Three more nations chose their entry for this year’s contest in Stockholm. Below are the winning performances from Finland, Moldova and Slovenia. Moldova: Lidia Isac - Falling Stars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx481NTJmVs Finland: Sandhja - Sing It Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTJfSPcQXk Slovenia: ManuElla - Blue and Red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqNfYItLqvA
Iveta Mukuchyan will with the song LoveWave try to live up to the great Armenian results from the past where the country finishes in top 10 more than half of the times. Iveta Mukuchyan was announced as the Armenian representative for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest a few weeks ago. She had been internally selected by the broadcaster, The Public TV Company of Armenia (AMPTV), but the song not yet released. […]
Following in the footsteps of previous cultural ambassadors like Conan and House Of Lies, The Rolling Stones will now be visiting Cuba to show the socialist nation more of the exciting things it has missed since the U.S. enacted its trade embargo in the ‘60s—specifically Rolling Stones concerts and official Rolling Stones merchandise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Stones will be playing a free concert in Havana on March […]
Paul Avgerinos, a Redding-based composer who runs Studio Unicorn on Sanfordtown Road, won the Grammy Award for Best New Age Album last night. He won for his album ‘Grace,’ which was released last year. This is the first Grammy for Avgerinos, who was featured by the Pilot in December. In addition to producing albums of meditative and spiritually inspired music, many of his single tracks have been featured in feature films and […]
There's a lot of music out there and only so many awards to go around, but theRecording Academy has given out more than 7,500 trophies (half of those belong to Beyoncé and Taylor Swift) over the years. Ask yourself how Joan Rivers, Zach Braff and even Creed have won Grammys, when Queen, The Who and Diana Ross have never been recognized by the academy. Frankly, it's a little mind-boggling, but not […]
Founded in 1959, the award is Denmark’s highest musical honour Violinist Leonidas Kavakos has been named the winner of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2017, worth €100,000. The award is Denmark’s highest musical honour and has been given annually to an internationally recognised composer, instrumentalist, conductor or singer since 1959. The prize will be awarded to Kavakos at a special concert on 12 January 2017 – part of a mini-festival […]
Adele, who broke records with her song Hello and latest album 25, was officially the biggest-selling artist of 2015. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), said that the British singer was the top-selling musical act last year based on worldwide sales of recordings. Forget naysayers, Adele is a treasure Carole Cadwalladr Carole Cadwalladr Read more Adele achieved the feat for the full year even though she did not […]
Earth, Wind and Fire vocalist and co-founder Maurice White died in his sleep in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. A rep for the band confirmed his passing to Rolling Stone. He was 74. The singer had been battling Parkinson's disease since 1992, according to TMZ. His health had reportedly deteriorated in recent months. Because of the disease, he had not toured with the pioneering soul and R&B group since 1994. He […]
Lady Gaga is teaming up with Sir Elton John to work on new music together this week (beg18Jan16). The pop superstar is currently recording tracks for her next album, the follow-up to her 2013 release Artpop, and has already hit the studio with Mark Ronson to produce a collaboration. It has now emerged she is also lining up her longtime friend Sir Elton for songwriting sessions, and they planned to […]
