BANGALORE: 'Break Free – The Ultimate Music Fest', a four-day long music festival started on Thursday, 4 August in Bangalore.
Participants from across the city got a chance to showcase their flair on this platform and be judged by ace classical and carnatic singer Sri Padmanabhan. The first day of this festival, took off with the auditions of classical singers and instrumentalists.
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MUMBAI: On the 82nd birth anniversary of evergreen Kishore Kumar, a musical titled 'Jhumroo', was announced by Kingdom of Dreams.
Jhumroo will celebrate the spirit of the legend with 20 retro songs from his exceptional films. To premiere in october, Jhumroo is the second musical presentation by Kingdom of Dreams after the success of �Zangoora - The Gypsy Prince', which has completed over 400 shows and will conduct a world tour in 2012.
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MUMBAI: With RJs exploring social networks to gain maximum audience, RJ Balaji of 92.7 Big FM Chennai garnered 1.3 million hits on Soundcloud for his 'Cross Talk' segment.
The link of RJ Balaji �Cross Talk' segment received highest response from overseas countries, registering more than 26% from US.
Delighted RJ Balaji said, I am astounded as the initiative was taken to use social network only as a mean to reach out to a larger audience, but Cross Talk segment has reached almost every country which was completely unexpected ....
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MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) and Desi Hits! have signed worldwide recording agreement with bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra.
Priyanka Chopra will release her debut english album through Interscope Records in North America and other international market through Island Records UK. Atom Factory CEO Troy Carter, who also manages Lady Gaga will now look after the actress music career.
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MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC will use American television's biggest stage to push the second season of its singing based reality show 'The Voice'.
Hosted again in its second season by Carson Daly, the show features four musician coaches, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, who coach only the most talented vocalists.
Following Super Bowl XLVI on 5 February 2012, it will unveil the second-season premiere of 'The Voice'. Then on 6 February, it will kick off 'Smash'.
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