Dean Taylor was shy, leaned into unusual melodies and offbeat storylines, and was one of the few white performers on the Black-owned label. And despite lending his pen as co-writer on Motown hits and soaring to the top of the…
NEW YORK (AP) — Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “I’d Do…
Actress Carol Speed, known for her roles in films during the blaxploitation era in the ’70s, has died. According to her obituary, she died on January 14 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She was 76 years old. Speed was best known for her…
ET can confirm that Andre Leon Talley, a legendary fashion journalist who helped shape Vogue during his decades-long association with the magazine, died at age 73 on January 18, 2022. The news of the fashion icon’s death first broke on TMZ. Officials did not…
Alexa McDonough, whose leadership of the Nova Scotia NDP in 1980 made her the first woman to lead a major political party in Canada, has died at the age of 77. McDonough, who also became the leader of the federal…
Dallas Frazier was born in Spiro, Okla., on Oct. 27, 1939. At age 12, he was already writing songs. He also won a talent competition hosted by Ferlin Husky. By age 14, Frazier was recording for Capitol Records. In 1960,…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929. He led an American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He was the son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr.…
Bob Saget was born Robert Lane Saget on May 17, 1956, Born in Philadelphia. Saget attended Temple University’s film school, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1978. He’d pursue a career in comedy, touring around the country until…
Lani Guinier, the civil rights lawyer and scholar who got the nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division, was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died. She was 71.…
Sidney Poitier died on Friday at age 94. The Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis broke the sad news in a speech broadcast on Facebook Sidney Poitier was Born Sidney L. Poitier on February 20, 1927. He was a Bahamian-American actor, film director,…
ATLANTA (AP) — Dan Reeves’ talents off the field were recognized early on by Tom Landry. Reeves was still suiting up for the Dallas Cowboys when Landry made him a playing coach. He is dead at 77. At 37, Reeves…
Known as Betty White in the world of television, Betty Marion White Ludden was born on January 17, 1922, and died on December 31, 2021, one month shy of her 100th birthday on January 17, 2022. Betty was an American actress…
