Thursday 13 February 2014

Did you know Mariah Carey sleeps 15 hours a night in a room full of air humidifiers before her live concerts?

Sleeping more than 15 hours a night is way beyond the recommended 7-8 hours a day for human adults. "I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to," Mariah Carey told Interview magazine in 2007. Well, sleep varies across ages and are impacted by lifestyle and health. But this award winning Diva Mariah Carey sleeps 15 hours a night in a room full of air humidifiers before her live concerts. "It's bleak, but you gotta do what you gotta do… I live in my own little universe." 

Moisture is everything for Mariah because she needs to take care of her five-octave vocal range referred to as the "songbird supreme" by the Guinnes World Records. One's vocal folds require moisture to work effectively. Ideally wet enough to vibrate up to 1700 times every second.

Homes with dry air only need one humidifier, but Mariah prefers to sleep with a whopping 20 humidifiers in her sleeping quarters because she thinks that it can aid her voice by keeping her surrounding atmosphere moist. Plus it gives her healthier skin and/or allergy relief. "Literally, I'll have 20 humidifiers around my bed," she told V magazine. "Basically, it's like sleeping in a steam room."  It was Luther Vandross from whom she learned this trick.

Furthermore, there are other singers that were rumored heavily to take a humidifier wherever they go, especially during a tour of before another important performance. They are Mary J. Blige, Celine Dion and Britney Spears.


Thursday 6 February 2014

Did you know that Rihana's tweets led to multiple arrests?

Rihanna is now crowned as the ultimate social media queen. Every time she tweets or Instagrams, millions of followers sees it, even people in Thailand. Even authorities have been watching her feed closely and arresting people that she mentions in her account. 

On her trip to Phuket, Thailand on her Diamonds world tour, the singer took a selfie pic holding a slow loris (vulnerable or endangered animal) and posted to her Instagram page with a caption "Look who was talkin dity to me!"  


Unaware of the end results of her post, she was already aiding the local authorities to arrest two young men (20-year-old and 16-year-old males) for violating the law of prohibiting Thai citizens from charging tourists money to take photos with the endangered primate.

Rihanna's picture went viral with more than 232,000 views that led to Thailand's Ministry of Natural Resources began investigating. 

Another incident that Rihanna deserves her new title as the Ultimate Social Media Queen, the singer posted a few NSFW tweets about taking in an X-rated sex show in Phuket' red-light district, also raised eyebrows among law enforcement officials who noted such shows were against the law.

Rihanna can now add crime-fighter to her resume now.

Needless to say, after partaking in the Thai nightlife, Rihanna's global trek has since moved on to Singapore, after which the "Disturbia" star will head Down Under for a series of dates  in Australia. Hopefully, she'll stick to taking selfies of non endangered specieslike the koala?!


Thursday 30 January 2014

Did you know that "Umbrella" song was supposedly for Britney and not Rihanna?

Christopher Stewart, composer of the "Umbrella" song said that it was Britney Spears he had in mind to sing that song because Chris had worked with the pop star Britney on her 2003 album "In The Zone". However Britney's camp told Chris that they already had a lot of tracks lined up for the new album. 

Chris said "Her current state was a little bizarre, you know? It wasn't meant to be"

It was a Grammy season and Christopher Stewart set their sights on getting the record on Mary J Blige, who was nominated for 8 awards, but they also sent the track to Rihanna's label. "In a two-day period, we were in the bidding war of our lives," Stewart said while laughing. Mary Blige wasn't able to hear the song right away because she was very busy with her Grammy obligations. But Rihanna's label were relentlessly in pursuit of the record for the burgeoning star.

In an interview with MTV News, Mary J. Blige revealed that this song was originally written for her by Tricky Stewart and The-Dream. She said, "They did the song for me. And it was during the Grammy time and I was really, really busy, and I heard it, and I was like, 'Oh my goodness, that's a smash. I love this song.' And it was like, 'It's yours.' So in the midst of it being mine, they were probably telling [Rihanna] it was hers. She's such a beautiful lady, and I love her to death. I was so glad that she caught it and knocked it out of the park, and it's still one of my favorite songs to date."

Rihanna was in Los Angeles studio laying down her vocals. Chris Stewart was still unsure if Rihanna was the right choice for the song. When the singer sang the famous "ella" refrain, he knew they were all onto something.

"When she recorded the 'ellas,' you knew it was about to be the jump-off," he said, "and your life was about to change if you had anything to do with that record."

"It's crazy, just being a part of that," Stewart said. "I've seen a lot of things in my time in the music business, but to see a record take off like that, it's just amazing."

The song has earned Rihanna several awards and nominations. In 2008, "Umbrella" earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.






                                                 Source: WikipediaArtistfacts, MTV.comRollingStoneMusic

                                    


Thursday 23 January 2014

Did you know that "Just The Way You Are" earned Bruno Mars a Grammy Award?

"Just The Way You Are" earned Bruno Mars a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 53rd Grammy Awards?

"Just the Way You Are" has sold 12.5 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time. "Just The Way You Are" is a pop and R&B song with an instrumentation that features piano, keyboard sounds and breakbeat. The instruments are arranged into what critics described as a "nice smooth ballad with vocals".

Bruno said of the song, "It took me months to come up with 'Just the Way You Are'... I wasn't thinking of anything deep or poetic. I was telling a story. Get ready to fall in love!" He added, "I'm a big fan of songs like Joe Cocker's 'You Are So Beautiful' and Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight' - songs that go straight to the point. You know, there's no mind-boggling lyrics or twists in the story - they just come directly from the heart. And to me 'Just The Way You Are' is one of those songs. There's nothing mind-blowing about it. I'm just telling a woman she looks beautiful the way she IS - and, let's be honest, what woman doesn't wanna hear those lyrics?!"

Mars' A&R who was responsible for finding songs and songwriters to help in the process of composing the song, Aaron Bay-Schuck, told HitQuarters that as soon as "Just the Way You Are" was finished they knew they had the first single, saying:

"It had a massive chorus, an instantly memorable melody and lyric, and was a natural transition from the B.o.B and Travie McCoy songs ... [Also] it didn’t sound like anything else on the radio. It had everything we could want in a first single for Bruno."

His real name is Peter Gene Hernandez. He was nicknamed "Bruno" by his father at the age of two, because he was a chubby kid and there was a famous chubby wrestler at the time named Bruno Sammartino. At the start of his career he added "Mars" to his stage name because "a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars."



Thursday 16 January 2014

Did you know that a man paid $1 million to be in a Lady Gaga video?



A Russian billionaire, an extremely wealthy person based in Moscow is a huge fan of Lady Gaga that goes by the nickname "Arkady" paid ONE MILLION DOLLARS just to appear in Lady Gaga's music video "Alejandro".

This 30 year old Lady Gaga fan was so obsessed with the star that he offered to pay her so that his love for her would be immortalized in one of her videos. "Alejandro" is a 9-minute mini movie. Musically, it is composed as a mid-tempo synthpop song with an uplifting melody. Contemporary critics predominantly gave positive reviews for it and noted its heavy influence from pop groups like ABBA, Ace of Base and Madonna.

Upon release, "Alejandro" charted again in the United Kingdom as well as in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States while topping the Finnish, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, and Romanian charts. "Alejandro" became Gaga's seventh successive single to reach the top-ten of the US Billboard Hot 100.

"Arkady" can be seen wearing SS like attire and black leather in a quick shot. When asked for comment, he responded, "Yes it was me in the clip, but I can't give further details." Obviously, the Lady has sworn him to secrecy, and we can't even begin to imagine what inventive punishment he faces if he breaks the vow.

Thursday 9 January 2014

Did you know that Jay-Z used to write down ryhmes on a paper bag?


Deep in the heart of Jay-Z, he knew that rap offered him the best opportunity to get out of the drug business. He said "Rap was my way out, the only talent I had, and my shot of making something of myself. And it was legal!"

In an interview with NPR, Jay shared how he began putting down rhymes: "I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice — anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. As I got further and further away from home and my notebook, I had to memorize these rhymes — longer and longer and longer. By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper — my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape"
 
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known by his stage name Jay-Z (sometimes styled Jay Z or JAY Z), is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is one of the most financially successful hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs in America. In 2012, Forbes estimated Carter's net worth at nearly $500 million. He has sold approximately 75 million records worldwide from all of his albums, while receiving 17 Grammy Awards for his musical work, and numerous additional nominations. Consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was ranked number one by MTV in their list of The Greatest MCs of All-Time in 2006. Three of his albums, Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001), and The Black Album (2003), are considered landmarks in the genre with all of them featured in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Jay-Z went back to selling drugs after  his recording job with Jaz-O, but music was becoming his main focus. He described this in an interview cited in Jay-Z... and the Roc-A-Fella Dynasty.

"Ironically, using memorization to hold on to my lines is the way I develop the writing style I use today. No pen, paper, or paper bags needed. Just point out the track and I'm all over it....and yet... I also became fully committed to putting my hustle down. I kept moving further south-from Trenton, NJ, to Maryland, and finally to Virginia. I spent less and less time in New York, but when I did come h ome, I would go to parties and jump on the mike, freestyling here and there."

Knowing that selling drugs would never be enough to get  him and his family out of the projects, Jay-Z constantly worked on honing his craft-his rhymes, his flow, everything that went into the technique of rapping. He also know from the beginning that the subjecct of his raps would be his life and the lives of others like him living in poverty in the project. According to Jay-Z... and the Roc-A-Fella Records Dynasty, he know that his goal as a rapper would be "to have a conversation with the world...I'm telling the world my plight. I was speaking about the people and the neighborhoods and mentality of someone who comes from nothing. ..I didn't want to sell drugs. I want a better life."





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Thursday 19 December 2013

Did you know that Barry Manilow's chart topping song entitled "I write the songs" wasn’t written by him?

"I Write the Songs" made famous by Barry Manilow reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1976  after spending two weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart in December 1975. That song was not actually written by Barry Manilow. It was written by Bruce Johnston, who is a member of The Beach Boys.

The song is sometimes erroneously rumored to be about Brian Wilson. Johnston cleared this up when he told us: "The Captain & Tennille were the first artists to record my song 'I Write The Songs.' I never wrote 'I Write The Songs' about Brian Wilson. I wrote it about 'where music comes from' (for me, music comes only from God). My song has nothing to do with Brian! I admire Brian Wilson's great melodies and, as a member of the Beach Boys, I'm singing these fantastic songs in concert year after year."

This won a Grammy for Song Of The Year. The Beach Boys never won a Grammy - after winning this, Johnston became the only member of the group to get one until Brian Wilson's "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" was awarded Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2005.

From the liner notes of The Complete Collection And Then Some...: Manilow was originally reluctant to record this song, saying to Arista Records chief Clive Davis, "This 'I Write The Songs' thing Clive, I really don't want to do it." Manilow says his worry "was that the listeners would think I was singing about how "I" write the songs, when it was really about the inspiration of music. Clive understood, but didn't think it would be a problem. "Besides," he told me, "You DO write songs!" Manilow says he was concerned about coming off as a gigantic egomaniac, but that he liked the song so much he decided to record it. He adds, "Whenever I heard the song in public, I felt the need to run to everyone who was listening and say, 'You know, I'm really not singing about myself!'"

Bruce Johnston shared his Song of the Year Grammy award with Barry Manilow.