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...Ponnudorai is better. His ability to dice songs up, look into their hearts and perceive the common veins connecting every genre has won the attention of top international players who go to Singapore on tour. Harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans, drummer Billy Cobham, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and vocalist Bobby McFerrin have all been in the audience. In 2002, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis showed up at a performance and was so taken by it, he grabbed his instrument and leapt onstage to play alongside a startled Ponnudorai, who did not recognize him. "He told me 'Ever since I got off the plane...
DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Mo. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin--later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)--also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess...
...DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Missouri. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin-later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)-also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. Numbers 1 in 5 Number of British adults who regularly throw coins into wishing wells and fountains $5.9 million Amount they throw into wells every year...
...past two weeks, we'll bet 150 people have wished you happy New Year. And at the supermarket or dry cleaner, someone wanted you to "have a nice day." The Democrats used to chorus, "Happy days are here again." The noted self-help guru Bobby McFerrin counseled, "Don't worry, be happy." Other pop singers tell us that happiness is "a thing called Joe" (Judy Garland), "what my life's about" (Vanessa Williams), "when you feel really good with somebody" (Al Green), "a warm gun" (John Lennon), "an option" (Pet Shop Boys). The old saloon singer Ted Lewis used...
...more laps than a restaurant napkin, and who takes a shine to Katshuhiro. In him she sees a man with "a father's eyes" and suggests they conceive a child by artificial means, to Naoya's initial displeasure. Between bouts of bowling, drinking, emotional howling and a Bobby McFerrin soundtrack, the three of them blossom into something like a family...