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This year I'm working on a record on which I'll duet with a female singer from each Asian country. I've been planning on doing some duets with American singers, and I hope one day to sing with Barbra Streisand...
...Marley, the great Jamaican Reggae star, once posed the question "Won't you help me sing these songs of freedom?" Music can be a tool: for relaxation, for stimulation, for communication--and for revolution. In fact, it is often a rhythm of resistance: against parents, against police, against power. The U.S., in this one-superpower age, has perhaps never been so dominant--economically, militarily, culturally. That strength attracts immigrants, who bring with them new forms of music. And that strength also inspires competition, as musicians and performers in other countries, mindful of the American hegemony, assert their national identities...
...know about Colombian pop-rocker Shakira before you go any further with this thing: 1) Shakira is a control freak. She could have released her English-language debut album months ago. Years, even. Gloria Estefan was going to rewrite Shakira's songs into English for the young Colombian to sing. Instead, Shakira decided to improve her English, and Estefan ultimately assisted on just two tracks. "I can't hire other people to write songs for me," Shakira says. "I have to write them myself." 2) Shakira is a control freak. Sorry, this bears repeating. See, the reason this story...
...heart, I have to move away from it. Even if the label said I had to make another record like that, I don't think I could. Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy. You just have more things to say about real life and real people and the bitterness that you get from people...
...five or six albums," says proto-hunk Nicholas Tse, 20. "For most artists that's almost a law. Sometimes your companies just need fast cash and you gotta make this album on time. By the time it's released, you don't even remember what you sang." Canto-stars sing lyrics in Cantonese, Mandarin or English. Now they're turning Japanese, in a push to woo that huge market. Kelly Chen recently went into the studio to record five songs in Japanese; the whole session took one hour...