Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...base--although Milosevic was spotted Friday afternoon buying shoes in suburban Dayton, surrounded by a cocoon of Secret Service agents. "I've never seen so many trench coats in my life," said Dawn Warren, manager of Regis Hairstylists. "We were thinking it must be Reba McIntyre." The country singer performed Saturday night at Wright State University...
...third album, the whimsically titled Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It's the group's most ambitious and accomplished work yet, a double-CD set containing more than two hours of music. "We were trying to get everything the band could do onto one release," says lead singer Billy Corgan. "A lot of times things get left off because bands are trying to do a focused kind of rock album. A double CD widened the parameters of what we could...
...having murdered Tejano singing star Selena. The sentence: life in prison with no possibility of parole for 30 years. The March shooting, which took place in a Corpus Christi motel, is said to have occurred during a financial dispute between Selena and Saldivar, the former president of the singer's fan club...
DIED. SHANNON HOON, 28, rock singer; of a drug overdose; in New Orleans. Hoon wailed his way to stardom fronting Blind Melon. A hit single, No Rain, took the group's eponymous 1992 album multiplatinum. But Hoon's drug use put a damper on success, leading to his arrests for urinating during a concert in Vancouver and for disrupting a 1994 awards show. Blind Melon was on tour when an unrevivable Hoon was found on the band...
DIED. MAXENE ANDREWS, 79, singer; in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Reduce World War II to three voices, and the choices are obvious: the rant of Hitler, the rumble of Churchill . and the single, seamless sound blended from the warble of the Andrews Sisters: Maxene, Patti and LaVerne. The trio first flew up the charts with 1937's bilingual Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen, a Yiddish ditty infused with the giddy, jivey spirit that followed G.I.s around the globe. Wartime hits included Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (1941) and Rum and Coca-Cola (1944). The 1967 death of LaVerne ended the Andrews Sisters' career...