Luke Bryan Has Given More Than 60 Scholarships On New Tour
Devastating news has hit the country community. Grammy-nominated producer, songwriter, and friend to many in the music industry, Michael James Ryan, also known as Busbee, died yesterday. He worked with numerous artists from Maren Morris to Shakira, and even wrote and produced Carly Pearce’s record. He was recently diagnosed with Glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer and was receiving treatment. He was only 43 years old.
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Luke Bryan has already given away more than 60 scholarships as part of his farm tour. He’s on his 11th farm tour where he brings his shows to small town across America. Proceeds from the tour have gone to help send kids from farming communities go to college!
Felicity Huffman’s daughter will be allowed to retake the SAT test after her mom paid to have her scores doctored the last time she took the exam. Sophia Grace Macy wants to apply to universities. The College Board, which administers the exam, has determined there’s no evidence that Sophia knew her mother was doing wrong. Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty to charges and will serve 2 weeks behind bars.
Zac Brown released a surprise album called The Controversy on Friday, which was just one week after he already released an album called The Owl. Media is calling it genre bending, and in a way it really is…he’s been flirting with this concept for a few albums now. Remember Jeckyl and Hyde? One side was country and the other was like all sorts of things. He says “I love country, but I love other things, too. So this is my outlet. This is my chance to be an artist and be creative and it’s another side.”
Is Captain America Chris Evans planning to jump from one Disney franchise to another? Producer of the Marvel films is teaming up with a producer for a Star Wars movie and the Star wars movie has teased that a major actor has the part if they want it. Chris Evans responded with a one word answer when collider.com tweeted “Which MCU actor would you like to see pop up In a Star Wars movie?” He said “Me.” So now everyone’s freaking out.
Dolly Parton has written a variety of books in her life and she’s raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide reading materials to the children of Tennessee. She recently signed a book deal with a small indie publisher, even though she had offers from larger publishing houses! She went with smaller ones because no major publishers are willing to part with audio rights.