NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the days after Michael Jackson’s death, Joann Smith couldn’t turn off her TV. She felt she was reliving the pain of her own idol’s death almost 32 years ago — Elvis Presley.
“I said ‘I can’t believe it’s happening again,’” Smith recalled. “It hurt, it really did. Even though I wasn’t a Michael Jackson fan, I could feel the pain because it happened to somebody I had loved, and I know what his family and his fans were going through.” Continue Reading…
On Kelly Clarkson’s new single, “I Do Not Hook Up,” the pop star sings about the virtues of taking it slow in a relationship – but has the singer slowed her dating life down to a stand still?
In the April 30 issue of Rolling Stone, Kelly said that it’s not her fame or residence in rural Texas that have hindered her search for love – it’s just that she’s not obsessed with finding it.

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Grammy-nominated gospel singer and composer the Rev. Timothy Wright died yesterday at Bronx Veterans Hospital at the age of 61. The Brooklyn-born singer was critically injured in a three-vehicle car accident last summer that claimed the lives of his wife and grandson and put the singer on a respirator. Wright’s 1994 record, Come Thou Almighty King, recorded with the New York Fellowship Mass Choir, cracked the Billboard Top 20 for gospel albums and grabbed a Grammy nod for best traditional soul gospel album. He was nominated again in that category in 1999 for Been There Done That, recorded with the B/J Mass Choir and featuring Myrna Summers. His best-known songs include “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,” “Who’s on the Lord’s Side,” and “You Must Come In at the Door.”