Tag Archives: music and dance

[ad_1] Abu Dhabi CNN  —  Anghami describes itself as the largest music streaming app for the Middle East and North Africa. Launched in Beirut in 2012 by Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun, it was quickly dubbed “the Spotify of the Middle East.” Now headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Anghami is growing …

[ad_1] Yeoncheon, South Korea CNN  —  K-pop supergroup BTS entered a new era on Tuesday as Jin, its oldest member, began his mandatory military service amid tight security at an army training center in South Korea. Jin, 30, will spend 18 months in uniform after crossing into the Yeoncheon army …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Global pop sensation Blackpink have been chosen as Time magazine’s 2022 Entertainer of the Year, making the four-woman band the second K-pop artists to earn the title, after BTS in 2020. Selected by YG Entertainment, a big South Korean record label that screens performers for star quality …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Adam Sandler will always Chris Farley. More than twenty years after Farley’s death, Sandler still gets sad when he sings the “Chris Farley Song,” a song he wrote for his late friend and comedian, who died in December 1997 of a drug overdose at age 33. Sandler …

[ad_1] CNN  —  There’s a reason why Christine McVie was considered the heart of Fleetwood Mac. The band’s keyboardist, who died Wednesday after a brief illness at the age of 79, was also the writer of some of the group’s most beloved songs. Here are just five of those tunes: …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Throughout the various personal turmoils for which the members of Fleetwood Mac are known, one relationship buoyed the band for decades: the friendship between its two frontwomen, Christine McVie and Stevie Nicks. McVie joined the band in 1970 during one of its early lineup changes and for …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Christine McVie, the singer-songwriter behind some of Fleetwood Mac’s biggest hits, died Wednesday following a brief illness, according to a statement posted by her family on her verified Instagram account. She was 79. “On behalf of Christine McVie’s family, it is with a heavy heart we are …

[ad_1] CNN  —  The music of the night will continue for eight weeks longer than expected. The Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera” announced in September that it would be closing in February because of declining ticket sales, but plans have changed. On Tuesday, the show’s producer, Cameron Mackintosh, …

[ad_1] CNN  —  Jennifer Grey’s Frances “Baby” Houseman isn’t the only original “Dirty Dancing” character returning for the sequel. The actress told “Extra” that “Baby” will be joined by more characters from the 1987 hit film, though all “quite a few years older.” “I would say that you can count …

[ad_1] Hong Kong CNN  —  A Chinese court in Beijing sentenced Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu, also known as Wu Yifan, to 13 years in jail after finding him guilty of sexual offenses, including rape, the court said in a post on its official Weibo account. Wu rose to fame …