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Fans gather for Apollo Theater’s Jackson memorial

June 30th, 2009 SacBee -- Wire Entertainment - Music News Comments off
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Josh Turner announces birth of his second son

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Country singer Josh Turner and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of a second son.

The singer's record label, MCA Nashville, on Tuesday announced the birth of Colby Lynch Turner. The baby was born Friday.

The Turners are also parents to 2-year-old Hampton.

Turner says in a statement that he had been in the studio the past several weeks recording his fourth album and his producer jokingly told his wife she needed to wait until they finished the record to have the baby.

Turner says they wrapped up the album at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jennifer went into labor after he got home and they were at the hospital by 10:30 p.m. that night.

Turner, whose hits include "Long Black Train," "Your Man" and "Firecracker," calls it perfect timing.

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AP Exclusive: Jackson said net worth $236M in 2007

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Country singer Ray Price recovering after surgery

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A spokesman for Grammy winning country musician Ray Price says the singer is home in Texas recuperating after surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

Price's agent, Bobby Roberts, says Price was admitted to a hospital in his home state on June 22 for routine medical tests when a colonoscopy revealed a large number of polyps in the pre-cancerous stage.

Roberts says the surgery was successfully completed the next day.

He says the 83-year-old entertainer is alert and expects to be back on the road in a few weeks.

Price began his career in the 1950s as a honky tonk singer with hits like "Crazy Arms" and "Heartaches by the Number" Later, he moved in a pop direction with orchestration on hits such as "Danny Boy" and "For the Good Times."

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Vibe magazine to cease publication

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Vibe, the popular hip-hop and urban culture magazine founded by legendary producer Quincy Jones, is shutting down.

Vibe Media Group Chief Financial Officer Angela Zucconi confirmed the closing and said most of the company's 50 or so employees will be laid off.

The closing comes amid a historic decline in ad revenue across all media that has left many categories of magazines struggling. Among recent casualties have been Portfolio, Conde Nast's high-end business monthly, the style and home decorating magazine Domino, and Blender, another music magazine.

Founded in 1993, Vibe had a paid circulation of roughly 800,000 during the last six months of 2008. The magazine was acquired by The Wicks Group, a New York private equity firm, in 2006.

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