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Willie Taylor
William Madison Taylor III (born March 29, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as a contestant from MTV's ''Making the Band 4'', where he was chosen by Diddy to be a member and one of the main vocalists of the band Day26 on August 26, 2007. Early life Taylor was a member of the Chicago-based group Kwiet Storm. Their music video, "Leave Me Alone", appeared on BET's ''Midnight Love'', ''Cita's World'', ''Hits from the Street'', and as a New Joint of the Day on ''106 & Park''. After ten years with Kwiet Storm, Taylor left to start a solo career. Taylor has worked with well-known artists such as Avant (with whom he co-wrote two songs on ''Director'': "So Many Ways" and "With You"), Ginuwine, Jagged Edge, and Joe. Career ''Making the Band 4'' and ''Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood'' After leaving "Kwiet Storm" Taylor began a solo career, putting his first album on hold to audition for ''Making The Band 4''. The second season of ''Making The Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Tribune
The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television are named), it remains the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region. It had the sixth-highest circulation for American newspapers in 2017. In the 1850s, under Joseph Medill, the ''Chicago Tribune'' became closely associated with the Illinois politician Abraham Lincoln, and the Republican Party's progressive wing. In the 20th century under Medill's grandson, Robert R. McCormick, it achieved a reputation as a crusading paper with a decidedly more American-conservative anti-New Deal outlook, and its writing reached other markets through family and corporate relationships at the ''New York Daily News'' and the ''Washington Times-Herald.'' The 1960s saw its corporate parent owner, Tribune Company, rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marriage Boot Camp
''Marriage Boot Camp'' (also known as ''Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas'', ''Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars'' and ''Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition'') is an American reality television series which debuted on May 31, 2013, on WE tv. It is a spin-off of '' Bridezillas'' and is based on the ''Marriage Boot Camp'' non-profit seminar created by Jim Carroll in 1994. It was announced on August 1, 2013, that the series had been renewed for a ten-episode second season. Production began in late 2013. Season 2 dropped ''Bridezillas'' from the title, and premiered on March 7, 2014. The fifteenth season of the series (the third season of ''Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition'') premiered on October 11, 2019. On January 8, 2020, it was announced that the sixteenth season of the series (the eleventh season of ''Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Hip Hop Edition'') would premiere on February 6, 2020. On May 20, 2020, it was announced that the seventeenth season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacrifice (TV Series)
''Sacrifice'' is an American thriller television series that premiered on BET+ as a pilot movie on December 19, 2019, followed by the official series premiere on November 4, 2021. Plot Protagonist Daniella Hernandez (an entertainment lawyer) navigates through the lives of her rich and scandalous Hollywood clients. Along the journey, she also make discoveries about her own past. Cast and characters Main *Paula Patton as Daniella Hernandez *Juan Antonio as Dominiq Mayfield aka Big Dom * V. Bozeman as Tamika Bland *Altonio Jackson as Steven Somwon *Nelson Bonilla as Miguel Costas *Erica Ash as Beverly Rucker *Marques Houston as Jason Pratt Recurring *Liliana Montenegro as Gabriella Hernandez *Josué Gutierrez as Oscar Baptiste *Frankie Smith as Chauncey Winchester *GG Townson as Jameson Howard *Tedrick Martin as Jameson’s Bodyguard *Ashlei Lewis as Jameson’s MUA and best friend *Clifton Powell as Sylvester *Lamman Rucker as Jazzico *Richard Roundtree as Ellis Shaw *Vanessa Bell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas". Many of the largest hotel, casino, and resort properties in the world are on the Strip, known for its contemporary architecture, lights, and wide variety of attractions. Its hotels, casinos, restaurants, residential high-rises, entertainment offerings, and skyline have established the Strip as one of the most popular and iconic tourist destinations in the world and is one of the driving forces for Las Vegas's economy. Most of the Strip has been designated as an All-American Road, and the North and South Las Vegas Strip routes are classified as Nevada Scenic Byways and National Scenic Byways. Boundaries Historically, casinos that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Making The Band
''Making the Band'' is an ABC/MTV reality television series that exists in separate iterations, each focusing on a specific music act. It spawned musical acts O-Town, Da Band, Danity Kane, Day26, and Donnie Klang. Except for the first iteration of the series featuring O-Town, all seasons of ''Making the Band'' have been overseen by Diddy, acting as the man of the house who makes the final decision on who will be in the band. MTV announced on July 15, 2019, that the series was revived and would premiere in 2020, which was then postponed to 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. However, this never materialized. ''Making the Band'' The first iteration of ''Making the Band'' started on March 24, 2000, and aired for three seasons, finishing on March 30, 2002. It centered around the musical group O-Town. The first season aired on ABC. ''Making the Band'' was the last new series, and the only series that was not a sitcom, to air during the original run of the TGIF block. The bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy (also couples' counseling, marriage counseling, or marriage therapy) attempts to improve romantic relationships and resolve interpersonal conflicts. History Marriage counseling originated in Germany in the 1920s as part of the eugenics movement.Wendy Kline, ''Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the century.''Abraham Stone, ''Marriage Education and Marriage Counseling in the United States.'' The first institutes for marriage counseling in the United States began in the 1930s, partly in response to Germany's medically directed, racial purification marriage counseling centers. It was promoted by prominent American eugenicists such as Paul Popenoe, who directed the American Institute of Family Relations until 1976,Jill Lepore, ''The rise of marriage therapy, and other dreams of human betterment.'', The New Yorker, 29 March 29, 2010. Robert Latou Dickinson, and by birth control advocates such as Abraham and Hannah Stone who wrote ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syleena Johnson
Syleena Johnson ( Thompson; September 2, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter from Chicago, Illinois. Personal life Johnson is the daughter of 1960s rhythm and blues, R&B Hi Records singer Syl Johnson and Brenda Thompson, who was the first black female police commissioner of Harvey, Illinois. Syleena has two older sisters; Syleecia and Sylette. In August 2000, Johnson married former Illinois State University college basketball player Marcus Betts. Betts graduated in December 2000 and became her manager for her first two albums. On July 1, 2007, she married Kiwane Garris. Garris, a fellow Chicagoan, is a worldwide journeyman basketball player, having played for various NBA and EuroLeague teams. On August 1, 2007, after forty-eight hours of labor, their son Kiwane Garris Jr. was born. On February 6, 2011, she gave birth to their second son Kingston. Johnson is a member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority. Music career ''Chapter 2: The Voice'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prodigy (rapper)
Albert Johnson (November 2, 1974 – June 20, 2017), better known by his stage name Prodigy, was an American rapper. With Havoc, he was one half of the hip hop duo Mobb Deep. Early life Prodigy was born on November 2, 1974, in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island. He was raised in LeFrak City, in Queens. He had one elder brother, Greg Johnson. He came from a musical family. His grandfather Budd Johnson was a saxophonist who was inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1993. His grand-uncle, Keg Johnson, was a trombonist. Both of them are remembered for their contributions to the bebop era of jazz. His mother, Fatima Frances (Collins) Johnson,Blisteen, JonMobb Deep Rapper Prodigy Dead at 42 ''Rolling Stone''. June 20, 2017. was a member of The Crystals. His father, Budd Johnson Jr., was a member of a doo-wop music group called The Chanters. His great-great-great-grandfather, William Jefferson White, founded Georgia's Morehouse College. While attending the High S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextape (mixtape) ''
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Sex tape is a video recording of a sex act, usually referring to a type of amateur pornography Sex tape or Sex Tape may also refer to: Film * ''Sex Tape'' (film), 2014 American comedy film * ''Sextape'' (2018 film), 2018 French film * ''Sx Tape'', 2013 found footage horror film Music * ''The S(ex) Tapes'', 2020 EP by Fletcher * "Sextape", a song by Deftones from their album ''Diamond Eyes ''Diamond Eyes'' is the sixth studio album by American alternative metal band Deftones, released on May 4, 2010, by Reprise Records. It was the first album to feature bassist Sergio Vega, who replaced original bassist Chi Cheng. An album tenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many of its studios such as Columbia Pictures, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures were founded there; Paramount still has its studios there. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910 and soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the ''Los Angeles Times'', and Ivar Weid, a prominent businessman in the area. Daeida Wilcox, who donated land to help in the development of Hollywood, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forever In A Day
''Forever in a Day'' is the second studio album by American R&B group Day26, released on April 14, 2009. Background This album was recorded while the band was filming their popular reality show, ''Making The Band 4, Season 3''. During the process of recording the album, Qwanell "Que" Mosley, had frequent arguments and disagreements with the other members of the group, leading the public to think he was "crazy", and even "bipolar". However the group worked out their issues and recorded their sophomore effort. Que of the group stated in a Twitter message that they are shooting the video for "Perfectly Blind". Will of the group also stated in a video message that they were on the set of the video for "So Good" on June 2. On June 24, the Truth Is A Lie video premiered. On the same day the Girlfriend video premiered. The album debuted at number two on the US ''Billboard'' 200, selling 113,000 copies in its first-week of release, becoming the group's second top five album on the char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
