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Whoopi Goldberg will
ho t the 34th Annu I Gram­
my Awards from ew Yor '
. Radio City Mu ic Hall on
Feb. 25, 1992.
The m ic ind try' mo t
pre tigio aw rd are
pre ented annu lly by the
Recording cademy and will
be telecast live on the CBS­
TV Network, 8-11 p.m. (En.
. Holiday
Ca ualty
Phill Lewis, star of the
hort-lived CBS sitcome
"Teech", was the driver in a
head-on car crash th t left a
21-year old woman dead.
Reports have it that Lewis,
23, w driving in a
W hington uburb when his
car cro ed the center line,
striking a car driven by the
woman. The accident i cur­
rently under investigation.
Alcohol has been said to be a
contributing factor.
F mlly
People h ve been talking
about if for quite om time,
but it i only now that Bebe '
Winans say his own family
is talking about it. It is a
Winans family tour, and Bebe
says that tour could become
reality this fall.
In the meantime, their
latest album, "Different Li/e­
styles" is working its way
towards platinum status.
(That' sales of more man one
million copies).
It would mark the first
time for the duo.
On the
home front
Actress/singer Nell Carter
("Gimme A Break',) has sold
her Beverly Hills home to
famed Guns N' Roses
guitarist Slash for
$1,495,000.
Recently divorced, it was
reported that Carter wanted to
move down from her gated
4,000 square foot home in the
hills overlooking Los An­
gele and clo r into town.
Ice Cube.­
Und r Fire
Controversial rapper, Ice
Cube reluctantly agreed to
cut "Black Korea", his con­
troversial rap against Korean
merchants, and "No
Vaseline", an attack on
Cube's former group N.W.A.
and manager Jerry Heller,
when Island Records' British
arm told him to find another
distributor if be didn't.
What' n w t
Pal ley P rk
Members of Prince' New
Power Oenration are already
t ork on a new album as
Prince i going to tart
eriousty building up other
Paisley Park artists.
Next on Prince's agenda is
ironlcatly enough a classical
piece called " Thunder Ballet"
for the Joffrey Ballet Com­
pany.
- complied by K. Barka
- contributors: U • Collin.
(Bebi nd- The-Scenes)
ily throw love y," be
. "1b:y treat it too frivolo Iy.
And in order Ive larger IS' sues--
y ve to fi t experi rce love them­
I . It really all be' there."
"Wi1OOut love, the family Wlti1 '­
in gra aM you wind up with a d -
functional ociety. Then we 11
expenerce t� fall-out of ienatcd and
d rate peopl .
W YTHING
emp oyment, oomeiesslltSS.
tiona! ystcm bein it
drug problem -I myself, 'How dId
the world get this way?'" Wasely con­
tin . "Sometimes love sop get
bed beca people think if you'�
inging ut love you're oot inging
bout anything. But live i the grea t
social thing that we have.
Everything tar1S with what' inside
you, which is why 1 wro 'Affairs o/the
HeLU1.' It's about what you feel inside
yourself. what's going on in your home
life and a lot of the values that children
get instilled in themselves at the
youngest age. A lot of things really
stem from the most ic situations.
"Wanting to include more ballaeson
this album initially came about when I
. went on tour with my last album," dds
Watley, who e natural beauty and
trend-setting ra,hionsensc I�Harper's
Bazaar magazine to name her one of
America's Ten Most Beautiful Women
in 1989 and People magazine to include
her as ore of the World's Fifty Most
Beautiful People just a year later.
"I realized that once I did all the high
nergy tuff, I wanted to have more
ball and - mpo rna rial,
with more wannth and emotion. So I
thought, 'well, I have to change that on
my next album.' I needed to do Some
of the types of songs that I felt I hadn't
done so far."
Watley setuall y took ber first step in
that direction when he recorded
"Everything," a single from her Lorger
than Life album that achieved Top Ave
stans on BillboaTd's Hot 100 chart.
She credits the song with expanding her
versatility as a vocalist, its success
showing � world that she could sing
on more than dance tracks.
IF THERE were ever any doubt, it
wasn't in her mind.
"I can sing anything," says Watley,
whose voice is a distinctive blend of
pure and s�lk tones. "Because I've had
uceessful records that were dance hits
doesn't mean that's the whole scope of
what I have to offer. That's rot even
JodyWotley
scratching the surface of where I can go.
Watley scratching the surface a little
deeper wben she recorder Cole Porter's
jl2"Z)' ballad, " After You, Who?" for Red,
Hot&BIue, a charity album showcased
aoother facet of the inger's voice ("In
her mart, supper-club version of 'After
You Who?' the pop-funk singer Jody
Watley ec� the young Nancy Wit·
.
: .
I can ing other things.. •
"As an entertainer, I don't retlly
want to be known a limited a "
she continues. "If your pirations re
to be around and have a long career, �u
have to tart thinking about yourself.
"Lives
People on the tr. k
Forgf!tting hopes and dreams
They IooIc back
To a � of pride and eJf-bel�/
We gotta get boc
And remember where we con«
from
It ain't about the money
So commit to yoursell aNI those
you love"
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son," wro Stephen Holden of the New
York TUnes), which be takes even fur­
tber inAffairso/� Heart.
"I believe in challenging myself as a
vocalist." states Watley, who grew up
admiring such formidable singers as
Diana Ross and Tammi Terrell. "I think
people who do ballads can't always do
dance music, and vice versa bit I koow S
AFFAIRS, B-2
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You can't put the rei around a free
piritlikeJodyW dey. ComingofItwo
consecutive pi tinum-pl albums and
ix Top Ten hit ing" that tabr bed
her one of the m icworld' premiere
arti nd concert performers, the
in r, ngwritcr,producer 00 Gram­
my Award winrer now returns with her
new MCA albwn,Affain olthe Heart.
And it represen a dramatic leap
forward artistically. Compellingly and
t commitment" Affairs of the Heart mer­
ge triking groove-heavy uptempo
songs lik the LP's first single, "I Want
You," with a collection of deeply
moving b�ads that clearly advance her
vocal and songwriting artistry.
The LP's stirring theme is the
brainchild of Jody Watley, woo cities
Marvin when he first heard it while in
the fifth grade. "I remember being to­
tally transflXed looking at the album
cover, reading the lyrics and inging the
so .. over am over. And all the songs
are very much till important like they
were then."
I\IRS OF THE Heart' theme'
is an important one to socially conscious
Singer, who co-wrote nine of the songs
(all of which began ideas written in
her notebooks containing her lyrics and
poetry, produced one herself and co­
produced another with a longtime col­
laborator, Andre Cymone.
She also served as the album's ex­
ecutive producer, a grueling task under­
taken to ersure that the finished album
remained true to her uncompromising
vision. Overall, it proves the multi­
talented artist can stretch in more ways
than she showed in her best-selling
home workout video, "Dances to Pit-
ness."
For Watley, who is vitally con­
cerned about the continuing disintegra­
tion of today's SOCiety, Affairs of the
Heart is her way of expressing the
values that need to be re-established if
the destructive course is to be altered.
"We live in a disposable society, and