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Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a family spokesman said Wednesday. She was 81.

Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a family spokesman said Wednesday. She was 81. Booker ...

Antonio Carmona plus special guests Locos Por Juana will perform in Miami Beach Friday April 11th, 2008. Carmona, former singer with flamenco pop pioneers Ketama has now launched a solo career. His new CD Vengo Venenoso (Universal music Latino) is a collaboration with legendary Argentine producer Gustavo Santaolala, Academy Award, Golden Globes and multiple Grammy winner. Santaollala helped craft a selection of "bittersweet and poisonous songs" from the bolero tradition into an elegant masterpiece that showcases Carmona's distinctive voice.Locos Por Juana is a Miami band, which is to say Colombia-Venezuela-Puerto Rico-Miami. Innovators of the AfroLatino...

Work on High School Musical 4 begins - weeks before filming starts on the third instalment of the kids' franchise.

New york (Reuters) - Hip hop mogul 50 Cent, Universal music Group and several of its record labels were sued on Wednesday for promoting a 'gangsta lifestyle' by a 14-year-old boy who says friends of the rapper assaulted him.

AP - Tapes 'n Tapes, 'Walk it off' (XL)

Cedella Marley Booker, the mother of late reggae musician Bob Marley, has passed away at her South Florida home. She was 81.

Tonight, two documentaries explore two very different personalities in culture: author Zora Neale Hurston and music mogul and reality star Sean Combs.First, at 9 p.m. ET, PBS' American Masters series examines the life of Zora Neale Hurston, perhaps best known as the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, although she wrote both fiction and nonfiction. The profile, titled 'Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun,' is narrated by S. Epatha Merkerson and includes interviews with authors and scholars such as Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.In its review, The new york Times says that '[t]he real goal in any examination of Hurston's life, though, has to be to capture her character and contradictions' and '[t]he film doesn't completely succeed at this, partly, it seems, because there isn't much documentary evidence of Hurston herself outside of her writings.' The Boston Globe says that it 'clearly does some skipping and jumping around to fit such an extraordinary life i

EMP's Pop Conference brings together academia and the music world.

Music News: music icon added to second day of festival -- Prince has been added to the already-packed lineup of the ninth annual Coachella Valley music & Arts festival, which runs April 25-27.