MUSIC DUET IN THE MAKING

A music duet is in the making with Chris Brown and his girlfriend Rihanna.

Although Chris Brown and Rihanna haven't been saying too much about their romance, the two R & B singers are now ready to heat up the music charts.

Seeing as Rihanna is very impressed with Chris' voice, she felt it was time for her to say "hey, let's do a duet". She's currently searching for the perfect song and she has asked Jay-Z to look around for a beat that will suit the pair of them, something sexy and snazzy.

Rihanna who is 20 and Chris who is 19 will definitely have no trouble putting together some beautiful music once they head to the recording studio.

Someone was quoted as saying "they are so much in love that they sing to one another all the time.

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Jordin Sparks has certainly made a name for herself in the music industry since her win on American Idol last year. I particularly love the lyrics to her song "Tattoo".

No matter what you say about love
I keep coming back for more
Keep my hand in the fire, sooner or later
I get what I'm asking for

No matter what you say about life
I learn everytime I bleed
The truth is a stranger, soul is in danger
I gotta let my spirit be free

To admit that I'm wrong
And then change my mind
Sorry but I have to move on
And leave you behind

I can't waste time so give it a moment
I realise nothing's broken
No need to worry about everything I've done
Live every second like it was my last one

Don't look back, got a new direction
I loved you once, needed protection
You're still a part of everything I do
You're on my heart just like a tattoo

Just like a tattoo
I'll always have you

I'm sick of playing all of these games
It's not about taking sides
When I looked in the mirror didn't deliver
It hurt enough to think that I could

Stop, admit that I'm wrong
And then change my mind
Sorry but I've gotta be strong
And leave you behind

I can't waste time so give it a moment
I realize nothing's broken
No need to worry about everthing I've done
Live every second like it was my last one

Don't look back, got a new direction
I loved you once, needed protection
You're still a part of everything I do
You're on my heart just like a tattoo

Just like a tattoo
I'll always have you

If I live every moment
Won't change any moment
That's still a part of me and you

I will never regret you
Still the memory of you
Marks everything I do

Just like a tattoo
I'll always have you

Jordon Sparks certainly has a glowing music career ahead of herself, she certainly won't be going anywhere soon, I think we are going to see her around for many years to come.

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Johnny Cash, singer/songwriter was born in 1932 in Arkansas. His early music compositions shared influences of local country and gospel music.

Johnny Cash was only 12 when he started playing the guitar and after serving in the armed forces, he ended up fronting a band called the “Tennessee Two” with guitarists Marshall Grant and Luther Perkins. Their sound was a mixture of blues and country and western music, which was labeled “rockabilly” by people in the record industry. Later on, when they introduced a drummer by the name of W.S. Holland to the group, they changed their name to “Tennessee Three”.

Johnny’s second release called “Cry Cry Cry” back in 1955, made #14 on the billboard charts and with help from Sun Records producer Sam Phillips, he was introduced to and joined an influential collection of artists, namely Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, taking on the name “The Million Dollar Quartet”.

Johnny Cash, in 1956, recorded his big hit “Folsom Prison Blues” and that very same year, his song “I Walk the Line” produced his first #1 country hit. In 1957 he released his debut album called “Johnny Cash with his Hot & Blue Guitar”.

Johnny Cash passed away in 2003 due to complications with diabetes. In 2005, the story of his love affair with June Carter, who became Cash’s second wife, was made into a film, called “Walk the Line”, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.

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Jordin Sparks has been the youngest contestant so far to win American Idol (music / singing competition), taking the title in their sixth season.

Jordin Sparks lives in Glendale, Arizona, and is the daughter of Phillippi Sparks who was a left corner back for the Dallas Cowboys and a defensive back for the New York Giants in his younger days.

Although Jordin Sparks never had any voice training, she exposed a talent for singing and whilst still a child, she was singing, performing in plays and modeling, leaving a trail of recognition for her many talents.

Jordin Sparks had the privilege of performing with Alice Cooper and Michael W Smith and she was Coca Cola’s Rising Star back in 2002. She made her first recording with 2003’s For Now EP with CCM (contemporary christian music) Matthew Ward and engineer Gary Leach.

Not only in 2004 did Jordin Sparks win two awards at the “2004 Gospel Music Association Academy” but that same year she came second in the “Music in the Rockies” competition as well as appearing twice on “America’s Most Talented Kids”.

In 2006 Jordin Sparks came first in a plus size model search hosted by “Torrid Clothing” and was featured in an advertisement for “Torrid” in the December copy of “Seventeen Magazine”.

This was the same year that Jordin Sparks auditioned for American Idol, but went on to fail in the Los Angeles tryouts although she later went on to win the American Idol associated contest “Arizona Idol”. She then again auditioned for the show in Seattle, this time making it through to Hollywood, singing Celine Dion’s song “Because you Loved Me”. Growing from strength to strength each and every week she found herself placed amongst the last 12 finalists in 2007.

When Jordin Sparks performed the songs “I Who have Nothing” and “Hey Baby” she really displayed what she was capable of, accumulating a huge fan following. Unlike other previous contestant’s who went on to win American Idol, Jordin never found herself in the bottom two or three throughout the entire competition.

Jordin Sparks went on to knock out the last two remaining contestants, namely Blake Lewis and Melinda Doolittle, becoming the sixth American Idol in May 2007. Jordin’s single “This is my Now” was released not too long after the shows grand finale, and performed on the American Idol tour.

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Tim McGraw hit the music industry in the early 1990’s, going on to become the most popular male singer in country music, due to a sequence of multi-platinum albums. Assisted in the early days of his career by a few novelty items, he wound up pushing out hits on a regular basis than any of his peers. By the late 1990’s, he wasn’t only a star amongst country fans, but a mainstream celebrity with a huge female following.

Tim McGraw was born in Delhi, LA, 1st May 1967. He discovered, quite some years later that his father was baseball player Tug McGraw, a relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets. He was brought up in a small town called Start in LA, and grew up listening to a variety of music. He went to Northeast Louisiana University on a baseball scholarship, studying sports medicine, and that was when he started playing guitar to go along with his singing. He started playing at local clubs, dropping out of school in 1989, and heading to Nashville.

Tim McGraw sang in Nashville clubs for several years and ended up getting himself a deal with Curb Records in 1992. His first country music single, called "Welcome to the Club" was released that same year, and his first album which came out in 1993 didn’t even make the charts.

Everything turned around for Tim McGraw with his country music single in 1994 called “Not a Moment Too Soon”. When he released his song "Indian Outlaw" it was well accepted by his fans but was looked upon as demeaning to Native Americans. Even though some radio stations refused to play the song, it made the country top ten. Even with all the good and bad publicity of that song it actually helped McGraw's next single called "Don't Take the Girl" make it all the way to the top of the country charts. From that time on, it was one hit after another for McGraw, establishing him as a huge icon in the country music industry.

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Music composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon shaped one of the most powerful and successful songwriting partnerships in rock and roll history.

Paul McCartney appears in the “Guinness World of Records” as the most successful musician and composer in music history, achieving 60 gold discs and sales of 100 million singles.

At a later date after the Band had disbanded, McCartney tried to talk John Lennon and George Harrison into going back to the stage, but when they were on the verge of signing a new contract with Capitol Records, Paul McCartney suggested "going back to our roots" to which Lennon replied, "I think you're mad”.

Paul McCartney was always very interested in animated films as a child which later prompted him to approach and ask Geoff Dunbar to direct a short animated film called “Rupert and the Frog Song” in 1981. McCartney composed the music and the script, produced it, and also did the voice over’s for some of the characters.

Paul McCartney released his debut solo album “McCartney” back in April 1970 and in 1980 when he released his album “McCartney II” he actually played every single instrument, with an emphasis on synthesizers as opposed to guitars.

Paul McCartney's next album in 1982 called “Tug of War”, reunited him with Ringo Starr and Beatles producer George Martin, which featured McCartney's duet with Stevie Wonder called "Ebony and Ivory", as well as his mark of respect to Lennon, with the song called "Here Today".

A love of painting for Paul McCartney came about after observing artist “Willem de Kooning” paint, in Kooning's Long Island barn, which later led to an offer by the “Walker Art Gallery” in Liverpool, to exhibit some of McCartney’s paintings.

Paul McCartney is one of Britain's wealthiest men, with an estimated wealth of £824 million. McCartney's song "Yesterday" is the most covered song in history with more than 3,500 recorded versions and has been played more than 7 million times on American TV and Radio, for which McCartney received an award.

Music was running through Paul McCartney’s veins from day one, due to McCartney's father who led “Jim Mac's Jazz Band” back in the 1920’s as a trumpet player and pianist. His father’s musical talents obviously had a great impact on McCartney at a young age and undoubtedly played a big role in his son’s future success.

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Blues music began in America’s southern states, mainly speaking of hard times. It spread with southern black Americans from rural farms to cities along the Mississippi River - New Orleans, Memphis and St. Louis. It also had a big influence on future American music such as ragtime, jazz, bluegrass and rock roll and was perfected in the mid-twentieth century by greats such as BB King and other well known musicians.

Blues music is very unique for the simple fact that it was created without any European influence at all, although it did become very popular with British musicians.

Blues music started being played at after-hours dances, which eventually led to dancers going to blues music clubs and holding house parties that played a selection of blues and blues-rooted music.

Blues music is an acknowledgement to the hardships that West African slaves went through as they fought to free themselves from slavery and move from the deep south to cities across the country, in search of better jobs and a new life.

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Techno music is a form of electronic dance music that saw its early beginnings in Western Europe in the late 1970’s and later developed and established itself as a style in Detroit, Michigan, during the 1980’s, with it being more of a trend in Europe than in the United States.

American artists such as “Moby” and “The Crystal Method” who started their careers producing techno music were originally successful in Europe, but did not really gain a strong presence in the United States until branching out into other styles such as “break beat” and “electronica”.

Techno music then took off and was introduced to related styles of music, making it globally recognized by the 1990’s and was used as background music in clubs, whilst being used in movies and video games, as background music for action sequences.

Techno music is often used to generally express all forms of electronic dance music, although electronic music can be broken down into more styles mostly defined by the types of instrumental hardware they use and the music's beats per minute. It’s created by using computers, drum machines, synthesizers, and sometimes acoustic instruments.

Techno music is unique, in that it appeals to people at certain times and has so many different related musical styles that people can listen to and is purely created for one purpose only - being danced to.

Techno music is about using technology in unexpected ways, like the rapper taking the record turntable and using the “scratch and turn” method to develop a different style of music. Techno music is fast paced, ranging from 120 -160 beats per minute, with a heavy emphasis on bass drums, ghostly sounding synthesized melodies, and computer generated samples.

The great thing about technology today, it allows us to download techno music from the internet directly onto our pc’s and onto our MP3 players, letting us listen to our favorite music when and where we want to.

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Classical music does not have the ingredients of a "song", as in, a pop music sense. Classical music emphasizes the grace and beauty of melody which is why it’s often used as background music in films and television during scenes that require an elegant, dramatic and polished addition.

Classical music can be played by small ensembles, such as solo piano, guitar or solo violin or cello accompanied by piano, string quartets, string quintets or other ensembles that play what is referred to as “chamber music”.

Classical music, including the piano, has always had a rather small group of followers. Classical music in fact, falls into a basically small 100 year span from the early 1700's to the early 1800's.

There is a uniqueness that classical music contains that few or no other traditional music contains. The classical period, from about 1750 – 1820, established many of the norms of composition, presentation and style and the piano became the main keyboard instrument.

Classical music is the music of the past and is usually made up of symphonies and orchestras. Due to it’s high quality it mainly appeals to academic’s but misses out on about 99% of the rest of the population.

Radio, LP’s and CD’s were looked upon as a savior for a kind of music that has always struggled to find its place in American culture.

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R & B music originated in the United States just prior to, and during World War II.

R & B music, which stands for Rhythm and Blues, was the biggest influence on music around the world for most of the second half of the 20th century. This type of music was introduced to the world by artists’ combining the music styles of jazz and blues.

R & B music in the 1960’s was an arrangement of three main styles:

1) Chicago soul (influenced by gospel music)
2) Motown sound and
3) Southern soulFunk and Disco

R & B music, came about from a variety of different, but related styles, such as jump blues, club blues, black rock and roll, doo wop, soul, motown, funk, disco, and rap. The style can even be seen in the forms of rock, country and western, gospel, and jazz.

Club blues, a passive style of R & B began early with pianists like Nat King Cole and Charles Brown. At the same time, jump blues, an up-tempo style that included horns, began emerging. During the l950’s rhythm and blues began appealing to teenage audiences, rather than just adult audiences. Also, black rock & roll emerged and forever changed American society.

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Hip hop music is a type of music consisting of a rhythmic style of speaking called rap, with backing beats played on a turntable by a DJ, which started in New York City back in the 1970's, largely amongst African Americans and Latinos.

By 1979 hip hop music had penetrated mainstream America and in the early 1980s, hip hop culture began its spread across the world with North American hip hop music being well received and loved by people in Japan and Asian countries. In the mid 1980’s the first hip hop artists to accomplish mainstream success, were Kurtis Blow, LL Cool J and especially Run-D.

The “big splash” in the history of hip hop took place between 1986 and 1992. During this period, the popularity of hip hop music sky-rocketed with more hardcore hip hop becoming popular throughout the 1990’s.

At present, hip hop is enjoyed all around the world. In spite, of all the controversies created by hip hop artists, they are still growing in number. Hip hop music is sold all around the world in stores, and is also available for downloading from the Internet.

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Pop music is professionally produced and packaged, and as a rule conventional, because it’s designed to appeal to a large segment of the population and is not targeted towards smaller groups – it’s made for wide-spread acceptance. Pop music is as good as any other music people listen to – it’s a popular type of western music.

Musically and lyrically most pop songs are about love – “boy meets girl and falls in love”, or “girl dumps boy” for the simple reason that pop songs are an emotional art form.

Pop did not have an easy start in the United Kingdom as it did in the USA, due to a severe regulation of radio play, known in that day as “needle time”. Pop music originated from the rock-n-roll revolution of the mid1950's and has continued in a definable path since then.

Pop is actually short for popular, so any music which is popular with people could be classed as “pop”. Pop music generally has a strong beat, so that it’s good for dancing. Pop is music that everyone can enjoy with its catchy beats and tunes.

Pop music is also known for its ability to attract listeners through its versatile sound since it pulls from a number of other musical influences. Pop music is professionally produced and packaged and normally conservative, in that it’s designed to appeal to a large portion of the population and isn’t just targeted towards smaller groups.

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Rock music is a form of popular music with prominent vocals backed by guitar, drums, and bass and is sometimes thought of as a bad influence on our kids of today. Rock music is the dominant form of music in America today, giving us all different types of musical expression.

Rock music has roots stemming back from the 1940s and 1950s rock and roll and rockabilly era, which grew from blues, country music and other styles of music. The sound of rock music has slowly changed since the era of Elvis and the beetles, with artists becoming more creative and expressive. Rock music began in the United States, but has been influenced by different cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country and western music, classical music, folk music, electronic music, and music from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Rock music, such as it is these days, and speaking as a parent and an old fogie according to my kids, listening to their music is sometimes like trying to understand a different language at times isn't it lol.

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Nowadays, you are able to download music to listen to on a variety of different sites. You can choose the exact song you want without purchasing the entire album, but you still have to pay for it. You can choose a random variety of songs and download them to your computer, then simply burn the songs to a CD or download them into your MP3 player. Modern technology has given us more ways to get great music to listen to.

You can also store your music right in your computer. If you are craving for some music to listen to, you can listen to them through one of the many music players on your computer. You can use Windows Media Player, Real Player or QuickTime. On newer computer models, you don’t even need any kind of media player, you simply pop in the CD and a control panel will pop up.

If you own an older computer, I would suggest that you listen to music when you are not doing anything else on your computer. When you open your media player, and choose your music to listen to, everything else on your old computer will start lagging, causing your music to skip and stutter - this normally doesn’t occur with newer computers. If your music is skipping or your computer is lagging, it usually means that you are doing too much all at once.

Paid programs for downloading music is a really cost effective way to download music from your favorite music artists in mp3 format. Using these programs is also legal, whereas file sharing and free music downloading is classified as illegal. With file sharing, you are leaving yourself open to virus’ and spyware software.

There are services out there that let you legally download and burn the music you want.

There are three types of services:

1) Some sites require a one time only membership fee, with no recurring monthly subscription fee and no “pay per download” fee. These are the sites you should be looking for, for down loading music.

2) Other sites will charge you a sign-up fee and charge you a “pay per download” fee”.

3) Other sites will charge you a sign-up fee, with an on-going monthly subscription fee.

Digital downloads are the media of choice for many music consumers, and in terms of legal music downloading at least, the preferred format is the single rather than the album.

Downloading music is a lotta fun….soooo happy listening folks.

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