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- 'Private' memorials for Ravi Shankar in US, India
- One Direction, Rihanna, Adele lead Billboard 2012 charts
- Yoko Ono picks up human rights prize in Berlin
| 'Private' memorials for Ravi Shankar in US, India Posted: 14 Dec 2012 08:28 PM PST LOS ANGELES: Private memorials will be held in India and California for legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, a publicist said Friday, after his death earlier this week. Concerts to celebrate the 92-year-old's life will be held next year in New York and London, he added, giving no further details about funeral or other arrangements. "Memorial services will be held near his homes in Southern California and in India," said the publicist, Stuart Wolferman, noting that they would be "private" events. "Both services will be attended by family and friends, and will offer an opportunity for loved ones to share intimate memories and thoughts about the musician. "Public concerts celebrating Ravi's music, in both New York and London, are being discussed for 2013," he added in a statement. Shankar died Tuesday in southern California at the age of 92, after failing to recover from surgery at a hospital in La Jolla, near San Diego last week. His family was at his bedside. The sitar pioneer taught his close friend George Harrison, the late Beatle, to play the instrument and collaborated with him on several projects, including the ground-breaking Concert for Bangladesh in 1971. Harrison called Shankar "the godfather of world music," and Yehudi Menuhin, widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, compared him to Mozart. - AFP |
| One Direction, Rihanna, Adele lead Billboard 2012 charts Posted: 14 Dec 2012 08:03 PM PST LOS ANGELES: Newcomer British boy band One Direction joined R&B diva Rihanna and British singer Adele to top Billboard's year-end music charts, released on Friday. One Direction, who topped the Billboard 200 album chart twice this year with their debut, "Up All Night" in March and their sophomore album "Take Me Home" in November, were named Billboard's top new artist/group, rounding off a stellar year of U.S. success for the band. Adele, 24, who became the first woman top score No. 1 single, album and artist on Billboard's 2011 year-end charts, continued her reign in 2012, when her Grammy-winning record "21" was the top-selling album in the U.S. and she was once again named artist of the year. "21" has sold more than 10 million copies in the U.S. since its release in February 2011, becoming a fixture on the Billboard 200, especially after Adele's six wins at the Grammy Awards earlier this year. She is the only act to be named both top artist and have the top album in Billboard's charts for two years in a row. Adele was also named the No. 1 female artist while R&B rapper-singer Drake was named No. 1 male artist and pop-rock band Maroon 5 were named No. 1 group. Rihanna, also 24, was named the top Hot 100 artist after a year of chart-topping hit singles such as "We Found Love" and "Diamonds" on the Hot 100 chart, which measures top-selling singles each week. But Australia's Gotye picked up the Hot 100 single of the year, with his heartbreak hit "Somebody That I Used To Know." Billboard compile their end-of-year lists based on chart performances between December 3 2011 and November 24 2012, tallying data including album sales and streaming figures. For more on Billboard's year-end charts, visit http://www.billboard.com/news/the-best-of-2012-the-year-in-music-1008045682.story# |
| Yoko Ono picks up human rights prize in Berlin Posted: 14 Dec 2012 06:51 PM PST BERLIN: Yoko Ono on Friday accepted a German human rights prize for peace activism with her late husband, Beatle John Lennon, as well as her more recent work championing equality for women and gays. Ono, who will turn 80 in February, picked up the Rainer Hildebrandt Medal at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie Museum next to the former Cold War border crossing. Wearing a black top hat and trouser suit, she gave a two-fingered peace sign as she thanked the jury. "I'm very honoured to get this award and I will consider this award as an encouragement to do more work in humanitarian causes," she said. Hildebrandt, who died in 2004, founded the museum to document daring attempts by East Germans living under communism to escape over the Berlin Wall and in protest against the regime's shoot-to-kill policies. His widow Alexandra handed Ono the prize, which was selected by a jury she said included German President Joachim Gauck, former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former German foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "Since the early days of her career, and in addition to her music and conceptual art, Yoko Ono has always drawn attention for her political statements and her fight for peace and human rights," the jury said. "She is a great proponent of gender equality, and is committed to world peace and the recognition of same-sex partnerships." Previous winners include jailed Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky and assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Tokyo-born artist - raised in both Japan and the United States in a well-off family of bankers - became a global icon when she married the rocker from Liverpool. Since her Montreal honeymoon with Lennon, during which the couple called for peace from their marital bed, Ono has used her celebrity to raise awareness for causes. In 2002, she launched the "LennonOno" grant for peace in Iceland, given every two years. In honour of Ono's 80th birthday, the Schirn Kunsthalle in the western German city of Frankfurt will present a retrospective of her work from February. - AFP |
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