Simon Cowell searching for new DJ Superstar

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added: 26 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Simon Cowell is expanding his competition show empire with a hunt for the new DJ Superstar.

The X Factor judge is working with Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's production company Overbrook Entertainment to find the best new DJ.

The show will be a live international reality show to hunt out the finest talent from around the globe.

'We've been working on this show for over a year and we wanted to partner with the right people,' Simon said in a statement.

He added that as soon as he spoke with Jada and her producing partner Miguel Melendez, he knew he had found the right team.

'DJs are the new rock stars,' Simon explained on why he is venturing into this arena. 'It feels like the right time to make the show.'

Simon has been part of some of the biggest shows on television including American Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent.

Jada also added her excitement about the new show and said she was thrilled about the project.

'This show will comb the world to find a new breed of talent,' she proclaimed.

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Simon Cowell wants next winner to perform in space

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added: 20 Jan 2012 // by: newsdesk 

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Simon Cowell wants his next singing contestant winner to 'perform in space.'
The music mogul is partnering up with Virgin businessman Richard Branson to send the next Britain's Got Talent winner above the atmosphere.
Richard's company has just built Virgin Galactic, a 2500mph spaceship that goes just above the earth's atmosphere, giving passengers a weightless ride.
British newspaper the Mirror reports that Simon wants his triumphant act to be one of the first people to board the ship.
'We are trying to work out a way so that the winner of the show gets to go up in the spacecraft and will be the first person to perform in space,' Simon explained on a UK television broadcast this week. "I am being serious, I swear to God. You could be the first singer or dog act, whatever, performing in space.'
Simon is interested in boarding the spaceship himself. He has always been interested in the sidereal.
'I would go on the spaceship myself,' Simon gushed. 'I love the idea that, if they are up for it, they have the option of performing in front of the whole planet in space. It can't be compulsory, but it will happen.'
The Virgin Galactic will be available for space flights as early as 2013.
The sixth season of Britain's Got Talent will premiere in April.
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Paul Simon 'Graceland' documentary to premiere at Sundance

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added: 18 Jan 2012 // by: VVN Music 

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The new documentary on the making and lasting influence of Paul Simon's classic album, Graceland, will debut at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22.

Directed by Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the West Memphis Three/Paradise Lost trilogy), Under African Skies is the story of the making of Graceland, and the controversy created when Simon went to South Africa to record with local artists. The movie travels with Paul Simon back to South Africa 25 years after his first visit. Simon revisits the making of the record, surveying from the vantage of history the turbulence and controversy surrounding the album's genesis. His artistic decision to collaborate with African musicians created a new world musical fusion, combining American and African musical idioms while igniting an intense political crossfire, with Paul Simon accused of breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.

Simon provides a fresh and revelatory perspective on the album while gathering the record's original musicians for a transcendental Graceland concert reunion. Under African Skies features interviews with key anti-apartheid activists of the time and such musical legends as Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, Paul McCartney, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel.

Following its Sundance premiere, the movie, one of the year's most eagerly anticipated documentaries, is slated for international film festival screenings and a limited theatrical run as well as airings on A&E.

Then, coming this spring, Legacy Recordings will release a Graceland 25th anniversary commemorative edition deluxe collector's box set as well as a special two-disc set, each featuring the original album with bonus tracks and the director's cut of Under African Skies.

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