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‘Little Brother’ gearing up to celebrate 20 years in city that ‘made’ them with Durham music festival

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — Rappers Big Pooh and Phonte make up the rap group Little Brother. They formed the group while students at North Carolina Central University in the late 1990s. In 2003, they released their debut album, The Listening. “You know, you didn’t think about what was to become of it. You didn’t think about 20 years later,” Big Pooh said. “It was just all about the moment,” Phonte […]

todaySeptember 24, 2023

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Roger Whittaker, singer of The Last Farewell, Durham Town and other easy-listening hits – obituary

As a boarder at Nairobi School, then known as Prince of Wales, he sang in the choir and during the Mau Mau uprising patrolled the grounds at night armed with a rifle. But it was Army life that proved transformative. “Before I did National Service in the Kenya Regiment I was stupid, selfish and angry,” Whittaker recalled. “The Army made a man out of me.”Encouraged by his parents he studied […]

todaySeptember 19, 2023 16

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