


We wanted something memorable for our guests and entertainment that would suit all age groups. “We hired karaoke equipment for our wedding in Twickenham, London. Rolling Stones, Satisfaction was the highlight of our night as my brother did an excellent Mick Jagger impression, it took us all by surprise but we had so many giggles, it was a great night!” – Joan Wright “For my birthday we hired a karaoke machine in Chelmsford, Essex. We sang it so many times that many of us lost our voice, we are planning a Hire Karaoke party again in the near future as we all had so much fun!” – Paul Irving “At my 60 th birthday party in Derby we loved ‘White wedding’ by Billy Idol. We sang them on a hen party in May with Hire Karaoke in Bristol, the favourites were Wannabe and Stop, by then end of it the bride had lost her voice! What a night it was! Fun was had by all, young and old” – Claire West “For me it has to be Spice Girls, it takes me back to my younger days singing in my bedroom in front of the mirror with my hairbrush. For more information visit the Minnesota Street Projects website.We want your opinions Karaoke Lovers! Whether it be classic songs that you love to sing along to or even a Disney classic song that get you belting out those numbers, we want to know! What is the best karaoke songs of all time?
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1, 2016, featuring a Prince-inspired fashion show by Bonanza, promises to be the super glam art event of the season and is free and open to the public. A highly anticipated closing party on Oct. If you are feeling Purple pain, don't leave yourself standing, in a world so cold (sic), instead head over to the exhibition at 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco to view the art and sing your heart out. I was so struck to find out just the incredible range of artists who were so deeply affected by his passing.” His presence brings up so many issues, big topics like sexuality, race, and belief, but his work also offers such unfettered pleasure.

The passion felt for Prince, not to mention his highly defined visual aesthetic-and all that purple-make him such a compelling, inspiring figure. The space has been both celebratory and cathartic thus far: visitors have been singing, dancing, laughing and even crying in the Karaoke Chapel." The crowd mobbed the chapel during opening night and the crooning and gyrating faithful had a most unholy time.Ĭritic and curator Glen Helfand organized the exhibition and says that it "honors the pervasiveness of Prince’s legacy and how his prodigious musical output and indelible personal style seem more alive than ever. "Since Prince inspired such fervor in his fans, and was highly spiritual himself, it seemed appropriate to transform the room into an intimate, sacred, but ultimately playful, chapel-like space for song. "I wanted to create a space where visitors could engage with the music and spirit of Prince in a highly participatory, immersive way," Wofford offered. Drooling purple is not only mandatory when it comes to Prince, it is also a story with mythic roots, France reveals, "Hercules' dog is credited with discovering the color purple when it bit into a murex shell on a beach and Hercules noted the peculiar color dripping from its mouth." "The lowly ube has such a precious, deep, distinctive hue it is practically our national color and deserves to be celebrated, to have its name in lights, like a rock star." A second work, "Drool: Ube" a photograph veiled with tulle fabric embroidered with crosses (a symbol on Prince's Controversy album cover) hypes up sensuality, making a lick of ube ice cream seem almost lascivious. France Viana, a FilAm artist who uses Filipino foods as her subject and medium.

Prince has Filipino roots, or so we like to imagine, citing articles in the British media that claim that Prince’s black father, John Lewis Nelson, a jazz musician whose stage name was Prince Rogers, was of "Italian-Filipino heritage." Absurd proofs are given for his “Filipino-ness” (see also Emil Guillermo’s article in the Inquirer): Prince is short, he sings, he loves basketball, he includes the Our Father in the lyrics of his songs (Controversy) - he must be Filipino!
