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One Liners: Rudy Perez, E-Positive, Killer Mike + more

Rudy Perez, Katherine Priddy and E-Positive deals; Warner hires another ex-YouTube exec; new music from Killer Mike, Lauren Mayberry, Bombay Bicycle Club, Blossoms, Griff, El Perro Del Mar, and Bar Italia; Barry Manilow and Lola Young live shows…

Andy Malt & Chris Cooke • 11 Oct 2023

Gigs & Festivals

iTunes Festival returns to the capital

The iTunes Festival returns to London this July with sixty free gigs at Koko in Camden, moving from the ICA, with James Blunt, N.E.R.D., Pendulum and Chaka Khan confirmed.…

CMU Editorial • 03 Jun 2008

Artist News • 1 min read

Etta James stable after surgery complications

Etta James is in a stable condition at Cedars-Sinai hospital after surgery complications, her tour dates are postponed to August and Chaka Khan will fill in.…

CMU Editorial • 27 Jul 2007

Awards

Etta James to receive Billboard's 2006 R&B Founders Award

Etta James will receive Billboard's 2006 R&B Founders Award at the publication's R&B/Hip-Hop Conference And Awards in September.…

CMU Editorial • 05 Jun 2006

Media

Bacardi launch B-Live global with ICA night

Bacardi B-Live will hold an invite-only global launch event at London's ICA on 31 May, featuring Roy Ayers, Chaka Khan and Dimitri From Paris.…

CMU Editorial • 16 May 2006

Business News • 1 min read

SonyBMG launch label to boost classic artists

SonyBMG in the US is launching Burgundy Records to work with established artists, with Chaka Khan and Aaron Neville as first signings, overseen by Joe DiMuro.…

CMU Editorial • 20 Jan 2006

Music industry legal news coverage • 1 min read

Madonna faces royalty claim over Confessions track

Songwriter Dominic King claims Madonna's Get Together uses a riff from Chaka Khan's Fate, which he and Frank Musker used on Music Sounds Better With You.…

CMU Editorial • 29 Nov 2005

Music industry legal news coverage

Chaka Khan's son to go on trial for shooting

Damien Holland, son of Chaka Khan, is to stand trial over the shooting of seventeen-year-old Christopher Baily in September 2004, having pleaded not guilty.…

CMU Editorial • 14 Sep 2005

Awards • 1 min read

Brits tonight - hurrah

Chris Evans presents the Brits, with performances from Scissor Sisters, The Streets and Franz Ferdinand, and Bob Geldof receiving an award for an Outstanding Contribution To Music.…

CMU Editorial • 09 Feb 2005

Gigs & Festivals

Latifah to front VH1 Divas show

Queen Latifah will host VH1's sixth annual Divas concert from Las Vegas on 22 May, with Mary J Blige, Chaka Khan and Jewel also performing.…

CMU Editorial • 09 Apr 2003

Releases • 1 min read

Stars line up for Hendrix tribute

A Jimi Hendrix tribute album, assembled by his half-sister Janie Hendrix, will feature covers by Prince, Jeff Beck, Santana and others later this year.…

CMU Editorial • 19 Mar 2003

Stevie Wonder

Artists perform to raise money for Artists Empowerment Coalition

Artists including Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack and DMX performed in New York to benefit the newly formed Artists Empowerment Coalition, which campaigns for better artist-company relationships.…

CMU Editorial • 30 Oct 2002