Posts Tagged ‘Prince’
Black Love, Silver Screen
By Kelley L. Carter A noted entertainment journalist counts down her top five black love films of all time. 5. What’s Love Got To Do With It I know: this film threw a harsh light on the behind-the-scenes domestic squabbles between the late Ike Turner and Tina Turner. That’s serious business, to be sure. But let’s focus—for the ...
Memories of Mayfield
By Michael A. Gonzales Unlike the deaths of musical icons like Elvis Presley, John Lennon or Michael Jackson, there was not much fanfare when soul brother Curtis Mayfield died—ten years ago on December 26, 1999 —at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Georgia. At the age of fifty-seven, after more than four decades ...
Vive Le Prince: Live In Paris
By Miles Marshall Lewis At this late date in his career—over three decades after his 1978 For You début—the worst thing critics can say about Prince Rogers Nelson is that he’s become a greatest-hits act. Still, what an act it is. During last month’s gigs at the stately Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris, the ...
What About Bobby?
By Michael A. Gonzales With Whitney Houston’s comeback disc I Look to You zooming to the top of the charts, the former “crack is wack” poster child has been making the media rounds. From her star-studded preview party at the Beverly Hilton to the highly anticipated interview with Oprah, the former pop princess turned coke ...
Alicia Keys: Of Soul And Superwomen
By Michael A. Gonzales It’s so easy to hate Alicia Keys. Besides being fine as crystal, the sister knows how to construct soulful pop songs with the flair of Stevie Wonder and the pop sensibility of Burt Bacharach. Yet, even with three best-selling albums, a truck full of awards (five Grammys in 2002 alone) and ...








