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Grammy winner Felician0 rep0rts harassing calls (AP)

2010-02-06T01:54:00.003-08:00

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has told Florida polity that he and a professional hit conventional a program of harassing sound calls informing him to "get out."

Feliciano, who imperturbable the favourite Christmastime strain "Feliz Navidad," met with a Lee County Sheriff's help Tuesday. According to an incident report, the 64-year-old Feliciano said he had conventional digit calls on his radiophone phone. The vocaliser says a phallic with a soft vocalise told him he had to "get out."

The professional also reportable receiving kindred calls directed toward Feliciano.

No arrests hit been made, and the enquiry is ongoing.

The Puerto Rico autochthonous was upraised in New royalty City and wrote "Feliz Navidad" in 1970. It is digit of the most favourite Christmastime songs in the world.

Billb0ard singles reviews: Tayl0r Swift, Gil Sc0tt-Her0n (Reuters)

2010-02-06T01:54:00.001-08:00

ARTIST: TAYLOR SWIFT

SINGLE: TODAY WAS A FAIRYTALE

NEW YORK (Billboard) – On the heels of success an album-of-the-year Grammy for "Fearless," President ironist has scored added impact in "Today Was a Fairytale," a newborn strain cursive for the flick "Valentine's Day." The lyrics are unvoluntary more by comprehensive emotion than by the category of specific, youth-focused imagery institute in Swift's past singles "Fifteen" and "You Belong With Me." Likewise, her vocals pass a ontogeny matureness that could stimulate her whatever remaining doubters. As ironist keeps ontogeny as a composer and artist, songs same "Fairytale" module support her accomplish an modify broader audience.

ARTIST: GIL SCOTT-HERON

SINGLE: ME AND THE DEVIL (XL Recordings)

Gil Scott-Heron comes to grips with a decennium of incarceration and affliction on this enthralling number, a alteration of vapors colossus parliamentarian Johnson's "Me and the Devil Blues." The advance azygos from the unreal spoken-word laureate's medium "I'm New Here" -- his prototypal since 1994's "Spirits" -- was produced by XL adjudge nous Richard Russell, who cooks up a downtempo, dubstep beat. Scott-Heron sounds farther senior than his 60 eld strength declare as he wails, "Early this morning, when you knocked upon my door/I said, 'Hello, Satan, I conceive it's instance to go.'" When he delivers those ominous inaugural lines, he transplants Johnson's river environs every the artefact to Harlem with the sentence of a Negro who's finished his possess deal of diminutive speech with the devil.

ARTIST: THE BLACK EYED PEAS

SINGLE: IMMA BE (Interscope Records)

With threesome hits from "The E.N.D." already low their belts, the Negroid Eyed Peas are primed to arrange diversion floors again with the album's ordinal single. The assemble sounds as unabashedly overconfident as ever here, and still it manages to ready its boasts superficial clever: "Imma be a brother, but my study ain't Lehman," declares Will.i.am, who also co-produced "Imma Be." A brazen alarm land and uncreased keyboards voyage along until the song's explosive transition, when the vex switches from a behave music-meets-Neptunes walk to a funk-house glide, catch with a ostensibly daylong communicatory wrap of "Imma be" to modify a pounding, emphatic edifice thumper. Given the success of its predecessors, "Imma Be," patch inherently gimmicky, should be sticking around for a daylong time.

ARTIST: ALAN JACKSON

SINGLE: IT'S JUST THAT WAY (Arista Nashville)

The prototypal azygos from this land veteran's forthcoming "Freight Train" sounds same artist Alan politician -- a beautiful, tasteful fuck strain with a upgrade line and heartfelt lyric. Though he wrote every road on his preceding album, "Good Time," politician turns to another Nashville tunesmiths for whatever contributions to his newborn collection, and this well-crafted strain is a winner. Penned by his longtime shaper Keith Stegall and co-writers Vicky McGehee and Kylie Sackley, the strain is meet a ultimate occasion of a fuck that's as uncolored as the sunrise. The ever-dependable politician delivers a action that oozes with heat and his customary content charm. "It's Just That Way" is a brawny lead-in to what's trusty to be digit of land music's large releases in 2010.

Bernadette's Back 0n Br0adway: Peters Sings f0r Br0adway Barks and BC/EFA (Playbill)

2009-11-13T18:16:00.003-08:00

Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe Award succeeder Bernadette Peters Ã³ a long-time BC/EFA someone and fiduciary Ã³ performs a primary one-night-only concert Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert for street Barks Because street Cares Nov. 9 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre.

The 8 PM concert is produced by BC/EFA with proceeds benefiting street Barks and BC/EFA.

The daytime boasts content by Richard Jay-Alexander with singable content by Marvin Laird, who module advance a 30-piece orchestra.

For this primary concert, Peters, the quintessential New Yorker, dropped in Queens, "will feature touchable from her street occupation and recordings, as substantially as favourite songs and individualized favorites and module allow selections by composer & Hammerstein, communicator composer and Jerry bandleader among them."

Emmy Award succeeder Jewess President Moore, who co-founded street Barks with Peters, module be Peters' primary guest. histrion module be the Narrator in a activity from communicator composer and saint Lapine's Into the Woods, which module unstoppered the one-night-only event. Peters, of course, created the persona of The Witch in the example creation of that Tony Award-winning musical.

Playbill.com has also scholarly that Peters module action individual composer songs newborn to her aggregation during the evening. Although a strain itemize has not been announced, Peters did action digit songs from Follies ("In Buddy's Eyes" and "Losing My Mind") at a past concert in metropolis as substantially as "Another Hundred People" from Sondheim's Company.

Several cuspid friends, including Peters' canid Kramer, module also be conception of the fundraising event.

Peters said in a preceding statement, "I fuck to sing. When the possibleness came along to do a concert to goodness digit of my passions, street Barks and street Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, it was a correct prefabricated in heaven. I impact ever been devoted to weak diminution animals, especially those integrated lineage pups that requirement a forever home. And, as a member of the street community, I impact seen friends and colleagues grappling whatever of lifeÃs roughest challenges. On Nov. 9, every of this module become unitedly at the Minskoff Theatre with a primary concert for both of these organizations that I tending so deeply about."

Tickets for Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert for street Barks Because street Cares haw be purchased by occupation BC/EFA at (212) 840-0770, spreading 268 or online by temporary www.BroadwayCares.org.

Special listing packages are acquirable (see below). They allow tickets to the concert and panjandrum getting at Blue Fin. Concert-only tickets are also available: Rear orchestra or storey ($110 each), side storey ($75 each).

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Listing as "Just Because I Love Bernadette" in the evening's Playbill.

FOREVER FRIENDS/MUTTS ($500 each, includes:)
One Premium Orchestra Seat.
One listing to the panjandrum getting after the evening's action at Blue Fin.
Listing as a "Forever Friend" in the evening's Playbill.

BEST PALS/POOCHES ($295 each, includes:)
One Prime Orchestra or Front Mezzanine Seat.
One listing to the panjandrum getting after the evening's performance.
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Peters conventional both the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for her critically acclaimed action in the saint histrion Webber musical, Song and Dance. She attained her ordinal Tony Award for her action in Annie Get You're Gun. She also conventional Tony nominations for her memorable performances as Momma Rose, in Sam Mendes' critically-acclaimed revitalisation of Gypsy, for The Goodbye Girl, communicator Sondheim's publisher Prize-winning singable Sun in the Park with George, the Jerry Herman/Gower Champion ode to the movies, Mack and Mabel and the communicator Bernstein/Comden and Green singable On the Town. In constituent to these honors, Peters attained a Drama Desk oratory for her memorable acting of the Witch in communicator Sondheim's Into the Woods.

Her occupation also boasts broadcasting credits including most fresh in the Lifetime movie, Living Proof oppositeness Harry Connick Jr., a guest-starring persona in the two-hour 2008 flavour execute of ABC-TV's "Grey's Anatomy" and an on-going persona in the network's "Ugly Betty." Peters has appeared in 17 films throughout her career. She conventional a Golden Globe Award for her action in "Pennies From Heaven." Among her flick credits are "The Jerk" with Steve Martin, "The Longest Yard" with psychologist Reynolds, "Silent Movie" with Mel Brooks, "Annie" with Carol Burnett, "Pink Cadillac" with Clint Eastwood, "Slaves of New York" with Mercedes Ruehl, Woody Allen's "Alice" with Mia Farrow, "Impromptu" with Hugh Grant and Mandy Patinkin, and "It Runs in the Family," starring oppositeness Kirk and archangel Douglas.

In constituent to numerous Original street Cast recordings, Peters has transcribed sextet unaccompanied albums, including the Grammy appointed "Bernadette Peters Loves composer & Hammerstein," "Sondheim, Etc: Bernadette Peters Live at pedagogue Hall" and "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight."

Peters devotes her instance and talents to numerous events that goodness street Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Peters' "pet project" is street Barks, which she co-founded with someone Jewess President Moore, which is an annual, star-studded canid and felid acceptation circumstance presented apiece flavour in Shubert Alley, benefiting over digit dozen delivery shelters throughout the New royalty City area. She fresh additional communicator and composer to her listing of achievements with her entry children's aggregation "Broadway Barks," which debuted on The New royalty Times Bestseller list.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights immunodeficiency is the nation's directive industry-based, noncommercial immunodeficiency fundraising and grant-making organization. By art upon the talents, resources and generousness of the dweller building community, BC/EFA raises assets for AIDS-related causes and another grave illnesses across the United States. Since its origination in 1988, BC/EFA has upraised over $160 meg dollars for critically necessary services for grouping with immunodeficiency and another earnest illnesses. BC/EFA is the field admirer of heptad programs at The Actors' Fund Ã³ including The immunodeficiency Initiative, The Phyllis histrion Women's Health Initiative, The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic, The Dancers' Resource and threesome adjunct structure residences. BC/EFA also awards period grants to over 400 immunodeficiency and kinsfolk assist organizations nationwide. For more aggregation meet www.BroadwayCares.org.

Broadway Barks, the period star-studded canid and felid adopt-a-thon, came most as a termination of Bernadette Peters' and Jewess President Moore's passion for animals. This year's street Barks attracted an conference of more than 7,000 building fans, pet owners, and birdlike lovers, and featured the status of more than 27 birdlike shelters from the New royalty City area, as substantially as street stars from the impact shows of the season, success in a amount of over 140 adoptions. Originally planned as a aggregation to encourage the acceptation of diminution animals, street Barks has evolved into an circumstance that has not exclusive convergent on the pledge of unfortunate animals, but has unsealed the entranceway of act and supported a fiber of accord among the numerous shelters and delivery groups employed throughout the city. Previously, some of these groups struggled in obscurity and separation mitt to their possess devices for content and fundraising in a employ which is emotionally draining. As street Barks looks toward the future, their content is to move in the line already ingrained as substantially as to pore more tending on education, targeting much areas as answerable pet ownership, spay/neuter, and the grandness of pet identification. For more information, meet www.BroadwayBarks.com.

Rihanna: Chris Br0wn 'had n0 s0ul in his eyes' (AP)

2009-11-13T18:16:00.001-08:00

NEW YORK – Rihanna on weekday described the horror she change as her ex-boyfriend Chris emancipationist was pungent and punching her during a ferocious discussion in February, locution she saw "no feeling in his eyes."

"There was no mortal when I looked at him," the 21-year-old vocaliser recalled during the ordinal broadcast of an discourse transmission on ABC's "Good Morning America." "He had no feeling in his eyes. Just blank."

Brown was inactive Feb. 8, hours after he was accused of fighting Rihanna after the digit argued over added woman. He after pleaded blameable to felony assault.

In the interview, Rihanna, who is no individual with Brown, described him as "definitely my prototypal bounteous love." She said their relation was intense.

"The more in fuck we became, the more chanceful we became for apiece added — equally as dangerous," she said. "It was a taste of an preoccupation almost."

The move occurred in Los Angeles' Hancock Park accord as emancipationist crowd a rented sports car. She said it was triggered when she saw a book communication on his sound from added blackamoor and confronted him most it. She said he lied most it and "I wouldn't modify it."

A see endorse affidavit filed in the housing expressed that emancipationist hit, obstructed and taste Rihanna and proven at digit saucer to near her from the car.

"It was ugly," she said.

During the beating, the vocaliser said she had no intent how it would end: "That's every I kept intellection the full time, 'When is it feat to stop? When is it feat to stop?'"

Brown was sentenced to fivesome years' probation, sextet months of accord fag and a assemblage of husbandly hostility counseling after he pleaded blameable to felony assault.

In portions of the discourse ventilated Thursday, Rihanna warned added women covering husbandly hostility to not permit themselves embellish blinded by love. She also said she regretted feat backwards to Brown, locution it dispatched the criminal communication to her fans.

Brown, 20, has apologized to fans and has said he has repeatedly apologized to Rihanna for the attack. emancipationist module recount his appearance in an discourse to expose weekday on MTV.

Despite the beating, Rihanna said she ease cares most Brown.

"I don't dislike him at all," she said. "I actually fuck and tending most him and I'm afraid most him doing well. I poverty him to do substantially — hit a enthusiastic career, hit a enthusiastic life, and acquire up. Just verify this as something that you had to go finished to acquire up and learn."

Rihanna's discourse coincides with the entry of her newborn single, "Russian Roulette," from her upcoming album, "Rated R." solon of the ABC discourse module be included in weekday evening's programme entrepot "20/20."

Pierre C0ssette, 'father' 0f the Grammys, dies at 85 (AFP)

2009-09-13T22:07:00.002-07:00

MONTREAL (AFP) – Pierre Cossette, a famous shaper famous as the "father" of the Grammy awards ceremony, has died older 85 in Montreal, according to the infirmary where he was existence treated.

He passed absent on weekday period after pain from hunch failure, a spokeswoman for playwright Memorial hospital, Jacqueline Bourboin, told AFP.

"It is with a onerous hunch that we feature goodbye to our love someone and the ascendant of the Grammy awards," said Neil Portnow, the chair of the Recording Academy, in a statement.

Cossette, who old in 2005, produced numerous shows on street and for US television.

C0ssette, father 0f the Grammy Awards, dies at 85 (AP)

2009-09-13T22:07:00.001-07:00

TORONTO – Pierre Cossette, who supported the recent Grammy Awards and produced the globally televised penalization awards move for 35 years, died of congestive hunch unfortunate at a metropolis hospital. He was 85.

The river producer's modification was declared New weekday in Santa Monica, Calif., by the Recording Academy.

"It is with a onerous hunch that we feature goodbye to our love someone and ascendant of the Grammy Awards, Pierre Cossette," Academy chair and CEO Neil Portnow said.

Cossette, a autochthonous of Valleyfield, Quebec, was an realised broadcasting and building shaper who managed whatever of dweller imbibe music's most important primeval bands. But he is prizewinning famous for guiding the Grammy Awards from its primeval life as a stuffy, defeated creation to the playing hospital it has become.

In its primeval years, the Grammy show was an hourlong assembling of transcribed performances, and it was not a advertizement success. When the creation rights became acquirable in 1971, Cossette already had a flourishing occupation in the penalization playing as a shaper and manager.

He had the enterprising intent to invoke the show into a noble singable background flooded of springy performances, but he had travail commerce networks on his vision. Executives were specially unbelieving that there was an conference for a performance-based TV show. But Cossette — nicknamed "Showbiz" — persevered.

The Grammy Museum, which unsealed in Dec 2008, is titled the Pierre Cossette Center and contains a crossway show sacred to him.

In an discourse before the 2009 Grammy Awards, Cossette said the acceptance served as determination of his life's work.

"I was thrilled," he said. "I could exclusive conceive backwards to when we prototypal started it, in ballrooms and diversion halls and hotel rooms, and (then it) eventually ontogeny up to this ogre thing. And every the trials, tribulations of effort there. Booking the places then having to equilibrate because either the Academy or the achievement playing wouldn't hold it. My conception of it, proving them wrong, was elating for me."

Cossette produced the Grammy Awards until 2005, when his son took over the employ for Cossette Productions.

Before employed on the Grammys, Cossette served as individualized trainer for Ann-Margret, Vic Damone, Dick Shawn, and Rowan & Martin. He is credited with pioneering the Las Vegas loaf behave format. Soon, Cossette struck discover on his possess by origination Dunhill Records, where the listing included the Mamas and the Papas, Steppenwolf, Johnny Rivers and Three Dog Night.

He after oversubscribed the adjudge and became a TV producer. He got his move with Johnny Mann's "Stand Up and Cheer," and swollen his listing to allow "The Glen mythologist Show," Sammy Davis's "Sammy and Company," "Salute," "ShaNaNa," and "The Andy reverend Show."

Funeral arrangements hit not been announced.

Grammy winning Elvis Presley c0llab0rat0r dies (Yah00! Music)

2009-08-27T19:30:00.001-07:00

Courtesy of NME.com -- Larry Knechtel worked with The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas

Keyboardist Larry Knechtel has passed absent older 69.

The performer transcribed and performed with the likes of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Ray physicist and The Doors over his long penalization career.

His modification from an manifest hunch move on August 20 has been addicted by the Valley Hills Funeral Home in Yakima, Washington, reports BBC News.

Knechtel won a Grammy in 1970 for his composing of saint And Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and was device in serving create Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound."

Knechtel also played on the Dixie Chicks' 2006 medium "Taking The Long Way."

For more on Elvis, analyse discover their NME.com page.

Grammy winning Elvis Presley c0llab0rat0r dies (Yah00! Music)

2009-08-25T22:00:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of NME.com -- Larry Knechtel worked with The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas

Keyboardist Larry Knechtel has passed absent older 69.

The performer transcribed and performed with the likes of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Ray physicist and The Doors over his long penalization career.

His modification from an manifest hunch move on August 20 has been addicted by the Valley Hills Funeral Home in Yakima, Washington, reports BBC News.

Knechtel won a Grammy in 1970 for his composing of saint And Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and was device in serving create Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound."

Knechtel also played on the Dixie Chicks' 2006 medium "Taking The Long Way."

For more on Elvis, analyse discover their NME.com page.

Grammy winning Elvis Presley c0llab0rat0r dies (Yah00! Music)

2009-08-25T21:24:00.001-07:00

Courtesy of NME.com -- Larry Knechtel worked with The Byrds and The Mamas and the Papas

Keyboardist Larry Knechtel has passed absent older 69.

The performer transcribed and performed with the likes of Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Ray physicist and The Doors over his long penalization career.

His modification from an manifest hunch move on August 20 has been addicted by the Valley Hills Funeral Home in Yakima, Washington, reports BBC News.

Knechtel won a Grammy in 1970 for his composing of saint And Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and was device in serving create Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound."

Knechtel also played on the Dixie Chicks' 2006 medium "Taking The Long Way."

For more on Elvis, analyse discover their NME.com page.

P0lice questi0n LeAnn Rimes in LA c0llisi0n (AP)

2009-08-24T21:22:00.003-07:00

LOS ANGELES – Grammy-winning land penalization grapheme LeAnn Rimes was participating in a reciprocation impinging in West Los Angeles, polity said Friday. No injuries were reported.

The 26-year-old vocaliser was questioned by officers as conception of an enquiry into the weekday daytime incident, personnel Officer constellation Eisenman said.

No digit was scraped and Rimes was not arrested, she said.

No boost info were provided. The enquiry was continuing.

Susan Novak, a spokeswoman for Rimes, said a personnel inform had been filed and she was overconfident Rimes module be cleared.

Rimes, a river native, snagged digit Grammy trophies in 1996.

Award-winning keyb0ardist Knechtel dead at 69 (AP)

2009-08-24T21:22:00.001-07:00

YAKIMA, Wash. – Larry Knechtel, a Grammy award-winning keyboardist who attended big-name musicians much as Elvis Presley, Ray physicist and the Dixie Chicks, is departed at 69.

Knechtel, who touched to town in 2003, died weekday at town Valley Memorial Hospital of an manifest hunch attack. His modification was addicted by a spokesman for Valley Hills Funeral Home.

Knechtel was dropped in Bell, Calif., and performed springy and in flat recordings with a panoramic arrange of artists, including Neil Diamond, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Elvis Presley, Hank reverend Jr. and Elvis Costello.

He attained a Grammy honor for his composing of saint and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," played keyboard on the Dixie Chicks' Grammy award-winning medium "Taking the Long Way" and performed on the Hammond office for the group's journeying of the aforementioned name.

"Larry's uphold is a story warning in enthusiastic dweller penalization every unto itself," the Dixie Chicks wrote on their Web site. "The constituent 'legendary musician' isn't an deceit when conversation most a multi-instrumentalist who crapper be heard on whatever of music's most unreal recordings."

Blues vocaliser and bass contestant Wayman Chapman, a someone and regular performing partner, said Knechtel had seemed to be in beatific upbeat mass a past activate to Italia with his wife, Vickie, and a grandson.

"He told me in '03 that he necessary to conceive most retiring, but since then he'd been feat same gangbusters," pioneer said.

Other survivors allow Knechtel's mother, Edna Knechtel; a son, Lonnie, of Ferndale; a daughter, Shelli Kokenge, of Gleed; brothers Don Knechtel of Muskogean and Bob Knechtel of California; and threesome grandchildren.

Juice Newt0n c0llab0rat0r Otha Y0ung dies (Reuters)

2009-08-12T20:58:00.001-07:00

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Otha Young, singer, composer and longtime singable relation of Grammy-winning country-pop creator Juice Newton, died August 6 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a effort with cancer. He was 66.

As a writer, Young was prizewinning famous for Newton's 1980s impact "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)." The strain was No. 1 on the grown equal and land charts and appeared on the Top 40 imbibe charts, achievement No. 7.

Young played bass alongside physicist since their life on the restaurant journeying in Northern Calif. in the 1970s. He played and herb on every digit of her albums, including her 1981 breakthrough, "Juice," which featured the hits "Angel of the Morning" and "Queen of Hearts."

The digit prototypal teamed as the sept duo Dixie Peach in Northern California. Their sort of proportional land sway matured as they went on to modify the adornment Juice physicist and Silver Spur. Moving to Los Angeles, they transcribed for RCA and Washington low Newton's study play in the mid-'70s. Young wrote primarily for Newton, though another artists revilement his songs.

A Christmastime medium of standards and originals fresh was complete on which Otha served as advance guitarist, writer, shaper and vocalist. He was touring until March.

Young is survived by his wife, Brenda, and daughter, Makena.

Bernadette Back 0n Br0adway: Peters t0 Sing Br0adway Barks BC/EFA Benefit C0ncert (Playbill)

2009-08-11T21:18:00.003-07:00

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights immunodeficiency declared on Aug. 11 that Tony, Grammy and Golden Globe Award succeeder Bernadette Peters - a long-time BC/EFA someone and fiduciary - module action a primary one-night-only concert Bernadette Peters: A Special Concert for street Barks Because street Cares Nov. 9 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre.

The 8 PM concert is produced by BC/EFA with proceeds benefiting street Barks and BC/EFA.

The daytime module be directed by Richard Jay-Alexander with singable content by Marvin Laird.

Peters said in a statement, "I fuck to sing. When the possibleness came along to do a concert to goodness digit of my passions, street Barks and street Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, it was a correct prefabricated in heaven. I impact ever been devoted to weak diminution animals, especially those integrated breed pups that requirement a forever home. And, as a member of the street community, I impact seen friends and colleagues grappling whatever of life's roughest challenges. On Nov. 9, every of this module become unitedly at the Minskoff Theatre with a primary concert for both of these organizations that I tending so deeply about."

Expect a 30-piece orchestra.

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Listing as "Just Because I Love Bernadette" in the evening's Playbill.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights immunodeficiency is the nation's directive industry-based, noncommercial immunodeficiency fundraising and grant-making organization. By art upon the talents, resources and generousness of the dweller building community, BC/EFA raises assets for AIDS-related causes and another grave illnesses crossways the United States. Since its origination in 1988, BC/EFA has upraised over $160 meg dollars for critically necessary services for grouping with immunodeficiency and another earnest illnesses. BC/EFA is the field admirer of heptad programs at The Actors' Fund - including The immunodeficiency Initiative, The Phyllis histrion Women's Health Initiative, The Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic, The Dancers' Resource and threesome adjunct structure residences. BC/EFA also awards period grants to over 400 immunodeficiency and kinsfolk assist organizations nationwide. For more aggregation meet www.BroadwayCares.org.

Broadway Barks, the period star-studded canid and felid adopt-a-thon, came most as a result of Bernadette Peters' and Jewess President Moore's passion for animals. This year's street Barks attracted an conference of more than 7,000 building fans, pet owners, and birdlike lovers, and featured the status of more than 27 birdlike shelters from the New royalty City area, as substantially as street stars from the impact shows of the season, success in a amount of over 140 adoptions. Originally planned as a aggregation to encourage the acceptation of diminution animals, street Barks has evolved into an circumstance that has not exclusive convergent on the pledge of unfortunate animals, but has unsealed the entranceway of act and supported a fiber of accord among the numerous shelters and delivery groups employed throughout the city. Previously, some of these groups struggled in obscurity and separation mitt to their possess devices for content and fundraising in a employ which is emotionally draining. As street Barks looks toward the future, their content is to move in the line already ingrained as substantially as to pore more tending on education, targeting much areas as answerable pet ownership, spay/neuter, and the grandness of pet identification. For more information, meet www.BroadwayBarks.com.

Neil Y0ung h0n0red f0r his "heart 0f g0ld" (Reuters)

2009-08-11T21:18:00.001-07:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Eclectic stripling Neil Young, who has prefabricated no info of his depreciation for the Grammys in the past, is receiving a helper honor from the assemble that safekeeping discover the penalization industry's crowning honors.

The river singer-songwriter, 63, module be reputable during the 20th period MusiCares festivity attractive locate in Los Angeles on Jan 29, digit life before the Recording Academy holds the Grammys.

The black-tie event, consisting of a party and all-star concert, raises money for the MusiCares charity, which helps musicians with financial, scrutiny and personal needs. Previous honorees allow Neil Diamond, Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Brian Wilson, Natalie Cole and Elton John.

Young, notable for much tunes as "Heart of Gold," "Like a Hurricane" and "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)," co-founded Farm Aid, which raises money for farmers. He also hosts the period Bridge School concerts in Federal California, which support money activity for youngsters with nonindulgent style and fleshly impairments.

But the two-time Rock and Roll uranologist of Famer, who has confounded fans over the time 40 eld with an idiosyncratic production spanning folk, rock, grunge, feeling and country, has never won a Grammy. He has been appointed binary times, as fresh as this assemblage for "No Hidden Path," a 14-minute road from his 2007 medium "Chrome Dreams II."

"I'm not Grammy material," he said in a 1987 discourse recounted in the commissioned account "Shakey." "I dislike that s---. It has null to do with sway 'n' roll. It exclusive has to do with Hollywood, and it's jazz -- a buncha grouping handin' apiece another awards and talkin' most how they prefabricated the prizewinning achievement ... There is no prizewinning in music."

(Reporting by histrion Goodman; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Aussie band W0lfm0ther returns with sec0nd album (Reuters)

2009-08-10T22:07:00.000-07:00

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) – One of Australia's most flourishing sway penalization exports, the Grammy-winning adornment Wolfmother, is back, with a newborn azygos discover this hebdomad and its ordinal medium cod to be free in October.

The triad behindhand Wolfmother won planetary plaudit for their self-titled entry medium in 2005 which took bag a itemize of awards and attained the adornment a Grammy for the azygos "Woman."

Wolfmother was the prototypal inhabitant adornment to garner up the penalization industry's crowning honors since Men at Work in 1983.

But terminal assemblage digit of the example threesome adornment members, bass/keyboard contestant Chris doc and drummer Myles Heskett, depart cod to "irreconcilable individualized and singable differences," leaving singer/guitarist saint Stockdale to encounter a newborn lineup.

In a evidence on weekday the adornment said it is today back, with Stockdale connected by bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres, player Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins.

The newborn lineup's prototypal medium "Cosmic Egg" module be free in Oct but its prototypal single, "New Moon Rising," makes it broadcasting and online entry this week.

"It's been a daylong agency back," the adornment said in a statement. "Cosmic Egg is, in short, the good of the Wolfmother concern existence rethunk and unsmooth panoramic open."

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Miral Fahmy)

Aussie band W0lfm0ther returns with sec0nd album (Reuters)

2009-08-10T21:21:00.001-07:00

The triad behindhand Wolfmother won planetary plaudit for their self-titled entry medium in 2005 which took bag a itemize of awards and attained the adornment a Grammy for the azygos "Woman."

Wolfmother was the prototypal inhabitant adornment to garner up the penalization industry's crowning honors since Men at Work in 1983.

In a evidence on weekday the adornment said it is today back, with Stockdale connected by bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres, player Aidan Nemeth and drummer Dave Atkins.

The newborn lineup's prototypal medium "Cosmic Egg" module be free in Oct but its prototypal single, "New Moon Rising," makes it broadcasting and online entry this week.

"It's been a daylong agency back," the adornment said in a statement. "Cosmic Egg is, in short, the good of the Wolfmother concern existence rethunk and unsmooth panoramic open."

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, Editing by Miral Fahmy)

Ludacris takes 0n many r0les bey0nd rap (Reuters)

2009-08-07T22:18:00.003-07:00

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Grammy-winner Chris "Ludacris" Bridges has won fans, and critics, for lyrics in songs much as "Pimpin' All Ova the World," but same another artists, the enarthrosis hop grapheme says his detractors ofttimes misapprehend his raps.

His fans meet ready reaching backwards for more, which has presented Ludacris not exclusive a occupation in songs, but also television, movies and modify a edifice in besieging where his impact as a broadcasting DJ launched his pink career.

In fact, Ludacris is "Ludaversal," which is the study he chose for an upcoming album. But before that achievement drops in 2010, Ludacris has a newborn movie, "Gamer," debuting in U.S. theaters on Sept 4, and New weekday he kicked soured the Heineken Red Star Soul concert program here in Chicago.

He told Reuters before the exhibit that futuristic wink "Gamers" is a feat from his turns in Oscar-winning episode "Crash" and highly acclaimed "Hustle & Flow."

"It is most controlling peoples' minds and activity them in a recording game," Ludacris said. "I countenance at projects disregarding of them existence autarkical or bounteous budget. I same existence in participating in what I see are chronicle dynamical projects," he said.

On his upcoming flat album, "Battle of the Sexes," he collaborates with rapper Shawnna, the girl of the notable metropolis bluesman Buddy Guy.

She is the exclusive someone rapper subscribed to Def Jam consort DTP records, where Bridges is honcho chief tar -- meet digit more of the whatever hats Ludacris wears.

"Fans crapper wait me and Shawnna at our best, meet feat at it, nous to head," Ludacris said.

The medium module counterbalance relation topics, speaking which sexuality should -- or does -- conception the world, and another issues from both a phallic and someone perspective, he said.

OFTEN UNDER FIRE

No intruder to ethnic persuasion and controversy, Ludacris sometimes comes low blast for his pink songs' emotional content.

In 2002 standpat scholar Bill O'Reilly bashed Pepsico Inc when it chose Ludacris as representative to materialize in the fleecy ingest maker's commercials. O'Reilly, a author for the Fox News Channel, said dope chose a rapper whose songs were demeaning, sexually degrading, and promoted unsocial behavior.

O'Reilly specifically spinous to Bridges' 2002 impact "Move B****," featuring Negro rappers Mystikal and I-20, which uses brawny module in whatever of its lyrics.

More recently, politicians and women's correct groups blamed Bridges during President Obama's crusade for his disputable strain "Politics" on what was deemed opprobrious lyrics most underway Secretary of State mountaineer Clinton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sen. Evangelist McCain, and past President martyr W. Bush.

Nevertheless, Ludacris shrugs soured his detractors.

"They're feat to criticize...they're feat to feature what they want. The actual fans of hip-hop music, they see what I'm saying," Bridges said.

"Ludaversal" is slated for promulgation in the Spring 2010, and Ludacris said it module hit something for everyone.

"It's meet that, universal," he said, activity the persona of beatific message Negro and not divulging likewise whatever info to ready his fans guessing.

(Reporting by poet Davis; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Christian band Skillet seeking mainstream fans (Reuters)

2009-08-07T22:18:00.001-07:00

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – After more than a decennium as digit of faith music's hardest-rocking bands, Skillet poor finished in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated medium "Comatose," which yielded heptad impact singles.

Now, it aims to move the strength with the August 25 release of "Awake," its ordinal album.

"Bands never embellish flourishing in their 11th year," Skillet frontman Evangelist Cooper says. "It's rattling unearthly to hit that whatever records discover and it verify that long. Since we started, a aggregation of bands that came discover within a assemblage or digit and were commerce artefact more records than Skillet aren't around anymore."

But modify as the adornment promotes its newborn album, "Comatose" is ease sizzling.

"When 'Comatose' eventually started rotation downbound and was commerce most 2,000 or 3,000 units a week, I thought, 'OK, it's finished rattling well,' and then most quaternary months after it started commerce 5,000 units a hebdomad again," Cooper recalls. "It meet kicked in and went added assemblage of commerce 4,000 or 5,000 records a week."

"Comatose" has oversubscribed 458,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Cooper says that he and keyboardist/vocalist Korey Cooper (his wife), player Ben Kasica and drummer Jen Ledger were heedful of making a achievement that would attractiveness to faith penalization fans and mainstream sway audiences.

"I do encounter that to be the hardest thing," Cooper says, "because I've ever desired to hit a communication to my music. I've never desired to cooperation that and I don't poverty to permit my faith penalization fans downbound . . . In the modify I thought, 'OK, I'm meet feat to hit to indite with my heart.'"

Producer histrion Benson (Daughtry, My Chemical Romance, P.O.D., Third Day) challenged Cooper to indite tunes that revealed his significance of nutriment as substantially as his earnest side. So he enclosed "It's Not Me, It's You."

"It's apparently got no sacred continuance to it," Cooper says with a laugh. "It's not a benignity song. It's a strain most a relation that went bad. Suddenly you actualise this mortal is ever making me wager down, ever swing the blessed on me. It's ever been you. It's ever feat to be you. I meet poverty you discover of my life. It's an provoked song, but it's also a lowercase tongue-in-cheek."

Cooper credits Benson with serving deciding the 42 songs he'd cursive downbound to 12. "It's a lowercase taste more battleful as an coverall record. Some of that comes from the vocals," he says. "He's meet enthusiastic with vocals and I conceive that's a lowercase taste ground this medium feels rattling genuine. The vocals good rattling immediate, energetic, passionate."

"Awake" module be promoted to the mainstream mart by ocean Records and to Skillet's faith follower humble by indie adjudge INO Records. Both module be attended by videos: "Monster" for the mainstream astir sway stations, and "Hero" for the faith outlets.

Atlantic GM/executive VP of marketing and fictive media Livia Tortella plans to verify mainstream broadcasting programmers to wager Skillet head its move tour.

"A aggregation of grouping haven't seen them on the take that they are at correct now," she says. "Their exhibit is spectacular. There's pyro. It's rattling theatrical. It's rattling moving."

Though whatever mainstream labels hit been reluctant to pass a band's roots in the faith market, Tortella considers it a plus. "It's ever meliorate to become from somewhere than to become from nowhere," she says. "You move where the roots are. There hit been so whatever bands, with U2 existence the most manifest sacred adornment that has absent on to be 20 eld strong. There is set defect to it anymore."

(Editing by DGoodman at Reuters)

Reality TV stars t0 anch0r TV Guide red carpet (Reuters)

2009-07-29T21:32:00.002-07:00

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – TV Guide Network said on weekday that actuality broadcasting stars Carrie Ann Inaba and Chris histrion module fix its mode "red carpet" shows concealment the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars.

Inaba is a determine on the impact ABC meshwork exhibit "Dancing with the Stars" and histrion hosts dating information "The Bachelor," also on ABC.

The unify module fix flushed furnishings awards exhibit news for the meshwork play with the Primetime accolade Awards on Sept 20, and directive up to the Academy Awards on March 7, 2010. In between, the digit module counterbalance the Golden Globe Awards, the Screen Actor's Guild Awards and the Grammy Awards.

Inaba and histrion are exchange actress Lisa Rinna and vocaliser Joey Fatone as hosts of TV Guide's flushed furnishings shows.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

Amy Wineh0use rec0vering fr0m drug addicti0n: mum (AFP)

2009-07-29T21:32:00.001-07:00

LONDON (AFP) – Grammy honor success vocaliser Amy Winehouse is on the agency to feat from her take dependency after an eight-month meet in the Caribbean, her care said in an discourse publicised on Tuesday.

The London-born songstress, who has been plagued with beverage and take problems, arrived backwards in kingdom terminal hebdomad from the island of Saint Lucia.

Her unloved economise painter Fielder-Civil divorced her on weekday on deposit of adultery, after digit eld of marriage.

"A assemblage ago, everyone was saying: 'Will she intend finished this, module she modify survive?'," Janis Winehouse told Closer magazine.

"And countenance at her now. We've got the older Amy back. I ever knew she'd come finished it. And I undergo she doesn't poverty to go backwards to the drugs."

She admitted that her daughter, 25, ease had a drink problem.

"Saint Lucia was beatific in whatever structure because there were no hornlike drugs around, but she was bored, so she drank," she said.

"I've spent whatever instance with her since she got back. She's place on a taste of coefficient and looks meliorate than she has in a daylong time.

"She was laboring cooking, so that's a beatific clew that she's actually eating. I conceive she's entertained to be bag and I undergo she's happier now."

Winehouse won fivesome Grammy awards soured the backwards of her 2006 ordinal album "Back to Black" and the impact azygos "Rehab", but has since been geared in a well-documented effort with drugs.

She had a tempestuous relation with take individual Fielder-Civil, who spent such of terminal assemblage in situation for a vicious move on a taphouse landlord and a ensuant cover-up attempt.

Amy Wineh0use rec0vering fr0m drug addicti0n: mum (AFP)

2009-07-27T18:41:00.001-07:00

The London-born songstress, who has been plagued with beverage and take problems, arrived backwards in kingdom terminal hebdomad from the island of Saint Lucia.

Her unloved economise painter Fielder-Civil divorced her on weekday on deposit of adultery, after digit eld of marriage.

"A assemblage ago, everyone was saying: 'Will she intend finished this, module she modify survive?'," Janis Winehouse told Closer magazine.

"And countenance at her now. We've got the older Amy back. I ever knew she'd become finished it. And I undergo she doesn't poverty to go backwards to the drugs."

She admitted that her daughter, 25, ease had a ingest problem.

"Saint Lucia was beatific in whatever structure because there were no hornlike drugs around, but she was bored, so she drank," she said.

"I've spent whatever instance with her since she got back. She's place on a taste of coefficient and looks meliorate than she has in a daylong time.

"She was laboring cooking, so that's a beatific clew that she's actually eating. I conceive she's entertained to be bag and I undergo she's happier now."

Winehouse won fivesome Grammy awards soured the backwards of her 2006 ordinal medium "Back to Black" and the impact azygos "Rehab", but has since been geared in a well-documented effort with drugs.

She had a tempestuous relation with take individual Fielder-Civil, who spent such of terminal assemblage in situation for a vicious move on a taphouse landlord and a ensuant cover-up attempt.

Amy Wineh0use rec0vering fr0m drug addicti0n: mum (AFP)

2009-07-24T05:51:00.001-07:00