DJ Kid Capri pulled out of scheduled gigs in St. Louis, Missouri and Chicago over the weekend following the death of his mother on Friday (March 25). “I just watch my moms take her last breath, I am beyond hurt,’” he tweeted. “I will always always have you in my mind and heart, I love [...]

*Oscar winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died today at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She was 79-years-old. Taylor died “peacefully today in Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles,” said a statement from her publicist, Sally Morrison. She was hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, “a condition with which she had struggled for many years. Though [...]

*Soul singer Loleatta Holloway, whose voice powered the hook on Marky Mark’s “Good Vibrations,” died on Monday (March 21) following a brief illness due to heart failure, according to her manager, Ron Richardson. She was 64. Holloway began singing in a gospel group in her native Chicago, Illinois in the 1960s before signing a recording deal [...]

*Current “American Idol” contestant Jacob Lusk is taking the death of Nate Dogg particularly hard. The singer – who became a favorite of “Idol” fans for his dramatic, Luther-like vocal performances – in 2007 auditioned for and won membership in LA gospel group InNate Praise, which was formed by Nate himself. According to sources for [...]

*Nate Dogg, the California rapper whose real name is Nathaniel D. Hale, died at the age of 41 on Tuesday (Mar. 15). The news was first reported by Long Beach, Calif. newspaper the Press-Telegram, which did not specify the cause of death; TMZ has since confirmed the report. Nate had suffered from a number of [...]