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Tina Turner has broken her silence following the death of her son Ronnie, who recently passed away at age 62.

The singer shared a picture on Facebook of herself with her eyes closed, simply writing, “Ronnie, you left the world far too early. In sorrow I close my eyes and think of you, my beloved son.”

Ronnie was born to Tina and ex-husband and musical partner Ike Turner in October 1960. Her older son Craig, who she had with saxophonist Raymond Hill and was adopted by Ike, died by suicide in 2018.

According to People, Ronnie was a musician and played in a band called Manufactured Funk. He had a small role in the 1993 Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It.

So far a cause of death has not been released.

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs will no longer be playing Saturday Night Live this weekend.

In a statement posted to their Twitter over the weekend, the “Maps” outfit shares that guitarist Nick Zinner has been battling pneumonia over the past month, adding that his recovery has been “up and down.”

“The band’s top priority is supporting Nick through a full recovery,” the statement reads. “As a result we had to pull out from…Saturday Night Live.”

Karen O and company share that it was a “huge honor” to be chosen as the musical guest for SNL‘s final episode of 2022, which is set to air December 17, for which they are “deeply thankful” and now “heartbroken” that they can no longer play.

“It’s been a tough week, and its been a tough year on the health front for us alongside so many artists who are committed to connecting with audiences amidst a pandemic,” YYYs write. “We send our love to our fans and supporters, thank you for your understanding and well wishes, it means the world to us.”

The group concludes, “Wishing you a healthy and happy rest of 2022, we’re looking forward to a strong return in 2023.”

Lizzo, who will be replacing YYYs for the episode, tweeted, “It’s an honor to fill in for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs who unfortunately could not perform next week.”

This year, Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their new album, Cool It Down, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Mosquito. Cool It Down is nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2023 Grammys, while the single “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” which features Perfume Genius, is up for Best Alternative Music Performance.

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Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Selena Gomez are among the music stars who received Golden Globe nominations on Monday morning.

Of the four, Selena is the only one to capture an acting nod: She’s up for Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy, for her role as Mabel in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building.

Taylor, Gaga and Rihanna, meanwhile, are all nominated for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture. Taylor’s nominated for “Carolina,” her song for Where the Crawdads Sing, while Rihanna is nominated for co-writing “Lift Me Up,” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  Lady Gaga is nominated for co-writing “Hold My Hand,” from Top Gun: Maverick.

Of the three, Lady Gaga is the only one who’s won in this category before, for “Shallow,” from A Star Is Born. Taylor has been nominated but has never won, while this is Rihanna’s first nomination.

Their competition includes the songs “Naatu Naatu” from the Indian film RRR, and “Ciao Papa,” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio.

The 2023 Golden Globes will air January 10 on NBC and Peacock. That’s a Tuesday, since the scandal-prone awards show has lost its prime Sunday night slot.  The show was dropped by NBC this past year and boycotted by celebrities because of the lack of diversity among the show’s organizer, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.  The HFPA’s process was also called into question.

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Alicia Keys brought the holiday cheer — and glitz and glam — to New York’s majestic United Palace.

The 15-time Grammy award-winner returned to her hometown to host a one-night-only Holiday Masquerade Ball on Saturday, which treated the audience to a live performance of her greatest hits. She also sprinkled in a sample of the songs from her first-ever Christmas album, Santa Baby, which came out exclusively on Apple Music on November 4.

Keys stunned in a black ensemble with a glitzy top and matching masquerade mask as she opened up the show with her 2003 classic “You Don’t Know My Name.” Other hits she performed included “In Common,” “Girl On Fire,” “No One,” “If I Ain’t Got You,” and, of course, the song that set her career ablaze, “Fallin’.”

Songs from the R&B icon’s holiday project and ninth studio album included “Ave Maria” and “Santa Baby.”

Keys also had a few surprises up her sleeve, bringing out the pop artist JVKE who joined her at the piano to perform his hit single “Golden Hour,” which they mashed up with Keys’ song “Never See Me Again.”

Later, she united with Academy Award-winner Jon Batiste to perform a medley of songs that included Nina Simone‘s “Feeling Good” and Nat King Cole‘s “The Christmas Song.”

There’s no need to fret if you missed the festive event. The concert will broadcast later this month as the closer to the first season of Apple Music Live. The date has yet to be announced.

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Sure, everybody puts up a tree and queues up the holiday music, but plenty of country stars have some seasonal traditions that are pretty unique to their family.

For example, while Brett Young and his wife might keep things classic and traditional when it comes to holiday decor, the singer grew up with some surprising Christmas meals.

“Every Christmas Eve — my dad was a pastor, and a woman from my dad’s church would make him homemade tamales. Not a Christmas dish, but we would have tamales every Christmas Eve,” he remembers.

He’s not the only one who opts for a non-traditional Christmas Eve meal. “For Christmas Eve we host my mom’s side of the family and we do gumbo, which is kind of unique, I guess — for around here at least it is,” Justin Moore — whose wife Kate hails from south Louisiana — tells his record label.

Tim McGraw also leans into his heritage for the big Christmas Eve meal — and in his case, that means cooking Italian.

“Our Christmas Eve dinner is homemade spaghetti and meatballs,” he explains. “It takes me about three days to prepare it and make it, and I let it slow cook for a long time.”

Tim’s spaghetti is a hit for all the members of the family, including wife Faith Hill and the couple’s three young adult daughters. The entire extended family comes over for Christmas Eve, too, Tim goes on to say.

“We have a big ol’ Christmas Eve, sort of a noon meal, so everybody gets time to go home and take care of Christmas,” Tim recounts. “But that’s always special, and that’s probably one of the dishes that everybody always looks forward to.”

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Steve Martin and Martin Short hosted this weekend’s Saturday Night Live for their 16th and third times, respectively, and this time they got some help from their Only Murders in the Building co-star, Selena Gomez.

During their opening monologue, Martin, 77, and Short, 72, prepared eulogies in which they roasted each other, trading barbs, beginning with Martin, who commented, “Wow, not much of a turnout.”

“There are so many good things I could say about Steve Martin,” Short noted, “but this hardly seems the time nor the place. I know Steve is looking down on us because he looked down on everybody.”

The swipes continued, until Martin asked, “Now that Marty is gone, who will I ever work with?”

That’s when Selena, crashed the monologue to offer, “What about me?”

Selena showed up once again in a parody of the Father of the Bride films, with Martin and Short reprising their respective roles as George Banks and wedding planner Franck Eggelhoffer. Kieran Culkin joined the reunion as a grown-up version of his Father of the Bride character, Matty Banks. Selena played the wedding singer, noting that it cost them “$1.8 million, easy” to book her.

SNL castmember Chloe Fineman played mother Nina Banks, originally played by Diane Keaton; Heidi Gardner played the titular bride Annie, originally portrayed by Kimberly Williams-Paisley; and Bowen Yang stepped into BD Wong‘s role as Franck’s assistant, Howard Weinstein

In other SNL news, Lizzo was announced as the musical guest on December 17, replacing Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who dropped out due to guitarist Nick Zinner‘s ongoing bout with pneumonia.

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Cody Johnson‘s already a bit of a man of all seasons, having been both a prison guard and a rodeo cowboy in his native Texas, in addition to being a country star.

And just in case last year’s A Cody Johnson Christmas didn’t tip you off, he’s specifically a man for the yuletide season.

“I’m [a] very Christmas guy,” he tells ABC Audio. “Like, my Christmas starts before Thanksgiving. And we start getting ready, because I just love the joy … I think it changed when I had kids. It’s all about my kids.”

In fact, Cody’s daughters, Clara Mae and Cori, along with wife Brandi, are all featured on his holiday album’s “Silent Night.”

“It’s something about the spirit of Christmas,” he continues, “where everybody puts aside their B.S. and everybody loves each other and we’re all there behind a fireplace, just chilling out. Christmas is probably one of my favorite parts of the year.”  

A Cody Johnson Christmas features new tunes like “Christmas All Year Long” and “Hat Made of Mistletoe,” alongside favorites like Willie Nelson‘s “Pretty Paper” and “Feliz Navidad.” 

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