R&B CELEBRITY SPOTTINGS: BACKSTAGE @ THE 'ESSENCE FESTIVAL 2008' // D. WOODS B'DAY BASH.....

Backstage at the New Orleans Essence Festival 2008 event, Solange was spotted behind the scenes with her cute son 3-year-old Daniel Julez:




The handsome little fella is growing up nicely in deed and he was showing much affection to his mother. Sol only has his best interest at heart when she says she doesn't want little Daniel to follow in the family footsteps of working in showbiz. Recently, she said: "I'd love for him to be talented in other things. I hope that he wants to be a computer engineer." Solange is also seen hanging out with Bow Wow.

Chilli and J. Holiday was spotted behind the scenes as well:






.... as was Solange, Rihanna and Chris Brown who was spotted putting his skate boarding skills into practice.

Danity Kane singer D Woods celebrated her 25th birthday in Atlanta on July 3rd at Lucky Lounge:




D. Woods had an 80's themed birthday bash but looked pretty undesirable in a blah-looking wedding dress, but if she likes it I love it. Aubrey was looking a hot mess as usual. It's almost become standard procedure. The good news is I'm hearing their video Bad Girl is near completion so fingers crossed that we'll be seeing it soon.

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