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The Story of Jermaine Jackson

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The Story of Jermaine Jackson  Jermaine LaJuane Jackson was born on December 11, 1954 in Gary, Indiana. He was the fourth child amongst with siblings Maureen (Rebbie), Sigmond, Toriano (Tito), Latoya, Marlon, Michael, Steven Randall (Randy) and Janet. His father Joseph was a steel-mill crane operator, and his mother Katherine worked for Sears but spent most of her time being a stay-at-home mother. At an early age, the family got interested in music with the boys playing with Joseph’s guitar (against his will). But one day, Joe discovered one of the strings being broke and disciplined Tito. After Joseph fixed the string, he ordered Tito to play in front of him. Jermaine and Jackie accompanied him with the vocals. The next day, Joseph bought Tito his own guitar and formed the Jackson brothers. Overtime, younger brothers Marlon and Michael joined as well. To balance the group sound, Joseph bought Jermaine a bass guitar. Jermaine was the original lead singer of the group, but once Mi...
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Mariah Carey: Mariah Carey Album Review (1990)

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  Welcome back everyone, today we going to officially start the Mariah Carey album review cycle. Actually, I already started with her fourth album Merry Christmas and reviewed it first because it was the holiday season at the time. Now that the holiday season is long over, I want go through Mariah’s catalog to once again show everyone that there is so much more to Mariah than the overrated, overplayed Holiday tune that is one of my least favorite songs in general. Okay, enough of the chit-chat, let’s start off with Mariah’s high selling debut album. Mariah Carey Album Review (1990) 1.        Vision Of Love: We are starting off with a very familiar song. It’s a flex on Mariah Carey’s vocal abilities. You can feel the emotion she has in her debut single. The content has a sense of perseverance. Having to go through alienation saying she had to do most of this on her own. But was able to overcome all of this to achieve her dream. The song feels fulfilli...
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Carmen Jones Movie Recap (1954)

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  In 1954, Carmen Jones was released to theaters. This was an adaptation of the Broadway play that came out eleven years earlier. This featured Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge. Surprisingly, this film was well received and for Dandridge she became the first African American woman to be nominated for Best Actress in a Leading role at the Oscars. What’s funny Halle Berry portrayed her in a film about her life and Halle would become the first (and so far only) African American Actress to win the award. Outside of that, Carmen Jones is deemed a significant film in history (in general). It would later be inducted in the Library of Congress and today for Black History Month, we are going to take a look at this important piece of Hollywood. Carmen Jones Movie Recap The film begins with Cindy Lou wanting to pay a visit to Corporal Joe at a parachute factory in WWII. Cindy Lou (Olga James) is trying to get in the base but is unable to. Let me just say, is it kind of odd that a gro...
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The Tragedy of the LFO (Lyte Funky Ones)

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  The Tragedy of the Lyte Funky Ones (LFO) Our story begins with Rich Cronin. He was born on August 30, 1974 (Virgo club) in Roxbury, MA. After high school, he attended Bridgewater State College and held a part-time job at Blockbuster. During this time, he met Brad Fischetti & Brian Gillis. They formed a group and called themselves the Lyte Funky Ones and was signed to the German label BMG. They recorded a few songs one of them being Step by Step (cover from NKOTB) but never generate major European buzz. Frustrated with this member Brian Gillis left the group to go solo. After this, the remaining members went home. The needed to hit the reset button. First, they got discovered by manager and later hated figure in music Lou Pearlman. He already created major boybands BSB & NSYNC and was wanting more. But the Funky Ones needed to find another member. That’s when Harold Devin Lima enter the frame as he was a good singer. They entered Lou’s bootcamp in practicing choreograp...
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Set It Off Movie Recap (1996)

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  Francesca Sutton (aka Frankie) (Vivica A Fox) has been one of the bank’s best workers. That was until a guy named Darnell (William Calhoun or WC) decided it would be a good idea to rob the bank. After Frankie refuses to comply, he proceeds to blow the brains of one of the customers, just imagine you going to the bank to make a deposit next thing you know you take a bullet to the brain scary to think about. After the robbery, a visibly shaken Frankie is interrogated by Detective Stroude and Waller (John C McGinley & Ella Joyce). Then the owner of the bank tells Frankie that she failed to comply with the procedure, which was silent alarm on the left, money on the right. Since Frankie recognized Darnell, they fire her. The Detective believes she was involved with the robbery. Was she, stay tuned to find out. Set it Off Movie Recap The movie shows Stony (Jada Pinkett) throwing a 1970s graduation party for her brother Stevie (Chaz Lamar Sheppard). We also meet Tisean (aka TT) ...
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