Katy Perry

Katy Perry (born October 25, 1984) is an American singer most famous for her racy hit single, "I Kissed a Girl." Perry, a pastor's daughter from Santa Barbara, California, has drawn a lot of controversy for her occasionally taboo lyrics. Before hitting it big, Perry sang backup for Miley Cyrus.

It seemed an unlikely pairing, the daughter of an evangelist and a Christian pastor and the notorious womaniser, but when Katy Perry met Russell Brand he swept her off her feet.

She tamed him and he gave up his life as a lothario, now you cannot imagine either of them being with anyone else.

They were married on October 23rd 2010 at the exclusive Arman-I-Khas resort close to the Ranthambore National Park and Tiger Sanctuary in Rajasthan in India in front of 80 of the couple's closest friends and family. His wedding present to her was a female Bengal tiger called Machli and she gave him a baby elephant, both living at the Ranthambore Reserve.

Their traditional Hindu wedding was conducted by a long-time family friend of Perry's family and was completely over the top. It involved 21 camels, elephants and horses, plus dancers and musicians. She wore a sari with henna designs painted on her hands and the trees inside the resort were decorated with white and gold lights and the tents were decorated with flower garlands.

It was all so different from her humble beginnings. Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born on October 25th 1984 in Santa Barbara, California where her parents still live. She took her mother's maiden name Perry as her stage name when she began to make her mark in the music industry, because Katy Hudson was too similar to film actress Kate Hudson.

She was incorporated into her parents' Ministry and sang in their church between the ages of nine and seventeen. She grew up only listening to gospel songs as she was not allowed to listen to what her parents called "secular music."

She copied her sister who practised singing to cassette tapes and when she was not around Perry would take the tapes and rehearse the songs.

Her parents suggested she should have vocal coaching and she began to have lessons. When she was 16 she enrolled in the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.

Her church singing attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville and they took her there to polish her writing skills. She started to record demos and was taught by country music veterans to craft songs and play the guitar. She signed with the Christian music label Red Hill and recorded her first album at the age of 15-years-old.

When she was 17-years-old she left the Academy and moved to Los Angeles to work on an album with the Island record label.

She became known for her unconventional style of dress as much as her singing. Her clothes combined bold colours and vintage fashion, and she used fruit-shaped accessories, particularly water melons, as part of her outfits. Her figure-hugging latex costumes soon became her trademark.

It was reported in the Daily Mail that her mother disliked her daughter's music and called it "shameful and disgusting," but Perry said her mother was misquoted.

Her first two singles "You Are So Gay" and "I Kissed a Girl" which topped the International charts, received negative reactions from both the religious and the gay sectors of society. One lot said the songs were homophobic and the others said she was promoting homosexuality.

Perry dated Gym Class Heroes front man Travie McCoy for several years after meeting him in a recording studio in New York. They broke up in 2008, began dating again early the following year but finally split a few months later.

She first met Brand in the summer of 2008 when she had a cameo role in his film "Get Him to the Greek" but they did not become a couple until she met him again at the MTV Video Music Awards in September 2009 when he was the host.

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American country pop singer-songwriter, guitarist and actress. Taylor Swift is also a renowned artist's beautiful. Taylor Swift has a beautiful hair style is also elegant. Taylor Swift in 2012, often having sex with Justin Bieber Justin Bieber and so the relationship Selena Gomez End, while Selena Gomez Pregnant one month.

The Science of Healing the Brain Using Music

The human brain is an amazing piece of machinery that controls, processes and stores everything we think, say or do. And every function in our body, both conscious and unconscious, is run by our brain. When part of our brain is compromised through stroke or acquired brain injury we are able to grasp just how much the brain is relied upon for daily operations.

Brain injury, caused by traumatic impact, stroke or disease (such as Parkinson's) is known to impair several areas of cognitive function in victims. Combinations of chemical imbalances in the brain and severe emotional distress, impairments of speech and language processing, physical abilities, cognitive processing, as well as loss or disorganization of memory are the common result of many injuries.

Through the efforts of scientists in the field of neurology, we are discovering and identifying how our brains change throughout out lives, not just in the developing brains of children, or the adapting brains of brain injury victims. With advanced technology that is able to capture images of brain functions while performing various simple or complex tasks we can see exactly what's happening in our brains when we are engaging in music therapy. Researchers at the Dana institute (according to the article cited below) are discovering that music functions use many of the same brain pathways as motor functions, speech and language processing functions and cognitive functions. Because of this, music therapists are able to participate, and be an important part of rehabilitation in individuals with brain injuries. Advanced brain scan technologies show that music is activating so many areas of the brain and music therapists have been able to design and create musical interventions that target specific functions and help to reshape and retrain brain injury victims to perform daily tasks.

As a music therapist, I have had the privilege to work with stroke and traumatic brain injury victims for the last few years in individual and group situations. I've seen remarkable improvements in clients in the areas of balance, fine and gross motor coordination, speech production, speech processing and memory recovery. I have also witnessed significant improvements in mood, increased hope and increased motivation. A brain injury is a cognitive and physical loss but victims also experience much grief. Music therapy not only targets rehabilitation of daily functions and retraining of the brain, but it can holistically address emotional, social and wellness needs of clients. Tears are shed, friendships formed, joys and excitement expressed all in the making of music, and rehabilitation on all fronts.

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Benefits of Music Therapy for Children With Learning Disabilities

Music therapy is not for every child with a learning disability as some children may be very sensitive to sounds and vibrations. They may react badly so the therapy may need to be modified to be more low-key and quieter for children with some sensory processing disorders. Music can also be incorporated into sensory breaks for children and adapted to meet their needs.


The therapist normally plays piano or guitar in the background and the children are instructed to do free play with the instruments he or she provides. The therapist will also instruct them how to use the instruments as a group, taking different subgroups at a time playing together and then collectively as a larger group playing together as a form of therapy.


Using music therapy, children will get to use parts of their brain that they may not normally use, their mood will be enhanced and they will get effective stress relief so they will be better able to cope with the challenges life throws at them. Thanks to visit my blogs now.

How To Sell Music Online On Your Own

In the last 5 years research has shown that more and more record labels are starting to go into debt while new music artists are blowing up and selling their music thousands of records without the help of these big time production companies.The simple answer to this is that these music artists have discovered that the internet can be used for more than just web browsing! Hundreds of websites have been created to allow these budding artists to sell their music right here on the internet only now.

Music and Hypnosis

What does "hypnosis" actually mean? From a professional point of view I would go along with the definition offered to us when we were in training. Hypnosis is a calm, receptive state of mind which is brought about by physical and mental relaxation. For clinical purposes sometimes it is easier and simpler to conceive of hypnosis as a specific state of mind into which a subject can allow him or herself to be lead.

My own view is that hypnosis is a state of consciousness which renders the subject far more susceptible to suggestion than is the case in a state of full "waking" alertness. What I am offering here is not a definition but a defining characteristic. In a therapeutic context I am happy to accept that hypnosis is a shift in the quality of consciousness brought about by relaxation. But outside the therapy room, in the big wide world, there are many states in which the subject is rendered highly susceptible to suggestion and therefore, at least in my opinion, should be classified as hypnosis or at least hypnoidal. Certain states of intoxication, certain states of heightened emotion, excitement or frenzy, states of ecstasy and, for want of a better term, "spiritual" awareness - all these render the subject almost infinitely more susceptible to suggestion than "normal" rational awareness. Yet studies of suggestibility invariably focus entirely upon the latter state. Isn't that like looking through the wrong end of the telescope?

Lest this description be thought too vague, let me point out that not all shifts of consciousness away from the fully wakened state imply a condition of heightened suggestibility. Profound intoxication, states of near-unconsciousness or states in which the subject is no longer receptive to external stimulus obviously cannot be classed as hypnosis. Suggestibility surely implies a responsiveness to something external. But if we accept that hypnosis is essentially a state of heightened suggestibility then it is maybe not too difficult to accept also that music can induce hypnosis.

Music remains a mystery. That it is no longer widely regarded as such probably says more about the contemporary state of the art than anything else. There are many theories as to how and why music works and none of them are entirely satisfactory. But while we might not know how music works, there can be little doubt that it can exert the most profound influence upon our feelings, mood and even our perceptions.

We all know that music can change the way we feel. We know that music expresses emotions and can evoke those same emotions in us. A happy or a sad piece of music won't necessarily make us feel happy or sad - we have some choice in the matter - but it can if we let it. For many people the expression of feeling is the main function of music. Emotion is not really my concern here however. But I would be very interested to learn whether and to what extent feelings and emotions affect our levels of suggestibility. No studies have been done, as far as I'm aware.