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Tom Waits, according to the esteemed American critic Robert Hilburn, is clearly one of the most important figures of the modern pop era. Such sentiments are not mere hyperbole; in a career that now spans four decades and over 20 albums, Tom Waits has long since emerged as an extraordinary innovative force, a singular voice whose music remains determinedly and even gloriously – well beyond the trivial fads and fashions of popular culture. Waits latest release, the 3CD set Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards adds further weight to that stellar reputation.

For years, he was the booze-soaked bard of the barstool, the keeper of ‘a bad liver and a broken heart’. But Tom Waits was saved by his wife, hasn’t had a drink for more than a decade and, at 56, is making the music of his life.

Norah Jones, who won eight Grammies alone for her debut album, releases her second CD today, called Feels Like Home.
“I studied jazz piano and I always wanted to be like Bill Evans,” says the 24-year-old daughter of Indian sitar guru Ravi Shankar and New York concert producer Sue Jones.

I’ve never been too big passionate about Hollywood’s movies at all.
Surely I’ve seen some of them and sometimes even I liked ones, like
movies of David Lynch for example, but however I prefer European author
pictures without question. Nevertheless it’s very interesting who
deserves to take home Oscar Gold 2007, which pictures got nominated?
Here you can see the list of 2 categories are highlighted.
Best Pictures:
“Dreamgirls”
“Babilon”
“The Queen”
“The Departed”
“Letters from Iwo Jima”
“Little Miss Sunshine”
“United 93″

BEST DIRECTOR:
Martin Scorsese for the “Departed”
Alejandro Alexander-Innaritu for “Babel”
Clint Eastwood for “Letters from Iwo Jima”
Paul Greengrass for “United 93″
Stephen Frears for the “Queen”

We will know about winners 25-th February.

One of the sexiest men in Hollywood Brad Pitt owes his acting career to a stripper. The Babel star talked about his strangest job in Hollywood to Newsweek magazine. He revealed that one of his first jobs in Hollywood was driving and escorting…

Unfortunately the vast majority of pop music compositions we are listening through have ability to vanish without a trace immediately after turning-off. Actually there are not too many singers who can make something with our blood, mind, memory, filling us with unexpected emotional experience. I am not passionate about any pop at all, but I have to confess that some of them bring me real joy to listen their music again and again.

I’d like to meet you
In a timeless, placeless place
Somewhere out of context
And beyond all consequences
I won’t use words again

Yes, I’m writing about singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega. I like her very individual songs, her soft heartfelt vocal, symbolist cryptic texts very much. I think nobody would take any chances to say exactly what about Suzanne Vega’s songs. There are no answers in her songs, only questions, and I suppose it’s much better when the record has more questions than answers. The questions turn into the mystery that one wants to open like a door or to read like a dream.

They don’t mean what I meant
They don’t say what I said
They’re just the crust of the meaning
With realms underneath
Never touched
Never stirred
Never even moved through.

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Annie Lenox? I think she is great. It means that no matter what your listening preferences may be, her music brings a measurable joy and pleasure, and provides a perfect soundtrack to virtually anything you may choose to do with your time. But first you want just to sit and listen. The pleasures keep revealing themselves every time Annie’s CD spins. Annie Lenox singer and musician, was singing before she can even remember. She has never been afraid to express herself in any way she sees fit. She has played around with a number of styles, musically and image-wise, with confidence and class. And of course, there’s that incredible voice of hers..

Best date Singing ‘Sisters Are Doing it for Themselves’ to the Queen at her golden jubilee concert in 2002.
Most romantic gesture When Dave Stewart, her long-term creative partner, first met Annie, his first words were reportedly, “Will you marry me?”
Favourite film Basements. Annie has been in several films, including Revolution, with Al Pacino, but this little-known TV film is consistently mentioned as her best role.

The Directors Guild of America Tuesday picked six filmmakers to vie for its top award, and the race to the Oscars begins!
Here is the List of Golden Globe Award Winners:
BEST MOTION PICTURE — DRAMA
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen

But best of the best, the winner as we’ve known, is drama of Alejandro González Inarritu titled “Babel” with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Peter Wight, Georges Bousquet. Steve Golin and Jon Kilik will produce.

I havn’t seen yet but I suppose it is worth doing.

Philip Glass is my favorite modern compositor. First time I’ve listen his music in the movie “Hour”. I could hardly explain how I’ve been impressed! Maybe it depends from a scenes in the the movie , but when I hear some of his melodies there are pictures of water appearing in my head, rivers, waves. Sometimes a sound of the music accompany me in my sorrow, sometimes – in relaxation or conciliation.

Pilip Glass born in Baltimore on January 31st, 1937, Philip Glass discovered music in his father’s radio repair shop.

Glass began the violin at six and became serious about music when he took up the flute at eight. But by the time he was 15, he had become frustrated with the limited flute repertory as well as with musical life in post-war Baltimore.
At 19, Glass graduated from the University of Chicago and, determined to become a composer, moved to New York and the Juilliard School. By then he had abandoned the 12-tone techniques he had been using in Chicago and preferred American composers like Aaron Copland and William Schuman.

Glass’s output since Einstein has ranged from opera (Satyagraha, Akhnaten, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Juniper Tree, Hydrogen Jukebox) to film scores (Koyaanisqatsi, Mishima, The Thin Blue Line, Powaqqatsi, A Brief History of Time, Candyman) to symphonic works (The Light, Itaipu, The Violin Concerto, “Low” Symphony) to string quartets (Nos. 2 – 5) recorded by the Kronos Quartet. He has created music for dance (A Descent into the Maelstrom for Molissa Fenley, In the Upper Room for Twyla Tharp) and such unclassifiable theater pieces as The Photographer, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof and The Mysteries And What’s So Funny?.