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Straits Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Show Picks: Black Eyed Peas, Stayc and Show Lo concerts
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox American pop/hip-hop group Black Eyed Peas will be back in Singapore to perform at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Black Eyed Peas – Live In Singapore One of the biggest pop groups of the 2000s, American outfit Black Eyed Peas are behind some of the decade's biggest hits such as Where Is the Love? (2003), Pump It (2005) and I Gotta Feeling (2009). The trio of and Taboo have also consistently released new material in recent years and dropped their ninth album, Elevation, in 2022. With six Grammies to their name, including for Best Pop Vocal Album for their fifth album The E.N.D. (2009), their touring line-up includes vocalist J. Rey Soul, the replacement for singer Fergie, who left in 2018. Soul was the Season 1 finalist of singing competition The Voice Of The Philippines (2013 to 2015) and was mentored by on the show. The group's last concerts in Singapore were in 2022, when they played two sets at the Formula One Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix. Where: Singapore Indoor Stadium, 2 Stadium Walk MRT: Stadium When: Aug 25, 8pm Admission: From $158 to $288 via Sistic (go to or call 6348-5555) 2025 Stayc Tour (Stay Tuned) In Singapore K-pop girl group Stayc's Singapore show is part of their Stay Tuned world tour. PHOTO: LIVE NATION SINGAPORE K-pop girl group Stayc – which comprise Sumin, Sieun, Isa, Seeun, Yoon and J – will be back in Singapore to perform at The Star Theatre, the same venue they played at in February 2024 for their debut show here. Their Aug 16 show is part of a tour that kicked off in Seoul in April and includes dates across Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Best known for tunes such as Stereotype (2021), Run2U (2022), Teddy Bear (2023) and Bubble (2023), the sextet made their debut in November 2020 with the EP Star To A Young Culture. The group – whose name is an acronym for Star To A Young Culture – released debut album Metamorphic in 2024. Where: The Star Theatre, 04-01 The Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green MRT: Buona Vista When: Aug 16, 6pm Admission: From $138 to $308 via Ticketmaster (go to or call 6018-7645) Show Lo 30th World Tour Concert 2025 – Singapore Taiwanese singer Show Lo will stage his 30th World Tour in Singapore at the Resorts World Ballroom on Aug 16. PHOTO: SLIDING DOORS ENTERTAINMENT Mandopop singer Show Lo's return concert is part of his tour to mark his third decade in show business. The 46-year-old last performed a solo concert here at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in 2023 and was in the line-up of the One Love Asia Festival Singapor e a t the Bayfront Event Space in 2022. He has come a long way since winning a 1995 singing and dancing competition in Taiwan with his impersonation of Hong Kong Heavenly King Aaron Kwok. Lo has since released 14 albums, including his most recent, Wu Zhuang Yuan (2024). In a recent interview with The Straits Times, he said the tour marks a milestone in his long music career and Singapore fans can expect to hear many of his hits at the upcoming show. 'Giving it my all, I feel, is the best way for me to repay my fans for the decades of support and love,' he said. Where: Resorts World Ballroom, Resorts World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa Gateway MRT: HarbourFront When: Aug 16, 8pm Admission: $128 to $258 via Sistic
The Guardian
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
DJ Funk, trailblazing Chicago ghetto house producer, dies aged 54
DJ Funk, the producer who coined the term 'ghetto house' and was one of the Chicago scene's key innovators, has died aged 54. His death was confirmed by close friend and collaborator DJ Slugo, who announced the news via a post on Instagram. The artist, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had stage four cancer and his family had launched a fundraising appeal to help pay for his funeral this week. Chambers' productions, which he dubbed ghetto house but were also known as booty house, took house music's basic components (beats, bass and vocals) and sped them up, while adding raunchy lyrics. Artists including DJ Assault, DJ Deeon and DJ Houzman were inspired by Miami bass and their city's house scene, releasing on Chicago labels Dance Mania (which DJ Funk eventually owned) and Pro-Jex. Songs like Work Dat Body, Pump It and Run became dancefloor fillers across the American midwest and eventually around the world, powered by their call and response lyrics, which were often crude and overtly sexual. The DJ Funk brand was huge in his native Chicago, while his 1999 album Booty House Anthems reportedly sold a reported 1m copies across the US, and it led to two more volumes being released. Jeff Mills and Glasgow's Jackmaster both included DJ Funk tracks on influential mixes, while the building blocks of ghetto house evolved into the Footwork scene that is still thriving in Chicago. When asked how he had sustained such a long career, Chambers said: 'Not giving up, doing my thing. One thing I got mad at a lot of artists for is that they would make a genre or sound, and then they wouldn't do it no more, they went super pop and sold their souls to the devil. I think that you need to keep doing whatever you are doing.' The French duo Daft Punk mentioned DJ Funk in their track Teachers, from their debut album Homework, in which they list all the producers who had influenced their sound. The French connection continued when Justice asked DJ Funk to remix Let There Be Light in 2013. Speaking to the Guardian in 2015, DJ Funk discussed how he'd like to be commemorated. 'I really don't want a funeral,' he said. 'I'd like to have a party so people remember all the good times and aren't sad. Then at the afterparty there'll be a lot of booty shaking with all my music played.'
