Bernice Mac will truly be missed by us all.
I remember the first time I saw Mr. Mac perform on Def Comedy Jam and he tore it up. Take a little break and check out the performance. This was just a hint of the major player he would become in entertainment. His death touched me, and I’m sure all of you, very deeply but I feel for his wife and children, the rest of his family and close friends.
I know it feels like we shouldn’t laugh but making us laugh is what he was born to do and he was truly a king of comedy.
Damn. RIP, Bernie Mac.
Fans and friends of Chicago comedian Bernie Mac, who died Saturday, are invited to a public memorial celebrating Mac’s life.
Services are scheduled for noon Saturday in the 10,000-seat House of Hope, 752 E. 114th St., Chicago, said Danica Smith, Mac’s publicist. Donations in Mac’s honor may be sent to the Bernie Mac Foundation for Sarcoidosis, 40 E. 9th St., Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60605.
Taken from CNN:
(CNN) — Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film “Shaft,” has died, sheriff’s officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday.
Singer Issac Hayes seen performing in the U.K. last year. Hayes was found dead Sunday at age 65.
In 1971, the theme from “Shaft” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and won an Academy Award for best original theme song. The song and the movie score also won Grammy awards for best original score and movie theme.
Hayes won a third Grammy for pop instrumental performance with the title track to his 1972 “Black Moses” album.
From the late 1990s through 2006, Hayes provided the voice of “Chef” for Comedy Central’s raunchy animated series “South Park,” as well as numerous songs.
The role introduced him to a new generation of fans, but he left after the show lampooned his own religion, the Church of Scientology.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. In a CNN interview at the time, Hayes credited his success to “adjusting and constantly evolving, expanding and trying to stay as young as I can.”
The new generation of popular musicians, he said, “could use a little more substance like we had in the day.”
“They’re standing on our shoulders. Some of them don’t realize [it] because they sample me so much,” he said.
Hayes credited his role on “South Park” with expanding his fan base, and said that he had almost passed on the job.
“I started to walk out. I thought it was a Disney thing. I [had] never heard of this thing,” he said. But his agent persuaded him to tape some episodes.
“Toward the opening I started having trepidations — ‘Oh my god, what have I done? I’ve ruined my career.’ But when it aired, the ratings went through the roof,” he said.
“I went back on speaking engagements and encouraged African-Americans to go to Africa [to] interact socially, culturally and/or economically,” he said.
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RIP Gentlemen.
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