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Teena Marie dies at 54; R&B singer-songwriter
Teena Marie, the singer-songwriter known for such funk-infused 1980s hits as "I Need Your Lovin'" and "Lovergirl," and one of the few white musicians to achieve renown on the R&B charts, has died. She was 54.
Marie was found dead at her Pasadena home...Tags: Arts and Culture, Luther Vandross, Entertainment, Funk (genre), Music Industry
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Richard Griffey dies at 71; founder of R&B record label Solar
Richard "Dick" Griffey, founder of the Los Angeles-based R&B record label Solar, which was once touted as "the Motown of the '80s," has died. He was 71.
Griffey died Friday at a Canoga Park rehabilitation center of complications from quadruple-bypass...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Television, Surgery, Stevie Wonder
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Teddy Pendergrass dies at 59; quintessential R&B boudoir crooner
Teddy Pendergrass, the soul singer who combined hyper-romantic love songs with a virile, sexy stage presence to become the quintessential R&B boudoir crooner before a 1982 car accident left him paralyzed, died Wednesday in his native Philadelphia. He...Tags: R. Kelly, Transportation Accidents, Teddy Pendergrass, Soul (genre), Obituaries
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The Michael Jackson new-music onslaught begins [Updated]
Pop & HissSo this is ???It.??? Sony Music announced Wednesday that on Oct. 12 it will release a new Michael Jackson single called "This Is It" -- the first previously unreleased recording to be put on sale since the superstar's death. The...... -
Skip Miller dies at 62; former Motown Records president
Skip Miller, a Los Angeles music industry veteran who rose from stock clerk to president of Motown Records and helped rejuvenate the black music division at RCA Records, has died. He was 62. Miller, who also managed Lionel Richie's solo career, was being...Tags: Heart Attack, Lionel Richie, Hofstra University, Career and Workplace, Defense
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Voice coach Bob Garrett finds the key of 'Grey Gardens'
In the 1970s, Bob Garrett performed at Reno Sweeney, the same New York cabaret where Jackie Kennedy's eccentric cousin "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale sang. More than three decades later, Garrett gave Drew Barrymore vocal training needed to simulate one of...Tags: Gaming, DVDs and Movies, Jerome Robbins, Television, Drew Barrymore
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Pop music and jazz figures
Pop music and jazz figures Bob Popescu, 77; co-owner of Catalina Bar & Grill, turned the Los Angeles club into one of the top jazz venues in the country (Jan. 5) Ken Nelson, 84; longtime Capitol Records talent scout had an ear for country music (Jan. 6)...Tags: Dave Alvin, Television, Woody Guthrie, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin
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Q and Me
Win 27 Grammys and one Emmy, and throw in seven Oscar nominations. Would there be anything left for you to do? Quincy Jones could have settled for being the first African-American record executive in 1964, when he was vice president at Mercury Rec-ords....Tags: South Africa, Quincy Jones, Entertainment, Film Festivals, Music Industry
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Jheryl Busby dies at 59; music executive led revival of Motown Records
Jheryl Busby, a music executive who led a revival of Motown Records while president and chief executive of the company from 1988 to 1995, was found dead Tuesday in a hot tub at his home in Malibu. He was 59. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Jheryl...Tags: Lionel Richie, Corporate Officers, Obituaries, Patti LaBelle, The Washington Post
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The lessons of Lil Wayne's No. 1
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs music business headlines go, the one that arrived this week was a golden oldie, a half-forgotten tune from happier days: A new album soared to the top of the charts, selling more than 1 million copies in a single week. It was the first time in 39...Tags: Coldplay (music group), Gaming, Television, Oprah Winfrey, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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New CDs: Staind, Amy Macdonald
Staind "The Illusion of Progress" Flip/Atlantic
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Staind specializes in loud, brooding ballads of manly sadness (see "It's Been Awhile"), a genre once perfected by Alice in Chains and suffocated by the overwrought Creed. With pierced eyebrow and...Tags: Pink Floyd (music group), Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan, Amy Winehouse
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CD: Lil Wayne
Special to The TimesLil Wayne "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal Motown Records) *** When you call yourself "the greatest rapper alive," championship seasons aren't just expected, they're required. Lil Wayne knows this well, having spent the last three years crowing...Tags: Kanye West, Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, 50 Cent, Jay-Z
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