Justin Bieber lends his voice to ‘The Simpsons’ animated series

Pop star Justin Bieber has just completed the latest vocals for the upcoming animated series of “The Simpson”.

Bieber, 18, appears as himself when trying to gain entry into a talent show where Bart Simpson is playing piano, but is denied.

Bieber apparently did a tweet about the news, “Just did a voice over for the SIMSPONS!!! #swaggy” and executive producer Al Jean has since confirmed the guest appearance.

Steve Carell, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway and Natalie Portman are also expected to lend their voices to “The Simpsons” upcoming 24th season.

The “Best Friend” singer will make his cameo appearance in “Simpson” which is expected to hit the screens in 2013.

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Michael Jackson’s Kids To Do Cartoon Voiceover

Michael Jackson’s children are set to lend their voices to a cartoon animation it has been reported.

The late singer’s three kids Prince, Paris and Blanket are reportedly planning to take their first steps into the world of entertainment. The trio have grown up in the spotlight, but reports suggest they do not possess the superstar’s natural ability to sing.

Instead, the kids will apparently begin their Hollywood careers by providing voiceovers for an upcoming cartoon. They are hoping this will help them move into live acting roles as they develop their skills.

Paris is already making her attack on the film industry and is set to star in the 2014 film ‘Lundon’s Bridge and the Three Keys’.

“They are set to do the voices for a kids’ Asian cartoon hit that is being imported to the US,” a source explained to The Sun.

“Paris doesn’t share her father’s singing talents but has done some acting. And if the voice-over work is a success it will lead to more high-profile live action roles.”

Michael passed away in June 2009.

Since their father’s death Prince, Paris and Blanket have reportedly been educated at a private school in California. Despite the controversy and press intrusion they witnessed their father go through, the children are keen to pursue a similar career path.

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Recording Academy launches campaign to get liner notes behind songs on digital music outlets

As liner notes get scarce in the digital age, the Recording Academy wants fans to still be able to find out who the people are behind their favourite hit.

So the Academy announced Thursday that it will launch the “Give Fans the Credit” campaign, which plans to give music listeners more information on the people behind the creation of a song, aside from the song’s main performer.

Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow said in a statement that music fans are getting less information on songs today because of digital platforms, which tend to only offer a song’s title and performer. But the Academy wants be sure fans are getting liner notes for albums, and that songwriters, non-featured performers, producers and engineers are highlighted for their work.

“We can watch movies online with the credits included, and the same should be true for digitally released recordings,” Portnow’s statement reads. “If music devices can access millions of tracks in the cloud, we’re confident we can find a way to acknowledge those who created the tracks here on earth.”

The initiative will feature “honorary ambassadors” who will help facilitate the discussion, including T Bone Burnett, music producer RedOne, Jimmy Jam, Sheila E, songwriter Lamont Dozier and producer Don Was. The Academy’s news release said the ambassadors plan to meet with digital music outlets “to brainstorm ways to deliver more robust crediting information on digital music platforms.”

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Grand Blanc man finds audience as voiceover artist

Professional voice over artist Markham Anderson offers you a unique set of skills. Markham’s oldest and most loyal clients call him the “man of a thousand voices.” He brings to your project a wide range of industry and life experiences. Age ranges: 30’s through middle age, to elderly and mature. A true Texan by birth, Markham Anderson is known for having no accent at all or being able to turn on his Southern, surfer dude, or east coast city boy dialects at the director’s whim! Markham excels, and works heavily in: radio and television commercials, corporate narrations, character and animation voices, celebrity impressions, and internet narration. Markham has also performed ADR (dialogue replacement) in a number of Japanese language originated films such as “Street Fighter” and “SIN-The Movie.” (ADV Films).

“I do like 70 different celebrity impressions and I started making money at it and it just went from there,” said Anderson from his recording studio located inside his historic Grand Blanc farmhouse. “For the last 10 to 12 years I’ve been doing this full time from home.”

Anderson, a former Texan and U.S. Marine, works as a voiceover artist, a career he stumbled upon while working in radio.

“Being able to work from home is a blessing, I was injured when I was with the Marines, my son is disabled too, this is just the way life is turned out,” said Anderson, whose son Connor is autistic.

Anderson started in television in the early 1990s, shooting television commercials in California, before moving to Texas and working in radio.

“Radio is about as hard as television, you never know if you have a job from week to week,” he said. “Suddenly you are on top of the world making $60,000 as on-air talent and then someone buys the station and says your voice doesn’t fit our format.”

It was while living in Texas that Anderson said he first utilized his skills at impersonating celebrities to do commercials.

“I did some free commercials about 12 years ago in Texas and then car dealerships started paying me to do their voice work, $100 here, $150 there and then it suddenly became a career,” he said.

It was while working as one of the producers for “The Wannabes,” a television show filmed in Michigan, that Anderson said he decided to buy a home in Michigan to avoid the Texas heat and work full-time doing vocal work.

He’s provided vocals for companies like Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., The Learning Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central

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Rolling Stones Recording in France

After months of speculation whether the Rolling Stones would record this year to mark their 50th anniversary, the band spent time in a Paris recording studio last week. The band was photographed exiting an unnamed studio on August 21st. Two days, later, Jagger tweeted a photo of himself in a studio surrounded by some very Stonesy items: cases of Fender amps, Telecasters, Stratocasters and several harmonicas. “Had fun in the Paris studio this week!” he wrote.

Last week, the Stones also posted a cryptic image of animal eyes on their Facebook page, instructing fans to download the free “uView” app and point their phones at the screen. The eyes came to life and an animal growled while “Start Me Up” played.

It’s at least the third time the band has gathered in recent months; they rehearsed in the New York area in late April. “We played everything, really,” Keith Richards told Rolling Stone then. “We’re just getting our chops together. It was like playing in the garage, a maintenance check, you know?”

The last day of the rehearsals was filmed by director Brett Morgen for a documentary chronicling the band’s history to appear on HBO this fall. “Someone would mention a song, and within the second run they had nailed it,” Morgen says. “Having screened through 50 years of material over the last six months, I would rank it up there with anything I’ve ever heard from them. They were extremely tight.”

The band also gathered in London in July to celebrate their 50th anniversary with a photo exhibit. Before that meeting, Keith Richards told Rolling Stone the band would also use the time to discuss recording. “I’d love to get some tracks down and see what songs we’ve got. And that goes along with part of getting the band back together and getting things moving. So I’d love to cut some tracks, yeah.” Asked if he saw himself writing one-on-one with Jagger again, Richards replied, “I have no doubt.”

If the band is recording new material, it would be their first new songs since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. (They’ve since brushed up a few old songs for 2010’s Exile on Main Street and 2011’s Some Girls reissue compilations).

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