Word: kingstone
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Banducci installed a brick-wall backdrop, now standard in comedy clubs, and urged artists to be themselves. In addition to nurturing Sahl, known for his edgy political satire, the flamboyant, beret-clad enthusiast helped launch such performers as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Lenny Bruce, Bill Cosby and the Kingston Trio. Banducci...
Reggae-pop sensation Sean Kingston is back with his second music video, “Me Love.” After topping this summer’s charts for three weeks with “Beautiful Girls,” Kingston revisits the chorus from Led Zeppelin’s “D’yer Mak’er” and delivers another hit. As the smiling chorus opens up, Kingston appears, neatly dressed, true to his clean-cut image. The cheerful, cute lyrics surprisingly tell the somber story of a long lost love. The clubbers...
...enormous marketing machine, but zero personality. “Pon de Replay” channeled the Caribbean to some exciting results, but this one belongs on American Idol. Hopefully this song is just an aberration and the start of a Ja Rule-like career trajectory. Grade: C Sean Kingston – “Beautiful Girls” Moderate vocoding on mid-tempo R&B seems like a fool-proof template for radio hits; I’m surprised that it took this long for someone more appealing than Akon or T-Pain to cash in. Lyrically, Sean?...
...released in the early 1990s there has been a corresponding rise in homophobic violence in the Caribbean, although it's difficult to tell which came first - the music or the violence. According to Jamaican gay rights group J-Flag - which refuses to give out its address in the capital, Kingston, "due to the potential for violent retributions" - the rise in homophobic violence culminated in reports of crowds lynching suspected homosexuals after concerts...
...rescue of 71 hostages from Tokyo's embassy in Peru, earning the respect of Japanese who viewed their own leaders' performance in the crisis as ineffectual. "If Fujimori has an image, it's not as a human rights violator, but as the guy who rescued the hostages," says Jeffrey Kingston, director of Asian studies at Temple University in Tokyo...