The incomparable Ms. Patti LaBelle is among our favorite celebrities celebrating birthdays over this Memorial Day holiday weekend. The legendary R & B sonstress turns 70 amazing years old on Friday, May 24th. Friday also marked the birthday of the late rapper Heavy D, who would have been 47 this weekend. Grammy winning rapper/singer/actress Lauryn […]
Who says you can’t go back to where you started? It’s a theory that somgstress Jennifer Hudson doesn’t subscribe to because she’s set to return to the scene where she became an “American Idol”, this time as one of the long-running TV show’s judges. Idol is headed for it’s 13th season on the air and […]
Born in New York, R & B singer Maxwell made it big the old fashioned way. He Earned It…..doing fabulous performances in and around the New York City area until he sang his way to a major recording deal in 1994. With two platinum albums under his belt, it’s safe to say that Maxwell is […]
Famous Hollywood words: It’s Showtime! In the NBA, it is exactly that time for the defending world champion Miami Heat, who are battling the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Finals which began Wednesday evening at South Beach. Unlike the Chicago series, the Heat’s layoff between wasn’t as long and league MVP LaBron James vowed that Miami would be “ready” […]
KISS – FM & The Quiet Storm Salutes New Edition’s Johnny Gill On His 47th Birthday Tonight, May 22nd
Join KISS – FM in wishing R & B crooner and New Edition member Johnny Gill a Happy 47th Birthday today, Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013. The Washington, DC native has also been a part of LSG, a group which featured Johnny, Keith Sweat, and the late Gerald Levert. He broke onto the music scene at […]
For all the hoopla and haters who came out of the woodwork when the Chicago Bulls pulled off the Game 1 upset in the Miami Heat, their efforts to rattle the champs appears to have been fruitless. appears it was all a fluke. NBA MVP LaBron James and crew just shook off the criticism and the rust […]
Nick Gilbert and the Cleveland Cavaliers have beaten the NBA lottery odds again. The Cavaliers won the lottery for the second time in three years Tuesday, giving them the No. 1 pick for the June 27 draft. Gilbert, owner Dan Gilbert’s bowtie-wearing son, was on stage for another the victory. After he won it in […]
A 9-year-old girl who was “always smiling” is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified. Third-grader Ja’Nae Hornsby was one of the students who perished when the twister demolished Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla. on Monday afternoon. Members of her grieving family gathered Tuesday at a Baptist church […]
The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year. Team owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers’ new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season. San Francisco […]
KISS – FM remembers Hip-Hop star Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smallz, aka the Notorious B.I.G., on this Tuesday, May 21st, 2013, which would have been the highly-acclaimed rapper’s 41st birthday. Biggie was at the very top of the rap game when he was gunned down in Los Angeles back in 1997. Raised in Brooklyn, NY, […]
For all the hoopla and haters who came out of the woodwork when the Chicago Bulls pulled off the Game 1 upset in the Miami Heat, their efforts to rattle the champs appears to have been fruitless. appears it was all a fluke. NBA MVP LaBron James and crew just shook off the criticism and the rust […]
At least 24 people were killed, including nine children by the Oklahoma City area on Monday and destroyed the town of Moore, Oklahoma is being labeled as perhaps “the worst tornado in American history.” Search and recovery crews were digging through the rubble as night fell in Oklahoma, but not before the bodies of two dozen […]