American Idol - Hicks To Star On Broadway

AMERICAN IDOL winner TAYLOR HICKS will join the Broadway production of GREASE next month (06Jun08) for a three-month stint as THE TEEN ANGEL.

The 31-year-old singer, whose Idol fan base was dubbed The Soul Patrol, plans to add "soulful flavour" to his performance of the song Beauty School Dropout, a tune originally made famous by Frankie Avalon in the 1978 film.

He says, "It's a big number, and, you know, I've made some pretty grand entrances before. And this one is probably the grandest entrance I've had in my career."

The grey-haired crooner, who won the TV talent competition in 2006, will end his run at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on 7 September (08).

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Naomi Campbell recovering following operation

Naomi Campbell recovering following operation

Supermodel Noemi Joseph Campbell is recuperating subsequently being discharged from hospital pursuit surgery.
Last week, she underwent four-and-a-half hours of operating theatre at a infirmary in Sao Paulo, Brasil, to murder a cyst.
The hospital said all over the weekend that Campbell had recovered "really substantially" and left in a eggbeater subsequently being discharged on Fri afternoon.
Mirtes Bogea, spokeswoman for the Sirio Libanes hospital, said: "Doctors signed her release and she left in the afternoon in a whirlybird that person sent to pick her up."
Meantime Campbell hit come out of the closet at "ludicrous" reports she was planning a company.
The Brazilian press reported that the 37-year-old planned to hurl a lavish party on the day she left hospital.
But the modeling said in a statement: "I pack my health very earnestly, so to suggest that I would legion a company followers an operation is ludicrous.
"I would wish to thank everyone for their sort wishes and care over the past calendar week and for the fantastic service I have received at the infirmary. I will now be recuperating in common soldier."
The Streatham-born example underwent a four-and-a-half time of day laparoscopy process on Monday.
A friend said: "The trace that she would make a company as soon as she leaves is ridiculous and makes light of what she has been through over the last few days."

Paul Avgerinos

   
Artist: Paul Avgerinos

   Genre(s): 
Ambient
   New Age
   

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Discography:


   
 Phos Hilaron

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Words Touch

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Sky Of Grace

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Muse Of The Round Sky

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 10


   
 Maya - The Great Katun

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 2


   
 Balancing Spheres

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 5

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Avgerinos is a classically trained composer world Health Organization served as star bassist with The Hong Kong Philharmonic and performed with numerous other orchestras. He has as well toured with popular medicine and jazz acts and has through with roughly grading for films and tv coiffe commercials. His true vocation, however, seems to be as an electronic-music composer. The trinity albums he has released so far ar entirely gems.





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T.I. Became Friends With Eminem After Legal Troubles

T.I. Became Friends With Eminem After Legal Troubles

Rapper T.I. has formed a strong hamper with EMINEM in recent months, after the hip-hop mogul reached come out to the Fetch 'EM Out star to offer his living during his legal woes.
T.I. was handed a 1,000-hour community divine service sentence in Borderland (08), after pleading guilty to weapons charges relating to his October (07) nab, when he allegedly tried to buy unregistered automobile guns and silencers.
And, spell outlay several months on house apprehend at his Atlanta, Georgia family, T.I. reveals a number of his hip-hop peers got in touch to avail him through his troubled times.
Only no unity was more supportive than Lose weight Shady superstar Eminem.
Oral presentation on Battle of Atlanta wireless place Hot 107.9, T.I. says, "I wasn't expecting to try from cypher. I made a percentage point non to give out to mass... because I didn't want to get none of my scum in nobody else's yard...
"(Young) Jeezy really came to 1 of my hearings. ...I spoke to (Lil) Duke Wayne a duo multiplication, spoke to Puff (Sean 'Diddy' Combs), Jay(-Z) a few times. I plausibly spoke to Busta (Rhymes) the most.
"The only mortal I rung to more than Busta was Eminem. Me and Eminem stayed in contact, stayed on the earpiece. Simply checking in on each other, making for sure one another was doing good. Of track I spoke to Nelly, a fortune."

SANTOGOLD

SANTOGOLD

“Santogold” (Business district): A-

Santogold - singer Santi Whiteness, who’s backed by a shape-shifting appeal of players and producers - hails from Brooklyn, but she sounds like she’s from, well, all over. Her debut spans the musical theater spectrum from fresh wave, ska and dancehall to electro-pop and indie rock. By turns she resembles M.I.A., Gwen Stefani and Martha
Davis of the Motels, but has also strong an identity of her possess to
reside in anyone else’s shadow. The end event is a risky, bizarre and much brilliant break up from cookie cutter convening. Download: “Starstruck.”







Ferrell a huge hit during UCD appearance

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants

Ice judge Jason blasts contestants

'Dancing on Ice' pass judgment Jason Gardiner has predicted that a male celebrity will win the show this year, claiming that the ladies aren't really good on the ice-skating rink.
Speaking on 'This Morning', he said: "It's a boy's competition. The boys this year are of a better standard than the girls."
Oral presentation about protester Chris Fount, he said: "He reminds me of that 'Looney Tunes' character the Tasmanian Fiend. He whirls about and wrecks devastation in his course. He had no connexion with his cooperator."
He as well slated 'How Clean Is Your Star sign?' ace Aggie Mackenzie River whom he described as an "OAP" during final stage Sun night's last show.
Speech production around the television system presenter, he said: "With her bruises and everything screening, it truly wasn't what you wanted to discover."

Jennifer Lopez says TLC series is not a “reality show at all”

Jennifer Lopez says TLC series is not a “reality show at all”

Jennifer Lopez has insisted that her upcoming series on cable length network Tender loving care is non a realism show; and will not, by any means, be featuring her neonate twins Scoop and Emme.
“You heard it here first-class honours degree. Thither is no reality indicate at altogether. We would not get camera�s in our house,” the singer, 38, told Access Hollywood at the Metropolitan Museum of Art�s Costume Bring Gala affair Monday nox. “It�s just now not our thing. That mightiness be delicately for other people, merely not for us.”
When Tender loving care confirmed Lopez had a show in the works, the press release stated that the series would “save a slice of [Jennifer�s] life history that audiences have never seen earlier, as she takes on her life history and launches a fresh sweetness piece trying to juggle her newly responsibilities as a start time mum.”





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The Bill star Stewart says he is recovering

The Bill star Stewart says he is recovering

'The Bill' genius Jeff Stewart said today that he is recovering, following media reports that he harmed himself afterward his contract with the show was non renewed.
The 52-year-old actor, wHO plays PC Reg Hollis in the ITV drama, has issued a statement asking the media to respectfulness his concealment.
Jimmy Stewart said in the argument: "The last few days take been real difficult for me, only I am receiving the flop tending and help, and am surrounded by menage and friends."
"I want to confirm that I do not birth any financial concerns, or so any other problems, as has been reported."
He likewise said: "I lovemaking existence an actor. My exercise as an worker is very important to me - it's my life, and the idea of this all of a sudden changing had an extremely serious effect on me."
"I am feeling practically better now, and am more and more improving."
Stewart has played PC Hollis since the show's launch in 1984.