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Ne-Yo: 'Mum's advice saved my voice'
Ne-Yo has his mother to thank for his singing career - because she taught him how to have a more manly voice.
The 'Because of You' star admits his vocals weren't very macho when he kicked off his music career.
And it was some invaluable advice from his mum - to try to imitate Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder - that caused him to change his style of singing, setting him on the path to stardom.
He tells USA Today newspaper: "I hated my voice. I thought it was too high and tinny and nasal. I wanted to have more of a growl, you know?
"She (my mother) said, 'Study these artists, because their tone is similar to yours, and you'll find your own voice'. And sure enough, I did."
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Enterta...tabid/418/articleID/72780/cat/55/Default.aspx
Northwest, Delta plan moves forward
Kennedy book
Jacqueline Kennedy's years as a book editor, many of them at Doubleday, will be the subject of a Doubleday book coming out in 2011.
Historian William Kuhn, who has written about British royalty and politics, is writing a biography, currently untitled, about the years that Kennedy worked in the publishing business, starting in 1975 with a brief time at Viking Press and then her 16 years at Doubleday, right up to her death in 1994.
Kennedy's authors ranged from celebrities Michael Jackson and Carly Simon to Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist.
Full story http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080923/BUSINESS01/809230326/-1/BUSINESS03
The Role of Music in Warhol's Work Explored for the First Time at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Music: An Essential Part of Warhol’s Work
While Warhol’s interest in music comes across highly anecdotally and briefly in his Journal and his numerous interviews, music and its representation in his work is remarkable and predominant: it is an invisible yet essential component.
From a drawing in 1948 for the cover of Cano – the student magazine at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which depicts an orchestra in the “blotted line” technique – to the celebrity portraits of Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Prince, Warhol created dozens of portraits of twentieth-century pop icons, from Elvis to the Rolling Stones, from the Beatles to Michael Jackson, throughout his career. From 1949, the year he arrived in New York, to 1987, the last year of his life, he also illustrated some fifty album covers, from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, the Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross and Blondie. Attesting to Warhol’s changing commissions and affinities, the thread that runs through this iconography reads like a history of postwar American musical tastes, from classical to jazz, rock, pop and soul, disco and hip-hop.
Full story http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1984/1101840319_400.jpg
Low turn out of musicians at Okosuns burial
“It is very surprising but I am not surprised; the industry needs to be put together very well. This is reflective of how the industry is right now. Imagine if an artiste like Michael Jackson dies; every American singer will be there but here we are not paying respect to our own Michael Jackson.”
She regretted that for a man that has a plaque with the names of every Nigerian musician both young and old, established and upcoming in his studio it was really an unfortunate way for the artistes to say goodbye.
Among the personalities present were Ms Onwenu, Musician, Kanyo O. Kanyo, actor, Oritis Williki, musician, Mumu Gee, Musician, Segun Arinze, Stella Monye, Righteous Man, King Wadada, Azzezat, Bolaji Rosiji among many members of his church.
Okosuns was born on January 1 1947, and died May 25, 2008, of colon cancer in Howard University Teaching Hospital in the U.S.He had a very successful career both as a secular and gospel musicians which produced 29 albums most of which were hits.
Full story http://www.modernghana.com/movie/2971/3/low-turn-out-of-musicians-at-okosuns-burial.mgl
The Stock Market And The Bailout For Kids
WE ARE WAY OFF THE WALL NOW PEOPLE Michael Jackson's Off the Wall
"I am tryna explain Fed bailout to my boys. One-stop explanation? Links? Money that isn't money is a hard concept," Twittered music writer Sasha Frere-Jonesearly today. Okay, boys! Fasten your seatbelts.
So, you know how you like to buy songs on iTunes? There's so many different songs. Some of them are awesome, and some of them are lousy. And you only get a little audio preview of a song before you buy it, so really you dunno if it's any good before you buy it.
That is what a share in a company is like. You know it might be good? But really you don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
Now, imagine how great it would be if you could sell back your mp3s to iTunes! Like, you could buy a song when it was really unpopular, and it'd be like 29 cents. And then when it was really popular—like some Kanye jam was getting lots of radio play—it'd go way up to 99 cents. Then you could sell it, and you could keep the profit.
So that is basically the stock market, where they sell shares, except in the stock market, you're buying a little bit of a company, instead of on iTunes, where you're buying a little bit of a rapper or a band.
And just like the stock market, you're buying things you only know a little bit about, and hopefully you're buying them cheap—and in the stock market, like our imaginary perfect iTunes, you can sell your mp3s (your "shares") back, through iTunes, to all the other anonymous millions of people buying mp3s.
Now, what if you wanted to buy a LOT of mp3s? Like because you were about to have a party? Well, you'd have to sell a whole bunch of the mp3s you already have, to raise the money to buy more. Maybe you'd even sell them at a lower price than you bought them for, just to raise that money.
That would be lame!
But hey! You should totally borrow the money! (And keep all the mp3s you have.) So let's say there's a bunch of guys who went into business on iTunes. (Anytime there's money changing hands, someone will go into business.)
So these guys, they'll loan you money to buy mp3s! Because they're betting that some of the mp3s you buy, with the money you borrow from them, will totally get more expensive. When you borrow money, they charge you interest—so like, if you borrow 20 bucks from them to buy two albums, you'll have to pay them back maybe 22 bucks.
But that's okay, because you're a solid guy! You have lot of mp3s. They know you're good for those 2 bucks later, and you know that you have good taste in music, so of course your music will be more expensive when you're finally ready to sell it!
Okay, so, there's another kind of loan, called a mortgage. Say you wanted to buy a house? A house is expensive, like the complete works of Michael Jackson. There are 28 Michael Jackson albums on iTunes!
So you want to buy everything Michael Jackson ever made. Now, everyone figures that all mp3s get more expensive over time. Everyone always wants an mp3! So these guys who lend the money, they say: Yeah, you pay for like one or two of the Michael Jackson albums up front, and we'll give you all the rest of them too. But slowly, over time, you have to pay us for all the rest of the albums—plus, as long as you're paying us, you have to pay us that interest too.
So that is a mortgage.
But it's really awesome because you have all the Michael Jackson albums and you only paid for two. DANCE PARTY TIME.
Now these guys who loan money. They're like, we can help more and more people get Michael Jackson albums. That is how they make money—on that "interest" they get later.
Not everyone out in the wide world has such a big collection of mp3s. Not everyone is going to be able to pay back that extra 2 bucks in the case of a simple loan, or keep paying for all the Michael Jackson albums they didn't pay for yet.
At the same time, these guys who are loaning people money for mp3s are living pretty risky—they'll loan money to anyone. I mean, they'll loan money to people with like four stupid mp3s in their iTunes and no actual money at all!
And because they're loaning mp3 money to people they shouldn't, they start making the interest payments all crazy. They're all, "No, don't bother paying us any money at all for like a year! Then you can like, just pay us double the money you owe. But look—pay nothing for a year!"
And people are like oh yay! Except in a year, they're like, wait, DOUBLE?
Now you and I know this is a lousy deal. But who doesn't like free mp3s for a year?
So these people with no mp3s and no money aren't going to pay back their loans. No way, no how.
So those guys who loan money have to figure out how they're gonna keep making money, even when not everybody is gonna pay them back.
Get this. They go to other people who loan people money. And they sell them a share of the loans they have outstanding. The loaners get loans, based on the money they say they're gonna get down the road!
So you can see what might go wrong here, right? If a bunch of people don't pay back little loans, then, eh, it's sort of okay. Like, people can still keep buying and selling mp3s, because basically enough people are paying them back to keep the system running.
But what if a bunch of people don't ever pay? Particularly when that "first year free!" runs out, like, all these people hit a wall when actually they're spending like $18 on an album, instead of $9.99! Then the people who made the loans, and the people who went and loaned those people money, well they are in deep doo-doo.
Usually what happens in the real world is that, well, if you run out of money, you're out of business, right?
So like, if you loaned a bunch of people money, under the mistaken impression that Michael Jackson's back catalogue would always get more expensive, and then Michael Jackson got some weird face surgery again and no one wanted his albums any more, well then they won't get more expensive and all those loans are pretty worthless—and plus you loaned people money for mp3s who really didn't have the money to pay it back anyhow!
But don't forget—people are living in these particular mp3s. Like, if they can't pay back these loans, they won't have a place to live in anymore.
So then Apple wakes up and is all, HEY WHAT? And they are all like, this is such a bizarre crazy mess, how did this happen? But of course it happened right there on iTunes, and they should have been paying attention but they and everyone else were too busy spending money on some iPhones. (IPhones represent the war in Iraq, but don't worry about that. It's just really expensive.)
And then Apple is like, okay, in any normal situation, we will let all these lenders just go out of business and, well, tough for them. They were stupid, so forget them!
But because the people lose their mp3-homes if the lenders go out of business, Apple instead said, "Okay we will give a huge amount of money to keep the lenders in business so people can keep buying mp3s, though we'll control some of the ways people lend this money, so this doesn't stay so crazy."
But what nobody knows is: what will happen to the price of the mp3s? Will they get really expensive? The people at Apple (which is the government, by the way!) are gambling that mp3s will keep being fairly expensive. That's what helps the really rich people, the ones who own the most mp3s, keep getting richer.
And everyone everywhere was very surprised, because no one had any idea what would happen if suddenly everyone was off the hook for the very very silly and kind of stupid choices they had made, and no one knew if mp3s would get more or less expensive, but they were also pretty happy that people can at least continue to listen to Michael Jackson and most of them can still have a place to live.
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/09/the-stock-market-and-the-bail-out-for-kids.php
Ne-Yo: 'Mum's advice saved my voice'
Ne-Yo has his mother to thank for his singing career - because she taught him how to have a more manly voice.
The 'Because of You' star admits his vocals weren't very macho when he kicked off his music career.
And it was some invaluable advice from his mum - to try to imitate Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder - that caused him to change his style of singing, setting him on the path to stardom.
He tells USA Today newspaper: "I hated my voice. I thought it was too high and tinny and nasal. I wanted to have more of a growl, you know?
"She (my mother) said, 'Study these artists, because their tone is similar to yours, and you'll find your own voice'. And sure enough, I did."
http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Enterta...tabid/418/articleID/72780/cat/55/Default.aspx
Northwest, Delta plan moves forward
Kennedy book
Jacqueline Kennedy's years as a book editor, many of them at Doubleday, will be the subject of a Doubleday book coming out in 2011.
Historian William Kuhn, who has written about British royalty and politics, is writing a biography, currently untitled, about the years that Kennedy worked in the publishing business, starting in 1975 with a brief time at Viking Press and then her 16 years at Doubleday, right up to her death in 1994.
Kennedy's authors ranged from celebrities Michael Jackson and Carly Simon to Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist.
Full story http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080923/BUSINESS01/809230326/-1/BUSINESS03
The Role of Music in Warhol's Work Explored for the First Time at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Music: An Essential Part of Warhol’s Work
While Warhol’s interest in music comes across highly anecdotally and briefly in his Journal and his numerous interviews, music and its representation in his work is remarkable and predominant: it is an invisible yet essential component.
From a drawing in 1948 for the cover of Cano – the student magazine at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which depicts an orchestra in the “blotted line” technique – to the celebrity portraits of Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Prince, Warhol created dozens of portraits of twentieth-century pop icons, from Elvis to the Rolling Stones, from the Beatles to Michael Jackson, throughout his career. From 1949, the year he arrived in New York, to 1987, the last year of his life, he also illustrated some fifty album covers, from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake to Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, the Velvet Underground, the Rolling Stones, Diana Ross and Blondie. Attesting to Warhol’s changing commissions and affinities, the thread that runs through this iconography reads like a history of postwar American musical tastes, from classical to jazz, rock, pop and soul, disco and hip-hop.
Full story http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1984/1101840319_400.jpg
Low turn out of musicians at Okosuns burial
“It is very surprising but I am not surprised; the industry needs to be put together very well. This is reflective of how the industry is right now. Imagine if an artiste like Michael Jackson dies; every American singer will be there but here we are not paying respect to our own Michael Jackson.”
She regretted that for a man that has a plaque with the names of every Nigerian musician both young and old, established and upcoming in his studio it was really an unfortunate way for the artistes to say goodbye.
Among the personalities present were Ms Onwenu, Musician, Kanyo O. Kanyo, actor, Oritis Williki, musician, Mumu Gee, Musician, Segun Arinze, Stella Monye, Righteous Man, King Wadada, Azzezat, Bolaji Rosiji among many members of his church.
Okosuns was born on January 1 1947, and died May 25, 2008, of colon cancer in Howard University Teaching Hospital in the U.S.He had a very successful career both as a secular and gospel musicians which produced 29 albums most of which were hits.
Full story http://www.modernghana.com/movie/2971/3/low-turn-out-of-musicians-at-okosuns-burial.mgl
The Stock Market And The Bailout For Kids
WE ARE WAY OFF THE WALL NOW PEOPLE Michael Jackson's Off the Wall
"I am tryna explain Fed bailout to my boys. One-stop explanation? Links? Money that isn't money is a hard concept," Twittered music writer Sasha Frere-Jonesearly today. Okay, boys! Fasten your seatbelts.
So, you know how you like to buy songs on iTunes? There's so many different songs. Some of them are awesome, and some of them are lousy. And you only get a little audio preview of a song before you buy it, so really you dunno if it's any good before you buy it.
That is what a share in a company is like. You know it might be good? But really you don't know what's going on behind the scenes.
Now, imagine how great it would be if you could sell back your mp3s to iTunes! Like, you could buy a song when it was really unpopular, and it'd be like 29 cents. And then when it was really popular—like some Kanye jam was getting lots of radio play—it'd go way up to 99 cents. Then you could sell it, and you could keep the profit.
So that is basically the stock market, where they sell shares, except in the stock market, you're buying a little bit of a company, instead of on iTunes, where you're buying a little bit of a rapper or a band.
And just like the stock market, you're buying things you only know a little bit about, and hopefully you're buying them cheap—and in the stock market, like our imaginary perfect iTunes, you can sell your mp3s (your "shares") back, through iTunes, to all the other anonymous millions of people buying mp3s.
Now, what if you wanted to buy a LOT of mp3s? Like because you were about to have a party? Well, you'd have to sell a whole bunch of the mp3s you already have, to raise the money to buy more. Maybe you'd even sell them at a lower price than you bought them for, just to raise that money.
That would be lame!
But hey! You should totally borrow the money! (And keep all the mp3s you have.) So let's say there's a bunch of guys who went into business on iTunes. (Anytime there's money changing hands, someone will go into business.)
So these guys, they'll loan you money to buy mp3s! Because they're betting that some of the mp3s you buy, with the money you borrow from them, will totally get more expensive. When you borrow money, they charge you interest—so like, if you borrow 20 bucks from them to buy two albums, you'll have to pay them back maybe 22 bucks.
But that's okay, because you're a solid guy! You have lot of mp3s. They know you're good for those 2 bucks later, and you know that you have good taste in music, so of course your music will be more expensive when you're finally ready to sell it!
Okay, so, there's another kind of loan, called a mortgage. Say you wanted to buy a house? A house is expensive, like the complete works of Michael Jackson. There are 28 Michael Jackson albums on iTunes!
So you want to buy everything Michael Jackson ever made. Now, everyone figures that all mp3s get more expensive over time. Everyone always wants an mp3! So these guys who lend the money, they say: Yeah, you pay for like one or two of the Michael Jackson albums up front, and we'll give you all the rest of them too. But slowly, over time, you have to pay us for all the rest of the albums—plus, as long as you're paying us, you have to pay us that interest too.
So that is a mortgage.
But it's really awesome because you have all the Michael Jackson albums and you only paid for two. DANCE PARTY TIME.
Now these guys who loan money. They're like, we can help more and more people get Michael Jackson albums. That is how they make money—on that "interest" they get later.
Not everyone out in the wide world has such a big collection of mp3s. Not everyone is going to be able to pay back that extra 2 bucks in the case of a simple loan, or keep paying for all the Michael Jackson albums they didn't pay for yet.
At the same time, these guys who are loaning people money for mp3s are living pretty risky—they'll loan money to anyone. I mean, they'll loan money to people with like four stupid mp3s in their iTunes and no actual money at all!
And because they're loaning mp3 money to people they shouldn't, they start making the interest payments all crazy. They're all, "No, don't bother paying us any money at all for like a year! Then you can like, just pay us double the money you owe. But look—pay nothing for a year!"
And people are like oh yay! Except in a year, they're like, wait, DOUBLE?
Now you and I know this is a lousy deal. But who doesn't like free mp3s for a year?
So these people with no mp3s and no money aren't going to pay back their loans. No way, no how.
So those guys who loan money have to figure out how they're gonna keep making money, even when not everybody is gonna pay them back.
Get this. They go to other people who loan people money. And they sell them a share of the loans they have outstanding. The loaners get loans, based on the money they say they're gonna get down the road!
So you can see what might go wrong here, right? If a bunch of people don't pay back little loans, then, eh, it's sort of okay. Like, people can still keep buying and selling mp3s, because basically enough people are paying them back to keep the system running.
But what if a bunch of people don't ever pay? Particularly when that "first year free!" runs out, like, all these people hit a wall when actually they're spending like $18 on an album, instead of $9.99! Then the people who made the loans, and the people who went and loaned those people money, well they are in deep doo-doo.
Usually what happens in the real world is that, well, if you run out of money, you're out of business, right?
So like, if you loaned a bunch of people money, under the mistaken impression that Michael Jackson's back catalogue would always get more expensive, and then Michael Jackson got some weird face surgery again and no one wanted his albums any more, well then they won't get more expensive and all those loans are pretty worthless—and plus you loaned people money for mp3s who really didn't have the money to pay it back anyhow!
But don't forget—people are living in these particular mp3s. Like, if they can't pay back these loans, they won't have a place to live in anymore.
So then Apple wakes up and is all, HEY WHAT? And they are all like, this is such a bizarre crazy mess, how did this happen? But of course it happened right there on iTunes, and they should have been paying attention but they and everyone else were too busy spending money on some iPhones. (IPhones represent the war in Iraq, but don't worry about that. It's just really expensive.)
And then Apple is like, okay, in any normal situation, we will let all these lenders just go out of business and, well, tough for them. They were stupid, so forget them!
But because the people lose their mp3-homes if the lenders go out of business, Apple instead said, "Okay we will give a huge amount of money to keep the lenders in business so people can keep buying mp3s, though we'll control some of the ways people lend this money, so this doesn't stay so crazy."
But what nobody knows is: what will happen to the price of the mp3s? Will they get really expensive? The people at Apple (which is the government, by the way!) are gambling that mp3s will keep being fairly expensive. That's what helps the really rich people, the ones who own the most mp3s, keep getting richer.
And everyone everywhere was very surprised, because no one had any idea what would happen if suddenly everyone was off the hook for the very very silly and kind of stupid choices they had made, and no one knew if mp3s would get more or less expensive, but they were also pretty happy that people can at least continue to listen to Michael Jackson and most of them can still have a place to live.
http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/09/the-stock-market-and-the-bail-out-for-kids.php
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Michael Jackson History
Nothing happened on this day. I bet he was planning something 8)
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