Reuters - Feb 10, 2009
Will Smith was named Hollywood's most bankable star in a survey of movie industry professionals released on Tuesday by Forbes.com, the Web site of financial magazine Forbes. Smith, who received a...
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A company backed by investors including Will Smith and major record labels has launched a new Web site offering 10,000 free, high-definition music videos. Universal Music Group announced Wednesday that...
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 20, 2006
He never got an invitation and he certainly didn t R.S.V.P., but that didn t stop Will Smith from crashing Atir Cohen s bar mitzvah at Jerusalem s Western Wall. Cohen, 13, was deep into his Torah reading...
More »AP - Jan 28, 2006
Wilson Pickett was remembered by friends and family Saturday as a singer who fell somewhere between a poet and a preacher, laying the groundwork for artists after him. One way or another, Wilson was...
More »AP - Dec 27, 2005
Got the latest Death Cab for Cutie tune on your iPod phone? That s so 2005. With the new year about to begin, it s time to upgrade your electronics, reprogram your TiVo, juice up your music collection...
More »E! Online - Nov 22, 2005
The members of Destiny s Child may have gone their separate ways, but that didn t stop the band from picking up a pair of awards at Tuesday s American Music Awards. The former girl group won the...
More »AP - Nov 19, 2005
Stars appearing at Tuesday s American Music Awards will depart with a piece of the moon. Lindsay Lohan, Will Smith, Missy Elliot and the dozens of other entertainers that are either presenting or performing...
More »E! Online - Sep 20, 2005
Apparently Mariah Carey and American Music Award nominations belong together. The R&B diva led the AMA field with four nominations in all, including nods for Best Female Artist and Best Album for...
More »E! Online - Jul 27, 2005
Leave it to a teen to knock R. Kelly for a loop. Now That s What I Call Music! 19, the latest edition in the world s most popular hits compilation series, used its star power to erase the competition...
More »Reuters - Jul 25, 2005
To the Ozzfest fans who made it clear they were angry about Wicked Wisdom being on the bill of this year s hard rock road show: the band got your memo. Actress-turned-vocalist Jada Pinkett Smith and...
More »Reuters - Jul 2, 2005
After a galaxy of stars rocked the world in the largest live concert ever held, organizers on Sunday looked to a summit of rich nations to see if people power would change policy on poverty. Over a...
More »AP - Jul 2, 2005
Canadian favorite Tom Cochrane kicked off Canada s Live 8 concert with Life is a Highway before 35,000 roaring fans, moving the global event into North America. Concertgoers also sang along with Bryan...
More »AP - Jul 2, 2005
In Berlin, Green Day proclaimed its majesty with a cover of Queen s We Are the Champions as R.E.M. performed Man on the Moon in London. And R.E.M. hadn t left the stage before Tim McGraw began singing...
More »AP - Jul 2, 2005
They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza. Right now you re watching the biggest concert event in the history of...
More »Reuters - Jul 2, 2005
Icelandic singer Bjork rocked Tokyo on Saturday, kicking off the biggest live music show in history which aims to pressure world leaders to do more to fight poverty. Live 8, an expanded version of the...
More »AP - Jul 1, 2005
The full lineup for Live 8 in Philadelphia: Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Def Leppard, Destiny s Child, Jars of Clay, Jay-Z, Kaiser Chiefs, Toby Keith, Alicia Keys, Linkin Park,...
More »AP - Jul 1, 2005
Nearly everyone in the world can tune in Saturday to Live 8, the all-star concerts urging a political solution to African poverty. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder, to push to get countries to listen...
More »Reuters - Jul 1, 2005
Organizers promise it will be the greatest music show on Earth, as final preparations for the Live 8 gigs are made and pop stars prepare to leave their egos backstage to raise awareness of poverty in...
More »AP - Jul 1, 2005
Kanye West is now part of the lineup for Saturday s Live 8 concert in Philadelphia. Organizers say Rita and Stephen Marley will also perform. They join musicians that include Alicia Keys, Will Smith...
More »Reuters - Jun 30, 2005
Academics and civil rights leaders hope Live 8 concerts to press for action on poverty in Africa will reawaken interest among black Americans in the continent their ancestors came from as slaves. But...
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