Toni Braxton and Babyface reunite for a duet album.
The veteran R & B producer and crooner reunites with the pop singer to record a duet album.
The Island Def Jam Music Group now has control over the Motown Records label.
Love, Marriage & Divorce includes eleven tracks including their Adult R&B #1 single, "Hurt You" as well as the second single "Where Did We Go Wrong". The album was originally due for release on November 25, 2013, although its release was delayed until the week before Valentine's Day.
The album is Babyface’s first new studio album in nearly seven years and Toni’s first new album since 2010’s Pulse.
Toni announced that she was returning to music with a Summer Tour and that she was in the studio working on her eighth studio album. She also stated that the album will not be a traditional album but rather a collaboration album featuring long-time collaborator Babyface. The album will entirely consist of duets between Braxton and Babyface.
Longtime collaborator Babyface worked with Toni Braxton on their duet album.
Babyface said that "The whole perspective is guy and girl, Mars vs. Venus. Even if you're in love, you're in love for different reasons", while Braxton added: “I think because Babyface and I have both gone through divorces, we can relate and we can collaborate together on this topic and make it so others who have gone through this situation can relate". The album Love, Marriage & Divorce will be released on February 4, 2014, under Motown Records.
The 2013 Summer Tour kicked off in Las Vegas on August 9, 2013 and ended in Atlanta on August 31, 2013. The lead single from Love, Marriage & Divorce "Hurt You" premiered on August 17, 2013.
The song attained success, claiming the No. 1 spot on two charts: the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart for four weeks, and the Urban Adult Contemporary (Urban AC) for the week ending Dec. 14, 2013. This marked Braxton's first No. 1 hit on the Adult R&B Songs chart since her 2000 release "Just Be a Man About It."
The song also hit number 16 on Billboard Hot R&B/ Hip Hop Airplay chart.
The second single from the album, "Where Did We Go Wrong?" debuted at No. 20 on the Adult R&B Songs chart.
Something is eerily in my bones and my heart about this missing woman who left her job at a local strip club.
Could this woman be the body that was found on Monday in a Dayton, Ohio park?
The local junk food media reports that a body was found in Art Van Atta Park. Workers were clearing brush found a badly decomposed body near the road. They called the law.
There's a woman from Preble County who was declared missing last month. This is the first thing that comes to mind. Aria Spradling, a 20-year-old woman from Eaton about 30 miles from Dayton. She was leaving her job at the Harem Gentleman's Club the night she went missing. The young mother was struggling to make money and pay off debts (from criminal acts). She takes a job over at the strip club to make easy money.
Her mother pleads to the community to help find her daughter. She last saw Aria on September 28 when she took her daughter to work at The Harem Gentlemen’s Club on Dixie Drive. Aria’s infant daughter Maleigha was with them.
“I had dropped her off, and she hugged me, and I hugged her, and she kissed me and she goes, 'I'll see you in a couple days, mama.' And I said, 'Okay.' She kissed Maleigha. Maleigha was sleeping,” Melissa said. “I drove off, and a few days later, she didn't call. And she always calls to check on her baby. She would never not call us. I told her dad, my husband Dale, 'I know in my heart something is wrong, because this is not her.'”
Melissa Spradling said her daughter worked only occasionally at The Harem. When Aria left work that night, she left with a strange man, according to what some of her coworkers told Melissa.
“I've talked to a few of the coworkers of hers, and a few of them have said she did leave with a strange guy, but they don't know anything else,” she said.
Since then, her phone has been off, making it impossible for police to track the phone.
Melissa Spradling is hoping her daughter is found. Aria Spradling is a mother of a child.
The Montgomery County death checker is planning on looking into missing persons and dental records to determine who the victim was.
The case is unusual, because Melissa said her daughter has never left and failed to call and check on Maleigha. Aria spent a little time in jail before her probation, and even then, she called to check in with her family.
“The reason her being gone now strikes us now as odd is because (Melissa) said even when she was in jail, she'd call every day to check on the baby,” DePew said. “For her not to stay in touch with mom and check on her daughter is incredibly unusual.”
Melissa said the last contact with Aria was a phone call after that night.
“She called her sister Ashley, and she said, 'Ashley, I'm in trouble. Please help me.' That's all she said.”
Around the same time, there was an incident in the same area in which passers-by reported a woman being put into a car by multiple men. There were clothes found at the scene, and the EPD is awaiting DNA tests to determine if the clothes belonged to Aria.
“I think it could be her,” Melissa said. “I just know something bad has happened to her.”
She also said Aria had usually stayed with friends in Dayton while working, but she stayed somewhere else on this particular trip.
“She usually stayed with her friends, but her friends tell me that she stayed with this new guy friend that we don't know. We don't know nothing about him,” Melissa said.
DePew said there have been several leads in the case, and his department has interviewed numerous people.
“Right now, we're to the point where we want to get her information out in front of the community, in front of the public, hoping that maybe there's someone out there who has seen her or has some information who would be able to help us find Aria,” DePew said. ”With the time frame she's been gone, obviously we consider that to be urgent circumstances. The sooner we can find her, the better.”
Melissa said she had heard from Aria on the night prior, and Aria said she made a considerable amount of money, which was then stolen from her. She said she was working the next night, the last night she was seen, to make up for the money.
Aria was last seen leaving her job at an adult club.
Melissa had a message for her daughter and anyone who might have her in their custody: “To whoever has my daughter, Aria Spradling, my boo bear, please let her go,” Melissa said. “Take her to a hospital or a police station, wherever you have her. Aria, honey, I love you with all my heart. And your baby girl is fine, and we're just waiting for you to come home. I love you.”
Aria is 5-foot-6, 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She has several tattoos, including a large flower/skull pattern on her upper right arm, the name “Maleigha” on her left forearm, the name “Timothy” on her upper thigh, the word “Family” on one of her calves, and the words “Life/Death” on her other calf.
Many people have traveled through the North Dixie Drive area. It's in the unincorporated community of Northridge.
North Dixie Drive is the adult play place. There's at least five strip clubs on that road.
Some witnesses said that the woman was leaving with a stranger of Middle Eastern descendant. The law interviewed the person and he denies that he was with the woman.
It's kind of strange though. Usually a strip club has a lot of security cameras and visual guards watching each performer on their way out when they get off work. What happened?
Did someone sleep on the job?
Did someone actually see her get into a car with a stranger?
Earlier this year, the writers for the hit sitcom told the public that a character will be "written out" in the coming season. We didn't know until now that a character core to the show was gone.
The famed voice of Bart Simpson's teacher Edna Krabappel has passed away over the weekend.
Marcia Wallace played the fictional character from the animated TV series The Simpsons.
She is the teacher of Bart Simpson's 4th grade class at Springfield Elementary School, and Ned Flanders's wife in later seasons. Krabappel was the only character that Wallace voiced on a regular basis.
The shows producers Al Jean and Matt Groening both express sympathy for her family and told the media that her character will be retired after the season.
Marcia Karen Wallace (November 1, 1942 − October 25, 2013) was an American actress, game show panelist, voice artist, and comedienne, primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies. She is perhaps best known for her roles as receptionist Carol Kester on the 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show.
Wallace died at age 70 due to complications from pneumonia. A few shy days from her birthday.
Her son, Michael Hawley claimed she was cancer free at the time of her death; however, Wallace's longtime friend Cathryn Michon told Deadline Hollywood that Wallace "passed at 9pm last night due to complications from breast cancer of which she was a long and proud survivor and advocate for women and healing".
Staff on The Simpsons had reportedly been aware of her illness.
Wallace appeared on not only The Simpsons and The Bob Newhart Show but a whole lot of features and television programs.
Some of her notable acts were The Merv Griffin Show, Win Lose Or Draw, Full House, Hollywood Squares and the satirical comedy That's My Bush!
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Marcia Wallace.
It seems like veteran reporter Soledad O'Brien has departed from CNN.
It appears that she's moving to the Al Jazeera America. In a surprising move, the network has announced that it's signing on her and Ali Velshi to the roster.
The network is based out of Qatar and it's coverage is worldwide. Now in the United States, the network will move into a market saturated with political warfare from the likes of CNN, Loserville and Obama News.
Al Jazeera is probably more qualified in coverage of international affairs. It doesn't give the one sided story of "good vs. evil" as those America cable networks spin news out to be.
It's pretty controversial. The turdporters over at Loserville were decrying Al Jazeera as propaganda arm of terrorism.
But it's likely going to make real journalist work harder for their awards. Never seen a
It replaces liberal network Current TV. The Current TV network was started by former vice president Al Gore. The former politico wanted to compete with cable agitators by establishing a "progressive themed network" with talents that are free to express opinion unfiltered. It leaves the liberal agitators Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks, Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, John Fugelsang, and Joy Baher in limbo.
Former governors Jennifer Granholm and Eliot Spitzer departed from the network earlier this year.
They've fired Keith Olbermann in 2012. Olbermann was fired from Obama News a few years back.
Deadline confirms that the 46-year old reporter is joining the network. as “special correspondent.”
O'Brien’s production company, Starfish Media Group will produce hourlong documentary specials for the cable network. “I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories,” O’Brien said in the announcement, confirming speculation that started last week. As a correspondent, O’Brien will contribute short-form segments to the primetime current affairs mag America Tonight on the new network, which is funded by the government of Qatar.
O'Brien stepped down from CNN in March when network chief Jeff Zucker scrubbed her program Starting Point; he gave the time slot to Chris Cuomo's New Day. At the time she left CNN, she formed Starfish Media, which, in addition to the production deal with Al Jazeera America, now also has a production deal with CNN, and development deals at HBO and National Geographic Channel.
Don't worry people, Soledad O'Brien still does Black In America and Latino In America for CNN.
Famed singer Jenni Rivera died in a tragic plane crash.
We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of famed singer Jenni Rivera. A tragic plane crash in Mexico carried her and other passengers on it. There were no survivors of this crash.
Jenny Dolores Rivera Saavedra was a Mexican-American singer known for her work within the banda and norteña music genres. She began recording in 1992, and her recordings often have themes of social issues, infidelity, and relationships.
Her tenth studio album, Jenni in 2008, became her first number-one album in the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart in the United States. In 2010 she appeared in and produced the reality TV show Jenni Rivera Presents: Chiquis & Raq-C, featuring her oldest daughter. She also appeared in and produced I Love Jenni starting in 2011 and Chiquis 'n Control in 2012.
Rivera was born in Long Beach, California. Her parents are Mexican immigrants who raised Rivera and her four brothers and sister (including Lupillo Rivera) in a tight-knit musical household.
Rivera died in a plane crash near Iturbide, Nuevo León, Mexico on December 9, 2012.
Rivera had three children with her first husband, José Trinidad Marín: Janney "Chiquis" Marín Rivera (born 1985), Jacqueline Marín Rivera (born 1989), and Michael Marín Rivera (born 1991). After divorcing Marín, Rivera married Juan López in 1997 and had two children with him: Jenicka López Rivera (born 1997), and Johnny López Rivera (born 2001). They divorced in 2003, and López died in 2009. Rivera married baseball player Esteban Loaiza in 2010. They filed for divorce in 2012.
On August 6, 2010, Rivera was named spokeswoman for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. A proclamation was given "officially naming" August 6 “Jenni Rivera Day” by the LA City Council for all her charity work and involvement in the community.
The Los Angeles Times report the Mexico's Ministry of Transportation and Communications said the Learjet carrying seven people, including Rivera, was found in mountainous terrain in Nuevo Leon, just south of Monterrey. There were no survivors, authorities said.
The plane left Monterrey around 3:30 a.m., following a concert that she had given, according to the Associated Press. The U.S.-registered Learjet 25 was headed to Toluca, near Mexico City.
The 43-year-old Long Beach native, known to fans as "la diva de la banda," was best known for her interpretations of regional Mexican music, norteno and banda. She was one of NBCUniversal's biggest bilingual television stars, with a hugely popular reality show, "I Love Jenni," on cable channel Mun2.
She also had a syndicated weekly radio program and clothing and cosmetics lines -- all designed to appeal to U.S. Latinas. The ABC television network was developing a sitcom starring Rivera, tentatively titled "Jenni," about a strong-willed Latina single mother.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, Rivera has sold 1.2 million albums and 349,000 digital tracks in the United States.
Rivera belonged to one of the most important dynasties in contemporary U.S.-based Mexican music. Her father, Pedro Rivera, launched the independent label Cintas Acuario in 1987; it grew out of a booth at an area swap meet. Her four brothers were also involved in music, and her younger brother Lupillo also is a wildly popular Mexican regional singer.
According to her Telemundo biography, Rivera didn't plan on joining the family's musical dynasty. But after an early marriage ended in divorce, she obtained a college degree in business administration and worked in real estate before going to work for her father's record label.
Her debut, "Chacalosa" (slang for "party girl"), was her introduction to the music scene. She eventually signed with Fonovisa, one of the most prominent labels in regional Mexican music, and began releasing bestselling Latin music CDs.
More than 16,000 people attended a concert that she headlined last year at Staples Center in Los Angeles. She was scheduled to appear next March at L.A.'s Gibson Amphitheatre.
So many fans flocked to a record-signing event in Riverside last year that police reportedly were called to help disperse the massive crowd.
Her tumultuous life included an early marriage and pregnancy, domestic abuse and divorce. She wove some of those themes into her songs and was an advocate for social responsibility. She founded a charitable organization, the Jenni Rivera Love Foundation, offering support to single mothers and victims of domestic abuse in the United States.
Rivera had five children and a grandchild. Celebrity magazines said she was seeking a divorce from her second husband, former Major League Baseball player Esteban Loaiza.
Once again, Julian Real is right on the money on this one. Again and again, the needs of WOC, working class women, immigrant women, poor women, disabled women are disregarded by the mainstream feminist movement.
