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Even if he wanted to, the musician who calls himself Krishna Das could not hide the fact that he was born on Long Island as Jeff Kagel. For one thing, there's his undeniably white skin, and when he sings in Hindi or Sanskrit, he does so with an undeniably American accent. But Das, who is known as K.D., has no desire to hide his New York roots or the fact that his musical style owes as much to the blues as to his Indian guru, Neem Karoli Baba...
...play on the street in Time Square, while Time Out watched to see what happened. In the end, a group of cell phone-equipped American exchange students showed up and got autographs, while the passing Britons were unmoved by the man who commands a greater following than any other musician in America. The British do not dig Dave. What have they got against...
...mowing the 20 manicured acres that surround his 10,000-sq.-ft. house with one of his three riding tractors--or you could possibly find him striding around his walking track. "I'm trying to get down to my original weight of 8 lbs., 3 oz.," jokes the country musician, who weighs 177 lbs.--2 lbs. above his actual goal. He walks at least 1 1/2 miles daily, and he tries to play golf "every day that ends with...
Star from the Bar Perseverance transformed country singer Mickey Gilley from small-time musician to big-time crowd pleaser...
...copy of Chungking Express and Wong's followup, Fallen Angels, landed on the desk of Hiroyoshi Koiwai, a producer for Fuji TV. Koiwai wanted to make a miniseries about a musician who falls in love with an HIV-positive high-school girl, but it was a controversial premise, and the lead part was seen as a potential career killer. "No Japanese musician would take the role," Koiwai says. He was going to give up on the idea?until he saw Kaneshiro, who was only too happy to sign on. "I wanted to use actors who were different," Koiwai recalls...