Lady Sings the Blues News

Michael Jackson 's last will has been filed with the court in Los Angeles and there are a few surprises.

Monday, June 29: Gay Rights "StoneWall: 40 Years of Landmark GLBT Plays," a series of plays mounted in different locations around the city to honor the birth of the gay rights movement, wraps up today with the performance of Terrence McNally's Some Men .

Billie Holiday is one of many who've interpreted Abel Meeropol's words for "Strange Fruit," but she left the deepest impression.

Billie Holiday's voice carried a soulful sadness that echoed throughout her short life.

Good morning. Today is the 96th day of the year. On this day in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormon Church, was founded by six members in a log cabin at Fayette, N.Y. Well-known people who were born today include singer-songwriter Merle Haggard , composer-conductor Andre Previn, actor Billy Dee ...

Diana Ross was born Diana Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944 at the Women's Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

TUESDAY: If you're in a lot of emotional pain lately - post- Valentine's Day depression, seasonal affective disorder, economic slump, whatever - take a minute for a woman who lived through her fair share of ...

Hollywood has been cautious, almost to a fault, about making movies based on black music and musicians.

Posted Feb 6th 2009 5:15PM by Wilson Morales Filed under: It's All Reel , Entertainment While doing press rounds to promote his newest film, 'Madea Goes To Jail', which opens on February 20, ...

Fictionalized, and very conventionalized, biography of Billie Holiday, and the inaccuracies will likely leave Holiday worshippers inconsolable.

Hi, everyone. How are you? I'm telling you, I've had a great couple of days after getting back from holiday and getting back into the studio.

The story is like a fairytale: in 1959, Berry Gordy founded the Motown Records. Within a few years it became one of the most successful music labels in the history of pop music, with legendary artists like ...

It launched the careers of some of the most influential black music artists of the 20th century.

In Hugh Hart's Industry Buzz column on Nov. 30, Steve Jordan, music producer of the new movie "Cadillac Records," says, "You don't want to stifle a great vocalist by having Beyonce try to sing like Etta James." ...

Singing star Diana Ross made a strong argument for supporting the McCallum Theatre Wednesday.