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Post Malone is apologizing to his St. Louis fans after an on-stage accident shortened his set at the Enterprise Center.

In a video message shared to Twitter Sunday, the “Circles” rapper, explained that he fell into a hole on the stage that was briefly opened to lower a guitar. 

“So whenever we do the acoustic part of the show the guitar is on the guitar stand and it goes down,” he said. “And there’s this big a** hole, so I go around there and I turn the corner and bust my a**.”

“Winded me pretty good, got me pretty good,” he added before sharing that after going to the hospital “everything’s good” and he received pain meds.

“We can keep kicking a** on the tour,” he continued. “I just want to apologize to everyone in St. Louis and want to say thank you for coming to the show. Next time I’m around this way we’re going to do a two-hour show for you, so we can make up for the couple missed songs.”

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For Hispanic Heritage Month, Gloria Estefan spoke to ABC News about her life and career. In her decadeslong career, you could say the Cuban-born star has lived the American dream, but her dreams, she said, have always been about creating and not about receiving accolades.

“It wasn’t part of my dream,” Gloria told ABC News when asked about her many awards, like her seven Grammys and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “My dream was to be successful, to be educated, to make a life — later on, it became to make a life in music, and to be able to reach people’s hearts and minds with my music.”

“Those awards are all beautiful and fantastic, but we never, ever made music thinking of a hit song on the radio, or a Grammy,” she continued. “You might say, ‘Oh, come on, really?’ And I go, ‘Yes, really.’ Because to me, the joy is in the creating.”

The “Get On Your Feet” star says that every time she writes a song, “I know that somebody somewhere is going to be able to listen to those words and hopefully it will empower them, or make them feel better, or be able to cry. That to me was my American dream.”

Admitting that her success in achieving her dreams “comes with a lot of really nice perks,” Gloria noted that she and her husband and musical partner, Emilio Estefan, have been “very blessed and privileged.”

“We’ve tried to turn that into making life easier for other people through philanthropy and my foundation,” she continued. “But the dream was just to do what we love, to do what makes us happy and passionate.” 

Next up for Gloria is an album called Estefan Family Christmas, which will feature her daughter, Emily, and her grandson, Sasha.

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On her global smash “Cold Heart” with Elton John, Dua Lipa sang part of Elton’s classic hit “Rocket Man.” Now, she’s recorded a new version of yet another iconic song, coincidentally one of Elton’s former duet partners: the late George Michael.

Dua has recorded her take on George’s 1990 top 10 hit “Freedom! ’90” for a new ad campaign for Yves Saint Laurent Beauty’s new fragrance, Libre Le Parfum (libre in French means free or at liberty). You can find a 45-second ad using the song on YouTube, though it doesn’t appear to have been officially released yet.

Speaking to ELLE about the new campaign, Dua describes the song as “the embodiment of freedom” and says recording it was very exciting. 

“Obviously, when you’re covering a song that has such a big legacy and with such an incredible artist, you know you want to do it justice,” she continues, noting she wants to be thoughtful about covering a song that holds “so much value to culture.”

“I wanted to create in my own way, but also have it hold the same meaning … I hope I did it justice,” she says. 

As for her feelings about freedom, Dua says she feels the most free when she’s onstage.

“I feel lucky that I get to really live those moments, those words that I created in a studio environment and remember why I wrote them, and why I felt the way I did and be able to share that energy,” she explains.

And in case you’re wondering, Dua says her biggest beauty inspirations include Kate Moss and Drew Barrymore‘s ’90s looks, and her mother, who could put on eyeliner “so perfectly every time.”

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Talking Heads guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison is preparing to play a special concert and Q&A event with ex-King Crimson singer/guitarist Adrian Belew on September 29 at the famed Los Angeles theater The Wiltern.

The show is the latest of several performances that Harrison and Belew, along with members of the Brooklyn, New York-based group Turkuaz, have played since 2020 celebrating Talking Heads‘ 1980 album, Remain in Light.

Harrison tells ABC Audio that the inspiration for the concerts was a 1980 show in Rome that Talking Heads played during their Remain in Light trek while Belew was a touring member of group.

“There was something unique and different about this [Rome] show, which was a little more free form, a little bit more open to, let’s say, improvisation,” Harrison explains. “And [Adrian and I] said, ‘Let’s try and duplicate that show.’ So, rather than doing the whole album … we did the Remain in Light songs that we did in that show, plus a bunch of [other Talking Heads tunes] from earlier albums.”

Harrison notes that the new “Remain in Light” concerts also have featured renditions of Jerry’s solo song “Rev It Up” and King Crimson’s “Thela Hun Ginjeet,” a tune co-written by Belew.

To present the show live, Harrison and Belew initially teamed up with Turkuaz, an eclectic funk group that Jerry had previously produced. After internal tensions led Turkuaz to break up in late 2021, Harrison and Belew’s concerts have featured most of the Brooklyn band’s former members, plus some additional musicians.

Harrison says the Q&A portion of the event at The Wiltern likely will take place before the performance, noting that it will “set the tone of people having sort of a conversation with Adrian and me.”

Tickets for the concert are available at LiveNation.com.

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Nearly two years after a divorce, LeToya Luckett is feeling strong again and enjoying what she calls her rebirth.

The former Destiny’s Child member divorced her second husband, Tommicus Walker, in January 2021 right after their third anniversary. It was in the middle of the pandemic, and with two children, the divorce was traumatic.

“You’re already having to deal with the loss of normalcy,” Luckett tells Essence. “And then, on top of that, having another death, the death of a marriage. Honestly, to this day I still don’t understand how I coped with that, outside of prayer, meditation, a good therapist and just really putting everything in the hands of God.”

The two-time Grammy winner had just given birth to her second child, son Tysun; had gained significant weight; and was dealing with postpartum depression as a single parent.

Since then, LeToya has lost 60 pounds and says, “I’m in a great place.” Luckett calls her transformation the “rebirth of Toya.”

The 42-year-old entertainer has a recurring role on 50 Cent’s series Power Book III: Raising Kanan and hosts her YouTube series, Leave It To LeToya.

Tysun is now 2 years old, and his sister, Gianna, is 3 years old. When they grow up, Luckett hopes they will feel that “Mommy is resilient. Mommy never gave up. Mommy did whatever she had to do, to fight for us and to fight for herself.”

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Lady Gaga was in tears Saturday night when she was forced to cut short the final show of her Chromatica Ball tour at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium due to dangerous lightning and rain.

Gaga posted a video of herself on Saturday crying backstage, and telling fans, “We really tried to finish the show tonight in Miami but we couldn’t, because even when the rain sort of stopped, there was lightning that was striking right down to the ground so close to us.”

“I know that for a really long time I’ve always wanted to be, like, that hardcore bad b***h, but what I really want is to also be responsible and loving,” she continued, “I don’t know what I would do if anything happened to anybody in the audience or any member of my crew…my band, my dancers.”

She concluded, “Chromatica will never be over, because Chromatica’s about healing and Chromatica is about knowing that you’re enough. And I feel like enough tonight, even though I didn’t get to finish.”

In a second post, she wrote, “Look, for years some of you have called me ‘mother monster’ — in my heart, I knew it was better to keep you safe.”

She added, “Sure, OF COURSE, I wanted to sing ‘Rain On Me’ for you in the rain — ‘I’d rather be dry, but at least I’m alive’ — I guess somehow I knew this moment would happen…Safety first. Love you. Thank you for the flowers and the cheers and for understanding. Life matters.”

Gaga also noted that Chromatica was “the greatest tour of my life.”

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