UPDATE: Licitra was pronounced clinically dead on 5 September 2011. The Swizz-Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra (43) is in intensive care at the Garibaldi hospital in Catania, Sicilia, after having suffered an accident last night travelling to Modica (Ragusa), where the acclaimed tenor were to pick up a prize on 3 September. The Italian paper La...
Following the anticipated Requiem of Verdi at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Sunday 24 July, Joseph Calleja visited the BBC breakfast show Monday morning, where he sang “O sole mio” a cappella. Monday was also the launch in the UK of Calleja’s new album for Decca, “The Maltese tenor.” Calleja was introduced as “one...
The polemic British pop singer was found dead in her London apartment Saturday. The police has so far not given any cause of death. Winehouse struggled with drugs and alcohol throughout her life and recently cancelled her European tour after a botched performance in Belgrade, Serbia. Winehouse returned to London to recover, but was found dead...
The UK music service WE7 launched in the UK April 2007 as a download site, then shifted focus in November 2008 to streaming music. In February 2010 WE7 embraced the freemium business model by offering an advert-free service for a monthly subscription. The service claims over 3 million users and 6.8 million tracks for streaming in the...
Joseph Calleja takes the stage tomorrow Saturday 9 July with Italian pop icon Lucio Dalla and the New Zealand classical cross-over artist Hayley Westenra. Since the first summer concert at the Fort Manoel in Valletta July 2006, the concert series has become an annual, much anticipated event and a staple in the Maltese cultural summer calendar. It is the...
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation sold the former popular social website MySpace late June for the meager sum of 35 million USD, 65 million less than they initially were looking for. The highest bidder was the online advertising specialists SpecificMedia, who has partnered with singer and actor Justin Timberlake to bring the social network...
You are perhaps using last.fm, Spotify or iTunes to stream your music? Now you can import your playlists to Grooveshark, the freemium on demand US streaming music service, using the nifty, little application Groovylists. Groovylists takes your playlist from Spotify, last.fm or exported iTunes XML playlists and adds them to Grooveshark. The service is the...
Joseph Calleja visited the BBC studios in London and the Andrew Marr show on 26 June, where he performed live on air. The Maltese tenor sang the aria “E lucevan le stelle” from Puccini’s opera “Tosca.” Calleja described Puccini as his desert island composer because of the human soul in the composer, saying Puccini knew...
The US launch of music service Spotify could be imminent as the company secures 100 million US dollars in funding. Reports have it the that the London-based Swedish startup has been negotiating for six months to conclude the round. Funds come from the private investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, one of the major shareholders in Facebook,...
Launched in 2008, the social audio platform SoundCloud founded by the Swedes Alexander Jung and Eric Wahlforss just reached 5 million users. The news were made known in the SoundCloud blog on 15 June, where an infographic was posted showing the explosive growth of the cloud service. According to Jung, 4 million of the users have signed...
Spotify signs a deal with Universal The popular technology blog All Things Digital was the first to report Friday that the popular Swedish music subscription service had signed an American distribution deal with Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music label. With deals already signed with EMI Music Group and Sony, Spotify is closer to launching...
Users of the online storage service DropBox can now stream any music files stored in their account via an additional service called DropTunes. DropTunes is an application that sits on top of DropBox, and a user only have to log in with his DropBox credentials to start using the service. DropTunes creates a /Public/DropTunes folder...
