Deschanel met Ward, a gifted singer-songwriter widely known as a solo artist, while recording a duet for the soundtrack to the 2007 film The Go-Getter.
The subscription-based plan, called Duet, is intended to take advantage of the popularity of downloading music from the web since Napster, a pioneer in the growth of online music, was ordered to stop members using its site to swap copyrighted music.
And modern technology, recently used to superimpose a crooning Elvis in a video duet with Celine Dion, could allow CKX to build a whole new war chest of intellectual properties that bring the old king into the modern world.
Just about every self-contained, classically keyed solo, duet or group number seems to be treading water rather than deepening the drama.
His west African rhythms helped warm the crowd, who were also treated to his hit duet 7 Seconds, which he recorded with Neneh Cherry.
Then Justin Bieber sent a million tweens into a frenzy when he announced that he'd be teaming up with country group Rascal Flatts to record a duet in 2011.
In the final 20 minutes they meet in an astonishing duet that allows their discrete virtues to flower: his expressive lightness, her remarkable sinuousness.
Kylie and Justin Timberlake looked like they had only been introduced five minutes earlier as they danced around each other during their duet, and Sugababes were stuck to the floor as giant turbines turned and flames shot out in front of them.
"(You're) Timeless to Me, " his duet with screen husband Christopher Walken, is a self-fulfilling prophecy if ever there was one.
In 2006, while making the film The Go Getter, director Martin Hynes asked the pair to work together on a duet for the soundtrack.
Three years later, her singles Hot Stuff, Bad Girls and No More Tears, a duet with Barbara Streisand, all shot to number one in the charts.
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That is, his choreographic scheme works more pointedly to delineate the unfolding plot than to set off segments of solo, duet or ensemble dances.
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Later, Hughes collaborated with filmmakers Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan, contributing to the song "Let's Duet" from the comedy Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Williams, who is suffering from severe stomach disorder and exhaustion, is defying doctors' orders to rest and instead will perform a duet with Australian disco diva Kylie Minogue, his spokesman says.
Tina has four standout arias, tracing her awakening to life and feeling after years in the shadows, as the Lodger seduces her to get access to the papers. (Their a cappella duet at the end of Act I is an ingenious piece of writing.) As Juliana, the fierce Alexandra Deshorties slipped easily from embodying the young opera diva, warbling bel canto-style coloratura, to the old crone.
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There was also suggestion that we might sing a duet together. (Applause.) And I have to tell you, though, you try to limit these appearances so that you leave them hungry for more. (Laughter.) So we may not hear me singing for quite some time.
After the split, Almond went on to have chart success with a cover of the Days of Pearly Spencer and a duet with Gene Pitney, of Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart.
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Through artistic performance involving music, sculpture and dance, supported by pyrotechnics, the audience was invited to a worldwide voyage to India with an Indian dance workshop and to Europe with masterfully interpretations of Verdi, Rossini and Mozart, played by a duet Ali and Stephanie Balthazard Lachaise.
To promote the album he didn't tour but instead engaged in an epic skeletal duet with Cher on her TV show.
The error led to thousands of votes being miscast during an eight-minute period after the pair performed a duet.
The tenor, a journalist who comes to interview the diva, turns out to be a wannabe opera singer himself, and in a fantasy sequence the two tediously execute the love duet of the diva's opera (about Eleanor of Aquitaine, of all things), a ponderous event with not one scintilla of musical heat or passion (that's the bit that ends with the bells).
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