Anita Page, who costarred in the first sound film ever to win an Oscar, The Broadway Melody in 1929, died in her sleep Saturday in Los Angeles at age 98. The Associated Press discovered Sunday that the moving picture is likewise "arguably" to first flick musical in Hollywood history.
08/09/2008
 Artist: Marcos Valle: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Latin Marcos Valle's discography:  Jet Samba Year: 2006 Tracks: 12  Braziliance! Year: 2004 Tracks: 12  Contrasts Year: 2003 Tracks: 14  Vento Sul Year: 2001 Tracks: 11  Previsao do Tempo Year: 2001 Tracks: 12  Nova Bossa Nova Year: 1995 Tracks: 10  Mustang cor de Sangue Year: 1969 Tracks: 12 Marcos Valle was the Renaissance man of Brazilian pop, a MPB. Though his repute in America never rather compared to contemporaries like Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, or fifty-fifty Tom Zé, Valle is one of the most important and popular performers in the history of Brazilian come out. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, Marcos Valle studied greco-Roman medicine as a baby simply listened to many different types of medicine, peculiarly jazz. He began piece of writing songs with his brother Paulo Sérgio -- Marcos was the tune-writer, Paulo the lyricist -- in the early '60s, and later Tamba Trio institute a hit with his "Sonho de Maria," Valle was named Brazil's Leading Composer of the Year at the historic period of 19. A recording contract before long followed, and in 1964 he released his outset album, Samba Demais, for EMI Brazil. A go with Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65 the following twelvemonth brought his number one show biz connections in America (via Merv Griffin), and in 1966 Walter Wanderley took Valle's song "So Nice (Summer Samba)" into the US Top 40. Valle soon earned his have American shrink, and in 1967 Warner Brothers released the instrumentals album Braziliance!. One yr later, his Verve debut Arere '68 became a Brazilian classic thanks to simple, infectious crop up songs like "Batucada," "Chup, Chup, I Got Away," and "Crickets Sing for Anamaria" (all of which featured spot-on harmony vocals by his married char Anamaria). Contempt the unbelievable anticipate revealed by Samba '68, it was his final American record album to date. That same year, the Brazilian-only Viola Enluarada became a big strike in South America, thanks in piece to the title cut (with vocals by a thomas Young Milton Nascimento). The john Rock & roll era that had already influenced tropicalistas like Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, and Gilberto Gil presently began inspiring Valle as well. With albums like the resistless 1971 classical Garra, he stirred away from native Brazilian forms like the bossa nova or arere and into a rock-influenced legal that played up groove-heavy bass and suave blue funk even piece suit his awful musical signified. He continued recording for EMI until he stirred to America in 1975. There, he wrote and arranged tracks for Eumir Deodato, Airto Moreira, and Chicago. He continued to disk solo albums during the early '80s, adding electronics and an still production techniques to the merge with surprisingly solid results, only alike stirred into written substantial medicine (a great deal with Paulo) for film and novellas, including the subject to Brazil's version of Sesame Street. During the late '80s, the rare-groove craze centered in London resurrected and relentlessly compiled tons of crucial, overlooked tracks from the sixties and '70s, including Valle's "Crickets Sing for Anamaria." In 1995, the British label Mr. Bongo released a two-volume series (The Essential Marcos Valle) dedicated to his puzzle out. One class later, Valle appeared on the jam session digest Friends from Rio, and in 1998 returned with a newfangled record album, Nova Bossa Nova. That same year, the Lumiar label released The Marcos Valle Songbook, Vols. XII, including new versions of Valle standards by Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, Maria Bethania, Edu Lobo, Joyce, Chico Buarqe, Joao Bosco, and Azymuth, among others. The newfangled millenary heralded another studio album, Escape, as well as prescient Japanese reissues from his late-'60s/early-'70s crest. |
Supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL has been charged with assaulting two police officers in relation to an incident on a British Airways (BA) plane in April (08).
The catwalk beauty was arrested at London's Heathrow airport last month (Apr08) following a dispute over her luggage, which was lost in the airport's recent Terminal 5 baggage handling fiasco.
Campbell reported to Heathrow police station on Thursday (29May08), where she faced a total of five charges - including three counts of assaulting a constable, one count of disorderly conduct and one count of using abusive language to the airplane crew. Police confirmed the assault charge was related to her actions toward two officers.
The 38-year-old was bailed to re-appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, west London on 20 June (08).
Campbell's lawyer, Simon Nicholls, says, "Miss Campbell is bitterly disappointed that the prosecutors have advised her she is to be prosecuted for various offences.
"Prosecutors in this case have decided she needs to be prosecuted in the magistrates court. She respects that decision and she hopes this matter is dealt with expeditiously."
It is not the first time Campbell has found herself in trouble with the law over her fiery temper - last year (07) she was sentenced to community service at New York's sanitation department after she was convicted of assaulting her maid with her Blackberry cell phone.
