The report of the death of soul music icon Whitney Houston comes on the evening of the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The pop legend was in Los Angeles for a party prior to the Grammy Awards. She was found dead in her room in a Beverly Hills hotel on Saturday. She was only 48. At...
The Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra was pronounced clinically dead this morning, Monday 5 September, at the Garibaldi hospital in Catania, Sicily. Licitra had suffered an accident on his Vespa scooter on Saturday 27 August. Licitra, who was not wearing a helmet, was seriously injured to the chest and head when loosing control over his scooter...
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...
Spotify has officially launched in the US. The company announced today that the streaming music service finally is available in the world’s largest music market. The US service does not differ much from what is offered in Europe and prices are as anticipated: $9.99 for the premium streaming plan and $4.99 for the “unlimited” plan. The...
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...
It has been rumoured for a long time that Facebook and Spotify were planning an integrated music service that would extend beyond the current facility in Spotify where, using Facebook Connect, users can connect to friends on Facebook and share playlists and songs from the Spotify music library. The project has been dubbed Facebook Music...
