By Paulo Camacho Walk through any major city around the world, and you’ve probably heard them. The makeshift drum sets pounding away. The acoustic guitars strumming in the distance. The dulcet vocals that make crowds stop in their tracks. They are the
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By Paulo Camacho Those who know me know that I’m an avid YouTube watcher. If you’ve followed my blogs in the past, you probably figured that out for yourself, based on articles like this one, or this one, or this one, or even this one. Like
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By Paulo Camacho On one late December night in Thailand, a 24-year-old music graduate in a stunning red dress received the announcement of a lifetime: She was the new Miss Universe. It has been a month since the annual pageant took place
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By Paulo Camacho It’s one of the most successful songs, by one of the most successful recording artists, in modern music history. Interestingly enough, it seems only appropriate to play it around one particular time of year — for good reason. And
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By Paulo Camacho “My name is Ally Maine.” This is a poignant final line to the effectively stirring remake of “A Star Is Born.” It completes a complicated, beautiful, tragic story arc for the film’s muse, Ally, played by the enigmatic Lady
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By Paulo Camacho Welcome to the first in a series of blogs I like to call … “What does THIS have to do with music?” Where I take a seemingly random topic and ask the question: “What does THIS have to do
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By Paulo Camacho It all went down just a few weeks ago — the “America’s Got Talent” Season 13 champion came down to two acts — the high-flying acrobatic group Zucaroh, and unbelievable sleight-of-hand magician Shin Lim. After an excruciating 23 seconds,
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By Paulo Camacho The motion picture soundtrack is one of the most underrated aspects to a film’s success. It is a musical representation to the ideas, ideals and themes of a given film. It works harmoniously with the film, itself (no pun
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By Paulo Camacho Raise your hand if you watched the Biggest Party of The Summer. WWE’s second-biggest pay-per-view event — SummerSlam — went down last Sunday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. It was a night of big matchups, bigger
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By Paulo Camacho Do you believe in magic? It’s a silly question. Or it’s a question that can be interpreted in many ways, depending on your point of view. Because, for the most part, we all understand that “magic” in the traditional
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