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Reggae Icon Bunny Wailer - Founding Member of the Wailers


Reggae Icon Bunny Wailer - Founding Member of the Wailers - Has Died at 73
Wailer s manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed his death
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Bunny Wailer, a founding member of the Wailers and a reggae music giant whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 73.
Wailer’s manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed that Wailer died on Tuesday at the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica (via the Jamaica Observer). No cause of death was given, but Wailer had been in and out of the hospital since suffering his second stroke, in 2020. A representative for the musician did not immediately respond to ....

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Lady Sings the Blues Again: The Story Behind 'The United States vs. Billie Holiday'


Lady Sings the Blues Again: The Story Behind The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Lady Sings the Blues Again: The Story Behind The United States vs. Billie Holiday
How Lee Daniels new movie (starring Andra Day) retells the singer s story for the BLM era - and brings Billie back to life 
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Director Lee Daniels was in the midst of wrapping up his latest movie
The United States vs. Billie Holiday, which tells the story of the late, troubled jazz singer and how “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching protest song she introduced to the world, brought her both triumph and troubles when he noticed an unsettling parallel. He suddenly got a firsthand look at just how timely his new film project was. “We were in the middle of editing and that [George Floyd’s death] happened,” he recalls. “People were sending me [protest] videos of people singing ‘Strange Fruit’ in the middle of the street. It was cr ....

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