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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Motown tribute to play at International Plaza
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – The sounds of Motown will be playing Sunday afternoon at the International Plaza in Rochester on N Clinton Avenue. JWhispers Entertainment, led by Evans Buntley, will present a Motown tribute honoring some of the greatest musical legends ever. Members in the community will get to enjoy live performances featuring the iconic hits of Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, and more. Visitors to the Plaza today through Sunday can also look forward to the following food vendors: De Mi Tierra Food and Supplies: Mexican and Colombian tamales, chorizos, empanadas and more. Friday 12 – 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. La Parada de Salinas: Comfort food with Puerto Rican twist, including empanadas, and papas rellenas. Friday 12 – 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. New Generation Meats: Savory and sweet, including traditional empanadas and ice cream; the traditional taste of alcapurrias and a selection of fried plates. Friday 12 – 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. The International Plaza is a partnership between the City of Rochester and the Ibero American Development Corporation. Here people can enjoy music, food, culture, and activities for the whole family to enjoy. 'International Plaza showcases the contributions of Latinos and other cultures and traditions to Rochester's cultural and economic vibrancy,' organizers say. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kesha Tells a Shocked Jennifer Hudson How She Felt Being an Extra in 'Dreamgirls'
While on The Jennifer Hudson Show, Kesha told the host she was an extra in 2006's Dreamgirls, which starred Hudson as well as Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy and Jamie Foxx Hudson played Dreamgirl singer Effie White in the film, which is loosely based on The Supremes The pop singer admitted she was paid $120 for the gigKesha has a pretty impressive feature film on her resume. In a new interview on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the Grammy-nominated pop star revealed to host Jennifer Hudson they technically starred in a film together — 2006's Dreamgirls. The 38-year-old "Joyride" singer told Hudson, 43, that she happened to be an extra for the film, which also stars Beyoncé, Anika Noni Rose, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx and Danny Glover. "What, really?" the Respect star said in amazement, to which Kesha responded that she was paid $120 to be an extra on set for 16 hours. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "Ya'll were amazing," Kesha told the host who played Dreamgirl singer Effie White, a role that was inspired by Supremes member Florence Ballard. "I sat there with my hair teased to the gods," Kesha said, adding that she wasn't a fan of the 1960s-era look. "No offense, I hated it," she added. While more feature films may or may not be in the cards for Kesha, the singer recently announced her new single "Yippee-Ki-Yay" with T-Pain, out March 27. The song comes after her recent singles "Joyride" and "Delusional," while the forthcoming full-length body of work will be her first since 2023's critically acclaimed Gag being signed to a major label for over a decade, along with a lengthy legal battle that has since been settled, Kesha is now an independent artist and the CEO of Kesha Records, which runs in partnership with Crush Music and ADA. The singer recently spoke with PEOPLE about her upcoming sixth album and how it feels to be at the helm of her creative projects. "God, it feels f---ing incredible. I'm so fiercely protective of my freedom now," Kesha said. "For a long time, I was convinced it must have been everybody else around me, which is why I was successful, and the past year has proven that it f---ing has not been." "I have been taking the power back into my own hands with my team. It's f---ing amazing, really empowering, and I'm really inspired to help empower other artists too, because artists hold the power. We have the magic," she added. Read the original article on People
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Country music pioneer ‘whose artistry touched millions' dies at 73
A country music pioneer who racked up several chart-topping hits during the 1970s has died at the age of 73. Johnny Rodriguez died on Friday, May 9 'surround by family,' his daughter, Aubry Rodriguez, wrote on social media. 'Dad was not only a legendary musician whose artistry touched millions around the world, but also a deeply loved husband, father, uncle, and brother whose warmth, humor, and compassion shaped the lives of all who knew him,' her post read. 'We are immensely grateful for the outpouring of love and support from fans, colleagues, and friends during this time of grief,' it continued. 'While the world has lost an extraordinary talent, we have lost someone irreplaceable — and we ask for privacy as we navigate this painful moment together.' The late country musician was born Juan Rodriguez in Sabinal, Texas on Dec. 10, 1951, a PBS biography states. From growing up 90 miles from the Mexican border, Rodriguez's musical influences ranged from mariachi to honky-tonk to traditional country. 'I listened to The Supremes, okay? I listened to Merle Haggard, to Hank Williams, and Jimmie Rodgers, of course. I was drawn to country music because I could relate more to what they were singing about. And also it was just like the music of our people,' Rodriguez told PBS. 'In Mexican music, you have stories. Mexican music and country music said almost the same thing, just in different languages.' Incarcerated at age 18 for a minor offense, Rodriguez was discovered after he was heard singing in his cell. He changed his name from 'Juan Rodriguez' to 'Johnny Rogers' and performed under that name at Alamo Village. That was where the young artist was discovered by country greats Bobby Bare and Tom T. Hall. Rodriguez later moved to Nashville, changing his surname back to Rodriguez but keeping 'Johnny.' He landed a recording contract with Mercury Records that released his first single, 'Pass Me By' in 1973. The track peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard country charts, making Rodriguez the first Hispanic-American to become a country music sensation. Rodriguez's 1973 debut album, 'Introducing Johnny Rodriguez,' topped Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. It was also nominated for album of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Rodriguez's six No. 1 country hits are 'You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)' (1973), 'Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico' (1973), 'That's the Way Love Goes' (1974), 'I Just Can't Get Her Out Out of My Mind' (1975), 'Just Get Up and Close the Door' (1975) and 'Love Put a Song in My Heart' (1975). He enjoyed a streak of charting singles well into the late 1980s as well. Overall, Rodriguez released 26 albums and 45 charting singles. He was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007. The musician received the Institute of Hispanic Culture Pioneer Award in 2010 for being the first major Hispanic singer in country music. Country music legend fired gun at husband after learning he cheated Hit country singer explains abrupt 'SNL' exit: 'I was just ready to go home' Country music star says he's 'so close to a full healing' with daughter Famous country singer's 'harrowing' experience performing personal songs Retiring country music legend chokes up while accepting 'mind-blowing' honor Read the original article on MassLive.
CNN
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Look of the Week: Diana Ross returns to the Met Gala for the first time in 22 years
Editor's Note: Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, 'Look of the Week' is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. There were many firsts at the 2025 Met Gala — it was the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first year the event raised more than $30 million in donations. But among these record-breaking moments was an important return. After a hiatus of more than two decades, disco legend and one-third of The Supremes, Diana Ross, graced the Met steps once more for fashion's biggest night of the year. Ross, who last attended the Met Gala back in 2003, arrived at the event Monday adorned in feathers and sporting a jaw-dropping 18-foot-long train. It took five men to carry the star's hand-embroidered ivory white accessory, which enveloped the carpeted steps when laid flat. But hidden in the yards of fabric was a small detail many may have missed. 'It has (stitched) the names of all my children and my eight grandchildren,' Ross told Vogue carpet-side, calling the dress 'a forever family gown.' On her arm was Evan Ross, her son and the co-creator of the look. 'She is the best thing. She is the Met Ball,' he told Vogue. Ross worked with Ugo Mozie, a Nigerian designer and founder of fashion label Eleven Sixteen to bring his mother's show-stopping ensemble to life. 'Family. Heritage. Legacy,' Mozie posted on social media. 'So grateful to be a part of this special moment. To have co-designed this work of art for an Icon.' Underneath the larger-than-life train, the Motown singer donned a crystal-embellished spaghetti-strapped gown and a dazzling pair of chandelier earrings. On her head sat a custom, wide-brimmed feathered hat by LA-based milliner Sarah Sokol. Despite being one of the most memorable outfits of the evening, Ross let slip that her appearance was actually last minute. 'There was not a plan,' she said. 'My son persuaded me (to come), because I'm actually on tour. He said, 'Mom, you gotta go.'' Luckily for us, she had just the thing to wear.
Daily Mirror
23-04-2025
- Daily Mirror
Beyonce's mum Tina Knowles stripped naked in brutal police checks for simple traffic offence
She might be the mother of a superstar pop star legend but there's more to Tina Knowles than just being a 'momager' as her new memoir reveals in shocking, graphic detail There are moments which can change a life for ever. For Tina Knowles, one was the day she was driven, barefoot and afraid, through the main streets of her hometown of Galveston, Texas - in the back of the police car. The driver had apparently taken a deliberate detour through her neighbourhood, parading his 'perpetrator'. It was intended to humiliate her - to be a drive of shame. But, as she would later come to realise, the shame of that moment should never have been hers. It only ever should have belonged to the white cop at the wheel. For the same cop, she claims, called her friends 'monkeys' and likened her neighbourhood to a 'zoo'. He was the same cop there the night officers pulled a gun on her brother Skip - for the crime, she says, of drunkenly passing out on a neighbour's porch. And he was the same cop who - along with his pals - had been known to pull over her hard-working father on a higher than usual number of traffic stops. Tina's 'crime' that day, aged 20, in 1974 was to ride barefoot on a dirt bike (it was her 'hippie' phase). It was a traffic violation - but one for which she should be quickly bailed. Instead she says the cop and his colleagues insisted on a full strip and cavity search. 'It was the most humiliating, horrible thing,' Tina this week recalled. 'When it was over, I put my clothes back on, trying to put an armour of dignity over me too.' It's a tale of prejudice which sadly is not unfamiliar even today. But it's also a snapshot of Tina's younger years that answers an enduring mystery in showbiz - what kind of woman does it take to raise a global icon, activist and role model like Beyonce? The answer? A strong one. Tina, 71, has now shared this story for the first time in her no-holds barred memoir, Matriarch. But it was by far not the only bombshell about her life. From racism to cheating husbands to her recent breast cancer ordeal, the woman born Celestine Ann Beyoncé, in Texas, 1954, has not had it easy. The youngest of seven siblings, her mum was a seamstress and her dad was a longshoreman. Their surname was Beyince, but a typo on Tina's birth certificate meant she was officially Tina 'Beyonce' - a slip up by a clerk that would change pop culture. Her early life was affected by the racism in the Southern states, but she had a clear passion: singing. She formed a girl group The Veltones, inspired by The Supremes as a teen, but her dreams of stardom ended early when she had to look after her elderly parents. By 26, she had met and married a run-of-the-mill Xerox salesman Mathew Knowles. But Tina was not meant for a little life in Galveston. Although it would be her daughters Beyonce, born in 1981, and Solange in 1986, who would help her achieve that singing success she never personally did. And they didn't do it by halves. By 16, Beyonce was in Destiny's Child. Mathew quit the day job to be the band's manager and the family never looked back. However, as Tina shares in her new memoir - and as we know from their acrimonious split - success put more pressure on her already tempestuous marriage. In a bombshell claim in the book, Tina reveals Mathew was already a ladies' man when the girls were small. In fact, she even suspected him of cheating in the days after she had given birth to Solange - after he picked her up from the hospital and dropped her at a friends' house with the newborn baby and five-year-old Beyonce, announcing he had to fly to a conference in Atlanta. 'I suspected that a woman was involved,' Tina says in her book Matriarch. 'We had a huge blowout at the hospital, but he wouldn't budge. Sure enough, the next day he dropped me, Beyoncé, and our newborn off [at the friend's]. He practically ran out of the house to his getaway car, I said to myself, 'Okay, I'm done.'' She left him. But, like other times to follow, she ended up going back. This time her return was the fault of the friend's rottweiler, 'Killer'. 'Killer charged up the stairs and he snapped, foaming at the mouth and growling as loud as a freight train,' she recalls, claiming he was aggravated by her perfume. So when Mathew called grovelling for her to come back later that night she reluctantly agreed. 'I was so annoyed with myself for having escaped a lousy marriage to almost get killed,' she adds in her book. 'I felt I had no choice but to go back and reclaim our home—but only under one condition….' The condition was that they got intensive counselling. They were still trapped in their love/hate relationship years later when Tina this week revealed she accidentally spilt a pan of boiling grease on herself while frying fish. The police arrived before the ambulance and proceeded to quiz her on whether Mathew had actually done it to her.. 'Even at a time like this, we were suspect. Presumed guilty,' she writes in her book. She was furious. But not as furious as Mathew allegedly was at the hospital, when Tina was lying screaming in pain and doctors were dragging their feet. She claims he flipped over a doctor's tray in frustration - and that only made her love him more. 'Mathew finally broke. My crazy husband, the man I loved, turned over a tray in rage,' she claims in the book. ''Give my wife some fucking pain medicine. Give her something right now'.' Their dynamic and what Tina calls their 'cosmic' pull is perhaps the reason she later did the unthinkable: After learning he'd fathered a child Nixon, now 15, with his mistress Alexsandra Wright in 2009, she filed for divorce. But a few months later, he visited her where she was living in New York - and this time she became The Other Woman. 'He'd changed after new counseling,' she recalls in her 432-page tell-all. 'He was persistent, proved he'd gotten help, and as he courted me, I found myself falling in love again.' The pair had an affair for a year - before he allegedly cheated on her again and in 2011, it was over for good. She went on to marry actor Richard Lawson in 2015 but split with him in 2023, saying: 'I wanted someone to be happy when I walked in the room'. It's telling that Beyonce has had more than her share of her own marital problems. The infamous Met Gala fight between Solange and Jay-Z will go down in history. And yet she too, like her mum, has fought hard for her marriage to work. But love life troubles are by far the least thing the mum and daughter have in common. They both were as driven for Beyonce to be a success as each other. Indeed, the superstar was just nine when Tina faced one of her hardest moments of motherhood. Beyonce was in school girl group Gyrl's Time but came home crying one day. The teachers had reassigned all her parts to another girl and Beyonce was demanding Tina go and shout at them. Tina said No. 'I couldn't just be her mom for that moment; I needed to be her mom for her whole life,' she explains in her book. So she told her: ''That girl is not your competition. You are your only competition and that's how it always will be. You gotta work harder'.' That was the first time Beyonce told her mum 'I hate you' - but a few months later she was thanking her for the tough love. And the unstoppable determination and work ethic of Beyonce was born. A few years later Tina did something else controversial: she put a teenage Beyonce and Solange into joint therapy sessions to eradicate what she saw as the beginnings of sibling rivalry. Then when Beyonce was 16, her friend - and soon-to-be Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland grew so close to the family she started calling Mathew 'dad'. Tina had a tough talk with Bey about not being jealous. Perhaps the most important advice she gave her daughter however was when it came to Jay-Z. Tina lets slip in her book that Beyonce was seeing two men at the same time when they first started dating. Both men had been travelling to see the Crazy in Love singer on the set of 2002's Austin Powers in Goldmember. Tina doesn't name the other man, but it's thought it may have been high school boyfriend, Lyndall Locke, whom she dated from 1993 to 2001. Beyonce was lost on what to do and asked Tina for advice. She asked her daughter to answer one simple question: 'Who do you enjoy talking to more?' 'I watched her think. It was Jay,' Tina writes. 'Isn't it humbling how love can begin with such a simple feeling? You're 21 years old and you can't know someday you will take that love to the stars, but it begins with such a small instinct.' The Mama bear instinct kicked in in a slightly different way when Solange fell pregnant aged 17 and declared she was going to get married to her then boyfriend, Daniel Smith, however. Tina confesses she rang Daniel to convince him not to marry her daughter. He dutifully called Solange to say perhaps they should wait. Solange took it about as well as a young Tina would have done. According to Daniel, Solange had replied: 'F*** you, and f*** my mama, because I know [she] put you up to this.' Tina backed down, arranged a dream wedding in just three days and somehow wangled a private plane and service on a remote island belonging to John Travolta. Because at the end of the day she would move mountains to give her kids what they wanted. And Solange just wanted one gift for her wedding: privacy away from the circus that came with her sister's fame. Tina would later give that same present to Beyonce when she finished a gruelling world tour, taking her back to her home neighbourhood in Galveston, where the superstar could go almost unnoticed out of her popstar get up. Beyonce's only wish was to go to Walgreen's - the US answer to Boots. 'When we left, she was glowing, so empowered,' writes Tina, 'Not a single person approached her. Not one. It felt like a fairy tale.' Tina's bond with her daughters was once again cemented last year when the mum went for a routine mammogram - having not been for four years because of the pandemic. Doctors found two cancerous tumours. It was stage one - the second stage under the American system. Tina was nonplussed: 'I had been through all of this stuff in life getting to be seventy years old, and now I'm gonna get cancer?,' she writes. Beyonce moved Tina into her home and sat in on appointments. And when it came to the day of her lumpectomy, the daughters sat with her in the ward ahead of her being taken down to surgery and sang Destiny's Child Walk With Me. 'It's about God walking with you and protecting you,' Tina recalled in her interview on US TV this week. 'And I went in there feeling just like God has got me.' A year on, she's now cancer-free and happily one of the Single Ladies for the first time in decades. For like everything in this Galveston girl's life - be it police harassment, racism, cheating spouses or how to raise a star - she faced it head on. And like her daughter sings, she's a survivor.
