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...York?s Irish Voice and part of an Irish-American network that helped bring about the 1994 I.R.A. cease-fire, said there is "no question" that the unease in America influenced the I.R.A. decision to decommission. "The deal was underway, but the events of Sept. 11 and the Colombian episode accelerated the process," he said. Ronnie Flanagan, the Ulster police chief who has spent decades combating the I.R.A., said the "attitude of the American public, even among those who would be sympathetic to Irish republicanism, changed and changed permanently...
...coming untied. Wyclef Jean's platinum hip-hop CDs, The Carnival and The Ecleftic, mixed English and Haitian Creole. Christina Aguilera, who launched her career singing English-language teen pop, recorded a CD entirely in Spanish last year. Increasingly, world-beaters are collaborating and connecting with one another. Colombian rocker Shakira's new CD was executive- produced by Cuban-American Emilio Estefan Jr. and draws from Argentine tango...
There are a couple of things you should know about Colombian pop-rocker Shakira before you go any further with this thing: 1) Shakira is a control freak. She could have released her English-language debut album months ago. Years, even. Gloria Estefan was going to rewrite Shakira's songs into English for the young Colombian to sing. Instead, Shakira decided to improve her English, and Estefan ultimately assisted on just two tracks. "I can't hire other people to write songs for me," Shakira says. "I have to write them myself." 2) Shakira is a control freak. Sorry, this...
...President of Argentina. Shakira has also become a subject of corporate interest: she's appearing in TV spots for Pepsi. Now that she is blond, represents an American soft drink and has an upper-crust Argentine fiance, will she be able to remain the same hard-driving Colombian rockera? "I plan to keep on being the same artist, with the same musical language, just in a different spoken language this time," says Shakira. "It's all still coming from my real feelings, my real-life experiences." In other words, watch out. Shakira plans...
Aterciopelados COLOMBIA Singer Andrea Echeverri and guitarist/producer Hector Buitrago blend alt-rock, electronica and Colombian folk. Key albums: Gozo Poderoso, Caribe Atomico...