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...widely described as a Christian rapper, he dreams of secular peace in Sudan, of a day "When my people will plant seed in their land/ When my people will be free in the land." That message resonated with Abdel Gadir Salim, a 58-year-old traditional Arab singer and oud (a type of lute) player from northern Sudan whose own fight for freedom - that of musical expression under Shari'a law - has also been bloody: he was injured by a knife-wielding Islamic militant in 1994. Salim invited Jal to collaborate with him on Ceasefire - 10 songs that reach across...
London commuters must feel like they've stumbled into a sci-fi flick. On the platform at Notting Hill Gate underground station, a poster for American singer Jack Johnson doesn't just promote his latest album, In Between Dreams - it plays three of the tracks. On the main escalator at Tottenham Court Road, nearly half a million riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile...
Four months after their barefoot beach wedding on the Caribbean island of St. John, actress RENEE ZELLWEGER, 36, and her country-singer husband KENNY CHESNEY, 37, have suddenly filed to annul their sudden marriage. In court papers, the Bridget Jones star cited "fraud" as the official reason for the annulment--a legal declaration that the union was invalid from the start--but clarified that the term is "simply legal language and not a reflection of Kenny's character" (though we're not sure she was around long enough to judge). In plain language, fraud means one partner deceived the other...
...best station I made was centered around a cool folk singer named Greg Brown. I love the guy's work, but he doesn't have a monopoly on gravelly harmonies and ramblin' acoustic guitar. I knew that going in, and was happy to get a stream of his fellow folksters, including some exceptional unknowns, as well as giants like Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens...
...seven-year-old center enjoyed a high profile under its founding director, Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76, who joined with U2 singer Bono to promote debt relief and advised U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan on poverty reduction...