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Nigerian highlife musician Victor Olaiya has died, the Nigerian newspaper Punch reports. He passed on February 12 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was 89. Olaiya, aka Dr. Victor Abimbola Olaiya OON, was a trumpeter known as “The Evil Genius of Highlife,” a Ghanian genre that fuses traditional Akan melodies with Western instruments. He first broke out
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Mark! Welcome. We heard you have a new single coming out – when can we expect to hear it? Hello! Thank you for having me! Yes I do. It’s coming out on Valentines Day. Right around the corner! We also saw on IG that you are putting out an EP. That is a big deal,
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At the 2020 Oscars tonight, Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite picked up the Oscar for Best Picture. The film won over Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, 1917, Jojo Rabbit, and Joker. Parasite is a satire about a struggling working-class family
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The Strokes have teased something called The New Abnormal. Earlier today (February 7), the band posted a silent video featuring artwork for the new project on their social media accounts. Find that below. The Strokes’ last studio album was 2013’s Comedown Machine. In 2016, the Strokes released the EP Future Present Past. More recently, they
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Nicki Minaj is back with a new song. It’s called “Yikes.” Have a listen below. Nicki recently shared a preview of the song, which stirred controversy due to the line, “All you bitches Rosa Parks, uh oh, get your ass up.” [embedded content] Nicki’s last album Queen arrived in 2018. In 2019, she released the
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Backgrid Here’s Beyonce and Blue Ivy looking like walking, talking advertisements for Queen Bey’s new clothing line collab with Adidas. Beyonce and Blue Ivy stepped out Thursday in some matching gear from the Adidas x Ivy Park activewear collection … spending part of their day fabric shopping at Mood Fabrics in New York City, with
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