Word: singer
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DOLLY PARTON's brand of music doesn't normally conjure up images of a crowded club full of sweaty bodies gyrating until dawn. But that may change now that the singer who makes Antoni Gaudi's buildings look tame has had a few cuts off her latest album, Treasures, remixed as dance tunes. The deed was done by Junior Vasquez, a New York City nightclub fixture and producer, who says the first cut, Peace Train, is already a big hit at Arena, the club where he's a deejay. "If I don't play it, they start shouting...
Messenger (Island Jamaica), the new album by the Jamaican-born singer Luciano, offers up something refreshingly retro. Musically, Messenger is a big, bouncy, pop album. But its lyrics are focused on the human condition--poverty, spirituality, the preservation of one's heritage. Luciano's voice is another thing that's special: his confident baritone is as warm and deep as Montego...
CUBA GOODING SR., 52; SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA; singer...
...days after his son and namesake leaped to the stage to collect an Oscar, Cuba Gooding Sr. was in rehearsal for a gig on the Sunset Strip. Lead singer of the '70s group Main Ingredient, Gooding still performs in clubs and theaters. He says that in Harlem, where he was born, "your manhood was proved by your ability to make either the women scream or the men run. I was good at making women scream by singing." After the 1972 Everybody Plays the Fool went gold, Gooding moved his family to California and was a Motown solo artist from...
...part by playing up the tensions between East Coast rappers (like Wallace) and West Coast rappers (like Shakur). Later, when Shakur signed with Death Row, he released a single that threatened the Bad Boy rappers with violent retaliation and bragged that he had slept with Wallace's wife, the singer Faith Evans (something she denies...