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- Beyoncé's music director on Emmy nod : 'It feels good' - WRAL.com
- Beyonce's music director on Emmy nod : 'It feels good' - Philippine Canadian Inquirer
- 'The Lion King: The Gift' Gives Beyoncé Seventh No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart - Billboard
- The Atlantic schedules last Beyoncé birthday celebration | The Avenue - The Independent Florida Alligator
- Swift, Cardi B and Missy Elliott bring girl power to Video Music Awards show - Japan Today
- Blue Ivy Carter: Beyoncé’s seven-year-old daughter makes debut on Billboard chart - The Independent
- Beyonce, Sinatra among those on Obama summer song playlist - Miami Herald
| Beyoncé's music director on Emmy nod : 'It feels good' - WRAL.com Posted: 27 Aug 2019 07:44 AM PDT  NEW YORK — In true Beyoncé fashion, when her music director learned he earned his first-ever Emmy nomination for his work on the pioneering project, "HOMECOMING: A Film by Beyoncé," he was too busy to celebrate — because he was focused on producing the superstar's next album. Derek Dixie has worked with Beyoncé for almost a decade, rising through the ranks from assisting the music director to eventually holding the title himself. His first credit as an MD for Beyoncé was her first concert since giving birth to Blue Ivy in 2012, where former first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia were among the attendees. Now, Dixie is competing for outstanding music direction — shared with Beyoncé — at the Emmy Awards, slated for Sept. 22 (the creative arts Emmys, a precursor to the main ceremony, takes place Sept. 14). "It feels good obviously. I haven't really digested it completely yet," Dixie said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Los Angeles. "My family's looking at me like, 'Wow, my son is Emmy-nominated, my brother Emmy-nominated, so that part of it is really good. Like, I've kind of accomplished something for the home team and for the family." When the Emmy nominations were announced in July, Dixie was adding the finishing touches to "The Lion King: The Gift," released days after the nominations were revealed. The Beyoncé-curated album was inspired by the 2019 film version of "The Lion King," where the singer voices the character Nala. Though Dixie came on Beyoncé's team in music direction, he's also produced, engineered and arranged songs for the singer. "Just being on the road all the time, sometimes you might have to record an idea or something and need somebody to hop in there and record something quick. And I had those skills," said Dixie, who also produced songs on Beyoncé's epic "Lemonade" album, earning him his first-ever Grammy nomination at the 2017 awards show. "I think it's segued from the live world into the studio world in my case." For "HOMECOMING," which captured Beyoncé's brilliant and trailblazing 2018 Coachella performance that highlighted black college culture, Dixie said they planned months ahead of the performance, first by trading ideas over the phone. Then he went into the studio with a small band to churn out more concepts (the final performance included more than 100 performers onstage, including a full marching band, majorette dancers and steppers). "Once she honed in on the HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) idea ... it was a machine after that. It was just months and months of prep work, making it sound authentic," he said. "She has tons and tons of classic records that when putting the show together, you have to maintain the classic feel of the record but make it feel like you're in a stadium at homecoming." Beyoncé's Coachella performance marked the first time a black woman headlined the famed festival and made the singer just the third woman to score the gig, behind Bjork and Lady Gaga. And it made history: "HOMECOMING" earned a whopping six Emmy nominations, including four for Beyoncé, giving the 23-time Grammy winner a good chance to snag her first-ever Emmy. In addition to outstanding music direction, Beyoncé is nominated for outstanding directing for a variety special (shared with Ed Burke), outstanding writing for a variety special and outstanding variety special (pre-recorded), where she is nominated as the film's performer and executive producer (she shares the nomination with fellow EPs Erinn Williams, Steve Pamon and Burke). "HOMECOMING" also earned nominations for outstanding production design for a variety special and outstanding costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality programming. "I don't think you can survive in her circle without being the hardest working person in the room," Dixie said of working for Beyoncé. "I say, 'Always be the hardest working person in the room and always hire the hardest working person in the room.' Because you have to have that because that's who she is. That's what she's going to do." "I think it's a blessing and just like any situation you have your stresses and you have your chaos that exists," he continued, "but because of who she is as an entertainer and as a person, you kind of find that fuel to keep going one more day." And for those who hope to work for Beyoncé one day, he has some advice: "Be ready to work. Yes. That's it. The glamour part comes later but the work part is definitely real."  |
| Beyonce's music director on Emmy nod : 'It feels good' - Philippine Canadian Inquirer Posted: 27 Aug 2019 10:28 PM PDT  NEW YORK — In true Beyonce fashion, when her music director learned he earned his first-ever Emmy nomination for his work on the pioneering project, "HOMECOMING: A Film by Beyonce," he was too busy to celebrate — because he was focused on producing the superstar's next album. Derek Dixie has worked with Beyonce for almost a decade, rising through the ranks from assisting the music director to eventually holding the title himself. His first credit as an MD for Beyonce was her first concert since giving birth to Blue Ivy in 2012, where former first lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia were among the attendees. Now, Dixie is competing for outstanding music direction — shared with Beyonce — at the Emmy Awards, slated for Sept. 22 (the creative arts Emmys, a precursor to the main ceremony, takes place Sept. 14). "It feels good obviously. I haven't really digested it completely yet," Dixie said in a phone interview with The Associated Press from Los Angeles. "My family's looking at me like, 'Wow, my son is Emmy-nominated, my brother Emmy-nominated, so that part of it is really good. Like, I've kind of accomplished something for the home team and for the family." When the Emmy nominations were announced in July, Dixie was adding the finishing touches to "The Lion King: The Gift," released days after the nominations were revealed. The Beyonce-curated album was inspired by the 2019 film version of "The Lion King," where the singer voices the character Nala. Though Dixie came on Beyonce's team in music direction, he's also produced, engineered and arranged songs for the singer. "Just being on the road all the time, sometimes you might have to record an idea or something and need somebody to hop in there and record something quick. And I had those skills," said Dixie, who also produced songs on Beyonce's epic "Lemonade" album, earning him his first-ever Grammy nomination at the 2017 awards show. "I think it's segued from the live world into the studio world in my case." For "HOMECOMING," which captured Beyonce's brilliant and trailblazing 2018 Coachella performance that highlighted black college culture, Dixie said they planned months ahead of the performance, first by trading ideas over the phone. Then he went into the studio with a small band to churn out more concepts (the final performance included more than 100 performers onstage, including a full marching band, majorette dancers and steppers). "Once she honed in on the HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) idea … it was a machine after that. It was just months and months of prep work, making it sound authentic," he said. "She has tons and tons of classic records that when putting the show together, you have to maintain the classic feel of the record but make it feel like you're in a stadium at homecoming." Beyonce's Coachella performance marked the first time a black woman headlined the famed festival and made the singer just the third woman to score the gig, behind Bjork and Lady Gaga. And it made history: "HOMECOMING" earned a whopping six Emmy nominations, including four for Beyonce, giving the 23-time Grammy winner a good chance to snag her first-ever Emmy. In addition to outstanding music direction, Beyonce is nominated for outstanding directing for a variety special (shared with Ed Burke), outstanding writing for a variety special and outstanding variety special (pre-recorded), where she is nominated as the film's performer and executive producer (she shares the nomination with fellow EPs Erinn Williams, Steve Pamon and Burke). "HOMECOMING" also earned nominations for outstanding production design for a variety special and outstanding costumes for variety, nonfiction or reality programming. "I don't think you can survive in her circle without being the hardest working person in the room," Dixie said of working for Beyonce. "I say, 'Always be the hardest working person in the room and always hire the hardest working person in the room.' Because you have to have that because that's who she is. That's what she's going to do." "I think it's a blessing and just like any situation you have your stresses and you have your chaos that exists," he continued, "but because of who she is as an entertainer and as a person, you kind of find that fuel to keep going one more day." And for those who hope to work for Beyonce one day, he has some advice: "Be ready to work. Yes. That's it. The glamour part comes later but the work part is definitely real."  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT Beyoncé unwraps her seventh No. 1 on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, as The Lion King: The Gift opens atop on the list dated Aug. 3. The set, credited to Beyoncé & Various Artists, earned 54,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 25, according to Nielsen Music. The superstar executive produced the 27-track Gift album in tandem with her role as Nala in the 2019 Lion King feature film adaptation. Gift, which offers 14 original songs with 13 interlude tracks of King dialogue, sonically centers on Afrobeats and other African musical inspirations with elements of pop, R&B and hip-hop included. In addition to Beyoncé, who performs on 10 songs, Gift contains contributions from familiar collaborators, including JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams, alongside popular African artists such as Burna Boy, WizKid and Tiwa Savage. With the new chart-topper, here's a rundown of all of Bey's leaders on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart: Album, Weeks at No. 1, Date Reached No. 1 Seven No. 1s on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart ties Beyoncé with Alicia Keys and Janet Jackson for the fourth-best total on the ranking among solo women since the chart began in 1965. Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige share the record, with 10 each, while Mariah Carey boasts eight. The Supremes, notably, also count seven leaders on their resume. In addition to Gift's No. 1 start on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, it enters atop the Top R&B Albums and World Albums chart and kicks off at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200. As Gift arrives, a pair of Beyoncé tracks debut on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs survey, which combines streaming, song downloads and airplay data. Those are "Brown Skin Girl," with Saint Jhn and WizKid featuring Blue Ivy Carter (No. 27), and "Mood 4 Eva" with JAY-Z and Childish Gambino featuring Oumou Sangare (No. 33). "Girl" also bows at No. 1 on the World Digital Song Sales chart, one of 10 Gift songs to concurrently rank on the 25-position tally. Elsewhere, "Girl" and "Mood" both debut on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 at Nos. 72 and 90, respectively. The former is a family affair of sorts for the Carter clan, as Blue Ivy earns her first Hot 100 credit, at age 7.  |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2019 02:24 PM PDT  The Atlantic will call out the numerals of Queen Bey's birthday one last time this September. To celebrate this birthday made famous for its introduction to the song "Get me Bodied," Beyhive members of all ages are welcome to come and enjoy the final installment of the Bey Day celebration. The event will take place Saturday, Sept. 7, at The Atlantic located on 15 N. Main St. and will begin at 9 p.m. Bey Day creator and host Tyler Francischine said guests can anticipate a packed evening. The night will begin with a Be Queen Bey lip sync contest, during which a handful of attendees will sing and dance along to the Beyoncé song of their choice. The audience will crown a winner who will be the "queen of the night." After the contest, over three hours of nonstop Beyoncé music will be played by DJ Young Turk, Francischine said. Francischine said he started Bey Day in 2016 to bring Beyoncé fans together in an inclusive space where they could have fun. "Unlike a lot of DJ'd dance events where you feel like you can't let loose because there's a creep around every corner trying to close in on you, Bey Day is all about empowerment and freedom of expression," Francischine said. As her fans will know, Beyoncé's favorite number is four - she was born on Sept. 4, her husband Jay-Z was born Dec. 4, the pair have the number tattooed on their hands in place of a wedding ring and named daughter Blue Ivy after the roman numeral of the same value. To honor the superstars admiration for the number, Francishine said he felt he needed to make this celebration the last. "It just seemed like time to retire after four years," said Francischine. "I don't think Beyoncé would approve of doing the same thing that many times in a row."  |
| Swift, Cardi B and Missy Elliott bring girl power to Video Music Awards show - Japan Today Posted: 26 Aug 2019 08:51 PM PDT  Taylor Swift won video of the year and Ariana Grande was voted artist of the year in a girl-powered MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) show on Monday, while rapper Cardi B won best hip-hop video and newcomer Lizzo celebrated large women. Alternative pop singer Billie Eilish, 17, beat Lizzo to be named both best new artist and best breakthrough or PUSH artist in the fan-voted awards show. Another newcomer, Lil Nas X, took home the song of the year award for "Old Town Road," his country rap collaboration with Billy Ray Cyrus that ruled for a record 19 consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard singles chart. Swift and Grande went into the ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, with a leading 10 nominations each. With Grande on tour in Europe and absent from Monday's show, Swift provided the opening act with a rainbow-themed performance of her pro-LGBTQ single "You Need to Calm Down" from her new, and already best-selling, album "Lover." Accepting the video of the year award, Swift said that since the VMAs are chosen by fans, "It means that you want a world where we are all treated equally under the law." "You Need to Calm Down" also brought the country-turned-pop singer the "video for good" statuette for songs that have raised awareness. Cardi B beat out a male-dominated lineup to win best hip-hop video for "Money," and ended a delighted acceptance speech saying: "Thank you, Jesus." The outspoken rapper was also on hand to present Missy Elliott with this year's Vanguard Award for career achievement, calling her "a champion for women who want to be doing their own thing." Best new artist contender Lizzo, enjoying a breakout year, performed her hits "Truth Hurts" and "Good as Hell" in a yellow sequined bodysuit, accompanied by plus-size dancers, in a message for body positivity. Mendes and Camila Cabello stoked reports that they are dating with a steamy live version of their romantic duet"Senorita," which reached No. 1 this week on the Billboard singles charts. The duet won the statuette for best collaboration. Korean boy band BTS won for best K-Pop and best group, while the recently reunited Jonas Brothers, won best pop song for"Sucker" and paid tribute to their New Jersey roots with a performance from Asbury Park. Monday's VMAs had none of the stunts and draw-dropping moments that have become milestones in pop culture, including Madonna's onstage smooch with Britney Spears in 2003, and Kanye West storming the stage in 2009 to tell Swift that her award should have gone to Beyonce. © (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019. |
| Blue Ivy Carter: Beyoncé’s seven-year-old daughter makes debut on Billboard chart - The Independent Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:00 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]Blue Ivy Carter: Beyoncé's seven-year-old daughter makes debut on Billboard chart The Independent Blue Ivy has bested us again. Despite being just seven years old, Beyonce's daughter has scored her very first hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. The pop ...  |
| Beyonce, Sinatra among those on Obama summer song playlist - Miami Herald Posted: 24 Aug 2019 11:42 AM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]Beyonce, Sinatra among those on Obama summer song playlist Miami Herald The Obama summer playlist has everyone from Drake and Beyonce to Steely Dan and Frank Sinatra.  |
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