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Grammy Award-winning, platinum-selling vocalist — and High Point native — Fantasia Barrino will perform May 2, 2026, at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro. Special guest Anthony Hamilton will also ...
Fantasia Barrino and Anthony Hamilton are coming to Macon in early 2026, performing at the Macon Coliseum in downtown Macon, ...
Fantasia Barrino, who currently stars in the remake of the 1985 film “The Color Purple,” is accusing her Airbnb host of “racial profiling.” “My stomach is so uneasy this morning as I’m ...
Fantasia Barrino revealed that she "hated" playing Celie in the Broadway rendition of "The Color Purple" in 2007 because of trauma from a sexual assault that resurfaced when she took on the role.
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Fantasia Barrino-Taylor on the Pain (and Joy) of ‘The Color Purple’ Offered the chance to revisit her Broadway performance as the much-abused Celie, the star faced a difficult path.
Fantasia Barrino is opening up about how the role of Celie in the upcoming “ Color Purple” movie empowered her to face her past experiences with violence and sexual abuse. In a new interview ...
Fantasia Barrino already has two children from previous relationships — Dallas Xavier and Zion Quari — and Kendall Taylor is dad to a son named Treyshaun Fantasia Barrino is having a baby girl ...
It was a full-circle moment on this morning’s episode of The View when Whoopi Goldberg, who played the original Celie in The Color Purple in 1985, interviewed Fantasia Barrino, who took over the ...
“American Idol” alum Fantasia Barrino and her husband, Kendall Taylor, have welcomed their first child, a baby girl, together. “Happy Birthday to our little Angel 5-23-21 and may God keep ...
On the morning of Aug. 9, Fantasia was forced out of her hiding place to meet with her lawyers, trailed by cameras for the second season of her reality show, which premieres on Sept. 19.
Sept. 30, 2005 — -- Fantasia Barrino began singing at the age of 5. At 19, she became an "American Idol" winner. Her first album, "Free Yourself," was released in November 2004 and shortly ...