Alicia Keys gave birth to a baby boy

Alicia Keys, 29, gave birth to a son on Thursday, October 14, 2010 in New York City. Keys and her rapper husband Swizz Beatz are celebrating the arrival of their first child. The couple has named their son Egypt Daoud Dean.

The rapper posted the news on Twitter, "I'm so thankful for everything I been blessed with in my life, wowwww!"

Keys married Swizz Beatz (real name is Kasseem Dean), in July this year. The pair met while working on writing and producing Whitney Houston's album ‘I Look To You’.

Beatz has three children from his previous relationships: two sons, Prince Nasir Dean (10), Kasseem Dean Jr (4), and a one-year-old daughter.

In May 2010 Keys and Swizz Beatz confirmed that they were engaged and expecting a child together. During the time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the couple had the unborn child blessed in a Zulu ceremony, which took place in the Illovo suburb of South Africa.

Keys and Swizz Beatz held a wedding celebration on the French island of Corsica on July 31, 2010. But a civil ceremony is mandatory to make the marriage legal in the United States.

So, their wedding in USA was presided over by Deepak Chopra, Indian American public speaker, endocrinologist, writer on Ayurveda, New Age spirituality and mind-body medicine, and a top former assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The guests included Bono and actress and rapper Queen Latifah.

In the beginning of her career, Keys made guest appearances on several television series, beginning with ‘Charmed’. She made her film debut in ‘Smokin' Aces’ and later appeared in ‘The Nanny Diaries’.

Her third studio album, As I Am, sold six million copies worldwide, earning Keys an additional three Grammy Awards. The following year, she appeared in The Secret Life of Bees, which earned her a nomination at the NAACP Image Awards.

She released her fourth album, The Element of Freedom, in December 2009, which became Keys' first chart-topping album in the United Kingdom.

Keys has won has won several prestigious awards including 12 Grammy awards. She has sold over 30 million albums worldwide since releasing her first album, ‘Songs in A Minor’, in 2001.

The Billboard magazine named her the top R&B artist of the 2000 -2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time. In 2010, VH1 included Keys on its list of the ‘100 Greatest Artists of All Time’.

Nicki Minaj with Lauren London

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American rapper and singer-songwriter Nicki Minaj (born Onika Maraj on December 8, 1984) is seen in this photo with Lauren London, an American film and television actress, model and music video actress.

Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls!

Poster: Reproduction of the poster for the film ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’(1962) featuring Elvis Presley, directed by Norman Taurog

The 1962 musical comedy film ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’, directed by Norman Taurog and produced by Hal B. Wallis and starring Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens and Laurel Goodwin in the main roles features Presley as a penniless fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. The film was shot on location in Hawaii. The film was nominated for Golden Globes (for Best Motion Picture - Musical at the 1963 ceremony) but lost to the winner The Music Man.

Elvis Presley became a film star in 1956, and appeared in a total of 33 feature films, out of which ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’ was the sixth top-grossing Presley film. He admired actors such as James Dean and Marlon Brando. According to Box Office Report database, the top grossing Elvis Presley movies based on the yearly Top 20 box office rankings were: Viva Las Vegas (1964, MGM), Jailhouse Rock (1957, MGM), Blue Hawaii (1961, Paramount), G.I. Blues (1960, Paramount), Loving You (1957, Paramount), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962, Paramount), Love Me Tender (1956, Twentieth Century Fox), Girl Happy (1965, MGM), Kissin' Cousins (1964, MGM), and Roustabout (1964, Paramount).

Wallpaper: Alyson Michalka in red gown

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Cheryl Cole wants to be on US X Factor

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The popular X-Factor judge Cheryl Cole is eying for the American version of the show, a site quoted the singer said American audiences would not know who she was. She also told Radio 1 presenter Fearne Cotton that she would get a real buzz' out of doing the show, adding “It's kind of really scary, you know? Why would they give a beep what I thought? I think I always feel like that. They don't know me out there and I've got this weird accent and they'd be a bit like, 'what?'… I love the thought of it and I would absolutely love to do it. The talent out there is phenomenal so I would get an absolute buzz out of doing it – but whether or not they would buzz off me is a different thing.''

Lady GaGa's Telephone at top of singles chart

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Lady GaGa’s Telephone, a promotional video which is more than nine minutes long, went to the top of the singles chart, pushing last week's most popular single Pass Out by Tinie Tempah to number two, and Rihanna's Rude Boy to three.

Lady GaGa’s ex-boyfriend Rob Fusari sues her

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Photo: Lady Gaga performs at the Air Canada Center in Toronto on November 28th, 2009, on the second night of her headlining tour, in support of her second album, 'The Fame Monster'. Gaga is at her piano, the same piano that she performed with, set on fire, and smashed whiskey bottles against, during the American Music Awards.

Music producer and songwriter Rob Fusari has filed a $30.5 million lawsuit against Lady Gaga's production company Mermaid Music LLC on account of unpaid revenues and royalties, claiming that he was entitled to a 20 per cent share of its earnings. He also claimed his protégé and former girlfriend ditched him as her career soared, according to reports from various sources. Lady Gaga's lawyer Charles Ortner described the agreement with Fusari as ‘unlawful’.

Lady Gaga's debut album, The Fame was co-produced by Fusari and has four sides on the record, including ‘Paparazzi’, ‘Beautiful, Dirty, Rich’, ‘Brown Eyes’ and ‘Disco Heaven’. The European release of The Fame also includes the songs ‘Retro, Dance, Freak’ and ‘Again Again’.

Fusari had credits on such hits as Will Smith's ‘Wild, Wild West’ and Destiny's Child's ‘Bootylicious, when a friend introduced him in March 2006 to Lady Gaga, then known by her real name, Stefani Germanotta, according to his lawsuit. After initial hesitation, he realized she had star potential after hearing her play in his Parsippany, New Jersey, studio, the suit said. He spent the next several months working with her every day and ‘radically reshaping her approach,’ persuading her to drop rock riffs for dance beats, it said.

"All business is personal," said the lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in a Manhattan state court. As they co-wrote songs that would appear on her debut album, The Fame, he transformed Germanotta into Lady Gaga, a name adapted from Queen's ‘Radio Ga Ga,’ the lawsuit said.

But Lady Gaga has claimed that she came up with the name around 2004 "but Gaga's always been who I am… I was Gaga from the time that I was 19 through my first record deal," the 23-year-old singer said. "I always dressed like that before people knew me as Lady Gaga. I was always that way... I stuck out like a sore thumb."

The lawsuit claimed, Lady Gaga and Fusari's relationship turned romantic and then it became a business partnership in May 2006, when they created a joint venture, ‘Team Love Child LLC’ to promote her career, with 20 per cent share for Fusari. He introduced Lady Gaga to a record executive who led her to Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, which released ‘The Fame’ in 2008. The album has sold more than 3 million copies in the United States and Fusari has a producing credit.

But, the lawsuit said, their personal and business relationship had gone sour and he has been denied the 20 per cent share of song royalties, 15 per cent of merchandising revenue and other dues. However, he acknowledges payment around $611,000, but says that is not his full share.

‘The Fame’ reached #1 in Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Its first two singles ‘Just Dance’ and ‘Poker Face became international #1 hits, topping the Hot 100 in the United States as well as other countries.

Lady Gaga was nominated for nine awards at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video for ‘Poker Face’ and Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction for ‘Paparazzi’. Out of these, she won the award for Best New Artist, while her single ‘Paparazzi’ won two awards for Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects.

In October 2009, Gaga won Billboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award. Also, she was named chief creative officer for a line of imaging products for Polaroid at the Consumer Electronics Show on January 7, 2010 where she commented that she would create fashion, technology and photography products, and said, "I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."

Lady Gaga received her first Grammy Award at the 52nd Grammy Awards on January 31, 2010. She was nominated for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Dance Recording for her single ‘Poker Face’, winning the last three awards. Also, ‘The Fame’ had been nominated for Album of the Year and won the Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album.

On March 15, 2010, Billboard announced ‘Telephone’ the second single from ‘The Fame Monster’ reached #1 on the Pop songs chart, thus not only becoming Gaga's sixth #1 on the chart, but her sixth consecutive #1, making Lady Gaga the only artist in history to achieve this record. It also became the sixth #1 for the track's featured artist Beyoncé, the two singers being tied for the most #1 ratings, since the Nielsen BDS-based radio airplay chart was launched in 1992. Also they join Mariah Carey, who tallied six chart toppers between 1993 and 2005.

Amy Winehouse to remarry ex-husband

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According to news sites, singer Amy Winehouse has plans to remarry her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil in Las Vegas, and she doesn't want a traditional ceremony and wants it to be similar to their first wedding. Also, she is planning to launch her own line of clothing, as a designer. Winehouse has teamed up with Fred Perry to create a 17-piece wardrobe, consisting of capri trousers, cardigans and mini-dresses. She has been wearing Perry creations for long and she loves them. Fred Perry marketing director Richard Martin said that she had a hands-on role in the creation of the range. Winehouse's debut fashion collection is expected to appear in stores in October this year.

Katherine Jenkins turns down £1 million shoot offer

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Welsh classical-popular crossover singer Katherine Jenkins has, reports say, turned down an offer of £1 million shoot for Playboy because she did not want to upset her mum. The 29-year-old blonde once posed for the upmarket men's magazine GQ in November 2008. The mezzo-soprano is revered for her curvy figure almost as much as for her classical singing talent.

True music knows no barriers

True music knows no barriers, no age groups or time frames. We come across many musicians, songs and style in our lives. Some of them become a craze for some time and simply fade away, never to be heard of again! But there are certain gifted singers, bands and songs that remain evergreen, fresh and smoothening every time we hear them. In a sense they are immortal, timeless creations by true geniuses. In this regard, I particularly like Led Zeppelin, the English rock band originally formed by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands that pioneered the genre, but still their style transcending any one genre.

While searching for music and musicians I came across the online store Rhino from where you can order music in vinyl, CDs, DVDs and digital versions without compromising on quality. They have special promotions and events that can be very useful for music lovers, payments can be made online, and you can opt for shipping the ordered items to your address or download to your computer.

Yet another band that stood the test of time and won the hearts and souls of music and dance lovers is New Order. Acclaimed by fans, critics and musicians as a highly influential force in the alternative rock and dance music scenes over the past decades, New Order combined post-punk and electronic dance, and became one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the 1980s.

They were called The Band, originally made up of Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson and Rick Danko and Levon Helm, first coming together as they joined rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins' backing group, The Hawks. They were simply irresistible and produced great music and won many accolades, including the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award.

People knowingly or unknowingly revolt when their lives become stereotyped into repeating what others used to do, and change the rules of society’s norms. About four decades ago, an unbelievably huge gathering of half a million people at Max Yasgur’s farm, the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, revolutionized rock music and all other genres forever. If you want to relive those happening moments Woodstock CDs will help you experience it.

The Bee Gees enthralled music lovers for over four decades with their harmonic soft rock and almost ruled the disco music era. They had sales over 200 million making them one of the best selling music artists of all time. If you listen to Bee Gees CDs you will feel they were rightfully placed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

The late 80s superband Traveling Wilburys used pseudonyms such as Nelson Wilbury (George Harrison), Otis Wilbury (Jeff Lynne), Lefty Wilbury (Roy Orbison), Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. (Tom Petty) and Lucky Wilbury (Bob Dylan). The band was accidentally created in 1988 when Harrison wanted his ‘brothers’ to help him record the B side of ‘This is Love’. The result was ‘Handle with Care’, surprisingly too good to be used as a ‘filler’. Inspired by this, they created 10 tracks in 10 days and released as Traveling Wilburys Volume 1. It reached triple-platinum and won a Grammy. It was followed by the intentionally mis-numbered Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 that went platinum. You can recapture their music magic in Traveling Wilburys CDs.

No, it is not the end of the list, I just mentioned a few, Rhino has everything that you want to listen if you are looking for quality music, of any genre, group or musician of any time. Check them out to see the wide range they have on offer!