Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed their first child Saturday night in New York, a daughter named Blue Ivy Carter. The little one arrived via scheduled C-section, multiple sources confirmed to www.eonline.com.
News spread fast Sunday about baby Blue's birth, with everyone from Beyoncé's sister Solange Knowles to famous friends such as Russell Simmons and Gwyneth Paltrow taking to Twitter to offer their well-wishes.
"The most beautiful girl in the world," Knowles wrote on Twitter before adding a statement about the news media. "Information that goes through the telephone always gets delivered wrong."
"Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih," Rihanna wrote.
"Congrats to my good friends Beyoncé and Jay-Z," hip-hop mogul Simmons wrote.
Benson launching label
Brendan Benson, a Detroit-made singer-songwriter and cofounder of the Raconteurs, announced he'll be launching Readymade -- his own record label and publishing company -- in the spring.
He'll kick off the Readymade jams with his fifth solo album, "What Kind of World." It'll be available beginning April 21 at www.brendanbenson.com.
Benson's label will be based out of Nashville, Tenn., where his Raconteurs band mate Jack White runs his Third Man Records label.
DSO signs Pontremoli
Though organizers of the Detroit Jazz Festival opted not to renew the contract of artistic and executive director Terri Pontremoli last fall, she'll still be programming jazz in Detroit -- at least in the short term.
Cleveland-based Pontremoli has signed on as a consultant with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to book its 2012-13 jazz series. The move comes as part of some restructuring within the DSO's nonclassical artistic staff.
In five years of leading the jazz festival, Pontremoli is credited with raising the artistic profile of the event to a new peak of excellence.
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• Bob Weston, a guitarist who played as a member of Fleetwood Mac during the early 1970s, was found dead in his London apartment last week, the Associated Press reports. An autopsy report indicated Weston, 64, was suffering from a gastric intestinal hemorrhage, cirrhosis and a throat ailment.
• Rolling Stones' rocker Keith Richards, 68, is doing "very well" following his recent laser eye surgery procedure to correct his failing vision, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mirror. This year marks the Stones' 50th anniversary as a band, but no official touring plans have yet been confirmed.
• Redford resident Gwendolyn Davis was one of the winners of the "Judge Mathis" show's "Joyful Noise" sweepstakes. She'll be rubbing elbows with "Joyful Noise" stars Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton, Keke Palmer and Courtney B. Vance at the film's Hollywood premiere tonight. She won by watching Detroit native Greg Mathis' show and entering the word of the day on www.judgemathistv.com during the contest two weeks ago.
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