Iraq-War Vet Looks Back With Anger: 'I Got Took' -- A Street Team '08 Report

Iraq vet Brian Eskew, from Vermont, looks back with regret on his role in the war. "I didn't join the army to fight people I have no animosity toward," he said.

Aya Hisakawa

   
Artist: Aya Hisakawa

   Genre(s): 
Soundtrack
   

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Discography:


   
 Noir: Blanc Dans Noir cd2

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Noir: Blanc Dans Noir cd1

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 9

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Shakira

   
Artist: Shakira

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Latin
   Dance
   Other
   Pop: Latin
   

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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

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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?," "Antología," "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 Así," 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 Así" 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 Así" and took nursing home Unpluggedrelated trophies for Best Female Pop Vocal ("Ojos Así") 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.

Winehouse suffering from skin infection?

Amy Winehouse has responded to rumours that she was involved in a fight last week, saying her bruised and swollen face is down to a mystery skin infection.
The singer was photographed on Friday with a painful-looking swelling on the side of her face, prompting speculation that she had been hit.
However her spokesman insists the singer has come down with a mystery illness and is seeking medical help.
He told the Daily Star: "Amy has a skin infection which is why her face looks the way it does. At this stage she has no idea what it is but she's getting to a doctor to try and identify the problem.
"She's not in any pain but, obviously, she wants to get it sorted as soon as possible."

Michael Jackson in talks on possible Las Vegas act

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson may relaunch his career as a Las Vegas act, thanks to the private equity group that recently bought the loan on his Neverland Ranch in California to help the pop star avert foreclosure.


The investment firm Colony Capital is discussing with Jackson various repayment options for the $23 million debt, including a possible long-term engagement as the resident performer of a Vegas casino or nightclub, a source familiar with the talks said on Friday.


Colony Capital, based in Los Angeles, owns the Las Vegas Hilton and is a major shareholder in the Station Casinos chain.


The source emphasized that no deal was in place and that a Las Vegas gig for Jackson was merely one idea under consideration as Colony Capital explores the question of the loan repayment with him.


The talks with Jackson were first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which quoted Colony Capital CEO Tom Barrack as saying, "we've been having discussions with Mr. Jackson about a recapitalization and refinancing of Neverland in addition to various other business opportunities and mutual interests."


A Colony Capital spokesman told Reuters the company was not commenting further on the matter. Jackson's personal spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment.


Bringing Jackson to Sin City as a performer would mark the biggest step the 49-year-old performer has taken toward a comeback since a child molestation trial left his career, his reputation and financial status in tatters three years ago.


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Foy and Elf Machine

   
Artist: Foy and Elf Machine

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Bonsai Cd2

   Year:    
Tracks: 5


   
 Bonsai Cd1

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Queens Of The Stone Age man joins UNKLE on new album

Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes Long For Another Baby

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are keen to give little Suri a baby brother or sister according to new reports.



The couple are said to be feeling broody now that their young daughter has gotten to the toddler age, and they are thinking of trying for another baby.



A source tells E!: "She (Katie) said she's got the itch. Now that Suri is more toddler than baby, she said she misses having an infant in the house. And, of course, she thinks Suri would make a great big sister."



Tom is also looking forward to the prospect of become a father again. "He said if Katie wants to make another baby, she doesn't have to ask twice," said the friend of the power couple. "He always wanted more. It was Katie who has been holding off. Until now."



Can we expect to hear the pitter patter of tiny feet in nine months time?


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Mike Myers: Don't Expect Wayne's World 3

Mike Myers has squashed rumors of a third 'Wayne's World' movie, saying the reunion with Dana Carvey at the MTV Movie Awards was, "a dream come true" but not a sign they're bringing the characters back.

Starting out as a segment on TV show 'Saturday Night Live' in the early nineties, the pair played Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar and successfully made the transition to the big screen featuring in two hit movies.

The pair recently reunited onstage for the awards, with Myers telling MTV he, "loved doing these characters" but it was just so they could get "caught up" in them again.

Myers is about to debut a new character, Guru Pitka, in the upcoming movie 'The Love Guru,' starring Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.

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The Supremes - Supremes Fashion Blunder

THE SUPREMES singer MARY WILSON has recalled how she was once ridiculed for her style by late BEATLE GEORGE HARRISON.

The Baby Love hitmaker met up with the group at a 1960s event in New York, but failed to impress them with her fashion choices.

She explains, " We thought it was going to be a formal affair like a cocktail party, so we were all very elegantly dresses in fur coats, gloves and hats. As soon as we got there, we realised it wasn't formal at all. There were just a load of people milling around and standing in corners, so we left pretty quickly.

"Later, George Harrison said, 'We expected these three black girls to be hip but they came in looking like Jackie Onassis.'"

See Also

• The Police will play swansong in New York
• A Place To Bury Strangers produce record-melting rock
• Neil Diamond feels unappreciated

Russell Brand - Brand Bags First Radio Oscar

Russell Brand won his first Gold award at the radio industry "Oscars" last night.

Brand, who launched his Saturday late-night Radio 2 show in 2006, picked up the Entertainment Award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

Meanwhile Radio 1's Chris Moyles won a Sony Gold for best Breakfast Show and Jonathan Ross on Radio 2 won the Music Radio Personality Award.

Radio 4 won UK Station of the Year, beating Radio 2, the UK's most popular station, into second place.

But Today veteran John Humphrys was pipped by Simon Mayo on Radio 5 Live to the Speech Broadcaster of the Year title.

Dermot O'Leary beat fellow Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker to the Music Programme award. Planet Rock, the radio station which is expected to close at the end of the month if it cannot find a buyer, was named Digital Station of the Year.

Queen guitarist Brian May has said he is involved in a "rescue operation" to save the GCap Media station.

Jenny Abramsky, who is stepping down as director of audio and music at the BBC to chair the Heritage Lottery Fund, won the Special Award.

British broadcaster Brian Matthew won The Gold Award for "an impressive record of more than 50 years of national and international radio broadcasting".

BBC 6 Music's George Lamb was awarded Rising Star award, beating Kelly Osbourne on Radio 1.


13/05/2008 10:20:11

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• Jennifer Lopez & Mark Anthony’s Twins To Travel
• Pete Doherty, Winehouse might collaborate
• Katie Holmes Escaping To Broadway?

Lord Wind

   
Artist: Lord Wind

   Genre(s): 
Folk
   

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Discography:


   
 Rites Of The Valkyries

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Heralds Of Fight

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 9


   
 Forgotten Songs

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 11

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Idol Note-by-Note: Finalists Go Three for Three

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