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Mar 18th 2002

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                    This week's features

Former Soul ll Soul singer Do'reen is dead @ 36   
The Purple One weds again and buys bride dream house   
Ashanti accomplishes 'beatle-ish' feat  
Aaliyah fans pay tribute: 'Queen of the Dammed' debuts @ No.1 at box office    

 

 

Former Soul ll Soul singer Do'Reen is dead @ 36 

 

Former Soul II Soul lead singer Do'Reen was killed on Friday (March 1) after she was hit by three cars while fleeing the scene of a store she had allegedly shoplifted from in Shorham, West Sussex, England. 

Her death followed a confrontation with the store associates where she was shopping. After being approached, Do'Reen ran out of the store with the alleged contraband/s in hand and was struck by the oncoming vehicles.

Born Doreen Waddell, the 36-year-old singer worked with Soul II Soul on their debut 1989 album 'Keep On Movin', providing lead vocals on the songs 'Feel Free ' and 'Happiness.' She leaves behind a 4-year-old son.

 

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The Purple one weds again and buys bride dream house 

 

The 'Purple One' - PrincePrince (given name: Prince Roger Nelson though he's had a few) has changed his name to a symbol, sued to get out of his recording contract with Warner Bros and dissolves his marriage with Mayte Garcia in what he called in a symbolic gesture "Mayte and I are joined for life and the best way to demonstrate it is to do away with the legal bonds that people demand." all to serve the purpose of not being tied down (so to speak) but now it would seem that he's suddenly had a change of heart?

According to several reports, the reclusive Purple Prince (as I call him) has secretly married Manuela Testolini, a 25-year-old Canadian from Toronto who was a former employee of the man's Paisley Park Studios just outside Minneapolis. They reportedly tied the knot on New Year's Eve where the two got married on the sly in a small Jehovah's Witness ceremony in Hawaii. Testolini, who's 18 years his junior wanted a dream house apparently and got one as he bought a house for them in Toronto. 

The couple has, according to Toronto's National Post, purchased a $3.5 million mansion in one of the city's richest neighborhoods. Prince's bride has a new home on the Bridle Path.
Land registry records uncovered by the newspaper indicate the sprawling, secluded home was bought by a company called Gamillah Holdings, whose president just happens to be Testolini.

 

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Ashanti accomplishes 'Beatle-ish' feat 


The Alluring Ashanti
RnB newcomer Ashanti Douglas has achieved something most artists only dream of and to think she's done this on her first time out. Prior to last summer she had never appeared on The Billboard Hot 100. She
made her chart debut as the featured artist on Ja Rule's "
Always on Time," which just completed a two-week run at No. 1. and now just 6 months later young Ashanti has pulled off a rare feat, one that may not have been seen since The Beatles did it in 1964. 

The week before 'Always on Time ' advanced to No. 1, two more songs either featuring or by Ashanti entered the Hot 100: 'What's Luv? ' by heavyweight rapper Fat Joe and 'Foolish,' her
debut solo effort. For the week ending March 9, '
What's Luv? ' jumps 23-15 and
'
Foolish ' jumps an amazing 22 spots from 51 to 29, that means Ashanti's first three chart entries are all in the Top 30 portion of the chart at the same time. a feat only bettered by The Beatles in 1964. The A-sides of their first three chart
entries, '
I Want to Hold Your Hand,' 'She Loves You,' and 'Please Please Me '
occupied the top three positions on the Hot 100 the week of March 14, 1964. 

Congrats to the young lady (who in some ways resembles Beyonce Knowles of Destiny's Child - don't you think). 


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Aaliyah fans pay tribute: 'Queen of the Dammed' debuts @ No.1 at the Box office .  

 

The late Aaliyah NaughtonAaliyah fans both young and old came out in coves to support the late singer turned actress last movie 'Queen of the Dammed' The vampire epic grosses an estimated $15 million in it's opening weekend making it the number one movie in America that week.

Aaliyah plays the queen of all vampires, Akasha, who has been dead for centuries until vampire Lestat (played by Stuart Townsend) awakens her through his music and his public declaration as a vampire. 

What is a shame is that screen time is limited for the late actress who doesn't make an appearance in the flesh until more than halfway through the film. Producer Jorge Saralegui,
explained it as this: "She's in the movie very much like villains in horror movies.
They're there, 'Ooooohhhhh,' then they come in with a bang in the middle of the movie,
and then they stay, and they increase their time. That said, somebody who is going to see
Aaliyah, it's her last role--it's what she wanted to do. She wanted to play a vampire before
she heard of our movie, and she's really good in it. I think it is good for her fans to know
that the movie is not wall-to-wall Aaliyah, but it's quality Aaliyah and I think that they'll enjoy it." The movie is in theatres everywhere across the country. 



 

 

 

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