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The Pussycat Dolls singer and the former rugby player Thom Evans collaborate on a rendition of Shania Twain’s classic hit ‘You’re Still the One’ to celebrate his birthday.
Apr 6, 2020
AceShowbiz – Nicole Scherzinger and her boyfriend Thom Evans duetted on Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One” in honour of the former rugby player’s birthday.
The 35-year-old sportsman met Nicole, 41, when he was a contestant on U.K. TV show “The X Factor: Celebrity”, for which The Pussycat Dolls star was a judge.
Thom showed off his singing abilities on the competition series as part of boyband Try Star, and the pair once again proved their musical talents as they shared a sweet rendition of the classic love song online.
“For Thom’s birthday yesterday he wanted to sing and spread some love to everyone during this time,” Nicole penned alongside the clip on Twitter. “Happy birthday baby.”

Rumours the pair were loved up began when Thom was still a contestant on the reality show, and they finally confirmed their romance by appearing together on the red carpet at the Golden Globes in January.

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This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic.Cristina, a cult singer who brought avant-garde sensibilities to New York’s dance-music nightlife at the turn of the 1980s, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 64.Her daughter, Lucinda Zilkha Francis, said she had been suffering from several autoimmune disorders, including relapsing polychondritis, for approximately two decades. On Friday, her family learned she had tested positive for the coronavirus. In the fertile anything-goes downtown New York of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cristina cut a unique figure — a hyperliterary, well-to-do, seen-it-all performer who taunted club music culture with songs that could be read as wry parody or progressive updates.“My strength is not in my voice, nor do I have sexy ankles,” she told the Boston Globe in 1980. “I have an analytical brain, and maybe that’s a liability in rock n’ roll, but if I play it right, it will translate musical principles into theatrical terms, which is what I have to do anyway, given my lack of technical expertise in music.”Cristina Monet Palaci was born on Jan. 17, 1956, in Manhattan to Dorothy Monet, a writer and illustrator, and Jacques Palaci, a psychoanalyst. She attended Harvard, where she studied playwriting under William Alfred. She took a year off from college and came to New York, where she wrote freelance theater reviews for The Village Voice. It was there that she met Michael Zilkha, who became her boyfriend and, later, the engine behind her music career.Mr. Zilkha was starting Ze Records with a partner. Cristina, who didn’t have particular aspirations to be a singer, nevertheless became his first artist with the 1978 single “Disco Clone.” Produced by John Cale, it was a deceptively slick dismantling of disco’s sameness, sung in an aspirated and shrill voice: “If you like the way I shake it/And you think you want to make it/There’s 50 just like me.”“I thought it was so bad that it could be a Brechtian pastiche,” she told Time Out New York in 2004. “It turned out to be an eccentric and funny record — insane, enthusiastic, impassioned, amateurish.” (One version of the song features Kevin Kline on accompanying vocals.)According to a 1984 New York magazine article, after her first live performance, at the Squat Theater in Chelsea, Cristina’s mother told her, “You were always a brilliant writer. A good artist … a good actress. How could you be so self-destructive as to sing?”“Disco Clone” was successful enough that Cristina continued recording. Her self-titled debut album, released in 1980, was produced by August Darnell (who performed as Kid Creole), and featured disco paired with heavy Latin percussion. “The first theatrical, cinematic, nostalgic disco record, at a time when there wasn’t a lot of humor in disco,” Cristina said in an early-2000s interview with the zine Festive!Consistently, Cristina injected a wry, burned-out, misadventuring patrician sensibility into her lyrics and delivery, especially on her rendition, that same year, of the Leiber and Stoller song, “Is That All There Is?” (originally made famous by Peggy Lee).She tweaked the lyrics, making them both more whimsical and more terrifying: “I remember when I was a little girl, my mother set the house on fire — she was like that.” (Lieber and Stoller protested, and insisted the song be withdrawn from release.)The Cristina that appeared on records was unfiltered. “It was entirely her, there’s no confection or construction in it all,” Mr. Zilkha said in an interview.She and Mr. Zilkha married in 1983, and in 1984 she released her second album, “Sleep It Off,” produced by Don Was, with cover design by Jean-Paul Goude. On this album, she leaned into new wave, rendered again with savage satirical energy on songs like the punkish “Don’t Mutilate My Mink” and “What’s A Girl To Do.” (“If you loved the Pulitzer divorce trial, you’ll love this record,” crowed Rolling Stone.)“The one thing that pop music has lost lately is its sense of irony,” Cristina said when the album was released. “People either write dumb-funny novelty songs or dead-earnest serious songs. There’s nothing around that combines elements of both.”She and Mr. Zilkha moved to Texas soon after that album’s release, effectively ending her music career. “I believed the idea that Michael had bought me a career to such an extent that I felt sheepish and guilty, which I shouldn’t have been,” she told Time Out New York. After she and Mr. Zilkha divorced in 1990, she returned to New York.In its day, Cristina’s work was very much a product of its demimonde. But in 2004, her albums were reissued to great acclaim and wide attention. Her only other musical recording was a 2006 collaboration with Ursula 1000, “Urgent/Anxious,” which took advantage of the implied eye-rolling in her voice, which hadn’t diminished at all.Outside of music, Cristina retained an avid interest in theater and books. She was especially passionate about 19th-century literature. “When I was a child, she would read me Dickens, doing all the voices,” Ms. Francis recalled. She contributed occasional book and film reviews to the Times Literary Supplement, as well as articles to Tatler and London Literary Review.Her medical conditions were often debilitating: “It’s hard to plan a new album when you don’t know if you will make it down to the end of the street from one day to the next,” she told Time Out New York. But in recent years, she had recovered enough to begin traveling.In addition to her daughter, Cristina is survived by two granddaughters and her longtime companion, Stephen Graham. More

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The ‘Royals’ hitmaker is finally back in the studio after taking a break for months as she’s heartbroken when her beloved pet and muse Pearl passed away.
Apr 6, 2020
AceShowbiz – Lorde is getting ready to release new music after bouncing back from the death of her pet dog.
The “Royals” singer lost her passion for music after Pearl’s death in November 2019, and asked fans urging her to release new tracks to be patient.
“He (Pearl) was instrumental to the discovery that was taking place,” she wrote at the time. “I felt he led me towards the ideas, and it’s going to take some time and re-calibration, now that there’s no shepherd ahead of me, to see what the work is going to be.”
But now Lorde is back in the studio working on the follow-up to her 2017 album “Melodrama”.
“It’s definitely too soon for me to talk about anything, but I will say that it’s been a very productive year,” she told New Zealand radio station The Edge on Friday, April 3, 2020.
“It won’t be the same work, as anyone who has felt loss can understand – there’s a door that opens that you step through, and everything is different on the other side. But when this great loss crystallises inside me, and my chest rebuilds around it, hopefully I’ll be able to finish up, and share it with you, and we’ll all grow together, as we always do.”

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The 38-year-old Ashley Roberts lashes out at the critics finding fault with her girlband’s sexy performances, insinuating that those nitpickers were just sexists.
Apr 5, 2020
AceShowbiz – Ashley Roberts didn’t hold back as she shared a strongly-worded message for critics of The Pussycat Dolls and their sexy performances.
The 38-year-old singer and her bandmates have faced backlash since their return to the spotlight, with many viewers complaining to broadcasting watchdog Ofcom about the group’s provocative performances on the television.
But Ashley isn’t interested in hearing people slam the five-piece for their raunchy displays.
“Someone told me that within the stage of me as a woman that I shouldn’t be sexy and I’m like ‘f**k off,’ ” she snapped. “Magic Mike comes on and everyone loves it but women do it and we’re called prostitutes.
“I want to embrace the fact that I’m a woman getting to go back out with my girls as that sometimes doesn’t happen. We have nothing to prove we just want to go out there and have some fun again. I want to be sexy when I’m like 90!”
The Pussycat Dolls had to push their reunion tour dates back until October 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Ashley told Sky News that while she was disappointed about the delay, she understands why it had to happen.
“I know and we were so excited about doing our tour,” she sighed. “But under the circumstances, what matters most is everybody being safe and healthy. So we knew that they had to be postponed and we’re just grateful that we actually have locked-in dates for October.”

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As certainly as country music tells a story about itself — it is rural, it is authentic — there are dissenters tugging it in new directions. Often those dissenters end up becoming revered in hindsight, even if their loyalties were questioned in the moment.Take Sam Hunt, the most proficient of the many hip-hop hybridizers that converged on Nashville in the early part of the 2010s. He has just released his second album, “Southside,” which combines his most traditionalist work and his most forward-thinking, and suggests that those need not be two different things.In the case of Kenny Rogers, who died last month at 81, the layer of pop gesture atop his country set him apart. He was a gentler, more centrist kind of country star than some of his contemporaries, but no less integral to the genre and its growth.On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about the borders Nashville polices, and the excellence that can emerge when they are tested.Guests:Bill Friskics-Warren, who contributes regularly to The New York Times and is the co-author of “Heartaches by the Number: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles”Natalie Weiner, who writes about music for Billboard, Pitchfork and others More

For the past five years I have lived a mile from the Brooklyn Hospital Center — though I’m a bit ashamed to say that I did not realize it until a few weeks ago. I am fortunate to have until now moved through life with a breezy ignorance of the nearest hospital’s location. But that unawareness has been punctured hundreds, maybe thousands, of times over the past few weeks by a sound that has become my and my neighbors’ near constant companion: the sirens.They’re everywhere. They howl, yelp and bleat at all hours, like mournful electric coyotes. They Doppler in and out of my perception, one after another after another. Their persistence has a cumulative effect: I feel their presence in my body as an ever-increasing tightness in my shoulders and neck. It is as though, around the clock, the city itself were wailing for its sick and dying.Before the virus, there had been so much stimulus that many of us had learned to filter it out of our awareness — subway buskers’ pleas; sudden eruptions of earth-rumbling subwoofers at red lights — in order to preserve the emotional energy required to move through our days. But now in the absence of other sounds like heavy traffic, construction and the springtime shrieks of children on playgrounds, the sirens are all there is to hear. And of course, we cannot turn a deaf ear to what we know their escalating numbers signify.As I have been learning to live with the changing sounds of New York City, I’ve been thinking of the work of the experimental American composer Pauline Oliveros, who dedicated her long career to exploring “the difference between hearing and listening.” As she put it in a TED Talk in 2015, the year before she died, “To hear is the physical means that enables perception. To listen is to give attention to what is perceived both acoustically and psychologically.”In the 1970s, Oliveros published a series of “Sonic Meditations,” playful koans meant to heighten our experience of listening. “Take a walk at night,” one of them went. “Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”I have heard the sounds of my city, incessantly, for the seven years that I’ve lived here, but the pandemic has demanded that I listen to them. To hear an ambulance siren is to faintly register the interruption of a high, whining pitch; to listen to an ambulance siren is to picture the face and the body and the family of the person it is carrying to a hospital, likely another neighbor suffering from Covid-19. More

While some of the musicians create a brand new song to keep people entertained as well as spread awareness, some others decide to change the lyrics of their songs.
Apr 5, 2020
AceShowbiz – People all around the world are currently quarantining as the Coronavirus pandemic has claimed the lives of thousands. However, that doesn’t mean we can stop doing something productive during these challenging times. For instance, a bunch of musicians have been putting their creativity to use to make songs about the deadly virus.
While some of them create a brand new song to keep people entertained as well as spread awareness, some others decide to change the lyrics of their songs. More interestingly, one of these songs manages to do well in music charts even though it is merely a remix of the star’s rant about Coronavirus.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the songs below.

1. Chris Mann’s ‘My Corona’

Former “The Voice” contestant Chris Mann has enough time in his hands to bring people laughter through his hilarious song parodies, including covers of Adele’s “Hello” and Madonna’s “Stay Home Vague”. However, his parody of The Knack’s “My Sharona” has exceptionally been enjoyed by a lot of people as it brought it more than 19 million views on YouTube.
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Titled “My Corona”, the song finds him singing about all the struggles that people need to get through amid the pandemic. In one point of the song, Chris can be heard singing, “S**t, I touched my face/ Wait, I think I finally caught my Corona/ Stop it, don’t be manic, go inside, no organic!/ Oh no, all GMO, Jesus Christ, now I panic.”

2. Madonna’s ‘Vogue’
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For those who are disappointed not being able to see Madonna performing on stage during her “Madame X Tour” due to Coronavirus concern, the singer has given a small taste of the intimacy the tour provided through an Instagram video. Encouraging people to be creative even during lockdown, Madonna puts an odd twist to her hit “Vogue” as she has a mini concert in her bathroom.

Instead of the original lyrics, the Queen of Pop seemingly sang about the issues people have to deal with when they run out of groceries amid quarantine. Using a hairbrush as a replacement for a mic, she rhymed, “Come on, go, let’s go eat some fried fish… come on, vogue, I mean go… cause there’s no more pasta, oh no, we’re gonna eat some fried fish, yeah!”

3. Jackson Browne’s ‘A Little Soon to Say’
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Jackson Browne is one of the many examples that you must not give up even though you have been contracted with Coronavirus. Rather than being discouraged, the singer decided to release a song entitled “A Little Soon to Say” to uplift everyone’s spirit amid these trying times.
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In an interview, Jackson admitted that he initially wrote the song after being inspired by the likes of parkland students, but then realized that the lyrics of the song ring true to the crisis. “(I was) thinking about the generation – the Parkland students, and Greta Thunberg, and the young people who have been very vocal, saying, ‘You’re not making any real attempt to change things in a way for us to have the planet you had’. How do you pass this mess on to the next generation, the future generations?” he explained.

4. Cardi B’s Coronavirus Rant
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Inspiration can come anytime and in any kind of form. For instance, no one would have thought that Cardi B’s viral rant about the Coronavirus could have been turned into a great song that could be enjoyed by a lot of people during this trying time. iMarkkeyz was the one behind the great creation.

His remix, which contained Cardi screaming, “Coronavirus! It’s getting real” over an upbeat melody, reached the top ten on iTunes single chart. Meanwhile, in the hip-hop category, it peaked at No. 4. Proceeds from the single, according to both Cardi and iMarkkeyz, are donated to workers who are hurting financially due to the virus.

5. will.i.am’s ‘Sing 4 Life’

People in Italy did all kinds of things that attracted the world’s attention during the lockdown. From playing tennis through the windows and holding a party from their balconies, many of them found a way to have fun without leaving their homes. At one time, they also joined their voices in a song through open windows, and that inspired Bono to create a song.
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Not stopping there, he also enlisted the help of will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson and X Japan’s Yoshiki. Bono opens the song by rhyming, “Yes I walk through the streets of Dublin/And no one was near,” before passing the baton to the rapper who sings, “Yes I walk through the streets of London/seems like everyone’s disappeared.”

6. JoJo’s ‘Chill (Stay In)’
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For those who are used to spending their days outside, being forced to stay inside during the Coronavirus pandemic can be challenging. But worries not, JoJo has the perfect song to keep you home instead of going outside. The singer has flipped her “Leave (Get Out)” into a Coronavirus-themed song titled “Chill (Stay In)”.
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Performing a capella in her dining room, she pounds a beat on her dining table while singing, “Stay in!/ Right now!/ Do it for humanity! So you’re gon’ learn how/ To cook now/ And practice good hygiene/ I know you’re bored and want to f**k around, but not on me.”

7. Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’

The Coronavirus pandemic has proven to be so bad that Neil Diamond decided to come out of his retirement to spread awareness through his music. The singer-songwriter shared a new version of his hit “Sweet Caroline” in an effort to encourage fans to adopt a more healthy lifestyle to combat the deadly virus.

In the video posted on his Instagram account, Neil performed in front of a roaring fire, “Hands, washing hands, reaching out, don’t touch me, I won’t touch you.” Not stopping there, he shared a message to his online devotees, “I know we’re going through a rough time right now, but I love you, and I think maybe if we sing together well, we might feel a little bit better.”

8. Sam Smith’s ‘What the World Need Now Is Love’

During these sensitive times, a number of musicians are using their platforms to brighten the lives of many by holding at-home concerts. Among these stars is Sam Smith, who has been posting some videos of covers while in quarantine. Interestingly enough, the lyrics of one of the songs he covered seemed to ring true to the crisis.

Sam, who recently announced that he’d delay the release of his album as well as change its title, shared a video of him singing Jackie DeShannon’s “What the World Needs Now Is Love”. He delivered his beautiful vocals, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love/ No not just for some but for everyone/ Lord, we don’t need another mountain/ There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb/ There are oceans and rivers enough to cross/ Enough to last till the end of time.”

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The Major Lazer star reveals he has been spending his days learning how to play guitar while staying at home during the Covid-19 quarantine amid the global pandemic.
Apr 5, 2020
AceShowbiz – Diplo is using his prolonged period of time indoors during the coronavirus outbreak to finally learn the guitar.
The 41 year old reveals he’s been so busy with his career as a DJ, he hasn’t had so much downtime for almost two decades.
“I haven’t been home this long since I was 24 years old. This is three weeks at my house and I’ve seen parts of my house I never knew existed,” he tells Beats 1’s Zane Lowe.
But the father of two is embracing the break.
“I got to make the best out of what I’m doing and I’m happy,” he adds. “I’m happy to be at home honestly, I never felt like I say that, but I like it (sic).”
In addition to writing new music with electronic trio Major Lazer, he’s been developing new instrumental skills.
“I haven’t been like, writing new music, because I’m still just in the studio finishing up the Major Lazer album,” he shares. “I’m tidying things up, but I’ve been like, playing a lot of guitar and learning that, which is I would never ever, ever do that, unless it’s like literally, someone made me do it (sic).”

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