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Billboard NXT: Bronze Avery Announced Winner in Thrilling Finale
The winner of Billboard NXT – a first-of-its-kind singing competition from Billboard and Samsung Galaxy, designed to discover the next great unsigned artist – has been crowned! After numerous TikTok challenges, the help of celebrity mentors and riveting performances during the Grand Finale event on Tuesday (Dec. 7), Bronze Avery has been announced as Billboard NXT’s winner, earning the victory over multi-talented finalists Amir Brandon and Sophie Marks. All three finalists took the stage at Avalon Hollywood for Billboard NXT’s live finale event on Tuesday night, after weeks of showing off their skills in various TikTok challenges and standing out from the competition’s 12 total contestants. Each finalist performed in front of the Billboard NXT celebrity mentors – Todrick Hall, Anitta, and ...
Ralph Tavares, Eldest Brother of R&B Quintet Tavares, Dies at 79
Ralph Tavares, the eldest of the five brothers in the Grammy-winning R&B singing group Tavares, whose hits included “It Only Takes a Minute” and “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel,” has died. Tavares died at his home in South Dartmouth, Mass., on Wednesday, two days before his 80th birthday, the group’s manager David Oriola said. The cause was not immediately clear. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The brothers, sons of immigrants from Cape Verde who were based in New Bedford, Mass., began performing together in 1959, settling on the name Tavares in 1973, the same year they had their first hit, “Check It Out.” Tavares sang alongside his brothers Antone Laurence “Chubby” Tavares, Perry Lee “Tiny” Tavares, Feliciano Vierra “Butch” Tavares Jr., and Arthur Paul “Pooch” Tavares. Ano...
Burna Boy Announces 2022 Madison Square Garden Concert
Burna Boy has announced his forthcoming concert at Madison Square Garden, making him the first Nigerian artist to headline the renowned arena. The Grammy-award winning artist released an announcement video on YouTube. [embedded content] Titled “One Night In Space,” the concert is set to take place on April 28, 2022. Burna Boy has kept busy over the past few months with a series of performances that included New York City’s Governor’s Ball’s San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Governor’s Ball and his headlining show at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl as part of his Space Drift Tour. Also this past October, Burna Boy dropped a new single and accompanying music video for “Want It All” featuring Polo G. The music video moves between the rapper on set with several dancers to cli...
Earl Sweatshirt Shares First Song From Upcoming LP ‘Sick!’
Earl Sweatshirt is coming out with a new album early next year. Out via Tan Cressida and Warner Records, Sick! follows 2019’s Feet of Clay EP and will debut on January 14. The rapper was originally working on an LP called The People Could Fly but scrapped the project when the pandemic hit. Shifting gears, Sweatshirt recorded the ten tracks that make up Sick! while the world was under lockdown. The cover art for the upcoming album features a silver mold of the rapper wearing a face mask, along with a photo, clove of garlic and two pills. Coinciding with the announcement, Sweatshirt gave fans a first look at the album with his new single “Tabula Rasa” featuring Armand Hammer. The song was produced by Theravada and Rob Chambers and delivered with a music video. Sweatshirt recently released a ...
Little Simz Stars in New Bowers & Wilkins Film Exploring the Art of Making Music
In a new short documentary from renowned audio brand Bowers & Wilkins, we get to the root of how music shapes us, straight from the mouths of artists who’ve unified contemporary audiences and created classics. Directed by award-winning music documentarian Joss Crowley, it’s called How We Make. In the film, we get a unique look into the creative process of rapper Little Simz. Over the course of her decade-long career, the Mercury Award-nominated rapper has carried the deep reverberations of the city she grew up in. She’s an artist who understands the culture to its core, and is comfortable reckoning with it through song. Responsible for records like GREY Area and Drop 6, integral in her building a die-hard fanbase, she recorded parts of her latest album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, ...
Kanye West’s Unreleased ‘TLOP’ Track “Can U Be/Forever Mitus” Is Being Sold as an NFT
Kanye West‘s 2016 album The Life of Pablo was a transformative moment for one of the world’s most visionary rappers, and now an unreleased outro called “Can U Be/Forever Mitus” is being sold as an NFT. Held by Keyon Christ, who was ‘Ye’s producer at the time, the “2044: The Lost Kanye Files” NFT presents a song that has been lost in the deepest realms of the Internet. Previously debuted at a secret listening party, the track has been widely unheard and is incredibly hard to find in high-quality online — until now. Speaking on the NFT, Christ says, “Releasing this highly-coveted leak will serve as the generational foundation to fearlessly unveil the future of music in Web 3.0.” He adds, “Rules will be broken, risks will be taken.” The song itself never featured on TLOP because of Southside...
