Christina Aguilera

   
Artist: Christina Aguilera

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   Pop
   Dance: Pop
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Back to Basics

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 22


   
 The Voice Within

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 My Reflection

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 23


   
 Fighter

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 2


   
 Can't Hold Us Down

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 4


   
 Stripped

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 20


   
 Nobody Wants To Be Lonely (Single)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Nobody Wants To Be Lonely

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 3


   
 Lady Marmalade (Single)

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


   
 My Kind Of Christmas

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Mi Reflejo

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 11


   
 Christina Aguilera

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 6


   
 Christina Aguilera

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 20


   
 Just Be Free

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


   
 Christina Aguilera (Bonus CD)

   Year:    
Tracks: 6

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After Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera was the to the highest degree popular female isaac Merrit Singer of the late-'90s teenager pop revival meeting. Unlike many of her generation, Aguilera was a technically skilled isaac Bashevis Singer with a really hefty voice, belting out her uptempo saltation numbers and ballads with a diva's panache. Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, on Staten Island, her parents were of Irish and Ecuadorian fund and her father's military career meant the syndicate stirred rather a bit during her childhood. They eventually settled in Pittsburgh, PA, where Aguilera began performing in endowment shows at old age six, with considerable success. She appeared on Star Search in 1988 (though she didn't win) and in 1992 united the cast of the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club, which also included Spears, succeeding *NSYNC members Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, and Felicitousness star Keri Russell.


Later on two years, Aguilera touched to Japan, where she recorded the hit duet "All I Wanna Do" with kill star Keizo Nakanishi. Returning to the U.S. in 1998, Aguilera recorded the song "Reflexion" for Disney's Mulan; her carrying into action helped bring in her a record deal with RCA. Her self-titled debut album was released in the summertime of 1999, and with teen-oriented dance-pop all the rage, the lead single "Djinny in a Bottle" shooter to the top of the charts for five weeks; the album too collide with number one on its way to gross revenue of over octad 1000000 copies in the U.S. only. The followup, "What a Girl Wants," was the number one number unitary individual of the twelvemonth 2000 and Aguilera consolidated her near-instant stardom by performing at the White House Christmas gala and the Super Bowl halftime demonstrate, and winning a Grammy for Best New Artist. Further hits followed in "I Turn to You" and another number ane, "Occur on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)."


In September 2000, seeking a place in that year's Latin pop boom, the part-Ecuadorian Aguilera recorded a Spanish-language album called Mi Reflejo, encyclopedism the lyrics phonetically since she didn't speak Spanish. It was followed promptly by the holiday record album My Kind of Christmas; both sold extremely well, a testament to Aguilera's popularity. In the spring of 2001, Aguilera was featured -- along with Pink, Mya, and Lil' Kim -- on the chart-topping blockbuster remake of Patti LaBelle's "Madam Marmalade" featured on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Aguilera was by right away a habitue at medicine industry awards shows; as she enjoyed her celebrity, a assemblage of older demos -- recorded when she was 14 and 15 -- was released under the claim Simply Be Free, despite Aguilera's vehement objections.


Aguilera attempted to discourage the mass media's expectations when she issued her second studio album in return 2002. Stripped, which appeared in October on RCA, was promptly criticized for its adult yet positive approach. Aguilera's count had departed from calendered to mealy. She appeared bare-breasted on the cover of the record album and went nude for a come down way out of Rolling Stone. Debut individual "Dirrty" revealed her new sexual power and became a chart smash, piece "Beautiful" showed her softer side. For her adjacent disc, notwithstanding, Aguilera split from producer Scott Storch and went to work with DJ Premier and Linda Perry, among others, for the 2006 Back to Basics, which debuted at routine one on the Billboard two hundred. The album, a two-disc put that explored her influences, primarily '20s, '30s, and '40s jazz and blues in the flair of Etta James or Billie Holiday, depicted a more grow -- so far at the same time provocative -- vocalist. The popular unmarried "Ain't No Other Man" north Korean won Aguilera the twenty-five percent Grammy Award of her career, and she dog-tired often of the following twelvemonth on the route, releasing the Plump for to Basics: Live and Down Under concert DVD to document the tour in late 2007.





Bob Brown

Chace Chases Away the Rumors

With all the buzz about him and "Gossip Girl" co-star Ed Westwick hookin' up at a fever pitch, Chace Crawford was asked about it point blank yesterday.







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Abenza

   
Artist: Abenza

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Cube

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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Universal all aboard 'Last Call'

Graphic novel series by Vasilis Lolos

Universal has picked up the rights to the Oni Press graphic novel series "The Last Call" and has set Evan Spiliotopoulos to adapt. Barry Josephson and Oni's Eric Gitter are producing.


Written and illustrated by Vasilis Lolos and first published in 2007, the horror-adventure series is about two teens on a joyride who get hit by a "ghost train," which is carrying souls from this dimension to another. They wake up on the train and try to solve a mystery that will allow them to return to their regular lives.


Josephson is producing via his Barry Josephson Prods. Gitter produces via Closed on Mondays Entertainment, Oni's producing arm.


Alexander Young of Josephson Prods. brought the project to the studio and will co-produce.


Universal's Erik Baiers and Maradith Frenkel are overseeing.


Josephson, who most recently produced Disney's "Enchanted," is in post on the kids adventure movie "They Came From Upstairs" for Fox.


Spiliotopoulos, who made a name working on such projects as "The Lion King 1 1⁄2" and "Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie," recently wrote adventure project "The Box" for Fox.


Oni has been making regular dial-ups to Universal, with "Last Call" being the fourth project set up at Universal. "Scott Pilgrim" is readying production, with Edgar Wright directing and Michael Cera starring. Also on the docket are "Leading Man" and "Resurrection."


Oni and Spiliotopoulos are repped by UTA.

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Gary Puckett

   
Artist: Gary Puckett

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Gary Puckett and the Union Gap - Greatest Hits

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 11

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During the late '60s -- a period forever distinguished as rock's most radical, advanced, and far-reaching -- Gary Puckett and the Union Gap forged a series of massive chart ballads near transcendental in their right-down sincerity and melodrama. Likely the only pop ring of the era to play deuce nightly shows in the Catskills -- the early gig for their younger fans, the by and by appearance for the fans' parents -- the radical pioneered the hip-to-be-square conception deuce decades before spiritual posterity Huey Lewis and the News; clad in Civil War-era get-ups (fill out with fictitious military ranks) and bizarrely pedophilic lyrics, Puckett and the Union Gap were in their own way as kinky and curious as whatever other work of the geological period.


Frontman Puckett was born October 17, 1942, in of all places Hibbing, MN, (where Bob Dylan went to high schooling). Raised chiefly in Yakima, WA, he picked up the guitar as a teen, and spell attendance college in San Diego played in a identification number of local bands before quitting school to focus on music. Puckett eventually landed with the Outcasts, a heavy john Rock group comprised of bassist Kerry Chater, keyboardist Gary "Mutha" Withem, strain saxist Dwight Bement, and drummer Paul Wheatbread. Despite earning a strong local following, in 1966 Wheatbread resettled to Los Angeles to help as the house drummer on the television series Where the Action Is; the odd members of the Outcasts toured the Pacific Northwest, and on their return, Wheatbread besides touched endorse to San Diego and rejoined the batting order. For reasons unknown, director Dick Badger -- convinced his charges requisite a potent ocular hook -- then sent the chemical group to Tijuana, where they were outfitted with Union Army-style Civil War uniforms.


A demo was before long cut in L.A., and Badger arranged a encounter with CBS producer Jerry Fuller. Though impressed by Puckett's soaring baritone horn, Fuller believed the band's coarse-grained, R&B-influenced approach was all wrong, merely agreed to check out their unrecorded show at the San Diego bowling alley the Quad Room. Believing Fuller was due to arrive on Saturday, the Outcasts opted to preserve their energy, delivering an atypically high plant on Friday night. Fuller, wHO was in the crowd for both shows, gestural the group dependent on on their willingness to foster their latent cushy rock and roll leanings. Re-christened the Union Gap in award of a suburb of Yakima, on August 16, 1967, the band recorded its first individual, "Woman Woman." Suggesting a mellower Righteous Brothers sans producer Phil Spector's lofty firepower, the single reached the Top Ten late in 1967 and was a million-seller by February of 1968; coincidental CBS push releases gave each appendage his possess complex number military rank -- Puckett was the general, Bement the sergeant, Chater the corporal, and both Withem and Wheatbread were relegated to private parts.


In the outflow of 1968, the Union Gap scored their biggest slay, "Young Girl," written by Fuller in the style of "Adult female, Woman," merely exchanging the antique musical theme of infidelity for the age-old motif of the temptation of underage latinian language: "My love for you is fashion out of line/you better unravel, miss, you're a great deal as well young, young lady," an tortured Puckett wailed. The juggernaut involute on, and the group continued lively off hits -- "Dame Willpower," "Over You," and "Don't Give in to Him" among them -- and as well headlined at the White House and Disneyland. But there was discord in the ranks: the Union Gap treasured to spell and get their own real, and Puckett ground himself progressively confined within the CBS-mandated ballad formula. In 1969, stalemate: Fuller assembled a 40-piece studio orchestra for a raw song he had scripted, merely Puckett and the Union Gap refused to cut the melodic phrase. The sitting was at last canceled, and Fuller never once more worked with the group. For the Union Gap, it was a pyrrhic victory.


The band immediately returned to the Top Ten that fall with the Dick Glasser-produced "This Girl Is a Woman Now," but it was to be their last hit. The reexamination, "Let's Give Adam and Eve Another Chance," tanked, and after management determined that Puckett's bandmates now receive a weekly pay rather of a percentage of the gross, Chater and Withem left the band. Bement false bass duties, keyboardist Barry McCoy and horn player Richard Gabriel were added, and gospel vocalists the Eddie Kendrick Singers as well signed on. The Civil War paraphernalia was presently jettisoned, only fifty-fifty so, prospects did not better. In 1970, Puckett began recording as a solo act, simply his efforts were not well-received; the Union Gap remained his live championship unit, until they were dismissed following an appearance at the 1971 Orange County Fair. Puckett's contract with CBS was terminated one year later.


Puckett continued qualification solo appearances in the months to come, simply by 1973 he had fundamentally disappeared from music, opting or else to study playacting and terpsichore. He performed in theatrical productions in and around L.A., but his playacting career never real took off, and in 1984 he signed on with the Happy Together oldies software package tour. Two days after, Puckett was tapped to open for the Monkees on their twentieth Anniversary duty tour, and he remained a staple of the revival lap into the next century. Among his original bandmates, Bement later joined the oldies act Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, spell Chater relocated to Nashville, where he plied his trade as a songster. Wheatbread, meantime, turned to concert promotion, and Withem returned to San Diego to teach highschool band.





DJ Niekos

Janet to make it real

JANET Jackson is set to star in a new MTV reality show, with the Together Again singer mentoring a group of aspiring singers and dancers in the as-yet-untitled project.
A producer for the show said: “It's really about finding who's the next Janet Jackson or Justin Timberlake or Usher. And we'll find it from a pool of people who you wouldn't typically find it from. We'll go to YMCAs, church groups, local community centres and try to cast the show.” It has also been reported the winner of the show may be given the chance to appear in Janet’s world tour, which starts in Vancouver, Canada, on September 10. Janet recently revealed she would love her brothers to reform the Jackson 5, but is unsure whether she would join them on their rumoured Las Vegas residency. She said: "This is the first I've heard that. I would love for my brothers to get together." Janet’s brother Jermaine has previously spoken of his wish to reform the band, saying: "It could be sometime in 2008. Michael will be involved. We feel we have to do it one more time. We owe that to the fans and to the public.”Meanwhile, the Jackson brothers have set up home in Appledore in Dorset, UK, where they are filming a reality show about their family adapting to life in a small British fishing village.

Newman fails to deny cancer rumour

Legendary film star Paul Newman has not denied reports that he is seriously ill with lung cancer in a cryptic response to rumours that have been circulating since the start of the week.
Jeff Sanderson, allegedly responding on behalf of Newman, said in a message e-mailed to Reuters and other outlets that: "Newman says he's doing nicely.
Sanderson continued: "This is what I got from him. He says he's doing nicely, and this is the statement I wanted to share with you, and that's what I have.
"I spoke to his office. ... this is the statement that came directly from him."
Newman is said to have been undergoing out-patient treatment for lung cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York by a variety of internet and TV sources. 
The Center itself has declined to respond to inquiries.

Britney Spears & Kevin Federline Custody Trial Date Set

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline will have their ongoing custody battle settled in August, after the pair failed to come to an agreement outside of court on Thursday this week (June 26th).

Federline's attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan tells E! News, "The mediation didn't result in an agreement that would avoid the trial set in August. The mood was comfortable, positive and it was a mood that was consistent with opening at least a great dialogue, which is necessary."

"If the existing arrangement was acceptable to both parties... we wouldn't have to go to trial. But that didn't happen."

In the custody battle, Federline is seeking sole physical and legal custody of their two sons Sean Preston and Jayden James. He has handled full custody since January, after Britney Spears was committed to a psychiatric facility.

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Coldplay Reach Number 1 In The U.S.

Coldplay have climbed to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 this week, being the first British group to reach number one since the Spice Girls, and only the second British single to do it this year.

Coldplay follows the success of Leona Lewis in spring, after she hit the number one spot with 'Bleeding Love'.

As well as Leona, the band are also joined in the top ten by another fellow Brit, this time in the form of Natasha Bedingfield, who climbs from nine to six this week.

Elsewhere in the charts, Lil Wayne falls from top position, dropping to number three with his hit single Lollipop.

The US Top 10 :

1. Coldplay - 'Viva La Vida'

2. Katy Perry - 'I Kissed A Girl'

3. Lil Wayne ft. Static Major - 'Lollipop'

4. Leona Lewis - 'Bleeding Love'

5. Rihanna - Take A Bow

6. Natasha Bedingfield - 'Pocketful Of Sunshine'

7. Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown - 'No Air'

8. Chris Brown - 'Forever'

9. Usher ft. Young Jeezy - 'Love In This Club'

10. Metro Station - 'Shake It'

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