Last summer, we offered a special photo gallery of the 50 greatest entertainers still waiting to be selected for the Kennedy Center Honors. Among that group were country music superstar Reba McEntire plus pop star and Oscar-winning actress Cher. Both of them were in the honorees in December, along with composer Philip Glass and jazz musician Wayne Shorter, plus a unique section devoted to “Hamilton!.”
And now we provide our latest list of Kennedy Center Honors top 50 recommendations for 2019. Of course, only five of them can be chosen but certainly all are worthy. Tour our photo gallery above ranked from #1 to #50. Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
See Kennedy Center Honors: 20 Greatest Performances of All Time
This year’s recipients will be announced...
And now we provide our latest list of Kennedy Center Honors top 50 recommendations for 2019. Of course, only five of them can be chosen but certainly all are worthy. Tour our photo gallery above ranked from #1 to #50. Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
See Kennedy Center Honors: 20 Greatest Performances of All Time
This year’s recipients will be announced...
- 6/23/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The buzz about the true identity of the Bee on the “The Masked Singer” is becoming deafening as we reach the quarter-final stage of the competition. We thought we knew the name of the celebrity who took to the stage in this elaborate costume to belt out some of the biggest hits of the last decade. Her powerful voice and the clues that she has given tell us the true identity of this hidden figure. Spoilers ahead.
The Bee is Gladys Knight. Forget those suggestions by Nicole Scherzinger that it is Dionne Warwick or Patti Labelle. And please disregard that idea floated by Ken Jeong that it is Diana Ross or one of the other Supremes.
Over her first three appearances on “The Masked Singer,” the Bee showed off her pipes with her covers of including “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus, “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars and “Chandelier” by Sia.
The Bee is Gladys Knight. Forget those suggestions by Nicole Scherzinger that it is Dionne Warwick or Patti Labelle. And please disregard that idea floated by Ken Jeong that it is Diana Ross or one of the other Supremes.
Over her first three appearances on “The Masked Singer,” the Bee showed off her pipes with her covers of including “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus, “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars and “Chandelier” by Sia.
- 2/14/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Episode 6 of “The Masked Singer” brought together four celebrities from the two tracks to compete against each other for the first time. Among the four that faced off on the February 6 episode was the Bee. This week, the Bee generated lots of buzz with her cover of the Miley Cyrus hit “Wrecking Ball.” That followed on two sensational performances of “Chandelier” by Sia in week 2 and “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars in week 4.
Her powerful voice coupled with the clues that she gave had us fairly convinced that we knew the true identity of this hidden figure. Forget that speculation by Nicole Scherzinger that it could be Dionne Warwick or Patti Labelle. And you dismiss that guess by Ken Jeong that it is Diana Ross or one of the other Supremes. Spoilers ahead.
The Bee is the Grammy-winning singer Gladys Knight. This singing legend is coming off her...
Her powerful voice coupled with the clues that she gave had us fairly convinced that we knew the true identity of this hidden figure. Forget that speculation by Nicole Scherzinger that it could be Dionne Warwick or Patti Labelle. And you dismiss that guess by Ken Jeong that it is Diana Ross or one of the other Supremes. Spoilers ahead.
The Bee is the Grammy-winning singer Gladys Knight. This singing legend is coming off her...
- 2/7/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
We had to wait till the end of episode 4 of “The Masked Singer” for the return of the Bee. She certainly had us buzzing after her first appearance in week 2 of this reality competition. Back then she stopped the show with her soaring version of “Chandelier” by Sia. Her powerful voice coupled with the clues that she gave had us fairly convinced that we knew the true identity of this hidden figure.
We are even more sure we know who the Bee is after even more clues and her amazing cover of “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars. After watching her sing this hit song in the video above, scroll down for a spoiler as to her true identity.
Forget that speculation by Nicole Scherzinger that it could be Dionne Warwick or Patti Labelle. And you dismiss that guess by Ken Jeong that it is Diana Ross or one of the other Supremes.
We are even more sure we know who the Bee is after even more clues and her amazing cover of “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars. After watching her sing this hit song in the video above, scroll down for a spoiler as to her true identity.
Forget that speculation by Nicole Scherzinger that it could be Dionne Warwick or Patti Labelle. And you dismiss that guess by Ken Jeong that it is Diana Ross or one of the other Supremes.
- 1/24/2019
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The next recipients for the Kennedy Center Honors will be announced in the late summer, often around Labor Day. The all-star event is held each year in the nation’s capital during the first weekend in December and then airs on CBS as a two-hour special after Christmas.
Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
The first recipients in 1978 were singer Marian Anderson, actor and dancer Fred Astaire, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Richard Rodgers and conductor Arthur Rubinstein. The most recent honorees in 2017 for the 40th anniversary program were dancer Carmen de Lavallade, singer Gloria Estefan, singer LL Cool J, producer and writer Norman Lear and singer Lionel Richie.
But there are a number of notable performers missing from the honors roll. Our...
Each year, the selection committee chooses five entertainment veterans from a variety of fields – film, television, popular music, theatre, and the fine arts. Selected artists are almost always over 50 and generally are 60 and beyond.
The first recipients in 1978 were singer Marian Anderson, actor and dancer Fred Astaire, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Richard Rodgers and conductor Arthur Rubinstein. The most recent honorees in 2017 for the 40th anniversary program were dancer Carmen de Lavallade, singer Gloria Estefan, singer LL Cool J, producer and writer Norman Lear and singer Lionel Richie.
But there are a number of notable performers missing from the honors roll. Our...
- 4/11/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Frankie Ford, the singer best known for the 1959 hit “Sea Cruise,” died Monday at his home in Gretna, Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Tuesday. He was 76. Ford had suffered from “a lengthy illness,” the newspaper stated. Born Frank Guzzo in New Orleans in 1939, Ford showed talent early on, winning local contests and appearing on “The Ted Mack Amateur Hour” at age 12. His first single, consisting of the songs “Cheatin’ Woman” and “The Last One to Cry,” was released in 1958, but it was “Sea Cruise,” released the following year, that launched him into the spotlight, hitting...
- 9/29/2015
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Everett Frank Sinatra in “Higher and Higher,” 1943.
My new novel “Narrows Gate” is set in the years preceding and immediately following World War II. The town of Narrows Gate, with its waterfront piers, factories and urban grit, sits in the shadow of New York City. It’s a fictional version of Hoboken, New Jersey, where I was born and raised.
You’d be right if you guessed that “Narrows Gate” includes a skinny young blue-eyed Italian-American crooner who rises from...
My new novel “Narrows Gate” is set in the years preceding and immediately following World War II. The town of Narrows Gate, with its waterfront piers, factories and urban grit, sits in the shadow of New York City. It’s a fictional version of Hoboken, New Jersey, where I was born and raised.
You’d be right if you guessed that “Narrows Gate” includes a skinny young blue-eyed Italian-American crooner who rises from...
- 1/19/2012
- by Jim Fusilli
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Gladys Knight
For the last 59 years, Gladys Knight has followed the same routine: get onstage and sing. No warm ups, no hesitation. Thursday night was no different. The Grammy-winning “Empress of Soul” performed a special one-night-only concert at the Beacon Theatre in celebration of National Train Day.
The concert entitled “Rockin’ the Railway” represents Knight’s partnership with Amtrak benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Riding trains runs deep in Knight’s family. Growing up in Georgia, Knight rode...
For the last 59 years, Gladys Knight has followed the same routine: get onstage and sing. No warm ups, no hesitation. Thursday night was no different. The Grammy-winning “Empress of Soul” performed a special one-night-only concert at the Beacon Theatre in celebration of National Train Day.
The concert entitled “Rockin’ the Railway” represents Knight’s partnership with Amtrak benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Riding trains runs deep in Knight’s family. Growing up in Georgia, Knight rode...
- 5/6/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
As you all should already know, Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott, who, as a child, was a trained violinist, and in his early teens went on to play with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony, winning national competitions. He was also one of the first black performers to appear on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour, which you can watch below:...
- 3/25/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
As you all should already know, Louis Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Walcott, who, as a child, was a trained violinist, and in his early teens went on to play with the Boston College Orchestra and the Boston Civic Symphony, winning national competitions. He was also one of the first black performers to appear on Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour, which you can watch below:
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- 7/27/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Take a bow, Finn, Quinn, Puck, Mercedes, Artie, Emma and the rest of you Glee characters. Hey, Troy, Gabriella Sharpay and Chad, break a leg in the next High School Musical. Thanks, Simon, Ryan and Simon, and keep up the good work. The casts and creators of these shows and modern-day Ted Mack talent scouts like Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller who encourage people to become the next American Idol are doing a great service for our public schools. In these days of tremendous cutbacks across the board, and certainly in the arts, the part of our business that licenses "Broadway musicals in a box" to elementary, middle and high schools has never had as many schools signing up to be in show business. Those newly-popular kids who sing and dance and perform (without a football or pom...
- 6/15/2010
- by Freddie Gershon
- Huffington Post
I love The Amazing Race, though reality shows reduce work for me and my entertainment colleagues. It's far more special than a recycled talent contest like American Idol (think Major Bowes, Ted Mack's Amateur Hour or Star Search) or a program like Survivor featuring repetitive stunts and ad nausea confabs as to whom will be backstabbed that week. That's why it's won the Reality Show Emmy six years in a row. It's a show I'd love to do with my pal, charismatic German TV Star Andreas Stenschke (take a look at him), whose personality would clash with mine. However, program rules exclude anyone without a U.S. Passport, a lame restriction since Europeans are permitted to travel to countries Americans are prohibited from entering. Andreas and I would've had great fun and provided the show with lots of...
- 5/11/2009
- by Michael Russnow
- Huffington Post
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