Tiffany Smith

One of the quintessential '80s teen pop stars, Tiffany transformed her massive early success into an enduring career as a working musician and pop culture fixture decades later. She helped shape the sound of late-'80s pop music with the hit singles "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Could've Been" and her quadruple-platinum self-titled 1987 full-length, which made her the youngest female artist to top the Billboard chart with a debut album. Tiffany's success was also influential: not only did she give mega-popular boy band New Kids on the Block a boost at the beginning of their career, but the shopping-mall performances that kick-started her rise became a promotional strategy later used by Britney Spears and Taylor Swift.

«La sfortuna degli altri è dolce come il miele», dice un antico proverbio giapponese, mentre i soliti, pragmatici tedeschi l'hanno detto con una parola sola: Schadenfreude, "la gioia per le disgrazie altrui". Il termine è minaccioso e oscuro, ma l'emozione è deliziosa e più comune di quanto siamo disposti ad ammettere. Tutti l'abbiamo provata e la proviamo ogni giorno, in fila al supermercato o girovagando sui social. È la gioia segreta quando vediamo l'uomo d'affari che pesta una cacca di cane, il politico sommerso di insulti su Facebook, il nostro vicino a cui si rompono i sacchi della spazzatura stracolmi. Spesso la travestiamo da giustizia divina, da vendetta del karma, quando l'universo sembra punire chi se lo merita. Però non sempre è così, o non solo..

In this hour-long special filmed at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, rising comedy star Tiffany Haddish takes the stage in her hometown of Los Angeles to tackle subjects ranging from her early days in foster care and being bullied on the playground, to getting her revenge on ex-boyfriends and introducing Will and Jada Pinkett Smith to Groupon.

One of the greatest talents of the great talent, vocalist Betty Carter, was her ability to sing in different voice personalities. She could purr the purest ballad, scat the fastest bop run, and dig the deepest in the blue notes. Carter's legacy has been wanting for a new talent to bestow its mantle…and that talent is Tiffany Austin. Add to this talent the vision for selecting an integrating theme to the repertoire and Unbroken, the sophomore release after 2015's Nothing but Soul (Con Alma Music) emerges as a fully formed masterpiece. The integrating theme here is the celebration of the robust spirit of African-American Culture and with the spirit of Betty Carter flowing through this recital, Austin draws a line in the sand…a deep one.