Whitney Houston dies at 48
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...
Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra dies
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...
Tenor Licitra injured in road accident
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...
Amy Winehouse found dead in her home
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 officially launches in the US
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...
Timberlake is bringing MySpace back
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...
Import your playlists with Groovylist
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: From Malta to Scunthorpe
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...
Spotify to power Facebook Music?
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...
Spotify secures 100 Million USD in funding
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,...
SoundCloud reaches 5 million users
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 in the US
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...
