Rip angie stone
Angela Laverne Stone (née Brown; December 18, 1961 – March 1, 2025) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer.
rip roberta flack
Roberta Cleopatra Flack (February 10, 1937 – February 24, 2025) was an American singer and pianist known for her emotive, genre-blending ballads that spanned R&B, Jazz, Folk and pop.
rip jerry butler
Jerry Butler Jr. (December 8, 1939 – February 20, 2025) was an American soul singer-songwriter, producer, musician, and politician.
rip gwen mccrae
Gwen McCrae Mosley, (December 21, 1943 – February 21, 2025) was an American singer, best known for her 1975 hit "Rocking chair". Known in the music industry as the "Queen of Rare Groove",
Quincy Jones a true music Icon, dead at 91. RIP Q
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received many accolades including 28 Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for seven Academy Awards and four Gloden Globe Awards.
In 1978, he produced the soundtrack for The Wiz the musical adaptation of the Wiz of OZ., which starred Michael Jackson and Diana Ross.
While working on The Wiz, Michael Jackson asked Jones to recommend some producers for his upcoming solo album. Jones offered some names but eventually offered to produce the record himself. Jackson accepted and the resulting record, Off the Wall, sold about 20 million copies. This made Jones the most powerful record producer in the industry at that time.
Jones and Jackson's next collaboration, Thriller, sold 70 million copies and became the highest-selling album of all time. The rise of MTV and the advent of music videos as promotional tools also contributed to Thriller's sales.
Jones worked on Jackson's album Bad, which sold 45 million copies, and was the last time they worked with each other. Audio interviews with Jones are included in the 2001 special editions of Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad.
Peetah Morgan, lead singer of the Reggae band Morgan Heritage dead at 46. RIP
Peter Anthony "Peetah" Morgan, lead singer of the Grammy-winning family reggae band Morgan Heritage, died Sunday of undisclosed causes. He was 46.
A cause of death was not disclosed.
Peetah Morgan founded the Morgan Heritage band with seven siblings – all children of the Jamaica-born singer Denroy Morgan – in 1994, though the group would eventually become a five-member band. Known for its melding of classic reggae with rock, soul, calypso, funk and other genres, Morgan Heritage became one of the genre's leading vocal groups.
Morgan Heritage won a Best Reggae Album Grammy in 2016 for its 2015 album Strictly Roots. Avrakedabra, its 2017 album, was Grammy-nominated in 2018.
February 25, 2024
