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This week's music video is CHUCO by Peruvian American singer A.CHAL and featuring Peruvian band Los Mirlos and Peruvian producer KAYFEX .  Los Mirlos (whose name translates to "The Blackbirds" in English) plays  Peruvian cumbia music . It's a sub-genre of cumbia, which is thought to have originated in Colombia (specifically from Afro-Colombian funeral traditions. CHUCO is A.CHAL's latest single. It's a Spanish language song and was released on 25th July.      For more music by A.CHAL, check out this post: Music video for LMKK (released last October, plus links to more music:   https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2025/03/weekly-music-video_12.html   And for more on Los Mirlos and KAYFEX, visit the links below:   Los Mirlos: Boa Viagem Music profile:  https://www.boaviagemmusic.com/artist/los-mirlos/   Official site (Spanish language):  https://losmirlos.com/     KAYFEX: Official site (Spanish/English):  https://w...

I've often featured Bollywood music (and films) on Star Sparkle (and sometimes South Indian music , such as Tollywood and Kollywood . However, I haven't featured music from the Indian music industry outside of films as often.  So today I'm sharing a quick round-up of previous posts on the blog, plus some newer Indian pop music. :)    Here are the posts previously shared: Prasad Bhandarkar playing Ragashivranjani on the bansuri (Indian bamboo flute):  https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/02/weekly-music-video_13.html Raja Kumari- Meera (Indian American): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/01/weekly-music-video_31.html   Celina Sharma (Indian/Italian Australian)- CHALO: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/02/weekly-music-video.html   Kenishaa Francis and Tejas Agarwal- Blue Naina: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/02/weekly-music-video_9.html   Sukriti and Prakriti Kakar, Badshah- Kya Say?: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/03/weekly-...

This week's video is Rider by American singer Mereba . Her full name is Marian Mereba  (she goes by her surname professionally) and she has Ethiopian and African American heritage. As a child Mereba lived in different places due to her family's jobs, which exposed her to a variety of people. In her teen years she lived in Greensboro, North Carolina and also spent some living in Ethiopia where her dad is from. She is now based in Atlanta, Georgia. Mereba started performing in the indie music scene and went on to self-release her debut EP Room For Living in February 2013 (using her full name). In June 2014, she released her debut single September. She signed to Interscope Records in 2018 and released the singles Black Truck and Planet U, followed by her debut album The Jungle Is The Only Way Out in February 2019. Her music is a blend of R'n'B, folk and hip hop. On her Instagram she describes it as "medicine music". To date Mereba has released severa...

It's that's time of year again- Eurovision time! This year the 61st Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Stockholm, Sweden, since they were the 2015 winners with the song Heroes sung by Måns Zelmerlöw . (They last hosted the contest in 2013, after Loreen won the previous year with Euphoria). Måns is a co-presenter this year, along with Petra Mede   who was a 2013 co-host. American singer Justin Timberlake will be performing in the interval and the contest will be shown on American TV for the first time ever. Australia are also taking part for the second time after launching a campaign to compete in 2013. Singer Jessica Mauboy was the interval act in 2014 and Guy Sebastian represented Australia last year with the song Tonight Again. A new voting system has also been introduced for the first time since 1975, in a bid to make the voting fairer. (Countries are often accused of voting politically). Each country will award two sets of points, from both a professional jury ...

Latest music and videos I've been listening to/watching lately! :) (Some are just new to me). Zara Larsson- Lush Life Selena Gomez- Hands To Myself Troye Sivan- YOUTH Ameriie - What I Want Ameriie- Out Loud ZAYN x Usher x Chris Brown- Back To Sleep ZAYN feat. Lil' Wayne- Pillowtalk remix Years & Years feat. Tove Lo- Desire (new version of the original single ) Alessia Cara- Wild Things ZAYN- Like I Would  Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman  Trobar de Morte- Summoning The Gods  K-pop Jay Park - All I Wanna Do Reddy feat. Jay Park- Think BESTie- Hot Baby Until next time!

Time for the latest 1000 Songs update! 859. Chris Brown feat. Tyga- Ayo (Clean)* 860. Calvin Harris feat. Haim- Pray To God *I haven't linked to the music video because it's Explicit and there are new rules about sexually explicit videos on Blogger, but you can find it on YouTube. :) 861. Jwaydan Moyine- Running out of time (acoustic version) 862. The Weeknd - Earned It (Clean, you can find official video on YouTube) 863. Luke Friend- Hole in My Heart 864. Ivo Sedlack and Edward Powell- Indian raga Jog 865. Prem Joshua- Sky Kisses Earth 866. Chris Brown feat. Ariana Grande- Don't Be Gone Too Long 867. Omarion feat. Chris Brown and Jhene Aiko- Post To Be

The latest 1000 Songs Challenger update (a bit late because I was busy yesterday but never mind!). The Soundstage Global Jukebox on Propellor 740. Pei Ziqi- Darling (C-pop) 741. Lazy Habits- Even Out 742. MIX- Dialogue* 743. QiQi- Nanana (C-pop) 744.Woodkid- Iron ** *This was an Asian boyband, I think Chinese. But I can't find any record of them online, So I may have written the name down wrong! **It was a different video that I saw, a performance one I think. But this is the official video. I first heard this bit of music at the beginning of EXO' s performance at the MAMA 2013 Awards. It's also used in a TV advert. I see from people's comments that it's used in the video game Assassin's Creed . 745. Beyonce- 7/11 746. Pentatonix feat. Tori Kelly- Winter Wonderland/Don't Worry Be Happy 747. Tulisa- Living Without You

It's a year since Eurovision already! That means that it's been a year since my  post on 3 singers I discovered through Eurovison . The 2013 contest is held in Malmo, Sweden, who won last year with the song Euphoria by Loreen. The UK's entry is Believe In Me by Bonnie Tyler. The song sounds ok, better than last year's by Englebert Humperdinck anyway! lol.This year I thought I'd do a post on the songs I've liked over the years. :) Jan Jan- Inga and Anush (Armenia)  Sisters Inga and Anush Arshakyan represented Armenia in 2009 with the song Jan Jan and finished in 10th place. They had released 3 albums before they entered Eurovision. Inga plays the violin and Anush is a pianist. Jan Jan translates as "My Dear". It's a folky song with a good rhythm.                                  For more on the sisters visit their official site: http://www.ingaanush.am/ * Wild Dances- Rusl...