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...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
...showtime. Shakira, 24, breezes into the studio with her mother Nidia, a petite woman who doesn't say very much, and her older brother Tony, 35, a solidly constructed guy who looks like he doesn't need to say very much. An MTV crew is waiting nearby to do an interview. A couple of years ago, Shakira did an MTV Unplugged show that MTV passed on but that aired on MTV Latin America. Now, with her new CD getting revved up, the network plans to air the show on its spin-off channel MTV2, along with some spliced-in interviews...
...packaged pop, Shakira offers up a refreshing blast of off-center rock. Her music has a bit of edge, a healthy helping of guitars, and she writes it herself. "In Latin cultures historically, though not always, females are interpreters," says Jose Tillan, vice president of music and talent at MTV Latin America. "For the most part, they don't make records. Shakira isn't like that. From the very beginning she has been involved with the songs and the recording...
Internet radio is a godsend for listeners whose tastes run too eccentric for the MTV Total Request Live navel-exposure set. Whether you hum merengue music in the shower or brush your teeth in rhythm to German techno, there's an online channel that offers what you want. Finding a station that matches your interests at a site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience...
While the Internet is good to hobbyists like Carvalho, commercial Web radio has fallen upon draconian times. SORRY YOU MISSED US! reads the Web page where the Net radio source iCAST once stood. Like Imagine Radio (subsumed by Sonicnet, which was bought by MTV's interactive division) and Launch.com (being acquired by Yahoo!), it's one of the many Internet radio sources that have gone out of business or been taken over by large corporations in the past several months...