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Biography: Forever, Michael is the fourth studio album by Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on
January 16, 1975.
The album is credited as having songs with funk and soul material. Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Hal Davis, Freddie Perren, and Sam Brown III served as producers on Forever, Michael. It is the final album before Jackson's solo breakthrough with his next album, Off the Wall (1979).

The album was Jackson's fourth as a solo artist and would end up being his final album released with Motown before he and his brothers,
the Jackson 5 (save for Jermaine, who would remain with Motown until 1983) left for CBS Records after the release of their tenth album, Moving Violation. This album displayed a change in musical style for the 16-year-old, who adopted a smoother soul sound that he would continue to develop on his later solo albums for Epic Records, the label he would record on for the rest of his life. The album is also credited as having songs with funk elements.

Although his voice was already showing signs of changing on his previous album Music & Me two years earlier, this was also the first album to feature Jackson as a tenor rather than a boy soprano. Most of the tracks were recorded in end-73-1974, and the album was originally set to be released that year but because of demand from the Jackson 5's huge hit "Dancing Machine", production on Jackson's album was delayed until the hype from that song died down. In 1975, Motown launched a joint promotional campaign with Forever, Michael and Moving Violation.

Photographs Taken: In 1973
Photo Credit: © Jim Britt/1973

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James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor. He has been described as "one of America's most distinguished and versatile" actors for his performances on stage and screen and "one of the greatest actors in American history". His deep voice has been praised as a "a stirring basso profondo that has lent gravel and gravitas" to his projects. Over his career, he has received three Tony Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1985. He was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1992, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2002, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2009 and the Honorary Academy Award in 2011.
Suffering from a stutter in childhood, Jones has said that poetry and acting helped him overcome the disability. A pre-med major in college, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting. Since his Broadway debut in 1957, he has performed in several Shakespeare plays including Othello, Hamlet, Coriolanus, and King Lear. Jones worked steadily in theater winning his first Tony Award in 1968 for his role in The Great White Hope, which he reprised in the 1970 film adaptation earning him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.
Jones won his second Tony Award in 1987 for his role in August Wilson's Fences. He was further Tony nominated for his roles in On Golden Pond (2005), and The Best Man (2012). Other Broadway performances include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008), Driving Miss Daisy (2010–2011), You Can't Take It with You (2014), and The Gin Game (2015–2016). He received a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.
Jones made his film debut in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964). He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Claudine (1974). Jones gained international fame for his voice role as Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, beginning with the original 1977 film. Jones' other notable roles include in Conan the Barbarian (1982), Matewan (1987), Coming to America (1988), Field of Dreams (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Sandlot (1993), and The Lion King (1994). Jones has reprised his roles in Star Wars media, The Lion King (2019), and Coming 2 America (2021).

Here is a vintage photo of the iconic
actor James Earl Jones as a young man photographed by Harlem Renaissance photographer, author, and socialite
Carl Van Vechten in 1961.

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Photo dump (part 4) - The Ladies, Back In The Day 😍

1. Lil Kim

2. Pam Arnold

3. Maia Campbell

4. Lauryn Hill

5. Angela Bassett

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Photo dump (part 3) - The Ladies, Back In The Day 😍

1. Beyonce & Destiny's Child (R&B group)

2. Reagan Gomez

3. Garcelle Beauvois

4. Lisa Bonet

5. Ashanti

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Photo dump (part 3) - The Ladies, Back In The Day 😍

1. Joy Bryant

2. Tamera Mowry/Tia Mowry

3. Lela Rochon

4. TLC (R&B group)

5. Tatyana Ali

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Photo dump (part 2) - The Ladies, Back In The Day 😍

1. Queen Bran/ Brandy

2. Naomi Campbell

3. Nia Long

4. Aaliyah

5. Sanaa Lathan

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Photo dump (part 1) - The Ladies, Back In The Day 😍

1. Gabrielle Union

2. Janet Jackson

3. Regina Hall

4. Bianca Lawson

5. Jada Pinkett Smith

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Happy Birthday to songstress Helen Folasade Adu CBE known professionally as SADE Adu or simply Sade Nigerian-born British singer, she turns 65 today. 🎂🎂 #Sade

What are your favorite songs from her? ❤🥰

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Aaliyah Dana Haughton
January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an
Native American singer and actress. Also had #Jamaican roots because of her grandparents.
She has been credited for helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop and hip hop, earning her the nicknames the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop".

On August 25, 2001, Aaliyah was killed in an airplane accident in the Bahamas at the age of 22 along with eight other passengers when the overloaded aircraft, which she was traveling in, crashed shortly after takeoff.
Which was a set up by her uncle.
The pilot was later found to have traces of cocaine and alcohol in his body and was not qualified to fly the aircraft designated for the flight. #Aaliyah's family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the aircraft's operator, Blackhawk International Airways, which was settled out of court
In the decades since her death, Aaliyah's music has continued to achieve commercial success, aided by several posthumous releases. She has sold 8.1 million albums in the US and an estimated 24 to 32 million albums worldwide. Billboard lists her as the tenth most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years, and the 27th most successful in history. Her accolades include three American Music Awards and two MTV VMAs, along with five Grammy Award nominations.

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Photo Dump: Actors from the 90s.

Leon, Bokeem Woodbine, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Roger Guenveur Smith, Giancarlo Esposito,
Laurence Fishburne, Bill Nunn, Glenn Plummer, Charles S. Dutton.

Some screenshots from these iconic black films.

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