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Looks like the Queen of Soul wants more respect for her piano playing. Aretha Franklin has been accepted at the Juilliard School's division of adult studies to study classical piano. Details are not final, but Juilliard has offered to customize a program for her, since she hardly keeps the hours of its regular adult students--mostly doctors, accountants and lawyers. She's not the first celeb musician to seek higher learning there: John Tesh was also a student...
...Waiting to Exhale sound track is a virtual Who's Who of divadom, as compiled by Houston and the album's producer-composer, Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds. Along with Houston, the album features numbers by such highly regarded R.-and-B. performers as Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. Yet Houston more than holds her own, particularly on Why Does It Hurt So Bad, with its masterly balance of pop zip and soulful melancholy. She was an enthusiastic advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female...
...candidates (as well as President Clinton) have aired negative commercials six months before the first primary, can sense and civility be heard above the din? To compete, Lugar is distributing a warm-and-fuzzy video and warming up audiences with a campaign song based on the Aretha Franklin tune Respect: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Leader of the G.O.P." The campaign is hoping that the respect Lugar engenders will translate into votes and not just good-natured foot tapping...
Carey's eponymous 1990 debut album brimmed with soulful promise, but her follow-up efforts, Emotions (1991) and Music Box (1993), while huge sellers, seemed strained and mechanical, sort of like playing an Aretha Franklin record through the speakers of a Macintosh computer. "I went into this phase of recording, recording, recording and doing it really fast," Carey concedes. On her forthcoming CD, Daydream, which will arrive in stores the first week of October, Carey says she has been more faithful to her muse: "This time I had more time and I focused more on what I wanted...
...museum officials hope for plenty of contrast. They estimate that the hall will draw 1 million visitors annually; 250,000 people are expected to attend this weekend's festivities, which will include an all-star megaconcert featuring Springsteen, Aretha Franklin, Soul Asylum, Snoop Doggy Dogg and others...