1987 Born Kesha Rose Sebert in San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, the daughter of Pebe Sebert, a singer-songwriter.
1991 Pebe moves the family to Nashville, Tennessee after she lands a publishing deal. Ke$ha occasionally provides backing vocals for her mother’s songs.
2007 Sneaks into Prince’s mansion and drops off a demo tape.
2008 Co-writes the Veronicas’ single, This Love. Sings background vocals for Britney Spears and appears in Katy Perry’s music video, I Kissed a Girl.
2009 Sings on Flo Rida’s number one single, Right Round. Performs alongside 3OH!3. Signs with RCA Records. Debut single, TiK ToK, is released in October.
2010 Debut album, Animals, is scheduled for release.
They say: “Ke$ha is a riveting, fresh talent, with a compelling, unique voice, and powerful.”
She says: “There are artists who do more serious acoustic stuff and I admire them but what I want to bring to the table is fun.”
Taiwan can often feel woefully behind on global trends, from fashion to food, and influences can sometimes feel like the last on the metaphorical bandwagon. In the West, suddenly every burger is being smashed and honey has become “hot” and we’re all drinking orange wine. But it took a good while for a smash burger in Taipei to come across my radar. For the uninitiated, a smash burger is, well, a normal burger patty but smashed flat. Originally, I didn’t understand. Surely the best part of a burger is the thick patty with all the juiciness of the beef, the
The ultimate goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the total and overwhelming domination of everything within the sphere of what it considers China and deems as theirs. All decision-making by the CCP must be understood through that lens. Any decision made is to entrench — or ideally expand that power. They are fiercely hostile to anything that weakens or compromises their control of “China.” By design, they will stop at nothing to ensure that there is no distinction between the CCP and the Chinese nation, people, culture, civilization, religion, economy, property, military or government — they are all subsidiary
Nov.10 to Nov.16 As he moved a large stone that had fallen from a truck near his field, 65-year-old Lin Yuan (林淵) felt a sudden urge. He fetched his tools and began to carve. The recently retired farmer had been feeling restless after a lifetime of hard labor in Yuchi Township (魚池), Nantou County. His first piece, Stone Fairy Maiden (石仙姑), completed in 1977, was reportedly a representation of his late wife. This version of how Lin began his late-life art career is recorded in Nantou County historian Teng Hsiang-yang’s (鄧相揚) 2009 biography of him. His expressive work eventually caught the attention
This year’s Miss Universe in Thailand has been marred by ugly drama, with allegations of an insult to a beauty queen’s intellect, a walkout by pageant contestants and a tearful tantrum by the host. More than 120 women from across the world have gathered in Thailand, vying to be crowned Miss Universe in a contest considered one of the “big four” of global beauty pageants. But the runup has been dominated by the off-stage antics of the coiffed contestants and their Thai hosts, escalating into a feminist firestorm drawing the attention of Mexico’s president. On Tuesday, Mexican delegate Fatima Bosch staged a
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