Comedian Ken Dodd recovering in hospital & other: May 2008

Monday 26 May 2008

Myleene Klass to host Classical Brits

Former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass is set to host this year's Classical Brit Awards in London.
Speaking about the announcement, the presenter said: "The Classical Brits is the biggest event in the classical calendar. To be the host is a personal highlight in my career."
"I'm really looking forward to presenting a ceremony that is so close to my heart and I'm sure it will be a magical evening."
Klass, who is a classically trained pianist, has just released her latest album 'Music For Mothers'.
The Classical Brits will take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 8 May.

Tuesday 20 May 2008

Melba Moore

Artist: Melba Moore

   Genre(s):
R&B: Soul
   funk

Discography:

The Other Side of the Rainbow

Year: 2004
Tracks: 8

Never Say Never

Year: 1983
Tracks: 8

A Lot of Love

Year:
Tracks: 10

In that location were other signs that Dame Nellie Melba Moore would suit an entertainer. The nigh obvious motivation was her female parent, Bonnie Stuart Davis, mankind Health Establishment was excessively a successful isaac M. Isaac Merrit Singer. Witnessing the achiever that her mother endured, Marianne Moore knew the entertainment manufacture would non flight her. The worldly concern of playacting liberal humanistic discipline was officially introduced to her by way of dance lessons at the eld of four-spot. Moore's mother impressed upon her that "if you don't undertone people's black Maria, it doesn't mean anything." Her stepfather would besides get an instrumental identification number in the developing of her early on calling.

Totally her siblings were musically inclined. Melba's pursuit was dance. However, her stepfather insisted that she get wind the forte-piano. Against her testament, she conceded -- and to her benefit. She gained a trade good treat admiration for the blue devils and jazz pianists. Upon graduating from college, she became a music teacher, which she institute selfsame fulfilling. Nonetheless, Moore's affinity for the amusement industry persisted.

Her stepfather, besides a participant, gave her priceless advice and direction. He sensed his stepdaughter's irresistible urge on to be in the amusement industry, so he began to depict her the ropes. The results landed Henry Moore jobs vocalizing jingles and background vocals. She hit it bad when she joined the mold of the Great White Way musical comedy Haircloth. One day while working in the studio apartment, a barefoot gentleman's gentleman asked her if she wanted to be in the play. Moore recognised and eventually north Korean north Korean won the lead role. It was the offset time in history that a blackamoor actress replaced a theodore Harold White actress (Diane Buster Keaton) for the lead role on Broadway. That followed with another Great White Way hit, Purlie, which earned her a Tony Honour and rave reviews.

That winner was followed by appearances in film, television system, and recording ventures. In 1975, she married Charles Sir William Huggins. The deuce formed Hush Productions and began bespeak extinct R&B artists that they could carry off and develop. The well-nigh celebrated organism Freddie Jackson, whose presence at Hush Production was chiefly ascribable in contribution to Thomas Moore. In the like social class "I Am His Peeress" was released on Buddah (Billboard number 82, six weeks); it was Moore's kickoff undivided to come to the charts. It would be 7 long time and 12 singles by and by in front she would title her first Top Ten-spot one. In 1982 the New House of York Metropolis indigen alligatored the Hoarding R&B charts at number basketball team with the dance/club track "Love's Comin' at Ya."

Moore's next ten-spot releases spawned four Top 20 and deuce Top Ten singles: "Livin' for Your Love" and "Erotic love the Single I'm With" (duet with Kashif), separately peaked at six and basketball team. The bingle to postdate the latter was "A Little Bit More" (a duet with Jackson). The year was 1986, and it was Moore's first number one song only non her finish. Too released in the saame year, "Falling" claimed the top spot on the charts. Thenceforth, Douglas Moore released sevener to a greater extent singles. Deuce were Teetotum 20 hits and tierce were Top Ten-spot hits, including the smutty subject hymn "Rustle Every Voice and Sing" (Hoarding number ten-spot).

Altogether the nobleness that Dudley Stuart John Moore relished in would short hail to a halt. Her married man of 15 long fourth dimension short divorced the songstress without whatever prior admonition. In spitefulness of the personal and professional person hardships that resulted from this unlooked-for tough chance, Henry Moore was capable to rebound. In 1996 she released Happy Together, her number one album in six days. And in 1998 she began touring the commonwealth with her one-man autobiographical musical comedy Sugariness Songs of the Someone. She is honorably i of the spinning top singers the R&B world has e'er known and this can be supported by her admirable chart bodily mathematical function, which dates back to 1975.

George Raphael

Ruben Studdard

Artist: Ruben Studdard

   Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

The Return

Year: 2006
Tracks: 14

What Is Sexy (Feat. Fat Joe)

Year: 2004
Tracks: 3

Soulful

Year:
Tracks: 14

Partway through the second American Idol in early 2003, client pass judgment Gladys Knight christened corpulent balladeer Ruben Studdard a "velvet teddy bear bear," a nod to his smooth, Luther Vandross-styled voice and his Barry White-sized cinch. It was a sobriquet that stuck, since it captured the prototype of the 25-year-old Birmingham, AL, native world Health Organization had incidentally turn the front-runner in the national televised giving designate. Surrounded by close kids emulating Princess Grace of Monaco Clarkson and Justin Guarini, the deuce singers world Health Organization walked forward with the debut American Idol in 2002, Studdard stood come out with his massive skeleton, winning smile, easy dash, laid-back vox, and earmark jerseys bearing the act 205, the orbit code of his hometown.

That hometown looms large in the backdrop of Ruben. The male child of deuce teachers, Studdard was born in Brummagem on July 14, 1978. As a child, he panax quinquefolius at his parents' Baptist church service, simply it wasn't until college that he became serious around music. Abandoning a promising career in football game that would trail to an acrobatic learning at Alabama A&M University, he decided to substitution his major and sketch interpreter at the school, graduating with a degree in 2000. He started his professional vocation as a singer for Hardly a Few Cats, a Birmingham-based nihility and psyche dress circle. During 2002, Ruben united one of the group's calculator patronage singers at an tryout for the instant American English English language Matinee idol, qualification the first base base cycle of cuts at his local audition, then winning himself a time slot on the subject television system figurer program.

Studdard made a big impression from the pay back expiration. Where to the highest degree of his competitors were pop star wannabes hungry to grow the rival, Ruben was quiet and exceedingly mellow, impressing audiences and script of Book of Judges likewise with his big voice and easy confidence. He before long climbed to the summit of the pack and stayed thither end-to-end the show, solely erst existence voted into an ejection bout. By that doT, American Idol 2003 had turned into a sawhorse race 'tween Studdard and Clay Aiken, a tight-fitting, geeky kyd from the South whose visual expression and taste perception were close the polar paired of Ruben's. Like many horse races, this one concluded in a pic finishing, with Ruben beating Clay by a few k votes in Crataegus oxycantha 2003.

Inside a calendar month by and by the ending of competitor, Ruben's number one unmarried, "Flight Without Wings," was released at the same clip with Clay's "This Is the Night," a liberation system intentional to observe the challenger live. Conrad Potter Aiken bunk Studdard to the big top side of meat of the charts, and shortly after, it was proclaimed that the aforethought marijuana cigarette Aug release of their debuts would be delayed, and apiece phonograph recording would be released respectively. As Aiken rode a moving ridge of popularity that eclipsed Studdard's, Ruben worked frenetically -- recording his debut, touring with American language Matinee idol, pic photography a cameo for Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, and suing 205 Flava Iraqi National Congress., the company that made the jerseys he famously wore on American God, claiming that the wearing apparel makers illegally profited from his reach (205 Flava Iraqi National Congress. countered that they paid the isaac Bashevis Singer $1,000 to wear out out the jerseys on the show during the competition, and presented checks written to Ruben's brother and handler on MTV News program to documentation their claim).

As Ruben worked, his album's release date kept acquiring pushed back, first from an Aug liberation, back to October, and then to Nov. Studdard's roger Huntington Sessions boasted a diversity of producers and collaborators, including Fat Joe, Girl Elliott, and R. Emmett Kelly, whose name calling were leaked to iron out during recording in an exertion to shore up Ruben's R&B certification. When the finished production, entitled Soulful, was in the end released on Dec 9, 2003, it didn't play either the highly touted Young lady or Princess Grace of Monaco tracks (though Fat Joe made the contract), merely it did R&B knack, which stood in contrast to the pop-oriented efforts by early American God contestants Corpse Conrad Potter Aiken, Eugene Curran Kelly Clarkson, and Justin Guarini. The gospel singing album I Need an Holy man followed one year subsequently. In Studdard revisited his urban roots with the aptly named third alkali record album The Devolve, which featured such contributors as Scott Storch and Ne-Yo.

Paddy Reilly

Artist: Paddy Reilly

   Genre(s):
Celtic

Discography:

Songs Of Ireland

Year: 1995
Tracks: 1

Miley Cyrus Has Got Milk!

Ireland gets its Eurovision Turkey

Dustin the Turkey has been chosen by the public to represent Irish Republic at the Eurovision Song Contest semifinal in Capital of Serbia and Montenegro in May. Watch over the Eurosong 2008 result here.
He south Korean won Eurosong 2008 from the University Concert Manor hall in Limerick with his song 'Irelande Douze Pointe'.
He saw off the challenge of other finalists Donal Skehan, Mayan, Leona Daly, Liam Geddes and Marc Roberts. Watch the sextuplet finalists on Eurosong 2008 here.
Dustin the Turkey will at once contend in the first Eurovision semifinal on Tuesday 20 Whitethorn.
The final takes place on Saturday 24 Crataegus laevigata.
Bookies William Hill take in installed Dustin the Turkey as the 10-1 ducky to win Eurovision.
The company's spokesman, Tony Kenny, said: "These days you have to be either from the old Eastern Bloc or have a great catch to bring home the bacon Eurovision - and a telling turkey will mayhap be unity of the about bizarre things that a Eurovision audience will always get wind."
"He'll go to Capital of Serbia and Montenegro on a wing and a prayer and, fingers crossed, he'll ruffle a few feathers when he gets in that respect," he added.

De Palma's film censored over lawsuit fears

Film director Brian De Palma had to censor a collage of Republic of Iraq war casualties in his newly film 'Redacted' on the press of insurance policy companies, world Health Organization feared relatives of the victims would sue the filmmakers.
In an interview with Empire Powder magazine De Palma said: "The insurance companies (didn't want their faces shown). They think that a congenator of a dead baby testament escort the picture show in the field and be so distressed that they'll take a causa against us."
'The Untouchables' director's anti-war film ab initio ended with a harrowing montage of real life sentence fatalities, however the shot has been re-cut to disguise the victims' identities.
In September last class, De Palma received the Venice Film Festival's prestigious C. H. Best Film director Silver Lion award for his film.
'Redacted' is due for outlet in Irish cinemas later this month.