Music

SINGER/ACTRESS EARTHA KITT DIES

Via BBC News American singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died at the age 81, a family friend has said. Ms Kitt was said to have been suffering from cancer. She was one of the few artists to be nominated in the Tony, Grammy and Emmy award categories and was a stalwart of the Manhattan cabaret scene. She famously played Catwoman in the 1960s Batman television series and this century continued to perform regularly in theatre shows and concert halls. Ms Kitt []

VIDEO: YUNG BERG – ‘OUTERSPACE’

Rapper Yung Berg more or less deaded his own career earlier this year after these offensive remarks…. I’m kinda racist … I don’t like dark butts …. You know how some women prefer light skin men or dark skin men. It’s rare that I do dark butts – that’s what I call dark skinned women … I [don’t date women] darker than me. I love the pool test. If you can jump in the pool exactly like you are and you don’t come out []

UK MUSIC: ALESHA DIXON – ‘BREATHE SLOW’

Former Mis-Teeq group member/’Strictly Come Dancing’ winner 2007 Alesha Dixon,  has released her second single from the album ‘The Alesha Show’, and I will say that this track is a major improvemnet from the last single ‘The Boy Does Nothing’. The beat sounds familiar (I cannot place where I’ve heard it before), but ‘Breathe Slow’ is catchy and most importantly ‘radio friendly’. Alesha still doesn’t rate very highly in my books as a solo performer, and I still believe that former Mis-Teeq front woman Sabrina Washington should be the one with the []

VIDEO: DAMON DASH TALKS ABOUT THE FUTURE

In this interview Bruk Pocket talks about what we should all expect from him in the future…. Dame looks mash up and he keeps sniffing. Is that because he has a cold or is there something else going on here? I don’t think his future projects will be as successful as he hopes they will be . Dame rubbed far too many people up the wrong way during his mogul heyday, and he is now paying the price professionally.   But then again…. you never know, he might be able to claw himself back []

QUOTE OF THE DAY: ALEXANDRA BURKE (X FACTOR WINNER 2008)

Beyonce and Alexandra “It was so amazing to be with Beyonce – she was such an inspiration and I just thought, ‘I want to be as big as you’. “We are going to be great friends. Backstage she turned to me and said, ‘I feel like I have known you for ages. We can be friends’. “I asked her if I could support her on tour ans she said yes, so we’re trying to make it happen”. (The London Paper)  Alright Alexandra cool []

UK MUSIC NEWS: SINGER ROBBIE WILLIAMS NOW WANTS TO REJOIN TAKE THAT

Take That Robbie Williams This FOOL spent the best part of a decade bad mouthing his former band members and laughing at their misfortunes, after his solo career took off in to the stratosphere. But it all went sour didn’t it Robbie in 04/05 when you released that “Hip Hop” inspired mess ‘Rude Box’, and things went down hill from there. You should have stayed in your lane luv, which is Rock/Pop. I bet EMI still shuddar and regret the day they paid you 80 million to produce four albums back in 2002.  Oh well……. []

UK NEWS: FORMER FIVE STAR SINGER JOINS THRILLER MUSICAL

Former Five Star lead vocalist Denise Pearson will make her London West End debut in Thriller – Live, a musical based on the career of Michael Jackson. She will be joined by Ricko Baird, who choreographed and doubled for Jackson in the You Rock My World video. Baird has also toured alongside the singer, whose hits include Bad and The Way You Make Me Feel. The show, which has already toured Germany and Holland, starts in January at London’s Lyric Theatre. Earlier []