Shania Twain - Shania Speaks Out To Thank Fans

Brokenhearted SHANIA TWAIN has sent a message to her fans thanking them for their support as she attempts to get on with her life after splitting from her husband.

Music mogul Robert 'Mutt' Lange has filed for divorce after 14 years of marriage to the country queen, leaving Twain shattered.

But, in her first reaction to the split, the Canadian star has posted a heartfelt message to her fans on her website.

She writes, "I am going through a rough time personally in my life (and) I wanted you all to know that I could not be getting through this without you.

"Your letters, emails and words of encouragement give me strength. Your overwhelming support reminds me to smile, no matter how deep the pain and to always be grateful for all the beautiful blessings in my life.

"I have so much to say but I know the best way for me to speak is through my music. This is my therapy, my passion, and my love. I look forward to sharing it with all of you as I begin this new journey.

"I need some time to heal this broken heart but make no mistake; I will be back and hopefully stronger than ever. Thank you my friends, from the bottom of my heart."

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Emiliana Torrini

   
Artist: Emiliana Torrini

   Genre(s): 
Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Fisherman's Woman

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Merman

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 10


   
 Croucie D ou La

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10

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Singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini composes an exquisite vocalic ravisher, interchangeable to the hums of Beth Hirsch and Kirsty Hawkshaw, fashioning Torrini's ingenuousness a fragile shake off of aglow imagery. She is of Italian and Icelandic decent, just lives in England, and her cultural seascape is ever more inviting when her soft-spoken compositions are heard. She joined forces with Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal to make her first-class honours degree album Love in the Time of Science, which was released in fall 2000 on Virgin. Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson heard her cool, nonnatural croon and approved Torrini to voice the finis music for 2002's The Two Towers, and she followed up this cinematic achievement by cathartic the soft-spoken merely beautiful Fisherman's Woman in early 2005.

Jessica Alba has baby girl: report

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jessica Alba, who married her long-time boyfriend Cash Warren three weeks ago, has given birth to baby girl, according to US Weekly magazine.


Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in the TV drama "Dark Angel" and the movie "Fantastic Four," announced last December that she was pregnant and engaged to Warren.


Alba met Warren, 29, on the set of "Fantastic Four" in 2004 where he was a director's assistant. Warren has since moved into producing.


US Weekly said Alba gave birth to her daughter at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend.


The couple married in a quiet ceremony at the Beverly Hills courthouse on May 19.


Reuters/Nielsen

Phil Manzanera

   
Artist: Phil Manzanera

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 50 Minutes Later

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 6Pm

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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R Kelly Trial: Day Six

A former friend of the alleged victim in the R Kelly. child pornography trial has testified that it is her friend and R&B singer Kelly in the video at the centre of the case.

Under cross-examination in Chicago today (May 21), Simha Jamison, now 24 said she recognised the girl in the tape from a mullet haircut they both had as youngsters. Jamison also confirmed that she and the alleged victim spent time at Kelly�??s studio and home, as well as at a gym.

Jamison, whose nickname is �??Punky�??, said that sometimes her parents would drive them, others they would take the train or �??bum a ride�?�. Sometimes they would leave the studio together, others she would leave and her friend would stay behind.

She said Kelly frequently gave her former friend money from $100 to $500 and that the girl had a black Chrysler PT Cruiser the summer before her sophomore year of high school, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Jamison however, admitted she never saw any sexual contact between the alleged victim and Kelly but she said "There were things I wouldn't tell her as I'm sure there were things that she wouldn't tell me."

The sex-tape was shown to jurors yesterday during the first day of testimony in the trial. Kelly�??s defense is saying it is not him in the tape, and used a mole on his back as an example of a physical characteristic that does not match the man in the tape.

The video is poor quality, making it difficult to identify the girl and the man on it. The trial continues tomorrow.

--By our New York staff.
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Pierce Brosnan - Brosnans Beach Karaoke Concerts Pay Off For Mamma Mia

PIERCE BROSNAN prepared for his musical role in upcoming summer (08) blockbuster MAMMA MIA! by performing to the ocean on the beach near his Kauai, Hawaii retreat.

Too nervous to belt out the Abba songs he performs for the film's soundtrack to friends, family and holidaymakers, the former James Bond hit the shore as the waves were crashing around him - with his iPod.

He tells U.S. magazine Parade, "I walked up and down the coast and sang karaoke to my own voice for about six weeks."

But his beach rehearsals failed to impress when he had to perform in front of producers and castmates for the first time: "I went to New York for the first rehearsals, and I sounded dreadful. I quietly freaked out... and I made a pig's ear of it."

But he refused to give up, went back to Hawaii and worked even harder on hitting the high notes.

He adds, "In the end they liked it so much they added a verse to my big song."

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Thundra

   
Artist: Thundra

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Worshipped By Chaos

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 9

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Outpost (2007) [Action, Horror]

Widespread Panic

   
Artist: Widespread Panic

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Earth to America

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 10


   
 Uber Cobra

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12


   
 Night of Joy

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9


   
 Recorded Live From Athens, GA In The Spring Of 2000

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 5


   
 Don't Tell The Band

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12


   
 Light Fuse Get Away CD2

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 9


   
 Light Fuse Get Away CD1

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Widespread Panic

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 13

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One of the many neo-hippie block bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic naturalized a devout grassroots following on the intensity of changeless touring and a loose, rootsy make of Southern rock informed by jazz and megrims textures. The group's origins dated to 1982, when singer John Bell and guitar player Mike Houser number one began playing together spell attendance college in Athens, GA; when bassist Dave Schools left academia to join the duette the future year, Widespread Panic was officially born. The ring recorded their debut single, "Coco palm Image," in 1986; drummer Todd Nance united soon after, followed by the addition of percussionist Domingo "Gay" Ortiz and eventually keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann.


Widespread Panic released their energetic debut LP, Space Wrangler, in 1988 on the diminutive Landslide label; afterwards respective days of persistent touring, they gestural to major label Capricorn, which issued the group's eponymously highborn sophomore exertion in 1991. Appearances on the 1992 and 1993 H.O.R.D.E. tours greatly expanded their fan base prior to 1993's Everyday, patch 1994's Ain't Life Grand spawned the AOR hits "Aeroplane" and "Can't Get High." After teaming with fellow Georgian Vic Chesnutt to record 1995's Baseball club High a Pallet under the list Brute, Widespread Panic reconvened for the record album Bombs and Butterflies, released in 1997. In the springtime of 1998, the band released Light Fuse, Get Away. Til the Medicine Takes followed a year by and by. Another Joyous Occasion (2000) and Don't Tell the Band (2001) pronounced the band's first albums of the newfangled millennium. In June 2002, Widespread Panic returned to the route for their annual summer duty tour of the States, just inside a month, introduction penis and jumper cable guitarist Michael Houser had to bow out. Houser was battling genus Cancer and returned menage to Athens, GA, to breathe while guitarist George McConnell stepped in to destination the go. On August 10, 2002, Houser succumbed to complications from pancreatic cancer at the age of 40.


Houser's wish was that the dance band would carry on after his passing, and with McConnell comely a permanent surrogate, Widespread Panic did just that. Their next full-length album, Ball was released in April of 2003. Night of Joy and Ãœber Cobra, both of which appeared in previous March 2004, featured live selections from deuce of the band's shows at The House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC, piece they toured in support of Musket ball. It marked Widespread Panic's mo and third alive efforts, follow-ups up to 2000's Some other Joyous Occasion. They returned to the studio apartment after that yr for the Halloween-themed covers record Jackassolantern and once more in 2006 for Earth to America.

Tron

   
Artist: Tron

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   

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Discography:


   
 Existence

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 1

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Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowl-up

TV chef Jamie Oliver reportedly vowed yesterday that "heads would roll" after finding out one of his restaurants has been serving eggs from battery chickens.
It is a major embarrassment for the chef, just days after his campaigning TV show 'Jamie's Fowl Dinners' revealed the grim reality of battery hen egg production.
The blunder was apparently spotted by staff at his restaurant in Cornwall after a worker changed  supplier but failed to order free-range eggs.
Oliver told the Mirror yesterday: "I am speechless. We have cast iron rules on what any chef can and cannot buy in all Fifteens.
"I've never been so disappointed. Heads will roll."

Madonna's brother completes memoir

Next month will see the release of 'Life with My Sister Madonna', a memoir by Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone.
In a statement, Ciccone's publishers Simon and Schuster said: "Ciccone's extraordinary memoir is based on his life and 47 years of growing up with and working with his sister - the most famous woman in the world."
Ciccone wrote the book with Wendy Leigh, who has also written biographies of Liza Minelli, John F Kennedy Jr and Britain's Prince Edward; she also ghost-wrote Zsa Zsa Gabor's autobiography.
'Life with My Sister Madonna' will be released on 15 July.

Andy Bey

   
Artist: Andy Bey

   Genre(s): 
Vocal
   Jazz
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 American Song

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Thuesdays In Chinatown

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 Shades of Bey

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 10


   
 Ballads, Blues and Bey

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 10

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One of the great unsung heroes of jazz singing, Andy Bey is a commanding interpreter of lyrics wHO has a broad vocal image and a large, rich, full voice. Bey enjoys a belittled following that swears by him; still, he isn't near as well known as he should be. Born and raised in Newark, NJ, non far from New York, Bey was open to wind as a baby and started vocalizing in front of local audiences as early as ashcan School. At some gigs, an eight-year-old Bey was accompanied by tenor adolphe Sax great Hank Mobley. Bey was 13 when, in 1952, he recorded his first base solo record album, Mama's Little Boy's Got the Blues; and he was 17 when he formed Andy & the Bey Sisters with his siblings Salome and Geraldine in 1956. The grouping did a 16-month tour of Europe and recorded trey albums (unitary for RCA Victor in 1961, 2 for Prestige in 1964 and 1965) before breakage up in 1967. In the 1960s and seventies, Bey's vocals were featured by Max Roach, Duke Pearson, and Gary Bartz (for whom he delivered very socio-political lyrics, including some searing condemnations of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War). The 1970s as well launch Bey recording Have and Judgment for Atlantic and start a long association with piano player Horace Silver, wHO featured him conspicuously on many of the religious-themed albums he put out have his own Silveto label in the seventies and 1980s. The LPs contained what Silver termed "metaphysical self-help music" and preached a sort of religious self-help doctrine that wasn't unlike Reverend Ike's message -- regrettably for Silver and Bey, this approaching meant limited distribution and minuscule commercial appeal. Bey continued to run with Silver into the 1990s, when he was featured on Silver's 1993 Columbia appointment It's Got to Be Funky (which pronounced a return to concentrated bop's mainstream and did much better commercially than his "self-help medicine"). Labels Bey recorded for as a drawing card in the 1980s and 1990s included Jazzette, Zagreb, and Evidence, which, in 1996, released the superb Ballads, Blues and Bey. The success of Blues, Ballads and Bey entrap a place for the piano player to stretch out a minuscule and explore his more intimate side. Bey followed with Shades of Bey in 1998 and Tuesdays in Chinatown in 2001, choosing to explore outside the earth of jazz with covers of Nick Drake and Milton Nascimento and others. American Song followed in early 2004.





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