Jennifer Nettles
December 30, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
Jennifer Nettles, the 35 year old singer performed on Bruce Springsteen’s melodies in front of the first couple on Sunday 6th December at the Kennedy Center Honors 2009. It was her tribute to one of the honorees of the award, Bruce Springsteen.
Jennifer performed on a number of Bruce’s compositions which included “My Father’s House”, “Glory Days” and “I’m On Fire” that showed the versatility of Springsteen’s melodies.
The American Grammy-winning country music artist became the latest to perform in front of the US President after Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss and Charley Pride who all had performed at the White House earlier this year.
The Kennedy Center Honors of this year are awarded to the jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, veteran actor Robert De Niro, producer Mel Brooks, opera singer Grace Bumbry and ofcourse singerBruce Springsteen.
The other artists to perform at the event were Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Harry Connick, Jr., Melissa Etheridge, Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, Ben Harper, Harvey Keitel, Frank Langella, John Mellencamp, Edward Norton, Carl Reiner, Martin Scorsese, Martin Short, Jon Stewart, Ben Stiller, Sting, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep, and Eddie Vedder.
Jennifer Nettles was first posted on December 30, 2009 at 12:31 pm.
Vishnuvardhan Died
December 30, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
Vishnuvardhan Died, Kannada superstar Vishnuvardhan died of a heart attack in Vikram Hospital at Mysore on tuesday 2-30 am.
The actor was 59 year old and has acted in 199 Kannada films.
As a mark of respect to the actor, all schools and Colleges in Karnataka have been declared holiday
As the Kannada Film industry was reeling under the loss C Ashwat yesterday this is another big blow for the film industry
Sahas Simha Dr. Vishnuvardhan had entered Kannada film industry with Puttanna Kanagal’s Nagara Havu.
Vishnu who is also called as ‘The Bellary Naga‘ is survived by his wife Bharathi Vishnuvardhan and two adopted children.
For the past 4-5 years, Dr. Vishnuvardhan was suffering from a health hazard and recently he was staying in Mysore for rest.
He was admitted to Vikram Hospital Mysore after he complained of severe chest pain. After the treatment, he returned to his house in the evening.
Again he suffered same pain at 2.30 am today. He breathed his last while he was being rushed to the hospital.
Dr. Vikram, who was treating Abinava Bhargava in Mysore, said, “Dr. Vishnu was visiting our hospital for physiotherapy. Yesterday, he had come for the same. At 2.30 am, we received a call from his family complaining of chest pain. Suddenly, we sent an emergency Ambulance, but he breathed his last on the way to the hospital. He was simple, generous and human being.”
Vishnuvardhan Died was first posted on December 30, 2009 at 1:39 pm.
