Brown Sista

Is anyone besides me watching the Grammys tonight? My gosh it is such a snooze fest. I usually skip the show and catch the highlights online, but because rumors of a Janet Jackson performance have been sweeping the net recently, I decided to tune in. Unfortunately, Janet has not taken to stage yet and wasn’t on the red carpet either. Alicia Keys however, performed a duet with Frank Sinatra and Rihanna performed alongside The Time.

Other Brown Sistas to walk the red carpet so far include Fantasia, Toccara and Keyshia Cole.
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Music mogul Clive Davis held his Pre-Grammy Party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel this year and as always, the biggest names in music showed up to celebrate the biggest night in music. Above we have Janet Jackson, my favorite singer, joined by two of my favorite actresses- Nia Long and Sanaa Lathan. Check out more pre-Grammy fabulousness on the next page and do check back here later on tonight for a list of all the Grammy winners and of course fabulous pics of the Grammy fashions. To watch the entire pre-Grammy party and performances click here.
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Singer Keyshia Cole stopped by 106 & Park Wednesday afternoon to celebrate the success of her new single, Let It Go. The Missy Elliott produced track sits at #6 on Billboard’s Hip Hop-R & B chart and is Keyshia’s 5th, top ten single to date. Not content to just make her mark on the soul charts, Keyshia is also holding down the #19 position on Hot 100 chart as well. Other Brown Sistas also making major music moves on the charts this week include, Fantasia who has the #1 single for the 7th. straight week on the R & B charts with, When I See You and Rihanna whose Umbrella single still sits inside the top 10 at #5 on the pop charts.
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Well if Beyonce, Fantasia and Alicia Keys can do it, who is to say Keyshia Cole can’t take her talents to the big screen as well? BlackFilm.com is reporting that Keyshia and rapper Fabolous are due to star in the Karl Lagerfeld produced hip hop drama, Only The Hood Dies Young. The movie, which is due to start production in October, centers around a young drug dealer (Fabolous) struggling with his mother’s addiction and his girlfriend, played by Keyshia. Fabolous has appeared on the big screen before, most notably in Scary Movie 4 back in 2006. This however will be Keyshia’s first foray into movies and I wish her luck. Who knows? Maybe a few years from now she’ll surprise us all and be picking up her own Oscar as Jennifer Hudson did.
[Update 07/02/07] Keyshia Cole’s rep says story is false.
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More than 19 million* viewers tuned in during the August 19-20 weekend to watch the poignant Lifetime Original Movie “The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale,” which starred the “American Idol” winner in her own rags-to-riches Cinderella story. The Saturday, August 19 premiere at 9PM (ET/PT) became Lifetime’s second most- watched movie in its 22-year history with 6.6 million viewers (5.0 household rating).

Among all original 2006 basic cable movie premieres, “Fantasia” ranks #1 among W18-34 and W18-49 rating.
The Sunday, August 20 encore at 8PM (ET/PT) drew more than 5 million viewers and a 4.0 household rating.
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The fabulous Fantasia stopped by MTV’s TRL to talk about her upcoming Lifetime Bio Pic, “Life Is Not A Fairytale”. This beautiful Brown Sista is looking so natural in these pics, and even looks as though she may have dropped a few pounds since the BET Awards.

As a teen, Fantasia Barrino seemed destined to become another statistic—a wayward youth succumbing to her circumstances, which included being a ninth-grade dropout, a functional illiterate, a victim of child molestation, and a mom at age 16. But instead, as the world looked on, Barrino became a superstar with first-name-only recognition. In 2004, on the finale night of American Idol , 65 million votes were cast, more than President Bush received in the federal election that year. Fantasia received more than half of those votes. Her straight-from-the-streets soul spawned platinum record sales, four Grammy nods, one Billboard Music Award and one NAACP award.

Despite her success, Barrino, who grew up in High Point, North Carolina, refuses to forget those early struggles. In fact, she’s hoping others can learn from her mistakes. “I want to use my story as a testimony,” she says. “I want to tell people you don’t have to be perfect to be what you want to be. You want to be a lawyer or a banker? Pick yourself up and go get it.” This month Lifetime Television premieres Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story, based on her gritty New York Times best-selling autobiography.
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