Word: cd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions have -- do not forget him. His appearances generate an electricity unmatched by anyone else on earth. That explains, for instance, why in rural Kenyan villages thousands of children, plus many cats and roosters and even hotels, are named John Paul. Charisma is the only conceivable reason why a CD featuring him saying the rosary -- in Latin -- against a background of Bach and Handel is currently ascending the charts in Europe. It also accounts for the dazed reaction of a young woman who found herself, along with the thousands around her in a sports stadium in Denver, cheering and applauding...
...high concept: to match some of the most | exciting performers in hip-hop (the bands Digable Planets and Us3, bassist- rapper Me'Shell NdegeOcello and others) with some of the finest performers in jazz (including saxophonist Joshua Redman, trumpeter Donald Byrd and keyboardist Herbie Hancock) and create a benefit CD of jazz-rap songs. The result: a landmark album that brilliantly harnesses the fire of rap and the cool of jazz, transcending genres and generations...
Hawkins' strategy is to stay just ahead of his competitors -- whether they are PCs, CD-ROMs or video-game systems. So his next project is a plug-in device called the M2 that turns the 32-bit 3DO into a 64-bit system -- yet still plays all the old software. That's if he makes it through Christmas...
...planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done? Not exactly. Pearl Jam's vigorous new CD, Vitalogy, shows that, having come to the end of one rock-group cycle, the band still...
...trio TLC. The letters stand for the members' nicknames Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas but there are a lot of other things the name could refer to. Tender Loving Care, of course, is one possibility, and the group's enormously charming new CD, CrazySexyCool, is full of songs about women in search of love, caring and tenderness. Given the well- publicized travails of the group, however Lopes is facing charges that she burned down her boyfriend's house, and Thomas is searching for her biological father TLC could also be the initials...