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Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Download Lucie Silvas mp3

Artist: Lucie Silvas: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

The Same Side

Year: 2007

Tracks: 15

Breathe In

Year: 2005

Tracks: 13

Born in 1980 to a New Zealander father and a Scottish mother, Lucie Silverman exhausted her childhood age between her parents' native countries as good as England, where she was born. Always interested in music, by five she had started playing the pianissimo and by ten she had written her first vocal. As a teenager, she dropped out of heights school to puzzle out as a ground singer for ex-Take That isaac Bashevis Singer Gary Barlow, and in 2000 she signed to then-EMI imprint Chrysalis Records, merely when her debut single, "It's Too Late," failed to make a significant demonstrate on the British charts, Lucie, domain Health Organization was nowadays sledding by the identify Lucie Silvas, was dropped from the label earlier an album ever came out. She exhausted the side by side few age working as a songwriter, writing for artists like Liberty X and Will Young, among others, merely conclusion making that performing her have satisfying was what she unfeignedly wanted to do, she began to play on getting herself some other record deal. In 2003 Mercury picked up the young isaac Merrit Singer, and the next year her debut uncut, Breathe In, was released. The succeeding few years were exhausted touring, specifically in the U.K. merely as well in the rest of Europe and even Asia, and in 2007, afterwards a few delays, Silvas' minute gear album, The Same Side, hit British shelves (it had already been released in Holland in October of 2006).

Saturday, 30 August 2008

Another Wagner joins leadership bid for Bayreuth

FRANKFURT, Germany �

As the annual Bayreuth Festival moves toward its conclusion later this week, the real drama is flowering behind the scenes over a replacement to 89-year-old director Wolfgang Wagner.

The furore increased Monday with news that Nike Wagner, the great granddaughter of the composer Richard Wagner, had teamed with Belgian theater director Gerard Mortier to apply for the job. Nike's bid rivals an sooner bid by two of her cousins - the daughters of current director Wolfgang Wagner.

The festival confirmed receiving the Wagner-Mortier application, as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung had reported, only offered no further comment.

Mortier, who helped bring about a successful resurgence of the Salzburg Festival in neighboring Austria, is to become general manager and artistic conductor of the New York City Opera in the fall of 2009. He is in his concluding season as head of the Paris Opera.

"While Gerard has no sense of what the outcome of this proposition will be, he was actually eagre to participate in the challenge and the chance," said Pascal Nadon, a spokesman for Mortier. "He's confident that success would enhance the reputation and reach of New York City Opera in the international opera house world, so for us it's very exciting. If we would dig and look into dual opera house leadership, we could find many examples of very efficient partnerships."

Richard Wagner founded the festival in 1872 and his grandsons, Wolfgang and Wieland, took charge of the festival in 1951. After the end of Wieland - Nike's father - Wolfgang became the sole director in 1967 only he proclaimed in later April that he would quit the director's post at the end of August.

His daughters Katharina, 30, and her elder half sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier, 63, submitted an lotion for joint leadership.

An official decision on who will take over the festival is non expected until after this year's event ends Aug. 28. The festival card of directors is typeset to meet Sept. 1.

Speculation about the festival's future leadership has swirled since the death last November of Wolfgang Wagner's second wife and longtime helper, Gudrun. For years, Wolfgang insisted that she submit over from him and if not, then their daughter Katharina.

In 2001, the festival's plank of directors, which includes federal, Bavarian state government and Bayreuth city officials, tried to force Wagner to stair down by naming Wagner-Pasquier to take over.

But he refused to leave, contestation his life-time contract gave him restraint over the opera business firm where the festival is staged each summer.

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Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Hostesses outclass cheerleaders at Games

Forget the skimpily clad cheerleaders. The immaculate hostesses handing verboten medals at the Olympics have won the watcher vote for glamour.

Wearing Chinese silk dresses with their hair pulled back tightly into neat buns, the hostesses are beautiful, elegant and their eyes are three-tenths the length of their faces, as required by the Chinese selection committee.

"They ar so pretty and accurate. They smile continuously," aforesaid Debra Sinex, a tourer from Atlanta, Georgia, in Beijing for the Olympics.

At every laurel wreath ceremony sise or more hostesses ar on duty.

Two wearing "cheongsam"�- tenacious dresses�- bandstand either side of the podium spell three or more in knee-length dresses hold platters bearing the medals and bouquets of nine redness roses, with red a lucky colouring material in China and nine meaning everlasting.

But although the role looks simple, in line with China's conjure to host the perfect Games, these hostesses receive been meticulously chosen and trained.

When Olympic organisers started a search for the hostesses they issued a list of requirements for appearance and body condition that was published by Chinese media, raising eyebrows in the West because of the sexist and stereotype overtones.

Many were likewise upset by China's decision to ingest a pretty little young woman lip-synching a song at the possibility ceremony simply because the real vocalist had corrupt teeth.

Hostess candidates have to be university educated, aged 18 to 24, betwixt 1.68 and 1.78 metres in stature, with a "ruddy and shiny complexion", "elastic skin" and "a plump but not juicy body".

Their faces needed to meet standards including the ratio 'tween the "breadth of the nose and the length of the face" and "width of the oral fissure and width between the pupils", with eyes three-tenths the length of the face.

From about 5,000 applications, 297 candidates were chosen from a twelve Beijing colleges and 40 students from Shanghai to be "Olympic victory ceremony volunteers".

Five serial publication of costumes were designed for the hostesses to wear at the 302 Olympic and 471 Paralympic medal ceremonies, each for different sports and featuring traditional Chinese images such as blue-and-white porcelain, embroidery and jade.

The women have been through thorough preparation at a kind of charm thrill camp, encyclopaedism to stand for hours in high-heels and honing the pure smile exposing eight dentition by expenditure hours before a mirror with a chopstick 'tween their teeth.

"In the standing sessions, we have to stand still and smile for half an time of day or more. We too run about a chiliad metres every day for physical conditioning," one of the hostesses, Ma Sha, 20, told Reuters in front of the Games.

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Sunday, 10 August 2008

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Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Aine Minogue

Artist: Aine Minogue

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Mysts Of Time

Year: 1996
Tracks: 13

The sister of isaac M. Singer Sheila O'Shea, Irish vocalist and harper Ãine Minogue began playing at the age of 14 as a member of the Galway Mercy Convent's notable 114-piece orchestra. After a land tenure with the Bunratty Castle Singers, Minogue resettled to the U.S., subsiding in Boston and teaming with the Irish tenor voice Sean O'Shea in the duette Legacy. While at the same time precept at Boston College's Irish Studies Program, she too began playing extensively in the fellowship of artists including Johnny Cunningham, SÃ©amus Connolly, and SÃ©amus Egan, all of whom joined her on her debut release, 1994's Were You at the Rock. In 1996, Minogue returned with a pair off of LPs, Mysts of Time and To Warm Winter's Night, followed in 1997 by 'tween Worlds. Roach of the Sun appeared in 1998, followed a year later by Celtic language Spirit.

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

Gigi D'Alessio

Artist: Gigi D'Alessio

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Other

Discography:

Made in Italy

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

Quanti Amori

Year: 2005
Tracks: 13

Buona Vita (CD 2)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 11

Buona Vita (CD 1)

Year: 2003
Tracks: 11

Quando La Mia Vita Cambiera

Year: 2000
Tracks: 11

Weathergirl Gone Wild

Friday, 13 June 2008

David Archuleta signs record deal

David Archuleta has a job lined up once his " American Idol" tour is over -- not that there was any doubt.

The 17-year-old "Idol" runner-up has signed a deal with 19 Recordings/Jive Records, according to a Tuesday post on the Web site of the label managed by "Idol" creator Simon Fuller.

David Cook, 25, a former bartender from Blue Springs, Mo., won the "American Idol" title when the sixth season of Fox's top-rated singing competition wrapped up May 21. The title comes with a recording contract.

Friday, 6 June 2008

'Owen Wilson Visits Kate Hudson Lookilike Stripper'

Owen Wilson is getting over his split from Kate Hudson by visiting strips clubs and watching dances of by girls who look like his ex, claim reports.

Following Wilson's suicide attempt last summer, the You, Me And Dupree co-stars reconciled their differences over a bad relationship and began dating again earlier this year.

However, Kate is now reportedly seeing cyclist Lance Armstrong, but Owen has been getting over her by visiting a Philadelphia strip club.

A source tells Page Six: "He spent 4½ hours at Rick's Cabaret and was in an upbeat mood," one spy said. "He watched the Flyers game, drank beer, and when a parade of 75 half-naked girls caught his eye, he asked for dances from several and definitely had a preference for blondes. He tipped at least one with a $100 bill."

A stripper at the venue who spent some private time with Wilson in a VIP suite revealed: "If he had any problems, you'd never know it. He didn't seem upset in the least. People tell me I look like Kate, and it didn't bother him at all."

Another buxomed dancer had a slightly different take. "He seemed to have other things on his mind. Usually, my 36D boobs can hypnotize anyone - but his mind was elsewhere," she said.

Do you think Owen is better off without Kate? Be sure to leave your comments below.

Wednesday, 4 June 2008

Singer Meldrum Dies

Former PHANTOM BLUE guitarist MICHELLE MELDRUM has died. She was 39.

The Meldrum frontwoman passed away after suffering a brain haemorrhage on 18 May (08).

Meldrum's former Phantom Blue bandmate Linda MCDonald says, "It comes as a complete shock and the impact will be felt by so many. She was a one of a kind and will be sorely missed. I don't really know what to say right now. Thank you for your prayers. I'm sure she heard them all. It is a very sad, sad day."

The surviving bandmembers of Meldrum plan to release a tribute CD later this year (08), reports Blabbermouth.net.

The star - married to Europe guitarist John Norum - leaves one son, Jake Thomas, three.

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Brooks Dunn Pen Comic Novel

Country duo BROOKS + DUNN have added author to their resumes after writing a comic crime novel.

The pair - real names Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks - will release their first novel, entitled The Adventures of Slim and Howdy, next month (12May08).

The My Maria hitmakers enlisted the help of southern humourist Bill Fitzhugh to help them come up with character ideas - but ended up basing them on their own wacky stage alter-egos Slim (Dunn) and Howdy (Brooks).

Brooks insists they both wanted the novel to be more in the vein of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid than The Dukes of Hazzard".

He says, "(We wanted it to be not) too heavy, but at the same time (with) a good sense of humour."

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SWV

Artist: SWV

   Genre(s):
Blues

Discography:

Release Some Tension

Year: 1997
Tracks: 12

New Beginning

Year: 1996
Tracks: 17

It's About Time

Year: 1992
Tracks: 15

With their 1992 debut, It's About Time, the all-female modern jack swing trinity SWV scored a string of Top Ten R&B hits that established them as unitary of the to the highest degree popular urban R&B groups of the '90s. SWV (their list is an acronym for Sisters with Voices) is comprised of triad schoolhouse friends: Coko (born Cheryl Gamble), Taj (born Tamara Johnson), and Lelee (born Leanne Lyons). All triad vocalists american ginseng in church building as children, which is where they learned how to harmonise. A demonstration tape the grouping assembled caught the attention of producer Teddy Riley, a previous member of Guy and arguably the padre of young jack sweep. Prior to SWV, Riley helped show the careers of Jodeci and Mary J. Blige. Riley's luck didn't wear out with SWV -- he helped the chemical group craft their debut, It's About Time, which went double platinum within its start year of release.

The release of It's About Time was preceded by "Right Here" in the accrue of 1992. The single reached number 13 on the R&B charts, just it was the number two pip, "I'm So Into You," that established the threesome as a commercial effect early in 1993. It was followed by two number one R&B singles in a row: "Weak" and "Correct Here/Human Nature," a remix of their first single that featured samples of Michael Jackson's hit "Human Nature." "Weak" besides hit number one on the pop charts; "Right Here/Human Nature" reached identification number two on the pop charts. One other Top Ten R&B hit from It's About Time, "Forever on My Mind," followed late in 1993. "Anything," SWV's donation to the soundtrack for To a higher place the Rim, became a Top Ten R&B hit in the spring of 1994. Also in the saltation of 1994, SWV released The Remixes, which went gold by the end of the year. In the summer of 1995, the threesome lententide outspoken harmonies to Blackstreet's Top 40 R&B hit "Tonight's the Night." In 1996, SWV returned with New Beginning, which was preceded by the identification number one R&B hit "You're the One." Expiration Some Tension followed in 1997, and two old age later the group's past successes were recalled on their Sterling Hits.

New Kids On The Block Are Reuniting 'For The Right Reasons,' By John Norris

Unless you are a glacier or a giant sequoia, 15 years is a long time. In the music business, it's a very long time. In the teen-pop world, it's an eternity. And the past 15 years have been a time of such dramatic, fundamental change in the music industry that today the "biz" looks like a different "biz" altogether.

So you'll forgive Jordan Knight, of the newly reunited senior citizens of boy-band-dom, New Kids on the Block, when he speaks of a "new CD" coming out in the fall, or of the band's new single called "Summertime" that's "climbing the charts." It's quaint, but somewhat antiquated language.

"Wait! Do they even have 'charts' anymore?" chimes in Donnie Wahlberg. "No, it's 'we put our song into a computer bank. And you can go download it onto your — your not Walkman." (Now that's more like it!)

Yes, much has changed since 1993, the last time the NKOTB performed together, and until recently few would have taken the bet that we would have ever seen the quintet at it again. But sure enough, in only nine months, it's gone from Wahlberg discovering a song ("Click Click Click" — on his birthday, actually) that he figured might be the right one for a reunion, to the guys finishing up a full album, beginning preparations for a fall tour — and making comeback appearances on the and at two radio station concerts, in New Jersey and Boston.

Backstage at the Jersey show — Z-100's "Zootopia" concert — the new New Kids seem excited, gratified and humbled by the frenzied reaction to their return from many now 30-something fans. They seem to be in something of a zone.

"Everything is just really flowing," says Joe McIntyre, who always, along with Jordan, was one of the two strongest singers in the group. "I feel like we're in a good place, and we're doing it for the right reasons and we're having a good time."

The right reasons. That, in a nutshell, is why an NKOTB reunion is happening now, when one might least expect it, when seemingly few people — OK, actually quite a few people —were clamoring for it, and in the absence of any demonstrable 'boy band wave' like we saw in the late 1990s and early '00s. Heaven knows plenty of people — outside parties, including the MTV Video Music Awards and VH1 — tried to make it happen in the past. Pleas were made, checks were no doubt waved, but Wahlberg — ever the heart, soul, conscience and mouthpiece of the New Kids — says he wasn't interested. "Every attempt in the past ... they weren't real. They were for other people's agendas, you know? It was always to serve someone else."

Not one to hold back, he continues, "You know it was 'Backstreet's huge, 'NSYNC's huge ... why don't you guys reunite on the MTV Awards?' And that's what our old record company [Columbia Records] wanted. Well, why don't you just put us in the studio and finance an album and let's see if that'll work? As opposed to throwing us onstage and seeing if we get cheered or booed. You know what I mean? It was to serve their agenda. It didn't matter. If Chris Rock ripped us up and it turned into a disaster that we reunited on the MTV Awards, what was our record company gonna do the next morning? What would they do? They'd be like 'Bye, guys! Enjoy your flight home.' And I personally was not gonna put myself in that position, or us in that position."

That kind of self-respect, Wahlberg says, was not always there, but was borne of having pulled himself up in the mid-'90s, post-New Kids, and having fashioned a career as a respected Hollywood actor ("The Sixth Sense," "Band of Brothers," "Ransom"). He didn't "need" to do a reunion but says he never closed himself off to it, if it went down the "right way." "And for me it was never gonna be 'let's go onstage and let's go on tour and scoop up all the money that's out there.' It was gonna be about, 'Let's make a record.' "

As for that record, tracks reportedly include "Click Click Click," "Looking Like Danger," "Big Boy/Big Girl" and, of course, "Summertime." While the single is nostalgic, evoking memories of 1988, the guys seem intent on focusing on the here and now.

Jordan says they're looking forward to busting out vintage hits on the fall tour, though some will be reworked: "We've performed those songs so many times that we want to give 'em a slight twist, not to get so far off where it's unrecognizable, because we don't want fans to not have that feeling they had when they were young. We want to re-create that for them."

When it comes to their place in the pubescent pop pantheon, having paved the way for the boy bands that followed, Danny Wood says he's proud that New Kids left their "little stamp" on the music business. But he adds that he does not envy the 24/7 microscope of TMZ Nation that the Mileys, Britneys and Jonases of today must contend with.

"The way the Internet is, there's all the sites that are always trying to get dirt on everyone, so they got it a lot different than we did. That's the part that's a little unfair, because you're walking on eggshells these days."

Wahlberg concurs and knows that teen idol status ain't all roses. "I can relate to somebody being put in a fishbowl and sort of being told by the world who they are, what they are, and wanting to not be that. You know, and fighting for that autonomy. I know what that's like, you know, so I can relate to it on many levels."

That does not, however, mean he would presume to give them advice. Donnie says that back in the day, he wasn't really interested in advice from his predecessors like Donny Osmond and wouldn't dole it out today. Or if he ever did, he would do it in private.

"I'm not gonna do it walking down the red carpet for 'Entertainment Tonight.' Like, 'What do you got to say to Britney?' You know, I'll say it to Britney, I'm not gonna say it to you. You know what I mean? I'll talk to her. It's just false. Sure, I probably could give a lot of people advice. But it's like all of this: It's gonna be for the right reason and in the right way."

Seasoned wisdom from a onetime — and future — New Kid.

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'Lindsay Lohan Offered $1 Million Deal To Admit She's Gay'

Lindsay Lohan has reportedly turned down a one million dollar offer from a top magazine to come out about her rumoured relationship with gal pal Samantha Ronson.

The Mean Girls star has had the world guessing about her sexual orientation after being overly affectionate in public with her DJ chum, with even her parents Dina and Michael questioning her preference.

Page Six reports that OK! are in talks to do a cover where Lohan "comes out" about her relationship with Ronson, and the publication has offered her "around $1 million to do the cover."

One source said: "Lindsay really wants this to happen and she needs the money."

Lohan's spokesperson has denied the deal, stating: "They sent offers and we passed."

Do you think Lindsay should come out if she is in a lesbian relationship? Be sure to leave your comments below.

Gerardo Frisina

Artist: Gerardo Frisina

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Latin Kick

Year: 2006
Tracks: 8

Hi Note

Year: 2004
Tracks: 14

Certain Criteria

Artist: Certain Criteria

   Genre(s):
Drum & Bass

Discography:

Formula Music (FORMM006)

Year: 2005
Tracks: 2