![]() (The only other hip-hop artist was the late Sidhu Moose Wala.) Last year, Dhillon was the only living hip hop artist on Spotify Wrapped 2022’s most streamed artists, a list that has been dominated by film music greats like AR Rahman, Arijit Singh, Pritam, Anirudh Ravichander and Shreya Ghoshal. ![]() No less than three of AP Dhillon’s songs are among Spotify’s Top 50 – India daily list. Photographer: Sasha Jairam, Creative Director: Kapil Batus, Styling: Nikita Jaisinghani, Clothes: Zegna FW2023 As I write this, “With You” is second the most-streamed track in India on Apple Music and #3 on Spotify, just behind Jasleen Royal’s “Heeriye” (with Arijit Singh and Dulquer Salmaan).ĪP Dhillon on the September 2023 cover of Rolling Stone India. And when he isn’t, he’s busy hogging the charts. Meanwhile, social media and websites are tripping on the AP Dhillon news cycle-his arrival in India, that music video, rumours of the budding romance, the impromptu gig in Delhi, the crowd-surfing moment at a college in Mumbai.īarely three years after his career took off into outer space, AP Dhillon has transformed into the kind of rarefied artist-celebrity that occupies rooms-attention spans, conversations, the very ether-before he even enters them. The room can’t help but move to the infectious hook of Dhillon’s new track. Someone plays “With You” for the third time in a row off a loudspeaker. And he’s running almost two hours behind schedule. Doing his first Rolling Stone cover shoot. He has a busy day ahead of him, busier than most of us, doing something he has been avoiding so far: Meeting the press. It’s the afternoon after the premiere party for AP Dhillon: First of a Kind-which lasted late into the previous night-and a day before the documentary arrives on Prime Video. However, another source indicated that Miss Naldi had a sister living in Spain.AP Dhillon isn’t here yet, and yet he has arrived. The hotel management said there were no known relatives. For a while, Miss Naldi made television appearances, but in recent years she was compelled to seek aid from the Actors Fund. ![]() In 1952, she played in Uta Hagen’s supporting cast in the comedy, "In Any Language." Her part was that of a middle-aged woman who had gigolos. Miss Naldi returned to Broadway in 1933 in "The Firebird" and "Queer People." She once remarked that after her 1933 appearance, she "achieved comparative obscurity and watched what they once called my 'oriental appearance' get to look like something from Angkor Vat - and I don’t mean Vat 69." "They would stop me and ask, 'What was it really like kissing Valentino?'" It pleased her, she added, when a man stopped her and exclaimed in wonder: "You're Nita Naldi, the Vampire." She left the screen when she was married to J. Women don't seem to hate me anymore," she said with satisfaction. I was warned not to appear on the public beaches and everywhere I went people used to look upon me as something unreal - like griffins and unicorns." "The fans," she said, "just assumed that I was in real life as I appeared on the screen. In an interview several years ago, Miss Naldi recalled her hectic career in Hollywood. She appropriated the last syllables of the surname of a close friend, Miss Rinaldi. Her dancing was spotted by John Barrymore, who obtained a part for her in the film, "Dr. As a young girl, she obtained a job as a model here and then joined the chorus at the Winter Garden - but not for long. In Hollywood, through the alchemy of press agentry, the tall, dark and beautiful Nita was rhapsodized as a patrician grande dame, a daughter of a famed Italian diplomat, a distant relation of Dante's Beatrice.įor a while, she attended public school here, and then was reared in a convent in Fort Lee, NJ. Newspaper accounts said that Miss Naldi, who was born here, had been named Donna Dooley. Her rent had been paid in part by the Actors Fund. For the last twenty-five years, she had lived in the hotel. Gilbert, the hotel physician, said that Miss Naldi apparently died of a heart attack. She was 63 years old.Ī maid discovered the body. Nita Naldi, who in the early Nineteen Twenties achieved stardom on the silent screen as a co-star with Rudolph Valentino, was found dead yesterday afternoon in her room at the Wentworth Hotel, 59 West Forty-Sixth Street. Nita Naldi of Silent Films Dies Won Fame Opposite Valentino
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