AP - Jan 27, 2010
Mary J. Blige and Andrea Bocelli (ahn-DRAY -uh boh-CHEL -ee) will perform Simon and Garfunkel s Bridge Over Troubled Water during a fundraising segment for Haiti relief at this year s Grammy Awards....
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After the recent death of Luciano Pavarotti, much attention has been paid to the search for a successor to the world's best-known classical tenor. If sales history and crossover appeal can be used...
More »Reuters - Nov 12, 2006
New releases by two popular music legends offer another twist to the classical crossover tale. Paul McCartney and Sting have literally crossed over from their traditional pop-rock leanings to classical...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »AP - Apr 27, 2006
Andrea Bocelli will make his New York Philharmonic debut in September, singing four performances of romantic arias. The concerts, conducted by Asher Fisch, will be held Sept. 6-9, just before the orchestra...
More »E! Online - Mar 8, 2006
Ne-Yo s so sick that he can t be denied. The rookie R&B crooner, whose debut single So Sick already topped the Billboard Hot 100 radio, now has a number one album to go along with, as In My Own Words...
More »E! Online - Mar 1, 2006
Mickey is one happy mouse right about now. Building momentum with Radio Disney airplay, the soundtrack to the Disney Channel movie High School Musical officially finished its seven-week trek to...
More »AP - Feb 24, 2006
When Andrea Bocelli started the planning for his latest pop project, the classical crossover star imagined himself singing the great songs popularized by Frank Sinatra. But the Italian tenor realized...
More »E! Online - Feb 22, 2006
Last week it was a jungle out there. This week it s a ghetto. Ending the single-week dominance of the Curious George soundtrack, R&B crooner Jaheim spanked the monkey down a branch as his new album...
More »E! Online - Feb 15, 2006
There s some serious monkey business going down on the album charts. While Grammy winners got their traditional post-ceremony sales spikes, the top branch of the Billboard 200 was occupied by a cinematic...
More »AP - Feb 13, 2006
James Levine has agreed to stay at the Metropolitan Opera until at least 2013, and incoming general manager Peter Gelb has given the conductor a lifetime invitation to remain on one of the world s premier...
More »AP - Feb 11, 2006
There s a hole in the middle of every medal at these Winter Olympics for a reason: to honor the open piazzas. So it only makes sense that the city square at the heart of Turin is already THE place to...
More »E! Online - Oct 17, 2005
Fats Domino proved you can go home again. You just might not like what you see. The rock n roll pioneer returned to his New Orleans home Saturday for the first time since evacuating in Hurricane...
More »AP - Jul 2, 2005
An eclectic lineup including Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and The Cure united in the fight against African poverty at a Live 8 concert set amid one of France s greatest symbols of opulence the...
More »AP - Jul 1, 2005
Sheryl Crow has dropped out of the Live 8 show in Paris. She s citing substantial logistical and personal challenges. The Paris lineup includes Andrea Bocelli, Nile Rodgers of Chic, Craig David, The...
More »E! Online - Jun 28, 2005
Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope. The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added Moscow installment of Saturday s Live 8 concerts. The free show will take...
More »E! Online - Jun 23, 2005
All you who missed out the ticket lottery or can t swing that last-minute fare to London to see the anticipated Pink Floyd reunion, fear not--Live 8 is going to be live in your living room. America...
More »E! Online - Jun 16, 2005
Eight isn t nearly enough for Bob Geldof. The charity rocker behind the massive Live 8 shows aimed at raising awareness in industrial countries of the problems in the Third World revealed on Thursday...
More »E! Online - Jun 15, 2005
Everybody knows Bob Geldof doesn t like Mondays. He apparently can t tolerate scalpers--or their enablers--either. The ex-Boomtown Rat turned charity rock icon, lashed out at eBay for allowing Netizens...
More »E! Online - Jun 13, 2005
The wall has come tumbling down. After nearly a quarter century of acrimony, the classic lineup of Pink Floyd, including band cofounder and creative force Roger Waters, will reunite to perform at...
More »E! Online - Jun 8, 2005
Live 8 is up to six. Annie Lennox, Dido and Travis are among the artists signing on to headline a sixth Live 8 concert, this one in the Scottish city of Edinburgh, organizers announced Tuesday....
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