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January 24, 2008
January brings to Toronto some frigid weather - so dress warm
and avoid all those germs out there.
With all the industry deaths this week including the recent death of Heath
Ledger and all the celeb fiascos and chaotic behaviour, it led me to think of
what the cost of celebrity is ... so I've written a brief editorial this week
entitled The Cost of Fame.
Oh and I've added a new section that will run regularly - TECHNOLOGY.
And this week also brings news about a special Valentine's
concert entitled Celebrate Love - surely to be enjoyed and tickets are sure to go fast so mark
your calendars now and get your tickets!
::HOT EVENTS::
Celebrate Love – Thursday,
February 14, 2008
Source: Andrew Craig
You’ve made all the plans for the perfect Valentine’s Day. You’ve
reserved your favourite table at your
favourite restaurant. You have the flowers, the chocolates, the card, the gift.
The limousine picks you both up after work, and you slip across town to dine.
Once you arrive at the restaurant, everything is perfect: the ambience, the
food, the wine, the conversation. You decide to top off a sumptuous meal with a
decadent dessert and coffee.
It’s only 7:30 p.m. Now what? It’s too early to retire to the bedroom, and yet
you don’t want the magic to end. What to do?
It’s time to Celebrate Love!
Celebrate Love is, simply put, an evening of the world’s greatest
love songs, sung by some of
Canada’s greatest voices, accompanied by top-flight musicians. Celebrate Love
is the brainchild of musician, producer, broadcaster and impresario Andrew
Craig, and is the realization of a decade-old dream: to create a
Valentine’s Day event so compelling and beautiful that it would draw fans back
year after year.
Molly Johnson, Canada’s first lady of jazz, headlines a stellar cast of
vocalists, including Kellylee Evans (the 2007 Canadian Smooth Jazz
Awards Female Vocalist of the Year), rising star DK Ibomeka,
Indo-Canadian vocal sensation Kiran Ahluwalila, and Mary Jane Lamond,
Canada’s preeminent interpreter of Gaelic songs from the East Coast. Add to
this mix some of Toronto’s finest emerging vocal talents, the exquisite sounds
of the Toronto-based cello quartet Lush, and the Celebrate Love
Orchestra, and the result is magical.
Don’t think this show is just for couples! Featuring a unique blend of classic
popular songs, rare musical gems from across the planet, poetry and
reflections, Celebrate Love is the perfect Valentine’s Day activity for people
in all stages of love: from new love, to unrequited love, to jilted love, to
old love, to true love.
Andrew Craig first produced Celebrate Love as a proof-of-concept show in 2004,
in Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre. Despite minimal advertising, the show
sold-out completely, and patrons anxious to get in caused a major traffic jam
at Bloor and Avenue Rd!
Audience response to Celebrate Love was overwhelmingly positive. Here are but a
few quotes from ecstatic attendees:
“Congratulations on an outstanding
performance. Wow! We were totally blown away. The music selection, the
individual vocal performances, the tremendous musicians, lighting, sound, and
an enthusiastic audience just spoke volumes about the true heart of Canadian
music.” - K.S., Toronto
“I want to say that last night was FANTASTIC 10 out of 10, please do it
again, Toronto missed the best show in town, if you do the same as last night
you will have triple as you did last night.” - J.A., Toronto
“Celebrate Love - WOW! I attended Saturday night’s show...and was blown
away. Andrew Craig...remarkable job. The mix and choice of music and culture
and diversity beautifully represented the Toronto scene.” - R.T., Toronto
“Amazing Valentines Performance! Thank you so much for making our 9th
Valentines together so special.” - S.T., Toronto
“I was at the "Celebrate Love" concert on Saturday, February
14. It was one of the greatest concerts I've ever been to (and I've been
to quite a few concerts).” - I.D., Toronto
“What a great show! The last time I left a show feeling that good was when I
saw Luther Vandross and the Voices of Blackness at Maple Leaf Gardens. Keep up
the great work!” - C.P., Toronto
Celebrate Love 2008 promises to be even
bigger and better. There simply is no better place to be this Valentine’s Day
than The Music Hall.
Log into www.celebratelove.ca and get a taste of what the show will be like.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Celebrate Love: An Evening of the
World’s Greatest Love Songs
The Music Hall
147 Danforth Ave., east of Broadview
8:00 p.m.
$50
Click HERE
to purchase tickets
::JUST MY OPINION::
The Cost of Fame
This week is filled with so many deaths in the industry - most recently Heath Ledger. Whether
ruled suicide or not, he was still on anti-depressants and taking sleeping
pills. So young to be experiencing these ailments. And such a waste
of talent.
It makes me wonder what price young people with fame are paying for such
"celebrity status" - whether devised by publicists or contrived or
not.
It has been apparent in recent reports with all the rehab woes of these young
starlets - Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Owen Wilson, Amy Winehouse - to name
a few ... that fame is not what it's cracked up to be. Is it worth the
cost? Young people's lives are being destroyed and whether they've made
poor choices and/or judgment calls, the results can be tragic.
I place partial blame on the media and
technology as
these two combined in today's world wield
a brutal blow. The tragedy of these lives are obvious and this is why you
don't see these sort of 'celeb rehab' stories in my newsletter - there's
already too much coverage already and I would prefer to let people live their
lives and hopefully seek the help they need.
And can we blame ourselves for the tendency to migrate towards these sort of
stories? I mean, if it didn't sell, would the stories stop? Human
nature and it's bleak curiosity - can that be repaired?
In the interim, I think that we need to remember these people in
our prayers. Yes, yes, - I have had a guilty chuckle over some of their
antics too - but ultimately, I feel that their demise may be imminent as those
that have walked the path before them ... Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, River
Phoenix, John Belushi, Freddie Prinze. So, this week, try to bypass the
tabloids and the pointless dribble - that is someone's life. We're all
flawed in our own ways - just not normally in front of millions of interested
readers.
And that's just my opinion.
::INDUSTRY LOSSES::
Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead In Bed
Excerpt from www.thestar.com - Tom Hays,
The Associated Press
(January 22, 2008) NEW YORK—Actor Heath Ledger was found dead today of a
possible drug overdose in a
Manhattan apartment, where his body was discovered in a bed with a bottle of
prescription sleeping pills nearby, police said. He was 28.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Ledger had an appointment for a massage at the
SoHo apartment that is believed to be the home of the Brokeback Mountain
actor. The massage therapist and a housekeeper went to his bedroom to get
Ledger, and found his naked body in the bed at about 3:30 p.m. They tried to
revive him, but he was already dead, police said.
Browne said there was no obvious indication of suicide.
A gaggle of paparazzi and gawkers began gathering outside the building, where
police put up barricades to control a crowd of about 300 people. Onlookers
craned their necks as officers brought out a black body bag on a gurney, took
it across the sidewalk and put it into a white medical examiner’s office van.
As the building door opened, the bystanders snapped pictures with their camera
phones and rolled their video. “He’s coming out!” some said.
The Australian-born actor was nominated for an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain,
where he met actress Michelle
Williams in 2005. Ledger and Williams had lived in Brooklyn and had a daughter,
Matilda. The couple split up last year.
Ledger's roles also include the suicidal son of Billy Bob Thornton in Monster's
Ball and he had starring roles in A Knight's Tale and The Patriot.
He was to appear as the Joker this year in a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins that
recently finished filming.
Ledger was also one of six actors portraying different sides of the iconic
rocker Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, released last year.
Ledger told The New York Times in a November interview that he
``stressed out a little too much" during the Dylan film, and had trouble
sleeping while portraying the Joker, whom he called a ``psychopathic,
mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.''
"Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night,'' Ledger told
the Times. "I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my
mind was still going." He said he took two Ambien pills, which only worked
for an hour, the paper said.
Ledger was a widely recognized figure in his Manhattan neighbourhood, where he
used to shop at a home and children's store. Michelle Vella, a buyer there,
said she had frequently seen Ledger with his daughter – carrying the toddler on
his shoulders, or having ice cream with her.
"It's so sad. They were really close," said Vella. "He's a very
down-to-earth guy and an amazing father.''
She said Ledger once bought a bookcase at the home store, and purchased stuffed
animals and dresses for his daughter at the children's store.
"It's a shock; he's so young," said Taren Dolbashian, who works on
the block and also had seen Ledger with his daughter on his shoulders. "He
always seems so happy.''
Before settling down with Williams, Ledger had relationships with actresses
Heather Graham and Naomi Watts. He met Watts while working on The Lords of
Dogtown, a fictionalized version of a cult classic skateboarding
documentary, in 2004.
"It's the first job in my career where I can finish work and go home,"
he told USA Today that year. "When you rarely get a chance to be at
home, that's what you want. You want stability, your sofa.''
Ledger was born in 1979 in Perth, in western Australia, to a mining engineer
and a French teacher, and got his first acting role playing Peter Pan at age 10
at a local theatre company. He began acting in independent films as a
16-year-old in Sydney and played a cyclist hoping to land a spot on an Olympic
team in a 1996 television show, Sweat.
After several independent films, Ledger moved to Los Angeles at age 19 and
co-starred opposite Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You, a teen
comedy reworking of The Taming of the Shrew. His movie career caught on
soon after that, culminating with his Academy Award nomination for Brokeback
Mountain.
In talking about the Dylan film, Ledger told The New York Times he most
admired that the singer was not someone who could be easily explained, saying
he felt the same way about himself.
"Some people find their shtick," Ledger said. "I've never
figured out who 'Heath Ledger' is on film: 'This is what you expect when you
hire me, and it will be recognizable.'''
"People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you
and can describe you. That's fine. But there are many stories inside of me and
a lot I want to achieve outside of one flat note.''
The medical examiner's office planned an autopsy on Wednesday, spokeswoman
Ellen Borakove said.
Veteran Sportscaster Don Wittman Dies At
71
Excerpt from www.thestar.com
- The Canadian Press
(January 19, 2008) WINNIPEG – Don Wittman, whose smooth baritone voice called some
of Canada's most
significant sports, has died of cancer. He was 71.
For more than 40 years, Wittman was a familiar face on CBC television. He did
the play-by-play for Grey Cups and Stanley Cups, plus covered curling, golf and
track and field. He was a fixture at both summer and winter Olympics.
"He is truly a first-generation television sports legend. He's one of the
pioneers of our industry," Scott Moore, executive director of CBC Sports,
said in January.
"He has done almost everything and done it all well."
It was Wittman who called Ben Johnson's steroid-fuelled 100-metre victory at
the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and he was on hand when Donovan Bailey sprinted to
gold in the same event in 1996 at Atlanta.
He saw Wayne Gretzky win Stanley Cups and was in Czechoslovakia in 1987 for the
Canada-USSR brawl at the world junior hockey championships.
During the 1972 Olympics in Munich he stood on a balcony and looked into the
masked face of one of the terrorists who kidnapped nine Israeli athletes.
"It was then the reality of it really struck me," Wittman said in a
1984 interview about the incident. "Here was this man with a hood over his
face standing there."
Born in Herbert, Sask., Wittman got his start as a news reporter with CFQC
radio in Saskatoon in 1955. He also worked for CJNB radio in North Battleford.
He was only 24 when he joined CBC Winnipeg on New Year's Day 1961.
During his career, Wittman won two ACTRA awards and in 2002 was named
Broadcaster of the Year by Sports Media Canada. He also was a member of the
Canadian Football League Hall of Fame, the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame and
Manitoba's provincial sports hall of fame.
"He is the voice of football in Canada in my mind," said Moore, who
grew up in Montreal watching Wittman call Alouettes games.
The respect held for Wittman was evident at a ceremony in January, when he was
inducted into the CBC Sports Hall of Fame. The guest list was a who's-who of
the sports world. Hockey Night In Canada's Ron McLean, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
general manager Lyle Bauer and New York Rangers GM Glen Sather were among those
on hand. Wayne Gretzky and others sent video tributes.
Wittman was choked with emotion, saying he was humbled by the tributes.
Wittman is survived by his wife July, two daughters and a son.
Suzanne Pleshette, Dies At 70
Excerpt from www.globeandmail.com
- Bob Thomas, The Associated Press
(Jan 20, 2008) LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her
role as Bob
Newhart's sardonic wife on television's long-running The Bob Newhart Show,
has died at age 70.
Ms. Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Hitchcock's The
Birds and in Broadway plays including The Miracle Worker, died of
respiratory failure Saturday evening at her Los Angeles home, said her attorney
Robert Finkelstein, also a family friend.
Ms. Pleshette underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2006.
The Bob Newhart Show, a hit throughout its six-year run, starred
comedian Mr. Newhart as a Chicago psychiatrist surrounded by eccentric
patients. Ms. Pleshette provided the voice of reason.
Four years after the show ended in 1978, Mr. Newhart went on to the equally
successful Newhart series in which he was the proprietor of a New
England inn populated by more eccentrics. When that show ended in 1990, Ms.
Pleshette reprised her role — from the first show — in one of the most clever
final episodes in TV history.
It had Mr. Newhart waking up in the bedroom of his The Bob Newhart Show
home with Ms. Pleshette at his side.
He went on to tell her of the crazy dream he'd just had of running an inn
filled with eccentrics.
“If I'm in Timbuktu, I'll fly home to do that,” Ms. Pleshette said of her
reaction when Mr. Newhart told her how he was thinking of ending the show.
Born Jan. 31, 1937, in New York City, Ms. Pleshette began her career as a stage
actress after attending the city's High School of the Performing Arts and
studying at its Neighborhood Playhouse. She was often picked for roles because
of her beauty and her throaty voice.
“When I was 4,” she told an interviewer in 1994, “I was answering the phone,
and (the callers) thought I was my father. So I often got quirky roles because
I was never the conventional ingénue.”
She met her future husband, Tom Poston, when they appeared together in the 1959
Broadway comedy The Golden Fleecing, but didn't marry him until more
than 40 years later.
Although the two had a brief fling, they went on to marry others. By 2000 both
were widowed and they got back together, marrying the following year.
“He was such a wonderful man. He had fun every day of his life,” Ms. Pleshette
said after Poston died in April 2007.
Among her other Broadway roles was replacing Anne Bancroft in The Miracle
Worker, the 1959 drama about Helen Keller, in New York and on the road.
Meanwhile, she had launched her film career with Jerry Lewis in 1958 in “The
Geisha Boy.” She went on to appear in numerous television shows, including
“Have Gun, Will Travel,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Playhouse 90” and “Naked
City.”
By the early 1960s, Ms. Pleshette attracted a teenage following with her
youthful roles in such films as Rome Adventure, Fate Is the Hunter, Youngblood
Hawke and A Distant Trumpet.
She married fellow teen favourite Troy Donahue, her co-star in Rome Adventure,
in 1964 but the union lasted less than a year. She was married to Texas oilman
Tim Gallagher from 1968 until his death in 2000.
Ms. Pleshette matured in such films as Hitchcock's The Birds and the Disney
comedies The Ugly Dachshund, Blackbeard's Ghost and The Adventures of Bullwhip
Griffin. Over the years, she also had a busy career in TV movies, including
playing the title role in 1990's “Leona Helmsley, the Queen of Mean.”
More recently, she appeared in several episodes of the TV sitcoms “Will &
Grace” and “8 Simple Rules ... For Dating My Teenage Daughter.”
In a 1999 interview, Ms. Pleshette observed that being an actress was more
important than being a star.
“I'm an actress, and that's why I'm still here,” she said. “Anybody who has the
illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding
themselves.”
'Brady Bunch' Butcher Dies - Allan
Melvin Was 84
Source: The Associated Press
(January 19, 2008) Allan Melvin, a character actor best
known for playing Sam the Butcher on "The Brady Bunch," has died. He
was 84.
Melvin died of cancer Thursday at his home in the Brentwood section of Los
Angeles, said Amalia Melvin, his wife of 64 years.
The jowly, jovial Melvin spent decades playing a series of sidekicks, second
bananas and lovable lugs, including Archie Bunker's friend Barney Hefner on
"All in the Family," and Sgt. Bilko's right-hand man Cpl. Henshaw on
the "Phil Silvers Show."
But his place in pop culture will be fixed as butcher and bowler Sam Franklin,
the love interest of Brady family maid Alice Nelson, who was played by Ann B.
Davis. Melvin played the role from 1970 to 1973.
Born in Kansas City, Mo., in 1923, Melvin grew up in New York and attended
Columbia University.
He was appearing on Broadway in "Stalag 17" when he began his
decades-long television career with "The Phil Silvers Show," playing
a role his wife said was always his favourite.
"He was proudest of that show," Amalia Melvin said. "I think the
camaraderie of all those guys made it such a pleasant way to work. They were so
relaxed."
He saw steady employment as a voice actor from the early 1960s to the early
1990s, most famously providing the voice of "Magilla Gorilla" for the
Hanna Barbera cartoon of the same name.
His other credits include several guest appearances on "The Andy Griffith
Show," "Gomer Pyle: USMC," and "The Dick Van Dyke
Show."
In addition to Amalia, Melvin is survived by daughter Jennifer Hanson and
grandson Jon Hanson Jr. A daughter, Mya, died in 1970.
John Stewart, 68: Wrote 'Daydream
Believer'
Excerpt from www.thestar.com – John
Rogers, The Associated Press
(January 21, 2008) LOS ANGELES – John Stewart
recorded some of pop music's most
acclaimed solo albums, helping create a style that came to be called Americana,
but he was always best known for writing the Monkees' enduring hit
"Daydream Believer.''
Stewart, who came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of folk music's
Kingston Trio, died Saturday at a San Diego hospital after suffering a brain
aneurism. He was 68.
"He was a lovely man and a very gentle soul and I guess the only thing you
can say today is that the world is less one great songwriter," the
Monkees' Micky Dolenz told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Stewart left the Kingston Trio shortly before the Monkees released
"Daydream Believer" in 1967, then went on to record nearly four dozen
solo albums, including the critically acclaimed ``California Bloodlines"
and "Bombs Away Dream Babies." The latter included the hit single
"Gold," in which he dueted with Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks.
Still, as with "Daydream Believer," he was likely best known for
writing songs for others, including Joan Baez, Nanci Griffith, Roseanne Cash
and Anne Murray.
"He was a cult hero, he never made it super huge," said his manager,
Dean Swett. "He was one of those outlaw rebels, one of the people who
refused to conform to what the record labels expected him to be.''
A husky-voiced singer and accomplished guitarist who delivered his lyrics in a
poignant, often longing voice, his music was hard to classify. It fell
somewhere between rock, country and folk and eventually came to be called
Americana.
He wrote "Runaway Train," a country hit for Roseanne Cash, and
``Strange Rivers," which Joan Baez included on her 1992 "Play Me
Backwards" album. Nanci Griffith dueted with him on "Sweet
Dreams" and Murray, like the Monkees before her, had a hit with ``Daydream
Believer.''
"There are certain songs that you just go in humming. It was one of
those," Dolenz said of "Daydream Believer," which also was
Stewart's best-known recording. Although he sang background to Davy Jones' lead
on the Monkees' version, Dolenz performs the song himself at his solo shows.
"To this day it is one of the biggest songs that I do in concert," he
said.
Stewart joined the Kingston Trio in 1961, replacing Dave Guard in the group
that had helped usher in an American folk music revival in the late 1950s.
"John truly was the right fit. A first rate entertainer and gifted
songwriter," the group said in a statement on its Web site.
He recorded more than a dozen albums with the trio before going on to a solo
career in 1967. A year later he released "California Bloodlines,"
which included the minor hit "July You're a Woman.'' ``Bombs Away Dream
Babies" came out in 1979.
He eventually recorded more than 40 solo albums. Others included ``The Lonesome
Picker Rides Again, "Airdream Believer" and ``Rough Sketches,"
the latter a collection of songs about the iconic American highway "Route
66.''
Stewart was said to be at work on still another album at the time of his death.
Stewart's wife, Buffy, and children were at his side when he died, according to
a statement on the Kingston Trio's Web site. There was no immediate word on
funeral arrangements.
::TOP STORIES::
Jessica Lucas Poised For Monster
Breakthrough
Excerpt from www.thestar.com
- Bruce Demara, Entertainment Reporter
(Jan 20, 2008) Cloverfield – the monster movie that's gotten
behemothic buzz from legions of Internet geeks –
may prove to be a gargantuan leap in the career of Jessica Lucas.
"I would say this is a huge breakthrough and opportunity for me. You can't
help but feel it's going to be helpful," says the 22-year-old Vancouver
native.
Lucas plays Lily, one of five Manhattanites, whose late-night revels are rudely
interrupted by a leviathan from the deep, sending them off on a dark, dangerous
and nail-biting run for their lives. But better than a mere thrill-ride, the
movie – shot in an intimate, jumpy hand-held style reminiscent of The Blair
Witch Project – also gives Lucas a chance to display some acting chops in a
film in which character development holds its own against a rampaging,
scene-wrecking special-effects monster.
The first 20 minutes or so of the film set the stage with a raucous send-off
for Rob, who's headed off to Japan despite unresolved feelings for Beth (Odette
Yustman), who shows up at the party with another guy. Lucas plays Lily, a
take-charge type; when Rob gets a distress call from Beth following the
monster's first onslaught, it's Lily who bravely supports Rob's crazy plan to
head up to midtown to rescue her.
"Most typical action movies lose the character and it's all about the
action and the cheesy movie moments. But this movie is really about the people
and their struggle," says Lucas via telephone. "Because of the way
it's shot, from the first-person camera view, you just feel as if you're
experiencing it first-hand with these people and you really start to care for
them."
Getting a chance to flesh out the characters before the monster – and an
accompanying band of nasty oversized spiders – start picking them off is, in
Lucas's estimation, critical in separating the film from its gore-obsessed
brethren.
"It's really emotional, actually. It's more heart-wrenching than any other
action movie," she says.
Lucas is a TV veteran from recent Vancouver-filmed series such as Life as We
Know It and CBC's Edgemont, with her fellow alumnae from that show
including Smallville's Kristin Kreuk and Battlestar Galactica's
Grace Park. But this is her first big movie, and acting – or reacting – to a
"green-screen" computer-generated monster that isn't actually there
was just part of the challenge for the cast, she says.
"The fact is that we're actors; we're supposed to be able to use our
imagination," she says. Director Matt Reeves made sure his actors had a
clear concept of what the mysterious creature looked like and "every time
we had a special effects where we saw it (monster) or interacted with it, they
would be very specific and tell us exactly what was going to happen,"
Lucas says, noting that that ensured horrified reactions were synchronized.
While praising screenwriter Drew Goddard's script, Lucas says the actors were
able to "go off the page a lot as far as improv and stuff" in the
chase portion that encompasses the greater part of the film.
"It's fast-paced with a lot of running and screaming and yelling and
frantic energy. You definitely feel like you're there," she says.
Cloverfield is Lucas's second big break recently. Last August, she
joined the cast of CSI in the role of Ronnie Luke – rumoured to be a
possible replacement to regular Jorja Fox – but Lucas says the Writers' Guild
of America strike is keeping that plot development up in the air for the time
being.
"Because, with the strike, nothing's been confirmed, unfortunately. But it
was a really a fun experience and quite a big break for me last year. I would
love to continue on that show," she says.
That may mean moving from her beloved, laid-back Vancouver to live in L.A.
full-time, a prospect Lucas contemplates with mixed feelings, noting that
"I feel stressed almost the minute I step off the plane" in Los
Angeles.
Audiences get a chance to judge Cloverfield this weekend, but some
critics have already delivered a carpet-bombing pan of the mysterious monster.
Lucas, however, insists this is a monster movie with legs – big ones. "You
will not leave this movie and feel you were not entertained," she says.
"It's extremely entertaining. It lives up to the hype."
Tre Amstrong - Accomplished
Dancer-Turned-Actress Takes Centre Stage
Source: Kam Williams
Tracey Tré Armstrong has been dancing as long as she can
remember. During her childhood in Toronto,
she used to get up and groove to her mother's music and eventually she started
taking lessons at a place called the Dance Factory. She later attended Erindale
School of Dance and also trained with Luther Brown at Do Dat Entertainment.
Lithe-limbed Tré landed her first big break when she was chosen from over a
thousand hopefuls to perform on the Missy Elliott concert tour. Then, she
subsequently appeared in music videos for Rihanna, Sean Paul, Robbie Williams,
Seal, Ashanti and Shawn Desman.
Meanwhile, she made her screen debut been in HONEY as one of the principal
dancers. She then again appeared as a dancer in CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE
DRAMA QUEEN, SHALL WE DANCE, BREAKIN’ IN: THE MAKING OF A HIP HOP DANCER, and
STEPPIN’ UP: SAVE THE LAST DANCE II, where she enjoyed her first speaking part.
Now, the multi-talented cutie pie has parlayed her winning combination of
acting chops, charisma, charm and, of course, dancing ability, into a co-starring
role as the nemesis in HOW SHE MOVE. Here, Tré talks about all of the above and
more.
KW: How long have you been dancing?
TA: I started off dancing when I was five.
KW: Do you see your future with acting or with dancing or with both?
TA: With acting. I’m a little character. Anyone who knows me, knows I’m
bouncing off the walls all the time. I would love to play an action hero.
KW: You remind me of another dancer, Columbus Short, who has that same
boundless energy. He made the jump over to acting successfully, and had a big
hit starring in Stomp the Yard.
TA: Yes! We actually appeared together in Save the Last Dance II. I love the
fact that he’s made that move. He’s a great role model for me, because that’s
exactly where I want to go, except adding on choreography, too.
KW: Well, this is as good a time as any to ask the Columbus Short question.
Are you happy?
TA: Am I happy? I am ecstatic! People have been telling me that I don’t look
happy because I have to control myself to contain myself. If I let myself go,
my erotic self will come out and I’ll do something.
KW: Is there a question that nobody has asked you, that you wish somebody
would?
TA: Yeah, will you ever quit dancing?
KW: Okay, will you ever quit dancing?
TA: Never. Dancing is part of my life.
KW: Are you at all like your character in How She Move?
TA: That character, Michelle, is inside me, my inner self. I contain her. But
if you tick me off, Michelle will come out more than you’ve ever seen
her.
KW: Do you still live in Canada, or have you moved to Hollywood?
TA: I love Canada, But I’m making the move to L.A. in February.
KW: This is a good time for the Jimmy Bayan question. Where in L.A. will you
live?
TA: I’ll probably stay in North Hollywood, though, to be honest, I’d rather
stay in West Hollywood.
KW: Do you have your next project lined up yet?
TA: Actually, no.
KW: Who would you like to act opposite?
TA: I’d like to make movies with some up and coming actors.
KW: Any advice for those who’d like to follow in your footsteps?
TA: You have to believe in yourself first for anyone else to believe in you.
And once you’ve done that, you have to follow your energy. Everybody has a
divine-inspired energy. Accept it, don’t reflect it.
KW: Is there a way fans can get in touch with you?
TA: Yes they can visit my new website at www.tre-lystikz.com.
KW: Thanks for the time, Tré, and I hope when you break big, I’ll able to
get another interview with you.
TA: You know what? I’ll make sure that happens. Thanks you so much!
Leafs Make Change At The Top
Excerpt from www.thestar.com
- Kevin Mcgran, Star.Com Staff
(January 22, 2008) The Toronto Maple Leafs have fired
general manager John
Ferguson and replaced him with Cliff Fletcher on an interim basis. The team announced
the move today.
"After full consideration of the Leafs' situation, it has become clear
that change and a new direction is needed," Richard Peddie, president and
CEO of Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, said in a statement. "The
decision has been made that John will not be receiving a new contract at the
end of this year, and it's in the best interests of the Leafs and of John to
begin the transition immediately."
Peddie said at a news conference today that Fletcher's role would be to
establish a foundation from which the next general manager can build, and the
search for a permanent president and GM would begin immediately.
Fletcher said today that he had signed a 19-month contract with the Leafs that
begins with his role as interim GM and the remainder as a consultant with the
team. No firm date for his move from GM to consultant, adding he had no
interest in being long-term general manager of the Leafs.
Peddie said the next Leafs general manager would be both a long-term builder
and a short-term fixer.
"Sports attorney Gord Kirke and I will form the search team that will
ultimately recommend the next president and general manager to the board of
directors. (Fletcher) will serve as a resource to us in that process,"
Peddie said.
Fletcher was asked today about the future of Leafs captain Mats Sundin, who is
free to walk away from the team at season's end; he could be traded for a
package of prospects and draft picks, helping the Leafs build for the future.
After calling Sundin one of the greatest players to wear the Leafs jersey,
Fletcher said he felt the team should "do what's right for Mats." He
added that Sundin holds a no-trade clause in his contract and that would affect
any move made with the captain. Fletcher would not comment further about
specifics regarding the team's personnel and the NHL trade deadline, Feb. 26.
Despite going 3-1 in their last four games, Toronto remains five points out of
the final playoff berth in the NHL's Eastern Conference. The Maple Leafs host
the Washington Capitals tomorrow.
"John has been given the opportunity and the resources he requested to
deliver results from the strategic plans that he put in place when he was named
general manager in 2003, and while the new collective bargaining agreement
required some re-shaping of those plans, the results have fallen short of what
our organization, including John, and our fans expect," added Peddie.
"We will always be grateful to John for his passion, dedication and
commitment to putting a winning team on the ice. He's a man of the highest
integrity, who withstood often unfair public criticism with dignity and class.
He represented our organization and our community in a first class manner. We
wish him well in what we expect will be a long and productive hockey
career."
Fletcher had a year remaining on his deal as a consultant to the Phoenix
Coyotes, and the Leafs had almost all of last week to speak with him after
receiving approval from the Coyotes to negotiate with him while he was still
under contract. That process, though, required a formal salary offer to
Fletcher.
Ferguson became the 12th general manager in Leafs franchise history on August
29, 2003. Over his tenure Toronto had a combined record of 145 wins, 110
losses, 10 ties, 13 overtime losses, and 17 shootout losses for a .559 winning
percentage.
Urban Music Awards Launches In The
Caribbean
Source: www.caribbeannetnews.com / www.caribbeaninternetnetwork.com
(January 22, 2008) OCHO RIOS,
Jamaica: The 1st annual Caribbean Urban Music Awards launches in Jamaica on the April 26, 2008 in
Ocho Rios. The Urban Music Awards is one of the biggest international awards
ceremonies held in the USA, UK, France, and Germany and broadcast worldwide to
an audience of 14.5 million viewers.
The UMAs celebrated its 5th anniversary in 2007 by launching for the first time
in New York on July 7, 2007. The Urban Music Awards was born out of the
need to build a worldwide and independent awards ceremony to recognise the
achievement of 100% urban based artists, producers, club nights, DJs, radio
stations, record labels and artistes that are a product of the current urban
music scene.
With over 3 million urban music fans nominating and voting on the official UMA
website internationally per year and urban music being the official biggest
selling music genre in the world. Invincible Media Group's 'Urban Music Awards'
has become synonymous with great music and leading a fashion that is set to
become even bigger in 2008 and beyond.
From its inception all nominations and voting have been left for the
public to decide. The public submit their nominees online for all 10
categories, with voting to be announced in February 2008 at a press conference
in Kingston, Jamaica.
For 5 years, the awards ceremony has been covered by: CNN, Vibe Magazine, BET,
MTV, The BBC World Service, Hot 97, VH1, BBC Radio 1, BBC Entertainment Online,
Invincible TV, Evening Standard, The Metro Newspaper, The Independent, The
Guardian, Invincible, Channel 4, CD: UK, London Tonight, Choice fm, Daily Star,
New York Daily, New Nation, The Voice, and many more.
Chris Mitchell, Marketing Manager of Invincible Media Group & Urban Music
Awards said: "The growth of the Urban Music Awards since it was launched
by Invincible Media Group seven years ago has been incredible. As one of
the biggest international Music Awards ceremonies, we are proud to launch the
Caribbean Urban Music Awards for the first time annually in the Jamaica. We
plan to make this a people's choice awards ceremony which will serve to promote
Caribbean music and artists internationally to millions of homes like never
before."
In a move to unite all the Islands of the Caribbean via the Caribbean Urban
Music Awards. the Urban Music Awards team has announced that it has entered
into a licensing agreement to create a brand new television show.
Launching in the Caribbean in February, North America in May and the United
Kingdom in August 2008, the Caribbean Next Urban Superstar will be similar to
Britain's Next Urban Superstar and America's Next Urban Superstar. It will be a
unique television show of its kind to be directly associated with a major
awards ceremony. Next Urban Superstar search will become the biggest annual
urban televised singing competition directly associated with the Urban Music
Awards.
The Caribbean's Next Urban Superstar will see the auditioning of thousands
of acts from February 2008 giving a chance for the public to vote for the
winners by SMS text and via the official website.
Aspiring acts will be auditioned from Jamaica, Anguilla, Martinique, Antigua
& Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Curacao, Dominica, French
Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent
& the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago.
Winners from Caribbean's Next Urban Superstar will win a recording &
management contract and will win the chance to perform at the UMAs in Jamaica,
New York, and London all expenses paid). Winners of all 10 of the other
categories at the CUMA awards show will also be determined by the public when
voting commences in February.
Jordan Kensington, CEO of Invincible Media Group & the Urban Music Awards
said. "Invincible is a very iconic and pioneering brand and all our
activities and events to date have been hugely successful. There have been
several television shows dedicated at discovering the next big thing but never
has there been a show solely dedicated to the discovery of the future urban
stars and as the biggest Urban Music Awards ceremony in the world. We feel
launching, the Next Urban Superstar search in the US, UK, and especially the
Caribbean will seek to find, develop, and give a once in a lifetime opportunity
to discover the next Sean Paul, Bob Marley, Beenie Man, Rihanna, Collie Buddz,
Beyonce, Jay-Z, and much more. We are also proud to bring the Urban Music
Awards to the Caribbean as the Caribbean was in need of an awards ceremony that
reflects, promotes and provide worldwide opportunities for the different forms
of Caribbean artists, music and culture."
Some of the acts already confirmed to perform at the Caribbean Urban Music
Awards include Sizzla, Collie Buddz, Bobby Valentino and many more to be
confirmed.
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Pete Rock Is 'NY'S Finest'
Source: kimberly@theorchard.com
(January 18, 2008) Legendary hip hop producer Pete Rock is preparing
for the release of his new album, NY's
Finest, on February 26 via Nature Sounds records.
The album is his first in four years, and was produced almost entirely by Pete
Rock, with one track contributed by producer Green Lantern.
"I called it [NY's Finest] because I feel like that's me. I'm one of New
York 's finest producers," Pete Rock explains.
In fact, not only is Pete Rock one of New York 's finest producers, but the
album itself is one of Pete Rock's finest creations. He even pays homage to the
classic James Brown double-disc, Hell, with the cover art.
Fans have already caught a glimpse of what to expect from NY's Finest with new
single "We Roll" featuring Jim Jones, along with b-side "Till I
Retire" (in stores now) and "914" featuring Styles P and Sheek
Louch.
The record also features appearances by Wu-Tang's Raekwon and Masta Killa,
Papoose, Little Brother, and Redman. A special iTunes version of the album will
also contain a bonus track with Slum Village .
Listen to Pete Rock's "We Roll" from NY's Finest (Nature Sounds)
http://dev.theorchard.com/jaclyn/mp3/peterock_weroll.mp3
Listen to Pete Rock's "Till I Retire" from NY's Finest (Nature
Sounds)
http://dev.theorchard.com/jaclyn/mp3/peterock_tilliretire.mp3
Listen to Pete Rock's "914" featuring Sheek Louch (Nature Sounds)
http://dev.theorchard.com/jaclyn/mp3/peterock_914_featsheeklouch.mp3
About Pete
Rock:
Born in the Bronx, NY by Jamaican parents, a teenage Pete Rock first hit
the scene in the late 80's when he joined legendary DJ/producer Marley Marl on
NY station WBLS' show "In Control With Marley Marl." The
popularity of the radio show soon led Pete Rock to experiment with production.
In 1991, he was joined by up-and-coming rapper CL Smooth and released the debut
EP, All Souled Out.
In 1992, the duo dropped Mecca And The Soul Brother, one of the most critically
acclaimed hip-hop albums of all time. Pete and CL eventually released The Main
Ingredient in 1994. Although the album was very well received by critics and
fans alike, the project marked the last effort for the duo.
Since then, Pete Rock has lent his production skills to some of the greatest
MC's. He crafted and remixed hits for Nas, Biggie, Jeru The Damaja, and, more
recently, Jim Jones, Talib Kweli's Ear Drum, Redman's Red's Gone Wild and
Ghostface, for whom he produced tracks for Fishscale, one of music critics'
favourite hip hop albums of 2006LA Reid Previews New Janet And Mariah Tracks
Excerpt from www.eurweb.com
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forthcoming 11th studio album is "That Chick," according to reports from a joint
listening party held in the UK for both her album and Janet Jackson's new disc, "Discipline."
Island Def Jam chairman Antonio "LA" Reid, who hosted the affair at a
hotel theatre in central London, played assembled press 10 tracks from
"That Chick," including “Migrate,” featuring T-Pain; "Heat"
produced by Will I Am; "Cruise Control" feat. Damien Marley; “Love
You Long Time”; "For Real, For Real"; "Bye Bye"; "Love
Story"; "Touch My Body"; "O.O.C." and the title track.
The album is reportedly due for release on April 1 with the title track set to
hit radio on Jan. 29 as the first single.
Reviews of the various songs may be found at the following sites:
• Matt P's Music Blog
• Mariah
Daily Journal
• Mariah Connection
Meanwhile, Reid played eight tracks from Janet's Feb. 26
release, "Discipline": the Rodney Jerkins-produced first single
"Feedback," as well as "Tonight," "Love, Love,
Love," "This Can't Be Good," "Rock With You,"
"Rollercoaster," "Greatest Ex Ever" and the title
track.
Further details about Janet's "Discipline" tracks may be found at DiscoPop.
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Ike Turner's Death Ruled Cocaine
Overdose
Excerpt from www.globeandmail.com
- Associated Press
(January 17, 2008) SAN DIEGO — Rock 'n' roll pioneer Ike
Turner's death last month at age 76 was caused by
a cocaine overdose, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's office said
Wednesday.
“We are listing that he abused cocaine, and that's what resulted in the cocaine
toxicity,” said Paul Parker, chief investigator at the medical examiner's
office.
The medical examiner's office also listed hypertensive cardiovascular disease
and pulmonary emphysema as “significant and contributing factors” to Turner's
death, Parker said.
A telephone call from The Associated Press seeking comment from the attorney of
Turner's daughter, Mia Turner, was not immediately returned.
Turner, whose musical accomplishments were overshadowed by his image as the man
who brutally abused former wife Tina Turner, died Dec. 12 after years of drug
abuse. He was jailed in 1989 and served 17 months.
Turner once told the AP he originally began using drugs to stay awake and
handle the rigours of non-stop touring during his glory years.
“My experience, man, with drugs — I can't say that I'm proud that I did drugs,
but I'm glad I'm still alive to convey how I came through,” he said. “I'm a
good example that you can go to the bottom. ... I used to pray, ‘God, if you
let me get three days clean, I will never look back.' But I never did get to
three days. You know why? Because I would lie to myself. And then only when I
went to jail, man, did I get those three days. And man, I haven't looked back
since then.”
But while he would readily admit to drug abuse, Turner always denied abusing
his ex-wife. In her 1987 autobiography, “I, Tina,” Tina Turner told of a brutal
pattern of abuse.
After years out of the spotlight his career finally began to revive in 2001
when he released the album “Here and Now.” The recording won rave reviews and a
Grammy nomination and finally helped shift some of the public's attention away
from his troubled past and onto his musical legacy.
Turner spent his later years making more music and touring, even while he
battled emphysema.
Jolene Higgins A Small Town Girl At
Heart
Excerpt from www.thestar.com
- Greg Quill, Entertainment Columnist
(January 18, 2008) Her first instrument was a piano, a
saloon mini-grand her father hauled into their home in Independence, Kan., one
night. That's where Jolene Higgins more or less grew up, the dimpled daughter of an oil man who apparently
knew a good deal when he spotted one.
Jolene – better known in contemporary music circles as rising retro-country
blues star Little Miss Higgins – immediately carved her name in it, then
settled into scales that would eventually lead to Mendelssohn, Brahms and
Mozart.
"It was a small prairie town much like the one we'd left behind in
southern Alberta," Higgins said over the phone from her present home in
Nokomis, Sask., another small prairie town – this one located about halfway
between Saskatoon and Regina.
Nokomis was at one time the point where the Canadian Pacific and Canadian
National rail lines crossed in that neck of the woods. These days it's a small
and isolated bit of the Prairies' fabled past, home to just 400 souls.
Nevertheless, Nokomis is well served on Higgins' sophomore album, Junction
City, in which the town's past and present abide comfortably together in
original songs that reverberate – quite literally – with the twang of pre-rock
blues and post-Carter Family country music, and come alive in Little Miss
Higgins' plaintive, high-pitched holler.
It's a voice that reminds those old enough to remember of Memphis Minnie and
Billy Holiday, of the rough roadhouse beginnings of rockabilly, and of the same
line of empowered female blues and jazz singers who also inspired American
roots music diva Maria Muldaur.
That's a long way from her classical music beginnings, admitted Higgins, who
spent two post-secondary school years studying theatre, and a third studying
music and drama at the B.C. Conservatory of Music on Vancouver Island.
By then she had abandoned the piano for the electric guitar – an early 1960s
Kay hollow body with a massive single-coil pickup is her preferred weapon – and
graceful airs for primordial rock 'n' roll, that quaint and inflammatory mix of
blues and country music, with their sexy bent scales, profane rhythms and
soulfully flattened notes.
"Everything changed after we moved back to Saskatchewan at age 13,"
explained Higgins, who's both a featured performer and a contender in the Best
New Artist/Group category at the 11th annual Maple Blues Awards gala and
concert Monday night at the Mod Club.
Other performers include Dawn Tyler Watson, Downchild, Colin James, Jack de
Keyzer, Lance Anderson, Michael Fonfara, Bill King, Shakura S'Aida and Garrett
Mason.
(Tickets are $32 at 416-538-3885 or ticketpro.ca. For more details go to
torontobluessociety.com.)
"That's when I heard Billy Holiday for the first time ... then Memphis
Minnie, who was really cool because she also played guitar, and Big Bill
Broonzy."
Higgins' musical world was soon bound by the songs, stories, mannerisms,
fashions, and ribald excess of the all but forgotten artists who were the
unwitting pioneers of rock 'n' roll in the 1930s and '40s. It helped, she
noted, that they lived very theatrical lives, onstage and off.
"My training in the theatre gave me the confidence to be in the moment as
a performer, as a storyteller and as a singer. For this kind of music you have
to be in the moment."
Recorded in Calgary with producer Tim Williams and sound engineer Rob Smith, Junction
City is a collaboration with Higgins' musical and life partner, guitarist
Foy Taylor. The album has already earned rave notices and the attention of
concert and programmers for this summer's Winnipeg Folk Music Festival,
Summerfolk in Owen Sound and the Kitchener Blues Festival.
"It will be nice to finally get east," said Higgins, who made her
Toronto debut this past October at the Free Times Café. "But it's also
nice to get back to a place like Nokomis, somewhere quiet, with a house and
garden.
"I get all the inspiration I need right here."
Raheem Devaughn: Soulster's New 'Woman'
Track Gets Grammy Nod
Excerpt from www.eurweb.com - By Kenya M
Yarbrough
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soul music some love in 2005 with the hit
song “Guess Who Loves You More,” his first solo single released on a major
label.
The track and another stunner “You,” came from his Jive Records debut “The Love
Experience,” which showcased his very R&B-hippie-soul-rock style.
Now, DeVaughn’s released the follow-up to the acclaimed and very popular first
disc. The new project, “Love Behind the Melody” has already gone beyond buzz.
The first single, “Woman,” is a fave anthem for the femmes and garnered
DeVaughn a Grammy nomination for a Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.
“This is a complete album of love songs,” DeVaughn said of the disc. “I did it
like that purposely, but I couldn’t do it without an anthem like that. It’s
just a conscious tribute, paying homage to women in general. Putting the album
together, I stepped back and asked, ‘What’s missing?’. But off the success of
the ‘You’ record off the last album, I just felt like I still needed that
anthem.”
Though the singer followed a bit of the game plan from his first disc, his look
isn’t so much a repeat; cutting the braids and trading them in for a suit.
“It’s about reinventing yourself,” he said of the image change. “You can’t stay
the same way forever. It was time to grow up; cutting the braids and throwing
on a suit. At the end of the day, I think [my fans] connect with my inner
beauty, so it’s all good.”
While DeVaughn’s debut disc was critically acclaimed and his new single has
captured a Grammy nod, the soulster admittedly hasn’t hit his highest
potential. He told EUR’s Lee Bailey, however, that it’s just a matter of time –
a matter of a lifetime career.
“Out here in the DC area, I’m pretty much a household name; from like Baltimore
down to VA,” DeVaughn said. “I sold a quarter of a million with the first album
so far and it’s still selling. The majority of that was sold in this area. I
think it’s taken that mentality and movement that I’ve created here and it’s
starting to spread out. Nothing happens overnight and I wouldn’t have it happen
any other way. The type of following that I’m building is a following for a
lifetime.”
DeVaughn explained that since he comes from a background of putting out his own
music independently, his approach to success in music is putting out good
product and letting it marinate.
“On any given day I would rather sell 70,000 the first week and then continue
to sell and end up selling 10 million two or three years from now than to sell
350,000 the first week and the album just kind of fizzle out. I think the slow
grind is the best grind,” he said.
DeVaughn, who is also featured on the remix to Alicia Keys’ “No One” single,
said that he put together the latest album with a more rigid preparation.
Still, even while he was working on “Love Behind the Melody,” he was also
putting together tracks for a second disc he’s already titled ‘The Love &
War Masterpeace Project,’ and even considered releasing the two together as a
double album.
“It’s a socially conscious love album,” he said, It’s definitely designed for
people to fall in love and make babies. It’s like my version of the Marvin Gaye
‘I Want You’ album. I think where it’s different, I’m not touching any socially
conscious issues – I’m waiting to have that on the next album.”
Which, well, is already ready.
For more on Raheem DeVaughn, the new disc, and tour dates check out www.raheemdevaughnonline.com or
his MySpace – which he actually checks and updates personally at www.myspace.com/Devaughnenterprises.
Ne-Yo Sings For Smokey
Excerpt from www.eurweb.com
(January 22, 2008) *Some of the biggest names in show
business were on hand last September at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium to
witness Smokey Robinson being presented with the United Negro
College Fund's Award of Excellence at the "An Evening of Stars"
taping. The vent will air this weekend.
In accepting the award Robinson was classy and humble as ever. The Motown great
has touched many hearts and minds of millions of fans. Some of those fans have
gone on to become great fans of his. Anita Baker, Joss Stone, Ne-Yo, John
Legend and Yolonda Adams to name but a few.
EURweb was one the scene that evening and we found another star, among the
many, who was influenced by Robinson. Pop sensation Ne-Yo was so inspired that
he felt emboldened enough to sing Smokey's "Cruisin'" with the legend
on hand.
"It's hard to put it into words," Ne-Yo told our reporter.
"I just hope and pray that I lived up to his standards. That I
didn't get up there and disrespect his song."
Show business moves at a lightening fast pace. In fact, the night moved along
so quickly for Ne-Yo after the performance that he didn't even get a chance to
meet the one who he says he wishes to model his career after. Ne-Yo told
our reporter that he would have simply asked Smokey for the secret to his
career longevity, that's all.
"How do you do it," said Ne-Yo. "How do you keep making number
one hits? How do you keep making classic records over and over and over
again? I think that is the question any songwriter would ask."
"If I could do that," he continued "They'll probably be having one
of these events for me some day."
We would dare tell Ne-Yo not to fear about his maintaining his own great
success. Some think it's only a matter of time, but Ne-Yo knows it's not
as easy as he sometimes makes it look.
"Let us pray," he joked.
Early on Ne-Yo has proven himself to be a triple threat in the entertainment
industry. When asked to choose his between acting, singing and
songwriting, he chose his original love.
"Mine would probably be songwriting," he responded.
Motown has always been the inspiring engine for Ne-Yo.&nb
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