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MTV.com: The condolences keep pouring in for Jennifer Hudson, who lost not one, but three family members over the weekend in a triple-homicide: her mother, brother and nephew, who was found dead late Monday.
“It’s insane,” Ashanti told MTV News on Monday night. “I can’t even express it, the pain that she must be going through. I can’t imagine going through that. I just pray that she’s strong and she takes the time to heal herself. My prayers go out to her and her family. God bless.”
Since everyone grieves in their own way, Nelly told MTV News there’s no real right or wrong thing to say to someone when you’re trying to console them — just saying something, period, is what matters. “It’s a rough thing to talk about,” he said. “It’s like, what do you say? You really don’t know what to say to a person when you talk about death or losing a loved one.”
He wouldn’t want people fussing over him, he said, but that’s because “I’m a funny dude when it comes to things like that. I’m pretty much a loner, and I deal with my own problems and things personally.” All anyone can do, he said, is “send your blessings and positive energy.”
“Hopefully, that will help her stay strong,” he added. “Hopefully, there will come a day where she can move on from it. But I don’t think she’ll ever forget about it.”
Nelly knows — he lost his sister Jackie to leukemia three years ago. “It’s hard,” he said. “I still think about her every day. So I don’t think there will ever come a day where she doesn’t think about it, but that’s good too. It helps keep the memory alive.”
Ashanti will be headlining another “up close and personal” live concert in Japan. This one will take place on October 31st at the Banyan Tree Club in Kadena AB, Okinawa.
Ashanti stopped by 106 and Park today to discuss her one night role in the benefit show from Wicked titled “The Yellow Brick Road not Taken”. I was able to watch it and recorded parts of the show with my digital camera. Unfortunately for the East Coast, you guys just missed her but the West Coast can still catch her at 6PM via BET. I’ll be on the look-out for reruns and try to get a good quality version of the show, if not - I’ll upload what I recorded on my digital camera.
Ashanti will also appear on Good Day New York via FOX 5 tomorrow, Thursday, October 23rd.
Ashanti will be headlining SPB’s fall concert for Quinnipiac College with The Audition as the opening act on November 16, 2008. No further information was provided but from the looks of it, it seems as if it will be a student-only type of show. Hopefully we’ll get photos and videos anyway. - Source.
Ashanti is having an “up close and personal” concert in Japan on October 29th, 2008 at Ebisu Liquid Room and a second show on November 2nd, 2008 at Yokohama Bay Hall. If you are in Japan and wish to attend, you can find more information here.
Broadway.com: R&B singer Ashanti, The View’s Joy Behar, comedian Mario Cantone, Ugly Betty’s Mark Indelicato, and Gossip Girl’s Matthew Settle will take part in The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken, a one-night-only benefit performance celebrating the fifth anniversary of Wicked. Directed by Matt Lenz with musical direction by Ben Cohn, the event will take place on October 27 at the Gershwin Theatre. Proceeds will be donated to Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project.
Also scheduled are former Wicked cast members, including Shoshana Bean and Stephanie J. Block, both of whom played Elphaba, Jennifer Laura Thompson who played the role of Glinda, Michelle Federer, who originated the role of Nessarose, and Kerry Ellis and Kendra Kassebaum, the show’s two current stars. More casting is still to be announced.
The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken will also feature an appearance from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz and book writer Winnie Holzman, who will share scenes and songs from early drafts of the musical, including never-before-seen material, as well as songs cut during the show’s development and pre-Broadway engagement.
Bette Midler founded the nonprofit New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 1995 with the belief that clean and green neighborhoods are fundamental to the quality of life and that every community in New York City deserves an oasis of natural beauty. Modeled on the Central Park Conservancy and other successful public-private partnerships, NYRP partners with individuals, community-based groups, and public agencies to reclaim, restore, and develop under-resourced parks, community gardens, and open space in New York City, primarily in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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CelebrityClothingLine.com: In good times, especially in hard times like now, the best advice one can get is: spread the love. We took it rather seriously, because Hollywood celebs are spreading their love with 2Love Collection t-shirts.
2Love Collection is a lifestyle brand whose celebrity-designed products endorse a message of love while benefiting charities that elevate lives. The company inspires young women to love themselves, and in turn spread the love to others. Our unique marketing initiative – designed to empower women and promote philanthropy – has struck a chord among Hollywood’s A-listers, who have signed on in droves to join the 2 LOVE mission. In short, the celebs who design for 2Love Collection are benefiting a variety of causes. They see it as fun, and we see it as sweet and noble.
Currently, 2Love Collection’s celebrity-designed t-shirts are exclusively available online, but next Spring, they’ll hit stores nationwide. Among the celebs who have contributed their love are Jessica Alba, Miley Cyrus, Brittany Murphy, Michelle Branch, Mena Suvari, Mischa Barton, Molly Sims, Alyssa Milano, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Ashanti, and Kristin Cavallari.
MarketWatch.com: Ashanti, the multi-platinum Grammy-Award winning singer/songwriter and actress and singer/songwriter Jason Mraz, along with Natasha Bedingfield, Moby, Chuck D, Chris Cornell, Tony Hawk, Colbie Caillat, Darius Rucker, Sara Bareilles, Sean Kingston, Matt White, Julie Roberts, Diana Page, and Krista, joined with Strong American Schools and YouCast to launch a series of public service announcements by top talent and music artists to raise awareness of the American education crisis and to urge America’s leaders to fix failing schools throughout the United States.
The PSAs featuring Ashanti and Mraz and other talent are available at StrongAmericanSchools.org, YouTube and other partner sites (see below) from now until the November 4 election. These are the first in a series of 15 PSAs that will be released in the coming weeks. The public service campaign aims to stimulate the national debate about and draw attention to the need for education reform.
“Education is very important,” said Ashanti. “The honors classes I took in high school taught me to push myself and gave me the drive to be where I am today.”
AshantiThisIsMe: AshantiWILL NOT be participating in the 3rd Annual Black Girls Rock awards show. She will be in Jarkarta Indonesia. Ashanti will be performing for the Soulnation Festival in Jakarta Indonesia on the 18th of October.
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Ashanti is scheduled to perform at Route 66 Casino in New Mexico on Saturday, November 8th, 2008 at 7:00PM. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
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