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The Unforgettable Gala, an end-of-year award celebration that honors the Api community’s brightest talents in entertainment, arts and culture, held its 2024 ceremony at the Beverly Hilton over the weekend.

Co-hosted by Stephanie Hsu, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Jr De Guzman, the awards ceremony’s 2024 theme was “unforgettable together” and featured one-of-a-kind segments and performances. The event was produced by GoldenTV and Character Media.

Shogun star Hiroyuki Sanada was honored with the global icon award, while his co-star Anna Sawai was presented with the actor in TV honor. Sawai was unable to attend in person, but the Emmy-winning actress sent in a video thanking the crowd for the honor. Unforgettable also honored the cast of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender with the vanguard award, with much of the young cast in attendance.

GoldenTV CEO Takashi Cheng previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the gala continuously brings visibility to talent who...

Kelly Clarkson has left her fans buzzing over a recent receipt she left at a restaurant. Clarkson even wrote a message to her waiter which has garnered lots of attention online.

Kelly Clarkson Is “Stronger” Than Ever

Kelly Clarkson is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality who began her climb to stardom when she won the first season of American Idol in 2002. With hit songs like “Stronger,” “Since You’ve Been Gone,” and “Because of You” Clarkson has become a very popular and famous pop star.

Currently, she has her talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show where she brings on different celebrities to talk about new things in their careers. Additionally, she will even perform covers of her favorite songs. Fans have jokingly written to social media about this that once Kelly sings it, it is no longer the original artist’s song because she is so talented.

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The late Tony Bennett’s wife Susan Benedetto has revealed his last words prior to passing away last month in an interview with Hoda Kotb on Today.

According to Benedetto, her husband’s last words were “that he loved me” — a sentiment Bennett continued to express even during his worst struggles with Alzheimer’s disease. “He would wake up every day and still say that,” she added. “He woke up happy every day. Even if he had had a bad day or night, he didn’t remember it. That was the only blessing. He woke up happy. And he’s just like, ‘Susan. You’re the best thing that ever happened to me.’ And he would say that to me all the time.”

Benedetto and Bennett’s eldest son, Danny, also revealed that Bennett still remembered how to play his songs right up until his death. In fact, he sang...

Crying at Kelly Clarkson's Las Vegas residency was something I fully expected to happen. But what I didn't anticipate was the cathartic journey I would embark on. On Aug. 2, the three-time Grammy winner performed her third show of "Chemistry… An Intimate Night With Kelly Clarkson" at Planet Hollywood's Bakkt Theater. And similarly to her latest album, which her residency is named after, Clarkson took the audience through an array of emotions as she reflected on the highs and low of love while immersing the crowd in music that spanned her two-decades-long career.

Clarkson kicked off the night with one of her newer songs, "Favorite Kind of High," before diving into a medley of some of her greatest hits, including "Behind These Hazel Eyes," "My Life Would Suck Without You," "I Do Not Hook Up," "Catch My Breath," and "Because of You."

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Tony Bennett’s wife and son are remembering the life and legacy of the iconic singer as well as their final moments with him before his death.

Susan Benedetto and Danny Bennett made an appearance on the Today show Thursday, nearly two weeks after Bennett died at the age of 96, according to publicist Sylvia Weiner. Although his cause of death is unknown at this point, in February 2021, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease five years prior.

But the disease didn’t slow the Grammy-winning singer down at all. He proceeded to go on tour and show up in the recording studio. Danny said when he would ask his father if he wanted to take a break, he would be like, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. You know, I wanna keep singing.”

He added that when they would “take him to the doctor…...

Danny Bennett, son of the late singer Tony Bennett, has revealed the last thing his father said to him. “His last words to me [were] ‘Thank you,'” he told Today’s Hoda Kotb on Thursday. “Can’t say it better than that.”

In a joint interview, the singer’s widow, Susan Benedetto, also revealed the last song Bennett sang before his death: his first hit, “Because of You.” Bennett died last month at age 96 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease since 2016, though the cause of death remains unknown.

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Legendary crooner Tony Bennett passed away on Friday, July 21, at the age of 96, and now his widow, Susan Benedetto, and one of his four sons, Danny Bennett, are opening up about the singer’s final days. Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016, but Benedetto said that he still remembered his songs. “He could do that,” she told the Today show’s Hoda Kotb in an interview that aired Thursday, August 3. “It’s amazing,” Danny said, adding that “even just a week before he passed away,” his father was still singing his famous songs. “He sang ‘Because of You,'” Benedetto shared. “We were getting him up to exercise, and so it was easy to just latch onto the piano. And I said, ‘Ton, why don’t you get up and you can sing?’ You know, any excuse to just get him up. I said, ‘Why don’t you sing?...

Tony Bennett is being remembered by his longtime collaborator Lady Gaga.

“I will miss my friend forever,” she said of Bennett, who died July 21. “I will miss singing with him, recording with him, talking with him, being on stage together. With Tony, I got to live my life in a time warp. Tony and I had this magical power. We transported ourselves to another era, modernized the music together, & gave it all new life as a singing duo. But it wasn’t an act. Our relationship was very real.”

In her Instagram post, Gaga went on to share how Bennett taught her about music, life and maintaining a positive attitude.

“He also showed me how to keep my spirits high and my head screwed on straight. ‘Straight ahead,’ he’d say,'” her post on Sunday continued. “He was an optimist, he believed in quality work And quality life. Plus,...

Some people wait a lifetime for a moment like Kelly Clarkson had 20 years ago, when on Sept. 4, 2002, she was crowned the Season 1 winner of Fox’s American Idol.

On Sunday, the three-time Grammy winner took to Instagram to reflect on her life-altering victory.

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Tony Bennett has been part of the pop cultural landscape for over seven decades. The 96-year-old scored his first hit song, “Because of You,” in 1951, the year he made his first TV appearances on a long-forgotten variety series “Star of the Family.” He recorded his signature tune, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco’ in 1962. Other hits included “Rags to Riches,” which Martin Scorsese used brilliantly on the soundtrack of his 1990 masterpiece “Goodfellas” and the Oscar-winning “The Shadow of Your Smile” from 1965’s “The Sandpiper.”

Unlike the crooners Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, movie success eluded Bennett. Just check out his film debut in the overstuff 1966 turkey “The Oscar.” His career waned. Rock was hot and Bennett wasn’t. He stopped recording in the late 1970s and was in lot of debt. He turned to drugs but a near death drowning experience in his bathtub changed his life and lifestyle.

Over the past two decades thousands of people have auditioned to be the next “American Idol,” but only 17 have won. (Season 18 premieres this Sunday on ABC.) While some winners came and went from our collective memories, these 10 champions will always stick in our minds. Tour our “American Idol” photo gallery above highlighting the Top 10 winners we love the most, ranked from worst to best. Does your #1 pick match ours?

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The original “American Idol” winner is of course Kelly Clarkson. She prevailed over runner-up Justin Guarini on September 4, 2002 during the show’s raw first season. Throughout her time on the reality TV show, Kelly heard nothing but praises from judges Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson. Early on many considered Kelly and Tamyra Gray to be the favorites to win, but when...

The “World of Dance” Duels are winding down. The top six Junior Team and Upper Division contenders have been selected, and tonight’s show picked the top six for the Junior Division. So who made it through to the Cut, and which four acts got the axe. Follow along below with our live blog for all the minute-by-minute developments as they happen.

The Junior Division comprises acts under the age of 18 with up to four members. The top 10 contenders who made it out of the Qualifiers round, listed in order of their qualifying scores, were Lauren Yakima (95.7), Ellie and Ava (92.3), Kayla Mak (90.3), Aydin Eyikan (88.3), Funkanometry (87.3), Julian and Charlize (87.0), Moving 4ward (86.3), The Trilogy (86.3), Audrey and Mia (86.3) and House of Tap (85.7).

Getting a high score in the Qualifiers is an advantage going into the Duels since the high scorers get their choice of opponents for their head-to-head match-ups, but it’s no guarantee of success.

As guest singing coaches on The Voice go, it’s hard to do better than Mariah Carey for sheer, astounding talent and helpful advice. The soulful diva spent the second night of Knockouts repeatedly stressing how important it was for her to hear someone do his or her own thing with a song and, in the end, it was those kinds of singers who would advance to the next round.

Strangely, one of those moments would come when a competitor made the gutsy decision to sing coach Kelly Clarkson’s “Because of You.

During Tuesday’s episode of “The Voice,” Blake Shelton paired up country singers Dave Fenley and Kameron Marlowe in the latest knockout round of Season 15. Dave performed Lionel Richie‘s “Stuck On You” in front of the four reality TV coaches while Kameron took on Bob Marley and The Wailers‘ “I Shot the Sheriff.” After a brief deliberation Blake made the agonizing decision to advance Dave to the live playoffs, but Kameron’s journey wasn’t over quite yet. Watch Dave’s “The Voice” video above and read the coaches’ comments below.

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“Well, I don’t like this, just so you both know,” Blake said after Dave and Kameron finished their performances. “You guys are both my country guys but neither of you chose country songs because you want to show what else [you] can do.

During Tuesday’s episode of “The Voice,” Kelly Clarkson paired up teenage singers Abby Cates and Claire DeJean in the latest knockout round of Season 15. Abby made the nerve-wracking decision to sing Kelly’s “Because of You” in front of Kelly herself while Claire performed Shawn Mendez‘s “There’s Nothing Holding Me Back.” While both young artists did a good job, Abby was clearly the favorite and so Kelly chose to advance her to the live playoffs. Watch Abby’s “The Voice” video above and read the coaches’ comments below.

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“I think you do, in this competition, fill a similar vein,” Kelly told both of her aspiring singers before revealing her strategy. “And having done this last season, I know that I can really only move forward with one.

If we didn’t know I sucked at predictions before, we sure do now. As we headed into Night 2 of The Voice’s Season 15 Knockouts, five singers I’d expected not to make it through had competed… and every last one of them had made it through! Mind you, the coaches had been making some straaange calls Monday. Particularly bewildering was Adam Levine’s insistence on keeping around Tyke James’ lustrous mane — and, unfortunately, Tyke with it! And who could’ve guessed that Katrina Cain would fall apart so disastrously? (Well, I suppose technically, we all could’ve guessed after her Battle went so poorly.

Who really has the best team of artists for “The Voice” Season 15? Now that you’ve seen all the singers through Blind Audition and Battle Rounds, plus a few already in the Knockouts, does the best team belong to Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Jennifer Hudson or Kelly Clarkson? Which of those coaches will guide a contender to the championship in a few weeks?

Pop superstar Mariah Carey has joined “The Voice” as an advisor for the Knockouts, which started on Monday and continues on Tuesday for Night 2. Each coach will have one steal and one save during this round. One Spoiler Item: Team Kelly artist Cody Ray Raymond has dropped out of the show for personal reasons.

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