Ed Sheeran won his High Court copyright case over one of his 2017 hit songs Shape of You, as judge Antony Zacaroli, ruled on Wednesday that the singer-songwriter had “ neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied. Similarities between the one-bar phrase” in Shape of You and Oh Why, but said, “such similarities are only a starting…
India’s greatest cultural ambassador sitarist Ravi Shankar, ten years after his death which fell in 2020 is being marked by the pandemic-delayed Shankar 100, two months events began in February in London’s South Bank Centre, in which his daughter, sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, was among the family and students paying tribute. Anoushka was the heart…
Ed Sheeran and Adele joined other musicians on the red carpet ahead of the Brit Awards 2022 ceremony being hosted at the 02 in London by comedian Mo Gilligan. Adele dominated BRIT Awards 2022 taking home three awards. The trophies were replaced by Artist Of The Year and International Artist Of The Year fields. Four…
Lata Mangeshkar (92), “ Nightingale of Bollywood” and Indian national icon, one of India’s most venerated singers who singing era reigned for half a century during her lifetime sang thirty thousand songs has died. She had been admitted to Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai in January after testing positive for Covid-19 and died of multi-organ…
The US rock star Dallas-born Michael Lee Aday, the singer of Meat Loaf whose Bat Out of Hell trilogy album which sold 100 million albums worldwide is one of the best-selling of all time has died at the age of 74. Bat Out Of Hell remains one of the top 10 best selling albums of…
II Divo singer Carlos Marin had died aged 53, after the star was rushed to hospital this week to Intensive care. The group said in Twitter “ It is with heavy hearts that we are letting you know that our friend and partner, Carlos Marin has passed away. He will be missed by his…
Vicenta Fernandez, the King of Mexico’s traditional ranchera music, known for classics like “El Rey” and Volver, Volver, has died aged 81. He died on the same day as Mexicans celebrate the Virgin of Guadalupe. Fernandez who was critically acclaimed and had sold tens of millions of records worldwide and began his career singing…
Entrepreneur, acclaimed model, actress and global social media phenomenon, Emily Ratajkowski, who has shared her image with the world, at the age of twenty-one, created a furor with her provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. My Body, a collection of 12 essays, offers lucid examination of mirrors in…
Sold-out music festival in at NRG Park, Houston,Texas turned into a “mass casualty death trap” incident and left at least eight people dead and scores of others injured when a crowd surged towards the front stage, squeezing audience members who had nowhere to escape at the event attended by some 50,000 fans of American rapper…
Marilia Mendonca popular Brazilian singer and country music called Sertanejo, dies in plane crash Marilia Mendonca, 26- year-old, one of Brazil’s most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner, died on Friday in an airplane crash on her way to a concert. Mendonca and four other passengers on the flight perished. She was popularly known…