राम थापा - नेपाली संगीतका अग्रज गिटारिस्ट

लोक आधुनिक संगीतमा आफ्नो छुटै पहिचान स्थापित गरेका आग्रज संगीतकर्मी राम थापाको मंसिर चार २०६५ मा निधन भयो उनी लामो समयदेखि जन्डिसबाट पीड़ित थिए ५० बषिंय थापालाई उपचारार्थ थापाथली नर्भिक आस्पतालमा भर्ना गरिएको थियो सरकार मातहतको रेडियो नेपालको संगीत महासखामा संगीत निर्देशक ( सतौ तह ) रहेका थापा नेपलामा लोकदोहोरी एल्बम निकाल्ने पहिलो स्रष्टा थिए उनले २०१३ सालमा रेडियोमा गिटरिस्टको रूपमा जागीर थालेका थिए हिन्दी र अंग्रेजी भाषाका मात्रै गितारको कर्ड भएको पुस्तक प्रकाशित भैरहेको बेला उनले नेपाली भाषामा पनी गिटार प्रशिक्षण बारे पहिलोपटक पुस्तक लेखेर प्रकाशनमा ल्याएक थिए उनका "स्टाफ नोटेसन" सम्बन्धी १३ पुस्तक प्रकाशित छन २ भद्र २०१५ सालमा कठमाडौंको कमलपोखरी भन्ने ठाउँमा जन्मिएका संगीतकार थापाको पहिलो स्वरांकित गीत " हाई हाई बनकाली माई " बोलको लोकगीत हो जून गीतलाई हामी आहिले रिमिक्स को रुपमा बजारमा सुन्न सक्छौ उनको सो गीत दिवाकर खड्काको स्वरमा रेकर्ड भएको थियो भने उनको अन्तिम गीत रेखा शाहको स्वरमा रेकर्ड भयो उनका लोक र आधुनिक गरी पाँच सय गीत स्वरांकित छन गायक तथा संगीतकार थापाले ठुला पर्दाका केही चलचित्रमा " पाश्व संगीतकारको " भूमिका समेत निर्भा गरेका थिए सन २००२ मा बीबीसी ले बिश्वभरका संगीतबारे गरेको अनुसन्धानमा थापा द्वारा सगीतबद्व " ऋतुहरुमा तिमी हरियाली बसन्त हौ " बोलको गीत बिश्वोकई उत्क्रिट सतौँ स्थानमा परेको थियो सो गीत दिवंगत गायक आरूण लामाले गयका थिए

Rihana - A R&B Singer

Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988 to a Barbadian father and a Guyanese mother in the Parrish of St. Michael, Barbados, an island in the Caribbean.
She had a fairly common childhood growing up. She attended the Charles F. Broome Memorial School, then attended the Combermere School in Waterford, St. Michael. She was an average teenage kid, except she did win the beauty pageant at the Combermere High School in 2004 – of course she sang as her talent.
She never tried to pursue a career in music when she was younger. However, she did like to sing and would do so for her own enjoyment or the enjoyment of her friends and family.
She came into the world of the music industry almost overnight. A friend introduced her to a music producer named Evan Rogers, from New York City, who was vacationing with his wife Jackie during December 2003. His wife was born in Barbados and had shared the mutual friends with Rihanna. She sang a song for him and he was instantly mesmerized by her voice, look and style.
In 2004, together with Rogers (and co-producer Carl Sturken), produced a demo CD with twelve of Rihanna’s songs and sent them off to various record labels and people within the industry. [Note: the demo included her first hit “Pon De Replay”.]
In January 2005 she moved to New York to be closer to the action. In February, 2005, when Jay Z (Shawn Carter), rapper and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, heard the demo, he just had to sign her. The rumor is that he would not let her leave his office until she signed. In fact, they did not finish up the negotiations until 4:30 the following morning. Def Jam was lucky to get her. She was sought after by many other labels – in fact, she had to cancel meetings with seven other recording companies after signing with Jay Z.
She signed a contract for six albums, and Rihanna went to work recording and co-writing the songs for her first album (LP) entitled Music of the Sun. The album is to be released on August 30, 2005. You can hear her Caribbean influences transfused in the music along with reggae, hip hop, R&B, soul and “soca” the cultural music of Barbados. The album also includes tracks that feature Elephant Man and Vybz Kartel.
Her first single from the album, “Pon De Replay” was released in June 2005, before the album was released and quickly made it to #2 on the US charts and #15 in Canada. An accompanying video was released in 2005 and included scenes of this beautiful young woman singing the song. The single has also been nominated for the 2005 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Summer Song.
Rihanna's sophomore album, A Girl Like Me was released in April 2006 to much initial success and has quickly gone gold.
In 2006 she made her first acting appearance with a cameo on Bring It On: All Or Nothing and has since appeared in episodes of All My Children and Las Vegas.
Rihanna is relesed her third album in 2007 called Good Girl Gone Bad with a sexier, sultrier image - and toured in 2008.
Rihanna host the red carpet for MTV's Movie Awards ceremony in 2008
Rihanna cancelled her performance for the 2009 Grammy Awards. Reports are that she missed the show due to her boyfriend Chris Brown, allegedly choking her until she was unconscious and leaving her bruised.

Sakira : Her Hips Don't Lie

Name :Shakira
Birth date :February 2, 1977
Birth Place :Barranquilla, Colombia
Birth Name :Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
Height :5'2
Nationality :Colombian
Occupation :Musician
Known For :Album : 'Pies Descalzos'

The Latin-pop superstar, born Shakira Mebarak Ripoll in the coastal city of Barranquilla, Colombia, Shakira, who goes by her first name only in Arabic means "woman full of grace," belies her ancestry. She is the daughter of a Colombian mother and a Lebanese father-a jeweler and writer whose Arabic background greatly influenced his daughter. Shakira's fondness for music was apparent early on, and she started winning local and national talent contests at age 10. While in school, Shakira was making her musical talent known by winning talent shows playing the guitar, and she was even kicked out of her school choir because her voice drowned out the other choir singers. Elsewhere, Shakira impressed judges at local and national competitions, who declared her winner of these contests. By 13, she had signed a record deal with Sony in Colombia, which resulted in her first album, "Magia (Magic)," a compilation of songs she wrote between the ages of 8 and 13. It was an effort that put Shakira in Colombia's musical map, and led to her being chosen to represent her country at the Fesival OTI in Spain. Because she was under the minimum age of 16, she wasn't allowed to participate. So instead, Shakira recorded a second album of original material, "Peligro (Danger)." At that point, Shakira took a break from music, graduated from high school (at age 15-really) and came back with a vengeance. The result was the phenomenally successful "Pies Descalzos," a hit-laden smash, which has sold close to four million copies worldwide. Shakira became an international sensation touring for an almost solid two years, playing her songs to sold-out audiences throughout the world. In Brazil alone, "Pies Descalzos" sold in excess of 900,000 copies, leading Shakira to record remixes in Portuguese for her Brazilian fans. She abandoned the light pop format she had been doing and declined her label's suggestion to explore more commercial avenues. Instead, she insisted on recording her very own brand of music: a blend of pop and rock that was unprecedented for a Colombian musician, much less a woman. Such a smashing hit seems impossible to surpass. But Shakira has done it with "Donde Estan los Ladrones," a collection of potential hits that further explores the realms of rock 'n' roll without losing Shakira's authenticity. Produced by �ber-producer Emilio Estefan -- who also became her manager -- the album is the perfect blend of gritty, thought-provoking lyrics and rock-laden tracks, while still preserving the Shakira that her original fans knew and loved. No wonder, then, that it was Shakira who was chosen among dozens of female Latin singers to grace the cover of Time Magazine in a recent article titled "Era of the Rockera". For the most exciting singer/songwriter to come out of Latin America in years, the possibilities are endless. For the millions that already buy her albums, she is already the voice of a new generation.

How To Compose Music ..?

Starting a composition is a difficult task. Getting your inspirations, thinking creatively, applying your creative thoughts to your music and supplementing your ideas with additional composition are all difficult tasks to accomplish.For starters, your current state of mind will greatly affect the music you write – whether you feel angry, joyful or sad chances are your musical composition will in some way reflect this mood.Different times of day and different seasons affect your composing as well as current affairs and any stress’s you might have.The variety of factors that can influence your composition periods are immense and hopefully these few pointers will demonstrate some methods of breaking out of the psychological restraints placed on you.• Colours – If you are looking to compose a piece of music based around a certain mood find a relevant colour that matches for instance orange gives the impression of energy and drive. Eventually you will learn to bias your mood to suit the composition you are aiming for.• Character – it is well known for actors to really get inside the character they are portraying through their acting. Understanding key emotions and various behaviours help the actors ‘ live ‘ as their proposed character. If you are creating a theme for a character (think darth vaders theme tune) you need to be demonstrating and describing that character through sound. If you follow the same process as an actor would you will eventually unravel hidden details that will help refine your composition, make it more realist and detailed and allow for it to be much more creative and expressive.• Nature – a lot of creativity and inspiration can be got by observing nature. From birds communicating through a song like speech to the rustle of leaves in a summer breeze. Trying to emulate nature is an excellent way to begin a sound-scope – or incorporating nature into a character theme for example to express an angelic quality, singing like the birds (fast trills on piccolo or glissandos on the violin)• Memories – another great source to tap into is your memories. A lot of emotion will go into compositions that are personal in some way to yourself. Spend a few minutes reflecting on your past – try to imagine the memory in great detail – sounds, smells, colours the weather – anything that will give you a good image and story to compose about.These are just a few sources for inspiration – use your imagination – it has never ending possibilities!With so many possibilities to compose about and now that your creativity is running, the next area to discuss is music theory.The last thing that you want to happen is to have all these wonderfully creative ideas for your composition but being held back by the lack of musical knowledge.A rugby player could develop his passing techniques and his scrum techniques but if he doesn’t know the rules of the game he won’t be able to perform during a game.Although music composition and as a whole is not bound by any rules you still need the knowledge of writing music – in the same way as a poet needs a knowledge of his language to write a poem.Some of the key areas you should know about and be constantly revising are:• The Staff, Bar Lines, Clefs, Time Signatures.• Note Values, Rests, Phrasing, Rhythm• Articulation, Instrument Specific Techniques (pizz, con sord)• Key Signatures, Circle of Fifths, Accidentals, Cadences• Major, Minor, Diminished, Pentatonic, Diatonic Scales• Modes• Chords, Extensions, Inversions, Sequences, Arpeggios• Instrument Ranges, Timbres of Each Instrument, Difficult Areas of an Instrument (The break on clarinet for instance or seventh position for trombones)Of course it is not absolutely essential you know about all of this but it will mean that your creativity is weakened due to lack of a means to fully communicate. Use music theory books – go through them and notate comments on the pages, take notes on to blank flash cards to memorize scales and extended chords, use past music theory exam papers to test and analyze your knowledge and then act on your weak areas, purchase a aural perception CD to recognize different cadences and the general sounds achieved from different combinations of notes and chords – there are many ways to learn all of this but find the way that you are comfortable with and stick to it.Finally the last piece of advice in this article is to keep your composing active.Aim to compose a short piece of music each day, maybe before you go to bed you can reflect on your day through a composition. Mix it up – compose for different orchestrations and different abilities.Composing is challenging but by keeping active like this will greatly benefit you and your compositions – and you never know – you may accidentally stumble upon your masterpiece!

Aadim - A Metal Band of Pokhara

Initially named AADIM DESH, this rock/thrash group from pokhara has Bipan Ojha on Vocals, Subash Rasaili on lead Guitar, Simen Tamrakar on Drums, Suresh Chettri on Guitars and Bikash Gurung on Bass. Formed in the year 2002 by Prakash Rasaili (former drummer) brother of lead guitarist of this band, Subash and Bipan; they found the "desh" factor a little weird. So they get rid of the "desh", did "desh nikala" in their own words.
Most of the members of AADIM draw influences from foreign acts like Metallica, Pantera, Megadeth, Sepultura, Dreamtheatre and from local groups like 1974 AD, Cruentus, Ugrakarma, Antim Grahan, Bhumi . So far, Aadim has performed in scores of events including Alter Buzz in New Years Day, Fewa Mahotsav, Bhadrakali School gig, Winter Musical Bonanza , Damside Street Festival and lake side Street Festival 2009 .
So far, their original entitled "Itihas"-a classical rock number, has been featured in "Project Alchemix", a local compilation. Besides, they have many compositions ready for recording viz. "Mero Desh-a rock number, "Karadau Rachana Haru-a thrash number" , "Murda Ghar" and "Course of karnali " in future they are going to release their 1st single album .

Hoobastank-A Rock Band

Band Members: Markku Lappalainen, Douglas Robb, Chris Hesse, Dan Estrin

Genre: Rock & Alternative

Influenced by: Tool, Alice in Chains

Followed By: Aphasia

While the heavy alternative sounds of Tool and Alice in Chains were primary influences on Hoobastank's sound, the post-grunge quartet tempered the gloomier elements of such music with a suburban California groove and an eye for accessibility. Formed in the Los Angeles suburb of Agoura Hills in early 1994, the band's earliest members were vocalist Doug Robb and guitarist Dan Estrin, who met each other at a high-school battle of the bands competition. The two chose to join forces, adding bassist Markku Lappalainen and drummer Chris Hesse to form a competent quartet.

The self-released, clumsily titled They Sure Don't Make Basketball Shorts Like They Used To generated strong local buzz upon its 1998 release, and soon the band had moved from backyard gigs to shows up and down the Cali coast.
Island Records took notice and put Hoobastank on the label's payroll in August 2000, and tours with the likeminded Incubus (to whom the band would be frequently, although not unreasonably, linked) and flavor-of-the-moment Alien Ant Farm followed. Hoobastank's eponymous debut dropped in November 2001, and the singles "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away" found a quick home on radio stations MTV playlists. The LP went gold, and the quartet's subsequent summer jaunt through Asia and Europe pushed it to on his feet by October, and Hoobastank headed out with the All-American Rejects and Ozomatli for the Nokia Unwired tour.
Hoobastank offered the lead single "Out of Control" as a free download from their website before releasing a full-length album, The Reason, at the end of the year. Although it showcased a harder-edgedvocal performance from Robb, the album's biggest hit was its title track, an emotive ballad that topped the rock charts and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The Reason went double platinum,and the band used that momentum to issue the Let It Out DVD, a collection of band's music videos, one year later.

On a 2005 co-headlining tour with Velvet Revolver, however, Hoobastank received a chilly reception from some audiences, and rumors of a feud between Robb and VR frontman Scott Weiland were soon filling Internet message boards. "If I Were You," the first single from the group's 2006 album Every Man for Himself, addressed the whole affair. Both the song and the album fell quickly from the charts, but Every Man for Himself nevertheless went gold in one month, a feat that likely owed its success to the band's previous album. A new single ("My Turn") appeared in October 2008, followed by the arrival of Fornever in 2009.