RnB Music News

Grammy Award winner Adele (real name Adele Laurie Blue Adkins) recently released her sophomore album titled “21”. This refers to the age she was when she wrote the songs on the new album. It’s a highly anticipated 2^nd album following her debut Grammy Award winning album in 2009.

Early reviews for the sophomore album are already in and initial impressions are very positive. With powerful producers on her back such as Rick Rubin and Epworth, each track comes out as a highlight in the album. Of course one song will definitely stand out after some time but the carrier single “Rolling in Deep” will definitely stay in the hearts and minds of music lovers due to its powerful combination of her strong vocals and a pop-blues instrumental.

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Some people are just born lucky to have the talent and looks to make it in any industry. One of those people is Ciara. After being part of the music industry for the past few years, Ciara went back to her roots – modelling.

With her fame and good looks, she is now part of 2010 Adidas Originals Global. She’ll be working with David Beckham as the male counterpart in this campaign. Some see this as a slow shift to her modelling career because the music industry was not kind to her but it’s actually the opposite. She is just reestablishing her role in the modelling world.

Ciara started to gain the attention of everyone in 2004 when her debut album “Goodies” became a platinum hit in the US. Her international fame was sealed when the same album was released internationally January of 2005. Her three singles “Goodies”, “1, 2 Step” and “Oh” were top of the charts in various countries.

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Mariah Carey was awarded the Breakthrough Actress Performance prize at the Palm Springs Film Festival for starring in the film Precious, a recent movie release. Unfortunately her performance during the acceptance speech seemed to be a lot less convincing. Or rather, the only thing she convinced the audience about might have been the level of alcohol she just had consumed.

As soon as she stepped on the stage, together with Precious film director Lee Daniels, it was clear something was wrong with the actress/singer who could barely articulate her words and, in fact, asked the public to excuse her as she was “a bit, um.. ”.
On a later occasion, the singer put the blame for her behaviour on her jokingly relationship with Lee Daniels. She said she and Daniels had enjoyed themselves prior to the award presentation with champagne and not enough eating.

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Like several other celebrities, Ashanti has experienced the bad side of being a famous by becoming victim of harassment. It seems the singer was subject to inopportune attentions by a 31 year old man, Devar Hurd, who has recently been found guilty for stalking the singer.

The harassment took place between last May and July, when Hurd sent to Ashanti’s sister, Shia Douglas, and mother Tina, numerous sexually-explicit texts and vulgar pictures. He has also been spotted in many of Ashanti’s performance venues.

Hurd introduces himself as a singer and record music company CEO. In front of the Manhattan Supreme Court, he explained that his sex-ting and pictures of his intimate parts were welcomed by the women as he was never told to stop.

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R Kelly is planning to write his memoirs to be published in 2011. The 42 year old RnB artist declared his aim behind the project is that of clearing all the misunderstandings that have been going on about him and which have caused many of the controversies around his public image.
Thoughts are obviously going to the charges of child pornography R Kelly has been accused of in the past. The idea of writing his autobiography, indeed, has been set a year after the artist was definitely cleared of charges.

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Rihanna decided to release the video for “Russian Roulette” on November 13,  ex-boyfriend Chris Brown also decided to premier his own music video “Crawl” on the same day.

After the television shows and interviews where Chris Brown talked about the unfortunate event which occured last February  now the battle between the two is not yet ceasing, and this time they took it to the music scenes.  Both music videos had the debut this November 13.  Rihanna  took her music video to the show “20/20” on ABC while Chris Brown took  it to the Wendy Williams Show.

Chris Brown wants a competition with Rihanna but he really can’t compete with her success.

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At 2009 MTV Europe Awards, Beyonce  Knowles received 3 awards: she won the Best Female Artist award, the Best Video award for her great music video “Single Ladies” and the Best Song award for “Halo”.

Can you still remember the best video award received by Taylor Swift when Kanye West interrupted her speech? He  believed Beyonce’s Single Ladies song deserved that award.

Well, Beyonce  received another award on that show and gave Taylor Swift the chance to make an acceptance speech. This time, in the UK, Beyonce  Knowles got the same award for her video “Single Ladies”.

Beyonce  was one of the major winners of the said awards night. Her  being the best female artist is one of the highlights of the show. When she picked up her award, she was all thankful to the wonderful female artists such as Leona Lewis and Shakira.

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The unfortunate news of Stephen Gately’s death did not only shock the remaining 4 members of the popular 90’s group Boyzone but it also shocked all of their fans around the world. His death was sudden and unexpected and the 4 remaining members want to release an album as tribute to their fallen friend.

Gately died at a young age of 33 while on a vacation in Majorca with his husband Mr. Andrew Cowles. When the 4 remaining members were interviewed, they revealed that Stephen Gately had pre-recorded 2 songs already for their upcoming album. Ronan Keating also said that Stephen Gately texted him that he was so excited for the album. It’s so ironic that when he was at the time that he exudes happiness and was so full of life that he suddenly died. But, with grief comes acceptance and moving on. For the four remaining members of Boyzone, the way to move on is to complete the tribute album although it was rather hard for them but they needed to grieve together.

Stephen Gately shocked the world when he admitted several years ago that he was gay. He then married his beau Andrew Cowle. As a young kid, Stephen was not able to reveal his homosexuality because it was still at a time that Ireland was still not able to embrace it. He was given a great send off by Dublin and the band was so proud of that.

Chris Brown had his first radio interview on Hot 97 after his reported assault with ex-girlfriend Rihanna last February.  This was also his second appearance to the public and fans  after the assault as he had a TV interview with Larry King before.

During his radio interview  it was clear that Chris Brown wanted a second chance. He also said that he  was only a human being who had his own opinion and thoughts about things just like everyone else. He was sorry  hitting his girlfriend Rihanna and he said he was learning from his mistakes.

Chris also had a message to all of his fans. He said that he wasn’t going to let his fans down again. He used to be  a role model to young kids and what he did was embarrassing and it was very hard for him.  Chris was also dissatisfied with the way Oprah handled the story with the assault and he also added that Diddy and Will Smith tried to reach out to him.

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Dizzee Rascal is gaining grounds with the many awards he received and with the increasing number of fans he has. The success does not make Dizzee Rascal arrogant and proud, in fact he is still as humble as he was back when fame and fortune wasn’t his to enjoy.

Dizzee Rascal was at the Glastonbury performance and just a week after his performance there, he was onstage again at the Festival in Hyde Park where 25,000 people were eager and excited to see him perform.

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