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According to the news, Reggaeton superstar Don Omar will be on the roud for his first U.S. tour next month to promote his latest album King of Kings. Titled the “King of Kings Tour,” the “journey” will start on October 13 in Atlanta, GA and will end up with two consecutive performances in Don Omar’s native Puerto Rico on December. His album King of Kings sure doesn’t seem like Don Omar’s impressive debut album from 2003 The Last Don, despite the fact that, the reggaeton had been generally defined by a trademark rhythm. As he got us used to, Omar songs from King of Kings, are deep and worthy of reflection but there are also some suggestive party songs.

I’ve always envisioned the King of Kings project as my opportunity to push beyond the limits of reggaeton and bring a new level of artistry and innovation to my music. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this vision to life now with an incredible live show for my fans across the United States.
- said Don Omar via a statement -

In other Celebrity news, Don Omar’s album King of Kings was nominated for a 2006 Latin Grammy for “Best Urban Music Album”. An event which is set to take place on November 2nd at Madison Square Garden in NYC and be broadcasted live on the Univision Network from 8 - 11 p.m. ET.

The scheduled dates for Don Omar’s “King of Kings” Tour: (more…)

Based actually in New York City, Brazilian Girls’ latest album, “Talk To La Bomb” comes with 12 new tracks, pushing their innovative fusion of electro, dub, pop, punk and dance music. The only girl in the band, Sabina Sciubba alternates between five different languages on the album: English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. Don’t let the band name fool you. There’s some Latin beat mixed in as well. Anyway the Brazilian Girls are on the road with their album Talk To La Bomb, meanwhile check out the first single, “Jique”.

At its debut The New York Times described the band as “catchy, musically ambitious and proudly theatrical…irresistible,” Entertainment Weekly called the album as “…unceasingly irresistible,” while the Associated Press said its one of the “top 10 albums of 2005.” Rolling Stone wrote of the band “…so finessed that they leave their scent on every musical landscape they visit…” and The Miami Herald considered “…the best debut in a decade, since Missy Elliott, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack and Sleater-Kinney first blew people’s minds.” (more…)

According to the news, Colombian Pop Celebrity Shakira leads the nomination list for this year Latin Grammy Awards with six nominees. The nominations were announced two days ago in New York. This year’s Latin Grammy Awards will be presented November 2 at New York’s Madison Square Garden and broadcast live on the Univision. Shakira was nominated for the categories of Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best Short Form Music Video, all for “La Tortura” and also for Album Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Album, and Best Short Form Music Video categories for “Fijacion Oral, Vol. 1″.
The Pop Celebrity is being followed by Ricardo Arjona, Julieta Venegas and Gustavo Cerati with four nominations each while Puerto Rican group Calle 13 gets three nominations. Andrea Bocelli Black Eyed Peas with Sergio Mendes are also among the posibile winners.

MTV’s recent festivity is Spankin’ Free Music Week which started Monday, is filled with new videos, performances, and behind the scenes!! In this week MTV is making the M stand for ‘music’ again and what’s completely different from Spankin’ New Music Week is that MTV is allowing free downloads of exclusive tracks at http://music.mtv.com Here’s some of who’s on TRL this week at 3:30 ET/PT: performances of Nelly Furtado, The Killers, JoJo, The Game, Fergie and appearances by Diddy & Tenacious D; Ludacris & AFI; Linkin Park, Vanessa Hudgens, & Jesse McCartney; Chingy and many more celebrities.

The week-long event which is hosted by MTV VJs Damien Fahey, Vanessa Minnillo, Susie Castillo, Stephen Colletti and La La Vasquez, is programming broadcast over several of the network’s channels, including MTV, MTV2, mtvU, and MTV Overdrive, the network’s online station. Every channel, platform, and network of MTV will choose today’s hottest music an artists.

According to the news, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has apparently turned down an offer to work with Pop/R&B Celebrity Justin Timberlake. Although the British rocker has previously collaborated with other celebrities, he refused to work with Justin because he doesn’t want to sing on other people’s tracks. Everything started after the Pop Celebrity Justin Timberlake spoke to Channel 4 for a T4 special, where he said: “I’d like to get Chris Martin in the studio but he won’t sing on anything but Coldplay stuff. I respect him and I hate him for that”.

However, Chris Martin has recorded a track with rapper Jay-Z for the Hip-Hop star’s forthcoming album Kingdom Come and is set to join Hip-Hop mogul JAY-Z on stage in London, 25 September 06. Jay-Z will be the first rapper to perform at the acclaimed Royal Albert Hall venue.