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The first decade of the millennium has seen a sweeping change of the entertainment industry, from African American actors finally getting recognition for their talents, to outrageous new comedians and darker superhero movies. At the same time, scripted television programming took a back seat to countless reality shows, while fantasy novels and documentaries became a film craze, and celebrity icons passed away before their time. In this video, watchmojo.com takes a trip down memory lane to re-tell the key moments from the past decade from entertainment.

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If you are a singer, or an aspiring singer then you probably have a decent voice already. However you need to constantly improve, and practice your technique in order to stay on top of things. After all the songs aren’t going to sing themselves, as far as how to improve your singing voice there are many methods. Just keep in mind it’s not something that will happen quickly.

First of let’s take a look at what you did to develop your voice in the first place. You probably sang along with songs on the radio, or songs you had on CD. You constantly practices, then practiced more, and finally practiced even more. When everyone else said you were doing too much and going overboard you just kept practicing. This has lead you to where you are now. The method for improving yourself is the same, practice.

In order to improve your singing voice, you must start practicing with the basics. You must do the basic vocal exercises that your music teacher taught you when you were first learning how to sing. It’s always best to practice singing simple songs then to singing more complex songs.

Try to match the singers pitch, and hold the words as long as they can. Many people forget to do these basic steps when trying to improve. They think because they got this far they do not have to go over the basics anymore. This is a very deadly mistake in any industry, but especially singing. Regardless of what you do for a living, if it’s a specialized trade you need to keep practicing.

You may also want to do some vocalization exercises to improve your singing. This can be done by singing songs that you haven’t sang before, or songs that have note and pitches that you aren’t used to singing. Try to work on these areas and improve by practicing. Going back to the basics might not be a good idea to some. Although it costs much, others prefer to take advanced singing lessons to improve their singing.

Improving your lungs capacity and endurance is also a key to improve your singing voice. Exercises like running, sprint walking, and biking are just some of the exercises to test and improve your endurance. The higher your endurance is, the better your breathing or lung capacity is. Therefore, when you sing, you’ll get enough breath to support your singing.

Let’s recap the ways to improve your singing voice. First, practice. Don’t be tired to keep on practicing the same song over and over again because this will give you more confidence and sets your body in a more relax feeling when singing. Second, do the basics. Do the vocal exercises that you’ve learned when you were just about to learn how to sing. Third, practice the songs that you aren’t used to singing. This will open some areas of where to improve. Lastly, take care of yourself. Stay healthy and live healthy.

In his youth he played on street corners for dimes and pennies! He was born on 16 September, 1925 on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola. He spent his youth playing on street corners for dimes. Today B.B. King (Riley B. King) averages 250 ‘packed to the rafters’ concerts around the world each and every year.

In 1947, he hitchhiked to Memphis, Tennessee to pursue his music career and it is first love. His first major break came in 1948 when he performed on Sonny Boy Williamson’s radio broadcast. As the years well by, King has developed one of the world’s most identifiable guitar styles.

He borrowed from Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker and others, incorporating his distinct and complex voice-like string blends and his left-handed vibrato, both of which have become vital components of a blues guitarist’s vocabulary. His economy, his every-note-counts phrasing, has been a model for thousands of players from Eric Clapton and George Harrison to Jeff Beck.

Soon after his number one hit, “Three O’Clock Blues,” B.B. began touring nationally. In 1956, B.B. and his band played an astonishing 342 one-night stands. From the chitlin circuit with its small-town cafes, juke joints, and country dance halls to rock palaces, symphony concert halls, universities, resort hotels and amphitheaters, nationally and internationally, B.B. has become the most renowned blues musician of the past 40 years.

In the mid-1950s, two men got into a fight during one of King’s performances. The men knocked over a kerosene stove and set fire to the venue. King raced outdoors to safety and then realised he’d left his beloved acoustic guitar behind. He rushed back in to retrieve it and almost lost his life. He found out later that the fight had been over a woman.

He named his guitar Lucille to remind him to never do a mad thing like engaging in physical fights for a woman. Ever since, each and every single one of King’s guitars has been called Lucille. Does your guitar have a name?

Roller Derby was never really a big deal in the US, but has been around forever and was a staple of the early days of television. It was similar in its promotional format to its better known “sports entertainment” cousin, professional wrestling. It was frequently seen in the same bad timeslots on the same low powered UHF TV stations, and it was run by the same loose confederation of promoters and businessmen that characterized the regional territory era of pro wrestling. That’s where the similarity to wrestling ends–it’s storylines made pro wrestling angles look like high drama. While there is a definite history to the sport–great teams like the LA T-Birds and Bay Bombers, and legendary skaters like Ann Calvello it never really stuck in the public consciousness like the pre-Hulk Hogan era of pro wrestling.

When the original purveyors of the sport quit promoting in the early 1980s most thought it was dead and gone until a ‘new school’ of roller derby surfaced on cable TV via the A&E reality series Roller Girls. It featured a local, all-girl roller derby league in Austin, Texas and followed the lives of the players on and off the track. A sport that had faded into the lowest level of obscurity had been rediscovered and embraced by an eclectic group of young women. They had kept the same essential format, thrown in a healthy dose of burlesque camp and Varga pin-up inspired glamour and changed the competitive format and renamed the competitions “bouts” a la MMA or boxing. The result was a compelling mixture of glamour, toughness and athleticism driven by a healthy dose of punk rock “do it yourself” mentality.

Today, the same sort of league featured on “Rollergirls” had become a full blown cultural phenomenon. There are now literally hundreds of local “roller girl” leagues in the US, many under the auspices of a national organization called the Womens Flat Track Derby Association. Las Vegas has the ‘Sin City Roller Girls’, Portland, Oregon the ‘Rose City Rollers” and Seattle the ‘Rat City Rollers’. There are now groups in not only the larger and traditionally “hipper” cities but also smaller flyover country environs such as Birmingham, Alabama and Omaha, Nebraska and all over Canada, Europe and Australia. Most of the local groups similarly play up the campy retro pin-up/hot rod iconography and everyone involved sure looks like they’re having a good time. Between teams there’s a vibe of good natured competitiveness and camaraderie.

This organic rebirth and growth of roller derby is a result of young women taking what essentially was TV time filler and made it into their own distaff ‘action sport’. The community that has sprung up around it bears a striking resemblance to the skateboarding or snowboarding subculture. Granted, there are plenty of talented female skateboarders and snowboarders but they’re typically male dominated disciplines. The roller derby circa 2009 is just the opposite–a living, breathing matriarchal success story. No one is in it for the money, as these local groups are typically run as non-profit organization. The women involved have recreated this sport, and run it, promote it and compete in it on their own terms.

The new generation rollergirls also pay homage to their sports’ pioneers much in the same way that skateboarders give props to Duane Peters and Tony Alva. Many of the individual group websites have sections devoted to the history of roller derby, and the late Ann Calvello–regarded as the Queen of the original Roller Derby–is revered as something of a patron saint. The Texas Rollergirl group featured in the A&E series has renamed their championship the Calvello Cup.