CULTURE CALENDAR ANNUAL EVENTS MUSEUM NIGHT 16. May In Belgrade and 34 towns in Serbia
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Rock Festival on July 11th. Depeche Mode will play to over 1.3 million fans on this European leg of ‘Tour of the Universe 2009’. It’s their first since 2006’s ‘Playing the Angel’ tour, which smashed European sales records with 1.8 million tickets sold across 87 shows. The last date of the ‘Playing The Angel’ tour – August 3rd 2006 – was to take place at Tel Aviv’s Hayarkon Park, but the band were forced to cancel due to the impending war. Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan Stadium thus provides a fitting stage for Depeche Mode’s spectacular live return.
DEPECHE MODE Tour Of The Universe 2009! 20. May 2009- Ušće, Beograd, Tuborg Green fest!
76 CorD 60 / May 2009
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS NM Belgrade Arena / 22. May, 21:00h
LILA DOWNS Sava Center, Great Hall / 30. May, 20.30
POP & ROCK
Depeche Mode’s , just released, ‘Playing The Angel’, is 12th album of a glorious 28 year career in which they have sold over 75 million records. One of the world’s biggest and best live acts, ‘Tour of the Universe 2009’ will undoubtedly be the musical highlight of next year. Kicking off in Israel on May 10th, this will be Depeche Mode’s first ever stadium tour, taking in 28 cities across 22 countries before finishing at Porto’s Superbock Super
Lila Downs released an album of new material as well as a few cover songs, including I Envy The Wind (song) by Lucinda Williams and I Would Never by the Blue Nile. The album was released on September 2, 2008 and is called Shake Away. Downs also collaborates with artists like La Mari (singer) from Chambao (band) and Enrique Bunbury from Héroes del Silencio.
Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures. In recent years, Downs and her band have toured widely in Mexico, South America, the US and Europe. She was also heard in the soundtrack to the movie Frida in a song, Burn it Blue, that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song and that she performed at the 75th Academy Awards. Other songs that she performed on the soundtrack are “Benediction and Dream,” “Estrella Oscura,” and “La Llorona.” Other movies with a Lila Downs song are Tortilla Soup, Real Women Have Curves and Fados by Carlos Saura. She was also invited to the Twelve Girls Band’s concert in Shanghai, where she sings in French and English. Downs is currently based in Coyoacán, a borough of Mexico City.
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born on May 8, 1975), better known as Enrique Iglesias, is a Spanish singer-songwriter, model, and actor. Iglesias started his musical career with Maxican indie label Fonovisa, which helped turn him into one of the most popular artists in Latin America and in the Latino market in the United States, selling more Spanish lanquaqe albums than any other artist in that period of time. Before the turn of the millennium he made a crossover into the mainstream English lanquaqe market, signing a unique multialbum deal with Universal Music for an unprecedented $48,000,000, with Universal Music Latino to release his Spanish albums and Interscope to release English albums. In America, he lived the life of a typical Miami teen. Though his father’s career kept him on the road, the young Iglesias was raised by the family nanny. In 1993 he graduated from Gulliver Preparatory School and went on to study business at the University of Miami. Enrique did not want his father to know about his plans for a musical career, and did not want his famous surname to help advance his career. Borrowing money from