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MUMBAI: Florida Georgia Line (FGL), Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood won big at the CMT Music Awards. The fan voted awards for 2013 saw Florida Georgia Line's ‘Cruise’ earn duo video of the year and breakthrough video, while Lambert took female video for ‘Mama's Broken Heart’ and also snagged CMT performance of the year for a live version of 'Over You' from the 2012 ‘CMT Artists of the Year’ special. Underwood's video of the year came for ‘Blown Away’, a song built around tornado imagery.
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MUMBAI: Known more as television’s pouty baton and revolver wielding lady inspector Chandramukhi Chautala of ‘FIR’ (SAB TV) actress, model, presenter Kavita Kaushik has come a long since entering the industry in 2001. Beyond the glare of the spotlight and police uniform, Kaushik is a music lover with an eclectic taste. “I can practically listen to all genres of music but rock and country music would be my favourites. In rock, I go for Jim Morrisson and Pink Floyd while I like the old-school Country music which I play all the time in my house,” Kaushik says.
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Art and Artistes (A&A) is an integrated entertainment and music production company founded by Durga Jasraj. She and Neeraj Jaitly who are the directors of Art and Artistes India have been running it together since 2009. Incorporated in 1999, A&A, has evolved to conceptualize, produce and execute music based entertainment solutions across all platforms-television, on-ground, radio, albums, mobile and so on. A&A has successfully produced over 50 music albums, 25 TV shows, and more than 300 large scale events across 50 cities in India, and more than 20 countries worldwide.
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MUMBAI: Paris Jackson, late pop superstar Michael Jackson’s 15-year-old daughter is ‘physically fine’ after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital following an alleged suicide attempt and is receiving appropriate medical attention. As per reports, Jackson had been taken from her family's home in Calabasas, California, by ambulance at about 2 am, on Wednesday. Her mother Debbie Rowe, confirmed the suicide bid, saying her daughter has had "a lot going on lately". Reports said she cut her wrists with a kitchen knife and took as many as 20 ibuprofen pills.
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MUMBAI: Music composer duo Dharam Bhatt and Sandeep Patil, who shot to fame in bollywood with Ram Gopal Varma’s Rakht Charitra, Rann and Department, are all set to surprise fans with Satish Kaushik's directorial venture ‘Gang of Ghosts’. The duo has composed six tracks for Gang of Ghosts, a Hindi remake of Bengali blockbuster ‘Bhooter Bhabishyat’. Producer Ratan Jain (Venus Records & Tapes) has bought the rights of the 2012 film, which was a horror-based comic entertainer.
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MUMBAI: Leading telecom VAS (Value Added Services) provider OnMobile Global has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the business assets and liabilities of Livewire Mobile, a provider of end-to-end managed mobile entertainment solutions for network operators and consumer device manufacturers, for $17.8 million.
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MUMBAI: Percussionist Sivamani is showing his unusual side to the music fraternity as he is now donning the role of a music director in Vikram Prabhu's upcoming film ‘Arima Nambi’ which will be directed by Anand Shankar. The film stars Prabhu and Priya Anand in lead roles. It will have five tracks.
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MUMBAI: Australian DJ Michael Christian whose prank call to the hospital that the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated in, and that was subsequently linked to a nurse's suicide, has been awarded.
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MUMBAI: The FM Rainbow channel of All India Radio (AIR) is holding it very well despite competition from private FM stations, influx of the internet, 24x7 television, gaming and box office hits by providing a free and varied entertainment for audiences.
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MUMBAI: To felicitate creative excellence in radio advertising, Radio Mirchi has announced the 10th edition of Mirchi Kaan Awards to be held on 5 July in Mumbai. It’s time for ad agencies to showcase their best work as the last date to submit entries is 19 June. All radio spots aired between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2012 are eligible to participate.
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MUMBAI: 9X Tashan, Punjabi music channel from the bouquet of 9X Media Group, hosted a glittering Tashan Nites concert with the Deols, who were there busy promoting Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (YPD2), on 1 June in Chandigarh. The concert will be aired on the channel on 8 June at 8 pm.
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MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has announced the appointment of Dr Bikrread more
MUMBAI: The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announced today that it has filed a legal aread more
MUMBAI: The world is a stage! Literally.read more
MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
MUMBAI: Following the recent grand announcement by the makers of the action spectacle ‘Devara: Part 1’ starring Man Of Masses NTR Jr, excitement...read more
MUMBAI: Josh Wink kicks off a milestone 30 years of Ovum Recordings with new single ‘The Deepness’ taken from his forthcoming two-track EP of the...read more
MUMBAI: Actor Vicky Kaushal celebrated his birthday yesterday in London with his lady love, Katrina Kaif. Sharing a glimpse of the intimate...read more
MUMBAI: The world of Urban Punjabi Hip-Hop just got a new groovy entrant with the release of Teriyan Gallan, the latest romantic freestyle single...read more
MUMBAI: Thomas Nicholas Band has released his brand new album "We’re Gonna Be Okay" via SBAM Records/Double Helix.The album contains features from...read more
