soul singer

Cuba Gooding Sr. dead at 72

One week shy of his birthday, Cuba Gooding Sr. is found dead inside his silver Jaguar in Los Angeles in the Woodland Hills neighborhood at 1 p.m..

Songbird Brianna Colette wants to ‘take you on a journey’

Brianna Colette is a vivacious singer with a style and voice so distinctive, it grabs you at first listen and burns itself into your consciousness. Both coy and confident, Colette’s soulful sound has made her one of the leaders of R&B and soul’s new school. The southern girl (she grew up in both Tennessee and Virginia) didn’t decide to pursue singing full time until she was in her late teens, but she was bitten by the entertainer bug far earlier in life.