Word: braxton
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BANKRUPTCY FILED. TONI BRAXTON, 30, slinky rhythm-and-blues vocal superstar whose two albums have sold more than 15 million copies; in Atlanta. Claiming debts of more than $1 million, Braxton says she is "effectively insolvent." Last December she sued LaFace Records, to be freed from a contract she considers unlucrative...
Ultimately, Radano chose to study Anthony Braxton's career, not to present another jazz biography but to employ his life and work as a lens for observing the confusion and fragmentation of post-World War II American work, an endeavor that Radano is still best known for, Shelemay says...
...Anthony Braxton...was a black politician, who was challenging everything, including the idea of racial construction and music as such," says Radano, explaining his interest in the jazz legend. "He is an autodidact.... But he is a product of the very rich cultural and intellectual setting of Chicago's south side. He is one of the leading thinkers and artists in the post-1960s jazz/'art music' intersection...
Star power also helped get Soul Food into production. Kenny ("Babyface") Edmonds, one of the most powerful figures in the music industry--he has penned hits for Madonna, Toni Braxton and others--produced it with his wife Tracey. Fox 2000 head Laura Ziskin gave the project the green light just days after reading the screenplay. The film was a labor of love for Tracey Edmonds, who was pregnant throughout preproduction and gave birth to a son, Brandon, shortly before shooting began. Says she: "Kenny and I had the same vision and the same tastes. Most people expect that...
While on campus this week, Newsource interviewed David P. Illingworth '71, associate director of financial aid, and Braxton J. Robbason '97-'98, a home-schooled student from Vermont...