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the winning members of boy band sing their first single,' eyes closed.' from season 1, week 10, the season finale of' boy band.' watch' boy band' on abc. com .
sing boy sing 1958 u. s. film. excellent quality. 4: 3 aspect ratio. tommy sands stars as a simple country boy who rises to the top of the rock and roll world via guitar and sideburns. sound familiar? actually the role was first offered to elvis but he had commitments so colonel parker recommended tommy sands. terrific' 57 mercurys and rca ribbon microphones! songs include
who baby who ,
soda pop pop ,
sing boy sing ,
crazy crazy ,
a little love ,
and several others. tommy sands, lili gentle, nick adams, edmond o' brien, john mcintire, diane jergens, josephine hutchinson, jerry paris, tami conner, regis toomey. real life djs: art ford and bill randle. sing boy sing. bonus: elvis' first filmed performance. in color. local memphis shot in 1955 .
neither taron egerton nor his' sing' character, johnny, can play piano .
enter acrush, a hot new “boy band” that performed at the tour’s last stop in southern zhejiang province, where the group is based .
he' s a spy in' kingsman,' but he croons beautifully in' sing.'
you' ll never guess what' sing' star taron egerton' s hidden musical talent is .
tommy sands stars in
the singin' idol ,
a 1957 musical drama about and elvis - style musical sensation and his rise to the top, with sands introducing such hits as
hep dee hootie
and
teenage crush
. fred clark co - stars. it was later remade as the film
sing, boy, sing
.
★ brady has studied classical music since he was 12. he can sing show tunes, opera and can sing in italian, german, and french. he has won at multiple choir competitions throughout the state .
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sands' sudden fame brought an offer to sing at the academy awards show and his teen idol looks landed him a motion - picture contract to star in a 1958 musical drama called sing, boy, sing. in 1960, he married nancy sinatra and for a time they were the toast of hollywood. sands performed in several films including babes in toyland in 1961, the longest day in 1962, and ensign pulver in 1964, but both his singing and film career had faded by the 1970s .
taron egerton is johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family’s felonies in' sing.'
with the exploding popularity of the fighting boys, a group of three wholesome teenage boys who sing about homework and patriotism, chinese entertainment companies have revived their hopes of producing megastar homegrown boy or girl bands in a market that has long been dominated by their korean and japanese counterparts .
liam payne duked it out with james corden on the late late show on wednesday to determine which group has better music: male solo artists or their boy band counterparts .
my daughter' s reaction to
sing
reminded me of the importance of positive role models in children' s entertainment .
set to open later this year, “sing” is described as being “set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals. ”
sing boy sing tommy sands full movie staring tommy sands - lili gentle - nick adams co - starring edmond o' brien - john mcintyre produce and directed by henry ephron screenplay by claude binyon southern boy virgil walker (tommy sands) heads to new york city to show the northerners what rock' n' roll is all about. but, despite receiving a warm reception from his adoring fans, virgil feels lonely in the big city - - even going so far as to hire deliveryman c. k. judd (nick adams) to be his friend. meanwhile, virgil' s domineering manager, joseph sharkey (edmond o' brien), stirs up publicity about his lucrative star, despite the negative impact that fame is having on virgil
following the blockbuster success of “zootopia” and “the secret life of pets, ” “sing” will be just the latest talking animal movie to hit the big screen this year .
if you missed it, be sure to check out the full soundtrack for sing, which was released last month. lots of famous faces are featured on the soundtrack .
corden began the segment talking about backstreet boys’ “i want it that way. ” “it’s just a fact: boy bands are better than solo artists, ” he declared. “they got the hits, they got the choreographed dances. ” payne, who is embarking on his solo career following one direction, burst onstage to dispute corden’s assertion. “don’t get me wrong, ” he said. “boy bands are great, obviously. but you can’t be slumming solo artists. ”
it was in that state of woke - ness, exacerbated by parenthood, that i watched a preview of the animated movie “ sing ” with my 6 - year - old .
i am certain that the intent behind the making of “sing” isn’t to regurgitate negative stereotypes or preserve an ugly history, but sometimes intent is short lived under the weight of perception .
from the creators of despicable me and the secret life of pets comes sing, an animated look at an intense competition featuring animals of all shapes, sizes and, well, talent .
johnny struggles with the piano in sing. egerton knows the feeling .
i cannot do it. i wish ,
he says. but he has fallen for the hawaiian ukulele .
payne also sat for an interview with corden. the late late show host congratulated payne on the birth of new boy, whose name is bear, and payne explained that the unusual moniker stemmed from his child’s size – “he’s humongous! ” – and his penchant for noisemaking .
moments later, the two were singing in heated competition, backed by the a cappella group the filharmonic. corden made his case for boy bands by performing n’sync’s “tearin’ up my heart” and hanson’s “mmmbop. ” in response, payne sang george michael’s “faith” – ending with an emphatic hip thrust in corden’s direction – ed sheeran’s “shape of you” and his own hit single “strip that down. ” after payne claimed victory, he joined forces with corden to sing one direction’s “best song ever. ”
the painfully shy elephant who ends up working as a stagehand because she is too scared to sing is voiced by tori kelly, making her film debut. kelly' s album, unbreakable smile, dropped in 2015 .
my manager was the same as elvis' s. colonel tom parker. he managed me and found me when i was a little boy in houston. my mother did, nt like colonel parker because he took over so much of my life from my mother. she ripped up the contract with parker .
the rest of the all - star cast includes nick offerman (norman), leslie jones (meena' s mother) and jennifer saunders (miss nana noodleman). sing opens in theaters everywhere wednesday, december 21 .
he continued singing while studying acting at britain' s prestigious royal academy of dramatic art .
but it’s only been recent years that i ever considered the possibility i might be in a movie called sing ,
says egerton .
zhou says they will avoid using the word “boy” or “girl” when introducing the group. instead, they have carefully chosen a gender - free phrase, meishaonian, or “handsome youths. ” but still, female fans on weibo have taken to calling them “husbands, ” a meme usually reserved for male celebrities like justin bieber .
egerton hit sam smith' s stay with me and elton' s john' s i' m still standing in sing. he calls the songs ,
beautiful bits of soul. i love singing them. that’s my jam .
adding to the snl contingency on the sing cast are leslie jones and jay pharoah, who play mother and grandfather, respectively, to meena (tori kelly), the stage - fright - prone elephant who needs some encouragement to put herself out there .
★ brady was born into a very talented family. his brother toured with the broadway show' oliver' when he was 8 years old and so brady lived the touring life at ages 2 and 3. brady feels this gives him an advantage as he' s lived on airplanes and hotels and knows what to expect if he made it into a boy band .
can a koala bear, voiced by matthew mcconaughey, create the world’s best singing competition to prove himself in theater? that’s the premise of ‘sing, ’ the new animated flick everyone is talking about. so, did you know how star - studded the cast was ?
kingsman' s taron egerton, who has signed on to play robin hood in the upcoming origin story, voices the sing character of johnny the teenage gorilla, who wants nothing more than to be a singer (and not be a part of his father' s gang) .
stars like matthew mcconaughey voicing the koala bear buster moon and reese witherspoon as the single - mother pig rosita are easily recognizable in the animated hit sing, now in theaters. but who voices the mysteriously soulful gorilla johnny, singing to stay out of his family' s crime business ?
the five members have been dressing like boys in their daily lives long before they took to the stage, zhou says. lu has been wearing short hair since she started to learn fencing at around age ten. she recalls that in her childhood she got routine checks before going into public women’s restrooms, with people calling her “little boy. ” the situation is less common these days, she says .
fans are predominantly female, zhou says, ranging from teenagers to recent college graduates. they like acrush more than equally handsome boy bands, she says, because the five members can understand them better, which is particularly important in one - on - one interactions with fans. “i ask them to reply every wechat and weibo message, ” says zhou. “they need to show gratitude [ to fans ]. ”
acrush fills an unusual niche in china’s homegrown boy or girl bands scene, where girl bands have been shaped by the influence of j - pop, which can involve knee socks, pony tails and other symbols of girlish cuteness. the letter “a” in the name stands for adonis, a god in greek mythology known as the epitome of male beauty, says the group’s agent zhou xiaobai in a phone interview with quartz .
the family guy creator appears in sing as the hustling mouse known as mike, who boldly proclaims that he' s not in the singing competition for fun, he' s
here to win .
in 2017, seth macfarlane is set to appear in logan lucky alongside adam driver, sebastian stan, channing tatum and katie holmes .
from illumination entertainment, the studio that brought you the secret life of pets comes an animated comedy about finding the music that lives inside all of us. sing stars academy award® winner matthew mcconaughey as buster moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world’s greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; academy award® winner reese witherspoon as rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; scarlett johansson as ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; and taron egerton as johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family’s felonies. sing is the musical comedy event of the year !
he has a special connection with sir elton: they both star in the 2017 sequel kingsman: the golden circle. but egerton hasn' t discussed his sing performance with john. .
i hope he likes it, i' m sure he' ll let me know ,
says egerton .
i really hope i pulled it off .
behind acrush is zhejiang huati culture communication co. ltd, an entertainment startup founded in 2016 in tencent’s business incubator in jinhua, a small southeastern city best known for ham. huati adopts the same star - producing system that has proven a success in korea. the company recruits trainees across the nation and selects them to debut as part of a boy or girl group. aside from acrush, huati will roll out three other girl groups between april and may, says wang tianhai, the company’s head .
wreck - it ralph' s very own john c. reilly voices the sing character of eddie, buster' s sheep friend, who at one point tries to convince his buddy to move on from his talent show idea. o' reilly will be seen next in kong: skull island before taking on the sherlock holmes tale with his pal will ferrell in holmes and watson, and then a sequel to wreck - it ralph coming in 2018 .
everybody - - and every animal - - wants to be a star, or so it seems in the new musical animated feature sing, about a koala desperate to keep his family' s theater from shutting its doors. to save it, he holds an american idol - type singing competition, which it seems every star in hollywood wanted a part of. see who is voicing who by checking out our guide to the main characters and the actors behind their voices .
brady tutton suffered a severe stutter as a child, and could barely speak. eventually, his therapists discovered that he didn' t stutter whenever he would sing. since then, he' s fallen in love with all kinds of music. he is not only a classically trained opera singer, but his tastes stretch across the spectrum and even include r & b. he comes from a talented family of performers, and he' s found his niche with music .
during the first 60 seconds of the preview for “sing, ” i sat in the theater anticipating the film’s premiere date. by the 2: 45 mark when the police sirens, orange prison jumpsuit, and the word “gang” was uttered, i was breaking movie theatre etiquette. i scoured the internet for more information on the movie’s characters. i also looked, to no avail, for comments from other skeptical parents — those parents who, despite america’s progress, remember the history of black people being compared to monkeys; or the countless number of unarmed black people felled to gun violence to many times later have their memories marred by negative and inappropriate descriptors like “thug” and “gangster rap” as a justified excuse to dehumanize and villainize them .
tommy sands was a popular singer and actor in the late 50' s. his biggest hit song reached as high as number two on the pop charts .
tommy adrian sands - - his real name - - was born in chicago in 1937. his mother was a singer who performed in art kassel' s band. growing up he enjoyed music, particularly country music. in 1944 his mother gave him a guitar for christmas. they moved to houston, and tommy spent some time there as a disc jockey as early as age 12. in 1951 he cut his first record and by the following year he had attracted the attention of entrepreneur colonel tom parker, who signed young tommy to a contract with rca records. for the next few years he recorded some songs that had little impact .
1957 was a breakthrough year for tommy sands. early that year he was given the title role in a televison play called
from that show; it went to number two and made him a very popular figure. in april, while still a teenager, he was featured on the televison show
meanwhile colonel parker had signed another singing sensation who had become prominent nationally in 1956, elvis presley. comparisons between presley and sands were inevitable. both had been managed by parker, both burst on the scene in grand style, and both went to hollywood to make movies. for sands, his first film was a starring vehicle for him titled
. he had trained as an actor when he was in school, and did an admirable job in his first film. his recording of the song from that film by the same title would become his third and last top forty tune .
, along with popular singer / actress annette funicello, and he married pop - sensation - to - be nancy sinatra. tommy also continued with his recording career. other film roles came along, including
tommy sands and nancy sinatra were divorced in 1965 and her father, frank sinatra, was not inclined to help sands with his singing career. sands did another film ,
and eventually went into semi - retirement, moving to hawaii. he opened a nightclub and had a clothing business for a while. he also found time to appear in several episodes of the popular television program
tommy sands' name does not come up often when there are discussions of the early days of rock - and - roll, and his old songs receive very little play time on oldies radio stations. but that does not diminish the fact that he did a serviceable job with his acting career, drew comparisons to his contemporary elvis presley, and was very popular and a prominent figure in the early days of rock - and - roll .
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born into a musical family in chicago, his father was a pianist and his mother a big - band singer. while still young, he moved with his family to shreveport, louisiana. sands began playing the guitar at age seven and within a year had a job performing twice weekly on a local radio station. he was only fifteen when colonel tom parker heard about him and signed him to rca records. his initial recordings achieved little in the way of sales but in early 1957 he was given the opportunity to star in an episode of
kraft television theatre
. on the show, his song presentation of a joe allison composition called
teenage crush
went over big with the young audience and, released as a 45 rpm single by capitol records, it went to no. 3 on the billboard hot 100 record charts .
he was divorced from sinatra in 1965 and has a daughter, model jessica sands, born in 1977 from another relationship .
sands' pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the rockabilly hall of fame .
the following took place wednesday june 27 2007. it was a telephone interview .
always. i started singing when i was five and i always wanted to be in show business .
elvis and i worked together a lot in the south during 1954 when he had his first record
that' s alright mama
we would work in arkansas and louisiana, texas all the southern states. we worked together all thru 1954 .
oh i thought it was fantastic, and he moved like no buddy else moved ever! he was just the most exciting performer i have ever seen .
well i stayed friends with him in the fifties but then i lost track of him. he was so humongous and i just lost track of him .
but colonel parker was the guy that got me the job to go to new york and the audition for' the singing idol
. that made me a star over night. colonel parker was responsible for that .
he was taking over all my life, and she was not able to control as much as she had in the past .
well colonel parker was the best thing that ever happened to me. my mom was wrong there .
im still working, i worked in new york recently. i just worked at the elvis and priscilla honey moon house. i sang and played my guitar at that show. so i, m still going .
well i love your music, i' m a big fan. thank you mr. tommy sands .
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manager joseph sharkey discovers a naive virgil walker who has an incredible vocal talent. sharkey takes virgil away from his humble beginnings, changes his appearance and turns him into a nationwide singing sensation .
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
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virgil' s aunt refers to herself as caro - line (long i sound), and so do others in the cast. however, virgil calls her caro - lynn (short i sound) throughout, even on the phone just after she pronounces her own name
her way .
: i guess i miss the screamin'. why don' t you scream a little, mr. sharkey ?
over - simplified, over - eager... but at least it looks good
teen idol tommy sands never got as popular as his virgil walker character is here (and if he did, it lasted about a minute). too bad then that his acting chops couldn' t compensate for a lack of chart hits. young man goes from tent - revivals to teen king, but when a funeral back home beckons, his priorities change. cinemascoped affair has beautiful b & w photography and just enough melodrama to help it over the finish line, but it' s awfully flimsy. perhaps elvis presley' s life story was a starting point for original writer paul monash (who later had a hand in 1976' s
carrie
!), but tommy sands, although energetic, isn' t up to presley' s standards (maybe ricky nelson' s). he' s got a handsome face and a gorgeous crop of greasy black hair (like presley' s), but when his adolescent voice squeaks in rebellion, one almost wants to duck for cover .
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this week on the hot 100, payne’s “strip that down” – which features migos’ quavo – climbed into the top ten, giving payne his first major u. s. hit as a solo act. he penned the track, which interpolates shaggy’s number one “it wasn’t me, ” with ed sheeran and sheeran’s “shape of you” co - writer steve mac .
“we were trying to write a song that was like, if justin timberlake left n’sync now, what would he put out? ” payne explained earlier this year. “that was the concept of the song. this is what we came up with. ”
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scarlett johansson, tori kelly, nick kroll and taron egerton enter matthew mcconaughey' s singing competition .
when the koala buster moon (voiced by matthew mcconaughey) decides to put on a talent show, singers flock to audition, including seth macfarlane' s abrasive mouse mike, reese witherspoon' s pig mom rosita, taron egerton' s teenage gorilla, scarlett johansson' s porcupine ash and tori kelly' s painfully shy elephant meena .
buster moon the koala (voiced by matthew mcconaughey) has the big idea to put on a talent show, but a slight mix - up means that the prize goes from his intended $ 1, 000 to a grand total of $ 100, 000. mcconaughey, who also voiced a character in this year' s kubo and the two strings, will next be seen in gold and the dark tower opposite idris elba .
nick kroll voices the star of the film' s trailers, gunter the pig, who sings proudly onstage clad in a glittery tracksuit. kroll' s list of credits this year run the gamut from the animated sausage party (as the voice of douche) to the interracial marriage drama loving to the dramedy my blind brother .
the porcupine punk, ash, is voiced by scarlett johansson, who was in two of 2016' s biggest movies, the jungle book and captain america: civil war, and next appears in ghost in the shell, which is set to premiere in march .
reese witherspoon voices the character of rosita, a put - upon pig mother of 25 who wants to follow her dreams. witherspoon will next star as mrs. whatsit in ava du vernay' s star - studded a wrinkle in time, as well as in hbo' s limited series big little lies .
nick offerman' s norman, husband of rosita (reese witherspoon), has ignored his wife' s talents for long enough. she tries to get some much - needed attention at home, while he largely sleeps on the sofa. offerman, best known as ron swanson on parks and recreation, was also seen this year on fx' s fargo and in the film the founder .
saturday night live' s beck bennett voices the character of lance, former boyfriend of porcupine ash (scarlett johansson). next up for the comedian is the disney xd reboot of ducktales, in which he voices launchpad mcquack .
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that' s taron egerton, better known as the toughie - turned - spy eggsy from 2014' s kingsman: the secret service. egerton does all of the singing in his new voice role .
i’ve had more disbelief than i was expecting. i’ve had people saying' that’s not you, is it?' which i didn’t foresee. i guess that' s a compliment ,
says egerton .
here are five things to know about the 27 - year - old star .
egerton went from the slick eggsy with a six - pack stomach in his breakout kingsman role to the portly british underdog ski - jumper in january' s eddie the eagle. eddie co - star hugh jackman said his
jaw hit the ground
when he saw the transformation .
i kept saying on set, the fact that this young man can go from kingsman, playing a super - spy, to eddie the eagle is astonishing ,
jackman told usa today .
i cannot think of anyone else in hollywood who could do them both successfully .
harry (colin firth) helps eggsy (taron egerton) in the spy business in' kingsman: the secret service.'
egerton hails from wales, united kingdom, which has a proud singing tradition .
it’s singing and rugby. and i don’t do the rugby ,
says egerton .
i always sang in school choirs and went on tours to other countries. i have always loved it. it’s a very communal thing, and you really connect with people .
director garth jennings said he wasn' t aware of egerton' s vocal skills, so he had him audition to hear his voice. instead of choosing from a list of suggested songs, egerton selected a favorite he had been playing non - stop. .
i had otis redding’s pain in my heart playing kind of on repeat. so i went in and did these arms of mine, one of my favorite songs ,
says egerton .
jennings was blown away :
it was so moving and brilliant, that i thought, even if a shred of that comes through in the movie we have got to go with this .
the gorilla johnny (voiced by taron egerton) prefers being a singer over being a gangster, and rosita (reese witherspoon) yearns to be more than a doting mommy pig .
eddie (taron egerton) and his coach bronson peary (hugh jackman) rejoice in' eddie the eagle.'
i can play can’t help falling in love. that' s the thing i have mastered ,
says egerton .
he learned to ski for eddie the eagle, but never tried an olympic ski jump .
i did set off from the top of one hill. but there was a net to catch me ,
egerton says .
it’s really, really scary .
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matthew mcconaughey as buster moon reese witherspoon as rosalita seth macfarlane as mike scarlett johansson as ash john c. reilly as eddie noodleman tori kelly as meena taron egerton as johnny nick kroll as bob jennifer saunders as nana jennifer hudson as young nana garth jennings as miss crawly beck bennett as lance jay pharaoh as meena’s grandfather nick offerman as norman
as you can tell by the premise, the film does feature a ton of great music. here’s the song list of what’s on the soundtrack — and the huge stars that are singing each one :
garth, who lends his voice in the film, is also the director of the new movie, and actually used his own experiences in the movie .
“i based the pig on my wife, ” he told our sister site, variety. “my wife didn’t love that at first, but then she saw how adorable [ rosita ] was. she’d quit her job as a fashion designer to raise our four kids, and then when she tried to go back …she struggled because she was worried that maybe she’s too old to do it again or she’s been out of it for too long. ”
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an optimistic koala voiced by matthew mcconaughey, buster moon is the mastermind of a singing competition meant to save his family' s old theater, as he' s unable to bear the thought of it closing forever. he' s
the ultimate creator ,
mcconaughey says ,
a showman who refuses to accept defeat and a guy who will accomplish the impossible through sheer force of will .
she' s a shy mother of 25 piglets and the wife of a workaholic, but rosita the pig, voiced by reese witherspoon, always dreamed of being a real ham on stage .
it’s the love and passion rosita’s given and received that pours out of her when she embraces her inner diva and lets loose ,
witherspoon says .
rosita' s dancing partner, a fellow pig named gunter, is voiced by nick kroll. and he' s totally fabulous despite having little talent. “gunter knows what we all should: everything is better in a gold track suit ,
krolll says .
he is the yin to rosita’s yang. if she’s hesitant, insecure and brilliantly talented… then gunter is the one who’s first to hit the stage and shake his piggy patootie; he’s a legend in his own mind .
a punk - rock porcupine voiced by scarlett johansson, ash is a prickly teenager with a bad boyfriend. she finally realizes she deserves to stand out without him and become a badass solo act .
ash eschews outdated expectations that she should deliver a pop - princess act on the stage and just rocks it out with original music ,
johansson says .
i adore her .
seth macfarlane voices mike the mouse, a tiny character with a giant personality and voice. as a con man and a crooner, he' s smooth in more ways than one, but he desperately needs the contest money .
what i like about this character is that he has zero concept of just how small he is ,
says macfarlane .
mike is a whirlwind mix of bravado, swagger and showmanship, and he genuinely believes he has nothing to prove .
the opposite of mike, meena is big in size but initially quite small in voice. former american idol contestant tori kelly provides her singing talent in the role of the timid indian elephant, who eventually breaks free from her stage fright. “i don’t know anyone who doesn’t have a bit of meena inside ,
kelly says .
as an artist, i went to that place of insecurity inside teenage tori to find my inner meena .
welsh actor taron egerton voices the cockney gorilla johnny, another character needing to break from expectations and show his stuff onstage. as the son of a criminal meant to follow in the family business, he has a lot to get off his chest, and a lot to blast out of his lungs .
he only needs big daddy to listen, to actually hear him, just once ,
egerton says .
if that happens, johnny believes he can become his own man and really soar .
john c. reilly voices eddie noodleman, buster' s business partner and the grandson of a singing legend. he' s a sheep, and true to his species is not nearly as confident, particularly about the fate of the theater .
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★ brady' s older sister has a recurring role on a television show .
★ brady had a terrible stutter when he was younger. he was embarrassed that his older siblings could get up on stage and act in front of people and he couldn' t even speak normally. singing was the only time he wouldn' t stutter so it became his favorite thing to do .
★ brady has made it a point to differentiate himself from his siblings by getting into r & b and hip - hop. he feels it throws people off that a white suburban kid from wisconsin loves r & b, hip - hop, and gospel .
★ brady doesn' t see a life for himself outside of music. there is nothing more that he wants in life than to be a part of this band .
★ his hobbies are skateboarding and snowboarding and he occasionally likes to play tennis .
★ he loves to cook and his speciality is a family recipe - pasta dish with mushroom sauce .
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see more from britain' s got talent at urltoken calum appears nervous as he takes to the stage after his sister jade fails to win the backing of the judges. but the 26 - year - old' s rendition of dancing on my own by robyn earns him a standing ovation from the audience, and he books his place in the live shows when simon presses the golden buzzer. subscribe: urltoken facebook: urltoken twitter: urltoken
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earlier this month, china’s social network giant tencent held a series of music events called “husband exhibition” at chinese universities. the idea was to showcase new pop stars who appear on the company’s online streaming site; the term “husband” is how china’s female fans refer to male pop stars who are so charming they fantasize about marrying them .
they had one big surprise in store for fans: they’re not actually male .
acrush is made up of five women mostly in their early twenties, who all have edgy short hairstyles and dress like a bunch of boyish hearthrobs. the group won’t formally debut with a music video until the end of april. but it has already garnered a big fan base after several appearances at music events. its fan page (link in chinese) on china’s twitter - equivalent weibo now has nearly 900, 000 followers. by comparison, katy perry, also a big name in china, has about one million weibo followers .
“a group advocating freedom, not bounded by frames” is acrush’s distinguishing concept, zhou says .
in china, women dressing up like men has become a more common sight and more accepted by society in recent years. that’s in part thanks to pop idol li yuchun, dubbed the mother of the unisex look in china. after li won the nationwide talent show “super girl” in 2005, more boyish girls popped up on tv, but none of them became superstars like li .
china’s talent agents have been talking about forming an androgynous band for years ever since li’s success, zhou says, but few women wanted to take the risk. zhou’s search for unisex stars across the country began last march. in september, the 28 - year - old agent narrowed down the target to 10 candidates. after two months’ training, lu keran, an junxi, peng xichen, min junqian and lin fan emerged as the five members of acrush. the youngest is 18 - year - old lin from southwestern sichuan province .
lin fan, peng xichen, lu keran, an junxi and min junqian (from left to right) in recording .
21 - year - old lu, captain of acrush, says some female fans send love letters to her, but “of course i won’t like fans back. ” she says the company doesn’t allow her to discuss her own or her teammates’ sexual orientations .
around 15% of acrush’s weibo followers are so - called “anti - fans, ” zhou says, who follow them solely for the purpose of railing against them because of their boyish looks. lu says she doesn’t really care about the trolls, “as long as they are happy. ”
while those groups will have different styles, androgynous or sexy, wang says, they are all bundled into a brand called fantasy football confederation (link in chinese). so for example, acrush is formally known as “ffc - acrush. ” all ffc members have to learn play soccer, and make it part of their stage performances. wang says playing sports can make the point that his pop stars are “sunny, healthy, and full of positive energy. ” he says he has chosen soccer partly because the government has placed great emphasis on the sport .
lu had never played soccer before joining acrush. but she enjoys the training, “even as we get injuries sometimes. ”
“the thing that nobody knows about our perfect family is that my husband is a monster. ”
for better or worse, kids get a lot of their education from cartoons. since my days of watching “alvin and the chipmunks” and binge - watching reruns of “the jetsons” and “the flintstones” (before binge - watching was a thing), i have come to view cartoons through a lens of thoughtfulness and consciousness that only time, experience and a new level of being
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the characters — voiced by some of hollywood’s heaviest hitters including matthew mcconaughey, reese witherspoon, scarlett johansson and seth macfarlane — take part in an “american idol” - type singing competition .
sounds fun, right? especially since the cast of characters includes a mouse, an elephant, a pig, a porcupine…and johnny, “a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of the family’s felonies. ”
with sirens blaring as johnny reluctantly helps his family commit a robbery, my daughter, seemingly confused and disappointed, asked why the gorilla is bad. why is he?
sing , boy , sing is a 1958 musical-drama film , released by 20th century fox . the film starred two newcomers , tommy sands and lili gentle . the film was an expansion of the january 1957 kraft television theatre episode " the singin ' idol " , also starring sands . sands , billed by the studio as a potential new teen idol , played an elvis presley-type singer . the film was gentle 's only starring role , and her penultimate film appearance . 20th century fox had plans to promote gentle as its new dashing red-head , but the right type of roles to offer her did not materialize . sing , boy , sing was released in the united states in february 1958 , to positive reviews , but did rather poorly at the box-office , despite being somewhat popular with teenage audiences . sand 's soundtrack of songs from the film was released in 1958 . 
sing, boy, sing is a 1958 musical-drama film, released by 20th century fox. the film starred two newcomers, tommy sands and lili gentle. the film was an expansion of the january 1957 kraft television theatre episode " the singin' idol ", also starring sands. sands, billed by the studio as a potential new teen idol, played an elvis presley-type singer. the film was gentle's only starring role, and her penultimate film appearance. 20th century fox had plans to promote gentle as its new dashing red-head, but the right type of roles to offer her did not materialize. sing, boy, sing was released in the united states in february 1958, to positive reviews, but did rather poorly at the box-office, despite being somewhat popular with teenage audiences. sand's soundtrack of songs from the film was released in 1958.
sing, boy, sing is a 1958 musical-drama film, released by 20th century fox. the film starred two newcomers, tommy sands and lili gentle. the film was an expansion of the january 1957 kraft television theatre episode " the singin' idol ", also starring sands. sands, billed by the studio as a potential new teen idol, played an elvis presley-type singer. the film was gentle's only starring role, and her penultimate film appearance. 20th century fox had plans to promote gentle as its new dashing red-head, but the right type of roles to offer her did not materialize. sing, boy, sing was released in the united states in february 1958, to positive reviews, but did rather poorly at the box-office, despite being somewhat popular with teenage audiences. sand's soundtrack of songs from the film was released in 1958.