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What's streaming now: Annette Bening, Jason Aldean, 'Planet Earth,' NKOTB and 'Blue Eye Samurai'
Read full article: What's streaming now: Annette Bening, Jason Aldean, 'Planet Earth,' NKOTB and 'Blue Eye Samurai'This weekโs new entertainment releases include a studio album from Jason Aldean and a posthumous release from Jimmy Buffett, a new Hulu series inspired from Charmaine Wilkersonโs novel โBlack Cakeโ and Annette Bening portrays a real-life hero who swam the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West in 2013.
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms. Lauryn Hill will headline Global Citizen Festival to fight inequality
Read full article: Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms. Lauryn Hill will headline Global Citizen Festival to fight inequalityRed Hot Chili Peppers, Ms. Lauryn Hill and Megan Thee Stallion will headline this yearโs Global Citizen Festival, as the anti-poverty nonprofit looks to focus attention on increasing inequality for girls and young women around the world.
Pedro Pascal and World Bank's Ajay Banga among those named to Carnegie's 2023 Great Immigrants list
Read full article: Pedro Pascal and World Bank's Ajay Banga among those named to Carnegie's 2023 Great Immigrants listWorld Bank President Ajay Banga, Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette and โThe Mandalorianโ star Pedro Pascal are on this yearโs Great Immigrants list from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Kidjo, Blackwell, Pรคrt awarded Sweden's Polar Music Prize
Read full article: Kidjo, Blackwell, Pรคrt awarded Sweden's Polar Music PrizeSinger-songwriter Angรฉlique Kidjo, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell and Estonian composer Arvo Pรคrt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award.
The Weeknd and BTS hope to raise billions for Global Citizen
Read full article: The Weeknd and BTS hope to raise billions for Global CitizenThe Weeknd, BTS and Billie Eilish will participate in Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour event on Sept. 25 organized to raise funding and awareness to battle worldwide issues including COVID-19, climate change and extreme poverty.
Artists sing social anthems for United Nations anniversary
Read full article: Artists sing social anthems for United Nations anniversaryThat sentiment is something that Skip Marley, a third-generation musician and grandson of reggae icon Bob Marley, has grown up knowing as well. โMusic is music. The event will raise money for the Playing for Change Foundation, the United Nations Population Fund, Sankofa, Silkroad and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. Itโs a spiritual experience to sing his grandfatherโs songs, Marley said. โThose are the songs I first hear and the songs I first sing,โ said Marley.
Seeking inclusion, Grammys change name of a music category
Read full article: Seeking inclusion, Grammys change name of a music categoryNEW YORK โ The Grammy Awards have changed the name of their best world music album category to the best global music album, an attempt to find โa more relevant, modern and inclusive term.โThe Recording Academy said in a statement that the new name โsymbolizes a departure from the connotations of colonialism, folk and โnon-Americanโ that the former term embodied.โโAs we continue to embrace a truly global mindset, we update our language to reflect a more appropriate categorization that seeks to engage and celebrate the current scope of music from around the world," the statement said. The step comes some five months after the Academy made changes to several Grammy Awards categories, including renaming the best urban contemporary album category to best progressive R&B album. It also follows a similar recent step made by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which changed the name of its best foreign language film Oscar to best international feature film. In the last few years, the winners of the now-global music album category include Angelique Kidjo's โCelia,โ Soweto Gospel Choir's โFreedomโ and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's โShaka Zulu Revisited.โThe Academy said the newly named category โwill continue to provide a home for influential music from all parts of the globe yet bringing with it a fresh perspective fueled by authenticity, diversity and direct inclusion into our process."