Word: singer
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...orange-haired, androgynous icon of the 1970s and '80s, singer-songwriter David Bowie proved himself one of rock's more adaptable creatures. Now 50, the creator of such best-selling albums as The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars has become the first entertainer of any stripe to "securitize" himself. Last month staid insurance companies turned into rock-bond groupies, excitedly buying up $55 million of so-called Bowie Bonds privately placed by Fahnestock & Co., a New York City investment firm...
...manipulate others to satisfy her hunger for power. Why doesn't Madonna run a charity and help the poor, as Eva did? One wonders why Evita was made for the screen in the first place. Even talented director Alan Parker could not save Madonna. She may be a good singer and music-video and stage performer, but she is clearly not a good actress! She looked pathetic, except in the last sequence, when Evita says her farewell. That was the only time I saw an emotional reaction from the movie audience. Madonna should stop copying others and play only herself...
...just Lovett--I'm sorry, leave it alone," Char quipped, in a reference to Robert's brief marriage to country singer Lyle Lovett...
Building buzz for an unknown singer on a little-known label is no easy task. Massenburg started by distributing 10,000 sampler cassettes featuring Badu to nearly everyone attending last year's Soul Train Music Awards; he also sent 2,500 vinyl copies of On & On to radio stations and clubs. The producer continued his campaign by persuading D'Angelo, the critically lauded neo-soul singer he had once managed, to join Badu in a remake of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell duet Your Precious Love for the sound track of the movie High School High. Then, a few weeks...
...video should also give the singer a boost. The lush clip, inspired by the movie The Color Purple (one scene takes place in a jook joint), is receiving heavy play on Black Entertainment Television, and Badu, in her distinctive head wrap, cuts a sleek, striking figure. Badu hopes that she can help change what she calls the "monotonous" nature of contemporary R. and B. "I want to be the midwife to a new sound," she says. Baduizm is a gentle but firm slap that may bring neo-soul to robust life...