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Pinetop Perkins' 80-year career still going (AP)

In this Oct. 11, 2009 photograph, Grammy winning blues pianist Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins motions a 'thumbs up' gesture during the annual festival at Hopson Plantation in Clarksdale, Miss., honoring him. Although he is 96 years old, Perkins, who formerly drove a tractor at the plantation in the 1940's, keeps an active performance schedule and takes time to record with a number of contemporary blues musicians, many several decades younger than himself. Proceeds of the festival are used to help fund programs of the Blues Foundation. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)AP - Noisy crowds in smoky bars don't bother 96-year-old bluesman Pinetop Perkins.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:03:22 GMT


Leona Lewis hopes "Echo" will resound (Reuters)

Reuters - Violence and theft. Not words one would normally associate with Leona Lewis, the squeaky-clean winner of "The X Factor," who went on to stunning worldwide success with her debut album, "Spirit."
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:05:36 GMT


R&B star Chris Brown to be interviewed on '20/20' (AP)

In this Nov. 19, 2009 photo, Chris Brown leaves the Criminal Justice Center after a hearing, in Los Angeles to offer a judge his first progress report since being sentenced for beating ex-girlfriend Rihanna earlier this year. ABC says Chris Brown will appear on its '20/20' newsmagazine Dec. 11. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - ABC says Chris Brown will appear on its "20/20" newsmagazine Dec. 11.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:56:13 GMT


For tenor from Malta, a star-making role? (AP)

In this Nov. 4, 2009 photo, tenor Joseph Calleja poses for a photograph at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - There's something about the honeyed sweetness of Joseph Calleja's voice that seems to evoke memories of a golden age, as if this young tenor carried within his vocal cords a secret passed down from bygone generations.



Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:24:48 GMT


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