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Beyonce admits Inauguration Day pre-recording

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Beyoncé sings the national anthem during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, in New Orleans. Beyoncé is scheduled to perform during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Beyonce answered critics of her Inauguration Day performance the best way she could — with another sterling performance of the national anthem.

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Bieber’s hot show melts down Apollo power

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Justin Bieber. AFP FILE PHOTO

Justin Bieber had an unplugged performance at the Apollo Theater, but it wasn’t intentional — a problem caused a power outage during the singing sensation’s big concert.

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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Grammy category cuts

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A lawsuit filed against the Recording Academy over its decision to trim the Grammy Award categories, eliminating such categories as Latin jazz, has been dismissed.

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Whitney Houston’s voice soars at hometown funeral

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FINAL RITES The coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried to a hearse after funeral services at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, N.J., Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Houston died last Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., at the age 48. AP Photo/Mel Evans

The best voices of a generation all paid tribute to her. But in the end, the most powerful voice at Whitney Houston’s funeral was her own.

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Beyonce pregnancy announcement overshadows VMAs

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Beyonce and Jay-Z’s spawn doesn’t even have a name yet, but it was the indisputable breakout star of Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.

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Gil Scott-Heron, a godfather of rap, dies in NYC

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In the Sept. 1984 file photo, musician Gil Scott-Heron poses. Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" but saw his brilliance undermined by a years-long drug addiction, died Friday, May, 27 at age 62. AP Photo, File

NEW YORK— Long before Public Enemy urged the need to “Fight the Power” or N.W.A. offered a crude rebuke of the police, Gil-Scott Heron was articulating the rage and the disillusionment of the black masses through song and spoken word. Scott-Heron, widely considered one of the godfathers of rap with his piercing social and political [...]

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Coalition battles Grammys over category cuts

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NEW YORK — A coalition of musicians is demanding the Recording Academy restore more than 30 categories cut from the Grammy Awards, alleging the reductions unfairly target ethnic music and were done without the input of its thousands of members. A protest was held Thursday in Beverly Hills, California, at an academy board meeting. A [...]

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