Prince Lifetime Achievement Tribute | BET Awards Highlight

Photo source Vince Bucci/PictureGroup Prince was the recipient of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards. Another stand-out moment in the night, with a VT introduced by Stevie Wonder, an electrifying tribute performance by Janelle Monae who sung “Let’s Go Crazy”, Esperanza Spalding with “If I Was Your Girlfriend” , a pregnant Alicia [...]

NEW MUSIC: Izzi Dunn FREE Download EP

This month, versatile Cellist/singer-songwriter/producer, Izzi Dunn follows her critically acclaimed 2004 debut album The Big Picture with a four-track EP. As well as being a respected artist in her own right, Izzi has worked in session with the likes of Chaka Khan, the Gorillaz, Beverley Knight and Soul II Soul. Click here for the link [...]

Soul Train Music Awards 2009 – The Winners

Pre-recorded at the Georgia World Congress Center earlier this month but airing for the first time tonight on BET / Centric TV (9pm EST), the Soul Train Music Awards 2009 were hosted by Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson. The awards featured performances from the likes of Toni Braxton, Trey Songz, Erykah Badu, Robin Thicke, [...]

ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Speak’ by MICHAEL OLATUJA featuring Various Artists.

I find it increasingly difficult to be impressed by new music these days. Even once fail-safe, automatically credible sub-genres such as Neo-Soul aren’t immune. They too seem to have been blighted by the same malaise of boredom that has been the bane of the mainstream for a good while. There are too many artists out [...]

Interview: CHAKA KHAN

In 1999, Chaka Khan‘s socially responsible propensity compelled her to found an organisation in support of “women and children at risk”, particularly those with autism, due the sense of loss and confusion she experienced when her nephew was diagnosed with autism around that time. So began the Chaka Khan Foundation. “[Autism] was sort of new [...]