News Archive
Sunday, November 30th, 2014
Helena Alexandria has been forced to leave her role as Marketing and Accounts Manager at My Singing Lessons due to poor health. Helena has been with the business for 2 Years and has been an major part of the development of the organisation. She will be missed by all staff and singing tutors.
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Saturday, November 29th, 2014
Actress turned singer Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence has added another string to her bow – a top 40 single. The American actress sings on The Hanging Tree by composer James Newton Howard. It features on the soundtrack of her new film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
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Friday, November 28th, 2014
Singing Pop band Take That have announced a deal to stream their new album on Google’s Play music service, blocking out Spotify until the start of 2015. The record, called III, will appear on Google Play Music when it is released on Monday, with three bonus tracks not available on any other...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2014
Sabah, whose real name was Jeanette Gergis al-Feghali, first came to prominence in the 1950s as star of Egyptian movies. During her more than six-decade long career, she released over 50 albums and acted in 98 films. She died at her home in Beirut of an unspecified illness, reported Lebanon’s...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
Katy Perry is currently on her Prismatic world tour in Australia. On the Friday, the singer blasted Australian paparazzi, calling them “perverted and disgusting”. She tweeted: “Your paparazzi have no respect, no integrity, no character, no humanity. I was stalked by many grown men...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Ex Police singer will play the role of foreman Jackie White in the semi-autobiographical story about a prodigal son who returns home to Tyneside. He will appear for eight shows a week from 9 December until 10 January. It is thought Sting is appearing in the show – for which he wrote the music...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2014
Singer Lily Allen has told us why she turned down an invite to sing on the all new Band Aid 30. She said that “it’s difficult to explain why I didn’t do it.” The singer added: “I prefer to do my charitable bit by donating actual money and not being lumped in a with...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
My Singing Lessons was sad to hear that singer Michael Combs was taken to hospital last week with severe abdominal pains. We have been keeping a check on his social media pages and can thankfully say that he appears to be making some good improvements in his health. Here is what was on Michael Combs...
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Friday, November 21st, 2014
Jimmy Ruffin, the Motown singer whos biggest hit was What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, has died at the age of 78. News of his death follows reports last month that he was seriously ill and in intensive care at a Las Vegas hospital.
Born in Mississippi, Ruffin moved to Detroit in the early...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2014
U2 frontman Bono broke his arm in six places and fractured his eye socket, hand and shoulder blade in his recent bicycle accident in New York. The hospital where he was treated – New York’s Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center – has also revealed he underwent two surgical procedures....
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
U2’s singer Bono has been been injured after crashing on his bike in Central Park, New York. The band said on its website that he will need surgery on his arm “to repair it”. U2 were about to start a 5 day long residency on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, which they have...
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Monday, November 17th, 2014
Singer Bono and his U2 collegues might have been instilled with a sense of generosity recently, but boy are they rubbish at with gifts. Having annoyed millions of people by clogging their iTunes players with an album they didn’t want, the Irish rock legends have put their foot in it again...
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Sunday, November 16th, 2014
The rear door of the Lear jet taking the U2 lead singer from Dublin to Berlin was missing when the aircraft landed at Berlin Schonefeld Airport on Wednesday. Besides Bono (whose real name is Paul Hewson), there were two pilots and four other passengers on board, according to Germout Freitag, an...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2014
My Singing Lessons has found out that singer Taylor Swift was on to a good thing before she pulled the plug of streaming music business Spotify. However it turns out that Swift earned just £317,000 in the past 12 months for streams of her songs in the US, Big Machine CEO Scott Borchetta said. Borchetta...
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
Allianz Musical Insurance (AMI) is the UK’s leading musical instrument insurer, offering specialist policies exclusively designed for musicians. With our combined understanding of musicians’ needs and the highest standards of customer service we have gained the trust of over 100,000 musicians,...
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