position:pop singer

Mohammed Assaf in US to raise funds for Palestinian refugees | Arab News
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JEDDAH: Palestinian pop singer Mohammed Assaf, who is currently on a US tour, has raised more than $275,000 for Palestinian refugees through the first leg of the tour in Seattle.
The “Promise for Palestine” tour features Assaf and Palestinian-American civil rights activist Linda Sarsour, and is presented by Islamic Relief USA.
“Thanks to my dear fellows in Seattle for your support of your full presence on Sunday. With your generous contributions, we have been able to raise more than $275,000, all of which will go to Palestine refugees,” tweeted Assaf, who is also a goodwill ambassador for peace for The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
In a video posted on Twitter before the Seattle gig, Assaf said: “My greetings to my beloved American community and to America. I just arrived in Seattle. I am glad to make this tour for our friends and families in Palestine. And a special thanks to all those who will attend and to Islamic Relief USA. I am looking forward to seeing you all in my concerts, Insha’Allah.”
The fundraising event for Palestine humanitarian aid will span seven cities, giving participants a chance to witness Assaf’s live performance.

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Teresa Teng (鄧麗君) 1984
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Teresa Teng, Teng Li-Chun or Deng Lijun (January 29, 1953 – May 8, 1995) was a Taiwanese pop singer. She was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads. Many became standards in her lifetime, such as “When Will You Return?” and “The Moon Represents My Heart”. She recorded songs not only in her native Mandarin but also in Taiwanese Hokkien, Cantonese, Japanese, Indonesian and English.

Comrades: Almost a Love Story
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Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Chinese: 甜蜜蜜; pinyin: tián mì mì) is a 1996 Hong Kong film starring Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai, Eric Tsang, and Kristy Yang. It was directed by Peter Chan. The title refers to Tian mi mi, a song by Teresa Teng whose songs are featured in the film. It was filmed on location in Hong Kong and New York City.

Hong Kong Film Awards’ List of The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures - Movies List on MUBI
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#Chine #musique #histoire #film

How Noise Makes Music - Issue 38 : Noise
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Prior to the rise of urban culture, the sounds of clucking hens must have been among the world’s most ubiquitous annoyances. For millennia, humans have been “up with the chickens,” demarcating time by the rooster’s crow. But the infernal clucking of poultry must have constituted a constant din. It seems odd, then, that this obnoxious noise has found its way into a vast repertoire of music, from “La Poule” by French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1726 to “Chick Chick” by Chinese pop singer Wang Rong Rollin in 2014: But poultry is not the exception. The noises of life—both annoying and pleasant—have been represented through mimicry or abstraction in all music cultures. Schubert used the sound of galloping horses to haunting effect in his ballad, “Erlkonig,” a sound also heard in music played (...)

Very strange story: how militant nazis decided to use the pop singer #Taylor_Swift as an idol, apparently without her knowledge or consent.

▻https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/cant-shake-it-off-how-taylor-swift-became-a-nazi-idol

#nazism #pop_culture

Downfall of Japanese TV’s girl next door highlights wider industry sexism
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/downfall-japan-tv-becky-industry-sexism

While the 31-year-old ponders the sudden withdrawal of TV appearances, commercial endorsements and her own radio programme, she may be asking herself why she has been singled out for media vitriol while her alleged lover, a pop singer, carries on, his career apparently unaffected.

Her crime, it appears, was to break the steadfast rule that requires young female celebrities in Japan not only to entertain, but to remain morally unimpeachable.

Within weeks of a magazine breaking news of her alleged affair with Enon Kawatani, a 27-year-old singer in the band Gesu no Kiwani Otome, her employers ripped up contracts, reportedly at the behest of her own management agency, Sun Music.

#CaptionThis: What was Madonna pointing at?
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For some odd reason, last weekend, this striking black and white image by photographer Terry Kane of pop singer Madonna “tour(ing) a UN millennium village in Mtanga, Malawi, in 2007” illustrated a Financial Times book review of ‘The Tyranny of Experts’ by William Easterly and ‘The Idealist’, by Nina Munk. Madonna is not mentioned in the piece and the review rumbles on. You can read it here. In any case, we were struck more by the image and posted it on our Facebook page, where we asked readers to #captionthis. We promised that we’d feature a few on the blog, so here are some of them.

#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #PHOTOGRAPHY

Why Barclays wants to cut Somalia’s ’money transfer’ lifeline from the UK
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Shamis Abokor was once Somalia’s hottest pop singer, belting out love songs in front of thousands of adoring fans.

Then she suffered a disastrous stoke and for the past 16 years she has been confined to her tiny concrete home, cared for by relatives. Today, aged 78, she is bedridden and semi-paralysed. She survives with dignity thanks to her daughter in the UK, who sends her hundreds of pounds every month via a Somali money transfer operator (MTO) called Dahabshiil.

#transferts #économie