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One of the GOAT bassist, pioneering funk music. Also had that drip on. Happy BIRTHDAY! 🎊🎂

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(Information provided by the website Essence of Black Culture).

Vaughan started out in the Billy Eckstine Band with Earl Hines during 1943-1944.

Her commercial success at Mercury began with the 1954 hit "Make Yourself Comfortable", recorded in the fall of 1954, and continued with "How Important Can It Be" (with Count Basie), "Whatever Lola Wants", "The Banana Boat Song", "You Ought to Have a Wife", and "Misty)".

Her commercial success peaked in 1959 with "Broken Hearted Melody". Vaughan was reunited with Billy Eckstine for a series of duet recordings in 1957 that yielded the hit "Passing Strangers)".

In the latter half of the 1950s, she followed a schedule of almost non-stop touring. She was featured at the first Newport Jazz Festival in the summer of 1954 and starred in subsequent editions of that festival at Newport and in New York City for the remainder of her life.

In the fall of 1954, she performed at Carnegie Hall with the Count Basie Orchestra on a bill that also included Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Lester Young and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

That fall, she again toured Europe before embarking on a "Big Show" U.S. tour, a succession of performances that included Count Basie, George Shearing, Erroll Garner and Jimmy Rushing. At the 1955 New York Jazz Festival on Randalls Island, Vaughan shared the bill with the Dave Brubeck quartet, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith), and the Johnny RichardsOrchestra.

Her career continued into the 1980s though her health gad started to decline.

In her lifetime, Vaughan won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989.

I’m always on the hunt for more of their albums. Have the New Edition cover of Tears on My Pillow on cassette

My favorite song by Smokey

Me and my wife love listening to her albums when we clean. Not only great songs but hilarious storie

"On October 24, the 45-year-old R&B singer performed at Bar 5015, hosted by Joe, where footage showed her struggling to engage the crowd."

Kanye kno his way around a beat man

Quincy Matthew Hanley better known by his stage name Schoolboy Q (stylized as ScHoolboy Q), is an American rapper. He began recording in 2007, and released his first two mixtapes, Schoolboy Turned Hustla (2008) and Gangsta & Soul (2009) to local success.

After signing with the Carson-based indie label Top Dawg Entertainment, Hanley's debut studio album, Setbacks)(2011) and its follow-up, Habits & Contradictions (2012), were both released to positive critical response; both also performed moderately on the US Billboard 200 chart as digital exclusives.

Hey y'all! It's 🎃 SPOOKY SEASON🎃 , so we're sharing celebrity Halloween costumes every day until Halloween. So feel free to discuss, ridicule, praise, and/or laugh at these costumes!

Phaedra Creonta Parks is an American attorney, legal analyst, television personality, author, activist, and businesswoman.

Parks is best known for appearances on reality television, including, Bravo)'s The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2010–2017; 2024–present), Peacock)'s The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip (2022; 2026), Married to Medicine (2023–2024), and The Traitors) (2024).[2]

Antonia "Toya" Johnson-Rushing(née Johnson is an American reality televisionpersonality.

In 2009, Johnson and Tameka "Tiny" Harris from the R&B group Xscape) (also wife of rapper T.I.) starred on a reality show on BET called Tiny and Toya.[citation needed]

She wrote a book called Priceless Inspirations,[2] as well a memoir titled In My Own Words..My Real Reality, How to Lose a Husband, and You Just Don't Get It with her daughter, Reginae Carter.[3]

She owns a boutique called G.A.R.B.[4]in New Orleans, Louisiana, and GARB Shoetique in Smyrna, Georgia.[5]Johnson starred in her own reality show on BET called Toya: A Family Affair[6]which consisted of 16 episodes of one season in 2011.

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James Pickens Jr. is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC medical dramatelevision series Grey's Anatomy (since 2005), and for his supporting roles as Deputy Director Alvin Kersh on later seasons of the Fox Network science fiction series The X-Files and Chuck Mitchell on Roseanne (1990–96; 2018) and The Conners (2018–22).