Grammy nominated singer Janelle Monáe attends the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards Style Studio held at the Smashbox Studios on Friday in Los Angeles, California. Such beautiful skin!
Push: Based on the novel by Sapphire, is the story of Claireece Precious Jones, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child. She endures unimaginable hardships in her young life: abused by her mother and raped by her father.
The film won numerous awards at this years Sundance Film Festival and was recently picked up by Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.
Oprah had this to say about the film:
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Winfrey said in a statement. “The moment I saw Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, I knew I wanted to do whatever I could to encourage other people to see this movie.
“The film is so raw and powerful—it split me open.”
Make sure to view the clip to see some stellar performances from Mo’Nique, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton and new comer Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe. Can’t wait to see this!
In a telephone interview to The Press Enterprise on Thursday morning, Etta James claims the comments she made about Beyonce Knowles last week, were just in good fun.
“I’m a comedian besides a singer. I wasn’t doing it to be hateful. I think I’m funny and she’s not the only one I’ll say something about.”
If you’ve been living under a rock somewhere then you might have missed our earlier story featuring the classic singer saying some not so nice things about the popular star.
However, the 71 year old James also make sure to note that she takes a lot of pride in her signature song and would have loved to sing it at the Inaugural Ball Event.
“She got up there and sang it and didn’t give me a chance to sing ‘At Last,’” James said.
Wonder what Beyonce thinks of all the Hoopla? Her reps have remained silent during the whole thing.
Etta James has lashed out at Beyonce weeks after Beyonce sang her classic song “At Last” for the Obamas’ first dance at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball last month.
At a concert in Seattle last week, James told the crowd:
“I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song, she gonna get her ass whooped,” sarcastically calling her “The great Beyoncé.”
And she went on.
“I can’t stand Beyoncé… [she] had no business … singing my song that I been singing forever.”
She even dissed the President:
“You know your President, right? You know the one with the big ears? He ain’t my President.”
Beyonce played James in “Cadillac Records,” and they seemed chummy at the premiere (pictured above) last December. James was unable to attend the inauguration for health reasons.
Serena and Venus Williams hold the winners trophy after defeating Ai Sugiyama of Japan and Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia in the women’s doubles final match at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne this weekend.
Serena and Venus won their eighth career Grand Slam women’s doubles title and the sisters claimed their third Australian Open doubles trophy when they overpowered their opponents in just 75 minutes.
And just a day after wining the doubles match with her sister, Serena Wiliams won her fourth Australian Open Title after her match against Dinara Safina of Russia. This brings her total Grand Slam tally to 10 in one of the most one-sided deciders ever.
I noticed that some of you were talking about Teairra Mari in that Ciara video post and since I have a bunch of her new promo pics, I decided to post them up.
Teairra is currently working on her sophomore album, At That Point, slated to be released this Spring. I already heard most of the album and she is definitely bringing her A game.
For more info on Teairra, and her “Hunt 4 U” fan video contest, peep her myspace page.
Check out rapper Kid Sister modeling the new looks of female street wear company, Married to The Mob. In their Spring 2009 collection, Mob offers a nice set of graphic t-shirts, jackets and fleece pieces. Shout out to highsnobiety for the pics.
In related news, Kid Sister is still working on her debut album. Click here for the latest info on that.
