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          The Soul Train Awards honored Earth Wind & Fire along with Miss Gladys Knight. I've been waiting for that to happen for such a long time, the honoring of EWF that is. When I first started doing radio in 2005, my first show was dedicated to Earth Wind & Fire. There was no way that I could play any other songs until I payed tribute to a group that shaped my life. I had to bless the Mic, by saluting all those that came before me and influenced me. Now, to the award show. The award show aired on both BET and Centrex networks.           Due to the unexpected death of Heavy D, an additional tribute was added. Legendary hip hop artists came out to support, Naughty by Nature, Big Daddy Kane, Curtis Blow, Dougie Fresh and the Goodie Mob. Gladys Knight left us with a heart felt song performed with BeBe Winans after accepting her award. None of the original Pips were there but artists David Hollister, and Kenny Lattimore performed as honorary Pips for the night.

          The new documentary Michael Jackson "The Life Of An Icon" is a must see. I always wanted to see a documentary that would compare to the classic movie, The Jackson's "An American Dream" . The movie adaptation was excellent and rang very true to me. The casting for the movie was dead on; the documentary shows early pictures of Katherine Jackson, and Angela Bassett resembles the young Katherine. Family members Katherine and Tito Jackson appear in this work and narrates for us. The documentary sheds light on the music industry as it was back in those days; the seventies and the eighties, still very segregated.             What I found to be interesting was the story behind Bobby Taylor, the one who discovered the Jackson Five and Berry Gordy, the president of Motown. For years everyone thought that Diana Ross discovered the group, that was only due to the marketing strategy of Berry Gordy. Bobby Taylor was the one who discovered the Jackson Five,

          I just heard on the news that classic rapper Heavy D has died. I was completely shocked from hearing that news because he performed on the 2011 BET Awards. His performance was very good, he appeared to have lost some weight and he was doing his classic dance moves. When rap music hit the scenes back in the day, I really did not care for it. It was only acts like Heavy D and the Boyz who would get my attention because of the sampling of funky tracks and r&b tracks.           There were a few artists whose cd's I purchased on a regular basis, and Heavy D was one of those acts. My favorite song from the artist is "Somebody For Me" Tune into Another Newlife Radio this Thursday for the Hip Hop and R & B show.http: It airs 10pm-11pm EST. We will be paying tribute to Heavy D. Here is the link to my Podcasts - http://www.spreaker.com/show/another_newlife_radio See Ya Thursday!! Miss DJ L.A. Follow Me: http://www.twitter