AP - Apr 13, 2007
Barbra Streisand welcomed Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) to her bluff-top Malibu estate for a fundraising dinner that took in $1.3 million for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee....
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PHOENIX (AP) — Billy Crystal has been friends with Muhammad Ali for 33 years. That s why he showed up Saturday night for Celebrity Fight Night, the glitzy gala that raises funds and awareness for...
More »Reuters - Mar 2, 2007
Producer/songwriter David Foster is proof that you can go home again. Although this native of Victoria, British Columbia, has lived in Malibu, California, for years, he spends much time in Canada. The...
More »AP - Jul 24, 2006
Chaka Khan, Clint Black and Michael Bolton are among the pop stars who will be part of Celebrity Duets, a new Fox TV show that pairs singers and celebrities trying to prove they can carry a tune. The...
More »Reuters - Aug 31, 2005
During a five-year live absence, Eric Benet has been in more tabloid stories about his much-publicized marriage to and breakup with Halle Berry than he cares to admit. The lost romance also deprived his...
More »E! Online - Feb 16, 2005
Some bands just want their 15 minutes on top, 3 Doors Down got Seventeen Days. While the Mississippi rockers first two albums sold more than 12 million combined copies and scored six number one radio...
More »Reuters - Jan 28, 2005
Grammy Award-winning producer/songwriter David Foster has signed a deal with Fox for his own reality series, which the network will start airing later this year. Foster s still-untitled show will document...
More »Reuters - Jan 5, 2005
Producer Rodney Jerkins is adding a twist to his instrumental solo album, Versatility. Aspiring songwriters can write a song based on one of the set s 12 original tracks for the chance to win a publishing...
More »AP - Dec 7, 2004
61. Salsa/Merengue Album: Valio La Pena, Marc Anthony; Travesia, Victor Manuelle; Autentico, Gilberto Santa Rosa; Creciendo, Son de Cali; Across 110th Street, Spanish Harlem Orchestra featuring Ruben...
More »E! Online - Oct 27, 2004
For the first time since Jimmy Carter sat in the White House and Star Wars had no sequels, Rod Stewart has the nation s number one album. The croaky-voiced crooner s latest collection of standards...
More »Reuters - Sep 21, 2004
Capitol Records on Tuesday said it will soon release a new DVD with performances by George Harrison as well as archival footage featuring the ex-Beatle talking about his solo career and formation of...
More »E! Online - Jun 9, 2004
Eight is apparently not enough for Usher. For the ninth time in 11 weeks of release, the R&B crooner s incredibly resilient breakout smash Confessions topped Billboard s album sales chart....
More »Reuters - Apr 18, 2004
The proclivity of American Idol for celebrity judges has not only given last year s runner-up Clay Aiken the B-side to his current single The Way, but has given songwriter Neil Sedaka a new lease on...
More »Reuters - Mar 12, 2004
Carole Bayer Sager and Carly Simon are writing together, Bayer Sager tells Billboard. The two had a big hit with Nobody Does It Better, which Simon sang for the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved...
More »E! Online - Dec 10, 2003
So much for that sophomore slump. Alicia Keys second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, opened at number one, scoring the best single-week sales of any female artist in 2003. Diary sold a monster 618...
More »AP - Dec 1, 2003
Making his first trip to China, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on Monday called for more cultural exchanges as a way of boosting understanding among people. Events such as his Shanghai visit are good...
More »E! Online - Nov 19, 2003
Jay-Z sure knows how to make an exit. The retiring rapper is going out on top, as his swan song, The Black Album, beat out five other huge new releases last week to debut at number one. Despite...
More »Reuters - Nov 1, 2003
One side of the ailing music business remains robust, according to Paul Anka : the licensing side. And he would know. The legendary writer/performer of such late- 50s/early- 60s teen classics as Puppy...
More »USRN - Jun 16, 1998
(6/17/98) - The Grammy Awards are coming back to Los Angeles after a two-year stint in New York. The 41st Annual Grammy Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium on February 24, 1999. Michael Greene...
More »USRN - May 14, 1998
(5/14/98) - Sheryl Crow, Kenny Babyface Edmonds, R. Kelly and Alanis Morissette were among the top winners at the 46th annual BMI Pop Awards held May 12th at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills...
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