Thursday, March 24, 2022

Artist's Estate Announces an Immersive Prince Experience Debuting in June

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Prince's death in 2016 was a blow to music lovers across the globe, but his purple reign continues.

Thanks to one of pop's most memorable music catalogs and his estate's determination to keep the artist relevant, the Prince brand is thriving.

Recently valued at $156 million, The Prince Estate's latest venture to keep the Purple One's legacy alive is an ambitious one.

It has partnered with entertainment and brand experience company Superfly for a one-of-a-kind immersive experience that will honor the legacy and artistry of Prince.

The collaboration with the company, best known for co-founding Bonnaroo and co-producing the Outside Lands festival, is set to launch in Chicago in June.

Superfly's co-founder, Kerry Black, said in a release announcing the project that its goal is to "reimagine how fans interact with their favorite artists and music.”

“There are few ways to encounter music in a physical space outside of concerts," Black said. "This project will change that, pioneering a new approach to experiences while respecting the creative vision of the artist.”

Details were sparse at the time of the announcement, but in addition to offering more than 10 multidimensional spaces that take visitors through the icon’s life — showcasing his musical eras and creative evolution and highlighting his influential sound —Black told Rolling Stone that fans will be able to interact with the Purple Rain album cover as well as the studio where Prince created much of his music.

"You’re going to be able to step into a Purple Rain album cover,” he said, "where you can get your photo up on the motorcycle. But we’re also doing a full buildout of the entire street scene, right? So there’s going to be the First Avenue club and a bunch of the stores.”

Black added, “We’re doing a partial replica of Studio A, which was his studio where he created all his music from about 1990 on, and in there, people are going to be able to go and sort of play producer and mix stems from ‘Let’s Go Crazy.'” The exhibit will also display a mix of Prince’s original wardrobe and instruments alongside replicas as well as photographs.

The experience will run through Oct. 9 in Chicago. Time-stamped tickets, starting at $39.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. March 31, at PrinceTheExperience.com.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Renowned Gospel Singer-Songwriter, LaShun Pace, Dies at 60

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Gospel great, LaShun Pace passed away Monday morning from organ failure.

The Atlanta native, who along with her eight sisters comprised the Grammy-nominated gospel group The Anointed Pace Sisters, was 60-years old.

Larry Reid, the host of the Atlanta-based "Larry Reid Live" show, was the first to break the news.

“We have lost one of the baddest sopranos to ever walk this earth,” he tweeted Monday. “LaShun Pace one of the lead singers of The Pace Sisters has passed. The Pace Sisters recently lost their sister songbird Duranice Pace and Mom Pastor Betty Pace. Pray for them and all of us who will mourn this loss.”
Her sister, Lydia Pace, confirmed the news of her passing to 11Alive, sharing with reporter Shiba Russell that Pace, who had been on dialysis for five years and was awaiting a kidney, died of organ failure.
Born in Atlanta's Poole Creek community in1961, the singer-songwriter first rose to prominence in the mid-1970s as a solo artist, and later alongside her sisters, singing at her father's church and at local talent shows. In 1988, the group began its professional singing career after signing with their first label Savoy Records, which also signed Pace as a solo artist.

The Anointed Pace Sisters released seven albums between 1988 and 2009. Of those, four charted on the Billboard Gospel Albums chart. Pace, released her first solo album "He Lives" in 1990. The lead single, "I Know I've Been Changed," reached No. 2 on the Billboard gospel charts and became her signature song.

Several other albums followed including "Shekinah Glory," "Wealthy Place," "Just Because God Said It," "God Is Faithful," "It’s My Time," "Complete" and "Reborn."

In recent years, Pace's career experienced a bit of a renaissance thanks to her 1996 hit "Act Like You Know" being used as part of an eponymously named TikTok challenge.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Ye Barred From Performing at 2022 Grammys for 'Concerning Online Behavior'

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Billionaire, musician, recent divorcee and habitual line-stepper, Kanye West, has been barred from performing at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

A spokesman for the 44-year-old artist, who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021, confirmed the allegations first reported by The Blast late Friday, saying he had been “unfortunately” removed from the lineup of performers for the show due to his “concerning online behavior.”

While the Recording Academy has yet to detail its reasons for the change, it comes on the heels of West using a racial slur against "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah, who is slated to host this year's edition of the award show.
Instagram issued a temporary 24-hour ban on the rapper's account Thursday over violations of its hate speech and harassment policy in response to him posting a photo of Noah, over a bastardized version of the song "Kumbaya" with a reworked title and lyrics featuring a racial epitaph.

The attack came after Noah did a segment on “The Daily Show” about West's public attacks on his ex Kim Kardashian and her new boyfriend, Pete Davidson.

"What’s weird about the situation is Kanye West has told us that he struggles with his mental health,” Noah said during the episode. “So I get it, you wanna have art as therapy. But here’s what’s weird that Kanye doesn’t understand. It’s like, what we’re seeing is — it makes you uncomfortable.”
Noah continued: “With Kanye, we don’t know how to feel. We don’t know how to worry. I think Kanye doesn’t seem to understand that. He goes, ‘Leave me to create my art.’ Yeah but Kanye, you told us you have problems. Now when we worry about that, you say we shouldn’t worry because it’s not [his] problem. Or it is [his] problems? Which is it?”

The 22-time Grammy winner is up for five nominations this year, including album of the year for his album "Donda." Named after his late mother, it is a star-studded tribute to the professor who tragically passed away at the age of 58 in 2007 following cosmetic surgery.

West, who is also up for best rap song for the track "Jail," has received ample criticism for his recent actions — which include making a video in which he kills Davidson. He may have gained, however, an unlikely defender in Noah.


On Sunday, seemingly in response to the ban, the Grammy host tweeted, “I said counsel Kanye not cancel Kanye."
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