ASHLEE SIMPSON DOES NOT HAVE HER INSPIRATIONS FROM SISTER – JESSICA SIMPSON

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ASHLEE SIMPSON
Born on the 3rd of October, 1984, Ashlee Simpson is today 26 years old and has been brought up in Waco in Texas in the United States of America. Ashlee Simpson is an actress apart from being a singer and songwriter. When Ashlee Simpson was 17 years old, she had started her musical career.

DISORDER RUINED HER DANCING CAREER
Ashlee Simpson was born to Tina Ann and Joe Truett. Her father was a Baptist youth minister and is now her manager whereas her mother was a housewife. Ashlee Simpson is the younger daughter of her parents and attended the Prairie Creek Elementary School when she was young. When Ashlee Simpson was three years old, she started learning classical ballet and soon, with , she became a dancer. With this, Ashlee Simpson got admission into the School of American Ballet in New York when she was just 11 whereas the age criterion was 12 years but because she was such a pro, she got through. During this , Ashlee Simpson suffered from an eating disorder that lasted more than six months. Her parents had to come to her and give her the help she needed at that .  Her , Jessica Simpson got a record deal in Los Angeles in California and thus, their entire family decided to shift there and Ashlee Simpsons was coming in some television commercials at that time. Once Jessica Simpson became a star and released her first album, she got Ashlee Simpson as her lead dancer. Later, Ashlee Simpson also appeared in many television series, films and commercials like Hot Chick, Malcolm in the Middle and 7th Heaven. Ashlee Simpson also recorded a song of her own titled “ Past, Present and Future” which was supposed to be a part of the Album School’s Out! and was to be released on the Disney Jingle Jams on the radio between the year 2004 and 2005.

ASHLEE SIMPSON’S INFLUENCES AND INSPIRATIONS
Ashlee Simpson recalls her childhood and says that she had always dreamt of being on the Broadway and did she expect that she would come into the pop music arena. Ashlee Simpson songs are rehearsed with her vocal coach and for inspiration and influence she listens to the albums of Aretha Franklin and Etta James. In an interview, Ashlee Simpson has also pointed at Debbie Harry, The Runaways, Pat Benatar, Chrissie Hynde, Madonna and Joan Jett as her other influences. Ashlee Simpson is herself a singer but when it comes to count her fans, she says that she is in love with songs from Gwen Stefani, Green Day, Alanis Morissette, Karen O, Fiona Apple, Joan Osborne and Bjork.

VERY DIFFERENT SISTERS – ASHLEE SIMPSON AND JESSICA SIMPSON
Ashlee Simpson released her first album in the year 2004 and she was no one that had expected. Jessica Simpson had created an image of Ashlee Simpson, because both were real sisters but Ashlee Simpsons proved the world wrong. She had a very different musical style, an ultimate personality, different choices of fashion and a strong voice, all apart from her sister.  Jessica Simpson always lacked the rock style in her music and Ashlee Simpson always had that tinge of rock in her music. Also, the clothes that Ashlee Simpsons wore highlighted a rock or punk look in her. With time, Ashlee Simpson has grown more delicate and feminine. She herself said in an interview that she likes to get dressed up now, which was not the same before and she wants to look sexy and feminine. Ashlee Simpsons states that she likes to mix and match with her fashion.

ASHLEE SIMPSON CONTROVERSY
Ashlee Simpson was once criticized by Jenny Eliscu from the magazine Rolling Stone.  He had to say that Ashlee Simpson had very little singing and she was never made for music. Other critics have supported evidence in proof of this statement like the SNL performance and the Orange Bowl performance. In Marie Claire magazine, Ashlee Simpson was said that she had the Hollywood’s twisted view of feminine beauty where she was shown painting a pro female mural along with some underprivileged and handicapped girls from the Green dot Public School in Los Angeles. When the magazine reached the readers, Ashlee Simpson had got her nose job done and the readers took this as her being hypocritical. More than 1000 readers sent letters to the magazine in resentment and frustration and the editor had to expand his newsletter column in the month of September so that all the readers can take out their frustration for the singer.

ASHLEE SIMPSON AWARDS AND PRAISES
In the year 2004, Ashlee Simpson won the Choice Fresh Face award and the Choice Song of the Summer for “Pieces of Me” at the Choice Awards. At the Billboard Awards, Ashlee Simpson was given the Best New Female Artist of the Year. In the year 2005, Ashlee Simpsons won the Favorite International Breakthrough Artist at the MTV Asia Video Music Awards and at the RIAJ Gold Dis Awards, she won the Newest Artist award. In the year 2006, she won the Bounce Back Artist award at the TRL Awards and the Best Female Artist and Best Pop Video for the song Boyfriend at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards.

Posted: 21st December 2011 by Top39.com in 27. Ashlee Simpson, MUSIC

CHRISTINA AGUILERA – A VICTIM OF BULLYING

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Born on the 18th of December 1980 in Staten Island in new York, the United States of America, Christina Aguilera has done commendable work in the musical industry. Christina Aguilera deals wit the R&B, Latin pop and soul genres of music and has been not just a singer but a songwriter, actress, dancer and a . Since the age of 143, Christina Aguilera has been working with the music industry.

BULLYING AND DEPRESSION AS A CHLD
Christina Aguilera was born to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera and Shelly Loraine. Father was in the US Army and was a sergeant there and her mother was a Spanish teacher. Christina Aguilera took up the German, Welsh, Irish and the Dutch ancestry from her mother’s side. Christina Aguilera lived with both her parents until they divorced when she was just seven years old. Christina Aguilera had a younger sister named Rachel and after her parents’ divorce, the two daughters lived with their mother in their grandmother’s house in Pennsylvania. Christina Aguilera and her mother, both have mentioned that her father was very abusive, physically and emotionally and even was a very dominating man. Christina Aguilera has also stated that when she was growing up, there was a hell lot of domestic violence going on in her house so much that she felt very strong about her passion for music. Christina Aguilera sang song that were connected to her painful childhood like I’m Ok in the album Stripped and Oh Mother in the album Back to Basics. Her father has tried hard several times to reconnect with her but she ruled out any chance and never let him back in her life. Her mother got married to Jim Kearns and has changed her name with this. when Christina Aguilera was a kid, she always dreamt of becoming a renowned singer and because of her talent, she was known as the little girl with the big voice. Christina Aguilera attended the Marshall Middle School and later the North Allegheny Intermediate school. Christina Aguilera even participated in the Star Search reality show but she lost the competition, being on number 2. Christina Aguilera returned home with disappointment and sang the song “The Star Spangled Banner” for the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball matches, the Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey, the Pittsburgh Steelers football matches and the Stanley Cup Finals in the year 1992. Christina Aguilera’s talent was kept a secret with the other children and the schoolmates of hers to avoid any bullying by them. Later, when they all came to know, they used to bully and show their resentment towards her. They, to bully Christina Aguilera, once, deflated her family’s car’s tires. With this, she was made to do home schooling because Christina Aguilera herself could not take so much of bullying.

CAREER FROM SCRATCH
When Christina Aguilera was old, she auditioned for a role in the Mickey Mouse Club but could not get it because of the age limitation. After two years, she joined the gang of the Mickey Mouse Club and played many musical numbers and the sketch comedies along with friends Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears and Keri Russell who all titled her the Diva because of the style of her performance and her voice. When Christina Aguilera was just 14 years old, she recorded her first duet single with Keizo Nakanishi titled “All I Wanna Do”. This Christina Aguilera song became a hit all over. In the year 1998, when Christina Aguilera was 18 years old, she sent a demo of her of the Whitney Houston song run To you to Disney who were looking for an artist to sing the song “Reflection” for their animated movie Mulan. The producer and the label executive heard the demo and it caught his eye with which he decided to mentor her and got her a contract with the RCA Records. The song Reflection then peaked at number 20 on the list of the Adult Contemporary Singles and it was also nominated for the Golden globe Award for the Bes Song in the year 1998.

NOT MYSELF TONIGHT CHRISTINA ALGUILERA
Christina Aguilera released her 6th album titled Bionic on the 8th of June 2010. There were just two singles from this album that did very well at the music industry namely Christina Aguilera Not Myself Tonight and You Lose Me. Christina Aguilra Not Myself Tonight peaked at number one on the list of the Hot Dance Club Play. However, everywhere else Christina Aguilera Not Myself Tonight was unsuccessful. Some critics after hearing the Not Myself Tonight Christina Aguilera song said that her voice in this song was as pressurized as a pop singer’s voice could be. This Not Myself Tonight Christina Aguilera sing received mixed reviews from the critics.

Posted: 25th August 2011 by Top39.com in 26. Christina Aguilera, MUSIC

KESHA TIK TOK – SELLS MORE THAN 5 MLLION COPIES ONLY IN US

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Kesha Rose Sebert was born on the 1st of March 1987 in Los Angeles in California in the United States of America. Kesha is originally from Nashville in Tennessee in the United only and deals with songs of the genres Electro pop, crunkcore and dance-pop. Kesha is a singer and a songwriter by profession and has found a great of success in her line. Kesha also knows how to play a guitar, vocals and a piano. She has been working in the music industry since 2005, when she had turned 18 years old. Kesha has her own website by the name keshasparty.com.

KESHA’S – ROTTEN AND POOR
Kesha was born to Pebe Sebert who was a single mother for her daughter. Pebe was working as a singer and a songwriter during her time. Kesha even had elder brother named Lagan. It was very difficult for her mother to financially take care of their family of three. Kesha and her family relied most of the time on the welfare payments and the food stamps they got. When Kesha was an infant, Pebe had to look after her while she was onstage performing. Pebe took her family to Nashville when she got a new songwriting deal there. Shortly after there shifted in the year 1991, Kesha had a younger brother named Louis. Pebe found it easier to take care of her children while she was working and thus, got all her children to the recording studio and even encouraged kasha to sing there. Pebe even taught Kesha how to write songs and when Kesha used to come back from her school, they together used to write songs. At the age of 17, Kesha dropped her schooling and later got her graduation degree. Kesha had attended the Franklin High School and later shifted to the Brentwood High School. Kesha has also mentioned that as a student, she was very studious and an innocent kid.

A HEADSTART TO CAREER
Kesha’s mother had created a demo of Kesha and passed it to Samantha Cox who further passed it on to Dr. Luke and Max martin, the famous music producers. They were all very impressed with Kesha’s work and hence, convinced hat Kesha should get back to los Angeles and pursue a career in music and singing there. In a magazine, it was described that out of the two of the Kesha demos, the first one was a gorgeously sung and a self penned ballad whereas the second one was an awful pop song. Dr. Luke later stated that it was the second demo of the two that caught his attention because it was something completely different and unique, which was not the same as the 100 CDs he used to go through daily.

AWARDS, APPRECIATION AND LOVE
Kesha has been nominated and awarded a hell lot of time and just to count, here are some of them. Kesha was nominated for the Artist of the Year and the Favorite Female Artist at the Music Awards in the year 2010. At the MTV Europe Music Awards, Kesha was nominated for the Best New Push Act in the year 2010 and won the award for the Best New Act in the same year. At the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2010, Kesha was nominated for the Best New Artist; Best Female Video and Best Pop Video for Tik Tok by Kesha; and Best Collaboration for My First Kiss. Kesha was also nominated for the International Video of the Year – Artist and UR FAVE: International Video at the MuchMusic Video Awards for the Tik Tok by Kesha. At the People’s Choice Awards, Kesha was nominated for the favorite breakout Artist award. At the Teen Choice Awards, Kesha songs were nominated for the Choice Music: Female Artist, Choice Music: Breakout Artist – Female and the Choice Summer Music – Female. For the Animal, Kesha was nominated for the Choice Music Album – Pop an for the Your Love Is My Drug Kesha was nominated for the Choice Music Single and the Choice Summer Music award. At the World Music Awards, Kesha was nominated for the Best New Artist.
In the recent year in 2011, Kesha has been nominated for the Most Successful Newcomer of the Year, International at the Echo Awards and at the Juno Awards, she was nominated for the international Album of the Year award. However, the results of these two awards are still pending.

BEST SELLING TIK TOK KESHA
Tik Tok Kesha was released as a single digitally in the United States in the month of August and later on the radio. Kesha Tik Tok came out be a success commercially in more than eleven countries worldwide. In the United States, Kesha Tik Tok made a record for the week for the most downloaded single of a female. Also, Tik Tok Kesha became the second best selling single in the United States of America after Right Round that sold more than 610000 copies only in US. By the month of October in 2010, Tik Tok Kesha was certified platinum five times in a row for selling more than 5 million downloads in the United States of America. The songs, Your love is My Drug Kesha, Take It Off Kesha and Blah Blah Blah were the next three singles from the Kesha Animal Album. Take It Off Kesha did similarly well like the other two. Take It Off Kesha reached number one along with the two other singles in Canada, Australia and the United States.

Posted: 24th August 2011 by Top39.com in 25. Kesha, MUSIC
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