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King of Pop, MJ, dead at 50 |
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Written by LYNN ELBER, AP
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop" who once moonwalked above the music world, died Thursday as he prepared for a comeback bid to vanquish nightmare years of sexual scandal and financial calamity. He was 50. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him. "It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known," his brother Jermaine said. Police said they were investigating, standard procedure in high-profile cases. Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage. His 1982 album "Thriller" - which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide. |
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Ustad Ali Akbar Khan passes away |
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Written by Administrator
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
KOLKATA: Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan on Friday died in San Francisco in the US after a prolonged kidney ailment, according to a family friend here.
88-year-old Khan died at his music centre at 10 am IST, Rabin Pal, the secretary of sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar, said.
He is survived by wife Mary, three sons and a daughter. |
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Midival Punditz release their 3rd alubum, 'Hello Hello' |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
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Dynamic Duo Tapan Raj and Gaurav Raina, also known as the ‘Midival Punditz’ are out with their third studio album ‘Hello Hello’. Their music being very non-mainstream is all the rage among the youth of today.
Gaurav Raina spoke of the band’s influences in a recent interview, “Our influences in life keep changing as we progress, and so does our sound. Our music is a reflection of our influences and experiences, more than anything else. We try and honestly document through music, what we feel and experience as we go along in our live.”
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Sufi singers blend and mesmerise the listeners in Tamil, Urdu and Arabic |
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Written by IANS
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
NEW DELHI: Sufi music is generally associated with north India, but three Dargah singers from the south have brought with them a different brand of Sufi singing, not commonly heard - a mix of Tamil, Urdu and Arabic.
Abdul Ghani, 57, Ajah Maideen, 42, and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer, 65, are all sufi singers who mesmerise music lovers with their chants at the shrine of Meeran Sahib Abdul Qadir Shahul Hamid Badshah in Nagor in Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam district.
The trio have lent their voice to an album "Nagore Sessions" produced by the label EarthSync and bring alive Sufi music in Tamil and Arabic.
"Sufi saints travelled worldwide. In India, their presence was predominant in the northern region. But the Sufi movement also spread to south India and one of the most important Sufi shrines in India after Ajmer Sharif is the one at Nagore. The singers there have their own brand of Sufi singing. They have a completely different style of putting it across," Sonya Mazumdar, CEO of EarthSync said. |
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A.R. Rahman launches Jai Ho world tour |
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Written by PTI
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Monday, 04 May 2009 |
Kozhikode (Kerala), May 4 (PTI) It was perhaps an experience of a lifetime for over 40,000-music lovers as Oscar winning music maestro A R Rahman launched his worldwide 'Jai Ho' tour here, holding them enthralled with a range of popular hits from Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam movies.
It was a musical extravaganza this Kerala town has never seen before as music lovers from across the world thronged the corporation stadium last night to see their idol perform for the first time after winning a double Oscar for his score in 'Slumdog Millionaire'. |
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'I sang 3,500 jingles before getting my big break': KK |
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Written by IANS
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 |
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New Delhi (IANS): Delhi boy Krishna Kumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, made it big in Bollywood with the song "Tadap tadap" in hit film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam; he says he sang 3,500 jingles before getting his big break.
He has crooned various chartbusters like ""Awarapan" (Jism) and "Ajab si" (Om Shanti Om), but he didn't want to be a playback singer initially.
"I used to sing since childhood but initially I wanted to become a doctor. I had never decided to be a playback singer, but I eventually landed up doing just that. I sang around 3,500 jingles in 11 Indian languages before I got my first break," KK told IANS over phone. |
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Make music compulsory in schools: Pt. Shivkumar Sharma |
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Written by PTI
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 |
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Sharma, who was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2001 said, "if there was a musician in every family there would not have been partition of India."
World famous santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma has said music must be compulsorily taught in Indian schools as it would go a long way in unifying people.
"There must be compulsory training of music in schools," Pandit Sharma said while talking to reporters at the Nehru Centre here last night where a documentary was screened on him.
Sharma, who was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2001 said, "if there was a musician in every family there would not have been partition of India." |
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