Tag: Stevie Wonder

Rapper “Gangsta’s Paradise” Coolio dies at the age of 59

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Los Angeles Coolio, the rapper who was among the biggest names in hip-hop in the 1990s with hits like “Gangsta’s Paradise” and “Fantastic Voyage,” died Wednesday at the age of 59, his manager said. Collio, whose legal name is Artis Leon Ivy Jr., died at a friend’s home in Los Angeles, veteran manager Jarrese Posey told The Associated Press. The reason was not immediately clear. Coolio won a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance for “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the 1995 song from the soundtrack to Michelle Pfeiffer’s “Dangerous Minds” sampled from…

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Elton John plays on the White House lawn as part of his farewell tour

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Washington – Elton John was all in the process of singing in the White House before the world-famous pianist suspended rock music – he says – for good. John was swinging by the South Lawn on Friday night for a show he called “A Night When Hope and the Rhyme of History,” a reference to a poem by Irishman Seamus Heaney that President Joe Biden often quotes. This will be John’s first concert at the White House since he presented with Stevie Wonder at a state dinner in 1998 in…

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Motown songwriter and producer Lamont Doziere dies at 81

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New York – Lamont Dozier, the middle name of the famous Holland-Dozier-Holland team who wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love”, “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown a staple recording company in the 1960s. After that, he died at the age of 81 general. Dozier’s death was confirmed Tuesday by Paul Lambert, who helped produce the musical “First Wives’ Club,” written by Holland-Dozier-Holland. In Motown’s historic, self-defined rise to “Voice of Young America,” Dutch Dozier Holland stood out even compared to such talented peers as…

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