This year's show, airing at 9 p.m. Et/Pt Monday on VH1, will feature Florence Welch and a tribute to Amy Winehouse.
By Jocelyn Vena
Katy Perry
Photo: Getty Images
Sunday night (December 18), some of the music industry's most-soulful divas will be taking the stage for the latest installment of "VH1 Divas." For some, like Kelly Clarkson, it's a return engagement, but for others, like Florence and the Machine leading lady Florence Welch, it's the chance to display diva-like prowess for the first time.
Since the show kicked off in 1998, it's had a long history of getting some of the biggest female performers in the world on the same stage belting out some of pop's best tunes. That first show gathered Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey, quickly becoming a pop-culture milestone. It even prompted the ladies of "Saturday Night Live" to poke fun at...
By Jocelyn Vena
Katy Perry
Photo: Getty Images
Sunday night (December 18), some of the music industry's most-soulful divas will be taking the stage for the latest installment of "VH1 Divas." For some, like Kelly Clarkson, it's a return engagement, but for others, like Florence and the Machine leading lady Florence Welch, it's the chance to display diva-like prowess for the first time.
Since the show kicked off in 1998, it's had a long history of getting some of the biggest female performers in the world on the same stage belting out some of pop's best tunes. That first show gathered Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey, quickly becoming a pop-culture milestone. It even prompted the ladies of "Saturday Night Live" to poke fun at...
- 12/18/2011
- MTV Music News
HollywoodNews.com: VH1 Divas – benefiting the Save The Music Foundation – has announced additional performers to join this year’s tribute to soul music.
Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Boyz II Men, Estelle, Marsha Ambrosius and Travie McCoy will join VH1’s “divas” in paying homage to these cities and soul music’s timeless classics at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul premieres Monday, December 19 at 9 Pm/8c on VH1.
“We are so excited to feature these diverse and multi-talented women and men joining our ‘Divas’ roster this year to showcase the global impact of soul music and how influential and inspirational the music is to today’s chart-topping artists,” said Lee Rolontz, Evp, Original Music Production & Development, VH1 and VH1 Classic. “Celebrating the soul music borne out of some of the world’s greatest cities being performed by today’s top artists with...
Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Boyz II Men, Estelle, Marsha Ambrosius and Travie McCoy will join VH1’s “divas” in paying homage to these cities and soul music’s timeless classics at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul premieres Monday, December 19 at 9 Pm/8c on VH1.
“We are so excited to feature these diverse and multi-talented women and men joining our ‘Divas’ roster this year to showcase the global impact of soul music and how influential and inspirational the music is to today’s chart-topping artists,” said Lee Rolontz, Evp, Original Music Production & Development, VH1 and VH1 Classic. “Celebrating the soul music borne out of some of the world’s greatest cities being performed by today’s top artists with...
- 11/22/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Just as predicted, the season premiere of the elite dancing show brought some amazing dancing and drama, drama, drama!
The April 10 series premiere of The Dance Scene opens with Laurieann Gibson, choreographer to the stars, casting dancers to perform on VH1 Divas Salute The Troops, featuring Katy Perry, Keri Hilson and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland. Laurieann is cutthroat when it comes to casting dancers in such an important performance.
Sarah, Laurieann’s own assistant choreographer, didn’t even make the cut! But that’s not the only bad news Sarah received on tonight’s episode. While at lunch with her boyfriend Paul, he tells Sarah he has to go over seas for dancing gigs and wants to take a break. Sarah was destitute, saying, “I’m let down. I had faith in him that we would both try really hard to make it work — how can you just give up like that,...
The April 10 series premiere of The Dance Scene opens with Laurieann Gibson, choreographer to the stars, casting dancers to perform on VH1 Divas Salute The Troops, featuring Katy Perry, Keri Hilson and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland. Laurieann is cutthroat when it comes to casting dancers in such an important performance.
Sarah, Laurieann’s own assistant choreographer, didn’t even make the cut! But that’s not the only bad news Sarah received on tonight’s episode. While at lunch with her boyfriend Paul, he tells Sarah he has to go over seas for dancing gigs and wants to take a break. Sarah was destitute, saying, “I’m let down. I had faith in him that we would both try really hard to make it work — how can you just give up like that,...
- 4/11/2011
- by William Earl
- HollywoodLife
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