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Hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg has changed his name for a new album he is working on. He has told reporters that he had to re-invent himself for his new sound: reggae. So, Snoop Dogg went to Jamaica this year and came back Snoop Lion.

His reggae album, “Reincarnated” is expected out sometime in autumn. A film about his experience in Jamaica is also in production.

Snoop Lion’s first single is “La La La.”

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Robin, Maurice and Barry Gibb formed the British band the Bee Gees in the nineteen fifties. But their greatest fame came in the late nineteen seventies with the release of the soundtrack to the movie “Saturday Night Fever.”

Now, Barry Gibb is the only surviving Bee Gee. Maurice died in two thousand three and Robin died in April. But the Bee Gees are still popular. In August, a Bee Gees recording from two thousand four re-entered Billboard’s top two hundred albums chart. The greatest hits album is called “Number Ones,” and includes the nineteen seventy-seven song, “More Than A Woman.”

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PAT BODNER: I’m Pat Bodner. This program was written Kim Varzi and Caty Weaver, who was also the producer. Mike Osbourne provided additional reporting.

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