The NFL and Apple Music appear to have altered video of Alicia Keys’s performance during the Super Bowl halftime show, editing cracks in her vocals that were heard live Sunday night.
Keys, donning a massively flowing red dress, briefly sang her 2003 hit song “If I Ain’t Got You” during Usher’s halftime extravaganza. During the broadcast, her voice cracked as she started singing.
But early Monday morning, the NFL published a video of the halftime show on its official YouTube page that featured an altered version of Keys’s performance with the vocals smoothed out. Read More...
By Kelly NgBBC News, Singapore
Getty ImagesMore than one in 10 people in the world's oldest country have crossed the 80-year-old mark for the first timeFor the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older.
National data also shows 29.1% of the 125 million population is aged 65 or older- a record.
Japan has one of the lowest birth-rates in the world and has long struggled with how to provide for its ageing population. Read More...
By Ernest NwekeFeatures correspondent
Courtesy of Luaka BopAfter self-producing eight albums in the 1970s and 80s that went on to become cult classics, William Onyeabor all but disappeared. Now, the elusive figure's eldest son talks to the BBC.
He produced eight albums of his own music between 1977 and 1985 in a high-tech studio in rural Nigeria, and then gave up music completely, devoting himself to Christianity. In the years that followed, he achieved cult status across the world, and in 2009 a Nigerian-American music writer decided to put a compilation of his music together with backing from David Byrne's record label Luaka Bop – but the elusive figure proved difficult to track down. Read More...
