Music Awards Honor Blues Artists The 32nd Annual Blues Music Awards were handed out in Memphis, Tennessee on May 5. The evening had some big winners while the Blues Hall of Fame gained some new members. Guitar master Buddy Guy took home five Blues Mu

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(五月)

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Finally, today, even if you don't know her name, you probably know Priscilla Renea's work from the lyrics she's written for stars like Pitbull and Rhianna and Fifth Harmony over the past decade. Now you can hear her words in her

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By Katherine Cole Washington 30 April 2006 Often called

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South African Singer Starts Black Education Fund In March 2011 Simphiwe Dana embarked on a tour of rural and township schools to increase awareness of the dire state of public education, and to identify key problems such as the lack of libraries, sci

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After decades of masterful acting and five Academy Award nominations, actor Jeff Bridges won the Oscar for best actor for his role as washed-out country singer Bad Blake in the music drama Crazy Heart. Thank you, Mom and Dad for turning me onto such

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 12 November 2007 The international climate change panel that won this year's Nobel peace prize is holding a meeting in the Spanish city of Valencia this week to draft a key report on global warming. Environmentalists hope the doc

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Tim Lambesis, the lead singer for the heavy metal band As I Lay Dying has been arrested in California on Tuesday on charge that he sought the help of an undercover detective to have his estranged wife killed. Lambesis was taken into custody near San

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A: Im forming a music band. B: Do you already know how to play an instrument? A: Uh... Yeah! Ive told you a thousand times that Im learning to play the drums. Now that I know how to play well, I would like to form a rock band. B: Aside from yourself,

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 February 2007 The Dixie Chicks were the big winners at Grammy Awards, Sunday. The singers earned five Grammys -- the highest American music industry honors. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Los Angeles, the evening mark

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VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Faith Lapidus with People in America in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Celia Cruz. She was one of the most influential and energetic female singers in the history of Afro-Cuban Music. More th

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Remembering Singing Superstar Whitney Houston CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Christopher Cruise. Today on our show we remember the life and music of singing superstar Whitney Housto

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By Katherine Cole Washington 20 October 2006 The annual conference of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) was held recently in Nashville, Tennessee. VOA's Katherine Cole attended, and filed this report on the 17th annual IBMA awards

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By Jeff Swicord Baltimore, Maryland 27 April 2006 watch Ethnic Neighborhoods As the immigration debate rages in the United States, Jeff Swicord takes a look at one of the original immigrant neighborho

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By Kathie Scarrah Washington, DC 25 January 2006 watch New Orleans report Before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana city of New Orleans last August, 60 percent of the city's nearly half a mi

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The death of Michael Jackson has been greeted with a heightened sense of sadness in Britain, where the King of Pop had planned to stage an ambitious series of 50 concerts as part of a long awaited comeback. Fans of Michael Jackson bring flowers, pic

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 26 October 2007 South African Reggae star Lucky Dube is to be buried Sunday in a private family ceremony. Fans, however, have already paid an emotional tribute to the singer, who was shot to death a week ago in an attempted

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今天我们要学的词是obsessed。 Obsessed, 一门心思的,沉迷于。 My girlfriend is obsessed with buying handbags, 我女朋友买包上瘾。 One of my co-workers is obsessed with social networks, 我有一个同事整天沉迷于社交网

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Hong Kong singer-actress Adia Chan has announced she will play Donna Sheridan in the newest Chinese version of Mamma Mia! In Hong Kong, I watched both the London and Broadway versions of Mamma Mia! The audience couldn't help but sing along with the p

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Fans have waited 11 years and put up with three postponements of the concert, but the American singer Whitney Houston finally returned to the UK stage last night. But Whitney's comeback gig on British soil prompted a mixed response from the fans who

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NOEL KING, HOST: Singer, producer and songwriter R. Kelly is one of the bestselling RB artists. But a new docuseries from Lifetime that debuts tonight called Surviving R. Kelly alleges he has a darker side. It features the stories of women who say Ke

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