Jordin Sparks & Craig Robinson Join Keith Harris Experience for Lively 'Purple Rain' Cover

New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you're supposed to somehow find the best ones. It's fun work, but it's time-consuming -- so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams.

As a mother, the death of George Floyd hit Jordin Sparks particularly hard.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE:  Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Peter Stormare are among the first to be set for the pandemic-themed thriller Songbird. Deadline revealed last month that Songbird would be shot in Los Angeles, one of the first films to begin production.The film was set up by Adam Goodman and Andrew Sugerman’s Invisible Narratives in partnership with Catchlight Studios and Michael Bay.

When it comes to standing up and speaking out against social injustices, activist Carmen Perez-Jordan has dedicated more than 25 years fighting for equality and calling for an end to mass incarceration, community policing and gender equity.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticLin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in on John Bolton’s lift of a Hamilton lyric for use as the title of his memoir The Room Where It Happened.Since the former national security adviser announced the title last year, Hamilton fans took notice of the reference to the musical’s song “The Room Where It Happens.” Earlier this year, the show’s producer, Jeffrey Seller, told a California newspaper, “I don’t even know how to describe it; it’s just strange.”Miranda

Prince during the recording of his ‘Purple Rain’ album has gone up for auction.According to Music Radar, the vintage Yamaha DX7 synthesiser was played by the late icon on the classic 1984 record and its subsequent live tour.Handwritten preset labels including “Kiss LP”, “Dope Drum” and “Another LP1” still remain intact on the piece of kit.The keyboard will go under the hammer on the RR Auction website tomorrow (June 18), and is estimated to bring up to $25,000 (£19,950).

Jordin Sparks is done not saying anything about racial injustice.

Prince’s classic “Purple Rain” just got an epic new update.

Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and the cast of Schitt’s Creek are among the stars who have offered messages of hope to young people graduating from schools and universities across America.

"Star Wars" actor John Boyega risked professional fallout and delivered a powerful speech at a Black Lives Matter protest in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday.

Jordin Sparks is hoping her music with lift people up during these unsettling times.

Jordin Sparks is sending a message.

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are showing their support for Black Lives Matter.

Veteran British artist manager and label executive Keith Harris has posted a striking open letter to the music industry’s hierarchy, calling for enduring change.Harris, who has worked on both sides of the Atlantic, entered the industry in 1974, first with Transatlantic Records and later with EMI and Motown, among other labels.Through his career, he worked with the likes of Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, and many more, and to this day continues to represent Stevie Wonder.A tireless

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have donated $200,000 to the NAACP and released a statement about their own complicity in systemic racism—as well as their commitment to educate themselves and become more informed.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds announced that they've donated $200,000 to the NAACP following the police killing of George Floyd. The couple expressed their dedication to being allies of the Black community and their faith in the NAACP to lead their community and the country during this time.