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...Frank Sinatra’s voice has been used on a version of the hip-hop song “Gangsta’s Paradise” while Johnny Cash’s has been deployed on the pop single “Barbie Girl”....
...Sunday by winning music’s most coveted prize, album of the year, for a fourth time — becoming the first artist to do so since the Grammy Awards were created in the 1950s and leaping ahead of legends such as Frank...
...Sampha made himself known in the 2010s with appearances on songs by Drake, Beyoncé, Kanye West and Frank Ocean....
...As technology threatens to tear apart their business again — this time, in the form of artificial intelligence that can make Frank Sinatra’s voice sing “Gangsta’s Paradise” — big music is fighting back....
...Often, this will be a whimsical juxtaposition in which an AI-generated Frank Sinatra might sing Britney Spears’ “Toxic”....
...Segal, whose clients have included superstars like Drake and Madonna, is rich enough himself these days that he’s a client of Goldman Sachs....
...The die will be cast at that point,” says veteran Republican pollster Frank Luntz. “You have to beat Trump in one of those first . . . states to be viable,” Luntz adds....
...Beyond were yellow and purple-hooded flowers of special Roscoeas, including rare Roscoea wardii, found in the wild by legendary botanist Frank Kingdon-Ward....
...The whole thing comes off in poor taste, writes Kitty Drake for FT Magazine....
...just one painting in his adult life, and it’s propped against the wall not far away from us, among a selection of the works that will be sold, by Chito, Slawn, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ouattara Watts and Frank...
...(Website; Directions) In the neighbourhood To visit: The Drake Hotel or The Garrison for live music To stroll: Walk south down Ossington Avenue and turn left on to Queen Street West....
...To be frank, it’s much like life in general....
...I was staying at the Drake Hotel and picked up the Chicago Tribune. I was thumbing through the classifieds and there was an ad for the house.”...
...As one of Drake’s lyrics puts it, “Billionaires talk to me different when they see my paystub from Lucian Grainge.” He is also name-checked in songs by Jay-Z and John Legend....
...No wonder she called Drake “her pirate”....
...Martyn, who died in 2009 aged just 60, had a career that spanned genres: he was a folk musician in the same orbit as Nick Drake and Jackson C Frank but then dived into jazz and rock and reggae and trip-hop...
...In the 1960s, US astronomer Frank Drake came up with an equation to estimate the number of communicating alien civilisations in our galaxy....
...So they recorded the pop songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony and the Johnsons in 2011, worked with Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band in 2012 and unearthed the songs of Nick Drake’s mother, Molly Drake, in 2017...
...And another track was used by Drake for ‘Summer Sixteen’ in 2016. My granddaughter suddenly thinks I’m hip.” His old friend and colleague Alan Hawkshaw pipes up....
...Drake, the Canadian rapper who had the fourth highest-selling album of 2017, plans to take his whiskey company public, using a brand-new crowdsourced route to raise $30m....
...Smith was an obsessive fan of Amy Winehouse’s Frank while growing up, and her favoured mode is jazzy and soulful....
...Another folk icon, Nick Drake, was a fan of Frank’s writing, and covered “Blues Run the Game” in a private session in the late 1960s before the release of his first album Five Leaves Left....
...Sampha Sisay has featured on several Drake songs, as well as others by Kanye West, Beyoncé and Frank Ocean....
...Londoner has made his name by blending the eerie glitches and bass wobbles of dubstep with R’n’B grooves and plaintive, falsetto vocals that express emotional vulnerability — a kind of millennial Nick Drake...
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