Grammy Awards
Rapper Remy Ma plans NYC jail nuptials (AP)
AP - Rapper Remy Ma isn't letting jail derail her wedding plans. The Grammy-nominated artist aims to marry her fiance, fellow rapper Papoose, at the city's Rikers Island jail while she awaits her sentencing for shooting a friend she suspected of stealing $3,000, lawyer Ivan Fisher said. More »
Gloria Gaynor to open Casablanca jazz festival (AFP)
AFP - Grammy award-winning American singer Gloria Gaynor, whose hit single "I will survive" topped music charts in 1979, will open the third Casablanca jazz festival on Tuesday. More »
Wyclef Jean asks Haitians to give up crime (Reuters)
Reuters - In a radio ad sponsored by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean is asking his fellow citizens to give up crime and work to improve the country. More »
Rapper Remy Ma convicted over New York shooting (AFP)
AFP - A New York court on Thursday found Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma guilty on assault, weapons possession and attempted coercion charges that could land the musician in jail for up to 25 years. More »
Rapper T.I. pleads guilty in U.S. gun case (Reuters)
Reuters - Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. reversed course on Thursday and pleaded guilty to three charges of illegal weapons possession. More »
Rapper Remy Ma convicted of shooting woman (Reuters)
Reuters - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was convicted of assault, weapons possession and coercion on Thursday for shooting a woman in the abdomen in a dispute about money in New York. More »
Rapper Remy Ma is convicted of assault (AP)
AP - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was led out of a Manhattan courtroom, weeping and in handcuffs, on Thursday after her conviction for shooting a woman outside a nightclub last summer. More »
Corinne Bailey Rae's husband found dead (AP)
AP - The husband of Grammy-nominated British singer Corinne Bailey Rae has been found dead. Police say Jason Rae was found in an apartment in the northern English city of Leeds on Saturday. Officers are awaiting results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death. More »
Rapper Busta Rhymes begins probation in N.Y. (Reuters)
Reuters - A New York judge sentenced Grammy-nominated rapper Busta Rhymes to three years of probation on Tuesday for assaulting two people in 2006. More »
Mariah: I know I'm called 'ditzy moron' (AP)
AP - Mariah Carey knows her indisputable talent clashes with her sexed-up image as a "ditz." "It's a dichotomy, I understand," the 37-year-old Grammy winner tells Allure magazine. "I understand that people think I am a ditzy moron." More »