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Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” died after complications from surgery. She was 80.

Last summer, R&B dynamo Fantasia Barrino took to the Petrillo stage at the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park and put on a performance that was the talk of the town. This year, the "American Idol" winner was back, but this time on the Jay Pritzker Pavilion st

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans blues singer Marva Wright has been hospitalized after a stroke.

NEW YORK — The party won't stop after the BET Awards are over, and Queen Latifah (Lah-TEE'-fah) will be around to make sure of it.

A wacky sense of humor runs in the Wayans family, and their latest movie, “Dance Flick,” directed by Damien Dante Wayans proved it.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Rapper 50 Cent has settled his lawsuit against an engineering firm over repairs and renovations to a Connecticut mansion he bought from boxer Mike Tyson in 2003, a court official said Friday.

It's been a while since Jay-Z released an album, but he's still got enough swagger to land on The Source's "Power 30" list.

NEW YORK — The date for Whitney Houston's comeback has been set.

When James Brown shouts and the soul clap starts, skaters and steppers let out a collective “Hey!” to Keezo Kane’s song, “Ga Ga Ga (Remix).”

When singing sensation and actress Melba Moore started in the entertainment industry over 42 years ago, she blazed trails as the first Black woman to replace a white actress in a lead role on Broadway and as one of the first Black women to win a Tony Awar