Rebecca Ferguson's new single Too Good To Lose once again shows off her stunning vocals. This is her second single from her debut album, Heaven. The 25 year old X Factor runner up wrote the songs herself as is a true example of REAL talent that has come from The X Factor. Not only beautiful, her lyrics and melodies are really likable and catchy. Here is the new single, sung live, which was released last week
Rhianna gave a steamy performance of Talk That Talk last Saturday on ITV The Jonathan Ross Show. Dressed head to toe in 'BOY' a London collection brand. Her interview was amusing as she tried to teach Jonathan how to speak Bajan. Rihanna quoted her homeland in Barbados as "paradise" and says it will always be her home. As Ross called her a "sex pot", Rihanna said her dancing was a cultural thing. This is so true. Us reserved Brits aren't brought up with natural rhythm and the provocative moves that are learnt from birth in the Carribean.
Rihanna is also starring in a movie this year, which is called Battleship. The star is stripped of makeup (well, let's just say she looks very different!) and her hair is au-naturel, and very short.
At the end of the show, as promised earlier by Ross himself (not for the faint hearted) Rihanna sang whilst swaying her hips in a short skirt, and then proceeded to dance in front of Jonathon Ross down stage whilst Ross covered his eyes.
Watch the clip:
Another artist on the show, was soul legand Lionel Richie, who also gave a live performance. Lionel, who was full of energy and as always charismatic, performed the classic hit, Easy. In his interview he talks about his upcoming duet album, Tuskegee, where he has collaborated with country artists such as Kenny Rogers, and even Shania Twain on his original tracks. This will be released on the 26th March.
Watch the clip:
If you are a fan of Lionel (who isn't?) and you love a bit of country like me, go to his website: http://lionelrichie.com/ where you can pre-order the album.
Lana Del Rey, born Elizabeth Grant, aged 25 was born in New York. She grew up in Lake Placid and when she was eighteen her uncle taught her "six basic chords" on the guitar.
"I realised I could write a million songs with those six chords- so I moved to New York and took a couple of years to write whatever I wanted."
She is an upcoming and much welcomed artist who has been in the charts lately. Her debut single, Video Games is a great track, but was at first rejected by almost every record company. It was only until she put the video on youtube, and after twenty two million views she was signed to a major label. and a contract with NEXT model management.
Lana's most recent single, Born to die features her unique and soft vocals which at times can be dark, but her melodies are spine tingling. You definitely have to be in a certain mood to listen to her songs- but its worth it.
Check out her website for her latest video, to browse her gallery and her latest tweets: http://www.lanadelrey.com/
Her album, Born to Die was released January 2012, and most of it was written in the UK. The album went straight to number one in the UK charts, as 117,000 copies were sold within the first week.
Here is the video for Video Games; it's raw, low budget and a refreshing change to the big production sexual music videos that seem to circulate these days. Lana stuck vintage clips she found on youtube together, and was actually sued. Still, she has a great voice, and it's a great video.
Gotye's single Somebody that I used to know Featuring Kimbre is still number one after two weeks.
The singer songwriter, his real name Wouter "Wally" De Backer, is Australian/Belgium and has released three studio albums and is in The Basics, a Melbourne based trio band. Kimbre, who features towards the end of the song is also based in Melbourne, Australia and is originally from New Zealand.
I was drawn to his song not only because of the catchy 80s style chorus, and simple yet effective introduction, but the contrast of his dark lyrics of a failed relationship against the upbeat and quite childlike instrumentation. The video, which now has nearly 100 million views is strange, as he stands whilst the painted walls cover his naked body and then Kimbre's also. It is artistic, as is the cover (I always love anything to do with hearts) for his latest album, Making Mirrors, which was released last August 2011 in Australia.
Here is the video, if you haven't already seen it! Do you think it's creative or creepy? He is rather strange looking, but obviously talented.
Lil Wayne and Bruno Mars have collaborated on the new single, 'Mirror'. The single is on Lil Wayne's ninth album Tha Carter IV.
Their haunting music video features Lil Wayne throwing black and red paint on a wall. This turns out to be a rather satanic image of himself drawn in red, and looks like blood and Jesus on the cross. It's rather dark, but I like it. It's arty, and creative and their voices blend perfectly. Bruno Mars never disappoints with his chilling vocals and Lil Wayne gives the girls some eye candy with his toned abs and tattoo collection. The lyrics, "Man in the mirror" also remind us of the late Michael Jackson, which I am sure was done on purpose. Great song, great artists.
The Beautiful Jennifer Judson sang I Will Always Love You at The Grammy Awards in memory of the late Whitney Houston. It was beautiful, even bringing a tear to her eye as she ended the song "Whitney we love, we love you."
Adele picked up a total of six Grammy's including Record of the Year, and Album of the Year. Her voice finally in a stable state, she came back with a vengeance, singing the hit Rolling in the Deep.
Foo Fighter also picked up five awards, and performances were given from Paul McCartney, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift (who won best country song award) Katy Perry, David Guetta, Chris Brown, Bruno Mars, and Maroon 5.
The legendary singer, known for her classic hits such as I Will Always Love You and selling 170 million records worldwide has passed away her bodyguard finding her in the bathtub, with several prescription bottles found nearby. There was no sign of illegal substances or the consumption of alcohol.
Whitney is one of my all time favourite artists. No one could top her - she is truly one of the greatest female artists.
Born on the 9th August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey Whitney Houston was born into a musical family. Her mother was a gospel singer, and her cousins and Godmother, Aretha Franklin, introduced her to musical genres such as the blues, gospel, soul and rhythm and blues. At the age of 11, Houston performed for the first time in her baptist church choir, and began to play the piano.
Whitney has starred in many films, and made a lot of records. She dated Eddy Murphy, but met R & B singer Bobby Brown, whom she met at the 1989 Soul Train Music awards.
She famously starred in The Bodyguard where she plays herself along side actor Kevin Costner. This is a clip of the singing the Dolly Parton's classic, I Will Always Love You which was the best selling single by a female artist of all time.
Whitney Houston became known for her addiction to drugs, introduced by Bobby Brown. Her involvement with crack made her spiral out of control as she lost weight, missed interviews and cancelled concerts. Their relationship was a public one, with domestic abuse rumours circulating, and Bobby charged with misdemeanor battery in 2003 after he apparently struck Houston. Whitney gave birth to a daughter - Bobbi Kristina and the pair divorced in 2007.
Whitney performed Million Dollar Bill on The X Factor 2010, where she unfortunately received some bad reviews, her dress came loose and her performance wasn't the best. The latest album released was in 2009 I Look At You.
She had her ups and she had her downs. She won a total of six Grammy awards and sold millions upon millions of records. She will be remembered for her incredible loud and powerful voice, moments of scandel but overall true beauty. RIP Whitney Houston.
