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Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
Kenneth “Babyface" Edmonds
(left) was named BMI Songwriter
o f the Year for the 5th time
during the performing rights
organization's 44th annual Pop
Awards, held in Los Angeles on
May 21. In addition to his #1 hit
“I'll Make Love To You, " which
won Most Performed Song o f
the Year, he also picked up
seven other Pop song awards,
outnumbering all songwriters for
the evening. EMI Music
Publishing Chairman and CEO
Martin Bandier (right) accepted
the award for Publisher o f the
Year and joined Babyface and
BMI President and CEO Frances
W. Preston (center) on stage
after the dinner.
White I louse Performance
The President and First Lady wel­
come Grammy-winning artists Linda
Ronstadt and Aaron Neville to a new
In Performance at The White I louse,
airing as a public television special
nationwide on Wednesday. July 3 at
8 p.m. FT (check local listing). This
hour-long performance, taped May
6, before an invited audience on the
South Lawn of the White House, is a
part of a series of In Performance
specials offered on PBS that cele­
brate the rich variety o f America
popular music. The series is under­
written by Ameritech and produced
by WETA, WAshington D.C.
In Performance at the White I louse
begins with President Clinton intro­
ducing seven-time Grammy-award
winner Linda Ronstadt who opens
Tina Arena
A I v child star becomes a teenage
pop music success in her native coun­
try, but as she discovers her own iden­
tity as a recording artist, co-writing the
songs for a new album that asserts her
independence and becomes an inter­
national bestseller in the previews,
earning her a number o f industry
awards. Sound familiar0 Don’t Ask.
No, it’s not Alanis Morissette. It’s
26year-old Australian singer and song­
writer Tina Arena, who has not only
conquered her native land with her
Epic debut album Don’t Ask but has
becomeastarthroughout Europe, Asia
and South Africa. Afferayearofsteadi-
(ARIA). Those were just two o fth e
ly increasing sales. Don’t Ask hit# I on
four honors Tina picked up in that
the Australian national chart, selling
country's equivalent to the Grammys-
more than 600,000 copies (equivalent
-along with Best Album and Song of
to 8X platinum Down Under) thanks
the Year.
to the success of the sensuous, silky hit
“C hains reached #4 in Australia
single "Chains recently named the Song
and #6 in Britiain; the single hit the
ofthe Year and Best Pop Release at the
lo p 10 in Ireland, Holland, and on
Australian Recording Industry Awards
the Pan-European chart.
the concert with rousing renditions
o f “Back in the USA,
"Just One Look” and “ I Keep it
Hid” .
Aaron Neville next joins Ronstadt
on stage to perform their Grammy-
winning duets “ D on’t Know Much"
and "All My Life, followed by the
solo performance o f Neville singing
“Don’t I ake Away My Heaven,” Use
Me" and “Tell It Like It Is.”
Ronstadt, who has recorded three
critically-acclaim ed S panish-lan­
guage albums, returns to the stage
w ith the m a ria c h i b an d , Los
Camperos De Nati Cano. Together
they perform two vibrant numbers,
“Los Laureles” and “La Charreada."
Ronstadt then stirs the audience with
herenergetic, well-known hits, “Poor
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July 19, 20, & 21, 1996, 10a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
by a panel ofjudges and the public
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