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He Went Viral on American Idol for 1-Word Response to Katy Perry. 7 Years Later, He Is in a ‘Very Different' Place (Exclusive)
Noah Davis went viral seven years ago for saying 'wig' to Katy Perry on American Idol After the show, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career Now, Davis is working on an album and living an authentic lifeNoah Davis didn't know that a simple word would change his life. During season 16 of American Idol, Davis, 25, immediately caught the attention of judge Katy Perry after blurting out a popular pop-culture phrase before his audition — "Wig." Perry responded, "Wig? Did you just say wig?" When Davis nodded in confirmation, Perry chimed in, "I know, wig. I feel that already," much to the confusion of other judges Lionel Ritchie and Luke Bryan. With one word, a viral moment was born. "I don't remember saying that because those days are so long. It takes forever, and you're so tired," Davis tells PEOPLE. "I came out of the audition, and all I knew was I made it through. I saw the video for the first time before it aired, and I thought, 'Oh, my God, that's so funny.' " Davis made it through to Hollywood but was eliminated from the competition after they whittled it down from 50 to 24 contestants. "I'm very different. I don't think I was a fully-realized Noah Davis. I was 18 and had just come from nowhere in Arkansas. I had never done anything like that, and I hadn't realized my full potential," Davis shares. "I was shy back then, and I've come out since then," he adds. "It's hard to believe I wasn't out of the closet when I said 'wig' to Katy Perry, but I wasn't." After American Idol, Davis packed everything into his car and moved to Los Angeles with "no money" and "not a lot of friends." There, he began making music and sharing his journey on TikTok, where he amassed a following. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Davis released his album F–k Flowers in 2021 and his EP, The A Side, in 2023. As a "young gay person" who is "plus size" and "femme presenting," representation is extremely important to Davis, so he took matters into his own hands and began making music he didn't see on the market. "I want to feel sexy and hot, and I should have music that makes me feel good about myself. So I made it," Davis says. "Then other people were coming to me saying, 'I've been waiting for music that is sexy and queer.' And I thought, 'I didn't realize that that was so important.' " His newest album, set to come out this summer, is more of a breakup album. Davis tapped into a different side of himself to share his experiences going through heartbreak. "We are real people. We go through real heartbreak, we experience real love and real loss," Davis says. "This album is about heartbreak, loss and moving on. I knew I wanted to say something more real and vulnerable, which was a bit challenging for me, because I don't want to let people know how I'm really feeling." Fans of Davis can expect him to take things to "new levels" on his upcoming album. "I'm doing what feels right at the moment. These past two years working on this project, I've been honing in on being an artist," he says. "I'm doing this for real, I want people to expect the next level up, because that's what I'm doing." He cites R&B artists like Kehlani, Lucky Daye, Victoria Monet, Usher, and Amelia Moore as his musical inspirations. In terms of Perry, Davis shares that "she's going to be an icon forever," and would love to recreate the viral moment with her. Read the original article on People
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Miley Cyrus Talks Pop Star Peers, ‘Winding Down' Her Focus on Mainstream Success After ‘Something Beautiful'
Next year things might look a bit different for Miley Cyrus, who says in a conversation with The New York Times that she's looking forward to a 'rebirth of how I look at my career.' When asked about her relationship with mainstream success, Cyrus, who just released her ninth studio album, Something Beautiful, spoke of what she sees next for herself as an artist. More from Billboard Miley Cyrus' 'Something Beautiful' Album: All 13 Tracks Ranked Robin Thicke and April Love Geary Marry After Six-Year Engagement Rihanna's Father, Ronald Fenty, Dies at 70: Report 'I think it's winding down, my attachment to mainstream success,' Cyrus said in the video interview, published on Saturday, May 31. (A shortened version of the full interview was published on the outlet's website.) 'I kind of feel like this album, it's definitely not a 'last lap' — I'm definitely not going 180 in my career necessarily right now — but I think it's potentially the last time I'll do it exactly this way,' she noted. The singer announced Something Beautiful in March, when she gave fans a first listen to album track 'Prelude' and the set's title track. She's since released two more singles, 'End of the World' and 'More to Lose,' and just before the album's release held a private concert hosted by TikTok at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Still to come is a visual component to the project, a film set to show in theaters for one night only on June 12 in the United States and Canada, and internationally on June 27. Cyrus — whose previous full-length release, 2023's Endless Summer Vacation, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — said, 'I'm taking a big bet on this one [Something Beautiful]. I'm all in. But I don't think I'll put myself in a position that I add this much pressure to myself again.' 'A lot of things are going to change about that for me, towards the end [of this year] and the beginning of next year. That's really kind of my focus, of using this year to kind of wind that idea I've had of myself down. There's a song on the album called 'Reborn' and it's kind of about this. I feel like next year for me is gonna be kind of this rebirth of how I do things and how I look at my career,' said Cyrus. The conversation clocked in at nearly an hour, between Cyrus' in-person sit-down with the publication and a follow-up call. Among the many topics discussed with candor: her present-day relationship with each parent (Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus), whether she's interested in being a parent one day, what happened when she did E.M.D.R. therapy, growing up as a child star and why finally winning her first Grammy (for 'Flowers,' in 2024) was so significant, and — when interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro brought up Cyrus' peers in the industry — her rapport with other female pop stars. 'I find the relationship between female pop stars to be really interesting and often very fraught,' Garcia-Navarro suggested, to which Cyrus joked: 'Divas.' 'Is that what you think is happening?' she asked Cyrus. 'I mean, probably on my end,' the singer said, and then clarified, 'I don't mind the word diva. Maybe I'm a little diva.' Cyrus added, 'It's kind of cool. It's a fantasy. You don't have to be famous to be a diva — just be a diva. Diva does not mean difficult for no reason.' When asked whether she thinks she's difficult, she quipped: 'I'm difficult, but not for no reason.' The interviewer followed up by prompting, 'You have said you don't feel part of the cohort of singers of your generation and age group … You've held yourself apart in a certain way.' She asked Cyrus why. 'I don't think it's so much of a conscious choice,' Cyrus said. 'I think for me, my persona — the public's idea of me — is 'on,' in some way, but in my own time, I'm very off. I like no makeup, my hair up messy. I don't even look in the mirror in my own time.' 'It's not that I haven't found it,' she said. 'I haven't looked very hard. I'm sure girls in my community are going like, 'Well, that's me too and you haven't reached out.' No, I haven't … I like doing my two worlds.' Cyrus related her real life to that of her teenaged Hannah Montana persona. 'Maybe it's something subconsciously from the show, like from Hannah Montana where I think my famous person has one life and then as a regular person I have another life,' she explained. 'I think maybe subconsciously it programmed me — not even joking — to think who I am at home and who I am as a performer are kind of like two separate identities, and actually they are.' Elsewhere in the conversation the former Disney star talked about the younger generation of pop singers, including Sabrina Carpenter, whom she's met and sometimes worries about due to the hectic schedule the 'Espresso' hitmaker keeps. 'Every time I see her I have the urge to ask her if she's OK. I'll see she's performing in Ireland, and then the next day she's doing a show in Kansas. And I'm like, 'I don't know how that could be physically OK,' because I was in that situation. I know what it feels like to fry yourself, and I don't want anyone else to get fried. But I like all the new girls. I think they're all unique and are very found,' Cyrus said. Something Beautiful dropped on May 30. The project is accompanied by a film set to show in theaters for one night only on June 12 in the United States and Canada, and internationally on June 27. See her full interview with the New York Times in the video below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
Inside Rihanna's rollercoaster relationship with her dad amid his shock death
After a long and complicated history, Rihanna 's father Ronald Fenty has reportedly passed away at age 70. The Umbrella songstress, 37, has long been open about how her father's crack and alcohol addictions cast a dark shadow over her childhood. She has said that her dad's substance abuse issues lead to explosive fights between her parents that sometimes turned physical - and that he once 'slapped her' so hard in the face when she was only seven-years-old that it left a 'handprint' on her cheek. His drug problems also meant Rihanna's mom had to work overtime to provide for her family, forcing Rihanna to step up and take care of her two younger brothers when she was little. Her yearning for a better life and longing for an escape from her 'abusive' dad were likely a driving force in her launching her music career at only 15 years old. But her relationship with her dad didn't get any easier after she found fame, in fact, things only got more messy as their problems often trickled into the media. Over the years, Rihanna and her father have gotten into multiple public feuds: he once got kicked off her tour after he 'embarrassed her' by 'disrespected' crew members; she was left furious when he spoke publicly about her controversial romance with Chris Brown; and he was kicked out of her charity event for boozing soon after he completed a rehab stint she had funded. Things got so bad in 2019 she actually sued Ronald for allegedly trying to cash in on her fame by using their family name to brand his entertainment business. But in recent years it had seemed as though they had finally reconciled as Ronald revealed in 2022 after Rihanna announced her pregnancy that they had been in touch and that he was 'over the moon' over the news. It's certainly been a rollercoaster ride for Rihanna and her father. Amid the news of his shock passing, FEMAIL has recapped their tumultuous relationship from start to finish. Rihanna's childhood was plagued by Ronald's drug addiction, as well as and his violent fights with her mom Rihanna, who grew up in Barbados, has long been open about how her father's addictions to crack and alcohol cast a dark shadow over her childhood. 'Even as a toddler, I learned that my mom and dad would argue when there was foil paper in the ashtray,' she once recalled to the Mirror. It was said that her dad's substance abuse issues lead to explosive fights between her parents that sometimes turned physical. 'I could tell when a conversation was getting too intense, when it was going to get physical,' she told Rolling Stone back in 2011. 'And Fridays would be scary because he would come home drunk. He'd get paid, and half of it would go toward alcohol. He'd walk in the door, and it was all eyes on him.' She also revealed that her dad hit her once when she was seven years old after she asked to stay at the beach 10 more minutes. 'He slapped me so hard. I ran home with his handprint on me,' she recalled. 'I couldn't believe it. 'My mother saw my face, how traumatized I was ... [it] was out of nowhere.' In addition, she told ABC, '[My parents] had a very abusive relationship. My dad was the abuser. [He hit her] on numerous account.' Her mom, Monica, worked tirelessly to try to provide for Rihanna and her two brothers, which sometimes meant the singer had to look after her younger siblings. 'It was going on in the home for a long time,' she previously said of her dad's drug use to Guardian. 'My dad got put out of the house a few times because she was not having that around us. My mom had to be a woman and a man, working her a** off for us.' Her parents ultimately divorced when she was 14 years old, and one year later, she kicked off her music career. She had formed a girl group with two of her classmates and together, they auditioned for record producer Evan Rogers. He was instantly blown away by her talent and invited her to come to the US and record some demos to send to labels. She was signed to Def Jam Recordings soon after, and the rest if history. The father-daughter duo became embroiled in a public feud after she kicked him off her tour in 2009 and he spoke to media about her relationship with Chris Brown Rihanna's complicated relationship with her father was brought into the spotlight in 2009, four years after she released her first single, when she admitted that they hadn't spoke in over a year. 'I've been the one trying to reconcile with him forever,' she said during an appearance on Ryan Seacrest's Kiis FM radio show. 'I haven't heard from my father in over a year. I try though, I reached out to him. I did my part. Now it's on him.' At the time, she said they had a falling out after he 'embarrassed' her on her tour. 'He did something that was a little embarrassing,' she dished. 'He disrespected some people on the bus and I didn't like that, so I kind of just let him go back home. 'I didn't think it was going to be a thing where we weren't talking to each other. I just thought: "You just need some time away right now." 'Every time I tried to call him after that, that was it. I contacted him on numerous occasions - father's day, his birthday - and just nothing.' The pop star also said at the time that she was 'upset' that her dad had given interviews following her assault at the hands of then-boyfriend Chris Brown. 'He kind of did something that was really upsetting. He turned his back on me and went to the media,' she continued. 'He got paid to talk about stuff - all these little interviews he was doing after the whole situation in February. 'I hadn't spoken to him and he was speaking as though we did. It was so disappointing to me.' In 2012, however, Rihanna told Oprah that she had 'repaired' their relationship. 'He taught me everything, and as awful as he was to my mom, at times, it didn't compare to how great he was as a father,' she said on her show. 'And I had to come to terms with that, and I was able to close that gap with him.' Rihanna paid to put Ronald through an expensive Malibu rehab program in 2014, but soon after, he was kicked out of a charity even for boozing In 2014, Rihanna's dad spoke exclusively with about his complicated relationship with the singer. He revealed that Rihanna had put him through an expensive Malibu rehab program after he had gotten into a drunken argument with a bar server over his change and police were called. Caring Rihanna even sent her dad extra clothes and toiletries for his stay and visited him when she got back from touring in Europe. But he confessed at the time that he had fallen off the wagon and had to be escorted out of a charity event she was hosting for boozing. 'I had Johnny Walker Black. I had two doubles and tripped over a chair ... Security came up and said "we're taking you home,"' he said. 'I said, "But I haven't seen my daughter yet" … and they said, "Don't matter man."' He added: 'I'm sad how it ended of course, I should have never taken that first drink or any drink for that matter. I wish I had seen her of course. 'She will probably hear how I was and how I had a few drinks, so I guess she would be angry with me. I think she is, I'm not sure, we haven't spoken just yet. 'I feel bad because I let her down because she spend all that money putting me in rehab, [and] then find me drunk somewhere. It is not good. What can I say but I'm sorry. It's me who f**ed up.' Asked what possessed him to drink at the event, Ronald claimed he was depressed that his two older children from a previous relationship – Rihanna's half brother and sister Jamie and Samantha - weren't invited. Ronald said he feels terrible for breaking his promise to stop drinking to his daughter. But when asked if he was an alcoholic, he insisted: 'Me, n,. drunk and disorderly. I don't see myself as an alcoholic, I don't realize when I get that drunk. 'Call me a drunk or alcoholic in denial, whatever you want to call me but I have realized I could drink or not drink. 'I only start[ed] drinking, once I come back here in December.' Rihanna sued her dad in 2019 for allegedly trying to cash in on her fame by using their family name to brand his entertainment business Things became more tense between them in January 2019 after it was revealed that Rihanna had sued her dad for allegedly trying to cash in on her fame by using their family name to brand his entertainment business, Fenty Entertainment. In legal papers first obtained by The Blast, the singer, alleged Ronald, along with a business partner, Moses Perkins, he has been soliciting business by falsely acting as her agent. Despite having no authority to act on his daughter's behalf, Ronald was said to have booked her on a $15 million tour in Latin America and two concerts, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for $400,000. Rihanna asked for damages from her father, and an injunction on his business, set up in 2017. A year later, however, it was reported that Rihanna had helped her father after he contracted coronavirus, sending him a ventilator and checking in on him on a daily basis. She withdrew her lawsuit in September 2021, and it's believed that the two came to a settlement. They seemed to have reconciled before his sock death at age 70, as he revealed the singer sent him photos of her baby bump before debuting it to the world TMZ reported on Saturday that Ronald died in Los Angeles following an illness. Starcomm Network, a radio station in Rihanna's native Barbados, has also reported Ronald's death. As for where their relationship stood before his shocking passing, it seemed they had reconciled in recent years. In 2022, he told Page Six that he was 'over the moon' after Rihanna revealed that she was expecting her first child with A$AP Rocky. 'I'm so happy that I jumped for joy. I'm still so excited,' he gushed. 'Rihanna always said that she wanted children, she loves kids. 'She always takes care of her cousins' kids… she's going to be a good mom.' Ronald, who spoke via phone from his home in Barbados, said he found A$AP Rocky to be 'a very cool guy' after the two got a chance to meet when his daughter brought the rapper home in December 2020. 'I like him,' he added, before revealing that he got the news of Rihanna's pregnancy a day before she went public with her burgeoning tummy. 'I just got the news from her last night, and she sent me some photos,' he said. 'I'm just over the moon. She's beautiful inside and out.'
CTV News
2 days ago
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Patsy Gallant wraps tour celebrating 70 years in Moncton: ‘there is just no place like it'
The Queen of Disco Patsy Gallant returns home to New Brunswick for a special show at the Capital Theatre. If you ask Patsy Gallant when it all started, she would tell you she was three-years old but she didn't start counting her 70 years in show business until she turned six. 'I'm just so privileged to still be singing, having my voice and my health and the energy to do that because I do two hour shows and I stay with the people after,' said Gallant. The New Brunswick native started her career alongside her sisters before going solo. She appeared on multiple television shows before getting her own – The Patsy Gallant Show, which aired on CTV in the late 70's. Gallant also starred in musicals, including an eight-year tenure on stage in Paris, France in the French rock opera, 'Starmania' during the 1990's. More recently, Gallant published her biography in French and produced her own album. 'I always try to learn new things and better myself,' she said. 'Nobody knew I was a writer. I've been writing for 40 years. The album that I wrote is called To Exist and Be Heard and there's a reason behind that, I wanted to prove that I was something else other than just Sugar Daddy and a Disco Queen because I've done it all.' For the first time in close to 30 years, Gallant is stepping back on stage Friday night at Moncton's Capitol Theatre as part of a tour celebrating her 70-year career. 'She's an incredibly important artist, originating from the region… and she's had an incredible international career really,' said Capitol Theatre's managing director, Kim Rayworth. 'I think she keeps renewing herself. […] I think people will see some new material for sure, but I know she'll bring the greatest hits and the crowd and fan favourites.' Gallant said the show caters to the Moncton crowd with a performance in both French and English and she's excited to perform for her family. 'They all bought their tickets and I said 'I could have given you tickets,' but they all bought their tickets. They're so sweet,' she said. Gallant said she'll spend Saturday catching up with her family and rediscovering what Moncton has to offer, including the smell of the ocean, fiddleheads and lobster. 'There is just no place like it. There is no place like it and then when I hear that accent, you can imagine, it brings me back to my childhood.' This is one of the last shows of the current season for the Capitol Theatre. Rayworth said next week they will announce about 50 artists for next year. Tickets to see Patsy Gallant in Moncton can still be purchased online or at the door. For more New Brunswick news, visit our dedicated provincial page.
CBC
3 days ago
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He brought Ukrainian music to N.L.'s mainstream. Now he's celebrating a 50-year career
Brian Cherwick's basement studio is a monument to his years lived through songs and stories. It's a treasure trove of instruments, some even of his own invention. If the walls could talk, they'd probably sing. They hold up the posters of his previous concerts. Biographies of legendary artists and songbooks line the shelves. It's in that basement where Cherwick looks back through his 50-year music career. "It was kind of inevitable for me," he said, referring to when he first played piano as a child. "My uncle was a professional musician and he sometimes would let me come listen to them rehearse." His uncle's band took popular English songs and translated them to Ukrainian. Those songs got stuck in Cherwick's head. It snowballed from there, he said. WATCH | Brian Cherwick takes a walk down musical memory lane: Brian Cherwick has been playing music for 50 years. Here are some of the highlights 3 hours ago Duration 3:11 Cherwick is known these days for his role in The Kubasonics. It's "arguably Newfoundland's finest Ukrainian band," according to the band's website. But his career before that is a winding road with many different musical genres along the way. "I ended up going to music school at university," he said, sitting in his warmly lit home rehearsal space. "So learning classical music, I started learning jazz music, I played in a country band for a while, I played in a vaudeville comedy act." He also sang with choirs in Winnipeg. The multi-faceted musician and scholar has been revisiting all of those old tunes, preparing for an anniversary show with The Kubasonics set for Saturday at The Ship Pub in downtown St. John's. His son, Jacob Cherwick, and daughter, Maria Cherwick, are also in the band. "A lot of the music that we're playing is music that he wrote when I was a kid," said Maria Cherwick. "It's really fun to kind of revisit it again as an adult." Some of the songs are completely new to Cherwick's family and musical partners. "It's kind of like getting a rundown on the entire last 50 years in the span of a month," Jacob Cherwick said, laughing. Ukrainian connections Cherwick has always lived in Canada, but has roots in Ukraine. The traditional folk music of his family's history colours the way he makes music today. He's been to Ukraine twice with The Kubasonics. "We used to make a joke before the war started," said Cherwick. "When people asked us, 'are there lots of Ukrainians in Newfoundland?' We'd say 'yeah, they all live in my house.'" The five-piece speed folk act has garnered a whole new audience since Ukrainians started moving to the province amid the Russian invasion in 2022, he added. The Kubasonics has the standard makings of any other band: a guitar, bass and drums. But Cherwick also has an arsenal of instruments that most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians would consider obscure. He often plays the tsymbaly, a percussion instrument with metal strings. He also owns a number of banduras, which is often called a Ukrainian harp. "Lately, talking to newcomers, they're happy to see that there's something that reminds them of home," said Cherwick. As much fun as it is to take a step back in time, Cherwick says he plans on moving forward with his music once the anniversary show is over. "I'm doing this once and then I'm not going to do it again," he said with a grin. "I'm always, always trying to think of something new."
