Hip hop recording artist and record producer Jermaine Lamar, known by his stage name J. Cole will be in Houston this weekend at the Toyota Center.
J. Cole grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Cole and gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape, The Come Up, fourteen years ago back in 2017. Intent on further 
pursuing a solo career as a rapper, he went on to release two additional mixtapes after signing to Jay Z’s Roc Nation imprint in 2009.
Cole released his debut studio album, Cole World: The Sideline Story, in 2011. It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200, and was soon certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His next two releases, 2013’s Born Sinner and 2014’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, received mostly positive reviews from critics, while being both certified platinum in the US. 2014’s Forest Hills Drive also went platinum with absolutely no features. The latter earned him his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album. In December 2016 Cole released his fourth studio album 4 Your Eyez Only. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum in April 2017.
J. Cole's concert will also feature Shéyaa Bin Abraham-Joseph better known by his stage name 21 Savage. 21 Savage was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) back in 2019. Officials revealed his status as a British citizen who entered the U.S. in July 2005 and then unlawfully overstayed his visa when it expired a year later. He was granted bond and released the next day, pending the outcome of an expedited deportation hearing. The hearing was initially scheduled for April 9, 2019, but was later postponed indefinitely. 21 Savage won the award for Best Rap Song for his song "A Lot" at the 2020 Grammy Awards, marking both his and J. Cole's first Grammy wins. His long-awaited sequel collaboration with Metro Boomin, Savage Mode II, was released in October 2020 to widespread acclaim and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, spawning the top 10 singles 
"Runnin" and "Mr. Right Now".
Also joining J.Cole will be Morray. Morray grew up listening to artists like Usher and took inspiration from Drake's rapping and singing fluidity. His style has been compared to CeeLo Green, and described as combining "the soulfulness of Big K.R.I.T. with the bounce of Outkast"
Nigerian Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, Wizzy, Big Wiz, Machala or Starboy makes hisway to America's Bayou Cith this weekend in concert at Live Nation's Bayou Music Center.
Wizzy has several international music nominations and awards began recording music eleven. His management released a collaborative album with 
the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. Wizkid signed a record deal with Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E) twelve years ago.
He rose to the limelight after releasing "Holla at Your Boy", the lead single from his debut studio album, Superstar (2011). "Tease Me/Bad Guys", "Don't Dull", "Love My Baby", "Pakurumo", and "Oluwa Lo Ni" were also released as singles from the Superstar album. Ayo, his self-titled second studio album, was released in September 2014. It was supported by six singles: "Jaiye Jaiye", "On Top Your Matter", "One Question", "Joy", "Bombay", and "Show You the Money". Wizkid left E.M.E after his contract expired.
Jose-Miguel Yamal, born in Santiago, Chile, started learning jazz piano at the reknown High School for 
the Performing and Visual Arts and has since performed throughout Texas, Chile, Switzerland, and Brazil. He has been a clinician at different campuses including the College of the Mainland and one of the most sought after pianists in Houston.
One morning in the summer of 1999, Shukriya Barakzai woke up feeling dizzy and feverish. According to the Taliban’s rules, she needed a Maharram, a male guardian, in order to leave home to visit the 
doctor. Her husband was at work, and she had no sons. So she shaved her 2-year-old daughter’s head, dressed her in boys’ clothing to pass her off as a guardian, and slipped on a burka. Its blue folds hid her fingertips, painted red in violation of the Taliban’s ban on nail polish. She asked her neighbor, another woman, to walk with her to the doctor in central Kabul.
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the pandemic shutdowns.
Cornett, off work for a few weeks, realized he received enough money through unemployment benefits to start saving — for the first time. He wondered if the work he loves would ever entail a job that came with health insurance or paid leave.
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Early one morning, Linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset, and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She 
also saw a few people she didn’t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for Covid-19, and other expert advisers to the WHO. It was just past 1 pm Geneva time on April 3, 2020, but in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Marr lives with her husband and two children, dawn was just beginning to break.
Over Zoom, they laid out the case. They ticked through a growing list of superspreading events in restaurants, call centers, cruise ships, and a choir rehearsal, instances where people got sick even when they were across the room from a contagious 
person. The incidents contradicted the WHO’s main safety guidelines of keeping 3 to 6 feet of distance between people and frequent handwashing. If SARS-CoV-2 traveled only in large droplets that immediately fell to the ground, as the WHO was saying, then wouldn’t the distancing and the handwashing have prevented such outbreaks? Infectious air was the more likely culprit, they argued. But the WHO’s experts appeared to be unmoved. If they were going to call Covid-19 airborne, they wanted more direct evidence—proof, which could take months to gather, that the virus was abundant in the air. Meanwhile, thousands of people were falling ill every day.