Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten, Jazz on Oct 23rd, 2010
Trading basketball for his bass full time after 12 years — including stints with the Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings — five-time NBA All-Star Wayman Tisdale became a notable player off the court.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Sep 15th, 2010
The copyrights for some of Bob Marley’s greatest recording have been awarded to a record company in a decision that defeated Rita Marley’s quest for millions of dollars in damages from recording interests.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Sep 9th, 2010
Gospel singer Marvin Sapp’s wife MaLinda Sapp. She just lost her battle with colon cancer after fighting her Stage 4 diagnosis. Here’s the statement from the family:
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 27th, 2010
Nine years after singers untimely Aug. 25 death in a plane crash in the Bahamas, Missy Elliott is still mourning the loss of her friend.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jul 30th, 2010
Friends and family gathered Friday to mourn the passing of Stephen Pitcairn — a 23-year-old Johns Hopkins researcher who was stabbed to death Sunday night as he was walking to his Charles Village apartment.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jul 30th, 2010
A body found in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, on Wednesday has been identified as that of former professional basketball player Lorenzen Wright, Memphis police said.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jul 28th, 2010
Al Goodman who sang baritone on such soul classics as “Love on a Two Way Street” and “Special Lady” died Monday, a fellow musician and friend told CNN. He was 63.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jul 20th, 2010
Vonetta McGee, an actress whose big-screen heyday during the blaxploitation era of the 1970s included leading roles in “Blacula” and “Shaft in Africa,” has died. She was 65.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jul 7th, 2010
Singer, songwriter and record producer Harvey Fuqua, an early mentor of Marvin Gaye, has died. Fuqua was 80.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 18th, 2010
Gary Coleman’s remains were cremated Thursday and his ashes will be locked away until a court decides who should get them, the special administrator of his estate said.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 17th, 2010
Garry Shider, the longtime musical director of Parliament-Funkadelic whose funky guitar work, songwriting skills and musical arrangements thrilled fans around the globe and earned him a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died. He was 56.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 16th, 2010
Gary Coleman’s funeral, if there is one, will wait for several months while a Utah judge decides who will permanently control of the former child actor’s estate, a lawyer said Wednesday.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 15th, 2010
Gary Coleman’s living will called for the actor to be kept alive unless he was in an irreversible coma for at least 15 days, according to a court document.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 9th, 2010
In the beginning, Motown’s mighty Temptations sounded like they came straight out of the church, and they did. But of all their line-up of singers, Ali “Ollie” Woodson took them back … literally.
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Jun 9th, 2010
Marvin Isley, the bass backbone of his sibling band The Isley Brothers, died Monday in Chicago at age 56.
