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Bryan Dy teases Biringan cast, wants to continue Mallari success
Mentorque Productions owner John Bryan Diamante revealed the studio's upcoming movie "Biringan" now has a planned cast. .....»»
Why Mark Bautista declined and then accepted job to direct Mr. Streisand
Known primarily as a pop singer and TV/film/stage actor, Mark Bautista is embracing the challenge of directing a unique concert that features Philippine theater's best male singers performing Barbra Streisand songs......»»
Barbra Streisand celebrates 60 years as recording artist
Barbra Streisand is celebrating 60 years as a recording artist and she is doing it with album retrospectives that show her remarkable wide-ranging catalogue of recorded songs. Now 81 years old, she is also an award-winning actress, director and songwriter, but it is as a singer that she is best known and I must say loved all over the world......»»
TONY BENNETT : GRIT AND GRACE
Tributes have continued to pour in for Tony Bennett, the last of the great mid-20th-century American crooners who died on 21 July at 96, after outliving his fellow giants in popular music such as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and gaining a whole new generation of fans in the era of social media with his number-one duets album with Lady Gaga. That 2014 late-career triumph had made Bennett, at 88, the oldest living American performer to notch a number-one album on the charts. It was more proof at the time of the extraordinary odds-defying grit that undergirded the grace and elegance of Bennett’s persona as the living embodiment of classic American standards, a sound that in the post-rock era many had banished to the dismissive-sounding “adult contemporary” category. Sinatra himself crowned Bennett as “the best singer in the business” in a 1965 interview with Life magazine. “He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He’s the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more,” said the Chairman of the Board. Fifty-eight years later, Elton John, decades and a whole music era removed from Sinatra, was moved to say at Bennett’s passing: “Without doubt the classiest singer, man, and performer you will ever see. He’s irreplaceable.” Indeed, Bennett was sui generis, from his singular sound to his defiant artistry. “Neither a fluid singer nor an especially powerful one, he did not have the mellifluous timbre of [Bing] Crosby or the rakish swing of Sinatra,” wrote the New York Times in its obituary. “If Louis Armstrong’s tone was distinctively gravelly, Mr. Bennett’s wasn’t quite; ‘sandy’ was more like it.” You can hear that sandy rasp even in his early, ebullient years, in signature hits like “Rags to Riches,” “Cold Cold Heart” (originally a country ditty by Hank Williams, remade by Bennett and sublimely covered 51 years later by Norah Jones), and of course, his timeless “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” Touch of roughness The touch of roughness was what gave Bennett’s sound a rich, warm quality sort of like the hiss and pop of a vinyl record, conveying a more grounded, open-hearted, truthful sense to everything that he sang. In later years, as his lung power diminished with age, he cannily pruned his singing to a more direct, compact style, the belts now occasional but always at surprising moments, the lovely loping line maintained along with the heartfelt near-whispers. He kept to that sound and refused to change his style in the face of the sea change in popular music that would engulf his generation of swinging, jazzy entertainers. “Mr. Bennett stubbornly resisted record producers who urged gimmick songs on him, or, in the 1960s and early ’70s, who were sure that rock ’n’ roll had relegated the music he preferred to a dusty bin perused only by a dwindling population of the elderly and nostalgic,“ wrote Bruce Weber in the New York Times. Eight decades Time an unprecedented eight decades in the business some 20 Grammy awards, and the reverence of his peers and the public ultimately proved Bennett right: that his music still had a place in the modern world, that he could stick to what he did best — sing like nobody else the Great American Songbook, that canon of masterworks by the likes of Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen — and people of whatever stripe and age, undeterred by his gentleman’s suit and courtly manners from a bygone age, would sit and listen. Because great songs are great songs no matter the era, and as he once put it, “I wanted to sing the great songs, songs that I felt really mattered to people.” Asked if he ever got bored of his repertoire, Bennett said: “No. Do you get tired of making love?” “I was taught never to compromise; to never sing a cheap song,” he explained. “I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant, or think that I’m more intelligent than they are.” Bennett said these words in 2012, when, at 86, he had just released a new album, was doing grueling concert tours, and was also dabbling in painting in his free time. His historic 11 o’clock peak was two years away — the Cheek to Cheek album with Lady Gaga that made him an octogenarian with a number-one album on the Billboard 200 chart. (Attesting to his longevity and range, before Gaga he had collaborations as well with other epoch-defining female performers such as Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.) “Here I am today, at 86, and I’m even more passionate now than ever before. I feel that I’m at the top of my game, and things just keep getting better and better,” he said with characteristic cheer in his 2012 book Life Is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett. In announcing Bennett’s passing on Friday, the Twitter account under his name revealed: “Tony left us today but he was still singing the other day at his piano and his last song was ‘Because of You‘, his first #1 hit.” What grit. What grace. The post TONY BENNETT : GRIT AND GRACE appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Unstoppable Taylor Swift becomes first woman with 4 albums on U.S. Top 10 at once
Taylor Swift has become the first woman and only the third artist ever to have four albums in the Top 10 of the US Album chart at once. Swift’s latest album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), debuted impressively at the top of the Billboard 200 chart, selling an outstanding 716,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. This achievement not only makes it the highest-selling album of the year thus far, surpassing all other releases in 2023 but also marks the best-selling week for any album since her previous release, Midnights, in October 2022. In a rare feat, the Grammy-winning artist has made history with a series of chart-topping albums. With Lover at number seven, Folklore at number ten, Midnights at number five, and now Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) at number one, she has achieved an unparalleled feat that establishes her as a powerhouse in the music industry. This remarkable achievement makes Swift the first woman in history to have four albums in the Top 10 since the charts’ inception in 1963. It also makes her the first living act in nearly six decades to accomplish this feat, a record previously held by Herb Alpert with his albums Going Places, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, South of the Border, and The Lonely Bull. After Alpert’s passing in 2016, Prince left an indelible mark with five albums in the top 10: The Very Best of Prince, Purple Rain, The Hits/The B-Sides, Ultimate, and 1999. Alongside this exceptional achievement, the singer-songwriter has also earned her 12th number-one album with Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). She now holds the distinction of having the most number-one albums by a female performer, surpassing the previous record set by Barbra Streisand, who has 11 chart-topping albums to her name. Swift’s albums dominate the list of the top five biggest debuts in the past five years, claiming four out of the five spots. Adele’s highly anticipated 2021 album 30 lands in the fourth position, narrowly ahead of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version). With its release, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) has not only achieved the distinction of being the biggest debut among the three re-recordings Swift has released thus far, but also marks another milestone in her campaign to re-record all of her albums originally produced under her former label, Big Machine. She now holds the distinction of having the most number-one albums by a female performer, surpassing the previous record set by Barbra Streisand, who has 11 chart-topping albums to her name. Following its release in late 2021, Red (Taylor’s Version) took second place with a debut of 605,000 units. Meanwhile, the initial release in the series, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), had a more modest debut with 291,000 units in early 2021, partly due to the unavailability of the highly sought -after the vinyl version at the time of its general release. Nonetheless, like the rest, it secured the top spot on the charts effortlessly. On 7 July, the American singer-songwriter released the remake version of her third studio album titled Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which includes popular hits such as “Mine,” “Dear John,” “Back to December” and “Ours.” This release consists of 22 songs, including six tracks “From the Vault,” adding to the excitement surrounding the new album. The post Unstoppable Taylor Swift becomes first woman with 4 albums on U.S. Top 10 at once appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Taylor Swift sets women’s record for most number one albums
Taylor Swift now has more number one albums than any other female artist in history following the recent release of "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)," Billboard said Monday. The record debuted at the top of the Billboard charts, becoming the pop queen's 12th number one album and surpassing Barbra Streisand for the most among women. For male performers, Jay-Z and the Beatles both have over a dozen number one albums, though Billboard notes it has changed its album ranking system over the decades to include anthologies. Swift, 33, has also become the first living artist in nearly 60 years to have four albums in the top 10 at the same time, the organization added. They include "Midnights," "Lover" and "Folklore." Billboard said Swift had also become the first living artist to have 11 albums in the top 200 simultaneously. Swift's record-breaking feats come as she performs many of her best hits on the fan-frenzied "Eras" tour. The 106-date stadium concert series kicked off in March and is within striking distance of becoming the first billion-dollar tour. "Speak Now" was originally released in 2010. Swift has vowed to re-record her first six albums so she can control their rights -- a process she was contractually allowed to begin in November 2020. She has also re-recorded "Fearless" and "Red." Last October, Swift became the first artist ever to simultaneously nab all 10 spots on the top US song chart after the release of her tenth studio album "Midnights." The post Taylor Swift sets women’s record for most number one albums appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Forbes names 15 richest female celebrities in America
A total of 15 female stars made this year's Forbes list of America’s richest self-made women. Worth a combined $10.8 billion, these celebrities are taking control of their own fame and fortune. First on the list, as expected, is TV host Oprah Winfrey, with a net worth of $2.5 billion, who reportedly owned 14 properties in Hawaii plus some real estate in California and Wyoming. Next to the media mogul are R&B superstar Rihanna, with $1.4 billion net worth; reality TV actress Kim Kardashian, with $1.2 billion net worth; pop sensation Taylor Swift, with $740 million net worth; and social media personality Kylie Jenner, with $680 million net worth. Occupying the 6th to 10th spots are queen of pop Madonna ($580 million), former Destiny's Child member Beyoncé Knowles ($540 million), power balladeer Celine Dion ($480 million), TV actress Judy Sheindlin ($480 million), and country music icon Dolly Parton ($440 million). Rounding up the top 15 are movie actress Reese Witherspoon ($440 million) at number 11, Billboard's greatest female singer of all time Barbra Streisand ($430 million) at number 12, TV host-comedian Ellen Degeneres ($380 million) at number 13, tennis ace Serena Williams ($290 million) at number 14, and film writer Shonda Rhimes ($250 million) at number 15. The post Forbes names 15 richest female celebrities in America appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Cye Soriano remakes ‘How Did You Know’
It was in 1996 when the song ‘How Did You Know,’ released by Chiqui Pineda and written by Cecil Azarcon, became a favorite song of young singer Cye. Now he has chosen to revive the iconic ballad, working with producer Rei Diether Bautista to add new modern flavor to the track. ‘’I grew up listening to Ms. Cecil Azarcon's songs like “Ikaw Ang Lahat Sa Akin, “Sana Ay Ikaw Na Nga” and 'How Did You Know'. The last one also became my mom's favorite song. Unfortunately she passed away last year, on 12 May.” Cye cited Karla Bonoff, Lea Salonga, Barbra Streisand, Karen Carpenter, Odette Quesada, Chiqui Pineda and Rey Valera as her favorites and vocal inspirations. Her version of ‘’How Did You Know’’ is now available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora and iTunes. [caption id="attachment_130715" align="aligncenter" width="460"] PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF BACKROOM TALENT MANAGEMENT‘HOW Did You Know’ album cover art.[/caption] Visit www.Facebook.com/itscyesoriano and www.instagram.com/itscyesoriano. The post Cye Soriano remakes ‘How Did You Know’ appeared first on Daily Tribune......»»
Sharon Cuneta kay KC: May you always turn to God and receive all of your heart’s desires
NAGDIWANG ng kanyang 38th birthday si KC Concepcion kahapon, April 7 at binati siya ng kanyang Mama Sharon Cuneta na ipinost nito ang lumang larawan ng dalaga sa kanyang Instagram account. Mula sa awiting If I Could na ini-record ni Barbra Streisand sa album nitong Higher Ground noong Oktubre 1997. Bagay na bagay ang lyrics […] The post Sharon Cuneta kay KC: May you always turn to God and receive all of your heart’s desires appeared first on Bandera......»»
New yet old from Barbra Streisand NDS
A most special album, Live at the Bon Soir, was released by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings last Nov. 4 on CD and in the Digital marketplace. It is the latest album from the legendary Barbra Streisand, and her follow-up to The Walls from four years ago......»»
Team Adelle vs Team Kelly sa pasabog na ending ng ‘Love Of My Life’
INAABANGAN na ng mga Kapuso viewers ang pasabog na ending ng pinag-uusapan at laging trending na GMA primetime series na “Love Of My Life”. Atat na atat na ang manonood kung sino nga ba ang makakatuluyan ni Nikolai (Mikael Daez) — si Adelle (Carla Abellana) ba o si Kelly (Rhian Ramos). At para mas maging exciting ang finale […] The post Team Adelle vs Team Kelly sa pasabog na ending ng ‘Love Of My Life’ appeared first on Bandera......»»