Category: Artist awards
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Lady Gaga leads MTV Europe award nominations
The popular star known for her outrageous fashion choices was nominated for six MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) on Monday, leading the way with nominations including those for Best song for “Born this way”, best pop act, best live act and best female artist. Her other nominations are for Best Video for “born this way”…
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Options in the music industry
When you watch shows like American Idol or The X-Factor, it seems like singing is the only thing people want to do in the music business. However, this is not so as there are many other ways you can break into the music business. Songs are produced in studios and they involve a variety of…
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Beyonce, Lady Gaga top MTV Music Award Nominees
When MTV announced the nominees for its 2009 Video Music Awards show, two artists came out clearly on top. Beyonce and Lady Gaga lead the pack with 9 nominations each. The next closest artist is Britney Spears, with 7 nominations. Beyonce, wife of super producer and rapper Jay-Z, is nominated in the following categories: Best…
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Paula Abdul Leaves American Idol
When it was announced that Paula Abdul will not be returning to American Idol, the news came as quite a shock to many of the shows fans and viewers. From its first airing in 2002, viewers have watched the oft-described kind-hearted and lovably loopy Abdul judge the competition, along with the acerbic Simon Cowell and…
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Panafrica: Dance to a Different Beat
The Kora All Africa Music Awards could be good for local music – if we knew how to exploit them, writes Thebe Mabanga Next weekend’s Kora All Africa Music Awards – the sixth of their kind – will, one hopes, be better received than last year. It was an event fraught with logistical problems, gripes…