Kenny Loggins...popular performer live! in Las Vegas...

My Space friend - Kenny Loggins - is slated to appear in Las Vegas this weekend at the spacious Sunset Outdoor Amphitheatre.

Born on January 7th 1949, and now a healthy vibrant man at the age of 62, the soft rock musical artist doesn't appear to be letting up.

Kenny is probably best-known as the other half of the dream music team - Loggins and Messina - and their soft rock and adult contemporary music act from the 1970's.

After a break up with Messina, Kenny produced his first solo album - Celebrate me Home - which featured the hit "I Believe in Love."

The tune was successfully recorded by Barbra Streisand for the film "A Star is born".

A second album featured "Whenever I call you a friend"  in the form of a duet with Stevie Nicks.

During 1980, a collaboraton between Loggins and Michael McDonald, resulted in a Grammy win for Song of the Year for "What A Fool Believes".

Kenny then sequed into penning compositions for movie soundtracks.

"I'm Alright", "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" (Caddyshack), "Footloose", and "Top Gun"  - not only garnered plaudits - but also underscored that Loggins (though down-to-earth and easy-going) was a musical force to reckon with.

Kenny Loggins also performed as a member of "USA for Africa" on the famine-relief fundraising single "We Are the World".

During the 1990s, Loggins hatched up the idea for an album based on the Children's Book - the "House on Pooh Corner" which was reworked and released last year.

Loggins opened up and revealed alot about his "creative process" in a two-part interview in Paris last year which may be screened at the links below.

Kenny Loggins Paris Interview (Part I)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12LQrS8PyAg

Kenny Loggins Paris Interview (Part II)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFwsFY2E2k

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Kenny Loggins...a good sport! Follows in spite of plastic surgery post...

Kenny in his Christ phase!

When I inputted my password and user ID, I spied the twitter alert right off-the-bat, and chuckled heartily.

Kenny Loggins was now following me according to a twitter tweet!

What a good sport.

You see, because of a round-about turn-of-events last week, I ended up penning a post about rumors that the handsome musician may have had a nip and a tuck here 'n there in recent days.

It all started off innocently enough.

A contact of mine at Universal Music Group e-mailed me a promo about Kenny's new CD.

The brief upbeat communication provided me with a link so that I could take a gander at the trailer released to bolster the promo.

In response, I dashed off a post, so that fans of Loggins could check it out.

A day later, when I cruised back to the link site (Amazon.com) to verify pertinent information, I spied a comment in the dialogue box below which surprised me.

A reader snidely remarked that Kenny was obviously having trouble performing his single because of "alleged" plastic surgery which was purportedly restricting his facial muscles when warbling for the camera.

Ouch!

I fired back a comment, and noted that when I first screened the video, there didn't appear to be anything particularly unusual (or slightly out-of-whack) about the image appearing on the screen.

Upon closer scrutiny, when I surfed back to the site - however - I have to admit the texture of Kenny's skin was a bit raw-looking and taut around the edges of his facial features, if you get my gist.

"Maybe he downed a couple of drinks before the shoot," I teased.

Or, went a tad overboard with a skin peel?

Well, that got the rumor mills rollin', so-to-speak.

In fact, when I checked the blog stats at the WordPress site the following morning, I was elated to discover that the post reporting the skinny on Kenny nabbed an astounding number of unique hits overnight!

Meanwhile, the comments kept coming, too.

One fan quipped that Kenny was looking a lot like that other Kenny - ah - what's his name?

Yeah, Rogers!

I laughed out loud.

My comment back?

Which Kenny Rogers?

The first one (pre-surgery) or the second one?

In spite of the unflattering quips, Kenny (Loggins) - who obviously caught wind of the post - signed up to follow me on Twitter in the wake of waves of titillating gossip that started surfing up on blog shores around the Internet.

So, tit-for-tat - and with a Chesire grin on my own (untouched) chinny chin chin - I started to follow the easy-going popular musician on the musical landscape (and elsewhere).

Suppose by next week, we'll be thick as thieves, doing duets around the country.

Who knows?

Welcome aboard, Kenny.

Victor Borge said it best:

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

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Kenny Loggins...plastic surgery? Fan says so...

Yesterday, when I received info from Universal Music Group for a trailer featuring Kenny Loggins' new CD, I included the link in a post I penned on the release due out this week.

Then, I proceeded to alert fans of the handsome singer.

Today, when I returned to the site to play back the trailer once again, I spied a comment posted below from someone by the name of David LaCrone.

The individual - unknown to me - was inclined to utter up an observation.

"Looks like Kenny is having a hard time singing expressively, probably because of all that horrible plastic surgery."

Gosh, I didn't pay that much attention to Kenny's face when I first viewed the video, since I was primarily focused on verifying it was broadcasting properly before I directed readers to the Amazon.com site.

You can bet your sweet bippy I replayed the trailer on the heels of LaCrone's analysis of Loggins' on-camera performance, though.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/mMRRVMZU6YYPB

Well, the skin looks a little stretched, and the overall complexion a bit ruddy in texture.

Too much face-time under a sun lamp prior to lensing?

A face peel!

If I knew he was a drunkard, I'd speculate he tossed down too many ales in the backwoods somewhere before the cameras rolled.

Kenny, enquiring minds want to know!

By the way, they say you get the face you deserve at fifty, 'ya know?

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Kenny Loggins...trailer for CD released this week!

One of my contacts @ Universal Music Group zipped off an e-mail yesterday to inform me that the new Kenny Loggins CD will be released this week.

It's a catchy tune featuring playful children in a video titled:

There is a Mountain!

To take a gander @ the trailer click on the link below.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/mMRRVMZU6YYPB

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