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The beat goes on for UB40's Ali Campbell
Where do you go when circumstances cause you to leave the band you founded, financed and fronted for three decades? For Ali Campbell, the former face of global reggae superstars UB40, the answer is simple -- you go around the world with your new band, record lots of fresh new music, and eventually bring the boys to Hawaii.
UB40 frontman Ali Campbell is returning to the Islands this weekend with his band to perform a full set of UB40 classics.
People in Hawaii love reggae. Want proof? Go to any sports bar on the island and nine out of 10 times ita ll be a reggae or Jawaiian band blasting their tunes as you eat pupu and drink beer.
Diamond Head Theatre's musical 'Shout!' is a chance to get your psychedelic groove on to songs like 'To Sir With Love' and 'Windy.' 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m. Sundays, / Diamond Head Theatre / $42, $32, $22, $12 / 733-0274, http://www.diamondheadtheatre.com Domenic Marte is bidding to be the next big Latin music sensation.
Mumbai: Lionel Richie, American singer and songwriter, ABBA Revival group and British Reggae band, UB 40, will be part of the DLF-IPL Season III opening gala dinner on March 11 at the Tote On the Turf, Mahalaxi Race Course on Thursday and the opening ceremony on March 12 at the D.Y. Patil ground on Friday.
UB40 to headline Walsall FC's Banks's Stadium
Legendary Midlanders, UB40, are headlining a spectacular outdoor concert at Walsall FC's Banks's Stadium on Bank Holiday Monday, 31st May 2010.
Around Florida at the end of March: Springtime Tallahassee Festival,...
Our state capital celebrates 42 years of the Springtime Tallahassee Festival with music, crafts, children's activities and more on March 27.
UB40 frontman Campbell to headline Waterfront concert
Ali Campbell, the frontman for UB40, will headline a reggae concert March 21 at The Waterfront at Aloha Tower Marketplace, Hi Rise Entertainment promoters announced today.
Named after a British unemployment benefit form, pop-reggae band UB40 was formed in a welfare line in 1978, and its multiracial lineup reflected the working-class community its members came from.
Celebrity birthdays for Feb. 15
Actress Claire Bloom is 79. Songwriter Brian Holland is 69. Drummer Mick Avory of the Kinks is 66.
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Celebrity birthdays for Feb. 7
Actor Miguel Ferrer is 55. Saxophonist Brian Travers of UB40 is 51. Comedian Robert Smigel is 50.
Album Reviews: Soulful Marvin hits the height of love
HOME > ENTERTAINMENT > MUSIC > Album Reviews: Soulful Marvin hits the height of love Duets dominate the latest Marvin Gaye collection/Pics: Wenn.com Friday February 5,2010 Marvin Gaye: Love Marvin 4/5 Equal to Gaye's most celebrated work, What's Goin' On, is his 'lover man' portfolio.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 7-13
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The Other Black Music: The Other Black Music Jan. 24, 2010, Segment 1
2" 3)The Equators "Rescue Me" from the LP "Hot" 4)UB40 "I'm Not Fooled So Easily" from the LP "Geffery Morgan" 5)Steel Pulse "Worth His Weight In Gold" from the CD "True Democracy" 6)Sizzla "Irresistible" 7)Lazyman "The Good Guys" from the CD "Thanks For Dancing" 8)Dennis Brown "Emmanuel God Is With Us" form the LP "The Promised Land" 9)Clancy ...
The basic facts about Melvyn Bragg go round and round in the press cuttings like socks in a tumble dryer: born into a working-class Cumbrian family, now living in haute-bourgeois Hampstead; an arts broadcaster and Labour peer; and a writer of novels that win Bad Sex awards.
Drummer Billy Cobham, singer Ali Campbell from UB40, gospel and jazz vocalist Janice Harrington, the Glen Miller orchestra, Trinidadian singer Haddaway, French singer Silvie Vartan , Portuguese fadista Ana Moura, Cape Verdean "barefoot diva" Cesaria Evora and Finnish rocker Tarja Turunen were among the international stars to grace the Bulgarian ...
Celebrity birthdays for Dec. 25
Singer Tony Martin is 96. Rhythm-and-blues singer John Edwards is 65. Singer Jimmy Buffett is 63.
UB40's Ali Campbell performs in Sofia's National Palace of Culture on December 20 2009.
If ska tinged Coventry was all about The Specials, then Birmingham of the late 1970s and early 80s was all about The Beat.
Ali Campbell from UB40 to perform in Sofia on December 20
Ali Campbell will perform on the evening of December 20 2009 at 8pm in Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture .
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