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...failed to win. Closely supported by family (her mom is her manager), she released her first album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, when she was just 15 but was rocked by scandal when reports surfaced that she had secretly married R. Kelly, the producer of her debut, who was 10 years older. Kelly and Aaliyah have since parted ways. When asked if she is still in touch with Kelly, Aaliyah answers only with a firm, frosty no. Her multiplatinum sophomore album, One in a Million (1996), proved she could make music--and sell records--without Kelly's help...
...Eulogy Kabuki artist UZAEMON ICHIMURA, 84, who died in Tokyo last week, was one of Japan's Living National Treasures. Born into a family that was in the business for six generations, he made his debut at the age of five and earned the Uzaemon stage name in 1955. He also passed on the tradition?three of his sons went onto the stage, including Manjiro Ichimura, who recounts...
DIED. JOE HENDERSON, 64, lyrical modern-jazz saxophonist and composer; of heart failure; in San Francisco. Henderson, who started out in his high school band, made his recording debut in 1963 on trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Una Mas, now a Blue Note classic. He went on to play with pianists Horace Silver and Herbie Hancock, and recorded a string of his own successful albums. In the 1990s, Henderson won four Grammy awards, two for best jazz instrumental solo for Lush Life and Miles Ahead...
...Fong-Torres writes of Clark: "he had the kind of impact on pop radio in the late '50s that MTV would in the early '80s." Clark gave hundreds of rock stars their national TV debut. He played rock, ballads and gimmick tunes, like Tommy Facenda's "High School U.S.A.," which had at least 28 different regional versions, each with a few dozen school names. Clark made records and, by not playing them, broke them. To get him to play their songs, singers made new versions of their 45s: George Hamilton IV turned "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" (covered, much...
Dennis Hopper is an actor, writer and director. He and Penn collaborated in the Hopper-directed film Colors in 1988 and in Penn's directorial debut, The Indian Runner...