NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today strongly condemned anti-Semitic lyrics in a newly released song by popular rapper Lupe Fiasco. In the song, “N.E.R.D.,” Fiasco rhymes about, “Artists getting robbed for their publishing by dirty Jewish execs who think that it’s alms from the covenant.” In response to a tweet from DJ […]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAAhuva Ozeri passed away on Tuesday at the age of 68, after a long battle with cancer. The funeral date has not been set. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein eulogized: “Ahuva Ozeri was a unique figure who blended East and West in an amazing way in her melodies and her lyrics. Her dedication to her work
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsThe nominees for the 74th Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The 2017 Golden Globes Awards will be held Jan. 8 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Jimmy Fallon has been tapped to host the ceremony that will air live on NBC. Below is the complete list of nominees. ——— FILM ——— Motion
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEsma Redžepova, the prominent and versatile Roma singer dubbed the “Romany music queen,” has died at the age of 73, hospital sources and her family said Sunday. The singer from Macedonia was one of the first vocalists in the Balkans to sing in the Romany language. She performed in some of the world’s greatest music
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsOn Monday, Kanye West took a trip to New York City reportedly in search of a finding a psychiatrist for when he visits the East Coast but it appears the rapper had other plans on his schedule as well. According to video from C-SPAN, the rapper, accompanied by his entourage, arrived for a meeting on
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAStockholm (dpa) – Rock legend Bob Dylan said he had never considered winning the Nobel Literature award and was “honoured” to join “giants of literature” like Rudyard Kipling and Thomas Mann in a speech read on his behalf Saturday at the Nobel banquet. “If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USASantos collects Nobel Prize in Oslo for deal with FARC Quotes anti-war song by Bob Dylan, 2016 literature winner Hopes Colombian deal can inspire peace talks elsewhere Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a “ray of hope” for solving conflicts from Syria to
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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLondon (dpa) – British guitarist Greg Lake, who is counted among the founding fathers of progressive rock, has died at the age of 69. Lake, who gained fame as the frontman of King Crimson and rock supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer in the late 1960s and early 1970s, succumbed to cancer after a long struggle
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsStockholm (dpa) – Although rock legend Bob Dylan, the 2016 Nobel Literature Laureate, will not attend the upcoming award ceremony his words will ring out there, organizers said Monday. US singer Patti Smith was to perform Dylan’s song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at Saturday’s award ceremony in Stockholm’s Concert Hall, the Nobel Foundation said.
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAWASHINGTON — Rocker Glenn Frey died before he could accept a Kennedy Center Honors award last year, but his Eagles bandmates and four other artists were feted Sunday at a bittersweet edition of the glitzy annual gala, the last of the Obama administration. Actor-director Al Pacino, singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer Mavis Staples and pianist Martha
The nominations have been revealed for the 2017 Grammy Awards. Beyonce leads the pack, with a total of nine nominations including album of the year. Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West all earned eight nominations apiece, while Chance the Rapper picked up seven. The artists competing in the album of the year category are Adele, Beyonce,
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USATaylor Swift is doing something right. A lot of things, actually: She’s No. 1 on Forbes’ 2016 list of the highest-paid musicians in the world. Her $170 million take, earned primarily through her recent world tour and various endorsements, also made her the top-earning celebrity back in June, the magazine said. Yes, out of all
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAOusmane Sow, a luminary figure of African contemporary art, died early Thursday morning in Dakar. He was 81. “He takes with him the dreams and the plans that his body, too tired, did not wish to follow,” Sow’s family told Agence France-Presse. Born in the Senegalese capital of Dakar in 1935, Sow was one of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsBy Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — The destruction of property and nature all across the country is beyond belief. Among the latest tragedies in the fires engulfing Israel is the life work of artist Yoram Raanan in Beit Meir, in the hills outside Jerusalem. Last night the moshav was completely evacuated and little remains. What
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