Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti Estate Settled Fairly Says Widows Lawyer


LATEST: The estate of late opera legend LUCIANO PAVAROTTI has been settled "fairly", according to his widow's lawyer - despite reports of a bitter feud between the star's wife and his children from a former marriage.

A feud between Pavarotti's wife Nicoletta Mantovani and the tenor's three daughters from a previous marriage had blown up after his death when reports surfaced suggesting his legal will had been changed six weeks before his death, meaning all of his assets would go to Mantovani.

However, Mantovani vehemently denied the claims, and went on to sue two of the late tenor's close pals for defamation in a $44 million (GBP22 million) lawsuit last November (07) after refusing to tolerate speculation about the state of her marriage to the star.

Now, Mantovani's lawyer Anna Maria Bernini has announced that Pavarotti's estate has been shared equally - insisting the widow's close relationship with the tenor's three daughters made the proceedings easier.

She tells Italy's II Resto del Carlino newspaper, "Nicoletta and the three daughters (from the tenor's first marriage) are friends. It was this affection that made it possible to reach the best conclusion to the negotiations on the estate."

Although the full details of the will settlement are undocumented, the Italian press range Pavarotti's personal wealth to be between 30 - 200 million euros ($46million/GBP23million-$127.5million/GBP158million).





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Thursday, 19 June 2008

Milton Nascimento

Milton Nascimento   
Artist: Milton Nascimento

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Latin
   Folk
   Jazz
   



Discography:


Perfil   
 Perfil

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 16


Pieta   
 Pieta

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 16


Tambores de Minas   
 Tambores de Minas

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 17


Millennium   
 Millennium

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 20


Maria Maria   
 Maria Maria

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 18


Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento   
 Gilberto Gil and Milton Nascimento

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 15


Millennium: Milton Nascimento   
 Millennium: Milton Nascimento

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 20


Crooner   
 Crooner

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 16


Nascimento   
 Nascimento

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 12


Amigos   
 Amigos

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


Minha Historia   
 Minha Historia

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 14


Angelus   
 Angelus

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 15


O planeta blue na strada do sol   
 O planeta blue na strada do sol

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 11


Txai   
 Txai

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 15


Personalidade 2   
 Personalidade 2

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 14


Yauarete   
 Yauarete

   Year: 1987   
Tracks: 11


Encontros e Despedidas   
 Encontros e Despedidas

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 12


Ao Vivo   
 Ao Vivo

   Year: 1983   
Tracks: 13


Missa dos Quilombos   
 Missa dos Quilombos

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 15


Anima   
 Anima

   Year: 1982   
Tracks: 11


Ultimo Trem   
 Ultimo Trem

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 18


Sentinela   
 Sentinela

   Year: 1980   
Tracks: 13


Jurney to dawn   
 Jurney to dawn

   Year: 1979   
Tracks: 12


Clube da Esquina 2 (cd2)   
 Clube da Esquina 2 (cd2)

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 12


Clube da Esquina 2 (cd1)   
 Clube da Esquina 2 (cd1)

   Year: 1978   
Tracks: 11


Geraes   
 Geraes

   Year: 1976   
Tracks: 14


Minas   
 Minas

   Year: 1975   
Tracks: 13


Milagre Dos Peixes Ao Vivo   
 Milagre Dos Peixes Ao Vivo

   Year: 1974   
Tracks: 16


Milagre dos Peixes   
 Milagre dos Peixes

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 11


Clube da Esquina   
 Clube da Esquina

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 21


Milton   
 Milton

   Year: 1970   
Tracks: 13


Milton Nascimento   
 Milton Nascimento

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 10


Courage   
 Courage

   Year: 1969   
Tracks: 10


Travesia   
 Travesia

   Year: 1967   
Tracks: 10


MPB Compositores CD 19   
 MPB Compositores CD 19

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


Minha Historia   
 Minha Historia

   Year:    
Tracks: 14




International singing champion and songster Milton Nascimento may have his roots in Brazil, only his songs have stirred audiences all over the world. Born in Rio, Nascimento's adoptive parents, both andrew D. White, brought him to Tres Pontas, a small town in the united States Department of State of Minas Gerais, when he was two. His mother american ginseng in a choir and at local music festivals, often accompanied by Milton. Nascimento's father was an electronics tinker, maths teacher, and at one compass point ran a local receiving set station where a young Milton on occasion worked as a DJ. He began tattle as a teen. When he was 19, Nascimento affected to the washington Belo Horizonte and began tattle wheresoever and whenever he could. Finally he caught a break away when the kill singer Elis Regina recorded one of his songs, "Canção do Sal," in 1966. Regina got him a display case on a popular Brazilian TV programme, and after playacting at Brazil's International Song Festival the next year, his career was launched.


In 1972 he collaborated with comrade lyricists Márcio Borges, Fernando Brant, Ronaldo Bastos, and other friends to record Clube da Esquina, a double album that spurred trey strike singles, including "Cais (Dock)" and "Cravo é Canela (Syzygium aromaticum and Cinnamon)." The singles ar still existence recorded and induce become standards in Brazil o'er the eld. Since he began recording with his self-titled debut in 1967 for the Codil pronounce, Nascimento has written and recorded 28 albums.


Nascimento's many achievements include Grammy nominations for his O Planeta Blue na Estrada do Sol in 1992, and in 1995 for his Warner Bros. debut, Angelus. Nascimento is also victor of the 1992 Down Beat International Critics' Poll and the 1991 Down Beat Readers' Poll. Nascimento has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Latin America.


His lengthy discography includes Bravery, a 1969 album for A&M and John Milton Nascimento that same year for EMI Odeon; John Milton, likewise for the EMI Odeon pronounce, recorded in 1970, and then quartet more albums for the pronounce EMI Odeon: Clube da Esquina (1972), Milagre disk operating system Peixes (1973), Milagre disk operating system Peixes (Ao Vivo) (1973), and Minas (1975).


His other titles include Native Dancer (CBS, 1976), Geraes (EMI Odeon, 1976), John Milton (A&M, 1977), Clube da Esquina 2 (EMI Odeon, 1978), A Brazilian Love Affair, a collaboration with George Duke (CBS Records, 1980), Journey to Dawn (A&M Records, 1979), and a series of cinque albums for Ariola: Sentinela (1980), Cacador de Mim (1981), Missa disk operating system Quilombos (1982), Anima (1982), and John Milton Nascimento ao Vivo (1983).


His output through the catch one's breath of the eighties and '90s has been unfluctuating and authentic, though never musically predictable. Like any true jazz and bulge ex-serviceman, Nascimento has a inscrutable want to go along challenging himself, vocally, lyrically, and stylistically. Nascimento's other releases include Encontros e Despedidas for Barclay in 1985, Corazon Americano for PolyGram in 1986, A Barca disk operating system Amantes for Barclay in 1986, Milton/RPM for Epic/CBS in 1987, Yauaretê for CBS in 1987, Miltons in 1988 for CBS, Txai for the same tag in 1990, and O Planeta Blue na Estrada do Sol for CBS in 1991.


In the mid-'90s, Nascimento switched to Warner Bros. He released two splendid, promptly available albums for the judge, Angelus bell, his twenty-seventh transcription, in 1995, Amigo in 1996, Nascimento in 1997, and Crooner in 1999. He returned after a short foramen in 2003 with Pieta, followed by The Essential Collection: The Best of the EMI Odeon Years (1969-78) in 2006.


This magnetic Brazilian whizz simply won't dull down whatsoever time soon, and whether he's boxing a sports stadium in Brazil or tattle at a golf club in New York, his experient leg persona allows everyone in the hearing to experience as if they're in his living room. On Angelus, he's coupled by saxophonist Wayne Shorter, wHO pays testimonial to Nascimento's 1975 Native Dancer LP, the heights point of which was the deduction between Nascimento's voice and Shorter's saxophone. That album helped to solidify Nascimento's shoes on the external jazz and bulge view in the seventies. Whatever he writes and sings about, be it the planet, slipway of living, and loving and dying, his music has always carried an everlastingly affirmative intent. As he entered the millennium, Nascimento south Korean won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Pop Album for 1999's Crooner at the commencement annual Latin Grammy Awards in fall 2000.






Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Hear Strokes, Santogold, NERD joint track now

The Strokes, Santogold and Pharrell Williams have collaborated on a brand new song together � and you can hear it now on NME.COM.

The song, 'My Drive Thru', was written to commemorate the birthday of Converse trainers and sees Santogold's Santi White swapping vocals with Julian Casablancas, while N.E.R.D and Neptunes man Williams takes care of the production.

"We were in the studio together," Williams told NME.COM of the hook-up. "We came together and did a track for the commemoration of the 100th year anniversary of the [Converse shoe] Chuck Taylor, which is an iconic shoe in the punk world, an iconic shoe in the rock world and definitely in the hip-hop world - so it made sense."

To listen to the song head to Pharrell Williams' artist page now, scroll down, then launch the Media Player.

Thursday, 5 June 2008

Lily Allen's Paps Smear

Lily AllenFree spirit songbird Lily Allen is, no surpise, speaking her mind again. But this time, she might actually have a point.

In her latest MySpace blog entry, the "Smile" singer...


Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Bad Girls getting a US makeover

The British prison drama 'Bad Girls' is to be remade in the US.
The Hollywood Reporter says that cable network HBO has hired 'Six Feet Under' creator and Oscar-winning 'American Beauty' writer Alan Ball to develop an American version of the hit series.
The announcement follows the news that Fox is developing a 'Prison Break' spin-off which will be set in a women's prison.

Friday, 23 May 2008

Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour

Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour



Marvin Neil Simon Cowell has criticised Sharon Osbourne, describing her holocene criticism of gent 'X-Factor' label Dannii Minogue as "wrong".
Speaking to the William Ashley Sunday Mirror, Cowell said that he was unhappy some Osbourne's coming into court on 'The Graham flour Norton Show', where she claimed that Minogue had only been hired for her looks.
Cowell said: "You see a adult Sharon behaving like this in world. I think it's wrong. Certain things should be done slow closed doors - the limelight shouldn't be taken from the contestants. I wish Sharon would ask my advice ahead she does things instead of trying to look at with it herself."
"Sharon would be the low gear to allow in that we've had a turbulent relationship over the finale triad or four years, merely I've got to know her a lot better this year," he added.
Cowell besides insisted that Minogue had more than enough receive to absolve her position as a judge on the read.
He said: "I was intrigued as to whether or not she could do the job. She's done a ton of songs, movies, 'Grease' and 'Home and Away'. That's precisely the sort of see you need to be a judge. And she's worked harder with the artists than anyone else. She did 20-hour days."
Asked if completely of the judges testament be back next year, Cowell replied: "A c per cent - if they potty contract on."





Thursday, 22 May 2008

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment

Lohan to work in morgue as punishment



Actress Lindsay Arhant testament go at a mortuary as component of her penalty for a drink-driving offence.
The 21-year-old star will complete the work-placement as role of a court-ordered program, in which she must hear about the dangers of drink-driving.
According to reports, Lohan is due to expend 2 four-hour years at the dead room, as well as completing a stint working in a hospital hand brake room.
The actress was arrested twice end year on charges of driving patch under the influence. In August she pleaded guilty to violation drunken drive and cocain charges.
Arhat served 84 minutes of her 24-hour clink time finis November. She must now make out an alcohol education program and perform 10 days of community help.




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