If you ever dreamed of singing with Kelly Clarkson, your chance is finally here!
The Grammy winner revealed Tuesday on the Kelly Clarkson Show she’s about to travel the nation in search of some new duet partners. The Kellyoke Search essentially combines her famous “Kellyoke” segment with a singing competition.
“This summer we’re taking the Kelly Clarkson Show on the road to find some of the greatest voices across America,” she announced. Her tour bus will be hitting up New York, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles to find the lucky winner.
If you can’t make it to those tryout dates, there is also a chance to win by entering on TikTok: share a video of your tryout and use #KellyokeSearch in the description.
“Come sing a virtual duet with me to one of my songs,” she invited fans. “Maybe you’ve heard it.”
The song? Kelly revealed wants to perform “Since U Been Gone.” In addition to finding her future duet partners, the singer said she will “feature some of our favorite performances” on her talk show.
Organizers for Rolling Loud New York have managed to add another performer to the star-studded lineup. On Monday, they announced that Playboi Carti will perform at the festival, set to go down next month.
“PLEASE WELCOME, PLAYBOI CARTI!” they wrote next to an updated photo of the flyer.
Rolling Loud New York will take place September 23-25 at Citi Field in Queens and will include performances from headliners Nicki Minaj, A$AP Rocky and Future, as well as a slew of other artists. With a lineup of over 100 stars, why add Playboi Carti?
Well, organizers say they’ve “believed in Carti ever since 2015” — the year he dropped Soundcloud singles “Broke Boi” and “Fetti” featuring Da$h and Maxo Kream.
“Carti’s redefining what it means to be a hip-hop artist, so it’s only right for him to play a big part in our latest festival in hip-hop’s hometown,” they told TMZ. “We can’t wait to see what this future headliner has planned for the New York crowd.”
Brian Kelley is reflecting on Florida Georgia Line‘s journey before their hiatus.
Over the weekend, the duo performed in Woodstock, Illinois, as part of a contest T-Mobile held to provide a $3 million “tech makeover” to a small town in America. It marks one of the final shows on this year’s calendar before going their separate ways.
Bandmate Tyler Hubbard is working on a solo album and prepping to go on tour with Keith Urban, while Brian is preparing for his residency at Tribe Kelley Surf Post, the Florida clothing store he owns with wife Brittney. He says he’s looking to the future with gratitude for what they’ve accomplished.
“Every step of the way, we’ve had a blast. Even in the hard times where we were driving in a van and not sure if anything’s going to happen,” Brian shares with E! News. “We love creating and we’re super grateful that our music resonates to so many different people in so many different locations. It really is a dream come true every time we get to play our songs live. When we live them out with everybody, you get to see the power of music and it’s so much bigger than just us onstage in that moment. It’s bringing everybody together and that’s a feeling that you can’t really replicate.”
FGL’s last show this year is on August 31 at the Minnesota State Fair.
Apple TV+ has debuted the first trailer for Sidney, a documentary on the late legendary actor Sidney Poitier.
The documentary, produced by Oprah Winfrey, explores Poitier’s journey from his early life in the Bahamas to becoming a successful Hollywood actor and civil rights activist. It features interviews with Winfrey, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Lenny Kravitz, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee and more – as well as Poitier himself, filmed before his passing in January 2022 at age 94.
Poitier became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 for his role in Lilies of the Field. He also starred in films including To Sir, with Love;Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner; and In the Heat of the Night.
Sidney will premiere in select theaters and globally on Apple TV+ on September 23.
On Tuesday, the hit singer dropped new song “Go Around” off his upcoming album, Different Man. The fiddle-filled number finds him singing about a woman who’s caught his eye and he’s “hell bent” on changing her mind.
“We could be a story about love in a bar/Or a ‘what if’ song on an old guitar/You ain’t gotta worry ’bout showing them cards/’Cause I ain’t in the business of breaking hearts/So give me a go around,” he sings.
“Go Around” arrives in the wake of Kane’s current single, “Like I Love Country Music,” reaching the top of the country charts this week, becoming his eighth #1 hit. The Georgia native has also shared crossover single “Grand” off the album, which comes out on September 9.
Throughout Rage Against the Machine‘s U.S. reunion tour, the band has been raising money for a variety of different charities and organizations through ticket sales. Following the group’s five-night stand at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, those fundraising efforts hit a significant milestone.
The MSG concerts marked the final dates on Rage’s 2022 U.S. leg, which mark the band’s first live shows since 2011. The outing had originally been scheduled for 2020, but was delayed to this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rage was set to follow the U.S. run with a trip to the U.K. and Europe, but those dates were canceled due to frontman Zack de la Rocha suffering an injury during a July show in Chicago, which forced him to perform while seated for the rest of the tour. Now that the MSG shows are done, de la Rocha is set to “return home for rest and rehabilitation.”
Lizzo scored her first Emmy nomination thanks to her hit Amazon series Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls — but the singer isn’t focused on winning as much as what she’ll be wearing that night.
The series has been nominated in the Outstanding Competition Program category, but Lizzo hasn’t begun thinking about a possible acceptance speech.
“I don’t plan on things like that,” she told Deadline. “I think I’m more excited about what I’m going to wear.”
Watch Out for the Big Grrrls is facing stiff competition from fellow category nominees The Amazing Race, Nailed It!, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Top Chef and The Voice. Should Lizzo win, she will officially be halfway to EGOT status.
But, that’s not even a blip on the “About Damn Time” singer’s radar. Instead, she’s more focused on making a splash on the red carpet.
“It’s just a big deal to be there. This is going to be my first Emmys, my first Emmys carpet. I want to feel like the belle of the ball,” she insisted. “So, I think I’m more excited about planning my look than a speech.”
What else does Lizzo plan on doing on Emmys night besides cementing herself as a true fashion icon? She cheekily added, “I think I’m just going to drink champagne.”
Find out what Lizzo is wearing and if she takes home the golden statuette when the 74th Emmy Awards air live on Monday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC. The ceremony will also stream live on Peacock.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are teasing the first preview of the band’s upcoming album, Return of the Dream Canteen.
The “Californication” rockers will release a new track called “Tippa My Tongue” this Friday, August 19. You can check out a preview of the song, and its accompanying video, now via RHCP’s Twitter.
Return of the Dream Canteen, due out October 14, is the second new Chili Peppers record of 2022, following April’s Unlimited Love.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are currently on a U.S. stadium tour, which continues Wednesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The headlining trek will conclude in September, followed by festival sets at Louder Than Life and Austin City Limits.
A 30-year-old woman who feels like she’s in the body of a 70-year old — and then magically, she is! That’s the premise of the new body-switching comedy Mack & Rita, in theaters now, starring Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Lail and Taylour Paige.
Lail plays the younger woman, Mack, who works in social media, though she tells ABC Audio she has a love-hate relationship with the digital world, admitting that she deletes it off of her phone “pretty constantly.”
“There’s like the artist inside that doesn’t want to participate in that way, that doesn’t want to be a part of commercialism specifically,” she explains. “But you do want to make movies and you want to be seen and you want to be a part of big things.”
Likewise, Paige, who plays Mack’s best friend — the two of them young women caught up in chasing clout on social media for work and for fun — has been rethinking her online presence.
“Sadly…we all live and breathe like this thing called capitalism and brands and studios…So yeah, it’s fine to be like, look at this guy that I’m looking at. But like at the end of the day, they’re like, ‘But, can we sell our face wash or would she wear the bag?'”
Director Katie Aselton agrees, adding, “No one’s posting pictures for their friends and to share where they’re at, what they’re doing…it’s really, I think, turning into more of like a promotional tool.”
She adds, “The world sort of tries to shoehorn us into a mold that isn’t necessarily meant for us. And it is our job and our journey and our struggle to sort of break out of that and really find who we are and let that person shine.”
(NEW YORK) — The saga of WNBA star Brittney Griner continued Monday after her attorneys filed an appeal over her conviction and nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession.
The move comes as U.S. officials continue to seek a prisoner transfer for her and fellow captive American Paul Whelan.
ABC News Live spoke with Bill Richardson, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., who has been a frequent emissary in hostage negotiations through the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, about the latest developments.
ABC NEWS LIVE: Let’s start with the news of Griner’s team filing an appeal. I’m curious, does that have any impact, you think, on diplomatic talks for a prisoner exchange to bring Griner and fellow detained American Paul Whelan home?
RICHARDSON: Well, indirectly, it basically says the legal process is over except for the appeal, and it’s reasonable to have this appeal [for a] nine-year sentence in a penal conflict. Now, there can be negotiations between the United States and Russia. Both seem disposed.
There’s been a prisoner exchange about two months ago, Trevor Reed, that I was indirectly involved in. I think the legal team of Brittney Griner has been effective [in] showing contrition, acknowledgment of the mistake and now the appeal. And I think…this potential return date from the American side is very important to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin. So I think both sides are moving in the right direction and I’m optimistic.
ABC NEWS LIVE: All right. You’ve just described yourself as a catalyst in these talks that are taking place at a government-to-government level between the U.S. and Russia. We know you traveled to Russia ahead of the release, as you mentioned, of American Trevor Reed earlier this spring. Have you or can you say or will you be traveling to Russia ahead of any release, potential release of Griner and Whelan?
RICHARDSON: Well, no, I can’t get into that information. But what I can tell you is that I talked to both sides. I talked to the White House. I talked to the Russians. I have contacts in the Russian government. When I was U.N. ambassador, for instance, the foreign minister [Sergey] Lavrov was my counterpart. I have others that I dealt with as secretary of energy. So I’m not a replacement for the negotiations, [or] some kind of an interlocutor indirectly.
So I don’t want to get into too many of these facets, but I’ve had experience. And I think…both sides are moving in the right direction because they’ve done it before, despite the fact that the relationship between the United States and Russia is toxic. Totally toxic.
ABC NEWS LIVE: Yeah, we understand that, and of course, appreciate it and would not want to jeopardize any future release. But I am curious about this. Russian officials have criticized the U.S. for openly discussing the offers on the table, but they did confirm this weekend that detained Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is the name at the center of negotiations. You spoke to our George Stephanopoulos about this a little bit — a week or so ago. [Is there] any concern here that these talks could break down for any reason, including the U.S. being too public with that information? In other words, would you [have] preferred that America didn’t throw his name out there?
RICHARDSON: Well, I question that because I think private diplomacy is a lot better, but obviously the negotiations weren’t going too well. So what the U.S. did was when things aren’t going well, you kind of throw a little bit of a bomb. And so far, I think it’s moved in the right direction. Now, eventually, I think it’s not going to be a two-for-one deal. I think it’s going to be a two-for-two.
The Russians obviously probably will want more, but you never know. Again, humanitarian issues like prisoner exchanges, like this agreement on grain and fertilizer that the U.N. broke…are steps in the right direction on the humanitarian front that eventually might help in a very toxic relationship between us and the Russians.
ABC NEWS LIVE: So you just used the word optimistic. I’m going to see if I can push a little bit further. Are you confident that a deal can get done here? And if so, any idea about a timeline without giving anything away? Or are we talking weeks, months, [a] year?
RICHARDSON: Well, you don’t want to get into a timeline. I know the families are suffering. I think it was a great effort to combine them. An American Marine, a basketball star. We want both, but I think the Russians will want parity. So I’m optimistic because it was done before.
And I think Brittney Griner’s attorneys have handled this well. And lastly, I think both sides want it. Obviously, the president wants to get his prisoners back and Putin wants to get his prisoner back, especially Bout, who was politically very important. So there’s [a] political reality here. So I’m optimistic.
ABC NEWS LIVE: You mentioned the families. Let’s touch on that a little bit. I think when people talk about situations like this, they want to know what each government is doing. But I think sometimes lost in the translation are the families that have been dealing with this for however long they have been in each individual case. You’ve written books on it. Obviously, there’s an empathy there that you have. How do you tell the families to have patience in any kind of meaningful way during these negotiations?
RICHARDSON: Well, first, Mickey Bergman, who specializes in dealing with the families, handles that for our foundation.
We worked for the families, my foundation. We don’t work for the government. We don’t take orders from the government, either. The families work closely with us. We help them. We advise them. We don’t try to lift their spirits when there’s little, but then we move in directly into negotiation.
So that’s different from other groups that do very excellent in hostage diplomacy. But we get right in there and try to make things happen. We’re not replacing the government. Eventually, the U.S. government has to make the decision. The president, who I think [is] handling this well for a prisoner exchange. And as you know, prisoner exchanges have been criticized in the media and in the public.
ABC NEWS LIVE: You mentioned this a little earlier on that, of course, this is happening with the backdrop of this Russia-Ukraine war. How does that complicate negotiations? You’ve done this time and time again, but now there’s a war involved in this one, [and] Russia is not happy with America for supplying aid and weapons to Ukraine. So how does that complicate this?
RICHARDSON: Well, it complicates things a lot because the relationship between our leaders or secretary of states or presidents is almost nonexistent. But there are channels like our private channels, like our embassy in Moscow. So there are ways that we talk, but it complicates things. But usually, governments before, they better the relationship.
In this case [it’s] a very toxic relationship. Sometimes humanitarian efforts like a prisoner exchange, like the release of human rights prisoners, like the spring deal, the fertilizer deal between Russia [and] Ukraine brokered by the U.N., are steps that might lessen the tension and improve a very bad relationship.
