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Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Nine Killed After Driver Rams Into Vancouver Street Festival Where Black Eyed Peas' Apl.de.Ap Performed
Nine people were killed and multiple others injured after the driver of an SUV rammed into a crowd Saturday evening at a street festival in Vancouver celebrating the Filipino-Canadian community, according to the CBC. Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai told the network that a 30-year-old Vancouver man is now in custody. The incident took place at around 8 p.m. local time when the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party, which drew up to 100,000 people through the day, was winding down. Filipino-American rapper of the Black Eyed Peas had completed his headlining DJ set at the festival and the stage, tents and vendor stalls were being taken down when the incident took place. More from Variety Black Eyed Peas Cancel 2025 Las Vegas Residency Due to 'Current Circumstances' Launches Formula 1 Partnership Via Tag-Team Single With Lil Wayne Black Eyed Peas' 'My Humps' Ripped Off by Pooping Unicorn Toy, Lawsuit Claims In a statement Sunday morning, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said more than 20 people were injured in what 'police are describing as a car-ramming attack' that happened during 'an occasion to gather and to celebrate the vibrancy of the Filipino-Canadian community.' Police Chief Rai said at a press conference early Sunday that bystanders held the suspect until officers arrived. He said the man was known to police 'in certain circumstances,' according to the CBC 'We are confident that this incident was not an act of terrorism,' Vancouver police said on X. Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, told the CBC that crews lifted a barricade that had been blocking traffic to allow a vehicle to enter. While some cars were being guided carefully through the crowds, Pangilinan said one car suddenly plowed through the street at high speed. 'Then we realized what was happening and everybody started yelling,' he told the CBC. '[The driver] just slammed the pedal down and rammed into hundreds of people. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all the bowling pins and all the pins flying up in the air.' 'It was like a war zone…. There were bodies all over the ground,' he said, adding he saw 'countless' people injured. Apl de Ap (real name: Allan Pineda Lindo) had not commented on the tragedy at the time of this article's publication, but Kaya Ko, who kicked off the main-stage performances during the afternoon, posted on her Instagram story. 'This was not an accident. This was a massacre,' the vocalist added. 'I am at a loss for words. Praying that everyone is taken care of and praying for the souls, lives taken and families affected by this terrible crime.' Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in May 2025 The Best Celebrity Memoirs to Read This Year: From Chelsea Handler to Anthony Hopkins
Observer
12-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Observer
Wooooo Hooooo: It's the Weekend!
Strange... but the 'Black-Eyed Peas,' a group of musicians with their origins in the mid 1990's wrote a song that somewhat rearranges our week. 'I Got a Feeling,' launched in 2009 and was a stunning success, topping the Billboard Charts for 26 consecutive weeks, a record at the time. The group was originally put together by William Adams Jr, Alan Limbo, Mooky Mook, Dante Santiago and DJMotiv8, as a concept group, exploring musical diversity with jazz and rhythm; and blues influences. That first iteration, while having a loyal following, a distinctive, almost retro style, was very different from the 'gansta-rap' style of the day, but their first album was never released and they, in musical parlance, stalled. Of the originals, William Adams Jr, was to achieve prominence across the wider entertainment industry as ' and Alan Pineda Limbo, re-identified himself as ' To join the two were Jaime Luis Gomez, otherwise known as 'Taboo.' I guess 'strange' doesn't really say it all, does it? Changing what appear to be perfectly good names, given by their parents, to a confusing litany of identifiers... oh well. However, the same sophistication that had earmarked their earlier venture, this time around found an appreciative audience, perhaps in the new social awareness of black America and prominent soloists Macy Gray and Kim Hill were guest artists across several of their releases between 1995 and 2002. Then Stacey May 'Fergie' Ferguson joined them, offering her unique voice, the antonym to their diversity, the missing piece of their puzzle, and they went stratospheric! Fergie's soulful 'Where Is the Love,' led the charge; 'Shut Up,' consolidated their musical 'creds,' culminating in a Grammy in 2005, their unique 'Don't Phunk With My Heart,' and 'Don't Lie,' and 'My Humps,' created a legacy that would endure until 2011. Anyway, back to 'I Got a Feeling.' It's a cracking tune and everyone, if nothing else, can sing along to the repetitive words and melodies, not always at the right time, or in the right tune, but IGaF inspires smiles, joy and celebration, with its falsetto 'Woooooooh hoooooooo,' and 'tonight's gonna be a good night.' But why has it always piqued my fancy? Because it restyles and remodels the week. Amidst all the repetition and 'Tonight's gonna be a good night-ing,' they sing, 'Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Saturday to Sunday,' doing what many of us have always asked for... two Saturdays in a week, or a weekend! Apart from its catchy lyrics, its 100% weekend and party vibe, very few people know that it was inspired by David (Ravy Davy) Guetta, the French-born icon of dance-pop collaboration, whether as a producer or DJ, they say, 'everything Guetta, turns to gold.' Guetta, in 2009, worked around several 'beats,' or unfinished tunes, with and when the American came up with 'tonight's gonna be a good night,' as the hook, Guetta immediately recognised its potential and the most downloaded tune in America's history was born. for his part, recognised that young people were looking for, if not escape, then stimulation, joy, noise and dedicated it to 'the party people, who just want to go out, to lose themselves, to escape and have fun.' He felt that with times being hard and drugs meaning trouble with a capital 'T,' here was something to embrace. He was surely right and even Guetta, who two years later was to release the greatest dance anthem ever, with Kelly Rowland, 'When Love Takes Over,' credits the Black-Eyed Peas collaboration with setting the standard, musically and socially. I'm no great 'muso' or music afficionado, but this tune has relevance to so many of us. It's liberating! It helps us to understand that we can see our lives and our weekends, in different ways. We do have the power, not only to embrace change, but to make it happen, to work hard and play harder. So often, we do know what we want and where we are headed, but we are rarely bold enough to embrace the destination and so, the journey.
