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Soul diva Alma Faye Brooks rekindles Montreal’s disco inferno
Disco diva Alma Faye Brooks Texas-born soul diva Alma Faye Brooks moved to Montreal when she was just a kid and grew up in Little Burgundy where she went from singing as big-voiced kid at Union United...
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Say it Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud: black soul divas headline the Corona...
Marie Alice Depestre co-headlines Black Divas The music of Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Etta James will be celebrated at Montreal’s Corona Theatre in a tribute by two...
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Legendary DJ Robert Ouimet on disco’s heyday, spins “pure disco”...
The Godfather of Montreal Disco, Robert Ouimet (Photo courtesy Robert Ouimet) The Montreal of the 1970s is really a city of broken dreams, dreams that had their roots in the cosmopolitan explosion of...
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Montreal’s Boogie Wonder Band living proof that disco still rules the dancefloor
Boogie Wonder Band bass player Boogie Cindy Montreal’s Boogie Wonder Band has performed for more than 2.5 million spectators over the past 15 years at some 2,500 concerts in 450 cities around the...
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Casablanca Records diva Alma Faye Brooks pays tribute to Donna Summer at...
Disco diva Alma Faye Brooks She may have been born in Texas, but soul diva Alma Faye Brooks – who grew up in Little Burgundy and was a big-voiced kid in the Union United Church choir – is a Montrealer...
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Doctor’s Orders! Studio 54 diva Carol Douglas keeps the disco flame alive
Carol Douglas performs at The Roxbury Brooklyn native Carol Douglas grew up surrounded by showbiz folks and dreamed of becoming a dramatic actress. But her mom – jazz performer Minnie Newsome, whom the...
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New music review: After the Disco, Broken Bells (Columbia)
Maybe it’s churlish to detract from the fairly impressive individual track records of Brian (Danger Mouse) Burton and the Shins’ James Mercer – but really, do we need yet another homage to the class of...
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I Am Divine: must-see documentary of the John Waters-made drag queen icon
Divine was a media sensation Director John Waters once told me about his muse Divine that he “passed a lie detector test, when he passed bad cheques! I think that was brilliant acting.” It’s an...
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Legendary Motown diva Thelma Houston keeps the disco flame alive
“As long as I have a mic in my hand, I’m a happy woman!” Thelma Houston told me this week from her home in Los Angeles. And as long as Houston has a mic in her hand, I’m happy too! The last time I saw...
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Dance icon Martha Wash is real happy it’s still raining men
Original Weather Girl Martha Wash had some choice words this past month for British politician David Silvester, who blames the recent floods and storms in the U.K. on the passage of Britain’s gay...
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