Author: Opastaff

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from the singer Mirline Menard also known as Mei Mei and most recently, Meilan. Meilan was a singer and dancer in the band Hangout back in 2006 alongside Pipo Stanis currently of KLASS. Meilan is planning on making a comeback in the industry and in this interview she shares with us some of what she has planned for us. Meilan is under Shakaitutu Management Team for Booking. Most of us in the Haitian Music Industry know you from the band HangOut however there are talks that you were supposed to be a…

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One of the most interesting players on The Bachelor this season is Jubilee. She was very quiet at first, just taking in the scene around her. She says she suffers from crippling social anxiety, and I totally get that — I would be even more anxious if I was in a room with some of these hyper-critical women. Anyway, Jubilee got her first one-on-one date with Ben, and that social anxiety totally came through. She made a weird comment about Ben being late, she was very nervous about riding in a helicopter, and was generally skittish the whole time. Eventually,…

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NEW YORK (WPVI) — Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over the Oscars’ second straight year of all-white acting nominees has led the Academy to release a statement Monday night. The statement from Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs reads: I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees. While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes. The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and…

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s opposition candidate for president is warning that if a runoff is held next weekend as scheduled it will be a big step back for the country’s fragile democracy and lead to increased turmoil in the sharply divided nation. In an interview with The Associated Press, Jude Celestin said he has such deep concerns about vote-rigging and a lack of transparency by Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council that he is boycotting a Jan. 24 presidential runoff. His party will not send any monitors to polling stations. “We are moving toward a selection, not an election,” Celestin said Saturday…

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – Chipotle has announced that they will be closing their doors for some of the day on February 8 for a national team meeting. Due to the recent numbers of illnesses that have been linked to the restaurant’s products, all of the Chipotle locations across the U.S. will be closed for lunch on Feb. 8 and will reopen at 3 p.m. in each time zone. “We will be thanking our restaurant teams for their hard work during a difficult time, discussing some of the changes we are implementing as part of our enhanced food safety plan, and answering…

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Lè istwa sou Rutshelle, Trouble Boy  ak Roody te soti, chak nan yo te ale nan yon anpil nan entèvyou eksepte pou Trouble Boy ki te kenbe silans li … li finalman ap pale ak OpaMusic.com de karyè li, fanmi ak plis ankò. Di nou yon ti kras de tèt ou, kòmanse avèk vrè non ou ak poukisa ou chwazi non atis Touble Boy la? Vrè non mwen se Jolissaint Seyè Wensky. Mwen te chwazi Non Touble Boy lan paske le mwen tap grandi Mwen pa t ‘reyèlman gen anpil estabilite nan kay mwen. Mwen te kon bay pwoblèm se swa map…

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René Angélil, the husband of award-winning Canadian singer Celine Dion, died on Thursday at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, Dion announced. “It’s with profound sadness that we are announcing that René Angélil, 73, died this morning at his Las Vegas home after a courageous battle with cancer. The family wishes to mourn in private,” her website said. “Other information will be provided in the next few days.” The Canadian entertainment manager, who discovered Dion, 47, when she was 12-years-old and drove her career to stardom, married her in 1994 at a lavish wedding in Montreal’s…

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