Nigerian star Flavour N’abania, has annouced the release of his new album coming up on December 4, 2020. The album is titled “FLAVOUR OF AFRICA” and happens to be his 7th release studio album. This album is a follow-up album of huis last album “AWELE” as well as his belated EP with Chidinma.
Not much is know about the album but it will be released by Flavour’s 2Nite Entertainment and OneRPM.
The Grammy-nominated songstress and her fiancé, Orlando Bloom, have welcomed their first child together, a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom. Katy and Orlando shared the news with UNICEF, the organization they serve as Goodwill Ambassadors for, on Wednesday, Aug 26.
“We are floating with love and wonder from the safe and healthy arrival of our daughter,” they said in a statement.
“But we know we’re the lucky ones and not everyone can have a birthing experience as peaceful as ours was,” they shared. “Communities around the world are still experiencing a shortage of healthcare workers and every eleven seconds a pregnant woman or newborn dies, mostly from preventable causes. Since COVID-19, many more newborn lives are at risk because of a greater lack of access to water, soap, vaccines and medicines that prevent diseases. As parents to a newborn, this breaks our hearts, as we empathize with struggling parents now more than ever.”
In “celebration of the heart we know our daughter already has,” Katy and Orlando established a UNICEF donation page on baby Daisy’s—or “DDB” as they called her—behalf.
The couple’s daughter arrived into the world on Wednesday, turning Perry into a first-time mom and making 9-year-old Flynn, Bloom’s only child with ex-wife Miranda Kerr, an older brother to his first sister.
The famous parents, who got engaged in Feb. 2019 after a years-long on-and-off romance, announced their baby news in early March when the performer cradled her bump in the music video for “Never Worn White.” The following month, she revealed they had a little girl on the way.
In June, the singer explained why they were waiting to officially decide on a moniker for their firstborn.
“We have yet to decide specifically on her name because, I think, we’ve got options and she’ll tell us,” the star said in an interview on Mix 104.1’s Karson & Kennedy. “I’ll look at her and go, ‘Oh yeah, yeah, you are her. You are that.'”
Katy Perry has commented on her defence of Ellen DeGeneres after she received criticism for her remarks.
It comes as the pop star stated she only had “positive takeaways” from the host and the show in some tweets.
“I started that tweet off not undermining anyone else’s experience,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “I wanted to only speak from my own experience. I have over 100 million people that follow me on Twitter, so not everyone is going to agree with me.
A number of staff members on the talk show spoke anonymously to Buzzfeed claiming they had experienced intimidation and racism.
The allegations included employees being fired after taking medical leave or bereavement days, facing microaggressions and a culture of bullying and favouritism by executive producers.
Perry wasn’t the only big name to speak out in defence of DeGeneres and the programme as Ashton Kutcher and Kevin Hart also offered up their support.
The stars received a backlash online for their comments as users suggested their treatment may have had something to do with their celebrity status.
“You’ve only had positive takeaways because you’re one of the biggest artists on the planet Katy. That’s why,” said a respondent to Perry.
Kutcher said DeGeneres and her team treated him and his people with “respect and kindness” but his followers asked him to consider employees’ experiences.
“I get celebrity friends coming out in defense of Ellen to an extent. And I like Ellen. But… employees are complaining about their work experience there. Can that be understood? No one knows what it’s like but them. It’s invalidating what *they* experienced on a regular basis,” one responded.
Kutcher replied with a simple: “I understand”.
DeGeneres apologised to employees following the reports of a toxic work environment on her show.
In a letter to crew she stated that when The Ellen DeGeneres Show started she told everyone it would be “a place of happiness”.
“Obviously, something changed, and I am disappointed to learn that this has not been the case,” she said. “And for that, I am sorry.”
It’s no surprise that so many people are already calling Beyoncé’s Black Is King “iconic.” Ever since the singer’s visual album (a companion to the music of The Lion King: The Gift) premiered on Disney+ last Friday, the Beyhive has been raving over the project, with celebrities like Kerry Washington, Adele and Keke Palmer taking to social media to praise the visuals, costumes, cinematography and more.
Now, in an exclusive new interview with ET, co-director Kwasi Fordjour is spilling all the details on how Black Is King came to be and what it was like traveling all over the world with Beyoncé.
“It started a year ago, and at the time, it wasn’t a grand idea; it was a video,” Fordjour tells ET’s Kevin Frazier. “We had just finished ‘Spirit.’ That was the first visual from the album, and she wanted to release more visuals. We were discussing what we would do, what the process would be, and that’s how it all started.”
“For me, it’s pretty exciting,” he adds, of what it’s like working on such a massive production. “Your adrenaline starts to rush and it becomes like, ‘OK, what are we going to do, how are we going to do it, where do we start?’ When you get into the space where you’re so interested and enthralled with creating worlds and spaces, it becomes fun, and she makes it fun.”
Fordjour tells ET that Black Is King was filmed in several locations, from South Africa to Belgium to London, and even Bey’s home in Los Angeles.
“The tree shot in ‘Already,’ that was her backyard,” he reveals. “Yeah, that was the adrenaline [rushing] because she was like, ‘I want to shoot, let’s do it. Let’s start at my house.’ I was like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s do it!’ So we scouted and we found the tree that felt like it was the most relative to The Lion King.“
“Because it was the first video, that video took the longest to shoot,” he adds. “I want to say we shot that one across maybe like 4-5 days.”
While the visual album is filled with memorable scenes, one of the most talked about is the backyard tea party, which features Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles, and her and JAY-Z’s 8-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy. Fashion curator Zerina Akers, who worked closely with Fordjour, tells ET that was her favorite scene to style… especially with Tina being involved!
“Miss Tina actually was a last-minute addition to that shot. She came to set that day and Beyoncé was like, ‘Mom, you have to be in this,'” Fordjour recalls. “So we put her in her pink look.”
Akers also joked about having to pack a whole suitcase of apparel and accessories anytime Bey calls. She says Beyoncé had a total of 63 costume changes within the 85-minute film.
“You have to be prepared,” she exclaimed. “If she says, ‘I just want to shoot, I think it would be really nice in a T-shirt,’ I’m like, OK, 10 ball gowns, please. Just in case! Because more likely than not, we get there and it’s like, ‘Oh, it’s so beautiful, we need something more grand.’ And we kind of allow it to shape-shift.”
Akers always makes sure to pack some extra items for Blue, too, as she is consistently surprising the crew. “The cool thing about Blue that not a lot of people know is that a lot of times she chooses when she wants to [be involved],” Akers shares. “She may see her mother doing a shot she thinks is cool. When she sees something in it, she may be like, ‘I want to do that, can I have a turn to do that?'”
“She gets up and she just kind of does her thing,” she adds. “It all kind of comes to life.”
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