can't add it up
daily dos
tue 9/23/2008
Check out footage of Kat DeLuna's sexy photoshoot for King Magazine.
Karina vs. Kat DeLuna
versus
wed 8/27/2008
| name | Karina Paisan. | Kat Emperatriz de Luna. |
| hometown | Washington Heights, New York. | The Bronx, New York . |
| birthdate | July 18, 1991. | November 17, 1987. |
| style | R&B and Latin pop. | R&B and Latin pop. |
| roots | Dominican and Armenian. | Dominican. |
| early start | Competed on Star Search at 13. | Performed with merengue singer Milly Quezada at 12. |
| could be the next | Alicia Keys. | Beyonce. |
| backed by | Def Jam. | Sony. |
| proteges of | Her godfather, Quincy Jones. | Tyrone Edmond. |
| breakthrough track | 16 @ War. | Whine Up. |
| killer collab | Chris Brown | Omarion. |
| in their own words | "I definitely respect myself, and I wanna show that females should respect themselves also, and just showing that we shouldn’t degrade ourselves just to feel like we’re cool or whatever.” - Karina | "Sometimes you have to – how you say it? ‘Take charge.’ You have to take charge. When I wanted to add Don Omar to the Spanish version of ‘Run the Show,’ I paid for it out of my own pocket." - Kat. | most recent album | First Love. | 9 Lives. |
| the critics | DJ Booth: “[I]t’s no surprise that her debut album, the aptly named First Love, is an intensely mature work. Karina’s as close to musical perfection as you’re going to get at that age, and that’s why someone, somewhere is falling in love for the first time through her music.” | Popmatters: “She’s not trying to impress us with her depth, her indie cred, or her awesome record collection. In fact, it actually seems like she and producer RedOne are only interested in turning good hooks and memorable choruses into pop songs for teenagers and other people who like their music to be 'fun.'" |
| webprops | 95,201 friends on official MySpace. | 111,056 friends on official MySpace. |
| best video moment | Slowly fallin' in love in Can't Find The Words. | Holding her own with Busta Rhymes in Run The Show. |
steadfast and furious
daily dos
fri 5/9/2008
The Latino Commission on AIDS announced that Kat DeLuna will take over for actor Gael Garcia Bernál as the organization's international ambassador.
oh jeez
daily dos
mon 3/17/2008
Listen to Kat DeLuna's new song, "Run The Show," featuring Busta Rhymes.
sky high
daily dos
fri 1/11/2008
Preview an exclusive Kat DeLuna track, Run The Show, featuring Don Omar.
4 better or worse
daily dos
thu 8/23/2007
Listen to "Cut Off Time," a new song by Kat De Luna and Omarion.
Kat DeLuna, Montéz De Durango, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Bonde do Rolê and Mandisa.
the music press
tue 8/7/2007
- Kat DeLuna releases her debut, 9 Lives, an "eclectic and diverse" album that finds the 19-year-old Dominicana breaking it down "from Spanish, Dancehall to fawwking Opera," exclaims Think2twice. The SF Gate believes the hype: "Unlike most summer sizzlers who fizzle come fall … Kat DeLuna should survive the season's dog days and beyond.
- Agárrese, the new album by duranguense OG's Grupo Montéz de Durango, gets four-and-a-half stars from EsMas.com for its "variety" and for dealing with "difficult social issues." ElPlaneta.com underscores the group's "surprising musical evolution" which "reaffirms why they're the top-selling act in the genre."
- The Mars Volta mastermind Omar Rodriguez-Lopez releases Se Dice Bisonte, No Búfalo, the soundtrack to the film El Búfalo de La Noche. Sputnik Music feels that "Omar should stick to The Mars Volta" because "there are way too many times on the album where the music gets boring, pointless, and repetitious." Webzine Drowned in Sound echoes those sentiments: "Despite the occasional moment of brilliance, there just isn’t enough to maintain interest here."
- With Lasers, the debut album by Brazilian funk carioca dealers Bonde Do Role, should contain just enough "party-starting sex-urge noises" to "get you through a long, hot summer of awkward hook-ups at backyard barbecues," teases Pitchforkmedia. Despite it's "near explosive" energy level, Prefixmag laments that the "party is still too one-dimensional."
- Ex-American Idol finalist and Christian pop singer Mandisa releases her debut album, True Beauty. For The Trades her debut album keeps proving "that it's better to lose on American Idol than it is to win" while Christianity Today is not to keen on Mandisa's "predictable adult-contemporary sentiment," but digs when she's in "her urban-pop turf".
Kat DeLuna
whodat
mon 7/30/2007
Pop singer Kat DeLuna has already been compared to Selena and Mariah Carey. The 19-year-old from the Bronx by way of the Dominican Republic has a stunning five-octave vocal range (that's some opera-level sh*t) and the hottest song of the summer: Whine Up, a bilingual jam that throws Jamaica’s Elephant Man into a crowded, sweaty Washington Heights dance party. Her label, Sony, has put some muscle into the single, lining up a dance contest on YouTube and the always painfully fun to watch appearance on morning television.
DeLuna grew up in the Dominican Republic and returned to the U.S. at age fourteen to study at the Arts High School of Newark, where she developed her singing chops and joined the short-lived Latina hip hop group Coquette.
The bronze beauty has just released her second single “Am I Dreaming?”, a subdued, mid-tempo R&B ballad that shows off her versatility and will undoubtedly whet appetites for her debut album, 9 Lives, set for release next week.
R. Kelly, Kat DeLuna, Young Jeezy, Pambo and Funky C.
the music press
tue 5/29/2007
- “The R in R&B is back” on R. Kelly’s ninth album, Double Up, according to BBC 1Xtra. Entertainment Weekly gives the album a "C" for its silly, sexalicious lyrics and concludes that “the guy who brought you the nutso R&B opera Trapped in the Closet has completely lost whatever was left of his dirty mind.”
- Nineteen-year-old Dominicana Kat DeLuna's debut single, Whine Up, "offers ultimate seasonal sizzle – over the airwaves, on the beach, down the highway and across dancefloors,” raves Billboard.com. “To say she’s a crossover artist is an understatement,” gushes Starpulse.
- Young Jeezy is cooling things down with his latest mixtape, Young Jeezy Presents U.S.D.A.: Cold Summer. The Los Angeles Times complains: “U.S.D.A.’s simplistic rhymes about blind ambition amount to nothing but a quasi-Republican, pull-yourself-up- by-your-bootstraps ideology on crack.” Despite its shortcomings, Hip Hop DX isn't writing it off: “[T]he album isn’t completely worthless. There’s enough on here that you can bump in the whip, or that’d be fine to hear at the club.”
- Poprocks, the debut album by 21-year-old Mexican singer-songwriter Pambo, is full of “poppy, radio-friendly tracks with rock edges, reminiscent of Avril Lavigne and decidedly youth-friendly,” notes Billboard.biz. Mexico City newspaper El Economista calls the Aureo Baqueiro-produced release “fresh and passionate," even though it emerged from the "wasteland that is Mexican pop music."
- Funky C, ex-singer of Chilean cult faves Los Tetas, debuts his solo album Joya. Newsday.com credits the multi-talented Funky C for stopping short of “overwhelming this largely fun-filled album with pretension.”
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