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Niko Moon performing on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' tomorrow

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Sony Music NashvilleNiko Moon is heading to late night with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live tomorrow night. The show airs on ABC at 11:35 p.m. ET.

The performance comes just as Niko’s debut single, “Good Time,” which is certified Platinum by the RIAA, reaches the #1 spot on the country radio airplay chart. 

“GOOD TIME is the #1 song on country radio!! Thank y’all for all the support and love on this song  I couldn’t have done it without y’all! Thank you for being the best FAM,” he writes on Twitter. 

Before topping the country charts as a solo artist, Niko began his career as a songwriter in Nashville, penning such tracks as Zac Brown Band‘s #1 hit, “Homegrown,” Rascal Flatts‘ “Back to Life” and Dierks Bentley‘s latest single, “Gone.”

By Cillea Houghton 
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'The Queen's Gambit' getting the Broadway musical treatment

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Netflix(NEW YORK) — The story that inspired Netflix’s hit drama The Queen’s Gambit could be coming to Broadway. Entertainment company Level Forward has acquired the rights to Walter Tevis’ The Queen’s Gambit, the 1983 novel behind the award-winning streaming hit, with plans to adapt it into a musical. 

The book, like the miniseries, centers on Beth Harmon, an orphan turned chess prodigy, who grapples with addiction and the challenges of the male-dominated world of competitive chess. 

In a statement, Level Forward CEO Adrienne Becker and producer Julia Dunetz called it a “privilege” to bring the story to the stage, calling it “a siren call amidst our contemporary struggles for gender and racial equity.”

The Queen’s Gambit received two Critics’ Choice Awards Sunday night: Best Limited Series and Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television for Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays Harmon. 

Taylor-Joy was also awarded a Best Actress in a Limited Series Golden Globe last week, while the series itself was honored with a trophy in the Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television category.

 

By Stephen Iervolino
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Kenny Chesney finds solitude by the sea in "Knowing You" video trailer

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Warner Music Nashville Kenny Chesney heads to the coast in the trailer for the video for his latest single, “Knowing You.” 

Filmed last fall in the fishing town of Gloucester, Mass. and the island St. Croix in the Caribbean, the clip shows the superstar strolling through the mist along a jetty in the middle of the ocean, with a lighthouse offering a glimmer of light in the background. 

“Not everything is meant to last. You don’t think about that when it’s perfect. And when it’s over, there’s a huge hole, but there’s also a pair of wings,” Kenny says in a voiceover. 

The camera then moves to a sailboat floating on the water at sunset. “Knowing you, wherever you are, I know you’re happy. You’re flying, and free. And I’m here still grateful for knowing you,” Kenny says as the video fades into a view of the gray ocean. 

The official video, which premieres on Friday, features footage of Kenny and his boat captain, Ben, working on a fishing boat off the East Coast. 

“Knowing You” is the fourth single off Kenny’s 2020 album, Here and Now, the title track of which is his 31st number-one hit.

By Cillea Houghton 
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Miranda Lambert's Casa Rosa to open this summer

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Becky FlukeFollowing the announcement last week that she’s the first female country singer to open a bar and restaurant on Broadway in downtown Nashville, Miranda Lambert is sharing more details about Casa Rosa. 

The Texas-inspired eatery doubles as a four-floor venue, three of which will feature live entertainment, along with a rooftop bar, slated to open in summer 2021.

The complex will be decked out with memorabilia from Miranda’s illustrious career, including costumes from her videos and the birdcage featured in the video for her latest #1 hit, “Bluebird.”

True to its name, the “Pink House” boasts tufted pink booths, along with a rhinestone saddle modeled after one of the singer’s favorites that hangs inside Billy Bob’s Texas, and an Instagram-worthy yellow rose wall.

The menu will feature Tex-Mex items such as tacos and one of Miranda’s favorite libations, tequila.

“I’m so excited to have a honky tonk with my name on it! Casa Rosa will be a little taste of Texas in Tennessee,” she says. “This place is special to me and I’m happy to be representing  the ladies here in Music City! See y’all down there!”  

To create Casa Rosa, Miranda is working with TC Restaurant Group, the company that’s also behind FGL House, Luke’s 32 Bridge and more. 

Additionally, Miranda is releasing The Marfa Tapes on May 7, an album with singer-songwriters Jack Ingram and Jon Randall.

By Cillea Houghton 
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Oprah says it wasn't Queen Elizabeth or Prince Philip who wondered about the "color" of Harry and Meghan's son

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Harpo Productions/ Photographer: Joe Pugliese(LOS ANGELES) — One of the bombshell accusations leveled by Meghan Markle and Prince Harry during Sunday night’s Oprah Winfrey interview Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special was that there allegedly were “concerns” within the royal family about the skin color of the duke and duchess’ mixed-race children.

However, during a conversation with her bestie Gayle King on CBS This Morning, Oprah threw cold water on speculation that it was Queen Elizabeth or her husband, Prince Philip, who made the comments.

“[Prince Harry] did not share the identity with me,” as to who raised the concern, Winfrey explained, clarifying, “he wanted to make sure that I knew and, if I had an opportunity to share it, that it was not his grandmother nor his grandfather that were a part of those conversations.”

During the marathon chat with the couple, Markle, who is biracial, said she and Harry were “blindsided” by racist comments that were made both in the media and within what she called “The Firm,” a reference to Buckingham Palace.

Harry commented that he has a good relationship with his grandparents, though he noted that his father, Charles, Prince of Wales, had stopped taking his calls, and that the Royal Family had cut him off financially.

Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special drew huge numbers for CBS, attracting more than 17 million viewers for the network, according to preliminary numbers quoted by The Hollywood Reporter.

By Stephen Iervolino
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