TAN – The Afro News

Seven-time Grammy Award winner Lenny Kravitz founded an interior design firm in 2005 and has now received his first Canadian assignment. Kravitz will design a 10,000 square foot floor at Toronto’s Bisha Hotel and Residences in the city’s entertainment district.

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Tyler Nelson to be a rare diamond in the rough. Biographical details on this newcomer are sparse. Good looks and raw talent will leapfrog him into the mainstream leagues of Hollywood celebrity in a hurry.

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Star internationale du show-business, homme d’affaires avisé qui a choisi d’investir dans son pays, le chanteur sénégalais Youssou Ndour, 52 ans, a désormais décidé de se lancer dans la présidentielle du mois prochain au risque de bouleverser la donne politique au Sénégal.

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Prince wowed audiences in his two sold out shows at the Air Canada Centre. The age-defying 53-year old superstar of entertainment hardly stopped for a breath as he pounded out hit after hit, all newly re-worked to perfection, for more than three hours.

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David Oyelowo continues this winning trend and does deserve credit for being the first Black man to play an English monarch on the British stage live. So impressive as his rendering of Henry VI in parts I, II and III that he won the best newcomer award for his work on this Royal Shakespeare Company theatrical giant

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Sam Childers (Butler) makes the life-changing decision to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war, he is outraged by the unspeakable horrors faced by the region’s vulnerable populace, especially the children.

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Youlanda Davis perfectly fits that bill. Through a diversity of different parts it’s not hard to see why this woman can take on any challenge.

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A writing project emerged, spearheaded by a young woman who was “raised” by a Nanny. She gathered together many stories of their lives and works at great risk to all involved. The result became the seeds of change which blossomed in unlikely areas, helping expand the perceptions of the townspeople.

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The Allan Slaight Award includes a $10,000. Honorarium that Drake said will be donated to Dixon Hall, a community service with the mandate to create opportunities for people in low-income neighbourhoods in Toronto.

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Ky-mani’s biography Dear Dad tells the story of his rise from a life of extreme poverty on the Miami streets defined by brawling, street hustling and gunplay action from the age of nine years old to finally finding his calling in music and spreading his father’s legacy, the philosophy of One Love.

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