RIP

GeorgiaMa'am · 01-30-2021, 05:12 PM

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Actor Cicely Tyson has passed away at the age of 96. Ms. Tyson started her career as a model, but beginning in the 70s she won some starring roles. She won two Emmys for her role in "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman". She also had an Oscar nomination and won a Tony. Ms. Tyson had a memoir published just this week - "Just As I Am". You can hear Cicely Tyson talk about her career and marriage to Miles Davis on an NPR All Things Considered segment which just aired on January 24, 2021 at this link.

NPR's All Things Considered Weekend decided to release more of the interview with Cicely Tyson that was made last week. You can hear a few more minutes of the interview at this link.

Gemme · 01-30-2021, 09:09 PM

Grammy-nominated electronic artist Sophie dead at 34 after 'terrible accident'

The electronic music community was shaken Saturday morning by the news that Sophie, a trailblazing experimental pop artist and producer who’d worked with Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Camila Cabello, Charli XCX, Vince Staples, Kim Petras, and many others, had died in a “terrible accident.”

According to statements by the Sophie’s record label, Transgressive, and publicist, Ludovica Ludinatrice, Sophie was in Athens, Greece, and “climbed up to watch the full moon” and then “slipped and fell,” dying at 4 a.m. local time. A police spokesperson confirmed to the Associated Press that Sophie fell from the balcony of an apartment and that no foul play was suspected in the artist’s death. The visionary British musician — who made history as one of the three first openly transgender women to be nominated for a Grammy, and according to Pitchfork preferred not to use gendered or nonbinary pronouns — was 34 years old.

Sophie Xeon was born Sept. 17, 1986 in Glasgow, Scotland, and started in a band named Motherland before going solo in 2013, soon garnering buzz on SoundCloud and acclaim from critics for the singles “Nothing More to Say” and “Bipp”/"Elle”; the latter placed No. 17 on Pitchfork’s year-end list and No. 1 on XLR8’s list. Sophie’s major professional breakthrough came in 2015, with the placement of the track “Lemonade” in a McDonald's commercial, the launch of a fruitful artistic partnership with Charli XCX, and high-profile production work on Madonna’s Rebel Heart single “Bitch I’m Madonna.” In November of that year, Sophie also released the official debut album Product.

Sophie spent the next couple years focusing on production, writing, and remix work for other artists, but returned in 2017 with the anthem “It's Okay to Cry”; the video for that track was the first to feature the previously reclusive and largely anonymous artist’s face, and served as Sophie’s well-received coming-out statement as a member of the trans community. Sophie’s full-length sophomore effort, Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, later earned a nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards.

Sophie was heralded for a signature surrealist, warp-speed sound that bridged the mainstream and the underground, incorporating elements of Japanese and Korean pop, Eurodisco, U.K. garage, ‘90s house and hip-hop, and Y2K pop. Sophie often eschewed samples, instead using Elektron Monomachine and Ableton technology to build instrumentals from waveforms that mimicked the unorthodox found sounds of metal, water, and plastic. “Sophie was a pioneer of a new sound, one of the most influential artists in the last decade. Not only for ingenious production and creativity but also for the message and visibility that was achieved. An icon of liberation,” the artist’s publicist's statement read.

Orema · 02-09-2021, 04:37 AM

Mary Wilson, Motown Legend and Co-Founder of the Supremes, Dies at 76

Ms. Wilson, with the original members Diana Ross and Florence Ballard, was part of one of the biggest musical acts of the 1960s.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor
Feb. 9, 2021, 3:02 a.m. ET, New York Times

Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes, the trailblazing group from the 1960s that spun up 12 No. 1 singles on the musical charts and was key to Motown’s legendary sound, died on Monday at her home in Henderson, Nev. She was 76.

Ms. Wilson’s death was confirmed by her publicist, Jay Schwartz. No cause of death was given.

From 1964 to 1965, the Supremes, whose original members included Florence Ballard and Diana Ross as the lead singer, released hit songs such as “Where Did Our Love Go?” “Baby Love,” “Come See About Me” and “Stop! In the Name of Love.”’

The New York Times and other publications will post a full obit sometime today.

~ocean · 02-11-2021, 07:55 PM

RIP Chick Corea 79 yrs. old amazing jazz musician, died of a rare cancer today.

C0LLETTE · 02-17-2021, 04:37 PM

Rest in Hell Forever.
You know who you are!

Yeayyyyyy

GeorgiaMa'am · 02-17-2021, 05:24 PM

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Rest in Hell Forever.
You know who you are!

Yeayyyyyy

I'll bet I know who this was. Initials R.L.?

CherylNYC · 02-17-2021, 10:41 PM

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I'll bet I know who this was. Initials R.L.?

May he never rest. Let's dance!

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02-11-2021, 07:55 PM	#4
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