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Use the internet to locate a short NEWS article about some form of AMERICAN Music. Please do not use informational sites (like Wikipedia), but use news articles. The article should be no more than 1 year old. Read the article. Then write a short summary paragraph here on our Wiki page. INCLUDE A LINK TO YOUR ARTICLE. Add a sentence about why you think this information might be important. **Then find an example of this music and include a link for us to hear it**. Be sure to sign your name at the end. CLICK EDIT TO ADD INFORMATION - CLICK SAVE WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED. Hello Tommy salami.

Waving Flag-K'nnan Margaret Sullivan

The article I chose was about the artist of waving flags new children book that was based on the song. The hit song was picked by the world cup in 2010 to be one of the official songs of the games. The song gained lots of popularity. The article tells that he escaped from his home country at the age of thirteen which was on the brink of civil war. It goes on to say how he came from poverty and is now a very successful singer and more recently writer. The song is based on his entire live "we struggling, wanting to eat" is a quote in the song. The article also mentions all of the charity he has done for people living in similar situation as he did. I really like his music and his story.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/1261907--the-story-behind-k-naan-s-wavin-flag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmRvFkg5Nhg

Beyonce by:Meggie Flanagan

This song I was here by beyonce is about people helping out in their community and making their footprint in the world. I like this song a lot because in general I love all of beyone's songs and has a powerful song. Although it had a powerful message, I thought it was about 9/11 since it came out around that time. My article is about Beyonce performing this song at the United Nations World Humanitarian Day event. It talks about her opinion on what real humanitarians do and events that they have helped with. She also talks about how she helps out and tries to think of more ways to do that.

http://rapfix.mtv.com/2012/08/20/beyonce-i-was-here-video-huminitarian-day/

__Chiddy Bang__ - Music group by; Jake Nolen

http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/drexelarchives/2011/04/14/innovation-3/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXty0-tfY2g

This article is about two Drexel students who grew up in Philadelphia names Chidera "chiddy" Anamega, and Noah Beresin. In their childhood they both had a dream of being in the music industry. They learned that you had to earn what you want. They took that advice and did every thing in their power to improve as singers they were in all the chorus and music classes available. They also in their young ages had gigs of being D.J's. They enrolled at Drexel in 2008. They eventually became friends, and started producing music together. They always enjoyed having fun, they were not the serious singers who their whole life was singing they enjoyed other things. They followed this trend and named their first song "opposite of adults" and after that made the bilboard top 100 everything took off from their.

__Green Day__ - Music Group By: Andrew Jaworski

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr2HUpV1D2c http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/greenday/article/green-days-beginning-lookout-records/

The article is about Green Day's popularity and records from 1987 to now. They had started off as a band of five american rockers, and eventually narrowed down to three. They had lost two of their more popular people, when they had sold the band to a new producer. Even though they had lost two of their performers, the band still did amazing. They have had many records, and cd's which have made them what they are today.

Journey - Music group by: Matthew Denney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_94_P6SkzbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUYuIVbFg0 http://www.journeyrock.co.uk/history.php

This article is about journey's rise, fall and rise again. This article pulled in my attention because it told me not just about Journey the band but also about Journey's band members. The article took my attention because I was introduced to Journey at a very young age but never really knew to much about the band members. It talks about Journey breaking up and reuniting. They also lost their lead singer but they picked another one because they wanted to go in a new direction.

"Ronan" by Taylor Swift Sadie Proud

Every year "Stand Up to Cancer" holds a nationwide fundraising event. During child-hood cancer month this year Taylor Swift preformed her new song "Ronan". It was about a four-year old boy who died of cancer last year. His mom has a blog with letters that she writes to her son. She is a big Taylor Swift song. The song is meant to share Ronan's story and inspire others to "Stand Up to Cancer". It became the top selling song on iTunes within a day, all of the profits went to childhood cancer research.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS7JrI-JPOc

Owen Ganse - Old Crow Medicine Show


 * Old Crow Medicine Show ** is an American string band based in Nashville, Tenesee. Their music has been called old-time, bluegrass, folk, and alt. country. Along with original songs, the band performs many pre-world war 2 blues and folk songs. They have been recording since 1998. They have many songs and not many are popular but there is one song that is, it's called Wagon Wheel but it won't be played. Two songs that not many people have heard are going to be the ones playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0UQc8YKV8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWDD4X7IT-c

Katy Shannon- Cady Groves __This Little Girl__

The song that I chose for this assignment was “This Little Girl” by Cady (pronounced Katy) Groves. I really like how the music is very upbeat and poppy, but the lyrics are bashing the guy who cheated on her (“This little girl is capable of murder- ‘cause you hurt her”). The song is very catchy and relatable for anyone who’s been cheated on, or anyone who’s just wanted some good old fashioned revenge. Cady has many other songs (“Love Actually,” “Oh Darling,” “Real With Me,” just to name a few) and is now very popular, especially since her collaboration with Plug In Stereo to make Oh Darling. I think this music is important because right now a lot of the current female artists are really whiny...Adele....and Cady Groves is not whiny- she takes control, and I think it’s really important to have a strong female music artist.

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 * “ **** American Idol finale: Should Jessica Sanchez win?” **
 * My article is about the 2012 American Idol. This year the two people in the finale were Phillip Phillips, and Jessica Sanchez. After fighting his way through, Philip Philips won. This article is written the day of the finale, but before the actual show. The article is questioning who the winner should be. Phillip should win, because he has never been in the bottom 3. He always stuck to his style, while at the same time he went out of his comfort zone and produced amazing performances. Jessica, on the other hand, also deserves to win. At only 16, she still has time to produce great songs. Her voice can handle all kinds of songs, and she sings them well. However, this article is saying that Phillip is going to win, because he's “another handsome dude with a guitar”; because of this he basically has most the teenage female votes. This article is complaining that Jessica should win, because all the male winners who have won the past years have gone nowhere. In the end Phillip Phillips won. Despite what the article said, Philip is doing quite well with his career. **
 * http://theweek.com/article/index/228315/american-idol-finale-should-jessica-sanchez-win **
 * -SIMONE VEALE **

http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/red-hot-chili-peppers-anthony-kiedis-flea-to-host-benefit-show/10254092 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6aruvzmOY8&feature=relmfu Chris Lee The Red Hot Chili Peppers.


 * Drew Mangan- Dean Martin**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsgcXZzu6io
 * http://www.bigbandsandbignames.com/Dino.html**
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI**


 * I first heard of Dean Martin when I was very young and always enjoyed listening to his music, but I didn't know about him. In this article I learned that Dean Martin was viewed as a womanizer and most of his music were wrote for women he knew. Also, It talked about the comparison to Sinatra because they were around during the same era. In my opinion I think they were two different singers. Even at an old age Dean Martin was still the man as he was young. I think he was one of the greatest artists of all time.**


 * Jordan Carter**


 * I chose Just Fishing. I chose this song because one day in the car I was listening to this song on the radio and it was played at least five times. After hearing the song about five times I wanted to hear it again. Now you know why I chose this song. In the article I read that the song was by a famous country singer named Trace Adkins, he was born in 1962. He also had numerous number one hits on the country music charts.**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheODRwalEw


 * Owen Sheppard-Party Rock Anthem**

http://www.sortmusic.com/_l/lmfao-news,len.html http://www.sortmusic.com/rss/en/l/lmfao/f20120925/C197B35FE2.html
 * I chose the song Party Rock Anthem. This is a very well known song sung by the group LMFAO. The reason why I chose this song is because one day I was surfing the web and I found a very interesting article. This article stated that the group of two rappers with the stage names REDFOO and Sky Blu where ending their five years of making music together and splitting up. This is a very controversial article though because after that claim the singers stated that they are staying together and are gonna create their best album yet. This article was by Lewis Corner. Here are two links to articles and a link to Party Rock Anthem:**
 * Article(s):**

Here is the link to Party Rock Anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8

====Maroon 5 is A musical group with five members. They preform together and are very popular, especially their new song "One More Night". This song was number one on itunes for more or less two weeks. The main singer in this group is Adam Levine he has mostly worked with this group, but has also done some individual work on the side.====

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