JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Gladys Knight’s 80th birthday.
Tag: pop
Throwback: Happy 53rd Birthday, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 53rd anniversary of the birth of TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes.
Throwback: Happy Belated 103rd Birthday, Hal David!
JOVM’s WIlliam Ruben Helms belatedly celebrates the 103rd anniversary of Hal David’s birth.
Throwback: Happy 80th Birthday, Patti LaBelle!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Patti LaBelle’s 80th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 58th Birthday, Janet Jackson!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Janet Jackson’s 58th birthday.
Throwback: R.I.P. David Sanborn
JOVM’s WIlliam Ruben Helms pays tribute to the life and music of David Sanborn.
Throwback: Happy 96th BIrthday, Burt Bacharach!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 96th anniversary of Burt Bacharach’s birth.
Throwback: Happy 51st Birthday, Pharrell Williams!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Pharrell Williams’ 51st birthday.
Throwback: Happy 55th Birthday, Mariah Carey!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Mariah Carey’s 55th birthday.
Throwback: Happy 80th Birthday, Diana Ross!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Diana Ross’ 80th birthday.
New Audio: Arjay Sharp Shares Crafted Pop Confection “Adri I Gotta Go”
Arjay Sharp is a Long Island-born, Colorado Springs-based singer/songwriter, who specializes in a genre-defying take on Adult Contemporary pop. The Colorado Springs-based artist’s latest EP, the six-song Quest for Redemption tells the story of a friendship complicated by unrequited love that spans a 14-year period. Sonically drawing influence from an eclectic array of influences that includes Billy Joel, Depeche Mode, Peter Gabriel and Toto, the album’s material thematically touches upon desire, disillusionment and self-discovery.
The EP’s latest single “Adri I Gotta Go” is a deliberately crafted, hook-driven gem that seems to channel Dishwalla‘s “Counting Blue Cars,” Duncan Sheik‘s “Barely Breathing” that describes a the bittersweet resolution of a relationship through the prism of honest hindsight with a novelist’s attention to emotional and psychological detail and lived-in, heartbroken experience.
Throwback: Black History Month: SWV
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Black History Month and pays tribute to SWV.
Throwback: Black History Month: TLC
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Black History Month and pays tribute to TLC.
Throwback: Happy 74th Birthday, Peter Gabriel!
JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates Peter Gabriel’s 74th birthday.
New Video: Milla Shares Lush and Gorgeous “Courbes”
24 year-old, Martigny, Switzerland-based singer/songwriter and visual artist Milla Besson is an an emerging artist best known as the mononymic Milla. Beeson studied music at College of Saint-Maurice and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva (HEAD), which she graduated in 2021. Since 2019, the young Swiss artist has also collaborated with Marc Aymon, Jérémie Kisling and Aliose.
Besson’s Frédéric Jalliard and Yann Arnaud-produced three-song EP is slated for a March 1, 2024 release. Recorded between Switzerland and Paris, the EP will feature “Courbes,” a gorgeous bit of folk/pop built around a lush arrangement of strummed acoustic guitar, atmospheric synths, gently padded drums, twinkling bursts of percussion paired with Milla’s gorgeous and expressive vocal, which manages to convey a maturity beyond her relative youth.
Directed by Loris Theurillat, the accompanying video for “Courbes” is set at a local boxing club and is shot in a dreamy and breathtakingly gorgeous black and white.