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domingo, 10 de noviembre de 2013
martes, 12 de marzo de 2013
Macklemore
Ben Haggerty (born June 19, 1983), known by his stage name Macklemore and formerly Professor Macklemore, is an American rapper and musician.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
He began independently releasing music since 2000 and now collaborates with producer Ryan Lewis, violinist Andrew Joslyn, and trumpeteer Owuor Arunga. He has gained a significant online fanbase. He has released one mixtape, three EPs and two albums, although none on a major record label.
Macklemore was born in Seattle, Washington, where he was raised. He attended Garfield High School, Nathan Hale High School and The Evergreen State College. Interested in reaching a younger generation through his music, he was a part of a program focusing on education and cultural identity called "Gateways for Incarcerated Youth" where he facilitated music workshops.
His music video "Thrift Shop" has been viewed on YouTube more than 140 million times, and reached number 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, selling more than 2.2 million copies
Macklemore first met Ryan Lewis in 2006.
Lewis spent a few years working on Macklemore's promotion as a photographer. They would soon become good friends. Lewis would go on to produce for Macklemore, the two eventually working full-time as a title-credited duo.
Macklemore released his debut studio album The Heist on October 9, 2012, which charted at number 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 78,000 copies in the first week.
Macklemore became engaged to his girlfriend of seven years, Tricia Davis, on January 21, 2013.
And his twitter:
Ryan Lewis' twitter: @RyanLewis
Thrift Shop became Macklemore very famous, he is a good rapper, but he has also more music like ''Can't Hold Us'':
Thrift Shop became Macklemore very famous, he is a good rapper, but he has also more music like ''Can't Hold Us'':
sábado, 1 de diciembre de 2012
John Kortajarena
Jon Kortajarena Redruello (born 19 May 1985) is a Spanish model. He has worked with Just Cavalli, Calvin Klein, Versace, Jean Paul Gaultier, Giorgio Armani, Bally, Etro, Trussardi, Diesel, Karl Lagerfeld,Pepe Jeans, but also with Zara, H&M, Guess y Tom Ford.
Kortajarena was born in Bilbao, Spain. He was discovered while vacationing in Barcelona when he accompanied a friend who was invited to attend a fashion show. Whilst there, a booker noticed him and persuaded him to give the fashion world a go. His first professional experience was in Cibeles fashion show for Roberto Verino.
Kortajarena currently ranks No. 5 on MODELS.com's Top 25 The Money Guys list.
Kortajarena speaks Spanish, English and Euskera. He went to an ikastola school up until he was 10 years old, but due to traveling he went on to enroll in public, private, and Catholic schools thereafter.
His mother is a hairdresser and she often styles his hair. If he was not modeling he would be a full time actor; however, he notes that interior designing and photography are some fields he has always been curious about.
His hobbies include watching films, reading books by Herman Hesse, sunbathing, going to the mountains with friends, and listening to music. He describes himself as an 'ultimate romantic'. Some of his favorite novels include Perfume, The Wheel of Life by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Siddhartha. He has an apartment in the West Village.
He appears in a lot of places, in shops,
advertisment, films, videoclips, posters and so on.
He is currently involved in the 212 VIP Carolina Herrera perfume promotion of 2011.
So handsome, aren't you thinking?
sábado, 17 de noviembre de 2012
Doin' Dirt
Oh, yeah, oh yeah
Hey you, don't want to love you on the telephone
You're hanging up and now I am all alone
Baby you got me doing dirt, doing dirt, doing dirt
Hey you, don't want to love you on the telephone
You're hanging up and now I am all alone
Baby you got me doing dirt, doing dirt, doing dirt
And now I wanna fan you but you're off the run
My heart's exploding like a burning some
I know you like it when it hurts, when it hurts
I like you up, when I get inside
So won't you touch me? cause everybody's watching us now
We're putting on a show for the crowd
So turn it up baby make it loud
Hey you, say that you're only have and then
You call me up at 3am again
Baby you got me doing dirt, doing dirt, doing dirt
And now all that I got is just a microphone
To let you know that I am all alone
To let you know that I am all alone
I know you like it when it hurts, when it hurts
You're shining like a neon light
I like you up, when I get inside
So won't you touch me? cause everybody's watching us now
We're putting on a show for the crowd
So turn it up baby make it loud
Yeah, come on
So right now, I wanna leave with you right now
I wanna be with you all night, in the car let's go
Yeah let's take it home, let's take it home,
let's take it home
let's take it home
So right now, I wanna leave with you right now
I wanna be with you all night, in the car let's go
Hold me we're dancing in the dark of the night
You're shining like a neon light
I like you up, when I get inside
So won't you touch me? cause everybody's watching us now
We're putting on a show for the crowd
So turn it up baby make it loud
sábado, 27 de octubre de 2012
ADELE
Adele was offered a recording contract from XL Recordings after a friend posted her demo on Myspace in 2006. The next year she received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award and won the BBC Sound of 2008.
Her debut album,19, was released in 2008 to much commercial and critical success. It certified four times platinum in the UK, and double platinum in the US. Her career in the US was boosted by a Saturday Night Live appearance in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele received the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Adele released her second album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received critically and surpassed the success of her debut,earning the singer six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. The album has also helped her receive numerous other awards, including two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards. The album has been certified 16 times platinum in the UK; in the US the album has held the top position longer than any other album since 1985. The album has sold 25 million copies worldwide.
The success of 21 earned Adele numerous mentions in the Guinness World Records. She is the first artist to sell more than 3 million copies of an album in a year in the UK With her two albums and the first two singles from 21, "Rolling in the Deep" and "Someone Like You", Adele became the first living artist to achieve the feat of having two top-five hits in both the UK Official Singles Chart.
Adele is the first
female
in the history who had three singles in the top 10 at the same time as a lead artist, and the first female artist to have two albums in the top five of the Billboard 200 and two singles in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously.21 is the longest running number one album by a female solo artist on the UK and US Albums Chart. In 2011,Billboard named Adele artist of the year.In 2012, Adele was listed at number five on VH1′s 100 Greatest Women In Music, and the American magazine Time named Adele one of the most influential people in the world.
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