Chris Brown and Jill Scott will take the stage at this month’s BET Awards, while R&B icon Patti LaBelle is up for the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award. Chris and Jill join the previously announced Alicia Keys as performers for this year’s BET Awards show in Los Angeles, show organizers said Tuesday. Brown leads the field with nominations in six categories. Scott, an R&B superstar, poet, and actress, is set to release her fifth studio album Light of the Sun later this month.
The 2011 BET Awards, hosted by comedian Kevin Hart, will air live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on June 26.
Has a feud between neo-soul superstars Maxwell, Jill Scott, and Erykah Badu put the kibosh on the remainder of the crooner’s North American tour?
Word on the Curb has it that Maxwell has scrapped the rest of his concerts over a feud with tour mates Jill and Erykah, who have both consistently run overtime in their opening sets for the “Pretty Wings” star. Celebrity snitches tell FreddyO.com that all of Maxwell’s concerts after the NYC stop on June 26 have been postponed or cancelled.
Grammy-winning singer Jill Scott has set off an online controversy after some candid remarks she makes in a new first-person narrative about interracial relationships — particularly those between Black men and White women — from the prospective of a woman of color.
Grammy-winning songbird Jill Scott dropped by The TODAY Show Wednesday, where she chatted up her guest appearance on tonight’s episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and promoted her role in Tyler Perry new romantic drama Why Did I Get Married, Too?, which hits theaters April 2.
Quinton Aaron — who portrayed Baltimore Ravens rookie offensive lineman Michael Oher in the family-friendly blockbuster The Blind Side — will join Grammy winner Jill Scott on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU. On the episode, which is scheduled to air March 24, Scott portrays a woman in charge of caring for her niece, a former singer stricken with MS who is a victim of rape. Quinton appears as Jill’s onscreen son. This will be Quinton’s third appearance in the long-running L&O franchise. In 2007, he appeared in two separate Law & Order episodes, playing a bouncer and a bodyguard. The gigs were the first TV roles of his career.
Jill Scott has been so busy focusing on her burgeoning acting career, she forgot that she’s a singer, according Hidden Beach Recordings, her longtime label home. The Grammy-nominated recording artist was sued this morning by her longtime record label, which is accusing the multiplatinum songstress of skipping out on her contract without delivering the final three albums of a six-album contract, subsequently owing millions of dollars in damages.
“Hidden Beach is shocked by her decision not only because Scott has apparently chosen to leave the Hidden Beach family, but also because Scott is contractually required to deliver three more albums to Hidden Beach,” the complaint reads.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, claims Hidden Beach and its founder, Steve McKeever, helped launch Jill’s career, turning her from a spoken word poet into a Grammy-winning singer-songwriter before the star ended their decade-long partnership in August.
The award-winning neo-soul queen -who is up for Best Actress Emmy for her role as Precious in HBO’s critically acclaimed series, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — has revealed that she has separated from her musician fiance Lil John Roberts, just two months after the birth of their son. Read the rest of this entry »
Jill Scott is celebrating the arrival of motherhood.
The Grammy-winning neo-soul songstress and her fiance, drummer Lil’ John Roberts, welcomed a baby boy this week.
The star of HBO’s new drama, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, gave birth to Jett Hamilton Roberts –who weighed in at 7 lbs, 8 oz–at 4:20 p.m. on April 20, according to People.com.
