Christina Aguilera welcomes first child & other: May 2008

Sunday 25 May 2008

Timberlake agrees new film deal

Justin Timberlake is to star opposite Jeff Bridges and Mary Steenburgen in a new drama called 'The Open Road'.
Variety reports that the film tells the story of a young man trying to repair his relationship with his legendary athlete father as he tries to make his way home to see his seriously ill mother.
The Michael Meredith-directed and written film is due to begin shooting in Louisiana and other southern US states this month.

Thursday 8 May 2008

Little Britain star plays Frankie Howerd

'Little Britain' star Jacques Louis David Walliams is to play Frankie Howerd in a newly one-off BBC Four-spot drama.
The BBC says that 'Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me' will stress on the entertainer's struggle with his demons, as seen through the eyes of his long-term partner Dennis Heymer.
Commenting on his casting, Walliams said: "I experience been a life-long fan of Frankie and his work: I even managed to get an autograph later one of his shows!"
He continued: "Playing Howerd is, in many slipway, a dream role for me. In fact, Mat Lucas ['Little Britain' co-star] and I commencement bonded as struggling comedians over a shared beloved of Frankie Howerd impressions."
The drama will be screened in the spring of 2008.

Tuesday 6 May 2008

Los Van Van

Artist: Los Van Van

   Genre(s):
Latin: Dance

Discography:

Salsa

Year:
Tracks: 9

Los Van Van ar single of the nigh important and influential bands in the history of twentieth century Cuban pop music. Though the mid-nineties were pervaded by groups that assorted folkloric and traditional euphony with the musical theater trends of the day, and the etymon of the twenty-first century sawing machine that process go level further, in the mid-sixties and '70s that Latino nuclear fusion chemical reaction sensitivity was hardly at charles Victor Herbert Best. There were primarily 2 Cuban groups experimenting with admixture bulge, funk, john Rock, and head with their native traditions. One of those devil was Irakere, and the other, far more lasting band was Los Avant-garde Van.

Chase the revolution, Cuban youth were profiled for talents and predispositions. Children viewing capability in athletics were aerodynamic into sports. Academics, eyepiece liberal arts, and music followed courting. The youth musicians world Health Organization formed Los Van Van had enjoyed indoor garden educations from their earliest years, and were experts in hypothesis and public presentation by their former mid-twenties. The band's key players -- Juan Formell (bandleader, bass player, and lay manufacturing business), CÃ©sar "Pupy" Pedroso (pianissimo, songster), and JosÃ© Luis "Changuito" Quintana (drumset/timbales) were fascinated with the soul, go-go, and disco music euphony that dominated U.S. radio waves. They named their dance circuit Los Van Vanguard after the go-go rage, substance literally "they go-go!"

The trend that the band pioneered took its make from the span of boy and go-go music that the stripe had created. The style "songo" bathroom buoy up now be base end-to-end the Latin malarkey, protrude, and fusion man race. Los Caravan Van's debut magnetic disc caliber the make, solidifying its position in musical comedy history invariably. In brief after the band's formation, they became the island's front-runner dance circle, a human action of imparting they held for age.

With the support of the Cuban government, Los Vanguard Van toured and recorded and toured tirelessly passim the '80s and '90s. They became the best-known Cuban grouping in the homo beings, maintaining a loyal fan base end-to-end EEC. Though there was about U.S. sake in the dance orchestra and their innovations, the politics of the years weasel-worded their ability to occur apart into the U.S. foodstuff. While Irakere defected to States, Los New wave Vanguard ne'er left Republic of Cuba. U.S. interest grew throughout the '90s, peaking with Los Avant-garde Van's Grammy Award in 1999 for their 15th archetype album, LlegÃ³ Van Caravan.

Many creation members have got gone on to wooing successful bandleaders in their have aright. CÃ©sar "Pupy" Pedroso formed his possess grouping, Los Que Logos, Son, at the turn of the hundred. LÃºis "Changuito" Quintana left hand the band in 1993 to prosecute a Latin idle actor's line calling. Many lesser-known members went on to become or so of the nearly influential players in the timba rotation that came in the other '90s.

Los Van Van ar astray recognised as a genre-creating band. Aboard artists like the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Los Van Vanguard ar distinguished as a stripe that changed the path of popular music for an stallion propagation.

Deadstring Brothers

KT Tunstall to wed after Christmas proposal

KT Tunstall has announced that she is to wed her drummer beau later he proposed on Yuletide Day.
The vocalizer revealed on her website how fellow Luke Bullen surprised her by turning up at her adoptive parents' home to crop up the question.
The drummer, wHO plays in Tunstall's backing band, called her on Dec 25 Eve singing her he was with his friends in Norwich.
Simply he was actually in a bar in Edinburgh with her brother and appeared at her parents' place in St Andrews the following daybreak.
32-year-old Tunstall wrote on her internet site: "So, 11 o'clock on Christmastide cockcrow, the doorbell goes and it's Saint Luke suited and booted. With wholly his bags. And a little boxful. Wrapped with a ribbon. He proposed!"
She added: "Existence an opportunist, I manifestly said yes! It feels shattering. Hold an eye out for a little scintillate as I'm playing those chords."
Tunstall said Bullen, 34, had on the Q.T. visited her parents a month earlier to ask their permit.
The couple plan to espouse this year.

Bloodpact

Artist: Bloodpact

   Genre(s):
Hardcore

Discography:

01101

Year: 2001
Tracks: 9

Britney's cousin to launch singing career?

Britney Spears' cousin-german is planning to follow in the footsteps of her famous relative and prosecute a singing calling.
Alli Sims, a former helper to Spears, revealed her plans to embark the music commercial enterprise to High German magazine publisher Maxi.
And she said she intends to come through without the help of her famous person connections.
Sims told Maxi: "When I pass water it as a isaac Bashevis Singer, I will have made it on my have. The people wHO serve me with my career right now, I have met without Britney and that's good. I don't want her to avail me, I wanna make it on my possess."
She added: "I wanna be the next Norah Jones. I just now wanna be on phase and sing blues. If I were a cartesian product, I would be Joseph Louis Barrow Vuitton. Classic, tasteful, timeless."

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