By Iain Blair
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Alicia Keys is enjoying
a successful worldwide tour, a chart-topping album and will act
in an upcoming movie, but it might not have happened, she said,
were it not for a near breakdown two years ago.
Keys, whose current hits include "No One," is in the middle
of her "As I Am" tour. The new "As I Am" album debuted on
record charts at No. 1 and has sold over 3 million copies.
In October, she makes her film debut in "The Secret Life of
Bees," starring Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson. Based on the
best-selling novel of the same name, the movie is co-produced
by Will Smith and backed by indie powerhouse Fox Searchlight.
While Keys seems to lead a charmed life and has the sort of
career that most other 26-year-olds could barely imagine, it
hasn't always been so rosy.
Two years ago, the singer went through a troubled period
that nearly derailed her life and career. A workaholic
lifestyle and the death of a close relative from cancer pushed
her "very close" to the breaking point, she admits.
Instead of having a public meltdown, Keys faced her demons
in private.
"I knew I needed time away, so I went to Egypt for a month
-- on my own, which gave it a whole different perspective," she
told Reuters in a recent interview.
"It allowed me to see things I'd never seen before -- all
the temples on the Nile, the Pyramids, the history. It was so
rich and beautiful and strong, and it inspired me so much, and
renewed me."
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Dionysos
Artist: Dionysos
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
La Mecanique Du Coeur
Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
Whatever The Weather: Electrique
Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
Whatever The Weather: Acoustique
Year: 2003
Tracks: 21
Western Sous La Meige
Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Old School Recordings
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Alternative Control
Artist: Alternative Control
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
Unreleased Tracks CDS
Year: 2005
Tracks: 7
51 Times (CDS)
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Diamanda Galas
Artist: Diamanda Galas
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Vocal
Industrial
Alternative
Avantgarde
Discography:
La Serpenta Canta (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
La Serpenta Canta (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Defixiones: Will and Testament (CD 2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Defixiones: Will and Testament (CD 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Schrei X
Year: 1996
Tracks: 24
Scheri X
Year: 1996
Tracks: 24
The Sporting Life
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
The Divine Punishment - Saint Of The Pit
Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
Vena Cava
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
The Singer
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Plague Mass
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Masque Of The Red Death (CD 2) - You Must Be Certain Of The Devil
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Masque Of The Red Death (CD 1) - Divine Punishment - Saint Of The Pit
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
You Must Be Certain Of The Devil
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
You Must Be Certain Of Devil
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
The Litanies Of Satan
Year: 1988
Tracks: 2
The Divine Punishment
Year: 1986
Tracks: 7
Malediction and Prayer
Year:
Tracks: 12
A ferociously confrontational van performing artist noted for her bawling, four-octave vocal range, Diamanda Galas was born and elevated in San Diego, California. The daughter of Greek Orthodox parents, her singing was roundly discouraged, although her prowess as a classical piano player was nurtured; finally, her strict upbringing resulted in a reckless, drug-fueled early days prior to her ingress into the University of California's music and visual liberal arts syllabus.
Galas made her playing debut in 1979 at France's Festival d'Avignon, which light-emitting diode to an invitation to accept the lead role in composer Vinko Globokar's politically-charged opera Un Jour Comme un Autre. In subsequent solo performance-art pieces like Wild Women With Steak Knives and Tragouthia apo to Aima Exon Fonos, Galas further honed her unequalled, smashing vocal style, elysian by the Schrei ("scream") opera house of German expressionism (a bod employing a system of four microphones and a series of echoes and delays).
Galas made her recorded debut in 1982 with The Litanies of Satan, a provocative put to work comprised of a outspoken adjustment of a verse form by Charles Baudelaire. After the prison-themed performance piece Panoptikon (documented on a self-titled 1984 release), she began development a trilogy of albums known collectively as The Masque of the Red Death; released independently betwixt 1986 and 1988 as The Divine Punishment, Saint of the Pit and You Must Be Certain of the Devil, the three records catalogued Galas' litany against the AIDS epidemic, which claimed her blood brother, dramatist Philip-Dimitri Galas, in 1986.
With 1990's The Singer, she made her outset elusive advances into the realm of pop music; reprising some of the same creed material which snaked through The Masque of the Red Death, the track record too featured her covers of Willie Dixon's "Insane Asylum" and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You." 1993's Vena Cava, an a cappella cause, preceded 1994's The Sporting Life, a collaborationism with previous Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. A track record of Galas' 1994 receiving set work Schrei X followed in 1996, in tandem bicycle with her number one rule book collection, The Shit of God. She returned two years later with Malediction and Prayer.
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Jennifer Aniston's hair 'most envied' by women
Jennifer Aniston's hair 'most envied' by women
Women enviousness Jennifer Aniston's hair's-breadth more than any other fame, according to a holocene epoch follow.
In a poll of 1,600 masses commissioned by Hair cartridge holder, it was found that Aniston's hair is the most coveted followed by Catherine of Aragon Zeta-Jones, Guy Deeley, Genus Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Natalie Imbruglia, Victoria Beckham, Nicole Kidman, Sharon Stone and Sienna Miller.
The survey too named 'the bob' - as popularised by Victoria Falls Beckham and Katie Holmes - as the "most iconic haircut" of completely fourth dimension.
The coif, originally associated with Mid-sixties stars such as The Virgin Quant and Twiggy, beat Aniston's sleek, long Friends cut in the survey.
Her coiffure sparked the biggest haircloth craze of the 1890s as women flocked to salons to ask for 'a Rachel'.
The Amy Winehouse-style Mid-sixties beehive was third base, followed by the 1970s Farrah Fawcett feathered identification number, as lately imitated by Madonna.
Mia Farrow's ultra-short 'Rosemary's Baby' crop was one-fifth in the online poll, commissioned by Fuzz cartridge, followed by the heavy outskirt worn to the incline that Lady Princess of Wales Spencer sported when she announced her booking to the Prince of Wales.
Joanna Lumley's 'Purdey bob' from her period in 'The New Avengers' was seventh.
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Saturday, 3 May 2008
Songs from Once on Oscars longlist
Songs from Once on Oscars longlist
Deuce songs from the Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova-starring Irish whisky film 'Once' ar being considered for inclusion on the shortlist for Best Master Song at the 80th Academy Awards.
The songs on the longlist from the Academy of Motion Depiction Arts and Sciences are 'Falling Slowly' and 'If You Want Me'.
Last hebdomad 'Falling Slowly' was nominated in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Record album and C. H. Best Call Written for Motion Picture, Video or Other Visual Media categories for the Grammy Awards.
The Oscars longlist as well has another Irish link: Jonathan Rhys Meyers' interpretation of the song 'This Time' from his fresh film 'August Rush' is also among the 59 tracks being considered.
The Academy Award nominees will be announced on Tuesday, 22 Jan 2008.
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