RnB Music News

Britain’s Star magazine reported that at Beyonce’s concert in Salvador a gang of youngsters opened fire on fans and the singer had to cut short her show. The singer’s representatives say that the reports about gunfires are false.

The singer played to record number of fans in South America and she has certainly pushed her name to greater heights in the RnB world in the recent Grammy Awards. Her latest album “I am…Sasha Fierce”  helped her bag six awards which made her one of the most awarded female artist in one night. She is now compared to Alicia Keys and Lauren Hill as they were also big winners in the past who received multiple Grammy Awards just like Beyonce.
The following are her awards:
• Song of the Year – Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
• Best Female Pop Vocal Performance – Halo
• Best Female RnB Vocal Performance – Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)
• Best Traditional RnB Vocal Performance – At Last
• Best RnB Song – Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)

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It’s been several years now since ex-Fugees front woman stepped down from the stage and abandoned recording studios. Even more saddening than the artistic loss of such an exceptional voice of the RnB, is the news that have circulated over the last years about the singer’s mental health issues. Her latest public appearances, in particular the shocking 2007 performance in Brooklyn, have raised several concerns about the unstable behaviour of the singer. Fears of psychiatric disorders have also been confirmed by former band members Pras and Wyclef Jean who declared Lauryn urgently needs psychiatric support.

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RnB singer Mya is one of the contestants of this season’s American edition Dancing with the Stars. The artist has recently managed to get to the third finals on the popular show and has also been voted by US Weekly as one of the “Hot Steppers of the Year”.

Mya’s skills as a dancer surely do not come as a surprise. Many of her videos show she is one of the best dancers around in the RnB scene and she also has a respectful dancing background from a very young age, especially in tap dancing where she has trained with renowned tap dancer Savion Glover of the Dance Theater of Harlem.

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Last Thursday the New York’s Plaza Hotel hosted one of the most exclusive events in town: famous hip hop star and producer P Diddy – aka Sean Combs – threw the most spectacular birthday bash for his 40th birthday.

We all know that Diddy is not new to this kind of events and that he is in fact THE party specialist. Anybody will have already heard about his “White Party Affair” which he hosts every year and where guests not wearing 100% white attire can get a non-entry.

So, after the “White Party”, the “Black and White – Truman Capote Party”, the “Harlem to Hollywood Party” and the “Masquerade Ball – Cirque du Soleil Party”, Puffy came up with something really original this year (in the true meaning of the word). The theme for his birthday party was the Garden of Eden. No, this did not mean David Beckham, Bono and Jay-Z (to name some of his guests) had to walk through the red carpet only wearing a fig leaf on their private parts.

In P Diddy’s world it turned out to be spending more than 3 million dollars to transform the Plaza’s Grand Ballroom in an Eden by installing a black dance floor with an enormous black chandelier hanging on top of it, orchid layout decorations worth $30,000, silver confetti raining from above and, of course, a huge chocolate birthday cake with Sean John Comb’s initials.

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Simon Cowell has done it again. This time, he launched his newest girl group -  Bubbel G.  Bubbel G is composed of Elle, Bella, Bouji, Coco and Bliss and these 5 girls are the newest RnB sensation that’s just waiting for their turn in the limelight.

So, what does this new girl group have in store? They promise to mix urban dance with their own style of fun and glamour. Bouji, Bliss and Bella are from Dublin while Elle was from Manchester. Right now all 5 are staying in Essex together. They were formed as a group only in  th Mis year so they are still quite new as a group.

After 5 months, they will be releasing their 1st ever single this week entitled “Get Ready”. They are now getting their exposure from the radio and TV guesting. Not only that, just recently, they performed in front of the students of Swanmead Community School as a preview of what these young girls can do. The students were ecstatic and they all gathered in their school’s main hall as the new group was performing just for them.

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Mos Def (his real name is Dante Terrell Smith) had been in the business since late 90’s but he fell off the radar after the release of his first album. He had great potential back then and he was able to get fans that were hardcore fanatics of hip-hop or not. His first single “Universal magnetic” was a huge underground hit. Mos Def also appeared in movies such as: Ghosts, Showtime or The Italian Job.

Mos Def had released his 4th album which had been recorded since 2007. It was produced by J Dilla, Madlib, Mos Def himself together with other producers. Prior to the release of the album, Mos Def had already sang some of the albums during live shows and his fans already caught a glimpse of the album even before it was said to be released.

The album has some songs recorded with other artists such as Georgia Anne Muldrow and Slick Rick. The 1st single from the album is “Life in Marvelous Times” and the 2nd single is “Quiet Dog”.

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Loso’s Way had reached the number 1 slot for the top 200 albums that sold an amazing 98,000 copies. Fabolous also had great success with From Nothin’ to Somethin’ which was #2 back in 2007 and it sold over 150,000 albums on the first week of its release!

Loso’s Way is the 5th album signed by Fabolous which has been released just this July 28, 2009. It was originally called “Work Hard, Play Harder” and was set for release by June 30 of this year but was then pushed back to July 28, 2009 so he could include the movie for this album. Loso’s Way has the deluxe and the standard release albums. There is a bonus DVD with the movie Loso’s Way and it features nobody else but Fabolous himself.

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Aaliyah was an R&B singer, actress and model whose life was cut short by a plane accident back in August 25, 2001 together with other members of her staff who were with her during the filming of her music video “Rock the Boat” in the Bahamas. The cause of the plane crash was said to be the overweight in the craft since Aaliyah and her crew brought all of their heavy equipment on the said flight instead of leaving them behind.

After the news came out that Aaliyah died, everyone who knew her was shocked with the very tragic ending to this beautiful young princess whose career was at its peak. Her third album then became number 1 from number 19 just shortly after her death .

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Avril Lavigne is said to release her latest album which is going to be a little bit more mellow than her previous albums of the pop-rock kind. Her fourth album is going to be a bit more serious and the album is set to be released by November under RCA.
The album will have less rock noise and more “emotion and feeling” and acustic guitar. What will be the next step in Avril’s change- singing with Mariah Carey?

The 8 songs out of the 12 tracks in the album are produced by her own husband Deryck Whibley. Most of the songs here are acoustics and vocals which makes it very different than the shouting songs she used to sing in her previous albums.

Is this going to be a new beginning for Avril Lavigne aka Mrs. Avril Whibley? She started with this album by singing songs on her home piano which is very different with how she used to start on her previous albums. The 25-year-old singer said that one of the songs was used from the Black Star fragrance TV commercial which she decided to turn into a full song.

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Chrisette Michelle had released her 2nd studio album in May under Island Def Jam Music Group. She started recording for her second album by last year and just last January, she released her title track entitled “Epiphany” as its first single. For this album, Chrisette said her inspirations are Claude Kelly, Chuck Harmony, Ne-Yo and Bei Maejor. She said that this is a more youthful and more upbeat album compared to her first studio album.

Chrisette loves “Blame it on me”, one of the songs on this album and she also likes “On My Own” which she said reminded her of her dad. The album received positive criticisms and some critics say it’s a great album for those experiencing breakup. It expresses anger as well as some heartache on its serious songs.

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