Singer Sarah Brightman announced Wednesday that she is postponing her trip to space. Her $52 million, 10-day trip aboard the International Space Station will be pushed back due to personal family reasons, according to a statement posted to her Facebook page. She had stopped training on April 22,...
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Singer and pianist Tori Amos is giving away a signed Limited Edition unreleased photo print from her photo archives as well as a custom Tori Moleskine notebook! To enter follow Tori on Instagram http://instagram.com/toriamos, then just snap a photo of yourself with one or both of the new Tori Deluxe...
Sam Smith will miss out on Radio 1’s Big Weekend in My Singing Lessons home town of Norwich because he has to have an operation to save his vocal cords. In a message to fans on Instagram, the singer said: “Bad news. I have my operation booked for next week, so getting really nervous...
Hot Chocolate front man Errol Brown had liver cancer and died at his home in the Bahamas, said his manager Phil Dale. Hot Chocolate had hits in more than 50 countries worldwide, including You Sexy Thing – which Brown co-wrote – It Started with a Kiss and Every 1’s a Winner.
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Last week we reported that Singer Sam Smith has had to cancel some shows in Australia. Well now he has cancelled even more shows due to a hemorrhage on his vocal cords. The singer has cancelled a series of shows in Japan and Manila and is heading to the US to see a specialist. Sam is apparently...
We did hear that there were reports stating that singer Joni Mitchell was in a coma began to surface but nothing official was ever released. A few weeks later, representatives for the singer quashed these rumors, saying the singer was awake and able to comprehend what was going on around her. Now,...
Apple is a “huge disruptive monster” according to George Ergatoudis – BBC Radio 1 ‘s head of music. He was speaking at a global conference in LA about the issues facing radio today and in the future. He went on to say that Apple’s “piles of cash” and ambitious...
Where would we be today without wireless technology – particularly on our singing microphones. After singing mic company Shure’s 90th Anniversary just past it seems appropriate to celebrate some of the key moments in Shure’s impressive history. First up, check out the Shure Vagabond...
The man who sang ‘Stand By Me’ has died at the age of 76. Ben E King joined a doo wop group called the Five Crowns. Later in 1958, the Drifters’ manager George Treadwell fired the members of the original Drifters, and replaced them with the Five Crowns. King had a string of R&B...
Jack Ely, singer with the Kingsmen, has died. He is best known for Louie Louie, a song inspired by the Caribbean which appeared, went away quietly and came back in a form so raucous that the American security services thought it should be outlawed, writes Alan Connor. In 1964, the FBI began a 30-month...
