits going towards the firefighters and victims of the attacks. This time it peaked at No. 6 in the Hot 100 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.[87]
Later in 1991, Houston put together her Welcome Home Heroes concert with HBO for the soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf War and their families. The free concert took place at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia in front of 3,500 servicemen and women. HBO descrambled the concert so that it was free for everyone to watch.[88] Houston's concert gave HBO its highest ratings ever.[89] She then embarked on the I'm Your Baby Tonight World Tour.
[edit] 1992–1994: Marriage to Bobby Brown and The Bodyguard
Throughout the 1980s, Houston was romantically linked to American football star Randall Cunningham and actor Eddie Murphy, whom she dated.[90] She then met R&B singer Bobby Brown at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards. After a three-year courtship, the two were married on July 18, 1992.[91] On March 4, 1993, Houston gave birth to their daughter Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown, her only child, and his fourth. Brown would go on to have several run-ins with the law, including some jail time.[91]
With the commercial success of her albums, movie offers poured in, including offers to work with Robert De Niro, Quincy Jones, and Spike Lee; but Houston felt the time wasn't right.[90] Houston's first film role was in The Bodyguard, released in 1992 and co-starring Kevin Costner. Houston played Rachel Marron, a star who is stalked by a crazed fan and hires a bodyguard to protect her. USA Today listed it as one of the 25 most memorable movie moments of the last 25 years in 2007.[92] Houston's mainstream appeal allowed people to look at the movie color-blind.[93]
Still, controversy arose as some felt the film's advertising intentionally hid Houston's face to hide the film's interracial relationship. In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1993, the singer commented that "people know who Whitney Houston is – I'm black. You can't hide that fact."[21] Houston received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress. The Washington Post said Houston is "doing nothing more than playing Houston, comes out largely unscathed if that is possible in so cockamamie an undertaking",[94] and The New York Times commented that she lacked passion with her co-star.[95] Despite the film's mixed reviews, it was hugely successful at the box office, grossing more than $121 million in the U.S. and $410 million worldwide, making it one of the top 100 grossing films in film history at its time of release, though it is no longer in the top 100 due to rising ticket prices since the time the film was released.[96]
The film's soundtrack also enjoyed big success. Houston executive produced and contributed six songs for the motion picture's adjoining soundtrack album. Rolling Stone said it is "nothing more than pleasant, tasteful and urbane".[97] The soundtrack's lead single was "I Will Always Love You", written and originally recorded by Dolly Parton in 1974. Houston's version of the song was acclaimed by many critics, regarding it as her "signature song" or "iconic performance". Rolling Stone and USA Today called her rendition "the tour-de-force".[98][99] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a then-record-breaking 14 weeks, number one on the R&B chart for a then-record-breaking 11 weeks, and number one on the Adult Contemporary charts for five weeks, thus becoming the first single to top those three charts simultaneously for five weeks.[100]
The single was certified 4× platinum by the RIAA, making Houston the first female artist with a single to reach that level in the RIAA history and becoming the best-selling single by a female artist in the US.[101][102][103] The song also became a global success, hitting number-one in almost all countries, and one of the best-selling singles of all time with 12 million copies sold.[104] The soundtrack topped the Billboard 200 chart and remained there for 20 non-consecutive weeks, the longest tenure by any album on the chart in the Nielsen SoundScan era, and became one of the fastest selling albums ever.[105] During Christmas week of 1992, the soundtrack sold over a million copies within a week, becoming the first album to achieve that feat under Nielsen SoundScan system.[106][107] With the follow-up singles "I'm Every Woman", a Chaka Khan cover, and "I Have Nothing" both reaching the top five, Houston became the first female artist to ever have three singles in the Top 11 simultaneously.[108][109][110] The album was certified 17× platinum in the US alone,[111] with worldwide sales of 44 million,[112] making The Bodyguard the biggest-selling album by a female act on the list of the world's Top 10 best-selling albums, topping Shania Twain's 40 million sold for Come On Over.[113]
Houston won three Grammys for the album in 1994, including two of the Academy's highest honors, Album of the Year and Record of the Year. In addition, she won a record 8 American Music Awards at that year's ceremony including the Award of Merit,[114] 11 Billboard Music Awards, 3 Soul Train Music Awards in 1993–94 including Sammy Davis, Jr. Award as Entertainer of the Year,[115] 5 NAACP Image Awards including Entertainer of the Year,[116][117][118] a record 5 World Music Awards,[119] and a BRIT award.[120] Following the success of the project, Houston embarked on another expansive global tour, The Bodyguard World Tour, in 1993–94. Her concerts, movie, and recording grosses made her the third highest earning female entertainer of 1993–94, just behind Oprah Winfrey and Barbra Streisand according to Forbes magazine.[121] Houston placed in the top five of Entertainment Weekly's annual "Entertainer of the Year" ranking[122] and was labeled by Premiere magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood.[123]
In October 1994, Houston attended and performed at a state dinner in the White House honoring newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela.[124][125] At the end of her world tour, Houston performed three concerts in South Africa to honor President Mandela, playing to over 200,000 people. This would make the singer the first major musician to visit the newly unified and apartheid free nation following Mandela's winning election.[126] The concert was broadcast live on HBO with funds of the concerts being donated to various charities in South Africa. The event was considered the nation's "biggest media event since the inauguration of Nelson Mandela".[127]
[edit] 1995–1997: Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher's Wife, and Cinderella
In 1995, Houston starred alongside Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon in her second film Waiting to Exhale, a motion picture about four African-American women struggling with relationships. Houston played the lead character Savannah Jackson, a TV producer in love with a married man. She chose the role because she saw the film as "a breakthrough for the image of black women because it presents them both as professionals and as caring mothers".[128] After opening at number one and grossing $67 million in the US at the box office and $81 million worldwide,[129] it proved that a movie primarily targeting a black audience can cross over to success, while paving the way for other all-black movies such as How Stella Got Her Groove Back and the Tyler Perry movies that have become popular in the 2000s.[130][131][132] The film is also notable for its portrayal of black women as strong middle class citizens as opposed to stereotypes.[133] The reviews were mainly positive for the ensemble cast. The New York Times said "Ms. Houston has shed the defensive hauteur that made her portrayal of a pop star in 'The Bodyguard' seem so distant."[134] Houston was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Actress In A Motion Picture", but lost to her co-star Bassett.
The film's accompanying soundtrack, Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album, was produced by Houston and Babyface. Though Babyface originally wanted Houston to record the entire album, she declined. Instead, she "wanted it to be an album of women with vocal distinction", and thus gathered several African-American female artists for the soundtrack, to go along with the film's strong women message.[128] As a result, the album featured a range of contemporary R&B female recording artists along with Houston, such as Mary J Blige, Aretha Franklin, Toni Braxton, Patti Labelle, and Brandy. Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" peaked at No. 1, and then spent a record eleven weeks at the No. 2 spot and eight weeks on top of the R&B Charts. "Count On Me", a duet with CeCe Winans, hit the US Top 10; and Houston's third contribution, "Why Does It Hurt So Bad", made the Top 30. The album debuted at No. 1, and was certified 7× Platinum in the United States, denoting shipments of seven million copies.[57] The soundtrack received strong reviews as Entertainment Weekly said "the album goes down easy, just as you'd expect from a package framed by Whitney Houston tracks.... the soundtrack waits to exhale, hovering in sensuous suspense"[135] and has since ranked it as one of the 100 Best Movie Soundtracks.[136] Later that year, Houston's children's charity organization was awarded a VH1 Honor for all the charitable work.[137]
In 1996, Houston starred in the holiday comedy The Preacher's Wife, with Denzel Washington. She plays a gospel-singing wife of a pastor (Courtney B. Vance). It was largely an updated remake of the 1948 film "The Bishop's Wife" which starred Loretta Young, David Niven and Cary Grant. Houston earned $10 million for the role, making her one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood at the time and the highest earning African American actress in Hollywood.[138] The movie, with its all African-American cast, was a moderate success, earning approximately $50 million at the U.S. box offices.[139] The movie gave Houston her strongest reviews so far. The San Francisco Chronicle said Houston "is rather angelic herself, displaying a divine talent for being virtuous and flirtatious at the same time" and that she "exudes gentle yet spirited warmth, especially when praising the Lord in her gorgeous singing voice".[140] Houston was again nominated for an NAACP Image Award and won for Outstanding Actress In A Motion Picture.
Houston recorded and co-produced, with Mervyn Warren, the film's accompanying gospel soundtrack. The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album included six gospel songs with Georgia Mass Choir that were recorded at the Great Star Rising Baptist Church in Atlanta. Houston also duetted with gospel legend Shirley Caesar. The album sold six million copies worldwide and scored hit singles with "I Believe in You and Me" and "Step by Step", becoming the largest selling gospel album of all time. The album received mainly positive reviews. Some critics, such as that of USA Today, noted the presence of her emotional depth,[141] while The Times said "To hear Houston going at full throttle with the 35 piece Georgia Mass Choir struggling to keep up is to realise what her phenomenal voice was made for".[142]
In 1997, Houston's production company changed its name to BrownHouse Productions and was joined by Debra Martin Chase. Their goal was "to show aspects of the lives of African-Americans that have not been brought to the screen before" while improving how African-Americans are portrayed in film and television.[143] Their first project was a made-for-television remake of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. In addition to co-producing, Houston starred in the movie as the Fairy Godmother along with Brandy, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bernadette Peters. Houston was initially offered the role of Cinderella in 1993, but other projects intervened.[144] The film is notable for its multi-racial cast and nonstereotypical message.[145] An estimated 60 million viewers tuned into the special giving ABC its highest TV ratings in 16 years.[146] The movie received seven Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety, Musical or Comedy, while winning Outstanding Art Direction in a Variety, Musical or Comedy Special.[147]
Houston and Chase then obtained the rights to the story of Dorothy Dandridge. Houston was to play Dandridge, who was the first African American actress to be nominated for an Oscar. She wanted the story told with dignity and honor.[143] However, Halle Berry also had rights to the project and she got her version going first.[148] Later that year, Houston paid tribute to her idols such as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, and Dionne Warwick by performing their hits during the three-night HBO Concert Classic Whitney, live from Washington, D.C. The special raised over $300,000 for the Children's Defense Fund.[149] Houston received The Quincy Jones Award for outstanding career achievements in the field of entertainment at the 12th Soul Train Music Awards.[150][151]
[edit] 1998–2000: My Love Is Your Love and Whitney: The Greatest Hits
After spending much of the early and mid 1990s working on motion pictures and their soundtrack albums, Houston's first studio album in eight years, the critically acclaimed My Love Is Your Love, was released in November 1998. Though originally slated to be a greatest hits album with a handful of new songs, recording sessions were so fruitful that a new full-length studio album was released. Recorded and mixed in only six weeks, it featured production from Rodney Jerkins, Wyclef Jean and Missy Elliott. The album debuted at number thirteen, its peak position, on the Billboard 200 chart.[152] It had a funkier and edgier sound than past releases and saw Houston handling urban dance, hip hop, mid-tempo R&B, reggae, torch songs, and ballads all with great dexterity.[153]
From late 1998 to early 2000, the album spawned several hit singles: "When You Believe" (US No. 15, UK No. 4), a duet with Mariah Carey for 1998's The Prince of Egypt soundtrack, which also became an international hit as it peaked in the Top 10 in several countries and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song;[154] "Heartbreak Hotel" (US No. 2, UK No. 25) featured Faith Evans and Kelly Price, received a 1999 MTV VMA nomination for Best R&B Video,[155] and number one on the US R&B chart for seven weeks; "It's Not Right But It's Okay" (US No. 4, UK No. 3) won Houston her sixth Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance;[156] "My Love Is Your Love" (US No. 4, UK No. 2) with 3 million copies sold worldwide;[157] and "I Learned from the Best" (US No. 27, UK No. 19).[158][159] These singles became international hits as well, and all the singles, except "When You Believe", became number one hits on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart. The album sold four million copies in America, making it certified 4× platinum, and a total of eleven million copies worldwide.[42]
The album gave Houston some of her strongest reviews ever. Rolling Stone said Houston was singing "with a bite in her voice"[160] and The Village Voice called it "Whitney's sharpest and most satisfying so far".[161] In 1999, Houston participated in VH-1's Divas Live '99, alongside Brandy, Mary J. Blige, Tina Turner, and Cher. The same year, Houston hit the road with her 70 date My Love Is Your Love World Tour. The European leg of the tour was Europe's highest grossing arena tour of the year.[162] In November 1999, Houston was named Top-selling R&B Female Artist of the Century with certified US sales of 51 million copies at the time and The Bodyguard Soundtrack was named the Top-selling Soundtrack Album of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[163] She also won The Artist of the Decade, Female award for extraordinary artistic contributions during the 1990s at the 14th Soul Train Music Awards, and an MTV Europe Music Award for Best R&B.[164][165][166][167][168]
In May 2000, Whitney: The Greatest Hits was released worldwide. The double disc set peaked at number five in the United States, reaching number one in the United Kingdom.[159][169] In addition, the album reached the Top 10 in many other countries.[170] While ballad songs were left unchanged, the album features house/club remixes of many of Houston's up-tempo hits. Included on the album were four new songs: "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" (a duet with Enrique Iglesias), "Same Script, Different Cast" (a duet with Deborah Cox), "If I Told You That" (a duet with George Michael), and "Fine", and three hits that had never appeared on a Houston album: "One Moment in Time", "The Star Spangled Banner", and "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful", a duet with Jermaine Jackson from his 1986 Precious Moments album.[171] Along with the album, an accompanying VHS and DVD was released featuring the music videos to Houston's greatest hits, as well as several hard-to-find live performances including her 1983 debut on The Merv Griffin Show, and interviews.[172] The greatest hits album was certified 3× platinum in the US, with worldwide sales of 10 million.[173][174]
[edit] 2000–2005: Just Whitney, and personal struggles
Though Houston was seen as a "good girl" with a perfect image in the 1980s and early 1990s, by the late 1990s, her behavior changed. She was often hours late for interviews, photo shoots and rehearsals, and canceling concerts and talk-show appearances.[175][176] With the missed performances and weight loss, rumors about Houston using drugs with her husband circulated. On January 11, 2000, airport security guards discovered marijuana in both Houston's and husband Bobby Brown's luggage at a Hawaii airport, but the two boarded the plane and departed before authorities could arrive. Charges were later dropped against them,[177] but rumors of drug usage between the couple would continue to surface. Two months later, Clive Davis was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Houston had been scheduled to perform at the event, but failed to show up.[178]
Shortly thereafter, Houston was scheduled to perform at the Academy Awards but was fired from the event by musical director and longtime friend Burt Bacharach. Her publicist cited throat problems as the reason for the cancellation. In his book The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards, author Steve Pond revealed that "Houston's voice was shaky, she seemed distracted and jittery, and her attitude was casual, almost defiant", and that while Houston was to sing "Over the Rainbow", she would start singing a different song.[179] Houston later admitted to having been fired.[180] Later that year, Houston's long-time executive assistant and friend, Robyn Crawford, resigned from Houston's management company.[178]
In August 2001, Houston signed the biggest record deal in music history with Arista/BMG. She renewed her contract for $100 million to deliver six new albums, on which she would also earn royalties.[181][182][183] She later made an appearance on Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special. Her extremely thin frame further spurred rumors of drug use. Houston's publicist said, "Whitney has been under stress due to family matters, and when she is under stress she doesn't eat."[184] The singer was scheduled for a second performance the following night but canceled.[185] Within weeks, Houston's rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" would be re-released after the September 11 attacks, with the proceeds donated to the New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Fraternal Order of Police.[186] The song peaked at No. 6 this time on the US Hot 100, topping its previous position.[158]
In 2002, Houston became involved in a legal dispute with John Houston Enterprise. Although the company was started by her father to manage her career, it was actually run by company president Kevin Skinner. Skinner filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit and sued for $100 million (but lost), stating that Houston owed the company previously unpaid compensation for helping to negotiate her $100 million contract with Arista Records and for sorting out legal matters.[187] Houston stated that her 81-year-old father had nothing to do with the lawsuit. Although Skinner tried to claim otherwise, John Houston never appeared in court.[188] Houston's father later died in February 2003.[189] The lawsuit was dismissed on April 5, 2004, and Skinner was awarded nothing.[190]
Also in 2002, Houston did an interview with Diane Sawyer to promote her then-upcoming album. The interview was the highest-rated television interview in history.[citation needed] During the prime-time special, Houston spoke on topics including rumored drug use and marriage. She was asked about the ongoing drug rumors and replied, "First of all, let's get one thing straight. Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. Okay? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is wack."[180] The line was from Keith Haring's mural which was painted in 1986 on the handball court at 128th Street and 2nd Avenue.[191] Houston did, however, admit to using other substances at times, including cocaine.[180]
In December 2002, Houston released her fifth studio album, Just Whitney.... The album included productions from then-husband Bobby Brown, as well as Missy Elliott and Babyface, and marked the first time that Houston did not produce with Clive Davis as Davis had been released by top management at BMG. Upon its release, Just Whitney... received mixed reviews.[192] The album debuted at number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart and it had the highest first week sales of any album Houston had ever released.[193] The four singles released from the album, didn't fare well on the Billboard Hot 100, but became Hot Dance Club Play hits. Just Whitney... was certified platinum in the United States, and sold approximately three million worldwide.[194]
On a June 2003 trip to Israel, Houston said of her visit, "I've never felt like this in any other country. I feel at home, I feel wonderful."[195]
In late 2003, Houston released her first Christmas album One Wish: The Holiday Album, with a collection of traditional holiday songs. Houston produced the album with Mervyn Warren and Gordon Chambers. A single titled "One Wish (for Christmas)" reached the Top 20 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and the album was certified gold in the US. Having always been a touring artist, Houston spent most of 2004 touring and performing in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Russia. In September 2004, she gave a surprise performance at the World Music Awards in a tribute to long time friend Clive Davis. After the show, Davis and Houston announced plans to go into studio to work on her new album.[196]
In early 2004, husband Bobby Brown starred in his own reality TV program, Being Bobby Brown (on the Bravo network), which provided a view into the domestic goings-on in the Brown household. Though it was Brown's vehicle, Houston was a prominent figure throughout the show, receiving as much screen time as Brown. The series aired in 2005 and featured Houston in, what some would say, not her most flattering moments. The Hollywood Reporter said it was "undoubtedly the most disgusting and execrable series ever to ooze its way onto television."[197] Despite the perceived train-wreck nature of the show, the series gave Bravo its highest ratings in its time slot and continued Houston's successful forays into film and television.[198] The show was not renewed for a second season after Houston stated that she would no longer appear in it, and Brown and Bravo could not come to an agreement for another season.[199]
[edit] 2006–2012: Return to music, I Look to You, tour and film comeback
After years of controversy and turmoil, Houston separated from Bobby Brown in September 2006, filing for divorce the following month.[200] On February 1, 2007, Houston asked the court to fast track their divorce.[201] The divorce was finalized on April 24, 2007, with Houston granted custody of the couple's daughter.[202] On May 4, Houston sold the suburban Atlanta home featured in Being Bobby Brown for $1.19 million.[203] A few days later, Brown sued Houston in Orange County, California court in an attempt to change the terms of their custody agreement. Brown also sought child and spousal support from Houston. In the lawsuit, Brown claimed that financial and emotional problems prevented him from properly responding to Houston's divorce petition.[204] Brown lost at his court hearing as the judge dismissed his appeal to overrule the custody terms, leaving Houston with full custody and Brown with no spousal support.[205] In March 2007, Clive Davis of Arista Records announced that Houston would begin recording a new album.[206] In October 2007, Arista released another compilation The Ultimate Collection outside the United States.[207]
Houston gave her first interview in seven years in September 2009, appearing on Oprah Winfrey's season premiere. The interview was billed as "the most anticipated music interview of the decade".[208] Whitney admitted on the show to using drugs with former husband Bobby Brown, who "laced marijuana with rock cocaine".[209] By 1996, she told Oprah, "[doing drugs] was an everyday thing... I wasn't happy by that point in time. I was losing myself."[210]
Houston released her new album, I Look to You, in August 2009.[211] The album's first two singles are "I Look to You" and "Million Dollar Bill". The album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, with Houston's best opening-week sales of 305,000 copies, marking Houston's first number one album since The Bodyguard, and Houston's first studio album to reach number one since 1987's Whitney. Houston also appeared on European television programs to promote the album. She performed the song "I Look to You" on the German television show Wetten, dass..?. Three days later, she performed the worldwide first single from I Look To You, Million Dollar Bill, on the French television show Le Grand Journal. Houston appeared as guest mentor on The X Factor in the United Kingdom. She performed "Million Dollar Bill" on the following day's results show, completing the song even as a strap in the back of her dress popped open two minutes into the performance. She later commented that she "sang [herself] out of [her] clothes".
The performance was poorly received by the British media, and was variously described as "weird" and "ungracious",[212] "shambolic"[213] and a "flop". Despite this reception, "Million Dollar Bill" jumped to its peak from 14 to number 5 (her first UK top 5 for over a decade), and three weeks after release "I Look to You" went gold. Houston appeared on the Italian version of The X Factor, performing the same song "Million Dollar Bill" to excellent reviews.[214] She was awarded the Gold Certificate for achieving over 50,000 CD sales of "I Look To You" in Italy.[215] In November, Houston performed "I Didn't Know My Own Strength" at the 2009 American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California. Two days later, Houston performed both songs on the Dancing With The Stars season 9 finale. As of December 2009, "I Look to You" has been certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of more than one million copies in the United States.[216] On January 26, 2010, her debut album was re-released in a special edition entitled Whitney Houston – The Deluxe Anniversary Edition.[217]
Houston later embarked on a world tour, entitled the Nothing but Love World Tour. It was her first world tour in over ten years and was announced as a triumphant comeback. However, some poor reviews and rescheduled concerts brought some negative media attention.[218][219] Houston canceled some concerts due to illness and received widespread negative reviews from fans who were disappointed in the quality of her voice and performance. Some fans reportedly walked out of her concerts.[220]
In January 2010, Houston was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards, one for Best Female Artist and one for Best Music Video. She won the award for Best Music Video for her single "I Look to You". On January 16, she received The BET Honors Award for Entertainer citing her lifetime achievements spanning over 25 years in the industry. The 2010 BET Honors award was held at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. and aired on February 1, 2010. Jennifer Hudson and Kim Burrell performed in honor of her, garnering positive reviews. Houston also received a nomination from the Echo Awards, Germany's version of the Grammys, for Best International Artist. In April 2010, the UK newspaper The Mirror reported that Houston was thinking about recording her eighth studio album and wanted to collaborate with will.i.am (of The Black Eyed Peas), her first choice for a collaboration.[221]
Houston also performed the song "I Look to You" on the 2011 BET Celebration of Gospel, with gospel–jazz singer Kim Burrell, held at the Staples Center, Los Angeles. The performance aired on January 30, 2011. Early in 2011, she gave an uneven performance in tribute to cousin Dionne Warwick at music mogul Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala. In May 2011, Houston enrolled in a rehabilitation center again, as an out-patient, citing drug and alcohol problems. A representative for Houston said that it was a part of Houston's "longstanding recovery process".[222]
In September 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Houston would produce and star alongside Jordin Sparks and Mike Epps in the remake of the 1976 film Sparkle. In the film, Houston portrays Sparks' "not-so encouraging mother". Houston would have executive producer credits on top of acting credits according to Debra Martin Chase, producer of Sparkle. She stated that Houston deserved the title considering she had been there from the beginning in 2001, when Houston obtained Sparkle production rights. R&B singer Aaliyah – originally tapped to star as Sparkle – died in a 2001 plane crash. Her death derailed production, which would have begun in 2002.[223][224][225] Houston's remake of Sparkle was filmed in the fall of 2011,[226] and is set for release by TriStar Pictures in August 2012.[227]
Death[link]
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On February 9, 2012, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.[228][229] That same day, she made her last public performance, when she joined Kelly Price on stage in Hollywood, California, and sang "Jesus Loves Me".[230][231]
On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, submerged in the bathtub.[232][233] The cause of death was not immediately known.[234][235] It was later ruled by the coroner to have been an "accidental drowning".[236] Beverly Hills paramedics arrived at approximately 3:30 p.m. and found the singer unresponsive and performed CPR. Houston was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. PST.[234][237] Local police said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent."[238] On March 22, 2012, the Los Angeles County coroner's office reported the cause of Houston's death was drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use".[239] The office stated the amount of cocaine found in Houston's body indicated that she used the substance shortly before her death.[240] Toxicology results revealed additional drugs in her system: Benadryl, Xanax, marijuana and Flexiril.[241] The manner of death was listed as an "accident".[242]
Houston had an invitation-only memorial on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. The service was scheduled for two hours, but lasted for four hours.[243] Among those who performed at the funeral were Stevie Wonder (rewritten version of "Ribbon in the Sky," and "Love's in Need of Love Today"), CeCe Winans ("Don't Cry" and "Jesus Loves Me"), Alicia Keys ("Send Me an Angel"), Kim Burrell (rewritten version of "A Change Is Gonna Come") and R. Kelly ("I Look to You"), interspersed with hymns by the church choir and remarks by Clive Davis, Houston’s record producer; Kevin Costner; Ricky Minor her music director; her cousin Dionne Warwick and Ray Watson, her security guard for the past 11 years. Aretha Franklin was listed on the program and was expected to sing, but was unable to attend the service.[244][245] Bobby Brown, Houston's ex-husband, was also invited to the funeral but he left before the service began.[246] Houston was buried on Sunday, February 19, 2012, in Fairview Cemetery, in Westfield, New Jersey next to her father, John Russell Houston, who died in 2003.[247]
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The Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party that Houston was expected to attend, and that featured many of the biggest names in music and movies, went on as scheduled although it was quickly turned into a tribute to Houston. Davis spoke about Houston's death at the evening's start: "By now you have all learned of the unspeakably tragic news of our beloved Whitney's passing. I don't have to mask my emotion in front of a room full of so many dear friends. I am personally devastated by the loss of someone who has meant so much to me for so many years. Whitney was so full of life. She was so looking forward to tonight even though she wasn't scheduled to perform. Whitney was a beautiful person and a talent beyond compare. She graced this stage with her regal presence and gave so many memorable performances here over the years. Simply put, Whitney would have wanted the music to go on and her family asked that we carry on."[248]
Tony Bennett spoke of Houston's death before performing at Davis' party. He said, "First, it was Michael Jackson, then Amy Winehouse, now, the magnificent Whitney Houston". Bennett sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" and said of Houston, "When I first heard her, I called Clive Davis and said, 'You finally found the greatest singer I've ever heard in my life.'"[249]
Some celebrities opposed Davis' decision to continue on the party while a police investigation was being conducted in Houston's hotel room and her body was still in the building. Chaka Khan, in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan on February 13, 2012, shared that she felt the party should have been canceled, saying "I thought that was complete insanity. And knowing Whitney I don't believe that she would have said 'the show must go on.' She's the kind of woman that would've said 'Stop everything! Un-unh. I'm not going to be there.' [...] I don't know what could motivate a person to have a party in a building where the person whose life he had influenced so enormously and whose life had been affected by hers. They were like... I don't understand how that party went on."[250] Sharon Osbourne condemned the Davis party, declaring "I think it was disgraceful that the party went on. I don't want to be in a hotel room when there's someone you admire who's tragically lost their life four floors up. I'm not interested in being in that environment and I think when you grieve someone, you do it privately, you do it with people who understand you. I thought it was so wrong."[251]
Several other celebrities released statements responding to Houston's death. Dolly Parton, whose song "I Will Always Love You" was covered by Houston, said, "I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed'." Aretha Franklin said, "It's so stunning and unbelievable. I couldn't believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen."[252] Mariah Carey said, "Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend ... She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth."[253] Oprah Winfrey, who did an in-depth interview with Houston in 2009, wrote on Twitter "To me Whitney was THE VOICE. We got to hear a part of God every time she sang. Heart is heavy, spirit grateful for the GIFT of her."[254] Quincy Jones said, "I am absolutely heartbroken at the news of Whitney’s passing. Ashford & Simpson first made me aware of Whitney when she was just sixteen, and I always regretted not having had the opportunity to work with her. She was a true original and a talent beyond compare. I will miss her terribly."[253]
Moments after news of her death emerged, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News all broke from their regularly scheduled programming to dedicate time to non-stop coverage of Houston's death. All three featured live interviews with people who knew Houston including those that have worked with her, interviewed her along with some of her peers in the music industry. Saturday Night Live displayed a photo of a smiling Houston, alongside Molly Shannon, from her 1996 appearance.[255][256] MTV and VH-1 interrupted their regularly scheduled programming on Sunday February 12 to air many of Houston's classic videos with MTV often airing news segments in between and featuring various reactions from fans and celebrities.
Houston's former husband, Bobby Brown, was reported to be "in and out of crying fits" since receiving the news. He did not cancel a scheduled performance and within hours of his ex-wife's sudden death, an audience in Mississippi observed as Brown blew kisses skyward, tearfully saying: "I love you, Whitney".[257]
Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of the 54th Grammy Awards, announced that Jennifer Hudson would perform a tribute to Houston at the February 12, 2012, awards. He said "event organizers believed Hudson – an Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy Award-winning artist – could perform a respectful musical tribute to Houston". Ehrlich went on to say: "It's too fresh in everyone's memory to do more at this time, but we would be remiss if we didn't recognize Whitney's remarkable contribution to music fans in general, and in particular her close ties with the Grammy telecast and her Grammy wins and nominations over the years".[258] At the start of the awards ceremony, a footage of Houston performing "I Will Always Love You" from 1994 Grammys was shown following a prayer read by host, LL Cool J. Later in the program following a montage of photos of musicians who died in 2011 with Houston singing "Saving All My Love for You" at the 1986 Grammys, Hudson paid tribute to Houston and the other artists by performing "I Will Always Love You".[259][260]
Houston was honored in the form of various tributes at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards, held on February 17. A image montage of Houston and important black figures who died in 2011 was followed by video footage from the 1994 ceremony, which depicted her accepting two Image Awards for outstanding female artist and entertainer of the year. Following the video tribute, Yolanda Adams delivered a rendition of "I Love the Lord" from The Preacher's Wife Soundtrack. In the finale of the ceremony, Kirk Franklin and The Family started their performance with "Greatest Love of All."[261] The 2012 BRIT Awards, which took place at London's O2 Arena on February 21, also paid tribute to Houston by playing a 30-second-video montage of her music videos with a snippet of "One Moment in Time" as the background music in the ceremony's first segment.[262] New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that all New Jersey state flags would be flown at half-staff on Tuesday, February 21 to honor Houston.[263] Accompanied by Esperanza Spalding belting out "What a Wonderful World" along with the Southern California Children's Choir, Houston was featured in the In Memoriam montage alongside other cinema greats at the 84th Academy Awards, held at the Hollywood and Highland Center on February 26, 2012.[264][265]
Artistry and legacy[link]
Voice[link]
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Houston was a mezzo-soprano,[266][267] and was commonly referred to as "The Voice" in reference to her exceptional vocal talent.[268] Her vocal range extended from G below middle C (G3) to high B-flat (B♭5); she could belt out to treble F (F5).[269] She was third in MTV's list of 22 Greatest Voices,[270] and sixth on Online Magazine COVE's list of the 100 Best Pop Vocalists with a score of 48.5/50.[271] In 2008, Rolling Stone listed Houston as the thirty-fourth of the 100 greatest singers of all time, stating, "Her voice is a mammoth, coruscating cry: Few vocalists could get away with opening a song with 45 unaccompanied seconds of singing, but Houston's powerhouse version of Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' is a tour de force."[98] Matthew Perpetua from Rolling Stone also eulogized Houston's vocal, enumerating ten performances, including "How Will I Know" from the 1986 MTV VMAs and "The Star Spangled Banner" at the 1991 Super Bowl. "Whitney Houston was blessed with an astonishing vocal range and extraordinary technical skill, but what truly made her a great singer was her ability to connect with a song and drive home its drama and emotion with incredible precision," he stated. "She was a brilliant performer, and her live shows often eclipsed her studio recordings."[272]
Jon Caramanica of The New York Times commented, "Her voice was clean and strong, with barely any grit, well suited to the songs of love and aspiration. [...] Hers was a voice of triumph and achievement, and it made for any number of stunning, time-stopping vocal performances."[273] Mariah Carey stated, "She [Whitney] has a really rich, strong mid-belt that very few people have. She sounds really good, really strong."[274] While in her review of I Look to You, music critic Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times writes, "[Houston's voice] stands like monuments upon the landscape of 20th century pop, defining the architecture of their times, sheltering the dreams of millions and inspiring the climbing careers of countless imitators", adding "When she was at her best, nothing could match her huge, clean, cool mezzo-soprano".[267]
Lauren Everitt from BBC News Magazine commented on melisma used in Houston's recording and its influence. "An early 'I' in Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' takes nearly six seconds to sing. In those seconds the former gospel singer-turned-pop star packs a series of different notes into the single syllable," stated Everitt. "The technique is repeated throughout the song, most pronouncedly on every 'I' and 'you'. The vocal technique is called melisma, and it has inspired a host of imitators. Other artists may have used it before Houston, but it was her rendition of Dolly Parton's love song that pushed the technique into the mainstream in the 90s. [...] But perhaps what Houston nailed best was moderation." Everitt said that "[i]n a climate of reality shows ripe with 'oversinging', it's easy to appreciate Houston's ability to save melisma for just the right moment".[275]
Houston's vocal stylings have had a significant impact on the music industry. She has been called the "Queen of Pop" for her influence during the 1990s, commercially rivaling Mariah Carey and Celine Dion.[276] Stephen Holden from The New York Times, in his review of Houston's Radio City Music Hall concert on July 20, 1993, praised her attitude as a singer, writing, "Whitney Houston is one of the few contemporary pop stars of whom it might be said: the voice suffices. While almost every performer whose albums sell in the millions calls upon an entertainer's bag of tricks, from telling jokes to dancing to circus pyrotechnics, Ms. Houston would rather just stand there and sing." With regard to her singing style, he added: "Her [Houston's] stylistic trademarks – shivery melismas that ripple up in the middle of a song, twirling embellishments at the ends of phrases that suggest an almost breathless exhilaration – infuse her interpretations with flashes of musical and emotional lightning."[277]
Elysa Gardner of the Los Angeles Times in her review for The Preacher's Wife Soundtrack praised Houston's vocal ability highly, commenting, "She is first and foremost a pop diva – at that, the best one we have. No other female pop star – not Mariah Carey, not Celine Dion, not Barbra Streisand – quite rivals Houston in her exquisite vocal fluidity and purity of tone, and her ability to infuse a lyric with mesmerizing melodrama."[278]
Influence[link]
During the 1980s, MTV was coming into its own and received criticism for not playing enough videos by black artists. With Michael Jackson breaking down the color barrier for black male artists, Houston did the same for black female artists. She became the first black female artist to receive heavy rotation on the network following the success of the "How Will I Know" video.[279] Following Houston's breakthrough, other African-American female artists, such as Janet Jackson and Anita Baker, were successful in popular music.[52][53] Baker commented that "Because of what Whitney and Sade did, there was an opening for me... For radio stations, black women singers aren't taboo anymore."[280]
Allmusic noted her contribution to the success of black artists on the pop scene, commenting, "Houston was able to handle big adult contemporary ballads, effervescent, stylish dance-pop, and slick urban contemporary soul with equal dexterity" and that "the result was an across-the-board appeal that was matched by scant few artists of her era, and helped her become one of the first black artists to find success on MTV in Michael Jackson's wake".[281] The New York Times stated that "Houston was a major catalyst for a movement within black music that recognized the continuity of soul, pop, jazz and gospel vocal traditions".[282] Richard Corliss of Time magazine commented on her initial success breaking various barriers:
Of her first album's ten cuts, six were ballads. This chanteuse [Houston] had to fight for air play with hard rockers. The young lady had to stand uncowed in the locker room of macho rock. The soul strutter had to seduce a music audience that anointed few black artists with superstardom. [...] She was a phenomenon waiting to happen, a canny tapping of the listener's yen for a return to the musical middle. And because every new star creates her own genre, her success has helped other blacks, other women, other smooth singers find an avid reception in the pop marketplace.[283]
Stephen Holden of The New York Times said that Houston "revitalized the tradition of strong gospel-oriented pop-soul singing".[284] Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times referred to the singer as a "national treasure".[267] Jon Caramanica, other music critic of The New York Times, called Houston "R&B's great modernizer," adding "slowly but surely reconciling the ambition and praise of the church with the movements and needs of the body and the glow of the mainstream".[273] He also drew comparisons between Houston's influence and other big names' on 1980s pop:
She was, alongside Michael Jackson and Madonna, one of the crucial figures to hybridize pop in the 1980s, though her strategy was far less radical than that of her peers. Jackson and Madonna were by turns lascivious and brutish and, crucially, willing to let their production speak more loudly than their voices, an option Ms. Houston never went for. Also, she was less prolific than either of them, achieving most of her renown on the strength of her first three solo albums and one soundtrack, released from 1985 to 1992. If she was less influential than they were in the years since, it was only because her gift was so rare, so impossible to mimic. Jackson and Madonna built worldviews around their voices; Ms. Houston’s voice was the worldview. She was someone more to be admired, like a museum piece, than to be emulated.[273]
The Independent's music critic Andy Gill also wrote about Houston's influence on modern R&B and singing competitions, comparing it to Michael Jackson's. "Because Whitney, more than any other single artist ― Michael Jackson included ― effectively mapped out the course of modern R&B, setting the bar for standards of soul vocalese, and creating the original template for what we now routinely refer to as the 'soul diva'," stated Gill. "Jackson was a hugely talented icon, certainly, but he will be as well remembered (probably more so) for his presentational skills, his dazzling dance moves, as for his musical innovations. Whitney, on the other hand, just sang, and the ripples from her voice continue to dominate the pop landscape." Gill said that there "are few, if any, Jackson imitators on today's TV talent shows, but every other contestant is a Whitney wannabe, desperately attempting to emulate that wondrous combination of vocal effects – the flowing melisma, the soaring mezzo-soprano confidence, the tremulous fluttering that carried the ends of lines into realms of higher yearning".[285]
Houston was considered by many to be a "singer's singer", who had an influence on countless other vocalists, both female and male.[98][286] Similarly, Steve Huey from Allmusic wrote that the shadow of Houston's prodigious technique still looms large over nearly every pop diva and smooth urban soul singer – male or female – in her wake, and spawned a legion of imitators.[281] Rolling Stone, on her biography, stated that Houston "redefined the image of a female soul icon and inspired singers ranging from Mariah Carey to Rihanna".[287] Essence ranked Houston the fifth on their list of 50 Most Influential R&B Stars of all time, calling her "the diva to end all divas".[288]
A number of artists have acknowledged Houston as an influence, including Celine Dion,[289] Mariah Carey,[98] Toni Braxton,[290] Christina Aguilera,[291] LeAnn Rimes,[292] Jessica Simpson,[293] Nelly Furtado,[294][295] Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears,[296] Ciara,[297] P!nk,[296] Ashanti,[298] Robin Thicke,[299] Jennifer Hudson, Stacie Orrico, Amerie,[300] and Destiny's Child.[296][301] Mariah Carey, who was often compared to Houston, said, "She [Houston] has been a big influence on me."[302] She later told USA Today that "none of us would sound the same if Aretha Franklin hadn't ever put out a record, or Whitney Houston hadn't."[303] Celine Dion who was the third member of the troika that dominated female pop singing in the 1990s, did a telephone interview with Good Morning America on February 13, 2012, telling "Whitney's been an amazing inspiration for me. I've been singing with her my whole career, actually. I wanted to have a career like hers, sing like her, look beautiful like her."[304] Beyoncé told the Globe and Mail that Houston "inspired [her] to get up there and do what [she] did".[305] She also wrote on her website on the day after Houston's death, "I, like every singer, always wanted to be just like [Houston]. Her voice was perfect. Strong but soothing. Soulful and classic. Her vibrato, her cadence, her control. So many of my life's memories are attached to a Whitney Houston song. She is our queen and she opened doors and provided a blueprint for all of us."[306]
Mary J. Blige said that Houston inviting her onstage during VH1's Divas Live show in 1999 "opened doors for [her] all over the world".[307] Brandy stated, "The first Whitney Houston CD was genius. That CD introduced the world to her angelic yet powerful voice. Without Whitney, half of this generation of singers wouldn't be singing."[308] Kelly Rowland, in an Ebony's feature article celebrating black music in June 2006, recalled that "[I] wanted to be a singer after I saw Whitney Houston on TV singing 'Greatest Love of All'. I wanted to sing like Whitney Houston in that red dress." She added that "And I have never, ever forgotten that song [Greatest Love of All]. I learned it backward, forward, sideways. The video still brings chills to me. When you wish and pray for something as a kid, you never know what blessings God will give you."[309]
Alicia Keys said "Whitney is an artist who inspired me from [the time I was] a little girl".[310] Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson cites Houston as her biggest musical influence. She told Newsday that she learned from Houston the "difference between being able to sing and knowing how to sing".[311] Leona Lewis, who has been called "the new Whitney Houston", also cites her as an influence. Lewis stated that she idolized her as a little girl.[312][313]
Awards and achievements[link]
Further information: List of awards and nominations received by Whitney Houston and Whitney Houston chart records and achievements
Houston was the most awarded female artist of all time, according to Guinness World Records,[1] with two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. She held the all-time record for the most American Music Awards of any female solo artist and shared the record with Michael Jackson for the most AMAs ever won in a single year with eight wins in 1994.[314] Houston won a record 11 Billboard Music Awards at its fourth ceremony in 1993.[315] She also had the record for the most WMAs won in a single year, winning five awards at the 6th World Music Awards in 1994.[316]
In May 2003, Houston placed at number three on VH1's list of "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era", behind Madonna and Janet Jackson.[317] She was also ranked at number 116 on their list of the "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time".[318] In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, ranking Houston at number nine.[319][320] Similarly, she was ranked as one of the "Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" by VH1 in September 2010.[321] In November 2010, Billboard released its "Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years" list and ranked Houston at number three whom not only went on to earn eight number one singles on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, but also landed five number ones on R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.[322]
Houston's debut album is listed as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine[49] and is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list.[50] In 2004, Billboard picked the success of her first release on the charts as one of 110 Musical Milestones in its history.[323] Houston's entrance into the music industry is considered one of the 25 musical milestones of the last 25 years, according to USA Today in 2007. It stated that she paved the way for Mariah Carey's chart-topping vocal gymnastics.[51] In 1997, the Franklin School in East Orange, New Jersey was renamed to The Whitney E. Houston Academy School of Creative and Performing Arts. In 2001, Houston was the first artist to be given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award.[324]
Houston was one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 200 million albums and singles worldwide.[2][3] She was ranked as the fourth best-selling female artist in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 55 million certified albums sold in the US.[216][325]
She held an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Grambling State University, Louisiana.[326]
Discography[link]
Main articles: Whitney Houston discography and Whitney Houston videography
- Studio Albums
- 1985: Whitney Houston
- 1987: Whitney
- 1990: I'm Your Baby Tonight
- 1998: My Love Is Your Love
- 2002: Just Whitney
- 2009: I Look to You
- Holiday Albums
Filmography[link]
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| 1992 | The Bodyguard | Rachel Marron | Feature film
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| 1995 | Waiting to Exhale | Savannah Jackson | Feature film
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| 1996 | The Preacher's Wife | Julia Biggs | Feature film
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| 1997 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella | Fairy Godmother | Made-for-television film, part of a revival of the Wonderful World of Disney.[335]
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| 2012 | Sparkle | Emma | Posthumous release |
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| 1984 | Gimme a Break! | NBC | Rita | "Katie's College" (Season 3, Episode 20, air date: March 15, 1984)[338] |
| As the World Turns | CBS | Herself | Houston appeared on the soap on August 1–2, 1984, with Jermaine Jackson singing two duets off a new album he was releasing at the time: "Take Good Care of My Heart" and "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do." They taped their appearance on July 25 at CBS Studios in New York City. | |
| 1985 | Silver Spoons | NBC | Herself | "Head Over Heels" (Season 4, Episode 1, air date: September 15, 1985)[338] She performed the edited version of "Saving All My Love for You", changing some of the words. |
| 2002 | Boston Public | Fox | Herself | She performed "Try It On My Own" from the 2002 studio album Just Whitney. |
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| 1983 | Dr Pepper/Seven Up | Canada Dry (soft drink beverage) |
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| 1986 | Coca-Cola | Diet Coke (soft drink beverage) |
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| 1988 | Coca-Cola | Diet Coke (soft drink beverage) |
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| 1989 | Sanyo | Electronics (the stereo, TV) |
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| 1999 | Nissin | Consumer credit business | Japan |
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| 1997 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella | Robert Iscove | Executive producer[350]
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| 2001 | The Princess Diaries | Garry Marshall | Producer[351]
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| 2003 | The Cheetah Girls | Oz Scott | Producer[356] |
| 2004 | The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement | Garry Marshall | Producer[357] |
| 2006 | The Cheetah Girls 2: When in Spain | Kenny Ortega | Co-executive producer[358] |
Tours[link]
Main article: List of Whitney Houston tours and concerts
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References[link]
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The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication, and honors the best in Black music and entertainment. It is produced by the makers of Soul Train, the program from which it takes its name, and features musical performances by various R&B and Soul recording artists interspersed throughout the ceremonies. The special traditionally used to air in either February, March or April, but now airs the last weekend of November (in most years, Thanksgiving weekend).
The Soul Train Music Awards voting body includes active professionals in the fields of radio programming and music retail and management and recording artists with records that have charted in designated music trade publications in the year prior to proceedings.
Past hosts for the show include such R&B luminaries as Luther Vandross, Dionne Warwick, Patti LaBelle, Will Smith, Vanessa Williams, and Gladys Knight.
The Soul Train Music Award trophy has featured an African ceremonial mask since its 1987 introduction. R&B singer Janet Jackson holds the record for the most Soul Train Awards won.
