MUMBAI: * EMI Music Publishing Collects Publisher of the Year; Paloma Faith and Plan B Honored With Special Awards; Special Tribute to Legendary Songwriter Hal David in Celebration of His 90th Birthday
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MUMBAI: Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording and OurStage.com, along with new sponsors Orange Amplifier, Gibson Guitars, and Blue Microphones, have come together to launch with Intel Corporation another exciting competition for emerging artists. The "Intel Superstars 2011 Competition" invites musicians and producers to submit original music in six genre-based competitions: Rock, Pop, Country, Singer-Songwriter, Urban, and Latin.
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MUMBAI: This week Shilpa Rao brings her melodious voice to Micromax MTV Unplugged to charm the audiences. The young Khuda Jaane singer and disciple of Ghulam Mustafa Khan has steadily graduated from stage shows to jingles to tinsel town with chartbusters like Saiyaan from the movie Salaam-e-Ishq and Woh Ajnabee from The Train. It was the romantic number from the �Bachna Ae Haseeno' that made Shilpa an overnight singing sensation.
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MUMBAI: Hausfeld LLP filed a nationwide class action lawsuit today in San Francisco federal court on behalf of Universal Music Group (UMG) recording artists. The lawsuit contends that UMG routinely miscalculates the royalties owed to artists for digital downloads, such as MP3s and ringtones, by treating them as sales... of physical records rather than licenses.... Carlton Ridenhour, who performs under the name Chuck D... and is one of the founding members of the rap group Public Enemy,... is the named plaintiff in the action.
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MUMBAI: India and China emerged as the most upbeat about the next year among the Asian countries surveyed as part of a 25-nation poll for BBC World Service assessing global consumer confidence. In Pakistan, pessimists outnumbered the optimists.
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