The best-selling female performer of the 1990s, Mariah Carey rose to superstardom on the strength of her stunning five-octave voice; an elastic talent who moved easily from glossy ballads to hip-hop-inspired dance-pop, she earned frequent comparison to rivals Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, but did them both one better by composing all of her own material. Born in Long Island, NY, on March 27, 1970, Carey moved to New York City at the age of 17 — just one day after graduating high school — to pursue a

American folk singer and civil rights activist Odetta has died. She was 77. She had suffered from heart disease and pulmonary fibrosis on her lungs for many years and was admitted to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York last month after suffering from kidney failure. She died on Tuesday December 2 as a result of heart disease. Her manager, Doug Yeager, gave a rousing statement to the press following her death: “May Odetta’s luminous spirit and volcanic voice from the heavens live on for the ages. Her voice w

Her official website says she possesses an “old soul,” and the hard facts seem to back up the implied claim of wisdom and experience that transcend Alicia Keys’ youth. Barely in her twenties, Keys was responsible for an extremely hot debut, Songs in A Minor. The release, which she wrote and produced for Clive Davis’ J Records, blends diverse influences, including R&B, hip-hop, classical, and jazz. The day the album went on the market, it sold more than 50,000 copies. Label executives confidently pre

“Cadillac Records” chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists. In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in Chicago of the 1950s and 60s, the film follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America’s greatest musical legends.The story of how the blues became popular and gave birth to rock and roll begins at a dingy bar on the rough South Side of Chicago in 1947, where an ambitious young Polish émigré, bar owner Leonard Chess (Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody

Circus is the seventh album by Britney Spears. It rolls into town on the heels of an MTV VMA awards sweep, where Britney walked away with three Moonmen awards for ‘Video of the Year’, ‘Best Female’ and ‘Best Pop Video’ for ‘Piece Of Me’.
Circus is the follow up to her critically well received album, Blackout, just in in time for her 27th birthday.
The lead single, ‘Womanizer’ (produced by the up and coming Atlanta production team The Outsyders) has already created a frenzy amongst Brit

Exclusive Asian 2008 Tour Edition CD/DVD edition of her 2007 album. The album now includes four bonus tracks, ‘All I See’ (featuring Mims), ‘Magnetic Electric’, ‘Can t Get You Out Of My Head’ (Greg Kurstin Remix) and ‘The One’ (Freemasons Remix) while the bonus DVD features three music videos to ‘Wow’, ‘2 Hearts’, ‘In My Arms’ along with each respective ‘Making of’ those videos. Also includes new artwork. The album features the lead-off single, ‘2 Hearts’, produced by Lon

Musiq Soulchild’s ‘On My Radio,’ graced by such producers as BlackKeyz and Dru Castro, is his highly anticipated sophomore album under Atlantic Records.
Soulful tracks such as ‘Radio,’ ‘So Beautiful’ and ‘If You Leave’ ft. Mary J. Blige has shown that Musiq Soulchild has come back to reclaim his genre, as only he can.
Crafting ear-caressing tracks that blends old-school soul fervor with new-school hip-hop rhythms, Musiq has evolved with this album.

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The winner of Fox TV’s first American Idol: The Search for a Superstar competition during the summer of 2002, Kelly Clarkson went from an anonymous talent to a nationally known singer, performing for an audience of millions of viewers. One of the show’s most naturally gifted singers, the 20-year-old Burleson, TX, native’s vocal talents were discovered when she was in seventh grade, when her school’s choir teacher heard her singing and urged Clarkson to join the choir. After high school, Clarkson cul

“Australia” is an epic and romantic action adventure, set in that country on the explosive brink of World War II. In it, an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) travels to the faraway continent, where she meets a rough-hewn local (Hugh Jackman) and reluctantly agrees to join forces with him to save the land she inherited. Together, they embark upon a transforming journey across hundreds of miles of the world’s most beautiful yet unforgiving terrain, only to still face the bombing of the city of Darwin b

Rihanna established her dance-pop credentials in summer 2005 with her debut smash hit, “Pon de Replay,” and continued to demonstrate such hit potential in subsequent years (e.g., “S.O.S.” in 2006; “Umbrella” in 2007; “Disturbia” in 2008). However, it was the singer’s third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, that made her a full-fledged international pop star with a regular presence atop the charts. Born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988, in Saint Michael, Barbados, she exhibited a certain s

The ten-time Grammy Award® winning musical phenomenon, rapper, producer, and now singer embarks on a new musical journey taking his audience to new heights. Kanye West returns with his fourth album 808s & HEARTBREAK. His highly anticipated new album set for release on November 25th, featuring the heart pounding first single LOVE LOCKDOWN which premiered live for the first time on the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. LOVE LOCKDOWN quickly exploded at radio with the video premiering nationwide on the Ellen Degen

Akon burst out of the starting gates with the winningly melodic and compulsively danceable single “Right Now (Na Na Na).” The song is sparking up the charts in a record-setting pace that’s familiar to Akon’s millions of fans worldwide. “Right Now (Na Na Na)” is the lead track from Akon’s 3rd upcoming album FREEDOM. The infectious song is the #1 Most Added at Rhythm Crossover radio stations in its first week of release. FREEDOM features collaborations with Hip- Hop’s “man of the hour” Lil

Trace Adkins “X” (TEN) will give fans anything and everything they have always loved about his music over the past 12 years, including the gospel-and bluegrass-sired song and his current hit single “Muddy Water.” In addition, there are songs like “Sweet,” which turns a common national expression into a tight and particularized country tune, and “I Can’t Out Run You,” a vocal tour de force about the weight of romantic obsession in which Adkins records a haunting country soul song, in 2008,

Singing on stage at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles was a moment David Archuleta will never forget, but there were a number of pivotal moments that happened in his (even) younger days, and he’ll never forget any of them either, including singing for the first season “American Idol” contestants in Hollywood in 2002, when he was just 11 years old.
The David Archuleta story began on Dec. 28, 1990, the day David was born to Jeff and Lupe Archuleta in North Miami, Florida. His father was a jazz musician w

Smooth rapper Baby Bash can’t recall where he got the “Bash” moniker but his alternate name, Baby Beesh, comes from the fact he used to drive around in a Mitsubishi. Born in the Vallejo, CA, area in 1975 to a Latin mother and an Anglo father who both eventually became addicted to heroin, Baby Bash had some uncles who exposed him to all sorts of music and a grandmother who took over raising him. Part of the area’s underground Latin rap scene, Baby Bash joined groups like Potna Deuce and Latino Velvet

Frank Martin has been pressured into transporting Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Ukraine, from Marseilles through Stuttgart and Budapest until he ends up in Odessa on the Black Sea. Along the way, with the help of Inspector Tarconi, Frank has to contend with the people who strong armed him to take the job, agents sent by Vasilev to intercept him, and the general non-cooperation of his passenger. Despite Valentinaâ??s cynical disp

Ricky Martin is unquestionably the leading Latin Music figure of his generation. His instinctive understanding of rhythm, passion for performing, willingness to take creative risks and natural charisma has led Martin down a musical path of artistry and superstardom. Possessing an ability to completely captivate audiences with his stage presence, Martin is an artist fiercely proud of his Puerto Rican roots, but also capable of crossing artistic borders by fusing that cultural sound with universal music elem

American Idol winner David Cook is set to release his self-titled debut album on November 18th, 2008. Produced by Grammy winning Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Kid Rock), David Cook is a quality album full with radio hits. Cook co-wrote 9 songs from his debut, along with songwriters like Chris Cornell, Brian Howes & Cathy Dennis. The 1st single “Light On” was co-written by one of rock music’s most influential innovators, Chris Cornell, lead singer and songwriter for Soundgarden and Audioslave, and acclai

17 is the monumental 2008 greatest hits album by multi platinum recording artist Ricky Martin. The album’s title embodies the successful evolution in his music throughout his 17 year-career and features 17 mega hits handpicked by the Superstar himself, of which 8 (1+7) have been chart-topping #1 hits: ‘Mar¡a’, ‘Livin La Vida Loca’,’ She Bangs’, ‘Bella’ (She’s All I ever Had), ‘Nobody Wants To Be Lonely’ (Solo Quiero Amarte) duo with Christina Aguilera, Tu Recuerdo ‘Live’ featuri

Standard two CD pressing. One of 2008’s most hotly anticipated album releases, I Am..Sasha Fierce marks the artist’s first new studio collection since the Grammy-winning multi-platinum-selling B’Day debuted at #1 on charts around the world shortly after its international release on September 4, 2006. With all songs co-written and co-produced by Beyonc‚, the artist’s third studio album is her most personal, reflective and revelatory collection to-date. 11 tracks.