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Kenny G first raised the possibility of working with West as he warmed up for his Valentine’s Day performance. “Well, when he walked in, I was playing my sax, so I figured I would just play to him,” he told Rolling Stone hours after the special gig. “So I started playing some really sweet blues riffs and soulful riffs and a couple of jazz riffs, and I could see he thought it was really good. I said something like, ‘This kind of sound would be really great with some of your music.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, maybe we can go to the studio and check it out.'” … [Read more...] about Kanye West and Kenny G Are Working on Music Together

Bruce Springsteen opened the musical set, delivering “Land of Hope and Dreams,” a song he began performing with the E Street Band in 1999 that later appeared on the 2012 studio album Wrecking Ball. He performed the song on acoustic guitar while standing on the steps flanking the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall. The musician has routinely voiced his support for Biden and in October narrated Biden’s “Hometown” Scranton, Pennslyvania-set campaign ad with “My Hometown” serving as its soundtrack. … [Read more...] about ‘Celebrating America’: Katy Perry, Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters Rock Inauguration Concert

“Water” was more recent. “I get a call on a Tuesday from my brother Ray from the Stereotypes: ‘Kanye has this amazing idea, I think you could do it and get it to where it needs to be.’ We talked about it, ‘Ye gave me his vision, what he wanted, and my homie Boogz [the producer BoogzDaBeast] had this phenomenal instrumental that sounds like the Seventies. I did that song on a Tuesday, we performed it at Coachella on Sunday.” … [Read more...] about Ant Clemons Went From Sleeping on Floors to Singing With Kanye West

“While it’s too soon to tell if we’re actually seeing a significant decline in the surge … we are very hopeful that the actions taken by many are starting to work,” she said. “Unfortunately, even if cases are beginning to decline, these numbers are still really high and they’re doing to continue to drive overcrowding in hospitals and high numbers of deaths. … [Read more...] about Percentage Of Covid-19 Deaths In L.A. ICUs Has Doubled Since October; “Serious” Vaccine Supply Problem

Dr. Charles Chiu, a virologist and professor of laboratory medicine at UCSF who, in concert with state authorities, has been genetically sequencing California test samples to identify new variants said on Sunday that very early indications are the L452R might be less susceptible to the currently approved vaccines, but much more investigation is needed. … [Read more...] about California Covid-19 Update: State Crosses 3 Million Infections As Deaths Spike; New Virus Variants Raise Concerns