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FILE - Elton John performs during his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in New Orleans. Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ have landed the rights to the Elton John documentary “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances and the Years that Made his Legend,” the companies said Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Derick Hingle, File)

Pride Month Spotlight: Elton John

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 30, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Bringing an end to his touring career, Elton John is currently headlining in Farewell Yellow Brick Road The Final Tour. In each show of the tour, John exudes his thanks…

FILE - Melissa Etheridge performs in concert during her "Medicine Show Tour," at The American Music Theatre on Monday, May 6, 2019, in Lancaster, Pa. This year’s Love Rocks, which takes place at The Beacon Theatre in Manhattan Thursday night, March 10, 2022, boasts enormous star power – including headliners Etheridge, Keith Richards, with his “other” band The X-Pensive Winos, Mavis Staples, and others. Etheridge says the annual concert for the nonprofit God’s Love We Deliver, is exactly the kind of fundraiser she wanted to join. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

Pride Month Spotlight: Melissa Etheridge

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 29, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Rock singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge grew a passion for music at the young age of eight when she learned the guitar. Neither of Etheridge’s parents were musicians; her father was a…

FILE - Brandi Carlile, winner of the awards for best Americana album for "By The Way, I Forgive You", best American roots performance for "The Joke", and best American roots song for "The Joke" poses in the press room at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2019. Carlile's memoir, "Broken Horses" is coming in April. Her publisher is calling the book an “evocative and piercingly honest” journey through the life that has shaped her “very raw art.” Carlile will also read the audio edition. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Pride Month Spotlight: Brandi Carlile

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 28, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Country artist Brandi Carlile has become a six-time Grammy award winning artist after beginning her performing career by singing in bars around her hometown, Seattle, Washington. Inspired by country music,…

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 2, 2019 file photo, singer Rita Ora poses for photographers upon her arrival at the British Fashion Awards in central London. British singer Rita Ora apologized Monday Nov. 30, 2020, for breaking lockdown rules by holding a birthday party, saying it was “a serious and inexcusable error of judgment.” (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Pride Month Spotlight: Rita Ora

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 27, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Growing up in London and performing at open mics led Rita Ora to get noticed by Roc Nation, Jay-Z’s record label. Ora signed a deal with the label in 2009.…

Photo courtesy of Ricky Martin.

Pride Month Spotlight: Ricky Martin

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 26, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Grammy award winning Puerto Rican artist Ricky Martin was destined to perform as he began his music career as the lead singer of Menudo, a Latin boy band. As a…

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2012 file photo, British singer George Michael sings in concert to raise money for AIDS charity Sidaction, in Paris, France. A British coroner said Tuesday, March 7, 2017, that George Michael died of natural causes as the result of heart disease and a fatty liver. Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, says a post-mortem has found that the singer died of "dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver." Michael died at his home in southern England, on Dec. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Pride Month Spotlight: George Michael

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 25, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Singer of Careless Whisper George Michael became one of the top pop stars of his time in the U.S. and U.K. after dropping out of high school. Michael was born…

Photo courtesy of Dusty Springfield.

Pride Month Spotlight: Dusty Springfield

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 24, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

1960s British pop/soul singer Dusty Springfield, born as Mary O’Brien, began her music career as a part of the folk band, the Springfields. Mary was welcomed to the existing musical…

Photo courtesy of Hayley Kiyoko.

Pride Month Spotlight: Hayley Kiyoko

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 23, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Beginning her career by acting in Disney Channel originals, Wizards of Waverly Place and Lemonade Mouth, Hayley Kiyoko now writes music to encourage hope and positivity, especially for the LGBTQ+…

FILE - In this July 20, 1986 file photo, Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury performs, in Germany. A previously unheard and unreleased song by Mercury was released Thursday, June 20, 2019. Universal Music announced that the track, “Time Waits for No One,” was originally recorded in 1986 for the concept album of the musical “Time” with musician Dave Clark. A video to accompany the song was also released and includes unseen performance footage of Mercury. It was recorded in April 1986 at London’s Dominion Theatre. (AP Photo/Marco Arndt, File)

Pride Month Spotlight: Freddie Mercury

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 22, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

Musical icon Freddie Mercury built a rock legacy as the lead singer of the band Queen. His birth name was Farrokh Bulsara but he changed his name to Freddie Mercury…

SZA poses for a portrait on Monday, December 4, 2017, in New York, New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

Pride Month Spotlight: SZA

Post author:Lisa Marino
Post published:June 21, 2022
Post category:Pride Spotlight

New Jersian R&B singer SZA (Solána Imani Rowe) did not grow up with the dream of being an artist. In Maplewood, New Jersey, SZA was raised by her mother, an…

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