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2019 sensation Lil Nas X, right, along with country music veteran Billy Rae Cyrus nabbed a Country Music Award for
Lil Nas X nabs award at country music gala where women take spotlight
NEW YORK — Overnight sensation Lil Nas X scored a Country Music Award on Wednesday, a milestone for the gala that can sometimes feel like music's whitest night.A little bit country, a little bit southern rap, the Atlanta native's infectious single "Old Town Road" was famously booted from Billboard's country list earlier this year — triggering accusations that the country industry pigeonholed the song as hip hop purely because the novice musician is black.The award for "Musical Event of the Year" was given to Lil Nas X — who this year broke a decades-old record for longest reign over the Billboard Hot 100, music's most closely watched singles chart — along with country veteran Billy Rae Cyrus, who lent vocals for the remix of the hit that received...
November 14, 2019

Lil Nas X nabs award at country music gala where women take spotlight

French composer Jacques Revaux poses during a photo session at the Raphael Hotel in Paris on Nov. 12, 2019. — AFP
Regrets I've had a few, says 'My Way' songwriter
PARIS — He wrote the music for "My Way", one of the world's most popular songs, but Jacques Revaux would like to mention a few of his regrets.For one, "I don't even have a photo with Frank Sinatra," the French songwriter laughed.The legendary American crooner may have made the song a global hit, but not many people know it was actually a French song first.Fewer still — not even in France, where the credit often goes to the singer Claude Francois — are aware that Revaux wrote the original.Yet half a century after he wrote the first draft of the classic, and despite being elbowed into the shadows not just once but twice, the 79-year-old Revaux is still happy he did it his way.The prolific songwriter scribbled down a number about a couple falling out of love...
November 14, 2019

Regrets I've had a few, says 'My Way' songwriter

Rod Stewart rocks out on stage at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games at Celtic Park in this file photo. — AFP
Rock'n'rolling stock: Rod Stewart creates his own downtown train
LONDON — British pop stalwart Rod Stewart has spent decades laying down tracks of a different kind thanks to a little-known lifelong hobby — building model railways.The gravel-voiced singer has spent the past 23 years creating an imaginary American city and railway in his Los Angeles mansion.He opened up about his "addictive" hobby to "Railway Modeller", bagging the cover page of the British hobbyist magazine's December issue."When I take on something creative like this, I have to give it 110 percent," Stewart told the publication in an exclusive interview."If I'd have realized at the start it would have taken so long, I'd have probably said 'No!'"The father-of-eight — whose hits include "Maggie May", "You...
November 14, 2019

Rock'n'rolling stock: Rod Stewart creates his own downtown train

UK singer and guitarist Pete Doherty performs in Carhaix-Plouguer, western of France during the third day of the 25th edition of the Festival des Vieilles Charrues, in this July 16, 2016 file photo. — AFP
Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for cocaine possession
PARIS — British rocker Pete Doherty was arrested and taken into custody in Paris on Friday after being caught buying cocaine, a French police source said.The former Libertines front-man tried to resist arrest after being caught in the early hours of Friday carrying two packets of cocaine, one of which he had partly consumed, the source said.Doherty, 40, who was drunk, tried to get rid of the drugs before being arrested in the Ninth Arrondissement, which includes the area around Pigalle known for its lively night life.The bad boy of British rock, as famous for having dated supermodel Kate Moss as for his music, has repeatedly made headlines for drugs offenses.In 2012, he was thrown out of a luxury rehab clinic in Thailand after claims he was a bad influence on other patients and did not...
November 08, 2019

Pete Doherty arrested in Paris for cocaine possession

A$AP Rocky
US rapper A$AP Rocky to return to Sweden after ruling
STOCKHOLM — New York rapper A$AP Rocky will return to Sweden for a concert, its promoter said on Friday, despite an assault conviction that sparked diplomatic tensions and fan fury."After massive support from the Swedish fans he is returning to Stockholm for an anticipated concert," entertainment company Live Nation said in a statement.The event is scheduled for Dec. 11 at the Ericsson Globe arena.The 31-year-old rapper, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was arrested on July 3 following a street fight in Stockholm on June 30 in which he and his entourage were embroiled with a 19-year-old plaintiff.Considered a "flight risk", Mayers was held in custody for a month while the case was investigated and throughout his trial.But he was released after the close of proceedings...
November 08, 2019

US rapper A$AP Rocky to return to Sweden after ruling

Yahaya Usman, popularly called Yahaya Makaho, a blind singer who rose from being a street beggar to a famously known singer in northern Nigeria, sings while wearing his trademark sunglasses in Kaduna, Nigeria, in this Sept. 25, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Blind singer goes from streets to stardom in north Nigeria
KADUNA, Nigeria — Yahaya Makaho feels his way to the microphone before launching into a song for his new album at a recording studio in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna.Blind since early childhood, the singer has overcome obstacles that often crush the dreams of disabled people in this region and risen from street beggar to star.In the last four years his songs and music videos have become hits among the roughly 80 million Hausa-speaking Nigerians and broader West Africa."I see myself as a superstar who has broken the jinx associated with physical disabilities," Makaho, 37, said, wearing his trademark sunglasses."I have punctured the stereotype people have that once you are blind all you can do is take a bowl and go begging for alms on the streets."Life can be...
November 07, 2019

Blind singer goes from streets to stardom in north Nigeria

Fans cheer the actors at the end of the French Musical
French musicals strike a chord in China
BEIJING — French musicals that were hits in their country have struck a chord and found a second life far from home — in China, where fans sing along with the foreign cast.Western musicals have grown in popularity in China in recent years, with fans flocking to classic Broadway shows such as "Cats" and "The Phantom of the Opera".But French shows have given American musicals a run for their money, with "Notre-Dame de Paris", "Mozart, L'Opera Rock" and "The Red and the Black" filling theaters.French musicals have gained fans in a Communist-ruled country that sees itself as the heir of the Paris Commune, a revolutionary government that briefly ruled the French capital in 1871."Notre-Dame", which is based on Victor Hugo's...
November 07, 2019

French musicals strike a chord in China

Actors from the theater company CLAS Producciones perform during the presentation of a play based on Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables' at the Teresa Carreno Theater in Caracas, Venezuela, in this Nov. 1, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Rebellious musical 'Les Miserables' resonates in Venezuela
CARACAS — The angry, oppressed citizens are actors and their caps and overcoats evoke 19th-century France rather than modern-day Venezuela.But local people going to the theater to see a new performance of "Les Miserables" in Caracas could be forgiven for thinking this show was about them.In a country deep in economic crisis, getting the show on the stage was a heroic feat almost on the scale of the epic novel it is based on."It was an act of rebellion," said producer Claudia Salazar.The social injustice in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel — and songs such as "Do You Hear the People Sing?" and "I Dreamed a Dream" — resonate with Venezuelans."It's a real classic, so it could be adapted to any period," said one woman who came to see the...
November 07, 2019

Rebellious musical 'Les Miserables' resonates in Venezuela

The sequel, out on Nov. 22, explores the royal family's backstory and promises to answer fans' questions, including the source of Elsa's formidable magic. — AFP
Let it go? Disney thaws 'Frozen' for blockbuster sequel
LOS ANGELES — Six years ago, "Frozen" shattered box office records, melted the hearts of youngsters and spawned a franchise so popular Disney was never likely to let it go.And so Queen Elsa and Princess Anna return this month in "Frozen II" — a sequel its creators promise will be "even bigger and more epic," with its world premiere taking place in Los Angeles on Thursday night.Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," the original followed Anna on her journey to find sister Elsa, whose hard-to-control icy powers had trapped their kingdom in eternal winter.The sequel, out on Nov. 22, explores the royal family's backstory and promises to answer fans' questions, including the source of Elsa's formidable magic."That...
November 07, 2019

Let it go? Disney thaws 'Frozen' for blockbuster sequel

Martin Scorsese jokes with journalists at the SFFILM premiere of
Superheroes vs. cinema? Scorsese 'art' row splits Hollywood
LOS ANGELES — Martin Scorsese's dismissal of Marvel films as "not cinema" has split Hollywood and moviegoers, sparking reactions from full-blooded support to accusations of hypocrisy and elitism.The Oscar-winning director penned a New York Times op-ed this week in which he argued superhero blockbusters lack the sense of risk, mystery and complex characters vital to the "art" of film-making.Marvel films are "market-researched, audience-tested, vetted, modified, revetted and remodified until they're ready for consumption," wrote the "Goodfellas" director."They lack something essential to cinema: the unifying vision of an individual artist," Scorsese added, fueling a controversy he initiated in a magazine interview last month.Fellow...
November 07, 2019

Superheroes vs. cinema? Scorsese 'art' row splits Hollywood

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