Yanni's World Dance

Watch this 4 mins music video fully, I bet you'll love it once you've heard . It's one of those amazing and funfilling music pieces ever. Each one of the artistes plays with full of enthusiasm and joy creating a mood of happiness around. The song titled 'World Dance' was performed at famous composer Yanni's live concert at Las Vegas, USA, in 2004. The interesting aspect of the concert was that all the leading artistes were from 10 different countries. The leading artistes are Dan Landrum (dulcimer), Pedro Eustache (flute), Samvel Yervinyan (violin), Sayaka Katsuki (violin), Victor Espinola (harp), Armen Movsessian (violin), Zachary Carrettin (violin) and Walter Rodriguez (percussion) among others. Even the title 'World Music' would be apt for this music. Enjoy!!

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson, the king of pop, is no more now. He died of cardiac arrest yesterday. Like 100s of 1000s of fans, he was a favourite to me too. The first ever western pop singer that I heard in my life is him. (Boney-M was the only music band that I knew before Michael Jackson). It's in the early 90s that I first came across his album "Bad". I should say that only after that my liking towards western pop increased.

Mention the word dance, one will imagine Michael Jackson. Such was his talent. The famous moonwalk style was started from him. He popularised the break dance. He was no.1 in Billboard chart for nearly 14 times. His 80's "Thriller" album sold more than 100 million copies, highest of any albums ever. Seems he was the most successful music artiste only after Elvis, the Beatles and Mariah Carey.

He started dancing career at the young age with his 4 other brothers later to become a successful solo artist. It is said that his childhood life was very pathetic that he faced lots of abuses. He even cried in some interviews when spoke about his early age. Later as he grew to teenage, he got attracted to plastic surgery. He underwent lots of surgeries to his face, changing the colour of skin, shape of nose, lips, etc. There were some allegation against him in the child molestation case. Although the court acquitted him, criticisms & rumours were always there against him. He also had financial problems at the last age. In spite of all these, he was preparing hard to make a come back next month, July, with a grand world tour. His unfortune that he died before that.

Whatever may be, to me he was a legend of pop dance, a wonderful dancer, a very good musician and a fantastic entertainer. There's absolutely no doubt that the music world will miss him. May god rest him in peace.

Jai Ho Jackson!

Phil Thornton

A music writer and producer. Now my recent favourite. He has given about 20 albums with total sales of 1.2 million copies worldwide. My favourites of his works include Eternal Egypt, Enchanted Egypt and Immortal Egypt. Yes, all three are based on Egypt. I understand that all three albums were made together with Hossam Ramzy, another wonderful music writer, from Middle East. The Tibetan Meditation and Pharaoh albums are also good. Yet to listen his other albums.

Frankly speaking I never heard about this man until a month ago. But once I got to know about him and his music, I've been listening only to his works. Wow! Amazing music.

You can download here a sample music, which is also my favouorite one, from his official website.