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Flo Rida Impresses Parents, Ladies at Today Show Concert

August 14, 2009

“No shirt, no shades!” shouts a middle-aged female as rapper Flo Rida takes the stage at the Today Show concert series Friday morning.

Flo, 30, was donning his signature look: a pair of shiny, oversized sunglasses, a patched-up gray muscle tee and facial hair so impeccably manicured it could make Orlando Bloom weep. If you didn’t recognize him as a multi-platinum rapper, you might think the dude was a professional wrestler.

But the crowd wanted it all off.

“You have the best abs in Hollywood!” a teenage girl in the front row chimed in.

Appearances aside, Flo Rida knows how to capture a crowd. After performing a fist-fueled “Low,” the song Matt Lauer claimed “took [Flo] around the world,” and a version of “Right Round” that had his parents beaming (bottom photo), Flo ripped through his newest hit “Jump,” sans Nelly Furtado.

Check out a clip of the action, which includes a hilarious dance by Flo, below.

[Photos by Jeanine Onischuck]

Nelly Furtado Starts Label, Reveals Indie Dreams

March 16, 2009

Singer Nelly Furtado is ready to embark on her latest venture, an independent music label called Nelstar.

Cute!

Electro/indie act Fritz Helder & the Phantoms will be the first group to sign to the label, which has strong ties with Furtado because two of them used to be her back-up dancers!
“I think it’s best to start off an indie,” Furtado explains. “I always secretly wanted to be an indie artist. When I was a teenager, I loved Ani DiFranco and hoped I could do something like that.”
Yeah, cause every aspiring indie artist collaborates with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland!
Best of luck, anyway!