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Originally posted by PopNStuff
Gaga emulates X a lot
J.Lo copies Beyonce, Mariah and Kat De Luna a lot.
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LMFAO
On Kat De Luna
By Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY
RedOne, who is a Grammy nominee for producer of the year, faltered on the long road from his native Morocco but never gave up.
After years of struggle and setbacks, the Moroccan native has established a record of creative and commercial triumphs amid the music industry's vagaries and volatility.
After all, RedOne was the linchpin that turned disco freak show Lady Gaga into a mainstream goldmine.
Last year, they shared the dance-recording Grammy for Poker Face. This year, he's nominated (with Gaga and other participants) for best album, The Fame Monster. He's also up for producer of the year for Monster and Gaga singles Alejandro and Bad Romance, plus Enrique Iglesias' I Like It, Usher's More, Mary J. Blige's Whole Lotta Love and the all-star We Are the World: 25 for Haiti.
On New Year's Eve 2006, RedOne's resolve cracked while he and wife Laila were watching Jennifer Lopez in the biopic Selena.
"She got killed, and I broke down," he says. "In the new year, you think back, how was my year? I had given my life to this, and I felt like nobody was giving me a chance. I told Laila, 'I can't do this anymore.' She said, 'We're not dying, we're not in a war, we're blessed. If worse comes to worst, we'll go back to Sweden.' We borrowed money from her sister and decided to stay three more months."
Lopez proved pivotal in his U.S. launch. Within a week, Epic summoned RedOne for a J. Lo remix. Karma, he thought. The label decided against releasing the track but paired RedOne with newly signed pop singer Kat DeLuna to co-write and produce Whine Up.
"The song was a half-hit here and No. 1 in markets overseas, good enough to get me a buzz," says RedOne, who was enlisted to produce her full album. "I got paid enough to survive a whole year. That was my turning point."
After working for years with unknowns, RedOne was determined to take on only signed artists. Yet he reluctantly agreed to meet a quirky underground singer who'd been dropped by Def Jam. Lady Gaga.
Bey
see@ getback
Mariah stans still mad at the sample switch that Jlo had NOTHING to do with
But forget that Mariah is on AI after Jlo made it HOT to be a celebrity judge
Hiring Jlos manager Benny Medina back in 04 for her Mimi comeback
Launching a fragrance and assecories line after Jen made Celeb BRANDING HOT
