Having achieved major success on the stage and screen as a singer and as an actress, Beyonce, who starred in ‘Dreamgirls’, will be singing again on the big screen for her next big role. While speaking to Cedric the Entertainer on his latest film, ‘Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins’, he mentioned to blackfilm.com that Beyonce has been cast to play famed singer Etta James on his next film, ‘Cadillac Records’.

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Plans for the Grammys’ blowout 50th-anniversary show are back in full swing, now that the striking writers have agreed not to picket the Feb. 10 broadcast.

We can tell you some of what those plans are.

According to a well-placed source, the big “surprise” number will be a duet by BeyoncĂ© and Tina Turner, who has only rarely performed since 2000.

(I suppose the dance floor will be filling in for Ike Turner’s grave.)
A Grammys rep told us: “We haven’t released any presenters or performers, and until we do, nothing is confirmed.”

The Writers Guild has yet to grant the Grammys a formal waiver, although Recording Academy President Neil Portnow is on record as saying the ceremony would proceed as planned.

Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Melissa Etheridge, five-time GRAMMY Award winner Faith Hill and nine-time GRAMMY Award winner Alicia Keys will host “My Night At The GRAMMYs”, a new entertainment special celebrating the upcoming 50th GRAMMY Awards with the Top 25 favorite GRAMMY moments, as voted on by viewers. The two-hour special also will feature the stories behind the moments as told by the artists themselves, and will be broadcast Friday, Nov. 30, 8–10 p.m. ET/PT on the CBS Television Network.

Christina Aguilera, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, BeyoncĂ©, Mary J. Blige, Bono, Elvis Costello, Celine Dion, Alan Jackson, Elton John, Ricky Martin and Usher will join hosts Etheridge, Hill and Keys in remembering their own remarkable moments as performers and winners on past GRAMMY telecasts.

Beyoncé Knowles is at the top of the music world, setting records, winning awards, and starring in sold-out concerts all over the world. She has also established herself as a beauty and fashion icon, dazzling her cadres of fans everywhere she goes.

Although Beyoncé is her own person, her current mega-success reminds industry veterans of a similar triumph enjoyed in the ’70s by Diana Ross.

Remarkable

The similarities in their career arcs are remarkable: Diana began her singing career with a group, the Supremes, while Beyoncé did the same with Destiny’s Child.

After some years, Diana went solo and attained immense success. Beyoncé is currently doing the same thing. The latest feather in her cap is the American Music Awards’ International Artist Award of Excellence.

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Surrounded by his friends and family, Kanye West arrived at the True Vine Ministry church on Tuesday, to lay his mother to rest.

Early Tuesday morning, flowers poured inside the church, which can accommodate up to 2,500 people.

It was a solemn day as a white hearse, carrying the body of Dr. Donda West arrived and her coffin was carried inside.

Inside the private service, John Legend and Anita Baker reportedly performed. Other stars also came out to lend Kanye their support including Beyonce and Jay-Z.

After the service, two horse drawn carriages transported her body to the cemetery.

The evening before, Kanye took to the stage in Brussels, Belgium, paying tribute to his mother. He spoke out about continuing to tour in her memory.

Movies Rock, a Conde Nast Media Group production, premiering live at the Kodak Theater, in Los Angeles, featuring today’s top music and film talent, on Dec. 2, 2007. It will be a two-hour broadcast special Friday, Dec. 7 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

The performers’ lineup include: BeyoncĂ©, Carrie Underwood, Sir Elton John, Fergie, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Lopez, John Legend, John Williams, Marc Anthony, Mary J. Blige, Nelly and more to come…

Movies Rock magazine, a tribute to music and the indelible impact it has on filmmaking, debuts as a supplement that will accompany subscriber issues of 14 Condé Nast December titles beginning November 1. Edited by writer/producer Mitch Glazer (Great Expectations, Lost in Translation), with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter serving as editorial director, the magazine showcases the stars, directors, and musicians who create the movies we love, and the music we can’t forget.

Thanks Lindsey for sending us this information!

Beyoncé is planning to switch musical direction on her third solo album.

The singer is reportedly prepared to ditch her usual heavy R’n'B for a more dancefloor-orientated LP.

The former Destiny’s Child star has hired Brighton dance act Freemasons to work on some tracks for the record.

Freemasons’ James Wiltshire told the Daily Star: “The album is going to be huge.

“It will rival anything the likes of Britney and Rihanna have done recently. BeyoncĂ© and her team can see where mistakes were made on the last album.

“It was very American, very R’n'B and stripped back. They want to go for a more international sound this time.”

Music World Music/Columbia Records will release “The Beyonce Experience LIVE!” — a deluxe DVD capturing all the visual thrills and musical excitement of the year’s most spectacular world concert tour, “The Beyonce Experience brought to you by Samsung and L’Oreal Paris” — on Tuesday, November 20.
Recorded on September 2, 2007 during Beyonce’s SRO performance at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, “The Beyonce Experience LIVE!” DVD contains Beyonce’s full concert performance — more than 2 hours of music — and includes performances by special guest artist Jay-Z as well as that evening’s historic reunion of Beyonce’s R&B/pop supergroup Destiny’s Child.
Superstar and cultural icon Beyonce launched her 2007 world tour in Tokyo on April 10 following the release of her latest chart-topping album, “B’Day,” bringing the multi-media extravaganza stateside beginning July 6 at the Superdome in New Orleans.
The most eagerly-anticipated tour of 2007, “The Beyonce Experience brought to you by Samsung and L’Oreal Paris” showcases the international music and film star, along with her sizzling all-female band, performing musical hits, classics, and surprises in a newly-created high-tech state-of-the-art concert environment. The show’s production is conceived by Beyonce. Tina Knowles is stylist for the tour and, for the House of Dereon, one of the show’s wardrobe designers, along with Elie Saab, Giorgio Armani and Versace.
In conjunction with the stateside leg of “The Beyonce Experience,” Music World/Columbia Records released Beyonce’s B’DAY Deluxe Edition, an expanded two-CD edition of the pop icon’s best-selling Grammy-winning solo album.
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