Nick was born in Dallas, Texas to Denise and Paul Kevin Jonas Sr. He was raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey and is of Irish, Italian, German, and Cherokee descent. He was diagnosed with Type I diabetes at the age of 13 a
Nick's career started when he was discovered at the age of 6 in a barber shop while his mother was getting her hair cut and was referred to as a professional show business manager.[
ince the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta issued its first warning about HIV/AIDS in 1981, more than 25 million people around the world have died from the disease.
with more than 4 million new infections in 2006 and almost 3 million deaths.
estimated 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwid
Teens and pre-Teens are using their part-time job paycheck to buy grills (a form of jewelry worn in the mouth)
rap music has turned the youth more violent, utterly disrespectful and it is teaching them that it's acceptable to have multiple babies' mommas, stand on the block and hustle or even kill someone over a minor disagreement
being deteriorated by the lyrics and images portrayed in rap music and videos.
rap music is influencing our adolescents to become hustlers, pimps and murderers
Slick Rick, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Special Ed and Big Daddy Kane made popular non-violent mainstream music that spread throughout the world in a matter of two years
12-19 because they are at a very impressionable age and it's hard for them to determine fantasy from reality
Chinese Democracy topping 1.5 million in CD sales and downloads
the American Music Industry has never been healthier.
“People don’t realize it,” said Stamphammer in a recent interview, “but we started planning for this back during the teen-pop era. In fact, remember when that N’Sync album sold 1.1 million copies in its first week? 50,000 of those were digital files.”
after a half-century of people being able to purchase pop music and doing whatever they wished with those purchases, massive restrictions on computer files didn’t make sense to people.
they saw it as a marketing opportunity: fans of an artist were marketing that artist to other fans. Using the most powerful tool of all: the artist’s music.
What people don’t remember was that the original pricing was 99 cents per song, and $9.99 per album. After about a year, research showed that while people valued their downloads, they didn’t value them in the same way they valued physical media.
After all, one of the ongoing complaints about .mp3 files has always been sound quality, and with bandwidth increasing, storage getting cheaper, and portable devices supporting lossless formats, it only makes sense.