7/8/2019
Performances and Artists
Few people can say they have been personally mentored by Latin-music icon Tito Puente. But when Pete Escovedo met Puente as an ambitious 18 year old, Puente saw a spark in the teenager that he decided to nurture. “I looked up to him as the greatest timbale (player) ever,” Escovedo recalls.
6/26/2019
Performances and Artists
Keiko Matsui's reverence for life might serve as the reason why the acclaimed artist has intertwined her sweeping instrumental music with global causes throughout her decades-long career, which includes sharing the stage with greats such as Miles Davis and Stevie Wonder, as well as recording 28 hit studio albums.
6/17/2019
Performances and Artists
Raised in a small fishing village in Greece, he still remembers growing up within a half-hour drive of Sparta and “3,000 year-old monuments” — all of which laid the foundation for his musical aspirations. “When the time came for me to create, I thought, ‘what could I write with music that would last more than a week or a year?’” he recalls.
6/14/2019
Performances and Artists
Jackie Evancho never expected to be famous. Not even when she succeeded in earning a coveted spot on season five of hit NBC show America’s Got Talent at the tender age of 10. “I saw it as something I’d do, and then everything would go right back to normal,” the vocalist recalls. Spoiler alert: she was wrong.
6/10/2019
Broadway Las Vegas / Performances and Artists
Hit Broadway musical “Anastasia” not only tells a story of epic proportions — the production also promises mesmerizing theater magic audiences haven’t experienced before. Based on the popular 20th Century Fox animated film, this acclaimed Broadway production has made headlines for elevating the story to a groundbreaking level of theater.
6/3/2019
Performances and Artists
While acclaimed entertainer Common stands as the first rapper to earn an Oscar, a Grammy and an Emmy, he doesn’t see these accolades as bragging rights. He sees them as motivation. “When I see (my Oscar), I try to remember there’s more things to achieve,” says Common.
5/30/2019
Performances and Artists
Few Las Vegas residents don’t recognize the name Norm Clarke, retired man-about-town columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, who became an icon in his own right through two decades of savvy interviews and coverage of Vegas celebrities. But many may not be aware of Clarke’s latest endeavor.
5/22/2019
Performances and Artists
Broadway performer Jim Caruso had no idea what was in store when he threw a random Christmas party at a New York City nightclub 15 years ago. But the event was such a smash. The club owner asked if Caruso could organize the same kind again. Caruso agreed and has been hosting a weekly open mic night for the best and brightest of the entertainment world ever since.
5/3/2019
Performances and Artists
Steve Tyrell knows the Great American Songbook better than most “Standards were my mother’s music,” recalls the Grammy-winning singer. “I’m Italian, and I grew up with God and Frank Sinatra, and not necessarily in that order.” It’s only fitting that his career took off by recording his first-ever standard – though the opportunity was unexpected.
4/17/2019
National Geographic Live / Performances and Artists
To say Steve Winter has seen some wild times in his career as a National Geographic photographer is an understatement. Flying over a volcano in a helicopter? He’s been there. Being charged by a 12-foot-tall bear in Siberia? He’s done that. Running from an irate herd of elephants? He’s been there, too.