Paparazzo Adnan Ghalib denies his relationship with Britney is all about making money.
He's so besotted with her, he insists, that he saves her voicemail messages simply because he loves to listen to them again when they're not together.
'I'm sure you do the same thing sometimes where you're away for the day, or you know you're not going to see somebody for the remainder of the day,' he explains.
'You just want to hear their voice.'
The snapper has given an interview to TV show Entertainment Tonight and refutes claims that he's exploiting the troubled singer.
Adnan, 35, says even though Britney, 26, has not banned him from selling photos of her, he wouldn't consider it.
'She never asked me,' he reveals, 'but I think it's a conflict of interests.'
But the Birmingham-born photographer has allegedly recorded six video diaries of the mum-of-two and is hoping to sell them for £1million.
'They're sinister and disturbing and show Britney at her very lowest,' a source tells The News Of The World. 'Britney spends the whole time ranting, raving and weeping. It's not entertainment.'
Minggu, 27 Januari 2008
Kamis, 24 Januari 2008
Awards for World Music 2008-Nominees
2008 Nominees
The nominees for the 2008 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music were announced at the Womex Fair in Seville on Sunday 28th October and on Radio 3's World Routes on 3rd November. The 4 nominees in each category are listed below:
AFRICA
-Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
-Simphiwe Dana
-Tinariwen
-Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra
ASIA/PASIFIC
-Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale
-Faiz Ali Faiz
-Huun Huur Tu
-Sa Ding Ding
AMERICAS
-Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective
-Bajofondo Tango Club
-Hazmat Modine
-Maria Rita
EUROPE
-Manu Chao
-Ojos de Brujo
-Son de la Frontera
-Thierry 'Titi' Robin
MID EAST & N.AFRICA
-Malouma
-Nass El Ghiwane
-Rachid Taha
-The Idan Raichel Project
NEWCOMER
-Balkan Beat Box
-Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
-Mayra Andrade
-Vieux Farka Toure
CULTURE CROSSING
-Balkan Beat Box
-Bole 2 Harlem
-The Idan Raichel Project
-Juldeh Camara & Justin Adams
CLUB GLOBAL
-Balkan Beat Box
-Bajofondo Tango Club
-Gaudi Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
-Transglobal Underground
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
-Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective
-Winner - Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
-Orchestra Baobab
-Tinariwen
Voting for the BBC Radio 3 Audience Award 2008 will open in 2008.
(www.bbc.co.uk)
The nominees for the 2008 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music were announced at the Womex Fair in Seville on Sunday 28th October and on Radio 3's World Routes on 3rd November. The 4 nominees in each category are listed below:
AFRICA
-Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
-Simphiwe Dana
-Tinariwen
-Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra
ASIA/PASIFIC
-Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale
-Faiz Ali Faiz
-Huun Huur Tu
-Sa Ding Ding
AMERICAS
-Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective
-Bajofondo Tango Club
-Hazmat Modine
-Maria Rita
EUROPE
-Manu Chao
-Ojos de Brujo
-Son de la Frontera
-Thierry 'Titi' Robin
MID EAST & N.AFRICA
-Malouma
-Nass El Ghiwane
-Rachid Taha
-The Idan Raichel Project
NEWCOMER
-Balkan Beat Box
-Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
-Mayra Andrade
-Vieux Farka Toure
CULTURE CROSSING
-Balkan Beat Box
-Bole 2 Harlem
-The Idan Raichel Project
-Juldeh Camara & Justin Adams
CLUB GLOBAL
-Balkan Beat Box
-Bajofondo Tango Club
-Gaudi Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
-Transglobal Underground
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
-Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective
-Winner - Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba
-Orchestra Baobab
-Tinariwen
Voting for the BBC Radio 3 Audience Award 2008 will open in 2008.
(www.bbc.co.uk)
Rabu, 23 Januari 2008
beyonce
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (pronounced /biːɒnˈseɪ/;born September 4, 1981) is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, actress, dancer, and fashion designer. Knowles rose to fame as the creative force and lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, the world's best-selling female group of all time.
After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in June 2003. The album became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year, topping the albums charts in the United States and the United Kingdom. It also spawned the number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and earned Knowles five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004. Knowles' second album B'Day was released worldwide on September 4, 2006, coinciding with her twenty-fifth birthday. The album spawned the UK number-one singles "Déjà Vu" and "Beautiful Liar", as well as the worldwide hit "Irreplaceable". It also earned Knowles her seventh solo Grammy Award (she has won ten in total).
Knowles also achieved success in the film industry, starring in such Hollywood films as the 2006 comedy The Pink Panther and the 2006 musical film Dreamgirls, which earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations—one for acting and other for the song "Listen".
After a series of commercially successful releases with the group, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love, in June 2003. The album became one of the biggest commercial successes of the year, topping the albums charts in the United States and the United Kingdom. It also spawned the number-one singles "Crazy in Love" and "Baby Boy" and earned Knowles five Grammy Awards in a single night in 2004. Knowles' second album B'Day was released worldwide on September 4, 2006, coinciding with her twenty-fifth birthday. The album spawned the UK number-one singles "Déjà Vu" and "Beautiful Liar", as well as the worldwide hit "Irreplaceable". It also earned Knowles her seventh solo Grammy Award (she has won ten in total).
Knowles also achieved success in the film industry, starring in such Hollywood films as the 2006 comedy The Pink Panther and the 2006 musical film Dreamgirls, which earned her two Golden Globe Award nominations—one for acting and other for the song "Listen".
marcanthony
Anthony was born Marco Antonio Muñiz in New York City, the son of Guillermina, a housewife, and Felipe Muñiz, a musician and hospital lunchroom worker.His parents were Puerto Rican and named him after Marco Antonio Muñiz, a Mexican singer popular in Puerto Rico. He has a sister named Yolanda Muniz.
Anthony has a daughter, Arianna (1994) , with his New York police officer ex-girlfriend Debbie Rosado. Anthony married former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres on 9 May 2000 in Las Vegas. They have two sons, Cristian Anthony Muñiz (5 Feb 2001) and Ryan Anthony Muñiz (16 Aug 2003). It was a rocky marriage,and they separated in summer 2002. They later reconciled and renewed their vows in a spectacular ceremony held in Puerto Rico in December of 2002.In 2003, a Miami waitress filed paternity charges against Anthony; multiple DNA-tests, the last in August 2004, disproved her claims. The couple's final separation was in October 2003. Torres filed for divorce in January 2004.
As the divorce proceeded, Anthony was seen out with actress-singer Jennifer Lopez, a long-time friend he had worked with in music videos. They had briefly dated in the late '90s, before his first marriage and her second one. Lopez and Anthony were recording a duet together in early 2004, for Lopez's then-upcoming film Shall We Dance? Lopez and Anthony married in a quiet home wedding on June 5, 2004, less than a week after his divorce from Torres was finalized on June 1. On the morning of the wedding, however, the media was tipped off and circled her backyard in helicopters. Photographs, alerting the rest of the world, soon followed. Reports fueled rumors that Lopez was pregnant but this was not the case.
Their guests had been invited to an "afternoon party" at Lopez's house and had not been made aware that they were actually going to her wedding. The couple had planned not to publicize their marriage early on, allowing more privacy and time together in an otherwise intrusive environment. Days after the wedding, Anthony refused to comment on their marriage during interviews which were scheduled earlier to promote a new album "Amar Sin Mentiras" (To Love Without Lies), which would earn him a Grammy award the following year.In February 2005 Lopez confirmed the marriage, and added that "everyone knows. It's not a secret".A few months later, Anthony's daughter, Ariana, appeared at the beginning and the end of her new stepmother Jennifer's music video music video "Get Right" as her little sister. Regarding his marriage and family life, Anthony maintains a private and sometimes defensive stance with the media, which has influenced Lopez to set some boundaries with interviewers.
After weeks of speculation on November 8, 2007, Marc and Jennifer confirmed to fans in a Miami concert that they are in fact expecting their first child together. Lopez's first and Anthony's fourth.
Anthony has a daughter, Arianna (1994) , with his New York police officer ex-girlfriend Debbie Rosado. Anthony married former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres on 9 May 2000 in Las Vegas. They have two sons, Cristian Anthony Muñiz (5 Feb 2001) and Ryan Anthony Muñiz (16 Aug 2003). It was a rocky marriage,and they separated in summer 2002. They later reconciled and renewed their vows in a spectacular ceremony held in Puerto Rico in December of 2002.In 2003, a Miami waitress filed paternity charges against Anthony; multiple DNA-tests, the last in August 2004, disproved her claims. The couple's final separation was in October 2003. Torres filed for divorce in January 2004.
As the divorce proceeded, Anthony was seen out with actress-singer Jennifer Lopez, a long-time friend he had worked with in music videos. They had briefly dated in the late '90s, before his first marriage and her second one. Lopez and Anthony were recording a duet together in early 2004, for Lopez's then-upcoming film Shall We Dance? Lopez and Anthony married in a quiet home wedding on June 5, 2004, less than a week after his divorce from Torres was finalized on June 1. On the morning of the wedding, however, the media was tipped off and circled her backyard in helicopters. Photographs, alerting the rest of the world, soon followed. Reports fueled rumors that Lopez was pregnant but this was not the case.
Their guests had been invited to an "afternoon party" at Lopez's house and had not been made aware that they were actually going to her wedding. The couple had planned not to publicize their marriage early on, allowing more privacy and time together in an otherwise intrusive environment. Days after the wedding, Anthony refused to comment on their marriage during interviews which were scheduled earlier to promote a new album "Amar Sin Mentiras" (To Love Without Lies), which would earn him a Grammy award the following year.In February 2005 Lopez confirmed the marriage, and added that "everyone knows. It's not a secret".A few months later, Anthony's daughter, Ariana, appeared at the beginning and the end of her new stepmother Jennifer's music video music video "Get Right" as her little sister. Regarding his marriage and family life, Anthony maintains a private and sometimes defensive stance with the media, which has influenced Lopez to set some boundaries with interviewers.
After weeks of speculation on November 8, 2007, Marc and Jennifer confirmed to fans in a Miami concert that they are in fact expecting their first child together. Lopez's first and Anthony's fourth.
जैक्सन
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), often referred to as MJ and The King of Pop, is an American musician and entertainer, who debuted at the age of five as a member of the Jackson 5,and went on to become a pop icon as a solo artist. His successful career and frequently controversial, enigmatic personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost four decades.
Jackson dominated pop music from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s,and becoming the first black entertainer to amass a strong cross-over following on MTV with his revolutionary transformation of music video as an art form and as a promotional tool.The popularity of videos aired on MTV such as "Beat it", "Black or White", "Scream" and "Billie Jean" created a tremendous स्य्नेर्ग्य that helped to put the relatively young channel "on the map".
Jackson also popularized physically-complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, that have redefined mainstream dance and entertainment.His distinctive style, dance moves, and vocals have influenced a whole generation of hip hop, pop, and R&B artists. He has been cited as the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by Guinness World Records,and holds the record for the best-selling album ever, Thriller.
Michael Jackson has received thirteen Grammy अवार्ड्स (eight on a single night in 1984) and two of his solo albums have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.Jackson has charted thirteen #1 singles in the United States, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era.In November 2006, the World Music Awards announced that Jackson had sold over 750 million units worldwide[14] and given $300 million to charity,[15] making Jackson one of the best-selling music artists and the most charitable celebrity apart from Oprah विनफ्रे whose efforts on the latter front have been acknowledged with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.However Jackson's controversial appearance and actions has damaged his reputation in the eyes of some of the public and album sales has been in decline since the mid 1990s.
From 1988 to 2005, Jackson lived on his Neverland Ranch property, where he built an amusement park and private zoo that was frequently attended by disadvantaged and terminally ill children. Rumors of sleepover parties received both negative media coverage and public attention after it was revealed that children frequently slept in his bed or bedroom. This first came to light when he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. Michael Jackson's relationship with children was brought into the spotlight again in 2003 when the TV documentary Living with Michael Jackson was broadcast. This resulted in Jackson being tried, and later acquitted, of more child molestation allegations and several other charges in 2005. After this, Jackson went on hiatus, traveling to countries such as Bahrain, before starting work on new material in Ireland. He will be releasing a new album on February 11, 2008 called Thriller 25 which will include new material.
Jackson dominated pop music from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s,and becoming the first black entertainer to amass a strong cross-over following on MTV with his revolutionary transformation of music video as an art form and as a promotional tool.The popularity of videos aired on MTV such as "Beat it", "Black or White", "Scream" and "Billie Jean" created a tremendous स्य्नेर्ग्य that helped to put the relatively young channel "on the map".
Jackson also popularized physically-complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, that have redefined mainstream dance and entertainment.His distinctive style, dance moves, and vocals have influenced a whole generation of hip hop, pop, and R&B artists. He has been cited as the "Most Successful Entertainer of All Time" by Guinness World Records,and holds the record for the best-selling album ever, Thriller.
Michael Jackson has received thirteen Grammy अवार्ड्स (eight on a single night in 1984) and two of his solo albums have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.Jackson has charted thirteen #1 singles in the United States, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era.In November 2006, the World Music Awards announced that Jackson had sold over 750 million units worldwide[14] and given $300 million to charity,[15] making Jackson one of the best-selling music artists and the most charitable celebrity apart from Oprah विनफ्रे whose efforts on the latter front have been acknowledged with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.However Jackson's controversial appearance and actions has damaged his reputation in the eyes of some of the public and album sales has been in decline since the mid 1990s.
From 1988 to 2005, Jackson lived on his Neverland Ranch property, where he built an amusement park and private zoo that was frequently attended by disadvantaged and terminally ill children. Rumors of sleepover parties received both negative media coverage and public attention after it was revealed that children frequently slept in his bed or bedroom. This first came to light when he was accused of child sexual abuse in 1993. Michael Jackson's relationship with children was brought into the spotlight again in 2003 when the TV documentary Living with Michael Jackson was broadcast. This resulted in Jackson being tried, and later acquitted, of more child molestation allegations and several other charges in 2005. After this, Jackson went on hiatus, traveling to countries such as Bahrain, before starting work on new material in Ireland. He will be releasing a new album on February 11, 2008 called Thriller 25 which will include new material.
joshgroban
Josh Groban was born in Los Angeles, California. His father is of Jewish ancestry, and his mother, Norwegian. His father converted to Christianity upon marriage, and Groban was raised in the Anglican-Episcopalian church. His younger brother Christopher shares a birthday with him four years later.
Groban debuted as a singer in seventh grade, but soon put it on hold for a few years. "I enjoyed the arts aspects, but my grades were slipping. I didn't feel that I was getting enough creative input. So I went to Bridges Academy to get my grades up to straight A's." While at Bridges Academy, Groban took normal classes from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM, and then afterwards attended theater classes.He also played the penny whistle as well as the kazoo in grade school.[citation needed]
In 1997 and 1998 , Groban attended the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, majoring in musical theater, which is also when he began taking voice lessons outside of school. "I started taking music lessons on the side. I was very much into musical theater. I had a pretty good baritone voice, so I began acting and singing in school productions".
In late 1998, the 17-year-old Groban was introduced by his vocal coach to Grammy-winning producer/arranger David Foster. Groban worked for Foster as a rehearsal singer on a series of high-profile events, including the 1999 Grammy Awards -- where, as a stand-in for Andrea Bocelli, he rehearsed Foster's "The Prayer" with Céline Dion -- and the January 1999 inauguration of Gray Davis as governor of California.
Groban attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major and graduated in 1999 and then attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, studying drama.
Groban debuted as a singer in seventh grade, but soon put it on hold for a few years. "I enjoyed the arts aspects, but my grades were slipping. I didn't feel that I was getting enough creative input. So I went to Bridges Academy to get my grades up to straight A's." While at Bridges Academy, Groban took normal classes from 9:00 AM until 1:00 PM, and then afterwards attended theater classes.He also played the penny whistle as well as the kazoo in grade school.[citation needed]
In 1997 and 1998 , Groban attended the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan, majoring in musical theater, which is also when he began taking voice lessons outside of school. "I started taking music lessons on the side. I was very much into musical theater. I had a pretty good baritone voice, so I began acting and singing in school productions".
In late 1998, the 17-year-old Groban was introduced by his vocal coach to Grammy-winning producer/arranger David Foster. Groban worked for Foster as a rehearsal singer on a series of high-profile events, including the 1999 Grammy Awards -- where, as a stand-in for Andrea Bocelli, he rehearsed Foster's "The Prayer" with Céline Dion -- and the January 1999 inauguration of Gray Davis as governor of California.
Groban attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts as a theater major and graduated in 1999 and then attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, studying drama.
christinaaguilera
Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980, to parents Jim, a military father of Ecuadorian descent, and Shelly, an Irish professional violinist/pianist. Growing up with her brothers and sisters in Wexford, Pennsylvania, Christina always knew that she wanted to be a performer. In her early 20s, this blond-haired, blue-eyed beauty got more than she bargained for.
Her career as a singer started when she began performing at her school's talent shows. She took her soulful voice to the Star Search stage, (like her singing counterpart, Britney Spears), and performed on national television. The next time she performed in front of a live audience was when she sang the national anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins.
Her career as a singer started when she began performing at her school's talent shows. She took her soulful voice to the Star Search stage, (like her singing counterpart, Britney Spears), and performed on national television. The next time she performed in front of a live audience was when she sang the national anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Penguins.
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