Much has been made of the horns which will blare out in the stadia through the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but another sensation which will ripple through the crowds this year is the Waka Waka dance. Featuring as part of the official 2010 “This is Africa” World Cup song, the Waka Waka [...]
The Youth Olympics 2010 will take place in Singapore this August. The theme tune of the games will be “Everyone” – a song written and produced by Singaporean Ken Lim and performed by Jody Williams (Africa), Sean Kingston (Americas), Tabitha Nauser (Asia), Steve Appleton (Europe) and Jessica Mauboy (Oceania). The song will be performed at [...]
Ras Nas recently won the Smiling Faces Red Carpet Award in his native land of Tanzania and will shortly attend the Springtime Festival in Lebanon and Egypt alongside big names such as Benjamin Zephaniah. The Global Herald caught up with the artist in Berlin to ask a few questions: How does living in Norway compare [...]
Kitsuné are the French clothing and music label that catapulted La Roux to fame in 2009. Their latest offering is the EP from Play Paul, the founder of the legendary house duet The Buffalo Bunch (Roulé, Crydamoure). The Global Herald got in touch with Play Paul to ask him a little bit more about himself. [...]
Following mounting speculation in the past few weeks, Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole (formerly Tweedy) has announced, via a PR statement, that she is leaving her footballer husband, England and Chelsea left-back Ashley Cole. The statement reads: Cheryl Cole is separating from her husband Ashley Cole. Cheryl asks the media to respect her privacy during [...]
The 2010 Grammy Award ceremony took place yesterday evening, with the major winner on the night proving to be Beyonce Knowles, who lifted six of the prestigious awards. Below is a list of Grammy 2010 winners: Song of the year – Beyonce – “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” Best country album – Taylor [...]
The 2010 Grammy Awards take place this evening, as the great and good of the American recording industry gather together to take part in what is arguably music’s biggest awards ceremony. Some popular categories include: Record of the Year Award to the Artist and to the Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s) and/or Mixer(s), if other than the [...]
The BRIT Awards celebrate the best of British and international popular music. The 2010 BRIT Awards will be again be sponsored by MasterCard and will take place on Tuesday 16 February at London’s Earls Court Arena. ITV will broadcast The BRITs live on the same night and Peter Kay will be presenting the show. The [...]
Controversial British comedian Russell Brand, 34, and US-born singer Katy Perry, 25, got engaged on New Year’s Eve according to Brand’s publicist. Brand and Perry had managed to keep many details of their relationship private to date, though Perry did speak of their relationship in an interview with BBC’s Radio One in November 2009. Russell [...]
“Killing in the Name” by American band Rage Against the Machine is this year’s UK Christmas Number One. Following Joe McElderry’s win on this year’s UK X Factor series – the show which had produced the Christmas Number One single every year since 2005 – he was installed as the early favourite to make it [...]
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