 Tuesday (March 9), veteran vocalist Jeffrey Osborne is 62. Osborne was born in 1948 in Providence, R.I., as the youngest of 12 children. He now lives in Southern California with his wife Sheri.
Osborne began his professional singing career in 1969 with the popular funk and soul group Love Men Ltd. The band later changed its name to LTD. Osborne released his first solo album in 1982 and has had such top hits as “On the Wings of Love,” “Stay With Me Tonight” and “You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song).” Just recently, the ABC reality series The Bachelor used “On the Wings of Love” as the theme to its latest show featuring pilot Jake Pavelka. Osborne showed up on the set to perform the song after Pavelka chose Vienna Girardi.
Over the past few years, Osborne has been a constant figure in the smooth jazz concert scene, and also performed on CDs by Euge Groove, Everette Harp, Najee, Peter White, the Rippingtons and George Duke.
In 2005, Osborne released the solo CD From the Soul, produced by Paul Brown. Last year, he released the CD Greatest Hits Live.
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 Jermaine Jackson has announced plans to stage a concert commemorating the anniversary of his brother Michael’s death.
The show, titled “Tribute,” is to take place at London’s Wembley Arena on June 8, according to reports. Jackson is yet to reveal who will perform at the show.
“The best way and most suitable way is to assemble the world’s largest tribute in history that is only fitting to a man who moved the hearts and souls of an unimaginable amount,” Undercover.com.au quotes him as saying.
Previous plans for a tribute concert in Vienna were cancelled last year.
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 Usher, Ludacris, Akon and Jamie Foxx are among the star-studded artists taking part in a new album celebrating the music of multi-Grammy winning producer, composer and arranger Quincy Jones. “Q: Soul Bossa Nostra,” due this spring from Interscope Records, features contemporary versions of popular recordings from Jones’ massive catalog. released.
Other artists on the album include Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, T-Pain, Robin Thicke, LL Cool J, John Legend, Snoop Dogg, Wyclef Jean, Q-Tip, Talib Kweli, Three 6 Mafia, David Banner, Bebe Winans, Mervyn Warren, Jermaine Dupri, DJ Paul, and Scott Storch.
“’Q: Soul Bossa Nostra’ features some of my favorite artists and producers on the scene today from the Pop, R&B and Hip-Hop worlds performing selections from my catalog that people really loved when they were originally recorded,” said Q, who also serves as the album’s executive producer. “Each artist picked a song that really resonated with them for different reasons – some of them having a connection because they remembered their parents playing the track when they were growing up.
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 Kenneth ” Babyface” Edmonds is planning a sporadic 2010 US tour schedule in advance of his forthcoming solo album.
The singer/songwriter/producer will gets things started in mid-March with performances in Chattanooga, TN (3/19) and Alexandria, LA (3/20). So far, the itinerary features a couple of shows each month through a Sept. 3 concert in Atlantic City, reports Live Daily.
Edmonds has been in the studio working on a follow-up to his 2007 release Playlist,” his first set of cover tunes. The album is expected to be released this year.
Last year, Edmonds launched his own imprint, Soda Pop Records, with Island Def Jam.
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 Co-lead vocalist of The Dramatics speaking on the untimely
death of founder and co- lead vocalist Ron Banks"
Ron Banks, husband, father, son, brother and friend died Thursday March 4,
2010 from a massive heart attack in his home of Detroit Michigan. I won't go
into a bio, suffice to say that Ron not only an original member of The
Dramatics, but also he was the founder of the group. He began singing at a
very young age in family groups, grew up in a musical home, his mother sang
in white supper clubs; his dad was a big band musician. He formed the
Dramatics in 1962, and the rest as they say, "is history"
I was blessed to have become close to Ron, traveling with him and the
Dramatics, taking photos for the Dramatics fan club, myspace, during these
times I had many in-depth conversations with Ron. He worked with local inner
city school districts, hoping to get computer training to inner city youth.
Never one to shy away from fans, Ron would engage in deep conversations with
fans after shows, pose for photos, and sign autographs.
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01. Mama's Got a Brand New Swag (So Exquisite) 3:46
02. Build This World 3:58
03. Certain Special Way (I Feel About You) 3:44
04. Strong Possibility 3:36
05. Ticket to Love 3:14
06. With Feeling 3:48
07. The Way We Are 4:04
08. You Got Me (In the Mood) 4:39
09. Lower Deck 5:09
10. Feels Right 4:08
11. Take You Home 4:13
12. On and On 5:46
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Athena Wilson - It's About
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V.a. Luxury Soul 2010 |
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The Whisper Orchestra - T.W.O. |
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Maysa - A Woman In Love |
4 |
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Change - Change Your Mind |
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Afterglow |
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James Day -
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Whitney
Houston - I Look To You |
12 |
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V.A. Soul
Togetherness 2009 |
10 |
79 |
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Tortured
Soul - Did You Miss Me |
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