She was a concert promoter, a nightclub impresario and the producer of an award-winning 1992 film about the Nicholas Brothers dance duo.Rigmor Newman, who began her career in Sweden as a singer and beauty queen and went on to become a fixture in the U.S. jazz world as a concert and film producer as well as a talent manager, died on April 26 in the Bronx. She was 86.Her daughter, Annie Newman, said she died in a hospital from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Her death was not widely reported at the time.Ms. Newman, who sang at the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm in 1957, arrived in New York in the early 1960s after marrying Joe Newman, a standout trumpeter in the Count Basie and Lionel Hampton orchestras.She later managed the Nicholas Brothers, a gravity-defying dance duo that dazzled cinema audiences starting in the late 1930s, and became heroes to many Black Americans. Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers became her second husband.Among her many professional incarnations, Ms. Newman served as the executive director of Jazz Interactions, a nonprofit organization promoting jazz throughout the New York metropolitan area, which Joe Newman helped found in the early 1960s.Ms. Newman appeared with the trumpeter Joe Newman, whom she married, on the cover of his 1960 album “Counting Five in Sweden.” Given the racial climate of the day, the image was a symbolic triumph.World Pacific RecordsWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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The 36-year-old former childhood star has resurfaced online and debuted a snippet of her and Precise’s new song ‘Diamonds’ after staying low-key for some time.

Jan 21, 2021
AceShowbiz – Amanda Bynes may be starting a new career in 2021. The 36-year-old actress resurfaced online after staying low-key for some time to debut a snippet of her and Precise’s new song “Diamonds”, in which she flaunted her rapping skills.
In the snippet, the “Easy A” star could be heard spitting bars about blings. “Diamonds, diamonds, diamonds on my neck/ On my wrist/ Diamonds, diamonds, diamonds,” so she rapped under a low beat. It remains to be seen if “Diamonds” marks the beginning of Amanda’s career as a rapper or she treated this as a one-off collaboration.

Some people were surprised by Amanda’s unexpected move. “Wth happens with these childhood celebrities,” one person wondered in an Instagram comment. “I remember the Amanda Show omg what happened,” another person added.

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“It sounds horrible, so imma just remember her for ALL THAT & THE AMANDA SHOW,” an unimpressed fan commented. “Who is in the studio not giving honest opinions? Cause sis,” another person added, while one other thought that she looked like Marilyn Manson.
Meanwhile, Amanda has yet to promote her new track on her social media account. Her last post on Instagram was from September 2020, featuring a picture of her sporting a heart face tattoo.

The former “All That” star announced that she was engaged to her fiance Paul on Valentines Day 2020. Amanda, however, has since deleted pictures featuring her man on Instagram. Right after the September 2020 post, it jumped to a 2018 post in which she wrote to her fans, “My dearest fans, thank you for all the support throughout the year and every year.. I know I’ve been so quiet lately, i just felt that i needed my personal space and that it’d be better for me but it never was.. just know that you’re my happiness! :).”

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