Month: January 2009

VH1 DIVAS SPECIAL (2003) -WHITNEY HOUSTON AND BOBBY BROWN’S LIVE PERFORMANCE (THE NIGHT WHITNEY’S VOICE GAVE UP AND DIED)

I remember watching the 2003 ‘VH1 Divas’, and shaking my head in disbelief. Whitney Houston performed with her now ex-husband Bobby Brown and sounded absolutely atrocious. Here was proof that her once beautiful/powerful voice had been shot to pieces thanks to excessive drug and alcohol abuse. But I was in denial. I refused to believe that Whitney had lost it. I kept saying, ‘no that isn’t Whitney Houston. That isn’t the woman I grew up listening to and admiring. That woman up []

INAUGURATION LIVE PERFORMANCE: SHERYL CROW, WILL.I.AM AND HERBIE HANCOCK BUTCHER ‘ONE LOVE’

I missed this live performance at last weeks historical inauguration event so thanks Nessa for bringing it to my attention. Herbie, Will.i.am (another one who gets under my skin) and Sheryl decided to perform the Bob Marley classic ‘One Love’ and BUTCHERED the track. I know that Herbie is a musical legend but what the HELL was he playing at the start???? The man was playing the wrong keys! Sheryl can sing but she really shouldn’t try to attempt to sing this particular song ever again. I am not even going to []

JANET JACKSON’S TOUR OF JAPAN CANCELLED

  Via BBC News Janet Jackson’s tour of Japan has been postponed, with promoters blaming the global financial crisis. Japanese concert promoter Kyodo Yokohama said the singer cancelled five concerts due to take place in February. The 42-year-old Grammy Award winner had planned to perform in several major cities, including Nagoya and Osaka. Jackson, on her first world tour in nearly seven years, cancelled seven performances in the US in 2008 because of a bout of vertigo. The gigs in Japan will []

KANYE WEST ATTENDS PARIS FASHION WEEK (MENSWEAR)

Kanye West attended the Lanvin fashion show during Paris week  Menswear Autumn/Winter 2009 event, last night (January 25th) Oh the shallowness of it all…… Kanye West surrounded by fellow wankers. Kanye with the crypt keeper/designer Karl Lagerfeld TWAT! Photographs: WireImage/Eric Ryan

UK NEWS: BOY KNIFED TO DEATH IN ‘POST CODE GANG WAR’

Via The Metro A teenager was stabbed to death in a ‘postcode war’ gang killing shortly after leaving a party held by campaigners against black youth violence. Steven Lewis, 15, was set upon by a group of youths, knifed repeatedly in the chest and left to die in his 16-year-old sister’s arms. Friends of the teenager on Sunday linked the killing to a gang from a neighbouring area in East London. ‘There is rivalry. It is neighbourhoods, postcodes – E13 versus E16,’ []

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S KENYAN CHOIR SIGNS DEAL WITH UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNIVERSAL OUT TO SHAFT)

The Kenyan Choir Via BBC News An African youth choir has been signed by Universal Music after performing at President Barack Obama’s inauguration celebrations in the US. The Boys Choir of Kenya signed the deal in the transit lounge at London’s Heathrow Airport as they returned home to Nairobi from Washington DC. They were the only international choir to sing at the inauguration. The choir, who are aged between 13 and 24, put on an impromptu performance for passengers before flying on []

VIDEO OF THE DAY: THE JAPANESE JUST LOVE THAT REGGAE DANCEHALL

In Japan, Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall music is HUGE!!!! And if you don’t believe me then just watch this. The footage below was filmed at an event that took place last year, in Osaka Japan. I remember back in the 90s when it was thought that if  the Reggae art form wanted to achieve international success/popularity (Like Rap/Hip Hop has) then it’s artists had to make the move to America and then sign to  major labels. Label executives (who knew nothing about the genre/culture) would then team up reggae artists with Hip Hop/R&B acts and attempt to water down []

DOCTORS TO OPERATE ON BABY WITH CONJOINED TWIN PROTRUDING FROM BUTTOCKS

Via The London Paper LITTLE Faith Mwape was born with the feet of her conjoined twin poking out from her buttocks – and may never walk as a result. Surgeons will perform a five-hour operation to remove the Zambian baby’s underdeveloped brother or sister at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka next Wednesday. Faith, who was born last April, will only have a chance at a normal life if the legs are separated Her mother Mercy Lenganji, 18, faces an anxious wait []