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2D A & C(iarIotte $os!t Thursday, July 20, 2006 Governor puts the blues in R&B Continued from page 1D all my life- When I knew what passion was, 1 knew that I had a passion for - music,” he said. On his album, “Son of Pain,” which will be released September 12, Governor said he pays homage to different genres of music. “It’s different mental pic tures of different scenarios in life. It’s not preachy but it’s honest. People can rdate to it,” he said. On his web site, Govemor- Worldcom, his gritty “On My Way” plays and introduces ■ listener to his struggle to make it. Mirrormg his personality Governor’s music is conscious without the pretentious airs usually associated with it. On “Be Yourself,” a Jeep-banger with a Compton bounce, Gov ernor, with the pious convic tion of a southern minister, chaises us to indulge in self- love and self-acceptance. The instant viiitage “Winning,” which sounds like a copula tion between Sade and Jode- ci, has the genre-busting singer/songwriter evoking sheer emotional truth. Here, he questions his woman’s loy alty and her opportune motives for lovir^ him. The slightly off-kilter, keyboard- . driven “Under Pressure”, begins with Governor holler- i ■ ing, “It’s sad when you got an' image with no message!” !■ Sounding like that cool' ,• teacher in elementary school, it’s the closest he comes to the philosophy of one of his musi cal heroes, KRS-One. It’s also the closest he comes to rap ping. tKlje historic “P'" Tuesday-Sunday Cxtelsitor Club 921 Beatties Ford Rd. • 704-334-5709 Hunt a hitmaker - if he can point to when Continued from page 1D penned for Dionne Farris for the soimdtrack of tiie 1997 movie “Love Jones.” Though he was succeeding as a songwriter and producer, it took some convincdi^ fiom Jackson and others to put himself in the spotlight. His reluctance to become a per former was mixed with the fear of not being good enou^. “I knew that there was a lot of work I needed, as far as vocally” he says with a non chalance that marks his per sona. “Tb try and learn how to be a stngCT, a really good guitar player, a really good pianist, it’s always la^ed a bit behind leamii^ to be the best songwriter I could possi bly be because songwriting comes naturally to me. I have to piish myself to practice ringirig... I just felt, if I could n’t do it as well as Stevie (Wonder) or Sly (Stone), what’s the point?” But in Hirnt, Jackson saw promise that one day he could become as great as those 1^- ends. “I think that his big ship is on its way in,” Jackson says. ‘Tt’s going to come in at any second.” Jackson isn’t the only one who feels that way None other Ilian Prince gave Himt his royal blessing, and even invited him to his purple palace in Hollywood to per form. There are still the occasion al finstrations. During a recent tour willi soul singers Anthony Hamilton and Heather Headley Hunt at times was out of his element; the crowd skewed older and came to hear the silky old- school soul of the headliners. At times, Hunt would placate the audience by playing some of his smoother soul songs; at other times, he and his band would just rock out onstage, obhvious to who was watch ing. Jennings’ ‘Phoenix’ details growth and issues —^ mit 5 excelsior 0 1^ Clut. V • TUESDAY... “FISH FRY" ■ Only $5 Doors Open at 5, Fish Pry at pm • Disco at 9pm Don’t forget, come tty your hand at a game of “Whist” • WEDNESDAY “Why Not Wednesday?” [j^l With Martinis and Soft Music Join us, There’s a Surprise Each Week[t,'ft fuly 26th, 8pm, Doors Open at 6pm “An all adult environment, 30 and above. ” • THURSD.AY “DIRTY THIRTY THURSDAY’ Lets get this party started right now! • FRIDAY & SATURDAY The Best “DISCO” In Town • SUNDAY..... fom US for tin evening of soft music, and fellowshipping with friends! Continued from page 1D make you mad. But if your purpose is ri^t, it’s not that you wcn’t get -mad but you put that anger in the right pfoce.” "^On the business end, Lyfe said that he’s learned that rdationships are key espe cially those with radio sta tions and the like. “That energy that you would use to be mad is what you use to see how can I hold this audience or how can I puU a new audience,” he said. In other words, rise from the flames like a phoenix. FROM THE GUYS WHO BROUGHT YOU WHTTE CHECKS MARLON WAYANS SHAWN WAYANS PHOTO/WADE NASH Lyfe Jennings performs to a standing room only crowd at Club Tempo. His new album drops August 15th. Oprah says she and King are not lesbians THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK-Oprah Win frey and her friend Gayle King want to be clear: they are not gay In the August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine, the talk- show host explains that some people misimderstand her close friendship with King. ‘T cmdeistand why people think we’re gay” she says. “There isn’t a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it—how can you be this close without it being sexual?’ In a lor^ article, Winfi:^y Winfrey 52, and King converse about their 30 years of fiiendship and ‘four-times-a-day phone calls.” King, who hosted “The Gajde King Show” in 1997, is an editor of O, the Oprah Magazine. The two fiiends say they would have no problem tolling the public if they were in a sexual relationship. “The truth is, if we were Debbie Allen interview on TV One gay we would teU you, because there’s nothing wror^ with being gay” says King. Says TOnfrey “Somethii^' about tins relationship feels otherworldly to me, hke it was designed by a power and a hand greater than my own. Whatever this fiiendship is, it’s been a very fim ride. ” On the Net: www.oprah.cotn/ottiagazine/om agjandingjhtml NOW PLAYING Sir— SSL CO«mDATEmHEAI«S SSIS-" HSTARII6HTOHUM14 USAL CiMMASn 'STONECRESTAT SPECIALTOTHEPOST Dancer, actress, sir^r, pro ducer, choreographer and businesswcHnan Debbie Allen offers host Cathy Hughes a revealing glimpse into the key to her extraordinary success and what’s next on the hori zon on “TV One on One” July 28 at 8 p.m. Allen credits much of her suc cess to her upbringing by accomplished yet nurturing parents, who encouraged her and her siblings, includii^ sister Phjdicia Rashad, to be creative, independent and willing to work hard to achieve goals. Her mother, Advian Ayres, was an accom plished poet, pianist and painter, in addition to being a librarian at Rice University and her fatii^ was a dentist who loved the arts. “But Momma was always — always about books with us,” AUen said. “Books were a big part of our lives, and poetry and music. And she identified in each one of us what we might aspire to, and she pushed us in that direction.” She graduated finm Howard University after being denied a (Emission at the North Car olina School of Art because she was told she had the wrong ‘hody type.” After col lege, she quiddy became a success on Broadway includ ing a Tbny-nominated role in West Side Story But she cred its her role in the TV series, Fame, as her hipest break- throu^. “But I think what really took me to the world of dance was Fame, because when I did the tdevision series, I came into that show as the choreograph er and playing Lydia Grant, knowing I wasn’t going to really be the star of the show. . AUen teUs Hughes. ‘T jvist wanted to do the choreogra phy And then it aU changed because I could reaUy sir^, and I could really dance. And then I had this gang of fantas tic yoimg people that I broi^ht [into the series]”including Gene Antho ny Ray and Jasmine Guy While at Howard, she came across the story of The Amis- tad, and became passionately committed to seeing the true story of the slave revolt made into a filTTi It took 18 years before the film was produced, in AUeai’s coUaboration with Stephen Spielberg. The director talks about some of her latest projects. The Fantasia Barrino Story in which the inspiring American Idol winner plays herself; and Tbumament of Dreams, .where she plays a piindpal al^^aing for more arts educa tion. The TV One on One Debbie AUen interview wiU rgieat on July 30- at 5p.m., and August 1 at 1p.m.. I Have you ever been tra|tpett in a I where you felt tackled by the issues ^ I life? 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