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March 2015

Happy Birthday Diana Ross!

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Happy Birthday to Motown legend, Diana Ross! Today takes her into her 71st year of life, and she has so much to reflect back on. From being a member of The Supremes in the swinging 60s to winning a golden globe for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues. For our #ThrowbackThursday today we are going Upside Down, one of her 18 US Nº1 hits.

(Creation 5 users, you will find this video in ‘Playlists’ >> ‘Throwback Sessions’)

Ross is one of the most successful female singers of all time, and has been entertaining the world for over four decades! Helping pave the way for black female singers in the industry back then and today, she still continues to perform internationally to sold-out concerts all over the world. Singing is her passion and she doesn’t plan on giving up on it anytime soon!

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Fun facts you may not have known about the legend herself:

– Her 3- girl band The Supremes carries the record of scoring 12 number-one hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 back when they were in their prime.

– In Britain, Diana Ross was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as being “The Most Successful Female Artist of All Time” – with over 70 hit singles to date.

– Mother Ross has five very successful children. Three daughters named Tracee, Rhoda and Chudney and two sons named Ross and Evan.

– She has her very own playground in New York. The ”Diana Ross Playground” at 81st Street & Central Park West.

– She worked as a secretary for Motown Records CEO Berry Gordy Jr. while her records were being marketed in the 1960s.

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– Back in 1999 she was arrested for grabbing an airport security guard’s breast, whom she claimed touched her breasts’ while being frisked. Well, tit for tatt that’s the spirit!

– In 1983 she introduced a line of pantyhose named “Diana Ross Ultra Sheers”

– She has two stars on the Hollywood walk of fame, one for her work with The Supremes and one for her solo career.

– She is the most successful female recording artist ever with 18 US Nº1 hits and 70 top 10 hits, since 1964

– Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from MIDEM in 1994

– Billboard Magazine named her Female Entertainer of The Century.


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Nicky Jam & Enrique Iglesias
El Perdón

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Enrique Iglesias and Nicky Jam have released their new music video for El Perdón via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. Directed by Jonathan Craven and Darren Craig, the urban visuals take us into the streets of South America, the land of passion.

The duet holds the Nº1 spot on the Billboard’s Hot Latin Tracks Chart, and Enrique has broken his own record for “Most Number Ones” on the respective chart.

Everybody is going crazy for this track, especially after the song went viral when Brazilian soccer players Neymar and Dani Alves with the Futbol Club Barcelona, posted a video of them singing along to the tune. Iglesias was quick to repost the images of the singing soccer stars up on his social media pages.

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Martin Garrix feat. Usher
Don’t Look Down

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Usher hits the studio again, this time with 18 year old Martin Garrix, best known for his 2013 hit track Animals. The cute duo have collaborated for an awesome new summer jam Don’t Look Down.

The song is taken from Martin’s upcoming debut album ‘+X’ which is expected to be released later this year, although an official date has not yet been confirmed.

The newly released video was launched via the 2015 YouTube Music Awards and features a sneaky appearance by actor Balthazar Getty.

Video director Petros, takes us through the adventures of working pool-side in the steamy summer months. It really is a fun little production, unpredictable and complete with dancing on water and sea horse floaties that come to life!

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Jason Derulo – Want To Want Me

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Jason Derulo just released Want To Want Me, his latest single to date with a steamy video to go with it. This was no ordinary song release though, it was debuted in a rather interesting way.

“I wanted to find a new unique way to launch my video,” Jason stated in a press release.

“I know my fans are tapped into social networking so what better way to launch my video for Want To Want Me than through one of the fastest rising social networking apps, Tinder. I see this app as the wave of the future. I know my fans will swipe right.’’

It was a good move on his behalf, as he is now getting tonnes of media buzz reporting about how he was the first to ever think of releasing a video this way. Damn it… now we wish we had the app (even though we’re not looking for a date…)!

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Charli XCX – Famous

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Charli XCX was another huge name to release new material for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards which were presented and uploaded yesterday to YouTube in a lengthy playlist. Her addition to the huge melting pot of talent was a creepy music video for her song Famous. Charli teamed up with Eric Wareheim of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame for a truly terrifying, darkly comic visual.

The video is hard to sanely describe, a trippy social media take of the underworld in a nutshell… we think. It’s a seriously bewildering production to say the least, and leaves us with just one nagging question. What just happened?

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Charli was one of the breakout artists of 2014, and earned her YouTube Music Award on the strength of music videos for Sucker singles Boom Clap, Break the Rules and her collaboration with Iggy Azalea for Fancy.

See the 2015 YouTube Music Awards in full below.


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Ed Sheeran & Rudimental – Bloodstream

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Ed Sheeran and Rudiemntal premiered a cinematic new video for Bloodstream, specially for the 2015 YouTube Music Awards which were presented yesterday (March 23). The song features the English four-membered band Rudimental, who seem to be collaborating with all the greats lately.

The gripping music video, directed by Emil Nava, follows the Goodfellas actor Ray Liotta as he plays a drunken, washed-up frontman of fictional hair-metal group Black Glove. He appears to have it all—money, lots of awards, fame, big house and women—but he’s still miserable and lonely. He tries to drown his pain with alcohol and lots of sex, but it’s not enough…

We’ve gotta say, Ed Sheeran is really going from good to great with each new release, and to think it all started with a YouTube upload.

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The 2015 YouTube Music Awards are presented below in full. You’ll find a ‘behind the scenes’ clip in this playlist, in which you can see the making of Bloodstream.


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Top TV Stars

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Starring in a TV series for an actor used to represent a potential stepping stone into the world of movies, however these days it is taking a role reversal with many big film actors moving into the television game. With the rise of the series came some epic releases such as Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, Revenge, Homeland, The Good Wife, Ray Donovan, Gossip girl, Downton Abbey to name just a small dent in the list that is the new media sweeping the world. So seeing as the acting skills are tried and tested we thought we’d rank them by beauty, hotness, and shallowly give you the top ten most gorgeous male and female actors gracing our TV screens.

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NAME: Blake Lively
AGE: 27
TV SERIES: Gossip Girl
ALSO IN: Sandman, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Accepted, Simon Says, Elvis and Anabelle, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, New York, I Love You, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The Town, Green Lantern, Hick, Savages,The Age of Adaline.
STATUS: Married to Ryan Reynolds with 1 child.

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NAME: Lena Headey
AGE: 41
TV SERIES: Game of Thrones
ALSO IN: Waterland, The Summer House, The Remains of the Day, Century, Fair Game, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday, The Grotesque, Devil’s Advocate, Loved Up, Face, Mrs Dalloway, The Man with Rain in His Shoes, Inside-Out, Onegin, Ropewalk, Gossip, Aberdeen, The Parole Officer, Anazapta,The Gathering Storm, Possession, Ripley’s Game, The Actors, No Verbal Response,The Brothers Grimm,The Cave, Round About Five, Imagine Me & You, Vacancy, 300,The Contractor, The Broken, The Red Baron, Whore, The Devil’s Wedding, Laid to Rest, Dredd, The Purge,The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box, Low Down, 300: Rise of an Empire, Ballykissangel, Band of Gold, How We Used To Live, The Hunger, Kavanagh QC, The Long Firm, Merlin, Screen Two, Spender, The Super Hero Squad Show, Black Widow / Mystique (voices), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Ultra, Uncle Grandpa, White Collar.
STATUS: Married to Peter Loughran, 1 child

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NAME: Kaley Cuoco
AGE: 29
TV SERIES: Big Bang Theory
ALSO IN: 8 Simple Rules, Charmed, Can’t Be Heaven, To Be Fat Like Me, Hop, Authors Anonymous
STATUS: Married to Ryan Sweeting

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NAME: Zooey Deschanel
AGE: 35
TV SERIES: New Girl
ALSO IN: Mumford, Almost Famous, Manic, The Good Girl, Abandon, Big Trouble, The New Guy, Sweet Friggin’ Daisies, Whatever We Do, All the Real Girls, It’s Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All, House Hunting, Elf, Eulogy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Winter Passing, Failure to Launch, Live Free or Die, The Good Life, The Go-Getter, Bridge to Terabithia, Flakes, Raving, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Gigantic, The Happening, Yes Man, (500) Days of Summer, Our Idiot Brother, Your Highness, Rock the Kasbah, The Driftless Area’, Frasier, Cracking Up, Once Upon a Mattress, American Dad!, Weeds, Tin Man, The Simpsons, Bones, Funny or Die Presents
STATUS: With Ben Gibbard

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NAME: Rachel Bilson
AGE: 33
TV SERIES: The OC
ALSO IN: Unbroken, The Last Kiss, Jumper, New York, I Love You, Waiting for Forever, Life Happens, The Bling Ring, The To Do List, 8 Simple Rules, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, That ’70s Show, Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, Hart of Dixie, Gossip Girl
STATUS: With Hayden Christensen

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NAME: Hayden Panettiere
AGE: 25
TV SERIES: Nashville
ALSO IN: One Life to Live, Aliens in the Family, How Do You Spell God?, Guiding Light, Unhappily Ever After, A Will of Their Own, Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke, Touched by an Angel, If You Believe, Between the Lions, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Chestnut Hill, Ally McBeal, Normal, Malcolm in the Middle, Fillmore!, Tiger Cruise, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lies My Mother Told Me, Commander in Chief, Skater Boys, Heroes, Robot Chicken, American Dad!, Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy, The Object of My Affection, A Bug’s Life, Message in a Bottle, Dinosaur, Remember the Titans, Joe Somebody, The Affair of the Necklace, The Dust Factory, Raising Helen, Racing Stripes, Ice Princess, Bring It On: All or Nothing,The Architect, Mr. Gibb, Shanghai Kiss, Diary of a New Girl, Fireflies in the Garden, Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, I Love You, Beth Cooper!, The Cove, Alpha and Omega, Scream 4, Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, The Forger
STATUS: Wladimir Klitschko

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NAME: Nina Dobrev
AGE: 26
TV SERIES: The Vampire Diaries
ALSO IN: Away from Her, Playing House, How She Move, The Poet, Too Young to Marry, Fugitive Pieces, My Daughter’s Secret, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Never Cry Werewolf, The American Mall, You Got That Light, Degrassi Goes Hollywood, Chloe, The Roommate, Arena, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Final Girls, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Border, Eleventh Hour, Merry Madagascar, Family Guy, The Super Hero Squad Show, The Originals
STATUS: Unknown

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NAME: Emelia Clarke
AGE: 28
TV SERIES: Game of Thrones
ALSO IN: Spike Island, Shackled, Dom Hemingway, Terminator Genisys, Voice from the Stone, Doctors, Futurama
STATUS: Unknown

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NAME: Emily VanCamp
AGE: 28
TV SERIES: Revenge
ALSO IN: Lost and Delirious, No Good Deed, A Different Loyalty, Rings, The Ring Two, Black Irish, Carriers, Norman, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Girl in the Book, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Radio Active, All Souls, Dice, Redeemer, Glory Days, Everwood, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Brothers & Sisters, Ben Hur, Beyond the Blackboard, Marvel 75 Years: From Pulp to Pop!
STATUS: With Josh Bowman

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NAME: Robin Wright
AGE: 48
TV SERIES: House of Cards
ALSO IN: Hollywood Vice Squad, The Princess Bride, Denial, State of Grace, The Playboys, Toys, Forrest Gump, The Crossing Guard, Moll Flanders, Loved, Hurlyburly, Message in a Bottle, How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog, Unbreakable, The Pledge, The Last Castle, Searching for Debra Winger, White Oleander, The Singing Detective, Virgin, A Home at the End of the World, Nine Lives, Sorry, Haters, Max, Empire Falls, Breaking and Entering, Room 10, Hounddog, Beowulf, What Just Happened, New York, I Love You, State of Play, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, A Christmas Carol, The Conspirator, Moneyball, Rampart, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Congress, Adore, A Most Wanted Man, Everest, The Yellow Rose, Santa Barbara, Saturday Night Live, Enlightened, House of Cards.
STATUS: Divorced, 2 children

And now for the men….

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NAME: Travis Fimmel
AGE: 35
TV SERIES: Vikings
ALSO IN: Many many Calvin Klein underwear adverts, Rocky Point, Southern Comfort, Restraint, Ivory, Surfer Dude and The Beast.
STATUS: Single

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NAME: Gabriel Macht
AGE: 43
TV SERIES: Suits
ALSO IN: Love & Other Drugs, The Spirit, The Good Shepherd, Middle Men, Whiteout,Because I Said So , Bad Company, The Recruit, Behind Enemy Lines, American Outlaws, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Sex and the City, Spin City, The Audrey Hepburn Story and The Others.
STATUS: Married

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NAME: Jason Momoa
AGE: 35
TV SERIES: Game of Thrones
ALSO IN: Baywatch Hawaii, Debug, Wolves, Road To Paloma, Bullet to the Head, Conan The Barbarian, Johnson Family Vacation.
STATUS: With Lisa Bonet, has 2 children

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NAME: Stephen Amell
AGE: 33
TV SERIES: Arrow
ALSO IN: Queer as Folk, Dante’s Cove, ReGenesis, Da Kink in my Hair, Heartland, Vampire Diaries, Justice for Natalie Holloway, Hung, 90210, New Girl, Private Practice, Whatever Makes you Happy.
STATUS: With Cassandra Jean, 1 child.

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NAME: Kit Harington
AGE: 28
TV SERIES: Game of Thrones
ALSO IN: War Horse (West End show), Pompeii, How to Train your Dragon 2, Silent Hill; Revelation 3D, Testament of Youth, Seventh Son, Spooks: The Greater Good,
STATUS: Unknown

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NAME: Chace Crawford
AGE: 29
TV SERIES: Gossip Girl
ALSO IN: Family Guy, Robot Chicken, Glee, Long Lost Son, The Covenant, Loaded, The Haunting Of Molly Hartley, Twelve, Peace Love and Misunderstanding, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Mountain Men.
STATUS: Unknown

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NAME: Josh Bowman
AGE: 27
TV SERIES: So Undercover
ALSO IN: Genie in the House, Myths, Betwixt, Holby City, 13 Hours, Nightwolf, Prowl, Exteriors, Love’s Kitchen, Make it or Break It, Revenge.
STATUS: With Emily VanCamp

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NAME: Chad Michael Murray
AGE: 33
TV SERIES: House Of Wax
ALSO IN: Megiddo: The Omega Code 2, Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story, Home of the Brave, The Carrier, Day One, First Kiss, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, Fruitvale Station, Cavemen, A Madea Christmas, Left Behind, Other People’s Children, To Write Love on her Arms, Undressed, Diagnosis: Murder, Gilmore Girls, Dawson’s Creek, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Aftermath: A Long Way Home, The Lone Ranger, One Tree Hill, Lies in Plain Sight, Christmas Cupid, Southland, Chosen, Texas Rising, Agent Carter
STATUS: With Kenzie Dalton

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NAME: Wentworth Miller
AGE: 42
TV SERIES: Prison Break
ALSO IN: Room 302, The Human Stain, Underworld, The Confession, Stealth, Resident Evil: Afterlife, The Mourning Portrait, Resident Evil: Retribution, Stoker, The Loft, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, The Disappointments Room, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Time of Your Life, Popular, ER, Dinotopia, Joan of Arcadia, Ghost Whisperer, Family Guy, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
House, Young Justice: Invasion, The Flash
STATUS: Unknown

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NAME: Adam Rodriguez
AGE: 39
TV SERIES: CSI: Miami
ALSO IN: The Night Shift, Magic Mike XXL, About Last Night, Lovesick, Reckless,The Goodwin Games, Magic Mike, Necessary Roughness, Sesame Street, Psych, Let the Game Begin, I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Ugly Betty, Caught in the Crossfire, Respect My Conglomerate, A Kiss of Chaos, Bohica, Christmas Break, I Call It Love as Boyfriend,15 Minutes of Fame, Cielito Lindo,Take, Unknown, Splinter, Thanks to Gravity, Category 7: The End of the World, Kim Possible, Six Feet Under, King Rikki, Impostor, Roswell, All Souls, Details, Resurrection Blvd., Details, Felicity, Law & Order, If You Had My Love, Brooklyn South, NYPD Blue, Love & Debate.
STATUS: Unknown


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Ariana Grande on Jimmy Fallon

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It’s crazy to think that all this time Ariana Grande has enjoyed pop super stardom she has never been an actual guest on a talk show, only a music performer. Thank you Jimmy Fallon for making this happen!

The two of them, who are always up to something hilarious and talented when they get together, executed a damn near perfect impersonation of the Titanic singer, Celine Dion on last Friday’s episode (March 20).

With Jimmy Fallon acting as her duet partner, the two gave a hilarious performance of “Beauty and the Beast.” If you’re short of time, the hilariousness begins at around the 1 minute mark.

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CHIC ft Nile Rodgers – I’ll Be There

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Nile Rodgers chose the vernal equinox (March 20) to premiere his new music video for the first new Chic single in 23 years – I’ll Be There. The timing of the release with the equinox was to signify the rebirth of the Chic Organisation. The single is the first cut to be lifted from their forthcoming album It’s About Time – the first Chic album since 1992’s Chic-ism. The album is due for release later this year and could feature collaborations with Miley Cyrus, Sir Elton John and Janelle Monae.

The idea for the album came to being in 2010 when Rodgers found a box of tapes with unfinished Chic material featuring vocals from the late Edwards and Luther Vandross, among others. After listening to it all it gave Rodgers the inspiration to finish the material. However, a few months later he learned he had prostrate cancer – putting the album’s theme of ‘time’ into sharp perspective.

Now, cancer-free, Rodgers said: “I’ve always had a lot to say, but it’s always worked best when I say it through music. So when I thought about where I was at this point in my life, all I kept thinking about was time.”

I’ll Be There is a collaboration with house duo The Martinez Brothers – it’s a classic disco-funk sound, utilizing a four-on-the-floor groove, soulful harmonies and Rodgers’ amazing rhythm guitar.

The song is a tribute to late Chic founder Bernard Edwards, who passed away back in 1996. “When I found my partner Bernard’s body in the room, I said, ‘Now I can be there for you in death the way you were there for me in life’,” Rodgers recently told Digital Spy.

The Inez & Vindooh-directed music video features supermodel Karlie Kloss and some wonderful vintage footage of Chic performing on Soul Train.

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Sunday Sessions with Roberto Leal

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Many say he is the ‘ideal son’ that every mother would dream of. Others blame him for their weight gain due to his popular cooking programme. And almost everyone qualifies him as one of the most versatile communicators in the current Spanish television landscape. Robert Leal is a journalist, runner, blogger, writer, professional carnaval singer and current host of ‘España Directo’ on TVE 1. He has worked with TVE for 9 years now and is their main presenter and most recognisable frontman. To catch Roberto in action tune into to TVE 1 from Monday to Friday at 7:15 pm

Roberto talks about his career and music in an open and insightful interview. You can read it here (en Español).

Roberto has chosen an eclectic mix of sounds for Sunday Sessions this week:

1-Frank Sinatra & Count Basie – Fly Me To The Moon (Original) 1964
“I like to revisit the classics to relax. To those voices that are never turned off ”

2- Facto delafé y las flores azules – Enero en la playa
“One of the songs I love to listen to in winter. With your partner. Without thinking of anything else.”

3-Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
“A phenomenon of the music industry, a brutal personality and a great song.”

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Connect with Roberto:
Twitter: twitter.com/robertolealg
Instagram: @robertolealg


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