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James Brown Dies at the Age of 73 on Christmas Morning. But he is just part of a bigger story, the changing of the guard, the black icons/leadership/pioneers that we have been losing at a rapid pace, must be replaced by you, the future. We are personally sad, because James Brown blessed us with this interview early in BlackTree Media's career, and it put us on a stage that we have grown tremendously from. We owe a lot to JB. In this clip you will see James Brown performing with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson at the 2003 BET Awards in Los Angeles. This marks the first time we covered the BET Awards, and it is our first major interview with a Big Celebrity, what better way to start then with James Brown and Michael Jackson. The performance video is courtesy of BET, the interview is a BlackTree Exclusive. Enjoy, and we thank you.
BET COMMEMORATES THE LIFE OF LEGENDARY ENTERTAINER JAMES BROWN
BET News Presents Two Special Tributes Honoring The Life, Legacy and Impact of The God Father of Soul
New York, NY (BlackNews.com) - In immediate response to the passing of one of the greatest contributors to American music, BET NEWS has prepared two remarkable specials reflecting on the life and impact of the author of soul, James Brown. Premiering on Saturday, December 30, 2006 @ 9 p.m. ET/PT, SOUL BROTHER #1: REMEMBERING JAMES BROWN will be the ultimate tribute with highlight footage and loving retrospect from political activist, Rev. Al Sharpton; Actress, Rosie Perez; R&B singers, Omarion and Full Force; Cultural Critics, Nelson George and Harry Allen; funk bassist and singer, Bootsy Collins and many more. BET will provide an inside look at the many accomplishments framing the singer's success. In a final salute to a true icon, on Sunday, December 31, 2006 @ 9:30 a.m. ET/PT, THE GODFATHER OF SOUL: CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF JAMES BROWN will re-cap the public memorial and celebration in Augusta, Georgia with BET NEWS correspondent, Andre Showell. Tune in as we remember the life of one of music's most influential performers, James Brown.
BET NEWS SPECIAL -- SOUL BROTHER #1: REMEMBERING JAMES BROWN
PREMIERE: Saturday, December 30 @ 9 p.m. ET/PT (half hour special)
(Re-air Sunday, December 31 @ 2 a.m. ET/PT)
(Re-air Sunday, December 31 @ 9 a.m. ET/PT)
(Re-air Monday, January 1 @ 11:30 p.m. ET/PT)
BET NEWS SPECIAL -- THE GODFATHER OF SOUL: CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF JAMES BROWN
PREMIERE: Sunday, December 31 @ 9:30 a.m. ET/PT (half hour special)
(Re-air Monday, January 1 @ 11:30 p.m. ET/PT)
BET EXECUTIVES IN CHARGE:
Reginald Hudlin, President of Entertainment
Stephen Hill, EVP of Music and Entertainment
Byron Philips, EVP of Entertainment
Keith Brown, VP of News
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Selwyn Hinds (Soul Brother #1: Remembering James Brown)
Greg Branch (Soul Brother #1: Remembering James Brown)
Pamela Gentry (The Godfather Of Soul: Celebrating The Life of James Brown)
At the 3RD ANNUAL BET AWARDS in 2003, BET honored Brown with its Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the network on any individual. During that telecast, one of the most memorable moments in music television history occurred when pop star Michael Jackson surprised millions of viewers by joining Brown on stage in a spontaneous outpouring of dance and song in salute to the icon's amazing career that spanned more than five decades.
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HD - Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Paris Jackson talking about Michael Jackson
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Eva cassidy "Fields of gold"
Eva Cassidy was the third of four children born to Hugh and Barbara Cassidy. From an early age, she displayed artistic and musical talent. When she was nine years old, her father taught her to play the guitar, and she began to play and sing at family gatherings.
While a student at Bowie High School, she sang with a local band called Stonehenge, and received considerable praise.
At the age of eighteen, Cassidy began her professional career, singing and playing guitar in a Washington, D.C., area band, called Easy Street. This band performed in a variety of styles, at weddings, corporate parties, and pubs.
During the summer of 1983, Cassidy sang and played guitar, six days per week, at Wild World, in Maryland. Her brother Dan was also a member of this working band.
Throughout the 1980s, Cassidy worked with a number of other bands, including the soul and Motown-oriented band The Honeybees, and the techno-pop band Characters Without Names, later called Method Actor.
During this period, Cassidy also worked as a propagator at a plant nursery and as a furniture painter in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1986, she met (bassist and recording engineer) Chris Biondo, who encouraged her and helped her find work as a backup singer for various acts. In 1990, Biondo and Cassidy hired the so-called "Eva Cassidy Band", composed of Chris Biondo, Lenny Williams, Keith Grimes and Raice McLeod, and she began to perform frequently in the Washington area.
In 1992, Biondo played a tape of Cassidy's voice for Chuck Brown. Best known as the "Godfather of Go-go", Brown is also a jazz and blues vocalist. This led to the first commercial recording of Cassidy, the duet album with Chuck Brown, The Other Side; which featured performances of classic songs such as "Fever", Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" and Cassidy's signature tune "Over the Rainbow". The album was released and distributed by Liaison Records, the label that also released Brown's Go-go albums. The duet CD attracted the attention of various record companies, but the offers all required Cassidy to pigeonhole herself within a single style (e.g., pop or jazz), something she adamantly refused to do.[citation needed]
In 1993 Eva Cassidy was first honored by the Washington area music community when she was awarded two Wammie awards for "Female Vocalist Roots/Traditional R&B" and "Vocalist Jazz/Traditional." The next year she was chosen to perform for the awards ceremony.
In January 1996, Cassidy recorded the album Live at Blues Alley, about which The Washington Post later commented that "she could sing anything and make it sound like the only music that mattered". [1] Cassidy was unhappy with her singing on the album, because she had a bad cold on the night of the recording; she began recording a studio album which was eventually released as Eva by Heart posthumously in 1997.
During a promotional event for the Live at Blues Alley CD in July 1996, Cassidy noticed an ache in her hips, which she attributed to stiffness from painting murals. The pain persisted, and, a few weeks later, Cassidy was diagnosed with melanoma. By the time of her diagnosis, the cancer had spread throughout her body. Cassidy's health deteriorated rapidly, and her final performance was in September 1996. At the performance, she had used a walker to reach the stage, sang "What a Wonderful World" in front of an audience of friends, and was subsequently admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital.[citation needed]
Eva Cassidy died on November 2, 1996, at the age of 33. She was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Washington Area Music Association.
According to her wishes, Cassidy's body was cremated. Her ashes were sprinkled on the shores of St. Mary's Lake, a nature preserve near California, MD.
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I MUST SAY, WOW! This is probably the best week EVER! First D/E new ...
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WOW!
I MUST SAY, WOW! This is probably the best week EVER! First D/E new pictures
and now R/K pictures, ALONE and TOGETHER!!!
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WOW!
I'm speechless....
The song is Falling In Love at The Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg. I don't own the song, Robert and Kristen. But I do believe Rob and Kristen own each other hearts.
Oh, and this is a Tribute to Comic Con moments. I just watched some videos and found out a lot more R/K moments there. So yeah... this is for the overload cuteness that is Comic Con moments! Enjoy!
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