Hide's death produced scenes of grief and hysteria not witnessed for a music star since the war.
"Madonna feels that the Malawi government and its leadership should have abandoned everything and attended to her because she believes she is a music star turned benefactor, " Tusekele Mwanyongo, a government spokesman, said in a statement posted by the nation's media outlets.
Now he's a rising international music star, with a new album titled Warchild.
Her position as a world-music star gives her an important platform for her activism: She's been a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF for nearly 10 years, and has her own foundation to support higher education for girls in Africa.
Country music star Blake Shelton, a native Oklahoman, will lead a benefit concert for tornado victims on May 29.
Take Justin Timberlake, a star better known for his music (and tabloid appearances), who has refocused his energy on building a film career.
We live in a much more celebrity laden era, but there is no current star, certainly not in music, who holds a candle to the kind of admiration and reverence the King enjoyed.
Around midnight at London's Leicester Square, as news of Jackson's death spread, Luis Carlos Ameida and his friends were surrounding a car listening to the star's music.
An evening's entertainment might include a lecture or a music recital, with visiting scientists featured as the star performers.
However, like a physician, the advisor needs to assure the client that together they do know better, and can do better, than any TV star with rock music playing as a backdrop for market movements!
But in Norway, where pop music tastes are less rigid, he's a pop star.
Then, with a thump of such suddenness that for a moment it might have been taken for a warning of emergency or disaster, music again burst from the Star night club.
In the music industry, a stadium concert is the ultimate rock-star status symbol: Few acts can sell enough tickets to fill one, let alone a multitude of such venues year after year.
At country music star Tim McGraw's house, the holidays are a time to celebrate his mother's Italian heritage.
There was better news on 23 October, when Barrymore won a National Television Award for his show My Kind Of Music - seen by many as a public vote of confidence in the star.
The music she's making now is too challenging and mature for a pop star career, so she has some decisions to make.
The other music star of the night, halftime entertainer Bruce Springsteen, has a vast catalog from which to choose his handful of tunes.
"It's impossible to predict who will be a pop star forever, " says Wayne Isaak, executive vice president of music and talent for VH1.
The singer put Jamaican music on the map, while he became an international star with a faithful following across the globe - including the Duchess who once saw Marley in concert.
It's fitting that CNN's interview with the iconic music star is taking place at an iconic hotel, which is like a second home to the former Beatle.
Gerrard apparently wanted to change the music on a CD player and the 34-year-old McGee said the football star had acted aggressively in trying to grab the device.
But the granddaddy of them all, without any challenger, is right now concluding its second weekend of a star filled lineup of scores of bands turning out just about any breed of music one might conceive.
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The young star enjoys popular music, citing Radiohead among his favorites, and he has a reputation for piano pyrotechnics.
The announcement that Bowie was releasing new material came as a surprise to many in the music world, and has had Bowie aficionados picking over the fiercely private star's back catalogue, comparing his early work with his latest release.
Former country music star Mindy McCready, who died this year, made headlines in April 2008 when she claimed a longtime relationship with Clemens.
His earnings were easily the most of any rapper, rocker or pop star in the world and, according to a recent report released by Berklee College of Music, about 2, 000 times what the average musician earned in 2012.
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