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This week's video is Love Like This, the new single by British singer ZAYN  (full name Zayn Malik), the former One Direction  member turned solo star. It's his first music release in a while. His last single was a cover of the late singer Jimi Hendrix's  1970 song Angel. It was released in November 2022, for what would have been Jimi's 80th birthday. Zayn's last album was 2021's Nobody Is Listening. He was dropped by his record label RCA Records  in late 2021, but signed to the relaunched  Mercury Records  this June. He also signed to United Talent Agency  in January. Love Like This is Zayn's first release on Mercury. It's the lead single from his upcoming 4th studio album and came out on 21st July.  It's a pop and dance song with a laidback vibe. Zayn fan? Check out these posts:   Post about his 2nd album Icarus Falls (2018):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-zayn-album.html Features the 2019 video for Sour Diesel from...

This week's video is Paradise by British DJ Collective Kings Of The Rollers and solo singer  Katy B .  Kings Of The Rollers consists of DJs Serum (Mark Gaunt), Voltage and Bladerunner (Devan Gray). They are signed to Hospital Records .  For more on Katy B visit my Top 10 Female Singers post (she is No. 10 on the list):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/02/top-10-female-solo-singers.html I'm a long time Katy fan, so it's good to see her releasing something new. Her last studio album was 2016's Honey, but she brought out an EP called Peace and Offerings in November 2021. I actually didn't know about the EP, so look forward to checking it out. :) Paradise was released on 22nd March.  For more on Kings of the Rollers visit these links:  Official FB page:  https://www.facebook.com/kingsoftherollers Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/kingsoftherollers Official Instagram:  https://instagram.com/kingsoftherollers And for more Katy B check out thes...

While I like a lot of different types of music and artists, I like female solo singers most of all. I'm not sure why, maybe I just prefer female voices. Also it could be that I feel I can relate to their music more. Anyway I thought I'd post about my Top 10 singers. :) 1. Mariah Carey As I've mentioned before, Mariah is my favourite singer. She's had a long career (coming up 25 years) which started in 1990 with the release of her debut single Vision Of Love and debut album Mariah Carey.  To date she has released 62 singles including Vision Of Love, Honey, Heartbreaker, My All and We Belong Together, and 14 studio albums (as well as additional remix and greatest hits albums) including Mariah Carey, Music Box (1993), Butterfly (1997), The Emancipation of Mimi (2005), Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel (2009) and her latest Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse, released in 2014. Here is Obsessed, which is from Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel and came out in June 2009....

This week's video is for the single Frisky by British rapper Tinie Tempah featuring Labrinth. Tinie (real name Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu) started his career by releasing a free mixtape in 2005 and had some success with the songs Tears and Wifey. However it wasn't until 2010 that he became really successful with the release of his debut single Pass Out, which got to Number 1 in the UK Top 40 singles chart . Frisky was his second single and got to Number 2. Both songs were produced by Labrinth, who also sang on Pass Out (uncredited) and appears on Tinie's debut album Disc-overy. Tinie Tempah's latest single is called Trampoline and it's the first release from his upcoming second album Demonstration. Frisky is my favourite song of his.                                        Frisky- Tinie Tempah f...