Why Diane Warren wanted to work with Albanian pop star Arilena Ara: ‘Holy s***, this girl can f***ing sing! This is just Celine-level.’
Global pop star Arilena Ara is logged onto Zoom from her native Albania, chatting with superstar songsmith Diane Warren, the writer of her debut U.S. single, the classically Warren-esque power...
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Roman rock gods Måneskin on their surprise success: ‘Giving a huge middle finger to all the things that have been said to us’
As winners of the over-the-top Eurovision Song Contest who hail from Italy, don’t always sing in English, and play supposedly unfashionable hard rock, Måneskin may not have seemed like obvious...
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The Winning, Wild, and WTF Moments of Eurovision 2016
(Ukraine’s Jamala wins the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. Photo: Reuters) Long before American Idol — before Star Search, even — there was the Eurovision Song Contest. The United Nations of...
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