Keys to this girls

Observer News ServiceLondonRecently, 50 prominent music industry types from around the world gathered in a small room in New York’s Avatar studios. To listen to half a dozen new songs. A few were bored, some were hungover, but as soon as the music...

Travel Abroad 25 Jan, 2004

Legend sings to spellbind

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, January 23On the occasion of the approaching 55th Republic Day of India, Embassy of India presented musical maestro Pandit Jasraj. Sponsored by Telecommunications Consultants India Limited and supported by Hotel Yak and...

Travel Abroad 24 Jan, 2004

KMS to mark golden jubilee

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, January 22Kendriya Manandhar Sangh (KMS), the umbrella organisation of all the Manandhars throughout the country, is organising various programmes the day after tomorrow to mark its golden jubilee.Pratisara Sayami,...

Horoscopes 23 Jan, 2004

Urmila has no time for love

Indo-Asian News ServiceMumbaiShe was seen in some of the most talked about films of last year. And Urmila Matondkar has begun the new year too with a bang in the thriller ‘Ek Hasina Thi’. While her films bombard screens, the self-confessed...

Travel Abroad 21 Jan, 2004

Her story

The GuardianMy grandfather would sing to me when I was a baby, and he was part eastern Cherokee,” says singer-songwriter Tori Amos, explaining why the music of the North American plains Indians has been such a formative influence on her life. “His...

Travel Abroad 19 Jan, 2004

What’s so great about Saigol?

Ayaz AmirKundan Lal Saigol, perhaps the sub-continent’s greatest popular singer ever since music and song began to be recorded, died January 18, 1946. He was born in Jullandar, East Punjab, in 1904, which makes this year the hundredth anniversary of...

19 Jan, 2004

Rewriting Psalms — I

There’s nothing new about turning the Bible’s Psalms into poetry. John Milton, Philip Sydney and Samuel Coleridge all wrote their own versions. But American poet Laurance Wieder has made re-imagining the Psalms a particular compulsion, resulting in...

19 Jan, 2004

Cool James, hot rapper

LL Cool J was born James Todd Smith on January 14, 1968 in Bay Shore, Long Island to James and Ondrea Smith. Todd, as he was called, did not have a happy childhood. At four, he saw his mother and grandfather suffering from gunshot wounds caused by his...

Travel Abroad 18 Jan, 2004

Bobby Gurung brings ghatam to Nepal

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, January 17Manohar Gurung (Bobby) is the first Ghatam (earth pot) player in Nepal. He went all the way to Chennai, India and learned the art of playing ghatam at Srijaya Ganesh Tala Vadya Vidyalaya. His guru was the...

Travel Abroad 18 Jan, 2004

In honour of artistes

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, January 17Nava Srijana Kala Kendra to wish its well-wishers a happy new year 2004 and to honour some distinguished and dedicated artistes in the field of music, television, movies and theatre, organised a programme on...

Travel Abroad 18 Jan, 2004

Play me a tune

Himalayan News ServiceKathmanduDo you love music? Why not utilise this vacation to learn some musical instruments. It’s always fun to pick up an instrument and hum some tunes. How to start You can see many musical instruments, many music training...

Travel Abroad 17 Jan, 2004

pheri tyo din ... samjhandai

Dipti SherchanKathmanduThe credit of my success goes to my wife Liza. She loved me when I was no one. After she came into my life, everything changed. She is the luckiest star for me,” reveals rising star Sugam Pokhrel. Sugam started his music career...

Travel Abroad 17 Jan, 2004