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...beliefs led Kidjo to a twin-track career. There is Kidjo the composer and singer - four of her seven albums have been nominated for Grammies. And there is Kidjo the activist: she is a unicef goodwill ambassador and has founded her own aid group, Batonga, which works to improve women's education in Africa. At the foundation of all her endeavors is a conviction that it's good to talk, and that music is the universal tongue. "Music has been a communication tool since humankind has existed," she says. "Music is a healer, a unifier. It breaks all the barriers...
...When you analyze the search terms that contained "jordin sparks" over the last four weeks, 5.9% of those searches were about the singer's physical stature, with searches such as "jordin sparks height," "how tall is jordin sparks," even "jordin sparks shoe size." Over 3.1% of her searches were about her father, former New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys cornerback Phillipi Sparks. Less than 1% of Jordin's searches were related to her music, with the top search focused on her cover last week of "I Who Have Nothing." You also have to consider the non-conventional spelling...
...most outlandish story about the Eurovision singer appeared in the Serbian tabloid newspaper Press a few days before the contest took place. It claimed that an alliance of Western powers was looking to fix the event in order to ensure Serifovic's victory. Explaining this conspiracy theory, the paper wrote: "Lulled by a triumph in Helsinki, Serbs are expected to calmly swallow the imminent secession of Kosovo." The status of Kosovo, the southern Serbian province populated mostly by ethnic Albanians, is currently being debated in the United Nations Security Council. The E.U. and U.S. favor granting the territory independence from...
...After she was fired for speaking too softly, Aberra found another gig, as a cashier at a small coffee shop at the Harvard Science Center, but dreamed of becoming a clothing designer. "I always made my own clothes when I was younger," she says. "My parents bought me a Singer sewing machine, and certainly when I had no money here, I made everything myself." She eventually followed her then boyfriend, a Harvard Law School grad, to New York City, where she enrolled in classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology and, after a while, landed a job at the sportswear...
...representative for Jennifer Lopez has denied New York DAILY NEWS reports that the singer-actress has beefed up her personal security team because of a threat from a deranged animal activist. The Daily News claimed Lopez had received notes swearing vengeance for "the slaughtered animals whose fur she wears." SCORE...