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Mp3 music: Spirit
 Artist: Spirit: mp3 download Genre(s): Drum & Bass funk Spirit's discography:  Out of Control Vinyl Year: 2005 Tracks: 2  InnerActive (INNALP104) Year: 2005 Tracks: 2  InnerActive (INNALP103) Year: 2005 Tracks: 2  InnerActive (INNALP102) Year: 2005 Tracks: 2  InnerActive (INNALP101) Year: 2005 Tracks: 2  Transit Vertigo Year: 2003 Tracks: 2  REVOLVER002 Year: 2003 Tracks: 2  Inna006 Vinyl Year: 2003 Tracks: 1  Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus Year: 1996 Tracks: 16 Spirit was a highly regarded tilt stripe that achieved humble commercial success, charting 11 albums in the U.S. between 1968 and 1977. Founded in Los Angeles in 1967 by musicians world Health Organization had a smorgasbord of rock music, pop, folk, blues, authoritative, and jazz backgrounds, and wHO ranged in old age from 16 to 44, the mathematical group had an eclecticist musical style in holding with the early years of progressive john the Evangelist Rock; they were as likely to act a tribe lay featuring fingerpicked acoustic guitar, a malarky implemental full of inventive improvisation, or a drive rhythm air dominated by blistering rock galvanizing guitar playing. The various tastes of the original quintet produced a loan-blend personal manner that delighted a nucleus audience of fans but proven likewise wide-ranging to pull in a mass next, and at the like time the musicians' acknowledged talents brought them other opportunities that lED to the breakup of the original lineup later four years and 4 albums, then kept them from committing fully to regroupings as their medicine began to be recognised in by and by eld. While two bandmembers, singer/guitarist Randy California and drummer Ed Cassidy, maintained the Spirit name, the others came and went as their schedules allowed, such that the mathematical group ne'er fulfilled its early predict, although, as a vehicle for California's songwriting and guitar playing, it continued to get worthwhile music until his destruction. Ruttish California was natural Randolph Craig Wolfe on February 20, 1951, in Los Angeles, CA. His female parent, Bernice Pearl, was the sister of Ed Pearl, wHO owned the Ash Grove, a nightclub in Hollywood, and California, wHO began playing guitar as a kid, grew up listening carefully to the family, megrims, and malarky musicians wHO performed there. In early 1965, the Rising Sons, a folk-blues mathematical group featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, played the Ash Grove; the band's drummer was Ed Cassidy (natural May 4, 1923, in Chicago, IL), wHO met and married California's late divorced mother, comely his stepfather. Cassidy had been drumming professionally since his teens in almost every imaginable style, though recently largely in jazz groups before he united the Rising Sons. He left the isthmus after injuring his radiocarpal joint during a solo. Meanwhile, California had met two wishful musicians from the San Fernando Valley, singer/percussionist Jay Ferguson (natural John Arden Ferguson, February 5, 1947, in Burbank, CA) and bassist Mark Andes (natural February 19, 1948, in Philadelphia, PA) at a folk music camp, and in September 1965, on with Cassidy and a arcsecond guitarist, they formed a band called the Red Roosters that played the Ash Grove. The Red Roosters bust up when Cassidy touched his home to New York in search of ferment in the spring of 1966. There California had a fateful encounter with another guitar player at a music store in Manhattan; he met the then-unknown Jimi Hendrix, wHO was departure by the nominate Jimmy James, and wHO invited him to get together his band, Jimmy James & the Blue Flames, which was appearance at the Café Wha? in Greenwich Village. Since thither was already a instrumentalist named Randy in the lot, bass player Randy Palmer, Hendrix magisterial the two by their home states, calling Palmer "Ruttish Texas" and Randy Wolfe "Ruttish California," which he afterward retained as a stagecoach call. California played with Hendrix that summer, which was when Hendrix was patched by Animals bassist Chas Chandler, wHO became his managing director and took him to England to form the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix asked California to go to England with him, simply at 15 he was excessively young. Instead, California touched indorse to his home state with his mother and stepfather. Later reversive west, California and Cassidy formed a isthmus called Spirits Rebellious, after a book by the religious mystic Kahlil Gibran, too featuring pianist John Locke (natural September 23, 1943, in Los Angeles, CA), wHO had played with Cassidy antecedently in the New Jazz Trio. In the saltation of 1967, California and Cassidy ran into Ferguson and Andes, wHO had continued to crop as musicians piece attendance UCLA. After the death of the Red Roosters, they had a lot called Western Union, too including Andes' guitar-playing blood brother, Matt Andes, then Ferguson had tried and true to establish a solo calling while Mark Andes served brief tenures with Yellow Balloon and Canned Heat. Now, they joined Spirits Rebellious, a appoint presently cut to Spirit. By June, they were playing gigs and looking for a criminal record contract. With Barry Hansen (after known as Dr. Demento, the novelty-song radiocommunication host) producing, they cut a demonstration tape that finally plant commercial liberation 24 years by and by on the anthology Chronicles (1967-1992). They besides auditioned for phonograph record executive and manufacturer Lou Adler. Adler, best known for his ferment with the Mamas & the Papas and his company Dunhill Records, had sold Dunhill to ABC Records and formed a new label, Ode Records, which had a distribution deal with Epic Records, an imprint of the major label CBS Records. Adler signed Spirit to Ode in August 1967. Adler produced Spirit's self-titled debut album, which was released in January 1968. (Most of the songs were written by Ferguson, though California contributed a delicate instrumental called "Taurus" that would prove inspirational to Led Zeppelin, which based the unveiling to the 1971 standard "Stairway to Heaven" on it.) Spurred by the unmarried "Mechanical World," which had some regional success, the LP entered the Billboard chart in April and exhausted more than six-spot months in that location, peaking in the Top 40 in September. Spirit toured extensively spell functional on their s album and preparing a score for French theater director Jacques Demy's film Model Shop (January 1969), in which they too appeared. (Sundazed Records belatedly released a soundtrack album from the moving-picture show in 2005.) In October 1968, they issued a unmarried, "I Got a Line On You," a drive rocker written by California. Peaking at number 25 in the Hot hundred in March 1969, it was the group's only Top 40 unmarried. The second base album, The Family That Plays Together, followed in December 1968. With the hit individual goad sales, it peaked at number 22 in March 1969. (Ferguson again dominated the songwriting, composition sestet of the 11 tracks, although California wrote or co-wrote the other basketball team.) With the accelerated schedules typical of record releases in the sixties, Spirit had to take another album ready quick, and Shed light on appeared in July 1969. The album light-emitting diode turned with the California/Ferguson musical composition "Dark Eyed Woman," another rock 'n' roll musician in the "I Got a Line on You" mold that was released as a individual only did non attain; the LP too contained substantial written for the Mannikin Shop score that, not amazingly, sounded like background music. Clear was a disappointment after he success of The Family That Plays Together, peaking at number 55 in October. In December, the band released a one-off unmarried, California's "1984," and it gave early indications of decorous a hit, rising to numeral 69 by March 1970 earlier receiving set became insubordinate to its baleful lyrics, which referred to the dystopian novel of the same appoint by George Orwell. Produced by the band itself, it was their net handout on Ode. Adler had negotiated a split from CBS in order to run his label to A&M Records, and in so doing he in agreement to allow for Spirit with Epic. The band then leased David Briggs, wHO had worked on Neil Young's albums, to add forth its fourth LP. Sessions for that album commenced in April 1970, but they were off-and-on when California suffered a fractured skull due to a fall from a knight and exhausted a month in the hospital. A unmarried, Ferguson's "Fauna Zoo," emerged in July and grazed the undersurface of the charts, but it in the end took chieftain Hicks months to complete the LP, released as 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus in November. Disembodied spirit toured in support of the album during the winter and spring of 1971, but Epic failed to break a successful single from the LP, and it peaked at figure 63 in February. Ferguson and Andes, thwarted at the band's want of across-the-board commercial success, foreswear Spirit to form a new band, Jo Jo Gunne, with Matt Andes and drummer Curly Smith. Initially, Spirit leased bassist John Arliss and played as a quartette. Then, California throw in the towel to launch a solo calling. Remaining members Cassidy and Locke brought in two new musicians, brothers Al Staehely (bass) and Chris Staehely (guitar), and in November they began transcription a new Spirit album. It appeared in February 1972 under the title Feedback. Like 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, it peaked at figure 63 in the charts. When Cassidy left the band, followed by Locke, the Staehely brothers brought in a drummer and shortly toured as Spirit. They didn't give off forward with that for long, just it was well-fixed to see wherefore promoters were concerned in having a Spirit band on the route, no publication world Health Organization was in it. Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, though cancelled the charts, had become an FM radiocommunication favourite and a perennial vender (it would be certified as a gold record in 1976), and Epic re-released The Family That Plays Together, which reentered the charts in July 1972. In the meantime, California had sign a solo sign on with Epic and in the fall of 1972 he released his debut album, Kapt. Kopter & the (Mythological) Twirly Birds. He reconnected with Cassidy, and the two hired a bass player, Larry "Fuzzy" Knight, to spell Europe during the spring of 1973. They as well worked on a construct album called Potatoland, just Epic spurned it, and California temporarily dropped out of the music business and moved to Hawaii. Epic released a compiling record album, The Best of Spirit, in the summer of 1973 and sawing machine it attain the charts along with a single spill of "Mr. Skin," a song from 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus that was a crafty allusion to Cassidy's shaved headway. Epic as well released a twofer LP combination of Spirit and Clear, and it to a fault got into the charts. Responding to the resulting demands for a live represent, Cassidy, having reacquired legal right-hand to the name Spirit from the Staehely brothers, teamed up once again with Knight and added some side of meat musicians to come upon the road from July 1973 to April 1974. After the dissolution of that unit, Cassidy travelled to Hawaii and got back in stir with California. Joined by Mark Andes, world Health Organization had leftfield Jo Jo Gunne, they began playacting dates by September 1974; Locke likewise performed with them at the start out of 1975, merely neither he nor Andes stayed permanently. Instead, California and Cassidy hired some other bass player, Barry Keene, and carried on. They recorded an record album that they shopped, signing to Mercury Records, which released the double LP Spirit of '76 in May 1975. It made the depress reaches of the charts. They cursorily followed in October with Son of Spirit, another modest seller. For Farther Along, released in June 1976, they were once more united by Andes and Locke, as well as Matt Andes. The record album spent respective weeks in the charts, and in August Ferguson, world Health Organization had folded Jo Jo Gunne and was preparing a solo vocation, rejoined for a few shows, soft touch the first base reunification of the original quintette in five eld. He did not stay, however, and Mark Andes, world Health Organization had already launched his fresh circle Firefall, likewise bygone, as did Locke. Once once more California and Cassidy in use a bassist, John Turlep, to keep on as a triple. Future Games (A Magical Kahauna Dream), the fourth Spirit album on Mercury, released in January 1977, ground California standing only and bare-chested on the front and back up covers, and he played all the instruments on the record book. Sales once more were modest, and the Mercury compress expired. The isthmus toured as a quartette including Locke and Knight, then carried on as a triple when Locke dropped out over again. In March 1978, the group toured Europe, and their evidence at the Rainbow Theatre in London on March 11 was recorded for a live record album. The LP appeared that fall on dissimilar record labels and in different configurations in different countries. The U.K. adaptation of Live Spirit, released by Illegal Records, contained the Rainbow evidence; the American adaptation, issued by Spirit's own Potato depression, substituted some tracks recorded in Florida; and the West German adaptation, highborn Made in Germany, included a single lead recorded in West Germany. Spirit became inactive in 1979, as California formed the Randy California Band and Cassidy began playacting in a grouping called the Urge, then united Rainbow Red Oxidizer. By the fall of 1980, however, they were stake together, adding bassist Steve "Liberty" Loria and later keyboardist George Valuck to perform over again as Spirit. Spurred by a fan petition sponsored by the British music mag Dark Star, they ground a label, Beggars Banquet, interested in issuing the early-'70s Potatoland project, and they reworked it for release in April 1981, when it appeared under the title The Adventures of Kapt. Kopter and Commander Cassidy in Potatoland and briefly made the U.K. charts. Rhino Records brought the disk out in the U.S. In 1982, California once more began performing under his possess name, as he released his minute solo record album, Euro-American, in Europe. The album featured invitee performances by the other iV original members of Spirit, though they were ne'er all together on one trail. By the end of 1982, however, the quintuple did reform. In the meanwhile since 1976, Ferguson had enjoyed a successful solo career the Top Ten bourgeon "Boom Island" and was moving into film soundtrack work; Andes had joined Heart; and Locke had joined Nazareth. Nevertheless, they reunited with California and Cassidy to make a live-in-the-studio recording at the A&M Soundstage in Hollywood that included re-recordings of old Spirit favorites and a few new songs. The album was shopped close to and finally sold to Mercury, which released it in March 1984 in the U.K. under the title The Thirteenth Dream. It appeared that summertime in the U.S. renamed Smell of '84, and the band played a few dates on the West Coast to promote it, simply their various commitments made the reunion transient. California and Cassidy and then recruited keyboard player Scott Monahan and bass part player Dave Waterbury and continued to tour of duty into 1985. That give, California released his third base solo record album, Restless, again just in Europe, and toured the continent under his possess distinguish to farther it. But by late summer, Spirit was over again on the road as piece of music of a package term of tour of '60s acts elevation money for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty in a lineup that included California, Cassidy, and Ferguson, along with bassist Freeman James and keyboardist Michael Lewis. Calif. and Cassidy continued to lead configurations of Spirit over the side by side few geezerhood. After California participated in I.R.S. Records' Night of the Guitar circuit, the label signed Spirit for a new album, and Transport in the Chambers appeared in April 1989 with California, Cassidy, and Locke listed as the bandmembers and Mark Andes, wHO played bass on two cuts, credited as a guest creative person. A year by and by, Spirit released some other new record album, Tent of Miracles, on its have Dolphin label with a lineup consisting of California, Cassidy, and Mike Nile. By at present, the band had become an conventional U.S. club act as that also undertook annual tours of Europe. In July 1991, Epic/Legacy released the two-disc retrospective Time Circle (1968-1972), and two months by and by, Spirit issued its have completing ingathering, Chronicles (1967-1992), consisting of previously unreleased recordings, on its have W.E.R.C. C.R.E.W. Records tag. In October, the original lineup of California, Cassidy, Ferguson, Andes, and Locke played iI concerts opening for the Doobie Brothers, their first appearances in concert in vII geezerhood and the last time that the mathematical group was reunited. But California and Cassidy continued to lead other configurations as Spirit for the next basketball team years, cathartic Live at La Paloma in 1995 and complementary CA Blues in 1996. On January 2, 1997, California was swimming with his house off the seashore of Molokai, HI, when he and his 12-year-old word Quinn were caught in a rake current. California succeeded in pushing his son to shore, simply he was swept out to sea, and his torso was never recovered. Turned on California's death meant the end of Spirit, of course, although the unflagging Cassidy, by at present in his seventies, toured with a band called Spirit Revisited. Music diary keeper Mick Skidmore, patch working on a Spirit life history, began to gather collections of unreleased recordings from California's extended archives, which were issued in the starting time decade of the twenty-first century. These included Cosmic Smile (2000) (on the Phoenix Rising label, produced by Bruce Gary, with liner notes by Skidmore), Sea Dream (2002), Megrims from the Soul (2003), Live from the Time Coast (2004), Word of America (2005), The Original Potato Land (2006), and Salvation...the Spirit of '74 (2007), the utmost 6 order out by the British Acadia label. Meanwhile, Sundazed Records released LPs containing outtakes from Spirit's Ode/Epic discs, At deliver or Anywhere and Eventide, in 2000, earlier issuance Model Shop in 2005. Ode/Epic/Legacy had reissued Smell, The Family That Plays Together, Straighten out, and XII Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, each with bonus tracks, in 1996, and Mercury had California amass the two-disc The Mercury Years scarce in front his death. All of this assured that Spirit's music would rest to be heard for age to come. |
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Friday, 15 August 2008
Digg Bury Brigade: 28 negative McCain stories buried in 30 days
A close look at campaign-oriented stories on Digg shows that, in the last 30 days, at least 28 stories critical of GOP Sen. John McCain receive been mysteriously "buried" � meaning enough Digg users have voted against a story that the entry may no longer appear on the site's high-traffic front page.�
Only about basketball team Barack Obama-related stories (positive and negative) were inhumed in the same period.
According to Digg's search results, 10 of the 28 McCain stories were zapped after they had already graduated to the movement page, including several that had received more than 700 diggs.�
The other 18 (all of which had a minimum of one hundred eighty diggs by the time I counted them) stalled out in the site's "Upcoming" section, where stories gain momentum, with the most popular entries finally graduating to the strawman.�
Bloggers who have complained that their submissions were existence systematically interred have postulated the existence of a pro-McCain 'Bury Brigade' � though direct evidence of such a mathematical group is baffling. The political blogger Jed Lewison of the Jed Report has recently had four of his submissions neutralized.� Those entries � none of which portrays McCain in a flattering wakeful, are here, here, here and here.�
"My gut is that it's organized," Lewison wrote of the burial patterns. "Though whether directly with the campaign or not, I've got no idea."�
Lewison pointed to the McCain campaign's recent call to action, in which it bucked up supporters to post the candidate's talking points around the political blogosphere.�
"In my view that's not loose speech," Lewison continued. "They are request their supporters to go and disrupt the flow of the opposition."
But though the pattern is clear � anti-McCain stories are much more probable to be buried � identifying who's responsible is more difficult.� The majority of a Digg's user's actions on the site � including which stories they submitted, voted for, and commented on � are archived and publicly viewable. But information about wHO buries stories is inconspicuous. Any 'Bury Brigade,' whether it's a formally unionised cabal or a group of like-minded, independent activists, cannot be detected by publicly usable means.�
This spreadsheet contains a list of the buried stories I found. In the case of a story that mentioned both candidates, I categorized it according to which candidate it seemed to be singling kO'd. Also, I only counted upcoming stories that had received more than clxxx votes since submission. Below that
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Jesse McCartney to team up with Bedingfield
Jesse McCartney has revealed that he is preparation to team up with Natasha Bedingfield later this year.
The pop singer, world Health Organization co-wrote Leona Lewis's megahit single 'Bleeding Love', invited Bedingfield to join him in the studio when they met at a gig recently.
"I recently had a radio gig with Natasha Bedingfield, and we were backstage, and we were talking, and we swapped numbers," Jesse explained. "I was like, 'Let's get together and save something. Let's do something. Let's go to the studio and jam.'
"She was down. I would
The pop singer, world Health Organization co-wrote Leona Lewis's megahit single 'Bleeding Love', invited Bedingfield to join him in the studio when they met at a gig recently.
"I recently had a radio gig with Natasha Bedingfield, and we were backstage, and we were talking, and we swapped numbers," Jesse explained. "I was like, 'Let's get together and save something. Let's do something. Let's go to the studio and jam.'
"She was down. I would
Friday, 27 June 2008
Christopher Lawrence
Artist: Christopher Lawrence
Genre(s):
Dance
Trance
Electronic
Discography:
Subculture, Vol. 01
Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
Unhooked: Hook Sessions
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Scorcher Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
All Or Nothing
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Exposure 4
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Around the World
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Temptation
Year: 1999
Tracks: 1
Hook Recordings
Year: 1999
Tracks: 1
Rise
Year: 1997
Tracks: 1
United States Of Trance
Year:
Tracks: 1
Christopher Lawrence is a satiny trance DJ who's risen to the top of the landing field -- in America, at least -- and helmed several shuffle albums as well as produced his own work and remixed others. Before he'd been DJing for more than a few years, Lawrence released the 1997 shuffle album Resurrect on the Fragrant tag. One year by and by, he sign a product sign with the well-thought-of Scottish tag Hook Recordings, and watched as "Navigator" and "Shredder" became proper British golf club hits, extending his list and resumé across the earth. During 1999, he released deuce more shuffle albums, Temptation (for City of Angels) and the tag retrospective Filch Recordings. Signed to the American shuffle label Moonshine Music, Lawrence delivered his fourth collection, Trilogy, Part One: Empire, in 2000; Joined States of Trance on Moonshine followed soon after. His first gear production album, All or Nothing, appeared in 2004, which was followed later in the year by Un-Hooked: The Hook Sessions.
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Saturday, 14 June 2008
Joe Dolan remembered in Mullingar
More than 2,000 people gathered at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Mullingar for the funeral of the singer and entertainer Joe Dolan.
Among the first to arrive at the funeral this morning were leading figures in the Irish entertainment industry, including Paddy Cole, Dickie Rock, Ronnie Drew, Brendan Grace and Oliver Barry.
The homily at the Requiem Mass was delivered by the Fr Brian Darcy.
The mourners heard how the 68-year-old singer secretly gave tens of thousands of euro to the poor during his career.
Speaking to a gathering at the Cathederal, Fr Darcy said Dolan had wanted the donations to remain private throughout his life.
Fr Darcy said that Dolan and his band were pioneers of the Celtic Tiger era because they brought joy and entertainment to a very dull nation in the 1960s.
The burial after the funeral mass was in Walshestown Cemetery.
Among the first to arrive at the funeral this morning were leading figures in the Irish entertainment industry, including Paddy Cole, Dickie Rock, Ronnie Drew, Brendan Grace and Oliver Barry.
The homily at the Requiem Mass was delivered by the Fr Brian Darcy.
The mourners heard how the 68-year-old singer secretly gave tens of thousands of euro to the poor during his career.
Speaking to a gathering at the Cathederal, Fr Darcy said Dolan had wanted the donations to remain private throughout his life.
Fr Darcy said that Dolan and his band were pioneers of the Celtic Tiger era because they brought joy and entertainment to a very dull nation in the 1960s.
The burial after the funeral mass was in Walshestown Cemetery.
Monday, 9 June 2008
Shakira
Artist: Shakira
Genre(s):
Pop
Latin
Dance
Other
Pop: Latin
Discography:
Grandes Exitos
Year: 2006
Tracks: 15
Oral Fixation Vol. 2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Oral Fixation vol. 1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Don't Bother
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
The One
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Laundry Service
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Underneath Your Clothes Single
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
Remixes
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Bonus
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
Servicio de Lavanderia
Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Donde estan los ladrones
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Pies Descalzos
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Peligro
Year: 1993
Tracks: 10
Unplugged
Year:
Tracks: 11
The Remixes
Year:
Tracks: 10
Magia
Year:
Tracks: 9
Live and Off The Record
Year:
Tracks: 10
En Vivo Y En Privado
Year:
Tracks: 10
After achieving superstardom throughout Latin America, Colombian-born Shakira became Latin pop's biggest female crossover creative person since Jennifer Lopez stone-broke down the doors to English-language winner. Noted for her aggressive, rock-influenced access, Shakira maintained an extraordinary degree of creative control over her music, specially for a female creative person; she wrote or co-wrote nearly all of her have corporeal, and in the serve gained a reputation as one of Latin music's to the highest degree ambitiously poetic lyricists. When she released her first English material in late 2001, she became an inst pop sensation, thanks to her quirky poetic sense and a aphrodisiacal video recording image built on her hip-shaking belly dance moves.
Shakira Mebarak (wide make: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll) was natural February 2, 1977, in Barranquilla, Colombia, into a poor sept. Her mother was a native Colombian and her father was of Lebanese line of descent, and so as a child Shakira pixilated up music from both cultures; she as well listened heavily to English-language rock & rove, itemization her pet bands in afterward interviews as Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Police, the Cure, and Nirvana. Shakira wrote her first sung at eld ashcan School, began entrance (and fetching) talent competitions at years x, and started scholarship the guitar at years 11; one write up runs that around this age, she was kicked out of her school choir for singing as well forcefully. In 1990, at age 13, Shakira affected to Bogotá in hopes of pursuing a modeling life history, but wound up sign language a phonograph recording deal with Sony's Colombian division rather. Her 1991 debut album, Magia (Thaumaturgy), was comprised of songs she'd written o'er the past five or sestet old age, including some of her earliest efforts. Although it didn't break internationally, the record started to make up a identify for her in her menage nation. Dissatisfied with the crop up inclinations of the follow-up, 1993's Peligro ( Shakira changed guidance for a time, connexion the hurl of the Colombian soap opera El Oasis in 1994.
When Shakira returned to transcription in 1995, she asserted more mastery over the direction of her music, and worked more careen & roll rhythms -- as well as occasional Arabic tinges -- into her Latin crop up material. The first-class honours degree results were Pies Descalzos (Stripped Feet), which was ab initio released in 1995; a slow seller at number 1, the album step by step caught on thanks to "Estoy Aqui," which became a hit all over Latin America, as well as Spain. After that breakthrough, Pies Descalzos barely unbroken spinning off singles: "Dónde Estás Corazón?," "AntologÃa," "Pienso en Ti," "Un Poco de Amor," "Se Quiere, Se Mata." The record album strike number one in eight different countries and eventually went platinum in the U.S. as well; Shakira toured for well-nigh deuce years promoting it (she ultimately left El Oasis in 1997).
Seeking to build on her winner, Shakira signed Emilio Estefan -- Gloria's husband and a highly successful music-biz insider -- as her coach and producer. The move paid cancelled when her followup album, 1998's Dónde Están los Ladrones? (Where Are the Thieves?), became an regular bigger universal pip than its predecessor. What was more than, it cracked the lucrative U.S. securities industry across-the-board open, outlay 11 weeks at phone number one on Billboard's Latin record album chart and producing two U.S. figure ones (on the Latin chart) with "Ciega, Sordomuda" and "Tu." The album's signature track, however, was the global hit "Ojos AsÃ," her about denotative nod so far to the Arabic music she'd picked up from her don (not to credit its latent paunch saltation connotations). Dónde Están los Ladrones? was as well the most effective presentation yet of Shakira's strong-minded persona; her soul-searching made her even more than pop among female fans, spell her angriness over love gone wrong drew comparisons to Alanis Morissette.
When Gloria Estefan offered to translate "Ojos AsÃ" into English, the prospect of a crossing on the spur of the moment seemed real, and Shakira distinct that the most effective means to sustain control o'er her real was to get a line English well enough to pen in it herself. In the interim, she set the stage for her crossover voter offer with a performance on MTV Unplugged, the channel's first gear Spanish-language propagate. MTV Unplugged was released as an album in early 2000, and topped the Latin charts for deuce weeks on its room to decorous her third base neat platinum album; it too north Korean won a Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album. At the inauguration Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in 2000, Shakira delivered a much-discussed, show-stopping performance of "Ojos AsÃ" and took nursing home Unpluggedrelated trophies for Best Female Pop Vocal ("Ojos AsÃ") and Best Female Rock Vocal ("Eightvo Dia").
Mainstream pop stardom beckoned. Shakira bleached her long brown hair blonde, romanced Antonio de la Rua (word of the early president of Argentina), and went to work on her first (mostly) English-language album, Laundry Service. The single/video "Whenever, Wherever" was released in advance of the album in late 2001, and made her a star in the English-speaking world about overnight. Laundry Service entered the American pop charts at number trinity, and "Whenever, Wherever" climbed into the Top Ten of the singles chart, peaking at issue six-spot. The follow-up, "Underneath Your Clothes," likewise dispatch the Top Ten, game at number nine; less than a year after its dismission, Washables Service had gone three-base hit platinum. Reviews of Wash Service were divided as to the effectuality of Shakira's English lyrics, only nearly all in agreement on her unique poetic imaging.
Extensive touring to support Wash Service lED to a long break for the isaac M. Singer, so a remix assemblage (2002's Laundry Service: Washed and Dried) and a live record album (2004's Alive & Off the Record) appeared in position of a new album. Revitalized, Shakira began the writing process for her following release and before long had 60 songs quick to go, some in English, some in Spanish. Twenty of the songs were selected and divided up by language to make deuce different albums. Both appeared in 2005 and both dispatch the Top Ten, with the Spanish-language record album Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1 starring the fashion in June with a number quaternity placing and the English-language record album, Unwritten Fixation, Vol. 2, undermentioned in November at number quintuplet. As sales of Unwritten Fixation began to slow in early 2006, Epic reissued the record album in March with a fillip track, "Hip Don't Lie." The freshly recorded song went on to top the Billboard Hot century chart in June, seemly one of the summer's biggest hits and reviving gross revenue of Unwritten Fixation as well as Shakira's total back catalog.
Friday, 6 June 2008
"Real" Kid Real Busted
Josh Waring, the wayward and oft-troubled son of "Real Housewives of Orange County" star Laurie Waring, was busted late Sunday night for possession of heroin and ecstasy and intent to sell. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Waring was hanging out in front of a Comfort Inn in Laguna Beach when he was approached by police cruiser and took off running.
When cops caught up with him, they say he was high as a kite. Cops executed a search warrant at the hotel, and allegedly found a large amount of drugs in his room.
He's currently cooling his heels in the Orange County jail.
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Hardcore Superstar
Artist: Hardcore Superstar
Genre(s):
Retro
Discography:
Hardcore Superstar
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Thank You (For Letting Us Be Ourselves)
Year:
Tracks: 13
No Regrets
Year:
Tracks: 13
Bad Sneakers and Pina Colada
Year:
Tracks: 13
Paying small attention to the extreme death metallic element sounds their hometown was noted for, the 4 natives of Gothenburg, Sweden, wHO formed Hardcore Superstar in 1998 john Drew upon melodic, glammed-up hard rock, particularly the seedy L.A. pop-metal healthy of the '80s. Vocalist Jocke Berg, guitar player Silver Silver, bassist Martin Sandvik, and drummer Magnus Andreasson recorded an album titled It's Only Rock 'N' Roll and released it on their possess judge in 1998, attracting praise from Motorhead's Lemmy. After curtain raising for Motorhead on a Scandinavian turn, Hardcore Superstar signed with Music for Nations and recorded their debut album, Bad Sneakers and a Piña Colada, in 1999. They scored deuce Swedish Top Ten singles from the platter, and reinforced up their hearing through unremitting gigging. Koch Records issued their record album in the U.S. in early 2001.
Willoughby defends her TV wardrobe
Television presenter Holly Willoughby has defended her wardrobe for the reality show 'Dancing on Ice' after criticism from viewers.
According to reports, members of the public have complained that the presenter's dresses are too revealing.
Responding to the complaints on ITV show 'Loose Women', Willoughby said: "It's just the weirdest thing that has ever happened - like I've been living in someone else's world the last two weeks."
"My body dictates that it suits certain things, so I always wear the same style of dress. Unfortunately those are the things that get attention. It would be nice if the publicity was, 'Isn't she good at her job?'."
She also told The Mirror: "I can't believe the stir it caused. I like to wear feminine clothes and I've had people coming up to me in the street saying how much they liked it."
According to reports, members of the public have complained that the presenter's dresses are too revealing.
Responding to the complaints on ITV show 'Loose Women', Willoughby said: "It's just the weirdest thing that has ever happened - like I've been living in someone else's world the last two weeks."
"My body dictates that it suits certain things, so I always wear the same style of dress. Unfortunately those are the things that get attention. It would be nice if the publicity was, 'Isn't she good at her job?'."
She also told The Mirror: "I can't believe the stir it caused. I like to wear feminine clothes and I've had people coming up to me in the street saying how much they liked it."
Gary Burton with Chick Corea
Artist: Gary Burton with Chick Corea
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Crystal Silence
Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
Paul Winter and Friends
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