So far 2007 have been kind to Robin Thicke–a breakthrough album, touring nationally with Beyonce and numerous award nominations. Now he is a candidate for a different type of award. AskMen picked Robin to be among the top 49 celebrity men for the 2007 Man’s Man Award.
You can vote for Robin now at AskMen.com.
The year 2007, marks a milestone for LIFEbeat, the national non-profit organization dedicated to reaching America’s youth with the message of HIV/AIDS prevention, as it observes its 15th anniversary. On Saturday, September 8th at House of Blues in Las Vegas, MTV helps LIFEbeat celebrate with VMA Fandemonium: A Concert to Benefit LIFEbeat. The annual MTV concert to benefit LIFEbeat will feature sizzling performances by VMA nominated artists Maroon 5 and Robin Thicke. VMA Fandemonium will also include DJ ?uestlove of the Grammy-winning hip-hop group The Roots accompanied by MC Yameen Allworld.
VMA Fandemonium: A Concert to Benefit LIFEbeat marks one of the many MTV/LIFEbeat collaborations which began in 1995. Past concerts include UrbanAID, MTV, Levi’s & LIFEbeat ‘Music with a Message’ concert held on World AIDS Day in 2000 and LIFEbeat 10th Anniversary in 2002.
Tickets for VMA Fandemonium: A Concert to Benefit LIFEbeat, a 21 and over event, begin at $75.00 for General Admission, $400.00 for VIP. Tickets go on sale on August 29th at 1pm PDT, at House of Blues Box Office inside Mandalay Bay and online at www.ticketmaster.com.
Source: MTV
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For all the Robin fans in London, on September 24, Robin Thicke will perform at KOKO in London for a one-off exclusive performance! Thicke will sing songs off his platinum-selling album The Evolution of Robin Thicke.
For more information on ticket sales, visit: Ticketmaster
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England’s MOBO (Music of Black Origin Awards) announced that Robin Thicke hit song; Lost Without U is nominated for Best Song choice. The show will take place September 19 at the O2 arena in London, with the winner chosen by the number of public votes.
Fans can put in their vote for Robin online at MOBO .
Speaking of awards, the Teen Choice Awards will air live on Sunday, August 28 8/7 CST–Robin is up for two categories, Best Love Song and Breakout Male Artist.
The shadows always have been a little rough on Robin Thicke.
First, it was his father’s shadow. Yep, “Growing Pains” star Alan Thicke. That’s his pops. And regardless of his music accolades, the crooner always was Alan Thicke’s kid.
“They have to preface my existence with my father’s,” Robin says.
He was also writing songs for the likes of Usher and Christina Aguilera — but the record labels didn’t see fit to pull Thicke out of the shadows.
Even when he signed with reputable hitmaker Pharrell Williams, Thicke’s soulful sophomore CD, “The Evolution of Robin Thicke” still sat on the shelf for almost a year, waiting for a release date.
Then came his hit single “Lost Without U” — and Robin Thicke shot out of the shadows. He sold 1.3 million copies of his album, got booked on Oprah, became an overnight sex symbol. And, now, he’s touring the country opening for Beyoncé, wearing a how-ya-like-me-now smile.
As the show gets ready to hit Fresno on Tuesday, we chatted with Thicke about his long road to stardom.
Question: Your album was delayed for a while; at some point did you feel like it was never going to come out?
Answer: Yeah, I had “Lost Without U” for three and a half years before they finally released it. I was very worried, and that’s where all those songs came out of. The album that was going to be released in January 2006 ended up having nine different songs when I finally released it on Oct. 3. It was a better album. Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes what we think is holding us back is really just creating an opportunity for us to be even better.
At what point did you realize things were taking off?
It wasn’t until January. I was selling 15,000 records a week. I was on tour with John Legend. We weren’t getting much airplay. And it looked like it was still never going to happen in a big way, that it was just going to continue to be an underground success. Then right after the holidays, all of the sudden, it just shot to No. 1. Every week was just more and more tears of joy, gratitude and bitterness — for all the years it didn’t happen.
Are you on top of the world?
Every morning and every night, I thank God. You work for something, you dream so big, and you don’t even realize how big you were dreaming until you’re on stage opening up for Beyoncé.
Out of everything you’ve been able to accomplish — going platinum, getting on Oprah, touring with Beyoncé — what’s been the most gratifying?
I guess just seeing the look on my family’s face, or when people come up to me and say, ‘My father just passed away, and your music makes me feel connected to him’ or ‘I was in an abusive relationship, and your music made me leave’ or ‘Me and my girlfriend had a baby to your music’ or ‘It’s going to be our wedding song.’ You realize that you’re penetrating people’s lives with your music. Whether or not I’m there physically, my music is there for some of the most important moments of these people’s lives. That’s very powerful.
Source: FresnoBee
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Robin Thicke’s mp3s’ album, remixes and b-side exclusives is now available to download at his official website! To buy, visit this link www.robinthicke.com.
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Robin Thicke reveals to KIIS-FM the very first concert he attended to and the country-pop artist Thicke went to see perform.
Go to KIIS-FM and find out who it is!
The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation and Viacom, Inc. (NYSE: VIA and VIA.B) today announced that Viacom has been named title sponsor for The Dream Concert, a musical tribute to Dr. King, on September 18, 2007 at Radio City Music Hall. Viacom has pledged $1 million in cash and more than $500,000 in media value to support Dr. King’s Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC. This brings the Memorial Foundation’s total to $82 million of the $100 million needed.
It includes a commitment to run public service announcements for the Memorial Foundation on BET Networks’ and MTV Networks’ multiplatform properties. Viacom’s properties, including BET, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, VH1 and COMEDY CENTRAL have partnered with the Memorial Foundation since 2004 and will continue to work with them to bring awareness to the memorial. 
Additionally, coverage from The Dream Concert including red carpet arrivals and behind the scenes footage will be available on BET on Blast, BET’s broadband platform. The Dream Concert’s talented line-up brings together musicians from across all genres, including Garth Brooks, Queen Latifah, Joss Stone, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Carlos Santana, Robin Thicke, John Legend, Bebe Winans, Cece Winans, Jessye Norman, Ryan Shaw and Miri Ben-Ari.
Tickets are priced at $150, $250, $500, $1000 are available through TicketMaster phones and outlets and at http://www.ticketmaster.com and http://www.radiocity.com with $5,000 tickets available at http://www.thedreamconcert.com
Source: Viacom
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Associate Press’ Alicia Quarles talks to Kayne West, Robin Thicke, Timbaland and Chris Brown on the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards nominations.
Video can seen here: Robin Thicke VMA Video
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Buy Robin Thicke’s Album, Remixes and B-Side Exclusives as IPod Compatible MP3s directly from RobinThicke.com Check back on August 21st for full details.
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50 Cent apparently lost some of his ’sense’ after becoming a madman when he assumed that his record label ‘Interscope Records‘ released the video, Follow My Lead (ft. Robin Thicke) a little too early across the web.
Here is the story.
Rapper Fifty Cent flew into a rage after he found out that his new video was leaked to the web. What makes matters worse is that the rapper thinks the leak was an inside job at Interscope, reports our friends at TMZ.
The video was intended for release in October and is for a song called “Follow My Lead,” that features collaboration with Robin Thicke.
When Fifty, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, found out about the lead, he flew into a rage and allegedly told Interscope execs that he would not do promo work for his new record “Curtis,” which is do out on September 11th.
According to Miss Info, Fifty then went on a destructive rampage, which included ripping a 70-inch plasma screen TV off the wall and throwing his phone straight through the window of his executive office.
Reportedly, Fifty has refused to speak to anyone from the label and Interscope’s now working on damage control as well as rescheduling Fifty’s public appearances.
Source: Post Chronicle
Maybe it’s best for Robin to stay some distance away from the kook. Also here is the video 50 is making a fuss about.
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Robin Thicke is nominated for Best Male Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. Other nominations include, Akon and T.I and Kanye West. Beyonce and Justin Timberlake is the top nominees up for seven VMAs each.
The awards show will air live September 9 on MTV.
Congrats to Robin!
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Robin Thicke has no illusions about who gave his once-wheezing career mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. “I wouldn’t be here without Pharrell,” the singer said of the famed producer. “He reignited interest in me.”
He did so by creating a signature sound for Thicke’s breakthrough single, “Wanna Love U Girl.” Pharrell smartly contrasted a tautly plucked string section with Thicke’s gelato-smooth vocals. The irresistible result cracked the adult R&B radio format known as Urban AC.
A second single, “Lost Without U,” went all the way to No. 1 on that radio format, shooting the full “The Evolution of Robin Thicke” disc to No. 6 with a bullet on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums list.
This represented the first time a white singer had topped urban radio since George Michael did it back when he was known for something other than his arrest record. Thicke performed at this year’s BET Awards (he was nominated for two) and at the Essence Music Festival held last month in New Orleans.
He’s opening for Beyonce Friday at the Wachovia Center. Thicke’s last stop here, in March at the Electric Factory, sold out.
All this is an even greater achievement if you consider Thicke’s Wonder Bread background.
He’s son to the clean-scrubbed actor Alan Thicke, best known for his role as the bland dad on the ’80s sitcom “Growing Pains.” The 30-year-old explained in an interview that while “white radio thought of my connection to my dad as a punch line, to black radio, it was a cherry on the cake. L.A.’s biggest hip-hop station, Hot 97, said, ‘We all love your daddy.’ ”
Thicke began his career in his teens, writing songs for middle-of-the-road R&B artists like Brandy and Brian McKnight. He shied away from performing due to fear. “Then I woke up one day at 23 and thought I better start my solo career,” he said.
First, Andre Harrell signed him to Uptown Records (which yielded nada). Several years later the exec inked him to Interscope, where Pharrell “proceeded to put me through hell,” recalled Thicke.
After years of tailoring his sound, Thicke’s self-titled debut album came out in 2003. It bombed. It was a far less focused disk than “Evolution.” It also pushed a different image, with Thicke posing as a moody longhair. “I was hiding,” he admitted.
Before his second CD, he cut his hair and pruned his sound, putting the focus on his falsetto. At first, neither Pharrell nor Thicke was sure about collaborating on the first single.
“He didn’t want to wreck the purity of the music I was making on my own,” said Thicke.
A meeting with Interscope head Jimmy Iovine convinced them that this was the best way to beat down the resistant doors of radio - and to help Thicke get over his considerable image problem.
Given those challenges, the singer calls his Top 10 invasion “a sweet victory. A year ago, I was ready to drive a car into the lobby of the record company, open a bottle of Jack Daniels and scream ‘I want to see the president,’ ” he said. “Now, we’re all celebrating.” *
Source: Philly.com
Rapper-actor Eve performs the song, ‘Fantasy‘ with Robin Thicke and later Tambourine with rapper-producer Swizz Beatz.
Robin Thicke’s friend R&B singing sensation Usher has been through hell and back with reports circulating from fans’ opinion of his involvement with ‘fiancée’ Tameka Foster to the media digging up Foster’s rap sheet from two years ago. Now recent news that the couple were to wed this past weekend were cancelled hours before the ceremony left many question the validity of their so-called wedding.
People now believe everything was a hoax, including Robin scheduling to sing for the event. Here is gossip website, MediaTakeOut article on the news.
Source: MediaTakeOut
This site is all about singer, songwriter and producer Robin Thicke. Writing and producing songs for popular artists such as Usher, Christina Aguilera, Michael Jackson and many others, Thicke himself became mega successful with his 2006 breakthrough album 'Evolution of Robin Thicke' that went certified platinum. Despite being the son of 80s actor Alan Thicke, the singer proved on his own through hard work and dedication to give his fans his all and it is evident with the success of his album and beautiful music.
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