Anthony Fedorov opens in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Fox Theater in Atlanta GA. Through June 26.
Crystal Bowersox will lead the JDRF’s congress traditional performance of the “Promise to Remember Me” song this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. ET at Upper Senate Park, located at 200 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. More information about the JDRF Children’s conference HERE.
Watch David Cook talk about the recording of his song “Take Me As I Am” at his Official Website.
A reporter from ABC News Radio interviewed the producers, Rock Mafia who said that Interscope has decided to sign Pia Toscano. It may not be official because of her AI contract stipulations but it’s going to happen.
Carrie Underwood Wraps Promotional Tour “Down Under”
Carrie Underwood’s trip to Australia to promote the June 10th release of Play On: Deluxe Edition and the Australian film release of “Soul Surfer, ” her big screen debut, concluded this past weekend. During her nearly 2-week visit down under, she posed for magazines, interviewed with countless television programs, radio stations, print publications, and online outlets, as well as delivered standout performances on major Australian television shows including “Dancing With the Stars” and “Sunrise.”
Read more at The Boot
CBS Signs New 10-Year Deal To Carry The Grammy Awards Through 2021
SANTA MONICA, Calif. – June 21, 2011 — The Recording Academy® and CBS announced today a new 10-year deal that will keep Music’s Biggest Night®, the annual GRAMMY Awards® broadcast, on CBS through 2021. The new agreement further extends one of the longest broadcast partnerships in television history. CBS has been the broadcast home of the GRAMMY Awards since 1973. “The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards” will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012, at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles from 8:00-11:30 PM, ET/PT.
Read more at Deadline
Crystal Bowersox Joins Kids to Advocate for Diabetes Research
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Paul McDonald Is ‘Pumped Up’ About Marrying Nikki Reed
While Paul McDonald is busily preparing for American Idol’s summer tour, he’s got another big event in the works.
“I’m getting married – yes – to the lovely Nikki Reed. That’s been really exciting, ” McDonald, 26, tells PEOPLE. “I’m really pumped up about that. She’s an amazing lady, and I’m very lucky to be hanging out with her.”
See the video at People
Lauren Alaina, ‘Like My Mother Does’ – Lyrics Uncovered
Lauren Alaina‘s country music debut, ‘Like My Mother Does, ’ is a song penned by three of Nashville’s most sought after and respected songwriters: Liz Rose, Nathan Chapman and Nicki Williams.
“We wrote it with and for Nicki Williams, ” Rose tells Taste of Country of the song’s lyrics. “Nathan Chapman is not only a brilliant producer, but he is an incredible songwriter. We were writing with Nicki, and he said, ‘I have this great idea … Nicki, let’s write a song about you and your mother, because you are so close, called ‘Like My Mother Does.” Nicki was like, ‘I don’t know.’ We started playing with it. We know Nicki so well that it was really fun to write their relationship.”
Read more at A Taste of Country
Happy Birthday Kris Allen! Today, June 21, You’re 26 Years Old!
Kris Allen is the winner of American Idol, season eight, and he doesn’t lack the talent that is required of an idol. He can sing and play the guitar, viola, piano and keyboard. The star has songs on the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 list among other great achievements! He married his high school sweetheart in 2008.
Read more at Hollywood Life
Dia: The new Pia
Dia Frampton desperately wants to move out of her parents’ house.
The 23-year-old singer-songwriter — and current favorite to win NBC’s “The Voice” — was forced to return home to St. George, Utah, last summer when the band she formed with her sister was dropped by Warner Brothers Records.
“I had moved to New York for a while and was working at a cupcake store called Crumbs, ” she tells The Post. “And I was saving up to take singing lessons. But I ended up moving back, because I couldn’t afford to pay rent.”
Read more at the New York Post
Emmys: The Reality Roundtable
But this crop of talent — Eli Holzman (Undercover Boss), Phil Keoghan (The Amazing Race), Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef), Nigel Lythgoe (American Idol), Drew Pinsky (Celebrity Rehab) and J.D. Roth (The Biggest Loser) — also say their genre has never been more relevant and can actually be a force for good, so long as it’s not the one show on cable that Lythgoe says “drives me crazy.”
See the Video at THR
‘The Voice’s’ EP Mark Burnett on Why The Show Works
As The Voice enters its final two weeks, executive producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice) says he’s happy with the show’s first season out. “The show has really lived up to my expectations, ” he tells The Hollywood Reporter.
“I think the viewership has showed that if it’s fresh and it feels worthy of your time, people will tune in, ” he says. “And we’re seeing that. So, it really lived up to what I wanted.”
“This is a very fast season, ” he says. “I think the fact that we’ll have a longer season next year is great, because you’ll get more of the blind auditions and more of those battle rounds.”
Read more at THR
Exclusive Interview With CMT’s Next Superstar, Matt Mason
After a couple of grueling months in which he and his fellow contestants were put through just about every challenge a budding musical artist could anticipate–Matt Mason has been crowned CMT’s Next Superstar. The 25-year-old Indiana native, who’s been playing and singing since he was in grade school, managed to beat out stiff competition (most markedly soulful crooner and first runner-up Steven Clawson) to win the prize of a recording contract with Warner Music Nashville, as well as a primo opening spot on Luke Bryan’s tour starting this September.
Read more at Yahoo.com
‘She should appear in Glee’: Matthew Morrison advises Cheryl Cole on how to crack the US
It’s good to see that not all Americans have given up on Cheryl Cole making it across the Pond.
Take Matthew Morrison for example who thinks the singer has still got what it takes – as long as she appears on Glee.
Morrison, who plays teacher Will Schuester in the hit TV show, said it would be a good way for the pop star to win over US audiences.
Read more at the Daily Mail
NEWS – Cowell’s mum: ‘Don’t blame my son for Cole drama’
Julie Cowell tells the Daily Express, “I think Cheryl does blame Simon unfairly for what has happened. She got very excited about everything that was going to happen in the US – but the Americans didn’t want her. There isn’t anything Simon could do about that; it isn’t Simon’s fault.
“I didn’t talk to Simon about what was going on. I do sometimes call him and tell him I disagree with him about certain things but there was nothing he could have done for Cheryl.”
However, Julie Cowell also offered some kind words to Cole, adding: “She is beautiful and talented and I’m sure she will do more wonderful things.”
Read more at Yahoo UK
Amy Winehouse cancels rest of European tour
LONDON (AP) — Troubled diva Amy Winehouse has canceled the rest of her European summer concert tour and scrapped all public performances after an embarrassing appearance in Serbia, her spokesman said Tuesday.
Chris Goodman said Winehouse, who has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse, “is withdrawing from all scheduled performances.”
Read more at USA Today
