Locust Ridge Music Superstar

Locust Ridge Music Superstar, One of 12 children, she grew up “dirt poor” in a one-room cabin on a run-down tobacco farm in Locust Ridge, Tenn. She moved to this country music mecca and made a name for herself as a songwriter. Today, she has several Grammy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a place in the Country Music Hall of Fame and a National Medal of Arts

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. She starred in the movies 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias, Straight Talk, Unlikely Angel and Joyful Noise. She is one of the most successful female country artists of all time; with an estimated 100 million in album sales, Dolly Parton is also one of the best selling artists of all time. She is known as “The Queen of Country Music”.

Mandisa: American Idol Mandisa: Mandisa Lost 120 Pounds

Mandisa: American Idol Mandisa: Mandisa Lost 120 Pounds, Mandisa Hundley (born October 2, 1976) is an American gospel singer, who was the ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol.
Mandisa Lynn Hundley was born and raised in Citrus Heights, California. After graduating from El Camino Fundamental High School, she attended American River College in Sacramento where she studied Vocal Jazz. Then she studied at Fisk University in Tennessee and graduated with a bachelor’s of music degree with a concentration in vocal performance.
Exactly five years to the day she got booted off of American Idol’s Top 9, former Idol hopeful Mandisa is releasing her third studio album, What If We Were Real. Mandisa was at The Grove Tuesday to promote her new album on Extra and to sing the title cut live – you can catch her performance video below.

Mandisa’s first album True Beauty debuted at #1 on the Top Christian Albums charts, making it the first time a new female artist has debuted at #1 in the chart’s 27-year history. So there is plenty of expectation that this album will also do well.

If you see Mandisa now, chances are, you will not recognize her from her Idol days. The girl with the powerful soulful voice has lost an incredible 120 pounds since Simon Cowell said about her, “We are going to have a bigger stage this year.” Simon was relentless on Mandisa’s weight until she stood up for herself and told Simon: “What I want to say to you is that, yes, you hurt me and I cried and it was painful, it really was. But I want you to know that I’ve forgiven you and that you don’t need someone to apologize in order to forgive somebody. I figure that if Jesus could die so that all of my wrongs could be forgiven, I can certainly extend that same grace to you.” Simon told Mandisa that he was “humbled” and apologized to her immediately.

Mandisa told Extra host Mario Lopez that she lost the weight through exercising, eating right and having a healthy mind. She told Mario that she is in a happy place. Mario asked her if she has a man in her life and she said no. And a puzzled Mario said, “But you said you were in a happy place!?” Mandisa laughed and said, “I am, but that doesn’t mean a man has to be in it!”

Nashville Road Closures

Nashville Road Closures:The flood of Nashville is the result of the weather system that fell into the Kentucky Derby and yesterday. However, the area affected as much as it did in the city of Music. Bridges and roads are under water in the entire region. The water came down in buckets and left the area reeling.

Transportation is a problem getting around the area.

As much as 13 inches of water fell on the city – forcing several streets, airport cancellations and causing the flooding Nashville one of the worst storms they’ve seen in years. Here is a clip that shows off I-24 who was beaten by the storm pretty good thunder.

Nashville Newspaper

Nashville Newspaper:It has been days since the flood happened in Nashville Tennessee. Now they say that the infrastructure in Nashville are bits, with a risk of security problems. The city is struggling to recover from the damage it has brought disgrace upon them. They miscalculated the amount of damage involved and seeing a clear aerial view of the surrounding area, concluded that the damage was more on a larger scale than they expected.

Officials are looking into the best way to recover the lost homes, buildings and other infrastructure of the city.

Meanwhile, two more are missing after the tragedy occurred. Many are listed as killed, missing or wounded after the event and are in search of an integer and a list of the names of the victims involved