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Jazz promoter Tammy Greene co-produced last weekend’s successful jazz festival. It was one of Greene’s largest events and a long overdue addition to Charlotte’s cultural scene. Greene is known as the Jazz Diva. Her second concert in the Carolina Concert Series is Nick Colionne and Friends! on Aug. 7 at Halton Theater. If you could […]
This is the last week of June and the last week of Black Music Month. In today’s Black Music Month, music industry insider Kenny Quiller talks about his favorite songs and artists. Quiller has served as a barber, personal assistant, writer and more in the music industry. He’s credited with co-writing “Ticket to Ride” (Blackstreet), […]
As we end our Michael Jackson tribute weekend, here’s an exclusive story from NewsOne. Harlem gave Michael a homegoing that only Harlem could give. Originally published June 26, 2009 Hundreds thronged the sidewalk outside the Apollo theater, in a raucous celebration of the musical prodigy that was Michael Jackson. Hanging above them in the famed […]
GALLERY: Michael Jackson’s Top 10 Trendsetting Looks Say what you will about Michael Jackson, but the influence he had on the fashion industry is just as notable as his mark in music. The King of Pop understood the power of the costume, both on and off the stage. There are several looks that upon first […]
Our own Frankie Stone talks about her favorite songs and artists. If you could meet any singer – dead or alive – who would you want to meet? Why? Prince, Gerald Levert, and Frankie Beverly. They would be some icons that could share some great stories. What song brings back the most memories for you? […]
For the one-year-anniversary of his death, The Urban Daily sat and listened to Michael Jackson’s entire discography.
Michael Jackson left behind an incredible amount of music, a lot of it not really known by the masses.
Reggae music has changed the face of music, the face of Jamaica and the face of the world. From a small island of less than three million people, thousands of songs have traveled the whole world, influencing billions.
My92.7 radio host Patrick Cannon is also the city council’s mayor pro tem. Cannon has been a longtime fixture in Charlotte’s face. We wrap up Black Music Month by occasionally highlight My92.7 radio personalities and deejays. Negro spirituals provided the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. What do you listen to you to inspire you […]
Andre Harrell is a living legend in the entertainment industry.
Garry Shider, the musical director for George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic band known for wearing a diaper on stage, died June 16th at the age of 56.
Jermaine Nakia Lee is fixture on Charlotte’s creative arts scene. In the past seven years, he’s written, directed or starred in plays that highlight devastation of AIDS in the black community, police brutality and highlighting artists from the Harlem Renaissance. He most recently starred in “Tribe,” a play about a single black mother struggling to […]
