Billboard has a few details on Shakira’s new English-language album to follow-up her Laundry Service.
The Colombian singer will write or co-write her own material on the disc, due later this year. Alejandro Sanz will be featured on the album, and Sanz himself is working on English-language tracks that may become an album, when, in his words, “it’s ready.”
The Saturday Sun of Barbados caught up with Alicia Keys’ mother and personal assistant Terri Augello while the singer of hits like Karma and Fallin’ took part in a photo session on Payne’s Bay beach last Friday morning.
“It’s beautiful here and we like it very much,” Terri Augello remarked.
Meanwhile, Alicia Keys is in the West Indies to headline the Barbados Jazz Festival.
Neil Sean of Sky News reports that Brian McFadden’s solo career is in trouble after poor sales of his post-Westlife debut Irish Son.
“We are gravely concerned about the lack of sales for his debut album and are just hoping this third single will finally kick-start things for him as a solo star,” a source at the label revealed. “He shouldn’t have ever left Westlife.”
That said single will be his duet with Delta Goodrem, Almost Here.
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Popular actor and rising pop music sensation Eric West gives back to those touched by HIV/AIDS with new song according to Yahoo! News.
Putting behind the Justin Timberlake and Usher comparisons triple threat model, singer and actor Eric West is using his name which made him one of the most exciting new faces to hit the international model scene with a recent photo spread in Marie Claire Japan, and the face that got him voted by the Internet Movie Database as one of Hollywood’s “Top Fresh New Faces of 2004” for an AIDS cause.
The successful model-turned actor/singer recently got picked to appear in Lindsay Lohan’s next film, and has become an overnight gossip column favorite this year, but he manages to put his focus towards increasing funding for projects which target the prevention of HIV infection and the prevention of the progression of HIV to AIDS. West, recently recorded the song ‘Wires,’ which in an interview with V Magazine, the singer states:” Working on my album has been an amazing journey, a lot of it has been inspired by people, and more so life, with my music, I don’t want to compete with every other singer out there, but I want to make a difference in peoples lives, that matters to me, more so than selling millions of albums. I pray that I am able to changes lives or at least help to make them better, and I know it will be a risk to release a song about HIV/AIDS like “Wires,” but I’m willing to take that chance.”
‘Wires’ will appear on Eric’s forthcoming album titled ‘Half “> Life,’ which will be released April 2005, portions of the albums sales will be donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the National AIDS Fund. Eric adds himself to an A-list that includes Charlize Theron, Janet Jackson, Mira Sorvino, and Britney Spears, all who have used their time to help the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Radio DJ Ryan Redd commented on ‘Wires’ during his AM show, stating ”Eric is doing something that no other young male singer has done, not Usher, not Justin Timberlake, we should stand up and applaud Eric West for taking a risk as an artist and a straight artist, it’s a serious issue and people will appreciate what he is doing. The gay community has showed a lot of support and interest in him. Madonna fans love him, Janet Jackson fans love him.”
Estelle says she’s scared of her next single.
It’s a rocked up version of her album track Go Gone, which she recorded with two members of Lenny Kravitz’s band so it’s quite a different sound.
Estelle told us why she’d decided to re-do it. “I didn’t like the way it sounded on the album. It was too flat with no dynamics.”
“It had no up or downs and no great bass line.”
“So, we re-recorded it and now it sounds disgusting. I’m scared of it!”
“I heard it the other day and was like ‘Oh my God!'”
“The video is going to be nuts. We’re basing the whole thing on Tina Turner’s film What’s Love Got To Do With It and you’ll see me dancing for the first time ever in a video, so it’s gonna be crazy!”
The Seat Filler, the new film featuring former Spice Girl Mel B and Destiny’s Child star Kelly Rowland was released to UK theaters.
Or actually, one UK theater in London.
“Despite having Kelly on the cast, the movie’s reception has been less than rapturous,” a source said.
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria and rumoured boyfriend N’Sync star JC Chasez, among other stars, were on hand at Opium Garden for their annual New Year’s Eve Party in Miami, Florida. Check out pictures HERE.
Music video director Billie Woodruff is upset with Britney Spears after the singer’s latest mesage to fans referred to him as “a young, hungry, director” putting together her Do Something promo.
Billie Woodruff, who certainly isn’t young, and given his previous work with the Backstreet Boys, Outkast, TLC, and others, including Britney herself on Overprotected, isn’t “hungry” either.
“He was very hurt by her statements,” a close friend said. “She has called him several times since the posting but he does not want to speak with her.”
Sky News reports that Girls Aloud’s controversial new single Wake Me Up has been banned on children’s television because of its boozy lyrics. It instead will be edited to remove the references to drinking.
“It’s not long before the track kicks in and Sarah Harding is singing about drinking Bud, which is obviously beer,” a source said.
“Then Cheryl Tweedy wonders whether ‘it’s just the margaritas’ or ‘is a bloke looking at her?’. They’re all grown up women but they understand a lot of young girls admire them and they would never want to encourage under-age drinking.”