Luther Vandross seemed to have it all, but according to Lenny Kravitz, the late singer struggled behind the scenes. Kravitz says Vandross was a lonely man and he tried to hide his sexual orientation from the public. The singer wanted nothing more than to live his life, but he held on to this secret until his death.

During an interview on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Patti LaBelle spoke about Vandross’ hesitance to come out. She says he told her he didn’t want to upset his mother. He also didn’t want to disappoint his female fans.

Morgan Wallen is among the country singers who say they're ready to start booking concerts again — spurred by the sight of election celebrations that took place across America this weekend.

"The hypocrisy is unreal," Wallen wrote on Instagram on Sunday, after sharing footage of the crowd gathered at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C.

"Time to start booking shows...If you don't agree with me, fine. We can still be friends. But I have a family, band, and crew that need to be provided for and taken care of. If it's OK for us to party in the streets with no 'social distancing' then we can book shows right now."

A former minor league baseball player has been convicted of killing his father and two other men using a baseball bat.

Brandon Willie Martin, 27, was found guilty on Wednesday for the deaths of his father Michael Martin, 64, his uncle Ricky Lee Anderson, 51, and Barry Swanson, 62, the Riverside County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

"The jury found Martin guilty of first-degree murder and found the special circumstance of multiple murders to be true," the DA's office said in a statement. The one-time MLB draft pick is eligible for the death penalty, which the DA is pushing for.

“People thought Camila and I were like into each other, and that made me so uncomfortable. Like disgustingly uncomfortable because I was queer, but she was not,” she says.

She continued: “And it made me feel like a predator because of the types of clips people would put together and the types of stories people would write.”

Her recent memoir is full of revelations that have shocked fans, surprising people around the world with just how much she has managed to overcome.

Not only did her parents’ divorce cause some trauma to young Carey, but she experienced a good deal of strife with her siblings, as well. According to an intimate interview between Carey and Oprah Winfrey, Carey’s older siblings resented her, with her brother becoming violent at times. Additionally, Carey claimed that her older sister tried to burn her and pimp her out.

To say comedian Amber Ruffin is confused by rappers supporting President Trump would be an understatement.

On Monday's episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, Ruffin admitted that she didn't want to comment on rappers like 50 Cent and Waka Flocka Flame supporting the president because her comments would "go off the rails." But, she threw caution to the wind and proceeded anyway.

"What is wrong with you? Why in the butt would you be like, ‘I want a seat at the table to share my ideas,’ when you haven’t been doing the work?" Ruffin said.

Matracia, the project of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Dylan Matracia, has released its latest single and video “In My Head”. Matracia last appeared here in February 2019 when we featured his track “Summer Cruel” and its accompanying video, shot in Provincetown.

The new video, which was initiated pre-pandemic, was directed by John Paul Ward.

“I’ve been sober now for over two years, but this song was written during the first month of that process,” writes Matracia, who calls it a song about “being single, queer, and pursuing sex while sober. The ropes for me represent alcohol and sex as having entangled me in a negative, behavioral-feedback loop.”

Born in Melbourne in 1941, Reddy began singing publicly at age 4. By 1966, she won an Australian TV singing contest called Bandstand. After stints living in Chicago and Los Angeles, her career began to build steam, and by the ’70s she was scoring big hits around the world. In the US she topped the Billboard Hot 100 three times, with “I Am Woman” sandwiched by a 1972 cover of Tanya Tucker’s “Delta Dawn” and 1974’s “Angie Baby.” At the peak of her fame she hosted the variety program The Helen Reddy Show on American TV. She later acted in movies and TV and became a musical theater mainstay in the ’80s.

Reddy retired from showbiz in 2002 but made a brief comeback within the past decade before being diagnosed with dementia in 2015. In her last public appearance, she sang “I Am Woman” at the women’s march in 2017.

Davis became known as the songwriter behind the Elvis Presley hits “In the Ghetto,” “A Little Less Conversation” and “Memories” before reaching No. 1 himself on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me” in 1971. He soon parlayed his pop success into a career based more in country music. Davis was named entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards in 1974 and was nominated for that same title the same year by the Country Music Association.

Davis’ sex appeal and easy charm made him a favorite on the talk show circuit, and he was rewarded with his own NBC variety series, “The Mac Davis Show,” from 1974-76, followed by annual network Christmas specials that spanned well into the ’80s. He even had a brief span as a leading man in feature films, peaking right out of the gate as Nick Nolte’s fellow leading man in the 1979 football drama “North Dallas Forty.”

Taylor Swift’s Folklore album returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, collecting a seventh nonconsecutive week atop the tally. In doing so, Swift surpasses Whitney Houston’s longstanding record, among women, for the most cumulative weeks at No. 1, across all of her chart-topping albums. Swift’s total weeks at No. 1 now stands at 47, one more than Houston’s tally of 46. Folklore earned 87,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 24 (up 97 percent), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.

Here’s a roundup of every act with at least 30 weeks at No. 1, since the Billboard 200 chart began publishing on a regular weekly basis on March 24, 1956: The Beatles (132 weeks), Elvis Presley (67), Garth Brooks (52), Michael Jackson (51), Taylor Swift (47), Whitney Houston (46), The Kingston Trio (46), Elton John (39), Fleetwood Mac (38), The Rolling Stones (38), Harry Belafonte (37), The Monkees (37), Prince (35), Adele (34), Eminem (34), Eagles (30) and Mariah Carey (30).

Just when you thought you’d seen every reimagining of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s record-breaking song "WAP", there’s now a Disney version… and people are conflicted.

There’s been mash ups of the song with Taylor Swift’s “You Belong with Me”, Britney Spears’ “Toxic”, Cher’s “Believe” and even Ben Shapiro had a go at it.

Now, over 50 Disney films have been edited together to create a truly childhood-destroying music video to the sexually-liberating song.

"I'm asleep on my tour bus, and this guy drops a fucking album with like three songs consecutively talking about me," Kelly told Stern. "What the fuck you think I'm [gonna] do? Roll over and go back to sleep? Get the fuck out of here, you're not going to hoe me. I said what I said, and respect the fight—that's it."

Explaining his approach to beefs he might get involved with, Kelly indicated he's more interesting in forming friendships than rivalries. "I'm just a different type though, man," he continued, "I'm all about putting my arm around people, I'm not with [shunning] people, so I can't relate. The last thing I ever want to be is an angry legend."

We all know the "Hokie Pokie." Right? "You put your right fight in, you take your right foot out" ... you know it. Well singer John Duff has turned it into a much more adult earworm that has us already missing summer days.

"The world could use some joy right now," Duff said in a statement about the new track and video. "As a collective, we are experiencing the darkest and most confusing times any of us have faced. I think now is as good a time as ever to indulge in fantasy. As Jesus once told me — it’s not that serious." Not that serious indeed!

More individuals have come out to share their stories of Erick Morillo’s alleged sexual abuse over the past few decades. In a new Mixmag report, 10 different individuals share accounts of alleged sexual misconduct, harassment and even rape by Erick Morillo.

Rosie* was on the terrace at Cafe Mambo Ibiza when she noticed a friend of a friend standing nearby who looked upset. The young woman told Rosie that she was in Ibiza on holidays, visiting a friend who lived there. Rosie asked her if she wanted to talk. They stepped aside and the girl revealed that Erick Morillo had assaulted her at his villa earlier that morning. “She was just shaking, she said, ‘I don't know what happened to me. I woke up, naked and he was there and I don't know what I've done but I think I feel strange down there.’ She had no memory whatsoever so it must have been like GHB or he drugged her or something, she felt like shit,” Rosie says. “But she definitely hadn’t gotten there with the intention of sleeping with him.” Rosie says she understands why the woman didn’t want to report the rape. “She said, ‘What do I say? I can't really remember anything. All I can tell them is I've woken up naked, and he's next to me naked. I can't prove anything, no one will believe me.’ The conversation wasn't that long because she was SO stressed out,” Rosie says. “And we were quite young, maybe early 20s.”

“At the time I'm thinking, oh God, you know, I’ll take her down to the Guardia Civil [Spanish police] and translate, because I speak Spanish, but I couldn't obviously force her and I know...I've been through something like that myself.”

Rosie says that the girl’s account of her experience was “very, very similar” to that of the woman who laid rape charges against Morillo last December. “It was almost identical,” she says.

Columbia University's marching band has claimed to disband after 116 years, declaring itself to be irreparably rooted in racism and oppression.

Following a vote on Saturday, the band's leadership, known as the Bored, issued a statement saying that it has 'maintained a club structure founded on the basis of racism, cultural oppression, misogyny, and sexual harassment.'

'The Band has unanimously and enthusiastically decided to dissolve. The Columbia University Marching Band will not continue to exist in any capacity and will no longer serve as a Columbia spirit group,' the statement added.