Ringo calling! If he wants you to sing, who could say no?

By MARCELA ISAZAMarch 19, 2021 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Ringo Starr calls to ask if you'll sing on a song for him, who could possibly say no...

Tyler Perry, Clintons attend memorial for actor Cicely Tyson

By MARK KENNEDYFebruary 16, 2021 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church...

Rocker Lenny Kravitz looks back to when he found his voice

By MARK KENNEDYOctober 16, 2020 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Lenny Kravitz is a man of extremes — as he readily admits.

“I am deeply two-sided: black and white, Jewish and Christian, Manhattan and Brooklynite,” he writes about his first 25 years alive in his new memoir “Let Love Rule," released last week and named after his 1989 debut album...

Party like a spy: Spookstock is intel world’s hush-hush bash

By ASHRAF KHALILNovember 29, 2019 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sometime earlier this year, one of the most elite social events in Washington took place, but without any fanfare or news coverage...

Diahann Carroll’s legacy as a trailblazer remembered

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODYNovember 25, 2019 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — At the poignant memorial service for Diahann Carroll, the Oscar-nominated actress was remembered for all the things that made her famous — her glamour, her sublime talent, her beauty and her elegance...