Jill Scott is one of the greatest voices in music. Recently she took on another great role. That role is motherhood.  Jill says her   son Jett Hamilton is the light of her life, but it’s very rare to hear her open up about her personal life. It is her change to embrace joy that […]

2011 is shaping up to be a big year for black music on the festival circuit in the United States.  The lineup for the 17th annual Essence Music Festival was announced and features such heavyweights as Kanye West, Mary J. Blige and Jill Scott amongst others.

With all due r-e-s-p-e-c-t to Aretha Franklin, we have to agree with Halle Berry that she probably isn’t the ideal person to play her in a movie on her life. Given her place in history as one of the greatest voices in music, you can’t have just anyone lip-sync their way through her biopic. At […]