alma brasilera - Laredo Morning Times

¿Qué Pasa?
Page 8D
Friday, October 29, 2004
Music
Usher, Linkin Park take home Radio Music Awards
LAS VEGAS — This time Ashlee
Simpson sang it for real.
We think.
The 19-year-old pop artist was among a
slew of stars who played Monday during
the 2004 Radio Music Awards at the
Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas
Strip.
Usher and Linkin Park took home two
honors each. Usher won Hip-Hop Artist of
the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year.
Linkin Park grabbed the Alternative Rock
Song of the Year and Rock Artist of the
Year.
Destiny’s Child opened the celebrityladen show, wowing a screaming
audience with “Lose My Breath.”
Train, Chingy, Elton John, Tim McGraw,
Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and Alanis
Morissette also dazzled the crowd with
their performances.
But whether she liked it or not, Simpson
was at the center of the show thanks to a
glitch on “Saturday Night Live” last
weekend that revealed she had been lipsynching one of her songs.
Before she sang “Autobiography” off her
hit album, host Carson Daly reassured
Monday’s audience they were getting a
live performance.
“Live, yes live,” he said.
When Simpson’s band started playing,
the younger sister of pop starlet Jessica
Simpson screamed, “It’s the wrong song.”
Seconds later, she told a stunned theater
filled with hundreds of people that she
was “only kidding.”
Later in the evening, she told Daly in an
off-stage interview that acid reflux disease
had made her lose her voice four hours
before her “SNL” appearances.
She didn’t seem concerned about her
slip up.
“You move on,” Simpson said. “Things
happen.”
Politics also didn’t spoil the night at the
Aladdin, where rocker Linda Ronstadt
was told to leave in July after praising
“Fahrenheit 9/11,” Michael Moore’s
unflattering documentary about President
Bush.
Neither Moore nor Ronstadt appeared at
the awards show but former pro wrestler
Hulk Hogan made himself seen by
wearing a T-shirt “Vote or Die!”
The two-hour show broadcast live on
NBC. The nominees in each category
were based on radio’s top-playing songs.
Radio program and music directors
nationwide voted on the winners.
The Aladdin hotel-casino was recently
purchased by an investment group led by
Robert Earl, Planet Hollywood’s founder
and chairman.
The following is the list of Radio Music
Awards winners:
Artist of the Year — Hip Hop/Rythmic
Radio: Usher.
Artist of the Year — Top 40 Radio:
Beyonce.
Artist of the Year — Country Radio: Tim
McGraw.
Song of the Year — Rock Alternative
Radio: Linkin Park — “Numb.”
Song of the Year — Hip-Hop/Rythmic
Paris Hilton/Página 19D
INTERNACIONAL
BY ADAM GOLDMAN
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo
USHER
Radio: Usher — “Yeah!”
Artist of the Year — Rock Radio: Linkin’
Park.
Artist of the Year — Modern Adult: Train.
Legend Award: Janet Jackson.
Cingular Artist of the Year: Usher.
La Oreja’s sounds energize Laredo crowd
BY EMILIO RABAGO III
Coordinator, ¿Qué Pasa? Int’l
concert review
Station for hundreds of delighted
fans.
Many people had waited in line
for more than an hour to see and
hear the popular techno-pop
quintet from San Sebastian,
Spain.
When the doors to T-2000 finally
opened, a roar went up as
hundreds rushed in to see La
Oreja close up and personal.
Radio station Digital 107.3
promoted the hour-and-a-half
concert that featured all the band’s
hits and an encore.
With synthesized melodies,
hard guitar and bass riffs and
pounding drum beats, plus
meaningful, abstract lyrics in
Spanish, La Oreja easily
connected with the crowd.
Fans who spoke Spanish were
singing along, and even those
who didn’t know the lyrics were at
least trying to join in. More
impressing was the fact that even
men were singing along, despite
that La Oreja has been thought to
be a band for the ladies.
Not the case at the Laredo
concert,
where
everybody
seemed to love them, their music
and, of course, their lyrics.
Hundreds of voices could be
heard when Amaia, the band’s
lead singer, belted out songs
such as “Puedes Contar
Conmigo,” “Cuidate,” “Soledad,”
“La Playa” and especially
“Rosas.”
Amaia sported tight black
cargo pants and a black
sleeveless shirt. The rest of the
band – four guys – were dressed
in their usual jeans and T-shirt.
Even in Miami, at an awards
show, they dressed like that.
‘ALMA BRASILERA’
Alexandre Pires lanza compilación de éxitos brasileros
LMT
La Oreja de Van Gogh brought
a bit of Spain to Laredo last
Saturday, when it performed at a
free concert at Graham Central
Foto de archivo/QPI
Especial para QPI
uego del rotundo éxito que Alexandre Pires
obtuvo con su anterior álbum “Estrella
Guía,” con el cual recibió un Premio
Billboard de la Música Latina, en el 2004,
Alexandre Pires lanzará otro álbum.
“Alma Brasilera” es el título que Pires eligió
para su nueva producción, pues recopila lo
mejor de la música popular brasilera.
“Este álbum es la realización de un sueño, es
el álbum que siempre quise hacer,” dijo Pires de
su nuevo álbum. “Podría decir que es el trabajo
más personal que he hecho hasta este
momento, pues muestra mi verdadera relación
con la música.”
Y es que “Alma Brasilera” no es un disco más.
Es un álbum que recopila canciones brasileras
que han sido mundialmente famosas, pero esta
vez en la voz de Alexandre Pires, quien ha
tenido una ascendente evolución artística en la
que se entrelaza una notable armonía entre el
L
QPI photos by EMILIO RABAGO III
Jude
Law
Jude Law is
uno de los
actores más
fascinantes de
Hollywood.
talento y sentimiento.
“Cada canción tiene un significado para mí y
de una u otra manera ha sido importante en mi
vida.”
“Alma Brasilera” no es un disco fácil; fueron
más de 2 meses eligiendo el repertorio y luego
haciendo los arreglos, para que cada canción
sonara fresca y nueva.
“Cuidé mucho el repertorio y me involucré
absolutamente en todo,” dice Pires.
Definitivamente Alexandre Pires, deleitará a su
público con su nueva producción, que será
excelente para ver en show, pues tiene la
perfecta combinación entre el romanticismo y el
sabor brasilero.
“Alma Brasilera” fue producido por Afo Verde
(Diego Torres, Soda Estereo, Natalia Oreiro,
entre otros) y ya está a la venta.
El primer sencillo en promoción “Cosa del
Destino” es un tema compuesto por el mismo
Pires y es también el único tema inédito del
álbum.
Página 19D
Viernes 29 de octubre de 2004 • Laredo Morning Times • La guía de entretenimiento de Laredo