One week after announcing she was “cancer free”, the British pop star Jessie J did what any recovering patient would do and travelled thousands of miles around the world to perform for an audience of more than a billion people. On 29 May, the singer-songwriter, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, belted out a stage-rattling rendition of Frank Sinatra’s My Way on the stage of Singer, a hugely popular Chinese singing competition similar to The Voice. She also performed her new song, California, briefly adapting the lyrics to change California…
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Dalai Lama expresses ‘gratitude and humility’ at first Grammy win
The Dalai Lama said he was grateful for his first Grammy after winning the top music industry award for audio book, narration and storytelling. The 90-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in exile in India, was announced as the winner at the Grammys ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday for his book Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. “I receive this recognition with gratitude and humility,” he said in a post on social media. “I don’t see it as something personal, but as a recognition of our…