2.14.17 Happy Valentine's Day! HBowl gets second QAL Concert
Feb 14, 2017 0:44:11 GMT -5
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Queen + Adam Lambert Add Second Show at Hollywood Bowl Due to Overwhelming Demand
Due to overwhelming demand Queen + Adam Lambert have added a second Hollywood Bowl show to their North American summer tour. Brian May, Roger Taylor + Adam Lambert will now rock the iconic Los Angeles venue Monday, June 26 and Tuesday, June 27.
Tickets go on sale for the June 27th date on Friday, February 17th at noon local time at www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B00523E2DB6327C. Members of both Queen and Adam Lambert's Fan Clubs will be able to purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, February 14 at 10AM and American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Tuesday, February 14 at Noon through Thursday, February 16 at 10PM. Exclusive VIP Package offers available at VIPNation.com
The 25-city arena tour will kick off June 23 in Phoenix, Arizona at Gila River Arena and wrap August 5 in Houston, Texas at Toyota Center.
Marc Martel on Adam Lambert fronting Queen
Adam Lambert has been stepping in to fill the frontman spot for Queen on tour. How do you think he’s been doing?
Marc: “He’s great. I was a huge fan of him when he was on ‘American Idol.’ I was kind of surprised, actually, when he didn’t win. But who knows that the politics behind that is? But obviously an incredible singer, incredible range and control. Obviously, Brian and Roger really get along with him. They love him. So, yeah, I’m super happy for that dude. That’s a fun gig to have."
Link to entire interview: www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/2017/02/13/martel-guy-behind-black-jackets-vocals-night-opera/97856508/
How the Beauty Boy Makeup Movement Emerged Thanks to Adam Lambert & Other Musicians
2/13/2017 by Hannah Morril
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Adam Lambert attends 2013 We Are Family Foundation Gala at Hammerstein Ballroom on Jan. 31, 2013 in New York City.
From Little Richard in the '50s to Bruno Mars at the 2017 Grammys, musicians have led the male makeup charge for decades.
If ever there was a realm where women were firmly in the driver’s seat, it’s the world of makeup (purchased and worn mostly by women, historically).
But that has changed, radically, this past year starting in January 2016, when Milk Makeup, available online and at Sephora and Urban Outfitters nationwide, launched a makeup-for-all product line with gender-fluid models in the ads.
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Gabriel Zamora takes a portrait at Beautycon Festival Los Angeles on July 9, 2016 in Los Angeles.
Shortly afterward, CoverGirl appointed the 17-year-old boy-beauty blogger James Charles as the first male spokesperson in the company’s 55-year history. Then Maybelline followed, announcing that social media star/makeup artist Manny Gutierrez would help launch its new mascara. And just two weeks ago, Los Angeles-based boy-beauty vlogger Gabriel Zamora announced his partnership with MAC on a lipstick launch.
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Blogger Manny Gutierrez attends Premiere Of Lionsgate's "Dirty 30" - Arrivals at ArcLight Hollywood on Sept. 20, 2016 in Hollywood, Calif.
“We’re seeing an increase in grooming and masculine beauty,” says Karen Grant, the global beauty industry analyst for consulting firm NPD Group. “It’s in fashion, in the way people dress. It’s early, but it’s time that beauty isn’t off-limits to men.”
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Adam Ant
The idea of guys wearing and selling makeup entered consumers’ lives quickly and boldly. But it has long existed in the world of music, and not just theatrically. Little Richard wore eyeliner, David Bowie donned blue eye shadow. Boy George, George Michael, Prince and others embraced makeup offstage.
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Mykki Blanco attends the Gold Obsession Party - L'Oreal Paris : Photocall as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on Oct. 2, 2016 in Paris, France.
“When Adam Lambert was on American Idol, I was so young, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, he’s wearing makeup and he’s getting so far and it’s not a detriment to his dream,’ ” Zamora tells Billboard. “With time, that allowed a lot of people to feel comfortable wearing makeup -- myself included.” Mazdack Rassi, one of the co-founders of Milk Makeup, which sells a stick matte bronzer for $24 and a gel brow pencil for $18, credits music too. “With artists like Patti Smith and David Bowie, androgyny has been a part of the culture forever,” he says.
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Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal perform onstage at the Lava Festival on May 16, 2015 in Suffolk, Va.
“Those trailblazers made makeup gender-fluid as a way of expressing their art visually.” Today, artists like Mykki Blanco regularly sport flashy lipstick and sooty eye shadow, and Kevin Barnes of Of Montreal is loyal to his doll-like circles of rouge and imperfect swathes of color on his lids. At the 2017 Grammys, Bruno Mars wore eyeliner in a homage to Prince. Mike Hadearas of Perfume Genius pairs a bare face with stained lips. “Wearing makeup isn’t a ‘thing’ for me. I just prefer to look fresh. I understand that wearing a red lip onstage can seem defiant and I mean it to be, in some ways but in essence, I just like the way it looks. The instinct is to look bomb.”
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Little Richard photographed in 1960.
As Grant sees it, men everywhere, not just those under stage lights, are getting onboard with beauty, albeit slowly. While men account for only 2 percent of the total money spent in the category, usually buying things like shaving cream and moisturizer, there’s huge growth in areas where they never dabbled before, like color correcting, brightening and pore refining.
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Mike Hadreas of Perfume Genius performs onstage during day 2 of the Coachella Music Festival at The Empire Polo Club on April 18, 2015 in Indio, Calif.
“These products, that aren’t quite skincare but not fully makeup, neutralize the fear factor,” says Grant. And while the beard-balm-buying dude might not be in the market for a lipstick today, it’s coming. “We’re seeing a migration that’s here to stay. As an industry, we don’t want to limit opportunities because of a false definition of who the consumer is or what they want.”
This article originally appeared in the Feb. 18 issue of Billboard.
Link: www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7685221/beauty-boy-makeup-movement-music
Happy Valentine’s Day!!