Country singer Ray Price recovering after surgery (AP) AP - A spokesman for Grammy winning country musician Ray Price says the singer is home in Texas recuperating after surgery to remove polyps from his colon. Eason Chan, Jay Chou win Mandarin pop music awards (AFP)
Estelle to headline Stockholm Jazz Festival (AP) AP - Grammy-winning British singer Estelle will replace Lauryn Hill as the headline act at this year's Stockholm Jazz Festival. Daughtry prepping new album next month (Reuters) Reuters - Chris Daughtry is famous -- hard not to be, what with the "American Idol" thing and the heartthrob thing and Grammy Award nomination thing and the gazillion records sold thing. Court records: Singer Usher files for divorce (AP)
"Loving" ends writer's block for Griffith (Reuters) Reuters - Before recording her first album of all-new material since 2005, Nanci Griffith suffered a serious case of writer's block. "The direction the country was going in broke my heart," the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter recalls. "I didn't want to write." Barzee, Cullum, Hensley, Swenson Will Test Hornsby Musical, 'Sick Bastard'; Marshall Directs ... Playbill - Sick Bastard, a new musical with music and lyrics by three-time Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby, will get a private industry reading directed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall the week of June 15. Natalie Cole to resume singing tour after surgery (Reuters) Reuters - Grammy-winner Natalie Cole on Tuesday said she will return to singing in September following a recent kidney transplant, and she set her first performance in the famed Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Despite success, Griffin says she's a D-lister (AP)
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AFP - Hong Kong's Eason Chan and Taiwanese pop prince Jay Chou garnered top honours Saturday at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards, dubbed the Chinese-language Grammys.
AP - Court records show singer Usher has filed for divorce from Tameka Foster Raymond after less than two years of marriage. The 30-year-old Grammy-winning artist, whose real name is Usher Raymond IV, filed the petition Friday in Superior Court in Atlanta. The court record did not give any details about the split between the R&B star and his wife, ......
AP - Kathy Griffin has won two Emmys for "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," now in its fifth season on Bravo. Her standup shows often sell out. Her 2008 comedy album, "For Your Consideration," was nominated for a Grammy (George Carlin won the award posthumously). And her memoir comes out in September.
