50 composers to perform together at AIFEC event

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Rakhi Sawant chose her fiance, Canada-based businessman Elesh Parujanwala, from among 16 prospective grooms on a TV show, but the item girl now says her would-be husband has "an egg-like face". Rakhi and Elesh are part of a new reality show "Pati, Patni Aur Woh" on NDTV Imagine, where they will be seen taking care of babies of different ages.

September 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - One of Bollywood's most talented playback singers Sonu Niigaam is hardly heard these days. He says that he has cut down his work because he doesn't want to sing sub-standard songs.

September 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Known for their edgy and racy background scores in "Dhoom 2", "Chak De! India" and "Krrish", music composers Salim and Sulaiman Merchant are now looking forward to their next creation "Kites", which they promise matches international standards. "We are eagerly waiting and looking forward to the release of the film 'Kites' where we have worked on the background score.

August 4th, 2009 A six-day festival of music, dance and drama is going to be held at the Kala Bharathi auditorium from the 8th of August. This event will be organized by- Visakha Music and Dance Academy.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Former "Baywatch" star Carmen Electra has signed on to perform in a cage in a new burlesque show in Las Vegas. The 37-year-old actress has signed on to appear in 10 shows at MGM Grand's Crazy Horse Paris in Las Vegas July 8-13, reports aceshowbiz.com.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Pop diva Madonna may perform on this year's popular music talent show "X Factor". "This year is going to be bigger than ever - we are planning to get the best names in music, thesun.co.uk quoted a source as saying.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Actors and close friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck played poker at an event in Las Vegas to raise money for charity. The Oscar winners joined event host Don Cheadle and actors Brad Garrett and Danny Masterson and retired boxing champ Mike Tyson Thursday night for the charity event, reported femalefirst.co.uk.

June 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Composers Vishal and Shekhar were pleasantly surprised when they opened the morning newspapers to find A.R. Rahman appreciating their work.

June 11th, 2009 MACAU - Britain-born Australian singer Peter Andre is not only ga-ga over Indian music, but also counts 1957s cult Bollywood film Mother India among his personal favourites. Indian music is just beautiful.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There are women directing and editing films in Bollywood, but they are yet to carve a niche as music composers. Except for Usha Khanna of "Dil Deke Dekho" fame and Sneha Khanwalkar, who gave the music for "Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!", the Hindi film industry doesn't have many names to boast of.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - American singer-actress Jessica Simpson performed on stage for paediatric cancer survivors. The singer took the stage Sunday to perform for the benefit of 2,000 paediatric cancer survivors for the 18th annual Celebrate Life with Hope event, reported people.com.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle, who rose to fame on the reality show Britain's Got Talent but lost to dance group Diversity in the final, will perform for US President Barack Obama at the White House. Boyle has been invited to sing at the Obamas' Independence Day event in Washington, reported themirror.co.uk.

May 30th, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Hollywood funnyman Adam Sandler, who was a stand-up comedian before his movie career took off, has vowed never to perform stand-up comedy again in his life. Sandler, who began his career at comedy clubs and was later roped in as a writer for American satirical show "Saturday Night Live", took the decision after he had to perform stand-up comedy again for his new movie "Funny People", reported femalefirst.co.uk.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Aishwarya Rai is all set to dazzle audiences with her dance moves at the 10th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards night in Macau, China, next month - her second such appearance at the glamorous event. She had enthralled audiences by dancing to hit song "Kajra re" at Amsterdam in 2005.

May 9th, 2009 Music launch of Kanthaswamy which was previously scheduled to be held on 14th of April will now finally be held on 17th of May in the Chennai Trade Centre. It’s going to be a grand launch with more then 30 celebs brightening the event.