O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was a playwright and writer.
She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.
Her best known work, the play "A Raisin in the Sun", highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago.
The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
" At the age of 29, she won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award — making her the first African American dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so.
Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case "Hansberry v. Lee".
After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper "Freedom", where she dealt with intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois.
Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggle for liberation and their impact on the world.
She died of cancer at the age of 34.
Hansberry inspired the song by Nina Simone entitled "To Be Young, Gifted and Black".
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist.
Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
The sixth of eight children born to a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist.
With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.
She then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied admission despite a well-received audition, which she attributed to racial discrimination.
In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree.
To make a living, Simone started playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City.
She changed her name to "Nina Simone" to disguise herself from family members, having chosen to play "the devil's music" or so-called "cocktail piano".
She was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, which effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist.
She went on to record more than 40 albums between 1958 and 1974, making her debut with "Little Girl Blue".
She had a hit single in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy".
Her musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Todd Griffin
Todd Griffin is an American musician and a former member of The Graveyard Train.
He is pursuing a solo career and gained fame as the singer of the first version of the theme song to the popular American television series" That' 70s Show".
Michelle Ronksley-Pavia
Michelle Ronksley- Pavia, born in Sheffield, England, is an emerging artist in Australia.
She is also a researcher in education, writer and art teacher, particularly of gifted children.
Ronksley- Pavia has participated in conferences and discussions at embassies, World, National and State conferences on the education of gifted and talented students and those termed twice- exceptional( gifted students with learning disabilities).
Ronksley- Pavia has a Master's Degree in Gifted and Talented Education.
She is currently engaged as a PhD candidate at a Queensland university where she is researching perceptions of underachievement in twice- exceptional students; she has published numerous journal articles on gifted and talented children.
Ronksley- Pavia studied for eight years in Belgium where she was awarded Student of the Year at the École des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
While in Europe she was greatly influenced by the works of the impressionists and the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte.
She emigrated to Australia where she became a citizen in 1994.
She exhibited widely and joined the National Association for the Visual Arts( NAVA) whose influence helped her art career to flourish.
In 1995 she was included in the D.W. Thorpe publication of" The Who's Who of Australian Visual Artists".
Ronksley- Pavia ’s themes generally delve into the human unconscious using scientific subject matter with overtones of religious and particularly ethical questions with regard to DNA cloning, inequalities, particularly disability and racial issues.
She has become increasingly interested in the mixing of science and art.
She was particularly interested in Karl Jung ’s archetypes of the collective unconscious and symbolism.
Michelle is a researcher in education, writer and teacher, particularly of gifted children.
Michelle has participated in conferences and discussions at embassies, World, National and State levels on the education of gifted and talented students and those termed twice- exceptional( gifted students with disabilities).
Michelle's qualifications include a Master's Degree in Gifted and Talented Education.
Michelle is currently engaged in PhD research at a leading Australian university where she is researching perceptions of twice- exceptional students.
Michelle is an educational researcher and lecturers in gifted and special education and has published numerous journal articles and conference presentations on gifted and talented children.
Michelle also presents professional development for teachers and educators, throughout the UK, Belgium and Australia in the field of gifted education.
Michelle is a member of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children and President of the Queensland Association for Gifted and Talented Children( GC Branch) and an award winning artist.
Michelle is also a member of the TICAL 2013 School Leadership Summit Global Advisory Board.
Magenta Devine
Magenta Devine( born Kim Taylor; –) was a British television presenter, journalist and music promoter best known for presenting the travel programme" Rough Guide" and youth programme" Reportage" on BBC2 in the 1990s.
She later presented" Young, Gifted and Broke" for ITV.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
"To Be Young, Gifted and Black" is a song by Nina Simone with lyrics by Weldon Irvine.
It was written in memory of Simone's late friend Lorraine Hansberry, author of the play "A Raisin in the Sun", who had died in 1965 aged 34.
The song was originally recorded and released by Simone in 1969.
The song was also featured on her 1970 album "Black Gold" and was considered an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.
Released as a single, it peaked at number eight on the R&B chart and number 76 on the Hot 100.
Simone sang it to a group of children on the PBS TV series "Sesame Street" on February 18, 1972.
Notable cover
versions of the song were recorded by Donny Hathaway (on his 1970 album "Everything Is Everything"), Aretha Franklin (on her 1972 album "Young, Gifted and Black") and Bob and Marcia (whose 1970 recording reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart and number 15 in Ireland).
Jamaican rocksteady/
reggae trio
The Heptones recorded a version for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One label in 1970.
American singer Meshell Ndegeocello included a version on her 2012 tribute album .
Elton John recorded a version of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" prior to his solo success.
Intended to be released as a low-budget sound-alike version of the original, it was later reissued on the compilation album "Covers as Sung by Elton John".
The song has also become a popular sample amongst various modern R&B/hip-hop pieces, including Rah Digga's 2003 unreleased record "On the Move",
Faith Evans' 2014 single
"I Deserve It", featuring Missy Elliott and Sharaya J, and on the title track of Rapsody's 2017 album "Laila's Wisdom".
Mississippi Goddam
" Mississippi Goddam" is a song written and performed by American singer and pianist Nina Simone, who later announced the anthem to be her" first civil rights song".
It was released on her album" Nina Simone in Concert" in 1964.
The album was based on recordings of three concerts she gave at Carnegie Hall in 1964.
The album was her first release for the Dutch label Philips Records and is indicative of the more political turn her recorded music took during this period.
Simone composed" Mississippi Goddam" in less than an hour.
Together with" Four Women" and" To Be Young, Gifted and Black", it is one of her most famous protest songs and self- written compositions.
In 2019," Mississippi Goddam" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being" culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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