Tag: performance

Actor Brandon L. Smith stars as Pharus in Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy at Actor's Express in Atlanta. Smith never felt the need to come out to his family, simply existing as his authentic self. He found the role particularly meaningful, stating it represents the fullness of who he is as a Black queer man. The gospel music and Negro spirituals throughout the show feel like honoring ancestors. Director Amanda Washington describes the music as a warm blanket, speaking to contemporary civil rights issues and how communities break free from constraints.

Here's Rihanna just twerk, twerk, twerk, twerk, twerking all over A$AP Rocky while partying in her home country of Barbados! The Grammy winner bent over and got low as she moved up on her man as they celebrated at what appeared to be a nightclub Tuesday night.

Singer Duffy has returned to the stage after a 15-year hiatus from performing. On July 5, the Welsh singer performed at Hoxton Hall in London in a secret, intimate gig that was her first full concert since 2011. Attendees had to enter a lottery to get tickets and sign NDAs.

The Clark Sisters and Fred Hammond are headed to the Las Vegas Strip as part of a new gospel music residency. Nearly every story calls it historic or a milestone, as though the Holy Spirit had won something by landing in a casino district built to separate tourists from their money. Jesus spent much of His time warning people about confusing God with money. This residency is only the latest example of how Christianity in general, and the Black Church in particular, have twisted the Gospel. If there was one thing Jesus made crystal clear, it was that faith wasn't supposed to be a hustle. Today, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between Christianity and Cash Money Records. Christians have drunk the world's Kool-Aid and started believing that if the market validates it, God must have too.

At just 14, Beyoncé and Jay-Z's eldest daughter has already built a résumé that reads like someone twice her age. Whether she's commanding a stadium stage, showing off her artistic talents or effortlessly becoming a fashion trendsetter, Blue continues to prove she's much more than the child of two music icons.

Over the weekend, Jay-Z marked the anniversaries of his albums "Reasonable Doubt" and "The Blueprint" with a three-day residency at Yankee Stadium in New York. While it was only the first stop of three more anniversary concerts scheduled for Los Angeles, Paris and London, it set the tone for exciting moments to come, as Hov was joined by a star-studded list of guests onstage, including Beyoncé, Usher, Fat Joe and Pharrell.