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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 02, 2007 - 9:46 am
PS HERE is the Youtube link since the Zshare link above took forever for me to load Super job by Fantasia - she brought tears to my eyes - especially at the end
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 2:29 pm
FANTASIA IN TALKS FOR ANOTHER BROADWAY SHOW: Singer eyes musical about African-American expatriate in Paris. (July 11, 2007) “The Color Purple” star Fantasia Barrino is looking to build upon her breakout success on Broadway with a lead role in another African American-themed musical currently in the works, reports New York Daily News columnists Rush & Malloy. The “American Idol” champ is reportedly in talks to play Ada (Bricktop) Smith, an African-American expatriate in 1920s Paris who became a nightlife superstar. “Bricktop's is a great story. She rose from humble beginnings in Alderson, W. Va., to become the toast of Paris in the Roaring '20s, where she was first employed overseas by Cole Porter to teach dances such as the Charleston at his parties,” notes Rush & Malloy. “By 1929, she owned her own nightclubs such as The Music Box, Le Grand Duc and her famous Chez Bricktop, where she entertained Porter, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Bricktop was reportedly the inspiration behind Porter’s tune "Miss Otis Regrets." She even worked with Josephine Baker and Mabel Mercer.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 2:36 pm
If she does it, I hope she only agrees to do it if she can get the film role. Personally, I've been saying for years she should do a film version of Dinah Washington's life cuz she looks and sounds astonishingly like Dinah...and Dinah had a life that would make Billie Holiday blush. >>You Tube: link That said, I heard she extended her contract with The Color Purple through the end of the year. Oh and she's on Good Morning America tomorrow morning in the 8.30 half hour!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 7:06 pm
ooh, what time zone?
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, July 13, 2007 - 12:23 pm
Sorry Ladyt, I didn't see this until right now--been away from the computer--and it didn't occur to me that the show aired anything except 7-9 across the country! Anyhow, here are some pics and I'll post youtube links when they are available:

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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Saturday, July 14, 2007 - 5:40 am
I must say, Miss Fantasia looks lovely I like her with a few extra lbs
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, July 14, 2007 - 10:43 am
She looks very retro in that outfit. I like it.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 16, 2007 - 11:02 am
Here's an audience perspective of Fantasia singing I'm Here on GMA. Love the audience reaction when she says "I'm beautiful" at 3.14. Better Versions, prolly: I'm Here When I See U
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 3:30 pm
The lead off single from Aretha Franklin's new CD--a duet with Fantasia: link.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 5:20 pm
oh snap ... have been listening to it over and over, I love it. they sound so good together.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, December 08, 2007 - 12:04 am
Six American Idol stars, including three winners, receive Grammy nominations Seven American Idol alumni received Grammy nominations, including three for each fourth season winner Carrie Underwood and fifth season standout Chris Daughtry’s band. The others who received nominations are Fantasia Barrino, Kelly Clarkson, Mandisa Hundley, Jennifer Hudson, and Ace Young. Daughtry’s three nominations include Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song (for “It’s Over You,” co-written by Ace Young), and Best Pop Performance (for “Home”), according to Reality TV World’s breakdown of the 100+ Grammy nominations. Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats” was nominated as Song of the Year and Best Country Song, while her Brad Paisley duet “Oh Love” was nominated for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. In that category, “Underwood and Paisley will be pitted against Clarkson and her best bud Reba McEntire in the Best Country Collaboration with Vocals category, in which they were nominated for their duet ‘Because of You,’” Reality TV World says. Rounding out the awards, Fantasia’s second album was nominated Best Contemporary R&B Album, while “Hudson received a Grammy nomination in the Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media category for the Dreamgirls’ song ‘Love You I Do.’” And Mandisa received a nomination for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album category.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, December 08, 2007 - 7:07 am
Yay!
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 4:02 pm
Fantasia slays Jennifer Hudson at 'An Evening of Stars' link To whom did Patti LaBelle pass the mic while singing "A Change Is Gonna Come" during the finale at Saturday's "An Evening of Stars" at the Kodak Theatre, the annual benefit for the United Negro College Fund, which honored the down-home diva this year? The stage was crowded with LaBelle's spiritual daughters, from Jennifer Hudson to Yolanda Adams, LeToya Luckett to Chrisette Michele, but who did Mama think could match her glorious high notes? Who did the night's producers task with LaBelle's most famous song, the definitive funk-rock jam "Lady Marmalade"? And who returned later in the long program (taped live for television, with all the gaffes and replays that process requires) to bring tears to LaBelle's eyes with a spirit-touched take on the Bunny Sigler-penned ballad "Somebody Loves You Baby (You Know Who It Is)" -- earning standing ovations for both?
Fantasia Barrino, that's who. When Fantasia throws down at a multi-artist extravaganza, she nearly always steals the show. She had some stiff competition Saturday. Hudson took the silver in the night's rafter-shaking contest, with a dramatic and earthy rendition of that "American Idol" fave "Over the Rainbow," but was stiff opening the show with "Stir It Up," and then refused the microphone as the night's stars reprised "Lady Marmalade" at evening's end. Did the young movie star not know the words, beyond "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" Fantasia's probably got them tattooed on some hidden part of her body. But then, she'd already proved that if Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash (who also slayed, performing "Somebody Somewhere" from the great album "Nightbirds") need a fill-in for Patti on the upcoming LaBelle reunion tour, they need look no further than the woman introduced that evening as "our American Idol." The declaration that Fantasia was so hotly embraced by this event's glittery audience -- a gathering of the African American elite -- was telling, especially when considering whether she might, in fact, become the next Patti LaBelle. LaBelle has had many crossover hits, even dueting with 1980s blue-eyed soul king Michael McDonald. But unlike her peers Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross, she's remained more an icon of black America than a symbol of the 1960s counterculture or 1970s disco glamour. Her gospel-true performances are some of the most intense in pop, yet in some ways she remains a treasured semi-secret, a black icon who deserves to be acknowledged by all. [...]
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:51 pm
Yay!! Did I miss this? I love me some Ms. Patti and Tasia.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:57 pm
No, I think it is going to air in November. If you haven't yet, read the whole article, though. It's interesting in that it suggests why Tasia, like Patti, might never become a huge mainstream artist, and that Tasia is the successor to the great R&B divas of the past.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 7:06 pm
Sorry, I just checked and it will air January 24 and 25 in syndication. I'll try to remember to post a reminder here.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 7:10 pm
It was an interesting article. And if you read some of the comments here when Patti was doing that choir show, then it wouldn't surprise you. They have the kind of voices that aren't universally loved or understood. But they move me, that's for sure.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 6:33 am
Dang why wait so long to show this. Their voices move me too.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, October 17, 2008 - 7:47 pm
Audio only, but nonetheless.... The wonderful Fantasia singing Somebody Loves You and Lady Marmalade at the Patti LaBelle tribute.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, October 17, 2008 - 8:05 pm
And here is Fantasia and Jennifer H on JHud's new CD, --->>> I'm His Only Woman
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, October 17, 2008 - 9:12 pm
Ohhh, thanks for posting those, Tish
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 10:27 am
Tasia and her Mama BLOWING some gospel music: He's Done Enough and Total Praise This is really the best Fantasia has looked in a while. Maybe now that she's broken up with Young Dro... Anyhow, she sounds great, but if you aren't interested in Fantasia's gospel leanings, this is not the singing for you.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 10:30 am
Oh I'll have to check that out from home. Thx Tish!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Oh Tish, I"m sitting here with tears running down my face. They sound awesome. Thanks for posting those links!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, November 28, 2008 - 7:17 pm
Whew they were blowin!
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