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  Earth, Wind and Fire is an funk band that has spanned the musical genres of soul, disco, R&B, jazz and rock. They are one of the most successful and critically acclaimed bands of the twentieth century.  Earth Wind and Fire formed in Chicago, led by Maurice White, they are best known for their hits of the […]

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Morris Chestnut has a new show “Vindicated” which premiers tonight 10:30p on BET.  Vindicated is about wrongful convictions people sent to prison for crimes they didn’t commit.  Morris Chestnut narrates this new series this evening on BET.

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Morris Day is an musician, composer, actor, the lead singer and irrepressible showman of The Time.  If “class” and “swagger” had a child, that child would be named Morris Day.  He’s “cool” and laid back shaped by musical excitement. I have been a big fan of Morris Day and The Time, and without a doubt they are the coolest band group of […]

WTTE Exclusives

Katt Williams you are having the worst week ever!!!!  An on stage melt down, slapping a Target employee,  a few fights & a arrest has led Katt Williams to cry on the news and announce his retirement all while wearing ski goggles! I’m not sure if he will follow through with this because he has […]

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The O’Jays are an R&B group from Canton, Ohio and must be considered one of the most important Soul Music groups of the past 40 years.   The O’Jays were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004, and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.  The O’Jays is one of the world’s truly […]

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Diana Ross vocalist, recording artist and actress. She first rose to fame as a founding member and lead singer of the soul and R&B Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s.   After leaving the group in 1970, Diana began a solo career that has included successful ventures into film and Broadway. She received a Best Actress Academy Award […]

Videos

Mulit-Platinum R&B music artist Toni Braxton took to the airwaves on ABC’s 20/20 to discuss her career and life.  She also took time to discuss her financial hardships which have included bankruptcy and home foreclosures. At one point in the 20/20 interview she discussed her spiraling financial situation. In the height of her career when […]

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Two of Gospel music’s superstars Kirk Franklin and Tina and Ericka Campbell of Mary Mary co-host the 28th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards. The annual salute to Gospel’s best performers returns to Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry Theater Saturday, January 19, 2013.  Live performances by Tamela Mann, Israel Houghton, Marvin Sapp, Tye Tribbett and Le’Andria Johnson, and Earnest […]

National

Character is what you do when no one is watching. But a stranger was watching New York Police Officer Lawrence DePrimo when he decided to buy a barefoot homeless man a pair of new boots on a cold night earlier this month. “The two things that really stuck out in my mind that night was […]

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Evelyn “Champagne King” singer, and Grammy Winning R&B Diva.    She went on to become one of the most popular R&B and disco singers of the late seventies and early eighties. Some of her best known songs include Shame“I’m in Love” and “Love Come Down.” Evelyn “Champagne” King was discovered while working as an office cleaner at […]