Eurythmics at ethrill.net :: Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart

The Canadian TIME magazine MacLean’s published a 4 pages article in their online and print version about Cindy Gomez and her discoverer Dave Stewart in which her remarkable career so far is described including quotes from herself and Dave amonst others. If you read closely, you can even find in the article a name of Dave Stewart’s new supergroup featuring himself, Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, A. R. Rahman, and Bob Marley’s son Damian (which is expected to premiere on the Nokia network) in the article!:

Cindy Gomez is in motion, cruising along Los Angeles’ chi-chi Melrose Avenue in late August in the back of a big black chauffeured SUV. The Canadian singer is travelling with Dave Stewart, who came to fame as the bespectacled guy next to Annie Lennox in the innovative ’80s band the Eurythmics. Today, the 57-year-old British rock legend is a big-picture entrepreneur—performer, songwriter, producer, photographer, activist, new media savant and general connector of cosmic dots.

All of these endeavours dovetail perfectly with his current quest: to turn the multilingual Gomez, with her United Colours of Benetton beauty, into a global, multi-platform superstar. That in itself isn’t the kind of visionary thinking for which Stewart, a Davos denizen, corporate consultant on “disruptive change,” and friend of Bono, is known. What makes it pioneering is that he’s doing it in tandem with US$70-billion Finnish cellphone colossus Nokia as part of that company’s quest to become the world’s biggest entertainment media network. The stakes are big, Stewart says in his soft-spoken, unassuming, sage-like way: “If the experiment works, it will change the way art is made. …”

Read the full article here on the MacLean’s website

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Download a HQ scan of the paper’s pages including great photos now here.

P.S.: Here are to amazing photos Dave Stewart posted on his TwitPic photo blog recently of him and Cindy Gomez in Vienna before and after a tv performance – ain’t she sweet?!:

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