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New Edition is an American R&B/pop group from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1978 by singer/rapper Bobby Brown. Their name is taken to mean a new edition of the Jackson 5. The group reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and is considered the blueprint for what would become the modern boy band.
After an audition for Payne, he gave them the name New Edition to signify they were a new edition of the Jackson 5. Maurice Starr , who wanted to create a "newer edition" of the pop act The Jackson 5 , signed them to his independent Streetwise Records label and a fifth member, Ronnie DeVoe (Payne's nephew), was added to the group.
In 2004, in a double wedding with Tresvant, Bell married actress Amy Correa. [11] [12] Bell is a fan of the Boston Celtics.[13]In The New Edition Story miniseries released in 2017, it was revealed that Bell had struggled with substance abuse in the mid-1990s, using marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, alcohol, and oxycontin to the point of losing his house and selling his personal property to satisfy ...
It was 1997, and New Edition, the most gifted vocal group since the Jackson 5, was imploding. For Ralph Tresvant, Ronnie DeVoe, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Johnny Gill, the “Home ...
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After an eventful three-week run of two Smackdown performances and multiple guesses of New Edition members, he was finally eliminated, and celebrated his time on the show with a live performance ...
The NYPD has added more than three dozen new names to its memorial honoring officers who died in the line of duty — with Mayor Eric Adams saying the fallen watered “the tree of freedom” with ...
In 1991, Brown collaborated with New Edition member Ralph Tresvant on the latter's single "Stone Cold Gentleman", which was a top-five R&B hit. Brown's next album Bobby was released in 1992. Despite its release during the final days of the New Jack Swing era it was a success, selling more than 3 million copies, and spawning several hit singles ...