Teofil Peter (April 11, 1954 – December 4, 2004) was a Romanian rock musician and bass player for Compact.
Peter was killed in a traffic accident at 4:30am on December 4, 2004 when 31-year-old U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Christopher Van Goethem serving as a Marine Security Guard at the U.S. embassy in Bucharest, while driving his Ford Expedition, collided with a taxi carrying Peter. Van Goethem, allegedly drunk, did not obey a traffic signal to stop, which resulted in the collision. Peter was buried on December 7 in Mănăştur Cemetery, in his native Cluj-Napoca.
Van Goethem’s blood alcohol content was estimated at 0.09 from a breathalyzer test, but he refused to give a blood sample for further testing and left for Germany before charges could be filed in Romania. The Romanian government requested the American government lift his diplomatic immunity, which it has refused to do. The Marine was later cleared by a court martial of both manslaughter and adultery while convicted for obstruction of justice and making false statements.
The Peter case has been controversial from the outset. Because VanGoethem was working for the embassy–and was therefore covered by the same Vienna Convention diplomatic immunity clauses extended to other support staff–he was spirited out of Romania the day after the accident, igniting Romanian anger.
Peter’s death and Van Goethem’s court martial were very controversial and led to protests from Romanians in the United States.
In 2005, the U.S. Embassy announced the establishment of a memorial commemorating the life and work of Teo Peter. The memorial is an annual professional visit program awarded to a distinguished Romanian cultural figure whose work addresses young people or helps to advance the careers of new artists and performers.
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located in New York City’s Rockefeller Center. Its nickname is the Showplace of the Nation, and it was for a time the leading tourist destination in the city. Its interior was declared a city landmark in 1978.
The Radio City Music Hall was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone and interior designer Donald Deskey in the Art Deco style. Rockefeller initially planned a new home for the Metropolitan Opera on the site, but after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the plans changed and the opera company withdrew from the project.
The names “Radio City” and “Radio City Music Hall” derive from one of the complex’s first tenants, the Radio Corporation of America. Radio City Music Hall was a project of Rockefeller; Samuel Roxy Rothafel, who previously opened the Roxy Theatre in 1927; and RCA chairman David Sarnoff. RCA had developed numerous studios for NBC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, just to the south of the Music Hall, and the radio-TV complex that lent the Music Hall its name is still known as the NBC Radio City Studios.
Radio City Music Hall is currently leased to and managed by Cablevision. Movie premieres and feature runs have occasionally taken place there but the focus of the theater is now on concerts and live stage shows.
The Music Hall has been the frequent site of the annual televised Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and Daytime Emmy Awards shows.
The picture below was taken September 13th. People was in attendance of the 2009 VMA’s… Hours later at Radio City arrived Pink, Beyoncé, Janet Jackson, Shakira, Nelly Furtado, P.Diddy and many more.
I have to hold up the NY posts… only for today, in order to wish The Boss “Happy Birthday”.
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed “The Boss”, is an American singer-songwriter. He records and tours with the E Street Band.
His most successful studio albums, Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A. Because of his support for the presidential campaigns of Senator John Kerry and Senator Barack Obama, Springsteen has gradually become identified with liberal politics. He is also noted for his support of various relief and rebuilding efforts in New Jersey and elsewhere, and for his response to the September 11th attacks, on which his album The Rising reflects.
He has earned numerous awards for his work, including nineteen Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award, and continues to have a strong global fan base. He has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and 120 million worldwide.
A finales de enero David Bisbal grabó en México, con el productor Armando Ávila, el tema Esclavo de sus besos, primer single de su nuevo trabajo de estudio.
Hace menos de un mes hizo publicó en su sitio web que el nuevo sencillo de su cuarto álbum sería Esclavo de sus besos. El pasado 13 de agosto, en la Ciudad de México y bajo la dirección de Ángel Flores, se rodó el videoclip de este primer single.
El 24 de agosto se lanzó a nivel mundial Esclavo de sus besos en la radio y el 28 de agosto lo cantará por primera vez en vivo, en el Madison Square Garden de Nueva York. Unos días más tarde, el 3 de septiembre, estrenará el vídeo y a finales de octubre su nuevo disco llegará a las tiendas.
Isam Bachiri (born August 1, 1977) is a Danish rapper/singer, who raps for the multi-award winning hip-hop group Outlandish. Isam was born in Denmark and of Moroccan descent. He is well known for his soulful voice, deep and open-minded lyrics. He is a Muslim.
Having released three albums with Outlandish, albums which were mainly recorded in English and Spanish, he released his first solo album in 2007 titled Institution, which was recorded entirely in Danish.
Isam Bachiri mainly writes his own lyrics. The two notable exceptions to this rule are Rene Camboni who has co-written most of his Danish tracks, and Omar Shah who has written / cowritten several tracks on the third Outlandish album Closer Than Veins, as well as Isams lyrics on collaborations with fellow muslim artists Sami Yusuf and Native Deen.
Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in the U.S. according to People en Español’s list of “100 Most Influential Hispanics”.
Starting in 1999, Lopez released seven albums, including two number one albums on the Billboard 200 charts and four Billboard Hot 100 number one singles. She has appeared in numerous films, and has won ALMA Awards for outstanding actress for her work in Selena, Out of Sight, and Angel Eyes.
Media attention has also focused on her personal life. She has had high-profile relationships with Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Sean Combs, Ben Affleck, and Marc Anthony. Her first children, fraternal twins named Max and Emme, were born on February 22, 2008.
I Look At You is the soul diva’s first studio album in seven years and marks her comeback following a much-publicised addiction battle and marriage break-up from Bobby Brown in 2006.
The 45-year-old was introduced at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel near Hyde Park by Clive Davis, the music mogul who first discovered her.
“It’s about making the songs last in the hearts of the people and that’s what we try to do with this album.”
“If you want to cry, you cry, if you want to laugh, you can laugh, if you want to dance, you can dance because that what’s it all about.” I Look At You will be released on August 31, features collaborations with top stars including Alicia Keys and R Kelly.
Although we all were soaked to the skin as a heavy rain has just started when I was parking the car and we had to wait in line to enter, Michael Bolton made all the bad things disappear. He started the show with Soul Provider and continued with Said I Loved You But I Lied and the rest of the hits including some of the Sinatra’s songs (advising everyone to visit New York), a wonderful version of Nessun Dorma, and great moments of his band.
He is not a “king” but he has an amazing voice and a normal appearance. And when he sings When A Man Loves A Woman you get the shivers down your spine.
I will begin with Farrah because she was the first to leave us. I think that her death will pass almost unnoticed for obvious reasons. She was a fighter, but she lost the battle. She will be missed.
Today, the wake-up news: “Superstar died too soon”. I am not a fan, never was, I am not in favour of calling anyone king/queen of… He was big, no doubt about it. Because of those times, he was even bigger. Of course nobody will ever succeed in having a career alike because times had changed. Nowadays there are a lot of big artists and they all have their merits. The industry has come a long way and it is harder for someone to emerge as a phenomenon.
I like his songs of the 80’s and early 90’s and I realized today that I don’t have any CD, only one tape.
Both deaths were expected sooner or later, but Michael could have still lived. He has done to himself a lot of damage, and this is the tragic outcome. I am not gonna go into details, but I will say this… no matter the possible reasons, someone should never self-destruct like that. As a person, Michael Jackson was nothing but controversial. For me, at least…
I strongly relate to the following statement:
“I must confess I am not surprised by today’s tragic news. Michael has been on an impossibly difficult and often self-destructive journey for years. His talent was unquestionable but so too was his discomfort with the norms of the world. A human simply cannot withstand this level of prolonged stress.” — Michael Levine.
David Bisbal nació el 5 de Junio de 1979 en Almería (España). Es el menor de tres hermanos, uno llamado José María y una hermana llamada María del Mar.
Abandonó el colegio a una edad temprana porque estaba muy interesado en la música. Aunque sus padres le llevaron a trabajar en un invernadero, él comenzó su carrera musical con tan sólo 18 años al ser descubierto por la orquesta Expresiones.
En 2001, fue uno de los 16 concursantes de la primera edición española de Operación Triunfo, concurso concebido para elegir al representante para el festival Eurovisión de aquel año. Finalmente quedó segundo finalista por detrás de Rosa López.
Al terminar el concurso fue fichado por Vale Music, compañía que le ofreció la oportunidad de grabar un álbum como solista. Éste, titulado Corazón Latino, salió a la venta en verano de 2002. Grabado Miami con producción de Kike Santander, instantáneamente se convirtió en un éxito de ventas. Corazón Latino se convirtió rápidamente en uno de los CDs más populares del mercado español. Se vendieron más de un millón de copias en tan solo un mes.
Pronto la popularidad de Bisbal se extendió fuera de España. En 2003, comienza su gira por América Latina, llevando a cabo más de 80 conciertos. Ha sido el objetivo de varias revistas; ha sido entrevistado en muchos programas incluyendo el Billboard Latin Music Awards o el Festival de Viña del Mar en Chile. En Miami, Bisbal recibió 8 discos de oro por las ventas de Corazón Latino en Estados Unidos y Latinomérica. También ha recibido un premio como mejor artista internacional nuevo en los premios TV y Novelas de México. En 2003, Bisbal recibe un Grammy Latino como mejor artista revelación y fue nominado como mejor vocalista de álbum pop.
Alice