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After returning from his 10-year hiatus, D’Angelo recently embarked on a mini European tour. Now months later, the R&B soul singer is heading to this year’s Essence Music Festival and will take the stage alongside the likes of Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, SWV and more:

Lovers of steamy R&B will need to bring a fan to New Orleans this July 4th weekend because Grammy-award winning crooner D’Angelo and the oh-so-sexy Trey Songz will be turning up the heat at the 2012 ESSENCE Music Festival.

While this will be Songz’s third EMF appearance in three years, D’Angelo’s performance will mark his highly-anticipated return to the stage after 10 years away from the spotlight. The EMF performance will be his first U.S. appearance in a decade. [SOURCE]

Looks like the Essence Music Festival is going to be pretty good this year. For more information on how you can attend the 3-day music festival weekend, visit EssenceMusicFestival.com.

After recently celebrating her fourth anniversary in Paris, France, Mariah Carey is back to business. The singer-songwriter took to her Twitter page and announced that she’ll be taking part in the soundtrack for the Lee Daniels-directed movie, ‘The Paperboy.’ The mother of two excitedly tweeted: “Lil’ excited to share with you that I wrote a song for Lee Daniels’ new movie “The Paperboy” called Mesmerized!”

You may remember that Daniels and Carey worked together for the Oscar-nominated film, ‘Precious’ back in 2009. ‘The Paperboy,’ which will premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, follows a reporter’s return to his hometown to start an investigation of a death row inmate’s case. Congrats to Mariah! Continue