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Exhibit celebrates beloved jazz vocalist, daughter of Baltimore

Known for her philosophy of 'soft power,' Ethel Ennis said she was proud to have bloomed where she was planted, in her hometown of Baltimore

Efoiling lets riders fly on top of the water in southern Maine

Diddy - Dirty Money : Last Train to Paris

Open share drawer Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit Sean “Diddy” Combs’ 2010 side project: a dark and stormy concept album about one man’s transit through love. The act of adopting a new nickname has become an astrological event for the artist-producer born Sean Combs. He got the name Puffy from a childhood friend who said a young Combs would huff and puff when he was mad; of course, this was before the Puff Daddy moniker became synonymous with happy new-money raps and wealth. Then came his first major rebrand: In 2001, he changed his alias to P. Diddy fresh after a breakup with Jennifer Lopez and a very public trial where he was acquitted on gun charges. Four years later, he was just Diddy, having dropped the “P” because, as he said, it was getting between him and his fans.

Diddy Respected T-Pain So Much He Asked For Permission To Use Auto-Tune — & Then Paid Him For It

T-Pain has long been considered one of the innovators of bringing Auto-Tune to the mainstream in the late 2000s, leading rappers like Kanye West and Lil Wayne to use it prominently in their music. According to Diddy’s engineer Matt Testa, the Hip Hop mogul saw T-Pain as the architect of the movement and even asked for his permission to use Auto-Tune. After receiving the green light, T-Pain ended up getting royalties without contributing anything other than his influence. In a new interview with Revolt, Testa told the story and explained how the sound at that time shaped Diddy-Dirty Money’s

Conservatory may have to change name over slave history – Slipped Disc

norman lebrecht December 10, 2020 America’s oldest consevatory, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is wrestling with historic issues of slave ownership. Intensive research has just revealed – shock – that Hopkins was a slave owner. Now they’re looking into George Peabody. George Washington owned slaves all his life but no-one has yet got around to renaming the capital. Universities, though, are in the frontline of rewriting history. Here’s a note from the Peabody dean, Fred Bronstein: To Members of the Peabody Community: I am writing to follow up on the message from President Ron Daniels and JHU Medicine leadership sent today. As we now know, recently discovered documents reveal that Johns Hopkins owned and kept enslaved people in his household, at least up through 1850, according to census documents uncovered by university researchers. This very disturbing discovery places the assumed and oft repeated history of Johns Hopkins as an a