The hotness that is Fergie lends her support to rapper Ludacris at the ‘Benefit for the Ludacris Foundation at Ralph Lauren’ which was held at Atlanta’s Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta, Georgia last Thursday. The vision for 30-year old Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges’ foundation is to inspire the youth to live their dreams, uplift families and foster economic development in the community. You can visit the foundation’s official website LudacrisFoundation.org for more information on what they can do for the community. Fergie and Luda were joined at the event by the likes of producer Polow Da Don and rapper Rich Boy.
Hilary McRae will celebrate the release of her “impressive debut” (Performing Songwriter) ‘Through These Walls’ (Hear Music) with shows in her native Florida. She recently opened for Huey Lewis & The News at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, and she will be opening for Todd Rundgren at Miami’s Jackie Gleason Theatre on April 15. McRae will also perform at NYC’s The Living Room on April 10 and April 21, extending her successful residency at the venue.
In other tour news, Hilary was hand-picked to perform at Florida’s SunFest in May, where she will warm up the stage for Fergie. In June Hilary heads to Milwaukee, WI for the PrideFest where she will open for Natasha Bedingfield. More shows to be confirmed in the coming weeks, stay tuned for details.
Hilary McRae Spring Dates:
April 10 – The Living Room – New York, NY
April 15 – Jackie Gleason Theatre w/ Todd Rundgren – Miami, FL
April 21 – The Living Room – New York, NY
May 2 – SunFest – West Palm Beach, FL
June 7 – Pride Fest – Milwaukee, WI
Hilary is the first developing artist signed to Hear Music, the label launched by Starbucks Entertainment and Concord Music Group, after high profile releases by Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell and James Taylor last year.
Idol fans, this is your time for sweet revenge. He may not have won the competition, but he won the hearts of album buyers this year. Billboard named Chris Daughtry the most popular album of 2007. They sold about 3.2 million copies.
Just half a million shy of that, in second place, is Akon’s album “Konvicted”, followed by the Hannah Montana soundtrack (2.5 million), Fergie’s “The Dutchess” (2.4 million), and Carrie Underwood’s “Some Hearts” (2.3 million).
Number one song of the year was “Irreplaceable” by Beyonce, with Rihanna coming in just behind with “Umbrella”. Top tour of the year was The Police’s reunion tour, bringing in $212 million at last estimate.
Fergie gave a very priceless reaction when it was announced that she got a Grammy nomination on Thursday. The singer was one of the musicians on hand to announce who got the nods. It would have been very embarrassing if she didn’t get any.
But it’s still a very bittersweet reward for Fergie as she was a big favorite to get many Grammy nominations before the nominees were announced. She was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal. But when your album has 5 hit singles, it doesn’t really matter how many nods you get. Just think about that for a good while.
Fergie has a new video out for her new single ‘Clumsy’. It’s a ‘pop-up book’ music video of a clumsy Fergie falling in love with model Alex Lundquist. The singer also walks the runway for the label Dsquared2 in her new video.
Her videos are always fresh and cool but all those corporate plugs thrown in are just irritating. Maybe she should just get one sponsor to pay a lot of money instead of four or five paying milk money.
Props to her though because she has an album good enough to have five singles off it. ‘Clumsy’ is likely to become another hit.
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