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ABC News
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Marlon Williams guest programs rage
Singer-songwriter, actor, and absolute delight, Marlon Williams is guest programming rage this weekend. It's been 10 years since the Aotearoa artist released his debut self-titled solo album which landed him on the Australian ARIA and New Zealand album charts. Since then, Williams has been busy touring, scoring acting gigs in movies and TV shows like A Star Is Born , True History of the Kelly Gang , and Lone Wolf , earning top nods at the APRA, Aotearoa, and New Zealand music awards, and, of course, releasing more records – most recently his fourth studio album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Released earlier this year, the stunning record is sung entirely in te reo Māori as part of his journey to reconnect with his ancestral tongue, family, friends, and hometown of Lyttelton. And now, Marlon Williams is sharing some of that journey with us as he jumps on the red couch for his first full length rage hosting and lines up music videos that have shaped his life and a sample of what's in store: CHRIS ISAAK - Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing PATEA MAORI CLUB - Poi E WAXAHATCHEE & MJ LENDERMAN - Right Back To It LAURA JEAN - Touchstone THE BATS - Loline So join Marlon Williams as he guest programs rage this Saturday July 19 from 10:30am and 11:31pm on ABC TV.
The Sun
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Watch the dramatic moment Brit Award winner Raye is forced to halt live performance after ‘medical emergency'
SINGER Raye has been credited for stopping her concert so one of her fans needing medical attention could be seen to. The Brit award winner was performing at the Jazzopen festival in Stuttgart, Germany on Monday when she stopped the show unexpectedly. 4 4 In a video posted to TikTok by user, @ Raye is seen telling the band to stop playing after pointing to something in the crowd. "What's going on here?" she asked, pointing to where the incident was occuring. "Is everything alright? What's going on?" the singer repeated. The crowd could be heard cheering as Raye then looked over to her side and asked for help to be sent to the person in need. One person in the audience can be heard saying, "Oh my god." "Sorry ladies and gentlemen, let's just hold on one second," Raye told the audience. As responders moved towards the person, Raye asked for people to clear the area and received a round of applause from her audience. She checked in and asked if the person was ok and said "let's give them lots of love," and made the love heart shape with her hands. According to the person who posted the video, Raye waited three minutes and made sure everything was alright before continuing the show. "Thanks for being respectful and lovely," Raye told the crowd. Watch the emotional moment Raye breaks down in floods of tears after earning first ever Grammy nominations The singer-songwriter triumphed at last year's Brit Awards in the categories for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and R&B Act Raye released her debut album in 2023, has enjoyed huge success since splitting from her former record label. The star released her first single, Flowers, in 2015 and went on to feature on a number of singles by high-profile artists such as Jonas Blue and Jax Jones. Raye has also written music for other popular acts such as John Legend, Anne Marie, Little Mix and Ellie Goulding. She performed at this year's Grammy Awards and Academy Awards in Los Angeles. 4
CNN
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
Lainey Wilson on what a July 4th looks like in her hometown
CNN's Boris Sanchez interviewed singer-songwriter Lainey Wilson at Summerfest about her July 4th memories, her new single 'Somewhere Over Laredo' and her upcoming performance on CNN's Fourth in America. Watch CNN's special celebrating the 249th anniversary of the United States' independence from 7pm ET to 1am ET.
Forbes
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Q&A: Damiano David Opens Up On Stunning Solo Debut
SANREMO, ITALY - FEBRUARY 12: Damiano David attends the 75th Sanremo Music Festival 2025 at Teatro ... More Ariston on February 12, 2025 in Sanremo, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/) If you only know Damiano David as the lead singer of Italian glam rock band Maneskin, then you don't know David. On his solo debut, Funny Little Fears, David showcases a whole other side of himself. Theatrical, vulnerable, eclectic and compelling, Funny Little Fears is an impressive introduction to the singer/songwriter side of David. I spoke with him in a revealing conversation about being an introvert, why the initial success of Maneskin caught him by surprise, songwriting and much more. Steve Baltin: Congratulations on the record. I was just looking at your Instagram. I've talked about this with so many artists. When you do a solo record as opposed to being in a band, it does feel like because it's under your name, it's much more personal. It feels like this one was more internal. Was that the case? Damiano David: Yeah, I think, especially the last record with my band Maneskin, it's a lot about what I was seeing externally while this record is a lot about the effects that all that I've seen had on me. Baltin: I'm always a big believer in writing being subconscious. So, when you started doing this and started putting all this into song, were there things that you were surprised about on the record? David: Yeah, it was actually quite accurate. It's really my experience. I feel like everything that happened with the band happened so fast that I never really had the chance to absorb it and understand the effects that it was having on me. I was so moved by this boost of energy and enthusiasm that all the problems were going into the back of my brain. But you can delay stuff for only for as long as possible, at one point it's going to come out. And this was the time for me. Baltin: Were there specific songs that really surprised you when you went back and listened to the lyrics? David: I think that pretty much with every song, what happens to me it's like after I wrote it I read back the lyrics, and I realize that I didn't even know that I was feeling that so strongly or that like that was the source of my problem. This is really generalized to pretty much every song I write. In general, in the record I was surprised by the level of honesty and vulnerability and disconnects, also with the level of connection that I managed to have with all the producers and songwriters I worked with. It was surprising for me as a very internal person. I don't share much. So, it was surprising for me the level of understanding and the level of confidence that I can see in the songs. Baltin: That's interesting. I've talked to so many people about this; music becomes your way of communicating. So, did you have to share this to express your feelings? David: Yeah, definitely. The word that I was searching for was introverted. But yeah, for me, it's like opening the lid of a bottle and letting everything come out, because I'm not a great talker. So, music, that's the trick for me. Baltin: That's so interesting to me because Chris Cornell was a friend and Chris was one of the greatest frontmen ever. He told me he was an outcast as a kid and became a musician because music becomes his way of communicating and fitting it with the world. David: I think especially for songwriters, but I think it applies to musicians in general, many times it starts as a way to be seen or understood. I feel like a very common sentiment is wanting to say something or to show something and maybe not having the platform or not having the confidence or coming from an environment that doesn't really let you do it. So, music works as this kind of counterattack, where you're like, 'I'll put myself on a stage. So, you have to listen to me.' Then when you grow older and you're not that mad and instinctive anymore, you understand that it's actually your way to communicate strong feelings that can be overwhelming most of the time. When you have the safety of a stage, which seems counterintuitive, but a stage makes me feel makes me and I think a lot of colleagues feel safer. You have the strength to talk about these things. Baltin: Because you consider yourself an introvert, when Maneskin started to become this huge behemoth that everybody responded to was there a feeling of disconnect, like this didn't make sense? David: If you think about it, it feels weird because if you break it down, it's always weird to think there's that amount of people giving attention to you. I think it will never get normal for me. But I think that for me it felt a lot like I was right, like, I had something to say, and I thought it was worth listening to. This was finally the evidence that I was right. Baltin: That then gives you the confidence to do a solo record that is more vulnerable because all these people are responding, all these people love it. The other thing of course that happens is you just get older. And as you get older, you just get more confident, you start to care less about what others think. David: Yeah, I would say it's definitely true. I think it happened during the process of the record, I felt like I needed to communicate something and the only way possible to do it was to make a solo project. Then of course after that all the fears and self -doubting and the thinking about what people would think came about but I would say it lasted very few days because I was really paying attention to how writing this music made me feel. It was extremely positive for me. Baltin: What was the first song written for this record? David: I started with the purpose of doing a solo project. I knew that a very defining song was 'Born With A Broken Heart' because it's the type of sound that I didn't imagine for myself at the beginning of the process. Then it ended up being the one I feel more comfortable with right now and most represented by. That was really like a breaking point for me. It was like, 'Okay, I think we just found the sound of the record.' Baltin: What was it about this sound that spoke to you? David: I felt like it would allow me to be many different things at the same time, which is what I feel like I am and what I want to show the people. I feel like before I'm a songwriter, an artist, a performer or whatever, I'm a person. I'm a human being and people are made of many different layers and many different levels of emotions and experiences. I felt like this type of sound, which is very influenced by theater and musicals, would really give me the chance to explore a huge amount of emotions and dynamics and would allow me to dance if I wanted to dance and be very serious if I wanted to be serious, be very cinematic. I feel like it has such a wide range of emotions, and my main goal is to have fun with music. I felt like this would allow me to really have fun.
Washington Post
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Lorde's ‘Virgin' charts a journey of self-discovery
To paraphrase the Queen of Pop, Lorde somehow made it through the wilderness, but didn't know how lost she was until she found herself. That's a good-enough thesis for 'Virgin,' the just-released album from the singer-songwriter. Never mind the album's title, which invokes think pieces and studies of how much Generation Z is or isn't having sex. This 'Virgin' is more about an artist who is touching a new truth for the very first time. As Lorde wrote on her website before the album's release, this is 'the sound of [her] rebirth.'
