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Breakdancing pioneer Adolfo Shabba-Doo Quiñones dead at 65
Raymond Boyd/Getty ImagesThe hip-hop and dance communities are mourning the death of dancer Adolfo Quiñ…
Reggae pioneer Toots Hibbert of Toots & the Maytals, credited with coining the term reggae, dead at 77
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Reggae icon Toots Hibbert who with his band Toots & the Maytals helped to popularize regg…
Rap Pioneer Kurtis Blow on Blackface Controversy
Rap icon Kurtis Blow has chimed in on the ongoing ‘blackface’ controversy, most recently, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring’s admission that in the 1980, as a 19-year old college student, he chose to honor the rap legend by wearing blackface. Herring says it was for a party where fellow students dressed as artists they liked. He… Read more »
Rock and roll pioneer Fats Domino, dead at 89
Clive Limpkin/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesFats Domino whose piano-driven R&B hits more than 60 years a…
Rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry, dead at 90
Yuri Martianov/Kommersant via Getty ImagesRock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry is dead at age 90 according to St. Charles …