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32298490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20D.%20Weinrich | James D. Weinrich | James Donald "Jim" Weinrich (born 1950) is an American sex researcher and psychobiologist. Much of his work examines the relationship of biology and sexual orientation. He won the Outstanding Contributions to Sexual Science Award at the 2011 Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) Western Region annual meeting. He has also won the SSSS Hugo Beigel Award for the best paper published in The Journal of Sex Research (co-authored with Richard Pillard). Weinrich served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bisexuality from 2011-2014. He has also served on the editorial boards for The Journal of Sex Research and the Journal of Homosexuality.
Life and career
Weinrich earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University in 1972. He graduated with a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1976. He was Robert Trivers' first graduate student, and his 1976 dissertation addressed social-class differences in heterosexual behaviors, and the evolutionary adaptiveness of same-sex attraction.
For the next three years, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow. He then moved to Baltimore for a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University with sexologist John Money. In 1983, he went to Boston to work with Richard Pillard at Boston University School of Medicine. While working with Pillard, he devised "The Periodic Table of the Gender Transposition." In 1987, he moved to the University of California, San Diego to work with Igor Grant researching effects of AIDS on the brain. He served as Assistant Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and in 1990 was appointed the original Center Manager and Data Manager for the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC). He later became Principal Investigator of the HNRC Sexology Project, serving until 2000. After working for several years as an independent Internet consultant and entrepreneur, Weinrich returned to teaching in 2006, and he returned to school to earn a master's degree in psychology from San Diego State University. Since moving to San Diego, he has taught at San Diego State University, Grossmont College, Miramar College, Southwestern College, San Diego City College, National University and California State University San Marcos.
Among Weinrich's contributions are the "Limerent and Lusty Sex Theory" developed with Richard Pillard, which holds that there are two kinds of sex drives, and that both exist in men and women. He and Pillard also found that homosexuality runs in some families.
Selected bibliography
Pillard RC, Weinrich JD (1987). The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part I. A theory based on masculinization and defeminization of the brain. Journal of Sex Research. 23(4):425-454.
Weinrich JD (1988) The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part II. Limerent and lusty sexual attractions and the nature of bisexuality. Journal of Sex Research. 24(1), 113-129.
Weinrich JD (1997). Strange bedfellows: Homosexuality, gay liberation, and the Internet. Journal of Sex Education & Therapy. Vol 22(1), Jun 1997, 58-66.
Kaplan RM, Anderson JP, Patterson TL, McCutchan JA, Weinrich JD, Heaton RK, Atkinson JH, Thal L, Chandler J, Grant I: HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (1995). Validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale for persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Psychosomatic Medicine, March 1, 1995, vol. 57 no. 2 138-147.
Weinrich JD, Atkinson JH Jr, McCutchan JA, Grant I: HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (1995). Is gender dysphoria dysphoric? Elevated depression and anxiety in gender dysphoric and nondysphoric homosexual and bisexual men in an HIV sample. Arch Sex Behav. 1995 Feb;24(1):55-72.
Gonsiorek JC, Sell RL, Weinrich JD (1995). Definition and measurement of sexual orientation. Suicide Life Threat Behav. 1995;25 Suppl:40-51.
Weinrich JD (1995). Biological research on sexual orientation: a critique of the critics. J Homosex. 1995;28(1-2):197-213.
Snyder PJ, Weinrich JD, Pillard RC (1994). Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men. Arch Sex Behav. 1994 Aug;23(4):433-51.
Pillard RC, Rosen LR, Meyer-Bahlburg H, Weinrich JD, Feldman JF, Gruen R, Ehrhardt AA (1993). Psychopathology and social functioning in men prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES). Psychosom Med. 1993 Nov-Dec;55(6):485-91.
Weinrich JD, Snyder PJ, Pillard RC, Grant I, Jacobson DL, Robinson SR, McCutchan JA (1993). A factor analysis of the Klein sexual orientation grid in two disparate samples. Arch Sex Behav. 1993 Apr;22(2):157-68.
Grant I, Olshen RA, Atkinson JH, Heaton RK, Nelson J, McCutchan JA, Weinrich JD (1993). Depressed mood does not explain neuropsychological deficits in HIV-infected persons. Neuropsychology, Vol 7(1), Jan 1993, 53-61.
Weinrich JD, Grant I, Jacobson DL, Robinson SR, McCutchan JA: HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (1992). Effects of recalled childhood gender nonconformity on adult genitoerotic role and AIDS exposure. Arch Sex Behav. 1992 Dec;21(6):559-85.
Day JJ, Grant I, Atkinson JH, Brysk LT, McCutchan JA, Hesselink JR, Heaton RK, Weinrich JD, Spector SA, Richman DD (1992). Incidence of AIDS dementia in a two-year follow-up of AIDS and ARC patients on an initial phase II AZT placebo-controlled study: San Diego cohort. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 1992 Winter;4(1):15-20.
Gonsiorek JC, Weinrich JD (1991). Homosexuality: research implications for public policy. Sage Publications,
Weinrich JD (1988). Sex survey. Science. 1988 Oct 7;242(4875):16.
Weinrich JD (1987). Sexual landscapes: why we are what we are, why we love whom we love. Scribner's,
Pillard RC, Weinrich JD. Evidence of familial nature of male homosexuality. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1986 Aug;43(8):808-12.
Money J, Weinrich JD (1983). Juvenile, pedophile, heterophile: hermeneutics of science, medicine and law in two outcome studies. Med Law. 1983;2(1):39-54.
Weinrich JD (1980). Toward a sociobiological theory of the emotions. In Plutchik R, Kellerman H (eds.) Emotion: Theory, research, and experience. Academic Press,
Weinrich JD (1978). Nonreproduction, homosexuality, transsexualism, and intelligence: I. A systematic literature search. J Homosex. 1978 Spring;3(3):275-89.
Weinrich JD (1977). Human sociobiology: Pair-bonding and resource predictability (effects of social class and race). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Vol. 2, No. 2, 1977, pp. 91–118.
Weinrich JD (1975). Human family size and marital relations: a biological interpretation. Harvard, Bowdoin Prize for Essays in the Natural Sciences
References
External links
, University of California, San Diego
James D. Weinrich faculty page via Grossmont College
1950 births
American sexologists
Living people
Princeton University alumni
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"He has also won the SSSS Hugo Beigel Award for the best paper published in The Journal of Sex Research (co-authored with Richard Pillard).",
"Weinrich served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bisexuality from 2011-2014.",
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"While working with Pillard, he devised \"The Periodic Table of the Gender Transposition.\"",
"In 1987, he moved to the University of California, San Diego to work with Igor Grant researching effects of AIDS on the brain.",
"He served as Assistant Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and in 1990 was appointed the original Center Manager and Data Manager for the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC).",
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"Biological research on sexual orientation: a critique of the critics.",
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"Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men.",
"Arch Sex Behav.",
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"Pillard RC, Rosen LR, Meyer-Bahlburg H, Weinrich JD, Feldman JF, Gruen R, Ehrhardt AA (1993).",
"Psychopathology and social functioning in men prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES).",
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"Grant I, Olshen RA, Atkinson JH, Heaton RK, Nelson J, McCutchan JA, Weinrich JD (1993).",
"Depressed mood does not explain neuropsychological deficits in HIV-infected persons.",
"Neuropsychology, Vol 7(1), Jan 1993, 53-61.",
"Weinrich JD, Grant I, Jacobson DL, Robinson SR, McCutchan JA: HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (1992).",
"Effects of recalled childhood gender nonconformity on adult genitoerotic role and AIDS exposure.",
"Arch Sex Behav.",
"1992 Dec;21(6):559-85.",
"Day JJ, Grant I, Atkinson JH, Brysk LT, McCutchan JA, Hesselink JR, Heaton RK, Weinrich JD, Spector SA, Richman DD (1992).",
"Incidence of AIDS dementia in a two-year follow-up of AIDS and ARC patients on an initial phase II AZT placebo-controlled study: San Diego cohort.",
"J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci.",
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"Evidence of familial nature of male homosexuality.",
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"Juvenile, pedophile, heterophile: hermeneutics of science, medicine and law in two outcome studies.",
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"Toward a sociobiological theory of the emotions.",
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"Emotion: Theory, research, and experience.",
"Academic Press, \nWeinrich JD (1978).",
"Nonreproduction, homosexuality, transsexualism, and intelligence: I.",
"A systematic literature search.",
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"Human sociobiology: Pair-bonding and resource predictability (effects of social class and race).",
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American sexologists
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1960593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Penhaligon | David Penhaligon | David Charles Penhaligon (6 June 1944 – 22 December 1986) was a British politician from Cornwall who was Liberal Member of Parliament for the constituency of Truro from 1974–86. He was a popular figure in all parties and had potential to be a front-runner for the party leadership had he not been killed in a car accident. In 2014 a Crowdfunder campaign was launched to record his life's work and impact.
Background
Penhaligon was born on D-Day and brought up in Truro. He was a cousin of actress Susan Penhaligon. He attended Truro School, and then Cornwall Technical College where he studied mechanical engineering. Penhaligon worked for Holman Brothers in Camborne as a research and development engineer working on rock drilling. As an interesting anecdote, he was also a part-time DJ at the Hall for Cornwall where he once encountered 14 year old Roger Taylor, subsequently the Queen drummer, at a musical event that he compered in Truro City Hall during 1964. By 1973 he had qualified as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer; he also took over from his father a sub-post office in Chacewater from 1967 (after his marriage in 1968 to Annette Lidgey, she ran the business). His Liberal activities led to some work in local broadcasting.
Penhaligon's decision to join the Liberal Party was inspired in 1963 when, aged 19, he was an important witness to a murder case. His evidence, which supported the case of the defendant Dennis Whitty, was not enough to prevent him from being convicted and hanged. Penhaligon was appalled by the practice of capital punishment. He led the Truro Young Liberals and built up the local party (which had been the weakest in Cornwall) into one of the strongest; he was the chair of the Cornish Young Liberals from 1966 to 1968. However he was not selected as Liberal candidate for Truro in the 1966 general election (nor for any other seat), and he was also rejected for Falmouth and Camborne in 1968 apparently because his strong Cornish accent was thought unattractive.
In the 1970 general election he fought the Devon constituency of Totnes when the previous candidate Paul Tyler transferred to Bodmin. He polled poorly in the context of an election in which the party as a whole suffered. However, Penhaligon had acquired useful experience of fighting election campaigns and picked up additional tips from Wallace Lawler's practices in inner-city Birmingham.
Campaigning in Truro
In 1971 Penhaligon was easily selected as candidate for Truro, a seat which did not look an easier prospect than Totnes. This gave him three years in which to get his name known and meet his prospective constituents (a practice known as 'nursing' a constituency) and when the election came in February 1974 he won nearly 21,000 votes and cut the majority of the sitting Conservative MP to 2,561. Truro became the fourth 'target' constituency for the Liberals for the next election — which would take place within months because of the inconclusive outcome in February.
Parliamentary career
Penhaligon was readopted and worked on trying to persuade the remaining Labour voters in the seat to back him. In the October 1974 election he was elected with a majority of 464 votes – the only Liberal gain of that election. Due to House of Commons rules on 'offices of profit under the crown' he transferred his sub-postmastership to his wife. In Parliament he swiftly won a reputation for humorous speeches, urging a national minimum wage and increased state pensions. He voted for fellow Cornish MP John Pardoe over David Steel in the Liberal leadership election of 1976. He was hard to place in conventional political terms: he changed his mind over capital punishment, initially voting against in December 1974, but supporting it in December 1975.
Although frequently speaking on national issues, it was clear that Penhaligon's main concern was local. He became known in particular for defending the Cornish tin mining industry and the local Fishing fleets. He spoke with conviction and knowledge about the problems of rural areas in Cornwall with road fuel costs and inadequate infrastructure.
Tourism, ice cream and deckchairs
In a speech made at Camborne in support of the miners he famously said:
Lib-Lab pact
When the Lib-Lab pact was first mooted in March 1977, Penhaligon was initially opposed and spoke against it. He later came round and told the Liberal Assembly in September 1977 that it had achieved an 'economic revolution'. At a special Assembly in January 1978 he was a star speaker in persuading the delegates representing Liberal members to continue the pact. The pact allowed the Liberals to influence government legislation and Penhaligon objected to proposals from Tony Benn for an Electricity Industry Bill which would centralise control, which single-handedly prevented any progress.
Part of Penhaligon's support for the Lib-Lab pact was his fear that an early general election would result in a poor performance for the Liberals, and his own seat might be vulnerable. In October 1978 after the pact had lapsed, he explained that "Turkeys don't volunteer for Christmas!". The scandal over former party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was charged with conspiracy to murder in August 1978, was a matter of particular concern and Penhaligon urged Thorpe to stand down and the Liberal Party not to endorse him. When Thorpe did seek re-election, Penhaligon refused to help his campaign.
Despite his narrow majority and the belief that he was the most vulnerable of the Liberal MPs, Penhaligon kept his seat with a much larger majority (8,708) in the 1979 general election. Against the Conservative government, he strongly opposed nuclear power. Against the majority of Liberal Party members he strongly supported NATO and nuclear weapons, describing a separate European non-nuclear defence as 'akin to a behaving like a virgin in a brothel', although he supported demands for 'dual key control' of United States cruise missiles based in Britain.
In the Alliance
Penhaligon supported the SDP-Liberal Alliance from the start, although he resented SDP attempts to take control of the Liberal Party's target seats. He was named in January 1982 as one of the 'firemen' who would sort out any disagreements between the parties (John Horam was his SDP counterpart). He was particularly prominent and impressive in the 1983 election campaign in which he spoke for the Liberal Party on Transport, Industry and Energy; Hugo Young described him as having "a closer grasp of national electoral politics ... than any other Liberal MP". After the election he became an early proponent of a merger between the SDP and the Liberals under a single leader, largely to avoid disputes over allocations of Parliamentary seats.
Death and legacy
From 1983 Penhaligon headed the Liberal by-election unit which planned the campaigns in individual seats. At the Liberal Assembly in September 1984 he was chosen as President-elect of the Liberal Party (the first sitting MP to be elected to the post), and served as Party President from 1985 to 1986. This carried with it the job of presiding over the Liberal Assembly at the end of his term, which saw a party split over defence policy and whether to support nuclear weapons; Penhaligon did not intervene, something he regretted afterwards.
He was appointed as Chief spokesman on the economy in 1985; though admitting he had no financial experience, he challenged the Conservative policy on privatisation and monetarism. He was a central figure in planning the Alliance general election campaign at the time of his death.
At 6.45 am on 22 December 1986, he was travelling to a post office to meet workers there when a van skidded on an icy road and hit his Rover SD1 car near Truck Fork, Probus, Cornwall. Penhaligon was pronounced dead at the scene. The van driver was not prosecuted for the accident. The inquest held in March 1987 strongly suggested that Penhaligon was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, nor was the driver of the van, who was thrown out of his vehicle and suffered two broken legs as a result. Penhaligon's injuries were extensive fracture of his ribs and fracture of the neck vertebrae. The cause of death was damage to the aorta as well as massive damage to the spleen and liver.
From July 1986, Penhaligon had employed Matthew Taylor, a University of Oxford graduate, as his research assistant on the economy; Taylor was selected to follow him as Liberal candidate for Truro and was duly returned in the 1987 Truro by-election.
Penhaligon's widow wrote his biography in 1989; his son Matthew has previously been an active member of the Liberal Democrats and was the party's candidate for the Mayoralty of Hackney in May 2006.
Penhaligon Award
The Liberal Democrats remember Penhaligon's ability to recruit and enthuse members through the Penhaligon Award, a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members and activists.
References
Bibliography
Andrew Roth, 'David Penhaligon' in 'Parliamentary Profiles L-R' (Parliamentary Profiles Service, London, 1985),
Annette Penhaligon, 'Penhaligon' (Bloomsbury, London, 1989),
External links
BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs, 27 Mar 1987, 45 minute interview with David Penhaligon and Michael Parkinson
1944 births
1986 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Truro
People educated at Truro School
Politicians from Cornwall
Presidents of the Liberal Party (UK)
Road incident deaths in England
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
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"David Charles Penhaligon (6 June 1944 – 22 December 1986) was a British politician from Cornwall who was Liberal Member of Parliament for the constituency of Truro from 1974–86.",
"He was a popular figure in all parties and had potential to be a front-runner for the party leadership had he not been killed in a car accident.",
"In 2014 a Crowdfunder campaign was launched to record his life's work and impact.",
"Background\nPenhaligon was born on D-Day and brought up in Truro.",
"He was a cousin of actress Susan Penhaligon.",
"He attended Truro School, and then Cornwall Technical College where he studied mechanical engineering.",
"Penhaligon worked for Holman Brothers in Camborne as a research and development engineer working on rock drilling.",
"As an interesting anecdote, he was also a part-time DJ at the Hall for Cornwall where he once encountered 14 year old Roger Taylor, subsequently the Queen drummer, at a musical event that he compered in Truro City Hall during 1964.",
"By 1973 he had qualified as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer; he also took over from his father a sub-post office in Chacewater from 1967 (after his marriage in 1968 to Annette Lidgey, she ran the business).",
"His Liberal activities led to some work in local broadcasting.",
"Penhaligon's decision to join the Liberal Party was inspired in 1963 when, aged 19, he was an important witness to a murder case.",
"His evidence, which supported the case of the defendant Dennis Whitty, was not enough to prevent him from being convicted and hanged.",
"Penhaligon was appalled by the practice of capital punishment.",
"He led the Truro Young Liberals and built up the local party (which had been the weakest in Cornwall) into one of the strongest; he was the chair of the Cornish Young Liberals from 1966 to 1968.",
"However he was not selected as Liberal candidate for Truro in the 1966 general election (nor for any other seat), and he was also rejected for Falmouth and Camborne in 1968 apparently because his strong Cornish accent was thought unattractive.",
"In the 1970 general election he fought the Devon constituency of Totnes when the previous candidate Paul Tyler transferred to Bodmin.",
"He polled poorly in the context of an election in which the party as a whole suffered.",
"However, Penhaligon had acquired useful experience of fighting election campaigns and picked up additional tips from Wallace Lawler's practices in inner-city Birmingham.",
"Campaigning in Truro\nIn 1971 Penhaligon was easily selected as candidate for Truro, a seat which did not look an easier prospect than Totnes.",
"This gave him three years in which to get his name known and meet his prospective constituents (a practice known as 'nursing' a constituency) and when the election came in February 1974 he won nearly 21,000 votes and cut the majority of the sitting Conservative MP to 2,561.",
"Truro became the fourth 'target' constituency for the Liberals for the next election — which would take place within months because of the inconclusive outcome in February.",
"Parliamentary career\nPenhaligon was readopted and worked on trying to persuade the remaining Labour voters in the seat to back him.",
"In the October 1974 election he was elected with a majority of 464 votes – the only Liberal gain of that election.",
"Due to House of Commons rules on 'offices of profit under the crown' he transferred his sub-postmastership to his wife.",
"In Parliament he swiftly won a reputation for humorous speeches, urging a national minimum wage and increased state pensions.",
"He voted for fellow Cornish MP John Pardoe over David Steel in the Liberal leadership election of 1976.",
"He was hard to place in conventional political terms: he changed his mind over capital punishment, initially voting against in December 1974, but supporting it in December 1975.",
"Although frequently speaking on national issues, it was clear that Penhaligon's main concern was local.",
"He became known in particular for defending the Cornish tin mining industry and the local Fishing fleets.",
"He spoke with conviction and knowledge about the problems of rural areas in Cornwall with road fuel costs and inadequate infrastructure.",
"Tourism, ice cream and deckchairs\nIn a speech made at Camborne in support of the miners he famously said:\n\nLib-Lab pact\nWhen the Lib-Lab pact was first mooted in March 1977, Penhaligon was initially opposed and spoke against it.",
"He later came round and told the Liberal Assembly in September 1977 that it had achieved an 'economic revolution'.",
"At a special Assembly in January 1978 he was a star speaker in persuading the delegates representing Liberal members to continue the pact.",
"The pact allowed the Liberals to influence government legislation and Penhaligon objected to proposals from Tony Benn for an Electricity Industry Bill which would centralise control, which single-handedly prevented any progress.",
"Part of Penhaligon's support for the Lib-Lab pact was his fear that an early general election would result in a poor performance for the Liberals, and his own seat might be vulnerable.",
"In October 1978 after the pact had lapsed, he explained that \"Turkeys don't volunteer for Christmas!\".",
"The scandal over former party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was charged with conspiracy to murder in August 1978, was a matter of particular concern and Penhaligon urged Thorpe to stand down and the Liberal Party not to endorse him.",
"When Thorpe did seek re-election, Penhaligon refused to help his campaign.",
"Despite his narrow majority and the belief that he was the most vulnerable of the Liberal MPs, Penhaligon kept his seat with a much larger majority (8,708) in the 1979 general election.",
"Against the Conservative government, he strongly opposed nuclear power.",
"Against the majority of Liberal Party members he strongly supported NATO and nuclear weapons, describing a separate European non-nuclear defence as 'akin to a behaving like a virgin in a brothel', although he supported demands for 'dual key control' of United States cruise missiles based in Britain.",
"In the Alliance\nPenhaligon supported the SDP-Liberal Alliance from the start, although he resented SDP attempts to take control of the Liberal Party's target seats.",
"He was named in January 1982 as one of the 'firemen' who would sort out any disagreements between the parties (John Horam was his SDP counterpart).",
"He was particularly prominent and impressive in the 1983 election campaign in which he spoke for the Liberal Party on Transport, Industry and Energy; Hugo Young described him as having \"a closer grasp of national electoral politics ... than any other Liberal MP\".",
"After the election he became an early proponent of a merger between the SDP and the Liberals under a single leader, largely to avoid disputes over allocations of Parliamentary seats.",
"Death and legacy\nFrom 1983 Penhaligon headed the Liberal by-election unit which planned the campaigns in individual seats.",
"At the Liberal Assembly in September 1984 he was chosen as President-elect of the Liberal Party (the first sitting MP to be elected to the post), and served as Party President from 1985 to 1986.",
"This carried with it the job of presiding over the Liberal Assembly at the end of his term, which saw a party split over defence policy and whether to support nuclear weapons; Penhaligon did not intervene, something he regretted afterwards.",
"He was appointed as Chief spokesman on the economy in 1985; though admitting he had no financial experience, he challenged the Conservative policy on privatisation and monetarism.",
"He was a central figure in planning the Alliance general election campaign at the time of his death.",
"At 6.45 am on 22 December 1986, he was travelling to a post office to meet workers there when a van skidded on an icy road and hit his Rover SD1 car near Truck Fork, Probus, Cornwall.",
"Penhaligon was pronounced dead at the scene.",
"The van driver was not prosecuted for the accident.",
"The inquest held in March 1987 strongly suggested that Penhaligon was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, nor was the driver of the van, who was thrown out of his vehicle and suffered two broken legs as a result.",
"Penhaligon's injuries were extensive fracture of his ribs and fracture of the neck vertebrae.",
"The cause of death was damage to the aorta as well as massive damage to the spleen and liver.",
"From July 1986, Penhaligon had employed Matthew Taylor, a University of Oxford graduate, as his research assistant on the economy; Taylor was selected to follow him as Liberal candidate for Truro and was duly returned in the 1987 Truro by-election.",
"Penhaligon's widow wrote his biography in 1989; his son Matthew has previously been an active member of the Liberal Democrats and was the party's candidate for the Mayoralty of Hackney in May 2006.",
"Penhaligon Award\nThe Liberal Democrats remember Penhaligon's ability to recruit and enthuse members through the Penhaligon Award, a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members and activists.",
"References\n\nBibliography\n Andrew Roth, 'David Penhaligon' in 'Parliamentary Profiles L-R' (Parliamentary Profiles Service, London, 1985), \n Annette Penhaligon, 'Penhaligon' (Bloomsbury, London, 1989),\n\nExternal links \n\n \n BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs, 27 Mar 1987, 45 minute interview with David Penhaligon and Michael Parkinson\n\n1944 births\n1986 deaths\nLiberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies\nMembers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Truro\nPeople educated at Truro School\nPoliticians from Cornwall\nPresidents of the Liberal Party (UK)\nRoad incident deaths in England\nUK MPs 1974–1979\nUK MPs 1979–1983\nUK MPs 1983–1987"
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"Had he not been killed in a car accident, he would have been a front-runner for the leadership of the party.",
"A Crowdfunder campaign was launched to record his life's work.",
"Penhaligon was born on D-Day.",
"Susan Penhaligon was his cousin.",
"He studied mechanical engineering at Cornwall Technical College.",
"Penhaligon worked for Holman Brothers as a research and development engineer.",
"He was a part-time DJ at the Hall for Cornwall where he once met Roger Taylor, the drummer for Queen, at a musical event.",
"After his marriage in 1968 to Annette Lidgey, he took over from his father the sub-post office in Chacewater.",
"Some work was done in local broadcasting as a result of his Liberal activities.",
"Penhaligon joined the Liberal Party because he was an important witness to a murder case.",
"His evidence was not enough to prevent Dennis Whitty from being found guilty and sentenced to death.",
"Penhaligon was against capital punishment.",
"He was the chair of the Cornish Young Liberals from 1966 to 1968 and he built up the local party into one of the strongest in Cornwall.",
"He was not selected as a Liberal candidate in the 1966 general election, and he was also rejected for two seats because of his strong Cornish accent.",
"He fought the Totnes constituency in the 1970 general election when the previous candidate moved to Bodmin.",
"He didn't do well in the election in which the party suffered.",
"Penhaligon gained experience fighting election campaigns and picked up additional tips from Wallace Lawler's practices.",
"In 1971 Penhaligon was selected as a candidate for the seat of Truro, a seat which did not look easy to win.",
"This gave him three years in which to get his name known and meet his prospective constituency, and when the election came in February 1974 he won nearly 21,000 votes and cut the majority of the sitting Conservative MP to 2,561.",
"The next election for the Liberals will take place within months because of the inconclusive result in February.",
"Penhaligon tried to get the remaining Labour voters in the seat to back him after he was readopted.",
"He was elected with a majority of 464 votes in the October 1974 election.",
"The sub-postmastership was transferred to his wife due to House of Commons rules.",
"He quickly won a reputation for his funny speeches, urging a national minimum wage and increased state pensions.",
"In the Liberal leadership election of 1976, he voted for John Pardoe over David Steel.",
"He voted against capital punishment in December 1974 but supported it in December 1975.",
"Penhaligon's main concern was local, even though it was frequently speaking on national issues.",
"He was known for his defense of the Cornish tin mining industry.",
"He spoke about the problems of rural areas in Cornwall with inadequate infrastructure and road fuel costs.",
"In a speech made at Camborne in support of the miners, Penhaligon spoke against the Lib-Lab pact.",
"The Liberal Assembly was told in 1977 that it had achieved an economic revolution.",
"He was a star speaker in persuading delegates to continue the pact at a special Assembly in January 1978.",
"The pact allowed the Liberals to influence government legislation and Penhaligon objected to proposals from Tony Benn for an Electricity Industry Bill which would centralise control.",
"Penhaligon was worried that an early general election would result in a poor performance for the Liberals and that his own seat might be vulnerable.",
"\"Turkeys don't volunteer for Christmas!\" he said in October 1978.",
"The scandal over former party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was charged with conspiracy to murder in August 1978, was a matter of particular concern and Penhaligon urged him to stand down and the Liberal Party not to endorse him.",
"Penhaligon refused to help his campaign when he tried to get re-elected.",
"Penhaligon retained his seat in the 1979 general election despite his narrow majority and the belief that he was the most vulnerable of the Liberal MPs.",
"He was against nuclear power.",
"He was against the majority of Liberal Party members and supported NATO and nuclear weapons.",
"Penhaligon supported the SDP-Liberal Alliance from the beginning, despite his dislike of SDP attempts to take control of the Liberal Party's target seats.",
"He was one of the firemen who would sort out disagreements between the parties.",
"He spoke in the 1983 election campaign for the Liberal Party on Transport, Industry and Energy and was described by Hugo Young as having a closer grasp of national electoral politics than any other Liberal MP.",
"He became an early supporter of a merger between the SDP and the Liberals under a single leader to avoid disputes over parliamentary seats.",
"The Liberal by-election unit was headed by Penhaligon.",
"He was elected President-elect of the Liberal Party in September 1984 and served as Party President from 1985 to 1986.",
"The job of presiding over the Liberal Assembly at the end of his term saw a party split over defence policy and whether to support nuclear weapons; Penhaligon did not intervene, something he regretted afterwards.",
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"The driver of the van, who was thrown out of his vehicle, and Penhaligon, who was not wearing a seat belt, were both injured in the crash.",
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"The cause of death was caused by damage to the aorta.",
"Matthew Taylor, a graduate of the University of Oxford, was hired by Penhaligon as a research assistant on the economy in July 1986 and was selected to follow him as a Liberal candidate in the 1987 Truro by-election.",
"Penhaligon's widow wrote his biography in 1989 and his son Matthew was a candidate for the Mayoralty of Hackney in 2006",
"The Penhaligon Award is a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members.",
"In 'Parliamentary Profiles L-R' (Parliamentary Profiles Service, London, 1985), there is a reference to 'David Penhaligon'."
] | <mask> (6 June 1944 – 22 December 1986) was a British politician from Cornwall who was Liberal Member of Parliament for the constituency of Truro from 1974–86. He was a popular figure in all parties and had potential to be a front-runner for the party leadership had he not been killed in a car accident. In 2014 a Crowdfunder campaign was launched to record his life's work and impact. <mask> was born on D-Day and brought up in Truro. He was a cousin of actress <mask>. He attended Truro School, and then Cornwall Technical College where he studied mechanical engineering. Penhaligon worked for Holman Brothers in Camborne as a research and development engineer working on rock drilling.As an interesting anecdote, he was also a part-time DJ at the Hall for Cornwall where he once encountered 14 year old Roger Taylor, subsequently the Queen drummer, at a musical event that he compered in Truro City Hall during 1964. By 1973 he had qualified as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer; he also took over from his father a sub-post office in Chacewater from 1967 (after his marriage in 1968 to Annette Lidgey, she ran the business). His Liberal activities led to some work in local broadcasting. Penhaligon's decision to join the Liberal Party was inspired in 1963 when, aged 19, he was an important witness to a murder case. His evidence, which supported the case of the defendant Dennis Whitty, was not enough to prevent him from being convicted and hanged. Penhaligon was appalled by the practice of capital punishment. He led the Truro Young Liberals and built up the local party (which had been the weakest in Cornwall) into one of the strongest; he was the chair of the Cornish Young Liberals from 1966 to 1968.However he was not selected as Liberal candidate for Truro in the 1966 general election (nor for any other seat), and he was also rejected for Falmouth and Camborne in 1968 apparently because his strong Cornish accent was thought unattractive. In the 1970 general election he fought the Devon constituency of Totnes when the previous candidate Paul Tyler transferred to Bodmin. He polled poorly in the context of an election in which the party as a whole suffered. However, Penhaligon had acquired useful experience of fighting election campaigns and picked up additional tips from Wallace Lawler's practices in inner-city Birmingham. Campaigning in Truro
In 1971 Penhaligon was easily selected as candidate for Truro, a seat which did not look an easier prospect than Totnes. This gave him three years in which to get his name known and meet his prospective constituents (a practice known as 'nursing' a constituency) and when the election came in February 1974 he won nearly 21,000 votes and cut the majority of the sitting Conservative MP to 2,561. Truro became the fourth 'target' constituency for the Liberals for the next election — which would take place within months because of the inconclusive outcome in February.Parliamentary career
<mask> was readopted and worked on trying to persuade the remaining Labour voters in the seat to back him. In the October 1974 election he was elected with a majority of 464 votes – the only Liberal gain of that election. Due to House of Commons rules on 'offices of profit under the crown' he transferred his sub-postmastership to his wife. In Parliament he swiftly won a reputation for humorous speeches, urging a national minimum wage and increased state pensions. He voted for fellow Cornish MP John Pardoe over <mask> in the Liberal leadership election of 1976. He was hard to place in conventional political terms: he changed his mind over capital punishment, initially voting against in December 1974, but supporting it in December 1975. Although frequently speaking on national issues, it was clear that Penhaligon's main concern was local.He became known in particular for defending the Cornish tin mining industry and the local Fishing fleets. He spoke with conviction and knowledge about the problems of rural areas in Cornwall with road fuel costs and inadequate infrastructure. Tourism, ice cream and deckchairs
In a speech made at Camborne in support of the miners he famously said:
Lib-Lab pact
When the Lib-Lab pact was first mooted in March 1977, Penhaligon was initially opposed and spoke against it. He later came round and told the Liberal Assembly in September 1977 that it had achieved an 'economic revolution'. At a special Assembly in January 1978 he was a star speaker in persuading the delegates representing Liberal members to continue the pact. The pact allowed the Liberals to influence government legislation and Penhaligon objected to proposals from Tony Benn for an Electricity Industry Bill which would centralise control, which single-handedly prevented any progress. Part of Penhaligon's support for the Lib-Lab pact was his fear that an early general election would result in a poor performance for the Liberals, and his own seat might be vulnerable.In October 1978 after the pact had lapsed, he explained that "Turkeys don't volunteer for Christmas!". The scandal over former party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was charged with conspiracy to murder in August 1978, was a matter of particular concern and Penhaligon urged Thorpe to stand down and the Liberal Party not to endorse him. When Thorpe did seek re-election, Penhaligon refused to help his campaign. Despite his narrow majority and the belief that he was the most vulnerable of the Liberal MPs, Penhaligon kept his seat with a much larger majority (8,708) in the 1979 general election. Against the Conservative government, he strongly opposed nuclear power. Against the majority of Liberal Party members he strongly supported NATO and nuclear weapons, describing a separate European non-nuclear defence as 'akin to a behaving like a virgin in a brothel', although he supported demands for 'dual key control' of United States cruise missiles based in Britain. In the Alliance
Penhaligon supported the SDP-Liberal Alliance from the start, although he resented SDP attempts to take control of the Liberal Party's target seats.He was named in January 1982 as one of the 'firemen' who would sort out any disagreements between the parties (John Horam was his SDP counterpart). He was particularly prominent and impressive in the 1983 election campaign in which he spoke for the Liberal Party on Transport, Industry and Energy; Hugo Young described him as having "a closer grasp of national electoral politics ... than any other Liberal MP". After the election he became an early proponent of a merger between the SDP and the Liberals under a single leader, largely to avoid disputes over allocations of Parliamentary seats. Death and legacy
From 1983 Penhaligon headed the Liberal by-election unit which planned the campaigns in individual seats. At the Liberal Assembly in September 1984 he was chosen as President-elect of the Liberal Party (the first sitting MP to be elected to the post), and served as Party President from 1985 to 1986. This carried with it the job of presiding over the Liberal Assembly at the end of his term, which saw a party split over defence policy and whether to support nuclear weapons; Penhaligon did not intervene, something he regretted afterwards. He was appointed as Chief spokesman on the economy in 1985; though admitting he had no financial experience, he challenged the Conservative policy on privatisation and monetarism.He was a central figure in planning the Alliance general election campaign at the time of his death. At 6.45 am on 22 December 1986, he was travelling to a post office to meet workers there when a van skidded on an icy road and hit his Rover SD1 car near Truck Fork, Probus, Cornwall. Penhaligon was pronounced dead at the scene. The van driver was not prosecuted for the accident. The inquest held in March 1987 strongly suggested that Penhaligon was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, nor was the driver of the van, who was thrown out of his vehicle and suffered two broken legs as a result. Penhaligon's injuries were extensive fracture of his ribs and fracture of the neck vertebrae. The cause of death was damage to the aorta as well as massive damage to the spleen and liver.From July 1986, Penhaligon had employed Matthew Taylor, a University of Oxford graduate, as his research assistant on the economy; Taylor was selected to follow him as Liberal candidate for Truro and was duly returned in the 1987 Truro by-election. Penhaligon's widow wrote his biography in 1989; his son Matthew has previously been an active member of the Liberal Democrats and was the party's candidate for the Mayoralty of Hackney in May 2006. Penhaligon Award
The Liberal Democrats remember Penhaligon's ability to recruit and enthuse members through the Penhaligon Award, a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members and activists. References
Bibliography
Andrew Roth, '<mask>' in 'Parliamentary Profiles L-R' (Parliamentary Profiles Service, London, 1985),
<mask>, 'Penhaligon' (Bloomsbury, London, 1989),
External links
BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs, 27 Mar 1987, 45 minute interview with <mask>gon and Michael Parkinson
1944 births
1986 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Truro
People educated at Truro School
Politicians from Cornwall
Presidents of the Liberal Party (UK)
Road incident deaths in England
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
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Penhaligon was against capital punishment. He was the chair of the Cornish Young Liberals from 1966 to 1968 and he built up the local party into one of the strongest in Cornwall.He was not selected as a Liberal candidate in the 1966 general election, and he was also rejected for two seats because of his strong Cornish accent. He fought the Totnes constituency in the 1970 general election when the previous candidate moved to Bodmin. He didn't do well in the election in which the party suffered. Penhaligon gained experience fighting election campaigns and picked up additional tips from Wallace Lawler's practices. In 1971 Penhaligon was selected as a candidate for the seat of Truro, a seat which did not look easy to win. This gave him three years in which to get his name known and meet his prospective constituency, and when the election came in February 1974 he won nearly 21,000 votes and cut the majority of the sitting Conservative MP to 2,561. The next election for the Liberals will take place within months because of the inconclusive result in February.Penhaligon tried to get the remaining Labour voters in the seat to back him after he was readopted. He was elected with a majority of 464 votes in the October 1974 election. The sub-postmastership was transferred to his wife due to House of Commons rules. He quickly won a reputation for his funny speeches, urging a national minimum wage and increased state pensions. In the Liberal leadership election of 1976, he voted for John Pardoe over <mask>. He voted against capital punishment in December 1974 but supported it in December 1975. Penhaligon's main concern was local, even though it was frequently speaking on national issues.He was known for his defense of the Cornish tin mining industry. He spoke about the problems of rural areas in Cornwall with inadequate infrastructure and road fuel costs. In a speech made at Camborne in support of the miners, Penhaligon spoke against the Lib-Lab pact. The Liberal Assembly was told in 1977 that it had achieved an economic revolution. He was a star speaker in persuading delegates to continue the pact at a special Assembly in January 1978. The pact allowed the Liberals to influence government legislation and Penhaligon objected to proposals from Tony Benn for an Electricity Industry Bill which would centralise control. Penhaligon was worried that an early general election would result in a poor performance for the Liberals and that his own seat might be vulnerable."Turkeys don't volunteer for Christmas!" he said in October 1978. The scandal over former party leader Jeremy Thorpe, who was charged with conspiracy to murder in August 1978, was a matter of particular concern and Penhaligon urged him to stand down and the Liberal Party not to endorse him. Penhaligon refused to help his campaign when he tried to get re-elected. Penhaligon retained his seat in the 1979 general election despite his narrow majority and the belief that he was the most vulnerable of the Liberal MPs. He was against nuclear power. He was against the majority of Liberal Party members and supported NATO and nuclear weapons. Penhaligon supported the SDP-Liberal Alliance from the beginning, despite his dislike of SDP attempts to take control of the Liberal Party's target seats.He was one of the firemen who would sort out disagreements between the parties. He spoke in the 1983 election campaign for the Liberal Party on Transport, Industry and Energy and was described by Hugo Young as having a closer grasp of national electoral politics than any other Liberal MP. He became an early supporter of a merger between the SDP and the Liberals under a single leader to avoid disputes over parliamentary seats. The Liberal by-election unit was headed by <mask>. He was elected President-elect of the Liberal Party in September 1984 and served as Party President from 1985 to 1986. The job of presiding over the Liberal Assembly at the end of his term saw a party split over defence policy and whether to support nuclear weapons; Penhaligon did not intervene, something he regretted afterwards. 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Penhaligon died at the scene. The driver of the van was not charged. The driver of the van, who was thrown out of his vehicle, and Penhaligon, who was not wearing a seat belt, were both injured in the crash. Penhaligon had injuries to his ribs and neck. The cause of death was caused by damage to the aorta.Matthew Taylor, a graduate of the University of Oxford, was hired by <mask> as a research assistant on the economy in July 1986 and was selected to follow him as a Liberal candidate in the 1987 Truro by-election. Penhaligon's widow wrote his biography in 1989 and his son Matthew was a candidate for the Mayoralty of Hackney in 2006 The Penhaligon Award is a trophy presented annually at the party's autumn party conference to the Local Party which demonstrates the greatest increase in party membership together with activities to develop and involve members. In 'Parliamentary Profiles L-R' (Parliamentary Profiles Service, London, 1985), there is a reference to '<mask>gon'. | [
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35540090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Hersh | Peter Hersh | Peter S. Hersh is an American ophthalmologist and specialist in LASIK eye surgery, keratoconus, and diseases of the cornea. He co-authored the article in the journal Ophthalmology that presented the results of the study that led to the first approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the excimer laser for the correction of nearsightedness in the United States. Hersh was also medical monitor of the study that led to approval of corneal collagen crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus.
Life and career
Hersh grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School.
Hersh graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in biochemistry, where he was awarded the Senior Thesis prize for his work on messenger RNA. He received his medical degree (M.D.) from Johns Hopkins University and completed his residency training at Harvard Medical School where he was Chief Resident. He also completed a Fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at Harvard. Afterwards, Hersh remained on the full-time faculty at Harvard.
In 1995 he founded the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute (CLEI) – Hersh Vision Group in New Jersey and serves as its director. CLEI is dedicated to clinical care and research in cornea and refractive surgery. He is a clinical professor at the New Jersey Medical School Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and director of the Institute's Cornea and Refractive Surgery Division and is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the team ophthalmologist for the NY Jets.
Hersh is a member of the American Ophthalmological Society and has been awarded the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology., He is also a past recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award from the Harvard Medical School Residency in Ophthalmology.
Research
Hersh's research is focused on developing new techniques and technologies in refractive and corneal surgery. His clinical interests are devoted to LASIK treatment, femtosecond laser uses in LASIK and other corneal surgeries, LASEK/Photorefractive keratectomy, and CK (conductive keratoplasty), and corneal inlays (Intacs) for keratoconus. He authored or co-authored more than 100 research articles and abstracts on these subjects and has written or co-written four textbooks.
As director of The Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, Hersh participated in nationwide clinical trials that led to the U.S. FDA's approval of the excimer laser system for the correction of nearsightedness and for the treatment of a variety of corneal diseases in the United States and co-authored the article that presented the results of the study.
Hersh is co-author of a patent regarding the use of short pulsed lasers for corneal surgery (#11/843,498) and is the inventor of a number of surgical instruments used in corneal surgery, such as the Hersh Intralase Flap Spatula
Hersh was one of two investigators to present the conductive keratoplasty (CK) procedure to the FDA device panel. This led to FDA approval of this procedure in 2002. He expanded on these efforts in his thesis for admission to the American Ophthalmological Society entitled "Optics of Conductive Keratoplasty: Implications for Presbyopia Management". He has also devised new applications of this technique to treat optical irregularities of the cornea.
Hersh has done extensive work on corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL), a procedure for decreasing the progression of keratoconus and corneal ectatic disorders, and he has published numerous articles in ophthalmology medical journals analyzing the results of the use of this procedure for keratoconus and ectasia. As of 2013, he is one of the U.S. medical monitors for the medical device and pharmaceutical company Avedro, which has developed a new technique of cross-linking to manage keratoconus. Hersh's Cornea & Laser Eye Institute is one of 7 sites involved in the Avedro clinical trials for patients with keratoconus
Publications
Books
Ophthalmic Surgical Procedures (1998, 2nd ed 2009). Hersh, P S; Zagelbaum, B; Cremers S L. New York: Thieme Publishing, 2009
Refractive Surgery. Wu Hu; Steinert, R; Thompson, V; Slade, S; Hersh, P S. New York: Thieme Publishing 1998
Therapeutic Uses of the Excimer Laser for Corneal Disease. Hersh, P S; Wagoner, M D. New York: Thieme Publishing 1998
Eye Trauma. Shingleton, B; Hersh, P S; Kenyon, K R. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1991
Articles
Hersh PS. Separation and Characterization of the Messenger - RNA's Coding for Alpha-and Beta-Tubulin. Princeton University Thesis (May, 1978).
Hersh PS & Kenyon KR. Anterior Segment Reconstruction Following Ocular Trauma. Int. Ophth. Clin. 1988;28:57-68.
Kenyon KR & Hersh PS. Anterior Segment Reconstruction Following Ocular Trauma. An. Inst. Barraquer. 1988-1989;20:257-274.
Larrison WI, Hersh PS, Kunzweiler T & Shingleton BJ. Sports-Related Ocular Trauma. Ophthal. 1990;97:1265-1269.
Hersh PS, Kenyon KR. Complications of Radial Keratotomy: Review of the Literature and Implications for a Developing Country. Indian J. Ophthal. 1990;38:132-138.
Hersh PS & Kenyon KR. Penetrating Keratoplasty for Severe Complications of Radial Keratotomy. Cornea 1991;10:170-174.
Kenyon KR, Starck T & Hersh PS. Penetrating Keratoplasty and Anterior Segment Reconstruction for Severe Ocular Trauma. Ophthal. 1992;99:396-402.
Hersh PS, Spinak A, Garrana R & Mayers M. Excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy: strategies and results. Refractive and Corneal Surgery 1993;9:S90-S95.
Hersh PS, Jordan AJ & Mayers M. Corneal graft rejection episode after excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy. Arch. Ophthal. 1993;111:735-736.
Hersh PS, Patel R. Excimer laser correction of myopia and astigmatism using an ablatable mask. Refractive Corneal Surg. 1994;10:250-254.
Zagelbaum BM, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Hochman MA. Ocular trauma in major league baseball players. New England Journal of Medicine. 1994;330:1021-1023.
Hersh PS. Iridoschisis following penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus. Letter. Cornea. 1994;13:545-546.
Kenyon KR, Kenyon BM, Starck T & Hersh PS. Penetrating keratoplasty and anterior segment reconstruction for severe ocular trauma. German Journal of Ophthal. 1994;3:90-99.
Michalos P, Avila EN, FLorakis GJ & Hersh PS. Do human tears absorb ultraviolet light? CLAO Journal. 1994;20:192-193.
Blaker JW & Hersh PS. Theoretical and clinical effect of corneal curvature on excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Refractive Corneal Surg. 1994;10:571-574.
Hersh PS, Schwartz-Goldstein B. Summit PRK Topography Study Group. Corneal topography of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Characterization and clinical effects. Ophthal. 1995;102:963-978.
Schwartz-Goldstein B, Hersh PS. Summit PRK Topography Study Group. Corneal topography of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Optical zone centration analysis. Ophthal. 1995;102:951-962.,
Zagelbaum B, Starkey C, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Jeffers JB. The National Basketball Association (NBA) eye injury study. Arch. Ophthal.. 1995;113:749-752.,
Carr J, Patel R, Hersh PS. Management of late corneal haze following photorefractive keratectomy. J. Refractive Surg. 1995;11:309-313.
Burnstein Y, Klapper D, Hersh PS. Experimental wound rupture following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Arch. Ophthal. 1995;113:1056-1059.
Maloney RK, Chan WK, Steinert R, Hersh P & O'Connell M. A multicenter trial of photorefractive keratectomy for residual myopia following previous ocular surgery. Ophthal. 1995;102:1042-1053.
Hersh PS, Carr JD. Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmic Practice 1995; 13:126-133.
Burnstein Y, Hersh PS. Photorefractive keratectomy following radial keratotomy. J Refract Surg. 1996;12:163-170.,
Hersh PS, Shah S, Geiger D, Holladay J. Corneal topography irregularities after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Best Paper of Session Supplement. J Cat Refractive Surg 1995;21:9-13.
Shah, SI, Hersh PS. Photorefractive keratectomy for myopia using a 6-mm optical zone. J Refract Surg. 1996;12:341-351.,
Hersh PS, Shah SI, Durrie D. Monocular diplopia following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy after radial keratotomy. Ophth Surg Lasers. 1996;27:315-317.
Hersh PS, Shah S, Holladay JT. Corneal asphericity following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophth Surg Lasers. 1996;27S:421-428.
Hersh PS, Shah S, Geiger D, Holladay J, Summit Photorefractive Keratectomy Topography Study Group. Corneal optical irregularity after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. J. Cat. Refract. Surg. 1996:22:197-204.
Hersh PS, Burnstein Y, Carr J, Etwaru G, Mayers M. Phototherapeutic keratectomy: surgical strategies and clinical outcomes. Ophthal. 1996;103:1210-1222.,
Hersh PS, Schein OD, Steinert RF. Characteristics influencing outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthal. 1996;103:1964-1969 .
Carr JD, Hersh PS. Excimer laser technology: key concepts for the ophthalmologist. Seminars in Ophthal. 1996;11:212-223.
Shah S, Hersh PS. Evolving bias in reporting refractive surgery in the popular press. J. Refract. Surg. 1996;12:638-641.
Zagelbaum B, Starkey C, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Jeffers JB. The National Basketball Association eye injury study. Sports Vision 1996;12:7-11.,
Hersh PS, Shah S, Summit PRK Topography Study Group. Corneal topography of 6.0 mm excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Characterization and clinical effects. Ophthal. 1997;104:1333-1342.
Hersh PS, Stulting D, Steinert RF, Waring GO, Thompson K, Doney K, O'Connell M. Results of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy for myopia. Ophthal. 1997;104:1535-1553.
Scher KS, Hersh PS. Disparity between refractive error and visual acuity after photorefractive keratectomy: Multifocal corneal effects. J Cat Ref Surg. 1997;23:1029-1033.
Hersh P. A standardized classification system for corneal topography patterns after laser refractive surgery. J Refract Surg. 1997;13:571-578.
Hersh PS, Scher KS, Irani R. Corneal topography of PRK and LASIK. Ophthal. 1998;105:612-619.
Hersh PS, Brint SF, Berkeley RB, Durrie DS, Gordon M, Maloney RK, Michelson MA, Thompson VM. PRK versus LASIK for moderate to high myopia: A prospective randomized study. Ophthalmology 1998;15:1512-1522.
Steinert RF, Hersh PS. Spherical and aspherical photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis for moderate to high myopia: Two prospective, randomized clinical trials. Tr Am Ophth Soc 1998;96:197-227.
Abbas U, Hersh PS Natural history of corneal topography after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmology, 1998;15:2212-2224.
Manche EE, Carr JD, Haw WW, Hersh PS. Excimer laser refractive surgery. West J Med. 1998;169:30-38
Abbas U, Hersh PS. Copy of Early Corneal topography patterns after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmology, 1999; 115:22-26.
Chiang PK, Hersh PS. Comparing predictability between eyes after bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis. Ophthalmology, 1999:106;1684-1691.
Hersh PS, Abbassi R. Surgically induced astigmatism after photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg, 1999:25:389-398.
Fisher EM, Ginsberg NE, Scher KS, Hersh PS. Photorefractive Keratectomy for myopia with a 15 Hz repetition rate.1999;26:363-368.
Hersh PS, Steinert RF, Brint SF Phototherapeutic Keratectomy.versus laser in situ keratomileusis. Comparison of optical side effects. Ophthalmology 2000:107:925-933.
Ginsberg NE, Hersh PS. Effect of lamellar flap location on corneal topography after laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2000;26;992-1000.
Dastgheib KA, Clinch TE, Manche EE, Hersh P, Ramsey J. Sloughing of corneal epithelium and wound healing complications associated with laser in situ keratomileusis in patients with epithelial basement membrane dystrophy. Am J Ophthalmol 2000;130:297-303.
Lumba J, Hersh PS. Topography changes associated with sublamellar epithelial ingrowth after laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg 26;2000:1413-1416.
Karp KO, Hersh PS, Epstein RJ. Delayed keratitis after laser in situ keratomileusis. J. Cat Refract Surg 2000;26:925-928.
Abbas UL, Hersh PS. of Late natural history of Corneal Topography after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.PRK Ophthalmology 2001;108:953-959.
Asbell PA, Maloney RK, Davidorf J, Hersh P, McDonald M, Manche E. Conductive keratoplasty for the Correction of Hyperopia Trans Am Ophthalmological Society 2001; 99:79-97.
McDonald MB, Davidorf J, Maloney RK, Manche EE, Hersh P. Conductive Keratoplasty for Correction of low to moderate Hyperopia Ophthalmology 2002; 109:637-649
Leu G, Hersh PS. Phototherapeutic Keratectomy for the treatment of diffuse lamellar keratitis. J Cat Refract 2002;28: 1471.1474.
Hersh PS, Ratkaran R, Hersh D. Contact Lens evaluation of corneal Keratoplasty for the correction of corbeal topography irregularities after laser refractive surgery. J Cat Refract Surg 2002;28:2054-2057.
McDonald MB, Hersh P, Manche EE, Maloney RK, Davidorf J, Sabry M. Conductive Keratoplasty for the correction of low to moderate hyperopia US clinical trial 1 year results 355 eyes Ophthalmology 2002; 109: 1978-1990 .
Hersh PS; Fry KL, Bishop DS.Incidence and Association of Retreatment after LASIK Ophthamology 2003; 110:748-754.Vol 110 No 4 April 2003.pdf
Hersh PS, Fry KL, Blaker, JW. Spherical aberration after LASIK and PRK. J Cat Refract Surg 2003;11:2096-2104.
Klein S, Fry KL, Hersh PS. LASIK after conductive keratoplasty. J Cat Refract Surg 2004;30:702-705.
Steinert RF, Ashrafzadeh A, Hersh PS. Results of phototherapeutic keratectomy in the management of flap striae after LASIK. Ophthalmology 2004;111:740-746.
Hersh PS, Fry K, Chandrashekhar R, Fikaris DS. Conductive keratoplasty to complications of LASIK and photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmology 2005;112:1941-1947.
Hersh PS. Optics of conductive keratoplasty. Implications for presbyopia management. Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 2005;103:412-456.
Patel SR, Chu DS, Ayres B, Hersh PS. Corneal edema and penetrating keratoplasty after anterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation. J Cat Refract Surg 2005;31:2212-2215.
Xu Y, Hersh PS, Chu DS. Wavefront analysis and Scheimpflug imagery in diagnosis of anterior lenticonus. J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:850-853.
Van De Sompel D, Kunkel G, Hersh PS, Smiths AJ. Model of accommodation: Contributions of lens geometry and mechanical properties to the development of presbyopia. J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:1960-1971.
Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Bhatt J, Hersh PS. Natural history of corneal haze after collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: A Scheimpflug and biomicroscopic analysis. J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:2105-2114.
Hersh PS, Greenstein SA, Fry KL. Corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: One year results. J Cat Refract Surg 2011;37:149-160.
Greenstein SA, Shah VP, Fry KL, Hersh PS. Corneal thickness changes after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: One-year results. J Cat Refract Surg 2011; 37:691-700.
Archna P, Fry KL, Hersh PS. Relationship of Age and Refraction to Central Corneal Thickness. Cornea 2011; 30: 553-555.
Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS. Corneal topography indices after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia One-year results. J Cat Refract Surg 2011; 37: 1282-1290.
Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS. In Vivo Biomechanical Changes After Corneal Collagen Cross-linking for Keratoconus and Corneal Ectasia: 1-Year Analysis of a Randomized, Controlled, Clinical Trial. Cornea 202; 31: 21-25.
Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh, MJ, Hersh PS. Higher-order aberrations after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia. J Cat Refract Surg 2012; 38: 292-302.
Brooks NO, Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS. Patient subjective visual function after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia. J Cat Refract Surg 2012; 38:615-619.
Hersh PS, Lai MJ, Gelles JD, Lesniak SP. Transepithelial corneal crosslinking for keratoconus. J Cat Refract Surg 2018; 44:313-322.
Lai MJ, Greenstein SA, Gelles JD, Hersh PS. Corneal Haze after Transepithelial Collagen Crosslinking for Keratoconus: A Scheimpflug Densitometry Analysis. Cornea. 2020;39(9):1117-1121.
References
External links
Hersh, Peter S. on WorldCat
American ophthalmologists
Princeton University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Columbia High School (New Jersey) alumni
People from Maplewood, New Jersey | [
"Peter S. Hersh is an American ophthalmologist and specialist in LASIK eye surgery, keratoconus, and diseases of the cornea.",
"He co-authored the article in the journal Ophthalmology that presented the results of the study that led to the first approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the excimer laser for the correction of nearsightedness in the United States.",
"Hersh was also medical monitor of the study that led to approval of corneal collagen crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus.",
"Life and career \nHersh grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School.",
"Hersh graduated from Princeton University with an A.B.",
"in biochemistry, where he was awarded the Senior Thesis prize for his work on messenger RNA.",
"He received his medical degree (M.D.)",
"from Johns Hopkins University and completed his residency training at Harvard Medical School where he was Chief Resident.",
"He also completed a Fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at Harvard.",
"Afterwards, Hersh remained on the full-time faculty at Harvard.",
"In 1995 he founded the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute (CLEI) – Hersh Vision Group in New Jersey and serves as its director.",
"CLEI is dedicated to clinical care and research in cornea and refractive surgery.",
"He is a clinical professor at the New Jersey Medical School Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and director of the Institute's Cornea and Refractive Surgery Division and is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.",
"He is also the team ophthalmologist for the NY Jets.",
"Hersh is a member of the American Ophthalmological Society and has been awarded the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology., He is also a past recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award from the Harvard Medical School Residency in Ophthalmology.",
"Research\nHersh's research is focused on developing new techniques and technologies in refractive and corneal surgery.",
"His clinical interests are devoted to LASIK treatment, femtosecond laser uses in LASIK and other corneal surgeries, LASEK/Photorefractive keratectomy, and CK (conductive keratoplasty), and corneal inlays (Intacs) for keratoconus.",
"He authored or co-authored more than 100 research articles and abstracts on these subjects and has written or co-written four textbooks.",
"As director of The Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, Hersh participated in nationwide clinical trials that led to the U.S. FDA's approval of the excimer laser system for the correction of nearsightedness and for the treatment of a variety of corneal diseases in the United States and co-authored the article that presented the results of the study.",
"Hersh is co-author of a patent regarding the use of short pulsed lasers for corneal surgery (#11/843,498) and is the inventor of a number of surgical instruments used in corneal surgery, such as the Hersh Intralase Flap Spatula \n\nHersh was one of two investigators to present the conductive keratoplasty (CK) procedure to the FDA device panel.",
"This led to FDA approval of this procedure in 2002.",
"He expanded on these efforts in his thesis for admission to the American Ophthalmological Society entitled \"Optics of Conductive Keratoplasty: Implications for Presbyopia Management\".",
"He has also devised new applications of this technique to treat optical irregularities of the cornea.",
"Hersh has done extensive work on corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL), a procedure for decreasing the progression of keratoconus and corneal ectatic disorders, and he has published numerous articles in ophthalmology medical journals analyzing the results of the use of this procedure for keratoconus and ectasia.",
"As of 2013, he is one of the U.S. medical monitors for the medical device and pharmaceutical company Avedro, which has developed a new technique of cross-linking to manage keratoconus.",
"Hersh's Cornea & Laser Eye Institute is one of 7 sites involved in the Avedro clinical trials for patients with keratoconus\n\nPublications\n\nBooks\n Ophthalmic Surgical Procedures (1998, 2nd ed 2009).",
"Hersh, P S; Zagelbaum, B; Cremers S L. New York: Thieme Publishing, 2009\n Refractive Surgery.",
"Wu Hu; Steinert, R; Thompson, V; Slade, S; Hersh, P S. New York: Thieme Publishing 1998 \n Therapeutic Uses of the Excimer Laser for Corneal Disease.",
"Hersh, P S; Wagoner, M D. New York: Thieme Publishing 1998 \n Eye Trauma.",
"Shingleton, B; Hersh, P S; Kenyon, K R. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1991\n\nArticles\n\n Hersh PS.",
"Separation and Characterization of the Messenger - RNA's Coding for Alpha-and Beta-Tubulin.",
"Princeton University Thesis (May, 1978).",
"Hersh PS & Kenyon KR.",
"Anterior Segment Reconstruction Following Ocular Trauma.",
"Int.",
"Ophth.",
"Clin.",
"1988;28:57-68.",
"Kenyon KR & Hersh PS.",
"Anterior Segment Reconstruction Following Ocular Trauma.",
"An.",
"Inst.",
"Barraquer.",
"1988-1989;20:257-274.",
"Larrison WI, Hersh PS, Kunzweiler T & Shingleton BJ.",
"Sports-Related Ocular Trauma.",
"Ophthal.",
"1990;97:1265-1269.",
"Hersh PS, Kenyon KR.",
"Complications of Radial Keratotomy: Review of the Literature and Implications for a Developing Country.",
"Indian J. Ophthal.",
"1990;38:132-138.",
"Hersh PS & Kenyon KR.",
"Penetrating Keratoplasty for Severe Complications of Radial Keratotomy.",
"Cornea 1991;10:170-174.",
"Kenyon KR, Starck T & Hersh PS.",
"Penetrating Keratoplasty and Anterior Segment Reconstruction for Severe Ocular Trauma.",
"Ophthal.",
"1992;99:396-402.",
"Hersh PS, Spinak A, Garrana R & Mayers M. Excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy: strategies and results.",
"Refractive and Corneal Surgery 1993;9:S90-S95.",
"Hersh PS, Jordan AJ & Mayers M. Corneal graft rejection episode after excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy.",
"Arch.",
"Ophthal.",
"1993;111:735-736.",
"Hersh PS, Patel R. Excimer laser correction of myopia and astigmatism using an ablatable mask.",
"Refractive Corneal Surg.",
"1994;10:250-254.",
"Zagelbaum BM, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Hochman MA.",
"Ocular trauma in major league baseball players.",
"New England Journal of Medicine.",
"1994;330:1021-1023.",
"Hersh PS.",
"Iridoschisis following penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus.",
"Letter.",
"Cornea.",
"1994;13:545-546.",
"Kenyon KR, Kenyon BM, Starck T & Hersh PS.",
"Penetrating keratoplasty and anterior segment reconstruction for severe ocular trauma.",
"German Journal of Ophthal.",
"1994;3:90-99.",
"Michalos P, Avila EN, FLorakis GJ & Hersh PS.",
"Do human tears absorb ultraviolet light?",
"CLAO Journal.",
"1994;20:192-193.",
"Blaker JW & Hersh PS.",
"Theoretical and clinical effect of corneal curvature on excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Refractive Corneal Surg.",
"1994;10:571-574.",
"Hersh PS, Schwartz-Goldstein B.",
"Summit PRK Topography Study Group.",
"Corneal topography of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Characterization and clinical effects.",
"Ophthal.",
"1995;102:963-978.",
"Schwartz-Goldstein B, Hersh PS.",
"Summit PRK Topography Study Group.",
"Corneal topography of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Optical zone centration analysis.",
"Ophthal.",
"1995;102:951-962., \n Zagelbaum B, Starkey C, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Jeffers JB.",
"The National Basketball Association (NBA) eye injury study.",
"Arch.",
"Ophthal.. 1995;113:749-752., \n Carr J, Patel R, Hersh PS.",
"Management of late corneal haze following photorefractive keratectomy.",
"J. Refractive Surg.",
"1995;11:309-313.",
"Burnstein Y, Klapper D, Hersh PS.",
"Experimental wound rupture following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Arch.",
"Ophthal.",
"1995;113:1056-1059.",
"Maloney RK, Chan WK, Steinert R, Hersh P & O'Connell M. A multicenter trial of photorefractive keratectomy for residual myopia following previous ocular surgery.",
"Ophthal.",
"1995;102:1042-1053.",
"Hersh PS, Carr JD.",
"Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthalmic Practice 1995; 13:126-133.",
"Burnstein Y, Hersh PS.",
"Photorefractive keratectomy following radial keratotomy.",
"J Refract Surg.",
"1996;12:163-170., \n Hersh PS, Shah S, Geiger D, Holladay J. Corneal topography irregularities after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Best Paper of Session Supplement.",
"J Cat Refractive Surg 1995;21:9-13.",
"Shah, SI, Hersh PS.",
"Photorefractive keratectomy for myopia using a 6-mm optical zone.",
"J Refract Surg.",
"1996;12:341-351., \n Hersh PS, Shah SI, Durrie D. Monocular diplopia following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy after radial keratotomy.",
"Ophth Surg Lasers.",
"1996;27:315-317.",
"Hersh PS, Shah S, Holladay JT.",
"Corneal asphericity following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophth Surg Lasers.",
"1996;27S:421-428.",
"Hersh PS, Shah S, Geiger D, Holladay J, Summit Photorefractive Keratectomy Topography Study Group.",
"Corneal optical irregularity after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"J.",
"Cat.",
"Refract.",
"Surg.",
"1996:22:197-204.",
"Hersh PS, Burnstein Y, Carr J, Etwaru G, Mayers M. Phototherapeutic keratectomy: surgical strategies and clinical outcomes.",
"Ophthal.",
"1996;103:1210-1222., \n Hersh PS, Schein OD, Steinert RF.",
"Characteristics influencing outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthal.",
"1996;103:1964-1969 .",
"Carr JD, Hersh PS.",
"Excimer laser technology: key concepts for the ophthalmologist.",
"Seminars in Ophthal.",
"1996;11:212-223.",
"Shah S, Hersh PS.",
"Evolving bias in reporting refractive surgery in the popular press.",
"J. Refract.",
"Surg.",
"1996;12:638-641.",
"Zagelbaum B, Starkey C, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Jeffers JB.",
"The National Basketball Association eye injury study.",
"Sports Vision 1996;12:7-11., \n Hersh PS, Shah S, Summit PRK Topography Study Group.",
"Corneal topography of 6.0 mm excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Characterization and clinical effects.",
"Ophthal.",
"1997;104:1333-1342.",
"Hersh PS, Stulting D, Steinert RF, Waring GO, Thompson K, Doney K, O'Connell M. Results of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy for myopia.",
"Ophthal.",
"1997;104:1535-1553.",
"Scher KS, Hersh PS.",
"Disparity between refractive error and visual acuity after photorefractive keratectomy: Multifocal corneal effects.",
"J Cat Ref Surg.",
"1997;23:1029-1033.",
"Hersh P. A standardized classification system for corneal topography patterns after laser refractive surgery.",
"J Refract Surg.",
"1997;13:571-578.",
"Hersh PS, Scher KS, Irani R. Corneal topography of PRK and LASIK.",
"Ophthal.",
"1998;105:612-619.",
"Hersh PS, Brint SF, Berkeley RB, Durrie DS, Gordon M, Maloney RK, Michelson MA, Thompson VM.",
"PRK versus LASIK for moderate to high myopia: A prospective randomized study.",
"Ophthalmology 1998;15:1512-1522.",
"Steinert RF, Hersh PS.",
"Spherical and aspherical photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis for moderate to high myopia: Two prospective, randomized clinical trials.",
"Tr Am Ophth Soc 1998;96:197-227.",
"Abbas U, Hersh PS Natural history of corneal topography after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthalmology, 1998;15:2212-2224.",
"Manche EE, Carr JD, Haw WW, Hersh PS.",
"Excimer laser refractive surgery.",
"West J Med.",
"1998;169:30-38\n Abbas U, Hersh PS.",
"Copy of Early Corneal topography patterns after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthalmology, 1999; 115:22-26.",
"Chiang PK, Hersh PS.",
"Comparing predictability between eyes after bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis.",
"Ophthalmology, 1999:106;1684-1691.",
"Hersh PS, Abbassi R. Surgically induced astigmatism after photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis.",
"J Cataract Refract Surg, 1999:25:389-398.",
"Fisher EM, Ginsberg NE, Scher KS, Hersh PS.",
"Photorefractive Keratectomy for myopia with a 15 Hz repetition rate.1999;26:363-368.",
"Hersh PS, Steinert RF, Brint SF Phototherapeutic Keratectomy.versus laser in situ keratomileusis.",
"Comparison of optical side effects.",
"Ophthalmology 2000:107:925-933.",
"Ginsberg NE, Hersh PS.",
"Effect of lamellar flap location on corneal topography after laser in situ keratomileusis.",
"J Cataract Refract Surg.",
"2000;26;992-1000.",
"Dastgheib KA, Clinch TE, Manche EE, Hersh P, Ramsey J. Sloughing of corneal epithelium and wound healing complications associated with laser in situ keratomileusis in patients with epithelial basement membrane dystrophy.",
"Am J Ophthalmol 2000;130:297-303.",
"Lumba J, Hersh PS.",
"Topography changes associated with sublamellar epithelial ingrowth after laser in situ keratomileusis.",
"J Cataract Refract Surg 26;2000:1413-1416.",
"Karp KO, Hersh PS, Epstein RJ.",
"Delayed keratitis after laser in situ keratomileusis.",
"J.",
"Cat Refract Surg 2000;26:925-928.",
"Abbas UL, Hersh PS.",
"of Late natural history of Corneal Topography after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.PRK Ophthalmology 2001;108:953-959.",
"Asbell PA, Maloney RK, Davidorf J, Hersh P, McDonald M, Manche E. Conductive keratoplasty for the Correction of Hyperopia Trans Am Ophthalmological Society 2001; 99:79-97.",
"McDonald MB, Davidorf J, Maloney RK, Manche EE, Hersh P. Conductive Keratoplasty for Correction of low to moderate Hyperopia Ophthalmology 2002; 109:637-649\n Leu G, Hersh PS.",
"Phototherapeutic Keratectomy for the treatment of diffuse lamellar keratitis.",
"J Cat Refract 2002;28: 1471.1474.",
"Hersh PS, Ratkaran R, Hersh D. Contact Lens evaluation of corneal Keratoplasty for the correction of corbeal topography irregularities after laser refractive surgery.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2002;28:2054-2057.",
"McDonald MB, Hersh P, Manche EE, Maloney RK, Davidorf J, Sabry M. Conductive Keratoplasty for the correction of low to moderate hyperopia US clinical trial 1 year results 355 eyes Ophthalmology 2002; 109: 1978-1990 .",
"Hersh PS; Fry KL, Bishop DS.Incidence and Association of Retreatment after LASIK Ophthamology 2003; 110:748-754.Vol 110 No 4 April 2003.pdf \n Hersh PS, Fry KL, Blaker, JW.",
"Spherical aberration after LASIK and PRK.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2003;11:2096-2104.",
"Klein S, Fry KL, Hersh PS.",
"LASIK after conductive keratoplasty.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2004;30:702-705.",
"Steinert RF, Ashrafzadeh A, Hersh PS.",
"Results of phototherapeutic keratectomy in the management of flap striae after LASIK.",
"Ophthalmology 2004;111:740-746.",
"Hersh PS, Fry K, Chandrashekhar R, Fikaris DS.",
"Conductive keratoplasty to complications of LASIK and photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthalmology 2005;112:1941-1947.",
"Hersh PS.",
"Optics of conductive keratoplasty.",
"Implications for presbyopia management.",
"Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 2005;103:412-456.",
"Patel SR, Chu DS, Ayres B, Hersh PS.",
"Corneal edema and penetrating keratoplasty after anterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2005;31:2212-2215.",
"Xu Y, Hersh PS, Chu DS.",
"Wavefront analysis and Scheimpflug imagery in diagnosis of anterior lenticonus.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:850-853.",
"Van De Sompel D, Kunkel G, Hersh PS, Smiths AJ.",
"Model of accommodation: Contributions of lens geometry and mechanical properties to the development of presbyopia.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:1960-1971.",
"Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Bhatt J, Hersh PS.",
"Natural history of corneal haze after collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: A Scheimpflug and biomicroscopic analysis.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:2105-2114.",
"Hersh PS, Greenstein SA, Fry KL.",
"Corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: One year results.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2011;37:149-160.",
"Greenstein SA, Shah VP, Fry KL, Hersh PS.",
"Corneal thickness changes after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: One-year results.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2011; 37:691-700.",
"Archna P, Fry KL, Hersh PS.",
"Relationship of Age and Refraction to Central Corneal Thickness.",
"Cornea 2011; 30: 553-555.",
"Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS.",
"Corneal topography indices after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia One-year results.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2011; 37: 1282-1290.",
"Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS.",
"In Vivo Biomechanical Changes After Corneal Collagen Cross-linking for Keratoconus and Corneal Ectasia: 1-Year Analysis of a Randomized, Controlled, Clinical Trial.",
"Cornea 202; 31: 21-25.",
"Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh, MJ, Hersh PS.",
"Higher-order aberrations after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2012; 38: 292-302.",
"Brooks NO, Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS.",
"Patient subjective visual function after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2012; 38:615-619.",
"Hersh PS, Lai MJ, Gelles JD, Lesniak SP.",
"Transepithelial corneal crosslinking for keratoconus.",
"J Cat Refract Surg 2018; 44:313-322.",
"Lai MJ, Greenstein SA, Gelles JD, Hersh PS.",
"Corneal Haze after Transepithelial Collagen Crosslinking for Keratoconus: A Scheimpflug Densitometry Analysis.",
"Cornea.",
"2020;39(9):1117-1121.",
"References\n\nExternal links\nHersh, Peter S. on WorldCat\n\nAmerican ophthalmologists\nPrinceton University alumni\nLiving people\nYear of birth missing (living people)\nPlace of birth missing (living people)\nJohns Hopkins University alumni\nColumbia High School (New Jersey) alumni\nPeople from Maplewood, New Jersey"
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"Peter S. Hersh is a specialist in eye surgery.",
"The FDA approved the use of the excimer laser for the correction of nearsighted people in the United States.",
"Hersh was the medical monitor of the study that led to approval of crosslinking for the treatment of keratoconus.",
"Hersh grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School.",
"Hersh received an A.B. from Princeton University.",
"He won the Senior Thesis prize for his work on messenger RNA.",
"He received a medical degree.",
"He completed his residency training at Harvard Medical School.",
"He received a fellowship in cornea and external disease at Harvard.",
"Hersh remained on the full-time faculty at Harvard.",
"He founded the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute in 1995 and serves as its director.",
"Clinical care and research in eye surgery is done by the CLEI.",
"He is a clinical professor and director of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Division at the New Jersey Medical School Institute.",
"He works for the NY Jets.",
"Hersh is a past recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award from the Harvard Medical School Residency in Ophthalmology.",
"Hersh's research is focused on developing new techniques and technologies.",
"His clinical interests include the use of lasers in LASIK and other surgeries, as well as the use of Intacs for keratoconus.",
"He co-authored more than 100 research articles and has written or co-written four textbooks.",
"Hersh was the director of The Cornea and Laser Eye Institute when the FDA approved the excimer laser system for the correction of nearsighted people.",
"Hersh is a co-author of a patent pertaining to the use of short pulsed lasers for corneal surgery and is the inventor of a number of surgical instruments used in corneal surgery.",
"This procedure was approved by the FDA in 2002.",
"His thesis was titled \"Optics of Conductive Keratoplasty: Implications for Presbyopia Management\" and was 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780",
"He has come up with new applications of this technique.",
"Hersh has published many articles in medical journals analyzing the results of the use of the procedure for keratoconus and ectasia.",
"He is a medical monitor for the medical device and pharmaceutical company Avedro, which has developed a new technique of cross-linking to manage keratoconus.",
"Hersh's Cornea & Laser Eye Institute is one of 7 sites involved in the Avedro clinical trials for patients with keratoconus.",
"New York: Thieme Publishing, 2009, Refractive Surgery.",
"The Excimer Laser for Corneal Disease was published in 1998 in New York.",
"Hersh, P S; Wagoner, M D.",
"Hersh, P S; Shingleton, B; and Kenyon, K R. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby.",
"There is separation and Characterization of the Messenger.",
"The thesis of the university was written in 1978.",
"Hersh PS and Kenyon K.",
"Reconstruction of the anterior segment after Ocular Trauma.",
"Int.",
"Ophth.",
"It's Clin.",
"1988;28:57-68",
"Hersh PS.",
"Reconstruction of the anterior segment after Ocular Trauma.",
"An.",
"Inst.",
"There is a person named Barraquer.",
"The years 1988-1989.",
"Larrison WI, Hersh PS, Kunzweiler T, and Shingleton are related.",
"Ocular trauma is related to sports.",
"Ophthal.",
"97:1265-1269 was recorded in 1990.",
"Hersh and Kenyon are both PS.",
"A review of the literature and implications for a developing country.",
"Indian J. Ophthal.",
"1990;38:132-138.",
"Hersh PS and Kenyon K.",
"Penetrating keratoplasty is used to repair damage to the radial keratotomy.",
"Cornea was published in 1991.",
"Starck T, Hersh PS.",
"Severe Ocular Trauma can be caused by Penetrating Keratoplasty and Anterior Segment Reconstruction.",
"Ophthal.",
"In 1992;99: 395-408.",
"The strategies and results of excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy.",
"Refractive and Corneal Surgery was performed in 1993.",
"There was a rejection episode after excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy.",
"The Arch.",
"Ophthal.",
"In 1993 the number was 112.",
"Hersh PS and Patel R used a laser to correct their vision.",
"Refractive Corneal Surgery.",
"1994;10:250-252.",
"Zagel BM, Hershbaum PS, Donnenfeld ED, and Hochman MA.",
"Major league baseball players have eye trauma.",
"The New England Journal of Medicine is a journal.",
"1994;330:1023.",
"Hersh, PS.",
"Iridoschisis after penetrating keratoplasty.",
"A letter.",
"Cornea is a vegetable.",
"1994; 13:545-546.",
"Kenyon BM, Starck T, and Hersh PS.",
"Penetrating the anterior segment for trauma to the eye.",
"The German Journal of Ophthal.",
"In 1994 it was 3:90-99.",
"Michalos P, FLorakis GJ, and Hersh PS.",
"Do human tears absorb light?",
"There is a journal called the Clao Journal.",
"1994;20:192-193.",
"Hersh PS.",
"There is a theoretical and clinical effect on excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Refractive Corneal Surgery.",
"1994;10:571-574.",
"Hersh PS, Schwartz-Goldstein B.",
"There is a Summit PRK Topography Study Group.",
"Characterization and clinical effects of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthal.",
"The year 1995",
"Hersh PS, Schwartz-Goldstein B.",
"There is a Summit PRK Topography Study Group.",
"The optical zone centration analysis was done for the phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthal.",
"Zagel B, Starkey C, Hersh PS, Donnenfeld ED, and Jeffers were all present in 1995.",
"The NBA studied eye injury.",
"The Arch.",
"Ophthal. 1995;113:749-752.",
"Following photorefractive keratectomy, management of late corneal haze.",
"J. Refractive Surg.",
"The year 1995",
"Burnstein Y, Hersh PS.",
"There was an experiment after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"The Arch.",
"Ophthal.",
"The year 1995",
"A multicenter trial of photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthal.",
"The year 1995",
"Hersh PS, CarrJD.",
"Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophthalmic practice in 1995",
"Burnstein Y and Hersh PS.",
"The keratectomy is a photorefractive procedure.",
"J Refract.",
"Hersh PS, Shah S, Geiger D, and Holladay J. had excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"The best paper of the session supplement.",
"The J Cat Refractive Surg was published in 1995.",
"Shah, SI, Hersh PS.",
"A photorefractive keratectomy uses a 6-mm optical zone.",
"J Refract.",
"Hersh PS, Shah SI, Durrie D. Monocular diplopia following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.",
"Ophth lasers.",
"There were 27 stories in 1996.",
"Hersh PS, Shah S, Holladay",
"Following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy, there is a Corneal asphericity.",
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"In 1996; 27S: 423-423.",
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<mask> grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School. <mask> graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in biochemistry, where he was awarded the Senior Thesis prize for his work on messenger RNA. He received his medical degree (M.D.)from Johns Hopkins University and completed his residency training at Harvard Medical School where he was Chief Resident. He also completed a Fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at Harvard. Afterwards, <mask> remained on the full-time faculty at Harvard. In 1995 he founded the Cornea and Laser Eye Institute (CLEI) – Hersh Vision Group in New Jersey and serves as its director. CLEI is dedicated to clinical care and research in cornea and refractive surgery. He is a clinical professor at the New Jersey Medical School Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and director of the Institute's Cornea and Refractive Surgery Division and is a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also the team ophthalmologist for the NY Jets.<mask> is a member of the American Ophthalmological Society and has been awarded the Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology., He is also a past recipient of the Teacher of the Year Award from the Harvard Medical School Residency in Ophthalmology. Research
<mask>'s research is focused on developing new techniques and technologies in refractive and corneal surgery. His clinical interests are devoted to LASIK treatment, femtosecond laser uses in LASIK and other corneal surgeries, LASEK/Photorefractive keratectomy, and CK (conductive keratoplasty), and corneal inlays (Intacs) for keratoconus. He authored or co-authored more than 100 research articles and abstracts on these subjects and has written or co-written four textbooks. As director of The Cornea and Laser Eye Institute, <mask> participated in nationwide clinical trials that led to the U.S. FDA's approval of the excimer laser system for the correction of nearsightedness and for the treatment of a variety of corneal diseases in the United States and co-authored the article that presented the results of the study. <mask> is co-author of a patent regarding the use of short pulsed lasers for corneal surgery (#11/843,498) and is the inventor of a number of surgical instruments used in corneal surgery, such as the Hersh Intralase Flap Spatula
Hersh was one of two investigators to present the conductive keratoplasty (CK) procedure to the FDA device panel. This led to FDA approval of this procedure in 2002.He expanded on these efforts in his thesis for admission to the American Ophthalmological Society entitled "Optics of Conductive Keratoplasty: Implications for Presbyopia Management". He has also devised new applications of this technique to treat optical irregularities of the cornea. Hersh has done extensive work on corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL), a procedure for decreasing the progression of keratoconus and corneal ectatic disorders, and he has published numerous articles in ophthalmology medical journals analyzing the results of the use of this procedure for keratoconus and ectasia. As of 2013, he is one of the U.S. medical monitors for the medical device and pharmaceutical company Avedro, which has developed a new technique of cross-linking to manage keratoconus. Hersh's Cornea & Laser Eye Institute is one of 7 sites involved in the Avedro clinical trials for patients with keratoconus
Publications
Books
Ophthalmic Surgical Procedures (1998, 2nd ed 2009). <mask>, P S; Zagelbaum, B; Cremers S L. New York: Thieme Publishing, 2009
Refractive Surgery. Wu Hu; Steinert, R; Thompson, V; Slade, S; Hersh, P S. New York: Thieme Publishing 1998
Therapeutic Uses of the Excimer Laser for Corneal Disease.<mask>, P S; Wagoner, M D. New York: Thieme Publishing 1998
Eye Trauma. Shingleton, B; <mask>, P S; Kenyon, K R. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1991
Articles
Hersh PS. Separation and Characterization of the Messenger - RNA's Coding for Alpha-and Beta-Tubulin. Princeton University Thesis (May, 1978). Hersh PS & Kenyon KR. Anterior Segment Reconstruction Following Ocular Trauma. Int.Ophth. Clin. 1988;28:57-68. Kenyon KR & Hersh PS. Anterior Segment Reconstruction Following Ocular Trauma. An. Inst.Barraquer. 1988-1989;20:257-274. Larrison WI, <mask> PS, Kunzweiler T & Shingleton BJ. Sports-Related Ocular Trauma. Ophthal. 1990;97:1265-1269. <mask> PS, Kenyon KR.Complications of Radial Keratotomy: Review of the Literature and Implications for a Developing Country. Indian J. Ophthal. 1990;38:132-138. Hersh PS & Kenyon KR. Penetrating Keratoplasty for Severe Complications of Radial Keratotomy. Cornea 1991;10:170-174. Kenyon KR, Starck T & Hersh PS.Penetrating Keratoplasty and Anterior Segment Reconstruction for Severe Ocular Trauma. Ophthal. 1992;99:396-402. <mask> PS, Spinak A, Garrana R & Mayers M. Excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy: strategies and results. Refractive and Corneal Surgery 1993;9:S90-S95. <mask> PS, Jordan AJ & Mayers M. Corneal graft rejection episode after excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy. Arch.Ophthal. 1993;111:735-736. <mask> PS, Patel R. Excimer laser correction of myopia and astigmatism using an ablatable mask. Refractive Corneal Surg. 1994;10:250-254. Zagelbaum BM, <mask> PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Hochman MA. Ocular trauma in major league baseball players.New England Journal of Medicine. 1994;330:1021-1023. <mask> PS. Iridoschisis following penetrating keratoplasty for keratoconus. Letter. Cornea. 1994;13:545-546.Kenyon KR, Kenyon BM, Starck T & Hersh PS. Penetrating keratoplasty and anterior segment reconstruction for severe ocular trauma. German Journal of Ophthal. 1994;3:90-99. Michalos P, Avila EN, FLorakis GJ & Hersh PS. Do human tears absorb ultraviolet light? CLAO Journal.1994;20:192-193. Blaker JW & Hersh PS. Theoretical and clinical effect of corneal curvature on excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Refractive Corneal Surg. 1994;10:571-574. <mask> PS, Schwartz-Goldstein B. Summit PRK Topography Study Group.Corneal topography of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Characterization and clinical effects. Ophthal. 1995;102:963-978. Schwartz-Goldstein B, Hersh PS. Summit PRK Topography Study Group. Corneal topography of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Optical zone centration analysis. Ophthal.1995;102:951-962.,
Zagelbaum B, Starkey C, <mask> PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Jeffers JB. The National Basketball Association (NBA) eye injury study. Arch. Ophthal.. 1995;113:749-752.,
Carr J, Patel R, <mask> PS. Management of late corneal haze following photorefractive keratectomy. J. Refractive Surg. 1995;11:309-313.Burnstein Y, Klapper D, <mask> PS. Experimental wound rupture following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Arch. Ophthal. 1995;113:1056-1059. Maloney RK, Chan WK, Steinert R, <mask> P & O'Connell M. A multicenter trial of photorefractive keratectomy for residual myopia following previous ocular surgery. Ophthal.1995;102:1042-1053. <mask> PS, Carr JD. Excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmic Practice 1995; 13:126-133. Burnstein Y, <mask> PS. Photorefractive keratectomy following radial keratotomy. J Refract Surg.1996;12:163-170.,
<mask> PS, Shah S, Geiger D, Holladay J. Corneal topography irregularities after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Best Paper of Session Supplement. J Cat Refractive Surg 1995;21:9-13. Shah, SI, <mask> PS. Photorefractive keratectomy for myopia using a 6-mm optical zone. J Refract Surg. 1996;12:341-351.,
<mask> PS, Shah SI, Durrie D. Monocular diplopia following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy after radial keratotomy.Ophth Surg Lasers. 1996;27:315-317. <mask> PS, Shah S, Holladay JT. Corneal asphericity following excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophth Surg Lasers. 1996;27S:421-428. <mask> PS, Shah S, Geiger D, Holladay J, Summit Photorefractive Keratectomy Topography Study Group.Corneal optical irregularity after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. J. Cat. Refract. Surg. 1996:22:197-204. <mask> PS, Burnstein Y, Carr J, Etwaru G, Mayers M. Phototherapeutic keratectomy: surgical strategies and clinical outcomes.Ophthal. 1996;103:1210-1222.,
<mask> PS, Schein OD, Steinert RF. Characteristics influencing outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthal. 1996;103:1964-1969 . Carr JD, <mask> PS. Excimer laser technology: key concepts for the ophthalmologist.Seminars in Ophthal. 1996;11:212-223. Shah S, <mask> PS. Evolving bias in reporting refractive surgery in the popular press. J. Refract. Surg. 1996;12:638-641.Zagelbaum B, Starkey C, <mask> PS, Donnenfeld ED, Perry HD & Jeffers JB. The National Basketball Association eye injury study. Sports Vision 1996;12:7-11.,
<mask> PS, Shah S, Summit PRK Topography Study Group. Corneal topography of 6.0 mm excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy: Characterization and clinical effects. Ophthal. 1997;104:1333-1342. <mask> PS, Stulting D, Steinert RF, Waring GO, Thompson K, Doney K, O'Connell M. Results of phase III excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy for myopia.Ophthal. 1997;104:1535-1553. Scher KS, <mask> PS. Disparity between refractive error and visual acuity after photorefractive keratectomy: Multifocal corneal effects. J Cat Ref Surg. 1997;23:1029-1033. <mask> P. A standardized classification system for corneal topography patterns after laser refractive surgery.J Refract Surg. 1997;13:571-578. <mask> PS, Scher KS, Irani R. Corneal topography of PRK and LASIK. Ophthal. 1998;105:612-619. <mask> PS, Brint SF, Berkeley RB, Durrie DS, Gordon M, Maloney RK, Michelson MA, Thompson VM. PRK versus LASIK for moderate to high myopia: A prospective randomized study.Ophthalmology 1998;15:1512-1522. Steinert RF, <mask> PS. Spherical and aspherical photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis for moderate to high myopia: Two prospective, randomized clinical trials. Tr Am Ophth Soc 1998;96:197-227. Abbas U, <mask> PS Natural history of corneal topography after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmology, 1998;15:2212-2224. Manche EE, Carr JD, Haw WW, <mask> PS.Excimer laser refractive surgery. West J Med. 1998;169:30-38
Abbas U, <mask> PS. Copy of Early Corneal topography patterns after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmology, 1999; 115:22-26. Chiang PK, <mask> PS. Comparing predictability between eyes after bilateral laser in situ keratomileusis.Ophthalmology, 1999:106;1684-1691. <mask> PS, Abbassi R. Surgically induced astigmatism after photorefractive keratectomy and laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg, 1999:25:389-398. Fisher EM, Ginsberg NE, Scher KS, <mask> PS. Photorefractive Keratectomy for myopia with a 15 Hz repetition rate.1999;26:363-368. <mask> PS, Steinert RF, Brint SF Phototherapeutic Keratectomy.versus laser in situ keratomileusis. Comparison of optical side effects.Ophthalmology 2000:107:925-933. Ginsberg NE, <mask> PS. Effect of lamellar flap location on corneal topography after laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2000;26;992-1000. Dastgheib KA, Clinch TE, Manche EE, <mask> P, Ramsey J. Sloughing of corneal epithelium and wound healing complications associated with laser in situ keratomileusis in patients with epithelial basement membrane dystrophy. Am J Ophthalmol 2000;130:297-303.Lumba J, <mask> PS. Topography changes associated with sublamellar epithelial ingrowth after laser in situ keratomileusis. J Cataract Refract Surg 26;2000:1413-1416. Karp KO, <mask> PS, Epstein RJ. Delayed keratitis after laser in situ keratomileusis. J. Cat Refract Surg 2000;26:925-928.Abbas UL, <mask> PS. of Late natural history of Corneal Topography after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy.PRK Ophthalmology 2001;108:953-959. Asbell PA, Maloney RK, Davidorf J, <mask> P, McDonald M, Manche E. Conductive keratoplasty for the Correction of Hyperopia Trans Am Ophthalmological Society 2001; 99:79-97. McDonald MB, Davidorf J, Maloney RK, Manche EE, <mask> P. Conductive Keratoplasty for Correction of low to moderate Hyperopia Ophthalmology 2002; 109:637-649
Leu G, <mask> PS. Phototherapeutic Keratectomy for the treatment of diffuse lamellar keratitis. J Cat Refract 2002;28: 1471.1474. <mask> PS, Ratkaran R, <mask> D. Contact Lens evaluation of corneal Keratoplasty for the correction of corbeal topography irregularities after laser refractive surgery.J Cat Refract Surg 2002;28:2054-2057. McDonald MB, <mask> P, Manche EE, Maloney RK, Davidorf J, Sabry M. Conductive Keratoplasty for the correction of low to moderate hyperopia US clinical trial 1 year results 355 eyes Ophthalmology 2002; 109: 1978-1990 . <mask> PS; Fry KL, Bishop DS.Incidence and Association of Retreatment after LASIK Ophthamology 2003; 110:748-754.Vol 110 No 4 April 2003.pdf
<mask> PS, Fry KL, Blaker, JW. Spherical aberration after LASIK and PRK. J Cat Refract Surg 2003;11:2096-2104. Klein S, Fry KL, <mask> PS. LASIK after conductive keratoplasty.J Cat Refract Surg 2004;30:702-705. Steinert RF, Ashrafzadeh A, <mask> PS. Results of phototherapeutic keratectomy in the management of flap striae after LASIK. Ophthalmology 2004;111:740-746. <mask> PS, Fry K, Chandrashekhar R, Fikaris DS. Conductive keratoplasty to complications of LASIK and photorefractive keratectomy. Ophthalmology 2005;112:1941-1947.<mask> PS. Optics of conductive keratoplasty. Implications for presbyopia management. Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc 2005;103:412-456. Patel SR, Chu DS, Ayres B, <mask> PS. Corneal edema and penetrating keratoplasty after anterior chamber phakic intraocular lens implantation. J Cat Refract Surg 2005;31:2212-2215.Xu Y, <mask> PS, Chu DS. Wavefront analysis and Scheimpflug imagery in diagnosis of anterior lenticonus. J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:850-853. Van De Sompel D, Kunkel G, <mask> PS, Smiths AJ. Model of accommodation: Contributions of lens geometry and mechanical properties to the development of presbyopia. J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:1960-1971. Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Bhatt J, <mask> PS.Natural history of corneal haze after collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: A Scheimpflug and biomicroscopic analysis. J Cat Refract Surg 2010;36:2105-2114. <mask> PS, Greenstein SA, Fry KL. Corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: One year results. J Cat Refract Surg 2011;37:149-160. Greenstein SA, Shah VP, Fry KL, <mask> PS. Corneal thickness changes after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia: One-year results.J Cat Refract Surg 2011; 37:691-700. Archna P, Fry KL, <mask> PS. Relationship of Age and Refraction to Central Corneal Thickness. Cornea 2011; 30: 553-555. Greenstein SA, Fry KL, <mask> PS. Corneal topography indices after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia One-year results. J Cat Refract Surg 2011; 37: 1282-1290.Greenstein SA, Fry KL, Hersh PS. In Vivo Biomechanical Changes After Corneal Collagen Cross-linking for Keratoconus and Corneal Ectasia: 1-Year Analysis of a Randomized, Controlled, Clinical Trial. Cornea 202; 31: 21-25. Greenstein SA, Fry KL, <mask>, MJ, <mask> PS. Higher-order aberrations after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia. J Cat Refract Surg 2012; 38: 292-302. Brooks NO, Greenstein SA, Fry KL, <mask> PS.Patient subjective visual function after corneal collagen crosslinking for keratoconus and corneal ectasia. J Cat Refract Surg 2012; 38:615-619. <mask> PS, Lai MJ, Gelles JD, Lesniak SP. Transepithelial corneal crosslinking for keratoconus. J Cat Refract Surg 2018; 44:313-322. Lai MJ, Greenstein SA, Gelles JD, <mask> PS. Corneal Haze after Transepithelial Collagen Crosslinking for Keratoconus: A Scheimpflug Densitometry Analysis.Cornea. 2020;39(9):1117-1121. References
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2715569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona%20Darkfeather | Mona Darkfeather | Josephine M. Workman better known by her stage name, Princess Mona Darkfeather (January 13, 1882 – September 3, 1977) was an American actress who starred in Native American and Western dramas. During the silent era of motion pictures, from 1911 to 1917, she appeared in 102 movies. She is best known for her role as Prairie Flower in The Vanishing Tribe (1914).
Her career began in 1909 when she replied to a local newspaper advertisement placed by producer/director Thomas Ince's Bison Motion Pictures. During a time when studios rarely hired Native Americans, the movie studio was looking for an actress with the physical attributes to portray an American Indian and who was physically capable of doing stunts and riding horses. While she had never acted before, Workman fit the appearance that Ince wanted. She apparently embellished her riding skills, as she did not have any, but nevertheless quickly learned horsemanship. Given the stage name Mona Darkfeather (and later "Princess" Mona Darkfeather), she was cast in her first starring role as an Indian maiden named Owanee in the 1911 movie Owanee's Great Love.
Early life
She was born Josephine M. Workman in Boyle Heights, California, and baptized at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, when she was four months old. She was the daughter of Joseph Manuel Workman (1833–1901) and Josephine Mary Belt (1851–1937). Her siblings were Mary Cristina Workman (1870–1963); Agnes Elizabeth Workman (1872–1957); Marie Lucile "Lucy" Workman (1875–1944); William Joseph Workman (1877–1956); George D. Workman (1879–1903); and Nellie Workman (1886–1888).
Her grandparents were William Workman (1799-1876), a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste (1802-1892), who hailed from the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. According to the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, her paternal grandmother Nicolasa was of Taos Pueblo descent. Her mother was of Scottish and Chilean descent. Darkfeather claimed Spanish ancestry as well. She was a member of the prominent pioneer Workman family of Los Angeles. In 1870, her grandfather, William Workman (1799–1876), deeded of land, a portion of the Rancho La Puente, to his son, Joseph M. Workman. Through this deed, the land would go to Joseph's children upon his death.
Her parents separated in 1893, and Josephine lived with her mother. Joseph Workman deeded his Rancho La Puente land to O.T. Bassett, in 1895. On March 22, 1915, Josephine (Belt) Workman married David D. Parten (1857–1929), a law enforcement officer who died after being accidentally hit by a backing car.
Married life
Darkfeather married film director and actor Frank E. Montgomery (born Frank Akley; 1870–1944) in 1912. In 1914, Frank E. Montgomery moved to Spokane, Washington to open and direct at the Frank E. Montgomery of the Spokane School of Motion Picture Acting. Darkfeather became associated with the company as an instructor. Darkfeather and Montgomery divorced in 1928. In late 1928, Darkfeather married banker and financer Alfred Wessling until their divorce in 1935. On December 23, 1937, Montgomery and Darkfeather remarried after nine years of separation and remained married until Montgomery's death in 1944.
Film career
After replying in 1909 to a Bison Motion Pictures newspaper ad, which called for "exotic-looking girls" to play "Indian maidens", she soon became famous as "Princess Mona Darkfeather", noted for leaping onto her pinto pony, "Comanche", and galloping away bareback.
Darkfeather was a noted moving picture artist who regularly starred in roles of Indian and Western dramas. Although she was mostly of European and Chilean descent, Darkfeather's early publicity claimed she was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian. She said she was an Indian Princess and had been made a blood member of the Blackfoot Nation and given the title of princess by a "Chief Big Thunder".
She played Indian roles in one-reel western melodrama shorts, such as A White Indian (1912) and A Blackfoot's Conspiracy (1912), as well as feature length movies. She was by then a major movie star. She also played leading roles as Spanish women in several historical dramas.
Darkfeather regularly appeared in Montgomery's films through various motion picture companies that he worked for, including Bison Company, Universal, Kalem Company, and Sawyer Inc. Under the tutelage of her husband/director Frank E Montgomery, Darkfeather played Indian and several Spanish leads in many Bison Company Productions. Darkfeather made movies for Bison starting in 1909, the Selig Polyscope Company between 1909 and 1913, Nestor Studios in 1912 and for Kalem Studios beginning in 1913. Montgomery directed her in the 101-Bison two-reeler The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912). Other films he directed her in include A Forest Romance, For the Peace of Bear Valley and Justice of the Wild, all released in 1913, in which she played opposite Harry von Meter.
Darkfeather was Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to portray the Indian wife, Nat-u-ritch, in his famous western The Squaw Man (1914), but she was too busy, as she and Montgomery were producing their own movies independently for release through the Kalem Company, and she was unavailable to play the role.
She and Montgomery joined the Universal Film Company in 1914 and continued to collaborate on scores of westerns. Darkfeather appeared in her last movie, The Hidden Danger, in 1917, then retired from the screen.
For a while after she retired as a screen actress, she performed on the stage and headlined as Princess Darkfeather. In late August 1918, she made a special appearance at the Liberty Theater in Tacoma, Washington, as actress, singer and lecturer. In her "rattlesnake" dress, she appeared after each showing of the feature movie, Eyes of the World (1917) starring Monroe Salisbury, to sing and give advice to all girls in the audience with ambition to enter show business.
She and her husband, Frank Montgomery, were living at 1117 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington, in September 1918, when he registered with the local draft board for World War I. He gave his present occupation as photoplay star manager. In 1920, they were back in Los Angeles, living at 2518 Maple Avenue.
Filmography
A Cheyenne's Love for a Sioux (1910), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Frank Montgomery
Owanee's Great Love (1911), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
A Squaw's Retribution (1911), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Blacksnake's Treachery (1911), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Darkfeather, the Squaw (1911), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
An Indian Love Story (1911), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Dove Eye
White Fawn's Peril (1911), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
A Spanish Wooing (1911), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Sydney Ayres, Frank Richardson, Frank Clark
The Night Herder (1911), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Tom Santschi, Frank Clark, Dell Eagles
Bunkie (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Fred Huntley, Phil Stratton
As Told by Princess Bess (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Eugenie Besserer, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Richardson
Crucial Test, A (1912), Dir. Frank E Montgomery; Cast includes: Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Santschi, Mona Darkfeather, Fred Huntley, Roy Watson
At Old Fort Dearborn (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Charles Bartlett
Darkfeather's Strategy (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Tom Santschi, Frank Richardson
The End of the Romance (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Herbert Rawlinson
The Hand of Fate (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Al Ernest Garcia, Fernando Gálvez
A White Indian (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Lee Morris, Roy Watson
At Old Fort Dearborn (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Charles Bartlett
When Uncle Sam Was Young (1912), Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Virginia Chester
The Tattoo (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Artie Ortego, Jack Leonard
Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
Trapper Bill, King of Scouts (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson
A Red Man's Love (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
An Indian Ishmael (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Chief Harvey, Chief Phillipi, Roy Watson
Blackfoot Conspiracy (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
The Half-Breed Scout (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Roy Watson, Charles Bartlett, Virginia Chester
The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson, William Bertram
Big Rock's Last Stand (1912), Bison. Dir. Frank Montgomery; Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Art Ortega, Virginia Chester, Roy Watson
Apache Father's Vengeance, An (1913) Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Mona of the Modocs (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
The Song of the Telegraph (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
The Red Girl's Sacrifice (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
The Return of Thunder Cloud's Spirit (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Helen Case
The Half Breed Parson (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Francis Ford, Grace Cunard
Owana, the Devil Woman (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Artie Ortego
The Spring in the Desert (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Artie Ortego
Apache Love (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Chief Harvey
Mona (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Artie Ortego
The Snake (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, Artie Ortego, Lee Shumway
Darkfeather's Sacrifice (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Juanita (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, J. Gunnis Davis, Lawrence Peyton
When the Blood Calls (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Lawrence Peyton
The Oath of Conchita (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
The Love of Men (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
A Forest Romance (1913), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, J. Gunnis Davis
For the Peace of Bear Valley (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, Inez Fanjoy
Justice of the Wild (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, L.J. Anderson
Against Desperate Odds (1913), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, Charles Bartlett
An Indian Maid's Strategy (1913), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Chief Eagle Wing
Her Indian Brother (1913), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Anna De Lisle
A Dream of the Wild (1914), Kalem. Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
Indian Blood (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Buster Emmons
Red Hawk's Sacrifice (1914), Kalem. Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
The Paleface Brave (1914), Kalem. Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
The Indian Ambuscade (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
Indian Fate (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Lucille Neath, Charles Bartlett
An Indian's Honor (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
The Tigers of the Hills (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Billie Rhodes, J. Gunnis Davis
The Hopi Raiders (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, Charles Bartlett
The Medicine Man's Vengeance (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis
His Indian Nemesis (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis
The Navajo Blanket (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Artie Ortego, Mona Darkfeather, Big Moon
The Fight on Deadwood Trail (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Anna De Lisle, Jack Messick
Grey Eagle's Last Stand (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Big Moon, Eagle Feather, Mona Darkfeather
The War Bonnet (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Artie Ortego, Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs
The Redskins and the Renegades (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Big Moon, Mona Darkfeather, Chief Eagle Wing
Bottled Spider, The (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
At the End of the Rope (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Coming of Lone Wolf, The (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Call of the Tribe, The (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Art Ortega, Big Moon, Eva Smith
The Squaw's Revenge (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, Juanita Martenis
The Gypsy Gambler (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Rex Downs
Brought to Justice (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Cave of Death, The (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Vengeance of Winona, The (1914)
The Stolen Invention (1915), Monty Film. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
A Message for Help (1915), Bison. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Circle of Death, The (1916), Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
The Crimson Arrow (1917), Universal. Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather
Later life
In late January 1921, she won a lawsuit in Los Angeles, which she initiated on June 24, 1918, against Charles N. Bassett to recover an interest in the Rancho La Puente land that her father sold to Bassett's father in 1895. Although she had been 12 years of age in 1895, she was never served with a summons to quit title as an heir of the property, as were her older brothers and sisters. The decision gave her a one-ninth interest in of what was said to be the largest walnut grove in California, at Bassett Station, near El Monte, and she was awarded a cash judgment for $129,163. The decision was reversed, however, by the Supreme Court at San Francisco, on September 22, 1922.
Darkfeather and Montgomery were divorced in 1928. She was married again in 1928 to wealthy banker/financeer Alfred G. Wessling (1869–1941). In 1930, the Wesslings lived at 352 North Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia. They lived at 931 Manhattan Avenue in Hermosa Beach, in 1934.
She and Wessling were divorced in 1935. On December 23, 1937, she and Frank Montgomery, who was by then a technician of the Hal Roach Studios sound department, and was currently working on Merrily We Live starring Constance Bennett, were remarried in Darkfeather's home at 1420 ½ Mohawk Street, Echo Park. They remained married until his death in 1944.
Mona Darkfeather died at age 94 from a stroke, due to cerebral atherosclerosis, at a convalescent center on South Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles. She is interred in section K, lot 116, grave 7, in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, under the name Josephine Workman.
See also
Portrayal of Native Americans in film
Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
Workman-Temple family
Pliny Fisk Temple (Francisco P. Temple)
Boyle-Workman family
References
External links
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
American stage actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
1883 births
1977 deaths
People from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
American people of English descent
American people of Scottish descent
American people of Spanish descent
History of Los Angeles
Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
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"Josephine M. Workman better known by her stage name, Princess Mona Darkfeather (January 13, 1882 – September 3, 1977) was an American actress who starred in Native American and Western dramas.",
"During the silent era of motion pictures, from 1911 to 1917, she appeared in 102 movies.",
"She is best known for her role as Prairie Flower in The Vanishing Tribe (1914).",
"Her career began in 1909 when she replied to a local newspaper advertisement placed by producer/director Thomas Ince's Bison Motion Pictures.",
"During a time when studios rarely hired Native Americans, the movie studio was looking for an actress with the physical attributes to portray an American Indian and who was physically capable of doing stunts and riding horses.",
"While she had never acted before, Workman fit the appearance that Ince wanted.",
"She apparently embellished her riding skills, as she did not have any, but nevertheless quickly learned horsemanship.",
"Given the stage name Mona Darkfeather (and later \"Princess\" Mona Darkfeather), she was cast in her first starring role as an Indian maiden named Owanee in the 1911 movie Owanee's Great Love.",
"Early life\nShe was born Josephine M. Workman in Boyle Heights, California, and baptized at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, when she was four months old.",
"She was the daughter of Joseph Manuel Workman (1833–1901) and Josephine Mary Belt (1851–1937).",
"Her siblings were Mary Cristina Workman (1870–1963); Agnes Elizabeth Workman (1872–1957); Marie Lucile \"Lucy\" Workman (1875–1944); William Joseph Workman (1877–1956); George D. Workman (1879–1903); and Nellie Workman (1886–1888).",
"Her grandparents were William Workman (1799-1876), a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste (1802-1892), who hailed from the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico.",
"According to the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, her paternal grandmother Nicolasa was of Taos Pueblo descent.",
"Her mother was of Scottish and Chilean descent.",
"Darkfeather claimed Spanish ancestry as well.",
"She was a member of the prominent pioneer Workman family of Los Angeles.",
"In 1870, her grandfather, William Workman (1799–1876), deeded of land, a portion of the Rancho La Puente, to his son, Joseph M. Workman.",
"Through this deed, the land would go to Joseph's children upon his death.",
"Her parents separated in 1893, and Josephine lived with her mother.",
"Joseph Workman deeded his Rancho La Puente land to O.T.",
"Bassett, in 1895.",
"On March 22, 1915, Josephine (Belt) Workman married David D. Parten (1857–1929), a law enforcement officer who died after being accidentally hit by a backing car.",
"Married life\nDarkfeather married film director and actor Frank E. Montgomery (born Frank Akley; 1870–1944) in 1912.",
"In 1914, Frank E. Montgomery moved to Spokane, Washington to open and direct at the Frank E. Montgomery of the Spokane School of Motion Picture Acting.",
"Darkfeather became associated with the company as an instructor.",
"Darkfeather and Montgomery divorced in 1928.",
"In late 1928, Darkfeather married banker and financer Alfred Wessling until their divorce in 1935.",
"On December 23, 1937, Montgomery and Darkfeather remarried after nine years of separation and remained married until Montgomery's death in 1944.",
"Film career\n\nAfter replying in 1909 to a Bison Motion Pictures newspaper ad, which called for \"exotic-looking girls\" to play \"Indian maidens\", she soon became famous as \"Princess Mona Darkfeather\", noted for leaping onto her pinto pony, \"Comanche\", and galloping away bareback.",
"Darkfeather was a noted moving picture artist who regularly starred in roles of Indian and Western dramas.",
"Although she was mostly of European and Chilean descent, Darkfeather's early publicity claimed she was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian.",
"She said she was an Indian Princess and had been made a blood member of the Blackfoot Nation and given the title of princess by a \"Chief Big Thunder\".",
"She played Indian roles in one-reel western melodrama shorts, such as A White Indian (1912) and A Blackfoot's Conspiracy (1912), as well as feature length movies.",
"She was by then a major movie star.",
"She also played leading roles as Spanish women in several historical dramas.",
"Darkfeather regularly appeared in Montgomery's films through various motion picture companies that he worked for, including Bison Company, Universal, Kalem Company, and Sawyer Inc.",
"Under the tutelage of her husband/director Frank E Montgomery, Darkfeather played Indian and several Spanish leads in many Bison Company Productions.",
"Darkfeather made movies for Bison starting in 1909, the Selig Polyscope Company between 1909 and 1913, Nestor Studios in 1912 and for Kalem Studios beginning in 1913.",
"Montgomery directed her in the 101-Bison two-reeler The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912).",
"Other films he directed her in include A Forest Romance, For the Peace of Bear Valley and Justice of the Wild, all released in 1913, in which she played opposite Harry von Meter.",
"Darkfeather was Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to portray the Indian wife, Nat-u-ritch, in his famous western The Squaw Man (1914), but she was too busy, as she and Montgomery were producing their own movies independently for release through the Kalem Company, and she was unavailable to play the role.",
"She and Montgomery joined the Universal Film Company in 1914 and continued to collaborate on scores of westerns.",
"Darkfeather appeared in her last movie, The Hidden Danger, in 1917, then retired from the screen.",
"For a while after she retired as a screen actress, she performed on the stage and headlined as Princess Darkfeather.",
"In late August 1918, she made a special appearance at the Liberty Theater in Tacoma, Washington, as actress, singer and lecturer.",
"In her \"rattlesnake\" dress, she appeared after each showing of the feature movie, Eyes of the World (1917) starring Monroe Salisbury, to sing and give advice to all girls in the audience with ambition to enter show business.",
"She and her husband, Frank Montgomery, were living at 1117 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington, in September 1918, when he registered with the local draft board for World War I.",
"He gave his present occupation as photoplay star manager.",
"In 1920, they were back in Los Angeles, living at 2518 Maple Avenue.",
"Filmography\n A Cheyenne's Love for a Sioux (1910), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Frank Montgomery\n Owanee's Great Love (1911), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n A Squaw's Retribution (1911), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Blacksnake's Treachery (1911), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Darkfeather, the Squaw (1911), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n An Indian Love Story (1911), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Dove Eye\n White Fawn's Peril (1911), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n A Spanish Wooing (1911), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Sydney Ayres, Frank Richardson, Frank Clark\n The Night Herder (1911), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Tom Santschi, Frank Clark, Dell Eagles\n Bunkie (1912), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Fred Huntley, Phil Stratton\n As Told by Princess Bess (1912), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Eugenie Besserer, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Richardson\n Crucial Test, A (1912), Dir.",
"Frank E Montgomery; Cast includes: Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Santschi, Mona Darkfeather, Fred Huntley, Roy Watson\n At Old Fort Dearborn (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Charles Bartlett\n Darkfeather's Strategy (1912), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Tom Santschi, Frank Richardson\n The End of the Romance (1912), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Herbert Rawlinson\n The Hand of Fate (1912), Selig Polyscope Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Hobart Bosworth, Al Ernest Garcia, Fernando Gálvez\n A White Indian (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Lee Morris, Roy Watson\n At Old Fort Dearborn (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Charles Bartlett\n When Uncle Sam Was Young (1912), Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Virginia Chester\n The Tattoo (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Artie Ortego, Jack Leonard\n Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett\n Trapper Bill, King of Scouts (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson\n A Red Man's Love (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego\n An Indian Ishmael (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Chief Harvey, Chief Phillipi, Roy Watson\n Blackfoot Conspiracy (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n The Half-Breed Scout (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Roy Watson, Charles Bartlett, Virginia Chester\n The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson, William Bertram\n Big Rock's Last Stand (1912), Bison.",
"Dir.",
"Frank Montgomery; Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Art Ortega, Virginia Chester, Roy Watson\n Apache Father's Vengeance, An (1913) Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Mona of the Modocs (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n The Song of the Telegraph (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett\n The Red Girl's Sacrifice (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n The Return of Thunder Cloud's Spirit (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Helen Case\n The Half Breed Parson (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Francis Ford, Grace Cunard\n Owana, the Devil Woman (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Artie Ortego\n The Spring in the Desert (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather and Artie Ortego\n Apache Love (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Chief Harvey\n Mona (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Artie Ortego\n The Snake (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, Artie Ortego, Lee Shumway\n Darkfeather's Sacrifice (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Juanita (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, J. Gunnis Davis, Lawrence Peyton\n When the Blood Calls (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Lawrence Peyton\n The Oath of Conchita (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n The Love of Men (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n A Forest Romance (1913), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, J. Gunnis Davis\n For the Peace of Bear Valley (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, Inez Fanjoy\n Justice of the Wild (1913), Nestor Film Company.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Harry von Meter, L.J.",
"Anderson\n Against Desperate Odds (1913), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, Charles Bartlett\n An Indian Maid's Strategy (1913), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Chief Eagle Wing\n Her Indian Brother (1913), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Anna De Lisle\n A Dream of the Wild (1914), Kalem.",
"Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego\n Indian Blood (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Buster Emmons\n Red Hawk's Sacrifice (1914), Kalem.",
"Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett\n The Paleface Brave (1914), Kalem.",
"Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego\n The Indian Ambuscade (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego\n Indian Fate (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Lucille Neath, Charles Bartlett\n An Indian's Honor (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett\n The Tigers of the Hills (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Billie Rhodes, J. Gunnis Davis\n The Hopi Raiders (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, Charles Bartlett\n The Medicine Man's Vengeance (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis\n His Indian Nemesis (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis\n The Navajo Blanket (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Artie Ortego, Mona Darkfeather, Big Moon\n The Fight on Deadwood Trail (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Anna De Lisle, Jack Messick\n Grey Eagle's Last Stand (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Big Moon, Eagle Feather, Mona Darkfeather\n The War Bonnet (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Artie Ortego, Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs\n The Redskins and the Renegades (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Big Moon, Mona Darkfeather, Chief Eagle Wing\n Bottled Spider, The (1914) Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n At the End of the Rope (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Coming of Lone Wolf, The (1914) Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Call of the Tribe, The (1914) Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Art Ortega, Big Moon, Eva Smith\n The Squaw's Revenge (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, Juanita Martenis\n The Gypsy Gambler (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, Rex Downs\n Brought to Justice (1914) Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Cave of Death, The (1914), Kalem.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Vengeance of Winona, The (1914)\n The Stolen Invention (1915), Monty Film.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n A Message for Help (1915), Bison.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n Circle of Death, The (1916), Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n The Crimson Arrow (1917), Universal.",
"Cast includes: Mona Darkfeather\n\nLater life\n\nIn late January 1921, she won a lawsuit in Los Angeles, which she initiated on June 24, 1918, against Charles N. Bassett to recover an interest in the Rancho La Puente land that her father sold to Bassett's father in 1895.",
"Although she had been 12 years of age in 1895, she was never served with a summons to quit title as an heir of the property, as were her older brothers and sisters.",
"The decision gave her a one-ninth interest in of what was said to be the largest walnut grove in California, at Bassett Station, near El Monte, and she was awarded a cash judgment for $129,163.",
"The decision was reversed, however, by the Supreme Court at San Francisco, on September 22, 1922.",
"Darkfeather and Montgomery were divorced in 1928.",
"She was married again in 1928 to wealthy banker/financeer Alfred G. Wessling (1869–1941).",
"In 1930, the Wesslings lived at 352 North Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia.",
"They lived at 931 Manhattan Avenue in Hermosa Beach, in 1934.",
"She and Wessling were divorced in 1935.",
"On December 23, 1937, she and Frank Montgomery, who was by then a technician of the Hal Roach Studios sound department, and was currently working on Merrily We Live starring Constance Bennett, were remarried in Darkfeather's home at 1420 ½ Mohawk Street, Echo Park.",
"They remained married until his death in 1944.",
"Mona Darkfeather died at age 94 from a stroke, due to cerebral atherosclerosis, at a convalescent center on South Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles.",
"She is interred in section K, lot 116, grave 7, in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, under the name Josephine Workman.",
"See also\nPortrayal of Native Americans in film\nStereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States\nWorkman-Temple family\nPliny Fisk Temple (Francisco P. Temple)\nBoyle-Workman family\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\nAmerican film actresses\nAmerican silent film actresses\nAmerican stage actresses\nActresses from Los Angeles\n1883 births\n1977 deaths\nPeople from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles\nAmerican people of English descent\nAmerican people of Scottish descent\nAmerican people of Spanish descent\nHistory of Los Angeles\nBurials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City\n20th-century American actresses"
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"Josephine M. Workman, better known by her stage name, Princess Mona Darkfeather, was an American actress who starred in Native American and Western dramas.",
"She appeared in over 100 movies during the silent era.",
"She played Prairie Flower in The Vanishing Tribe.",
"Her career began in 1909 when she replied to a local newspaper advertisement.",
"During a time when studios rarely hired Native Americans, the movie studio was looking for an actress with the physical attributes to portray an American Indian and who was physically capable of doing stunts and riding horses.",
"Workman fit the look Ince wanted.",
"She embellished her riding skills because she did not have any.",
"In the movie Owanee's Great Love, she was cast in her first starring role as an Indian maiden named Owanee.",
"She was four months old when she was christened at the Plaza Church in Los Angeles.",
"She was the daughter of Josephine Mary Belt.",
"Her brothers were William Joseph Workman and George D. Workman.",
"William Workman, a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste, a native of New Mexico, were her grandparents.",
"According to the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, Nicolasa was her paternal grandmother.",
"Her mother was of Scottish descent.",
"Spanish ancestry was claimed by Darkfeather.",
"She was a member of the Workman family.",
"Her grandfather, William Workman, deeded land to his son, Joseph M. Workman, in 1870.",
"Upon Joseph's death, the land would go to his children.",
"Josephine lived with her mother after her parents separated.",
"The Rancho La Puente land was deeded to O.T. by Joseph Workman.",
"In 1895.",
"David D. Parten, a law enforcement officer who died after being accidentally hit by a backing car, was married to Josephine (Belt) Workman on March 22, 1915.",
"Darkfeather was married to film director and actor Frank E. Montgomery.",
"The Frank E. Montgomery School of Motion Picture acting opened in 1914.",
"Darkfeather was an instructor for the company.",
"Montgomery and Darkfeather divorced in 1928.",
"Darkfeather was married to Alfred Wessling until 1935.",
"Montgomery and Darkfeather were married until Montgomery's death in 1944.",
"After responding to a newspaper ad that called for \"exotic-looking girls\" to play \"Indian maidens\", she became famous as \"Princess Mona Darkfeather\".",
"A noted moving picture artist, Darkfeather starred in roles of Indian and Western dramas.",
"Darkfeather's early publicity claimed that she was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian.",
"She said she was an Indian Princess and had been made a member of the Blackfoot Nation and given the title of princess.",
"She played Indian roles in western movies such as A White Indian and A Blackfoot's Conspiracy.",
"She was a big movie star.",
"She played Spanish women in historical dramas.",
"Darkfeather frequently appeared in Montgomery's films through various motion picture companies that he worked for.",
"Darkfeather played Indian and Spanish leads for many years under the guidance of her husband Frank E Montgomery.",
"Between 1909 and 1913, Darkfeather made movies for Bison, the Selig Polyscope Company, and Nestor Studios.",
"The massacre of the fourth cavalry was directed by Montgomery.",
"A Forest Romance, For the Peace of Bear Valley and Justice of the Wild were all directed by him and she played opposite Harry von Meter.",
"Darkfeather was the first choice to play Nat-u-ritch in The Squaw Man, but she was too busy to do it, as she and Montgomery were making their own movies.",
"She and Montgomery worked together on scores of westerns.",
"After appearing in her last movie, The Hidden Danger, in 1917, Darkfeather retired from the screen.",
"After retiring as a screen actress, she performed on stage as Princess Darkfeather.",
"In August 1918, she made a special appearance at the Liberty Theater in Washington as an actress, singer and lecturer.",
"In her \"rattlesnake\" dress, she appeared after each showing of the feature movie Eyes of the World (1917) starring Monroe Salisbury, to sing and give advice to all girls in the audience with ambition to enter show business.",
"She and her husband, Frank Montgomery, lived at 1117 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington, when he registered with the local draft board for World War I.",
"He is a photoplay star manager.",
"They lived at 2518 Maple Avenue in Los Angeles in 1920.",
"A Cheyenne's Love for a Sioux is a film.",
"Frank Montgomery Owanee's Great Love is included in the cast.",
"A Squaw's Retribution is included in the cast.",
"Blacksnake's Treachery is included in the cast.",
"The cast includes a darkfeather and a bison.",
"An Indian Love Story is part of the cast.",
"Dove Eye White Fawn's Peril is included in the cast.",
"Selig Polyscope Company is included in the cast.",
"The Selig Polyscope Company has a cast that includes Frank Clark The Night Herder.",
"The cast includes Tom Santschi, Frank Clark, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The cast is from the Selig Polyscope Company.",
"The cast includes: Eugenie Besserer, Frank Richardson, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The cast includes: Frank E Montgomery, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Santschi, Mona Darkfeather, and Fred Huntley.",
"The Selig Polyscope Company is included in the cast.",
"The End of the Romance is part of the cast.",
"The cast includes: Herbert Rawlinson The Hand of Fate, Eugenie Besserer, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"Fernando Glvez A White Indian is included in the cast.",
"The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail is part of the cast.",
"The cast includes: Charles Bartlett, Lee Morris, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"When Uncle Sam Was Young has a cast that includes Mona Darkfeather and Virginia Chester The Tattoo.",
"The cast includes Jack Leonard Star Eyes' Stratagem.",
"The King of Scouts is included in the cast.",
"A Red Man's Love is part of the cast.",
"Artie Ortego An Indian Ishmael is a cast member.",
"The cast includes: Chief Harvey, Chief Phillipi, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The Half-Breed Scout is a part of the cast.",
"The massacre of the fourth cavalry is included in the cast.",
"The cast of Big Rock's Last Stand includes: Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"There is a dir.",
"Frank Montgomery has a cast that includes:Mona Darkfeather, William Bertram, Art Ortega, Virginia Chester, and Roy Watson Apache Father's Vengeance.",
"The cast includes a woman named Mona Darkfeather.",
"The Song of the Telegraph is part of the cast.",
"The Red Girl's Sacrifice is part of the cast.",
"The return of thunder cloud's spirit is included in the cast.",
"Helen Case and Mona Darkfeather are part of the cast.",
"The Devil Woman is a part of the cast of the Nestor Film Company.",
"The Spring in the Desert is a film by the Nestor Film Company.",
"The cast is from the Nestor Film Company.",
"The cast includes Chief Harvey Mona and Artie Ortego.",
"Artie Ortego The Snake is in the cast.",
"The cast of Darkfeather's Sacrifice includes Harry von Meter, Artie Ortego, and Lee Shumway.",
"The cast is from the Nestor Film Company.",
"The cast of When the Blood Calls is from the Nestor Film Company.",
"The Oath of Conchita is a film by the Nestor Film Company.",
"The Love of Men is part of the cast.",
"A Forest Romance is part of the cast.",
"The cast of For the Peace of Bear Valley includes Harry von Meter.",
"The cast includes Inez Fanjoy Justice of the Wild.",
"The cast includes: Harry von Meter, L.J., and Mona Darkfeather.",
"Anderson Against Desperate Odds was written in the 19th century.",
"An Indian Maid's Strategy is part of the cast.",
"The Chief Eagle Wing Her Indian Brother is included in the cast.",
"Anna De Lisle A Dream of the Wild is part of the cast.",
"Artie Ortego Indian Blood, Charles Bartlett, and Mona Darkfeather are related.",
"The cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Charles Bartlett, and Red Hawk's Sacrifice.",
"The Paleface Brave was written by Charles Bartlett.",
"The Indian Ambuscade was written by Artie Ortego.",
"Artie Ortego Indian Fate is included in the cast.",
"The cast includes: Charles Bartlett An Indian's Honor, Lucille Neath, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The cast includes: Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The cast of The Hopi Raiders includes: J. Gunnis Davis, Charles Bartlett, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The Medicine Man's Vengeance is part of the cast.",
"The cast includes: Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The cast includes: J. Gunnis Davis, Artie Ortego, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"Big Moon The Fight on Deadwood Trail is a part of the cast.",
"Jack Messick Grey Eagle's Last Stand is part of the cast.",
"Big Moon, Eaglefeather, and The War Bonnet are part of the cast.",
"The cast includes Artie Ortego, Mona Darkfeather, and Rex Downs.",
"The Chief Eagle Wing Bottled Spider is included in the cast.",
"The cast includes Mona Darkfeather At the End of the Rope.",
"The Coming of Lone Wolf is part of the cast.",
"The Call of the Tribe is part of the cast.",
"The cast includes: Eva Smith, Big Moon, Art Ortega, and Mona Darkfeather.",
"The cast includes: Mona Darkfeather, Rex Downs, and The Gypsy Gambler.",
"The cast includes Rex Downs Brought to Justice.",
"The Cave of Death is part of the cast.",
"Monty Film and The Stolen Invention are included in the cast.",
"A message for help is included in the cast.",
"The cast includes: Mona Darkfeather Circle of Death, The (1916), Universal.",
"In January 1921, she won a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Charles N. Bassett to recover an interest in the Rancho La Puente land that her father sold to him in 1895.",
"She wasn't served with a summons to quit title as an heir of the property even though she was 12 years old in 1895.",
"She was awarded a cash judgment for $129,163 after the decision gave her a one-ninth interest in the largest walnut grove in California.",
"The Supreme Court at San Francisco reversed the decision on September 22, 1922.",
"In 1928, Darkfeather and Montgomery were divorced.",
"She married Alfred G. Wessling again in 1928.",
"The Wesslings lived in the area in 1930.",
"In 1934, they lived at .",
"She and Wessling divorced in 1935.",
"On December 23, 1937, she and Frank Montgomery, who was a technician at Hal Roach Studios, were married in Darkfeather's home at 1420 12 Mohawk Street.",
"They were married until his death.",
"A convalescent center on South Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles was where the 94-year-old Darkfeather died from a stroke.",
"She is buried in section K of the Holy Cross Cemetery under the name Josephine Workman.",
"There are depictions of Native Americans in the film Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States."
] | Josephine M. Workman better known by her stage name, Princess <mask> (January 13, 1882 – September 3, 1977) was an American actress who starred in Native American and Western dramas. During the silent era of motion pictures, from 1911 to 1917, she appeared in 102 movies. She is best known for her role as Prairie Flower in The Vanishing Tribe (1914). Her career began in 1909 when she replied to a local newspaper advertisement placed by producer/director Thomas Ince's Bison Motion Pictures. During a time when studios rarely hired Native Americans, the movie studio was looking for an actress with the physical attributes to portray an American Indian and who was physically capable of doing stunts and riding horses. While she had never acted before, Workman fit the appearance that Ince wanted. She apparently embellished her riding skills, as she did not have any, but nevertheless quickly learned horsemanship.Given the stage name <mask> (and later "Princess" <mask>), she was cast in her first starring role as an Indian maiden named Owanee in the 1911 movie Owanee's Great Love. Early life
She was born Josephine M. Workman in Boyle Heights, California, and baptized at the Plaza Church, Los Angeles, when she was four months old. She was the daughter of Joseph Manuel Workman (1833–1901) and Josephine Mary Belt (1851–1937). Her siblings were Mary Cristina Workman (1870–1963); Agnes Elizabeth Workman (1872–1957); Marie Lucile "Lucy" Workman (1875–1944); William Joseph Workman (1877–1956); George D. Workman (1879–1903); and Nellie Workman (1886–1888). Her grandparents were William Workman (1799-1876), a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste (1802-1892), who hailed from the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico. According to the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, her paternal grandmother Nicolasa was of Taos Pueblo descent. Her mother was of Scottish and Chilean descent.Darkfeather claimed Spanish ancestry as well. She was a member of the prominent pioneer Workman family of Los Angeles. In 1870, her grandfather, William Workman (1799–1876), deeded of land, a portion of the Rancho La Puente, to his son, Joseph M. Workman. Through this deed, the land would go to Joseph's children upon his death. Her parents separated in 1893, and Josephine lived with her mother. Joseph Workman deeded his Rancho La Puente land to O.T. Bassett, in 1895.On March 22, 1915, Josephine (Belt) Workman married David D. Parten (1857–1929), a law enforcement officer who died after being accidentally hit by a backing car. Married life
Darkfeather married film director and actor Frank E. Montgomery (born Frank Akley; 1870–1944) in 1912. In 1914, Frank E. Montgomery moved to Spokane, Washington to open and direct at the Frank E. Montgomery of the Spokane School of Motion Picture Acting. Darkfeather became associated with the company as an instructor. Darkfeather and Montgomery divorced in 1928. In late 1928, Darkfeather married banker and financer Alfred Wessling until their divorce in 1935. On December 23, 1937, Montgomery and <mask> remarried after nine years of separation and remained married until Montgomery's death in 1944.Film career
After replying in 1909 to a Bison Motion Pictures newspaper ad, which called for "exotic-looking girls" to play "Indian maidens", she soon became famous as "Princess <mask>ather", noted for leaping onto her pinto pony, "Comanche", and galloping away bareback. Darkfeather was a noted moving picture artist who regularly starred in roles of Indian and Western dramas. Although she was mostly of European and Chilean descent, Darkfeather's early publicity claimed she was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian. She said she was an Indian Princess and had been made a blood member of the Blackfoot Nation and given the title of princess by a "Chief Big Thunder". She played Indian roles in one-reel western melodrama shorts, such as A White Indian (1912) and A Blackfoot's Conspiracy (1912), as well as feature length movies. She was by then a major movie star. She also played leading roles as Spanish women in several historical dramas.Darkfeather regularly appeared in Montgomery's films through various motion picture companies that he worked for, including Bison Company, Universal, Kalem Company, and Sawyer Inc. Under the tutelage of her husband/director Frank E Montgomery, Darkfeather played Indian and several Spanish leads in many Bison Company Productions. Darkfeather made movies for Bison starting in 1909, the Selig Polyscope Company between 1909 and 1913, Nestor Studios in 1912 and for Kalem Studios beginning in 1913. Montgomery directed her in the 101-Bison two-reeler The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912). Other films he directed her in include A Forest Romance, For the Peace of Bear Valley and Justice of the Wild, all released in 1913, in which she played opposite Harry von Meter. Darkfeather was Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to portray the Indian wife, Nat-u-ritch, in his famous western The Squaw Man (1914), but she was too busy, as she and Montgomery were producing their own movies independently for release through the Kalem Company, and she was unavailable to play the role. She and Montgomery joined the Universal Film Company in 1914 and continued to collaborate on scores of westerns.Darkfeather appeared in her last movie, The Hidden Danger, in 1917, then retired from the screen. For a while after she retired as a screen actress, she performed on the stage and headlined as Princess Darkfeather. In late August 1918, she made a special appearance at the Liberty Theater in Tacoma, Washington, as actress, singer and lecturer. In her "rattlesnake" dress, she appeared after each showing of the feature movie, Eyes of the World (1917) starring Monroe Salisbury, to sing and give advice to all girls in the audience with ambition to enter show business. She and her husband, Frank Montgomery, were living at 1117 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington, in September 1918, when he registered with the local draft board for World War I. He gave his present occupation as photoplay star manager. In 1920, they were back in Los Angeles, living at 2518 Maple Avenue.Filmography
A Cheyenne's Love for a Sioux (1910), Bison. Cast includes: <mask> and Frank Montgomery
Owanee's Great Love (1911), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
A Squaw's Retribution (1911), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>
Blacksnake's Treachery (1911), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Darkfeather, the Squaw (1911), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
An Indian Love Story (1911), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather and Dove Eye
White Fawn's Peril (1911), Bison.Cast includes: <mask>ather
A Spanish Wooing (1911), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Sydney Ayres, Frank Richardson, Frank Clark
The Night Herder (1911), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Tom Santschi, Frank Clark, Dell Eagles
Bunkie (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Hobart Bosworth, Fred Huntley, Phil Stratton
As Told by Princess Bess (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Eugenie Besserer, Hobart Bosworth, Frank Richardson
Crucial Test, A (1912), Dir. Frank E Montgomery; Cast includes: Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Santschi, <mask>, Fred Huntley, Roy Watson
At Old Fort Dearborn (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask> and Charles Bartlett
<mask>'s Strategy (1912), Selig Polyscope Company.Cast includes: <mask>, Hobart Bosworth, Tom Santschi, Frank Richardson
The End of the Romance (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer, Herbert Rawlinson
The Hand of Fate (1912), Selig Polyscope Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Hobart Bosworth, Al Ernest Garcia, Fernando Gálvez
A White Indian (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Lee Morris, Roy Watson
At Old Fort Dearborn (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask> and Charles Bartlett
When Uncle Sam Was Young (1912), Cast includes: <mask> and Virginia Chester
The Tattoo (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, William Bertram, Artie Ortego, Jack Leonard
Star Eyes' Stratagem (1912), Bison.Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
Trapper Bill, King of Scouts (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson
A Red Man's Love (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, William Bertram, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
An Indian Ishmael (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Chief Harvey, Chief Phillipi, Roy Watson
Blackfoot Conspiracy (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
The Half-Breed Scout (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Roy Watson, Charles Bartlett, Virginia Chester
The Massacre of the Fourth Cavalry (1912), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson, William Bertram
Big Rock's Last Stand (1912), Bison.Dir. Frank Montgomery; Cast includes: <mask>, William Bertram, Art Ortega, Virginia Chester, Roy Watson
Apache Father's Vengeance, An (1913) Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Mona of the Modocs (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>
The Song of the Telegraph (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
The Red Girl's Sacrifice (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>
The Return of Thunder Cloud's Spirit (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask> and Helen Case
The Half Breed Parson (1913), Bison.Cast includes: <mask>, Francis Ford, Grace Cunard
Owana, the Devil Woman (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask> and Artie Ortego
The Spring in the Desert (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask> and Artie Ortego
Apache Love (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Chief Harvey
<mask> (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>, William Bertram, Artie Ortego
The Snake (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Harry von Meter, Artie Ortego, Lee Shumway
Darkfeather's Sacrifice (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Juanita (1913), Nestor Film Company.Cast includes: <mask>, J. Gunnis Davis, Lawrence Peyton
When the Blood Calls (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Lawrence Peyton
The Oath of Conchita (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>ather
The Love of Men (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
A Forest Romance (1913), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>, Harry von Meter, J. Gunnis Davis
For the Peace of Bear Valley (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Harry von Meter, Inez Fanjoy
Justice of the Wild (1913), Nestor Film Company. Cast includes: <mask>, Harry von Meter, L.J.Anderson
Against Desperate Odds (1913), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Rex Downs, Charles Bartlett
An Indian Maid's Strategy (1913), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Chief Eagle Wing
Her Indian Brother (1913), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Anna De Lisle
A Dream of the Wild (1914), Kalem. <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
Indian Blood (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Buster Emmons
Red Hawk's Sacrifice (1914), Kalem. <mask>, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
The Paleface Brave (1914), Kalem.<mask>, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
The Indian Ambuscade (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Artie Ortego
Indian Fate (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Lucille Neath, Charles Bartlett
An Indian's Honor (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett
The Tigers of the Hills (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Billie Rhodes, J. Gunnis Davis
The Hopi Raiders (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Rex Downs, Charles Bartlett
The Medicine Man's Vengeance (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis
His Indian Nemesis (1914), Kalem.Cast includes: <mask>, Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis
The Navajo Blanket (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Artie Ortego, <mask>, Big Moon
The Fight on Deadwood Trail (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Anna De Lisle, Jack Messick
Grey Eagle's Last Stand (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Big Moon, Eagle Feather, <mask>
The War Bonnet (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Artie Ortego, <mask>, Rex Downs
The Redskins and the Renegades (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: Big Moon, <mask>, Chief Eagle Wing
Bottled Spider, The (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>ather
At the End of the Rope (1914), Kalem.Cast includes: <mask>
Coming of Lone Wolf, The (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Call of the Tribe, The (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Art Ortega, Big Moon, Eva Smith
The Squaw's Revenge (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Rex Downs, Juanita Martenis
The Gypsy Gambler (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, Rex Downs
Brought to Justice (1914) Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Cave of Death, The (1914), Kalem. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Vengeance of Winona, The (1914)
The Stolen Invention (1915), Monty Film.Cast includes: <mask>
A Message for Help (1915), Bison. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Circle of Death, The (1916), Cast includes: <mask>ather
The Crimson Arrow (1917), Universal. Cast includes: <mask>ather
Later life
In late January 1921, she won a lawsuit in Los Angeles, which she initiated on June 24, 1918, against Charles N. Bassett to recover an interest in the Rancho La Puente land that her father sold to Bassett's father in 1895. Although she had been 12 years of age in 1895, she was never served with a summons to quit title as an heir of the property, as were her older brothers and sisters. The decision gave her a one-ninth interest in of what was said to be the largest walnut grove in California, at Bassett Station, near El Monte, and she was awarded a cash judgment for $129,163. The decision was reversed, however, by the Supreme Court at San Francisco, on September 22, 1922. <mask> and Montgomery were divorced in 1928.She was married again in 1928 to wealthy banker/financeer Alfred G. Wessling (1869–1941). In 1930, the Wesslings lived at 352 North Myrtle Avenue in Monrovia. They lived at 931 Manhattan Avenue in Hermosa Beach, in 1934. She and Wessling were divorced in 1935. On December 23, 1937, she and Frank Montgomery, who was by then a technician of the Hal Roach Studios sound department, and was currently working on Merrily We Live starring Constance Bennett, were remarried in <mask>'s home at 1420 ½ Mohawk Street, Echo Park. They remained married until his death in 1944. <mask> died at age 94 from a stroke, due to cerebral atherosclerosis, at a convalescent center on South Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles.She is interred in section K, lot 116, grave 7, in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, under the name Josephine Workman. See also
Portrayal of Native Americans in film
Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
Workman-Temple family
Pliny Fisk Temple (Francisco P. Temple)
Boyle-Workman family
References
External links
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
American stage actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
1883 births
1977 deaths
People from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
American people of English descent
American people of Scottish descent
American people of Spanish descent
History of Los Angeles
Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
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William Workman, a native of England, and Nicolasa Urioste, a native of New Mexico, were her grandparents. According to the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum, Nicolasa was her paternal grandmother. Her mother was of Scottish descent.Spanish ancestry was claimed by Darkfeather. She was a member of the Workman family. Her grandfather, William Workman, deeded land to his son, Joseph M. Workman, in 1870. Upon Joseph's death, the land would go to his children. Josephine lived with her mother after her parents separated. The Rancho La Puente land was deeded to O.T. by Joseph Workman. In 1895.David D. Parten, a law enforcement officer who died after being accidentally hit by a backing car, was married to Josephine (Belt) Workman on March 22, 1915. Darkfeather was married to film director and actor Frank E. Montgomery. The Frank E. Montgomery School of Motion Picture acting opened in 1914. Darkfeather was an instructor for the company. Montgomery and Darkfeather divorced in 1928. Darkfeather was married to Alfred Wessling until 1935. Montgomery and Darkfeather were married until Montgomery's death in 1944.After responding to a newspaper ad that called for "exotic-looking girls" to play "Indian maidens", she became famous as "Princess <mask>ather". A noted moving picture artist, Darkfeather starred in roles of Indian and Western dramas. Darkfeather's early publicity claimed that she was a full-blooded Blackfoot Indian. She said she was an Indian Princess and had been made a member of the Blackfoot Nation and given the title of princess. She played Indian roles in western movies such as A White Indian and A Blackfoot's Conspiracy. She was a big movie star. She played Spanish women in historical dramas.Darkfeather frequently appeared in Montgomery's films through various motion picture companies that he worked for. Darkfeather played Indian and Spanish leads for many years under the guidance of her husband Frank E Montgomery. Between 1909 and 1913, Darkfeather made movies for Bison, the Selig Polyscope Company, and Nestor Studios. The massacre of the fourth cavalry was directed by Montgomery. A Forest Romance, For the Peace of Bear Valley and Justice of the Wild were all directed by him and she played opposite Harry von Meter. Darkfeather was the first choice to play Nat-u-ritch in The Squaw Man, but she was too busy to do it, as she and Montgomery were making their own movies. She and Montgomery worked together on scores of westerns.After appearing in her last movie, The Hidden Danger, in 1917, Darkfeather retired from the screen. After retiring as a screen actress, she performed on stage as Princess Darkfeather. In August 1918, she made a special appearance at the Liberty Theater in Washington as an actress, singer and lecturer. In her "rattlesnake" dress, she appeared after each showing of the feature movie Eyes of the World (1917) starring Monroe Salisbury, to sing and give advice to all girls in the audience with ambition to enter show business. She and her husband, Frank Montgomery, lived at 1117 3rd Avenue in Seattle, Washington, when he registered with the local draft board for World War I. He is a photoplay star manager. They lived at 2518 Maple Avenue in Los Angeles in 1920.A Cheyenne's Love for a Sioux is a film. Frank Montgomery Owanee's Great Love is included in the cast. A Squaw's Retribution is included in the cast. Blacksnake's Treachery is included in the cast. The cast includes a darkfeather and a bison. An Indian Love Story is part of the cast. Dove Eye White Fawn's Peril is included in the cast.Selig Polyscope Company is included in the cast. The Selig Polyscope Company has a cast that includes Frank Clark The Night Herder. The cast includes Tom Santschi, Frank Clark, and <mask>. The cast is from the Selig Polyscope Company. The cast includes: Eugenie Besserer, Frank Richardson, and <mask>. The cast includes: Frank E Montgomery, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Santschi, <mask>, and Fred Huntley. The Selig Polyscope Company is included in the cast.The End of the Romance is part of the cast. The cast includes: Herbert Rawlinson The Hand of Fate, Eugenie Besserer, and <mask>. Fernando Glvez A White Indian is included in the cast. The Massacre of Santa Fe Trail is part of the cast. The cast includes: Charles Bartlett, Lee Morris, and <mask>. When Uncle Sam Was Young has a cast that includes <mask> and Virginia Chester The Tattoo. The cast includes Jack Leonard Star Eyes' Stratagem.The King of Scouts is included in the cast. A Red Man's Love is part of the cast. Artie Ortego An Indian Ishmael is a cast member. The cast includes: Chief Harvey, Chief Phillipi, and <mask>. The Half-Breed Scout is a part of the cast. The massacre of the fourth cavalry is included in the cast. The cast of Big Rock's Last Stand includes: Charles Bartlett, Roy Watson, and <mask>.There is a dir. Frank Montgomery has a cast that includes:<mask>, William Bertram, Art Ortega, Virginia Chester, and Roy Watson Apache Father's Vengeance. The cast includes a woman named <mask>. The Song of the Telegraph is part of the cast. The Red Girl's Sacrifice is part of the cast. The return of thunder cloud's spirit is included in the cast. Helen Case and <mask> are part of the cast.The Devil Woman is a part of the cast of the Nestor Film Company. The Spring in the Desert is a film by the Nestor Film Company. The cast is from the Nestor Film Company. The cast includes Chief <mask> and Artie Ortego. Artie Ortego The Snake is in the cast. The cast of Darkfeather's Sacrifice includes Harry von Meter, Artie Ortego, and Lee Shumway. The cast is from the Nestor Film Company.The cast of When the Blood Calls is from the Nestor Film Company. The Oath of Conchita is a film by the Nestor Film Company. The Love of Men is part of the cast. A Forest Romance is part of the cast. The cast of For the Peace of Bear Valley includes Harry von Meter. The cast includes Inez Fanjoy Justice of the Wild. The cast includes: Harry von Meter, L.J., and <mask>.Anderson Against Desperate Odds was written in the 19th century. An Indian Maid's Strategy is part of the cast. The Chief Eagle Wing Her Indian Brother is included in the cast. Anna De Lisle A Dream of the Wild is part of the cast. Artie Ortego Indian Blood, Charles Bartlett, and <mask> are related. The cast includes: <mask>, Charles Bartlett, and Red Hawk's Sacrifice. The Paleface Brave was written by Charles Bartlett.The Indian Ambuscade was written by Artie Ortego. Artie Ortego Indian Fate is included in the cast. The cast includes: Charles Bartlett An Indian's Honor, Lucille Neath, and <mask>. The cast includes: Artie Ortego, Charles Bartlett, and <mask>. The cast of The Hopi Raiders includes: J. Gunnis Davis, Charles Bartlett, and <mask>. The Medicine Man's Vengeance is part of the cast. The cast includes: Artie Ortego, J. Gunnis Davis, and <mask>.The cast includes: J. Gunnis Davis, Artie Ortego, and <mask>. Big Moon The Fight on Deadwood Trail is a part of the cast. Jack Messick Grey Eagle's Last Stand is part of the cast. Big Moon, Eaglefeather, and The War Bonnet are part of the cast. The cast includes Artie Ortego, <mask>, and Rex Downs. The Chief Eagle Wing Bottled Spider is included in the cast. The cast includes <mask> At the End of the Rope.The Coming of Lone Wolf is part of the cast. The Call of the Tribe is part of the cast. The cast includes: Eva Smith, Big Moon, Art Ortega, and <mask>. The cast includes: <mask>, Rex Downs, and The Gypsy Gambler. The cast includes Rex Downs Brought to Justice. The Cave of Death is part of the cast. Monty Film and The Stolen Invention are included in the cast.A message for help is included in the cast. The cast includes: <mask> Circle of Death, The (1916), Universal. In January 1921, she won a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Charles N. Bassett to recover an interest in the Rancho La Puente land that her father sold to him in 1895. She wasn't served with a summons to quit title as an heir of the property even though she was 12 years old in 1895. She was awarded a cash judgment for $129,163 after the decision gave her a one-ninth interest in the largest walnut grove in California. The Supreme Court at San Francisco reversed the decision on September 22, 1922. In 1928, <mask> and Montgomery were divorced.She married Alfred G. Wessling again in 1928. The Wesslings lived in the area in 1930. In 1934, they lived at . She and Wessling divorced in 1935. On December 23, 1937, she and Frank Montgomery, who was a technician at Hal Roach Studios, were married in Darkfeather's home at 1420 12 Mohawk Street. They were married until his death. 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40820721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Hosier | Harry Hosier | Harry Hosier ( – May 1806), better known during his life as "Black Harry", was an African American Methodist preacher during the Second Great Awakening in the early United States. Dr. Benjamin Rush said that, "making allowances for his illiteracy, he was the greatest orator in America". His style was widely influential but he was never formally ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church or the Rev. Richard Allen's separate African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
Name
Better known as "Black Harry" during his lifetime, Harry Hosier was illiterate and his name is also recorded variously as Hoosier, Hoshur, and Hossier. Hosier is an occupational surname referring to a maker or seller of hosiery, still commonly worn by men as well as women in the 18th century. It may have been adopted as a slave name from one of Harry's masters or referred to his livelihood in Baltimore before meeting Bishop Asbury.
The spelling "Hoosier" caused William Piersen, a history professor at Fisk University, to argue for a connection to the Indiana demonym "Hoosier". Horton suggests that, if the uncommon surname Hoosier is correct, it would represent a parallel development: the application to Harry of the same epithet referring to "low-born" and "fundamentalist" hillbillies of the kind Harry ministered to in his circuit riding that was later applied to the early settlers on the Indiana shore of the Ohio River.
Harry Hosier should not be confused with Black Harry of St. Eustatius, a methodist preacher who lived in the same 18th century. He had been transferred by the Dutch from America to the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius. Because of his preachings he was expelled to the continent again.
Life
Hosier's early life is not well-documented but most sources agree he was a freedman. He was probably born to two African slaves near Fayetteville, North Carolina, but nothing else is known about his parents. He seems to have been sold north to Baltimore, Maryland, (possibly to the plantation of Harry Gough, a prominent Methodist there) and to have gained his freedom around the end of the American Revolution.
He met Bishop Francis Asbury, the "Father of the American Methodist Church", , a meeting Asbury considered "providentially arranged". This meeting may have occurred during Asbury's trip to Todd, North Carolina. Hosier worked as Asbury's carriage driver and servant. Finding that his illiterate guide could memorize long passages verbatim and warm up the crowds for his sermons, Asbury began to read the Bible aloud during their travel from county to county and to train Hosier as a preacher in his own right. The first reference to Hosier in Asbury's journals observes, "If I had Harry to go with me and meet the colored people, it would be attended with a blessing".
Speaking after Asbury, Hosier delivered his first sermon "The Barren Fig Tree", concerning Luke 13:6–9 to the black Methodist congregation at Adams's Chapel in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1781. "The white people looked on with attention" even at the first performance; subsequently, they would often be moved to tears. Dr. Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, declared it to be the greatest sermon he'd ever heard. Although Asbury had originally intended to use Hosier to minister among blacks and they "came a great distance to hear him", his delivery was so effective and affecting that his primary audience seems to have been white. His sermon at Thomas Chapel in Chapeltown, Delaware, in 1784 was the first to be delivered by a black to a white congregation. His sermons called on Methodists to reject slavery and champion the common working man. At the same time, he told his black audiences "that they must be holy", which criticism displeased no small number of them.
As with most early Methodist preachers, he was a circuit-rider and traveled from Cainhoy, South Carolina, to Boston, Massachusetts, usually in attendance with Asbury. Having grown used to the relative freedom of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was at first unwilling to return south to Virginia and the Carolinas. Asbury was generally anxious to have him come, though, as Hosier's reputation preceded him and news of his coming would draw larger crowds than the bishop alone.
John Wesley's representative Thomas Coke was hosted by Asbury in 1784 and 1786. Touring Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, Coke wrote in his journal that Hosier was "one of the best preachers in the world" and yet "one of the humblest creatures I ever saw". Hosier was present at the Christmas Conference from December 24, 1784, to January 2, 1785, at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore, Maryland, where the Methodist Episcopal Church of America was formally founded. Along with Richard Allen, he was permitted to observe but not vote on any of the items before the conference.
He made a sensation in New York accompanying Asbury there in September 1786. Touring Connecticut and Massachusetts with Freeborn Garrettson, Hosier stayed with Prince Hall, "master mason for the Africans", and preached in Boston before a crowd of a thousand.
In 1791, an erroneous accusation against him led to the exclusion of Hosier within the church. The Rev. Henry Boehm credited his "fall" to Hosier's pride in his work: "poor Harry was so petted and made so much of that he became lifted up". The Carolinian elder Rev. Jenkins was less circumspect: he described "some difficulties" with "an influential colored man, who desired further promotion within the church". Jenkins proclaimed he "generally found that these people cannot bear promotion: like too many white people, they become proud". Hosier was not included in the group of black Methodist preachers who were ordained in 1799. At the end of his life, Hosier was found drunk and scavenging garbage looking for cloth to sell as rags. He subsequently preached that he wrestled with God and screamed Psalm 51 repeatedly before recovering and carrying on his ministry.
See also
Hoosier
Bishop Francis Asbury
Bishop Richard Allen
St. Absalom Jones
Jarena Lee
References
External links
"Harry Hosier" from Flashbacks by Patrick M. Reynolds
The Asbury Triptych Series: book series on Francis Asbury. Numerous articles on Asbury's traveling preachers including an article on Harry Hosier.
1750s births
1806 deaths
History of Methodism in the United States
American Methodist clergy
African-American Methodist clergy
People from Fayetteville, North Carolina
19th-century Methodist ministers | [
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"Dr. Benjamin Rush said that, \"making allowances for his illiteracy, he was the greatest orator in America\".",
"His style was widely influential but he was never formally ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church or the Rev.",
"Richard Allen's separate African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.",
"Name\nBetter known as \"Black Harry\" during his lifetime, Harry Hosier was illiterate and his name is also recorded variously as Hoosier, Hoshur, and Hossier.",
"Hosier is an occupational surname referring to a maker or seller of hosiery, still commonly worn by men as well as women in the 18th century.",
"It may have been adopted as a slave name from one of Harry's masters or referred to his livelihood in Baltimore before meeting Bishop Asbury.",
"The spelling \"Hoosier\" caused William Piersen, a history professor at Fisk University, to argue for a connection to the Indiana demonym \"Hoosier\".",
"Horton suggests that, if the uncommon surname Hoosier is correct, it would represent a parallel development: the application to Harry of the same epithet referring to \"low-born\" and \"fundamentalist\" hillbillies of the kind Harry ministered to in his circuit riding that was later applied to the early settlers on the Indiana shore of the Ohio River.",
"Harry Hosier should not be confused with Black Harry of St. Eustatius, a methodist preacher who lived in the same 18th century.",
"He had been transferred by the Dutch from America to the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius.",
"Because of his preachings he was expelled to the continent again.",
"Life\nHosier's early life is not well-documented but most sources agree he was a freedman.",
"He was probably born to two African slaves near Fayetteville, North Carolina, but nothing else is known about his parents.",
"He seems to have been sold north to Baltimore, Maryland, (possibly to the plantation of Harry Gough, a prominent Methodist there) and to have gained his freedom around the end of the American Revolution.",
"He met Bishop Francis Asbury, the \"Father of the American Methodist Church\", , a meeting Asbury considered \"providentially arranged\".",
"This meeting may have occurred during Asbury's trip to Todd, North Carolina.",
"Hosier worked as Asbury's carriage driver and servant.",
"Finding that his illiterate guide could memorize long passages verbatim and warm up the crowds for his sermons, Asbury began to read the Bible aloud during their travel from county to county and to train Hosier as a preacher in his own right.",
"The first reference to Hosier in Asbury's journals observes, \"If I had Harry to go with me and meet the colored people, it would be attended with a blessing\".",
"Speaking after Asbury, Hosier delivered his first sermon \"The Barren Fig Tree\", concerning Luke 13:6–9 to the black Methodist congregation at Adams's Chapel in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1781.",
"\"The white people looked on with attention\" even at the first performance; subsequently, they would often be moved to tears.",
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"Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, declared it to be the greatest sermon he'd ever heard.",
"Although Asbury had originally intended to use Hosier to minister among blacks and they \"came a great distance to hear him\", his delivery was so effective and affecting that his primary audience seems to have been white.",
"His sermon at Thomas Chapel in Chapeltown, Delaware, in 1784 was the first to be delivered by a black to a white congregation.",
"His sermons called on Methodists to reject slavery and champion the common working man.",
"At the same time, he told his black audiences \"that they must be holy\", which criticism displeased no small number of them.",
"As with most early Methodist preachers, he was a circuit-rider and traveled from Cainhoy, South Carolina, to Boston, Massachusetts, usually in attendance with Asbury.",
"Having grown used to the relative freedom of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was at first unwilling to return south to Virginia and the Carolinas.",
"Asbury was generally anxious to have him come, though, as Hosier's reputation preceded him and news of his coming would draw larger crowds than the bishop alone.",
"John Wesley's representative Thomas Coke was hosted by Asbury in 1784 and 1786.",
"Touring Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, Coke wrote in his journal that Hosier was \"one of the best preachers in the world\" and yet \"one of the humblest creatures I ever saw\".",
"Hosier was present at the Christmas Conference from December 24, 1784, to January 2, 1785, at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore, Maryland, where the Methodist Episcopal Church of America was formally founded.",
"Along with Richard Allen, he was permitted to observe but not vote on any of the items before the conference.",
"He made a sensation in New York accompanying Asbury there in September 1786.",
"Touring Connecticut and Massachusetts with Freeborn Garrettson, Hosier stayed with Prince Hall, \"master mason for the Africans\", and preached in Boston before a crowd of a thousand.",
"In 1791, an erroneous accusation against him led to the exclusion of Hosier within the church.",
"The Rev.",
"Henry Boehm credited his \"fall\" to Hosier's pride in his work: \"poor Harry was so petted and made so much of that he became lifted up\".",
"The Carolinian elder Rev.",
"Jenkins was less circumspect: he described \"some difficulties\" with \"an influential colored man, who desired further promotion within the church\".",
"Jenkins proclaimed he \"generally found that these people cannot bear promotion: like too many white people, they become proud\".",
"Hosier was not included in the group of black Methodist preachers who were ordained in 1799.",
"At the end of his life, Hosier was found drunk and scavenging garbage looking for cloth to sell as rags.",
"He subsequently preached that he wrestled with God and screamed Psalm 51 repeatedly before recovering and carrying on his ministry.",
"See also\n Hoosier\n Bishop Francis Asbury\n Bishop Richard Allen\n St. Absalom Jones\n Jarena Lee\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n \"Harry Hosier\" from Flashbacks by Patrick M. Reynolds\n The Asbury Triptych Series: book series on Francis Asbury.",
"Numerous articles on Asbury's traveling preachers including an article on Harry Hosier.",
"1750s births\n1806 deaths\nHistory of Methodism in the United States\nAmerican Methodist clergy\nAfrican-American Methodist clergy\nPeople from Fayetteville, North Carolina\n19th-century Methodist ministers"
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"He was the greatest orator in America, according to Dr. Benjamin Rush.",
"His style was influential but he was never formally dained by the Methodist Episcopal Church.",
"The African Methodist Episcopal Church is in Philadelphia.",
"During his lifetime, Harry Hosier was known as \"Black Harry\", but he was also known as Hoosier, Hoshur, and Hossier.",
"The name Hosier refers to a maker or seller of hosiery that was worn by men and women in the 18th century.",
"It is possible that it was adopted as a slave name from one of Harry's masters or that it was referred to as a business in Baltimore.",
"The spelling \"Hoosier\" caused William Piersen, a history professor at Fisk University, to argue for a connection to the Indiana demonym \"Hoosier\".",
"The application to Harry of the same epithet referring to \"low-born\" and \"fundamentalist\" hillbillies was later applied to in his circuit riding.",
"Black Harry of St. Eustatius was a methodist preacher who lived in the same 18th century.",
"He was transferred from America to Sint Eustatius by the Dutch.",
"He was kicked out of the continent again because of his preachings.",
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"He gained his freedom around the end of the American Revolution after being sold north to Baltimore, Maryland.",
"He met the \"Father of the American Methodist Church\", Bishop Francis Asbury.",
"The meeting may have taken place during the trip to Todd, North Carolina.",
"Hosier was the carriage driver and servant.",
"After finding that his guide could memorize long passages and warm up the crowds for his sermons, he began to read the Bible aloud and train Hosier as a preacher in his own right.",
"\"If I had Harry to go with me and meet the colored people, it would be attended with a blessing\".",
"Hosier preached \"The Barren Fig Tree\" to the black Methodist congregation at Adams's Chapel in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1781.",
"After the performance, the white people would often be moved to tears.",
"Dr.",
"Rush was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.",
"Although Asbury intended to use Hosier to minister among blacks, his delivery was so effective and affecting that his primary audience seems to have been white.",
"His sermon at Thomas Chapel in Chapeltown, Delaware, in 1784 was the first to be delivered by a black to a white congregation.",
"The common working man was called to be champion in his sermons.",
"He told his black audience that they must be holy, which displeased many of them.",
"He was a circuit-rider and traveled from South Carolina to Boston, Massachusetts, with Asbury.",
"He was hesitant to return to Virginia and the Carolinas because he was used to the freedom of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.",
"Hosier's reputation preceded him and news of his coming would draw larger crowds than the bishop alone.",
"In 1784 and 1786, Thomas Coke was hosted by Asbury.",
"Coke wrote in his journal that Hosier was \"one of the best preachers in the world\" and \"one of the humblest creatures I ever saw\".",
"During the Christmas Conference from December 24, 1784 to January 2, 1785, Hosier was in Baltimore, Maryland, where the Methodist Episcopal Church of America was founded.",
"He and Richard Allen were allowed to observe but not vote on the items before the conference.",
"He made a name for himself in New York.",
"Hosier stayed with Prince Hall, the \"master mason for the Africans\", and preached in Boston before a thousand people.",
"The exclusion of Hosier from the church was caused by an accusation against him.",
"The Rev.",
"Henry Boehm said that poor Harry was so petted and made so much of that he became lifted up.",
"The elder Rev. is a Carolinian.",
"There were difficulties with an influential colored man who wanted further promotion within the church.",
"Like too many white people, these people cannot bear promotion.",
"Hosier wasn't included in the group of black Methodist preachers.",
"At the end of his life, Hosier was drunk and looking for garbage to sell as cloth.",
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Hoosier
Bishop Francis Asbury
Bishop Richard Allen
St. Absalom Jones
Jarena Lee
References
External links
"<mask>sier" from Flashbacks by Patrick M. Reynolds
The Asbury Triptych Series: book series on Francis Asbury. Numerous articles on Asbury's traveling preachers including an article on <mask>r. 1750s births
1806 deaths
History of Methodism in the United States
American Methodist clergy
African-American Methodist clergy
People from Fayetteville, North Carolina
19th-century Methodist ministers | [
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3397287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Hawkshaw | Alan Hawkshaw | William Alan Hawkshaw (27 March 1937 – 16 October 2021) was a British composer and performer, particularly of library music used as themes for movies and television programs. Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV.
He was the composer of a number of theme tunes including Grange Hill (originally library music recorded in Munich known as "Chicken Man") and Countdown. In addition, he was an arranger and pianist, and in the United States with the studio group Love De-Luxe scored a number 1 single on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Here Comes That Sound Again" in 1979. His song "Charlie" is heard on Just for Laughs Gags.
He was the father of singer-songwriter Kirsty Hawkshaw (a member of the dance music group Opus III from 1991 to 1995) and also worked with artists such as Tiësto, Delerium, BT, Seba and Paradox.
Career
Born in Leeds, Hawkshaw worked as a printer for several years before becoming a professional musician, first joining the pop group The Crescendos. In the early 1960s, he was a member of rock and roll group Emile Ford and the Checkmates. He also formed the Mohawks band and Rumplestiltskin with some session musicians. At that time, Hawkshaw was an exponent of the Hammond organ, heard in the Mohawks' music, and also on the UK recording of the musical Hair. In 1965 Hawkshaw played piano on The Hollies group composed album track; "Put Yourself in My Place" included on the EMI/Parlophone album; Hollies (1965) being featured on a piano solo during the song.
Hawkshaw was also featured playing with David Bowie on the Bowie at the Beeb album, in a performance recorded for the "John Peel in Top Gear" show on 13 May 1968, in which he played a solo on "In The Heat of the Morning".
In 1969, Hank Marvin recruited Hawkshaw into The Shadows to tour Japan in which one concert was recorded and subsequently released in Japan, The Shadows Live in Japan (1969), taking a featured lead on piano on "Theme from Exodus". In 1970, Hawkshaw recorded one more studio album with The Shadows, Shades of Rock before leaving this band. He also did appear as keyboardist on The Shadows' spin-off vocal group Marvin, Welch, & Farrar's self-titled debut and follow-up Second Opinion albums both released on EMI's reactivated Regal Zonophone label in 1971.
In the 1970s, he played in The Shadows; he worked for Olivia Newton-John, Jane Birkin, and Serge Gainsbourg (including on "L'homme à tête de chou") as a musical director, arranger and pianist and was a keyboard player for Cliff Richard, for whom he also co-wrote (with Douggie Wright) "The Days of Love", one of six shortlisted songs which Richard performed in A Song for Europe that year. He also played keyboards on Donna Summer's 1977 double album Once Upon A Time. One of his best-known compositions is "Blarney's Stoned" (originally recorded for KPM in 1969 under the title "Studio 69") which was used as the theme tune for Dave Allen's television shows The Dave Allen Show and Dave Allen at Large. In 1975, he wrote the theme tune to the BBC's On the Move educational programme, which featured Bob Hoskins as an illiterate lorry driver; the song was sung by The Dooleys. In 1977, he composed "New Earth Parts 1 & 2" for Hank Marvin's Guitar Syndicate LP project. This was subsequently sampled over 30 years later by Jay-Z for his song "Pray". Also, during the late 1970s, music by Hawkshaw appeared in several films by Radley Metzger, including Barbara Broadcast (1977) and Maraschino Cherry (1978).
Hawkshaw performed the music The Night Rider (the theme for Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts), which was composed by another prolific creator of advertising themes, Cliff Adams. Hawkshaw also composed "Best Endeavours", which has been the theme for Channel 4 News since 1982, and was used for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The National news and current affairs programme from 1984 to 1987. His tune "Chicken Man" was used as the theme for Grange Hill from its first series in 1978 until 1989, and revived for the final series of Grange Hill in 2008. Another recording of Chicken Man was used contemporaneously with the original Grange Hill version for the ITV quiz show Give Us A Clue. The Countdown "Chimes" jingle used on Channel 4's Countdown game show was also composed by Hawkshaw. He composed all the music for the Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World series, and the theme "Technicolour", which was used for the BBC Midlands Today programme from 1984 to 1988, following which it was replaced with a remix of this tune from 1989 to 1991.
In the United States, he also scored a number 1 single on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Here Comes That Sound Again", as part of Love De-Luxe With Hawkshaw's Discophonia in 1979. In Canada, it reached number 17.
Also in 1979, he released a disco album under the performing name "Bizarre" which was essentially a solo project with the help of executive producer Barry Mason. It was released in the UK on Polydor Records (cat. no. 2383 553) in 1979. He also once more appeared with The Shadows, guesting on their 1979 UK chart-topping album String of Hits playing piano on a cover of Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
Hawkshaw is credited with the co-composition (with 'B. Henry' (Bob Henry)) of "I Feel So Good", a 1966 release by Manchester's Playboys (Fontana TF745).
The Alan Hawkshaw Foundation, in conjunction with the Performing Rights Society, has provided scholarships to underprivileged music students and media composers at both the Leeds College of Music and the National Film and Television School since 2003.
Personal life
After a brief early marriage, Hawkshaw married German-born Christiane Bieberbach in 1968; they had two children; singer, composer and musician Kirsty (b. 1969), and Sheldon (b. 1971).
He suffered his fourth stroke in July 2021, and died from pneumonia on 16 October, at the age of 84.
Honours and awards
Fellow of the Leeds College of Music
Best Arrangement 1973 "I Honestly Love You" for Olivia Newton-John
Ivor Novello Award best film score The Silent Witness 1979
BASCA Nomination Best Television Score for Love Hurts 1991
Gold Badge Award 2008 for services to the industry
Doctorate for services to the music industry by Hull University and Leeds College of Music
Hawkshaw was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music and composing.
Discography
The Shadows
1969: Live in Japan
1970: Shades of Rock
2018: Brian Bennett - Full Circle.
Emile Ford and The Checkmates
1961: New Tracks With Emile
1962: Emile
The Mohawks
The Mohawks were a band formed from session musicians.
The Champ (1968)
Track listing
"The Champ" – UK #58
"Hip Juggler"
"Sweet Soul Music"
"Dr Jekyll and Hyde Park"
"Senior Thump"
"Landscape"
"Baby Hold On"
"Funky Broadway"
"Rocky Mountain Roundabout"
"Sound of the Witchdoctors"
"Beat Me Til I'm Blue"
"Can You Hear Me?"
Tracks 4, 5, 9 and 11 also appeared on Hawkshaw's album, Mo'Hawk.
References
External links
Official website
1937 births
2021 deaths
English session musicians
English composers
English Latter Day Saints
English television composers
English male composers
Musicians from Leeds
The Shadows members
Recipients of the British Empire Medal
Deaths from pneumonia in the United Kingdom | [
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"Hawkshaw worked extensively for the KPM production music company in the 1950s to the 1970s, composing and recording many stock tracks that have been used extensively in film and TV.",
"He was the composer of a number of theme tunes including Grange Hill (originally library music recorded in Munich known as \"Chicken Man\") and Countdown.",
"In addition, he was an arranger and pianist, and in the United States with the studio group Love De-Luxe scored a number 1 single on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with \"Here Comes That Sound Again\" in 1979.",
"His song \"Charlie\" is heard on Just for Laughs Gags.",
"He was the father of singer-songwriter Kirsty Hawkshaw (a member of the dance music group Opus III from 1991 to 1995) and also worked with artists such as Tiësto, Delerium, BT, Seba and Paradox.",
"Career\nBorn in Leeds, Hawkshaw worked as a printer for several years before becoming a professional musician, first joining the pop group The Crescendos.",
"In the early 1960s, he was a member of rock and roll group Emile Ford and the Checkmates.",
"He also formed the Mohawks band and Rumplestiltskin with some session musicians.",
"At that time, Hawkshaw was an exponent of the Hammond organ, heard in the Mohawks' music, and also on the UK recording of the musical Hair.",
"In 1965 Hawkshaw played piano on The Hollies group composed album track; \"Put Yourself in My Place\" included on the EMI/Parlophone album; Hollies (1965) being featured on a piano solo during the song.",
"Hawkshaw was also featured playing with David Bowie on the Bowie at the Beeb album, in a performance recorded for the \"John Peel in Top Gear\" show on 13 May 1968, in which he played a solo on \"In The Heat of the Morning\".",
"In 1969, Hank Marvin recruited Hawkshaw into The Shadows to tour Japan in which one concert was recorded and subsequently released in Japan, The Shadows Live in Japan (1969), taking a featured lead on piano on \"Theme from Exodus\".",
"In 1970, Hawkshaw recorded one more studio album with The Shadows, Shades of Rock before leaving this band.",
"He also did appear as keyboardist on The Shadows' spin-off vocal group Marvin, Welch, & Farrar's self-titled debut and follow-up Second Opinion albums both released on EMI's reactivated Regal Zonophone label in 1971.",
"In the 1970s, he played in The Shadows; he worked for Olivia Newton-John, Jane Birkin, and Serge Gainsbourg (including on \"L'homme à tête de chou\") as a musical director, arranger and pianist and was a keyboard player for Cliff Richard, for whom he also co-wrote (with Douggie Wright) \"The Days of Love\", one of six shortlisted songs which Richard performed in A Song for Europe that year.",
"He also played keyboards on Donna Summer's 1977 double album Once Upon A Time.",
"One of his best-known compositions is \"Blarney's Stoned\" (originally recorded for KPM in 1969 under the title \"Studio 69\") which was used as the theme tune for Dave Allen's television shows The Dave Allen Show and Dave Allen at Large.",
"In 1975, he wrote the theme tune to the BBC's On the Move educational programme, which featured Bob Hoskins as an illiterate lorry driver; the song was sung by The Dooleys.",
"In 1977, he composed \"New Earth Parts 1 & 2\" for Hank Marvin's Guitar Syndicate LP project.",
"This was subsequently sampled over 30 years later by Jay-Z for his song \"Pray\".",
"Also, during the late 1970s, music by Hawkshaw appeared in several films by Radley Metzger, including Barbara Broadcast (1977) and Maraschino Cherry (1978).",
"Hawkshaw performed the music The Night Rider (the theme for Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts), which was composed by another prolific creator of advertising themes, Cliff Adams.",
"Hawkshaw also composed \"Best Endeavours\", which has been the theme for Channel 4 News since 1982, and was used for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The National news and current affairs programme from 1984 to 1987.",
"His tune \"Chicken Man\" was used as the theme for Grange Hill from its first series in 1978 until 1989, and revived for the final series of Grange Hill in 2008.",
"Another recording of Chicken Man was used contemporaneously with the original Grange Hill version for the ITV quiz show Give Us A Clue.",
"The Countdown \"Chimes\" jingle used on Channel 4's Countdown game show was also composed by Hawkshaw.",
"He composed all the music for the Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World series, and the theme \"Technicolour\", which was used for the BBC Midlands Today programme from 1984 to 1988, following which it was replaced with a remix of this tune from 1989 to 1991.",
"In the United States, he also scored a number 1 single on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with \"Here Comes That Sound Again\", as part of Love De-Luxe With Hawkshaw's Discophonia in 1979.",
"In Canada, it reached number 17.",
"Also in 1979, he released a disco album under the performing name \"Bizarre\" which was essentially a solo project with the help of executive producer Barry Mason.",
"It was released in the UK on Polydor Records (cat.",
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"He also once more appeared with The Shadows, guesting on their 1979 UK chart-topping album String of Hits playing piano on a cover of Paul Simon's \"Bridge Over Troubled Water\".",
"Hawkshaw is credited with the co-composition (with 'B.",
"Henry' (Bob Henry)) of \"I Feel So Good\", a 1966 release by Manchester's Playboys (Fontana TF745).",
"The Alan Hawkshaw Foundation, in conjunction with the Performing Rights Society, has provided scholarships to underprivileged music students and media composers at both the Leeds College of Music and the National Film and Television School since 2003.",
"Personal life\nAfter a brief early marriage, Hawkshaw married German-born Christiane Bieberbach in 1968; they had two children; singer, composer and musician Kirsty (b.",
"1969), and Sheldon (b.",
"1971).",
"He suffered his fourth stroke in July 2021, and died from pneumonia on 16 October, at the age of 84.",
"Honours and awards\n Fellow of the Leeds College of Music\n Best Arrangement 1973 \"I Honestly Love You\" for Olivia Newton-John\n Ivor Novello Award best film score The Silent Witness 1979 \n BASCA Nomination Best Television Score for Love Hurts 1991 \n Gold Badge Award 2008 for services to the industry\n Doctorate for services to the music industry by Hull University and Leeds College of Music\n\nHawkshaw was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music and composing.",
"Discography\n\nThe Shadows\n1969: Live in Japan\n1970: Shades of Rock\n2018: Brian Bennett - Full Circle.",
"Emile Ford and The Checkmates\n1961: New Tracks With Emile\n1962: Emile\n\nThe Mohawks\nThe Mohawks were a band formed from session musicians.",
"The Champ (1968)\n\nTrack listing\n\"The Champ\" – UK #58\n\"Hip Juggler\"\n\"Sweet Soul Music\"\n\"Dr Jekyll and Hyde Park\"\n\"Senior Thump\"\n\"Landscape\"\n\"Baby Hold On\"\n\"Funky Broadway\"\n\"Rocky Mountain Roundabout\"\n\"Sound of the Witchdoctors\"\n\"Beat Me Til I'm Blue\"\n\"Can You Hear Me?\"",
"Tracks 4, 5, 9 and 11 also appeared on Hawkshaw's album, Mo'Hawk.",
"References\n\nExternal links\nOfficial website\n \n \n\n1937 births\n2021 deaths\nEnglish session musicians\nEnglish composers\nEnglish Latter Day Saints\nEnglish television composers\nEnglish male composers\nMusicians from Leeds\nThe Shadows members\nRecipients of the British Empire Medal\nDeaths from pneumonia in the United Kingdom"
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Born in Leeds, <mask> worked as a printer for several years before becoming a professional musician, first joining the pop group The Crescendos.In the early 1960s, he was a member of rock and roll group Emile Ford and the Checkmates. He also formed the Mohawks band and Rumplestiltskin with some session musicians. At that time, <mask> was an exponent of the Hammond organ, heard in the Mohawks' music, and also on the UK recording of the musical Hair. In 1965 <mask> played piano on The Hollies group composed album track; "Put Yourself in My Place" included on the EMI/Parlophone album; Hollies (1965) being featured on a piano solo during the song. <mask> was also featured playing with David Bowie on the Bowie at the Beeb album, in a performance recorded for the "John Peel in Top Gear" show on 13 May 1968, in which he played a solo on "In The Heat of the Morning". In 1969, Hank Marvin recruited <mask> into The Shadows to tour Japan in which one concert was recorded and subsequently released in Japan, The Shadows Live in Japan (1969), taking a featured lead on piano on "Theme from Exodus". In 1970, <mask> recorded one more studio album with The Shadows, Shades of Rock before leaving this band.He also did appear as keyboardist on The Shadows' spin-off vocal group Marvin, Welch, & Farrar's self-titled debut and follow-up Second Opinion albums both released on EMI's reactivated Regal Zonophone label in 1971. In the 1970s, he played in The Shadows; he worked for Olivia Newton-John, Jane Birkin, and Serge Gainsbourg (including on "L'homme à tête de chou") as a musical director, arranger and pianist and was a keyboard player for Cliff Richard, for whom he also co-wrote (with Douggie Wright) "The Days of Love", one of six shortlisted songs which Richard performed in A Song for Europe that year. He also played keyboards on Donna Summer's 1977 double album Once Upon A Time. One of his best-known compositions is "Blarney's Stoned" (originally recorded for KPM in 1969 under the title "Studio 69") which was used as the theme tune for Dave Allen's television shows The Dave Allen Show and Dave Allen at Large. In 1975, he wrote the theme tune to the BBC's On the Move educational programme, which featured Bob Hoskins as an illiterate lorry driver; the song was sung by The Dooleys. In 1977, he composed "New Earth Parts 1 & 2" for Hank Marvin's Guitar Syndicate LP project. This was subsequently sampled over 30 years later by Jay-Z for his song "Pray".Also, during the late 1970s, music by <mask> appeared in several films by Radley Metzger, including Barbara Broadcast (1977) and Maraschino Cherry (1978). <mask> performed the music The Night Rider (the theme for Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts), which was composed by another prolific creator of advertising themes, Cliff Adams. <mask> also composed "Best Endeavours", which has been the theme for Channel 4 News since 1982, and was used for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The National news and current affairs programme from 1984 to 1987. His tune "Chicken Man" was used as the theme for Grange Hill from its first series in 1978 until 1989, and revived for the final series of Grange Hill in 2008. Another recording of Chicken Man was used contemporaneously with the original Grange Hill version for the ITV quiz show Give Us A Clue. The Countdown "Chimes" jingle used on Channel 4's Countdown game show was also composed by <mask>. He composed all the music for the Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World series, and the theme "Technicolour", which was used for the BBC Midlands Today programme from 1984 to 1988, following which it was replaced with a remix of this tune from 1989 to 1991.In the United States, he also scored a number 1 single on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Here Comes That Sound Again", as part of Love De-Luxe With Hawkshaw's Discophonia in 1979. In Canada, it reached number 17. Also in 1979, he released a disco album under the performing name "Bizarre" which was essentially a solo project with the help of executive producer Barry Mason. It was released in the UK on Polydor Records (cat. no. 2383 553) in 1979. He also once more appeared with The Shadows, guesting on their 1979 UK chart-topping album String of Hits playing piano on a cover of Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water".<mask> is credited with the co-composition (with 'B. Henry' (Bob Henry)) of "I Feel So Good", a 1966 release by Manchester's Playboys (Fontana TF745). The Alan Hawkshaw Foundation, in conjunction with the Performing Rights Society, has provided scholarships to underprivileged music students and media composers at both the Leeds College of Music and the National Film and Television School since 2003. Personal life
After a brief early marriage, <mask> married German-born Christiane Bieberbach in 1968; they had two children; singer, composer and musician Kirsty (b. 1969), and Sheldon (b. 1971). He suffered his fourth stroke in July 2021, and died from pneumonia on 16 October, at the age of 84.Honours and awards
Fellow of the Leeds College of Music
Best Arrangement 1973 "I Honestly Love You" for Olivia Newton-John
Ivor Novello Award best film score The Silent Witness 1979
BASCA Nomination Best Television Score for Love Hurts 1991
Gold Badge Award 2008 for services to the industry
Doctorate for services to the music industry by Hull University and Leeds College of Music
<mask> was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music and composing. Discography
The Shadows
1969: Live in Japan
1970: Shades of Rock
2018: Brian Bennett - Full Circle. Emile Ford and The Checkmates
1961: New Tracks With Emile
1962: Emile
The Mohawks
The Mohawks were a band formed from session musicians. The Champ (1968)
Track listing
"The Champ" – UK #58
"Hip Juggler"
"Sweet Soul Music"
"Dr Jekyll and Hyde Park"
"Senior Thump"
"Landscape"
"Baby Hold On"
"Funky Broadway"
"Rocky Mountain Roundabout"
"Sound of the Witchdoctors"
"Beat Me Til I'm Blue"
"Can You Hear Me?" Tracks 4, 5, 9 and 11 also appeared on <mask>'s album, Mo'Hawk. References
External links
Official website
1937 births
2021 deaths
English session musicians
English composers
English Latter Day Saints
English television composers
English male composers
Musicians from Leeds
The Shadows members
Recipients of the British Empire Medal
Deaths from pneumonia in the United Kingdom | [
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" Put Yourself in My Place" was included on the EMI/Parlophone album and featured a piano solo by the Hollies. He played a solo on "In The Heat of the Morning" in a performance for the "John Peel in Top Gear" show on 13 May 1968, which was recorded at the same time as the Beeb album. In 1969 Hank Marvin recruited <mask> into The Shadows to tour Japan in which one concert was recorded and subsequently released in Japan, The Shadows Live in Japan, taking a featured lead on piano. The Shadows, Shades of Rock was recorded by <mask> before he left the band.The Shadows' spin-off vocal group Marvin, Welch, & Farrar's self-titled debut and follow-up Second Opinion albums were both released on the reactivated Regal Zonophone label. He worked for Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin as a musical director and pianist, as well as playing in The Shadows. Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time was played on keyboards by him. One of his best-known compositions is "Blarney's Stoned", which was used as the theme tune for Dave Allen's television shows The Dave Allen Show and Dave Allen at Large. The theme tune to the On the Move educational programme was written by him in 1975, and was sung by The Dooleys. He composed "New Earth Parts 1 & 2" in 1977. Jay-Z used this in his song "Pray" over 30 years later.In the late 1970s, music by <mask> was used in several films, including Barbara Broadcast and Maraschino Cherry. The Night Rider was composed by another prolific creator of advertising themes, Cliff Adams. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The National news and current affairs programme from 1984 to 1987 used <mask>'s "Best Endeavours", which was the theme for Channel 4 News since 1982. His song "Chicken Man" was the theme for Grange Hill from 1978 to 1989 and was revived for the final series in 2008. The original Grange Hill version of Chicken Man was used in Give Us A Clue. 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44966160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%20Watts | Sophie Watts | Sophie Watts (born 1985) is a British-born film and media executive. Alongside Robert Simonds, she was one of two original members of the global media company STX Entertainment, which owns and controls assets including a movie studio (STXfilms), television studio (STXtv), virtual reality studio (STXsurreal), and a digital content studio (STXdigital). During her tenure, the company secured extensive capitalization from private equity giant TPG Growth, Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, Chinese streaming giant Tencent, Hong Kong-based information and communications technology company PCCW, the world's largest international cable company Liberty Global, and a number of high net-worth individuals including philanthropist and filmmaker Gigi Pritzker and businessman William Wrigley, Jr. II. Watts is notable for being the only female media executive in history to have built a Hollywood film studio from the ground up.
Watts was President of STX Entertainment from inception (2011) until January 16, 2018, when she announced her resignation from the company, citing a desire to focus on aggressive new business and turnaround opportunities. During her 7-year tenure, STX Entertainment grew from inception into a media conglomerate which, based on preliminary paperwork for its planned initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, valued the company at over US$2.5 billion.
Watts has spoken widely on the entrepreneurial value of building celebrity-partnered ventures and, following her departure from
STX, has built multiple talent-driven companies, including a widely-successful sports league with Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League.
Personal life
Watts was born in London, England, the daughter of music video and music film producer Tessa Watts - one of the pioneers of the music video industry at Virgin Records - and rock journalist and newspaper editor Michael Watts. She has publicly protested the publication of her relationship to the prominent Whitney family, of which she is a direct heir, including to the New York Times, citing misrepresentation and security issues. She grew up in London and Bedfordshire and attended Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge. She graduated with First-Class Honours (summa cum laude) in Economic History (Master's), and was awarded recognition as a Senior Scholar of her college, where she wrote a thesis on the economic rise and might of Asia, notably in China and India.
Early career
Early in her career, Watts worked in music film, videos and programming with artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, U2, Beyoncé, Madonna, and Mariah Carey. She moved to Los Angeles in 2007, where she was a producer and financier on film projects including the 2011 documentary Bully. The film was awarded the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Stanley Kramer award in 2013, honoring productions and individuals that “illuminate and raise public awareness of important social issues.” By 2014, the film had been viewed by over 3.5 million secondary students across the United States.
STX Entertainment
Origins
In 2011, Watts started working with Robert "Bob" Simonds as they began to build a next-generation film, television and multimedia company. The goal of the company was to “make, market and distribute star-driven, commercial" content. Incubated by the private equity firm TPG Growth, the company grew to secure investments from Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, and others including philanthropist and filmmaker Gigi Pritzker and businessman William “Beau" Wrigley. In 2014, the company announced that it had secured over $1 billion in financing. Other core executives of the STX team included former Viacom Entertainment Chief Operating Officer Tom McGrath (media executive), who functions as the company's COO, and former Crest Animation CEO Noah Fogelson as General Counsel.
STXfilms
Rather than pursuing the traditional distribution process, STXfilms, the film studio division of STX Entertainment, secured direct distribution agreements with North American theater chains AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Goodrich, Marcus Theatres and Carmike Cinemas. Later on in 2014, STXfilms hired a series of film and media executives, including former Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and former Disney production and marketing chief Oren Aviv.
In January 2015, STXfilms signed a multiyear television output agreement to release its films exclusively to Showtime Networks during the premium television window, beginning in 2015 and covering the studio’s theatrical releases through 2019. In April 2015, STXfilms entered into a multiyear partnership with Universal Studios Home Entertainment, with Universal handling marketing, sales and distribution services for Blu-ray, DVD and VOD platforms of STX’s theatrical titles in North America.
The studio subsequently closed a three-year film slate deal with Huayi Brothers, one of China's largest film companies, which will enable STX to co-produce and co-distribute 12 to 15 films annually. The studio announced that it would make at least 10 “commercial” movies a year and that it would function as a next-generation, fully integrated film studio.
STXfilms projects include Bad Moms, Molly's Game, Jackie Chan-starrer The Foreigner, and The Gift. In 2016, STXfilms became the fastest studio that year to hit $100-million at the domestic box office with Bad Moms, earned a People's Choice award winner for best comedy for the film, garnered a Golden Globe nomination for Hailee Steinfeld in The Edge of Seventeen and procured DGA Best New Director nominations for The Gift and The Edge of Seventeen. In October 2017, STXfilms' The Foreigner, a co-production with Jackie Chan's Sparkle Roll Media, crossed $100 million in box office globally. The film was termed "a clear winner given that it cost just $35 million to produce" and "a fine example of how a Chinese co-production can work." Later on in 2017, the studio secured two Golden Globe nominations for writer Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game.
Further Growth
In April 2016, Watts announced the opening of STXinternational, headquartered in London and led by former Film4 head David Kosse. Four months later, STX Entertainment announced that it had closed its Series C of financing, led by investors including Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW Ltd., which is controlled by Richard Li, and Tencent Holdings Ltd. As part of the funding, STX also received new investments from East West Bancorp’s Dominic Ng, as well as existing investors TPG, Hony Capital, business interests of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their immediate family, and William Wrigley Jr. The deal valued STX at almost $1.5 billion. On announcement of the deal, the company announced that funds from this round of financing would be used to build its TV division, expand internationally and acquire digital media start-ups.
In August 2016, Watts announced that she had acquired for STX the Virtual Reality creator and distributor Surreal, which was founded in 2015 and in its first year produced over 70 immersive VR experiences. In November 2016, STXtv's Reality division launched under Watts' purview the variety show Number One Surprise, the first television show created by a US-based company specifically for broadcast in China. Its premiere on Hunan TV and digital platforms was viewed nearly 300 million times, and by March 2017 it was the #1 show in China with over 1 billion total views.
In January 2017, it was announced that STX Entertainment had signed a three-year marketing and distribution agreement with EuropaCorp's American division. Under the deal, STXfilms released Their Finest, The Circle and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
In November 2017, STXtv announced its first scripted show, entitled "Valley of the Boom," a drama/documentary hybrid limited series about the ’90s tech boom from showrunner and director Matthew Carnahan (House of Lies) and executive producer Arianna Huffington. The show is set to air on NatGeo.
IPO
In September 2017, it was reported that STX may be close to an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) starting in early 2018. While based in the US, the company has numerous corporate and business relationships with China, and it has been reported that a listing on the SEHK could make it easier for Chinese companies to invest in Hollywood films. STX was valued at $1.5 billion in 2016. In September 2017, the Wall Street Journal stated that the company could be valued at $3.5 billion after raising an additional $500 million following the IPO. At the end of November 2017, John Malone's Liberty Global invested an undisclosed amount of money in the company, with an executive having a seat on STX's board. In April 2018, STX filed preliminary paperwork for its planned initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Resignation from STX
In January 2018, Watts prompted surprise across the media industry by resigning from her role as President at STX Entertainment, where she directly oversaw businesses including television, digital media, and virtual reality. She credited her departure to a desire to focus on "new and more aggressive opportunities" in the media space. In a mutual press release, STX Co-Founder Robert Simonds praised Watts as "a force of nature...[an] incredibly talented, versatile executive who has been central to every aspect of growing the company, both domestically and internationally, from inception to the multi-billion-dollar endeavor it is today.". Watts and Simonds had been working together on the idea for STX since 2011.
Celebrity Venture Building
Following her departure from STX, Watts leaned heavily into building celebrity ventures. In 2020, she partnered with Mike Tyson to co-found Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League. The league provides retired professional athletes the opportunity to compete in their respective sport. On November 28, 2020, Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. at the Staples Center in the first event under Legends Only League. The event drew largely positive reviews. The Tyson vs. Jones fight was the highest selling PPV event of 2020 and ranks in the Top-10 for PPV purchased events all-time. Watts was recognized by USA Today as being “one of the two powerhouse women” responsible for Tyson’s return to the ring.
In March 2021, Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League announced that Jamie Foxx will star in, and also executive produce the official scripted series, “Tyson”, which will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Sophie Watts.
Panels and Accolades
In 2014, Watts was listed as one of Hollywood's top dealmakers in Variety magazine's "Dealmakers Impact Report" for her work at STX. In September 2016, Watts was named one of Fortune's 40 under 40, the magazine's annual ranking of the most influential people in business as chosen by "power, influence and success." She was also featured on the Women's Impact Report in 2015, 2016 and 2017, Variety magazine's annual list of women who make a significant impact on the entertainment industry, the National Diversity Council's 2016 list of the "Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment," and The Hollywood Reporter'''s 2016 Women in Entertainment Power 100, the outlet's annual roster of the most influential women in entertainment. Elle magazine's November 2016 edition named Watts one of Hollywood's "next-to-know...heavy hitters." In 2017, Watts was listed on the Variety500, an "index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global $2 trillion entertainment industry."
Watts serves as a judge for the Business Innovation Awards sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Investment, and for BAFTA LA's US Student Film Awards. She is on the Board of Directors for BAFTA LA and for the American non-profit organization The Trevor Project, which is focused on suicide prevention efforts for the LGBTQ community."The Board and Staff," thetrevorproject.org. Accessed May 31, 2018.
Sophie Watts is credited as an Executive Producer on STX's NBC Primetime television show State of Affairs'', which stars Katherine Heigl and Academy Award nominee Alfre Woodard. The show premiered on November 17, 2014, debuting to a rating of 2.2 in the key demo with an average 8.6 million viewers.
References
Living people
British media executives
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
STX Entertainment
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"Alongside Robert Simonds, she was one of two original members of the global media company STX Entertainment, which owns and controls assets including a movie studio (STXfilms), television studio (STXtv), virtual reality studio (STXsurreal), and a digital content studio (STXdigital).",
"During her tenure, the company secured extensive capitalization from private equity giant TPG Growth, Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, Chinese streaming giant Tencent, Hong Kong-based information and communications technology company PCCW, the world's largest international cable company Liberty Global, and a number of high net-worth individuals including philanthropist and filmmaker Gigi Pritzker and businessman William Wrigley, Jr. II.",
"Watts is notable for being the only female media executive in history to have built a Hollywood film studio from the ground up.",
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"During her 7-year tenure, STX Entertainment grew from inception into a media conglomerate which, based on preliminary paperwork for its planned initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, valued the company at over US$2.5 billion.",
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"She has publicly protested the publication of her relationship to the prominent Whitney family, of which she is a direct heir, including to the New York Times, citing misrepresentation and security issues.",
"She grew up in London and Bedfordshire and attended Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.",
"She graduated with First-Class Honours (summa cum laude) in Economic History (Master's), and was awarded recognition as a Senior Scholar of her college, where she wrote a thesis on the economic rise and might of Asia, notably in China and India.",
"Early career\n\nEarly in her career, Watts worked in music film, videos and programming with artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, U2, Beyoncé, Madonna, and Mariah Carey.",
"She moved to Los Angeles in 2007, where she was a producer and financier on film projects including the 2011 documentary Bully.",
"The film was awarded the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Stanley Kramer award in 2013, honoring productions and individuals that “illuminate and raise public awareness of important social issues.” By 2014, the film had been viewed by over 3.5 million secondary students across the United States.",
"STX Entertainment\n\nOrigins\n\nIn 2011, Watts started working with Robert \"Bob\" Simonds as they began to build a next-generation film, television and multimedia company.",
"The goal of the company was to “make, market and distribute star-driven, commercial\" content.",
"Incubated by the private equity firm TPG Growth, the company grew to secure investments from Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, and others including philanthropist and filmmaker Gigi Pritzker and businessman William “Beau\" Wrigley.",
"In 2014, the company announced that it had secured over $1 billion in financing.",
"Other core executives of the STX team included former Viacom Entertainment Chief Operating Officer Tom McGrath (media executive), who functions as the company's COO, and former Crest Animation CEO Noah Fogelson as General Counsel.",
"STXfilms\nRather than pursuing the traditional distribution process, STXfilms, the film studio division of STX Entertainment, secured direct distribution agreements with North American theater chains AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Goodrich, Marcus Theatres and Carmike Cinemas.",
"Later on in 2014, STXfilms hired a series of film and media executives, including former Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and former Disney production and marketing chief Oren Aviv.",
"In January 2015, STXfilms signed a multiyear television output agreement to release its films exclusively to Showtime Networks during the premium television window, beginning in 2015 and covering the studio’s theatrical releases through 2019.",
"In April 2015, STXfilms entered into a multiyear partnership with Universal Studios Home Entertainment, with Universal handling marketing, sales and distribution services for Blu-ray, DVD and VOD platforms of STX’s theatrical titles in North America.",
"The studio subsequently closed a three-year film slate deal with Huayi Brothers, one of China's largest film companies, which will enable STX to co-produce and co-distribute 12 to 15 films annually.",
"The studio announced that it would make at least 10 “commercial” movies a year and that it would function as a next-generation, fully integrated film studio.",
"STXfilms projects include Bad Moms, Molly's Game, Jackie Chan-starrer The Foreigner, and The Gift.",
"In 2016, STXfilms became the fastest studio that year to hit $100-million at the domestic box office with Bad Moms, earned a People's Choice award winner for best comedy for the film, garnered a Golden Globe nomination for Hailee Steinfeld in The Edge of Seventeen and procured DGA Best New Director nominations for The Gift and The Edge of Seventeen.",
"In October 2017, STXfilms' The Foreigner, a co-production with Jackie Chan's Sparkle Roll Media, crossed $100 million in box office globally.",
"The film was termed \"a clear winner given that it cost just $35 million to produce\" and \"a fine example of how a Chinese co-production can work.\"",
"Later on in 2017, the studio secured two Golden Globe nominations for writer Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game.",
"Further Growth\n\nIn April 2016, Watts announced the opening of STXinternational, headquartered in London and led by former Film4 head David Kosse.",
"Four months later, STX Entertainment announced that it had closed its Series C of financing, led by investors including Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW Ltd., which is controlled by Richard Li, and Tencent Holdings Ltd. As part of the funding, STX also received new investments from East West Bancorp’s Dominic Ng, as well as existing investors TPG, Hony Capital, business interests of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their immediate family, and William Wrigley Jr.",
"The deal valued STX at almost $1.5 billion.",
"On announcement of the deal, the company announced that funds from this round of financing would be used to build its TV division, expand internationally and acquire digital media start-ups.",
"In August 2016, Watts announced that she had acquired for STX the Virtual Reality creator and distributor Surreal, which was founded in 2015 and in its first year produced over 70 immersive VR experiences.",
"In November 2016, STXtv's Reality division launched under Watts' purview the variety show Number One Surprise, the first television show created by a US-based company specifically for broadcast in China.",
"Its premiere on Hunan TV and digital platforms was viewed nearly 300 million times, and by March 2017 it was the #1 show in China with over 1 billion total views.",
"In January 2017, it was announced that STX Entertainment had signed a three-year marketing and distribution agreement with EuropaCorp's American division.",
"Under the deal, STXfilms released Their Finest, The Circle and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.",
"In November 2017, STXtv announced its first scripted show, entitled \"Valley of the Boom,\" a drama/documentary hybrid limited series about the ’90s tech boom from showrunner and director Matthew Carnahan (House of Lies) and executive producer Arianna Huffington.",
"The show is set to air on NatGeo.",
"IPO\nIn September 2017, it was reported that STX may be close to an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) starting in early 2018.",
"While based in the US, the company has numerous corporate and business relationships with China, and it has been reported that a listing on the SEHK could make it easier for Chinese companies to invest in Hollywood films.",
"STX was valued at $1.5 billion in 2016.",
"In September 2017, the Wall Street Journal stated that the company could be valued at $3.5 billion after raising an additional $500 million following the IPO.",
"At the end of November 2017, John Malone's Liberty Global invested an undisclosed amount of money in the company, with an executive having a seat on STX's board.",
"In April 2018, STX filed preliminary paperwork for its planned initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.",
"Resignation from STX\nIn January 2018, Watts prompted surprise across the media industry by resigning from her role as President at STX Entertainment, where she directly oversaw businesses including television, digital media, and virtual reality.",
"She credited her departure to a desire to focus on \"new and more aggressive opportunities\" in the media space.",
"In a mutual press release, STX Co-Founder Robert Simonds praised Watts as \"a force of nature...[an] incredibly talented, versatile executive who has been central to every aspect of growing the company, both domestically and internationally, from inception to the multi-billion-dollar endeavor it is today.\".",
"Watts and Simonds had been working together on the idea for STX since 2011.",
"Celebrity Venture Building \nFollowing her departure from STX, Watts leaned heavily into building celebrity ventures.",
"In 2020, she partnered with Mike Tyson to co-found Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League.",
"The league provides retired professional athletes the opportunity to compete in their respective sport.",
"On November 28, 2020, Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. at the Staples Center in the first event under Legends Only League.",
"The event drew largely positive reviews.",
"The Tyson vs. Jones fight was the highest selling PPV event of 2020 and ranks in the Top-10 for PPV purchased events all-time.",
"Watts was recognized by USA Today as being “one of the two powerhouse women” responsible for Tyson’s return to the ring.",
"In March 2021, Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League announced that Jamie Foxx will star in, and also executive produce the official scripted series, “Tyson”, which will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Sophie Watts.",
"Panels and Accolades\n\nIn 2014, Watts was listed as one of Hollywood's top dealmakers in Variety magazine's \"Dealmakers Impact Report\" for her work at STX.",
"In September 2016, Watts was named one of Fortune's 40 under 40, the magazine's annual ranking of the most influential people in business as chosen by \"power, influence and success.\"",
"She was also featured on the Women's Impact Report in 2015, 2016 and 2017, Variety magazine's annual list of women who make a significant impact on the entertainment industry, the National Diversity Council's 2016 list of the \"Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment,\" and The Hollywood Reporter'''s 2016 Women in Entertainment Power 100, the outlet's annual roster of the most influential women in entertainment.",
"Elle magazine's November 2016 edition named Watts one of Hollywood's \"next-to-know...heavy hitters.\"",
"In 2017, Watts was listed on the Variety500, an \"index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global $2 trillion entertainment industry.\"",
"Watts serves as a judge for the Business Innovation Awards sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Investment, and for BAFTA LA's US Student Film Awards.",
"She is on the Board of Directors for BAFTA LA and for the American non-profit organization The Trevor Project, which is focused on suicide prevention efforts for the LGBTQ community.",
"\"The Board and Staff,\" thetrevorproject.org.",
"Accessed May 31, 2018.",
"Sophie Watts is credited as an Executive Producer on STX's NBC Primetime television show State of Affairs'', which stars Katherine Heigl and Academy Award nominee Alfre Woodard.",
"The show premiered on November 17, 2014, debuting to a rating of 2.2 in the key demo with an average 8.6 million viewers.",
"References\n\nLiving people\nBritish media executives\nAlumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge\nSTX Entertainment\n1984 births"
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"She is a British-born film and media executive.",
"She was one of two original members of the global media company STX Entertainment, which owns and controls assets including a movie studio, television studio, virtual reality studio, and a digital content studio.",
"A number of high net worth individuals, including a Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, a Hong Kong-based information and communications technology company PCCW, and the world's largest international cable company Liberty Global, invested in the company during her tenure.",
"The only female media executive in history to have built a Hollywood film studio was Watts.",
"Watts resigned as President of STX Entertainment on January 16, 2018, citing a desire to focus on aggressive new business and turnaround opportunities.",
"STX Entertainment was valued at over US$ 2.5 billion by preliminary paperwork for its planned initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.",
"Following her departure from STX, Watts built multiple talent-driven companies, including a successful sports league with Mike Tyson.",
"The daughter of a music video and music film producer and one of the pioneers of the music video industry at Virgin Records, Watts was born in London, England.",
"She protested the publication of her relationship to the Whitney family, which she is a direct heir to, due to misrepresentation and security issues.",
"She attended the University of Cambridge after growing up in London.",
"She was awarded recognition as a Senior Scholar of her college after she wrote a thesis on the economic rise and might of Asia, notably in China and India.",
"Watts worked in music film, videos and programming with some of the biggest names in music.",
"She moved to Los Angeles in 2007, where she was a producer and financier on film projects.",
"The film received the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) Stanley Kramer award, which is given to productions and individuals that illuminate and raise public awareness of important social issues.",
"Watts began working with Robert \"Bob\" Simonds as they began to build a next-generation film, television and multimedia company.",
"To make, market and distribute star-driven, commercial content was the goal of the company.",
"Incubated by the private equity firm TPG Growth, the company grew to secure investments from Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital and others.",
"The company said it had secured $1 billion in financing.",
"Former Crest Animation CEO Noah Fogelson is the General Counsel of the STX team.",
"STXfilms, the film studio division of STX Entertainment, secured direct distribution agreements with a number of North American theater chains.",
"STXfilms hired a number of film and media executives, including former Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and former Disney production and marketing chief Oren Aviv.",
"In January 2015, STXfilms signed a multiyear television output agreement to release its films exclusively to Showtime Networks during the premium television window, beginning in 2015 and covering the studio's theatrical releases through 2019.",
"In April 2015, STXfilms entered into a multiyear partnership with Universal Studios Home Entertainment, with Universal handling marketing, sales and distribution services for STX's theatrical titles in North America.",
"STX will be able to co-produce and distribute up to 15 films annually with the closing of a three-year film slate deal with Huayi Brothers, one of China's largest film companies.",
"The studio said that it would make at least 10 commercial movies a year and that it would function as a fully integrated film studio.",
"Bad Moms, Molly's Game, The Foreigner, and The Gift are STXfilms projects.",
"In 2016 STXfilms became the fastest studio to hit $100-million at the domestic box office with Bad Moms, earned a People's Choice award winner for best comedy for the film, and got a Golden Globe nomination for The Edge of Seventeen.",
"The Foreigner crossed $100 million in box office in October of last year.",
"The film was described as a clear winner because it cost $35 million to produce and was an example of how a Chinese co-production can work.",
"The studio received two Golden Globe nominations for the film Molly's Game.",
"Watts announced in April 2016 the opening of STXinternational, led by former Film4 head David Kosse.",
"The Series C financing was led by investors including Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW, which is controlled by Richard Li.",
"STX was valued at over $1 billion.",
"The company announced that funds from this round of financing would be used to build its TV division, expand internationally and acquire digital media start-ups.",
"Watts announced in August 2016 that she had acquired STX the Virtual Reality creator and distributor, which was founded in 2015 and in its first year produced over 70 virtual reality experiences.",
"Number One Surprise, the first television show created by a US-based company specifically for broadcast in China, was launched in November 2016 by STXtv's Reality division.",
"The premiere on Hunan TV and digital platforms was viewed nearly 300 million times, and by March of last year it was the #1 show in China with over 1 billion total views.",
"In January of last year, it was announced that STX Entertainment had signed a three-year marketing and distribution agreement.",
"STXfilms released Their Finest, The Circle, and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.",
"\"Valley of the Boom,\" a drama/documentary hybrid limited series about the ’90s tech boom, was announced by STXtv in November of last year.",
"The show will air on Natgeo.",
"In September of last year, it was reported that STX was close to an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.",
"While based in the US, the company has numerous corporate and business relationships with China, and it has been reported that a listing on the SEHK could make it easier for Chinese companies to invest in Hollywood films.",
"STX was valued at over $1 billion.",
"According to the Wall Street Journal, the company could be valued at $3.5 billion after raising an additional $500 million following the IPO.",
"Liberty Global invested an undisclosed amount of money in the company at the end of November, with an executive having a seat on the board.",
"STX filed preliminary paperwork for an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.",
"Watts resigned from her position as President at STX Entertainment in January of last year, causing a stir in the media industry.",
"She said that she wanted to focus on \"new and more aggressive opportunities\" in the media space.",
"Robert Simonds praised Watts as \"an incredibly talented, versatile executive who has been central to every aspect of growing the company, both domestically and internationally, from inception to the multi-billion-dollar endeavor.\"",
"The idea for STX was worked on by Watts and Simonds.",
"Watts leaned heavily into building celebrity ventures after leaving STX.",
"She and Mike Tyson co-found Mike Tyson's League.",
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STX, has built multiple talent-driven companies, including a widely-successful sports league with Mike Tyson, Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League.Personal life
<mask> was born in London, England, the daughter of music video and music film producer <mask> - one of the pioneers of the music video industry at Virgin Records - and rock journalist and newspaper editor <mask>. She has publicly protested the publication of her relationship to the prominent Whitney family, of which she is a direct heir, including to the New York Times, citing misrepresentation and security issues. She grew up in London and Bedfordshire and attended Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge. She graduated with First-Class Honours (summa cum laude) in Economic History (Master's), and was awarded recognition as a Senior Scholar of her college, where she wrote a thesis on the economic rise and might of Asia, notably in China and India. Early career
Early in her career, <mask> worked in music film, videos and programming with artists including Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, U2, Beyoncé, Madonna, and Mariah Carey. She moved to Los Angeles in 2007, where she was a producer and financier on film projects including the 2011 documentary Bully. The film was awarded the Producers Guild of America (PGA) Stanley Kramer award in 2013, honoring productions and individuals that “illuminate and raise public awareness of important social issues.” By 2014, the film had been viewed by over 3.5 million secondary students across the United States.STX Entertainment
Origins
In 2011, <mask> started working with Robert "Bob" Simonds as they began to build a next-generation film, television and multimedia company. The goal of the company was to “make, market and distribute star-driven, commercial" content. Incubated by the private equity firm TPG Growth, the company grew to secure investments from Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital, and others including philanthropist and filmmaker Gigi Pritzker and businessman William “Beau" Wrigley. In 2014, the company announced that it had secured over $1 billion in financing. Other core executives of the STX team included former Viacom Entertainment Chief Operating Officer Tom McGrath (media executive), who functions as the company's COO, and former Crest Animation CEO Noah Fogelson as General Counsel. STXfilms
Rather than pursuing the traditional distribution process, STXfilms, the film studio division of STX Entertainment, secured direct distribution agreements with North American theater chains AMC, Regal, Cinemark, Goodrich, Marcus Theatres and Carmike Cinemas. Later on in 2014, STXfilms hired a series of film and media executives, including former Universal Pictures Chairman Adam Fogelson and former Disney production and marketing chief Oren Aviv.In January 2015, STXfilms signed a multiyear television output agreement to release its films exclusively to Showtime Networks during the premium television window, beginning in 2015 and covering the studio’s theatrical releases through 2019. In April 2015, STXfilms entered into a multiyear partnership with Universal Studios Home Entertainment, with Universal handling marketing, sales and distribution services for Blu-ray, DVD and VOD platforms of STX’s theatrical titles in North America. The studio subsequently closed a three-year film slate deal with Huayi Brothers, one of China's largest film companies, which will enable STX to co-produce and co-distribute 12 to 15 films annually. The studio announced that it would make at least 10 “commercial” movies a year and that it would function as a next-generation, fully integrated film studio. STXfilms projects include Bad Moms, Molly's Game, Jackie Chan-starrer The Foreigner, and The Gift. In 2016, STXfilms became the fastest studio that year to hit $100-million at the domestic box office with Bad Moms, earned a People's Choice award winner for best comedy for the film, garnered a Golden Globe nomination for Hailee Steinfeld in The Edge of Seventeen and procured DGA Best New Director nominations for The Gift and The Edge of Seventeen. In October 2017, STXfilms' The Foreigner, a co-production with Jackie Chan's Sparkle Roll Media, crossed $100 million in box office globally.The film was termed "a clear winner given that it cost just $35 million to produce" and "a fine example of how a Chinese co-production can work." Later on in 2017, the studio secured two Golden Globe nominations for writer Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut Molly's Game. Further Growth
In April 2016, <mask> announced the opening of STXinternational, headquartered in London and led by former Film4 head David Kosse. Four months later, STX Entertainment announced that it had closed its Series C of financing, led by investors including Hong Kong telecommunications company PCCW Ltd., which is controlled by Richard Li, and Tencent Holdings Ltd. As part of the funding, STX also received new investments from East West Bancorp’s Dominic Ng, as well as existing investors TPG, Hony Capital, business interests of Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their immediate family, and William Wrigley Jr. The deal valued STX at almost $1.5 billion. On announcement of the deal, the company announced that funds from this round of financing would be used to build its TV division, expand internationally and acquire digital media start-ups. In August 2016, <mask> announced that she had acquired for STX the Virtual Reality creator and distributor Surreal, which was founded in 2015 and in its first year produced over 70 immersive VR experiences.In November 2016, STXtv's Reality division launched under <mask>' purview the variety show Number One Surprise, the first television show created by a US-based company specifically for broadcast in China. Its premiere on Hunan TV and digital platforms was viewed nearly 300 million times, and by March 2017 it was the #1 show in China with over 1 billion total views. In January 2017, it was announced that STX Entertainment had signed a three-year marketing and distribution agreement with EuropaCorp's American division. Under the deal, STXfilms released Their Finest, The Circle and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. In November 2017, STXtv announced its first scripted show, entitled "Valley of the Boom," a drama/documentary hybrid limited series about the ’90s tech boom from showrunner and director Matthew Carnahan (House of Lies) and executive producer Arianna Huffington. The show is set to air on NatGeo. IPO
In September 2017, it was reported that STX may be close to an initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) starting in early 2018.While based in the US, the company has numerous corporate and business relationships with China, and it has been reported that a listing on the SEHK could make it easier for Chinese companies to invest in Hollywood films. STX was valued at $1.5 billion in 2016. In September 2017, the Wall Street Journal stated that the company could be valued at $3.5 billion after raising an additional $500 million following the IPO. At the end of November 2017, John Malone's Liberty Global invested an undisclosed amount of money in the company, with an executive having a seat on STX's board. In April 2018, STX filed preliminary paperwork for its planned initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Resignation from STX
In January 2018, <mask> prompted surprise across the media industry by resigning from her role as President at STX Entertainment, where she directly oversaw businesses including television, digital media, and virtual reality. She credited her departure to a desire to focus on "new and more aggressive opportunities" in the media space.In a mutual press release, STX Co-Founder Robert Simonds praised <mask> as "a force of nature...[an] incredibly talented, versatile executive who has been central to every aspect of growing the company, both domestically and internationally, from inception to the multi-billion-dollar endeavor it is today.". <mask> and Simonds had been working together on the idea for STX since 2011. Celebrity Venture Building
Following her departure from STX, <mask> leaned heavily into building celebrity ventures. In 2020, she partnered with Mike Tyson to co-found Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League. The league provides retired professional athletes the opportunity to compete in their respective sport. On November 28, 2020, Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. at the Staples Center in the first event under Legends Only League. The event drew largely positive reviews.The Tyson vs. Jones fight was the highest selling PPV event of 2020 and ranks in the Top-10 for PPV purchased events all-time. <mask> was recognized by USA Today as being “one of the two powerhouse women” responsible for Tyson’s return to the ring. In March 2021, Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League announced that Jamie Foxx will star in, and also executive produce the official scripted series, “Tyson”, which will be directed by Antoine Fuqua and executive produced by Martin Scorsese and <mask>. Panels and Accolades
In 2014, <mask> was listed as one of Hollywood's top dealmakers in Variety magazine's "Dealmakers Impact Report" for her work at STX. In September 2016, <mask> was named one of Fortune's 40 under 40, the magazine's annual ranking of the most influential people in business as chosen by "power, influence and success." She was also featured on the Women's Impact Report in 2015, 2016 and 2017, Variety magazine's annual list of women who make a significant impact on the entertainment industry, the National Diversity Council's 2016 list of the "Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment," and The Hollywood Reporter'''s 2016 Women in Entertainment Power 100, the outlet's annual roster of the most influential women in entertainment. Elle magazine's November 2016 edition named <mask> one of Hollywood's "next-to-know...heavy hitters."In 2017, <mask> was listed on the Variety500, an "index of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global $2 trillion entertainment industry." <mask> serves as a judge for the Business Innovation Awards sponsored by the UK Department of Trade and Investment, and for BAFTA LA's US Student Film Awards. She is on the Board of Directors for BAFTA LA and for the American non-profit organization The Trevor Project, which is focused on suicide prevention efforts for the LGBTQ community. "The Board and Staff," thetrevorproject.org. Accessed May 31, 2018. <mask> is credited as an Executive Producer on STX's NBC Primetime television show State of Affairs'', which stars Katherine Heigl and Academy Award nominee Alfre Woodard. The show premiered on November 17, 2014, debuting to a rating of 2.2 in the key demo with an average 8.6 million viewers.References
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4318635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhupen%20Hazarika | Bhupen Hazarika | Bhupen Hazarika () (8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor and filmmaker from Assam, widely known as Xudha kontho (meaning cuckoo, literally "nectar-throated"). His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi.
His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, are especially popular among the people of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padma Shri (1977), and Padma Bhushan (2001), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), the highest award for cinema in India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He was posthumously awarded both the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012, and the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 2019. Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.
Biography
Early life
Hazarika, who made fame as a musician, was born on 8 September 1926 to Nilakanta and Shantipriya Hazarika in Sadiya (শদিয়া), an interior place of Assam on the bank of river Brahmaputra. His father was originally from Nazira, a town located in Sivasagar district. The eldest of ten children, Bhupen Hazarika (as well as his siblings) was exposed to the musical influence of his mother, who exposed him to lullabies and traditional Music of Assam. His father moved to the Bharalumukh region of Guwahati in 1929, in search of better prospects, where Bhupen Hazarika spent his early childhood. In 1932, his father further moved to Dhubri, and in 1935 to Tezpur. It was in Tezpur that Bhupen Hazarika, then 10-years-of-age, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwright and the first Assamese filmmaker, and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, renowned Assamese artist and revolutionary poet, where he sang a Borgeet (the traditional classical Assamese devotional songs written by Srimanta Sankardeva and Sri Sri Madhabdeva), taught by his mother at a public function. In 1936, Bhupen Hazarika accompanied them to Kolkata where he recorded his first song at the Aurora Studio for the Selona Company. His association with the icons of Assamese culture at Tezpur was the beginning of his artistic growth and credentials. Subsequently, Hazarika sang two songs in Agarwala's film Indramalati (1939): Kaxote Kolosi Loi and Biswo Bijoyi Naujawan at the age of 12. A revolutionary zeal was rooted during his childhood. Its expression was, no doubt, “Agnijugar firingathi mai” (I am the spark of the age of fire) which was written at 14 years of his age and he was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer.
Education and career
Hazarika studied at Sonaram High School at Guwahati, Dhubri Government High School and matriculated from Tezpur High School in 1940. He completed his Intermediate Arts from Cotton College in 1942, and his BA (1944) and MA (1946) in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University. For a brief period he worked at All India Radio, Guwahati when he won a scholarship from Columbia University and set sail for New York in 1949. There he earned a PhD (1952) on his thesis "Proposals for Preparing India's Basic Education to use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education".
In New York, Bhupen Hazarika befriended Paul Robeson, a prominent civil rights activist, who influenced him in He used music as the
“instrument of social change” following the path of Paul Robeson who once told him about his
guitar - “Guitar is not a musical instrument, it is a social
instrument.” His song Bistirno Parore which is based on the tune, imagery and theme of Robeson's Ol' Man River. This song is translated in various Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi and sung by the artist himself, and is still popular. Being inspired from some other foreign ones, he also composed several other songs in Indian languages. He was exposed to the Spiritual, and the multi-lingual version of We are in the Same Boat Brother became a regular feature in his stage performance. At Columbia University, he met Priyamvada Patel, whom he married in 1950. Tez Hazarika, their only child, was born in 1952, and he returned to India in 1953.
His famous songs include (in Assamese):
Bistirno Parore (বিস্তীৰ্ণ পাৰৰে)
Moi Eti Jajabor (মই এটি যাযাবৰ)
Ganga Mor Maa (গংগা মোৰ মা)
Bimurto Mur Nixati Jen (বিমূৰ্ত মোৰ নিশাটি যেন)
Manuhe Manuhor Babey (মানুহে মানুহৰ বাবে)
Snehe Aamar Xoto Shrabonor (স্নেহে আমাৰ শত শ্ৰাৱণৰ)
Gupute Gupute Kimaan Khelim (গুপুতে গুপুতে কিমান খেলিম)
Buku Hom Hom Kore (বুকু হম্ হম্ কৰে)
Sagar sangamat (সাগৰ সংগমত)
Shillongore Godhuli (শ্বিলঙৰে গধূলি)
IPTA years
Hazarika began close association with the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association soon after returning from the US in 1953 and became the Secretary of the Reception Committee of the Third All Assam Conference of IPTA, held in Guwahati in 1955.
Professional life
After completing his MA he briefly worked at the All India Radio station at Guwahati before embarking for his doctoral studies at Columbia University. His thesis "DEMYSTIFYING DR. BHUPEN HAZARIKA: envisioning education for India", edited by Tej Hazarika and published by Cool Grove Press will be available in the US in days. Soon after completing his education, he became a teacher at the Guwahati University. But after a few years, he left the job and went to Kolkata where he established himself as a successful music director and singer. During that period, Hazarika made several award-winning Assamese films such as Shakuntala, Pratidhwani etc. and composed evergreen music for many Assamese films. He was also considered as a new trend setter in Bengali music. The famous musical genre of West Bengal, the Jivanmukhi geet started by Kabir Suman in 1990's is thought to be influenced by Hazarika. Bhupen Hazarika composed music for films from Bangladesh too which got international acclaim.
He was elected the President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1993. In 1967, Hazarika got elected as a member of Assam Assembly from Nauboicha constituency.
Social Struggle
From early in his life, he was at the forefront of a social battle against the entrenched forces of casteism that sneered at a member of the Koibarta community making it as a musician of note, and kept him away from the upper-caste Brahmin woman he had loved. Eventually, when the spirited Hazarika did marry, it was to a Brahmin woman, his revenge of sorts against a caste-ridden society.
Later life
He was introduced to Kalpana Lajmi in the early 1970s by his childhood friend and India's top tea planter Hemendra Prasad Barooah in Kolkata. Her first feature film Ek Pal with music score by Hazarika was produced by Barooah. Subsequently, Lajmi began assisting him professionally and personally till the end of his life.
In the period after the release of Ek Pal (1986) until his death, Bhupen Hazarika mainly concentrated on Hindi films, most of which were directed by Kalpana Lajmi. Ek Pal (1986), Rudaali (1993) and Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001) are major films this period. Many of his earlier songs were re-written in Hindi and used as played-back songs in these films. These songs tried to cater to the Hindi film milieu and their social activist lyrics were browbeaten into the lowest common denominator.
He served as an MLA (Independent) during 1967–72 in the Assam Legislative Assembly from Nauboicha Constituency.
He contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from the Guwahati constituency, persuaded by Chandan Mitra via Kalpana Lajmi which he lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Kirip Chaliha.
Death
Hazarika was hospitalized in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in Mumbai in 2011. He was admitted to the intensive care unit on 30 June 2011. He died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011. His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and cremated on 9 November 2011 near the Brahmaputra river in a plot of land donated by Gauhati University. His funeral was attended by an estimated half a million people.
Legacy and influences
As a singer, Hazarika was known for his baritone voice; as a lyricist, he was known for poetic compositions and parables which
touched on themes ranging from romance to social and political commentary; and as a composer, for his use of folk music. In a poll conducted in Bangladesh, his song, Manush Manusher Jonno (Humans are for humanity)' was chosen to be the second most favourite number after the National anthem of Bangladesh. Some of his most famous compositions were adaptations of American Black Spiritual that he had learned from Paul Robeson, whom he had befriended during his years in New York City in the early 1950s. His famous song "Bistirno Parore" is heavily influenced by Ol' Man River sung by Paul Robeson.
During his lifetime, a full-length docu-feature biopic film on his life titled Moi Eti Zazabor('I am a Wanderer') jointly directed by Late Waesqurni Bora and Arnab Jan Deka was launched in 1986 at his Nizarapar residence in Guwahati city. Music for this biopic film has been scored by 5-time International Best Music Awards winner only Assamese musician, songwriter, composer and singer Jim Ankan Deka, who also worked as Chief Assistant Director of this film. During the next two decades, the joint directors Late Bora and Deka shot him live for the film during his various public performances all over India, as well as many private moments in his domestic and social life. Arnab Jan Deka also extensively interviewed him regarding his life and its creative aspects for the film, which had been recorded during their joint travel to different metropolises and remote corners of Assam and rest of India. The film has been under production since 1986 with film negative footage of more than 16 hours currently preserved in different film laboratories in Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata) and Madras (Chennai). The film was targeted for public release during the lifetime of Dr Bhupen Hazarika in 2008. But, the production was halted after sudden demise of one of the co-directors Waesqurni Bora in November 2008. Eventually, after the death of Dr Hazarika, the film's subject, the surviving co-director Arnab Jan Deka is currently carrying out necessary works to finish the film at the earliest and release for public consumption in several language versions including English, Assamese, Bengali and Hindi, with support from Late Waesqurni Bora's widowed wife Nazma Begum and Dr Hazarika's bereaved family members including his wife Priyam Hazarika and Tej Hazarika. Meanwhile, two books describing the unforgettable experiences of the making of this milestone biopic film had been authored by its co-director Arnab Jan Deka titled Anya Ek Zazabor and Mor Sinaki Bhupenda, first of which had been officially released in February 1993 by Late G P Sippy, then President of Film Federation of India and producer of world-record holder Hindi film Sholay at a public function organised by Dr Bhupen Hazarika himself.
Awards and honours
National and state honours
Award for the Best Feature Film in Assamese (Shakuntala; Directed by Bhupen Hazarika) in the 9th National Film Awards (1961)
The Best Music Director National Award for "Chameli Memsaab" (Chameli Memsaab; music by Bhupen Hazarika) in the 23rd National Film Awards (1975)
Padma Shri – the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India (1977)
Gold medal from the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh for "outstanding contribution towards tribal welfare, and uplift of tribal culture through cinema and music." (1979)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987)
Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992)
Padma Bhushan – the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2001)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008)
Asom Ratna — the highest civilian award in the State of Assam, India (2009)
Friends of Liberation War Honour, Government of Bangladesh (2011)
Padma Vibhushan – the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2012, posthumous)
Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2019, posthumous)
Other awards and recognition
All India Critic Association Award for best performing folk artist (1979)
In 1979 and 1980 he won the Ritwik Ghatak Award as best music director for two theatre plays, Mohua Sundari, and Nagini Kanyar Kahini
Bengal Journalist's Association Indira Gandhi Smriti Puraskar in (1987)
First Indian to win Best Music for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in Japan (1993)
Honorary Degree from Tezpur University (2001)
10th Kalakar Award for Lifetime Achievement in the year 2002, Kolkata.
In February 2009, the All Assam Students Union erected a life size statue of Hazarika on the banks of Digholi Pukhuri in Guwahati.
A full-length docu-feature biopic film on his life titled Moi Eti Zazabor('I am an Wanderer') jointly directed by Late Waesqurni Bora and Arnab Jan Deka has been under production since 1986
In 2010, Assam Cricket Association renamed the Barshapara Cricket Stadium as Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium.
Muktijoddha Padak — Awarded as a "Friend of the Freedom Struggle" award by Bangladesh Government (posthumously, 2011)
Asom Sahitya Sabha has honoured him with the title "Biswa Ratna".
Hazarika was honoured with commemorative postage stamps by India Post in 2013 and 2016.
The longest road bridge of India, Dhola-Sadiya bridge is built over the river Lohit, which is a tributary of the Brahmaputra. It links Dhola and Sadiya both are in Tinsukia district of Assam is named after him
Filmography
Notes
External links
Lyrics of 700+ Bhupendra Sangeets
Official website
Digital Archive of Bhupen Hazarika
Gallery
1926 births
2011 deaths
Assamese singers
Assamese playback singers
Assamese-language singers
Assamese-language film directors
Asom Sahitya Sabha Presidents
Columbia University alumni
Banaras Hindu University alumni
Bollywood playback singers
Dadasaheb Phalke Award recipients
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Film directors from Assam
Singers from Assam
Musicians from Assam
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
People from Tinsukia district
Indian film score composers
Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in arts
Best Music Direction National Film Award winners
Cotton College, Guwahati alumni
20th-century Indian musicians
Members of the Assam Legislative Assembly
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Assam
Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts
Indian male film score composers
Recipients of the Bharat Ratna
20th-century Indian male singers | [
"Bhupen Hazarika () (8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, poet, actor and filmmaker from Assam, widely known as Xudha kontho (meaning cuckoo, literally \"nectar-throated\").",
"His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi.",
"His songs, based on the themes of communal amity, universal justice and empathy, are especially popular among the people of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh.",
"He is also acknowledged to have introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level.",
"He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1975, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padma Shri (1977), and Padma Bhushan (2001), Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), the highest award for cinema in India and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008), the highest award of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.",
"He was posthumously awarded both the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award, in 2012, and the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 2019.",
"Hazarika also held the position of the Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi from December 1998 to December 2003.",
"Biography\n\nEarly life\n\nHazarika, who made fame as a musician, was born on 8 September 1926 to Nilakanta and Shantipriya Hazarika in Sadiya (শদিয়া), an interior place of Assam on the bank of river Brahmaputra.",
"His father was originally from Nazira, a town located in Sivasagar district.",
"The eldest of ten children, Bhupen Hazarika (as well as his siblings) was exposed to the musical influence of his mother, who exposed him to lullabies and traditional Music of Assam.",
"His father moved to the Bharalumukh region of Guwahati in 1929, in search of better prospects, where Bhupen Hazarika spent his early childhood.",
"In 1932, his father further moved to Dhubri, and in 1935 to Tezpur.",
"It was in Tezpur that Bhupen Hazarika, then 10-years-of-age, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwright and the first Assamese filmmaker, and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, renowned Assamese artist and revolutionary poet, where he sang a Borgeet (the traditional classical Assamese devotional songs written by Srimanta Sankardeva and Sri Sri Madhabdeva), taught by his mother at a public function.",
"In 1936, Bhupen Hazarika accompanied them to Kolkata where he recorded his first song at the Aurora Studio for the Selona Company.",
"His association with the icons of Assamese culture at Tezpur was the beginning of his artistic growth and credentials.",
"Subsequently, Hazarika sang two songs in Agarwala's film Indramalati (1939): Kaxote Kolosi Loi and Biswo Bijoyi Naujawan at the age of 12.",
"A revolutionary zeal was rooted during his childhood.",
"Its expression was, no doubt, “Agnijugar firingathi mai” (I am the spark of the age of fire) which was written at 14 years of his age and he was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer.",
"Education and career\nHazarika studied at Sonaram High School at Guwahati, Dhubri Government High School and matriculated from Tezpur High School in 1940.",
"He completed his Intermediate Arts from Cotton College in 1942, and his BA (1944) and MA (1946) in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University.",
"For a brief period he worked at All India Radio, Guwahati when he won a scholarship from Columbia University and set sail for New York in 1949.",
"There he earned a PhD (1952) on his thesis \"Proposals for Preparing India's Basic Education to use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education\".",
"In New York, Bhupen Hazarika befriended Paul Robeson, a prominent civil rights activist, who influenced him in He used music as the \n“instrument of social change” following the path of Paul Robeson who once told him about his \nguitar - “Guitar is not a musical instrument, it is a social \ninstrument.” His song Bistirno Parore which is based on the tune, imagery and theme of Robeson's Ol' Man River.",
"This song is translated in various Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi and sung by the artist himself, and is still popular.",
"Being inspired from some other foreign ones, he also composed several other songs in Indian languages.",
"He was exposed to the Spiritual, and the multi-lingual version of We are in the Same Boat Brother became a regular feature in his stage performance.",
"At Columbia University, he met Priyamvada Patel, whom he married in 1950.",
"Tez Hazarika, their only child, was born in 1952, and he returned to India in 1953.",
"His famous songs include (in Assamese):\n\n Bistirno Parore (বিস্তীৰ্ণ পাৰৰে) \n Moi Eti Jajabor (মই এটি যাযাবৰ) \n Ganga Mor Maa (গংগা মোৰ মা) \n Bimurto Mur Nixati Jen (বিমূৰ্ত মোৰ নিশাটি যেন) \n Manuhe Manuhor Babey (মানুহে মানুহৰ বাবে) \n Snehe Aamar Xoto Shrabonor (স্নেহে আমাৰ শত শ্ৰাৱণৰ) \n Gupute Gupute Kimaan Khelim (গুপুতে গুপুতে কিমান খেলিম) \n Buku Hom Hom Kore (বুকু হম্ হম্ কৰে) \n Sagar sangamat (সাগৰ সংগমত) \n Shillongore Godhuli (শ্বিলঙৰে গধূলি)\n\nIPTA years\nHazarika began close association with the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association soon after returning from the US in 1953 and became the Secretary of the Reception Committee of the Third All Assam Conference of IPTA, held in Guwahati in 1955.",
"Professional life\nAfter completing his MA he briefly worked at the All India Radio station at Guwahati before embarking for his doctoral studies at Columbia University.",
"His thesis \"DEMYSTIFYING DR. BHUPEN HAZARIKA: envisioning education for India\", edited by Tej Hazarika and published by Cool Grove Press will be available in the US in days.",
"Soon after completing his education, he became a teacher at the Guwahati University.",
"But after a few years, he left the job and went to Kolkata where he established himself as a successful music director and singer.",
"During that period, Hazarika made several award-winning Assamese films such as Shakuntala, Pratidhwani etc.",
"and composed evergreen music for many Assamese films.",
"He was also considered as a new trend setter in Bengali music.",
"The famous musical genre of West Bengal, the Jivanmukhi geet started by Kabir Suman in 1990's is thought to be influenced by Hazarika.",
"Bhupen Hazarika composed music for films from Bangladesh too which got international acclaim.",
"He was elected the President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1993.",
"In 1967, Hazarika got elected as a member of Assam Assembly from Nauboicha constituency.",
"Social Struggle\n\nFrom early in his life, he was at the forefront of a social battle against the entrenched forces of casteism that sneered at a member of the Koibarta community making it as a musician of note, and kept him away from the upper-caste Brahmin woman he had loved.",
"Eventually, when the spirited Hazarika did marry, it was to a Brahmin woman, his revenge of sorts against a caste-ridden society.",
"Later life\nHe was introduced to Kalpana Lajmi in the early 1970s by his childhood friend and India's top tea planter Hemendra Prasad Barooah in Kolkata.",
"Her first feature film Ek Pal with music score by Hazarika was produced by Barooah.",
"Subsequently, Lajmi began assisting him professionally and personally till the end of his life.",
"In the period after the release of Ek Pal (1986) until his death, Bhupen Hazarika mainly concentrated on Hindi films, most of which were directed by Kalpana Lajmi.",
"Ek Pal (1986), Rudaali (1993) and Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001) are major films this period.",
"Many of his earlier songs were re-written in Hindi and used as played-back songs in these films.",
"These songs tried to cater to the Hindi film milieu and their social activist lyrics were browbeaten into the lowest common denominator.",
"He served as an MLA (Independent) during 1967–72 in the Assam Legislative Assembly from Nauboicha Constituency.",
"He contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from the Guwahati constituency, persuaded by Chandan Mitra via Kalpana Lajmi which he lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Kirip Chaliha.",
"Death\nHazarika was hospitalized in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in Mumbai in 2011.",
"He was admitted to the intensive care unit on 30 June 2011.",
"He died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011.",
"His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and cremated on 9 November 2011 near the Brahmaputra river in a plot of land donated by Gauhati University.",
"His funeral was attended by an estimated half a million people.",
"Legacy and influences\n\nAs a singer, Hazarika was known for his baritone voice; as a lyricist, he was known for poetic compositions and parables which\ntouched on themes ranging from romance to social and political commentary; and as a composer, for his use of folk music.",
"In a poll conducted in Bangladesh, his song, Manush Manusher Jonno (Humans are for humanity)' was chosen to be the second most favourite number after the National anthem of Bangladesh.",
"Some of his most famous compositions were adaptations of American Black Spiritual that he had learned from Paul Robeson, whom he had befriended during his years in New York City in the early 1950s.",
"His famous song \"Bistirno Parore\" is heavily influenced by Ol' Man River sung by Paul Robeson.",
"During his lifetime, a full-length docu-feature biopic film on his life titled Moi Eti Zazabor('I am a Wanderer') jointly directed by Late Waesqurni Bora and Arnab Jan Deka was launched in 1986 at his Nizarapar residence in Guwahati city.",
"Music for this biopic film has been scored by 5-time International Best Music Awards winner only Assamese musician, songwriter, composer and singer Jim Ankan Deka, who also worked as Chief Assistant Director of this film.",
"During the next two decades, the joint directors Late Bora and Deka shot him live for the film during his various public performances all over India, as well as many private moments in his domestic and social life.",
"Arnab Jan Deka also extensively interviewed him regarding his life and its creative aspects for the film, which had been recorded during their joint travel to different metropolises and remote corners of Assam and rest of India.",
"The film has been under production since 1986 with film negative footage of more than 16 hours currently preserved in different film laboratories in Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata) and Madras (Chennai).",
"The film was targeted for public release during the lifetime of Dr Bhupen Hazarika in 2008.",
"But, the production was halted after sudden demise of one of the co-directors Waesqurni Bora in November 2008.",
"Eventually, after the death of Dr Hazarika, the film's subject, the surviving co-director Arnab Jan Deka is currently carrying out necessary works to finish the film at the earliest and release for public consumption in several language versions including English, Assamese, Bengali and Hindi, with support from Late Waesqurni Bora's widowed wife Nazma Begum and Dr Hazarika's bereaved family members including his wife Priyam Hazarika and Tej Hazarika.",
"Meanwhile, two books describing the unforgettable experiences of the making of this milestone biopic film had been authored by its co-director Arnab Jan Deka titled Anya Ek Zazabor and Mor Sinaki Bhupenda, first of which had been officially released in February 1993 by Late G P Sippy, then President of Film Federation of India and producer of world-record holder Hindi film Sholay at a public function organised by Dr Bhupen Hazarika himself.",
"Awards and honours\n\nNational and state honours\n Award for the Best Feature Film in Assamese (Shakuntala; Directed by Bhupen Hazarika) in the 9th National Film Awards (1961)\n The Best Music Director National Award for \"Chameli Memsaab\" (Chameli Memsaab; music by Bhupen Hazarika) in the 23rd National Film Awards (1975)\n Padma Shri – the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India (1977)\n Gold medal from the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh for \"outstanding contribution towards tribal welfare, and uplift of tribal culture through cinema and music.\"",
"(1979)\n Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987)\n Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992)\n Padma Bhushan – the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2001)\n Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008)\n Asom Ratna — the highest civilian award in the State of Assam, India (2009)\n Friends of Liberation War Honour, Government of Bangladesh (2011)\n Padma Vibhushan – the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2012, posthumous)\n Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2019, posthumous)\n\nOther awards and recognition\n\n All India Critic Association Award for best performing folk artist (1979)\n In 1979 and 1980 he won the Ritwik Ghatak Award as best music director for two theatre plays, Mohua Sundari, and Nagini Kanyar Kahini\n Bengal Journalist's Association Indira Gandhi Smriti Puraskar in (1987)\n First Indian to win Best Music for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in Japan (1993)\n Honorary Degree from Tezpur University (2001)\n 10th Kalakar Award for Lifetime Achievement in the year 2002, Kolkata.",
"In February 2009, the All Assam Students Union erected a life size statue of Hazarika on the banks of Digholi Pukhuri in Guwahati.",
"A full-length docu-feature biopic film on his life titled Moi Eti Zazabor('I am an Wanderer') jointly directed by Late Waesqurni Bora and Arnab Jan Deka has been under production since 1986\nIn 2010, Assam Cricket Association renamed the Barshapara Cricket Stadium as Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium.",
"Muktijoddha Padak — Awarded as a \"Friend of the Freedom Struggle\" award by Bangladesh Government (posthumously, 2011)\n Asom Sahitya Sabha has honoured him with the title \"Biswa Ratna\".",
"Hazarika was honoured with commemorative postage stamps by India Post in 2013 and 2016.",
"The longest road bridge of India, Dhola-Sadiya bridge is built over the river Lohit, which is a tributary of the Brahmaputra.",
"It links Dhola and Sadiya both are in Tinsukia district of Assam is named after him\n\nFilmography\n\nNotes\n\nExternal links\n\n Lyrics of 700+ Bhupendra Sangeets\n Official website\n \n Digital Archive of Bhupen Hazarika\n\nGallery\n\n1926 births\n2011 deaths\nAssamese singers\nAssamese playback singers\nAssamese-language singers\nAssamese-language film directors\nAsom Sahitya Sabha Presidents\nColumbia University alumni\nBanaras Hindu University alumni\nBollywood playback singers\nDadasaheb Phalke Award recipients\nDeaths from multiple organ failure\nFilm directors from Assam\nSingers from Assam\nMusicians from Assam\nRecipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts\nRecipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award\nRecipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship\nPeople from Tinsukia district\nIndian film score composers\nRecipients of the Padma Vibhushan in arts\nBest Music Direction National Film Award winners\nCotton College, Guwahati alumni\n20th-century Indian musicians\nMembers of the Assam Legislative Assembly\nBharatiya Janata Party politicians from Assam\nRecipients of the Padma Shri in arts\nIndian male film score composers\nRecipients of the Bharat Ratna\n20th-century Indian male singers"
] | [
"Xudha Kontho, also known as Bhupen Hazarika, was an Indian singer, musician, poet, actor and filmmaker from Assam.",
"His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and Hindi.",
"His songs are popular with the people of Assam, West Bengal and Bangladesh.",
"He introduced the culture and folk music of Assam and Northeast India to Hindi cinema at the national level.",
"In 1975, he received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction and in 1987, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.",
"He was posthumously awarded India's second-highest civilian award in 2012 and India's highest civilian award in 2019.",
"The Chairman of the Sangeet Natak Akademi was held by Hazarika.",
"Hazarika, who made fame as a musician, was born on September 8, 1926 in Sadiya, an interior place of Assam on the bank of river Brahmaputra.",
"His father was originally from Nazira.",
"The influence of his mother's music and traditional Music of Assam exposed the eldest of ten children, Bhupen Hazarika.",
"In 1929, his father moved to the Bharalumukh region of Assam in search of a better life for his son.",
"His father moved to Tezpur in 1935.",
"It was in Tezpur that Bhupen Hazarika, then 10-years-of-age, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala and Bishnu Rabha.",
"In 1936, Bhupen Hazarika recorded his first song at the Aurora Studio for the Selona Company.",
"His association with the icons of Assamese culture at Tezpur was the beginning of his artistic growth and credentials.",
"In Indramalati, Hazarika sang two songs at the age of 12.",
"He had a revolutionary zeal as a child.",
"He was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer when he wrote the expression \"Agnijugar firingathi mai\", which means \"I am the spark of the age of fire\", at 14 years of age.",
"Hazarika attended three high schools before graduating from Tezpur High School in 1940.",
"He graduated from Cotton College in 1942 with a degree in Political Science.",
"After winning a scholarship from Columbia University, he went to New York and worked at All India Radio.",
"He earned a PhD on his thesis \"Proposals for Preparing India's Basic Education to use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education\".",
"The path of Paul Robeson, a civil rights activist who influenced him in New York, led to the use of music as the instrument of social change.",
"The artist sings this song in various Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi, and it is still popular.",
"He composed several songs in Indian languages and was inspired by foreign ones.",
"The multi-lingual version of We are in the Same Boat Brother became a regular feature in his stage performance after he was exposed to the Spiritual.",
"He met his wife at Columbia University.",
"Tez Hazarika, their only child, was born in 1952 and returned to India in 1953.",
"His famous songs are in Assamese.",
"After completing his MA he worked for a short time at the All India Radio station in Assam.",
"His thesis \"DEMYSTIFYING DR. BHUPEN HAZARIKA: envision education for India\" will be available in the US in days.",
"He became a teacher at the university after finishing his education.",
"After a few years, he left the job and went to Kolkata where he established himself as a successful music director and singer.",
"Hazarika made several award-winning Assamese films during that time.",
"For many Assamese films, he composed evergreen music.",
"He was considered to be a new trend in Bengali music.",
"The famous musical genre of West Bengal is thought to have been influenced by Hazarika.",
"The music for films from Bangladesh was composed by Bhupen Hazarika.",
"In 1993 he was elected the President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha.",
"Hazarika was elected as a member of the Assam Assembly in 1967.",
"He was at the forefront of a social battle against casteism that kept him away from an upper-caste Brahmin woman he had been in love with.",
"When the spirited Hazarika did marry, it was to a Brahmin woman, his revenge of sorts against a caste-ridden society.",
"He was introduced to Kalpana Lajmi by Hemendra Barooah, his childhood friend and India's top tea planter.",
"Her first feature film was produced by Barooah.",
"Lajmi helped him professionally and personally until the end of his life.",
"Most of the Hindi films directed by Kalpana Lajmi were released after the release of Ek Pal.",
"Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001) is one of the major films of this period.",
"Many of his earlier songs were re-written in Hindi and used in these films.",
"The social activist lyrics of these songs were browbeaten into the lowest common denominator.",
"He was an Independent member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 1972 to 1967.",
"He was persuaded by Kalpana Lajmi to become a candidate for the Indian National Congress which he lost to.",
"Death Hazarika was hospitalized in Mumbai in 2011.",
"He was admitted to the intensive care unit.",
"He died of multi-organ failure.",
"His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and was cremated near the river in a plot of land donated by Gauhati University.",
"Half a million people attended his funeral.",
"As a singer, Hazarika was known for his voice, but he was also known for his poetic compositions and parables which touched on themes ranging from romance to social and political commentary.",
"The National anthem of Bangladesh was chosen as the most favourite number in a poll conducted in Bangladesh.",
"He had befriended Paul Robeson during his time in New York City and had learned from him some of his most famous compositions.",
"His song \"Bistirno Parore\" is heavily influenced by Ol' Man River.",
"A full-length docu-feature film on his life was launched in 1986 at his Nizarapar residence.",
"Jim Ankan Deka, a 5-time International Best Music Awards winner, scored the music for the film.",
"During the next two decades, the joint directors shot him live for the film during his various public performances all over India, as well as many private moments in his domestic and social life.",
"During their joint travel to different metropolises and remote corners of Assam and rest of India, Arnab Jan Deka extensively interviewed him about his life and creative aspects for the film.",
"Film negative footage of more than 16 hours has been preserved in different film laboratories in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras.",
"The film was intended for public release in 2008.",
"The production was halted after the death of one of the co-directors.",
"After the death of Dr Hazarika, the film's subject, the surviving co-director is currently carrying out necessary works to finish the film at the earliest and release for public consumption in several language versions.",
"The first of the two books written about the making of the film was released in February 1993 by Late G P Sippy.",
"In the 9th National Film Awards of 1961, the Best Feature Film in Assam was \"Shakuntala\" directed by Bhupen Hazarika.",
"The Friends of Liberation War Honour is the highest civilian award in the State of Assam, India.",
"A life size statue of Hazarika was erected by the All Assam Students Union in February 2009.",
"In 2010, the Barsha was renamed after a full-length docu-feature film on his life.",
"The Bangladesh Government honoured him with a \"Friend of the Freedom Struggle\" award in 2011.",
"India Post honoured Hazarika with postage stamps.",
"The longest road bridge in India is the Dhola-Sadiya bridge.",
"There are two films named after him in Tinsukia district of Assam."
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Early life
<mask>, who made fame as a musician, was born on 8 September 1926 to Nilakanta and Shantipriya <mask> in Sadiya (শদিয়া), an interior place of Assam on the bank of river Brahmaputra. His father was originally from Nazira, a town located in Sivasagar district. The eldest of ten children, <mask> <mask> (as well as his siblings) was exposed to the musical influence of his mother, who exposed him to lullabies and traditional Music of Assam. His father moved to the Bharalumukh region of Guwahati in 1929, in search of better prospects, where <mask> <mask> spent his early childhood. In 1932, his father further moved to Dhubri, and in 1935 to Tezpur. It was in Tezpur that <mask> <mask>, then 10-years-of-age, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwright and the first Assamese filmmaker, and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, renowned Assamese artist and revolutionary poet, where he sang a Borgeet (the traditional classical Assamese devotional songs written by Srimanta Sankardeva and Sri Sri Madhabdeva), taught by his mother at a public function. In 1936, <mask> <mask> accompanied them to Kolkata where he recorded his first song at the Aurora Studio for the Selona Company.His association with the icons of Assamese culture at Tezpur was the beginning of his artistic growth and credentials. Subsequently, <mask> sang two songs in Agarwala's film Indramalati (1939): Kaxote Kolosi Loi and Biswo Bijoyi Naujawan at the age of 12. A revolutionary zeal was rooted during his childhood. Its expression was, no doubt, “Agnijugar firingathi mai” (I am the spark of the age of fire) which was written at 14 years of his age and he was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer. Education and career
<mask> studied at Sonaram High School at Guwahati, Dhubri Government High School and matriculated from Tezpur High School in 1940. He completed his Intermediate Arts from Cotton College in 1942, and his BA (1944) and MA (1946) in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University. For a brief period he worked at All India Radio, Guwahati when he won a scholarship from Columbia University and set sail for New York in 1949.There he earned a PhD (1952) on his thesis "Proposals for Preparing India's Basic Education to use Audio-Visual Techniques in Adult Education". In New York, <mask> <mask> befriended Paul Robeson, a prominent civil rights activist, who influenced him in He used music as the
“instrument of social change” following the path of Paul Robeson who once told him about his
guitar - “Guitar is not a musical instrument, it is a social
instrument.” His song Bistirno Parore which is based on the tune, imagery and theme of Robeson's Ol' Man River. This song is translated in various Indian languages, including Bengali and Hindi and sung by the artist himself, and is still popular. Being inspired from some other foreign ones, he also composed several other songs in Indian languages. He was exposed to the Spiritual, and the multi-lingual version of We are in the Same Boat Brother became a regular feature in his stage performance. At Columbia University, he met Priyamvada Patel, whom he married in 1950. Tez <mask>, their only child, was born in 1952, and he returned to India in 1953.His famous songs include (in Assamese):
Bistirno Parore (বিস্তীৰ্ণ পাৰৰে)
Moi Eti Jajabor (মই এটি যাযাবৰ)
Ganga Mor Maa (গংগা মোৰ মা)
Bimurto Mur Nixati Jen (বিমূৰ্ত মোৰ নিশাটি যেন)
Manuhe Manuhor Babey (মানুহে মানুহৰ বাবে)
Snehe Aamar Xoto Shrabonor (স্নেহে আমাৰ শত শ্ৰাৱণৰ)
Gupute Gupute Kimaan Khelim (গুপুতে গুপুতে কিমান খেলিম)
Buku Hom Hom Kore (বুকু হম্ হম্ কৰে)
Sagar sangamat (সাগৰ সংগমত)
Shillongore Godhuli (শ্বিলঙৰে গধূলি)
IPTA years
Hazarika began close association with the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association soon after returning from the US in 1953 and became the Secretary of the Reception Committee of the Third All Assam Conference of IPTA, held in Guwahati in 1955. Professional life
After completing his MA he briefly worked at the All India Radio station at Guwahati before embarking for his doctoral studies at Columbia University. His thesis "DEMYSTIFYING DR. BHUPEN HAZARIKA: envisioning education for India", edited by Tej Hazarika and published by Cool Grove Press will be available in the US in days. Soon after completing his education, he became a teacher at the Guwahati University. But after a few years, he left the job and went to Kolkata where he established himself as a successful music director and singer. During that period, Hazarika made several award-winning Assamese films such as Shakuntala, Pratidhwani etc. and composed evergreen music for many Assamese films.He was also considered as a new trend setter in Bengali music. The famous musical genre of West Bengal, the Jivanmukhi geet started by Kabir Suman in 1990's is thought to be influenced by Hazarika. <mask> <mask> composed music for films from Bangladesh too which got international acclaim. He was elected the President of the Asam Sahitya Sabha in 1993. In 1967, <mask> got elected as a member of Assam Assembly from Nauboicha constituency. Social Struggle
From early in his life, he was at the forefront of a social battle against the entrenched forces of casteism that sneered at a member of the Koibarta community making it as a musician of note, and kept him away from the upper-caste Brahmin woman he had loved. Eventually, when the spirited Hazarika did marry, it was to a Brahmin woman, his revenge of sorts against a caste-ridden society.Later life
He was introduced to Kalpana Lajmi in the early 1970s by his childhood friend and India's top tea planter Hemendra Prasad Barooah in Kolkata. Her first feature film Ek Pal with music score by <mask> was produced by Barooah. Subsequently, Lajmi began assisting him professionally and personally till the end of his life. In the period after the release of Ek Pal (1986) until his death, <mask> <mask> mainly concentrated on Hindi films, most of which were directed by Kalpana Lajmi. Ek Pal (1986), Rudaali (1993) and Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence (2001) are major films this period. Many of his earlier songs were re-written in Hindi and used as played-back songs in these films. These songs tried to cater to the Hindi film milieu and their social activist lyrics were browbeaten into the lowest common denominator.He served as an MLA (Independent) during 1967–72 in the Assam Legislative Assembly from Nauboicha Constituency. He contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from the Guwahati constituency, persuaded by Chandan Mitra via Kalpana Lajmi which he lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Kirip Chaliha. Death
<mask> was hospitalized in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in Mumbai in 2011. He was admitted to the intensive care unit on 30 June 2011. He died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011. His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and cremated on 9 November 2011 near the Brahmaputra river in a plot of land donated by Gauhati University. His funeral was attended by an estimated half a million people.Legacy and influences
As a singer, <mask> was known for his baritone voice; as a lyricist, he was known for poetic compositions and parables which
touched on themes ranging from romance to social and political commentary; and as a composer, for his use of folk music. In a poll conducted in Bangladesh, his song, Manush Manusher Jonno (Humans are for humanity)' was chosen to be the second most favourite number after the National anthem of Bangladesh. Some of his most famous compositions were adaptations of American Black Spiritual that he had learned from Paul Robeson, whom he had befriended during his years in New York City in the early 1950s. His famous song "Bistirno Parore" is heavily influenced by Ol' Man River sung by Paul Robeson. During his lifetime, a full-length docu-feature biopic film on his life titled Moi Eti Zazabor('I am a Wanderer') jointly directed by Late Waesqurni Bora and Arnab Jan Deka was launched in 1986 at his Nizarapar residence in Guwahati city. Music for this biopic film has been scored by 5-time International Best Music Awards winner only Assamese musician, songwriter, composer and singer Jim Ankan Deka, who also worked as Chief Assistant Director of this film. During the next two decades, the joint directors Late Bora and Deka shot him live for the film during his various public performances all over India, as well as many private moments in his domestic and social life.Arnab Jan Deka also extensively interviewed him regarding his life and its creative aspects for the film, which had been recorded during their joint travel to different metropolises and remote corners of Assam and rest of India. The film has been under production since 1986 with film negative footage of more than 16 hours currently preserved in different film laboratories in Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata) and Madras (Chennai). The film was targeted for public release during the lifetime of Dr <mask> <mask> in 2008. But, the production was halted after sudden demise of one of the co-directors Waesqurni Bora in November 2008. Eventually, after the death of Dr <mask>, the film's subject, the surviving co-director Arnab Jan Deka is currently carrying out necessary works to finish the film at the earliest and release for public consumption in several language versions including English, Assamese, Bengali and Hindi, with support from Late Waesqurni Bora's widowed wife Nazma Begum and Dr <mask>'s bereaved family members including his wife Priyam <mask> and Tej <mask>. Meanwhile, two books describing the unforgettable experiences of the making of this milestone biopic film had been authored by its co-director Arnab Jan Deka titled Anya Ek Zazabor and Mor Sinaki Bhupenda, first of which had been officially released in February 1993 by Late G P Sippy, then President of Film Federation of India and producer of world-record holder Hindi film Sholay at a public function organised by Dr <mask> <mask> himself. Awards and honours
National and state honours
Award for the Best Feature Film in Assamese (Shakuntala; Directed by <mask> <mask>) in the 9th National Film Awards (1961)
The Best Music Director National Award for "Chameli Memsaab" (Chameli Memsaab; music by Bhupen Hazarika) in the 23rd National Film Awards (1975)
Padma Shri – the fourth highest civilian award in the Republic of India (1977)
Gold medal from the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh for "outstanding contribution towards tribal welfare, and uplift of tribal culture through cinema and music."(1979)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987)
Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1992)
Padma Bhushan – the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2001)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2008)
Asom Ratna — the highest civilian award in the State of Assam, India (2009)
Friends of Liberation War Honour, Government of Bangladesh (2011)
Padma Vibhushan – the second highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2012, posthumous)
Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian award in the Republic of India (2019, posthumous)
Other awards and recognition
All India Critic Association Award for best performing folk artist (1979)
In 1979 and 1980 he won the Ritwik Ghatak Award as best music director for two theatre plays, Mohua Sundari, and Nagini Kanyar Kahini
Bengal Journalist's Association Indira Gandhi Smriti Puraskar in (1987)
First Indian to win Best Music for the film Rudaali at the Asia Pacific International Film Festival in Japan (1993)
Honorary Degree from Tezpur University (2001)
10th Kalakar Award for Lifetime Achievement in the year 2002, Kolkata. In February 2009, the All Assam Students Union erected a life size statue of Hazarika on the banks of Digholi Pukhuri in Guwahati. A full-length docu-feature biopic film on his life titled Moi Eti Zazabor('I am an Wanderer') jointly directed by Late Waesqurni Bora and Arnab Jan Deka has been under production since 1986
In 2010, Assam Cricket Association renamed the Barshapara Cricket Stadium as Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium. Muktijoddha Padak — Awarded as a "Friend of the Freedom Struggle" award by Bangladesh Government (posthumously, 2011)
Asom Sahitya Sabha has honoured him with the title "Biswa Ratna". Hazarika was honoured with commemorative postage stamps by India Post in 2013 and 2016. The longest road bridge of India, Dhola-Sadiya bridge is built over the river Lohit, which is a tributary of the Brahmaputra. It links Dhola and Sadiya both are in Tinsukia district of Assam is named after him
Filmography
Notes
External links
Lyrics of 700+ Bhupendra Sangeets
Official website
Digital Archive of Bhupen Hazarika
Gallery
1926 births
2011 deaths
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Assamese-language film directors
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Banaras Hindu University alumni
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49972189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Jacobson%20%28writer%29 | Alan Jacobson (writer) | Alan Jacobson is an American author of mystery, suspense, thriller and action novels. Among his works are the FBI profiler Karen Vail series and the OPSIG Team Black series, as well as stand alone books and short stories.
His film reviews, photographs, short stories, and nonfiction articles have appeared in Variety, The Strand Magazine, Suspense Magazine, the New York Post, American Express travel insert, PBS, New York Gossip Girl, Sacramento Valley Chiropractic Association bulletin, and The Eighteen Eleven (Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association journal).
Early life
Jacobson grew up in the Queens, New York neighborhood of Rosedale (the same town featured in his novel, Spectrum). He attended elementary school at PS 138, then Junior High School 231, and Springfield Gardens High School, where he was ranked ninth in his graduating class.
Jacobson has spoken openly of his volatile Junior High School experiences during the federal government's failed forced busing experiment in which students were bused from predominantly white neighborhoods into schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, in an attempt to force integration in the community. The student body was threatened on a daily basis. Coming from his elementary school, where two of his best friends were black, it was a rude awakening to the realities of ethnic tension that existed in Rosedale, Laurelton, Jamaica, and Springfield Gardens. Despite this, Jacobson chose not to take the attacks personally, and was able to overcome the volatile environment. He recalls attending a group counseling session in his freshman year of high school to address the racial problems that occurred at 231. When it was his turn to speak, he told of being threatened, beaten up, robbed, stuck with needles in the hallways, and held hostage in the school basement's bookroom. But he felt it was done by specific individuals and it was not fair to judge an entire group of people because of the actions of some.
Jacobson held a number of jobs as a teenager and young adult, including working part-time in his father's small business in New York City, tutoring English Second Language students at Queens College and Queensborough Community College, and busing tables and making deliveries for Woodro Deli in Cedarhurst, New York; the latter was to make enough money for his move to California in 1982 to attend chiropractic school. (The deli also appeared in Jacobson's novel, Spectrum.)
Jacobson earned a bachelor's degree in English from Queens College (1982) and a Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic West (1985).
Early influences and career
During his junior high school years, Jacobson took English from teacher Louis Brill for two years. Jacobson attributes his love for English, and ultimately his pursuit of an English degree, to Brill. No Way Out, the fifth novel in the Karen Vail series, is dedicated to Brill. Jacobson and Brill reunited for the first time in nearly forty years at Thrillerfest in New York City in 2015.
Jacobson obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Queens College of the City University of New York. There were two transformative learning experiences, one positive and one negative. Again, they involved teachers. On the positive side, Jacobson took two classes from Professor Richard Schotter, himself an accomplished playwright, where Jacobson learned the nuances and importance of writing effective dialogue, something that proved invaluable years later as a novelist. Jacobson has said that writing dialogue is deceivingly difficult because it takes skill to carve away the fat of real exchanges between people and yet make them seem perfectly natural.
On the negative side, his Short Story Workshop professor lambasted Jacobson for a story he had written involving two young soldiers from opposing sides of a conflict who became trapped in a cave. One of them had suffered an abdominal injury. The professor criticized Jacobson for writing about a character with an abdominal wound if he had not experienced one himself and thus did not know how painful they were.
Twenty years later, in the early stages of his writing career, Jacobson realized the professor had a point. If you were going to write about something like war and abdominal wounds, you needed to know what you were talking about. While writing his first published novel, False Accusations, his path crossed that of the head of the California Department of Justice. During a phone call with Jacobson, he requested a reference on one of Jacobson's employees who was applying to be a forensic scientist. Jacobson then asked the director a question about a novel he was writing (False Accusations) involving the character of Ryan Chandler.
Jacobson's early draft of False Accusations referred to Chandler as a criminologist, but the director corrected him. Chandler was a criminalist. Many years before the CSI TV show, no one knew what a criminalist was unless you worked in forensics. But once the difference was explained to him, Jacobson realized he had homework to do to avoid making similar errors. That episode influenced his approach to his fiction. If an FBI agent reached for a Glock, it had better be the right caliber and model because Jacobson does have law enforcement officers who read his novels and they live the reality.
He began his career as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He was then appointed to the position of Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California, and served as an expert witness within the justice system. Due to an injury Jacobson was forced to leave the medical field.
Jacobson is known for his depth of research with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), especially in his work with retired FBI agent Mark Safarik, with whom he co-authored an e-book titled "Staying Safe."
Post-graduate work
Although he loved writing, he never intended to do it professionally. After getting his Bachelor of Arts in English from Queens College in New York, Jacobson moved to California to get his doctor of chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West in California. He practiced for nearly nine years but his career was cut short when an injury to his wrists forced him to take an administrative role. He ultimately sold his practice and returned to writing, scoring his first bestseller, False Accusations, five years later.
Work with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit
While auditing a course on blood spatter pattern analysis at the California Department of Justice's Criminalistics Institute, Jacobson met FBI special agent Mark Safarik. Safarik was awaiting a promotion to the behavioral analysis unit at the time. Jacobson and Safarik struck up a conversation and became friends. Safarik was himself fascinated by serial killers and profiling concepts and Jacobson was excited to learn as much as he could. In the subsequent months, after Safarik was promoted to Quantico, he invited Jacobson out to visit and tour the FBI Academy and profiling unit.
It was the first of many visits Jacobson would make to the FBI Academy and profiling unit spanning over a decade. Shortly after creating the character of Karen Vail and writing the first 75 pages of The 7th Victim, Jacobson met Safarik‘s partner, Supervisory Special Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole, who gave him an understanding of what it was like being a female profiler in a male-dominated unit. Jacobson used this information and experience to fill out Vail's background and tenacity. He continues to work with both Safarik and O’Toole for his Karen Vail series. Spectrum is dedicated to O’Toole and Inmate 1577 to Safarik.
Professional influences
Jacobson has mentioned authors Steve Martini, David Morrell, Andy McNab, Nelson DeMille, Allan Folsom, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Dennis Lehane, and O. Henry as influences. He has stated that he doesn’t like to name specific authors as he will forget to mention some.
Jacobson's relates a story regarding Steve Martini. While an aspiring writer, Jacobson was addicted to Steve Martini novels. When Martini did a book signing at Barnes & Noble, Jacobson attended. While Martini was signing the hardcover to him, Jacobson asked him for advice on getting published. About ten years later, while at the ThrillerFest writers conference in New York City, Jacobson felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see his publisher, Roger Cooper of Vanguard Press, standing with Martini. Cooper introduced the two men and Jacobson mentioned that they had met many years earlier at a signing. Weeks later, he asked if Martini would read his new manuscript, Crush. Martini loved the book and wrote a testimonial blurb for it, which appeared on the Crush hardcover jacket. The following year at ThrillerFest, Jacobson was standing at the elevators when he again felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see Steve Martini standing there with a copy of Crush. He asked Jacobson to autograph it for him. He felt like he had come full circle as a writer.
Nelson DeMille was also an early influence. Even though Jacobson had created Karen Vail a couple of years before DeMille's John Corey character debuted in Plum Island, Vail was very similar in demeanor to Corey. DeMille agreed. Of Vail's first novel, The 7th Victim (2008), DeMille wrote, “Alan Jacobson is a hell of a writer, and his lead character, Karen Vail, is a hell of a lady: tough, smart, funny, and very believable…This reads like a Nelson DeMille book. And I should know”.
First publishing contract
In 1998, Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books imprint inked Jacobson to a solid six-figure deal for two thrillers, False Accusations and The Hunted. The former was originally published by a small Canadian publisher, Commonwealth, that went into bankruptcy just as it was preparing to ship books to stores. Jacobson was able to get them to distribute a fraction of the first printing and it caught on and sold well. But retailers were unable to order additional copies and Jacobson had to sue Commonwealth by hiring a Canadian law firm. He ultimately won the case and the rights reverted to him, thanks to a clause inserted by his entertainment law attorney, Robert Youdelman, Esq. His agent then sold the rights to Emily Bestler, then vice president and editor-in-chief of Pocket Books. This resulted in the two-book deal that included The Hunted (later rebranded as book one of the OPSIG Team Black series).
Writing style and philosophy
Jacobson writes primarily in the third person, although the serial killer chapters in The 7th Victim were written in the first person. His novels have elements of suspense, thriller, psychological suspense, action, and mystery. He has tackled historical fiction as well, in Inmate 1577 (Karen Vail #4), Spectrum (Karen Vail #6) and briefly in Dark Side of the Moon (OPSIG Team Black #4).
The character of Karen Vail was originally conceived in the mid-1990s as a one-chapter FBI agent. But once Jacobson started writing her, he could not stop. He realized he had to find a vehicle for her, and during his research work with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, he knew the perfect place for her would be as the first female FBI profiler, in a book featuring her. He was influenced by the strong wills and constitutions of both his mother and his wife, as well as Jacobson's own New York upbringing.
Jacobson wrote the first seventy-five pages of The 7th Victim in the first person point of view. However, his agent told him he could not use the first person because his first two novels (False Accusations and The Hunted) were written in the third person. He was frustrated because he thought it was some of his best writing, so he used Find/Replace in Microsoft Word and replaced all the I's with She's and so on. When he read what was left, he realized it was third person with a first person feel, very close to the reader. The reader was privy to Vail's internal thoughts, experiencing things as Vail experienced them, hearing what she was thinking. They are things that people think but never say aloud. Sometimes Vail does say them aloud, which can create problems with colleagues. These thoughts can be sarcastic or dry humor, and they can be very funny. Jacobson characterizes his discovery as being accidental.
Jacobson said that as the series has progressed, Vail has learned to tone it down her dry, New York sarcasm. She has grown as a person, that her evolution from book to book is tangible but subtle. Rather than verbalizing those acerbic and often very funny remarks as retorts, she is now more likely to keep them as thoughts between herself and the reader, like an inside joke.
Humor
Humor finds its way into many of Jacobson's novels. He feels that even in thriller and suspense writing, humor can be magical amid the tension. He says he never forces it, that it occurs organically. It is not until he reads the manuscript for the first time after finishing the first draft that he realizes how many funny exchanges there are between characters.
Characters
Jacobson believes that characters are of highest priority because that is what often keeps the reader reading. He calls this reader engagement. A successful novel must have characters that readers care about. If they don’t develop a connection with the characters, reading that book would become a chore rather than something they look forward to doing.
Setting
Jacobson has said that settings are like characters and can help shape a story in key ways. Every place the characters go in his novels is vital to that particular story. Setting can serve as a stressor to that character if she's unfamiliar with that culture, if she does not know the geography, and so on. A test he uses is that if the story can be taken out of the city it is set in and placed in another city, he has not done a good job of integrating the setting into the story.
When possible, Jacobson writes parts of his novels on location in the places where his scenes are set. He feels inspired by the surroundings. One example of this was Inmate 1577 (Vail #4). Jacobson spent a lot of time researching Alcatraz, on the island and inside the penitentiary's cell house. Jacobson wrote some of the scenes right there, where his characters were interacting. He found it very stimulating.
A number of Jacobson's novels have international locations. The Lost Codex (OPSIG Team Black #3) is set in Washington, DC, New York City, England, France, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. No Way Out (Vail #5) is set entirely in England, with early chapters in Madrid, Spain. The Dark Side of the Moon is set in Washington, New York City, and Southern California, but half the novel occurs on the Moon. Jacobson's former English teacher, Louis Brill, commented that Jacobson's settings are so well researched you feel as though you are there. His description of Napa Valley made Brill want to go there.
Dialogue
Jacobson feels that dialogue is vital to a compelling novel. He once asked literary legend Elmore Leonard about how Leonard developed his ear for dialogue. He said he just hears it in his head. At first Jacobson laughed, but then realized that that's how he does it. His characters speak to him. His ear comes from concepts he learned in his playwriting workshop course at Queens College, his life experiences, contact with people all over the world and hearing their word choice, cadence, sentence length, etc. James Patterson told Jacobson the same thing. Jacobson asked how Patterson was able to write the dialogue of black people so well. It came from Patterson's Newburgh, New York upbringing.
Jacobson said that writing dialogue looks easy, but like any art, it takes time, practice, and effort to make it look effortless.
Craft
Early in Jacobson's writing career, his first two novels ended with major twists. His agent wanted him to become a modern-day O’Henry with trademark twists at the end. Jacobson felt that although twists are important to the genre, he did not want to limit himself by constructing a story for the main purpose of concluding with a twist. He is happy if a story and its characters lend themselves to that turn-on-a-dime ending, but he did not want that to be his sole focus.
Jacobson is an outliner, though he does not write chapter outlines. He prefers instead to write a narrative description of what happens, and when. These outlines can run up to sixty pages. This allows him the flexibility to modify the story as he discovers information during the research phase and as new ideas come to him while writing. While this happens often and he rewrites on the spot, his endings never change.
Jacobson has become known as a novelist who heavily researches his books. During his twenty-five year career, Jacobson has embedded himself with law enforcement officers across a range of agencies, including several years with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico; the DEA, US Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the NYPD, SWAT, and local bomb squads. He has also worked extensively with the US military, Scotland Yard, criminals, armorers, helicopter and fighter pilots, CEOs, historians, combat surgeons, astronauts, rocket scientists, and Navy SEALs. He said that working with the agents, detectives, and officers allows him to go behind the scenes, ask them questions, see them in their environment, and try out their equipment. Hearing their stories, seeing how they approach different scenarios, sitting in their labs or tactical vehicles, observing them handling criminals and running investigations are the things he takes back with him to the keyboard when writing his novels.
Jacobson never intended to write a series. He had seen colleagues become stale writing the same character in the same setting, essentially writing the same book over and over. When approached by his publisher, Roger Cooper, who was prepping The 7th Victim for production, Cooper asked when the next book in the Karen Vail series would be ready. Jacobson told him that The 7th Victim was a one-off, a standalone novel. Cooper told him all the sales reps and bookstores loved Vail and wanted more. Jacobson said he would have to think about it and figure out a way of keeping Vail, and himself, fresh from book to book. About a week later, he figured out how to make that happen and the Karen Vail series was born. In retrospect, Jacobson credited Cooper in the acknowledgments to No Way Out (Vail #5), stating that without Cooper's urging, the adventures he has had so much fun writing might never have occurred.
Being new to writing a series, Jacobson consulted with both Michael Connelly and Lee Child for advice on what to do and what to avoid. He received completely opposing answers: Connelly suggested he write the best book he can at the time, put everything in it, and worry about the next book later. Child, on the other hand, advocated doling out the information one book at a time, spreading out the revelations a little at a time, with each novel. Jacobson realized that the reason for the difference in their perspectives was the nature of their characters: Harry Bosch is a grounded, career law enforcement officer who follows rules, while Jack Reacher is a drifter who has no rules to follow. Based on this Jacobson felt that Connelly's style fit more with what Jacobson intended for Vail as a series character.
Jacobson felt the bottom line is that he doesn’t want the reader to put the book down, where they lose interest and close the book forever. There has to be something that drives the story forward, whether that be intrigue, suspense, mystery, and/or the characters themselves. Good pacing, realistic dialogue, a vivid setting, and rich writing are all key components to a compelling read.
Research with law enforcement, military, others
Jacobson has stated that he prefers to learn about the way a law enforcement agency works and operates rather than fictionalizing, or just making it up. As a result, he has worked hands-on with the people who actually do the work he is writing about. That means going on ride-alongs with cops, spending time at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, shooting pistols and MP-5 submachine guns in the FBI Academy's indoor range, shadowing the SWAT team at their San Diego training facility, touring the DEA's drug laboratory and field offices, learning from members of the US Marshals’ fugitive squad, and federal agencies’ headquarters, working with chief inspectors at London's Scotland Yard and spending time at one of their “Met” police stations in a seedy part of town.
He has also worked closely with various branches of the military, from US Marine Corp captains, US Navy commanders, USAF lieutenant colonels, US Army lieutenant generals, and members of the special operations forces. He has taken military training courses in close quarters combat and weapons training at Craft International, where he worked with snipers, British special forces marksmen, protective detail members, retired military personnel, and active duty sheriffs deputies.
Personal Safety eBook
Jacobson and retired FBI profiler Mark Safarik co-authored a book on personal safety entitled, “Staying Safe: from serial killers to identity thieves, a primer to keep you out of criminals’ crosshairs.” The book came about because of an interview Jacobson and Safarik did for The 7th Victim. They were discussing what steps a woman could take to prevent herself from falling victim to the tactics the killer uses in the opening scene. Afterwards, they realized it was important information that everyone should have. They set out to write an article but found they had too much information and ultimately wrote a book. It is updated periodically and given away for free on Jacobson's website as an incentive for readers to sign up for his author newsletter.
Author cameo
In Spectrum (Karen Vail #6), waiter Al at the Woodro Deli was a tongue-in-cheek cameo for insiders. Jacobson worked at Woodro in 1982 as a busboy; the Spectrum scene was set in 1978.)
Hollywood, Film options, TV series efforts
Several of Jacobson's novels have been optioned for film and/or television. One project made it to preproduction (The 7th Victim, Vail #1) when the plug was pulled. It was to be the seventh of twelve bestselling novels adapted to two-hour TV movies as part of TNT's Mystery Movie Night. Works by authors including Scott Turow, Sandra Brown, Lisa Gardner, Richard North Patterson, April Smith, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, and Alan Jacobson were to be produced. The first six aired to poor ratings and as a result the final six were canceled when the sponsors pulled their remaining $24 million budget.
It was not until a year later, when Jacobson was talking with Scott Turow, did Jacobson discover what had sunk the project. Ironically, the National Basketball Association (NBA) strike severely impacted TNT's overall ratings.
Jacobson's debut novel, False Accusations, was adapted into a TV movie in 2004 in the Czech Republic. Iconic screenwriter Jirí Hubac penned the screenplay based on Alan Jacobson's bestselling novel. The movie was directed by Zdenek Zelenka. It aired multiple times and was renewed for another set of airings in 2012.
Short stories
Two of Jacobson's short stories have been published. The first, Fatal Twist, features FBI profiler Karen Vail and was published by the Strand magazine in 2012. The second, Double Take, features two characters from the Karen Vail series, Carmine Russo and Ben Dyer from Spectrum. Russo and Dyer were created for the short story, and were later integrated into Spectrum for the novel. Double Take what originally bundled with Hard Target (OPSIG #2) as a value-added bonus for the ebook release. It was subsequently sold separately.
Bibliography
Stand Alone Novels/Short Stories
OPSIG Team Black Series
FBI profiler Karen Vail series
Essays
References
American mystery writers
Living people
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) | [
"Alan Jacobson is an American author of mystery, suspense, thriller and action novels.",
"Among his works are the FBI profiler Karen Vail series and the OPSIG Team Black series, as well as stand alone books and short stories.",
"His film reviews, photographs, short stories, and nonfiction articles have appeared in Variety, The Strand Magazine, Suspense Magazine, the New York Post, American Express travel insert, PBS, New York Gossip Girl, Sacramento Valley Chiropractic Association bulletin, and The Eighteen Eleven (Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association journal).",
"Early life \nJacobson grew up in the Queens, New York neighborhood of Rosedale (the same town featured in his novel, Spectrum).",
"He attended elementary school at PS 138, then Junior High School 231, and Springfield Gardens High School, where he was ranked ninth in his graduating class.",
"Jacobson has spoken openly of his volatile Junior High School experiences during the federal government's failed forced busing experiment in which students were bused from predominantly white neighborhoods into schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, in an attempt to force integration in the community.",
"The student body was threatened on a daily basis.",
"Coming from his elementary school, where two of his best friends were black, it was a rude awakening to the realities of ethnic tension that existed in Rosedale, Laurelton, Jamaica, and Springfield Gardens.",
"Despite this, Jacobson chose not to take the attacks personally, and was able to overcome the volatile environment.",
"He recalls attending a group counseling session in his freshman year of high school to address the racial problems that occurred at 231.",
"When it was his turn to speak, he told of being threatened, beaten up, robbed, stuck with needles in the hallways, and held hostage in the school basement's bookroom.",
"But he felt it was done by specific individuals and it was not fair to judge an entire group of people because of the actions of some.",
"Jacobson held a number of jobs as a teenager and young adult, including working part-time in his father's small business in New York City, tutoring English Second Language students at Queens College and Queensborough Community College, and busing tables and making deliveries for Woodro Deli in Cedarhurst, New York; the latter was to make enough money for his move to California in 1982 to attend chiropractic school.",
"(The deli also appeared in Jacobson's novel, Spectrum.)",
"Jacobson earned a bachelor's degree in English from Queens College (1982) and a Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic West (1985).",
"Early influences and career\nDuring his junior high school years, Jacobson took English from teacher Louis Brill for two years.",
"Jacobson attributes his love for English, and ultimately his pursuit of an English degree, to Brill.",
"No Way Out, the fifth novel in the Karen Vail series, is dedicated to Brill.",
"Jacobson and Brill reunited for the first time in nearly forty years at Thrillerfest in New York City in 2015.",
"Jacobson obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Queens College of the City University of New York.",
"There were two transformative learning experiences, one positive and one negative.",
"Again, they involved teachers.",
"On the positive side, Jacobson took two classes from Professor Richard Schotter, himself an accomplished playwright, where Jacobson learned the nuances and importance of writing effective dialogue, something that proved invaluable years later as a novelist.",
"Jacobson has said that writing dialogue is deceivingly difficult because it takes skill to carve away the fat of real exchanges between people and yet make them seem perfectly natural.",
"On the negative side, his Short Story Workshop professor lambasted Jacobson for a story he had written involving two young soldiers from opposing sides of a conflict who became trapped in a cave.",
"One of them had suffered an abdominal injury.",
"The professor criticized Jacobson for writing about a character with an abdominal wound if he had not experienced one himself and thus did not know how painful they were.",
"Twenty years later, in the early stages of his writing career, Jacobson realized the professor had a point.",
"If you were going to write about something like war and abdominal wounds, you needed to know what you were talking about.",
"While writing his first published novel, False Accusations, his path crossed that of the head of the California Department of Justice.",
"During a phone call with Jacobson, he requested a reference on one of Jacobson's employees who was applying to be a forensic scientist.",
"Jacobson then asked the director a question about a novel he was writing (False Accusations) involving the character of Ryan Chandler.",
"Jacobson's early draft of False Accusations referred to Chandler as a criminologist, but the director corrected him.",
"Chandler was a criminalist.",
"Many years before the CSI TV show, no one knew what a criminalist was unless you worked in forensics.",
"But once the difference was explained to him, Jacobson realized he had homework to do to avoid making similar errors.",
"That episode influenced his approach to his fiction.",
"If an FBI agent reached for a Glock, it had better be the right caliber and model because Jacobson does have law enforcement officers who read his novels and they live the reality.",
"He began his career as a Doctor of Chiropractic.",
"He was then appointed to the position of Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California, and served as an expert witness within the justice system.",
"Due to an injury Jacobson was forced to leave the medical field.",
"Jacobson is known for his depth of research with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), especially in his work with retired FBI agent Mark Safarik, with whom he co-authored an e-book titled \"Staying Safe.\"",
"Post-graduate work \nAlthough he loved writing, he never intended to do it professionally.",
"After getting his Bachelor of Arts in English from Queens College in New York, Jacobson moved to California to get his doctor of chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West in California.",
"He practiced for nearly nine years but his career was cut short when an injury to his wrists forced him to take an administrative role.",
"He ultimately sold his practice and returned to writing, scoring his first bestseller, False Accusations, five years later.",
"Work with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit \nWhile auditing a course on blood spatter pattern analysis at the California Department of Justice's Criminalistics Institute, Jacobson met FBI special agent Mark Safarik.",
"Safarik was awaiting a promotion to the behavioral analysis unit at the time.",
"Jacobson and Safarik struck up a conversation and became friends.",
"Safarik was himself fascinated by serial killers and profiling concepts and Jacobson was excited to learn as much as he could.",
"In the subsequent months, after Safarik was promoted to Quantico, he invited Jacobson out to visit and tour the FBI Academy and profiling unit.",
"It was the first of many visits Jacobson would make to the FBI Academy and profiling unit spanning over a decade.",
"Shortly after creating the character of Karen Vail and writing the first 75 pages of The 7th Victim, Jacobson met Safarik‘s partner, Supervisory Special Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole, who gave him an understanding of what it was like being a female profiler in a male-dominated unit.",
"Jacobson used this information and experience to fill out Vail's background and tenacity.",
"He continues to work with both Safarik and O’Toole for his Karen Vail series.",
"Spectrum is dedicated to O’Toole and Inmate 1577 to Safarik.",
"Professional influences \nJacobson has mentioned authors Steve Martini, David Morrell, Andy McNab, Nelson DeMille, Allan Folsom, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Dennis Lehane, and O. Henry as influences.",
"He has stated that he doesn’t like to name specific authors as he will forget to mention some.",
"Jacobson's relates a story regarding Steve Martini.",
"While an aspiring writer, Jacobson was addicted to Steve Martini novels.",
"When Martini did a book signing at Barnes & Noble, Jacobson attended.",
"While Martini was signing the hardcover to him, Jacobson asked him for advice on getting published.",
"About ten years later, while at the ThrillerFest writers conference in New York City, Jacobson felt a tap on his shoulder.",
"He turned to see his publisher, Roger Cooper of Vanguard Press, standing with Martini.",
"Cooper introduced the two men and Jacobson mentioned that they had met many years earlier at a signing.",
"Weeks later, he asked if Martini would read his new manuscript, Crush.",
"Martini loved the book and wrote a testimonial blurb for it, which appeared on the Crush hardcover jacket.",
"The following year at ThrillerFest, Jacobson was standing at the elevators when he again felt a tap on his shoulder.",
"He turned to see Steve Martini standing there with a copy of Crush.",
"He asked Jacobson to autograph it for him.",
"He felt like he had come full circle as a writer.",
"Nelson DeMille was also an early influence.",
"Even though Jacobson had created Karen Vail a couple of years before DeMille's John Corey character debuted in Plum Island, Vail was very similar in demeanor to Corey.",
"DeMille agreed.",
"Of Vail's first novel, The 7th Victim (2008), DeMille wrote, “Alan Jacobson is a hell of a writer, and his lead character, Karen Vail, is a hell of a lady: tough, smart, funny, and very believable…This reads like a Nelson DeMille book.",
"And I should know”.",
"First publishing contract \nIn 1998, Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books imprint inked Jacobson to a solid six-figure deal for two thrillers, False Accusations and The Hunted.",
"The former was originally published by a small Canadian publisher, Commonwealth, that went into bankruptcy just as it was preparing to ship books to stores.",
"Jacobson was able to get them to distribute a fraction of the first printing and it caught on and sold well.",
"But retailers were unable to order additional copies and Jacobson had to sue Commonwealth by hiring a Canadian law firm.",
"He ultimately won the case and the rights reverted to him, thanks to a clause inserted by his entertainment law attorney, Robert Youdelman, Esq.",
"His agent then sold the rights to Emily Bestler, then vice president and editor-in-chief of Pocket Books.",
"This resulted in the two-book deal that included The Hunted (later rebranded as book one of the OPSIG Team Black series).",
"Writing style and philosophy \nJacobson writes primarily in the third person, although the serial killer chapters in The 7th Victim were written in the first person.",
"His novels have elements of suspense, thriller, psychological suspense, action, and mystery.",
"He has tackled historical fiction as well, in Inmate 1577 (Karen Vail #4), Spectrum (Karen Vail #6) and briefly in Dark Side of the Moon (OPSIG Team Black #4).",
"The character of Karen Vail was originally conceived in the mid-1990s as a one-chapter FBI agent.",
"But once Jacobson started writing her, he could not stop.",
"He realized he had to find a vehicle for her, and during his research work with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, he knew the perfect place for her would be as the first female FBI profiler, in a book featuring her.",
"He was influenced by the strong wills and constitutions of both his mother and his wife, as well as Jacobson's own New York upbringing.",
"Jacobson wrote the first seventy-five pages of The 7th Victim in the first person point of view.",
"However, his agent told him he could not use the first person because his first two novels (False Accusations and The Hunted) were written in the third person.",
"He was frustrated because he thought it was some of his best writing, so he used Find/Replace in Microsoft Word and replaced all the I's with She's and so on.",
"When he read what was left, he realized it was third person with a first person feel, very close to the reader.",
"The reader was privy to Vail's internal thoughts, experiencing things as Vail experienced them, hearing what she was thinking.",
"They are things that people think but never say aloud.",
"Sometimes Vail does say them aloud, which can create problems with colleagues.",
"These thoughts can be sarcastic or dry humor, and they can be very funny.",
"Jacobson characterizes his discovery as being accidental.",
"Jacobson said that as the series has progressed, Vail has learned to tone it down her dry, New York sarcasm.",
"She has grown as a person, that her evolution from book to book is tangible but subtle.",
"Rather than verbalizing those acerbic and often very funny remarks as retorts, she is now more likely to keep them as thoughts between herself and the reader, like an inside joke.",
"Humor \nHumor finds its way into many of Jacobson's novels.",
"He feels that even in thriller and suspense writing, humor can be magical amid the tension.",
"He says he never forces it, that it occurs organically.",
"It is not until he reads the manuscript for the first time after finishing the first draft that he realizes how many funny exchanges there are between characters.",
"Characters \nJacobson believes that characters are of highest priority because that is what often keeps the reader reading.",
"He calls this reader engagement.",
"A successful novel must have characters that readers care about.",
"If they don’t develop a connection with the characters, reading that book would become a chore rather than something they look forward to doing.",
"Setting \nJacobson has said that settings are like characters and can help shape a story in key ways.",
"Every place the characters go in his novels is vital to that particular story.",
"Setting can serve as a stressor to that character if she's unfamiliar with that culture, if she does not know the geography, and so on.",
"A test he uses is that if the story can be taken out of the city it is set in and placed in another city, he has not done a good job of integrating the setting into the story.",
"When possible, Jacobson writes parts of his novels on location in the places where his scenes are set.",
"He feels inspired by the surroundings.",
"One example of this was Inmate 1577 (Vail #4).",
"Jacobson spent a lot of time researching Alcatraz, on the island and inside the penitentiary's cell house.",
"Jacobson wrote some of the scenes right there, where his characters were interacting.",
"He found it very stimulating.",
"A number of Jacobson's novels have international locations.",
"The Lost Codex (OPSIG Team Black #3) is set in Washington, DC, New York City, England, France, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.",
"No Way Out (Vail #5) is set entirely in England, with early chapters in Madrid, Spain.",
"The Dark Side of the Moon is set in Washington, New York City, and Southern California, but half the novel occurs on the Moon.",
"Jacobson's former English teacher, Louis Brill, commented that Jacobson's settings are so well researched you feel as though you are there.",
"His description of Napa Valley made Brill want to go there.",
"Dialogue \nJacobson feels that dialogue is vital to a compelling novel.",
"He once asked literary legend Elmore Leonard about how Leonard developed his ear for dialogue.",
"He said he just hears it in his head.",
"At first Jacobson laughed, but then realized that that's how he does it.",
"His characters speak to him.",
"His ear comes from concepts he learned in his playwriting workshop course at Queens College, his life experiences, contact with people all over the world and hearing their word choice, cadence, sentence length, etc.",
"James Patterson told Jacobson the same thing.",
"Jacobson asked how Patterson was able to write the dialogue of black people so well.",
"It came from Patterson's Newburgh, New York upbringing.",
"Jacobson said that writing dialogue looks easy, but like any art, it takes time, practice, and effort to make it look effortless.",
"Craft \nEarly in Jacobson's writing career, his first two novels ended with major twists.",
"His agent wanted him to become a modern-day O’Henry with trademark twists at the end.",
"Jacobson felt that although twists are important to the genre, he did not want to limit himself by constructing a story for the main purpose of concluding with a twist.",
"He is happy if a story and its characters lend themselves to that turn-on-a-dime ending, but he did not want that to be his sole focus.",
"Jacobson is an outliner, though he does not write chapter outlines.",
"He prefers instead to write a narrative description of what happens, and when.",
"These outlines can run up to sixty pages.",
"This allows him the flexibility to modify the story as he discovers information during the research phase and as new ideas come to him while writing.",
"While this happens often and he rewrites on the spot, his endings never change.",
"Jacobson has become known as a novelist who heavily researches his books.",
"During his twenty-five year career, Jacobson has embedded himself with law enforcement officers across a range of agencies, including several years with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico; the DEA, US Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the NYPD, SWAT, and local bomb squads.",
"He has also worked extensively with the US military, Scotland Yard, criminals, armorers, helicopter and fighter pilots, CEOs, historians, combat surgeons, astronauts, rocket scientists, and Navy SEALs.",
"He said that working with the agents, detectives, and officers allows him to go behind the scenes, ask them questions, see them in their environment, and try out their equipment.",
"Hearing their stories, seeing how they approach different scenarios, sitting in their labs or tactical vehicles, observing them handling criminals and running investigations are the things he takes back with him to the keyboard when writing his novels.",
"Jacobson never intended to write a series.",
"He had seen colleagues become stale writing the same character in the same setting, essentially writing the same book over and over.",
"When approached by his publisher, Roger Cooper, who was prepping The 7th Victim for production, Cooper asked when the next book in the Karen Vail series would be ready.",
"Jacobson told him that The 7th Victim was a one-off, a standalone novel.",
"Cooper told him all the sales reps and bookstores loved Vail and wanted more.",
"Jacobson said he would have to think about it and figure out a way of keeping Vail, and himself, fresh from book to book.",
"About a week later, he figured out how to make that happen and the Karen Vail series was born.",
"In retrospect, Jacobson credited Cooper in the acknowledgments to No Way Out (Vail #5), stating that without Cooper's urging, the adventures he has had so much fun writing might never have occurred.",
"Being new to writing a series, Jacobson consulted with both Michael Connelly and Lee Child for advice on what to do and what to avoid.",
"He received completely opposing answers: Connelly suggested he write the best book he can at the time, put everything in it, and worry about the next book later.",
"Child, on the other hand, advocated doling out the information one book at a time, spreading out the revelations a little at a time, with each novel.",
"Jacobson realized that the reason for the difference in their perspectives was the nature of their characters: Harry Bosch is a grounded, career law enforcement officer who follows rules, while Jack Reacher is a drifter who has no rules to follow.",
"Based on this Jacobson felt that Connelly's style fit more with what Jacobson intended for Vail as a series character.",
"Jacobson felt the bottom line is that he doesn’t want the reader to put the book down, where they lose interest and close the book forever.",
"There has to be something that drives the story forward, whether that be intrigue, suspense, mystery, and/or the characters themselves.",
"Good pacing, realistic dialogue, a vivid setting, and rich writing are all key components to a compelling read.",
"Research with law enforcement, military, others \nJacobson has stated that he prefers to learn about the way a law enforcement agency works and operates rather than fictionalizing, or just making it up.",
"As a result, he has worked hands-on with the people who actually do the work he is writing about.",
"That means going on ride-alongs with cops, spending time at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, shooting pistols and MP-5 submachine guns in the FBI Academy's indoor range, shadowing the SWAT team at their San Diego training facility, touring the DEA's drug laboratory and field offices, learning from members of the US Marshals’ fugitive squad, and federal agencies’ headquarters, working with chief inspectors at London's Scotland Yard and spending time at one of their “Met” police stations in a seedy part of town.",
"He has also worked closely with various branches of the military, from US Marine Corp captains, US Navy commanders, USAF lieutenant colonels, US Army lieutenant generals, and members of the special operations forces.",
"He has taken military training courses in close quarters combat and weapons training at Craft International, where he worked with snipers, British special forces marksmen, protective detail members, retired military personnel, and active duty sheriffs deputies.",
"Personal Safety eBook \nJacobson and retired FBI profiler Mark Safarik co-authored a book on personal safety entitled, “Staying Safe: from serial killers to identity thieves, a primer to keep you out of criminals’ crosshairs.” The book came about because of an interview Jacobson and Safarik did for The 7th Victim.",
"They were discussing what steps a woman could take to prevent herself from falling victim to the tactics the killer uses in the opening scene.",
"Afterwards, they realized it was important information that everyone should have.",
"They set out to write an article but found they had too much information and ultimately wrote a book.",
"It is updated periodically and given away for free on Jacobson's website as an incentive for readers to sign up for his author newsletter.",
"Author cameo \nIn Spectrum (Karen Vail #6), waiter Al at the Woodro Deli was a tongue-in-cheek cameo for insiders.",
"Jacobson worked at Woodro in 1982 as a busboy; the Spectrum scene was set in 1978.)",
"Hollywood, Film options, TV series efforts \nSeveral of Jacobson's novels have been optioned for film and/or television.",
"One project made it to preproduction (The 7th Victim, Vail #1) when the plug was pulled.",
"It was to be the seventh of twelve bestselling novels adapted to two-hour TV movies as part of TNT's Mystery Movie Night.",
"Works by authors including Scott Turow, Sandra Brown, Lisa Gardner, Richard North Patterson, April Smith, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, and Alan Jacobson were to be produced.",
"The first six aired to poor ratings and as a result the final six were canceled when the sponsors pulled their remaining $24 million budget.",
"It was not until a year later, when Jacobson was talking with Scott Turow, did Jacobson discover what had sunk the project.",
"Ironically, the National Basketball Association (NBA) strike severely impacted TNT's overall ratings.",
"Jacobson's debut novel, False Accusations, was adapted into a TV movie in 2004 in the Czech Republic.",
"Iconic screenwriter Jirí Hubac penned the screenplay based on Alan Jacobson's bestselling novel.",
"The movie was directed by Zdenek Zelenka.",
"It aired multiple times and was renewed for another set of airings in 2012.",
"Short stories \nTwo of Jacobson's short stories have been published.",
"The first, Fatal Twist, features FBI profiler Karen Vail and was published by the Strand magazine in 2012.",
"The second, Double Take, features two characters from the Karen Vail series, Carmine Russo and Ben Dyer from Spectrum.",
"Russo and Dyer were created for the short story, and were later integrated into Spectrum for the novel.",
"Double Take what originally bundled with Hard Target (OPSIG #2) as a value-added bonus for the ebook release.",
"It was subsequently sold separately.",
"Bibliography\n\nStand Alone Novels/Short Stories\n\nOPSIG Team Black Series\n\nFBI profiler Karen Vail series\n\nEssays\n\nReferences\n\nAmerican mystery writers\nLiving people\nQueens College, City University of New York alumni\nYear of birth missing (living people)"
] | [
"Alan Jacobson is an American author.",
"His works include the FBI profiler Karen Vail series, as well as stand alone books and short stories.",
"His film reviews, photographs, short stories, and nonfiction articles have appeared in a number of publications.",
"The same town featured in his novel, Spectrum, was where Jacobson grew up.",
"He was ranked ninth in his graduating class at Springfield Gardens High School, where he attended elementary school.",
"During the federal government's failed forced busing experiment in which students were bused from predominantly white neighborhoods into schools in black neighborhoods in an attempt to force integration in the community, Jacobson has spoken openly of his volatile Junior High School experiences.",
"On a daily basis, the student body was threatened.",
"It was a rude awakening when he came from an elementary school where two of his best friends were black.",
"Jacobson was able to overcome the volatile environment despite not taking the attacks personally.",
"In his freshman year of high school, he attended a group counseling session to address the racial problems that occurred at 231.",
"He told of being held hostage in the school's bookroom, as well as being beaten up, robbed, and stuck with needles in the hallways.",
"It was not right to judge an entire group of people because of the actions of a few people.",
"As a teenager and young adult, he worked part-time in his father's small business in New York City, tutoring English Second Language students at Queens College and Queensborough Community College, and busing tables and making deliveries for Woodro Deli in Cedarhurst.",
"The deli was in the novel, Spectrum.",
"He received a bachelor's degree in English from Queens College and a Doctor ofChiropractic from Palmer College ofChiropractic West.",
"He took English for two years from Louis Brill when he was a junior high school student.",
"He attributes his pursuit of an English degree to Brill.",
"No Way Out is dedicated to Brill.",
"In New York City in 2015, Jacobson and Brill got together for the first time in forty years.",
"He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College of the City University of New York.",
"There were two learning experiences, one positive and one negative.",
"Again, they involved teachers.",
"After taking two classes from Professor Richard Schotter, who was an accomplished playwright, Jacobson was able to learn the nuances and importance of writing effective dialogue, something that helped him become a novelist.",
"Writing dialogue is difficult because it takes skill to carve away the fat of real exchanges between people and still make them seem natural.",
"His Short Story Workshop professor lambasted him for a story he had written involving two young soldiers from opposing sides of a conflict who became trapped in a cave.",
"One of them had an injury.",
"Jacobson was criticized by a professor for writing about a character with an abdominal wound if he had not experienced one himself.",
"In the early stages of his writing career, he realized the professor had a point.",
"You need to know what you're talking about if you're going to write about war and abdominal wounds.",
"His path crossed that of the head of the California Department of Justice while he was writing his first novel.",
"He asked for a reference on one of his employees who was applying to be a forensic scientist.",
"The director was asked a question about the novel he was writing.",
"The director corrected him after he was referred to as a criminologist in the early draft of False Accusations.",
"He was a criminal.",
"Before the CSI TV show, no one knew what a criminalist was unless they worked in forensics.",
"When the difference was explained to him, he realized he had homework to do to avoid similar errors.",
"His approach to his fiction was influenced by that episode.",
"If an FBI agent reached for a gun, it had better be the right caliber and model because they live the reality.",
"He was a Doctor ofChiropractic.",
"He served as an expert witness in the justice system after being appointed to the position of Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California.",
"Jacobson left the medical field due to an injury.",
"He co-authored an e-book with a retired FBI agent called \"Staying Safe\", which was based on his research with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.",
"Although he loved writing, he never intended to be a professional writer.",
"After graduating from Queens College in New York with a Bachelor of Arts in English, Jacobson moved to California to get his doctor of chiropractic degree.",
"When an injury to his wrists forced him to take an administrative role, his career was cut short.",
"He scored his first book, False Accusations, five years after he sold his practice.",
"Work with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit while auditing a course on blood spatter pattern analysis at the California Department of Justice's Criminalistics Institute.",
"Safarik was about to be promoted to the behavioral analysis unit.",
"They became friends after striking up a conversation.",
"Jacobson was excited to learn as much as he could because he was fascinated by serial killers and profiling concepts.",
"After Safarik was promoted to Quantico, he invited Jacobson to visit and tour the FBI Academy and profiling unit.",
"It was the first time that Jacobson would visit the FBI Academy and the profiling unit.",
"After creating the character of Karen Vail and writing the first 75 pages of The 7th Victim, Jacobson met Mary Ellen O'Toole, who gave him an understanding of what it was like to be a female profiler in a male-dominated unit.",
"This information and experience was used to fill out Vail's background.",
"He continues to work with both of them.",
"The Spectrum is dedicated to the two inmates.",
"Professional influences include Steve Martini, David Morrell, Andy McNab, Nelson DeMille, Allan Folsom, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Dennis Lehane, and O. Henry.",
"He does not like to name specific authors as he will forget to mention them.",
"There is a story about Steve Martini.",
"He was addicted to Steve Martini novels.",
"Martini did a book signing at Barnes & Noble.",
"He asked Martini for advice on getting published.",
"Ten years later, at a writers conference in New York City, he felt a tap on his shoulder.",
"Roger Cooper was standing with Martini.",
"The two men met many years ago at a signing.",
"He asked Martini if he would read his new book.",
"Martini wrote a blurb for the book, which appeared on the jacket.",
"When he was standing at the elevators, he felt a tap on his shoulder.",
"Steve Martini was standing there with a copy of his book.",
"He asked the author to autograph it.",
"He thought he had come full circle as a writer.",
"Nelson DeMille was an early influence.",
"Karen Vail was created by Jacobson a couple of years before DeMille's character appeared in Plum Island.",
"DeMille agreed.",
"The lead character in The 7th Victim is a hell of a lady: tough, smart, funny, and very believable, and it reads like a Nelson De novel.",
"I should know.",
"In 1998, Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books imprint signed Jacobson to a six-figure deal for two thrillers, False Accusations and The Hunted.",
"Commonwealth, a small Canadian publisher, went into bankruptcy just as it was about to ship books to stores.",
"The first printing caught on and sold well, as a result of Jacobson getting them to distribute a fraction of it.",
"Jacobson had to hire a Canadian law firm because retailers couldn't order more copies.",
"The rights reverted to him after he won the case, thanks to a clause inserted by his entertainment law attorney.",
"Emily Bestler was the vice president and editor-in-chief of Pocket Books.",
"This resulted in a two-book deal that included The Hunted.",
"The serial killer chapters in The 7th Victim were written in the first person.",
"There are elements of suspense, thriller, psychological suspense, action, and mystery in his novels.",
"He tackled historical fiction in Inmate 1577, Spectrum, and Dark Side of the Moon.",
"The character of Karen Vail was conceived as a one-chapter FBI agent.",
"He couldn't stop when he started writing her.",
"He knew that she would be the first female FBI profiler in a book when he researched her for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.",
"He was influenced by the strong wills and constitutions of both his mother and wife, as well as his own New York upbringing.",
"The first seventy-five pages of The 7th Victim were written in the first person point of view.",
"His agent told him that he couldn't use the first person because his first two novels were written in the third person.",
"He was frustrated because he thought it was his best writing, so he used Find/Replace in Microsoft Word and replaced all the I's with She's.",
"He realized it was a third person with a first person feel when he read what was left.",
"The reader was able to hear what Vail was thinking as she experienced things.",
"They are things that people don't say.",
"Sometimes they are said aloud, which can cause problems with colleagues.",
"These thoughts can be very funny and sarcastic.",
"He says his discovery was accidental.",
"As the series has progressed, Vail has learned to tone down her sarcasm.",
"She has grown as a person, that her evolution from book to book is subtle.",
"She is now more likely to keep those acerbic and often very funny remarks as thoughts between herself and the reader, like an inside joke.",
"There is humor in many of Jacobson's novels.",
"He feels that humor can work in thrillers and suspense.",
"He says he doesn't force it.",
"He doesn't realize how many funny exchanges there are between characters until he reads the manuscript for the first time after finishing the first draft.",
"Characters are the most important because they keep the reader reading.",
"He calls it reader engagement.",
"Readers care about characters in a successful novel.",
"If they don't develop a connection with the characters, reading that book would become a chore rather than something they look forward to.",
"Setting is similar to characters and can help shape a story in key ways.",
"Every place the characters go in his novels is important to the story.",
"Setting can be a stressor for a character if she doesn't know the culture or geography.",
"If the story can't be taken out of the city, he has not done a good job of integrating the setting into the story.",
"Sometimes, parts of his novels are written on location in the places where his scenes are set.",
"He is inspired by the surroundings.",
"Inmate 1577 was an example of this.",
"He spent a lot of time researching the island and the penitentiary's cell house.",
"There were some scenes where his characters were interacting.",
"He found it very stimulating.",
"There are a number of international locations in Jacobson's novels.",
"The Lost Codex is set in Washington, DC, New York City, England, France, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza.",
"There are early chapters in Madrid, Spain in No Way Out.",
"Half the novel of The Dark Side of the Moon is on the Moon.",
"Louis Brill, Jacobson's English teacher, said that the settings are so well researched that you feel like you are there.",
"Brill wanted to go to the valley.",
"Dialogue is important to a compelling novel.",
"He asked Leonard how he developed his ear for dialogue.",
"He said he hears it in his head.",
"At first, Jacobson thought it was funny, but he realized it was how he does it.",
"His characters are talking to him.",
"His ear comes from concepts he learned in his playwriting workshop course at Queens College, his life experiences, contact with people all over the world and hearing their word choice.",
"James told him the same thing.",
"The dialogue of black people was written by Patterson.",
"It came from his upbringing in New York.",
"Writing dialogue looks easy, but it takes time, practice, and effort to make it look easy.",
"His first two novels ended with major twists.",
"He was supposed to become a modern-day O'Henry with trademark twists at the end.",
"Although twists are important to the genre, he did not want to limit himself by constructing a story for the main purpose of concluding with a twist.",
"He did not want that to be his sole focus, so he was happy if a story and its characters lend themselves to that turn-on-a-dime ending.",
"He does not write chapter outlines.",
"He likes to write a narrative description of what happens.",
"The outlines can run up to sixty pages.",
"As he discovers information during the research phase and as new ideas come to him while writing, this allows him the flexibility to modify the story.",
"He rewrites on the spot, but his endings never change.",
"He is known as a novelist who studies his books.",
"The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit are some of the agencies that have embedded himself with law enforcement officers.",
"He has worked with the US military, Scotland Yard, criminals, armorers, helicopter and fighter pilots, CEOs, historians, combat surgeons, astronauts, rocket scientists, and Navy Seals.",
"He said that working with the agents, detectives, and officers allows him to go behind the scenes, ask them questions, see them in their environment, and try out their equipment.",
"Hearing their stories, seeing how they approach different scenarios, sitting in their labs or tactical vehicles, observing them handling criminals and running investigations are the things he takes back with him to the keyboard when writing his novels.",
"The author never intended to write a series.",
"Writing the same character in the same setting, essentially writing the same book over and over is what he had seen colleagues do.",
"Roger Cooper asked when the next book in the Karen Vail series would be ready when he was approached by his publisher.",
"He was told that the novel was a one-off.",
"Cooper told him that he loved bookstores and wanted more.",
"He would have to think about how to keep him fresh from book to book.",
"The Karen Vail series was born after he figured out how to make that happen.",
"Without Cooper's encouragement, the adventures he has had so much fun writing might never have happened.",
"Michael Connelly and Lee Child were consulted for advice on what to do and what not to do.",
"He was asked if he should write the best book he can at the time, put everything in it, and worry about the next book later.",
"Child wanted to spread out the information one book at a time, with each novel.",
"Jack Reacher is a drifter who has no rules to follow, while Harry Bosch is a career law enforcement officer who follows the law.",
"Based on this, Jacobson thought that Connelly's style was more in line with what he intended for Vail as a series character.",
"The bottom line is that he doesn't want the reader to put the book down, where they lose interest and close the book forever.",
"Something that drives the story forward has to be intrigue, suspense, mystery, and/or the characters themselves.",
"A compelling read involves good pacing, realistic dialogue, a vivid setting, and rich writing.",
"He likes to learn about the way a law enforcement agency works and operates rather than just making it up.",
"He has worked with people who actually do the work he is writing about.",
"Going on ride-alongs with cops, spending time at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, shooting pistols and MP-5 submachine guns in the FBI Academy's indoor range, and visiting the Drug Enforcement Administration's drug laboratory and field are all part of that.",
"He has worked with various branches of the military, from US Marine Corp captains, US Navy commanders, USAF lieutenant colonels, US Army lieutenant generals, and members of the special operations forces.",
"He has taken military training courses in close quarters combat and weapons training at Craft International, where he worked with retired military personnel and active duty sheriffs.",
"A book on personal safety was co-authored by a retired FBI profiler and a man who was a serial killer.",
"They were talking about how a woman could prevent herself from falling victim to the killer's tactics in the opening scene.",
"It was important information that everyone should have.",
"They set out to write an article but ended up writing a book because they had too much information.",
"As an incentive for readers to sign up for his author newsletter, it is periodically updated and given away for free.",
"The waiter at the Woodro Deli was a tongue-in-cheek appearance by the author.",
"The Spectrum scene was set in 1978, while the Woodro scene was set in 1982.",
"There are several novels optioned for film and/or television.",
"When the plug was pulled, one project made it to preproduction.",
"It was to be the seventh of twelve bestselling novels adapted to two-hour TV movies.",
"The works of authors including Scott Turow were to be produced.",
"The first six aired to poor ratings and as a result the final six were canceled when the sponsors pulled their remaining $24 million budget.",
"After talking with Scott Turow, it was not until a year later that Jacobson discovered what had sunk the project.",
"The NBA strike negatively impacted the ratings.",
"False Accusations was adapted into a movie in the Czech Republic in 2004.",
"The screenplay was written by Jir Hubac.",
"Zdenek Zelenka directed the movie.",
"It was renewed for another set of airings in 2012 after airing multiple times.",
"There are two short stories that have been published.",
"Karen Vail, an FBI profiler, is featured in the first Fatal Twist.",
"There are two characters from the Karen Vail series in Double Take.",
"The short story was the basis for the novel.",
"The value-added bonus for the ebook release was originally bundled with Hard Target.",
"It was sold separately.",
"Black Series FBI profiler Karen Vail series Essays References American mystery writers Living people Queens College, City University of New York alumni Year of birth missing"
] | <mask> is an American author of mystery, suspense, thriller and action novels. Among his works are the FBI profiler Karen Vail series and the OPSIG Team Black series, as well as stand alone books and short stories. His film reviews, photographs, short stories, and nonfiction articles have appeared in Variety, The Strand Magazine, Suspense Magazine, the New York Post, American Express travel insert, PBS, New York Gossip Girl, Sacramento Valley Chiropractic Association bulletin, and The Eighteen Eleven (Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association journal). Early life
<mask> grew up in the Queens, New York neighborhood of Rosedale (the same town featured in his novel, Spectrum). He attended elementary school at PS 138, then Junior High School 231, and Springfield Gardens High School, where he was ranked ninth in his graduating class. Jacobson has spoken openly of his volatile Junior High School experiences during the federal government's failed forced busing experiment in which students were bused from predominantly white neighborhoods into schools in black neighborhoods, and vice versa, in an attempt to force integration in the community. The student body was threatened on a daily basis.Coming from his elementary school, where two of his best friends were black, it was a rude awakening to the realities of ethnic tension that existed in Rosedale, Laurelton, Jamaica, and Springfield Gardens. Despite this, Jacobson chose not to take the attacks personally, and was able to overcome the volatile environment. He recalls attending a group counseling session in his freshman year of high school to address the racial problems that occurred at 231. When it was his turn to speak, he told of being threatened, beaten up, robbed, stuck with needles in the hallways, and held hostage in the school basement's bookroom. But he felt it was done by specific individuals and it was not fair to judge an entire group of people because of the actions of some. Jacobson held a number of jobs as a teenager and young adult, including working part-time in his father's small business in New York City, tutoring English Second Language students at Queens College and Queensborough Community College, and busing tables and making deliveries for Woodro Deli in Cedarhurst, New York; the latter was to make enough money for his move to California in 1982 to attend chiropractic school. (The deli also appeared in Jacobson's novel, Spectrum.)<mask> earned a bachelor's degree in English from Queens College (1982) and a Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic West (1985). Early influences and career
During his junior high school years, Jacobson took English from teacher Louis Brill for two years. Jacobson attributes his love for English, and ultimately his pursuit of an English degree, to Brill. No Way Out, the fifth novel in the Karen Vail series, is dedicated to Brill. <mask> and Brill reunited for the first time in nearly forty years at Thrillerfest in New York City in 2015. Jacobson obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Queens College of the City University of New York. There were two transformative learning experiences, one positive and one negative.Again, they involved teachers. On the positive side, Jacobson took two classes from Professor Richard Schotter, himself an accomplished playwright, where Jacobson learned the nuances and importance of writing effective dialogue, something that proved invaluable years later as a novelist. Jacobson has said that writing dialogue is deceivingly difficult because it takes skill to carve away the fat of real exchanges between people and yet make them seem perfectly natural. On the negative side, his Short Story Workshop professor lambasted Jacobson for a story he had written involving two young soldiers from opposing sides of a conflict who became trapped in a cave. One of them had suffered an abdominal injury. The professor criticized Jacobson for writing about a character with an abdominal wound if he had not experienced one himself and thus did not know how painful they were. Twenty years later, in the early stages of his writing career, Jacobson realized the professor had a point.If you were going to write about something like war and abdominal wounds, you needed to know what you were talking about. While writing his first published novel, False Accusations, his path crossed that of the head of the California Department of Justice. During a phone call with Jacobson, he requested a reference on one of Jacobson's employees who was applying to be a forensic scientist. Jacobson then asked the director a question about a novel he was writing (False Accusations) involving the character of Ryan Chandler. <mask>'s early draft of False Accusations referred to Chandler as a criminologist, but the director corrected him. Chandler was a criminalist. Many years before the CSI TV show, no one knew what a criminalist was unless you worked in forensics.But once the difference was explained to him, Jacobson realized he had homework to do to avoid making similar errors. That episode influenced his approach to his fiction. If an FBI agent reached for a Glock, it had better be the right caliber and model because Jacobson does have law enforcement officers who read his novels and they live the reality. He began his career as a Doctor of Chiropractic. He was then appointed to the position of Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California, and served as an expert witness within the justice system. Due to an injury Jacobson was forced to leave the medical field. <mask> is known for his depth of research with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), especially in his work with retired FBI agent Mark Safarik, with whom he co-authored an e-book titled "Staying Safe."Post-graduate work
Although he loved writing, he never intended to do it professionally. After getting his Bachelor of Arts in English from Queens College in New York, <mask> moved to California to get his doctor of chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic-West in California. He practiced for nearly nine years but his career was cut short when an injury to his wrists forced him to take an administrative role. He ultimately sold his practice and returned to writing, scoring his first bestseller, False Accusations, five years later. Work with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit
While auditing a course on blood spatter pattern analysis at the California Department of Justice's Criminalistics Institute, <mask> met FBI special agent Mark Safarik. Safarik was awaiting a promotion to the behavioral analysis unit at the time. <mask> and Safarik struck up a conversation and became friends.Safarik was himself fascinated by serial killers and profiling concepts and Jacobson was excited to learn as much as he could. In the subsequent months, after Safarik was promoted to Quantico, he invited Jacobson out to visit and tour the FBI Academy and profiling unit. It was the first of many visits Jacobson would make to the FBI Academy and profiling unit spanning over a decade. Shortly after creating the character of Karen Vail and writing the first 75 pages of The 7th Victim, Jacobson met Safarik‘s partner, Supervisory Special Agent Mary Ellen O’Toole, who gave him an understanding of what it was like being a female profiler in a male-dominated unit. Jacobson used this information and experience to fill out Vail's background and tenacity. He continues to work with both Safarik and O’Toole for his Karen Vail series. Spectrum is dedicated to O’Toole and Inmate 1577 to Safarik.Professional influences
Jacobson has mentioned authors Steve Martini, David Morrell, Andy McNab, Nelson DeMille, Allan Folsom, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Dennis Lehane, and O. Henry as influences. He has stated that he doesn’t like to name specific authors as he will forget to mention some. <mask>'s relates a story regarding Steve Martini. While an aspiring writer, Jacobson was addicted to Steve Martini novels. When Martini did a book signing at Barnes & Noble, Jacobson attended. While Martini was signing the hardcover to him, Jacobson asked him for advice on getting published. About ten years later, while at the ThrillerFest writers conference in New York City, Jacobson felt a tap on his shoulder.He turned to see his publisher, Roger Cooper of Vanguard Press, standing with Martini. Cooper introduced the two men and Jacobson mentioned that they had met many years earlier at a signing. Weeks later, he asked if Martini would read his new manuscript, Crush. Martini loved the book and wrote a testimonial blurb for it, which appeared on the Crush hardcover jacket. The following year at ThrillerFest, <mask> was standing at the elevators when he again felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to see Steve Martini standing there with a copy of Crush. He asked Jacobson to autograph it for him.He felt like he had come full circle as a writer. Nelson DeMille was also an early influence. Even though <mask> had created Karen Vail a couple of years before DeMille's John Corey character debuted in Plum Island, Vail was very similar in demeanor to Corey. DeMille agreed. Of Vail's first novel, The 7th Victim (2008), DeMille wrote, “<mask> is a hell of a writer, and his lead character, Karen Vail, is a hell of a lady: tough, smart, funny, and very believable…This reads like a Nelson DeMille book. And I should know”. First publishing contract
In 1998, Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books imprint inked Jacobson to a solid six-figure deal for two thrillers, False Accusations and The Hunted.The former was originally published by a small Canadian publisher, Commonwealth, that went into bankruptcy just as it was preparing to ship books to stores. <mask> was able to get them to distribute a fraction of the first printing and it caught on and sold well. But retailers were unable to order additional copies and Jacobson had to sue Commonwealth by hiring a Canadian law firm. He ultimately won the case and the rights reverted to him, thanks to a clause inserted by his entertainment law attorney, Robert Youdelman, Esq. His agent then sold the rights to Emily Bestler, then vice president and editor-in-chief of Pocket Books. This resulted in the two-book deal that included The Hunted (later rebranded as book one of the OPSIG Team Black series). Writing style and philosophy
Jacobson writes primarily in the third person, although the serial killer chapters in The 7th Victim were written in the first person.His novels have elements of suspense, thriller, psychological suspense, action, and mystery. He has tackled historical fiction as well, in Inmate 1577 (Karen Vail #4), Spectrum (Karen Vail #6) and briefly in Dark Side of the Moon (OPSIG Team Black #4). The character of Karen Vail was originally conceived in the mid-1990s as a one-chapter FBI agent. But once Jacobson started writing her, he could not stop. He realized he had to find a vehicle for her, and during his research work with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, he knew the perfect place for her would be as the first female FBI profiler, in a book featuring her. He was influenced by the strong wills and constitutions of both his mother and his wife, as well as Jacobson's own New York upbringing. Jacobson wrote the first seventy-five pages of The 7th Victim in the first person point of view.However, his agent told him he could not use the first person because his first two novels (False Accusations and The Hunted) were written in the third person. He was frustrated because he thought it was some of his best writing, so he used Find/Replace in Microsoft Word and replaced all the I's with She's and so on. When he read what was left, he realized it was third person with a first person feel, very close to the reader. The reader was privy to Vail's internal thoughts, experiencing things as Vail experienced them, hearing what she was thinking. They are things that people think but never say aloud. Sometimes Vail does say them aloud, which can create problems with colleagues. These thoughts can be sarcastic or dry humor, and they can be very funny.Jacobson characterizes his discovery as being accidental. Jacobson said that as the series has progressed, Vail has learned to tone it down her dry, New York sarcasm. She has grown as a person, that her evolution from book to book is tangible but subtle. Rather than verbalizing those acerbic and often very funny remarks as retorts, she is now more likely to keep them as thoughts between herself and the reader, like an inside joke. Humor
Humor finds its way into many of <mask>'s novels. He feels that even in thriller and suspense writing, humor can be magical amid the tension. He says he never forces it, that it occurs organically.It is not until he reads the manuscript for the first time after finishing the first draft that he realizes how many funny exchanges there are between characters. Characters
Jacobson believes that characters are of highest priority because that is what often keeps the reader reading. He calls this reader engagement. A successful novel must have characters that readers care about. If they don’t develop a connection with the characters, reading that book would become a chore rather than something they look forward to doing. Setting
Jacobson has said that settings are like characters and can help shape a story in key ways. Every place the characters go in his novels is vital to that particular story.Setting can serve as a stressor to that character if she's unfamiliar with that culture, if she does not know the geography, and so on. A test he uses is that if the story can be taken out of the city it is set in and placed in another city, he has not done a good job of integrating the setting into the story. When possible, Jacobson writes parts of his novels on location in the places where his scenes are set. He feels inspired by the surroundings. One example of this was Inmate 1577 (Vail #4). Jacobson spent a lot of time researching Alcatraz, on the island and inside the penitentiary's cell house. Jacobson wrote some of the scenes right there, where his characters were interacting.He found it very stimulating. A number of <mask>'s novels have international locations. The Lost Codex (OPSIG Team Black #3) is set in Washington, DC, New York City, England, France, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. No Way Out (Vail #5) is set entirely in England, with early chapters in Madrid, Spain. The Dark Side of the Moon is set in Washington, New York City, and Southern California, but half the novel occurs on the Moon. <mask>'s former English teacher, Louis Brill, commented that Jacobson's settings are so well researched you feel as though you are there. His description of Napa Valley made Brill want to go there.Dialogue
Jacobson feels that dialogue is vital to a compelling novel. He once asked literary legend Elmore Leonard about how Leonard developed his ear for dialogue. He said he just hears it in his head. At first Jacobson laughed, but then realized that that's how he does it. His characters speak to him. His ear comes from concepts he learned in his playwriting workshop course at Queens College, his life experiences, contact with people all over the world and hearing their word choice, cadence, sentence length, etc. James Patterson told Jacobson the same thing.Jacobson asked how Patterson was able to write the dialogue of black people so well. It came from Patterson's Newburgh, New York upbringing. Jacobson said that writing dialogue looks easy, but like any art, it takes time, practice, and effort to make it look effortless. Craft
Early in Jacobson's writing career, his first two novels ended with major twists. His agent wanted him to become a modern-day O’Henry with trademark twists at the end. Jacobson felt that although twists are important to the genre, he did not want to limit himself by constructing a story for the main purpose of concluding with a twist. He is happy if a story and its characters lend themselves to that turn-on-a-dime ending, but he did not want that to be his sole focus.<mask> is an outliner, though he does not write chapter outlines. He prefers instead to write a narrative description of what happens, and when. These outlines can run up to sixty pages. This allows him the flexibility to modify the story as he discovers information during the research phase and as new ideas come to him while writing. While this happens often and he rewrites on the spot, his endings never change. Jacobson has become known as a novelist who heavily researches his books. During his twenty-five year career, Jacobson has embedded himself with law enforcement officers across a range of agencies, including several years with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico; the DEA, US Marshals Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the NYPD, SWAT, and local bomb squads.He has also worked extensively with the US military, Scotland Yard, criminals, armorers, helicopter and fighter pilots, CEOs, historians, combat surgeons, astronauts, rocket scientists, and Navy SEALs. He said that working with the agents, detectives, and officers allows him to go behind the scenes, ask them questions, see them in their environment, and try out their equipment. Hearing their stories, seeing how they approach different scenarios, sitting in their labs or tactical vehicles, observing them handling criminals and running investigations are the things he takes back with him to the keyboard when writing his novels. Jacobson never intended to write a series. He had seen colleagues become stale writing the same character in the same setting, essentially writing the same book over and over. When approached by his publisher, Roger Cooper, who was prepping The 7th Victim for production, Cooper asked when the next book in the Karen Vail series would be ready. Jacobson told him that The 7th Victim was a one-off, a standalone novel.Cooper told him all the sales reps and bookstores loved Vail and wanted more. Jacobson said he would have to think about it and figure out a way of keeping Vail, and himself, fresh from book to book. About a week later, he figured out how to make that happen and the Karen Vail series was born. In retrospect, <mask> credited Cooper in the acknowledgments to No Way Out (Vail #5), stating that without Cooper's urging, the adventures he has had so much fun writing might never have occurred. Being new to writing a series, Jacobson consulted with both Michael Connelly and Lee Child for advice on what to do and what to avoid. He received completely opposing answers: Connelly suggested he write the best book he can at the time, put everything in it, and worry about the next book later. Child, on the other hand, advocated doling out the information one book at a time, spreading out the revelations a little at a time, with each novel.Jacobson realized that the reason for the difference in their perspectives was the nature of their characters: Harry Bosch is a grounded, career law enforcement officer who follows rules, while Jack Reacher is a drifter who has no rules to follow. Based on this Jacobson felt that Connelly's style fit more with what Jacobson intended for Vail as a series character. Jacobson felt the bottom line is that he doesn’t want the reader to put the book down, where they lose interest and close the book forever. There has to be something that drives the story forward, whether that be intrigue, suspense, mystery, and/or the characters themselves. Good pacing, realistic dialogue, a vivid setting, and rich writing are all key components to a compelling read. Research with law enforcement, military, others
Jacobson has stated that he prefers to learn about the way a law enforcement agency works and operates rather than fictionalizing, or just making it up. As a result, he has worked hands-on with the people who actually do the work he is writing about.That means going on ride-alongs with cops, spending time at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, shooting pistols and MP-5 submachine guns in the FBI Academy's indoor range, shadowing the SWAT team at their San Diego training facility, touring the DEA's drug laboratory and field offices, learning from members of the US Marshals’ fugitive squad, and federal agencies’ headquarters, working with chief inspectors at London's Scotland Yard and spending time at one of their “Met” police stations in a seedy part of town. He has also worked closely with various branches of the military, from US Marine Corp captains, US Navy commanders, USAF lieutenant colonels, US Army lieutenant generals, and members of the special operations forces. He has taken military training courses in close quarters combat and weapons training at Craft International, where he worked with snipers, British special forces marksmen, protective detail members, retired military personnel, and active duty sheriffs deputies. Personal Safety eBook
Jacobson and retired FBI profiler Mark Safarik co-authored a book on personal safety entitled, “Staying Safe: from serial killers to identity thieves, a primer to keep you out of criminals’ crosshairs.” The book came about because of an interview <mask> and Safarik did for The 7th Victim. They were discussing what steps a woman could take to prevent herself from falling victim to the tactics the killer uses in the opening scene. Afterwards, they realized it was important information that everyone should have. They set out to write an article but found they had too much information and ultimately wrote a book.It is updated periodically and given away for free on <mask>'s website as an incentive for readers to sign up for his author newsletter. Author cameo
In Spectrum (Karen Vail #6), waiter Al at the Woodro Deli was a tongue-in-cheek cameo for insiders. Jacobson worked at Woodro in 1982 as a busboy; the Spectrum scene was set in 1978.) Hollywood, Film options, TV series efforts
Several of <mask>'s novels have been optioned for film and/or television. One project made it to preproduction (The 7th Victim, Vail #1) when the plug was pulled. It was to be the seventh of twelve bestselling novels adapted to two-hour TV movies as part of TNT's Mystery Movie Night. Works by authors including Scott Turow, Sandra Brown, Lisa Gardner, Richard North Patterson, April Smith, Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, and <mask>on were to be produced.The first six aired to poor ratings and as a result the final six were canceled when the sponsors pulled their remaining $24 million budget. It was not until a year later, when Jacobson was talking with Scott Turow, did Jacobson discover what had sunk the project. Ironically, the National Basketball Association (NBA) strike severely impacted TNT's overall ratings. <mask>'s debut novel, False Accusations, was adapted into a TV movie in 2004 in the Czech Republic. Iconic screenwriter Jirí Hubac penned the screenplay based on <mask>'s bestselling novel. The movie was directed by Zdenek Zelenka. It aired multiple times and was renewed for another set of airings in 2012.Short stories
Two of <mask>'s short stories have been published. The first, Fatal Twist, features FBI profiler Karen Vail and was published by the Strand magazine in 2012. The second, Double Take, features two characters from the Karen Vail series, Carmine Russo and Ben Dyer from Spectrum. Russo and Dyer were created for the short story, and were later integrated into Spectrum for the novel. Double Take what originally bundled with Hard Target (OPSIG #2) as a value-added bonus for the ebook release. It was subsequently sold separately. Bibliography
Stand Alone Novels/Short Stories
OPSIG Team Black Series
FBI profiler Karen Vail series
Essays
References
American mystery writers
Living people
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
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In his freshman year of high school, he attended a group counseling session to address the racial problems that occurred at 231. He told of being held hostage in the school's bookroom, as well as being beaten up, robbed, and stuck with needles in the hallways. It was not right to judge an entire group of people because of the actions of a few people. As a teenager and young adult, he worked part-time in his father's small business in New York City, tutoring English Second Language students at Queens College and Queensborough Community College, and busing tables and making deliveries for Woodro Deli in Cedarhurst. The deli was in the novel, Spectrum.He received a bachelor's degree in English from Queens College and a Doctor ofChiropractic from Palmer College ofChiropractic West. He took English for two years from Louis Brill when he was a junior high school student. He attributes his pursuit of an English degree to Brill. No Way Out is dedicated to Brill. In New York City in 2015, <mask> and Brill got together for the first time in forty years. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College of the City University of New York. There were two learning experiences, one positive and one negative.Again, they involved teachers. After taking two classes from Professor Richard Schotter, who was an accomplished playwright, Jacobson was able to learn the nuances and importance of writing effective dialogue, something that helped him become a novelist. Writing dialogue is difficult because it takes skill to carve away the fat of real exchanges between people and still make them seem natural. His Short Story Workshop professor lambasted him for a story he had written involving two young soldiers from opposing sides of a conflict who became trapped in a cave. One of them had an injury. Jacobson was criticized by a professor for writing about a character with an abdominal wound if he had not experienced one himself. In the early stages of his writing career, he realized the professor had a point.You need to know what you're talking about if you're going to write about war and abdominal wounds. His path crossed that of the head of the California Department of Justice while he was writing his first novel. He asked for a reference on one of his employees who was applying to be a forensic scientist. The director was asked a question about the novel he was writing. The director corrected him after he was referred to as a criminologist in the early draft of False Accusations. He was a criminal. Before the CSI TV show, no one knew what a criminalist was unless they worked in forensics.When the difference was explained to him, he realized he had homework to do to avoid similar errors. His approach to his fiction was influenced by that episode. If an FBI agent reached for a gun, it had better be the right caliber and model because they live the reality. He was a Doctor ofChiropractic. He served as an expert witness in the justice system after being appointed to the position of Qualified Medical Evaluator by the State of California. Jacobson left the medical field due to an injury. He co-authored an e-book with a retired FBI agent called "Staying Safe", which was based on his research with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit.Although he loved writing, he never intended to be a professional writer. After graduating from Queens College in New York with a Bachelor of Arts in English, Jacobson moved to California to get his doctor of chiropractic degree. When an injury to his wrists forced him to take an administrative role, his career was cut short. He scored his first book, False Accusations, five years after he sold his practice. Work with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit while auditing a course on blood spatter pattern analysis at the California Department of Justice's Criminalistics Institute. Safarik was about to be promoted to the behavioral analysis unit. They became friends after striking up a conversation.Jacobson was excited to learn as much as he could because he was fascinated by serial killers and profiling concepts. After Safarik was promoted to Quantico, he invited Jacobson to visit and tour the FBI Academy and profiling unit. It was the first time that Jacobson would visit the FBI Academy and the profiling unit. After creating the character of Karen Vail and writing the first 75 pages of The 7th Victim, Jacobson met Mary Ellen O'Toole, who gave him an understanding of what it was like to be a female profiler in a male-dominated unit. This information and experience was used to fill out Vail's background. He continues to work with both of them. The Spectrum is dedicated to the two inmates.Professional influences include Steve Martini, David Morrell, Andy McNab, Nelson DeMille, Allan Folsom, Michael Connelly, Michael Crichton, Robert Ludlum, Dennis Lehane, and O. Henry. He does not like to name specific authors as he will forget to mention them. There is a story about Steve Martini. He was addicted to Steve Martini novels. Martini did a book signing at Barnes & Noble. He asked Martini for advice on getting published. Ten years later, at a writers conference in New York City, he felt a tap on his shoulder.Roger Cooper was standing with Martini. The two men met many years ago at a signing. He asked Martini if he would read his new book. Martini wrote a blurb for the book, which appeared on the jacket. When he was standing at the elevators, he felt a tap on his shoulder. Steve Martini was standing there with a copy of his book. He asked the author to autograph it.He thought he had come full circle as a writer. Nelson DeMille was an early influence. Karen Vail was created by <mask> a couple of years before DeMille's character appeared in Plum Island. DeMille agreed. The lead character in The 7th Victim is a hell of a lady: tough, smart, funny, and very believable, and it reads like a Nelson De novel. I should know. In 1998, Simon & Schuster's Pocket Books imprint signed <mask> to a six-figure deal for two thrillers, False Accusations and The Hunted.Commonwealth, a small Canadian publisher, went into bankruptcy just as it was about to ship books to stores. The first printing caught on and sold well, as a result of Jacobson getting them to distribute a fraction of it. Jacobson had to hire a Canadian law firm because retailers couldn't order more copies. The rights reverted to him after he won the case, thanks to a clause inserted by his entertainment law attorney. Emily Bestler was the vice president and editor-in-chief of Pocket Books. This resulted in a two-book deal that included The Hunted. The serial killer chapters in The 7th Victim were written in the first person.There are elements of suspense, thriller, psychological suspense, action, and mystery in his novels. He tackled historical fiction in Inmate 1577, Spectrum, and Dark Side of the Moon. The character of Karen Vail was conceived as a one-chapter FBI agent. He couldn't stop when he started writing her. He knew that she would be the first female FBI profiler in a book when he researched her for the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. He was influenced by the strong wills and constitutions of both his mother and wife, as well as his own New York upbringing. The first seventy-five pages of The 7th Victim were written in the first person point of view.His agent told him that he couldn't use the first person because his first two novels were written in the third person. He was frustrated because he thought it was his best writing, so he used Find/Replace in Microsoft Word and replaced all the I's with She's. He realized it was a third person with a first person feel when he read what was left. The reader was able to hear what Vail was thinking as she experienced things. They are things that people don't say. Sometimes they are said aloud, which can cause problems with colleagues. These thoughts can be very funny and sarcastic.He says his discovery was accidental. As the series has progressed, Vail has learned to tone down her sarcasm. She has grown as a person, that her evolution from book to book is subtle. She is now more likely to keep those acerbic and often very funny remarks as thoughts between herself and the reader, like an inside joke. There is humor in many of <mask>'s novels. He feels that humor can work in thrillers and suspense. He says he doesn't force it.He doesn't realize how many funny exchanges there are between characters until he reads the manuscript for the first time after finishing the first draft. Characters are the most important because they keep the reader reading. He calls it reader engagement. Readers care about characters in a successful novel. If they don't develop a connection with the characters, reading that book would become a chore rather than something they look forward to. Setting is similar to characters and can help shape a story in key ways. Every place the characters go in his novels is important to the story.Setting can be a stressor for a character if she doesn't know the culture or geography. If the story can't be taken out of the city, he has not done a good job of integrating the setting into the story. Sometimes, parts of his novels are written on location in the places where his scenes are set. He is inspired by the surroundings. Inmate 1577 was an example of this. He spent a lot of time researching the island and the penitentiary's cell house. There were some scenes where his characters were interacting.He found it very stimulating. There are a number of international locations in <mask>'s novels. The Lost Codex is set in Washington, DC, New York City, England, France, Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. There are early chapters in Madrid, Spain in No Way Out. Half the novel of The Dark Side of the Moon is on the Moon. Louis Brill, <mask>'s English teacher, said that the settings are so well researched that you feel like you are there. Brill wanted to go to the valley.Dialogue is important to a compelling novel. He asked Leonard how he developed his ear for dialogue. He said he hears it in his head. At first, Jacobson thought it was funny, but he realized it was how he does it. His characters are talking to him. His ear comes from concepts he learned in his playwriting workshop course at Queens College, his life experiences, contact with people all over the world and hearing their word choice. James told him the same thing.The dialogue of black people was written by Patterson. It came from his upbringing in New York. Writing dialogue looks easy, but it takes time, practice, and effort to make it look easy. His first two novels ended with major twists. He was supposed to become a modern-day O'Henry with trademark twists at the end. Although twists are important to the genre, he did not want to limit himself by constructing a story for the main purpose of concluding with a twist. He did not want that to be his sole focus, so he was happy if a story and its characters lend themselves to that turn-on-a-dime ending.He does not write chapter outlines. He likes to write a narrative description of what happens. The outlines can run up to sixty pages. As he discovers information during the research phase and as new ideas come to him while writing, this allows him the flexibility to modify the story. He rewrites on the spot, but his endings never change. He is known as a novelist who studies his books. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit are some of the agencies that have embedded himself with law enforcement officers.He has worked with the US military, Scotland Yard, criminals, armorers, helicopter and fighter pilots, CEOs, historians, combat surgeons, astronauts, rocket scientists, and Navy Seals. He said that working with the agents, detectives, and officers allows him to go behind the scenes, ask them questions, see them in their environment, and try out their equipment. Hearing their stories, seeing how they approach different scenarios, sitting in their labs or tactical vehicles, observing them handling criminals and running investigations are the things he takes back with him to the keyboard when writing his novels. The author never intended to write a series. Writing the same character in the same setting, essentially writing the same book over and over is what he had seen colleagues do. Roger Cooper asked when the next book in the Karen Vail series would be ready when he was approached by his publisher. He was told that the novel was a one-off.Cooper told him that he loved bookstores and wanted more. He would have to think about how to keep him fresh from book to book. The Karen Vail series was born after he figured out how to make that happen. Without Cooper's encouragement, the adventures he has had so much fun writing might never have happened. Michael Connelly and Lee Child were consulted for advice on what to do and what not to do. He was asked if he should write the best book he can at the time, put everything in it, and worry about the next book later. Child wanted to spread out the information one book at a time, with each novel.Jack Reacher is a drifter who has no rules to follow, while Harry Bosch is a career law enforcement officer who follows the law. Based on this, Jacobson thought that Connelly's style was more in line with what he intended for Vail as a series character. The bottom line is that he doesn't want the reader to put the book down, where they lose interest and close the book forever. Something that drives the story forward has to be intrigue, suspense, mystery, and/or the characters themselves. A compelling read involves good pacing, realistic dialogue, a vivid setting, and rich writing. He likes to learn about the way a law enforcement agency works and operates rather than just making it up. He has worked with people who actually do the work he is writing about.Going on ride-alongs with cops, spending time at the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, shooting pistols and MP-5 submachine guns in the FBI Academy's indoor range, and visiting the Drug Enforcement Administration's drug laboratory and field are all part of that. He has worked with various branches of the military, from US Marine Corp captains, US Navy commanders, USAF lieutenant colonels, US Army lieutenant generals, and members of the special operations forces. He has taken military training courses in close quarters combat and weapons training at Craft International, where he worked with retired military personnel and active duty sheriffs. A book on personal safety was co-authored by a retired FBI profiler and a man who was a serial killer. They were talking about how a woman could prevent herself from falling victim to the killer's tactics in the opening scene. It was important information that everyone should have. They set out to write an article but ended up writing a book because they had too much information.As an incentive for readers to sign up for his author newsletter, it is periodically updated and given away for free. The waiter at the Woodro Deli was a tongue-in-cheek appearance by the author. The Spectrum scene was set in 1978, while the Woodro scene was set in 1982. There are several novels optioned for film and/or television. When the plug was pulled, one project made it to preproduction. It was to be the seventh of twelve bestselling novels adapted to two-hour TV movies. The works of authors including Scott Turow were to be produced.The first six aired to poor ratings and as a result the final six were canceled when the sponsors pulled their remaining $24 million budget. After talking with Scott Turow, it was not until a year later that <mask> discovered what had sunk the project. The NBA strike negatively impacted the ratings. False Accusations was adapted into a movie in the Czech Republic in 2004. The screenplay was written by Jir Hubac. Zdenek Zelenka directed the movie. It was renewed for another set of airings in 2012 after airing multiple times.There are two short stories that have been published. Karen Vail, an FBI profiler, is featured in the first Fatal Twist. There are two characters from the Karen Vail series in Double Take. The short story was the basis for the novel. The value-added bonus for the ebook release was originally bundled with Hard Target. It was sold separately. Black Series FBI profiler Karen Vail series Essays References American mystery writers Living people Queens College, City University of New York alumni Year of birth missing | [
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5519373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eivind%20Aarset | Eivind Aarset | Eivind Aarset (born 23 March 1961) is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjørnstad, Andy Sheppard, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, Abraham Laboriel, Dhafer Youssef, Django Bates, and Nils Petter Molvaer. Aarset is married to Norwegian singer Anne-Marie Giørtz.
Biography
Aarset has worked with Nils Petter Molvær, Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Jan Garbarek, David Sylvian, and Marilyn Mazur.
After several albums for Jazzland, he recorded Dream Logic for ECM (2012), collaborating with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré on the production and timbral design of melodies and soundscapes. His style has been associated with nu jazz and electronic music.
At the 2013 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, he accompanied Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, and Ingar Zach, celebrating the release of Narrative from the Subtropics by Jan Bang and Places of Worship by Arve Henriksens, in addition to performing a special "Dream Logic" concert with Jan Bang, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte and Erland Dahlen.
John Kellman at All About Jazz named Eivind Aarset Dream Logic's appearance at Punktfestivalen, Kristiansand, Norway in September 2013 one of the 25 Best Live Shows of 2013.
Discography
As leader
Electronique Noire (Jazzland, 1998)
Light Extracts (Jazzland, 2001)
Connected (Jazzland, 2004)
Sonic Codex (Jazzland, 2007)
Live Extracts (Jazzland, 2010)
Dream Logic (ECM, 2012)
I.E. (Jazzland, 2015)
Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes (Jazzland, 2020)
Phantasmagoria, or A different kind of journey (Jazzland, 2021)
As sideman
With Ab und Zu
Ab und Zu (EMI, 1989)
Totally (Curling Legs, 1996)
Spark of Life (Curling Legs, 2002)
With Jan Bang
...And Poppies from Kandahar (Samadhisound, 2010)
Uncommon Deities (Samadhisound, 2012)
Narrative from the Subtropics (Jazzland, 2013)
Dark Star Safari (Arjunamusic, 2019)
With Ragnar Bjerkreim
Cultures Spans the World (MTG, 1998)
Missa Caritatis (Lynor, 1995)
Oratoriet Kong David Lynor, (Trembling, 2004)
Peace in the World (MTG, 2001)
The Drugs of the World (MTG, 1998)
The Forests of the World (MTG, 1994)
With Ketil Bjornstad
Before the Light (November Music, 2001)
Grace (EmArcy, 2001)
The Nest (EmArcy, 2003)
Seafarer's Song (EmArcy, 2004)
La Notte (ECM, 2013)
With Carola
My Show (Sonet/Universal, 2001)
Sov Pa Min Arm Sanger for Stora Och Sma (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2001)
Jul I Betlehem (Sonet, 2003)
Christmas in Bethlehem (X5 Music, 2009)
With Sigvart Dagsland
De Umulige (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1987)
Alt Eg Sag (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1990)
Bedre Enn Stillhet (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1992)
With Bjorn Eidsvag
Tatt Av Vinden (Norsk, 1990)
Alt Du Vil Ha (Norsk, 1990)
Til Alle Tider (Norsk, 1992)
Allemannsland (Norsk, 1993)
Landet Lenger Bak (Norsk, 1995)
Pa Svai (Norsk, 1997)
With Anne-Marie Giortz
Tigers of Pain (Odin, 1985)
Pa Egne Vegne (Grappa, 2009)
Capital Punishment for Cars (Grappa, 2016)
With Arve Henriksen
Cartography (ECM, 2008)
Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon, 2013)
Towards Language (Rune Grammofon, 2017)
The Height of the Reeds (Rune Grammofon, 2018)
With Bendik Hofseth
Amuse Yourself (Columbia, 1993)
Metamorphoses (Sonet/Verve 1995)
Planets, Rivers and...Ikea (Verve Forecast, 1996)
Colours (Sonet/Verve 1997)
Smilets Historie (Sonet, 1999)
Children & Cosmopolitans (JazzCode, 2015)
Atonement (C+C, 2018)
With Morten Harket
Wild Seed (Warner, Bros. 1995)
Heaven's Not for Saints Let It Go (Arista, 1996)
Letter from Egypt (Polydor/Universal, 2008)
With Marilyn Mazur
Small Labyrinths (ECM, 1997)
Jordsange & Earth Songs (Dacapo, 2000)
All the Birds Reflecting + Adventurous (Stunt, 2002)
Daylight Stories (Stunt, 2004)
With Nils Petter Molvaer
Khmer (ECM, 1997)
Ligotage (ECM/BMG 1998)
Solid Ether (ECM, 2000)
Recoloured The Remix Album (EmArcy, 2001)
NP3 (EmArcy, 2002)
Live Streamer (Sula, 2004)
Remakes Par Media Music, (Sula, 2005)
Edy Bande Originale Du Film (Wagram Music, 2005)
Er (Sula/Universal/EmArcy, 2005)
An American Compilation (Thirsty Ear, 2006)
Re-Vision (Sula/EmArcy/Universal, 2008)
Hamada (Sula/EmArcy/Universal, 2009)
With Oslo Gospel Choir
Get Together (Spark Music, 1991)
Gloria (Spark Music, 1996)
Reaching Heaven (Spark Music, 1997)
Salmeskatt (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2003)
With Anne Grete Preus
Lav Sol! Hoy Himmel (WEA, 1989)
Millimeter (WEA, 1994)
Og Hosten Kommer Tidsnok (WEA, 1991)
Om Igjen for Forste Gang (Warner, 2007)
With Kjetil Saunes
Lystyv (Norsk, 1993)
Arkana (Grappa, 1999)
Mane Blek (Grappa, 2008)
With Oystein Sevag
Link (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 1993)
Caravan (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 2005)
The Red Album (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 2010)
With Andy Sheppard
Movements in Colour (ECM, 2009)
Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015)
Romaria(ECM, 2018)
With Dhafer Youssef
Divine Shadows (Jazzland, 2006)
Birds Requiem (Okeh, 2013)
Sounds of Mirrors (Anteprima, 2018)
With others
Clay Aiken, Measure of a Man (RCA, 2003)
Arild Andersen, Arv (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1994)
Arild Andersen, Electra (ECM, 2005)
Maj Britt Andersen, Rippel Rappel (Grappa, 1994)
Elisabeth Andreassen, Bettans Jul (Polydor, 1996)
Ole Edvard Antonsen, Read My Lips (EMI, 1997)
Rebekka Bakken, Is That You? (Boutique/Universal, 2005)
Rebekka Bakken, I Keep My Cool (EmArcy/Universal, 2006)
Rim Banna, April Blossoms (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2009)
Bel Canto, Magic Box (Atlantic, 1996)
Bellefire, After the Rain (Virgin, 2001)
Michel Benita, Ethics (Zig Zag Territoires, 2010)
Michel Benita, River Silver (ECM, 2016)
Tore Brunborg, Slow Snow (ACT, 2015)
D'Sound, Doublehearted (Da Works 2003)
Lars Danielsson, European Voices (Dragon, 1995)
Lars Danielsson, Melange Bleu (ACT, 2006)
Anneli Drecker, Rocks & Straws (Rune Grammofon, 2015)
Anneli Drecker, Revelation for Personal Use (Rune Grammofon, 2017)
Jan Eggum, Underveis (Grappa, 1991)
Jan Eggum, Nesten Ikke Tilstede (Grappa, 1993)
Mats Eilertsen, Reveries and Revelations (Hubro, 2019)
Lars Frederiksen, Pleased to Meet You (Universal, 1999)
Paolo Fresu, Ethnografie/Dialoghi Da Un'isola (ISRE, 2004)
Paolo Fresu, Latitudini Omaggio Alla World Music (Casa Del Jazz, 2008)
Anja Garbarek, Velkommen Inn (RCA, 1992)
Kate Gulbrandsen, Sol Om Natten (Profil, 1991)
Tigran Hamasyan, Atmosphères (ECM, 2016)
Jon Hassell, Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street (ECM, 2009)
Jon Hassell, Listening to Pictures Pentimento Vol. One (Ndeya, 2018)
Jan Gunnar Hoff, Magma (Grappa, 2008)
Erik Honore, Heliographs (Hubro, 2014)
Erik Honore, Unrest (Hubro, 2017)
Jacek Kochan, New Expensive Head (Gowi, 2003)
Hanne Krogh, Hanne (Sonet, 1989)
Karoline Kruger, Fasetter (Noahs Ark 1988)
Nick Lachey, SoulO (Universal, 2003)
Mike Mainieri, Northern Lights (NYC, 2006)
Mental Overdrive, 083 (Smalltown Supersound, 2004)
Lillebjorn Nilsen, Sanger (Grappa, 1988)
Mari Boine, Gula Gula Hor Stammodrenes Stemme (Idut, 1989)
Eldbjorg Raknes, Reisetid (Grappa, 1997)
J. Peter Schwalm, Wagner Transformed (interGROOVE, 2013)
J. Peter Schwalm, How We Fall (RareNoise, 2018)
Sissel, Nordisk Vinternatt (Mercury/Universal, 2005)
Ivar Skippervold, Lyse Tider (Arken, 1993)
Anita Skorgan, Pa Gyllen Grunn (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2011)
Sly & Robbie, Nordub (Okeh, 2018)
Solveig Slettahjell, Poetisk Tale (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 2016)
Rachel Stevens, Funky Dory (Polydor, 2003)
Rachel Stevens, Come and Get It (Polydor, 2005)
Thomas Stronen, Food Mercurial Balm (ECM, 2012)
Amy Studt, False Smiles (Polydor, 2003)
Torbjorn Sunde, Meridians (ACT, 1998)
David Sylvian, Sleepwalkers (Samadhisound, 2010)
Arve Tellefsen, Intermezzo (Grappa, 1992)
Lynni Treekrem, Ut I Vind (Columbia, 1991)
Lynni Treekrem, Storm (Columbia, 1997)
Hans Ulrik, Slow Procession (Stunt, 2009)
Paolo Vinaccia, Dommedag Ifolge Paulus (C+C, 2017)
Bugge Wesseltoft, New Conception of Jazz (Jazzland, 1997)
Unni Wilhelmsen, Hurricane's Eye (St. Cecilia Music, 2003)
Unni Wilhelmsen, 7 Edel : Content (St. Cecilia Music, 2011)
Bertine Zetlitz, Morbid Latenight Show (Parlophone, 1998)
References
External links
Interview at La Hoja de Arena (in Spanish)
Interview about "Électronique Noire" (in Norwegian)
Biography at Jazzland Recordings
Biography at BH Hopper
Biography at a Nils Petter Molvær fansite
Discography at Discogs
Nu jazz musicians
20th-century Norwegian guitarists
21st-century Norwegian guitarists
Norwegian jazz guitarists
Norwegian jazz composers
Male jazz composers
Ableton Live users
1961 births
Living people
Musicians from Kolbotn
ECM Records artists
Jazzland Recordings (1997) artists
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
21st-century Norwegian male musicians
Ab und Zu members
EmArcy Records artists | [
"Eivind Aarset (born 23 March 1961) is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjørnstad, Andy Sheppard, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, Abraham Laboriel, Dhafer Youssef, Django Bates, and Nils Petter Molvaer.",
"Aarset is married to Norwegian singer Anne-Marie Giørtz.",
"Biography \nAarset has worked with Nils Petter Molvær, Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Jan Garbarek, David Sylvian, and Marilyn Mazur.",
"After several albums for Jazzland, he recorded Dream Logic for ECM (2012), collaborating with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré on the production and timbral design of melodies and soundscapes.",
"His style has been associated with nu jazz and electronic music.",
"At the 2013 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, he accompanied Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, and Ingar Zach, celebrating the release of Narrative from the Subtropics by Jan Bang and Places of Worship by Arve Henriksens, in addition to performing a special \"Dream Logic\" concert with Jan Bang, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte and Erland Dahlen.",
"John Kellman at All About Jazz named Eivind Aarset Dream Logic's appearance at Punktfestivalen, Kristiansand, Norway in September 2013 one of the 25 Best Live Shows of 2013.",
"Discography\n\nAs leader\n Electronique Noire (Jazzland, 1998)\n Light Extracts (Jazzland, 2001)\n Connected (Jazzland, 2004)\n Sonic Codex (Jazzland, 2007)\n Live Extracts (Jazzland, 2010)\n Dream Logic (ECM, 2012)\n I.E.",
"Hoy Himmel (WEA, 1989)\n Millimeter (WEA, 1994)\n Og Hosten Kommer Tidsnok (WEA, 1991)\n Om Igjen for Forste Gang (Warner, 2007)\n\nWith Kjetil Saunes \n Lystyv (Norsk, 1993)\n Arkana (Grappa, 1999)\n Mane Blek (Grappa, 2008)\n\nWith Oystein Sevag\n Link (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 1993)\n Caravan (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 2005)\n The Red Album (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 2010)\n\nWith Andy Sheppard\n Movements in Colour (ECM, 2009)\n Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015)\n Romaria(ECM, 2018)\n\nWith Dhafer Youssef\n Divine Shadows (Jazzland, 2006)\n Birds Requiem (Okeh, 2013)\n Sounds of Mirrors (Anteprima, 2018)\n\nWith others\n Clay Aiken, Measure of a Man (RCA, 2003)\n Arild Andersen, Arv (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1994)\n Arild Andersen, Electra (ECM, 2005)\n Maj Britt Andersen, Rippel Rappel (Grappa, 1994)\n Elisabeth Andreassen, Bettans Jul (Polydor, 1996)\n Ole Edvard Antonsen, Read My Lips (EMI, 1997)\n Rebekka Bakken, Is That You?"
] | [
"Eivind Aarset is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with many people.",
"Anne-Marie Girtz is married to Aarset.",
"Aarset has worked with many people.",
"Dream Logic was recorded by him after several albums for Jazzland.",
"His style is associated with nu jazz and electronic music.",
"Narrative from the Subtropics and Places of Worship were released at the Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway.",
"Eivind Aarset Dream Logic was named one of the 25 best live shows of the year by John Kellman at All About Jazz.",
"Discography is leader Electronique Noire (Jazzland, 1998), Light Extracts (Jazzland, 2001), Connected (Jazzland, Sonic Codex (Jazzland, 2007), Live Extracts (Jazzland, 2010).",
"Hoy Himmel (WEA, 1989) Millimeter and Om Igjen for Forste Gang."
] | <mask> (born 23 March 1961) is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjørnstad, Andy Sheppard, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, Abraham Laboriel, Dhafer Youssef, Django Bates, and Nils Petter Molvaer. <mask> is married to Norwegian singer Anne-Marie Giørtz. Biography
Aarset has worked with Nils Petter Molvær, Bill Laswell, Jon Hassell, Jan Garbarek, David Sylvian, and Marilyn Mazur. After several albums for Jazzland, he recorded Dream Logic for ECM (2012), collaborating with Jan Bang and Erik Honoré on the production and timbral design of melodies and soundscapes. His style has been associated with nu jazz and electronic music. At the 2013 Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway, he accompanied Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, and Ingar Zach, celebrating the release of Narrative from the Subtropics by Jan Bang and Places of Worship by Arve Henriksens, in addition to performing a special "Dream Logic" concert with Jan Bang, Audun Erlien, Wetle Holte and Erland Dahlen. John Kellman at All About Jazz named <mask> Noire (Jazzland, 1998)
Light Extracts (Jazzland, 2001)
Connected (Jazzland, 2004)
Sonic Codex (Jazzland, 2007)
Live Extracts (Jazzland, 2010)
Dream Logic (ECM, 2012)
I.E. Hoy Himmel (WEA, 1989)
Millimeter (WEA, 1994)
Og Hosten Kommer Tidsnok (WEA, 1991)
Om Igjen for Forste Gang (Warner, 2007)
With Kjetil Saunes
Lystyv (Norsk, 1993)
Arkana (Grappa, 1999)
Mane Blek (Grappa, 2008)
With Oystein Sevag
Link (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 1993)
Caravan (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 2005)
The Red Album (Siddhartha Spiritual Music, 2010)
With Andy Sheppard
Movements in Colour (ECM, 2009)
Surrounded by Sea (ECM, 2015)
Romaria(ECM, 2018)
With Dhafer Youssef
Divine Shadows (Jazzland, 2006)
Birds Requiem (Okeh, 2013)
Sounds of Mirrors (Anteprima, 2018)
With others
Clay Aiken, Measure of a Man (RCA, 2003)
Arild Andersen, Arv (Kirkelig Kulturverksted, 1994)
Arild Andersen, Electra (ECM, 2005)
Maj Britt Andersen, Rippel Rappel (Grappa, 1994)
Elisabeth Andreassen, Bettans Jul (Polydor, 1996)
Ole Edvard Antonsen, Read My Lips (EMI, 1997)
Rebekka Bakken, Is That You? | [
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55066540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toivo%20V%C3%A4h%C3%A4 | Toivo Vähä | Toivo Juhonpoika Vähä (, also known as Ivan Mikhailovich Petrov, Russian: Иван Михайлович Петров, 12 April 1901 – 18 June 1984) was a Finnish born Soviet colonel of the KGB. He fled to Soviet Russia after the 1918 Finnish Civil War and made a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops. Vähä was one of the few Finnish exile revolutionaries who survived the Great Purge. He is best known for his role in the 1925 capture of the British super-spy Sidney Reilly during the Operation Trust.
Early life
Toivo Vähä was born to the family of Juho Vähä, an industrial worker, and Maria Lindström. He started working at the age of 14, having several jobs in Helsinki. In 1916, Vähä moved to the industrial community of Dubrovka, near the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. At the time, Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Vähä had five brothers, who all followed him to Russia after the 1917 February revolution. Their father had emigrated to Russia few years earlier.
As the Finnish Civil War broke out in January 1918, Vähä joined the Saint Petersburg Finnish Red Guard, a paramilitary unit composed of Finnish emigrant workers in Saint Petersburg. The battalion was sent to Finland, where Vähä fought in the Battle of Kämärä, and later served as a courier in the Battle of Vilppula. As the Red front collapsed in the Northern Tavastia region, the Saint Petersburg Reds retreated to eastern Finland. After the decisive loss of the Battle of Vyborg in late April, many fled to Soviet Russia.
Like hundreds of other Finnish exile Red Guard fighters, Vähä joined the Red Army and fought with the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In the summer of 1919 Vähä served in Siberia, and was then sent back to Petrograd to join the military academy. In 1920–1923, Vähä took a three-year course at the international Petrograd Red Officer School, where he was joined by four of his brothers. During his time in the academy, Vähä took part in the arrests of the suspects of the Kuusinen Club Incident in September 1920, the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion in March 1921, and the suppression of the East Karelian uprising in the winter of 1922. After the Battle of Kimasozero in January 1922, Vähä killed three captured Finnish White Guard soldiers on the orders of his platoon leader Toivo Antikainen. Antikainen was later captured in Finland, where he received a life sentence for the murders.
After his graduation in March 1923, Vähä was recruited by the NKVD. He served as a border station commander at the Finnish border in the Karelian Isthmus. From 1924 Vähä worked for the GPU in Leningrad, until he was moved to a border station in Sestroretsk in June 1925.
Operation Trust
In 1924, the Soviet secret police Cheka recruited Vähä to Operation Trust. It was launched in 1921 to set up a fake resistance organization, to identify anti-Bolsheviks. Vähä played the role of a Soviet traitor who helped the counter-revolutionaries, Russian emigrants and western agents to sneak from Finland to the Soviet Union. He was recruited by Finnish Army Intelligence, who mistook Vähä for an ordinary Soviet border guard. In reality he was working under the command of the Polish revolutionary Stanisław Messing, the head of the Leningrad Cheka. Finnish intelligence trusted Vähä, and even recommended him to the British Secret Intelligence Service.
In September 1925 the Cheka managed to lure the British agent Sidney Reilly into crossing the border. Vähä smuggled him across the Sestra River and took Reilly to the Pargolovo railway station, where he was arrested. The Finns had successfully tested the route just a few days earlier, when Vähä escorted the courier of the White general Alexander Kutepov to the Soviet side. Reilly was taken to Moscow for interrogation and shot in November 1925. To complete the operation, the Cheka staged Vähä's death to mislead the British. He was held at the Hotel Evropeiskaya in Leningrad, and then secretly shipped to Moscow. Cheka put out a rumour that Vähä was shot as a traitor. In Moscow he was given a new identity as Ivan Petrov. In 1925–28, Vähä studied in the Border Academy, but was sent to the Far East after an old acquaintance recognized him. Vähä then served on the Chinese border in the Argun River area, and fought in the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict.
The Great Purge and the World War II
Between 1934 and 1937, Vähä served in the Black Sea and the Belorussian Border Guards. He had kept his real identity secret, but as Stalin launched the campaign against ″nationalists″, Vähä's Finnish accent attracted attention. Unfortunately he had close relations with the Army Commander Ieronim Uborevich, who was executed during the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization. Vähä was arrested in February 1938, then declared an ″enemy of the people″ and given the death penalty. For some reason, he was not executed immediately, but kept on a death row for more than a year.
In November 1939 Vähä was given a chance to join the army of the Finnish Democratic Republic, a puppet government created during the 1939–1940 Winter War. After the war, he was named as commander of the Red Army Infantry Regiment 126, which was composed of Karelians, Ingrians and Finns. Instead of Ivan Petrov, Vähä was using his real name again. As Nazi Germany launched its campaign against the Soviet Union in June 1941 he was replaced by another Finnish-born officer, Valter Valli. Vähä became the commander of Infantry Regiment 143, and shortly after of Infantry Regiment 936 of the 3rd Belorussian Front. In September 1941, Vähä was wounded near the town of Staraya Russa. After his recovery, he was sent to Ural, where he served as the head of the Zlatoust Infantry Academy until January 1946.
Last years
Vähä served his last years as a KGB colonel in Kaliningrad. After 1964 Vähä lived in Zhytomyr Oblast in Ukraine and managed various state enterprises. He retired in 1967, and moved to Petrozavodsk in the Karelian ASSR. Vähä wrote an autobiography which was released in 1970 and translated into Finnish in 1974. He also wrote three other memoirs, including one on Operation Trust, and several short stories that were published in the Finnish-language Karelian literature magazine Punalippu.
Operation Trust was brought to public attention in 1964. Newspaper stories mentioned Vähä's name, calling him a Soviet hero. Vähä's family finally learnt about his former life. When Vähä went underground in 1925, he had abandoned his wife and daughter. Vähä later married again and had another daughter, who was named Lilya, as was his first child. During his last years Vähä publicly criticised Stalinism. He also paid attention to the mistakes of the Soviet Communist Party, which he had joined in 1920.
Death
Toivo Vähä died in Petrozavodsk in 1984 at the age of 83. The bust on his grave was erected by the KGB. Still highly respected in Russia, in 2001 his last hometown, Petrozavodsk, arranged a large festival to celebrate Vähä's 100th anniversary. In 1990, Soviet author Oleg Tikhonov published a documentary novel of Vähä's life.
References
1901 births
1984 deaths
People from Iitti
People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Finnish emigrants to the Soviet Union
People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side)
Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
Soviet military personnel of the Winter War
Soviet military personnel of World War II
KGB officers
Soviet spies
Double agents
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Soviet border guards | [
"Toivo Juhonpoika Vähä (, also known as Ivan Mikhailovich Petrov, Russian: Иван Михайлович Петров, 12 April 1901 – 18 June 1984) was a Finnish born Soviet colonel of the KGB.",
"He fled to Soviet Russia after the 1918 Finnish Civil War and made a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops.",
"Vähä was one of the few Finnish exile revolutionaries who survived the Great Purge.",
"He is best known for his role in the 1925 capture of the British super-spy Sidney Reilly during the Operation Trust.",
"Early life \nToivo Vähä was born to the family of Juho Vähä, an industrial worker, and Maria Lindström.",
"He started working at the age of 14, having several jobs in Helsinki.",
"In 1916, Vähä moved to the industrial community of Dubrovka, near the Russian capital Saint Petersburg.",
"At the time, Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire.",
"Vähä had five brothers, who all followed him to Russia after the 1917 February revolution.",
"Their father had emigrated to Russia few years earlier.",
"As the Finnish Civil War broke out in January 1918, Vähä joined the Saint Petersburg Finnish Red Guard, a paramilitary unit composed of Finnish emigrant workers in Saint Petersburg.",
"The battalion was sent to Finland, where Vähä fought in the Battle of Kämärä, and later served as a courier in the Battle of Vilppula.",
"As the Red front collapsed in the Northern Tavastia region, the Saint Petersburg Reds retreated to eastern Finland.",
"After the decisive loss of the Battle of Vyborg in late April, many fled to Soviet Russia.",
"Like hundreds of other Finnish exile Red Guard fighters, Vähä joined the Red Army and fought with the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.",
"In the summer of 1919 Vähä served in Siberia, and was then sent back to Petrograd to join the military academy.",
"In 1920–1923, Vähä took a three-year course at the international Petrograd Red Officer School, where he was joined by four of his brothers.",
"During his time in the academy, Vähä took part in the arrests of the suspects of the Kuusinen Club Incident in September 1920, the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion in March 1921, and the suppression of the East Karelian uprising in the winter of 1922.",
"After the Battle of Kimasozero in January 1922, Vähä killed three captured Finnish White Guard soldiers on the orders of his platoon leader Toivo Antikainen.",
"Antikainen was later captured in Finland, where he received a life sentence for the murders.",
"After his graduation in March 1923, Vähä was recruited by the NKVD.",
"He served as a border station commander at the Finnish border in the Karelian Isthmus.",
"From 1924 Vähä worked for the GPU in Leningrad, until he was moved to a border station in Sestroretsk in June 1925.",
"Operation Trust\nIn 1924, the Soviet secret police Cheka recruited Vähä to Operation Trust.",
"It was launched in 1921 to set up a fake resistance organization, to identify anti-Bolsheviks.",
"Vähä played the role of a Soviet traitor who helped the counter-revolutionaries, Russian emigrants and western agents to sneak from Finland to the Soviet Union.",
"He was recruited by Finnish Army Intelligence, who mistook Vähä for an ordinary Soviet border guard.",
"In reality he was working under the command of the Polish revolutionary Stanisław Messing, the head of the Leningrad Cheka.",
"Finnish intelligence trusted Vähä, and even recommended him to the British Secret Intelligence Service.",
"In September 1925 the Cheka managed to lure the British agent Sidney Reilly into crossing the border.",
"Vähä smuggled him across the Sestra River and took Reilly to the Pargolovo railway station, where he was arrested.",
"The Finns had successfully tested the route just a few days earlier, when Vähä escorted the courier of the White general Alexander Kutepov to the Soviet side.",
"Reilly was taken to Moscow for interrogation and shot in November 1925.",
"To complete the operation, the Cheka staged Vähä's death to mislead the British.",
"He was held at the Hotel Evropeiskaya in Leningrad, and then secretly shipped to Moscow.",
"Cheka put out a rumour that Vähä was shot as a traitor.",
"In Moscow he was given a new identity as Ivan Petrov.",
"In 1925–28, Vähä studied in the Border Academy, but was sent to the Far East after an old acquaintance recognized him.",
"Vähä then served on the Chinese border in the Argun River area, and fought in the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict.",
"The Great Purge and the World War II \nBetween 1934 and 1937, Vähä served in the Black Sea and the Belorussian Border Guards.",
"He had kept his real identity secret, but as Stalin launched the campaign against ″nationalists″, Vähä's Finnish accent attracted attention.",
"Unfortunately he had close relations with the Army Commander Ieronim Uborevich, who was executed during the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization.",
"Vähä was arrested in February 1938, then declared an ″enemy of the people″ and given the death penalty.",
"For some reason, he was not executed immediately, but kept on a death row for more than a year.",
"In November 1939 Vähä was given a chance to join the army of the Finnish Democratic Republic, a puppet government created during the 1939–1940 Winter War.",
"After the war, he was named as commander of the Red Army Infantry Regiment 126, which was composed of Karelians, Ingrians and Finns.",
"Instead of Ivan Petrov, Vähä was using his real name again.",
"As Nazi Germany launched its campaign against the Soviet Union in June 1941 he was replaced by another Finnish-born officer, Valter Valli.",
"Vähä became the commander of Infantry Regiment 143, and shortly after of Infantry Regiment 936 of the 3rd Belorussian Front.",
"In September 1941, Vähä was wounded near the town of Staraya Russa.",
"After his recovery, he was sent to Ural, where he served as the head of the Zlatoust Infantry Academy until January 1946.",
"Last years\nVähä served his last years as a KGB colonel in Kaliningrad.",
"After 1964 Vähä lived in Zhytomyr Oblast in Ukraine and managed various state enterprises.",
"He retired in 1967, and moved to Petrozavodsk in the Karelian ASSR.",
"Vähä wrote an autobiography which was released in 1970 and translated into Finnish in 1974.",
"He also wrote three other memoirs, including one on Operation Trust, and several short stories that were published in the Finnish-language Karelian literature magazine Punalippu.",
"Operation Trust was brought to public attention in 1964.",
"Newspaper stories mentioned Vähä's name, calling him a Soviet hero.",
"Vähä's family finally learnt about his former life.",
"When Vähä went underground in 1925, he had abandoned his wife and daughter.",
"Vähä later married again and had another daughter, who was named Lilya, as was his first child.",
"During his last years Vähä publicly criticised Stalinism.",
"He also paid attention to the mistakes of the Soviet Communist Party, which he had joined in 1920.",
"Death\nToivo Vähä died in Petrozavodsk in 1984 at the age of 83.",
"The bust on his grave was erected by the KGB.",
"Still highly respected in Russia, in 2001 his last hometown, Petrozavodsk, arranged a large festival to celebrate Vähä's 100th anniversary.",
"In 1990, Soviet author Oleg Tikhonov published a documentary novel of Vähä's life.",
"References \n\n1901 births\n1984 deaths\nPeople from Iitti\nPeople from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)\nFinnish emigrants to the Soviet Union\nPeople of the Finnish Civil War (Red side)\nSoviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War\nSoviet military personnel of the Winter War\nSoviet military personnel of World War II\nKGB officers\nSoviet spies\nDouble agents\nRecipients of the Order of the Red Banner\nRecipients of the Order of Lenin\nRecipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples\nCommunist Party of the Soviet Union members\nSoviet border guards"
] | [
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"He had a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops after fleeing to Soviet Russia.",
"One of the few Finns who survived the Great Purge was Vh.",
"He was involved in the capture of the British super-spy Sidney Reilly in 1925.",
"The family of Juho Vh, an industrial worker, had a child named Toivo Vh.",
"He started working at the age of 14.",
"Vh moved to the industrial community of Dubrovka in 1916.",
"Finns were part of the Russian Empire at the time.",
"After the February revolution, five of Vh's brothers followed him to Russia.",
"Their father had moved to Russia.",
"In January 1918, Vh joined the Saint Petersburg Finnish Red Guard, a paramilitary unit composed of Finns.",
"Vh fought in the Battle of Kmr and later served as a courier in the Battle of Vilppula.",
"The Saint Petersburg Reds retreated to eastern Finland after the Red front collapsed.",
"Many fled to Soviet Russia after the Battle of Vyborg.",
"Vh joined the Red Guard and fought in the Russian Civil War.",
"Vh joined the military academy after serving in Siberia in the summer of 1919.",
"Vh took a three-year course at the international Petrograd Red Officer School, where he was joined by four of his brothers.",
"The suppression of the East Karelian uprising in the winter of 1922 was one of the things that Vh was involved in during his time in the academy.",
"Vh killed three captured White Guard soldiers on the orders of his platoon leader.",
"Antikainen was sentenced to life in prison for the murders.",
"Vh was recruited by the NKVD after graduating from college.",
"He was a border station commander in the Karelian Isthmus.",
"In June 1925, Vh was moved to a border station in Sestroretsk.",
"Vh was recruited by the Soviet secret police in 1924.",
"It was launched in 1921 to create a fake resistance organization.",
"Vh was a Soviet traitor who aided counter-revolutionaries, Russian emigrants and western agents to sneak into the Soviet Union.",
"Vh was recruited by the army intelligence who thought he was a soviet border guard.",
"He was working under the command of the Polish revolutionary Stanisaw Messing.",
"Vh was recommended to the British Secret Intelligence Service.",
"The Cheka was able to lure the British agent into crossing the border.",
"Vh took Reilly to the railway station where he was arrested after crossing the Sestra River.",
"The Finns had successfully tested the route a few days before, when Vh escorted Alexander Kutepov to the Soviet side.",
"Reilly was killed in Moscow in 1925.",
"To complete the operation, the Cheka staged Vh's death.",
"He was secretly shipped to Moscow after being held at a hotel.",
"There was a rumour that Vh was shot as a traitor.",
"He was given a new identity in Moscow.",
"Vh was sent to the Far East after an old friend recognized him from studying in the Border Academy.",
"Vh fought in the Sino-Soviet conflict after serving on the Chinese border.",
"Vh was involved in the Great Purge and World War II.",
"As Stalin launched his campaign against nationalists, Vh's Finnish accent attracted attention.",
"He had close relations with the Army Commander, who was executed during the case of the anti-Soviet military organization.",
"The death penalty was imposed on Vh after he was arrested and declared an enemy of the people.",
"He was kept on the death row for more than a year because he was not executed immediately.",
"During the 1939–1940 Winter War, Vh was given a chance to join the army of the Finnish Democratic Republic.",
"He was the commander of the Red Army Infantry Regiment 126, which was made up of Karelians, Ingrians and Finns.",
"Vh was using his real name again.",
"He was replaced by another Finn as Nazi Germany launched its campaign against the Soviet Union.",
"Vh was the commander of Infantry Regiment 912 of the 3rd Belorussian Front.",
"Vh was wounded near the town of Staraya Russa.",
"He served as the head of the Zlatoust Infantry Academy until January 1946, after his recovery.",
"Vh was a KGB colonel in Kaliningrad.",
"Vh was the manager of various state enterprises after 1964.",
"He moved to Petrozavodsk after retiring.",
"Vh's autobiography was translated intoFinnish in 1974.",
"He also wrote three other memoirs, including one on Operation Trust, and several short stories.",
"The public became aware of Operation Trust in 1964.",
"Newspaper stories referred to Vh as a Soviet hero.",
"Vh's family found out about his past.",
"Vh abandoned his wife and daughter when he went underground.",
"One of Vh's daughters, named Lillya, was his first child.",
"Vh criticized Stalinism in the last years of his life.",
"He was a member of the Soviet Communist Party in 1920.",
"Death Toivo Vh died in Petrozavodsk at the age of 83.",
"The bust on his grave was made by the KGB.",
"In 2001 his last hometown, Petrozavodsk, held a large festival to celebrate Vh's 100th anniversary.",
"A novel about Vh's life was published in 1990.",
"There were people from Iitti who died in the Winter War and people who died in the Russian Civil War."
] | <mask> (, also known as Ivan Mikhailovich Petrov, Russian: Иван Михайлович Петров, 12 April 1901 – 18 June 1984) was a Finnish born Soviet colonel of the KGB. He fled to Soviet Russia after the 1918 Finnish Civil War and made a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops. <mask> was one of the few Finnish exile revolutionaries who survived the Great Purge. He is best known for his role in the 1925 capture of the British super-spy Sidney Reilly during the Operation Trust. Early life
<mask> was born to the family of <mask>, an industrial worker, and Maria Lindström. He started working at the age of 14, having several jobs in Helsinki. In 1916, Vähä moved to the industrial community of Dubrovka, near the Russian capital Saint Petersburg.At the time, Finland was an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Vähä had five brothers, who all followed him to Russia after the 1917 February revolution. Their father had emigrated to Russia few years earlier. As the Finnish Civil War broke out in January 1918, Vähä joined the Saint Petersburg Finnish Red Guard, a paramilitary unit composed of Finnish emigrant workers in Saint Petersburg. The battalion was sent to Finland, where Vähä fought in the Battle of Kämärä, and later served as a courier in the Battle of Vilppula. As the Red front collapsed in the Northern Tavastia region, the Saint Petersburg Reds retreated to eastern Finland. After the decisive loss of the Battle of Vyborg in late April, many fled to Soviet Russia.Like hundreds of other Finnish exile Red Guard fighters, Vähä joined the Red Army and fought with the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. In the summer of 1919 Vähä served in Siberia, and was then sent back to Petrograd to join the military academy. In 1920–1923, Vähä took a three-year course at the international Petrograd Red Officer School, where he was joined by four of his brothers. During his time in the academy, Vähä took part in the arrests of the suspects of the Kuusinen Club Incident in September 1920, the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion in March 1921, and the suppression of the East Karelian uprising in the winter of 1922. After the Battle of Kimasozero in January 1922, Vähä killed three captured Finnish White Guard soldiers on the orders of his platoon leader <mask> Antikainen. Antikainen was later captured in Finland, where he received a life sentence for the murders. After his graduation in March 1923, <mask> was recruited by the NKVD.He served as a border station commander at the Finnish border in the Karelian Isthmus. From 1924 Vähä worked for the GPU in Leningrad, until he was moved to a border station in Sestroretsk in June 1925. Operation Trust
In 1924, the Soviet secret police Cheka recruited Vähä to Operation Trust. It was launched in 1921 to set up a fake resistance organization, to identify anti-Bolsheviks. Vähä played the role of a Soviet traitor who helped the counter-revolutionaries, Russian emigrants and western agents to sneak from Finland to the Soviet Union. He was recruited by Finnish Army Intelligence, who mistook Vähä for an ordinary Soviet border guard. In reality he was working under the command of the Polish revolutionary Stanisław Messing, the head of the Leningrad Cheka.Finnish intelligence trusted Vähä, and even recommended him to the British Secret Intelligence Service. In September 1925 the Cheka managed to lure the British agent Sidney Reilly into crossing the border. Vähä smuggled him across the Sestra River and took Reilly to the Pargolovo railway station, where he was arrested. The Finns had successfully tested the route just a few days earlier, when Vähä escorted the courier of the White general Alexander Kutepov to the Soviet side. Reilly was taken to Moscow for interrogation and shot in November 1925. To complete the operation, the Cheka staged Vähä's death to mislead the British. He was held at the Hotel Evropeiskaya in Leningrad, and then secretly shipped to Moscow.Cheka put out a rumour that Vähä was shot as a traitor. In Moscow he was given a new identity as Ivan Petrov. In 1925–28, Vähä studied in the Border Academy, but was sent to the Far East after an old acquaintance recognized him. Vähä then served on the Chinese border in the Argun River area, and fought in the 1929 Sino-Soviet conflict. The Great Purge and the World War II
Between 1934 and 1937, Vähä served in the Black Sea and the Belorussian Border Guards. He had kept his real identity secret, but as Stalin launched the campaign against ″nationalists″, Vähä's Finnish accent attracted attention. Unfortunately he had close relations with the Army Commander Ieronim Uborevich, who was executed during the Case of Trotskyist Anti-Soviet Military Organization.Vähä was arrested in February 1938, then declared an ″enemy of the people″ and given the death penalty. For some reason, he was not executed immediately, but kept on a death row for more than a year. In November 1939 <mask> was given a chance to join the army of the Finnish Democratic Republic, a puppet government created during the 1939–1940 Winter War. After the war, he was named as commander of the Red Army Infantry Regiment 126, which was composed of Karelians, Ingrians and Finns. Instead of Ivan Petrov, Vähä was using his real name again. As Nazi Germany launched its campaign against the Soviet Union in June 1941 he was replaced by another Finnish-born officer, Valter Valli. <mask> became the commander of Infantry Regiment 143, and shortly after of Infantry Regiment 936 of the 3rd Belorussian Front.In September 1941, Vähä was wounded near the town of Staraya Russa. After his recovery, he was sent to Ural, where he served as the head of the Zlatoust Infantry Academy until January 1946. Last years
<mask> served his last years as a KGB colonel in Kaliningrad. After 1964 Vähä lived in Zhytomyr Oblast in Ukraine and managed various state enterprises. He retired in 1967, and moved to Petrozavodsk in the Karelian ASSR. Vähä wrote an autobiography which was released in 1970 and translated into Finnish in 1974. He also wrote three other memoirs, including one on Operation Trust, and several short stories that were published in the Finnish-language Karelian literature magazine Punalippu.Operation Trust was brought to public attention in 1964. Newspaper stories mentioned <mask>'s name, calling him a Soviet hero. <mask>'s family finally learnt about his former life. When Vähä went underground in 1925, he had abandoned his wife and daughter. Vähä later married again and had another daughter, who was named Lilya, as was his first child. During his last years <mask> publicly criticised Stalinism. He also paid attention to the mistakes of the Soviet Communist Party, which he had joined in 1920.Death
<mask> <mask> died in Petrozavodsk in 1984 at the age of 83. The bust on his grave was erected by the KGB. Still highly respected in Russia, in 2001 his last hometown, Petrozavodsk, arranged a large festival to celebrate Vähä's 100th anniversary. In 1990, Soviet author Oleg Tikhonov published a documentary novel of Vähä's life. References
1901 births
1984 deaths
People from Iitti
People from Uusimaa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Finnish emigrants to the Soviet Union
People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side)
Soviet military personnel of the Russian Civil War
Soviet military personnel of the Winter War
Soviet military personnel of World War II
KGB officers
Soviet spies
Double agents
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Soviet border guards | [
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"Vähä",
"Vähä",
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"Toivo Juhonpoika V",
"Toivo V",
"Toivo"
] |
6896502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%20Lutter | Travis Lutter | Travis Lutter (born May 12, 1973) is a retired American mixed martial artist who won The Ultimate Fighter 4 reality show. He is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Carlos Machado.
Background
Lutter was born and raised in Gann Valley, South Dakota in a farmer family of seven. He began wrestling when he was 12 years old, continuing through high school where he earned All-State honors and then also competed during his first two years attending Northern State University, where he majored in criminal justice. Lutter had originally begun training in Muay Thai, before viewing an early UFC event dominated by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist, Royce Gracie. Lutter then moved to Dallas, Texas and began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Mixed martial arts career
The Ultimate Fighter
With this victory, Lutter became the challenger for Anderson Silva's Middleweight title. Lutter dedicated his victory on November 11 to the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization dedicated to support wounded U.S. servicemen.
Title shot
On the day of the weigh-in, one day before the February 3, 2007 bout at UFC 67, Lutter failed to make weight. He weighed-in at 187 pounds on the first attempt, and 186.5 two hours later on his second attempt. Because of his failure to meet the required 185 pounds, his match with Silva was changed to a three-round, non-title bout. This upset many fans, and he was booed upon his entrance into the octagon. Lutter would go on to lose in the second round via submission due to a triangle choke.
After TUF
Lutter was scheduled to return to the UFC at UFC 74 on August 25, 2007 against UFC newcomer Ryan Jensen; however he was forced to withdraw from the event due to a neck injury. After over a year's absence from the UFC, Lutter was next matched against former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin at UFC 83. After nearly catching Franklin with an armbar in the first round, Lutter was defeated by Franklin in the second round by TKO.
After losing two consecutive bouts, Lutter was released from his UFC contract. This makes him the first Ultimate Fighter winner to be released from UFC contract. He defeated Jason "The Athlete" MacDonald in the main event of Maximum Fighting Championship 22 on October 2, 2009.
Lutter's next bout occurred on May 21, 2010, against Rafael Natal. This bout was part of the Moosin: God of Martial Arts show in Worcester, Massachusetts. After 2 take down attempts Lutter was noticeably tired, he lost by knockout in the first round.
Retirement
Due to the extensive neck injury sustained in the Natal fight and the subsequent long layoff from fighting resulted in Lutter's retirement from professional mixed martial arts competition. Secretly hoping to make it back to the UFC, Lutter did not publicly announce his retirement until a 2019 blog post.
Personal life
Lutter is married and has four children. Lutter owns and operates a martial arts training center in Fort Worth, TX, offering Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing and mixed martial arts.
Championships and accomplishments
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighter 4 Middleweight winner
HOOKnSHOOT
HnS Light Heavyweight Championship (One time)
Grappling credentials
Winner Ultimate Submission Challenge 2003
Competitor 2001 ADCC World Championships
Competitor 2000 ADCC World Championships
Winner 2001 National USA ADCC Qualifier
Winner 2000 National USA ADCC Qualifier
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt under Carlos Machado
1st place 2001 Texas State BJJ Champion
3rd place Heavyweight Purple Belt, 2000 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
3rd place Purple Belt Heavyweight, 2000 Pan-American Games
1st place Heavyweight Champion 1999 Texas Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open
1st place Heavyweight and Overall Champion 1998 Texas Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships
2nd place 1998 Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Championships; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1st place Heavyweight Champion 1998 USA Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships
1st place Heavyweight Champion 1997 San Antonio Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Open
Mixed martial arts record
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 10–6
| Rafael Natal
| KO (punches)
| Moosin: God of Martial Arts
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:12
| Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 10–5
| Jason MacDonald
| Decision (unanimous)
| MFC 22
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Enoch, Alberta, Canada
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 9–5
| Rich Franklin
| TKO (punches)
| UFC 83
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 3:01
| Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 9–4
| Anderson Silva
| Submission (triangle choke)
| UFC 67
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:11
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 9–3
| Patrick Côté
| Submission (armbar)
| The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 2:18
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 8–3
| Cedric Marks
| Submission (armbar)
| IFF 1: International Freestyle Fighting 1
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:15
| Ft. Worth, Texas, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 7–3
| Jose Landi-Jons
| Submission (armbar)
| Cage Rage 15
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 4:00
| London, England
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 6–3
| Trevor Prangley
| Decision (unanimous)
| UFC 54: Boiling Point
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 6–2
| Matt Ewin
| Submission (keylock)
| Cage Rage 12
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 1:40
| London, England
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 5–2
| Matt Lindland
| Submission (guillotine choke)
| UFC 52: Couture vs Liddell
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 3:32
| Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 5–1
| Marvin Eastman
| KO (punch)
| UFC 50
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 0:33
| Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 4–1
| Grzegorz Jakubowski
| Submission (kimura)
| EVT 2: Hazard
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:45
| Stockholm, Sweden
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 3–1
| Mark Epstein
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| EVT 1: Genesis
|
| align=center| 2
| align=center| 2:45
| Copenhagen, Denmark
|
|-
| Loss
| align=center| 2–1
| Jorge Rivera
| TKO (punches)
| USMMA 2: Ring of Fury
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 3:46
| Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 2–0
| Chris Munsen
| Submission (rear-naked choke)
| HOOKnSHOOT: Relentless
|
| align=center| 1
| align=center| 0:45
| Evansville, Indiana, United States
|
|-
| Win
| align=center| 1–0
| James Cooper
| Decision
| PRW: Power Ring Warriors
|
| align=center| 3
| align=center| 5:00
| Humble, Texas, United States
|
References
External links
Official site
1973 births
Living people
The Ultimate Fighter winners
American male mixed martial artists
Middleweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
American practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Mixed martial artists from South Dakota
People from Chamberlain, South Dakota
Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters | [
"Travis Lutter (born May 12, 1973) is a retired American mixed martial artist who won The Ultimate Fighter 4 reality show.",
"He is a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under Carlos Machado.",
"Background\nLutter was born and raised in Gann Valley, South Dakota in a farmer family of seven.",
"He began wrestling when he was 12 years old, continuing through high school where he earned All-State honors and then also competed during his first two years attending Northern State University, where he majored in criminal justice.",
"Lutter had originally begun training in Muay Thai, before viewing an early UFC event dominated by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specialist, Royce Gracie.",
"Lutter then moved to Dallas, Texas and began training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.",
"Mixed martial arts career\n\nThe Ultimate Fighter\n\nWith this victory, Lutter became the challenger for Anderson Silva's Middleweight title.",
"Lutter dedicated his victory on November 11 to the Wounded Warrior Project, an organization dedicated to support wounded U.S. servicemen.",
"Title shot\nOn the day of the weigh-in, one day before the February 3, 2007 bout at UFC 67, Lutter failed to make weight.",
"He weighed-in at 187 pounds on the first attempt, and 186.5 two hours later on his second attempt.",
"Because of his failure to meet the required 185 pounds, his match with Silva was changed to a three-round, non-title bout.",
"This upset many fans, and he was booed upon his entrance into the octagon.",
"Lutter would go on to lose in the second round via submission due to a triangle choke.",
"After TUF\nLutter was scheduled to return to the UFC at UFC 74 on August 25, 2007 against UFC newcomer Ryan Jensen; however he was forced to withdraw from the event due to a neck injury.",
"After over a year's absence from the UFC, Lutter was next matched against former UFC Middleweight Champion Rich Franklin at UFC 83.",
"After nearly catching Franklin with an armbar in the first round, Lutter was defeated by Franklin in the second round by TKO.",
"After losing two consecutive bouts, Lutter was released from his UFC contract.",
"This makes him the first Ultimate Fighter winner to be released from UFC contract.",
"He defeated Jason \"The Athlete\" MacDonald in the main event of Maximum Fighting Championship 22 on October 2, 2009.",
"Lutter's next bout occurred on May 21, 2010, against Rafael Natal.",
"This bout was part of the Moosin: God of Martial Arts show in Worcester, Massachusetts.",
"After 2 take down attempts Lutter was noticeably tired, he lost by knockout in the first round.",
"Retirement\nDue to the extensive neck injury sustained in the Natal fight and the subsequent long layoff from fighting resulted in Lutter's retirement from professional mixed martial arts competition.",
"Secretly hoping to make it back to the UFC, Lutter did not publicly announce his retirement until a 2019 blog post.",
"Personal life\nLutter is married and has four children.",
"Lutter owns and operates a martial arts training center in Fort Worth, TX, offering Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, boxing and mixed martial arts."
] | [
"Lutter is a retired American mixed martial artist who won The Ultimate Fighter 4 reality show.",
"He is a black belt in Brazilian martial arts.",
"Lutter was raised in a farming family of seven in South Dakota.",
"He began wrestling when he was 12 years old and continued through high school where he earned All-State honors before attending Northern State University where he majored in criminal justice.",
"Lutter began training in Muay Thai after watching an early UFC event.",
"Lutter began training in Brazilian jujitsu in Dallas, Texas.",
"Lutter became the challenger for Anderson Silva's Middleweight title after his victory on The Ultimate Fighter.",
"On November 11th, Lutter dedicated his victory to the Wounded Warrior Project.",
"Lutter failed to make weight on the day of the weigh-in, one day before his UFC 67 bout.",
"He weighed in at 186.5 on his second attempt, two hours after the first.",
"His match with Silva was changed to a three-round, non-title bout because of his failure to meet the required 185 pounds.",
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The Ultimate Fighter
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60839461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Bryant%20%28broadcaster%29 | Benjamin Bryant (broadcaster) | Benjamin Bryant (born 1977) is an American writer, broadcaster, and filmmaker. He was a government official in the Obama Administration and also works as an artist and actor. During the Afghan evacuation in 2021, Bryant coordinated the emergency evacuation of Afghan allies and families, and served as a spokesperson for the "Digital Dunkirk" coalition.
Bryant wrote and directed the feature film Station to Station, co-executive produced the drama Anacostia, and hosts “The Brink with Benjamin Bryant.” As an actor, Bryant portrays "Gregory Marshall" on the serial Forever and a Day.
Bryant served on the Pentagon’s Fort Hood Shooting Task Force, “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” Repeal Working Group, and the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission. In 2011, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin announced the formal acquisition of several of Bryant's papers, notes, and recordings. He has led Washington D.C.-based Bryant Zamberlan Group since 2010.
Early life and education
Bryant was born in Nuremberg, Germany to American parents in a military family. His father is Brigadier General Albert Bryant Jr. He is also the nephew of writer and speaker Lori Bryant-Woolridge.
Bryant graduated from Giessen American High School in Giessen, Germany in 1994, commencing study at the University of Texas at Austin, that same year. At Texas, he studied journalism and communication studies from 1994 to 1998, when an extended illness led to medical withdrawal prior to graduation. Bryant completed his Bachelor of Science degree at New York’s Excelsior College.
In 2015, Bryant graduated with both a Master of Science in Organization development and Leadership, and a Master of Arts in Administration, from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.
Career
In 1996, Bryant was serving as a radio news intern at Austin radio station KKMJ when the Atlanta Olympic Bombing occurred. Following coverage of his impromptu overnight reporting by Austin American-Statesman columnist Jane Grieg, he was offered a regular on-air role at KKMJ and named Program Director for sister station, KJCE.
Bryant later worked as a freelance journalist and columnist before focusing on public relations and crisis communications consulting. He was a writer and editor for the Deepwater News and FHP&R: Force Health Protection & Readiness magazine. He returned to broadcasting as the host of the “BZCast” podcast in 2017, including an exploration of leaking and whistleblowing in the federal government, and in 2018 with “The Brink with Benjamin Bryant,” a series of one-on-one interviews focusing on Washington D.C. notables, and its spin-off serialized investigative podcast. In 2018, Bryant also appeared in a non-partisan public service announcement entitled "The One Place Everyone is Equal."
In 2005, Bryant served as a speechwriter for Rear Admiral Patrick Stillman of the United States Coast Guard, Ellen Embrey, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness, and communications advisor for James Finley, then-Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology during the George W. Bush administration. Bryant worked on the Pentagon's Fort Hood Shooting Task Force, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Working Group, and the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, for which he was the agency's final spokesperson. In the 2010s, Bryant made multiple appearances on America Tonight speaking to military issues in the news.
Since 2010, Bryant has served as an auxiliarist in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, including as a Flotilla Staff Officer. Since 2010, Bryant has been the Managing Partner of the Bryant Zamberlan Group of companies, which include a global communications and organizational development consultancy, TV/film production capability, and BZ/MP, a non-profit news/information and media distribution endeavor.
In 2011, news reports covered Bryant and Thomas Zamberlan's donation of their original editor's copies from several Presidential and DoD task forces to the Smithsonian Institution. That same year, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at Bryant's alma mater University of Texas at Austin, acquired Bryant's personal notes, papers, and recorded recollections related to his work on the Fort Hood investigation and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeals.
Task forces and commissions
Digital Dunkirk
In 2021, during the weeks leading up to the withdrawal of American troops and international presence from Afghanistan, Bryant facilitated the emergency evacuation of Afghan allies and their families and served as a planner and spokesperson for the "Digital Dunkirk" coalition of former and current military, diplomatic personnel, and government civilians working to coordinate evacuations.
Film, television and radio
Bryant began producing narrative television and film projects in 2016, first joining the digital series Anacostia at the start of its fifth season, as a supervising producer. Beginning with episode five, Bryant was named co-executive producer of the series, a role he continued until September 2019. He occasionally recurred on the series in the role of news anchor "James Vance," an homage to Washington D.C. news anchor Jim Vance.
In 2019, the Bryant Zamberlan Group partnered with Gemelli Films and writer-director Candice Cain to produce the first three entries in the "Candy Cain" series of holiday films, Ivy & Mistletoe, starring Cody Calafiore, Carrie Genzel, and Cynthia Gibb; The Maltese Holiday, starring Calafiore, Clayton Snyder, and Abigail Hawk; and Magic in Mount Holly, starring Calafiore, Genzel, Patrick Muldoon, Frank Whaley, Terri Garber, and Jennifer Bassey. Bryant was also an associate producer on Cain's Joy & Hope a western-themed romance co-starring Vivica A. Fox.
In 2020, Bryant began production on the sports comedy Aidy Kane, but suspended filming in March 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic. He also debuted in the series regular role of troubled businessman "Gregory Marshall" on the dramatic serial Forever and a Day.
Bryant has appeared in two of writer-director Brooke B's audio feature productions, Birthday Blues and Selling the Act, in supporting roles and portrayed "Nolan," the Nutcracker Prince, in JLJ Media's podcast special The Sugar Plum Fairy and the Nutcracker from Molina Productions, a role he reprised as a series regular on "The New Adventures of the Tooth Fairy" series from the same team.
Station to Station
During the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, Bryant began writing the psychological drama, Station to Station, directing the film on location in September, keeping cast and crew in an isolated "bubble" to adhere to COVID-19 health and safety protocols. In 2021, the film began its festival run, marking Bryant's official debut as a feature film writer and director.
Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal called the film "compelling" and "bold," and K.P. Smith of We Are Entertainment News called it "deeply satisfying." Both reviewers compared Bryant's work to that of writer-directors Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater. Station to Station won "Best Narrative Feature," "Best Actor," and "Best Ensemble" in June 2021 at the IndieEye Film Awards and received multiple honors from IndieFEST and FILMHAUS Berlin in the following months. Bryant was specifically recognized by FILMHAUS with "first-time director" and "original concept" nominations.
In October 2021, the Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Festival announced Station to Station as both an Official Selection and the festival's opening night feature. The film premiered in competition, earning eight jury nominations, including as a finalist for the festival's Best Drama Feature, winning two, and was selected by attendees to receive the 2021 "Audience Award." On January 8, 2022, Station to Station was released via virtual cinema in the United States.
Awards and honors
In December 1996, Bryant was named by the Austin American-Statesman as one of its year's "most memorable." Bryant received a 2010 Platinum MarCom "Special Category" Award for his work as the Managing Editor of the report of the Fort Hood Task Force, 2012 Davey Award for his appearances on America Tonight, 2019 Communicator Award of Distinction for "The Brink with Benjamin Bryant" interview specials; and multiple Platinum AVA and Hermes Creative Awards for "The Brink with Benjamin Bryant: INTERSECTIONS" podcast.
Bryant won a 2020 Hermes Creative Award for the trailer for "Journeys Beyond."
Filmography
Film
Television and streaming
Radio and podcasts
Personal life
Bryant lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
References
External links
Bryant Zamberlan Group*
Lyon, Lacretia (2020-09-16). Benjamin Bryant, pt. 1 and (2020-09-23). Benjamin Bryant, pt. 2, BLEAV Podcast Network. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
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University of the Incarnate Word alumni
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"Bryant served on the Pentagon’s Fort Hood Shooting Task Force, “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” Repeal Working Group, and the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.",
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"His father is Brigadier General Albert Bryant Jr.",
"He is also the nephew of writer and speaker Lori Bryant-Woolridge.",
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"Following coverage of his impromptu overnight reporting by Austin American-Statesman columnist Jane Grieg, he was offered a regular on-air role at KKMJ and named Program Director for sister station, KJCE.",
"Bryant later worked as a freelance journalist and columnist before focusing on public relations and crisis communications consulting.",
"He was a writer and editor for the Deepwater News and FHP&R: Force Health Protection & Readiness magazine.",
"He returned to broadcasting as the host of the “BZCast” podcast in 2017, including an exploration of leaking and whistleblowing in the federal government, and in 2018 with “The Brink with Benjamin Bryant,” a series of one-on-one interviews focusing on Washington D.C. notables, and its spin-off serialized investigative podcast.",
"In 2018, Bryant also appeared in a non-partisan public service announcement entitled \"The One Place Everyone is Equal.\"",
"In 2005, Bryant served as a speechwriter for Rear Admiral Patrick Stillman of the United States Coast Guard, Ellen Embrey, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness, and communications advisor for James Finley, then-Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology during the George W. Bush administration.",
"Bryant worked on the Pentagon's Fort Hood Shooting Task Force, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Working Group, and the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, for which he was the agency's final spokesperson.",
"In the 2010s, Bryant made multiple appearances on America Tonight speaking to military issues in the news.",
"Since 2010, Bryant has served as an auxiliarist in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, including as a Flotilla Staff Officer.",
"Since 2010, Bryant has been the Managing Partner of the Bryant Zamberlan Group of companies, which include a global communications and organizational development consultancy, TV/film production capability, and BZ/MP, a non-profit news/information and media distribution endeavor.",
"In 2011, news reports covered Bryant and Thomas Zamberlan's donation of their original editor's copies from several Presidential and DoD task forces to the Smithsonian Institution.",
"That same year, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at Bryant's alma mater University of Texas at Austin, acquired Bryant's personal notes, papers, and recorded recollections related to his work on the Fort Hood investigation and \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" repeals.",
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"Beginning with episode five, Bryant was named co-executive producer of the series, a role he continued until September 2019.",
"He occasionally recurred on the series in the role of news anchor \"James Vance,\" an homage to Washington D.C. news anchor Jim Vance.",
"In 2019, the Bryant Zamberlan Group partnered with Gemelli Films and writer-director Candice Cain to produce the first three entries in the \"Candy Cain\" series of holiday films, Ivy & Mistletoe, starring Cody Calafiore, Carrie Genzel, and Cynthia Gibb; The Maltese Holiday, starring Calafiore, Clayton Snyder, and Abigail Hawk; and Magic in Mount Holly, starring Calafiore, Genzel, Patrick Muldoon, Frank Whaley, Terri Garber, and Jennifer Bassey.",
"Bryant was also an associate producer on Cain's Joy & Hope a western-themed romance co-starring Vivica A.",
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"In 2020, Bryant began production on the sports comedy Aidy Kane, but suspended filming in March 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic.",
"He also debuted in the series regular role of troubled businessman \"Gregory Marshall\" on the dramatic serial Forever and a Day.",
"Bryant has appeared in two of writer-director Brooke B's audio feature productions, Birthday Blues and Selling the Act, in supporting roles and portrayed \"Nolan,\" the Nutcracker Prince, in JLJ Media's podcast special The Sugar Plum Fairy and the Nutcracker from Molina Productions, a role he reprised as a series regular on \"The New Adventures of the Tooth Fairy\" series from the same team.",
"Station to Station \n\nDuring the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, Bryant began writing the psychological drama, Station to Station, directing the film on location in September, keeping cast and crew in an isolated \"bubble\" to adhere to COVID-19 health and safety protocols.",
"In 2021, the film began its festival run, marking Bryant's official debut as a feature film writer and director.",
"Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal called the film \"compelling\" and \"bold,\" and K.P.",
"Smith of We Are Entertainment News called it \"deeply satisfying.\"",
"Both reviewers compared Bryant's work to that of writer-directors Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater.",
"Station to Station won \"Best Narrative Feature,\" \"Best Actor,\" and \"Best Ensemble\" in June 2021 at the IndieEye Film Awards and received multiple honors from IndieFEST and FILMHAUS Berlin in the following months.",
"Bryant was specifically recognized by FILMHAUS with \"first-time director\" and \"original concept\" nominations.",
"In October 2021, the Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Festival announced Station to Station as both an Official Selection and the festival's opening night feature.",
"The film premiered in competition, earning eight jury nominations, including as a finalist for the festival's Best Drama Feature, winning two, and was selected by attendees to receive the 2021 \"Audience Award.\"",
"On January 8, 2022, Station to Station was released via virtual cinema in the United States.",
"Awards and honors \nIn December 1996, Bryant was named by the Austin American-Statesman as one of its year's \"most memorable.\"",
"Bryant received a 2010 Platinum MarCom \"Special Category\" Award for his work as the Managing Editor of the report of the Fort Hood Task Force, 2012 Davey Award for his appearances on America Tonight, 2019 Communicator Award of Distinction for \"The Brink with Benjamin Bryant\" interview specials; and multiple Platinum AVA and Hermes Creative Awards for \"The Brink with Benjamin Bryant: INTERSECTIONS\" podcast.",
"Bryant won a 2020 Hermes Creative Award for the trailer for \"Journeys Beyond.\"",
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"Bryant was the agency's final spokesman and worked on the Pentagon's Fort Hood shooting Task Force, \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" Repeal Working Group, and the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission.",
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"Bryant is the Managing Partner of the Bryant Zamberlan Group of companies, which include a global communications and organizational development consultancy, TV/film production capability, and BZ/MP, a non-profit news/information and media distribution endeavor.",
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"The University of Texas at Austin acquired Bryant's personal notes, papers, and recollections related to his work on the Fort Hood investigation and \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" repeals.",
"During the weeks leading up to the withdrawal of American troops and international presence from Afghanistan, Bryant helped evacuate Afghan allies and their families and was a spokesman for the \"Digital Dunkirk\" coalition of former and current military, diplomatic personnel.",
"Bryant began producing narrative television and film projects in 2016 as a supervising producer on the digital series Anacostia.",
"Bryant was named co-executive producer of the series after episode five.",
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"The first three entries in the \"Candy Cain\" series of holiday films were produced by the Bryant Zamberlan Group and Gemelli Films.",
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"He appeared in the series regular role of a troubled businessman named Gregory Marshall.",
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"Bryant began writing the psychological drama, Station to Station, in September, directing the film on location in September, keeping cast and crew in an isolated \"bubble\" to adhere to COVID-19 health and safety protocols.",
"The film marks Bryant's official debut as a feature film writer and director.",
"The film was called \"compelling\" and \"bold\" by Digital Journal.",
"Smith of We Are Entertainment News said it was satisfying.",
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"Station to Station was released via virtual cinema in the United States.",
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<mask> was born in Nuremberg, Germany to American parents in a military family. His father is Brigadier General <mask> Jr. He is also the nephew of writer and speaker <mask>-Woolridge. <mask> graduated from Giessen American High School in Giessen, Germany in 1994, commencing study at the University of Texas at Austin, that same year. At Texas, he studied journalism and communication studies from 1994 to 1998, when an extended illness led to medical withdrawal prior to graduation. <mask> completed his Bachelor of Science degree at New York’s Excelsior College. In 2015, <mask> graduated with both a Master of Science in Organization development and Leadership, and a Master of Arts in Administration, from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas.Career
In 1996, <mask> was serving as a radio news intern at Austin radio station KKMJ when the Atlanta Olympic Bombing occurred. Following coverage of his impromptu overnight reporting by Austin American-Statesman columnist Jane Grieg, he was offered a regular on-air role at KKMJ and named Program Director for sister station, KJCE. <mask> later worked as a freelance journalist and columnist before focusing on public relations and crisis communications consulting. He was a writer and editor for the Deepwater News and FHP&R: Force Health Protection & Readiness magazine. He returned to broadcasting as the host of the “BZCast” podcast in 2017, including an exploration of leaking and whistleblowing in the federal government, and in 2018 with “The Brink with <mask>,” a series of one-on-one interviews focusing on Washington D.C. notables, and its spin-off serialized investigative podcast. In 2018, <mask> also appeared in a non-partisan public service announcement entitled "The One Place Everyone is Equal." In 2005, <mask> served as a speechwriter for Rear Admiral Patrick Stillman of the United States Coast Guard, Ellen Embrey, then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness, and communications advisor for James Finley, then-Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology during the George W. Bush administration.<mask> worked on the Pentagon's Fort Hood Shooting Task Force, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal Working Group, and the Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission, for which he was the agency's final spokesperson. In the 2010s, <mask> made multiple appearances on America Tonight speaking to military issues in the news. Since 2010, <mask> has served as an auxiliarist in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, including as a Flotilla Staff Officer. Since 2010, <mask> has been the Managing Partner of the Bryant Zamberlan Group of companies, which include a global communications and organizational development consultancy, TV/film production capability, and BZ/MP, a non-profit news/information and media distribution endeavor. In 2011, news reports covered <mask> and Thomas Zamberlan's donation of their original editor's copies from several Presidential and DoD task forces to the Smithsonian Institution. That same year, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at Bryant's alma mater University of Texas at Austin, acquired <mask>'s personal notes, papers, and recorded recollections related to his work on the Fort Hood investigation and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeals. Task forces and commissions
Digital Dunkirk
In 2021, during the weeks leading up to the withdrawal of American troops and international presence from Afghanistan, <mask> facilitated the emergency evacuation of Afghan allies and their families and served as a planner and spokesperson for the "Digital Dunkirk" coalition of former and current military, diplomatic personnel, and government civilians working to coordinate evacuations.Film, television and radio
<mask> began producing narrative television and film projects in 2016, first joining the digital series Anacostia at the start of its fifth season, as a supervising producer. Beginning with episode five, <mask> was named co-executive producer of the series, a role he continued until September 2019. He occasionally recurred on the series in the role of news anchor "James Vance," an homage to Washington D.C. news anchor Jim Vance. In 2019, the Bryant Zamberlan Group partnered with Gemelli Films and writer-director Candice Cain to produce the first three entries in the "Candy Cain" series of holiday films, Ivy & Mistletoe, starring Cody Calafiore, Carrie Genzel, and Cynthia Gibb; The Maltese Holiday, starring Calafiore, Clayton Snyder, and Abigail Hawk; and Magic in Mount Holly, starring Calafiore, Genzel, Patrick Muldoon, Frank Whaley, Terri Garber, and Jennifer Bassey. <mask> was also an associate producer on Cain's Joy & Hope a western-themed romance co-starring Vivica A. Fox. In 2020, <mask> began production on the sports comedy Aidy Kane, but suspended filming in March 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic.He also debuted in the series regular role of troubled businessman "Gregory Marshall" on the dramatic serial Forever and a Day. <mask> has appeared in two of writer-director Brooke B's audio feature productions, Birthday Blues and Selling the Act, in supporting roles and portrayed "Nolan," the Nutcracker Prince, in JLJ Media's podcast special The Sugar Plum Fairy and the Nutcracker from Molina Productions, a role he reprised as a series regular on "The New Adventures of the Tooth Fairy" series from the same team. Station to Station
During the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, <mask> began writing the psychological drama, Station to Station, directing the film on location in September, keeping cast and crew in an isolated "bubble" to adhere to COVID-19 health and safety protocols. In 2021, the film began its festival run, marking <mask>'s official debut as a feature film writer and director. Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal called the film "compelling" and "bold," and K.P. Smith of We Are Entertainment News called it "deeply satisfying." Both reviewers compared <mask>'s work to that of writer-directors Paul Thomas Anderson and Richard Linklater.Station to Station won "Best Narrative Feature," "Best Actor," and "Best Ensemble" in June 2021 at the IndieEye Film Awards and received multiple honors from IndieFEST and FILMHAUS Berlin in the following months. <mask> was specifically recognized by FILMHAUS with "first-time director" and "original concept" nominations. In October 2021, the Las Vegas International Film and Screenwriting Festival announced Station to Station as both an Official Selection and the festival's opening night feature. The film premiered in competition, earning eight jury nominations, including as a finalist for the festival's Best Drama Feature, winning two, and was selected by attendees to receive the 2021 "Audience Award." On January 8, 2022, Station to Station was released via virtual cinema in the United States. Awards and honors
In December 1996, <mask> was named by the Austin American-Statesman as one of its year's "most memorable." <mask> received a 2010 Platinum MarCom "Special Category" Award for his work as the Managing Editor of the report of the Fort Hood Task Force, 2012 Davey Award for his appearances on America Tonight, 2019 Communicator Award of Distinction for "The Brink with <mask>" interview specials; and multiple Platinum AVA and Hermes Creative Awards for "The Brink with <mask> Bryant: INTERSECTIONS" podcast.<mask> won a 2020 Hermes Creative Award for the trailer for "Journeys Beyond." Filmography
Film
Television and streaming
Radio and podcasts
Personal life
<mask> lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area. References
External links
Bryant Zamberlan Group*
Lyon, Lacretia (2020-09-16). <mask>, pt. 1 and (2020-09-23). <mask>, pt. 2, BLEAV Podcast Network.Retrieved 2020-11-09. American television news anchors
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African-American television personalities
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Moody College of Communication alumni
Excelsior College alumni
University of the Incarnate Word alumni
People from Washington, D.C.
American civil servants
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American journalists
United States Army civilians
United States Department of Defense officials
American journalists of Chinese descent
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8675221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Deriashnyj | Peter Deriashnyj | Peter Deriashnyj (born 2 July 1946 in Calden, Germany) is a Ukrainian Australian bandurist, composer of secular and sacred music, and choral conductor. He specializes in the Kharkiv style of bandura playing, but also plays folk and rock guitar.
Deriashnyj grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales and moved to Sydney to further his professional career and musical education. He studied music theory, composition and voice in Sydney and later became conductor of the Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble (1972–), the Boyan Ukrainian Choir (1982–1996), the Suzwittia Women's Ensemble (1986–1991), the Strathfield Orthodox Parish choir (1980–2007); and musical director and conductor of the Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble (1984–2000).
Early life
Kharkiv style bandurist Deriashnyj was born in Calden, Germany in 1946. He emigrated to Australia with his parents, Fedir and Maria and sister Lidia. In November 1950 they arrived in Melbourne on the passenger liner Goya initially living in migrant camps in Bonegilla and Nelson Bay before settling in Newcastle, New South Wales. After completing his education in Newcastle he moved to Sydney in 1966 to pursue studies in electrical engineering at the Sydney Institute of Technology graduating in 1972, also formal musical studies in classical guitar, music theory, composition and voice.
At age 10, Deriashnyj began to learn to play the bandura from his father, a known performer on and maker of banduras Fedir Deriashnyj. At age 17 he began to study guitar.
Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble
In July 1968 he began to study the Kharkiv style of bandura from Hryhory Bazhul who in the early 1930s in Ukraine had studied bandura under Hnat Khotkevych. In 1969 he wrote his first composition for the bandura "Krai Kozachiy", followed by "Zaspivayu" to the words by Taras Shevchenko, and "Slava Otamanu". He also began to write arrangements of traditional songs for the Kharkiv style bandura. He gave up guitar for bandura, and in 1971 he became the artistic director of a small group of young bandurists originally formed by Hryhory Bazhul, the Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble of Sydney. Under Deriashnyj's direction the group expanded in numbers and included choral vocals in their performances. Their first solo concert took place in 1969 in Wollongong, dedicated to the Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko. In 1971 he also formed the Sydney School of Bandura to introduce the younger generation to the art of this instrument. Students of the School of Bandura were able to learn both the Kharkiv style and the Chernihiv style but since Kharkiv banduras were difficult to procure and the more plentiful Chernihiv type banduras were being brought from Ukraine, gradually more students played the Chernihiv style. The Sydney School of Bandura was the only one in Australia to teach the Kharkiv style.
From 1970 the Bandurist Ensemble toured the eastern states in Australia with concerts and performances and as a quartet performed in Perth, Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne and Geelong. In 1978 the quartet recorded an LP entitled Bandura and Song. The members of the quartet were Neonila Babchenko-Deriashnyj (soprano), Lidia Deriashnyj-Beal (alto) and Peter Chochula (bass).
Choral conducting
By 1986 Deriashnyj became a significant cultural figure within the Ukrainian diaspora in Sydney, as the artistic director of the Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble, the Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble, the Boyan National Choir and the Suzwittia Women's Ensemble. He also conducted the church choir of the parish of the Holy Intercession in Strathfield, simultaneously.
In 1984, Deriashnyj prepared a concert in memory of Ukrainian songwriter Volodymyr Ivasyuk, who lost his life in suspicious circumstances. The success of this concert provided the initiative for the participants to form a new vocal ensemble in Sydney, New South Wales.
In 1988, the ensembles and choirs under his direction celebrated the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine with concert performances in Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, and Canberra.
Solo and duet performances
In 2010, during the visit to Australia of Dymytrii (Rudiuk), Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, they sang the high mass (arhiyereyska) in Brisbane and Newcastle Orthodox parishes. At the Divine Liturgy in Newcastle, they were awarded a patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian people by the Metropolitan on behalf of Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and all of Rus-Ukraine.
In 2010 they travelled to Canada to conduct and sing for the first Divine Liturgy for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, in the Parish of St. Peter and Paul in New Westminster and to perform in Canada's National Ukrainian Festival at Dauphin, Manitoba, and in the Kyiv Pavilion at the Folklorama Festival in Winnipeg.
Deriashnyj played the duma "Dedication to the victims of the Holodomor" during Holodomor-Famine commemorations by the Ukrainian community at the site of the Holodomor memorial in Adelaide in 2010, and at the Ukrainian Orthodox Centre in Canberra in 2011.
Tours
Australia (1986) Melbourne with Khotkevych Bandurist Ensemble of Sydney and Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble
Australia (1988) Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong with Khotkevych Bandurist Ensemble of Sydney and Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble
Ukraine (2003) Duet with Neonila – Kharkiv, Velyka Pysarivka, Kyiv
Ukraine (2008) Duet with Neonila – Kyiv, Stritivka, Rivne, Kharkiv
Canada (2010) Duet with Neonila – Vancouver, Dauphin, Winnipeg
Compositions
Songs and choral works for Kharkiv bandura style
Land of the Kozaks – Край козачий(1969) – words by V. Masliak
Glory to the Otaman – Слава Отаману (1969) – words unknown author
Hamaliya – Гамалія (1969) – words T. Shevchenko
Hope – Надія (1971) – words Lesya Ukrainka
Heneralovi Chupryntsi (1972) – incomplete – words Marko Boyeslav
Nochuvaly Haydamaky – Ночували Гайдамаки (1972) – words T. Shevchenko
I Sing – Заспіваю (1973) – words Taras Shevchenko
"Duma about Petlura" – "Дума про Петлюру" – words by kobzar Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko
Kobza and song – Кобза і пісня (1978)(Bandura and song) – words by A. Yuriniak*
Flag of Ukraine – Прапор України (1978) – words Ivan Danilchuk (Canadian poet)
Oh song, oh song – Пісне, пісне (1978) – words Zoya Kohut (Aust. poet)
Blue eyes – Очі сині – words P. Vakulenko
Beyond the village – За селом (1982) – words Bozhena Kovalenko (Aust. poet)
Oh my maples – Клени, мої клени (1986) words Svitlana Kuzmenko and Stefania Hurko (Canadian Poets)
About mother – Про матір – words Ivan Smal-Stotskiy (Australian poet)
Murmur from Chihirin – Гомін з Чигрину (1987) – words M. Ch.
Farewell – Прощання (1987) – words Bozhena Kovalenko (Aust. poet)
Zazhurylasia smereka – Зажурилася смерека (1987) – poem about V. Ivasiuk smuggled out of Ukraine
A prayer for Ukraine – Молитва України (1998) – words Tetiana Domashenko
Cranes – Лелеки (1998) – words Basil Onyfrienko (Aust. Poet)
Song for Sahaydachnoho – Пісня про Сагайдачного (1998) incomplete – words Basil Onyfrienko (Australian poet)
Mohutniy Volodartsi (1999) – words Ludmila Sarakula (Australian poet)
Ballad about an eagle – Балада про орла (1999) – words Tetiana Voloshko (Australian poet)
The Milky Way – Чимацький шлях (2000) – words Klava Roshko (Aust. poet)
Song for the Bandura – Бандурі (2008) words Lubov Zabashta
Song for Otaman Zelenoho – Пісня про Отамана Зеленого (2009) – words Mykola Shcherbak
Sacred music for choir
Christ is risen (1981)
The Great Litany (1982)
First Antiphon – Bless the Lord, O my soul (1983)
Lord's Prayer (1984)
The Small Litany No. 1, 2, 3 (1985–86)
The Great Eucharistic Prayer (1986)
Tropar for St. Volodymyr (1988) Commemorating millennium of Christianity in Ukraine
It is Right in Truth – Dostoyno ye (1988)
Father and Son – Otsia i Sina (1996)
The Holy Communion Hymn – (1986)
Second Antiphon – Only Begotten Son (1997) Dedicated to Maria and Fedir Deriashnyj
Third Antiphon – The Beatitudes (1997)
Small Litany for the Catechumens (1998)
Pridite poklonimos (1998)
The Thrice-Holy Hymn – Sviatiy Bozhe (1998)
Aliluyia, Glory to Thee, o Lord(1998)
The Creed (1998)
The Dismissal (1999)
The Annunciation (1999)
We have seen the True Light (2000)
The Lords Prayer (2001) in memory of victims of 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks
God with us (2005)
Instrumental arrangements
Chariots of fire – music by Vangelis (for 3 banduras)
Shchedryk – music by Mykola Leontovych (for 3 banduras)
Recordings
"Bandura and Song" – featuring bandura quartet and guitarist Victor Marshall. Producer Peter Ilyk.
"Songs of Volodymyr Ivasiuk" – sung by the Ivasiuk Ukrainian Folk Ensemble; accompaniment by the Sydney Bandurist Ensemble and Victor Burak on piano.
Awards
The Taras Shevchenko medal (Bronze) – (Spilka Vizvolenya Ykrayini 1986) for contribution to music in Australia
The Taras Shevchenko medal (Gold) – (Spilka Vizvolenya Ykrayini 1988) for contribution to music in the diaspora
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Bronze) – (Free Kozaks of Australia) for service to the community
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Silver) – (Free Kozaks of Australia) for service to the community
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Gold) first order – (Free Kozaks of Australia 2005) – for service to the community
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Gold) second order – (Free Kozaks of Australia 2008) – for service to the community
The AFUO medal (Silver) – (Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations 1983?) for service to the community in the arts
The AFUO medal (Gold) – (Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations 1988) for service to the community in the arts
Citation for contribution to art of bandura in diaspora – (Ukraine 2008) Rivne, National Kobzar's Union
Patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate in the diaspora – Awarded by Metropolitan Dimitri 2010.
References
Sources
Новий обрій ("The New Horizon") No. 4 1971 – Melbourne 1971 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association
Новий обрій ("The New Horizon") No. 5 1975 – Melbourne 1975 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association
Новий обрій ("The New Horizon") No. 6 1980 – Melbourne 1980 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association
The Free Thought – Ukrainian Newspaper, Sydney (Nov. 1969, Dec. 1969, Feb. 1970, Mar. 1970, Apr. 1970, July 1970, Aug. 1970, No. 339, Sep. 1970, No. 1097, Feb. 1971, Mar. 1971, No. 1125, No. 1126, No. 1139, Sep. 1971, No. 1155, No. 1176, June 1972, Aug. 1972, No. 1163, No. 392, No. 1128, No. 1152, Nov. 1972, No. 1495, No. 1498, No. 1503 No. 1693–94, No. 1546, No. 1548, No.1542–42)
Church and Life – Ukrainian News press, Melbourne (No. 112, No. 437, No. 474, No. 482, Mar. 1979)
Ukrainians in Australia, Ukrainian News Press – Melbourne (563)
Free World – News Press Winnipeg, May 1971
Artforce Magazine – publication of Australian Arts Council
Dutchak V. – "Deriazhny Petro" / Ukrainian Music Encyclopedia, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2006, vol. 1, p. 601
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Male conductors (music)
1948 births
Living people
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Kobzars
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"Peter Deriashnyj (born 2 July 1946 in Calden, Germany) is a Ukrainian Australian bandurist, composer of secular and sacred music, and choral conductor.",
"He specializes in the Kharkiv style of bandura playing, but also plays folk and rock guitar.",
"Deriashnyj grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales and moved to Sydney to further his professional career and musical education.",
"He studied music theory, composition and voice in Sydney and later became conductor of the Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble (1972–), the Boyan Ukrainian Choir (1982–1996), the Suzwittia Women's Ensemble (1986–1991), the Strathfield Orthodox Parish choir (1980–2007); and musical director and conductor of the Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble (1984–2000).",
"Early life \n\nKharkiv style bandurist Deriashnyj was born in Calden, Germany in 1946.",
"He emigrated to Australia with his parents, Fedir and Maria and sister Lidia.",
"In November 1950 they arrived in Melbourne on the passenger liner Goya initially living in migrant camps in Bonegilla and Nelson Bay before settling in Newcastle, New South Wales.",
"After completing his education in Newcastle he moved to Sydney in 1966 to pursue studies in electrical engineering at the Sydney Institute of Technology graduating in 1972, also formal musical studies in classical guitar, music theory, composition and voice.",
"At age 10, Deriashnyj began to learn to play the bandura from his father, a known performer on and maker of banduras Fedir Deriashnyj.",
"At age 17 he began to study guitar.",
"Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble \n\nIn July 1968 he began to study the Kharkiv style of bandura from Hryhory Bazhul who in the early 1930s in Ukraine had studied bandura under Hnat Khotkevych.",
"In 1969 he wrote his first composition for the bandura \"Krai Kozachiy\", followed by \"Zaspivayu\" to the words by Taras Shevchenko, and \"Slava Otamanu\".",
"He also began to write arrangements of traditional songs for the Kharkiv style bandura.",
"He gave up guitar for bandura, and in 1971 he became the artistic director of a small group of young bandurists originally formed by Hryhory Bazhul, the Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble of Sydney.",
"Under Deriashnyj's direction the group expanded in numbers and included choral vocals in their performances.",
"Their first solo concert took place in 1969 in Wollongong, dedicated to the Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko.",
"In 1971 he also formed the Sydney School of Bandura to introduce the younger generation to the art of this instrument.",
"Students of the School of Bandura were able to learn both the Kharkiv style and the Chernihiv style but since Kharkiv banduras were difficult to procure and the more plentiful Chernihiv type banduras were being brought from Ukraine, gradually more students played the Chernihiv style.",
"The Sydney School of Bandura was the only one in Australia to teach the Kharkiv style.",
"From 1970 the Bandurist Ensemble toured the eastern states in Australia with concerts and performances and as a quartet performed in Perth, Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne and Geelong.",
"In 1978 the quartet recorded an LP entitled Bandura and Song.",
"The members of the quartet were Neonila Babchenko-Deriashnyj (soprano), Lidia Deriashnyj-Beal (alto) and Peter Chochula (bass).",
"Choral conducting \n\nBy 1986 Deriashnyj became a significant cultural figure within the Ukrainian diaspora in Sydney, as the artistic director of the Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble, the Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble, the Boyan National Choir and the Suzwittia Women's Ensemble.",
"He also conducted the church choir of the parish of the Holy Intercession in Strathfield, simultaneously.",
"In 1984, Deriashnyj prepared a concert in memory of Ukrainian songwriter Volodymyr Ivasyuk, who lost his life in suspicious circumstances.",
"The success of this concert provided the initiative for the participants to form a new vocal ensemble in Sydney, New South Wales.",
"In 1988, the ensembles and choirs under his direction celebrated the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine with concert performances in Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, and Canberra.",
"Solo and duet performances \n\nIn 2010, during the visit to Australia of Dymytrii (Rudiuk), Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, they sang the high mass (arhiyereyska) in Brisbane and Newcastle Orthodox parishes.",
"At the Divine Liturgy in Newcastle, they were awarded a patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian people by the Metropolitan on behalf of Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and all of Rus-Ukraine.",
"In 2010 they travelled to Canada to conduct and sing for the first Divine Liturgy for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, in the Parish of St. Peter and Paul in New Westminster and to perform in Canada's National Ukrainian Festival at Dauphin, Manitoba, and in the Kyiv Pavilion at the Folklorama Festival in Winnipeg.",
"Deriashnyj played the duma \"Dedication to the victims of the Holodomor\" during Holodomor-Famine commemorations by the Ukrainian community at the site of the Holodomor memorial in Adelaide in 2010, and at the Ukrainian Orthodox Centre in Canberra in 2011.",
"poet)\n Blue eyes – Очі сині – words P. Vakulenko\n Beyond the village – За селом (1982) – words Bozhena Kovalenko (Aust.",
"poet)\n Oh my maples – Клени, мої клени (1986) words Svitlana Kuzmenko and Stefania Hurko (Canadian Poets)\n About mother – Про матір – words Ivan Smal-Stotskiy (Australian poet)\n Murmur from Chihirin – Гомін з Чигрину (1987) – words M. Ch.",
"Farewell – Прощання (1987) – words Bozhena Kovalenko (Aust.",
"poet)\n Zazhurylasia smereka – Зажурилася смерека (1987) – poem about V. Ivasiuk smuggled out of Ukraine\n A prayer for Ukraine – Молитва України (1998) – words Tetiana Domashenko\n Cranes – Лелеки (1998) – words Basil Onyfrienko (Aust.",
"Poet)\n Song for Sahaydachnoho – Пісня про Сагайдачного (1998) incomplete – words Basil Onyfrienko (Australian poet)\n Mohutniy Volodartsi (1999) – words Ludmila Sarakula (Australian poet)\n Ballad about an eagle – Балада про орла (1999) – words Tetiana Voloshko (Australian poet)\n The Milky Way – Чимацький шлях (2000) – words Klava Roshko (Aust.",
"poet)\n Song for the Bandura – Бандурі (2008) words Lubov Zabashta\n Song for Otaman Zelenoho – Пісня про Отамана Зеленого (2009) – words Mykola Shcherbak\n\nSacred music for choir \n\n Christ is risen (1981)\n The Great Litany (1982)\n First Antiphon – Bless the Lord, O my soul (1983)\n Lord's Prayer (1984)\n The Small Litany No.",
"1, 2, 3 (1985–86)\n The Great Eucharistic Prayer (1986)\n Tropar for St. Volodymyr (1988) Commemorating millennium of Christianity in Ukraine\n It is Right in Truth – Dostoyno ye (1988)\n Father and Son – Otsia i Sina (1996)\n The Holy Communion Hymn – (1986)\n Second Antiphon – Only Begotten Son (1997) Dedicated to Maria and Fedir Deriashnyj\n Third Antiphon – The Beatitudes (1997)\n Small Litany for the Catechumens (1998)\n Pridite poklonimos (1998)\n The Thrice-Holy Hymn – Sviatiy Bozhe (1998)\n Aliluyia, Glory to Thee, o Lord(1998)\n The Creed (1998)\n The Dismissal (1999)\n The Annunciation (1999)\n We have seen the True Light (2000)\n The Lords Prayer (2001) in memory of victims of 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks\n God with us (2005)\n\nInstrumental arrangements \n\n Chariots of fire – music by Vangelis (for 3 banduras)\n Shchedryk – music by Mykola Leontovych (for 3 banduras)\n\nRecordings \n\n \"Bandura and Song\" – featuring bandura quartet and guitarist Victor Marshall.",
"Producer Peter Ilyk.",
"\"Songs of Volodymyr Ivasiuk\" – sung by the Ivasiuk Ukrainian Folk Ensemble; accompaniment by the Sydney Bandurist Ensemble and Victor Burak on piano.",
"Awards \n\n The Taras Shevchenko medal (Bronze) – (Spilka Vizvolenya Ykrayini 1986) for contribution to music in Australia\n The Taras Shevchenko medal (Gold) – (Spilka Vizvolenya Ykrayini 1988) for contribution to music in the diaspora\n The Kozak Cross of Glory (Bronze) – (Free Kozaks of Australia) for service to the community\n The Kozak Cross of Glory (Silver) – (Free Kozaks of Australia) for service to the community\n The Kozak Cross of Glory (Gold) first order – (Free Kozaks of Australia 2005) – for service to the community\n The Kozak Cross of Glory (Gold) second order – (Free Kozaks of Australia 2008) – for service to the community\n The AFUO medal (Silver) – (Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations 1983?)",
"for service to the community in the arts\n The AFUO medal (Gold) – (Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations 1988) for service to the community in the arts\n Citation for contribution to art of bandura in diaspora – (Ukraine 2008) Rivne, National Kobzar's Union\n Patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate in the diaspora – Awarded by Metropolitan Dimitri 2010.",
"References\n\nSources \n\n Новий обрій (\"The New Horizon\") No.",
"4 1971 – Melbourne 1971 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association\n Новий обрій (\"The New Horizon\") No.",
"5 1975 – Melbourne 1975 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association\n Новий обрій (\"The New Horizon\") No.",
"6 1980 – Melbourne 1980 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association \n The Free Thought – Ukrainian Newspaper, Sydney (Nov. 1969, Dec. 1969, Feb. 1970, Mar.",
"1970, Apr.",
"1970, July 1970, Aug. 1970, No.",
"339, Sep. 1970, No.",
"1097, Feb. 1971, Mar.",
"1971, No.",
"1125, No.",
"1126, No.",
"1139, Sep. 1971, No.",
"1155, No.",
"1176, June 1972, Aug. 1972, No.",
"1163, No.",
"392, No.",
"1128, No.",
"1152, Nov. 1972, No.",
"1495, No.",
"1498, No.",
"1503 No.",
"1693–94, No.",
"1546, No.",
"1548, No.1542–42)\n Church and Life – Ukrainian News press, Melbourne (No.",
"112, No.",
"437, No.",
"474, No.",
"482, Mar.",
"1979)\n Ukrainians in Australia, Ukrainian News Press – Melbourne (563)\n Free World – News Press Winnipeg, May 1971\n Artforce Magazine – publication of Australian Arts Council\n Dutchak V. – \"Deriazhny Petro\" / Ukrainian Music Encyclopedia, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2006, vol.",
"1, p. 601\n\nUkrainian conductors (music)\nMale conductors (music)\n1948 births\nLiving people\nComposers for bandura\nBandurists\nKobzars\nUkrainian composers\nAustralian people of Ukrainian descent\n21st-century conductors (music)\n21st-century male musicians"
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"Peter Deriashnyj is a Ukrainian Australian bandurist, composer of secular and sacred music, and choral conductor.",
"He plays bandura in the Kharkiv style and also plays folk and rock guitar.",
"Deriashnyj grew up in New South Wales and moved to Australia to further his career.",
"He studied music theory, composition and voice in Australia and later became a conductor.",
"Deriashnyj was born in Germany in 1946.",
"He was the son of Fedir and Maria and sister Lidia.",
"They settled in New South Wales after living in migrant camps in Nelson Bay and Bonegilla.",
"He graduated from the Sydney Institute of Technology in 1972 with formal musical studies in classical guitar, music theory, composition and voice.",
"At age 10, Deriashnyj began to learn to play the bandura from his father.",
"He began to study guitar at a young age.",
"He began to study the style of bandura from Hryhory Bazhul who studied it in the early 1930s.",
"His first composition for the bandura was \"Krai Kozachiy\", followed by \"Zaspivayu\" and \"Slava Otamanu\".",
"He wrote arrangements of traditional songs for the bandura.",
"He became the artistic director of a small group of young bandurists in 1971 after giving up guitar.",
"The group expanded in numbers under Deriashnyj's direction.",
"Their first concert was dedicated to the Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko.",
"The younger generation was introduced to the art of this instrument by the Sydney School of Bandura.",
"Students of the School of Bandura were able to learn both the Kharkiv style and the Chernihiv style but since the more plentiful Chernihiv type banduras were being brought from Ukraine, more students played the Cherni.",
"The only school in Australia that taught the Kharkiv style was the Sydney School of Bandura.",
"The Bandurist ensemble toured the eastern states of Australia in the 70s with concerts and performances.",
"Bandura and Song was recorded in 1978.",
"The quartet consisted of Neonila Babchenko-Deriashnyj, Lidia Deriashnyj-Beal, and Peter Chochula.",
"Deriashnyj was the artistic director of the Ukrainian Bandurist ensemble, the Ivasiuk Folk ensemble, the Boyan National Choir and the Suzwittia Women's ensemble.",
"The church choir of the Holy Intercession was also conducted by him.",
"In 1984 a concert was held in memory of Volodymyr Ivasyuk, who died in suspicious circumstances.",
"The success of this concert led to the creation of a new vocal ensemble in New South Wales.",
"The millennium of Christianity in Ukraine was celebrated in 1988 by the ensembles and choirs under his direction.",
"During their visit to Australia of Dymytrii (Rudiuk), Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, they sang the high mass in two Orthodox churches.",
"They were awarded a patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian people by the Metropolitan on behalf of Filaret.",
"They traveled to Canada in 2010 to conduct and sing for the first Divine Liturgy for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.",
"In 2010 and 2011, Deriashnyj played the duma \"Dedication to the victims of the Holodomor\" during commemorations by the Ukrainian community.",
"Blue eyes is a poem by P. Vakulenko Beyond the village is a poem by Bozhena Kovalenko.",
"Ivan Smal-Stotskiy is an Australian poet.",
"Bozhena Kovalenko said farewell.",
"There is a poem about V. Ivasiuk smuggled out of Ukraine.",
"Basil Onyfrienko is an Australian poet.",
"The song for the Bandura was written by Lubov Zabashta.",
"The Great Eucharistic Prayer, Tropar for St. Volodymyr, and Father and Son are all from 1985.",
"Peter Ilyk is a producer.",
"The \"Songs of Volodymyr Ivasiuk\" are sung by the Ivasiuk Ukrainian Folk ensemble.",
"The Taras Shevchenko medal was given for contribution to music in Australia.",
"The AFUO medal is a citation for service to the community in the arts.",
"There are sources for \"The New Horizon\".",
"The Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association was founded in 1971.",
"In 1975, the Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association was formed.",
"The Free Thought is a Ukrainian newspaper in Australia.",
"April 1970,",
"August 1970, No.",
"September 1970, No.",
"1097, Feb. 1971, Mar.",
"1971, No.",
"1125, No.",
"1126, No.",
"Sept. 1971, No. 1139",
"1155, No.",
"June 1972 and August 1972 were the years.",
"No. 1163",
"No. 362, No.",
"1128, No.",
"November 1972, No. 1152.",
"1499, No.",
"1498, No.",
"1503 No.",
"No. 1693–94",
"1546, No.",
"The Church and Life is a Ukrainian news press.",
"112, No.",
"No. 437, No.",
"474, No.",
"484, Mar.",
"Artforce Magazine was published in 1971 by the Australian Arts Council.",
"Ukrainian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) 1948 births Living people Composers for bandura Bandurists Kobzars Ukrainian composers Australian people of Ukrainian descent 21st-century conductors (music) 21st-century male musicians"
] | <mask> (born 2 July 1946 in Calden, Germany) is a Ukrainian Australian bandurist, composer of secular and sacred music, and choral conductor. He specializes in the Kharkiv style of bandura playing, but also plays folk and rock guitar. Deriashnyj grew up in Newcastle, New South Wales and moved to Sydney to further his professional career and musical education. He studied music theory, composition and voice in Sydney and later became conductor of the Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble (1972–), the Boyan Ukrainian Choir (1982–1996), the Suzwittia Women's Ensemble (1986–1991), the Strathfield Orthodox Parish choir (1980–2007); and musical director and conductor of the Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble (1984–2000). Early life
Kharkiv style bandurist <mask> was born in Calden, Germany in 1946. He emigrated to Australia with his parents, Fedir and Maria and sister Lidia. In November 1950 they arrived in Melbourne on the passenger liner Goya initially living in migrant camps in Bonegilla and Nelson Bay before settling in Newcastle, New South Wales.After completing his education in Newcastle he moved to Sydney in 1966 to pursue studies in electrical engineering at the Sydney Institute of Technology graduating in 1972, also formal musical studies in classical guitar, music theory, composition and voice. At age 10, Deriashnyj began to learn to play the bandura from his father, a known performer on and maker of banduras Fedir Deriashnyj. At age 17 he began to study guitar. Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble
In July 1968 he began to study the Kharkiv style of bandura from Hryhory Bazhul who in the early 1930s in Ukraine had studied bandura under Hnat Khotkevych. In 1969 he wrote his first composition for the bandura "Krai Kozachiy", followed by "Zaspivayu" to the words by Taras Shevchenko, and "Slava Otamanu". He also began to write arrangements of traditional songs for the Kharkiv style bandura. He gave up guitar for bandura, and in 1971 he became the artistic director of a small group of young bandurists originally formed by Hryhory Bazhul, the Hnat Khotkevych Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble of Sydney.Under <mask>'s direction the group expanded in numbers and included choral vocals in their performances. Their first solo concert took place in 1969 in Wollongong, dedicated to the Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko. In 1971 he also formed the Sydney School of Bandura to introduce the younger generation to the art of this instrument. Students of the School of Bandura were able to learn both the Kharkiv style and the Chernihiv style but since Kharkiv banduras were difficult to procure and the more plentiful Chernihiv type banduras were being brought from Ukraine, gradually more students played the Chernihiv style. The Sydney School of Bandura was the only one in Australia to teach the Kharkiv style. From 1970 the Bandurist Ensemble toured the eastern states in Australia with concerts and performances and as a quartet performed in Perth, Hobart, Adelaide, Melbourne and Geelong. In 1978 the quartet recorded an LP entitled Bandura and Song.The members of the quartet were Neonila Babchenko-Deriashnyj (soprano), Lidia <mask>-Beal (alto) and <mask> (bass). Choral conducting
By 1986 Deriashnyj became a significant cultural figure within the Ukrainian diaspora in Sydney, as the artistic director of the Ukrainian Bandurist Ensemble, the Ivasiuk Folk Ensemble, the Boyan National Choir and the Suzwittia Women's Ensemble. He also conducted the church choir of the parish of the Holy Intercession in Strathfield, simultaneously. In 1984, Deriashnyj prepared a concert in memory of Ukrainian songwriter Volodymyr Ivasyuk, who lost his life in suspicious circumstances. The success of this concert provided the initiative for the participants to form a new vocal ensemble in Sydney, New South Wales. In 1988, the ensembles and choirs under his direction celebrated the millennium of Christianity in Ukraine with concert performances in Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong, and Canberra. Solo and duet performances
In 2010, during the visit to Australia of Dymytrii (Rudiuk), Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, they sang the high mass (arhiyereyska) in Brisbane and Newcastle Orthodox parishes.At the Divine Liturgy in Newcastle, they were awarded a patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian people by the Metropolitan on behalf of Filaret, Patriarch of Kyiv and all of Rus-Ukraine. In 2010 they travelled to Canada to conduct and sing for the first Divine Liturgy for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, in the Parish of St. Peter and Paul in New Westminster and to perform in Canada's National Ukrainian Festival at Dauphin, Manitoba, and in the Kyiv Pavilion at the Folklorama Festival in Winnipeg. Deriashnyj played the duma "Dedication to the victims of the Holodomor" during Holodomor-Famine commemorations by the Ukrainian community at the site of the Holodomor memorial in Adelaide in 2010, and at the Ukrainian Orthodox Centre in Canberra in 2011. poet)
Blue eyes – Очі сині – words P. Vakulenko
Beyond the village – За селом (1982) – words Bozhena Kovalenko (Aust. poet)
Oh my maples – Клени, мої клени (1986) words Svitlana Kuzmenko and Stefania Hurko (Canadian Poets)
About mother – Про матір – words Ivan Smal-Stotskiy (Australian poet)
Murmur from Chihirin – Гомін з Чигрину (1987) – words M. Ch. Farewell – Прощання (1987) – words Bozhena Kovalenko (Aust. poet)
Zazhurylasia smereka – Зажурилася смерека (1987) – poem about V. Ivasiuk smuggled out of Ukraine
A prayer for Ukraine – Молитва України (1998) – words Tetiana Domashenko
Cranes – Лелеки (1998) – words Basil Onyfrienko (Aust.Poet)
Song for Sahaydachnoho – Пісня про Сагайдачного (1998) incomplete – words Basil Onyfrienko (Australian poet)
Mohutniy Volodartsi (1999) – words Ludmila Sarakula (Australian poet)
Ballad about an eagle – Балада про орла (1999) – words Tetiana Voloshko (Australian poet)
The Milky Way – Чимацький шлях (2000) – words Klava Roshko (Aust. poet)
Song for the Bandura – Бандурі (2008) words Lubov Zabashta
Song for Otaman Zelenoho – Пісня про Отамана Зеленого (2009) – words Mykola Shcherbak
Sacred music for choir
Christ is risen (1981)
The Great Litany (1982)
First Antiphon – Bless the Lord, O my soul (1983)
Lord's Prayer (1984)
The Small Litany No. 1, 2, 3 (1985–86)
The Great Eucharistic Prayer (1986)
Tropar for St. Volodymyr (1988) Commemorating millennium of Christianity in Ukraine
It is Right in Truth – Dostoyno ye (1988)
Father and Son – Otsia i Sina (1996)
The Holy Communion Hymn – (1986)
Second Antiphon – Only Begotten Son (1997) Dedicated to Maria and Fedir Deriashnyj
Third Antiphon – The Beatitudes (1997)
Small Litany for the Catechumens (1998)
Pridite poklonimos (1998)
The Thrice-Holy Hymn – Sviatiy Bozhe (1998)
Aliluyia, Glory to Thee, o Lord(1998)
The Creed (1998)
The Dismissal (1999)
The Annunciation (1999)
We have seen the True Light (2000)
The Lords Prayer (2001) in memory of victims of 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks
God with us (2005)
Instrumental arrangements
Chariots of fire – music by Vangelis (for 3 banduras)
Shchedryk – music by Mykola Leontovych (for 3 banduras)
Recordings
"Bandura and Song" – featuring bandura quartet and guitarist Victor Marshall. Producer Peter Ilyk. "Songs of Volodymyr Ivasiuk" – sung by the Ivasiuk Ukrainian Folk Ensemble; accompaniment by the Sydney Bandurist Ensemble and Victor Burak on piano. Awards
The Taras Shevchenko medal (Bronze) – (Spilka Vizvolenya Ykrayini 1986) for contribution to music in Australia
The Taras Shevchenko medal (Gold) – (Spilka Vizvolenya Ykrayini 1988) for contribution to music in the diaspora
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Bronze) – (Free Kozaks of Australia) for service to the community
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Silver) – (Free Kozaks of Australia) for service to the community
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Gold) first order – (Free Kozaks of Australia 2005) – for service to the community
The Kozak Cross of Glory (Gold) second order – (Free Kozaks of Australia 2008) – for service to the community
The AFUO medal (Silver) – (Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations 1983?) for service to the community in the arts
The AFUO medal (Gold) – (Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations 1988) for service to the community in the arts
Citation for contribution to art of bandura in diaspora – (Ukraine 2008) Rivne, National Kobzar's Union
Patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate in the diaspora – Awarded by Metropolitan Dimitri 2010.References
Sources
Новий обрій ("The New Horizon") No. 4 1971 – Melbourne 1971 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association
Новий обрій ("The New Horizon") No. 5 1975 – Melbourne 1975 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association
Новий обрій ("The New Horizon") No. 6 1980 – Melbourne 1980 – Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association
The Free Thought – Ukrainian Newspaper, Sydney (Nov. 1969, Dec. 1969, Feb. 1970, Mar. 1970, Apr. 1970, July 1970, Aug. 1970, No. 339, Sep. 1970, No.1097, Feb. 1971, Mar. 1971, No. 1125, No. 1126, No. 1139, Sep. 1971, No. 1155, No. 1176, June 1972, Aug. 1972, No.1163, No. 392, No. 1128, No. 1152, Nov. 1972, No. 1495, No. 1498, No. 1503 No.1693–94, No. 1546, No. 1548, No.1542–42)
Church and Life – Ukrainian News press, Melbourne (No. 112, No. 437, No. 474, No. 482, Mar.1979)
Ukrainians in Australia, Ukrainian News Press – Melbourne (563)
Free World – News Press Winnipeg, May 1971
Artforce Magazine – publication of Australian Arts Council
Dutchak V. – "Deriazhny Petro" / Ukrainian Music Encyclopedia, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, 2006, vol. 1, p. 601
Ukrainian conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
1948 births
Living people
Composers for bandura
Bandurists
Kobzars
Ukrainian composers
Australian people of Ukrainian descent
21st-century conductors (music)
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] | <mask> is a Ukrainian Australian bandurist, composer of secular and sacred music, and choral conductor. He plays bandura in the Kharkiv style and also plays folk and rock guitar. <mask> grew up in New South Wales and moved to Australia to further his career. He studied music theory, composition and voice in Australia and later became a conductor. <mask> was born in Germany in 1946. He was the son of Fedir and Maria and sister Lidia. They settled in New South Wales after living in migrant camps in Nelson Bay and Bonegilla.He graduated from the Sydney Institute of Technology in 1972 with formal musical studies in classical guitar, music theory, composition and voice. At age 10, Deriashnyj began to learn to play the bandura from his father. He began to study guitar at a young age. He began to study the style of bandura from Hryhory Bazhul who studied it in the early 1930s. His first composition for the bandura was "Krai Kozachiy", followed by "Zaspivayu" and "Slava Otamanu". He wrote arrangements of traditional songs for the bandura. He became the artistic director of a small group of young bandurists in 1971 after giving up guitar.The group expanded in numbers under <mask>'s direction. Their first concert was dedicated to the Ukrainian bard Taras Shevchenko. The younger generation was introduced to the art of this instrument by the Sydney School of Bandura. Students of the School of Bandura were able to learn both the Kharkiv style and the Chernihiv style but since the more plentiful Chernihiv type banduras were being brought from Ukraine, more students played the Cherni. The only school in Australia that taught the Kharkiv style was the Sydney School of Bandura. The Bandurist ensemble toured the eastern states of Australia in the 70s with concerts and performances. Bandura and Song was recorded in 1978.The quartet consisted of Neonila Babchenko-Deriashnyj, Lidia <mask>-Beal, and <mask>. Deriashnyj was the artistic director of the Ukrainian Bandurist ensemble, the Ivasiuk Folk ensemble, the Boyan National Choir and the Suzwittia Women's ensemble. The church choir of the Holy Intercession was also conducted by him. In 1984 a concert was held in memory of Volodymyr Ivasyuk, who died in suspicious circumstances. The success of this concert led to the creation of a new vocal ensemble in New South Wales. The millennium of Christianity in Ukraine was celebrated in 1988 by the ensembles and choirs under his direction. During their visit to Australia of Dymytrii (Rudiuk), Metropolitan of Lviv and Sokal, they sang the high mass in two Orthodox churches.They were awarded a patriarchal citation for service to the Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian people by the Metropolitan on behalf of Filaret. They traveled to Canada in 2010 to conduct and sing for the first Divine Liturgy for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate. In 2010 and 2011, Deriashnyj played the duma "Dedication to the victims of the Holodomor" during commemorations by the Ukrainian community. Blue eyes is a poem by P. Vakulenko Beyond the village is a poem by Bozhena Kovalenko. Ivan Smal-Stotskiy is an Australian poet. Bozhena Kovalenko said farewell. There is a poem about V. Ivasiuk smuggled out of Ukraine.Basil Onyfrienko is an Australian poet. The song for the Bandura was written by Lubov Zabashta. The Great Eucharistic Prayer, Tropar for St. Volodymyr, and Father and Son are all from 1985. <mask> is a producer. The "Songs of Volodymyr Ivasiuk" are sung by the Ivasiuk Ukrainian Folk ensemble. The Taras Shevchenko medal was given for contribution to music in Australia. The AFUO medal is a citation for service to the community in the arts.There are sources for "The New Horizon". The Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association was founded in 1971. In 1975, the Melbourne Literary-Cultural Association was formed. The Free Thought is a Ukrainian newspaper in Australia. April 1970, August 1970, No. September 1970, No.1097, Feb. 1971, Mar. 1971, No. 1125, No. 1126, No. Sept. 1971, No. 1139 1155, No. June 1972 and August 1972 were the years.No. 1163 No. 362, No. 1128, No. November 1972, No. 1152. 1499, No. 1498, No. 1503 No.No. 1693–94 1546, No. The Church and Life is a Ukrainian news press. 112, No. No. 437, No. 474, No. 484, Mar.Artforce Magazine was published in 1971 by the Australian Arts Council. Ukrainian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) 1948 births Living people Composers for bandura Bandurists Kobzars Ukrainian composers Australian people of Ukrainian descent 21st-century conductors (music) 21st-century male musicians | [
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67014017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Cavalieri | Angela Cavalieri | Angela Cavalieri is an Australian printmaker.
Early life and education
Cavalieri's parents migrated from Calabria, Italy, to Australia in the post-war period. She studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1981 to 1983.
Career
Cavalieri continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions since 1984.
She has been awarded several prizes and has undertaken a number of artist residencies in Europe and Australia. Her work is held in many public and private collections throughout Australia, notably Australian National Gallery, The National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria. She is also represented in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.
Art practice
Text, language and the transformative nature of culture are recurring themes in Cavalieri's art practice, referencing in particular her Italian heritage. Her work has been described as "visually seductive, monumental in their proportions and immediate in their impact" by the art historian Sasha Grishin.
She surveys the art of writing and storytelling in a visual form in a series of monumental, hand-rolled linocuts on canvas as well as producing small-scale artist's books.
Passages from Dante, Petrarch, Italo Calvino and the influences of Italian artists such as Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Piranesi are referenced in her work. The music of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) also provided Cavalieri with inspiration, as a result of an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to produce a work about an opera in 2011, the State Library of Victoria's Creative Fellowship (2012-2013) and a residency at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency in Venice (2015), exploring the city where Monteverdi lived in the last decades of his life.
Awards and residencies
National Gallery of Victoria Trustee Award, 1981
Desiderius Orban Youth Award, Australia Council, 1984
Mitchell Endowment Acquisition Prize, National Gallery of Victoria, 1985
Overseas Studio Grant Paretaio, Italy, Australia Council, 1986
Project Grant, Visual Arts/Craft Board, Australia Council, 1990
Sutherland Acquisitive Prize, Sutherland Shire Council, NSW, 1999
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Western Australia, 1999
Conrad Jupiter Acquisitive Prize, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, 2000
Grand Prize, The Silk Cut Print Award, 2000
Artists-in-Schools Program Grant, Arts Victoria, 2001
Australia Council Residency, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2003
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Travel Sponsorship for Academici at The British School at Rome, Italy 2005
Edith Cowen University Residency, Perth, Wester Australia, 2005
RMIT Summer Residency and exhibition at Project Space/Spare Room, 2007-8
Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Piramidon, Centre for Contemporary Art, Residency, Barcelona, Spain, 2008
Geelong Print Prize Acquisitive Award, 2009
Australia Council Studio Grant for Barcelona, Spain, 2010
State Library Victoria Creative Fellowship, Melbourne, Victoria, 2012
La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency, Venice, Italy, 2015
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
Gertrude Contemporary (formerly 200 Gertrude Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Victoria), 1986
Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 1990
Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, 1990
'Recent Works', 108 Moor Street, Fitzroy, Victoria, 1996
Smyrnios Gallery Australia, Melbourne, 1998
Quattro Pagine, Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne, 1999
Motor Works Gallery, Melbourne, 2001
Città Scritta, Ovens Street Studios, Melbourne, 2004
Scripta Manent, Artspace Mackay, Queensland, 2006
Racconto: the Narrative and Text of Angela Cavalieri , The ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood Campus, Melbourne, Victoria, 2007
Passaggi Scritti, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 26 February - 22 March, 2007
Chiacchierone, Australian Galleries, Smith Street, Collingwood, Victoria, 3 February - 27 February, 2011
Canzone: Music as Storytelling, Fortyfivedownstairs, Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Victoria, 29 September - 24 October, 2015
Canzone: Music as Storytelling, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Northern Territory, 9 April - 7 May, 2016
Selected group exhibitions
National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2004
SMS Artists use TXT, Gold Coast City Gallery, Queensland, 2004
Lost in Translation, Spectrum Project Space, Perth, Western Australia, 2005
Seven Stories, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria, 2005
Bookscapes: exploring contemporary Australian artist's book, Port Jackson Press Print Room, Melbourne, Victoria, 2005
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2005
The Academy Gallery, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2005
Academici: The Australia Council Visual Arts/Crafts Board Rome Studio Residency 1999-2004, Monash University Gallery, Caulfield East, Victoria, 16 March - 13 April, 2005
Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Victoria, 2006
Art Bound: a selection of artists' books, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 23 May - 26 July, 2006
Lexicon, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne, Victoria, 2006
Bookish, Australian Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria, 2006
City of Hobart Art Prize, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, 2006
Meeting Place, Keeping Place, George Adams Gallery, Arts Centre Melbourne, Victoria, 2006
PROOF: Contemporary Australian Printmaking, The Ian Potter Centre, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne, 9 December, 2006 - 1 April, 2007
Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Regional Gallery, Tasmania, 2007
Works on Paper Prize, City of Banyule, Victoria, 2007
Lessons in History Vol. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Queensland, 2007
Transitions: European Island and Regional Cultures in Late 20th & Early 21st Centuries, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 2008
Anthology: selection of works by nine Gallery 101 artists who display the diversity of their multidisciplinary individual artistic practices, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, 3 - 28 June, 2008
Surveying the Field, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland - selection of works by seven leading Australian artists, living or working in the arts in Moreland, 17 July - 16 August, 2009
References
Living people
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"She studied printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1981 to 1983.",
"Career\nCavalieri continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions since 1984.",
"She has been awarded several prizes and has undertaken a number of artist residencies in Europe and Australia.",
"Her work is held in many public and private collections throughout Australia, notably Australian National Gallery, The National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria.",
"She is also represented in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.",
"Art practice\nText, language and the transformative nature of culture are recurring themes in Cavalieri's art practice, referencing in particular her Italian heritage.",
"Her work has been described as \"visually seductive, monumental in their proportions and immediate in their impact\" by the art historian Sasha Grishin.",
"She surveys the art of writing and storytelling in a visual form in a series of monumental, hand-rolled linocuts on canvas as well as producing small-scale artist's books.",
"Passages from Dante, Petrarch, Italo Calvino and the influences of Italian artists such as Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Piranesi are referenced in her work.",
"The music of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) also provided Cavalieri with inspiration, as a result of an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to produce a work about an opera in 2011, the State Library of Victoria's Creative Fellowship (2012-2013) and a residency at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency in Venice (2015), exploring the city where Monteverdi lived in the last decades of his life.",
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Cavalieri continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions since 1984. She has been awarded several prizes and has undertaken a number of artist residencies in Europe and Australia. Her work is held in many public and private collections throughout Australia, notably Australian National Gallery, The National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne and State Library of Victoria. She is also represented in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland.Art practice
Text, language and the transformative nature of culture are recurring themes in Cavalieri's art practice, referencing in particular her Italian heritage. Her work has been described as "visually seductive, monumental in their proportions and immediate in their impact" by the art historian Sasha Grishin. She surveys the art of writing and storytelling in a visual form in a series of monumental, hand-rolled linocuts on canvas as well as producing small-scale artist's books. Passages from Dante, Petrarch, Italo Calvino and the influences of Italian artists such as Piero della Francesca, Giotto and Piranesi are referenced in her work. The music of the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) also provided Cavalieri with inspiration, as a result of an Arts Centre Melbourne commission to produce a work about an opera in 2011, the State Library of Victoria's Creative Fellowship (2012-2013) and a residency at La Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Residency in Venice (2015), exploring the city where Monteverdi lived in the last decades of his life. 1, Grahame Galleries + Editions, Queensland, 2007
Transitions: European Island and Regional Cultures in Late 20th & Early 21st Centuries, Macquarie University Gallery, Sydney, NSW, 2008
Anthology: selection of works by nine Gallery 101 artists who display the diversity of their multidisciplinary individual artistic practices, Gallery 101, Collins Street, Melbourne, 3 - 28 June, 2008
Surveying the Field, Counihan Gallery, Brunswick, City of Moreland - selection of works by seven leading Australian artists, living or working in the arts in Moreland, 17 July - 16 August, 2009
References
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10830096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Hatch%20%28development%20specialist%29 | John Hatch (development specialist) | Dr. John Keith Hatch (born November 7, 1940) is an American economic development expert and a pioneer in modern-day microfinance. He is the founder of FINCA International and the Rural Development Services (RDS), and is famous for innovating village banking, arguably the world’s most widely imitated microfinance methodology.
Childhood and Family
Hatch was born in 1940 in Pullman, Washington. His father, a college professor, could trace his ancestors back 14 generations to the first Pilgrim baby born in the New World. His mother, born in Costa Rica, had ancestors which included an authentic conquistador, a railway-builder, and a co-founder of Pan American World Airlines
Education and early career
After high school in Massachusetts and a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University, in July 1962 Hatch joined the Peace Corps for a 2-year tour of duty in Colombia. Trained as a "community development" volunteer, he was assigned to a semi-urban barrio known as Hoyo Sapo ("Frog Hole") on the outskirts of Medellín. There, he helped organize the community to construct sewer lines, streets, a community center, library, soccer field, and a footbridge. It was also in Medellin that he became fluent in Spanish, embraced Latin culture, and was first exposed to severe poverty, infant malnutrition, and illiteracy. Little did he realize at the time that he had just embarked on a career of service to the world's poorest families that would continue uninterrupted for the next four decades of his life.
Following his duty tour in Colombia he briefly served as an instructor in two Peace Corps training programs. Then, in early 1965 he was recruited as a regional Peace Corps director for Peru. Over the next 30 months he supervised some 55 volunteers working in agricultural cooperatives and credit unions serving the poorest. He returned home for graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, obtaining an MA in Economic History (1970) and a PhD in Economic Development (1973). In between (1970–71) a Fulbright grant allowed him to spend two crop cycles as a hired labor to 30 peasant farmers in Peru, documenting the power and wisdom of their traditional farming practices. The experience taught him deep respect for the subsistence skills of the poor. For the next 12 years he worked as a consultant in the design, management, and evaluation of mostly agricultural projects seeking to benefit the poor, eventually completing over 55 assignments in 28 countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Sadly, he found himself documenting dozens of foreign assistance failures that came closer to destroying than assisting their intended beneficiaries. He longed to create an organization that would allow the poor themselves-not bureaucrats, consultants, or other outsiders-to manage their own development initiatives.
Founding FINCA
In 1984, Hatch finally created his own nonprofit agency-the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA). He was inspired with the idea of FINCA while in an airplane high above the Andes, en route to a consultant assignment in Bolivia. He grabbed in-flight cocktail napkins, scraps of paper, and a pen and began writing down ideas, equations, and flow charts as fast as he could. By the time he landed in La Paz, he had the outline of a radically different approach to poverty alleviation: a financial services program that put the poor in charge. “Give poor communities the opportunity, and then get out of the way!” he said. The means to achieving this purpose were "village banks", a self-managed support group of some 25 borrower-owners. Its purpose was to provide the poorest families, particularly those headed by single-mothers, with loans to finance self-employment activities capable of generating additional household income. FINCA currently operates village banking programs in 23 countries and since 1984 it has assisted over 1,000,000 families, lending over $360 million (in 2007) to the world's poorest families with a repayment rate of 98%, while also generating enough income to completely cover the operating costs of the field programs themselves. Moreover, there are now over 800 village banking programs worldwide in 60 countries created by about 30 other nonprofit agencies.
Retirement
In 2006, Hatch announced his retirement from day-to-day operations at FINCA headquarters in Washington, DC, although he continues to support FINCA in his capacity as a board member, fundraiser, and guest lecturer at universities. He currently lives with his wife Marguerite in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is pursuing a lifelong interest in watercoloring and screen writing. He is also co-founder of a new nonprofit—the Alliance of Students Against Poverty (ASAP)--which has a goal of ending global poverty by getting two million Americans to pledge "$1/day for those living on less than $1/day, thus raising $10 billion by the year 2025 to be distributed to those microfinance agencies with the best track record of serving the "poorest of the poor". On June 26, 2009, Hatch was presented with the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service by the National Peace Corps Association.
Quotes
"Of course, our work is far from done. Yet considering current growth trends, I know that by the time I retire over 200 million households worldwide will have been benefited by the poverty vaccine of microfinance and/or village banking . What I also know is that my grandchildren will inherit a world where severe poverty has been abolished."
"...looking ahead to the year 2025, at the age of 85 I plan to take my great grandchildren to visit the "Poverty Museum" in Washington, DC, so they can understand how half the human family used to live, but found a way to lift themselves out of poverty"
Publications by John Hatch
Innovations from the Field. A Daringly Brief Summary of a Huge Phenomenon. By John K. Hatch & Sara Levine, Pathways Out of Poverty. Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families. Kummarian Press (2002)
Poverty Assessment by Microfinance Institutions: A Review of Current Practice. By John K. Hatch & Laura Frederick, Development Alternatives, Inc. (1998)
Our Knowledge: Traditional Farming Practices in Rural Bolivia Vol:1 Altiplano Region., Vol.2 Temperate Valleys, Vol. 3 Tropics, By John K. Hatch, (1983)
MSU rural development series. By John K. Hatch, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University (1980)
An Evaluation of the AIFLD/HISTADRUT project proposal to assist peasant federations in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. By John K. Hatch, Rural Development Services (1977)
A Report on the National Association of Honduran Peasants (ANACH). By John K. Hatch, Rural Development Services (1977)
Group farming in the Dominican Republic. By John K. Hatch, Rural Development Services (1977)
Strategies for Small Farmer Development, vol. 1. By Elliott R. Morss, John K. Hatch, Donald R. Mickelwait, and Charles F. Sweet, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press (1976)
The corn farmers of Motupe: A study of traditional farming practices in northern coastal Peru (Land Tenure Center monographs ; no. 1). By John K. Hatch, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976)
See also
FINCA International
Village Banking
FINCA Afghanistan
Microcredit
Microfinance
References
Development specialists
Johns Hopkins University alumni
1940 births
Living people
American expatriates in Colombia
American expatriates in Peru
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni | [
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"He is the founder of FINCA International and the Rural Development Services (RDS), and is famous for innovating village banking, arguably the world’s most widely imitated microfinance methodology.",
"Childhood and Family\nHatch was born in 1940 in Pullman, Washington.",
"His father, a college professor, could trace his ancestors back 14 generations to the first Pilgrim baby born in the New World.",
"His mother, born in Costa Rica, had ancestors which included an authentic conquistador, a railway-builder, and a co-founder of Pan American World Airlines\n\nEducation and early career\nAfter high school in Massachusetts and a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University, in July 1962 Hatch joined the Peace Corps for a 2-year tour of duty in Colombia.",
"Trained as a \"community development\" volunteer, he was assigned to a semi-urban barrio known as Hoyo Sapo (\"Frog Hole\") on the outskirts of Medellín.",
"There, he helped organize the community to construct sewer lines, streets, a community center, library, soccer field, and a footbridge.",
"It was also in Medellin that he became fluent in Spanish, embraced Latin culture, and was first exposed to severe poverty, infant malnutrition, and illiteracy.",
"Little did he realize at the time that he had just embarked on a career of service to the world's poorest families that would continue uninterrupted for the next four decades of his life.",
"Following his duty tour in Colombia he briefly served as an instructor in two Peace Corps training programs.",
"Then, in early 1965 he was recruited as a regional Peace Corps director for Peru.",
"Over the next 30 months he supervised some 55 volunteers working in agricultural cooperatives and credit unions serving the poorest.",
"He returned home for graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, obtaining an MA in Economic History (1970) and a PhD in Economic Development (1973).",
"In between (1970–71) a Fulbright grant allowed him to spend two crop cycles as a hired labor to 30 peasant farmers in Peru, documenting the power and wisdom of their traditional farming practices.",
"The experience taught him deep respect for the subsistence skills of the poor.",
"For the next 12 years he worked as a consultant in the design, management, and evaluation of mostly agricultural projects seeking to benefit the poor, eventually completing over 55 assignments in 28 countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia.",
"Sadly, he found himself documenting dozens of foreign assistance failures that came closer to destroying than assisting their intended beneficiaries.",
"He longed to create an organization that would allow the poor themselves-not bureaucrats, consultants, or other outsiders-to manage their own development initiatives.",
"Founding FINCA\nIn 1984, Hatch finally created his own nonprofit agency-the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA).",
"He was inspired with the idea of FINCA while in an airplane high above the Andes, en route to a consultant assignment in Bolivia.",
"He grabbed in-flight cocktail napkins, scraps of paper, and a pen and began writing down ideas, equations, and flow charts as fast as he could.",
"By the time he landed in La Paz, he had the outline of a radically different approach to poverty alleviation: a financial services program that put the poor in charge.",
"“Give poor communities the opportunity, and then get out of the way!” he said.",
"The means to achieving this purpose were \"village banks\", a self-managed support group of some 25 borrower-owners.",
"Its purpose was to provide the poorest families, particularly those headed by single-mothers, with loans to finance self-employment activities capable of generating additional household income.",
"FINCA currently operates village banking programs in 23 countries and since 1984 it has assisted over 1,000,000 families, lending over $360 million (in 2007) to the world's poorest families with a repayment rate of 98%, while also generating enough income to completely cover the operating costs of the field programs themselves.",
"Moreover, there are now over 800 village banking programs worldwide in 60 countries created by about 30 other nonprofit agencies.",
"Retirement\nIn 2006, Hatch announced his retirement from day-to-day operations at FINCA headquarters in Washington, DC, although he continues to support FINCA in his capacity as a board member, fundraiser, and guest lecturer at universities.",
"He currently lives with his wife Marguerite in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is pursuing a lifelong interest in watercoloring and screen writing.",
"He is also co-founder of a new nonprofit—the Alliance of Students Against Poverty (ASAP)--which has a goal of ending global poverty by getting two million Americans to pledge \"$1/day for those living on less than $1/day, thus raising $10 billion by the year 2025 to be distributed to those microfinance agencies with the best track record of serving the \"poorest of the poor\".",
"On June 26, 2009, Hatch was presented with the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service by the National Peace Corps Association.",
"Quotes\n\"Of course, our work is far from done.",
"Yet considering current growth trends, I know that by the time I retire over 200 million households worldwide will have been benefited by the poverty vaccine of microfinance and/or village banking .",
"What I also know is that my grandchildren will inherit a world where severe poverty has been abolished.\"",
"\"...looking ahead to the year 2025, at the age of 85 I plan to take my great grandchildren to visit the \"Poverty Museum\" in Washington, DC, so they can understand how half the human family used to live, but found a way to lift themselves out of poverty\"\n\nPublications by John Hatch\n Innovations from the Field.",
"A Daringly Brief Summary of a Huge Phenomenon.",
"By John K. Hatch & Sara Levine, Pathways Out of Poverty.",
"Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families.",
"Kummarian Press (2002)\nPoverty Assessment by Microfinance Institutions: A Review of Current Practice.",
"By John K. Hatch & Laura Frederick, Development Alternatives, Inc. (1998)\n Our Knowledge: Traditional Farming Practices in Rural Bolivia Vol:1 Altiplano Region., Vol.2 Temperate Valleys, Vol.",
"3 Tropics, By John K. Hatch, (1983)\n MSU rural development series.",
"By John K. Hatch, Dept.",
"of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University (1980)\n An Evaluation of the AIFLD/HISTADRUT project proposal to assist peasant federations in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.",
"By John K. Hatch, Rural Development Services (1977)\n A Report on the National Association of Honduran Peasants (ANACH).",
"By John K. Hatch, Rural Development Services (1977)\n Group farming in the Dominican Republic.",
"By John K. Hatch, Rural Development Services (1977)\n Strategies for Small Farmer Development, vol.",
"1.",
"By Elliott R. Morss, John K. Hatch, Donald R. Mickelwait, and Charles F. Sweet, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press (1976)\n The corn farmers of Motupe: A study of traditional farming practices in northern coastal Peru (Land Tenure Center monographs ; no.",
"1).",
"By John K. Hatch, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976)\n\nSee also\n\n FINCA International\n Village Banking\n FINCA Afghanistan\n Microcredit\n Microfinance\n\nReferences\n\nDevelopment specialists\nJohns Hopkins University alumni\n1940 births\nLiving people\nAmerican expatriates in Colombia\nAmerican expatriates in Peru\nUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison alumni"
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"Hatch is an American economic development expert and a pioneer in modern-day microfinance.",
"He is a pioneer of village banking, which is arguably the world's most widely imitated Microfinance methodology.",
"Hatch was born in Pullman, Washington.",
"His father was able to trace his ancestors back to the first Pilgrim baby born in the New World.",
"His mother, born in Costa Rica, had ancestors which included an authentic conquistador, a railway-builder, and a co- founder of Pan American World Airlines Education.",
"He was trained as a community development volunteer and assigned to a barrio on the outskirts of Medelln.",
"He helped organize the community to build sewer lines, streets, a community center, library, and a footbridge.",
"He was exposed to severe poverty, infant malnutrition, and illiteracy when he was in Medellin.",
"He didn't realize that his career of service to the world's poor families would last for the next four decades of his life.",
"He was an instructor in two Peace Corps training programs.",
"In early 1965, he was hired as a regional Peace Corps director.",
"Over the next 30 months, he supervised 55 volunteers working in credit unions for the poor.",
"He obtained an MA in Economic History and a PhD in Economic Development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.",
"Between 1970 and 1971 he spent two crop cycles as a hired labor to 30 peasant farmers in Peru, documenting the power and wisdom of their traditional farming practices.",
"He learned a lot about the skills of the poor.",
"He worked as a consultant in the design, management, and evaluation of mostly agricultural projects in 28 countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia for the next 12 years.",
"Dozens of foreign assistance failures came closer to destroying than assisting their intended beneficiaries.",
"He wanted to create an organization that would allow the poor to manage their own development initiatives.",
"The Foundation for International Community Assistance was created by Hatch in 1984.",
"He came up with the idea of FINCA while flying high above the Andes on his way to a consultant assignment.",
"He grabbed in-flight cocktail napkins, scraps of paper, and a pen and began writing.",
"He came to La Paz with an idea of a financial services program that would put the poor in charge.",
"He said to give poor communities the opportunity and then get out of the way.",
"The village banks are a self-managed support group of some 25 borrowers-owners.",
"It was intended to provide loans for self-employment activities for the poor, particularly those headed by single- mothers.",
"Over one million families have been assisted by the village banking programs of FINCA since 1984 and the organization has lent over $360 million to the world's poor families with a repayment rate of 98%.",
"There are over 800 village banking programs in 60 countries.",
"Hatch retired from his day-to-day operations at FINCA headquarters in Washington, DC, in 2006 but still supports the organization as a board member, fundraiser, and guest lecturer.",
"He lives with his wife Marguerite in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is pursuing a lifelong interest in watercoloring and screen writing.",
"The Alliance of Students Against Poverty wants to end global poverty by getting two million Americans to pledge $1 per day for those living on less than $1 per day, thus raising $10 billion by the year 2025.",
"Hatch received the award for distinguished humanitarian service from the National Peace Corps Association.",
"Our work is not done.",
"I know that by the time I retire, over 200 million households will have been helped by the poverty vaccine of Microfinance and/or village banking.",
"I know that my children will inherit a world where poverty has been abolished.",
"I plan to take my great grandchildren to the \"Poverty Museum\" in Washington, DC, at the age of 85, so they can understand how half the human family used to live, but found a way to lift themselves out of poverty.",
"A brief summary of a big event.",
"Pathways Out of Poverty was written by John K. Hatch and Sara Levine.",
"There are innovations for the poorest families.",
"Poverty Assessment by Microfinance Institutions: A Review of Current Practice was published by Kummarian Press.",
"John K. Hatch and Laura Frederick wrote Our Knowledge: Traditional Farming Practices in Rural Bolivia.",
"John K. Hatch wrote 3 Tropics.",
"By John K. Hatch",
"An evaluation of the project proposal to assist peasant federations in Honduras is from Michigan State University.",
"A report on the National Association of Honduran Peasants was written by John K. Hatch.",
"Group farming in the Dominican Republic.",
"Strategies for Small Farmer Development was written by John K. Hatch.",
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<mask> was born in 1940 in Pullman, Washington. His father, a college professor, could trace his ancestors back 14 generations to the first Pilgrim baby born in the New World. His mother, born in Costa Rica, had ancestors which included an authentic conquistador, a railway-builder, and a co-founder of Pan American World Airlines
Education and early career
After high school in Massachusetts and a BA in History from Johns Hopkins University, in July 1962 <mask> joined the Peace Corps for a 2-year tour of duty in Colombia. Trained as a "community development" volunteer, he was assigned to a semi-urban barrio known as Hoyo Sapo ("Frog Hole") on the outskirts of Medellín. There, he helped organize the community to construct sewer lines, streets, a community center, library, soccer field, and a footbridge.It was also in Medellin that he became fluent in Spanish, embraced Latin culture, and was first exposed to severe poverty, infant malnutrition, and illiteracy. Little did he realize at the time that he had just embarked on a career of service to the world's poorest families that would continue uninterrupted for the next four decades of his life. Following his duty tour in Colombia he briefly served as an instructor in two Peace Corps training programs. Then, in early 1965 he was recruited as a regional Peace Corps director for Peru. Over the next 30 months he supervised some 55 volunteers working in agricultural cooperatives and credit unions serving the poorest. He returned home for graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, obtaining an MA in Economic History (1970) and a PhD in Economic Development (1973). In between (1970–71) a Fulbright grant allowed him to spend two crop cycles as a hired labor to 30 peasant farmers in Peru, documenting the power and wisdom of their traditional farming practices.The experience taught him deep respect for the subsistence skills of the poor. For the next 12 years he worked as a consultant in the design, management, and evaluation of mostly agricultural projects seeking to benefit the poor, eventually completing over 55 assignments in 28 countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Sadly, he found himself documenting dozens of foreign assistance failures that came closer to destroying than assisting their intended beneficiaries. He longed to create an organization that would allow the poor themselves-not bureaucrats, consultants, or other outsiders-to manage their own development initiatives. Founding FINCA
In 1984, <mask> finally created his own nonprofit agency-the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA). He was inspired with the idea of FINCA while in an airplane high above the Andes, en route to a consultant assignment in Bolivia. He grabbed in-flight cocktail napkins, scraps of paper, and a pen and began writing down ideas, equations, and flow charts as fast as he could.By the time he landed in La Paz, he had the outline of a radically different approach to poverty alleviation: a financial services program that put the poor in charge. “Give poor communities the opportunity, and then get out of the way!” he said. The means to achieving this purpose were "village banks", a self-managed support group of some 25 borrower-owners. Its purpose was to provide the poorest families, particularly those headed by single-mothers, with loans to finance self-employment activities capable of generating additional household income. FINCA currently operates village banking programs in 23 countries and since 1984 it has assisted over 1,000,000 families, lending over $360 million (in 2007) to the world's poorest families with a repayment rate of 98%, while also generating enough income to completely cover the operating costs of the field programs themselves. Moreover, there are now over 800 village banking programs worldwide in 60 countries created by about 30 other nonprofit agencies. Retirement
In 2006, <mask> announced his retirement from day-to-day operations at FINCA headquarters in Washington, DC, although he continues to support FINCA in his capacity as a board member, fundraiser, and guest lecturer at universities.He currently lives with his wife Marguerite in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he is pursuing a lifelong interest in watercoloring and screen writing. He is also co-founder of a new nonprofit—the Alliance of Students Against Poverty (ASAP)--which has a goal of ending global poverty by getting two million Americans to pledge "$1/day for those living on less than $1/day, thus raising $10 billion by the year 2025 to be distributed to those microfinance agencies with the best track record of serving the "poorest of the poor". On June 26, 2009, <mask> was presented with the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service by the National Peace Corps Association. Quotes
"Of course, our work is far from done. Yet considering current growth trends, I know that by the time I retire over 200 million households worldwide will have been benefited by the poverty vaccine of microfinance and/or village banking . What I also know is that my grandchildren will inherit a world where severe poverty has been abolished." "...looking ahead to the year 2025, at the age of 85 I plan to take my great grandchildren to visit the "Poverty Museum" in Washington, DC, so they can understand how half the human family used to live, but found a way to lift themselves out of poverty"
Publications by <mask>
Innovations from the Field.A Daringly Brief Summary of a Huge Phenomenon. By <mask><mask> & Sara Levine, Pathways Out of Poverty. Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families. Kummarian Press (2002)
Poverty Assessment by Microfinance Institutions: A Review of Current Practice. By <mask><mask> & Laura Frederick, Development Alternatives, Inc. (1998)
Our Knowledge: Traditional Farming Practices in Rural Bolivia Vol:1 Altiplano Region., Vol.2 Temperate Valleys, Vol. 3 Tropics, By <mask><mask>, (1983)
MSU rural development series. By <mask><mask>, Dept.of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University (1980)
An Evaluation of the AIFLD/HISTADRUT project proposal to assist peasant federations in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. By <mask><mask>, Rural Development Services (1977)
A Report on the National Association of Honduran Peasants (ANACH). By <mask><mask>, Rural Development Services (1977)
Group farming in the Dominican Republic. By <mask><mask>, Rural Development Services (1977)
Strategies for Small Farmer Development, vol. 1. By Elliott R. Morss, <mask><mask>, Donald R. Mickelwait, and Charles F. Sweet, Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press (1976)
The corn farmers of Motupe: A study of traditional farming practices in northern coastal Peru (Land Tenure Center monographs ; no. 1).By <mask><mask>, Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison (1976)
See also
FINCA International
Village Banking
FINCA Afghanistan
Microcredit
Microfinance
References
Development specialists
Johns Hopkins University alumni
1940 births
Living people
American expatriates in Colombia
American expatriates in Peru
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80696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher | Cher | Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career.
Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song "I Got You Babe" peaked at number one on the US and UK charts. Together they sold 40 million records worldwide. Her solo career was established during the same time, with the top-ten singles "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" and "You Better Sit Down Kids". She became a television personality in the 1970s with her CBS shows; first The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and then the eponymous Cher. She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows.
While working on television, Cher released the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady", becoming the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time. After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she released the disco album Take Me Home (1979) and earned $300,000 a week for her 1979–1982 concert residency in Las Vegas.
In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in its film adaptation. She subsequently garnered critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and Moonstruck (1987), the last of which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She then revived her music career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989), and Love Hurts (1991), all of which yielded successful singles such as "I Found Someone", "If I Could Turn Back Time", and "Love and Understanding". Cher contributed to the soundtrack for her next film, Mermaids (1990), which spawned the UK number-one single "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)". She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk (1996).
Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, whose title track topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1999 and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. It features pioneering use of Auto-Tune to distort her vocals, known as the "Cher effect". Her 2002–2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning $250 million. In 2008, she signed a $60 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years. During the 2010s, she landed starring roles in the films Burlesque (2010) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and released studio albums Closer to the Truth (2013) and Dancing Queen (2018), both of which debuted at number three on the Billboard 200.
Having sold 100 million records, Cher is one of the world's best-selling music artists. Her achievements include a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, the Billboard Icon Award, and awards from the Kennedy Center Honors and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Aside from music and acting, she is noted for her political views, social media presence, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Life and career
1946–1961: Early life
Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems; her mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), is a former model and retired actress who claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry. Cher's father was rarely home when she was an infant, and her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old. Her mother later married actor John Southall, with whom she had another daughter, Georganne, Cher's half-sister.
Now living in Los Angeles, Cher's mother began acting while working as a waitress. She changed her name to Georgia Holt and played minor roles in films and on television. Holt also secured acting parts for her daughters as extras on television shows like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Her mother's relationship with Southall ended when Cher was nine years old, but she considers him her father and remembers him as a "good-natured man who turned belligerent when he drank too much". Holt remarried and divorced several more times, and she moved her family around the country (including New York, Texas, and California). They often had little money, and Cher recounted having had to use rubber bands to hold her shoes together. At one point, her mother left Cher at an orphanage for several weeks. Although they met every day, both found the experience traumatic.
When Cher was in fifth grade, she produced a performance of the musical Oklahoma! for her teacher and class. She organized a group of girls, directing and choreographing their dance routines. Unable to convince boys to participate, she acted the male roles and sang their songs. By age nine, she had developed an unusually low voice. Fascinated by film stars, Cher's role model was Audrey Hepburn, particularly due to her role in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's. Cher began to take after the unconventional outfits and behavior of Hepburn's character. She was also inspired by Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn. She was disappointed by the absence of dark-haired Hollywood actresses whom she could emulate. She had wanted to be famous since childhood but felt unattractive and untalented, later commenting, "I couldn't think of anything that I could do ... I didn't think I'd be a singer or dancer. I just thought, well, I'll be famous. That was my goal."
In 1961, Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (under the name Cheryl LaPiere) and Georganne, and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino, whose students were mostly from affluent families. The school's upper-class environment presented a challenge for Cher; biographer Connie Berman wrote, "[she] stood out from the others in both her striking appearance and outgoing personality." A former classmate commented, "I'll never forget seeing Cher for the first time. She was so special ... She was like a movie star, right then and there ... She said she was going to be a movie star and we knew she would." Despite not being an excellent student, Cher was intelligent and creative, according to Berman. She earned high grades, excelling in French and English classes. As an adult, she discovered that she had dyslexia. Cher's unconventional behavior stood out: she performed songs for students during the lunch hours and surprised peers when she wore a midriff-baring top. She later recalled, "I was never really in school. I was always thinking about when I was grown up and famous."
1962–1965: Solo career breakthrough
At age 16, Cher dropped out of school, left her mother's house, and moved to Los Angeles with a friend. She took acting classes and worked to support herself, dancing in small clubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip and introducing herself to performers, managers, and agents. According to Berman, "[Cher] did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break, make a new contact, or get an audition." Cher met performer Sonny Bono in November 1962 when he was working for record producer Phil Spector. Cher's friend moved out, and Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his housekeeper. Sonny introduced Cher to Spector, who used her as a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Spector produced her first single, "Ringo, I Love You", which Cher recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason. The song was rejected by many radio stations programmers as they thought Cher's deep contralto vocals were a man's vocals; therefore, they believed it was a male homosexual singing a love song dedicated to the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
Cher and Sonny became close friends, eventual lovers, and performed their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 27, 1964. Although Sonny had wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright, and he began joining her onstage, singing the harmonies. Cher disguised her nervousness by looking at Sonny; she later commented that she sang to the people through him. In late 1964, they emerged as a duo called Caesar & Cleo, releasing the poorly received singles "Do You Wanna Dance?", "Love Is Strange", and "Let the Good Times Roll".
Cher signed with Liberty Records' Imperial imprint in the end of 1964, and Sonny became her producer. The single "Dream Baby", released under the name "Cherilyn", received airplay in Los Angeles. Imperial encouraged Cher to work with Sonny on her second solo single for the label, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do". It peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1965. Meanwhile, the Byrds had released their own version of the same song. When competition on the singles charts started between Cher and the Byrds, the group's record label began to promote the B-side of the Byrds' single. Roger McGuinn of the Byrds commented, "We loved the Cher version ... We didn't want to hassle. So we just turned our record over." Cher's debut album, All I Really Want to Do (1965), reached number 16 on the Billboard 200; it was later described by AllMusic's Tim Sendra as "one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era".
1965–1967: Sonny and Cher's rise to pop stardom
In early 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny & Cher. Following the recording of "I Got You Babe", they traveled to England in July 1965 at the Rolling Stones' advice; Cher recalled, "[they] had told us ... that Americans just didn't get us and that if we were going to make it big, we were going to have to go to England." According to writer Cintra Wilson, "English newspaper photographers showed up when S&C were thrown out of the London Hilton [because of their outfits] the night they arrived—literally overnight, they were stars. London went gaga for the heretofore-unseen S&C look, which was neither mod nor rocker."
"I Got You Babe" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became, according to AllMusic's Bruce Eder, "one of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop/rock hits of the mid-'60s"; Rolling Stone listed it among "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2003. As the song knocked the Beatles off the top of the British charts, English teenagers began to emulate Sonny and Cher's fashion style, such as bell-bottoms, striped pants, ruffled shirts, industrial zippers and fur vests. Upon their return to the US, the duo made several appearances on the teen-pop showcases Hullabaloo and Shindig! and completed a tour of some of the largest arenas in the US. Their shows attracted Cher look-alikes—"girls who were ironing their hair straight and dyeing it black, to go with their vests and bell-bottoms". Cher expanded her creative range by designing a clothing line.
Sonny and Cher's first album, Look at Us (1965), released for the Atco Records division of Atlantic Records, spent eight weeks at number two on the Billboard 200, behind the Beatles' Help!. Their material became popular, and the duo successfully competed with the dominant British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era. Author Joseph Murrells described Sonny and Cher as "part of the leading exponents of the rock-folk-message type of song, a hybrid combining the best and instrumentation of rock music with folk lyric and often lyrics of protest." Sonny and Cher charted ten Billboard top 40 singles between 1965 and 1972, including five top-ten singles: "I Got You Babe", "Baby Don't Go", "The Beat Goes On", "All I Ever Need Is You", and "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done". At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat equaled only by the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Together they sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to Time magazine's Ginia Bellafante, rock's "it" couple.
Cher's following releases kept her solo career fully competitive with her work with Sonny. The Sonny Side of Chér (1966) features "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", which reached number two in the US and number three in the UK and became her first million-seller solo single. Chér, also released in 1966, contains the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition "Alfie", which was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name and became the first stateside version of the popular song. With Love, Chér (1967) includes songs described by biographer Mark Bego as "little soap-opera stories set to rock music" such as the US top-ten single "You Better Sit Down Kids".
1967–1970: Backlash from the younger generation, first marriage
By the end of the 1960s, Sonny and Cher's music had ceased to chart. According to Berman, "the heavy, loud sound of groups like Jefferson Airplane and Cream made the folk-rock music of Sonny and Cher seem too bland." Cher later said, "I loved the new sound of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the electric-guitar oriented bands. Left to myself, I would have changed with the times because the music really turned me on. But [Sonny] didn't like it—and that was that." Their monogamous lifestyle during the period of the sexual revolution and the anti-drug position they adopted at the height of the drug culture lost them popularity among American youths. According to Bego, "in spite of their revolutionary unisex clothes, Sonny and Cher were quite 'square' when it came to sex and drugs." In an attempt to recapture their young audience, the duo produced and starred in the film Good Times (1967), which was commercially unsuccessful.
Cher's next album, Backstage (1968), in which she explores diverse musical genres including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest settings, was not a commercial success. In 1969, she was dropped from Imperial Records while Sonny and Cher had been dropped from Atco; however, the label wanted to sign Cher for a solo album. 3614 Jackson Highway (1969) was recorded without the guidance of Sonny and incorporates experiments in rhythm and blues and soul music. AllMusic's Mark Deming proclaimed it "arguably the finest album of her career", and still "a revelation" decades later. Displeased with the 3614 Jackson Highway album, Sonny prevented Cher from releasing more recordings for Atco.
Meanwhile, Sonny dated others, and by the end of the 1960s their relationship had begun to unravel. According to People magazine, "[Sonny] tried desperately to win her back, telling her he wanted to marry and start a family." They officially married after she gave birth on March 4, 1969, to Chaz Bono.
The duo spent $500,000 and mortgaged their home to make the film Chastity (1969). Written and produced by Sonny, who did not appear in the movie, it tells the story of a young woman, played by Cher, searching for the meaning of life. The art film failed commercially, putting the couple $190,000 in debt with back taxes. However, some critics noted that Cher showed signs of acting potential; Cue magazine wrote, "Cher has a marvelous quality that often makes you forget the lines you are hearing."
At the lowest point of their career, the duo put together a nightclub routine that relied on a more adult approach to sound and style. According to writer Cintra Wilson, "Their lounge act was so depressing, people started heckling them. Then Cher started heckling back. Sonny ... reprimanded her; then she'd heckle Sonny". The heckling became a highlight of the act and attracted viewers. Television executives took note, and the couple began making guest appearances on prime-time shows, in which they presented a "new, sophisticated, and mature" image. Cher adopted alluring, low-cut gowns that became her signature outfits.
1971–1974: Television career breakthrough, first musical comeback
CBS head of programming Fred Silverman offered Sonny and Cher their own television program after he noticed them as guest-hosts on The Merv Griffin Show in 1971. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premiered as a summer replacement series on August 1, 1971, and had six episodes. Because it was a ratings success, the couple returned that December with a full-time show.
Watched by more than 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was praised for the comedic timing, and deadpan Cher mocked Sonny about his looks and short stature. According to Berman, they "exuded an aura of warmth, playfulness, and caring that only enhanced their appeal. Viewers were further enchanted when a young [Chaz] also appeared on the show. They seemed like a perfect family." Cher honed her acting skills in sketch comedy roles such as the brash housewife Laverne, the sardonic waitress Rosa, and historical vamps, including Cleopatra and Miss Sadie Thompson. The Bob Mackie-designed clothing Cher wore was part of the show's attraction, and her style influenced the fashion trends of the 1970s.
In 1971, Sonny and Cher signed with the Kapp Records division of MCA Records, and Cher released the single "Classified 1A", in which she sings from the point of view of a soldier who bleeds to death in Vietnam. Written by Sonny, who felt that her first solo single on the label had to be poignant and topical, the song was rejected by radio station programmers as uncommercial.
Since Sonny's first attempts at reviving their recording career as a duo had also been unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff Garrett to work with them. He produced Cher's second US number-one single, "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", which "proved that ... Garrett knew more about Cher's voice and her persona as a singer than Sonny did", writes Bego. "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" was the first single by a solo artist to rank number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at the same time as on the Canadian Singles Chart. Billboard called it "one of the 20th century's greatest songs". It was featured on the 1971 album Chér (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves), which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Its second single, "The Way of Love", reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and established Cher's more confident image as a recording artist.
In 1972, Cher released the all-ballad set Foxy Lady, demonstrating the evolution of her vocal abilities, according to Bego. Following the release of the album, Garrett quit as producer after disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record. At Sonny's insistence, in 1973 Cher released an album of standards called Bittersweet White Light, which was commercially unsuccessful. That year, lyricist Mary Dean brought Garrett "Half-Breed", a song about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father, that she had written especially for Cher. Although Garrett did not have Cher as a client at the time, he was convinced that "it's a smash for Cher and for nobody else", so he held the song for months until he got Cher back. "Half-Breed" was featured on the album of the same name and became Cher's third US number-one single. Both the album and the single were certified gold by the RIAA.
In 1974, Cher released the song "Dark Lady" as the lead single from the namesake album. It reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cher's fourth number-one single and making her the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time. Later that year, she released a Greatest Hits album that, according to Billboard magazine, proved her to be "one of the most consistent hitmakers of the past five years", as well as a "proven superstar who always sells records".
Between 1971 and 1973, Sonny and Cher's recording career was revived with four albums released under Kapp Records and MCA Records: Sonny & Cher Live (1971), All I Ever Need Is You (1972), Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973), and Live in Las Vegas Vol. 2 (1973). Cher later commented on this period: "I could do a whole album ... in three days ... We were on the road ... and we were doing the Sonny & Cher Show".
1974–1979: Divorce from Sonny Bono, second marriage, decline in popularity
Cher and Sonny had had marital problems since late 1972, but appearances were maintained until 1974. "The public still thinks we are married," Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, "[and] that's the way it has to be." In February 1974, Sonny filed for a separation, citing "irreconcilable differences". A week later, Cher countered with a divorce suit and charged Sonny with "involuntary servitude", claiming that he withheld money from her and deprived her of her rightful share of their earnings. The couple battled in court over finances and the custody of Chaz, which was eventually granted to Cher. Their divorce was finalized on June 26, 1975.
In 1974, Cher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. The same year, Sonny premiered a solo show on ABC, The Sonny Comedy Revue, which carried the creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show. It was canceled after 13 weeks.
During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a two-year romantic relationship with record executive David Geffen, who freed her from her business arrangement with Sonny, under which she was required to work exclusively for Cher Enterprises, the company he ran. Geffen secured a $2.5 million deal for Cher with Warner Bros. Records, and she began work on her first album under that label in 1975. According to Bego, "it was their intention that [this album] was going to make millions of fans around the world take her seriously as a rock star, and not just a pop singer."
Despite Cher's efforts to develop her musical range by listening to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan, the resulting album Stars was commercially and critically unsuccessful. Janet Maslin of The Village Voice wrote, "Cher is just no rock and roller ... Image, not music, is Cher Bono's main ingredient for both records and TV." The album has since become a cult classic and is generally considered among her best work.
On February 16, 1975, Cher returned to television with a solo show on CBS. Called Cher, it began as a highly rated special with guests Flip Wilson, Elton John, and Bette Midler. The show was produced by Geffen and centered on Cher's songs, monologues, comedy performance, and her variation of clothing, which was the largest for a weekly TV show. Early critical reception was favorable; the Los Angeles Times exclaimed that "Sonny without Cher was a disaster. Cher without Sonny, on the other hand, could be the best thing that's happened to weekly television this season." Cher lasted for less than a year, replaced by a new show in which she professionally reunited with ex-husband Sonny; she said, "doing a show alone was more than I could handle."
On June 30, 1975, four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band. She filed for divorce nine days later because of his heroin and liquor problems, but they reconciled within a month. They had one son, Elijah Blue, on July 10, 1976. Sonny and Cher's TV reunion, The Sonny and Cher Show, debuted on CBS in February 1976—the first show ever to star a divorced couple. Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere, Cher and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce, her reportedly extravagant lifestyle, and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash that eventually contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977.
In 1976, Mego Toys released a line of toys and dolls in the likeness of Sonny and Cher, which coincided with the popularity of The Sonny and Cher Show. The miniature version of Cher ended up being the highest selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie.
Cher's next albums, I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) and Cherished (1977), the latter a return to her pop style at Warner's producers' insistence, were commercially unsuccessful; Orange Coast magazine's Keith Tuber commented, "A weekly television series ... can spell disaster for a recording artist ... Regular exposure on TV allowed people to see and hear these performers without having to buy their records ... That's what happened to Cher[.]" In 1977, under the rubric "Allman and Woman", she recorded alongside Allman the duet album Two the Hard Way. Their relationship ended following the release of the album, and their divorce was finalized in 1979. Beginning in 1978, she had a two-year live-in relationship with Kiss member Gene Simmons. That year, she legally changed her name from Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere Bono Allman to Cher, to eliminate the use of four surnames. She returned to prime time television with the ABC specials Cher... Special (1978)—featuring a 15-minute segment in which she performs all of the roles in her version of West Side Story— and Cher... And Other Fantasies (1979).
1979–1982: Second musical comeback, shift from disco music to rock
A single mother with two children, Cher realized that she had to make a choice about the direction of her singing career. Deciding to temporarily abandon her desire to be a rock singer, she signed with Casablanca Records and launched a comeback with the single "Take Me Home" and the album of the same name, both of which capitalized on the disco craze. Both the album and the single became instant successes, remained bestsellers for more than half of 1979, and were certified gold by the RIAA. Sales of the album may have been boosted by the image of a scantily clad Cher in a Viking outfit on its cover. Despite her initial lack of enthusiasm for disco music, she changed her mind after the success, commenting, "I never thought I would want to do disco ... [but] it's terrific! It's great music to dance to. I think that danceable music is what everybody wants."
Encouraged by the popularity of Take Me Home, Cher planned to return to rock music in her next album, Prisoner (1979). The album's cover features Cher draped in chains as a "prisoner of the press", which caused controversy among feminist groups for her perceived portrayal of a sex slave. She included rock songs, which made the disco release seem unfocused and led to its commercial failure. Prisoner produced the single "Hell on Wheels", featured on the soundtrack of the film Roller Boogie. The song exploits the late 1970s roller-skating fad and contributed to its popularity.
In 1980, alongside Italian record producer Giorgio Moroder, Cher wrote her last Casablanca disco recording, "Bad Love", for the film Foxes. She formed the rock band Black Rose that year with her then-lover, guitarist Les Dudek. Although Cher was the lead singer, she did not receive top billing because she wanted to create the impression that all band members were equal. Since she was easily recognized when she performed with the band, she developed a punk look by cutting her trademark long hair. Despite appearances on television, the band failed to earn concert dates. Their album Black Rose received unfavorable reviews; Cher told Rolling Stone, "The critics panned us, and they didn't attack the record. They attacked me. It was like, 'How dare Cher sing rock & roll?'"
Black Rose disbanded in 1981. During Black Rose's active period, Cher was simultaneously doing a residency show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, earning $300,000 a week. Titled Cher in Concert, the three-year performance residency opened in June 1979 and eventually became Cher's first world concert tour as a solo artist (also referred to as the Take Me Home Tour), with additional dates in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. It yielded two television specials: Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert (1981) and Cher... A Celebration at Caesars (1983), the latter of which won Cher the CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Variety Program.
In 1981, Cher released a duet with musician Meat Loaf called "Dead Ringer for Love", which reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and was later described by AllMusic's Donald A. Guarisco as "one of the more inspired rock duets of the 1980s". In 1982, Columbia Records released the album I Paralyze, later deemed by Bego as Cher's "strongest and most consistent solo album in years" despite its low sales.
1982–1986: Film career breakthrough, musical hiatus
With decreasing album sales and a lack of commercially successful singles, Cher decided to further develop her acting career. While she had previously aspired to venture into film, she had only the critically and commercially unsuccessful movies Good Times and Chastity to her credit, and the Hollywood establishment did not take her seriously as an actress. Cher later recalled, "I was making a fortune on the road, but I was dying inside. Everyone kept saying, 'Cher, there are people who would give anything to have standing room only at Caesars Palace. It would be the pinnacle of their careers.' And I kept thinking, 'Yes, I should be satisfied' ... But I wasn't satisfied." She moved to New York in 1982 to take acting lessons with Lee Strasberg, founder of the Actors Studio, but never enrolled after her plans changed. She auditioned for and was signed by director Robert Altman for the Broadway stage production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, playing a member of a James Dean fan club holding a 20-year reunion. That year, Altman cast her again in the film adaptation of the same title.
Director Mike Nichols, who had seen Cher onstage in Jimmy Dean, offered her the part of Dolly Pelliker, a plant co-worker and Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in the film Silkwood. When it premiered in 1983, audiences questioned Cher's ability as an actress. She recalls attending a film preview during which the audience laughed when they saw her name in the credits. For her performance, Cher received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.
In 1985, Cher formed the film production company Isis. Her next film, Mask (1985), reached number two at the box office and was Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress. For her role as a drug addict biker with a teenage son who has a severe physical deformity, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. During the making of the film, however, she clashed with director Peter Bogdanovich, and was ultimately omitted from the Oscar nomination list. She attended the 58th Academy Awards in a tarantula-like costume, later deemed by Vanity Fair'''s Esther Zuckerman as Cher's "Oscar revenge dress". "As you can see, I did receive my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress," Cher declared before presenting the nominees for Best Supporting Actor. The incident garnered her much publicity.
Cher's May 1986 guest appearance on talk show Late Night with David Letterman, during which she called Letterman "an asshole", attracted much media coverage; Letterman later recalled, "It did hurt my feelings. Cher was one of the few people I've really wanted to have on the show ... I felt like a total fool, especially since I say all kinds of things to people." She returned to the show in 1987, reuniting with Sonny for the last time before his death to sing an impromptu version of "I Got You Babe". According to Rolling Stone's Andy Greene, "they weren't exactly the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television. Had YouTube existed back then, this would have gone insanely viral the next morning." Rolling Stone listed the performance among "David Letterman's Top 10 Musical Moments" in 2015.
1987–1992: Film stardom, third musical comeback
Cher starred in three films in 1987. In Suspect, she played a public defender who is both helped and romanced by one of the jurors in the homicide case she is handling. Alongside Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, she starred as one of three divorcees involved with a mysterious and wealthy visitor from hell who comes to a small New England town in the comedy horror The Witches of Eastwick. In Norman Jewison's romantic comedy Moonstruck, she played an Italian widow in love with her fiancé's younger brother. The two last films ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films of 1987, at number ten and five, respectively.The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote Moonstruck "offers further proof that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching whatever she does." For that film, Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. By 1988, Cher had become one of the most bankable actresses of the decade, commanding $1 million per film. That year, she released the fragrance Uninhibited, which earned about $15 million in its first year sales.
In 1987, Cher signed with Geffen Records and revived her musical career with what music critics Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson describe as "her most impressive string of hits to date", establishing her as a "serious rock and roller ... a crown that she'd worked long and hard to capture". Michael Bolton, Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, and Richie Sambora produced her first Geffen album, Cher. Despite facing strong retail and radio airplay resistance upon its release, the album proved to be a commercial success, certified platinum by the RIAA. Cher features the rock ballad "I Found Someone", Cher's first US top-ten single in more than eight years.
By the end of the 1980s, Cher was also receiving attention for her controversial lifestyle, including her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist fashion sense, and affairs with younger men. She had romantic relationships with actors Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, and Tom Cruise, hockey player Ron Duguay, film producer Josh Donen, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, and Rob Camilletti, a bagel baker 18-years her junior whom she dated from 1986 to 1989.
Cher's 19th studio album Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The music video for its second single, "If I Could Turn Back Time", caused controversy due to Cher's performance on the battleship , straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks. The song topped the Australian charts for seven weeks, reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became one of Cher's most successful singles. Other songs from Heart of Stone to reach the US top ten were "After All", a duet with Peter Cetera, and "Just Like Jesse James". At the 1989 People's Choice Awards, Cher won the Favorite All-Around Female Star Award. She embarked on the Heart of Stone Tour in 1989. Most critics liked the tour's nostalgic nature and admired Cher's showmanship. Its parent television special Cher at the Mirage (1991) was filmed during a concert in Las Vegas.
In her first film in three years, Mermaids (1990), Cher paid tribute to her own mother in this story about a woman who moves her two daughters from town to town at the end of a love affair. She clashed with the film's first two directors, Lasse Hallström and Frank Oz, who were replaced by Richard Benjamin. Believing Cher would be the star attraction, the producers allowed her creative control for the film. Mermaids was a box office success and received generally positive reviews. One of the two songs Cher recorded for the film's soundtrack, a cover version of Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)", topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks.
Cher's final studio album for Geffen Records, Love Hurts (1991), stayed at number one in the UK for six weeks and produced the UK top-ten single "Love and Understanding". The album was certified gold by the RIAA. In later years, Cher commented that her Geffen label "hit years" had been especially significant to her, "because I was getting to do songs that I really loved ... songs that really represented me, and they were popular!" She released the exercise book Forever Fit in 1991, followed by the 1992 fitness videos CherFitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence. She embarked on the Love Hurts Tour during 1992. That year, the UK-only compilation album Greatest Hits: 1965–1992 peaked at number one in the country for seven weeks. It features three new songs: "Oh No Not My Baby", "Whenever You're Near", and "Many Rivers to Cross".
1992–1997: Health and professional struggles, directorial debut
Partially due to her experiences filming Mermaids, Cher turned down leading roles in such films as The War of the Roses and Thelma & Louise. According to Berman, "After the success of Moonstruck, she was so worried about her next career move that she was overly cautious." In the early 1990s, she contracted the Epstein–Barr virus and developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which left her too exhausted to sustain her music and film careers. Because she needed to earn money and was not healthy enough to work on other projects, she starred in infomercials launching health, beauty, and diet products, which earned her close to $10 million in fees. The skits were parodied on Saturday Night Live and critics considered them a sellout, many suggesting her film career was over. She told Ladies' Home Journal, "Suddenly I became the Infomercial Queen and it didn't occur to me that people would focus on that and strip me of all my other things."
Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994). In 1994, she started a mail-order catalogue business, Sanctuary, selling Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of "I Got You Babe" to MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head. Alongside Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry, and Eric Clapton, she topped the UK Singles Chart in 1995 with the charity single "Love Can Build a Bridge". Later that year, she signed with Warner Music UK's label WEA and released the album It's a Man's World (1995), which came out of her idea of covering men's songs from a woman's point of view. In general, critics favored the album and its R&B influences, some saying her voice had improved. Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "From an artistic standpoint, this soulful collection of grown-up pop songs ... is the high point of her recording career." It's a Man's World reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the UK top-ten single "One by One". Tracks were remixed for the American release of the album, abandoning its original rock sound in favor of a style more accessible to US radio. The US release failed commercially, reaching number 64 on the Billboard 200.
In 1996, Cher played the wife of a businessman who hires a hitman to murder her in the Chazz Palminteri-scripted dark comedy film Faithful. Although the film received negative reviews from critics, Cher was praised for her role; The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote that she "does her game best to find comic potential in a victim's role." Cher refused to promote the film, claiming it was "horrible". She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk (1996), in which she starred as a doctor murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic. It drew the highest ratings for an original HBO movie to date, registering an 18.7 rating with a 25 share in HBO homes and attracting 6.9 million viewers. Her music played a large role in the American TV series The X-Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus", which aired in November 1997. Written for her, it tells the story of a scientist's grotesque creature who adores Cher because of her role in Mask, in which her character cares for her disfigured son.
1998–1999: Death of Sonny Bono, fourth musical comeback
Following Sonny Bono's death in a skiing accident in 1998, Cher delivered a tearful eulogy at his funeral, calling him "the most unforgettable character" she had met. She paid tribute to him by hosting the CBS special Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers, which aired on May 20, 1998. That month, Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television. Later that year, Cher published The First Time, a collection of autobiographical essays of "first-time" events in her life, which critics praised as down-to-earth and genuine. Although the manuscript was almost finished when Sonny died, she could not decide whether to include his death in the book; she feared being criticized for capitalizing on the event. She told Rolling Stone, "I couldn't ignore it, could I? I might have if I cared more about what people think than what I know is right for me."
Cher's 22nd studio album Believe (1998) marked a musical departure for her, as it comprises dance-pop songs, many of which capture the "disco-era essence"; Cher said, "It's not that I think this is a '70s album ... but there's a thread, a consistency running through it that I love.'" Believe was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA and went on to be certified gold or platinum in 39 countries, selling 10 million copies worldwide. The album's title track reached number one in more than 23 countries and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. It became the best-selling recording of 1998 and 1999, respectively, in the UK and the US, and Cher's most successful single to date. "Believe" topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK, selling over 1.84 million copies in the country up until October 2018. It also topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks, selling over 1.8 million units in the US up until December 1999. The song earned Cher the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording and the 1999 Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year.
On January 31, 1999, Cher performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl XXXIII. Two months later, she sang on the television special VH1 Divas Live 2, which attracted 19.4 million viewers. According to VH1, it was the most popular, and most watched program in the television network's history, as Cher's presence was "a huge part of making it exactly that." The Do You Believe? tour ran from 1999 to 2000 and was sold out in every American city in which it was booked, amassing a global audience of more than 1.5 million. Its companion television special, Cher: Live in Concert – From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999), was the highest rated original HBO program in 1998–99, registering a 9.0 rating among adults 18 to 49 and a 13.0 rating in the HBO universe of about 33 million homes. Capitalizing on the success of "Believe", Cher's former record company Geffen Records released in April 1999 the US-only compilation album If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits, which features the previously unreleased song "Don't Come Cryin' to Me". It was certified gold by the RIAA. Seven months later, Cher released the compilation album The Greatest Hits, which sold three million copies outside of the US up until January 2000.
Cher was named the number-one dance artist of 1999 by Billboard. At the 1999 World Music Awards, she received the Legend Award for her "lifelong contribution to the music industry". Her next film, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999), received generally positive reviews, and she earned critical acclaim for her performance as a rich, flamboyant American socialite whose visit to Italy is not welcome among the Englishwomen; one reviewer from Film Comment wrote, "It is only after she appears that you realize how sorely she's been missed from movie screens! For Cher is a star. That is, she manages the movie star trick of being at once a character and at the same time never allowing you to forget: that's Cher."
2000–2009: Touring success, retirement, Vegas residency Not Commercial (2000) was written mostly by Cher after she had attended a songwriters' conference in 1994; it marked her first attempt at writing most of the tracks for an album. As the album was rejected by her record label for being uncommercial, she chose to sell it only on her website. In the song "Sisters of Mercy", she criticized as "cruel, heartless and wicked" the nuns who prevented her mother from retrieving her from a Catholic orphanage. The Catholic church denounced the song.
Cher's highly anticipated dance-oriented follow-up to Believe, Living Proof (2001), entered the Billboard 200 at number nine and was certified gold by the RIAA. The album includes the UK top-ten single "The Music's No Good Without You" and "Song for the Lonely", the latter song dedicated to "the courageous people of New York" following the September 11 attacks. In May 2002, she performed during the benefit concert VH1 Divas Las Vegas. At the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, she won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award and was presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Steven Tyler for having "helped redefine popular music with massive success on the Billboard charts". That year, her wealth was estimated at $600 million.
In June 2002, Cher embarked on the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, announced as the final live concert tour of her career, although she vowed to continue making records and films. The show highlighted her successes in music, television, and film, featuring video clips from the 1960s onwards and an elaborate backdrop and stage set-up.
Initially scheduled for 49 shows, the worldwide tour was extended several times. By October 2003, it had become the most successful tour ever by a woman, grossing $145 million from 200 shows and playing to 2.2 million fans. A collection of live tracks taken from the tour was released in 2003 as the album Live! The Farewell Tour. The NBC special Cher – The Farewell Tour (2003) attracted 17 million viewers. It was the highest rated network-TV concert special of 2003 and earned Cher the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special.
After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a worldwide deal with the US division of Warner Bros. Records in September 2003. The Very Best of Cher (2003), a greatest-hits collection that surveys her entire career, peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA. She played herself in the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003), mocking her public image as she appears in bed with a much younger boyfriend.
Cher's 326-date Farewell Tour ended in 2005 as one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, seen by over 3.5 million people and earning $250 million. After three years of retirement, she began in 2008 a three-year, 200-performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, for which she earned a reported $60 million. Titled Cher, the production featured state-of-the-art video and special effects, elaborate set designs, 14 dancers, four aerialists and more than 20 costume changes.
2010–2017: Burlesque, return to music and touring
In Burlesque (2010), Cher's first musical film since 1967's Good Times, the actress plays a nightclub impresario whom a young Hollywood hopeful is looking to impress. One of the two songs she recorded for the film's soundtrack, the power ballad "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me", reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011, making Cher the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. In November 2010, she received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The next year, she lent her voice to Janet the Lioness in the comedy Zookeeper. Dear Mom, Love Cher, a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, aired on Lifetime in May 2013.Closer to the Truth, Cher's 25th studio album and the first since 2001's Living Proof, entered the Billboard 200 at number three in October 2013, her highest position on that chart to date. Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe commented that "Cher's 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'". Cher premiered the lead single "Woman's World" on the season four finale of the talent show The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade. She later joined the show's season five as judge Blake Shelton's team adviser.
On June 30, 2013, Cher headlined the annual Dance on the Pier benefit, celebrating Gay Pride day. It became the event's first sellout in five years. In November 2013, she appeared as a guest performer and judge on the seventeenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, during its eighth week, which was dedicated to her. She embarked on the Dressed to Kill Tour in March 2014, nearly a decade after announcing her "farewell tour". She quipped about that fact during the shows, saying this would actually be her last farewell tour while crossing fingers. The tour's first leg, which included 49 sold-out shows in North America, grossed $54.9 million. In November 2014, she cancelled all remaining dates due to an infection that affected kidney function.
On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Credited as Bonnie Jo Mason, she uses an alias of hers originated in 1964. Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015. It is the most expensive single album ever sold. After appearing as Marc Jacobs' guest at the 2015 Met Gala, Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign. The fashion designer stated, "This has been a dream of mine for a very, very long time."
Classic Cher, a three-year concert residency at both the Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, and The Theater at MGM National Harbor, Washington, opened in February 2017. At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, Cher performed "Believe" and "If I Could Turn Back Time", her first awards show performance in more than 15 years, and was presented with the Billboard Icon Award by Gwen Stefani, who called her "a role model for showing us how to be strong and true to ourselves [and] the definition of the word Icon."
2018–present: Return to film, Dancing Queen, upcoming projects
In 2018, Cher returned to film for the romantic musical comedy film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. New York magazine's Viviana Olen and Matt Harkins commented that "it's only at the climax of the movie when its true promise is fulfilled: Cher arrives ... It becomes clear that every single movie—no matter how flawless—would be infinitely better if it included Cher." She stars as Ruby Sheridan, who is the grandmother of Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried, and the mother of Donna, portrayed by Meryl Streep. Cher recorded two ABBA songs for the film's soundtrack: "Fernando" and "Super Trouper". Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA commented, "She makes Fernando her own. It's her song now."
On March 4, 2018, Cher headlined the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Tickets sold out within three hours after she hinted her performance on her Twitter account. In September 2018, Cher embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour.
While promoting Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Cher confirmed she was working on an album that would feature cover versions of songs from ABBA. The album, Dancing Queen, was released on September 28, 2018. Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone commented that "the 72-year-old makes ABBA songs not only sound like they should've been written for her in the first place but like they firmly belong in 2018". Marc Snetiker from Entertainment Weekly called it Cher's "most significant release since 1998's Believe" and noted that "the album ender, 'One of Us', is frankly one of Cher's best recordings in years." Dancing Queen debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, tying with 2013's Closer to the Truth for Cher's highest-charting solo album in the US. With first-week sales of 153,000 units, it earned the year's biggest sales week for a pop album by a female artist, as well as Cher's largest sales week since 1991. Dancing Queen also topped Billboards Top Album Sales chart, making it Cher's first number-one album on that chart.The Cher Show, a jukebox musical based on Cher's life and music, officially premiered at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, on June 28, 2018, and played through July 15. It began Broadway previews November 1, with its official opening on December 3, 2018. Written by Rick Elice, it features three actresses playing Cher during different stages of her life. The Cher Show is set to launch a UK and Ireland tour in 2022.
On December 2, 2018, Cher received a Kennedy Center Honors prize, the annual Washington distinction for artists who have made extraordinary contributions to culture. The ceremony featured tribute performances by Cyndi Lauper, Little Big Town and Adam Lambert. During 2018, Cher used Twitter to announce she was working on four new projects for the next two years: a Christmas album; a second album of ABBA covers; an autobiography; and a biographical film about her life.
In October 2019, Cher launched a new perfume, Cher Eau de Couture, which was four years in the making. Described as "genderless", it is Cher's second fragrance after 1987's Uninhibited. On February 4, 2020, Cher was announced as the new face of fashion brand Dsquared2. She starred in the brand's spring/summer advertising campaign, which was directed by photographers Mert and Marcus. In May, Cher released her first Spanish-language song, a cover of ABBA's "Chiquitita". Proceeds from the single were donated to UNICEF following the COVID-19 pandemic. In November, Cher spawned a UK top-ten single as part of the charity supergroup BBC Radio 2 Allstars with "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", an Oasis cover recorded in support of BBC's Children in Need charity.
Cher appeared in a voice-over role as a bobblehead version of herself in the animated feature film Bobbleheads: The Movie (2020). The same year, she was featured on The New York Times Magazines list of "The Best Actors of 2020", the first time an actor not in a current-year theatrical release made it on the annual list; film critics Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott commented, "Cher's radiant performance in Moonstruck warmed us in quarantine." In May 2021, Cher guest-starred as God in Pink's music video "All I Know So Far". In January 2022, Cher appeared as the star of MAC Cosmetics' "Challenge Accepted" campaign alongside rapper Saweetie.
Artistry
Music and voice
Cher has employed various musical styles, including folk rock, pop rock, power ballads, disco, new wave music, rock music, punk rock, arena rock, and hip hop; she said she has done this to "remain relevant and do work that strikes a chord". Her music has mainly dealt with themes of heartbreak, independence, and self-empowerment for women; by doing so, she became "a brokenhearted symbol of a strong but decidedly single woman", according to Out magazine's Judy Wieder. Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder credited Cher's "nearly flawless" song selection as what made her a notorious rock singer; while several of her early songs were penned by or sung with Sonny Bono, most of her solo successes, which outnumbered Sonny and Cher's successes, were composed by independent songwriters, selected by Cher. Not Commercial (2000), Cher's first album mostly written by herself, presents a "1970s singer-songwriter feel" that proves "Cher adept in the role of storyteller", according to AllMusic's Jose F. Promis.
Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times writes, "There were a lot of great records by female singers in the early days of rock ... None, however, reflected the authority and command that we associate with rock 'n' roll today as much as [Cher's] key early hits". Some of Cher's early songs discuss subjects rarely addressed in American popular music such as divorce, prostitution, unplanned and underaged pregnancy, and racism. According to AllMusic's Joe Viglione, the 1972 single "The Way of Love" is "either about a woman expressing her love for another woman, or a woman saying au revoir to a gay male she loved" ("What will you do/When he sets you free/Just the way that you/Said good-bye to me"). Her ability to carry both male and female ranges allowed her to sing solo in androgynous and gender-neutral songs.
Cher has a contralto singing voice, described by author Nicholas E. Tawa as "bold, deep, and with a spacious vibrato". Ann Powers of The New York Times called it "a quintessential rock voice: impure, quirky, a fine vehicle for projecting personality." AllMusic's Bruce Eder wrote that the "tremendous intensity and passion" of Cher's vocals coupled with her "ability to meld that projection with her acting skills" can provide "an incredibly powerful experience for the listener." The Guardian Laura Snapes described her voice as "miraculous ... capable of conveying vulnerability, vengeance and pain all at once". Paul Simpson, in his book The Rough Guide to Cult Pop (2003), posits that "Cher [is] the possessor of one of the huskiest, most distinctive voices in pop ... which can work wonders with the right material directed by the right producer". He further addresses the believability of her vocal performances: "she spits out the words ... with such conviction you'd think she was delivering an eternal truth about the human condition".
Writing about Cher's musical output during the 1960s, Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times stated that "Rock was subsequently blessed with the staggering blues exclamations of Janis Joplin in the late '60s and the raw poetic force of Patti Smith in the mid-'70s. Yet no one matched the pure, seductive wallop of Cher". By contrast, her vocal performances during the 1970s were described by Eder as "dramatic, highly intense ... [and] almost as much 'acted' as sung". First heard in the 1980 record Black Rose, Cher employed sharper, more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums, establishing her sexually confident image. For the 1995 album It's a Man's World, she restrained her vocals, singing in higher registers and without vibrato.
The 1998 song "Believe" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by Cher, and was the first commercial recording to feature Auto-Tune—an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies in vocal music recordings—as a deliberate creative effect. According to Rolling Stone Christopher R. Weingarten, the "producers ... used the pitch correction software not as a way to fix mistakes in Cher's iconic voice, but as an aesthetic tool." After the success of the song, the technique became known as the "Cher effect" and has since been widely used in popular music. Cher continued to use Auto-Tune on the albums Living Proof (2001), Closer to the Truth (2013), and Dancing Queen (2018).
In a 2013 interview with the Toronto Sun, Cher reflected on how her voice has evolved throughout her career, becoming stronger and suppler over the years. She said working with vocal coaches had made a significant difference: "It's so freaky because people my age are having to lose notes and I'm gaining notes, so that's pretty shocking."
Films, videos, and stage Maclean's magazine's Barbara Wickens wrote, "Cher has emerged as probably the most fascinating movie star of her generation ... [because] she has managed to be at once boldly shocking and ultimately enigmatic." New York Post movie critic David Edelstein attributes Cher's "top-ranking star quality" to her ability of projecting "honesty, rawness and emotionality. She wears her vulnerability on her sleeve." Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate wrote that Cher was "one of the first superstars to 'play gay' with compassion and without a hint of stereotyping", as she portrays a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood.
Author Yvonne Tasker, in her book Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (2002), notes that Cher's film roles often mirrors her public image as a rebellious, sexually autonomous, and self-made woman. In her films, she recurrently serves as a social intermediary to disenfranchised male characters, such as Eric Stoltz's Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia victim in Mask (1985), Liam Neeson's mute homeless veteran in Suspect (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand in Moonstruck (1987). Film critic Kathleen Rowe wrote of Moonstruck that the depiction of Cher's character as "a 'woman on top' [is] enhanced by the unruly star persona Cher brings to the part'".
For Moonstruck, Cher was ranked 1st on Billboards list of "The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies", and her performance was described as "the standard by which you mentally check all others". Moonstruck was acknowledged by the American Film Institute as the eighth best romantic comedy film of all time.
Cher's public image is also reflected in her music videos and live performances, in which she "repeatedly comments on her own construction, on her search for perfection and on the performance of the female body", wrote Tasker. Unlike other acts of that time, who often featured female backers mimicking the singer's performance, Cher uses a male dancer dressed as her in the 1992 concert video Cher at the Mirage; author Diane Negra commented, "In authorizing her own quotation, Cher acknowledges herself as fictionalized production, and proffers to her audience a pleasurable plurality." James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "Cher is well aware that her chameleonic glitz set the stage for the current era of stadium-size razzle-dazzle. She's comfortable enough to see such imitation as flattery, not theft." American singer Pink, who is recognized by her acrobatic stage presence, started studying Aerial silks after watching Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour in 2004.
Cher was ranked 17th on VH1's list of the "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era". The 1980 video for "Hell on Wheels" involves cinematic techniques and was one of the first music videos ever. Deemed "controversial" for her performance on the battleship , straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks, the 1989 music video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" was the first ever to be banned by MTV.
Public image
FashionTime magazine's Cady Lang described Cher as a "cultural phenomenon [who] has forever changed the way we see celebrity fashion." Cher emerged as a fashion trendsetter in the 1960s, popularizing "hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandanas, and Cherokee-inspired tunics". She began working as a model in 1967 for photographer Richard Avedon after then-Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland discovered her at a party for Jacqueline Kennedy that year. Avedon took the controversial photo of Cher in a beaded and feathered nude gown designed by Bob Mackie for the cover of Time magazine in 1975; Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek described it as "one of the most recreated and monumental looks of all time." Cher first wore the gown to the 1974 Met Gala. According to Vogue magazine's André Leon Talley, "it was really the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended, and it changed everything. We are still seeing versions of that look on The Met red carpet 40 years later." Billboard wrote that Cher has "transformed fashion and [become] one of the most influential style icons in red carpet history".
Through her 1970s television shows, Cher became a sex symbol with her inventive and revealing Mackie-designed outfits, and fought the network censors to bare her navel. Although Cher has been erroneously attributed to being the first woman to expose her navel on television (e.g. Nichelle Nichols, BarBara Luna and Diana Ewing in the 1960s TV series Star Trek), she was the most prominent to do so since the establishment of the American Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters in 1951, which prompted network censors to ban navel exposure on US television. People dubbed Cher the "pioneer of the belly beautiful". In 1972, after she was featured on the annual "Best Dressed Women" lists, Mackie stated: "There hasn't been a girl like Cher since Dietrich and Garbo. She's a high-fashion star who appeals to people of all ages."
In May 1999, after the Council of Fashion Designers of America recognized Cher with an award for her influence on fashion, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a "fashion visionary" for "striking just the right note of contemporary wretched excess". Givhan referenced Tom Ford, Anna Sui and Dolce & Gabbana as "[i]nfluential designers [who] have evoked her name as a source of inspiration and guidance." She concluded that "Cher's Native American showgirl sexpot persona now seems to epitomize the fashion industry's rush to celebrate ethnicity, adornment and sex appeal." Vogue proclaimed Cher "[their] favorite fashion trendsetter" and wrote that "[she] set the grounds for pop stars and celebrities today", describing her as "[e]ternally relevant [and] the ruler of outré reinvention". Alexander Fury of The Independent lauded Cher as "the ultimate fashion icon" and traced her influence among female celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, and Kim Kardashian, stating that "[t]hey all graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage, with anyone, or anything ... They're trying to share the spotlight, to have Cher's success."
Physical appearance
Cher has attracted media attention for her physical appearance—particularly her youthful looks and her tattoos. Journalists have often called her the "poster girl" of plastic surgery. Author Grant McCracken, in his book Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture (2008), draws a parallel between Cher's plastic surgeries and the transformations in her career: "Her plastic surgery is not merely cosmetic. It is hyperbolic, extreme, over the top ... Cher has engaged in a transformational technology that is dramatic and irreversible." Caroline Ramazanoglu, author of Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism (1993), wrote that "Cher's operations have gradually replaced a strong, decidedly 'ethnic' look with a more symmetrical, delicate, 'conventional' ... and ever-youthful version of female beauty ... Her normalised image ... now acts as a standard against which other women will measure, judge, discipline and 'correct' themselves."
Cher has six tattoos. The Baltimore Sun called her the "Ms. Original Rose Tattoo". She got her first tattoo in 1972. According to Sonny Bono, "Calling her butterfly tattoos nothing was like ignoring a sandstorm in the Mojave. That was exactly the effect Cher wanted to create. She liked to do things for the shock they created. She still does. She'll create some controversy and then tell her critics to stick it." In the late 1990s, she began having laser treatments to remove her tattoos. The process was still underway in the 2000s. She commented, "When I got tattooed, only bad girls did it: me and Janis Joplin and biker chicks. Now it doesn't mean anything. No one's surprised."
In 1992, Madame Tussauds wax museum honored Cher as one of the five "most beautiful women of history" by creating a life-size statue. She was ranked 26th on VH1's list of the "100 Sexiest Artists" published in 2002.
Cher was the inspiration for Mother Gothel, a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film Tangled (2010). Director Byron Howard explained that Gothel's exotic appearance, whose beauty, dark curly hair and voluptuous figure were deliberately designed to serve as a foil to Rapunzel's, was based on Cher's "exotic and Gothic looking" appearance, continuing that the singer "definitely was one of the people we looked at visually, as far as what gives you a striking character."
Social media
Cher's social media presence has drawn analysis from journalists. Time named her "Twitter's most outspoken (and beloved) commentator". The New York Times writer Jenna Wortham commended Cher on her social media usage, stating, "Most celebrities' social-media feeds feel painfully self-aware and thirsty ... In her own way, Cher is an outlier, perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user to stand at her digital pulpit and yell (somewhat) incomprehensibly, and be rewarded for it. Online, authenticity and originality are often carefully curated myths. Cher thrives on a version of nakedness and honesty that is rarely celebrated in the public eye." Monica Heisey of The Guardian described Cher's Twitter account as "a jewel in the bizarro crown of the internet", and remarked, "While many celebrities use Twitter for carefully crafted self-promotion, Cher just lets it all hang out."
As a gay icon
The reverence held for Cher by members of the LGBT community has been attributed to her career accomplishments, her sense of style, and her longevity. Cher is considered a gay icon, and has often been imitated by drag queens. According to Salon magazine's Thomas Rogers, "[d]rag queens imitate women like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and Cher because they overcame insult and hardship on their path to success, and because their narratives mirror the pain that many gay men suffer on their way out of the closet". According to Maclean's magazine's Elio Iannacci, Cher was "one of the first to bring drag to the masses" as she hired two drag queens to perform with her at her Las Vegas residency in 1979. Cher's role as a lesbian in the film Silkwood, as well as her transition to dance music and social activism, have further contributed to her becoming a gay icon. The NBC sitcom Will & Grace acknowledged Cher's status by making her the idol of gay character Jack McFarland. Cher guest-starred as herself twice on the show, in 2000—making the episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed" (named after her 1971 song "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves") Will & Graces second-highest rating ever— and 2002.
Other interests
Philanthropy
Cher's primary philanthropic endeavors have included support of health research and patients' quality of life, anti-poverty initiatives, veterans rights, and vulnerable children. The Cher Charitable Foundation supports international projects such as the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Operation Helmet, and the Children's Craniofacial Association.
Children
Beginning in 1990, Cher served as a donor and as the National Chairperson and Honorary Spokesperson for the Children's Craniofacial Association, whose mission is to "empower and give hope to facially disfigured children and their families". The annual Cher's Family Retreat is held each June to provide craniofacial patients, their siblings and parents an opportunity to interact with others who have endured similar experiences. She supports and promotes Get A-Head Charitable Trust, which aims to improve the quality of life for people with head and neck diseases.
Cher is a donor, fundraiser, and international spokesperson for Keep a Child Alive, an organization that seeks to accelerate action to combat the AIDS pandemic, including the provision of antiretroviral medicine to children and their families with HIV/AIDS. In 1996, she hosted the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Benefit alongside Elizabeth Taylor at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, she received the amfAR Award of Inspiration for "her willingness and ability to use her fame for the greater good" and for being "one of the great champions in the fight against AIDS".
In 2007, Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School (PVS) in Ukunda, Kenya, which "provides nutritious food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children, ages 2 to 13 years." Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities, and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community.
Soldiers and veterans
Cher has been a vocal supporter of American soldiers and returning veterans. She has contributed resources to Operation Helmet, an organization that provides free helmet upgrade kits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has contributed to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which serves military personnel who have been disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those severely injured in other operations. In 1993, she participated in a humanitarian effort in Armenia, taking food and medical supplies to the war-torn region.
Poverty
Cher has engaged in the construction of houses with Habitat for Humanity and served as the Honorary National Chair of a Habitat's elimination of poverty housing initiative "Raise the Roof", an effort to engage artists in the organization's work while on tour.
Environment
In 2016, after the discovery of lead contamination in the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city as part of a partnership with Icelandic Glacial.
Elder rights
In 2017, Cher weighed in on the need to protect elder rights as she executive produced Edith+Eddie, a documentary about a nonagenarian interracial couple. It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
COVID-19
Following the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, Cher launched the CherCares Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (CCPRRI) alongside Dr. Irwin Redlener, the head of Columbia University's Pandemic Resource and Response Center. The charity's initial plan is to distribute $1 million to "chronically neglected and forgotten people" during the pandemic through the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). Cher told Billboard, "There are rural areas where people of color and Latinos and Native Americans were getting no services. It's not a lot of money — $1 million goes in the blink of an eyelash! — so now I'm trying to get my friends to make it a lot more so we can do something that will really meet people's needs. A friend once told me, 'When people walk in your path, then you know what you have to do.'"
Animal rights
In November 2020, Cher joined Four Paws International and traveled to Pakistan to advocate for and work with the country's government to have Kaavan, an elephant who had been confined to a zoo for 35 years, transferred to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia. In April 2021, Paramount+ released the documentary film Cher and the Loneliest Elephant, detailing Cher's quest, alongside animal aid groups and veterinarians, to free Kaavan from confinement.
LGBT rights
Cher's older child, Chaz Bono, first came out as a lesbian at age 17, which reportedly caused Cher to feel "guilt, fear and pain". However, she soon came to accept Chaz's sexual orientation, and came to the conclusion that LGBT people "didn't have the same rights as everyone else, [and she] thought that was unfair". She was the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention, and has since become one of the LGBT community's most vocal advocates. In May 1998, she received the GLAAD Vanguard Award for having "made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbians and gay men". On June 11, 2009, Chaz came out as a transgender man, and his transition from female to male was legally finalized on May 6, 2010.
Politics
Cher has said that she is not a registered Democrat, but has attended many Democratic conventions and events. Over the years, Cher's political views have attracted media attention, and she has been an outspoken critic of the conservative movement. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she was critical of a variety of political topics, including Republican politicians like Sarah Palin and Jan Brewer. She has commented that she did not understand why anyone would be a Republican because eight years under the administration of George W. Bush "almost killed [her]".
During the 2000 United States presidential election, ABC News wrote that she was determined to do "whatever possible to keep him [Bush] out of office". She told the site, "If you're black in this country if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican? ... You won't have one fucking right left." She added, "I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."
On October 27, 2003, Cher anonymously called a C-SPAN phone-in program to recount a visit she made to maimed soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and criticized the lack of media coverage and government attention given to injured servicemen. She remarked that she watches C-SPAN every day. Although she identified herself as an unnamed entertainer, she was recognized by the C-SPAN host, who subsequently questioned her about her 1992 support for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. She said, "When I heard him talk right in the beginning, I thought that he would bring some sort of common-sense business approach and also less partisanship, but then ... I was completely disappointed like everyone else when he just kind of cut and run and no one knew exactly why ... Maybe he couldn't have withstood all the investigation that goes on now".
On Memorial Day weekend in 2006, Cher called into C-SPAN's Washington Journal endorsing Operation Helmet, a group that provides helmets to help soldiers avoid head injuries while in the war zone. On June 14, 2006, she made a guest appearance on C-SPAN with Dr. Bob Meaders, the founder of Operation Helmet. That year, in an interview with Stars and Stripes, she explained her "against the war in Iraq but for the troops" position: "I don't have to be for this war to support the troops because these men and women do what they think is right. They do what they're told to do. They do it with a really good heart. They do the best they can. They don't ask for anything."
Cher supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign. After Obama won the Democratic nomination, she supported his candidacy on radio and TV programs. However, in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair, she commented that she "still thinks Hillary would have done a better job", although she "accepts the fact that Barack Obama inherited insurmountable problems". During the 2012 United States presidential election, Cher and comedian Kathy Griffin released a public service announcement titled "Don't Let Mitt Turn Back Time on Women's Rights". In the PSA, the pair criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his support of Richard Mourdock, the US Senate candidate who suggested that pregnancies resulting from rape were "part of God's plan".
In September 2013, Cher declined an invitation to perform at the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia due to the country's controversial anti-gay legislation that overshadowed preparations for the event. In June 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, she made a series of critical comments on Twitter, stating that "Donald Trump's punishment is being Donald Trump". In October 2018, after the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a "pig" and "a politician from hell", before declaring that Bolsonaro should be "locked in prison for the rest of his life".
In September 2020, Cher raised nearly $2 million for Joe Biden's presidential campaign at a virtual, LGBTQ-themed fundraiser. In October, she traveled to Nevada and Arizona to campaign on behalf of Biden, and released a cover version of "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe", a song conceived for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky, with lyrics updated to be about Biden. The same month, Cher posted messages on Twitter in support of Armenia and Artsakh regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh war. She stated, "We stand with the people of Armenia [and] urge our leaders in Washington to conduct the sustained and rigorous diplomacy necessary to bring peace to the Artsakh region."
Legacy and impact Rolling Stone Rob Sheffield stated how "there are no other careers remotely like hers, [particularly] in the history of pop music" and referred to Cher as "the one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music." According to Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder, Cher "has been and remains today one of the Rock Era's most dominant figures". He described her as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to "advance feminine rebellion in the rock world [and] the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance, from her early hippie days to her later outlandish outfits, and her attitude—the perfect female punk long before punk even was a rock term." Billboard Joe Lynch described Cher as "a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s", and who by doing so "teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith".Billboard Keith Caulfield wrote that "there's divas, and then there's Cher." The New York Times Matthew Schneier stated, "[Cher] has earned her mononym. Her star power is such that she has spored an entire industry of imitators, both figurative and literal." Dazed magazine's Shon Faye elaborates: "If Madonna and Lady Gaga and Kylie and Cyndi Lauper were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played on, and the sun that shone down on them." According to Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News, "Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work"; however, he felt that subsequent female pop singers were heavily inspired by Cher's abilities to combine "showmanship with deep musicality ... to make valid statements in a wide variety of trend-driven idioms ... to ease effortlessly between pop subgenres [and] to shock without alienating her fans", as well as by her charismatic stage presence and the strong LGBT support among her fan base.
Cher is commonly referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop". Her work in music, film, television, and fashion has influenced artists including Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Betsy, Beyoncé, Bonnie McKee, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Christina Aguilera, Cleo, Cyndi Lauper, Drew Barrymore, Dua Lipa, Gemma Chan, Gwen Stefani, Helena Vondráčková, Jennifer Lopez, Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,
Lil' Kim, Lizzo, Miley Cyrus, Paulina Rubio, Pink, Madonna, Marc Jacobs, Ralph, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, RuPaul, Sarah Paulson, Saweetie, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Taylor Swift, Tina Turner, Tracy Chapman, Troye Sivan, and Zendaya.
Cher has repeatedly reinvented herself through various personas, for which Professor Richard Aquila from Ball State University called her "the ultimate pop chameleon". According to Entertainment WeeklyMarc Snetiker, "Cher has floated through generation after generation, scooping up new fans, thrilling old ones, reinventing her own myth and glittering splendidly through it all." Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek credited Cher as having "revolutionized the idea of what a pop star could visually accomplish, the way they could create multiple personas that live on and off-stage." James Reed from The Boston Globe elaborates: "Along with David Bowie, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in flux and challenging our perceptions of her[.]" The New York Times declared Cher as the "Queen of the Comeback". According to author Lucy O'Brien, "Cher adheres to the American Dream of reinvention of self: 'Getting old does not have to mean getting obsolete.'"
Author Craig Crawford, in his book The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World (2007), describes Cher as "a model of flexible career management", and relates her career successes to a constant reshaping of her image according to the evolving trends of popular culture. He further explains that she billed "each dramatic turnaround of style as another example of rebellion—an image that allowed her to make calculated changes while appearing to be consistent." Author Grant McCracken stated, "The term 'reinvention' is now often used to talk about the careers of American celebrities. But in Cher's case, it is particularly apt [because she] is inclined to lock on to each new fashion wave [and] is swept violently down the diffusion stream and out of fashion. Only substantial re-creation permits her to return to stardom." Her "integrity" and "perseverance" are highlighted in the Reaching Your Goals book series of illustrated inspirational stories for children, in which her life is detailed emphasizing the importance of self-actualization: "For years, Cher worked hard to become a successful singer. Then she worked hard to become an actress. Even when she needed money, she turned down movie roles that weren't right for her. Her goal has always been to be a good actress, not just a rich and famous one."
Cher's "ability to forge an immensely successful and lengthy career as a woman in a male-dominated entertainment world" has drawn attention from feminist critics. According to author Diane Negra, Cher was presented in the beginning of her career as a product of male creativity; Cher remembers, "It was a time when girl singers were patted on the head for being good and told not to think". However, her image eventually changed due to her "refusal of dependence on a man and the determination not only to forge a career (as an actor) on her own terms but to refuse the conventional role assigned to women over forty years old in an industry that fetishises youth", wrote author Yvonne Tasker. She was featured in the 16th-anniversary edition of Ms. magazine as an "authentic feminist hero" and a 1980s role model for women: "Cher, the straightforward, tattooed, dyslexic single mother, the first Oscar winner to have entered into matrimony with a known heroin addict and to have admitted to being a fashion victim by choice, has finally landed in an era that's not afraid to applaud real women."
Stephanie Brush from The New York Times wrote, following the telecast of Cher's Oscar win in 1988, that she "performs the function for women moviegoers that Jack Nicholson has always fulfilled for men. Free of the burden of ever having been America's sweetheart, she is the one who represents us [women] in our revenge fantasies, telling all the fatheads ... exactly where they can go. You need to be more than beautiful to get away with this. You need to have been Cher for 40 years." Cher's 1996 interview for Dateline NBCs Jane Pauley became a viral video in 2016; in it, Cher tells the story of her mother asking her to "settle down and marry a rich man," to which Cher replies, "Mom, I am a rich man." Cher's "Mom, I am a rich man" quote was included in Taylor Swift's 2019 music video "You Need to Calm Down". Bustle magazine's Erica Kam commented, "[Cher's quote] puts a spin on typical gender norms ... It would make sense, then, that Swift would want to follow Cher's example."
Alec Mapa of The Advocate elaborates: "While the rest of us were sleeping, Cher's been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies ... Cher embodies an unapologetic freedom and fearlessness that some of us can only aspire to." Rolling Stone Jancee Dunn wrote, "Cher is the coolest woman who ever stood in shoes. Why? Because her motto is, 'I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig.' There are folks all over America who would, in their heart of hearts, love to date people half their age, get multiple tattoos and wear feathered headdresses. Cher does it for us." Alexander Fury of The Independent wrote that Cher "represents a seemingly immortal, omnipotent, uni-monikered level of fame." Bego stated: "No one in the history of show business has had a career of the magnitude and scope of Cher's. She has been a teenage pop star, a television hostess, a fashion magazine model, a rock star, a pop singer, a Broadway actress, an Academy Award-winning movie star, a disco sensation, and the subject of a mountain of press coverage." Lynch wrote that "the world would certainly be different if she hadn't stayed so irrevocably Cher from the start."
Achievements
As a solo artist, Cher has sold 100 million records worldwide (in addition to 40 million as part of the duo Sonny & Cher), making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She is one of the few artists to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), and one of five actor-singers to have had a US number-one single and won an acting Academy Award. Her breakthrough single, Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", is a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and was featured on Rolling Stone "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list compiled in 2003. Her 1971 single "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" was called "one of the 20th century's greatest songs" by Billboard magazine. Her 1998 song "Believe" is the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. It was voted the world's eighth favorite song in a poll conducted by BBC in 2003—the only American song to be named on the list. "Believe" was placed on the 2021 revised list of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 1988, Cher became the first performer to receive an Academy Award for acting and a RIAA-certified gold album in the same year since the inception of gold awards in 1958.
Cher is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. She has held US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles over the longest period of time in history: 33 years, seven months and three weeks between "I Got You Babe", which topped the chart for the first time on August 14, 1965, and "Believe", whose last week at number one was April 3, 1999. With "Believe", she became the oldest female artist to have a US number-one song in the rock era, at the age of 52. Billboard ranked her at number 43 on their "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time" list. In 2014, the magazine listed her as the 23rd highest-grossing touring act since 1990, with total earned revenue of $351.6 million and 4.5 million attendance at her shows.
Cher has received numerous honorary awards, including the 1985 Woman of the Year Award by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at Harvard University, the Vanguard Award at the 1998 GLAAD Media Awards, the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards, a special award for influence on fashion at the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards, the Lucy Award for Innovation in Television at the 2000 Women in Film Awards, the Artist Achievement Award at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Glamour Awards, the Legend Award at the 2013 Attitude Awards, the Award of Inspiration at the 2015 amfAR Gala, the Icon Award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honor, the Ambassador for the Arts Award at the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography, and the 2020 Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award. In 2010, Cher received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Her name is on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the duo Sonny & Cher. She had also been selected for the honour as a solo artist in 1983, but forfeited her opportunity by declining to schedule the mandatory personal appearance.
In 2003, Cher appeared at number 41 on VH1's list of "The 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons", which recognizes "the folks that have significantly inspired and impacted American society". She was ranked 31st on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" for the period 1992–2012. Esquire magazine placed her at number 44 on their list of "The 75 Greatest Women of All Time". She was featured on the "100 Greatest Movie Stars of our Time" list compiled by People. In a 2001 poll, Biography magazine ranked her as their third favorite leading actress of all time, behind Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn.
Discography
Studio albums
Collaboration albums
Two the Hard Way with Gregg Allman as Allman and Woman (1977)
Black Rose'' as lead vocalist of Black Rose (1980)
Tours and residencies
Headlining concerts
Collaborative concerts
Two the Hard Way Tour with Gregg Allman as Allman and Woman (1977)
The Black Rose Show as lead vocalist of Black Rose (1980)
Concert residencies
Cher in Concert (1979–1982)
Cher (20082011)
Classic Cher (2017–2020)
Filmography
Films
Headlining television shows and specials
See also
Culture of the United States
Honorific nicknames in popular music
List of artists who reached number one in the United States
List of best-selling music artists
List of highest-grossing concert tours
Mononymous person
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"Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality.",
"Often referred to by the media as the \"Goddess of Pop\", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry.",
"Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career.",
"Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song \"I Got You Babe\" peaked at number one on the US and UK charts.",
"Together they sold 40 million records worldwide.",
"Her solo career was established during the same time, with the top-ten singles \"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)\" and \"You Better Sit Down Kids\".",
"She became a television personality in the 1970s with her CBS shows; first The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and then the eponymous Cher.",
"She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows.",
"While working on television, Cher released the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\", \"Half-Breed\", and \"Dark Lady\", becoming the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time.",
"After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she released the disco album Take Me Home (1979) and earned $300,000 a week for her 1979–1982 concert residency in Las Vegas.",
"In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in its film adaptation.",
"She subsequently garnered critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and Moonstruck (1987), the last of which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress.",
"She then revived her music career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989), and Love Hurts (1991), all of which yielded successful singles such as \"I Found Someone\", \"If I Could Turn Back Time\", and \"Love and Understanding\".",
"Cher contributed to the soundtrack for her next film, Mermaids (1990), which spawned the UK number-one single \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\".",
"She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk (1996).",
"Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, whose title track topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1999 and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK.",
"It features pioneering use of Auto-Tune to distort her vocals, known as the \"Cher effect\".",
"Her 2002–2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning $250 million.",
"In 2008, she signed a $60 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years.",
"During the 2010s, she landed starring roles in the films Burlesque (2010) and Mamma Mia!",
"Here We Go Again (2018) and released studio albums Closer to the Truth (2013) and Dancing Queen (2018), both of which debuted at number three on the Billboard 200.",
"Having sold 100 million records, Cher is one of the world's best-selling music artists.",
"Her achievements include a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, the Billboard Icon Award, and awards from the Kennedy Center Honors and the Council of Fashion Designers of America.",
"She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s.",
"Aside from music and acting, she is noted for her political views, social media presence, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.",
"Life and career\n\n1946–1961: Early life \n\nCher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946.",
"Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems; her mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), is a former model and retired actress who claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry.",
"Cher's father was rarely home when she was an infant, and her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old.",
"Her mother later married actor John Southall, with whom she had another daughter, Georganne, Cher's half-sister.",
"Now living in Los Angeles, Cher's mother began acting while working as a waitress.",
"She changed her name to Georgia Holt and played minor roles in films and on television.",
"Holt also secured acting parts for her daughters as extras on television shows like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.",
"Her mother's relationship with Southall ended when Cher was nine years old, but she considers him her father and remembers him as a \"good-natured man who turned belligerent when he drank too much\".",
"Holt remarried and divorced several more times, and she moved her family around the country (including New York, Texas, and California).",
"They often had little money, and Cher recounted having had to use rubber bands to hold her shoes together.",
"At one point, her mother left Cher at an orphanage for several weeks.",
"Although they met every day, both found the experience traumatic.",
"When Cher was in fifth grade, she produced a performance of the musical Oklahoma!",
"for her teacher and class.",
"She organized a group of girls, directing and choreographing their dance routines.",
"Unable to convince boys to participate, she acted the male roles and sang their songs.",
"By age nine, she had developed an unusually low voice.",
"Fascinated by film stars, Cher's role model was Audrey Hepburn, particularly due to her role in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's.",
"Cher began to take after the unconventional outfits and behavior of Hepburn's character.",
"She was also inspired by Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn.",
"She was disappointed by the absence of dark-haired Hollywood actresses whom she could emulate.",
"She had wanted to be famous since childhood but felt unattractive and untalented, later commenting, \"I couldn't think of anything that I could do ...",
"I didn't think I'd be a singer or dancer.",
"I just thought, well, I'll be famous.",
"That was my goal.\"",
"In 1961, Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted Cher (under the name Cheryl LaPiere) and Georganne, and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino, whose students were mostly from affluent families.",
"The school's upper-class environment presented a challenge for Cher; biographer Connie Berman wrote, \"[she] stood out from the others in both her striking appearance and outgoing personality.\"",
"A former classmate commented, \"I'll never forget seeing Cher for the first time.",
"She was so special ... She was like a movie star, right then and there ... She said she was going to be a movie star and we knew she would.\"",
"Despite not being an excellent student, Cher was intelligent and creative, according to Berman.",
"She earned high grades, excelling in French and English classes.",
"As an adult, she discovered that she had dyslexia.",
"Cher's unconventional behavior stood out: she performed songs for students during the lunch hours and surprised peers when she wore a midriff-baring top.",
"She later recalled, \"I was never really in school.",
"I was always thinking about when I was grown up and famous.\"",
"1962–1965: Solo career breakthrough \nAt age 16, Cher dropped out of school, left her mother's house, and moved to Los Angeles with a friend.",
"She took acting classes and worked to support herself, dancing in small clubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip and introducing herself to performers, managers, and agents.",
"According to Berman, \"[Cher] did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break, make a new contact, or get an audition.\"",
"Cher met performer Sonny Bono in November 1962 when he was working for record producer Phil Spector.",
"Cher's friend moved out, and Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his housekeeper.",
"Sonny introduced Cher to Spector, who used her as a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' \"Be My Baby\" and the Righteous Brothers' \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'\".",
"Spector produced her first single, \"Ringo, I Love You\", which Cher recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason.",
"The song was rejected by many radio stations programmers as they thought Cher's deep contralto vocals were a man's vocals; therefore, they believed it was a male homosexual singing a love song dedicated to the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.",
"Cher and Sonny became close friends, eventual lovers, and performed their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 27, 1964.",
"Although Sonny had wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright, and he began joining her onstage, singing the harmonies.",
"Cher disguised her nervousness by looking at Sonny; she later commented that she sang to the people through him.",
"In late 1964, they emerged as a duo called Caesar & Cleo, releasing the poorly received singles \"Do You Wanna Dance?",
"\", \"Love Is Strange\", and \"Let the Good Times Roll\".",
"Cher signed with Liberty Records' Imperial imprint in the end of 1964, and Sonny became her producer.",
"The single \"Dream Baby\", released under the name \"Cherilyn\", received airplay in Los Angeles.",
"Imperial encouraged Cher to work with Sonny on her second solo single for the label, a cover version of Bob Dylan's \"All I Really Want to Do\".",
"It peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.",
"Meanwhile, the Byrds had released their own version of the same song.",
"When competition on the singles charts started between Cher and the Byrds, the group's record label began to promote the B-side of the Byrds' single.",
"Roger McGuinn of the Byrds commented, \"We loved the Cher version ... We didn't want to hassle.",
"So we just turned our record over.\"",
"Cher's debut album, All I Really Want to Do (1965), reached number 16 on the Billboard 200; it was later described by AllMusic's Tim Sendra as \"one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era\".",
"1965–1967: Sonny and Cher's rise to pop stardom \n\nIn early 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny & Cher.",
"Following the recording of \"I Got You Babe\", they traveled to England in July 1965 at the Rolling Stones' advice; Cher recalled, \"[they] had told us ... that Americans just didn't get us and that if we were going to make it big, we were going to have to go to England.\"",
"According to writer Cintra Wilson, \"English newspaper photographers showed up when S&C were thrown out of the London Hilton [because of their outfits] the night they arrived—literally overnight, they were stars.",
"London went gaga for the heretofore-unseen S&C look, which was neither mod nor rocker.\"",
"\"I Got You Babe\" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became, according to AllMusic's Bruce Eder, \"one of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop/rock hits of the mid-'60s\"; Rolling Stone listed it among \"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" in 2003.",
"As the song knocked the Beatles off the top of the British charts, English teenagers began to emulate Sonny and Cher's fashion style, such as bell-bottoms, striped pants, ruffled shirts, industrial zippers and fur vests.",
"Upon their return to the US, the duo made several appearances on the teen-pop showcases Hullabaloo and Shindig!",
"and completed a tour of some of the largest arenas in the US.",
"Their shows attracted Cher look-alikes—\"girls who were ironing their hair straight and dyeing it black, to go with their vests and bell-bottoms\".",
"Cher expanded her creative range by designing a clothing line.",
"Sonny and Cher's first album, Look at Us (1965), released for the Atco Records division of Atlantic Records, spent eight weeks at number two on the Billboard 200, behind the Beatles' Help!.",
"Their material became popular, and the duo successfully competed with the dominant British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era.",
"Author Joseph Murrells described Sonny and Cher as \"part of the leading exponents of the rock-folk-message type of song, a hybrid combining the best and instrumentation of rock music with folk lyric and often lyrics of protest.\"",
"Sonny and Cher charted ten Billboard top 40 singles between 1965 and 1972, including five top-ten singles: \"I Got You Babe\", \"Baby Don't Go\", \"The Beat Goes On\", \"All I Ever Need Is You\", and \"A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done\".",
"At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat equaled only by the Beatles and Elvis Presley.",
"Together they sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to Time magazine's Ginia Bellafante, rock's \"it\" couple.",
"Cher's following releases kept her solo career fully competitive with her work with Sonny.",
"The Sonny Side of Chér (1966) features \"Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)\", which reached number two in the US and number three in the UK and became her first million-seller solo single.",
"Chér, also released in 1966, contains the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition \"Alfie\", which was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name and became the first stateside version of the popular song.",
"With Love, Chér (1967) includes songs described by biographer Mark Bego as \"little soap-opera stories set to rock music\" such as the US top-ten single \"You Better Sit Down Kids\".",
"1967–1970: Backlash from the younger generation, first marriage \n\nBy the end of the 1960s, Sonny and Cher's music had ceased to chart.",
"According to Berman, \"the heavy, loud sound of groups like Jefferson Airplane and Cream made the folk-rock music of Sonny and Cher seem too bland.\"",
"Cher later said, \"I loved the new sound of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the electric-guitar oriented bands.",
"Left to myself, I would have changed with the times because the music really turned me on.",
"But [Sonny] didn't like it—and that was that.\"",
"Their monogamous lifestyle during the period of the sexual revolution and the anti-drug position they adopted at the height of the drug culture lost them popularity among American youths.",
"According to Bego, \"in spite of their revolutionary unisex clothes, Sonny and Cher were quite 'square' when it came to sex and drugs.\"",
"In an attempt to recapture their young audience, the duo produced and starred in the film Good Times (1967), which was commercially unsuccessful.",
"Cher's next album, Backstage (1968), in which she explores diverse musical genres including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest settings, was not a commercial success.",
"In 1969, she was dropped from Imperial Records while Sonny and Cher had been dropped from Atco; however, the label wanted to sign Cher for a solo album.",
"3614 Jackson Highway (1969) was recorded without the guidance of Sonny and incorporates experiments in rhythm and blues and soul music.",
"AllMusic's Mark Deming proclaimed it \"arguably the finest album of her career\", and still \"a revelation\" decades later.",
"Displeased with the 3614 Jackson Highway album, Sonny prevented Cher from releasing more recordings for Atco.",
"Meanwhile, Sonny dated others, and by the end of the 1960s their relationship had begun to unravel.",
"According to People magazine, \"[Sonny] tried desperately to win her back, telling her he wanted to marry and start a family.\"",
"They officially married after she gave birth on March 4, 1969, to Chaz Bono.",
"The duo spent $500,000 and mortgaged their home to make the film Chastity (1969).",
"Written and produced by Sonny, who did not appear in the movie, it tells the story of a young woman, played by Cher, searching for the meaning of life.",
"The art film failed commercially, putting the couple $190,000 in debt with back taxes.",
"However, some critics noted that Cher showed signs of acting potential; Cue magazine wrote, \"Cher has a marvelous quality that often makes you forget the lines you are hearing.\"",
"At the lowest point of their career, the duo put together a nightclub routine that relied on a more adult approach to sound and style.",
"According to writer Cintra Wilson, \"Their lounge act was so depressing, people started heckling them.",
"Then Cher started heckling back.",
"Sonny ... reprimanded her; then she'd heckle Sonny\".",
"The heckling became a highlight of the act and attracted viewers.",
"Television executives took note, and the couple began making guest appearances on prime-time shows, in which they presented a \"new, sophisticated, and mature\" image.",
"Cher adopted alluring, low-cut gowns that became her signature outfits.",
"1971–1974: Television career breakthrough, first musical comeback \n\nCBS head of programming Fred Silverman offered Sonny and Cher their own television program after he noticed them as guest-hosts on The Merv Griffin Show in 1971.",
"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premiered as a summer replacement series on August 1, 1971, and had six episodes.",
"Because it was a ratings success, the couple returned that December with a full-time show.",
"Watched by more than 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was praised for the comedic timing, and deadpan Cher mocked Sonny about his looks and short stature.",
"According to Berman, they \"exuded an aura of warmth, playfulness, and caring that only enhanced their appeal.",
"Viewers were further enchanted when a young [Chaz] also appeared on the show.",
"They seemed like a perfect family.\"",
"Cher honed her acting skills in sketch comedy roles such as the brash housewife Laverne, the sardonic waitress Rosa, and historical vamps, including Cleopatra and Miss Sadie Thompson.",
"The Bob Mackie-designed clothing Cher wore was part of the show's attraction, and her style influenced the fashion trends of the 1970s.",
"In 1971, Sonny and Cher signed with the Kapp Records division of MCA Records, and Cher released the single \"Classified 1A\", in which she sings from the point of view of a soldier who bleeds to death in Vietnam.",
"Written by Sonny, who felt that her first solo single on the label had to be poignant and topical, the song was rejected by radio station programmers as uncommercial.",
"Since Sonny's first attempts at reviving their recording career as a duo had also been unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff Garrett to work with them.",
"He produced Cher's second US number-one single, \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\", which \"proved that ... Garrett knew more about Cher's voice and her persona as a singer than Sonny did\", writes Bego.",
"\"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" was the first single by a solo artist to rank number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at the same time as on the Canadian Singles Chart.",
"Billboard called it \"one of the 20th century's greatest songs\".",
"It was featured on the 1971 album Chér (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves), which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).",
"Its second single, \"The Way of Love\", reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and established Cher's more confident image as a recording artist.",
"In 1972, Cher released the all-ballad set Foxy Lady, demonstrating the evolution of her vocal abilities, according to Bego.",
"Following the release of the album, Garrett quit as producer after disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record.",
"At Sonny's insistence, in 1973 Cher released an album of standards called Bittersweet White Light, which was commercially unsuccessful.",
"That year, lyricist Mary Dean brought Garrett \"Half-Breed\", a song about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father, that she had written especially for Cher.",
"Although Garrett did not have Cher as a client at the time, he was convinced that \"it's a smash for Cher and for nobody else\", so he held the song for months until he got Cher back.",
"\"Half-Breed\" was featured on the album of the same name and became Cher's third US number-one single.",
"Both the album and the single were certified gold by the RIAA.",
"In 1974, Cher released the song \"Dark Lady\" as the lead single from the namesake album.",
"It reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cher's fourth number-one single and making her the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time.",
"Later that year, she released a Greatest Hits album that, according to Billboard magazine, proved her to be \"one of the most consistent hitmakers of the past five years\", as well as a \"proven superstar who always sells records\".",
"Between 1971 and 1973, Sonny and Cher's recording career was revived with four albums released under Kapp Records and MCA Records: Sonny & Cher Live (1971), All I Ever Need Is You (1972), Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973), and Live in Las Vegas Vol.",
"2 (1973).",
"Cher later commented on this period: \"I could do a whole album ... in three days ... We were on the road ... and we were doing the Sonny & Cher Show\".",
"1974–1979: Divorce from Sonny Bono, second marriage, decline in popularity \n\nCher and Sonny had had marital problems since late 1972, but appearances were maintained until 1974.",
"\"The public still thinks we are married,\" Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, \"[and] that's the way it has to be.\"",
"In February 1974, Sonny filed for a separation, citing \"irreconcilable differences\".",
"A week later, Cher countered with a divorce suit and charged Sonny with \"involuntary servitude\", claiming that he withheld money from her and deprived her of her rightful share of their earnings.",
"The couple battled in court over finances and the custody of Chaz, which was eventually granted to Cher.",
"Their divorce was finalized on June 26, 1975.",
"In 1974, Cher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.",
"The same year, Sonny premiered a solo show on ABC, The Sonny Comedy Revue, which carried the creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show.",
"It was canceled after 13 weeks.",
"During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a two-year romantic relationship with record executive David Geffen, who freed her from her business arrangement with Sonny, under which she was required to work exclusively for Cher Enterprises, the company he ran.",
"Geffen secured a $2.5 million deal for Cher with Warner Bros. Records, and she began work on her first album under that label in 1975.",
"According to Bego, \"it was their intention that [this album] was going to make millions of fans around the world take her seriously as a rock star, and not just a pop singer.\"",
"Despite Cher's efforts to develop her musical range by listening to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan, the resulting album Stars was commercially and critically unsuccessful.",
"Janet Maslin of The Village Voice wrote, \"Cher is just no rock and roller ...",
"Image, not music, is Cher Bono's main ingredient for both records and TV.\"",
"The album has since become a cult classic and is generally considered among her best work.",
"On February 16, 1975, Cher returned to television with a solo show on CBS.",
"Called Cher, it began as a highly rated special with guests Flip Wilson, Elton John, and Bette Midler.",
"The show was produced by Geffen and centered on Cher's songs, monologues, comedy performance, and her variation of clothing, which was the largest for a weekly TV show.",
"Early critical reception was favorable; the Los Angeles Times exclaimed that \"Sonny without Cher was a disaster.",
"Cher without Sonny, on the other hand, could be the best thing that's happened to weekly television this season.\"",
"Cher lasted for less than a year, replaced by a new show in which she professionally reunited with ex-husband Sonny; she said, \"doing a show alone was more than I could handle.\"",
"On June 30, 1975, four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band.",
"She filed for divorce nine days later because of his heroin and liquor problems, but they reconciled within a month.",
"They had one son, Elijah Blue, on July 10, 1976.",
"Sonny and Cher's TV reunion, The Sonny and Cher Show, debuted on CBS in February 1976—the first show ever to star a divorced couple.",
"Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere, Cher and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce, her reportedly extravagant lifestyle, and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash that eventually contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977.",
"In 1976, Mego Toys released a line of toys and dolls in the likeness of Sonny and Cher, which coincided with the popularity of The Sonny and Cher Show.",
"The miniature version of Cher ended up being the highest selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie.",
"Cher's next albums, I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) and Cherished (1977), the latter a return to her pop style at Warner's producers' insistence, were commercially unsuccessful; Orange Coast magazine's Keith Tuber commented, \"A weekly television series ... can spell disaster for a recording artist ...",
"Regular exposure on TV allowed people to see and hear these performers without having to buy their records ... That's what happened to Cher[.]\"",
"In 1977, under the rubric \"Allman and Woman\", she recorded alongside Allman the duet album Two the Hard Way.",
"Their relationship ended following the release of the album, and their divorce was finalized in 1979.",
"Beginning in 1978, she had a two-year live-in relationship with Kiss member Gene Simmons.",
"That year, she legally changed her name from Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere Bono Allman to Cher, to eliminate the use of four surnames.",
"She returned to prime time television with the ABC specials Cher... Special (1978)—featuring a 15-minute segment in which she performs all of the roles in her version of West Side Story— and Cher... And Other Fantasies (1979).",
"1979–1982: Second musical comeback, shift from disco music to rock \n\nA single mother with two children, Cher realized that she had to make a choice about the direction of her singing career.",
"Deciding to temporarily abandon her desire to be a rock singer, she signed with Casablanca Records and launched a comeback with the single \"Take Me Home\" and the album of the same name, both of which capitalized on the disco craze.",
"Both the album and the single became instant successes, remained bestsellers for more than half of 1979, and were certified gold by the RIAA.",
"Sales of the album may have been boosted by the image of a scantily clad Cher in a Viking outfit on its cover.",
"Despite her initial lack of enthusiasm for disco music, she changed her mind after the success, commenting, \"I never thought I would want to do disco ... [but] it's terrific!",
"It's great music to dance to.",
"I think that danceable music is what everybody wants.\"",
"Encouraged by the popularity of Take Me Home, Cher planned to return to rock music in her next album, Prisoner (1979).",
"The album's cover features Cher draped in chains as a \"prisoner of the press\", which caused controversy among feminist groups for her perceived portrayal of a sex slave.",
"She included rock songs, which made the disco release seem unfocused and led to its commercial failure.",
"Prisoner produced the single \"Hell on Wheels\", featured on the soundtrack of the film Roller Boogie.",
"The song exploits the late 1970s roller-skating fad and contributed to its popularity.",
"In 1980, alongside Italian record producer Giorgio Moroder, Cher wrote her last Casablanca disco recording, \"Bad Love\", for the film Foxes.",
"She formed the rock band Black Rose that year with her then-lover, guitarist Les Dudek.",
"Although Cher was the lead singer, she did not receive top billing because she wanted to create the impression that all band members were equal.",
"Since she was easily recognized when she performed with the band, she developed a punk look by cutting her trademark long hair.",
"Despite appearances on television, the band failed to earn concert dates.",
"Their album Black Rose received unfavorable reviews; Cher told Rolling Stone, \"The critics panned us, and they didn't attack the record.",
"They attacked me.",
"It was like, 'How dare Cher sing rock & roll?'\"",
"Black Rose disbanded in 1981.",
"During Black Rose's active period, Cher was simultaneously doing a residency show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, earning $300,000 a week.",
"Titled Cher in Concert, the three-year performance residency opened in June 1979 and eventually became Cher's first world concert tour as a solo artist (also referred to as the Take Me Home Tour), with additional dates in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.",
"It yielded two television specials: Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert (1981) and Cher... A Celebration at Caesars (1983), the latter of which won Cher the CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Variety Program.",
"In 1981, Cher released a duet with musician Meat Loaf called \"Dead Ringer for Love\", which reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and was later described by AllMusic's Donald A. Guarisco as \"one of the more inspired rock duets of the 1980s\".",
"In 1982, Columbia Records released the album I Paralyze, later deemed by Bego as Cher's \"strongest and most consistent solo album in years\" despite its low sales.",
"1982–1986: Film career breakthrough, musical hiatus \n\nWith decreasing album sales and a lack of commercially successful singles, Cher decided to further develop her acting career.",
"While she had previously aspired to venture into film, she had only the critically and commercially unsuccessful movies Good Times and Chastity to her credit, and the Hollywood establishment did not take her seriously as an actress.",
"Cher later recalled, \"I was making a fortune on the road, but I was dying inside.",
"Everyone kept saying, 'Cher, there are people who would give anything to have standing room only at Caesars Palace.",
"It would be the pinnacle of their careers.'",
"And I kept thinking, 'Yes, I should be satisfied' ...",
"But I wasn't satisfied.\"",
"She moved to New York in 1982 to take acting lessons with Lee Strasberg, founder of the Actors Studio, but never enrolled after her plans changed.",
"She auditioned for and was signed by director Robert Altman for the Broadway stage production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, playing a member of a James Dean fan club holding a 20-year reunion.",
"That year, Altman cast her again in the film adaptation of the same title.",
"Director Mike Nichols, who had seen Cher onstage in Jimmy Dean, offered her the part of Dolly Pelliker, a plant co-worker and Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in the film Silkwood.",
"When it premiered in 1983, audiences questioned Cher's ability as an actress.",
"She recalls attending a film preview during which the audience laughed when they saw her name in the credits.",
"For her performance, Cher received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.",
"In 1985, Cher formed the film production company Isis.",
"Her next film, Mask (1985), reached number two at the box office and was Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress.",
"For her role as a drug addict biker with a teenage son who has a severe physical deformity, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.",
"During the making of the film, however, she clashed with director Peter Bogdanovich, and was ultimately omitted from the Oscar nomination list.",
"She attended the 58th Academy Awards in a tarantula-like costume, later deemed by Vanity Fair'''s Esther Zuckerman as Cher's \"Oscar revenge dress\".",
"\"As you can see, I did receive my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress,\" Cher declared before presenting the nominees for Best Supporting Actor.",
"The incident garnered her much publicity.",
"Cher's May 1986 guest appearance on talk show Late Night with David Letterman, during which she called Letterman \"an asshole\", attracted much media coverage; Letterman later recalled, \"It did hurt my feelings.",
"Cher was one of the few people I've really wanted to have on the show ...",
"I felt like a total fool, especially since I say all kinds of things to people.\"",
"She returned to the show in 1987, reuniting with Sonny for the last time before his death to sing an impromptu version of \"I Got You Babe\".",
"According to Rolling Stone's Andy Greene, \"they weren't exactly the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television.",
"Had YouTube existed back then, this would have gone insanely viral the next morning.\"",
"Rolling Stone listed the performance among \"David Letterman's Top 10 Musical Moments\" in 2015.",
"1987–1992: Film stardom, third musical comeback \n\nCher starred in three films in 1987.",
"In Suspect, she played a public defender who is both helped and romanced by one of the jurors in the homicide case she is handling.",
"Alongside Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, she starred as one of three divorcees involved with a mysterious and wealthy visitor from hell who comes to a small New England town in the comedy horror The Witches of Eastwick.",
"In Norman Jewison's romantic comedy Moonstruck, she played an Italian widow in love with her fiancé's younger brother.",
"The two last films ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films of 1987, at number ten and five, respectively.The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote Moonstruck \"offers further proof that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching whatever she does.\"",
"For that film, Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.",
"By 1988, Cher had become one of the most bankable actresses of the decade, commanding $1 million per film.",
"That year, she released the fragrance Uninhibited, which earned about $15 million in its first year sales.",
"In 1987, Cher signed with Geffen Records and revived her musical career with what music critics Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson describe as \"her most impressive string of hits to date\", establishing her as a \"serious rock and roller ... a crown that she'd worked long and hard to capture\".",
"Michael Bolton, Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, and Richie Sambora produced her first Geffen album, Cher.",
"Despite facing strong retail and radio airplay resistance upon its release, the album proved to be a commercial success, certified platinum by the RIAA.",
"Cher features the rock ballad \"I Found Someone\", Cher's first US top-ten single in more than eight years.",
"By the end of the 1980s, Cher was also receiving attention for her controversial lifestyle, including her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist fashion sense, and affairs with younger men.",
"She had romantic relationships with actors Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, and Tom Cruise, hockey player Ron Duguay, film producer Josh Donen, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, and Rob Camilletti, a bagel baker 18-years her junior whom she dated from 1986 to 1989.",
"Cher's 19th studio album Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA.",
"The music video for its second single, \"If I Could Turn Back Time\", caused controversy due to Cher's performance on the battleship , straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks.",
"The song topped the Australian charts for seven weeks, reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became one of Cher's most successful singles.",
"Other songs from Heart of Stone to reach the US top ten were \"After All\", a duet with Peter Cetera, and \"Just Like Jesse James\".",
"At the 1989 People's Choice Awards, Cher won the Favorite All-Around Female Star Award.",
"She embarked on the Heart of Stone Tour in 1989.",
"Most critics liked the tour's nostalgic nature and admired Cher's showmanship.",
"Its parent television special Cher at the Mirage (1991) was filmed during a concert in Las Vegas.",
"In her first film in three years, Mermaids (1990), Cher paid tribute to her own mother in this story about a woman who moves her two daughters from town to town at the end of a love affair.",
"She clashed with the film's first two directors, Lasse Hallström and Frank Oz, who were replaced by Richard Benjamin.",
"Believing Cher would be the star attraction, the producers allowed her creative control for the film.",
"Mermaids was a box office success and received generally positive reviews.",
"One of the two songs Cher recorded for the film's soundtrack, a cover version of Betty Everett's \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\", topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks.",
"Cher's final studio album for Geffen Records, Love Hurts (1991), stayed at number one in the UK for six weeks and produced the UK top-ten single \"Love and Understanding\".",
"The album was certified gold by the RIAA.",
"In later years, Cher commented that her Geffen label \"hit years\" had been especially significant to her, \"because I was getting to do songs that I really loved ... songs that really represented me, and they were popular!\"",
"She released the exercise book Forever Fit in 1991, followed by the 1992 fitness videos CherFitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence.",
"She embarked on the Love Hurts Tour during 1992.",
"That year, the UK-only compilation album Greatest Hits: 1965–1992 peaked at number one in the country for seven weeks.",
"It features three new songs: \"Oh No Not My Baby\", \"Whenever You're Near\", and \"Many Rivers to Cross\".",
"1992–1997: Health and professional struggles, directorial debut \n\nPartially due to her experiences filming Mermaids, Cher turned down leading roles in such films as The War of the Roses and Thelma & Louise.",
"According to Berman, \"After the success of Moonstruck, she was so worried about her next career move that she was overly cautious.\"",
"In the early 1990s, she contracted the Epstein–Barr virus and developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which left her too exhausted to sustain her music and film careers.",
"Because she needed to earn money and was not healthy enough to work on other projects, she starred in infomercials launching health, beauty, and diet products, which earned her close to $10 million in fees.",
"The skits were parodied on Saturday Night Live and critics considered them a sellout, many suggesting her film career was over.",
"She told Ladies' Home Journal, \"Suddenly I became the Infomercial Queen and it didn't occur to me that people would focus on that and strip me of all my other things.\"",
"Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994).",
"In 1994, she started a mail-order catalogue business, Sanctuary, selling Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of \"I Got You Babe\" to MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head.",
"Alongside Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry, and Eric Clapton, she topped the UK Singles Chart in 1995 with the charity single \"Love Can Build a Bridge\".",
"Later that year, she signed with Warner Music UK's label WEA and released the album It's a Man's World (1995), which came out of her idea of covering men's songs from a woman's point of view.",
"In general, critics favored the album and its R&B influences, some saying her voice had improved.",
"Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that \"From an artistic standpoint, this soulful collection of grown-up pop songs ... is the high point of her recording career.\"",
"It's a Man's World reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the UK top-ten single \"One by One\".",
"Tracks were remixed for the American release of the album, abandoning its original rock sound in favor of a style more accessible to US radio.",
"The US release failed commercially, reaching number 64 on the Billboard 200.",
"In 1996, Cher played the wife of a businessman who hires a hitman to murder her in the Chazz Palminteri-scripted dark comedy film Faithful.",
"Although the film received negative reviews from critics, Cher was praised for her role; The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote that she \"does her game best to find comic potential in a victim's role.\"",
"Cher refused to promote the film, claiming it was \"horrible\".",
"She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk (1996), in which she starred as a doctor murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic.",
"It drew the highest ratings for an original HBO movie to date, registering an 18.7 rating with a 25 share in HBO homes and attracting 6.9 million viewers.",
"Her music played a large role in the American TV series The X-Files episode \"The Post-Modern Prometheus\", which aired in November 1997.",
"Written for her, it tells the story of a scientist's grotesque creature who adores Cher because of her role in Mask, in which her character cares for her disfigured son.",
"1998–1999: Death of Sonny Bono, fourth musical comeback \nFollowing Sonny Bono's death in a skiing accident in 1998, Cher delivered a tearful eulogy at his funeral, calling him \"the most unforgettable character\" she had met.",
"She paid tribute to him by hosting the CBS special Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers, which aired on May 20, 1998.",
"That month, Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television.",
"Later that year, Cher published The First Time, a collection of autobiographical essays of \"first-time\" events in her life, which critics praised as down-to-earth and genuine.",
"Although the manuscript was almost finished when Sonny died, she could not decide whether to include his death in the book; she feared being criticized for capitalizing on the event.",
"She told Rolling Stone, \"I couldn't ignore it, could I?",
"I might have if I cared more about what people think than what I know is right for me.\"",
"Cher's 22nd studio album Believe (1998) marked a musical departure for her, as it comprises dance-pop songs, many of which capture the \"disco-era essence\"; Cher said, \"It's not that I think this is a '70s album ... but there's a thread, a consistency running through it that I love.'\"",
"Believe was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA and went on to be certified gold or platinum in 39 countries, selling 10 million copies worldwide.",
"The album's title track reached number one in more than 23 countries and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.",
"It became the best-selling recording of 1998 and 1999, respectively, in the UK and the US, and Cher's most successful single to date.",
"\"Believe\" topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK, selling over 1.84 million copies in the country up until October 2018.",
"It also topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks, selling over 1.8 million units in the US up until December 1999.",
"The song earned Cher the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording and the 1999 Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year.",
"On January 31, 1999, Cher performed \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" at the Super Bowl XXXIII.",
"Two months later, she sang on the television special VH1 Divas Live 2, which attracted 19.4 million viewers.",
"According to VH1, it was the most popular, and most watched program in the television network's history, as Cher's presence was \"a huge part of making it exactly that.\"",
"The Do You Believe?",
"tour ran from 1999 to 2000 and was sold out in every American city in which it was booked, amassing a global audience of more than 1.5 million.",
"Its companion television special, Cher: Live in Concert – From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999), was the highest rated original HBO program in 1998–99, registering a 9.0 rating among adults 18 to 49 and a 13.0 rating in the HBO universe of about 33 million homes.",
"Capitalizing on the success of \"Believe\", Cher's former record company Geffen Records released in April 1999 the US-only compilation album If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits, which features the previously unreleased song \"Don't Come Cryin' to Me\".",
"It was certified gold by the RIAA.",
"Seven months later, Cher released the compilation album The Greatest Hits, which sold three million copies outside of the US up until January 2000.",
"Cher was named the number-one dance artist of 1999 by Billboard.",
"At the 1999 World Music Awards, she received the Legend Award for her \"lifelong contribution to the music industry\".",
"Her next film, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999), received generally positive reviews, and she earned critical acclaim for her performance as a rich, flamboyant American socialite whose visit to Italy is not welcome among the Englishwomen; one reviewer from Film Comment wrote, \"It is only after she appears that you realize how sorely she's been missed from movie screens!",
"For Cher is a star.",
"That is, she manages the movie star trick of being at once a character and at the same time never allowing you to forget: that's Cher.\"",
"2000–2009: Touring success, retirement, Vegas residency Not Commercial (2000) was written mostly by Cher after she had attended a songwriters' conference in 1994; it marked her first attempt at writing most of the tracks for an album.",
"As the album was rejected by her record label for being uncommercial, she chose to sell it only on her website.",
"In the song \"Sisters of Mercy\", she criticized as \"cruel, heartless and wicked\" the nuns who prevented her mother from retrieving her from a Catholic orphanage.",
"The Catholic church denounced the song.",
"Cher's highly anticipated dance-oriented follow-up to Believe, Living Proof (2001), entered the Billboard 200 at number nine and was certified gold by the RIAA.",
"The album includes the UK top-ten single \"The Music's No Good Without You\" and \"Song for the Lonely\", the latter song dedicated to \"the courageous people of New York\" following the September 11 attacks.",
"In May 2002, she performed during the benefit concert VH1 Divas Las Vegas.",
"At the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, she won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award and was presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Steven Tyler for having \"helped redefine popular music with massive success on the Billboard charts\".",
"That year, her wealth was estimated at $600 million.",
"In June 2002, Cher embarked on the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, announced as the final live concert tour of her career, although she vowed to continue making records and films.",
"The show highlighted her successes in music, television, and film, featuring video clips from the 1960s onwards and an elaborate backdrop and stage set-up.",
"Initially scheduled for 49 shows, the worldwide tour was extended several times.",
"By October 2003, it had become the most successful tour ever by a woman, grossing $145 million from 200 shows and playing to 2.2 million fans.",
"A collection of live tracks taken from the tour was released in 2003 as the album Live!",
"The Farewell Tour.",
"The NBC special Cher – The Farewell Tour (2003) attracted 17 million viewers.",
"It was the highest rated network-TV concert special of 2003 and earned Cher the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special.",
"After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a worldwide deal with the US division of Warner Bros. Records in September 2003.",
"The Very Best of Cher (2003), a greatest-hits collection that surveys her entire career, peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.",
"She played herself in the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003), mocking her public image as she appears in bed with a much younger boyfriend.",
"Cher's 326-date Farewell Tour ended in 2005 as one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, seen by over 3.5 million people and earning $250 million.",
"After three years of retirement, she began in 2008 a three-year, 200-performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, for which she earned a reported $60 million.",
"Titled Cher, the production featured state-of-the-art video and special effects, elaborate set designs, 14 dancers, four aerialists and more than 20 costume changes.",
"2010–2017: Burlesque, return to music and touring \n\nIn Burlesque (2010), Cher's first musical film since 1967's Good Times, the actress plays a nightclub impresario whom a young Hollywood hopeful is looking to impress.",
"One of the two songs she recorded for the film's soundtrack, the power ballad \"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me\", reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011, making Cher the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s.",
"In November 2010, she received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.",
"The next year, she lent her voice to Janet the Lioness in the comedy Zookeeper.",
"Dear Mom, Love Cher, a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, aired on Lifetime in May 2013.Closer to the Truth, Cher's 25th studio album and the first since 2001's Living Proof, entered the Billboard 200 at number three in October 2013, her highest position on that chart to date.",
"Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe commented that \"Cher's 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'\".",
"Cher premiered the lead single \"Woman's World\" on the season four finale of the talent show The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade.",
"She later joined the show's season five as judge Blake Shelton's team adviser.",
"On June 30, 2013, Cher headlined the annual Dance on the Pier benefit, celebrating Gay Pride day.",
"It became the event's first sellout in five years.",
"In November 2013, she appeared as a guest performer and judge on the seventeenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, during its eighth week, which was dedicated to her.",
"She embarked on the Dressed to Kill Tour in March 2014, nearly a decade after announcing her \"farewell tour\".",
"She quipped about that fact during the shows, saying this would actually be her last farewell tour while crossing fingers.",
"The tour's first leg, which included 49 sold-out shows in North America, grossed $54.9 million.",
"In November 2014, she cancelled all remaining dates due to an infection that affected kidney function.",
"On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.",
"Credited as Bonnie Jo Mason, she uses an alias of hers originated in 1964.",
"Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015.",
"It is the most expensive single album ever sold.",
"After appearing as Marc Jacobs' guest at the 2015 Met Gala, Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign.",
"The fashion designer stated, \"This has been a dream of mine for a very, very long time.\"",
"Classic Cher, a three-year concert residency at both the Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, and The Theater at MGM National Harbor, Washington, opened in February 2017.",
"At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, Cher performed \"Believe\" and \"If I Could Turn Back Time\", her first awards show performance in more than 15 years, and was presented with the Billboard Icon Award by Gwen Stefani, who called her \"a role model for showing us how to be strong and true to ourselves [and] the definition of the word Icon.\"",
"2018–present: Return to film, Dancing Queen, upcoming projects \n\nIn 2018, Cher returned to film for the romantic musical comedy film Mamma Mia!",
"Here We Go Again.",
"New York magazine's Viviana Olen and Matt Harkins commented that \"it's only at the climax of the movie when its true promise is fulfilled: Cher arrives ...",
"It becomes clear that every single movie—no matter how flawless—would be infinitely better if it included Cher.\"",
"She stars as Ruby Sheridan, who is the grandmother of Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried, and the mother of Donna, portrayed by Meryl Streep.",
"Cher recorded two ABBA songs for the film's soundtrack: \"Fernando\" and \"Super Trouper\".",
"Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA commented, \"She makes Fernando her own.",
"It's her song now.\"",
"On March 4, 2018, Cher headlined the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.",
"Tickets sold out within three hours after she hinted her performance on her Twitter account.",
"In September 2018, Cher embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour.",
"While promoting Mamma Mia!",
"Here We Go Again, Cher confirmed she was working on an album that would feature cover versions of songs from ABBA.",
"The album, Dancing Queen, was released on September 28, 2018.",
"Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone commented that \"the 72-year-old makes ABBA songs not only sound like they should've been written for her in the first place but like they firmly belong in 2018\".",
"Marc Snetiker from Entertainment Weekly called it Cher's \"most significant release since 1998's Believe\" and noted that \"the album ender, 'One of Us', is frankly one of Cher's best recordings in years.\"",
"Dancing Queen debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, tying with 2013's Closer to the Truth for Cher's highest-charting solo album in the US.",
"With first-week sales of 153,000 units, it earned the year's biggest sales week for a pop album by a female artist, as well as Cher's largest sales week since 1991.",
"Dancing Queen also topped Billboards Top Album Sales chart, making it Cher's first number-one album on that chart.The Cher Show, a jukebox musical based on Cher's life and music, officially premiered at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, on June 28, 2018, and played through July 15.",
"It began Broadway previews November 1, with its official opening on December 3, 2018.",
"Written by Rick Elice, it features three actresses playing Cher during different stages of her life.",
"The Cher Show is set to launch a UK and Ireland tour in 2022.",
"On December 2, 2018, Cher received a Kennedy Center Honors prize, the annual Washington distinction for artists who have made extraordinary contributions to culture.",
"The ceremony featured tribute performances by Cyndi Lauper, Little Big Town and Adam Lambert.",
"During 2018, Cher used Twitter to announce she was working on four new projects for the next two years: a Christmas album; a second album of ABBA covers; an autobiography; and a biographical film about her life.",
"In October 2019, Cher launched a new perfume, Cher Eau de Couture, which was four years in the making.",
"Described as \"genderless\", it is Cher's second fragrance after 1987's Uninhibited.",
"On February 4, 2020, Cher was announced as the new face of fashion brand Dsquared2.",
"She starred in the brand's spring/summer advertising campaign, which was directed by photographers Mert and Marcus.",
"In May, Cher released her first Spanish-language song, a cover of ABBA's \"Chiquitita\".",
"Proceeds from the single were donated to UNICEF following the COVID-19 pandemic.",
"In November, Cher spawned a UK top-ten single as part of the charity supergroup BBC Radio 2 Allstars with \"Stop Crying Your Heart Out\", an Oasis cover recorded in support of BBC's Children in Need charity.",
"Cher appeared in a voice-over role as a bobblehead version of herself in the animated feature film Bobbleheads: The Movie (2020).",
"The same year, she was featured on The New York Times Magazines list of \"The Best Actors of 2020\", the first time an actor not in a current-year theatrical release made it on the annual list; film critics Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott commented, \"Cher's radiant performance in Moonstruck warmed us in quarantine.\"",
"In May 2021, Cher guest-starred as God in Pink's music video \"All I Know So Far\".",
"In January 2022, Cher appeared as the star of MAC Cosmetics' \"Challenge Accepted\" campaign alongside rapper Saweetie.",
"Artistry \n Music and voice \n\nCher has employed various musical styles, including folk rock, pop rock, power ballads, disco, new wave music, rock music, punk rock, arena rock, and hip hop; she said she has done this to \"remain relevant and do work that strikes a chord\".",
"Her music has mainly dealt with themes of heartbreak, independence, and self-empowerment for women; by doing so, she became \"a brokenhearted symbol of a strong but decidedly single woman\", according to Out magazine's Judy Wieder.",
"Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder credited Cher's \"nearly flawless\" song selection as what made her a notorious rock singer; while several of her early songs were penned by or sung with Sonny Bono, most of her solo successes, which outnumbered Sonny and Cher's successes, were composed by independent songwriters, selected by Cher.",
"Not Commercial (2000), Cher's first album mostly written by herself, presents a \"1970s singer-songwriter feel\" that proves \"Cher adept in the role of storyteller\", according to AllMusic's Jose F. Promis.",
"Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times writes, \"There were a lot of great records by female singers in the early days of rock ... None, however, reflected the authority and command that we associate with rock 'n' roll today as much as [Cher's] key early hits\".",
"Some of Cher's early songs discuss subjects rarely addressed in American popular music such as divorce, prostitution, unplanned and underaged pregnancy, and racism.",
"According to AllMusic's Joe Viglione, the 1972 single \"The Way of Love\" is \"either about a woman expressing her love for another woman, or a woman saying au revoir to a gay male she loved\" (\"What will you do/When he sets you free/Just the way that you/Said good-bye to me\").",
"Her ability to carry both male and female ranges allowed her to sing solo in androgynous and gender-neutral songs.",
"Cher has a contralto singing voice, described by author Nicholas E. Tawa as \"bold, deep, and with a spacious vibrato\".",
"Ann Powers of The New York Times called it \"a quintessential rock voice: impure, quirky, a fine vehicle for projecting personality.\"",
"AllMusic's Bruce Eder wrote that the \"tremendous intensity and passion\" of Cher's vocals coupled with her \"ability to meld that projection with her acting skills\" can provide \"an incredibly powerful experience for the listener.\"",
"The Guardian Laura Snapes described her voice as \"miraculous ... capable of conveying vulnerability, vengeance and pain all at once\".",
"Paul Simpson, in his book The Rough Guide to Cult Pop (2003), posits that \"Cher [is] the possessor of one of the huskiest, most distinctive voices in pop ... which can work wonders with the right material directed by the right producer\".",
"He further addresses the believability of her vocal performances: \"she spits out the words ... with such conviction you'd think she was delivering an eternal truth about the human condition\".",
"Writing about Cher's musical output during the 1960s, Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times stated that \"Rock was subsequently blessed with the staggering blues exclamations of Janis Joplin in the late '60s and the raw poetic force of Patti Smith in the mid-'70s.",
"Yet no one matched the pure, seductive wallop of Cher\".",
"By contrast, her vocal performances during the 1970s were described by Eder as \"dramatic, highly intense ... [and] almost as much 'acted' as sung\".",
"First heard in the 1980 record Black Rose, Cher employed sharper, more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums, establishing her sexually confident image.",
"For the 1995 album It's a Man's World, she restrained her vocals, singing in higher registers and without vibrato.",
"The 1998 song \"Believe\" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by Cher, and was the first commercial recording to feature Auto-Tune—an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies in vocal music recordings—as a deliberate creative effect.",
"According to Rolling Stone Christopher R. Weingarten, the \"producers ... used the pitch correction software not as a way to fix mistakes in Cher's iconic voice, but as an aesthetic tool.\"",
"After the success of the song, the technique became known as the \"Cher effect\" and has since been widely used in popular music.",
"Cher continued to use Auto-Tune on the albums Living Proof (2001), Closer to the Truth (2013), and Dancing Queen (2018).",
"In a 2013 interview with the Toronto Sun, Cher reflected on how her voice has evolved throughout her career, becoming stronger and suppler over the years.",
"She said working with vocal coaches had made a significant difference: \"It's so freaky because people my age are having to lose notes and I'm gaining notes, so that's pretty shocking.\"",
"Films, videos, and stage Maclean's magazine's Barbara Wickens wrote, \"Cher has emerged as probably the most fascinating movie star of her generation ... [because] she has managed to be at once boldly shocking and ultimately enigmatic.\"",
"New York Post movie critic David Edelstein attributes Cher's \"top-ranking star quality\" to her ability of projecting \"honesty, rawness and emotionality.",
"She wears her vulnerability on her sleeve.\"",
"Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate wrote that Cher was \"one of the first superstars to 'play gay' with compassion and without a hint of stereotyping\", as she portrays a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood.",
"Author Yvonne Tasker, in her book Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (2002), notes that Cher's film roles often mirrors her public image as a rebellious, sexually autonomous, and self-made woman.",
"In her films, she recurrently serves as a social intermediary to disenfranchised male characters, such as Eric Stoltz's Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia victim in Mask (1985), Liam Neeson's mute homeless veteran in Suspect (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand in Moonstruck (1987).",
"Film critic Kathleen Rowe wrote of Moonstruck that the depiction of Cher's character as \"a 'woman on top' [is] enhanced by the unruly star persona Cher brings to the part'\".",
"For Moonstruck, Cher was ranked 1st on Billboards list of \"The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies\", and her performance was described as \"the standard by which you mentally check all others\".",
"Moonstruck was acknowledged by the American Film Institute as the eighth best romantic comedy film of all time.",
"Cher's public image is also reflected in her music videos and live performances, in which she \"repeatedly comments on her own construction, on her search for perfection and on the performance of the female body\", wrote Tasker.",
"Unlike other acts of that time, who often featured female backers mimicking the singer's performance, Cher uses a male dancer dressed as her in the 1992 concert video Cher at the Mirage; author Diane Negra commented, \"In authorizing her own quotation, Cher acknowledges herself as fictionalized production, and proffers to her audience a pleasurable plurality.\"",
"James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that \"Cher is well aware that her chameleonic glitz set the stage for the current era of stadium-size razzle-dazzle.",
"She's comfortable enough to see such imitation as flattery, not theft.\"",
"American singer Pink, who is recognized by her acrobatic stage presence, started studying Aerial silks after watching Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour in 2004.",
"Cher was ranked 17th on VH1's list of the \"50 Greatest Women of the Video Era\".",
"The 1980 video for \"Hell on Wheels\" involves cinematic techniques and was one of the first music videos ever.",
"Deemed \"controversial\" for her performance on the battleship , straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks, the 1989 music video for \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" was the first ever to be banned by MTV.",
"Public image\nFashionTime magazine's Cady Lang described Cher as a \"cultural phenomenon [who] has forever changed the way we see celebrity fashion.\"",
"Cher emerged as a fashion trendsetter in the 1960s, popularizing \"hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandanas, and Cherokee-inspired tunics\".",
"She began working as a model in 1967 for photographer Richard Avedon after then-Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland discovered her at a party for Jacqueline Kennedy that year.",
"Avedon took the controversial photo of Cher in a beaded and feathered nude gown designed by Bob Mackie for the cover of Time magazine in 1975; Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek described it as \"one of the most recreated and monumental looks of all time.\"",
"Cher first wore the gown to the 1974 Met Gala.",
"According to Vogue magazine's André Leon Talley, \"it was really the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended, and it changed everything.",
"We are still seeing versions of that look on The Met red carpet 40 years later.\"",
"Billboard wrote that Cher has \"transformed fashion and [become] one of the most influential style icons in red carpet history\".",
"Through her 1970s television shows, Cher became a sex symbol with her inventive and revealing Mackie-designed outfits, and fought the network censors to bare her navel.",
"Although Cher has been erroneously attributed to being the first woman to expose her navel on television (e.g.",
"Nichelle Nichols, BarBara Luna and Diana Ewing in the 1960s TV series Star Trek), she was the most prominent to do so since the establishment of the American Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters in 1951, which prompted network censors to ban navel exposure on US television.",
"People dubbed Cher the \"pioneer of the belly beautiful\".",
"In 1972, after she was featured on the annual \"Best Dressed Women\" lists, Mackie stated: \"There hasn't been a girl like Cher since Dietrich and Garbo.",
"She's a high-fashion star who appeals to people of all ages.\"",
"In May 1999, after the Council of Fashion Designers of America recognized Cher with an award for her influence on fashion, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a \"fashion visionary\" for \"striking just the right note of contemporary wretched excess\".",
"Givhan referenced Tom Ford, Anna Sui and Dolce & Gabbana as \"[i]nfluential designers [who] have evoked her name as a source of inspiration and guidance.\"",
"She concluded that \"Cher's Native American showgirl sexpot persona now seems to epitomize the fashion industry's rush to celebrate ethnicity, adornment and sex appeal.\"",
"Vogue proclaimed Cher \"[their] favorite fashion trendsetter\" and wrote that \"[she] set the grounds for pop stars and celebrities today\", describing her as \"[e]ternally relevant [and] the ruler of outré reinvention\".",
"Alexander Fury of The Independent lauded Cher as \"the ultimate fashion icon\" and traced her influence among female celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, and Kim Kardashian, stating that \"[t]hey all graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage, with anyone, or anything ...",
"They're trying to share the spotlight, to have Cher's success.\"",
"Physical appearance\n\nCher has attracted media attention for her physical appearance—particularly her youthful looks and her tattoos.",
"Journalists have often called her the \"poster girl\" of plastic surgery.",
"Author Grant McCracken, in his book Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture (2008), draws a parallel between Cher's plastic surgeries and the transformations in her career: \"Her plastic surgery is not merely cosmetic.",
"It is hyperbolic, extreme, over the top ... Cher has engaged in a transformational technology that is dramatic and irreversible.\"",
"Caroline Ramazanoglu, author of Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism (1993), wrote that \"Cher's operations have gradually replaced a strong, decidedly 'ethnic' look with a more symmetrical, delicate, 'conventional' ... and ever-youthful version of female beauty ...",
"Her normalised image ... now acts as a standard against which other women will measure, judge, discipline and 'correct' themselves.\"",
"Cher has six tattoos.",
"The Baltimore Sun called her the \"Ms.",
"Original Rose Tattoo\".",
"She got her first tattoo in 1972.",
"According to Sonny Bono, \"Calling her butterfly tattoos nothing was like ignoring a sandstorm in the Mojave.",
"That was exactly the effect Cher wanted to create.",
"She liked to do things for the shock they created.",
"She still does.",
"She'll create some controversy and then tell her critics to stick it.\"",
"In the late 1990s, she began having laser treatments to remove her tattoos.",
"The process was still underway in the 2000s.",
"She commented, \"When I got tattooed, only bad girls did it: me and Janis Joplin and biker chicks.",
"Now it doesn't mean anything.",
"No one's surprised.\"",
"In 1992, Madame Tussauds wax museum honored Cher as one of the five \"most beautiful women of history\" by creating a life-size statue.",
"She was ranked 26th on VH1's list of the \"100 Sexiest Artists\" published in 2002.",
"Cher was the inspiration for Mother Gothel, a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film Tangled (2010).",
"Director Byron Howard explained that Gothel's exotic appearance, whose beauty, dark curly hair and voluptuous figure were deliberately designed to serve as a foil to Rapunzel's, was based on Cher's \"exotic and Gothic looking\" appearance, continuing that the singer \"definitely was one of the people we looked at visually, as far as what gives you a striking character.\"",
"Social media\nCher's social media presence has drawn analysis from journalists.",
"Time named her \"Twitter's most outspoken (and beloved) commentator\".",
"The New York Times writer Jenna Wortham commended Cher on her social media usage, stating, \"Most celebrities' social-media feeds feel painfully self-aware and thirsty ...",
"In her own way, Cher is an outlier, perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user to stand at her digital pulpit and yell (somewhat) incomprehensibly, and be rewarded for it.",
"Online, authenticity and originality are often carefully curated myths.",
"Cher thrives on a version of nakedness and honesty that is rarely celebrated in the public eye.\"",
"Monica Heisey of The Guardian described Cher's Twitter account as \"a jewel in the bizarro crown of the internet\", and remarked, \"While many celebrities use Twitter for carefully crafted self-promotion, Cher just lets it all hang out.\"",
"As a gay icon\nThe reverence held for Cher by members of the LGBT community has been attributed to her career accomplishments, her sense of style, and her longevity.",
"Cher is considered a gay icon, and has often been imitated by drag queens.",
"According to Salon magazine's Thomas Rogers, \"[d]rag queens imitate women like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and Cher because they overcame insult and hardship on their path to success, and because their narratives mirror the pain that many gay men suffer on their way out of the closet\".",
"According to Maclean's magazine's Elio Iannacci, Cher was \"one of the first to bring drag to the masses\" as she hired two drag queens to perform with her at her Las Vegas residency in 1979.",
"Cher's role as a lesbian in the film Silkwood, as well as her transition to dance music and social activism, have further contributed to her becoming a gay icon.",
"The NBC sitcom Will & Grace acknowledged Cher's status by making her the idol of gay character Jack McFarland.",
"Cher guest-starred as herself twice on the show, in 2000—making the episode \"Gypsies, Tramps and Weed\" (named after her 1971 song \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\") Will & Graces second-highest rating ever— and 2002.",
"Other interests \n Philanthropy \nCher's primary philanthropic endeavors have included support of health research and patients' quality of life, anti-poverty initiatives, veterans rights, and vulnerable children.",
"The Cher Charitable Foundation supports international projects such as the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Operation Helmet, and the Children's Craniofacial Association.",
"Children\nBeginning in 1990, Cher served as a donor and as the National Chairperson and Honorary Spokesperson for the Children's Craniofacial Association, whose mission is to \"empower and give hope to facially disfigured children and their families\".",
"The annual Cher's Family Retreat is held each June to provide craniofacial patients, their siblings and parents an opportunity to interact with others who have endured similar experiences.",
"She supports and promotes Get A-Head Charitable Trust, which aims to improve the quality of life for people with head and neck diseases.",
"Cher is a donor, fundraiser, and international spokesperson for Keep a Child Alive, an organization that seeks to accelerate action to combat the AIDS pandemic, including the provision of antiretroviral medicine to children and their families with HIV/AIDS.",
"In 1996, she hosted the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Benefit alongside Elizabeth Taylor at the Cannes Film Festival.",
"In 2015, she received the amfAR Award of Inspiration for \"her willingness and ability to use her fame for the greater good\" and for being \"one of the great champions in the fight against AIDS\".",
"In 2007, Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School (PVS) in Ukunda, Kenya, which \"provides nutritious food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children, ages 2 to 13 years.\"",
"Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities, and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community.",
"Soldiers and veterans\nCher has been a vocal supporter of American soldiers and returning veterans.",
"She has contributed resources to Operation Helmet, an organization that provides free helmet upgrade kits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"She has contributed to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which serves military personnel who have been disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those severely injured in other operations.",
"In 1993, she participated in a humanitarian effort in Armenia, taking food and medical supplies to the war-torn region.",
"Poverty\nCher has engaged in the construction of houses with Habitat for Humanity and served as the Honorary National Chair of a Habitat's elimination of poverty housing initiative \"Raise the Roof\", an effort to engage artists in the organization's work while on tour.",
"Environment\nIn 2016, after the discovery of lead contamination in the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city as part of a partnership with Icelandic Glacial.",
"Elder rights\nIn 2017, Cher weighed in on the need to protect elder rights as she executive produced Edith+Eddie, a documentary about a nonagenarian interracial couple.",
"It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).",
"COVID-19\nFollowing the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, Cher launched the CherCares Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (CCPRRI) alongside Dr. Irwin Redlener, the head of Columbia University's Pandemic Resource and Response Center.",
"The charity's initial plan is to distribute $1 million to \"chronically neglected and forgotten people\" during the pandemic through the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF).",
"Cher told Billboard, \"There are rural areas where people of color and Latinos and Native Americans were getting no services.",
"It's not a lot of money — $1 million goes in the blink of an eyelash!",
"— so now I'm trying to get my friends to make it a lot more so we can do something that will really meet people's needs.",
"A friend once told me, 'When people walk in your path, then you know what you have to do.'\"",
"Animal rights\nIn November 2020, Cher joined Four Paws International and traveled to Pakistan to advocate for and work with the country's government to have Kaavan, an elephant who had been confined to a zoo for 35 years, transferred to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia.",
"In April 2021, Paramount+ released the documentary film Cher and the Loneliest Elephant, detailing Cher's quest, alongside animal aid groups and veterinarians, to free Kaavan from confinement.",
"LGBT rights\nCher's older child, Chaz Bono, first came out as a lesbian at age 17, which reportedly caused Cher to feel \"guilt, fear and pain\".",
"However, she soon came to accept Chaz's sexual orientation, and came to the conclusion that LGBT people \"didn't have the same rights as everyone else, [and she] thought that was unfair\".",
"She was the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention, and has since become one of the LGBT community's most vocal advocates.",
"In May 1998, she received the GLAAD Vanguard Award for having \"made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbians and gay men\".",
"On June 11, 2009, Chaz came out as a transgender man, and his transition from female to male was legally finalized on May 6, 2010.",
"Politics \n\nCher has said that she is not a registered Democrat, but has attended many Democratic conventions and events.",
"Over the years, Cher's political views have attracted media attention, and she has been an outspoken critic of the conservative movement.",
"In an interview with Vanity Fair, she was critical of a variety of political topics, including Republican politicians like Sarah Palin and Jan Brewer.",
"She has commented that she did not understand why anyone would be a Republican because eight years under the administration of George W. Bush \"almost killed [her]\".",
"During the 2000 United States presidential election, ABC News wrote that she was determined to do \"whatever possible to keep him [Bush] out of office\".",
"She told the site, \"If you're black in this country if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?",
"... You won't have one fucking right left.\"",
"She added, \"I don't like Bush.",
"I don't trust him.",
"I don't like his record.",
"He's stupid.",
"He's lazy.\"",
"On October 27, 2003, Cher anonymously called a C-SPAN phone-in program to recount a visit she made to maimed soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and criticized the lack of media coverage and government attention given to injured servicemen.",
"She remarked that she watches C-SPAN every day.",
"Although she identified herself as an unnamed entertainer, she was recognized by the C-SPAN host, who subsequently questioned her about her 1992 support for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot.",
"She said, \"When I heard him talk right in the beginning, I thought that he would bring some sort of common-sense business approach and also less partisanship, but then ...",
"I was completely disappointed like everyone else when he just kind of cut and run and no one knew exactly why ... Maybe he couldn't have withstood all the investigation that goes on now\".",
"On Memorial Day weekend in 2006, Cher called into C-SPAN's Washington Journal endorsing Operation Helmet, a group that provides helmets to help soldiers avoid head injuries while in the war zone.",
"On June 14, 2006, she made a guest appearance on C-SPAN with Dr. Bob Meaders, the founder of Operation Helmet.",
"That year, in an interview with Stars and Stripes, she explained her \"against the war in Iraq but for the troops\" position: \"I don't have to be for this war to support the troops because these men and women do what they think is right.",
"They do what they're told to do.",
"They do it with a really good heart.",
"They do the best they can.",
"They don't ask for anything.\"",
"Cher supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign.",
"After Obama won the Democratic nomination, she supported his candidacy on radio and TV programs.",
"However, in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair, she commented that she \"still thinks Hillary would have done a better job\", although she \"accepts the fact that Barack Obama inherited insurmountable problems\".",
"During the 2012 United States presidential election, Cher and comedian Kathy Griffin released a public service announcement titled \"Don't Let Mitt Turn Back Time on Women's Rights\".",
"In the PSA, the pair criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his support of Richard Mourdock, the US Senate candidate who suggested that pregnancies resulting from rape were \"part of God's plan\".",
"In September 2013, Cher declined an invitation to perform at the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia due to the country's controversial anti-gay legislation that overshadowed preparations for the event.",
"In June 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, she made a series of critical comments on Twitter, stating that \"Donald Trump's punishment is being Donald Trump\".",
"In October 2018, after the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a \"pig\" and \"a politician from hell\", before declaring that Bolsonaro should be \"locked in prison for the rest of his life\".",
"In September 2020, Cher raised nearly $2 million for Joe Biden's presidential campaign at a virtual, LGBTQ-themed fundraiser.",
"In October, she traveled to Nevada and Arizona to campaign on behalf of Biden, and released a cover version of \"Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe\", a song conceived for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky, with lyrics updated to be about Biden.",
"The same month, Cher posted messages on Twitter in support of Armenia and Artsakh regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh war.",
"She stated, \"We stand with the people of Armenia [and] urge our leaders in Washington to conduct the sustained and rigorous diplomacy necessary to bring peace to the Artsakh region.\"",
"Legacy and impact Rolling Stone Rob Sheffield stated how \"there are no other careers remotely like hers, [particularly] in the history of pop music\" and referred to Cher as \"the one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music.\"",
"According to Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder, Cher \"has been and remains today one of the Rock Era's most dominant figures\".",
"He described her as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to \"advance feminine rebellion in the rock world [and] the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance, from her early hippie days to her later outlandish outfits, and her attitude—the perfect female punk long before punk even was a rock term.\"",
"Billboard Joe Lynch described Cher as \"a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s\", and who by doing so \"teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith\".Billboard Keith Caulfield wrote that \"there's divas, and then there's Cher.\"",
"The New York Times Matthew Schneier stated, \"[Cher] has earned her mononym.",
"Her star power is such that she has spored an entire industry of imitators, both figurative and literal.\"",
"Dazed magazine's Shon Faye elaborates: \"If Madonna and Lady Gaga and Kylie and Cyndi Lauper were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played on, and the sun that shone down on them.\"",
"According to Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News, \"Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work\"; however, he felt that subsequent female pop singers were heavily inspired by Cher's abilities to combine \"showmanship with deep musicality ... to make valid statements in a wide variety of trend-driven idioms ... to ease effortlessly between pop subgenres [and] to shock without alienating her fans\", as well as by her charismatic stage presence and the strong LGBT support among her fan base.",
"Cher is commonly referred to by the media as the \"Goddess of Pop\".",
"Her work in music, film, television, and fashion has influenced artists including Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Betsy, Beyoncé, Bonnie McKee, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Christina Aguilera, Cleo, Cyndi Lauper, Drew Barrymore, Dua Lipa, Gemma Chan, Gwen Stefani, Helena Vondráčková, Jennifer Lopez, Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,\nLil' Kim, Lizzo, Miley Cyrus, Paulina Rubio, Pink, Madonna, Marc Jacobs, Ralph, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, RuPaul, Sarah Paulson, Saweetie, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Taylor Swift, Tina Turner, Tracy Chapman, Troye Sivan, and Zendaya.",
"Cher has repeatedly reinvented herself through various personas, for which Professor Richard Aquila from Ball State University called her \"the ultimate pop chameleon\".",
"According to Entertainment WeeklyMarc Snetiker, \"Cher has floated through generation after generation, scooping up new fans, thrilling old ones, reinventing her own myth and glittering splendidly through it all.\"",
"Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek credited Cher as having \"revolutionized the idea of what a pop star could visually accomplish, the way they could create multiple personas that live on and off-stage.\"",
"James Reed from The Boston Globe elaborates: \"Along with David Bowie, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in flux and challenging our perceptions of her[.]\"",
"The New York Times declared Cher as the \"Queen of the Comeback\".",
"According to author Lucy O'Brien, \"Cher adheres to the American Dream of reinvention of self: 'Getting old does not have to mean getting obsolete.'\"",
"Author Craig Crawford, in his book The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World (2007), describes Cher as \"a model of flexible career management\", and relates her career successes to a constant reshaping of her image according to the evolving trends of popular culture.",
"He further explains that she billed \"each dramatic turnaround of style as another example of rebellion—an image that allowed her to make calculated changes while appearing to be consistent.\"",
"Author Grant McCracken stated, \"The term 'reinvention' is now often used to talk about the careers of American celebrities.",
"But in Cher's case, it is particularly apt [because she] is inclined to lock on to each new fashion wave [and] is swept violently down the diffusion stream and out of fashion.",
"Only substantial re-creation permits her to return to stardom.\"",
"Her \"integrity\" and \"perseverance\" are highlighted in the Reaching Your Goals book series of illustrated inspirational stories for children, in which her life is detailed emphasizing the importance of self-actualization: \"For years, Cher worked hard to become a successful singer.",
"Then she worked hard to become an actress.",
"Even when she needed money, she turned down movie roles that weren't right for her.",
"Her goal has always been to be a good actress, not just a rich and famous one.\"",
"Cher's \"ability to forge an immensely successful and lengthy career as a woman in a male-dominated entertainment world\" has drawn attention from feminist critics.",
"According to author Diane Negra, Cher was presented in the beginning of her career as a product of male creativity; Cher remembers, \"It was a time when girl singers were patted on the head for being good and told not to think\".",
"However, her image eventually changed due to her \"refusal of dependence on a man and the determination not only to forge a career (as an actor) on her own terms but to refuse the conventional role assigned to women over forty years old in an industry that fetishises youth\", wrote author Yvonne Tasker.",
"She was featured in the 16th-anniversary edition of Ms. magazine as an \"authentic feminist hero\" and a 1980s role model for women: \"Cher, the straightforward, tattooed, dyslexic single mother, the first Oscar winner to have entered into matrimony with a known heroin addict and to have admitted to being a fashion victim by choice, has finally landed in an era that's not afraid to applaud real women.\"",
"Stephanie Brush from The New York Times wrote, following the telecast of Cher's Oscar win in 1988, that she \"performs the function for women moviegoers that Jack Nicholson has always fulfilled for men.",
"Free of the burden of ever having been America's sweetheart, she is the one who represents us [women] in our revenge fantasies, telling all the fatheads ... exactly where they can go.",
"You need to be more than beautiful to get away with this.",
"You need to have been Cher for 40 years.\"",
"Cher's 1996 interview for Dateline NBCs Jane Pauley became a viral video in 2016; in it, Cher tells the story of her mother asking her to \"settle down and marry a rich man,\" to which Cher replies, \"Mom, I am a rich man.\"",
"Cher's \"Mom, I am a rich man\" quote was included in Taylor Swift's 2019 music video \"You Need to Calm Down\".",
"Bustle magazine's Erica Kam commented, \"[Cher's quote] puts a spin on typical gender norms ...",
"It would make sense, then, that Swift would want to follow Cher's example.\"",
"Alec Mapa of The Advocate elaborates: \"While the rest of us were sleeping, Cher's been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies ... Cher embodies an unapologetic freedom and fearlessness that some of us can only aspire to.\"",
"Rolling Stone Jancee Dunn wrote, \"Cher is the coolest woman who ever stood in shoes.",
"Why?",
"Because her motto is, 'I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig.'",
"There are folks all over America who would, in their heart of hearts, love to date people half their age, get multiple tattoos and wear feathered headdresses.",
"Cher does it for us.\"",
"Alexander Fury of The Independent wrote that Cher \"represents a seemingly immortal, omnipotent, uni-monikered level of fame.\"",
"Bego stated: \"No one in the history of show business has had a career of the magnitude and scope of Cher's.",
"She has been a teenage pop star, a television hostess, a fashion magazine model, a rock star, a pop singer, a Broadway actress, an Academy Award-winning movie star, a disco sensation, and the subject of a mountain of press coverage.\"",
"Lynch wrote that \"the world would certainly be different if she hadn't stayed so irrevocably Cher from the start.\"",
"Achievements \n\nAs a solo artist, Cher has sold 100 million records worldwide (in addition to 40 million as part of the duo Sonny & Cher), making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.",
"She is one of the few artists to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), and one of five actor-singers to have had a US number-one single and won an acting Academy Award.",
"Her breakthrough single, Sonny & Cher's \"I Got You Babe\", is a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and was featured on Rolling Stone \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" list compiled in 2003.",
"Her 1971 single \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" was called \"one of the 20th century's greatest songs\" by Billboard magazine.",
"Her 1998 song \"Believe\" is the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK.",
"It was voted the world's eighth favorite song in a poll conducted by BBC in 2003—the only American song to be named on the list.",
"\"Believe\" was placed on the 2021 revised list of Rolling Stone's \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\".",
"In 1988, Cher became the first performer to receive an Academy Award for acting and a RIAA-certified gold album in the same year since the inception of gold awards in 1958.",
"Cher is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s.",
"She has held US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles over the longest period of time in history: 33 years, seven months and three weeks between \"I Got You Babe\", which topped the chart for the first time on August 14, 1965, and \"Believe\", whose last week at number one was April 3, 1999.",
"With \"Believe\", she became the oldest female artist to have a US number-one song in the rock era, at the age of 52.",
"Billboard ranked her at number 43 on their \"Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time\" list.",
"In 2014, the magazine listed her as the 23rd highest-grossing touring act since 1990, with total earned revenue of $351.6 million and 4.5 million attendance at her shows.",
"Cher has received numerous honorary awards, including the 1985 Woman of the Year Award by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at Harvard University, the Vanguard Award at the 1998 GLAAD Media Awards, the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards, a special award for influence on fashion at the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards, the Lucy Award for Innovation in Television at the 2000 Women in Film Awards, the Artist Achievement Award at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Glamour Awards, the Legend Award at the 2013 Attitude Awards, the Award of Inspiration at the 2015 amfAR Gala, the Icon Award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honor, the Ambassador for the Arts Award at the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography, and the 2020 Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award.",
"In 2010, Cher received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.",
"Her name is on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the duo Sonny & Cher.",
"She had also been selected for the honour as a solo artist in 1983, but forfeited her opportunity by declining to schedule the mandatory personal appearance.",
"In 2003, Cher appeared at number 41 on VH1's list of \"The 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons\", which recognizes \"the folks that have significantly inspired and impacted American society\".",
"She was ranked 31st on VH1's list of \"The 100 Greatest Women in Music\" for the period 1992–2012.",
"Esquire magazine placed her at number 44 on their list of \"The 75 Greatest Women of All Time\".",
"She was featured on the \"100 Greatest Movie Stars of our Time\" list compiled by People.",
"In a 2001 poll, Biography magazine ranked her as their third favorite leading actress of all time, behind Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn."
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"Cher is an American singer, actress and television personality.",
"She has been referred to as the \"goddess of Pop\" by the media.",
"Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career.",
"Cher gained popularity in 1965, as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song \"I Got You Babe\" peaked at number one on the US and UK charts.",
"They sold 40 million records.",
"She had two top-ten singles, \"You Better Sit Down Kids\" and \"My Baby Shot Me Down\".",
"She became a television personality in the 1970s with her CBS shows; first The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and then the eponymous Cher.",
"She wore elaborate outfits on her television shows.",
"Cher became the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history when she released \"Dark Lady\", \"Half-Breed\", and \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" while working on television.",
"She earned $300,000 a week for her Las Vegas residency after releasing her disco album Take Me Home in 1979.",
"Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation.",
"She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Moonstruck.",
"\"I Found Someone\", \"If I Could Turn Back Time\", and \"Love and Understanding\" are some of the successful singles from her albums Cher, Heart of Stone, and Love Hurts.",
"The UK number-one single \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\" was spawned by Cher's contribution to the soundtrack for her next film.",
"In the anthology If These Walls Could Talk, she made her directorial debut.",
"Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, which became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK.",
"The \"Cher effect\" is the use of auto- tune to distort her vocals.",
"One of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time was her 2002–2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour.",
"She signed a $60 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.",
"She had roles in Burlesque and Mamma Mia! during the 2010s.",
"Closer to the Truth and Dancing Queen were both number three on the Billboard 200.",
"Cher has sold 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists.",
"She has won a number of awards, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Billboard Icon Award, and a Council of Fashion Designers of America award.",
"She is the only artist to have a number-one single for six decades in a row.",
"She is noted for her political views, social media presence, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism.",
"Cher was born on May 20, 1946, in El Centro, California.",
"Georgia Holt, her mother, is a former model and retired actress who claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry.",
"Cher's parents divorced when she was ten months old, and her father was rarely home when she was an infant.",
"Cher's half-brother, John Southall, was married to her mother.",
"Cher's mother began acting when she was a waitress.",
"She played minor roles in films and television under the name Georgia Holt.",
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"Her mother's relationship with Southall ended when she was nine years old, but she considers him her father and remembers him as a good-natured man who turned combative when he drank too much.",
"Holt moved her family around the country, including New York, Texas, and California.",
"Cher said that she had to use rubber bands to hold her shoes together.",
"Cher's mother left her at an orphanage.",
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"Cher produced a performance of the musical Oklahoma in fifth grade.",
"For her class and her teacher.",
"She directed and choreographed the dance routines of a group of girls.",
"She acted the male roles and sang their songs because she couldn't convince boys to do it.",
"She had a low voice by age nine.",
"Cher was drawn to Hepburn because of her role in Breakfast at Tiffany's.",
"Cher was interested in the behavior of Hepburn's character.",
"She was inspired by many people.",
"She was disappointed that there were no dark-haired Hollywood actresses who she could look up to.",
"She wanted to be famous since childhood, but felt unattractive and untalented, and later commented, \"I couldn't think of anything that I could do.\"",
"I did not think I would be a singer or dancer.",
"I thought I would be famous.",
"That was my goal.",
"Holt married Gilbert LaPiere, a bank manager, in 1961, and the couple had two children, Cher and Georganne, who attended a private school in Encino.",
"Cher stood out from the others in both her striking appearance and outgoing personality, according to her biographer.",
"I will never forget seeing Cher for the first time.",
"She was special and we knew she was going to be a movie star.",
"Cher was intelligent and creative despite not being an excellent student.",
"She excelled in French and English classes.",
"She discovered that she had a learning disability.",
"Cher surprised her peers when she wore a midriff-baring top, and she performed songs for students during the lunch hours.",
"She said she was never in school.",
"I used to think about when I was famous.",
"Cher dropped out of school at 16 and moved to Los Angeles with a friend.",
"She danced in small clubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip and introduced herself to performers, managers and agents after taking acting classes.",
"According to Berman, \"Cher did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break, make a new contact, or get an auditioning job.\"",
"Cher met Sonny Bono when he was working for Phil Spector.",
"Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his maid after Cher's friend moved out.",
"Cher was a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' \"Be My Baby\" and the Righteous Brothers' \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'\".",
"Cher recorded \"Ringo, I Love You\" when she was known as Bonnie Jo Mason.",
"The song was rejected by many radio stations as they thought Cher's deep contralto vocals were a man's vocals; therefore, they believed it was a male singing a homosexual love song dedicated to the Beatles drummer.",
"Cher and Sonny had an unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Mexico on October 27, 1964.",
"Although Sonny wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright.",
"Cher looked at Sonny and said that she sang to the people through him.",
"The poorly received singles \"Do You Want to Dance?\" were released in late 1964.",
"\"Love Is Strange\" and \"Let the Good Times Roll\"",
"Sonny became Cher's producer after she signed with Liberty Records.",
"The song \"Dream Baby\" was played in Los Angeles.",
"Imperial encouraged Cher to work with Sonny on her second solo single, a cover version of Bob Dylan's \"All I Really Want to Do\".",
"It peaked at number 15 on the US Hot 100.",
"The Byrds had released a version of the same song.",
"The B-side of the Byrds' single was promoted by the group's record label when they were competing against Cher.",
"We didn't want to be hassled by the Cher version.",
"We turned our record over.",
"All I Really Want to Do, Cher's debut album, was described as one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era by AllMusic's Tim Sendra.",
"In 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny and Cher.",
"Cher said that the Rolling Stones told them that Americans just didn't get them and that if they were going to make it big, they would have to go to England.",
"The English newspaper photographers showed up when S&C were thrown out of the London Hilton because of their outfits, and they were stars.",
"The S&C look was not mod nor rocker.",
"One of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop/rock hits of the mid-'60s was \"I Got You Babe\".",
"As the song knocked the Beatles off the top of the British charts, English teenagers began to emulate Sonny and Cher's fashion style, such as bell-bottoms, striped pants, ruffled shirts, industrial zippers and fur vests.",
"The duo made appearances on the teen-pop shows Hullabaloo and Shindig after returning to the US.",
"The tour included some of the largest arenas in the US.",
"Girls who were ironing their hair straight and dyeing it black were attractive to Cher look-alikes.",
"Cher designed a clothing line.",
"Sonny and Cher's first album, Look at Us, which was released for the Atco Records division of Atlantic Records, spent eight weeks at number two on the Billboard 200, behind the Beatles' Help!",
"Their material became popular and they were able to compete with the British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era.",
"Sonny and Cher were described as part of the leading exponents of the rock-folk-message type of song, a hybrid combining the best and instrumentation of rock music with folk lyric and often lyrics of protest.",
"\"I Got You Babe\", \"Baby Don't Go\", \"The Beat Goes On\", \"All I Ever Need Is You\", and \"A Cowboy's Work\" were some of the top 40 singles by Sonny and Cher.",
"At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat equaled only by the Beatles and Elvis.",
"According to Time magazine, rock's \"it\" couple, they sold 40 million records together.",
"Cher's work with Sonny kept her solo career competitive.",
"\"My Baby Shot Me Down\" became her first million-seller solo single when it reached number two in the US and number three in the UK.",
"The first US version of the popular song \"Alfie\" was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name.",
"The US top-ten single \"You Better Sit Down Kids\" is one of the songs in With Love, Chér.",
"Cher and Sonny's music stopped to chart at the end of the 1960s due to backlash from the younger generation.",
"The folk-rock music of Sonny and Cher seemed too bland because of the heavy, loud sound of groups like Jefferson Airplane and Cream.",
"\"I loved the new sound of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the electric guitar oriented bands,\" Cher said.",
"With the times, I would have changed because of the music.",
"Sonny didn't like it.",
"The anti-drug position they adopted at the height of the drug culture lost them popularity among American youths during the period of the sexual revolution.",
"Sonny and Cher were \"quite square\" when it came to sex and drugs, according to Bego.",
"The duo produced and starred in the film Good Times, which was a flop.",
"Cher's next album, Backstage, in which she explores diverse musical genres including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest settings, was not a commercial success.",
"The label wanted to sign Cher for a solo album after she was dropped from Imperial Records.",
"There are experiments in rhythm and blues and soul music in 3614 Jackson Highway.",
"It was the best album of her career, and still is, decades later.",
"Sonny didn't like the 3614 Jackson Highway album and prevented Cher from releasing more recordings.",
"By the end of the 1960s, Sonny and others had ended their relationship.",
"Sonny tried to win her back by telling her he wanted to marry and have a family.",
"They were married on March 4, 1969 after she gave birth.",
"They spent $500,000 and mortgaged their home to make the film.",
"It was written and produced by Sonny, who did not appear in the movie, and tells the story of a young woman, played by Cher, searching for the meaning of life.",
"The couple was put in debt by the failed art film.",
"Cher has a wonderful quality that makes you forget the lines you are hearing, according to some critics.",
"At the lowest point of their career, the duo put together a nightclub routine that relied on a more adult approach to sound and style.",
"The lounge act was so depressing that people started heckling them.",
"Cher started shouting back.",
"She'd heckle Sonny after Sonny reprimanded her.",
"The heckling was a highlight of the act.",
"The couple began making guest appearances on prime-time shows in which they presented a \"new, sophisticated, and mature\" image.",
"Cher wore low-cut gowns that became her signature outfits.",
"The first musical comeback of Sonny and Cher's television career was offered by CBS head of programming Fred Silverman after he noticed them as guests on The Merv Griffin Show in 1971.",
"The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour had six episodes.",
"The couple returned that December with a full-time show because of the ratings success.",
"During its three-year run, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was watched by more than 30 million people each week.",
"Berman said that they \"exuded an aura of warmth, playfulness, and caring that only enhanced their appeal.\"",
"When a young [Chaz] appeared on the show, viewers were even more enchanted.",
"They seemed like a perfect family.",
"Cher excelled in sketch comedy roles such as the sardonic waitressRosa, and Cleopatra and Miss Sadie Thompson.",
"Cher's style influenced the fashion trends of the 1970s, and her Bob Mackie-designed clothing was part of the show's attraction.",
"Cher's single \"Classified 1A\" was released in 1971 as a result of Sonny and Cher signing with the Kapp Records division of MCA Records.",
"The song was rejected by radio station programmers because it was not commercial.",
"Since Sonny's first attempts at reviving their recording career as a duo had also been unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff to work with them.",
"He produced Cher's second US number-one single, \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\", which proved that he knew more about Cher's voice than Sonny did.",
"\"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\" was the first single by a solo artist to be number one on both the US and Canadian charts at the same time.",
"It was called one of the 20th century's greatest songs.",
"The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America.",
"Cher's more confident image as a recording artist was established when her second single, \"The Way of Love\", reached number seven on the Hot 100 chart.",
"According to Bego, Cher released the all-ballad set Foxy Lady in 1972 to demonstrate the evolution of her vocal abilities.",
"After disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record,Garrett quit as producer.",
"Cher released an album of standards called Bittersweet White Light at Sonny's insistence.",
"Mary Dean wrote a song for Cher that was about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father.",
"He held the song for months until he got Cher back, because he was convinced that it was a smash for Cher and for nobody else.",
"Cher's third US number-one single was \"Half-Breed\", which was featured on the album of the same name.",
"The single was certified gold by the RIAA.",
"\"Dark Lady\" was the lead single from Cher's eponymous album.",
"It became Cher's fourth number-one single and made her the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time.",
"She released a Greatest Hits album that proved to be one of the most consistent hitmakers of the past five years, as well as a proven superstar who always sells records.",
"The recording career of Sonny and Cher was revived with four albums released between 1971 and 1973, All I Ever Need Is You, Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs, and Live.",
"2 years ago.",
"Cher said that she could do a whole album in three days.",
"Cher and Sonny had had problems in the past, but appearances were maintained until 1974.",
"\"The public still thinks we are married,\" Sonny wrote in his diary, \"and that's the way it has to be.\"",
"In February 1974, Sonny filed for a separation.",
"Cher filed a divorce suit against Sonny, claiming that he deprived her of her rightful share of their earnings.",
"Cher was granted the custody of her child after the couple battled in court over finances.",
"Their divorce was finalized in 1975.",
"Cher won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.",
"The creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show had a solo show on ABC called The Sonny Comedy Revue.",
"It was canceled after 13 weeks.",
"During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a romantic relationship with David Geffen, who freed her from her business arrangement with Sonny, under which she was required to work for Cher Enterprises, the company he ran.",
"Cher began work on her first album under the Warner Bros. Records label in 1975, after Geffen secured a $2.5 million deal for her.",
"According to Bego, the intention was to make millions of fans around the world take her seriously as a rock star and not just a pop singer.",
"Stars was commercially and critically unsuccessful despite Cher's efforts to develop her musical range by listening to artists such as Stevie Wonder.",
"\"Cher is not a rock and roller,\" wrote Janet Maslin of The Village Voice.",
"Cher Bono has a main ingredient for both records and TV.",
"The album has become a cult classic and is considered among her best work.",
"Cher returned to television on February 16, 1975, with a solo show.",
"It began as a highly rated special with guests, and was called Cher.",
"The show was produced by Geffen and centered on Cher's songs, monologues, comedy performance, and her variation of clothing, which was the largest for a weekly TV show.",
"The Los Angeles Times exclaimed that Sonny without Cher was a disaster.",
"Cher without Sonny could be the best thing that's happened to weekly television this season.",
"Cher said that doing a show alone was more than she could handle, and that she lasted for less than a year.",
"On June 30, 1975, four days after her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman.",
"They reconciled within a month after she filed for divorce because of his heroin and liquor problems.",
"On July 10, 1976, they had a son.",
"The first show ever to star a divorced couple was The Sonny and Cher Show.",
"Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere, Cher and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce, her extravagant lifestyle, and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash that eventually contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977.",
"The popularity of The Sonny and Cher Show led to the release of a line of toys and dolls in their likeness.",
"The highest selling doll of 1976 was the miniature version of Cher.",
"Cher's next albums, I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) and Cherished (1977), the latter a return to her pop style at Warner's insistence, were commercially unsuccessful.",
"People were able to see and hear these performers without having to buy their records because of regular exposure on TV.",
"She recorded with Allman on the duet album Two the Hard Way.",
"Their divorce was finalized in 1979 after their relationship ended.",
"She had a live-in relationship with Gene Simmons.",
"She legally changed her name to Cher to eliminate the use of four other surnames.",
"She returned to prime time television in 1978 with the ABC specials Cher... Special and Cher... And Other Fantasies.",
"A single mother with two children, Cher realized that she had to make a choice about the direction of her singing career.",
"She decided to temporarily abandon her desire to be a rock singer and signed with Casablanca Records, where she launched a comeback with the single \"Take Me Home\" and the album of the same name, both of which capitalized on the disco craze.",
"Both the album and the single were certified gold by the RIAA.",
"The image of Cher in a Viking outfit on the album cover may have boosted sales.",
"Despite her initial lack of enthusiasm for disco music, she changed her mind after the success, commenting, \"I never thought I would want to do disco but it's terrific!\"",
"It's good to dance to.",
"Everybody wants danceable music.",
"Cher wanted to return to rock music in her next album after the success of Take Me Home.",
"Cher's depiction of a sex slave on the album's cover caused controversy among feminist groups.",
"Rock songs made the disco release seem unfocused and led to its commercial failure.",
"The single \"Hell on Wheels\" was produced by Prisoner.",
"The late 1970s roller-skating fad contributed to the popularity of the song.",
"Cher wrote her last Casablanca disco recording, \"Bad Love\", in 1980, with Giorgio Moroder.",
"Black Rose was formed by her and Les Dudek.",
"Cher did not receive top billing because she wanted to create the impression that all band members were equal.",
"She cut her long hair because she was easily recognized when she performed with the band.",
"The band failed to get concert dates despite appearances on television.",
"Cher told Rolling Stone that the critics didn't attack the record when they panned them.",
"They attacked me.",
"It was like how dare Cher sing?",
"Black Rose ceased to exist in 1981.",
"Cher was doing a residency show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas during Black Rose's active period.",
"Cher's first world concert tour as a solo artist (also referred to as the Take Me Home Tour), with additional dates in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia, began in 1979 after a three-year performance residency called Cher in Concert.",
"Cher won the CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Variety Program for Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert.",
"\"Dead Ringer for Love\", a duet between Cher and Meat Loaf, was one of the more inspired rock duets of the 1980s.",
"Cher's strongest and most consistent solo album in years, I Paralyze, was released by Columbia Records in 1982.",
"Cher decided to further develop her acting career after decreasing album sales and a lack of commercially successful singles.",
"The Hollywood establishment did not take her seriously as an actress because she had only two critically and commercially unsuccessful movies to her credit.",
"Cher said, \"I was making a fortune on the road, but I was dying inside.\"",
"Everyone kept saying, \"Cher, there are people who would give anything to have standing room only at Caesars Palace.\"",
"It would be the end of their careers.",
"I kept thinking that I should be satisfied.",
"I wasn't satisfied.",
"She moved to New York in 1982 to take acting lessons, but never did so after her plans changed.",
"She was signed to play a member of a James Dean fan club in the Broadway stage production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, playing a member of a James Dean fan club holding a 20-year reunion.",
"She was cast in the film adaptation of the same title again that year.",
"Cher was offered the part of Dolly in the film Silkwood by the director who had seen her perform in Jimmy Dean.",
"Audiences questioned Cher's ability as an actress.",
"The audience at the film preview laughed when they saw her name in the credits.",
"Cher was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.",
"Isis was formed in 1985 by Cher.",
"Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress was her next film, Mask, which reached number two at the box office.",
"She won the Best Actress award at the film festival for her role as a drug addicted biker with a teenage son who has a physical abnormality.",
"She was not included on the Oscar nomination list because she clashed with the director.",
"Vanity Fair's Esther Zuckerman dubbed her Cher's \"Oscar revenge dress\" after she attended the 58th Academy Awards.",
"\"As you can see, I received my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress, and I presented the nominees for best supporting actor,\" Cher said.",
"She got a lot of publicity for the incident.",
"Cher's May 1986 guest appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, in which she called him an asshole, attracted a lot of media attention.",
"Cher was one of the few people I wanted to have on the show.",
"I feel like a total fool since I say all kinds of things to people.",
"She came back to the show in 1987 and sang an impromptu version of \"I Got You Babe\" with Sonny before he died.",
"They weren't the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television.",
"This would have gone crazy the next morning if YouTube existed back then.",
"The performance was listed by Rolling Stone as one of David Letterman's top 10 musical moments.",
"Cher starred in three films in 1987.",
"She played a public defender who was romantically involved with one of the jurors in the murder case she was handling.",
"She was one of three divorcees involved with a mysterious and wealthy visitor from hell who comes to a small New England town in the comedy horror The Witches of Eastwick.",
"She played an Italian widow in Norman Jewison's romantic comedy Moonstruck.",
"The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching.",
"Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for that film.",
"Cher commanded $1 million per film by 1988, making her one of the most bankable actresses of the decade.",
"Uninhibited earned about 15 million dollars in its first year of sales.",
"Cher's most impressive string of hits to date, established her as a serious rock and roller, when she signed with Geffen Records in 1987.",
"Their first Geffen album was produced by Cher.",
"The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA despite facing strong retail and radio resistance.",
"\"I Found Someone\" is Cher's first US top-ten single in eight years.",
"By the end of the 1980s, Cher was getting attention for her controversial lifestyle, including her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist fashion sense, and affairs with younger men.",
"She dated a bagel baker from 1986 to 1989 and had romantic relationships with actors Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, Tom Cruise, hockey player Ron Duguay, film producer Josh Donen, and Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora.",
"Heart of Stone was certified triple Platinum by the RIAA.",
"The music video for its second single, \"If I Could Turn Back Time\", caused controversy due to Cher's performance on the battleship, straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong.",
"One of Cher's most successful singles was when the song topped the Australian charts for seven weeks.",
"\"After All\", a duet with Peter Cetera, and \"Just Like Jesse James\" were some of the songs from Heart of Stone that reached the US top ten.",
"Cher won the Favorite All- Around Female Star Award at the People's Choice Awards.",
"She was on the Heart of Stone Tour in 1989.",
"Cher's showmanship was admired by most critics.",
"Cher at the Mirage was filmed during a concert in Las Vegas.",
"In her first film in three years, Cher paid tribute to her own mother in this story about a woman who moves her two daughters from town to town at the end of a love affair.",
"The film's first two directors, Lasse Hallstrm and Frank Oz, were replaced by Richard Benjamin.",
"Cher was allowed to make her own decisions for the film because the producers believed she would be the star attraction.",
"The film was a box office success and received positive reviews.",
"One of the two songs Cher recorded for the film's soundtrack, a cover version of \"The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)\", topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks.",
"Love Hurts, Cher's final studio album for Geffen Records, stayed at the top of the UK charts for six weeks and produced the UK top-ten single \"Love and Understanding\".",
"The album was certified gold by the RIAA.",
"Cher commented that her Geffen label's \"hit years\" had been important to her because she was getting to do songs that she really loved.",
"The fitness videos CherFitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence were released in 1992.",
"The Love Hurts Tour began in 1992.",
"The UK-only album peaked at number one in the country for seven weeks.",
"\"Oh No Not My Baby\", \"Whenever You're Near\", and \"Many Rivers to Cross\" are new songs.",
"Cher turned down leading roles in The War of the Roses and Thelma & Louise due to her health and professional struggles.",
"After the success of Moonstruck, she was so worried about her next career move that she was overly cautious.",
"In the early 1990s, she developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which left her too exhausted to continue her music and film careers.",
"She starred in infomercials for health, beauty, and diet products that earned her close to $10 million in fees because she was not healthy enough to work on other projects.",
"Critics thought the skits were a sellout and many thought her film career was over.",
"It didn't occur to her that people would focus on that and strip her of all her other things.",
"Cher appeared in two Robert Altman films.",
"In 1994, she started a mail-order catalogue business, Sanctuary, selling Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of \"I Got You Babe\" to MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head.",
"She topped the UK Singles Chart in 1995 with the charity single \"Love Can build a Bridge\".",
"She signed with Warner Music UK's label WEA and released the album It's a Man's World (1995), which came out of her idea of covering men's songs from a woman's point of view.",
"The album and its R&B influences were favored by the critics.",
"The high point of her recording career is the collection of grown-up pop songs.",
"The UK top-ten single \"One by One\" was spawned from It's a Man's World.",
"The original rock sound was abandoned in favor of a more accessible style for the American release of the album.",
"The US release reached number 64 on the billboard 200.",
"Cher played the wife of a businessman who hired a hitman to kill her in the 1996 film Faithful.",
"The New York Times said that Cher did a good job in the film and that she did her best to find comic potential in a victim's role.",
"Cher refused to promote the film.",
"She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk, in which she starred as a doctor murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic.",
"It drew the highest ratings for an original movie to date, with an 18.7 rating with a 25 share in homes and 6.9 million viewers.",
"The X-Files episode \"The Post-Modern Prometheus\" featured her music.",
"It tells the story of a scientist's grotesque creature who adores Cher because of her role in Mask, in which her character cares for her son.",
"Cher said at Sonny Bono's funeral that he was the most unforgettable character she had ever met.",
"The CBS special Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers was hosted by her.",
"Cher and Sonny received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.",
"Cher published The First Time, a collection of autobiographical essays of \"first-time\" events in her life, which critics praised as down-to-earth and genuine.",
"She didn't want to be criticized for cashing in on Sonny's death, so she didn't include him in the book.",
"She told Rolling Stone she couldn't ignore it.",
"If I cared more about what people think than what I know, I might have.",
"Cher's 22nd studio album, Believe, marked a musical departure for her, as it comprises dance-pop songs, many of which capture the \"disco-era essence\".",
"Believe sold 10 million copies worldwide and was certified gold or Platinum in 39 countries by the RIAA.",
"Over 10 million copies of the album's title track were sold worldwide.",
"Cher's most successful single to date was the best-selling recording of 1998 and 1999 in the UK and the US.",
"\"Believe\" was the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK, selling over 1.84 million copies up until October of last year.",
"Up until December 1999, it sold over 1.8 million units in the US.",
"The song earned Cher two awards, one for Best Dance Recording and one for Hot 100 Single of the Year.",
"Cher performed \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" at the Super Bowl in 1999.",
"The television special attracted 19.4 million viewers.",
"Cher's presence was a huge part of making it exactly that, as it was the most popular and watched program in the television network's history.",
"Do you believe?",
"The tour ran from 1999 to 2000 and was sold out in every American city in which it was booked, amassing a global audience of more than 1.5 million.",
"In 1998–99, Cher: Live in Concert - From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was the highest rated original HBO program, with a 9.1 rating among adults 18 to 49 and a 13.0 rating in the universe of 33 million homes.",
"The album If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's greatest hits was released in the US in 1999 and features the previously undiscovered song \"Don't Come Cryin' to Me\".",
"The RIAA certified it as gold.",
"Up until January 2000, Cher's The Greatest Hits sold three million copies outside of the US.",
"Cher was the number-one dance artist in 1999.",
"She received the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards.",
"Her next film, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini, received generally positive reviews, and she earned critical praise for her performance as a rich, flamboyant American socialite whose visit to Italy is not welcome among the English women.",
"Cher is a star.",
"She manages the movie star trick of being at once a character and at the same time never allowing you to forget: that's Cher.",
"Not Commercial was written mostly by Cher after she had attended a songwriters' conference in 1994 and was her first attempt at writing an album.",
"The album was rejected by her record label for being uncommercial, so she chose to sell it only on her website.",
"She criticized the nuns who prevented her mother from retrieving her from an orphanage in her song.",
"The song was denounced by the catholic church.",
"Cher's follow-up to Believe, Living Proof was certified gold by the RIAA.",
"The album contains the UK top-ten single \"The Music's No Good Without You\" and a song dedicated to the \"courageous people of New York\" following the September 11 attacks.",
"She performed at a benefit concert in 2002.",
"At the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, she won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award and was presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Steven Tyler for having \"helped redefine popular music with massive success on the Billboard charts\".",
"Her wealth was estimated at $600 million.",
"In June 2002, Cher embarked on the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, which was the final live concert tour of her career.",
"Video clips from the 1960s onwards were included in the show, which highlighted her successes in music, television, and film.",
"The worldwide tour was originally scheduled for 49 shows.",
"By October 2003 it had become the most successful tour ever by a woman, grossing $145 million from 200 shows and playing to 2.2 million fans.",
"Live!, a collection of live tracks from the tour, was released in 2003",
"The tour is over.",
"Cher's NBC special attracted 17 million viewers.",
"Cher won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special for the concert special.",
"After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a worldwide deal with the US division of Warner Bros. Records.",
"The Very Best of Cher peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.",
"She spoofed her public image as she appeared in bed with a younger boyfriend in a comedy by the Farrelly brothers.",
"In 2005, Cher's farewell tour saw 3.5 million people and earned $250 million, making it one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time.",
"After three years of retirement, she began a three-year, 200 performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, for which she earned $60 million.",
"The production featured state-of-the-art video and special effects, elaborate set designs, 14 dancers, four aerialists and more than 20 costume changes.",
"In Burlesque is Cher's first musical film since Good Times and she plays a nightclub impresario who is looking to impress.",
"One of the two songs she recorded for the film's soundtrack, the power ballad \"You Haven't seen the Last of Me\", reached number one on the Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011.",
"She placed her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in November of 2010.",
"She lent her voice to Janet the Lioness in Zookeeper.",
"Dear Mom, Love Cher, a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, aired on Lifetime in May 2013).",
"According to Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe, \"Cher's 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'\".",
"Cher performed \"Woman's World\" on the finale of The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade.",
"She joined the show's fifth season as a team adviser.",
"The Dance on the Pier benefit was held to celebrate Gay Pride day.",
"The event sold out for the first time in five years.",
"She was a guest performer and judge on the 17th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which was dedicated to her.",
"A decade after announcing her farewell tour, she embarked on the Dressed to Kill Tour.",
"She said during the shows that this would be her last farewell tour.",
"The first leg of the tour had 49 sold-out shows in North America.",
"She was forced to cancel all remaining dates due to an illness.",
"On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.",
"She uses the name Bonnie Jo Mason.",
"Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015.",
"It is the most expensive album to date.",
"Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign after appearing as a guest at the 2015 Met Gala.",
"This has been a dream of the fashion designer for a long time.",
"The Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, and The Theater at MGM National Harbor, Washington, are home to Classic Cher.",
"In her first awards show performance in more than 15 years, Cher performed two songs, \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" and \"Believe\", and was presented with the Icon Award by Gwen Stefani, who called her a role model for showing us how to be strong.",
"Cher returned to film for the romantic musical comedy film Mamma Mia!",
"Here we go again.",
"It's only at the end of the movie when its true promise is fulfilled: Cher arrives.",
"Every single movie would be better if it included Cher.",
"She plays the mother of Donna, who is portrayed by Streep, and the grandmother of Sophie, who is played by Seyfried.",
"\"Fernando\" and \"Super Trouper\" were recorded by Cher for the film's soundtrack.",
"She makes Fernando her own.",
"It's her song now.",
"Cher was the headline performer at the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.",
"The tickets sold out in three hours.",
"Cher embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour in September.",
"While promoting a movie.",
"Cher confirmed that she was working on an album that would feature cover versions of songs from Abba.",
"The album was released in September.",
"Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone said that the 72-year-old makes ABBA songs sound like they should've been written for her in the first place.",
"The album ender, \"One of Us\", is one of Cher's best recordings in years, according to Entertainment Weekly.",
"Dancing Queen tied with Closer to the Truth for Cher's highest-charting solo album in the US.",
"It earned the year's biggest sales week for a pop album by a female artist, as well as Cher's largest sales week since 1991.",
"The Cher Show, a musical based on Cher's life and music, played through July 15 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago.",
"The previews began on November 1 and the official opening on December 3.",
"Three actresses are playing Cher in different stages of her life.",
"The Cher Show is going to tour the UK and Ireland.",
"The annual Washington distinction for artists who have made extraordinary contributions to culture was given to Cher.",
"The ceremony featured performances by several people.",
"Cher will be releasing a Christmas album, a second album of ABBA covers, an autobiography, and a biographical film about her life in the next two years.",
"Cher launched a new perfume in October of 2019.",
"It is Cher's second perfume after 1987's Uninhibited.",
"On February 4, 2020, Cher was announced as the new face of Dsquared2.",
"The brand's advertising campaign was directed by Mert and Marcus.",
"Cher released her first Spanish-language song in May.",
"The proceeds from the single were donated to charity.",
"Cher's UK top-ten single \"Stop Crying Your Heart Out\" was recorded in support of the Children in Need charity and was part of the Radio 2 Allstars.",
"Cher had a voice-over role in the animated feature film Bobbleheads: The Movie.",
"She was featured on The New York Times Magazines list of \"The Best Actors of 2020\", the first time an actor not in a current-year theatrical release made it on the annual list.",
"Pink's music video \"All I Know So Far\" featured Cher as God.",
"Cher and Saweetie were the stars of the \"Challenge Accepted\" campaign.",
"Cher uses a variety of musical styles, including folk rock, pop rock, power ballads, disco, new wave music, rock music, punk rock, arena rock, and hip hop.",
"She became a brokenhearted symbol of a strong but decidedly single woman by dealing with themes of heartbreak, independence, and self-empowerment for women.",
"According to Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder, Cher's \"nearly flawless\" song selection was what made her a notorious rock singer; while several of her early songs were penned by or sung with Sonny Bono, most of her solo successes, which outnumbered Sonny and Cher's",
"According to AllMusic's Jose F. Promis, Cher's first album mostly written by herself, Not Commercial (2000), presents a \"1970s singer-songwriter feel\" that proves she is proficient in the role of storyteller.",
"There were a lot of great records by female singers in the early days of rock, but none reflected the authority and command that we associate with rock 'n' roll today as much as Cher's key early hits.",
"Sex, prostitution, and underaged pregnancies are topics rarely addressed in American popular music in Cher's early songs.",
"According to AllMusic's Joe Viglione, the 1972 single \"The Way of Love\" is either about a woman expressing her love for another woman, or a woman saying \"au revoir\" to a gay male she loved.",
"She was able to sing solo in androgynous and gender-neutral songs because of her ability to carry both male and female ranges.",
"Cher's contralto singing voice is described by author Nicholas E. Tawa as \"bold, deep, and with a spacious vibrato\".",
"It was called a quintessential rock voice by Ann Powers of The New York Times.",
"Bruce Eder wrote that Cher's ability to meld that projection with her acting skills can provide an incredibly powerful experience for the listener.",
"Laura's voice was described as \"miraculous\" by The Guardian.",
"\"Cher is the possessor of one of the huskiest, most distinctive voices in pop, which can work wonders with the right material directed by the right producer\".",
"She spits out the words and you would think she was delivering an eternal truth about the human condition.",
"The Los Angeles Times' Robert Hilburn wrote about Cher's musical output during the 1960s and stated that \"Rock was subsequently blessed with the staggering blues exclamations of Janis Joplin in the late '60s and the raw poetic force of Patti Smith in the mid-'70s.\"",
"No one could match the pure, seductive wallop of Cher.",
"Eder described her vocal performances during the 1970s as \"dramatic, highly intense and almost as much 'acted' as sung\".",
"Cher's sexually confident image was established when she used more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums.",
"She restrained her vocals for the 1995 album It's a Man's World.",
"The 1998 song \"Believe\" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by Cher, and was the first commercial recording to feature Auto-Tune, an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies in vocal music recordings.",
"The pitch correction software was not used to fix mistakes in Cher's voice, but as an aesthetic tool.",
"After the success of the song, the technique became known as the \"Cher effect\" and has since been used in popular music.",
"Cher used Auto-Tune on her albums Living Proof (2001), Closer to the Truth (2013).",
"Cher reflected on how her voice has evolved throughout her career in an interview with the Toronto Sun.",
"She said that working with vocal coaches made a difference, because people her age are having to lose notes and she is gaining notes.",
"Barbara Wickens wrote, \"Cher has emerged as probably the most fascinating movie star of her generation because she has managed to be at once shocking and enigmatic.\"",
"Cher has a top-ranking star quality because of her ability to project honesty, rawness and emotionality, according to a New York Post movie critic.",
"She wears her vulnerability on her sleeve.",
"Cher was one of the first superstars to play gay with compassion and without a hint of discrimination, as she portrays a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood, according to Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate.",
"According to Yvonne Tasker in her book Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema, Cher's film roles often mirror her public image as a self-made woman.",
"Eric Stoltz's Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia victim in Mask, Liam Neeson's homeless veteran in Suspect, and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand all feature in her films.",
"Kathleen Rowe wrote that the depiction of Cher's character as a woman on top is enhanced by the unruly star persona she brings to the part.",
"Cher was ranked 1st on the list of the 100 best acting performances by musicians in movies, and her performance was described as \"the standard by which you mentally check all others\".",
"According to the American Film Institute, Moonstruck is the eighth best romantic comedy film of all time.",
"Tasker wrote that Cher's public image is reflected in her music videos and live performances, in which she \"repeatedly comments on her own construction, on her search for perfection and on the performance of the female body\".",
"Cher uses a male dancer dressed as her in the 1992 concert video Cher at the Mirage, unlike other acts of that time, who often featured female backers mimicking the singer's performance.",
"According to James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle, Cher is aware that she set the stage for the current era of stadium-sizezzle.",
"She sees such imitation as flattery, not theft.",
"After watching Cher's Living Proof: The Farewell Tour in 2004, Pink started studying Aerial silks.",
"Cher was ranked 17th on the \"50 Greatest Women of the Video Era\".",
"\"Hell on Wheels\" was one of the first music videos to use cinematic techniques.",
"The 1989 music video for \"If I Could Turn Back Time\" was the first ever to be banned by MTV.",
"Cady Lang of FashionTime magazine described Cher as a cultural phenomenon who has forever changed the way we see celebrity fashion.",
"Hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandanas, and Cherokee-inspired tunics was popularized by Cher in the 1960s.",
"She began working as a model for Richard Avedon in 1967, after Diana Vreeland discovered her at a party.",
"One of the most recreated and monumental looks of all time was the photo of Cher in a beaded and feathered nude gown that Avedon took for the cover of Time magazine in 1975.",
"Cher wore the gown at the Met Gala.",
"It was the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended and it changed everything.",
"40 years later, we still see versions of that look on The Met red carpet.",
"Cher has become one of the most influential style icons in red carpet history.",
"Cher became a sex symbol through her 1970s television shows and fought the network censors to bare her navel.",
"Cher is wrongly thought to be the first woman to expose her vagina on television.",
"Since the establishment of the American Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters in 1951, she has been the most prominent to do so.",
"Cher was dubbed the \"pioneer of the belly beautiful\".",
"In 1972, after she was featured on the annual \"Best Dressed Women\" lists, Mackie stated: \"There hasn't been a girl like Cher since Dietrich and Garbo.\"",
"She appeals to people of all ages.",
"After the Council of Fashion Designers of America gave Cher an award for her influence on fashion, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a \"fashion visionary\" for \"striking just the right note of contemporary wretched excess\".",
"Her name has evoked her name as a source of inspiration and guidance, according to Givhan.",
"Cher's Native American showgirl sexpot persona seems to epitomize the fashion industry's rush to celebrate ethnicity, adornment and sex appeal.",
"Cher was described as the ruler of outré reinvention by Vogue, who said that she set the grounds for pop stars and celebrities today.",
"All of the female celebrities who graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage with anyone, or anything, were attributed to Cher by Alexander Fury of The Independent.",
"To have Cher's success, they're trying to share the spotlight.",
"Cher has drawn attention to her physical appearance because of her youthful looks and tattoos.",
"Journalists call her the \"poster girl\" of plastic surgery.",
"The author of Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture draws a parallel between Cher's plastic surgeries and her career changes.",
"Cher has engaged in a technology that is dramatic and irreversible.",
"The author of Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism wrote that \"Cher's operations have gradually replaced a strong, decidedly 'ethnic' look with a more symmetrical, delicate, 'conventional' version.\"",
"Her normalised image acts as a standard against which other women will judge, discipline and correct themselves.",
"There are six tattoos on Cher.",
"She was called Ms. by the Baltimore Sun.",
"The original Rose tattoo was original.",
"In 1972 she got her first tattoo.",
"Sonny Bono said that calling her butterfly tattoos nothing was like ignoring a sandstorm.",
"Cher wanted to create that effect.",
"She was fond of doing things for the shock they created.",
"She still does.",
"She will create a controversy and then tell her critics to stick it.",
"She began having laser treatments to remove her tattoos in the late 1990s.",
"In the 2000s, the process was still going on.",
"She said that when she got tattooed, only bad girls did it.",
"It doesn't mean anything now.",
"No one was surprised.",
"Cher was honored by Madame Tussauds as one of the five \"most beautiful women of history\" in 1992.",
"She was ranked 26th on the \" 100 Sexiest Artists\" list.",
"Mother Gothel is a fictional character who was inspired by Cher.",
"The director said that Gothel's beauty, dark curly hair and curvy figure were designed to serve as a foil to Rapunzel's, and that the singer was one of the people.",
"Journalists analyzed Cher's social media presence.",
"She was named the \"most outspoken (and beloved) commentator\" by Time.",
"The New York Times writer praised Cher for her use of social media.",
"Cher is an outlier, perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user to stand at her digital pulpit and yell incomprehensibly, and be rewarded for it.",
"Online, authenticity and originality are often myths.",
"Cher thrives on a version of nakedness and honesty that is rarely celebrated in the public eye.",
"According to Monica Heisey of The Guardian, Cher's account is a jewel in the bizarro crown of the internet, and that she just lets it all hang out.",
"Cher is seen as a gay icon by members of the LGBT community because of her career accomplishments, sense of style, and longevity.",
"Cher is a gay icon and has been imitated by drag queens.",
"rag queens imitate women like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and Cher because they overcame insult and hardship on their path to success, and because their narratives mirror the pain that many gay men suffer on their way out of the closet.",
"Cher hired two drag queens to perform with her at her Las Vegas residency in 1979 as she was one of the first to bring drag to the mass.",
"Cher became a gay icon because of her role as a lesbian in the film Silkwood, as well as her transition to dance music and social activism.",
"Cher was made the idol of gay character Jack McFarland by the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.",
"\"Gypsies, Tramps and Weed\" was Cher's second appearance on the show, and it was the second-highest rating ever.",
"Health research, patients' quality of life, anti-poverty initiatives, veterans rights, and vulnerable children are some of Cher's philanthropic interests.",
"The Children's Craniofacial Association is supported by the Cher Charitable Foundation.",
"Cher served as a donor and as the national chairperson of the Children's Craniofacial Association, whose mission is to \"empower and give hope to facially disfigured children and their families\".",
"Craniofacial patients, their siblings and parents have an opportunity to interact with others who have experienced similar experiences at the annual Cher's Family Retreat.",
"She supports the Get A-Head Charitable Trust, which aims to improve the quality of life for people with head and neck diseases.",
"Cher is a donor, fundraiser, and international spokesman for Keep a Child Alive, an organization that seeks to accelerate action to combat the AIDS pandemic, including the provision of antiretroviral medicine to children and their families with HIV/AIDS.",
"She hosted a benefit for AIDS research in 1996 with Elizabeth Taylor.",
"She received the amfAR Award of Inspiration for her willingness and ability to use her fame for the greater good and for being one of the great champions in the fight against AIDS.",
"In 2007, Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School, which provides food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children, ages 2 to 13 years.",
"Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities, and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community.",
"Cher has supported soldiers and veterans.",
"She donated resources to Operation Helmet, an organization that provides free helmet upgrade kits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund helps military personnel who have been disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those who have been severely injured in other operations.",
"She took food and medical supplies to the war-torn region of Armenia in 1993.",
"Poverty Cher served as the National Chair of the Habitat's elimination of poverty housing initiative \"Raise the Roof\", an effort to engage artists in the organization's work while on tour.",
"Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city after lead was found in the drinking water.",
"Cher executive produced Edith+Eddie, a documentary about a nonagenarian interracial couple, as she weighed in on the need to protect elder rights.",
"It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary.",
"The CherCares Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (CCPRRI) was launched by Cher and Dr. Redlener.",
"The Entertainment Industry Foundation will distribute $1 million to chronically neglected and forgotten people during the Pandemic.",
"People of color and Hispanics are getting no services in rural areas, according to Cher.",
"It's not a lot of money, but it does go in the blink of an eyelash.",
"I'm trying to get my friends to make it a lot more so we can do something that will meet people's needs.",
"A friend once told me that when people walk in your path, you know what to do.",
"In November 2020, Cher traveled to Pakistan to advocate for and work with the country's government to have Kaavan, an elephant who had been confined to a zoo for 35 years, transferred to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia.",
"The documentary film Cher and the Loneliest Elephant was released in April of 2021.",
"Cher felt \"guilt, fear and pain\" when her older child came out as a lesbian at the age of 17.",
"She came to the conclusion that LGBT people didn't have the same rights as everyone else, and that she thought that was unfair.",
"She was the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention and has since become one of the LGBT community's most vocal advocates.",
"She received a GLAAD award in 1998 for making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbians and gay men.",
"On June 11, 2009, Chaz came out as a trans man, and his transition from female to male was finalized on May 6, 2010.",
"Cher said that she is not a registered Democrat, but has attended many Democratic events.",
"Cher's political views have attracted media attention, and she has been an outspoken critic of the conservative movement.",
"She was critical of Republican politicians in an interview with Vanity Fair.",
"She said that she didn't understand why anyone would be a Republican because of George W. Bush's eight years in office.",
"ABC News wrote during the 2000 United States presidential election that she was determined to keep Bush out of office.",
"If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you're any minority in this country, what could possibly make you vote Republican?",
"You won't have any left.",
"She said she didn't like Bush.",
"I don't believe him.",
"I don't like his record.",
"He's stupid.",
"He's lazy.",
"Cher called a C-SPAN phone-in program in October of 2003 to complain about the lack of media coverage of her visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.",
"She said she watches C-SPAN every day.",
"The host of C-SPAN questioned her about her support for Ross Perot after she identified herself as an entertainer.",
"She said that when she heard him talk, she thought he would bring some sort of common-sense business approach and less partisanship.",
"I was completely disappointed when he cut and ran and no one knew why, maybe he couldn't have withstood all the investigation that goes on now.",
"Cher called into C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Memorial Day weekend in 2006 to endorse a group that provides helmets to help soldiers avoid head injuries.",
"She appeared on C-SPAN with the founder of Operation Helmet.",
"\"I don't have to be for this war to support the troops because these men and women do what they think is right,\" she said.",
"They are told to do what they are told to do.",
"They do it with a good heart.",
"They do their best.",
"They don't ask for anything.",
"Cher supported Hillary Clinton.",
"She supported Obama after he won the Democratic nomination.",
"She said in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair that she still thinks Hillary would have done a better job.",
"Cher and Kathy Griffin made a public service announcement during the 2012 United States presidential election about women's rights.",
"The pair criticized Romney for his support of the US Senate candidate who said pregnancies resulting from rape were part of God's plan.",
"Cher declined an invitation to perform at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia due to the country's controversial anti-gay legislation.",
"In June 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, she made a series of critical comments on Twitter, stating that \"Donald Trump's punishment is being Donald Trump\".",
"In October of last year, after the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a \"pig\" and \"a politician from hell\".",
"In September 2020, Cher raised nearly $2 million for Joe Biden's presidential campaign.",
"In October, she traveled to Nevada and Arizona to campaign for Biden, and released a cover version of \"Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe\", a song conceived for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky, with lyrics updated to be about Biden.",
"Cher posted messages on the social networking site in support of the Nagorno-Karabakh war.",
"She urged the leaders in Washington to conduct sustained and rigorous diplomacy to bring peace to the Artsakh region.",
"Rolling Stone referred to Cher as the \"one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music\" and stated that there were no other careers like hers.",
"Cher is one of the most dominant figures of the Rock Era.",
"She was described as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to \"advance feminine rebellion in the rock world, and the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance, from her early hippie days to her later outrageous outfits, and her attitude.\"",
"Cher was described as a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s, and who by doing so \"teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith\".",
"Cher has earned her mononym according to the New York Times.",
"Her star power has caused an entire industry of imitators.",
"If Madonna and Lady Gaga were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played in, and the sun that shone down on them.",
"According to Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News, \"Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work.\"",
"Cher is often referred to as the \"goddess of Pop\".",
"Her work in music, film, television, and fashion has influenced many artists.",
"Professor Richard Aquila from Ball State University called Cher the \"ultimate pop chameleon\".",
"According to Entertainment Weekly, \"Cher has floated through generation after generation, scooping up new fans, thrilling old ones, reinventing her own myth and dazzling through it all.\"",
"Cher was credited with \"revolutionizing the idea of what a pop star could visually accomplish, the way they could create multiple personas that live on and off-stage.\"",
"According to James Reed from The Boston Globe, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in change and challenging our perception of her.",
"Cher was declared the \"Queen of the Comeback\" by the New York Times.",
"\"Cher believes in the American Dream of reinvention of self: 'getting old does not have to mean getting obsolete,'\" said Lucy O'Brien.",
"Cher is described as a model of flexible career management by author Craig Crawford in his book The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World.",
"She billed each dramatic change of style as another example of rebellion, an image that allowed her to make calculated changes while appearing to be consistent.",
"The term \"reinvention\" is often used to talk about the careers of American celebrities.",
"Cher is inclined to lock on to each new fashion wave and is swept violently down the diffusion stream and out of fashion.",
"Her return to stardom requires substantial re-creation.",
"Her \"integrity\" and \"perseverance\" are highlighted in the Reaching Your Goals book series of illustrated inspirational stories for children, in which her life is detailed emphasizing the importance of self-actualization.",
"She worked hard to become an actress.",
"She turned down movie roles that weren't right for her when she needed money.",
"Her goal has always been to be a good actress, not just a famous one.",
"Cher's ability to forge an immensely successful and lengthy career as a woman in a male-dominated entertainment world has drawn attention from feminist critics.",
"Cher was told at the beginning of her career that she was a product of male creativity, as she remembers, \"It was a time when girl singers were patted on the head for being good and told not to think\".",
"However, her image eventually changed due to her \"refusal of dependence on a man and the determination not only to forge a career (as an actor) on her own terms but to refuse the conventional role assigned to women over forty years old in an industry that fetishises youth\",",
"\"Cher, the straightforward, tattooed, dyslexic single mother, the first Oscar winner to have entered into matrimony with a known heroin addiction and to, was featured in the 16th-anniversary edition of Ms. magazine as an authentic feminist hero and a 1980s role model for women.\"",
"After Cher's Oscar win in 1988, The New York Times wrote that she \"performs the function for women that Jack Nicholson has always fulfilled for men.\"",
"She is free of the burden of being America's sweetheart, so she is the one who tells all the fatheads where they can go.",
"To get away with this, you need to be more beautiful.",
"You have to be Cher for 40 years.",
"Cher told the story of her mother asking her to \"settle down and marry a rich man\" in a 1996 interview for Dateline NBC.",
"Taylor Swift's music video \"You Need to Calm Down\" includes a quote from Cher's \"Mom, I am a rich man\".",
"Cher's quote puts a spin on typical gender norms.",
"It would make sense for Swift to follow Cher's example.",
"According to Alec Mapa of The Advocate, Cher has been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies.",
"Cher is the cool woman who stood in shoes.",
"Why?",
"Her motto is, \"I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig.\"",
"There are people in America who love to date people half their age, have multiple tattoos, and wear feathered headdresses.",
"Cher does it for us.",
"Cher \"represents a seemingly omnipotent, uni-monikered level of fame,\" wrote Alexander Fury of The Independent.",
"No one in the history of show business has had a career like Cher's.",
"She has been a teenage pop star, a television hostess, a fashion magazine model, a rock star, a pop singer, a Broadway actress, an Academy Award-winning movie star, and the subject of a mountain of press coverage.",
"\"If she hadn't stayed so irrevocably Cher from the start, the world would certainly be different,\" wrote Lynch.",
"Cher has sold 100 million records as a solo artist, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.",
"She is one of the few artists to win three of the four major American entertainment awards, and one of the five actor-singers to have had a US number-one single and won an acting Academy Award.",
"Her breakthrough single, Sonny & Cher's \"I Got You Babe\", was featured on Rolling Stone's \"500 Greatest Songs of All Time\" list.",
"One of the 20th century's greatest songs was her 1971 single \"Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves\".",
"Her 1998 song \"Believe\" is the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK.",
"The only American song to be named on the list was voted the world's eighth favorite song.",
"Rolling Stone has a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.",
"Cher was the first performer to receive an Academy Award for acting and a RIAA-certified gold album in the same year since the inception of gold awards.",
"Cher is the only artist to have a number-one single on the chart for six decades in a row.",
"She has held the number-one spot on the US Hot 100 for 33 years, seven months and three weeks, between \"I Got You Babe\" and \"Believe\".",
"At the age of 52, she became the oldest female artist to have a US number-one song.",
"She was ranked 43 on the \"Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time\" list.",
"The magazine listed her as the 23rd highest-grossing touring act since 1990 with total earned revenue of $351.6 million and 4.5 million attendance at her shows.",
"The 1985 Woman of the Year Award by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at Harvard University is one of the many awards Cher has received.",
"Cher put her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 2010.",
"Sonny and Cher have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.",
"She forfeited her chance to be a solo artist when she refused to schedule a personal appearance.",
"Cher appeared at number 41 on the list of the 200 greatest pop culture icons.",
"She was ranked 31st on the list of the 100 greatest women in music.",
"She was placed at number 44 on the list.",
"The 100 greatest movie stars of our time was compiled by People.",
"Biography magazine ranked her as their third favorite leading actress of all time, behind Hepburn and Hepburn."
] | <mask> (; born <mask>; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances throughout her six-decade-long career. Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & <mask> after their song "I Got You Babe" peaked at number one on the US and UK charts. Together they sold 40 million records worldwide. Her solo career was established during the same time, with the top-ten singles "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" and "You Better Sit Down Kids". She became a television personality in the 1970s with her CBS shows; first The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and then the eponymous Cher.She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows. While working on television, <mask> released the US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady", becoming the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time. After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she released the disco album Take Me Home (1979) and earned $300,000 a week for her 1979–1982 concert residency in Las Vegas. In 1982, <mask> made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in its film adaptation. She subsequently garnered critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), and Moonstruck (1987), the last of which won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She then revived her music career by recording the rock-inflected albums <mask> (1987), Heart of Stone (1989), and Love Hurts (1991), all of which yielded successful singles such as "I Found Someone", "If I Could Turn Back Time", and "Love and Understanding". <mask> contributed to the soundtrack for her next film, Mermaids (1990), which spawned the UK number-one single "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)".She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk (1996). Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, whose title track topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1999 and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. It features pioneering use of Auto-Tune to distort her vocals, known as the "Cher effect". Her 2002–2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning $250 million. In 2008, she signed a $60 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years. During the 2010s, she landed starring roles in the films Burlesque (2010) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) and released studio albums Closer to the Truth (2013) and Dancing Queen (2018), both of which debuted at number three on the Billboard 200.Having sold 100 million records, <mask> is one of the world's best-selling music artists. Her achievements include a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, the Billboard Icon Award, and awards from the Kennedy Center Honors and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Aside from music and acting, she is noted for her political views, social media presence, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention. Life and career
1946–1961: Early life
<mask> was born <mask> Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946. Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems; her mother, Georgia Holt (born Jackie Jean Crouch), is a former model and retired actress who claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry. Cher's father was rarely home when she was an infant, and her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old.Her mother later married actor John Southall, with whom she had another daughter, Georganne, Cher's half-sister. Now living in Los Angeles, <mask>'s mother began acting while working as a waitress. She changed her name to Georgia Holt and played minor roles in films and on television. Holt also secured acting parts for her daughters as extras on television shows like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Her mother's relationship with Southall ended when Cher was nine years old, but she considers him her father and remembers him as a "good-natured man who turned belligerent when he drank too much". Holt remarried and divorced several more times, and she moved her family around the country (including New York, Texas, and California). They often had little money, and Cher recounted having had to use rubber bands to hold her shoes together.At one point, her mother left Cher at an orphanage for several weeks. Although they met every day, both found the experience traumatic. When Cher was in fifth grade, she produced a performance of the musical Oklahoma! for her teacher and class. She organized a group of girls, directing and choreographing their dance routines. Unable to convince boys to participate, she acted the male roles and sang their songs. By age nine, she had developed an unusually low voice.Fascinated by film stars, <mask>'s role model was Audrey Hepburn, particularly due to her role in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's. Cher began to take after the unconventional outfits and behavior of Hepburn's character. She was also inspired by Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn. She was disappointed by the absence of dark-haired Hollywood actresses whom she could emulate. She had wanted to be famous since childhood but felt unattractive and untalented, later commenting, "I couldn't think of anything that I could do ... I didn't think I'd be a singer or dancer. I just thought, well, I'll be famous.That was my goal." In 1961, Holt married bank manager Gilbert LaPiere, who adopted <mask> (under the name <mask>) and Georganne, and enrolled them at Montclair College Preparatory School, a private school in Encino, whose students were mostly from affluent families. The school's upper-class environment presented a challenge for Cher; biographer Connie Berman wrote, "[she] stood out from the others in both her striking appearance and outgoing personality." A former classmate commented, "I'll never forget seeing Cher for the first time. She was so special ... She was like a movie star, right then and there ... She said she was going to be a movie star and we knew she would." Despite not being an excellent student, Cher was intelligent and creative, according to Berman. She earned high grades, excelling in French and English classes.As an adult, she discovered that she had dyslexia. Cher's unconventional behavior stood out: she performed songs for students during the lunch hours and surprised peers when she wore a midriff-baring top. She later recalled, "I was never really in school. I was always thinking about when I was grown up and famous." 1962–1965: Solo career breakthrough
At age 16, Cher dropped out of school, left her mother's house, and moved to Los Angeles with a friend. She took acting classes and worked to support herself, dancing in small clubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip and introducing herself to performers, managers, and agents. According to Berman, "[Cher] did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break, make a new contact, or get an audition."<mask> met performer Sonny Bono in November 1962 when he was working for record producer Phil Spector. <mask>'s friend moved out, and Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his housekeeper. Sonny introduced <mask> to Spector, who used her as a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Spector produced her first single, "Ringo, I Love You", which <mask> recorded under the name Bonnie Jo Mason. The song was rejected by many radio stations programmers as they thought Cher's deep contralto vocals were a man's vocals; therefore, they believed it was a male homosexual singing a love song dedicated to the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. <mask> and Sonny became close friends, eventual lovers, and performed their own unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Tijuana, Mexico, on October 27, 1964. Although Sonny had wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright, and he began joining her onstage, singing the harmonies.Cher disguised her nervousness by looking at Sonny; she later commented that she sang to the people through him. In late 1964, they emerged as a duo called Caesar & Cleo, releasing the poorly received singles "Do You Wanna Dance? ", "Love Is Strange", and "Let the Good Times Roll". Cher signed with Liberty Records' Imperial imprint in the end of 1964, and Sonny became her producer. The single "Dream Baby", released under the name "Cherilyn", received airplay in Los Angeles. Imperial encouraged Cher to work with Sonny on her second solo single for the label, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do". It peaked at number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1965.Meanwhile, the Byrds had released their own version of the same song. When competition on the singles charts started between <mask> and the Byrds, the group's record label began to promote the B-side of the Byrds' single. Roger McGuinn of the Byrds commented, "We loved the Cher version ... We didn't want to hassle. So we just turned our record over." <mask>'s debut album, All I Really Want to Do (1965), reached number 16 on the Billboard 200; it was later described by AllMusic's Tim Sendra as "one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era". 1965–1967: Sonny and <mask>'s rise to pop stardom
In early 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny & Cher. Following the recording of "I Got You Babe", they traveled to England in July 1965 at the Rolling Stones' advice; Cher recalled, "[they] had told us ... that Americans just didn't get us and that if we were going to make it big, we were going to have to go to England."According to writer Cintra Wilson, "English newspaper photographers showed up when S&C were thrown out of the London Hilton [because of their outfits] the night they arrived—literally overnight, they were stars. London went gaga for the heretofore-unseen S&C look, which was neither mod nor rocker." "I Got You Babe" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became, according to AllMusic's Bruce Eder, "one of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop/rock hits of the mid-'60s"; Rolling Stone listed it among "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2003. As the song knocked the Beatles off the top of the British charts, English teenagers began to emulate Sonny and <mask>'s fashion style, such as bell-bottoms, striped pants, ruffled shirts, industrial zippers and fur vests. Upon their return to the US, the duo made several appearances on the teen-pop showcases Hullabaloo and Shindig! and completed a tour of some of the largest arenas in the US. Their shows attracted Cher look-alikes—"girls who were ironing their hair straight and dyeing it black, to go with their vests and bell-bottoms".Cher expanded her creative range by designing a clothing line. Sonny and <mask>'s first album, Look at Us (1965), released for the Atco Records division of Atlantic Records, spent eight weeks at number two on the Billboard 200, behind the Beatles' Help!. Their material became popular, and the duo successfully competed with the dominant British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era. Author Joseph Murrells described Sonny and Cher as "part of the leading exponents of the rock-folk-message type of song, a hybrid combining the best and instrumentation of rock music with folk lyric and often lyrics of protest." Sonny and <mask> charted ten Billboard top 40 singles between 1965 and 1972, including five top-ten singles: "I Got You Babe", "Baby Don't Go", "The Beat Goes On", "All I Ever Need Is You", and "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done". At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat equaled only by the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Together they sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to Time magazine's Ginia Bellafante, rock's "it" couple.Cher's following releases kept her solo career fully competitive with her work with Sonny. The Sonny Side of Chér (1966) features "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", which reached number two in the US and number three in the UK and became her first million-seller solo single. Chér, also released in 1966, contains the Burt Bacharach and Hal David composition "Alfie", which was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name and became the first stateside version of the popular song. With Love, Chér (1967) includes songs described by biographer Mark Bego as "little soap-opera stories set to rock music" such as the US top-ten single "You Better Sit Down Kids". 1967–1970: Backlash from the younger generation, first marriage
By the end of the 1960s, Sonny and <mask>'s music had ceased to chart. According to Berman, "the heavy, loud sound of groups like Jefferson Airplane and Cream made the folk-rock music of Sonny and Cher seem too bland." Cher later said, "I loved the new sound of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the electric-guitar oriented bands.Left to myself, I would have changed with the times because the music really turned me on. But [Sonny] didn't like it—and that was that." Their monogamous lifestyle during the period of the sexual revolution and the anti-drug position they adopted at the height of the drug culture lost them popularity among American youths. According to Bego, "in spite of their revolutionary unisex clothes, Sonny and Cher were quite 'square' when it came to sex and drugs." In an attempt to recapture their young audience, the duo produced and starred in the film Good Times (1967), which was commercially unsuccessful. Cher's next album, Backstage (1968), in which she explores diverse musical genres including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest settings, was not a commercial success. In 1969, she was dropped from Imperial Records while Sonny and <mask> had been dropped from Atco; however, the label wanted to sign Cher for a solo album.3614 Jackson Highway (1969) was recorded without the guidance of Sonny and incorporates experiments in rhythm and blues and soul music. AllMusic's Mark Deming proclaimed it "arguably the finest album of her career", and still "a revelation" decades later. Displeased with the 3614 Jackson Highway album, Sonny prevented Cher from releasing more recordings for Atco. Meanwhile, Sonny dated others, and by the end of the 1960s their relationship had begun to unravel. According to People magazine, "[Sonny] tried desperately to win her back, telling her he wanted to marry and start a family." They officially married after she gave birth on March 4, 1969, to Chaz Bono. The duo spent $500,000 and mortgaged their home to make the film Chastity (1969).Written and produced by Sonny, who did not appear in the movie, it tells the story of a young woman, played by <mask>, searching for the meaning of life. The art film failed commercially, putting the couple $190,000 in debt with back taxes. However, some critics noted that Cher showed signs of acting potential; Cue magazine wrote, "Cher has a marvelous quality that often makes you forget the lines you are hearing." At the lowest point of their career, the duo put together a nightclub routine that relied on a more adult approach to sound and style. According to writer Cintra Wilson, "Their lounge act was so depressing, people started heckling them. Then Cher started heckling back. Sonny ... reprimanded her; then she'd heckle Sonny".The heckling became a highlight of the act and attracted viewers. Television executives took note, and the couple began making guest appearances on prime-time shows, in which they presented a "new, sophisticated, and mature" image. Cher adopted alluring, low-cut gowns that became her signature outfits. 1971–1974: Television career breakthrough, first musical comeback
CBS head of programming Fred Silverman offered Sonny and <mask> their own television program after he noticed them as guest-hosts on The Merv Griffin Show in 1971. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premiered as a summer replacement series on August 1, 1971, and had six episodes. Because it was a ratings success, the couple returned that December with a full-time show. Watched by more than 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was praised for the comedic timing, and deadpan Cher mocked Sonny about his looks and short stature.According to Berman, they "exuded an aura of warmth, playfulness, and caring that only enhanced their appeal. Viewers were further enchanted when a young [Chaz] also appeared on the show. They seemed like a perfect family." Cher honed her acting skills in sketch comedy roles such as the brash housewife Laverne, the sardonic waitress Rosa, and historical vamps, including Cleopatra and Miss Sadie Thompson. The Bob Mackie-designed clothing Cher wore was part of the show's attraction, and her style influenced the fashion trends of the 1970s. In 1971, Sonny and <mask> signed with the Kapp Records division of MCA Records, and Cher released the single "Classified 1A", in which she sings from the point of view of a soldier who bleeds to death in Vietnam. Written by Sonny, who felt that her first solo single on the label had to be poignant and topical, the song was rejected by radio station programmers as uncommercial.Since Sonny's first attempts at reviving their recording career as a duo had also been unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff Garrett to work with them. He produced <mask>'s second US number-one single, "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", which "proved that ... Garrett knew more about Cher's voice and her persona as a singer than Sonny did", writes Bego. "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" was the first single by a solo artist to rank number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart at the same time as on the Canadian Singles Chart. Billboard called it "one of the 20th century's greatest songs". It was featured on the 1971 album Chér (eventually reissued under the title Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves), which was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Its second single, "The Way of Love", reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and established <mask>'s more confident image as a recording artist. In 1972, Cher released the all-ballad set Foxy Lady, demonstrating the evolution of her vocal abilities, according to Bego.Following the release of the album, Garrett quit as producer after disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record. At Sonny's insistence, in 1973 <mask> released an album of standards called Bittersweet White Light, which was commercially unsuccessful. That year, lyricist Mary Dean brought Garrett "Half-Breed", a song about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father, that she had written especially for Cher. Although Garrett did not have Cher as a client at the time, he was convinced that "it's a smash for Cher and for nobody else", so he held the song for months until he got Cher back. "Half-Breed" was featured on the album of the same name and became <mask>'s third US number-one single. Both the album and the single were certified gold by the RIAA. In 1974, <mask> released the song "Dark Lady" as the lead single from the namesake album.It reached the top position on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming <mask>'s fourth number-one single and making her the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time. Later that year, she released a Greatest Hits album that, according to Billboard magazine, proved her to be "one of the most consistent hitmakers of the past five years", as well as a "proven superstar who always sells records". Between 1971 and 1973, Sonny and <mask>'s recording career was revived with four albums released under Kapp Records and MCA Records: Sonny & Cher Live (1971), All I Ever Need Is You (1972), Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs (1973), and Live in Las Vegas Vol. 2 (1973). <mask> later commented on this period: "I could do a whole album ... in three days ... We were on the road ... and we were doing the Sonny & Cher Show". 1974–1979: Divorce from Sonny Bono, second marriage, decline in popularity
<mask> and Sonny had had marital problems since late 1972, but appearances were maintained until 1974. "The public still thinks we are married," Sonny wrote in his diary at the time, "[and] that's the way it has to be."In February 1974, Sonny filed for a separation, citing "irreconcilable differences". A week later, <mask> countered with a divorce suit and charged Sonny with "involuntary servitude", claiming that he withheld money from her and deprived her of her rightful share of their earnings. The couple battled in court over finances and the custody of Chaz, which was eventually granted to Cher. Their divorce was finalized on June 26, 1975. In 1974, <mask> won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. The same year, Sonny premiered a solo show on ABC, The Sonny Comedy Revue, which carried the creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show. It was canceled after 13 weeks.During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a two-year romantic relationship with record executive David Geffen, who freed her from her business arrangement with Sonny, under which she was required to work exclusively for Cher Enterprises, the company he ran. Geffen secured a $2.5 million deal for Cher with Warner Bros. Records, and she began work on her first album under that label in 1975. According to Bego, "it was their intention that [this album] was going to make millions of fans around the world take her seriously as a rock star, and not just a pop singer." Despite Cher's efforts to develop her musical range by listening to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Elton John, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan, the resulting album Stars was commercially and critically unsuccessful. Janet Maslin of The Village Voice wrote, "Cher is just no rock and roller ... Image, not music, is <mask> Bono's main ingredient for both records and TV." The album has since become a cult classic and is generally considered among her best work.On February 16, 1975, <mask> returned to television with a solo show on CBS. Called Cher, it began as a highly rated special with guests Flip Wilson, Elton John, and Bette Midler. The show was produced by Geffen and centered on Cher's songs, monologues, comedy performance, and her variation of clothing, which was the largest for a weekly TV show. Early critical reception was favorable; the Los Angeles Times exclaimed that "Sonny without Cher was a disaster. Cher without Sonny, on the other hand, could be the best thing that's happened to weekly television this season." Cher lasted for less than a year, replaced by a new show in which she professionally reunited with ex-husband Sonny; she said, "doing a show alone was more than I could handle." On June 30, 1975, four days after finalizing her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman, co-founder of The Allman Brothers Band.She filed for divorce nine days later because of his heroin and liquor problems, but they reconciled within a month. They had one son, Elijah Blue, on July 10, 1976. Sonny and <mask>'s TV reunion, The Sonny and Cher Show, debuted on CBS in February 1976—the first show ever to star a divorced couple. Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere, <mask> and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce, her reportedly extravagant lifestyle, and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash that eventually contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977. In 1976, Mego Toys released a line of toys and dolls in the likeness of Sonny and Cher, which coincided with the popularity of The Sonny and Cher Show. The miniature version of Cher ended up being the highest selling doll of 1976, surpassing Barbie. Cher's next albums, I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) and Cherished (1977), the latter a return to her pop style at Warner's producers' insistence, were commercially unsuccessful; Orange Coast magazine's Keith Tuber commented, "A weekly television series ... can spell disaster for a recording artist ...Regular exposure on TV allowed people to see and hear these performers without having to buy their records ... That's what happened to Cher[.]" In 1977, under the rubric "Allman and Woman", she recorded alongside Allman the duet album Two the Hard Way. Their relationship ended following the release of the album, and their divorce was finalized in 1979. Beginning in 1978, she had a two-year live-in relationship with Kiss member Gene Simmons. That year, she legally changed her name from <mask> Sarkisian La Piere Bono Allman to Cher, to eliminate the use of four surnames. She returned to prime time television with the ABC specials Cher... Special (1978)—featuring a 15-minute segment in which she performs all of the roles in her version of West Side Story— and Cher... And Other Fantasies (1979). 1979–1982: Second musical comeback, shift from disco music to rock
A single mother with two children, Cher realized that she had to make a choice about the direction of her singing career.Deciding to temporarily abandon her desire to be a rock singer, she signed with Casablanca Records and launched a comeback with the single "Take Me Home" and the album of the same name, both of which capitalized on the disco craze. Both the album and the single became instant successes, remained bestsellers for more than half of 1979, and were certified gold by the RIAA. Sales of the album may have been boosted by the image of a scantily clad Cher in a Viking outfit on its cover. Despite her initial lack of enthusiasm for disco music, she changed her mind after the success, commenting, "I never thought I would want to do disco ... [but] it's terrific! It's great music to dance to. I think that danceable music is what everybody wants." Encouraged by the popularity of Take Me Home, <mask> planned to return to rock music in her next album, Prisoner (1979).The album's cover features <mask> draped in chains as a "prisoner of the press", which caused controversy among feminist groups for her perceived portrayal of a sex slave. She included rock songs, which made the disco release seem unfocused and led to its commercial failure. Prisoner produced the single "Hell on Wheels", featured on the soundtrack of the film Roller Boogie. The song exploits the late 1970s roller-skating fad and contributed to its popularity. In 1980, alongside Italian record producer Giorgio Moroder, Cher wrote her last Casablanca disco recording, "Bad Love", for the film Foxes. She formed the rock band Black Rose that year with her then-lover, guitarist Les Dudek. Although Cher was the lead singer, she did not receive top billing because she wanted to create the impression that all band members were equal.Since she was easily recognized when she performed with the band, she developed a punk look by cutting her trademark long hair. Despite appearances on television, the band failed to earn concert dates. Their album Black Rose received unfavorable reviews; <mask> told Rolling Stone, "The critics panned us, and they didn't attack the record. They attacked me. It was like, 'How dare Cher sing rock & roll?'" Black Rose disbanded in 1981. During Black Rose's active period, <mask> was simultaneously doing a residency show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, earning $300,000 a week.Titled Cher in Concert, the three-year performance residency opened in June 1979 and eventually became Cher's first world concert tour as a solo artist (also referred to as the Take Me Home Tour), with additional dates in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. It yielded two television specials: Standing Room Only: Cher in Concert (1981) and Cher... A Celebration at Caesars (1983), the latter of which won Cher the CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Variety Program. In 1981, Cher released a duet with musician Meat Loaf called "Dead Ringer for Love", which reached number five on the UK Singles Chart and was later described by AllMusic's Donald A. Guarisco as "one of the more inspired rock duets of the 1980s". In 1982, Columbia Records released the album I Paralyze, later deemed by Bego as Cher's "strongest and most consistent solo album in years" despite its low sales. 1982–1986: Film career breakthrough, musical hiatus
With decreasing album sales and a lack of commercially successful singles, Cher decided to further develop her acting career. While she had previously aspired to venture into film, she had only the critically and commercially unsuccessful movies Good Times and Chastity to her credit, and the Hollywood establishment did not take her seriously as an actress. Cher later recalled, "I was making a fortune on the road, but I was dying inside.Everyone kept saying, 'Cher, there are people who would give anything to have standing room only at Caesars Palace. It would be the pinnacle of their careers.' And I kept thinking, 'Yes, I should be satisfied' ... But I wasn't satisfied." She moved to New York in 1982 to take acting lessons with Lee Strasberg, founder of the Actors Studio, but never enrolled after her plans changed. She auditioned for and was signed by director Robert Altman for the Broadway stage production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, playing a member of a James Dean fan club holding a 20-year reunion. That year, Altman cast her again in the film adaptation of the same title.Director Mike Nichols, who had seen <mask> onstage in Jimmy Dean, offered her the part of Dolly Pelliker, a plant co-worker and Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in the film Silkwood. When it premiered in 1983, audiences questioned Cher's ability as an actress. She recalls attending a film preview during which the audience laughed when they saw her name in the credits. For her performance, <mask> received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. In 1985, <mask> formed the film production company Isis. Her next film, Mask (1985), reached number two at the box office and was <mask>'s first critical and commercial success as a leading actress. For her role as a drug addict biker with a teenage son who has a severe physical deformity, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.During the making of the film, however, she clashed with director Peter Bogdanovich, and was ultimately omitted from the Oscar nomination list. She attended the 58th Academy Awards in a tarantula-like costume, later deemed by Vanity Fair'''s Esther Zuckerman as <mask>'s "Oscar revenge dress". "As you can see, I did receive my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress," <mask> declared before presenting the nominees for Best Supporting Actor. The incident garnered her much publicity. <mask>'s May 1986 guest appearance on talk show Late Night with David Letterman, during which she called Letterman "an asshole", attracted much media coverage; Letterman later recalled, "It did hurt my feelings. Cher was one of the few people I've really wanted to have on the show ... I felt like a total fool, especially since I say all kinds of things to people."She returned to the show in 1987, reuniting with Sonny for the last time before his death to sing an impromptu version of "I Got You Babe". According to Rolling Stone's Andy Greene, "they weren't exactly the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television. Had YouTube existed back then, this would have gone insanely viral the next morning." Rolling Stone listed the performance among "David Letterman's Top 10 Musical Moments" in 2015. 1987–1992: Film stardom, third musical comeback
<mask> starred in three films in 1987. In Suspect, she played a public defender who is both helped and romanced by one of the jurors in the homicide case she is handling. Alongside Susan Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer, she starred as one of three divorcees involved with a mysterious and wealthy visitor from hell who comes to a small New England town in the comedy horror The Witches of Eastwick.In Norman Jewison's romantic comedy Moonstruck, she played an Italian widow in love with her fiancé's younger brother. The two last films ranked among the top ten highest-grossing films of 1987, at number ten and five, respectively.The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote Moonstruck "offers further proof that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching whatever she does." For that film, Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. By 1988, Cher had become one of the most bankable actresses of the decade, commanding $1 million per film. That year, she released the fragrance Uninhibited, which earned about $15 million in its first year sales. In 1987, Cher signed with Geffen Records and revived her musical career with what music critics Johnny Danza and Dean Ferguson describe as "her most impressive string of hits to date", establishing her as a "serious rock and roller ... a crown that she'd worked long and hard to capture". Michael Bolton, Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, and Richie Sambora produced her first Geffen album, Cher.Despite facing strong retail and radio airplay resistance upon its release, the album proved to be a commercial success, certified platinum by the RIAA. Cher features the rock ballad "I Found Someone", Cher's first US top-ten single in more than eight years. By the end of the 1980s, Cher was also receiving attention for her controversial lifestyle, including her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist fashion sense, and affairs with younger men. She had romantic relationships with actors Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, and Tom Cruise, hockey player Ron Duguay, film producer Josh Donen, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora, and Rob Camilletti, a bagel baker 18-years her junior whom she dated from 1986 to 1989. Cher's 19th studio album Heart of Stone (1989) was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. The music video for its second single, "If I Could Turn Back Time", caused controversy due to Cher's performance on the battleship , straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks. The song topped the Australian charts for seven weeks, reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and became one of Cher's most successful singles.Other songs from Heart of Stone to reach the US top ten were "After All", a duet with Peter Cetera, and "Just Like Jesse James". At the 1989 People's Choice Awards, Cher won the Favorite All-Around Female Star Award. She embarked on the Heart of Stone Tour in 1989. Most critics liked the tour's nostalgic nature and admired Cher's showmanship. Its parent television special Cher at the Mirage (1991) was filmed during a concert in Las Vegas. In her first film in three years, Mermaids (1990), Cher paid tribute to her own mother in this story about a woman who moves her two daughters from town to town at the end of a love affair. She clashed with the film's first two directors, Lasse Hallström and Frank Oz, who were replaced by Richard Benjamin.Believing <mask> would be the star attraction, the producers allowed her creative control for the film. Mermaids was a box office success and received generally positive reviews. One of the two songs Cher recorded for the film's soundtrack, a cover version of Betty Everett's "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)", topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks. Cher's final studio album for Geffen Records, Love Hurts (1991), stayed at number one in the UK for six weeks and produced the UK top-ten single "Love and Understanding". The album was certified gold by the RIAA. In later years, Cher commented that her Geffen label "hit years" had been especially significant to her, "because I was getting to do songs that I really loved ... songs that really represented me, and they were popular!" She released the exercise book Forever Fit in 1991, followed by the 1992 fitness videos CherFitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence.She embarked on the Love Hurts Tour during 1992. That year, the UK-only compilation album Greatest Hits: 1965–1992 peaked at number one in the country for seven weeks. It features three new songs: "Oh No Not My Baby", "Whenever You're Near", and "Many Rivers to Cross". 1992–1997: Health and professional struggles, directorial debut
Partially due to her experiences filming Mermaids, Cher turned down leading roles in such films as The War of the Roses and Thelma & Louise. According to Berman, "After the success of Moonstruck, she was so worried about her next career move that she was overly cautious." In the early 1990s, she contracted the Epstein–Barr virus and developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which left her too exhausted to sustain her music and film careers. Because she needed to earn money and was not healthy enough to work on other projects, she starred in infomercials launching health, beauty, and diet products, which earned her close to $10 million in fees.The skits were parodied on Saturday Night Live and critics considered them a sellout, many suggesting her film career was over. She told Ladies' Home Journal, "Suddenly I became the Infomercial Queen and it didn't occur to me that people would focus on that and strip me of all my other things." Cher made cameo appearances in the Robert Altman films The Player (1992) and Prêt-à-Porter (1994). In 1994, she started a mail-order catalogue business, Sanctuary, selling Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of "I Got You Babe" to MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head. Alongside Chrissie Hynde, Neneh <mask>, and Eric Clapton, she topped the UK Singles Chart in 1995 with the charity single "Love Can Build a Bridge". Later that year, she signed with Warner Music UK's label WEA and released the album It's a Man's World (1995), which came out of her idea of covering men's songs from a woman's point of view. In general, critics favored the album and its R&B influences, some saying her voice had improved.Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "From an artistic standpoint, this soulful collection of grown-up pop songs ... is the high point of her recording career." It's a Man's World reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart and spawned the UK top-ten single "One by One". Tracks were remixed for the American release of the album, abandoning its original rock sound in favor of a style more accessible to US radio. The US release failed commercially, reaching number 64 on the Billboard 200. In 1996, Cher played the wife of a businessman who hires a hitman to murder her in the Chazz Palminteri-scripted dark comedy film Faithful. Although the film received negative reviews from critics, Cher was praised for her role; The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote that she "does her game best to find comic potential in a victim's role." <mask> refused to promote the film, claiming it was "horrible".She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk (1996), in which she starred as a doctor murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic. It drew the highest ratings for an original HBO movie to date, registering an 18.7 rating with a 25 share in HBO homes and attracting 6.9 million viewers. Her music played a large role in the American TV series The X-Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus", which aired in November 1997. Written for her, it tells the story of a scientist's grotesque creature who adores Cher because of her role in Mask, in which her character cares for her disfigured son. 1998–1999: Death of Sonny Bono, fourth musical comeback
Following Sonny Bono's death in a skiing accident in 1998, Cher delivered a tearful eulogy at his funeral, calling him "the most unforgettable character" she had met. She paid tribute to him by hosting the CBS special Sonny & Me: <mask> Remembers, which aired on May 20, 1998. That month, Sonny and Cher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television.Later that year, Cher published The First Time, a collection of autobiographical essays of "first-time" events in her life, which critics praised as down-to-earth and genuine. Although the manuscript was almost finished when Sonny died, she could not decide whether to include his death in the book; she feared being criticized for capitalizing on the event. She told Rolling Stone, "I couldn't ignore it, could I? I might have if I cared more about what people think than what I know is right for me." <mask>'s 22nd studio album Believe (1998) marked a musical departure for her, as it comprises dance-pop songs, many of which capture the "disco-era essence"; Cher said, "It's not that I think this is a '70s album ... but there's a thread, a consistency running through it that I love.'" Believe was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA and went on to be certified gold or platinum in 39 countries, selling 10 million copies worldwide. The album's title track reached number one in more than 23 countries and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.It became the best-selling recording of 1998 and 1999, respectively, in the UK and the US, and <mask>'s most successful single to date. "Believe" topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK, selling over 1.84 million copies in the country up until October 2018. It also topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for four weeks, selling over 1.8 million units in the US up until December 1999. The song earned <mask> the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording and the 1999 Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year. On January 31, 1999, <mask> performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl XXXIII. Two months later, she sang on the television special VH1 Divas Live 2, which attracted 19.4 million viewers. According to VH1, it was the most popular, and most watched program in the television network's history, as <mask>'s presence was "a huge part of making it exactly that."The Do You Believe? tour ran from 1999 to 2000 and was sold out in every American city in which it was booked, amassing a global audience of more than 1.5 million. Its companion television special, Cher: Live in Concert – From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas (1999), was the highest rated original HBO program in 1998–99, registering a 9.0 rating among adults 18 to 49 and a 13.0 rating in the HBO universe of about 33 million homes. Capitalizing on the success of "Believe", Cher's former record company Geffen Records released in April 1999 the US-only compilation album If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits, which features the previously unreleased song "Don't Come Cryin' to Me". It was certified gold by the RIAA. Seven months later, Cher released the compilation album The Greatest Hits, which sold three million copies outside of the US up until January 2000. Cher was named the number-one dance artist of 1999 by Billboard.At the 1999 World Music Awards, she received the Legend Award for her "lifelong contribution to the music industry". Her next film, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini (1999), received generally positive reviews, and she earned critical acclaim for her performance as a rich, flamboyant American socialite whose visit to Italy is not welcome among the Englishwomen; one reviewer from Film Comment wrote, "It is only after she appears that you realize how sorely she's been missed from movie screens! For Cher is a star. That is, she manages the movie star trick of being at once a character and at the same time never allowing you to forget: that's Cher." 2000–2009: Touring success, retirement, Vegas residency Not Commercial (2000) was written mostly by Cher after she had attended a songwriters' conference in 1994; it marked her first attempt at writing most of the tracks for an album. As the album was rejected by her record label for being uncommercial, she chose to sell it only on her website. In the song "Sisters of Mercy", she criticized as "cruel, heartless and wicked" the nuns who prevented her mother from retrieving her from a Catholic orphanage.The Catholic church denounced the song. Cher's highly anticipated dance-oriented follow-up to Believe, Living Proof (2001), entered the Billboard 200 at number nine and was certified gold by the RIAA. The album includes the UK top-ten single "The Music's No Good Without You" and "Song for the Lonely", the latter song dedicated to "the courageous people of New York" following the September 11 attacks. In May 2002, she performed during the benefit concert VH1 Divas Las Vegas. At the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, she won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award and was presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Steven Tyler for having "helped redefine popular music with massive success on the Billboard charts". That year, her wealth was estimated at $600 million. In June 2002, Cher embarked on the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, announced as the final live concert tour of her career, although she vowed to continue making records and films.The show highlighted her successes in music, television, and film, featuring video clips from the 1960s onwards and an elaborate backdrop and stage set-up. Initially scheduled for 49 shows, the worldwide tour was extended several times. By October 2003, it had become the most successful tour ever by a woman, grossing $145 million from 200 shows and playing to 2.2 million fans. A collection of live tracks taken from the tour was released in 2003 as the album Live! The Farewell Tour. The NBC special <mask> – The Farewell Tour (2003) attracted 17 million viewers. It was the highest rated network-TV concert special of 2003 and earned Cher the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special.After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a worldwide deal with the US division of Warner Bros. Records in September 2003. The Very Best of Cher (2003), a greatest-hits collection that surveys her entire career, peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA. She played herself in the Farrelly brothers comedy Stuck on You (2003), mocking her public image as she appears in bed with a much younger boyfriend. <mask>'s 326-date Farewell Tour ended in 2005 as one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, seen by over 3.5 million people and earning $250 million. After three years of retirement, she began in 2008 a three-year, 200-performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, for which she earned a reported $60 million. Titled <mask>, the production featured state-of-the-art video and special effects, elaborate set designs, 14 dancers, four aerialists and more than 20 costume changes. 2010–2017: Burlesque, return to music and touring
In Burlesque (2010), <mask>'s first musical film since 1967's Good Times, the actress plays a nightclub impresario whom a young Hollywood hopeful is looking to impress.One of the two songs she recorded for the film's soundtrack, the power ballad "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me", reached number one on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011, making <mask> the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. In November 2010, she received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The next year, she lent her voice to Janet the Lioness in the comedy Zookeeper. Dear Mom, Love Cher, a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, aired on Lifetime in May 2013.Closer to the Truth, Cher's 25th studio album and the first since 2001's Living Proof, entered the Billboard 200 at number three in October 2013, her highest position on that chart to date. Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe commented that "Cher's 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'". Cher premiered the lead single "Woman's World" on the season four finale of the talent show The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade. She later joined the show's season five as judge Blake Shelton's team adviser.On June 30, 2013, <mask> headlined the annual Dance on the Pier benefit, celebrating Gay Pride day. It became the event's first sellout in five years. In November 2013, she appeared as a guest performer and judge on the seventeenth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, during its eighth week, which was dedicated to her. She embarked on the Dressed to Kill Tour in March 2014, nearly a decade after announcing her "farewell tour". She quipped about that fact during the shows, saying this would actually be her last farewell tour while crossing fingers. The tour's first leg, which included 49 sold-out shows in North America, grossed $54.9 million. In November 2014, she cancelled all remaining dates due to an infection that affected kidney function.On May 7, 2014, <mask> confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Credited as Bonnie Jo Mason, she uses an alias of hers originated in 1964. Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015. It is the most expensive single album ever sold. After appearing as Marc Jacobs' guest at the 2015 Met Gala, Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign. The fashion designer stated, "This has been a dream of mine for a very, very long time." Classic Cher, a three-year concert residency at both the Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, and The Theater at MGM National Harbor, Washington, opened in February 2017.At the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, Cher performed "Believe" and "If I Could Turn Back Time", her first awards show performance in more than 15 years, and was presented with the Billboard Icon Award by Gwen Stefani, who called her "a role model for showing us how to be strong and true to ourselves [and] the definition of the word Icon." 2018–present: Return to film, Dancing Queen, upcoming projects
In 2018, <mask> returned to film for the romantic musical comedy film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. New York magazine's Viviana Olen and Matt Harkins commented that "it's only at the climax of the movie when its true promise is fulfilled: Cher arrives ... It becomes clear that every single movie—no matter how flawless—would be infinitely better if it included Cher." She stars as Ruby Sheridan, who is the grandmother of Sophie, played by Amanda Seyfried, and the mother of Donna, portrayed by Meryl Streep. Cher recorded two ABBA songs for the film's soundtrack: "Fernando" and "Super Trouper".Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA commented, "She makes Fernando her own. It's her song now." On March 4, 2018, <mask> headlined the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. Tickets sold out within three hours after she hinted her performance on her Twitter account. In September 2018, <mask> embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour. While promoting Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Cher confirmed she was working on an album that would feature cover versions of songs from ABBA.The album, Dancing Queen, was released on September 28, 2018. Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone commented that "the 72-year-old makes ABBA songs not only sound like they should've been written for her in the first place but like they firmly belong in 2018". Marc Snetiker from Entertainment Weekly called it Cher's "most significant release since 1998's Believe" and noted that "the album ender, 'One of Us', is frankly one of Cher's best recordings in years." Dancing Queen debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, tying with 2013's Closer to the Truth for <mask>'s highest-charting solo album in the US. With first-week sales of 153,000 units, it earned the year's biggest sales week for a pop album by a female artist, as well as Cher's largest sales week since 1991. Dancing Queen also topped Billboards Top Album Sales chart, making it Cher's first number-one album on that chart.The Cher Show, a jukebox musical based on Cher's life and music, officially premiered at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago, on June 28, 2018, and played through July 15. It began Broadway previews November 1, with its official opening on December 3, 2018.Written by Rick Elice, it features three actresses playing <mask> during different stages of her life. The <mask> Show is set to launch a UK and Ireland tour in 2022. On December 2, 2018, Cher received a Kennedy Center Honors prize, the annual Washington distinction for artists who have made extraordinary contributions to culture. The ceremony featured tribute performances by Cyndi Lauper, Little Big Town and Adam Lambert. During 2018, Cher used Twitter to announce she was working on four new projects for the next two years: a Christmas album; a second album of ABBA covers; an autobiography; and a biographical film about her life. In October 2019, Cher launched a new perfume, Cher Eau de Couture, which was four years in the making. Described as "genderless", it is Cher's second fragrance after 1987's Uninhibited.On February 4, 2020, <mask> was announced as the new face of fashion brand Dsquared2. She starred in the brand's spring/summer advertising campaign, which was directed by photographers Mert and Marcus. In May, Cher released her first Spanish-language song, a cover of ABBA's "Chiquitita". Proceeds from the single were donated to UNICEF following the COVID-19 pandemic. In November, Cher spawned a UK top-ten single as part of the charity supergroup BBC Radio 2 Allstars with "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", an Oasis cover recorded in support of BBC's Children in Need charity. <mask> appeared in a voice-over role as a bobblehead version of herself in the animated feature film Bobbleheads: The Movie (2020). The same year, she was featured on The New York Times Magazines list of "The Best Actors of 2020", the first time an actor not in a current-year theatrical release made it on the annual list; film critics Wesley Morris and A. O. Scott commented, "<mask>'s radiant performance in Moonstruck warmed us in quarantine."In May 2021, <mask> guest-starred as God in Pink's music video "All I Know So Far". In January 2022, <mask> appeared as the star of MAC Cosmetics' "Challenge Accepted" campaign alongside rapper Saweetie. Artistry
Music and voice
Cher has employed various musical styles, including folk rock, pop rock, power ballads, disco, new wave music, rock music, punk rock, arena rock, and hip hop; she said she has done this to "remain relevant and do work that strikes a chord". Her music has mainly dealt with themes of heartbreak, independence, and self-empowerment for women; by doing so, she became "a brokenhearted symbol of a strong but decidedly single woman", according to Out magazine's Judy Wieder. Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder credited Cher's "nearly flawless" song selection as what made her a notorious rock singer; while several of her early songs were penned by or sung with Sonny Bono, most of her solo successes, which outnumbered Sonny and Cher's successes, were composed by independent songwriters, selected by Cher. Not Commercial (2000), Cher's first album mostly written by herself, presents a "1970s singer-songwriter feel" that proves "Cher adept in the role of storyteller", according to AllMusic's Jose F. Promis. Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times writes, "There were a lot of great records by female singers in the early days of rock ... None, however, reflected the authority and command that we associate with rock 'n' roll today as much as [Cher's] key early hits".Some of Cher's early songs discuss subjects rarely addressed in American popular music such as divorce, prostitution, unplanned and underaged pregnancy, and racism. According to AllMusic's Joe Viglione, the 1972 single "The Way of Love" is "either about a woman expressing her love for another woman, or a woman saying au revoir to a gay male she loved" ("What will you do/When he sets you free/Just the way that you/Said good-bye to me"). Her ability to carry both male and female ranges allowed her to sing solo in androgynous and gender-neutral songs. Cher has a contralto singing voice, described by author Nicholas E. Tawa as "bold, deep, and with a spacious vibrato". Ann Powers of The New York Times called it "a quintessential rock voice: impure, quirky, a fine vehicle for projecting personality." AllMusic's Bruce Eder wrote that the "tremendous intensity and passion" of Cher's vocals coupled with her "ability to meld that projection with her acting skills" can provide "an incredibly powerful experience for the listener." The Guardian Laura Snapes described her voice as "miraculous ... capable of conveying vulnerability, vengeance and pain all at once".Paul Simpson, in his book The Rough Guide to Cult Pop (2003), posits that "Cher [is] the possessor of one of the huskiest, most distinctive voices in pop ... which can work wonders with the right material directed by the right producer". He further addresses the believability of her vocal performances: "she spits out the words ... with such conviction you'd think she was delivering an eternal truth about the human condition". Writing about Cher's musical output during the 1960s, Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times stated that "Rock was subsequently blessed with the staggering blues exclamations of Janis Joplin in the late '60s and the raw poetic force of Patti Smith in the mid-'70s. Yet no one matched the pure, seductive wallop of Cher". By contrast, her vocal performances during the 1970s were described by Eder as "dramatic, highly intense ... [and] almost as much 'acted' as sung". First heard in the 1980 record Black Rose, Cher employed sharper, more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums, establishing her sexually confident image. For the 1995 album It's a Man's World, she restrained her vocals, singing in higher registers and without vibrato.The 1998 song "Believe" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by Cher, and was the first commercial recording to feature Auto-Tune—an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies in vocal music recordings—as a deliberate creative effect. According to Rolling Stone Christopher R. Weingarten, the "producers ... used the pitch correction software not as a way to fix mistakes in Cher's iconic voice, but as an aesthetic tool." After the success of the song, the technique became known as the "Cher effect" and has since been widely used in popular music. Cher continued to use Auto-Tune on the albums Living Proof (2001), Closer to the Truth (2013), and Dancing Queen (2018). In a 2013 interview with the Toronto Sun, Cher reflected on how her voice has evolved throughout her career, becoming stronger and suppler over the years. She said working with vocal coaches had made a significant difference: "It's so freaky because people my age are having to lose notes and I'm gaining notes, so that's pretty shocking." Films, videos, and stage Maclean's magazine's Barbara Wickens wrote, "Cher has emerged as probably the most fascinating movie star of her generation ... [because] she has managed to be at once boldly shocking and ultimately enigmatic."New York Post movie critic David Edelstein attributes Cher's "top-ranking star quality" to her ability of projecting "honesty, rawness and emotionality. She wears her vulnerability on her sleeve." Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate wrote that Cher was "one of the first superstars to 'play gay' with compassion and without a hint of stereotyping", as she portrays a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood. Author Yvonne Tasker, in her book Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema (2002), notes that Cher's film roles often mirrors her public image as a rebellious, sexually autonomous, and self-made woman. In her films, she recurrently serves as a social intermediary to disenfranchised male characters, such as Eric Stoltz's Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia victim in Mask (1985), Liam Neeson's mute homeless veteran in Suspect (1987), and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand in Moonstruck (1987). Film critic Kathleen Rowe wrote of Moonstruck that the depiction of Cher's character as "a 'woman on top' [is] enhanced by the unruly star persona Cher brings to the part'". For Moonstruck, <mask> was ranked 1st on Billboards list of "The 100 Best Acting Performances by Musicians in Movies", and her performance was described as "the standard by which you mentally check all others".Moonstruck was acknowledged by the American Film Institute as the eighth best romantic comedy film of all time. Cher's public image is also reflected in her music videos and live performances, in which she "repeatedly comments on her own construction, on her search for perfection and on the performance of the female body", wrote Tasker. Unlike other acts of that time, who often featured female backers mimicking the singer's performance, Cher uses a male dancer dressed as her in the 1992 concert video Cher at the Mirage; author Diane Negra commented, "In authorizing her own quotation, Cher acknowledges herself as fictionalized production, and proffers to her audience a pleasurable plurality." James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "Cher is well aware that her chameleonic glitz set the stage for the current era of stadium-size razzle-dazzle. She's comfortable enough to see such imitation as flattery, not theft." American singer Pink, who is recognized by her acrobatic stage presence, started studying Aerial silks after watching <mask>'s Living Proof: The Farewell Tour in 2004. Cher was ranked 17th on VH1's list of the "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era".The 1980 video for "Hell on Wheels" involves cinematic techniques and was one of the first music videos ever. Deemed "controversial" for her performance on the battleship , straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong that revealed her tattooed buttocks, the 1989 music video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" was the first ever to be banned by MTV. Public image
FashionTime magazine's Cady Lang described Cher as a "cultural phenomenon [who] has forever changed the way we see celebrity fashion." <mask> emerged as a fashion trendsetter in the 1960s, popularizing "hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandanas, and Cherokee-inspired tunics". She began working as a model in 1967 for photographer Richard Avedon after then-Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland discovered her at a party for Jacqueline Kennedy that year. Avedon took the controversial photo of Cher in a beaded and feathered nude gown designed by Bob Mackie for the cover of Time magazine in 1975; Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek described it as "one of the most recreated and monumental looks of all time." Cher first wore the gown to the 1974 Met Gala.According to Vogue magazine's André Leon Talley, "it was really the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended, and it changed everything. We are still seeing versions of that look on The Met red carpet 40 years later." Billboard wrote that Cher has "transformed fashion and [become] one of the most influential style icons in red carpet history". Through her 1970s television shows, Cher became a sex symbol with her inventive and revealing Mackie-designed outfits, and fought the network censors to bare her navel. Although Cher has been erroneously attributed to being the first woman to expose her navel on television (e.g. Nichelle Nichols, BarBara Luna and Diana Ewing in the 1960s TV series Star Trek), she was the most prominent to do so since the establishment of the American Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters in 1951, which prompted network censors to ban navel exposure on US television. People dubbed Cher the "pioneer of the belly beautiful".In 1972, after she was featured on the annual "Best Dressed Women" lists, Mackie stated: "There hasn't been a girl like Cher since Dietrich and Garbo. She's a high-fashion star who appeals to people of all ages." In May 1999, after the Council of Fashion Designers of America recognized Cher with an award for her influence on fashion, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a "fashion visionary" for "striking just the right note of contemporary wretched excess". Givhan referenced Tom Ford, Anna Sui and Dolce & Gabbana as "[i]nfluential designers [who] have evoked her name as a source of inspiration and guidance." She concluded that "Cher's Native American showgirl sexpot persona now seems to epitomize the fashion industry's rush to celebrate ethnicity, adornment and sex appeal." Vogue proclaimed Cher "[their] favorite fashion trendsetter" and wrote that "[she] set the grounds for pop stars and celebrities today", describing her as "[e]ternally relevant [and] the ruler of outré reinvention". Alexander Fury of The Independent lauded Cher as "the ultimate fashion icon" and traced her influence among female celebrities such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, and Kim Kardashian, stating that "[t]hey all graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage, with anyone, or anything ...They're trying to share the spotlight, to have Cher's success." Physical appearance
Cher has attracted media attention for her physical appearance—particularly her youthful looks and her tattoos. Journalists have often called her the "poster girl" of plastic surgery. Author Grant McCracken, in his book Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture (2008), draws a parallel between Cher's plastic surgeries and the transformations in her career: "Her plastic surgery is not merely cosmetic. It is hyperbolic, extreme, over the top ... Cher has engaged in a transformational technology that is dramatic and irreversible." Caroline Ramazanoglu, author of Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism (1993), wrote that "Cher's operations have gradually replaced a strong, decidedly 'ethnic' look with a more symmetrical, delicate, 'conventional' ... and ever-youthful version of female beauty ... Her normalised image ... now acts as a standard against which other women will measure, judge, discipline and 'correct' themselves."Cher has six tattoos. The Baltimore Sun called her the "Ms. Original Rose Tattoo". She got her first tattoo in 1972. According to Sonny Bono, "Calling her butterfly tattoos nothing was like ignoring a sandstorm in the Mojave. That was exactly the effect Cher wanted to create. She liked to do things for the shock they created.She still does. She'll create some controversy and then tell her critics to stick it." In the late 1990s, she began having laser treatments to remove her tattoos. The process was still underway in the 2000s. She commented, "When I got tattooed, only bad girls did it: me and Janis Joplin and biker chicks. Now it doesn't mean anything. No one's surprised."In 1992, Madame Tussauds wax museum honored <mask> as one of the five "most beautiful women of history" by creating a life-size statue. She was ranked 26th on VH1's list of the "100 Sexiest Artists" published in 2002. <mask> was the inspiration for Mother Gothel, a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film Tangled (2010). Director Byron Howard explained that Gothel's exotic appearance, whose beauty, dark curly hair and voluptuous figure were deliberately designed to serve as a foil to Rapunzel's, was based on <mask>'s "exotic and Gothic looking" appearance, continuing that the singer "definitely was one of the people we looked at visually, as far as what gives you a striking character." Social media
Cher's social media presence has drawn analysis from journalists. Time named her "Twitter's most outspoken (and beloved) commentator". The New York Times writer Jenna Wortham commended Cher on her social media usage, stating, "Most celebrities' social-media feeds feel painfully self-aware and thirsty ...In her own way, Cher is an outlier, perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user to stand at her digital pulpit and yell (somewhat) incomprehensibly, and be rewarded for it. Online, authenticity and originality are often carefully curated myths. Cher thrives on a version of nakedness and honesty that is rarely celebrated in the public eye." Monica Heisey of The Guardian described Cher's Twitter account as "a jewel in the bizarro crown of the internet", and remarked, "While many celebrities use Twitter for carefully crafted self-promotion, Cher just lets it all hang out." As a gay icon
The reverence held for Cher by members of the LGBT community has been attributed to her career accomplishments, her sense of style, and her longevity. Cher is considered a gay icon, and has often been imitated by drag queens. According to Salon magazine's Thomas Rogers, "[d]rag queens imitate women like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and <mask> because they overcame insult and hardship on their path to success, and because their narratives mirror the pain that many gay men suffer on their way out of the closet".According to Maclean's magazine's Elio Iannacci, Cher was "one of the first to bring drag to the masses" as she hired two drag queens to perform with her at her Las Vegas residency in 1979. Cher's role as a lesbian in the film Silkwood, as well as her transition to dance music and social activism, have further contributed to her becoming a gay icon. The NBC sitcom Will & Grace acknowledged Cher's status by making her the idol of gay character Jack McFarland. Cher guest-starred as herself twice on the show, in 2000—making the episode "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed" (named after her 1971 song "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves") Will & Graces second-highest rating ever— and 2002. Other interests
Philanthropy
Cher's primary philanthropic endeavors have included support of health research and patients' quality of life, anti-poverty initiatives, veterans rights, and vulnerable children. The Cher Charitable Foundation supports international projects such as the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Operation Helmet, and the Children's Craniofacial Association. Children
Beginning in 1990, Cher served as a donor and as the National Chairperson and Honorary Spokesperson for the Children's Craniofacial Association, whose mission is to "empower and give hope to facially disfigured children and their families".The annual Cher's Family Retreat is held each June to provide craniofacial patients, their siblings and parents an opportunity to interact with others who have endured similar experiences. She supports and promotes Get A-Head Charitable Trust, which aims to improve the quality of life for people with head and neck diseases. Cher is a donor, fundraiser, and international spokesperson for Keep a Child Alive, an organization that seeks to accelerate action to combat the AIDS pandemic, including the provision of antiretroviral medicine to children and their families with HIV/AIDS. In 1996, she hosted the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Benefit alongside Elizabeth Taylor at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, she received the amfAR Award of Inspiration for "her willingness and ability to use her fame for the greater good" and for being "one of the great champions in the fight against AIDS". In 2007, Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School (PVS) in Ukunda, Kenya, which "provides nutritious food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children, ages 2 to 13 years." Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities, and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community.Soldiers and veterans
Cher has been a vocal supporter of American soldiers and returning veterans. She has contributed resources to Operation Helmet, an organization that provides free helmet upgrade kits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has contributed to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which serves military personnel who have been disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those severely injured in other operations. In 1993, she participated in a humanitarian effort in Armenia, taking food and medical supplies to the war-torn region. Poverty
Cher has engaged in the construction of houses with Habitat for Humanity and served as the Honorary National Chair of a Habitat's elimination of poverty housing initiative "Raise the Roof", an effort to engage artists in the organization's work while on tour. Environment
In 2016, after the discovery of lead contamination in the drinking water of Flint, Michigan, Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city as part of a partnership with Icelandic Glacial. Elder rights
In 2017, Cher weighed in on the need to protect elder rights as she executive produced Edith+Eddie, a documentary about a nonagenarian interracial couple.It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). COVID-19
Following the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, Cher launched the CherCares Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (CCPRRI) alongside Dr. Irwin Redlener, the head of Columbia University's Pandemic Resource and Response Center. The charity's initial plan is to distribute $1 million to "chronically neglected and forgotten people" during the pandemic through the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF). <mask> told Billboard, "There are rural areas where people of color and Latinos and Native Americans were getting no services. It's not a lot of money — $1 million goes in the blink of an eyelash! — so now I'm trying to get my friends to make it a lot more so we can do something that will really meet people's needs. A friend once told me, 'When people walk in your path, then you know what you have to do.'"Animal rights
In November 2020, <mask> joined Four Paws International and traveled to Pakistan to advocate for and work with the country's government to have Kaavan, an elephant who had been confined to a zoo for 35 years, transferred to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia. In April 2021, Paramount+ released the documentary film Cher and the Loneliest Elephant, detailing Cher's quest, alongside animal aid groups and veterinarians, to free Kaavan from confinement. LGBT rights
<mask>'s older child, Chaz Bono, first came out as a lesbian at age 17, which reportedly caused <mask> to feel "guilt, fear and pain". However, she soon came to accept Chaz's sexual orientation, and came to the conclusion that LGBT people "didn't have the same rights as everyone else, [and she] thought that was unfair". She was the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention, and has since become one of the LGBT community's most vocal advocates. In May 1998, she received the GLAAD Vanguard Award for having "made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbians and gay men". On June 11, 2009, Chaz came out as a transgender man, and his transition from female to male was legally finalized on May 6, 2010.Politics
Cher has said that she is not a registered Democrat, but has attended many Democratic conventions and events. Over the years, Cher's political views have attracted media attention, and she has been an outspoken critic of the conservative movement. In an interview with Vanity Fair, she was critical of a variety of political topics, including Republican politicians like Sarah Palin and Jan Brewer. She has commented that she did not understand why anyone would be a Republican because eight years under the administration of George W. Bush "almost killed [her]". During the 2000 United States presidential election, ABC News wrote that she was determined to do "whatever possible to keep him [Bush] out of office". She told the site, "If you're black in this country if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican? ... You won't have one fucking right left."She added, "I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy." On October 27, 2003, Cher anonymously called a C-SPAN phone-in program to recount a visit she made to maimed soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and criticized the lack of media coverage and government attention given to injured servicemen. She remarked that she watches C-SPAN every day.Although she identified herself as an unnamed entertainer, she was recognized by the C-SPAN host, who subsequently questioned her about her 1992 support for independent presidential candidate Ross Perot. She said, "When I heard him talk right in the beginning, I thought that he would bring some sort of common-sense business approach and also less partisanship, but then ... I was completely disappointed like everyone else when he just kind of cut and run and no one knew exactly why ... Maybe he couldn't have withstood all the investigation that goes on now". On Memorial Day weekend in 2006, Cher called into C-SPAN's Washington Journal endorsing Operation Helmet, a group that provides helmets to help soldiers avoid head injuries while in the war zone. On June 14, 2006, she made a guest appearance on C-SPAN with Dr. Bob Meaders, the founder of Operation Helmet. That year, in an interview with Stars and Stripes, she explained her "against the war in Iraq but for the troops" position: "I don't have to be for this war to support the troops because these men and women do what they think is right. They do what they're told to do.They do it with a really good heart. They do the best they can. They don't ask for anything." <mask> supported Hillary Clinton in her 2008 presidential campaign. After Obama won the Democratic nomination, she supported his candidacy on radio and TV programs. However, in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair, she commented that she "still thinks Hillary would have done a better job", although she "accepts the fact that Barack Obama inherited insurmountable problems". During the 2012 United States presidential election, <mask> and comedian Kathy Griffin released a public service announcement titled "Don't Let Mitt Turn Back Time on Women's Rights".In the PSA, the pair criticized Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his support of Richard Mourdock, the US Senate candidate who suggested that pregnancies resulting from rape were "part of God's plan". In September 2013, Cher declined an invitation to perform at the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia due to the country's controversial anti-gay legislation that overshadowed preparations for the event. In June 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, she made a series of critical comments on Twitter, stating that "Donald Trump's punishment is being Donald Trump". In October 2018, after the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a "pig" and "a politician from hell", before declaring that Bolsonaro should be "locked in prison for the rest of his life". In September 2020, Cher raised nearly $2 million for Joe Biden's presidential campaign at a virtual, LGBTQ-themed fundraiser. In October, she traveled to Nevada and Arizona to campaign on behalf of Biden, and released a cover version of "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe", a song conceived for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky, with lyrics updated to be about Biden. The same month, Cher posted messages on Twitter in support of Armenia and Artsakh regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh war.She stated, "We stand with the people of Armenia [and] urge our leaders in Washington to conduct the sustained and rigorous diplomacy necessary to bring peace to the Artsakh region." Legacy and impact Rolling Stone Rob Sheffield stated how "there are no other careers remotely like hers, [particularly] in the history of pop music" and referred to Cher as "the one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music." According to Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder, Cher "has been and remains today one of the Rock Era's most dominant figures". He described her as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to "advance feminine rebellion in the rock world [and] the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance, from her early hippie days to her later outlandish outfits, and her attitude—the perfect female punk long before punk even was a rock term." Billboard Joe Lynch described Cher as "a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s", and who by doing so "teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith".Billboard Keith Caulfield wrote that "there's divas, and then there's Cher." The New York Times Matthew Schneier stated, "[Cher] has earned her mononym. Her star power is such that she has spored an entire industry of imitators, both figurative and literal."Dazed magazine's Shon Faye elaborates: "If Madonna and Lady Gaga and Kylie and Cyndi Lauper were playing football, Cher would be the stadium they played on, and the sun that shone down on them." According to Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News, "Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work"; however, he felt that subsequent female pop singers were heavily inspired by Cher's abilities to combine "showmanship with deep musicality ... to make valid statements in a wide variety of trend-driven idioms ... to ease effortlessly between pop subgenres [and] to shock without alienating her fans", as well as by her charismatic stage presence and the strong LGBT support among her fan base. Cher is commonly referred to by the media as the "Goddess of Pop". Her work in music, film, television, and fashion has influenced artists including Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Betsy, Beyoncé, Bonnie McKee, Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Christina Aguilera, Cleo, Cyndi Lauper, Drew Barrymore, Dua Lipa, Gemma Chan, Gwen Stefani, Helena Vondráčková, Jennifer Lopez, Kacey Musgraves, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,
Lil' Kim, Lizzo, Miley Cyrus, Paulina Rubio, Pink, Madonna, Marc Jacobs, Ralph, Rihanna, Rita Ora, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, RuPaul, Sarah Paulson, Saweetie, Shirley Manson of Garbage, Taylor Swift, Tina Turner, Tracy Chapman, Troye Sivan, and Zendaya. Cher has repeatedly reinvented herself through various personas, for which Professor Richard Aquila from Ball State University called her "the ultimate pop chameleon". According to Entertainment WeeklyMarc Snetiker, "Cher has floated through generation after generation, scooping up new fans, thrilling old ones, reinventing her own myth and glittering splendidly through it all." Billboard magazine's Brooke Mazurek credited Cher as having "revolutionized the idea of what a pop star could visually accomplish, the way they could create multiple personas that live on and off-stage."James Reed from The Boston Globe elaborates: "Along with David Bowie, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in flux and challenging our perceptions of her[.]" The New York Times declared Cher as the "Queen of the Comeback". According to author Lucy O'Brien, "Cher adheres to the American Dream of reinvention of self: 'Getting old does not have to mean getting obsolete.'" Author Craig Crawford, in his book The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World (2007), describes Cher as "a model of flexible career management", and relates her career successes to a constant reshaping of her image according to the evolving trends of popular culture. He further explains that she billed "each dramatic turnaround of style as another example of rebellion—an image that allowed her to make calculated changes while appearing to be consistent." Author Grant McCracken stated, "The term 'reinvention' is now often used to talk about the careers of American celebrities. But in Cher's case, it is particularly apt [because she] is inclined to lock on to each new fashion wave [and] is swept violently down the diffusion stream and out of fashion.Only substantial re-creation permits her to return to stardom." Her "integrity" and "perseverance" are highlighted in the Reaching Your Goals book series of illustrated inspirational stories for children, in which her life is detailed emphasizing the importance of self-actualization: "For years, Cher worked hard to become a successful singer. Then she worked hard to become an actress. Even when she needed money, she turned down movie roles that weren't right for her. Her goal has always been to be a good actress, not just a rich and famous one." Cher's "ability to forge an immensely successful and lengthy career as a woman in a male-dominated entertainment world" has drawn attention from feminist critics. According to author Diane Negra, Cher was presented in the beginning of her career as a product of male creativity; Cher remembers, "It was a time when girl singers were patted on the head for being good and told not to think".However, her image eventually changed due to her "refusal of dependence on a man and the determination not only to forge a career (as an actor) on her own terms but to refuse the conventional role assigned to women over forty years old in an industry that fetishises youth", wrote author Yvonne Tasker. She was featured in the 16th-anniversary edition of Ms. magazine as an "authentic feminist hero" and a 1980s role model for women: "Cher, the straightforward, tattooed, dyslexic single mother, the first Oscar winner to have entered into matrimony with a known heroin addict and to have admitted to being a fashion victim by choice, has finally landed in an era that's not afraid to applaud real women." Stephanie Brush from The New York Times wrote, following the telecast of Cher's Oscar win in 1988, that she "performs the function for women moviegoers that Jack Nicholson has always fulfilled for men. Free of the burden of ever having been America's sweetheart, she is the one who represents us [women] in our revenge fantasies, telling all the fatheads ... exactly where they can go. You need to be more than beautiful to get away with this. You need to have been Cher for 40 years." Cher's 1996 interview for Dateline NBCs Jane Pauley became a viral video in 2016; in it, Cher tells the story of her mother asking her to "settle down and marry a rich man," to which Cher replies, "Mom, I am a rich man."<mask>'s "Mom, I am a rich man" quote was included in Taylor Swift's 2019 music video "You Need to Calm Down". Bustle magazine's Erica Kam commented, "[Cher's quote] puts a spin on typical gender norms ... It would make sense, then, that Swift would want to follow Cher's example." Alec Mapa of The Advocate elaborates: "While the rest of us were sleeping, Cher's been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies ... Cher embodies an unapologetic freedom and fearlessness that some of us can only aspire to." Rolling Stone Jancee Dunn wrote, "Cher is the coolest woman who ever stood in shoes. Why? Because her motto is, 'I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig.'There are folks all over America who would, in their heart of hearts, love to date people half their age, get multiple tattoos and wear feathered headdresses. Cher does it for us." Alexander Fury of The Independent wrote that Cher "represents a seemingly immortal, omnipotent, uni-monikered level of fame." Bego stated: "No one in the history of show business has had a career of the magnitude and scope of Cher's. She has been a teenage pop star, a television hostess, a fashion magazine model, a rock star, a pop singer, a Broadway actress, an Academy Award-winning movie star, a disco sensation, and the subject of a mountain of press coverage." Lynch wrote that "the world would certainly be different if she hadn't stayed so irrevocably Cher from the start." Achievements
As a solo artist, <mask>), making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.She is one of the few artists to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony), and one of five actor-singers to have had a US number-one single and won an acting Academy Award. Her breakthrough single, Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", is a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee and was featured on Rolling Stone "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list compiled in 2003. Her 1971 single "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" was called "one of the 20th century's greatest songs" by Billboard magazine. Her 1998 song "Believe" is the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. It was voted the world's eighth favorite song in a poll conducted by BBC in 2003—the only American song to be named on the list. "Believe" was placed on the 2021 revised list of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 1988, <mask> became the first performer to receive an Academy Award for acting and a RIAA-certified gold album in the same year since the inception of gold awards in 1958.<mask> is the only artist to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in six consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s. She has held US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles over the longest period of time in history: 33 years, seven months and three weeks between "I Got You Babe", which topped the chart for the first time on August 14, 1965, and "Believe", whose last week at number one was April 3, 1999. With "Believe", she became the oldest female artist to have a US number-one song in the rock era, at the age of 52. Billboard ranked her at number 43 on their "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time" list. In 2014, the magazine listed her as the 23rd highest-grossing touring act since 1990, with total earned revenue of $351.6 million and 4.5 million attendance at her shows. Cher has received numerous honorary awards, including the 1985 Woman of the Year Award by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at Harvard University, the Vanguard Award at the 1998 GLAAD Media Awards, the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards, a special award for influence on fashion at the 1999 CFDA Fashion Awards, the Lucy Award for Innovation in Television at the 2000 Women in Film Awards, the Artist Achievement Award at the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Glamour Awards, the Legend Award at the 2013 Attitude Awards, the Award of Inspiration at the 2015 amfAR Gala, the Icon Award at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards, the 2018 Kennedy Center Honor, the Ambassador for the Arts Award at the 2019 Chita Rivera Awards for Dance and Choreography, and the 2020 Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award. In 2010, Cher received the honor of placing her handprints and footprints in cement in the courtyard in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.Her name is on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of the duo Sonny & Cher. She had also been selected for the honour as a solo artist in 1983, but forfeited her opportunity by declining to schedule the mandatory personal appearance. In 2003, <mask> appeared at number 41 on VH1's list of "The 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons", which recognizes "the folks that have significantly inspired and impacted American society". She was ranked 31st on VH1's list of "The 100 Greatest Women in Music" for the period 1992–2012. Esquire magazine placed her at number 44 on their list of "The 75 Greatest Women of All Time". She was featured on the "100 Greatest Movie Stars of our Time" list compiled by People. In a 2001 poll, Biography magazine ranked her as their third favorite leading actress of all time, behind Audrey Hepburn and Katharine Hepburn. | [
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She became a television personality in the 1970s with her CBS shows; first The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and then the eponymous <mask>.She wore elaborate outfits on her television shows. <mask> became the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history when she released "Dark Lady", "Half-Breed", and "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" while working on television. She earned $300,000 a week for her Las Vegas residency after releasing her disco album Take Me Home in 1979. <mask> made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Moonstruck. "I Found Someone", "If I Could Turn Back Time", and "Love and Understanding" are some of the successful singles from her albums Cher, Heart of Stone, and Love Hurts. The UK number-one single "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" was spawned by Cher's contribution to the soundtrack for her next film.In the anthology If These Walls Could Talk, she made her directorial debut. Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the dance-pop album Believe, which became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. The "Cher effect" is the use of auto- tune to distort her vocals. One of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time was her 2002–2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour. She signed a $60 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. She had roles in Burlesque and Mamma Mia! during the 2010s. Closer to the Truth and Dancing Queen were both number three on the Billboard 200.<mask> has sold 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling music artists. She has won a number of awards, including an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Billboard Icon Award, and a Council of Fashion Designers of America award. She is the only artist to have a number-one single for six decades in a row. She is noted for her political views, social media presence, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism. <mask> was born on May 20, 1946, in El Centro, California. Georgia Holt, her mother, is a former model and retired actress who claims Irish, English, German, and Cherokee ancestry. Cher's parents divorced when she was ten months old, and her father was rarely home when she was an infant.<mask>'s half-brother, John Southall, was married to her mother. Cher's mother began acting when she was a waitress. She played minor roles in films and television under the name Georgia Holt. 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Holt moved her family around the country, including New York, Texas, and California. Cher said that she had to use rubber bands to hold her shoes together.Cher's mother left her at an orphanage. 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She had a low voice by age nine.<mask> was drawn to Hepburn because of her role in Breakfast at Tiffany's. <mask> was interested in the behavior of Hepburn's character. She was inspired by many people. She was disappointed that there were no dark-haired Hollywood actresses who she could look up to. She wanted to be famous since childhood, but felt unattractive and untalented, and later commented, "I couldn't think of anything that I could do." I did not think I would be a singer or dancer. I thought I would be famous.That was my goal. Holt married Gilbert LaPiere, a bank manager, in 1961, and the couple had two children, <mask> and Georganne, who attended a private school in Encino. Cher stood out from the others in both her striking appearance and outgoing personality, according to her biographer. I will never forget seeing Cher for the first time. She was special and we knew she was going to be a movie star. Cher was intelligent and creative despite not being an excellent student. She excelled in French and English classes.She discovered that she had a learning disability. Cher surprised her peers when she wore a midriff-baring top, and she performed songs for students during the lunch hours. She said she was never in school. I used to think about when I was famous. Cher dropped out of school at 16 and moved to Los Angeles with a friend. She danced in small clubs along Hollywood's Sunset Strip and introduced herself to performers, managers and agents after taking acting classes. According to Berman, "Cher did not hesitate to approach anyone she thought could help her get a break, make a new contact, or get an auditioning job."<mask> met Sonny Bono when he was working for Phil Spector. Cher accepted Sonny's offer to be his maid after Cher's friend moved out. <mask> was a backup singer on many recordings, including the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Cher recorded "Ringo, I Love You" when she was known as Bonnie Jo Mason. The song was rejected by many radio stations as they thought Cher's deep contralto vocals were a man's vocals; therefore, they believed it was a male singing a homosexual love song dedicated to the Beatles drummer. <mask> and Sonny had an unofficial wedding ceremony in a hotel room in Mexico on October 27, 1964. Although Sonny wanted to launch Cher as a solo artist, she encouraged him to perform with her because she suffered from stage fright.Cher looked at Sonny and said that she sang to the people through him. The poorly received singles "Do You Want to Dance?" were released in late 1964. "Love Is Strange" and "Let the Good Times Roll" Sonny became Cher's producer after she signed with Liberty Records. The song "Dream Baby" was played in Los Angeles. Imperial encouraged Cher to work with Sonny on her second solo single, a cover version of Bob Dylan's "All I Really Want to Do". It peaked at number 15 on the US Hot 100.The Byrds had released a version of the same song. The B-side of the Byrds' single was promoted by the group's record label when they were competing against Cher. We didn't want to be hassled by the <mask> version. We turned our record over. All I Really Want to Do, Cher's debut album, was described as one of the stronger folk-pop records of the era by AllMusic's Tim Sendra. In 1965, Caesar and Cleo began calling themselves Sonny and <mask>. Cher said that the Rolling Stones told them that Americans just didn't get them and that if they were going to make it big, they would have to go to England.The English newspaper photographers showed up when S&C were thrown out of the London Hilton because of their outfits, and they were stars. The S&C look was not mod nor rocker. One of the biggest-selling and most beloved pop/rock hits of the mid-'60s was "I Got You Babe". As the song knocked the Beatles off the top of the British charts, English teenagers began to emulate Sonny and <mask>'s fashion style, such as bell-bottoms, striped pants, ruffled shirts, industrial zippers and fur vests. The duo made appearances on the teen-pop shows Hullabaloo and Shindig after returning to the US. The tour included some of the largest arenas in the US. Girls who were ironing their hair straight and dyeing it black were attractive to Cher look-alikes.Cher designed a clothing line. Sonny and <mask>'s first album, Look at Us, which was released for the Atco Records division of Atlantic Records, spent eight weeks at number two on the Billboard 200, behind the Beatles' Help! Their material became popular and they were able to compete with the British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era. Sonny and <mask> were described as part of the leading exponents of the rock-folk-message type of song, a hybrid combining the best and instrumentation of rock music with folk lyric and often lyrics of protest. "I Got You Babe", "Baby Don't Go", "The Beat Goes On", "All I Ever Need Is You", and "A Cowboy's Work" were some of the top 40 singles by Sonny and <mask>. At one point, they had five songs in the top 50 at the same time, a feat equaled only by the Beatles and Elvis. According to Time magazine, rock's "it" couple, they sold 40 million records together.Cher's work with Sonny kept her solo career competitive. "My Baby Shot Me Down" became her first million-seller solo single when it reached number two in the US and number three in the UK. The first US version of the popular song "Alfie" was added to the credits of the American version of the 1966 film of the same name. The US top-ten single "You Better Sit Down Kids" is one of the songs in With Love, Chér. <mask> and Sonny's music stopped to chart at the end of the 1960s due to backlash from the younger generation. The folk-rock music of Sonny and <mask> seemed too bland because of the heavy, loud sound of groups like Jefferson Airplane and Cream. "I loved the new sound of Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, the electric guitar oriented bands," Cher said.With the times, I would have changed because of the music. Sonny didn't like it. The anti-drug position they adopted at the height of the drug culture lost them popularity among American youths during the period of the sexual revolution. Sonny and Cher were "quite square" when it came to sex and drugs, according to Bego. The duo produced and starred in the film Good Times, which was a flop. Cher's next album, Backstage, in which she explores diverse musical genres including Brazilian jazz and anti-war protest settings, was not a commercial success. The label wanted to sign Cher for a solo album after she was dropped from Imperial Records.There are experiments in rhythm and blues and soul music in 3614 Jackson Highway. It was the best album of her career, and still is, decades later. Sonny didn't like the 3614 Jackson Highway album and prevented Cher from releasing more recordings. By the end of the 1960s, Sonny and others had ended their relationship. Sonny tried to win her back by telling her he wanted to marry and have a family. They were married on March 4, 1969 after she gave birth. They spent $500,000 and mortgaged their home to make the film.It was written and produced by Sonny, who did not appear in the movie, and tells the story of a young woman, played by <mask>, searching for the meaning of life. The couple was put in debt by the failed art film. Cher has a wonderful quality that makes you forget the lines you are hearing, according to some critics. At the lowest point of their career, the duo put together a nightclub routine that relied on a more adult approach to sound and style. The lounge act was so depressing that people started heckling them. Cher started shouting back. She'd heckle Sonny after Sonny reprimanded her.The heckling was a highlight of the act. The couple began making guest appearances on prime-time shows in which they presented a "new, sophisticated, and mature" image. Cher wore low-cut gowns that became her signature outfits. The first musical comeback of Sonny and <mask>'s television career was offered by CBS head of programming Fred Silverman after he noticed them as guests on The Merv Griffin Show in 1971. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour had six episodes. The couple returned that December with a full-time show because of the ratings success. During its three-year run, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was watched by more than 30 million people each week.Berman said that they "exuded an aura of warmth, playfulness, and caring that only enhanced their appeal." When a young [Chaz] appeared on the show, viewers were even more enchanted. They seemed like a perfect family. <mask>, and Cleopatra and Miss Sadie Thompson. Cher's style influenced the fashion trends of the 1970s, and her Bob Mackie-designed clothing was part of the show's attraction. Cher's single "Classified 1A" was released in 1971 as a result of Sonny and Cher signing with the Kapp Records division of MCA Records. The song was rejected by radio station programmers because it was not commercial.Since Sonny's first attempts at reviving their recording career as a duo had also been unsuccessful, Kapp Records recruited Snuff to work with them. He produced <mask>'s second US number-one single, "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", which proved that he knew more about Cher's voice than Sonny did. "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" was the first single by a solo artist to be number one on both the US and Canadian charts at the same time. It was called one of the 20th century's greatest songs. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Cher's more confident image as a recording artist was established when her second single, "The Way of Love", reached number seven on the Hot 100 chart. According to Bego, Cher released the all-ballad set Foxy Lady in 1972 to demonstrate the evolution of her vocal abilities.After disagreeing with Sonny about the kind of material Cher should record,Garrett quit as producer. <mask> released an album of standards called Bittersweet White Light at Sonny's insistence. Mary Dean wrote a song for Cher that was about the daughter of a Cherokee mother and a white father. He held the song for months until he got Cher back, because he was convinced that it was a smash for Cher and for nobody else. Cher's third US number-one single was "Half-Breed", which was featured on the album of the same name. The single was certified gold by the RIAA. "Dark Lady" was the lead single from Cher's eponymous album.It became Cher's fourth number-one single and made her the female artist with the most number-one singles in United States history at the time. She released a Greatest Hits album that proved to be one of the most consistent hitmakers of the past five years, as well as a proven superstar who always sells records. The recording career of Sonny and <mask> was revived with four albums released between 1971 and 1973, All I Ever Need Is You, Mama Was a Rock and Roll Singer, Papa Used to Write All Her Songs, and Live. 2 years ago. Cher said that she could do a whole album in three days. <mask> and Sonny had had problems in the past, but appearances were maintained until 1974. "The public still thinks we are married," Sonny wrote in his diary, "and that's the way it has to be."In February 1974, Sonny filed for a separation. <mask> filed a divorce suit against Sonny, claiming that he deprived her of her rightful share of their earnings. <mask> was granted the custody of her child after the couple battled in court over finances. Their divorce was finalized in 1975. <mask> won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. The creative team behind the Sonny and Cher show had a solo show on ABC called The Sonny Comedy Revue. It was canceled after 13 weeks.During the divorce proceedings, Cher had a romantic relationship with David Geffen, who freed her from her business arrangement with Sonny, under which she was required to work for Cher Enterprises, the company he ran. Cher began work on her first album under the Warner Bros. Records label in 1975, after Geffen secured a $2.5 million deal for her. According to Bego, the intention was to make millions of fans around the world take her seriously as a rock star and not just a pop singer. Stars was commercially and critically unsuccessful despite Cher's efforts to develop her musical range by listening to artists such as Stevie Wonder. "Cher is not a rock and roller," wrote Janet Maslin of The Village Voice. <mask> Bono has a main ingredient for both records and TV. The album has become a cult classic and is considered among her best work.<mask> returned to television on February 16, 1975, with a solo show. It began as a highly rated special with guests, and was called Cher. The show was produced by Geffen and centered on <mask>'s songs, monologues, comedy performance, and her variation of clothing, which was the largest for a weekly TV show. The Los Angeles Times exclaimed that Sonny without Cher was a disaster. Cher without Sonny could be the best thing that's happened to weekly television this season. Cher said that doing a show alone was more than she could handle, and that she lasted for less than a year. On June 30, 1975, four days after her divorce from Sonny, Cher married rock musician Gregg Allman.They reconciled within a month after she filed for divorce because of his heroin and liquor problems. On July 10, 1976, they had a son. The first show ever to star a divorced couple was The Sonny and Cher Show. Although the show was a ratings success on its premiere, <mask> and Sonny's insulting onscreen banter about their divorce, her extravagant lifestyle, and her troubled relationship with Allman caused a public backlash that eventually contributed to the show's cancellation in August 1977. The popularity of The Sonny and Cher Show led to the release of a line of toys and dolls in their likeness. The highest selling doll of 1976 was the miniature version of Cher. Cher's next albums, I'd Rather Believe in You (1976) and Cherished (1977), the latter a return to her pop style at Warner's insistence, were commercially unsuccessful.People were able to see and hear these performers without having to buy their records because of regular exposure on TV. She recorded with Allman on the duet album Two the Hard Way. Their divorce was finalized in 1979 after their relationship ended. She had a live-in relationship with Gene Simmons. She legally changed her name to Cher to eliminate the use of four other surnames. She returned to prime time television in 1978 with the ABC specials Cher... Special and Cher... And Other Fantasies. A single mother with two children, Cher realized that she had to make a choice about the direction of her singing career.She decided to temporarily abandon her desire to be a rock singer and signed with Casablanca Records, where she launched a comeback with the single "Take Me Home" and the album of the same name, both of which capitalized on the disco craze. Both the album and the single were certified gold by the RIAA. The image of Cher in a Viking outfit on the album cover may have boosted sales. Despite her initial lack of enthusiasm for disco music, she changed her mind after the success, commenting, "I never thought I would want to do disco but it's terrific!" It's good to dance to. Everybody wants danceable music. Cher wanted to return to rock music in her next album after the success of Take Me Home.Cher's depiction of a sex slave on the album's cover caused controversy among feminist groups. Rock songs made the disco release seem unfocused and led to its commercial failure. The single "Hell on Wheels" was produced by Prisoner. The late 1970s roller-skating fad contributed to the popularity of the song. Cher wrote her last Casablanca disco recording, "Bad Love", in 1980, with Giorgio Moroder. Black Rose was formed by her and Les Dudek. Cher did not receive top billing because she wanted to create the impression that all band members were equal.She cut her long hair because she was easily recognized when she performed with the band. The band failed to get concert dates despite appearances on television. <mask> told Rolling Stone that the critics didn't attack the record when they panned them. They attacked me. It was like how dare <mask> sing? Black Rose ceased to exist in 1981. <mask> was doing a residency show at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas during Black Rose's active period.<mask>'s first world concert tour as a solo artist (also referred to as the Take Me Home Tour), with additional dates in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia, began in 1979 after a three-year performance residency called <mask> in Concert. <mask> won the CableACE Award for Best Actress in a Variety Program for Standing Room Only: <mask> in Concert. "Dead Ringer for Love", a duet between <mask> and Meat Loaf, was one of the more inspired rock duets of the 1980s. <mask>'s strongest and most consistent solo album in years, I Paralyze, was released by Columbia Records in 1982. Cher decided to further develop her acting career after decreasing album sales and a lack of commercially successful singles. The Hollywood establishment did not take her seriously as an actress because she had only two critically and commercially unsuccessful movies to her credit. Cher said, "I was making a fortune on the road, but I was dying inside."Everyone kept saying, "Cher, there are people who would give anything to have standing room only at Caesars Palace." It would be the end of their careers. I kept thinking that I should be satisfied. I wasn't satisfied. She moved to New York in 1982 to take acting lessons, but never did so after her plans changed. She was signed to play a member of a James Dean fan club in the Broadway stage production Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, playing a member of a James Dean fan club holding a 20-year reunion. She was cast in the film adaptation of the same title again that year.<mask> was offered the part of Dolly in the film Silkwood by the director who had seen her perform in Jimmy Dean. Audiences questioned Cher's ability as an actress. The audience at the film preview laughed when they saw her name in the credits. <mask> was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Isis was formed in 1985 by Cher. Cher's first critical and commercial success as a leading actress was her next film, Mask, which reached number two at the box office. She won the Best Actress award at the film festival for her role as a drug addicted biker with a teenage son who has a physical abnormality.She was not included on the Oscar nomination list because she clashed with the director. Vanity Fair's Esther Zuckerman dubbed her <mask>'s "Oscar revenge dress" after she attended the 58th Academy Awards. "As you can see, I received my Academy booklet on how to dress like a serious actress, and I presented the nominees for best supporting actor," Cher said. She got a lot of publicity for the incident. Cher's May 1986 guest appearance on Late Night with David Letterman, in which she called him an asshole, attracted a lot of media attention. Cher was one of the few people I wanted to have on the show. I feel like a total fool since I say all kinds of things to people.She came back to the show in 1987 and sang an impromptu version of "I Got You Babe" with Sonny before he died. They weren't the best of friends at this point, but both of them knew it would make for unforgettable television. This would have gone crazy the next morning if YouTube existed back then. The performance was listed by Rolling Stone as one of David Letterman's top 10 musical moments. Cher starred in three films in 1987. She played a public defender who was romantically involved with one of the jurors in the murder case she was handling. She was one of three divorcees involved with a mysterious and wealthy visitor from hell who comes to a small New England town in the comedy horror The Witches of Eastwick.She played an Italian widow in Norman Jewison's romantic comedy Moonstruck. The New York Times Janet Maslin wrote that Cher has evolved into the kind of larger-than-life movie star who's worth watching. Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for that film. Cher commanded $1 million per film by 1988, making her one of the most bankable actresses of the decade. Uninhibited earned about 15 million dollars in its first year of sales. Cher's most impressive string of hits to date, established her as a serious rock and roller, when she signed with Geffen Records in 1987. Their first Geffen album was produced by Cher.The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA despite facing strong retail and radio resistance. "I Found Someone" is <mask>'s first US top-ten single in eight years. By the end of the 1980s, Cher was getting attention for her controversial lifestyle, including her tattoos, plastic surgeries, exhibitionist fashion sense, and affairs with younger men. She dated a bagel baker from 1986 to 1989 and had romantic relationships with actors Val Kilmer, Eric Stoltz, Tom Cruise, hockey player Ron Duguay, film producer Josh Donen, and Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora. Heart of Stone was certified triple Platinum by the RIAA. The music video for its second single, "If I Could Turn Back Time", caused controversy due to Cher's performance on the battleship, straddling a cannon, and wearing a leather thong. One of <mask>'s most successful singles was when the song topped the Australian charts for seven weeks."After All", a duet with Peter Cetera, and "Just Like Jesse James" were some of the songs from Heart of Stone that reached the US top ten. <mask> won the Favorite All- Around Female Star Award at the People's Choice Awards. She was on the Heart of Stone Tour in 1989. Cher's showmanship was admired by most critics. <mask> at the Mirage was filmed during a concert in Las Vegas. In her first film in three years, Cher paid tribute to her own mother in this story about a woman who moves her two daughters from town to town at the end of a love affair. The film's first two directors, Lasse Hallstrm and Frank Oz, were replaced by Richard Benjamin.Cher was allowed to make her own decisions for the film because the producers believed she would be the star attraction. The film was a box office success and received positive reviews. One of the two songs Cher recorded for the film's soundtrack, a cover version of "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)", topped the UK Singles Chart for five weeks. Love Hurts, Cher's final studio album for Geffen Records, stayed at the top of the UK charts for six weeks and produced the UK top-ten single "Love and Understanding". The album was certified gold by the RIAA. Cher commented that her Geffen label's "hit years" had been important to her because she was getting to do songs that she really loved. The fitness videos CherFitness: A New Attitude and CherFitness: Body Confidence were released in 1992.The Love Hurts Tour began in 1992. The UK-only album peaked at number one in the country for seven weeks. "Oh No Not My Baby", "Whenever You're Near", and "Many Rivers to Cross" are new songs. Cher turned down leading roles in The War of the Roses and Thelma & Louise due to her health and professional struggles. After the success of Moonstruck, she was so worried about her next career move that she was overly cautious. In the early 1990s, she developed chronic fatigue syndrome, which left her too exhausted to continue her music and film careers. She starred in infomercials for health, beauty, and diet products that earned her close to $10 million in fees because she was not healthy enough to work on other projects.Critics thought the skits were a sellout and many thought her film career was over. It didn't occur to her that people would focus on that and strip her of all her other things. Cher appeared in two Robert Altman films. In 1994, she started a mail-order catalogue business, Sanctuary, selling Gothic-themed products, and contributed a rock version of "I Got You Babe" to MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head. She topped the UK Singles Chart in 1995 with the charity single "Love Can build a Bridge". She signed with Warner Music UK's label WEA and released the album It's a Man's World (1995), which came out of her idea of covering men's songs from a woman's point of view. The album and its R&B influences were favored by the critics.The high point of her recording career is the collection of grown-up pop songs. The UK top-ten single "One by One" was spawned from It's a Man's World. The original rock sound was abandoned in favor of a more accessible style for the American release of the album. The US release reached number 64 on the billboard 200. <mask> played the wife of a businessman who hired a hitman to kill her in the 1996 film Faithful. The New York Times said that Cher did a good job in the film and that she did her best to find comic potential in a victim's role. Cher refused to promote the film.She made her directorial debut with a segment in the abortion-themed anthology If These Walls Could Talk, in which she starred as a doctor murdered by an anti-abortion fanatic. It drew the highest ratings for an original movie to date, with an 18.7 rating with a 25 share in homes and 6.9 million viewers. The X-Files episode "The Post-Modern Prometheus" featured her music. It tells the story of a scientist's grotesque creature who adores Cher because of her role in Mask, in which her character cares for her son. <mask> said at Sonny Bono's funeral that he was the most unforgettable character she had ever met. The CBS special Sonny & Me: Cher Remembers was hosted by her. <mask> and Sonny received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Cher published The First Time, a collection of autobiographical essays of "first-time" events in her life, which critics praised as down-to-earth and genuine. She didn't want to be criticized for cashing in on Sonny's death, so she didn't include him in the book. She told Rolling Stone she couldn't ignore it. If I cared more about what people think than what I know, I might have. Cher's 22nd studio album, Believe, marked a musical departure for her, as it comprises dance-pop songs, many of which capture the "disco-era essence". Believe sold 10 million copies worldwide and was certified gold or Platinum in 39 countries by the RIAA. Over 10 million copies of the album's title track were sold worldwide.<mask>'s most successful single to date was the best-selling recording of 1998 and 1999 in the UK and the US. "Believe" was the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK, selling over 1.84 million copies up until October of last year. Up until December 1999, it sold over 1.8 million units in the US. The song earned Cher two awards, one for Best Dance Recording and one for Hot 100 Single of the Year. <mask> performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl in 1999. The television special attracted 19.4 million viewers. <mask>'s presence was a huge part of making it exactly that, as it was the most popular and watched program in the television network's history.Do you believe? The tour ran from 1999 to 2000 and was sold out in every American city in which it was booked, amassing a global audience of more than 1.5 million. In 1998–99, <mask>: Live in Concert - From the MGM Grand in Las Vegas was the highest rated original HBO program, with a 9.1 rating among adults 18 to 49 and a 13.0 rating in the universe of 33 million homes. The album If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's greatest hits was released in the US in 1999 and features the previously undiscovered song "Don't Come Cryin' to Me". The RIAA certified it as gold. Up until January 2000, Cher's The Greatest Hits sold three million copies outside of the US. <mask> was the number-one dance artist in 1999.She received the Legend Award at the 1999 World Music Awards. Her next film, Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini, received generally positive reviews, and she earned critical praise for her performance as a rich, flamboyant American socialite whose visit to Italy is not welcome among the English women. Cher is a star. She manages the movie star trick of being at once a character and at the same time never allowing you to forget: that's Cher. Not Commercial was written mostly by Cher after she had attended a songwriters' conference in 1994 and was her first attempt at writing an album. The album was rejected by her record label for being uncommercial, so she chose to sell it only on her website. She criticized the nuns who prevented her mother from retrieving her from an orphanage in her song.The song was denounced by the catholic church. <mask>'s follow-up to Believe, Living Proof was certified gold by the RIAA. The album contains the UK top-ten single "The Music's No Good Without You" and a song dedicated to the "courageous people of New York" following the September 11 attacks. She performed at a benefit concert in 2002. At the 2002 Billboard Music Awards, she won the Dance/Club Play Artist of the Year Award and was presented with the Artist Achievement Award by Steven Tyler for having "helped redefine popular music with massive success on the Billboard charts". Her wealth was estimated at $600 million. In June 2002, Cher embarked on the Living Proof: The Farewell Tour, which was the final live concert tour of her career.Video clips from the 1960s onwards were included in the show, which highlighted her successes in music, television, and film. The worldwide tour was originally scheduled for 49 shows. By October 2003 it had become the most successful tour ever by a woman, grossing $145 million from 200 shows and playing to 2.2 million fans. Live!, a collection of live tracks from the tour, was released in 2003 The tour is over. <mask>'s NBC special attracted 17 million viewers. <mask> won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special for the concert special.After leaving Warner UK in 2002, Cher signed a worldwide deal with the US division of Warner Bros. Records. The Very Best of Cher peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. She spoofed her public image as she appeared in bed with a younger boyfriend in a comedy by the Farrelly brothers. In 2005, Cher's farewell tour saw 3.5 million people and earned $250 million, making it one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. After three years of retirement, she began a three-year, 200 performance residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, for which she earned $60 million. The production featured state-of-the-art video and special effects, elaborate set designs, 14 dancers, four aerialists and more than 20 costume changes. In Burlesque is Cher's first musical film since Good Times and she plays a nightclub impresario who is looking to impress.One of the two songs she recorded for the film's soundtrack, the power ballad "You Haven't seen the Last of Me", reached number one on the Dance Club Songs chart in January 2011. She placed her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in November of 2010. She lent her voice to Janet the Lioness in Zookeeper. Dear Mom, Love Cher, a documentary she produced about her mother Georgia Holt, aired on Lifetime in May 2013). According to Michael Andor Brodeur of The Boston Globe, "<mask>'s 'Goddess of Pop' sash remains in little danger of undue snatching; at 67, she sounds more convincing than J-Lo or Madonna reporting from 'the club'". Cher performed "Woman's World" on the finale of The Voice, her first live TV performance in over a decade. She joined the show's fifth season as a team adviser.The Dance on the Pier benefit was held to celebrate Gay Pride day. The event sold out for the first time in five years. She was a guest performer and judge on the 17th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which was dedicated to her. A decade after announcing her farewell tour, she embarked on the Dressed to Kill Tour. She said during the shows that this would be her last farewell tour. The first leg of the tour had 49 sold-out shows in North America. She was forced to cancel all remaining dates due to an illness.On May 7, 2014, Cher confirmed a collaboration with American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan on their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. She uses the name Bonnie Jo Mason. Only one copy of the album has been produced, and it was sold by online auction in November 2015. It is the most expensive album to date. Cher posed for his brand's fall/winter advertising campaign after appearing as a guest at the 2015 Met Gala. This has been a dream of the fashion designer for a long time. The Park Theater at Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, and The Theater at MGM National Harbor, Washington, are home to Classic Cher.In her first awards show performance in more than 15 years, Cher performed two songs, "If I Could Turn Back Time" and "Believe", and was presented with the Icon Award by Gwen Stefani, who called her a role model for showing us how to be strong. <mask> returned to film for the romantic musical comedy film Mamma Mia! Here we go again. It's only at the end of the movie when its true promise is fulfilled: <mask> arrives. Every single movie would be better if it included <mask>. She plays the mother of Donna, who is portrayed by Streep, and the grandmother of Sophie, who is played by Seyfried. "Fernando" and "Super Trouper" were recorded by Cher for the film's soundtrack.She makes Fernando her own. It's her song now. <mask> was the headline performer at the 40th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The tickets sold out in three hours. <mask> embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour in September. While promoting a movie. Cher confirmed that she was working on an album that would feature cover versions of songs from Abba.The album was released in September. Brittany Spanos from Rolling Stone said that the 72-year-old makes ABBA songs sound like they should've been written for her in the first place. The album ender, "One of Us", is one of Cher's best recordings in years, according to Entertainment Weekly. Dancing Queen tied with Closer to the Truth for Cher's highest-charting solo album in the US. It earned the year's biggest sales week for a pop album by a female artist, as well as Cher's largest sales week since 1991. The Cher Show, a musical based on Cher's life and music, played through July 15 at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago. The previews began on November 1 and the official opening on December 3.Three actresses are playing Cher in different stages of her life. The Cher Show is going to tour the UK and Ireland. The annual Washington distinction for artists who have made extraordinary contributions to culture was given to Cher. The ceremony featured performances by several people. Cher will be releasing a Christmas album, a second album of ABBA covers, an autobiography, and a biographical film about her life in the next two years. Cher launched a new perfume in October of 2019. It is Cher's second perfume after 1987's Uninhibited.On February 4, 2020, <mask> was announced as the new face of Dsquared2. The brand's advertising campaign was directed by Mert and Marcus. Cher released her first Spanish-language song in May. The proceeds from the single were donated to charity. <mask>'s UK top-ten single "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" was recorded in support of the Children in Need charity and was part of the Radio 2 Allstars. <mask> had a voice-over role in the animated feature film Bobbleheads: The Movie. She was featured on The New York Times Magazines list of "The Best Actors of 2020", the first time an actor not in a current-year theatrical release made it on the annual list.Pink's music video "All I Know So Far" featured <mask> as God. <mask> and Saweetie were the stars of the "Challenge Accepted" campaign. Cher uses a variety of musical styles, including folk rock, pop rock, power ballads, disco, new wave music, rock music, punk rock, arena rock, and hip hop. She became a brokenhearted symbol of a strong but decidedly single woman by dealing with themes of heartbreak, independence, and self-empowerment for women. According to Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder, Cher's "nearly flawless" song selection was what made her a notorious rock singer; while several of her early songs were penned by or sung with Sonny Bono, most of her solo successes, which outnumbered Sonny and <mask>'s According to AllMusic's Jose F. Promis, Cher's first album mostly written by herself, Not Commercial (2000), presents a "1970s singer-songwriter feel" that proves she is proficient in the role of storyteller. There were a lot of great records by female singers in the early days of rock, but none reflected the authority and command that we associate with rock 'n' roll today as much as Cher's key early hits.Sex, prostitution, and underaged pregnancies are topics rarely addressed in American popular music in Cher's early songs. According to AllMusic's Joe Viglione, the 1972 single "The Way of Love" is either about a woman expressing her love for another woman, or a woman saying "au revoir" to a gay male she loved. She was able to sing solo in androgynous and gender-neutral songs because of her ability to carry both male and female ranges. Cher's contralto singing voice is described by author Nicholas E. Tawa as "bold, deep, and with a spacious vibrato". It was called a quintessential rock voice by Ann Powers of The New York Times. Bruce Eder wrote that Cher's ability to meld that projection with her acting skills can provide an incredibly powerful experience for the listener. Laura's voice was described as "miraculous" by The Guardian."Cher is the possessor of one of the huskiest, most distinctive voices in pop, which can work wonders with the right material directed by the right producer". She spits out the words and you would think she was delivering an eternal truth about the human condition. The Los Angeles Times' Robert Hilburn wrote about Cher's musical output during the 1960s and stated that "Rock was subsequently blessed with the staggering blues exclamations of Janis Joplin in the late '60s and the raw poetic force of Patti Smith in the mid-'70s." No one could match the pure, seductive wallop of Cher. Eder described her vocal performances during the 1970s as "dramatic, highly intense and almost as much 'acted' as sung". Cher's sexually confident image was established when she used more aggressive vocals on her hard rock-oriented albums. She restrained her vocals for the 1995 album It's a Man's World.The 1998 song "Believe" has an electronic vocal effect proposed by <mask>, and was the first commercial recording to feature Auto-Tune, an audio processor originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies in vocal music recordings. The pitch correction software was not used to fix mistakes in Cher's voice, but as an aesthetic tool. After the success of the song, the technique became known as the "Cher effect" and has since been used in popular music. <mask> used Auto-Tune on her albums Living Proof (2001), Closer to the Truth (2013). Cher reflected on how her voice has evolved throughout her career in an interview with the Toronto Sun. She said that working with vocal coaches made a difference, because people her age are having to lose notes and she is gaining notes. Barbara Wickens wrote, "Cher has emerged as probably the most fascinating movie star of her generation because she has managed to be at once shocking and enigmatic."Cher has a top-ranking star quality because of her ability to project honesty, rawness and emotionality, according to a New York Post movie critic. She wears her vulnerability on her sleeve. Cher was one of the first superstars to play gay with compassion and without a hint of discrimination, as she portrays a lesbian in the 1983 film Silkwood, according to Jeff Yarbrough of The Advocate. According to Yvonne Tasker in her book Working Girls: Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema, <mask>'s film roles often mirror her public image as a self-made woman. Eric Stoltz's Craniodiaphyseal dysplasia victim in Mask, Liam Neeson's homeless veteran in Suspect, and Nicolas Cage's socially isolated baker with a wooden hand all feature in her films. Kathleen Rowe wrote that the depiction of Cher's character as a woman on top is enhanced by the unruly star persona she brings to the part. Cher was ranked 1st on the list of the 100 best acting performances by musicians in movies, and her performance was described as "the standard by which you mentally check all others".According to the American Film Institute, Moonstruck is the eighth best romantic comedy film of all time. Tasker wrote that Cher's public image is reflected in her music videos and live performances, in which she "repeatedly comments on her own construction, on her search for perfection and on the performance of the female body". Cher uses a male dancer dressed as her in the 1992 concert video <mask> at the Mirage, unlike other acts of that time, who often featured female backers mimicking the singer's performance. According to James Sullivan of the San Francisco Chronicle, Cher is aware that she set the stage for the current era of stadium-sizezzle. She sees such imitation as flattery, not theft. After watching <mask>'s Living Proof: The Farewell Tour in 2004, Pink started studying Aerial silks. Cher was ranked 17th on the "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era"."Hell on Wheels" was one of the first music videos to use cinematic techniques. The 1989 music video for "If I Could Turn Back Time" was the first ever to be banned by MTV. Cady Lang of FashionTime magazine described <mask> as a cultural phenomenon who has forever changed the way we see celebrity fashion. Hippie fashion with bell-bottoms, bandanas, and Cherokee-inspired tunics was popularized by Cher in the 1960s. She began working as a model for Richard Avedon in 1967, after Diana Vreeland discovered her at a party. One of the most recreated and monumental looks of all time was the photo of <mask> in a beaded and feathered nude gown that Avedon took for the cover of Time magazine in 1975. Cher wore the gown at the Met Gala.It was the first time a Hollywood celebrity attended and it changed everything. 40 years later, we still see versions of that look on The Met red carpet. <mask> has become one of the most influential style icons in red carpet history. Cher became a sex symbol through her 1970s television shows and fought the network censors to bare her navel. Cher is wrongly thought to be the first woman to expose her vagina on television. Since the establishment of the American Code of Practices for Television Broadcasters in 1951, she has been the most prominent to do so. Cher was dubbed the "pioneer of the belly beautiful".In 1972, after she was featured on the annual "Best Dressed Women" lists, Mackie stated: "There hasn't been a girl like Cher since Dietrich and Garbo." She appeals to people of all ages. After the Council of Fashion Designers of America gave Cher an award for her influence on fashion, Robin Givhan of the Los Angeles Times called her a "fashion visionary" for "striking just the right note of contemporary wretched excess". Her name has evoked her name as a source of inspiration and guidance, according to Givhan. Cher's Native American showgirl sexpot persona seems to epitomize the fashion industry's rush to celebrate ethnicity, adornment and sex appeal. Cher was described as the ruler of outré reinvention by Vogue, who said that she set the grounds for pop stars and celebrities today. All of the female celebrities who graduated from the Cher school of never sharing the stage with anyone, or anything, were attributed to Cher by Alexander Fury of The Independent.To have Cher's success, they're trying to share the spotlight. Cher has drawn attention to her physical appearance because of her youthful looks and tattoos. Journalists call her the "poster girl" of plastic surgery. The author of Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture draws a parallel between Cher's plastic surgeries and her career changes. Cher has engaged in a technology that is dramatic and irreversible. The author of Up Against Foucault: Explorations of Some Tensions Between Foucault and Feminism wrote that "Cher's operations have gradually replaced a strong, decidedly 'ethnic' look with a more symmetrical, delicate, 'conventional' version." Her normalised image acts as a standard against which other women will judge, discipline and correct themselves.There are six tattoos on Cher. She was called Ms. by the Baltimore Sun. The original Rose tattoo was original. In 1972 she got her first tattoo. Sonny Bono said that calling her butterfly tattoos nothing was like ignoring a sandstorm. Cher wanted to create that effect. She was fond of doing things for the shock they created.She still does. She will create a controversy and then tell her critics to stick it. She began having laser treatments to remove her tattoos in the late 1990s. In the 2000s, the process was still going on. She said that when she got tattooed, only bad girls did it. It doesn't mean anything now. No one was surprised.<mask> was honored by Madame Tussauds as one of the five "most beautiful women of history" in 1992. She was ranked 26th on the " 100 Sexiest Artists" list. Mother Gothel is a fictional character who was inspired by Cher. The director said that Gothel's beauty, dark curly hair and curvy figure were designed to serve as a foil to Rapunzel's, and that the singer was one of the people. Journalists analyzed Cher's social media presence. She was named the "most outspoken (and beloved) commentator" by Time. The New York Times writer praised <mask> for her use of social media.Cher is an outlier, perhaps the last unreconstructed high-profile Twitter user to stand at her digital pulpit and yell incomprehensibly, and be rewarded for it. Online, authenticity and originality are often myths. Cher thrives on a version of nakedness and honesty that is rarely celebrated in the public eye. According to Monica Heisey of The Guardian, Cher's account is a jewel in the bizarro crown of the internet, and that she just lets it all hang out. Cher is seen as a gay icon by members of the LGBT community because of her career accomplishments, sense of style, and longevity. Cher is a gay icon and has been imitated by drag queens. rag queens imitate women like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and Cher because they overcame insult and hardship on their path to success, and because their narratives mirror the pain that many gay men suffer on their way out of the closet.Cher hired two drag queens to perform with her at her Las Vegas residency in 1979 as she was one of the first to bring drag to the mass. Cher became a gay icon because of her role as a lesbian in the film Silkwood, as well as her transition to dance music and social activism. Cher was made the idol of gay character Jack McFarland by the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. "Gypsies, Tramps and Weed" was Cher's second appearance on the show, and it was the second-highest rating ever. Health research, patients' quality of life, anti-poverty initiatives, veterans rights, and vulnerable children are some of Cher's philanthropic interests. The Children's Craniofacial Association is supported by the Cher Charitable Foundation. Cher served as a donor and as the national chairperson of the Children's Craniofacial Association, whose mission is to "empower and give hope to facially disfigured children and their families".Craniofacial patients, their siblings and parents have an opportunity to interact with others who have experienced similar experiences at the annual Cher's Family Retreat. She supports the Get A-Head Charitable Trust, which aims to improve the quality of life for people with head and neck diseases. Cher is a donor, fundraiser, and international spokesman for Keep a Child Alive, an organization that seeks to accelerate action to combat the AIDS pandemic, including the provision of antiretroviral medicine to children and their families with HIV/AIDS. She hosted a benefit for AIDS research in 1996 with Elizabeth Taylor. She received the amfAR Award of Inspiration for her willingness and ability to use her fame for the greater good and for being one of the great champions in the fight against AIDS. In 2007, Cher became the primary supporter of the Peace Village School, which provides food, medical care, education and extracurricular activities for more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children, ages 2 to 13 years. Her support enabled the school to acquire land and build permanent housing and school facilities, and in partnership with Malaria No More and other organizations, she piloted an effort to eliminate malaria mortality and morbidity for the children, their caregivers and the surrounding community.Cher has supported soldiers and veterans. She donated resources to Operation Helmet, an organization that provides free helmet upgrade kits to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund helps military personnel who have been disabled in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as those who have been severely injured in other operations. She took food and medical supplies to the war-torn region of Armenia in 1993. Poverty Cher served as the National Chair of the Habitat's elimination of poverty housing initiative "Raise the Roof", an effort to engage artists in the organization's work while on tour. Cher donated more than 180,000 bottles of water to the city after lead was found in the drinking water. Cher executive produced Edith+Eddie, a documentary about a nonagenarian interracial couple, as she weighed in on the need to protect elder rights.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. The CherCares Pandemic Resource and Response Initiative (CCPRRI) was launched by <mask> and Dr. Redlener. The Entertainment Industry Foundation will distribute $1 million to chronically neglected and forgotten people during the Pandemic. People of color and Hispanics are getting no services in rural areas, according to Cher. It's not a lot of money, but it does go in the blink of an eyelash. I'm trying to get my friends to make it a lot more so we can do something that will meet people's needs. A friend once told me that when people walk in your path, you know what to do.In November 2020, Cher traveled to Pakistan to advocate for and work with the country's government to have Kaavan, an elephant who had been confined to a zoo for 35 years, transferred to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia. The documentary film <mask> and the Loneliest Elephant was released in April of 2021. Cher felt "guilt, fear and pain" when her older child came out as a lesbian at the age of 17. She came to the conclusion that LGBT people didn't have the same rights as everyone else, and that she thought that was unfair. She was the keynote speaker for the 1997 national Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) convention and has since become one of the LGBT community's most vocal advocates. She received a GLAAD award in 1998 for making a significant difference in promoting equal rights for lesbians and gay men. On June 11, 2009, Chaz came out as a trans man, and his transition from female to male was finalized on May 6, 2010.Cher said that she is not a registered Democrat, but has attended many Democratic events. Cher's political views have attracted media attention, and she has been an outspoken critic of the conservative movement. She was critical of Republican politicians in an interview with Vanity Fair. She said that she didn't understand why anyone would be a Republican because of George W. Bush's eight years in office. ABC News wrote during the 2000 United States presidential election that she was determined to keep Bush out of office. If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you're any minority in this country, what could possibly make you vote Republican? You won't have any left.She said she didn't like Bush. I don't believe him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy. Cher called a C-SPAN phone-in program in October of 2003 to complain about the lack of media coverage of her visit to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She said she watches C-SPAN every day.The host of C-SPAN questioned her about her support for Ross Perot after she identified herself as an entertainer. She said that when she heard him talk, she thought he would bring some sort of common-sense business approach and less partisanship. I was completely disappointed when he cut and ran and no one knew why, maybe he couldn't have withstood all the investigation that goes on now. Cher called into C-SPAN's Washington Journal on Memorial Day weekend in 2006 to endorse a group that provides helmets to help soldiers avoid head injuries. She appeared on C-SPAN with the founder of Operation Helmet. "I don't have to be for this war to support the troops because these men and women do what they think is right," she said. They are told to do what they are told to do.They do it with a good heart. They do their best. They don't ask for anything. Cher supported Hillary Clinton. She supported Obama after he won the Democratic nomination. She said in a 2010 interview with Vanity Fair that she still thinks Hillary would have done a better job. <mask> and Kathy Griffin made a public service announcement during the 2012 United States presidential election about women's rights.The pair criticized Romney for his support of the US Senate candidate who said pregnancies resulting from rape were part of God's plan. Cher declined an invitation to perform at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Russia due to the country's controversial anti-gay legislation. In June 2015, after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, she made a series of critical comments on Twitter, stating that "Donald Trump's punishment is being Donald Trump". In October of last year, after the victory in Brazil's presidential election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro, Cher called him a "pig" and "a politician from hell". In September 2020, Cher raised nearly $2 million for Joe Biden's presidential campaign. In October, she traveled to Nevada and Arizona to campaign for Biden, and released a cover version of "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe", a song conceived for the 1943 musical film Cabin in the Sky, with lyrics updated to be about Biden. Cher posted messages on the social networking site in support of the Nagorno-Karabakh war.She urged the leaders in Washington to conduct sustained and rigorous diplomacy to bring peace to the Artsakh region. Rolling Stone referred to <mask> as the "one-woman embodiment of the whole gaudy story of pop music" and stated that there were no other careers like hers. Cher is one of the most dominant figures of the Rock Era. She was described as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to "advance feminine rebellion in the rock world, and the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance, from her early hippie days to her later outrageous outfits, and her attitude." <mask> was described as a woman who pioneered an androgynous musical identity in the mid '60s, and who by doing so "teed things up for people like Bowie and Patti Smith". <mask> has earned her mononym according to the New York Times. Her star power has caused an entire industry of imitators.If Madonna and Lady Gaga were playing football, <mask> would be the stadium they played in, and the sun that shone down on them. According to Jeff Miers from The Buffalo News, "Her music has changed with the times over the decades, rather than changing those times through groundbreaking work." Cher is often referred to as the "goddess of Pop". Her work in music, film, television, and fashion has influenced many artists. Professor Richard Aquila from Ball State University called Cher the "ultimate pop chameleon". According to Entertainment Weekly, "Cher has floated through generation after generation, scooping up new fans, thrilling old ones, reinventing her own myth and dazzling through it all." Cher was credited with "revolutionizing the idea of what a pop star could visually accomplish, the way they could create multiple personas that live on and off-stage."According to James Reed from The Boston Globe, she is one of the original chameleons in pop music, constantly in change and challenging our perception of her. Cher was declared the "Queen of the Comeback" by the New York Times. "Cher believes in the American Dream of reinvention of self: 'getting old does not have to mean getting obsolete,'" said Lucy O'Brien. Cher is described as a model of flexible career management by author Craig Crawford in his book The Politics of Life: 25 Rules for Survival in a Brutal and Manipulative World. She billed each dramatic change of style as another example of rebellion, an image that allowed her to make calculated changes while appearing to be consistent. The term "reinvention" is often used to talk about the careers of American celebrities. Cher is inclined to lock on to each new fashion wave and is swept violently down the diffusion stream and out of fashion.Her return to stardom requires substantial re-creation. Her "integrity" and "perseverance" are highlighted in the Reaching Your Goals book series of illustrated inspirational stories for children, in which her life is detailed emphasizing the importance of self-actualization. She worked hard to become an actress. She turned down movie roles that weren't right for her when she needed money. Her goal has always been to be a good actress, not just a famous one. Cher's ability to forge an immensely successful and lengthy career as a woman in a male-dominated entertainment world has drawn attention from feminist critics. Cher was told at the beginning of her career that she was a product of male creativity, as she remembers, "It was a time when girl singers were patted on the head for being good and told not to think".However, her image eventually changed due to her "refusal of dependence on a man and the determination not only to forge a career (as an actor) on her own terms but to refuse the conventional role assigned to women over forty years old in an industry that fetishises youth", "Cher, the straightforward, tattooed, dyslexic single mother, the first Oscar winner to have entered into matrimony with a known heroin addiction and to, was featured in the 16th-anniversary edition of Ms. magazine as an authentic feminist hero and a 1980s role model for women." After <mask>'s Oscar win in 1988, The New York Times wrote that she "performs the function for women that Jack Nicholson has always fulfilled for men." She is free of the burden of being America's sweetheart, so she is the one who tells all the fatheads where they can go. To get away with this, you need to be more beautiful. You have to be Cher for 40 years. Cher told the story of her mother asking her to "settle down and marry a rich man" in a 1996 interview for Dateline NBC.Taylor Swift's music video "You Need to Calm Down" includes a quote from Cher's "Mom, I am a rich man". <mask>'s quote puts a spin on typical gender norms. It would make sense for Swift to follow <mask>'s example. According to Alec Mapa of The Advocate, Cher has been out there for the last four decades living out every single one of our childhood fantasies. Cher is the cool woman who stood in shoes. Why? Her motto is, "I don't give a shit what you think, I'm going to wear this multicolored wig."There are people in America who love to date people half their age, have multiple tattoos, and wear feathered headdresses. Cher does it for us. Cher "represents a seemingly omnipotent, uni-monikered level of fame," wrote Alexander Fury of The Independent. No one in the history of show business has had a career like Cher's. She has been a teenage pop star, a television hostess, a fashion magazine model, a rock star, a pop singer, a Broadway actress, an Academy Award-winning movie star, and the subject of a mountain of press coverage. "If she hadn't stayed so irrevocably Cher from the start, the world would certainly be different," wrote Lynch. Cher has sold 100 million records as a solo artist, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.She is one of the few artists to win three of the four major American entertainment awards, and one of the five actor-singers to have had a US number-one single and won an acting Academy Award. Her breakthrough single, Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe", was featured on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. One of the 20th century's greatest songs was her 1971 single "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves". Her 1998 song "Believe" is the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. The only American song to be named on the list was voted the world's eighth favorite song. Rolling Stone has a list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. <mask> was the first performer to receive an Academy Award for acting and a RIAA-certified gold album in the same year since the inception of gold awards.<mask> is the only artist to have a number-one single on the chart for six decades in a row. She has held the number-one spot on the US Hot 100 for 33 years, seven months and three weeks, between "I Got You Babe" and "Believe". At the age of 52, she became the oldest female artist to have a US number-one song. She was ranked 43 on the "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time" list. The magazine listed her as the 23rd highest-grossing touring act since 1990 with total earned revenue of $351.6 million and 4.5 million attendance at her shows. The 1985 Woman of the Year Award by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals society at Harvard University is one of the many awards Cher has received. Cher put her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 2010.Sonny and <mask> have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She forfeited her chance to be a solo artist when she refused to schedule a personal appearance. Cher appeared at number 41 on the list of the 200 greatest pop culture icons. She was ranked 31st on the list of the 100 greatest women in music. She was placed at number 44 on the list. The 100 greatest movie stars of our time was compiled by People. Biography magazine ranked her as their third favorite leading actress of all time, behind Hepburn and Hepburn. | [
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14528148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Silverstein | Keith Silverstein | Keith David Silverstein (born December 24, 1970 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American voice actor, best known for lending his voice to English Versions of Japanese anime and video games, affiliated with Bang Zoom! Entertainment, Viz Media, and Funimation. He is best known for his roles as Johan Liebert in Monster, Vector the Crocodile in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, Robert E.O. Speedwagon in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Hisoka in the 2011 version of Hunter × Hunter, Ōgai Mori in Bungo Stray Dogs, Gabriel Agreste a.k.a. Hawk Moth (Shadow Moth in later seasons) in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and Zhongli in Genshin Impact.
Personal life
Silverstein has been married to Rosemary Do since October 10, 2010. They have two daughters.
Filmography
Anime
86 – Ernst Zimmerman
Accel World – Red Rider (Previous Red King)
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- – Susumu Kurose
Attack on Titan (season 4) – Roeg
B-Daman Crossfire – Smash Dragold
B - The Beginning - Yellow
Beastars – Gouhin
Blade of the Immortal – Manji
Bleach – Coyote Starrk, Aaroniero Arruruerie (Top Skull), Mabashi, Tesra Lindocruz, Tensa Zangetsu
Blood Lad – Heads Hydra
Blue Dragon – Lemaire
Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga – Yaozo Shima
BNA: Brand New Animal – Gem Horner
Bungo Stray Dogs – Ōgai Mori
Buso Renkin – Masashi Daihama, Mita
Cannon Busters – Seezar, Additional Voices
Charlotte (TV series) – Interpreter (Ep. 11)
Code Geass – Kewell Soresi, Yoshitaka Minami
Coppelion – Onihei Mishima
Devilman Crybaby – Kukun
Digimon Fusion – Apollomon Whispered
Doraemon – Mr. S
Dorohedoro – En
Drifting Dragons – Gibbs
Durarara!! – Tom Tanaka
Eureka Seven – William B. Baxter
Fate/Apocrypha – Caster of Red
Glitter Force – Ulric, Brute, Rascal, various
Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 – Standard
Granblue Fantasy The Animation – Pommern
Godzilla Singular Point – Gorō Ōtaki
Gurren Lagann – Makken
Haré+Guu – Robert
Honey and Clover – Kazuo Aida, Kazushi Yamazaki, Luigi Fujiwara
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom – Albert Elfrieden
Hunter × Hunter 2011 series – Hisoka Morow
In the Land of Leadale – Kartatz
Japan Sinks: 2020 – Kōichirō Mutō
Jujutsu Kaisen – Masamichi Yaga, Ultimate Mechamaru/Kokichi Muta
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure – Robert E.O. Speedwagon
K – Mikoto Suoh (Red King), Goki Zenjo
Kannazuki no Miko – Yukihito
Kekkaishi – Gagin, Mr. Kurosu, Ohdo (Ep. 4), Spy (Eps. 19 - 20), Takemitsu
Kengan Ashura – Yohei Bando, Yamashita Kazuo
Kuroko's Basketball – Mitsuhiro Hayakawa, Kagetora Aida, Kentaro Seto
Kuromukuro – Imusa, Girolamo Casiraghi
Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne series – Villagulio
Lost Song – Bazra Bearmors
Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone – Lupin
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic – Masrur, Goltas (Ep. 2-3, 6)
Magic☆Hospital! – Dr. Ben Robinson
Mahoromatic: I'm Home – Kiyomi Kawaguchi, Ryuga
MÄR – Girom, Boss, Rolan, Danna Toramizu
March Comes In like a Lion – Takashi Hayashida
Mob Psycho 100 – Megumu Koyama
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Chad Chadan
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY HD Remaster - Gilbert Durandal
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Char Aznable
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn – Full Frontal, Char Aznable
Monster – Johan Liebert
Naruto – Kimimaro, Gantetsu
Naruto: Shippuden – Kimimaro, Yura, Ginkaku, Kusune (Ep. 184), Sukune (Ep. 187), Kyūsuke, Young Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan series – Zen, Nurarihyon (Young), Mokugyo Daruma, Inuhōō
One-Punch Man – Deep Sea King
Paradise Kiss – Konishi, Noriji
Phantom the Animation – Zwei (credited as David Keefir)
Pokémon: Twilight Wings – Chairman Rose
The Prince of Tennis II: Hyotei vs. Rikkai Game of Future – Yushi Oshitari
Rozen Maiden – Detective Kun-Kun
Rozen Maiden: Träumend – Laplace's Demon, Shirosaki, Detective Kun-Kun
Sailor Moon – Kenji Tsukino (Viz dub), Old Fortuneteller (Ep. 2), Yusuke (Ep. 6), Professor Tomoe (Viz dub)
Sailor Moon Crystal – Kenji Tsukino, Professor Tomoe
Samurai Champloo – Sunobi, Pinwheel Peddler
Saiyuki Reload Gunlock – Yakumo
The Seven Deadly Sins (season 1) – Monspeet
Shaman King (2021 TV series) – Mikihisa
Skip Beat! – Takenori Sawara
Stitch! – Gantu
Strait Jacket – Jack Roland
Sword Art Online – Shozo Yuki (Asuna's Father, Ep. 15), Kagemune (Ep. 16, 20), G-Takusu (Ep. 19)
Tenjho Tenge – Iwaki Kenjirou
Tiger & Bunny – Cain Morris, B-Bomber
Tokko – Akito
The Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of The Commandments – Monspeet
Vinland Saga – Floki (Netflix dub)
Violet Evergarden – Dietfried Bougainvillea
Your Lie in April – Kazuma
Zetman – Seiji Haitani
Animation
Amphibia - Barry
Batgirl: Year One – Robin/Dick Grayson
Fresh Beat Band of Spies – Commissioner Goldstar, Poulet, Additional Voices
Miraculous Ladybug – Gabriel Agreste/Hawk Moth; Prince Ali
Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores – Bartleby Farnum
Monsuno – Dax, Commander Trey
NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians – Giants Rusher, Cardinals Rusher, Steeler Stan, Hank the Guard
Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty - Town Crier, Various
Sonic Boom – Vector the Crocodile
Special Agent Oso – Faith's Dad
Sesame Street – Ziggy the rapping Zebrasaurus
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Kirby O'Neil
Timber Wolf – Loopy T. Wolf, Igor Beaver, Dash Snake, Termite
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy – Jetfire, Omega Supreme, Deseeus (Death)
Tron: Uprising – Additional Voices
Zak Storm - Skullivar (credited as David Roach)
Films
A Whisker Away – Cat Storekeeper
Bleach: The DiamondDust Rebellion – Sōjirō Kusaka
Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire – Shuichi Akai
Child of Kamiari Month – Kotoshironushi, additional voices
Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters — Unberto Mori
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle – Unberto Mori
Godzilla: The Planet Eater – Unberto Mori
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil – Additional Voices
Hotel Transylvania 3 – Additional Voices
The Jungle Bunch – Igor
Jungle Master – Additional Voices
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love – Helicopter Cop
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes – Wolfram
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror – Haruka's Father - credited as David Roach
One Piece Film: Gold – Gild Tesoro
Penguin Highway – Aoyama's father
Redline – Johnny Bova
Live-action dubbing
Azumi 2: Death or Love – Tsuchigamo
Better than Us – Victor Toropov
Masquerade – Park Choong-seo
Sesame Street – Ziggy the Rapping Zebrasaurus
Violetta – Gregorio
Foreign show dubbing
Video games
Web Series
Pencil and Parsecs - K'lev
References
External links
Living people
21st-century American male actors
Audiobook narrators
African-American male actors
American male video game actors
American male radio actors
American male voice actors
21st-century African-American people
People from New Jersey
People from Plainfield, New Jersey
1970 births | [
"Keith David Silverstein (born December 24, 1970 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American voice actor, best known for lending his voice to English Versions of Japanese anime and video games, affiliated with Bang Zoom!",
"Entertainment, Viz Media, and Funimation.",
"He is best known for his roles as Johan Liebert in Monster, Vector the Crocodile in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games, Robert E.O.",
"Speedwagon in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Hisoka in the 2011 version of Hunter × Hunter, Ōgai Mori in Bungo Stray Dogs, Gabriel Agreste a.k.a.",
"Hawk Moth (Shadow Moth in later seasons) in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, and Zhongli in Genshin Impact.",
"Personal life \nSilverstein has been married to Rosemary Do since October 10, 2010.",
"They have two daughters.",
"Filmography\n\nAnime\n\n 86 – Ernst Zimmerman\n Accel World – Red Rider (Previous Red King)\n A.I.C.O.",
"-Incarnation- – Susumu Kurose\n Attack on Titan (season 4) – Roeg\n B-Daman Crossfire – Smash Dragold\n B - The Beginning - Yellow\n Beastars – Gouhin\n Blade of the Immortal – Manji\n Bleach – Coyote Starrk, Aaroniero Arruruerie (Top Skull), Mabashi, Tesra Lindocruz, Tensa Zangetsu\n Blood Lad – Heads Hydra\n Blue Dragon – Lemaire\n Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga – Yaozo Shima\n BNA: Brand New Animal – Gem Horner\n Bungo Stray Dogs – Ōgai Mori\n Buso Renkin – Masashi Daihama, Mita\n Cannon Busters – Seezar, Additional Voices\n Charlotte (TV series) – Interpreter (Ep.",
"11)\n Code Geass – Kewell Soresi, Yoshitaka Minami\n Coppelion – Onihei Mishima\n Devilman Crybaby – Kukun\n Digimon Fusion – Apollomon Whispered\n Doraemon – Mr. S\n Dorohedoro – En\n Drifting Dragons – Gibbs\n Durarara!!",
"– Tom Tanaka\n Eureka Seven – William B. Baxter\n Fate/Apocrypha – Caster of Red\n Glitter Force – Ulric, Brute, Rascal, various\n Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 – Standard\n Granblue Fantasy The Animation – Pommern\n Godzilla Singular Point – Gorō Ōtaki\n Gurren Lagann – Makken\n Haré+Guu – Robert\n Honey and Clover – Kazuo Aida, Kazushi Yamazaki, Luigi Fujiwara\n How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom – Albert Elfrieden\n Hunter × Hunter 2011 series – Hisoka Morow\n In the Land of Leadale – Kartatz\n Japan Sinks: 2020 – Kōichirō Mutō\n Jujutsu Kaisen – Masamichi Yaga, Ultimate Mechamaru/Kokichi Muta\n JoJo's Bizarre Adventure – Robert E.O.",
"Speedwagon\n K – Mikoto Suoh (Red King), Goki Zenjo\n Kannazuki no Miko – Yukihito\n Kekkaishi – Gagin, Mr. Kurosu, Ohdo (Ep.",
"4), Spy (Eps.",
"19 - 20), Takemitsu\n Kengan Ashura – Yohei Bando, Yamashita Kazuo\n Kuroko's Basketball – Mitsuhiro Hayakawa, Kagetora Aida, Kentaro Seto\n Kuromukuro – Imusa, Girolamo Casiraghi\n Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne series – Villagulio\n Lost Song – Bazra Bearmors\n Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone – Lupin\n Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic – Masrur, Goltas (Ep.",
"2-3, 6)\n Magic☆Hospital!",
"– Dr. Ben Robinson\n Mahoromatic: I'm Home – Kiyomi Kawaguchi, Ryuga\n MÄR – Girom, Boss, Rolan, Danna Toramizu\n March Comes In like a Lion – Takashi Hayashida\n Mob Psycho 100 – Megumu Koyama\n Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Chad Chadan\n Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY HD Remaster - Gilbert Durandal\n Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin – Char Aznable\n Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn – Full Frontal, Char Aznable\n Monster – Johan Liebert\n Naruto – Kimimaro, Gantetsu\n Naruto: Shippuden – Kimimaro, Yura, Ginkaku, Kusune (Ep.",
"184), Sukune (Ep.",
"187), Kyūsuke, Young Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki\n Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan series – Zen, Nurarihyon (Young), Mokugyo Daruma, Inuhōō\n One-Punch Man – Deep Sea King\n Paradise Kiss – Konishi, Noriji\n Phantom the Animation – Zwei (credited as David Keefir)\n Pokémon: Twilight Wings – Chairman Rose\n The Prince of Tennis II: Hyotei vs. Rikkai Game of Future – Yushi Oshitari\n Rozen Maiden – Detective Kun-Kun\n Rozen Maiden: Träumend – Laplace's Demon, Shirosaki, Detective Kun-Kun\n Sailor Moon – Kenji Tsukino (Viz dub), Old Fortuneteller (Ep.",
"2), Yusuke (Ep.",
"6), Professor Tomoe (Viz dub)\n Sailor Moon Crystal – Kenji Tsukino, Professor Tomoe\n Samurai Champloo – Sunobi, Pinwheel Peddler\n Saiyuki Reload Gunlock – Yakumo\n The Seven Deadly Sins (season 1) – Monspeet\n Shaman King (2021 TV series) – Mikihisa\n Skip Beat!",
"– Takenori Sawara \n Stitch!",
"– Gantu\n Strait Jacket – Jack Roland\n Sword Art Online – Shozo Yuki (Asuna's Father, Ep.",
"15), Kagemune (Ep.",
"16, 20), G-Takusu (Ep.",
"Hood vs.",
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<mask> has been married to Rosemary Do since October 10, 2010. They have two daughters.Filmography
Anime
86 – Ernst Zimmerman
Accel World – Red Rider (Previous Red King)
A.I.C.O. -Incarnation- – Susumu Kurose
Attack on Titan (season 4) – Roeg
B-Daman Crossfire – Smash Dragold
B - The Beginning - Yellow
Beastars – Gouhin
Blade of the Immortal – Manji
Bleach – Coyote Starrk, Aaroniero Arruruerie (Top Skull), Mabashi, Tesra Lindocruz, Tensa Zangetsu
Blood Lad – Heads Hydra
Blue Dragon – Lemaire
Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga – Yaozo Shima
BNA: Brand New Animal – Gem Horner
Bungo Stray Dogs – Ōgai Mori
Buso Renkin – Masashi Daihama, Mita
Cannon Busters – Seezar, Additional Voices
Charlotte (TV series) – Interpreter (Ep. 11)
Code Geass – Kewell Soresi, Yoshitaka Minami
Coppelion – Onihei Mishima
Devilman Crybaby – Kukun
Digimon Fusion – Apollomon Whispered
Doraemon – Mr. S
Dorohedoro – En
Drifting Dragons – Gibbs
Durarara!! – Tom Tanaka
Eureka Seven – William B. Baxter
Fate/Apocrypha – Caster of Red
Glitter Force – Ulric, Brute, Rascal, various
Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045 – Standard
Granblue Fantasy The Animation – Pommern
Godzilla Singular Point – Gorō Ōtaki
Gurren Lagann – Makken
Haré+Guu – Robert
Honey and Clover – Kazuo Aida, Kazushi Yamazaki, Luigi Fujiwara
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom – Albert Elfrieden
Hunter × Hunter 2011 series – Hisoka Morow
In the Land of Leadale – Kartatz
Japan Sinks: 2020 – Kōichirō Mutō
Jujutsu Kaisen – Masamichi Yaga, Ultimate Mechamaru/Kokichi Muta
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure – Robert E.O. Speedwagon
K – Mikoto Suoh (Red King), Goki Zenjo
Kannazuki no Miko – Yukihito
Kekkaishi – Gagin, Mr. Kurosu, Ohdo (Ep. 4), Spy (Eps. 19 - 20), Takemitsu
Kengan Ashura – Yohei Bando, Yamashita Kazuo
Kuroko's Basketball – Mitsuhiro Hayakawa, Kagetora Aida, Kentaro Seto
Kuromukuro – Imusa, Girolamo Casiraghi
Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne series – Villagulio
Lost Song – Bazra Bearmors
Lupin III: Jigen's Gravestone – Lupin
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic – Masrur, Goltas (Ep.2-3, 6)
Magic☆Hospital! – Dr. Ben Robinson
Mahoromatic: I'm Home – Kiyomi Kawaguchi, Ryuga
MÄR – Girom, Boss, Rolan, Danna Toramizu
March Comes In like a Lion – Takashi Hayashida
Mob Psycho 100 – Megumu Koyama
Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Chad Chadan
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY HD Remaster - Gilbert Durandal
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Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn – Full Frontal, Char Aznable
Monster – Johan Liebert
Naruto – Kimimaro, Gantetsu
Naruto: Shippuden – Kimimaro, Yura, Ginkaku, Kusune (Ep. 184), Sukune (Ep. 187), Kyūsuke, Young Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan series – Zen, Nurarihyon (Young), Mokugyo Daruma, Inuhōō
One-Punch Man – Deep Sea King
Paradise Kiss – Konishi, Noriji
Phantom the Animation – Zwei (credited as David Keefir)
Pokémon: Twilight Wings – Chairman Rose
The Prince of Tennis II: Hyotei vs. Rikkai Game of Future – Yushi Oshitari
Rozen Maiden – Detective Kun-Kun
Rozen Maiden: Träumend – Laplace's Demon, Shirosaki, Detective Kun-Kun
Sailor Moon – Kenji Tsukino (Viz dub), Old Fortuneteller (Ep. 2), Yusuke (Ep. 6), Professor Tomoe (Viz dub)
Sailor Moon Crystal – Kenji Tsukino, Professor Tomoe
Samurai Champloo – Sunobi, Pinwheel Peddler
Saiyuki Reload Gunlock – Yakumo
The Seven Deadly Sins (season 1) – Monspeet
Shaman King (2021 TV series) – Mikihisa
Skip Beat! – Takenori Sawara
Stitch!– Gantu
Strait Jacket – Jack Roland
Sword Art Online – Shozo Yuki (Asuna's Father, Ep. 15), Kagemune (Ep. 16, 20), G-Takusu (Ep. Hood vs. Evil – Additional Voices
Hotel Transylvania 3 – Additional Voices
The Jungle Bunch – Igor
Jungle Master – Additional Voices
Tyler Perry's Madea's Tough Love – Helicopter Cop
My Hero Academia: Two Heroes – Wolfram
Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror – Haruka's Father - credited as David Roach
One Piece Film: Gold – Gild Tesoro
Penguin Highway – Aoyama's father
Redline – Johnny Bova
Live-action dubbing
Azumi 2: Death or Love – Tsuchigamo
Better than Us – Victor Toropov
Masquerade – Park Choong-seo
Sesame Street – Ziggy the Rapping Zebrasaurus
Violetta – Gregorio
Foreign show dubbing
Video games
Web Series
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References
External links
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Audiobook narrators
African-American male actors
American male video game actors
American male radio actors
American male voice actors
21st-century African-American people
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313322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Unruh | Howard Unruh | Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, United States, on September 6, 1949, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death". Unruh was found to be criminally insane, and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88 following sixty years of confinement.
Background and possible motives for killings
Howard Unruh was the son of Samuel Shipley Unruh and Freda E. Vollmer. He had a younger brother, James; they were raised by their mother after their parents separated. Unruh grew up in East Camden, New Jersey, attended Cramer Junior High School, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in January 1939. The Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook from 1939 indicated that he was shy and that his ambition was to become a government employee.
Unruh enlisted in the United States Army on October 27, 1942, and saw active service as a armor crewman across Europe between October 1944 and July 1945. He was remembered by his Section Chief, Norman E. Koehn, as a first-class soldier who never drank, swore, or chased girls, yet spent much time reading his Bible and writing long letters to his mother. It was also cited that Unruh kept meticulous notes on the enemies killed in battles, down to the details of the corpses. He was awarded the European Theater of Operations Medal, the Victory Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. Unruh was honorably discharged at the end of the war and returned to New Jersey to live with his mother. Both his brother and his father later indicated that Unruh's wartime experiences had changed him, making him moody, nervous and detached.
Unruh briefly found work as a sheet-metal worker before enrolling at the Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, but quit after a month citing "poor physical condition" as the reason. Supported by his mother's income working in a soap factory, he hung about their house, decorating it with his medals, reading his Bible, and practicing his shooting in the basement, which he turned into a practice range.
It was around this time that Unruh's relations with his neighbors began to deteriorate, and his resentment grew over what he regarded as "derogatory remarks made about my character". His brother James pointed to an ongoing feud between Unruh and his neighbor, pharmacist Maurice Cohen, over Unruh's use of Cohen's backyard as a means to access his apartment. On the evening prior to the killings, Unruh went to a movie theater in Philadelphia and sat through several shows before returning home about 3 a.m. He had gone to the theater to meet a man for a date, but was delayed and arrived to find that the man had gone. Upon his return home, the gate he had installed that day had been removed.
Shootings
At approximately 7 a.m. on September 6, 1949, Unruh ate a breakfast prepared by his mother, who then left to visit a neighbor, Carolina Pinner. At about 9:20 a.m., armed with his Luger P08 pistol, an eight-round magazine, and more ammunition carried in his pockets, he left his apartment and walked out onto River Road in Camden. Approaching a bread delivery truck, Unruh shoved his pistol through the door and shot at the driver. He missed his shot by a few inches and the driver unsuccessfully attempted to warn residents.
Unruh visited the shop of one of his neighbors, shoemaker John Pilarchik, whom he shot and killed instantly. He next visited the barbershop of another neighbor, Clark Hoover, who was cutting the hair of six-year old Orris Smith; shooting Hoover in the head and Smith in the neck, both fatally. Running to Cohen's pharmacy, Unruh encountered insurance man James Hutton and killed him when he didn't move out of his way.
Unruh proceeded to the rear of the pharmacy and witnessed Cohen and his wife Rose running up the stairs into their apartment. Once in the apartment, Cohen climbed through a window and onto the porch roof, while Rose hid herself and their son, 12-year-old Charles, in separate closets. However, Unruh discovered the closet Rose was hiding in and shot three times through the door before opening it and firing once more into her face. Walking across the apartment, he spotted Cohen's mother Minnie, age 63, trying to call the police, and shot her multiple times. He then followed Cohen onto a porch roof and shot him in the back, causing him to fall to the pavement below. Charles, still hiding in the second closet, managed to escape undetected.
Unruh then walked into the middle of River Road and fired at an approaching sedan, killing the driver, Alvin Day, and causing the car to careen onto the sidewalk. He then visited the business of tailor Thomas Zegrino; he was absent, but his wife Helga was present and was killed by the gunman. Zegrino would be the only one of Unruh's intended targets to survive the rampage.
After firing through the locked front door of a grocery store, Unruh approached a car waiting at the intersection and shot the occupants: Helen Wilson, her son John, and mother Emma Matlack; the two women died instantly, while the boy later died at Cooper Hospital. Unruh then fired through an apartment window, killing 2-year-old Thomas Hamilton. The child's caregiver, Irene Rice, collapsed upon witnessing the shooting and was treated for severe shock; Unruh would later claim that he didn't know who he saw in the window or whether he hit them. Unruh next fired upon another car coming down the street; its occupants, Charles Peterson and James Crawford, managed to escape to a nearby tavern and survived.
Witness William McNeely saw Frank Engel run out of the tavern and shoot at Unruh, but he apparently missed and then ran back inside. In fact, he had succeeded in shooting Unruh in the leg, which police would only discover at the end of a lengthy interview with Unruh. Unruh fired at several other people across the street, missing them. He then found Madeline Harris and her son Armand outside their home hanging out blankets to dry, and shot at them; both were injured but survived.
Hearing police sirens in the distance, Unruh returned to his apartment, which was soon surrounded by police. The first officer on the scene was Detective William E. Kelly, Sr. A gunfight ensued, during which journalist Philip Buxton of the Camden Evening Courier located Unruh's number in the local telephone directory and dialled. Unruh answered in what was described as "a strong, clear voice", and had the following conversation with Buxton:
"Is this Howard?"
"Yes ... what's the last name of the party you want?"
"Unruh."
(Pause) "What's the last name of the party you want?"
"Unruh. I'm a friend, and I want to know what they're doing to you."
"They're not doing a damned thing to me, but I'm doing plenty to them."
(In a soothing, reassuring voice) "How many have you killed?"
"I don't know yet, because I haven't counted them ... (pause) but it looks like a pretty good score."
"Why are you killing people?"
"I don't know. I can't answer that yet, I'm too busy."
(At that point Buxton heard Unruh move away from the phone as gunfire was heard in the background)
"I'll have to talk to you later ... a couple of friends are coming to get me" ... (voice trails off).
The gunfight ended when police threw two tear gas bombs into the apartment, the second of which ignited, filling the room with gas. Two armed officers, Patrolman Charles Hance and Captain Everett Joslin, went up to the first floor of the building and shouted, "Come down with your hands up", to which Unruh replied, "I give up. Don't shoot." Unruh emerged from the room and stumbled down the stairs, falling at the feet of the officers and was handcuffed by Sergeant Earl Wright.
Detectives found an apartment filled with what was described as an arsenal of weapons, guns, knives, bullet-making equipment and more than 700 rounds. In a drawer were several marksmanship medals, and in the basement was Unruh's target range. On a table was a Bible opened to Matthew Chapter 24. Police also found books relating to sex hygiene.
Arrest and incarceration
Under police interrogation, Unruh gave a meticulous account of his actions, which was later released by Camden County prosecutor Mitchell Cohen (no relation to Maurice Cohen). Only at the end of this interrogation did police discover that Unruh had a bullet wound in his left thigh. He was subsequently taken to Cooper Hospital for treatment, where his thirteenth victim, John Wilson, was already dying.
Charges were filed for thirteen counts of "willful and malicious slayings with malice aforethought" and three counts of "atrocious assault and battery". Unruh was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by psychologists and found to be insane, making him immune to criminal prosecution. When he was able to leave Cooper Hospital, Unruh was sent to the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane (now Trenton Psychiatric Hospital), to be held in a private cell in the maximum-security Vroom Building. He remained incarcerated there for the rest of his life until his death in 2009. Unruh's last public words, made during an interview with a psychologist, were, "I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."
Victims
Unruh killed 13 and injured three. Those killed, and their ages, are listed below:
John Joseph Pilarchik, 27
Orris Martin Smith, 6
Clark Hoover, 45
James Hutton, 46
Rose Cohen, 38
Minnie Cohen, 63
Dr. Maurice J. Cohen, 39
Alvin Day, 24
Thomas Hamilton, 2
Helga Kautzach Zegrino, 28
Emma Matlack, 68
Helen Wilson, 37
John Wilson, 9
Miscellaneous
Maurice and Rose Cohen's son Charles, then aged 12, survived the murder of his family by hiding in a closet. Charles H. Cohen (January 31, 1937 – September 4, 2009) was the maternal grandfather of Carly Novell, who survived the February 14, 2018, shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, by hiding in a closet like her grandfather did in 1949. Charles Cohen died at the age of 72 on September 4, 2009, and was buried two days later on September 6, 2009 (during the 60th anniversary of the mass murder and just one month before Unruh's death).
See also
List of rampage killers
Gun violence in the United States
Mass shootings in the United States
Ernest Ingenito (1924–1995) another New Jersey-based spree killer
Notes
References
External links
The Quiet One, Time Magazine (September 19, 1949)
A Portrait of the Jersey mass killer as an old man, The New York Times (March 8, 1982)
Sixty years ago today, a Camden gunman killed 13, The Philadelphia Inquirer (September 6, 2009)
Howard Unruh, 88, Dies; Killed 13 of His Neighbors in Camden in 1949, The New York Times'' (October 19, 2009)
Howard Unruh – 1939 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook entry
Life Magazine September 19, 1949
1921 births
2009 deaths
1949 murders in the United States
United States Army personnel of World War II
American murderers of children
People acquitted by reason of insanity
People acquitted of murder
American spree killers
People from Camden, New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson High School (New Jersey) alumni
United States Army soldiers
Military personnel from New Jersey
20th-century American criminals
American male criminals
Mass shootings in the United States
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LGBT people from New Jersey
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"Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, United States, on September 6, 1949, when he was 28 years old.",
"The incident became known as the \"Walk of Death\".",
"Unruh was found to be criminally insane, and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88 following sixty years of confinement.",
"Background and possible motives for killings\nHoward Unruh was the son of Samuel Shipley Unruh and Freda E. Vollmer.",
"He had a younger brother, James; they were raised by their mother after their parents separated.",
"Unruh grew up in East Camden, New Jersey, attended Cramer Junior High School, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in January 1939.",
"The Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook from 1939 indicated that he was shy and that his ambition was to become a government employee.",
"Unruh enlisted in the United States Army on October 27, 1942, and saw active service as a armor crewman across Europe between October 1944 and July 1945.",
"He was remembered by his Section Chief, Norman E. Koehn, as a first-class soldier who never drank, swore, or chased girls, yet spent much time reading his Bible and writing long letters to his mother.",
"It was also cited that Unruh kept meticulous notes on the enemies killed in battles, down to the details of the corpses.",
"He was awarded the European Theater of Operations Medal, the Victory Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal.",
"Unruh was honorably discharged at the end of the war and returned to New Jersey to live with his mother.",
"Both his brother and his father later indicated that Unruh's wartime experiences had changed him, making him moody, nervous and detached.",
"Unruh briefly found work as a sheet-metal worker before enrolling at the Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, but quit after a month citing \"poor physical condition\" as the reason.",
"Supported by his mother's income working in a soap factory, he hung about their house, decorating it with his medals, reading his Bible, and practicing his shooting in the basement, which he turned into a practice range.",
"It was around this time that Unruh's relations with his neighbors began to deteriorate, and his resentment grew over what he regarded as \"derogatory remarks made about my character\".",
"His brother James pointed to an ongoing feud between Unruh and his neighbor, pharmacist Maurice Cohen, over Unruh's use of Cohen's backyard as a means to access his apartment.",
"On the evening prior to the killings, Unruh went to a movie theater in Philadelphia and sat through several shows before returning home about 3 a.m.",
"He had gone to the theater to meet a man for a date, but was delayed and arrived to find that the man had gone.",
"Upon his return home, the gate he had installed that day had been removed.",
"Shootings\nAt approximately 7 a.m. on September 6, 1949, Unruh ate a breakfast prepared by his mother, who then left to visit a neighbor, Carolina Pinner.",
"At about 9:20 a.m., armed with his Luger P08 pistol, an eight-round magazine, and more ammunition carried in his pockets, he left his apartment and walked out onto River Road in Camden.",
"Approaching a bread delivery truck, Unruh shoved his pistol through the door and shot at the driver.",
"He missed his shot by a few inches and the driver unsuccessfully attempted to warn residents.",
"Unruh visited the shop of one of his neighbors, shoemaker John Pilarchik, whom he shot and killed instantly.",
"He next visited the barbershop of another neighbor, Clark Hoover, who was cutting the hair of six-year old Orris Smith; shooting Hoover in the head and Smith in the neck, both fatally.",
"Running to Cohen's pharmacy, Unruh encountered insurance man James Hutton and killed him when he didn't move out of his way.",
"Unruh proceeded to the rear of the pharmacy and witnessed Cohen and his wife Rose running up the stairs into their apartment.",
"Once in the apartment, Cohen climbed through a window and onto the porch roof, while Rose hid herself and their son, 12-year-old Charles, in separate closets.",
"However, Unruh discovered the closet Rose was hiding in and shot three times through the door before opening it and firing once more into her face.",
"Walking across the apartment, he spotted Cohen's mother Minnie, age 63, trying to call the police, and shot her multiple times.",
"He then followed Cohen onto a porch roof and shot him in the back, causing him to fall to the pavement below.",
"Charles, still hiding in the second closet, managed to escape undetected.",
"Unruh then walked into the middle of River Road and fired at an approaching sedan, killing the driver, Alvin Day, and causing the car to careen onto the sidewalk.",
"He then visited the business of tailor Thomas Zegrino; he was absent, but his wife Helga was present and was killed by the gunman.",
"Zegrino would be the only one of Unruh's intended targets to survive the rampage.",
"After firing through the locked front door of a grocery store, Unruh approached a car waiting at the intersection and shot the occupants: Helen Wilson, her son John, and mother Emma Matlack; the two women died instantly, while the boy later died at Cooper Hospital.",
"Unruh then fired through an apartment window, killing 2-year-old Thomas Hamilton.",
"The child's caregiver, Irene Rice, collapsed upon witnessing the shooting and was treated for severe shock; Unruh would later claim that he didn't know who he saw in the window or whether he hit them.",
"Unruh next fired upon another car coming down the street; its occupants, Charles Peterson and James Crawford, managed to escape to a nearby tavern and survived.",
"Witness William McNeely saw Frank Engel run out of the tavern and shoot at Unruh, but he apparently missed and then ran back inside.",
"In fact, he had succeeded in shooting Unruh in the leg, which police would only discover at the end of a lengthy interview with Unruh.",
"Unruh fired at several other people across the street, missing them.",
"He then found Madeline Harris and her son Armand outside their home hanging out blankets to dry, and shot at them; both were injured but survived.",
"Hearing police sirens in the distance, Unruh returned to his apartment, which was soon surrounded by police.",
"The first officer on the scene was Detective William E. Kelly, Sr. A gunfight ensued, during which journalist Philip Buxton of the Camden Evening Courier located Unruh's number in the local telephone directory and dialled.",
"Unruh answered in what was described as \"a strong, clear voice\", and had the following conversation with Buxton:\n\n\"Is this Howard?\"",
"\"Yes ... what's the last name of the party you want?\"",
"\"Unruh.\"",
"(Pause) \"What's the last name of the party you want?\"",
"\"Unruh.",
"I'm a friend, and I want to know what they're doing to you.\"",
"\"They're not doing a damned thing to me, but I'm doing plenty to them.\"",
"(In a soothing, reassuring voice) \"How many have you killed?\"",
"\"I don't know yet, because I haven't counted them ... (pause) but it looks like a pretty good score.\"",
"\"Why are you killing people?\"",
"\"I don't know.",
"I can't answer that yet, I'm too busy.\"",
"(At that point Buxton heard Unruh move away from the phone as gunfire was heard in the background)\n\"I'll have to talk to you later ... a couple of friends are coming to get me\" ... (voice trails off).",
"The gunfight ended when police threw two tear gas bombs into the apartment, the second of which ignited, filling the room with gas.",
"Two armed officers, Patrolman Charles Hance and Captain Everett Joslin, went up to the first floor of the building and shouted, \"Come down with your hands up\", to which Unruh replied, \"I give up.",
"Don't shoot.\"",
"Unruh emerged from the room and stumbled down the stairs, falling at the feet of the officers and was handcuffed by Sergeant Earl Wright.",
"Detectives found an apartment filled with what was described as an arsenal of weapons, guns, knives, bullet-making equipment and more than 700 rounds.",
"In a drawer were several marksmanship medals, and in the basement was Unruh's target range.",
"On a table was a Bible opened to Matthew Chapter 24.",
"Police also found books relating to sex hygiene.",
"Arrest and incarceration\nUnder police interrogation, Unruh gave a meticulous account of his actions, which was later released by Camden County prosecutor Mitchell Cohen (no relation to Maurice Cohen).",
"Only at the end of this interrogation did police discover that Unruh had a bullet wound in his left thigh.",
"He was subsequently taken to Cooper Hospital for treatment, where his thirteenth victim, John Wilson, was already dying.",
"Charges were filed for thirteen counts of \"willful and malicious slayings with malice aforethought\" and three counts of \"atrocious assault and battery\".",
"Unruh was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by psychologists and found to be insane, making him immune to criminal prosecution.",
"When he was able to leave Cooper Hospital, Unruh was sent to the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane (now Trenton Psychiatric Hospital), to be held in a private cell in the maximum-security Vroom Building.",
"He remained incarcerated there for the rest of his life until his death in 2009.",
"Unruh's last public words, made during an interview with a psychologist, were, \"I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.\"",
"Victims\nUnruh killed 13 and injured three.",
"Those killed, and their ages, are listed below:\n\nJohn Joseph Pilarchik, 27\nOrris Martin Smith, 6\nClark Hoover, 45\nJames Hutton, 46\nRose Cohen, 38\nMinnie Cohen, 63\nDr. Maurice J. Cohen, 39\nAlvin Day, 24\nThomas Hamilton, 2\nHelga Kautzach Zegrino, 28\nEmma Matlack, 68\nHelen Wilson, 37\nJohn Wilson, 9\n\nMiscellaneous\nMaurice and Rose Cohen's son Charles, then aged 12, survived the murder of his family by hiding in a closet.",
"Charles H. Cohen (January 31, 1937 – September 4, 2009) was the maternal grandfather of Carly Novell, who survived the February 14, 2018, shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, by hiding in a closet like her grandfather did in 1949.",
"Charles Cohen died at the age of 72 on September 4, 2009, and was buried two days later on September 6, 2009 (during the 60th anniversary of the mass murder and just one month before Unruh's death).",
"See also\n List of rampage killers\n Gun violence in the United States\n Mass shootings in the United States\n Ernest Ingenito (1924–1995) another New Jersey-based spree killer\n\nNotes\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n The Quiet One, Time Magazine (September 19, 1949)\n A Portrait of the Jersey mass killer as an old man, The New York Times (March 8, 1982)\n Sixty years ago today, a Camden gunman killed 13, The Philadelphia Inquirer (September 6, 2009)\n Howard Unruh, 88, Dies; Killed 13 of His Neighbors in Camden in 1949, The New York Times'' (October 19, 2009)\n Howard Unruh – 1939 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook entry\n \nLife Magazine September 19, 1949\n\n1921 births\n2009 deaths\n1949 murders in the United States\nUnited States Army personnel of World War II\nAmerican murderers of children\nPeople acquitted by reason of insanity\nPeople acquitted of murder\nAmerican spree killers\nPeople from Camden, New Jersey\nWoodrow Wilson High School (New Jersey) alumni\nUnited States Army soldiers\nMilitary personnel from New Jersey\n20th-century American criminals\nAmerican male criminals\nMass shootings in the United States\nPeople with schizophrenia\nLGBT people from New Jersey\n20th-century LGBT people"
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"Howard Barton Unruh was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, United States, on September 6, 1949, when he was 28 years old.",
"The incident was known as the \"Walk of Death\".",
"After sixty years of confinement, Unruh was found to be criminally insane and died in 2009, at the age of 88.",
"Howard Unruh was the son of Samuel Shipley Unruh and Freda E. Vollmer.",
"After their parents separated, he and James were raised by their mother.",
"Unruh attended Cramer Junior High School in East Camden, New Jersey, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1939.",
"His ambition was to become a government employee and he was shy, according to the 1939 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.",
"On October 27, 1942, Unruh enlisted in the United States Army and served in Europe as an armor crewman.",
"He was remembered by his Section Chief, Norman E. Koehn, as a first-class soldier who never drank, swore, or chased girls, yet spent much time reading his Bible and writing long letters to his mother.",
"Unruh kept detailed notes on the enemies killed in battles, as well as the details of the corpses.",
"He received the European Theater of Operations medal, the Victory medal, and the Good Conduct medal.",
"After the war, Unruh returned to New Jersey to live with his mother.",
"His brother and father said that Unruh's wartime experiences made him jittery and detached.",
"After a month at the Temple University School of Pharmacy, Unruh quit due to poor physical condition.",
"Supported by his mother's income working in a soap factory, he hung about their house, decorating it with his medals, reading his Bible, and practicing his shooting in the basement, which he turned into a practice range.",
"It was around this time that Unruh's relations with his neighbors deteriorated, and his resentment grew over what he regarded asderogatory remarks made about his character.",
"James pointed to an ongoing feud between Unruh and his neighbor, Maurice Cohen, over Unruh's use of Cohen's backyard as a way to access his apartment.",
"On the evening before the killings, Unruh went to a movie theater in Philadelphia and sat through several shows.",
"He went to the theater to meet a man for a date, but was delayed and found that the man had left.",
"The gate he had put up had been removed.",
"On September 6, 1949, Unruh ate a breakfast prepared by his mother, who then left to visit a neighbor.",
"He left his apartment at about 9:20 a.m. with a pistol, an eight-round magazine, and more bullets in his pockets.",
"Unruh shot at the driver of the bread delivery truck after shoving his pistol through the door.",
"He missed his shot and the driver tried to warn people.",
"Unruh went to the shop of his neighbor and shot and killed him.",
"He went to the barbershop of Clark Hoover, who was cutting the hair of six-year old Orris Smith, and shot Hoover in the head and Smith in the neck, both fatally.",
"Unruh ran to Cohen's pharmacy and killed the insurance man when he didn't move out of his way.",
"Cohen and his wife ran up the stairs into their apartment as Unruh watched.",
"Cohen climbed through a window onto the porch roof while Rose hid her and their son in separate closets.",
"Rose was hiding in the closet when Unruh found her and shot her three times through the door.",
"He saw Cohen's mother trying to call the police and shot her multiple times.",
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"Charles was hiding in the second closet.",
"Unruh walked into the middle of River Road and fired at a car, killing the driver and causing the car to careen onto the sidewalk.",
"He was absent when he went to the tailor's business, but his wife Helga was dead when he arrived.",
"Unruh intended to only have one of his targets survive the rampage.",
"After firing through the locked front door of a grocery store, Unruh approached a car waiting at the intersection and shot Helen Wilson, her son John, and mother Emma Matlack; the two women died instantly, while the boy later died at Cooper Hospital.",
"Thomas Hamilton was killed when Unruh fired through an apartment window.",
"The child's caregivers collapsed and 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465, Unruh claimed that he didn't know who he saw in the window or 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465.",
"The two men who were in the car that was shot at by Unruh escaped to a nearby tavern and survived.",
"Frank Engel ran out of the tavern and shot at Unruh, but he missed and then ran back inside.",
"At the end of a lengthy interview with Unruh, police discovered that he had shot Unruh in the leg.",
"Several people were missing after Unruh fired at them.",
"He found Madeline Harris and her son outside of their home hanging out blankets to dry and shot at them, but both survived.",
"Unruh returned to his apartment, which was soon surrounded by police.",
"The first officer on the scene was Detective William E. Kelly, Sr.",
"Unruh answered in a strong, clear voice and had a conversation with Buxton.",
"What is the last name of the party you want?",
"\"Unruh.\"",
"What is the last name of the party you want?",
"\"Unruh.\"",
"I want to know what they're doing to you.",
"I'm doing a lot to them, but they're not doing anything to me.",
"How many have you killed?",
"I haven't counted them yet, but it looks like a pretty good score.",
"Why are you killing people?",
"I don't know.",
"I'm too busy to answer that yet.",
"Unruh moved away from the phone as gunfire was heard in the background.",
"The gunfight ended when police threw two tear gas bombs into the apartment, filling the room with gas.",
"Two armed officers went up to the first floor of the building and shouted, \"Come down with your hands up\", to which Unruh replied, \"I give up.\"",
"Don't shoot.",
"Sergeant Earl Wright handcuffed Unruh after he stumbled down the stairs and fell at the feet of the officers.",
"An apartment filled with weapons, guns, knives, bullet-making equipment and more than 700 rounds was found by detectives.",
"There were medals in a drawer and a target range in the basement.",
"There was a table with a Bible on it.",
"The books were related to sex hygiene.",
"Unruh gave a detailed account of his actions during his police interrogation, which was later released by the Camden County prosecutor.",
"At the end of the interrogation, police discovered that Unruh had a bullet wound in his thigh.",
"John Wilson, his 13th victim, was already dead when he was taken to Cooper Hospital.",
"There were thirteen counts of willful and malicious killings with malice aforethought and three counts of atrocious assault and battery.",
"Unruh was found to be insane after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, making him immune to criminal prosecution.",
"After leaving Cooper Hospital, Unruh was sent to the New Jersey Hospital for the insane to be held in a private cell.",
"He was there for the rest of his life.",
"During an interview with a psychologist, Unruh said, \"I would have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets.\"",
"13 people were killed and three were injured.",
"The people killed and their ages are listed below.",
"In 1949, Charles H. Cohen hid in a closet in order to protect himself from a shooting at a high school in Florida.",
"During the 60th anniversary of the mass murder and just one month before Unruh's death, Charles Cohen died at the age of 72 and was buried two days later.",
"There is a list of rampage killers in the United States."
] | <mask> (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer who shot and killed thirteen people during a twelve-minute walk through his neighborhood in Camden, New Jersey, United States, on September 6, 1949, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death". Unruh was found to be criminally insane, and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88 following sixty years of confinement. Background and possible motives for killings
<mask> was the son of <mask> and Freda E. Vollmer. He had a younger brother, James; they were raised by their mother after their parents separated. Unruh grew up in East Camden, New Jersey, attended Cramer Junior High School, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in January 1939. The Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook from 1939 indicated that he was shy and that his ambition was to become a government employee.Unruh enlisted in the United States Army on October 27, 1942, and saw active service as a armor crewman across Europe between October 1944 and July 1945. He was remembered by his Section Chief, Norman E. Koehn, as a first-class soldier who never drank, swore, or chased girls, yet spent much time reading his Bible and writing long letters to his mother. It was also cited that Unruh kept meticulous notes on the enemies killed in battles, down to the details of the corpses. He was awarded the European Theater of Operations Medal, the Victory Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. Unruh was honorably discharged at the end of the war and returned to New Jersey to live with his mother. Both his brother and his father later indicated that Unruh's wartime experiences had changed him, making him moody, nervous and detached. Unruh briefly found work as a sheet-metal worker before enrolling at the Temple University School of Pharmacy in Philadelphia, but quit after a month citing "poor physical condition" as the reason.Supported by his mother's income working in a soap factory, he hung about their house, decorating it with his medals, reading his Bible, and practicing his shooting in the basement, which he turned into a practice range. It was around this time that Unruh's relations with his neighbors began to deteriorate, and his resentment grew over what he regarded as "derogatory remarks made about my character". His brother James pointed to an ongoing feud between Unruh and his neighbor, pharmacist Maurice Cohen, over Unruh's use of Cohen's backyard as a means to access his apartment. On the evening prior to the killings, Unruh went to a movie theater in Philadelphia and sat through several shows before returning home about 3 a.m. He had gone to the theater to meet a man for a date, but was delayed and arrived to find that the man had gone. Upon his return home, the gate he had installed that day had been removed. Shootings
At approximately 7 a.m. on September 6, 1949, Unruh ate a breakfast prepared by his mother, who then left to visit a neighbor, Carolina Pinner.At about 9:20 a.m., armed with his Luger P08 pistol, an eight-round magazine, and more ammunition carried in his pockets, he left his apartment and walked out onto River Road in Camden. Approaching a bread delivery truck, Unruh shoved his pistol through the door and shot at the driver. He missed his shot by a few inches and the driver unsuccessfully attempted to warn residents. Unruh visited the shop of one of his neighbors, shoemaker John Pilarchik, whom he shot and killed instantly. He next visited the barbershop of another neighbor, Clark Hoover, who was cutting the hair of six-year old Orris Smith; shooting Hoover in the head and Smith in the neck, both fatally. Running to Cohen's pharmacy, Unruh encountered insurance man James Hutton and killed him when he didn't move out of his way. Unruh proceeded to the rear of the pharmacy and witnessed Cohen and his wife Rose running up the stairs into their apartment.Once in the apartment, Cohen climbed through a window and onto the porch roof, while Rose hid herself and their son, 12-year-old Charles, in separate closets. However, Unruh discovered the closet Rose was hiding in and shot three times through the door before opening it and firing once more into her face. Walking across the apartment, he spotted Cohen's mother Minnie, age 63, trying to call the police, and shot her multiple times. He then followed Cohen onto a porch roof and shot him in the back, causing him to fall to the pavement below. Charles, still hiding in the second closet, managed to escape undetected. Unruh then walked into the middle of River Road and fired at an approaching sedan, killing the driver, Alvin Day, and causing the car to careen onto the sidewalk. He then visited the business of tailor Thomas Zegrino; he was absent, but his wife Helga was present and was killed by the gunman.Zegrino would be the only one of Unruh's intended targets to survive the rampage. After firing through the locked front door of a grocery store, Unruh approached a car waiting at the intersection and shot the occupants: Helen Wilson, her son John, and mother Emma Matlack; the two women died instantly, while the boy later died at Cooper Hospital. Unruh then fired through an apartment window, killing 2-year-old Thomas Hamilton. The child's caregiver, Irene Rice, collapsed upon witnessing the shooting and was treated for severe shock; Unruh would later claim that he didn't know who he saw in the window or whether he hit them. Unruh next fired upon another car coming down the street; its occupants, Charles Peterson and James Crawford, managed to escape to a nearby tavern and survived. Witness William McNeely saw Frank Engel run out of the tavern and shoot at Unruh, but he apparently missed and then ran back inside. In fact, he had succeeded in shooting Unruh in the leg, which police would only discover at the end of a lengthy interview with Unruh.Unruh fired at several other people across the street, missing them. He then found Madeline Harris and her son Armand outside their home hanging out blankets to dry, and shot at them; both were injured but survived. Hearing police sirens in the distance, Unruh returned to his apartment, which was soon surrounded by police. The first officer on the scene was Detective William E. Kelly, Sr. A gunfight ensued, during which journalist Philip Buxton of the Camden Evening Courier located Unruh's number in the local telephone directory and dialled. Unruh answered in what was described as "a strong, clear voice", and had the following conversation with Buxton:
"Is this <mask>?" "Yes ... what's the last name of the party you want?" "Unruh."(Pause) "What's the last name of the party you want?" "Unruh. I'm a friend, and I want to know what they're doing to you." "They're not doing a damned thing to me, but I'm doing plenty to them." (In a soothing, reassuring voice) "How many have you killed?" "I don't know yet, because I haven't counted them ... (pause) but it looks like a pretty good score." "Why are you killing people?""I don't know. I can't answer that yet, I'm too busy." (At that point Buxton heard Unruh move away from the phone as gunfire was heard in the background)
"I'll have to talk to you later ... a couple of friends are coming to get me" ... (voice trails off). The gunfight ended when police threw two tear gas bombs into the apartment, the second of which ignited, filling the room with gas. Two armed officers, Patrolman Charles Hance and Captain Everett Joslin, went up to the first floor of the building and shouted, "Come down with your hands up", to which Unruh replied, "I give up. Don't shoot." Unruh emerged from the room and stumbled down the stairs, falling at the feet of the officers and was handcuffed by Sergeant Earl Wright.Detectives found an apartment filled with what was described as an arsenal of weapons, guns, knives, bullet-making equipment and more than 700 rounds. In a drawer were several marksmanship medals, and in the basement was Unruh's target range. On a table was a Bible opened to Matthew Chapter 24. Police also found books relating to sex hygiene. Arrest and incarceration
Under police interrogation, Unruh gave a meticulous account of his actions, which was later released by Camden County prosecutor Mitchell Cohen (no relation to Maurice Cohen). Only at the end of this interrogation did police discover that Unruh had a bullet wound in his left thigh. He was subsequently taken to Cooper Hospital for treatment, where his thirteenth victim, John Wilson, was already dying.Charges were filed for thirteen counts of "willful and malicious slayings with malice aforethought" and three counts of "atrocious assault and battery". Unruh was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia by psychologists and found to be insane, making him immune to criminal prosecution. When he was able to leave Cooper Hospital, Unruh was sent to the New Jersey Hospital for the Insane (now Trenton Psychiatric Hospital), to be held in a private cell in the maximum-security Vroom Building. He remained incarcerated there for the rest of his life until his death in 2009. Unruh's last public words, made during an interview with a psychologist, were, "I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets." Victims
Unruh killed 13 and injured three. Those killed, and their ages, are listed below:
John Joseph Pilarchik, 27
Orris Martin Smith, 6
Clark Hoover, 45
James Hutton, 46
Rose Cohen, 38
Minnie Cohen, 63
Dr. Maurice J. Cohen, 39
Alvin Day, 24
Thomas Hamilton, 2
Helga Kautzach Zegrino, 28
Emma Matlack, 68
Helen Wilson, 37
John Wilson, 9
Miscellaneous
Maurice and Rose Cohen's son Charles, then aged 12, survived the murder of his family by hiding in a closet.Charles H. Cohen (January 31, 1937 – September 4, 2009) was the maternal grandfather of Carly Novell, who survived the February 14, 2018, shooting incident at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, by hiding in a closet like her grandfather did in 1949. Charles Cohen died at the age of 72 on September 4, 2009, and was buried two days later on September 6, 2009 (during the 60th anniversary of the mass murder and just one month before Unruh's death). See also
List of rampage killers
Gun violence in the United States
Mass shootings in the United States
Ernest Ingenito (1924–1995) another New Jersey-based spree killer
Notes
References
External links
The Quiet One, Time Magazine (September 19, 1949)
A Portrait of the Jersey mass killer as an old man, The New York Times (March 8, 1982)
Sixty years ago today, a Camden gunman killed 13, The Philadelphia Inquirer (September 6, 2009)
<mask>, 88, Dies; Killed 13 of His Neighbors in Camden in 1949, The New York Times'' (October 19, 2009)
<mask>h – 1939 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook entry
Life Magazine September 19, 1949
1921 births
2009 deaths
1949 murders in the United States
United States Army personnel of World War II
American murderers of children
People acquitted by reason of insanity
People acquitted of murder
American spree killers
People from Camden, New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson High School (New Jersey) alumni
United States Army soldiers
Military personnel from New Jersey
20th-century American criminals
American male criminals
Mass shootings in the United States
People with schizophrenia
LGBT people from New Jersey
20th-century LGBT people | [
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Koehn, as a first-class soldier who never drank, swore, or chased girls, yet spent much time reading his Bible and writing long letters to his mother. Unruh kept detailed notes on the enemies killed in battles, as well as the details of the corpses. He received the European Theater of Operations medal, the Victory medal, and the Good Conduct medal. After the war, Unruh returned to New Jersey to live with his mother. His brother and father said that Unruh's wartime experiences made him jittery and detached. After a month at the Temple University School of Pharmacy, Unruh quit due to poor physical condition.Supported by his mother's income working in a soap factory, he hung about their house, decorating it with his medals, reading his Bible, and practicing his shooting in the basement, which he turned into a practice range. It was around this time that Unruh's relations with his neighbors deteriorated, and his resentment grew over what he regarded asderogatory remarks made about his character. James pointed to an ongoing feud between Unruh and his neighbor, Maurice Cohen, over Unruh's use of Cohen's backyard as a way to access his apartment. On the evening before the killings, Unruh went to a movie theater in Philadelphia and sat through several shows. He went to the theater to meet a man for a date, but was delayed and found that the man had left. The gate he had put up had been removed. On September 6, 1949, Unruh ate a breakfast prepared by his mother, who then left to visit a neighbor.He left his apartment at about 9:20 a.m. with a pistol, an eight-round magazine, and more bullets in his pockets. Unruh shot at the driver of the bread delivery truck after shoving his pistol through the door. He missed his shot and the driver tried to warn people. Unruh went to the shop of his neighbor and shot and killed him. He went to the barbershop of Clark Hoover, who was cutting the hair of six-year old Orris Smith, and shot Hoover in the head and Smith in the neck, both fatally. Unruh ran to Cohen's pharmacy and killed the insurance man when he didn't move out of his way. Cohen and his wife ran up the stairs into their apartment as Unruh watched.Cohen climbed through a window onto the porch roof while Rose hid her and their son in separate closets. Rose was hiding in the closet when Unruh found her and shot her three times through the door. He saw Cohen's mother trying to call the police and shot her multiple times. 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He was absent when he went to the tailor's business, but his wife Helga was dead when he arrived.Unruh intended to only have one of his targets survive the rampage. After firing through the locked front door of a grocery store, Unruh approached a car waiting at the intersection and shot Helen Wilson, her son John, and mother Emma Matlack; the two women died instantly, while the boy later died at Cooper Hospital. Thomas Hamilton was killed when Unruh fired through an apartment window. The child's caregivers collapsed and 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465, Unruh claimed that he didn't know who he saw in the window or 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465 888-282-0465. The two men who were in the car that was shot at by Unruh escaped to a nearby tavern and survived. Frank Engel ran out of the tavern and shot at Unruh, but he missed and then ran back inside. At the end of a lengthy interview with Unruh, police discovered that he had shot Unruh in the leg.Several people were missing after Unruh fired at them. He found Madeline Harris and her son outside of their home hanging out blankets to dry and shot at them, but both survived. Unruh returned to his apartment, which was soon surrounded by police. The first officer on the scene was Detective William E. Kelly, Sr. Unruh answered in a strong, clear voice and had a conversation with Buxton. What is the last name of the party you want? "Unruh."What is the last name of the party you want? "Unruh." I want to know what they're doing to you. I'm doing a lot to them, but they're not doing anything to me. How many have you killed? I haven't counted them yet, but it looks like a pretty good score. Why are you killing people?I don't know. I'm too busy to answer that yet. Unruh moved away from the phone as gunfire was heard in the background. The gunfight ended when police threw two tear gas bombs into the apartment, filling the room with gas. Two armed officers went up to the first floor of the building and shouted, "Come down with your hands up", to which Unruh replied, "I give up." Don't shoot. Sergeant Earl Wright handcuffed Unruh after he stumbled down the stairs and fell at the feet of the officers.An apartment filled with weapons, guns, knives, bullet-making equipment and more than 700 rounds was found by detectives. There were medals in a drawer and a target range in the basement. There was a table with a Bible on it. The books were related to sex hygiene. Unruh gave a detailed account of his actions during his police interrogation, which was later released by the Camden County prosecutor. At the end of the interrogation, police discovered that Unruh had a bullet wound in his thigh. John Wilson, his 13th victim, was already dead when he was taken to Cooper Hospital.There were thirteen counts of willful and malicious killings with malice aforethought and three counts of atrocious assault and battery. Unruh was found to be insane after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, making him immune to criminal prosecution. After leaving Cooper Hospital, Unruh was sent to the New Jersey Hospital for the insane to be held in a private cell. He was there for the rest of his life. During an interview with a psychologist, Unruh said, "I would have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets." 13 people were killed and three were injured. The people killed and their ages are listed below.In 1949, Charles H. Cohen hid in a closet in order to protect himself from a shooting at a high school in Florida. During the 60th anniversary of the mass murder and just one month before Unruh's death, Charles Cohen died at the age of 72 and was buried two days later. 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17487128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdasar%20Arzoumanian | Baghdasar Arzoumanian | Baghdasar Arzoumanian (1916 - 2001) (, also Bagdasar, Paghtasar, Paghtassar, Baghdik, Bagdik, Arzumanian, Arzoumanyan, Arzumanyan) was an Armenian architect and designer based in Yerevan, Armenia. He was the author of a large corpus of civil and religious buildings as well as many smaller design works.
Education and background
Baghdasar Arzoumanian was born in v. Mutsk (formerly Mazra, Bardzravan) of Syunik Province, Armenia. From 1928 to 1936 he studied at the Technical School after Alexander Tamanyan. In 1938 he was admitted to the Constructions Department of the Institute for Polytechnical Sciences of Yerevan. In 1942 he was recruited into the Soviet army and took part in World War II. He served in the army until 1946 when he returned to Yerevan to continue his studies. He graduated from the Institute in 1949.
During his professional career he worked with "Yerevan Project" Institute and the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and provided valuable input into 20th century Armenian architecture.
He died on November 19, 2001 in Yerevan. Bishop Paren Avetikian visited the family of the architect to present the condolences of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin and Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians.
Civil buildings
Arzoumanian is the author of many civil buildings in Armenia. Below is a list of his most important buildings:
City hall of Vanadzor and Hotel Gougark in the Hayk Square (then known as Kirov Square) of the city of Vanadzor (coauthor: Hovhannes Margarian), completed during the 1950s.
Erebuni Museum (1968, coauthor: Shmavon Azatian).
Museum dedicated to 2450th anniversary of establishment of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Metro Station "David of Sasoun", (coauthors: Sargis Nersisian and Areg Israyelian).
Degustation Hall of the Yerevan Brandy Factory (coauthors: Sargis Nersisian and Hasmik Alexanian).
Yerevan Cable-way Station.
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is author/coauthor of the RA Police building in Yerevan, various apartment buildings, reconstruction of Moscow Cinema in Yerevan. He is author of numerous memorials dedicated to the victory in the World War II that are located in various parts of Armenia.
Service to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1956–2001)
Early works
Vanatoon (Monastic Residence) – 1978
Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum – 1982
Design works
Along with his architectural works, Baghdasar Arzoumanian left many design works.
Khachkars and memorials
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is author of many khachkars and memorials. Many of them are located on the grounds of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (i.e. Motherland-Diaspora Memorial).
He is also the author of memorial in the Monastery of Geghard, memorial and khachkars next to the Prelacy of the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese.
Jewellery works
The Golden Alphabet (1976) and the Golden Cross (1979) of Baghdasar Arzoumanian are very famous all over Armenia and symbolise its past and present. These works are kept in the Pontifical Residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
Among other works are:
State Emblem of the Soviet Armenia (1981)
Souvenir dedicated to the 30th anniversary of service of Vasken I, Catholicos of All Armenians (1985)
The list continues with various crosiers, rings, the liturgical dressing of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
Arzoumanian is author of the design of catholicosal medals St. Gregory the Illuminator, St. Sahak – St. Mesrop, and St. Nerses Shnorhali (Nerses the Gracious).
Interior design
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of the Throne Hall of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
Iconostases
Besides iconostases of the churches of his own design, Arzoumanian is the author of the iconostases of following churches:
St. Sarkis Vicarial Church of Yerevan, Armenia (authors of renovation: Rafayel Israyelian and Artsrun Galikyan),
St. Catherine Armenian Church of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Graphical works
There are a number of graphical works by Baghdasar Arzoumanian which include design of Etchmiadzin Monthly, Catholicosal Decrees, designs of various books, friendly jests.
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the graphical designer and the author of the text of the book "Armenian Churches".
Tombstones
Baghasar Arzoumanian is the author of the tombstones of:
Vazgen I, Catholicos of All Armenians,
Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians,
Saint Mesrob Mashtots.
Other works
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of the "Dpratoun" building in Oshakan, Armenia. He is also the designer of the entrance door of the Residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
Churches
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is author of 8 Armenian churches and 2 renovation projects.
Renovation projects
Arzoumanian is the author of renovation of the following churches:
St. John the Baptist Church of Yerevan (entire renovation and the bell-tower),
St. Gregory the Illuminator Church of the Kinali Island, Turkey.
New churches
Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the architect of the following churches:
St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Odessa, Ukraine (1995),
St. Sarkis Church of Nork District of Yerevan, Armenia (1999),
Holy Resurrection Church of Nerkin Dvin, Armenia,
Holy Resurrection Church of Spitak, Armenia (1999),
Holy Martyrs Church of Kashatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2002, the church was consecrated after his death),
St. Hakob (James) Church of Gyumri, Armenia (2002, the church was consecrated after his death),
St. Hakob (James) Church of the Vaskenian Theological Academy near Sevan, Armenia
Holy Trinity Church of Yerevan, Armenia (2005, the church was consecrated after his death).
See also video of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Odessa.
Medals and awards
St. Gregory the Illuminator Medal
Golden Medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1991)
Title of Merited Constructor of Armenia (1966)
Baghdasar Arzoumanian also holds numerous medals for his military career during World War II (2nd Order Medal of the Patriotic War, Red Star Medal, Medal of Honour, Medal of Bravery, Medal for Victory against Germany, Medal for Taking Kyoniksberg, Medal of Marshal Baghramian).
Gallery
Bibliography
There are 30 bibliographical references in the book of Varazdat Harutyunyan devoted to Baghdasar Arzoumanian: .
, Google Translation.
Films
See also
Academic and Architect Varazdat Harutyunyan speaking about Baghdasar Arzoumanian (April 2007, in Armenian)
References
1916 births
2001 deaths
Architects from Yerevan
People from Syunik Province
Soviet architects | [
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian (1916 - 2001) (, also Bagdasar, Paghtasar, Paghtassar, Baghdik, Bagdik, Arzumanian, Arzoumanyan, Arzumanyan) was an Armenian architect and designer based in Yerevan, Armenia.",
"He was the author of a large corpus of civil and religious buildings as well as many smaller design works.",
"Education and background \nBaghdasar Arzoumanian was born in v. Mutsk (formerly Mazra, Bardzravan) of Syunik Province, Armenia.",
"From 1928 to 1936 he studied at the Technical School after Alexander Tamanyan.",
"In 1938 he was admitted to the Constructions Department of the Institute for Polytechnical Sciences of Yerevan.",
"In 1942 he was recruited into the Soviet army and took part in World War II.",
"He served in the army until 1946 when he returned to Yerevan to continue his studies.",
"He graduated from the Institute in 1949.",
"During his professional career he worked with \"Yerevan Project\" Institute and the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and provided valuable input into 20th century Armenian architecture.",
"He died on November 19, 2001 in Yerevan.",
"Bishop Paren Avetikian visited the family of the architect to present the condolences of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin and Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians.",
"Civil buildings\nArzoumanian is the author of many civil buildings in Armenia.",
"Below is a list of his most important buildings:\n City hall of Vanadzor and Hotel Gougark in the Hayk Square (then known as Kirov Square) of the city of Vanadzor (coauthor: Hovhannes Margarian), completed during the 1950s.",
"Erebuni Museum (1968, coauthor: Shmavon Azatian).",
"Museum dedicated to 2450th anniversary of establishment of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.",
"Metro Station \"David of Sasoun\", (coauthors: Sargis Nersisian and Areg Israyelian).",
"Degustation Hall of the Yerevan Brandy Factory (coauthors: Sargis Nersisian and Hasmik Alexanian).",
"Yerevan Cable-way Station.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian is author/coauthor of the RA Police building in Yerevan, various apartment buildings, reconstruction of Moscow Cinema in Yerevan.",
"He is author of numerous memorials dedicated to the victory in the World War II that are located in various parts of Armenia.",
"Service to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1956–2001)\n\nEarly works\n Vanatoon (Monastic Residence) – 1978\n Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum – 1982\n\nDesign works\nAlong with his architectural works, Baghdasar Arzoumanian left many design works.",
"Khachkars and memorials\nBaghdasar Arzoumanian is author of many khachkars and memorials.",
"Many of them are located on the grounds of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (i.e.",
"Motherland-Diaspora Memorial).",
"He is also the author of memorial in the Monastery of Geghard, memorial and khachkars next to the Prelacy of the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese.",
"Jewellery works\nThe Golden Alphabet (1976) and the Golden Cross (1979) of Baghdasar Arzoumanian are very famous all over Armenia and symbolise its past and present.",
"These works are kept in the Pontifical Residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians.",
"Among other works are:\n State Emblem of the Soviet Armenia (1981)\n Souvenir dedicated to the 30th anniversary of service of Vasken I, Catholicos of All Armenians (1985)\n\nThe list continues with various crosiers, rings, the liturgical dressing of the Catholicos of All Armenians.",
"Arzoumanian is author of the design of catholicosal medals St. Gregory the Illuminator, St. Sahak – St. Mesrop, and St. Nerses Shnorhali (Nerses the Gracious).",
"Interior design\n\nBaghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of the Throne Hall of the Catholicos of All Armenians.",
"Iconostases\nBesides iconostases of the churches of his own design, Arzoumanian is the author of the iconostases of following churches:\n St. Sarkis Vicarial Church of Yerevan, Armenia (authors of renovation: Rafayel Israyelian and Artsrun Galikyan),\n St. Catherine Armenian Church of Saint Petersburg, Russia.",
"Graphical works\nThere are a number of graphical works by Baghdasar Arzoumanian which include design of Etchmiadzin Monthly, Catholicosal Decrees, designs of various books, friendly jests.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the graphical designer and the author of the text of the book \"Armenian Churches\".",
"Tombstones\nBaghasar Arzoumanian is the author of the tombstones of:\n Vazgen I, Catholicos of All Armenians,\n Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians,\n Saint Mesrob Mashtots.",
"Other works\nBaghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of the \"Dpratoun\" building in Oshakan, Armenia.",
"He is also the designer of the entrance door of the Residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians.",
"Churches\nBaghdasar Arzoumanian is author of 8 Armenian churches and 2 renovation projects.",
"Renovation projects\nArzoumanian is the author of renovation of the following churches:\n St. John the Baptist Church of Yerevan (entire renovation and the bell-tower),\n St. Gregory the Illuminator Church of the Kinali Island, Turkey.",
"New churches\n\nBaghdasar Arzoumanian is the architect of the following churches:\n St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Odessa, Ukraine (1995),\n St. Sarkis Church of Nork District of Yerevan, Armenia (1999),\n Holy Resurrection Church of Nerkin Dvin, Armenia,\n Holy Resurrection Church of Spitak, Armenia (1999),\n Holy Martyrs Church of Kashatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2002, the church was consecrated after his death),\n St. Hakob (James) Church of Gyumri, Armenia (2002, the church was consecrated after his death),\n St. Hakob (James) Church of the Vaskenian Theological Academy near Sevan, Armenia\n Holy Trinity Church of Yerevan, Armenia (2005, the church was consecrated after his death).",
"See also video of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Odessa.",
"Medals and awards\n St. Gregory the Illuminator Medal\n Golden Medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1991)\n Title of Merited Constructor of Armenia (1966)\n\nBaghdasar Arzoumanian also holds numerous medals for his military career during World War II (2nd Order Medal of the Patriotic War, Red Star Medal, Medal of Honour, Medal of Bravery, Medal for Victory against Germany, Medal for Taking Kyoniksberg, Medal of Marshal Baghramian).",
"Gallery\n\nBibliography\n There are 30 bibliographical references in the book of Varazdat Harutyunyan devoted to Baghdasar Arzoumanian: .",
", Google Translation.",
"Films\n\nSee also\nAcademic and Architect Varazdat Harutyunyan speaking about Baghdasar Arzoumanian (April 2007, in Armenian)\n\nReferences\n\n1916 births\n2001 deaths\nArchitects from Yerevan\nPeople from Syunik Province\nSoviet architects"
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"He was the author of many smaller design works.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian was born in Syunik Province, Armenia.",
"After Alexander Tamanyan, he studied at the Technical School.",
"He was admitted to the Institute for Polytechnical Sciences of Yerevan in 1938.",
"He took part in World War II after being recruited into the Soviet army.",
"He was in the army until 1946, when he returned to study.",
"He graduated from the Institute in 1949.",
"He worked with the \"Yerevan Project\" Institute and the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin and provided valuable input into the 20th century.",
"On November 19, 2001, he died.",
"The family of the architect was visited by the Bishop to present the sympathies of the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin and the Catholicos of All Armenians.",
"The author of many civil buildings is Arzoumanian.",
"The City hall of Vanadzor and Hotel Gougark in the Hayk Square are two of his most important buildings.",
"Shmavon Azatian was one of the authors of the Erebuni Museum.",
"The museum is dedicated to the anniversary of the establishment of Samarkand.",
"\"David of Sasoun\" is a Metro Station.",
"The Brandy Factory has a Degustation Hall.",
"A cable-way station.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian is an author and co-author of the reconstruction of Moscow Cinema.",
"He is the author of many monuments dedicated to the victory in the World War II.",
"The service to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin was done by Baghdasar Arzoumanian.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of many monuments.",
"The grounds of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin are where many of them are located.",
"There is a memorial for Motherland and Diaspora.",
"The Monastery of Geghard has a memorial next to the Prelacy of the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese.",
"The Golden Cross of Baghdasar Arzoumanian is one of the most famous jewelry works in Armenia.",
"The works are kept in the Vatican.",
"The Souvenir dedicated to the 30th anniversary of service of Vasken I is one of the works.",
"The catholicosal medals designed by Arzoumanian are St. Gregory the Illuminator, St. Sahak, and St. Mesrop.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of the Throne Hall.",
"The author of iconostases of the churches of his own design is Arzoumanian.",
"There are a number of graphical works by Baghdasar Arzoumanian.",
"The author of the text of the book is Baghdasar Arzoumanian.",
"The author of the tombstones is Baghasar Arzoumanian.",
"Baghdasar Arzoumanian is the author of the \"Dpratoun\" building.",
"The entrance door of the residence of the catholicos is designed by him.",
"The author of 8 churches is Baghdasar Arzoumanian.",
"The author of renovation projects is Arzoumanian.",
"The architect of the new churches is Baghdasar Arzoumanian.",
"There is a video of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church.",
"The Golden medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR was awarded to St. Gregory the Illuminator.",
"There are 30 references in the book of Varazdat Harutyunyan devoted to Baghdasar Arzoumanian.",
"There is a translation on the internet.",
"There are films about Baghdasar Arzoumanian, an Academic and Architect speaking about 1916 births and 2001 deaths."
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<mask> is the author of many civil buildings in Armenia. Below is a list of his most important buildings:
City hall of Vanadzor and Hotel Gougark in the Hayk Square (then known as Kirov Square) of the city of Vanadzor (coauthor: Hovhannes Margarian), completed during the 1950s. Erebuni Museum (1968, coauthor: Shmavon Azatian).Museum dedicated to 2450th anniversary of establishment of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Metro Station "David of Sasoun", (coauthors: Sargis Nersisian and Areg Israyelian). Degustation Hall of the Yerevan Brandy Factory (coauthors: Sargis Nersisian and Hasmik Alexanian). Yerevan Cable-way Station. <mask> <mask> is author/coauthor of the RA Police building in Yerevan, various apartment buildings, reconstruction of Moscow Cinema in Yerevan. He is author of numerous memorials dedicated to the victory in the World War II that are located in various parts of Armenia. Service to the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1956–2001)
Early works
Vanatoon (Monastic Residence) – 1978
Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum – 1982
Design works
Along with his architectural works, <mask> <mask> left many design works.Khachkars and memorials
<mask> <mask> is author of many khachkars and memorials. Many of them are located on the grounds of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (i.e. Motherland-Diaspora Memorial). He is also the author of memorial in the Monastery of Geghard, memorial and khachkars next to the Prelacy of the Araratian Patriarchal Diocese. Jewellery works
The Golden Alphabet (1976) and the Golden Cross (1979) of <mask> Arzoumanian are very famous all over Armenia and symbolise its past and present. These works are kept in the Pontifical Residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians. Among other works are:
State Emblem of the Soviet Armenia (1981)
Souvenir dedicated to the 30th anniversary of service of Vasken I, Catholicos of All Armenians (1985)
The list continues with various crosiers, rings, the liturgical dressing of the Catholicos of All Armenians.Arzoumanian is author of the design of catholicosal medals St. Gregory the Illuminator, St. Sahak – St. Mesrop, and St. Nerses Shnorhali (Nerses the Gracious). Interior design
<mask> <mask> is the author of the Throne Hall of the Catholicos of All Armenians. Iconostases
Besides iconostases of the churches of his own design, Arzoumanian is the author of the iconostases of following churches:
St. Sarkis Vicarial Church of Yerevan, Armenia (authors of renovation: Rafayel Israyelian and Artsrun Galikyan),
St. Catherine Armenian Church of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Graphical works
There are a number of graphical works by <mask> <mask> which include design of Etchmiadzin Monthly, Catholicosal Decrees, designs of various books, friendly jests. <mask> <mask> is the graphical designer and the author of the text of the book "Armenian Churches". Tombstones
Baghasar <mask> is the author of the tombstones of:
Vazgen I, Catholicos of All Armenians,
Karekin I, Catholicos of All Armenians,
Saint Mesrob Mashtots. Other works
<mask> Arzoumanian is the author of the "Dpratoun" building in Oshakan, Armenia.He is also the designer of the entrance door of the Residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians. Churches
<mask> <mask> is author of 8 Armenian churches and 2 renovation projects. Renovation projects
<mask> is the author of renovation of the following churches:
St. John the Baptist Church of Yerevan (entire renovation and the bell-tower),
St. Gregory the Illuminator Church of the Kinali Island, Turkey. New churches
<mask> <mask> is the architect of the following churches:
St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Odessa, Ukraine (1995),
St. Sarkis Church of Nork District of Yerevan, Armenia (1999),
Holy Resurrection Church of Nerkin Dvin, Armenia,
Holy Resurrection Church of Spitak, Armenia (1999),
Holy Martyrs Church of Kashatagh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (2002, the church was consecrated after his death),
St. Hakob (James) Church of Gyumri, Armenia (2002, the church was consecrated after his death),
St. Hakob (James) Church of the Vaskenian Theological Academy near Sevan, Armenia
Holy Trinity Church of Yerevan, Armenia (2005, the church was consecrated after his death). See also video of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church in Odessa. Medals and awards
St. Gregory the Illuminator Medal
Golden Medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1991)
Title of Merited Constructor of Armenia (1966)
<mask> <mask> also holds numerous medals for his military career during World War II (2nd Order Medal of the Patriotic War, Red Star Medal, Medal of Honour, Medal of Bravery, Medal for Victory against Germany, Medal for Taking Kyoniksberg, Medal of Marshal Baghramian). Gallery
Bibliography
There are 30 bibliographical references in the book of Varazdat Harutyunyan devoted to Baghdasar Arzoumanian: ., Google Translation. Films
See also
Academic and Architect Varazdat Harutyunyan speaking about <mask> <mask> (April 2007, in Armenian)
References
1916 births
2001 deaths
Architects from Yerevan
People from Syunik Province
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465800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Sage | Kay Sage | Katherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963. A member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of Surrealism, she is mostly recognized for her artistic works, which typically contain themes of an architectural nature.
Biography
Sage was born in Albany, New York, into a family made wealthy from the timber industry. Her father, Henry M. Sage, was a state assemblyman the year after her birth and later was a five-term state senator. Her mother was Anne Wheeler (Ward) Sage. Sage had an elder sister, Anne Erskine Sage.
Early life
Anne Wheeler Ward Sage left her husband and older daughter soon after Kay's birth to live and travel in Europe with Kay as her companion. She and Henry Sage divorced in 1908, but Henry Sage continued to support his ex-wife and younger daughter, and Kay visited him and his new wife in Albany occasionally and wrote him frequent letters.
Kay and her mother established a home in Rapallo, Italy, but visited many other places as well, including Paris. Katherine became fluent in French and Italian, speaking colloquial versions of these languages that she learned from the servants who helped to raise her. She attended a number of schools, including the Foxcroft School in Virginia, where she became a lifelong friend of the heiress Flora Payne Whitney.
As a child she drew and wrote as hobbies, but her first formal training in painting was at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., in 1919–1920. After she and her mother went back to Italy in 1920, she studied art in Rome for several years, learning conventional techniques and styles. She particularly enjoyed painting outdoors in the Roman Campagna with teacher Oronato Carlandi and fellow students. Much later, Sage stated that "these were the happiest days of my life", and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her "perspective idea of distance and going away." Nonetheless, in later years Sage usually claimed that she was self-taught perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that "she felt as if she had studied with no one."
Sage met a young Italian nobleman, Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, Prince di San Faustino, in Rome around 1923 and fell in love with him, believing at first, as she wrote to a friend in 1924, that he was "me in another form." They married on March 30, 1925. For ten years the couple lived the idle life of upper-class Italians, which Sage later described as "a stagnant swamp." She looked back on that time as years that she simply "threw away to the crows. No reason, no purpose, nothing." Her husband was content with their lifestyle, but Sage was not: as she wrote in her autobiography, China Eggs, "Some sort of inner sense in me was reserving my potentialities for something better and more constructive."
Surrealism and Tanguy
Perhaps spurred by the deaths of her father in 1933 and her sister, from tuberculosis, in 1934 (Anne had joined Kay and her mother in Italy in the 1920s, and the sisters became quite close during Anne's final illness), Sage left her husband in 1935 with plans to build an independent life as an artist; they obtained a papal annulment of their marriage several years later. In December 1936, as she prepared to leave Italy and move to Paris, Sage had her first solo art exhibit, six oil paintings shown at the Galleria del Milione in Milan. In A House of Her Own, her 1997 biography of Sage, Judith Suther describes these works as "experimental abstract compositions."
Sage moved to Paris in March 1937 and rented a luxurious apartment there. In early 1938 she saw the International Surrealist Exhibit at Galerie Beaux-Arts; consisting of 299 pieces by 60 artists from 14 countries. She was especially struck by the paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, which featured what Magdalena Holzhey, in a book devoted to de Chirico, calls "empty squares and receding depths, shadowy arcades and soaring towers." Sage bought one of de Chirico's paintings, La Surprise, and kept it all her life.
This exposure to Surrealism inspired Sage to begin painting in earnest. She exhibited six of her new oils in the Salon des Surindépendants show at the Porte de Versailles in the fall of 1938. These semiabstract paintings, including Afterwards and The World Is Blue, borrowed motifs and styles from de Chirico and the Surrealists but showed hints of Sage's own future work as well. Art historian Whitney Chadwick states that Sage's paintings were "imbued with an aura of purified form and a sense of motionlessness and impending doom found nowhere else in Surrealism." Around this time the artist began signing her works "Kay Sage."
Several stories are told about Sage's meeting with her future husband, Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy. One came from Greek poet Nicolas Calas, who recalled that he and Tanguy accompanied Surrealist leader André Breton to the Surindépendants exhibit and were impressed enough by Sage's paintings to seek her out. Calas claimed that Breton was sure that the paintings must have been made by a man.
Tanguy at the time was married to Jeannette Ducroq, but they were separated, and he and Sage immediately fell in love. Sage, still well off, was generous with her money and the group of impoverished artists badly needed such support, but some resented her wealth and what they felt was a haughty attitude that fitted her former title of "Princess" all too well. Her alliance with Tanguy contributed to a rift between Tanguy and Breton, who had formerly been close friends. Nonetheless, Sage continued to call herself a Surrealist.
Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, beginning World War II, and Sage sailed back to the United States a month later. She immediately set up plans to help the Surrealists immigrate as well and establish themselves in the new country by means of art exhibitions—starting with Tanguy, who joined her in New York City in November. She arranged for Tanguy to have a solo show at the New York gallery of Pierre Matisse, son of the famous painter Henri Matisse, a month after he arrived. Sage had her own solo show, her first in the United States, at the same gallery in June 1940. Sage and Tanguy married on August 17, 1940, in Reno, Nevada, after he obtained a final divorce from duCroq.
Mature work
Sage did the bulk of her mature work between 1940, when she married Tanguy, and 1955, when he died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage. During most of that time the two artists lived at Town Farm in Woodbury, Connecticut. (They leased a house in the area beginning in 1941 but maintained a New York apartment for a while as well; in 1946 they purchased the farm and moved to Woodbury permanently.) They converted a barn on the farm into his-and-hers studios, separated by a partition with a door. Their large home was decorated with numerous pieces of Surrealist art and a variety of unusual objects, including a stuffed raven in a cage and an Eskimo mask.
Although the Tanguys visited, and were visited by, many members of both the French expatriate and American art communities, such as mobile designer Alexander Calder and his family, they had difficulty keeping close friends. "Again and again Sage is described [by people who knew her] as imperious, forbidding, moody, quick to anger, remote, private, solitary, aloof, contradictory, and unapproachable," Judith Suther writes. Tanguy, though friendlier, became notorious for his behavior when drunk, which included grabbing the heads of other men at a gathering and striking them hard and repeatedly with his own.
During these years Sage's art gained a solid reputation among art critics, though she found it difficult to emerge from the shadow of the better-known Tanguy. Her work was regularly included in national exhibits, won prizes, and was sold to major art museums. In 1943, Sage's work was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. She had several solo shows at the galleries of Julien Levy and, beginning in 1950, Catherine Viviano in New York. In the Third Sleep won the Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago in October 1945, Sage's first major public recognition. In 1951, All Soundings Are Referred to High Water won first prize in oils at the Eastern States Exposition of Connecticut Contemporary Art, and Nests of Lightning won first honorable mention in the 22nd Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Sage and Tanguy had a large joint exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut—their first and almost only exhibition together—in August and September 1954.
Last years and death
The relationship between Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy was as enigmatic as their art. At the same parties during which he banged his head against those of other men, Tanguy assaulted Sage verbally and sometimes physically, pushing her and sometimes even threatening her with a knife. Sage, according to friends' accounts, made no response to her husband's aggression except to try to persuade him to go home. Friends also said that Tanguy did not like Sage's painting and felt jealous of the fame that came to her. However contentious or abusive their relationship was, Sage was devastated by Tanguy's death. "Yves was my only friend who understood everything," she wrote to Jehan Mayoux, an old friend of Tanguy's, about a month after Tanguy's fatal stroke.
Sage did fewer new paintings after Tanguy died, partly because of her depression and partly because of her decreasing eyesight due to cataracts. Instead, she devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy's reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry, mostly in the slangy French she had learned in her youth and spoken with Tanguy. With the help of longtime friend Marcel Duhamel—and her own subsidies to cover most of the printing costs—Sage arranged for a book of this poetry, Demain, Monsieur Silber, to be published in France in June 1957. Around 1955 she also wrote a partial autobiography, China Eggs, which covered her life up to about the time she left San Faustino, but she never tried to publish it.
One of the chief paintings in a show of 13 of Sage's oils at the Viviano Gallery in November 1958 was called The Answer Is No. This seems to have reflected Sage's own state of mind. She filed her will in Waterbury in December 1958, and on April 28–29, 1959, a few weeks after she completed a massive catalogue of Tanguy's paintings, she attempted to end her life with an overdose of sleeping pills. A housekeeper found her, however, and she was revived.
In 1959 and 1960 she underwent operations to remove her cataracts, which she had formerly refused to do. Unfortunately, the surgeries were painful and had only limited success, and by this time she was suffering from other health problems as well, including some that may have resulted from her years of heavy smoking and drinking. During 1960 and 1961, as a substitute for painting, she made small sculptures of wire, stones, bullets, and other unusual materials. Catherine Viviano hosted a show of these objects, titled "Your Move," in November 1961, as well as a major retrospective show of Sage's paintings in April 1960.
Sage wrote in a journal in August 1961, "I have said all that I have to say. There is nothing left for me to do but scream." On January 8, 1963, she put a fatal bullet through her heart. Following instructions in her will, Pierre Matisse buried urns containing Sage's and Tanguy's ashes in the water off the coast of Tanguy's native Brittany in 1964.
Art and writing
Poetry and writing
Kay Sage is known chiefly as a visual artist. However, she also wrote five volumes of poetry, chiefly in French, including Faut dire c'qui est, in September 1959. She wrote four short plays and an unpublished autobiography, China Eggs.
Features of Artistic Style
Kay Sage consistently identified herself as a Surrealist, and authors who have written about her usually do so as well. One of her biographers, Judith Suther, writes:
I call Kay Sage a Surrealist because her painting resonates with the unsettling paradoxes and hallucinatory qualities prized by André Breton and his group. . . . More fundamentally, I call Sage a Surrealist because her allegiance to the Surrealist identity lies at the heart of her self-image as an artist.
Critics during Sage's lifetime frequently compared her work to that of Tanguy, who was better known, and usually assumed that, when their work had features in common, those features must have originated with him. More recent feminist scholars have stated that the influence more likely was mutual—what Judith Suther calls "a constant, usually unconscious interchange." Suther and others also point out differences between the two artists: for example, the large architectural constructions that dominate Sage's paintings are quite unlike the smaller biomorphic or metallic forms that people associate with Tanguy's landscapes.
Both Suther and Régine Tessier, the latter in a sketch of Sage in Notable American Women: The Modern Period, note key features of Sage's mature work. Most of Sage's paintings focus on free-standing architectural structures, including walls, towers, and latticework, which could represent buildings either under construction or ruined and decaying. Her use of arched entryways and slanted perspectives may in be attributed to the painter Giorgio de Chirico. Some contain figures that might or might not be human, hidden by flowing drapery. (Le Passage, one of Sage's last paintings, is perhaps the only one containing a definite human figure; even Small Portrait, thought by many to be a self-portrait, is hardly recognizable as a face.) Like Tanguy, Sage often sets her objects on deserts or plains that recede to immeasurably distant horizons. She renders her forms in meticulous, photographic detail, using a gray-green-ochre palette that Tessier describes as "reminiscent of the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm". Critics frequently called Sage's work disturbing or depressing, even when they praised her painterly skill.
Sage almost never commented on what her paintings represented or how their seemingly ominous mood should be interpreted. One exception was her statement to a Time magazine critic that The Instant, a painting that appeared in her 1950 show at the Catherine Viviano gallery, was "a sort of showing of what's inside—things half mechanical, half alive."
Artworks
A Little Later (1938)
An important event (1938)
Noone Heard Thunder (1939)
My Room Has Two Doors (1939)
This Morning (painting)|This Morning (1939)
Tumble-weed (1939)
Lost Record (1940)
I Walk without Echo (1940)
Danger, Construction Ahead (1940)
I Have No Shadow (1940)
White Silence (1941)
Margin of Silence (1942)
The Fourteen Daggers (1942)
At The Appointed Time (1942)
Minutes #8 (1943)
The Hidden Letter (1943)
Too Soon for Thunder (1943)
From Another Approach (1944)
I Saw Three Cities (1944)
In the 3rd Sleep (1944)
The Upper Side of the Sky (1944)
Other Answers (1945)
Journey to Go (1945)
Festa (1947)
On The First of March Crows Begin to Search (1947)
Arithmetic of Wind (1947)
All Soundings Are Referred to High Water (1947)
Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool (1947)
The Unicorns Came Down From the Sea (1947)
The Seven Sleepers (1947)
Starlings, Caravans (1948)
The Instant (1949)
The Morning Myth (1950)
Small Portrait (1950)
Men Working (1951)
Tomorrow for Example (1951)
Apostrophe (1951)
Unusual Thursday (1951)
On the Contrary (1952)
Dreamy Cars of Waterbury (1952)
Third Paragraph (1953)
No Passing (1954)
Hyphen (1954)
A Bird in the Room (1955)
Tomorrow is Never (1955)
Journal of a Conjuror (1955)
Le Passage (1956)
South to Southwesterly Winds Tomorrow (1957)
The World of Why" (1958)No Winds, no Birds" (1958)
Watching the Clock (1958)
The Answer Is No (1958)
Passionnément, pas du tout (1961)
Passe ou Manque (1961)
Tacaii (1962)
Exhibitions
1936, Galleria del Milione, Milan, Italy (six oils) (actually a three-person exhibition: see S. R. Miller's 2011 and 2018 publications below).
1938, Salon des Surindependants, Paris, France (six oils)
1940, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York (17 oils, solo show); Tone Price gallery, Los Angeles (13 oils, solo show); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (13 oils, part of group show)
1944, Julien Levy gallery, New York (18 oils, solo show)
1947, Julien Levy gallery, New York (11 oils, solo show)
1950, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (14 oils, solo show)
1952, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (14 oils, solo show)
1954, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (46 works, joint show with Yves Tanguy)
1956, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (12 oils, solo show)
1960, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (59 works, solo retrospective)
1961, Catherine Viviano gallery, New York (small Surrealist sculptures, titled "Your Move")
1965, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut (memorial exhibit of 50 works, titled "A Tribute to Kay Sage")
1977, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (65 works, solo retrospective)
2011, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (25 works, joint show with Yves Tanguy)
2012, Featured in the exhibition In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Books
In addition to her autobiography, China Eggs, and four Surrealist one-act plays, Sage wrote several books of poetry, three in French, one in English and one in Italian. There are also more than two hundred unpublished poems in the Archives of American Art (Flora Whitney Miller Papers, and sixty unpublished poems in the Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, see citation below.) Their style is colloquial, their wit sharp and often directed at herself. Many are dialogues, perhaps imagined conversations with Tanguy (with whom she spoke the same kind of street-language French she used in the poems) or perhaps discussions between different parts of herself. Her published works are:
Piove in giardino (1937)
Demain, Monsieur Silber (1957)
The More I Wonder (1957, probably a translation into English of Demain, Monsieur Silber)
Faut dire c'qui est (1959)
Mordicus (1962)
See also
Women Surrealists
References
Suggested reading
Chadwick, Whitney. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.
Hubert, Renée Riese. "The Silent Couple: Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy," in her Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, pp. 173–198.
Mattatuck Museum Historical Society. "A Tribute to Kay Sage." Mattatuck, Conn.: Mattatuck Museum, 1965.
Miller, Stephen Robeson. "The Surrealist Imagery of Kay Sage" Art International, Lugano, Switzerland, v. 26, September–October 1983, pp. 32–47; 54–56.
Miller, Stephen Robeson. "In the Interim: the Constructivist Surrealism of Kay Sage" in Surrealism and Women, edited by Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991. Mentions the author's illustrated Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, in which the works are arranged chronologically, on microfilm at the Archives of American Art (see below).
Miller, Stephen Robeson. Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy. Katonah, N. Y.: Katonah Museum of Art/Mint Museum, 2011-2012. One of Miller's books, Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays (2001), the book's title a reference to his exhaustive 1983 Archives of American Art chronology on microfilm (see citation below), was published to coincide with the Katonah-Mint exhibition, as is stated in the exhibition's catalogue. In his essay in this publication, Jonathan Stuhlman demonstrably shows just how Sage influenced Tagnuy's work.
Miller, Stephen Robeson. Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York: Gallery of Surrealism, 2011. (Note: In 1976, Marcel Duhamel, Sage's literary executor in France, six months before his death, gave her four Surrealist one-act plays to Stephen Robeson Miller with the understanding that the latter would eventually publish them. First listed in Books in Print in 1995 as "date not set" with a Boston, Massachusetts, publisher (Nelmar Press), this book was eventually published by the Gallery of Surrealism, New York, to coincide with the Sage and Tanguy exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, cited above, of which Miller was curator. Miller included with the plays an edited and revised version of his 1983 one hundred page Archives of American Art chronology on microfilm reel nos. 2886-2888 which extensively incorporated quotations from his interviews and correspondence with people who knew Sage and which forms part of the collection named by the AAA "The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, 1898–1983". Additionally, included for each year in the Chronology, is the source for each quotation/entry and a list of the titles of the works she had executed during that year, thereby making it a catalogue raisonne of Sage's Surrealist works without illustrations (see below).
Miller, Stephen Robeson. "Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne of the Surrealist Art of Kay Sage" on microfilm at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983, in which the works appear chronologically. This chronological approach permitted the inclusion of Sage's only print, a lithograph made for the Galerie Maeght in Paris for the exhibition called Le Surrealisme en 1947, and several illustrations of works that do not appear in the 2018 Catalogue Raisonne published by Delmonico/Prestel Verlag. (Stephen Robeson Miller regrets that in his Chronology in the Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, published in 2018, there was not time before the book went to press to include the following correction: Sage saw her first Tanguy painting Je vous attends (I await you), 1934, at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris in January 1935, not at the same gallery during the summer of 1936. Proof of this information is the checklist of the exhibition called "Le Temps Present: Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure: 1er Exposition de 1935" held from January 10–28 at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, with Tanguy's painting listed as number 232, courtesy of the Pierre Matisse Foundation, New York).
Rosenberg, Karen. "A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist." Women's Review of Books, v. 15 i. 6 (March 1998), p. 4 ff.
Suther, Judith D. A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. The author stated in her Acknowledgements, that Miller had abandoned his book on Sage, but this was not possible because the citation Miller had in Books in Print predated Suther's book's citation in Books in Print, and demonstrated his desire to publish further. Also, Miller and Suther for a period of time had discussed collaborating on a book about Sage, but Miller later decided he did not wish to collaborate with her because he wanted to do his own book, which would be a catalogue raisonne with his commentary about her paintings, Sage's unpublished one-act plays, and his one-hundred page Chronological biography in the Archives of American Art.
Tessier, Régine. "Sage, Kay Linn," in Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green, eds., Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 618–619.
von Maur, Karin, ed. Yves Tanguy and Surrealism. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001.
External links
"Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonné."
"Kay Sage Papers, 1925-circa 1985, Bulk 1950–1965." Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
"Stephen Robeson Miller research material on Kay Sage, 1898-1983." Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
"Kay Sage." All-Art. Accessed December 11, 2011.
"Kay Sage." ArtCyclopedia. Accessed December 11, 2011.
"Kay Sage." Mattatuck Collections, Mattatuck Museum. Accessed December 11, 2011.
"Kay Sage (American—1898–1963)." Accessed December 11, 2011.
Morris, Gary. "Surreal Women: Leonor Fini and Kay Sage." Morphizm. Posted May 15, 2006; accessed December 11, 2011.
Poosti, Tara. "Kay Sage (1898–1963): Surrealist." Sullivan Goss. Accessed December 11, 2011.
Vieuille, Chantal. "Kay Sage ou le surréalisme américain." Editions Complicités. In French. Accessed December 24, 2011.
1922 Kay Sage passport photo, flickr.com
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"Katherine Linn Sage (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as Kay Sage, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963.",
"A member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of Surrealism, she is mostly recognized for her artistic works, which typically contain themes of an architectural nature.",
"Biography\nSage was born in Albany, New York, into a family made wealthy from the timber industry.",
"Her father, Henry M. Sage, was a state assemblyman the year after her birth and later was a five-term state senator.",
"Her mother was Anne Wheeler (Ward) Sage.",
"Sage had an elder sister, Anne Erskine Sage.",
"Early life\nAnne Wheeler Ward Sage left her husband and older daughter soon after Kay's birth to live and travel in Europe with Kay as her companion.",
"She and Henry Sage divorced in 1908, but Henry Sage continued to support his ex-wife and younger daughter, and Kay visited him and his new wife in Albany occasionally and wrote him frequent letters.",
"Kay and her mother established a home in Rapallo, Italy, but visited many other places as well, including Paris.",
"Katherine became fluent in French and Italian, speaking colloquial versions of these languages that she learned from the servants who helped to raise her.",
"She attended a number of schools, including the Foxcroft School in Virginia, where she became a lifelong friend of the heiress Flora Payne Whitney.",
"As a child she drew and wrote as hobbies, but her first formal training in painting was at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., in 1919–1920.",
"After she and her mother went back to Italy in 1920, she studied art in Rome for several years, learning conventional techniques and styles.",
"She particularly enjoyed painting outdoors in the Roman Campagna with teacher Oronato Carlandi and fellow students.",
"Much later, Sage stated that \"these were the happiest days of my life\", and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her \"perspective idea of distance and going away.\"",
"Nonetheless, in later years Sage usually claimed that she was self-taught perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that \"she felt as if she had studied with no one.\"",
"Sage met a young Italian nobleman, Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, Prince di San Faustino, in Rome around 1923 and fell in love with him, believing at first, as she wrote to a friend in 1924, that he was \"me in another form.\"",
"They married on March 30, 1925.",
"For ten years the couple lived the idle life of upper-class Italians, which Sage later described as \"a stagnant swamp.\"",
"She looked back on that time as years that she simply \"threw away to the crows.",
"No reason, no purpose, nothing.\"",
"Her husband was content with their lifestyle, but Sage was not: as she wrote in her autobiography, China Eggs, \"Some sort of inner sense in me was reserving my potentialities for something better and more constructive.\"",
"Surrealism and Tanguy\n\nPerhaps spurred by the deaths of her father in 1933 and her sister, from tuberculosis, in 1934 (Anne had joined Kay and her mother in Italy in the 1920s, and the sisters became quite close during Anne's final illness), Sage left her husband in 1935 with plans to build an independent life as an artist; they obtained a papal annulment of their marriage several years later.",
"In December 1936, as she prepared to leave Italy and move to Paris, Sage had her first solo art exhibit, six oil paintings shown at the Galleria del Milione in Milan.",
"In A House of Her Own, her 1997 biography of Sage, Judith Suther describes these works as \"experimental abstract compositions.\"",
"Sage moved to Paris in March 1937 and rented a luxurious apartment there.",
"In early 1938 she saw the International Surrealist Exhibit at Galerie Beaux-Arts; consisting of 299 pieces by 60 artists from 14 countries.",
"She was especially struck by the paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, which featured what Magdalena Holzhey, in a book devoted to de Chirico, calls \"empty squares and receding depths, shadowy arcades and soaring towers.\"",
"Sage bought one of de Chirico's paintings, La Surprise, and kept it all her life.",
"This exposure to Surrealism inspired Sage to begin painting in earnest.",
"She exhibited six of her new oils in the Salon des Surindépendants show at the Porte de Versailles in the fall of 1938.",
"These semiabstract paintings, including Afterwards and The World Is Blue, borrowed motifs and styles from de Chirico and the Surrealists but showed hints of Sage's own future work as well.",
"Art historian Whitney Chadwick states that Sage's paintings were \"imbued with an aura of purified form and a sense of motionlessness and impending doom found nowhere else in Surrealism.\"",
"Around this time the artist began signing her works \"Kay Sage.\"",
"Several stories are told about Sage's meeting with her future husband, Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy.",
"One came from Greek poet Nicolas Calas, who recalled that he and Tanguy accompanied Surrealist leader André Breton to the Surindépendants exhibit and were impressed enough by Sage's paintings to seek her out.",
"Calas claimed that Breton was sure that the paintings must have been made by a man.",
"Tanguy at the time was married to Jeannette Ducroq, but they were separated, and he and Sage immediately fell in love.",
"Sage, still well off, was generous with her money and the group of impoverished artists badly needed such support, but some resented her wealth and what they felt was a haughty attitude that fitted her former title of \"Princess\" all too well.",
"Her alliance with Tanguy contributed to a rift between Tanguy and Breton, who had formerly been close friends.",
"Nonetheless, Sage continued to call herself a Surrealist.",
"Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, beginning World War II, and Sage sailed back to the United States a month later.",
"She immediately set up plans to help the Surrealists immigrate as well and establish themselves in the new country by means of art exhibitions—starting with Tanguy, who joined her in New York City in November.",
"She arranged for Tanguy to have a solo show at the New York gallery of Pierre Matisse, son of the famous painter Henri Matisse, a month after he arrived.",
"Sage had her own solo show, her first in the United States, at the same gallery in June 1940.",
"Sage and Tanguy married on August 17, 1940, in Reno, Nevada, after he obtained a final divorce from duCroq.",
"Mature work\n\nSage did the bulk of her mature work between 1940, when she married Tanguy, and 1955, when he died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage.",
"During most of that time the two artists lived at Town Farm in Woodbury, Connecticut.",
"(They leased a house in the area beginning in 1941 but maintained a New York apartment for a while as well; in 1946 they purchased the farm and moved to Woodbury permanently.)",
"They converted a barn on the farm into his-and-hers studios, separated by a partition with a door.",
"Their large home was decorated with numerous pieces of Surrealist art and a variety of unusual objects, including a stuffed raven in a cage and an Eskimo mask.",
"Although the Tanguys visited, and were visited by, many members of both the French expatriate and American art communities, such as mobile designer Alexander Calder and his family, they had difficulty keeping close friends.",
"\"Again and again Sage is described [by people who knew her] as imperious, forbidding, moody, quick to anger, remote, private, solitary, aloof, contradictory, and unapproachable,\" Judith Suther writes.",
"Tanguy, though friendlier, became notorious for his behavior when drunk, which included grabbing the heads of other men at a gathering and striking them hard and repeatedly with his own.",
"During these years Sage's art gained a solid reputation among art critics, though she found it difficult to emerge from the shadow of the better-known Tanguy.",
"Her work was regularly included in national exhibits, won prizes, and was sold to major art museums.",
"In 1943, Sage's work was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York.",
"She had several solo shows at the galleries of Julien Levy and, beginning in 1950, Catherine Viviano in New York.",
"In the Third Sleep won the Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago in October 1945, Sage's first major public recognition.",
"In 1951, All Soundings Are Referred to High Water won first prize in oils at the Eastern States Exposition of Connecticut Contemporary Art, and Nests of Lightning won first honorable mention in the 22nd Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting.",
"Sage and Tanguy had a large joint exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut—their first and almost only exhibition together—in August and September 1954.",
"Last years and death\n\nThe relationship between Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy was as enigmatic as their art.",
"At the same parties during which he banged his head against those of other men, Tanguy assaulted Sage verbally and sometimes physically, pushing her and sometimes even threatening her with a knife.",
"Sage, according to friends' accounts, made no response to her husband's aggression except to try to persuade him to go home.",
"Friends also said that Tanguy did not like Sage's painting and felt jealous of the fame that came to her.",
"However contentious or abusive their relationship was, Sage was devastated by Tanguy's death.",
"\"Yves was my only friend who understood everything,\" she wrote to Jehan Mayoux, an old friend of Tanguy's, about a month after Tanguy's fatal stroke.",
"Sage did fewer new paintings after Tanguy died, partly because of her depression and partly because of her decreasing eyesight due to cataracts.",
"Instead, she devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy's reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry, mostly in the slangy French she had learned in her youth and spoken with Tanguy.",
"With the help of longtime friend Marcel Duhamel—and her own subsidies to cover most of the printing costs—Sage arranged for a book of this poetry, Demain, Monsieur Silber, to be published in France in June 1957.",
"Around 1955 she also wrote a partial autobiography, China Eggs, which covered her life up to about the time she left San Faustino, but she never tried to publish it.",
"One of the chief paintings in a show of 13 of Sage's oils at the Viviano Gallery in November 1958 was called The Answer Is No.",
"This seems to have reflected Sage's own state of mind.",
"She filed her will in Waterbury in December 1958, and on April 28–29, 1959, a few weeks after she completed a massive catalogue of Tanguy's paintings, she attempted to end her life with an overdose of sleeping pills.",
"A housekeeper found her, however, and she was revived.",
"In 1959 and 1960 she underwent operations to remove her cataracts, which she had formerly refused to do.",
"Unfortunately, the surgeries were painful and had only limited success, and by this time she was suffering from other health problems as well, including some that may have resulted from her years of heavy smoking and drinking.",
"During 1960 and 1961, as a substitute for painting, she made small sculptures of wire, stones, bullets, and other unusual materials.",
"Catherine Viviano hosted a show of these objects, titled \"Your Move,\" in November 1961, as well as a major retrospective show of Sage's paintings in April 1960.",
"Sage wrote in a journal in August 1961, \"I have said all that I have to say.",
"There is nothing left for me to do but scream.\"",
"On January 8, 1963, she put a fatal bullet through her heart.",
"Following instructions in her will, Pierre Matisse buried urns containing Sage's and Tanguy's ashes in the water off the coast of Tanguy's native Brittany in 1964.",
"Art and writing\n\nPoetry and writing\nKay Sage is known chiefly as a visual artist.",
"However, she also wrote five volumes of poetry, chiefly in French, including Faut dire c'qui est, in September 1959.",
"She wrote four short plays and an unpublished autobiography, China Eggs.",
"Features of Artistic Style\n\nKay Sage consistently identified herself as a Surrealist, and authors who have written about her usually do so as well.",
"One of her biographers, Judith Suther, writes: \nI call Kay Sage a Surrealist because her painting resonates with the unsettling paradoxes and hallucinatory qualities prized by André Breton and his group. . . . More fundamentally, I call Sage a Surrealist because her allegiance to the Surrealist identity lies at the heart of her self-image as an artist.",
"Critics during Sage's lifetime frequently compared her work to that of Tanguy, who was better known, and usually assumed that, when their work had features in common, those features must have originated with him.",
"More recent feminist scholars have stated that the influence more likely was mutual—what Judith Suther calls \"a constant, usually unconscious interchange.\"",
"Suther and others also point out differences between the two artists: for example, the large architectural constructions that dominate Sage's paintings are quite unlike the smaller biomorphic or metallic forms that people associate with Tanguy's landscapes.",
"Both Suther and Régine Tessier, the latter in a sketch of Sage in Notable American Women: The Modern Period, note key features of Sage's mature work.",
"Most of Sage's paintings focus on free-standing architectural structures, including walls, towers, and latticework, which could represent buildings either under construction or ruined and decaying.",
"Her use of arched entryways and slanted perspectives may in be attributed to the painter Giorgio de Chirico.",
"Some contain figures that might or might not be human, hidden by flowing drapery.",
"(Le Passage, one of Sage's last paintings, is perhaps the only one containing a definite human figure; even Small Portrait, thought by many to be a self-portrait, is hardly recognizable as a face.)",
"Like Tanguy, Sage often sets her objects on deserts or plains that recede to immeasurably distant horizons.",
"She renders her forms in meticulous, photographic detail, using a gray-green-ochre palette that Tessier describes as \"reminiscent of the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm\".",
"Critics frequently called Sage's work disturbing or depressing, even when they praised her painterly skill.",
"Sage almost never commented on what her paintings represented or how their seemingly ominous mood should be interpreted.",
"One exception was her statement to a Time magazine critic that The Instant, a painting that appeared in her 1950 show at the Catherine Viviano gallery, was \"a sort of showing of what's inside—things half mechanical, half alive.\"",
"Books\n\nIn addition to her autobiography, China Eggs, and four Surrealist one-act plays, Sage wrote several books of poetry, three in French, one in English and one in Italian.",
"There are also more than two hundred unpublished poems in the Archives of American Art (Flora Whitney Miller Papers, and sixty unpublished poems in the Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, see citation below.)",
"Their style is colloquial, their wit sharp and often directed at herself.",
"Many are dialogues, perhaps imagined conversations with Tanguy (with whom she spoke the same kind of street-language French she used in the poems) or perhaps discussions between different parts of herself.",
"Her published works are:\n\nPiove in giardino (1937)\nDemain, Monsieur Silber (1957)\nThe More I Wonder (1957, probably a translation into English of Demain, Monsieur Silber)\nFaut dire c'qui est (1959)\nMordicus (1962)\n\nSee also\n\n Women Surrealists\n\nReferences\n\nSuggested reading\n\nChadwick, Whitney.",
"Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement.",
"New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985.",
"Hubert, Renée Riese.",
"\"The Silent Couple: Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy,\" in her Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership.",
"Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, pp.",
"173–198.",
"Mattatuck Museum Historical Society.",
"\"A Tribute to Kay Sage.\"",
"Mattatuck, Conn.: Mattatuck Museum, 1965.",
"Miller, Stephen Robeson.",
"\"The Surrealist Imagery of Kay Sage\" Art International, Lugano, Switzerland, v. 26, September–October 1983, pp.",
"32–47; 54–56.",
"Miller, Stephen Robeson.",
"\"In the Interim: the Constructivist Surrealism of Kay Sage\" in Surrealism and Women, edited by Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991.",
"Mentions the author's illustrated Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, in which the works are arranged chronologically, on microfilm at the Archives of American Art (see below).",
"Miller, Stephen Robeson.",
"Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy.",
"Katonah, N. Y.: Katonah Museum of Art/Mint Museum, 2011-2012.",
"One of Miller's books, Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays (2001), the book's title a reference to his exhaustive 1983 Archives of American Art chronology on microfilm (see citation below), was published to coincide with the Katonah-Mint exhibition, as is stated in the exhibition's catalogue.",
"In his essay in this publication, Jonathan Stuhlman demonstrably shows just how Sage influenced Tagnuy's work.",
"Miller, Stephen Robeson.",
"Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York: Gallery of Surrealism, 2011.",
"(Note: In 1976, Marcel Duhamel, Sage's literary executor in France, six months before his death, gave her four Surrealist one-act plays to Stephen Robeson Miller with the understanding that the latter would eventually publish them.",
"First listed in Books in Print in 1995 as \"date not set\" with a Boston, Massachusetts, publisher (Nelmar Press), this book was eventually published by the Gallery of Surrealism, New York, to coincide with the Sage and Tanguy exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, cited above, of which Miller was curator.",
"Miller included with the plays an edited and revised version of his 1983 one hundred page Archives of American Art chronology on microfilm reel nos.",
"2886-2888 which extensively incorporated quotations from his interviews and correspondence with people who knew Sage and which forms part of the collection named by the AAA \"The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, 1898–1983\".",
"Additionally, included for each year in the Chronology, is the source for each quotation/entry and a list of the titles of the works she had executed during that year, thereby making it a catalogue raisonne of Sage's Surrealist works without illustrations (see below).",
"Miller, Stephen Robeson.",
"\"Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne of the Surrealist Art of Kay Sage\" on microfilm at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983, in which the works appear chronologically.",
"This chronological approach permitted the inclusion of Sage's only print, a lithograph made for the Galerie Maeght in Paris for the exhibition called Le Surrealisme en 1947, and several illustrations of works that do not appear in the 2018 Catalogue Raisonne published by Delmonico/Prestel Verlag.",
"(Stephen Robeson Miller regrets that in his Chronology in the Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, published in 2018, there was not time before the book went to press to include the following correction: Sage saw her first Tanguy painting Je vous attends (I await you), 1934, at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris in January 1935, not at the same gallery during the summer of 1936.",
"Proof of this information is the checklist of the exhibition called \"Le Temps Present: Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure: 1er Exposition de 1935\" held from January 10–28 at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, with Tanguy's painting listed as number 232, courtesy of the Pierre Matisse Foundation, New York).",
"Rosenberg, Karen.",
"\"A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist.\"",
"Women's Review of Books, v. 15 i.",
"6 (March 1998), p. 4 ff.",
"Suther, Judith D. A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist.",
"Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.",
"The author stated in her Acknowledgements, that Miller had abandoned his book on Sage, but this was not possible because the citation Miller had in Books in Print predated Suther's book's citation in Books in Print, and demonstrated his desire to publish further.",
"Also, Miller and Suther for a period of time had discussed collaborating on a book about Sage, but Miller later decided he did not wish to collaborate with her because he wanted to do his own book, which would be a catalogue raisonne with his commentary about her paintings, Sage's unpublished one-act plays, and his one-hundred page Chronological biography in the Archives of American Art.",
"Tessier, Régine.",
"\"Sage, Kay Linn,\" in Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green, eds., Notable American Women: The Modern Period.",
"Cambridge, Mass.",
": The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980, pp.",
"618–619.",
"von Maur, Karin, ed.",
"Yves Tanguy and Surrealism.",
"Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001.",
"External links\n\n\"Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonné.\"",
"\"Kay Sage Papers, 1925-circa 1985, Bulk 1950–1965.\"",
"Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.",
"\"Stephen Robeson Miller research material on Kay Sage, 1898-1983.\"",
"Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.",
"\"Kay Sage.\"",
"All-Art.",
"Accessed December 11, 2011.",
"\"Kay Sage.\"",
"ArtCyclopedia.",
"Accessed December 11, 2011.",
"\"Kay Sage.\"",
"Mattatuck Collections, Mattatuck Museum.",
"Accessed December 11, 2011.",
"\"Kay Sage (American—1898–1963).\"",
"Accessed December 11, 2011.",
"Morris, Gary.",
"\"Surreal Women: Leonor Fini and Kay Sage.\"",
"Morphizm.",
"Posted May 15, 2006; accessed December 11, 2011.",
"Poosti, Tara.",
"\"Kay Sage (1898–1963): Surrealist.\"",
"Sullivan Goss.",
"Accessed December 11, 2011.",
"Vieuille, Chantal.",
"\"Kay Sage ou le surréalisme américain.\"",
"Editions Complicités.",
"In French.",
"Accessed December 24, 2011.",
"1922 Kay Sage passport photo, flickr.com\n\nWomen surrealist artists\n1898 births\n1963 deaths\nAmerican women painters\nAmerican surrealist artists\nArtists from Albany, New York\nArtists who committed suicide\nPainters from New York (state)\nSuicides by firearm in Connecticut\n20th-century American painters\n20th-century American women artists\nPeople from Woodbury, Connecticut\nSurrealist artists\n1963 suicides\nPrincesses by marriage\nItalian princesses"
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"She is a member of the Golden Age and Post- War periods of Surrealism, and her artistic works often contain themes of an architectural nature.",
"A family made wealthy from the timber industry was where Sage was born.",
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"Her mother was named Anne Wheeler.",
"Anne was the older sister of Sage.",
"After Kay's birth, Anne Wheeler Ward Sage left her husband and older daughter to live and travel in Europe with Kay as her companion.",
"Kay visited Henry and his new wife in Albany occasionally and wrote him letters after they divorced.",
"Kay and her mother visited a lot of places, including Paris.",
"She learned how to speak French and Italian from the servants who helped to raise her.",
"She was a lifelong friend of the Whitney family and attended the Foxcroft School in Virginia.",
"Her first formal training in painting was at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., in 1919–1920.",
"She studied art in Rome for several years after she and her mother returned to Italy.",
"She enjoyed painting outdoors in the Roman Campagna.",
"In 1961, she told her friend and gallery owner that her campagna experience shaped her \"perspective idea of distance and going away.\"",
"As one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that she felt as if she had studied.",
"After falling in love with a young Italian nobleman, Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, Prince di San Faustino, she wrote to a friend that she was in another form.",
"They were married on March 30, 1925.",
"The couple lived in a stagnant swamp for ten years.",
"She looked back at that time as a time when shehrew away to the crows.",
"No reason, no purpose, nothing.",
"Her husband was content with their lifestyle, but she was not: as she wrote in her autobiography, China Eggs, \"Some sort of inner sense in me was reserving my potentialities for something better and more constructive.\"",
"Perhaps spurred by the deaths of her father in 1933 and her sister from Tuberculosis in 1934 (Anne had joined Kay and her mother in Italy in the 1920s, and the sisters became quite close during Anne's final illness), Sage left her husband in 1935.",
"In December 1936, as she prepared to leave Italy and move to Paris, she had her first solo art exhibit, six oil paintings shown at the Galleria del Milione in Milan.",
"In A House of Her Own, Judith Suther describes these works as \"experimental abstract compositions.\"",
"In 1937, she rented a luxurious apartment in Paris.",
"The International Surrealist Exhibit consisted of 299 pieces by 60 artists from 14 countries.",
"She was struck by Giorgio de Chirico's paintings of empty squares and shadowy arcades, which were featured in a book devoted to de Chirico.",
"She kept one of de Chirico's paintings, La Surprise.",
"As a result of this exposure, Sage began painting in earnest.",
"In the fall of 1938, she exhibited six of her new oils at the Porte de Versailles.",
"Some of the paintings, including Afterwards and The World Is Blue, borrowed motifs and styles from de Chirico and the Surrealists, but also showed hints of the future work of the artist.",
"Whitney Chadwick states that the paintings of Sage were \"imbued with an aura of purified form and a sense of motionlessness and impending doom found nowhere else in surrealism.\"",
"The artist began signing her works.",
"There are many stories about the meeting between Sage and Yves Tanguy.",
"Nicolas Calas, a Greek poet, said that he and Tanguy went to the Surindépendants exhibit and were impressed by the paintings of Sage.",
"The paintings must have been made by a man according to Calas.",
"When Tanguy was married to Jeannette Ducroq, he immediately fell in love with her.",
"Some people resented her wealth and what they felt was a haughty attitude that fitted her former title of \"Princess\", even though she was still well off and generous with her money.",
"Her alliance with Tanguy made it difficult for Tanguy and Breton to be friends again.",
"Nevertheless, she continued to call herself a surrealist.",
"Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939 and returned to the United States a month later.",
"She immediately set up plans to help the Surrealists emigrate as well and establish themselves in the new country by means of art exhibitions, starting with Tanguy, who joined her in New York City in November.",
"She arranged for Tanguy to have a solo show at the New York gallery of Pierre Matisse, the son of a famous painter.",
"In June 1940, she had her first solo show in the United States at the same gallery.",
"After he obtained a final divorce from duCroq, Sage and Tanguy married in Reno, Nevada, on August 17, 1940.",
"Between 1940 and 1955, when she married Tanguy, she did most of her mature work.",
"The two artists lived at Town Farm in Connecticut.",
"In 1941, they leased a house in the area and lived in a New York apartment for a while, but in 1946 they purchased a farm and moved to Woodbury.",
"A partition with a door separated the studios from the barn.",
"A stuffed raven in a cage and an Eskimo mask are some of the unusual objects in their large home.",
"Although the Tanguys visited, and were visited by, many members of both the French expatriate and American art communities, such as mobile designer Alexander Calder and his family, they had difficulty keeping close friends.",
"Judith Suther writes that people who knew her described her as imperious, forbidding, moody, quick to anger, remote, private, solitary, aloof, and unapproachable.",
"Tanguy became notorious for his behavior when drunk, which included grabbing the heads of other men at a gathering and striking them hard and repeatedly with his own.",
"She found it difficult to emerge from the shadow of Tanguy because her art gained a good reputation among art critics.",
"Her work was sold to major art museums.",
"The exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York featured the work of Sage.",
"She had a number of solo shows in New York.",
"In the Third Sleep won the Art Institute of Chicago's Purchase Prize in 1945.",
"All Soundings Are Referred to High Water was the winner of the first prize in oils at the Eastern States Exposition of Connecticut Contemporary Art in 1951.",
"Their first and only exhibition together was at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut in August and September of 1954.",
"The relationship between Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy was shrouded in mystery.",
"At the same parties where he banged his head against other men, Tanguy pushed and threatened her with a knife, and sometimes physically.",
"According to friends' accounts, Sage made no response to her husband's aggression except to try to convince him to go home.",
"According to friends, Tanguy was jealous of the fame that came to her and did not like the painting of Sage.",
"Sage was devastated by Tanguy's death.",
"After Tanguy's death, she wrote to an old friend, \"Yves was my only friend who understood everything.\"",
"She did fewer paintings after Tanguy died because of her depression and because of her decreasing eyesight.",
"She devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy's reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry in French she had learned in her youth.",
"Sage arranged for a book of 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476",
"She wrote a partial autobiography called China Eggs, which covered her life up until about the time she left San Faustino.",
"The Answer Is No was one of the paintings in a show of 13 of the artist's oils.",
"This seems to have reflected Sage's state of mind.",
"She attempted to end her life with an overdose of sleeping pills a few weeks after she completed a massive catalogue of Tanguy's paintings.",
"She was found and resuscitated.",
"She had operations to remove her cataracts in 1959 and 1960.",
"She was suffering from other health problems, including some that may have been caused by her years of heavy smoking and drinking, after the surgeries were painful and had only limited success.",
"She made small sculptures of wire, stones, bullets, and other unusual materials as a substitute for painting.",
"A major retrospective show of Sage's paintings was held in April 1960, as well as a show of these objects hosted in November 1961.",
"In August 1961, she wrote in a journal, \"I have said all that I have to say.\"",
"There is nothing left for me to do.",
"On January 8, 1963, she died from a bullet in her heart.",
"The urns containing the ashes of Tanguy and Sage were buried in the water off the coast of Brittany in 1964.",
"Kay Sage is a visual artist and a poet.",
"Faut dire c'qui est was one of the five volumes of poetry she wrote.",
"She wrote a book called China Eggs.",
"Features of artistic style Kay Sage identified herself as a surrealist and authors who have written about her usually do the same.",
"One of her biographers, Judith Suther, writes that she is called a surrealist because of her painting's hallucinatory qualities.",
"Critics often compared her work to that of Tanguy, who was better known, and assumed that their work had features in common.",
"The influence more likely was mutual according to recent feminist scholars.",
"There are differences between the two artists, for example, the large architectural constructions that dominate Sage's paintings are quite unlike the smaller biomorphic or metallic forms that people associate with Tanguy's landscapes.",
"Key features of Sage's work are noted by Suther and Régine in a sketch of her.",
"Free-standing architectural structures, including walls, towers, and latticework, which could represent buildings either under construction or ruined and decaying, are the focus of most of Sage's paintings.",
"The painter Giorgio de Chirico may have contributed to her use of arched entryways.",
"Some figures are hidden by flowing drapery.",
"Small Portrait, thought to be a self-portrait, is hardly recognizable as a face, and Le Passage is perhaps the only one containing a definite human figure.",
"Like Tanguy, she sets her objects on deserts or plains that are far away.",
"She uses a gray-green-ochre palette that she describes as \"reminiscent of the sulphurous light before a storm\".",
"Even though she was praised for her artistic skill, critics called her work disturbing or depressing.",
"Most of the time, she didn't comment on what her paintings represented or how they should be interpreted.",
"One exception was her statement to a Time magazine critic that The Instant, a painting that appeared in her 1950 show at the Catherine Viviano gallery, was a sort of showing of what's inside.",
"She wrote an autobiography, four one-act plays, three books of poetry, one in English and one in Italian.",
"There are more than two hundred poems in the Archives of American Art, as well as sixty poems in the Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage.",
"Their style is sharp and often directed at themselves.",
"Many are imagined conversations with Tanguy, with whom she spoke the same kind of street-language French she used in the poems.",
"Her works include Piove in giardino, Demain, Monsieur Silber, Faut dire c'qui est, and Mordicus.",
"There are women artists in the surrealist movement.",
"New York: Thames and Hudson.",
"Renée Riese.",
"The Silent Couple are Kay and Yves Tanguy.",
"The University of Nebraska Press was published in 1997.",
"173–198.",
"The Mattatuck Museum has a historical society.",
"A tribute to Kay Sage.",
"The Mattatuck Museum was built in 1965, according to the museum's website.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller.",
"26, September–October 1983, pp.",
"32–47; 54–56.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller.",
"Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, edited \"In the Interim: the Constructivist Surrealism of Kay Sage\" in 1991.",
"The works are arranged chronologically at the Archives of American Art in the illustrated Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller.",
"Double Solitaire is about the real world of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy.",
"The Museum of Art/Mint Museum is located in Katonah.",
"The title of Miller's book, Kay Sage: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act plays (2001), is a reference to his 1983 Archives of American Art chronology, which was published to coincide with the Katonah-Mint exhibition.",
"Jonathan Stuhlman shows how Tagnuy's work was influenced by Sage in his essay.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller.",
"The gallery of surrealism has a collection of plays by Kay Sage.",
"The four one-act plays were given to Stephen Robeson Miller by the literary executor in France six months before his death.",
"The book was first published in 1995 as \"date not set\" with a Boston, Massachusetts, publisher and was later published in New York to coincide with the exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art.",
"Miller's edited and revised version of the Archives of American Art chronology was included with the plays.",
"The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage are part of the collection named \"The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, 1898–1983\".",
"The source for each quotation/entry and a list of the titles of the works she had executed during that year are included in the Chronology.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller.",
"The \"Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne of the Surrealist Art of Kay Sage\" is located at the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C.",
"This chronological approach allowed for the inclusion of several illustrations of works that do not appear in the catalogue, as well as a lithograph made for the Galerie Maeght in Paris for the exhibition called Le surrealisme en 1947.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller regrets that a correction was not included in his Chronology in the Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, published in 2018).",
"There is a proof of this information in the exhibition \"Le Temps Present: Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure: 1er Exposition de 1935\" held from January 10–28 at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris.",
"Karen Rosenberg.",
"\"A House of Her Own: Kay Sage.\"",
"The Women's Review of Books is an anthology.",
"In March 1998, p. 4 ff.",
"A House of Her Own was written by Judith D. Suther.",
"The University of Nebraska Press was published in 1997.",
"The author stated in her Acknowledgements that Miller had abandoned his book, but this was not possible because the citation in Books in Print predated Suther's book's citation in Books in Print.",
"Miller decided not to collaborate with Suther because he wanted to do his own book about her, which would be a catalogue raisonne with his commentary about her paintings.",
"The name of the person is Tessier, Régine.",
"Notable American Women: The Modern Period contains \"Sage, Kay Linn\" by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Green.",
"The city of Cambridge, Mass.",
"The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press was published in 1980.",
"609–609.",
"Von Maur is the author of the ed.",
"There is Yves Tanguy and surrealism.",
"Hatje Cantz was in Germany in 2001.",
"There are external links to the catalogue Raisonné.",
"The papers were from 1925-circa 1985, Bulk 1950–1965.",
"The archives of American art.",
"Stephen Robeson Miller had research material on Kay Sage.",
"The archives of American art.",
"\"KAY SAGE.\"",
"All art.",
"December 11, 2011.",
"\"KAY SAGE.\"",
"There is a website called ArtCyclopedia.",
"December 11, 2011.",
"\"KAY SAGE.\"",
"The Mattatuck Collections are in the Mattatuck Museum.",
"December 11, 2011.",
"\"KAY SAGE\"",
"December 11, 2011.",
"Gary Morris.",
"The reality women are Leonor Fini and Kay Sage.",
"It's called Morphizm.",
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] | <mask> (June 25, 1898 – January 8, 1963), usually known as <mask>, was an American Surrealist artist and poet active between 1936 and 1963. A member of the Golden Age and Post-War periods of Surrealism, she is mostly recognized for her artistic works, which typically contain themes of an architectural nature. Biography
<mask> was born in Albany, New York, into a family made wealthy from the timber industry. Her father, Henry M<mask>, was a state assemblyman the year after her birth and later was a five-term state senator. Her mother was Anne Wheeler (Ward) <mask>. <mask> had an elder sister, <mask>. Early life
<mask> left her husband and older daughter soon after <mask>'s birth to live and travel in Europe with <mask> as her companion.She and <mask> divorced in 1908, but <mask> continued to support his ex-wife and younger daughter, and <mask> visited him and his new wife in Albany occasionally and wrote him frequent letters. <mask> and her mother established a home in Rapallo, Italy, but visited many other places as well, including Paris. Katherine became fluent in French and Italian, speaking colloquial versions of these languages that she learned from the servants who helped to raise her. She attended a number of schools, including the Foxcroft School in Virginia, where she became a lifelong friend of the heiress Flora Payne Whitney. As a child she drew and wrote as hobbies, but her first formal training in painting was at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., in 1919–1920. After she and her mother went back to Italy in 1920, she studied art in Rome for several years, learning conventional techniques and styles. She particularly enjoyed painting outdoors in the Roman Campagna with teacher Oronato Carlandi and fellow students.Much later, <mask> stated that "these were the happiest days of my life", and she told friend and gallery owner Julien Levy in 1961 that her campagna experience shaped her "perspective idea of distance and going away." Nonetheless, in later years <mask> usually claimed that she was self-taught perhaps because, as one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that "she felt as if she had studied with no one." <mask> met a young Italian nobleman, Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, Prince di San Faustino, in Rome around 1923 and fell in love with him, believing at first, as she wrote to a friend in 1924, that he was "me in another form." They married on March 30, 1925. For ten years the couple lived the idle life of upper-class Italians, which <mask> later described as "a stagnant swamp." She looked back on that time as years that she simply "threw away to the crows. No reason, no purpose, nothing."Her husband was content with their lifestyle, but <mask> was not: as she wrote in her autobiography, China Eggs, "Some sort of inner sense in me was reserving my potentialities for something better and more constructive." Surrealism and Tanguy
Perhaps spurred by the deaths of her father in 1933 and her sister, from tuberculosis, in 1934 (Anne had joined <mask> and her mother in Italy in the 1920s, and the sisters became quite close during Anne's final illness), <mask> left her husband in 1935 with plans to build an independent life as an artist; they obtained a papal annulment of their marriage several years later. In December 1936, as she prepared to leave Italy and move to Paris, <mask> had her first solo art exhibit, six oil paintings shown at the Galleria del Milione in Milan. In A House of Her Own, her 1997 biography of <mask>, Judith Suther describes these works as "experimental abstract compositions." <mask> moved to Paris in March 1937 and rented a luxurious apartment there. In early 1938 she saw the International Surrealist Exhibit at Galerie Beaux-Arts; consisting of 299 pieces by 60 artists from 14 countries. She was especially struck by the paintings of Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, which featured what Magdalena Holzhey, in a book devoted to de Chirico, calls "empty squares and receding depths, shadowy arcades and soaring towers."<mask> bought one of de Chirico's paintings, La Surprise, and kept it all her life. This exposure to Surrealism inspired <mask> to begin painting in earnest. She exhibited six of her new oils in the Salon des Surindépendants show at the Porte de Versailles in the fall of 1938. These semiabstract paintings, including Afterwards and The World Is Blue, borrowed motifs and styles from de Chirico and the Surrealists but showed hints of <mask>'s own future work as well. Art historian Whitney Chadwick states that <mask>'s paintings were "imbued with an aura of purified form and a sense of motionlessness and impending doom found nowhere else in Surrealism." Around this time the artist began signing her works "<mask>." Several stories are told about <mask>'s meeting with her future husband, Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy.One came from Greek poet Nicolas Calas, who recalled that he and Tanguy accompanied Surrealist leader André Breton to the Surindépendants exhibit and were impressed enough by <mask>'s paintings to seek her out. Calas claimed that Breton was sure that the paintings must have been made by a man. Tanguy at the time was married to Jeannette Ducroq, but they were separated, and he and <mask> immediately fell in love. <mask>, still well off, was generous with her money and the group of impoverished artists badly needed such support, but some resented her wealth and what they felt was a haughty attitude that fitted her former title of "Princess" all too well. Her alliance with Tanguy contributed to a rift between Tanguy and Breton, who had formerly been close friends. Nonetheless, <mask> continued to call herself a Surrealist. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, beginning World War II, and <mask> sailed back to the United States a month later.She immediately set up plans to help the Surrealists immigrate as well and establish themselves in the new country by means of art exhibitions—starting with Tanguy, who joined her in New York City in November. She arranged for Tanguy to have a solo show at the New York gallery of Pierre Matisse, son of the famous painter Henri Matisse, a month after he arrived. <mask> had her own solo show, her first in the United States, at the same gallery in June 1940. <mask> and Tanguy married on August 17, 1940, in Reno, Nevada, after he obtained a final divorce from duCroq. Mature work
<mask> did the bulk of her mature work between 1940, when she married Tanguy, and 1955, when he died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage. During most of that time the two artists lived at Town Farm in Woodbury, Connecticut. (They leased a house in the area beginning in 1941 but maintained a New York apartment for a while as well; in 1946 they purchased the farm and moved to Woodbury permanently.)They converted a barn on the farm into his-and-hers studios, separated by a partition with a door. Their large home was decorated with numerous pieces of Surrealist art and a variety of unusual objects, including a stuffed raven in a cage and an Eskimo mask. Although the Tanguys visited, and were visited by, many members of both the French expatriate and American art communities, such as mobile designer Alexander Calder and his family, they had difficulty keeping close friends. "Again and again <mask> is described [by people who knew her] as imperious, forbidding, moody, quick to anger, remote, private, solitary, aloof, contradictory, and unapproachable," Judith Suther writes. Tanguy, though friendlier, became notorious for his behavior when drunk, which included grabbing the heads of other men at a gathering and striking them hard and repeatedly with his own. During these years <mask>'s art gained a solid reputation among art critics, though she found it difficult to emerge from the shadow of the better-known Tanguy. Her work was regularly included in national exhibits, won prizes, and was sold to major art museums.In 1943, <mask>'s work was included in Peggy Guggenheim's show Exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. She had several solo shows at the galleries of Julien Levy and, beginning in 1950, Catherine Viviano in New York. In the Third Sleep won the Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago in October 1945, <mask>'s first major public recognition. In 1951, All Soundings Are Referred to High Water won first prize in oils at the Eastern States Exposition of Connecticut Contemporary Art, and Nests of Lightning won first honorable mention in the 22nd Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. <mask> and Tanguy had a large joint exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut—their first and almost only exhibition together—in August and September 1954. Last years and death
The relationship between <mask> and Yves Tanguy was as enigmatic as their art. At the same parties during which he banged his head against those of other men, Tanguy assaulted <mask> verbally and sometimes physically, pushing her and sometimes even threatening her with a knife.<mask>, according to friends' accounts, made no response to her husband's aggression except to try to persuade him to go home. Friends also said that Tanguy did not like <mask>'s painting and felt jealous of the fame that came to her. However contentious or abusive their relationship was, <mask> was devastated by Tanguy's death. "Yves was my only friend who understood everything," she wrote to Jehan Mayoux, an old friend of Tanguy's, about a month after Tanguy's fatal stroke. <mask> did fewer new paintings after Tanguy died, partly because of her depression and partly because of her decreasing eyesight due to cataracts. Instead, she devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy's reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry, mostly in the slangy French she had learned in her youth and spoken with Tanguy. With the help of longtime friend Marcel Duhamel—and her own subsidies to cover most of the printing costs—<mask> arranged for a book of this poetry, Demain, Monsieur Silber, to be published in France in June 1957.Around 1955 she also wrote a partial autobiography, China Eggs, which covered her life up to about the time she left San Faustino, but she never tried to publish it. One of the chief paintings in a show of 13 of <mask>'s oils at the Viviano Gallery in November 1958 was called The Answer Is No. This seems to have reflected <mask>'s own state of mind. She filed her will in Waterbury in December 1958, and on April 28–29, 1959, a few weeks after she completed a massive catalogue of Tanguy's paintings, she attempted to end her life with an overdose of sleeping pills. A housekeeper found her, however, and she was revived. In 1959 and 1960 she underwent operations to remove her cataracts, which she had formerly refused to do. Unfortunately, the surgeries were painful and had only limited success, and by this time she was suffering from other health problems as well, including some that may have resulted from her years of heavy smoking and drinking.During 1960 and 1961, as a substitute for painting, she made small sculptures of wire, stones, bullets, and other unusual materials. Catherine Viviano hosted a show of these objects, titled "Your Move," in November 1961, as well as a major retrospective show of <mask>'s paintings in April 1960. <mask> wrote in a journal in August 1961, "I have said all that I have to say. There is nothing left for me to do but scream." On January 8, 1963, she put a fatal bullet through her heart. Following instructions in her will, Pierre Matisse buried urns containing <mask>'s and Tanguy's ashes in the water off the coast of Tanguy's native Brittany in 1964. Art and writing
Poetry and writing
<mask> is known chiefly as a visual artist.However, she also wrote five volumes of poetry, chiefly in French, including Faut dire c'qui est, in September 1959. She wrote four short plays and an unpublished autobiography, China Eggs. Features of Artistic Style
<mask> consistently identified herself as a Surrealist, and authors who have written about her usually do so as well. One of her biographers, Judith Suther, writes:
I call <mask> a Surrealist because her painting resonates with the unsettling paradoxes and hallucinatory qualities prized by André Breton and his group. . . . More fundamentally, I call <mask> a Surrealist because her allegiance to the Surrealist identity lies at the heart of her self-image as an artist. Critics during <mask>'s lifetime frequently compared her work to that of Tanguy, who was better known, and usually assumed that, when their work had features in common, those features must have originated with him. More recent feminist scholars have stated that the influence more likely was mutual—what Judith Suther calls "a constant, usually unconscious interchange." Suther and others also point out differences between the two artists: for example, the large architectural constructions that dominate <mask>'s paintings are quite unlike the smaller biomorphic or metallic forms that people associate with Tanguy's landscapes.Both Suther and Régine Tessier, the latter in a sketch of <mask> in Notable American Women: The Modern Period, note key features of <mask>'s mature work. Most of <mask>'s paintings focus on free-standing architectural structures, including walls, towers, and latticework, which could represent buildings either under construction or ruined and decaying. Her use of arched entryways and slanted perspectives may in be attributed to the painter Giorgio de Chirico. Some contain figures that might or might not be human, hidden by flowing drapery. (Le Passage, one of <mask>'s last paintings, is perhaps the only one containing a definite human figure; even Small Portrait, thought by many to be a self-portrait, is hardly recognizable as a face.) Like Tanguy, <mask> often sets her objects on deserts or plains that recede to immeasurably distant horizons. She renders her forms in meticulous, photographic detail, using a gray-green-ochre palette that Tessier describes as "reminiscent of the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm".Critics frequently called <mask>'s work disturbing or depressing, even when they praised her painterly skill. <mask> almost never commented on what her paintings represented or how their seemingly ominous mood should be interpreted. One exception was her statement to a Time magazine critic that The Instant, a painting that appeared in her 1950 show at the Catherine Viviano gallery, was "a sort of showing of what's inside—things half mechanical, half alive." Books
In addition to her autobiography, China Eggs, and four Surrealist one-act plays, <mask> wrote several books of poetry, three in French, one in English and one in Italian. There are also more than two hundred unpublished poems in the Archives of American Art (Flora Whitney Miller Papers, and sixty unpublished poems in the Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about <mask>, see citation below.) Their style is colloquial, their wit sharp and often directed at herself. Many are dialogues, perhaps imagined conversations with Tanguy (with whom she spoke the same kind of street-language French she used in the poems) or perhaps discussions between different parts of herself.Her published works are:
Piove in giardino (1937)
Demain, Monsieur Silber (1957)
The More I Wonder (1957, probably a translation into English of Demain, Monsieur Silber)
Faut dire c'qui est (1959)
Mordicus (1962)
See also
Women Surrealists
References
Suggested reading
Chadwick, Whitney. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985. Hubert, Renée Riese. "The Silent Couple: <mask> and Yves Tanguy," in her Magnifying Mirrors: Women, Surrealism, and Partnership. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, pp. 173–198.Mattatuck Museum Historical Society. "A Tribute to <mask>." Mattatuck, Conn.: Mattatuck Museum, 1965. Miller, Stephen Robeson. "The Surrealist Imagery of <mask>" Art International, Lugano, Switzerland, v. 26, September–October 1983, pp. 32–47; 54–56. Miller, Stephen Robeson."In the Interim: the Constructivist Surrealism of <mask>" in Surrealism and Women, edited by Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991. Mentions the author's illustrated Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, in which the works are arranged chronologically, on microfilm at the Archives of American Art (see below). Miller, Stephen Robeson. Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of <mask> and Yves Tanguy. Katonah, N. Y.: Katonah Museum of Art/Mint Museum, 2011-2012. One of Miller's books, <mask>: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays (2001), the book's title a reference to his exhaustive 1983 Archives of American Art chronology on microfilm (see citation below), was published to coincide with the Katonah-Mint exhibition, as is stated in the exhibition's catalogue. In his essay in this publication, Jonathan Stuhlman demonstrably shows just how <mask> influenced Tagnuy's work.Miller, Stephen Robeson. <mask>: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act Plays, New York: Gallery of Surrealism, 2011. (Note: In 1976, Marcel Duhamel, <mask>'s literary executor in France, six months before his death, gave her four Surrealist one-act plays to Stephen Robeson Miller with the understanding that the latter would eventually publish them. First listed in Books in Print in 1995 as "date not set" with a Boston, Massachusetts, publisher (Nelmar Press), this book was eventually published by the Gallery of Surrealism, New York, to coincide with the Sage and Tanguy exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, cited above, of which Miller was curator. Miller included with the plays an edited and revised version of his 1983 one hundred page Archives of American Art chronology on microfilm reel nos. 2886-2888 which extensively incorporated quotations from his interviews and correspondence with people who knew <mask> and which forms part of the collection named by the AAA "The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about <mask>, 1898–1983". Additionally, included for each year in the Chronology, is the source for each quotation/entry and a list of the titles of the works she had executed during that year, thereby making it a catalogue raisonne of <mask>'s Surrealist works without illustrations (see below).Miller, Stephen Robeson. "Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne of the Surrealist Art of <mask>" on microfilm at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1983, in which the works appear chronologically. This chronological approach permitted the inclusion of <mask>'s only print, a lithograph made for the Galerie Maeght in Paris for the exhibition called Le Surrealisme en 1947, and several illustrations of works that do not appear in the 2018 Catalogue Raisonne published by Delmonico/Prestel Verlag. (Stephen Robeson Miller regrets that in his Chronology in the Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne, published in 2018, there was not time before the book went to press to include the following correction: <mask> saw her first Tanguy painting Je vous attends (I await you), 1934, at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris in January 1935, not at the same gallery during the summer of 1936. Proof of this information is the checklist of the exhibition called "Le Temps Present: Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure: 1er Exposition de 1935" held from January 10–28 at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, with Tanguy's painting listed as number 232, courtesy of the Pierre Matisse Foundation, New York). Rosenberg, Karen. "A House of Her Own: <mask>, Solitary Surrealist."Women's Review of Books, v. 15 i. 6 (March 1998), p. 4 ff. Suther, Judith D. A House of Her Own: <mask>, Solitary Surrealist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. The author stated in her Acknowledgements, that Miller had abandoned his book on <mask>, but this was not possible because the citation Miller had in Books in Print predated Suther's book's citation in Books in Print, and demonstrated his desire to publish further. Also, Miller and Suther for a period of time had discussed collaborating on a book about <mask>, but Miller later decided he did not wish to collaborate with her because he wanted to do his own book, which would be a catalogue raisonne with his commentary about her paintings, <mask>'s unpublished one-act plays, and his one-hundred page Chronological biography in the Archives of American Art. Tessier, Régine."<mask>, <mask>n," in Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green, eds., Notable American Women: The Modern Period. Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 618–619. von Maur, Karin, ed. Yves Tanguy and Surrealism. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2001.External links
"Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonné." "<mask> Papers, 1925-circa 1985, Bulk 1950–1965." Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. "Stephen Robeson Miller research material on <mask>, 1898-1983." Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. "<mask>." All-Art.Accessed December 11, 2011. "<mask>." ArtCyclopedia. Accessed December 11, 2011. "<mask>." Mattatuck Collections, Mattatuck Museum. Accessed December 11, 2011."<mask> (American—1898–1963)." Accessed December 11, 2011. Morris, Gary. "Surreal Women: Leonor Fini and <mask>." Morphizm. Posted May 15, 2006; accessed December 11, 2011. Poosti, Tara."<mask> (1898–1963): Surrealist." Sullivan Goss. Accessed December 11, 2011. Vieuille, Chantal. "<mask> ou le surréalisme américain." Editions Complicités. In French.Accessed December 24, 2011. 1922 <mask> passport photo, flickr.com
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Her father was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 Her mother was named Anne Wheeler. Anne was the older sister of <mask>. After <mask>'s birth, Anne Wheeler Ward <mask> left her husband and older daughter to live and travel in Europe with <mask> as her companion.<mask> visited Henry and his new wife in Albany occasionally and wrote him letters after they divorced. <mask> and her mother visited a lot of places, including Paris. She learned how to speak French and Italian from the servants who helped to raise her. She was a lifelong friend of the Whitney family and attended the Foxcroft School in Virginia. Her first formal training in painting was at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C., in 1919–1920. She studied art in Rome for several years after she and her mother returned to Italy. She enjoyed painting outdoors in the Roman Campagna.In 1961, she told her friend and gallery owner that her campagna experience shaped her "perspective idea of distance and going away." As one of her biographers, Judith Suther, states, most of what she had learned in Rome bore so little relationship to the kind of painting she eventually did that she felt as if she had studied. After falling in love with a young Italian nobleman, Ranieri Bourbon del Monte Santa Maria, Prince di San Faustino, she wrote to a friend that she was in another form. They were married on March 30, 1925. The couple lived in a stagnant swamp for ten years. She looked back at that time as a time when shehrew away to the crows. No reason, no purpose, nothing.Her husband was content with their lifestyle, but she was not: as she wrote in her autobiography, China Eggs, "Some sort of inner sense in me was reserving my potentialities for something better and more constructive." Perhaps spurred by the deaths of her father in 1933 and her sister from Tuberculosis in 1934 (Anne had joined <mask> and her mother in Italy in the 1920s, and the sisters became quite close during Anne's final illness), <mask> left her husband in 1935. In December 1936, as she prepared to leave Italy and move to Paris, she had her first solo art exhibit, six oil paintings shown at the Galleria del Milione in Milan. In A House of Her Own, Judith Suther describes these works as "experimental abstract compositions." In 1937, she rented a luxurious apartment in Paris. The International Surrealist Exhibit consisted of 299 pieces by 60 artists from 14 countries. She was struck by Giorgio de Chirico's paintings of empty squares and shadowy arcades, which were featured in a book devoted to de Chirico.She kept one of de Chirico's paintings, La Surprise. As a result of this exposure, <mask> began painting in earnest. In the fall of 1938, she exhibited six of her new oils at the Porte de Versailles. Some of the paintings, including Afterwards and The World Is Blue, borrowed motifs and styles from de Chirico and the Surrealists, but also showed hints of the future work of the artist. Whitney Chadwick states that the paintings of <mask> were "imbued with an aura of purified form and a sense of motionlessness and impending doom found nowhere else in surrealism." The artist began signing her works. There are many stories about the meeting between <mask> and Yves Tanguy.Nicolas Calas, a Greek poet, said that he and Tanguy went to the Surindépendants exhibit and were impressed by the paintings of <mask>. The paintings must have been made by a man according to Calas. When Tanguy was married to Jeannette Ducroq, he immediately fell in love with her. Some people resented her wealth and what they felt was a haughty attitude that fitted her former title of "Princess", even though she was still well off and generous with her money. Her alliance with Tanguy made it difficult for Tanguy and Breton to be friends again. Nevertheless, she continued to call herself a surrealist. Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939 and returned to the United States a month later.She immediately set up plans to help the Surrealists emigrate as well and establish themselves in the new country by means of art exhibitions, starting with Tanguy, who joined her in New York City in November. She arranged for Tanguy to have a solo show at the New York gallery of Pierre Matisse, the son of a famous painter. In June 1940, she had her first solo show in the United States at the same gallery. After he obtained a final divorce from duCroq, <mask> and Tanguy married in Reno, Nevada, on August 17, 1940. Between 1940 and 1955, when she married Tanguy, she did most of her mature work. The two artists lived at Town Farm in Connecticut. In 1941, they leased a house in the area and lived in a New York apartment for a while, but in 1946 they purchased a farm and moved to Woodbury.A partition with a door separated the studios from the barn. A stuffed raven in a cage and an Eskimo mask are some of the unusual objects in their large home. Although the Tanguys visited, and were visited by, many members of both the French expatriate and American art communities, such as mobile designer Alexander Calder and his family, they had difficulty keeping close friends. Judith Suther writes that people who knew her described her as imperious, forbidding, moody, quick to anger, remote, private, solitary, aloof, and unapproachable. Tanguy became notorious for his behavior when drunk, which included grabbing the heads of other men at a gathering and striking them hard and repeatedly with his own. She found it difficult to emerge from the shadow of Tanguy because her art gained a good reputation among art critics. Her work was sold to major art museums.The exhibition by 31 Women at the Art of This Century gallery in New York featured the work of <mask>. She had a number of solo shows in New York. In the Third Sleep won the Art Institute of Chicago's Purchase Prize in 1945. All Soundings Are Referred to High Water was the winner of the first prize in oils at the Eastern States Exposition of Connecticut Contemporary Art in 1951. Their first and only exhibition together was at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut in August and September of 1954. The relationship between <mask> and Yves Tanguy was shrouded in mystery. At the same parties where he banged his head against other men, Tanguy pushed and threatened her with a knife, and sometimes physically.According to friends' accounts, <mask> made no response to her husband's aggression except to try to convince him to go home. According to friends, Tanguy was jealous of the fame that came to her and did not like the painting of <mask>. <mask> was devastated by Tanguy's death. After Tanguy's death, she wrote to an old friend, "Yves was my only friend who understood everything." She did fewer paintings after Tanguy died because of her depression and because of her decreasing eyesight. She devoted her time to two projects: preserving Tanguy's reputation through retrospective shows and a complete catalogue of his work, and writing poetry in French she had learned in her youth. <mask> arranged for a book of 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476 888-282-0476She wrote a partial autobiography called China Eggs, which covered her life up until about the time she left San Faustino. The Answer Is No was one of the paintings in a show of 13 of the artist's oils. This seems to have reflected <mask>'s state of mind. She attempted to end her life with an overdose of sleeping pills a few weeks after she completed a massive catalogue of Tanguy's paintings. She was found and resuscitated. She had operations to remove her cataracts in 1959 and 1960. She was suffering from other health problems, including some that may have been caused by her years of heavy smoking and drinking, after the surgeries were painful and had only limited success.She made small sculptures of wire, stones, bullets, and other unusual materials as a substitute for painting. A major retrospective show of <mask>'s paintings was held in April 1960, as well as a show of these objects hosted in November 1961. In August 1961, she wrote in a journal, "I have said all that I have to say." There is nothing left for me to do. On January 8, 1963, she died from a bullet in her heart. The urns containing the ashes of Tanguy and <mask> were buried in the water off the coast of Brittany in 1964. <mask> is a visual artist and a poet.Faut dire c'qui est was one of the five volumes of poetry she wrote. She wrote a book called China Eggs. Features of artistic style <mask> identified herself as a surrealist and authors who have written about her usually do the same. One of her biographers, Judith Suther, writes that she is called a surrealist because of her painting's hallucinatory qualities. Critics often compared her work to that of Tanguy, who was better known, and assumed that their work had features in common. The influence more likely was mutual according to recent feminist scholars. There are differences between the two artists, for example, the large architectural constructions that dominate <mask>'s paintings are quite unlike the smaller biomorphic or metallic forms that people associate with Tanguy's landscapes.Key features of <mask>'s work are noted by Suther and Régine in a sketch of her. Free-standing architectural structures, including walls, towers, and latticework, which could represent buildings either under construction or ruined and decaying, are the focus of most of <mask>'s paintings. The painter Giorgio de Chirico may have contributed to her use of arched entryways. Some figures are hidden by flowing drapery. Small Portrait, thought to be a self-portrait, is hardly recognizable as a face, and Le Passage is perhaps the only one containing a definite human figure. Like Tanguy, she sets her objects on deserts or plains that are far away. She uses a gray-green-ochre palette that she describes as "reminiscent of the sulphurous light before a storm".Even though she was praised for her artistic skill, critics called her work disturbing or depressing. Most of the time, she didn't comment on what her paintings represented or how they should be interpreted. One exception was her statement to a Time magazine critic that The Instant, a painting that appeared in her 1950 show at the Catherine Viviano gallery, was a sort of showing of what's inside. She wrote an autobiography, four one-act plays, three books of poetry, one in English and one in Italian. There are more than two hundred poems in the Archives of American Art, as well as sixty poems in the Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about <mask>. Their style is sharp and often directed at themselves. Many are imagined conversations with Tanguy, with whom she spoke the same kind of street-language French she used in the poems.Her works include Piove in giardino, Demain, Monsieur Silber, Faut dire c'qui est, and Mordicus. There are women artists in the surrealist movement. New York: Thames and Hudson. Renée Riese. The Silent Couple are <mask> and Yves Tanguy. The University of Nebraska Press was published in 1997. 173–198.The Mattatuck Museum has a historical society. A tribute to <mask>. The Mattatuck Museum was built in 1965, according to the museum's website. Stephen Robeson Miller. 26, September–October 1983, pp. 32–47; 54–56. Stephen Robeson Miller.Mary Ann Caws, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, edited "In the Interim: the Constructivist Surrealism of <mask>" in 1991. The works are arranged chronologically at the Archives of American Art in the illustrated Kay Sage Catalogue Raisonne. Stephen Robeson Miller. Double Solitaire is about the real world of <mask> and Yves Tanguy. The Museum of Art/Mint Museum is located in Katonah. The title of Miller's book, <mask>: The Biographical Chronology and Four Surrealist One-Act plays (2001), is a reference to his 1983 Archives of American Art chronology, which was published to coincide with the Katonah-Mint exhibition. Jonathan Stuhlman shows how Tagnuy's work was influenced by <mask> in his essay.Stephen Robeson Miller. The gallery of surrealism has a collection of plays by <mask>. The four one-act plays were given to Stephen Robeson Miller by the literary executor in France six months before his death. The book was first published in 1995 as "date not set" with a Boston, Massachusetts, publisher and was later published in New York to coincide with the exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art. Miller's edited and revised version of the Archives of American Art chronology was included with the plays. The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about <mask> are part of the collection named "The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about <mask>, 1898–1983". The source for each quotation/entry and a list of the titles of the works she had executed during that year are included in the Chronology.Stephen Robeson Miller. The "Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne of the Surrealist Art of <mask>" is located at the Archives of American Art in Washington, D.C. This chronological approach allowed for the inclusion of several illustrations of works that do not appear in the catalogue, as well as a lithograph made for the Galerie Maeght in Paris for the exhibition called Le surrealisme en 1947. Stephen Robeson Miller regrets that a correction was not included in his Chronology in the <mask> Sage Catalogue Raisonne, published in 2018). There is a proof of this information in the exhibition "Le Temps Present: Peinture, Sculpture, Gravure: 1er Exposition de 1935" held from January 10–28 at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris. Karen Rosenberg. "A House of Her Own: <mask>."The Women's Review of Books is an anthology. In March 1998, p. 4 ff. A House of Her Own was written by Judith D. Suther. The University of Nebraska Press was published in 1997. The author stated in her Acknowledgements that Miller had abandoned his book, but this was not possible because the citation in Books in Print predated Suther's book's citation in Books in Print. Miller decided not to collaborate with Suther because he wanted to do his own book about her, which would be a catalogue raisonne with his commentary about her paintings. The name of the person is Tessier, Régine.Notable American Women: The Modern Period contains "Sage, Kay Linn" by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Green. The city of Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press was published in 1980. 609–609. Von Maur is the author of the ed. There is Yves Tanguy and surrealism. Hatje Cantz was in Germany in 2001.There are external links to the catalogue Raisonné. The papers were from 1925-circa 1985, Bulk 1950–1965. The archives of American art. Stephen Robeson Miller had research material on <mask>. The archives of American art. "KAY SAGE." All art.December 11, 2011. "KAY SAGE." There is a website called ArtCyclopedia. December 11, 2011. "KAY SAGE." The Mattatuck Collections are in the Mattatuck Museum. December 11, 2011."KAY SAGE" December 11, 2011. Gary Morris. The reality women are Leonor Fini and <mask>. It's called Morphizm. December 11, 2011; posted May 15, 2006; accessed May 15, 2006; Tara Poosti.<mask> was a surrealist. Sullivan Goss. December 11, 2011. Vieuille, Chantal. "C'est un surréalisme américain." There are editions Complicités. In French.December 24, 2011. 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20457099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20F.%20Kelly | John F. Kelly | John Francis Kelly (born May 11, 1950) is an American former political advisor and retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House chief of staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019. He had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and was commander of United States Southern Command. He is now a board member at Caliburn International.
Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was commissioned as an officer near the end of college. He rose through the ranks, eventually serving in his last military post from 2012 to 2016 as a four-star general leading United States Southern Command, the unified combatant command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
Prior to joining the Trump administration in January 2017, Kelly had been on the board of advisors of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn.
Kelly was selected as the first Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration. Kelly earned a reputation for being an aggressive enforcer of immigration law. After six months, he was selected to replace Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff in an attempt to bring more stability to the White House. He was the first career military officer to serve in the position since Alexander Haig during the Nixon and Ford Administrations.
Early life and education
Kelly was born on May 11, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josephine "Honey" (Pedalino) and John F. Kelly. His family was Catholic, his father of Irish ancestry and his mother of Italian descent. His father was a postal worker in Brighton. He grew up in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Before he reached the age of 16, he hitchhiked to Washington state and rode the trains back, including a freight-hop from Seattle to Chicago. He then served for one year in the United States Merchant Marine, where he says "my first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam".
In 1970, when his mother told him that his draft number was coming up, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in an infantry company with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was discharged to the inactive reserve as a sergeant in 1972 so that he could attend college. He returned to active duty with the Marines in 1975, completed Officer Candidates School, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on December 27, 1975. In 1976, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and in 1984, he received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. In 1995, Kelly graduated from the National Defense University in Washington, DC with a Master of Science in Strategic Studies.
Military career
Kelly returned to the Second Marine Division where he served as a rifle platoon and weapons platoon commander, company executive officer, assistant operations officer, and rifle company commander. Sea duty in Mayport, Florida, followed, at which time he served aboard aircraft carriers and . In 1980, then-Captain Kelly attended the U.S. Army's Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. After graduation, he was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., serving there from 1981 through 1984, as an assignment monitor. Kelly returned to the Second Marine Division in 1984, to command a rifle company and weapons company. Promoted to major in 1987, he then served as a battalion operations officer.
In 1987, Kelly transferred to the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, serving first as the head of the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group, and later assuming the duties of the Director of the Infantry Officer Course. After three years of instructing young officers, he attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the School for Advanced Warfare, both located at Quantico.
Completing duty under instruction and selected for lieutenant colonel, he was assigned as commanding officer, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (1st LAR), 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California. During his tenure, 1st LAR was called in to provide augmentation support for police in the city of Long Beach, California during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Holding this command position for two years, Kelly returned to the East Coast in 1994, to attend the National War College in Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1995 and was selected to serve as the Commandant's Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives, Capitol Hill, where he was promoted to colonel.
In 1999, Kelly transferred to joint duty and served as the special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in Mons, Belgium. He returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned to a third tour of duty at Camp Lejeune, now as the assistant chief of staff G-3 with the Second Marine Division. In 2002, Kelly again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the assistant division commander. Much of Kelly's two-year assignment was spent deployed in Iraq. In March 2003, while in Iraq, Kelly was promoted to brigadier general, which was the first known promotion of a Marine Corps colonel in an active combat zone since that of another First Marine Division assistant division commander, Chesty Puller, in January 1951.
In April 2003, Kelly took command of the newly formed Task Force Tripoli and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit. Kelly has stated that during the initial assault on Baghdad he was asked by a reporter for The Los Angeles Times if, considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam's forces, he would ever consider defeat. Kelly's response, as recounted by him at a 2007 San Diego Military Advisory Council networking breakfast, was, "hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain't shit." [sic]
His next assignment was as legislative assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Michael Hagee. In January 2007, Kelly was nominated for major general, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2007.
Kelly's next assignment, in July 2007, was as commanding general, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). On February 9, 2008 Kelly assumed command of the Multi-National Force–West in Iraq, replacing Major General Walter E. Gaskin. After a year in Iraq, Kelly returned to the United States in February 2009.
Kelly was nominated for lieutenant general on March 9, 2011, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 16, 2011.
Kelly was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense and personally greeted Secretary Leon Panetta at the entrance to the Pentagon on July 1, 2011, Panetta's first day as secretary. Kelly was nominated for General on January 31, 2012, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 26, 2012. He succeeded General Douglas M. Fraser as commander of U.S. Southern Command on November 19, 2012.
In a May 2014 speech regarding the War on Terror, Kelly said:
If you think this war against our way of life is over because some of the self-appointed opinion-makers and chattering class grow 'war weary,' because they want to be out of Iraq or Afghanistan, you are mistaken. This enemy is dedicated to our destruction. He will fight us for generations, and the conflict will move through various phases as it has since 9/11.
Kelly was succeeded as commander by Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd on January 14, 2016.
Secretary of Homeland Security
On December 7, 2016, then President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a cabinet-level position. People familiar with the transition said that Trump's team was drawn to Kelly because of his southwest border expertise. On January 20, 2017, Kelly was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the United States Senate with a vote of 88–11. On that evening, he was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence.
In an April 2017 speech at George Washington University, Kelly said, "If lawmakers do not like the laws they've passed and we are charged to enforce, then they should have the courage and skill to change the laws. Otherwise they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines."
Kelly indicated days into the administration his interest in having the U.S.–Mexico border wall completed within two years. On April 21, 2017, Kelly said the U.S.–Mexico border wall would begin construction "by the end of the summer." Two days later, Kelly said he believed "a border wall is essential" as there were "tremendous threats" such as drugs and individuals coming into the US. On May 2, Kelly stated his surprise in office holders "rejoicing in the fact that the wall will be slower to be built and, consequently, the southwest border under less control than it could be."
In May 2017, Kelly said of terrorism, "It's everywhere. It's constant. It's nonstop. The good news for us in America is we have amazing people protecting us every day. But it can happen here almost anytime." He said that the threat from terrorism was so severe that some people would "never leave the house" if they knew the truth. In July, Kelly allegedly blocked Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke from taking a position in the DHS, though it was never confirmed.
Assessment of tenure
Of his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, USA Today wrote, "Kelly oversaw some of the most controversial policies of Trump's agenda, including a travel ban targeting several majority-Muslim countries, a reduction in refugee admissions and stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants." According to the New Yorker, Kelly left the DHS with a
reputation as one of the most aggressive enforcers of immigration law in recent American history. His record belies the short length of his tenure. In six months, Kelly eliminated guidelines that governed federal immigration agents' work; vastly expanded the categories of immigrants being targeted for deportation; threatened to abandon the Obama-era program that grants legal status to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children; and has even broached the idea of splitting up mothers and children at the border to "deter" people from coming to the U.S.
The DHS under Kelly "became one of the few branches of the federal government that has been both willing and able to execute Trump's policy priorities." Unlike other agency heads, Kelly did not clash with Trump.
White House Chief of Staff
Trump appointed Kelly to the post of White House Chief of Staff on July 28, 2017, replacing Reince Priebus. Priebus's ousting and Kelly's appointment followed an internal power struggle within the White House. Kelly took office on July 31, 2017. That same day, with Trump's approval, Kelly removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as communications director, just ten days after Scaramucci was appointed to that role. Reportedly, Kelly had requested permission to remove Scaramucci after "Scaramucci had boasted about reporting directly to the president, not the chief of staff." On August 18, 2017, Kelly removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist, on behalf of President Trump.
Early into his tenure, media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and FiveThirtyEight speculated that Kelly would bring moderation and discipline to the White House. In August 2017, early into Kelly's tenure, the Washington Post wrote that Kelly had "left no discernible imprint on the White House's philosophy" and that it was unclear if he would bring calm and rigor to the White House. In a lengthy article on Kelly's tenure, the New York Times in October 2017 wrote that "for all of the talk of Mr. Kelly as a moderating force and the so-called grown-up in the room, it turns out that he harbors strong feelings on patriotism, national security and immigration that mirror the hard-line views of his outspoken boss." By February 2018, Kelly had emerged as a hardliner on several issues (immigration, in particular) and been embroiled in a number of controversies, and there were reports of pressure on Kelly to resign.
When Donald Trump arrived in Singapore in June 2018 for the North Korea–United States summit, the New York Times reported that Kelly had told a recent group of visiting senators the White House was "a miserable place to work." The reported comment renewed months-long speculation that Kelly would resign from his job of White House Chief of Staff.
According to several news outlets in early 2018, Kelly's influence in the White House had been diminished and Trump made several key decisions without his presence. On December 7, 2018, CNN and others reported that Kelly and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that Kelly was expected to resign in the coming days. On December 8, Trump announced that Kelly would be leaving at the end of the year. On December 14, 2018, the White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace John Kelly as the White House Chief of Staff.
On the day after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Kelly said he supported Trump's removal from office by use of the 25th Amendment, adding, "What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds."
Controversies
DC Capital Partners conflict of interest
In January 2017, The Intercept reported that Kelly failed to disclose his position as vice-chair on the Spectrum Group, a defense contractor lobbying firm, on his ethics form, while taking a position at the Department of Homeland Security. Kelly's membership on the board of DC Capital Partners and its for-profit detention facilities at the Southern Border and Florida, operated by its subsidiary Caliburn International had called into question his neutrality as they have been described as private for-profit concentration camps. Caliburn CEO James Van Dusen said, "With four decades of military and humanitarian leadership, in-depth understanding of international affairs and knowledge of current economic drivers around the world, General Kelly is a strong strategic addition to our team." Candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries objected, including Cory Booker who said Kelly's actions in joining the board were "disgusting," with Elizabeth Warren calling his role, "corruption at its absolute worst." In July 2019, the House Oversight Committee announced it was probing Kelly's conflict of interest in the camps while he was the White House Chief of Staff.
Frederica Wilson dispute
In October 2017, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) criticized Trump for his phone call to the widow of a slain U.S. soldier, saying his remarks had been insensitive. Wilson had been in the widow's car when Trump had called her. A few days later, Kelly held a press briefing where he defended Trump's phone call, which he had overheard, saying Trump "expressed his condolences in the best way that he could." Kelly harshly criticized Wilson, calling her "the empty barrel that makes the most noise" and stating that in a 2015 speech Wilson had "stood up" to inappropriately claim credit for securing federal funding for an FBI building in her district. Video of her 2015 speech showed his description to be inaccurate. Later that month, while in an interview with conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Kelly said he stood by his comments on Wilson and would "never" apologize for his comments. Kelly said he would "talk about before her comments and at the reception afterwards" as a "package deal", but refused to elaborate further.
Civil War remarks
In the same October 2017 interview with Laura Ingraham, Kelly said that "the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War." He also described Robert E. Lee as an "honorable man" who "gave up ... his country to fight for his state," and claimed, "men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand." Several historians of the Civil War described Kelly's remarks as ignorant, and as a misuse of history reminiscent of Lost Cause mythology. They also broadly reject Kelly's remark that a failure to compromise led to the Civil War, noting that the war was predominantly fought over slavery and that a number of compromises on slavery were made in the lead-up to the war. The White House defended Kelly's remarks, citing non-fiction writer and historian Shelby Foote.
DACA remarks
On February 6, 2018, Kelly made recorded remarks concerning a discrepancy between how many had enrolled in DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and how many were to be offered a path to citizenship, by saying "The difference between 690 [thousand] and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up; others would say are too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up".
Confrontation with Corey Lewandowski
In February 2018, The New York Times reported that Kelly had been in a physical confrontation with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. According to anonymous sources, Kelly had a heated argument with Lewandoski in which he accused him of profiting off Trump's presidency. This led to Kelly grabbing Lewandowski by the collar and pushing him up against the wall just outside the Oval Office. The sources said Lewandowski did not respond physically to Kelly, and when Secret Service agents arrived, Lewandowski and Kelly went their separate ways.
Firing of White House aide Rob Porter
On February 7, 2018, White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned in the wake of reports that his two ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse, allegations that Porter said are false and "a coordinated smear campaign". One ex-wife had a protective order from 2010 against Porter, and the other had photographic evidence of the alleged abuse. The protective order had prevented Porter from obtaining a full security clearance, though the order's associated ex-wife said Porter's "integrity and ability to do his job is impeccable". According to an unnamed senior administration official, Kelly was aware of the protective order and the domestic abuse allegations, and had promoted Porter within the White House. Approached by media about the allegations, Kelly initially praised Porter, saying he was a "man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him. He is a friend, a confidante and a trusted professional. I am proud to serve alongside him." Per an unnamed White House official, Porter resigned over the objections of Kelly, who had worked closely with Porter since becoming White House Chief of Staff.
In a February 8 email to White House staff, Kelly wrote, "While we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former White House staffer, I want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. Domestic violence is abhorrent and has no place in our society". On February 9, 2018, The Washington Post reported that Kelly had instructed senior staff and aides to tell reporters that Kelly took immediate action to fire Porter upon hearing that domestic abuse allegations were credible; the Post noted this "version of events contradicts both the public record and accounts from numerous other White House officials in recent days as the Porter drama unfolded." Kelly told reporters on March 2, 2018 that he sought Porter's resignation immediately after learning of the accusations on February 6 and regretted his handling of Porter's departure.
Firing of Omarosa Manigault
In August 2018, a tape was released of Kelly firing White House staffer Omarosa Manigault in the Situation Room, and allegedly threatening her legally as well as reputationally, saying to her: "I'd like to see this be a friendly departure. There are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that, that'll make it ugly for you." When questioned whether the President knew of the firing, Kelly replied: "The [White House] staff, and everybody on the staff, works for me and not the president." Kelly's use of the Situation Room to isolate and fire Manigault also led to controversy about potential misuse of the high-security facility by Kelly, as well as the fact he was unknowingly recorded within it.
Donald Trump's comments on Adolf Hitler
On July 6, 2021, it was reported that during a 2018 trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, then President Donald Trump told Kelly, "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things." Kelly did not publicly reveal the President's comments for more than two years. The story was ultimately reported by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender in his book Frankly, We Did Win This Election': The Inside Story of How Trump Lost. On July 7, Trump's spokesperson denied that the former president praised Hitler, calling the claim "totally false", as reported by the Washington Examiner.
Personal life
Kelly married Karen Hernest in 1976. They raised three children together: Robert, John Jr., and Kathleen.
On November 9, 2010, Kelly's 29-year-old son, First Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly, was killed in action when he stepped on a landmine while leading a platoon of Marines on a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan.
The younger Kelly was a former enlisted Marine and was on his third combat tour, his first combat tour as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer. At the time of his death, Robert Kelly was with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Robert Kelly's death made John Kelly the highest-ranking American military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan. Kelly's other son is a Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel.
Military awards
Kelly's military decorations and awards:
See also
References
External links
Biography at U.S. Department of Defense
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"He is now a board member at Caliburn International.",
"Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was commissioned as an officer near the end of college.",
"He rose through the ranks, eventually serving in his last military post from 2012 to 2016 as a four-star general leading United States Southern Command, the unified combatant command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.",
"Prior to joining the Trump administration in January 2017, Kelly had been on the board of advisors of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn.",
"Kelly was selected as the first Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.",
"Kelly earned a reputation for being an aggressive enforcer of immigration law.",
"After six months, he was selected to replace Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff in an attempt to bring more stability to the White House.",
"He was the first career military officer to serve in the position since Alexander Haig during the Nixon and Ford Administrations.",
"Early life and education\nKelly was born on May 11, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josephine \"Honey\" (Pedalino) and John F. Kelly.",
"His family was Catholic, his father of Irish ancestry and his mother of Italian descent.",
"His father was a postal worker in Brighton.",
"He grew up in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.",
"Before he reached the age of 16, he hitchhiked to Washington state and rode the trains back, including a freight-hop from Seattle to Chicago.",
"He then served for one year in the United States Merchant Marine, where he says \"my first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam\".",
"In 1970, when his mother told him that his draft number was coming up, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.",
"He served in an infantry company with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was discharged to the inactive reserve as a sergeant in 1972 so that he could attend college.",
"He returned to active duty with the Marines in 1975, completed Officer Candidates School, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on December 27, 1975.",
"In 1976, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and in 1984, he received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.",
"In 1995, Kelly graduated from the National Defense University in Washington, DC with a Master of Science in Strategic Studies.",
"Military career\nKelly returned to the Second Marine Division where he served as a rifle platoon and weapons platoon commander, company executive officer, assistant operations officer, and rifle company commander.",
"Sea duty in Mayport, Florida, followed, at which time he served aboard aircraft carriers and .",
"In 1980, then-Captain Kelly attended the U.S. Army's Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia.",
"After graduation, he was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., serving there from 1981 through 1984, as an assignment monitor.",
"Kelly returned to the Second Marine Division in 1984, to command a rifle company and weapons company.",
"Promoted to major in 1987, he then served as a battalion operations officer.",
"In 1987, Kelly transferred to the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, serving first as the head of the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group, and later assuming the duties of the Director of the Infantry Officer Course.",
"After three years of instructing young officers, he attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the School for Advanced Warfare, both located at Quantico.",
"Completing duty under instruction and selected for lieutenant colonel, he was assigned as commanding officer, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (1st LAR), 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California.",
"During his tenure, 1st LAR was called in to provide augmentation support for police in the city of Long Beach, California during the Los Angeles riots of 1992.",
"Holding this command position for two years, Kelly returned to the East Coast in 1994, to attend the National War College in Washington, D.C.",
"He graduated in 1995 and was selected to serve as the Commandant's Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives, Capitol Hill, where he was promoted to colonel.",
"In 1999, Kelly transferred to joint duty and served as the special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in Mons, Belgium.",
"He returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned to a third tour of duty at Camp Lejeune, now as the assistant chief of staff G-3 with the Second Marine Division.",
"In 2002, Kelly again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the assistant division commander.",
"Much of Kelly's two-year assignment was spent deployed in Iraq.",
"In March 2003, while in Iraq, Kelly was promoted to brigadier general, which was the first known promotion of a Marine Corps colonel in an active combat zone since that of another First Marine Division assistant division commander, Chesty Puller, in January 1951.",
"In April 2003, Kelly took command of the newly formed Task Force Tripoli and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit.",
"Kelly has stated that during the initial assault on Baghdad he was asked by a reporter for The Los Angeles Times if, considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam's forces, he would ever consider defeat.",
"Kelly's response, as recounted by him at a 2007 San Diego Military Advisory Council networking breakfast, was, \"hell these are Marines.",
"Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain't shit.\"",
"[sic]\n\nHis next assignment was as legislative assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Michael Hagee.",
"In January 2007, Kelly was nominated for major general, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2007.",
"Kelly's next assignment, in July 2007, was as commanding general, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).",
"On February 9, 2008 Kelly assumed command of the Multi-National Force–West in Iraq, replacing Major General Walter E. Gaskin.",
"After a year in Iraq, Kelly returned to the United States in February 2009.",
"Kelly was nominated for lieutenant general on March 9, 2011, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 16, 2011.",
"Kelly was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense and personally greeted Secretary Leon Panetta at the entrance to the Pentagon on July 1, 2011, Panetta's first day as secretary.",
"Kelly was nominated for General on January 31, 2012, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 26, 2012.",
"He succeeded General Douglas M. Fraser as commander of U.S. Southern Command on November 19, 2012.",
"In a May 2014 speech regarding the War on Terror, Kelly said:\n\nIf you think this war against our way of life is over because some of the self-appointed opinion-makers and chattering class grow 'war weary,' because they want to be out of Iraq or Afghanistan, you are mistaken.",
"This enemy is dedicated to our destruction.",
"He will fight us for generations, and the conflict will move through various phases as it has since 9/11.",
"Kelly was succeeded as commander by Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd on January 14, 2016.",
"Secretary of Homeland Security\n\nOn December 7, 2016, then President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a cabinet-level position.",
"People familiar with the transition said that Trump's team was drawn to Kelly because of his southwest border expertise.",
"On January 20, 2017, Kelly was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the United States Senate with a vote of 88–11.",
"On that evening, he was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence.",
"In an April 2017 speech at George Washington University, Kelly said, \"If lawmakers do not like the laws they've passed and we are charged to enforce, then they should have the courage and skill to change the laws.",
"Otherwise they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.\"",
"Kelly indicated days into the administration his interest in having the U.S.–Mexico border wall completed within two years.",
"On April 21, 2017, Kelly said the U.S.–Mexico border wall would begin construction \"by the end of the summer.\"",
"Two days later, Kelly said he believed \"a border wall is essential\" as there were \"tremendous threats\" such as drugs and individuals coming into the US.",
"On May 2, Kelly stated his surprise in office holders \"rejoicing in the fact that the wall will be slower to be built and, consequently, the southwest border under less control than it could be.\"",
"In May 2017, Kelly said of terrorism, \"It's everywhere.",
"It's constant.",
"It's nonstop.",
"The good news for us in America is we have amazing people protecting us every day.",
"But it can happen here almost anytime.\"",
"He said that the threat from terrorism was so severe that some people would \"never leave the house\" if they knew the truth.",
"In July, Kelly allegedly blocked Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke from taking a position in the DHS, though it was never confirmed.",
"Assessment of tenure\nOf his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, USA Today wrote, \"Kelly oversaw some of the most controversial policies of Trump's agenda, including a travel ban targeting several majority-Muslim countries, a reduction in refugee admissions and stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants.\"",
"According to the New Yorker, Kelly left the DHS with a\n\nreputation as one of the most aggressive enforcers of immigration law in recent American history.",
"His record belies the short length of his tenure.",
"In six months, Kelly eliminated guidelines that governed federal immigration agents' work; vastly expanded the categories of immigrants being targeted for deportation; threatened to abandon the Obama-era program that grants legal status to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children; and has even broached the idea of splitting up mothers and children at the border to \"deter\" people from coming to the U.S.",
"The DHS under Kelly \"became one of the few branches of the federal government that has been both willing and able to execute Trump's policy priorities.\"",
"Unlike other agency heads, Kelly did not clash with Trump.",
"White House Chief of Staff\n\nTrump appointed Kelly to the post of White House Chief of Staff on July 28, 2017, replacing Reince Priebus.",
"Priebus's ousting and Kelly's appointment followed an internal power struggle within the White House.",
"Kelly took office on July 31, 2017.",
"That same day, with Trump's approval, Kelly removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as communications director, just ten days after Scaramucci was appointed to that role.",
"Reportedly, Kelly had requested permission to remove Scaramucci after \"Scaramucci had boasted about reporting directly to the president, not the chief of staff.\"",
"On August 18, 2017, Kelly removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist, on behalf of President Trump.",
"Early into his tenure, media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and FiveThirtyEight speculated that Kelly would bring moderation and discipline to the White House.",
"In August 2017, early into Kelly's tenure, the Washington Post wrote that Kelly had \"left no discernible imprint on the White House's philosophy\" and that it was unclear if he would bring calm and rigor to the White House.",
"In a lengthy article on Kelly's tenure, the New York Times in October 2017 wrote that \"for all of the talk of Mr. Kelly as a moderating force and the so-called grown-up in the room, it turns out that he harbors strong feelings on patriotism, national security and immigration that mirror the hard-line views of his outspoken boss.\"",
"By February 2018, Kelly had emerged as a hardliner on several issues (immigration, in particular) and been embroiled in a number of controversies, and there were reports of pressure on Kelly to resign.",
"When Donald Trump arrived in Singapore in June 2018 for the North Korea–United States summit, the New York Times reported that Kelly had told a recent group of visiting senators the White House was \"a miserable place to work.\"",
"The reported comment renewed months-long speculation that Kelly would resign from his job of White House Chief of Staff.",
"According to several news outlets in early 2018, Kelly's influence in the White House had been diminished and Trump made several key decisions without his presence.",
"On December 7, 2018, CNN and others reported that Kelly and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that Kelly was expected to resign in the coming days.",
"On December 8, Trump announced that Kelly would be leaving at the end of the year.",
"On December 14, 2018, the White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace John Kelly as the White House Chief of Staff.",
"On the day after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Kelly said he supported Trump's removal from office by use of the 25th Amendment, adding, \"What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds.\"",
"Controversies\n\nDC Capital Partners conflict of interest \nIn January 2017, The Intercept reported that Kelly failed to disclose his position as vice-chair on the Spectrum Group, a defense contractor lobbying firm, on his ethics form, while taking a position at the Department of Homeland Security.",
"Kelly's membership on the board of DC Capital Partners and its for-profit detention facilities at the Southern Border and Florida, operated by its subsidiary Caliburn International had called into question his neutrality as they have been described as private for-profit concentration camps.",
"Caliburn CEO James Van Dusen said, \"With four decades of military and humanitarian leadership, in-depth understanding of international affairs and knowledge of current economic drivers around the world, General Kelly is a strong strategic addition to our team.\"",
"Candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries objected, including Cory Booker who said Kelly's actions in joining the board were \"disgusting,\" with Elizabeth Warren calling his role, \"corruption at its absolute worst.\"",
"In July 2019, the House Oversight Committee announced it was probing Kelly's conflict of interest in the camps while he was the White House Chief of Staff.",
"Frederica Wilson dispute \nIn October 2017, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) criticized Trump for his phone call to the widow of a slain U.S. soldier, saying his remarks had been insensitive.",
"Wilson had been in the widow's car when Trump had called her.",
"A few days later, Kelly held a press briefing where he defended Trump's phone call, which he had overheard, saying Trump \"expressed his condolences in the best way that he could.\"",
"Kelly harshly criticized Wilson, calling her \"the empty barrel that makes the most noise\" and stating that in a 2015 speech Wilson had \"stood up\" to inappropriately claim credit for securing federal funding for an FBI building in her district.",
"Video of her 2015 speech showed his description to be inaccurate.",
"Later that month, while in an interview with conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Kelly said he stood by his comments on Wilson and would \"never\" apologize for his comments.",
"Kelly said he would \"talk about before her comments and at the reception afterwards\" as a \"package deal\", but refused to elaborate further.",
"Civil War remarks \nIn the same October 2017 interview with Laura Ingraham, Kelly said that \"the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War.\"",
"He also described Robert E. Lee as an \"honorable man\" who \"gave up ... his country to fight for his state,\" and claimed, \"men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand.\"",
"Several historians of the Civil War described Kelly's remarks as ignorant, and as a misuse of history reminiscent of Lost Cause mythology.",
"They also broadly reject Kelly's remark that a failure to compromise led to the Civil War, noting that the war was predominantly fought over slavery and that a number of compromises on slavery were made in the lead-up to the war.",
"The White House defended Kelly's remarks, citing non-fiction writer and historian Shelby Foote.",
"DACA remarks \nOn February 6, 2018, Kelly made recorded remarks concerning a discrepancy between how many had enrolled in DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and how many were to be offered a path to citizenship, by saying \"The difference between 690 [thousand] and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up; others would say are too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up\".",
"Confrontation with Corey Lewandowski \nIn February 2018, The New York Times reported that Kelly had been in a physical confrontation with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.",
"According to anonymous sources, Kelly had a heated argument with Lewandoski in which he accused him of profiting off Trump's presidency.",
"This led to Kelly grabbing Lewandowski by the collar and pushing him up against the wall just outside the Oval Office.",
"The sources said Lewandowski did not respond physically to Kelly, and when Secret Service agents arrived, Lewandowski and Kelly went their separate ways.",
"Firing of White House aide Rob Porter \nOn February 7, 2018, White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned in the wake of reports that his two ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse, allegations that Porter said are false and \"a coordinated smear campaign\".",
"One ex-wife had a protective order from 2010 against Porter, and the other had photographic evidence of the alleged abuse.",
"The protective order had prevented Porter from obtaining a full security clearance, though the order's associated ex-wife said Porter's \"integrity and ability to do his job is impeccable\".",
"According to an unnamed senior administration official, Kelly was aware of the protective order and the domestic abuse allegations, and had promoted Porter within the White House.",
"Approached by media about the allegations, Kelly initially praised Porter, saying he was a \"man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him.",
"He is a friend, a confidante and a trusted professional.",
"I am proud to serve alongside him.\"",
"Per an unnamed White House official, Porter resigned over the objections of Kelly, who had worked closely with Porter since becoming White House Chief of Staff.",
"In a February 8 email to White House staff, Kelly wrote, \"While we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former White House staffer, I want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously.",
"Domestic violence is abhorrent and has no place in our society\".",
"On February 9, 2018, The Washington Post reported that Kelly had instructed senior staff and aides to tell reporters that Kelly took immediate action to fire Porter upon hearing that domestic abuse allegations were credible; the Post noted this \"version of events contradicts both the public record and accounts from numerous other White House officials in recent days as the Porter drama unfolded.\"",
"Kelly told reporters on March 2, 2018 that he sought Porter's resignation immediately after learning of the accusations on February 6 and regretted his handling of Porter's departure.",
"Firing of Omarosa Manigault \nIn August 2018, a tape was released of Kelly firing White House staffer Omarosa Manigault in the Situation Room, and allegedly threatening her legally as well as reputationally, saying to her: \"I'd like to see this be a friendly departure.",
"There are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that, that'll make it ugly for you.\"",
"When questioned whether the President knew of the firing, Kelly replied: \"The [White House] staff, and everybody on the staff, works for me and not the president.\"",
"Kelly's use of the Situation Room to isolate and fire Manigault also led to controversy about potential misuse of the high-security facility by Kelly, as well as the fact he was unknowingly recorded within it.",
"Donald Trump's comments on Adolf Hitler \nOn July 6, 2021, it was reported that during a 2018 trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, then President Donald Trump told Kelly, \"Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.\"",
"Kelly did not publicly reveal the President's comments for more than two years.",
"The story was ultimately reported by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender in his book Frankly, We Did Win This Election': The Inside Story of How Trump Lost.",
"On July 7, Trump's spokesperson denied that the former president praised Hitler, calling the claim \"totally false\", as reported by the Washington Examiner.",
"Personal life\nKelly married Karen Hernest in 1976.",
"They raised three children together: Robert, John Jr., and Kathleen.",
"On November 9, 2010, Kelly's 29-year-old son, First Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly, was killed in action when he stepped on a landmine while leading a platoon of Marines on a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan.",
"The younger Kelly was a former enlisted Marine and was on his third combat tour, his first combat tour as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer.",
"At the time of his death, Robert Kelly was with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines.",
"Robert Kelly's death made John Kelly the highest-ranking American military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.",
"Kelly's other son is a Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel.",
"Military awards\nKelly's military decorations and awards:\n\nSee also\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\nBiography at U.S. Department of Defense\n\n|-\n\n|-\n\n|-\n\n|-\n\n|-\n\n1950 births\nAmerican politicians of Italian descent\nAmerican people of Irish descent\nCatholics from Massachusetts\nLiving people\nMilitary personnel from Massachusetts\nPeople from Boston\nRecipients of the Defense Distinguished Service Medal\nRecipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal\nRecipients of the Legion of Merit\nWalsh School of Foreign Service alumni\nTrump administration cabinet members\nUnited States Marines\nUnited States Marine Corps generals\nUnited States Marine Corps personnel of the Iraq War\nUnited States Secretaries of Homeland Security\nUniversity of Massachusetts Boston alumni\nWhite House Chiefs of Staff\nRecipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States)"
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"John Francis Kelly, who was born May 11, 1950, is an American former political advisor and retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House chief of staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019.",
"He was the commander of the United States Southern Command when he was Secretary of Homeland Security.",
"He is on the board at Caliburn International.",
"Kelly enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was commissioned as an officer near the end of college.",
"He rose through the ranks, eventually serving in his last military post from 2012 to 2016 as a four-star general leading the United States Southern Command, the unified combatant command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.",
"Kelly was a board member of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn.",
"Kelly is the first Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.",
"Kelly was an aggressive enforcer of immigration law.",
"He was chosen to replace Priebus as White House Chief of Staff in order to bring more stability to the White House.",
"During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, he was the first career military officer to serve in the position.",
"Kelly was born on May 11, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josephine \"Honey\"Pedalino and John F. Kelly.",
"His mother was Italian and his father Irish.",
"His father was a postal worker.",
"He grew up in Boston.",
"He rode the trains back and forth from Seattle to Chicago before he was 16.",
"He served in the United States Merchant Marine and took 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.",
"He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after his mother told him that he was going to be drafted.",
"He was discharged to the inactive reserve in 1972 so that he could attend college, after serving in an infantry company with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.",
"He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on December 27, 1975, after completing Officer Candidates School and returning to active duty with the Marines.",
"He received a degree in National Security Affairs from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in 1984 after graduating from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1976.",
"Kelly received a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the National Defense University in 1995.",
"Kelly served as a rifle platoon and weapons platoon commander, company executive officer, assistant operations officer, and rifle company commander in the Second Marine Division.",
"He served aboard aircraft carriers after sea duty in Mayport, Florida.",
"The U.S. Army's Infantry Officer Advanced Course was held at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1980.",
"He was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 1984 as an assignment monitor.",
"The rifle company and weapons company was commanded by Kelly in 1984.",
"He served as a battalion operations officer after being promoted to major.",
"Kelly assumed the duties of the Director of the Infantry Officer Course after serving as the head of the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group.",
"He attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College after three years of instructing young officers.",
"He was assigned as the commanding officer of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (1st LAR), 1st Marine Division.",
"During the Los Angeles riots of 1992, 1st LAR was called in to provide augmentation support for police in Long Beach, California.",
"Kelly returned to the East Coast in 1994 and attended the National War College.",
"He was promoted to colonel after serving as the Commandant's Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives.",
"Kelly was the special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in Mons, Belgium.",
"He returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned to a third tour of duty at Camp Lejeune, now as the assistant chief of staff G3 with the Second Marine Division.",
"Kelly once again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the assistant division commander.",
"The majority of Kelly's two-year assignment was spent in Iraq.",
"In March 2003 Kelly was promoted to brigadier general, which was the first known promotion of a Marine Corps colonel in an active combat zone since January 1951, when Chesty Puller was promoted to assistant division commander.",
"Kelly took command of the Task Force in April of 2003 and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit.",
"During the initial assault on Baghdad, Kelly was asked by a reporter for The Los Angeles Times if he would ever consider defeat, considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam's forces.",
"At a San Diego Military Advisory Council networking breakfast in 2007, Kelly said, \"hell these are Marines.\"",
"Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima were taken by men like them.",
"Michael Hagee was his next assignment as legislative assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps.",
"Kelly was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2007, after he was nominated for major general.",
"I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) was Kelly's next assignment.",
"Kelly assumed command of the Multi-National Force–West in Iraq on February 9, 2008.",
"Kelly returned to the United States in February 2009.",
"The Senate confirmed Kelly as lieutenant general on March 16, 2011.",
"On Panetta's first day as secretary, Kelly personally greeted him at the entrance to the Pentagon and was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense.",
"Kelly was confirmed by the Senate on July 26, 2012 after he was nominated for General.",
"On November 19, 2012 he became commander of U.S. Southern Command.",
"Kelly said in a May speech that if you think the War on Terror is over because some of the self-appointed opinion-makers and chattering class want to be out of Iraq or Afghanistan, you are mistaken.",
"The enemy is focused on our destruction.",
"The conflict will move through various phases as it has since 9/11, because he will fight us for generations.",
"Kelly was replaced as commander by a Navy admiral.",
"Donald Trump nominated John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level position.",
"People familiar with the transition said that Trump's team was drawn to Kelly because of his southwest border expertise.",
"Kelly was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the United States Senate with a vote of 88–11.",
"He was sworn in by the Vice President.",
"Lawmakers should have the courage and skill to change the laws if they don't like them, according to Kelly.",
"They should support the men and women on the front lines.",
"Kelly wanted the U.S.–Mexico border wall to be finished within two years.",
"The U.S.–Mexico border wall would be built by the end of the summer, according to Kelly.",
"Kelly said two days later that a border wall was essential as there were \"tremendous threats\" coming into the US.",
"Kelly was surprised by the fact that the wall will be slower to be built and that the southwest border will be under less control than it could be.",
"\"It's everywhere,\" Kelly said in May of last year.",
"It's unchanging.",
"It's nonstop.",
"The good news is that we have amazing people protecting us.",
"It can happen here at any time.",
"Some people wouldn't leave the house if they knew the truth about the threat from terrorism.",
"The Milwaukee County Sheriff was blocked from taking a position in the DHS by Kelly in July.",
"Kelly oversaw some of the most controversial policies of Trump's agenda, including a travel ban targeting several majority-Muslim countries, a reduction in refugee admissions and stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants.",
"According to the New Yorker, Kelly left the DHS with a reputation as one of the most aggressive enforcers of immigration law in recent American history.",
"His tenure was short.",
"In six months, Kelly eliminated guidelines that governed federal immigration agents' work, vastly expanded the categories of immigrants being targeted for deportation, and threatened to abandon the Obama-era program that grants legal status to immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children.",
"One of the few branches of the federal government that has been willing and able to execute Trump's policy priorities has been the DHS under Kelly.",
"Kelly didn't clash with Trump.",
"On July 28, 2017, Kelly was appointed the White House Chief of Staff by Trump.",
"Kelly's appointment followed an internal power struggle within the White House.",
"On July 31, Kelly took office.",
"Just ten days after Anthony Scaramucci was appointed to that role, Kelly removed him from his role as communications director.",
"AfterScaramucci boasted about reporting directly to the president, Kelly requested permission to remove him.",
"On August 18, 2017, Kelly removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist.",
"The New York Times, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight all speculated that Kelly would bring moderation and discipline to the White House.",
"The Washington Post wrote in August of last year that it was unclear if Kelly would bring calm and rigor to the White House.",
"In a lengthy article on Kelly's tenure, the New York Times wrote that \"for all of the talk of Mr. Kelly as a moderating force and the so-called grown-up in the room, it turns out that he harbors strong feelings on patriotism, national security and patriotism.\"",
"Kelly had emerged as a hardliner on several issues and had been involved in a number of controversies, and there were reports of pressure on Kelly to resign.",
"The New York Times reported that Kelly told a group of visiting senators that the White House was a bad place to work.",
"It was reported that Kelly would leave his job as White House Chief of Staff.",
"According to several news outlets in early 2018, Kelly's influence in the White House had diminished and Trump made several key decisions without his presence.",
"On December 7, CNN and others reported that Kelly and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that Kelly was expected to resign in the coming days.",
"On December 8, Trump announced that Kelly would be leaving at the end of the year.",
"On December 14, the White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace John Kelly as the White House Chief of Staff.",
"\"What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds,\" Kelly said on the day after the United States Capitol attack.",
"Kelly failed to disclose his position as vice-chair on the Spectrum Group, a defense contractor lobbying firm, on his ethics form, while taking a position at the Department of Homeland Security.",
"Kelly's membership on the board of DC Capital Partners and its for-profit detention facilities at the Southern Border and Florida, operated by its subsidiary Caliburn International had called into question his neutrality as they have been described as private for-profit concentration camps.",
"James Van Dusen, CEO of Caliburn, said, \"With four decades of military and humanitarian leadership, in-depth understanding of international affairs and knowledge of current economic drivers around the world, General Kelly is a strong strategic addition to our team.\"",
"Candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries objected, including Cory Booker who said Kelly's actions in joining the board were \"disgusting,\" with Elizabeth Warren calling his role \"corruption at its absolute worst.\"",
"The House Oversight Committee is investigating Kelly's conflict of interest in the camps while he was the White House Chief of Staff.",
"In October of last year, Frederica Wilson criticized Trump for his phone call to the widow of a slain soldier.",
"Wilson was in the widow's car when Trump called.",
"A few days later, Kelly held a press briefing where he defended Trump's phone call, which he had overheard, saying Trump \"expressed his condolences in the best way that he could.\"",
"Kelly harshly criticized Wilson, calling her \"the empty barrel that makes the most noise\" and stating that in a 2015 speech Wilson had \"stood up\" to claim credit for securing federal funding for an FBI building in her district.",
"His description was shown to be incorrect in her speech.",
"In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Kelly said he wouldn't apologize for his comments on Wilson.",
"Kelly said he would \"talk about before her comments and at the reception afterwards as a package deal\".",
"Kelly said that the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War.",
"He said that Robert E. Lee was an \"honorable man\" who gave up his country to fight for his state.",
"Kelly's remarks were described by several historians as a misuse of history reminiscent of Lost Cause mythology.",
"They reject Kelly's claim that a failure to compromise led to the Civil War, noting that the war was mostly fought over slavery and that a number of compromises on slavery were made in the lead-up to the war.",
"The White House cited a non-fiction writer as justifying Kelly's comments.",
"There was a discrepancy between how many had signed up for the program and how many would be offered a path to citizenship.",
"The New York Times reported in February of last year that Kelly had been in a physical confrontation with a former Trump campaign manager.",
"Kelly accused Lewandoski of profiting off Trump's presidency during a heated argument, according to anonymous sources.",
"Kelly grabbed by the collar and pushed him up against the wall outside the Oval Office.",
"The sources said that Kelly and Lewandowski went their separate ways after the Secret Service agents arrived.",
"White House staff secretary Rob Porter was fired on February 7, 2018, after it was reported that he had been accused of domestic abuse by two of his former wives.",
"One ex-wife had a protective order against Porter, and the other had photographic evidence of the alleged abuse.",
"Porter couldn't get a full security clearance because of the protective order, but his ex-wife said hisintegrity and ability to do his job is perfect.",
"According to an unnamed senior administration official, Kelly was aware of the protective order and the domestic abuse allegations, and had promoted Porter within the White House.",
"Kelly initially praised Porter, saying he was a \"man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him.\"",
"He is a trusted professional and a friend.",
"I'm proud to serve with him.",
"According to an unnamed White House official, Porter resigned over the objections of Kelly, who had worked closely with Porter since becoming White House Chief of Staff.",
"In a February 8 email to White House staff, Kelly wrote, \"While we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former White House staffer, I want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously.\"",
"Domestic violence has no place in our society.",
"On February 9, The Washington Post reported that Kelly had instructed senior staff and aides to tell reporters that Kelly took immediate action to fire Porter after hearing that domestic abuse allegations were credible.",
"On March 2, Kelly told reporters that he regretted his handling of Porter's departure and that he sought Porter's resignation immediately after learning of the accusations.",
"In August of last year, a tape was released of Kelly threatening to ruin her reputation and firing her from the White House.",
"There are a lot of important legal issues that we hope don't end up being ugly for you.",
"Kelly said that the White House staff, and not the president, works for him.",
"Kelly's use of the Situation Room to fire Manigault led to controversy about potential misuse of the high-security facility by Kelly, as well as the fact that he was recorded within it.",
"On July 6, 2021, it was reported that during a trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, President Donald Trump told Kelly, \"Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.\"",
"Kelly didn't reveal the President's comments for more than two years.",
"The Wall Street Journal reported the story in their book, \"Simply, We Did Win This Election': The Inside Story of How Trump Lost\".",
"The Washington Examiner reported that Trump's spokesman denied that the former president praised Hitler.",
"Karen Hernest was married to Kelly in 1976.",
"They raised three children together.",
"On November 9, 2010, Kelly's son, First Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly, was killed in action when he stepped on a landmine while leading a platoon of Marines on a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan.",
"Kelly's first combat tour was as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.",
"Robert Kelly was with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines at the time of his death.",
"John Kelly was the highest-ranking American military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.",
"A Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel is one of Kelly's sons.",
"1950 births American politicians of Italian descent American people of Irish descent Catholics from Massachusetts Living people Military personnel from Massachusetts"
] | <mask> (born May 11, 1950) is an American former political advisor and retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served as White House chief of staff for President Donald Trump from July 31, 2017, to January 2, 2019. He had previously served as Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration and was commander of United States Southern Command. He is now a board member at Caliburn International. <mask> enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and was commissioned as an officer near the end of college. He rose through the ranks, eventually serving in his last military post from 2012 to 2016 as a four-star general leading United States Southern Command, the unified combatant command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the Trump administration in January 2017, <mask> had been on the board of advisors of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn. <mask> was selected as the first Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.<mask> earned a reputation for being an aggressive enforcer of immigration law. After six months, he was selected to replace Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff in an attempt to bring more stability to the White House. He was the first career military officer to serve in the position since Alexander Haig during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Early life and education
<mask> was born on May 11, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josephine "Honey" (Pedalino) and <mask><mask>. His family was Catholic, his father of Irish ancestry and his mother of Italian descent. His father was a postal worker in Brighton. He grew up in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.Before he reached the age of 16, he hitchhiked to Washington state and rode the trains back, including a freight-hop from Seattle to Chicago. He then served for one year in the United States Merchant Marine, where he says "my first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam". In 1970, when his mother told him that his draft number was coming up, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. He served in an infantry company with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was discharged to the inactive reserve as a sergeant in 1972 so that he could attend college. He returned to active duty with the Marines in 1975, completed Officer Candidates School, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on December 27, 1975. In 1976, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston and in 1984, he received a Master of Arts degree in National Security Affairs from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. In 1995, <mask> graduated from the National Defense University in Washington, DC with a Master of Science in Strategic Studies.Military career
<mask> returned to the Second Marine Division where he served as a rifle platoon and weapons platoon commander, company executive officer, assistant operations officer, and rifle company commander. Sea duty in Mayport, Florida, followed, at which time he served aboard aircraft carriers and . In 1980, then-Captain <mask> attended the U.S. Army's Infantry Officer Advanced Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. After graduation, he was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C., serving there from 1981 through 1984, as an assignment monitor. <mask> returned to the Second Marine Division in 1984, to command a rifle company and weapons company. Promoted to major in 1987, he then served as a battalion operations officer. In 1987, <mask> transferred to the Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, serving first as the head of the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group, and later assuming the duties of the Director of the Infantry Officer Course.After three years of instructing young officers, he attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the School for Advanced Warfare, both located at Quantico. Completing duty under instruction and selected for lieutenant colonel, he was assigned as commanding officer, 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (1st LAR), 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California. During his tenure, 1st LAR was called in to provide augmentation support for police in the city of Long Beach, California during the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Holding this command position for two years, <mask> returned to the East Coast in 1994, to attend the National War College in Washington, D.C. He graduated in 1995 and was selected to serve as the Commandant's Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives, Capitol Hill, where he was promoted to colonel. In 1999, <mask> transferred to joint duty and served as the special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in Mons, Belgium. He returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned to a third tour of duty at Camp Lejeune, now as the assistant chief of staff G-3 with the Second Marine Division.In 2002, <mask> again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the assistant division commander. Much of <mask>'s two-year assignment was spent deployed in Iraq. In March 2003, while in Iraq, <mask> was promoted to brigadier general, which was the first known promotion of a Marine Corps colonel in an active combat zone since that of another First Marine Division assistant division commander, Chesty Puller, in January 1951. In April 2003, <mask> took command of the newly formed Task Force Tripoli and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit. <mask> has stated that during the initial assault on Baghdad he was asked by a reporter for The Los Angeles Times if, considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam's forces, he would ever consider defeat. <mask>'s response, as recounted by him at a 2007 San Diego Military Advisory Council networking breakfast, was, "hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain't shit."[sic]
His next assignment was as legislative assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, Michael Hagee. In January 2007, <mask> was nominated for major general, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2007. <mask>'s next assignment, in July 2007, was as commanding general, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). On February 9, 2008 <mask> assumed command of the Multi-National Force–West in Iraq, replacing Major General Walter E. Gaskin. After a year in Iraq, <mask> returned to the United States in February 2009. <mask> was nominated for lieutenant general on March 9, 2011, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 16, 2011. <mask> was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense and personally greeted Secretary Leon Panetta at the entrance to the Pentagon on July 1, 2011, Panetta's first day as secretary.<mask> was nominated for General on January 31, 2012, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 26, 2012. He succeeded General Douglas M<mask> as commander of U.S. Southern Command on November 19, 2012. In a May 2014 speech regarding the War on Terror, <mask> said:
If you think this war against our way of life is over because some of the self-appointed opinion-makers and chattering class grow 'war weary,' because they want to be out of Iraq or Afghanistan, you are mistaken. This enemy is dedicated to our destruction. He will fight us for generations, and the conflict will move through various phases as it has since 9/11. <mask> was succeeded as commander by Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd on January 14, 2016. Secretary of Homeland Security
On December 7, 2016, then President-elect Donald Trump nominated <mask> to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a cabinet-level position.People familiar with the transition said that Trump's team was drawn to <mask> because of his southwest border expertise. On January 20, 2017, <mask> was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the United States Senate with a vote of 88–11. On that evening, he was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence. In an April 2017 speech at George Washington University, <mask> said, "If lawmakers do not like the laws they've passed and we are charged to enforce, then they should have the courage and skill to change the laws. Otherwise they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines." <mask> indicated days into the administration his interest in having the U.S.–Mexico border wall completed within two years. On April 21, 2017, <mask> said the U.S.–Mexico border wall would begin construction "by the end of the summer."Two days later, <mask> said he believed "a border wall is essential" as there were "tremendous threats" such as drugs and individuals coming into the US. On May 2, <mask> stated his surprise in office holders "rejoicing in the fact that the wall will be slower to be built and, consequently, the southwest border under less control than it could be." In May 2017, <mask> said of terrorism, "It's everywhere. It's constant. It's nonstop. The good news for us in America is we have amazing people protecting us every day. But it can happen here almost anytime."He said that the threat from terrorism was so severe that some people would "never leave the house" if they knew the truth. In July, <mask> allegedly blocked Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke from taking a position in the DHS, though it was never confirmed. Assessment of tenure
Of his tenure as Secretary of Homeland Security, USA Today wrote, "<mask> oversaw some of the most controversial policies of Trump's agenda, including a travel ban targeting several majority-Muslim countries, a reduction in refugee admissions and stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants." According to the New Yorker, <mask> left the DHS with a
reputation as one of the most aggressive enforcers of immigration law in recent American history. His record belies the short length of his tenure. In six months, <mask> eliminated guidelines that governed federal immigration agents' work; vastly expanded the categories of immigrants being targeted for deportation; threatened to abandon the Obama-era program that grants legal status to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children; and has even broached the idea of splitting up mothers and children at the border to "deter" people from coming to the U.S. The DHS under <mask> "became one of the few branches of the federal government that has been both willing and able to execute Trump's policy priorities."Unlike other agency heads, <mask> did not clash with Trump. White House Chief of Staff
Trump appointed <mask> to the post of White House Chief of Staff on July 28, 2017, replacing Reince Priebus. Priebus's ousting and <mask>'s appointment followed an internal power struggle within the White House. <mask> took office on July 31, 2017. That same day, with Trump's approval, <mask> removed Anthony Scaramucci from his role as communications director, just ten days after Scaramucci was appointed to that role. Reportedly, <mask> had requested permission to remove Scaramucci after "Scaramucci had boasted about reporting directly to the president, not the chief of staff." On August 18, 2017, <mask> removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist, on behalf of President Trump.Early into his tenure, media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and FiveThirtyEight speculated that <mask> would bring moderation and discipline to the White House. In August 2017, early into <mask>'s tenure, the Washington Post wrote that <mask> had "left no discernible imprint on the White House's philosophy" and that it was unclear if he would bring calm and rigor to the White House. In a lengthy article on <mask>'s tenure, the New York Times in October 2017 wrote that "for all of the talk of Mr. <mask> as a moderating force and the so-called grown-up in the room, it turns out that he harbors strong feelings on patriotism, national security and immigration that mirror the hard-line views of his outspoken boss." By February 2018, <mask> had emerged as a hardliner on several issues (immigration, in particular) and been embroiled in a number of controversies, and there were reports of pressure on <mask> to resign. When Donald Trump arrived in Singapore in June 2018 for the North Korea–United States summit, the New York Times reported that <mask> had told a recent group of visiting senators the White House was "a miserable place to work." The reported comment renewed months-long speculation that <mask> would resign from his job of White House Chief of Staff. According to several news outlets in early 2018, <mask>'s influence in the White House had been diminished and Trump made several key decisions without his presence.On December 7, 2018, CNN and others reported that <mask> and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that <mask> was expected to resign in the coming days. On December 8, Trump announced that <mask> would be leaving at the end of the year. On December 14, 2018, the White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace <mask> as the White House Chief of Staff. On the day after the 2021 United States Capitol attack, <mask> said he supported Trump's removal from office by use of the 25th Amendment, adding, "What happened on Capitol Hill yesterday is a direct result of his poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds." Controversies
DC Capital Partners conflict of interest
In January 2017, The Intercept reported that <mask> failed to disclose his position as vice-chair on the Spectrum Group, a defense contractor lobbying firm, on his ethics form, while taking a position at the Department of Homeland Security. <mask>'s membership on the board of DC Capital Partners and its for-profit detention facilities at the Southern Border and Florida, operated by its subsidiary Caliburn International had called into question his neutrality as they have been described as private for-profit concentration camps. Caliburn CEO James Van Dusen said, "With four decades of military and humanitarian leadership, in-depth understanding of international affairs and knowledge of current economic drivers around the world, General <mask> is a strong strategic addition to our team."Candidates in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries objected, including Cory Booker who said <mask>'s actions in joining the board were "disgusting," with Elizabeth Warren calling his role, "corruption at its absolute worst." In July 2019, the House Oversight Committee announced it was probing <mask>'s conflict of interest in the camps while he was the White House Chief of Staff. <mask> Wilson dispute
In October 2017, Congresswoman <mask> Wilson (D-FL) criticized Trump for his phone call to the widow of a slain U.S. soldier, saying his remarks had been insensitive. Wilson had been in the widow's car when Trump had called her. A few days later, <mask> held a press briefing where he defended Trump's phone call, which he had overheard, saying Trump "expressed his condolences in the best way that he could." <mask> harshly criticized Wilson, calling her "the empty barrel that makes the most noise" and stating that in a 2015 speech Wilson had "stood up" to inappropriately claim credit for securing federal funding for an FBI building in her district. Video of her 2015 speech showed his description to be inaccurate.Later that month, while in an interview with conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, <mask> said he stood by his comments on Wilson and would "never" apologize for his comments. <mask> said he would "talk about before her comments and at the reception afterwards" as a "package deal", but refused to elaborate further. Civil War remarks
In the same October 2017 interview with Laura Ingraham, <mask> said that "the lack of ability to compromise led to the Civil War." He also described Robert E. Lee as an "honorable man" who "gave up ... his country to fight for his state," and claimed, "men and women of good faith on both sides made their stand where their conscience had to make their stand." Several historians of the Civil War described <mask>'s remarks as ignorant, and as a misuse of history reminiscent of Lost Cause mythology. They also broadly reject <mask>'s remark that a failure to compromise led to the Civil War, noting that the war was predominantly fought over slavery and that a number of compromises on slavery were made in the lead-up to the war. The White House defended <mask>'s remarks, citing non-fiction writer and historian <mask>.DACA remarks
On February 6, 2018, <mask> made recorded remarks concerning a discrepancy between how many had enrolled in DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and how many were to be offered a path to citizenship, by saying "The difference between 690 [thousand] and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up; others would say are too lazy to get off their asses, but they didn't sign up". Confrontation with Corey Lewandowski
In February 2018, The New York Times reported that <mask> had been in a physical confrontation with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. According to anonymous sources, <mask> had a heated argument with Lewandoski in which he accused him of profiting off Trump's presidency. This led to <mask> grabbing Lewandowski by the collar and pushing him up against the wall just outside the Oval Office. The sources said Lewandowski did not respond physically to <mask>, and when Secret Service agents arrived, Lewandowski and <mask> went their separate ways. Firing of White House aide Rob Porter
On February 7, 2018, White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned in the wake of reports that his two ex-wives accused him of domestic abuse, allegations that Porter said are false and "a coordinated smear campaign". One ex-wife had a protective order from 2010 against Porter, and the other had photographic evidence of the alleged abuse.The protective order had prevented Porter from obtaining a full security clearance, though the order's associated ex-wife said Porter's "integrity and ability to do his job is impeccable". According to an unnamed senior administration official, <mask> was aware of the protective order and the domestic abuse allegations, and had promoted Porter within the White House. Approached by media about the allegations, <mask> initially praised Porter, saying he was a "man of true integrity and honor, and I can't say enough good things about him. He is a friend, a confidante and a trusted professional. I am proud to serve alongside him." Per an unnamed White House official, Porter resigned over the objections of <mask>, who had worked closely with Porter since becoming White House Chief of Staff. In a February 8 email to White House staff, <mask> wrote, "While we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former White House staffer, I want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously.Domestic violence is abhorrent and has no place in our society". On February 9, 2018, The Washington Post reported that <mask> had instructed senior staff and aides to tell reporters that <mask> took immediate action to fire Porter upon hearing that domestic abuse allegations were credible; the Post noted this "version of events contradicts both the public record and accounts from numerous other White House officials in recent days as the Porter drama unfolded." <mask> told reporters on March 2, 2018 that he sought Porter's resignation immediately after learning of the accusations on February 6 and regretted his handling of Porter's departure. Firing of Omarosa Manigault
In August 2018, a tape was released of <mask> firing White House staffer Omarosa Manigault in the Situation Room, and allegedly threatening her legally as well as reputationally, saying to her: "I'd like to see this be a friendly departure. There are pretty significant legal issues that we hope don't develop into something that, that'll make it ugly for you." When questioned whether the President knew of the firing, <mask> replied: "The [White House] staff, and everybody on the staff, works for me and not the president." <mask>'s use of the Situation Room to isolate and fire Manigault also led to controversy about potential misuse of the high-security facility by <mask>, as well as the fact he was unknowingly recorded within it.Donald Trump's comments on Adolf Hitler
On July 6, 2021, it was reported that during a 2018 trip to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, then President Donald Trump told <mask>, "Well, Hitler did a lot of good things." <mask> did not publicly reveal the President's comments for more than two years. The story was ultimately reported by Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender in his book Frankly, We Did Win This Election': The Inside Story of How Trump Lost. On July 7, Trump's spokesperson denied that the former president praised Hitler, calling the claim "totally false", as reported by the Washington Examiner. Personal life
<mask> married Karen Hernest in 1976. They raised three children together: Robert, <mask>., and Kathleen. On November 9, 2010, <mask>'s 29-year-old son, First Lieutenant Robert Michael <mask>, was killed in action when he stepped on a landmine while leading a platoon of Marines on a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan.The younger <mask> was a former enlisted Marine and was on his third combat tour, his first combat tour as a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer. At the time of his death, <mask> was with Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. <mask>'s death made <mask> the highest-ranking American military officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan. <mask>'s other son is a Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel. Military awards
<mask>'s military decorations and awards:
See also
References
External links
Biography at U.S. Department of Defense
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He rose through the ranks, eventually serving in his last military post from 2012 to 2016 as a four-star general leading the United States Southern Command, the unified combatant command responsible for American military operations in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. <mask> was a board member of DC Capital Partners, an investment firm that now owns Caliburn. <mask> is the first Secretary of Homeland Security in the Trump administration.<mask> was an aggressive enforcer of immigration law. He was chosen to replace Priebus as White House Chief of Staff in order to bring more stability to the White House. During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, he was the first career military officer to serve in the position. <mask> was born on May 11, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Josephine "Honey"Pedalino and <mask><mask>. His mother was Italian and his father Irish. His father was a postal worker. He grew up in Boston.He rode the trains back and forth from Seattle to Chicago before he was 16. He served in the United States Merchant Marine and took 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after his mother told him that he was going to be drafted. He was discharged to the inactive reserve in 1972 so that he could attend college, after serving in an infantry company with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on December 27, 1975, after completing Officer Candidates School and returning to active duty with the Marines. He received a degree in National Security Affairs from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service in 1984 after graduating from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1976. <mask> received a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the National Defense University in 1995.<mask> served as a rifle platoon and weapons platoon commander, company executive officer, assistant operations officer, and rifle company commander in the Second Marine Division. He served aboard aircraft carriers after sea duty in Mayport, Florida. The U.S. Army's Infantry Officer Advanced Course was held at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1980. He was assigned to Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 1984 as an assignment monitor. The rifle company and weapons company was commanded by <mask> in 1984. He served as a battalion operations officer after being promoted to major. <mask> assumed the duties of the Director of the Infantry Officer Course after serving as the head of the Offensive Tactics Section, Tactics Group.He attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College after three years of instructing young officers. He was assigned as the commanding officer of the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (1st LAR), 1st Marine Division. During the Los Angeles riots of 1992, 1st LAR was called in to provide augmentation support for police in Long Beach, California. <mask> returned to the East Coast in 1994 and attended the National War College. He was promoted to colonel after serving as the Commandant's Liaison Officer to the U.S. House of Representatives. <mask> was the special assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, in Mons, Belgium. He returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned to a third tour of duty at Camp Lejeune, now as the assistant chief of staff G3 with the Second Marine Division.<mask> once again served with the 1st Marine Division, this time as the assistant division commander. The majority of <mask>'s two-year assignment was spent in Iraq. In March 2003 <mask> was promoted to brigadier general, which was the first known promotion of a Marine Corps colonel in an active combat zone since January 1951, when Chesty Puller was promoted to assistant division commander. <mask> took command of the Task Force in April of 2003 and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit. During the initial assault on Baghdad, <mask> was asked by a reporter for The Los Angeles Times if he would ever consider defeat, considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam's forces. At a San Diego Military Advisory Council networking breakfast in 2007, <mask> said, "hell these are Marines." Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima were taken by men like them.Michael Hagee was his next assignment as legislative assistant to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. <mask> was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 11, 2007, after he was nominated for major general. I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) was <mask>'s next assignment. <mask> assumed command of the Multi-National Force–West in Iraq on February 9, 2008. <mask> returned to the United States in February 2009. The Senate confirmed <mask> as lieutenant general on March 16, 2011. On Panetta's first day as secretary, <mask> personally greeted him at the entrance to the Pentagon and was the senior military assistant to the Secretary of Defense.<mask> was confirmed by the Senate on July 26, 2012 after he was nominated for General. On November 19, 2012 he became commander of U.S. Southern Command. <mask> said in a May speech that if you think the War on Terror is over because some of the self-appointed opinion-makers and chattering class want to be out of Iraq or Afghanistan, you are mistaken. The enemy is focused on our destruction. The conflict will move through various phases as it has since 9/11, because he will fight us for generations. <mask> was replaced as commander by a Navy admiral. Donald Trump nominated <mask> to head the Department of Homeland Security, a cabinet-level position.People familiar with the transition said that Trump's team was drawn to <mask> because of his southwest border expertise. <mask> was confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security by the United States Senate with a vote of 88–11. He was sworn in by the Vice President. Lawmakers should have the courage and skill to change the laws if they don't like them, according to <mask>. They should support the men and women on the front lines. <mask> wanted the U.S.–Mexico border wall to be finished within two years. The U.S.–Mexico border wall would be built by the end of the summer, according to <mask>.<mask> said two days later that a border wall was essential as there were "tremendous threats" coming into the US. <mask> was surprised by the fact that the wall will be slower to be built and that the southwest border will be under less control than it could be. "It's everywhere," <mask> said in May of last year. It's unchanging. It's nonstop. The good news is that we have amazing people protecting us. It can happen here at any time.Some people wouldn't leave the house if they knew the truth about the threat from terrorism. The Milwaukee County Sheriff was blocked from taking a position in the DHS by <mask> in July. <mask> oversaw some of the most controversial policies of Trump's agenda, including a travel ban targeting several majority-Muslim countries, a reduction in refugee admissions and stepped-up deportations of undocumented immigrants. According to the New Yorker, <mask> left the DHS with a reputation as one of the most aggressive enforcers of immigration law in recent American history. His tenure was short. In six months, <mask> eliminated guidelines that governed federal immigration agents' work, vastly expanded the categories of immigrants being targeted for deportation, and threatened to abandon the Obama-era program that grants legal status to immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. One of the few branches of the federal government that has been willing and able to execute Trump's policy priorities has been the DHS under <mask>.<mask> didn't clash with Trump. On July 28, 2017, <mask> was appointed the White House Chief of Staff by Trump. <mask>'s appointment followed an internal power struggle within the White House. On July 31, <mask> took office. Just ten days after Anthony Scaramucci was appointed to that role, <mask> boasted about reporting directly to the president, <mask> requested permission to remove him. On August 18, 2017, <mask> removed Steve Bannon from his role as White House Chief Strategist.The New York Times, The Washington Post, and FiveThirtyEight all speculated that <mask> would bring moderation and discipline to the White House. The Washington Post wrote in August of last year that it was unclear if <mask> would bring calm and rigor to the White House. In a lengthy article on <mask>'s tenure, the New York Times wrote that "for all of the talk of Mr. <mask> as a moderating force and the so-called grown-up in the room, it turns out that he harbors strong feelings on patriotism, national security and patriotism." <mask> had emerged as a hardliner on several issues and had been involved in a number of controversies, and there were reports of pressure on <mask> to resign. The New York Times reported that <mask> told a group of visiting senators that the White House was a bad place to work. It was reported that <mask> would leave his job as White House Chief of Staff. According to several news outlets in early 2018, <mask>'s influence in the White House had diminished and Trump made several key decisions without his presence.On December 7, CNN and others reported that <mask> and Trump were no longer on speaking terms and that <mask> was expected to resign in the coming days. 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690045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20Eudy | Sid Eudy | Sidney Raymond Eudy (born December 16, 1960) is an American actor and former professional wrestler. He is best known for his various Sid gimmicks, each distinguished by the ring names Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and Sycho Sid in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE). Between those promotions, Eudy enjoyed major championship success and performed to an international television audience in four decades from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Eudy is a six-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship twice, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship twice. In addition to world title success, Eudy held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship once, among other accolades. During his tenures with the WWF and WCW, Eudy headlined multiple pay-per-views for both organizations, main-eventing WrestleManias VIII and 13 in 1992 and 1997 respectively, as well as WCW's counterpart to that event, Starrcade, in 2000.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (1987–1989)
Eudy entered the wrestling sport after an encounter with Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo. After being trained by Tojo Yamamoto, Eudy made his debut as he teamed with Austin Idol and wrestled the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Jerry Lawler. He then adopted the masked wrestler persona known as Lord Humongous. He began his career in Continental Championship Wrestling (CCW) in 1987, under a mask and the name Lord Humungous. On Christmas Day 1987 he won the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division), going on to be the final titleholder. Later he turned fan favourite after rekindling a (kayfabe) childhood friendship with Shane Douglas, resulting in the two forming a tag team and capturing the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship. He also competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he challenged Tatsumi Fujinami for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship under the name Vicious Warrior, but was unable to win the title. Eudy then made a very brief stint in World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), where he adopted one of his most notable ring names: Sid Vicious, which he took from the punk rock musician of the same name who played bass for the Sex Pistols.
NWA World Championship Wrestling (1989–1991)
The Skyscrapers (1989)
In 1989, Eudy signed with World Championship Wrestling and retained his Sid Vicious ring name. He made his televised debut in WCW by defeating DeWayne Bruce on the June 17, 1989 episode of Pro. Originally slated as a singles wrestler, Eudy was eventually paired with Danny Spivey to form The Skyscrapers. Managed by Teddy Long, The Skyscrapers feuded with The Steiner Brothers and The Road Warriors. During this time, he incorporated the Powerbomb as his finishing move. However, the team was short-lived; Eudy was replaced by "Mean" Mark Callous after suffering a broken rib and a punctured lung during a match with The Steiner Brothers at the November 1989 Clash of the Champions IX.
Four Horsemen (1990–1991)
Following his recovery, Eudy was introduced on the May 11, 1990 edition of NWA Power Hour as the newest member of Ric Flair's Four Horsemen, and he was billed by the ring announcers as being from "wherever he damn well pleases". Sid was the "muscle" of the group and initially brought in to counter-act the strength of RoboCop at Capital Combat. His first televised match back was a 26-second loss to Lex Luger on Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush in which the referee performed a fast three count (in an interview in 2018, Sid stated the reason for the quick loss was punishment by booker Ole Anderson for having been seen playing softball during time off while he was rehabilitating from his punctured lung). As one of the Horsemen, Eudy feuded with Paul Orndorff and the Junkyard Dog. He attacked NWA World Heavyweight Champion Sting following the champion's title match of Clash of the Champions XII, setting up his first feud as a singles wrestler. At Halloween Havoc, a fake Sting (Barry Windham), in collusion with Sid, let Sid pin him after switching places with the real Sting in order for Sid to win the belt. However, they were thwarted when the real Sting came out and beat Sid to retain the title.
Sid's association with the Horsemen became tenuous following this episode, and he began a quasi-face run in November 1990 when he faced The Nightstalker at Clash of the Champions XIII: Thanksgiving Thunder, which Eudy won. However, was attacked post-match by the debuting Big Cat, in response of which Sid recruited former partner Spivey for a short-lived reunion of the Skyscrapers at Starrcade in December, where the two defeated The Big Cat and The Motor City Madman. Following this match Eudy made an abrupt return to heel status, ending Trucker Norm's WCW run in January 1991 and squashing Joey Maggs at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite later that month. He returned to full-fledged Horsemen activity and participated in the WarGames match at WrestleWar. The Horsemen amicably split in April 1991, during which time he entered negotiations with the WWF. Despite a huge contract offer and a promise of a world championship run, Eudy announced his intentions to leave WCW. Before departing he had a short feud with 7'7" (231 cm) tall El Gigante (who was billed as being 8'0" (242 cm)), that ended with his loss to the giant at SuperBrawl I.
World Wrestling Federation (1991–1992)
At a Superstars taping on May 28, 1991, Eudy made his WWF debut in an untelevised segment attacking The Mountie following Mountie's open offer. He defeated Ted DiBiase in his first WWF match at a non-televised event in Calgary on July 8. On the June 8 episode of Prime Time Wrestling, vignettes began airing promoting his WWF debut and introducing him as Sid Justice. On the July 20 episode of Superstars, Eudy debuted on WWF television and was announced as the special guest referee for the main event of that year's SummerSlam, where The Ultimate Warrior and the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan teamed up against The Triangle of Terror (Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, and Gen. Adnan) in a 3-on-2 handicap match. Later that night, Sid saved Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth from an attack at the hands of Jake Roberts and The Undertaker at the newly wed couple's reception. During this time, Sid defeated Kato in his first televised match on the September 21 episode of Superstars. In a match with Roberts, Sid injured his biceps and was forced to miss the Survivor Series pay-per-view.
Sid returned at the Royal Rumble, which had a special stipulation: the winner would win the vacant WWF Championship, which had been stripped from Hulk Hogan. Sid entered at No. 29 and was among the final four wrestlers, along with Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair, before he eliminated both Savage and then Hogan, leaving himself and Flair in the ring. Hogan, who was still at ringside after being eliminated, grabbed Sid's arm and tried to pull him over the top rope, giving Flair the chance to grab Sid's legs and throw him out to win the match and become the new WWF Champion. Less than a week later, on the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to announce who would face Flair for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania VIII. Before Tunney even announced who the number one contender would be, Sid stood up as if Tunney called his name. Yet to Sid's annoyance, Tunney chose Hogan. Sid clutched the stack of papers he fanned himself with earlier and gave a menacing glance in Hogan's direction. After the press conference, Sid said what Jack Tunney did was "bogus." Sid later issued an apology to Hogan, which Hogan accepted. Sid and Hogan then teamed up to face The Undertaker and Flair on Saturday Night's Main Event XXX. During the match, after he double clotheslined Undertaker and Flair, Hogan reached to Sid for a tag. However, Sid refused to tag in and walked out of the match. Despite this, Hogan won the match by disqualification.
On February 23 on an episode of Wrestling Challenge, Sid appeared as a guest on Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's "The Barber Shop". Knowing that Hulk Hogan (Beefcake's long-time real-life friend) was not in the arena, Sid threatened Beefcake and chased him off the set before destroying the Barber Shop with a chair. Later that night, it was announced that Hogan would battle Sid (and not WWF Champion Ric Flair) at the main event of WrestleMania VIII, resulting in Flair facing Randy Savage for the WWF Championship instead. A week later, Sid hired Harvey Whippleman as his manager. Sid also began a post-match gimmick where he would further "injure" his defeated opponents with one or more powerbombs (his finishing move), and sometimes – after the defeated wrestler placed on a stretcher – following this up by grabbing the stretcher and running it into a fixture, such as a ring post or guardrail. At WrestleMania VIII, Sid lost his match to Hogan by disqualification when Papa Shango interfered on Sid's behalf, allowing the two to double-team Hogan until the returning Ultimate Warrior stormed the ring and saved Hogan. Nearing the end of the match, Sid kicked out of Hogan's trademark running leg drop. Sid was disqualified when Whippleman quickly jumped into the ring to get involved.
On a November 22, 2011, edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer confirmed that Sid failed a drug test prior to his WrestleMania match with Hulk Hogan. He was allowed to do the match and then went on their European tour. After the tour, he was told he was going to serve his suspension, resulting in Eudy quitting instead and pursuing a career in softball. At the time of his departure from the WWF, Sid was about to embark on a feud with The Ultimate Warrior, the story being that Sid was angry the Warrior had stuck his nose in his business at WrestleMania VIII. Eudy competed on the WWF's European tour in April 1992, then began his feud with Warrior in the United States. They wrestled on two house shows, with Warrior winning twice by disqualification. After wrestling Warrior in Boston, Massachusetts on April 26, Eudy voluntarily quit the company due to disagreements with the Warrior and WWF management in particular about the outcome of his match with Warrior. The WWF replaced Sid with Papa Shango in the feud with Warrior.
Return to WCW (1993)
Eudy, under his Sid Vicious ring name, returned to WCW in May 1993 as a mystery competitor of Col. Robert Parker against Van Hammer at Slamboree. Sid defeated Hammer in a stretcher match. That summer he teamed with Big Van Vader and reignited his feud with Sting. At Fall Brawl, Sting's team (Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes, and The Shockmaster) defeated Sid's team (Sid, Vader, and Harlem Heat) in a WarGames match. At Halloween Havoc, Sid faced Sting in a rematch of the same pay-per-view three years previous, but was beaten via a roll-up. The following week on television Sid turned on Rob Parker and became a babyface. During their United Kingdom tour in Blackburn, Lancashire on October 27, Eudy was involved in a hotel room scuffle with Arn Anderson that resulted in both wrestlers stabbing each other with scissors. Both were rushed to the hospital, as Anderson suffered scissor stab wounds to the chest and stomach. Vicious stabbed Anderson twenty times, while being stabbed four times himself. Sid was released from WCW. It had been planned to have Sid challenge then WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader at that year's Starrcade, but Sid's departure removed him from this match and Ric Flair was elevated to be the challenger against Vader. Based on Worldwide tapings that took place prior to his departure, Sid would have defeated Vader and become the new champion.
United States Wrestling Association (1994–1996)
Following his departure from WCW, Eudy returned to what was now WCCW merged into United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in Memphis, where he began feuding with old rival Jerry Lawler. On July 16, he won the promotion's Unified World Heavyweight Championship by forfeit when Lawler, who had been attacked and injured by Eudy earlier in the card, could not appear for the scheduled match. While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in non-title matches, Eudy was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time. Sid also participated in the UWF Blackjack Brawl in September 1994, challenging "Dr. Death" Steve Williams for the UWF World Heavyweight Championship. On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship back from Sid. Later the two of them were tag team partners. Once again on August 30, 1996, Sid won the title back from Lawler. On September 2 he dropped the title back to Lawler.
Return to WWF (1995–1997)
Alliance with Shawn Michaels and Million Dollar Corporation (1995)
On the February 20, 1995 episode of Raw Sid entered the WWE as the bodyguard of Shawn Michaels. Along with Jenny McCarthy, Sid accompanied Michaels to ringside for Michaels' WWF Championship match against then-champion and Michaels' former bodyguard, Diesel, at WrestleMania XI. Michaels had the match won after hitting his signature Superkick, but Sid stood on the ring apron and distracted referee Earl Hebner, allowing Diesel time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win the match and retain his title. The next night on Raw, Michaels expressed dissatisfaction with Sid's interference and gave him the night off for his rematch against Diesel at the first-ever In Your House pay-per-view. In response, Sid replied to Shawn, "You don't give me the night off!", and attacked Michaels from behind before hitting him with a powerbomb three times, turning Michaels into a face again. Diesel came to Michaels' aid and clotheslined Sid over the top rope. Michaels claimed to have sustained a legitimate back injury as a result of the attack and was sidelined for six weeks, thus taking him out of the title match.
Two weeks later on the April 17 episode of Raw, Ted DiBiase announced Sid as the newest member of the Million Dollar Corporation after Bam Bam Bigelow left the Corporation. After joining, Sid challenged Diesel to a match for the WWF Championship at in Your House, which Diesel accepted. Diesel won the match via disqualification, and thus retained his title, when Tatanka interfered. After the match, Sid and Tatanka continued to double-team Diesel until Bam Bam Bigelow came out to save him. At the King of the Ring, Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Sid and Tatanka. Sid faced Diesel once again at In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks for the WWF Championship in a lumberjack match, which Diesel won to end the feud. Following this, Sid moved on to a feud with Shawn Michaels and was scheduled to face him at SummerSlam, but was replaced by Razor Ramon at the request of WWF President Gorilla Monsoon, with Ramon challenging for Michaels' Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match as Sid was seen watching on the backstage television monitors. On the September 5 episode of Raw, Sid faced Michaels for the title but lost after being hit with three superkicks. Sid then started a brief feud with Henry Godwinn, culminating in a victory over Godwinn at In Your House 3: Triple Header.
On the November 13 episode of Raw, Sid faced the Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon in a non-title match, with Ramon's friend The 1–2–3 Kid as the special guest referee. Razor was about to deliver the Razor's Edge on Sid, but The 1–2–3 Kid helped Sid avoid it, allowing Sid to pin Ramon after a powerbomb, with the Kid making a fast count. After the match, the Kid turned heel and joined the Million Dollar Corporation. In the first elimination match at Survivor Series, Sid and Corporation leader Ted DiBiase helped The 1–2–3 Kid pin Marty Jannetty to win and become the sole survivor for his team. Later in the event, Sid was randomly teamed up with his rival Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, and The British Bulldog to face Yokozuna, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, and Dean Douglas in a "Wild Card" Survivor Series match. Sid was eliminated by Razor Ramon after Michaels hit Sid with superkick. After his elimination, Sid powerbombed Michaels. At In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings, Razor Ramon and Marty Jannetty defeated Sid and The 1–2–3 Kid. Sid and The 1–2–3 Kid teamed up the next night to participate in the first-ever Raw Bowl, which The Smoking Gunns won. Shortly after, Sid suffered a serious neck injury and left the WWF.
WWF Champion (1996–1997)
Eudy would not be seen again until the July 8 episode of Raw, when he took up the gimmick of "Sycho Sid". Under this version of his Sid gimmick, Eudy was a strident-voiced and intense character, who was prone to erratically unstable mannerisms, such as in his random contemplative stares off into the distance, excessive eye-blinking, laughter turned sudden seriousness, etc. In his return, he was announced as the replacement for The Ultimate Warrior (who left the WWF) for the six-man tag team match, teaming with former rival Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson against Vader, Owen Hart, and The British Bulldog at the main event of In Your House 9: International Incident, effectively making him a face. However, Sid's team lost the match.
The next night on Raw, Sid started a feud with The British Bulldog, whom he faced at SummerSlam on August 18 and pinned after a powerbomb. At In Your House 10: Mind Games on September 22, Shawn Michaels hit Mankind with the Sweet Chin Music and went for the pin to retain the WWF Championship, but Vader came out, broke up the count, attacked him, which got Mankind disqualified. After the match, Mankind and Vader double-teamed Michaels until Sid came out to make the save. He and Vader fought their way backstage, starting a feud between the two.
Sid fought Vader at In Your House 11: Buried Alive on October 20 in a match where the winner would face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series on November 17. As Sid was about to powerbomb Vader, Vader's manager Jim Cornette got on the ring apron to distract him. Michaels responded and pulled Cornette off the apron before hitting him with the Sweet Chin Music. Sid then pinned Vader with a chokeslam to win the match and to become the number-one contender for the WWF Championship. After the match, Sid celebrated his victory with Michaels.
At the Survivor Series, history repeated itself. Sid grabbed a camera from the operator and prepared to hit Michaels with it. Michaels' manager, Jose Lothario, got on the ring apron and told Sid to put the camera down, but he refused and hit Lothario in the chest with it instead. Although this was the act of a heel, the audience cheered wildly for him and booed Michaels, just as they had done, in Sid's favor, four and a half years earlier against Hogan at the Royal Rumble. Sid dropped the camera, and as soon as he turned around, Michaels hit him with the Sweet Chin Music; however, Michaels went outside the ring to check on his manager instead of going for the pin. Sid hit Michaels in the back with the camera, then threw him back in the ring before hitting him with the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship. At In Your House 12: It's Time on December 15, Sid defended the title against Bret Hart in a match where the winner would defend the title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 Royal Rumble on January 19. Hart made Sid tap out to the Sharpshooter, but the referee was knocked out and unable to witness the submission. As Michaels was commentating at ringside, Sid and Hart left the ring and started fighting right beside him. After Sid had pushed Michaels and then climbed into the ring with Hart, Michaels went to hit Sid but the latter threw Hart into him. He then pinned him after a powerbomb to retain the title.
At the Royal Rumble, Sid lost the title to Michaels. During the match, Sid hit the chokeslam on Michaels and repeatedly powerbombed him outside the ring. Later on in the match, Jose Lothario got on the ring apron, and Sid approached him, but before he could do anything to him, Michaels hit Sid in the back and the face with the camera, knocking him out in the process. Michaels went for the pin, but Sid managed to kick out. Michaels then hit Sid with Sweet Chin Music to become the WWF World Heavyweight Champion for the second time. He soon forfeited that same title due to being unable to wrestle, a claim widely disputed by many during that time, especially Bret Hart, who still believes that Michaels did not want to drop the title to him at WrestleMania 13. At In Your House 13: Final Four in Chattanooga, a four corners elimination title match was held for the vacant championship belt between Bret Hart, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vader. Hart won, and was scheduled to face Sid the following night, on the February 17, 1997, episode of Raw. During that match, Hart had Sid trapped in the Sharpshooter submission when Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom Hart was feuding with, came to the outside of the ring and hit Hart with a steel chair, allowing Sid to hit Hart with the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship for the second time.
At WrestleMania 13 on March 23, Sid lost the title against The Undertaker when Hart interfered during the match, allowing the latter to hit the Tombstone Piledriver and pin Sid to win the WWF Championship. The next night on Raw is War, Sid made one more appearance after Bret Hart attacked an injured Shawn Michaels in the ring after a face-to-face promo about Hart turning on the fans. Following this, Sid was kept off television until the May 12 episode of Raw is War where he returned as a face. He competed against Owen Hart and defeated him to become the partner of The Legion of Doom in their feud with The Hart Foundation. At King of the Ring on June 8, Sid and The Legion of Doom faced The Hart Foundation (Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, and Jim Neidhart) in a six-man tag team match, which The Hart Foundation won when Owen pinned Sid with a roll-up. On June 9, Sid defeated Owen on Raw before disappearing from television for over a month. His last match was a loss to Owen in a house show in Toronto, Canada. He returned on the July 14 episode of Raw, making a brief final appearance before leaving the WWF once again to recover from a neck injury that would require surgery.
Independent Circuit (1998)
After leaving WWF from a neck injury and being inactive for nearly a year, Sid wrestled in the independent circuit in Mississippi and New Jersey. He defeated King Kong Bundy at the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl on February 28. Sid would work for Power Pro Wrestling in Tennessee.
Extreme Championship Wrestling (1999)
After some time on the Tennessee independent circuit, Eudy debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in January 1999, where he had matches with The Dudley Boyz, John Kronus, Skull Von Krush and Justin Credible. He left ECW in May due to the monetary problems plaguing the promotion.
Second return to WCW (1999–2001)
The Millennium Man and United States Heavyweight Champion (1999)
At the behest of his real-life friends Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, Eudy returned to WCW at The Great American Bash in June 1999, joining Randy Savage's heel stable Team Madness. Upon his return, he took the nickname of "The Millennium Man" and faced the WCW World Champion Kevin Nash on the July 5, 1999, episode of WCW Nitro. Sid was dubbed as undefeated having a winning streak much like Goldberg had previously; although, the majority of this streak was due to Sid coming to the ring and power bombing wrestlers already in a match or immediately following their match and thus "defeating" them.
On September 12, 1999, Sid won his first and only WCW United States Heavyweight Championship from Chris Benoit at Fall Brawl. He then began a feud with Goldberg who challenged him for the United States Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc. Earlier that night, however, their backstage fighting led Sid to require stitches, though he refused to be treated, which led to Sid bleeding openly the entire night. After brawling with Goldberg, a weary Sid lost the match due to excessive bleeding, awarding Goldberg the United States Heavyweight Championship against his opponent's will. Sid lost again to Goldberg in an "I Quit" match at Mayhem, effectively ending their feud and Sid's "streak." WCW later released a VHS home video highlighting Sid's return to WCW called Sid Vicious: Millennium Man.
World Heavyweight Champion (2000)
After the "Millennium Man" gimmick ran dry, Sid became a face and started to contend for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. He was placed in a match at Souled Out in January to fill the suddenly vacant title after Bret Hart was forced to relinquish it due to a concussion. Sid would lose the match to Chris Benoit, but the title was again vacated as Benoit left for the WWF the next day. The on-screen explanation was that Sid's foot was under the rope during his submission loss. The next week, Sid was presented with a challenge by Nash, who had become commissioner of WCW. If he could beat Don and Ron Harris in a match on Monday Nitro that night, he would face Nash for the championship that night. Sid managed to defeat the Harris Brothers and eventually Nash himself to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Two nights later on Thunder, Nash stripped Sid of the championship due to him not beating the legal Harris brother in the match on Nitro. A rematch between Sid and Nash was set up, but Sid again defeated Nash on Nitro to win the title for a second time. He later successfully defended the title at SuperBrawl 2000 in a three-way match against Scott Hall and Jeff Jarrett.
At Uncensored, Sid defended his title against Jeff Jarrett thanks in part to help from a returning Hulk Hogan, which set up a match for the following night's Nitro pitting Sid and Hogan vs. Jarrett and Scott Steiner. During the course of the match, Sid turned heel and attacked Hogan, due to his being incensed that the fans were chanting Hogan's name. He chokeslammed Hogan and forced the referee to count Hogan being pinned, although the official result was a no contest. This apparently might have been to set up a match for the upcoming Spring Stampede pay-per-view in April. However, shortly after this, WCW began its New Blood angle and Sid (along with all the other WCW champions at the time) was stripped of his championship. He did not play a large role in the angle that followed, and was kept off of television for several months.
Injury and first retirement (2000–2001)
He returned late in the year as a challenger for Scott Steiner's WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but Sid failed to defeat Steiner in their title match at Starrcade. On January 14, 2001, at the Sin pay-per-view in Indianapolis at Conseco Fieldhouse (now Gainbridge Fieldhouse), Sid faced Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Road Warrior Animal in a Four Corners match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. During the match, however, he suffered a near career-ending injury. Members of WCW management allegedly felt that Eudy needed to broaden his arsenal of wrestling moves and suggested that he try an aerial maneuver, despite his "unwillingness". Eudy felt it unnecessary for a wrestler of his size and type to do high spots and did not feel comfortable doing them. During the match, Eudy suffered a leg fracture following his leap from the second turnbuckle in an attempted big boot on Steiner. This had him awkwardly landing on one foot while kicking with the other, severely fracturing the leg he landed on. Eudy broke his left leg in half, snapping both the tibia and fibula, with at least one of the bones breaking through the skin. The fracture was too graphic for many television stations to re-air, although it was shown on the following Nitro.
The injury put Sid out of action indefinitely, and he pondered retiring from wrestling for good: "I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as wrapping up my career. The only thing I really wanted to do was ideally go out in a big pay-per-view, like a WrestleMania or something like that main event, leave like that, and not come back again. It would really be the retirement match". A 17-inch (43 cm) rod was placed in his leg during the two-hour surgery. For a while, Eudy used a cane to walk. Sid later sued WCW, claiming that he was made to jump off the second rope against his objections. The injury forced a plot change in the SuperBrawl Revenge event. The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, and Sid against Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal but was rewritten as Kevin Nash versus Scott Steiner. WCW would then be purchased by the WWF the following month, ceasing any possibility of Sid's return to that company.
Recovery and later career (2002–2017)
Following surgery, Eudy was faced with the prospect of rehabilitation of his leg for three to five days per week for at least the next year. He was told by his doctor that he would never run again, and Sid set a goal of being able to do so. At first he was limited to using a cane, but through extensive effort was able to not only walk again, but in time run. During his arduous rehabilitation, Eudy made several appearances as World Wrestling All-Stars's (WWA) commissioner during its 2002 Australian tour, though at the beginning of WWA's Sydney show, it was announced that Eudy would not be featured due to a broken arm. Sid also filed a lawsuit with the Universal Wrestling Corporation (the Turner holding company for what remained of WCW's unpurchased assets), seeking redress for the injury that he sustained. The judge ultimately ruled in favor of the UWC.
After almost three and a half years of rehabilitation and preparation, Eudy returned to active wrestling on June 5, 2004 with the Canadian-based Internet Wrestling Syndicate. Appearing as Pierre Carl Ouellet's mystery partner, Eudy competed in and won a ten team battle royal. On July 14, 2007, Eudy debuted in Memphis Wrestling and started a feud with old rival Jerry Lawler while serving as "Hollywood" Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer. Sid also appeared at the Juggalo Championship Wrestling event Evansville Invasion, helping Tracy Smothers attack the promotion's Heavyweight Champion Corporal Robinson. Following this, Eudy had a match at the "Jerry Lawler 35th Anniversary Wrestling event" on November 7, 2008, at the Tennessee Fairgrounds. He wrestled in the main event and lost to Lawler. On February 28, 2009, Eudy returned to Memphis Wrestling and won a battle royal before defeating Lawler in a rematch.
Later that year Sid began a European tour with American Wrestling Rampage. He was undefeated during the tour, including wins over X-Pac. Following this Eudy's appearances were greatly reduced as he began focusing on competition in over-50 bodybuilding. He would wrestle only three times in total in 2010 and 2011, defeating Chase Stevens, Josef von Schmidt, and Eddie Kingston.
On the June 25, 2012, episode of Raw, Eudy made his return to WWE as Sycho Sid in a match against Heath Slater, where he defeated Slater as part of the ongoing celebration building up to WWE's 1000th episode of Raw. It was his first appearance on Raw since the July 14, 1997 episode and his first match on the show since June 9, 1997. Eudy would reappear on the actual 1000th episode on July 23, where he and other WWE Legends helped Lita take down Slater. On August 5, 2017, Sid wrestled the last match of his career. He defeated Paul Rosenberg in Ottawa, Ontario for Great North Wrestling.
Personal life
Eudy and his wife, Sabrina Paige (née Estes), were married on December 30, 1983, in Shelby County, Tennessee. They have two sons: Frank, a cast member on the CBS reality show Big Brother 14 & 18, and Gunnar Eudy, who is also a wrestler.
Eudy is a fan of softball. During his time off from wrestling, he briefly played softball between 1997 and 1999.
Legal troubles
In January 2011, Eudy was arrested in Shelby County, Tennessee. Initially pulled over for and charged with not wearing his seatbelt, Eudy was also charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving without a license. He was later released on $1,000 bond.
Other media
Eudy made an appearance in the 2000 film Ready to Rumble alongside David Arquette and Scott Caan. In 2011, he starred alongside fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash in the horror movie River of Darkness. He also starred in the 2011 horror film Death from Above, alongside fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle, James Storm, Matt Morgan, Terry Gerin and Jessica Kresa. On August 2, 2012, he appeared on the CBS reality show Big Brother 14 where his son, Frank, was a contestant.
Eudy was a playable character in the NES version of WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, the Game Boy game WWF Superstars 2 and the SNES version of WWF Super Wrestlemania. For WCW he appeared in WCW Backstage Assault. Unrelated to any wrestling promotion he was a playable character in both Legends of Wrestling II and Showdown: Legends of Wrestling as well.
Eudy appears as Sycho Sid in WWE 2K17, as downloadable content. Sid is also part of the roster in WWE 2K18 and WWE 2K19.
Filmography
Championships and accomplishments
American Wrestling Federation
AWF Super Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Continental Wrestling Association
CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Northeast
NWA Northeast Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Comeback of the Year (1996)
Ranked No. 16 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991
Ranked No. 122 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
Southeastern Championship Wrestling
NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division) (1 time)
NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Shane Douglas
United States Wrestling Association
USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
World Championship Wrestling
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
World Wrestling Federation
WWF Championship (2 times)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Most Overrated (1993)
Readers' Least Favorite Wrestler (1993)
Worst on Interviews (1999)
Worst Worked Match of the Year (1990) vs. The Nightstalker
References
External links
1960 births
20th century professional wrestlers
American male professional wrestlers
American male sport wrestlers
American softball players
Fictional bodyguards
Fictional kings
Living people
Masked wrestlers
NWA/WCW/WWE United States Heavyweight Champions
People from Marion, Arkansas
People from West Memphis, Arkansas
Professional wrestlers from Arkansas
Stabbing survivors
The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling) members
The Million Dollar Corporation members
USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champions
WCW World Heavyweight Champions
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"Sidney Raymond Eudy (born December 16, 1960) is an American actor and former professional wrestler.",
"He is best known for his various Sid gimmicks, each distinguished by the ring names Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and Sycho Sid in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE).",
"Between those promotions, Eudy enjoyed major championship success and performed to an international television audience in four decades from the 1980s to the 2010s.",
"Eudy is a six-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship twice, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship twice.",
"In addition to world title success, Eudy held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship once, among other accolades.",
"During his tenures with the WWF and WCW, Eudy headlined multiple pay-per-views for both organizations, main-eventing WrestleManias VIII and 13 in 1992 and 1997 respectively, as well as WCW's counterpart to that event, Starrcade, in 2000.",
"Professional wrestling career\n\nEarly career (1987–1989) \nEudy entered the wrestling sport after an encounter with Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo.",
"After being trained by Tojo Yamamoto, Eudy made his debut as he teamed with Austin Idol and wrestled the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Jerry Lawler.",
"He then adopted the masked wrestler persona known as Lord Humongous.",
"He began his career in Continental Championship Wrestling (CCW) in 1987, under a mask and the name Lord Humungous.",
"On Christmas Day 1987 he won the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division), going on to be the final titleholder.",
"Later he turned fan favourite after rekindling a (kayfabe) childhood friendship with Shane Douglas, resulting in the two forming a tag team and capturing the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship.",
"He also competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he challenged Tatsumi Fujinami for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship under the name Vicious Warrior, but was unable to win the title.",
"Eudy then made a very brief stint in World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), where he adopted one of his most notable ring names: Sid Vicious, which he took from the punk rock musician of the same name who played bass for the Sex Pistols.",
"NWA World Championship Wrestling (1989–1991)\n\nThe Skyscrapers (1989) \n\nIn 1989, Eudy signed with World Championship Wrestling and retained his Sid Vicious ring name.",
"He made his televised debut in WCW by defeating DeWayne Bruce on the June 17, 1989 episode of Pro.",
"Originally slated as a singles wrestler, Eudy was eventually paired with Danny Spivey to form The Skyscrapers.",
"Managed by Teddy Long, The Skyscrapers feuded with The Steiner Brothers and The Road Warriors.",
"During this time, he incorporated the Powerbomb as his finishing move.",
"However, the team was short-lived; Eudy was replaced by \"Mean\" Mark Callous after suffering a broken rib and a punctured lung during a match with The Steiner Brothers at the November 1989 Clash of the Champions IX.",
"Four Horsemen (1990–1991) \n\nFollowing his recovery, Eudy was introduced on the May 11, 1990 edition of NWA Power Hour as the newest member of Ric Flair's Four Horsemen, and he was billed by the ring announcers as being from \"wherever he damn well pleases\".",
"Sid was the \"muscle\" of the group and initially brought in to counter-act the strength of RoboCop at Capital Combat.",
"His first televised match back was a 26-second loss to Lex Luger on Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush in which the referee performed a fast three count (in an interview in 2018, Sid stated the reason for the quick loss was punishment by booker Ole Anderson for having been seen playing softball during time off while he was rehabilitating from his punctured lung).",
"As one of the Horsemen, Eudy feuded with Paul Orndorff and the Junkyard Dog.",
"He attacked NWA World Heavyweight Champion Sting following the champion's title match of Clash of the Champions XII, setting up his first feud as a singles wrestler.",
"At Halloween Havoc, a fake Sting (Barry Windham), in collusion with Sid, let Sid pin him after switching places with the real Sting in order for Sid to win the belt.",
"However, they were thwarted when the real Sting came out and beat Sid to retain the title.",
"Sid's association with the Horsemen became tenuous following this episode, and he began a quasi-face run in November 1990 when he faced The Nightstalker at Clash of the Champions XIII: Thanksgiving Thunder, which Eudy won.",
"However, was attacked post-match by the debuting Big Cat, in response of which Sid recruited former partner Spivey for a short-lived reunion of the Skyscrapers at Starrcade in December, where the two defeated The Big Cat and The Motor City Madman.",
"Following this match Eudy made an abrupt return to heel status, ending Trucker Norm's WCW run in January 1991 and squashing Joey Maggs at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite later that month.",
"He returned to full-fledged Horsemen activity and participated in the WarGames match at WrestleWar.",
"The Horsemen amicably split in April 1991, during which time he entered negotiations with the WWF.",
"Despite a huge contract offer and a promise of a world championship run, Eudy announced his intentions to leave WCW.",
"Before departing he had a short feud with 7'7\" (231 cm) tall El Gigante (who was billed as being 8'0\" (242 cm)), that ended with his loss to the giant at SuperBrawl I.",
"World Wrestling Federation (1991–1992) \nAt a Superstars taping on May 28, 1991, Eudy made his WWF debut in an untelevised segment attacking The Mountie following Mountie's open offer.",
"He defeated Ted DiBiase in his first WWF match at a non-televised event in Calgary on July 8.",
"On the June 8 episode of Prime Time Wrestling, vignettes began airing promoting his WWF debut and introducing him as Sid Justice.",
"On the July 20 episode of Superstars, Eudy debuted on WWF television and was announced as the special guest referee for the main event of that year's SummerSlam, where The Ultimate Warrior and the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan teamed up against The Triangle of Terror (Sgt.",
"Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, and Gen. Adnan) in a 3-on-2 handicap match.",
"Later that night, Sid saved Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth from an attack at the hands of Jake Roberts and The Undertaker at the newly wed couple's reception.",
"During this time, Sid defeated Kato in his first televised match on the September 21 episode of Superstars.",
"In a match with Roberts, Sid injured his biceps and was forced to miss the Survivor Series pay-per-view.",
"Sid returned at the Royal Rumble, which had a special stipulation: the winner would win the vacant WWF Championship, which had been stripped from Hulk Hogan.",
"Sid entered at No.",
"29 and was among the final four wrestlers, along with Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair, before he eliminated both Savage and then Hogan, leaving himself and Flair in the ring.",
"Hogan, who was still at ringside after being eliminated, grabbed Sid's arm and tried to pull him over the top rope, giving Flair the chance to grab Sid's legs and throw him out to win the match and become the new WWF Champion.",
"Less than a week later, on the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to announce who would face Flair for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania VIII.",
"Before Tunney even announced who the number one contender would be, Sid stood up as if Tunney called his name.",
"Yet to Sid's annoyance, Tunney chose Hogan.",
"Sid clutched the stack of papers he fanned himself with earlier and gave a menacing glance in Hogan's direction.",
"After the press conference, Sid said what Jack Tunney did was \"bogus.\"",
"Sid later issued an apology to Hogan, which Hogan accepted.",
"Sid and Hogan then teamed up to face The Undertaker and Flair on Saturday Night's Main Event XXX.",
"During the match, after he double clotheslined Undertaker and Flair, Hogan reached to Sid for a tag.",
"However, Sid refused to tag in and walked out of the match.",
"Despite this, Hogan won the match by disqualification.",
"On February 23 on an episode of Wrestling Challenge, Sid appeared as a guest on Brutus \"The Barber\" Beefcake's \"The Barber Shop\".",
"Knowing that Hulk Hogan (Beefcake's long-time real-life friend) was not in the arena, Sid threatened Beefcake and chased him off the set before destroying the Barber Shop with a chair.",
"Later that night, it was announced that Hogan would battle Sid (and not WWF Champion Ric Flair) at the main event of WrestleMania VIII, resulting in Flair facing Randy Savage for the WWF Championship instead.",
"A week later, Sid hired Harvey Whippleman as his manager.",
"Sid also began a post-match gimmick where he would further \"injure\" his defeated opponents with one or more powerbombs (his finishing move), and sometimes – after the defeated wrestler placed on a stretcher – following this up by grabbing the stretcher and running it into a fixture, such as a ring post or guardrail.",
"At WrestleMania VIII, Sid lost his match to Hogan by disqualification when Papa Shango interfered on Sid's behalf, allowing the two to double-team Hogan until the returning Ultimate Warrior stormed the ring and saved Hogan.",
"Nearing the end of the match, Sid kicked out of Hogan's trademark running leg drop.",
"Sid was disqualified when Whippleman quickly jumped into the ring to get involved.",
"On a November 22, 2011, edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer confirmed that Sid failed a drug test prior to his WrestleMania match with Hulk Hogan.",
"He was allowed to do the match and then went on their European tour.",
"After the tour, he was told he was going to serve his suspension, resulting in Eudy quitting instead and pursuing a career in softball.",
"At the time of his departure from the WWF, Sid was about to embark on a feud with The Ultimate Warrior, the story being that Sid was angry the Warrior had stuck his nose in his business at WrestleMania VIII.",
"Eudy competed on the WWF's European tour in April 1992, then began his feud with Warrior in the United States.",
"They wrestled on two house shows, with Warrior winning twice by disqualification.",
"After wrestling Warrior in Boston, Massachusetts on April 26, Eudy voluntarily quit the company due to disagreements with the Warrior and WWF management in particular about the outcome of his match with Warrior.",
"The WWF replaced Sid with Papa Shango in the feud with Warrior.",
"Return to WCW (1993) \nEudy, under his Sid Vicious ring name, returned to WCW in May 1993 as a mystery competitor of Col. Robert Parker against Van Hammer at Slamboree.",
"Sid defeated Hammer in a stretcher match.",
"That summer he teamed with Big Van Vader and reignited his feud with Sting.",
"At Fall Brawl, Sting's team (Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes, and The Shockmaster) defeated Sid's team (Sid, Vader, and Harlem Heat) in a WarGames match.",
"At Halloween Havoc, Sid faced Sting in a rematch of the same pay-per-view three years previous, but was beaten via a roll-up.",
"The following week on television Sid turned on Rob Parker and became a babyface.",
"During their United Kingdom tour in Blackburn, Lancashire on October 27, Eudy was involved in a hotel room scuffle with Arn Anderson that resulted in both wrestlers stabbing each other with scissors.",
"Both were rushed to the hospital, as Anderson suffered scissor stab wounds to the chest and stomach.",
"Vicious stabbed Anderson twenty times, while being stabbed four times himself.",
"Sid was released from WCW.",
"It had been planned to have Sid challenge then WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader at that year's Starrcade, but Sid's departure removed him from this match and Ric Flair was elevated to be the challenger against Vader.",
"Based on Worldwide tapings that took place prior to his departure, Sid would have defeated Vader and become the new champion.",
"United States Wrestling Association (1994–1996) \nFollowing his departure from WCW, Eudy returned to what was now WCCW merged into United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in Memphis, where he began feuding with old rival Jerry Lawler.",
"On July 16, he won the promotion's Unified World Heavyweight Championship by forfeit when Lawler, who had been attacked and injured by Eudy earlier in the card, could not appear for the scheduled match.",
"While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in non-title matches, Eudy was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time.",
"Sid also participated in the UWF Blackjack Brawl in September 1994, challenging \"Dr. Death\" Steve Williams for the UWF World Heavyweight Championship.",
"On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship back from Sid.",
"Later the two of them were tag team partners.",
"Once again on August 30, 1996, Sid won the title back from Lawler.",
"On September 2 he dropped the title back to Lawler.",
"Return to WWF (1995–1997)\n\nAlliance with Shawn Michaels and Million Dollar Corporation (1995) \n\nOn the February 20, 1995 episode of Raw Sid entered the WWE as the bodyguard of Shawn Michaels.",
"Along with Jenny McCarthy, Sid accompanied Michaels to ringside for Michaels' WWF Championship match against then-champion and Michaels' former bodyguard, Diesel, at WrestleMania XI.",
"Michaels had the match won after hitting his signature Superkick, but Sid stood on the ring apron and distracted referee Earl Hebner, allowing Diesel time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win the match and retain his title.",
"The next night on Raw, Michaels expressed dissatisfaction with Sid's interference and gave him the night off for his rematch against Diesel at the first-ever In Your House pay-per-view.",
"In response, Sid replied to Shawn, \"You don't give me the night off!",
"\", and attacked Michaels from behind before hitting him with a powerbomb three times, turning Michaels into a face again.",
"Diesel came to Michaels' aid and clotheslined Sid over the top rope.",
"Michaels claimed to have sustained a legitimate back injury as a result of the attack and was sidelined for six weeks, thus taking him out of the title match.",
"Two weeks later on the April 17 episode of Raw, Ted DiBiase announced Sid as the newest member of the Million Dollar Corporation after Bam Bam Bigelow left the Corporation.",
"After joining, Sid challenged Diesel to a match for the WWF Championship at in Your House, which Diesel accepted.",
"Diesel won the match via disqualification, and thus retained his title, when Tatanka interfered.",
"After the match, Sid and Tatanka continued to double-team Diesel until Bam Bam Bigelow came out to save him.",
"At the King of the Ring, Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow defeated Sid and Tatanka.",
"Sid faced Diesel once again at In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks for the WWF Championship in a lumberjack match, which Diesel won to end the feud.",
"Following this, Sid moved on to a feud with Shawn Michaels and was scheduled to face him at SummerSlam, but was replaced by Razor Ramon at the request of WWF President Gorilla Monsoon, with Ramon challenging for Michaels' Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match as Sid was seen watching on the backstage television monitors.",
"On the September 5 episode of Raw, Sid faced Michaels for the title but lost after being hit with three superkicks.",
"Sid then started a brief feud with Henry Godwinn, culminating in a victory over Godwinn at In Your House 3: Triple Header.",
"On the November 13 episode of Raw, Sid faced the Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon in a non-title match, with Ramon's friend The 1–2–3 Kid as the special guest referee.",
"Razor was about to deliver the Razor's Edge on Sid, but The 1–2–3 Kid helped Sid avoid it, allowing Sid to pin Ramon after a powerbomb, with the Kid making a fast count.",
"After the match, the Kid turned heel and joined the Million Dollar Corporation.",
"In the first elimination match at Survivor Series, Sid and Corporation leader Ted DiBiase helped The 1–2–3 Kid pin Marty Jannetty to win and become the sole survivor for his team.",
"Later in the event, Sid was randomly teamed up with his rival Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, and The British Bulldog to face Yokozuna, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, and Dean Douglas in a \"Wild Card\" Survivor Series match.",
"Sid was eliminated by Razor Ramon after Michaels hit Sid with superkick.",
"After his elimination, Sid powerbombed Michaels.",
"At In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings, Razor Ramon and Marty Jannetty defeated Sid and The 1–2–3 Kid.",
"Sid and The 1–2–3 Kid teamed up the next night to participate in the first-ever Raw Bowl, which The Smoking Gunns won.",
"Shortly after, Sid suffered a serious neck injury and left the WWF.",
"WWF Champion (1996–1997) \n\nEudy would not be seen again until the July 8 episode of Raw, when he took up the gimmick of \"Sycho Sid\".",
"Under this version of his Sid gimmick, Eudy was a strident-voiced and intense character, who was prone to erratically unstable mannerisms, such as in his random contemplative stares off into the distance, excessive eye-blinking, laughter turned sudden seriousness, etc.",
"In his return, he was announced as the replacement for The Ultimate Warrior (who left the WWF) for the six-man tag team match, teaming with former rival Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson against Vader, Owen Hart, and The British Bulldog at the main event of In Your House 9: International Incident, effectively making him a face.",
"However, Sid's team lost the match.",
"The next night on Raw, Sid started a feud with The British Bulldog, whom he faced at SummerSlam on August 18 and pinned after a powerbomb.",
"At In Your House 10: Mind Games on September 22, Shawn Michaels hit Mankind with the Sweet Chin Music and went for the pin to retain the WWF Championship, but Vader came out, broke up the count, attacked him, which got Mankind disqualified.",
"After the match, Mankind and Vader double-teamed Michaels until Sid came out to make the save.",
"He and Vader fought their way backstage, starting a feud between the two.",
"Sid fought Vader at In Your House 11: Buried Alive on October 20 in a match where the winner would face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series on November 17.",
"As Sid was about to powerbomb Vader, Vader's manager Jim Cornette got on the ring apron to distract him.",
"Michaels responded and pulled Cornette off the apron before hitting him with the Sweet Chin Music.",
"Sid then pinned Vader with a chokeslam to win the match and to become the number-one contender for the WWF Championship.",
"After the match, Sid celebrated his victory with Michaels.",
"At the Survivor Series, history repeated itself.",
"Sid grabbed a camera from the operator and prepared to hit Michaels with it.",
"Michaels' manager, Jose Lothario, got on the ring apron and told Sid to put the camera down, but he refused and hit Lothario in the chest with it instead.",
"Although this was the act of a heel, the audience cheered wildly for him and booed Michaels, just as they had done, in Sid's favor, four and a half years earlier against Hogan at the Royal Rumble.",
"Sid dropped the camera, and as soon as he turned around, Michaels hit him with the Sweet Chin Music; however, Michaels went outside the ring to check on his manager instead of going for the pin.",
"Sid hit Michaels in the back with the camera, then threw him back in the ring before hitting him with the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship.",
"At In Your House 12: It's Time on December 15, Sid defended the title against Bret Hart in a match where the winner would defend the title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 Royal Rumble on January 19.",
"Hart made Sid tap out to the Sharpshooter, but the referee was knocked out and unable to witness the submission.",
"As Michaels was commentating at ringside, Sid and Hart left the ring and started fighting right beside him.",
"After Sid had pushed Michaels and then climbed into the ring with Hart, Michaels went to hit Sid but the latter threw Hart into him.",
"He then pinned him after a powerbomb to retain the title.",
"At the Royal Rumble, Sid lost the title to Michaels.",
"During the match, Sid hit the chokeslam on Michaels and repeatedly powerbombed him outside the ring.",
"Later on in the match, Jose Lothario got on the ring apron, and Sid approached him, but before he could do anything to him, Michaels hit Sid in the back and the face with the camera, knocking him out in the process.",
"Michaels went for the pin, but Sid managed to kick out.",
"Michaels then hit Sid with Sweet Chin Music to become the WWF World Heavyweight Champion for the second time.",
"He soon forfeited that same title due to being unable to wrestle, a claim widely disputed by many during that time, especially Bret Hart, who still believes that Michaels did not want to drop the title to him at WrestleMania 13.",
"At In Your House 13: Final Four in Chattanooga, a four corners elimination title match was held for the vacant championship belt between Bret Hart, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vader.",
"Hart won, and was scheduled to face Sid the following night, on the February 17, 1997, episode of Raw.",
"During that match, Hart had Sid trapped in the Sharpshooter submission when Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom Hart was feuding with, came to the outside of the ring and hit Hart with a steel chair, allowing Sid to hit Hart with the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship for the second time.",
"At WrestleMania 13 on March 23, Sid lost the title against The Undertaker when Hart interfered during the match, allowing the latter to hit the Tombstone Piledriver and pin Sid to win the WWF Championship.",
"The next night on Raw is War, Sid made one more appearance after Bret Hart attacked an injured Shawn Michaels in the ring after a face-to-face promo about Hart turning on the fans.",
"Following this, Sid was kept off television until the May 12 episode of Raw is War where he returned as a face.",
"He competed against Owen Hart and defeated him to become the partner of The Legion of Doom in their feud with The Hart Foundation.",
"At King of the Ring on June 8, Sid and The Legion of Doom faced The Hart Foundation (Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, and Jim Neidhart) in a six-man tag team match, which The Hart Foundation won when Owen pinned Sid with a roll-up.",
"On June 9, Sid defeated Owen on Raw before disappearing from television for over a month.",
"His last match was a loss to Owen in a house show in Toronto, Canada.",
"He returned on the July 14 episode of Raw, making a brief final appearance before leaving the WWF once again to recover from a neck injury that would require surgery.",
"Independent Circuit (1998) \nAfter leaving WWF from a neck injury and being inactive for nearly a year, Sid wrestled in the independent circuit in Mississippi and New Jersey.",
"He defeated King Kong Bundy at the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl on February 28.",
"Sid would work for Power Pro Wrestling in Tennessee.",
"Extreme Championship Wrestling (1999) \nAfter some time on the Tennessee independent circuit, Eudy debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in January 1999, where he had matches with The Dudley Boyz, John Kronus, Skull Von Krush and Justin Credible.",
"He left ECW in May due to the monetary problems plaguing the promotion.",
"Second return to WCW (1999–2001)\n\nThe Millennium Man and United States Heavyweight Champion (1999) \nAt the behest of his real-life friends Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, Eudy returned to WCW at The Great American Bash in June 1999, joining Randy Savage's heel stable Team Madness.",
"Upon his return, he took the nickname of \"The Millennium Man\" and faced the WCW World Champion Kevin Nash on the July 5, 1999, episode of WCW Nitro.",
"Sid was dubbed as undefeated having a winning streak much like Goldberg had previously; although, the majority of this streak was due to Sid coming to the ring and power bombing wrestlers already in a match or immediately following their match and thus \"defeating\" them.",
"On September 12, 1999, Sid won his first and only WCW United States Heavyweight Championship from Chris Benoit at Fall Brawl.",
"He then began a feud with Goldberg who challenged him for the United States Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc.",
"Earlier that night, however, their backstage fighting led Sid to require stitches, though he refused to be treated, which led to Sid bleeding openly the entire night.",
"After brawling with Goldberg, a weary Sid lost the match due to excessive bleeding, awarding Goldberg the United States Heavyweight Championship against his opponent's will.",
"Sid lost again to Goldberg in an \"I Quit\" match at Mayhem, effectively ending their feud and Sid's \"streak.\"",
"WCW later released a VHS home video highlighting Sid's return to WCW called Sid Vicious: Millennium Man.",
"World Heavyweight Champion (2000) \nAfter the \"Millennium Man\" gimmick ran dry, Sid became a face and started to contend for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.",
"He was placed in a match at Souled Out in January to fill the suddenly vacant title after Bret Hart was forced to relinquish it due to a concussion.",
"Sid would lose the match to Chris Benoit, but the title was again vacated as Benoit left for the WWF the next day.",
"The on-screen explanation was that Sid's foot was under the rope during his submission loss.",
"The next week, Sid was presented with a challenge by Nash, who had become commissioner of WCW.",
"If he could beat Don and Ron Harris in a match on Monday Nitro that night, he would face Nash for the championship that night.",
"Sid managed to defeat the Harris Brothers and eventually Nash himself to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.",
"Two nights later on Thunder, Nash stripped Sid of the championship due to him not beating the legal Harris brother in the match on Nitro.",
"A rematch between Sid and Nash was set up, but Sid again defeated Nash on Nitro to win the title for a second time.",
"He later successfully defended the title at SuperBrawl 2000 in a three-way match against Scott Hall and Jeff Jarrett.",
"At Uncensored, Sid defended his title against Jeff Jarrett thanks in part to help from a returning Hulk Hogan, which set up a match for the following night's Nitro pitting Sid and Hogan vs. Jarrett and Scott Steiner.",
"During the course of the match, Sid turned heel and attacked Hogan, due to his being incensed that the fans were chanting Hogan's name.",
"He chokeslammed Hogan and forced the referee to count Hogan being pinned, although the official result was a no contest.",
"This apparently might have been to set up a match for the upcoming Spring Stampede pay-per-view in April.",
"However, shortly after this, WCW began its New Blood angle and Sid (along with all the other WCW champions at the time) was stripped of his championship.",
"He did not play a large role in the angle that followed, and was kept off of television for several months.",
"Injury and first retirement (2000–2001) \nHe returned late in the year as a challenger for Scott Steiner's WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but Sid failed to defeat Steiner in their title match at Starrcade.",
"On January 14, 2001, at the Sin pay-per-view in Indianapolis at Conseco Fieldhouse (now Gainbridge Fieldhouse), Sid faced Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Road Warrior Animal in a Four Corners match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.",
"During the match, however, he suffered a near career-ending injury.",
"Members of WCW management allegedly felt that Eudy needed to broaden his arsenal of wrestling moves and suggested that he try an aerial maneuver, despite his \"unwillingness\".",
"Eudy felt it unnecessary for a wrestler of his size and type to do high spots and did not feel comfortable doing them.",
"During the match, Eudy suffered a leg fracture following his leap from the second turnbuckle in an attempted big boot on Steiner.",
"This had him awkwardly landing on one foot while kicking with the other, severely fracturing the leg he landed on.",
"Eudy broke his left leg in half, snapping both the tibia and fibula, with at least one of the bones breaking through the skin.",
"The fracture was too graphic for many television stations to re-air, although it was shown on the following Nitro.",
"The injury put Sid out of action indefinitely, and he pondered retiring from wrestling for good: \"I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as wrapping up my career.",
"The only thing I really wanted to do was ideally go out in a big pay-per-view, like a WrestleMania or something like that main event, leave like that, and not come back again.",
"It would really be the retirement match\".",
"A 17-inch (43 cm) rod was placed in his leg during the two-hour surgery.",
"For a while, Eudy used a cane to walk.",
"Sid later sued WCW, claiming that he was made to jump off the second rope against his objections.",
"The injury forced a plot change in the SuperBrawl Revenge event.",
"The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, and Sid against Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal but was rewritten as Kevin Nash versus Scott Steiner.",
"WCW would then be purchased by the WWF the following month, ceasing any possibility of Sid's return to that company.",
"Recovery and later career (2002–2017) \n\nFollowing surgery, Eudy was faced with the prospect of rehabilitation of his leg for three to five days per week for at least the next year.",
"He was told by his doctor that he would never run again, and Sid set a goal of being able to do so.",
"At first he was limited to using a cane, but through extensive effort was able to not only walk again, but in time run.",
"During his arduous rehabilitation, Eudy made several appearances as World Wrestling All-Stars's (WWA) commissioner during its 2002 Australian tour, though at the beginning of WWA's Sydney show, it was announced that Eudy would not be featured due to a broken arm.",
"Sid also filed a lawsuit with the Universal Wrestling Corporation (the Turner holding company for what remained of WCW's unpurchased assets), seeking redress for the injury that he sustained.",
"The judge ultimately ruled in favor of the UWC.",
"After almost three and a half years of rehabilitation and preparation, Eudy returned to active wrestling on June 5, 2004 with the Canadian-based Internet Wrestling Syndicate.",
"Appearing as Pierre Carl Ouellet's mystery partner, Eudy competed in and won a ten team battle royal.",
"On July 14, 2007, Eudy debuted in Memphis Wrestling and started a feud with old rival Jerry Lawler while serving as \"Hollywood\" Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer.",
"Sid also appeared at the Juggalo Championship Wrestling event Evansville Invasion, helping Tracy Smothers attack the promotion's Heavyweight Champion Corporal Robinson.",
"Following this, Eudy had a match at the \"Jerry Lawler 35th Anniversary Wrestling event\" on November 7, 2008, at the Tennessee Fairgrounds.",
"He wrestled in the main event and lost to Lawler.",
"On February 28, 2009, Eudy returned to Memphis Wrestling and won a battle royal before defeating Lawler in a rematch.",
"Later that year Sid began a European tour with American Wrestling Rampage.",
"He was undefeated during the tour, including wins over X-Pac.",
"Following this Eudy's appearances were greatly reduced as he began focusing on competition in over-50 bodybuilding.",
"He would wrestle only three times in total in 2010 and 2011, defeating Chase Stevens, Josef von Schmidt, and Eddie Kingston.",
"On the June 25, 2012, episode of Raw, Eudy made his return to WWE as Sycho Sid in a match against Heath Slater, where he defeated Slater as part of the ongoing celebration building up to WWE's 1000th episode of Raw.",
"It was his first appearance on Raw since the July 14, 1997 episode and his first match on the show since June 9, 1997.",
"Eudy would reappear on the actual 1000th episode on July 23, where he and other WWE Legends helped Lita take down Slater.",
"On August 5, 2017, Sid wrestled the last match of his career.",
"He defeated Paul Rosenberg in Ottawa, Ontario for Great North Wrestling.",
"Personal life \nEudy and his wife, Sabrina Paige (née Estes), were married on December 30, 1983, in Shelby County, Tennessee.",
"They have two sons: Frank, a cast member on the CBS reality show Big Brother 14 & 18, and Gunnar Eudy, who is also a wrestler.",
"Eudy is a fan of softball.",
"During his time off from wrestling, he briefly played softball between 1997 and 1999.",
"Legal troubles \nIn January 2011, Eudy was arrested in Shelby County, Tennessee.",
"Initially pulled over for and charged with not wearing his seatbelt, Eudy was also charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving without a license.",
"He was later released on $1,000 bond.",
"Other media \nEudy made an appearance in the 2000 film Ready to Rumble alongside David Arquette and Scott Caan.",
"In 2011, he starred alongside fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash in the horror movie River of Darkness.",
"He also starred in the 2011 horror film Death from Above, alongside fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle, James Storm, Matt Morgan, Terry Gerin and Jessica Kresa.",
"On August 2, 2012, he appeared on the CBS reality show Big Brother 14 where his son, Frank, was a contestant.",
"Eudy was a playable character in the NES version of WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, the Game Boy game WWF Superstars 2 and the SNES version of WWF Super Wrestlemania.",
"For WCW he appeared in WCW Backstage Assault.",
"Unrelated to any wrestling promotion he was a playable character in both Legends of Wrestling II and Showdown: Legends of Wrestling as well.",
"Eudy appears as Sycho Sid in WWE 2K17, as downloadable content.",
"Sid is also part of the roster in WWE 2K18 and WWE 2K19.",
"Filmography\n\nChampionships and accomplishments \n American Wrestling Federation\n AWF Super Heavyweight Championship (1 time)\n Continental Wrestling Association\n CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)\n NWA Northeast\n NWA Northeast Heavyweight Championship (1 time)\n Pro Wrestling Illustrated\n Comeback of the Year (1996)\n Ranked No.",
"16 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991\n Ranked No.",
"122 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the \"PWI Years\" in 2003\n Southeastern Championship Wrestling\n NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division) (1 time)\n NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Shane Douglas\n United States Wrestling Association\n USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)\n USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)\n World Championship Wrestling\n WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)\n WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)\n World Wrestling Federation\n WWF Championship (2 times)\n Wrestling Observer Newsletter\n Most Overrated (1993)\n Readers' Least Favorite Wrestler (1993)\n Worst on Interviews (1999)\n Worst Worked Match of the Year (1990) vs.",
"The Nightstalker\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links \n\n \n \n \n \n\n1960 births\n20th century professional wrestlers\nAmerican male professional wrestlers\nAmerican male sport wrestlers\nAmerican softball players\nFictional bodyguards\nFictional kings\nLiving people\nMasked wrestlers\nNWA/WCW/WWE United States Heavyweight Champions\nPeople from Marion, Arkansas\nPeople from West Memphis, Arkansas\nProfessional wrestlers from Arkansas\nStabbing survivors\nThe Four Horsemen (professional wrestling) members\nThe Million Dollar Corporation members\nUSWA Unified World Heavyweight Champions\nWCW World Heavyweight Champions\nWWE Champions"
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"Sidney Raymond Eudy was born on December 16, 1960.",
"He is best known for his various Sid tricks, each of which is distinguished by the ring name Sid Justice, Sid Vicious, and Sycho Sid in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation.",
"Between those promotions, Eudy achieved major championship success and performed to an international television audience for four decades.",
"Eudy is a six-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship twice.",
"In addition to world title success, Eudy held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship once.",
"During his time with the WWF and WCW, Eudy headlined multiple pay-per-views, including the main event of WrestleManias VIII and 13 in 1997 and 2000, as well as Starrcade in 2000.",
"Eudy entered the wrestling sport after meeting Randy and Lanny Poffo.",
"After being trained by Tojo Yamamoto, Eudy made his debut as he wrestled for the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Jerry Lawler.",
"The masked wrestler persona known as Lord Humongous was adopted by him.",
"He began his career in Continental Championship Wrestling in 1987 under the name Lord Humungous.",
"He was the final titleholder after winning the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship on Christmas Day 1987.",
"The two formed a tag team and captured the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship after rekindling their childhood friendship.",
"He competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, but was unable to win the title because he was competing under the name Vicious Warrior.",
"In World Class Championship Wrestling, Eudy adopted the ring name Sid Vicious from a punk rock musician who played bass for the Sex Pistols.",
"Sid Vicious retained his ring name after signing with World Championship Wrestling.",
"On the June 17, 1989 episode of Pro, he defeated DeWayne Bruce.",
"Danny Spivey and Eudy formed The Skyscrapers after Eudy was originally slated as a singles wrestler.",
"Teddy Long was the manager of The Skyscrapers.",
"He used the Powerbomb as his finishing move.",
"Mark Callous replaced Eudy after he broke a rib and a lung in a match with The Steiner Brothers.",
"The newest member of the Four Horsemen, Eudy, was introduced on the May 11, 1990 edition of NWA Power Hour as being from \"wherever he damn well pleases.\"",
"Sid was brought in to counter-act the strength of the group at Capital Combat.",
"Sid stated in an interview that the reason for the quick loss was punishment by booker Ole Anderson for having been seen playing softball.",
"The Junkyard Dog and Paul Orndorff were enemies of Eudy.",
"He attacked Sting, setting up his first feud as a singles wrestler.",
"Sid allowed a fake Sting to pin him at Halloween Havoc in order for him to win the belt.",
"The real Sting beat Sid to retain the title.",
"After this episode, Sid's association with the Horsemen became tenuous, and he began a quasi-face run in November 1990 when he faced The Nightstalker.",
"Sid recruited former partner Spivey for a short-lived reunion of the Skyscrapers at Starrcade in December, where the two defeated The Big Cat and The Motor City Madman.",
"After this match, Eudy made a return to heel status, squashing Joey Maggs at the same time he ended Trucker Norm's WCW run.",
"He took part in the WarGames match at WrestleWar.",
"He entered negotiations with the WWF after the Horsemen split.",
"Despite a huge contract offer and a promise of a world championship run, Eudy announced his intentions to leave.",
"He lost to the giant at SuperBrawl I after a short feud with 7'7\" tall El Gigante.",
"On May 28, 1991, Eudy made his WWF debut in an untelevised segment attacking The Mountie following Mountie's open offer.",
"He won his first WWF match at a non-televised event in July.",
"Sid Justice was introduced as Sid Justice on the June 8 episode of Prime Time Wrestling.",
"On the July 20 episode of Superstars, Eudy was announced as the special guest referee for the main event of that year's SummerSlam, where The Ultimate Warrior and the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan clashed against The Triangle of Terror.",
"There was a 3-on-2 handicap match between Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, and Gen. Adnan.",
"Sid saved Randy and Miss Elizabeth from Jake Roberts and The Wrestler at their reception later that night.",
"Sid defeated Kato in his first televised match on the September 21 episode of Superstars.",
"Sid missed the pay-per-view due to an injury he sustained in the match with Roberts.",
"The winner of the Royal Rumble would win the WWF Championship, which had been stripped from Hogan.",
"Sid entered at No.",
"He was one of the final four wrestlers, along with Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair, before he eliminated both of them.",
"Hogan, who was still at ringside after being eliminated, grabbed Sid's arm and tried to pull him over the top rope, giving Flair the chance to grab Sid's legs and throw him out to win the match and become the new WWF Champion.",
"On the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to announce the opponent for the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania VIII.",
"Sid stood up as if Tunney had called his name.",
"Tunney chose Hogan.",
"Sid looked at Hogan as he clutched the stack of papers he fanned himself with.",
"Sid called Jack Tunney's actions \"bogus\" after the press conference.",
"Sid apologized to Hogan, which he accepted.",
"The main event of Saturday Night's Main event was Sid and Hogan teaming up to face The Undertaker and Wrestler.",
"Hogan reached to Sid for a tag after he clotheslinedUndertaker.",
"Sid walked out of the match after refusing to tag in.",
"Hogan won the match by disqualification.",
"Sid was a guest on \"The Barber Shop\" on the February 23 episode of Wrestling Challenge.",
"Sid chased Beefcake off the set and destroyed the Barber Shop because he knew Hogan wasn't in the arena.",
"Later that night, it was announced that Hogan would face Sid in a match for the WWF Championship at the main event of WrestleMania VIII.",
"Harvey was hired as Sid's manager a week later.",
"Sid began a post-match gimmick where he would further \"injure\" his defeated opponents with one or more powerbombs, and sometimes after the defeated wrestler placed on a stretcher, he would follow this up by grabbing the stretcher and running it into a fixture.",
"Sid lost his match to Hogan by disqualification when Papa Shango interfered on Sid's behalf, allowing the two to double-team Hogan until the returning Ultimate Warrior saved Hogan.",
"Sid kicked out of Hogan's running leg drop at the end of the match.",
"Sid was disqualified when Whippleman jumped into the ring.",
"On a November 22, 2011, edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer confirmed that Sid failed a drug test prior to his match with Hogan.",
"They went on their European tour after he did the match.",
"He was told after the tour that he was going to serve his suspension, which resulted in Eudy quitting and pursuing a career in softball.",
"Sid was about to start a feud with The Ultimate Warrior at the time of his departure from the WWF, according to the story.",
"Eudy began his feud with Warrior in the United States after he competed on the WWF's European tour.",
"Warrior won two house shows by disqualification.",
"Eudy quit the company due to disagreements with the Warrior and WWF management over the outcome of his match with Warrior.",
"Sid and Papa Shango were replaced by Warrior and the WWF.",
"In May 1993 Eudy returned to WCW as a mystery competitor against Van Hammer.",
"Sid defeated Hammer on a stretcher.",
"He and Big Van Vader had a feud with Sting.",
"Sting's team defeated Sid's team in a WarGames match at Fall Brawl.",
"Sid faced Sting for the second time in three years at Halloween Havoc, but was defeated by a roll-up.",
"Sid turned on Rob and became a babyface.",
"Wrestlers Eudy and Anderson stabbed each other with scissors in a hotel room during the United Kingdom tour in October.",
"Anderson was rushed to the hospital with stab wounds to the chest and stomach.",
"Anderson was stabbed twenty times and four times himself.",
"Sid was let go from WCW.",
"Sid was supposed to challenge Vader at that year's Starrcade, but his departure removed him from the match.",
"Sid would have defeated Vader and become the new champion based on Worldwide tapings that took place prior to his departure.",
"The United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in Memphis was where Eudy began feuding with Jerry Lawler after he left WCW.",
"On July 16, he won the promotion's Unified World Heavyweight Championship by forfeited when Lawler was injured in an attack by Eudy.",
"While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in non-title matches, Eudy was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time.",
"In September 1994, Sid challenged Steve Williams for the UWF World Heavyweight Championship.",
"On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship.",
"They were tag team partners.",
"Sid won the title again on August 30, 1996.",
"He dropped the title on September 2.",
"The WWF formed an alliance with Shawn Michaels and Million Dollar Corporation.",
"Along with Jenny McCarthy, Sid accompanied Michaels to ringside for his WWF Championship match against Diesel, his former bodyguard.",
"After hitting his signature Superkick, Michaels had the match won, but Sid stood on the ring apron and distracted the referee, allowing Diesel time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win the match and retain his title.",
"Michaels gave Sid the night off for the In Your House pay-per-view because he was displeased with Sid's interference.",
"Sid replied, \"You don't give me the night off!\"",
"Michaels was hit with a powerbomb three times, turning him into a face again.",
"Diesel clotheslined Sid over the top rope.",
"Michaels claimed to have sustained a legitimate back injury as a result of the attack and was out of the title match for six weeks.",
"Sid was announced as the newest member of the Million Dollar Corporation on the April 17 episode of Raw.",
"Diesel accepted Sid's challenge to a WWF Championship match at in Your House.",
"Diesel retained his title when Tatanka interfered.",
"After the match, Sid and Tatanka continued to double-team Diesel, until he came out to save him.",
"Sid and Tatanka were defeated at the King of the Ring.",
"Diesel defeated Sid in a lumberjack match at In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks for the WWF Championship to end the feud.",
"After this, Sid moved on to a feud with Shawn Michaels and was scheduled to face him at SummerSlam, but was replaced by Razor Ramon at the request of WWF President Gorilla Monsoon, with Ramon challenging for Michaels' Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match as Sid was seen watching",
"On the September 5 episode of Raw, Sid lost to Michaels after being hit with three superkicks.",
"Sid defeated Henry Godwinn at In Your House 3: Triple Header.",
"On the November 13 episode of Raw, Sid faced the Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon in a non-title match, with Ramon's friend The 1–2–3 Kid as the special guest referee.",
"Sid was able to pin Ramon after the Kid helped him avoid the Razor's Edge because Razor was about to deliver it.",
"The Kid joined the Million Dollar Corporation after the match.",
"Sid and Ted helped The 1–2–3 Kid pin Marty Jannetty to win the elimination match and become the sole survivor.",
"In a \"Wild Card\" Survivor Series match, Sid was randomly joined by Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, and The British Bulldog to face Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, and Dean Douglas.",
"After Michaels hit Sid with a super kick, Sid was eliminated by Razor Ramon.",
"Sid destroyed Michaels after his elimination.",
"Sid and The 1–2–3 Kid were defeated by Razor Ramon and Marty Jannetty.",
"The Smoking Gunns won the first-ever Raw Bowl after Sid and The 1–2–3 Kid joined them.",
"Sid left the WWF after suffering a serious neck injury.",
"Eudy was not seen again until the July 8 episode of Raw, when he took up the role of \"Sycho Sid\".",
"Under this version of his Sid gimmick, Eudy was a strident-voiced and intense character who was prone to erratically unstable mannerisms, such as in his random contemplative stares off into the distance, excessive eye-blinking, laughter turned sudden seriousness, etc.",
"In his return, he was announced as the replacement for The Ultimate Warrior, who left the WWF, for the six-man tag team match, teaming with Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson against Vader, Owen Hart, and The British Bulldog at the main event of In Your House 9: International.",
"Sid's team lost the match.",
"Sid started a feud with The British Bulldog after he was pinned at SummerSlam on August 18.",
"At In Your House 10 Mind Games on September 22, Shawn Michaels hit Mankind with the Sweet Chin Music and went for the pin to retain the WWF Championship, but Vader broke up the count and disqualified him.",
"Sid came out to make the save after Vader and Mankind double-teamed Michaels.",
"He and Vader had a fight backstage.",
"Sid fought Vader at In Your House 11: Buried Alive on October 20 in a match where the winner would face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series on November 17.",
"Jim Cornette got on the ring apron to distract Vader as Sid was about to powerbomb him.",
"Michaels hit Cornette with the Sweet Chin Music after pulling him off the apron.",
"Sid became the number-one contender for the WWF Championship after pinning Vader with a chokeslam.",
"Sid celebrated his victory with Michaels.",
"History was repeated at the Survivor Series.",
"Sid was going to hit Michaels with the camera.",
"Sid hit Jose lothario in the chest with the camera after he refused to put the camera down.",
"The audience cheered wildly for him and booed Michaels, just as they had done in Sid's favor four and a half years earlier against Hogan at the Royal Rumble.",
"After Sid dropped the camera, Michaels hit him with the Sweet Chin Music, however, Michaels went outside the ring to check on his manager instead of going for the pin.",
"Sid hit Michaels in the back with the camera, then threw him back in the ring and 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780",
"At In Your House 12: It's Time on December 15, Sid defended the title against Bret Hart in a match where the winner would defend the title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 Royal Rumble.",
"The referee was knocked out when Hart made Sid tap out to the Sharpshooter.",
"Sid and Hart were fighting next to Michaels at ringside.",
"After Sid pushed Michaels and then climbed into the ring with Hart, Michaels went to hit Sid but the latter threw Hart into him.",
"He pinned him after a powerbomb.",
"Sid lost the title to Michaels.",
"Sid hit the chokeslam on Michaels and then powerbombed him outside the ring.",
"After Sid approached Jose on the apron, Michaels hit him in the back and the face with the camera, knocking him out in the process.",
"Sid kicked out when Michaels went for the pin.",
"After hitting Sid with Sweet Chin Music, Michaels became the WWF World Heavyweight Champion for the second time.",
"He forfeited the title due to being unable to wrestle, a claim that was disputed by many during that time, including Bret Hart, who still believes that Michaels did not want to drop the title to him.",
"At In Your House 13: Final Four, a four corners elimination title match was held for the vacant championship belt between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vader.",
"Hart was scheduled to face Sid on the February 17, 1997 episode of Raw.",
"Stone Cold Steve Austin hit Hart with a steel chair and Sid hit Hart with a powerbomb to win the WWF Championship for the second time.",
"Sid lost the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania 13 when Hart interfered and hit the Tombstone Piledriver to pin him.",
"On the next night of Raw is War, Sid made one more appearance after Bret Hart attacked Shawn Michaels in the ring after a face-to-face promo about turning on the fans.",
"Sid returned to television as a face on the May 12 episode of Raw is War.",
"He became the partner of The Legion of Doom after defeating Owen Hart.",
"At King of the Ring on June 8, Sid and The Legion of Doom faced The Hart Foundation in a six-man tag team match, which The Hart Foundation won when Owen pinned Sid with a roll-up.",
"Sid was on television for over a month after defeating Owen on Raw.",
"He lost to Owen in a house show.",
"After making a brief final appearance on the July 14 episode of Raw, he left the WWF to recover from a neck injury that would require surgery.",
"Sid wrestled in Mississippi and New Jersey after leaving WWF due to a neck injury.",
"He defeated King Kong at the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl.",
"Sid was employed by Power Pro Wrestling in Tennessee.",
"After some time on the Tennessee independent circuit, Eudy made his Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) debut in January 1999.",
"He left ECW because of the monetary problems.",
"In June 1999, Eudy returned to WCW at The Great American Bash at the request of his real-life friends Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.",
"He was referred to as \"The Millennium Man\" when he faced Kevin Nash on the July 5, 1999, episode of WCW Nitro.",
"Sid had a winning streak that was similar to Goldberg's, although the majority of it was due to Sid coming to the ring and power bombing wrestlers already in a match.",
"On September 12, 1999, Sid won his first and only title in the World Championship of Wrestling.",
"Goldberg challenged him for the United States Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc.",
"Sid was bleeding openly the entire night after they fought backstage, though he refused to be treated.",
"Sid lost the match due to excessive bleeding after he brawled with Goldberg.",
"Sid's \"streak\" ended when he lost to Goldberg in an \"I Quit\" match.",
"Sid Vicious: Millennium Man was a VHS home video that was released by WCW.",
"Sid became a face after the \"Millennium Man\" character ran out of steam.",
"He was placed in a match at Souled Out in January to fill the suddenly vacant title after Bret Hart was forced to relinquish it due to a concussion.",
"Chris Benoit left for the WWF the next day after Sid lost the match to him.",
"Sid's foot was under the rope during his submission loss.",
"Sid was challenged by Nash, who was the new commissioner of WCW.",
"If he could beat Don and Ron Harris in a match on Monday, he would face Nash for the title that night.",
"Sid defeated the Harris Brothers in order to win the World Heavyweight Championship.",
"Nash stripped Sid of the title because he didn't beat the legal Harris brother in the match on Nitro.",
"Sid defeated Nash on Nitro to win the title for the second time.",
"He successfully defended the title at SuperBrawl 2000 against Scott Hall and Jeff Jarrett.",
"At Uncensored, Sid defended his title against Jeff Jarrett thanks in part to help from a returning Hulk Hogan, which set up a match for the following night's Nitro pitting Sid and Hogan vs.",
"Sid attacked Hogan because he was incensed that the fans were chanting Hogan's name.",
"The referee counted Hogan being pinned despite the official result being a no contest.",
"This may have been to set up a match for the upcoming Spring Stampede pay-per-view.",
"Sid was stripped of his title after the New Blood angle began.",
"He was kept off of television for several months because he did not play a large role in the angle that followed.",
"Sid came back late in the year as a challenger for Scott Steiner, but he failed to defeat him in the title match at Starrcade.",
"On January 14, 2001, at the Sin pay-per-view in Indianapolis at Conseco Fieldhouse, Sid faced off against Jeff Jarrett and Road Warrior Animal in a Four Corners match for the World Championship.",
"He suffered a career-ending injury during the match.",
"Eudy was suggested to try an aerial maneuver, despite his \"unwillingness\", by members of the WCW management.",
"Eudy didn't feel comfortable doing high spots because he didn't think it was necessary for a wrestler of his size.",
"During the match, Eudy broke his leg when he leaped from the second turnbuckle into a big boot.",
"He fractured his leg when he awkwardly landed on one foot while kicking the other.",
"Eudy broke his left leg in half, snapping both the tibia and fibula, with at least one of the bones breaking through the skin.",
"The fracture was too graphic for many television stations to re-air.",
"The injury put Sid out of action indefinitely, and he pondered retiring from wrestling for good: \"I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as wrapping up my career.\"",
"I wanted to go out in a big pay-per-view, leave like that, and not come back again.",
"It would be the retirement match.",
"During the two-hour surgery, a rod was placed in his leg.",
"Eudy used a cane to walk.",
"Sid claimed that he was forced to jump off the second rope against his will.",
"There was a plot change in the SuperBrawl Revenge event.",
"The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, and Sid against Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal.",
"Sid would not be able to return to the company after it was purchased by the WWF.",
"Eudy was faced with the prospect of rehabilitation of his leg for three to five days per week for at least the next year after surgery.",
"Sid was told by his doctor that he would never run again, and he set a goal of being able to do so.",
"He was limited to using a cane at first, but he was able to walk again in time.",
"At the beginning of WWA's Sydney show, it was announced that Eudy would not be featured due to a broken arm, though he made several appearances as World Wrestling All-Stars's commissioner during its 2002 Australian tour.",
"Sid filed a lawsuit against the Universal Wrestling Corporation, the holding company for what remained of WCW's un purchased assets, for an injury he sustained.",
"The judge ruled in favor of the UWC.",
"After almost three and a half years of rehabilitation and preparation, Eudy returned to active wrestling on June 5, 2004.",
"Eudy competed as Pierre Carl Ouellet's mystery partner and won the battle royal.",
"On July 14, 2007, Eudy joined Memphis Wrestling and started a feud with Jerry Lawler while serving as \"Hollywood\" Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer.",
"Sid helped Tracy Smothers attack the promotion's champion, Corporal Robinson.",
"On November 7, 2008, Eudy had a match at the \"Jerry Lawler 35th Anniversary Wrestling event\" at the Tennessee Fairgrounds.",
"He lost to Lawler in the main event.",
"On February 28, 2009, Eudy returned to Memphis Wrestling and won a battle royal before defeating Lawler in a second battle.",
"Sid began a European tour with American Wrestling.",
"He was perfect during the tour.",
"Eudy's appearances were reduced as he focused on competition in over-50s.",
"He only wrestled three times in 2010 and 2011.",
"On the June 25, 2012 episode of Raw, Eudy made his return to the company as \"Sycho Sid\" and defeated \"Heath Slater\" as part of the celebration for the 1000th episode of Raw.",
"It was his first appearance on Raw since July 14, 1997 and his first match on the show since June 9, 1997.",
"On the 1000th episode of the show, Eudy came back to help Lita take down Slater.",
"The last match of Sid's career was on August 5, 2017.",
"He was the winner of the Great North Wrestling match.",
"Eudy and his wife were married on December 30, 1983, in Tennessee.",
"They have two sons, one of which is a cast member on Big Brother 14 and 18.",
"Eudy likes softball.",
"Between 1997 and 1999 he played softball.",
"Eudy was arrested in Tennessee in January of 2011.",
"After being pulled over for not wearing his seatbelt, Eudy was also charged with possession of marijuana and driving without a license.",
"He was released on bond.",
"David Arquette and Scott Caan appeared in the film Ready to Rumble with other media Eudy.",
"He was a part of the horror movie River of Darkness in 2011.",
"He starred in the horror film Death from Above with fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle, James Storm, Matt Morgan and Terry Gerin.",
"His son, Frank, was a contestant on Big Brother 14.",
"Eudy was in a number of games, including the Game Boy game WWF Superstars 2 and the Wrestle version of WWF Supermania.",
"He appeared in WCW.",
"He was a playable character in both of the wrestling games.",
"Eudy is a DLC character in WWE 2K17.",
"Sid is a part of the roster in both 2K19 and 2K18.",
"The American Wrestling Federation, Continental Wrestling Association, NWA Northeast NWA Northeast, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated Comeback of the Year all have filmography titles.",
"16 of the top 500 singles wrestlers were ranked in 1991.",
"There were 122 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the \"IPW Years\" in 2003 who won a championship.",
"The Nightstalker References External links 1960 births 20th century professional wrestlers American male professional wrestlers American male sport wrestlers American softball players"
] | <mask> (born December 16, 1960) is an American actor and former professional wrestler. He is best known for his various <mask> gimmicks, each distinguished by the ring names <mask>, <mask>, and Sycho <mask> in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, later WWE). Between those promotions, <mask> enjoyed major championship success and performed to an international television audience in four decades from the 1980s to the 2010s. <mask> is a six-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship twice, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship twice, and the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship twice. In addition to world title success, <mask> held the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship once, among other accolades. During his tenures with the WWF and WCW, <mask> headlined multiple pay-per-views for both organizations, main-eventing WrestleManias VIII and 13 in 1992 and 1997 respectively, as well as WCW's counterpart to that event, Starrcade, in 2000. Professional wrestling career
Early career (1987–1989)
<mask> entered the wrestling sport after an encounter with Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo.After being trained by Tojo Yamamoto, <mask> made his debut as he teamed with Austin Idol and wrestled the team of Nick Bockwinkel and Jerry Lawler. He then adopted the masked wrestler persona known as Lord Humongous. He began his career in Continental Championship Wrestling (CCW) in 1987, under a mask and the name Lord Humungous. On Christmas Day 1987 he won the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division), going on to be the final titleholder. Later he turned fan favourite after rekindling a (kayfabe) childhood friendship with Shane Douglas, resulting in the two forming a tag team and capturing the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship. He also competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he challenged Tatsumi Fujinami for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship under the name Vicious Warrior, but was unable to win the title. <mask> then made a very brief stint in World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), where he adopted one of his most notable ring names: <mask>, which he took from the punk rock musician of the same name who played bass for the Sex Pistols.NWA World Championship Wrestling (1989–1991)
The Skyscrapers (1989)
In 1989, <mask> signed with World Championship Wrestling and retained his <mask> ring name. He made his televised debut in WCW by defeating DeWayne Bruce on the June 17, 1989 episode of Pro. Originally slated as a singles wrestler, <mask> was eventually paired with Danny Spivey to form The Skyscrapers. Managed by Teddy Long, The Skyscrapers feuded with The Steiner Brothers and The Road Warriors. During this time, he incorporated the Powerbomb as his finishing move. However, the team was short-lived; <mask> was replaced by "Mean" Mark Callous after suffering a broken rib and a punctured lung during a match with The Steiner Brothers at the November 1989 Clash of the Champions IX. Four Horsemen (1990–1991)
Following his recovery, <mask> was introduced on the May 11, 1990 edition of NWA Power Hour as the newest member of Ric Flair's Four Horsemen, and he was billed by the ring announcers as being from "wherever he damn well pleases".<mask> was the "muscle" of the group and initially brought in to counter-act the strength of RoboCop at Capital Combat. His first televised match back was a 26-second loss to Lex Luger on Clash of the Champions XI: Coastal Crush in which the referee performed a fast three count (in an interview in 2018, <mask> stated the reason for the quick loss was punishment by booker Ole Anderson for having been seen playing softball during time off while he was rehabilitating from his punctured lung). As one of the Horsemen, <mask> feuded with Paul Orndorff and the Junkyard Dog. He attacked NWA World Heavyweight Champion Sting following the champion's title match of Clash of the Champions XII, setting up his first feud as a singles wrestler. At Halloween Havoc, a fake Sting (Barry Windham), in collusion with <mask>, let <mask> pin him after switching places with the real Sting in order for <mask> to win the belt. However, they were thwarted when the real Sting came out and beat <mask> to retain the title. <mask>'s association with the Horsemen became tenuous following this episode, and he began a quasi-face run in November 1990 when he faced The Nightstalker at Clash of the Champions XIII: Thanksgiving Thunder, which Eudy won.However, was attacked post-match by the debuting Big Cat, in response of which <mask> recruited former partner Spivey for a short-lived reunion of the Skyscrapers at Starrcade in December, where the two defeated The Big Cat and The Motor City Madman. Following this match <mask> made an abrupt return to heel status, ending Trucker Norm's WCW run in January 1991 and squashing Joey Maggs at Clash of the Champions XIV: Dixie Dynamite later that month. He returned to full-fledged Horsemen activity and participated in the WarGames match at WrestleWar. The Horsemen amicably split in April 1991, during which time he entered negotiations with the WWF. Despite a huge contract offer and a promise of a world championship run, <mask> announced his intentions to leave WCW. Before departing he had a short feud with 7'7" (231 cm) tall El Gigante (who was billed as being 8'0" (242 cm)), that ended with his loss to the giant at SuperBrawl I. World Wrestling Federation (1991–1992)
At a Superstars taping on May 28, 1991, <mask> made his WWF debut in an untelevised segment attacking The Mountie following Mountie's open offer.He defeated Ted DiBiase in his first WWF match at a non-televised event in Calgary on July 8. On the June 8 episode of Prime Time Wrestling, vignettes began airing promoting his WWF debut and introducing him as <mask>. On the July 20 episode of Superstars, <mask> debuted on WWF television and was announced as the special guest referee for the main event of that year's SummerSlam, where The Ultimate Warrior and the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan teamed up against The Triangle of Terror (Sgt. Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, and Gen. Adnan) in a 3-on-2 handicap match. Later that night, <mask> saved Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth from an attack at the hands of Jake Roberts and The Undertaker at the newly wed couple's reception. During this time, <mask> defeated Kato in his first televised match on the September 21 episode of Superstars. In a match with Roberts, <mask> injured his biceps and was forced to miss the Survivor Series pay-per-view.<mask> returned at the Royal Rumble, which had a special stipulation: the winner would win the vacant WWF Championship, which had been stripped from Hulk Hogan. <mask> entered at No. 29 and was among the final four wrestlers, along with Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair, before he eliminated both Savage and then Hogan, leaving himself and Flair in the ring. Hogan, who was still at ringside after being eliminated, grabbed <mask>'s arm and tried to pull him over the top rope, giving Flair the chance to grab <mask>'s legs and throw him out to win the match and become the new WWF Champion. Less than a week later, on the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to announce who would face Flair for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania VIII. Before Tunney even announced who the number one contender would be, <mask> stood up as if Tunney called his name. Yet to <mask>'s annoyance, Tunney chose Hogan.<mask> clutched the stack of papers he fanned himself with earlier and gave a menacing glance in Hogan's direction. After the press conference, <mask> said what Jack Tunney did was "bogus." <mask> later issued an apology to Hogan, which Hogan accepted. <mask> and Hogan then teamed up to face The Undertaker and Flair on Saturday Night's Main Event XXX. During the match, after he double clotheslined Undertaker and Flair, Hogan reached to <mask> for a tag. However, <mask> refused to tag in and walked out of the match. Despite this, Hogan won the match by disqualification.On February 23 on an episode of Wrestling Challenge, <mask> appeared as a guest on Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake's "The Barber Shop". Knowing that Hulk Hogan (Beefcake's long-time real-life friend) was not in the arena, <mask> threatened Beefcake and chased him off the set before destroying the Barber Shop with a chair. Later that night, it was announced that Hogan would battle <mask> (and not WWF Champion Ric Flair) at the main event of WrestleMania VIII, resulting in Flair facing Randy Savage for the WWF Championship instead. A week later, <mask> hired Harvey Whippleman as his manager. <mask> also began a post-match gimmick where he would further "injure" his defeated opponents with one or more powerbombs (his finishing move), and sometimes – after the defeated wrestler placed on a stretcher – following this up by grabbing the stretcher and running it into a fixture, such as a ring post or guardrail. At WrestleMania VIII, <mask> lost his match to Hogan by disqualification when Papa Shango interfered on <mask>'s behalf, allowing the two to double-team Hogan until the returning Ultimate Warrior stormed the ring and saved Hogan. Nearing the end of the match, <mask> kicked out of Hogan's trademark running leg drop.<mask> was disqualified when Whippleman quickly jumped into the ring to get involved. On a November 22, 2011, edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer confirmed that <mask> failed a drug test prior to his WrestleMania match with Hulk Hogan. He was allowed to do the match and then went on their European tour. After the tour, he was told he was going to serve his suspension, resulting in <mask> quitting instead and pursuing a career in softball. At the time of his departure from the WWF, <mask> was about to embark on a feud with The Ultimate Warrior, the story being that <mask> was angry the Warrior had stuck his nose in his business at WrestleMania VIII. <mask> competed on the WWF's European tour in April 1992, then began his feud with Warrior in the United States. They wrestled on two house shows, with Warrior winning twice by disqualification.After wrestling Warrior in Boston, Massachusetts on April 26, <mask> voluntarily quit the company due to disagreements with the Warrior and WWF management in particular about the outcome of his match with Warrior. The WWF replaced <mask> with Papa Shango in the feud with Warrior. Return to WCW (1993)
<mask>, under his <mask> ring name, returned to WCW in May 1993 as a mystery competitor of Col. Robert Parker against Van Hammer at Slamboree. <mask> defeated Hammer in a stretcher match. That summer he teamed with Big Van Vader and reignited his feud with Sting. At Fall Brawl, Sting's team (Sting, Davey Boy Smith, Dustin Rhodes, and The Shockmaster) defeated <mask>'s team (<mask>, Vader, and Harlem Heat) in a WarGames match. At Halloween Havoc, <mask> faced Sting in a rematch of the same pay-per-view three years previous, but was beaten via a roll-up.The following week on television <mask> turned on Rob Parker and became a babyface. During their United Kingdom tour in Blackburn, Lancashire on October 27, <mask> was involved in a hotel room scuffle with Arn Anderson that resulted in both wrestlers stabbing each other with scissors. Both were rushed to the hospital, as Anderson suffered scissor stab wounds to the chest and stomach. Vicious stabbed Anderson twenty times, while being stabbed four times himself. <mask> was released from WCW. It had been planned to have <mask> challenge then WCW World Heavyweight Champion Vader at that year's Starrcade, but <mask>'s departure removed him from this match and Ric Flair was elevated to be the challenger against Vader. Based on Worldwide tapings that took place prior to his departure, <mask> would have defeated Vader and become the new champion.United States Wrestling Association (1994–1996)
Following his departure from WCW, <mask> returned to what was now WCCW merged into United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in Memphis, where he began feuding with old rival Jerry Lawler. On July 16, he won the promotion's Unified World Heavyweight Championship by forfeit when Lawler, who had been attacked and injured by <mask> earlier in the card, could not appear for the scheduled match. While Lawler was able to defeat <mask> in non-title matches, <mask> was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time. <mask> also participated in the UWF Blackjack Brawl in September 1994, challenging "Dr. Death" Steve Williams for the UWF World Heavyweight Championship. On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship back from <mask>. Later the two of them were tag team partners. Once again on August 30, 1996, <mask> won the title back from Lawler.On September 2 he dropped the title back to Lawler. Return to WWF (1995–1997)
Alliance with Shawn Michaels and Million Dollar Corporation (1995)
On the February 20, 1995 episode of Raw <mask> entered the WWE as the bodyguard of Shawn Michaels. Along with Jenny McCarthy, <mask> accompanied Michaels to ringside for Michaels' WWF Championship match against then-champion and Michaels' former bodyguard, Diesel, at WrestleMania XI. Michaels had the match won after hitting his signature Superkick, but <mask> stood on the ring apron and distracted referee Earl Hebner, allowing Diesel time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win the match and retain his title. The next night on Raw, Michaels expressed dissatisfaction with <mask>'s interference and gave him the night off for his rematch against Diesel at the first-ever In Your House pay-per-view. In response, <mask> replied to Shawn, "You don't give me the night off! ", and attacked Michaels from behind before hitting him with a powerbomb three times, turning Michaels into a face again.Diesel came to Michaels' aid and clotheslined <mask> over the top rope. Michaels claimed to have sustained a legitimate back injury as a result of the attack and was sidelined for six weeks, thus taking him out of the title match. Two weeks later on the April 17 episode of Raw, Ted DiBiase announced <mask> as the newest member of the Million Dollar Corporation after Bam Bam Bigelow left the Corporation. After joining, <mask> challenged Diesel to a match for the WWF Championship at in Your House, which Diesel accepted. Diesel won the match via disqualification, and thus retained his title, when Tatanka interfered. After the match, <mask> and Tatanka continued to double-team Diesel until Bam Bam Bigelow came out to save him. At the King of the Ring, Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow defeated <mask> and Tatanka.<mask> faced Diesel once again at In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks for the WWF Championship in a lumberjack match, which Diesel won to end the feud. Following this, <mask> moved on to a feud with Shawn Michaels and was scheduled to face him at SummerSlam, but was replaced by Razor Ramon at the request of WWF President Gorilla Monsoon, with Ramon challenging for Michaels' Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match as <mask> was seen watching on the backstage television monitors. On the September 5 episode of Raw, <mask> faced Michaels for the title but lost after being hit with three superkicks. <mask> then started a brief feud with Henry Godwinn, culminating in a victory over Godwinn at In Your House 3: Triple Header. On the November 13 episode of Raw, <mask> faced the Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon in a non-title match, with Ramon's friend The 1–2–3 Kid as the special guest referee. Razor was about to deliver the Razor's Edge on <mask>, but The 1–2–3 Kid helped <mask> avoid it, allowing <mask> to pin Ramon after a powerbomb, with the Kid making a fast count. After the match, the Kid turned heel and joined the Million Dollar Corporation.In the first elimination match at Survivor Series, Sid and Corporation leader Ted DiBiase helped The 1–2–3 Kid pin Marty Jannetty to win and become the sole survivor for his team. Later in the event, <mask> was randomly teamed up with his rival Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, and The British Bulldog to face Yokozuna, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, and Dean Douglas in a "Wild Card" Survivor Series match. <mask> was eliminated by Razor Ramon after Michaels hit <mask> with superkick. After his elimination, <mask> powerbombed Michaels. At In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings, Razor Ramon and Marty Jannetty defeated <mask> and The 1–2–3 Kid. <mask> and The 1–2–3 Kid teamed up the next night to participate in the first-ever Raw Bowl, which The Smoking Gunns won. Shortly after, <mask> suffered a serious neck injury and left the WWF.WWF Champion (1996–1997)
<mask> would not be seen again until the July 8 episode of Raw, when he took up the gimmick of "Sycho <mask>". Under this version of his <mask> gimmick, <mask> was a strident-voiced and intense character, who was prone to erratically unstable mannerisms, such as in his random contemplative stares off into the distance, excessive eye-blinking, laughter turned sudden seriousness, etc. In his return, he was announced as the replacement for The Ultimate Warrior (who left the WWF) for the six-man tag team match, teaming with former rival Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson against Vader, Owen Hart, and The British Bulldog at the main event of In Your House 9: International Incident, effectively making him a face. However, <mask>'s team lost the match. The next night on Raw, <mask> started a feud with The British Bulldog, whom he faced at SummerSlam on August 18 and pinned after a powerbomb. At In Your House 10: Mind Games on September 22, Shawn Michaels hit Mankind with the Sweet Chin Music and went for the pin to retain the WWF Championship, but Vader came out, broke up the count, attacked him, which got Mankind disqualified. After the match, Mankind and Vader double-teamed Michaels until <mask> came out to make the save.He and Vader fought their way backstage, starting a feud between the two. <mask> fought Vader at In Your House 11: Buried Alive on October 20 in a match where the winner would face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series on November 17. As <mask> was about to powerbomb Vader, Vader's manager Jim Cornette got on the ring apron to distract him. Michaels responded and pulled Cornette off the apron before hitting him with the Sweet Chin Music. <mask> then pinned Vader with a chokeslam to win the match and to become the number-one contender for the WWF Championship. After the match, <mask> celebrated his victory with Michaels. At the Survivor Series, history repeated itself.<mask> grabbed a camera from the operator and prepared to hit Michaels with it. Michaels' manager, Jose Lothario, got on the ring apron and told <mask> to put the camera down, but he refused and hit Lothario in the chest with it instead. Although this was the act of a heel, the audience cheered wildly for him and booed Michaels, just as they had done, in <mask>'s favor, four and a half years earlier against Hogan at the Royal Rumble. <mask> dropped the camera, and as soon as he turned around, Michaels hit him with the Sweet Chin Music; however, Michaels went outside the ring to check on his manager instead of going for the pin. <mask> hit Michaels in the back with the camera, then threw him back in the ring before hitting him with the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship. At In Your House 12: It's Time on December 15, <mask> defended the title against Bret Hart in a match where the winner would defend the title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 Royal Rumble on January 19. Hart made <mask> tap out to the Sharpshooter, but the referee was knocked out and unable to witness the submission.As Michaels was commentating at ringside, <mask> and Hart left the ring and started fighting right beside him. After <mask> had pushed Michaels and then climbed into the ring with Hart, Michaels went to hit <mask> but the latter threw Hart into him. He then pinned him after a powerbomb to retain the title. At the Royal Rumble, <mask> lost the title to Michaels. During the match, <mask> hit the chokeslam on Michaels and repeatedly powerbombed him outside the ring. Later on in the match, Jose Lothario got on the ring apron, and <mask> approached him, but before he could do anything to him, Michaels hit <mask> in the back and the face with the camera, knocking him out in the process. Michaels went for the pin, but <mask> managed to kick out.Michaels then hit <mask> with Sweet Chin Music to become the WWF World Heavyweight Champion for the second time. He soon forfeited that same title due to being unable to wrestle, a claim widely disputed by many during that time, especially Bret Hart, who still believes that Michaels did not want to drop the title to him at WrestleMania 13. At In Your House 13: Final Four in Chattanooga, a four corners elimination title match was held for the vacant championship belt between Bret Hart, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vader. Hart won, and was scheduled to face <mask> the following night, on the February 17, 1997, episode of Raw. During that match, Hart had <mask> trapped in the Sharpshooter submission when Stone Cold Steve Austin, whom Hart was feuding with, came to the outside of the ring and hit Hart with a steel chair, allowing <mask> to hit Hart with the powerbomb to win the WWF Championship for the second time. At WrestleMania 13 on March 23, <mask> lost the title against The Undertaker when Hart interfered during the match, allowing the latter to hit the Tombstone Piledriver and pin <mask> to win the WWF Championship. The next night on Raw is War, <mask> made one more appearance after Bret Hart attacked an injured Shawn Michaels in the ring after a face-to-face promo about Hart turning on the fans.Following this, <mask> was kept off television until the May 12 episode of Raw is War where he returned as a face. He competed against Owen Hart and defeated him to become the partner of The Legion of Doom in their feud with The Hart Foundation. At King of the Ring on June 8, <mask> and The Legion of Doom faced The Hart Foundation (Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, and Jim Neidhart) in a six-man tag team match, which The Hart Foundation won when Owen pinned <mask> with a roll-up. On June 9, <mask> defeated Owen on Raw before disappearing from television for over a month. His last match was a loss to Owen in a house show in Toronto, Canada. He returned on the July 14 episode of Raw, making a brief final appearance before leaving the WWF once again to recover from a neck injury that would require surgery. Independent Circuit (1998)
After leaving WWF from a neck injury and being inactive for nearly a year, <mask> wrestled in the independent circuit in Mississippi and New Jersey.He defeated King Kong Bundy at the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl on February 28. <mask> would work for Power Pro Wrestling in Tennessee. Extreme Championship Wrestling (1999)
After some time on the Tennessee independent circuit, <mask> debuted in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in January 1999, where he had matches with The Dudley Boyz, John Kronus, Skull Von Krush and Justin Credible. He left ECW in May due to the monetary problems plaguing the promotion. Second return to WCW (1999–2001)
The Millennium Man and United States Heavyweight Champion (1999)
At the behest of his real-life friends Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, <mask> returned to WCW at The Great American Bash in June 1999, joining Randy Savage's heel stable Team Madness. Upon his return, he took the nickname of "The Millennium Man" and faced the WCW World Champion Kevin Nash on the July 5, 1999, episode of WCW Nitro. <mask> was dubbed as undefeated having a winning streak much like Goldberg had previously; although, the majority of this streak was due to <mask> coming to the ring and power bombing wrestlers already in a match or immediately following their match and thus "defeating" them.On September 12, 1999, <mask> won his first and only WCW United States Heavyweight Championship from Chris Benoit at Fall Brawl. He then began a feud with Goldberg who challenged him for the United States Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc. Earlier that night, however, their backstage fighting led <mask> to require stitches, though he refused to be treated, which led to <mask> bleeding openly the entire night. After brawling with Goldberg, a weary <mask> lost the match due to excessive bleeding, awarding Goldberg the United States Heavyweight Championship against his opponent's will. <mask> lost again to Goldberg in an "I Quit" match at Mayhem, effectively ending their feud and <mask>'s "streak." WCW later released a VHS home video highlighting <mask>'s return to WCW called <mask>ious: Millennium Man. World Heavyweight Champion (2000)
After the "Millennium Man" gimmick ran dry, <mask> became a face and started to contend for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.He was placed in a match at Souled Out in January to fill the suddenly vacant title after Bret Hart was forced to relinquish it due to a concussion. <mask> would lose the match to Chris Benoit, but the title was again vacated as Benoit left for the WWF the next day. The on-screen explanation was that <mask>'s foot was under the rope during his submission loss. The next week, <mask> was presented with a challenge by Nash, who had become commissioner of WCW. If he could beat Don and Ron Harris in a match on Monday Nitro that night, he would face Nash for the championship that night. <mask> managed to defeat the Harris Brothers and eventually Nash himself to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Two nights later on Thunder, Nash stripped <mask> of the championship due to him not beating the legal Harris brother in the match on Nitro.A rematch between <mask> and Nash was set up, but <mask> again defeated Nash on Nitro to win the title for a second time. He later successfully defended the title at SuperBrawl 2000 in a three-way match against Scott Hall and Jeff Jarrett. At Uncensored, <mask> defended his title against Jeff Jarrett thanks in part to help from a returning Hulk Hogan, which set up a match for the following night's Nitro pitting <mask> and Hogan vs. Jarrett and Scott Steiner. During the course of the match, <mask> turned heel and attacked Hogan, due to his being incensed that the fans were chanting Hogan's name. He chokeslammed Hogan and forced the referee to count Hogan being pinned, although the official result was a no contest. This apparently might have been to set up a match for the upcoming Spring Stampede pay-per-view in April. However, shortly after this, WCW began its New Blood angle and <mask> (along with all the other WCW champions at the time) was stripped of his championship.He did not play a large role in the angle that followed, and was kept off of television for several months. Injury and first retirement (2000–2001)
He returned late in the year as a challenger for Scott Steiner's WCW World Heavyweight Championship, but <mask> failed to defeat Steiner in their title match at Starrcade. On January 14, 2001, at the Sin pay-per-view in Indianapolis at Conseco Fieldhouse (now Gainbridge Fieldhouse), <mask> faced Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Road Warrior Animal in a Four Corners match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. During the match, however, he suffered a near career-ending injury. Members of WCW management allegedly felt that Eudy needed to broaden his arsenal of wrestling moves and suggested that he try an aerial maneuver, despite his "unwillingness". Eudy felt it unnecessary for a wrestler of his size and type to do high spots and did not feel comfortable doing them. During the match, <mask> suffered a leg fracture following his leap from the second turnbuckle in an attempted big boot on Steiner.This had him awkwardly landing on one foot while kicking with the other, severely fracturing the leg he landed on. <mask> broke his left leg in half, snapping both the tibia and fibula, with at least one of the bones breaking through the skin. The fracture was too graphic for many television stations to re-air, although it was shown on the following Nitro. The injury put <mask> out of action indefinitely, and he pondered retiring from wrestling for good: "I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as wrapping up my career. The only thing I really wanted to do was ideally go out in a big pay-per-view, like a WrestleMania or something like that main event, leave like that, and not come back again. It would really be the retirement match". A 17-inch (43 cm) rod was placed in his leg during the two-hour surgery.For a while, <mask> used a cane to walk. <mask> later sued WCW, claiming that he was made to jump off the second rope against his objections. The injury forced a plot change in the SuperBrawl Revenge event. The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, and <mask> against Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal but was rewritten as Kevin Nash versus Scott Steiner. WCW would then be purchased by the WWF the following month, ceasing any possibility of <mask>'s return to that company. Recovery and later career (2002–2017)
Following surgery, <mask> was faced with the prospect of rehabilitation of his leg for three to five days per week for at least the next year. He was told by his doctor that he would never run again, and <mask> set a goal of being able to do so.At first he was limited to using a cane, but through extensive effort was able to not only walk again, but in time run. During his arduous rehabilitation, <mask> made several appearances as World Wrestling All-Stars's (WWA) commissioner during its 2002 Australian tour, though at the beginning of WWA's Sydney show, it was announced that <mask> would not be featured due to a broken arm. <mask> also filed a lawsuit with the Universal Wrestling Corporation (the Turner holding company for what remained of WCW's unpurchased assets), seeking redress for the injury that he sustained. The judge ultimately ruled in favor of the UWC. After almost three and a half years of rehabilitation and preparation, <mask> returned to active wrestling on June 5, 2004 with the Canadian-based Internet Wrestling Syndicate. Appearing as Pierre Carl Ouellet's mystery partner, Eudy competed in and won a ten team battle royal. On July 14, 2007, <mask> debuted in Memphis Wrestling and started a feud with old rival Jerry Lawler while serving as "Hollywood" Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer.<mask> also appeared at the Juggalo Championship Wrestling event Evansville Invasion, helping Tracy Smothers attack the promotion's Heavyweight Champion Corporal Robinson. Following this, <mask> had a match at the "Jerry Lawler 35th Anniversary Wrestling event" on November 7, 2008, at the Tennessee Fairgrounds. He wrestled in the main event and lost to Lawler. On February 28, 2009, <mask> returned to Memphis Wrestling and won a battle royal before defeating Lawler in a rematch. Later that year <mask> began a European tour with American Wrestling Rampage. He was undefeated during the tour, including wins over X-Pac. Following this <mask>'s appearances were greatly reduced as he began focusing on competition in over-50 bodybuilding.He would wrestle only three times in total in 2010 and 2011, defeating Chase Stevens, Josef von Schmidt, and Eddie Kingston. On the June 25, 2012, episode of Raw, <mask> made his return to WWE as Sycho <mask> in a match against Heath Slater, where he defeated Slater as part of the ongoing celebration building up to WWE's 1000th episode of Raw. It was his first appearance on Raw since the July 14, 1997 episode and his first match on the show since June 9, 1997. <mask> would reappear on the actual 1000th episode on July 23, where he and other WWE Legends helped Lita take down Slater. On August 5, 2017, <mask> wrestled the last match of his career. He defeated Paul Rosenberg in Ottawa, Ontario for Great North Wrestling. Personal life
<mask> and his wife, Sabrina Paige (née Estes), were married on December 30, 1983, in Shelby County, Tennessee.They have two sons: Frank, a cast member on the CBS reality show Big Brother 14 & 18, and Gunnar <mask>, who is also a wrestler. <mask> is a fan of softball. During his time off from wrestling, he briefly played softball between 1997 and 1999. Legal troubles
In January 2011, <mask> was arrested in Shelby County, Tennessee. Initially pulled over for and charged with not wearing his seatbelt, <mask> was also charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana and driving without a license. He was later released on $1,000 bond. Other media
<mask> made an appearance in the 2000 film Ready to Rumble alongside David Arquette and Scott Caan.In 2011, he starred alongside fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle and Kevin Nash in the horror movie River of Darkness. He also starred in the 2011 horror film Death from Above, alongside fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle, James Storm, Matt Morgan, Terry Gerin and Jessica Kresa. On August 2, 2012, he appeared on the CBS reality show Big Brother 14 where his son, Frank, was a contestant. <mask> was a playable character in the NES version of WWF WrestleMania: Steel Cage Challenge, the Game Boy game WWF Superstars 2 and the SNES version of WWF Super Wrestlemania. For WCW he appeared in WCW Backstage Assault. Unrelated to any wrestling promotion he was a playable character in both Legends of Wrestling II and Showdown: Legends of Wrestling as well. <mask> appears as Sycho <mask> in WWE 2K17, as downloadable content.<mask> is also part of the roster in WWE 2K18 and WWE 2K19. Filmography
Championships and accomplishments
American Wrestling Federation
AWF Super Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Continental Wrestling Association
CWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
NWA Northeast
NWA Northeast Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Comeback of the Year (1996)
Ranked No. 16 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 1991
Ranked No. 122 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" in 2003
Southeastern Championship Wrestling
NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (Northern Division) (1 time)
NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Shane Douglas
United States Wrestling Association
USWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
World Championship Wrestling
WCW United States Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WCW World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
World Wrestling Federation
WWF Championship (2 times)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter
Most Overrated (1993)
Readers' Least Favorite Wrestler (1993)
Worst on Interviews (1999)
Worst Worked Match of the Year (1990) vs. The Nightstalker
References
External links
1960 births
20th century professional wrestlers
American male professional wrestlers
American male sport wrestlers
American softball players
Fictional bodyguards
Fictional kings
Living people
Masked wrestlers
NWA/WCW/WWE United States Heavyweight Champions
People from Marion, Arkansas
People from West Memphis, Arkansas
Professional wrestlers from Arkansas
Stabbing survivors
The Four Horsemen (professional wrestling) members
The Million Dollar Corporation members
USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champions
WCW World Heavyweight Champions
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The masked wrestler persona known as Lord Humongous was adopted by him. He began his career in Continental Championship Wrestling in 1987 under the name Lord Humungous. He was the final titleholder after winning the NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship on Christmas Day 1987. The two formed a tag team and captured the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship after rekindling their childhood friendship. He competed in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, but was unable to win the title because he was competing under the name Vicious Warrior. In World Class Championship Wrestling, <mask> adopted the ring name <mask> from a punk rock musician who played bass for the Sex Pistols.<mask> retained his ring name after signing with World Championship Wrestling. On the June 17, 1989 episode of Pro, he defeated DeWayne Bruce. Danny Spivey and <mask> formed The Skyscrapers after <mask> was originally slated as a singles wrestler. Teddy Long was the manager of The Skyscrapers. He used the Powerbomb as his finishing move. Mark Callous replaced Eudy after he broke a rib and a lung in a match with The Steiner Brothers. The newest member of the Four Horsemen, <mask>, was introduced on the May 11, 1990 edition of NWA Power Hour as being from "wherever he damn well pleases."<mask> was brought in to counter-act the strength of the group at Capital Combat. <mask> stated in an interview that the reason for the quick loss was punishment by booker Ole Anderson for having been seen playing softball. The Junkyard Dog and Paul Orndorff were enemies of <mask>. He attacked Sting, setting up his first feud as a singles wrestler. <mask> allowed a fake Sting to pin him at Halloween Havoc in order for him to win the belt. The real Sting beat <mask> to retain the title. After this episode, <mask>'s association with the Horsemen became tenuous, and he began a quasi-face run in November 1990 when he faced The Nightstalker.<mask> recruited former partner Spivey for a short-lived reunion of the Skyscrapers at Starrcade in December, where the two defeated The Big Cat and The Motor City Madman. After this match, <mask> made a return to heel status, squashing Joey Maggs at the same time he ended Trucker Norm's WCW run. He took part in the WarGames match at WrestleWar. He entered negotiations with the WWF after the Horsemen split. Despite a huge contract offer and a promise of a world championship run, <mask> announced his intentions to leave. He lost to the giant at SuperBrawl I after a short feud with 7'7" tall El Gigante. On May 28, 1991, <mask> made his WWF debut in an untelevised segment attacking The Mountie following Mountie's open offer.He won his first WWF match at a non-televised event in July. <mask> was introduced as <mask> on the June 8 episode of Prime Time Wrestling. On the July 20 episode of Superstars, <mask> was announced as the special guest referee for the main event of that year's SummerSlam, where The Ultimate Warrior and the WWF Champion Hulk Hogan clashed against The Triangle of Terror. There was a 3-on-2 handicap match between Slaughter, Col. Mustafa, and Gen. Adnan. <mask> saved Randy and Miss Elizabeth from Jake Roberts and The Wrestler at their reception later that night. <mask> defeated Kato in his first televised match on the September 21 episode of Superstars. <mask> missed the pay-per-view due to an injury he sustained in the match with Roberts.The winner of the Royal Rumble would win the WWF Championship, which had been stripped from Hogan. <mask> entered at No. He was one of the final four wrestlers, along with Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair, before he eliminated both of them. Hogan, who was still at ringside after being eliminated, grabbed <mask>'s arm and tried to pull him over the top rope, giving Flair the chance to grab <mask>'s legs and throw him out to win the match and become the new WWF Champion. On the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to announce the opponent for the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania VIII. <mask> stood up as if Tunney had called his name. Tunney chose Hogan.<mask> looked at Hogan as he clutched the stack of papers he fanned himself with. <mask> called Jack Tunney's actions "bogus" after the press conference. <mask> apologized to Hogan, which he accepted. The main event of Saturday Night's Main event was <mask> and Hogan teaming up to face The Undertaker and Wrestler. Hogan reached to <mask>. <mask> walked out of the match after refusing to tag in. Hogan won the match by disqualification.<mask> was a guest on "The Barber Shop" on the February 23 episode of Wrestling Challenge. <mask> chased Beefcake off the set and destroyed the Barber Shop because he knew Hogan wasn't in the arena. Later that night, it was announced that Hogan would face <mask> in a match for the WWF Championship at the main event of WrestleMania VIII. Harvey was hired as <mask>'s manager a week later. <mask> began a post-match gimmick where he would further "injure" his defeated opponents with one or more powerbombs, and sometimes after the defeated wrestler placed on a stretcher, he would follow this up by grabbing the stretcher and running it into a fixture. <mask> lost his match to Hogan by disqualification when Papa Shango interfered on <mask>'s behalf, allowing the two to double-team Hogan until the returning Ultimate Warrior saved Hogan. <mask> kicked out of Hogan's running leg drop at the end of the match.<mask> was disqualified when Whippleman jumped into the ring. On a November 22, 2011, edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer confirmed that <mask> failed a drug test prior to his match with Hogan. They went on their European tour after he did the match. He was told after the tour that he was going to serve his suspension, which resulted in <mask> quitting and pursuing a career in softball. <mask> was about to start a feud with The Ultimate Warrior at the time of his departure from the WWF, according to the story. <mask> began his feud with Warrior in the United States after he competed on the WWF's European tour. Warrior won two house shows by disqualification.<mask> quit the company due to disagreements with the Warrior and WWF management over the outcome of his match with Warrior. <mask> and Papa Shango were replaced by Warrior and the WWF. In May 1993 <mask> returned to WCW as a mystery competitor against Van Hammer. <mask> defeated Hammer on a stretcher. He and Big Van Vader had a feud with Sting. Sting's team defeated <mask>'s team in a WarGames match at Fall Brawl. <mask> faced Sting for the second time in three years at Halloween Havoc, but was defeated by a roll-up.<mask> turned on Rob and became a babyface. Wrestlers <mask> and Anderson stabbed each other with scissors in a hotel room during the United Kingdom tour in October. Anderson was rushed to the hospital with stab wounds to the chest and stomach. Anderson was stabbed twenty times and four times himself. <mask> was let go from WCW. <mask> was supposed to challenge Vader at that year's Starrcade, but his departure removed him from the match. <mask> would have defeated Vader and become the new champion based on Worldwide tapings that took place prior to his departure.The United States Wrestling Association (USWA) in Memphis was where <mask> began feuding with Jerry Lawler after he left WCW. On July 16, he won the promotion's Unified World Heavyweight Championship by forfeited when Lawler was injured in an attack by <mask>. While Lawler was able to defeat <mask> in non-title matches, <mask> was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time. In September 1994, <mask> challenged Steve Williams for the UWF World Heavyweight Championship. On February 6, 1995, Lawler won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship. They were tag team partners. <mask> won the title again on August 30, 1996.He dropped the title on September 2. The WWF formed an alliance with Shawn Michaels and Million Dollar Corporation. Along with Jenny McCarthy, <mask> accompanied Michaels to ringside for his WWF Championship match against Diesel, his former bodyguard. After hitting his signature Superkick, Michaels had the match won, but <mask> stood on the ring apron and distracted the referee, allowing Diesel time to recover and pin Michaels after a Jackknife Powerbomb to win the match and retain his title. Michaels gave <mask> the night off for the In Your House pay-per-view because he was displeased with <mask>'s interference. <mask> replied, "You don't give me the night off!" Michaels was hit with a powerbomb three times, turning him into a face again.Diesel clotheslined <mask> over the top rope. Michaels claimed to have sustained a legitimate back injury as a result of the attack and was out of the title match for six weeks. <mask> was announced as the newest member of the Million Dollar Corporation on the April 17 episode of Raw. Diesel accepted <mask>'s challenge to a WWF Championship match at in Your House. Diesel retained his title when Tatanka interfered. After the match, <mask> and Tatanka continued to double-team Diesel, until he came out to save him. <mask> and Tatanka were defeated at the King of the Ring.Diesel defeated <mask> in a lumberjack match at In Your House 2: The Lumberjacks for the WWF Championship to end the feud. After this, <mask> moved on to a feud with Shawn Michaels and was scheduled to face him at SummerSlam, but was replaced by Razor Ramon at the request of WWF President Gorilla Monsoon, with Ramon challenging for Michaels' Intercontinental Championship in a ladder match as <mask> was seen watching On the September 5 episode of Raw, <mask> lost to Michaels after being hit with three superkicks. <mask> defeated Henry Godwinn at In Your House 3: Triple Header. On the November 13 episode of Raw, <mask> faced the Intercontinental Champion Razor Ramon in a non-title match, with Ramon's friend The 1–2–3 Kid as the special guest referee. <mask> was able to pin Ramon after the Kid helped him avoid the Razor's Edge because Razor was about to deliver it. The Kid joined the Million Dollar Corporation after the match.<mask> and Ted helped The 1–2–3 Kid pin Marty Jannetty to win the elimination match and become the sole survivor. In a "Wild Card" Survivor Series match, <mask> was randomly joined by Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, and The British Bulldog to face Owen Hart, Razor Ramon, and Dean Douglas. After Michaels hit <mask> with a super kick, <mask> was eliminated by Razor Ramon. <mask> destroyed Michaels after his elimination. <mask> and The 1–2–3 Kid were defeated by Razor Ramon and Marty Jannetty. The Smoking Gunns won the first-ever Raw Bowl after <mask> and The 1–2–3 Kid joined them. <mask> left the WWF after suffering a serious neck injury.<mask> was not seen again until the July 8 episode of Raw, when he took up the role of "Sycho <mask>". Under this version of his <mask> gimmick, <mask> was a strident-voiced and intense character who was prone to erratically unstable mannerisms, such as in his random contemplative stares off into the distance, excessive eye-blinking, laughter turned sudden seriousness, etc. In his return, he was announced as the replacement for The Ultimate Warrior, who left the WWF, for the six-man tag team match, teaming with Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson against Vader, Owen Hart, and The British Bulldog at the main event of In Your House 9: International. <mask>'s team lost the match. <mask> started a feud with The British Bulldog after he was pinned at SummerSlam on August 18. At In Your House 10 Mind Games on September 22, Shawn Michaels hit Mankind with the Sweet Chin Music and went for the pin to retain the WWF Championship, but Vader broke up the count and disqualified him. <mask> came out to make the save after Vader and Mankind double-teamed Michaels.He and Vader had a fight backstage. <mask> fought Vader at In Your House 11: Buried Alive on October 20 in a match where the winner would face Shawn Michaels for the WWF Championship at Survivor Series on November 17. Jim Cornette got on the ring apron to distract Vader as <mask> was about to powerbomb him. Michaels hit Cornette with the Sweet Chin Music after pulling him off the apron. <mask> became the number-one contender for the WWF Championship after pinning Vader with a chokeslam. <mask> celebrated his victory with Michaels. History was repeated at the Survivor Series.<mask> was going to hit Michaels with the camera. <mask> hit Jose lothario in the chest with the camera after he refused to put the camera down. The audience cheered wildly for him and booed Michaels, just as they had done in <mask>'s favor four and a half years earlier against Hogan at the Royal Rumble. After <mask> dropped the camera, Michaels hit him with the Sweet Chin Music, however, Michaels went outside the ring to check on his manager instead of going for the pin. <mask> hit Michaels in the back with the camera, then threw him back in the ring and 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 800-313-5780 At In Your House 12: It's Time on December 15, <mask> defended the title against Bret Hart in a match where the winner would defend the title against Shawn Michaels at the 1997 Royal Rumble. The referee was knocked out when Hart made <mask> tap out to the Sharpshooter.<mask> and Hart were fighting next to Michaels at ringside. After <mask> pushed Michaels and then climbed into the ring with Hart, Michaels went to hit <mask> but the latter threw Hart into him. He pinned him after a powerbomb. <mask> lost the title to Michaels. <mask> hit the chokeslam on Michaels and then powerbombed him outside the ring. After <mask> approached Jose on the apron, Michaels hit him in the back and the face with the camera, knocking him out in the process. <mask> kicked out when Michaels went for the pin.After hitting <mask> with Sweet Chin Music, Michaels became the WWF World Heavyweight Champion for the second time. He forfeited the title due to being unable to wrestle, a claim that was disputed by many during that time, including Bret Hart, who still believes that Michaels did not want to drop the title to him. At In Your House 13: Final Four, a four corners elimination title match was held for the vacant championship belt between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Vader. Hart was scheduled to face <mask> on the February 17, 1997 episode of Raw. Stone Cold Steve Austin hit Hart with a steel chair and <mask> hit Hart with a powerbomb to win the WWF Championship for the second time. <mask> lost the WWF Championship at Wrestlemania 13 when Hart interfered and hit the Tombstone Piledriver to pin him. On the next night of Raw is War, <mask> made one more appearance after Bret Hart attacked Shawn Michaels in the ring after a face-to-face promo about turning on the fans.<mask> returned to television as a face on the May 12 episode of Raw is War. He became the partner of The Legion of Doom after defeating Owen Hart. At King of the Ring on June 8, <mask> and The Legion of Doom faced The Hart Foundation in a six-man tag team match, which The Hart Foundation won when Owen pinned <mask> with a roll-up. <mask> was on television for over a month after defeating Owen on Raw. He lost to Owen in a house show. After making a brief final appearance on the July 14 episode of Raw, he left the WWF to recover from a neck injury that would require surgery. <mask> wrestled in Mississippi and New Jersey after leaving WWF due to a neck injury.He defeated King Kong at the Eddie Gilbert Memorial Brawl. <mask> was employed by Power Pro Wrestling in Tennessee. After some time on the Tennessee independent circuit, <mask> made his Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) debut in January 1999. He left ECW because of the monetary problems. In June 1999, <mask> returned to WCW at The Great American Bash at the request of his real-life friends Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. He was referred to as "The Millennium Man" when he faced Kevin Nash on the July 5, 1999, episode of WCW Nitro. <mask> had a winning streak that was similar to Goldberg's, although the majority of it was due to <mask> coming to the ring and power bombing wrestlers already in a match.On September 12, 1999, <mask> won his first and only title in the World Championship of Wrestling. Goldberg challenged him for the United States Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc. <mask> was bleeding openly the entire night after they fought backstage, though he refused to be treated. <mask> lost the match due to excessive bleeding after he brawled with Goldberg. <mask>'s "streak" ended when he lost to Goldberg in an "I Quit" match. <mask>: Millennium Man was a VHS home video that was released by WCW. <mask> became a face after the "Millennium Man" character ran out of steam.He was placed in a match at Souled Out in January to fill the suddenly vacant title after Bret Hart was forced to relinquish it due to a concussion. Chris Benoit left for the WWF the next day after <mask> lost the match to him. <mask>'s foot was under the rope during his submission loss. <mask> was challenged by Nash, who was the new commissioner of WCW. If he could beat Don and Ron Harris in a match on Monday, he would face Nash for the title that night. <mask> defeated the Harris Brothers in order to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Nash stripped <mask> of the title because he didn't beat the legal Harris brother in the match on Nitro.<mask> defeated Nash on Nitro to win the title for the second time. He successfully defended the title at SuperBrawl 2000 against Scott Hall and Jeff Jarrett. At Uncensored, <mask> defended his title against Jeff Jarrett thanks in part to help from a returning Hulk Hogan, which set up a match for the following night's Nitro pitting <mask> and Hogan vs. <mask> attacked Hogan because he was incensed that the fans were chanting Hogan's name. The referee counted Hogan being pinned despite the official result being a no contest. This may have been to set up a match for the upcoming Spring Stampede pay-per-view. <mask> was stripped of his title after the New Blood angle began.He was kept off of television for several months because he did not play a large role in the angle that followed. <mask> came back late in the year as a challenger for Scott Steiner, but he failed to defeat him in the title match at Starrcade. On January 14, 2001, at the Sin pay-per-view in Indianapolis at Conseco Fieldhouse, <mask> faced off against Jeff Jarrett and Road Warrior Animal in a Four Corners match for the World Championship. He suffered a career-ending injury during the match. <mask> was suggested to try an aerial maneuver, despite his "unwillingness", by members of the WCW management. <mask> didn't feel comfortable doing high spots because he didn't think it was necessary for a wrestler of his size. During the match, Eudy broke his leg when he leaped from the second turnbuckle into a big boot.He fractured his leg when he awkwardly landed on one foot while kicking the other. <mask> broke his left leg in half, snapping both the tibia and fibula, with at least one of the bones breaking through the skin. The fracture was too graphic for many television stations to re-air. The injury put <mask> out of action indefinitely, and he pondered retiring from wrestling for good: "I had about a year left on my contract, and I was thinking back then prior to hurting my leg what was I going to do as far as wrapping up my career." I wanted to go out in a big pay-per-view, leave like that, and not come back again. It would be the retirement match. During the two-hour surgery, a rod was placed in his leg.<mask> used a cane to walk. <mask> claimed that he was forced to jump off the second rope against his will. There was a plot change in the SuperBrawl Revenge event. The main event was supposed to be Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, and <mask> against Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett, and Road Warrior Animal. <mask> would not be able to return to the company after it was purchased by the WWF. <mask> was faced with the prospect of rehabilitation of his leg for three to five days per week for at least the next year after surgery. <mask> was told by his doctor that he would never run again, and he set a goal of being able to do so.He was limited to using a cane at first, but he was able to walk again in time. At the beginning of WWA's Sydney show, it was announced that <mask> would not be featured due to a broken arm, though he made several appearances as World Wrestling All-Stars's commissioner during its 2002 Australian tour. <mask> filed a lawsuit against the Universal Wrestling Corporation, the holding company for what remained of WCW's un purchased assets, for an injury he sustained. The judge ruled in favor of the UWC. After almost three and a half years of rehabilitation and preparation, <mask> returned to active wrestling on June 5, 2004. <mask> competed as Pierre Carl Ouellet's mystery partner and won the battle royal. On July 14, 2007, <mask> joined Memphis Wrestling and started a feud with Jerry Lawler while serving as "Hollywood" Jimmy Blaylock's enforcer.<mask> helped Tracy Smothers attack the promotion's champion, Corporal Robinson. On November 7, 2008, <mask> had a match at the "Jerry Lawler 35th Anniversary Wrestling event" at the Tennessee Fairgrounds. He lost to Lawler in the main event. On February 28, 2009, <mask> returned to Memphis Wrestling and won a battle royal before defeating Lawler in a second battle. <mask> began a European tour with American Wrestling. He was perfect during the tour. <mask>'s appearances were reduced as he focused on competition in over-50s.He only wrestled three times in 2010 and 2011. On the June 25, 2012 episode of Raw, <mask> made his return to the company as "Sycho <mask>" and defeated "Heath Slater" as part of the celebration for the 1000th episode of Raw. It was his first appearance on Raw since July 14, 1997 and his first match on the show since June 9, 1997. On the 1000th episode of the show, <mask> came back to help Lita take down Slater. The last match of <mask>'s career was on August 5, 2017. He was the winner of the Great North Wrestling match. <mask> and his wife were married on December 30, 1983, in Tennessee.They have two sons, one of which is a cast member on Big Brother 14 and 18. <mask> likes softball. Between 1997 and 1999 he played softball. <mask> was arrested in Tennessee in January of 2011. After being pulled over for not wearing his seatbelt, <mask> was also charged with possession of marijuana and driving without a license. He was released on bond. David Arquette and Scott Caan appeared in the film Ready to Rumble with other media Eudy.He was a part of the horror movie River of Darkness in 2011. He starred in the horror film Death from Above with fellow wrestlers Kurt Angle, James Storm, Matt Morgan and Terry Gerin. His son, Frank, was a contestant on Big Brother 14. <mask> was in a number of games, including the Game Boy game WWF Superstars 2 and the Wrestle version of WWF Supermania. He appeared in WCW. He was a playable character in both of the wrestling games. <mask> is a DLC character in WWE 2K17.<mask> is a part of the roster in both 2K19 and 2K18. The American Wrestling Federation, Continental Wrestling Association, NWA Northeast NWA Northeast, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated Comeback of the Year all have filmography titles. 16 of the top 500 singles wrestlers were ranked in 1991. There were 122 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "IPW Years" in 2003 who won a championship. 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23410875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl%20Thomas | Earl Thomas | Earl Winty Thomas III (born May 7, 1989) is a former American football free safety. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. During his time with the Seahawks, he was a core member of the Legion of Boom defense and won Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos. He played college football at Texas and received consensus All-American honors. Thomas signed with the Baltimore Ravens as a free agent in 2019 and played one season with the team.
High school career
Thomas attended West Orange-Stark High School in Orange, Texas, where he played for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs high school football team. While there, he was an all-state selection and three-year starter at defensive back, running back and wide receiver. He recorded 112 career tackles with 11 interceptions, two kickoff return touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns, while also having 1,850 rushing yards and 2,140 receiving yards in his career.
Also a standout athlete, Thomas was on the school's track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper, and was a member of the 4 × 200 meters relay team that reached the state finals, at 1:27.92. He finished second in the long jump at the 2007 Region 3-3A Meet, with a personal-best mark of 7.14 meters.
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Thomas was ranked as the No. 12 athlete in 2007.
College career
Thomas attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2007 to 2009. After redshirting his first year at Texas, Thomas started all 13 games at strong safety for the Longhorns in 2008, and ranked second on the team with 63 combined tackles and 17 pass breakups, the most ever by a Longhorn freshman. He also had two interceptions, four forced fumbles, and a blocked kick. Thomas subsequently earned multiple All-Freshman honors, as he was named to FWAA's Freshman All-America team, Sporting News′ Freshman All-American team, College Football News′ All-Freshman first team, and Rivals.com's Freshman All-America team.
As a redshirt sophomore in 2009, Thomas intercepted eight passes, returning two of them for touchdowns. The Longhorns were undefeated in the regular season and Thomas played in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game where they lost to Alabama. Thomas chose to forgo his final two seasons of eligibility at Texas to declare for the 2010 NFL Draft where he was the third defensive back taken after Eric Berry and Joe Haden.
Professional career
On January 8, 2010, Thomas released a statement through the University of Texas which announced his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL Draft. He attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and completed the majority of drills, but chose to skip the short shuttle and three-cone drill. On March 31, 2010, he participated at Texas' pro day and improved his 40-yard dash (4.37s), 20-yard dash (2.47s), and 10-yard dash (1.49s). Thomas sustained a hamstring injury during his workout and was unable to complete his entire performance.
He attended pre-draft visits and private workouts with multiple teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Miami Dolphins. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Thomas was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. He was ranked as the top safety in the draft by NFL analyst Mike Mayock, was ranked the second best safety by NFL analyst Mel Kiper Jr. and ESPN Scouts Inc., and was ranked the second best cornerback prospect by DraftScout.com.
Seattle Seahawks
2010
The Seattle Seahawks selected Thomas in the first round (14th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft. Thomas was the second safety drafted in 2010, behind Eric Berry. At age 20, he was one of the youngest players eligible for the draft.
On July 31, 2010, the Seattle Seahawks signed Thomas to a five-year, $18.30 million contract that includes $11.75 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $500,000.
Head coach Pete Carroll named Thomas the starting free safety to begin the regular season, alongside strong safety Lawyer Milloy. He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener against the San Francisco 49ers and recorded seven combined tackles in their 31–6 victory. On September 26, 2010, Thomas made six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions during a 27–20 victory against the San Diego Chargers in Week 3. Thomas made his first career interception off a pass by Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers, that was originally intended for tight end Antonio Gates, and returned it for a 34-yard gain in the fourth quarter. On November 14, 2010, he collected a season-high eight solo tackles in the Seahawks' 36–18 victory at the Arizona Cardinals in Week 10. In Week 12, Thomas collected eight combined tackles and returned a blocked punt for the first touchdown of his career during a 42–24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Thomas recovered a blocked punt that Kennard Cox blocked by Dustin Colquitt and returned it for a ten-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Thomas started all 16 games during his rookie season in 2010 and recorded 76 combined tackles (64 solo), seven pass deflections, five interceptions, and a forced fumble.
The Seattle Seahawks finished first in the NFC West with a 7-9 record and earned a playoff berth. On January 9, 2011, Thomas started in his first career playoff game and recorded eight solo tackles and a pass deflection during a 41–36 victory against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Wild Card Round. The following week, he made four solo tackles as the Seahawks lost 35–24 at the Chicago Bears in the NFC Divisional Round.
2011
Thomas entered training camp slated as the starting free safety. Head coach Pete Carroll named Thomas and Kam Chancellor the starting safeties to begin the regular season.
In Week 8, he collected a season-high ten combined tackles (four solo) during a 34–12 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. The following week, Thomas recorded a season-high eight solo tackles in the Seahawks' 23–13 loss at the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9. On December 27, 2011, it was announced that Thomas was selected to play in the 2012 Pro Bowl, marking the first Pro Bowl selection of his career. Kam Chancellor and Brandon Browner were also selected to the 2012 Pro Bowl. He finished the season with 98 combined tackles (69 solo), seven pass deflections, two interceptions, and a forced fumble in 16 games and 16 starts. Thomas was named second-team All-Pro and was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012.
2012
Thomas and Kam Chancellor returned as the Seahawks' starting safety duo. On November 4, 2012, Thomas collected a season-high seven combined tackles and deflected a pass during a 30–20 victory against the Minnesota Viking in Week 9. The following week, he tied his season-high of seven combined tackles as the Seahawks defeated the New York Jets 28–7 in Week 10. On December 16, 2012, Thomas recorded five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and had the first pick six of his career during a 50–17 win at the Buffalo Bills in Week 15. Thomas intercepted a pass by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, that was originally intended for tight end Scott Chandler, and returned it for a 57-yard touchdown in the third quarter. On December 26, 2012, it was announced that Thomas was selected to the 2013 Pro Bowl and was the sole member of the Seahawks' defense to be selected in 2012. Thomas started in a 16 games in 2012 and recorded 66 combined tackles (42 solo), nine pass deflections, three interceptions, a forced fumble, and one touchdown. On January 2, he was selected to the 2013 All-Pro Team.
The Seattle Seahawks finished second in the NFC West with an 11–5 record and earned a Wild Card berth. On January 6, 2013, Thomas started in the NFC Wild Card Round and made four combined tackles, a pass deflection, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Robert Griffin III during the Seahawks' 24–14 victory over the Washington Redskins. The following week, he recorded four combined tackles, broke up a pass, and intercepted a pass by Matt Ryan in a 30–28 loss at the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Divisional Round.
2013
The Seattle Seahawks' new defensive coordinator Dan Quinn retained Thomas and Kam Chancellor as the starting safeties and Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner as the starting cornerbacks after Gus Bradley accepted the head coaching position with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
In Week 4, he recorded seven solo tackles, deflected a pass, made an interception, and forced a fumble during a 23–20 win at the Houston Texans in Week 4. On October 28, 2013, Thomas collected a season-high ten solo tackles and made one pass deflection during a 14–9 victory at the St. Louis Rams in Week 9. The following week, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (eight solo) in the Seahawks' 27–24 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 10. On December 27, 2013, it was announced that Thomas was selected to the 2014 Pro Bowl, but was later replaced by Antrel Rolle due to his participation in Super Bowl XLVIII. Thomas started in all 16 games and recorded a career-high 105 combined tackles. (78 solo), nine pass deflections, five interceptions, and two forced fumbles.
The Seattle Seahawks finished first in the NFC West with a 13–3 record and earned a first round bye. On January 11, 2014, Thomas recorded 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and broke up two passes as the Seahawks defeated the New Orleans Saints 23–15 in the Divisional Round. The following week, they defeated the San Francisco 49ers 23–17 in the NFC Championship Game. On February 2, 2014, Thomas started in Super Bowl XLVIII and made seven combined tackles and a pass deflection during a 43–8 victory against the Denver Broncos.
2014
On April 28, 2014, the Seattle Seahawks signed Thomas to a four-year, $40 million contract extension with $27.72 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $9.50 million.
On November 9, 2014, Thomas recorded six combined tackles, deflected a pass, and made his only interception of the season during a 38–17 victory against the New York Giants in Week 10. Thomas intercepted a pass by quarterback Eli Manning, that was intended for wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., and returned it for a 47-yard gain in the fourth quarter. In Week 17, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (11 solo) in the Seahawks' 20–6 win against the St. Louis Rams. On December 23, 2015, Thomas was announced as a selection to play in the 2016 Pro Bowl. He finished the season with 97 combined tackles (71 solo), five pass deflections, three forced fumbles, and an interception in 16 games and 16 starts.
The Seahawks had the top-ranked defense in the NFL in fewest points allowed for the third straight season and finished atop the NFC West with a 12–4 record. On January 10, 2015, Thomas collected 11 combined tackles (five solo), two passes defended, and a forced fumble as the Seahawks defeated the Carolina Panthers 31–17 in the Divisional Round. The following week, he made five combined tackles, but suffered a dislocated shoulder in the second quarter of their 28–22 victory against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship. On February 1, 2015, Thomas recorded nine combined tackles in the Seahawks' 28–24 loss to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.
2015
On February 24, 2015, Thomas underwent surgery to repair his shoulder injury after he separated it during the NFC Championship Game. He was expected to miss 6–8 months and subsequently missed training camp and the preseason. The Seattle Seahawks' promoted defensive backs coach Kris Richard to defensive coordinator after Dan Quinn accepted the head coaching position with the Atlanta Falcons. Richard retained Thomas and Kam Chancellor as the starting safeties to begin the regular season.
He started in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener at the St. Louis Rams and collected a season-high nine combined tackles in their 34–31 loss. On October 18, 2015, Thomas made four combined tackles, a season-high four pass deflections, and an interception during a 27–23 loss to the Carolina Panthers. He intercepted a pass by quarterback Cam Newton, that was originally intended for wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, in the first quarter. On December 22, 2015, it was announced that Thomas was voted to
the 2016 Pro Bowl, marking his fifth consecutive selection. Thomas elected not to play in the 2016 Pro Bowl in an attempt to get his body healthy and was replaced by Harrison Smith. He started in all 16 games in 2015 and recorded 64 combined tackles (45 solo), nine pass deflections, five interceptions, and one forced fumble. He was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016.
2016
On October 30, 2016, Thomas recorded two combined tackles, deflected a pass, and returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown during a 25–20 loss at the New Orleans Saints in Week 8. Thomas recovered a fumble and returned it for a 34-yard touchdown after Cliff Avril stripped the ball from Saints' running back Mark Ingram during the first quarter. Afterwards, Thomas hugged a referee, the side judge Alex Kemp, and was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for doing it. In Week 10, he collected a season-high nine combined tackles in the Seahawks' 31–24 win at the New England Patriots. On November 20, 2016, Thomas made four combined tackles and a pass deflection before exiting in the third quarter of the Seahawks' 26–15 win against the Philadelphia Eagles due to a hamstring injury. His injury sidelined him for the Seahawks' Week 12 loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and became the first game he missed during his career. The injury ended his streak of 107 consecutive regular season games. On December 4, 2016, Thomas suffered a broken tibia after he collided with teammate Kam Chancellor while breaking up a pass in the second quarter of the Seahawks' 40–7 victory against the Carolina Panthers in Week 13. He tweeted shortly after the injury that he was considering retirement. On December 6, 2016, the Seattle Seahawks officially placed Thomas on injured reserve. Before being placed on IR, Thomas was leading all safeties in Pro Bowl votes making it likely he would have gone to his sixth straight. He finished the 2016 season with 48 combined tackles (24 solo), a career-high ten pass deflections, two interceptions, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown in 11 games and 11 starts. Despite the injury, Thomas was still ranked 30th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.
2017
Thomas started in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener at the Green Bay Packers and collected a season-high 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and a pass deflection in their 17-9 loss. He also had an interception off Aaron Rodgers that was negated by an offsides penalty on defensive end Michael Bennett. In Week 5, Thomas piled up seven tackles, intercepted Jared Goff, and forced a fumble at the goal line on Todd Gurley in a 16–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams, earning him NFC Defensive Player of the Week. In Week 8, against the Houston Texans, Thomas recorded a 78-yard interception return for a touchdown off Deshaun Watson, the second pick-six of his career. Thomas would also add five tackles in the 41–38 victory, although he suffered a hamstring injury late in the fourth quarter. On December 19, 2017, Thomas was named to his sixth Pro Bowl. Thomas was ranked #48 by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.
2018
At the start of the 2018 season, Thomas did not report to training camp expressing that he would hold out until the Seahawks either renegotiated his current contract or traded him to another team. After missing all of training camp and the preseason, Thomas reported to the Seahawks just days prior to Week 1 and was activated to the roster.
On September 9, 2018, during the season opener against the Denver Broncos, Thomas recorded an interception from quarterback Case Keenum just five minutes into the game. This marked his 9th consecutive season recording an interception. In Week 3, against the Dallas Cowboys, Thomas recorded his second career game with two interceptions in the 24–13 victory.
During a Week 4 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals, Thomas was carted off the field in the fourth quarter with a lower leg injury with an air cast attached to it, and gave "the finger" to Pete Carroll. It proved to be the last time he would take the field in a Seahawks uniform; he had suffered a broken leg, ending his 2018 season. He was placed on injured reserve on October 2, 2018.
Baltimore Ravens
On March 13, 2019, Thomas signed a four-year, $55 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens with $32 million guaranteed. He had agreed in principle to sign a one-year, $12 million deal with the Kansas City Chiefs a day earlier; the Chiefs were about to ferry him to Kansas City on a private jet when the Ravens outbid them at the last minute.
After years of playing in the Seahawks' relatively simple Cover 3 scheme, Thomas initially found it hard to adjust to the Ravens' more complicated system. However, during the season opener against the Miami Dolphins, Thomas intercepted quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on the Ravens' first defensive series of the season, prompting one defensive coach to yell, "We got Earl Thomas!" It marked the 10th consecutive season in which Thomas recorded at least one interception. The Ravens went on to win 59–10.
During the Ravens' Week 4 game against the Cleveland Browns, Thomas lost some goodwill with Ravens fans when he missed a chance to stop an 88-yard touchdown burst by Nick Chubb. Thomas said he pulled up at midfield because he had pulled a hamstring on a similar play during his days in Seattle (in 2017 against the Houston Texans), and did not want to risk injury.
On October 6, 2019, in a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Thomas made a helmet-to-helmet hit which knocked Steelers QB Mason Rudolph unconscious. Rudolph did not return for the rest of the game. On October 21, Thomas was fined $21,000 for the hit. In week 9 against the New England Patriots, Thomas recorded his second interception of the season, picking off Tom Brady in the 37–20 win. In week 10 against the Cincinnati Bengals, Thomas recovered a fumble forced by teammate Chuck Clark on running back Giovani Bernard in the 49–13 win.
In week 14 against the Buffalo Bills, Thomas recorded a team high 7 tackles and sacked Josh Allen during the 24–17 win, clinching a playoff berth.
In the Divisional Round of the playoffs against the Tennessee Titans, Thomas recorded a team-high 7 tackles and sacked quarterback Ryan Tannehill during the 28–12 loss.
On August 21, 2020, Thomas and fellow safety Chuck Clark got into an argument during practice after Thomas missed a coverage that allowed Mark Andrews to score a long touchdown. Thomas threw his helmet down and punched Clark and was sent home. After the Ravens told Thomas not to come to practice on August 22, they released him on August 23 for conduct detrimental to the team–or, as the team put it, "personal conduct that has adversely affected the Baltimore Ravens". His release came after players told coach John Harbaugh and general manager Eric DeCosta that they did not want Thomas on the team. Harbaugh consulted the team's "Leadership Council" of veteran players, and only one of them wanted Thomas to return. No other team signed him during the season.
According to an article by The Athletic, even though Thomas had made seven of the last nine Pro Bowls, he had developed a reputation for being "uncoachable." According to a number of his former Seahawks teammates and coaches, the Seahawks had been able to manage the situation until 2017, when Chancellor suffered a career-ending neck injury (he did not play at all in 2018 and retired the following spring) and Sherman had his season ended by a ruptured Achilles tendon. In what proved to be a warning sign, Thomas put out feelers to the Cowboys, which was dismissed at the time as "Earl being Earl." By 2018, he frequently refused to practice, ostensibly to protect his value in free agency.
While in Baltimore, Thomas never really became a part of the Ravens' locker-room culture. He was often fined for skipping meetings or showing up late, and left the team on his own at least twice. During the 2020 preseason, Thomas became increasingly surly and withdrawn, frequently skipping meetings and walk-throughs. The altercation with Clark happened in part because Clark believed Thomas would not have blown the coverage had he taken part in walk-throughs. According to The Athletic, Thomas' reputation for being uncoachable and a poor teammate was a major reason why no other team called his number after the Ravens released him. Reportedly, the Houston Texans mulled signing him, but backed off after several players let it be known they did not want him on the team.
NFL career statistics
Regular season
Postseason
Personal life
On May 6, 2020, it was reported by TMZ that on April 13, Thomas was allegedly held at gunpoint by his wife Nina after finding him and his brother, Seth Thomas, in bed with other women. Nina Thomas's arrest was reported the following day.
In November 2020, Nina Thomas filed for divorce. She was later granted a restraining order against her husband.
See also
Legion of Boom
List of Texas Longhorns football All-Americans
List of Seattle Seahawks first-round draft picks
References
External links
Seattle Seahawks bio
Texas Longhorns bio
1989 births
Living people
People from Orange, Texas
African-American players of American football
Players of American football from Texas
American football safeties
Texas Longhorns football players
All-American college football players
Seattle Seahawks players
Baltimore Ravens players
Unconferenced Pro Bowl players
National Conference Pro Bowl players
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American people
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"Earl Winty Thomas III (born May 7, 1989) is a former American football free safety.",
"He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft.",
"During his time with the Seahawks, he was a core member of the Legion of Boom defense and won Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos.",
"He played college football at Texas and received consensus All-American honors.",
"Thomas signed with the Baltimore Ravens as a free agent in 2019 and played one season with the team.",
"High school career\nThomas attended West Orange-Stark High School in Orange, Texas, where he played for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs high school football team.",
"While there, he was an all-state selection and three-year starter at defensive back, running back and wide receiver.",
"He recorded 112 career tackles with 11 interceptions, two kickoff return touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns, while also having 1,850 rushing yards and 2,140 receiving yards in his career.",
"Also a standout athlete, Thomas was on the school's track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper, and was a member of the 4 × 200 meters relay team that reached the state finals, at 1:27.92.",
"He finished second in the long jump at the 2007 Region 3-3A Meet, with a personal-best mark of 7.14 meters.",
"Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Thomas was ranked as the No.",
"12 athlete in 2007.",
"College career\nThomas attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2007 to 2009.",
"After redshirting his first year at Texas, Thomas started all 13 games at strong safety for the Longhorns in 2008, and ranked second on the team with 63 combined tackles and 17 pass breakups, the most ever by a Longhorn freshman.",
"He also had two interceptions, four forced fumbles, and a blocked kick.",
"Thomas subsequently earned multiple All-Freshman honors, as he was named to FWAA's Freshman All-America team, Sporting News′ Freshman All-American team, College Football News′ All-Freshman first team, and Rivals.com's Freshman All-America team.",
"As a redshirt sophomore in 2009, Thomas intercepted eight passes, returning two of them for touchdowns.",
"The Longhorns were undefeated in the regular season and Thomas played in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game where they lost to Alabama.",
"Thomas chose to forgo his final two seasons of eligibility at Texas to declare for the 2010 NFL Draft where he was the third defensive back taken after Eric Berry and Joe Haden.",
"Professional career\nOn January 8, 2010, Thomas released a statement through the University of Texas which announced his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL Draft.",
"He attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and completed the majority of drills, but chose to skip the short shuttle and three-cone drill.",
"On March 31, 2010, he participated at Texas' pro day and improved his 40-yard dash (4.37s), 20-yard dash (2.47s), and 10-yard dash (1.49s).",
"Thomas sustained a hamstring injury during his workout and was unable to complete his entire performance.",
"He attended pre-draft visits and private workouts with multiple teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Miami Dolphins.",
"At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, Thomas was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts.",
"He was ranked as the top safety in the draft by NFL analyst Mike Mayock, was ranked the second best safety by NFL analyst Mel Kiper Jr. and ESPN Scouts Inc., and was ranked the second best cornerback prospect by DraftScout.com.",
"Seattle Seahawks\n\n2010\nThe Seattle Seahawks selected Thomas in the first round (14th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft.",
"Thomas was the second safety drafted in 2010, behind Eric Berry.",
"At age 20, he was one of the youngest players eligible for the draft.",
"On July 31, 2010, the Seattle Seahawks signed Thomas to a five-year, $18.30 million contract that includes $11.75 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $500,000.",
"Head coach Pete Carroll named Thomas the starting free safety to begin the regular season, alongside strong safety Lawyer Milloy.",
"He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener against the San Francisco 49ers and recorded seven combined tackles in their 31–6 victory.",
"On September 26, 2010, Thomas made six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions during a 27–20 victory against the San Diego Chargers in Week 3.",
"Thomas made his first career interception off a pass by Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers, that was originally intended for tight end Antonio Gates, and returned it for a 34-yard gain in the fourth quarter.",
"On November 14, 2010, he collected a season-high eight solo tackles in the Seahawks' 36–18 victory at the Arizona Cardinals in Week 10.",
"In Week 12, Thomas collected eight combined tackles and returned a blocked punt for the first touchdown of his career during a 42–24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.",
"Thomas recovered a blocked punt that Kennard Cox blocked by Dustin Colquitt and returned it for a ten-yard touchdown in the first quarter.",
"Thomas started all 16 games during his rookie season in 2010 and recorded 76 combined tackles (64 solo), seven pass deflections, five interceptions, and a forced fumble.",
"The Seattle Seahawks finished first in the NFC West with a 7-9 record and earned a playoff berth.",
"On January 9, 2011, Thomas started in his first career playoff game and recorded eight solo tackles and a pass deflection during a 41–36 victory against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Wild Card Round.",
"The following week, he made four solo tackles as the Seahawks lost 35–24 at the Chicago Bears in the NFC Divisional Round.",
"2011\nThomas entered training camp slated as the starting free safety.",
"Head coach Pete Carroll named Thomas and Kam Chancellor the starting safeties to begin the regular season.",
"In Week 8, he collected a season-high ten combined tackles (four solo) during a 34–12 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.",
"The following week, Thomas recorded a season-high eight solo tackles in the Seahawks' 23–13 loss at the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9.",
"On December 27, 2011, it was announced that Thomas was selected to play in the 2012 Pro Bowl, marking the first Pro Bowl selection of his career.",
"Kam Chancellor and Brandon Browner were also selected to the 2012 Pro Bowl.",
"He finished the season with 98 combined tackles (69 solo), seven pass deflections, two interceptions, and a forced fumble in 16 games and 16 starts.",
"Thomas was named second-team All-Pro and was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012.",
"2012\nThomas and Kam Chancellor returned as the Seahawks' starting safety duo.",
"On November 4, 2012, Thomas collected a season-high seven combined tackles and deflected a pass during a 30–20 victory against the Minnesota Viking in Week 9.",
"The following week, he tied his season-high of seven combined tackles as the Seahawks defeated the New York Jets 28–7 in Week 10.",
"On December 16, 2012, Thomas recorded five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and had the first pick six of his career during a 50–17 win at the Buffalo Bills in Week 15.",
"Thomas intercepted a pass by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, that was originally intended for tight end Scott Chandler, and returned it for a 57-yard touchdown in the third quarter.",
"On December 26, 2012, it was announced that Thomas was selected to the 2013 Pro Bowl and was the sole member of the Seahawks' defense to be selected in 2012.",
"Thomas started in a 16 games in 2012 and recorded 66 combined tackles (42 solo), nine pass deflections, three interceptions, a forced fumble, and one touchdown.",
"On January 2, he was selected to the 2013 All-Pro Team.",
"The Seattle Seahawks finished second in the NFC West with an 11–5 record and earned a Wild Card berth.",
"On January 6, 2013, Thomas started in the NFC Wild Card Round and made four combined tackles, a pass deflection, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Robert Griffin III during the Seahawks' 24–14 victory over the Washington Redskins.",
"The following week, he recorded four combined tackles, broke up a pass, and intercepted a pass by Matt Ryan in a 30–28 loss at the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Divisional Round.",
"2013\nThe Seattle Seahawks' new defensive coordinator Dan Quinn retained Thomas and Kam Chancellor as the starting safeties and Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner as the starting cornerbacks after Gus Bradley accepted the head coaching position with the Jacksonville Jaguars.",
"In Week 4, he recorded seven solo tackles, deflected a pass, made an interception, and forced a fumble during a 23–20 win at the Houston Texans in Week 4.",
"On October 28, 2013, Thomas collected a season-high ten solo tackles and made one pass deflection during a 14–9 victory at the St. Louis Rams in Week 9.",
"The following week, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (eight solo) in the Seahawks' 27–24 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 10.",
"On December 27, 2013, it was announced that Thomas was selected to the 2014 Pro Bowl, but was later replaced by Antrel Rolle due to his participation in Super Bowl XLVIII.",
"Thomas started in all 16 games and recorded a career-high 105 combined tackles.",
"(78 solo), nine pass deflections, five interceptions, and two forced fumbles.",
"The Seattle Seahawks finished first in the NFC West with a 13–3 record and earned a first round bye.",
"On January 11, 2014, Thomas recorded 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and broke up two passes as the Seahawks defeated the New Orleans Saints 23–15 in the Divisional Round.",
"The following week, they defeated the San Francisco 49ers 23–17 in the NFC Championship Game.",
"On February 2, 2014, Thomas started in Super Bowl XLVIII and made seven combined tackles and a pass deflection during a 43–8 victory against the Denver Broncos.",
"2014\nOn April 28, 2014, the Seattle Seahawks signed Thomas to a four-year, $40 million contract extension with $27.72 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $9.50 million.",
"On November 9, 2014, Thomas recorded six combined tackles, deflected a pass, and made his only interception of the season during a 38–17 victory against the New York Giants in Week 10.",
"Thomas intercepted a pass by quarterback Eli Manning, that was intended for wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., and returned it for a 47-yard gain in the fourth quarter.",
"In Week 17, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (11 solo) in the Seahawks' 20–6 win against the St. Louis Rams.",
"On December 23, 2015, Thomas was announced as a selection to play in the 2016 Pro Bowl.",
"He finished the season with 97 combined tackles (71 solo), five pass deflections, three forced fumbles, and an interception in 16 games and 16 starts.",
"The Seahawks had the top-ranked defense in the NFL in fewest points allowed for the third straight season and finished atop the NFC West with a 12–4 record.",
"On January 10, 2015, Thomas collected 11 combined tackles (five solo), two passes defended, and a forced fumble as the Seahawks defeated the Carolina Panthers 31–17 in the Divisional Round.",
"The following week, he made five combined tackles, but suffered a dislocated shoulder in the second quarter of their 28–22 victory against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship.",
"On February 1, 2015, Thomas recorded nine combined tackles in the Seahawks' 28–24 loss to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.",
"2015\nOn February 24, 2015, Thomas underwent surgery to repair his shoulder injury after he separated it during the NFC Championship Game.",
"He was expected to miss 6–8 months and subsequently missed training camp and the preseason.",
"The Seattle Seahawks' promoted defensive backs coach Kris Richard to defensive coordinator after Dan Quinn accepted the head coaching position with the Atlanta Falcons.",
"Richard retained Thomas and Kam Chancellor as the starting safeties to begin the regular season.",
"He started in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener at the St. Louis Rams and collected a season-high nine combined tackles in their 34–31 loss.",
"On October 18, 2015, Thomas made four combined tackles, a season-high four pass deflections, and an interception during a 27–23 loss to the Carolina Panthers.",
"He intercepted a pass by quarterback Cam Newton, that was originally intended for wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, in the first quarter.",
"On December 22, 2015, it was announced that Thomas was voted to \nthe 2016 Pro Bowl, marking his fifth consecutive selection.",
"Thomas elected not to play in the 2016 Pro Bowl in an attempt to get his body healthy and was replaced by Harrison Smith.",
"He started in all 16 games in 2015 and recorded 64 combined tackles (45 solo), nine pass deflections, five interceptions, and one forced fumble.",
"He was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016.",
"2016\nOn October 30, 2016, Thomas recorded two combined tackles, deflected a pass, and returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown during a 25–20 loss at the New Orleans Saints in Week 8.",
"Thomas recovered a fumble and returned it for a 34-yard touchdown after Cliff Avril stripped the ball from Saints' running back Mark Ingram during the first quarter.",
"Afterwards, Thomas hugged a referee, the side judge Alex Kemp, and was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for doing it.",
"In Week 10, he collected a season-high nine combined tackles in the Seahawks' 31–24 win at the New England Patriots.",
"On November 20, 2016, Thomas made four combined tackles and a pass deflection before exiting in the third quarter of the Seahawks' 26–15 win against the Philadelphia Eagles due to a hamstring injury.",
"His injury sidelined him for the Seahawks' Week 12 loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and became the first game he missed during his career.",
"The injury ended his streak of 107 consecutive regular season games.",
"On December 4, 2016, Thomas suffered a broken tibia after he collided with teammate Kam Chancellor while breaking up a pass in the second quarter of the Seahawks' 40–7 victory against the Carolina Panthers in Week 13.",
"He tweeted shortly after the injury that he was considering retirement.",
"On December 6, 2016, the Seattle Seahawks officially placed Thomas on injured reserve.",
"Before being placed on IR, Thomas was leading all safeties in Pro Bowl votes making it likely he would have gone to his sixth straight.",
"He finished the 2016 season with 48 combined tackles (24 solo), a career-high ten pass deflections, two interceptions, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown in 11 games and 11 starts.",
"Despite the injury, Thomas was still ranked 30th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.",
"2017\nThomas started in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener at the Green Bay Packers and collected a season-high 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and a pass deflection in their 17-9 loss.",
"He also had an interception off Aaron Rodgers that was negated by an offsides penalty on defensive end Michael Bennett.",
"In Week 5, Thomas piled up seven tackles, intercepted Jared Goff, and forced a fumble at the goal line on Todd Gurley in a 16–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams, earning him NFC Defensive Player of the Week.",
"In Week 8, against the Houston Texans, Thomas recorded a 78-yard interception return for a touchdown off Deshaun Watson, the second pick-six of his career.",
"Thomas would also add five tackles in the 41–38 victory, although he suffered a hamstring injury late in the fourth quarter.",
"On December 19, 2017, Thomas was named to his sixth Pro Bowl.",
"Thomas was ranked #48 by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.",
"2018\nAt the start of the 2018 season, Thomas did not report to training camp expressing that he would hold out until the Seahawks either renegotiated his current contract or traded him to another team.",
"After missing all of training camp and the preseason, Thomas reported to the Seahawks just days prior to Week 1 and was activated to the roster.",
"On September 9, 2018, during the season opener against the Denver Broncos, Thomas recorded an interception from quarterback Case Keenum just five minutes into the game.",
"This marked his 9th consecutive season recording an interception.",
"In Week 3, against the Dallas Cowboys, Thomas recorded his second career game with two interceptions in the 24–13 victory.",
"During a Week 4 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals, Thomas was carted off the field in the fourth quarter with a lower leg injury with an air cast attached to it, and gave \"the finger\" to Pete Carroll.",
"It proved to be the last time he would take the field in a Seahawks uniform; he had suffered a broken leg, ending his 2018 season.",
"He was placed on injured reserve on October 2, 2018.",
"Baltimore Ravens\nOn March 13, 2019, Thomas signed a four-year, $55 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens with $32 million guaranteed.",
"He had agreed in principle to sign a one-year, $12 million deal with the Kansas City Chiefs a day earlier; the Chiefs were about to ferry him to Kansas City on a private jet when the Ravens outbid them at the last minute.",
"After years of playing in the Seahawks' relatively simple Cover 3 scheme, Thomas initially found it hard to adjust to the Ravens' more complicated system.",
"However, during the season opener against the Miami Dolphins, Thomas intercepted quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on the Ravens' first defensive series of the season, prompting one defensive coach to yell, \"We got Earl Thomas!\"",
"It marked the 10th consecutive season in which Thomas recorded at least one interception.",
"The Ravens went on to win 59–10.",
"During the Ravens' Week 4 game against the Cleveland Browns, Thomas lost some goodwill with Ravens fans when he missed a chance to stop an 88-yard touchdown burst by Nick Chubb.",
"Thomas said he pulled up at midfield because he had pulled a hamstring on a similar play during his days in Seattle (in 2017 against the Houston Texans), and did not want to risk injury.",
"On October 6, 2019, in a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Thomas made a helmet-to-helmet hit which knocked Steelers QB Mason Rudolph unconscious.",
"Rudolph did not return for the rest of the game.",
"On October 21, Thomas was fined $21,000 for the hit.",
"In week 9 against the New England Patriots, Thomas recorded his second interception of the season, picking off Tom Brady in the 37–20 win.",
"In week 10 against the Cincinnati Bengals, Thomas recovered a fumble forced by teammate Chuck Clark on running back Giovani Bernard in the 49–13 win.",
"In week 14 against the Buffalo Bills, Thomas recorded a team high 7 tackles and sacked Josh Allen during the 24–17 win, clinching a playoff berth.",
"In the Divisional Round of the playoffs against the Tennessee Titans, Thomas recorded a team-high 7 tackles and sacked quarterback Ryan Tannehill during the 28–12 loss.",
"On August 21, 2020, Thomas and fellow safety Chuck Clark got into an argument during practice after Thomas missed a coverage that allowed Mark Andrews to score a long touchdown.",
"Thomas threw his helmet down and punched Clark and was sent home.",
"After the Ravens told Thomas not to come to practice on August 22, they released him on August 23 for conduct detrimental to the team–or, as the team put it, \"personal conduct that has adversely affected the Baltimore Ravens\".",
"His release came after players told coach John Harbaugh and general manager Eric DeCosta that they did not want Thomas on the team.",
"Harbaugh consulted the team's \"Leadership Council\" of veteran players, and only one of them wanted Thomas to return.",
"No other team signed him during the season.",
"According to an article by The Athletic, even though Thomas had made seven of the last nine Pro Bowls, he had developed a reputation for being \"uncoachable.\"",
"According to a number of his former Seahawks teammates and coaches, the Seahawks had been able to manage the situation until 2017, when Chancellor suffered a career-ending neck injury (he did not play at all in 2018 and retired the following spring) and Sherman had his season ended by a ruptured Achilles tendon.",
"In what proved to be a warning sign, Thomas put out feelers to the Cowboys, which was dismissed at the time as \"Earl being Earl.\"",
"By 2018, he frequently refused to practice, ostensibly to protect his value in free agency.",
"While in Baltimore, Thomas never really became a part of the Ravens' locker-room culture.",
"He was often fined for skipping meetings or showing up late, and left the team on his own at least twice.",
"During the 2020 preseason, Thomas became increasingly surly and withdrawn, frequently skipping meetings and walk-throughs.",
"The altercation with Clark happened in part because Clark believed Thomas would not have blown the coverage had he taken part in walk-throughs.",
"According to The Athletic, Thomas' reputation for being uncoachable and a poor teammate was a major reason why no other team called his number after the Ravens released him.",
"Reportedly, the Houston Texans mulled signing him, but backed off after several players let it be known they did not want him on the team.",
"NFL career statistics\n\nRegular season\n\nPostseason\n\nPersonal life\nOn May 6, 2020, it was reported by TMZ that on April 13, Thomas was allegedly held at gunpoint by his wife Nina after finding him and his brother, Seth Thomas, in bed with other women.",
"Nina Thomas's arrest was reported the following day.",
"In November 2020, Nina Thomas filed for divorce.",
"She was later granted a restraining order against her husband.",
"See also\n Legion of Boom\n List of Texas Longhorns football All-Americans\n List of Seattle Seahawks first-round draft picks\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\n \n \n Seattle Seahawks bio\n Texas Longhorns bio\n\n1989 births\nLiving people\nPeople from Orange, Texas\nAfrican-American players of American football\nPlayers of American football from Texas\nAmerican football safeties\nTexas Longhorns football players\nAll-American college football players\nSeattle Seahawks players\nBaltimore Ravens players\nUnconferenced Pro Bowl players\nNational Conference Pro Bowl players\n21st-century African-American sportspeople\n20th-century African-American people\nAmerican Conference Pro Bowl players"
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"He was drafted by Seattle in the first round.",
"He was part of the Legion of Boom defense that won the Super Bowl against the Broncos.",
"He was a consensus All-American at the University of Texas.",
"Thomas played one season for the Baltimore Ravens after signing as a free agent in 2019.",
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"Thomas was a member of the 4 200 meters relay team that reached the state finals and competed as a sprinter and jumper.",
"He finished second in the long jump at the Region 3-3A Meet, with a personal-best mark of 7.14 meters.",
"Thomas was a four-star recruit according to Rivals.com.",
"There were 12 athletes in 2007.",
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"The Longhorns were perfect in the regular season and lost to Alabama in the National Championship Game.",
"The third defensive back taken after Eric Berry and Joe Haden was Thomas, who chose to forgo his final two seasons of eligibility at Texas.",
"On January 8, 2010, Thomas released a statement through the University of Texas which announced his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL draft.",
"He did most of the drills at the combine, but skipped the short shuttle and three-cone drill.",
"He improved his 40-yard dash, 20-yard dash, and 10-yard dash at Texas' pro day on March 31, 2010.",
"Thomas was unable to complete his performance due to an injury he sustained during his workout.",
"He attended pre-draft visits and private workouts with several teams.",
"Thomas was projected to be a first round pick at the conclusion of the pre-draft process.",
"He was ranked as the second best safety in the draft, as well as the second best defensive back, and was ranked the second best defensive back by DraftScout.com.",
"Thomas was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft.",
"Eric Berry was the second safety drafted.",
"He was one of the youngest players eligible for the draft.",
"On July 31, 2010, the Seattle Seahawks signed Thomas to a five-year, $18.30 million contract that included $11.75 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $500,000.",
"The strong safety Lawyer Milloy and the free safety Thomas were named to start the season.",
"He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Seattle Seahawks' 31–6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.",
"In Week 3 of the 2010 season, Thomas made six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions in a 27–20 victory against the San Diego Chargers.",
"Thomas made his first career pick off a Philip Rivers pass, which was intended for Antonio Gates, and returned it for a touchdown in the fourth quarter.",
"In Week 10 of the 2010 season, he had a season-high eight solo tackles in the victory over the Arizona Cardinals.",
"Thomas returned a blocked punt for a touchdown in a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 12.",
"Thomas returned a blocked punt for a touchdown in the first quarter.",
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"The Seattle Seahawks earned a playoff spot after finishing first in their division with a 7-9 record.",
"On January 9, 2011, Thomas started in his first career playoff game and recorded eight solo tackles and a pass deflection in a 41–36 victory against the New Orleans Saints.",
"He made four solo tackles in the week leading up to the Bears game.",
"Thomas was slated to be the starting free safety.",
"The starting safeties for the regular season will be Thomas and Kam Chancellor.",
"He had a season-high ten combined tackles in Week 8 of the season.",
"In the Week 9 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, Thomas recorded a season-high eight solo tackles.",
"Thomas was selected to play in the 2012 Pro Bowl, marking the first Pro Bowl selection of his career.",
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"Thomas was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012 and was named second-team All-Pro.",
"Kam Chancellor and Thomas were the starting safety duo.",
"In Week 9 of the 2012 season, Thomas had a season-high seven tackles and a pass defensed in a 30–20 victory against the Minnesota Vikings.",
"In Week 10, he tied his season-high of seven combined tackles as the Seahawks defeated the New York Jets.",
"Thomas recorded five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and had the first pick of his career during a 50–17 win at the Buffalo Bills in Week 15 of the 2012 season.",
"In the third quarter, Thomas picked off a Ryan Fitzpatrick pass and returned it 57 yards for a touchdown.",
"On December 26, 2012 it was announced that Thomas was selected to the Pro Bowl and that the only member of the Seattle defense to be selected in 2012 was Thomas.",
"Thomas started in 16 games in 2012 and recorded 66 tackles, including 42 solo, nine pass deflections, three intercepts, and one touchdown.",
"He was selected to the All-Pro Team on January 2.",
"The Seattle Seahawks earned a Wild Card spot after finishing second in theNFC West with an 11–5 record.",
"Thomas started in the Wild Card round of the playoffs and made four tackles, a pass deflection, and an intercept in the victory over Washington.",
"He recorded four combined tackles, broke up a pass, and picked off a Matt Ryan pass in a 30–28 loss to the Atlanta Falcons.",
"Kam Chancellor, Richard Sherman, and Brandon Browner were retained as the starting safeties and Richard Sherman, Brandon Browner, and Thomas were retained as the starting corners.",
"In the fourth week of the season, he recorded seven solo tackles, forced a turnover, and made an intercept in a win over the Houston Texans.",
"Thomas had a season-high ten solo tackles and one pass deflection in a 14–9 victory at the St. Louis Rams in Week 9.",
"He had a season-high 12 tackles combined in the Seahawks' 27– 24 win against the Buccaneers in Week 10.",
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"A total of 78 solo passes, nine pass deflections, five intercepts, and two forced turnovers.",
"The Seattle Seahawks earned a first round bye after finishing first in theNFC West with a 13–3 record.",
"On January 11, Thomas recorded 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and broke up two passes as the Seahawks defeated the New Orleans Saints 23–15 in the Divisional Round.",
"They defeated the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs.",
"On February 2, 2014, Thomas started in Super Bowl XLVIII and made seven combined tackles and a pass deflection during a 43–8 victory against the Denver Broncos.",
"On April 28, 2014, the Seattle Seahawks signed Thomas to a four-year, $40 million contract extension with $27.72 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $9.50 million.",
"In Week 10 of the season, Thomas made his only interception of the season and recorded six combined tackles in a 38–17 victory against the New York Giants.",
"Thomas returned the Eli Manning pass for a 47-yard gain in the fourth quarter.",
"In the Week 17 win against the Rams, he had a season-high 12 combined tackles.",
"Thomas was selected to play in the Pro Bowl on December 23, 2015.",
"He finished the season with 97 combined tackles, five pass deflections, three forced turnovers, and an intercept in 16 games and 16 starts.",
"The Seahawks had the top-ranked defense in the NFL in fewest points allowed for the third straight season and finished atop theNFC West with a 12–4 record.",
"On January 10, 2015, Thomas collected 11 combined tackles (five solo), two passes defended, and a forced fumbled as the Seahawks defeated the Carolina Panthers 31–17 in the Divisional Round.",
"He made five tackles in the week, but injured his shoulder in the second quarter of the game against the Packers.",
"Thomas had nine tackles in the Super Bowl XLIX loss to New England.",
"On February 24, 2015, Thomas had surgery to repair his shoulder injury.",
"He missed training camp and the preseason after being expected to miss 6 months.",
"Kris Richard, the defensive backs coach for the Seattle Seahawks, was promoted to defensive coordinator after DanQuinn accepted the head coaching position with the Atlanta Falcons.",
"The starting safeties for the regular season were retained by Richard.",
"He had a season-high nine combined tackles in Seattle's 34–31 loss to the Rams.",
"On October 18, 2015, Thomas made four combined tackles, a season-high four pass deflections, and an intercept in a 27–23 loss to the Carolina Panthers.",
"In the first quarter, he picked up a pass that was intended for a wide receiver.",
"Thomas was voted to the 2016 Pro Bowl for the fifth year in a row.",
"Thomas decided not to play in the Pro Bowl in order to get his body healthy and was replaced by Harrison Smith.",
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"He was in the top 100 players of the year.",
"In Week 8 of the 2016 season, Thomas returned a fumbled ball for a touchdown and recorded two combined tackles in a 25–20 loss to the New Orleans Saints.",
"During the first quarter, Thomas recovered a fumbled ball and returned it for a touchdown.",
"Afterwards, Thomas hugged a referee and was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.",
"In Week 10, he had a season-high nine tackles in the win over New England.",
"Thomas left the game against the Philadelphia Eagles in the third quarter due to a leg injury.",
"He missed the first game of his career due to an injury he sustained in the Week 12 loss to the Buccaneers.",
"His streak of games without an injury ended.",
"On December 4, 2016 Thomas broke his leg when he collided with teammate Kam Chancellor while breaking up a pass in the second quarter of the Seahawks' victory against the Carolina Panthers.",
"He was considering retirement after the injury.",
"Thomas was placed on injured reserve by the Seattle Seahawks.",
"Thomas would have gone to his sixth straight Pro Bowl if he hadn't been placed on IR.",
"He finished the 2016 season with 48 combined tackles, a career-high ten pass deflections, two interceptions, and a touchdown in 11 games and 11 starts.",
"Despite the injury, Thomas was still ranked 30th by his peers.",
"In the Seattle Seahawks' season opener against the Green Bay Packers, Thomas started and collected a season-high 11 combined tackles.",
"He had an intercept off Rodgers that was nullified by a penalty on defensive end Michael Bennett.",
"In Week 5 of the season, Thomas had seven tackles, an intercept, and a fumbled the ball at the goal line in a 16–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams.",
"Thomas recorded his second pick-six of his career in Week 8 against the Houston Texans.",
"Thomas was hurt late in the fourth quarter and did not play in the second half.",
"Thomas was named to the Pro Bowl for the sixth time.",
"The top 100 players of the year were ranked by Thomas.",
"Thomas didn't report to training camp at the start of the year because he didn't want to be traded to another team.",
"Thomas was activated to the roster just days before Week 1 after missing all of training camp and the preseason.",
"Just five minutes into the season opener against the Denver Broncos, Thomas picked off Case Keenum.",
"This was his ninth consecutive season in which he recorded an intercept.",
"In Week 3, against the Dallas Cowboys, Thomas recorded his second career game with two picks up.",
"Thomas was carted off the field in the fourth quarter with a lower leg injury with an air cast attached to it and gave Pete Carroll the finger.",
"It was the last time he would play in a Seattle uniform because of a broken leg.",
"He was placed on injured reserve.",
"Thomas signed a four-year, $55 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens.",
"He had agreed in principle to sign a one-year, $12 million deal with the Kansas City Chiefs a day earlier, but the Chiefs were about to ferry him to Kansas City on a private jet when the Ravens outbid them at the last minute.",
"Thomas found it hard to adjust to the Ravens' more complicated system after years of playing in the Cover 3 scheme.",
"During the Ravens' season opener against the Miami Dolphins, one defensive coach yelled, \"We got Earl Thomas!\" after Thomas picked off Fitzpatrick.",
"It was the 10th season in a row in which Thomas had at least one intercept.",
"The Ravens won 59–10.",
"During the Ravens' Week 4 game against the Cleveland Browns, Thomas lost some goodwill with Ravens fans when he missed a chance to stop Nick Chubb.",
"Thomas said he pulled a hamstring on a similar play during his days in Seattle and didn't want to hurt himself.",
"On October 6, 2019, Thomas made a helmet-to-helmet hit which knocked the Pittsburgh quarterback out of the game.",
"He didn't return for the rest of the game.",
"Thomas was fined $21,000 for the hit.",
"Thomas picked off Tom Brady in the 37–20 win over New England in week 9.",
"Thomas recovered a fumbled ball by teammate Chuck Clark in the 49–13 win over Cincinnati in week 10.",
"During the 24–17 win over the Buffalo Bills, Thomas recorded a team high 7 tackles and sacked Josh Allen.",
"During the Divisional Round of the playoffs, Thomas recorded a team-high 7 tackles and sacked quarterback Ryan Tannehill.",
"On August 21, 2020, Thomas and Chuck Clark got into an argument after Thomas missed a coverage that allowed Mark Andrews to score a long touchdown.",
"Thomas punched Clark and was sent home.",
"After the Ravens told Thomas not to come to practice on August 22, they released him on August 23 for conduct detrimental to the team–or, as the team put it, \"personal conduct that has adversely affected the Baltimore Ravens\".",
"The players told Harbaugh and DeCosta that they didn't want Thomas on the team.",
"Harbaugh consulted the team's \"Leadership Council\" of veteran players, and only one of them wanted Thomas to stay.",
"He wasn't signed by any other team during the season.",
"According to an article by The Athletic, even though Thomas had made seven of the last nine Pro Bowls, he had developed a reputation for being uncoachable.",
"According to a number of his former teammates and coaches, the Seahawks were able to manage the situation until 2017: when Chancellor suffered a career-ending neck injury and Sherman had his season ended by an injury.",
"The Cowboys were dismissed as \"Earl being Earl\" when Thomas put out feelers to them.",
"He refused to practice in order to protect his value in free agency.",
"Thomas wasn't a part of the Ravens' locker-room culture.",
"He was often fined for skipping meetings or showing up late, and left the team on his own at least twice.",
"Thomas became withdrawn and surly during the preseason.",
"Clark believed Thomas would not have blown the coverage had he taken part in walk-throughs.",
"According to The Athletic, Thomas' reputation for being uncoachable and a poor teammate was a major reason why no other team called his number after he was released by the Ravens.",
"Several players let it be known they did not want him on the team, so the Houston Texans decided against signing him.",
"On May 6, 2020, it was reported that Thomas was held at gun point by his wife after finding him and his brother in bed with other women.",
"Thomas's arrest was reported the next day.",
"In November 2020, Nina Thomas filed for divorce.",
"She was granted a restraining order against her husband.",
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] | <mask> (born May 7, 1989) is a former American football free safety. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. During his time with the Seahawks, he was a core member of the Legion of Boom defense and won Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos. He played college football at Texas and received consensus All-American honors. <mask> signed with the Baltimore Ravens as a free agent in 2019 and played one season with the team. High school career
<mask> attended West Orange-Stark High School in Orange, Texas, where he played for the West Orange-Stark Mustangs high school football team. While there, he was an all-state selection and three-year starter at defensive back, running back and wide receiver.He recorded 112 career tackles with 11 interceptions, two kickoff return touchdowns and two punt return touchdowns, while also having 1,850 rushing yards and 2,140 receiving yards in his career. Also a standout athlete, <mask> was on the school's track & field team, where he competed as a sprinter and jumper, and was a member of the 4 × 200 meters relay team that reached the state finals, at 1:27.92. He finished second in the long jump at the 2007 Region 3-3A Meet, with a personal-best mark of 7.14 meters. Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, <mask> was ranked as the No. 12 athlete in 2007. College career
<mask> attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2007 to 2009. After redshirting his first year at Texas, <mask> started all 13 games at strong safety for the Longhorns in 2008, and ranked second on the team with 63 combined tackles and 17 pass breakups, the most ever by a Longhorn freshman.He also had two interceptions, four forced fumbles, and a blocked kick. <mask> subsequently earned multiple All-Freshman honors, as he was named to FWAA's Freshman All-America team, Sporting News′ Freshman All-American team, College Football News′ All-Freshman first team, and Rivals.com's Freshman All-America team. As a redshirt sophomore in 2009, <mask> intercepted eight passes, returning two of them for touchdowns. The Longhorns were undefeated in the regular season and <mask> played in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game where they lost to Alabama. <mask> chose to forgo his final two seasons of eligibility at Texas to declare for the 2010 NFL Draft where he was the third defensive back taken after Eric Berry and Joe Haden. Professional career
On January 8, 2010, <mask> released a statement through the University of Texas which announced his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL Draft. He attended the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis and completed the majority of drills, but chose to skip the short shuttle and three-cone drill.On March 31, 2010, he participated at Texas' pro day and improved his 40-yard dash (4.37s), 20-yard dash (2.47s), and 10-yard dash (1.49s). <mask> sustained a hamstring injury during his workout and was unable to complete his entire performance. He attended pre-draft visits and private workouts with multiple teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Miami Dolphins. At the conclusion of the pre-draft process, <mask> was projected to be a first round pick by NFL draft experts and scouts. He was ranked as the top safety in the draft by NFL analyst Mike Mayock, was ranked the second best safety by NFL analyst Mel Kiper Jr. and ESPN Scouts Inc., and was ranked the second best cornerback prospect by DraftScout.com. Seattle Seahawks
2010
The Seattle Seahawks selected <mask> in the first round (14th overall) of the 2010 NFL Draft. <mask> was the second safety drafted in 2010, behind Eric Berry.At age 20, he was one of the youngest players eligible for the draft. On July 31, 2010, the Seattle Seahawks signed <mask> to a five-year, $18.30 million contract that includes $11.75 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $500,000. Head coach Pete Carroll named <mask> the starting free safety to begin the regular season, alongside strong safety Lawyer Milloy. He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener against the San Francisco 49ers and recorded seven combined tackles in their 31–6 victory. On September 26, 2010, <mask> made six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions during a 27–20 victory against the San Diego Chargers in Week 3. <mask> made his first career interception off a pass by Chargers' quarterback Philip Rivers, that was originally intended for tight end Antonio Gates, and returned it for a 34-yard gain in the fourth quarter. On November 14, 2010, he collected a season-high eight solo tackles in the Seahawks' 36–18 victory at the Arizona Cardinals in Week 10.In Week 12, <mask> collected eight combined tackles and returned a blocked punt for the first touchdown of his career during a 42–24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. <mask> recovered a blocked punt that Kennard Cox blocked by Dustin Colquitt and returned it for a ten-yard touchdown in the first quarter. <mask> started all 16 games during his rookie season in 2010 and recorded 76 combined tackles (64 solo), seven pass deflections, five interceptions, and a forced fumble. The Seattle Seahawks finished first in the NFC West with a 7-9 record and earned a playoff berth. On January 9, 2011, <mask> started in his first career playoff game and recorded eight solo tackles and a pass deflection during a 41–36 victory against the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Wild Card Round. The following week, he made four solo tackles as the Seahawks lost 35–24 at the Chicago Bears in the NFC Divisional Round. 2011
<mask> entered training camp slated as the starting free safety.Head coach Pete Carroll named <mask> and Kam Chancellor the starting safeties to begin the regular season. In Week 8, he collected a season-high ten combined tackles (four solo) during a 34–12 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals. The following week, <mask> recorded a season-high eight solo tackles in the Seahawks' 23–13 loss at the Dallas Cowboys in Week 9. On December 27, 2011, it was announced that <mask> was selected to play in the 2012 Pro Bowl, marking the first Pro Bowl selection of his career. Kam Chancellor and Brandon Browner were also selected to the 2012 Pro Bowl. He finished the season with 98 combined tackles (69 solo), seven pass deflections, two interceptions, and a forced fumble in 16 games and 16 starts. <mask> was named second-team All-Pro and was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012.2012
<mask> and Kam Chancellor returned as the Seahawks' starting safety duo. On November 4, 2012, <mask> collected a season-high seven combined tackles and deflected a pass during a 30–20 victory against the Minnesota Viking in Week 9. The following week, he tied his season-high of seven combined tackles as the Seahawks defeated the New York Jets 28–7 in Week 10. On December 16, 2012, <mask> recorded five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and had the first pick six of his career during a 50–17 win at the Buffalo Bills in Week 15. <mask> intercepted a pass by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, that was originally intended for tight end Scott Chandler, and returned it for a 57-yard touchdown in the third quarter. On December 26, 2012, it was announced that <mask> was selected to the 2013 Pro Bowl and was the sole member of the Seahawks' defense to be selected in 2012. <mask> started in a 16 games in 2012 and recorded 66 combined tackles (42 solo), nine pass deflections, three interceptions, a forced fumble, and one touchdown.On January 2, he was selected to the 2013 All-Pro Team. The Seattle Seahawks finished second in the NFC West with an 11–5 record and earned a Wild Card berth. On January 6, 2013, <mask> started in the NFC Wild Card Round and made four combined tackles, a pass deflection, and intercepted a pass by quarterback Robert Griffin III during the Seahawks' 24–14 victory over the Washington Redskins. The following week, he recorded four combined tackles, broke up a pass, and intercepted a pass by Matt Ryan in a 30–28 loss at the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Divisional Round. 2013
The Seattle Seahawks' new defensive coordinator Dan Quinn retained <mask> and Kam Chancellor as the starting safeties and Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner as the starting cornerbacks after Gus Bradley accepted the head coaching position with the Jacksonville Jaguars. In Week 4, he recorded seven solo tackles, deflected a pass, made an interception, and forced a fumble during a 23–20 win at the Houston Texans in Week 4. On October 28, 2013, <mask> collected a season-high ten solo tackles and made one pass deflection during a 14–9 victory at the St. Louis Rams in Week 9.The following week, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (eight solo) in the Seahawks' 27–24 win against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 10. On December 27, 2013, it was announced that <mask> was selected to the 2014 Pro Bowl, but was later replaced by Antrel Rolle due to his participation in Super Bowl XLVIII. <mask> started in all 16 games and recorded a career-high 105 combined tackles. (78 solo), nine pass deflections, five interceptions, and two forced fumbles. The Seattle Seahawks finished first in the NFC West with a 13–3 record and earned a first round bye. On January 11, 2014, <mask> recorded 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and broke up two passes as the Seahawks defeated the New Orleans Saints 23–15 in the Divisional Round. The following week, they defeated the San Francisco 49ers 23–17 in the NFC Championship Game.On February 2, 2014, <mask> started in Super Bowl XLVIII and made seven combined tackles and a pass deflection during a 43–8 victory against the Denver Broncos. 2014
On April 28, 2014, the Seattle Seahawks signed <mask> to a four-year, $40 million contract extension with $27.72 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $9.50 million. On November 9, 2014, <mask> recorded six combined tackles, deflected a pass, and made his only interception of the season during a 38–17 victory against the New York Giants in Week 10. <mask> intercepted a pass by quarterback Eli Manning, that was intended for wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., and returned it for a 47-yard gain in the fourth quarter. In Week 17, he collected a season-high 12 combined tackles (11 solo) in the Seahawks' 20–6 win against the St. Louis Rams. On December 23, 2015, <mask> was announced as a selection to play in the 2016 Pro Bowl. He finished the season with 97 combined tackles (71 solo), five pass deflections, three forced fumbles, and an interception in 16 games and 16 starts.The Seahawks had the top-ranked defense in the NFL in fewest points allowed for the third straight season and finished atop the NFC West with a 12–4 record. On January 10, 2015, <mask> collected 11 combined tackles (five solo), two passes defended, and a forced fumble as the Seahawks defeated the Carolina Panthers 31–17 in the Divisional Round. The following week, he made five combined tackles, but suffered a dislocated shoulder in the second quarter of their 28–22 victory against the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship. On February 1, 2015, <mask> recorded nine combined tackles in the Seahawks' 28–24 loss to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX. 2015
On February 24, 2015, <mask> underwent surgery to repair his shoulder injury after he separated it during the NFC Championship Game. He was expected to miss 6–8 months and subsequently missed training camp and the preseason. The Seattle Seahawks' promoted defensive backs coach Kris Richard to defensive coordinator after Dan Quinn accepted the head coaching position with the Atlanta Falcons.Richard retained <mask> and Kam Chancellor as the starting safeties to begin the regular season. He started in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener at the St. Louis Rams and collected a season-high nine combined tackles in their 34–31 loss. On October 18, 2015, <mask> made four combined tackles, a season-high four pass deflections, and an interception during a 27–23 loss to the Carolina Panthers. He intercepted a pass by quarterback Cam Newton, that was originally intended for wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery, in the first quarter. On December 22, 2015, it was announced that <mask> was voted to
the 2016 Pro Bowl, marking his fifth consecutive selection. <mask> elected not to play in the 2016 Pro Bowl in an attempt to get his body healthy and was replaced by Harrison Smith. He started in all 16 games in 2015 and recorded 64 combined tackles (45 solo), nine pass deflections, five interceptions, and one forced fumble.He was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2016. 2016
On October 30, 2016, <mask> recorded two combined tackles, deflected a pass, and returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown during a 25–20 loss at the New Orleans Saints in Week 8. <mask> recovered a fumble and returned it for a 34-yard touchdown after Cliff Avril stripped the ball from Saints' running back Mark Ingram during the first quarter. Afterwards, <mask> hugged a referee, the side judge Alex Kemp, and was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for doing it. In Week 10, he collected a season-high nine combined tackles in the Seahawks' 31–24 win at the New England Patriots. On November 20, 2016, <mask> made four combined tackles and a pass deflection before exiting in the third quarter of the Seahawks' 26–15 win against the Philadelphia Eagles due to a hamstring injury. His injury sidelined him for the Seahawks' Week 12 loss at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and became the first game he missed during his career.The injury ended his streak of 107 consecutive regular season games. On December 4, 2016, <mask> suffered a broken tibia after he collided with teammate Kam Chancellor while breaking up a pass in the second quarter of the Seahawks' 40–7 victory against the Carolina Panthers in Week 13. He tweeted shortly after the injury that he was considering retirement. On December 6, 2016, the Seattle Seahawks officially placed <mask> on injured reserve. Before being placed on IR, <mask> was leading all safeties in Pro Bowl votes making it likely he would have gone to his sixth straight. He finished the 2016 season with 48 combined tackles (24 solo), a career-high ten pass deflections, two interceptions, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown in 11 games and 11 starts. Despite the injury, <mask> was still ranked 30th by his peers on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2017.2017
<mask> started in the Seattle Seahawks' season-opener at the Green Bay Packers and collected a season-high 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and a pass deflection in their 17-9 loss. He also had an interception off Aaron Rodgers that was negated by an offsides penalty on defensive end Michael Bennett. In Week 5, <mask> piled up seven tackles, intercepted Jared Goff, and forced a fumble at the goal line on Todd Gurley in a 16–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams, earning him NFC Defensive Player of the Week. In Week 8, against the Houston Texans, <mask> recorded a 78-yard interception return for a touchdown off Deshaun Watson, the second pick-six of his career. <mask> would also add five tackles in the 41–38 victory, although he suffered a hamstring injury late in the fourth quarter. On December 19, 2017, <mask> was named to his sixth Pro Bowl. <mask> was ranked #48 by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2018.2018
At the start of the 2018 season, <mask> did not report to training camp expressing that he would hold out until the Seahawks either renegotiated his current contract or traded him to another team. After missing all of training camp and the preseason, <mask> reported to the Seahawks just days prior to Week 1 and was activated to the roster. On September 9, 2018, during the season opener against the Denver Broncos, <mask> recorded an interception from quarterback Case Keenum just five minutes into the game. This marked his 9th consecutive season recording an interception. In Week 3, against the Dallas Cowboys, <mask> recorded his second career game with two interceptions in the 24–13 victory. During a Week 4 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals, <mask> was carted off the field in the fourth quarter with a lower leg injury with an air cast attached to it, and gave "the finger" to Pete Carroll. It proved to be the last time he would take the field in a Seahawks uniform; he had suffered a broken leg, ending his 2018 season.He was placed on injured reserve on October 2, 2018. Baltimore Ravens
On March 13, 2019, <mask> signed a four-year, $55 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens with $32 million guaranteed. He had agreed in principle to sign a one-year, $12 million deal with the Kansas City Chiefs a day earlier; the Chiefs were about to ferry him to Kansas City on a private jet when the Ravens outbid them at the last minute. After years of playing in the Seahawks' relatively simple Cover 3 scheme, <mask> initially found it hard to adjust to the Ravens' more complicated system. However, during the season opener against the Miami Dolphins, <mask> intercepted quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick on the Ravens' first defensive series of the season, prompting one defensive coach to yell, "We got <mask>!" It marked the 10th consecutive season in which <mask> recorded at least one interception. The Ravens went on to win 59–10.During the Ravens' Week 4 game against the Cleveland Browns, <mask> lost some goodwill with Ravens fans when he missed a chance to stop an 88-yard touchdown burst by Nick Chubb. <mask> said he pulled up at midfield because he had pulled a hamstring on a similar play during his days in Seattle (in 2017 against the Houston Texans), and did not want to risk injury. On October 6, 2019, in a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, <mask> made a helmet-to-helmet hit which knocked Steelers QB Mason Rudolph unconscious. Rudolph did not return for the rest of the game. On October 21, <mask> was fined $21,000 for the hit. In week 9 against the New England Patriots, <mask> recorded his second interception of the season, picking off Tom Brady in the 37–20 win. In week 10 against the Cincinnati Bengals, <mask> recovered a fumble forced by teammate Chuck Clark on running back Giovani Bernard in the 49–13 win.In week 14 against the Buffalo Bills, <mask> recorded a team high 7 tackles and sacked Josh Allen during the 24–17 win, clinching a playoff berth. In the Divisional Round of the playoffs against the Tennessee Titans, <mask> recorded a team-high 7 tackles and sacked quarterback Ryan Tannehill during the 28–12 loss. On August 21, 2020, <mask> and fellow safety Chuck Clark got into an argument during practice after <mask> missed a coverage that allowed Mark Andrews to score a long touchdown. <mask> threw his helmet down and punched Clark and was sent home. After the Ravens told <mask> not to come to practice on August 22, they released him on August 23 for conduct detrimental to the team–or, as the team put it, "personal conduct that has adversely affected the Baltimore Ravens". His release came after players told coach John Harbaugh and general manager Eric DeCosta that they did not want <mask> on the team. Harbaugh consulted the team's "Leadership Council" of veteran players, and only one of them wanted <mask> to return.No other team signed him during the season. According to an article by The Athletic, even though <mask> had made seven of the last nine Pro Bowls, he had developed a reputation for being "uncoachable." According to a number of his former Seahawks teammates and coaches, the Seahawks had been able to manage the situation until 2017, when Chancellor suffered a career-ending neck injury (he did not play at all in 2018 and retired the following spring) and Sherman had his season ended by a ruptured Achilles tendon. In what proved to be a warning sign, <mask> put out feelers to the Cowboys, which was dismissed at the time as "<mask> being <mask>." By 2018, he frequently refused to practice, ostensibly to protect his value in free agency. While in Baltimore, <mask> never really became a part of the Ravens' locker-room culture. He was often fined for skipping meetings or showing up late, and left the team on his own at least twice.During the 2020 preseason, <mask> became increasingly surly and withdrawn, frequently skipping meetings and walk-throughs. The altercation with Clark happened in part because Clark believed <mask> would not have blown the coverage had he taken part in walk-throughs. According to The Athletic, <mask>' reputation for being uncoachable and a poor teammate was a major reason why no other team called his number after the Ravens released him. Reportedly, the Houston Texans mulled signing him, but backed off after several players let it be known they did not want him on the team. NFL career statistics
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On May 6, 2020, it was reported by TMZ that on April 13, <mask> was allegedly held at gunpoint by his wife Nina after finding him and his brother, <mask>, in bed with other women. <mask>'s arrest was reported the following day. In November 2020, <mask> filed for divorce.She was later granted a restraining order against her husband. See also
Legion of Boom
List of Texas Longhorns football All-Americans
List of Seattle Seahawks first-round draft picks
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Texas Longhorns bio
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He was an all-state selection at defensive back, running back and wide receiver.He was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 <mask> was a member of the 4 200 meters relay team that reached the state finals and competed as a sprinter and jumper. He finished second in the long jump at the Region 3-3A Meet, with a personal-best mark of 7.14 meters. <mask> was a four-star recruit according to Rivals.com. There were 12 athletes in 2007. <mask> attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played football for coach Mack Brown. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217He also had a blocked kick. <mask> was named to the Freshman All-America team, College Football News' All-Freshman first team, and Rivals.com's Freshman All-America team. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 The Longhorns were perfect in the regular season and lost to Alabama in the National Championship Game. The third defensive back taken after Eric Berry and Joe Haden was <mask>, who chose to forgo his final two seasons of eligibility at Texas. On January 8, 2010, <mask> released a statement through the University of Texas which announced his decision to forgo his remaining eligibility and enter the 2010 NFL draft. He did most of the drills at the combine, but skipped the short shuttle and three-cone drill.He improved his 40-yard dash, 20-yard dash, and 10-yard dash at Texas' pro day on March 31, 2010. <mask> was unable to complete his performance due to an injury he sustained during his workout. He attended pre-draft visits and private workouts with several teams. <mask> was projected to be a first round pick at the conclusion of the pre-draft process. He was ranked as the second best safety in the draft, as well as the second best defensive back, and was ranked the second best defensive back by DraftScout.com. <mask> was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. Eric Berry was the second safety drafted.He was one of the youngest players eligible for the draft. On July 31, 2010, the Seattle Seahawks signed <mask> to a five-year, $18.30 million contract that included $11.75 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $500,000. The strong safety Lawyer Milloy and the free safety <mask> were named to start the season. He made his professional regular season debut and first career start in the Seattle Seahawks' 31–6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. In Week 3 of the 2010 season, <mask> made six combined tackles, two pass deflections, and two interceptions in a 27–20 victory against the San Diego Chargers. <mask> made his first career pick off a Philip Rivers pass, which was intended for Antonio Gates, and returned it for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. In Week 10 of the 2010 season, he had a season-high eight solo tackles in the victory over the Arizona Cardinals.<mask> returned a blocked punt for a touchdown in a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 12. <mask> returned a blocked punt for a touchdown in the first quarter. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 The Seattle Seahawks earned a playoff spot after finishing first in their division with a 7-9 record. On January 9, 2011, <mask> started in his first career playoff game and recorded eight solo tackles and a pass deflection in a 41–36 victory against the New Orleans Saints. He made four solo tackles in the week leading up to the Bears game. <mask> was slated to be the starting free safety.The starting safeties for the regular season will be <mask> and Kam Chancellor. He had a season-high ten combined tackles in Week 8 of the season. In the Week 9 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, <mask> recorded a season-high eight solo tackles. <mask> was selected to play in the 2012 Pro Bowl, marking the first Pro Bowl selection of his career. Kam Chancellor and Brandon Browner were selected to the Pro Bowl. He was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 <mask> was ranked 66th on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012 and was named second-team All-Pro.Kam Chancellor and <mask> were the starting safety duo. In Week 9 of the 2012 season, <mask> had a season-high seven tackles and a pass defensed in a 30–20 victory against the Minnesota Vikings. In Week 10, he tied his season-high of seven combined tackles as the Seahawks defeated the New York Jets. <mask> recorded five combined tackles, broke up a pass, and had the first pick of his career during a 50–17 win at the Buffalo Bills in Week 15 of the 2012 season. In the third quarter, <mask> picked off a Ryan Fitzpatrick pass and returned it 57 yards for a touchdown. On December 26, 2012 it was announced that <mask> was selected to the Pro Bowl and that the only member of the Seattle defense to be selected in 2012 was <mask>. <mask> started in 16 games in 2012 and recorded 66 tackles, including 42 solo, nine pass deflections, three intercepts, and one touchdown.He was selected to the All-Pro Team on January 2. The Seattle Seahawks earned a Wild Card spot after finishing second in theNFC West with an 11–5 record. <mask> started in the Wild Card round of the playoffs and made four tackles, a pass deflection, and an intercept in the victory over Washington. He recorded four combined tackles, broke up a pass, and picked off a Matt Ryan pass in a 30–28 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Kam Chancellor, Richard Sherman, and Brandon Browner were retained as the starting safeties and Richard Sherman, Brandon Browner, and <mask> were retained as the starting corners. In the fourth week of the season, he recorded seven solo tackles, forced a turnover, and made an intercept in a win over the Houston Texans. <mask> had a season-high ten solo tackles and one pass deflection in a 14–9 victory at the St. Louis Rams in Week 9.He had a season-high 12 tackles combined in the Seahawks' 27– 24 win against the Buccaneers in Week 10. On December 27 of last year, it was announced that <mask> had been selected to the Pro Bowl, but that he had been replaced by Antrel Rolle. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 A total of 78 solo passes, nine pass deflections, five intercepts, and two forced turnovers. The Seattle Seahawks earned a first round bye after finishing first in theNFC West with a 13–3 record. On January 11, <mask> recorded 11 combined tackles (seven solo) and broke up two passes as the Seahawks defeated the New Orleans Saints 23–15 in the Divisional Round. They defeated the San Francisco 49ers in the playoffs.On February 2, 2014, <mask> started in Super Bowl XLVIII and made seven combined tackles and a pass deflection during a 43–8 victory against the Denver Broncos. On April 28, 2014, the Seattle Seahawks signed <mask> to a four-year, $40 million contract extension with $27.72 million guaranteed and a signing bonus of $9.50 million. In Week 10 of the season, <mask> made his only interception of the season and recorded six combined tackles in a 38–17 victory against the New York Giants. <mask> returned the Eli Manning pass for a 47-yard gain in the fourth quarter. In the Week 17 win against the Rams, he had a season-high 12 combined tackles. <mask> was selected to play in the Pro Bowl on December 23, 2015. He finished the season with 97 combined tackles, five pass deflections, three forced turnovers, and an intercept in 16 games and 16 starts.The Seahawks had the top-ranked defense in the NFL in fewest points allowed for the third straight season and finished atop theNFC West with a 12–4 record. On January 10, 2015, <mask> collected 11 combined tackles (five solo), two passes defended, and a forced fumbled as the Seahawks defeated the Carolina Panthers 31–17 in the Divisional Round. He made five tackles in the week, but injured his shoulder in the second quarter of the game against the Packers. <mask> had nine tackles in the Super Bowl XLIX loss to New England. On February 24, 2015, <mask> had surgery to repair his shoulder injury. He missed training camp and the preseason after being expected to miss 6 months. Kris Richard, the defensive backs coach for the Seattle Seahawks, was promoted to defensive coordinator after DanQuinn accepted the head coaching position with the Atlanta Falcons.The starting safeties for the regular season were retained by Richard. He had a season-high nine combined tackles in Seattle's 34–31 loss to the Rams. On October 18, 2015, <mask> made four combined tackles, a season-high four pass deflections, and an intercept in a 27–23 loss to the Carolina Panthers. In the first quarter, he picked up a pass that was intended for a wide receiver. <mask> was voted to the 2016 Pro Bowl for the fifth year in a row. <mask> decided not to play in the Pro Bowl in order to get his body healthy and was replaced by Harrison Smith. 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During the first quarter, <mask> recovered a fumbled ball and returned it for a touchdown. Afterwards, <mask> hugged a referee and was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. In Week 10, he had a season-high nine tackles in the win over New England. <mask> left the game against the Philadelphia Eagles in the third quarter due to a leg injury. He missed the first game of his career due to an injury he sustained in the Week 12 loss to the Buccaneers.His streak of games without an injury ended. On December 4, 2016 <mask> broke his leg when he collided with teammate Kam Chancellor while breaking up a pass in the second quarter of the Seahawks' victory against the Carolina Panthers. He was considering retirement after the injury. <mask> was placed on injured reserve by the Seattle Seahawks. <mask> would have gone to his sixth straight Pro Bowl if he hadn't been placed on IR. He finished the 2016 season with 48 combined tackles, a career-high ten pass deflections, two interceptions, and a touchdown in 11 games and 11 starts. Despite the injury, <mask> was still ranked 30th by his peers.In the Seattle Seahawks' season opener against the Green Bay Packers, <mask> started and collected a season-high 11 combined tackles. He had an intercept off Rodgers that was nullified by a penalty on defensive end Michael Bennett. In Week 5 of the season, <mask> had seven tackles, an intercept, and a fumbled the ball at the goal line in a 16–10 win over the Los Angeles Rams. <mask> recorded his second pick-six of his career in Week 8 against the Houston Texans. <mask> was hurt late in the fourth quarter and did not play in the second half. <mask> was named to the Pro Bowl for the sixth time. The top 100 players of the year were ranked by <mask>.<mask> didn't report to training camp at the start of the year because he didn't want to be traded to another team. <mask> was activated to the roster just days before Week 1 after missing all of training camp and the preseason. Just five minutes into the season opener against the Denver Broncos, <mask> picked off Case Keenum. This was his ninth consecutive season in which he recorded an intercept. In Week 3, against the Dallas Cowboys, <mask> recorded his second career game with two picks up. <mask> was carted off the field in the fourth quarter with a lower leg injury with an air cast attached to it and gave Pete Carroll the finger. It was the last time he would play in a Seattle uniform because of a broken leg.He was placed on injured reserve. <mask> signed a four-year, $55 million contract with the Baltimore Ravens. He had agreed in principle to sign a one-year, $12 million deal with the Kansas City Chiefs a day earlier, but the Chiefs were about to ferry him to Kansas City on a private jet when the Ravens outbid them at the last minute. <mask> found it hard to adjust to the Ravens' more complicated system after years of playing in the Cover 3 scheme. During the Ravens' season opener against the Miami Dolphins, one defensive coach yelled, "We got <mask>!" after <mask> picked off Fitzpatrick. It was the 10th season in a row in which <mask> had at least one intercept. The Ravens won 59–10.During the Ravens' Week 4 game against the Cleveland Browns, <mask> lost some goodwill with Ravens fans when he missed a chance to stop Nick Chubb. <mask> said he pulled a hamstring on a similar play during his days in Seattle and didn't want to hurt himself. On October 6, 2019, <mask> made a helmet-to-helmet hit which knocked the Pittsburgh quarterback out of the game. He didn't return for the rest of the game. <mask> was fined $21,000 for the hit. <mask> picked off Tom Brady in the 37–20 win over New England in week 9. <mask> recovered a fumbled ball by teammate Chuck Clark in the 49–13 win over Cincinnati in week 10.During the 24–17 win over the Buffalo Bills, <mask> recorded a team high 7 tackles and sacked Josh Allen. During the Divisional Round of the playoffs, <mask> recorded a team-high 7 tackles and sacked quarterback Ryan Tannehill. On August 21, 2020, <mask> and Chuck Clark got into an argument after <mask> missed a coverage that allowed Mark Andrews to score a long touchdown. <mask> punched Clark and was sent home. After the Ravens told <mask> not to come to practice on August 22, they released him on August 23 for conduct detrimental to the team–or, as the team put it, "personal conduct that has adversely affected the Baltimore Ravens". The players told Harbaugh and DeCosta that they didn't want <mask> on the team. Harbaugh consulted the team's "Leadership Council" of veteran players, and only one of them wanted <mask> to stay.He wasn't signed by any other team during the season. According to an article by The Athletic, even though <mask> had made seven of the last nine Pro Bowls, he had developed a reputation for being uncoachable. According to a number of his former teammates and coaches, the Seahawks were able to manage the situation until 2017: when Chancellor suffered a career-ending neck injury and Sherman had his season ended by an injury. The Cowboys were dismissed as "<mask> being <mask>" when <mask> put out feelers to them. He refused to practice in order to protect his value in free agency. <mask> wasn't a part of the Ravens' locker-room culture. He was often fined for skipping meetings or showing up late, and left the team on his own at least twice.<mask> became withdrawn and surly during the preseason. Clark believed <mask> would not have blown the coverage had he taken part in walk-throughs. According to The Athletic, <mask>' reputation for being uncoachable and a poor teammate was a major reason why no other team called his number after he was released by the Ravens. Several players let it be known they did not want him on the team, so the Houston Texans decided against signing him. On May 6, 2020, it was reported that <mask> was held at gun point by his wife after finding him and his brother in bed with other women. <mask>'s arrest was reported the next day. In November 2020, <mask> filed for divorce.She was granted a restraining order against her husband. Texas Longhorns football All-Americans List of Seattle Seahawks first-round draft picks References External links | [
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949371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Aickman | Robert Aickman | Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories".
The writer of his obituary in The Times, as quoted by Mike Ashley, said, "... his most outstanding and lasting achievement was as a writer of what he himself like to call 'strange tales.' He brought to these his immense knowledge of the occult, psychological insights and a richness of background and characterisation which rank his stories with those of M.R. James and Walter de la Mare." Ashley himself wrote: "Aickman's writings are an acquired taste like fine wines. I have no doubt that his work will always remain unknown to the majority of readers, and perhaps he would have wanted it that way. He wrote what and how he wanted, for expression, not for popularity. In another of his letters to me he said 'I have received a good deal of esteem, but never a big commercial success, and am usually wondering whether anything by me will ever be published again.' ... It is astonishing that someone of Aickman's stature should have difficulty in selling his work. Perhaps now, too late for Aickman's benefit, someone will have the sense to publish it." This situation has since been remedied by an extensive programme of reprints of Aickman's work by Tartarus Press, Faber, and New York Review Books Classics.
Life
Aickman was born in London, England, the son of architect William Arthur Aickman and Mabel Violet Marsh. He attended Highgate School from January 1928 until July 1931. Mike Ashley reported that at the time he compiled his Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, Aickman objected to the inclusion of his date of birth. Instead he said that the entry should read "Aickman, Robert. Man of Mystery". "That", he said, "would be helpful. I should approve entirely." On his mother's side, Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh (1857–1915), known for his occult thriller The Beetle (1897), a book as popular in its time as Bram Stoker's Dracula.
He was involved in an investigation into the well-known haunting of Borley Rectory. Another indication of his lifelong interest in the supernatural is his longstanding membership of the Society for Psychical Research and The Ghost Club. He remarked in a letter to Mike Ashley, "What impact such things have had on me, and the sources of my inspiration, are simply too much for a letter. If you wish to pursue such topics, I shall be pleased to have a talk." Unfortunately that talk never took place, but Ashley points out that Aickman's early life, including some supernatural episodes, will be found detailed in his autobiography, The Attempted Rescue (Gollancz, 1966).
He originally helped with some clerical work in his father's architectural office. In the opening lines of The Attempted Rescue, Aickman described his father as "the oddest man I have ever known".
Of Aickman's character, Elizabeth Jane Howard said in a 2011 interview at the Tartarus Press blog, that he "hated children" and of his childhood that "He told me about his childhood but I think he exaggerated that. I went to the house in Stanmore where he was brought up, and his mother did go and leave him, and that probably had a much worse effect than he realised on him. He was reading by the time he was four and he went to very good schools. Highgate was a very good school. I think it probably was a fairly lonely childhood. … He could be very prickly and difficult, or he could be very charming. He certainly had the gift of the gab."
Aickman was married to literary agent and children's book author Edith Ray Gregorson (1914–1983) (known as 'Ray') from 1941 to 1957. She authored Lemuel (illustrated by Peter Scott, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard, with whom Aickman had an affair) and Timothy Tramcar.
He had been responsible for the general direction of the very successful Market Harborough Festival of Boats and Yachts, attended by more than 50,000 visitors. This was topped in 1962 when he directed the Waterborne concert with fireworks at the City of London Festival, with an audience of 100,000.
With a keen interest in the theatre, ballet, and music, Aickman also served as a chairman of the London Opera Society (1954–69) and was active in the London Opera Club, the Ballet Minerva, and the Mikron Theatre Company (a company which performs via touring the canal waterways of Britain).
In the mid-1970s, Aickman lived in a flat in Willoughby House on the Barbican Estate. In 1977 he moved to a flat in Gledhow Gardens, Earls Court, where he lived until his death.
Aickman was diagnosed with cancer in the winter of 1979. He refused to have conventional treatment and consulted a homoeopath. He had planned to go to the US in the autumn of 1980, to receive a fantasy award, but he was too ill to travel, despite rallying in the summer. He died in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital on 26 February 1981. His obituary appeared in The Times on 28 February. Later, there was a memorial concert at the Royal Society of Arts, at which various well-known people, including the naturalist Sir Peter Scott, paid tribute to him.
In 2015 R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker of Tartarus Press released a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Robert Aickman, which was premiered at the World Fantasy Convention. It includes interviews with friends of Robert Aickman, and the authors Reggie Oliver and Jeremy Dyson. It can now be seen on YouTube.
Conservation
Aickman is probably best remembered for his co-founding of the Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's then-neglected and largely derelict inland canal system.
The association was sparked off by a letter sent by Aickman to L. T. C. Rolt following the publication in 1944 of Rolt's highly successful book Narrow Boat, describing the declining and largely unknown world of the British canals. The inaugural meeting took place on 15 February 1946 in London, with Aickman as chairman and Rolt as honorary secretary.
The IWA organised successful campaigns and attracted notable supporters, including as president the writer and parliamentarian Sir A. P. Herbert and as vice-president the naturalist Peter Scott. Scott's wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, was part-time secretary, working in Aickman's flat in Gower Street; she had an affair with Aickman, which she describes in her autobiography Slipstream (Macmillan, 2002).
Aickman began to have policy disagreements with Rolt. Aickman wanted to campaign to keep all of the waterways open, whereas Rolt had sympathies with the traditional canal workers and believed it necessary to prioritise which canals could be kept open. The disagreement became public: Aickman had organised the IWA's first boat rally and festival in August 1950 and attempted to prevent Rolt from attending and promoting his book The Inland Waterways of England; nevertheless, Rolt attended, as did his publisher, Philip Unwin. Aickman engineered a change to the rules to require all members to conform to agreed IWA principles, and in early 1951 Rolt and others were excluded from membership. Aickman published two nonfiction books on the waterways in 1955.
Nevertheless, the IWA has been one of the most successful conservation organisations in British history, succeeding in restoring and reopening much of the original canal network.
Literary work
Fiction
As a writer, Aickman is best known for the 48 "strange stories" that were published in eight volumes, one of them posthumous. The American collection Painted Devils consists of revised versions of stories which had previously appeared in other books.
After three of his stories appeared in We Are for the Dark (1954), occasional short stories appeared in magazines and anthologies during the rest of the 1950s, but Aickman's involvement with his many societies kept him from any writing at length. The year 1964 thus came as a watershed, with a slightly mystical novel, The Late Breakfasters, a story collection (Dark Entries) and the first Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, which he edited for eight volumes. "Those, if any, who wish to know more about me", Aickman wrote in 1965, "should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters." Opening as a comedy of manners, its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the great Greek myth of thwarted love.
His own subsequent collections were Powers of Darkness (1966), Sub Rosa (1968), Cold Hand in Mine (1976), Tales of Love and Death (1977) and Intrusions (1980).
In the essay that Aickman wrote in response to receiving a World Fantasy Award, he wrote:
Cold Hand in Mine and Painted Devils featured dust jacket drawings by acclaimed gothic illustrator Edward Gorey. August Derleth proposed that Arkham House should publish a book of Aickman's best stories, but was unable to meet the author's demands and withdrew the proposal. The original collections of short stories are quite scarce, though copies of the U.S. edition of Cold Hand in Mine are very plentiful.
The Model: A Novel of the Fantastic (New York: Arbor House, 1987) was a novella which remained unpublished in his lifetime. Aickman had hoped to have the work illustrated by Edward Gorey. According to Mike Ashley, "Aickman bemoaned the lack of publisher interest in this work of about 35,000 words."
Tartarus Press published a new collection of unpublished and uncollected fiction and non-fiction in 2015 as The Strangers and Other Writings.
Awards
In 1975, Aickman received the World Fantasy Award for short fiction for his story "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal". This story had originally appeared in February 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; it was reprinted in Cold Hand in Mine. The winning of this award pleased Aickman immensely, as at that time he considered it his best story.
In 1981, the year of his death, Aickman was awarded the British Fantasy Award for his story "The Stains", which had first appeared in the anthology New Terrors (London: Pan, 1980), edited by Ramsey Campbell. It subsequently appeared posthumously in Night Voices.
Adaptations
In 1968, a television adaptation of "Ringing the Changes", retitled "The Bells of Hell", appeared on the BBC 2 programme Late Night Horror. A radio play version based on "Ringing the Changes" was broadcast on the CBC Radio drama series Nightfall on 31 October 1980.
In 1987, HTV West produced a six-episode anthology series for television called Night Voices, of which four were based upon stories by Aickman: "The Hospice", "The Inner Room", "Hand In Glove" and "The Trains".
A 1997 adaptation of "The Swords", directed by Tony Scott appeared as the first episode of the cable original horror anthology series The Hunger.
Jeremy Dyson has adapted Aickman's work into drama in a number of forms. A musical staging of his short story "The Same Dog", for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall. In 2000, with his League of Gentlemen collaborator Mark Gatiss, Dyson adapted Aickman's short story "Ringing the Changes" into a BBC Radio Four radio play. This aired exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation, on Halloween 2000. Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on Aickman's story "The Cicerones" with Gatiss as the principal actor.
In August 2019 BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast five of Aickman's short stories as part of its Short Works series. "Just a Song at Twilight", "Le Miroir", "Raising the Wind", "The Coffin House" and "The Fully-Conducted Tour" were read by Tim McInnerny.
As editor
In addition to writing his own stories, Aickman edited the first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories between 1964 and 1972. He was assisted in this by Christine Bernard, an editor at Collins. He selected six of his own stories for inclusion over the course of the series. The fourth and sixth volumes lack one of his tales. He also supplied an introduction for every volume except the sixth.
Nonfiction
Aickman's autobiographical writing consists of the two memoirs The Attempted Rescue (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) and The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure (Burton-on-Trent: Pearson, 1986). In 2001, Tartarus Press reissued the former volume in a new edition with a foreword by the writer and Aickman enthusiast Jeremy Dyson. Tartarus also reprinted the latter, with extra text which had been edited out of the first edition.
For a time, Aickman served as theatre critic for The Nineteenth Century and After. His reviews remain, to date, uncollected in book form. He also wrote two books relating to his conservation activities, Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways (both 1955).
Unpublished works
Aickman produced a number of works that remain unpublished. These include the plays Allowance for Error, Duty and The Golden Round. A philosophical work entitled Panacea: The Synthesis of an Attitude runs to over 1,000 pages in manuscript form. Copies of these items are preserved, along with Aickman's manuscripts and other papers, in the Robert Aickman Collection at the British Library, with some papers deposited at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
Bibliography
Fiction
Novels
The Late Breakfasters. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Library reprint: Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1978. Reprint: London: Faber Finds, 2014; Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books, 2016.
The Model. New York: Arbor House, 1987. Reprint: London: Faber Finds, 2014.
Go Back at Once. Tartarus Press, 2020 (a novel written in the 1970s, which remained unpublished until this limited edition of 500 copies).
Short story collections
Original collections
We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. (Collection containing three stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard and the following three by Aickman):
"The Trains" (first published in The Tatler, Christmas 1951, as by Elizabeth Jane Howard and Robert Aickman)
"The Insufficient Answer"
"The View"
Note: Howard's stories here are collected, with an additional story, "Mr Wrong" in her Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories (Tartarus Press, ).
Dark Entries: Curious and Macabre Ghost Stories. London: Collins, 1964. Reprint: London: Faber, 2014.
"The School Friend"
"Ringing the Changes"
"Choice of Weapons"
"The Waiting Room" (first published in The Sketch, Christmas 1956)
"The View"
"Bind Your Hair"
Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories. London: Collins, 1966.
"Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen" (first published in The Tatler, Christmas 1953)
"My Poor Friend"
"The Visiting Star" (first published in The Tatler, 13 November 1952)
"Larger than Oneself"
"A Roman Question"
"The Wine-Dark Sea"
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales. London: Victor Gollancz, 1968.
"Ravissante"
"The Inner Room"
"Never Visit Venice"
"The Unsettled Dust"
"The Houses of the Russians"
"No Stronger than a Flower"
"The Cicerones"
"Into the Wood"
Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories. London: Victor Gollancz, 1975. Reprint: Faber, 2014, with a new introduction, "Uneasy Does It: An Introduction to Robert Aickman" by Reece Shearsmith and a new afterword, "Memories of a Friend", by Jean Richardson.
"The Swords"
"The Real Road to the Church"
"Niemandswasser"
"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal"
"The Hospice"
"The Same Dog"
"Meeting Mr Millar"
"The Clock Watcher"
Tales of Love and Death. London: Victor Gollancz, 1977.
"Growing Boys"
"Marriage"
"Le Miroir"
"Compulsory Games"
"Raising the Wind"
"Residents Only"
"Wood"
Intrusions: Strange Tales. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.
"Hand in Glove"
"No Time Is Passing"
"The Fetch"
"The Breakthrough"
"The Next Glade"
"Letters to the Postman"
Night Voices: Strange Stories. London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. (Reprints "The Trains" and also includes the following):
"The Stains"
"Just a Song at Twilight"
"Laura"
"Rosamund's Bower"
"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale"
The Strangers and Other Writings. Tartarus Press, 2015. (Collects unpublished and uncollected fiction and non-fiction. Fiction only listed here):
"The Case of Wallingford's Tiger"
"The Whistler"
"A Disciple of Plato"
"The Coffin House"
"The Flying Anglo-Dutchman"
"The Strangers"
"The Fully-Conducted Tour"
Reprint collections
Painted Devils: Strange Stories. New York: Scribner's, 1979. (Revised stories):
"Ravissante"
"The Houses of the Russians"
"The View"
"Ringing the Changes"
"The School Friend"
"The Waiting Room"
"Marriage"
"Larger than Oneself"
"My Poor Friend"
The Wine-Dark Sea. New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988. Reprint: London: Faber, 2014.
"The Wine-Dark Sea"
"The Trains"
"Your Tiny Hand is Frozen"
"Growing Boys"
"The Fetch"
"The Inner Room"
"Never Visit Venice"
"The Next Glade" (Removed from Faber edition)
"Into the Wood"
"Bind Your Hair" (Removed from Faber edition)
"The Stains" (Removed from Faber edition)
The Unsettled Dust. London: Mandarin, 1990. Reprint: London: Faber, 2014.
"The Unsettled Dust"
"The Houses of the Russians"
"No Stronger than a Flower"
"The Cicerones"
"The Next Glade"
"Ravissante"
"Bind Your Hair"
"The Stains"
The Collected Strange Stories. Horam, East Sussex: Tartarus/Durtro, 1999. (Two volumes)
The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories. Richmond, VA: Valancourt, 2016. (Reprints the 1964 novel and the following short stories)
"My Poor Friend"
"The Visiting Star"
"Larger Than Oneself"
"A Roman Question"
"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale"
"Rosamund's Bower"
Compulsory Games. New York, NY: NYRB Classics, 2018.
"Compulsory Games"
"Hand in Glove"
"Marriage"
"Le Miroir"
"No Time Is Passing"
"Raising the Wind"
"Residents Only"
"Wood"
"The Strangers"
"The Coffin House"
"Letters to the Postman"
"Laura"
"The Fully-Conducted Tour"
"A Disciple of Plato"
"Just a Song at Twilight"
Nonfiction
Know Your Waterways. London: Coram, 1955.
The Story of Our Inland Waterways. London: Pitman, 1955.
Autobiography
The Attempted Rescue. London: Victor Gollancz 1966.
The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure. Burton on Trent: Pearson, 1986.
References
Sources
Further reading
Bolton, David. Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved. London: Methuen, 1990. (Contains a great deal of material about Aickman, including several photographs, and the final chapter is devoted to him.)
Briggs, Scott D. "Robert Aickman: Sojourns into the Unknown". Studies in Weird Fiction 12 (Spring 1993), pp. 7–12.
Challinor, Philip. Akin to Poetry: Observations on Some Strange Tales of Robert Aickman. Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2010. (Eight critical essays.)
Clute, John. "Robert Aickman, 1914–1981". Strokes: Essays and Reviews, 1966–1986. Seattle: Serconia Press, 1988. (Revised version of Clute's essay in Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, ed. E. F. Bleiler [New York: Scribners, 1985].)
Crawford, Gary William. "Love and Death in the Tales of Robert Aickman". Nyctalops 18 (1983), pp. 51–55. (Includes the bibliography "Robert Aickman: A Preliminary Checklist".)
———. "The Poetics of the Unconscious: The 'Strange' Stories of Robert Aickman". Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II, ed. Darrell Schweitzer. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1988.
———. Robert Aickman: An Introduction. Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2003. (The most detailed biographical and critical study produced to date.)
———, ed. Insufficient Answers. Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2012. (Three critical essays by different hands.)
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. London: Macmillan, 2002. (Autobiography including an account of her relationship with Aickman.)
Joshi, S. T. "So Little Is Definite". The Modern Weird Tale. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
Morris, Christine Pasanen. "The Female 'Outsider' in the Short Fiction of Robert Aickman". Nyctalops 18 (1983), pp. 55–58.
Ricketts, Martin. "Enigma Macabre: An Evaluation of the Short Stories of Robert Aickman". Shadow 3:1 (Nov. 1972), pp. 4–9.
Russell, R. B. Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography. North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2022. (First full-length biography.)
Articles, essays and papers by other authors have appeared on the website Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, and in the journals Studies in Weird Fiction (published by Necronomicon Press), All Hallows (published by the Ghost Story Society), Studies in the Fantastic, Supernatural Tales and Wormwood.
External links
Website devoted to life and works of Robert Aickman
The Works of Robert Aickman
"Aickman, Robert" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
Robert Aickman at the British Library
1914 births
1981 deaths
People educated at Highgate School
English conservationists
English fantasy writers
English short story writers
English memoirists
English horror writers
World Fantasy Award-winning writers
Ghost story writers
Parapsychologists
British waterways activists
20th-century English novelists
20th-century British short story writers
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"Robert Fordyce Aickman (27 June 1914 – 26 February 1981) was an English writer and conservationist.",
"As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system.",
"As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as \"strange stories\".",
"The writer of his obituary in The Times, as quoted by Mike Ashley, said, \"... his most outstanding and lasting achievement was as a writer of what he himself like to call 'strange tales.'",
"He brought to these his immense knowledge of the occult, psychological insights and a richness of background and characterisation which rank his stories with those of M.R.",
"James and Walter de la Mare.\"",
"Ashley himself wrote: \"Aickman's writings are an acquired taste like fine wines.",
"I have no doubt that his work will always remain unknown to the majority of readers, and perhaps he would have wanted it that way.",
"He wrote what and how he wanted, for expression, not for popularity.",
"In another of his letters to me he said 'I have received a good deal of esteem, but never a big commercial success, and am usually wondering whether anything by me will ever be published again.'",
"...",
"It is astonishing that someone of Aickman's stature should have difficulty in selling his work.",
"Perhaps now, too late for Aickman's benefit, someone will have the sense to publish it.\"",
"This situation has since been remedied by an extensive programme of reprints of Aickman's work by Tartarus Press, Faber, and New York Review Books Classics.",
"Life\nAickman was born in London, England, the son of architect William Arthur Aickman and Mabel Violet Marsh.",
"He attended Highgate School from January 1928 until July 1931.",
"Mike Ashley reported that at the time he compiled his Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, Aickman objected to the inclusion of his date of birth.",
"Instead he said that the entry should read \"Aickman, Robert.",
"Man of Mystery\".",
"\"That\", he said, \"would be helpful.",
"I should approve entirely.\"",
"On his mother's side, Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh (1857–1915), known for his occult thriller The Beetle (1897), a book as popular in its time as Bram Stoker's Dracula.",
"He was involved in an investigation into the well-known haunting of Borley Rectory.",
"Another indication of his lifelong interest in the supernatural is his longstanding membership of the Society for Psychical Research and The Ghost Club.",
"He remarked in a letter to Mike Ashley, \"What impact such things have had on me, and the sources of my inspiration, are simply too much for a letter.",
"If you wish to pursue such topics, I shall be pleased to have a talk.\"",
"Unfortunately that talk never took place, but Ashley points out that Aickman's early life, including some supernatural episodes, will be found detailed in his autobiography, The Attempted Rescue (Gollancz, 1966).",
"He originally helped with some clerical work in his father's architectural office.",
"In the opening lines of The Attempted Rescue, Aickman described his father as \"the oddest man I have ever known\".",
"Of Aickman's character, Elizabeth Jane Howard said in a 2011 interview at the Tartarus Press blog, that he \"hated children\" and of his childhood that \"He told me about his childhood but I think he exaggerated that.",
"I went to the house in Stanmore where he was brought up, and his mother did go and leave him, and that probably had a much worse effect than he realised on him.",
"He was reading by the time he was four and he went to very good schools.",
"Highgate was a very good school.",
"I think it probably was a fairly lonely childhood.",
"… He could be very prickly and difficult, or he could be very charming.",
"He certainly had the gift of the gab.\"",
"Aickman was married to literary agent and children's book author Edith Ray Gregorson (1914–1983) (known as 'Ray') from 1941 to 1957.",
"She authored Lemuel (illustrated by Peter Scott, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard, with whom Aickman had an affair) and Timothy Tramcar.",
"He had been responsible for the general direction of the very successful Market Harborough Festival of Boats and Yachts, attended by more than 50,000 visitors.",
"This was topped in 1962 when he directed the Waterborne concert with fireworks at the City of London Festival, with an audience of 100,000.",
"With a keen interest in the theatre, ballet, and music, Aickman also served as a chairman of the London Opera Society (1954–69) and was active in the London Opera Club, the Ballet Minerva, and the Mikron Theatre Company (a company which performs via touring the canal waterways of Britain).",
"In the mid-1970s, Aickman lived in a flat in Willoughby House on the Barbican Estate.",
"In 1977 he moved to a flat in Gledhow Gardens, Earls Court, where he lived until his death.",
"Aickman was diagnosed with cancer in the winter of 1979.",
"He refused to have conventional treatment and consulted a homoeopath.",
"He had planned to go to the US in the autumn of 1980, to receive a fantasy award, but he was too ill to travel, despite rallying in the summer.",
"He died in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital on 26 February 1981.",
"His obituary appeared in The Times on 28 February.",
"Later, there was a memorial concert at the Royal Society of Arts, at which various well-known people, including the naturalist Sir Peter Scott, paid tribute to him.",
"In 2015 R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker of Tartarus Press released a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Robert Aickman, which was premiered at the World Fantasy Convention.",
"It includes interviews with friends of Robert Aickman, and the authors Reggie Oliver and Jeremy Dyson.",
"It can now be seen on YouTube.",
"Conservation\n\nAickman is probably best remembered for his co-founding of the Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's then-neglected and largely derelict inland canal system.",
"The association was sparked off by a letter sent by Aickman to L. T. C. Rolt following the publication in 1944 of Rolt's highly successful book Narrow Boat, describing the declining and largely unknown world of the British canals.",
"The inaugural meeting took place on 15 February 1946 in London, with Aickman as chairman and Rolt as honorary secretary.",
"The IWA organised successful campaigns and attracted notable supporters, including as president the writer and parliamentarian Sir A. P. Herbert and as vice-president the naturalist Peter Scott.",
"Scott's wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, was part-time secretary, working in Aickman's flat in Gower Street; she had an affair with Aickman, which she describes in her autobiography Slipstream (Macmillan, 2002).",
"Aickman began to have policy disagreements with Rolt.",
"Aickman wanted to campaign to keep all of the waterways open, whereas Rolt had sympathies with the traditional canal workers and believed it necessary to prioritise which canals could be kept open.",
"The disagreement became public: Aickman had organised the IWA's first boat rally and festival in August 1950 and attempted to prevent Rolt from attending and promoting his book The Inland Waterways of England; nevertheless, Rolt attended, as did his publisher, Philip Unwin.",
"Aickman engineered a change to the rules to require all members to conform to agreed IWA principles, and in early 1951 Rolt and others were excluded from membership.",
"Aickman published two nonfiction books on the waterways in 1955.",
"Nevertheless, the IWA has been one of the most successful conservation organisations in British history, succeeding in restoring and reopening much of the original canal network.",
"Literary work\n\nFiction\nAs a writer, Aickman is best known for the 48 \"strange stories\" that were published in eight volumes, one of them posthumous.",
"The American collection Painted Devils consists of revised versions of stories which had previously appeared in other books.",
"After three of his stories appeared in We Are for the Dark (1954), occasional short stories appeared in magazines and anthologies during the rest of the 1950s, but Aickman's involvement with his many societies kept him from any writing at length.",
"The year 1964 thus came as a watershed, with a slightly mystical novel, The Late Breakfasters, a story collection (Dark Entries) and the first Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, which he edited for eight volumes.",
"\"Those, if any, who wish to know more about me\", Aickman wrote in 1965, \"should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters.\"",
"Opening as a comedy of manners, its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the great Greek myth of thwarted love.",
"His own subsequent collections were Powers of Darkness (1966), Sub Rosa (1968), Cold Hand in Mine (1976), Tales of Love and Death (1977) and Intrusions (1980).",
"In the essay that Aickman wrote in response to receiving a World Fantasy Award, he wrote:\n\nCold Hand in Mine and Painted Devils featured dust jacket drawings by acclaimed gothic illustrator Edward Gorey.",
"August Derleth proposed that Arkham House should publish a book of Aickman's best stories, but was unable to meet the author's demands and withdrew the proposal.",
"The original collections of short stories are quite scarce, though copies of the U.S. edition of Cold Hand in Mine are very plentiful.",
"The Model: A Novel of the Fantastic (New York: Arbor House, 1987) was a novella which remained unpublished in his lifetime.",
"Aickman had hoped to have the work illustrated by Edward Gorey.",
"According to Mike Ashley, \"Aickman bemoaned the lack of publisher interest in this work of about 35,000 words.\"",
"Tartarus Press published a new collection of unpublished and uncollected fiction and non-fiction in 2015 as The Strangers and Other Writings.",
"Awards\nIn 1975, Aickman received the World Fantasy Award for short fiction for his story \"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal\".",
"This story had originally appeared in February 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; it was reprinted in Cold Hand in Mine.",
"The winning of this award pleased Aickman immensely, as at that time he considered it his best story.",
"In 1981, the year of his death, Aickman was awarded the British Fantasy Award for his story \"The Stains\", which had first appeared in the anthology New Terrors (London: Pan, 1980), edited by Ramsey Campbell.",
"It subsequently appeared posthumously in Night Voices.",
"Adaptations\nIn 1968, a television adaptation of \"Ringing the Changes\", retitled \"The Bells of Hell\", appeared on the BBC 2 programme Late Night Horror.",
"A radio play version based on \"Ringing the Changes\" was broadcast on the CBC Radio drama series Nightfall on 31 October 1980.",
"In 1987, HTV West produced a six-episode anthology series for television called Night Voices, of which four were based upon stories by Aickman: \"The Hospice\", \"The Inner Room\", \"Hand In Glove\" and \"The Trains\".",
"A 1997 adaptation of \"The Swords\", directed by Tony Scott appeared as the first episode of the cable original horror anthology series The Hunger.",
"Jeremy Dyson has adapted Aickman's work into drama in a number of forms.",
"A musical staging of his short story \"The Same Dog\", for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall.",
"In 2000, with his League of Gentlemen collaborator Mark Gatiss, Dyson adapted Aickman's short story \"Ringing the Changes\" into a BBC Radio Four radio play.",
"This aired exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation, on Halloween 2000.",
"Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on Aickman's story \"The Cicerones\" with Gatiss as the principal actor.",
"In August 2019 BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast five of Aickman's short stories as part of its Short Works series.",
"\"Just a Song at Twilight\", \"Le Miroir\", \"Raising the Wind\", \"The Coffin House\" and \"The Fully-Conducted Tour\" were read by Tim McInnerny.",
"As editor\nIn addition to writing his own stories, Aickman edited the first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories between 1964 and 1972.",
"He was assisted in this by Christine Bernard, an editor at Collins.",
"He selected six of his own stories for inclusion over the course of the series.",
"The fourth and sixth volumes lack one of his tales.",
"He also supplied an introduction for every volume except the sixth.",
"Nonfiction\nAickman's autobiographical writing consists of the two memoirs The Attempted Rescue (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) and The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure (Burton-on-Trent: Pearson, 1986).",
"In 2001, Tartarus Press reissued the former volume in a new edition with a foreword by the writer and Aickman enthusiast Jeremy Dyson.",
"Tartarus also reprinted the latter, with extra text which had been edited out of the first edition.",
"For a time, Aickman served as theatre critic for The Nineteenth Century and After.",
"His reviews remain, to date, uncollected in book form.",
"He also wrote two books relating to his conservation activities, Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways (both 1955).",
"Unpublished works\nAickman produced a number of works that remain unpublished.",
"These include the plays Allowance for Error, Duty and The Golden Round.",
"A philosophical work entitled Panacea: The Synthesis of an Attitude runs to over 1,000 pages in manuscript form.",
"Copies of these items are preserved, along with Aickman's manuscripts and other papers, in the Robert Aickman Collection at the British Library, with some papers deposited at Bowling Green State University, Ohio.",
"Bibliography\n\nFiction\n\nNovels\nThe Late Breakfasters.",
"London: Victor Gollancz, 1964.",
"Library reprint: Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1978.",
"Reprint: London: Faber Finds, 2014; Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books, 2016.",
"The Model.",
"New York: Arbor House, 1987.",
"Reprint: London: Faber Finds, 2014.",
"Go Back at Once.",
"Tartarus Press, 2020 (a novel written in the 1970s, which remained unpublished until this limited edition of 500 copies).",
"Short story collections\n\nOriginal collections\n We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories.",
"London: Jonathan Cape, 1951.",
"(Collection containing three stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard and the following three by Aickman):\n\"The Trains\" (first published in The Tatler, Christmas 1951, as by Elizabeth Jane Howard and Robert Aickman)\n\"The Insufficient Answer\"\n\"The View\"\nNote: Howard's stories here are collected, with an additional story, \"Mr Wrong\" in her Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories (Tartarus Press, ).",
"Dark Entries: Curious and Macabre Ghost Stories.",
"London: Collins, 1964.",
"Reprint: London: Faber, 2014.",
"\"The School Friend\"\n\"Ringing the Changes\"\n\"Choice of Weapons\"\n\"The Waiting Room\" (first published in The Sketch, Christmas 1956)\n\"The View\"\n\"Bind Your Hair\"\n Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories.",
"London: Collins, 1966.",
"\"Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen\" (first published in The Tatler, Christmas 1953)\n\"My Poor Friend\"\n\"The Visiting Star\" (first published in The Tatler, 13 November 1952)\n\"Larger than Oneself\"\n\"A Roman Question\"\n\"The Wine-Dark Sea\"\n Sub Rosa: Strange Tales.",
"London: Victor Gollancz, 1968.",
"\"Ravissante\"\n\"The Inner Room\"\n\"Never Visit Venice\"\n\"The Unsettled Dust\"\n\"The Houses of the Russians\"\n\"No Stronger than a Flower\"\n\"The Cicerones\"\n\"Into the Wood\"\n Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories.",
"London: Victor Gollancz, 1975.",
"Reprint: Faber, 2014, with a new introduction, \"Uneasy Does It: An Introduction to Robert Aickman\" by Reece Shearsmith and a new afterword, \"Memories of a Friend\", by Jean Richardson.",
"\"The Swords\"\n\"The Real Road to the Church\"\n\"Niemandswasser\"\n\"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal\"\n\"The Hospice\"\n\"The Same Dog\"\n\"Meeting Mr Millar\"\n\"The Clock Watcher\"\n Tales of Love and Death.",
"London: Victor Gollancz, 1977.",
"\"Growing Boys\"\n\"Marriage\"\n\"Le Miroir\"\n\"Compulsory Games\"\n\"Raising the Wind\"\n\"Residents Only\"\n\"Wood\"\n Intrusions: Strange Tales.",
"London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.",
"\"Hand in Glove\"\n\"No Time Is Passing\"\n\"The Fetch\"\n\"The Breakthrough\"\n\"The Next Glade\"\n\"Letters to the Postman\"\n Night Voices: Strange Stories.",
"London: Victor Gollancz, 1985.",
"(Reprints \"The Trains\" and also includes the following):\n\"The Stains\"\n\"Just a Song at Twilight\"\n\"Laura\"\n\"Rosamund's Bower\"\n\"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale\"\n The Strangers and Other Writings.",
"Tartarus Press, 2015.",
"(Collects unpublished and uncollected fiction and non-fiction.",
"Fiction only listed here):\n\"The Case of Wallingford's Tiger\"\n\"The Whistler\"\n\"A Disciple of Plato\"\n\"The Coffin House\"\n\"The Flying Anglo-Dutchman\"\n\"The Strangers\"\n\"The Fully-Conducted Tour\"\n\nReprint collections\n Painted Devils: Strange Stories.",
"New York: Scribner's, 1979.",
"(Revised stories):\n\"Ravissante\"\n\"The Houses of the Russians\"\n\"The View\"\n\"Ringing the Changes\"\n\"The School Friend\"\n\"The Waiting Room\"\n\"Marriage\"\n\"Larger than Oneself\"\n\"My Poor Friend\"\n The Wine-Dark Sea.",
"New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988.",
"Reprint: London: Faber, 2014.",
"\"The Wine-Dark Sea\"\n\"The Trains\"\n\"Your Tiny Hand is Frozen\"\n\"Growing Boys\"\n\"The Fetch\" \n\"The Inner Room\"\n\"Never Visit Venice\"\n\"The Next Glade\" (Removed from Faber edition)\n\"Into the Wood\"\n\"Bind Your Hair\" (Removed from Faber edition)\n\"The Stains\" (Removed from Faber edition)\n The Unsettled Dust.",
"London: Mandarin, 1990.",
"Reprint: London: Faber, 2014.",
"\"The Unsettled Dust\"\n\"The Houses of the Russians\"\n\"No Stronger than a Flower\"\n\"The Cicerones\"\n\"The Next Glade\"\n\"Ravissante\"\n\"Bind Your Hair\"\n\"The Stains\"\n The Collected Strange Stories.",
"Horam, East Sussex: Tartarus/Durtro, 1999.",
"(Two volumes)\n The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories.",
"Richmond, VA: Valancourt, 2016.",
"(Reprints the 1964 novel and the following short stories)\n\"My Poor Friend\"\n\"The Visiting Star\"\n\"Larger Than Oneself\"\n\"A Roman Question\"\n\"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale\"\n\"Rosamund's Bower\"\n Compulsory Games.",
"New York, NY: NYRB Classics, 2018.",
"\"Compulsory Games\"\n \"Hand in Glove\"\n \"Marriage\"\n \"Le Miroir\"\n \"No Time Is Passing\"\n \"Raising the Wind\"\n \"Residents Only\"\n \"Wood\"\n \"The Strangers\"\n \"The Coffin House\"\n \"Letters to the Postman\"\n \"Laura\"\n \"The Fully-Conducted Tour\"\n \"A Disciple of Plato\"\n \"Just a Song at Twilight\"\n\nNonfiction\nKnow Your Waterways.",
"London: Coram, 1955.",
"The Story of Our Inland Waterways.",
"London: Pitman, 1955.",
"Autobiography\nThe Attempted Rescue.",
"London: Victor Gollancz 1966.",
"The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure.",
"Burton on Trent: Pearson, 1986.",
"References\n\nSources\n\nFurther reading\n Bolton, David.",
"Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved.",
"London: Methuen, 1990.",
"(Contains a great deal of material about Aickman, including several photographs, and the final chapter is devoted to him.)",
"Briggs, Scott D. \"Robert Aickman: Sojourns into the Unknown\".",
"Studies in Weird Fiction 12 (Spring 1993), pp.",
"7–12.",
"Challinor, Philip.",
"Akin to Poetry: Observations on Some Strange Tales of Robert Aickman.",
"Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2010.",
"(Eight critical essays.)",
"Clute, John.",
"\"Robert Aickman, 1914–1981\".",
"Strokes: Essays and Reviews, 1966–1986.",
"Seattle: Serconia Press, 1988.",
"(Revised version of Clute's essay in Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, ed.",
"E. F. Bleiler [New York: Scribners, 1985].)",
"Crawford, Gary William.",
"\"Love and Death in the Tales of Robert Aickman\".",
"Nyctalops 18 (1983), pp.",
"51–55.",
"(Includes the bibliography \"Robert Aickman: A Preliminary Checklist\".)",
"———.",
"\"The Poetics of the Unconscious: The 'Strange' Stories of Robert Aickman\".",
"Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II, ed.",
"Darrell Schweitzer.",
"Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1988.",
"———.",
"Robert Aickman: An Introduction.",
"Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2003.",
"(The most detailed biographical and critical study produced to date.)",
"———, ed.",
"Insufficient Answers.",
"Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2012.",
"(Three critical essays by different hands.)",
"Howard, Elizabeth Jane.",
"Slipstream.",
"London: Macmillan, 2002.",
"(Autobiography including an account of her relationship with Aickman.)",
"Joshi, S. T. \"So Little Is Definite\".",
"The Modern Weird Tale.",
"Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.",
"Morris, Christine Pasanen.",
"\"The Female 'Outsider' in the Short Fiction of Robert Aickman\".",
"Nyctalops 18 (1983), pp.",
"55–58.",
"Ricketts, Martin.",
"\"Enigma Macabre: An Evaluation of the Short Stories of Robert Aickman\".",
"Shadow 3:1 (Nov. 1972), pp.",
"4–9.",
"Russell, R. B. Robert Aickman: An Attempted Biography.",
"North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2022.",
"(First full-length biography.)",
"Articles, essays and papers by other authors have appeared on the website Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, and in the journals Studies in Weird Fiction (published by Necronomicon Press), All Hallows (published by the Ghost Story Society), Studies in the Fantastic, Supernatural Tales and Wormwood.",
"External links\n\nWebsite devoted to life and works of Robert Aickman\n\nThe Works of Robert Aickman\n\"Aickman, Robert\" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy\n\nRobert Aickman at the British Library\n\n1914 births\n1981 deaths\nPeople educated at Highgate School\nEnglish conservationists\nEnglish fantasy writers\nEnglish short story writers\nEnglish memoirists\nEnglish horror writers\nWorld Fantasy Award-winning writers\nGhost story writers\nParapsychologists\nBritish waterways activists\n20th-century English novelists\n20th-century British short story writers\nWeird fiction writers"
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"Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer.",
"He co-founded the Inland Waterways Association to preserve and restore England's inland canal system.",
"He is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as \"strange stories\".",
"His most outstanding and lasting achievement was as a writer of strange tales, according to the writer of his obituary in The Times.",
"His stories rank with those of M.R. because of his knowledge of the occult, psychological insights and a richness of background and characterisation.",
"James and Walter.",
"Aickman's writings are an acquired taste.",
"I think he would want his work to be unknown to the majority of readers.",
"For expression, he wrote what and how he wanted.",
"In one of his letters to me, he said \"I have received a good deal of esteem, but never a big commercial success, and am usually wondering whether anything by me will ever be published again.\"",
"...",
"Someone of Aickman's stature should have difficulty selling his work.",
"Maybe now, too late for Aickman's benefit, someone will publish it.",
"The situation has been fixed by an extensive programme of reprints of Aickman's work.",
"William Arthur Aickman was an architect and the son of Life Aickman.",
"He was a student at Highgate School from January 1928 to July 1931.",
"Aickman objected to the inclusion of his date of birth in the Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction.",
"He said the entry should read \"Aickman, Robert\".",
"Man of mystery.",
"He said that it would be helpful.",
"I should approve everything.",
"On his mother's side, Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh, who wrote The Beetle, a book as popular in its time as Dracula.",
"He was involved in the investigation of the haunting of Borley Rectory.",
"He has been a member of the Society for Psychical Research and The Ghost Club for many years.",
"What impact such things have had on me, and the sources of my inspiration, are simply too much for a letter.",
"I will be happy to have a talk if you want to pursue such topics.",
"Aickman's early life, including some supernatural episodes, will be detailed in his autobiography, The Attempted Rescue.",
"His father's office was where he helped with some clerical work.",
"Aickman described his father as \"the oddest man I have ever known\" in the opening lines of The Attempted Rescue.",
"In an interview with the Tartarus Press, Elizabeth Jane Howard said that Aickman exaggerated his childhood and that he hated children.",
"I went to the house in Stanmore where he was brought up, and his mother left him, and that probably had a worse effect on him than he realized.",
"He went to very good schools because he was reading by the time he was four.",
"Highgate was a good school.",
"I think it was lonely.",
"He could be prickly or charming.",
"He had a gift for gab.",
"Aickman was married to Edith Ray Gregorson, a literary agent and children's book author, from 1941 to 1957.",
"Lemuel was illustrated by Peter Scott, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard, who had an affair with Aickman.",
"The Market Harborough Festival of Boats and Yachts was attended by more than 50,000 people.",
"He directed the Waterborne concert with fireworks at the City of London Festival in 1962, with an audience of 100,000.",
"Aickman served as a chairman of the London Opera Society and was an active member of the Ballet Minerva and the Mikron Theatre Company.",
"Aickman lived in a flat in the middle of the 70s.",
"He lived in a flat in Gledhow Gardens until his death.",
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"He consulted a homoeopath and refused conventional treatment.",
"He was too sick to travel to the US in the autumn of 1980 to receive a fantasy award.",
"He died in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.",
"His obituary was published in The Times.",
"Sir Peter Scott paid tribute to him at a memorial concert at the Royal Society of Arts.",
"At the World Fantasy Convention in 2015, Tartarus Press released a feature-length documentary on the life and work of Robert Aickman.",
"Interviews with friends of Robert Aickman are included.",
"It can be seen on the video sharing website.",
"The Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's inland canal system, was co-founding by Aickman.",
"Aickman sent a letter to L. T. C. Rolt after he published his book \"Narrow Boat\" about the decline of the British canals.",
"The first meeting took place in London on February 15, 1946, with Aickman as chairman.",
"Notable supporters of the IWA include as president the writer and parliamentarian Sir A. P. Herbert and as vice-president the naturalist Peter Scott.",
"Elizabeth Jane Howard, Scott's wife, had an affair with Aickman, which she describes in her autobiography Slipstream.",
"Aickman and Rolt had policy disagreements.",
"Aickman wanted to campaign to keep all of the waterways open, while Rolt wanted to prioritize which canals could be kept open.",
"Aickman tried to prevent Rolt from attending and promoting his book The Inland Waterways of England at the IWA's first boat rally and festival, but he attended as did his publisher.",
"In early 1951, Aickman made a change to the rules that required all members to conform to IWA principles, which led to the exclusion of Rolt and others from membership.",
"In 1955, Aickman published two books on the waterways.",
"The IWA has been successful in restoring and reopening the original canal network.",
"Aickman is best known for the 48 \"strange stories\" that were published in eight volumes, one of them posthumous.",
"Revised versions of stories from other books are included in the American collection.",
"After three of his stories appeared in We Are for the Dark, occasional short stories appeared in magazines and anthologies during the rest of the 1950s, but Aickman's involvement with his many societies kept him from any writing.",
"In 1964 he edited the first Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and wrote a novel called The Late Breakfasters.",
"In 1965, Aickman wrote that those who wish to know more about him should plunge beneath the surface of The Late Breakfasters.",
"Its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the Greek myth of thwarted love, opening as a comedy of manners.",
"Powers of Darkness, SubRosa, Cold Hand in Mine, Tales of Love and Death, and Intrusions were his subsequent collections.",
"Dust jacket drawings by Edward Gorey were featured in the essay that Aickman wrote after receiving a World Fantasy Award.",
"August was unable to meet the author's demands and withdrew his proposal to publish a book of Aickman's best stories.",
"There are very few copies of the original collections of short stories.",
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"Edward Gorey was supposed to illustrate the work by Aickman.",
"Aickman was upset with the lack of publisher interest in his work of about 35,000 words.",
"Tartarus Press published a new collection of fiction and non-fiction in 2015.",
"In 1975, Aickman received the World Fantasy Award for his story \"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal\".",
"The story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in February 1973.",
"Aickman considered it his best story when he won this award.",
"The British Fantasy Award was given to Aickman in 1981 for his story \"The Stains\", which was first published in the anthology New Terrors.",
"It appeared posthumously in Night Voices.",
"\"The Bells of Hell\", a television adaptation of \"Ringing the Changes\", was aired in 1968.",
"Nightfall aired a radio play version of \"Ringing the Changes\" on October 31, 1980.",
"The stories \"The Hospice\", \"The Inner Room\", \"Hand In Glove\" and \"The Trains\" were all based on Aickman's stories.",
"The first episode of The Hunger was a 1997 adaptation of \"The Swords\" directed by Tony Scott.",
"Aickman's work has been adapted into drama by Jeremy Dyson.",
"Dyson and Joby Talbot collaborated on a musical staging of his short story \"The Same Dog\" in 2000.",
"Dyson adapted Aickman's short story \"Ringing the Changes\" into a radio play.",
"Exactly twenty years ago, this aired on Halloween 2000.",
"Gatiss was the principal actor in a 2002 short film directed by Dyson.",
"Five of Aickman's short stories were broadcast by Radio 4 Extra.",
"Tim McInnerny read \"Just a Song at Twilight\", \"Le Miroir\", \"Raising the Wind\", and \"The Coffin House\".",
"The first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories were edited by Aickman.",
"Christine Bernard is an editor at Collins.",
"Over the course of the series, he selected six of his own stories.",
"There are no tales in the fourth and sixth volumes.",
"The introduction for every volume was supplied by him.",
"Aickman's autobiographical writing consists of two memoirs, The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure.",
"Tartarus Press published a new edition of the former volume in 2001.",
"Extra text had been edited out of the first edition and Tartarus reprinted it.",
"Aickman was a theatre critic for a while.",
"His reviews have not been collected in book form.",
"Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways were both written by him.",
"Aickman produced a number of works that have not been published.",
"The plays include Allowance for Error, Duty and The Golden Round.",
"Panacea: The Synthesis of an Attitude runs to over 1,000 pages in manuscript form.",
"The Robert Aickman Collection at the British Library contains copies of these items, along with Aickman's manuscripts and other papers.",
"There are fiction novels called The Late Breakfasters.",
"London: Victor Gollancz.",
"Bath: Cedric Chivers was published in 1978.",
"Valancourt Books, 2016 edition, is a sequel to London: Faber Finds.",
"The person is a model.",
"The arbor house was in New York.",
"London: Faber Finds.",
"Go back at once.",
"A limited edition of 500 copies of a novel written in the 1970s was published by Tartarus Press.",
"There are six ghost stories in We Are for the Dark.",
"Jonathan Cape was born in London in 1951.",
"There are three stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard and three by Robert Aickman in this collection.",
"There are both Macabre and Curious Ghost Stories.",
"Collins was in London in 1964.",
"London: Faber.",
"\"Ringing the Changes,\" \"Choice of Weapons,\" \"The Waiting Room,\" and \"The View\" were all published in The Sketch.",
"Collins was in London in 1966.",
"\"Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen\" was first published in The Tatler.",
"Victor Gollancz was in London in 1968.",
"\"The Inner Room\", \"Never Visit Venice\", \"The Unsettled Dust\", \"The Houses of the Russians\", \"No Stronger than a Flower\", and \"The Cicerones\" are some of the stories contained in Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories.",
"Victor Gollancz was born in 1975.",
"A new introduction, \"Uneasy Does It: An introduction to Robert Aickman\", and an afterword, \"Memories of a friend\", were written by Jean Richardson.",
"\"The Swords\", \"The Real Road to the Church\", \"Niemandswasser\", \"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal\", \"The Hospice\", \"The Same Dog\", \"Meeting Mr. Millar\", and \"The Clock Watcher\"",
"Victor Gollancz was born in 1977.",
"\"Growing Boys\", \"Marriage\", \"Le Miroir\", \"Compulsory Games\", \"Raising the Wind\", \" Residents Only\", \"Wood\" Intrusions: Strange Tales.",
"Victor Gollancz was born in 1980.",
"\"Letters to the Postman\" is one of the stories in Night Voices: Strange Stories.",
"Victor Gollancz was in London in 1985.",
"\"The Stains\", \"Just a Song at Twilight\", \"Laura\", \"Rosamund's Bower\", and \"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale\" are also included.",
"Tartarus Press was published in 2015.",
"Uncollected and unpublished fiction and non-fiction are collected.",
"\"The Case of Wallingford's Tiger\", \"A Disciple of Plato\", \"The Coffin House\", and \"The Flying Anglo-Dutchman\" are fiction only listed here.",
"New York: Scribner's.",
"The Wine-Dark Sea is one of the revised stories.",
"New York: William Morrow.",
"London: Faber.",
"\"The Wine-Dark Sea\" is no longer in the edition.",
"London: Mandarin in 1990.",
"London: Faber.",
"\"The Unsettled Dust\", \"The Houses of the Russians\", \"No Stronger than a Flower\", and \"The Cicerones\" are some of the stories contained in The Collected Strange Stories.",
"Tartarus/Durtro was published in 1999.",
"The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories are two volumes.",
"Valancourt, 2016",
"\"My Poor Friend\", \"The Visiting Star\", \"Larger Than Oneself\", and \"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale\" are included in the 1964 novel.",
"New York, NY: NYRB Classics.",
"\"Compulsory Games\", \"Marriage\", \"No Time Is passing\", \"Raising the Wind\", \"Wood\", \"The Coffin House\", \"Letters to the Postman\", \"Laura\"",
"London, 1955.",
"The story of the Inland Waterways.",
"Pitman was born in London in 1955.",
"The Attempted Rescue is a book.",
"Victor Gollancz was born in London in 1966.",
"A story of success and failure.",
"Pearson and Burton on Trent.",
"Further reading, David.",
"How Britain's Waterways were Saved is a race against time.",
"London: Methuen.",
"The final chapter is devoted to Aickman and contains a lot of material about him.",
"\"Robert Aickman: Sojourns into the Unknown\" was written by Scott D.Briggs.",
"There are studies in Weird Fiction 12.",
"7–12.",
"Philip Challinor.",
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He wrote what and how he wanted, for expression, not for popularity. In another of his letters to me he said 'I have received a good deal of esteem, but never a big commercial success, and am usually wondering whether anything by me will ever be published again.' ... It is astonishing that someone of <mask>'s stature should have difficulty in selling his work. Perhaps now, too late for <mask>'s benefit, someone will have the sense to publish it." This situation has since been remedied by an extensive programme of reprints of <mask>'s work by Tartarus Press, Faber, and New York Review Books Classics.<mask> was born in London, England, the son of architect William Arthur <mask> and Mabel Violet Marsh. He attended Highgate School from January 1928 until July 1931. Mike Ashley reported that at the time he compiled his Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, <mask> objected to the inclusion of his date of birth. Instead he said that the entry should read "<mask>, <mask>. Man of Mystery". "That", he said, "would be helpful. I should approve entirely."On his mother's side, <mask> was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh (1857–1915), known for his occult thriller The Beetle (1897), a book as popular in its time as Bram Stoker's Dracula. He was involved in an investigation into the well-known haunting of Borley Rectory. Another indication of his lifelong interest in the supernatural is his longstanding membership of the Society for Psychical Research and The Ghost Club. He remarked in a letter to Mike Ashley, "What impact such things have had on me, and the sources of my inspiration, are simply too much for a letter. If you wish to pursue such topics, I shall be pleased to have a talk." Unfortunately that talk never took place, but Ashley points out that <mask>'s early life, including some supernatural episodes, will be found detailed in his autobiography, The Attempted Rescue (Gollancz, 1966). He originally helped with some clerical work in his father's architectural office.In the opening lines of The Attempted Rescue, <mask> described his father as "the oddest man I have ever known". Of <mask>'s character, Elizabeth Jane Howard said in a 2011 interview at the Tartarus Press blog, that he "hated children" and of his childhood that "He told me about his childhood but I think he exaggerated that. I went to the house in Stanmore where he was brought up, and his mother did go and leave him, and that probably had a much worse effect than he realised on him. He was reading by the time he was four and he went to very good schools. Highgate was a very good school. I think it probably was a fairly lonely childhood. … He could be very prickly and difficult, or he could be very charming.He certainly had the gift of the gab." <mask> was married to literary agent and children's book author Edith Ray Gregorson (1914–1983) (known as 'Ray') from 1941 to 1957. She authored Lemuel (illustrated by Peter Scott, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard, with whom Aickman had an affair) and Timothy Tramcar. He had been responsible for the general direction of the very successful Market Harborough Festival of Boats and Yachts, attended by more than 50,000 visitors. This was topped in 1962 when he directed the Waterborne concert with fireworks at the City of London Festival, with an audience of 100,000. With a keen interest in the theatre, ballet, and music, <mask> also served as a chairman of the London Opera Society (1954–69) and was active in the London Opera Club, the Ballet Minerva, and the Mikron Theatre Company (a company which performs via touring the canal waterways of Britain). In the mid-1970s, <mask> lived in a flat in Willoughby House on the Barbican Estate.In 1977 he moved to a flat in Gledhow Gardens, Earls Court, where he lived until his death. <mask> was diagnosed with cancer in the winter of 1979. He refused to have conventional treatment and consulted a homoeopath. He had planned to go to the US in the autumn of 1980, to receive a fantasy award, but he was too ill to travel, despite rallying in the summer. He died in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital on 26 February 1981. His obituary appeared in The Times on 28 February. Later, there was a memorial concert at the Royal Society of Arts, at which various well-known people, including the naturalist Sir Peter Scott, paid tribute to him.In 2015 R. B. Russell and Rosalie Parker of Tartarus Press released a feature-length documentary on the life and work of <mask>, which was premiered at the World Fantasy Convention. It includes interviews with friends of <mask>, and the authors Reggie Oliver and Jeremy Dyson. It can now be seen on YouTube. Conservation
<mask> is probably best remembered for his co-founding of the Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's then-neglected and largely derelict inland canal system. The association was sparked off by a letter sent by <mask> to L. T. C. Rolt following the publication in 1944 of Rolt's highly successful book Narrow Boat, describing the declining and largely unknown world of the British canals. The inaugural meeting took place on 15 February 1946 in London, with <mask> as chairman and Rolt as honorary secretary. The IWA organised successful campaigns and attracted notable supporters, including as president the writer and parliamentarian Sir A. P. Herbert and as vice-president the naturalist Peter Scott.Scott's wife, Elizabeth Jane Howard, was part-time secretary, working in <mask>'s flat in Gower Street; she had an affair with <mask>, which she describes in her autobiography Slipstream (Macmillan, 2002). <mask> began to have policy disagreements with Rolt. <mask> wanted to campaign to keep all of the waterways open, whereas Rolt had sympathies with the traditional canal workers and believed it necessary to prioritise which canals could be kept open. The disagreement became public: <mask> had organised the IWA's first boat rally and festival in August 1950 and attempted to prevent Rolt from attending and promoting his book The Inland Waterways of England; nevertheless, Rolt attended, as did his publisher, Philip Unwin. <mask> engineered a change to the rules to require all members to conform to agreed IWA principles, and in early 1951 Rolt and others were excluded from membership. <mask> published two nonfiction books on the waterways in 1955. Nevertheless, the IWA has been one of the most successful conservation organisations in British history, succeeding in restoring and reopening much of the original canal network.Literary work
Fiction
As a writer, <mask> is best known for the 48 "strange stories" that were published in eight volumes, one of them posthumous. The American collection Painted Devils consists of revised versions of stories which had previously appeared in other books. After three of his stories appeared in We Are for the Dark (1954), occasional short stories appeared in magazines and anthologies during the rest of the 1950s, but <mask>'s involvement with his many societies kept him from any writing at length. The year 1964 thus came as a watershed, with a slightly mystical novel, The Late Breakfasters, a story collection (Dark Entries) and the first Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, which he edited for eight volumes. "Those, if any, who wish to know more about me", <mask> wrote in 1965, "should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters." Opening as a comedy of manners, its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the great Greek myth of thwarted love. His own subsequent collections were Powers of Darkness (1966), Sub Rosa (1968), Cold Hand in Mine (1976), Tales of Love and Death (1977) and Intrusions (1980).In the essay that <mask> wrote in response to receiving a World Fantasy Award, he wrote:
Cold Hand in Mine and Painted Devils featured dust jacket drawings by acclaimed gothic illustrator Edward Gorey. August Derleth proposed that Arkham House should publish a book of <mask>'s best stories, but was unable to meet the author's demands and withdrew the proposal. The original collections of short stories are quite scarce, though copies of the U.S. edition of Cold Hand in Mine are very plentiful. The Model: A Novel of the Fantastic (New York: Arbor House, 1987) was a novella which remained unpublished in his lifetime. <mask> had hoped to have the work illustrated by Edward Gorey. According to Mike Ashley, "<mask> bemoaned the lack of publisher interest in this work of about 35,000 words." Tartarus Press published a new collection of unpublished and uncollected fiction and non-fiction in 2015 as The Strangers and Other Writings.Awards
In 1975, <mask> received the World Fantasy Award for short fiction for his story "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal". This story had originally appeared in February 1973 in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; it was reprinted in Cold Hand in Mine. The winning of this award pleased <mask> immensely, as at that time he considered it his best story. In 1981, the year of his death, <mask> was awarded the British Fantasy Award for his story "The Stains", which had first appeared in the anthology New Terrors (London: Pan, 1980), edited by Ramsey Campbell. It subsequently appeared posthumously in Night Voices. Adaptations
In 1968, a television adaptation of "Ringing the Changes", retitled "The Bells of Hell", appeared on the BBC 2 programme Late Night Horror. A radio play version based on "Ringing the Changes" was broadcast on the CBC Radio drama series Nightfall on 31 October 1980.In 1987, HTV West produced a six-episode anthology series for television called Night Voices, of which four were based upon stories by <mask>: "The Hospice", "The Inner Room", "Hand In Glove" and "The Trains". A 1997 adaptation of "The Swords", directed by Tony Scott appeared as the first episode of the cable original horror anthology series The Hunger. Jeremy Dyson has adapted <mask>'s work into drama in a number of forms. A musical staging of his short story "The Same Dog", for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall. In 2000, with his League of Gentlemen collaborator Mark Gatiss, Dyson adapted <mask>'s short story "Ringing the Changes" into a BBC Radio Four radio play. This aired exactly twenty years after the CBC adaptation, on Halloween 2000. Dyson also directed a 2002 short film based on <mask>'s story "The Cicerones" with Gatiss as the principal actor.In August 2019 BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast five of <mask>'s short stories as part of its Short Works series. "Just a Song at Twilight", "Le Miroir", "Raising the Wind", "The Coffin House" and "The Fully-Conducted Tour" were read by Tim McInnerny. As editor
In addition to writing his own stories, <mask> edited the first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories between 1964 and 1972. He was assisted in this by Christine Bernard, an editor at Collins. He selected six of his own stories for inclusion over the course of the series. The fourth and sixth volumes lack one of his tales. He also supplied an introduction for every volume except the sixth.Nonfiction
<mask>'s autobiographical writing consists of the two memoirs The Attempted Rescue (London: Victor Gollancz, 1966) and The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure (Burton-on-Trent: Pearson, 1986). In 2001, Tartarus Press reissued the former volume in a new edition with a foreword by the writer and Aickman enthusiast Jeremy Dyson. Tartarus also reprinted the latter, with extra text which had been edited out of the first edition. For a time, <mask> served as theatre critic for The Nineteenth Century and After. His reviews remain, to date, uncollected in book form. He also wrote two books relating to his conservation activities, Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways (both 1955). Unpublished works
<mask> produced a number of works that remain unpublished.These include the plays Allowance for Error, Duty and The Golden Round. A philosophical work entitled Panacea: The Synthesis of an Attitude runs to over 1,000 pages in manuscript form. Copies of these items are preserved, along with <mask>'s manuscripts and other papers, in the <mask> Collection at the British Library, with some papers deposited at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Bibliography
Fiction
Novels
The Late Breakfasters. London: Victor Gollancz, 1964. Library reprint: Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1978. Reprint: London: Faber Finds, 2014; Richmond, VA: Valancourt Books, 2016.The Model. New York: Arbor House, 1987. Reprint: London: Faber Finds, 2014. Go Back at Once. Tartarus Press, 2020 (a novel written in the 1970s, which remained unpublished until this limited edition of 500 copies). Short story collections
Original collections
We Are for the Dark: Six Ghost Stories. London: Jonathan Cape, 1951.(Collection containing three stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard and the following three by <mask>):
"The Trains" (first published in The Tatler, Christmas 1951, as by Elizabeth Jane Howard and <mask>)
"The Insufficient Answer"
"The View"
Note: Howard's stories here are collected, with an additional story, "Mr Wrong" in her Three Miles Up and Other Strange Stories (Tartarus Press, ). Dark Entries: Curious and Macabre Ghost Stories. London: Collins, 1964. Reprint: London: Faber, 2014. "The School Friend"
"Ringing the Changes"
"Choice of Weapons"
"The Waiting Room" (first published in The Sketch, Christmas 1956)
"The View"
"Bind Your Hair"
Powers of Darkness: Macabre Stories. London: Collins, 1966. "Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen" (first published in The Tatler, Christmas 1953)
"My Poor Friend"
"The Visiting Star" (first published in The Tatler, 13 November 1952)
"Larger than Oneself"
"A Roman Question"
"The Wine-Dark Sea"
Sub Rosa: Strange Tales.London: Victor Gollancz, 1968. "Ravissante"
"The Inner Room"
"Never Visit Venice"
"The Unsettled Dust"
"The Houses of the Russians"
"No Stronger than a Flower"
"The Cicerones"
"Into the Wood"
Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories. London: Victor Gollancz, 1975. Reprint: Faber, 2014, with a new introduction, "Uneasy Does It: An Introduction to <mask>" by Reece Shearsmith and a new afterword, "Memories of a Friend", by Jean Richardson. "The Swords"
"The Real Road to the Church"
"Niemandswasser"
"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal"
"The Hospice"
"The Same Dog"
"Meeting Mr Millar"
"The Clock Watcher"
Tales of Love and Death. London: Victor Gollancz, 1977. "Growing Boys"
"Marriage"
"Le Miroir"
"Compulsory Games"
"Raising the Wind"
"Residents Only"
"Wood"
Intrusions: Strange Tales.London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. "Hand in Glove"
"No Time Is Passing"
"The Fetch"
"The Breakthrough"
"The Next Glade"
"Letters to the Postman"
Night Voices: Strange Stories. London: Victor Gollancz, 1985. (Reprints "The Trains" and also includes the following):
"The Stains"
"Just a Song at Twilight"
"Laura"
"Rosamund's Bower"
"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale"
The Strangers and Other Writings. Tartarus Press, 2015. (Collects unpublished and uncollected fiction and non-fiction. Fiction only listed here):
"The Case of Wallingford's Tiger"
"The Whistler"
"A Disciple of Plato"
"The Coffin House"
"The Flying Anglo-Dutchman"
"The Strangers"
"The Fully-Conducted Tour"
Reprint collections
Painted Devils: Strange Stories.New York: Scribner's, 1979. (Revised stories):
"Ravissante"
"The Houses of the Russians"
"The View"
"Ringing the Changes"
"The School Friend"
"The Waiting Room"
"Marriage"
"Larger than Oneself"
"My Poor Friend"
The Wine-Dark Sea. New York: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988. Reprint: London: Faber, 2014. "The Wine-Dark Sea"
"The Trains"
"Your Tiny Hand is Frozen"
"Growing Boys"
"The Fetch"
"The Inner Room"
"Never Visit Venice"
"The Next Glade" (Removed from Faber edition)
"Into the Wood"
"Bind Your Hair" (Removed from Faber edition)
"The Stains" (Removed from Faber edition)
The Unsettled Dust. London: Mandarin, 1990. Reprint: London: Faber, 2014."The Unsettled Dust"
"The Houses of the Russians"
"No Stronger than a Flower"
"The Cicerones"
"The Next Glade"
"Ravissante"
"Bind Your Hair"
"The Stains"
The Collected Strange Stories. Horam, East Sussex: Tartarus/Durtro, 1999. (Two volumes)
The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories. Richmond, VA: Valancourt, 2016. (Reprints the 1964 novel and the following short stories)
"My Poor Friend"
"The Visiting Star"
"Larger Than Oneself"
"A Roman Question"
"Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale"
"Rosamund's Bower"
Compulsory Games. New York, NY: NYRB Classics, 2018. "Compulsory Games"
"Hand in Glove"
"Marriage"
"Le Miroir"
"No Time Is Passing"
"Raising the Wind"
"Residents Only"
"Wood"
"The Strangers"
"The Coffin House"
"Letters to the Postman"
"Laura"
"The Fully-Conducted Tour"
"A Disciple of Plato"
"Just a Song at Twilight"
Nonfiction
Know Your Waterways.London: Coram, 1955. The Story of Our Inland Waterways. London: Pitman, 1955. Autobiography
The Attempted Rescue. London: Victor Gollancz 1966. The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure. Burton on Trent: Pearson, 1986.References
Sources
Further reading
Bolton, David. Race Against Time: How Britain's Waterways Were Saved. London: Methuen, 1990. (Contains a great deal of material about <mask>, including several photographs, and the final chapter is devoted to him.) Briggs, Scott D. "<mask>: Sojourns into the Unknown". Studies in Weird Fiction 12 (Spring 1993), pp. 7–12.Challinor, Philip. Akin to Poetry: Observations on Some Strange Tales of <mask>. Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2010. (Eight critical essays.) Clute, John. "<mask>, 1914–1981". Strokes: Essays and Reviews, 1966–1986.Seattle: Serconia Press, 1988. (Revised version of Clute's essay in Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, ed. E. F. Bleiler [New York: Scribners, 1985].) Crawford, Gary William. "Love and Death in the Tales of <mask>". Nyctalops 18 (1983), pp. 51–55.(Includes the bibliography "<mask>ckman: A Preliminary Checklist".) ———. "The Poetics of the Unconscious: The 'Strange' Stories of <mask>". Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II, ed. Darrell Schweitzer. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1988. ———.<mask>: An Introduction. Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2003. (The most detailed biographical and critical study produced to date.) ———, ed. Insufficient Answers. Baton Rouge: Gothic Press, 2012. (Three critical essays by different hands.)Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. London: Macmillan, 2002. (Autobiography including an account of her relationship with <mask>.) Joshi, S. T. "So Little Is Definite". The Modern Weird Tale. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.Morris, Christine Pasanen. "The Female 'Outsider' in the Short Fiction of <mask>". Nyctalops 18 (1983), pp. 55–58. Ricketts, Martin. "Enigma Macabre: An Evaluation of the Short Stories of <mask>". Shadow 3:1 (Nov. 1972), pp.4–9. Russell, R. B. <mask>: An Attempted Biography. North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2022. (First full-length biography.) Articles, essays and papers by other authors have appeared on the website <mask>ckman: An Appreciation, and in the journals Studies in Weird Fiction (published by Necronomicon Press), All Hallows (published by the Ghost Story Society), Studies in the Fantastic, Supernatural Tales and Wormwood. External links
Website devoted to life and works of <mask>
The Works of <mask>
"Aickman, <mask>" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
<mask> at the British Library
1914 births
1981 deaths
People educated at Highgate School
English conservationists
English fantasy writers
English short story writers
English memoirists
English horror writers
World Fantasy Award-winning writers
Ghost story writers
Parapsychologists
British waterways activists
20th-century English novelists
20th-century British short story writers
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Maybe now, too late for <mask>'s benefit, someone will publish it. The situation has been fixed by an extensive programme of reprints of <mask>'s work.William Arthur <mask> was an architect and the son of <mask>. He was a student at Highgate School from January 1928 to July 1931. <mask> objected to the inclusion of his date of birth in the Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction. He said the entry should read "<mask>, <mask>". Man of mystery. He said that it would be helpful. I should approve everything.On his mother's side, <mask> was the grandson of the prolific Victorian novelist Richard Marsh, who wrote The Beetle, a book as popular in its time as Dracula. He was involved in the investigation of the haunting of Borley Rectory. He has been a member of the Society for Psychical Research and The Ghost Club for many years. What impact such things have had on me, and the sources of my inspiration, are simply too much for a letter. I will be happy to have a talk if you want to pursue such topics. <mask>'s early life, including some supernatural episodes, will be detailed in his autobiography, The Attempted Rescue. His father's office was where he helped with some clerical work.<mask> described his father as "the oddest man I have ever known" in the opening lines of The Attempted Rescue. In an interview with the Tartarus Press, Elizabeth Jane Howard said that <mask> exaggerated his childhood and that he hated children. I went to the house in Stanmore where he was brought up, and his mother left him, and that probably had a worse effect on him than he realized. He went to very good schools because he was reading by the time he was four. Highgate was a good school. I think it was lonely. He could be prickly or charming.He had a gift for gab. <mask> was married to Edith Ray Gregorson, a literary agent and children's book author, from 1941 to 1957. Lemuel was illustrated by Peter Scott, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard, who had an affair with <mask>. The Market Harborough Festival of Boats and Yachts was attended by more than 50,000 people. He directed the Waterborne concert with fireworks at the City of London Festival in 1962, with an audience of 100,000. <mask> served as a chairman of the London Opera Society and was an active member of the Ballet Minerva and the Mikron Theatre Company. <mask> lived in a flat in the middle of the 70s.He lived in a flat in Gledhow Gardens until his death. 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Sir Peter Scott paid tribute to him at a memorial concert at the Royal Society of Arts.At the World Fantasy Convention in 2015, Tartarus Press released a feature-length documentary on the life and work of <mask>. Interviews with friends of <mask> are included. It can be seen on the video sharing website. The Inland Waterways Association, a group devoted to restoring and preserving England's inland canal system, was co-founding by <mask>. <mask> sent a letter to L. T. C. Rolt after he published his book "Narrow Boat" about the decline of the British canals. The first meeting took place in London on February 15, 1946, with <mask> as chairman. Notable supporters of the IWA include as president the writer and parliamentarian Sir A. P. Herbert and as vice-president the naturalist Peter Scott.Elizabeth Jane Howard, Scott's wife, had an affair with <mask>, which she describes in her autobiography Slipstream. <mask> and Rolt had policy disagreements. <mask> wanted to campaign to keep all of the waterways open, while Rolt wanted to prioritize which canals could be kept open. <mask> tried to prevent Rolt from attending and promoting his book The Inland Waterways of England at the IWA's first boat rally and festival, but he attended as did his publisher. In early 1951, <mask> made a change to the rules that required all members to conform to IWA principles, which led to the exclusion of Rolt and others from membership. In 1955, <mask> published two books on the waterways. The IWA has been successful in restoring and reopening the original canal network.<mask> is best known for the 48 "strange stories" that were published in eight volumes, one of them posthumous. Revised versions of stories from other books are included in the American collection. After three of his stories appeared in We Are for the Dark, occasional short stories appeared in magazines and anthologies during the rest of the 1950s, but <mask>'s involvement with his many societies kept him from any writing. In 1964 he edited the first Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and wrote a novel called The Late Breakfasters. In 1965, <mask> wrote that those who wish to know more about him should plunge beneath the surface of The Late Breakfasters. Its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the Greek myth of thwarted love, opening as a comedy of manners. Powers of Darkness, SubRosa, Cold Hand in Mine, Tales of Love and Death, and Intrusions were his subsequent collections.Dust jacket drawings by Edward Gorey were featured in the essay that <mask> wrote after receiving a World Fantasy Award. August was unable to meet the author's demands and withdrew his proposal to publish a book of <mask>'s best stories. There are very few copies of the original collections of short stories. 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Tartarus Press published a new collection of fiction and non-fiction in 2015.In 1975, <mask> received the World Fantasy Award for his story "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal". The story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in February 1973. <mask> considered it his best story when he won this award. The British Fantasy Award was given to <mask> in 1981 for his story "The Stains", which was first published in the anthology New Terrors. It appeared posthumously in Night Voices. "The Bells of Hell", a television adaptation of "Ringing the Changes", was aired in 1968. Nightfall aired a radio play version of "Ringing the Changes" on October 31, 1980.The stories "The Hospice", "The Inner Room", "Hand In Glove" and "The Trains" were all based on <mask>'s stories. The first episode of The Hunger was a 1997 adaptation of "The Swords" directed by Tony Scott. <mask>'s work has been adapted into drama by Jeremy Dyson. Dyson and Joby Talbot collaborated on a musical staging of his short story "The Same Dog" in 2000. Dyson adapted <mask>'s short story "Ringing the Changes" into a radio play. Exactly twenty years ago, this aired on Halloween 2000. Gatiss was the principal actor in a 2002 short film directed by Dyson.Five of <mask>'s short stories were broadcast by Radio 4 Extra. Tim McInnerny read "Just a Song at Twilight", "Le Miroir", "Raising the Wind", and "The Coffin House". The first eight volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories were edited by <mask>. Christine Bernard is an editor at Collins. Over the course of the series, he selected six of his own stories. There are no tales in the fourth and sixth volumes. The introduction for every volume was supplied by him.<mask>'s autobiographical writing consists of two memoirs, The Attempted Rescue and The River Runs Uphill: A Story of Success and Failure. Tartarus Press published a new edition of the former volume in 2001. Extra text had been edited out of the first edition and Tartarus reprinted it. <mask> was a theatre critic for a while. His reviews have not been collected in book form. Know Your Waterways and The Story of Our Inland Waterways were both written by him. <mask> produced a number of works that have not been published.The plays include Allowance for Error, Duty and The Golden Round. Panacea: The Synthesis of an Attitude runs to over 1,000 pages in manuscript form. The <mask> Collection at the British Library contains copies of these items, along with <mask>'s manuscripts and other papers. There are fiction novels called The Late Breakfasters. London: Victor Gollancz. Bath: Cedric Chivers was published in 1978. Valancourt Books, 2016 edition, is a sequel to London: Faber Finds.The person is a model. The arbor house was in New York. London: Faber Finds. Go back at once. A limited edition of 500 copies of a novel written in the 1970s was published by Tartarus Press. There are six ghost stories in We Are for the Dark. Jonathan Cape was born in London in 1951.There are three stories by Elizabeth Jane Howard and three by <mask> in this collection. There are both Macabre and Curious Ghost Stories. Collins was in London in 1964. London: Faber. "Ringing the Changes," "Choice of Weapons," "The Waiting Room," and "The View" were all published in The Sketch. Collins was in London in 1966. "Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen" was first published in The Tatler.Victor Gollancz was in London in 1968. "The Inner Room", "Never Visit Venice", "The Unsettled Dust", "The Houses of the Russians", "No Stronger than a Flower", and "The Cicerones" are some of the stories contained in Cold Hand in Mine: Eight Strange Stories. Victor Gollancz was born in 1975. A new introduction, "Uneasy Does It: An introduction to <mask>", and an afterword, "Memories of a friend", were written by Jean Richardson. "The Swords", "The Real Road to the Church", "Niemandswasser", "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal", "The Hospice", "The Same Dog", "Meeting Mr. Millar", and "The Clock Watcher" Victor Gollancz was born in 1977. "Growing Boys", "Marriage", "Le Miroir", "Compulsory Games", "Raising the Wind", " Residents Only", "Wood" Intrusions: Strange Tales.Victor Gollancz was born in 1980. "Letters to the Postman" is one of the stories in Night Voices: Strange Stories. Victor Gollancz was in London in 1985. "The Stains", "Just a Song at Twilight", "Laura", "Rosamund's Bower", and "Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale" are also included. Tartarus Press was published in 2015. Uncollected and unpublished fiction and non-fiction are collected. "The Case of Wallingford's Tiger", "A Disciple of Plato", "The Coffin House", and "The Flying Anglo-Dutchman" are fiction only listed here.New York: Scribner's. The Wine-Dark Sea is one of the revised stories. New York: William Morrow. London: Faber. "The Wine-Dark Sea" is no longer in the edition. London: Mandarin in 1990. London: Faber."The Unsettled Dust", "The Houses of the Russians", "No Stronger than a Flower", and "The Cicerones" are some of the stories contained in The Collected Strange Stories. Tartarus/Durtro was published in 1999. The Late Breakfasters and Other Strange Stories are two volumes. Valancourt, 2016 "My Poor Friend", "The Visiting Star", "Larger Than Oneself", and "Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale" are included in the 1964 novel. New York, NY: NYRB Classics. "Compulsory Games", "Marriage", "No Time Is passing", "Raising the Wind", "Wood", "The Coffin House", "Letters to the Postman", "Laura"London, 1955. The story of the Inland Waterways. Pitman was born in London in 1955. The Attempted Rescue is a book. Victor Gollancz was born in London in 1966. A story of success and failure. Pearson and Burton on Trent.Further reading, David. How Britain's Waterways were Saved is a race against time. London: Methuen. The final chapter is devoted to <mask> and contains a lot of material about him. "<mask>: Sojourns into the Unknown" was written by Scott D.Briggs. There are studies in Weird Fiction 12. 7–12.Philip Challinor. Observations on Some Strange Tales of <mask> are similar to poetry. Gothic Press was in Baton Rouge. There are eight critical essays. John Clute. <mask> was born in 1914. The essays and reviews were published in 1966.Serconia Press was published in Seattle in 1988. Clute's essay was revised in Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. New York: Scribners, 1985 Gary William Crawford. <mask> wrote "Love and Death in the Tales of Robert Aickman". The pp. of Nyctalops 18 were published in 1983. 5–5."<mask>: A Preliminary Checklist" is included in the bibliography. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's <mask> wrote "The Poetics of the Unconscious". The second edition of discovering modern horror fiction. Darrell Schweitzer. The Starmont House was built in 1988. That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's<mask> gives an introduction. Gothic Press was in Baton Rouge. The most detailed biographical and critical study has been produced to date. ed. There are insufficient answers. Gothic Press was in Baton Rouge. Three critical essays are written by different people.Howard and Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. London: Macmillan in 2002. An account of her relationship with <mask> is included in the biography. "So Little Is Definite" was written by S. T. The story is called The Modern Weird Tale. Jefferson, NC is located in North Carolina.Christine Pasanen, Morris. <mask> wrote "The Female'Outsider' in his short fiction". The pp. of Nyctalops 18 were published in 1983. 55–58 The person is Martin Ricketts. <mask>'s short stories were evaluated in "Enigma Macabre: An Evaluation of the Short Stories of <mask>". Shadow 3:1 was published in 19724–10. R. B<mask> <mask>: An Attempted Biography was written by Russell. Tartarus Press is in North Yorkshire. The first full-length biography. The websites <mask>ckman: An Appreciation and Studies in Weird Fiction contain articles, essays and papers by other authors. Website devoted to life and works of <mask> The Works of <mask> "<mask>, <mask>" in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy | [
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26231816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Axelrod | Victor Axelrod | Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias Ticklah.
Axelrod became a founding member of Antibalas and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings after meeting musicians Martin Perna and Gabe Roth (a.k.a. Bosco Mann) in the late 1990s.
Starting in 1996, Axelrod appeared as a session musician playing keyboards for Easy Star Records, a New York City independent reggae label. This studio relationship eventually resulted in him taking on the role of co-producer and engineer of the label's release Dub Side of the Moon, a 2003 dub reggae reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon recorded by the Easy Star All-Stars.
By 2002, both Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Antibalas had begun touring and were in high demand. Being in both bands was no longer feasible, so Axelrod decided to focus his attention solely on Antibalas. However, he continued to occasionally appear on subsequent recordings playing keyboard and organ for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Axelrod eventually left Antibalas in 2013.
In 2006, producer Mark Ronson hired Axelrod and other members of the Dap-Kings to play on the Amy Winehouse album Back to Black. This was to be the first of many Ronson productions where he utilized Axelrod and this group of musicians. The collective appeared on three of Ronson's solo albums (Version, Record Collection, Late Night Feelings) along with soundtracks, remixes and special projects with artists including Rufus Wainwright, Lady Gaga, Adele, Daniel Merriweather, Lily Allen, Miike Snow and Erykah Badu.
In 2007, Easy Star Records released an Axelrod solo album, Ticklah vs. Axelrod, continuing his relationship with the label. The record was a mixture of instrumental, dub and vocal tracks featuring Vinia Mojica, Rob Symeonn, Tamar-kali, Mayra Vega and Mikey General.
In 2008, Axelrod remixed the popular Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings song "How Long Do I Have to Wait for You” in a rocksteady style. Originally appearing on the Scion sampler compilation Volume 19: Daptone Records Remixed, this track was later released as a single on Daptone Records. Wanting to build on the momentum of its success, Daptone encouraged Axelrod to make more recordings for the label in a similar vein. This instigation would result in a series of singles that would feature such singers as Bob and Gene, Charles Bradley, Leon Dinero, Screechy Dan, and the band The Frightnrs.
Concurrently, in 2008, Axelrod partnered with New York City reggae and jungle DJ Liondub to release singles on his new sublabel Liondub 45. This gave Axelrod another outlet to release various reggae music he was making with both established and up-and-coming artists. Releases included collaborations between Axelrod and Sugar Minott, Judah Eskender Tafari, Jahdan Blakkemoore, Courtney John, and Victor Rice.
In 2009 some of his songs were featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the in-game Ticklah radio station.
In 2011, guitarist/producer Jay Nugent enlisted Axelrod to engineer an EP that he was producing for The Frightnrs, a reggae band from Queens, NY. Following that, Axelrod began to work extensively with the group, serving as the producer and engineer on two acclaimed projects: Inna Lovers Quarrel EP which was released by Diplo’s label Mad Decent label in 2015 and the album Nothing More to Say, released by Daptone Records in 2016.
Despite their resemblance, Victor Axelrod is not related to Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry.
Selected discography
Production (albums)
2003: Easy Star All Stars - Dub Side of the Moon - Easy Star Records
2005: Antibalas - Government Magic EP - Afrosound Records
2007: Ticklah - Ticklah Vs. Axelrod - Easy Star Records
2012: Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Radio Salone - Cumbancha Records
2015: The Frightnrs - Inna Lovers Quarrel - Mad Decent/The Full Hundred
2016: The Frightnrs Nothing More To Say - Daptone Records
Production (singles)
2003 : Antibalas "Che Che Cole (Makossa)" - Daptone Records 12"
2007: Ticklah featuring Mikey General "Rescue Me/Rockers Salvation" - Easy Star Records 7"
2008 Sharon Jones "How Long Do I Have To Wait For You/How Long Do I Have to Dub For You" Daptone Records 7"
2009: Ticklah featuring Rob Symeonn "Pork Eater/Pork Version" Easy Star Records 7"
2009 Jahdan Blakkemoore/Ticklah ft. Victor Rice "The General (remix)/Elimination Game" Liondub 45 7"
2009 Rob Symeonn and Ticklah "Rob I Land/One Way Road" Concent Records 12"
2012 Bob & Gene "I Can't Stand These Lonely Nights/Rub The Lamp" Daptone Records 7"
2012 Courtney John "Born To Fly/Born to Dub Liondub 45 7"
2013 Sluggy Ranks "Nah Bow Down/Wicked Dub" Liondub 45 7"
2013 Brukky "Why Yu Nuh/Why Yu Nuh" Names You Can Trust 7"
2014 Ticklah "Ya Llego" Names You Can Trust 10"
2015 The Frightnrs "I'd Rather Go Blind/Version" Daptone Records 7"
2016 The Frightnrs "Dispute/Version" Daptone Records 7"
2016 Bob and Gene featuring the Inversions "I Can Be Cool/Version" Daptone Records 7"
2017 Bob and Gene featuring the Inversions "It's Not What You Know It's Who You Know/Version" Daptone Records 7"
2018 Charles Bradley and the Inversions "Whatcha Doing (To Me)/Strike Three" Daptone Records 7"
2019 Leon Dinero "Lover Like Me/Conscience is Heavy" Daptone Records 7"
2019 The Frightnrs "Never Answer/Questions" Daptone Records 7"
2019 Leon Dinero/Screechy Dan "If You Ask Me/Bandits" Daptone Records 7"
Appears on
2006 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black - Universal Records (keyboards and handclaps)
2007 Antibalas - Security - Anti Records (keyboards)
2008 Nas -"Fried Chicken” - Def Jam (piano/co-wrote)
2009 Daniel Merriweather - Love & War - J Records (piano)
2010 The Like - Release Me - Geffen Records (organ, piano)
2010 Mark Ronson and the Business - Record Collection- RCA Records (synthesizer)
2011 Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures - Island Records Group (piano)
2011 Ala Modeliste - Erykah Badu and Mark Ronson Regeneration - Hyundai (piano)
2012 Antibalas - Antibalas - Daptone Records - (organ)
2012 Rufus Wainwright - Out of the Game - Decca Records (piano)
2015 Adele - "Lay Me Down"- XL Recordings (piano)
2015 Elvis Costello "Point Of No Return" Vinyl: Music From The HBO Original Series Volume 1.9 (piano)
2016 Lady Gaga - Joanne - Interscope Records (synthesizer/piano)
2016 Charles Bradley - Changes - Daptone Records (piano, organ)
2018 Kali Uchis - Isolation - Virgin Records (piano)
2018 Mark Ronson - Late Night Feelings - RCA Records (synthesizer)
2020 James Hunter Six - Nick Of Time - Daptone Records (piano)
Collaborations
2002 DJ Spinna and Ticklah remix "Days Like This" Shaun Escoffery - Oyster Records (Remix/keyboards) )
2003 DJ Spinna "Alphonso's Thang" Here To There Rapster/BBE (Co-Wrote/ keyboards)
2009 Miike Snow "Animal" (Mark Ronson remix) Columbia (organ/mixing)
2006 DJ Spinna featuring Eric Roberson "Butterfly Girl" from Intergalactic Soul album Papa Records
(Co-Wrote, Keyboards)
2014 Red Hot and Bach Dustin O’Halloran "Minim" Sony Music Masterworks (remix )
2015 Major Lazer featuring Kali Uchis "Wave" Peace is the Mission - Mad Decent/ Because Records (co-wrote, co-producer )
References
https://www.discogs.com/artist/45387-Ticklah
Axelrod on Spotify
Axelrod Productions on DaptoneRecords.com
Don't Trip on Discogs
Don't Trip from Village Voice
Frightnrs from Observer
Ronson from Billboard
Gabe Roth on Grammy.com
Ticklah on Easystar
External links
Wide Hive Records Ticklah Page
Wide Hive Remixed Page
1972 births
Living people
Record producers from New York (state)
Musicians from Brooklyn
State University of New York at Purchase alumni
American reggae musicians
Easy Star Records artists
Jewish American musicians
Midwood High School alumni
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings members
Antibalas members
21st-century American Jews | [
"Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York.",
"Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias Ticklah.",
"Axelrod became a founding member of Antibalas and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings after meeting musicians Martin Perna and Gabe Roth (a.k.a.",
"Bosco Mann) in the late 1990s.",
"Starting in 1996, Axelrod appeared as a session musician playing keyboards for Easy Star Records, a New York City independent reggae label.",
"This studio relationship eventually resulted in him taking on the role of co-producer and engineer of the label's release Dub Side of the Moon, a 2003 dub reggae reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon recorded by the Easy Star All-Stars.",
"By 2002, both Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Antibalas had begun touring and were in high demand.",
"Being in both bands was no longer feasible, so Axelrod decided to focus his attention solely on Antibalas.",
"However, he continued to occasionally appear on subsequent recordings playing keyboard and organ for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.",
"Axelrod eventually left Antibalas in 2013.",
"In 2006, producer Mark Ronson hired Axelrod and other members of the Dap-Kings to play on the Amy Winehouse album Back to Black.",
"This was to be the first of many Ronson productions where he utilized Axelrod and this group of musicians.",
"The collective appeared on three of Ronson's solo albums (Version, Record Collection, Late Night Feelings) along with soundtracks, remixes and special projects with artists including Rufus Wainwright, Lady Gaga, Adele, Daniel Merriweather, Lily Allen, Miike Snow and Erykah Badu.",
"In 2007, Easy Star Records released an Axelrod solo album, Ticklah vs. Axelrod, continuing his relationship with the label.",
"The record was a mixture of instrumental, dub and vocal tracks featuring Vinia Mojica, Rob Symeonn, Tamar-kali, Mayra Vega and Mikey General.",
"In 2008, Axelrod remixed the popular Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings song \"How Long Do I Have to Wait for You” in a rocksteady style.",
"Originally appearing on the Scion sampler compilation Volume 19: Daptone Records Remixed, this track was later released as a single on Daptone Records.",
"Wanting to build on the momentum of its success, Daptone encouraged Axelrod to make more recordings for the label in a similar vein.",
"This instigation would result in a series of singles that would feature such singers as Bob and Gene, Charles Bradley, Leon Dinero, Screechy Dan, and the band The Frightnrs.",
"Concurrently, in 2008, Axelrod partnered with New York City reggae and jungle DJ Liondub to release singles on his new sublabel Liondub 45.",
"This gave Axelrod another outlet to release various reggae music he was making with both established and up-and-coming artists.",
"Releases included collaborations between Axelrod and Sugar Minott, Judah Eskender Tafari, Jahdan Blakkemoore, Courtney John, and Victor Rice.",
"In 2009 some of his songs were featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the in-game Ticklah radio station.",
"In 2011, guitarist/producer Jay Nugent enlisted Axelrod to engineer an EP that he was producing for The Frightnrs, a reggae band from Queens, NY.",
"Following that, Axelrod began to work extensively with the group, serving as the producer and engineer on two acclaimed projects: Inna Lovers Quarrel EP which was released by Diplo’s label Mad Decent label in 2015 and the album Nothing More to Say, released by Daptone Records in 2016.",
"Despite their resemblance, Victor Axelrod is not related to Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry."
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"Victor is from Brooklyn, New York.",
"He has recorded and produced under his own name and used the name \"Ticklah\" since the mid 1990s.",
"The founding member of Antibalas and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings was met by two other musicians.",
"There was a man in the late 1990s.",
"Axelrod was a session musician for Easy Star Records in New York City.",
"He took on the role of co-producer and engineer of the label's release Dub Side of the Moon, a 2003 reinterpretation of the Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon.",
"Sharon Jones and the Antibalas were in high demand by 2002.",
"Being in both bands wasn't feasible so he focused on Antibalas.",
"He played the keyboard and organ on recordings for Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.",
"Axelrod left Antibalas.",
"The Amy Winehouse album Back to Black was produced by Mark Ronson.",
"This was the first Ronson production where he used a group of musicians.",
"The collective appeared on three of Ronson's solo albums, as well as soundtracks, remixes, and special projects with artists including Lady Gaga, Daniel Merriweather, Miike Snow, and Erykah Badu.",
"In 2007, Easy Star Records released a solo album by Axelrod.",
"Vinia Mojica, Rob Symeonn, Tamar-kali, Mayra Vega, and Mikey General were featured on the record.",
"The Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings song \"How Long Do I Have to Wait for You\" was re-released in 2008 in a rocksteady style.",
"This track was released as a single on Daptone Records after appearing on the Scion sampler.",
"Wanting to build on the momentum of its success, Daptone encouraged Axelrod to make more recordings for the label in a similar vein.",
"A series of singles would feature such singers as Bob and Gene, Charles Bradley, Leon Dinero, and Screechy Dan.",
"In 2008, Axelrod and DJ Liondub collaborated to release singles on his new sublabel Liondub 45.",
"As a result of this, he was able to release various Reggae music with both established and up-and-coming artists.",
"Victor Rice and Judah Eskender Tafari collaborated on a release.",
"Some of his songs were used in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.",
"Jay Nugent was a guitarist and producer in the band The Frightnrs, which was based in Queens, NY.",
"Inna Lovers Quarrel was released by Diplo's Mad Decent label in 2015, and the album Nothing More to Say was released by Daptone Records.",
"Victor Axelrod is not related to Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry."
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1247199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy%20Kolber | Suzy Kolber | Suzanne Lisa "Suzy" Kolber (; born May 14, 1964) is an American football sideline reporter, co-producer, and sportscaster for ESPN. She was one of the original anchors of ESPN2 when it launched in 1993. Three years later, she left ESPN2 to join Fox Sports, and rejoined ESPN in late 1999.
Biography
Early life
Kolber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jewish family. She went to Sandy Run Middle School in Dresher, Pennsylvania, and is a 1982 graduate of Pennsylvania's Upper Dublin High School. She graduated from the University of Miami in 1986. At ten years old, Suzy won a spot on the school football team. However, she quit because of a strong disagreement from adults and her parents.
Career before ESPN
Kolber graduated from the University of Miami in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications. While an undergraduate, she worked at Dynamic Cable in Coral Gables, Florida, as a sports director (1984–86) and was on the UM water ski team. After graduation, she worked at CBS Sports in New York City as a videotape coordinator (1986).
From 1985 to 1989, Kolber produced the 5:30 p.m. ET sportscast at WTVJ-TV in Miami, winning a local Sports Emmy in 1988. From 1989 to 1990, she freelanced as a specials producer for WPLG-TV in Miami. In addition, she produced two magazine shows, Greyhound Racing America in Miami, Florida (1988–90) and Cowboys Special Edition in Irving, Texas (1990–91). In 1991, Kolber's freelance assignments included work as a reporter/producer for Breeders' Cup Newsfeed in Greenwich, Connecticut; a field producer for Inside Edition in New York City; a sports specials producer for WCIX-TV in Miami, and a producer/director for NFL Films. She was a weekend sports anchor and weekday feature reporter at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida from December 1991 until she moved to ESPN in 1993.
ESPN
Kolber has covered a variety of assignments for ESPN from the National Football League to the 1996 ESPN X Games bicycle-stunt events and Grand Slam tennis events. She is most recognized as a sideline reporter on ESPN’s Monday Night Football with Michele Tafoya. In 2007, she was also a host for ESPN’s pre-race NASCAR Countdown program.
Kolber joined ESPN’s MNF team during its inaugural year in 2006 after five previous seasons on ESPN's Sunday Night Football (2001–05). As a member of the MNF team, Kolber helped the longtime franchise become the most-watched program in cable television history.
Kolber worked the ABC Sports broadcast of Super Bowl XL in Detroit in 2006 with Michele Tafoya and contributed to the network’s pre-game show. She also became the first female recipient of the Maxwell Club Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2006 and was named to Sports Business Daily’s 2004 list of the 10 favorite sports TV personalities of the past 10 years.
Kolber regularly hosts ESPN’s year-round NFL Live news and information show, and she has played a major role in ESPN’s comprehensive coverage of the annual NFL Draft, hosting the Day 2 telecast (2004–2006) and leading analysis segments on Day 1. For the 1999 through 2003 NFL seasons, Kolber was the host of NFL Matchup. She also previously contributed “Backstage” segments to Monday Night Countdown.
During the NFL off-season, Kolber serves as an anchor on SportsCenter and as an on-site and studio host for ESPN's tennis coverage at the French Open (since 2004–2006) and Wimbledon (since 2003–2006/2009). In 1996, 2000 and 2001, she hosted the Summer X Games and Winter X Games, and she co-hosted the event again in Aspen in 2006. She also hosted horse racing events including all three legs of the Triple Crown for ESPN/ESPN2 studio programs.
Kolber returned to ESPN in August 1999 after originally joining the network in 1993 as co-host for ESPN2's SportsNight, when the network debuted October 1 of that year. She later served as an anchor on SportsCenter, a reporter on College GameDay and co-host of the X Games in 1995 and 1996. Kolber also hosted ESPN2's SportsFigures, which uses sports celebrities and analogies to teach math and physics.
While covering the 2011 NFL Draft, Kolber came under fire for her interview with Mark Ingram Jr., who started to sob when Kolber read an e-mail from Ingram's imprisoned father. The interview was perceived by some as being manipulative.
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, the ESPN2 debut of the show NFL32 with Suzy Kolber and Chris Mortensen hit the air. With a backdrop similar to a sports bar (complete with wainscoting, sports memorabilia, and dark woodwork), the show focuses on "dissect the biggest topics of the day from all 32 NFL teams" and attributes much of its design to that of the Dan Patrick Show, a well listened to and watched national radio and television show on DirecTV's Audience network.
The Namath incident
On December 20, 2003, Kolber received national attention when, covering a New York Jets game, former Jets quarterback Joe Namath twice stated, in a nationally televised sideline interview with Kolber, that he wanted to kiss her, and "couldn't care less about the team strugg-a-ling." Kolber responded, "Thanks, Joe. I'll take that as a huge compliment." Namath later apologized and blamed the incident on his obvious intoxication. Soon after, Namath entered an outpatient alcoholism treatment program. Namath chronicled the episode, including his battle with alcoholism in his book Namath and later said that remembering the embarrassment he felt after the interview aired helped him maintain a lasting sobriety.
Monday Night Football
Kolber joined ESPN's Monday Night Football crew as a sideline reporter along with Michele Tafoya when the network took over the longtime football series from ABC Sports in 2006. After Tafoya left ESPN for NBC Sports at the end of the 2010–2011 NFL season, ESPN used a rotating solo sideline reporter for the 2011–2012 NFL season, with reporters such as Wendi Nix, Ed Werder and Rachel Nichols stepping into the role each week, with Kolber as a fill-in. Kolber requested to do more in-studio work so she didn't have to be away from her child. The show NFL32 (now NFL Insiders) was created as a result of this request. Lisa Salters was named the new full-time solo sideline reporter for Monday Night Football starting with the 2012–2013 NFL season, effectively ending Kolber's tenure as sideline reporter for the show, although both Salters and Kolber continue to co-produce the show in some capacity.
NASCAR Countdown
In the two weeks prior to Kolber's arrival in 2007, Brent Musburger was mysteriously absent from his position as lead host of NASCAR Countdown on the ABC/ESPN network. On the week of the race on May 19, ESPN gave no reason for his absence but announced Kolber as the new host of Nextel Cup and Busch Series studio programming. She was subsequently replaced by Allen Bestwick as host of NASCAR Countdown.
Monday Night Countdown
After substituting for the then-ailing Stuart Scott during most of the 2014 NFL season, Kolber took over Scott's role permanently as an on-site host of Monday Night Countdown, starting with the 2015 NFL season, after Scott died on January 4, 2015.
Fox Sports
Kolber left ESPN for Fox Sports in November 1996, where she anchored Fox Sports News for the fledgling Fox Sports Net and reported from NFL games, among other duties. She served as the lead reporter for the network's coverage of the NFL on Fox teaming up with the network's No. 1 announcer team of Pat Summerall and John Madden for one game in 1998. She also covered horse racing. She served as studio host for the network's coverage of the NHL on Fox, including both the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals and the Playoffs. In March 1999, Kolber co-hosted a Fox non-sports presentation with Maury Povich, Opening the Lost Tombs: Live From Egypt, an archaeological event that promised to "unveil five-thousand year old mysteries." Fox's TV cameras showed the first live excavation on Egypt's ancient Giza plateau; Kolber reported live from the tomb. She returned to ESPN in August 1999.
Endorsements
Kolber's football broadcast narrative is featured on Sega's video game, ESPN NFL Football for Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 2.
Kolber also is a national television spokesperson for Chevrolet and Pepsi-Cola commercials.
In 1995's ESPN Extreme Games for PlayStation, she has multiple video sequences hyping up the player, introducing levels, and hinting at secret areas. The re-release of the game, 1Xtreme, removed all of her videos, and any reference to ESPN.
References
External links
Official biography at ESPN.com
American television sports announcers
American television sports anchors
American television reporters and correspondents
ESPN people
National Football League announcers
National Hockey League broadcasters
Television personalities from Philadelphia
University of Miami alumni
Women sports announcers
Tennis commentators
Motorsport announcers
American horse racing announcers
College football announcers
1964 births
Living people
People from Upper Dublin Township, Pennsylvania
Jewish American sportspeople
American women television journalists | [
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"She was one of the original anchors of ESPN2 when it launched in 1993.",
"Three years later, she left ESPN2 to join Fox Sports, and rejoined ESPN in late 1999.",
"Biography\n\nEarly life\nKolber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jewish family.",
"She went to Sandy Run Middle School in Dresher, Pennsylvania, and is a 1982 graduate of Pennsylvania's Upper Dublin High School.",
"She graduated from the University of Miami in 1986.",
"At ten years old, Suzy won a spot on the school football team.",
"However, she quit because of a strong disagreement from adults and her parents.",
"Career before ESPN\nKolber graduated from the University of Miami in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications.",
"While an undergraduate, she worked at Dynamic Cable in Coral Gables, Florida, as a sports director (1984–86) and was on the UM water ski team.",
"After graduation, she worked at CBS Sports in New York City as a videotape coordinator (1986).",
"From 1985 to 1989, Kolber produced the 5:30 p.m.",
"ET sportscast at WTVJ-TV in Miami, winning a local Sports Emmy in 1988.",
"From 1989 to 1990, she freelanced as a specials producer for WPLG-TV in Miami.",
"In addition, she produced two magazine shows, Greyhound Racing America in Miami, Florida (1988–90) and Cowboys Special Edition in Irving, Texas (1990–91).",
"In 1991, Kolber's freelance assignments included work as a reporter/producer for Breeders' Cup Newsfeed in Greenwich, Connecticut; a field producer for Inside Edition in New York City; a sports specials producer for WCIX-TV in Miami, and a producer/director for NFL Films.",
"She was a weekend sports anchor and weekday feature reporter at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida from December 1991 until she moved to ESPN in 1993.",
"ESPN\nKolber has covered a variety of assignments for ESPN from the National Football League to the 1996 ESPN X Games bicycle-stunt events and Grand Slam tennis events.",
"She is most recognized as a sideline reporter on ESPN’s Monday Night Football with Michele Tafoya.",
"In 2007, she was also a host for ESPN’s pre-race NASCAR Countdown program.",
"Kolber joined ESPN’s MNF team during its inaugural year in 2006 after five previous seasons on ESPN's Sunday Night Football (2001–05).",
"As a member of the MNF team, Kolber helped the longtime franchise become the most-watched program in cable television history.",
"Kolber worked the ABC Sports broadcast of Super Bowl XL in Detroit in 2006 with Michele Tafoya and contributed to the network’s pre-game show.",
"She also became the first female recipient of the Maxwell Club Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2006 and was named to Sports Business Daily’s 2004 list of the 10 favorite sports TV personalities of the past 10 years.",
"Kolber regularly hosts ESPN’s year-round NFL Live news and information show, and she has played a major role in ESPN’s comprehensive coverage of the annual NFL Draft, hosting the Day 2 telecast (2004–2006) and leading analysis segments on Day 1.",
"For the 1999 through 2003 NFL seasons, Kolber was the host of NFL Matchup.",
"She also previously contributed “Backstage” segments to Monday Night Countdown.",
"During the NFL off-season, Kolber serves as an anchor on SportsCenter and as an on-site and studio host for ESPN's tennis coverage at the French Open (since 2004–2006) and Wimbledon (since 2003–2006/2009).",
"In 1996, 2000 and 2001, she hosted the Summer X Games and Winter X Games, and she co-hosted the event again in Aspen in 2006.",
"She also hosted horse racing events including all three legs of the Triple Crown for ESPN/ESPN2 studio programs.",
"Kolber returned to ESPN in August 1999 after originally joining the network in 1993 as co-host for ESPN2's SportsNight, when the network debuted October 1 of that year.",
"She later served as an anchor on SportsCenter, a reporter on College GameDay and co-host of the X Games in 1995 and 1996.",
"Kolber also hosted ESPN2's SportsFigures, which uses sports celebrities and analogies to teach math and physics.",
"While covering the 2011 NFL Draft, Kolber came under fire for her interview with Mark Ingram Jr., who started to sob when Kolber read an e-mail from Ingram's imprisoned father.",
"The interview was perceived by some as being manipulative.",
"On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, the ESPN2 debut of the show NFL32 with Suzy Kolber and Chris Mortensen hit the air.",
"With a backdrop similar to a sports bar (complete with wainscoting, sports memorabilia, and dark woodwork), the show focuses on \"dissect the biggest topics of the day from all 32 NFL teams\" and attributes much of its design to that of the Dan Patrick Show, a well listened to and watched national radio and television show on DirecTV's Audience network.",
"The Namath incident\nOn December 20, 2003, Kolber received national attention when, covering a New York Jets game, former Jets quarterback Joe Namath twice stated, in a nationally televised sideline interview with Kolber, that he wanted to kiss her, and \"couldn't care less about the team strugg-a-ling.\"",
"Kolber responded, \"Thanks, Joe.",
"I'll take that as a huge compliment.\"",
"Namath later apologized and blamed the incident on his obvious intoxication.",
"Soon after, Namath entered an outpatient alcoholism treatment program.",
"Namath chronicled the episode, including his battle with alcoholism in his book Namath and later said that remembering the embarrassment he felt after the interview aired helped him maintain a lasting sobriety.",
"Monday Night Football\nKolber joined ESPN's Monday Night Football crew as a sideline reporter along with Michele Tafoya when the network took over the longtime football series from ABC Sports in 2006.",
"After Tafoya left ESPN for NBC Sports at the end of the 2010–2011 NFL season, ESPN used a rotating solo sideline reporter for the 2011–2012 NFL season, with reporters such as Wendi Nix, Ed Werder and Rachel Nichols stepping into the role each week, with Kolber as a fill-in.",
"Kolber requested to do more in-studio work so she didn't have to be away from her child.",
"The show NFL32 (now NFL Insiders) was created as a result of this request.",
"Lisa Salters was named the new full-time solo sideline reporter for Monday Night Football starting with the 2012–2013 NFL season, effectively ending Kolber's tenure as sideline reporter for the show, although both Salters and Kolber continue to co-produce the show in some capacity.",
"NASCAR Countdown\nIn the two weeks prior to Kolber's arrival in 2007, Brent Musburger was mysteriously absent from his position as lead host of NASCAR Countdown on the ABC/ESPN network.",
"On the week of the race on May 19, ESPN gave no reason for his absence but announced Kolber as the new host of Nextel Cup and Busch Series studio programming.",
"She was subsequently replaced by Allen Bestwick as host of NASCAR Countdown.",
"Monday Night Countdown\nAfter substituting for the then-ailing Stuart Scott during most of the 2014 NFL season, Kolber took over Scott's role permanently as an on-site host of Monday Night Countdown, starting with the 2015 NFL season, after Scott died on January 4, 2015.",
"Fox Sports\nKolber left ESPN for Fox Sports in November 1996, where she anchored Fox Sports News for the fledgling Fox Sports Net and reported from NFL games, among other duties.",
"She served as the lead reporter for the network's coverage of the NFL on Fox teaming up with the network's No.",
"1 announcer team of Pat Summerall and John Madden for one game in 1998.",
"She also covered horse racing.",
"She served as studio host for the network's coverage of the NHL on Fox, including both the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals and the Playoffs.",
"In March 1999, Kolber co-hosted a Fox non-sports presentation with Maury Povich, Opening the Lost Tombs: Live From Egypt, an archaeological event that promised to \"unveil five-thousand year old mysteries.\"",
"Fox's TV cameras showed the first live excavation on Egypt's ancient Giza plateau; Kolber reported live from the tomb.",
"She returned to ESPN in August 1999.",
"Endorsements\nKolber's football broadcast narrative is featured on Sega's video game, ESPN NFL Football for Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 2.",
"Kolber also is a national television spokesperson for Chevrolet and Pepsi-Cola commercials.",
"In 1995's ESPN Extreme Games for PlayStation, she has multiple video sequences hyping up the player, introducing levels, and hinting at secret areas.",
"The re-release of the game, 1Xtreme, removed all of her videos, and any reference to ESPN.",
"References\n\nExternal links\nOfficial biography at ESPN.com\n\nAmerican television sports announcers\nAmerican television sports anchors\nAmerican television reporters and correspondents\nESPN people\nNational Football League announcers\nNational Hockey League broadcasters\nTelevision personalities from Philadelphia\nUniversity of Miami alumni\nWomen sports announcers\nTennis commentators\nMotorsport announcers\nAmerican horse racing announcers\nCollege football announcers\n1964 births\nLiving people\nPeople from Upper Dublin Township, Pennsylvania\nJewish American sportspeople\nAmerican women television journalists"
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"She was one of the original anchors.",
"She rejoined ESPN in 1999 after three years with Fox Sports.",
"Kolber was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia.",
"She attended Sandy Run Middle School in Dresher, Pennsylvania, and Upper Dublin High School in Pennsylvania.",
"She graduated from the University of Miami in 1986.",
"At ten years old, she won a spot on the football team.",
"She quit because of a disagreement with her parents.",
"Kolber graduated from the University of Miami in 1986 with a degree in telecommunications.",
"She was a member of the UM water ski team and worked at Dynamic Cable as a sports director.",
"She worked at CBS Sports in New York City.",
"The 5:30 p.m. was produced by Kolber from 1985 to 1989.",
"WTVJ-TV in Miami won a local Sports Emmy in 1988.",
"She was a specials producer for WPLG-TV in Miami from 1989 to 1990.",
"She produced Greyhound Racing America in Miami, Florida and Cowboys Special Edition in Irving, Texas.",
"In 1991, he worked as a reporter, producer, and field producer for Inside Edition in New York City, as well as a producer and director for NFL Films.",
"She was a weekend sports anchor and weekday feature reporter at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.",
"The National Football League, the X Games bicycle-stunt events, and the Grand Slam tennis events are just a few of the assignments that ESPN has covered.",
"She is a sideline reporter on Monday Night Football.",
"She was a host for the pre-race NASCAR program in 2007.",
"After five previous seasons on Sunday Night Football, Kolber joined the team in the first year of its existence.",
"The most-viewed program in cable television history was created by the MNF team.",
"The pre-game show on the ABC Sports broadcast of the Super Bowl in Detroit in 2006 was hosted by Kolber.",
"She was the first female recipient of the Maxwell Club Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2006 and was named to the Sports Business Daily list of the 10 favorite sports TV personalities of the past 10 years.",
"She is the host of the year-round NFL Live news and information show, as well as the host of the Day 2 telecast of the annual NFL draft.",
"The host of NFL Matchup was Kolber.",
"She previously contributed segments to Monday Night Countdown.",
"During the off-season, Kolber serves as an anchor on SportsCenter and as an on-site and studio host for tennis coverage at the French Open and Wimbledon.",
"In 1996, 2000 and 2001, she hosted the Summer X Games and Winter X Games, and in 2006 she co-hosted the event in Aspen.",
"She hosted the three legs of the Triple Crown for the studio programs.",
"After joining the network in 1993 as a co-host for SportsNight, he returned to the network in 1999 as a host.",
"She was a reporter on College GameDay and co-hosted the X Games in 1995 and 1996.",
"SportsFigures uses sports celebrities and analogies to teach math and physics.",
"Kolber came under fire for her interview with Mark Ingram Jr., who started to cry when she read an e-mail from his imprisoned father.",
"Some thought the interview was being manipulated.",
"On Tuesday, September 13th, the first episode of the show NFL32 was aired.",
"With a backdrop similar to a sports bar, the show focuses on \"dissect the biggest topics of the day from all 32 NFL teams\" and attributes much of its design to that of the Dan Patrick Show.",
"On December 20, 2003 Kolber received national attention when, covering a New York Jets game, former Jets quarterback Joe Namath stated in a nationally televised sideline interview that he wanted to kiss her.",
"\"Thanks, Joe,\" said Kolber.",
"I'll take that as a huge compliment.",
"He blamed the incident on his intoxication.",
"Soon after, he entered an alcoholism treatment program.",
"After his battle with alcoholism was chronicled in his book, Namath, he said that remembering the embarrassment he felt after the interview helped him stay sober.",
"When the Monday Night Football show was taken over by the network in 2006 Kolber joined the crew as a sideline reporter.",
"After Tafoya left for NBC Sports at the end of the 2010–2011 NFL season, they used a rotating solo sideline reporter, with reporters such as Wendi Nix, Ed Werder and Rachel Nichols stepping into the role each week.",
"She didn't have to be away from her child so she requested to do more in- studio work.",
"The show NFL32 was created as a result of this request.",
"Lisa Salters was named the new full-time solo sideline reporter for Monday Night Football starting with the 2012– 2013 NFL season, effectively ending the tenure of Kevin Kolber as sideline reporter for the show.",
"Musburger was absent from his position as lead host of NASCAR Countdown on the ABC/ESPN network in the two weeks prior to Kolber's arrival.",
"He was absent from the Nextel Cup and Busch Series studio programming on the week of the race, but was later announced as the new host.",
"She was replaced by Allen Bestwick.",
"After Stuart Scott passed away on January 4, 2015, Kolber took over the host's role for the entire 2015 NFL season.",
"During her time at Fox Sports, she anchored Fox Sports News and reported from football games, among other duties.",
"She was the lead reporter for the network's coverage of the NFL on Fox.",
"The Pat Summerall and John Madden team did one game in 1998.",
"She covered horse racing.",
"She hosted both the Stanley Cup Finals and the Playoffs for Fox in 1999.",
"An archaeological event that promised to \"unveil five thousand year old mysteries\" was hosted by Kolber and Maury Povich.",
"The first live excavation on Egypt's ancient Giza plateau was shown on Fox's TV cameras.",
"August 1999 was when she came back to ESPN.",
"The narrative of the football broadcast is featured in a number of video games.",
"Chevrolet and Pepsi-Cola commercials have Kolber as a spokesman.",
"In 1995's ESPN Extreme Games, she has a lot of video clips hyping up the player, introducing levels, and hints at secret areas.",
"All of her videos were removed from the re-release of the game.",
"American television sports commentators, American television reporters, and correspondents, National Football League commentators, National Hockey League broadcasters, and Philadelphia University of Miami alumni are some of the people mentioned."
] | Suzanne Lisa "<mask>" <mask> (; born May 14, 1964) is an American football sideline reporter, co-producer, and sportscaster for ESPN. She was one of the original anchors of ESPN2 when it launched in 1993. Three years later, she left ESPN2 to join Fox Sports, and rejoined ESPN in late 1999. Biography
Early life
<mask> was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jewish family. She went to Sandy Run Middle School in Dresher, Pennsylvania, and is a 1982 graduate of Pennsylvania's Upper Dublin High School. She graduated from the University of Miami in 1986. At ten years old, <mask> won a spot on the school football team.However, she quit because of a strong disagreement from adults and her parents. Career before ESPN
Kolber graduated from the University of Miami in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications. While an undergraduate, she worked at Dynamic Cable in Coral Gables, Florida, as a sports director (1984–86) and was on the UM water ski team. After graduation, she worked at CBS Sports in New York City as a videotape coordinator (1986). From 1985 to 1989, Kolber produced the 5:30 p.m. ET sportscast at WTVJ-TV in Miami, winning a local Sports Emmy in 1988. From 1989 to 1990, she freelanced as a specials producer for WPLG-TV in Miami.In addition, she produced two magazine shows, Greyhound Racing America in Miami, Florida (1988–90) and Cowboys Special Edition in Irving, Texas (1990–91). In 1991, Kolber's freelance assignments included work as a reporter/producer for Breeders' Cup Newsfeed in Greenwich, Connecticut; a field producer for Inside Edition in New York City; a sports specials producer for WCIX-TV in Miami, and a producer/director for NFL Films. She was a weekend sports anchor and weekday feature reporter at WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida from December 1991 until she moved to ESPN in 1993. ESPN
Kolber has covered a variety of assignments for ESPN from the National Football League to the 1996 ESPN X Games bicycle-stunt events and Grand Slam tennis events. She is most recognized as a sideline reporter on ESPN’s Monday Night Football with Michele Tafoya. In 2007, she was also a host for ESPN’s pre-race NASCAR Countdown program. <mask> joined ESPN’s MNF team during its inaugural year in 2006 after five previous seasons on ESPN's Sunday Night Football (2001–05).As a member of the MNF team, Kolber helped the longtime franchise become the most-watched program in cable television history. <mask> worked the ABC Sports broadcast of Super Bowl XL in Detroit in 2006 with Michele Tafoya and contributed to the network’s pre-game show. She also became the first female recipient of the Maxwell Club Sports Broadcaster of the Year Award in 2006 and was named to Sports Business Daily’s 2004 list of the 10 favorite sports TV personalities of the past 10 years. <mask> regularly hosts ESPN’s year-round NFL Live news and information show, and she has played a major role in ESPN’s comprehensive coverage of the annual NFL Draft, hosting the Day 2 telecast (2004–2006) and leading analysis segments on Day 1. For the 1999 through 2003 NFL seasons, <mask> was the host of NFL Matchup. She also previously contributed “Backstage” segments to Monday Night Countdown. During the NFL off-season, Kolber serves as an anchor on SportsCenter and as an on-site and studio host for ESPN's tennis coverage at the French Open (since 2004–2006) and Wimbledon (since 2003–2006/2009).In 1996, 2000 and 2001, she hosted the Summer X Games and Winter X Games, and she co-hosted the event again in Aspen in 2006. She also hosted horse racing events including all three legs of the Triple Crown for ESPN/ESPN2 studio programs. <mask> returned to ESPN in August 1999 after originally joining the network in 1993 as co-host for ESPN2's SportsNight, when the network debuted October 1 of that year. She later served as an anchor on SportsCenter, a reporter on College GameDay and co-host of the X Games in 1995 and 1996. <mask> also hosted ESPN2's SportsFigures, which uses sports celebrities and analogies to teach math and physics. While covering the 2011 NFL Draft, Kolber came under fire for her interview with Mark Ingram Jr., who started to sob when Kolber read an e-mail from Ingram's imprisoned father. The interview was perceived by some as being manipulative.On Tuesday, September 13, 2011, the ESPN2 debut of the show NFL32 with <mask> <mask> and Chris Mortensen hit the air. With a backdrop similar to a sports bar (complete with wainscoting, sports memorabilia, and dark woodwork), the show focuses on "dissect the biggest topics of the day from all 32 NFL teams" and attributes much of its design to that of the Dan Patrick Show, a well listened to and watched national radio and television show on DirecTV's Audience network. The Namath incident
On December 20, 2003, Kolber received national attention when, covering a New York Jets game, former Jets quarterback Joe Namath twice stated, in a nationally televised sideline interview with Kolber, that he wanted to kiss her, and "couldn't care less about the team strugg-a-ling." Kolber responded, "Thanks, Joe. I'll take that as a huge compliment." Namath later apologized and blamed the incident on his obvious intoxication. Soon after, Namath entered an outpatient alcoholism treatment program.Namath chronicled the episode, including his battle with alcoholism in his book Namath and later said that remembering the embarrassment he felt after the interview aired helped him maintain a lasting sobriety. Monday Night Football
<mask> joined ESPN's Monday Night Football crew as a sideline reporter along with Michele Tafoya when the network took over the longtime football series from ABC Sports in 2006. After Tafoya left ESPN for NBC Sports at the end of the 2010–2011 NFL season, ESPN used a rotating solo sideline reporter for the 2011–2012 NFL season, with reporters such as Wendi Nix, Ed Werder and Rachel Nichols stepping into the role each week, with Kolber as a fill-in. Kolber requested to do more in-studio work so she didn't have to be away from her child. The show NFL32 (now NFL Insiders) was created as a result of this request. Lisa Salters was named the new full-time solo sideline reporter for Monday Night Football starting with the 2012–2013 NFL season, effectively ending Kolber's tenure as sideline reporter for the show, although both Salters and <mask> continue to co-produce the show in some capacity. NASCAR Countdown
In the two weeks prior to <mask>'s arrival in 2007, Brent Musburger was mysteriously absent from his position as lead host of NASCAR Countdown on the ABC/ESPN network.On the week of the race on May 19, ESPN gave no reason for his absence but announced <mask> as the new host of Nextel Cup and Busch Series studio programming. She was subsequently replaced by Allen Bestwick as host of NASCAR Countdown. Monday Night Countdown
After substituting for the then-ailing Stuart Scott during most of the 2014 NFL season, <mask> took over Scott's role permanently as an on-site host of Monday Night Countdown, starting with the 2015 NFL season, after Scott died on January 4, 2015. Fox Sports
<mask> left ESPN for Fox Sports in November 1996, where she anchored Fox Sports News for the fledgling Fox Sports Net and reported from NFL games, among other duties. She served as the lead reporter for the network's coverage of the NFL on Fox teaming up with the network's No. 1 announcer team of Pat Summerall and John Madden for one game in 1998. She also covered horse racing.She served as studio host for the network's coverage of the NHL on Fox, including both the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals and the Playoffs. In March 1999, Kolber co-hosted a Fox non-sports presentation with Maury Povich, Opening the Lost Tombs: Live From Egypt, an archaeological event that promised to "unveil five-thousand year old mysteries." Fox's TV cameras showed the first live excavation on Egypt's ancient Giza plateau; Kolber reported live from the tomb. She returned to ESPN in August 1999. Endorsements
<mask>'s football broadcast narrative is featured on Sega's video game, ESPN NFL Football for Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PlayStation 2. <mask> also is a national television spokesperson for Chevrolet and Pepsi-Cola commercials. In 1995's ESPN Extreme Games for PlayStation, she has multiple video sequences hyping up the player, introducing levels, and hinting at secret areas.The re-release of the game, 1Xtreme, removed all of her videos, and any reference to ESPN. References
External links
Official biography at ESPN.com
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American television reporters and correspondents
ESPN people
National Football League announcers
National Hockey League broadcasters
Television personalities from Philadelphia
University of Miami alumni
Women sports announcers
Tennis commentators
Motorsport announcers
American horse racing announcers
College football announcers
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29509656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi%20Tyabji | Judi Tyabji | Judeline Kim Mary Tyabji (born 2 January 1965) is a former British Columbia politician, who was the youngest elected Member of the Legislative Assembly, and the wife of former provincial Leader of the Opposition Gordon Wilson.
Early life
Tyabji was born in Calcutta, India, in 1965 to English and Indian parents who immigrated their family in the mid-1970s to Canada, first to Toronto then to Kelowna, where she attended Catholic elementary and high schools. Her father Alan Tyabji was an executive for Calona Wines then owned Okanagan Vineyards Winery in Oliver, British Columbia. In 1986, she graduated from the University of Victoria with a degree in political science then went to work as an assistant for the federal Liberal party.
Politics
After Gordon Wilson became leader of the provincial Liberal party in 1987, Tyabji became their regional representative. Shortly after her giving birth to her first child, she was their nominee for a by-election in Boundary-Similkameen. She lost her first election to the NDP's Bill Barlee, but raised the Liberal share of vote in the riding from 2% to 11%. After Jean Chrétien became the federal Liberal leader, she briefly switched to the NDP then returned to the provincial Liberals when they disconnected from the federal party in 1991.
When she was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child, Tyabji earned what was described as a "surprise victory" in her first election win in October 1991 by defeating a Social Credit cabinet minister and a prominent NDP activist to become the MLA for the newly created riding of Okanagan-East.Tyabji was the only Liberal elected in the province's Interior region that year and in the Okanagan since before World War Two. She was the youngest MLA on record at the time and the first to give birth while in office. She was also appointed Environment Critic by the Liberals.
Wilson affair
She served as an MLA for Okanagan East (Kelowna) from 1991 to 1996, including sitting with the British Columbia Liberal Party from 1991 until 1993 when Wilson's leadership of the Liberals was challenged after it came to light that he was having an extramarital affair with Tyabji, whom he had recently named as the party's House Leader. Wilson and Tyabji retained their seats in the Legislature and sat as members of a new party, the Progressive Democratic Alliance.
Wilson and Tyabji then married in 1994, the same year she lost custody of her three children to her ex-husband.
In the 1996 provincial election, Wilson retained his seat, while Tyabji lost hers. Wilson afterwards, in 1997, crossed the floor to join the British Columbia New Democratic Party government of Glen Clark as Minister of Finance and Minister of Employment, Investment and International Trade. He subsequently folded his party, the PDA.
Tyabji ran for municipal countil for the City of Powell River in 1999 and topped the polls, then served as Councillor for two years and as Director of the Regional District. On Council, she was Chair of the Planning Committee, Chair of Parks, Recreation and Culture, and Chair of the Waterfront Development Committee, which oversaw the revitalization of the Westview Harbour and many other downtown amenities.
Post-politics
After leaving politics she hosted a daily talk show on Victoria-based CHEK-TV until suing CHEK for breach of contract in 1998. She served as a municipal councillor in Powell River from November 1999 until October 2001. She was a co-founder and CEO of a software company from 2004 to 2012, and has been a management consultant in multimedia and business development since 1996.
In 2008, Tyabji, her firm Tugboat Enterprises, and The Province newspaper were sued for defamation by Blair Wilson (despite same surname not related to Gordon Wilson) who was the federal Member of Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country and who later lost his attempt at re-election. This multiparty litigation continued until a 56 day trial began in 2015, ending in 2016, and resulting in a complete dismissal of all allegations against both Tyabji and Tugboat in 2017 by Madame Justice Dardi.
In 2018, Tyabji's son Kaz pleaded guilty to intention to possess a controlled substance, a reduced charge from the original high profile charge of importation of fentanyl made against him in 2015. He had been refused bail, despite having no prior record, on 'tertiary grounds' and the RCMP held a news conference announcing the importation charge while he was in the Calgary Remand Centre, where he was held without bail for almost six months. He was previously charged with assault. She expressed pride for his guilty plea online. Kaz Tyabji is a student at UBC's Allard School of Law and following these incidents was on the Dean's list at Vancouver Island University in Powell River.
Authored publications
In 1994, she authored 'Political Affairs', her first book on BC Politics, which include a chapter on public policy by Gordon Wilson.
In 2002, authored a book Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination of Glen Clark about the Glen Clark political era from his seeking the NDP leadership in 1995 to Clark's acquittal in 2002 related to Casinogate scandal.
In 2016, authored a biography Behind The Smile of then-Premier Christy Clark
All three books were national bestsellers in Canada.
Election results
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References
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British Columbia municipal councillors
Canadian politicians of Indian descent
Canadian television talk show hosts
Canadian women television personalities
Living people
People from Kelowna
People from Powell River, British Columbia
Progressive Democratic Alliance MLAs
Women MLAs in British Columbia
Women municipal councillors in Canada
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"Her father Alan Tyabji was an executive for Calona Wines then owned Okanagan Vineyards Winery in Oliver, British Columbia.",
"In 1986, she graduated from the University of Victoria with a degree in political science then went to work as an assistant for the federal Liberal party.",
"Politics \nAfter Gordon Wilson became leader of the provincial Liberal party in 1987, Tyabji became their regional representative.",
"Shortly after her giving birth to her first child, she was their nominee for a by-election in Boundary-Similkameen.",
"She lost her first election to the NDP's Bill Barlee, but raised the Liberal share of vote in the riding from 2% to 11%.",
"After Jean Chrétien became the federal Liberal leader, she briefly switched to the NDP then returned to the provincial Liberals when they disconnected from the federal party in 1991.",
"When she was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child, Tyabji earned what was described as a \"surprise victory\" in her first election win in October 1991 by defeating a Social Credit cabinet minister and a prominent NDP activist to become the MLA for the newly created riding of Okanagan-East.Tyabji was the only Liberal elected in the province's Interior region that year and in the Okanagan since before World War Two.",
"She was the youngest MLA on record at the time and the first to give birth while in office.",
"She was also appointed Environment Critic by the Liberals.",
"Wilson affair \nShe served as an MLA for Okanagan East (Kelowna) from 1991 to 1996, including sitting with the British Columbia Liberal Party from 1991 until 1993 when Wilson's leadership of the Liberals was challenged after it came to light that he was having an extramarital affair with Tyabji, whom he had recently named as the party's House Leader.",
"Wilson and Tyabji retained their seats in the Legislature and sat as members of a new party, the Progressive Democratic Alliance.",
"Wilson and Tyabji then married in 1994, the same year she lost custody of her three children to her ex-husband.",
"In the 1996 provincial election, Wilson retained his seat, while Tyabji lost hers.",
"Wilson afterwards, in 1997, crossed the floor to join the British Columbia New Democratic Party government of Glen Clark as Minister of Finance and Minister of Employment, Investment and International Trade.",
"He subsequently folded his party, the PDA.",
"Tyabji ran for municipal countil for the City of Powell River in 1999 and topped the polls, then served as Councillor for two years and as Director of the Regional District.",
"On Council, she was Chair of the Planning Committee, Chair of Parks, Recreation and Culture, and Chair of the Waterfront Development Committee, which oversaw the revitalization of the Westview Harbour and many other downtown amenities.",
"Post-politics \nAfter leaving politics she hosted a daily talk show on Victoria-based CHEK-TV until suing CHEK for breach of contract in 1998.",
"She served as a municipal councillor in Powell River from November 1999 until October 2001.",
"She was a co-founder and CEO of a software company from 2004 to 2012, and has been a management consultant in multimedia and business development since 1996.",
"In 2008, Tyabji, her firm Tugboat Enterprises, and The Province newspaper were sued for defamation by Blair Wilson (despite same surname not related to Gordon Wilson) who was the federal Member of Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country and who later lost his attempt at re-election.",
"This multiparty litigation continued until a 56 day trial began in 2015, ending in 2016, and resulting in a complete dismissal of all allegations against both Tyabji and Tugboat in 2017 by Madame Justice Dardi.",
"In 2018, Tyabji's son Kaz pleaded guilty to intention to possess a controlled substance, a reduced charge from the original high profile charge of importation of fentanyl made against him in 2015.",
"He had been refused bail, despite having no prior record, on 'tertiary grounds' and the RCMP held a news conference announcing the importation charge while he was in the Calgary Remand Centre, where he was held without bail for almost six months.",
"He was previously charged with assault.",
"She expressed pride for his guilty plea online.",
"Kaz Tyabji is a student at UBC's Allard School of Law and following these incidents was on the Dean's list at Vancouver Island University in Powell River.",
"Authored publications \n In 1994, she authored 'Political Affairs', her first book on BC Politics, which include a chapter on public policy by Gordon Wilson.",
"In 2002, authored a book Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination of Glen Clark about the Glen Clark political era from his seeking the NDP leadership in 1995 to Clark's acquittal in 2002 related to Casinogate scandal.",
"In 2016, authored a biography Behind The Smile of then-Premier Christy Clark\nAll three books were national bestsellers in Canada.",
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<mask> was born in Calcutta, India, in 1965 to English and Indian parents who immigrated their family in the mid-1970s to Canada, first to Toronto then to Kelowna, where she attended Catholic elementary and high schools. Her father <mask> was an executive for Calona Wines then owned Okanagan Vineyards Winery in Oliver, British Columbia. In 1986, she graduated from the University of Victoria with a degree in political science then went to work as an assistant for the federal Liberal party. Politics
After Gordon Wilson became leader of the provincial Liberal party in 1987, <mask> became their regional representative. Shortly after her giving birth to her first child, she was their nominee for a by-election in Boundary-Similkameen. She lost her first election to the NDP's Bill Barlee, but raised the Liberal share of vote in the riding from 2% to 11%.After Jean Chrétien became the federal Liberal leader, she briefly switched to the NDP then returned to the provincial Liberals when they disconnected from the federal party in 1991. When she was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child, Tyabji earned what was described as a "surprise victory" in her first election win in October 1991 by defeating a Social Credit cabinet minister and a prominent NDP activist to become the MLA for the newly created riding of Okanagan-East.Tyabji was the only Liberal elected in the province's Interior region that year and in the Okanagan since before World War Two. She was the youngest MLA on record at the time and the first to give birth while in office. She was also appointed Environment Critic by the Liberals. Wilson affair
She served as an MLA for Okanagan East (Kelowna) from 1991 to 1996, including sitting with the British Columbia Liberal Party from 1991 until 1993 when Wilson's leadership of the Liberals was challenged after it came to light that he was having an extramarital affair with <mask>, whom he had recently named as the party's House Leader. Wilson and Tyabji retained their seats in the Legislature and sat as members of a new party, the Progressive Democratic Alliance. Wilson and <mask> then married in 1994, the same year she lost custody of her three children to her ex-husband.In the 1996 provincial election, Wilson retained his seat, while Tyabji lost hers. Wilson afterwards, in 1997, crossed the floor to join the British Columbia New Democratic Party government of Glen Clark as Minister of Finance and Minister of Employment, Investment and International Trade. He subsequently folded his party, the PDA. Tyabji ran for municipal countil for the City of Powell River in 1999 and topped the polls, then served as Councillor for two years and as Director of the Regional District. On Council, she was Chair of the Planning Committee, Chair of Parks, Recreation and Culture, and Chair of the Waterfront Development Committee, which oversaw the revitalization of the Westview Harbour and many other downtown amenities. Post-politics
After leaving politics she hosted a daily talk show on Victoria-based CHEK-TV until suing CHEK for breach of contract in 1998. She served as a municipal councillor in Powell River from November 1999 until October 2001.She was a co-founder and CEO of a software company from 2004 to 2012, and has been a management consultant in multimedia and business development since 1996. In 2008, Tyabji, her firm Tugboat Enterprises, and The Province newspaper were sued for defamation by Blair Wilson (despite same surname not related to Gordon Wilson) who was the federal Member of Parliament for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country and who later lost his attempt at re-election. This multiparty litigation continued until a 56 day trial began in 2015, ending in 2016, and resulting in a complete dismissal of all allegations against both <mask> and Tugboat in 2017 by Madame Justice Dardi. In 2018, <mask>'s son Kaz pleaded guilty to intention to possess a controlled substance, a reduced charge from the original high profile charge of importation of fentanyl made against him in 2015. He had been refused bail, despite having no prior record, on 'tertiary grounds' and the RCMP held a news conference announcing the importation charge while he was in the Calgary Remand Centre, where he was held without bail for almost six months. He was previously charged with assault. She expressed pride for his guilty plea online.Kaz <mask> is a student at UBC's Allard School of Law and following these incidents was on the Dean's list at Vancouver Island University in Powell River. Authored publications
In 1994, she authored 'Political Affairs', her first book on BC Politics, which include a chapter on public policy by Gordon Wilson. In 2002, authored a book Daggers Unsheathed: The Political Assassination of Glen Clark about the Glen Clark political era from his seeking the NDP leadership in 1995 to Clark's acquittal in 2002 related to Casinogate scandal. In 2016, authored a biography Behind The Smile of then-Premier Christy Clark
All three books were national bestsellers in Canada. Election results
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References
1965 births
British Columbia Liberal Party MLAs
British Columbia municipal councillors
Canadian politicians of Indian descent
Canadian television talk show hosts
Canadian women television personalities
Living people
People from Kelowna
People from Powell River, British Columbia
Progressive Democratic Alliance MLAs
Women MLAs in British Columbia
Women municipal councillors in Canada
University of Victoria alumni | [
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1599366 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni%20Francesco%20Gemelli%20Careri | Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri | Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651–1725) was a seventeenth-century Italian adventurer and traveler. He was among the first Europeans to tour the world by securing passage on ships involved in the carrying trade; his travels, undertaken for pleasure rather than profit, may have inspired Around the World in Eighty Days. Some suspected him of spying for the Vatican (or rather for the Jesuits) on his journey.
Biographic information
Gemelli Careri was born in Taurianova, 1651, and died in Naples, 1725. He obtained a doctorate in law at the College of Jesuits in Naples. After completing his studies he briefly entered the judiciary. In 1685 he took time off to travel around Europe (France, Spain, Germany, and Hungary). In Hungary he was wounded during the siege of Buda.
In 1687 he returned to Naples and re-entered the judiciary. He also began work on his first two books: "Relazione delle Campagne d'Ungheria" (1689) with co-author Matteo Egizio, and "Viaggi in Europa" (1693). At this time Gemelli encountered frustrations with his legal profession. He was denied certain opportunities because he did not have an established aristocratic origin. Eventually, he decided to suspend his career for a round-the-world trip across the globe. This five-year trip would lead to his best known six-volume book, Giro Del Mondo (1699).
World voyage
Gemelli Careri realized that he could finance his trip by carefully purchasing goods at each stage that would have enhanced value at the next stage: at Bandar-Abbas on the Persian Gulf, he asserts, the traveler should pick up "dates, wine, spirits, and all the fruits of Persia, which one carries to India either dried or pickled in vinegar, on which one makes a good profit".<ref>Quoted in Fernand Braudel. The Wheels of Commerce: Civilisation and Capitalism 15th-18th Century 1979 p. 169.</ref>
Gemelli Careri started his world trip in 1693, with a visit to Egypt, Constantinople, and the Holy Land. At the time, this Middle Eastern route was already becoming a standard ingredient of any excursion into foreign lands, a hike that was almost not worth writing home about. However, from there the Italian 'tourist' would take less traveled paths. After crossing Armenia and Persia, he visited Southern India and entered China, where the Jesuit missionaries assumed that such an unusual Italian visitor could be a spy working for the pope. This fortuitous misunderstanding opened for Gemelli many of the most tightly closed doors of the country. He got to visit the emperor at Beijing, attended the Lantern Festival celebrations and toured the Great Wall.
"Most of the structure, as has been said, is of brick, so well built that it does not only last but looks new after several ages. It is above 1800 years since the Emperor Xi-hoam-ti caused it to be built against the incursions of the Tartars. This was one of the greatest, and most extravagant works that ever was undertaken. In prudence the Chinese should have secured the most dangerous passes: But what I thought most ridiculous was to see the wall run up to the top of a vast high and steep mountain, where the Birds would hardly build much less the Tartar horses climb... And if they conceited those people could make their way climbing the clefts and rocks it was certainly a great folly to believe their Rage could be stopped by so low a wall."
From Macau, Gemelli Careri sailed to the Philippines, where he stayed two months while waiting for the departure of a Manila galleon, for which he carried quicksilver, for a 300% profit in Mexico. In the meantime, as Gemelli described it in his journal, the half-year-long transoceanic trip to Acapulco was a nightmare plagued with bad food, epidemic outbursts, and the occasional storm. In Mexico, he became friends with Mexican creole patriot and savant Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, who took the Italian traveler to the great ruins of Teotihuacan. Sigüenza spoke with Gemelli about his theories of the ancient Mexicans and entrusted him with information about the Mexican calendar, which had appeared in Gemelli's account. As well as having visited the pyramids at Teotihuacan, he also visited several mining towns. After leaving Mexico city he visited the city of Puebla de Los Angeles and several towns as he traveled to the port city of Veracruz, where he joined a Spanish fleet headed toward Cuba. After nearly five years of wandering around the world, Gemelli was finally on his way back to Europe when he joined the Spanish treasure fleet in Cuba.
PublicationsRelazione delle Campagne d'Ungheria (1689)
Viaggi in Europa (1693)Giro Del Mondo (1699)
Part 1 (Turkey and Middle East)
Part 2 (Persia)
Part 3 (Hindustan)
Part 4 (China)
Part 5 (Philippines)
Part 6 (New Spain)
Voyage Round the World (1704, London: English Translation - a.k.a. John Francis Gemelli Careri)Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris: French Translation - a.k.a. Jean Francois Gemelli Careri)
Literary significance and criticism
The aim of Giro Del Mondo - a faithful description of the countries visited - was emphasized by Giosef-Antonio Guerrieri in his preface. While pointing out the difference between the account of a journey and "an imaginary journey", Guerrieri praised Gemelli Careri for the reliability of his experiences, and criticized those who were prone to fantasize over geographic maps.
For many years scholars and experts did not consider Gemelli Careri's adventurous journey authentic. With time, however, its truthfulness was proved, and it was also ascertained that he collected important historical documents in order to know those exotic realities in greater detail. Indeed, the sixth volume of Giro Del Mondo, which covers only Mexico, contains information gathered from codices that existed prior to the Conquest, which he got access to via Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; it also contains several illustrations of Aztec warriors gathered from these codices. In New Spain, Gemelli Careri had the opportunity to study the pyramids carefully (their affinity to the Egyptian pyramids led him to believe that the ancient Egyptians and the Amerindians both descended from the inhabitants of Atlantis), which Sigüenza had long held.Quoted by Stefania Buccini: The Americas in Italian literature and culture, 1700-1825 Penn State Press, 1997 p.19 Due to lack of funds, Sigüenza himself had been unable to publish much on the ancient Mexicans, but through Gemelli's work was able to disseminate his ideas and even drawings from the ancient Mexican manuscripts.
An 1849 release of The Calcutta Review'' (a periodical now published by the University of Calcutta), stated the following about Gemelli's writings concerning India: "In a previous number of this Review we made an attempt to describe something of the Court and Camp of the best and wisest prince Muhainmedan India had ever beheld (Aurungzebe, Mogul emperor of Hindustan)... To this we are urged by two main considerations, the character of the age, and the materials at our command.... Sir H. M. Elliot's work has... met with, to a certain extent, adverse criticism, and some doubts have been raised as to the soundness, or the justice, of its conclusions. It is therefore (possible that readers may be willing) to peruse a description of the Government of Aurungzebe, taken not from native historians, but from the accounts of men who saw with the eyes of travelers.
From three men, who all visited India during the reign of Aurungzebe, the most valuable and the most curious information is attainable... The second of the triumvirate, on whom we mainly rely, is the Doctor John Francis Gemelli Careri. Natural curiosity and domestic misfortunes were, he tells us, his motives for traveling. Of the three (sources this paper is based), he is the most discursive in his narration, the most piquant in his anecdotes, the most amusing in his simplicity. As he traveled for no one particular aim, but to see and to hear, there are few Indian topics, on which he does not give us something. Natural productions, the beasts and the birds, manners, Hindu theology, state maxims, the causes of Portuguese supremacy and degradation, anecdotes of the camp, the convent, and the Harem, accidents by water and land, complaints of personal inconvenience, and remarks on the tendency of Eastern despotism, are scattered plentifully throughout a narrative, which owes very much to the author's own liveliness and observation, but occasionally something, we are compelled to say, to the labours of others who had gone before. His plagiarism is, however, confined to specifications of caste or creed. Where he saw or suffered personally, his narrative is clear, picturesque, and beyond suspicion."
Italian Capuchin friar Ilarione da Bergamo had read Gemelli's account of New Spain when he wrote his travel narrative in the late eighteenth century. He refrained from going into detail in some descriptions because Gemelli had already given a full account.
See also
Pedro Cubero
Maria de Lajara
External links
www.common-place.org
Baroque Cycle related website
"Giro Del Mondo" (Italian Version)
English translation from 1704 (also at the Internet Archive)
"Voyage du Tour du Monde": French translations of the first and fifth parts
"The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825"
"The Calcutta Review" Volumes 11-12, 1849
References
1651 births
1725 deaths
People from the Province of Reggio Calabria
17th-century travelers
17th-century Italian male writers
17th-century Italian jurists
17th-century Latin-language writers
Italian travel writers
Italian male non-fiction writers
Italian Mesoamericanists
17th-century Mesoamericanists
Aztec scholars
Historians of Mesoamerica
Circumnavigators of the globe
Jules Verne | [
"Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651–1725) was a seventeenth-century Italian adventurer and traveler.",
"He was among the first Europeans to tour the world by securing passage on ships involved in the carrying trade; his travels, undertaken for pleasure rather than profit, may have inspired Around the World in Eighty Days.",
"Some suspected him of spying for the Vatican (or rather for the Jesuits) on his journey.",
"Biographic information\nGemelli Careri was born in Taurianova, 1651, and died in Naples, 1725.",
"He obtained a doctorate in law at the College of Jesuits in Naples.",
"After completing his studies he briefly entered the judiciary.",
"In 1685 he took time off to travel around Europe (France, Spain, Germany, and Hungary).",
"In Hungary he was wounded during the siege of Buda.",
"In 1687 he returned to Naples and re-entered the judiciary.",
"He also began work on his first two books: \"Relazione delle Campagne d'Ungheria\" (1689) with co-author Matteo Egizio, and \"Viaggi in Europa\" (1693).",
"At this time Gemelli encountered frustrations with his legal profession.",
"He was denied certain opportunities because he did not have an established aristocratic origin.",
"Eventually, he decided to suspend his career for a round-the-world trip across the globe.",
"This five-year trip would lead to his best known six-volume book, Giro Del Mondo (1699).",
"World voyage\n\nGemelli Careri realized that he could finance his trip by carefully purchasing goods at each stage that would have enhanced value at the next stage: at Bandar-Abbas on the Persian Gulf, he asserts, the traveler should pick up \"dates, wine, spirits, and all the fruits of Persia, which one carries to India either dried or pickled in vinegar, on which one makes a good profit\".<ref>Quoted in Fernand Braudel.",
"The Wheels of Commerce: Civilisation and Capitalism 15th-18th Century 1979 p. 169.</ref>\n\nGemelli Careri started his world trip in 1693, with a visit to Egypt, Constantinople, and the Holy Land.",
"At the time, this Middle Eastern route was already becoming a standard ingredient of any excursion into foreign lands, a hike that was almost not worth writing home about.",
"However, from there the Italian 'tourist' would take less traveled paths.",
"After crossing Armenia and Persia, he visited Southern India and entered China, where the Jesuit missionaries assumed that such an unusual Italian visitor could be a spy working for the pope.",
"This fortuitous misunderstanding opened for Gemelli many of the most tightly closed doors of the country.",
"He got to visit the emperor at Beijing, attended the Lantern Festival celebrations and toured the Great Wall.",
"\"Most of the structure, as has been said, is of brick, so well built that it does not only last but looks new after several ages.",
"It is above 1800 years since the Emperor Xi-hoam-ti caused it to be built against the incursions of the Tartars.",
"This was one of the greatest, and most extravagant works that ever was undertaken.",
"In prudence the Chinese should have secured the most dangerous passes: But what I thought most ridiculous was to see the wall run up to the top of a vast high and steep mountain, where the Birds would hardly build much less the Tartar horses climb... And if they conceited those people could make their way climbing the clefts and rocks it was certainly a great folly to believe their Rage could be stopped by so low a wall.\"",
"From Macau, Gemelli Careri sailed to the Philippines, where he stayed two months while waiting for the departure of a Manila galleon, for which he carried quicksilver, for a 300% profit in Mexico.",
"In the meantime, as Gemelli described it in his journal, the half-year-long transoceanic trip to Acapulco was a nightmare plagued with bad food, epidemic outbursts, and the occasional storm.",
"In Mexico, he became friends with Mexican creole patriot and savant Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, who took the Italian traveler to the great ruins of Teotihuacan.",
"Sigüenza spoke with Gemelli about his theories of the ancient Mexicans and entrusted him with information about the Mexican calendar, which had appeared in Gemelli's account.",
"As well as having visited the pyramids at Teotihuacan, he also visited several mining towns.",
"After leaving Mexico city he visited the city of Puebla de Los Angeles and several towns as he traveled to the port city of Veracruz, where he joined a Spanish fleet headed toward Cuba.",
"After nearly five years of wandering around the world, Gemelli was finally on his way back to Europe when he joined the Spanish treasure fleet in Cuba.",
"PublicationsRelazione delle Campagne d'Ungheria (1689) \nViaggi in Europa (1693)Giro Del Mondo (1699)\nPart 1 (Turkey and Middle East)\nPart 2 (Persia)\nPart 3 (Hindustan)\nPart 4 (China)\nPart 5 (Philippines)\nPart 6 (New Spain)\nVoyage Round the World (1704, London: English Translation - a.k.a.",
"John Francis Gemelli Careri)Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris: French Translation - a.k.a.",
"Jean Francois Gemelli Careri)\n\nLiterary significance and criticism\n\nThe aim of Giro Del Mondo - a faithful description of the countries visited - was emphasized by Giosef-Antonio Guerrieri in his preface.",
"While pointing out the difference between the account of a journey and \"an imaginary journey\", Guerrieri praised Gemelli Careri for the reliability of his experiences, and criticized those who were prone to fantasize over geographic maps.",
"For many years scholars and experts did not consider Gemelli Careri's adventurous journey authentic.",
"With time, however, its truthfulness was proved, and it was also ascertained that he collected important historical documents in order to know those exotic realities in greater detail.",
"Indeed, the sixth volume of Giro Del Mondo, which covers only Mexico, contains information gathered from codices that existed prior to the Conquest, which he got access to via Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; it also contains several illustrations of Aztec warriors gathered from these codices.",
"In New Spain, Gemelli Careri had the opportunity to study the pyramids carefully (their affinity to the Egyptian pyramids led him to believe that the ancient Egyptians and the Amerindians both descended from the inhabitants of Atlantis), which Sigüenza had long held.Quoted by Stefania Buccini: The Americas in Italian literature and culture, 1700-1825 Penn State Press, 1997 p.19 Due to lack of funds, Sigüenza himself had been unable to publish much on the ancient Mexicans, but through Gemelli's work was able to disseminate his ideas and even drawings from the ancient Mexican manuscripts.",
"An 1849 release of The Calcutta Review'' (a periodical now published by the University of Calcutta), stated the following about Gemelli's writings concerning India: \"In a previous number of this Review we made an attempt to describe something of the Court and Camp of the best and wisest prince Muhainmedan India had ever beheld (Aurungzebe, Mogul emperor of Hindustan)... To this we are urged by two main considerations, the character of the age, and the materials at our command.... Sir H. M. Elliot's work has... met with, to a certain extent, adverse criticism, and some doubts have been raised as to the soundness, or the justice, of its conclusions.",
"It is therefore (possible that readers may be willing) to peruse a description of the Government of Aurungzebe, taken not from native historians, but from the accounts of men who saw with the eyes of travelers.",
"From three men, who all visited India during the reign of Aurungzebe, the most valuable and the most curious information is attainable...",
"The second of the triumvirate, on whom we mainly rely, is the Doctor John Francis Gemelli Careri.",
"Natural curiosity and domestic misfortunes were, he tells us, his motives for traveling.",
"Of the three (sources this paper is based), he is the most discursive in his narration, the most piquant in his anecdotes, the most amusing in his simplicity.",
"As he traveled for no one particular aim, but to see and to hear, there are few Indian topics, on which he does not give us something.",
"Natural productions, the beasts and the birds, manners, Hindu theology, state maxims, the causes of Portuguese supremacy and degradation, anecdotes of the camp, the convent, and the Harem, accidents by water and land, complaints of personal inconvenience, and remarks on the tendency of Eastern despotism, are scattered plentifully throughout a narrative, which owes very much to the author's own liveliness and observation, but occasionally something, we are compelled to say, to the labours of others who had gone before.",
"His plagiarism is, however, confined to specifications of caste or creed.",
"Where he saw or suffered personally, his narrative is clear, picturesque, and beyond suspicion.\"",
"Italian Capuchin friar Ilarione da Bergamo had read Gemelli's account of New Spain when he wrote his travel narrative in the late eighteenth century.",
"He refrained from going into detail in some descriptions because Gemelli had already given a full account.",
"See also\nPedro Cubero\nMaria de Lajara\n\nExternal links\nwww.common-place.org\nBaroque Cycle related website\n\"Giro Del Mondo\" (Italian Version)\nEnglish translation from 1704 (also at the Internet Archive)\n\"Voyage du Tour du Monde\": French translations of the first and fifth parts\n\"The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825\"\n\"The Calcutta Review\" Volumes 11-12, 1849\n\nReferences\n\n1651 births\n1725 deaths\nPeople from the Province of Reggio Calabria\n17th-century travelers\n17th-century Italian male writers\n17th-century Italian jurists\n17th-century Latin-language writers\nItalian travel writers\nItalian male non-fiction writers\nItalian Mesoamericanists\n17th-century Mesoamericanists\nAztec scholars\nHistorians of Mesoamerica\nCircumnavigators of the globe\nJules Verne"
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"Giovanni Gemelli Careri was an Italian adventurer and traveler.",
"He was one of the first Europeans to tour the world by securing passage on ships involved in the carrying trade.",
"He was suspected of being a spy for the Jesuits on his journey.",
"Gemelli Careri was born in 1651 and died in 1725.",
"He obtained a law degree from the College of Jesuits in Naples.",
"He entered the judiciary after completing his studies.",
"He took time off in 1685 to travel around Europe.",
"He was wounded during the siege of Hungary.",
"He reentered the judiciary after returning to Naples.",
"He began work on his first two books with Matteo Egizio.",
"Gemelli was frustrated with his legal profession.",
"He wasn't given certain opportunities because he wasn't a descendant of the aristocracy.",
"He decided to stop working for a while for a round-the-world trip.",
"His best known book is Giro Del Mondo.",
"Gemelli Careri realized that he could finance his trip by carefully purchasing goods at each stage that would have enhanced value at the next stage, and the traveler should pick up \"dates, wine, spirits, and all the fruits.\"",
"Gemelli Careri began his world trip in 1693 with a visit to Egypt, Constantinople, and the Holy Land.",
"At the time, this Middle Eastern route was already becoming a standard ingredient of any excursion into foreign lands, a hike that was almost not worth writing home about.",
"The Italian tourist would take less traveled paths from there.",
"The Jesuit missionaries assumed that he was a spy working for the pope when he visited Southern India and China.",
"Many of the most tightly closed doors in the country were opened by this misunderstanding.",
"He was able to visit the emperor at Beijing, attend the Lantern Festival and tour the Great Wall.",
"Most of the structure is brick, so well built that it does not only last but looks new after a while.",
"The Emperor caused it to be built against the Tartars.",
"This was one of the most extravagant works ever done.",
"The Chinese should have secured the most dangerous passes, but I thought it was ridiculous to see the wall run up to the top of a vast high and steep mountain.",
"From Macau, Gemelli Careri sailed to the Philippines, where he stayed two months while waiting for the departure of a Manila galleon, for which he carried quicksilver, for a 300% profit in Mexico.",
"In his journal, Gemelli described the trip to Acapulco as a nightmare with bad food, epidemics, and occasional storms.",
"He became friends with the Mexican creole patriot and savant Don Carlos de Sigenza y Gngora, who took the Italian traveler to the great ruins of Teotihuacan.",
"Sigenza gave Gemelli information about the Mexican calendar that appeared in Gemelli's account.",
"He also visited several mining towns after visiting the pyramids at Teotihuacan.",
"He traveled to the port city of Veracruz, where he joined a Spanish fleet headed toward Cuba, after visiting the city of Puebla de Los Angeles.",
"Gemelli was on his way back to Europe when he joined the Spanish treasure fleet in Cuba.",
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"The sixth volume of Giro Del Mondo, which covers only Mexico, contains information gathered from codices that existed prior to the Conquest, which he got access to via Don Carlos de Sigenza y Gngora.",
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<mask> was born in Taurianova, 1651, and died in Naples, 1725. He obtained a doctorate in law at the College of Jesuits in Naples. After completing his studies he briefly entered the judiciary. In 1685 he took time off to travel around Europe (France, Spain, Germany, and Hungary).In Hungary he was wounded during the siege of Buda. In 1687 he returned to Naples and re-entered the judiciary. He also began work on his first two books: "Relazione delle Campagne d'Ungheria" (1689) with co-author Matteo Egizio, and "Viaggi in Europa" (1693). At this time <mask> encountered frustrations with his legal profession. He was denied certain opportunities because he did not have an established aristocratic origin. Eventually, he decided to suspend his career for a round-the-world trip across the globe. This five-year trip would lead to his best known six-volume book, Giro Del Mondo (1699).World voyage
<mask> <mask> realized that he could finance his trip by carefully purchasing goods at each stage that would have enhanced value at the next stage: at Bandar-Abbas on the Persian Gulf, he asserts, the traveler should pick up "dates, wine, spirits, and all the fruits of Persia, which one carries to India either dried or pickled in vinegar, on which one makes a good profit".<ref>Quoted in Fernand Braudel. The Wheels of Commerce: Civilisation and Capitalism 15th-18th Century 1979 p. 169.</ref>
<mask> <mask> started his world trip in 1693, with a visit to Egypt, Constantinople, and the Holy Land. At the time, this Middle Eastern route was already becoming a standard ingredient of any excursion into foreign lands, a hike that was almost not worth writing home about. However, from there the Italian 'tourist' would take less traveled paths. After crossing Armenia and Persia, he visited Southern India and entered China, where the Jesuit missionaries assumed that such an unusual Italian visitor could be a spy working for the pope. This fortuitous misunderstanding opened for <mask> many of the most tightly closed doors of the country. He got to visit the emperor at Beijing, attended the Lantern Festival celebrations and toured the Great Wall."Most of the structure, as has been said, is of brick, so well built that it does not only last but looks new after several ages. It is above 1800 years since the Emperor Xi-hoam-ti caused it to be built against the incursions of the Tartars. This was one of the greatest, and most extravagant works that ever was undertaken. In prudence the Chinese should have secured the most dangerous passes: But what I thought most ridiculous was to see the wall run up to the top of a vast high and steep mountain, where the Birds would hardly build much less the Tartar horses climb... And if they conceited those people could make their way climbing the clefts and rocks it was certainly a great folly to believe their Rage could be stopped by so low a wall." From Macau, <mask> <mask> sailed to the Philippines, where he stayed two months while waiting for the departure of a Manila galleon, for which he carried quicksilver, for a 300% profit in Mexico. In the meantime, as <mask> described it in his journal, the half-year-long transoceanic trip to Acapulco was a nightmare plagued with bad food, epidemic outbursts, and the occasional storm. In Mexico, he became friends with Mexican creole patriot and savant Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, who took the Italian traveler to the great ruins of Teotihuacan.Sigüenza spoke with <mask> about his theories of the ancient Mexicans and entrusted him with information about the Mexican calendar, which had appeared in <mask>'s account. As well as having visited the pyramids at Teotihuacan, he also visited several mining towns. After leaving Mexico city he visited the city of Puebla de Los Angeles and several towns as he traveled to the port city of Veracruz, where he joined a Spanish fleet headed toward Cuba. After nearly five years of wandering around the world, <mask> was finally on his way back to Europe when he joined the Spanish treasure fleet in Cuba. PublicationsRelazione delle Campagne d'Ungheria (1689)
Viaggi in Europa (1693)Giro Del Mondo (1699)
Part 1 (Turkey and Middle East)
Part 2 (Persia)
Part 3 (Hindustan)
Part 4 (China)
Part 5 (Philippines)
Part 6 (New Spain)
Voyage Round the World (1704, London: English Translation - a.k.a. John Francis <mask> Careri)Voyage du Tour du Monde (1719, Paris: French Translation - a.k.a. Jean Francois <mask> Careri)
Literary significance and criticism
The aim of Giro Del Mondo - a faithful description of the countries visited - was emphasized by Giosef-Antonio Guerrieri in his preface.While pointing out the difference between the account of a journey and "an imaginary journey", Guerrieri praised <mask> <mask> for the reliability of his experiences, and criticized those who were prone to fantasize over geographic maps. For many years scholars and experts did not consider <mask> <mask>'s adventurous journey authentic. With time, however, its truthfulness was proved, and it was also ascertained that he collected important historical documents in order to know those exotic realities in greater detail. Indeed, the sixth volume of Giro Del Mondo, which covers only Mexico, contains information gathered from codices that existed prior to the Conquest, which he got access to via Don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora; it also contains several illustrations of Aztec warriors gathered from these codices. In New Spain, <mask> <mask> had the opportunity to study the pyramids carefully (their affinity to the Egyptian pyramids led him to believe that the ancient Egyptians and the Amerindians both descended from the inhabitants of Atlantis), which Sigüenza had long held.Quoted by Stefania Buccini: The Americas in Italian literature and culture, 1700-1825 Penn State Press, 1997 p.19 Due to lack of funds, Sigüenza himself had been unable to publish much on the ancient Mexicans, but through <mask>'s work was able to disseminate his ideas and even drawings from the ancient Mexican manuscripts. An 1849 release of The Calcutta Review'' (a periodical now published by the University of Calcutta), stated the following about <mask>'s writings concerning India: "In a previous number of this Review we made an attempt to describe something of the Court and Camp of the best and wisest prince Muhainmedan India had ever beheld (Aurungzebe, Mogul emperor of Hindustan)... To this we are urged by two main considerations, the character of the age, and the materials at our command.... Sir H. M. Elliot's work has... met with, to a certain extent, adverse criticism, and some doubts have been raised as to the soundness, or the justice, of its conclusions. It is therefore (possible that readers may be willing) to peruse a description of the Government of Aurungzebe, taken not from native historians, but from the accounts of men who saw with the eyes of travelers.From three men, who all visited India during the reign of Aurungzebe, the most valuable and the most curious information is attainable... The second of the triumvirate, on whom we mainly rely, is the Doctor John Francis <mask> Careri. Natural curiosity and domestic misfortunes were, he tells us, his motives for traveling. Of the three (sources this paper is based), he is the most discursive in his narration, the most piquant in his anecdotes, the most amusing in his simplicity. As he traveled for no one particular aim, but to see and to hear, there are few Indian topics, on which he does not give us something. Natural productions, the beasts and the birds, manners, Hindu theology, state maxims, the causes of Portuguese supremacy and degradation, anecdotes of the camp, the convent, and the Harem, accidents by water and land, complaints of personal inconvenience, and remarks on the tendency of Eastern despotism, are scattered plentifully throughout a narrative, which owes very much to the author's own liveliness and observation, but occasionally something, we are compelled to say, to the labours of others who had gone before. His plagiarism is, however, confined to specifications of caste or creed.Where he saw or suffered personally, his narrative is clear, picturesque, and beyond suspicion." Italian Capuchin friar Ilarione da Bergamo had read <mask>'s account of New Spain when he wrote his travel narrative in the late eighteenth century. He refrained from going into detail in some descriptions because <mask> had already given a full account. See also
Pedro Cubero
Maria de Lajara
External links
www.common-place.org
Baroque Cycle related website
"Giro Del Mondo" (Italian Version)
English translation from 1704 (also at the Internet Archive)
"Voyage du Tour du Monde": French translations of the first and fifth parts
"The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture, 1700-1825"
"The Calcutta Review" Volumes 11-12, 1849
References
1651 births
1725 deaths
People from the Province of Reggio Calabria
17th-century travelers
17th-century Italian male writers
17th-century Italian jurists
17th-century Latin-language writers
Italian travel writers
Italian male non-fiction writers
Italian Mesoamericanists
17th-century Mesoamericanists
Aztec scholars
Historians of Mesoamerica
Circumnavigators of the globe
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His best known book is Giro Del Mondo.<mask> <mask> realized that he could finance his trip by carefully purchasing goods at each stage that would have enhanced value at the next stage, and the traveler should pick up "dates, wine, spirits, and all the fruits." <mask> <mask> began his world trip in 1693 with a visit to Egypt, Constantinople, and the Holy Land. At the time, this Middle Eastern route was already becoming a standard ingredient of any excursion into foreign lands, a hike that was almost not worth writing home about. The Italian tourist would take less traveled paths from there. The Jesuit missionaries assumed that he was a spy working for the pope when he visited Southern India and China. Many of the most tightly closed doors in the country were opened by this misunderstanding. 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32498842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dafne%20Schippers | Dafne Schippers | Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch track and field athlete. She competes primarily in the sprints, having previously participated in the heptathlon. She is the 2015 and 2017 World Champion and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres.
Schippers holds the European record in the 200 m with a time of 21.63 s and is the 5th-fastest woman of all time at this distance. She holds the national record in the 100 m and is co-record holder in the 4 × 100 m relay.
Early life
Dafne Schippers was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She started competing in athletics at the age of nine at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.
Early career
Schippers originally competed in the heptathlon and won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2010 World Junior Championships she also won a bronze in the 4 × 100 meters relay with her team mates Loreanne Kuhurima, Eva Lubbers and Jamile Samuel.
In 2011 at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she broke the Dutch national record in the 200 m in the heats in 22.69, before finishing 9th in the semifinals, missing the final by 0.04 seconds. The 4 × 100 meter relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Anouk Hagen and Samuel) were eliminated in the heats in a national record of 43.44.
In 2012, she was invited to participate at the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis (Austria), where she finished 5th. She also competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki (Finland). She finished 5th at the 200 meters. The race was disappointing after She had won her heat in 23.01 and recorded the fastest semi-final time of 22.70. The Dutch 4x100 meters relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Eva Lubbers and Samuel), were second in 42.80, a national record, behind the German team.
A year later, she started with a third place at the Hypo-Meeting, with 6287 points. Next, she won gold in the 100 m and bronze in the long jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships. At the subsequent 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Schippers won the bronze medal in the heptathlon, collapsing over the line after taking a massive seven seconds off her personal best in the 800 metres to see off Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Claudia Rath for the bronze. She became the first Dutch woman to win a medal in the hepthatlon at the World Athletics Championships.
She improved the 200 m record during the heptathlon at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, her time of 22.35 being one of the best 200 m performances ever in a heptathlon. She finished third at the hepthatlon with 6545 points, a new national record. At the European championships of 2014 Schippers won gold medals in the 100 m and the 200 m. The 4x100 meters relay team, one of the favourites for the title, did not finish in the final due to a botched first baton change.
Shifting to sprinting
Her success at the 2014 European Athletics Championships prompted discussion over her long-term prospects and whether she should focus on sprinting, or continue her career in the heptathlon. In June 2015 Schippers announced via Twitter that she would focus on sprinting in the run-up to the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing (China) and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
The 2015 season had started well with a win in the 60 m at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague, (Czech Republic). At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing Schippers won the silver medal in the 100 m and gold in the 200 m, just before Elaine Thompson. Her 200 m winning time of 21.63 seconds was a new European record and made her the third fastest woman in history over that distance. The Dutch 4 × 100 meters relay team (Nadine Visser, Schippers, Naomi Sedney and Samuel) finished fifth in 42.32, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement. In the heats the team had also run 42.32, a new national record. Her stunning victory opened her up to scrutiny about possible doping. There were questions about the acne on Schippers back and face, which can be a sign of steroid abuse. Most insiders, however, dismissed those claims, pointing out that the acne was hereditary in the family and the fast track in Beijing.
Next year, she won the 100 m at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 10.90, by 3 tenths of a second. The Dutch team led by Schippers, with Samuel, Tessa van Schagen and anchor runner Naomi Sedney won the 4x100 meters relay with a national record of 42.04.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics expectation was high that she would add an Olympic title to the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships, following in the footsteps of Fanny Blankers-Koen who had dominated the sprint events at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, winning four golds. However, she finished fifth in the 100 m final, and won the silver medal in the 200 m behind Elaine Thompson who became the first woman for 28 years to complete the Olympic sprint double. After defeat in the 200 m, Schippers remained forlorn on the side of the track for a while, took off her spikes and hurled them to one side in frustration. "I came here for gold", she told reporters, disappointment showing in her face. "I'm not happy with the silver." The Dutch relay team was eliminated in the heats due to a botched relay handover between Samuel and Schippers.
Change of coaches
After the disappointment of Rio, Schippers decided to change. She parted with Bart Bennema as her coach, who had overseen her transition from a outstanding heptathlete, winning bronze in the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013, into a successful 100m and 200m sprinter. Both felt that she had to try a different approach to progress, and so she decided join U.S. coach and sprint guru Rana Reider and focus on the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, to defend her world title in the 200m. After winning the bronze in the 100m, she won the 200 m title, joining Jamaican Merlene Ottey and USA’s Allyson Felix as the only athletes to successfully defend a world title in the event. “It’s a great feeling to be world champion for the second time,” she said. “I was a bit nervous beforehand, but I’m a final runner, and bring my best in finals, so I’m very grateful for the experience today. There were so many Dutch fans in the stadium, all wearing orange. To win this two times in a row is brilliant." The Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team (Madiea Ghafoor, Schippers, Sedney, Samuel) finished 8th.
For the 2018 season, the focus for the "Flying Dutchwoman of the sprints" was on the 2018 European Athletics Championships at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany. However, it was British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith who became the star of the sprint in Berlin, winning gold on both the 100m and 200 m, as well as the 4x100 m relay. Schippers won a bronze on the 100 m and a silver on the 200 m. The 4 x 100 m relay team with Schippers, Marije van Hunenstijn, Samuel and Sedney also finished second.
Due to the disappointing results, the collaboration between Schippers and Reider came under scrutiny. Although Reider did prepare her for her special second world title at 200 m and bronze at 100 m at the 2017 World Championships, many other races looked rigid and she had lost her most important weapon, the 'acceleration' in the end. Due to increased power training she became more muscular, but on the track this did not lead to improvements. She could not improve her 2015 top chrono's. Reider suddenly left the National Sports Centre Papendal in the Netherlands in November 2018, and Schippers returned to her first coach, Bart Bennema.
Nevertheless, the 2019 season was not successful. She did win a silver at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60 m race. But at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Schippers had to withdraw before the final of the 100 m with an adductor problem. She subsequently withdrew from the 200 m and the 4 x100 m relay.
Trivia
The Dafne Schippersbrug (Dafne Schippers Bridge) in Utrecht, where Schippers grew up, was opened in April 2017, and named in her honour.
Competition record
1Did not start in the final
1Did not finish in the final
Personal bests
Outdoor
100 metres – 10.81 (-0.3) (Beijing 2015) NR
150 metres – 16.93 (+2.0) (Amsterdam 2013)
200 metres – 21.63 (+0.2) (Beijing 2015) NR, ER, 3rd of all time
800 metres – 2:08.59 (Götzis 2014)
100 metres hurdles – 13.13 (-1.2) (Götzis 2014)
High jump – 1.80 m (London 2012)
Long jump – 6.78 m (+0.0) (Amsterdam 2014) NR
Shot put – 14.66 m (Götzis 2015)
Javelin throw – 42.82 m (Lisse 2014)
Heptathlon – 6545 pts (Götzis 2014) ex-NR
4 × 100 metres relay – 42.04 (Amsterdam 2016) NR
Indoor
60 metres – 7.00 (Berlin 2016) NR
60 metres hurdles – 8.18 (Apeldoorn 2012)
High jump - 1.74 m (Dortmund 2009)
Shot put – 13.91 m (Apeldoorn 2012)
Long jump – 6.48 m (Apeldoorn 2015)
References
External links
Dafne Schippers at Koninklijke Nederlandse Atletiek Unie
1992 births
Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Dutch female sprinters
Dutch heptathletes
European Athletics Championships medalists
Living people
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
European Athlete of the Year winners
World Athletics Championships winners
Diamond League winners
IAAF Continental Cup winners
Dutch Athletics Championships winners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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"Dafne Schippers (; born 15 June 1992) is a Dutch track and field athlete.",
"She competes primarily in the sprints, having previously participated in the heptathlon.",
"She is the 2015 and 2017 World Champion and won silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 200 metres.",
"Schippers holds the European record in the 200 m with a time of 21.63 s and is the 5th-fastest woman of all time at this distance.",
"She holds the national record in the 100 m and is co-record holder in the 4 × 100 m relay.",
"Early life\nDafne Schippers was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.",
"She started competing in athletics at the age of nine at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.",
"Early career\nSchippers originally competed in the heptathlon and won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships.",
"At the 2010 World Junior Championships she also won a bronze in the 4 × 100 meters relay with her team mates Loreanne Kuhurima, Eva Lubbers and Jamile Samuel.",
"In 2011 at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she broke the Dutch national record in the 200 m in the heats in 22.69, before finishing 9th in the semifinals, missing the final by 0.04 seconds.",
"The 4 × 100 meter relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Anouk Hagen and Samuel) were eliminated in the heats in a national record of 43.44.",
"In 2012, she was invited to participate at the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis (Austria), where she finished 5th.",
"She also competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki (Finland).",
"She finished 5th at the 200 meters.",
"The race was disappointing after She had won her heat in 23.01 and recorded the fastest semi-final time of 22.70.",
"The Dutch 4x100 meters relay team (Kadene Vassell, Schippers, Eva Lubbers and Samuel), were second in 42.80, a national record, behind the German team.",
"A year later, she started with a third place at the Hypo-Meeting, with 6287 points.",
"Next, she won gold in the 100 m and bronze in the long jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships.",
"At the subsequent 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Schippers won the bronze medal in the heptathlon, collapsing over the line after taking a massive seven seconds off her personal best in the 800 metres to see off Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Claudia Rath for the bronze.",
"She became the first Dutch woman to win a medal in the hepthatlon at the World Athletics Championships.",
"She improved the 200 m record during the heptathlon at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, her time of 22.35 being one of the best 200 m performances ever in a heptathlon.",
"She finished third at the hepthatlon with 6545 points, a new national record.",
"At the European championships of 2014 Schippers won gold medals in the 100 m and the 200 m. The 4x100 meters relay team, one of the favourites for the title, did not finish in the final due to a botched first baton change.",
"Shifting to sprinting\n\nHer success at the 2014 European Athletics Championships prompted discussion over her long-term prospects and whether she should focus on sprinting, or continue her career in the heptathlon.",
"In June 2015 Schippers announced via Twitter that she would focus on sprinting in the run-up to the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing (China) and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).",
"The 2015 season had started well with a win in the 60 m at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague, (Czech Republic).",
"At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing Schippers won the silver medal in the 100 m and gold in the 200 m, just before Elaine Thompson.",
"Her 200 m winning time of 21.63 seconds was a new European record and made her the third fastest woman in history over that distance.",
"The Dutch 4 × 100 meters relay team (Nadine Visser, Schippers, Naomi Sedney and Samuel) finished fifth in 42.32, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement.",
"In the heats the team had also run 42.32, a new national record.",
"Her stunning victory opened her up to scrutiny about possible doping.",
"There were questions about the acne on Schippers back and face, which can be a sign of steroid abuse.",
"Most insiders, however, dismissed those claims, pointing out that the acne was hereditary in the family and the fast track in Beijing.",
"Next year, she won the 100 m at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 10.90, by 3 tenths of a second.",
"The Dutch team led by Schippers, with Samuel, Tessa van Schagen and anchor runner Naomi Sedney won the 4x100 meters relay with a national record of 42.04.",
"At the 2016 Summer Olympics expectation was high that she would add an Olympic title to the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships, following in the footsteps of Fanny Blankers-Koen who had dominated the sprint events at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, winning four golds.",
"However, she finished fifth in the 100 m final, and won the silver medal in the 200 m behind Elaine Thompson who became the first woman for 28 years to complete the Olympic sprint double.",
"After defeat in the 200 m, Schippers remained forlorn on the side of the track for a while, took off her spikes and hurled them to one side in frustration.",
"\"I came here for gold\", she told reporters, disappointment showing in her face.",
"\"I'm not happy with the silver.\"",
"The Dutch relay team was eliminated in the heats due to a botched relay handover between Samuel and Schippers.",
"Change of coaches\nAfter the disappointment of Rio, Schippers decided to change.",
"She parted with Bart Bennema as her coach, who had overseen her transition from a outstanding heptathlete, winning bronze in the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013, into a successful 100m and 200m sprinter.",
"Both felt that she had to try a different approach to progress, and so she decided join U.S. coach and sprint guru Rana Reider and focus on the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, to defend her world title in the 200m.",
"After winning the bronze in the 100m, she won the 200 m title, joining Jamaican Merlene Ottey and USA’s Allyson Felix as the only athletes to successfully defend a world title in the event.",
"“It’s a great feeling to be world champion for the second time,” she said.",
"“I was a bit nervous beforehand, but I’m a final runner, and bring my best in finals, so I’m very grateful for the experience today.",
"There were so many Dutch fans in the stadium, all wearing orange.",
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"The Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team (Madiea Ghafoor, Schippers, Sedney, Samuel) finished 8th.",
"For the 2018 season, the focus for the \"Flying Dutchwoman of the sprints\" was on the 2018 European Athletics Championships at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany.",
"However, it was British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith who became the star of the sprint in Berlin, winning gold on both the 100m and 200 m, as well as the 4x100 m relay.",
"Schippers won a bronze on the 100 m and a silver on the 200 m. The 4 x 100 m relay team with Schippers, Marije van Hunenstijn, Samuel and Sedney also finished second.",
"Due to the disappointing results, the collaboration between Schippers and Reider came under scrutiny.",
"Although Reider did prepare her for her special second world title at 200 m and bronze at 100 m at the 2017 World Championships, many other races looked rigid and she had lost her most important weapon, the 'acceleration' in the end.",
"Due to increased power training she became more muscular, but on the track this did not lead to improvements.",
"She could not improve her 2015 top chrono's.",
"Reider suddenly left the National Sports Centre Papendal in the Netherlands in November 2018, and Schippers returned to her first coach, Bart Bennema.",
"Nevertheless, the 2019 season was not successful.",
"She did win a silver at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60 m race.",
"But at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Schippers had to withdraw before the final of the 100 m with an adductor problem.",
"She subsequently withdrew from the 200 m and the 4 x100 m relay.",
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"There were questions about Schippers back and face, which can be a sign of steroid abuse.",
"Those claims were dismissed by most of the people who knew them, as they pointed out that the acne was hereditary in the family and the fast track in Beijing.",
"She won the 100 m at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 10.90, by 3 tenths of a second.",
"The Dutch team led by Schippers won the 4x 100 meters relay with a national record of 42.04.",
"At the 2016 Summer Olympics expectation was high that she would add an Olympic title to the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships, following in the footsteps of Fanny Blankers-Koen who had dominated the sprint events at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, winning four golds.",
"She won the silver medal in the 200 m behind Elaine Thompson, who became the first woman in 28 years to complete the Olympic sprint double.",
"Schippers threw her spikes to the side of the track after she lost the 200 m.",
"She told reporters that she came for gold.",
"I'm not happy with the silver.",
"The Dutch relay team was eliminated in the heats due to a mistake.",
"Schippers decided to change coaches after the disappointment of Rio.",
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"She decided to join the U.S. team and focus on defending her world title in the 200m because both felt that she had to try a different approach to progress.",
"She became the third athlete in history to successfully defend a world title in the 200 m after winning the bronze in the 100m.",
"She said it was a great feeling to be world champion for the second time.",
"I am a final runner, and bring my best in finals, so I am very grateful for the experience today.",
"There were a lot of Dutch fans in the stadium.",
"It's brilliant to win this two times in a row.",
"The Dutch 4 100 m relay team finished 8th.",
"The focus for the \"Flying Dutchwoman of the sprints\" was on the European Championships in Berlin, Germany.",
"British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith became the star of the sprint in Berlin, winning gold on both the 100m and 200m, as well as the 4x100 m relay.",
"Schippers was part of the 4 x 100 m relay team that finished second.",
"The collaboration between Schippers and Reider came under scrutiny due to the disappointing results.",
"Many other races looked rigid and she had lost her most important weapon, the 'acceleration', in the end, despite being prepared for her second world title at 200 m and bronze at 100 m at the World Championships.",
"Increased power training did not lead to improvements on the track.",
"She couldn't improve her top.",
"Schippers returned to her first coach, Bart Bennema, after she left the National Sports Centre Papendal in the Netherlands.",
"The season was not a success.",
"She won a silver in the 60 m race at the European Athletics Indoor Championships.",
"Schippers had to withdraw from the 100 m final at the World Championships due to an adductor problem.",
"She pulled out of the 200 m and the 4 x 100 m relay.",
"The bridge is named after Schippers, who grew up in the area."
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<mask> was born on 15 June 1992 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She started competing in athletics at the age of nine at the track and field club Hellas in Utrecht.Early career
<mask> originally competed in the heptathlon and won gold medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics and 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships. At the 2010 World Junior Championships she also won a bronze in the 4 × 100 meters relay with her team mates Loreanne Kuhurima, Eva Lubbers and Jamile Samuel. In 2011 at the World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, she broke the Dutch national record in the 200 m in the heats in 22.69, before finishing 9th in the semifinals, missing the final by 0.04 seconds. The 4 × 100 meter relay team (Kadene Vassell, <mask>, Anouk Hagen and Samuel) were eliminated in the heats in a national record of 43.44. In 2012, she was invited to participate at the prestigious heptathlon Hypo-Meeting in Götzis (Austria), where she finished 5th. She also competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki (Finland). She finished 5th at the 200 meters.The race was disappointing after She had won her heat in 23.01 and recorded the fastest semi-final time of 22.70. The Dutch 4x100 meters relay team (Kadene Vassell, <mask>, Eva Lubbers and Samuel), were second in 42.80, a national record, behind the German team. A year later, she started with a third place at the Hypo-Meeting, with 6287 points. Next, she won gold in the 100 m and bronze in the long jump at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships. At the subsequent 2013 World Championships in Moscow, <mask> won the bronze medal in the heptathlon, collapsing over the line after taking a massive seven seconds off her personal best in the 800 metres to see off Briton Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Germany's Claudia Rath for the bronze. She became the first Dutch woman to win a medal in the hepthatlon at the World Athletics Championships. She improved the 200 m record during the heptathlon at the 2014 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, her time of 22.35 being one of the best 200 m performances ever in a heptathlon.She finished third at the hepthatlon with 6545 points, a new national record. At the European championships of 2014 Schippers won gold medals in the 100 m and the 200 m. The 4x100 meters relay team, one of the favourites for the title, did not finish in the final due to a botched first baton change. Shifting to sprinting
Her success at the 2014 European Athletics Championships prompted discussion over her long-term prospects and whether she should focus on sprinting, or continue her career in the heptathlon. In June 2015 <mask> announced via Twitter that she would focus on sprinting in the run-up to the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing (China) and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The 2015 season had started well with a win in the 60 m at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague, (Czech Republic). At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing Schippers won the silver medal in the 100 m and gold in the 200 m, just before Elaine Thompson. Her 200 m winning time of 21.63 seconds was a new European record and made her the third fastest woman in history over that distance.The Dutch 4 × 100 meters relay team (Nadine Visser, <mask>, Naomi Sedney and Samuel) finished fifth in 42.32, but was disqualified for a changeover infringement. In the heats the team had also run 42.32, a new national record. Her stunning victory opened her up to scrutiny about possible doping. There were questions about the acne on Schippers back and face, which can be a sign of steroid abuse. Most insiders, however, dismissed those claims, pointing out that the acne was hereditary in the family and the fast track in Beijing. Next year, she won the 100 m at the 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam in 10.90, by 3 tenths of a second. The Dutch team led by <mask>, with Samuel, Tessa van Schagen and anchor runner Naomi Sedney won the 4x100 meters relay with a national record of 42.04.At the 2016 Summer Olympics expectation was high that she would add an Olympic title to the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships, following in the footsteps of Fanny Blankers-Koen who had dominated the sprint events at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, winning four golds. However, she finished fifth in the 100 m final, and won the silver medal in the 200 m behind Elaine Thompson who became the first woman for 28 years to complete the Olympic sprint double. After defeat in the 200 m, Schippers remained forlorn on the side of the track for a while, took off her spikes and hurled them to one side in frustration. "I came here for gold", she told reporters, disappointment showing in her face. "I'm not happy with the silver." The Dutch relay team was eliminated in the heats due to a botched relay handover between Samuel and <mask>. Change of coaches
After the disappointment of Rio, <mask> decided to change.She parted with Bart Bennema as her coach, who had overseen her transition from a outstanding heptathlete, winning bronze in the IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013, into a successful 100m and 200m sprinter. Both felt that she had to try a different approach to progress, and so she decided join U.S. coach and sprint guru Rana Reider and focus on the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in London, to defend her world title in the 200m. After winning the bronze in the 100m, she won the 200 m title, joining Jamaican Merlene Ottey and USA’s Allyson Felix as the only athletes to successfully defend a world title in the event. “It’s a great feeling to be world champion for the second time,” she said. “I was a bit nervous beforehand, but I’m a final runner, and bring my best in finals, so I’m very grateful for the experience today. There were so many Dutch fans in the stadium, all wearing orange. To win this two times in a row is brilliant."The Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team (Madiea Ghafoor, <mask>, Sedney, Samuel) finished 8th. For the 2018 season, the focus for the "Flying Dutchwoman of the sprints" was on the 2018 European Athletics Championships at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany. However, it was British sprinter Dina Asher-Smith who became the star of the sprint in Berlin, winning gold on both the 100m and 200 m, as well as the 4x100 m relay. <mask> won a bronze on the 100 m and a silver on the 200 m. The 4 x 100 m relay team with <mask>, Marije van Hunenstijn, Samuel and Sedney also finished second. Due to the disappointing results, the collaboration between <mask> and Reider came under scrutiny. Although Reider did prepare her for her special second world title at 200 m and bronze at 100 m at the 2017 World Championships, many other races looked rigid and she had lost her most important weapon, the 'acceleration' in the end. Due to increased power training she became more muscular, but on the track this did not lead to improvements.She could not improve her 2015 top chrono's. Reider suddenly left the National Sports Centre Papendal in the Netherlands in November 2018, and <mask> returned to her first coach, Bart Bennema. Nevertheless, the 2019 season was not successful. She did win a silver at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 60 m race. But at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, <mask> had to withdraw before the final of the 100 m with an adductor problem. She subsequently withdrew from the 200 m and the 4 x100 m relay. Trivia
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The Dutch team led by Schippers won the 4x 100 meters relay with a national record of 42.04.At the 2016 Summer Olympics expectation was high that she would add an Olympic title to the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships, following in the footsteps of Fanny Blankers-Koen who had dominated the sprint events at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, winning four golds. She won the silver medal in the 200 m behind Elaine Thompson, who became the first woman in 28 years to complete the Olympic sprint double. Schippers threw her spikes to the side of the track after she lost the 200 m. She told reporters that she came for gold. I'm not happy with the silver. The Dutch relay team was eliminated in the heats due to a mistake. <mask> decided to change coaches after the disappointment of Rio.She parted with her coach, Bart Bennema, who oversaw her transition from a heptathlete to a 100m and 200m sprinter. 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1991955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Jones%20%28Babybird%29 | Stephen Jones (Babybird) | Stephen Jones (born 16 September 1962) is an English musician and novelist.
Career
Lo-fi period
After studying at Nottingham Trent University, Jones became involved with an experimental theatre company, Dogs in Honey, in Nottingham in the late 1980s, writing songs for productions.
By 1994, Jones had written over 400 songs and gained a publishing contract with Chrysalis Music. However, he was unable to gain a recording contract, and formed a plan to self-finance the release of a series of albums featuring his home demos, limited to 1,000 copies of each, under the name Baby Bird.
The first of these was I Was Born a Man, released in August 1995 and positively received by the NME.
Babybird the band
During the second half of 1995, Jones toured under the name Babybird with Huw Chadbourne (keyboards), Robert Gregory (drums), John Pedder (bass) and Luke Scott (guitar). Two further collections of demos were released, Bad Shave and Fatherhood (a fourth album, The Happiest Man Alive was released in early 1996).
By the end of the year, a decent public following had been built up, as well as quite considerable excitement within the press and music industry. Babybird were signed to Echo Records (a division of the Chrysalis Group), and the first "proper" single, a full-band recording of "Goodnight", which had appeared in demo form on Fatherhood, was eventually released in the summer of 1996, becoming a minor chart hit in the UK.
"You're Gorgeous"
The second single, "You're Gorgeous", reached number 3 in the UK singles chart in October 1996, and was also one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world.
After "You're Gorgeous"
The album Ugly Beautiful produced two more hit singles, "Candy Girl" and "Cornershop". Shortly after Ugly Beautiful, a fifth album of demos was released – Dying Happy.
Babybird returned in 1998 with There's Something Going On, preceded by a single, "Bad Old Man". The album was a modest success and was followed by further minor hits, "If You'll Be Mine" and "Back Together".
The 2000 album Bugged was well-received critically. However, sales were poor and the two singles from it, "The F-Word" (later the theme tune to a UK TV cookery show of the same name) and "Out of Sight" barely dented the charts. Babybird were dropped by their record label soon after. A third single from the album "Fireflies/Getaway" was released on Animal Noise records, but sold few copies. The band subsequently split.
After Babybird
In the following years, Jones returned to where he had started – releasing albums of demos (under his own name) to a small but appreciative audience. This time round he produced two albums of instrumental music designed to help him develop a career in film music. Stephen Jones 1985–2001 was released in 2001, and Plastic Tablets came out in 2003. Stephen created the soundtrack for the film Blessed in 2004.
Between the two instrumental albums, Stephen collaborated with the Manchester-based dance artist Aim on a single, "Good Disease", and worked on an album of demo songs. This became the hip-hop influenced Almost Cured of Sadness, on Sanctuary Records. Again, Stephen was to score a critical success, but legal problems over samples delayed its release. It and the single "Friend" received little promotion and sold few copies.
In October 2005, a posting on the official Babybird website announced that the band had reformed. The subsequent album was called Between My Ears There Is Nothing But Music. Again, Babybird failed to achieve commercial success, and were dropped by the Echo label.
Two more albums followed on Unison records: 2010's "Ex-Maniac", and 2011's "The Pleasures of Self Destruction". Sales were disappointing, and Unison declined to release further Babybird albums.
Death Of The Neighbourhood
In 2008, Jones worked on a solo project entitled 'Death of the Neighbourhood' . The eponymous debut album, a 32 track 2-disc CD set was released on 10 November 2008 on ATIC Records. The album features "Cokeholes", which was released as a three track single on 27 October 2008.
Black Reindeer
In 2012, Stephen Jones announced the beginning of a new musical identity, Black Reindeer. The first Black Reindeer album, "Music for the Film That Never Got Made", was released on Bandcamp. Seven more albums of instrumental music followed through 2013.
The Great Sadness
In 2013, Jones released a new song with vocals entitled "The Great Sadness".
Fiction
Stephen Jones has produced two works of fiction, The Bad Book in 2000 and Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (also the title of a Babybird b-side) in 2003. He also collaborated with DED Associates, who have designed many of his CD covers, on a 2000 art book Travel Sickness.
Published works (UK)
Baby Bird discography
Singles
"Snake Caves" / "Lemonade Baby" (Gorgonzola Records, October 1995)
"Drunk Car" (Easy! Tiger Records, July 1999)
Compilation tracks and guest appearances
"Larry Bright" (on Mortal Wombat EP, Fierce Panda Records, October 1995)
"Alan Ladd" (on Volume 15, Volume Records, February 1996)
"Plastic Diamond" (with All Seeing I on Pickled Eggs and Sherbet, FFRR, September 1999)
Albums
I Was Born a Man (Baby Bird Recordings, July 1995)
"I'll just say that I Was Born A Man is the only record I've heard this year with lyrics worth remembering and music that's impossible to forget, because I'd rather you listen to it than me talking about it." – Melody Maker
"...whatever ultra-naff low-fidelity keyboard tinklings he undertakes; he carries with him incredibly touching pieces like Dead Bird Sings that create, in the middle of this tank top of a record, an altogether different kind of sadness." – NME
Bad Shave (Baby Bird Recordings, October 1995)
"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible. It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird." – Melody Maker
Fatherhood (Baby Bird Recordings, December 1995)
"...a mixture of whimsy, egotism and madness with a good bit of talent stirred in...his puzzled world-view is unique. He fills the 20 tracks with strangenesses. Weirdly wonderful." – The Guardian
"Fatherhood is another unpredictable and magical journey through the thoughts of Stephen Jones, a man who is clearly in love with sweet melodies and the millions of ways you can fuck them up...you might find the whole experience as cigar-puffingly satisfying as becoming a dad." – The Independent
The Happiest Man Alive (Baby Bird Recordings, April 1996) No. 127
"...an oblique sadist of spectacular talent. The Happiest Man Alive has an entire central nervous system of its own. It's a Frankenstein's monster of an album, gruesome and miraculous, stitched together from what would appear to be fragments of a dozen different psyches lodged inside one head." – Melody Maker
Dying Happy (Baby Bird Recordings, November 1996)
"Halfway between songs and instrumentals, some of the tracks on Dying Happy just don't work at all, but some of them are riveting." – The Times
The Original Lo-Fi (Sanctuary Records, November 2002)
"The five albums in question form a song-cycle tracking the life-cycle from birth to death. The sheer wealth and diversity of music crammed into this tiny box makes it an absolute bargain." – The Independent
"The Original Lo-Fi should cement Baby Bird's reputation as one of the finest experimental pop artists of his time ... Written, performed, and produced as only Stephen Jones is capable of, the songs compiled on The Original Lo-Fi are easily among the finest musical confections of a generation." – AllMusic
Babybird discography
Singles
"Goodnight" (Echo Records, June 1996) No. 28 UK
"You're Gorgeous" (Echo Records, September 1996) No. 3 UK
"Candy Girl" (Echo Records, February 1997) No. 14 UK
"Cornershop" (Echo Records, May 1997) No. 37 UK
"Bad Old Man" (Echo Records, April 1998) No. 31 UK
"If You'll Be Mine" (Echo Records, July 1998) No. 28 UK
"Back Together (remix)" (Echo Records, February 1999) No. 22 UK
"The F-Word" (Echo Records, March 2000) No. 35 UK
"Out of Sight" (Echo Records, May 2000) No. 58 UK
"Getaway" / "Fireflies" (Animal Noise, September 2000)
"Lighter N Spoon" (popup records Hamburg, April 2008)
Compilation tracks
"Bad Twin" (on The Avengers OST, Atlantic Records, August 1998)
Albums
Ugly Beautiful (Echo Records, October 1996) No. 9
There's Something Going On (Echo Records, August 1998) No. 28
Bugged (Echo Records, June 2000) No. 104
Best of Babybird (Echo Records, February 2004)
Between My Ears There's Nothing But Music (Echo Records, September 2006 and popup records Hamburg, February 2008)
Ex-Maniac 2010
The Pleasures of Self Destruction (31 October 2011)
Happy Stupid Nothing (7 March 2019)
Stephen Jones solo discography
Singles
"Good Disease" (with Aim, Grand Central Records, June 2002)
"Friend" (Sanctuary Records, June 2003)
Compilation tracks
"We Make All the Flowers Grow" (with Luke Scott on Total Lee, a Tribute to Lee Hazlewood, City Slang Records, June 2002)
Film score
Blessed (Warner Bros, 2004)
Albums
Stephen Jones 1985–2001 (Easy! Tiger Records, October 2001)
"This isn't the best introduction to Stephen Jones. Nonetheless, '1985–2001' is another interesting dispatch from the no-frills renaissance man." – NME
Almost Cured of Sadness (Sanctuary Records, March 2003)
"He was always an affecting songwriter as well as an extremely able band frontman, but it is these solo lo-fi tinkerings that really provide the keys to his soul. His latest LP is a delight, an effortless charmer on which the childlike sweetness of his voice perfectly serves 19 deceptively simple songs that together make a series of multi-textured gems." – The Times
Plastic Tablets (Delf Music, September 2003)
"This vast collection of poignant, evocative instrumental work – like soundtracks for imaginary movies – reminds you why there was so much fuss about him." – Daily Telegraph
Albums as Black Reindeer
Music For the Film That Never Got Made (October 2012)
Real Life is Overrated (December 2012)
A Difficult Third Album (February 2013)
Due to a Lack of Excitement (March 2013)
All Is Good (April 2013)
The Ten Stages of Alcohol (June 2013)
The End of Youth (July 2013)
Death Is Stupid (September 2013)
Death Is Stupid 2 (October 2013)
Stephen Jones fiction
The Bad Book (IMP Fiction, London, March 2000)
"Veering imperiously between maudlin monochrome and exuberant technicolor, he proves as adept with narrative and metaphor as he is with choruses and couplets." – The Times
Travel Sickness (Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, September 2000)
"...maximalism at its most memorable and unnerving. Find it." – I-D Magazine
Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (IMP Fiction, London, April 2003)
"Nightmarish and weird, but unsettlingly compelling" – BBC
References
External links
September 2006 interview of "Babybird" (Stephen Jones) by Jane Gazzo
Stephen Jones on Twitter
Black Reindeer Twitter feed
Stephen Jones' official Bandcamp page
21st-century English novelists
English male singers
English pop musicians
Britpop musicians
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
1962 births
Living people
People from Telford
People from Shropshire
English male novelists
Countertenors
21st-century English male writers | [
"Stephen Jones (born 16 September 1962) is an English musician and novelist.",
"Career\n\nLo-fi period \nAfter studying at Nottingham Trent University, Jones became involved with an experimental theatre company, Dogs in Honey, in Nottingham in the late 1980s, writing songs for productions.",
"By 1994, Jones had written over 400 songs and gained a publishing contract with Chrysalis Music.",
"However, he was unable to gain a recording contract, and formed a plan to self-finance the release of a series of albums featuring his home demos, limited to 1,000 copies of each, under the name Baby Bird.",
"The first of these was I Was Born a Man, released in August 1995 and positively received by the NME.",
"Babybird the band \nDuring the second half of 1995, Jones toured under the name Babybird with Huw Chadbourne (keyboards), Robert Gregory (drums), John Pedder (bass) and Luke Scott (guitar).",
"Two further collections of demos were released, Bad Shave and Fatherhood (a fourth album, The Happiest Man Alive was released in early 1996).",
"By the end of the year, a decent public following had been built up, as well as quite considerable excitement within the press and music industry.",
"Babybird were signed to Echo Records (a division of the Chrysalis Group), and the first \"proper\" single, a full-band recording of \"Goodnight\", which had appeared in demo form on Fatherhood, was eventually released in the summer of 1996, becoming a minor chart hit in the UK.",
"\"You're Gorgeous\" \nThe second single, \"You're Gorgeous\", reached number 3 in the UK singles chart in October 1996, and was also one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world.",
"After \"You're Gorgeous\" \nThe album Ugly Beautiful produced two more hit singles, \"Candy Girl\" and \"Cornershop\".",
"Shortly after Ugly Beautiful, a fifth album of demos was released – Dying Happy.",
"Babybird returned in 1998 with There's Something Going On, preceded by a single, \"Bad Old Man\".",
"The album was a modest success and was followed by further minor hits, \"If You'll Be Mine\" and \"Back Together\".",
"The 2000 album Bugged was well-received critically.",
"However, sales were poor and the two singles from it, \"The F-Word\" (later the theme tune to a UK TV cookery show of the same name) and \"Out of Sight\" barely dented the charts.",
"Babybird were dropped by their record label soon after.",
"A third single from the album \"Fireflies/Getaway\" was released on Animal Noise records, but sold few copies.",
"The band subsequently split.",
"After Babybird \nIn the following years, Jones returned to where he had started – releasing albums of demos (under his own name) to a small but appreciative audience.",
"This time round he produced two albums of instrumental music designed to help him develop a career in film music.",
"Stephen Jones 1985–2001 was released in 2001, and Plastic Tablets came out in 2003.",
"Stephen created the soundtrack for the film Blessed in 2004.",
"Between the two instrumental albums, Stephen collaborated with the Manchester-based dance artist Aim on a single, \"Good Disease\", and worked on an album of demo songs.",
"This became the hip-hop influenced Almost Cured of Sadness, on Sanctuary Records.",
"Again, Stephen was to score a critical success, but legal problems over samples delayed its release.",
"It and the single \"Friend\" received little promotion and sold few copies.",
"In October 2005, a posting on the official Babybird website announced that the band had reformed.",
"The subsequent album was called Between My Ears There Is Nothing But Music.",
"Again, Babybird failed to achieve commercial success, and were dropped by the Echo label.",
"Two more albums followed on Unison records: 2010's \"Ex-Maniac\", and 2011's \"The Pleasures of Self Destruction\".",
"Sales were disappointing, and Unison declined to release further Babybird albums.",
"Death Of The Neighbourhood \nIn 2008, Jones worked on a solo project entitled 'Death of the Neighbourhood' .",
"The eponymous debut album, a 32 track 2-disc CD set was released on 10 November 2008 on ATIC Records.",
"The album features \"Cokeholes\", which was released as a three track single on 27 October 2008.",
"Black Reindeer \nIn 2012, Stephen Jones announced the beginning of a new musical identity, Black Reindeer.",
"The first Black Reindeer album, \"Music for the Film That Never Got Made\", was released on Bandcamp.",
"Seven more albums of instrumental music followed through 2013.",
"The Great Sadness\nIn 2013, Jones released a new song with vocals entitled \"The Great Sadness\".",
"Fiction \nStephen Jones has produced two works of fiction, The Bad Book in 2000 and Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (also the title of a Babybird b-side) in 2003.",
"He also collaborated with DED Associates, who have designed many of his CD covers, on a 2000 art book Travel Sickness.",
"Published works (UK)\n\nBaby Bird discography\n\nSingles \n\"Snake Caves\" / \"Lemonade Baby\" (Gorgonzola Records, October 1995)\n\"Drunk Car\" (Easy!",
"Tiger Records, July 1999)\n\nCompilation tracks and guest appearances \n\"Larry Bright\" (on Mortal Wombat EP, Fierce Panda Records, October 1995)\n\"Alan Ladd\" (on Volume 15, Volume Records, February 1996)\n\"Plastic Diamond\" (with All Seeing I on Pickled Eggs and Sherbet, FFRR, September 1999)\n\nAlbums \nI Was Born a Man (Baby Bird Recordings, July 1995)\n\n\"I'll just say that I Was Born A Man is the only record I've heard this year with lyrics worth remembering and music that's impossible to forget, because I'd rather you listen to it than me talking about it.\"",
"– Melody Maker\n\n\"...whatever ultra-naff low-fidelity keyboard tinklings he undertakes; he carries with him incredibly touching pieces like Dead Bird Sings that create, in the middle of this tank top of a record, an altogether different kind of sadness.\"",
"– NME\n\nBad Shave (Baby Bird Recordings, October 1995)\n\n\"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible.",
"It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird.\"",
"– Melody Maker\n\nFatherhood (Baby Bird Recordings, December 1995)\n\n\"...a mixture of whimsy, egotism and madness with a good bit of talent stirred in...his puzzled world-view is unique.",
"He fills the 20 tracks with strangenesses.",
"Weirdly wonderful.\"",
"– The Guardian\n\n\"Fatherhood is another unpredictable and magical journey through the thoughts of Stephen Jones, a man who is clearly in love with sweet melodies and the millions of ways you can fuck them up...you might find the whole experience as cigar-puffingly satisfying as becoming a dad.\"",
"– The Independent\n\nThe Happiest Man Alive (Baby Bird Recordings, April 1996) No.",
"127\n\n\"...an oblique sadist of spectacular talent.",
"The Happiest Man Alive has an entire central nervous system of its own.",
"It's a Frankenstein's monster of an album, gruesome and miraculous, stitched together from what would appear to be fragments of a dozen different psyches lodged inside one head.\"",
"– Melody Maker\n\nDying Happy (Baby Bird Recordings, November 1996)\n\n\"Halfway between songs and instrumentals, some of the tracks on Dying Happy just don't work at all, but some of them are riveting.\"",
"– The Times\n\nThe Original Lo-Fi (Sanctuary Records, November 2002)\n\n\"The five albums in question form a song-cycle tracking the life-cycle from birth to death.",
"The sheer wealth and diversity of music crammed into this tiny box makes it an absolute bargain.\"",
"– The Independent\n\n\"The Original Lo-Fi should cement Baby Bird's reputation as one of the finest experimental pop artists of his time ...",
"Written, performed, and produced as only Stephen Jones is capable of, the songs compiled on The Original Lo-Fi are easily among the finest musical confections of a generation.\"",
"– AllMusic\n\nBabybird discography\n\nSingles\n\"Goodnight\" (Echo Records, June 1996) No.",
"28 UK\n\"You're Gorgeous\" (Echo Records, September 1996) No.",
"3 UK\n\"Candy Girl\" (Echo Records, February 1997) No.",
"14 UK\n\"Cornershop\" (Echo Records, May 1997) No.",
"37 UK\n\"Bad Old Man\" (Echo Records, April 1998) No.",
"31 UK\n\"If You'll Be Mine\" (Echo Records, July 1998) No.",
"28 UK\n\"Back Together (remix)\" (Echo Records, February 1999) No.",
"22 UK\n\"The F-Word\" (Echo Records, March 2000) No.",
"35 UK\n\"Out of Sight\" (Echo Records, May 2000) No.",
"58 UK\n\"Getaway\" / \"Fireflies\" (Animal Noise, September 2000)\n\"Lighter N Spoon\" (popup records Hamburg, April 2008)\n\nCompilation tracks\n\"Bad Twin\" (on The Avengers OST, Atlantic Records, August 1998)\n\nAlbums\nUgly Beautiful (Echo Records, October 1996) No.",
"9\nThere's Something Going On (Echo Records, August 1998) No.",
"28\nBugged (Echo Records, June 2000) No.",
"104\nBest of Babybird (Echo Records, February 2004)\nBetween My Ears There's Nothing But Music (Echo Records, September 2006 and popup records Hamburg, February 2008)\nEx-Maniac 2010\nThe Pleasures of Self Destruction (31 October 2011)\nHappy Stupid Nothing (7 March 2019)\n\nStephen Jones solo discography\n\nSingles\n\"Good Disease\" (with Aim, Grand Central Records, June 2002)\n\"Friend\" (Sanctuary Records, June 2003)\n\nCompilation tracks\n\"We Make All the Flowers Grow\" (with Luke Scott on Total Lee, a Tribute to Lee Hazlewood, City Slang Records, June 2002)\n\nFilm score\nBlessed (Warner Bros, 2004)\n\nAlbums\nStephen Jones 1985–2001 (Easy!",
"Tiger Records, October 2001)\n\n\"This isn't the best introduction to Stephen Jones.",
"Nonetheless, '1985–2001' is another interesting dispatch from the no-frills renaissance man.\"",
"– NME \nAlmost Cured of Sadness (Sanctuary Records, March 2003)\n\n\"He was always an affecting songwriter as well as an extremely able band frontman, but it is these solo lo-fi tinkerings that really provide the keys to his soul.",
"His latest LP is a delight, an effortless charmer on which the childlike sweetness of his voice perfectly serves 19 deceptively simple songs that together make a series of multi-textured gems.\"",
"– The Times \n\nPlastic Tablets (Delf Music, September 2003)\n\n\"This vast collection of poignant, evocative instrumental work – like soundtracks for imaginary movies – reminds you why there was so much fuss about him.\"",
"– Daily Telegraph\n\nAlbums as Black Reindeer\n\nMusic For the Film That Never Got Made (October 2012)\nReal Life is Overrated (December 2012)\nA Difficult Third Album (February 2013)\nDue to a Lack of Excitement (March 2013)\nAll Is Good (April 2013)\nThe Ten Stages of Alcohol (June 2013)\nThe End of Youth (July 2013)\nDeath Is Stupid (September 2013)\nDeath Is Stupid 2 (October 2013)\n\nStephen Jones fiction\nThe Bad Book (IMP Fiction, London, March 2000)\n\n\"Veering imperiously between maudlin monochrome and exuberant technicolor, he proves as adept with narrative and metaphor as he is with choruses and couplets.\"",
"– The Times\n\nTravel Sickness (Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, September 2000)\n\n\"...maximalism at its most memorable and unnerving.",
"Find it.\"",
"– I-D Magazine\n\nHarry and Ida Swop Teeth (IMP Fiction, London, April 2003)\n\n\"Nightmarish and weird, but unsettlingly compelling\" – BBC\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\nSeptember 2006 interview of \"Babybird\" (Stephen Jones) by Jane Gazzo\nStephen Jones on Twitter\nBlack Reindeer Twitter feed\nStephen Jones' official Bandcamp page\n\n21st-century English novelists\nEnglish male singers\nEnglish pop musicians\nBritpop musicians\nAlumni of Nottingham Trent University\n1962 births\nLiving people\nPeople from Telford\nPeople from Shropshire\nEnglish male novelists\nCountertenors\n21st-century English male writers"
] | [
"Stephen Jones is an English musician and novelist.",
"Jones became involved with an experimental theatre company in the late 1980s, writing songs for productions.",
"By 1994, Jones had written over 400 songs and had a publishing contract.",
"He formed a plan to self-finance the release of a series of albums featuring his home demos, limited to 1,000 copies each, under the name Baby Bird.",
"I was Born a Man was released in August 1995 and received a positive response from the NME.",
"Jones toured under the name Babybird with Huw Chadbourne, Robert Gregory and John Pedder.",
"A fourth album, The Happiest Man Alive, was released in 1996.",
"By the end of the year, a decent public following had been built up, as well as considerable excitement within the press and music industry.",
"The first \"proper\" single, a full-band recording of \"Goodnight\", which had appeared in demo form on Fatherhood, was eventually released in the summer of 1996, becoming a minor chart hit.",
"In October 1996, the second single, \"You're gorgeous\", reached number 3 in the UK singles chart, and was one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world.",
"\"Cornershop\" and \"Candy Girl\" were produced by the album Ugly Beautiful.",
"The fifth album of demos was called Dying Happy.",
"There's Something Going On was preceded by a single, \"Bad Old Man\".",
"Minor hits \"If You'll Be Mine\" and \" Back Together\" followed the modest success of the album.",
"The album Bugged was well-received.",
"The two singles from it, \"The F-Word\" and \"Out of Sight\", barely made it to the charts.",
"Babybird was dropped by their record label.",
"The third single from the album \"Fireflies/Getaway\" did not sell a lot.",
"The band split.",
"After Babybird, Jones returned to where he had started, releasing albums of demos to a small but appreciative audience.",
"Two albums of instrumental music were produced to help him develop a career in film music.",
"Plastic Tablets came out in 2003 and Stephen Jones was released in 2001.",
"The soundtrack for Blessed was created by Stephen.",
"Stephen collaborated with Aim on a single, \"Good Disease\", and worked on an album of demo songs.",
"The hip-hop influenced Almost Cured of Sadness was recorded on Sanctuary Records.",
"Stephen was supposed to score a critical success, but legal problems delayed its release.",
"The single \"Friend\" only sold a few copies.",
"The band had reformed in 2005, according to a posting on the official Babybird website.",
"Between My Ears There Is Nothing But Music was the subsequent album.",
"Babybird failed to achieve commercial success, and were dropped by the label.",
"\"Ex-Maniac\" and \"The Pleasures of Self Destruction\" followed on Unison records.",
"Unison did not release any more Babybird albums.",
"Jones worked on a solo project in 2008.",
"ATIC Records released the debut album on November 10, 2008.",
"The single \"Cokeholes\" was released as a three track single on 27 October 2008.",
"Black Reindeer was announced in 2012 by Stephen Jones.",
"\"Music for the Film That Never Got Made\" is the first album by Black Reindeer.",
"Through the year, there were seven more albums of instrumental music.",
"Jones released a new song called \"The Great Sadness\".",
"The Bad Book was written in 2000 by Stephen Jones, and Harry and Ida Swop Teeth was written in 2003 by Stephen Jones.",
"He collaborated with DED Associates, who designed many of his CD covers, on a 2000 art book.",
"\"Snake Caves\" and \"Lemonade Baby\" are included in the Baby Bird discography.",
"\"Larry Bright\", \"Alan Ladd\", and \"Plastic Diamond\" are included in a Tiger Records album.",
"Whatever ultra-naff low-fidelity keyboard tinklings he undertakes, he carries with him incredibly touching pieces like Dead Bird Sings that create, in the middle of this tank top of a record, an altogether different kind of sadness.",
"The Bad Shave is unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly accessible.",
"Imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world.",
"A mixture of whimsy, egotism and madness with a good bit of talent stirred in...his puzzled world-view is unique.",
"He fills the tracks with strangeness.",
"Weirdly wonderful.",
"\"Fatherhood is an unpredictable and magical journey through the thoughts of Stephen Jones, a man who is clearly in love with sweet melodies and the millions of ways you can fuck them up...you might find the whole experience as cigar-puffingly satisfying as becoming a dad.\"",
"The Independent has a song called The Happiest Man Alive.",
"An oblique sadist of great talent.",
"The central nervous system of The Happiest Man Alive is its own.",
"It's a monster of an album, gruesome and miraculous, stitched together from what would appear to be fragments of a dozen different cultures inside one head.",
"Some of the tracks on Dying Happy just don't work at all, but some of them are riveting.",
"The five albums in question form a song-cycle tracking the life-cycle from birth to death.",
"The wealth and diversity of music crammed into this tiny box makes it an absolute bargain.",
"The original lo-fi should cement Baby Bird's reputation as one of the finest experimental pop artists of his time.",
"The songs written, performed, and produced as only Stephen Jones is capable of are among the finest musical confections of a generation.",
"\"Goodnight\" is a single from the AllMusic Babybird discography.",
"\"You're gorgeous\" was released in September 1996 in the UK.",
"3 UK \"Candy Girl\"",
"\"Cornershop\" is a UK record.",
"\"Bad Old Man\" is a song onEcho Records.",
"\"If You'll Be Mine\" was released in the UK.",
"\" Back Together (remix)\" was released in February 1999 in the UK.",
"\"The F-Word\" was published in the UK in 2000.",
"35 UK \"out of sight\"",
"\"Getaway\", \"Fireflies\", \"Lighter N Spoon\", and \"Bad Twin\" are tracks from the album.",
"There's something going on.",
"28 Bugged was recorded in June 2000.",
"There's Nothing But Music was the best of Babybird and Between My Ears was the best of There's Nothing But Music.",
"This isn't the best introduction to Stephen Jones.",
"'1985–2001' is another interesting dispatch from the renaissance man.",
"It is these solo lo-fi tinkerings that really provide the keys to his soul.",
"His latest album is a delight, an effortless charmer on which the childlike sweetness of his voice perfectly serves 19 deceptively simple songs that together make a series of multi-textured gems.",
"\"This vast collection of poignant, evocative instrumental work, like soundtracks for imaginary movies, reminds you why there was so much fuss about him.\"",
"Real Life is Overrated due to a Lack of Excitement and All Is Good due to the Ten Stages of Alcohol.",
"maximalism at its most memorable and unnerving is what The Times Travel Sickness is about.",
"Find it.",
"\"Nightmarish and weird, but unsettlingly compelling\" is how I-D Magazine describes Harry and Ida Swop Teeth."
] | <mask> (born 16 September 1962) is an English musician and novelist. Career
Lo-fi period
After studying at Nottingham Trent University, <mask> became involved with an experimental theatre company, Dogs in Honey, in Nottingham in the late 1980s, writing songs for productions. By 1994, <mask> had written over 400 songs and gained a publishing contract with Chrysalis Music. However, he was unable to gain a recording contract, and formed a plan to self-finance the release of a series of albums featuring his home demos, limited to 1,000 copies of each, under the name Baby Bird. The first of these was I Was Born a Man, released in August 1995 and positively received by the NME. Babybird the band
During the second half of 1995, <mask> toured under the name Babybird with Huw Chadbourne (keyboards), Robert Gregory (drums), John Pedder (bass) and Luke Scott (guitar). Two further collections of demos were released, Bad Shave and Fatherhood (a fourth album, The Happiest Man Alive was released in early 1996).By the end of the year, a decent public following had been built up, as well as quite considerable excitement within the press and music industry. Babybird were signed to Echo Records (a division of the Chrysalis Group), and the first "proper" single, a full-band recording of "Goodnight", which had appeared in demo form on Fatherhood, was eventually released in the summer of 1996, becoming a minor chart hit in the UK. "You're Gorgeous"
The second single, "You're Gorgeous", reached number 3 in the UK singles chart in October 1996, and was also one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world. After "You're Gorgeous"
The album Ugly Beautiful produced two more hit singles, "Candy Girl" and "Cornershop". Shortly after Ugly Beautiful, a fifth album of demos was released – Dying Happy. Babybird returned in 1998 with There's Something Going On, preceded by a single, "Bad Old Man". The album was a modest success and was followed by further minor hits, "If You'll Be Mine" and "Back Together".The 2000 album Bugged was well-received critically. However, sales were poor and the two singles from it, "The F-Word" (later the theme tune to a UK TV cookery show of the same name) and "Out of Sight" barely dented the charts. Babybird were dropped by their record label soon after. A third single from the album "Fireflies/Getaway" was released on Animal Noise records, but sold few copies. The band subsequently split. After Babybird
In the following years, <mask> returned to where he had started – releasing albums of demos (under his own name) to a small but appreciative audience. This time round he produced two albums of instrumental music designed to help him develop a career in film music.<mask> 1985–2001 was released in 2001, and Plastic Tablets came out in 2003. <mask> created the soundtrack for the film Blessed in 2004. Between the two instrumental albums, <mask> collaborated with the Manchester-based dance artist Aim on a single, "Good Disease", and worked on an album of demo songs. This became the hip-hop influenced Almost Cured of Sadness, on Sanctuary Records. Again, <mask> was to score a critical success, but legal problems over samples delayed its release. It and the single "Friend" received little promotion and sold few copies. In October 2005, a posting on the official Babybird website announced that the band had reformed.The subsequent album was called Between My Ears There Is Nothing But Music. Again, Babybird failed to achieve commercial success, and were dropped by the Echo label. Two more albums followed on Unison records: 2010's "Ex-Maniac", and 2011's "The Pleasures of Self Destruction". Sales were disappointing, and Unison declined to release further Babybird albums. Death Of The Neighbourhood
In 2008, <mask> worked on a solo project entitled 'Death of the Neighbourhood' . The eponymous debut album, a 32 track 2-disc CD set was released on 10 November 2008 on ATIC Records. The album features "Cokeholes", which was released as a three track single on 27 October 2008.Black Reindeer
In 2012, <mask> announced the beginning of a new musical identity, Black Reindeer. The first Black Reindeer album, "Music for the Film That Never Got Made", was released on Bandcamp. Seven more albums of instrumental music followed through 2013. The Great Sadness
In 2013, <mask> released a new song with vocals entitled "The Great Sadness". Fiction
<mask> has produced two works of fiction, The Bad Book in 2000 and Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (also the title of a Babybird b-side) in 2003. He also collaborated with DED Associates, who have designed many of his CD covers, on a 2000 art book Travel Sickness. Published works (UK)
Baby Bird discography
Singles
"Snake Caves" / "Lemonade Baby" (Gorgonzola Records, October 1995)
"Drunk Car" (Easy!Tiger Records, July 1999)
Compilation tracks and guest appearances
"Larry Bright" (on Mortal Wombat EP, Fierce Panda Records, October 1995)
"Alan Ladd" (on Volume 15, Volume Records, February 1996)
"Plastic Diamond" (with All Seeing I on Pickled Eggs and Sherbet, FFRR, September 1999)
Albums
I Was Born a Man (Baby Bird Recordings, July 1995)
"I'll just say that I Was Born A Man is the only record I've heard this year with lyrics worth remembering and music that's impossible to forget, because I'd rather you listen to it than me talking about it." – Melody Maker
"...whatever ultra-naff low-fidelity keyboard tinklings he undertakes; he carries with him incredibly touching pieces like Dead Bird Sings that create, in the middle of this tank top of a record, an altogether different kind of sadness." – NME
Bad Shave (Baby Bird Recordings, October 1995)
"...unique, customised but never self-indulgent or irritatingly inaccessible. It's as off as it's beautiful, as rich as it's lo fi... imagine Ray Davies emerging, blinking and bearded, Howard Hughes like, after years in the darkness and you'll have some idea of the deeply, deeply English yet marvellously, utterly alien world of Baby Bird." – Melody Maker
Fatherhood (Baby Bird Recordings, December 1995)
"...a mixture of whimsy, egotism and madness with a good bit of talent stirred in...his puzzled world-view is unique. He fills the 20 tracks with strangenesses. Weirdly wonderful."– The Guardian
"Fatherhood is another unpredictable and magical journey through the thoughts of <mask>, a man who is clearly in love with sweet melodies and the millions of ways you can fuck them up...you might find the whole experience as cigar-puffingly satisfying as becoming a dad." – The Independent
The Happiest Man Alive (Baby Bird Recordings, April 1996) No. 127
"...an oblique sadist of spectacular talent. The Happiest Man Alive has an entire central nervous system of its own. It's a Frankenstein's monster of an album, gruesome and miraculous, stitched together from what would appear to be fragments of a dozen different psyches lodged inside one head." – Melody Maker
Dying Happy (Baby Bird Recordings, November 1996)
"Halfway between songs and instrumentals, some of the tracks on Dying Happy just don't work at all, but some of them are riveting." – The Times
The Original Lo-Fi (Sanctuary Records, November 2002)
"The five albums in question form a song-cycle tracking the life-cycle from birth to death.The sheer wealth and diversity of music crammed into this tiny box makes it an absolute bargain." – The Independent
"The Original Lo-Fi should cement Baby Bird's reputation as one of the finest experimental pop artists of his time ... Written, performed, and produced as only <mask> is capable of, the songs compiled on The Original Lo-Fi are easily among the finest musical confections of a generation." – AllMusic
Babybird discography
Singles
"Goodnight" (Echo Records, June 1996) No. 28 UK
"You're Gorgeous" (Echo Records, September 1996) No. 3 UK
"Candy Girl" (Echo Records, February 1997) No. 14 UK
"Cornershop" (Echo Records, May 1997) No.37 UK
"Bad Old Man" (Echo Records, April 1998) No. 31 UK
"If You'll Be Mine" (Echo Records, July 1998) No. 28 UK
"Back Together (remix)" (Echo Records, February 1999) No. 22 UK
"The F-Word" (Echo Records, March 2000) No. 35 UK
"Out of Sight" (Echo Records, May 2000) No. 58 UK
"Getaway" / "Fireflies" (Animal Noise, September 2000)
"Lighter N Spoon" (popup records Hamburg, April 2008)
Compilation tracks
"Bad Twin" (on The Avengers OST, Atlantic Records, August 1998)
Albums
Ugly Beautiful (Echo Records, October 1996) No. 9
There's Something Going On (Echo Records, August 1998) No.28
Bugged (Echo Records, June 2000) No. 104
Best of Babybird (Echo Records, February 2004)
Between My Ears There's Nothing But Music (Echo Records, September 2006 and popup records Hamburg, February 2008)
Ex-Maniac 2010
The Pleasures of Self Destruction (31 October 2011)
Happy Stupid Nothing (7 March 2019)
<mask> solo discography
Singles
"Good Disease" (with Aim, Grand Central Records, June 2002)
"Friend" (Sanctuary Records, June 2003)
Compilation tracks
"We Make All the Flowers Grow" (with Luke Scott on Total Lee, a Tribute to Lee Hazlewood, City Slang Records, June 2002)
Film score
Blessed (Warner Bros, 2004)
Albums
<mask> 1985–2001 (Easy! Tiger Records, October 2001)
"This isn't the best introduction to <mask>. Nonetheless, '1985–2001' is another interesting dispatch from the no-frills renaissance man." – NME
Almost Cured of Sadness (Sanctuary Records, March 2003)
"He was always an affecting songwriter as well as an extremely able band frontman, but it is these solo lo-fi tinkerings that really provide the keys to his soul. His latest LP is a delight, an effortless charmer on which the childlike sweetness of his voice perfectly serves 19 deceptively simple songs that together make a series of multi-textured gems." – The Times
Plastic Tablets (Delf Music, September 2003)
"This vast collection of poignant, evocative instrumental work – like soundtracks for imaginary movies – reminds you why there was so much fuss about him."– Daily Telegraph
Albums as Black Reindeer
Music For the Film That Never Got Made (October 2012)
Real Life is Overrated (December 2012)
A Difficult Third Album (February 2013)
Due to a Lack of Excitement (March 2013)
All Is Good (April 2013)
The Ten Stages of Alcohol (June 2013)
The End of Youth (July 2013)
Death Is Stupid (September 2013)
Death Is Stupid 2 (October 2013)
<mask> fiction
The Bad Book (IMP Fiction, London, March 2000)
"Veering imperiously between maudlin monochrome and exuberant technicolor, he proves as adept with narrative and metaphor as he is with choruses and couplets." – The Times
Travel Sickness (Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, September 2000)
"...maximalism at its most memorable and unnerving. Find it." – I-D Magazine
Harry and Ida Swop Teeth (IMP Fiction, London, April 2003)
"Nightmarish and weird, but unsettlingly compelling" – BBC
References
External links
September 2006 interview of "Babybird" (<mask>) by Jane Gazzo
<mask> on Twitter
Black Reindeer Twitter feed
<mask>' official Bandcamp page
21st-century English novelists
English male singers
English pop musicians
Britpop musicians
Alumni of Nottingham Trent University
1962 births
Living people
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People from Shropshire
English male novelists
Countertenors
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In October 1996, the second single, "You're gorgeous", reached number 3 in the UK singles chart, and was one of the biggest selling singles of the year, going on to chart around the world. "Cornershop" and "Candy Girl" were produced by the album Ugly Beautiful. The fifth album of demos was called Dying Happy. There's Something Going On was preceded by a single, "Bad Old Man". Minor hits "If You'll Be Mine" and " Back Together" followed the modest success of the album.The album Bugged was well-received. The two singles from it, "The F-Word" and "Out of Sight", barely made it to the charts. Babybird was dropped by their record label. The third single from the album "Fireflies/Getaway" did not sell a lot. The band split. After Babybird, <mask> returned to where he had started, releasing albums of demos to a small but appreciative audience. 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35748639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rony%20Jason | Rony Jason | Rony Mariano Bezerra (born March 21, 1984), better known as Rony Jason, is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Bezerra was also the Featherweight winner of Globo's The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. His nickname is based on Friday the 13th film character Jason Voorhees; he wears the Voorhees mask on his walk to the Octagon.
Background
Born and raised in Brazil, Bezerra began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of 16, and was talented, winning various titles. Bezerra has also trained in kickboxing and judo. Bezerra attended law school before dropping out to further pursue a career in professional mixed martial arts.
Mixed martial arts career
Early career
Bezerra made his professional MMA debut in 2006, where he fought Alessandro Cabeca in his professional debut, winning via second-round TKO.
At only 2-0, Bezerra took a fight against another up-and-comer, and future UFC Interim Bantamweight Champion, Renan Barão. The fight was very closely contested and ended in a split decision loss for Bezerra. He won his next fight via submission before suffering his second loss to Joao Paulo Rodrigues de Souza. Bezerra bounced back from the loss with first round submission wins over future UFC fighter, Felipe Arantes and tough journeyman, Felipe Alves.
On December 5, 2009 at the Platinum Fight Brazil 2 fight card, Bezerra fought future Bellator contender, Genair da Silva. He lost the fight via doctor stoppage after the end of round two. After the loss, Bezerra went on a five fight winning streak, where he claimed multiple titles for several promotions, and was named BloodyElbow.com's 2012 #1 Bantamweight prospect, despite never fighting in the division.
The Ultimate Fighter
In March 2012, it was revealed that Bezerra was selected to be a participant on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. Bezerra defeated Dileno Lopes via technical knockout in the first round to move into the Ultimate Fighter house, and become an official cast member.
Bezerra was selected as the first overall pick by Wanderlei Silva, to be a part of Team Wanderlei. In the last quarterfinal fight, Bezerra was selected to fight his close friend and training partner Anistavio Meideiros. Bezerra won the fight via technical submission after applying an armbar to Meideiros, nearly breaking his arm which forced the referee to intervene and stop the fight.
In the semi-final round, Bezerra was matched-up against Hugo Viana from Team Vitor. After three rounds, Bezerra was declared the winner via unanimous decision. The win moved him into the finals set to take place at UFC 147.
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Bezerra officially made his UFC debut at UFC 147 on June 23, 2012 against Godofredo Pepey to determine the Featherweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. He won the fight via unanimous decision.
Bezerra fought Sam Sicilia on October 13, 2012 at UFC 153. After a hard back-and-forth slug fest, Bezerra dropped Sicilia with a big right and finished with hammerfists to earn the second-round TKO stoppage. He won Knockout of the Night honors with his performance.
Bezerra next faced The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes fighter Mike Wilkinson on June 8, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum. He won the fight via submission in the first round.
Bezerra was expected to face Jeremy Stephens on October 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 29. However, Bezerra pulled out of the bout citing an injury (lumbar hernia). The bout eventually took place on November 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 32. Bezerra lost the fight via knockout in the first round.
Bezerra faced Steven Siler on March 23, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 38. He won the fight via a controversial TKO stoppage in the first round. Siler was initially dropped by two punches from Bezerra. Siler, having his back on the mat, immediately threw an up-kick as soon as Bezerra proceeded to walk toward him. At the very same time the referee stepped in to stop the fight as a conscious Siler was attempting to defend himself.
Bezerra faced Robbie Peralta on May 31, 2014 at The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale. He lost the back-and-forth fight via split decision.
Bezerra was expected to face Tom Niinimäki on December 20, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 58. However, Bezerra pulled out of the bout on December 10 and was replaced by promotional newcomer Renato Moicano.
Bezerra faced Damon Jackson on May 30, 2015 at UFC Fight Night 67. He won the fight via triangle choke submission in the first round. The victory also produced a Performance of the Night bonus. On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Bezerra tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, which is a banned diuretic, therefore his submission victory was overturned and he received a nine-month suspension. The UFC rescinded Jason's $50,000 "Performance of the Night" award.
Bezerra faced Dennis Bermudez on August 6, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 92. He lost the fight by unanimous decision.
Bezerra faced Jeremy Kennedy on March 11, 2017 at UFC Fight Night 106. He lost the bout by unanimous decision.
On October 10, 2017, Bezerra was released from UFC roster.
Post-UFC career
After being released from the UFC, Bezerra signed with Lux Fight League. He made his promotional debut against Diego Lopes at Lux 004 on March 15, 2019, losing the fight via unanimous decision.
Bezerra made his sophomore appearance in the promotion against Edgar Díaz Guzman at Lux 005 on July 19, 2019. He won the fight via first-round knockout.
Next Bezerra faced Alexander Grozin at RCC Intro 6 on November 16, 2019. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.
Controversies
On November 9, 2013, after losing to Jeremy Stephens at UFC Fight Night 32: Belfort vs. Henderson, Bezerra punched a hole in a wall at the backstage where he required a dozen stitches and was suspended 30 days from Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA).
In October 2017, two videos were released where Bezerra was seen yelling and striking his sister who was lying on the pavement with multiple bystanders attempting to restrain him.
Championships and awards
Mixed martial arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil Featherweight Tournament Winner
Knockout of the Night (One time)
Performance of the Night (One time - forfeited)
Max Fight
MF Featherweight Championship (One time)
Mixed martial arts record
|-
|Loss
|align=center|15–9 (1)
|Alexander Grozin
|Decision (unanimous)
|RCC Intro 6
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Yekaterinburg, Russia
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|-
|Win
|align=center|15–8 (1)
|Edgar Díaz Guzman
|TKO (punches)
|Lux Fight League 5
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|2:05
|Mexico City, Mexico
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|-
|Loss
|align=center|14–8 (1)
|Diego Lopes
|Decision (unanimous)
|Lux Fight League 4
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Mexico City, Mexico
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|-
|Loss
|align=center|14–7 (1)
|Jeremy Kennedy
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Gastelum
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Fortaleza, Brazil
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|14–6 (1)
|Dennis Bermudez
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC Fight Night: Rodríguez vs. Caceres
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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|-
|NC
|align=center|14–5 (1)
|Damon Jackson
|NC (overturned)
|UFC Fight Night: Condit vs. Alves
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:31
|Goiânia, Brazil
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|14–5
|Robbie Peralta
|Decision (split)
|The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale: Miocic vs. Maldonado
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|São Paulo, Brazil
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|-
|Win
|align=center|14–4
|Steven Siler
|TKO (punches)
|UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Henderson 2
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:17
|Natal, Brazil
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|13–4
| Jeremy Stephens
|KO (head kick)
|UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:40
|Goiânia, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|13–3
| Mike Wilkinson
|Technical Submission (triangle choke)
|UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:24
|Fortaleza, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|12–3
| Sam Sicilia
|TKO (punches)
|UFC 153
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|4:16
|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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|-
|Win
|align=center|11–3
| Godofredo Pepey
|Decision (unanimous)
|UFC 147
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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|-
|Win
|align=center|10–3
| Reginaldo Vieira
|Submission (armbar)
|Max Fight 10
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:25
|São Paulo, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|9–3
| Anderson de Deus
|Submission (arm-triangle choke)
|High Fight Rock 1
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:12
|Goiânia, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|8–3
| Marlon Medeiros
|Submission (triangle choke)
|Max Fight 9
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|3:14
|Campinas, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|7–3
| Diego Ribeiro
|TKO (punches)
|Face to Face 4
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:43
|Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|6–3
| Jurandir Sardinha
|Submission (triangle choke)
|Win Fight & Entertainment 8
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|1:15
|Salvador, Brazil
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|5–3
| Genair da Silva
|TKO (doctor stoppage)
|Platinum Fight Brazil 2
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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|-
|Win
|align=center|5–2
| Felipe Alves
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|Hawk Fight Championship
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:38
|Rio Negrinho, Brazil
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|-
|Win
|align=center|4–2
| Felipe Arantes
|Submission (triangle choke)
|Samurai Fight Combat
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|4:53
|Curitiba, Brazil
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|3–2
| João Paulo Rodrigues
|Submission (stomp)
|Platinum Fight Brazil 1
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|2:30
|Natal, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|3–1
| Renan Falcon
|Submission (armbar)
|Leal Combat MMA
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|Mossoró, Brazil
|
|-
|Loss
|align=center|2–1
| Renan Barão
|Decision (split)
|Cage Fight Nordeste
|
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Natal, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|2–0
| Fernando Gardner
|KO (stomp)
|Hikari Fight
|
|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|Natal, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|1–0
| Alessandro Cabeca
|TKO (punches)
|Nordeste Mega Fight Vale Tudo 2
|
|align=center|2
|align=center|4:15
|Mossoró, Brazil
|
Mixed martial arts exhibition record
|-
|Win
|align=center|3–0
|Hugo Viana
|Decision (unanimous)
|The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil
| (airdate)
|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|São Paulo, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|2–0
|Anistavio Medeiros
|Submission (armbar)
|The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil
| (airdate)
|align=center|1
|align=center|N/A
|São Paulo, Brazil
|
|-
|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Dileno Lopes
|TKO (punches)
|The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil
| (airdate)
|align=center|1
|align=center|0:00
|São Paulo, Brazil
|
|-
See also
List of current UFC fighters
List of male mixed martial artists
List of The Ultimate Fighter winners
References
External links
1984 births
Brazilian male judoka
Brazilian male kickboxers
Brazilian male mixed martial artists
Brazilian practitioners of Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Brazilian sportspeople in doping cases
Brazilian male taekwondo practitioners
Doping cases in mixed martial arts
Mixed martial artists utilizing taekwondo
Mixed martial artists utilizing judo
Mixed martial artists utilizing Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Living people
People awarded a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu
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"Rony Mariano Bezerra (born March 21, 1984), better known as Rony Jason, is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.",
"A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Bezerra was also the Featherweight winner of Globo's The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.",
"His nickname is based on Friday the 13th film character Jason Voorhees; he wears the Voorhees mask on his walk to the Octagon.",
"Background\nBorn and raised in Brazil, Bezerra began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of 16, and was talented, winning various titles.",
"Bezerra has also trained in kickboxing and judo.",
"Bezerra attended law school before dropping out to further pursue a career in professional mixed martial arts.",
"Mixed martial arts career\n\nEarly career\nBezerra made his professional MMA debut in 2006, where he fought Alessandro Cabeca in his professional debut, winning via second-round TKO.",
"At only 2-0, Bezerra took a fight against another up-and-comer, and future UFC Interim Bantamweight Champion, Renan Barão.",
"The fight was very closely contested and ended in a split decision loss for Bezerra.",
"He won his next fight via submission before suffering his second loss to Joao Paulo Rodrigues de Souza.",
"Bezerra bounced back from the loss with first round submission wins over future UFC fighter, Felipe Arantes and tough journeyman, Felipe Alves.",
"On December 5, 2009 at the Platinum Fight Brazil 2 fight card, Bezerra fought future Bellator contender, Genair da Silva.",
"He lost the fight via doctor stoppage after the end of round two.",
"After the loss, Bezerra went on a five fight winning streak, where he claimed multiple titles for several promotions, and was named BloodyElbow.com's 2012 #1 Bantamweight prospect, despite never fighting in the division.",
"The Ultimate Fighter\nIn March 2012, it was revealed that Bezerra was selected to be a participant on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.",
"Bezerra defeated Dileno Lopes via technical knockout in the first round to move into the Ultimate Fighter house, and become an official cast member.",
"Bezerra was selected as the first overall pick by Wanderlei Silva, to be a part of Team Wanderlei.",
"In the last quarterfinal fight, Bezerra was selected to fight his close friend and training partner Anistavio Meideiros.",
"Bezerra won the fight via technical submission after applying an armbar to Meideiros, nearly breaking his arm which forced the referee to intervene and stop the fight.",
"In the semi-final round, Bezerra was matched-up against Hugo Viana from Team Vitor.",
"After three rounds, Bezerra was declared the winner via unanimous decision.",
"The win moved him into the finals set to take place at UFC 147.",
"Ultimate Fighting Championship\nBezerra officially made his UFC debut at UFC 147 on June 23, 2012 against Godofredo Pepey to determine the Featherweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.",
"He won the fight via unanimous decision.",
"Bezerra fought Sam Sicilia on October 13, 2012 at UFC 153.",
"After a hard back-and-forth slug fest, Bezerra dropped Sicilia with a big right and finished with hammerfists to earn the second-round TKO stoppage.",
"He won Knockout of the Night honors with his performance.",
"Bezerra next faced The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes fighter Mike Wilkinson on June 8, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum.",
"He won the fight via submission in the first round.",
"Bezerra was expected to face Jeremy Stephens on October 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 29.",
"However, Bezerra pulled out of the bout citing an injury (lumbar hernia).",
"The bout eventually took place on November 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 32.",
"Bezerra lost the fight via knockout in the first round.",
"Bezerra faced Steven Siler on March 23, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 38.",
"He won the fight via a controversial TKO stoppage in the first round.",
"Siler was initially dropped by two punches from Bezerra.",
"Siler, having his back on the mat, immediately threw an up-kick as soon as Bezerra proceeded to walk toward him.",
"At the very same time the referee stepped in to stop the fight as a conscious Siler was attempting to defend himself.",
"Bezerra faced Robbie Peralta on May 31, 2014 at The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale.",
"He lost the back-and-forth fight via split decision.",
"Bezerra was expected to face Tom Niinimäki on December 20, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 58.",
"However, Bezerra pulled out of the bout on December 10 and was replaced by promotional newcomer Renato Moicano.",
"Bezerra faced Damon Jackson on May 30, 2015 at UFC Fight Night 67.",
"He won the fight via triangle choke submission in the first round.",
"The victory also produced a Performance of the Night bonus.",
"On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Bezerra tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, which is a banned diuretic, therefore his submission victory was overturned and he received a nine-month suspension.",
"The UFC rescinded Jason's $50,000 \"Performance of the Night\" award.",
"Bezerra faced Dennis Bermudez on August 6, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 92.",
"He lost the fight by unanimous decision.",
"Bezerra faced Jeremy Kennedy on March 11, 2017 at UFC Fight Night 106.",
"He lost the bout by unanimous decision.",
"On October 10, 2017, Bezerra was released from UFC roster.",
"Post-UFC career\nAfter being released from the UFC, Bezerra signed with Lux Fight League.",
"He made his promotional debut against Diego Lopes at Lux 004 on March 15, 2019, losing the fight via unanimous decision.",
"Bezerra made his sophomore appearance in the promotion against Edgar Díaz Guzman at Lux 005 on July 19, 2019.",
"He won the fight via first-round knockout.",
"Next Bezerra faced Alexander Grozin at RCC Intro 6 on November 16, 2019.",
"He lost the fight via unanimous decision.",
"Controversies\nOn November 9, 2013, after losing to Jeremy Stephens at UFC Fight Night 32: Belfort vs. Henderson, Bezerra punched a hole in a wall at the backstage where he required a dozen stitches and was suspended 30 days from Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA).",
"In October 2017, two videos were released where Bezerra was seen yelling and striking his sister who was lying on the pavement with multiple bystanders attempting to restrain him."
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"Bezerra was the winner of Globo's The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.",
"His nickname is based on Friday the 13th film character, and he wears a mask on his walk to the Octagon.",
"Born and raised in Brazil, Bezerra began training at the age of 16 and went on to win many titles.",
"Bezerra has trained in martial arts.",
"Bezerra dropped out of law school to pursue a career in mixed martial arts.",
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"The future UFC fighter, Felipe Arantes, was defeated in the first round by Bezerra.",
"Bezerra fought Genair da Silva at the Platinum Fight Brazil 2 fight card.",
"The doctor stopped the fight at the end of round two.",
"After the loss, Bezerra went on a five fight winning streak, where he claimed multiple titles for several promotions.",
"In March of 2012 it was revealed that Bezerra was going to be on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil.",
"Bezerra became an official cast member of the Ultimate Fighter house after defeating Dileno Lopes via technical knockout in the first round.",
"Bezerra was selected as the first overall pick by Wanderlei Silva.",
"Bezerra was selected to fight his training partner in the last quarterfinals.",
"The referee stopped the fight after Bezerra nearly broke his arm with an armbar.",
"Hugo Viana was the opponent for Bezerra in the semi-final round.",
"Bezerra was declared the winner after three rounds.",
"The finals of UFC 147 will take place after the win.",
"The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil winner, Bezerra, made his UFC debut on June 23, 2012 against Godofredo Pepey.",
"He won the fight.",
"On October 13, 2012 Bezerra fought Sam Sicilia.",
"Bezerra dropped Sicilia with a big right in the second round and finished the fight with hammerfists.",
"He was the winner of the knockout of the night.",
"The UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum featured The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes fighter Mike Wilkinson.",
"He won the fight with a submission.",
"Bezerra was scheduled to face Jeremy Stephens at UFC Fight Night 29.",
"Bezerra pulled out of the bout due to an injury.",
"The bout took place at UFC Fight Night 32.",
"Bezerra was knocked out in the first round.",
"Steven Siler faced Bezerra at UFC Fight Night 38.",
"The fight was stopped in the first round.",
"Bezerra dropped Siler with two punches.",
"Siler threw an up-kick when Bezerra walked towards him.",
"The referee stopped the fight at the same time that Siler was trying to defend himself.",
"The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 finale was held on May 31, 2014).",
"He lost the fight by split decision.",
"Bezerra was scheduled to face Tom Niinimki at UFC Fight Night 58.",
"Bezerra pulled out of the bout on December 10 and was replaced by a promotional newcomer.",
"Bezerra faced Jackson at UFC Fight Night 67.",
"He won the fight with a triangle choke submission.",
"The Performance of the Night bonus came from the victory.",
"On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Bezerra tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, which is a banned diuretic, and therefore his submission victory was overturned and he received a nine-month suspension.",
"The \"Performance of the Night\" award was taken away by the UFC.",
"Dennis Bermudez faced Bezerra at UFC Fight Night 92.",
"He was defeated by a unanimous decision.",
"At UFC Fight Night 106, Bezerra faced Jeremy Kennedy.",
"He was defeated by a unanimous decision.",
"Bezerra was released from the UFC.",
"After being released from the UFC, Bezerra signed with a fight league.",
"He was defeated by a unanimous decision in his promotional debut against Diego Lopes.",
"Bezerra made his second appearance in the promotion in July of 2019.",
"He won the fight with a knockout.",
"On November 16, Bezerra faced Alexander Grozin.",
"He lost the fight.",
"The Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission suspended Bezerra for 30 days after he punched a hole in a wall backstage at UFC Fight Night 32: Belfort vs. Henderson.",
"Two videos were released in October of last year where Bezerra was seen yelling and hitting his sister who was lying on the pavement."
] | <mask> (born March 21, 1984), better known as <mask>, is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competed in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Bezerra was also the Featherweight winner of Globo's The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. His nickname is based on Friday the 13th film character <mask>s; he wears the Voorhees mask on his walk to the Octagon. Background
Born and raised in Brazil, Bezerra began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of 16, and was talented, winning various titles. Bezerra has also trained in kickboxing and judo. Bezerra attended law school before dropping out to further pursue a career in professional mixed martial arts. Mixed martial arts career
Early career
Bezerra made his professional MMA debut in 2006, where he fought Alessandro Cabeca in his professional debut, winning via second-round TKO.At only 2-0, Bezerra took a fight against another up-and-comer, and future UFC Interim Bantamweight Champion, Renan Barão. The fight was very closely contested and ended in a split decision loss for Bezerra. He won his next fight via submission before suffering his second loss to Joao Paulo Rodrigues de Souza. Bezerra bounced back from the loss with first round submission wins over future UFC fighter, Felipe Arantes and tough journeyman, Felipe Alves. On December 5, 2009 at the Platinum Fight Brazil 2 fight card, Bezerra fought future Bellator contender, Genair da Silva. He lost the fight via doctor stoppage after the end of round two. After the loss, Bezerra went on a five fight winning streak, where he claimed multiple titles for several promotions, and was named BloodyElbow.com's 2012 #1 Bantamweight prospect, despite never fighting in the division.The Ultimate Fighter
In March 2012, it was revealed that Bezerra was selected to be a participant on The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. Bezerra defeated Dileno Lopes via technical knockout in the first round to move into the Ultimate Fighter house, and become an official cast member. Bezerra was selected as the first overall pick by Wanderlei Silva, to be a part of Team Wanderlei. In the last quarterfinal fight, Bezerra was selected to fight his close friend and training partner Anistavio Meideiros. Bezerra won the fight via technical submission after applying an armbar to Meideiros, nearly breaking his arm which forced the referee to intervene and stop the fight. In the semi-final round, Bezerra was matched-up against Hugo Viana from Team Vitor. After three rounds, Bezerra was declared the winner via unanimous decision.The win moved him into the finals set to take place at UFC 147. Ultimate Fighting Championship
Bezerra officially made his UFC debut at UFC 147 on June 23, 2012 against Godofredo Pepey to determine the Featherweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil. He won the fight via unanimous decision. Bezerra fought Sam Sicilia on October 13, 2012 at UFC 153. After a hard back-and-forth slug fest, Bezerra dropped Sicilia with a big right and finished with hammerfists to earn the second-round TKO stoppage. He won Knockout of the Night honors with his performance. Bezerra next faced The Ultimate Fighter: The Smashes fighter Mike Wilkinson on June 8, 2013 at UFC on Fuel TV: Nogueira vs. Werdum.He won the fight via submission in the first round. Bezerra was expected to face Jeremy Stephens on October 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 29. However, Bezerra pulled out of the bout citing an injury (lumbar hernia). The bout eventually took place on November 9, 2013 at UFC Fight Night 32. Bezerra lost the fight via knockout in the first round. Bezerra faced Steven Siler on March 23, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 38. He won the fight via a controversial TKO stoppage in the first round.Siler was initially dropped by two punches from Bezerra. Siler, having his back on the mat, immediately threw an up-kick as soon as Bezerra proceeded to walk toward him. At the very same time the referee stepped in to stop the fight as a conscious Siler was attempting to defend himself. Bezerra faced Robbie Peralta on May 31, 2014 at The Ultimate Fighter Brazil 3 Finale. He lost the back-and-forth fight via split decision. Bezerra was expected to face Tom Niinimäki on December 20, 2014 at UFC Fight Night 58. However, Bezerra pulled out of the bout on December 10 and was replaced by promotional newcomer Renato Moicano.Bezerra faced Damon Jackson on May 30, 2015 at UFC Fight Night 67. He won the fight via triangle choke submission in the first round. The victory also produced a Performance of the Night bonus. On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Bezerra tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, which is a banned diuretic, therefore his submission victory was overturned and he received a nine-month suspension. The UFC rescinded <mask>'s $50,000 "Performance of the Night" award. Bezerra faced Dennis Bermudez on August 6, 2016 at UFC Fight Night 92. He lost the fight by unanimous decision.Bezerra faced Jeremy Kennedy on March 11, 2017 at UFC Fight Night 106. He lost the bout by unanimous decision. On October 10, 2017, Bezerra was released from UFC roster. Post-UFC career
After being released from the UFC, Bezerra signed with Lux Fight League. He made his promotional debut against Diego Lopes at Lux 004 on March 15, 2019, losing the fight via unanimous decision. Bezerra made his sophomore appearance in the promotion against Edgar Díaz Guzman at Lux 005 on July 19, 2019. He won the fight via first-round knockout.Next Bezerra faced Alexander Grozin at RCC Intro 6 on November 16, 2019. He lost the fight via unanimous decision. Controversies
On November 9, 2013, after losing to Jeremy Stephens at UFC Fight Night 32: Belfort vs. Henderson, Bezerra punched a hole in a wall at the backstage where he required a dozen stitches and was suspended 30 days from Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA). In October 2017, two videos were released where Bezerra was seen yelling and striking his sister who was lying on the pavement with multiple bystanders attempting to restrain him. | [
"Rony Mariano Bezerra",
"Rony Jason",
"Jason Voorhee",
"Jason"
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"Rony Bezerra"
] |
2759801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Fromkin | Victoria Fromkin | Victoria Alexandra Fromkin (; May 16, 1923 – January 19, 2000) was an American linguist who taught at UCLA. She studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors, which she applied to phonology, the study of how the sounds of a language are organized in the mind.
Biography
Fromkin was born in Passaic, New Jersey as Victoria Alexandra Landish on May 16, 1923. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944. She married Jack Fromkin, a childhood friend from Passaic, in 1948, and they settled in Los Angeles, California. She decided to head back to school to study linguistics in her late thirties. She enrolled at UCLA, received her master's in 1963 and her Ph.D in 1965. Her thesis was entitled, "Some phonetic specifications of linguistic units: an electromyographic investigation". That same year, Fromkin joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA.
Her line of research mainly dealt with speech errors and slips of the tongue. She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue, which were analyzed in a number of scholarly publications, notably her 1971 Language article and an edited volume, Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence.
From 1971 to 1975, Fromkin was part of a team of linguistic researchers studying the speech of the "feral child" known as Genie. Genie had spent the first 13 years of her life in severe isolation, and Fromkin and her associates hoped that her case would illuminate the process of language acquisition after the critical period. However, the study ended after rancorous disputes over Genie's care, and the loss of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. Fromkin published several papers about Genie's linguistic development, and her PhD student, Susan Curtiss, wrote a dissertation about Genie's linguistic development under Fromkin's supervision.
In 1974, Fromkin was commissioned by the producers of the children's television series Land of the Lost to create a constructed language for a species of primitive cavemen/primates called the Pakuni. Fromkin developed a 300-word vocabulary and syntax for the series, and translated scripts into her created Pakuni language for the series' first two seasons.
For the action-sci-fi movie Blade (film), Fromkin created another constructed language for the vampires in the film.
She became the first woman in the University of California system to be Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs. She held this position from 1980 to 1989. She was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1985. Fromkin was also chairwoman of the board of governors of the Academy of Aphasia. She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.
Fromkin died at the age of 76 on January 19, 2000 from colon cancer. The Linguistic Society of America established the "Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service" award in her honor in 2001. This award recognizes individuals who have performed extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society throughout their career.
Research
Fromkin contributed to the area of linguistics known as speech errors. She created "Fromkin's Speech Error Database", for which data collection is ongoing.
Fromkin recorded nine different types of speech errors. The following are examples of each:
Lexical:
Target Utterance: A fifty-pound bag of dog food
Error Utterance: A fifty-pound dog of bag food.
Morphological:
Target Utterance: A cameraman who wants to make a report about the horserace.
Error Utterance: A cameraman who WANT to er make a reportage about the horserace who WANTS to make a reportage about the horse race.
Morphosyntactic:
Target Utterance: We began to collect a lot of data to determine what they may mean.
Error Utterance: We began to collect a lot of data to determine what they may MEANT.
Phonological:
Target Utterance: A bread bun
Error Utterance: A BRUN
Phonological/lexical:
Target Utterance: 280 days as compared to
Error Utterance: 280 days as composed to
Phonologic/Morphologic:
Target Utterance: DISTINGUISHED TEACHING award
Error Utterance: DISTEACHING TINGWER award
Phrasal:
Target Utterance: and then they start painting/need t'start painting
Error Utterance: ...and then they START NEED T'...need t'start painting.
Syntactic:
Target Utterance: a university that celebrated its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago
Error Utterance: a university that IS celebratING its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago
Tip-of-the-Tongue:
Target Utterance: Cherokee
Error Utterance: it starts with a "j"
Fromkin theorized that slips of the tongue can occur at many levels including syntactic, phrasal, lexical or semantic, morphological, phonological. She also believed that slips of the tongue could occur as many different process procedures. The different forms were:
Addition: Someone wants to say, "bomb scare" but instead says, "bomb square."
Deletion: Someone wants to say, "I hope you use the same brush every day" but instead says, "I hope you use the rush every day."
Exchange: Wanting to say, "can you sign on the line" but instead says, "cas you nign on the line?"
Substitution: Someone wants to say, "a vote for the guarneri quartet came in" but instead says, "a vote for the guarneri quartAte cAme in."
Fromkin's research helps support the argument that language processing is not modular. The argument for modularity claims that language is localized, domain-specific, mandatory, fast, and encapsulated. Her research on slips of the tongue has demonstrated that when people make slips of the tongue it usually happens on the same level, indicating that each level has a distinct place in the person's brain. Phonemes switch with phonemes, stems with stems, and morphemes switch with other morphemes.
Books
References
Further reading
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Linguists from the United States
Psycholinguists
1923 births
2000 deaths
Women linguists
Linguistic Society of America presidents
20th-century linguists
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
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"Victoria Alexandra Fromkin (; May 16, 1923 – January 19, 2000) was an American linguist who taught at UCLA.",
"She studied slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors, which she applied to phonology, the study of how the sounds of a language are organized in the mind.",
"Biography \nFromkin was born in Passaic, New Jersey as Victoria Alexandra Landish on May 16, 1923.",
"She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944.",
"She married Jack Fromkin, a childhood friend from Passaic, in 1948, and they settled in Los Angeles, California.",
"She decided to head back to school to study linguistics in her late thirties.",
"She enrolled at UCLA, received her master's in 1963 and her Ph.D in 1965.",
"Her thesis was entitled, \"Some phonetic specifications of linguistic units: an electromyographic investigation\".",
"That same year, Fromkin joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA.",
"Her line of research mainly dealt with speech errors and slips of the tongue.",
"She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue, which were analyzed in a number of scholarly publications, notably her 1971 Language article and an edited volume, Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence.",
"From 1971 to 1975, Fromkin was part of a team of linguistic researchers studying the speech of the \"feral child\" known as Genie.",
"Genie had spent the first 13 years of her life in severe isolation, and Fromkin and her associates hoped that her case would illuminate the process of language acquisition after the critical period.",
"However, the study ended after rancorous disputes over Genie's care, and the loss of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health.",
"Fromkin published several papers about Genie's linguistic development, and her PhD student, Susan Curtiss, wrote a dissertation about Genie's linguistic development under Fromkin's supervision.",
"In 1974, Fromkin was commissioned by the producers of the children's television series Land of the Lost to create a constructed language for a species of primitive cavemen/primates called the Pakuni.",
"Fromkin developed a 300-word vocabulary and syntax for the series, and translated scripts into her created Pakuni language for the series' first two seasons.",
"For the action-sci-fi movie Blade (film), Fromkin created another constructed language for the vampires in the film.",
"She became the first woman in the University of California system to be Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs.",
"She held this position from 1980 to 1989.",
"She was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1985.",
"Fromkin was also chairwoman of the board of governors of the Academy of Aphasia.",
"She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1996.",
"Fromkin died at the age of 76 on January 19, 2000 from colon cancer.",
"The Linguistic Society of America established the \"Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service\" award in her honor in 2001.",
"This award recognizes individuals who have performed extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society throughout their career.",
"Research \nFromkin contributed to the area of linguistics known as speech errors.",
"She created \"Fromkin's Speech Error Database\", for which data collection is ongoing.",
"Fromkin recorded nine different types of speech errors.",
"The following are examples of each:\n Lexical:\n Target Utterance: A fifty-pound bag of dog food\n Error Utterance: A fifty-pound dog of bag food.",
"Morphological:\n Target Utterance: A cameraman who wants to make a report about the horserace.",
"Error Utterance: A cameraman who WANT to er make a reportage about the horserace who WANTS to make a reportage about the horse race.",
"Morphosyntactic:\n Target Utterance: We began to collect a lot of data to determine what they may mean.",
"Error Utterance: We began to collect a lot of data to determine what they may MEANT.",
"Phonological:\n Target Utterance: A bread bun\n Error Utterance: A BRUN\n Phonological/lexical:\n Target Utterance: 280 days as compared to\n Error Utterance: 280 days as composed to\n Phonologic/Morphologic:\n Target Utterance: DISTINGUISHED TEACHING award\n Error Utterance: DISTEACHING TINGWER award\n Phrasal:\n Target Utterance: and then they start painting/need t'start painting\n Error Utterance: ...and then they START NEED T'...need t'start painting.",
"Syntactic:\n Target Utterance: a university that celebrated its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago\n Error Utterance: a university that IS celebratING its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago\n Tip-of-the-Tongue:\n Target Utterance: Cherokee\n Error Utterance: it starts with a \"j\"\n \nFromkin theorized that slips of the tongue can occur at many levels including syntactic, phrasal, lexical or semantic, morphological, phonological.",
"She also believed that slips of the tongue could occur as many different process procedures.",
"The different forms were: \n \n Addition: Someone wants to say, \"bomb scare\" but instead says, \"bomb square.\"",
"Deletion: Someone wants to say, \"I hope you use the same brush every day\" but instead says, \"I hope you use the rush every day.\"",
"Exchange: Wanting to say, \"can you sign on the line\" but instead says, \"cas you nign on the line?\"",
"Substitution: Someone wants to say, \"a vote for the guarneri quartet came in\" but instead says, \"a vote for the guarneri quartAte cAme in.\"",
"Fromkin's research helps support the argument that language processing is not modular.",
"The argument for modularity claims that language is localized, domain-specific, mandatory, fast, and encapsulated.",
"Her research on slips of the tongue has demonstrated that when people make slips of the tongue it usually happens on the same level, indicating that each level has a distinct place in the person's brain.",
"Phonemes switch with phonemes, stems with stems, and morphemes switch with other morphemes.",
"Books\n\nReferences\n\nFurther reading\n Subscription needed.",
"Linguists from the United States\nPsycholinguists\n1923 births\n2000 deaths\nWomen linguists\nLinguistic Society of America presidents\n20th-century linguists\nUniversity of California, Berkeley alumni\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles alumni\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles faculty"
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"She applied the study of slips of the tongue, mishearing, and other speech errors to the study of how the sounds of a language are organized in the mind.",
"On May 16, 1923, Fromkin was born in Passaic, New Jersey.",
"She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in economics.",
"She married Jack Fromkin, a childhood friend from Passaic, in 1948, and they settled in Los Angeles, California.",
"She decided to go back to school to study linguistics.",
"She received her master's and PhD from UCLA.",
"Her thesis was about some phonetic specifications of linguistic units.",
"Fromkin joined the linguistics department at UCLA.",
"Speech errors and slips of the tongue were dealt with in her research.",
"She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue, which were analyzed in a number of scholarly publications, notably her 1971 Language article and an edited volume, Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence.",
"From 1971 to 1975, Fromkin was part of a linguistic research team that studied the speech of the \"feral child\".",
"Fromkin and her associates hoped that Genie's case would illuminate the process of language acquisition after 13 years of isolation.",
"The study ended after rancorous disputes over Genie's care and the loss of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health.",
"Fromkin published several papers about Genie's linguistic development and her PhD student wrote a thesis about her.",
"The producers of the children's television series Land of the Lost commissioned Fromkin to create a constructed language for a group of primitive cavemen.",
"For the first two seasons of the series, Fromkin created a new language for the series.",
"Fromkin created a language for the vampire in the film.",
"She is the first woman to hold the position of Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs in the University of California system.",
"She was in this position from 1980 to 1989.",
"In 1985 she was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America.",
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"On January 19, 2000 Fromkin died from colon cancer.",
"The Victoria A. Fromkin prize was established by the Linguistic Society of America.",
"Individuals who have performed extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society throughout their career are honored with this award.",
"Speech errors are caused by research from Fromkin.",
"Data collection is ongoing after she created \"Fromkin's Speech Error Database\".",
"Speech errors were recorded by Fromkin.",
"There are examples of each of the following.",
"A cameraman wants to report on the horse race.",
"The cameraman who wants to make a report about the horse race is the same cameraman who wants to make a report about the horse race.",
"We began to collect a lot of data to figure out what they mean.",
"We began to collect a lot of data to figure out what they mean.",
"A bread bun Error Utterance: A BRUN Phonological/lexical: Target Utterance: 280 days as compared to Error Utterance.",
"The 50th anniversary of the university was celebrated a couple of years ago.",
"She believed that slips of the tongue could occur in many different procedures.",
"Someone wants to say \"bomb scare\" but instead says \"bomb square.\"",
"Someone wants to say \"I hope you use the same brush every day\" but instead wants to say \"I hope you use the rush every day.\"",
"Wanting to say, \"can you sign on the line?\" but instead say, \"cas you nign on the line?\"",
"Someone wants to say \"a vote for the guarneri quartet came in\" but instead says \"a vote for the guarneri quartAte cAme in.\"",
"The argument that language processing is not modular is supported by Fromkin's research.",
"The argument for modularity claims that language is fast and encapsulated.",
"According to her research, when people make a slip of the tongue, it usually happens on the same level, indicating that each level has a distinct place in the person's brain.",
"Morphemes switch with other Morphemes.",
"You need a subscription for further reading.",
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<mask> was born in Passaic, New Jersey as <mask> on May 16, 1923. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944. She married <mask>, a childhood friend from Passaic, in 1948, and they settled in Los Angeles, California. She decided to head back to school to study linguistics in her late thirties. She enrolled at UCLA, received her master's in 1963 and her Ph.D in 1965.Her thesis was entitled, "Some phonetic specifications of linguistic units: an electromyographic investigation". That same year, <mask> joined the faculty of the linguistics department at UCLA. Her line of research mainly dealt with speech errors and slips of the tongue. She collected more than 12,000 examples of slips of the tongue, which were analyzed in a number of scholarly publications, notably her 1971 Language article and an edited volume, Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence. From 1971 to 1975, <mask> was part of a team of linguistic researchers studying the speech of the "feral child" known as Genie. Genie had spent the first 13 years of her life in severe isolation, and <mask> and her associates hoped that her case would illuminate the process of language acquisition after the critical period. However, the study ended after rancorous disputes over Genie's care, and the loss of funding from the National Institute of Mental Health.<mask> published several papers about Genie's linguistic development, and her PhD student, Susan Curtiss, wrote a dissertation about Genie's linguistic development under <mask>'s supervision. In 1974, <mask> was commissioned by the producers of the children's television series Land of the Lost to create a constructed language for a species of primitive cavemen/primates called the Pakuni. <mask> developed a 300-word vocabulary and syntax for the series, and translated scripts into her created Pakuni language for the series' first two seasons. For the action-sci-fi movie Blade (film), <mask> created another constructed language for the vampires in the film. She became the first woman in the University of California system to be Vice Chancellor of Graduate Programs. She held this position from 1980 to 1989. She was elected President of the Linguistic Society of America in 1985.<mask> was also chairwoman of the board of governors of the Academy of Aphasia. She was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1996. <mask> died at the age of 76 on January 19, 2000 from colon cancer. The Linguistic Society of America established the "Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for Distinguished Service" award in her honor in 2001. This award recognizes individuals who have performed extraordinary service to the discipline and to the Society throughout their career. Research
<mask> contributed to the area of linguistics known as speech errors. She created "Fromkin's Speech Error Database", for which data collection is ongoing.Fromkin recorded nine different types of speech errors. The following are examples of each:
Lexical:
Target Utterance: A fifty-pound bag of dog food
Error Utterance: A fifty-pound dog of bag food. Morphological:
Target Utterance: A cameraman who wants to make a report about the horserace. Error Utterance: A cameraman who WANT to er make a reportage about the horserace who WANTS to make a reportage about the horse race. Morphosyntactic:
Target Utterance: We began to collect a lot of data to determine what they may mean. Error Utterance: We began to collect a lot of data to determine what they may MEANT. Phonological:
Target Utterance: A bread bun
Error Utterance: A BRUN
Phonological/lexical:
Target Utterance: 280 days as compared to
Error Utterance: 280 days as composed to
Phonologic/Morphologic:
Target Utterance: DISTINGUISHED TEACHING award
Error Utterance: DISTEACHING TINGWER award
Phrasal:
Target Utterance: and then they start painting/need t'start painting
Error Utterance: ...and then they START NEED T'...need t'start painting.Syntactic:
Target Utterance: a university that celebrated its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago
Error Utterance: a university that IS celebratING its 50th anniversary a couple of years ago
Tip-of-the-Tongue:
Target Utterance: Cherokee
Error Utterance: it starts with a "j"
<mask> theorized that slips of the tongue can occur at many levels including syntactic, phrasal, lexical or semantic, morphological, phonological. She also believed that slips of the tongue could occur as many different process procedures. The different forms were:
Addition: Someone wants to say, "bomb scare" but instead says, "bomb square." Deletion: Someone wants to say, "I hope you use the same brush every day" but instead says, "I hope you use the rush every day." Exchange: Wanting to say, "can you sign on the line" but instead says, "cas you nign on the line?" Substitution: Someone wants to say, "a vote for the guarneri quartet came in" but instead says, "a vote for the guarneri quartAte cAme in." <mask>'s research helps support the argument that language processing is not modular.The argument for modularity claims that language is localized, domain-specific, mandatory, fast, and encapsulated. Her research on slips of the tongue has demonstrated that when people make slips of the tongue it usually happens on the same level, indicating that each level has a distinct place in the person's brain. Phonemes switch with phonemes, stems with stems, and morphemes switch with other morphemes. Books
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41147108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikayil%20Jabbarov | Mikayil Jabbarov | Mikayil Chingiz ogly Jabbarov ( born September 19, 1976) is the current Minister of Economу of the Republic of Azerbaijan (since October 23, 2019), Minister of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2017–2019), Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2013–2017), Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2009–2013), Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2004–2009). President of the Azerbaijan Badminton Federation (2015–2021), President of the Azerbaijan Fencing Federation (2017–2021), President of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation (since 2021).
Life
Mikayil Jabbarov was born on September 19, 1976 in Baku.
Education
1992–1997 – Studied at Baku State University, graduated from the International Law Department with distinction.
1997–1998 – Obtained an LL.M degree from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (Sacramento, California, US).
2004 – Obtained a Master degree in Economics from Azerbaijan State Economic University.
Career
1995 – Started career in the banking sector.
Since 1999 – Member of the New York State Bar Association.
1999–2002 – Lawyer in the private sector.
2002–2003 – Counselor to the Minister, the Ministry of Economic Development.
2003–2004 – President of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO).
February 20, 2004 – appointed as Deputy Minister of Economic Development by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan Republic. Responsible for coordination of activities related to cooperation with international financial institutions, external economic relations, foreign investment policy, legal issues at international arbitrage, and corporate governance.
March 6, 2009 – appointed as Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
April 19, 2013 – appointed Minister of Education by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
June 16, 2017 – appointed as Co-Chair of Azerbaijan-Israel Joint Commission by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
December 5, 2017 – appointed as Minister of Taxes by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
March 17, 2018 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
March 17, 2018 – March 2, 2020 – served as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission to promote economic cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
October 10, 2018 – promoted to the special rank of 3rd class State Tax Service Adviser by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
February 9, 2019 – promoted to the special rank of 2nd class State Tax Service Adviser by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
October 23, 2019 – appointed as Minister of Economy by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
December 4, 2019 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
March 2, 2020 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Swiss Federal Council by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
March 2, 2020 – appointed as Deputy Co-Chair of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia on Economic Cooperation by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
January 4, 2021 – appointed as a member of Supervisory Board of the «Karabakh Revival Fund» by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
January 23, 2021 – appointed as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Social activity
1994–1997 – President of the "Atashgakh" Intellectual Games Club.
1996–1997 – Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Youth Organizations Forum.
1996–1997 – Winner of the CIS championship in the "Brain ring" intellectual game.
1997 – First Azerbaijani player of the TV intellectual game "What? Where? When?" held in Moscow, participated at the Final of 1997 Summer Series. A regular participant of Baku TV club "What? Where? When?". Winner of the 5th-anniversary club games.
2002 – World Champion of "Brain Ring" intellectual game and champion of the national championship of "What? Where? When?".
2009 – Awarded honorary citizenship of Tbilisi (Georgia).
2015–2021 – President of the Azerbaijan Badminton Federation.
2017–2021 – President of the Azerbaijan Fencing Federation.
2021 – Mentor of the winner of nationwide competition "Yüksəliş" Ziya Mursalzadeh.
2021 – elected as President of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation.
Work in the "Icherisheher" State Historical-Architectural Reserve Administration
In June 2009 – "Icherisheher" (the Old City of Baku) was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger according to the decision of the 33rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
February 10, 2010 – The Palace of the Shirvanshahs (State Historical-Architectural Reserve) was handed over to the Administration's structure by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
November 8, 2010 – Approval of the "General Detailed Conservation Master Plan of the Historical Center of Baku" by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.
2010–2012 – Following steps are taken to restore the historical and cultural monuments of national and international importance:
– Restoration and conservation work carried out at the Small Caravanserai (a medieval monument);
– Complete restoration of the Muhammad's Mosque, an architectural monument of international importance;
– Repair and restoration work of Siratagli religious and architectural complex (known as Market Square);
– A major part of the Fortress Wall was restored, the adjacent area was cleared;
– A 15th century tower, demolished in the early 20th century, identified and completely restored.
August 19, 2011 – Baku Marionette Theater was reassigned to the Administration by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.
October 13, 2011 – Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the establishment of the Historic House Museum of Tahir Salahov, a famous artist, was issued.
December 22, 2011 – The State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Gala" was handed over to the Administration's structure by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:
– The Reserve's borders were approved by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers;
– The Reserve's infrastructure and facilities were improved to provide visitors with better services.
2012 – The "Icherisheher" Traditional Arts Center was established in cooperation with the Prince's School of Traditional Arts (UK).
2012 – Restoration and research work at the Maiden Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 75% of the facade surface was conserved.
2009–2013 – A master plan for development of Icheri Sheher was adopted and the automatic system of controlling vehicle access to Icheri Sheher was introduced. The Administration became a benchmark for other countries, whose UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat.
Work in the Ministry of Education
Preschool and general education
2013–2017 – For five years, Azerbaijani school students won 109 awards at the international Olympiads, including 3 gold, 21 silver, and 85 bronze medals.
2013–2018 – E-admission of students to all Baku primary schools launched.
2014 – “Healthy School – Healthy Nation” project was launched to ensure the development and well-being of the school-age children.
2014–2017 – Up to 140 000 teachers tested via diagnostic assessment.
2015 – New rules applied to provide transparency of the nation-wide school subject Olympiads.
2016 – Azerbaijan advanced in PIRLS international assessment results (462 to 472), with the twofold increase of students in the "Advanced" and "High" categories.
2016 – “Friend of School Child” pilot project launched jointly by the Ministry of Education and the State Agency under the President of Azerbaijan for Public Service and Social Innovations. The main goal of the project is to ensure complete safety in schools and to establish closer contact between schoolchildren, teachers, and parents.
2016–2017 – State-funded preschool education was launched to provide a school readiness program for 5-year-old children.
2016–2017 – Construction of modular schools in remote regions increased. In 2017, 100 modular-type schools were built to accommodate 5,000 students in 40 districts of Azerbaijan.
TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training)
April 20, 2016 – The State Vocational Education Agency was established under the Ministry of Education by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan.
2016 – The STEP IT Academy established on the basis of the Baku Vocational Lyceum No 9.
2017 – Implementation of the "Strategic Roadmap for the development of the vocational education and training in the Republic of Azerbaijan" launched.
16 October 2017 – A new building of the Gabala State Vocational Education Center was opened.
Higher education
May 12, 2014 – The Ministers of Education of France and Azerbaijan signed a Letter of intent focusing on cooperation between universities in order to strengthen educational ties between France and Azerbaijan. As a result, the University of Strasbourg and the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University jointly establish the French-Azerbaijani University UFAZ.
2014–2015 – SABAH groups on 34 specialties were established in 7 public institutions.
December 14, 2015 – The First Forum of Azerbaijani Student Volunteers was held.
December 22, 2015 – The Ministry of Education signed the partnership agreement with the IP and Science Division of Thomson Reuters, the leading global supplier of analytical information for businesses and professionals. As a result, Azerbaijan's 40 institutions of higher education gained full access to the Web of Science platform.
2015 – On the initiative of the Ministry of Education, the Maarifchi Student Credit Fund was created to provide soft loans to students from low-income families and promote equal access to education.
2015 – Baku branch of the I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University was inaugurated.
2016 – E-portal https://transfer.edu.az was launched to provide simplified and transparent transferring students between higher education institutions within the country and abroad, or transferring students from one faculty to another.
2016 – The first Big Data, Data Sciences Instruction and Research Centre in Azerbaijan, opened at the ADA University. The Centre established with the financial support of BP, will also result in the commencement of a new Master's Degree program in Big Data Analytics and Data Sciences to help meet the needs for data scientists and big data analysts.
2017 – The first graduation ceremony of SABAH groups’ students was held.
Work at the Ministry of Taxes
February 13, 2018 – The conference on "Taxes. Transparency. Development" was held in Baku to discuss further reforms for the sake of creation of transparent and attractive tax system in the country.
April 17, 2018 – Kick-off meeting of the twinning project "Supporting to the Taxes Ministry in Setting Transfer Prices and Developing Counter Measures against Tax Evasion".
May 2, 2018 – Department on control over import and export operations under the Ministry of Taxes was established.
In 2018, a set of measures was implemented to reorganize the principles of tax governance, to improve tax administration, to ensure transparency, to increase mutual trust between taxpayers and tax authorities.
December 20, 2018 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Law "On Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan".
As of January 1, 2019, amendments to the Tax Code covering five main directions (support of entrepreneurship, reduction of shadow economy and tax evasion, expansion of taxation base, use of tax incentives and modernization of tax administration) came into force.
January 1, 2019 – Simplified state registration of legal entities with one procedure in 20 minutes was launched.
February 23, 2019 – An electronic service for taxpayers to receive information about the temporary ban on leaving the country was launched.
March 4, 2019 – Tax reforms and recent amendments to the Tax Code were presented to representatives of diplomatic corps.
May 3, 2019 – The Institute of Tax Ombudsman established in Azerbaijan.
2019 – New generation of cash registers introduced in Azerbaijan.
2019 – Strengthening tax discipline at tobacco and alcohol production through establishing special excise posts at plants. As a result, transparency in the production process and declaration of excise revenues were increased.
July 19, 2019 – A pilot project was launched to increase the level of accounting, the reliability and transparency of reports in agriculture sector.
For 5 months of 2019, share of turnover with e-invoice in non-oil sector was significantly increased in comparison with the same period of the last year.
July 24, 2019 – Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on approval of the structure of the Ministry of Taxes.
January–June 2019 – Positive results were achieved in the field of tax revenues, transparency and legalization of the labour market. Collection of taxes from non-oil sector was significantly increased.
December 25, 2019 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Law "On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and signed the decree on its execution.
Work at the Ministry of Economy
November 20, 2019 – Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov was elected as Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Tax Services of the CIS Member States.
December 6, 2019 – The International Conference dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of signing the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor and the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) TRACECA was held in Baku.
December 6, 2019 – The Republic of Azerbaijan officially assumed the chairmanship in the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA.
December 9, 2019 – The opening of an Azerbaijani-Russian joint venture on production of medicines “R-Farm” at the Pirallahi Industrial Park.
December 9, 2019 – The foundation of two new plants in cooperation with Russian investors were laid in Hajigabul Industrial Estate. First one was specialized on production of commercial and special vehicles, second one – on manufacturing Penoplex insulation materials.
December 9, 2019 – The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation signed a Protocol of Intent on Economic Cooperation.
December 10, 2019 – The First Forum of Young Entrepreneurs took place in Baku.
December 17, 2019 – Ukraine Trading House was opened in Baku.
February 3, 2020 – A conference dedicated to the results of the first-year implementation of "The State Programme on socio-economic development of the regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2019–2023" was held.
February 7, 2020 – Azerbaijan's Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has commissioned the first House of SMEs in Khachmaz district.
April 4, 2020 – Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Action Plan to implement the item 10.2 of the Azerbaijani president's order # 1950 dated March 19, 2020" “On a number of measures to reduce the negative impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) and sharp fluctuations as a result of coronavirus in the global energy market and stock market, on the economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, macroeconomic stability, issues of employment in the country and entrepreneurship".
April 6, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the inauguration of medical masks manufactory established by Baku Textile Factory LLC in Sumgait Chemical Industry Park.
April 8, 2020 – The program to compensate entrepreneurs and their employees for the damage caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was launched in accordance with the Action Plan adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in order to reduce the negative impact on business entities due to the coronavirus pandemic.
May 4, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism on partial refund of VAT paid for goods by individual consumers
May 12, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a decree on ensuring the activity of the Ministry of Economy.
June 2, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed the Law "On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and the decree on its execution.
June 30, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for providing entrepreneurs with soft loans according to the Presidential Decree on approval of preferential lending through the Entrepreneurship Development Fund, and the Electronic Credit Platform for this purpose. President Ilham Aliyev approved the procedures of preferential lending from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund as well as amendments to the statute of the Fund.
July 3, 2020 – An additional power to monitor compliance by business entities and their officials with the rules of anti-epidemic, sanitary-hygienic and quarantine regimes was given to the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy in accordance with the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on amendments to the "Regulations of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and "Regulations of the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan".
September 24, 2020 – AzerGold CJSC issued bonds. The Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) held an auction on placement of the first tranche of bonds.
October 19, 2020 – Financial sanctions on entrepreneurs in the frontline regions were completely abolished.
November 19, 2020 – Economic and investment potential of Azerbaijani lands liberated from Armenian occupation was demonstrated at MUSİAD Expo 2020 exhibition in Istanbul.
December 25, 2020 – “ƏDV-ni geri al“ project was announced as “The Most Innovative Project of the Year” within the annual Azerbaijan Innovation Award.
2020 – Concessional lending to entrepreneurs expanded.
February 1, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy and Coca-Cola Bottlers Azerbaijan LLC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a new plant in the country.
February 2, 2021 – Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov met with employees of the Ministry of Economy who took part in the Patriotic War.
February 19, 2021 – Azerbaijan and Turkey signed a protocol and action plan at the 9th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission.
February 27, 2021 – An agreement on the transfer of Azerbaijan's Azerlotereya OJSC to the management of the Turkish Demiroren Holding company was signed.
March 1, 2021 – The United Nations and Azerbaijan signed the Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021–2025.
April 1, 2021 – The Government of Azerbaijan and the World Economic Forum (WEF) signed an agreement on establishing Azerbaijan Affiliate of the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution Network. This is the first Centre of this kind in CIS region.
April 2, 2021 – Azerbaijan and Turkey signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Digital Trade
May 29, 2021 – President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated a new building of the Ministry of Economy.
July 29, 2021 – Azerbaijan has opened Trade and Tourism Representative Offices in Israel which will serve as an important platform for the expansion of economic cooperation, business relations and promotion of business dialogue between Azerbaijan and Israel.
Among the heroes of the 44-day Patriotic War, there are 146 employees of the Ministry of Economy. The Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov holds regular meetings with war veterans.
Controversies
2013–2017 – Comprehensive measures were taken to prevent bribery and corruption in the educational system, but they were not assessed as fully successful. Experts called for more radical measures to be taken, no real proposals were put forward though.
2016 – The idea that "it is not right to assess the students studying within a new educational system through the tests" was met with criticism. This idea was misrepresented to the public as a suggestion to cancel the test exams, while, in fact, the idea implied application of new tools to assess students’ knowledge. With this regard, the State Examination Center released a statement with a similar message, confirming that the new idea does not mean a cancellation of the tests as such.
See also
Cabinet of Azerbaijan
Education in Azerbaijan
External links
References
1976 births
Living people
Government ministers of Azerbaijan
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"Mikayil Chingiz ogly Jabbarov ( born September 19, 1976) is the current Minister of Economу of the Republic of Azerbaijan (since October 23, 2019), Minister of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2017–2019), Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2013–2017), Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2009–2013), Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2004–2009).",
"President of the Azerbaijan Badminton Federation (2015–2021), President of the Azerbaijan Fencing Federation (2017–2021), President of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation (since 2021).",
"Life\n\nMikayil Jabbarov was born on September 19, 1976 in Baku.",
"Education\n\n1992–1997 – Studied at Baku State University, graduated from the International Law Department with distinction.",
"1997–1998 – Obtained an LL.M degree from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (Sacramento, California, US).",
"2004 – Obtained a Master degree in Economics from Azerbaijan State Economic University.",
"Career\n\n1995 – Started career in the banking sector.",
"Since 1999 – Member of the New York State Bar Association.",
"1999–2002 – Lawyer in the private sector.",
"2002–2003 – Counselor to the Minister, the Ministry of Economic Development.",
"2003–2004 – President of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO).",
"February 20, 2004 – appointed as Deputy Minister of Economic Development by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan Republic.",
"Responsible for coordination of activities related to cooperation with international financial institutions, external economic relations, foreign investment policy, legal issues at international arbitrage, and corporate governance.",
"March 6, 2009 – appointed as Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"April 19, 2013 – appointed Minister of Education by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"June 16, 2017 – appointed as Co-Chair of Azerbaijan-Israel Joint Commission by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"December 5, 2017 – appointed as Minister of Taxes by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"March 17, 2018 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"March 17, 2018 – March 2, 2020 – served as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission to promote economic cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Croatia.",
"October 10, 2018 – promoted to the special rank of 3rd class State Tax Service Adviser by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"February 9, 2019 – promoted to the special rank of 2nd class State Tax Service Adviser by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"October 23, 2019 – appointed as Minister of Economy by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"December 4, 2019 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"March 2, 2020 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Swiss Federal Council by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"March 2, 2020 – appointed as Deputy Co-Chair of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia on Economic Cooperation by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"January 4, 2021 – appointed as a member of Supervisory Board of the «Karabakh Revival Fund» by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"January 23, 2021 – appointed as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"Social activity\n\n1994–1997 – President of the \"Atashgakh\" Intellectual Games Club.",
"1996–1997 – Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Youth Organizations Forum.",
"1996–1997 – Winner of the CIS championship in the \"Brain ring\" intellectual game.",
"1997 – First Azerbaijani player of the TV intellectual game \"What?",
"Where?",
"When?\"",
"held in Moscow, participated at the Final of 1997 Summer Series.",
"A regular participant of Baku TV club \"What?",
"Where?",
"When?\".",
"Winner of the 5th-anniversary club games.",
"2002 – World Champion of \"Brain Ring\" intellectual game and champion of the national championship of \"What?",
"Where?",
"When?\".",
"2009 – Awarded honorary citizenship of Tbilisi (Georgia).",
"2015–2021 – President of the Azerbaijan Badminton Federation.",
"2017–2021 – President of the Azerbaijan Fencing Federation.",
"2021 – Mentor of the winner of nationwide competition \"Yüksəliş\" Ziya Mursalzadeh.",
"2021 – elected as President of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation.",
"Work in the \"Icherisheher\" State Historical-Architectural Reserve Administration\n\nIn June 2009 – \"Icherisheher\" (the Old City of Baku) was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger according to the decision of the 33rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.",
"February 10, 2010 – The Palace of the Shirvanshahs (State Historical-Architectural Reserve) was handed over to the Administration's structure by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"November 8, 2010 – Approval of the \"General Detailed Conservation Master Plan of the Historical Center of Baku\" by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.",
"2010–2012 – Following steps are taken to restore the historical and cultural monuments of national and international importance:\n\n– Restoration and conservation work carried out at the Small Caravanserai (a medieval monument);\n\n– Complete restoration of the Muhammad's Mosque, an architectural monument of international importance;\n\n– Repair and restoration work of Siratagli religious and architectural complex (known as Market Square);\n\n– A major part of the Fortress Wall was restored, the adjacent area was cleared;\n\n– A 15th century tower, demolished in the early 20th century, identified and completely restored.",
"August 19, 2011 – Baku Marionette Theater was reassigned to the Administration by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.",
"October 13, 2011 – Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the establishment of the Historic House Museum of Tahir Salahov, a famous artist, was issued.",
"December 22, 2011 – The State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve \"Gala\" was handed over to the Administration's structure by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:\n\n– The Reserve's borders were approved by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers;\n\n– The Reserve's infrastructure and facilities were improved to provide visitors with better services.",
"2012 – The \"Icherisheher\" Traditional Arts Center was established in cooperation with the Prince's School of Traditional Arts (UK).",
"2012 – Restoration and research work at the Maiden Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.",
"75% of the facade surface was conserved.",
"2009–2013 – A master plan for development of Icheri Sheher was adopted and the automatic system of controlling vehicle access to Icheri Sheher was introduced.",
"The Administration became a benchmark for other countries, whose UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat.",
"Work in the Ministry of Education\n\nPreschool and general education\n2013–2017 – For five years, Azerbaijani school students won 109 awards at the international Olympiads, including 3 gold, 21 silver, and 85 bronze medals.",
"2013–2018 – E-admission of students to all Baku primary schools launched.",
"2014 – “Healthy School – Healthy Nation” project was launched to ensure the development and well-being of the school-age children.",
"2014–2017 – Up to 140 000 teachers tested via diagnostic assessment.",
"2015 – New rules applied to provide transparency of the nation-wide school subject Olympiads.",
"2016 – Azerbaijan advanced in PIRLS international assessment results (462 to 472), with the twofold increase of students in the \"Advanced\" and \"High\" categories.",
"2016 – “Friend of School Child” pilot project launched jointly by the Ministry of Education and the State Agency under the President of Azerbaijan for Public Service and Social Innovations.",
"The main goal of the project is to ensure complete safety in schools and to establish closer contact between schoolchildren, teachers, and parents.",
"2016–2017 – State-funded preschool education was launched to provide a school readiness program for 5-year-old children.",
"2016–2017 – Construction of modular schools in remote regions increased.",
"In 2017, 100 modular-type schools were built to accommodate 5,000 students in 40 districts of Azerbaijan.",
"TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training)\n\nApril 20, 2016 – The State Vocational Education Agency was established under the Ministry of Education by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan.",
"2016 – The STEP IT Academy established on the basis of the Baku Vocational Lyceum No 9.",
"2017 – Implementation of the \"Strategic Roadmap for the development of the vocational education and training in the Republic of Azerbaijan\" launched.",
"16 October 2017 – A new building of the Gabala State Vocational Education Center was opened.",
"Higher education\n\nMay 12, 2014 – The Ministers of Education of France and Azerbaijan signed a Letter of intent focusing on cooperation between universities in order to strengthen educational ties between France and Azerbaijan.",
"As a result, the University of Strasbourg and the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University jointly establish the French-Azerbaijani University UFAZ.",
"2014–2015 – SABAH groups on 34 specialties were established in 7 public institutions.",
"December 14, 2015 – The First Forum of Azerbaijani Student Volunteers was held.",
"December 22, 2015 – The Ministry of Education signed the partnership agreement with the IP and Science Division of Thomson Reuters, the leading global supplier of analytical information for businesses and professionals.",
"As a result, Azerbaijan's 40 institutions of higher education gained full access to the Web of Science platform.",
"2015 – On the initiative of the Ministry of Education, the Maarifchi Student Credit Fund was created to provide soft loans to students from low-income families and promote equal access to education.",
"2015 – Baku branch of the I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University was inaugurated.",
"2016 – E-portal https://transfer.edu.az was launched to provide simplified and transparent transferring students between higher education institutions within the country and abroad, or transferring students from one faculty to another.",
"2016 – The first Big Data, Data Sciences Instruction and Research Centre in Azerbaijan, opened at the ADA University.",
"The Centre established with the financial support of BP, will also result in the commencement of a new Master's Degree program in Big Data Analytics and Data Sciences to help meet the needs for data scientists and big data analysts.",
"2017 – The first graduation ceremony of SABAH groups’ students was held.",
"Work at the Ministry of Taxes\n\nFebruary 13, 2018 – The conference on \"Taxes.",
"Transparency.",
"Development\" was held in Baku to discuss further reforms for the sake of creation of transparent and attractive tax system in the country.",
"April 17, 2018 – Kick-off meeting of the twinning project \"Supporting to the Taxes Ministry in Setting Transfer Prices and Developing Counter Measures against Tax Evasion\".",
"May 2, 2018 – Department on control over import and export operations under the Ministry of Taxes was established.",
"In 2018, a set of measures was implemented to reorganize the principles of tax governance, to improve tax administration, to ensure transparency, to increase mutual trust between taxpayers and tax authorities.",
"December 20, 2018 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Law \"On Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan\".",
"As of January 1, 2019, amendments to the Tax Code covering five main directions (support of entrepreneurship, reduction of shadow economy and tax evasion, expansion of taxation base, use of tax incentives and modernization of tax administration) came into force.",
"January 1, 2019 – Simplified state registration of legal entities with one procedure in 20 minutes was launched.",
"February 23, 2019 – An electronic service for taxpayers to receive information about the temporary ban on leaving the country was launched.",
"March 4, 2019 – Tax reforms and recent amendments to the Tax Code were presented to representatives of diplomatic corps.",
"May 3, 2019 – The Institute of Tax Ombudsman established in Azerbaijan.",
"2019 – New generation of cash registers introduced in Azerbaijan.",
"2019 – Strengthening tax discipline at tobacco and alcohol production through establishing special excise posts at plants.",
"As a result, transparency in the production process and declaration of excise revenues were increased.",
"July 19, 2019 – A pilot project was launched to increase the level of accounting, the reliability and transparency of reports in agriculture sector.",
"For 5 months of 2019, share of turnover with e-invoice in non-oil sector was significantly increased in comparison with the same period of the last year.",
"July 24, 2019 – Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on approval of the structure of the Ministry of Taxes.",
"January–June 2019 – Positive results were achieved in the field of tax revenues, transparency and legalization of the labour market.",
"Collection of taxes from non-oil sector was significantly increased.",
"December 25, 2019 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Law \"On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" and signed the decree on its execution.",
"Work at the Ministry of Economy \n\nNovember 20, 2019 – Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov was elected as Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Tax Services of the CIS Member States.",
"December 6, 2019 – The International Conference dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of signing the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor and the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) TRACECA was held in Baku.",
"December 6, 2019 – The Republic of Azerbaijan officially assumed the chairmanship in the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA.",
"December 9, 2019 – The opening of an Azerbaijani-Russian joint venture on production of medicines “R-Farm” at the Pirallahi Industrial Park.",
"December 9, 2019 – The foundation of two new plants in cooperation with Russian investors were laid in Hajigabul Industrial Estate.",
"First one was specialized on production of commercial and special vehicles, second one – on manufacturing Penoplex insulation materials.",
"December 9, 2019 – The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation signed a Protocol of Intent on Economic Cooperation.",
"December 10, 2019 – The First Forum of Young Entrepreneurs took place in Baku.",
"December 17, 2019 – Ukraine Trading House was opened in Baku.",
"February 3, 2020 – A conference dedicated to the results of the first-year implementation of \"The State Programme on socio-economic development of the regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2019–2023\" was held.",
"February 7, 2020 – Azerbaijan's Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has commissioned the first House of SMEs in Khachmaz district.",
"April 4, 2020 – Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Action Plan to implement the item 10.2 of the Azerbaijani president's order # 1950 dated March 19, 2020\" “On a number of measures to reduce the negative impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) and sharp fluctuations as a result of coronavirus in the global energy market and stock market, on the economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, macroeconomic stability, issues of employment in the country and entrepreneurship\".",
"April 6, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the inauguration of medical masks manufactory established by Baku Textile Factory LLC in Sumgait Chemical Industry Park.",
"April 8, 2020 – The program to compensate entrepreneurs and their employees for the damage caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was launched in accordance with the Action Plan adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in order to reduce the negative impact on business entities due to the coronavirus pandemic.",
"May 4, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism on partial refund of VAT paid for goods by individual consumers \n\nMay 12, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a decree on ensuring the activity of the Ministry of Economy.",
"June 2, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed the Law \"On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" and the decree on its execution.",
"June 30, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for providing entrepreneurs with soft loans according to the Presidential Decree on approval of preferential lending through the Entrepreneurship Development Fund, and the Electronic Credit Platform for this purpose.",
"President Ilham Aliyev approved the procedures of preferential lending from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund as well as amendments to the statute of the Fund.",
"July 3, 2020 – An additional power to monitor compliance by business entities and their officials with the rules of anti-epidemic, sanitary-hygienic and quarantine regimes was given to the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy in accordance with the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on amendments to the \"Regulations of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" and \"Regulations of the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan\".",
"September 24, 2020 – AzerGold CJSC issued bonds.",
"The Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) held an auction on placement of the first tranche of bonds.",
"October 19, 2020 – Financial sanctions on entrepreneurs in the frontline regions were completely abolished.",
"November 19, 2020 – Economic and investment potential of Azerbaijani lands liberated from Armenian occupation was demonstrated at MUSİAD Expo 2020 exhibition in Istanbul.",
"December 25, 2020 – “ƏDV-ni geri al“ project was announced as “The Most Innovative Project of the Year” within the annual Azerbaijan Innovation Award.",
"2020 – Concessional lending to entrepreneurs expanded.",
"February 1, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy and Coca-Cola Bottlers Azerbaijan LLC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a new plant in the country.",
"February 2, 2021 – Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov met with employees of the Ministry of Economy who took part in the Patriotic War.",
"February 19, 2021 – Azerbaijan and Turkey signed a protocol and action plan at the 9th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission.",
"February 27, 2021 – An agreement on the transfer of Azerbaijan's Azerlotereya OJSC to the management of the Turkish Demiroren Holding company was signed.",
"March 1, 2021 – The United Nations and Azerbaijan signed the Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021–2025.",
"April 1, 2021 – The Government of Azerbaijan and the World Economic Forum (WEF) signed an agreement on establishing Azerbaijan Affiliate of the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution Network.",
"This is the first Centre of this kind in CIS region.",
"April 2, 2021 – Azerbaijan and Turkey signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Digital Trade \n\nMay 29, 2021 – President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated a new building of the Ministry of Economy.",
"July 29, 2021 – Azerbaijan has opened Trade and Tourism Representative Offices in Israel which will serve as an important platform for the expansion of economic cooperation, business relations and promotion of business dialogue between Azerbaijan and Israel.",
"Among the heroes of the 44-day Patriotic War, there are 146 employees of the Ministry of Economy.",
"The Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov holds regular meetings with war veterans.",
"Controversies\n\n2013–2017 – Comprehensive measures were taken to prevent bribery and corruption in the educational system, but they were not assessed as fully successful.",
"Experts called for more radical measures to be taken, no real proposals were put forward though.",
"2016 – The idea that \"it is not right to assess the students studying within a new educational system through the tests\" was met with criticism.",
"This idea was misrepresented to the public as a suggestion to cancel the test exams, while, in fact, the idea implied application of new tools to assess students’ knowledge.",
"With this regard, the State Examination Center released a statement with a similar message, confirming that the new idea does not mean a cancellation of the tests as such.",
"See also\nCabinet of Azerbaijan\nEducation in Azerbaijan\n\nExternal links\n\nReferences \n\n1976 births\nLiving people\nGovernment ministers of Azerbaijan\nBaku State University alumni\nAzerbaijan State University of Economics alumni\nUniversity of the Pacific (United States) alumni\nPoliticians from Baku"
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"The current Minister of Econom of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been there since October 23, 2019.",
"President of the Badminton Federation, President of the Fencing Federation, and President of the Wrestling Federation.",
"Life Mikayil Jabbarov was born in 1976.",
"He graduated from the International Law Department with distinction.",
"An LL.M degree was obtained from the University of the Pacific.",
"A master's degree in economics was obtained in 2004.",
"Career began in the banking sector.",
"Member of the New York State Bar Association since 1999.",
"Lawyer in the private sector from 1999 to 2002.",
"The Ministry of Economic Development had a counselor.",
"The president of the foundation was from 2003 to 2004.",
"February 20, 2004 was the day when the deputy minister of economic development was appointed.",
"Responsibilities include coordination of activities related to cooperation with international financial institutions, external economic relations, foreign investment policy, legal issues at international arbitrage, and corporate governance.",
"The Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve was appointed on March 6, 2009.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the Minister of Education.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the co-chair of the commission.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the Minister of Taxes.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.",
"The Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan formed the Joint Commission to promote economic cooperation.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan promoted to the special rank of 3rd class State Tax Service Adviser.",
"The rank of 2nd class State Tax Service Adviser was promoted by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the Minister of Economy on October 23, 2019.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation.",
"March 2, 2020 was appointed as the co-chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Swiss Federal Council.",
"March 2, 2020 was appointed as the deputy co-chair of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan made a decree on January 4, 2021.",
"The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan was appointed on January 23, 2021.",
"President of the Intellectual Games Club from 1994 to 1997.",
"The deputy chairman was from 1996 to 1997.",
"The winner of the \"Brain ring\" intellectual game was from 1996 to 1997.",
"The first player of the TV intellectual game was from Azerbaijan.",
"Where?",
"When?",
"The Final of 1997 Summer Series was held in Moscow.",
"A regular participant in the club.",
"Where?",
"When?",
"The winner of the club games.",
"The champion of the national championship of \"What?\" was the world champion of the \"Brain Ring\" intellectual game.",
"Where?",
"When?",
"The Georgian city of Tbilisi was awarded an \"honorary citizenship\" in 2009.",
"The President of the Badminton Federation is from 2015 to 2021.",
"The president of the fencing federation is elected every two years.",
"The winner of the nationwide \"Yksli\" competition will be a mentor in 2021.",
"The President of the Wrestling Federation will be elected in 2021.",
"According to the decision of the 33rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, work in the \"Icherisheher\" State Historical-Architectural Reserve Administration was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger.",
"The Palace of the Shirvanshahs was handed over to the Administration by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"The \"General Detailed Conservation Master Plan of the Historical Center of Baku\" was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.",
"The Muhammad's Mosque, an architectural monument of international importance, was restored after steps were taken to restore the historical and cultural monuments of national and international importance.",
"The Cabinet of Ministers decided to assign the theater to the Administration.",
"The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan issued a decree on the establishment of the Historic House Museum.",
"The State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve \"Gala\" was handed over to the Administration's structure by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"The \"Icherisheher\" Traditional Arts Center was established in partnership with the Prince's School of Traditional Arts.",
"The Maiden Tower is a UNESCO World Heritage site.",
"75% of the facade surface was not damaged.",
"The master plan for development of Icheri Sheher was adopted and the automatic system of controlling vehicle access was introduced.",
"UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat and the Administration became a benchmark for other countries.",
"3 gold, 21 silver, and 85 bronze medals were won by Azerbaijani school students at the international Olympiads for five years.",
"E-admission of students to all primary schools was launched.",
"The project was launched to ensure the development and well-being of the school-age children.",
"Up to 140 000 teachers were tested.",
"New rules were put in place to give transparency to the nation-wide school subject Olympiads.",
"There was a twofold increase of students in the \"Advanced\" and \"High\" categories.",
"The \"Friend of School Child\" pilot project was launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Education and the State Agency.",
"Ensuring complete safety in schools is one of the main goals of the project.",
"State-funded preschool education was launched to provide a school readiness program for 5-year-old children.",
"The construction of modular schools increased.",
"In the year of 2017, 100 modular-type schools were built to accommodate 5,000 students.",
"The State Vocational Education Agency was established under the Ministry of Education.",
"The STEP IT Academy was established on the basis of a school.",
"The strategic plan for the development of the Vocational education and training in the Republic of Azerbaijan was launched.",
"The Gabala State Vocational Education Center has a new building.",
"The Ministers of Education of France and Azerbaijan signed a Letter of Intent to strengthen educational ties between the two countries.",
"The University of Strasbourg and the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University collaborated to establish the French-Azerbaijani University.",
"SABAH groups on 34 specialties were established in 7 public institutions.",
"The first forum of student volunteers was held.",
"December 22, 2015, the Ministry of Education signed a partnership agreement with the Intellectual Property and Science Division of Thomson Reuters, the leading global supplier of analytical information for businesses and professionals.",
"40 institutions of higher education in Azerbaijan gained full access to the Web of Science platform.",
"The Maarifchi Student Credit Fund was created to provide soft loans to students from low-income families and promote equal access to education.",
"The first Moscow State Medical University branch was inaugurated in 2015.",
"Transfer.edu.az was launched in 2016 to provide simplified and transparent transferring students between higher education institutions within the country and abroad.",
"The ADA University opened the first Big Data, Data Sciences Instruction and Research Centre.",
"A new Master's Degree program in Big Data Analytics and Data Sciences will be created with the financial support of the Centre.",
"The first graduation ceremony of SABAH students was held.",
"The conference on \"Taxes\" was held at the Ministry of Taxes.",
"There is transparency.",
"The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the creation of a transparent and attractive tax system in the country.",
"The Kick-off meeting of the twinning project was held on April 17th.",
"The Ministry of Taxes established a department to control import and export operations.",
"The principles of tax governance were reorganized, to improve tax administration, to ensure transparency, and to increase mutual trust between taxpayers and tax authorities.",
"The Law \"On Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" was approved by the President.",
"Amendments to the Tax Code covering support of entrepreneurship, reduction of shadow economy and tax evasion, expansion of taxation base, use of tax incentives and modernization of tax administration came into force on January 1, 2019.",
"A simplified state registration of legal entities was launched in 20 minutes.",
"An electronic service for taxpayers to receive information about the temporary ban on leaving the country was launched.",
"Tax reforms and recent amendments to the Tax Code were presented to representatives of diplomatic corps.",
"The Institute of Tax Ombudsman was established in Azerbaijan.",
"There is a new generation of cash registers.",
"Special excise posts at plants will strengthen tax discipline at tobacco and alcohol production.",
"The production process and declaration of excise revenues were made more transparent.",
"A pilot project was launched to increase the level of accounting, the reliability and transparency of reports in the agriculture sector.",
"The share of turnover with e-invoice in non-oil sector increased in comparison with the last year.",
"The structure of the Ministry of Taxes was approved by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"Positive results were achieved in the field of tax revenues, transparency and legalization of the labour market.",
"The non-oil sector's collection of taxes was increased.",
"The decree on the execution of the Law \"On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" was signed by the President.",
"The Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan, Mikayil Jabbarov, was elected as the Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Tax Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States.",
"The International Conference was dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus- Asia Corridor and the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the IGC TRACECA.",
"The chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA was assumed by the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"The opening of a joint venture on the production of medicines was held on December 9.",
"The foundation of two new plants were laid in Hajigabul Industrial Estate.",
"The first one was for production of commercial and special vehicles and the second one was for manufacturing Penoplex insulation materials.",
"A Protocol of Intent on Economic Cooperation was signed by the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation.",
"The First Forum of Young Entrepreneurs took place in Baku.",
"The trading house was opened in the city of Baku.",
"A conference dedicated to the results of the first-year implementation of \"The State Programme on socio-economic development of the regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" was held on February 3, 2020.",
"The first House of SMEs was commissioned by the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises.",
"The action plan was approved by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"The inauguration of medical masks manufactory was attended by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"The program to compensate entrepreneurs and their employees for the damage caused by the coronavirus was launched in accordance with the Action Plan adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in order to reduce the negative impact on business entities.",
"On May 4, 2020 the Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for partial refunds of VAT paid for goods by individual consumers.",
"The Law \"On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan\" and the decree on its execution were signed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.",
"According to the Presidential decree on approval of preferential lending through the Entrepreneurship Development Fund and the Electronic Credit Platform, the Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for providing entrepreneurs with soft loans.",
"The procedures of preferential lending from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund were approved by the President.",
"The power to monitor compliance by business entities and their officials with the rules of anti-epidemic, sanitary-hygienic and quarantine regimes was given to the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy.",
"AzerGold CJSC issued bonds.",
"The BSE held an auction on placement of bonds.",
"Financial sanctions on entrepreneurs in the frontline regions were abolished.",
"At the MUSAD expo 2020 exhibition in Istanbul, there was a demonstration of the economic and investment potential of the liberated lands.",
"The most innovative project of the year was announced in December of 2020.",
"The concessional lending to entrepreneurs expanded.",
"February 1, 2020 is when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Economy and Coca-Cola Bottlers.",
"The Minister of Economy met with employees of the Ministry of Economy who took part in the Patriotic War.",
"The protocol and action plan was signed at the 9th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission.",
"An agreement was signed on the transfer of the Azerlotereya OJSC to the management of the Turkish company.",
"The United Nations and Azerbaijan signed a framework for sustainable development.",
"The World Economic Forum and the Government of Azerbaijan signed an agreement on establishing an affiliate of the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution Network.",
"This is the first centre of its kind in the region.",
"President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated a new building of the Ministry of Economy on May 29, 2021.",
"The Trade and Tourism Representative Offices in Israel will serve as an important platform for the expansion of economic cooperation, business relations and promotion of business dialogue between Azerbaijan and Israel.",
"There are 146 employees of the Ministry of Economy.",
"The Minister of Economy has regular meetings with war veterans.",
"In order to prevent corruption in the educational system, comprehensive measures were taken, but they were not fully successful.",
"There were no real proposals put forward for more radical measures.",
"The idea that \"it is not right to assess the students studying within a new educational system through the tests\" was met with criticism.",
"The idea of canceling the test exams was misrepresented to the public as a suggestion to do away with them.",
"The State Examination Center confirmed that the new idea does not mean a cancellation of the tests.",
"Cabinet of Azerbaijan Education in Azerbaijan External links References 1976 births Living people Government ministers of Azeri State University Alumni University of the Pacific"
] | <mask> ( born September 19, 1976) is the current Minister of Economу of the Republic of Azerbaijan (since October 23, 2019), Minister of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2017–2019), Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2013–2017), Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2009–2013), Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2004–2009). President of the Azerbaijan Badminton Federation (2015–2021), President of the Azerbaijan Fencing Federation (2017–2021), President of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation (since 2021). Life
<mask> was born on September 19, 1976 in Baku. Education
1992–1997 – Studied at Baku State University, graduated from the International Law Department with distinction. 1997–1998 – Obtained an LL.M degree from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (Sacramento, California, US). 2004 – Obtained a Master degree in Economics from Azerbaijan State Economic University. Career
1995 – Started career in the banking sector.Since 1999 – Member of the New York State Bar Association. 1999–2002 – Lawyer in the private sector. 2002–2003 – Counselor to the Minister, the Ministry of Economic Development. 2003–2004 – President of the Azerbaijan Export and Investment Promotion Foundation (AZPROMO). February 20, 2004 – appointed as Deputy Minister of Economic Development by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan Republic. Responsible for coordination of activities related to cooperation with international financial institutions, external economic relations, foreign investment policy, legal issues at international arbitrage, and corporate governance. March 6, 2009 – appointed as Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.April 19, 2013 – appointed Minister of Education by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. June 16, 2017 – appointed as Co-Chair of Azerbaijan-Israel Joint Commission by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. December 5, 2017 – appointed as Minister of Taxes by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. March 17, 2018 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. March 17, 2018 – March 2, 2020 – served as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission to promote economic cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Croatia. October 10, 2018 – promoted to the special rank of 3rd class State Tax Service Adviser by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. February 9, 2019 – promoted to the special rank of 2nd class State Tax Service Adviser by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.October 23, 2019 – appointed as Minister of Economy by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. December 4, 2019 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. March 2, 2020 – appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Swiss Federal Council by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. March 2, 2020 – appointed as Deputy Co-Chair of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia on Economic Cooperation by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. January 4, 2021 – appointed as a member of Supervisory Board of the «Karabakh Revival Fund» by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. January 23, 2021 – appointed as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Social activity
1994–1997 – President of the "Atashgakh" Intellectual Games Club.1996–1997 – Deputy Chairman of the Azerbaijani Youth Organizations Forum. 1996–1997 – Winner of the CIS championship in the "Brain ring" intellectual game. 1997 – First Azerbaijani player of the TV intellectual game "What? Where? When?" held in Moscow, participated at the Final of 1997 Summer Series. A regular participant of Baku TV club "What?Where? When?". Winner of the 5th-anniversary club games. 2002 – World Champion of "Brain Ring" intellectual game and champion of the national championship of "What? Where? When?". 2009 – Awarded honorary citizenship of Tbilisi (Georgia).2015–2021 – President of the Azerbaijan Badminton Federation. 2017–2021 – President of the Azerbaijan Fencing Federation. 2021 – Mentor of the winner of nationwide competition "Yüksəliş" Ziya Mursalzadeh. 2021 – elected as President of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation. Work in the "Icherisheher" State Historical-Architectural Reserve Administration
In June 2009 – "Icherisheher" (the Old City of Baku) was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger according to the decision of the 33rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. February 10, 2010 – The Palace of the Shirvanshahs (State Historical-Architectural Reserve) was handed over to the Administration's structure by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. November 8, 2010 – Approval of the "General Detailed Conservation Master Plan of the Historical Center of Baku" by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers.2010–2012 – Following steps are taken to restore the historical and cultural monuments of national and international importance:
– Restoration and conservation work carried out at the Small Caravanserai (a medieval monument);
– Complete restoration of the Muhammad's Mosque, an architectural monument of international importance;
– Repair and restoration work of Siratagli religious and architectural complex (known as Market Square);
– A major part of the Fortress Wall was restored, the adjacent area was cleared;
– A 15th century tower, demolished in the early 20th century, identified and completely restored. August 19, 2011 – Baku Marionette Theater was reassigned to the Administration by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers. October 13, 2011 – Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the establishment of the Historic House Museum of Tahir Salahov, a famous artist, was issued. December 22, 2011 – The State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Gala" was handed over to the Administration's structure by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan:
– The Reserve's borders were approved by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers;
– The Reserve's infrastructure and facilities were improved to provide visitors with better services. 2012 – The "Icherisheher" Traditional Arts Center was established in cooperation with the Prince's School of Traditional Arts (UK). 2012 – Restoration and research work at the Maiden Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 75% of the facade surface was conserved.2009–2013 – A master plan for development of Icheri Sheher was adopted and the automatic system of controlling vehicle access to Icheri Sheher was introduced. The Administration became a benchmark for other countries, whose UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat. Work in the Ministry of Education
Preschool and general education
2013–2017 – For five years, Azerbaijani school students won 109 awards at the international Olympiads, including 3 gold, 21 silver, and 85 bronze medals. 2013–2018 – E-admission of students to all Baku primary schools launched. 2014 – “Healthy School – Healthy Nation” project was launched to ensure the development and well-being of the school-age children. 2014–2017 – Up to 140 000 teachers tested via diagnostic assessment. 2015 – New rules applied to provide transparency of the nation-wide school subject Olympiads.2016 – Azerbaijan advanced in PIRLS international assessment results (462 to 472), with the twofold increase of students in the "Advanced" and "High" categories. 2016 – “Friend of School Child” pilot project launched jointly by the Ministry of Education and the State Agency under the President of Azerbaijan for Public Service and Social Innovations. The main goal of the project is to ensure complete safety in schools and to establish closer contact between schoolchildren, teachers, and parents. 2016–2017 – State-funded preschool education was launched to provide a school readiness program for 5-year-old children. 2016–2017 – Construction of modular schools in remote regions increased. In 2017, 100 modular-type schools were built to accommodate 5,000 students in 40 districts of Azerbaijan. TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training)
April 20, 2016 – The State Vocational Education Agency was established under the Ministry of Education by the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan.2016 – The STEP IT Academy established on the basis of the Baku Vocational Lyceum No 9. 2017 – Implementation of the "Strategic Roadmap for the development of the vocational education and training in the Republic of Azerbaijan" launched. 16 October 2017 – A new building of the Gabala State Vocational Education Center was opened. Higher education
May 12, 2014 – The Ministers of Education of France and Azerbaijan signed a Letter of intent focusing on cooperation between universities in order to strengthen educational ties between France and Azerbaijan. As a result, the University of Strasbourg and the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University jointly establish the French-Azerbaijani University UFAZ. 2014–2015 – SABAH groups on 34 specialties were established in 7 public institutions. December 14, 2015 – The First Forum of Azerbaijani Student Volunteers was held.December 22, 2015 – The Ministry of Education signed the partnership agreement with the IP and Science Division of Thomson Reuters, the leading global supplier of analytical information for businesses and professionals. As a result, Azerbaijan's 40 institutions of higher education gained full access to the Web of Science platform. 2015 – On the initiative of the Ministry of Education, the Maarifchi Student Credit Fund was created to provide soft loans to students from low-income families and promote equal access to education. 2015 – Baku branch of the I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University was inaugurated. 2016 – E-portal https://transfer.edu.az was launched to provide simplified and transparent transferring students between higher education institutions within the country and abroad, or transferring students from one faculty to another. 2016 – The first Big Data, Data Sciences Instruction and Research Centre in Azerbaijan, opened at the ADA University. The Centre established with the financial support of BP, will also result in the commencement of a new Master's Degree program in Big Data Analytics and Data Sciences to help meet the needs for data scientists and big data analysts.2017 – The first graduation ceremony of SABAH groups’ students was held. Work at the Ministry of Taxes
February 13, 2018 – The conference on "Taxes. Transparency. Development" was held in Baku to discuss further reforms for the sake of creation of transparent and attractive tax system in the country. April 17, 2018 – Kick-off meeting of the twinning project "Supporting to the Taxes Ministry in Setting Transfer Prices and Developing Counter Measures against Tax Evasion". May 2, 2018 – Department on control over import and export operations under the Ministry of Taxes was established. In 2018, a set of measures was implemented to reorganize the principles of tax governance, to improve tax administration, to ensure transparency, to increase mutual trust between taxpayers and tax authorities.December 20, 2018 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Law "On Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan". As of January 1, 2019, amendments to the Tax Code covering five main directions (support of entrepreneurship, reduction of shadow economy and tax evasion, expansion of taxation base, use of tax incentives and modernization of tax administration) came into force. January 1, 2019 – Simplified state registration of legal entities with one procedure in 20 minutes was launched. February 23, 2019 – An electronic service for taxpayers to receive information about the temporary ban on leaving the country was launched. March 4, 2019 – Tax reforms and recent amendments to the Tax Code were presented to representatives of diplomatic corps. May 3, 2019 – The Institute of Tax Ombudsman established in Azerbaijan. 2019 – New generation of cash registers introduced in Azerbaijan.2019 – Strengthening tax discipline at tobacco and alcohol production through establishing special excise posts at plants. As a result, transparency in the production process and declaration of excise revenues were increased. July 19, 2019 – A pilot project was launched to increase the level of accounting, the reliability and transparency of reports in agriculture sector. For 5 months of 2019, share of turnover with e-invoice in non-oil sector was significantly increased in comparison with the same period of the last year. July 24, 2019 – Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on approval of the structure of the Ministry of Taxes. January–June 2019 – Positive results were achieved in the field of tax revenues, transparency and legalization of the labour market. Collection of taxes from non-oil sector was significantly increased.December 25, 2019 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Law "On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and signed the decree on its execution. Work at the Ministry of Economy
November 20, 2019 – Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy <mask> <mask> was elected as Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Tax Services of the CIS Member States. December 6, 2019 – The International Conference dedicated to the 20th Anniversary of signing the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia Corridor and the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) TRACECA was held in Baku. December 6, 2019 – The Republic of Azerbaijan officially assumed the chairmanship in the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA. December 9, 2019 – The opening of an Azerbaijani-Russian joint venture on production of medicines “R-Farm” at the Pirallahi Industrial Park. December 9, 2019 – The foundation of two new plants in cooperation with Russian investors were laid in Hajigabul Industrial Estate. First one was specialized on production of commercial and special vehicles, second one – on manufacturing Penoplex insulation materials.December 9, 2019 – The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation signed a Protocol of Intent on Economic Cooperation. December 10, 2019 – The First Forum of Young Entrepreneurs took place in Baku. December 17, 2019 – Ukraine Trading House was opened in Baku. February 3, 2020 – A conference dedicated to the results of the first-year implementation of "The State Programme on socio-economic development of the regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2019–2023" was held. February 7, 2020 – Azerbaijan's Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) has commissioned the first House of SMEs in Khachmaz district. April 4, 2020 – Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved the Action Plan to implement the item 10.2 of the Azerbaijani president's order # 1950 dated March 19, 2020" “On a number of measures to reduce the negative impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) and sharp fluctuations as a result of coronavirus in the global energy market and stock market, on the economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, macroeconomic stability, issues of employment in the country and entrepreneurship". April 6, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the inauguration of medical masks manufactory established by Baku Textile Factory LLC in Sumgait Chemical Industry Park.April 8, 2020 – The program to compensate entrepreneurs and their employees for the damage caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was launched in accordance with the Action Plan adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in order to reduce the negative impact on business entities due to the coronavirus pandemic. May 4, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism on partial refund of VAT paid for goods by individual consumers
May 12, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed a decree on ensuring the activity of the Ministry of Economy. June 2, 2020 – President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed the Law "On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and the decree on its execution. June 30, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for providing entrepreneurs with soft loans according to the Presidential Decree on approval of preferential lending through the Entrepreneurship Development Fund, and the Electronic Credit Platform for this purpose. President Ilham Aliyev approved the procedures of preferential lending from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund as well as amendments to the statute of the Fund. July 3, 2020 – An additional power to monitor compliance by business entities and their officials with the rules of anti-epidemic, sanitary-hygienic and quarantine regimes was given to the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy in accordance with the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on amendments to the "Regulations of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and "Regulations of the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan". September 24, 2020 – AzerGold CJSC issued bonds.The Baku Stock Exchange (BSE) held an auction on placement of the first tranche of bonds. October 19, 2020 – Financial sanctions on entrepreneurs in the frontline regions were completely abolished. November 19, 2020 – Economic and investment potential of Azerbaijani lands liberated from Armenian occupation was demonstrated at MUSİAD Expo 2020 exhibition in Istanbul. December 25, 2020 – “ƏDV-ni geri al“ project was announced as “The Most Innovative Project of the Year” within the annual Azerbaijan Innovation Award. 2020 – Concessional lending to entrepreneurs expanded. February 1, 2020 – The Ministry of Economy and Coca-Cola Bottlers Azerbaijan LLC signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a new plant in the country. February 2, 2021 – Minister of Economy <mask> <mask> met with employees of the Ministry of Economy who took part in the Patriotic War.February 19, 2021 – Azerbaijan and Turkey signed a protocol and action plan at the 9th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission. February 27, 2021 – An agreement on the transfer of Azerbaijan's Azerlotereya OJSC to the management of the Turkish Demiroren Holding company was signed. March 1, 2021 – The United Nations and Azerbaijan signed the Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2021–2025. April 1, 2021 – The Government of Azerbaijan and the World Economic Forum (WEF) signed an agreement on establishing Azerbaijan Affiliate of the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution Network. This is the first Centre of this kind in CIS region. April 2, 2021 – Azerbaijan and Turkey signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Digital Trade
May 29, 2021 – President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated a new building of the Ministry of Economy. July 29, 2021 – Azerbaijan has opened Trade and Tourism Representative Offices in Israel which will serve as an important platform for the expansion of economic cooperation, business relations and promotion of business dialogue between Azerbaijan and Israel.Among the heroes of the 44-day Patriotic War, there are 146 employees of the Ministry of Economy. The Minister of Economy <mask> <mask> holds regular meetings with war veterans. Controversies
2013–2017 – Comprehensive measures were taken to prevent bribery and corruption in the educational system, but they were not assessed as fully successful. Experts called for more radical measures to be taken, no real proposals were put forward though. 2016 – The idea that "it is not right to assess the students studying within a new educational system through the tests" was met with criticism. This idea was misrepresented to the public as a suggestion to cancel the test exams, while, in fact, the idea implied application of new tools to assess students’ knowledge. With this regard, the State Examination Center released a statement with a similar message, confirming that the new idea does not mean a cancellation of the tests as such.See also
Cabinet of Azerbaijan
Education in Azerbaijan
External links
References
1976 births
Living people
Government ministers of Azerbaijan
Baku State University alumni
Azerbaijan State University of Economics alumni
University of the Pacific (United States) alumni
Politicians from Baku | [
"Mikayil Chingiz ogly Jabbarov",
"Mikayil Jabbarov",
"Mikayil",
"Jabbarov",
"Mikayil",
"Jabbarov",
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"Jabbarov"
] | The current Minister of Econom of the Republic of Azerbaijan has been there since October 23, 2019. President of the Badminton Federation, President of the Fencing Federation, and President of the Wrestling Federation. <mask> was born in 1976. He graduated from the International Law Department with distinction. An LL.M degree was obtained from the University of the Pacific. A master's degree in economics was obtained in 2004. Career began in the banking sector.Member of the New York State Bar Association since 1999. Lawyer in the private sector from 1999 to 2002. The Ministry of Economic Development had a counselor. The president of the foundation was from 2003 to 2004. February 20, 2004 was the day when the deputy minister of economic development was appointed. Responsibilities include coordination of activities related to cooperation with international financial institutions, external economic relations, foreign investment policy, legal issues at international arbitrage, and corporate governance. The Director of the Administration of Icherisheher State Historical-Architectural Reserve was appointed on March 6, 2009.The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the Minister of Education. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the co-chair of the commission. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the Minister of Taxes. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed as co-chair of the Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. The Government of the Republic of Croatia and the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan formed the Joint Commission to promote economic cooperation. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan promoted to the special rank of 3rd class State Tax Service Adviser. The rank of 2nd class State Tax Service Adviser was promoted by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed the Minister of Economy on October 23, 2019. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan appointed as Co-Chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the United Arab Emirates on Economic, Trade and Technical Cooperation. March 2, 2020 was appointed as the co-chair of the Joint Commission between the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Government of the Swiss Federal Council. March 2, 2020 was appointed as the deputy co-chair of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan made a decree on January 4, 2021. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan was appointed on January 23, 2021. President of the Intellectual Games Club from 1994 to 1997.The deputy chairman was from 1996 to 1997. The winner of the "Brain ring" intellectual game was from 1996 to 1997. The first player of the TV intellectual game was from Azerbaijan. Where? When? The Final of 1997 Summer Series was held in Moscow. A regular participant in the club.Where? When? The winner of the club games. The champion of the national championship of "What?" was the world champion of the "Brain Ring" intellectual game. Where? When? The Georgian city of Tbilisi was awarded an "honorary citizenship" in 2009.The President of the Badminton Federation is from 2015 to 2021. The president of the fencing federation is elected every two years. The winner of the nationwide "Yksli" competition will be a mentor in 2021. The President of the Wrestling Federation will be elected in 2021. According to the decision of the 33rd Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, work in the "Icherisheher" State Historical-Architectural Reserve Administration was removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger. The Palace of the Shirvanshahs was handed over to the Administration by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The "General Detailed Conservation Master Plan of the Historical Center of Baku" was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.The Muhammad's Mosque, an architectural monument of international importance, was restored after steps were taken to restore the historical and cultural monuments of national and international importance. The Cabinet of Ministers decided to assign the theater to the Administration. The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan issued a decree on the establishment of the Historic House Museum. The State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve "Gala" was handed over to the Administration's structure by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The "Icherisheher" Traditional Arts Center was established in partnership with the Prince's School of Traditional Arts. The Maiden Tower is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 75% of the facade surface was not damaged.The master plan for development of Icheri Sheher was adopted and the automatic system of controlling vehicle access was introduced. UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat and the Administration became a benchmark for other countries. 3 gold, 21 silver, and 85 bronze medals were won by Azerbaijani school students at the international Olympiads for five years. E-admission of students to all primary schools was launched. The project was launched to ensure the development and well-being of the school-age children. Up to 140 000 teachers were tested. New rules were put in place to give transparency to the nation-wide school subject Olympiads.There was a twofold increase of students in the "Advanced" and "High" categories. The "Friend of School Child" pilot project was launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Education and the State Agency. Ensuring complete safety in schools is one of the main goals of the project. State-funded preschool education was launched to provide a school readiness program for 5-year-old children. The construction of modular schools increased. In the year of 2017, 100 modular-type schools were built to accommodate 5,000 students. The State Vocational Education Agency was established under the Ministry of Education.The STEP IT Academy was established on the basis of a school. The strategic plan for the development of the Vocational education and training in the Republic of Azerbaijan was launched. The Gabala State Vocational Education Center has a new building. The Ministers of Education of France and Azerbaijan signed a Letter of Intent to strengthen educational ties between the two countries. The University of Strasbourg and the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University collaborated to establish the French-Azerbaijani University. SABAH groups on 34 specialties were established in 7 public institutions. The first forum of student volunteers was held.December 22, 2015, the Ministry of Education signed a partnership agreement with the Intellectual Property and Science Division of Thomson Reuters, the leading global supplier of analytical information for businesses and professionals. 40 institutions of higher education in Azerbaijan gained full access to the Web of Science platform. The Maarifchi Student Credit Fund was created to provide soft loans to students from low-income families and promote equal access to education. The first Moscow State Medical University branch was inaugurated in 2015. Transfer.edu.az was launched in 2016 to provide simplified and transparent transferring students between higher education institutions within the country and abroad. The ADA University opened the first Big Data, Data Sciences Instruction and Research Centre. A new Master's Degree program in Big Data Analytics and Data Sciences will be created with the financial support of the Centre.The first graduation ceremony of SABAH students was held. The conference on "Taxes" was held at the Ministry of Taxes. There is transparency. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the creation of a transparent and attractive tax system in the country. The Kick-off meeting of the twinning project was held on April 17th. The Ministry of Taxes established a department to control import and export operations. The principles of tax governance were reorganized, to improve tax administration, to ensure transparency, and to increase mutual trust between taxpayers and tax authorities.The Law "On Amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" was approved by the President. Amendments to the Tax Code covering support of entrepreneurship, reduction of shadow economy and tax evasion, expansion of taxation base, use of tax incentives and modernization of tax administration came into force on January 1, 2019. A simplified state registration of legal entities was launched in 20 minutes. An electronic service for taxpayers to receive information about the temporary ban on leaving the country was launched. Tax reforms and recent amendments to the Tax Code were presented to representatives of diplomatic corps. The Institute of Tax Ombudsman was established in Azerbaijan. There is a new generation of cash registers.Special excise posts at plants will strengthen tax discipline at tobacco and alcohol production. The production process and declaration of excise revenues were made more transparent. A pilot project was launched to increase the level of accounting, the reliability and transparency of reports in the agriculture sector. The share of turnover with e-invoice in non-oil sector increased in comparison with the last year. The structure of the Ministry of Taxes was approved by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Positive results were achieved in the field of tax revenues, transparency and legalization of the labour market. The non-oil sector's collection of taxes was increased.The decree on the execution of the Law "On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" was signed by the President. The Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan, <mask> <mask>, was elected as the Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Tax Services of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The International Conference was dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Basic Multilateral Agreement on International Transport for Development of the Europe-Caucasus- Asia Corridor and the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the IGC TRACECA. The chairmanship of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA was assumed by the Republic of Azerbaijan. The opening of a joint venture on the production of medicines was held on December 9. The foundation of two new plants were laid in Hajigabul Industrial Estate. The first one was for production of commercial and special vehicles and the second one was for manufacturing Penoplex insulation materials.A Protocol of Intent on Economic Cooperation was signed by the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. The First Forum of Young Entrepreneurs took place in Baku. The trading house was opened in the city of Baku. A conference dedicated to the results of the first-year implementation of "The State Programme on socio-economic development of the regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan" was held on February 3, 2020. The first House of SMEs was commissioned by the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The action plan was approved by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The inauguration of medical masks manufactory was attended by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.The program to compensate entrepreneurs and their employees for the damage caused by the coronavirus was launched in accordance with the Action Plan adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers in order to reduce the negative impact on business entities. On May 4, 2020 the Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for partial refunds of VAT paid for goods by individual consumers. The Law "On amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan" and the decree on its execution were signed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. According to the Presidential decree on approval of preferential lending through the Entrepreneurship Development Fund and the Electronic Credit Platform, the Ministry of Economy launched a new mechanism for providing entrepreneurs with soft loans. The procedures of preferential lending from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund were approved by the President. The power to monitor compliance by business entities and their officials with the rules of anti-epidemic, sanitary-hygienic and quarantine regimes was given to the State Tax Service under the Ministry of Economy. AzerGold CJSC issued bonds.The BSE held an auction on placement of bonds. Financial sanctions on entrepreneurs in the frontline regions were abolished. At the MUSAD expo 2020 exhibition in Istanbul, there was a demonstration of the economic and investment potential of the liberated lands. The most innovative project of the year was announced in December of 2020. The concessional lending to entrepreneurs expanded. February 1, 2020 is when a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of Economy and Coca-Cola Bottlers. The Minister of Economy met with employees of the Ministry of Economy who took part in the Patriotic War.The protocol and action plan was signed at the 9th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission. An agreement was signed on the transfer of the Azerlotereya OJSC to the management of the Turkish company. The United Nations and Azerbaijan signed a framework for sustainable development. The World Economic Forum and the Government of Azerbaijan signed an agreement on establishing an affiliate of the Centre for the 4th Industrial Revolution Network. This is the first centre of its kind in the region. President Ilham Aliyev inaugurated a new building of the Ministry of Economy on May 29, 2021. The Trade and Tourism Representative Offices in Israel will serve as an important platform for the expansion of economic cooperation, business relations and promotion of business dialogue between Azerbaijan and Israel.There are 146 employees of the Ministry of Economy. The Minister of Economy has regular meetings with war veterans. In order to prevent corruption in the educational system, comprehensive measures were taken, but they were not fully successful. There were no real proposals put forward for more radical measures. The idea that "it is not right to assess the students studying within a new educational system through the tests" was met with criticism. The idea of canceling the test exams was misrepresented to the public as a suggestion to do away with them. The State Examination Center confirmed that the new idea does not mean a cancellation of the tests.Cabinet of Azerbaijan Education in Azerbaijan External links References 1976 births Living people Government ministers of Azeri State University Alumni University of the Pacific | [
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3454719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin%20Boag | Erin Boag | Erin Boag (born 17 March 1975) is a professional ballroom dancer. She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom, Latin and jazz. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, she moved to Australia as a teenager to progress her dancing career, before moving to London in 1996.
She started professionally dancing and is well known for being on Strictly Come Dancing in the UK with her partner Anton du Beke.
Boag is an honorary patron of the theatre charity The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
Professional career
Boag's regular professional partner is Anton du Beke. They met in 1997, and won the 1998 and 1999 New Zealand Championships. They turned professional in 2002, competing mainly in the United Kingdom. Their best result on the competition circuit was in November 2003 when they won the IDTA Classic in Brighton. They appeared on the first 10 series of Strictly Come Dancing. Boag has not appeared as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing since Series 10, although du Beke still appears on the show. She made a brief cameo in 2015, giving advice to contestant Katie Derham, who was partnered with du Beke that year.
Strictly Come Dancing
Highest- and lowest-scoring performances per dance
From 2004 to 2012, Boag competed as one of the professional partners in ten series and six Christmas specials of the BBC celebrity ballroom competition show, Strictly Come Dancing.
In the show's first series, Boag was partnered up with former England rugby league player, Martin Offiah. They were eliminated in week six of the competition, finishing in fourth place.
In the show's second series, Boag was partnered up with comedian, Julian Clary. They reached the finals of the competition, but were eliminated in third place.
In the show's third series, Boag was partnered up with former Olympic athlete, Colin Jackson. They also reached the finals of the competition, but were named the runners-up to cricketer Darren Gough and his professional partner, Lilia Kopylova. She and Jackson later competed in the 2005 Christmas special, where they finished in fifth place.
In the show's fourth series, Boag was partnered up with former Danish professional footballer, Peter Schmeichel. They were eliminated on the seventh week of the competition, finishing in seventh place. She later reunited with Jackson to compete in the 2006 Christmas special, and were voted the winners of the competition.
In the show's fifth series, Boag was partnered up with former professional snooker player, Willie Thorne. They were eliminated on the second week of the competition, finishing in thirteenth place.
In the show's sixth series, Boag was partnered up with former England rugby union player, Austin Healey. They reached the quarter-finals of the competition, but were eliminated in fourth place.
In the show's seventh series, Boag was partnered up with former EastEnders actor, Ricky Groves. They were eliminated in week ten of the competition, finishing in sixth place. She later participated in the 2009 Christmas special, where she was partnered with her former celebrity partner Austin Healey. They finished the Christmas special in joint-fifth place, alongside Ricky Whittle and his professional partner, Natalie Lowe.
In the show's eighth series, Boag was partnered up with former England professional footballer, Peter Shilton. They were eliminated in week three of the competition, finishing in twelfth place. She later participated in the 2010 Christmas special, where she was partnered with Liberal Democrats politician, Vince Cable. They finished the Christmas special in second place, losing to actor John Barrowman and his professional partner, Kristina Rihanoff.
In the show's ninth series, Boag was partnered up with comedian and impressionist, Rory Bremner. They became the third couple to be eliminated from the competition, finishing in twelfth place. She later competed in the 2011 Christmas special, where she was partnered with former professional boxer, Barry McGuigan. They finished the Christmas special in joint-second place, alongside Simon Webbe and his professional partner, Katya Virshilas.
In the show's tenth series, Boag was partnered up with television presenter, Richard Arnold. They became the sixth couple to be eliminated from the competition, finishing in ninth place. The tenth series was her final series before being replaced by Janette Manrara in the eleventh series.
Series 1 - with celebrity partner Martin Offiah; placed 4th
Series 2 - with celebrity partner Julian Clary; placed 3rd
Series 3 - with celebrity partner Colin Jackson; placed 2nd
Series 4 - with celebrity partner Peter Schmeichel; placed 7th
Series 5 - with celebrity partner Willie Thorne; placed 13th
Series 6 - with celebrity partner Austin Healey; placed 4th
Series 7 - with celebrity partner Ricky Groves; placed 6th
Series 8 - with celebrity partner Peter Shilton; placed 12th
Series 9 - with celebrity partner Rory Bremner; placed 12th
Series 10 - with celebrity partner Richard Arnold; placed 9th
Personal life
After they were introduced by Camilla Dallerup, Boag became engaged to business consultant Peter O'Dowd on Christmas Eve 2007. The couple were married on 17 June 2009, in Italy. On 24 April 2014, Erin gave birth by emergency caesarean section to a baby boy, named Ewan Robert Geoffrey O'Dowd. He was born on his father's 50th birthday; Boag's professional dancing partner Anton du Beke is the child's godfather.
Dance tours and other professional engagements
In August 2017, Erin and du Beke announced a three-month 2018 UK Tour FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD.
In September 2018, Erin announced she would be appearing with du Beke at Donahey's Dancing with The Stars Weekends. The tour was to comprise three weekend breaks in England and Wales in 2019, and to feature the stars of Strictly Come Dancing teaching and performing.
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
People from Auckland
New Zealand ballroom dancers
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"She has danced from the age of three, originally starting ballet and later moving into ballroom, Latin and jazz.",
"Born in Auckland, New Zealand, she moved to Australia as a teenager to progress her dancing career, before moving to London in 1996.",
"She started professionally dancing and is well known for being on Strictly Come Dancing in the UK with her partner Anton du Beke.",
"Boag is an honorary patron of the theatre charity The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.",
"Professional career\nBoag's regular professional partner is Anton du Beke.",
"They met in 1997, and won the 1998 and 1999 New Zealand Championships.",
"They turned professional in 2002, competing mainly in the United Kingdom.",
"Their best result on the competition circuit was in November 2003 when they won the IDTA Classic in Brighton.",
"They appeared on the first 10 series of Strictly Come Dancing.",
"Boag has not appeared as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing since Series 10, although du Beke still appears on the show.",
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"They were eliminated in week six of the competition, finishing in fourth place.",
"In the show's second series, Boag was partnered up with comedian, Julian Clary.",
"They reached the finals of the competition, but were eliminated in third place.",
"In the show's third series, Boag was partnered up with former Olympic athlete, Colin Jackson.",
"They also reached the finals of the competition, but were named the runners-up to cricketer Darren Gough and his professional partner, Lilia Kopylova.",
"She and Jackson later competed in the 2005 Christmas special, where they finished in fifth place.",
"In the show's fourth series, Boag was partnered up with former Danish professional footballer, Peter Schmeichel.",
"They were eliminated on the seventh week of the competition, finishing in seventh place.",
"She later reunited with Jackson to compete in the 2006 Christmas special, and were voted the winners of the competition.",
"In the show's fifth series, Boag was partnered up with former professional snooker player, Willie Thorne.",
"They were eliminated on the second week of the competition, finishing in thirteenth place.",
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"They reached the quarter-finals of the competition, but were eliminated in fourth place.",
"In the show's seventh series, Boag was partnered up with former EastEnders actor, Ricky Groves.",
"They were eliminated in week ten of the competition, finishing in sixth place.",
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"They finished the Christmas special in joint-fifth place, alongside Ricky Whittle and his professional partner, Natalie Lowe.",
"In the show's eighth series, Boag was partnered up with former England professional footballer, Peter Shilton.",
"They were eliminated in week three of the competition, finishing in twelfth place.",
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"They became the third couple to be eliminated from the competition, finishing in twelfth place.",
"She later competed in the 2011 Christmas special, where she was partnered with former professional boxer, Barry McGuigan.",
"They finished the Christmas special in joint-second place, alongside Simon Webbe and his professional partner, Katya Virshilas.",
"In the show's tenth series, Boag was partnered up with television presenter, Richard Arnold.",
"They became the sixth couple to be eliminated from the competition, finishing in ninth place.",
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"The couple were married on 17 June 2009, in Italy.",
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"He was born on his father's 50th birthday; Boag's professional dancing partner Anton du Beke is the child's godfather.",
"Dance tours and other professional engagements \nIn August 2017, Erin and du Beke announced a three-month 2018 UK Tour FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD.",
"In September 2018, Erin announced she would be appearing with du Beke at Donahey's Dancing with The Stars Weekends.",
"The tour was to comprise three weekend breaks in England and Wales in 2019, and to feature the stars of Strictly Come Dancing teaching and performing.",
"References\n\nExternal links\n \n\n1975 births\nLiving people\nPeople from Auckland\nNew Zealand ballroom dancers\n21st-century New Zealand dancers"
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"The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America is a theatre charity.",
"Anton du Beke is Boag's professional partner.",
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"They were eliminated in the third week of the competition.",
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"Janette Manrara replaced her in the eleventh series.",
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"The couple were married in Italy.",
"On April 24, 2014, a baby boy was born by emergency caesarean section.",
"He was born on his father's 50th birthday and is the child's godfather.",
"The du Beke family announced a dance tour from Broadway to Hollywood.",
"In September of last year, she announced she would be with du Beke at Dancing with the Stars Weekends.",
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Highest- and lowest-scoring performances per dance
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In August 2017, <mask> and du Beke announced a three-month 2018 UK Tour FROM BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD. In September 2018, <mask> announced she would be appearing with du Beke at Donahey's Dancing with The Stars Weekends. The tour was to comprise three weekend breaks in England and Wales in 2019, and to feature the stars of Strictly Come Dancing teaching and performing.References
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45286589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Althea%20Hill | Sarah Althea Hill | Sarah Althea Hill (March 26, 1850 – February 14, 1937) was a socialite, mistress, and mentally unstable woman with a history of violent behavior who became a national celebrity when she sued millionaire Senator William Sharon for divorce, citing adultery, in 1883. She claimed he had secretly married her three years earlier in a private contract. She was known to carry a small-caliber Colt revolver in her purse and did not hesitate to threaten all who crossed her. The divorce case and related law suits set legal precedent and spawned numerous spinoff lawsuits that dragged on for nearly a decade. Two months after Sharon died, she married her attorney David S. Terry.
Early years
Hill was born in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, the daughter of attorney Samuel H. Hill and Julia Sloan. Her older brother was Hiram Morgan Hill, for whom the California town of Morgan Hill is named. Both of their parents died while they were minors, leaving them to be cared for by relatives. When they came of age, they received $20,000 (or about $ today) each as their inheritance from their parents.
In 1871, at the age of 21, Hill came to San Francisco with her brother, where they lived with their relatives, William and Ada Bryan. In 1880, she had a love affair with attorney Reuben H. Lloyd. When he ended the affair, she attempted suicide on May 10, 1880 in his office by drinking poison. She was saved when her stomach was pumped.
San Francisco socialite
In the fall of 1880, at age 30, Hill met millionaire Senator William Sharon, the president of the Bank of California, the owner of the Palace Hotel, and other properties. At the time, he was 60, a widower, and one of the richest men in the country. He gave her $500 (about $ today) per month and a room in the San Francisco Grand Hotel, adjoining the Palace Hotel where he lived, for the pleasure of her companionship. After just over a year, he tried to end the relationship, but she would not agree. He finally evicted her from the room by having the carpets ripped up and the door hinges removed, along with a $7,500 (around $) payment. When he began a relationship with another woman, she claimed to be his wife and sued him for divorce, claiming adultery.
One of her attorneys was David S. Terry. Sharon claimed he had hired Hill merely as his mistress. Hill produced a marriage contract dated August 20, 1880, and said Sharon had sworn her to secrecy for two years. His reasons, she testified, were that he was up for re-election and could not afford the scandal that would result when his mistress back east heard about the marriage. Sharon countersued, claiming that the marriage contract she produced was fraudulent.
Sharon vs. Sharon
Hill initially won the first case in December 1884. Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan declared her the legal wife of William Sharon and awarded her alimony and the right to half of his accumulated wealth since the date of their marriage. Because of continuing counter-suits and appeals, Hill never received any of Sharon's money.
William Sharon died on November 13, 1885. Hill produced a handwritten will, supposedly made not long before his death, that she said she found in his desk. Those who knew Sharon doubted its authenticity. It gave Sharon's entire estate to Hill and nothing to his son Frederick and son-in-law Frank Newlands. On January 7, 1886, Hill married one of her lawyers, former California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry. Terry was well known for killing Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859. Hill and Terry were married at St. Mary's Church in Stockton, California, Terry's home town.
The Sharon family continued to fight Hill.
As was the custom at the time, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field was assigned to assist the California Circuit Court. He was coincidentally assigned to the Sharon vs. Sharon case. After William Sharon died, his son and son-in-law carried on the case. Many were suspicious of the authenticity of the will Hill claimed to have found. Hill's expenses were primarily bankrolled by her friend, Mary Ellen Pleasant, an elderly black entrepreneur. The lawsuit propelled Hill into the national spotlight and earned her the nickname, The Rose of Sharon.
In January 1886, a U.S. Circuit Court Judge and a U.S. District Court Judge sitting as a Circuit Judge rendered a decision against the defendants. They ruled that the marriage contract was a forgery and required the plaintiffs to turn over the document so that it could be nullified by the court. The Terrys refused to comply with the Court's order and were jailed. They returned to the court in March 1888, seeking further relief.
On September 3, 1888, Field delivered the final Circuit Court opinion. He ruled that the will was a forgery. Sarah Althea Hill suddenly stood up, screamed obscenities at the judge, and fumbled in her handbag for her revolver. When Marshal John Franks and others attempted to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry rose to defend his wife and drew his Bowie knife. He hit Franks, knocking out a tooth, and the marshals drew their handguns. Spectators subdued Terry and led him out of the courtroom, where he pulled his Bowie knife and threatened all around him. David Neagle was among the Marshals present and put his pistol in Terry's face. Both Terrys were subdued and placed under arrest. Justice Field had them returned to the courtroom and sentenced both to jail for contempt of court. David Terry got six months in jail, and Sarah Terry got one month.
While being transported to jail and while serving their sentences, Terry and his wife repeatedly threatened Justice Field. The Terrys suffered several more setbacks. Both David and Althea were indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges arising out of their behavior in the courtroom before Justice Field. In May 1889, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the order that invalidated Althea Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon. Then, in July, with only one of the four judges who had earlier ruled in their favor, the California Supreme Court reversed itself. It ruled that because Althea Terry and Sharon had kept their alleged marriage a secret, they were never legally married. While in jail or shortly afterward, pregnant Althea suffered a miscarriage.
Attack expected
The newspapers followed the case and repeatedly speculated about the likelihood of an attack on Field. When Field returned to California as a circuit riding judge for the 9th Circuit Court again the next year, U.S. Attorney General William Miller instructed Marshal Franks on May 6, 1889 to appoint Neagle as a Marshal with the responsibility to protect Field.
Terry killed
When David and Althea Terry were released from jail, they returned to Fresno. On August 14, 1889, they boarded a train in Fresno on which unknown to them Field and Neagle were returning from Los Angeles. At 7:10 am, all of the passengers disembarked the train to eat breakfast in the railroad station dining room at Lathrop, California. After entering the dining room, Althea Terry saw Field. She quickly exited and returned to her railroad car, apparently to fetch her satchel in which she was known to carry a pistol. When her husband saw Field, he walked behind him and slapped Field twice with such force that his glasses were knocked off.
Neagle, who was 5'7" tall and weighed 145 pounds, testified that the 6'3", 250-pound Terry recognized Neagle from the earlier confrontation in the courtroom. Neagle later said he saw a look of determination and victory on Terry's face. Neagle rose from his chair and said, "Stop that! I am an officer." Terry drew back his hand again and Neagle drew his .45-caliber revolver and shot Terry at point-blank range in the heart. Neagle announced to the 80 to 100 people in the dining room, "I am a United States Marshal and I defy anyone to touch me!" Field told them that Terry had assaulted him "and my officer shot him."
Althea Hill Terry had been held at the door by one of the dining room proprietors, who had searched the satchel and found a gun within it. She screamed and pushed her way through the crowd, throwing herself over her husband's body. Neagle thought he saw her covertly remove David Terry's knife from his vest. She challenged the crowd to search his body, insistent he was unarmed. The knife was later found in her satchel with the pistol.
Declared insane
After her husband's death, Sarah Terry became obsessed with spiritualism, hiring medium after medium to put her in touch with David Terry. Eventually, since she had no money to hire lawyers, the Sharon case gradually came to an end as the final cases were either dismissed or quickly decided against her. By February, 1892, newspapers were reporting that Mrs. Terry was insane. She wandered aimlessly in the streets of San Francisco, ignoring her appearance. She constantly talked to "spirits," especially that of her husband, and could not sleep. She had periods of violence and believed that she was being tormented by electricity and hypnotism.
Abandoned by her relatives since the beginning of the Sharon case, Terry's fate was left to the only friends she had left, R. Porter Ashe and Mary Ellen Pleasant. Pleasant initiated action to have Terry committed to an insane asylum. After a brief examination by the Insanity Commission, Sarah Terry was committed at age 33 to the California Asylum at Stockton (later known as the Stockton State Hospital) on March 11, 1892.
Diagnosed with “dementia praecox,” an early term for schizophrenia, she was extremely violent and had to be restrained for years in the asylum. Despite being termed "our best known patient" by Dr. Asa Clark, the hospital superintendent, Terry received almost no visitors over the years other than a few authors researching her case. She was not treated except with sedatives and eventually adapted to her life in the institution but was deluded into thinking that she was a rich and grand lady, the hospital was her mansion, and the staff her servants.
She remained incarcerated for forty-five years, from ages 42 to 86. When she died of pneumonia, Cornelia Terry, the granddaughter of David Terry, stepped forward to offer her a proper burial, saving Sarah Terry from being buried on the hospital grounds. Sarah Althea Hill Terry is buried in the Terry family plot in the Stockton Rural Cemetery.
References
Other sources
Holdredge, Helen (1953). Mammy Pleasant. New York City: G. P. Putnam and Sons. ISBN ASIN: B0006ATHHQ.
W. H. L. Barnes, Argument for the Defendant, Sarah Althea Sharon vs. William Sharon (San Francisco: Barry, Baird & Co., 1884).
Oscar T. Shuck, ed., History of the bench and bar of California (Los Angeles: The Commercial Printing House, 1901).
John D. Lawson, ed., American State Trials, Volume XV (St. Louis: Thomas Law Book Co., 1926).
1850 births
1937 deaths
People from San Francisco
People from Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Deaths from pneumonia in California | [
"Sarah Althea Hill (March 26, 1850 – February 14, 1937) was a socialite, mistress, and mentally unstable woman with a history of violent behavior who became a national celebrity when she sued millionaire Senator William Sharon for divorce, citing adultery, in 1883.",
"She claimed he had secretly married her three years earlier in a private contract.",
"She was known to carry a small-caliber Colt revolver in her purse and did not hesitate to threaten all who crossed her.",
"The divorce case and related law suits set legal precedent and spawned numerous spinoff lawsuits that dragged on for nearly a decade.",
"Two months after Sharon died, she married her attorney David S. Terry.",
"Early years \n\nHill was born in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, the daughter of attorney Samuel H. Hill and Julia Sloan.",
"Her older brother was Hiram Morgan Hill, for whom the California town of Morgan Hill is named.",
"Both of their parents died while they were minors, leaving them to be cared for by relatives.",
"When they came of age, they received $20,000 (or about $ today) each as their inheritance from their parents.",
"In 1871, at the age of 21, Hill came to San Francisco with her brother, where they lived with their relatives, William and Ada Bryan.",
"In 1880, she had a love affair with attorney Reuben H. Lloyd.",
"When he ended the affair, she attempted suicide on May 10, 1880 in his office by drinking poison.",
"She was saved when her stomach was pumped.",
"San Francisco socialite \n\nIn the fall of 1880, at age 30, Hill met millionaire Senator William Sharon, the president of the Bank of California, the owner of the Palace Hotel, and other properties.",
"At the time, he was 60, a widower, and one of the richest men in the country.",
"He gave her $500 (about $ today) per month and a room in the San Francisco Grand Hotel, adjoining the Palace Hotel where he lived, for the pleasure of her companionship.",
"After just over a year, he tried to end the relationship, but she would not agree.",
"He finally evicted her from the room by having the carpets ripped up and the door hinges removed, along with a $7,500 (around $) payment.",
"When he began a relationship with another woman, she claimed to be his wife and sued him for divorce, claiming adultery.",
"One of her attorneys was David S. Terry.",
"Sharon claimed he had hired Hill merely as his mistress.",
"Hill produced a marriage contract dated August 20, 1880, and said Sharon had sworn her to secrecy for two years.",
"His reasons, she testified, were that he was up for re-election and could not afford the scandal that would result when his mistress back east heard about the marriage.",
"Sharon countersued, claiming that the marriage contract she produced was fraudulent.",
"Sharon vs. Sharon \nHill initially won the first case in December 1884.",
"Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan declared her the legal wife of William Sharon and awarded her alimony and the right to half of his accumulated wealth since the date of their marriage.",
"Because of continuing counter-suits and appeals, Hill never received any of Sharon's money.",
"William Sharon died on November 13, 1885.",
"Hill produced a handwritten will, supposedly made not long before his death, that she said she found in his desk.",
"Those who knew Sharon doubted its authenticity.",
"It gave Sharon's entire estate to Hill and nothing to his son Frederick and son-in-law Frank Newlands.",
"On January 7, 1886, Hill married one of her lawyers, former California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry.",
"Terry was well known for killing Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859.",
"Hill and Terry were married at St. Mary's Church in Stockton, California, Terry's home town.",
"The Sharon family continued to fight Hill.",
"As was the custom at the time, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field was assigned to assist the California Circuit Court.",
"He was coincidentally assigned to the Sharon vs. Sharon case.",
"After William Sharon died, his son and son-in-law carried on the case.",
"Many were suspicious of the authenticity of the will Hill claimed to have found.",
"Hill's expenses were primarily bankrolled by her friend, Mary Ellen Pleasant, an elderly black entrepreneur.",
"The lawsuit propelled Hill into the national spotlight and earned her the nickname, The Rose of Sharon.",
"In January 1886, a U.S.",
"Circuit Court Judge and a U.S. District Court Judge sitting as a Circuit Judge rendered a decision against the defendants.",
"They ruled that the marriage contract was a forgery and required the plaintiffs to turn over the document so that it could be nullified by the court.",
"The Terrys refused to comply with the Court's order and were jailed.",
"They returned to the court in March 1888, seeking further relief.",
"On September 3, 1888, Field delivered the final Circuit Court opinion.",
"He ruled that the will was a forgery.",
"Sarah Althea Hill suddenly stood up, screamed obscenities at the judge, and fumbled in her handbag for her revolver.",
"When Marshal John Franks and others attempted to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry rose to defend his wife and drew his Bowie knife.",
"He hit Franks, knocking out a tooth, and the marshals drew their handguns.",
"Spectators subdued Terry and led him out of the courtroom, where he pulled his Bowie knife and threatened all around him.",
"David Neagle was among the Marshals present and put his pistol in Terry's face.",
"Both Terrys were subdued and placed under arrest.",
"Justice Field had them returned to the courtroom and sentenced both to jail for contempt of court.",
"David Terry got six months in jail, and Sarah Terry got one month.",
"While being transported to jail and while serving their sentences, Terry and his wife repeatedly threatened Justice Field.",
"The Terrys suffered several more setbacks.",
"Both David and Althea were indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges arising out of their behavior in the courtroom before Justice Field.",
"In May 1889, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the order that invalidated Althea Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon.",
"Then, in July, with only one of the four judges who had earlier ruled in their favor, the California Supreme Court reversed itself.",
"It ruled that because Althea Terry and Sharon had kept their alleged marriage a secret, they were never legally married.",
"While in jail or shortly afterward, pregnant Althea suffered a miscarriage.",
"Attack expected \n\nThe newspapers followed the case and repeatedly speculated about the likelihood of an attack on Field.",
"When Field returned to California as a circuit riding judge for the 9th Circuit Court again the next year, U.S. Attorney General William Miller instructed Marshal Franks on May 6, 1889 to appoint Neagle as a Marshal with the responsibility to protect Field.",
"Terry killed \n\nWhen David and Althea Terry were released from jail, they returned to Fresno.",
"On August 14, 1889, they boarded a train in Fresno on which unknown to them Field and Neagle were returning from Los Angeles.",
"At 7:10 am, all of the passengers disembarked the train to eat breakfast in the railroad station dining room at Lathrop, California.",
"After entering the dining room, Althea Terry saw Field.",
"She quickly exited and returned to her railroad car, apparently to fetch her satchel in which she was known to carry a pistol.",
"When her husband saw Field, he walked behind him and slapped Field twice with such force that his glasses were knocked off.",
"Neagle, who was 5'7\" tall and weighed 145 pounds, testified that the 6'3\", 250-pound Terry recognized Neagle from the earlier confrontation in the courtroom.",
"Neagle later said he saw a look of determination and victory on Terry's face.",
"Neagle rose from his chair and said, \"Stop that!",
"I am an officer.\"",
"Terry drew back his hand again and Neagle drew his .45-caliber revolver and shot Terry at point-blank range in the heart.",
"Neagle announced to the 80 to 100 people in the dining room, \"I am a United States Marshal and I defy anyone to touch me!\"",
"Field told them that Terry had assaulted him \"and my officer shot him.\"",
"Althea Hill Terry had been held at the door by one of the dining room proprietors, who had searched the satchel and found a gun within it.",
"She screamed and pushed her way through the crowd, throwing herself over her husband's body.",
"Neagle thought he saw her covertly remove David Terry's knife from his vest.",
"She challenged the crowd to search his body, insistent he was unarmed.",
"The knife was later found in her satchel with the pistol.",
"Declared insane \n\nAfter her husband's death, Sarah Terry became obsessed with spiritualism, hiring medium after medium to put her in touch with David Terry.",
"Eventually, since she had no money to hire lawyers, the Sharon case gradually came to an end as the final cases were either dismissed or quickly decided against her.",
"By February, 1892, newspapers were reporting that Mrs. Terry was insane.",
"She wandered aimlessly in the streets of San Francisco, ignoring her appearance.",
"She constantly talked to \"spirits,\" especially that of her husband, and could not sleep.",
"She had periods of violence and believed that she was being tormented by electricity and hypnotism.",
"Abandoned by her relatives since the beginning of the Sharon case, Terry's fate was left to the only friends she had left, R. Porter Ashe and Mary Ellen Pleasant.",
"Pleasant initiated action to have Terry committed to an insane asylum.",
"After a brief examination by the Insanity Commission, Sarah Terry was committed at age 33 to the California Asylum at Stockton (later known as the Stockton State Hospital) on March 11, 1892.",
"Diagnosed with “dementia praecox,” an early term for schizophrenia, she was extremely violent and had to be restrained for years in the asylum.",
"Despite being termed \"our best known patient\" by Dr. Asa Clark, the hospital superintendent, Terry received almost no visitors over the years other than a few authors researching her case.",
"She was not treated except with sedatives and eventually adapted to her life in the institution but was deluded into thinking that she was a rich and grand lady, the hospital was her mansion, and the staff her servants.",
"She remained incarcerated for forty-five years, from ages 42 to 86.",
"When she died of pneumonia, Cornelia Terry, the granddaughter of David Terry, stepped forward to offer her a proper burial, saving Sarah Terry from being buried on the hospital grounds.",
"Sarah Althea Hill Terry is buried in the Terry family plot in the Stockton Rural Cemetery.",
"References\n\nOther sources \n\n Holdredge, Helen (1953).",
"Mammy Pleasant.",
"New York City: G. P. Putnam and Sons.",
"ISBN ASIN: B0006ATHHQ.",
"W. H. L. Barnes, Argument for the Defendant, Sarah Althea Sharon vs. William Sharon (San Francisco: Barry, Baird & Co., 1884).",
"Oscar T. Shuck, ed., History of the bench and bar of California (Los Angeles: The Commercial Printing House, 1901).",
"John D. Lawson, ed., American State Trials, Volume XV (St. Louis: Thomas Law Book Co., 1926).",
"1850 births\n1937 deaths\nPeople from San Francisco\nPeople from Cape Girardeau, Missouri\nDeaths from pneumonia in California"
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"He secretly married her in a private contract, she claimed.",
"She was known to carry a small-caliber Colt revolver in her purse and did not hesitate to threaten anyone who crossed her.",
"Several spinoff lawsuits dragged on for nearly a decade because of the divorce case and related law suits.",
"Sharon married her attorney two months after she died.",
"The daughter of an attorney, Hill was born in Pleasant Hill, Missouri.",
"The town of Morgan Hill is named after Hiram Morgan Hill, her older brother.",
"When their parents died, they were left to be cared for by relatives.",
"They received $20,000 each from their parents when they were young.",
"Hill and her brother came to San Francisco at the age of 21 to live with their relatives.",
"She had a love affair with an attorney.",
"She tried to kill herself in his office on May 10, 1880.",
"When her stomach was pumped, she was saved.",
"Hill met William Sharon, the president of the Bank of California, in the fall of 1880 when he was 30 years old.",
"He was a widower and one of the richest men in the country at the time.",
"He gave her $500 per month and a room in the San Francisco Grand Hotel for the pleasure of her.",
"He tried to end the relationship but she wouldn't.",
"He had the carpets ripped up and the door hinges removed to get her out of the room.",
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"She testified that he was up for re-election and couldn't afford the scandal that would result if his mistress heard about the marriage.",
"Sharon claimed that the marriage contract she produced was fraudulent.",
"The first case was won by Sharon Hill.",
"The judge awarded her alimony and half of William Sharon's accumulated wealth after she was declared the legal wife of him.",
"Hill never received any of Sharon's money because of counter-suits and appeals.",
"On November 13, 1885, William Sharon died.",
"She said she found a handwritten will in his desk.",
"Sharon's authenticity was doubted by those who knew her.",
"The entire estate of Sharon was given to Hill.",
"Hill married one of her lawyers on January 7, 1886.",
"Terry was the person who killed Senator David C. Broderick.",
"Hill and Terry were married at Terry's home town church.",
"The Sharon family continued to fight.",
"The custom at the time was for the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field to assist the California Circuit Court.",
"He was assigned to the Sharon case.",
"William Sharon's son and son-in-law continued the case after his death.",
"Many people were suspicious of the will Hill claimed to have found.",
"Mary Ellen Pleasant bankrolled Hill's expenses.",
"The lawsuit catapulted Hill into the national spotlight and earned her the nickname, The Rose of Sharon.",
"In January 1886, a U.S.",
"A Circuit Judge and a U.S. District Court Judge made a decision.",
"The marriage contract was found to be a forgery by the court and had to be turned over to the court so that it could be nullified.",
"The Terrys were jailed for not complying with the court's order.",
"They went back to the court in March of 1888.",
"The final Circuit Court opinion was delivered by Field.",
"He found the will to be a forgery.",
"Sarah Althea Hill suddenly stood up, screamed obscenities at the judge, and fumbled in her handbag for her gun.",
"When marshal John Franks tried to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry drew a knife and defended his wife.",
"The marshals drew their guns after he hit Franks.",
"Spectators subdued Terry and led him out of the courtroom, where he pulled a knife and threatened everyone around him.",
"David Neagle put his pistol in Terry's face.",
"Both Terrys were taken into custody.",
"They were sentenced to jail for contempt of court by Justice Field.",
"David Terry and Sarah Terry were both sentenced to six months in jail.",
"Terry and his wife threatened Justice Field while they were in jail.",
"There were more setbacks for the Terrys.",
"David and Althea were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from their behavior in the courtroom.",
"The order that invalidated Althea Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon was refused to review by the U.S. Supreme Court.",
"The California Supreme Court reversed itself in July after only one of the four judges who had previously ruled in their favor.",
"Althea Terry and Sharon were never legally married because they kept their marriage a secret.",
"Althea had a miscarriage while in jail.",
"The newspapers speculated about the likelihood of an attack on Field.",
"On May 6, 1889, the U.S. Attorney General ordered Franks to appoint Neagle as a marshal to protect Field.",
"David and Althea Terry were released from jail.",
"On August 14, 1889, Field and Neagle boarded a train in Fresno and were on their way back from Los Angeles.",
"All of the passengers disembarked the train at Lathrop, California, and went to eat breakfast in the dining room.",
"Field was seen by Althea Terry after she entered the dining room.",
"She got out of the train car and went back to get the pistol she was known to carry.",
"Field's glasses were knocked off when his husband slapped him twice when he saw him.",
"Neagle testified that Terry recognized him from the earlier confrontation in the courtroom.",
"Neagle said he saw a determination on Terry's face.",
"\"Stop that!\" Neagle said from his chair.",
"I am an officer.",
"Neagle shot Terry at point-blank range in the heart after Terry drew back his hand.",
"The 80 to 100 people in the dining room were told by Neagle that he was a United States marshal.",
"Field told them that his officer shot Terry.",
"Terry was held at the door by the proprietors of the dining room, who found a gun in the satchel.",
"She threw herself over her husband's body after screaming.",
"Neagle thought she removed David Terry's knife from his vest.",
"She wanted the crowd to search his body.",
"She had a pistol and a knife in her bag.",
"Sarah Terry was declared insane after her husband's death and became obsessed with spiritualism.",
"The Sharon case came to an end as the final cases were either dismissed or decided against her, since she had no money to hire lawyers.",
"The newspapers reported that Mrs. Terry was insane.",
"She was wandering aimlessly in the streets of San Francisco.",
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"Terry's fate was left to the two friends she had left, R. Porter Ashe and Mary Ellen Pleasant.",
"The action was to have Terry committed to an insane asylum.",
"Sarah Terry was committed to the California State Hospital on March 11, 1892, after a brief examination by the Insanity Commission.",
"She was very violent and had to be restrained for years in the asylum.",
"Terry received almost no visitors over the years other than a few authors researching her case, despite being termed \"our best known patient\" by Dr. Asa Clark.",
"She was not treated except with sedatives and thought that she was a rich and grand lady, the hospital was her mansion, and the staff was her servants.",
"She spent forty-five years in prison.",
"Sarah Terry was going to be buried on the hospital grounds, but the granddaughter of David Terry stepped forward to offer her a proper burial.",
"The Terry family plot is where Sarah Althea Hill Terry is buried.",
"Helen Holdredge was References Other sources.",
"Mammy was Pleasant.",
"New York City is home to G. P. Putnam and Sons.",
"ASIN: B0006ATHHQ.",
"Sarah Althea Sharon vs. William Sharon was argued by W. H.L. Barnes.",
"The History of the bench and bar of California was written by Oscar T. Shuck.",
"The American State Trials, Volume XV was written by John D. Lawson.",
"People from San Francisco died of pneumonia."
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<mask> was born in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, the daughter of attorney Samuel H<mask> and Julia Sloan. Her older brother was <mask>, for whom the California town of Morgan Hill is named.Both of their parents died while they were minors, leaving them to be cared for by relatives. When they came of age, they received $20,000 (or about $ today) each as their inheritance from their parents. In 1871, at the age of 21, <mask> came to San Francisco with her brother, where they lived with their relatives, William and Ada Bryan. In 1880, she had a love affair with attorney Reuben H. Lloyd. When he ended the affair, she attempted suicide on May 10, 1880 in his office by drinking poison. She was saved when her stomach was pumped. San Francisco socialite
In the fall of 1880, at age 30, <mask> met millionaire Senator William Sharon, the president of the Bank of California, the owner of the Palace Hotel, and other properties.At the time, he was 60, a widower, and one of the richest men in the country. He gave her $500 (about $ today) per month and a room in the San Francisco Grand Hotel, adjoining the Palace Hotel where he lived, for the pleasure of her companionship. After just over a year, he tried to end the relationship, but she would not agree. He finally evicted her from the room by having the carpets ripped up and the door hinges removed, along with a $7,500 (around $) payment. When he began a relationship with another woman, she claimed to be his wife and sued him for divorce, claiming adultery. One of her attorneys was David S. Terry. Sharon claimed he had hired <mask> merely as his mistress.<mask> produced a marriage contract dated August 20, 1880, and said Sharon had sworn her to secrecy for two years. His reasons, she testified, were that he was up for re-election and could not afford the scandal that would result when his mistress back east heard about the marriage. Sharon countersued, claiming that the marriage contract she produced was fraudulent. Sharon vs. Sharon
<mask> initially won the first case in December 1884. Judge Jeremiah F. Sullivan declared her the legal wife of William Sharon and awarded her alimony and the right to half of his accumulated wealth since the date of their marriage. Because of continuing counter-suits and appeals, <mask> never received any of Sharon's money. William Sharon died on November 13, 1885.<mask> produced a handwritten will, supposedly made not long before his death, that she said she found in his desk. Those who knew Sharon doubted its authenticity. It gave Sharon's entire estate to <mask> and nothing to his son Frederick and son-in-law Frank Newlands. On January 7, 1886, <mask> married one of her lawyers, former California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry. Terry was well known for killing Senator David C. Broderick in a duel in 1859. <mask> and Terry were married at St. Mary's Church in Stockton, California, Terry's home town. The Sharon family continued to fight <mask>.As was the custom at the time, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field was assigned to assist the California Circuit Court. He was coincidentally assigned to the Sharon vs. Sharon case. After William Sharon died, his son and son-in-law carried on the case. Many were suspicious of the authenticity of the will <mask> claimed to have found. <mask>'s expenses were primarily bankrolled by her friend, Mary Ellen Pleasant, an elderly black entrepreneur. The lawsuit propelled <mask> into the national spotlight and earned her the nickname, The Rose of Sharon. In January 1886, a U.S.Circuit Court Judge and a U.S. District Court Judge sitting as a Circuit Judge rendered a decision against the defendants. They ruled that the marriage contract was a forgery and required the plaintiffs to turn over the document so that it could be nullified by the court. The Terrys refused to comply with the Court's order and were jailed. They returned to the court in March 1888, seeking further relief. On September 3, 1888, Field delivered the final Circuit Court opinion. He ruled that the will was a forgery. <mask> <mask> suddenly stood up, screamed obscenities at the judge, and fumbled in her handbag for her revolver.When Marshal John Franks and others attempted to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry rose to defend his wife and drew his Bowie knife. He hit Franks, knocking out a tooth, and the marshals drew their handguns. Spectators subdued Terry and led him out of the courtroom, where he pulled his Bowie knife and threatened all around him. David Neagle was among the Marshals present and put his pistol in Terry's face. Both Terrys were subdued and placed under arrest. Justice Field had them returned to the courtroom and sentenced both to jail for contempt of court. David Terry got six months in jail, and <mask> got one month.While being transported to jail and while serving their sentences, Terry and his wife repeatedly threatened Justice Field. The Terrys suffered several more setbacks. Both David and <mask> were indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges arising out of their behavior in the courtroom before Justice Field. In May 1889, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the order that invalidated <mask> Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon. Then, in July, with only one of the four judges who had earlier ruled in their favor, the California Supreme Court reversed itself. It ruled that because <mask> Terry and Sharon had kept their alleged marriage a secret, they were never legally married. While in jail or shortly afterward, pregnant <mask> suffered a miscarriage.Attack expected
The newspapers followed the case and repeatedly speculated about the likelihood of an attack on Field. When Field returned to California as a circuit riding judge for the 9th Circuit Court again the next year, U.S. Attorney General William Miller instructed Marshal Franks on May 6, 1889 to appoint Neagle as a Marshal with the responsibility to protect Field. Terry killed
When David and <mask> Terry were released from jail, they returned to Fresno. On August 14, 1889, they boarded a train in Fresno on which unknown to them Field and Neagle were returning from Los Angeles. At 7:10 am, all of the passengers disembarked the train to eat breakfast in the railroad station dining room at Lathrop, California. After entering the dining room, <mask> Terry saw Field. She quickly exited and returned to her railroad car, apparently to fetch her satchel in which she was known to carry a pistol.When her husband saw Field, he walked behind him and slapped Field twice with such force that his glasses were knocked off. Neagle, who was 5'7" tall and weighed 145 pounds, testified that the 6'3", 250-pound Terry recognized Neagle from the earlier confrontation in the courtroom. Neagle later said he saw a look of determination and victory on Terry's face. Neagle rose from his chair and said, "Stop that! I am an officer." Terry drew back his hand again and Neagle drew his .45-caliber revolver and shot Terry at point-blank range in the heart. Neagle announced to the 80 to 100 people in the dining room, "I am a United States Marshal and I defy anyone to touch me!"Field told them that Terry had assaulted him "and my officer shot him." <mask> <mask> had been held at the door by one of the dining room proprietors, who had searched the satchel and found a gun within it. She screamed and pushed her way through the crowd, throwing herself over her husband's body. Neagle thought he saw her covertly remove David Terry's knife from his vest. She challenged the crowd to search his body, insistent he was unarmed. The knife was later found in her satchel with the pistol. Declared insane
After her husband's death, <mask> became obsessed with spiritualism, hiring medium after medium to put her in touch with David Terry.Eventually, since she had no money to hire lawyers, the Sharon case gradually came to an end as the final cases were either dismissed or quickly decided against her. By February, 1892, newspapers were reporting that Mrs. Terry was insane. She wandered aimlessly in the streets of San Francisco, ignoring her appearance. She constantly talked to "spirits," especially that of her husband, and could not sleep. She had periods of violence and believed that she was being tormented by electricity and hypnotism. Abandoned by her relatives since the beginning of the Sharon case, Terry's fate was left to the only friends she had left, R. Porter Ashe and Mary Ellen Pleasant. Pleasant initiated action to have Terry committed to an insane asylum.After a brief examination by the Insanity Commission, <mask> was committed at age 33 to the California Asylum at Stockton (later known as the Stockton State Hospital) on March 11, 1892. Diagnosed with “dementia praecox,” an early term for schizophrenia, she was extremely violent and had to be restrained for years in the asylum. Despite being termed "our best known patient" by Dr. Asa Clark, the hospital superintendent, Terry received almost no visitors over the years other than a few authors researching her case. She was not treated except with sedatives and eventually adapted to her life in the institution but was deluded into thinking that she was a rich and grand lady, the hospital was her mansion, and the staff her servants. She remained incarcerated for forty-five years, from ages 42 to 86. When she died of pneumonia, Cornelia Terry, the granddaughter of David Terry, stepped forward to offer her a proper burial, saving <mask> from being buried on the hospital grounds. <mask> <mask> is buried in the Terry family plot in the Stockton Rural Cemetery.References
Other sources
Holdredge, Helen (1953). Mammy Pleasant. New York City: G. P. Putnam and Sons. ISBN ASIN: B0006ATHHQ. W. H. L. Barnes, Argument for the Defendant, <mask> Sharon vs. William Sharon (San Francisco: Barry, Baird & Co., 1884). Oscar T. Shuck, ed., History of the bench and bar of California (Los Angeles: The Commercial Printing House, 1901). John D. Lawson, ed., American State Trials, Volume XV (St. Louis: Thomas Law Book Co., 1926).1850 births
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When her stomach was pumped, she was saved. <mask> met William Sharon, the president of the Bank of California, in the fall of 1880 when he was 30 years old.He was a widower and one of the richest men in the country at the time. He gave her $500 per month and a room in the San Francisco Grand Hotel for the pleasure of her. He tried to end the relationship but she wouldn't. He had the carpets ripped up and the door hinges removed to get her out of the room. He was sued for divorce by a woman who claimed to be his wife after he began a relationship with another woman. David S. Terry was one of her attorneys. Sharon claimed he hired <mask> to be his mistress.Hill produced 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 888-353-1299 She testified that he was up for re-election and couldn't afford the scandal that would result if his mistress heard about the marriage. Sharon claimed that the marriage contract she produced was fraudulent. The first case was won by <mask>. The judge awarded her alimony and half of William Sharon's accumulated wealth after she was declared the legal wife of him. <mask> never received any of Sharon's money because of counter-suits and appeals. On November 13, 1885, William Sharon died.She said she found a handwritten will in his desk. Sharon's authenticity was doubted by those who knew her. The entire estate of Sharon was given to <mask>. <mask> married one of her lawyers on January 7, 1886. Terry was the person who killed Senator David C. Broderick. <mask> and Terry were married at Terry's home town church. The Sharon family continued to fight.The custom at the time was for the U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Johnson Field to assist the California Circuit Court. He was assigned to the Sharon case. William Sharon's son and son-in-law continued the case after his death. Many people were suspicious of the will <mask> claimed to have found. Mary Ellen Pleasant bankrolled <mask>'s expenses. The lawsuit catapulted <mask> into the national spotlight and earned her the nickname, The Rose of Sharon. In January 1886, a U.S.A Circuit Judge and a U.S. District Court Judge made a decision. The marriage contract was found to be a forgery by the court and had to be turned over to the court so that it could be nullified. The Terrys were jailed for not complying with the court's order. They went back to the court in March of 1888. The final Circuit Court opinion was delivered by Field. He found the will to be a forgery. <mask> <mask> suddenly stood up, screamed obscenities at the judge, and fumbled in her handbag for her gun.When marshal John Franks tried to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry drew a knife and defended his wife. The marshals drew their guns after he hit Franks. Spectators subdued Terry and led him out of the courtroom, where he pulled a knife and threatened everyone around him. David Neagle put his pistol in Terry's face. Both Terrys were taken into custody. They were sentenced to jail for contempt of court by Justice Field. David Terry and <mask> were both sentenced to six months in jail.Terry and his wife threatened Justice Field while they were in jail. There were more setbacks for the Terrys. David and <mask> were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from their behavior in the courtroom. The order that invalidated <mask> Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon was refused to review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The California Supreme Court reversed itself in July after only one of the four judges who had previously ruled in their favor. <mask> Terry and Sharon were never legally married because they kept their marriage a secret. <mask> had a miscarriage while in jail.The newspapers speculated about the likelihood of an attack on Field. On May 6, 1889, the U.S. Attorney General ordered Franks to appoint Neagle as a marshal to protect Field. David and <mask> Terry were released from jail. On August 14, 1889, Field and Neagle boarded a train in Fresno and were on their way back from Los Angeles. All of the passengers disembarked the train at Lathrop, California, and went to eat breakfast in the dining room. Field was seen by <mask> Terry after she entered the dining room. She got out of the train car and went back to get the pistol she was known to carry.Field's glasses were knocked off when his husband slapped him twice when he saw him. Neagle testified that Terry recognized him from the earlier confrontation in the courtroom. Neagle said he saw a determination on Terry's face. "Stop that!" Neagle said from his chair. I am an officer. Neagle shot Terry at point-blank range in the heart after Terry drew back his hand. The 80 to 100 people in the dining room were told by Neagle that he was a United States marshal.Field told them that his officer shot Terry. Terry was held at the door by the proprietors of the dining room, who found a gun in the satchel. She threw herself over her husband's body after screaming. Neagle thought she removed David Terry's knife from his vest. She wanted the crowd to search his body. She had a pistol and a knife in her bag. <mask> was declared insane after her husband's death and became obsessed with spiritualism.The Sharon case came to an end as the final cases were either dismissed or decided against her, since she had no money to hire lawyers. The newspapers reported that Mrs. Terry was insane. She was wandering aimlessly in the streets of San Francisco. She talked to spirits and could not sleep. 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4386805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Marles | Richard Marles | Richard Donald Marles (born 13 July 1967) is an Australian politician who has been deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and Deputy Leader of the Opposition since May 2019. He has held the Division of Corio in Victoria since the 2007 federal election. He was a parliamentary secretary from 2009 to 2013, and briefly served as Minister for Trade in the second Rudd Government from June to September 2013. He has been a member of the shadow cabinet since Labor's defeat at the 2013 election.
Early life
Marles was born in Geelong, Victoria. He is the son of Donald Marles, a former headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and Fay Marles (née Pearce), Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner and later Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
Marles was educated at Geelong Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he resided at Ormond College. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours. He joined the Melbourne University Labor Club in his first week at university. He was also the General Secretary of the National Union of Students in 1989. He started his career as a solicitor with Melbourne industrial law firm Slater and Gordon. In 1994, he became legal officer for the Transport Workers Union (TWU). He was elected TWU National Assistant Secretary four years later. In 2000 he joined Australia's peak national union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), as assistant secretary, remaining in the position until 2007.
Politics
Early career
In March 2006, Marles nominated for Labor preselection against the sitting member for Corio, Gavan O'Connor, as part of a challenge to several sitting members organised by the right-wing Labor Unity faction of the party. In the local ballot Marles polled 57% of the vote, and his endorsement was then confirmed by the party's public office selection committee.
Marles was elected member for Corio on 24 November 2007 in the election that returned the Labor Party to office under the leadership of Kevin Rudd. From February 2008 to June 2009 he was chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs.
Parliamentary secretary and Minister for Trade
In June 2009 Marles was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry. He retained his seat in the 2010 election and was sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs in the First Gillard Ministry on 14 September 2010. In July 2011, Marles became the first Australian member of parliament to visit Wallis and Futuna. Marles arrived in Wallis and Futuna to attend a ceremony with King Kapiliele Faupala in Mata-Utu marking the 50th anniversary of the islands' status as a French Overseas collectivity. Marles had previously visited New Caledonia in October 2010 and French Polynesia in March 2011.
In the ministerial reshuffle of 2 March 2012, Marles was given the additional role of Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. On 21 March 2013 he resigned these roles after expressing support for Kevin Rudd to challenge Julia Gillard for the leadership; a challenge that did not eventuate.
In June 2013, he was appointed the Minister for Trade and a member of the Cabinet, succeeding Craig Emerson, who resigned following the June 2013 leadership spill that saw Kevin Rudd defeat Julia Gillard for leadership of the Labor Party.
Shadow minister
After the ALP's defeat at the 2013 federal election, Marles was appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection under opposition leader Bill Shorten. In February 2016, he began co-hosting the weekly television program Pyne & Marles on Sky News Live with Liberal MP Christopher Pyne. Marles had his portfolio changed after the 2016 election, becoming Shadow Minister for Defence. He has been cited as holding pro-U.S. views and as a "somewhat of a hawk".
Deputy Leader of the Opposition
In May 2019, after Labor lost the 2019 federal election, it was reported that Marles would stand for the deputy leadership of the party, and would likely be elected unopposed following Clare O'Neil's decision not to run. He was formally endorsed as deputy to Anthony Albanese on 30 May, and selected the portfolio of Defence in the shadow cabinet.
Following a shadow cabinet reshuffle in January 2021, Marles was placed in charge of a new "super portfolio" relating to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, encompassing a "broad brief across national reconstruction, jobs, skills, small business and science".
Political positions
Marles is a senior figure in his state's Labor Right faction.
Refugees and asylum seekers
Marles supports the turning back of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat and a Pacific Solution for the resettlement of refugees.
Marles was supportive of an Australian War Memorial commemorating Operation Sovereign Borders navy personnel who undertook activities to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat. That position was slammed by several Labor Left MPs as well as the Greens.
National defence
Marles is critical of the governments handling of the future submarine program and says that the project has "profoundly compromised Australia's National security". Marles otherwise supports the bipartisan consensus on national defence matters.
Fossil fuels and energy
On an interview on Sky News on 20 February 2019, Marles stated that it would be "a good thing" if the thermal coal market in Australia collapsed. He later back-tracked on this statement, saying that his "attack on coal was tone-deaf".
Following the 2019 Federal Election, Marles maintained that public funds should not be used to subsidise coal, saying "a Labor government is not going to put a cent into subsidising coal-fired power", and the market should be allowed to make its own decisions, while also saying that if a private company decided to push forward with a mine and gained the necessary approvals that Labor would not stand in its way.
Personal life
Marles lives in Geelong with his wife Rachel Schutze. He has three children from his current marriage and one from his first marriage to Lisa Neville, who was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 2002.
References
Notes
Footnotes
External links
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Living people
Members of the Cabinet of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Corio
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"He has held the Division of Corio in Victoria since the 2007 federal election.",
"He was a parliamentary secretary from 2009 to 2013, and briefly served as Minister for Trade in the second Rudd Government from June to September 2013.",
"He has been a member of the shadow cabinet since Labor's defeat at the 2013 election.",
"Early life\nMarles was born in Geelong, Victoria.",
"He is the son of Donald Marles, a former headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and Fay Marles (née Pearce), Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner and later Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.",
"Marles was educated at Geelong Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he resided at Ormond College.",
"He graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours.",
"He joined the Melbourne University Labor Club in his first week at university.",
"He was also the General Secretary of the National Union of Students in 1989.",
"He started his career as a solicitor with Melbourne industrial law firm Slater and Gordon.",
"In 1994, he became legal officer for the Transport Workers Union (TWU).",
"He was elected TWU National Assistant Secretary four years later.",
"In 2000 he joined Australia's peak national union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), as assistant secretary, remaining in the position until 2007.",
"Politics\n\nEarly career\nIn March 2006, Marles nominated for Labor preselection against the sitting member for Corio, Gavan O'Connor, as part of a challenge to several sitting members organised by the right-wing Labor Unity faction of the party.",
"In the local ballot Marles polled 57% of the vote, and his endorsement was then confirmed by the party's public office selection committee.",
"Marles was elected member for Corio on 24 November 2007 in the election that returned the Labor Party to office under the leadership of Kevin Rudd.",
"From February 2008 to June 2009 he was chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs.",
"Parliamentary secretary and Minister for Trade\nIn June 2009 Marles was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry.",
"He retained his seat in the 2010 election and was sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs in the First Gillard Ministry on 14 September 2010.",
"In July 2011, Marles became the first Australian member of parliament to visit Wallis and Futuna.",
"Marles arrived in Wallis and Futuna to attend a ceremony with King Kapiliele Faupala in Mata-Utu marking the 50th anniversary of the islands' status as a French Overseas collectivity.",
"Marles had previously visited New Caledonia in October 2010 and French Polynesia in March 2011.",
"In the ministerial reshuffle of 2 March 2012, Marles was given the additional role of Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs.",
"On 21 March 2013 he resigned these roles after expressing support for Kevin Rudd to challenge Julia Gillard for the leadership; a challenge that did not eventuate.",
"In June 2013, he was appointed the Minister for Trade and a member of the Cabinet, succeeding Craig Emerson, who resigned following the June 2013 leadership spill that saw Kevin Rudd defeat Julia Gillard for leadership of the Labor Party.",
"Shadow minister\nAfter the ALP's defeat at the 2013 federal election, Marles was appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection under opposition leader Bill Shorten.",
"In February 2016, he began co-hosting the weekly television program Pyne & Marles on Sky News Live with Liberal MP Christopher Pyne.",
"Marles had his portfolio changed after the 2016 election, becoming Shadow Minister for Defence.",
"He has been cited as holding pro-U.S. views and as a \"somewhat of a hawk\".",
"Deputy Leader of the Opposition\nIn May 2019, after Labor lost the 2019 federal election, it was reported that Marles would stand for the deputy leadership of the party, and would likely be elected unopposed following Clare O'Neil's decision not to run.",
"He was formally endorsed as deputy to Anthony Albanese on 30 May, and selected the portfolio of Defence in the shadow cabinet.",
"Following a shadow cabinet reshuffle in January 2021, Marles was placed in charge of a new \"super portfolio\" relating to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, encompassing a \"broad brief across national reconstruction, jobs, skills, small business and science\".",
"Political positions\nMarles is a senior figure in his state's Labor Right faction.",
"Refugees and asylum seekers\nMarles supports the turning back of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat and a Pacific Solution for the resettlement of refugees.",
"Marles was supportive of an Australian War Memorial commemorating Operation Sovereign Borders navy personnel who undertook activities to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat.",
"That position was slammed by several Labor Left MPs as well as the Greens.",
"National defence\nMarles is critical of the governments handling of the future submarine program and says that the project has \"profoundly compromised Australia's National security\".",
"Marles otherwise supports the bipartisan consensus on national defence matters.",
"Fossil fuels and energy \nOn an interview on Sky News on 20 February 2019, Marles stated that it would be \"a good thing\" if the thermal coal market in Australia collapsed.",
"He later back-tracked on this statement, saying that his \"attack on coal was tone-deaf\".",
"Following the 2019 Federal Election, Marles maintained that public funds should not be used to subsidise coal, saying \"a Labor government is not going to put a cent into subsidising coal-fired power\", and the market should be allowed to make its own decisions, while also saying that if a private company decided to push forward with a mine and gained the necessary approvals that Labor would not stand in its way.",
"Personal life\nMarles lives in Geelong with his wife Rachel Schutze.",
"He has three children from his current marriage and one from his first marriage to Lisa Neville, who was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 2002.",
"References\nNotes\n\nFootnotes\n\nExternal links\n\n Richard Marles' website\n \n\n1967 births\nAustralian lawyers\nAustralian trade unionists\nPeople educated at Geelong Grammar School\nPoliticians from Geelong\nLiving people\nMembers of the Cabinet of Australia\nMembers of the Australian House of Representatives for Corio\nMembers of the Australian House of Representatives\nUniversity of Melbourne alumni\nAustralian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia\nLabor Right politicians\nSky News Australia reporters and presenters\n21st-century Australian politicians\nGovernment ministers of Australia"
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"The Division of Corio has been held by him since the federal election.",
"He was a parliamentary secretary and Minister for Trade in the second Rudd Government.",
"He is a member of the shadow cabinet.",
"Marles was born in Victoria.",
"He is the son of two people, one of which was the first Equal Opportunity Commissioner in Victoria.",
"He resided at Ormond College after graduating from the University of Melbourne.",
"He received a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws.",
"In his first week at university, he joined the Labor Club.",
"He was the General Secretary of the National Union of Students in 1989.",
"He started his career with a law firm.",
"He became the legal officer for the TWU in 1994.",
"Four years later, he was elected TWU National Assistant Secretary.",
"He was the assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 2000 to 2007.",
"In March 2006 Marles was nominated for Labor preselection against the sitting member for Corio, Gavan O'Connor, as part of a challenge to several sitting members.",
"The endorsement was confirmed by the party's public office selection committee after the local ballot.",
"Kevin Rudd was elected leader of the Labor Party in the election that returned the party to office.",
"He chaired the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from February 2008 to June 2009.",
"In June of 2009, Marles was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry.",
"He was sworn in as the Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs on September 14, 2010 after retaining his seat in the 2010 election.",
"In July of 2011, Marles became the first Australian member of parliament to visit Futuna.",
"The 50th anniversary of the islands' status as a French Overseas collectivity was marked by a ceremony in Mata-Utu.",
"In October of 2010 and March of 2011.",
"The Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs was given an additional role as a result of the ministerial reshuffle.",
"He resigned from these roles in March of last year, after supporting Kevin Rudd to challenge Julia Gillard for the leadership.",
"He was appointed the Minister for Trade and a member of the Cabinet in June 2013.",
"The Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection was appointed after the Labor Party's defeat in the federal election.",
"He co-hosted the weekly television program Pyne & Marles on Sky News Live with Christopher Pyne.",
"He became Shadow Minister for Defence after the election.",
"He holds pro-U.S. views and is a hawk.",
"After Labor lost the federal election in May, it was reported that the deputy leader of the party would be chosen without a contest.",
"He was nominated for the portfolio of Defence in the shadow cabinet after being endorsed as deputy to Anthony Albanese.",
"A new \"super portfolio\" relating to recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic was created by the shadow cabinet in January 2021.",
"Political positions are held by a senior figure in his state's Labor Right group.",
"The turning back of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat is supported by refugees and asylum seekers.",
"The navy personnel who undertook activities to stop asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat were supported by the Australian War Memorial.",
"Several Labor Left MPs as well as the Greens slammed that position.",
"The future submarine program has \"profoundly compromised Australia's National security\" according to national defence.",
"The bipartisan consensus on national defence matters is supported by Marles.",
"If the thermal coal market in Australia collapsed, it would be a good thing.",
"He said that his attack on coal was tone-deaf.",
"The market should be allowed to make its own decisions, while also saying that public funds should not be used to subsidise coal, because a Labor government is not going to put a cent into subsidising coal-fired power.",
"The personal life of Marles is with his wife Rachel Schutze.",
"He has three children from his current marriage and one from his first marriage.",
"Richard Marles' website has links to the following: 1967 births Australian lawyers Australian trade unionists People educated at Geelong Grammar School Politicians from Geelong Living people Members of the Cabinet of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Corio"
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<mask> was born in Geelong, Victoria. He is the son of <mask>, a former headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and <mask> (née Pearce), Victoria's first Equal Opportunity Commissioner and later Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. <mask> was educated at Geelong Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he resided at Ormond College.He graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws with Honours. He joined the Melbourne University Labor Club in his first week at university. He was also the General Secretary of the National Union of Students in 1989. He started his career as a solicitor with Melbourne industrial law firm Slater and Gordon. In 1994, he became legal officer for the Transport Workers Union (TWU). He was elected TWU National Assistant Secretary four years later. In 2000 he joined Australia's peak national union body, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), as assistant secretary, remaining in the position until 2007.Politics
Early career
In March 2006, <mask> nominated for Labor preselection against the sitting member for Corio, Gavan O'Connor, as part of a challenge to several sitting members organised by the right-wing Labor Unity faction of the party. In the local ballot <mask> polled 57% of the vote, and his endorsement was then confirmed by the party's public office selection committee. <mask> was elected member for Corio on 24 November 2007 in the election that returned the Labor Party to office under the leadership of Kevin Rudd. From February 2008 to June 2009 he was chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs. Parliamentary secretary and Minister for Trade
In June 2009 <mask> was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry. He retained his seat in the 2010 election and was sworn in as Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs in the First Gillard Ministry on 14 September 2010. In July 2011, <mask> became the first Australian member of parliament to visit Wallis and Futuna.<mask> arrived in Wallis and Futuna to attend a ceremony with King Kapiliele Faupala in Mata-Utu marking the 50th anniversary of the islands' status as a French Overseas collectivity. <mask> had previously visited New Caledonia in October 2010 and French Polynesia in March 2011. In the ministerial reshuffle of 2 March 2012, <mask> was given the additional role of Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. On 21 March 2013 he resigned these roles after expressing support for Kevin Rudd to challenge Julia Gillard for the leadership; a challenge that did not eventuate. In June 2013, he was appointed the Minister for Trade and a member of the Cabinet, succeeding Craig Emerson, who resigned following the June 2013 leadership spill that saw Kevin Rudd defeat Julia Gillard for leadership of the Labor Party. Shadow minister
After the ALP's defeat at the 2013 federal election, <mask> was appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection under opposition leader Bill Shorten. In February 2016, he began co-hosting the weekly television program Pyne & Marles on Sky News Live with Liberal MP Christopher Pyne.<mask> had his portfolio changed after the 2016 election, becoming Shadow Minister for Defence. He has been cited as holding pro-U.S. views and as a "somewhat of a hawk". Deputy Leader of the Opposition
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<mask> lives in Geelong with his wife Rachel Schutze. He has three children from his current marriage and one from his first marriage to Lisa Neville, who was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 2002. References
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External links
<mask>' website
1967 births
Australian lawyers
Australian trade unionists
People educated at Geelong Grammar School
Politicians from Geelong
Living people
Members of the Cabinet of Australia
Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Corio
Members of the Australian House of Representatives
University of Melbourne alumni
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia
Labor Right politicians
Sky News Australia reporters and presenters
21st-century Australian politicians
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50314660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony%20B%C3%A9raud | Antony Béraud | Antony Béraud, real name Antoine-Nicolas Béraud, (11 January 1791 – 6 February 1860) was a French military, chansonnier, writer, poet, historian and playwright.
Life
In 1809 he entered the École militaire de Saint-Cyr and became second lieutenant. He was then sent to garrison at Milan and took part to the last campaigns of the Empire. Captain, he was captured at the battle of the Mincio River on 8 February 1814. Captain of staff during the Hundred Days, he served at Grenoble then participated to the battle of Waterloo and battle of Ligny where he gained the rank of battalion chief.
Dismissed, degraded and put on half pay under Louis XVIII, he then embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines : Revue et gazette des théâtres, La Minerve, L'Abeille, L'Indépendant, La Boussole politique, La Pandore, Le Siècle, Les Salons de Paris, les Annales de l'école française et des beaux-arts etc.
His poems and songs directed against the Bourbon earned him six months' imprisonment. He was particularly active in the Trois Glorieuses, was awarded the croix de juillet and was returned his Légion d'honneur. He was also reinstated as battalion commander of the National Guard of Paris, a position he would leave in 1834.
In 1832 he was awarded a medal of the city of Paris for his bravery during the cholera epidemic.
Managing director of the Théâtre Saint-Marcel (1839), then of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1840-1849), in 1849 he became director of the prison of Belle-Isle en mer (1849-1850).
His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages, including: Théâtre de l'Ambigu, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and Théâtre de l'Odéon.
Works
1815 : Lettres à mon ami et à ma maîtresse, poems
1815 : La dauphinoise, song
1826 : Satires ménippées sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française, avec des notes critiques et historiques, par un ancien troubadour
1817-1818 : Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des évènements de la fin du dix-huitième siècle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806-1810, 6 vol., with Jean-François Géorgel
1818 : Le Champ d'asile, Serrez-vous bien, songs
1818 : Les Veillées d'une captive, with Auguste Imbert and Louis-François L'Héritier
1819 : Le départ du poète
1819 : Les Modes parisiennes, almanach pour l'année 1820
1820 : Amour, orgueil et sagesse, short stories
1821: La liberté, Ode à David exilé, Le rappel, poems
1822 : Trois jours de promenade d'un étudiant en droit
1824 : Un mot sur le tableau d'Iphigénie, refusé par le jury de peinture, au Salon de 1824
1824 : Nouveaux mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon
1825 : Dictionnaire historique de Paris
1827 : Cri d'un vieux soldat à l'ex-garde nationale
1831 : Veilles poétiques
1832 : Introduction à toutes les histoires de France, ou Histoire des peuples qui ont habité la Gaule, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à Clovis
1833 : Histoire pittoresque de la Révolution française
1834 : L'Avenir des peuples, histoire contemporaine des mœurs, des arts, de l'industrie, du commerce, des voyages
1835 : Mémoires inédits de Henri Masers de Latude, with Henri Masers de Latude
1835 : Veilles patriotiques
1836 : Le Pendu, histoire d'une grande dame de la restauration napolitaine et du baron Pierre Férat, aujourd'hui galérien
1836 : Versailles et son musée, à-propos en vers
1848 : Le Nœud républicain, couplets chantés au banquet fraternel donné par la 5me compagnie du 2me bataillon de la 6e légion
Theatre
Les Deux coups de sabre, drama in 3 acts, with Charles Puysaye, 1822
Cardillac ou Le quartier de l'Arsenal, melodrama in three acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1824
Les Aventuriers, ou le Naufrage, melodrama in 3 acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1824
Cagliostro, melodrama in 3 acts, with Léopold Chandezon, 1825
Les Prisonniers de guerre, melodrama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1825
La Redingotte et la perruque, ou le Testament, mimodrama in 3 acts à grand spectacle, with Chandezon, 1825
Charles Stuart, ou le Château de Woodstock, melodrama in 3 acts, à grand spectacle, with Eugène Cantiran de Boirie, 1826
Le Corregidor ou les Contrebandiers, melodrama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1826
Le monstre et le magicien, melodrama féerique in three acts, with Merle, 1826
Le monstre et le magicien, melodrama, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Crosnier, 1826
Irène ou la prise de Napoli, melodrame in 2 acts, with Chandezon, 1827
Le vétéran, pièce militaire in 2 acts, with Chandezon, 1827
Faust, drama in 3 acts, with Jean-Toussaint Merle and Charles Nodier, 1828
La Duchesse et le page, comedy in 3 acts, in prose, 1828
Le Siège de Saragosse, pièce militaire in 2 acts à grand spectacle, 1828
Tom-Wild, ou le Bourreau, melodrama in 3 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, 1828
Le Fou, drama in 3 acts, with Alexis Decomberousse and Gustave Drouineau, 1829
Nostradamus, drama in 3 acts and 6 parts, with Valory, 1829
Adrienne Lecouvreur, with Valory, 1830
Guido Reni ou Les artistes, play in 5 acts and in verses, with Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, 1833
Le gars, drama in five acts and six tableaux, 1837
Lélia, drama in 3 acts, in prose, with Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol, 1838
La verrerie de la gare, drame anecdotique et populaire in 3 acts, 1838
Le prêteur sur gages, drama in trois acts, with Henri de Saint-Georges, 1838
Napoléon, drame historique in 3 acts and 5 tableaux, with Théophile Marion Dumersan, 1839
Meurtre et dévouement, drama in 3 acts, 1839
Édith ou La veuve de Southampton, drama in 4 acts, with Alphonse Brot, 1840
Francesco Martinez, drama in three acts, 1840
Le maître à tous, comedy in 2 acts, with Charles Potier, 1840
La Lescombat, drama in 5 acts, with Brot, 1841
Le Miracle des roses, drama in 16 tableaux, with Hippolyte Hostein, 1844
Le Rôdeur, ou les Deux apprentis, drama in 3 acts, with Chandezon, 1844
Hortense de Blengie, comédie-drame in 3 acts, with Frédéric Soulié, 1848
Entre l'enclume et le marteau, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1850
Taconnet, ou l'Acteur des boulevards, vaudeville in 5 acts, with Clairville, 1852
Un Festival, comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, 1853
Les Guides de Kinrose, drame-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Édouard Brisebarre, 1854
Bibliography
Gustave Vapereau, Dictionnaire universel des contemporains, (p. 169) read on line
Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe siècle, 1865, (p. 595) read on line
Camille Dreyfus, André Berthelot, La Grande encyclopédie, 1886, (p. 259)
Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny, Alfred Fierro, Bibliographie critique des mémoires sur la Restauration, 1988, (p. 28)
Edward Forman, Historical Dictionary of French Theater, 2010, (p. 24)
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French chansonniers
19th-century French poets
19th-century French historians
People from Aurillac
1791 births
1860 deaths | [
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"Life \nIn 1809 he entered the École militaire de Saint-Cyr and became second lieutenant.",
"He was then sent to garrison at Milan and took part to the last campaigns of the Empire.",
"Captain, he was captured at the battle of the Mincio River on 8 February 1814.",
"Captain of staff during the Hundred Days, he served at Grenoble then participated to the battle of Waterloo and battle of Ligny where he gained the rank of battalion chief.",
"Dismissed, degraded and put on half pay under Louis XVIII, he then embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines : Revue et gazette des théâtres, La Minerve, L'Abeille, L'Indépendant, La Boussole politique, La Pandore, Le Siècle, Les Salons de Paris, les Annales de l'école française et des beaux-arts etc.",
"His poems and songs directed against the Bourbon earned him six months' imprisonment.",
"He was particularly active in the Trois Glorieuses, was awarded the croix de juillet and was returned his Légion d'honneur.",
"He was also reinstated as battalion commander of the National Guard of Paris, a position he would leave in 1834.",
"In 1832 he was awarded a medal of the city of Paris for his bravery during the cholera epidemic.",
"Managing director of the Théâtre Saint-Marcel (1839), then of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1840-1849), in 1849 he became director of the prison of Belle-Isle en mer (1849-1850).",
"His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages, including: Théâtre de l'Ambigu, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and Théâtre de l'Odéon."
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"He became second lieutenant in the cole militaire de Saint-Cyr.",
"He took part in the last campaigns of the Empire after being sent to garrison at Milan.",
"He was captured at the battle of the Mincio River.",
"He gained the rank of battalion chief after participating in the battle of Ligny and the battle of Waterloo.",
"After being dismissed, degraded and put on half pay, he embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines.",
"He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for his poems and songs.",
"He received the croix de juillet and the Légion d'honneur.",
"He would leave his position as battalion commander of the National Guard of Paris in 1834.",
"He received a medal from the city of Paris for his bravery during the epidemic.",
"The managing director of the Thétre Saint-Marcel was also the director of the prison of Belle-Isle en mer.",
"His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages."
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In 1809 he entered the École militaire de Saint-Cyr and became second lieutenant. He was then sent to garrison at Milan and took part to the last campaigns of the Empire. Captain, he was captured at the battle of the Mincio River on 8 February 1814. Captain of staff during the Hundred Days, he served at Grenoble then participated to the battle of Waterloo and battle of Ligny where he gained the rank of battalion chief. Dismissed, degraded and put on half pay under Louis XVIII, he then embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines : Revue et gazette des théâtres, La Minerve, L'Abeille, L'Indépendant, La Boussole politique, La Pandore, Le Siècle, Les Salons de Paris, les Annales de l'école française et des beaux-arts etc. His poems and songs directed against the Bourbon earned him six months' imprisonment.He was particularly active in the Trois Glorieuses, was awarded the croix de juillet and was returned his Légion d'honneur. He was also reinstated as battalion commander of the National Guard of Paris, a position he would leave in 1834. In 1832 he was awarded a medal of the city of Paris for his bravery during the cholera epidemic. Managing director of the Théâtre Saint-Marcel (1839), then of the Théâtre de l'Ambigu (1840-1849), in 1849 he became director of the prison of Belle-Isle en mer (1849-1850). His plays were performed on the most important Parisian stages, including: Théâtre de l'Ambigu, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, and Théâtre de l'Odéon. | [
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5595951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Carrazzo | Andrew Carrazzo | Andrew Carrazzo (born 15 December 1983) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Junior career
Carrazzo played junior football with the St Simons Football Club in Rowville and with the Knox Eagles Football Club in Ferntree Gully. Carrazzo played with Oakleigh Chargers in the TAC Cup competition, finishing his final season runner up in the Morrish Medal for best player in the competition in 2001, as well as winning All-Australian honours in the national under-18 carnival.
AFL career
Carrazzo was initially selected as a rookie by in 2002. He spent two seasons on the rookie list at Geelong, winning the Geelong VFL team's best and fairest award in 2003, but never breaking into the Geelong senior list. He was again rookie listed in 2004, this time by . After another strong season in the VFL, he was elevated to the senior list, making his debut for Carlton in Round 21, 2004 against . He was the last Carlton player to make his AFL debut at the club's traditional home ground at Princes Park.
From the start of the 2005 season until the end of his career eleven years later, Carrazzo was a regular in the Carlton team, as he became an integral part of the Carlton midfield. Depending on the needs of the team, Carrazzo was able to play as a high-possession ball-winning midfielder, or as a strong tagger. He had a break-out season in 2007, playing as the main ball-winner in a midfield which lacked experience following a season-ending injury to established follower Nick Stevens, and he won the 2007 John Nicholls Medal as Carlton's best and fairest, beating Heath Scotland by 6 votes for the award. Carrazzo received 11 votes at the 2007 Brownlow Medal.
In Round 7, 2008 against the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco, Carrazzo picked up an AFL career high 42 disposals. With the recruitment of Chris Judd and the return of Nick Stevens from injury, Carrazzo was moved out of the midfield, and spent most of the season playing as a rebounding defender. Carrazzo played the first 21 games of the season, before injury forced him out in Round 22 after 54 consecutive games.
Carrazzo fractured his forearm during an intraclub practice match in the 2009 preseason, missing the first four games of the AFL season. He played two games with the Northern Bullants to regain match fitness, and in the second amassed 55 disposals against Box Hill, before being returned to the AFL seniors for Round 5. A further injury to his thumb kept him sidelined for another four weeks, before returning to play all remaining games, including Carlton's elimination final loss to the . Carrazzo played primarily a primarily defensive midfield roles in 2009, as well as playing on medium-sized opposition half-back flankers.
Carrazzo played his 100th AFL game for Carlton in Round 1 of the 2010 season against , and was named acting captain for the first time in that game in the absence of Chris Judd, and served as a vice-captain for the next few years. He played all twenty-three games in 2010, and finished fifth in the club Best and Fairest. He was awarded life membership of the Carlton Football Club in December 2011.
By the early 2012 season, Carrazzo was rated by sportswriters as one of the best taggers in the game, able to shut down some of the game's best midfielders and win plenty of the ball himself in the same game. He attracted particular praise for a two-way shutdown role against Collingwood's Scott Pendlebury in Round 3, 2012; but the following week his shoulder blade was broken in a strong driving tackle from behind by 's Sam Lonergan, and he missed the next two months. Although the tackle did not attract sanction from the tribunal, Lonergan received death threats via Twitter in relation to the incident.
Carrazzo was limited to 39 of a possible 67 games in the final three years of his career, suffering from recurring calf injuries during that time, but he remained a consistent attacking tagger during that time. He retired at the end of the 2015 season after 194 games in twelve seasons at Carlton. He briefly pursued a career in umpiring through the AFL's player pathway program, umpiring at a suburban level in early 2016, but retired from that in June 2016 after continued trouble from his calf injuries.
Statistics
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2004
|
| 44 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 21 || 15 || 36 || 9 || 4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 10.5 || 7.5 || 18.0 || 4.5 || 2.0 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2005
|
| 44 || 20 || 4 || 4 || 196 || 118 || 314 || 83 || 41 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 9.8 || 5.9 || 15.7 || 4.2 || 2.1 || 2
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2006
|
| 44 || 19 || 4 || 6 || 209 || 170 || 379 || 123 || 38 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 11.0 || 8.9 || 19.9 || 6.5 || 2.0 || 0
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2007
|
| 44 || 22 || 8 || 6 || 287 || 282 || 569 || 114 || 101 || 0.4 || 0.3 || 13.0 || 12.8 || 25.9 || 5.2 || 4.6 || 11
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008
|
| 44 || 21 || 4 || 3 || 282 || 255 || 537 || 133 || 65 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 13.4 || 12.1 || 25.6 || 6.3 || 3.1 || 1
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2009
|
| 44 || 15 || 12 || 8 || 180 || 174 || 354 || 58 || 47 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 12.0 || 11.6 || 23.6 || 3.9 || 3.1 || 0
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2010
|
| 44 || 23 || 4 || 8 || 254 || 266 || 520 || 100 || 77 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 11.0 || 11.6 || 22.6 || 4.3 || 3.3 || 2
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2011
|
| 44 || 18 || 5 || 3 || 205 || 219 || 424 || 75 || 95 || 0.3 || 0.2 || 11.4 || 12.2 || 23.6 || 4.2 || 5.3 || 0
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2012
|
| 44 || 14 || 5 || 1 || 155 || 190 || 345 || 53 || 66 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 11.1 || 13.6 || 24.6 || 3.8 || 4.7 || 2
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2013
|
| 44 || 10 || 1 || 1 || 84 || 96 || 180 || 25 || 30 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 8.4 || 9.6 || 18.0 || 2.5 || 3.0 || 0
|- style="background:#eaeaea;"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2014
|
| 44 || 14 || 0 || 1 || 119 || 162 || 281 || 40 || 86 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 8.5 || 11.6 || 20.1 || 2.9 || 6.1 || 1
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015
|
| 44 || 16 || 1 || 3 || 128 || 237 || 365 || 40 || 63 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 8.0 || 14.8 || 22.8 || 2.5 || 3.9 || 1
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 194
! 48
! 44
! 2120
! 2184
! 4304
! 853
! 713
! 0.2
! 0.2
! 10.9
! 11.3
! 22.2
! 4.4
! 3.7
! 20
|}
Personal life
Carrazzo is of Italian descent. He attended De La Salle College, Malvern. He has been a lifelong Carlton supporter.
Carrazzo is married to Yvette Wood, after proposing in 2008. In January 2012, the couple welcomed triplets Grace, Charlotte and Sophia.
Carrazzo is often referred to, particularly amongst fans, by the nickname "Carrots", a deliberate mispronunciation of "Carrazz-".
References
External links
Carlton Football Club players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
John Nicholls Medal winners
1983 births
Living people
Australian people of Italian descent
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
Oakleigh Chargers players | [
"Andrew Carrazzo (born 15 December 1983) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).",
"Junior career\nCarrazzo played junior football with the St Simons Football Club in Rowville and with the Knox Eagles Football Club in Ferntree Gully.",
"Carrazzo played with Oakleigh Chargers in the TAC Cup competition, finishing his final season runner up in the Morrish Medal for best player in the competition in 2001, as well as winning All-Australian honours in the national under-18 carnival.",
"AFL career\nCarrazzo was initially selected as a rookie by in 2002.",
"He spent two seasons on the rookie list at Geelong, winning the Geelong VFL team's best and fairest award in 2003, but never breaking into the Geelong senior list.",
"He was again rookie listed in 2004, this time by .",
"After another strong season in the VFL, he was elevated to the senior list, making his debut for Carlton in Round 21, 2004 against .",
"He was the last Carlton player to make his AFL debut at the club's traditional home ground at Princes Park.",
"From the start of the 2005 season until the end of his career eleven years later, Carrazzo was a regular in the Carlton team, as he became an integral part of the Carlton midfield.",
"Depending on the needs of the team, Carrazzo was able to play as a high-possession ball-winning midfielder, or as a strong tagger.",
"He had a break-out season in 2007, playing as the main ball-winner in a midfield which lacked experience following a season-ending injury to established follower Nick Stevens, and he won the 2007 John Nicholls Medal as Carlton's best and fairest, beating Heath Scotland by 6 votes for the award.",
"Carrazzo received 11 votes at the 2007 Brownlow Medal.",
"In Round 7, 2008 against the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco, Carrazzo picked up an AFL career high 42 disposals.",
"With the recruitment of Chris Judd and the return of Nick Stevens from injury, Carrazzo was moved out of the midfield, and spent most of the season playing as a rebounding defender.",
"Carrazzo played the first 21 games of the season, before injury forced him out in Round 22 after 54 consecutive games.",
"Carrazzo fractured his forearm during an intraclub practice match in the 2009 preseason, missing the first four games of the AFL season.",
"He played two games with the Northern Bullants to regain match fitness, and in the second amassed 55 disposals against Box Hill, before being returned to the AFL seniors for Round 5.",
"A further injury to his thumb kept him sidelined for another four weeks, before returning to play all remaining games, including Carlton's elimination final loss to the .",
"Carrazzo played primarily a primarily defensive midfield roles in 2009, as well as playing on medium-sized opposition half-back flankers.",
"Carrazzo played his 100th AFL game for Carlton in Round 1 of the 2010 season against , and was named acting captain for the first time in that game in the absence of Chris Judd, and served as a vice-captain for the next few years.",
"He played all twenty-three games in 2010, and finished fifth in the club Best and Fairest.",
"He was awarded life membership of the Carlton Football Club in December 2011.",
"By the early 2012 season, Carrazzo was rated by sportswriters as one of the best taggers in the game, able to shut down some of the game's best midfielders and win plenty of the ball himself in the same game.",
"He attracted particular praise for a two-way shutdown role against Collingwood's Scott Pendlebury in Round 3, 2012; but the following week his shoulder blade was broken in a strong driving tackle from behind by 's Sam Lonergan, and he missed the next two months.",
"Although the tackle did not attract sanction from the tribunal, Lonergan received death threats via Twitter in relation to the incident.",
"Carrazzo was limited to 39 of a possible 67 games in the final three years of his career, suffering from recurring calf injuries during that time, but he remained a consistent attacking tagger during that time.",
"He retired at the end of the 2015 season after 194 games in twelve seasons at Carlton.",
"He briefly pursued a career in umpiring through the AFL's player pathway program, umpiring at a suburban level in early 2016, but retired from that in June 2016 after continued trouble from his calf injuries.",
"Statistics\n\n|- style=\"background:#eaeaea;\"\n!",
"scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:center\" | 2004\n|\n| 44 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 21 || 15 || 36 || 9 || 4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 10.5 || 7.5 || 18.0 || 4.5 || 2.0 || 0\n|-\n!",
"scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:center\" | 2005\n|\n| 44 || 20 || 4 || 4 || 196 || 118 || 314 || 83 || 41 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 9.8 || 5.9 || 15.7 || 4.2 || 2.1 || 2\n|- style=\"background:#eaeaea;\"\n!",
"scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:center\" | 2006\n|\n| 44 || 19 || 4 || 6 || 209 || 170 || 379 || 123 || 38 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 11.0 || 8.9 || 19.9 || 6.5 || 2.0 || 0\n|-\n!",
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"In January 2012, the couple welcomed triplets Grace, Charlotte and Sophia.",
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Carrazzo played junior football with the St Simons Football Club in Rowville and with the Knox Eagles Football Club in Ferntree Gully. <mask> played with Oakleigh Chargers in the TAC Cup competition, finishing his final season runner up in the Morrish Medal for best player in the competition in 2001, as well as winning All-Australian honours in the national under-18 carnival. AFL career
<mask> was initially selected as a rookie by in 2002. He spent two seasons on the rookie list at Geelong, winning the Geelong VFL team's best and fairest award in 2003, but never breaking into the Geelong senior list. He was again rookie listed in 2004, this time by . After another strong season in the VFL, he was elevated to the senior list, making his debut for Carlton in Round 21, 2004 against .He was the last Carlton player to make his AFL debut at the club's traditional home ground at Princes Park. From the start of the 2005 season until the end of his career eleven years later, <mask> was a regular in the Carlton team, as he became an integral part of the Carlton midfield. Depending on the needs of the team, <mask> was able to play as a high-possession ball-winning midfielder, or as a strong tagger. He had a break-out season in 2007, playing as the main ball-winner in a midfield which lacked experience following a season-ending injury to established follower Nick Stevens, and he won the 2007 John Nicholls Medal as Carlton's best and fairest, beating Heath Scotland by 6 votes for the award. <mask> received 11 votes at the 2007 Brownlow Medal. In Round 7, 2008 against the West Coast Eagles at Subiaco, <mask> picked up an AFL career high 42 disposals. With the recruitment of Chris Judd and the return of Nick Stevens from injury, <mask> was moved out of the midfield, and spent most of the season playing as a rebounding defender.<mask> played the first 21 games of the season, before injury forced him out in Round 22 after 54 consecutive games. <mask> fractured his forearm during an intraclub practice match in the 2009 preseason, missing the first four games of the AFL season. He played two games with the Northern Bullants to regain match fitness, and in the second amassed 55 disposals against Box Hill, before being returned to the AFL seniors for Round 5. A further injury to his thumb kept him sidelined for another four weeks, before returning to play all remaining games, including Carlton's elimination final loss to the . <mask> played primarily a primarily defensive midfield roles in 2009, as well as playing on medium-sized opposition half-back flankers. <mask> played his 100th AFL game for Carlton in Round 1 of the 2010 season against , and was named acting captain for the first time in that game in the absence of Chris Judd, and served as a vice-captain for the next few years. He played all twenty-three games in 2010, and finished fifth in the club Best and Fairest.He was awarded life membership of the Carlton Football Club in December 2011. By the early 2012 season, <mask> was rated by sportswriters as one of the best taggers in the game, able to shut down some of the game's best midfielders and win plenty of the ball himself in the same game. He attracted particular praise for a two-way shutdown role against Collingwood's Scott Pendlebury in Round 3, 2012; but the following week his shoulder blade was broken in a strong driving tackle from behind by 's Sam Lonergan, and he missed the next two months. Although the tackle did not attract sanction from the tribunal, Lonergan received death threats via Twitter in relation to the incident. <mask> was limited to 39 of a possible 67 games in the final three years of his career, suffering from recurring calf injuries during that time, but he remained a consistent attacking tagger during that time. He retired at the end of the 2015 season after 194 games in twelve seasons at Carlton. He briefly pursued a career in umpiring through the AFL's player pathway program, umpiring at a suburban level in early 2016, but retired from that in June 2016 after continued trouble from his calf injuries.Statistics
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|
| 44 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 21 || 15 || 36 || 9 || 4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 10.5 || 7.5 || 18.0 || 4.5 || 2.0 || 0
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|
| 44 || 20 || 4 || 4 || 196 || 118 || 314 || 83 || 41 || 0.2 || 0.2 || 9.8 || 5.9 || 15.7 || 4.2 || 2.1 || 2
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|
| 44 || 19 || 4 || 6 || 209 || 170 || 379 || 123 || 38 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 11.0 || 8.9 || 19.9 || 6.5 || 2.0 || 0
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|
| 44 || 22 || 8 || 6 || 287 || 282 || 569 || 114 || 101 || 0.4 || 0.3 || 13.0 || 12.8 || 25.9 || 5.2 || 4.6 || 11
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2008
|
| 44 || 21 || 4 || 3 || 282 || 255 || 537 || 133 || 65 || 0.2 || 0.1 || 13.4 || 12.1 || 25.6 || 6.3 || 3.1 || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2009
|
| 44 || 15 || 12 || 8 || 180 || 174 || 354 || 58 || 47 || 0.8 || 0.5 || 12.0 || 11.6 || 23.6 || 3.9 || 3.1 || 0
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|
| 44 || 23 || 4 || 8 || 254 || 266 || 520 || 100 || 77 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 11.0 || 11.6 || 22.6 || 4.3 || 3.3 || 2
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|
| 44 || 18 || 5 || 3 || 205 || 219 || 424 || 75 || 95 || 0.3 || 0.2 || 11.4 || 12.2 || 23.6 || 4.2 || 5.3 || 0
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|
| 44 || 14 || 5 || 1 || 155 || 190 || 345 || 53 || 66 || 0.4 || 0.1 || 11.1 || 13.6 || 24.6 || 3.8 || 4.7 || 2
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|
| 44 || 10 || 1 || 1 || 84 || 96 || 180 || 25 || 30 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 8.4 || 9.6 || 18.0 || 2.5 || 3.0 || 0
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|
| 44 || 14 || 0 || 1 || 119 || 162 || 281 || 40 || 86 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 8.5 || 11.6 || 20.1 || 2.9 || 6.1 || 1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015
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Personal life
<mask> is of Italian descent. He attended De La Salle College, Malvern. He has been a lifelong Carlton supporter. <mask> is married to Yvette Wood, after proposing in 2008. In January 2012, the couple welcomed triplets Grace, Charlotte and Sophia. <mask> is often referred to, particularly amongst fans, by the nickname "Carrots", a deliberate mispronunciation of "Carrazz-".References
External links
Carlton Football Club players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
John Nicholls Medal winners
1983 births
Living people
Australian people of Italian descent
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
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55463336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Cree | Steven Cree | Steven Cree (born February 29, 1980) is a Scottish film, television, and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as Ian Murray in the Starz television series Outlander. His other work includes the films Brave (2012), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Maleficent (2014), 51 Degrees North (2014), Churchill (2017), and the TV series Lip Service.
Early life
Cree was born in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a local kitchen and bathroom fitter. Upon completion of Secondary School, he attended Langside College in Glasgow for a year before applying, and being accepted to, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). at RSAMD, he was signed by a London Talent agent and moved to the city after completing school.
Career
Cree began his professional career in 2001 with the guest starring role of Gerry in an episode of CBBC's weekly comedy series G-Force. He went on to guest star in an episode of BBC's medical drama Doctors in 2002, and ITV's prison drama Bad Girls in 2003. 2006 saw Cree guest star in BBC's medical drama Holby City and Sky 1's football drama Dream Team. Cree returned to BBC's Doctors in 2007 with a second guest role in series nine, and he had a guest role in series eleven of the popular crime drama Silent Witness.
In 2009, Cree made the transition from television to feature films by starring as Antonio Vivialdi in Condor Pictures' Vivaldi, the Red Priest and director Craig Lyn's short film Closing Doors. He was then cast in episode five of ITV's six part mini-series Identity, a crime drama following a newly formed police unit investigating identity left cases. Cree worked with actor/director Noel Clarke twice in 2010 as he was featured in the thriller 4.3.2.1., which followed four friends targeted by a smuggling ring, and the comedy Huge, which focused on a would-be stand-up comedy duo. E4's teenage science-fiction drama Misfits saw Cree return to episodic television with a season two guest spot that same year. He was then featured in award-winning Kurdish director Chiman Rahimi's sort film Rojin. 2011 saw Cree feature in the supernatural thriller film The Awakening and in director Tom Harper's short film The Swarm.
2012 brought Cree a recurring role on BBC Three's groundbreaking drama Lip Service. He portrayed Ryder, Sam Murray's police partner, opposite Heather Peace. His next performance was as featured guest star Corporal Vince Grafton in a series two episode of ITV's murder mystery series Vera. Throughout 2012, Cree had minor roles in major motion pictures such as Disney's John Carter and Brave (animated; voice work), British thriller Tower Block, and the Noel Clarke comedy The Knot.
Actor turned director Sam Hoare's 2013 debut film, Having You, featured Cree in the role of Paul. That same year, he portrayed Lennox in Kenneth Branagh's stage production of Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival. The production sold out, but was broadcast live to audiences in Manchester, England and around the globe on 20 July 2013 as part of the National Theatre's NT Live broadcasts. That same year, director Ruth Sewell cast Cree in the lead role of Matt in her short film Fish Love, which was featured at the London Short Film Festival.
2014 saw Cree return to television in series two of the BBC's crime drama Shetland, based on the best-selling book series by Ann Cleeves. He next tackled minor roles in Disney's live action film Maleficent, which focuses on the villain of their 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, and the made-for-TV film Marvellous. He returned to television to guest star as Miras in the two-part Series Two premier of BBC's family drama Atlantis, which only ran for two seasons before being cancelled. It was announced in 2014 that Cree has been cast in the role of Ian Murray in Starz time travel drama Outlander, based upon the best-selling book series from author Diana Gabaldon. The role is recurring and will continue throughout the series.
Cree was cast in the guest role of Levesque in BBC's popular drama The Musketeers in 2015, portraying Porthos' brother-in-law in the series two episode. That same year, he guest starred in the "mockumentary" Hoff the Record alongside actor David Hasselhoff. He went on to roles in several feature films such as Colin Kennedy's Swung, Legacy, 51 Degrees North, and short film The Rat King, which was nominated for Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
In 2016, Cree returned to crime drama Silent Witness in the two-part season nineteen episode "Flight", which focused on the murder of a critic of Muslim fundamentalism. Once again reuniting with director Noel Clarke, Cree was featured as Brick in the feature length crime drama Brotherhood. He then portrayed Scottish war hero and Navy meteorologist Captain James Stagg in 2017's D-Day film Churchill, which shed light on the little known fact that the invasion date had been moved due to weather.
Science fiction/fantasy film The Titan (2018), starring Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson, has Cree portraying Major Tom Pike in Earth's dystopian future. In 2018, in his second turn in a science-fiction film, Cree voiced the character ATRi in Hasraf Dulull's 2036 Origins Unknown, which explored the origins of an unknown object on the surface of Mars. That same year, the Netflix drama Outlaw King, starring Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce, featured Cree as Bruce's brother-in-law Sir Christopher Seaton. In addition to his roles in films and television, Cree wrote and starred in a short film entitled The Little Princess (2018), which was co-awarded Best Short Narrative film at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. He and director Jason Maza raised funds for the film on Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform.
Cree would go on, the next year, to portray Andrew Bentham in BBC Two's political drama MotherFatherSon, opposite Richard Gere (in his first major television role). He would then join the cast of ITV's female centric drama Deep Water as series regular character Joe Kallisto. Late fall 2019 saw Cree feature in the latest feature film installment of the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate, opposite Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Early 2020 saw him star as Chief Constable Stuart Collier, opposite Robert Carlyle, in Sky One's political thriller Cobra. He also completed filming on Ruth Platt's ghost story Martyrs Lane, which is scheduled to premiere at Fantasia Film Festival's 25th anniversary edition the next year. In 2021 Cree debuted as popular Scottish character Gallowglass in the second season of Sky One's television drama A Discovery of Witches, which is based upon Deborah Harkness' book series of the same name. He will reprise the role in season three of the series. Cree completed filming on horror feature The Twin, alongside fellow A Discovery of Witches cast member Teresa Palmer, in June 2021.
Filmography
Television
Film
Theatre
Voice
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References
External links
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"Steven Cree (born February 29, 1980) is a Scottish film, television, and theatre actor.",
"He is best known for his role as Ian Murray in the Starz television series Outlander.",
"His other work includes the films Brave (2012), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Maleficent (2014), 51 Degrees North (2014), Churchill (2017), and the TV series Lip Service.",
"Early life\nCree was born in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a local kitchen and bathroom fitter.",
"Upon completion of Secondary School, he attended Langside College in Glasgow for a year before applying, and being accepted to, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).",
"at RSAMD, he was signed by a London Talent agent and moved to the city after completing school.",
"Career\nCree began his professional career in 2001 with the guest starring role of Gerry in an episode of CBBC's weekly comedy series G-Force.",
"He went on to guest star in an episode of BBC's medical drama Doctors in 2002, and ITV's prison drama Bad Girls in 2003.",
"2006 saw Cree guest star in BBC's medical drama Holby City and Sky 1's football drama Dream Team.",
"Cree returned to BBC's Doctors in 2007 with a second guest role in series nine, and he had a guest role in series eleven of the popular crime drama Silent Witness.",
"In 2009, Cree made the transition from television to feature films by starring as Antonio Vivialdi in Condor Pictures' Vivaldi, the Red Priest and director Craig Lyn's short film Closing Doors.",
"He was then cast in episode five of ITV's six part mini-series Identity, a crime drama following a newly formed police unit investigating identity left cases.",
"Cree worked with actor/director Noel Clarke twice in 2010 as he was featured in the thriller 4.3.2.1., which followed four friends targeted by a smuggling ring, and the comedy Huge, which focused on a would-be stand-up comedy duo.",
"E4's teenage science-fiction drama Misfits saw Cree return to episodic television with a season two guest spot that same year.",
"He was then featured in award-winning Kurdish director Chiman Rahimi's sort film Rojin.",
"2011 saw Cree feature in the supernatural thriller film The Awakening and in director Tom Harper's short film The Swarm.",
"2012 brought Cree a recurring role on BBC Three's groundbreaking drama Lip Service.",
"He portrayed Ryder, Sam Murray's police partner, opposite Heather Peace.",
"His next performance was as featured guest star Corporal Vince Grafton in a series two episode of ITV's murder mystery series Vera.",
"Throughout 2012, Cree had minor roles in major motion pictures such as Disney's John Carter and Brave (animated; voice work), British thriller Tower Block, and the Noel Clarke comedy The Knot.",
"Actor turned director Sam Hoare's 2013 debut film, Having You, featured Cree in the role of Paul.",
"That same year, he portrayed Lennox in Kenneth Branagh's stage production of Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival.",
"The production sold out, but was broadcast live to audiences in Manchester, England and around the globe on 20 July 2013 as part of the National Theatre's NT Live broadcasts.",
"That same year, director Ruth Sewell cast Cree in the lead role of Matt in her short film Fish Love, which was featured at the London Short Film Festival.",
"2014 saw Cree return to television in series two of the BBC's crime drama Shetland, based on the best-selling book series by Ann Cleeves.",
"He next tackled minor roles in Disney's live action film Maleficent, which focuses on the villain of their 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, and the made-for-TV film Marvellous.",
"He returned to television to guest star as Miras in the two-part Series Two premier of BBC's family drama Atlantis, which only ran for two seasons before being cancelled.",
"It was announced in 2014 that Cree has been cast in the role of Ian Murray in Starz time travel drama Outlander, based upon the best-selling book series from author Diana Gabaldon.",
"The role is recurring and will continue throughout the series.",
"Cree was cast in the guest role of Levesque in BBC's popular drama The Musketeers in 2015, portraying Porthos' brother-in-law in the series two episode.",
"That same year, he guest starred in the \"mockumentary\" Hoff the Record alongside actor David Hasselhoff.",
"He went on to roles in several feature films such as Colin Kennedy's Swung, Legacy, 51 Degrees North, and short film The Rat King, which was nominated for Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.",
"In 2016, Cree returned to crime drama Silent Witness in the two-part season nineteen episode \"Flight\", which focused on the murder of a critic of Muslim fundamentalism.",
"Once again reuniting with director Noel Clarke, Cree was featured as Brick in the feature length crime drama Brotherhood.",
"He then portrayed Scottish war hero and Navy meteorologist Captain James Stagg in 2017's D-Day film Churchill, which shed light on the little known fact that the invasion date had been moved due to weather.",
"Science fiction/fantasy film The Titan (2018), starring Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson, has Cree portraying Major Tom Pike in Earth's dystopian future.",
"In 2018, in his second turn in a science-fiction film, Cree voiced the character ATRi in Hasraf Dulull's 2036 Origins Unknown, which explored the origins of an unknown object on the surface of Mars.",
"That same year, the Netflix drama Outlaw King, starring Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce, featured Cree as Bruce's brother-in-law Sir Christopher Seaton.",
"In addition to his roles in films and television, Cree wrote and starred in a short film entitled The Little Princess (2018), which was co-awarded Best Short Narrative film at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.",
"He and director Jason Maza raised funds for the film on Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform.",
"Cree would go on, the next year, to portray Andrew Bentham in BBC Two's political drama MotherFatherSon, opposite Richard Gere (in his first major television role).",
"He would then join the cast of ITV's female centric drama Deep Water as series regular character Joe Kallisto.",
"Late fall 2019 saw Cree feature in the latest feature film installment of the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate, opposite Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger.",
"Early 2020 saw him star as Chief Constable Stuart Collier, opposite Robert Carlyle, in Sky One's political thriller Cobra.",
"He also completed filming on Ruth Platt's ghost story Martyrs Lane, which is scheduled to premiere at Fantasia Film Festival's 25th anniversary edition the next year.",
"In 2021 Cree debuted as popular Scottish character Gallowglass in the second season of Sky One's television drama A Discovery of Witches, which is based upon Deborah Harkness' book series of the same name.",
"He will reprise the role in season three of the series.",
"Cree completed filming on horror feature The Twin, alongside fellow A Discovery of Witches cast member Teresa Palmer, in June 2021.",
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"Steven Cree is a Scottish film, television, and theatre actor.",
"Ian Murray was best known for his role in the television series.",
"Brave, 300: Rise of an Empire, Maleficent, 51 Degrees North, and the TV series Lip Service are some of the films he has worked on.",
"The son of a local kitchen and bathroom fitter was born early in life.",
"He attended Langside College in Glasgow for a year before applying and being accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.",
"After finishing school, he was signed by a London talent agent and moved to the city.",
"In 2001 he appeared in an episode of G-Force as a guest star.",
"In 2002 he guest starred in an episode of Doctors and in 2003 he starred in Bad Girls.",
"In 2006 he guest starred in Sky 1's football drama Dream Team and the medical drama Holby City.",
"In series nine of Doctors, he had a second guest role, and in series eleven of Silent Witness, he had a guest role.",
"In 2009, he made the transition from television to feature films by starring in a short film and a feature film.",
"He was cast in the fifth episode of Identity, a crime drama following a police unit investigating identity left cases.",
"The thriller 4.3.2.1, which followed four friends targeted by a smuggling ring, and the comedy Huge, which focused on a would-be stand-up comedy duo, were both directed by Noel Clarke.",
"There was a season two guest spot in the second season of E4's teenage science-fiction drama Misfits.",
"He was featured in a film by a Kurdish director.",
"In the year of 2011, there were two films with Cree in them, the supernatural thriller The Awakening and the short film The Swarm.",
"In 2012 she played a recurring role on Lip Service.",
"He played the police partner of Sam Murray and Heather Peace.",
"His next performance was as a guest star in the second episode of Vera.",
"In 2012 he had minor roles in Disney's John Carter and Brave, Tower Block, and The Knot.",
"Having You was the directorial debut of actor turned director Sam Hoare.",
"He was in Kenneth Branagh's stage production of Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival.",
"The production sold out, but was broadcast live to audiences in Manchester, England and around the globe as part of the National Theatre's NT Live broadcasts.",
"The London Short Film Festival featured Ruth Sewell's short film Fish Love, which featured Cree in the lead role of Matt.",
"The second series of the crime drama Shetland was based on the best-selling book series by Ann Cleeves.",
"He played a minor role in Disney's live action film Maleficent, which focused on the villain of their 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty.",
"He reprised his role as Miras in the two-part Series Two premier of Atlantis, which only ran for two seasons before being axed.",
"The best-selling book series from author Diana Gabaldon led to the casting of Ian Murray as the lead in the time travel drama.",
"The role will continue throughout the series.",
"In the second episode of The Musketeers, she played Porthos' brother-in-law, Levesque.",
"He guest starred in the \"mockumentary\" Hoff the Record.",
"Colin Kennedy's short film The Rat King was nominated for Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.",
"The two-part season nineteen episode \"Flight\" of Silent Witness focused on the murder of a critic of Muslim fundamentalism.",
"The feature length crime drama Brotherhood was directed by Noel Clarke and featured Cree as Brick.",
"He portrayed Scottish war hero and Navy meteorologist Captain James Stagg in the film, which shed light on the little known fact that the invasion date had been moved due to weather.",
"The film The Titan is a science fiction/fantasy film starring Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson.",
"In the film 2036 Origins Unknown, which explored the origins of an unknown object on the surface of Mars, he voiced the character of ATRi.",
"Chris Pine was cast as Robert the Bruce in Outlaw King, which starred Sir Christopher Seaton as Bruce's brother-in-law.",
"In addition to his roles in films and television, Cree wrote and starred in a short film entitled The Little Princess, which was co-awarded Best Short Narrative film at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival.",
"The two of them raised funds for the film on the platform.",
"The next year, he would play Andrew Bentham in MotherFatherSon, opposite Richard Gere, in his first major television role.",
"He would join the cast of Deep Water as a regular character.",
"The latest film in the Terminator franchise was released late in the fall of 2019.",
"He starred in Sky One's political thriller Cobra in early 2020.",
"Martyrs Lane is scheduled to premiere at the 25th anniversary edition of the Fantasia Film Festival next year.",
"In the second season of Sky One's television drama A Discovery of Witches, which is based upon Deborah Harkness' book series of the same name, the Scottish character Gallowglass was played by Cree.",
"He will reprise his role in the third season.",
"The Twin was filmed in June of 2021.",
"Scottish male film actors Scottish male television actors British male film actors British male television actors 1980 births"
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<mask> was born in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a local kitchen and bathroom fitter. Upon completion of Secondary School, he attended Langside College in Glasgow for a year before applying, and being accepted to, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now known as the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). at RSAMD, he was signed by a London Talent agent and moved to the city after completing school. <mask> began his professional career in 2001 with the guest starring role of Gerry in an episode of CBBC's weekly comedy series G-Force.He went on to guest star in an episode of BBC's medical drama Doctors in 2002, and ITV's prison drama Bad Girls in 2003. 2006 saw <mask> guest star in BBC's medical drama Holby City and Sky 1's football drama Dream Team. <mask> returned to BBC's Doctors in 2007 with a second guest role in series nine, and he had a guest role in series eleven of the popular crime drama Silent Witness. In 2009, <mask> made the transition from television to feature films by starring as Antonio Vivialdi in Condor Pictures' Vivaldi, the Red Priest and director Craig Lyn's short film Closing Doors. He was then cast in episode five of ITV's six part mini-series Identity, a crime drama following a newly formed police unit investigating identity left cases. <mask> worked with actor/director Noel Clarke twice in 2010 as he was featured in the thriller 4.3.2.1., which followed four friends targeted by a smuggling ring, and the comedy Huge, which focused on a would-be stand-up comedy duo. E4's teenage science-fiction drama Misfits saw <mask> return to episodic television with a season two guest spot that same year.He was then featured in award-winning Kurdish director Chiman Rahimi's sort film Rojin. 2011 saw <mask> feature in the supernatural thriller film The Awakening and in director Tom Harper's short film The Swarm. 2012 brought <mask> a recurring role on BBC Three's groundbreaking drama Lip Service. He portrayed Ryder, Sam Murray's police partner, opposite Heather Peace. His next performance was as featured guest star Corporal Vince Grafton in a series two episode of ITV's murder mystery series Vera. Throughout 2012, <mask> had minor roles in major motion pictures such as Disney's John Carter and Brave (animated; voice work), British thriller Tower Block, and the Noel Clarke comedy The Knot. Actor turned director Sam Hoare's 2013 debut film, Having You, featured <mask> in the role of Paul.That same year, he portrayed Lennox in Kenneth Branagh's stage production of Macbeth at the Manchester International Festival. The production sold out, but was broadcast live to audiences in Manchester, England and around the globe on 20 July 2013 as part of the National Theatre's NT Live broadcasts. That same year, director Ruth Sewell cast <mask> in the lead role of Matt in her short film Fish Love, which was featured at the London Short Film Festival. 2014 saw <mask> return to television in series two of the BBC's crime drama Shetland, based on the best-selling book series by Ann Cleeves. He next tackled minor roles in Disney's live action film Maleficent, which focuses on the villain of their 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty, and the made-for-TV film Marvellous. He returned to television to guest star as Miras in the two-part Series Two premier of BBC's family drama Atlantis, which only ran for two seasons before being cancelled. It was announced in 2014 that <mask> has been cast in the role of Ian Murray in Starz time travel drama Outlander, based upon the best-selling book series from author Diana Gabaldon.The role is recurring and will continue throughout the series. <mask> was cast in the guest role of Levesque in BBC's popular drama The Musketeers in 2015, portraying Porthos' brother-in-law in the series two episode. That same year, he guest starred in the "mockumentary" Hoff the Record alongside actor David Hasselhoff. He went on to roles in several feature films such as Colin Kennedy's Swung, Legacy, 51 Degrees North, and short film The Rat King, which was nominated for Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2016, <mask> returned to crime drama Silent Witness in the two-part season nineteen episode "Flight", which focused on the murder of a critic of Muslim fundamentalism. Once again reuniting with director Noel Clarke, <mask> was featured as Brick in the feature length crime drama Brotherhood. He then portrayed Scottish war hero and Navy meteorologist Captain James Stagg in 2017's D-Day film Churchill, which shed light on the little known fact that the invasion date had been moved due to weather.Science fiction/fantasy film The Titan (2018), starring Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson, has <mask> portraying Major Tom Pike in Earth's dystopian future. In 2018, in his second turn in a science-fiction film, <mask> voiced the character ATRi in Hasraf Dulull's 2036 Origins Unknown, which explored the origins of an unknown object on the surface of Mars. That same year, the Netflix drama Outlaw King, starring Chris Pine as Robert the Bruce, featured <mask> as Bruce's brother-in-law Sir Christopher Seaton. In addition to his roles in films and television, <mask> wrote and starred in a short film entitled The Little Princess (2018), which was co-awarded Best Short Narrative film at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. He and director Jason Maza raised funds for the film on Kickstarter, a popular crowdfunding platform. <mask> would go on, the next year, to portray Andrew Bentham in BBC Two's political drama MotherFatherSon, opposite Richard Gere (in his first major television role). He would then join the cast of ITV's female centric drama Deep Water as series regular character Joe Kallisto.Late fall 2019 saw <mask> feature in the latest feature film installment of the Terminator franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate, opposite Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Early 2020 saw him star as Chief Constable Stuart Collier, opposite Robert Carlyle, in Sky One's political thriller Cobra. He also completed filming on Ruth Platt's ghost story Martyrs Lane, which is scheduled to premiere at Fantasia Film Festival's 25th anniversary edition the next year. In 2021 <mask> debuted as popular Scottish character Gallowglass in the second season of Sky One's television drama A Discovery of Witches, which is based upon Deborah Harkness' book series of the same name. He will reprise the role in season three of the series. <mask> completed filming on horror feature The Twin, alongside fellow A Discovery of Witches cast member Teresa Palmer, in June 2021. Filmography
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In the second episode of The Musketeers, she played Porthos' brother-in-law, Levesque. He guest starred in the "mockumentary" Hoff the Record. Colin Kennedy's short film The Rat King was nominated for Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. The two-part season nineteen episode "Flight" of Silent Witness focused on the murder of a critic of Muslim fundamentalism. The feature length crime drama Brotherhood was directed by Noel Clarke and featured <mask> as Brick. He portrayed Scottish war hero and Navy meteorologist Captain James Stagg in the film, which shed light on the little known fact that the invasion date had been moved due to weather.The film The Titan is a science fiction/fantasy film starring Sam Worthington and Tom Wilkinson. In the film 2036 Origins Unknown, which explored the origins of an unknown object on the surface of Mars, he voiced the character of ATRi. 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61305010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Booker%20%28writer%29 | Bob Booker (writer) | Bob Booker (born August 1, 1931) is an American writer and producer of television shows and record albums. He is best known for producing the 1962 album The First Family with Earle Doud. The album is a parody of President John F. Kennedy and his family, and it both remained at #1 on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks and won a Grammy for Best Album of the Year in 1963.
Early career
Booker was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from high school at age of 16. He was first employed as a local radio DJ. A new television station began operation and Booker was hired at the age of 18, where he worked as a TV host, news anchor, weatherman, camera operator, set builder, film editor, program producer and director. He was later drafted into the army during the Korean conflict and was stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso. Because of his background in radio and television, he was placed on staff for the commanding general, doing PR for the base. Discharged after two years, he moonlighted as a talent manager and became station manager of WIVY in Jacksonville.
In 1958, Booker was hired by Miami's WINZ AM radio for their afternoon drive slot. He ingratiated himself with all the top entertainers who frequented the popular winter vacation spot through one-on-one interviews. Celebrities like Jack Benny, Nat Cole, Martha Ray, Andy Williams, Ray Charles, Mort Sahl, Ava Gardner, Gloria DeHaven, Sinatra - many became lifelong friends. He also did on-air work at two local TV stations, and hosted weekend shows. In 1960, he left Miami and relocated to New York City.
New York City
Booker discovered it was not easy to start a career in the Big Apple, as an MCA agent got him exactly one TV pilot hosting job in one year. He made friends with local writers, including Pat McCormick (who later wrote for Johnny Carson) and Earle Doud. He and Doud began some writing projects, which included a series of gag record greeting cards, an article for Playboy magazine and their ultimate brainchild: a comedy album spoofing the President of the United States.
Booker and Doud cast Vaughn Meader, who they saw via the Talent Scouts TV show, as JFK and Naomi Brossart, a model and actress, as Jackie. They cut a demo record and made their first pitch to Capitol Records. After hearing the demo, an executive and friend of Booker, said: “I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole!” Dejected, the two considered other labels and ended up at ABC Records who referred them to ABC President Leonard Goldenson. He passed, but suggested a small record label, Cadence Records, owned by Archie Bleyer. He liked the concept and signed the two writers to a record deal.
On October 22, 1962, The First Family was recorded at Fine Studios in New York City, ironically at the same moment that President Kennedy announced the naval blockade of Soviet Union ships traveling to Cuba, prompting the Cuban Missile Crisis. Once the crisis was over, Booker and Doud devised a simple plan to market their record: radio airplay. Booker also worked part-time for 1010 WINS AM and when the first albums were delivered to Cadence, the two immediately sought out the most popular DJ in the city, Stan Z. Burns at WINS. Burns loved the record and The First Family was the only record he played for his entire three-hour shift. The WINS switchboard lit up with callers — listeners, news outlets and competing radio stations — everyone wanted the new record. Booker and Doud, who came armed with a handful of records, traveled around the city, dropping off albums to numerous radio stations. Booker remembered it best: “Lightning had struck...we were in the right place at the right time.” It would become the fastest selling album in record history.
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr., Assistant to the President, nearly crashed his car when he first heard an album cut on the radio: Reporter: What do you think the chances are for a Jewish president? Meader: Well, I think they're pretty good. Let me say, I don't see why a person of the Jewish faith can't be President of the United States. I know as a Catholic I could never vote for him, but other than that...
Booker and Doud produced a second album, The First Family Volume Two, in the spring of 1963. After President Kennedy was assassinated that November, all unsold albums were pulled out of stores and destroyed. The producers did not want to appear to be profiting from the President's death.
Later career
Booker continued to produce albums with George Foster, including the very successful 1965 album You Don't Have To Be Jewish and When You're In Love, the Whole World is Jewish. He produced 16 comedy albums from 1962 to 1977.
Booker wrote for The Garry Moore Show during the late 1960s and also contributed to The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as other variety programs. When Hollywood came calling, he relocated to Los Angeles and worked in the motion picture industry for a few years. He returned to television and produced numerous TV shows from the 1970s to the 1990s, including The NBC Follies and Fifty Years of Country Music. He partnered with Burt Reynolds, producing two network pilot specials: Cotton Club '75 and The Wayne Newton Special. In 1977, Paramount hired him to create television specials to promote their feature film releases American Hot Wax, Foul Play and Grease. In 1987, Booker created the NBC teen fantasy sitcom Out of this World starring Maureen Flannigan and Donna Pescow. He produced numerous “outtake” shows and established an extensive comedy videotape library for his shows Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders with Don Rickles and Steve Lawrence, Comedy Break and The Hit Squad. He would continue to market the TV library globally for decades.
Personal life
Booker donated many of his personal television scripts to the Writers Guild Foundation Archive. The original master tapes of his albums The First Family and The First Family Volume Two were donated to President John F. Kennedy's library in Boston at the request of Caroline Kennedy and are on display in the library, along with a Gold Album of the first album.
He is now retired, living in Northern California with his wife of 51 years, Barbara Noonan Booker, who partnered and co-produced with her husband with programming on the four major networks and in syndication. They have two children and four grandchildren.
Album work
A partial list of his album credits:
You Don't Have to be Jewish (1964)
When You're in Love, the Whole World is Jewish (1965)
Al Tijuana & His Jewish Brass (1966)
The Yiddish are Coming! The Yiddish are Coming! (1967)
Scream On Someone You Love Today (1967)The New First Family 1968: A Futuristic Fairy Tale (1968)Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts (1968)Pat McCormick Tells It Like It Is (1968)The Jewish American Princess (1971)Out of the Closet (1977)
Television work
A partial list of his television credits:The NBC Follies (1973)Cotton Club '75 (1974)Charo (1976)Fifty Years of Country Music (1978)Grease Day USA (1978)Waylon (1980)The Best Little Special in Texas (1982)The Funniest Commercial Goofs (1983)Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders (1983-84)The Love Boat Fall Preview Special (1984)Anything for a Laugh (1985)Comedy Break (1985)Rickles on the Loose (1986)The Hit Squad (1987)Out of this World'' (1987)
References
Living people
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Record producers from Florida
American radio DJs
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"He is best known for producing the 1962 album The First Family with Earle Doud.",
"The album is a parody of President John F. Kennedy and his family, and it both remained at #1 on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks and won a Grammy for Best Album of the Year in 1963.",
"Early career \n\nBooker was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from high school at age of 16.",
"He was first employed as a local radio DJ.",
"A new television station began operation and Booker was hired at the age of 18, where he worked as a TV host, news anchor, weatherman, camera operator, set builder, film editor, program producer and director.",
"He was later drafted into the army during the Korean conflict and was stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso.",
"Because of his background in radio and television, he was placed on staff for the commanding general, doing PR for the base.",
"Discharged after two years, he moonlighted as a talent manager and became station manager of WIVY in Jacksonville.",
"In 1958, Booker was hired by Miami's WINZ AM radio for their afternoon drive slot.",
"He ingratiated himself with all the top entertainers who frequented the popular winter vacation spot through one-on-one interviews.",
"Celebrities like Jack Benny, Nat Cole, Martha Ray, Andy Williams, Ray Charles, Mort Sahl, Ava Gardner, Gloria DeHaven, Sinatra - many became lifelong friends.",
"He also did on-air work at two local TV stations, and hosted weekend shows.",
"In 1960, he left Miami and relocated to New York City.",
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"He made friends with local writers, including Pat McCormick (who later wrote for Johnny Carson) and Earle Doud.",
"He and Doud began some writing projects, which included a series of gag record greeting cards, an article for Playboy magazine and their ultimate brainchild: a comedy album spoofing the President of the United States.",
"Booker and Doud cast Vaughn Meader, who they saw via the Talent Scouts TV show, as JFK and Naomi Brossart, a model and actress, as Jackie.",
"They cut a demo record and made their first pitch to Capitol Records.",
"After hearing the demo, an executive and friend of Booker, said: “I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole!” Dejected, the two considered other labels and ended up at ABC Records who referred them to ABC President Leonard Goldenson.",
"He passed, but suggested a small record label, Cadence Records, owned by Archie Bleyer.",
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"Booker also worked part-time for 1010 WINS AM and when the first albums were delivered to Cadence, the two immediately sought out the most popular DJ in the city, Stan Z. Burns at WINS.",
"Burns loved the record and The First Family was the only record he played for his entire three-hour shift.",
"The WINS switchboard lit up with callers — listeners, news outlets and competing radio stations — everyone wanted the new record.",
"Booker and Doud, who came armed with a handful of records, traveled around the city, dropping off albums to numerous radio stations.",
"Booker remembered it best: “Lightning had struck...we were in the right place at the right time.” It would become the fastest selling album in record history.",
"Arthur M Schlesinger Jr., Assistant to the President, nearly crashed his car when he first heard an album cut on the radio: Reporter: What do you think the chances are for a Jewish president?",
"Meader: Well, I think they're pretty good.",
"Let me say, I don't see why a person of the Jewish faith can't be President of the United States.",
"I know as a Catholic I could never vote for him, but other than that...\n\nBooker and Doud produced a second album, The First Family Volume Two, in the spring of 1963.",
"After President Kennedy was assassinated that November, all unsold albums were pulled out of stores and destroyed.",
"The producers did not want to appear to be profiting from the President's death.",
"Later career \n\nBooker continued to produce albums with George Foster, including the very successful 1965 album You Don't Have To Be Jewish and When You're In Love, the Whole World is Jewish.",
"He produced 16 comedy albums from 1962 to 1977.",
"Booker wrote for The Garry Moore Show during the late 1960s and also contributed to The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as other variety programs.",
"When Hollywood came calling, he relocated to Los Angeles and worked in the motion picture industry for a few years.",
"He returned to television and produced numerous TV shows from the 1970s to the 1990s, including The NBC Follies and Fifty Years of Country Music.",
"He partnered with Burt Reynolds, producing two network pilot specials: Cotton Club '75 and The Wayne Newton Special.",
"In 1977, Paramount hired him to create television specials to promote their feature film releases American Hot Wax, Foul Play and Grease.",
"In 1987, Booker created the NBC teen fantasy sitcom Out of this World starring Maureen Flannigan and Donna Pescow.",
"He produced numerous “outtake” shows and established an extensive comedy videotape library for his shows Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders with Don Rickles and Steve Lawrence, Comedy Break and The Hit Squad.",
"He would continue to market the TV library globally for decades.",
"Personal life \n\nBooker donated many of his personal television scripts to the Writers Guild Foundation Archive.",
"The original master tapes of his albums The First Family and The First Family Volume Two were donated to President John F. Kennedy's library in Boston at the request of Caroline Kennedy and are on display in the library, along with a Gold Album of the first album.",
"He is now retired, living in Northern California with his wife of 51 years, Barbara Noonan Booker, who partnered and co-produced with her husband with programming on the four major networks and in syndication.",
"They have two children and four grandchildren.",
"Album work \n\nA partial list of his album credits:\n\nYou Don't Have to be Jewish (1964)\nWhen You're in Love, the Whole World is Jewish (1965)\nAl Tijuana & His Jewish Brass (1966)\nThe Yiddish are Coming!",
"The Yiddish are Coming!",
"(1967)\nScream On Someone You Love Today (1967)The New First Family 1968: A Futuristic Fairy Tale (1968)Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts (1968)Pat McCormick Tells It Like It Is (1968)The Jewish American Princess (1971)Out of the Closet (1977)\n\n Television work \n\nA partial list of his television credits:The NBC Follies (1973)Cotton Club '75 (1974)Charo (1976)Fifty Years of Country Music (1978)Grease Day USA (1978)Waylon (1980)The Best Little Special in Texas (1982)The Funniest Commercial Goofs (1983)Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders (1983-84)The Love Boat Fall Preview Special (1984)Anything for a Laugh (1985)Comedy Break (1985)Rickles on the Loose (1986)The Hit Squad (1987)Out of this World'' (1987)\n\nReferences\n\nLiving people\n1931 births\nWriters from Jacksonville, Florida\nRecord producers from Florida\nAmerican radio DJs\nTelevision producers from Florida"
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"They made their first pitch to Capitol Records after cutting a demo record.",
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"He suggested a small record label owned by Archie Bleyer.",
"He signed the two writers to a record deal.",
"On October 22, 1962, The First Family was recorded at Fine Studios in New York City, at the same time that President Kennedy announced the naval blockade of Soviet Union ships traveling to Cuba.",
"Booker and Doud came up with a plan to market their record on radio.",
"Stan Z. Burns, the most popular DJ in the city, was immediately sought out by the two after the first albums were delivered to them.",
"The First Family was the only record Burns played for the entire shift.",
"Everyone wanted the new record when they called the WINS switchboard.",
"Booker and Doud traveled around the city and dropped off albums at many radio stations.",
"It became the fastest selling album of all time after lightning struck.",
"The assistant to the president almost crashed his car when he first heard an album on the radio.",
"I think they're pretty good.",
"I don't see why a person of the Jewish faith can't be the President of the United States.",
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"After the assassination of President Kennedy, all unsold albums were destroyed.",
"The producers didn't want to look like they were making money from the President's death.",
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"From 1962 to 1977 he produced 16 comedy albums.",
"The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as other variety programs, were written for by Booker during the late 1960s.",
"He worked in the motion picture industry for a few years after moving to Los Angeles.",
"He produced many TV shows from the 1970s to the 1990s, including The NBC Follies and Fifty Years of Country Music.",
"He produced two network pilot specials, Cotton Club '75 and The WayneNewton Special.",
"He was hired by Paramount in 1977 to create television specials to promote their films.",
"The teen fantasy sitcom Out of this World was created by Booker in 1987.",
"He created an extensive comedy videotape library for his shows Comedy Break and The Hit Squad.",
"He was going to market the TV library for a long time.",
"The Writers Guild Foundation Archive received many of Booker's personal television scripts.",
"The gold album of the first album is on display in the library along with the original master tapes of The First Family and The First Family Volume Two.",
"Barbara Booker, his wife of 51 years, is now retired and living in Northern California with him.",
"There are two children and four grandchildren for them.",
"His album credits include You Don't Have to be Jewish, When You're in Love, the Whole World is Jewish, and The Yiddish are Coming!",
"The Yiddish are coming!",
"The New First Family 1968: A Futuristic Fairy Tale is a partial list of his television work."
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<mask> was born in Jacksonville, Florida, and graduated from high school at age of 16. He was first employed as a local radio DJ. A new television station began operation and <mask> was hired at the age of 18, where he worked as a TV host, news anchor, weatherman, camera operator, set builder, film editor, program producer and director. He was later drafted into the army during the Korean conflict and was stationed at Ft. Bliss in El Paso.Because of his background in radio and television, he was placed on staff for the commanding general, doing PR for the base. Discharged after two years, he moonlighted as a talent manager and became station manager of WIVY in Jacksonville. In 1958, <mask> was hired by Miami's WINZ AM radio for their afternoon drive slot. He ingratiated himself with all the top entertainers who frequented the popular winter vacation spot through one-on-one interviews. Celebrities like Jack Benny, Nat Cole, Martha Ray, Andy Williams, Ray Charles, Mort Sahl, Ava Gardner, Gloria DeHaven, Sinatra - many became lifelong friends. He also did on-air work at two local TV stations, and hosted weekend shows. In 1960, he left Miami and relocated to New York City.New York City
<mask> discovered it was not easy to start a career in the Big Apple, as an MCA agent got him exactly one TV pilot hosting job in one year. He made friends with local writers, including Pat McCormick (who later wrote for Johnny Carson) and Earle Doud. He and Doud began some writing projects, which included a series of gag record greeting cards, an article for Playboy magazine and their ultimate brainchild: a comedy album spoofing the President of the United States. <mask> and Doud cast Vaughn Meader, who they saw via the Talent Scouts TV show, as JFK and Naomi Brossart, a model and actress, as Jackie. They cut a demo record and made their first pitch to Capitol Records. After hearing the demo, an executive and friend of <mask>, said: “I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole!” Dejected, the two considered other labels and ended up at ABC Records who referred them to ABC President Leonard Goldenson. He passed, but suggested a small record label, Cadence Records, owned by Archie Bleyer.He liked the concept and signed the two writers to a record deal. On October 22, 1962, The First Family was recorded at Fine Studios in New York City, ironically at the same moment that President Kennedy announced the naval blockade of Soviet Union ships traveling to Cuba, prompting the Cuban Missile Crisis. Once the crisis was over, <mask> and Doud devised a simple plan to market their record: radio airplay. <mask> also worked part-time for 1010 WINS AM and when the first albums were delivered to Cadence, the two immediately sought out the most popular DJ in the city, Stan Z. Burns at WINS. Burns loved the record and The First Family was the only record he played for his entire three-hour shift. The WINS switchboard lit up with callers — listeners, news outlets and competing radio stations — everyone wanted the new record. <mask> and Doud, who came armed with a handful of records, traveled around the city, dropping off albums to numerous radio stations.<mask> remembered it best: “Lightning had struck...we were in the right place at the right time.” It would become the fastest selling album in record history. Arthur M Schlesinger Jr., Assistant to the President, nearly crashed his car when he first heard an album cut on the radio: Reporter: What do you think the chances are for a Jewish president? Meader: Well, I think they're pretty good. Let me say, I don't see why a person of the Jewish faith can't be President of the United States. I know as a Catholic I could never vote for him, but other than that...
<mask> and Doud produced a second album, The First Family Volume Two, in the spring of 1963. After President Kennedy was assassinated that November, all unsold albums were pulled out of stores and destroyed. The producers did not want to appear to be profiting from the President's death.Later career
<mask> continued to produce albums with George Foster, including the very successful 1965 album You Don't Have To Be Jewish and When You're In Love, the Whole World is Jewish. He produced 16 comedy albums from 1962 to 1977. <mask> wrote for The Garry Moore Show during the late 1960s and also contributed to The Ed Sullivan Show, as well as other variety programs. When Hollywood came calling, he relocated to Los Angeles and worked in the motion picture industry for a few years. He returned to television and produced numerous TV shows from the 1970s to the 1990s, including The NBC Follies and Fifty Years of Country Music. He partnered with Burt Reynolds, producing two network pilot specials: Cotton Club '75 and The Wayne Newton Special. In 1977, Paramount hired him to create television specials to promote their feature film releases American Hot Wax, Foul Play and Grease.In 1987, <mask> created the NBC teen fantasy sitcom Out of this World starring Maureen Flannigan and Donna Pescow. He produced numerous “outtake” shows and established an extensive comedy videotape library for his shows Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders with Don Rickles and Steve Lawrence, Comedy Break and The Hit Squad. He would continue to market the TV library globally for decades. Personal life
<mask> donated many of his personal television scripts to the Writers Guild Foundation Archive. The original master tapes of his albums The First Family and The First Family Volume Two were donated to President John F. Kennedy's library in Boston at the request of Caroline Kennedy and are on display in the library, along with a Gold Album of the first album. He is now retired, living in Northern California with his wife of 51 years, Barbara Noonan <mask>, who partnered and co-produced with her husband with programming on the four major networks and in syndication. They have two children and four grandchildren.Album work
A partial list of his album credits:
You Don't Have to be Jewish (1964)
When You're in Love, the Whole World is Jewish (1965)
Al Tijuana & His Jewish Brass (1966)
The Yiddish are Coming! The Yiddish are Coming! (1967)
Scream On Someone You Love Today (1967)The New First Family 1968: A Futuristic Fairy Tale (1968)Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts (1968)Pat McCormick Tells It Like It Is (1968)The Jewish American Princess (1971)Out of the Closet (1977)
Television work
A partial list of his television credits:The NBC Follies (1973)Cotton Club '75 (1974)Charo (1976)Fifty Years of Country Music (1978)Grease Day USA (1978)Waylon (1980)The Best Little Special in Texas (1982)The Funniest Commercial Goofs (1983)Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders (1983-84)The Love Boat Fall Preview Special (1984)Anything for a Laugh (1985)Comedy Break (1985)Rickles on the Loose (1986)The Hit Squad (1987)Out of this World'' (1987)
References
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1931 births
Writers from Jacksonville, Florida
Record producers from Florida
American radio DJs
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8792536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC%20Johnson | KC Johnson | Robert David Johnson (born 27 November 1967), also known as KC Johnson, is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He played a major role in disseminating the facts about the Duke University lacrosse rape case in 2006-7. In 2007 he co-authored a book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.
Background
Johnson was raised in Leominster, MA, the son of Massachusetts schoolteachers. His father, Robert Johnson, was a star basketball player at Fitchburg State College, leading the nation in scoring at 39.1 points per game in 1964. Johnson's sister Kathleen was the starting point guard for the Columbia University women's basketball team in the early 1990s. He goes by the name KC after Boston Celtics player K. C. Jones. Johnson is also an athlete and has run numerous marathons.
He currently resides in Portland, Maine, and teaches at Brooklyn College. In 2007-08, he taught at Tel Aviv University in Israel on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Education
Johnson attended Groton School, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) from Harvard University, and his M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989). Johnson taught at Arizona State University and Williams College and served as visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and at Tel Aviv University (2007-8), as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities. Before earning his master's degree, Johnson worked as a track announcer for several years at Scarborough Downs.
Johnson has written and edited numerous books about American history. He also co-edited several volumes of declassified transcripts and tapes from the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Tenure battle
In 2002 and 2003, the denial of tenure to Johnson by the Brooklyn College history department became the subject of media attention.
Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that the root of the conflict lay partly in Johnson's "resistance to gender-driven hiring," which "didn't endear him to the department's small but vociferous faction of political ideologues – a group that the chairman, Phillip Gallagher, had himself once described, in an e-mail to Mr. Johnson, as 'academic terrorists.'" Johnson had also protested a "teach-in" about 9/11, "which was freighted with panelists hostile to any U.S. military response and which offered, Mr. Johnson noted, no supporters of U.S. or Israeli policies."
Colleagues began to criticize him, some of them arguing that his intense involvement in his work was, in Rabinowitz's words, "a sign of dubious mental health" and at least one of them complaining that "Johnson was asking too much of his students."
An article in The Harvard Crimson described clashes between Johnson and Gallagher that apparently also precipitated the denial of tenure. When Johnson sat on a search committee that was charged with finding an expert in 20th-century central or eastern European studies, he decided that one of the two women on the short list was unqualified. Another professor indicated, however, according to the Crimson, that "the department had an 'unofficial agenda' to hire a woman for the position." Later, Gallagher criticized Johnson for admitting students to his classes who had not taken the official prerequisites, even though Gallagher, according to Johnson, had not previously enforced such rules.
When Johnson went up for tenure, he was rejected on grounds of "lack of collegiality." In response, a group of twenty historians, spearheaded by the chairman of Harvard's history department, Akira Iriye (who had been Johnson's mentor and dissertation adviser), wrote a letter in which they declared that the denial of tenure to Johnson "reflects a 'culture of mediocrity' hostile to high academic standards... Introducing a redundant category of collegiality rewards young professors who 'go along to get along' rather than expressing independent scholarly judgement." Such thinking, the professors wrote, "poses a grave threat to academic freedom, since the robust and unfettered exchange of ideas is central to the pursuit of truth."
"This is the first time in my experience that scholars have gotten together to protest a decision like this," Iriye told the Harvard Crimson. "I am terribly upset and mystified by it. KC is a very visible scholar and a spectacular teacher." The Brooklyn College student government, for its part, voted unanimously in support of Johnson, describing the refusal to grant tenure as a "violation of their academic rights".
The student government also noted that "the college's conduct of the KC Johnson tenure case was described by retired Brooklyn professor and longtime PSC grievance counselor Jerome Sternstein as 'the most corrupted tenure review process I have ever come across'; University of Pennsylvania professor Erin O’Connor described it as 'an exemplary instance of the sort of petty, internecine corruption that runs rife in academe, where accountability is minimal and the power to destroy careers is correspondingly high'; and Swarthmore College professor Timothy Burke described it as 'one more arrow in the quiver of academia's critics, one more revelation of the corruption of the profession as a whole, one more reason to question whether tenure ever serves the purpose for which it is allegedly designed'."
The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article about Johnson's tenure battle entitled "Tenure Madness", where it is claimed that "more than 500 Brooklyn College students signed a petition supporting Mr. Johnson. They held rallies and marches." At the History News Network website, Ronald Radosh wrote: "Mr. Johnson represents the best of what CUNY has to offer its students; educated at top universities, he left a college many aspire to teach at to come to CUNY. He found that while his students appreciated and applauded his work and his commitment, the left-wing professoriate now dominant in the academy could not tolerate his insistence on quality standards in hiring, his dismissal of politically correct criteria, and his non-ideological approach to his field."
The New Republic editorialized that Brooklyn College's tenure criteria, as demonstrated by the Johnson case, "represented a grave threat to Brooklyn College's hope of ever being taken seriously as a scholarly institution." And Herbert London of the Hudson Institute saw Johnson's tenure case as exemplifying the emergence in American universities of "an orthodoxy of decidedly left-wing opinion that intolerantly rejects any other point of view....it is ironic that tenure conceived as a way to insure independent thought free from censure is now employed to enforce conformity. What else can the 'lack of collegiality' possibly mean?"
Johnson appealed the tenure decision to the chancellor of the City University of New York system, Matthew Goldstein. Goldstein, in turn, appointed a panel of distinguished scholars from other CUNY divisions to examine the case, namely Pamela Sheingorn, Professor of History at Baruch College and Executive Director of the Doctoral Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center; David Reynolds, University Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College; and Louis Masur, Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at The City College. In accordance with their unanimous recommendation, Goldstein promoted Johnson to a full professorship with tenure. The CUNY board of trustees unanimously supported this decision.
In an editorial, the New York Daily News also applauded the decision, noting that Goldstein "has been striving to upgrade CUNY and its reputation. His actions in the Johnson case are testimony to that, sending the right message: Scholarship and teaching ability come first. And academic freedom is worth fighting for". Johnson later wrote his own account of the tenure battle for the History News Network website.
Duke lacrosse case
Johnson played a prominent role in chronicling the Duke lacrosse case scandal, exposing the many violations of due process that characterized the case in a blog entitled "Durham in Wonderland", which he created solely for the purpose. Johnson's Durham in Wonderland contains one of the largest archives of events related to the case. Johnson holds critical views of some of Duke's faculty and staff, known as the Group of 88, and referred to them as a "rush-to-judgment mob" who had published an ad condemning players and encouraging protests against the falsely accused, much before the investigations had been concluded.
One of the accused, Reade Seligmann, thanked Johnson publicly, stating: "I am forever grateful for all of the care, concern, and encouragement I received from my remarkable girlfriend Brooke and her family, the Delbarton community, the town of Essex Fells, KC Johnson, and everyone else who chose to stand up, use their voice, and challenge the actions of a rogue district attorney." The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred, fined, and sentenced to one day in jail.
Charles Piot, a Duke professor of cultural anthropology, criticized Johnson's role in the case, writing that Johnson "used the [case] to demonize faculty and further ideological agendas that are part of a broad-scale right-wing attack on progressive faculty across the nation." Johnson replied to Piot on his blog.
Johnson would go on to join Stuart Taylor, Jr. in co-writing the book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case (). It was published in September 2007. The New York Times book review referred to the book as a "riveting narrative" that has made a "gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused." James Earl Coleman, Jr. and Prasad Kasibhatla, Duke professors, criticized Taylor and Johnson for "biased and inaccurate rhetoric". Johnson and Taylor replied to Coleman and Kasibhatla.
Political views
Johnson is a registered Democrat. He supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and vehemently opposed the candidacy of John Edwards that year. Johnson has condemned the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education for promoting "social justice" as an essential element of teacher training, and for enacting policies which he argues are clearly intended "to screen out potential public school teachers who hold undesirable political beliefs."
Works
Books
co-author (with Stuart Taylor), The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities, Encounter Books, 2017.
All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
co-author (with Stuart Taylor), Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.
Congress and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (winner of the 2006 D.B. Hardeman Prize)
co-editor (with Kent Germany), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 3, W.W. Norton, 2005.
co-editor (with David Shreve), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 2, W.W. Norton, 2005.
20 January 1961: The American Dream, DTV Publishers, 1999. (click DTV and then Katalog)
Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition, Harvard University Press, 1998.
The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations, Harvard University Press, 1995.
Editor, On Cultural Ground: Essays in International History, Imprint Publications, 1994.
Awards
PSC-CUNY Award, 2002, History: "Running from Ahead: Lyndon Johnson and the 1964 Presidential Election."
Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education, 2009
See also
2006 Duke University lacrosse case
References
External links
Official page at Brooklyn College
1967 births
Living people
American male bloggers
American bloggers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American political writers
American male writers
Harvard University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Historians of the United States
Brooklyn College faculty
People from Scarborough, Maine
City University of New York faculty
Graduate Center, CUNY faculty
People from Leominster, Massachusetts
Groton School alumni
Tel Aviv University faculty
21st-century American essayists
Arizona State University faculty
Williams College faculty
Historians from Massachusetts
American male non-fiction writers | [
"Robert David Johnson (born 27 November 1967), also known as KC Johnson, is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.",
"He played a major role in disseminating the facts about the Duke University lacrosse rape case in 2006-7.",
"In 2007 he co-authored a book, Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.",
"Background\nJohnson was raised in Leominster, MA, the son of Massachusetts schoolteachers.",
"His father, Robert Johnson, was a star basketball player at Fitchburg State College, leading the nation in scoring at 39.1 points per game in 1964.",
"Johnson's sister Kathleen was the starting point guard for the Columbia University women's basketball team in the early 1990s.",
"He goes by the name KC after Boston Celtics player K. C. Jones.",
"Johnson is also an athlete and has run numerous marathons.",
"He currently resides in Portland, Maine, and teaches at Brooklyn College.",
"In 2007-08, he taught at Tel Aviv University in Israel on a Fulbright Scholarship.",
"Education\nJohnson attended Groton School, Massachusetts.",
"He received his B.A.",
"(1988) and Ph.D. (1993) from Harvard University, and his M.A.",
"from the University of Chicago (1989).",
"Johnson taught at Arizona State University and Williams College and served as visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and at Tel Aviv University (2007-8), as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.",
"Before earning his master's degree, Johnson worked as a track announcer for several years at Scarborough Downs.",
"Johnson has written and edited numerous books about American history.",
"He also co-edited several volumes of declassified transcripts and tapes from the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson.",
"Tenure battle\n\nIn 2002 and 2003, the denial of tenure to Johnson by the Brooklyn College history department became the subject of media attention.",
"Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that the root of the conflict lay partly in Johnson's \"resistance to gender-driven hiring,\" which \"didn't endear him to the department's small but vociferous faction of political ideologues – a group that the chairman, Phillip Gallagher, had himself once described, in an e-mail to Mr. Johnson, as 'academic terrorists.'\"",
"Johnson had also protested a \"teach-in\" about 9/11, \"which was freighted with panelists hostile to any U.S. military response and which offered, Mr. Johnson noted, no supporters of U.S. or Israeli policies.\"",
"Colleagues began to criticize him, some of them arguing that his intense involvement in his work was, in Rabinowitz's words, \"a sign of dubious mental health\" and at least one of them complaining that \"Johnson was asking too much of his students.\"",
"An article in The Harvard Crimson described clashes between Johnson and Gallagher that apparently also precipitated the denial of tenure.",
"When Johnson sat on a search committee that was charged with finding an expert in 20th-century central or eastern European studies, he decided that one of the two women on the short list was unqualified.",
"Another professor indicated, however, according to the Crimson, that \"the department had an 'unofficial agenda' to hire a woman for the position.\"",
"Later, Gallagher criticized Johnson for admitting students to his classes who had not taken the official prerequisites, even though Gallagher, according to Johnson, had not previously enforced such rules.",
"When Johnson went up for tenure, he was rejected on grounds of \"lack of collegiality.\"",
"In response, a group of twenty historians, spearheaded by the chairman of Harvard's history department, Akira Iriye (who had been Johnson's mentor and dissertation adviser), wrote a letter in which they declared that the denial of tenure to Johnson \"reflects a 'culture of mediocrity' hostile to high academic standards...",
"Introducing a redundant category of collegiality rewards young professors who 'go along to get along' rather than expressing independent scholarly judgement.\"",
"Such thinking, the professors wrote, \"poses a grave threat to academic freedom, since the robust and unfettered exchange of ideas is central to the pursuit of truth.\"",
"\"This is the first time in my experience that scholars have gotten together to protest a decision like this,\" Iriye told the Harvard Crimson.",
"\"I am terribly upset and mystified by it.",
"KC is a very visible scholar and a spectacular teacher.\"",
"The Brooklyn College student government, for its part, voted unanimously in support of Johnson, describing the refusal to grant tenure as a \"violation of their academic rights\".",
"The student government also noted that \"the college's conduct of the KC Johnson tenure case was described by retired Brooklyn professor and longtime PSC grievance counselor Jerome Sternstein as 'the most corrupted tenure review process I have ever come across'; University of Pennsylvania professor Erin O’Connor described it as 'an exemplary instance of the sort of petty, internecine corruption that runs rife in academe, where accountability is minimal and the power to destroy careers is correspondingly high'; and Swarthmore College professor Timothy Burke described it as 'one more arrow in the quiver of academia's critics, one more revelation of the corruption of the profession as a whole, one more reason to question whether tenure ever serves the purpose for which it is allegedly designed'.\"",
"The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article about Johnson's tenure battle entitled \"Tenure Madness\", where it is claimed that \"more than 500 Brooklyn College students signed a petition supporting Mr. Johnson.",
"They held rallies and marches.\"",
"At the History News Network website, Ronald Radosh wrote: \"Mr. Johnson represents the best of what CUNY has to offer its students; educated at top universities, he left a college many aspire to teach at to come to CUNY.",
"He found that while his students appreciated and applauded his work and his commitment, the left-wing professoriate now dominant in the academy could not tolerate his insistence on quality standards in hiring, his dismissal of politically correct criteria, and his non-ideological approach to his field.\"",
"The New Republic editorialized that Brooklyn College's tenure criteria, as demonstrated by the Johnson case, \"represented a grave threat to Brooklyn College's hope of ever being taken seriously as a scholarly institution.\"",
"And Herbert London of the Hudson Institute saw Johnson's tenure case as exemplifying the emergence in American universities of \"an orthodoxy of decidedly left-wing opinion that intolerantly rejects any other point of view....it is ironic that tenure conceived as a way to insure independent thought free from censure is now employed to enforce conformity.",
"What else can the 'lack of collegiality' possibly mean?\"",
"Johnson appealed the tenure decision to the chancellor of the City University of New York system, Matthew Goldstein.",
"Goldstein, in turn, appointed a panel of distinguished scholars from other CUNY divisions to examine the case, namely Pamela Sheingorn, Professor of History at Baruch College and Executive Director of the Doctoral Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center; David Reynolds, University Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College; and Louis Masur, Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at The City College.",
"In accordance with their unanimous recommendation, Goldstein promoted Johnson to a full professorship with tenure.",
"The CUNY board of trustees unanimously supported this decision.",
"In an editorial, the New York Daily News also applauded the decision, noting that Goldstein \"has been striving to upgrade CUNY and its reputation.",
"His actions in the Johnson case are testimony to that, sending the right message: Scholarship and teaching ability come first.",
"And academic freedom is worth fighting for\".",
"Johnson later wrote his own account of the tenure battle for the History News Network website.",
"Duke lacrosse case\nJohnson played a prominent role in chronicling the Duke lacrosse case scandal, exposing the many violations of due process that characterized the case in a blog entitled \"Durham in Wonderland\", which he created solely for the purpose.",
"Johnson's Durham in Wonderland contains one of the largest archives of events related to the case.",
"Johnson holds critical views of some of Duke's faculty and staff, known as the Group of 88, and referred to them as a \"rush-to-judgment mob\" who had published an ad condemning players and encouraging protests against the falsely accused, much before the investigations had been concluded.",
"One of the accused, Reade Seligmann, thanked Johnson publicly, stating: \"I am forever grateful for all of the care, concern, and encouragement I received from my remarkable girlfriend Brooke and her family, the Delbarton community, the town of Essex Fells, KC Johnson, and everyone else who chose to stand up, use their voice, and challenge the actions of a rogue district attorney.\"",
"The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred, fined, and sentenced to one day in jail.",
"Charles Piot, a Duke professor of cultural anthropology, criticized Johnson's role in the case, writing that Johnson \"used the [case] to demonize faculty and further ideological agendas that are part of a broad-scale right-wing attack on progressive faculty across the nation.\"",
"Johnson replied to Piot on his blog.",
"Johnson would go on to join Stuart Taylor, Jr. in co-writing the book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case ().",
"It was published in September 2007.",
"The New York Times book review referred to the book as a \"riveting narrative\" that has made a \"gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused.\"",
"James Earl Coleman, Jr. and Prasad Kasibhatla, Duke professors, criticized Taylor and Johnson for \"biased and inaccurate rhetoric\".",
"Johnson and Taylor replied to Coleman and Kasibhatla.",
"Political views\nJohnson is a registered Democrat.",
"He supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and vehemently opposed the candidacy of John Edwards that year.",
"Johnson has condemned the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education for promoting \"social justice\" as an essential element of teacher training, and for enacting policies which he argues are clearly intended \"to screen out potential public school teachers who hold undesirable political beliefs.\"",
"Works\n\nBooks\nco-author (with Stuart Taylor), The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities, Encounter Books, 2017.",
"All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election, Cambridge University Press, 2009. \nco-author (with Stuart Taylor), Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007.",
"Congress and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press, 2005.",
"(winner of the 2006 D.B.",
"Hardeman Prize)\nco-editor (with Kent Germany), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol.",
"3, W.W. Norton, 2005. \nco-editor (with David Shreve), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol.",
"2, W.W. Norton, 2005.",
"20 January 1961: The American Dream, DTV Publishers, 1999.",
"(click DTV and then Katalog)\nErnest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition, Harvard University Press, 1998.",
"The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations, Harvard University Press, 1995.",
"Editor, On Cultural Ground: Essays in International History, Imprint Publications, 1994.",
"Awards\nPSC-CUNY Award, 2002, History: \"Running from Ahead: Lyndon Johnson and the 1964 Presidential Election.\"",
"Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education, 2009\n\nSee also\n2006 Duke University lacrosse case\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\nOfficial page at Brooklyn College\n\n1967 births\nLiving people\nAmerican male bloggers\nAmerican bloggers\n21st-century American historians\n21st-century American male writers\nAmerican political writers\nAmerican male writers\nHarvard University alumni\nUniversity of Chicago alumni\nHistorians of the United States\nBrooklyn College faculty\nPeople from Scarborough, Maine\nCity University of New York faculty\nGraduate Center, CUNY faculty\nPeople from Leominster, Massachusetts\nGroton School alumni\nTel Aviv University faculty\n21st-century American essayists\nArizona State University faculty\nWilliams College faculty\nHistorians from Massachusetts\nAmerican male non-fiction writers"
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"Robert David Johnson, also known as KC Johnson, is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center.",
"The facts about the Duke University lacrosse rape case were disseminated by him.",
"He co-authored Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.",
"The son of Massachusetts teachers, Johnson was raised in Massachusetts.",
"Robert Johnson was a star basketball player at Fitchburg State College, leading the nation in scoring in 1964.",
"Kathleen was the starting point guard for the Columbia University women's basketball team in the early 1990s.",
"He is named after Boston Celtics player K. C. Jones.",
"Johnson has run many marathons.",
"He teaches at Brooklyn College in Maine.",
"He taught at Tel Aviv University on a scholarship.",
"Johnson attended a school in Massachusetts.",
"He received a degree.",
"He received his M.A. from Harvard University.",
"From the University of Chicago.",
"Johnson taught at Arizona State University and Williams College and was a visiting professor at Harvard and Tel Aviv University.",
"Before earning his master's degree, Johnson worked as a track announcer.",
"Several books about American history have been edited by Johnson.",
"Several volumes of declassified transcripts and tapes were edited by him.",
"The Brooklyn College history department denied tenure to Johnson in 2002 and 2003 in front of the media.",
"The root of the conflict was Johnson's resistance to gender-driven hiring, which didn't endeared him to the department's small but vociferous group of political ideologues.",
"Mr. Johnson protested a \"teach-in\" about 9/11 that was hostile to any U.S. military response.",
"Rabinowitz said that his intense involvement in his work was a sign of dubious mental health, and at least one of them complained that Johnson was asking too much of his students.",
"According to an article in The Harvard Crimson, there were disagreements between Johnson and Gallagher that led to the denial of tenure.",
"Johnson decided that one of the two women on the short list was not qualified to be an expert in 20th-century central or eastern European studies.",
"The department had an \"unofficial agenda\" to hire a woman for the position, according to another professor.",
"Johnson admitted students to his classes who had not taken the official prerequisites, even though Gallagher had not previously enforced such rules.",
"Johnson was rejected for tenure because of lack of collegiality.",
"In response, a group of twenty historians, spearheaded by the chairman of Harvard's history department, wrote a letter in which they declared that the denial of tenure to Johnson \"reflects a 'culture of mediocrity'.\"",
"Young professors who go along to get along are rewarded with a redundant category of collegiality.",
"The professors wrote that such thinking poses a grave threat to academic freedom since the robust and unfettered exchange of ideas is central to the pursuit of truth.",
"This is the first time in my experience that scholars have protested a decision like this.",
"I am perplexed by it.",
"KC is a great scholar and a great teacher.",
"The Brooklyn College student government voted unanimously in support of Johnson, describing the refusal to grant tenure as a violation of their academic rights.",
"The college's conduct of the KC Johnson tenure case was described by a retired Brooklyn professor and a University of Pennsylvania professor as the most corrupted tenure review process I have ever seen.",
"More than 500 Brooklyn College students signed a petition supporting Mr. Johnson, according to an article by the Chronicle of Higher Education.",
"They had rallies and marches.",
"Ronald Radosh wrote on the History News Network website that Mr. Johnson represents the best of what CUNY has to offer its students.",
"While his students appreciated and applauded his work, the left-wing professoriate now dominant in the academy could not tolerate his insistence on quality standards in hiring, his dismissal of politically correct criteria, and his non-ideological approach to his field.",
"Brooklyn College's hope of being taken seriously as a scholarly institution was \"represented a grave threat\" by the Johnson case, according to the New Republic.",
"The emergence in American universities of an orthodoxy of decidedly left-wing opinion that rejects any other point of view is ironic, according to Herbert London of the Hudson Institute.",
"What can the 'lack of collegiality' possibly mean?",
"The chancellor of the City University of New York system was appealed to by Johnson.",
"The case was examined by a panel of distinguished scholars from other CUNY divisions, including Pamela Sheingorn, Professor of History at Baruch College and Executive Director of the Doctoral Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center.",
"Johnson was promoted to a full professorship with tenure.",
"The CUNY board of trustees supported the decision.",
"The New York Daily News applauded the decision, noting that Goldstein has been trying to upgrade CUNY's reputation.",
"His actions in the Johnson case are testimony to that.",
"Academic freedom is worth fighting for.",
"The History News Network website has an account of the tenure battle written by Johnson.",
"The Duke lacrosse case scandal was chronicled by Johnson in a blog entitled \"Durham in Wonderland\", which he created solely for the purpose of exposing the many violations of due process that characterized the case.",
"One of the largest archives of events related to the case can be found in Johnson's Durham in Wonderland.",
"Some of Duke's faculty and staff, known as the Group of 88, were referred to by Johnson as a \"rush-to-judgment mob\" who had published an ad condemning players and encouraging protests against the wrongly accused, much before the investigations had been concluded.",
"One of the accused, Reade Seligmann, thanked Johnson publicly, stating: \"I am forever grateful for all of the care, concern, and encouragement I received from my remarkable girlfriend Brooke and her family, the Delbarton community, the town of Essex Fells, KC Johnson",
"Mike Nifong was disbarred, fined, and sentenced to one day in jail.",
"Charles Piot, a Duke professor of cultural anthropology, criticized Johnson's role in the case, writing that Johnson \"used the case to demonize faculty and further ideological agendas that are part of a broad-scale right-wing attack on progressive faculty across the nation.\"",
"Johnson replied to Piot.",
"Stuart Taylor, Jr. and Johnson wrote Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case.",
"In September 2007, it was published.",
"The book has made a \"gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused\" according to the New York Times book review.",
"Duke professors criticized Taylor and Johnson for their \"biased and inaccurate rhetoric\".",
"They replied to Coleman and Kasibhatla.",
"Johnson is a Democrat.",
"He was a supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and opposed the candidacy of John Edwards that year.",
"The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education has been condemned by Johnson for promoting \"social justice\" as an essential element of teacher training and for policies which he argues are intended to screen out potential public school teachers who hold undesirable political beliefs.",
"Stuart Taylor and Works Books co-authored The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities.",
"Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case was co-authored by Stuart Taylor.",
"Congress and the Cold War was published in 2005.",
"The winner of the 2006 D.B.",
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"W.W.Norton and David Shreve co-edited The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson.",
"W.W.Norton was born in 2005.",
"The American Dream was published in 1999.",
"Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition was published in 1998.",
"The Harvard University Press published The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations in 1995.",
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"The Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education was presented in 2009."
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<mask> attended Groton School, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) from Harvard University, and his M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989).<mask> taught at Arizona State University and Williams College and served as visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and at Tel Aviv University (2007-8), as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities. Before earning his master's degree, <mask> worked as a track announcer for several years at Scarborough Downs. <mask> has written and edited numerous books about American history. He also co-edited several volumes of declassified transcripts and tapes from the administration of Lyndon Baines <mask>. Tenure battle
In 2002 and 2003, the denial of tenure to <mask> by the Brooklyn College history department became the subject of media attention. Wall Street Journal columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz wrote that the root of the conflict lay partly in <mask>'s "resistance to gender-driven hiring," which "didn't endear him to the department's small but vociferous faction of political ideologues – a group that the chairman, Phillip Gallagher, had himself once described, in an e-mail to Mr. <mask>, as 'academic terrorists.'" <mask> had also protested a "teach-in" about 9/11, "which was freighted with panelists hostile to any U.S. military response and which offered, Mr. <mask> noted, no supporters of U.S. or Israeli policies."Colleagues began to criticize him, some of them arguing that his intense involvement in his work was, in Rabinowitz's words, "a sign of dubious mental health" and at least one of them complaining that "<mask> was asking too much of his students." An article in The Harvard Crimson described clashes between <mask> and Gallagher that apparently also precipitated the denial of tenure. When <mask> sat on a search committee that was charged with finding an expert in 20th-century central or eastern European studies, he decided that one of the two women on the short list was unqualified. Another professor indicated, however, according to the Crimson, that "the department had an 'unofficial agenda' to hire a woman for the position." Later, Gallagher criticized <mask> for admitting students to his classes who had not taken the official prerequisites, even though Gallagher, according to <mask>, had not previously enforced such rules. When <mask> went up for tenure, he was rejected on grounds of "lack of collegiality." In response, a group of twenty historians, spearheaded by the chairman of Harvard's history department, Akira Iriye (who had been <mask>'s mentor and dissertation adviser), wrote a letter in which they declared that the denial of tenure to <mask> "reflects a 'culture of mediocrity' hostile to high academic standards...Introducing a redundant category of collegiality rewards young professors who 'go along to get along' rather than expressing independent scholarly judgement." Such thinking, the professors wrote, "poses a grave threat to academic freedom, since the robust and unfettered exchange of ideas is central to the pursuit of truth." "This is the first time in my experience that scholars have gotten together to protest a decision like this," Iriye told the Harvard Crimson. "I am terribly upset and mystified by it. <mask> is a very visible scholar and a spectacular teacher." The Brooklyn College student government, for its part, voted unanimously in support of <mask>, describing the refusal to grant tenure as a "violation of their academic rights". The student government also noted that "the college's conduct of the <mask> tenure case was described by retired Brooklyn professor and longtime PSC grievance counselor Jerome Sternstein as 'the most corrupted tenure review process I have ever come across'; University of Pennsylvania professor Erin O’Connor described it as 'an exemplary instance of the sort of petty, internecine corruption that runs rife in academe, where accountability is minimal and the power to destroy careers is correspondingly high'; and Swarthmore College professor Timothy Burke described it as 'one more arrow in the quiver of academia's critics, one more revelation of the corruption of the profession as a whole, one more reason to question whether tenure ever serves the purpose for which it is allegedly designed'."The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article about <mask>'s tenure battle entitled "Tenure Madness", where it is claimed that "more than 500 Brooklyn College students signed a petition supporting Mr. <mask>. They held rallies and marches." At the History News Network website, Ronald Radosh wrote: "Mr. <mask> represents the best of what CUNY has to offer its students; educated at top universities, he left a college many aspire to teach at to come to CUNY. He found that while his students appreciated and applauded his work and his commitment, the left-wing professoriate now dominant in the academy could not tolerate his insistence on quality standards in hiring, his dismissal of politically correct criteria, and his non-ideological approach to his field." The New Republic editorialized that Brooklyn College's tenure criteria, as demonstrated by the <mask> case, "represented a grave threat to Brooklyn College's hope of ever being taken seriously as a scholarly institution." And Herbert London of the Hudson Institute saw <mask>'s tenure case as exemplifying the emergence in American universities of "an orthodoxy of decidedly left-wing opinion that intolerantly rejects any other point of view....it is ironic that tenure conceived as a way to insure independent thought free from censure is now employed to enforce conformity. What else can the 'lack of collegiality' possibly mean?"<mask> appealed the tenure decision to the chancellor of the City University of New York system, Matthew Goldstein. Goldstein, in turn, appointed a panel of distinguished scholars from other CUNY divisions to examine the case, namely Pamela Sheingorn, Professor of History at Baruch College and Executive Director of the Doctoral Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center; David Reynolds, University Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College; and Louis Masur, Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at The City College. In accordance with their unanimous recommendation, Goldstein promoted <mask> to a full professorship with tenure. The CUNY board of trustees unanimously supported this decision. In an editorial, the New York Daily News also applauded the decision, noting that Goldstein "has been striving to upgrade CUNY and its reputation. His actions in the <mask> case are testimony to that, sending the right message: Scholarship and teaching ability come first. And academic freedom is worth fighting for".<mask> later wrote his own account of the tenure battle for the History News Network website. Duke lacrosse case
<mask> played a prominent role in chronicling the Duke lacrosse case scandal, exposing the many violations of due process that characterized the case in a blog entitled "Durham in Wonderland", which he created solely for the purpose. <mask>'s Durham in Wonderland contains one of the largest archives of events related to the case. <mask> holds critical views of some of Duke's faculty and staff, known as the Group of 88, and referred to them as a "rush-to-judgment mob" who had published an ad condemning players and encouraging protests against the falsely accused, much before the investigations had been concluded. One of the accused, Reade Seligmann, thanked <mask> publicly, stating: "I am forever grateful for all of the care, concern, and encouragement I received from my remarkable girlfriend Brooke and her family, the Delbarton community, the town of Essex Fells, <mask>, and everyone else who chose to stand up, use their voice, and challenge the actions of a rogue district attorney." The prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred, fined, and sentenced to one day in jail. Charles Piot, a Duke professor of cultural anthropology, criticized <mask>'s role in the case, writing that <mask> "used the [case] to demonize faculty and further ideological agendas that are part of a broad-scale right-wing attack on progressive faculty across the nation."<mask> replied to Piot on his blog. <mask> would go on to join Stuart Taylor, Jr. in co-writing the book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustice of the Duke Lacrosse Case (). It was published in September 2007. The New York Times book review referred to the book as a "riveting narrative" that has made a "gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused." James Earl Coleman, Jr. and Prasad Kasibhatla, Duke professors, criticized Taylor and <mask> for "biased and inaccurate rhetoric". <mask> and Taylor replied to Coleman and Kasibhatla. Political views
<mask> is a registered Democrat.He supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and vehemently opposed the candidacy of John Edwards that year. <mask> has condemned the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education for promoting "social justice" as an essential element of teacher training, and for enacting policies which he argues are clearly intended "to screen out potential public school teachers who hold undesirable political beliefs." Works
Books
co-author (with Stuart Taylor), The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities, Encounter Books, 2017. All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
co-author (with Stuart Taylor), Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007. Congress and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (winner of the 2006 D.B. Hardeman Prize)
co-editor (with Kent Germany), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B<mask>, vol.3, W.W. Norton, 2005.
co-editor (with David Shreve), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B<mask>, vol. 2, W.W. Norton, 2005. 20 January 1961: The American Dream, DTV Publishers, 1999. (click DTV and then Katalog)
Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition, Harvard University Press, 1998. The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations, Harvard University Press, 1995. Editor, On Cultural Ground: Essays in International History, Imprint Publications, 1994. Awards
PSC-CUNY Award, 2002, History: "Running from Ahead: <mask> and the 1964 Presidential Election."Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education, 2009
See also
2006 Duke University lacrosse case
References
External links
Official page at Brooklyn College
1967 births
Living people
American male bloggers
American bloggers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American political writers
American male writers
Harvard University alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Historians of the United States
Brooklyn College faculty
People from Scarborough, Maine
City University of New York faculty
Graduate Center, CUNY faculty
People from Leominster, Massachusetts
Groton School alumni
Tel Aviv University faculty
21st-century American essayists
Arizona State University faculty
Williams College faculty
Historians from Massachusetts
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From the University of Chicago.<mask> taught at Arizona State University and Williams College and was a visiting professor at Harvard and Tel Aviv University. Before earning his master's degree, <mask> worked as a track announcer. Several books about American history have been edited by <mask>. Several volumes of declassified transcripts and tapes were edited by him. The Brooklyn College history department denied tenure to <mask> in 2002 and 2003 in front of the media. The root of the conflict was <mask>'s resistance to gender-driven hiring, which didn't endeared him to the department's small but vociferous group of political ideologues. Mr. <mask> protested a "teach-in" about 9/11 that was hostile to any U.S. military response.Rabinowitz said that his intense involvement in his work was a sign of dubious mental health, and at least one of them complained that <mask> was asking too much of his students. According to an article in The Harvard Crimson, there were disagreements between <mask> and Gallagher that led to the denial of tenure. <mask> decided that one of the two women on the short list was not qualified to be an expert in 20th-century central or eastern European studies. The department had an "unofficial agenda" to hire a woman for the position, according to another professor. <mask> admitted students to his classes who had not taken the official prerequisites, even though Gallagher had not previously enforced such rules. <mask> was rejected for tenure because of lack of collegiality. In response, a group of twenty historians, spearheaded by the chairman of Harvard's history department, wrote a letter in which they declared that the denial of tenure to <mask> "reflects a 'culture of mediocrity'."Young professors who go along to get along are rewarded with a redundant category of collegiality. The professors wrote that such thinking poses a grave threat to academic freedom since the robust and unfettered exchange of ideas is central to the pursuit of truth. This is the first time in my experience that scholars have protested a decision like this. I am perplexed by it. <mask> is a great scholar and a great teacher. The Brooklyn College student government voted unanimously in support of <mask>, describing the refusal to grant tenure as a violation of their academic rights. The college's conduct of the <mask> tenure case was described by a retired Brooklyn professor and a University of Pennsylvania professor as the most corrupted tenure review process I have ever seen.More than 500 Brooklyn College students signed a petition supporting Mr. <mask>, according to an article by the Chronicle of Higher Education. They had rallies and marches. Ronald Radosh wrote on the History News Network website that Mr. <mask> represents the best of what CUNY has to offer its students. While his students appreciated and applauded his work, the left-wing professoriate now dominant in the academy could not tolerate his insistence on quality standards in hiring, his dismissal of politically correct criteria, and his non-ideological approach to his field. Brooklyn College's hope of being taken seriously as a scholarly institution was "represented a grave threat" by the <mask> case, according to the New Republic. The emergence in American universities of an orthodoxy of decidedly left-wing opinion that rejects any other point of view is ironic, according to Herbert London of the Hudson Institute. What can the 'lack of collegiality' possibly mean?The chancellor of the City University of New York system was appealed to by <mask>. The case was examined by a panel of distinguished scholars from other CUNY divisions, including Pamela Sheingorn, Professor of History at Baruch College and Executive Director of the Doctoral Program in Theatre at the Graduate Center. <mask> was promoted to a full professorship with tenure. The CUNY board of trustees supported the decision. The New York Daily News applauded the decision, noting that Goldstein has been trying to upgrade CUNY's reputation. His actions in the <mask> case are testimony to that. Academic freedom is worth fighting for.The History News Network website has an account of the tenure battle written by <mask>. The Duke lacrosse case scandal was chronicled by <mask> in a blog entitled "Durham in Wonderland", which he created solely for the purpose of exposing the many violations of due process that characterized the case. One of the largest archives of events related to the case can be found in <mask>'s Durham in Wonderland. Some of Duke's faculty and staff, known as the Group of 88, were referred to by <mask> as a "rush-to-judgment mob" who had published an ad condemning players and encouraging protests against the wrongly accused, much before the investigations had been concluded. One of the accused, Reade Seligmann, thanked <mask> publicly, stating: "I am forever grateful for all of the care, concern, and encouragement I received from my remarkable girlfriend Brooke and her family, the Delbarton community, the town of Essex Fells, <mask> Mike Nifong was disbarred, fined, and sentenced to one day in jail. Charles Piot, a Duke professor of cultural anthropology, criticized <mask>'s role in the case, writing that <mask> "used the case to demonize faculty and further ideological agendas that are part of a broad-scale right-wing attack on progressive faculty across the nation."<mask> replied to Piot. 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67404586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matija%20Kova%C4%8D | Matija Kovač | Matija Kovač (; born 8 April 1980) is a politician in Serbia. He was the deputy mayor of Novi Bečej from 2013 to 2016 and is currently serving his third term in the Assembly of Vojvodina. At one time a member of the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS), he is now a member of the Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).
Private career
Kovač was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in Bečej and Novi Bečej and graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technology with a focus in synthetic polymers. He has been the director of Poljoprivredne stručne službe Zrenjanin.
Politician
Democratic Party
Kovać entered political life in the DS, appearing in the first position on the party's list for the Novi Bečej municipal assembly in the 2004 Serbian local elections. The list won four seats; he was selected for a mandate and served as chair of the municipal committee for urbanism and communal and housing activities. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian elections held under proportional representation were given to successful parties and coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Kovač did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of leading his party's list.)
Kovač also received the thirty-seventh position on the DS's list in the 2004 Vojvodina provincial election, which was held concurrently with the local elections. In this period, half of the mandates in Vojvodina provincial elections were determined by proportional representation and the other half by election in single-member constituency seats. The DS list won fifteen proportional mandates; Kovač was not initially selected for his party's delegation but received a mandate on 12 December 2006 as the replacement for another party member. The DS was the dominant party in Vojvodina's coalition government in this period, and Kovač from 2006 to 2008 served as a supporter of the administration.
Kovač was also included on the DS's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in the one hundredth position. The list won sixty-four seats, and he was not selected for a mandate.
The DS contested the 2008 Serbian local elections in Novi Bečej as the leading party in the For a European Serbia coalition. Kovač received the second position on the coalition's list and was chosen for another mandate when the list won seven seats. On 30 May 2008, he was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the assembly. Kovač also sought re-election to the provincial assembly for Novi Bečej's constituency seat in the 2008 provincial election and was defeated, finishing third.
Kovač was replaced as president of the local assembly on 25 November 2009, against the backdrop of tensions between the DS and its local coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno demokratska partija, LDP). He resigned his mandate in the assembly shortly thereafter, on 3 December 2009. At some time between 2009 and 2012, he left the DS and joined the Progressive Party.
Serbian Progressive Party
Serbia's electoral laws were reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Kovač received the fourth position on the Progressive list for Novi Bečej in the 2012 local elections and was returned to the local assembly when the list won eight mandates. He also appeared in the twenty-second position on the Progressive-led Let's Get Vojvodina Moving list in the 2012 provincial election and was not elected when the list won only fourteen proportional mandates.
The LDP and the Progressives formed a new coalition government in Novi Bečej on 31 May 2013, Kovač was chosen as deputy mayor. He served in this role for the next three years.
Kovač received the second position on the Progressive list in the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with fourteen out of thirty-one mandates. He resigned his local mandate on 25 May, as he had also been elected to the provincial assembly. (Although he would have been permitted to serve in both assemblies under a dual mandate, he chose on this occasion to resign at the local level.)
Vojvodina adopted a system of full proportional representation at the provincial level prior to the 2016 provincial election. Kovač was given the fifty-third position on the Progressive Party's list in this election and won a second term in the provincial assembly when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He received the same position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 provincial election and was again elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six seats. Kovač is now the deputy chair of the assembly committee on European integration and inter-regional co-operation and a member of the committee on youth and sports. He is also a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Chamber of Regions in the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. In the latter capacity, he is a member of the congress's governance committee and caucuses with the European People's Party.
Kovač has also continued to be involved in politics at the level local. He received the second position on the Progressive list for Novi Bečej in the 2020 local elections and was again elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-one seats. On this occasion, he chose to serve in both the local and the provincial assemblies.
Electoral record
Provincial (Vojvodina)
References
1980 births
Living people
Politicians from Zrenjanin
People from Novi Bečej
Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina
Substitute Members of the Chamber of Regions in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe
Democratic Party (Serbia) politicians
Serbian Progressive Party politicians
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"In this period, half of the mandates in Vojvodina provincial elections were determined by proportional representation and the other half by election in single-member constituency seats.",
"The DS list won fifteen proportional mandates; Kovač was not initially selected for his party's delegation but received a mandate on 12 December 2006 as the replacement for another party member.",
"The DS was the dominant party in Vojvodina's coalition government in this period, and Kovač from 2006 to 2008 served as a supporter of the administration.",
"Kovač was also included on the DS's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in the one hundredth position.",
"The list won sixty-four seats, and he was not selected for a mandate.",
"The DS contested the 2008 Serbian local elections in Novi Bečej as the leading party in the For a European Serbia coalition.",
"Kovač received the second position on the coalition's list and was chosen for another mandate when the list won seven seats.",
"On 30 May 2008, he was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the assembly.",
"Kovač also sought re-election to the provincial assembly for Novi Bečej's constituency seat in the 2008 provincial election and was defeated, finishing third.",
"Kovač was replaced as president of the local assembly on 25 November 2009, against the backdrop of tensions between the DS and its local coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno demokratska partija, LDP).",
"He resigned his mandate in the assembly shortly thereafter, on 3 December 2009.",
"At some time between 2009 and 2012, he left the DS and joined the Progressive Party.",
"Serbian Progressive Party\nSerbia's electoral laws were reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists.",
"Kovač received the fourth position on the Progressive list for Novi Bečej in the 2012 local elections and was returned to the local assembly when the list won eight mandates.",
"He also appeared in the twenty-second position on the Progressive-led Let's Get Vojvodina Moving list in the 2012 provincial election and was not elected when the list won only fourteen proportional mandates.",
"The LDP and the Progressives formed a new coalition government in Novi Bečej on 31 May 2013, Kovač was chosen as deputy mayor.",
"He served in this role for the next three years.",
"Kovač received the second position on the Progressive list in the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with fourteen out of thirty-one mandates.",
"He resigned his local mandate on 25 May, as he had also been elected to the provincial assembly.",
"(Although he would have been permitted to serve in both assemblies under a dual mandate, he chose on this occasion to resign at the local level.)",
"Vojvodina adopted a system of full proportional representation at the provincial level prior to the 2016 provincial election.",
"Kovač was given the fifty-third position on the Progressive Party's list in this election and won a second term in the provincial assembly when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.",
"He received the same position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 provincial election and was again elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six seats.",
"Kovač is now the deputy chair of the assembly committee on European integration and inter-regional co-operation and a member of the committee on youth and sports.",
"He is also a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Chamber of Regions in the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.",
"In the latter capacity, he is a member of the congress's governance committee and caucuses with the European People's Party.",
"Kovač has also continued to be involved in politics at the level local.",
"He received the second position on the Progressive list for Novi Bečej in the 2020 local elections and was again elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-one seats.",
"On this occasion, he chose to serve in both the local and the provincial assemblies.",
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"He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technology with a focus on synthetic polymers.",
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"In the Serbian local elections in 2004, the first position on the Democratic Party of Serbia's list was held by Politician Kova.",
"He served as chair of the municipal committee for urbanism and communal and housing activities after being selected for a mandate.",
"Mandates in Serbian elections held under proportional representation were given to successful parties and coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order.",
"The leader of his party's list did not get a mandate.",
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"The DS list won fifteen proportional mandates and one of them was for the replacement of another party member.",
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"When the coalition's list won seven seats, Kova was chosen for another mandate.",
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"The president of the local assembly was replaced on November 25, 2009, due to tensions between the DS and the LDP.",
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"The LDP and the Progressives formed a new coalition government in Novi Beej.",
"He was in this role for three years.",
"When the Progressive list won a plurality victory with fourteen out of thirty-one mandates in the 2016 local elections, Kova was re-elected as the second position on the list.",
"He resigned his local mandate after being elected to the provincial assembly.",
"He would have been able to serve in both assembly under a dual mandate, but he chose to resign at the local level.",
"Prior to the 2016 provincial election, Vojvodina adopted a system of full proportional representation.",
"The Progressive Party's list won a majority victory in the provincial assembly with sixty-three out of 120 mandates.",
"He was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six seats in the 2020 provincial election.",
"A member of the committee on youth and sports, as well as the deputy chair of the assembly committee on European integration and inter-regional co-operation.",
"He is a substitute member of Serbia's delegation in the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.",
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Kovač was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He was raised in Bečej and Novi Bečej and graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technology with a focus in synthetic polymers. He has been the director of Poljoprivredne stručne službe Zrenjanin. Politician
Democratic Party
Kovać entered political life in the DS, appearing in the first position on the party's list for the Novi Bečej municipal assembly in the 2004 Serbian local elections.The list won four seats; he was selected for a mandate and served as chair of the municipal committee for urbanism and communal and housing activities. (From 2000 to 2011, mandates in Serbian elections held under proportional representation were given to successful parties and coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Kovač did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of leading his party's list.) Kovač also received the thirty-seventh position on the DS's list in the 2004 Vojvodina provincial election, which was held concurrently with the local elections. In this period, half of the mandates in Vojvodina provincial elections were determined by proportional representation and the other half by election in single-member constituency seats. The DS list won fifteen proportional mandates; Kovač was not initially selected for his party's delegation but received a mandate on 12 December 2006 as the replacement for another party member. The DS was the dominant party in Vojvodina's coalition government in this period, and Kovač from 2006 to 2008 served as a supporter of the administration.<mask> was also included on the DS's list in the 2007 Serbian parliamentary election, in the one hundredth position. The list won sixty-four seats, and he was not selected for a mandate. The DS contested the 2008 Serbian local elections in Novi Bečej as the leading party in the For a European Serbia coalition. Kovač received the second position on the coalition's list and was chosen for another mandate when the list won seven seats. On 30 May 2008, he was chosen as president (i.e., speaker) of the assembly. Kovač also sought re-election to the provincial assembly for Novi Bečej's constituency seat in the 2008 provincial election and was defeated, finishing third. Kovač was replaced as president of the local assembly on 25 November 2009, against the backdrop of tensions between the DS and its local coalition partner, the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno demokratska partija, LDP).He resigned his mandate in the assembly shortly thereafter, on 3 December 2009. At some time between 2009 and 2012, he left the DS and joined the Progressive Party. Serbian Progressive Party
Serbia's electoral laws were reformed in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Kovač received the fourth position on the Progressive list for Novi Bečej in the 2012 local elections and was returned to the local assembly when the list won eight mandates. He also appeared in the twenty-second position on the Progressive-led Let's Get Vojvodina Moving list in the 2012 provincial election and was not elected when the list won only fourteen proportional mandates. The LDP and the Progressives formed a new coalition government in Novi Bečej on 31 May 2013, Kovač was chosen as deputy mayor. He served in this role for the next three years.Kovač received the second position on the Progressive list in the 2016 local elections and was re-elected when the list won a plurality victory with fourteen out of thirty-one mandates. He resigned his local mandate on 25 May, as he had also been elected to the provincial assembly. (Although he would have been permitted to serve in both assemblies under a dual mandate, he chose on this occasion to resign at the local level.) Vojvodina adopted a system of full proportional representation at the provincial level prior to the 2016 provincial election. Kovač was given the fifty-third position on the Progressive Party's list in this election and won a second term in the provincial assembly when the list won a majority victory with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He received the same position on the Progressive-led Aleksandar Vučić — For Our Children list in the 2020 provincial election and was again elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six seats. Kovač is now the deputy chair of the assembly committee on European integration and inter-regional co-operation and a member of the committee on youth and sports.He is also a substitute member of Serbia's delegation to the Chamber of Regions in the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. In the latter capacity, he is a member of the congress's governance committee and caucuses with the European People's Party. Kovač has also continued to be involved in politics at the level local. He received the second position on the Progressive list for Novi Bečej in the 2020 local elections and was again elected when the list won a majority victory with twenty-one seats. On this occasion, he chose to serve in both the local and the provincial assemblies. Electoral record
Provincial (Vojvodina)
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Living people
Politicians from Zrenjanin
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] | <mask> is a politician in Serbia. He is currently serving his third term in the Assembly of Vojvodina. He used to be a member of the Democratic Party but is now a member of the Serbian Progressive Party. Private career Kova was born in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad Faculty of Technology with a focus on synthetic polymers. He is the director of Poljoprivredne strune slube Zrenjanin. In the Serbian local elections in 2004, the first position on the Democratic Party of Serbia's list was held by Politician Kova.He served as chair of the municipal committee for urbanism and communal and housing activities after being selected for a mandate. Mandates in Serbian elections held under proportional representation were given to successful parties and coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. The leader of his party's list did not get a mandate. In the Vojvodina provincial election, which was held concurrently with the local elections, Kova received the thirty-seventh position on the DS's list. Half of the mandates in Vojvodina provincial elections were determined by proportional representation and the other half by election in single-member constituency seats. The DS list won fifteen proportional mandates and one of them was for the replacement of another party member. The DS was the dominant party in Vojvodina's coalition government from 2006 to 2008, while Kova was a supporter of the administration.In the Serbian parliamentary election of 2007, Kova was included on the DS's list in the one hundredth position. He wasn't selected for a mandate because the list won 64 seats. The leading party in the For a European Serbia coalition was the DS. When the coalition's list won seven seats, Kova was chosen for another mandate. He was chosen as the speaker of the assembly. In the 2008 provincial election, he was defeated in his attempt to retain his seat in the provincial assembly. The president of the local assembly was replaced on November 25, 2009, due to tensions between the DS and the LDP.On December 3, 2009, he resigned from the assembly. He joined the Progressive Party after leaving the DS. The electoral laws of the Serbian Progressive Party were changed in 2011. The fourth position on the Progressive list in the 2012 local elections was returned to him by the local assembly after the list won eight mandates. He was not elected when the Let's Get Vojvodina Moving list won only fourteen proportional mandates in the 2012 provincial election. The LDP and the Progressives formed a new coalition government in Novi Beej. He was in this role for three years.When the Progressive list won a plurality victory with fourteen out of thirty-one mandates in the 2016 local elections, Kova was re-elected as the second position on the list. He resigned his local mandate after being elected to the provincial assembly. He would have been able to serve in both assembly under a dual mandate, but he chose to resign at the local level. Prior to the 2016 provincial election, Vojvodina adopted a system of full proportional representation. The Progressive Party's list won a majority victory in the provincial assembly with sixty-three out of 120 mandates. He was re-elected when the list won an increased majority with seventy-six seats in the 2020 provincial election. A member of the committee on youth and sports, as well as the deputy chair of the assembly committee on European integration and inter-regional co-operation.He is a substitute member of Serbia's delegation in the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. He is a member of the congress's governance committee and a member of the European People's Party. At the local level, Kova has continued to be involved in politics. He was elected for the second position on the Progressive list in the local elections in 2020 and the list won a majority victory with twenty-one seats. He chose to serve in both the local and the provincial assembly. The Assembly of Vojvodina has politicians from Zrenjanin, and the Chamber of Regions in the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe Democratic Party. | [
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10980945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Hamilton | Roy Hamilton | Roy Hamilton (April 16, 1929 – July 20, 1969) was an American singer. By combining semi-classical technique with traditional black gospel feeling, he brought soul to Great American Songbook singing.
Hamilton's greatest commercial success came from 1954 through 1961, when he was Epic Records' most prolific artist. His two most influential recordings, "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Unchained Melody", became Epic's first two number-one hits when they topped the Billboard R&B chart in March 1954 and May 1955, respectively. Hamilton became the first solo artist in the label's history to have a US top-ten pop hit when "Unchained Melody" peaked at No. 6 in May 1955.
Early life
Roy Hamilton was born in Leesburg, Georgia to Evelyn and Albert Hamilton, where he began singing in church choirs at the age of six. In the summer of 1943, when Hamilton was fourteen, the family migrated north to Jersey City, New Jersey in search of a better life. There, he sang with the Central Baptist Church Choir, New Jersey's most famous African American church choir. At Lincoln High School, he studied commercial art and was gifted enough to place his paintings with a number of New York City galleries.
In February 1947, seventeen-year-old Hamilton took his first big step into secular music, winning a talent contest at the Apollo Theater. But nothing came of it. "I couldn't get a break," Hamilton recalled. "I really had nothing different to offer. They were seeking blues singers at the time, and I didn't know any blues at all." So, to support himself while he developed the different sound and singing style he wanted, Hamilton worked as an electronics technician during the day, and an amateur heavyweight boxer at night, with a record of six wins and one defeat.
In 1948, Hamilton joined the Searchlight Gospel Singers and also studied light opera, working with New Jersey voice coach J. Martin Rolls for more than a year. Hamilton continued to perform gospel with the Searchlight Singers, in churches and at gospel concerts, until 1953 when the group broke up and each member went off in his own direction. Hamilton headed back into pop music. But this time, he felt he finally had something different to offer.
Music career
Epic beginning and career rise (1953–1956)
In mid-1953, Hamilton was discovered singing in a Newark, New Jersey night club, The Caravan, by Bill Cook, who became his manager. Cook was the first African American radio disc jockey and television personality on the East Coast. Cook made a demo tape of Hamilton's singing and brought it to the attention of Columbia Records. Columbia was impressed enough to sign Hamilton to their rhythm and blues subsidiary, Okeh Records. On November 11, 1953, Hamilton made his first recordings for the label in New York City. The session produced Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the musical Carousel. The tune, one of the few secular numbers that Hamilton knew at the time, had been his live-performance specialty since 1947.
But before it was released, Columbia had second thoughts and placed Hamilton with their newly-launched "pop" subsidiary label Epic. In the early 1950s, there were only two black male singers who were widely accepted by white audiences as mainstream pop stars: Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine. Epic saw that same kind of "crossover" star potential in Hamilton, placing a nearly full-page ad in the January 23, 1954 edition of Billboard magazine which read, "a great new voice makes news with a great song! Roy Hamilton, You’ll Never Walk Alone…" In spite of poor musical backing, Hamilton's performance on "Walk Alone" is sensational and is the primary reason why it topped the Billboard R&B chart for eight weeks and became a national US Top-30 hit. His follow-up single, "If I Loved You", was another Rodgers and Hammerstein tune from Carousel. Although not as big a hit for Hamilton as "Walk Alone", it still reached number four on the US R&B chart.
On the evening of July 24, 1954, Hamilton appeared on the bill of "Star Night", a concert package at Chicago's Soldier Field starring Perry Como, Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan. Since he was the newcomer on the bill, Hamilton was given the least amount of time to perform: six minutes, to perform two songs. Hamilton's plan was to perform "You'll Never Walk Alone", the only song he was known for at the time, and its bouncy b-side. But Perry Como squashed that plan when he announced during afternoon rehearsal that "Walk Alone" was going to be his closing number that night. Hamilton, forced into performing a "Walk Alone" replacement on the spot, decided on "Ebb Tide", a song that had been a hit for Vic Damone a few months earlier—a song that Hamilton himself hadn't yet recorded. That evening, for his second and final number, Hamilton unveiled his gospel-tinged version of "Ebb Tide" before a Soldier Field audience of 82,000. By the time he had finished singing and exited the stage, all 82,000 people were on their feet, applauding, stomping and chanting for more. Changing in his dressing room, Hamilton had to be summoned back out on stage to quiet the crowd. He returned to the stage to witness that even some of his fellow performers—Nat Cole, Sarah Vaughan and orchestra leader Ray Anthony—had joined in the ovation. On July 28, four days after his "Star Night" triumph, Epic Records had Hamilton record, "Ebb Tide". It became his third straight hit.
On Saturday night, September 11, 1954, Hamilton made his national television debut on CBS's Stage Show, hosted by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But the national television appearance that put Hamilton's career on the fast track to crossover success was the one he made on the night of March 6, 1955 when he sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" on CBS's top-rated Ed Sullivan Show. In reviewing his performance, Variety magazine summed up Hamilton's new way of singing the Great American Songbook by writing: "Hamilton made good with his single, 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which he endowed with the values of a spiritual."
Ten days after the Sullivan Show appearance, Epic, in a rushed attempt to cover singer Al Hibbler's version of "Unchained Melody", set up a recording session for Hamilton. The resulting single was shipped within five days. Two months later, in the May 18, 1955 issue of Down Beat magazine, Hamilton was named "Vocalist of the Year". Meanwhile, in Billboard magazine's May 21, 1955 issue, Hamilton's gospel-tinged "Unchained Melody" had taken over the top spot on the R&B chart while, on the pop chart, it had reached the number six spot. It was the second number-one R&B hit of his career as well as the first, and only, top-ten US pop hit of his career.
On the heels of his "Unchained Melody" success, Hamilton recorded the following Great American Songbook singles in succession: Vincent Youmans' "Without a Song" (#77 US pop), Jimmy McHugh's "Cuban Love Song", Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Everybody's Got a Home But Me" (#42 US pop), from the musical Pipe Dream, and Frank Loesser's "Somebody Somewhere", from the musical The Most Happy Fella.
Retirement and comeback (1956–1962)
In mid-1956, Hamilton, developing what was described as a "lung condition" bordering on tuberculosis, announced an indefinite retirement from show business, citing both physical and mental exhaustion When he resumed his career over a year later, Hamilton could no longer generate hit singles performing pop standards because, overnight, rock and roll had become the record industry's predominant commercial force. So, in late 1957, Epic coaxed Hamilton into recording "Don't Let Go", an R&B rocker produced by Otis Blackwell, the man who had written the two biggest number-one hits of Elvis Presley's career: "Don't Be Cruel" and "All Shook Up". By early 1958, "Don't Let Go" had become the second US top-15 pop hit of Hamilton's career and the first top-40 hit ever recorded in stereo.
In 1959, Hamilton appeared, in a cameo role, in the Filipino motion picture produced by People's Pictures Hawaiian Boy where he sings "Unchained Melody".
Hamilton's last hit record, "You Can Have Her" (the song spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 12, while reaching No. 6 on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides chart.), came in 1961, and was followed by the album Mr. Rock And Soul (1962). The Epic label treated Hamilton as a major star and issued sixteen albums by him.
Later years (1963–1969)
By the mid-1960s, Hamilton's career declined while recording with MGM and then RCA.
In January 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, Hamilton made the final recordings of his career. The tracks were laid down at record producer Chips Moman's American Sound Studio, at the same time Elvis Presley was recording there. Songs released from those Hamilton sessions were cover versions of James Carr's "The Dark End of the Street", Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe", and "Angelica", a Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song that had been submitted to Presley, but which he then turned over to Hamilton.
Death
In early July 1969, Hamilton suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New Rochelle, New York. He was taken to New Rochelle General Hospital where he lay in a coma for more than a week. On July 20, 1969, he was removed from life support and died. Hamilton was 40 years old. Some connected his earlier illness that caused his retirement to his death, although a connection was never proven.
At the time of his death, Hamilton was heavily in debt, forcing him, a week before he died, to borrow heavily on his insurance policy to pay off back taxes. This prompted his widow, Myrna, to publicly seek funds for his burial. At Hamilton's funeral service, messages of condolence sent by Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson and B.B. King were read.
Legacy
Hamilton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2010.
Hamilton was Epic Records' first star, giving the company its first number-one hit of any kind, "You'll Never Walk Alone", which topped the Billboard R&B chart for eight weeks in 1954. A year later, he gave the label its second number-one hit of any kind when his version of "Unchained Melody" topped the Billboard R&B chart for three weeks. Also, with "Unchained Melody", Hamilton became the first solo artist to deliver a top-ten pop hit for Epic.
Hamilton was the singer who inspired Sam Cooke, then a gospel music star, to switch over to secular music. Hamilton was also the one to whom Cooke first submitted his early pop-song compositions.
Hamilton's distinctive sound was a big influence on Elvis Presley's ballad singing. As author Fred L. Worth noted, "Elvis greatly admired Hamilton's singing ability and style and performed a number of his ballads in Hamilton's style."
Also, The Righteous Brothers emulated Hamilton's style to create their blue-eyed soul sound. This is particularly evident in the duo's cover versions of his hits "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Ebb Tide" and "Unchained Melody".
Hamilton's "You'll Never Walk Alone" disc was brought in from the US by a sailor friend of Gerry and the Pacemakers leader Gerry Marsden. As a result, the band recorded a UK version of the song which became the anthem for Liverpool Football Club, sung by the crowd before every home game. The sailor friend noted that Marsden "puts very similar inflections into the song, trying to get it very similar to Roy Hamilton's version."
Discography
Singles
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Filmography
1958: Let's Rock, appeared as himself
1959: Hawaiian Boy, appeared as himself. Drama, Musical
Television appearances
Bibliography
Guralnick, Peter (1999): Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, Little, Brown and Company, London.
Guralnick, Peter (2005): Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Little, Brown and Company, New York.
References
External links
The Official Roy Hamilton tribute site
Don't Let Go: Roy Hamilton
1929 births
1969 deaths
American rhythm and blues musicians
Epic Records artists
RCA Victor artists
MGM Records artists
People from Leesburg, Georgia
Musicians from New Rochelle, New York
Singers from Georgia (U.S. state)
20th-century African-American male singers | [
"Roy Hamilton (April 16, 1929 – July 20, 1969) was an American singer.",
"By combining semi-classical technique with traditional black gospel feeling, he brought soul to Great American Songbook singing.",
"Hamilton's greatest commercial success came from 1954 through 1961, when he was Epic Records' most prolific artist.",
"His two most influential recordings, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" and \"Unchained Melody\", became Epic's first two number-one hits when they topped the Billboard R&B chart in March 1954 and May 1955, respectively.",
"Hamilton became the first solo artist in the label's history to have a US top-ten pop hit when \"Unchained Melody\" peaked at No.",
"6 in May 1955.",
"Early life\nRoy Hamilton was born in Leesburg, Georgia to Evelyn and Albert Hamilton, where he began singing in church choirs at the age of six.",
"In the summer of 1943, when Hamilton was fourteen, the family migrated north to Jersey City, New Jersey in search of a better life.",
"There, he sang with the Central Baptist Church Choir, New Jersey's most famous African American church choir.",
"At Lincoln High School, he studied commercial art and was gifted enough to place his paintings with a number of New York City galleries.",
"In February 1947, seventeen-year-old Hamilton took his first big step into secular music, winning a talent contest at the Apollo Theater.",
"But nothing came of it.",
"\"I couldn't get a break,\" Hamilton recalled.",
"\"I really had nothing different to offer.",
"They were seeking blues singers at the time, and I didn't know any blues at all.\"",
"So, to support himself while he developed the different sound and singing style he wanted, Hamilton worked as an electronics technician during the day, and an amateur heavyweight boxer at night, with a record of six wins and one defeat.",
"In 1948, Hamilton joined the Searchlight Gospel Singers and also studied light opera, working with New Jersey voice coach J. Martin Rolls for more than a year.",
"Hamilton continued to perform gospel with the Searchlight Singers, in churches and at gospel concerts, until 1953 when the group broke up and each member went off in his own direction.",
"Hamilton headed back into pop music.",
"But this time, he felt he finally had something different to offer.",
"Music career\n\nEpic beginning and career rise (1953–1956)\nIn mid-1953, Hamilton was discovered singing in a Newark, New Jersey night club, The Caravan, by Bill Cook, who became his manager.",
"Cook was the first African American radio disc jockey and television personality on the East Coast.",
"Cook made a demo tape of Hamilton's singing and brought it to the attention of Columbia Records.",
"Columbia was impressed enough to sign Hamilton to their rhythm and blues subsidiary, Okeh Records.",
"On November 11, 1953, Hamilton made his first recordings for the label in New York City.",
"The session produced Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical Carousel.",
"The tune, one of the few secular numbers that Hamilton knew at the time, had been his live-performance specialty since 1947.",
"But before it was released, Columbia had second thoughts and placed Hamilton with their newly-launched \"pop\" subsidiary label Epic.",
"In the early 1950s, there were only two black male singers who were widely accepted by white audiences as mainstream pop stars: Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine.",
"Epic saw that same kind of \"crossover\" star potential in Hamilton, placing a nearly full-page ad in the January 23, 1954 edition of Billboard magazine which read, \"a great new voice makes news with a great song!",
"Roy Hamilton, You’ll Never Walk Alone…\" In spite of poor musical backing, Hamilton's performance on \"Walk Alone\" is sensational and is the primary reason why it topped the Billboard R&B chart for eight weeks and became a national US Top-30 hit.",
"His follow-up single, \"If I Loved You\", was another Rodgers and Hammerstein tune from Carousel.",
"Although not as big a hit for Hamilton as \"Walk Alone\", it still reached number four on the US R&B chart.",
"On the evening of July 24, 1954, Hamilton appeared on the bill of \"Star Night\", a concert package at Chicago's Soldier Field starring Perry Como, Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan.",
"Since he was the newcomer on the bill, Hamilton was given the least amount of time to perform: six minutes, to perform two songs.",
"Hamilton's plan was to perform \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", the only song he was known for at the time, and its bouncy b-side.",
"But Perry Como squashed that plan when he announced during afternoon rehearsal that \"Walk Alone\" was going to be his closing number that night.",
"Hamilton, forced into performing a \"Walk Alone\" replacement on the spot, decided on \"Ebb Tide\", a song that had been a hit for Vic Damone a few months earlier—a song that Hamilton himself hadn't yet recorded.",
"That evening, for his second and final number, Hamilton unveiled his gospel-tinged version of \"Ebb Tide\" before a Soldier Field audience of 82,000.",
"By the time he had finished singing and exited the stage, all 82,000 people were on their feet, applauding, stomping and chanting for more.",
"Changing in his dressing room, Hamilton had to be summoned back out on stage to quiet the crowd.",
"He returned to the stage to witness that even some of his fellow performers—Nat Cole, Sarah Vaughan and orchestra leader Ray Anthony—had joined in the ovation.",
"On July 28, four days after his \"Star Night\" triumph, Epic Records had Hamilton record, \"Ebb Tide\".",
"It became his third straight hit.",
"On Saturday night, September 11, 1954, Hamilton made his national television debut on CBS's Stage Show, hosted by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.",
"But the national television appearance that put Hamilton's career on the fast track to crossover success was the one he made on the night of March 6, 1955 when he sang \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" on CBS's top-rated Ed Sullivan Show.",
"In reviewing his performance, Variety magazine summed up Hamilton's new way of singing the Great American Songbook by writing: \"Hamilton made good with his single, 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which he endowed with the values of a spiritual.\"",
"Ten days after the Sullivan Show appearance, Epic, in a rushed attempt to cover singer Al Hibbler's version of \"Unchained Melody\", set up a recording session for Hamilton.",
"The resulting single was shipped within five days.",
"Two months later, in the May 18, 1955 issue of Down Beat magazine, Hamilton was named \"Vocalist of the Year\".",
"Meanwhile, in Billboard magazine's May 21, 1955 issue, Hamilton's gospel-tinged \"Unchained Melody\" had taken over the top spot on the R&B chart while, on the pop chart, it had reached the number six spot.",
"It was the second number-one R&B hit of his career as well as the first, and only, top-ten US pop hit of his career.",
"On the heels of his \"Unchained Melody\" success, Hamilton recorded the following Great American Songbook singles in succession: Vincent Youmans' \"Without a Song\" (#77 US pop), Jimmy McHugh's \"Cuban Love Song\", Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"Everybody's Got a Home But Me\" (#42 US pop), from the musical Pipe Dream, and Frank Loesser's \"Somebody Somewhere\", from the musical The Most Happy Fella.",
"Retirement and comeback (1956–1962)\n\nIn mid-1956, Hamilton, developing what was described as a \"lung condition\" bordering on tuberculosis, announced an indefinite retirement from show business, citing both physical and mental exhaustion When he resumed his career over a year later, Hamilton could no longer generate hit singles performing pop standards because, overnight, rock and roll had become the record industry's predominant commercial force.",
"So, in late 1957, Epic coaxed Hamilton into recording \"Don't Let Go\", an R&B rocker produced by Otis Blackwell, the man who had written the two biggest number-one hits of Elvis Presley's career: \"Don't Be Cruel\" and \"All Shook Up\".",
"By early 1958, \"Don't Let Go\" had become the second US top-15 pop hit of Hamilton's career and the first top-40 hit ever recorded in stereo.",
"In 1959, Hamilton appeared, in a cameo role, in the Filipino motion picture produced by People's Pictures Hawaiian Boy where he sings \"Unchained Melody\".",
"Hamilton's last hit record, \"You Can Have Her\" (the song spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No.",
"12, while reaching No.",
"6 on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides chart.",
"), came in 1961, and was followed by the album Mr. Rock And Soul (1962).",
"The Epic label treated Hamilton as a major star and issued sixteen albums by him.",
"Later years (1963–1969)\nBy the mid-1960s, Hamilton's career declined while recording with MGM and then RCA.",
"In January 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, Hamilton made the final recordings of his career.",
"The tracks were laid down at record producer Chips Moman's American Sound Studio, at the same time Elvis Presley was recording there.",
"Songs released from those Hamilton sessions were cover versions of James Carr's \"The Dark End of the Street\", Conway Twitty's \"It's Only Make Believe\", and \"Angelica\", a Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song that had been submitted to Presley, but which he then turned over to Hamilton.",
"Death\nIn early July 1969, Hamilton suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New Rochelle, New York.",
"He was taken to New Rochelle General Hospital where he lay in a coma for more than a week.",
"On July 20, 1969, he was removed from life support and died.",
"Hamilton was 40 years old.",
"Some connected his earlier illness that caused his retirement to his death, although a connection was never proven.",
"At the time of his death, Hamilton was heavily in debt, forcing him, a week before he died, to borrow heavily on his insurance policy to pay off back taxes.",
"This prompted his widow, Myrna, to publicly seek funds for his burial.",
"At Hamilton's funeral service, messages of condolence sent by Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson and B.B.",
"King were read.",
"Legacy\nHamilton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2010.",
"Hamilton was Epic Records' first star, giving the company its first number-one hit of any kind, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", which topped the Billboard R&B chart for eight weeks in 1954.",
"A year later, he gave the label its second number-one hit of any kind when his version of \"Unchained Melody\" topped the Billboard R&B chart for three weeks.",
"Also, with \"Unchained Melody\", Hamilton became the first solo artist to deliver a top-ten pop hit for Epic.",
"Hamilton was the singer who inspired Sam Cooke, then a gospel music star, to switch over to secular music.",
"Hamilton was also the one to whom Cooke first submitted his early pop-song compositions.",
"Hamilton's distinctive sound was a big influence on Elvis Presley's ballad singing.",
"As author Fred L. Worth noted, \"Elvis greatly admired Hamilton's singing ability and style and performed a number of his ballads in Hamilton's style.\"",
"Also, The Righteous Brothers emulated Hamilton's style to create their blue-eyed soul sound.",
"This is particularly evident in the duo's cover versions of his hits \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", \"Ebb Tide\" and \"Unchained Melody\".",
"Hamilton's \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" disc was brought in from the US by a sailor friend of Gerry and the Pacemakers leader Gerry Marsden.",
"As a result, the band recorded a UK version of the song which became the anthem for Liverpool Football Club, sung by the crowd before every home game.",
"The sailor friend noted that Marsden \"puts very similar inflections into the song, trying to get it very similar to Roy Hamilton's version.\"",
"Discography\n\nSingles\n\nStudio albums\n\nCompilation albums\n\nFilmography\n1958: Let's Rock, appeared as himself\n1959: Hawaiian Boy, appeared as himself.",
"Drama, Musical\n\nTelevision appearances\n\nBibliography\n Guralnick, Peter (1999): Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, Little, Brown and Company, London.",
"Guralnick, Peter (2005): Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Little, Brown and Company, New York.",
"References\n\nExternal links \nThe Official Roy Hamilton tribute site\n Don't Let Go: Roy Hamilton\n\n1929 births\n1969 deaths\nAmerican rhythm and blues musicians\nEpic Records artists\nRCA Victor artists\nMGM Records artists\nPeople from Leesburg, Georgia\nMusicians from New Rochelle, New York\nSingers from Georgia (U.S. state)\n20th-century African-American male singers"
] | [
"Roy Hamilton was an American singer.",
"He brought soul to Great American Songbook singing by combining semi-classical technique with traditional black gospel feeling.",
"When he was the most prolific artist, Hamilton had his greatest commercial success.",
"His two most influential recordings, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" and \"Unchained Melody\", became his first two number-one hits.",
"Hamilton was the first solo artist to have a US top-ten pop hit.",
"In May 1955.",
"Roy Hamilton was the son of Evelyn and Albert Hamilton and began singing in church choirs at the age of six.",
"In the summer of 1943, Hamilton and his family moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in search of a better life.",
"The Central Baptist Church Choir is New Jersey's most famous African American church choir.",
"He studied commercial art at Lincoln High School and was able to place his paintings in New York City galleries.",
"In February 1947, seventeen-year-old Hamilton won a talent contest at the Apollo Theater, his first big step into secular music.",
"Nothing came of it.",
"Hamilton said he couldn't get a break.",
"I had nothing new to offer.",
"I didn't know anything about the blues at the time.",
"Hamilton worked as an electronics technician during the day and an amateur boxer at night to support himself while he developed his sound and singing style.",
"Hamilton studied light opera with a New Jersey voice coach for more than a year.",
"When the Searchlight Singers broke up in 1953, each member went off in his own direction.",
"He headed back to pop music.",
"He had something different to offer this time.",
"In mid-1953, Hamilton was discovered singing in a Newark, New Jersey night club by Bill Cook, who became his manager.",
"Cook was the first African American radio disc jockey and television personality on the East Coast.",
"Cook made a demo tape of Hamilton singing and brought it to the attention of Columbia Records.",
"Hamilton was signed to Okeh Records by Columbia.",
"Hamilton made his first recordings in New York City.",
"Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" from the musical Carousel.",
"One of the few secular numbers that Hamilton knew at the time was the tune.",
"Before it was released, Columbia had second thoughts and put Hamilton with their new \"pop\" label.",
"There were only two black male singers who were accepted by white audiences as pop stars in the early 1950s.",
"A full-page ad in the January 23, 1954. edition of the magazine read, \"a great new voice makes news with a great song!\"",
"In spite of poor musical backing, Roy Hamilton's performance on \"You'll Never Walk Alone...\" is sensational and is the primary reason why it topped the R&B chart for eight weeks and became a national US Top 30 hit.",
"\"If I loved you\" was a Rodgers and Hammerstein song.",
"Although not as big a hit as \"Walk Alone\", it still reached number four on the US R&B chart.",
"On the evening of July 24, 1954, Hamilton appeared on the bill of \"Star Night\", a concert package at Chicago's Soldier Field.",
"Hamilton only had six minutes to perform two songs, since he was the newcomer on the bill.",
"He was going to perform \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", the only song he was known for, and its bouncy b-side.",
"When he announced during the afternoon rehearsal that \"Walk Alone\" was going to be his closing number, he quashed the plan.",
"Hamilton decided on \"Ebb Tide\", a song he hadn't yet recorded, because he was forced to perform a \"Walk Alone\" replacement on the spot.",
"The Soldier Field audience of 82,000 saw Hamilton's version of \"Ebb Tide\" for his second and final number.",
"All 82,000 people were on their feet by the time he left the stage.",
"Changing in his dressing room, Hamilton had to return to the stage to quiet the crowd.",
"He returned to the stage to see that his fellow performers had joined in the applause.",
"\"Ebb Tide\" was recorded by Hamilton on July 28, four days after his \"Star Night\" victory.",
"It was his third hit.",
"On Saturday night, September 11, 1954, Hamilton made his national television debut on CBS's Stage Show, hosted by big band leaders and brothers.",
"The national television appearance that put Hamilton's career on the fast track was the one he made on the night of March 6, 1955, when he sang \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" on the Ed Sullivan Show.",
"Variety magazine wrote that Hamilton made good with his single, \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", which he endowed with the values of a spiritual.",
"A recording session for Hamilton was set up ten days after the Sullivan Show appearance.",
"Within five days, the single was shipped.",
"In the May 18, 1955 issue of Down Beat magazine, Hamilton was named \"Vocalist of the Year\".",
"Hamilton's \"Unchained Melody\" had taken over the top spot on the R&B chart in the May 21, 1955 issue of the magazine.",
"It was the second number-one R&B hit of his career as well as the first, and only, top-ten US pop hit of his career.",
"Jimmy McHugh's \"Cuban Love Song\", Rodgers and Hammerstein's \"Everybody's Got\", andVincent Youmans' \" Without a Song\" were all recorded by Hamilton after his success with \"Unchained Melody\".",
"After retiring from show business due to physical and mental exhaustion, Hamilton resumed his career over a year later.",
"Otis Blackwell, the man who wrote the two biggest number-one hits of Elvis Presley's career, produced \"Don't Let Go\", an R&B rocker that Hamilton recorded.",
"\"Don't Let Go\" was the second US top-15 pop hit of Hamilton's career and the first top-40 hit ever recorded in stereo.",
"The Filipino motion picture produced by People's Pictures Hawaiian Boy had Hamilton in a small role.",
"\"You Can Have Her\" was Hamilton's last hit record and spent 10 weeks on the Hot 100.",
"While reaching No. 12.",
"6 are on the Hot R&B Sides chart.",
"The album Mr. Rock And Soul was released in 1962.",
"Hamilton was a major star and the label issued sixteen albums by him.",
"In the mid-1960s, Hamilton's career declined while recording with MGM and then RCA.",
"The final recordings of Hamilton's career were made in January 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee.",
"Elvis Presley was recording at Chips Moman's American Sound Studio when the tracks were laid down.",
"The cover versions of James Carr's \"The Dark End of the Street\", \"It's Only Make Believe\", and \"Angelica\" were released from the Hamilton sessions.",
"Hamilton died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New Rochelle, New York.",
"He was in a coma at New Rochelle General Hospital for more than a week.",
"He died on July 20, 1969 after being removed from life support.",
"He was 40 years old.",
"It was never proven that a connection was made between his illness and his death.",
"Hamilton was in debt at the time of his death and had to borrow heavily on his insurance policy to pay off his taxes.",
"Myrna publicly sought funds for his burial.",
"Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson and B.B. sent messages of sympathy at Hamilton's funeral service.",
"King were read.",
"Hamilton was a member of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.",
"\"You'll Never Walk Alone\" was the first number-one hit of any kind for the company, which was founded by Hamilton.",
"He gave the label its second number-one hit of any kind when his version of \"Unchained Melody\" topped the R&B chart for three weeks.",
"Hamilton was the first solo artist to deliver a top-ten pop hit.",
"Sam Cooke was inspired by Hamilton to switch to secular music.",
"Hamilton was the one who submitted the first pop-song compositions.",
"Elvis Presley's song was influenced by Hamilton's distinctive sound.",
"According to Fred L. Worth, \"Elvis admired Hamilton's singing ability and style and performed a number of his ballads in Hamilton's style.\"",
"The Righteous Brothers used Hamilton's style to create their blue-eyed soul sound.",
"The duo's cover versions of his hits \"You'll Never Walk Alone\", \"Ebb Tide\" and \"Unchained Melody\" show this.",
"A sailor friend of the leader of the Pacemakers brought Hamilton's \"You'll Never Walk Alone\" disc from the US.",
"The band recorded a UK version of the song which became the anthem for the club.",
"The sailor friend said that Marsden tried to get the same sound as Roy Hamilton's version.",
"1959: Hawaiian Boy appeared as himself in the films Filmography and Let's Rock.",
"Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, Little, Brown and Company, London was written by Peter Guralnick.",
"Peter Guralnick wrote Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Little, Brown and Company.",
"References External links The Official Roy Hamilton tribute site Don't Let Go: Roy Hamilton births 1969 deaths American rhythm and blues musicians."
] | <mask> (April 16, 1929 – July 20, 1969) was an American singer. By combining semi-classical technique with traditional black gospel feeling, he brought soul to Great American Songbook singing. <mask>'s greatest commercial success came from 1954 through 1961, when he was Epic Records' most prolific artist. His two most influential recordings, "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Unchained Melody", became Epic's first two number-one hits when they topped the Billboard R&B chart in March 1954 and May 1955, respectively. <mask> became the first solo artist in the label's history to have a US top-ten pop hit when "Unchained Melody" peaked at No. 6 in May 1955. Early life
<mask> was born in Leesburg, Georgia to Evelyn and <mask>, where he began singing in church choirs at the age of six.In the summer of 1943, when <mask> was fourteen, the family migrated north to Jersey City, New Jersey in search of a better life. There, he sang with the Central Baptist Church Choir, New Jersey's most famous African American church choir. At Lincoln High School, he studied commercial art and was gifted enough to place his paintings with a number of New York City galleries. In February 1947, seventeen-year-old <mask> took his first big step into secular music, winning a talent contest at the Apollo Theater. But nothing came of it. "I couldn't get a break," <mask> recalled. "I really had nothing different to offer.They were seeking blues singers at the time, and I didn't know any blues at all." So, to support himself while he developed the different sound and singing style he wanted, <mask> worked as an electronics technician during the day, and an amateur heavyweight boxer at night, with a record of six wins and one defeat. In 1948, <mask> joined the Searchlight Gospel Singers and also studied light opera, working with New Jersey voice coach J. Martin Rolls for more than a year. <mask> continued to perform gospel with the Searchlight Singers, in churches and at gospel concerts, until 1953 when the group broke up and each member went off in his own direction. <mask> headed back into pop music. But this time, he felt he finally had something different to offer. Music career
Epic beginning and career rise (1953–1956)
In mid-1953, <mask> was discovered singing in a Newark, New Jersey night club, The Caravan, by Bill Cook, who became his manager.Cook was the first African American radio disc jockey and television personality on the East Coast. Cook made a demo tape of <mask>'s singing and brought it to the attention of Columbia Records. Columbia was impressed enough to sign <mask> to their rhythm and blues subsidiary, Okeh Records. On November 11, 1953, <mask> made his first recordings for the label in New York City. The session produced Rodgers and Hammerstein's "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the musical Carousel. The tune, one of the few secular numbers that <mask> knew at the time, had been his live-performance specialty since 1947. But before it was released, Columbia had second thoughts and placed <mask> with their newly-launched "pop" subsidiary label Epic.In the early 1950s, there were only two black male singers who were widely accepted by white audiences as mainstream pop stars: Nat King Cole and Billy Eckstine. Epic saw that same kind of "crossover" star potential in <mask>, placing a nearly full-page ad in the January 23, 1954 edition of Billboard magazine which read, "a great new voice makes news with a great song! <mask>, You’ll Never Walk Alone…" In spite of poor musical backing, <mask>'s performance on "Walk Alone" is sensational and is the primary reason why it topped the Billboard R&B chart for eight weeks and became a national US Top-30 hit. His follow-up single, "If I Loved You", was another Rodgers and Hammerstein tune from Carousel. Although not as big a hit for <mask> as "Walk Alone", it still reached number four on the US R&B chart. On the evening of July 24, 1954, <mask> appeared on the bill of "Star Night", a concert package at Chicago's Soldier Field starring Perry Como, Nat King Cole and Sarah Vaughan. Since he was the newcomer on the bill, <mask> was given the least amount of time to perform: six minutes, to perform two songs.<mask>'s plan was to perform "You'll Never Walk Alone", the only song he was known for at the time, and its bouncy b-side. But Perry Como squashed that plan when he announced during afternoon rehearsal that "Walk Alone" was going to be his closing number that night. <mask>, forced into performing a "Walk Alone" replacement on the spot, decided on "Ebb Tide", a song that had been a hit for Vic Damone a few months earlier—a song that <mask> himself hadn't yet recorded. That evening, for his second and final number, <mask> unveiled his gospel-tinged version of "Ebb Tide" before a Soldier Field audience of 82,000. By the time he had finished singing and exited the stage, all 82,000 people were on their feet, applauding, stomping and chanting for more. Changing in his dressing room, <mask> had to be summoned back out on stage to quiet the crowd. He returned to the stage to witness that even some of his fellow performers—Nat Cole, Sarah Vaughan and orchestra leader Ray Anthony—had joined in the ovation.On July 28, four days after his "Star Night" triumph, Epic Records had <mask> record, "Ebb Tide". It became his third straight hit. On Saturday night, September 11, 1954, <mask> made his national television debut on CBS's Stage Show, hosted by big band leaders and brothers Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. But the national television appearance that put <mask>'s career on the fast track to crossover success was the one he made on the night of March 6, 1955 when he sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" on CBS's top-rated Ed Sullivan Show. In reviewing his performance, Variety magazine summed up <mask>'s new way of singing the Great American Songbook by writing: "<mask> made good with his single, 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which he endowed with the values of a spiritual." Ten days after the Sullivan Show appearance, Epic, in a rushed attempt to cover singer Al Hibbler's version of "Unchained Melody", set up a recording session for <mask>. The resulting single was shipped within five days.Two months later, in the May 18, 1955 issue of Down Beat magazine, <mask> was named "Vocalist of the Year". Meanwhile, in Billboard magazine's May 21, 1955 issue, <mask>'s gospel-tinged "Unchained Melody" had taken over the top spot on the R&B chart while, on the pop chart, it had reached the number six spot. It was the second number-one R&B hit of his career as well as the first, and only, top-ten US pop hit of his career. On the heels of his "Unchained Melody" success, <mask> recorded the following Great American Songbook singles in succession: Vincent Youmans' "Without a Song" (#77 US pop), Jimmy McHugh's "Cuban Love Song", Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Everybody's Got a Home But Me" (#42 US pop), from the musical Pipe Dream, and Frank Loesser's "Somebody Somewhere", from the musical The Most Happy Fella. Retirement and comeback (1956–1962)
In mid-1956, <mask>, developing what was described as a "lung condition" bordering on tuberculosis, announced an indefinite retirement from show business, citing both physical and mental exhaustion When he resumed his career over a year later, <mask> could no longer generate hit singles performing pop standards because, overnight, rock and roll had become the record industry's predominant commercial force. So, in late 1957, Epic coaxed <mask> into recording "Don't Let Go", an R&B rocker produced by Otis Blackwell, the man who had written the two biggest number-one hits of Elvis Presley's career: "Don't Be Cruel" and "All Shook Up". By early 1958, "Don't Let Go" had become the second US top-15 pop hit of <mask>'s career and the first top-40 hit ever recorded in stereo.In 1959, <mask> appeared, in a cameo role, in the Filipino motion picture produced by People's Pictures Hawaiian Boy where he sings "Unchained Melody". <mask>'s last hit record, "You Can Have Her" (the song spent 10 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 12, while reaching No. 6 on Billboard's Hot R&B Sides chart. ), came in 1961, and was followed by the album Mr. Rock And Soul (1962). The Epic label treated <mask> as a major star and issued sixteen albums by him. Later years (1963–1969)
By the mid-1960s, <mask>'s career declined while recording with MGM and then RCA.In January 1969, in Memphis, Tennessee, <mask> made the final recordings of his career. The tracks were laid down at record producer Chips Moman's American Sound Studio, at the same time Elvis Presley was recording there. Songs released from those <mask> sessions were cover versions of James Carr's "The Dark End of the Street", Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe", and "Angelica", a Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil song that had been submitted to Presley, but which he then turned over to <mask>. Death
In early July 1969, <mask> suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New Rochelle, New York. He was taken to New Rochelle General Hospital where he lay in a coma for more than a week. On July 20, 1969, he was removed from life support and died. <mask> was 40 years old.Some connected his earlier illness that caused his retirement to his death, although a connection was never proven. At the time of his death, <mask> was heavily in debt, forcing him, a week before he died, to borrow heavily on his insurance policy to pay off back taxes. This prompted his widow, Myrna, to publicly seek funds for his burial. At <mask>'s funeral service, messages of condolence sent by Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson and B.B. King were read. <mask> was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2010. <mask> was Epic Records' first star, giving the company its first number-one hit of any kind, "You'll Never Walk Alone", which topped the Billboard R&B chart for eight weeks in 1954.A year later, he gave the label its second number-one hit of any kind when his version of "Unchained Melody" topped the Billboard R&B chart for three weeks. Also, with "Unchained Melody", <mask> became the first solo artist to deliver a top-ten pop hit for Epic. <mask> was the singer who inspired Sam Cooke, then a gospel music star, to switch over to secular music. <mask> was also the one to whom Cooke first submitted his early pop-song compositions. <mask>'s distinctive sound was a big influence on Elvis Presley's ballad singing. As author Fred L. Worth noted, "Elvis greatly admired <mask>'s singing ability and style and performed a number of his ballads in <mask>'s style." Also, The Righteous Brothers emulated <mask>'s style to create their blue-eyed soul sound.This is particularly evident in the duo's cover versions of his hits "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Ebb Tide" and "Unchained Melody". <mask>'s "You'll Never Walk Alone" disc was brought in from the US by a sailor friend of Gerry and the Pacemakers leader Gerry Marsden. As a result, the band recorded a UK version of the song which became the anthem for Liverpool Football Club, sung by the crowd before every home game. The sailor friend noted that Marsden "puts very similar inflections into the song, trying to get it very similar to <mask>'s version." Discography
Singles
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Filmography
1958: Let's Rock, appeared as himself
1959: Hawaiian Boy, appeared as himself. Drama, Musical
Television appearances
Bibliography
Guralnick, Peter (1999): Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, Little, Brown and Company, London. Guralnick, Peter (2005): Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, Little, Brown and Company, New York.References
External links
The Official <mask> tribute site
Don't Let Go: <mask>
1929 births
1969 deaths
American rhythm and blues musicians
Epic Records artists
RCA Victor artists
MGM Records artists
People from Leesburg, Georgia
Musicians from New Rochelle, New York
Singers from Georgia (U.S. state)
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Nothing came of it. <mask> said he couldn't get a break. I had nothing new to offer.I didn't know anything about the blues at the time. <mask> worked as an electronics technician during the day and an amateur boxer at night to support himself while he developed his sound and singing style. <mask> studied light opera with a New Jersey voice coach for more than a year. When the Searchlight Singers broke up in 1953, each member went off in his own direction. He headed back to pop music. He had something different to offer this time. In mid-1953, <mask> was discovered singing in a Newark, New Jersey night club by Bill Cook, who became his manager.Cook was the first African American radio disc jockey and television personality on the East Coast. Cook made a demo tape of <mask> singing and brought it to the attention of Columbia Records. <mask> was signed to Okeh Records by Columbia. <mask> made his first recordings in New York City. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the musical Carousel. One of the few secular numbers that <mask> knew at the time was the tune. Before it was released, Columbia had second thoughts and put <mask> with their new "pop" label.There were only two black male singers who were accepted by white audiences as pop stars in the early 1950s. A full-page ad in the January 23, 1954. edition of the magazine read, "a great new voice makes news with a great song!" In spite of poor musical backing, <mask>'s performance on "You'll Never Walk Alone..." is sensational and is the primary reason why it topped the R&B chart for eight weeks and became a national US Top 30 hit. "If I loved you" was a Rodgers and Hammerstein song. Although not as big a hit as "Walk Alone", it still reached number four on the US R&B chart. 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He returned to the stage to see that his fellow performers had joined in the applause."Ebb Tide" was recorded by <mask> on July 28, four days after his "Star Night" victory. It was his third hit. On Saturday night, September 11, 1954, <mask> made his national television debut on CBS's Stage Show, hosted by big band leaders and brothers. The national television appearance that put <mask>'s career on the fast track was the one he made on the night of March 6, 1955, when he sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" on the Ed Sullivan Show. Variety magazine wrote that <mask> made good with his single, "You'll Never Walk Alone", which he endowed with the values of a spiritual. A recording session for <mask> was set up ten days after the Sullivan Show appearance. 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"Don't Let Go" was the second US top-15 pop hit of <mask>'s career and the first top-40 hit ever recorded in stereo.The Filipino motion picture produced by People's Pictures Hawaiian Boy had <mask> in a small role. "You Can Have Her" was <mask>'s last hit record and spent 10 weeks on the Hot 100. While reaching No. 12. 6 are on the Hot R&B Sides chart. The album Mr. Rock And Soul was released in 1962. <mask> was a major star and the label issued sixteen albums by him. In the mid-1960s, <mask>'s career declined while recording with MGM and then RCA.The final recordings of <mask>'s career were made in January 1969 in Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis Presley was recording at Chips Moman's American Sound Studio when the tracks were laid down. The cover versions of James Carr's "The Dark End of the Street", "It's Only Make Believe", and "Angelica" were released from the <mask> sessions. <mask> died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his home in New Rochelle, New York. 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92289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary%20Swank | Hilary Swank | Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid, the fourth installment of The Karate Kid franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210.
Swank came to international recognition in 1999 for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby. Both of her performances earned her critical acclaim, and she earned numerous accolades, which include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005, earning her further acclaim.
Swank later ventured into producing in the 2010s, working on the films Amelia, Conviction, You're Not You, and What They Had, all of which she also starred in. Her other notable films include the television film Iron Jawed Angels, and the feature films Freedom Writers, Logan Lucky, The Hunt and Fatale.
Early life
Swank was born on July 30, 1974, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother, Judy Kay (née Clough), was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael Swank, was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman. Many of Swank's family members are from Ringgold County, Iowa. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Clough (née Dominguez), was born in El Centro, California, and was of Mexican (Spanish and Native American) descent. Swank's paternal grandmother was born in England; her other ancestry includes Dutch, German, Ulster-Scots, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Welsh. The surname "Swank," originally "Schwenk," is of German origin.
After living in Spokane, Washington, Swank's family moved into a home near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when Swank was six. She attended Happy Valley Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, then Sehome High School in Bellingham until she was 16. She also competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington state championships in swimming, and she ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics. Swank made her first appearance on stage when she was nine years old, starring in The Jungle Book.
When she was 15, her parents separated, and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act, moved with her to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment. Swank has called her mother the inspiration for her acting career and her life. In California, Swank enrolled in South Pasadena High School, later dropping out. She described her time at South Pasadena High School, "I felt like such an outsider. I didn't feel like I fit in. I didn't belong in any way. I didn't even feel like the teachers wanted me there. I just felt like I wasn't seen or understood." She explained that she became an actor because she felt like an outsider, "As a kid I felt that I belonged only when I read a book or saw a movie, and could get involved with a character. It was natural that I became an actor because I longed so much to be those other people, or at least to play them."
Career
Swank made her film debut in the 1992 comedy horror film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a supporting role, after which she acted in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in Hollywood, where she co-starred with Chad Lowe, who would become her husband for a time.
Her first leading film role was in the fourth installment of the Karate Kid series, The Next Karate Kid (1994) as Julie Pierce. The role utilized her gymnastics background and paired her with Pat Morita. In 1994, she also starred in the drama Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story, as the abused step-daughter who was protected by Donna (Jaclyn Smith). In 1995, she appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Kounterfeit. In 1996, she starred in a TV movie, family drama Terror in the Family, as a troubled teenager. In September 1997, Swank played single mother Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills, 90210 and was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998. Swank later stated that she was devastated at being cut from the show, thinking, "If I'm not good enough for 90210, I'm not good enough for anything."
The firing from Beverly Hills, 90210 freed her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry. To prepare for the role, Swank lived as a man for a month and reduced her body fat to seven percent. She earned only $75 per day for her work on the film, culminating in a total of $3,000. Her earnings were so low that she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance. Upon release, many critics lauded her performance, with Premiere listing it as one of the "100 Greatest Performances of All Time". James Berardinelli wrote at the time that Swank "gives the performance of her career". Her work earned her several accolades, including the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress. In an interview with Variety in 2020, Swank said that she felt a trans actor should have played the role, and had she been offered it today she would have refused it, stating "Twenty-one years later, not only are trans people having their lives and living, thankfully, although we still have a long way to go in their safety and their inclusivity, but we now have a bunch of trans actors who would obviously be a lot more right for the role and have the opportunity to actually audition for the role."
Swank again won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for playing a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, a role for which she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts, gaining 19 pounds of muscle. With her second Oscar, she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Sally Field and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress twice and won both times. After winning her second Oscar, she said, "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream."
In 2006, Swank signed a three-year contract with Guerlain to be the face of the women's fragrance Insolence. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the motion picture category on January 8, 2007; it was the 2,325th star presented. In 2007, Swank starred in Freedom Writers, about a real-life teacher, Erin Gruwell. Many reviews of her performance were positive, with one critic noting that she "brings credibility" to the role, and another stating that her performance reaches a "singular lack of artifice, stripping herself back to the bare essentials". Swank next starred in the horror film The Reaping (2007), as a debunker of religious phenomena. Swank convinced the producers to move the film's setting from New England to the Deep South, and the film was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina struck. The same year, she also appeared in the romantic drama P.S. I Love You with Gerard Butler.
Swank portrayed the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in the 2009 biopic Amelia, which she also co-executive produced through 2S Films, a production company she established with producer Molly Smith.
In 2012, Swank's audiobook recording of Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs was released at Audible.com. In 2013, she starred in the television film Mary and Martha alongside Brenda Blethyn. In 2014, Swank played the lead role of Kate Parker, a woman whose life is shattered when she develops the degenerative disease ALS, in You're Not You. The film co-starred Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.
In 2017, she appeared in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky, as Special Agent Sarah Grayson, alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, and portrayed lawyer Colette Hughes in Bille August's drama film 55 Steps. In 2018, Swank starred in and executive produced the Alzheimer's disease drama film What They Had, directed by Elizabeth Chomko. Also in 2018, she portrayed Gail Getty in the first season of FX's anthology series Trust. It was reported that Swank would star as Laura Murphy in Alejandro González Iñárritu's drama series The One Percent.
In July 2019, Swank was cast in the thriller film The Hunt, opposite Betty Gilpin. Before its release, the film's plot, about deadly violence between political liberals and conservatives, caused controversy, after which its release was delayed by Universal from the original date of September 2019. Swank commented on the situation, stating: "No one's seen the film. You can't really have a conversation about it without understanding what it's about." The film was released in 2020, and received mixed reviews. In September 2020, Swank portrayed Emma, an astronaut, in the Netflix science drama series Away, which was cancelled after one season. For both The Hunt and Away, Swank earned a total of three nominations at the 2021 Critics' Choice Super Awards.
Personal life
In a January 2009 episode of The Office, "Prince Family Paper", the subplot of the episode is the office coworkers debating whether or not Hilary Swank is "hot". Swank referred to such discussions emphasizing the looks of women in Hollywood as doing a "disservice".
In October 2011, Swank attracted controversy for attending an event in Chechnya's capital Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on October 5. After wishing him "Happy birthday, Mr. President", she reportedly claimed knowledge about Kadyrov saying, "I read. I do my research." Following criticism from human rights groups, that reported having informed her about the human rights abuses in Chechnya prior to the event and asked her to reconsider her participation, Swank said she was unaware that Kadyrov had been accused of human rights violations and that she "deeply regrets" taking part in the lavish concert. She donated her personal appearance fees "to various charitable organizations".
In a 2020 interview with Health, Swank revealed that she took a three-year break from acting beginning in 2014 in order to help her father recover from a lung transplant.
Relationships
While filming Quiet Days in Hollywood, Swank met actor Chad Lowe. They married on September 28, 1997. They announced their intention to divorce on January 9, 2006, which was finalized on November 1, 2007. In 2007, Swank began dating her agent, John Campisi, but they ended their relationship in May 2012.
On March 22, 2016, Swank announced her engagement to Ruben Torres, a financial advisor with UBS and former professional tennis player. The two had been dating since May 2015. In June 2016, Swank's representative confirmed that she and Torres had ended their engagement.
On August 18, 2018, she married entrepreneur Philip Schneider after two years of dating.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
See also
List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars
References
External links
1974 births
20th-century American actresses
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Actors from Lincoln, Nebraska
Actresses from Nebraska
Actresses from Washington (state)
American actresses of Mexican descent
American child actresses
American film actresses
Method actors
American people of Dutch descent
American people of English descent
American people of Indigenous Mexican descent
American people of Mestizo descent
American people of Scotch-Irish descent
American people of Scottish descent
American people of Swiss-German descent
American people of Welsh descent
American television actresses
American women film producers
Best Actress Academy Award winners
Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
Hispanic and Latino American actresses
Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead winners
Living people
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners
People from Bellingham, Washington
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BBC 100 Women | [
"Hilary Ann Swank (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer.",
"She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.",
"She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid, the fourth installment of The Karate Kid franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210.",
"Swank came to international recognition in 1999 for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby.",
"Both of her performances earned her critical acclaim, and she earned numerous accolades, which include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.",
"She was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005, earning her further acclaim.",
"Swank later ventured into producing in the 2010s, working on the films Amelia, Conviction, You're Not You, and What They Had, all of which she also starred in.",
"Her other notable films include the television film Iron Jawed Angels, and the feature films Freedom Writers, Logan Lucky, The Hunt and Fatale.",
"Early life\nSwank was born on July 30, 1974, in Lincoln, Nebraska.",
"Her mother, Judy Kay (née Clough), was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael Swank, was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman.",
"Many of Swank's family members are from Ringgold County, Iowa.",
"Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Clough (née Dominguez), was born in El Centro, California, and was of Mexican (Spanish and Native American) descent.",
"Swank's paternal grandmother was born in England; her other ancestry includes Dutch, German, Ulster-Scots, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Welsh.",
"The surname \"Swank,\" originally \"Schwenk,\" is of German origin.",
"After living in Spokane, Washington, Swank's family moved into a home near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when Swank was six.",
"She attended Happy Valley Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, then Sehome High School in Bellingham until she was 16.",
"She also competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington state championships in swimming, and she ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics.",
"Swank made her first appearance on stage when she was nine years old, starring in The Jungle Book.",
"When she was 15, her parents separated, and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act, moved with her to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment.",
"Swank has called her mother the inspiration for her acting career and her life.",
"In California, Swank enrolled in South Pasadena High School, later dropping out.",
"She described her time at South Pasadena High School, \"I felt like such an outsider.",
"I didn't feel like I fit in.",
"I didn't belong in any way.",
"I didn't even feel like the teachers wanted me there.",
"I just felt like I wasn't seen or understood.\"",
"She explained that she became an actor because she felt like an outsider, \"As a kid I felt that I belonged only when I read a book or saw a movie, and could get involved with a character.",
"It was natural that I became an actor because I longed so much to be those other people, or at least to play them.\"",
"Career\nSwank made her film debut in the 1992 comedy horror film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a supporting role, after which she acted in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in Hollywood, where she co-starred with Chad Lowe, who would become her husband for a time.",
"Her first leading film role was in the fourth installment of the Karate Kid series, The Next Karate Kid (1994) as Julie Pierce.",
"The role utilized her gymnastics background and paired her with Pat Morita.",
"In 1994, she also starred in the drama Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story, as the abused step-daughter who was protected by Donna (Jaclyn Smith).",
"In 1995, she appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Kounterfeit.",
"In 1996, she starred in a TV movie, family drama Terror in the Family, as a troubled teenager.",
"In September 1997, Swank played single mother Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills, 90210 and was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998.",
"Swank later stated that she was devastated at being cut from the show, thinking, \"If I'm not good enough for 90210, I'm not good enough for anything.\"",
"The firing from Beverly Hills, 90210 freed her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry.",
"To prepare for the role, Swank lived as a man for a month and reduced her body fat to seven percent.",
"She earned only $75 per day for her work on the film, culminating in a total of $3,000.",
"Her earnings were so low that she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance.",
"Upon release, many critics lauded her performance, with Premiere listing it as one of the \"100 Greatest Performances of All Time\".",
"James Berardinelli wrote at the time that Swank \"gives the performance of her career\".",
"Her work earned her several accolades, including the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress.",
"In an interview with Variety in 2020, Swank said that she felt a trans actor should have played the role, and had she been offered it today she would have refused it, stating \"Twenty-one years later, not only are trans people having their lives and living, thankfully, although we still have a long way to go in their safety and their inclusivity, but we now have a bunch of trans actors who would obviously be a lot more right for the role and have the opportunity to actually audition for the role.\"",
"Swank again won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for playing a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, a role for which she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts, gaining 19 pounds of muscle.",
"With her second Oscar, she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Sally Field and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress twice and won both times.",
"After winning her second Oscar, she said, \"I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this.",
"I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.\"",
"In 2006, Swank signed a three-year contract with Guerlain to be the face of the women's fragrance Insolence.",
"She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the motion picture category on January 8, 2007; it was the 2,325th star presented.",
"In 2007, Swank starred in Freedom Writers, about a real-life teacher, Erin Gruwell.",
"Many reviews of her performance were positive, with one critic noting that she \"brings credibility\" to the role, and another stating that her performance reaches a \"singular lack of artifice, stripping herself back to the bare essentials\".",
"Swank next starred in the horror film The Reaping (2007), as a debunker of religious phenomena.",
"Swank convinced the producers to move the film's setting from New England to the Deep South, and the film was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina struck.",
"The same year, she also appeared in the romantic drama P.S.",
"I Love You with Gerard Butler.",
"Swank portrayed the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in the 2009 biopic Amelia, which she also co-executive produced through 2S Films, a production company she established with producer Molly Smith.",
"In 2012, Swank's audiobook recording of Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs was released at Audible.com.",
"In 2013, she starred in the television film Mary and Martha alongside Brenda Blethyn.",
"In 2014, Swank played the lead role of Kate Parker, a woman whose life is shattered when she develops the degenerative disease ALS, in You're Not You.",
"The film co-starred Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel.",
"In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.",
"In 2017, she appeared in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky, as Special Agent Sarah Grayson, alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, and portrayed lawyer Colette Hughes in Bille August's drama film 55 Steps.",
"In 2018, Swank starred in and executive produced the Alzheimer's disease drama film What They Had, directed by Elizabeth Chomko.",
"Also in 2018, she portrayed Gail Getty in the first season of FX's anthology series Trust.",
"It was reported that Swank would star as Laura Murphy in Alejandro González Iñárritu's drama series The One Percent.",
"In July 2019, Swank was cast in the thriller film The Hunt, opposite Betty Gilpin.",
"Before its release, the film's plot, about deadly violence between political liberals and conservatives, caused controversy, after which its release was delayed by Universal from the original date of September 2019.",
"Swank commented on the situation, stating: \"No one's seen the film.",
"You can't really have a conversation about it without understanding what it's about.\"",
"The film was released in 2020, and received mixed reviews.",
"In September 2020, Swank portrayed Emma, an astronaut, in the Netflix science drama series Away, which was cancelled after one season.",
"For both The Hunt and Away, Swank earned a total of three nominations at the 2021 Critics' Choice Super Awards.",
"Personal life\nIn a January 2009 episode of The Office, \"Prince Family Paper\", the subplot of the episode is the office coworkers debating whether or not Hilary Swank is \"hot\".",
"Swank referred to such discussions emphasizing the looks of women in Hollywood as doing a \"disservice\".",
"In October 2011, Swank attracted controversy for attending an event in Chechnya's capital Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on October 5.",
"After wishing him \"Happy birthday, Mr. President\", she reportedly claimed knowledge about Kadyrov saying, \"I read.",
"I do my research.\"",
"Following criticism from human rights groups, that reported having informed her about the human rights abuses in Chechnya prior to the event and asked her to reconsider her participation, Swank said she was unaware that Kadyrov had been accused of human rights violations and that she \"deeply regrets\" taking part in the lavish concert.",
"She donated her personal appearance fees \"to various charitable organizations\".",
"In a 2020 interview with Health, Swank revealed that she took a three-year break from acting beginning in 2014 in order to help her father recover from a lung transplant.",
"Relationships \nWhile filming Quiet Days in Hollywood, Swank met actor Chad Lowe.",
"They married on September 28, 1997.",
"They announced their intention to divorce on January 9, 2006, which was finalized on November 1, 2007.",
"In 2007, Swank began dating her agent, John Campisi, but they ended their relationship in May 2012.",
"On March 22, 2016, Swank announced her engagement to Ruben Torres, a financial advisor with UBS and former professional tennis player.",
"The two had been dating since May 2015.",
"In June 2016, Swank's representative confirmed that she and Torres had ended their engagement.",
"On August 18, 2018, she married entrepreneur Philip Schneider after two years of dating.",
"Filmography\n\nFilm\n\nTelevision\n\nAwards and nominations\n\nSee also\n List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories\n List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees\n List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame\n List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n1974 births\n20th-century American actresses\n21st-century American actresses\nActors from Lincoln, Nebraska\nActresses from Nebraska\nActresses from Washington (state)\nAmerican actresses of Mexican descent\nAmerican child actresses\nAmerican film actresses\nMethod actors\nAmerican people of Dutch descent\nAmerican people of English descent\nAmerican people of Indigenous Mexican descent\nAmerican people of Mestizo descent\nAmerican people of Scotch-Irish descent\nAmerican people of Scottish descent\nAmerican people of Swiss-German descent\nAmerican people of Welsh descent\nAmerican television actresses\nAmerican women film producers\nBest Actress Academy Award winners\nBest Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners\nHispanic and Latino American actresses\nIndependent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead winners\nLiving people\nOutstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners\nPeople from Bellingham, Washington\nSanta Monica College alumni\nFilm producers from Washington (state)\nBBC 100 Women"
] | [
"Hilary Ann Swank is an American actress and film producer.",
"She made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was her first film role.",
"She starred in The Next Karate Kid, the fourth iteration of The Karate Kid franchise, and the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210.",
"In 1999 she received international recognition for her performances in Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby.",
"She received two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performances.",
"She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2005.",
"In the 2010s, she produced Amelia, Conviction, You're Not You, and What They Had, all of which she starred in.",
"The television film Iron Jawed Angels is one of her notable films.",
"On July 30, 1974, Swank was born in Lincoln, Nebraska.",
"Her mother, Judy Kay, was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael, was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard.",
"Ringgold County, Iowa is where many of Swank's family members are from.",
"Her maternal grandmother was of Mexican and Native American descent and was born in California.",
"Her other ancestry includes Dutch, German, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Welsh, as well as her paternal grandmother who was born in England.",
"The name \"Swank\" is of German origin.",
"When Swank was six years old, his family moved into a home near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington.",
"She attended a number of schools, including Happy Valley Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, and Sehome High School.",
"She ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics and competed in the Junior Olympics.",
"When she was nine years old, she starred in The Jungle Book.",
"When she was 15, her parents separated and her mother moved with her to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until her mother saved enough money to rent an apartment.",
"The inspiration for her life and career has been her mother.",
"Swank dropped out of South Pasadena High School in California.",
"She said that she felt like an outsider at South Pasadena High School.",
"I didn't feel like I fit in.",
"I didn't belong.",
"I didn't think the teachers wanted me there.",
"I didn't feel like I was seen or understood.",
"She said that she became an actor because she felt like an outsider when she was younger.",
"I became an actor because I wanted to be those other people, or at least to play them.",
"After making her film debut in the 1992 comedy horror film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which she played a supporting role in, she went on to co-star with Chad Lowe in the film Quiet Days in Hollywood.",
"In the fourth Karate Kid film, The Next Karate Kid, she played Julie Pierce.",
"She was put with Pat Morita because of her gymnastics background.",
"She played the abused step-daughter who was protected by Donna in the 1994 movie Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story.",
"She appeared with Bruce Payne.",
"She starred in a TV movie as a troubled teenager.",
"After 16 episodes, her character in Beverly Hills, 90210 was written out, despite being promised a two-year role.",
"When she was cut from the show, she thought, \"If I'm not good enough for 90210, I'm not good enough for anything.\"",
"She was able to try out for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry because of the firing from Beverly Hills.",
"After living as a man for a month, she reduced her body fat to seven percent.",
"She only made $75 per day for her work on the film.",
"She didn't have enough money to qualify for health insurance.",
"The premiere listed her performance as one of the 100 greatest performances of all time.",
"At the time, James Berardinelli wrote that she gives the performance of her career.",
"The Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress went to her.",
"In an interview with Variety in 2020, Swank said that she felt a trans actor should have played the role, and had she been offered it today she would have refused it.",
"In Clint Eastwood's film Million Dollar Baby, where she played a female boxer, she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, aided by a professional trainer, and gained 19 pounds of muscle.",
"She was one of four actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress twice, and won both times.",
"She said after winning her second Oscar that she didn't know what she did to deserve it.",
"A girl from a trailer park had a dream.",
"The actress was the face of the women's fragrance Insolence for three years.",
"She was the 2,325th star to be presented on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.",
"In 2007, Swank starred in Freedom Writers, about a real-life teacher.",
"Many reviews of her performance were positive, with one critic noting that she brings credibility to the role, and another stating that her performance reaches a \"singular lack of artifice, stripping herself back to the bare essentials\".",
"In The Reaping, Swank starred as a debunker of religious phenomena.",
"The setting of the film was moved from New England to the Deep South after Swank convinced the producers.",
"She appeared in the romantic drama P.S. the same year.",
"I love you with him.",
"2S Films, a production company she established with producer Molly Smith, was co-executive produced by Hilary Swank, who played Amelia Earhart in the film.",
"In 2012 the audiobook of Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs was released.",
"Mary and Martha was a television film she starred in.",
"In You're Not You, Hilary Swank played a woman whose life is shattered when she develops a fatal disease.",
"Josh Duhamel and Emmy Rossum were in the film.",
"She was listed as one of the 100 women.",
"She played a lawyer in Bille August's drama film 55 Steps, as well as playing a Special Agent in Steven Soderbergh's film.",
"The Alzheimer's disease drama film What They Had was executive produced by Hilary Swank.",
"She was in the first season of Trust.",
"The One Percent is a drama series by Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu.",
"The Hunt was a film that was cast in July of 2019.",
"The film's plot about deadly violence between political liberals and conservatives caused controversy before it was released, and it was delayed by Universal from the original date of September 2019.",
"No one has seen the film.",
"You can't have a conversation about it if you don't know what it's about.",
"The film received mixed reviews.",
"Away was a science drama that was canceled after one season.",
"The Hunt and Away were both nominated for three Critics' Choice Super Awards.",
"In the January 2009, episode of The Office, \"Prince Family Paper\", the office coworkers are debating whether or not Hilary Swank is hot.",
"The discussion about the looks of women in Hollywood was referred to as a \"disservice\".",
"The 35th birthday of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov was celebrated in October of 2011.",
"She claimed knowledge about Kadyrov after wishing him a happy birthday.",
"I do my research.",
"Following criticism from human rights groups that reported having informed her about the human rights abuses in Chechnya prior to the event and asked her to reconsider her participation, Swank said she was unaware that Kadyrov had been accused of human rights violations and that she \"deeply regrets\" taking part in the",
"She gave her personal appearance fees to charity.",
"In a 2020 interview with Health, Swank revealed that she took a three-year break from acting in order to help her father recover from a lung transplant.",
"The actress met an actor while filming a movie.",
"They wed on September 28, 1997.",
"The divorce was finalized on November 1, 2007.",
"In 2007, Swank began dating her agent, John Campisi, but they ended their relationship in May 2012",
"The engagement was announced on March 22, 2016 by Swank.",
"The two had been dating.",
"In June of 2016 a representative for Swank confirmed that they had ended their engagement.",
"She married Philip Schneider after two years of dating.",
"List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars"
] | <mask> (born July 30, 1974) is an American actress and film producer. She first became known in 1992 for her role on the television series Camp Wilder and made her film debut with a minor role in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She then had her breakthrough for starring as Julie Pierce in The Next Karate Kid, the fourth installment of The Karate Kid franchise, and as Carly Reynolds on the eighth season of Beverly Hills, 90210. <mask> came to international recognition in 1999 for her performances as Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, and as Maggie Fitzgerald, an aspiring boxer, in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby. Both of her performances earned her critical acclaim, and she earned numerous accolades, which include two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Critics' Choice Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005, earning her further acclaim. Swank later ventured into producing in the 2010s, working on the films Amelia, Conviction, You're Not You, and What They Had, all of which she also starred in.Her other notable films include the television film Iron Jawed Angels, and the feature films Freedom Writers, Logan Lucky, The Hunt and Fatale. Early life
<mask> was born on July 30, 1974, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her mother, Judy Kay (née Clough), was a secretary and dancer, and her father, Stephen Michael <mask>, was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Oregon Air National Guard and later a traveling salesman. Many of Swank's family members are from Ringgold County, Iowa. Her maternal grandmother, Frances Martha Clough (née Dominguez), was born in El Centro, California, and was of Mexican (Spanish and Native American) descent. Swank's paternal grandmother was born in England; her other ancestry includes Dutch, German, Ulster-Scots, Scottish, Swiss-German, and Welsh. The surname "<mask>," originally "Schwenk," is of German origin.After living in Spokane, Washington, <mask>'s family moved into a home near Lake Samish in Bellingham, Washington, when Swank was six. She attended Happy Valley Elementary School, Fairhaven Middle School, then Sehome High School in Bellingham until she was 16. She also competed in the Junior Olympics and the Washington state championships in swimming, and she ranked fifth in the state in all-around gymnastics. Swank made her first appearance on stage when she was nine years old, starring in The Jungle Book. When she was 15, her parents separated, and her mother, supportive of her daughter's desire to act, moved with her to Los Angeles, where they lived out of their car until Swank's mother saved enough money to rent an apartment. Swank has called her mother the inspiration for her acting career and her life. In California, <mask> enrolled in South Pasadena High School, later dropping out.She described her time at South Pasadena High School, "I felt like such an outsider. I didn't feel like I fit in. I didn't belong in any way. I didn't even feel like the teachers wanted me there. I just felt like I wasn't seen or understood." She explained that she became an actor because she felt like an outsider, "As a kid I felt that I belonged only when I read a book or saw a movie, and could get involved with a character. It was natural that I became an actor because I longed so much to be those other people, or at least to play them."Career
Swank made her film debut in the 1992 comedy horror film Buffy the Vampire Slayer, playing a supporting role, after which she acted in the direct-to-video drama Quiet Days in Hollywood, where she co-starred with Chad Lowe, who would become her husband for a time. Her first leading film role was in the fourth installment of the Karate Kid series, The Next Karate Kid (1994) as Julie Pierce. The role utilized her gymnastics background and paired her with Pat Morita. In 1994, she also starred in the drama Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story, as the abused step-daughter who was protected by Donna (Jaclyn Smith). In 1995, she appeared with British actor Bruce Payne in Kounterfeit. In 1996, she starred in a TV movie, family drama Terror in the Family, as a troubled teenager. In September 1997, <mask> played single mother Carly Reynolds in Beverly Hills, 90210 and was initially promised it would be a two-year role, but saw her character written out after 16 episodes in January 1998.Swank later stated that she was devastated at being cut from the show, thinking, "If I'm not good enough for 90210, I'm not good enough for anything." The firing from Beverly Hills, 90210 freed her to audition for the role of Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry. To prepare for the role, Swank lived as a man for a month and reduced her body fat to seven percent. She earned only $75 per day for her work on the film, culminating in a total of $3,000. Her earnings were so low that she had not even earned enough to qualify for health insurance. Upon release, many critics lauded her performance, with Premiere listing it as one of the "100 Greatest Performances of All Time". James Berardinelli wrote at the time that Swank "gives the performance of her career".Her work earned her several accolades, including the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress. In an interview with Variety in 2020, <mask> said that she felt a trans actor should have played the role, and had she been offered it today she would have refused it, stating "Twenty-one years later, not only are trans people having their lives and living, thankfully, although we still have a long way to go in their safety and their inclusivity, but we now have a bunch of trans actors who would obviously be a lot more right for the role and have the opportunity to actually audition for the role." <mask> again won the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for playing a female boxer in Clint Eastwood's 2004 film Million Dollar Baby, a role for which she underwent extensive training in the ring and weight room, aided by professional trainer Grant L. Roberts, gaining 19 pounds of muscle. With her second Oscar, she had joined the ranks of Vivien Leigh, Sally Field and Luise Rainer as the only actresses to have been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress twice and won both times. After winning her second Oscar, she said, "I don't know what I did in this life to deserve this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream." In 2006, <mask> signed a three-year contract with Guerlain to be the face of the women's fragrance Insolence.She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the motion picture category on January 8, 2007; it was the 2,325th star presented. In 2007, Swank starred in Freedom Writers, about a real-life teacher, Erin Gruwell. Many reviews of her performance were positive, with one critic noting that she "brings credibility" to the role, and another stating that her performance reaches a "singular lack of artifice, stripping herself back to the bare essentials". Swank next starred in the horror film The Reaping (2007), as a debunker of religious phenomena. Swank convinced the producers to move the film's setting from New England to the Deep South, and the film was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina struck. The same year, she also appeared in the romantic drama P.S. I Love You with Gerard Butler.Swank portrayed the pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart in the 2009 biopic Amelia, which she also co-executive produced through 2S Films, a production company she established with producer Molly Smith. In 2012, <mask>'s audiobook recording of Caroline Knapp's Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs was released at Audible.com. In 2013, she starred in the television film Mary and Martha alongside Brenda Blethyn. In 2014, Swank played the lead role of Kate Parker, a woman whose life is shattered when she develops the degenerative disease ALS, in You're Not You. The film co-starred Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. In 2017, she appeared in Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky, as Special Agent Sarah Grayson, alongside Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, and portrayed lawyer Colette Hughes in Bille August's drama film 55 Steps.In 2018, <mask> starred in and executive produced the Alzheimer's disease drama film What They Had, directed by Elizabeth Chomko. Also in 2018, she portrayed Gail Getty in the first season of FX's anthology series Trust. It was reported that <mask> would star as Laura Murphy in Alejandro González Iñárritu's drama series The One Percent. In July 2019, <mask> was cast in the thriller film The Hunt, opposite Betty Gilpin. Before its release, the film's plot, about deadly violence between political liberals and conservatives, caused controversy, after which its release was delayed by Universal from the original date of September 2019. Swank commented on the situation, stating: "No one's seen the film. You can't really have a conversation about it without understanding what it's about."The film was released in 2020, and received mixed reviews. In September 2020, Swank portrayed Emma, an astronaut, in the Netflix science drama series Away, which was cancelled after one season. For both The Hunt and Away, Swank earned a total of three nominations at the 2021 Critics' Choice Super Awards. Personal life
In a January 2009 episode of The Office, "Prince Family Paper", the subplot of the episode is the office coworkers debating whether or not <mask>k is "hot". Swank referred to such discussions emphasizing the looks of women in Hollywood as doing a "disservice". In October 2011, Swank attracted controversy for attending an event in Chechnya's capital Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on October 5. After wishing him "Happy birthday, Mr. President", she reportedly claimed knowledge about Kadyrov saying, "I read.I do my research." Following criticism from human rights groups, that reported having informed her about the human rights abuses in Chechnya prior to the event and asked her to reconsider her participation, Swank said she was unaware that Kadyrov had been accused of human rights violations and that she "deeply regrets" taking part in the lavish concert. She donated her personal appearance fees "to various charitable organizations". In a 2020 interview with Health, Swank revealed that she took a three-year break from acting beginning in 2014 in order to help her father recover from a lung transplant. Relationships
While filming Quiet Days in Hollywood, <mask> met actor Chad Lowe. They married on September 28, 1997. They announced their intention to divorce on January 9, 2006, which was finalized on November 1, 2007.In 2007, Swank began dating her agent, John Campisi, but they ended their relationship in May 2012. On March 22, 2016, Swank announced her engagement to Ruben Torres, a financial advisor with UBS and former professional tennis player. The two had been dating since May 2015. In June 2016, Swank's representative confirmed that she and Torres had ended their engagement. On August 18, 2018, she married entrepreneur Philip Schneider after two years of dating. Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
See also
List of actors with two or more Academy Awards in acting categories
List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees
List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars
References
External links
1974 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actors from Lincoln, Nebraska
Actresses from Nebraska
Actresses from Washington (state)
American actresses of Mexican descent
American child actresses
American film actresses
Method actors
American people of Dutch descent
American people of English descent
American people of Indigenous Mexican descent
American people of Mestizo descent
American people of Scotch-Irish descent
American people of Scottish descent
American people of Swiss-German descent
American people of Welsh descent
American television actresses
American women film producers
Best Actress Academy Award winners
Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners
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14745601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard%20Seiler | Reinhard Seiler | Reinhard Seiler (30 August 1909 – 6 October 1989) was a Spanish Civil War and World War II Luftwaffe Major and ace, commander of Jagdgeschwader 104 and a winner of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany; for the fighter pilots, it was a quantifiable measure of skill and combat success. Reinhard Seiler was credited with 100 victories during World War II, over the course of about 500 combat missions. He recorded an additional 9 victories during the Spanish Civil War.
Childhood and early career
Seiler was born on 30 August 1909 in Rawitsch, in the Province of Posen, at the time a Prussian province of the German Empire and now in Poland. He was the son of Justizoberwachtmeister, a police officer at court. He joined the newly created Luftwaffe in 1935 and was promoted to Leutnant (second lieutenant) on 20 April 1937. After completing his pilot training, he was sent to Spain with the Condor Legion, and served with 2. Staffel (2nd squadron) of Jagdgruppe 88 (J/88—88th Fighter Group).
On 26 August 1937, the Condor Legion attacked ships in the harbor of Gijón. Flying fighter escort to the bombers, Seiler claimed his first aerial victory when he shot down a Polikarpov I-15 fighter. He claimed his second aerial victory on 4 September, a Polikarpov I-16 shot down over Asturias. On 30 October, command of the Condor Legion transferred from Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle to Generalmajor Hellmuth Volkmann. Volkmann reorganized J/88, placing 2. Staffel under the command of Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant) Joachim Schlichting. Seiler claimed his third aerial victory on 29 November.
When Seiler returned to Germany, he was credited with nine aerial victories and was one of the leading fighter pilots of the Condor Legion. For his service in Spain, he was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Diamonds (). He was promoted to Oberleutnant on 1 April 1939.
After his return from Spain, Seiler was appointed the Staffelkapitän (Squadron leader) of the newly established 1. Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 70 (JG 70—70th Fighter Wing) on 15 July 1939. The Staffel was based at Herzogenaurach, equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 D-1 and subordinated to the I. Gruppe (1st group) of Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51—51st Fighter Wing) under the command of Major Ernst Freiherr von Berg.
World War II
World War II in Europe began on Friday 1 September 1939 when German forces invaded Poland. Seiler's unit was kept back and on 13 September, it formed the nucleus of the newly created I Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54—54th Fighter Wing) which had been placed under command of Major Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel. In consequence, Seiler's 1 Staffel was renamed 1. Staffel of JG 54. On 1 November, the Gruppe was transferred to Böblingen to patrol the southernmost region of the French-German border.
He scored his first victory of the war on 10 January 1940, shooting down a French reconnaissance Potez southwest of Freiburg. He scored a second victory on 7 April west of Strasbourg. However he scored no further in the subsequent Battle of France, when his unit covered the Panzer advance through the Ardennes forests and later over the Dunkirk bridgehead. Pulled out early, back to occupied Netherlands as the campaign wound down, I./JG 54 was then one of the first units to re-occupy the Pas de Calais, in early August 1940 in anticipation of the upcoming Battle of Britain. On a bomber escort mission over Dover on 5 August 1940, Seiler scored his third victory (a Spitfire), but was bounced by a Hurricane squadron, shot down and severely injured. Taking to his parachute over the English Channel, he was rescued and hospitalised, but was out of action for over 6 months.
Invasion of the Soviet Union
Promoted to Hauptmann (Captain) in December, he returned to his command of 1./JG 54 in the spring of 1941, as the Luftwaffe prepared for the upcoming invasion of Russia - Operation Barbarossa. JG 54 was tasked with providing the fighter cover for Army Group North and its advance toward Leningrad. On the opening day of the campaign (22 June 1941) he shot down 3 aircraft, thereby doubling his score, and as his unit leap-frogged to new airbases across the Baltic States over the next few weeks his score continued to rise. By the end of September, he had 33 victories and his unit had finally settled down, establishing itself at Siverskaya, (about south of Leningrad). He had been awarded the Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe () on 20 August recognising his leadership and combat success.
With the loss of Arnold Lignitz on 30 September (shot down over Leningrad), Hauptmann Seiler was assigned to command III. Gruppe (also based at Siverskaya), as Barbarossa entered its critical phase. Despite surrounding the city, it could not be taken so Hitler decided instead to besiege it. For the next three years, JG 54 would stay, essentially, encamped outside the city interdicting the supply lines and intercepting the frantic attempts of the Russians to lift the siege in offensive after offensive.
Seiler himself remained as Gruppenkommandeur of III./JG 54 for nearly one and a half years. He was awarded the German Cross in Gold () on 15 October then the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross () on 20 December 1941, having flown 200 missions. In spring 1942 Geschwaderkommodore (Wing Commander) Hannes Trautloft had the idea for fighter interceptions of Soviet night-harassment raids on moonlit nights. A great success, they claimed 56 victories for no losses. Seiler was the most successful pilot in these missions, scoring 16 night-victories between March and June 1942 and he was also promoted to Major in June. Throughout 1942, JG 54 continued to cover the north: the Leningrad siege and Demyansk fronts. In December though, Seiler took his III./JG 54 to Smolensk in the centre, and then soon after in early 1943 rotated back to the west as part of Adolf Galland's mis-guided plan to swap units between the western and eastern fronts in exchange for I./Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26—26th Fighter Wing).
"Defence of the Reich"
Re-equipping instead onto Bf 109G-4s, they spent 6 weeks on the Channel Front. Unused to operating at higher altitudes and in large formations, JG 26 Geschwaderkommodore Josef Priller refused to declare the unit ready for operations. Finally in March, they were transferred back to Oldenburg in northern Germany for further training and to stay on Defence of the Reich duties. Fittingly perhaps, with the unit's first successes on 17 April, unit commander Seiler scored his one and only Viermot (4-engine bomber) kill. However, he was already under orders to return to the Leningrad Front. On 1 May, Seiler was made the new Gruppenkommandeur of I. Gruppe of JG 54, flying the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. He replaced Hauptmann Gerhard Koall who temporarily led the Gruppe after Major Hans Philipp was transferred to take command of Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1—1st Fighter Wing) fighting in Defence of the Reich.
Eastern Front
Unseasonably bad weather limited operations for the next few months and then all attention was turned to the main 1943 offensive - Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient. Seiler's I./JG 54 was transferred in June to Orel to join the fighter cover over the northern attack. On the opening day of the offensive, 5 July, he scored 5 victories to take his tally to 97. The following day he scored a further two kills. Eager to reach the magic 'century', he chased and shot down a Bell P-39 Airacobra fighters from the 30 GvIAP (Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment—Gvardeyskiy Istrebitelny Aviatsionny Polk). However immediately afterward he was himself shot and forced to bail out badly wounded over enemy territory east of Ponyri, midway between Orel and Kursk. He was the 44th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark. He was declared unfit for further combat duties.
In recognition of his long service and command in JG 54, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves () on 2 March 1944. Later in the year, on 8 August, he was appointed Geschwaderkommodore of the fighter-pilot training unit Jagdgeschwader 104 and served in this position until it was disbanded on 28 April 1945, just days before the end of World War II. Released in 1946, Reinhard Seiler died on 6 October 1989, at the age of 80, in the town of Grafengehaig near Kulmbach, in Bavaria. Over approximately 500 missions, he was credited with 109 air victories, including 9 in Spain and just 4 in the west. The remaining 96 victories were scored over the Russian Front.
Summary of career
Aerial victory claims
According to Spick, Seiler was credited with 9 aerial victories during the Spanish Civil War and further 100 during World War II. Matthews and Foreman, authors of Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims, researched the German Federal Archives and found documentation for 109 aerial victory claims, plus three further unconfirmed claims. This number includes 9 claims during the Spanish Civil War, 96 on the Eastern Front, and 4 on the Western Front, including one four-engined bomber.
Victory claims were logged to a map-reference (PQ = Planquadrat), for example "PQ 00254". The Luftwaffe grid map () covered all of Europe, western Russia and North Africa and was composed of rectangles measuring 15 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude, an area of about . These sectors were then subdivided into 36 smaller units to give a location area 3 × 4 km in size.
Awards
Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds (6 June 1939)
Iron Cross (1939)
2nd Class (20 January 1940)
1st Class (30 July 1940)
Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe (20 August 1941)
German Cross in Gold on 15 October 1941 as Hauptmann in the 1./Jagdgeschwader 54
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 20 December 1941 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Jagdgeschwader 54
419th Oak Leaves on 2 March 1944 as Major and Gruppenkommandeur of the I./Jagdgeschwader 54
Promotions
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
1909 births
1989 deaths
People from Rawicz
Condor Legion personnel
People from the Province of Posen
Spanish Civil War flying aces
German World War II flying aces
German military personnel of the Spanish Civil War
Recipients of the Gold German Cross
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"Reinhard Seiler was credited with 100 victories during World War II, over the course of about 500 combat missions.",
"He recorded an additional 9 victories during the Spanish Civil War.",
"Childhood and early career\nSeiler was born on 30 August 1909 in Rawitsch, in the Province of Posen, at the time a Prussian province of the German Empire and now in Poland.",
"He was the son of Justizoberwachtmeister, a police officer at court.",
"He joined the newly created Luftwaffe in 1935 and was promoted to Leutnant (second lieutenant) on 20 April 1937.",
"After completing his pilot training, he was sent to Spain with the Condor Legion, and served with 2.",
"Staffel (2nd squadron) of Jagdgruppe 88 (J/88—88th Fighter Group).",
"On 26 August 1937, the Condor Legion attacked ships in the harbor of Gijón.",
"Flying fighter escort to the bombers, Seiler claimed his first aerial victory when he shot down a Polikarpov I-15 fighter.",
"He claimed his second aerial victory on 4 September, a Polikarpov I-16 shot down over Asturias.",
"On 30 October, command of the Condor Legion transferred from Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle to Generalmajor Hellmuth Volkmann.",
"Volkmann reorganized J/88, placing 2.",
"Staffel under the command of Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant) Joachim Schlichting.",
"Seiler claimed his third aerial victory on 29 November.",
"When Seiler returned to Germany, he was credited with nine aerial victories and was one of the leading fighter pilots of the Condor Legion.",
"For his service in Spain, he was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Diamonds ().",
"He was promoted to Oberleutnant on 1 April 1939.",
"After his return from Spain, Seiler was appointed the Staffelkapitän (Squadron leader) of the newly established 1.",
"Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 70 (JG 70—70th Fighter Wing) on 15 July 1939.",
"The Staffel was based at Herzogenaurach, equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 D-1 and subordinated to the I. Gruppe (1st group) of Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51—51st Fighter Wing) under the command of Major Ernst Freiherr von Berg.",
"World War II\nWorld War II in Europe began on Friday 1 September 1939 when German forces invaded Poland.",
"Seiler's unit was kept back and on 13 September, it formed the nucleus of the newly created I Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54—54th Fighter Wing) which had been placed under command of Major Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel.",
"In consequence, Seiler's 1 Staffel was renamed 1.",
"Staffel of JG 54.",
"On 1 November, the Gruppe was transferred to Böblingen to patrol the southernmost region of the French-German border.",
"He scored his first victory of the war on 10 January 1940, shooting down a French reconnaissance Potez southwest of Freiburg.",
"He scored a second victory on 7 April west of Strasbourg.",
"However he scored no further in the subsequent Battle of France, when his unit covered the Panzer advance through the Ardennes forests and later over the Dunkirk bridgehead.",
"Pulled out early, back to occupied Netherlands as the campaign wound down, I./JG 54 was then one of the first units to re-occupy the Pas de Calais, in early August 1940 in anticipation of the upcoming Battle of Britain.",
"On a bomber escort mission over Dover on 5 August 1940, Seiler scored his third victory (a Spitfire), but was bounced by a Hurricane squadron, shot down and severely injured.",
"Taking to his parachute over the English Channel, he was rescued and hospitalised, but was out of action for over 6 months.",
"Invasion of the Soviet Union\nPromoted to Hauptmann (Captain) in December, he returned to his command of 1./JG 54 in the spring of 1941, as the Luftwaffe prepared for the upcoming invasion of Russia - Operation Barbarossa.",
"JG 54 was tasked with providing the fighter cover for Army Group North and its advance toward Leningrad.",
"On the opening day of the campaign (22 June 1941) he shot down 3 aircraft, thereby doubling his score, and as his unit leap-frogged to new airbases across the Baltic States over the next few weeks his score continued to rise.",
"By the end of September, he had 33 victories and his unit had finally settled down, establishing itself at Siverskaya, (about south of Leningrad).",
"He had been awarded the Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe () on 20 August recognising his leadership and combat success.",
"With the loss of Arnold Lignitz on 30 September (shot down over Leningrad), Hauptmann Seiler was assigned to command III.",
"Gruppe (also based at Siverskaya), as Barbarossa entered its critical phase.",
"Despite surrounding the city, it could not be taken so Hitler decided instead to besiege it.",
"For the next three years, JG 54 would stay, essentially, encamped outside the city interdicting the supply lines and intercepting the frantic attempts of the Russians to lift the siege in offensive after offensive.",
"Seiler himself remained as Gruppenkommandeur of III./JG 54 for nearly one and a half years.",
"He was awarded the German Cross in Gold () on 15 October then the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross () on 20 December 1941, having flown 200 missions.",
"In spring 1942 Geschwaderkommodore (Wing Commander) Hannes Trautloft had the idea for fighter interceptions of Soviet night-harassment raids on moonlit nights.",
"A great success, they claimed 56 victories for no losses.",
"Seiler was the most successful pilot in these missions, scoring 16 night-victories between March and June 1942 and he was also promoted to Major in June.",
"Throughout 1942, JG 54 continued to cover the north: the Leningrad siege and Demyansk fronts.",
"In December though, Seiler took his III./JG 54 to Smolensk in the centre, and then soon after in early 1943 rotated back to the west as part of Adolf Galland's mis-guided plan to swap units between the western and eastern fronts in exchange for I./Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26—26th Fighter Wing).",
"\"Defence of the Reich\"\nRe-equipping instead onto Bf 109G-4s, they spent 6 weeks on the Channel Front.",
"Unused to operating at higher altitudes and in large formations, JG 26 Geschwaderkommodore Josef Priller refused to declare the unit ready for operations.",
"Finally in March, they were transferred back to Oldenburg in northern Germany for further training and to stay on Defence of the Reich duties.",
"Fittingly perhaps, with the unit's first successes on 17 April, unit commander Seiler scored his one and only Viermot (4-engine bomber) kill.",
"However, he was already under orders to return to the Leningrad Front.",
"On 1 May, Seiler was made the new Gruppenkommandeur of I. Gruppe of JG 54, flying the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.",
"He replaced Hauptmann Gerhard Koall who temporarily led the Gruppe after Major Hans Philipp was transferred to take command of Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1—1st Fighter Wing) fighting in Defence of the Reich.",
"Eastern Front\nUnseasonably bad weather limited operations for the next few months and then all attention was turned to the main 1943 offensive - Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient.",
"Seiler's I./JG 54 was transferred in June to Orel to join the fighter cover over the northern attack.",
"On the opening day of the offensive, 5 July, he scored 5 victories to take his tally to 97.",
"The following day he scored a further two kills.",
"Eager to reach the magic 'century', he chased and shot down a Bell P-39 Airacobra fighters from the 30 GvIAP (Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment—Gvardeyskiy Istrebitelny Aviatsionny Polk).",
"However immediately afterward he was himself shot and forced to bail out badly wounded over enemy territory east of Ponyri, midway between Orel and Kursk.",
"He was the 44th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark.",
"He was declared unfit for further combat duties.",
"In recognition of his long service and command in JG 54, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves () on 2 March 1944.",
"Later in the year, on 8 August, he was appointed Geschwaderkommodore of the fighter-pilot training unit Jagdgeschwader 104 and served in this position until it was disbanded on 28 April 1945, just days before the end of World War II.",
"Released in 1946, Reinhard Seiler died on 6 October 1989, at the age of 80, in the town of Grafengehaig near Kulmbach, in Bavaria.",
"Over approximately 500 missions, he was credited with 109 air victories, including 9 in Spain and just 4 in the west.",
"The remaining 96 victories were scored over the Russian Front.",
"Summary of career\n\nAerial victory claims\nAccording to Spick, Seiler was credited with 9 aerial victories during the Spanish Civil War and further 100 during World War II.",
"Matthews and Foreman, authors of Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims, researched the German Federal Archives and found documentation for 109 aerial victory claims, plus three further unconfirmed claims.",
"This number includes 9 claims during the Spanish Civil War, 96 on the Eastern Front, and 4 on the Western Front, including one four-engined bomber.",
"Victory claims were logged to a map-reference (PQ = Planquadrat), for example \"PQ 00254\".",
"The Luftwaffe grid map () covered all of Europe, western Russia and North Africa and was composed of rectangles measuring 15 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude, an area of about .",
"These sectors were then subdivided into 36 smaller units to give a location area 3 × 4 km in size.",
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"Over the course of 500 combat missions, he was credited with 100 victories.",
"During the Spanish Civil War, he recorded 9 victories.",
"A province of the German Empire and now in Poland, the Province of Posen, where the childhood and early career of Seiler was born, was once part of the German Empire.",
"He was the son of a police officer.",
"He joined the Luftwaffe in 1935 and was promoted to second lieutenant in 1937.",
"He was sent to Spain with the Condor Legion after completing his pilot training.",
"The 2nd squadron of Jagdgruppe 88 is called the Staffel.",
"The harbor of Gijn was attacked by the Condor Legion in 1937.",
"The flying fighter shot down the I-15 fighter and claimed his first victory.",
"He won his second aerial victory on 4 September.",
"Generalmajor Hellmuth Volkmann took over the command of the Legion from Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle.",
"J/88 was reorganized by Volkmann.",
"Staffel under the command of Oberleutnant.",
"On November 29th, he claimed his third aerial victory.",
"One of the leading fighter pilots of the Condor Legion was credited with nine aerial victories when he returned to Germany.",
"He received the Spanish Cross in Gold with Diamonds for his service in Spain.",
"He was promoted to Oberleutnant on April 1, 1939.",
"The Staffelkapitn is the leader of the newly established 1.",
"Staffel of the 70th Fighter Wing on July 15, 1939.",
"The Staffel was based at Herzogenaurach and was under the command of Major Freiher.",
"German forces invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939 in World War II.",
"The nucleus of the newly created I Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54)—54th Fighter Wing) was formed on 13 September after the unit was kept back.",
"The 1 Staffel was renamed 1.",
"The staffel of JG 54.",
"The southernmost region of the French-German border was transferred to Bblingen on 1 November.",
"On January 10, 1940, he scored his first victory of the war when he shot down the French Potez.",
"He won a second time west of Strasbourg.",
"He did not score in the Battle of France when his unit covered the Panzer advance through the forests and over the bridgehead.",
"After being pulled out early, I./JG 54 was one of the first units to re-occupy the French port in anticipation of the Battle of Britain.",
"On a bomber escort mission over Dover in August 1940, Seiler scored his third victory, but was bounced by a Hurricane squadron, shot down and severely injured.",
"He was out of action for over six months after taking his parachute over the English Channel.",
"When the Soviet Union was invaded in December of 1941, he returned to his command of 1./JG 54.",
"The fighter cover for Army Group North was provided by JG 54.",
"On the opening day of the campaign, he shot down 3 aircraft, doubling his score, and as his unit leaped to new air bases across the Baltic States, his score continued to rise.",
"He had 33 victories by the end of September and his unit had finally settled down.",
"The Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe was awarded to him on August 20.",
"On 30 September, Arnold Lignitz was shot down over Leningrad, and Hauptmann Seiler was assigned to command III.",
"As Barbarossa entered its critical phase, Gruppe was also based at Siverskaya.",
"Despite surrounding the city, Hitler decided to besiege it.",
"For the next three years, JG 54 would stay outside the city, interdicting the supply lines and intercepting the frantic attempts of the Russians to lift the siege.",
"For over a year and a half, he remained as the Gruppenkommandeur.",
"He was awarded the German Cross in Gold on October 15, 1941, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on December 20, 1941.",
"The idea for fighter intercepts of Soviet night-harassment raids on moonlit nights was conceived in the spring of 1942.",
"They claimed 56 victories for no losses.",
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"In early 1943, as part of the plan to swap units between the western and eastern fronts, the III./JG 54 was taken from the centre to the west.",
"They spent 6 weeks on the Channel Front re-equipping to Bf109G-4s.",
"The unit was not declared ready for operations because they were not used to operating at higher altitudes and in large formations.",
"They were transferred back to Oldenburg in northern Germany in March for further training and to stay on Defence of the Reich duties.",
"On 17 April, with the unit's first successes, unit commander Seiler scored his only kill.",
"He was told to return to the front.",
"The new Gruppenkommandeur was made on 1 May, and he flew the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.",
"After Major Hans Philipp was transferred to take command of the 1st Fighter Wing of the Defence of the Reich, he became the new leader of the Gruppe.",
"After bad weather limited operations for the next few months, attention was turned to the main 1943 offensive - Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient.",
"In June, I./JG 54 was transferred to Orel to join the fighter cover over the northern attack.",
"He scored 5 victories on the opening day of the offensive to take his total to 97.",
"He scored two more kills the next day.",
"He chased and shot down the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighters from the 30 GvIAP.",
"He was badly wounded after being shot and forced to bail out over enemy territory east of Ponyri.",
"He was the 44th pilot to reach the century mark.",
"He was declared unable to perform further combat duties.",
"The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves was awarded to him in recognition of his long service and command in JG 54.",
"The fighter-pilot training unit Jagdgeschwader 104 was dissolved on April 28, 1945, just days before the end of World War II, after he was appointed Geschwaderkommodore.",
"At the age of 80, Reinhard Seiler died in the town of Grafengehaig in the state of Bavaria.",
"He was credited with over 100 air victories, including 9 in Spain and 4 in the west.",
"There were 96 victories over the Russian Front.",
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"The German Federal Archives contained documentation for over 100 aerial victory claims, as well as three more unconfirmed claims.",
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"Victory claims were recorded to a map-reference.",
"All of Europe, western Russia and North Africa were covered by the Luftwaffe grid map, which was composed of rectangles measuring 15 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude.",
"A location area of 3 4 km was given to the 36 smaller units.",
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<mask> was born on 30 August 1909 in Rawitsch, in the Province of Posen, at the time a Prussian province of the German Empire and now in Poland. He was the son of Justizoberwachtmeister, a police officer at court. He joined the newly created Luftwaffe in 1935 and was promoted to Leutnant (second lieutenant) on 20 April 1937. After completing his pilot training, he was sent to Spain with the Condor Legion, and served with 2.Staffel (2nd squadron) of Jagdgruppe 88 (J/88—88th Fighter Group). On 26 August 1937, the Condor Legion attacked ships in the harbor of Gijón. Flying fighter escort to the bombers, <mask> claimed his first aerial victory when he shot down a Polikarpov I-15 fighter. He claimed his second aerial victory on 4 September, a Polikarpov I-16 shot down over Asturias. On 30 October, command of the Condor Legion transferred from Generalmajor Hugo Sperrle to Generalmajor Hellmuth Volkmann. Volkmann reorganized J/88, placing 2. Staffel under the command of Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant) Joachim Schlichting.<mask> claimed his third aerial victory on 29 November. When <mask> returned to Germany, he was credited with nine aerial victories and was one of the leading fighter pilots of the Condor Legion. For his service in Spain, he was awarded the Spanish Cross in Gold with Diamonds (). He was promoted to Oberleutnant on 1 April 1939. After his return from Spain, <mask> was appointed the Staffelkapitän (Squadron leader) of the newly established 1. Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 70 (JG 70—70th Fighter Wing) on 15 July 1939. The Staffel was based at Herzogenaurach, equipped with the Messerschmitt Bf 109 D-1 and subordinated to the I. Gruppe (1st group) of Jagdgeschwader 51 (JG 51—51st Fighter Wing) under the command of Major Ernst Freiherr von Berg.World War II
World War II in Europe began on Friday 1 September 1939 when German forces invaded Poland. <mask>'s unit was kept back and on 13 September, it formed the nucleus of the newly created I Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54—54th Fighter Wing) which had been placed under command of Major Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel. In consequence, <mask>'s 1 Staffel was renamed 1. Staffel of JG 54. On 1 November, the Gruppe was transferred to Böblingen to patrol the southernmost region of the French-German border. He scored his first victory of the war on 10 January 1940, shooting down a French reconnaissance Potez southwest of Freiburg. He scored a second victory on 7 April west of Strasbourg.However he scored no further in the subsequent Battle of France, when his unit covered the Panzer advance through the Ardennes forests and later over the Dunkirk bridgehead. Pulled out early, back to occupied Netherlands as the campaign wound down, I./JG 54 was then one of the first units to re-occupy the Pas de Calais, in early August 1940 in anticipation of the upcoming Battle of Britain. On a bomber escort mission over Dover on 5 August 1940, <mask> scored his third victory (a Spitfire), but was bounced by a Hurricane squadron, shot down and severely injured. Taking to his parachute over the English Channel, he was rescued and hospitalised, but was out of action for over 6 months. Invasion of the Soviet Union
Promoted to Hauptmann (Captain) in December, he returned to his command of 1./JG 54 in the spring of 1941, as the Luftwaffe prepared for the upcoming invasion of Russia - Operation Barbarossa. JG 54 was tasked with providing the fighter cover for Army Group North and its advance toward Leningrad. On the opening day of the campaign (22 June 1941) he shot down 3 aircraft, thereby doubling his score, and as his unit leap-frogged to new airbases across the Baltic States over the next few weeks his score continued to rise.By the end of September, he had 33 victories and his unit had finally settled down, establishing itself at Siverskaya, (about south of Leningrad). He had been awarded the Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe () on 20 August recognising his leadership and combat success. With the loss of Arnold Lignitz on 30 September (shot down over Leningrad), Hauptmann <mask> was assigned to command III. Gruppe (also based at Siverskaya), as Barbarossa entered its critical phase. Despite surrounding the city, it could not be taken so Hitler decided instead to besiege it. For the next three years, JG 54 would stay, essentially, encamped outside the city interdicting the supply lines and intercepting the frantic attempts of the Russians to lift the siege in offensive after offensive. <mask> himself remained as Gruppenkommandeur of III./JG 54 for nearly one and a half years.He was awarded the German Cross in Gold () on 15 October then the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross () on 20 December 1941, having flown 200 missions. In spring 1942 Geschwaderkommodore (Wing Commander) Hannes Trautloft had the idea for fighter interceptions of Soviet night-harassment raids on moonlit nights. A great success, they claimed 56 victories for no losses. <mask> was the most successful pilot in these missions, scoring 16 night-victories between March and June 1942 and he was also promoted to Major in June. Throughout 1942, JG 54 continued to cover the north: the Leningrad siege and Demyansk fronts. In December though, <mask> took his III./JG 54 to Smolensk in the centre, and then soon after in early 1943 rotated back to the west as part of Adolf Galland's mis-guided plan to swap units between the western and eastern fronts in exchange for I./Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26—26th Fighter Wing). "Defence of the Reich"
Re-equipping instead onto Bf 109G-4s, they spent 6 weeks on the Channel Front.Unused to operating at higher altitudes and in large formations, JG 26 Geschwaderkommodore Josef Priller refused to declare the unit ready for operations. Finally in March, they were transferred back to Oldenburg in northern Germany for further training and to stay on Defence of the Reich duties. Fittingly perhaps, with the unit's first successes on 17 April, unit commander <mask> scored his one and only Viermot (4-engine bomber) kill. However, he was already under orders to return to the Leningrad Front. On 1 May, <mask> was made the new Gruppenkommandeur of I. Gruppe of JG 54, flying the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. He replaced Hauptmann Gerhard Koall who temporarily led the Gruppe after Major Hans Philipp was transferred to take command of Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1—1st Fighter Wing) fighting in Defence of the Reich. Eastern Front
Unseasonably bad weather limited operations for the next few months and then all attention was turned to the main 1943 offensive - Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient.<mask>'s I./JG 54 was transferred in June to Orel to join the fighter cover over the northern attack. On the opening day of the offensive, 5 July, he scored 5 victories to take his tally to 97. The following day he scored a further two kills. Eager to reach the magic 'century', he chased and shot down a Bell P-39 Airacobra fighters from the 30 GvIAP (Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment—Gvardeyskiy Istrebitelny Aviatsionny Polk). However immediately afterward he was himself shot and forced to bail out badly wounded over enemy territory east of Ponyri, midway between Orel and Kursk. He was the 44th Luftwaffe pilot to achieve the century mark. He was declared unfit for further combat duties.In recognition of his long service and command in JG 54, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves () on 2 March 1944. Later in the year, on 8 August, he was appointed Geschwaderkommodore of the fighter-pilot training unit Jagdgeschwader 104 and served in this position until it was disbanded on 28 April 1945, just days before the end of World War II. Released in 1946, <mask> <mask> died on 6 October 1989, at the age of 80, in the town of Grafengehaig near Kulmbach, in Bavaria. Over approximately 500 missions, he was credited with 109 air victories, including 9 in Spain and just 4 in the west. The remaining 96 victories were scored over the Russian Front. Summary of career
Aerial victory claims
According to Spick, <mask> was credited with 9 aerial victories during the Spanish Civil War and further 100 during World War II. Matthews and Foreman, authors of Luftwaffe Aces — Biographies and Victory Claims, researched the German Federal Archives and found documentation for 109 aerial victory claims, plus three further unconfirmed claims.This number includes 9 claims during the Spanish Civil War, 96 on the Eastern Front, and 4 on the Western Front, including one four-engined bomber. Victory claims were logged to a map-reference (PQ = Planquadrat), for example "PQ 00254". The Luftwaffe grid map () covered all of Europe, western Russia and North Africa and was composed of rectangles measuring 15 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude, an area of about . These sectors were then subdivided into 36 smaller units to give a location area 3 × 4 km in size. Awards
Spanish Cross in Gold with Swords and Diamonds (6 June 1939)
Iron Cross (1939)
2nd Class (20 January 1940)
1st Class (30 July 1940)
Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe (20 August 1941)
German Cross in Gold on 15 October 1941 as Hauptmann in the 1./Jagdgeschwader 54
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Knight's Cross on 20 December 1941 as Hauptmann and Gruppenkommandeur of the III./Jagdgeschwader 54
419th Oak Leaves on 2 March 1944 as Major and Gruppenkommandeur of the I./Jagdgeschwader 54
Promotions
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
1909 births
1989 deaths
People from Rawicz
Condor Legion personnel
People from the Province of Posen
Spanish Civil War flying aces
German World War II flying aces
German military personnel of the Spanish Civil War
Recipients of the Gold German Cross
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J/88 was reorganized by Volkmann. Staffel under the command of Oberleutnant.On November 29th, he claimed his third aerial victory. One of the leading fighter pilots of the Condor Legion was credited with nine aerial victories when he returned to Germany. He received the Spanish Cross in Gold with Diamonds for his service in Spain. He was promoted to Oberleutnant on April 1, 1939. The Staffelkapitn is the leader of the newly established 1. Staffel of the 70th Fighter Wing on July 15, 1939. The Staffel was based at Herzogenaurach and was under the command of Major Freiher.German forces invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939 in World War II. The nucleus of the newly created I Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader 54 (JG 54)—54th Fighter Wing) was formed on 13 September after the unit was kept back. The 1 Staffel was renamed 1. The staffel of JG 54. The southernmost region of the French-German border was transferred to Bblingen on 1 November. On January 10, 1940, he scored his first victory of the war when he shot down the French Potez. He won a second time west of Strasbourg.He did not score in the Battle of France when his unit covered the Panzer advance through the forests and over the bridgehead. After being pulled out early, I./JG 54 was one of the first units to re-occupy the French port in anticipation of the Battle of Britain. On a bomber escort mission over Dover in August 1940, <mask> scored his third victory, but was bounced by a Hurricane squadron, shot down and severely injured. He was out of action for over six months after taking his parachute over the English Channel. When the Soviet Union was invaded in December of 1941, he returned to his command of 1./JG 54. The fighter cover for Army Group North was provided by JG 54. On the opening day of the campaign, he shot down 3 aircraft, doubling his score, and as his unit leaped to new air bases across the Baltic States, his score continued to rise.He had 33 victories by the end of September and his unit had finally settled down. The Honor Goblet of the Luftwaffe was awarded to him on August 20. On 30 September, Arnold Lignitz was shot down over Leningrad, and Hauptmann <mask> was assigned to command III. As Barbarossa entered its critical phase, Gruppe was also based at Siverskaya. Despite surrounding the city, Hitler decided to besiege it. For the next three years, JG 54 would stay outside the city, interdicting the supply lines and intercepting the frantic attempts of the Russians to lift the siege. For over a year and a half, he remained as the Gruppenkommandeur.He was awarded the German Cross in Gold on October 15, 1941, and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on December 20, 1941. The idea for fighter intercepts of Soviet night-harassment raids on moonlit nights was conceived in the spring of 1942. They claimed 56 victories for no losses. He was promoted to Major in June after scoring 16 night-victories between March and June 1942. The Leningrad siege and Demyansk fronts were covered by JG 54. In early 1943, as part of the plan to swap units between the western and eastern fronts, the III./JG 54 was taken from the centre to the west. They spent 6 weeks on the Channel Front re-equipping to Bf109G-4s.The unit was not declared ready for operations because they were not used to operating at higher altitudes and in large formations. They were transferred back to Oldenburg in northern Germany in March for further training and to stay on Defence of the Reich duties. On 17 April, with the unit's first successes, unit commander <mask> scored his only kill. He was told to return to the front. The new Gruppenkommandeur was made on 1 May, and he flew the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. After Major Hans Philipp was transferred to take command of the 1st Fighter Wing of the Defence of the Reich, he became the new leader of the Gruppe. After bad weather limited operations for the next few months, attention was turned to the main 1943 offensive - Operation Citadel against the Kursk salient.In June, I./JG 54 was transferred to Orel to join the fighter cover over the northern attack. He scored 5 victories on the opening day of the offensive to take his total to 97. He scored two more kills the next day. He chased and shot down the Bell P-39 Airacobra fighters from the 30 GvIAP. He was badly wounded after being shot and forced to bail out over enemy territory east of Ponyri. He was the 44th pilot to reach the century mark. He was declared unable to perform further combat duties.The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves was awarded to him in recognition of his long service and command in JG 54. 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323169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois%20Brunner | Alois Brunner | Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – December 2001 (likely)) was an Austrian (SS) officer who played a significant role in the implementation of the Final Solution, the Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews during the Second World War. He was known as Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man.
Brunner was responsible for sending over 100,000 European Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia to ghettos and concentration camps in eastern Europe. At the start of the war, he oversaw the deportation of 47,000 Austrian Jews to the death camps. In Greece, 43,000 Jews were deported in two months while he was stationed in Thessaloniki. He then became commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, during which nearly 24,000 men, women and children were sent to the gas chambers. His last assignment involved the destruction of the Jewish community of Slovakia.
After some narrow escapes from the Allies in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Brunner managed to elude capture and fled West Germany in 1954, first for Egypt, then Syria, where he remained until his death. He was the objective of many manhunts and investigations over the years by different groups, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Klarsfelds and others. He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity, later commuted to life imprisonment in absentia in 2001. He lost an eye and then the fingers of his left hand as a result of letter bombs sent to him in 1961 and 1980, reportedly by Israeli intelligence. The Syrian government under Hafez al-Assad came close to extraditing him to East Germany before this plan was halted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Brunner absconded all the attempts to detain him and was unrepentant about his activities to the end. During his long residence in Syria, Brunner was reportedly granted asylum, a generous salary and protection by the ruling Ba'ath Party in exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II.
Starting in the 1990s and continuing for two decades, there was periodic media speculation about Brunner's exact whereabouts and his possible demise. In November 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported that Brunner had died in Syria in 2010, and that he was buried somewhere in Damascus. Brunner's exact date and place of death remained unknown. However, recent information based on new evidence uncovered during a 2017 investigation point to December 2001 as the time of his death in Damascus, Syria.
Early life
Alois Brunner was born on 8 April 1912 in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary (now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), the son of Joseph Brunner and Ann Kruise. He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen and the Sturmabteilung (SA) a year later. In 1933, Brunner moved to Germany where he joined the Nazi paramilitary group Austrian Legion. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he volunteered with the SS and was assigned to the staff of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna becoming its director in 1939. Following the German occupation of the Czech lands on 15 March 1939 he was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to accelerate the emigration of Czech Jews. Brunner became known as Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man.
Second World War
After the war started, Brunner worked closely with Eichmann on the Nisko Plan, a failed attempt to set up a Jewish reservation in Poland, Brunner managed by October 1939 to organise the deportation of more than 1,500 Viennese Jews to Nisko, Poland. Over time Brunner supervised the deportation of 56,000 Austrian Jews. In October 1942, he was transferred to Berlin to implement his method there.
Brunner held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) when he organized deportations to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France and Slovakia. He was commander of a train of Jews deported from Vienna to Riga in February 1942. En route, Brunner shot and killed Jewish financier Siegmund Bosel, who, although ill, had been hauled out of a Vienna hospital and placed on the train. According to historian Gertrude Schneider, who as a young girl was deported to Riga on the same train, but survived the Holocaust:
Before being named commander of Drancy internment camp near Paris in June 1943, Brunner deported 43,000 Jews from Vienna and 46,000 from Salonika. He was personally sent by Eichmann in 1944 to Slovakia to oversee the deportation of Jews. In the last days of the Third Reich, he managed to deport another 13,500 from Slovakia to Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Stutthof of whom a few survived; the remainder, including all the children, were sent to Auschwitz, where none are known to have survived. According to some accounts, Brunner was responsible for the deportation of 129,000 people to death camps.
While serving as the commandant at Drancy, Brunner was remembered for his exceptional brutality. He personally conducted interrogations of new prisoners, and survivors of the camp have claimed that his office was covered in bloodstains and bullet holes. He instituted torture even for slight offences. As he was personally responsible to Eichmann, he circumvented the typical chain of command that included Helmut Knochen, the Chief of the SS in Paris, and Heinz Rothke, the Jewish Affairs expert of the German police. He introduced a rigid system of categorization to control the inmates using information about their race and ethnicity derived from the interrogations. He deliberately misled prisoners about the living standards of their destinations at the extermination camps in the General Government, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Brunner also led round-ups of Jews in the Italian Military Administration of France when the Germans assumed control in 1943 following the Armistice of Cassibile, ended all legal exemptions preventing Jews from being deported by Vichy France, and extended the deportations to Jews of French nationality. He continued deportations and arrests even as the Allies and the Free French Forces advanced towards Paris.
While the Wehrmacht was already retreating from France, Brunner had 1,327 Jewish children arrested and deported in Paris between July 20 and 24, 1944. Brunner left Paris on August 17 in 1944, a week before the liberation of Paris, on the last train from the Drancy transit camp with fifty-one deported people, including Georges André Kohn (Bullenhuser Damm), and other German military personnel. His intention was to use the deportees as potential hostages.
Brunner had 23,500 Jews of all ages deported from France to the death camps. From 30 September 1944 to 31 March 1945 he smashed the Jewish underground movement in Slovakia and headed the Sereď concentration camp, from where he had approximately 11,500 people deported to Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Terezín for extermination.
Postwar flight and escape to Syria
In a 1985 interview with the West German magazine Bunte, Brunner described how he escaped capture by the Allies immediately after World War II. The identity of Brunner was apparently mixed up with that of another SS member with the same surname, Anton Brunner, who was executed for war crimes. Alois, like Josef Mengele, did not have the SS blood type tattoo, which prevented his identity from detection in an Allied prison camp. Anton Brunner, who had worked in Vienna deporting Jews, was confused after the war with Alois due to the shared surname, including by historians such as Gerald Reitlinger.
Claiming he had "received official documents under a false name from American authorities", Brunner claimed he had found work as a driver for the United States Army in the period after the war.
It has been alleged that Brunner found a working relationship after World War II with the Gehlen Organization.
He fled West Germany only in 1954, on a fake Red Cross passport, first to Rome, then Egypt, where he worked as a weapons dealer, and then to Syria, where he took the pseudonym of Dr. Georg Fischer. In Syria, he was hired as a government adviser. The exact nature of his work is unknown. Syria had long refused entry to French investigators as well as to Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, who spent nearly 15 years bringing the case to court in France. Simon Wiesenthal tried unsuccessfully to trace Brunner's whereabouts. However, communist East Germany, led by Erich Honecker, negotiated with Syria in the late 1980s to have Brunner extradited and arrested in Berlin. The government of Syria under Hafez al-Assad was close to extraditing Brunner to East Germany, but the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 severed contacts between the two regimes and halted the extradition plan.
In the Bunte interview, Brunner was quoted as saying he regrets nothing and that all of the Jews deserved their fate. In a 1987 telephone interview with the Chicago Sun Times, he was reported to have said: "All of [the Jews] deserved to die because they were the Devil's agents and human garbage. I have no regrets and would do it again." This quote could be called into question because Chuck Ashman, the reporter that published that quote, was known for lying about his stories. In an interview with Austrian journalist Gerd Honsik, Brunner denied claims of gas chambers.
Until the early 1990s, he lived in an apartment building on 7 Rue Haddad in Damascus, meeting with foreigners and occasionally being photographed. In the 1990s, the French Embassy received reports that Brunner was meeting regularly and having tea with former East German nationals. According to The Guardian, he was last seen alive by reliable witnesses in 1992.
In December 1999, unconfirmed reports surfaced that Brunner had died in 1996 and been buried in a Damascus cemetery. However, he was reportedly sighted at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus by German journalists that same year, where he was said to be living under police protection. The last reported sighting of him was at the Meridian Hotel in late 2001 by German journalists.
In 2011, Der Spiegel reported that the German intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst had destroyed its file on Brunner in the 1990s, and that remarks in remaining files contain conflicting statements as to whether Brunner had worked for the BND at some point.
Assassination attempts
In 1961 and 1980, letter bombs were sent to Brunner while he was a resident in Syria. As a result of the letter bomb he received in 1961, he lost an eye, and in 1980, he lost the fingers on his left hand when the parcel blew up in his hands. A 2018 article in Newsweek by journalist Ronen Bergman disclosed that the 1961 bomb was sent by Military Intelligence Unit 188, a branch of the Israel Defense Forces and was the first target of a new method of letter bomb that was developed for deployment against ex-Nazi scientists working for Gamal Abdel Nasser in developing missiles targeting Israel. The article, excerpted from Bergman's book Rise and Kill First, says that Brunner was located by Israeli spy Eli Cohen. According to information released by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, it was behind the 1980 bomb.
Convictions in absentia
Germany and other countries unsuccessfully requested his extradition. He was twice sentenced to death in absentia in the 1950s; one of those convictions was in France in 1954. In August 1987, an Interpol "red notice" was issued for him. In 1995, German state prosecutors in Cologne and Frankfurt posted a $330,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
On 2 March 2001, he was found guilty in absentia by a French court for crimes against humanity, including the arrest and deportation of 345 orphans from the Paris region (which had not been judged in the earlier trials) and was sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Serge Klarsfeld, the trial was largely symbolic—an effort to honour the memories of victims. Klarsfeld's own father, arrested in 1943, was reportedly one of Brunner's victims.
Later attempts to locate
In 2004, the television series Unsolved History, in an episode titled "Hunting Nazis", used facial recognition software to compare Alois Brunner's official SS photograph with a recent photo of "Georg Fischer" from Damascus, and came up with a match of 8.1 points out of 10, which they claimed was, despite the elapse of over 50 years in aging, equivalent to a match with 95% certainty.
In 2005, Brazilian police were reportedly investigating whether a suspect living in the country under an assumed name was actually Alois Brunner. Deputy Commander Asher Ben-Artzi, the head of Israel's Interpol and Foreign Liaison Section, passed on a Brazilian request for Brunner's fingerprints to Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, but Zuroff could not find any.
In July 2007, the Austrian Justice Ministry declared that they would pay €50,000 for information leading to his arrest and extradition to Austria.
In March 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center acknowledged the "slim" possibility of Brunner still being alive. In 2011, some media reports included him on a list of "World's Most Wanted" criminals.
In 2013, the Simon Wiesenthal Center described Brunner as "the most important unpunished Nazi war criminal who may still be alive". Brunner was last seen in 2001 in Syria, whose government had long rebuffed international efforts to locate or apprehend him, but was presumed dead .
In April 2014, Brunner was removed from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals.
Death
On 30 November 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported receiving credible information that Brunner had died in Syria in 2010. He would have been 97 or 98 years old. Partly due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date and place of death were unknown.
According to the director of the Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, the information came from a "reliable" former German secret service agent who had served in the Middle East. The information was also reported in the press. The new evidence revealed that Brunner was buried in an unknown location in Damascus around 2010, unrepentant of his crimes to the end. Zuroff said that, owing to the civil war in Syria, the exact location of Brunner's grave was unknowable.
In 2017, the French quarterly review published an investigation about Brunner’s last years in Syria by journalists Hédi Aouidj and Mathieu Palain. Three former security guards in charge of the protection of Brunner recounted how the Assad family used him to train intelligence services staff, then kept him under house arrest in a Damascus basement throughout the 1990s until his death in December 2001. One of the former guards said that Brunner, who went by the name of Abu Hussein, "suffered and cried a lot in his final years", "couldn’t even wash" and ate only "an egg or a potato" a day. According to the report at the time of his death, Brunner had converted to Islam. Brunner was buried in secret, at night in the Al-Affif cemetery in Damascus. Serge Klarsfeld called the report “highly credible".
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Antisemitism in Syria
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The Holocaust in Thessaloniki | [
"Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – December 2001 (likely)) was an Austrian (SS) officer who played a significant role in the implementation of the Final Solution, the Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews during the Second World War.",
"He was known as Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man.",
"Brunner was responsible for sending over 100,000 European Jews from Austria, Greece, France and Slovakia to ghettos and concentration camps in eastern Europe.",
"At the start of the war, he oversaw the deportation of 47,000 Austrian Jews to the death camps.",
"In Greece, 43,000 Jews were deported in two months while he was stationed in Thessaloniki.",
"He then became commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, during which nearly 24,000 men, women and children were sent to the gas chambers.",
"His last assignment involved the destruction of the Jewish community of Slovakia.",
"After some narrow escapes from the Allies in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Brunner managed to elude capture and fled West Germany in 1954, first for Egypt, then Syria, where he remained until his death.",
"He was the objective of many manhunts and investigations over the years by different groups, including the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Klarsfelds and others.",
"He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity, later commuted to life imprisonment in absentia in 2001.",
"He lost an eye and then the fingers of his left hand as a result of letter bombs sent to him in 1961 and 1980, reportedly by Israeli intelligence.",
"The Syrian government under Hafez al-Assad came close to extraditing him to East Germany before this plan was halted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989.",
"Brunner absconded all the attempts to detain him and was unrepentant about his activities to the end.",
"During his long residence in Syria, Brunner was reportedly granted asylum, a generous salary and protection by the ruling Ba'ath Party in exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II.",
"Starting in the 1990s and continuing for two decades, there was periodic media speculation about Brunner's exact whereabouts and his possible demise.",
"In November 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported that Brunner had died in Syria in 2010, and that he was buried somewhere in Damascus.",
"Brunner's exact date and place of death remained unknown.",
"However, recent information based on new evidence uncovered during a 2017 investigation point to December 2001 as the time of his death in Damascus, Syria.",
"Early life\n\nAlois Brunner was born on 8 April 1912 in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary (now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), the son of Joseph Brunner and Ann Kruise.",
"He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen and the Sturmabteilung (SA) a year later.",
"In 1933, Brunner moved to Germany where he joined the Nazi paramilitary group Austrian Legion.",
"After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he volunteered with the SS and was assigned to the staff of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna becoming its director in 1939.",
"Following the German occupation of the Czech lands on 15 March 1939 he was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to accelerate the emigration of Czech Jews.",
"Brunner became known as Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man.",
"Second World War\nAfter the war started, Brunner worked closely with Eichmann on the Nisko Plan, a failed attempt to set up a Jewish reservation in Poland, Brunner managed by October 1939 to organise the deportation of more than 1,500 Viennese Jews to Nisko, Poland.",
"Over time Brunner supervised the deportation of 56,000 Austrian Jews.",
"In October 1942, he was transferred to Berlin to implement his method there.",
"Brunner held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) when he organized deportations to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France and Slovakia.",
"He was commander of a train of Jews deported from Vienna to Riga in February 1942.",
"En route, Brunner shot and killed Jewish financier Siegmund Bosel, who, although ill, had been hauled out of a Vienna hospital and placed on the train.",
"According to historian Gertrude Schneider, who as a young girl was deported to Riga on the same train, but survived the Holocaust:\n\nBefore being named commander of Drancy internment camp near Paris in June 1943, Brunner deported 43,000 Jews from Vienna and 46,000 from Salonika.",
"He was personally sent by Eichmann in 1944 to Slovakia to oversee the deportation of Jews.",
"In the last days of the Third Reich, he managed to deport another 13,500 from Slovakia to Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Stutthof of whom a few survived; the remainder, including all the children, were sent to Auschwitz, where none are known to have survived.",
"According to some accounts, Brunner was responsible for the deportation of 129,000 people to death camps.",
"While serving as the commandant at Drancy, Brunner was remembered for his exceptional brutality.",
"He personally conducted interrogations of new prisoners, and survivors of the camp have claimed that his office was covered in bloodstains and bullet holes.",
"He instituted torture even for slight offences.",
"As he was personally responsible to Eichmann, he circumvented the typical chain of command that included Helmut Knochen, the Chief of the SS in Paris, and Heinz Rothke, the Jewish Affairs expert of the German police.",
"He introduced a rigid system of categorization to control the inmates using information about their race and ethnicity derived from the interrogations.",
"He deliberately misled prisoners about the living standards of their destinations at the extermination camps in the General Government, including Auschwitz-Birkenau.",
"Brunner also led round-ups of Jews in the Italian Military Administration of France when the Germans assumed control in 1943 following the Armistice of Cassibile, ended all legal exemptions preventing Jews from being deported by Vichy France, and extended the deportations to Jews of French nationality.",
"He continued deportations and arrests even as the Allies and the Free French Forces advanced towards Paris.",
"While the Wehrmacht was already retreating from France, Brunner had 1,327 Jewish children arrested and deported in Paris between July 20 and 24, 1944.",
"Brunner left Paris on August 17 in 1944, a week before the liberation of Paris, on the last train from the Drancy transit camp with fifty-one deported people, including Georges André Kohn (Bullenhuser Damm), and other German military personnel.",
"His intention was to use the deportees as potential hostages.",
"Brunner had 23,500 Jews of all ages deported from France to the death camps.",
"From 30 September 1944 to 31 March 1945 he smashed the Jewish underground movement in Slovakia and headed the Sereď concentration camp, from where he had approximately 11,500 people deported to Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Terezín for extermination.",
"Postwar flight and escape to Syria\nIn a 1985 interview with the West German magazine Bunte, Brunner described how he escaped capture by the Allies immediately after World War II.",
"The identity of Brunner was apparently mixed up with that of another SS member with the same surname, Anton Brunner, who was executed for war crimes.",
"Alois, like Josef Mengele, did not have the SS blood type tattoo, which prevented his identity from detection in an Allied prison camp.",
"Anton Brunner, who had worked in Vienna deporting Jews, was confused after the war with Alois due to the shared surname, including by historians such as Gerald Reitlinger.",
"Claiming he had \"received official documents under a false name from American authorities\", Brunner claimed he had found work as a driver for the United States Army in the period after the war.",
"It has been alleged that Brunner found a working relationship after World War II with the Gehlen Organization.",
"He fled West Germany only in 1954, on a fake Red Cross passport, first to Rome, then Egypt, where he worked as a weapons dealer, and then to Syria, where he took the pseudonym of Dr. Georg Fischer.",
"In Syria, he was hired as a government adviser.",
"The exact nature of his work is unknown.",
"Syria had long refused entry to French investigators as well as to Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, who spent nearly 15 years bringing the case to court in France.",
"Simon Wiesenthal tried unsuccessfully to trace Brunner's whereabouts.",
"However, communist East Germany, led by Erich Honecker, negotiated with Syria in the late 1980s to have Brunner extradited and arrested in Berlin.",
"The government of Syria under Hafez al-Assad was close to extraditing Brunner to East Germany, but the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 severed contacts between the two regimes and halted the extradition plan.",
"In the Bunte interview, Brunner was quoted as saying he regrets nothing and that all of the Jews deserved their fate.",
"In a 1987 telephone interview with the Chicago Sun Times, he was reported to have said: \"All of [the Jews] deserved to die because they were the Devil's agents and human garbage.",
"I have no regrets and would do it again.\"",
"This quote could be called into question because Chuck Ashman, the reporter that published that quote, was known for lying about his stories.",
"In an interview with Austrian journalist Gerd Honsik, Brunner denied claims of gas chambers.",
"Until the early 1990s, he lived in an apartment building on 7 Rue Haddad in Damascus, meeting with foreigners and occasionally being photographed.",
"In the 1990s, the French Embassy received reports that Brunner was meeting regularly and having tea with former East German nationals.",
"According to The Guardian, he was last seen alive by reliable witnesses in 1992.",
"In December 1999, unconfirmed reports surfaced that Brunner had died in 1996 and been buried in a Damascus cemetery.",
"However, he was reportedly sighted at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus by German journalists that same year, where he was said to be living under police protection.",
"The last reported sighting of him was at the Meridian Hotel in late 2001 by German journalists.",
"In 2011, Der Spiegel reported that the German intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst had destroyed its file on Brunner in the 1990s, and that remarks in remaining files contain conflicting statements as to whether Brunner had worked for the BND at some point.",
"Assassination attempts\nIn 1961 and 1980, letter bombs were sent to Brunner while he was a resident in Syria.",
"As a result of the letter bomb he received in 1961, he lost an eye, and in 1980, he lost the fingers on his left hand when the parcel blew up in his hands.",
"A 2018 article in Newsweek by journalist Ronen Bergman disclosed that the 1961 bomb was sent by Military Intelligence Unit 188, a branch of the Israel Defense Forces and was the first target of a new method of letter bomb that was developed for deployment against ex-Nazi scientists working for Gamal Abdel Nasser in developing missiles targeting Israel.",
"The article, excerpted from Bergman's book Rise and Kill First, says that Brunner was located by Israeli spy Eli Cohen.",
"According to information released by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, it was behind the 1980 bomb.",
"Convictions in absentia\nGermany and other countries unsuccessfully requested his extradition.",
"He was twice sentenced to death in absentia in the 1950s; one of those convictions was in France in 1954.",
"In August 1987, an Interpol \"red notice\" was issued for him.",
"In 1995, German state prosecutors in Cologne and Frankfurt posted a $330,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.",
"On 2 March 2001, he was found guilty in absentia by a French court for crimes against humanity, including the arrest and deportation of 345 orphans from the Paris region (which had not been judged in the earlier trials) and was sentenced to life imprisonment.",
"According to Serge Klarsfeld, the trial was largely symbolic—an effort to honour the memories of victims.",
"Klarsfeld's own father, arrested in 1943, was reportedly one of Brunner's victims.",
"Later attempts to locate\nIn 2004, the television series Unsolved History, in an episode titled \"Hunting Nazis\", used facial recognition software to compare Alois Brunner's official SS photograph with a recent photo of \"Georg Fischer\" from Damascus, and came up with a match of 8.1 points out of 10, which they claimed was, despite the elapse of over 50 years in aging, equivalent to a match with 95% certainty.",
"In 2005, Brazilian police were reportedly investigating whether a suspect living in the country under an assumed name was actually Alois Brunner.",
"Deputy Commander Asher Ben-Artzi, the head of Israel's Interpol and Foreign Liaison Section, passed on a Brazilian request for Brunner's fingerprints to Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, but Zuroff could not find any.",
"In July 2007, the Austrian Justice Ministry declared that they would pay €50,000 for information leading to his arrest and extradition to Austria.",
"In March 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center acknowledged the \"slim\" possibility of Brunner still being alive.",
"In 2011, some media reports included him on a list of \"World's Most Wanted\" criminals.",
"In 2013, the Simon Wiesenthal Center described Brunner as \"the most important unpunished Nazi war criminal who may still be alive\".",
"Brunner was last seen in 2001 in Syria, whose government had long rebuffed international efforts to locate or apprehend him, but was presumed dead .",
"In April 2014, Brunner was removed from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals.",
"Death\nOn 30 November 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported receiving credible information that Brunner had died in Syria in 2010.",
"He would have been 97 or 98 years old.",
"Partly due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date and place of death were unknown.",
"According to the director of the Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, the information came from a \"reliable\" former German secret service agent who had served in the Middle East.",
"The information was also reported in the press.",
"The new evidence revealed that Brunner was buried in an unknown location in Damascus around 2010, unrepentant of his crimes to the end.",
"Zuroff said that, owing to the civil war in Syria, the exact location of Brunner's grave was unknowable.",
"In 2017, the French quarterly review published an investigation about Brunner’s last years in Syria by journalists Hédi Aouidj and Mathieu Palain.",
"Three former security guards in charge of the protection of Brunner recounted how the Assad family used him to train intelligence services staff, then kept him under house arrest in a Damascus basement throughout the 1990s until his death in December 2001.",
"One of the former guards said that Brunner, who went by the name of Abu Hussein, \"suffered and cried a lot in his final years\", \"couldn’t even wash\" and ate only \"an egg or a potato\" a day.",
"According to the report at the time of his death, Brunner had converted to Islam.",
"Brunner was buried in secret, at night in the Al-Affif cemetery in Damascus.",
"Serge Klarsfeld called the report “highly credible\".",
"References\nNotes\n\nSources\n \n \n \n \n \n\n1912 births\n2001 deaths\nAntisemitism in Austria\nAntisemitism in Syria\nAustrian expatriates in Syria\nAustrian Nazis\nAustrian people convicted of crimes against humanity\nAustrian people of Hungarian descent\nDrancy internment camp\nFugitives wanted by France\nFugitives wanted by Germany\nFugitives wanted on crimes against humanity charges\nFugitives wanted on war crimes charges\nGestapo personnel\nHolocaust perpetrators in Austria\nHolocaust perpetrators in France\nHolocaust perpetrators in Greece\nHolocaust perpetrators in Slovakia\nHungarian-German people\nNazi concentration camp commandants\nNazi fugitives\nNazi Party officials\nNazis sentenced to death in absentia\nPeople from Jennersdorf District\nReich Security Main Office personnel\nSS-Hauptsturmführer\nThe Holocaust in Thessaloniki"
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"The Final Solution, the Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews during the Second World War, was implemented by an Austrian officer named Alois Brunner.",
"He was the right-hand man.",
"Over 100,000 European Jews were sent to ghettos and concentration camps in eastern Europe by Brunner.",
"Over 47,000 Austrian Jews were deported to the death camps at the start of the war.",
"In Greece, 43,000 Jews were deported in two months.",
"He was commander of the Drancy internment camp from June 1943 to August 1944, during which nearly 24,000 men, women and children were sent to the gas chambers.",
"The destruction of the Jewish community of Slovakia was his last assignment.",
"After escaping from the Allies in the aftermath of World War II, Brunner fled to Egypt, then Syria, and finally to his death.",
"He was the focus of many investigations and searches over the years by various groups.",
"He was sentenced to death in France for crimes against humanity in 1954.",
"The eye and fingers of his left hand were lost as a result of the letter bombs that were sent to him.",
"The plan to extradite Hafez al-Assad to East Germany was halted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.",
"Brunner was unrepentant about his activities after he fled all the attempts to detain him.",
"In exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II, Brunner was granted asylum, a generous salary and protection by the Ba'ath Party.",
"There was constant media speculation about Brunner's location and his possible demise over the course of two decades.",
"Brunner was reported to have died in Syria in 2010 and was buried in Damascus.",
"Brunner's exact place of death was not known.",
"The time of his death in Damascus, Syria, is now believed to have been December 2001 based on new evidence.",
"On April 8, 1912, Alois Brunner was born in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary, the son of Joseph Brunner and Ann Kruise.",
"He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen.",
"Brunner joined the Austrian Legion in Germany in 1933.",
"He became the director of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna in 1939 after volunteering with the Nazis.",
"He was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to speed up the emigration of Czech Jews after the German occupation of the Czech lands.",
"Brunner was the right-hand man of Hitler.",
"The Nisko Plan, a failed attempt to set up a Jewish reservation in Poland, was worked on by Brunner and Eichmann during the Second World War.",
"Brunner oversaw the deportation of Austrian Jews.",
"He was transferred to Berlin in October 1942 to implement his method.",
"Brunner was the leader of the deportations to Nazi concentration camps.",
"He was in charge of a train of Jews deported from Vienna.",
"Brunner shot and killed Bosel, who was placed on the train after being hauled out of a Vienna hospital.",
"Brunner deported 43,000 Jews from Vienna and Salonika before he was named commander of the Drancy internment camp near Paris in June 1943.",
"He was sent by Eichmann to oversee the deportation of Jews.",
"In the last days of the Third Reich, he deported another 13,500 from Slovakia to Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Stutthof, and the rest, including all the children, were sent to Auschwitz.",
"Brunner is said to have deported 129,000 people to death camps.",
"Brunner was remembered for his brutality while he was the commandant at Drancy.",
"He personally conducted interrogations of new prisoners, and survivors of the camp claim that his office was covered in bullet holes.",
"He instituted torture for minor offenses.",
"He circumvented the typical chain of command that included the Chief of the SS in Paris, as well as the Jewish Affairs expert of the German police.",
"A rigid system of categorization was introduced to control the inmates using information from the interrogations.",
"He lied about the living standards of prisoners at the General Government's extermination camps.",
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"As the Allies and the Free French Forces advanced towards Paris, he continued deportations and arrests.",
"Between July 20 and 24, 1944, Brunner deported 1,327 Jewish children from Paris.",
"Brunner left Paris on August 17 in 1944, a week before the liberation of Paris, on the last train from the Drancy transit camp with fifty-one deported people.",
"He intended to use the deportees as hostages.",
"Brunner deported 23,500 Jews from France to the death camps.",
"From 30 September 1944 to 31 March 1945 he smashed the Jewish underground movement in Slovakia and headed the Sere concentration camp, which deported approximately 11,500 people to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Terezn.",
"In a 1985 interview with the West German magazine Bunte, Brunner described how he escaped capture by the Allies after World War II.",
"The identity of Brunner was mixed up with that of a man who was executed for war crimes.",
"Alois didn't have the blood type tattoo that prevented him from being identified in an Allied prison camp.",
"After the war with Alois, Brunner was confused because of the shared surname, including by historians such as Gerald Reitlinger.",
"Brunner claimed to have found work as a driver for the United States Army in the period after the war, after receiving official documents under a false name from American authorities.",
"Brunner is said to have found a working relationship with the Gehlen Organization after World War II.",
"He left West Germany on a fake Red Cross passport and went to Rome, Egypt, and then to Syria, where he worked as a weapons dealer.",
"He was hired as a government adviser in Syria.",
"The nature of his work is not known.",
"Serge Klarsfeld, a Nazi hunter who spent nearly 15 years bringing the case to court in France, had long been refused entry to Syria.",
"Simon tried to find Brunner.",
"Brunner was arrested in Berlin after being extradited from Syria in the late 1980s.",
"The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 halted the plan to extradite Brunner to East Germany.",
"In an interview with Bunte, Brunner was quoted as saying that all of the Jews deserved their fate.",
"\"All of the Jews deserved to die because they were the Devil's agents and human garbage,\" he was reported to have said in a 1987 telephone interview with the Chicago Sun Times.",
"I would do it again.",
"The reporter that published the quote, Chuck Ashman, was known for lying about his stories.",
"Brunner denied claims of gas chambers in an interview.",
"He lived in an apartment building on 7 Rue Haddad in Damascus, meeting with foreigners and occasionally being photographed, until the early 1990s.",
"The French Embassy received reports that Brunner was having tea with former East German nationals.",
"He was last seen by reliable witnesses in 1992.",
"According to unconfirmed reports, Brunner was buried in a Damascus cemetery in 1996.",
"He was said to be living under police protection in Damascus when he was spotted by German journalists.",
"The last time he was seen was by German journalists at the Meridian Hotel.",
"The file on Brunner was destroyed by the German intelligence service in the 1990s, and there were conflicting statements as to whether Brunner worked for the BND.",
"Brunner was a resident in Syria when letter bombs were sent to him.",
"He lost an eye and fingers on his left hand when a parcel exploded in his hands after he received a letter bomb in 1961.",
"The first target of a new method of letter bomb that was developed for deployment against ex-Nazi scientists was sent by the Military Intelligence Unit 188, a branch of the Israel Defense Force.",
"According to an excerpt from Bergman's book Rise and Kill First, Brunner was located by an Israeli spy.",
"According to information released by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, it was behind the 1980 bomb.",
"Germany and other countries tried to extradite him.",
"He was sentenced to death in France in 1954.",
"An international \"red notice\" was issued for him.",
"In 1995 there was a $330,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.",
"On 2 March 2001, he was found guilty in absentia by a French court for crimes against humanity, including the arrest and deportation of 345 orphans from the Paris region, and was sentenced to life imprisonment.",
"Serge Klarsfeld said that the trial was symbolic and an effort to remember the victims.",
"One of Brunner's victims was Klarsfeld's father.",
"In 2004, the television series Unsolved History used facial recognition software to compare Alois Brunner's official photograph with a photo of Georg Fischer from Damascus, and came up with a match of 8.1 points.",
"Brazilian police investigated in 2005 if a suspect living under an assumed name was actually Alois Brunner.",
"The head of Israel's Interpol and Foreign Liaison Section, Asher Ben- Artzi, passed on a Brazilian request for Brunner's fingerprints to Efraim Zuroff, but he couldn't find any.",
"The Austrian Justice Ministry said they would pay 50,000 for information leading to his arrest.",
"The possibility of Brunner still being alive was acknowledged in March 2009.",
"He was included on a list of \"World's Most Wanted\" criminals.",
"Brunner was described as the \"most important unpunished Nazi war criminal who may still be alive\".",
"Brunner was last seen in Syria in 2001 and was presumed dead, despite international efforts to locate him.",
"Brunner was removed from the list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals.",
"According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Brunner died in Syria in 2010.",
"He would have been 98 years old.",
"Due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date and place of death were not known.",
"Efraim Zuroff said that the information came from a former German secret service agent who had served in the Middle East.",
"The information was reported in the media.",
"According to the new evidence, Brunner was buried in an unknown location in Damascus around 2010, unrepentant of his crimes to the end.",
"The exact location of Brunner's grave was unknown because of the civil war in Syria.",
"The investigation about Brunner's last years in Syria was published in the French quarterly review.",
"The Assad family kept Brunner under house arrest in a Damascus basement until his death in 2001, according to three former security guards who were in charge of his protection.",
"Brunner, who was known as Abu Hussein, \"suffered and cried a lot in his final years\", and ate only an egg or a potato a day, according to one of the former guards.",
"According to the report at the time of his death, Brunner had converted to Islam.",
"Brunner was buried at night in the Al-Affif cemetery.",
"Serge said the report was highly credible.",
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<mask> <mask> was born on 8 April 1912 in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary (now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), the son of <mask> and Ann Kruise. He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen and the Sturmabteilung (SA) a year later. In 1933, <mask> moved to Germany where he joined the Nazi paramilitary group Austrian Legion.After the annexation of Austria in 1938 he volunteered with the SS and was assigned to the staff of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna becoming its director in 1939. Following the German occupation of the Czech lands on 15 March 1939 he was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to accelerate the emigration of Czech Jews. <mask> became known as Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man. Second World War
After the war started, <mask> worked closely with Eichmann on the Nisko Plan, a failed attempt to set up a Jewish reservation in Poland, <mask> managed by October 1939 to organise the deportation of more than 1,500 Viennese Jews to Nisko, Poland. Over time <mask> supervised the deportation of 56,000 Austrian Jews. In October 1942, he was transferred to Berlin to implement his method there. <mask> held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) when he organized deportations to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France and Slovakia.He was commander of a train of Jews deported from Vienna to Riga in February 1942. En route, <mask> shot and killed Jewish financier Siegmund Bosel, who, although ill, had been hauled out of a Vienna hospital and placed on the train. According to historian Gertrude Schneider, who as a young girl was deported to Riga on the same train, but survived the Holocaust:
Before being named commander of Drancy internment camp near Paris in June 1943, <mask> deported 43,000 Jews from Vienna and 46,000 from Salonika. He was personally sent by Eichmann in 1944 to Slovakia to oversee the deportation of Jews. In the last days of the Third Reich, he managed to deport another 13,500 from Slovakia to Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Stutthof of whom a few survived; the remainder, including all the children, were sent to Auschwitz, where none are known to have survived. According to some accounts, <mask> was responsible for the deportation of 129,000 people to death camps. While serving as the commandant at Drancy, <mask> was remembered for his exceptional brutality.He personally conducted interrogations of new prisoners, and survivors of the camp have claimed that his office was covered in bloodstains and bullet holes. He instituted torture even for slight offences. As he was personally responsible to Eichmann, he circumvented the typical chain of command that included Helmut Knochen, the Chief of the SS in Paris, and Heinz Rothke, the Jewish Affairs expert of the German police. He introduced a rigid system of categorization to control the inmates using information about their race and ethnicity derived from the interrogations. He deliberately misled prisoners about the living standards of their destinations at the extermination camps in the General Government, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. <mask> also led round-ups of Jews in the Italian Military Administration of France when the Germans assumed control in 1943 following the Armistice of Cassibile, ended all legal exemptions preventing Jews from being deported by Vichy France, and extended the deportations to Jews of French nationality. He continued deportations and arrests even as the Allies and the Free French Forces advanced towards Paris.While the Wehrmacht was already retreating from France, <mask> had 1,327 Jewish children arrested and deported in Paris between July 20 and 24, 1944. <mask> left Paris on August 17 in 1944, a week before the liberation of Paris, on the last train from the Drancy transit camp with fifty-one deported people, including Georges André Kohn (Bullenhuser Damm), and other German military personnel. His intention was to use the deportees as potential hostages. <mask> had 23,500 Jews of all ages deported from France to the death camps. From 30 September 1944 to 31 March 1945 he smashed the Jewish underground movement in Slovakia and headed the Sereď concentration camp, from where he had approximately 11,500 people deported to Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Bergen-Belsen, and Terezín for extermination. Postwar flight and escape to Syria
In a 1985 interview with the West German magazine Bunte, <mask> described how he escaped capture by the Allies immediately after World War II. The identity of <mask> was apparently mixed up with that of another SS member with the same surname, <mask>, who was executed for war crimes.<mask>, like Josef Mengele, did not have the SS blood type tattoo, which prevented his identity from detection in an Allied prison camp. <mask>, who had worked in Vienna deporting Jews, was confused after the war with <mask> due to the shared surname, including by historians such as Gerald Reitlinger. Claiming he had "received official documents under a false name from American authorities", <mask> claimed he had found work as a driver for the United States Army in the period after the war. It has been alleged that <mask> found a working relationship after World War II with the Gehlen Organization. He fled West Germany only in 1954, on a fake Red Cross passport, first to Rome, then Egypt, where he worked as a weapons dealer, and then to Syria, where he took the pseudonym of Dr. Georg Fischer. In Syria, he was hired as a government adviser. The exact nature of his work is unknown.Syria had long refused entry to French investigators as well as to Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, who spent nearly 15 years bringing the case to court in France. Simon Wiesenthal tried unsuccessfully to trace <mask>'s whereabouts. However, communist East Germany, led by Erich Honecker, negotiated with Syria in the late 1980s to have <mask> extradited and arrested in Berlin. The government of Syria under Hafez al-Assad was close to extraditing <mask> to East Germany, but the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 severed contacts between the two regimes and halted the extradition plan. In the Bunte interview, <mask> was quoted as saying he regrets nothing and that all of the Jews deserved their fate. In a 1987 telephone interview with the Chicago Sun Times, he was reported to have said: "All of [the Jews] deserved to die because they were the Devil's agents and human garbage. I have no regrets and would do it again."This quote could be called into question because Chuck Ashman, the reporter that published that quote, was known for lying about his stories. In an interview with Austrian journalist Gerd Honsik, <mask> denied claims of gas chambers. Until the early 1990s, he lived in an apartment building on 7 Rue Haddad in Damascus, meeting with foreigners and occasionally being photographed. In the 1990s, the French Embassy received reports that <mask> was meeting regularly and having tea with former East German nationals. According to The Guardian, he was last seen alive by reliable witnesses in 1992. In December 1999, unconfirmed reports surfaced that <mask> had died in 1996 and been buried in a Damascus cemetery. However, he was reportedly sighted at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus by German journalists that same year, where he was said to be living under police protection.The last reported sighting of him was at the Meridian Hotel in late 2001 by German journalists. In 2011, Der Spiegel reported that the German intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst had destroyed its file on <mask> in the 1990s, and that remarks in remaining files contain conflicting statements as to whether <mask> had worked for the BND at some point. Assassination attempts
In 1961 and 1980, letter bombs were sent to <mask> while he was a resident in Syria. As a result of the letter bomb he received in 1961, he lost an eye, and in 1980, he lost the fingers on his left hand when the parcel blew up in his hands. A 2018 article in Newsweek by journalist Ronen Bergman disclosed that the 1961 bomb was sent by Military Intelligence Unit 188, a branch of the Israel Defense Forces and was the first target of a new method of letter bomb that was developed for deployment against ex-Nazi scientists working for Gamal Abdel Nasser in developing missiles targeting Israel. The article, excerpted from Bergman's book Rise and Kill First, says that Brunner was located by Israeli spy Eli Cohen. According to information released by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, it was behind the 1980 bomb.Convictions in absentia
Germany and other countries unsuccessfully requested his extradition. He was twice sentenced to death in absentia in the 1950s; one of those convictions was in France in 1954. In August 1987, an Interpol "red notice" was issued for him. In 1995, German state prosecutors in Cologne and Frankfurt posted a $330,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. On 2 March 2001, he was found guilty in absentia by a French court for crimes against humanity, including the arrest and deportation of 345 orphans from the Paris region (which had not been judged in the earlier trials) and was sentenced to life imprisonment. According to Serge Klarsfeld, the trial was largely symbolic—an effort to honour the memories of victims. Klarsfeld's own father, arrested in 1943, was reportedly one of <mask>'s victims.Later attempts to locate
In 2004, the television series Unsolved History, in an episode titled "Hunting Nazis", used facial recognition software to compare <mask> <mask>'s official SS photograph with a recent photo of "Georg Fischer" from Damascus, and came up with a match of 8.1 points out of 10, which they claimed was, despite the elapse of over 50 years in aging, equivalent to a match with 95% certainty. In 2005, Brazilian police were reportedly investigating whether a suspect living in the country under an assumed name was actually <mask> <mask>. Deputy Commander Asher Ben-Artzi, the head of Israel's Interpol and Foreign Liaison Section, passed on a Brazilian request for <mask>'s fingerprints to Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, but Zuroff could not find any. In July 2007, the Austrian Justice Ministry declared that they would pay €50,000 for information leading to his arrest and extradition to Austria. In March 2009, the Simon Wiesenthal Center acknowledged the "slim" possibility of <mask> still being alive. In 2011, some media reports included him on a list of "World's Most Wanted" criminals. In 2013, the Simon Wiesenthal Center described <mask> as "the most important unpunished Nazi war criminal who may still be alive".<mask> was last seen in 2001 in Syria, whose government had long rebuffed international efforts to locate or apprehend him, but was presumed dead . In April 2014, <mask> was removed from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted Nazi war criminals. Death
On 30 November 2014, the Simon Wiesenthal Center reported receiving credible information that <mask> had died in Syria in 2010. He would have been 97 or 98 years old. Partly due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date and place of death were unknown. According to the director of the Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, the information came from a "reliable" former German secret service agent who had served in the Middle East. The information was also reported in the press.The new evidence revealed that <mask> was buried in an unknown location in Damascus around 2010, unrepentant of his crimes to the end. Zuroff said that, owing to the civil war in Syria, the exact location of <mask>'s grave was unknowable. In 2017, the French quarterly review published an investigation about <mask>’s last years in Syria by journalists Hédi Aouidj and Mathieu Palain. Three former security guards in charge of the protection of <mask> recounted how the Assad family used him to train intelligence services staff, then kept him under house arrest in a Damascus basement throughout the 1990s until his death in December 2001. One of the former guards said that <mask>, who went by the name of Abu Hussein, "suffered and cried a lot in his final years", "couldn’t even wash" and ate only "an egg or a potato" a day. According to the report at the time of his death, <mask> had converted to Islam. <mask> was buried in secret, at night in the Al-Affif cemetery in Damascus.Serge Klarsfeld called the report “highly credible". References
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The eye and fingers of his left hand were lost as a result of the letter bombs that were sent to him. The plan to extradite Hafez al-Assad to East Germany was halted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. <mask> was unrepentant about his activities after he fled all the attempts to detain him. In exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II, <mask> was granted asylum, a generous salary and protection by the Ba'ath Party.There was constant media speculation about <mask>'s location and his possible demise over the course of two decades. <mask> was reported to have died in Syria in 2010 and was buried in Damascus. <mask>'s exact place of death was not known. The time of his death in Damascus, Syria, is now believed to have been December 2001 based on new evidence. On April 8, 1912, <mask> <mask> was born in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary, the son of <mask> and Ann Kruise. He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen. <mask> joined the Austrian Legion in Germany in 1933.He became the director of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna in 1939 after volunteering with the Nazis. He was sent to the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to speed up the emigration of Czech Jews after the German occupation of the Czech lands. <mask> was the right-hand man of Hitler. The Nisko Plan, a failed attempt to set up a Jewish reservation in Poland, was worked on by <mask> and Eichmann during the Second World War. <mask> oversaw the deportation of Austrian Jews. 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He intended to use the deportees as hostages. <mask> deported 23,500 Jews from France to the death camps. From 30 September 1944 to 31 March 1945 he smashed the Jewish underground movement in Slovakia and headed the Sere concentration camp, which deported approximately 11,500 people to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Terezn. In a 1985 interview with the West German magazine Bunte, <mask> described how he escaped capture by the Allies after World War II. The identity of <mask> was mixed up with that of a man who was executed for war crimes.<mask> didn't have the blood type tattoo that prevented him from being identified in an Allied prison camp. After the war with <mask>, <mask> was confused because of the shared surname, including by historians such as Gerald Reitlinger. <mask> claimed to have found work as a driver for the United States Army in the period after the war, after receiving official documents under a false name from American authorities. <mask> is said to have found a working relationship with the Gehlen Organization after World War II. He left West Germany on a fake Red Cross passport and went to Rome, Egypt, and then to Syria, where he worked as a weapons dealer. He was hired as a government adviser in Syria. The nature of his work is not known.Serge Klarsfeld, a Nazi hunter who spent nearly 15 years bringing the case to court in France, had long been refused entry to Syria. Simon tried to find <mask>. <mask> was arrested in Berlin after being extradited from Syria in the late 1980s. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 halted the plan to extradite <mask> to East Germany. In an interview with Bunte, <mask> was quoted as saying that all of the Jews deserved their fate. "All of the Jews deserved to die because they were the Devil's agents and human garbage," he was reported to have said in a 1987 telephone interview with the Chicago Sun Times. I would do it again.The reporter that published the quote, Chuck Ashman, was known for lying about his stories. <mask> denied claims of gas chambers in an interview. He lived in an apartment building on 7 Rue Haddad in Damascus, meeting with foreigners and occasionally being photographed, until the early 1990s. The French Embassy received reports that <mask> was having tea with former East German nationals. He was last seen by reliable witnesses in 1992. According to unconfirmed reports, <mask> was buried in a Damascus cemetery in 1996. He was said to be living under police protection in Damascus when he was spotted by German journalists.The last time he was seen was by German journalists at the Meridian Hotel. The file on <mask> was destroyed by the German intelligence service in the 1990s, and there were conflicting statements as to whether <mask> worked for the BND. <mask> was a resident in Syria when letter bombs were sent to him. He lost an eye and fingers on his left hand when a parcel exploded in his hands after he received a letter bomb in 1961. The first target of a new method of letter bomb that was developed for deployment against ex-Nazi scientists was sent by the Military Intelligence Unit 188, a branch of the Israel Defense Force. According to an excerpt from Bergman's book Rise and Kill First, <mask> was located by an Israeli spy. According to information released by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, it was behind the 1980 bomb.Germany and other countries tried to extradite him. He was sentenced to death in France in 1954. An international "red notice" was issued for him. In 1995 there was a $330,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. On 2 March 2001, he was found guilty in absentia by a French court for crimes against humanity, including the arrest and deportation of 345 orphans from the Paris region, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Serge Klarsfeld said that the trial was symbolic and an effort to remember the victims. One of <mask>'s victims was Klarsfeld's father.In 2004, the television series Unsolved History used facial recognition software to compare <mask> <mask>'s official photograph with a photo of Georg Fischer from Damascus, and came up with a match of 8.1 points. Brazilian police investigated in 2005 if a suspect living under an assumed name was actually <mask> <mask>. The head of Israel's Interpol and Foreign Liaison Section, Asher Ben- Artzi, passed on a Brazilian request for <mask>'s fingerprints to Efraim Zuroff, but he couldn't find any. The Austrian Justice Ministry said they would pay 50,000 for information leading to his arrest. 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17708246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itai%20Keisuke | Itai Keisuke | was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Usuki, Oita, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi. He held the record for most consecutive victories from entry into sumo for several years before it was broken by Jōkōryū in 2012. After his retirement, Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of many of his matches were set by match-fixing.
Career
He played baseball at elementary school but was converted to sumo at Oita Prefectural Ocean Science High School where his older brother was active in the school's sumo team. Despite being scouted by ex-Yoshibayama of the Miyagino stable and solicitations from the Nihon University and Komazawa University sumo teams, he did not think he could make the grade as a pro. Instead, after graduating from high school he worked in the ceramics industry until he was 22. He was active in his company's sumo division and won many national youth competitions as an amateur. He did not turn professional until September 1978 when he joined Onaruto stable, set up by the former sekiwake Kōtetsuyama Toyoya after he left Asahiyama stable. Itai rose up the rankings in record time, winning his first 26 matches, a record at that time for most consecutive victories from entry into sumo. He reached the second jūryō division just six tournaments after his professional debut, and was given the shikona of Kōtetsuyama, after his stablemaster. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division after winning the jūryō championship in July 1980. However he dropped out of his debut makuuchi tournament on the fifth day without even winning one match. He won promotion to the top division once again after winning another jūryō title in March 1981 but once again dropped out of the following tournament, this time after only three days. Struggling with a left knee injury, he fell all the way down to the unsalaried makushita division. In an effort to change his fortunes, he dropped the shikona and reverted to his real surname, which he was to use for the rest of his career.
Itai finally managed to win a top division bout on his third attempt in November 1982, and came through with his first kachi-koshi or winning score in March 1983. He remained in the top division for 50 consecutive tournaments. Although he was short for a sumo wrestler at just , he was a powerful pusher-thruster, specialising in oshi techniques. He earned three gold stars for defeating yokozuna, all of which were bouts against Onokuni. He defeated Onokuni six times in a row from November 1985 until March 1988 (including when Onokuni was at ōzeki rank) and used fierce harite or slaps to the face (reinforced by strapping around his hands) which knocked Onokuni straight to the ground in one match. However by contrast he lost all 16 bouts against yokozuna Chiyonofuji. His best result in a tournament was 11-4 in March 1989, for which he was awarded two special prizes for outstanding performance and technique. At 33 he was the oldest first-time special prize winner since Shionishiki in May 1959. He earned promotion to komusubi for the following tournament, but only managed three wins in his sanyaku debut and never managed to return to the rank. In the July 1991 tournament, ranked at the bottom of the makuuchi division, he lost every one of his fifteen bouts and was demoted to jūryō. He announced his retirement from sumo three days into the following tournament at the age of 35. Unusually, his professional debut, jūryō debut, makuuchi debut and retirement all took place in the Aki basho held in September.
Retirement from sumo
Itai was unable to purchase or borrow toshiyori kabu, or elder stock upon his retirement and so was unable to remain in the Japan Sumo Association. As a result, his Onaruto stable folded in 1994 when no successor to his old stablemaster could be found. Itai began a new career as a chankonabe restaurant owner.
In February 2000, in a lecture to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and a string of articles published in the tabloid Shukan Gendai magazine, he claimed that during his active career yaocho, or match-fixing was widespread, with up to 80 percent of bouts being prearranged. Wrestlers who had already secured their kachi-koshi would lose deliberately to those still needing wins, in exchange for points to be collected at later tournaments. Wrestlers who had not accumulated points would have to "buy" victories instead for around $2,000. He said the fixed matches would be arranged through the wrestlers' tsukebito or personal attendants, often in the dressing room shortly before the bout, and "was kind of an ordinary thing." Itai claimed the practice was still continuing today, although to a lesser extent. He said he could tell if a match was fixed just by watching it on TV, and accused ōzeki Chiyotaikai and yokozuna Akebono among others of throwing bouts. The Sumo Association strenuously denied the allegations, with its chairman Tokitsukaze Oyakata threatening Itai with legal action unless he withdraw his claims. Itai, who had joined a religious group called the God Light Association in the 1980s, said he was on a "mission from God" to reveal the truth behind match-fixing. Others pointed out his restaurant business was struggling and he was well paid for his interviews. Itai claimed to have evidence on tape, but it was never produced publicly and the Sumo Association did not in the end go to the courts.
In October 2008 in the Tokyo District Court, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by Kitanoumi, the head of the Sumo Association, against the Shukan Gendai magazine over further match-fixing allegations in its March 10, 2007 issue. He repeated his belief that 75–80 percent of matches were fixed during his active days, and he stated that only three yokozuna, Onokuni, Takanohana and Wakanohana had not thrown bouts in recent times. He claimed that he arranged a fixed match with Kitanoumi in the July 1984 tournament, through an intermediary, for 500,000 yen. He also said he was now working in a glass factory and had no other source of income.
Death
In his later years Itai suffered from diabetes and had a pacemaker fitted. He died on 14 August 2018 after collapsing at his home. He was 62.
Career record
See also
List of sumo record holders
Match-fixing in professional sumo
List of sumo tournament second division champions
Glossary of sumo terms
List of past sumo wrestlers
List of komusubi
References
1956 births
2018 deaths
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Komusubi
Sumo people from Ōita Prefecture
Sumo wrestlers who use their birth name | [
"was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Usuki, Oita, Japan.",
"His highest rank was komusubi.",
"He held the record for most consecutive victories from entry into sumo for several years before it was broken by Jōkōryū in 2012.",
"After his retirement, Itai caused controversy by claiming that the outcomes of many of his matches were set by match-fixing.",
"Career\nHe played baseball at elementary school but was converted to sumo at Oita Prefectural Ocean Science High School where his older brother was active in the school's sumo team.",
"Despite being scouted by ex-Yoshibayama of the Miyagino stable and solicitations from the Nihon University and Komazawa University sumo teams, he did not think he could make the grade as a pro.",
"Instead, after graduating from high school he worked in the ceramics industry until he was 22.",
"He was active in his company's sumo division and won many national youth competitions as an amateur.",
"He did not turn professional until September 1978 when he joined Onaruto stable, set up by the former sekiwake Kōtetsuyama Toyoya after he left Asahiyama stable.",
"Itai rose up the rankings in record time, winning his first 26 matches, a record at that time for most consecutive victories from entry into sumo.",
"He reached the second jūryō division just six tournaments after his professional debut, and was given the shikona of Kōtetsuyama, after his stablemaster.",
"He was promoted to the top makuuchi division after winning the jūryō championship in July 1980.",
"However he dropped out of his debut makuuchi tournament on the fifth day without even winning one match.",
"He won promotion to the top division once again after winning another jūryō title in March 1981 but once again dropped out of the following tournament, this time after only three days.",
"Struggling with a left knee injury, he fell all the way down to the unsalaried makushita division.",
"In an effort to change his fortunes, he dropped the shikona and reverted to his real surname, which he was to use for the rest of his career.",
"Itai finally managed to win a top division bout on his third attempt in November 1982, and came through with his first kachi-koshi or winning score in March 1983.",
"He remained in the top division for 50 consecutive tournaments.",
"Although he was short for a sumo wrestler at just , he was a powerful pusher-thruster, specialising in oshi techniques.",
"He earned three gold stars for defeating yokozuna, all of which were bouts against Onokuni.",
"He defeated Onokuni six times in a row from November 1985 until March 1988 (including when Onokuni was at ōzeki rank) and used fierce harite or slaps to the face (reinforced by strapping around his hands) which knocked Onokuni straight to the ground in one match.",
"However by contrast he lost all 16 bouts against yokozuna Chiyonofuji.",
"His best result in a tournament was 11-4 in March 1989, for which he was awarded two special prizes for outstanding performance and technique.",
"At 33 he was the oldest first-time special prize winner since Shionishiki in May 1959.",
"He earned promotion to komusubi for the following tournament, but only managed three wins in his sanyaku debut and never managed to return to the rank.",
"In the July 1991 tournament, ranked at the bottom of the makuuchi division, he lost every one of his fifteen bouts and was demoted to jūryō.",
"He announced his retirement from sumo three days into the following tournament at the age of 35.",
"Unusually, his professional debut, jūryō debut, makuuchi debut and retirement all took place in the Aki basho held in September.",
"Retirement from sumo\nItai was unable to purchase or borrow toshiyori kabu, or elder stock upon his retirement and so was unable to remain in the Japan Sumo Association.",
"As a result, his Onaruto stable folded in 1994 when no successor to his old stablemaster could be found.",
"Itai began a new career as a chankonabe restaurant owner.",
"In February 2000, in a lecture to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and a string of articles published in the tabloid Shukan Gendai magazine, he claimed that during his active career yaocho, or match-fixing was widespread, with up to 80 percent of bouts being prearranged.",
"Wrestlers who had already secured their kachi-koshi would lose deliberately to those still needing wins, in exchange for points to be collected at later tournaments.",
"Wrestlers who had not accumulated points would have to \"buy\" victories instead for around $2,000.",
"He said the fixed matches would be arranged through the wrestlers' tsukebito or personal attendants, often in the dressing room shortly before the bout, and \"was kind of an ordinary thing.\"",
"Itai claimed the practice was still continuing today, although to a lesser extent.",
"He said he could tell if a match was fixed just by watching it on TV, and accused ōzeki Chiyotaikai and yokozuna Akebono among others of throwing bouts.",
"The Sumo Association strenuously denied the allegations, with its chairman Tokitsukaze Oyakata threatening Itai with legal action unless he withdraw his claims.",
"Itai, who had joined a religious group called the God Light Association in the 1980s, said he was on a \"mission from God\" to reveal the truth behind match-fixing.",
"Others pointed out his restaurant business was struggling and he was well paid for his interviews.",
"Itai claimed to have evidence on tape, but it was never produced publicly and the Sumo Association did not in the end go to the courts.",
"In October 2008 in the Tokyo District Court, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by Kitanoumi, the head of the Sumo Association, against the Shukan Gendai magazine over further match-fixing allegations in its March 10, 2007 issue.",
"He repeated his belief that 75–80 percent of matches were fixed during his active days, and he stated that only three yokozuna, Onokuni, Takanohana and Wakanohana had not thrown bouts in recent times.",
"He claimed that he arranged a fixed match with Kitanoumi in the July 1984 tournament, through an intermediary, for 500,000 yen.",
"He also said he was now working in a glass factory and had no other source of income.",
"Death\nIn his later years Itai suffered from diabetes and had a pacemaker fitted.",
"He died on 14 August 2018 after collapsing at his home.",
"He was 62.",
"Career record\n\nSee also\nList of sumo record holders\nMatch-fixing in professional sumo\nList of sumo tournament second division champions\nGlossary of sumo terms\nList of past sumo wrestlers\nList of komusubi\n\nReferences\n\n1956 births\n2018 deaths\nJapanese sumo wrestlers\nKomusubi\nSumo people from Ōita Prefecture\nSumo wrestlers who use their birth name"
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"The highest rank he had was Komusubi.",
"He held the record for most consecutive victories from entry into sumo for several years before it was broken by Jkry.",
"Itai caused controversy when he claimed that many of his matches were fixed.",
"At Oita Prefectural Ocean Science High School, where his older brother was active in the school's sumo team, he played baseball but was converted to sumo.",
"He did not think he could make the grade as a pro despite being scouted by ex-Yoshibayama of the Miyagino stable and solicitations from the Nihon University and Komazawa University sumo teams.",
"He worked in the ceramics industry until he was 22.",
"He won many national youth contests as an amateur and was active in his company's sumo division.",
"He joined Onaruto stable in 1978 after leaving Asahiyama stable.",
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"He reached the second jry division in six tournaments after his professional debut.",
"He was promoted to the top division after winning the jry championship.",
"He did not win a match in his debut makuuchi tournament.",
"After winning another jry title in March 1981 he was promoted to the top division but dropped out after only three days.",
"He fell all the way down to the makushita division because of a left knee injury.",
"He dropped the shikona and reverted to his real name in order to change his fortunes.",
"Itai came through with his first kachi-koshi or winning score in March 1983 after winning a top division bout in November 1982.",
"He was in the top division for 50 tournaments.",
"Although he was short for a sumo wrestler, he was a powerful pusher-thruster.",
"He earned three gold stars for defeating Onokuni.",
"He defeated Onokuni six times in a row from November 1985 until March 1988 and used fierce harite or slaps to the face, which knocked Onokuni straight to the ground.",
"He lost all 16 bouts against Chiyonofuji.",
"He was awarded two special prizes for outstanding performance and technique after his 11-4 win in the March 1989 tournament.",
"He was 33 when he won the special prize.",
"He only managed three wins in his sanyaku debut and never returned to the rank.",
"He lost all of his fifteen bouts in the July 1991 tournament and was demoted to jry.",
"He retired from sumo at the age of 35.",
"The Aki basho held in September was where his professional debut, jry debut, makuuchi debut and retirement took place.",
"Retirement from sumo Itai made it impossible for him to remain in the Japan Sumo Association.",
"His Onaruto stable folded in 1994 because there was no successor to his stablemaster.",
"A new career for Itai was as a restaurant owner.",
"In a lecture to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and a string of articles published in the tabloid Shukan Gendai magazine, he claimed that during his active career, up to 80% of bouts were prearranged.",
"Wrestlers who had already secured their kachi-koshi would lose to those still needing wins in exchange for points to be collected at later tournaments.",
"Wrestlers who did not accumulate points would have to buy their victories.",
"He said the fixed matches would be arranged through the wrestlers' tsukebito or personal attendants, often in the dressing room shortly before the bout.",
"Itai claimed that the practice was still going on.",
"He said he could tell if a match was fixed by watching it on TV.",
"The chairman of the Sumo Association threatened Itai with legal action unless he withdrew his claims.",
"Itai joined a religious group called the God Light Association in the 1980s and said he was on a mission to reveal the truth behind match-fixing.",
"He was paid well for his interviews because his restaurant business was struggling.",
"The Sumo Association did not go to the courts after Itai claimed to have evidence on tape.",
"In October 2008, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by Kitanoumi, the head of the Sumo Association, against the Shukan Gendai magazine.",
"He stated that only three yokozuna, Onokuni, Takanohana and Wakanohana had not thrown bouts in recent times, repeating his belief that 75–80 percent of matches were fixed during his active days.",
"He said he arranged a match with Kitanoumi in the July 1984 tournament for half a million dollars.",
"He said he had no other source of income and was now working in a glass factory.",
"Itai had a pacemaker fitted after he suffered from diabetes.",
"He died of a heart attack at his home.",
"He died at the age of 62.",
"List of sumo record holders Match-fixing in professional sumo List of sumo tournament second division champions Glossary of sumo terms"
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He played baseball at elementary school but was converted to sumo at Oita Prefectural Ocean Science High School where his older brother was active in the school's sumo team. Despite being scouted by ex-Yoshibayama of the Miyagino stable and solicitations from the Nihon University and Komazawa University sumo teams, he did not think he could make the grade as a pro. Instead, after graduating from high school he worked in the ceramics industry until he was 22.He was active in his company's sumo division and won many national youth competitions as an amateur. He did not turn professional until September 1978 when he joined Onaruto stable, set up by the former sekiwake Kōtetsuyama Toyoya after he left Asahiyama stable. Itai rose up the rankings in record time, winning his first 26 matches, a record at that time for most consecutive victories from entry into sumo. He reached the second jūryō division just six tournaments after his professional debut, and was given the shikona of Kōtetsuyama, after his stablemaster. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division after winning the jūryō championship in July 1980. However he dropped out of his debut makuuchi tournament on the fifth day without even winning one match. He won promotion to the top division once again after winning another jūryō title in March 1981 but once again dropped out of the following tournament, this time after only three days.Struggling with a left knee injury, he fell all the way down to the unsalaried makushita division. In an effort to change his fortunes, he dropped the shikona and reverted to his real surname, which he was to use for the rest of his career. <mask> finally managed to win a top division bout on his third attempt in November 1982, and came through with his first kachi-koshi or winning score in March 1983. He remained in the top division for 50 consecutive tournaments. Although he was short for a sumo wrestler at just , he was a powerful pusher-thruster, specialising in oshi techniques. He earned three gold stars for defeating yokozuna, all of which were bouts against Onokuni. He defeated Onokuni six times in a row from November 1985 until March 1988 (including when Onokuni was at ōzeki rank) and used fierce harite or slaps to the face (reinforced by strapping around his hands) which knocked Onokuni straight to the ground in one match.However by contrast he lost all 16 bouts against yokozuna Chiyonofuji. His best result in a tournament was 11-4 in March 1989, for which he was awarded two special prizes for outstanding performance and technique. At 33 he was the oldest first-time special prize winner since Shionishiki in May 1959. He earned promotion to komusubi for the following tournament, but only managed three wins in his sanyaku debut and never managed to return to the rank. In the July 1991 tournament, ranked at the bottom of the makuuchi division, he lost every one of his fifteen bouts and was demoted to jūryō. He announced his retirement from sumo three days into the following tournament at the age of 35. Unusually, his professional debut, jūryō debut, makuuchi debut and retirement all took place in the Aki basho held in September.Retirement from sumo
Itai was unable to purchase or borrow toshiyori kabu, or elder stock upon his retirement and so was unable to remain in the Japan Sumo Association. As a result, his Onaruto stable folded in 1994 when no successor to his old stablemaster could be found. Itai began a new career as a chankonabe restaurant owner. In February 2000, in a lecture to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and a string of articles published in the tabloid Shukan Gendai magazine, he claimed that during his active career yaocho, or match-fixing was widespread, with up to 80 percent of bouts being prearranged. Wrestlers who had already secured their kachi-koshi would lose deliberately to those still needing wins, in exchange for points to be collected at later tournaments. Wrestlers who had not accumulated points would have to "buy" victories instead for around $2,000. He said the fixed matches would be arranged through the wrestlers' tsukebito or personal attendants, often in the dressing room shortly before the bout, and "was kind of an ordinary thing."Itai claimed the practice was still continuing today, although to a lesser extent. He said he could tell if a match was fixed just by watching it on TV, and accused ōzeki Chiyotaikai and yokozuna Akebono among others of throwing bouts. The Sumo Association strenuously denied the allegations, with its chairman Tokitsukaze Oyakata threatening Itai with legal action unless he withdraw his claims. <mask>, who had joined a religious group called the God Light Association in the 1980s, said he was on a "mission from God" to reveal the truth behind match-fixing. Others pointed out his restaurant business was struggling and he was well paid for his interviews. Itai claimed to have evidence on tape, but it was never produced publicly and the Sumo Association did not in the end go to the courts. In October 2008 in the Tokyo District Court, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by Kitanoumi, the head of the Sumo Association, against the Shukan Gendai magazine over further match-fixing allegations in its March 10, 2007 issue.He repeated his belief that 75–80 percent of matches were fixed during his active days, and he stated that only three yokozuna, Onokuni, Takanohana and Wakanohana had not thrown bouts in recent times. He claimed that he arranged a fixed match with Kitanoumi in the July 1984 tournament, through an intermediary, for 500,000 yen. He also said he was now working in a glass factory and had no other source of income. Death
In his later years Itai suffered from diabetes and had a pacemaker fitted. He died on 14 August 2018 after collapsing at his home. He was 62. Career record
See also
List of sumo record holders
Match-fixing in professional sumo
List of sumo tournament second division champions
Glossary of sumo terms
List of past sumo wrestlers
List of komusubi
References
1956 births
2018 deaths
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Komusubi
Sumo people from Ōita Prefecture
Sumo wrestlers who use their birth name | [
"Itai",
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"Itai"
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After winning another jry title in March 1981 he was promoted to the top division but dropped out after only three days.He fell all the way down to the makushita division because of a left knee injury. He dropped the shikona and reverted to his real name in order to change his fortunes. <mask> came through with his first kachi-koshi or winning score in March 1983 after winning a top division bout in November 1982. He was in the top division for 50 tournaments. Although he was short for a sumo wrestler, he was a powerful pusher-thruster. He earned three gold stars for defeating Onokuni. He defeated Onokuni six times in a row from November 1985 until March 1988 and used fierce harite or slaps to the face, which knocked Onokuni straight to the ground.He lost all 16 bouts against Chiyonofuji. He was awarded two special prizes for outstanding performance and technique after his 11-4 win in the March 1989 tournament. He was 33 when he won the special prize. He only managed three wins in his sanyaku debut and never returned to the rank. He lost all of his fifteen bouts in the July 1991 tournament and was demoted to jry. He retired from sumo at the age of 35. The Aki basho held in September was where his professional debut, jry debut, makuuchi debut and retirement took place.Retirement from sumo Itai made it impossible for him to remain in the Japan Sumo Association. His Onaruto stable folded in 1994 because there was no successor to his stablemaster. A new career for <mask> was as a restaurant owner. In a lecture to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and a string of articles published in the tabloid Shukan Gendai magazine, he claimed that during his active career, up to 80% of bouts were prearranged. Wrestlers who had already secured their kachi-koshi would lose to those still needing wins in exchange for points to be collected at later tournaments. Wrestlers who did not accumulate points would have to buy their victories. He said the fixed matches would be arranged through the wrestlers' tsukebito or personal attendants, often in the dressing room shortly before the bout.Itai claimed that the practice was still going on. He said he could tell if a match was fixed by watching it on TV. The chairman of the Sumo Association threatened <mask> with legal action unless he withdrew his claims. Itai joined a religious group called the God Light Association in the 1980s and said he was on a mission to reveal the truth behind match-fixing. He was paid well for his interviews because his restaurant business was struggling. The Sumo Association did not go to the courts after Itai claimed to have evidence on tape. In October 2008, Itai appeared for the defence in a lawsuit brought by Kitanoumi, the head of the Sumo Association, against the Shukan Gendai magazine.He stated that only three yokozuna, Onokuni, Takanohana and Wakanohana had not thrown bouts in recent times, repeating his belief that 75–80 percent of matches were fixed during his active days. He said he arranged a match with Kitanoumi in the July 1984 tournament for half a million dollars. He said he had no other source of income and was now working in a glass factory. Itai had a pacemaker fitted after he suffered from diabetes. He died of a heart attack at his home. He died at the age of 62. List of sumo record holders Match-fixing in professional sumo List of sumo tournament second division champions Glossary of sumo terms | [
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479160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Ashman | Howard Ashman | Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright, lyricist and stage director. He collaborated with composer Alan Menken on several works and is most widely known for his work on feature films for Walt Disney Animation Studios, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed the music. His work included songs for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. Sir Tim Rice took over to write the rest of the songs for the latter film after Ashman's death in 1991.
Early life and education
Ashman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley Thelma (née Glass) and Raymond Albert Ashman, an ice cream cone manufacturer. His family was Jewish. He started his theater experiences with the Childrens Theater Association (CTA), playing roles such as Aladdin. Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to earn his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974.
Career
After graduating from Indiana in 1974 he moved to New York and worked as an editor at Grosset & Dunlap. His first two plays, Cause Maggie's Afraid of the Dark and Dreamstuff, were met with mixed reviews. His play The Confirmation was produced in 1977 at Princeton's McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi. In 1977 he became the artistic director of the WPA Theater in New York. He met future collaborator Alan Menken at the BMI Workshop, where he was classmates with Maury Yeston and Ed Kleban, among others. He first worked with Menken on the 1979 musical Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, adapted from Vonnegut's novel of the same name. They also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with Ashman as director, lyricist, and librettist, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics. He also directed the workshop of Nine by Yeston at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and after asking why Guido's wife stays with him after she knows he has not been faithful, inspired Yeston to write "My Husband Makes Movies".
Ashman was director, lyricist, and book writer for the 1986 Broadway musical Smile (music by Marvin Hamlisch). Also in 1986, Ashman wrote the screenplay for the Frank Oz–directed film adaptation of his musical Little Shop of Horrors, as well as contributing the lyrics for two new songs, "Some Fun Now" and "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space," the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination.
In 1986, Ashman was brought in to write lyrics for a song in Walt Disney Animation Studios' Oliver & Company. While there, he was told about another project that they had been working on for a couple years. The film was The Little Mermaid, Disney's first fairy tale in 30 years. Ashman, along with Menken, wrote all of the songs for the film. Ashman became a driving force during the early years of the "Disney Renaissance". He would hold story meetings and said the animation and musical styles were made for each other which is why Disney needed to continue making musical movies. He also made strong choices in casting actors with strong musical theater and acting backgrounds. The Little Mermaid was released in November 1989 and it was an enormous success. Ashman and Menken received two Golden Globe nominations and three Academy Award nominations, including two for "Kiss the Girl" and "Under The Sea" with Ashman winning both awards for the latter.
In 1988, while working on The Little Mermaid, Ashman pitched the idea of an animated musical adaptation of Aladdin to Disney. After he wrote a group of songs with partner Alan Menken and a film treatment, a screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton, who had worked on Beauty and the Beast. Directors John Musker and Ron Clements then joined the production, and the story underwent many changes, with some elements of the original treatment being dropped. Out of the 16 songs written for Aladdin, three of Ashman's songs ended up in the finished film, which was released after his death.
During early production of Aladdin, Ashman and Menken were approached to help reinvigorate and save the production of Beauty and the Beast, which was going nowhere as a non-musical. Ashman, wishing to focus on Aladdin and his health, reluctantly agreed. It was at this time that his health began to decline due to his illness. Regardless, he completed lyrical work on Beauty and the Beast before succumbing to AIDS. The film was released mere months after his death and is dedicated to him. In May 2020, Beauty and the Beast co-director Kirk Wise said, "If you had to point to one person responsible for the 'Disney Renaissance', I would say it was Howard."
Along with Menken, Ashman was the co-recipient of two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards.
Illness and death
After Disney's 62nd Academy Awards for The Little Mermaid, Ashman told fellow composer Alan Menken that they needed to talk about something important when they got home in Fishkill, New York. Upon arrival at Ashman's house, Ashman revealed to Menken that he was sick and had tested positive for HIV/AIDS. Ashman did survive to see an early screening of Beauty and the Beast. When rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, he weighed 80 pounds, had lost his sight, and could barely speak. On the early morning of March 14, 1991, two months before his 41st birthday, he died from heart failure caused by HIV/AIDS. Beauty and the Beast is dedicated to him, featuring the following message at the end of the closing credits: "TO OUR FRIEND HOWARD, WHO GAVE A MERMAID HER VOICE AND A BEAST HIS SOUL, WE WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL.". He is buried in Oheb Shalom Cemetery in Reistertown, Maryland.
Personal life
Ashman never married, as same-sex marriage was not legal during his lifetime, and also had no children. He met Stuart White, one of his first partners, at a summer university program in 1969. Originally close friends, the two formed a bond which led to a secret relationship. They both completed master's degrees at Indiana University and then moved to upstate New York. Ashman and White re-opened the Workshop of Players Art Foundation (WPA) together as artistic directors. The two fell out in 1980, but reunited briefly prior to White's death from AIDS in July 1983.
Ashman's partner at the time of his death was Bill Lauch, who worked as an architect. Lauch accepted Ashman's posthumous Oscar for Beauty and the Beast in 1992.
Awards and nominations
Over the course of his career, Ashman won two Academy Awards (one posthumous) out of seven nominations. Of these nominations, four are posthumous nominations, the most in Academy Awards history. He also won a posthumous Laurence Olivier Award and five Grammy Awards (three of them posthumous), among other accolades.
Accolades
Special recognitions
1990 – Special Award for outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' anti-drug special for children, for the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No" from the TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
2001 – Disney Legend Award (POSTHUMOUS)
Tributes
On the 2002 Special Edition DVD of Beauty and the Beast, the Disney animators teamed up again and added a new song called "Human Again", which Ashman and Menken had written for the film, but was cut from the finished film. On Disc 2, there is a short documentary entitled Howard Ashman: In Memoriam that features many people who worked on Beauty and the Beast who talk about Howard's involvement on the film and how his death was truly a loss for them.
Jeffrey Katzenberg claims there are two angels watching down on them that put their magic touch on every film they made. Those two angels are Ashman and Walt Disney himself.
An album of Ashman singing his own work entitled Howard Sings Ashman was released on November 11, 2008, by PS Classics as part of the Library of Congress "Songwriter Series."
The 2009 documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty, which centers around Disney's animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney.
In March 2017, Don Hahn confirmed he was working on a documentary biographical film about Howard Ashman. The documentary film titled Howard premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2018, before having a limited theatrical run on December 18, 2018. It was released on Disney+ on August 7, 2020.
Filmography
The Confirmation (1977) (writer)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) (lyricist, librettist and director)
Little Shop of Horrors (1982) (lyricist, librettist and director)
Smile (1986) (lyricist, librettist and director)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (lyricist and screenwriter)
Oliver & Company (1988) (lyricist for "Once Upon a Time in New York City")
The Little Mermaid (1989) (lyricist, producer, additional dialogue)
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) (lyricist for "Wonderful Way to Say No")
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (lyricist, executive producer) (dedicated)
Aladdin (1992) (lyricist for "Arabian Nights", "Friend Like Me", and "Prince Ali").
References
External links
Official website
Profile @ vimeo.com
Disney Legends
Howard Ashman papers, 1973-2010 at the Library of Congress
1950 births
1991 deaths
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American musicians
AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)
American expatriates in Burkina Faso
American male dramatists and playwrights
American musical theatre librettists
American musical theatre lyricists
Animation composers
Best Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters
Boston University alumni
Broadway composers and lyricists
Broadway theatre directors
Disney people
American gay musicians
American gay writers
Golden Globe Award-winning musicians
Grammy Award winners
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Jewish American songwriters
LGBT dramatists and playwrights
LGBT Jews
LGBT people from Maryland
LGBT songwriters
Musicians from Baltimore
Peace Corps volunteers
Songwriters from Maryland
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Writers from Baltimore
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"Howard Elliott Ashman (May 17, 1950 – March 14, 1991) was an American playwright, lyricist and stage director.",
"He collaborated with composer Alan Menken on several works and is most widely known for his work on feature films for Walt Disney Animation Studios, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed the music.",
"His work included songs for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.",
"Sir Tim Rice took over to write the rest of the songs for the latter film after Ashman's death in 1991.",
"Early life and education\nAshman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley Thelma (née Glass) and Raymond Albert Ashman, an ice cream cone manufacturer.",
"His family was Jewish.",
"He started his theater experiences with the Childrens Theater Association (CTA), playing roles such as Aladdin.",
"Ashman first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to earn his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974.",
"Career\nAfter graduating from Indiana in 1974 he moved to New York and worked as an editor at Grosset & Dunlap.",
"His first two plays, Cause Maggie's Afraid of the Dark and Dreamstuff, were met with mixed reviews.",
"His play The Confirmation was produced in 1977 at Princeton's McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi.",
"In 1977 he became the artistic director of the WPA Theater in New York.",
"He met future collaborator Alan Menken at the BMI Workshop, where he was classmates with Maury Yeston and Ed Kleban, among others.",
"He first worked with Menken on the 1979 musical Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, adapted from Vonnegut's novel of the same name.",
"They also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with Ashman as director, lyricist, and librettist, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.",
"He also directed the workshop of Nine by Yeston at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and after asking why Guido's wife stays with him after she knows he has not been faithful, inspired Yeston to write \"My Husband Makes Movies\".",
"Ashman was director, lyricist, and book writer for the 1986 Broadway musical Smile (music by Marvin Hamlisch).",
"Also in 1986, Ashman wrote the screenplay for the Frank Oz–directed film adaptation of his musical Little Shop of Horrors, as well as contributing the lyrics for two new songs, \"Some Fun Now\" and \"Mean Green Mother From Outer Space,\" the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination.",
"In 1986, Ashman was brought in to write lyrics for a song in Walt Disney Animation Studios' Oliver & Company.",
"While there, he was told about another project that they had been working on for a couple years.",
"The film was The Little Mermaid, Disney's first fairy tale in 30 years.",
"Ashman, along with Menken, wrote all of the songs for the film.",
"Ashman became a driving force during the early years of the \"Disney Renaissance\".",
"He would hold story meetings and said the animation and musical styles were made for each other which is why Disney needed to continue making musical movies.",
"He also made strong choices in casting actors with strong musical theater and acting backgrounds.",
"The Little Mermaid was released in November 1989 and it was an enormous success.",
"Ashman and Menken received two Golden Globe nominations and three Academy Award nominations, including two for \"Kiss the Girl\" and \"Under The Sea\" with Ashman winning both awards for the latter.",
"In 1988, while working on The Little Mermaid, Ashman pitched the idea of an animated musical adaptation of Aladdin to Disney.",
"After he wrote a group of songs with partner Alan Menken and a film treatment, a screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton, who had worked on Beauty and the Beast.",
"Directors John Musker and Ron Clements then joined the production, and the story underwent many changes, with some elements of the original treatment being dropped.",
"Out of the 16 songs written for Aladdin, three of Ashman's songs ended up in the finished film, which was released after his death.",
"During early production of Aladdin, Ashman and Menken were approached to help reinvigorate and save the production of Beauty and the Beast, which was going nowhere as a non-musical.",
"Ashman, wishing to focus on Aladdin and his health, reluctantly agreed.",
"It was at this time that his health began to decline due to his illness.",
"Regardless, he completed lyrical work on Beauty and the Beast before succumbing to AIDS.",
"The film was released mere months after his death and is dedicated to him.",
"In May 2020, Beauty and the Beast co-director Kirk Wise said, \"If you had to point to one person responsible for the 'Disney Renaissance', I would say it was Howard.\"",
"Along with Menken, Ashman was the co-recipient of two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards.",
"Illness and death\nAfter Disney's 62nd Academy Awards for The Little Mermaid, Ashman told fellow composer Alan Menken that they needed to talk about something important when they got home in Fishkill, New York.",
"Upon arrival at Ashman's house, Ashman revealed to Menken that he was sick and had tested positive for HIV/AIDS.",
"Ashman did survive to see an early screening of Beauty and the Beast.",
"When rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, he weighed 80 pounds, had lost his sight, and could barely speak.",
"On the early morning of March 14, 1991, two months before his 41st birthday, he died from heart failure caused by HIV/AIDS.",
"Beauty and the Beast is dedicated to him, featuring the following message at the end of the closing credits: \"TO OUR FRIEND HOWARD, WHO GAVE A MERMAID HER VOICE AND A BEAST HIS SOUL, WE WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL.\".",
"He is buried in Oheb Shalom Cemetery in Reistertown, Maryland.",
"Personal life\nAshman never married, as same-sex marriage was not legal during his lifetime, and also had no children.",
"He met Stuart White, one of his first partners, at a summer university program in 1969.",
"Originally close friends, the two formed a bond which led to a secret relationship.",
"They both completed master's degrees at Indiana University and then moved to upstate New York.",
"Ashman and White re-opened the Workshop of Players Art Foundation (WPA) together as artistic directors.",
"The two fell out in 1980, but reunited briefly prior to White's death from AIDS in July 1983.",
"Ashman's partner at the time of his death was Bill Lauch, who worked as an architect.",
"Lauch accepted Ashman's posthumous Oscar for Beauty and the Beast in 1992.",
"Awards and nominations\nOver the course of his career, Ashman won two Academy Awards (one posthumous) out of seven nominations.",
"Of these nominations, four are posthumous nominations, the most in Academy Awards history.",
"He also won a posthumous Laurence Olivier Award and five Grammy Awards (three of them posthumous), among other accolades.",
"Accolades\n\nSpecial recognitions \n\n 1990 – Special Award for outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' anti-drug special for children, for the song \"Wonderful Ways to Say No\" from the TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue\n 2001 – Disney Legend Award (POSTHUMOUS)\n\nTributes \nOn the 2002 Special Edition DVD of Beauty and the Beast, the Disney animators teamed up again and added a new song called \"Human Again\", which Ashman and Menken had written for the film, but was cut from the finished film.",
"On Disc 2, there is a short documentary entitled Howard Ashman: In Memoriam that features many people who worked on Beauty and the Beast who talk about Howard's involvement on the film and how his death was truly a loss for them.",
"Jeffrey Katzenberg claims there are two angels watching down on them that put their magic touch on every film they made.",
"Those two angels are Ashman and Walt Disney himself.",
"An album of Ashman singing his own work entitled Howard Sings Ashman was released on November 11, 2008, by PS Classics as part of the Library of Congress \"Songwriter Series.\"",
"The 2009 documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty, which centers around Disney's animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney.",
"In March 2017, Don Hahn confirmed he was working on a documentary biographical film about Howard Ashman.",
"The documentary film titled Howard premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2018, before having a limited theatrical run on December 18, 2018.",
"It was released on Disney+ on August 7, 2020.",
"Filmography \n The Confirmation (1977) (writer)\n God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) (lyricist, librettist and director)\n Little Shop of Horrors (1982) (lyricist, librettist and director)\n Smile (1986) (lyricist, librettist and director)\n Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (lyricist and screenwriter)\n Oliver & Company (1988) (lyricist for \"Once Upon a Time in New York City\")\n The Little Mermaid (1989) (lyricist, producer, additional dialogue)\n Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) (lyricist for \"Wonderful Way to Say No\")\n Beauty and the Beast (1991) (lyricist, executive producer) (dedicated)\n Aladdin (1992) (lyricist for \"Arabian Nights\", \"Friend Like Me\", and \"Prince Ali\").",
"References\n\nExternal links\n Official website\n Profile @ vimeo.com\n Disney Legends\n \n \nHoward Ashman papers, 1973-2010 at the Library of Congress\n\n1950 births\n1991 deaths\n20th-century American dramatists and playwrights\n20th-century American male writers\n20th-century American musicians\nAIDS-related deaths in New York (state)\nAmerican expatriates in Burkina Faso\nAmerican male dramatists and playwrights\nAmerican musical theatre librettists\nAmerican musical theatre lyricists\nAnimation composers\nBest Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters\nBoston University alumni\nBroadway composers and lyricists\nBroadway theatre directors\nDisney people\nAmerican gay musicians\nAmerican gay writers\nGolden Globe Award-winning musicians\nGrammy Award winners\nIndiana University Bloomington alumni\nJewish American songwriters\nLGBT dramatists and playwrights\nLGBT Jews\nLGBT people from Maryland\nLGBT songwriters\nMusicians from Baltimore\nPeace Corps volunteers\nSongwriters from Maryland\nWalt Disney Animation Studios people\nWriters from Baltimore\n20th-century LGBT people"
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"He collaborated with composer Alan Menken on several works and is most well known for his work on feature films for Walt Disney Animation Studios, for which Ashman wrote the lyrics and Menken composed the music.",
"He wrote songs for Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.",
"After Ashman's death in 1991, Sir Tim Rice wrote the rest of the songs for the film.",
"Ashman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Raymond Albert Ashman, an ice cream cone manufacturer.",
"His family was Christian.",
"He was a member of the Children's Theater Association and played roles such as Aladdin.",
"Ashman earned his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974 after studying at Boston University and Goddard College.",
"He was an editor at Grosset & Dunlap in New York after graduating from Indiana.",
"His first two plays were met with mixed reviews.",
"His play The Confirmation starred Herschel Bernardi.",
"He became the artistic director of the New York theater in 1977.",
"Maury Yeston and Ed Kleban were classmates with Alan Menken.",
"The musical God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater was adapted from Kurt Vonnegut's novel.",
"Little Shop of Horrors won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics.",
"Yeston wrote \"My Husband Makes Movies\" after asking why Guido's wife stays with him after she knows he has not been faithful.",
"The Broadway musical Smile was written and directed by Ashman.",
"In 1986, Ashman wrote the screenplay for the Frank Oz–directed film adaptation of his musical Little Shop of Horrors, as well as contributing the lyrics for two new songs, \"Some Fun Now\" and \"Mean Green Mother From Outer Space,\" which received an Academy Award nomination.",
"Ashman wrote lyrics for a song in Oliver & Company.",
"He was told that they had been working on a project for a couple years.",
"The film was Disney's first fairy tale in 30 years.",
"The songs for the film were written by Ashman and Menken.",
"Ashman was a driving force in the early years of the Disney Renaissance.",
"Disney needed to continue making musical movies because he said the animation and musical styles were made for each other.",
"He cast actors with strong musical theater and acting background.",
"It was an enormous success when it was released in 1989.",
"Ashman and Menken received two Golden Globe nominations and three Academy Award nominations, including two for \"Kiss the Girl\" and \" Under The Sea\".",
"Ashman pitched the idea of an animated musical adaptation of Aladdin to Disney.",
"Linda Woolverton, who worked on Beauty and the Beast, wrote a screenplay after he and Alan Menken wrote a group of songs.",
"The story underwent many changes after directors John Musker and Ron Clements joined the production.",
"Three of Ashman's songs ended up in the film, which was released after his death.",
"Ashman and Menken were asked to help revive the production of Beauty and the Beast, which was going nowhere as a musical.",
"Ashman reluctantly agreed to focus on Aladdin and his health.",
"His health began to decline as a result of his illness.",
"He finished his work on Beauty and the Beast before he died of AIDS.",
"The film was released in the months after his death.",
"In May 2020, Kirk Wise said, \"If you had to point to one person responsible for the 'Disney Renaissance', I would say it was Howard.\"",
"Ashman and Menken were co-recipients of two Academy Awards.",
"Ashman told Alan Menken that they needed to talk about something important when they got home after the Oscars.",
"Ashman told Menken that he had tested positive for HIV/AIDS after arriving at his house.",
"Ashman was able to see an early screening of Beauty and the Beast.",
"He weighed 80 pounds, had lost his sight, and could barely speak when he was in the hospital.",
"He died from heart failure caused by HIV/AIDS two months before his 41st birthday.",
"\"To our friend Howard, who sacrificed his voice and soul to help Beauty and the Beast, we will be grateful forever.\" is the message at the end of the closing credits.",
"He is buried in Maryland.",
"Same-sex marriage was not legal during Ashman's lifetime, and he had no children.",
"He met Stuart White at a summer university program.",
"The two formed a bond that led to a secret relationship.",
"They both graduated from Indiana University with master's degrees.",
"The Workshop of Players Art Foundation was re-opened by Ashman and White.",
"White's death from AIDS in July 1983 brought the two back together.",
"Bill Lauch was Ashman's partner at the time of his death.",
"Lauch accepted Ashman's posthumous Oscar in 1992.",
"Ashman won two Academy Awards out of seven nominations.",
"Four posthumous nominations are the most in Academy Awards history.",
"He won a number of awards, including three posthumous ones.",
"The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences gave a Special Award for outstanding contribution to the success of their anti-drug special for children.",
"A short documentary called Howard Ashman: In Memoriam features many people who worked on Beauty and the Beast who talk about Howard's involvement in the film and how his death was a loss for them.",
"Jeffrey says there are two angels watching over them that put their magic touch on every film they make.",
"The two angels are Ashman and Disney.",
"An album of Ashman singing his own work entitled Howard Sings Ashman was released on November 11, 2008, by PS Classics as part of the Library of Congress \"Songwriter Series.\"",
"The documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty, which focuses on Disney's animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney.",
"A documentary about Howard Ashman was in the works at the time.",
"The documentary film titled Howard had a limited theatrical run at the end of the year.",
"On August 7, 2020, it was released on Disney+.",
"The Confirmation, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Little Shop of Horrors are all lyricist, librettist and director films.",
"20th-century American dramatists and playwrights, 20th-century American male writers, and 20th-century American musicians have died."
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<mask> was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Shirley Thelma (née Glass) and <mask>, an ice cream cone manufacturer. His family was Jewish. He started his theater experiences with the Childrens Theater Association (CTA), playing roles such as Aladdin.<mask> first studied at Boston University and Goddard College (with a stop at Tufts University's Summer Theater) and then went on to earn his master's degree from Indiana University in 1974. Career
After graduating from Indiana in 1974 he moved to New York and worked as an editor at Grosset & Dunlap. His first two plays, Cause Maggie's Afraid of the Dark and Dreamstuff, were met with mixed reviews. His play The Confirmation was produced in 1977 at Princeton's McCarter Theater and starred Herschel Bernardi. In 1977 he became the artistic director of the WPA Theater in New York. He met future collaborator Alan Menken at the BMI Workshop, where he was classmates with Maury Yeston and Ed Kleban, among others. He first worked with Menken on the 1979 musical Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, adapted from Vonnegut's novel of the same name.They also collaborated on Little Shop of Horrors with <mask> as director, lyricist, and librettist, winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics. He also directed the workshop of Nine by Yeston at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and after asking why Guido's wife stays with him after she knows he has not been faithful, inspired Yeston to write "My Husband Makes Movies". <mask> was director, lyricist, and book writer for the 1986 Broadway musical Smile (music by Marvin Hamlisch). Also in 1986, <mask> wrote the screenplay for the Frank Oz–directed film adaptation of his musical Little Shop of Horrors, as well as contributing the lyrics for two new songs, "Some Fun Now" and "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space," the latter of which received an Academy Award nomination. In 1986, <mask> was brought in to write lyrics for a song in Walt Disney Animation Studios' Oliver & Company. While there, he was told about another project that they had been working on for a couple years. The film was The Little Mermaid, Disney's first fairy tale in 30 years.<mask>, along with Menken, wrote all of the songs for the film. <mask> became a driving force during the early years of the "Disney Renaissance". He would hold story meetings and said the animation and musical styles were made for each other which is why Disney needed to continue making musical movies. He also made strong choices in casting actors with strong musical theater and acting backgrounds. The Little Mermaid was released in November 1989 and it was an enormous success. <mask> and Menken received two Golden Globe nominations and three Academy Award nominations, including two for "Kiss the Girl" and "Under The Sea" with <mask> winning both awards for the latter. In 1988, while working on The Little Mermaid, <mask> pitched the idea of an animated musical adaptation of Aladdin to Disney.After he wrote a group of songs with partner Alan Menken and a film treatment, a screenplay was written by Linda Woolverton, who had worked on Beauty and the Beast. Directors John Musker and Ron Clements then joined the production, and the story underwent many changes, with some elements of the original treatment being dropped. Out of the 16 songs written for Aladdin, three of <mask>'s songs ended up in the finished film, which was released after his death. During early production of Aladdin, <mask> and Menken were approached to help reinvigorate and save the production of Beauty and the Beast, which was going nowhere as a non-musical. <mask>, wishing to focus on Aladdin and his health, reluctantly agreed. It was at this time that his health began to decline due to his illness. Regardless, he completed lyrical work on Beauty and the Beast before succumbing to AIDS.The film was released mere months after his death and is dedicated to him. In May 2020, Beauty and the Beast co-director Kirk Wise said, "If you had to point to one person responsible for the 'Disney Renaissance', I would say it was <mask>." Along with Menken, <mask> was the co-recipient of two Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards and two Academy Awards. Illness and death
After Disney's 62nd Academy Awards for The Little Mermaid, Ashman told fellow composer Alan Menken that they needed to talk about something important when they got home in Fishkill, New York. Upon arrival at <mask>'s house, Ashman revealed to Menken that he was sick and had tested positive for HIV/AIDS. Ashman did survive to see an early screening of Beauty and the Beast. When rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, he weighed 80 pounds, had lost his sight, and could barely speak.On the early morning of March 14, 1991, two months before his 41st birthday, he died from heart failure caused by HIV/AIDS. Beauty and the Beast is dedicated to him, featuring the following message at the end of the closing credits: "TO OUR FRIEND HOWARD, WHO GAVE A MERMAID HER VOICE AND A BEAST HIS SOUL, WE WILL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL.". He is buried in Oheb Shalom Cemetery in Reistertown, Maryland. Personal life
Ashman never married, as same-sex marriage was not legal during his lifetime, and also had no children. He met Stuart White, one of his first partners, at a summer university program in 1969. Originally close friends, the two formed a bond which led to a secret relationship. They both completed master's degrees at Indiana University and then moved to upstate New York.<mask> and White re-opened the Workshop of Players Art Foundation (WPA) together as artistic directors. The two fell out in 1980, but reunited briefly prior to White's death from AIDS in July 1983. <mask>'s partner at the time of his death was Bill Lauch, who worked as an architect. Lauch accepted <mask>'s posthumous Oscar for Beauty and the Beast in 1992. Awards and nominations
Over the course of his career, <mask> won two Academy Awards (one posthumous) out of seven nominations. Of these nominations, four are posthumous nominations, the most in Academy Awards history. He also won a posthumous Laurence Olivier Award and five Grammy Awards (three of them posthumous), among other accolades.Accolades
Special recognitions
1990 – Special Award for outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' anti-drug special for children, for the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No" from the TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
2001 – Disney Legend Award (POSTHUMOUS)
Tributes
On the 2002 Special Edition DVD of Beauty and the Beast, the Disney animators teamed up again and added a new song called "Human Again", which <mask> and Menken had written for the film, but was cut from the finished film. On Disc 2, there is a short documentary entitled <mask>: In Memoriam that features many people who worked on Beauty and the Beast who talk about <mask>'s involvement on the film and how his death was truly a loss for them. Jeffrey Katzenberg claims there are two angels watching down on them that put their magic touch on every film they made. Those two angels are <mask> and Walt Disney himself. An album of Ashman singing his own work entitled <mask> Sings Ashman was released on November 11, 2008, by PS Classics as part of the Library of Congress "Songwriter Series." The 2009 documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty, which centers around Disney's animation renaissance, is dedicated to him, as well as Frank Wells, Joe Ranft, and Roy E. Disney. In March 2017, Don Hahn confirmed he was working on a documentary biographical film about <mask>.The documentary film titled <mask> premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2018, before having a limited theatrical run on December 18, 2018. It was released on Disney+ on August 7, 2020. Filmography
The Confirmation (1977) (writer)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) (lyricist, librettist and director)
Little Shop of Horrors (1982) (lyricist, librettist and director)
Smile (1986) (lyricist, librettist and director)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) (lyricist and screenwriter)
Oliver & Company (1988) (lyricist for "Once Upon a Time in New York City")
The Little Mermaid (1989) (lyricist, producer, additional dialogue)
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990) (lyricist for "Wonderful Way to Say No")
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (lyricist, executive producer) (dedicated)
Aladdin (1992) (lyricist for "Arabian Nights", "Friend Like Me", and "Prince Ali"). References
External links
Official website
Profile @ vimeo.com
Disney Legends
<mask>man papers, 1973-2010 at the Library of Congress
1950 births
1991 deaths
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American musicians
AIDS-related deaths in New York (state)
American expatriates in Burkina Faso
American male dramatists and playwrights
American musical theatre librettists
American musical theatre lyricists
Animation composers
Best Original Song Academy Award-winning songwriters
Boston University alumni
Broadway composers and lyricists
Broadway theatre directors
Disney people
American gay musicians
American gay writers
Golden Globe Award-winning musicians
Grammy Award winners
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Jewish American songwriters
LGBT dramatists and playwrights
LGBT Jews
LGBT people from Maryland
LGBT songwriters
Musicians from Baltimore
Peace Corps volunteers
Songwriters from Maryland
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Writers from Baltimore
20th-century LGBT people | [
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20635699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e%20Art%C3%B4t | Désirée Artôt | Désirée Artôt (; 11 June 1835 – 3 April 1907) was a Belgian soprano (initially a mezzo-soprano), who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. After her 1869 marriage to the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla.
Biography
Family background
Marguerite-Joséphine-Désirée Montagney Artôt was the daughter of Jean Désiré Montagney Artôt, a horn player at La Monnaie in Brussels and professor at the Brussels Conservatory. Her uncle was the violinist Alexandre Artôt (1815–1845). He had been born Alexandre Joseph (or Joseph-Alexandre) Montagney, but adopted the surname Artôt professionally, and the rest of his family followed suit. Another uncle was the Belgian portrait painter Charles Baugniet (1814–1886).
Early career
She studied with Pauline Viardot and Francesco Lamperti in London and Paris. She appeared in concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands and on 19 June 1857 at a State Concert in England. Giacomo Meyerbeer engaged her for the Paris Opéra, where she made her debut on 5 February 1858 as Fidès in his Le prophète, to great success. She also sang the title role in a condensed version of Gounod’s Sapho. Hector Berlioz and others praised her singing in the Journal des Débats on 17 February. However, she abandoned the French repertoire and went to sing in Italy in 1859. She also sang in Berlin that year, at the opening of the Victoria Theatre with Lorini's Italian company. She was highly successful in The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, Il trovatore and other roles there.
Artôt sang in London in 1859-60 and again in 1863 (at Her Majesty's Theatre), in La fille du régiment, La traviata, and Norma (as Adalgisa, with Thérèse Tietjens in the title role). In 1861, she was briefly engaged to the Welsh harpist John Thomas.
She returned to England in 1864, where she sang at Covent Garden, and 1866, in Gounod's Faust and other roles.
Russia and Tchaikovsky
In 1868 she visited Russia with a touring Italian company that also include Roberto Stagno. She captivated Moscow: at a reception for her at the home of Maria Begicheva, the hostess knelt before Artôt and kissed her hand. (Maria Begicheva was the wife of the repertory director of the Moscow state theatres, and the mother, from her first marriage, of one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's future lovers, Vladimir Shilovsky.)
Désirée Artôt met Tchaikovsky briefly at a party at the Begichevs in the spring. He also visited her after her benefit performance, for which he wrote additional recitatives for a production of Daniel Auber's opera Le domino noir. They again met by chance at a musical party, where she expressed her surprise that he had not visited her more often during the autumn. He promised he would do so, but he did not intend to keep his promise, however Anton Rubinstein persuaded him to see her at the opera. She then started to send him invitations every day, and he became accustomed to visiting her every evening. He later described her to his brother Modest as possessing "exquisite gesture, grace of movement, and artistic poise". He had put aside his work on his symphonic poem Fatum in order to give her all his attention. It seems plausible that Tchaikovsky was more captivated in her as a singer and actor than as a romantic interest, and had difficulty in separating the artist from the person. Tchaikovsky dedicated his Romance in F minor for piano, Op. 5, to Artôt.
By the end of the year, marriage was being considered. It has been said that this was Tchaikovsky's first serious attempt to conquer his homosexuality. Her mother, who was travelling with her, opposed the marriage. There were three reasons for this: a certain unnamed Armenian man who sat in the front seat at all Artôt's performances, and was in love with her himself, told her mother lies about Tchaikovsky's background and his financial status which, being a stranger to Russian customs, she had no reason to disbelieve; then there was Tchaikovsky's age - he was five years Artôt's junior; and finally, she may have heard rumours about Tchaikovsky's sexual practices. Tchaikovsky's father, in contrast, supported his son's plans. Artôt herself was not prepared to abandon her career to support a struggling composer, and neither was Tchaikovsky prepared to become merely a prima donna's husband. Some of Tchaikovsky's friends, such as Nikolai Rubinstein, advised him against the marriage because being the husband of a foreign singing celebrity would mean he would have to forgo his own musical career. The matter was left undecided, and no formal announcement was made, but they planned to meet again in the summer of 1869 at her estate near Paris to finalise the question of their marriage. Then the opera company left to continue its tour in Warsaw. By the beginning of 1869, however, Tchaikovsky was having second thoughts. He wrote to his brother Anatoly that it was doubtful the marriage would ever take place. He wrote "... this affair is beginning to fall apart somewhat".
Although she did not communicate this fact to Tchaikovsky, as the social conventions of the time would have demanded, Artôt also changed her mind. (One source claims it was her singing teacher Pauline Viardot who persuaded Artôt not to marry Tchaikovsky.) On 15 September 1869, either in Sèvres or Warsaw, Artôt married a member of her company, the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos. Padilla was seven years her junior, and he was someone she had previously ridiculed to Tchaikovsky. Nikolai Rubinstein was advised of the marriage by telegram, and he went to inform Tchaikovsky straight away. He was in the midst of a rehearsal for his opera The Voyevoda, and when he heard Rubinstein's news, he became quite upset, abandoned the rehearsal, and left immediately.
Tchaikovsky got over the affair fairly quickly. When writing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor in 1874, he included in the slow movement the tune of a popular French song Il faut s’amuser et rire, which Artôt had in her repertoire. The flute solo that starts the movement may also be a reference to her. The second subject of the first movement starts with the notes D flat–A (in German Des–A), which the musicologist David Brown argues is a musical cipher on Artôt's name, Désirée Artôt. The use of initials spelled out in musical pitches is a device often used by Robert Schumann (for example, in his Carnaval), and Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Schumann's music. The sequence D flat–A is naturally resolved by a B flat, which, according to Brown, determined the overall key of the entire concerto, B flat minor, a very unusual key for a concerto or symphony. The famous opening theme of the first movement is written in the relative major key, D flat major (Des), and after being played twice, it never reappears (perhaps an echo of Artôt's sudden disappearance from his life). The theme is introduced by a descending minor key gesture (F–D flat–C–B flat) on the horns, which might be a reference to Artôt's father, a professor of horn, but is more likely a reference to the composer himself: he used the sequence E–C–B–A as his own signature in other works, and the horn gesture is E–C–B–A transposed from A minor to B flat minor. There are other suggestions that Tchaikovsky coded his own name into the concerto, and Artôt's name into the symphonic poem Fatum, the Symphony No. 3, and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. He never revealed the program of Fatum, and later even destroyed the score (although it was reconstructed from the orchestral parts and published posthumously as Op. 77).
The Artôt episode was very fresh in Tchaikovsky's mind at the time he wrote Romeo and Juliet. He could easily have drawn a parallel between his personal loss and the tragedy of Shakespeare's drama. Mily Balakirev praised Romeo and Juliet'''s love theme (written in D flat = Des) with an extraordinary choice of words: "... the second D flat tune is delightful ... It is full of tenderness and the sweetness of love ... When I play it I imagine you are lying naked in your bath and that the Artôt-Padilla herself is washing your stomach with hot lather from scented soap".Seen and Heard International It was Balakirev who had first suggested Tchaikovsky write a Romeo and Juliet piece, in May 1869 (or August). The work (in its first version) was completed on 29 November 1869, just two months after Artôt's marriage to Padilla.
On her December 1870 Moscow visit, Tchaikovsky went to hear her as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. He was reported to have had tears streaming down his cheeks (although he was often moved to tears by music); they did not meet on this occasion. In 1875 she was again in Moscow, singing in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. Calling on Nikolai Rubinstein one day at the Conservatorium, Tchaikovsky and his friend Nikolay Kashkin were asked to wait because "a foreign lady" was with Rubinstein in his office. The foreign lady soon emerged, and it turned out to be Désirée Artôt. Both she and Tchaikovsky were so flustered that they exchanged no words, and she left hurriedly. Tchaikovsky burst out laughing, saying "And I thought I was in love with her!".
In December 1887, she had a chance encounter with Tchaikovsky in Berlin, at a performance of Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts, and they were glad to renew their acquaintance, but there was no mention of past events. On 4 February 1888, Artôt met Tchaikovsky again in Berlin. Tchaikovsky spent a part of each of the five days he had there with her, and spent an evening with her on 7 February at 17 Landgrafstrasse, during which she asked him to write a romance for her. He wrote in his diary: "This evening is counted among the most agreeable recollections of my sojourn in Berlin. The personality and the art of this singer are as irresistibly bewitching as ever". In May he wrote to her, promising the song by August. During the summer, the composer's time was taken up with various major works, including the Hamlet overture-fantasia, which was completed on 19 October. By now, he had decided to write not one song for Artôt, but six, keeping in mind the present range of her voice. He chose untranslated French texts by three poets. The Six French Songs, Op. 65, were finished on 22 October, and the set was dedicated to Désirée Artôt-Padilla. He concluded his 29 October letter to her with the hope that she would like them and "... one is a little intimidated when one is composing for a singer one considers the greatest among the great".
Later career
After Artôt's marriage to Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was often known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla. Artôt appeared with Padilla in Italian opera in Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, and Finland. She appeared in Moscow in 1868-70 and again in 1875-76, and in Saint Petersburg in 1871–72 and 1876–77. She had a tempestuous temperament and her onstage battles with Minnie Hauk in Moscow in the 1870s are well documented.
Artôt retired in 1884, but on 22 March 1887 she and Padilla appeared in a scene from Don Giovanni in a celebration of the Emperor's birthday at the Imperial Palace in Berlin; it was also the centenary year of Don Giovanni. She became a singing teacher in Berlin until 1889, before moving to Paris. Her students included the contralto Rosa Olitzka and Berglioth Prom. She died in 1907 in Paris (or Berlin), just four months after her husband died.
Artôt's and Padilla's daughter Lola Artôt de Padilla had a highly successful career as an operatic soprano, creating Vreli in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet.
References
Sources
Eric Blom, ed, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 5th edition, 1954
External links
1835 births
1907 deaths
Singers from Paris
Belgian operatic sopranos
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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"Her uncle was the violinist Alexandre Artôt (1815–1845).",
"He had been born Alexandre Joseph (or Joseph-Alexandre) Montagney, but adopted the surname Artôt professionally, and the rest of his family followed suit.",
"Another uncle was the Belgian portrait painter Charles Baugniet (1814–1886).",
"Early career\nShe studied with Pauline Viardot and Francesco Lamperti in London and Paris.",
"She appeared in concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands and on 19 June 1857 at a State Concert in England.",
"Giacomo Meyerbeer engaged her for the Paris Opéra, where she made her debut on 5 February 1858 as Fidès in his Le prophète, to great success.",
"She also sang the title role in a condensed version of Gounod’s Sapho.",
"Hector Berlioz and others praised her singing in the Journal des Débats on 17 February.",
"However, she abandoned the French repertoire and went to sing in Italy in 1859.",
"She also sang in Berlin that year, at the opening of the Victoria Theatre with Lorini's Italian company.",
"She was highly successful in The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, Il trovatore and other roles there.",
"Artôt sang in London in 1859-60 and again in 1863 (at Her Majesty's Theatre), in La fille du régiment, La traviata, and Norma (as Adalgisa, with Thérèse Tietjens in the title role).",
"In 1861, she was briefly engaged to the Welsh harpist John Thomas.",
"She returned to England in 1864, where she sang at Covent Garden, and 1866, in Gounod's Faust and other roles.",
"Russia and Tchaikovsky\nIn 1868 she visited Russia with a touring Italian company that also include Roberto Stagno.",
"She captivated Moscow: at a reception for her at the home of Maria Begicheva, the hostess knelt before Artôt and kissed her hand.",
"(Maria Begicheva was the wife of the repertory director of the Moscow state theatres, and the mother, from her first marriage, of one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's future lovers, Vladimir Shilovsky.)",
"Désirée Artôt met Tchaikovsky briefly at a party at the Begichevs in the spring.",
"He also visited her after her benefit performance, for which he wrote additional recitatives for a production of Daniel Auber's opera Le domino noir.",
"They again met by chance at a musical party, where she expressed her surprise that he had not visited her more often during the autumn.",
"He promised he would do so, but he did not intend to keep his promise, however Anton Rubinstein persuaded him to see her at the opera.",
"She then started to send him invitations every day, and he became accustomed to visiting her every evening.",
"He later described her to his brother Modest as possessing \"exquisite gesture, grace of movement, and artistic poise\".",
"He had put aside his work on his symphonic poem Fatum in order to give her all his attention.",
"It seems plausible that Tchaikovsky was more captivated in her as a singer and actor than as a romantic interest, and had difficulty in separating the artist from the person.",
"Tchaikovsky dedicated his Romance in F minor for piano, Op.",
"5, to Artôt.",
"By the end of the year, marriage was being considered.",
"It has been said that this was Tchaikovsky's first serious attempt to conquer his homosexuality.",
"Her mother, who was travelling with her, opposed the marriage.",
"There were three reasons for this: a certain unnamed Armenian man who sat in the front seat at all Artôt's performances, and was in love with her himself, told her mother lies about Tchaikovsky's background and his financial status which, being a stranger to Russian customs, she had no reason to disbelieve; then there was Tchaikovsky's age - he was five years Artôt's junior; and finally, she may have heard rumours about Tchaikovsky's sexual practices.",
"Tchaikovsky's father, in contrast, supported his son's plans.",
"Artôt herself was not prepared to abandon her career to support a struggling composer, and neither was Tchaikovsky prepared to become merely a prima donna's husband.",
"Some of Tchaikovsky's friends, such as Nikolai Rubinstein, advised him against the marriage because being the husband of a foreign singing celebrity would mean he would have to forgo his own musical career.",
"The matter was left undecided, and no formal announcement was made, but they planned to meet again in the summer of 1869 at her estate near Paris to finalise the question of their marriage.",
"Then the opera company left to continue its tour in Warsaw.",
"By the beginning of 1869, however, Tchaikovsky was having second thoughts.",
"He wrote to his brother Anatoly that it was doubtful the marriage would ever take place.",
"He wrote \"... this affair is beginning to fall apart somewhat\".",
"Although she did not communicate this fact to Tchaikovsky, as the social conventions of the time would have demanded, Artôt also changed her mind.",
"(One source claims it was her singing teacher Pauline Viardot who persuaded Artôt not to marry Tchaikovsky.)",
"On 15 September 1869, either in Sèvres or Warsaw, Artôt married a member of her company, the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos.",
"Padilla was seven years her junior, and he was someone she had previously ridiculed to Tchaikovsky.",
"Nikolai Rubinstein was advised of the marriage by telegram, and he went to inform Tchaikovsky straight away.",
"He was in the midst of a rehearsal for his opera The Voyevoda, and when he heard Rubinstein's news, he became quite upset, abandoned the rehearsal, and left immediately.",
"Tchaikovsky got over the affair fairly quickly.",
"When writing his Piano Concerto No.",
"1 in B-flat minor in 1874, he included in the slow movement the tune of a popular French song Il faut s’amuser et rire, which Artôt had in her repertoire.",
"The flute solo that starts the movement may also be a reference to her.",
"The second subject of the first movement starts with the notes D flat–A (in German Des–A), which the musicologist David Brown argues is a musical cipher on Artôt's name, Désirée Artôt.",
"The use of initials spelled out in musical pitches is a device often used by Robert Schumann (for example, in his Carnaval), and Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Schumann's music.",
"The sequence D flat–A is naturally resolved by a B flat, which, according to Brown, determined the overall key of the entire concerto, B flat minor, a very unusual key for a concerto or symphony.",
"The famous opening theme of the first movement is written in the relative major key, D flat major (Des), and after being played twice, it never reappears (perhaps an echo of Artôt's sudden disappearance from his life).",
"The theme is introduced by a descending minor key gesture (F–D flat–C–B flat) on the horns, which might be a reference to Artôt's father, a professor of horn, but is more likely a reference to the composer himself: he used the sequence E–C–B–A as his own signature in other works, and the horn gesture is E–C–B–A transposed from A minor to B flat minor.",
"There are other suggestions that Tchaikovsky coded his own name into the concerto, and Artôt's name into the symphonic poem Fatum, the Symphony No.",
"3, and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture.",
"He never revealed the program of Fatum, and later even destroyed the score (although it was reconstructed from the orchestral parts and published posthumously as Op.",
"77).",
"The Artôt episode was very fresh in Tchaikovsky's mind at the time he wrote Romeo and Juliet.",
"He could easily have drawn a parallel between his personal loss and the tragedy of Shakespeare's drama.",
"Mily Balakirev praised Romeo and Juliet'''s love theme (written in D flat = Des) with an extraordinary choice of words: \"... the second D flat tune is delightful ...",
"It is full of tenderness and the sweetness of love ...",
"When I play it I imagine you are lying naked in your bath and that the Artôt-Padilla herself is washing your stomach with hot lather from scented soap\".Seen and Heard International It was Balakirev who had first suggested Tchaikovsky write a Romeo and Juliet piece, in May 1869 (or August).",
"The work (in its first version) was completed on 29 November 1869, just two months after Artôt's marriage to Padilla.",
"On her December 1870 Moscow visit, Tchaikovsky went to hear her as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.",
"He was reported to have had tears streaming down his cheeks (although he was often moved to tears by music); they did not meet on this occasion.",
"In 1875 she was again in Moscow, singing in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.",
"Calling on Nikolai Rubinstein one day at the Conservatorium, Tchaikovsky and his friend Nikolay Kashkin were asked to wait because \"a foreign lady\" was with Rubinstein in his office.",
"The foreign lady soon emerged, and it turned out to be Désirée Artôt.",
"Both she and Tchaikovsky were so flustered that they exchanged no words, and she left hurriedly.",
"Tchaikovsky burst out laughing, saying \"And I thought I was in love with her!\".",
"In December 1887, she had a chance encounter with Tchaikovsky in Berlin, at a performance of Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts, and they were glad to renew their acquaintance, but there was no mention of past events.",
"On 4 February 1888, Artôt met Tchaikovsky again in Berlin.",
"Tchaikovsky spent a part of each of the five days he had there with her, and spent an evening with her on 7 February at 17 Landgrafstrasse, during which she asked him to write a romance for her.",
"He wrote in his diary: \"This evening is counted among the most agreeable recollections of my sojourn in Berlin.",
"The personality and the art of this singer are as irresistibly bewitching as ever\".",
"In May he wrote to her, promising the song by August.",
"During the summer, the composer's time was taken up with various major works, including the Hamlet overture-fantasia, which was completed on 19 October.",
"By now, he had decided to write not one song for Artôt, but six, keeping in mind the present range of her voice.",
"He chose untranslated French texts by three poets.",
"The Six French Songs, Op.",
"65, were finished on 22 October, and the set was dedicated to Désirée Artôt-Padilla.",
"He concluded his 29 October letter to her with the hope that she would like them and \"... one is a little intimidated when one is composing for a singer one considers the greatest among the great\".",
"Later career \nAfter Artôt's marriage to Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was often known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla.",
"Artôt appeared with Padilla in Italian opera in Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, and Finland.",
"She appeared in Moscow in 1868-70 and again in 1875-76, and in Saint Petersburg in 1871–72 and 1876–77.",
"She had a tempestuous temperament and her onstage battles with Minnie Hauk in Moscow in the 1870s are well documented.",
"Artôt retired in 1884, but on 22 March 1887 she and Padilla appeared in a scene from Don Giovanni in a celebration of the Emperor's birthday at the Imperial Palace in Berlin; it was also the centenary year of Don Giovanni.",
"She became a singing teacher in Berlin until 1889, before moving to Paris.",
"Her students included the contralto Rosa Olitzka and Berglioth Prom.",
"She died in 1907 in Paris (or Berlin), just four months after her husband died.",
"Artôt's and Padilla's daughter Lola Artôt de Padilla had a highly successful career as an operatic soprano, creating Vreli in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet.",
"References\n\nSources\n Eric Blom, ed, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 5th edition, 1954\n\nExternal links \n\n \n\n1835 births\n1907 deaths\nSingers from Paris\nBelgian operatic sopranos\nPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky\n19th-century Belgian women opera singers"
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"She was praised for her singing in the Journal des Débats.",
"She went to sing in Italy in the 19th century.",
"She sang in Berlin at the opening of the Victoria Theatre.",
"She had a lot of success in The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, and other roles.",
"In addition to singing in London, Artt also sang in La fille du Régiment, La traviata, and the title role with Thérse Tietjens.",
"She was briefly engaged to a Welsh harpist.",
"She sang in Gounod's Faust and other roles in England in the 19th century.",
"She visited Russia in 1868 with a touring Italian company.",
"At a reception for her in Moscow, the hostess knelt before Artt and kissed her hand.",
"The wife of the repertory director of the Moscow state theatres was also the mother of one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's future lovers.",
"At a party at the Begichevs in the spring, Artt met Tchaikovsky.",
"He wrote recitatives for a production of Daniel Auber's opera Le domino noir after visiting her.",
"She was surprised that he hadn't visited her more often during the autumn.",
"He didn't intend to keep his promise, but he did see her at the opera.",
"He became accustomed to visiting her every evening after she began to send him invitations every day.",
"She was described as having \"exquisite gesture, grace of movement, and artistic poise\" by his brother Modest.",
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"It's possible that he was more interested in her as a singer and actor than he was in her as a romantic interest.",
"The Romance in F minor was dedicated to the piano.",
"To Artt.",
"Marriage was being considered by the end of the year.",
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"His son's plans were supported by his father.",
"Artt didn't want to abandon her career to support a struggling composer, and neither did Tchaikovsky.",
"Being the husband of a foreign singing celebrity would mean he would have to forgo his own musical career, which some of his friends advised him against.",
"The matter was left undecided, and no formal announcement was made, but they planned to meet again in the summer of 1869 at her estate near Paris to decide on their marriage.",
"The opera company was in Warsaw.",
"By the beginning of 1869, he was having second thoughts.",
"He wrote to Anatoly that he didn't think the marriage would happen.",
"The affair is starting to fall apart.",
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"One source claims that her singing teacher persuaded Artt not to marry him.",
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"He was writing a piano symphony.",
"The slow movement of a popular French song was included in the B-flat minor in 1874.",
"The flute solo that starts the movement may be a reference to her.",
"The second subject of the first movement starts with the notes D flat–A, which the musicologist David Brown argues is a musical cipher on Artt's name.",
"Robert Schumann used the initials spelled out in musical pitches in many of his works, and was a great fan of his music.",
"According to Brown, the overall key of the entire concerto is B flat minor, a very unusual key for a symphony.",
"The famous opening theme of the first movement is written in the relative major key, D flat major, and after being played twice, it never reappears.",
"The descending minor key gesture (F–D flat–C–B flat) on the horns might be a reference to Artt's father, a professor of horn, but is more likely a reference to the composer himself.",
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"The Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture is 3.",
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"He could have drawn a parallel between his personal loss and the tragedy of Shakespeare's drama.",
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"It is full of love.",
"When I play it, I imagine you are lying naked in your bath and that the Artt-Padilla herself is washing your stomach with hot lather from scented soap.",
"Two months after Artt's marriage to Padilla, the work was completed.",
"During her December 1870 visit to Moscow, she played Marguerite in Gounod's Faust.",
"He was reported to have had tears streaming down his cheeks, but they did not meet on this occasion.",
"She sang in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in Moscow in 1875.",
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"Artt and Tchaikovsky met again in Berlin.",
"She asked him to write a romance for her after he spent a part of each of the five days with her.",
"He wrote in his diary that this evening was one of the most agreeable recollections of his time in Berlin.",
"The singer's personality and art are as captivating as ever.",
"He promised the song by August.",
"The Hamlet overture-fantasia, which was completed on 19 October, was one of the major works the composer took up during the summer.",
"He decided to write six songs for Artt, keeping in mind the range of her voice.",
"Three poets were chosen for the untranslated French texts.",
"There are six French songs.",
"The set was dedicated to Désirée Artt-Padilla.",
"He concluded his letter to her with the hope that she would like them.",
"She was known as Désirée Artt de Padilla after Artt's marriage.",
"Artt was in Italian opera in Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Russia.",
"She appeared in Moscow in 1868-70 and again in 1875-76.",
"The battles she had with Minnie Hauk in Moscow in the 1870s are well documented.",
"On March 22, 1887, Artt and Padilla appeared in a scene from Don Giovanni in a celebration of the Emperor's birthday at the Imperial Palace in Berlin.",
"She taught singing in Berlin before moving to Paris.",
"The students included the contraltoRosa Olitzka.",
"Four months after her husband died, she died in Paris.",
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] | <mask> (; 11 June 1835 – 3 April 1907) was a Belgian soprano (initially a mezzo-soprano), who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. After her 1869 marriage to the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was known as Désirée <mask> or Désirée <mask>. Biography
Family background
Marguerite-Joséphine-Désirée Montagney Artôt was the daughter of Jean Désiré Montagney Artôt, a horn player at La Monnaie in Brussels and professor at the Brussels Conservatory. Her uncle was the violinist Alexandre Artôt (1815–1845). He had been born Alexandre Joseph (or Joseph-Alexandre) Montagney, but adopted the surname Artôt professionally, and the rest of his family followed suit. Another uncle was the Belgian portrait painter Charles Baugniet (1814–1886).Early career
She studied with Pauline Viardot and Francesco Lamperti in London and Paris. She appeared in concerts in Belgium, the Netherlands and on 19 June 1857 at a State Concert in England. Giacomo Meyerbeer engaged her for the Paris Opéra, where she made her debut on 5 February 1858 as Fidès in his Le prophète, to great success. She also sang the title role in a condensed version of Gounod’s Sapho. Hector Berlioz and others praised her singing in the Journal des Débats on 17 February. However, she abandoned the French repertoire and went to sing in Italy in 1859. She also sang in Berlin that year, at the opening of the Victoria Theatre with Lorini's Italian company.She was highly successful in The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, Il trovatore and other roles there. Artôt sang in London in 1859-60 and again in 1863 (at Her Majesty's Theatre), in La fille du régiment, La traviata, and Norma (as Adalgisa, with Thérèse Tietjens in the title role). In 1861, she was briefly engaged to the Welsh harpist John Thomas. She returned to England in 1864, where she sang at Covent Garden, and 1866, in Gounod's Faust and other roles. Russia and Tchaikovsky
In 1868 she visited Russia with a touring Italian company that also include Roberto Stagno. She captivated Moscow: at a reception for her at the home of Maria Begicheva, the hostess knelt before Artôt and kissed her hand. (Maria Begicheva was the wife of the repertory director of the Moscow state theatres, and the mother, from her first marriage, of one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's future lovers, Vladimir Shilovsky.)Désirée <mask> met Tchaikovsky briefly at a party at the Begichevs in the spring. He also visited her after her benefit performance, for which he wrote additional recitatives for a production of Daniel Auber's opera Le domino noir. They again met by chance at a musical party, where she expressed her surprise that he had not visited her more often during the autumn. He promised he would do so, but he did not intend to keep his promise, however Anton Rubinstein persuaded him to see her at the opera. She then started to send him invitations every day, and he became accustomed to visiting her every evening. He later described her to his brother Modest as possessing "exquisite gesture, grace of movement, and artistic poise". He had put aside his work on his symphonic poem Fatum in order to give her all his attention.It seems plausible that Tchaikovsky was more captivated in her as a singer and actor than as a romantic interest, and had difficulty in separating the artist from the person. Tchaikovsky dedicated his Romance in F minor for piano, Op. 5, to Artôt. By the end of the year, marriage was being considered. It has been said that this was Tchaikovsky's first serious attempt to conquer his homosexuality. Her mother, who was travelling with her, opposed the marriage. There were three reasons for this: a certain unnamed Armenian man who sat in the front seat at all Artôt's performances, and was in love with her himself, told her mother lies about Tchaikovsky's background and his financial status which, being a stranger to Russian customs, she had no reason to disbelieve; then there was Tchaikovsky's age - he was five years Artôt's junior; and finally, she may have heard rumours about Tchaikovsky's sexual practices.Tchaikovsky's father, in contrast, supported his son's plans. <mask> herself was not prepared to abandon her career to support a struggling composer, and neither was Tchaikovsky prepared to become merely a prima donna's husband. Some of Tchaikovsky's friends, such as Nikolai Rubinstein, advised him against the marriage because being the husband of a foreign singing celebrity would mean he would have to forgo his own musical career. The matter was left undecided, and no formal announcement was made, but they planned to meet again in the summer of 1869 at her estate near Paris to finalise the question of their marriage. Then the opera company left to continue its tour in Warsaw. By the beginning of 1869, however, Tchaikovsky was having second thoughts. He wrote to his brother Anatoly that it was doubtful the marriage would ever take place.He wrote "... this affair is beginning to fall apart somewhat". Although she did not communicate this fact to Tchaikovsky, as the social conventions of the time would have demanded, Artôt also changed her mind. (One source claims it was her singing teacher Pauline Viardot who persuaded Artôt not to marry Tchaikovsky.) On 15 September 1869, either in Sèvres or Warsaw, Artôt married a member of her company, the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos. Padilla was seven years her junior, and he was someone she had previously ridiculed to Tchaikovsky. Nikolai Rubinstein was advised of the marriage by telegram, and he went to inform Tchaikovsky straight away. He was in the midst of a rehearsal for his opera The Voyevoda, and when he heard Rubinstein's news, he became quite upset, abandoned the rehearsal, and left immediately.Tchaikovsky got over the affair fairly quickly. When writing his Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor in 1874, he included in the slow movement the tune of a popular French song Il faut s’amuser et rire, which Artôt had in her repertoire. The flute solo that starts the movement may also be a reference to her. The second subject of the first movement starts with the notes D flat–A (in German Des–A), which the musicologist David Brown argues is a musical cipher on Artôt's name, Désirée Artôt. The use of initials spelled out in musical pitches is a device often used by Robert Schumann (for example, in his Carnaval), and Tchaikovsky was a great admirer of Schumann's music. The sequence D flat–A is naturally resolved by a B flat, which, according to Brown, determined the overall key of the entire concerto, B flat minor, a very unusual key for a concerto or symphony.The famous opening theme of the first movement is written in the relative major key, D flat major (Des), and after being played twice, it never reappears (perhaps an echo of Artôt's sudden disappearance from his life). The theme is introduced by a descending minor key gesture (F–D flat–C–B flat) on the horns, which might be a reference to Artôt's father, a professor of horn, but is more likely a reference to the composer himself: he used the sequence E–C–B–A as his own signature in other works, and the horn gesture is E–C–B–A transposed from A minor to B flat minor. There are other suggestions that Tchaikovsky coded his own name into the concerto, and Artôt's name into the symphonic poem Fatum, the Symphony No. 3, and the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture. He never revealed the program of Fatum, and later even destroyed the score (although it was reconstructed from the orchestral parts and published posthumously as Op. 77). The Artôt episode was very fresh in Tchaikovsky's mind at the time he wrote Romeo and Juliet.He could easily have drawn a parallel between his personal loss and the tragedy of Shakespeare's drama. Mily Balakirev praised Romeo and Juliet'''s love theme (written in D flat = Des) with an extraordinary choice of words: "... the second D flat tune is delightful ... It is full of tenderness and the sweetness of love ... When I play it I imagine you are lying naked in your bath and that the <mask>-Padilla herself is washing your stomach with hot lather from scented soap".Seen and Heard International It was Balakirev who had first suggested Tchaikovsky write a Romeo and Juliet piece, in May 1869 (or August). The work (in its first version) was completed on 29 November 1869, just two months after <mask>'s marriage to Padilla. On her December 1870 Moscow visit, Tchaikovsky went to hear her as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. He was reported to have had tears streaming down his cheeks (although he was often moved to tears by music); they did not meet on this occasion.In 1875 she was again in Moscow, singing in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots. Calling on Nikolai Rubinstein one day at the Conservatorium, Tchaikovsky and his friend Nikolay Kashkin were asked to wait because "a foreign lady" was with Rubinstein in his office. The foreign lady soon emerged, and it turned out to be Désirée <mask>. Both she and Tchaikovsky were so flustered that they exchanged no words, and she left hurriedly. Tchaikovsky burst out laughing, saying "And I thought I was in love with her!". In December 1887, she had a chance encounter with Tchaikovsky in Berlin, at a performance of Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts, and they were glad to renew their acquaintance, but there was no mention of past events. On 4 February 1888, Artôt met Tchaikovsky again in Berlin.Tchaikovsky spent a part of each of the five days he had there with her, and spent an evening with her on 7 February at 17 Landgrafstrasse, during which she asked him to write a romance for her. He wrote in his diary: "This evening is counted among the most agreeable recollections of my sojourn in Berlin. The personality and the art of this singer are as irresistibly bewitching as ever". In May he wrote to her, promising the song by August. During the summer, the composer's time was taken up with various major works, including the Hamlet overture-fantasia, which was completed on 19 October. By now, he had decided to write not one song for Artôt, but six, keeping in mind the present range of her voice. He chose untranslated French texts by three poets.The Six French Songs, Op. 65, were finished on 22 October, and the set was dedicated to Désirée <mask>-Padilla. He concluded his 29 October letter to her with the hope that she would like them and "... one is a little intimidated when one is composing for a singer one considers the greatest among the great". Later career
After <mask>'s marriage to Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was often known as Désirée <mask> de Padilla or Désirée <mask>-Padilla. Artôt appeared with Padilla in Italian opera in Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, and Finland. She appeared in Moscow in 1868-70 and again in 1875-76, and in Saint Petersburg in 1871–72 and 1876–77. She had a tempestuous temperament and her onstage battles with Minnie Hauk in Moscow in the 1870s are well documented.Artôt retired in 1884, but on 22 March 1887 she and Padilla appeared in a scene from Don Giovanni in a celebration of the Emperor's birthday at the Imperial Palace in Berlin; it was also the centenary year of Don Giovanni. She became a singing teacher in Berlin until 1889, before moving to Paris. Her students included the contralto Rosa Olitzka and Berglioth Prom. She died in 1907 in Paris (or Berlin), just four months after her husband died. Artôt's and Padilla's daughter <mask> de Padilla had a highly successful career as an operatic soprano, creating Vreli in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet. References
Sources
Eric Blom, ed, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 5th edition, 1954
External links
1835 births
1907 deaths
Singers from Paris
Belgian operatic sopranos
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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She sang in Berlin at the opening of the Victoria Theatre.She had a lot of success in The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, and other roles. In addition to singing in London, Artt also sang in La fille du Régiment, La traviata, and the title role with Thérse Tietjens. She was briefly engaged to a Welsh harpist. She sang in Gounod's Faust and other roles in England in the 19th century. She visited Russia in 1868 with a touring Italian company. At a reception for her in Moscow, the hostess knelt before Artt and kissed her hand. The wife of the repertory director of the Moscow state theatres was also the mother of one of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's future lovers.At a party at the Begichevs in the spring, Artt met Tchaikovsky. He wrote recitatives for a production of Daniel Auber's opera Le domino noir after visiting her. She was surprised that he hadn't visited her more often during the autumn. He didn't intend to keep his promise, but he did see her at the opera. He became accustomed to visiting her every evening after she began to send him invitations every day. She was described as having "exquisite gesture, grace of movement, and artistic poise" by his brother Modest. He put away his work on Fatum in order to pay attention to her.It's possible that he was more interested in her as a singer and actor than he was in her as a romantic interest. The Romance in F minor was dedicated to the piano. To Artt. Marriage was being considered by the end of the year. It has been said that this was the first serious attempt to change his homosexuality. Her mother was against the marriage. There were three reasons for this: a man who sat in the front seat at Artt's performances was in love with her, she was a stranger to Russian customs, and she lied to her mother about the financial status of the man.His son's plans were supported by his father. Artt didn't want to abandon her career to support a struggling composer, and neither did Tchaikovsky. Being the husband of a foreign singing celebrity would mean he would have to forgo his own musical career, which some of his friends advised him against. The matter was left undecided, and no formal announcement was made, but they planned to meet again in the summer of 1869 at her estate near Paris to decide on their marriage. The opera company was in Warsaw. By the beginning of 1869, he was having second thoughts. He wrote to Anatoly that he didn't think the marriage would happen.The affair is starting to fall apart. Artt changed her mind when she realized that the social conventions of the time would have demanded. One source claims that her singing teacher persuaded Artt not to marry him. Artt married a member of her company on 15 September 1869 in Svres or Warsaw. She had previously ridiculed him, and he was her junior. After being told of the marriage by telegram, the man went to inform the man. He was in the middle of a rehearsal for his opera The Voyevoda when he became upset and left immediately.The affair was over fairly quickly. He was writing a piano symphony. The slow movement of a popular French song was included in the B-flat minor in 1874. The flute solo that starts the movement may be a reference to her. The second subject of the first movement starts with the notes D flat–A, which the musicologist David Brown argues is a musical cipher on Artt's name. Robert Schumann used the initials spelled out in musical pitches in many of his works, and was a great fan of his music. According to Brown, the overall key of the entire concerto is B flat minor, a very unusual key for a symphony.The famous opening theme of the first movement is written in the relative major key, D flat major, and after being played twice, it never reappears. The descending minor key gesture (F–D flat–C–B flat) on the horns might be a reference to Artt's father, a professor of horn, but is more likely a reference to the composer himself. There are other suggestions that Artt's name should be included in the symphony. The Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture is 3. He destroyed the score and never revealed the program of Fatum. 77). At the time he wrote Juliet, the Artt episode was fresh in his mind.He could have drawn a parallel between his personal loss and the tragedy of Shakespeare's drama. The second D flat tune is delightful. It is full of love. When I play it, I imagine you are lying naked in your bath and that the Artt-Padilla herself is washing your stomach with hot lather from scented soap. Two months after Artt's marriage to Padilla, the work was completed. During her December 1870 visit to Moscow, she played Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. He was reported to have had tears streaming down his cheeks, but they did not meet on this occasion.She sang in Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in Moscow in 1875. One day at the Conservatorium, Tchaikovsky and his friend were asked to wait because a foreign lady was in the office. The foreign lady showed up, and it turned out to be Artt. Both of them were flustered and 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 888-349-8884 He said he thought he was in love with her. She had a chance encounter with Tchaikovsky in Berlin in December of 1887, but there was no mention of past events. Artt and Tchaikovsky met again in Berlin.She asked him to write a romance for her after he spent a part of each of the five days with her. He wrote in his diary that this evening was one of the most agreeable recollections of his time in Berlin. The singer's personality and art are as captivating as ever. He promised the song by August. The Hamlet overture-fantasia, which was completed on 19 October, was one of the major works the composer took up during the summer. He decided to write six songs for Artt, keeping in mind the range of her voice. Three poets were chosen for the untranslated French texts.There are six French songs. The set was dedicated to <mask> Artt-Padilla. He concluded his letter to her with the hope that she would like them. She was known as <mask> Artt de Padilla after Artt's marriage. Artt was in Italian opera in Germany, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Russia. She appeared in Moscow in 1868-70 and again in 1875-76. The battles she had with Minnie Hauk in Moscow in the 1870s are well documented.On March 22, 1887, Artt and Padilla appeared in a scene from Don Giovanni in a celebration of the Emperor's birthday at the Imperial Palace in Berlin. She taught singing in Berlin before moving to Paris. The students included the contraltoRosa Olitzka. Four months after her husband died, she died in Paris. Vreli in Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet was created by the daughter of Artt's and Padilla's. There are links to 1835 births and 1907 deaths from Paris in Eric Blom's Dictionary of Music and Musicians' Singers. | [
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704933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo%20Lamas | Lorenzo Lamas | Lorenzo Fernando Lamas (born January 20, 1958) is an American actor. He is widely known for his role of Lance Cumson, the irresponsible grandson of Angela Channing—played by Jane Wyman—in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
Lamas is also known for his roles as Reno Raines in the crime drama series Renegade (1992–1997), Dr. Hollywood on the Nickelodeon's TV show Big Time Rush (2009-2013), Hector Ramirez in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2004–2006), and Meap on the television show Phineas and Ferb.
He served as a judge on ABC television's Are You Hot?, and starred in his own reality show, Leave It to Lamas, a series about his real-life family.
Early life
Lamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and Norwegian American actress Arlene Dahl. He is the stepson of swimmer and film star Esther Williams, who married his father when Lamas was 11 years old. Both Williams and Dahl were best friends of actress Jane Wyman (who knew him since birth), and would later work alongside Lamas on Falcon Crest. He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California, and moved to New York City in 1971. In 1979, he took up Taekwondo, earning a 3rd degree black belt, also Karate, Jujitsu, Aikido, and Shotokan, earning black belts in each. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975.
Career
Early career
Lamas had longed to be in show business since the age of five, when he approached his mother and said, "I want to be a star...I mean, an actor." With a smile, she replied, "I heard you the first time, son."
Lamas first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976. As a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford, Lamas secured a non-speaking role as a jock in the 1978 musical film Grease, in which he dyed his hair blond. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lamas had guest-starring roles in a number of TV series including Switch, Sword of Justice, Dear Detective, Secrets of Midland Heights, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Hotel.
Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
In 1980, Lamas auditioned for and won the role of Lance Cumson, for the pilot of a new series entitled The Vintage Years. The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest, which aired on CBS for nine seasons from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. During a 2006 TV interview with a Norwegian television team, Lamas said that to get the role he had auditioned twice and beat out five other actors for the part. Lamas was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Soap Opera Digest Awards for his work on the series; he was the only actor to appear in all 227 episodes.
During his tenure on the show, Lamas had the lead role in the poorly received film Body Rock (1984), where he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. (He also performed a song on the film's soundtrack, and the track "Fools Like Me" became his only single to date to crack the Billboard Hot 100 chart). The co-founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, John J.B. Wilson, later named Body Rock as one of "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made".
Later career
Lamas began carving out a niche for himself as an action-hero, showcasing his martial-arts skills by starring in such movies as the Snake Eater-trilogy (1989–1992), Bounty Tracker (1993), Gladiator Cop (1995), Terminal Justice (1996), and many similar low-budget action-films. From 1992 to 1997, Lamas played the lead role of Reno Raines (a falsely accused cop) in the syndicated series Renegade, which allowed him to exercise his enthusiasm for Harley-Davidson motorcycles as well as martial arts. The show was seen in over 100 countries, and during its fifth and final season, it moved from first-run syndication to the USA Network. Lamas had been keeping his hair long (past his shoulders) during this time, so when he had it cut short following the end of the fourth season of Renegade, he had to wear a long-haired wig for filming of the final season. In 2004, Lamas joined the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Hector Ramirez, remaining on the show until 2006.
In August 2007, Lamas starred as the King of Siam in The King and I at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine. That fall, he performed at Kean University Premiere Stages in Union, New Jersey, in the title role in Steven Dietz's Dracula. In June 2008, he performed as El Gallo in The Fantasticks at the Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas. In June 2009, Lamas returned to the Ogunquit Playhouse as Zach in A Chorus Line.
In 2015, Lamas was a cast member of the reality TV series Celebrity Apprentice.
As of 2016, Lamas was working as a helicopter pilot, flying people on day trips to the Grand Canyon from Los Angeles. According to his Twitter account, he is currently flying as a helicopter tour pilot with HeliNY in New York City.
Personal life
Lamas has been married five times and has six children. His first marriage was to Victoria Hilbert (1981–1982). His second marriage (1983–1985) was to his publicist, Michele Cathy Smith, with whom he had two children: son Alvaro Joshua "A.J." (b. 1983) and daughter Shayne (b. 1985), both actors. Lamas was then in a relationship with actress Daphne Ashbrook; the couple had a daughter, Paton Lee (b. 1988). She likewise is an actress.
Lamas was married to his third wife, Renegade co-star Kathleen Kinmont, from 1989 to 1993. Playmate of the Month Shauna Sand (who made guest appearances in Renegade) became Lamas' fourth wife in 1996. The couple had three daughters—Alexandra Lynne (b. 1997), Victoria (b. 1999), and Isabella Lorenza (b. 2001)—before divorcing in 2002.
After five months of dating, Lamas married his fifth wife, Shawna Craig, 2011 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He told reporters that he would change his name to Lorenzo Lamas-Craig. This decision was motivated by the fact that his previous wife, Shauna, kept the surname Lamas, and is legally named Shauna Lamas, and new bride Shawna, whose given name is a homonym and almost identical to that of Shauna, did not wish to have a virtually identical full name. In June 2018, Lamas filed for divorce from his fifth wife citing irreconcilable differences.
Lamas started dating a woman named Kenna Scott in April 2020. The couple got engaged in Las Vegas in February 2021. The wedding is set to take place in Napa Valley in May 2022.
Lamas enjoyed close friendships with his Falcon Crest co-stars Ana Alicia and Jane Wyman. He continually praised
Wyman's professionalism and credited her as a "huge influence" on his life and career. After Wyman's death in 2007, Lamas released a statement: "Next to my parents, Jane was the most influential person in my young career. She has left an incredible body of work and accomplishments that cannot go without being recognized and celebrated. I will miss her greatly."
Lamas' stepmother, Esther Williams, died on June 6, 2013, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California. He stated on Twitter: "The best swim teacher and soul mom RIP."
Lamas published his autobiography, Renegade at Heart (co-written by celebrity biographer Jeff Lenburg) in December 2014
Filmography
Films
Television
Discography
References
External links
Lorenzo Lamas on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/1679683-Lorenzo-Lamas
1958 births
Living people
Admiral Farragut Academy alumni
American aviators
American male film actors
American male soap opera actors
American male taekwondo practitioners
American male television actors
American people of Argentine descent
American people of Norwegian descent
Helicopter pilots
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
Male actors from New York City
Male actors from Santa Monica, California
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Participants in American reality television series
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"He is widely known for his role of Lance Cumson, the irresponsible grandson of Angela Channing—played by Jane Wyman—in the soap opera Falcon Crest (1981–1990), for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.",
"Lamas is also known for his roles as Reno Raines in the crime drama series Renegade (1992–1997), Dr. Hollywood on the Nickelodeon's TV show Big Time Rush (2009-2013), Hector Ramirez in the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful (2004–2006), and Meap on the television show Phineas and Ferb.",
"He served as a judge on ABC television's Are You Hot?, and starred in his own reality show, Leave It to Lamas, a series about his real-life family.",
"Early life\nLamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and Norwegian American actress Arlene Dahl.",
"He is the stepson of swimmer and film star Esther Williams, who married his father when Lamas was 11 years old.",
"Both Williams and Dahl were best friends of actress Jane Wyman (who knew him since birth), and would later work alongside Lamas on Falcon Crest.",
"He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California, and moved to New York City in 1971.",
"In 1979, he took up Taekwondo, earning a 3rd degree black belt, also Karate, Jujitsu, Aikido, and Shotokan, earning black belts in each.",
"He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975.",
"Career\n\nEarly career\nLamas had longed to be in show business since the age of five, when he approached his mother and said, \"I want to be a star...I mean, an actor.\"",
"With a smile, she replied, \"I heard you the first time, son.\"",
"Lamas first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976.",
"As a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford, Lamas secured a non-speaking role as a jock in the 1978 musical film Grease, in which he dyed his hair blond.",
"In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lamas had guest-starring roles in a number of TV series including Switch, Sword of Justice, Dear Detective, Secrets of Midland Heights, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Hotel.",
"Falcon Crest (1981–1990)\nIn 1980, Lamas auditioned for and won the role of Lance Cumson, for the pilot of a new series entitled The Vintage Years.",
"The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest, which aired on CBS for nine seasons from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990.",
"During a 2006 TV interview with a Norwegian television team, Lamas said that to get the role he had auditioned twice and beat out five other actors for the part.",
"Lamas was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Soap Opera Digest Awards for his work on the series; he was the only actor to appear in all 227 episodes.",
"During his tenure on the show, Lamas had the lead role in the poorly received film Body Rock (1984), where he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.",
"(He also performed a song on the film's soundtrack, and the track \"Fools Like Me\" became his only single to date to crack the Billboard Hot 100 chart).",
"The co-founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, John J.B. Wilson, later named Body Rock as one of \"The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made\".",
"Later career\nLamas began carving out a niche for himself as an action-hero, showcasing his martial-arts skills by starring in such movies as the Snake Eater-trilogy (1989–1992), Bounty Tracker (1993), Gladiator Cop (1995), Terminal Justice (1996), and many similar low-budget action-films.",
"From 1992 to 1997, Lamas played the lead role of Reno Raines (a falsely accused cop) in the syndicated series Renegade, which allowed him to exercise his enthusiasm for Harley-Davidson motorcycles as well as martial arts.",
"The show was seen in over 100 countries, and during its fifth and final season, it moved from first-run syndication to the USA Network.",
"Lamas had been keeping his hair long (past his shoulders) during this time, so when he had it cut short following the end of the fourth season of Renegade, he had to wear a long-haired wig for filming of the final season.",
"In 2004, Lamas joined the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Hector Ramirez, remaining on the show until 2006.",
"In August 2007, Lamas starred as the King of Siam in The King and I at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine.",
"That fall, he performed at Kean University Premiere Stages in Union, New Jersey, in the title role in Steven Dietz's Dracula.",
"In June 2008, he performed as El Gallo in The Fantasticks at the Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas.",
"In June 2009, Lamas returned to the Ogunquit Playhouse as Zach in A Chorus Line.",
"In 2015, Lamas was a cast member of the reality TV series Celebrity Apprentice.",
"As of 2016, Lamas was working as a helicopter pilot, flying people on day trips to the Grand Canyon from Los Angeles.",
"According to his Twitter account, he is currently flying as a helicopter tour pilot with HeliNY in New York City.",
"Personal life\nLamas has been married five times and has six children.",
"His first marriage was to Victoria Hilbert (1981–1982).",
"His second marriage (1983–1985) was to his publicist, Michele Cathy Smith, with whom he had two children: son Alvaro Joshua \"A.J.\"",
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"She likewise is an actress.",
"Lamas was married to his third wife, Renegade co-star Kathleen Kinmont, from 1989 to 1993.",
"Playmate of the Month Shauna Sand (who made guest appearances in Renegade) became Lamas' fourth wife in 1996.",
"The couple had three daughters—Alexandra Lynne (b.",
"1997), Victoria (b.",
"1999), and Isabella Lorenza (b.",
"2001)—before divorcing in 2002.",
"After five months of dating, Lamas married his fifth wife, Shawna Craig, 2011 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.",
"He told reporters that he would change his name to Lorenzo Lamas-Craig.",
"This decision was motivated by the fact that his previous wife, Shauna, kept the surname Lamas, and is legally named Shauna Lamas, and new bride Shawna, whose given name is a homonym and almost identical to that of Shauna, did not wish to have a virtually identical full name.",
"In June 2018, Lamas filed for divorce from his fifth wife citing irreconcilable differences.",
"Lamas started dating a woman named Kenna Scott in April 2020.",
"The couple got engaged in Las Vegas in February 2021.",
"The wedding is set to take place in Napa Valley in May 2022.",
"Lamas enjoyed close friendships with his Falcon Crest co-stars Ana Alicia and Jane Wyman.",
"He continually praised\nWyman's professionalism and credited her as a \"huge influence\" on his life and career.",
"After Wyman's death in 2007, Lamas released a statement: \"Next to my parents, Jane was the most influential person in my young career.",
"She has left an incredible body of work and accomplishments that cannot go without being recognized and celebrated.",
"I will miss her greatly.\"",
"Lamas' stepmother, Esther Williams, died on June 6, 2013, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California.",
"He stated on Twitter: \"The best swim teacher and soul mom RIP.\"",
"Lamas published his autobiography, Renegade at Heart (co-written by celebrity biographer Jeff Lenburg) in December 2014\n\nFilmography\n\nFilms\n\nTelevision\n\nDiscography\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n \n \n Lorenzo Lamas on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/1679683-Lorenzo-Lamas\n\n1958 births\nLiving people\nAdmiral Farragut Academy alumni\nAmerican aviators\nAmerican male film actors\nAmerican male soap opera actors\nAmerican male taekwondo practitioners\nAmerican male television actors\nAmerican people of Argentine descent\nAmerican people of Norwegian descent\nHelicopter pilots\nHispanic and Latino American male actors\nMale actors from New York City\nMale actors from Santa Monica, California\n20th-century American male actors\n21st-century American male actors\nParticipants in American reality television series\nThe Apprentice (franchise) contestants"
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"He received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his portrayal of Lance Cumson in the soap opera \"Falcon Crest\", which starred Jane Wyman.",
"Lamas is best known for his roles as Reno Raines in the crime drama series and Dr. Hollywood in the TV show Big Time Rush.",
"He was a judge on ABC's Are You Hot?, and starred in his own reality show, Leave It to Lamas.",
"Fernando Lamas, the son of Argentine actor Fernando Lamas, was born in Santa Monica, California.",
"Esther Williams married his father when Lamas was 11 years old.",
"The two men were best friends of actress Jane Wyman, who would later work with Lamas on Falcon Crest.",
"He moved to New York City from California in 1971.",
"He earned black belts in Karate, Jujitsu, Aikido, and Shotokan in addition to earning a 3rd degree black belt in Taekwondo.",
"He graduated from the academy in 1975.",
"When Lamas was five years old, he told his mother that he wanted to be an actor.",
"She smiled and said, \"I heard you the first time, son.\"",
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"Lamas dyed his hair blond to play a jock in the 1978 musical film Grease, which was a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford.",
"Lamas had guest-starring roles in a number of TV shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s.",
"Lamas won the role of Lance Cumson in the pilot of The Vintage Years, after auditioning for the role.",
"The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest, which aired on CBS for nine seasons from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990.",
"Lamas told a Norwegian television team that he beat out five other actors for the part and that he had tried out for it twice.",
"Lamas was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Soap Opera Digest Awards for his work on the series.",
"During his time on the show, Lamas played the lead role in the film Body Rock, which was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor.",
"The track \"Fools Like Me\" became his only single to crack the Hot 100 chart, and he also performed a song on the film's soundtrack.",
"Body Rock was named one of \"The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made\" by John J.B. Wilson.",
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Lamas was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Argentine actor <mask> and Norwegian American actress Arlene Dahl. He is the stepson of swimmer and film star Esther Williams, who married his father when Lamas was 11 years old. Both Williams and Dahl were best friends of actress Jane Wyman (who knew him since birth), and would later work alongside <mask> on Falcon Crest.He was brought up in Pacific Palisades, California, and moved to New York City in 1971. In 1979, he took up Taekwondo, earning a 3rd degree black belt, also Karate, Jujitsu, Aikido, and Shotokan, earning black belts in each. He graduated from the Admiral Farragut Academy in Pine Beach, New Jersey, in 1975. Career
Early career
Lamas had longed to be in show business since the age of five, when he approached his mother and said, "I want to be a star...I mean, an actor." With a smile, she replied, "I heard you the first time, son." Lamas first studied acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop and quickly thereafter obtained his first TV acting role in 1976. As a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford, Lamas secured a non-speaking role as a jock in the 1978 musical film Grease, in which he dyed his hair blond.In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Lamas had guest-starring roles in a number of TV series including Switch, Sword of Justice, Dear Detective, Secrets of Midland Heights, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat and Hotel. Falcon Crest (1981–1990)
In 1980, Lamas auditioned for and won the role of Lance Cumson, for the pilot of a new series entitled The Vintage Years. The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest, which aired on CBS for nine seasons from December 4, 1981, to May 17, 1990. During a 2006 TV interview with a Norwegian television team, Lamas said that to get the role he had auditioned twice and beat out five other actors for the part. <mask> was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Soap Opera Digest Awards for his work on the series; he was the only actor to appear in all 227 episodes. During his tenure on the show, Lamas had the lead role in the poorly received film Body Rock (1984), where he was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. (He also performed a song on the film's soundtrack, and the track "Fools Like Me" became his only single to date to crack the Billboard Hot 100 chart).The co-founder of the Golden Raspberry Awards, John J.B. Wilson, later named Body Rock as one of "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made". Later career
<mask> began carving out a niche for himself as an action-hero, showcasing his martial-arts skills by starring in such movies as the Snake Eater-trilogy (1989–1992), Bounty Tracker (1993), Gladiator Cop (1995), Terminal Justice (1996), and many similar low-budget action-films. From 1992 to 1997, Lamas played the lead role of Reno Raines (a falsely accused cop) in the syndicated series Renegade, which allowed him to exercise his enthusiasm for Harley-Davidson motorcycles as well as martial arts. The show was seen in over 100 countries, and during its fifth and final season, it moved from first-run syndication to the USA Network. Lamas had been keeping his hair long (past his shoulders) during this time, so when he had it cut short following the end of the fourth season of Renegade, he had to wear a long-haired wig for filming of the final season. In 2004, <mask> joined the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Hector Ramirez, remaining on the show until 2006. In August 2007, <mask> starred as the King of Siam in The King and I at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine.That fall, he performed at Kean University Premiere Stages in Union, New Jersey, in the title role in Steven Dietz's Dracula. In June 2008, he performed as El Gallo in The Fantasticks at the Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas. In June 2009, Lamas returned to the Ogunquit Playhouse as Zach in A Chorus Line. In 2015, Lamas was a cast member of the reality TV series Celebrity Apprentice. As of 2016, Lamas was working as a helicopter pilot, flying people on day trips to the Grand Canyon from Los Angeles. According to his Twitter account, he is currently flying as a helicopter tour pilot with HeliNY in New York City. Personal life
Lamas has been married five times and has six children.His first marriage was to Victoria Hilbert (1981–1982). His second marriage (1983–1985) was to his publicist, Michele Cathy Smith, with whom he had two children: son Alvaro Joshua "A.J." (b. 1983) and daughter Shayne (b. 1985), both actors. Lamas was then in a relationship with actress Daphne Ashbrook; the couple had a daughter, Paton Lee (b. 1988).She likewise is an actress. <mask> was married to his third wife, Renegade co-star Kathleen Kinmont, from 1989 to 1993. Playmate of the Month Shauna Sand (who made guest appearances in Renegade) became Lamas' fourth wife in 1996. The couple had three daughters—Alexandra Lynne (b. 1997), Victoria (b. 1999), and Isabella Lorenza (b. 2001)—before divorcing in 2002.After five months of dating, Lamas married his fifth wife, Shawna Craig, 2011 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He told reporters that he would change his name to <mask>-Craig. This decision was motivated by the fact that his previous wife, Shauna, kept the surname <mask>, and is legally named Shauna <mask>, and new bride Shawna, whose given name is a homonym and almost identical to that of Shauna, did not wish to have a virtually identical full name. In June 2018, <mask> filed for divorce from his fifth wife citing irreconcilable differences. Lamas started dating a woman named Kenna Scott in April 2020. The couple got engaged in Las Vegas in February 2021. The wedding is set to take place in Napa Valley in May 2022.Lamas enjoyed close friendships with his Falcon Crest co-stars Ana Alicia and Jane Wyman. He continually praised
Wyman's professionalism and credited her as a "huge influence" on his life and career. After Wyman's death in 2007, Lamas released a statement: "Next to my parents, Jane was the most influential person in my young career. She has left an incredible body of work and accomplishments that cannot go without being recognized and celebrated. I will miss her greatly." Lamas' stepmother, Esther Williams, died on June 6, 2013, at the age of 91, in Los Angeles, California. He stated on Twitter: "The best swim teacher and soul mom RIP."<mask> published his autobiography, Renegade at Heart (co-written by celebrity biographer Jeff Lenburg) in December 2014
Filmography
Films
Television
Discography
References
External links
<mask> on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/1679683-<mask>s
1958 births
Living people
Admiral Farragut Academy alumni
American aviators
American male film actors
American male soap opera actors
American male taekwondo practitioners
American male television actors
American people of Argentine descent
American people of Norwegian descent
Helicopter pilots
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
Male actors from New York City
Male actors from Santa Monica, California
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Participants in American reality television series
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Lamas got his first TV acting role in 1976, after studying acting in Tony Barr's Film Actors Workshop. Lamas dyed his hair blond to play a jock in the 1978 musical film Grease, which was a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford.Lamas had guest-starring roles in a number of TV shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lamas won the role of Lance Cumson in the pilot of The Vintage Years, after auditioning for the role. The pilot was later retooled to become the hit prime time drama series Falcon Crest, which aired on CBS for nine seasons from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. Lamas told a Norwegian television team that he beat out five other actors for the part and that he had tried out for it twice. <mask> was nominated for a Golden Globe and two Soap Opera Digest Awards for his work on the series. During his time on the show, <mask> played the lead role in the film Body Rock, which was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor. The track "Fools Like Me" became his only single to crack the Hot 100 chart, and he also performed a song on the film's soundtrack.Body Rock was named one of "The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made" by John J.B. Wilson. Lamas began carving out a niche for himself as an action-hero by starring in such movies as the Snake Eater-trilogy, Bounty Tracker, Gladiator Cop, and Terminal Justice. Lamas played the lead role of Reno Raines in the syndicated series, which allowed him to exercise his enthusiasm for Harley-Davidson motorcycles as well as martial arts. 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Lamas played the role of Hector Ramirez on The Bold and the Beautiful from 2004 to 2006 Lamas played the King of Siam in The King and I at the Ogunquit Playhouse.He played the title role in Steven Dietz's Dracula at the premiere stages. He played El Gallo in The Fantasticks at the Casa Maana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas. In June 2009, <mask> reprised his role in A Chorus Line. Lamas was a cast member of Celebrity Apprentice. Lamas flew people on day trips to the Grand Canyon from Los Angeles as a helicopter pilot. He is a helicopter tour pilot in New York City. <mask> has been married five times and has six children.Victoria Hilbert was his first wife. His second marriage was to his publicist, who he had two children with. There is a b. 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He said he would change his name to <mask>-Craig. The decision was made due to the fact that his previous wife, Shauna, kept the Lamas name, and that his new bride, Shawna, did not want to have a similar name. In June of last year, Lamas filed for divorce from his fifth wife. <mask> and Kenna Scott started dating in April 2020. The couple got engaged in Las Vegas. The wedding will take place in May of 2022.Lamas was close to his Falcon Crest co-stars. He said that she was a huge influence on his life and career. Next to my parents, Jane was the most influential person in my young career. She has left a body of work and accomplishments that cannot be ignored. I will miss her a lot. Esther Williams, Lamas' stepmother, died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 91. He said the best swim teacher and soul mom was dead.<mask> published his memoir, "Renegades at Heart" in December of last year. | [
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23600388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihiro | Mihiro | , real name , is a Japanese actress, singer, fiction writer, TV entertainer (notices artist) and former adult video (AV) actress.
Life and career
Mihiro was born in Niigata prefecture on May 19, 1982. She began a career as a softcore nude model as early as May 2001 when her video Dream (どりーむ) was released followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook Dream (夢) in August 2002. She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos and photobooks over the next year and a half. Mihiro also acted in several softcore V-Cinema productions during this time including the 2003 comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu. and Kōji Kawano's 2004 . She was also featured as a singer in a J-Pop Maxi single titled Sunflower (ヒマワリ) for Dream Robot in October 2004.
AV debut – Alice Japan & MAX-A
Mihiro made her transition from nude model to AV actress in January 2005 when Alice Japan released her debut adult video Little Angel. A month later, she made her first video for the MAX-A studio, Super Star. For the next two and a half years until mid-2007, Mihiro made about one AV a month alternating between Alice Japan and MAX-A. At the same time, Mihiro was also appearing on TV in the TV-Asahi drama {{nihongo|Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi'''|特命係長·只野仁}} or Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano. She was in Episode 1 of the second year series (Whole Episode 12) of the program broadcast on January 14, 2005.
She began 2006 with a regular role in TV Tokyo's romantic comedy, , which ran in 12 episodes from January to March 2006. In April 2006, she was one of the leads in the V-Cinema horror film, Zombie Self-Defense Force directed by pink film and horror movie director Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Throughout 2006, she continued appearing in monthly adult videos for MAX-A and Alice Japan.
In another genre, Mihiro was the star of the November 2006 V-Cinema release , an erotic parody of the manga-inspired movie Yo-Yo Girl Cop. She played a teenaged undercover government agent armed with a steel yo-yo and see-through panties. One reviewer commented that Mihiro's was "the only performance of note". The DVD was released in the US with English subtitles in November 2008.
Mihiro continued her singing career with an all AV Idol group, the "Man-zoku ディーバ Divas" which originally consisted of Mihiro, Akiho Yoshizawa and Naho Ozawa. Ozawa later left the group which was eventually expanded to five singers.Official website:
Mihiro's final videos for the MAX-A and Alice Japan studios were released in the first half of 2007. She returned to TV work in 2007 as a regular cast member in the TV Asahi suspense drama which was broadcast April–June 2007 and she also appeared as a guest star in Episode 1 of the erotic drama which was aired by TV Asahi in August 2007.
Maxing & S1
From July 2007, Mihiro began making videos with two new AV studios, Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style. She kept to her previous pattern of doing one movie per month, alternating between the two companies. At the 2007 Vegas Night Moodyz Awards, Mihiro took the 2nd Place Award for Best Actress and her debut video for S1, Hyper-Risky Mosaic Mihiro, directed by Hideto Aki, won the Best Title Award.
In the mainstream film arena, she starred as Ms Lin, the owner of a dumpling shop with a "secret ingredient", in director Kōji Kawano's 2008 V-Cinema erotic horror-comedy Cruel Restaurant. She had previously worked with Kawano in the 2004 video Chakuero no onna Karina. Along with other S1 actresses Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami and Rio, Mihiro was one of the regular cast members doing songs and comedy on the late night TV Osaka variety show which began broadcasting in April 2008. She has also done a number of TV skits with Japanese comedian Ken Shimura.
In 2009 Mihiro continued her AV career with S1 and Maxing but she also appeared in roles in theatrical movies, the first being in March, in the drama , also known as 8000 Miles. The movie, directed by Yū Irie, follows a group of aspiring rap singers in Tokyo's Saitama prefecture. The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the 19th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2009. In June 2009 she was in Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost, part of the famous Japanese Ju-on series re-made in the US as The Grudge. Later, in July she had a part in the action-horror gore-fest by director Kengo Kaji, Samurai Princess: Devil Princess.
Autobiography and retirement
Mihiro published an autobiographical memoir titled nude, detailing her early life and entry into AV. The book () was released by Kodansha on May 19, 2009. Her book is one of a number of autobiographical works by actresses about the AV industry going back to Ai Iijima's novel Platonic Sex in 2000, and including Saori Hara's My Real Name Is Mai Kato: Why I Became an AV Actress from December 2009, and Honoka's 2010 book Biography of Honoka: Mama, I Love You, which adult media reporter Rio Yasuda sees as marking a trend in which the AV industry is being assimilated into popular culture.
Also in 2009, she traveled to Korea to promote a four-part dramatic TV series Korean Classroom, a joint Korean-Japanese production which aired on Korean TV in May 2009. The series, which also starred AV Idols Sora Aoi and Rio (Tina Yuzuki), deals with three Japanese girls who travel to Korea and fall for some local men.
In 2010, in addition to her regular schedule of adult videos for S1 and Maxing, she starred in the low-budget comedy , released in February and directed by Dai Sakō. In May 2010, it was announced that Mihiro's autobiographical work nude would be made into a movie starring Naoko Watanabe and directed by Yuichi Onuma. The movie started shooting in May and was released on September 10th, 2010.
Earlier in the year Mihiro had announced her retirement from AV and her last two videos were Mihiro Channel for Maxing and her retirement work, the 2-disc Mihiro Final - Special Technique on June 19, 2010 for S1. In 2012, the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan. Mihiro finished in 83rd place in the balloting.
Later career
In 2013, Mihiro starred in the Toho comedy Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie, a film adaption of the popular TV Tokyo variety show. Mihiro played the part of Yurufuwa-chan in , the TV Tokyo comedy about a group of 30-something women starring gravure idol Mitsu Dan, which aired July–October 2014. Since 2017 she's been a member of the newly reformed Ebisu Muscats and performs regularly with the band. She also discontinued the selling of her former AV work from DMM.com by the so-called "5-year rule" (introduced around 2016), that allows AV actresses to stop the mainstream distribution of their videos five years after retirement.
Filmography
Theatrical films
(November 2006)
(March 2009)
Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost (June 2009)
Samurai Princess: Devil Princess (July 2009)
(February 2010)
nude (September 2010)
Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie'' (June 2013)
Gravure videos
Adult videos (AV)
V-Cinema
Photobooks
.
.
.
Video games
Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), voicing Mai, a character in a special sub-scenario, December 2005
Notes
External links
1982 births
Japanese pornographic film actresses
Japanese women pop singers
Japanese television personalities
Japanese women writers
Living people
Musicians from Niigata Prefecture
Actors from Niigata Prefecture
Ebisu Muscats
Models from Niigata Prefecture | [
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"Life and career\nMihiro was born in Niigata prefecture on May 19, 1982.",
"She began a career as a softcore nude model as early as May 2001 when her video Dream (どりーむ) was released followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook Dream (夢) in August 2002.",
"She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos and photobooks over the next year and a half.",
"Mihiro also acted in several softcore V-Cinema productions during this time including the 2003 comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu.",
"and Kōji Kawano's 2004 .",
"She was also featured as a singer in a J-Pop Maxi single titled Sunflower (ヒマワリ) for Dream Robot in October 2004.",
"AV debut – Alice Japan & MAX-A\nMihiro made her transition from nude model to AV actress in January 2005 when Alice Japan released her debut adult video Little Angel.",
"A month later, she made her first video for the MAX-A studio, Super Star.",
"For the next two and a half years until mid-2007, Mihiro made about one AV a month alternating between Alice Japan and MAX-A.",
"At the same time, Mihiro was also appearing on TV in the TV-Asahi drama {{nihongo|Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi'''|特命係長·只野仁}} or Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano.",
"She was in Episode 1 of the second year series (Whole Episode 12) of the program broadcast on January 14, 2005.",
"She began 2006 with a regular role in TV Tokyo's romantic comedy, , which ran in 12 episodes from January to March 2006.",
"In April 2006, she was one of the leads in the V-Cinema horror film, Zombie Self-Defense Force directed by pink film and horror movie director Naoyuki Tomomatsu.",
"Throughout 2006, she continued appearing in monthly adult videos for MAX-A and Alice Japan.",
"In another genre, Mihiro was the star of the November 2006 V-Cinema release , an erotic parody of the manga-inspired movie Yo-Yo Girl Cop.",
"She played a teenaged undercover government agent armed with a steel yo-yo and see-through panties.",
"One reviewer commented that Mihiro's was \"the only performance of note\".",
"The DVD was released in the US with English subtitles in November 2008.",
"Mihiro continued her singing career with an all AV Idol group, the \"Man-zoku ディーバ Divas\" which originally consisted of Mihiro, Akiho Yoshizawa and Naho Ozawa.",
"Ozawa later left the group which was eventually expanded to five singers.Official website: \n\nMihiro's final videos for the MAX-A and Alice Japan studios were released in the first half of 2007.",
"She returned to TV work in 2007 as a regular cast member in the TV Asahi suspense drama which was broadcast April–June 2007 and she also appeared as a guest star in Episode 1 of the erotic drama which was aired by TV Asahi in August 2007.",
"Maxing & S1\nFrom July 2007, Mihiro began making videos with two new AV studios, Maxing and S1 No.",
"1 Style.",
"She kept to her previous pattern of doing one movie per month, alternating between the two companies.",
"At the 2007 Vegas Night Moodyz Awards, Mihiro took the 2nd Place Award for Best Actress and her debut video for S1, Hyper-Risky Mosaic Mihiro, directed by Hideto Aki, won the Best Title Award.",
"In the mainstream film arena, she starred as Ms Lin, the owner of a dumpling shop with a \"secret ingredient\", in director Kōji Kawano's 2008 V-Cinema erotic horror-comedy Cruel Restaurant.",
"She had previously worked with Kawano in the 2004 video Chakuero no onna Karina.",
"Along with other S1 actresses Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami and Rio, Mihiro was one of the regular cast members doing songs and comedy on the late night TV Osaka variety show which began broadcasting in April 2008.",
"She has also done a number of TV skits with Japanese comedian Ken Shimura.",
"In 2009 Mihiro continued her AV career with S1 and Maxing but she also appeared in roles in theatrical movies, the first being in March, in the drama , also known as 8000 Miles.",
"The movie, directed by Yū Irie, follows a group of aspiring rap singers in Tokyo's Saitama prefecture.",
"The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the 19th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2009.",
"In June 2009 she was in Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost, part of the famous Japanese Ju-on series re-made in the US as The Grudge.",
"Later, in July she had a part in the action-horror gore-fest by director Kengo Kaji, Samurai Princess: Devil Princess.",
"Autobiography and retirement\nMihiro published an autobiographical memoir titled nude, detailing her early life and entry into AV.",
"The book () was released by Kodansha on May 19, 2009.",
"Her book is one of a number of autobiographical works by actresses about the AV industry going back to Ai Iijima's novel Platonic Sex in 2000, and including Saori Hara's My Real Name Is Mai Kato: Why I Became an AV Actress from December 2009, and Honoka's 2010 book Biography of Honoka: Mama, I Love You, which adult media reporter Rio Yasuda sees as marking a trend in which the AV industry is being assimilated into popular culture.",
"Also in 2009, she traveled to Korea to promote a four-part dramatic TV series Korean Classroom, a joint Korean-Japanese production which aired on Korean TV in May 2009.",
"The series, which also starred AV Idols Sora Aoi and Rio (Tina Yuzuki), deals with three Japanese girls who travel to Korea and fall for some local men.",
"In 2010, in addition to her regular schedule of adult videos for S1 and Maxing, she starred in the low-budget comedy , released in February and directed by Dai Sakō.",
"In May 2010, it was announced that Mihiro's autobiographical work nude would be made into a movie starring Naoko Watanabe and directed by Yuichi Onuma.",
"The movie started shooting in May and was released on September 10th, 2010.",
"Earlier in the year Mihiro had announced her retirement from AV and her last two videos were Mihiro Channel for Maxing and her retirement work, the 2-disc Mihiro Final - Special Technique on June 19, 2010 for S1.",
"In 2012, the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan.",
"Mihiro finished in 83rd place in the balloting.",
"Later career\nIn 2013, Mihiro starred in the Toho comedy Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie, a film adaption of the popular TV Tokyo variety show.",
"Mihiro played the part of Yurufuwa-chan in , the TV Tokyo comedy about a group of 30-something women starring gravure idol Mitsu Dan, which aired July–October 2014.",
"Since 2017 she's been a member of the newly reformed Ebisu Muscats and performs regularly with the band.",
"She also discontinued the selling of her former AV work from DMM.com by the so-called \"5-year rule\" (introduced around 2016), that allows AV actresses to stop the mainstream distribution of their videos five years after retirement.",
"Filmography\n\nTheatrical films\n (November 2006)\n (March 2009)\n Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost (June 2009)\n Samurai Princess: Devil Princess (July 2009)\n (February 2010)\n nude (September 2010)\n Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie'' (June 2013)\n\nGravure videos\n\nAdult videos (AV)\n\nV-Cinema\n\nPhotobooks\n .",
".\n .\n\nVideo games\nRyu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), voicing Mai, a character in a special sub-scenario, December 2005\n\nNotes\n\nExternal links \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n1982 births\nJapanese pornographic film actresses\nJapanese women pop singers\nJapanese television personalities\nJapanese women writers\nLiving people\nMusicians from Niigata Prefecture\nActors from Niigata Prefecture\nEbisu Muscats\nModels from Niigata Prefecture"
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"Mihiro was born in Niigata prefecture in 1982.",
"She began her career as a softcore nude model when her video Dream was released in May 2001 followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook Dream in August 2002.",
"She appeared in a number of softcore nude modeling videos over the course of a year and a half.",
"The 2003 comedy directed by Tomomatsu was one of the softcore V-Cinema productions that Mihiro acted in.",
"Kji Kawano's book was published in 2004.",
"She was featured as a singer in a J-Pop single in 2004.",
"When Alice Japan released her first adult video, Little Angel, in January 2005, she transitioned from a nude model to an actress.",
"She made her first video for the MAX-A studio.",
"For the next two and a half years, Mihiro made one AV a month between Alice Japan and MAX-A.",
"At the same time, Mihiro was appearing in a TV drama.",
"The first episode of the second year series was broadcast on January 14, 2005.",
"TV Tokyo's romantic comedy ran in 12 episodes from January to March 2006 and she was a regular in it.",
"She was one of the leads in the V-Cinema horror film, Zombie Self-Defense Force.",
"She appeared in adult videos for MAX-A and Alice Japan.",
"The November 2006 V-Cinema release was an erotic parody of the movie Yo-Yo Girl Cop.",
"She was an undercover government agent with a steel yo-yo and see-through panties.",
"Mihiro's was the only performance of note according to one reviewer.",
"The DVD was released in the US with English subtitles.",
"The original members of the \"Man-zoku Divas\" were Mihiro, Akiho Yoshizawa and Naho Ozawa.",
"Mihiro's final videos for the MAX-A and Alice Japan studios were released in the first half of 2007.",
"She appeared as a guest star in Episode 1 of the erotic drama which was aired by TV Asahi in August 2007, after she returned to TV work as a regular cast member.",
"Mihiro started making videos with two new studios, Maxing and S1 No.",
"One style.",
"She did one movie per month between the two companies.",
"Mihiro won two awards at the Vegas Night Moodyz Awards, one for Best Actress and one for her debut video for S1, Hyper-Risky Mosaic.",
"In the 2008 V-Cinema erotic horror-comedy, she starred as Ms Lin, the owner of a dumpling shop with a secret ingredient.",
"She was in the 2004 video Chakuero no onna Karina.",
"Along with other S1 actresses Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami and Rio, Mihiro was one of the regular cast members doing songs and comedy on the late night TV Osaka variety show which began broadcasting in April 2008.",
"She did a number of TV skits with Ken.",
"Mihiro appeared in two theatrical movies in 2009, the first being in March in the drama 8000 Miles, and the second being in S1 and Maxing.",
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"She was in Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost, part of the famous Japanese Ju-on series re-made in the US as The Grudge.",
"She was in Samurai Princess: Devil Princess, an action-horror movie directed by Kengo Kaji.",
"Mihiro published an autobiographical memoir titled nude, detailing her early life.",
"The book was released in May 2009.",
"Her book is one of a number of autobiographical works by actresses about the industry going back to Ai Iijima's novel Platonic Sex in 2000.",
"In 2009, she traveled to Korea to promote a four-part dramatic TV series Korean Classroom, a joint Korean-Japanese production which aired on Korean TV.",
"The series deals with three Japanese girls who travel to Korea and fall in love with some local men.",
"In addition to her regular schedule of adult videos for S1 and Maxing, she starred in a low-budget comedy that was released in February.",
"In May 2010, it was announced that a movie starring Naoko Watanabe and directed by Yuichi Onuma would be based on Mihiro's autobiographical work nude.",
"The movie was released on September 10th, 2010.",
"Her last two videos were Mihiro Channel for Maxing and her retirement work, the 2-disc Mihiro Final - Special Technique, which was released on June 19, 2010 for S1.",
"To celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan, the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best actresses.",
"In the balloting, Mihiro finished in 83rd place.",
"The Toho comedy Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie was a film adaption of the popular TV Tokyo variety show.",
"In the TV Tokyo comedy about a group of 30-something women, Mihiro played the part of Yurufuwa-chan.",
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<mask> was born in Niigata prefecture on May 19, 1982. She began a career as a softcore nude model as early as May 2001 when her video Dream (どりーむ) was released followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook Dream (夢) in August 2002. She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos and photobooks over the next year and a half. <mask> also acted in several softcore V-Cinema productions during this time including the 2003 comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu. and Kōji Kawano's 2004 . She was also featured as a singer in a J-Pop Maxi single titled Sunflower (ヒマワリ) for Dream Robot in October 2004.AV debut – Alice Japan & MAX-A
<mask> made her transition from nude model to AV actress in January 2005 when Alice Japan released her debut adult video Little Angel. A month later, she made her first video for the MAX-A studio, Super Star. For the next two and a half years until mid-2007, <mask> made about one AV a month alternating between Alice Japan and MAX-A. At the same time, <mask> was also appearing on TV in the TV-Asahi drama {{nihongo|Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi'''|特命係長·只野仁}} or Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano. She was in Episode 1 of the second year series (Whole Episode 12) of the program broadcast on January 14, 2005. She began 2006 with a regular role in TV Tokyo's romantic comedy, , which ran in 12 episodes from January to March 2006. In April 2006, she was one of the leads in the V-Cinema horror film, Zombie Self-Defense Force directed by pink film and horror movie director Naoyuki Tomomatsu.Throughout 2006, she continued appearing in monthly adult videos for MAX-A and Alice Japan. In another genre, <mask> was the star of the November 2006 V-Cinema release , an erotic parody of the manga-inspired movie Yo-Yo Girl Cop. She played a teenaged undercover government agent armed with a steel yo-yo and see-through panties. One reviewer commented that <mask>'s was "the only performance of note". The DVD was released in the US with English subtitles in November 2008. <mask> continued her singing career with an all AV Idol group, the "Man-zoku ディーバ Divas" which originally consisted of <mask>, Akiho Yoshizawa and Naho Ozawa. Ozawa later left the group which was eventually expanded to five singers.Official website:
<mask>'s final videos for the MAX-A and Alice Japan studios were released in the first half of 2007.She returned to TV work in 2007 as a regular cast member in the TV Asahi suspense drama which was broadcast April–June 2007 and she also appeared as a guest star in Episode 1 of the erotic drama which was aired by TV Asahi in August 2007. Maxing & S1
From July 2007, <mask> began making videos with two new AV studios, Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style. She kept to her previous pattern of doing one movie per month, alternating between the two companies. At the 2007 Vegas Night Moodyz Awards, <mask> took the 2nd Place Award for Best Actress and her debut video for S1, Hyper-Risky Mosaic Mihiro, directed by Hideto Aki, won the Best Title Award. In the mainstream film arena, she starred as Ms Lin, the owner of a dumpling shop with a "secret ingredient", in director Kōji Kawano's 2008 V-Cinema erotic horror-comedy Cruel Restaurant. She had previously worked with Kawano in the 2004 video Chakuero no onna Karina.Along with other S1 actresses Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami and Rio, <mask> was one of the regular cast members doing songs and comedy on the late night TV Osaka variety show which began broadcasting in April 2008. She has also done a number of TV skits with Japanese comedian Ken Shimura. In 2009 <mask> continued her AV career with S1 and Maxing but she also appeared in roles in theatrical movies, the first being in March, in the drama , also known as 8000 Miles. The movie, directed by Yū Irie, follows a group of aspiring rap singers in Tokyo's Saitama prefecture. The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the 19th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 2009. In June 2009 she was in Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost, part of the famous Japanese Ju-on series re-made in the US as The Grudge. Later, in July she had a part in the action-horror gore-fest by director Kengo Kaji, Samurai Princess: Devil Princess.Autobiography and retirement
<mask> published an autobiographical memoir titled nude, detailing her early life and entry into AV. The book () was released by Kodansha on May 19, 2009. Her book is one of a number of autobiographical works by actresses about the AV industry going back to Ai Iijima's novel Platonic Sex in 2000, and including Saori Hara's My Real Name Is Mai Kato: Why I Became an AV Actress from December 2009, and Honoka's 2010 book Biography of Honoka: Mama, I Love You, which adult media reporter Rio Yasuda sees as marking a trend in which the AV industry is being assimilated into popular culture. Also in 2009, she traveled to Korea to promote a four-part dramatic TV series Korean Classroom, a joint Korean-Japanese production which aired on Korean TV in May 2009. The series, which also starred AV Idols Sora Aoi and Rio (Tina Yuzuki), deals with three Japanese girls who travel to Korea and fall for some local men. In 2010, in addition to her regular schedule of adult videos for S1 and Maxing, she starred in the low-budget comedy , released in February and directed by Dai Sakō. In May 2010, it was announced that <mask>'s autobiographical work nude would be made into a movie starring Naoko Watanabe and directed by Yuichi Onuma.The movie started shooting in May and was released on September 10th, 2010. Earlier in the year <mask> had announced her retirement from AV and her last two videos were Mihiro Channel for Maxing and her retirement work, the 2-disc Mihiro Final - Special Technique on June 19, 2010 for S1. In 2012, the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan. <mask> finished in 83rd place in the balloting. Later career
In 2013, <mask> starred in the Toho comedy Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie, a film adaption of the popular TV Tokyo variety show. <mask> played the part of Yurufuwa-chan in , the TV Tokyo comedy about a group of 30-something women starring gravure idol Mitsu Dan, which aired July–October 2014. Since 2017 she's been a member of the newly reformed Ebisu Muscats and performs regularly with the band.She also discontinued the selling of her former AV work from DMM.com by the so-called "5-year rule" (introduced around 2016), that allows AV actresses to stop the mainstream distribution of their videos five years after retirement. Filmography
Theatrical films
(November 2006)
(March 2009)
Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost (June 2009)
Samurai Princess: Devil Princess (July 2009)
(February 2010)
nude (September 2010)
Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie'' (June 2013)
Gravure videos
Adult videos (AV)
V-Cinema
Photobooks
. .
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Video games
Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), voicing Mai, a character in a special sub-scenario, December 2005
Notes
External links
1982 births
Japanese pornographic film actresses
Japanese women pop singers
Japanese television personalities
Japanese women writers
Living people
Musicians from Niigata Prefecture
Actors from Niigata Prefecture
Ebisu Muscats
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26456429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Parka | Super Parka | Ramón Ibarra Banda (born May 24, 1956) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, working under the ring name Super Parka. Ibarra previously worked as Volador from 1990 until 1997 and as Super Parka ever since. Ibarra is the father of Luchador Volador Jr., the grandfather of Flyer and the uncle of L.A. Park (the original La Parka), who was the inspiration for the "Super Parka" character. Throughout his career he has worked for most of the major Mexican wrestling promotions including Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and the World Wrestling Association (WWA) but works primarily on the Mexican and US independent circuit. While he has been unmasked in Mexico, Ibarra still wears the "Super Parka" mask when wrestling in the United States.
Professional wrestling career
Remo Banda (1976–1990)
Ibarra made his professional wrestling debut in 1976 under the ring name "Remo Banda", wrestling without a mask. Early in his career he also worked as the enmascarado "Rayo Norteno" ("Northern Lightning") but lost the mask in a Lucha de Apuesta, or bet match against El Pantera (not the current Pantera) on July 18, 1976. From then on he wrestled as Remo Banda.
Volador (1990–1997)
In late 1990 EMLL decided that it was time for Ramón Ibarra to work as an enmascarado again as they wanted to freshen his character up after having worked as "Remo Banda" for 14 years. Initially EMLL offered Ibarra the ring character and mask of Oro, but Ibarra turned the offer down since the mask had limited visibility due to the mesh over the eyes. EMLL found a young wrestler to play Oro while they created another mask and ring character for Ibarra called "Volador", the Spanish term for "Flyer", inspired by the Voladores of Mexico. Volador was teamed up with Ángel Azteca and together the team captured the Mexican National Tag Team Championship on March 9, 1991, when they defeated the team of Pierroth Jr. and Bestia Salvaje. The team held the championship for just 81 days before losing it to Los Destructores (Tony Arce and Vulcano) on May 29, 1991. Following the team loss Volador and Ángel Azteca broke up amicably, with each wrestler focusing on their own career from then on. In early 1992 Volador began teaming with a very talented young wrestler called Misterioso and together they won the Mexican National Tag Team title from Los Destructores on March 8, 1992. In mid-1992 EMLL booker Antonio Peña decided to break away from EMLL and form his own promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA; now known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide) and took a number of EMLL wrestlers with him, included in the exodus were Volador and Misterioso who took the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with them to AAA The team held the belts until August 28, 1992, where they lost them to Los Destructores as part of a rivalry that had carried over from EMLL to AAA. Volador and Misterioso regained the championship, but ultimately lost the title on February 12, 1993. Following the title loss the team started a storyline that saw the two turn on each other, with Misterioso becoming a Rudo (bad guy) as he attacked Volador. The storyline between the two played out over a long period of time, culminating in a Lucha de Apuesta match on July 15, 1995, where both men put their masks on the line. The event drew a crowd of 16,000 people to El Torero de Tijuana for a very profitable show. During the match Misterioso's cornerman Blue Panther attempted to injure Volador (in storyline terms) with a Martinete (piledriver). Misterioso came to the aid of his former friend, saving him from Blue Panther but ended up knocked out by a chair shot to the head. Out of respect for his former partner and in appreciation of what he had just done Volador dragged the unconscious Misterioso on top of himself and allowed the referee to count to three. Following the match Misteriosos pleaded with Volador not to remove the mask but Volador was a man of his word and unmasked.
Super Parka (1997–present)
In March 1997 Ramón Ibarra donned a new ring persona and mask, that of Super Parka, a character inspired by his nephew Adolfo Tapia's very successful "La Parka" character. Going so far as to copying the mask and outfit except with an orange skeleton instead of a white and a large Superman "S" on the chest. Initially Ibarra wrestled as unmasked as Volador in AAA and masked as Super Parka on the independent circuit. When Volador lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to Pimpinela Escarlata and had his hair shaved off he was suspended by the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission for breaking the rules set for masked wrestlers. The suspension was not lifted until Ibarra stopped wrestling as Volador and worked as Super Parka full-time. While he had worked for AAA as Volador, Super Parka did not work for AAA mainly because they themselves had created a "La Parka clone" in La Parka, Jr. to take the original's place (La Parka was wrestling full-time in the US). In 1999 Super Parka worked for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) in Naucalpan, Mexico State where he defeated Pirata Morgan to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship. He held the title for 23 days, the shortes reign for any IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, before losing the belt to Scorpio, Jr.
In September 1999 he introduced his son to the professional wrestling world as he helped Volador Jr. make his debut. In 2000 Super Parka, along with Super Caló, Halloween, and Damián 666 toured Japan, wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in August and September 2000. Super Parka would later return to AJPW, teaming with La Parka. In Mexico Super Parka began to work for the Tijuana based World Wrestling Association around the turn of the millennia. On March 31, 2000, he defeated Halloween to win the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship. The reign WWA Junior Light Heavyweight Champion lasted until April 30, 2002, where he lost to Super Kendo. Super Parka regained the title only a few months later and held it until June 2004, over 700 days, until he lost the title to Super Kendo.
On October 9, 2003, Super Parka was unmasked as he lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to El Hijo del Santo in the main event of a very successful WWA show in Tijuana. In 2005 Super Parka had his hair shaved off when he lost to his nephew L.A. Park (forced to change his name for legal reasons) when they were the last two wrestlers left in a cage match that also included Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Perro Aguayo, Jr. In 2007 Super Parka made several appearances for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; previously known as EMLL) as a freelance wrestler, paying off the fact that L.A. Park was one of CMLL's headline wrestlers at the time. In CMLL he lost two Lucha de Apuesta matches in quick succession being shaved bald by Héctor Garza and Último Guerrero. Super Parka has subsequently stopped working for CMLL, working select dates for various Mexican or US wrestling promotions. When he wrestles in the United States he wears the Super Parka mask, something that is not allowed in Mexico, while in Mexico he wears the mask to the ring, but removes it before the match to comply with the rules of Lucha Libre.
On September 11, 2015, Ibarra returned to CMLL after an almost eight-year absence. He was originally set to team with his son Volador Jr. and his nephew L.A. Park, but Park was fired in the week leading up to the show for using profanity during a CMLL show. Instead of the Ibarra family trio Super Parka teamed up with his son and Valiente for his CMLL return. A couple of months later Super Parka began working a storyline feud against Negro Casas, one of CMLL's resident veteran rudos. The story line eventually led to the two captaining a team of three, facing off during the 2015 Infierno en el Ring. Super Parka teamed with Máximo Sexy and Valiente while Casas teamed up with Kamaitachi and Bárbaro Cavernario. After Super Parka's team won the match both Super Parka and Casas laid out a Lucha de Apuestas challenge, daring each other to put their hair on the line for a special "bet match" between the two. Moments later CMLL officials came to the ring to sign the contract for the following week's Sin Piedad ("No Mercy") show. Casas defeated Super Parka, forcing Super Parka to have all his hair shaved off as a result. Casas' nephew Puma helped his uncle win the match, much to the displeasure of Volador Jr. who was in his father's corner. Volador Jr. vowed to get revenge for what he described as the Casas family's cheating ways.
Personal life
Ramón Ibarra is a part of an extended family of wrestlers, including his son who wrestles as Volador Jr. and his grandson who works as Flyer. His brothers also wrestle, they're known under the ring names Johnny Ibarra and El Desalmado. His nephews are lucha libre legend L.A. Park and wrestler El Hijo de Cien Caras. He's also the great-uncle of L.A. Park's son who wrestles as El Hijo de L.A. Park.
Championships and accomplishments
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Mexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Misterioso
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Mexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ángel Azteca
International Wrestling Revolution Group
IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
World Wrestling Association
WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
Luchas de Apuestas record
Notes
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
Masked wrestlers
Mexican male professional wrestlers
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"Ramón Ibarra Banda (born May 24, 1956) is a Mexican luchador, or professional wrestler, working under the ring name Super Parka.",
"Ibarra previously worked as Volador from 1990 until 1997 and as Super Parka ever since.",
"Ibarra is the father of Luchador Volador Jr., the grandfather of Flyer and the uncle of L.A. Park (the original La Parka), who was the inspiration for the \"Super Parka\" character.",
"Throughout his career he has worked for most of the major Mexican wrestling promotions including Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and the World Wrestling Association (WWA) but works primarily on the Mexican and US independent circuit.",
"While he has been unmasked in Mexico, Ibarra still wears the \"Super Parka\" mask when wrestling in the United States.",
"Professional wrestling career\n\nRemo Banda (1976–1990) \nIbarra made his professional wrestling debut in 1976 under the ring name \"Remo Banda\", wrestling without a mask.",
"Early in his career he also worked as the enmascarado \"Rayo Norteno\" (\"Northern Lightning\") but lost the mask in a Lucha de Apuesta, or bet match against El Pantera (not the current Pantera) on July 18, 1976.",
"From then on he wrestled as Remo Banda.",
"Volador (1990–1997) \nIn late 1990 EMLL decided that it was time for Ramón Ibarra to work as an enmascarado again as they wanted to freshen his character up after having worked as \"Remo Banda\" for 14 years.",
"Initially EMLL offered Ibarra the ring character and mask of Oro, but Ibarra turned the offer down since the mask had limited visibility due to the mesh over the eyes.",
"EMLL found a young wrestler to play Oro while they created another mask and ring character for Ibarra called \"Volador\", the Spanish term for \"Flyer\", inspired by the Voladores of Mexico.",
"Volador was teamed up with Ángel Azteca and together the team captured the Mexican National Tag Team Championship on March 9, 1991, when they defeated the team of Pierroth Jr. and Bestia Salvaje.",
"The team held the championship for just 81 days before losing it to Los Destructores (Tony Arce and Vulcano) on May 29, 1991.",
"Following the team loss Volador and Ángel Azteca broke up amicably, with each wrestler focusing on their own career from then on.",
"In early 1992 Volador began teaming with a very talented young wrestler called Misterioso and together they won the Mexican National Tag Team title from Los Destructores on March 8, 1992.",
"In mid-1992 EMLL booker Antonio Peña decided to break away from EMLL and form his own promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA; now known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide) and took a number of EMLL wrestlers with him, included in the exodus were Volador and Misterioso who took the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with them to AAA The team held the belts until August 28, 1992, where they lost them to Los Destructores as part of a rivalry that had carried over from EMLL to AAA.",
"Volador and Misterioso regained the championship, but ultimately lost the title on February 12, 1993.",
"Following the title loss the team started a storyline that saw the two turn on each other, with Misterioso becoming a Rudo (bad guy) as he attacked Volador.",
"The storyline between the two played out over a long period of time, culminating in a Lucha de Apuesta match on July 15, 1995, where both men put their masks on the line.",
"The event drew a crowd of 16,000 people to El Torero de Tijuana for a very profitable show.",
"During the match Misterioso's cornerman Blue Panther attempted to injure Volador (in storyline terms) with a Martinete (piledriver).",
"Misterioso came to the aid of his former friend, saving him from Blue Panther but ended up knocked out by a chair shot to the head.",
"Out of respect for his former partner and in appreciation of what he had just done Volador dragged the unconscious Misterioso on top of himself and allowed the referee to count to three.",
"Following the match Misteriosos pleaded with Volador not to remove the mask but Volador was a man of his word and unmasked.",
"Super Parka (1997–present) \nIn March 1997 Ramón Ibarra donned a new ring persona and mask, that of Super Parka, a character inspired by his nephew Adolfo Tapia's very successful \"La Parka\" character.",
"Going so far as to copying the mask and outfit except with an orange skeleton instead of a white and a large Superman \"S\" on the chest.",
"Initially Ibarra wrestled as unmasked as Volador in AAA and masked as Super Parka on the independent circuit.",
"When Volador lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to Pimpinela Escarlata and had his hair shaved off he was suspended by the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission for breaking the rules set for masked wrestlers.",
"The suspension was not lifted until Ibarra stopped wrestling as Volador and worked as Super Parka full-time.",
"While he had worked for AAA as Volador, Super Parka did not work for AAA mainly because they themselves had created a \"La Parka clone\" in La Parka, Jr. to take the original's place (La Parka was wrestling full-time in the US).",
"In 1999 Super Parka worked for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) in Naucalpan, Mexico State where he defeated Pirata Morgan to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship.",
"He held the title for 23 days, the shortes reign for any IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, before losing the belt to Scorpio, Jr.",
"In September 1999 he introduced his son to the professional wrestling world as he helped Volador Jr. make his debut.",
"In 2000 Super Parka, along with Super Caló, Halloween, and Damián 666 toured Japan, wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in August and September 2000.",
"Super Parka would later return to AJPW, teaming with La Parka.",
"In Mexico Super Parka began to work for the Tijuana based World Wrestling Association around the turn of the millennia.",
"On March 31, 2000, he defeated Halloween to win the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship.",
"The reign WWA Junior Light Heavyweight Champion lasted until April 30, 2002, where he lost to Super Kendo.",
"Super Parka regained the title only a few months later and held it until June 2004, over 700 days, until he lost the title to Super Kendo.",
"On October 9, 2003, Super Parka was unmasked as he lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to El Hijo del Santo in the main event of a very successful WWA show in Tijuana.",
"In 2005 Super Parka had his hair shaved off when he lost to his nephew L.A. Park (forced to change his name for legal reasons) when they were the last two wrestlers left in a cage match that also included Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Perro Aguayo, Jr.",
"In 2007 Super Parka made several appearances for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; previously known as EMLL) as a freelance wrestler, paying off the fact that L.A. Park was one of CMLL's headline wrestlers at the time.",
"In CMLL he lost two Lucha de Apuesta matches in quick succession being shaved bald by Héctor Garza and Último Guerrero.",
"Super Parka has subsequently stopped working for CMLL, working select dates for various Mexican or US wrestling promotions.",
"When he wrestles in the United States he wears the Super Parka mask, something that is not allowed in Mexico, while in Mexico he wears the mask to the ring, but removes it before the match to comply with the rules of Lucha Libre.",
"On September 11, 2015, Ibarra returned to CMLL after an almost eight-year absence.",
"He was originally set to team with his son Volador Jr. and his nephew L.A. Park, but Park was fired in the week leading up to the show for using profanity during a CMLL show.",
"Instead of the Ibarra family trio Super Parka teamed up with his son and Valiente for his CMLL return.",
"A couple of months later Super Parka began working a storyline feud against Negro Casas, one of CMLL's resident veteran rudos.",
"The story line eventually led to the two captaining a team of three, facing off during the 2015 Infierno en el Ring.",
"Super Parka teamed with Máximo Sexy and Valiente while Casas teamed up with Kamaitachi and Bárbaro Cavernario.",
"After Super Parka's team won the match both Super Parka and Casas laid out a Lucha de Apuestas challenge, daring each other to put their hair on the line for a special \"bet match\" between the two.",
"Moments later CMLL officials came to the ring to sign the contract for the following week's Sin Piedad (\"No Mercy\") show.",
"Casas defeated Super Parka, forcing Super Parka to have all his hair shaved off as a result.",
"Casas' nephew Puma helped his uncle win the match, much to the displeasure of Volador Jr. who was in his father's corner.",
"Volador Jr. vowed to get revenge for what he described as the Casas family's cheating ways.",
"Personal life\nRamón Ibarra is a part of an extended family of wrestlers, including his son who wrestles as Volador Jr. and his grandson who works as Flyer.",
"His brothers also wrestle, they're known under the ring names Johnny Ibarra and El Desalmado.",
"His nephews are lucha libre legend L.A. Park and wrestler El Hijo de Cien Caras.",
"He's also the great-uncle of L.A. Park's son who wrestles as El Hijo de L.A. Park.",
"Championships and accomplishments\nLucha Libre AAA Worldwide\nMexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Misterioso\nConsejo Mundial de Lucha Libre\nMexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ángel Azteca\nInternational Wrestling Revolution Group\nIWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)\nWorld Wrestling Association\nWWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)\n\nLuchas de Apuestas record\n\nNotes\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\n1956 births\nLiving people\nMasked wrestlers\nMexican male professional wrestlers\nProfessional wrestlers from Nuevo León"
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"Ibarra has been working as Super Parka since 1997.",
"Luchador Volador Jr., the grandfather of Flyer and the uncle of L.A. Park, was the inspiration for the \"Super Parka\" character.",
"He has worked for most of the major Mexican wrestling promotions including Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) and the World Wrestling Association (WWA).",
"Ibarra is still wearing the \"Super Parka\" mask when he wrestles in the United States.",
"Ibarra made his professional wrestling debut in 1976 under the ring name \"Remo Banda\", wrestling without a mask.",
"He lost his mask in a Lucha de Apuesta, or bet match, against El Pantera on July 18, 1976, early in his career.",
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"After working as \"Remo Banda\" for 14 years, the EMLL decided that it was time for Ramn Ibarra to work as an enmascarado again.",
"Ibarra turned down the offer of the ring character and mask of Oro because of the mesh over his eyes.",
"The Voladores of Mexico inspired the creation of a mask and ring character for Ibarra called \"Volador\", the Spanish term for \"Flyer\".",
"Volador and ngel Azteca won the Mexican National Tag Team Championship on March 9, 1991, when they defeated the team of Pierroth Jr. and Bestia Salvaje.",
"Los Destructores defeated the team on May 29, 1991, to win the championship.",
"Volador and ngel Azteca broke up amicably after the team loss, with each wrestler focusing on their own career.",
"Volador and Misterioso won the Mexican National Tag Team title on March 8, 1992, together.",
"Antonio Pea broke away from EMLL and formed his own promotion, Asistencia Asesora y Administracin.",
"Volador and Misterioso lost the title on February 12, 1993.",
"The team started a storyline after the title loss that saw Misterioso become a bad guy as he attacked Volador.",
"Both men put their masks on the line in a Lucha de Apuesta match on July 15, 1995 as the storyline between the two played out over a long period of time.",
"A crowd of 16,000 people attended the show at El Torero de Tijuana.",
"Misterioso's cornerman Blue Panther tried to hurt Volador with a sledgehammer.",
"Misterioso saved his friend from Blue Panther but was knocked out by a chair shot to the head.",
"Out of respect for his former partner, Volador dragged the unconscious Misterioso on top of himself and allowed the referee to count to three.",
"Volador was a man of his word after Misteriosos begged him not to remove the mask.",
"In 1997 Ramn Ibarra wore a ring persona and mask that was inspired by his nephew Adolfo Tapia's \"La Parka\" character.",
"It was copying the mask and outfit except with an orange skeleton instead of a white and a large Superman \"S\" on the chest.",
"Ibarra wrestled under the name Super Parka on the independent circuit.",
"The Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission suspended Volador after he lost a Lucha de Apuesta match and had his hair shaved off.",
"Ibarra worked as Super Parka full-time after he stopped wrestling as Volador.",
"Super Parka did not work for AAA because they created a \"La Parka clone\" in La Parka, Jr. to take the original's place.",
"Super Parka won the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship in 1999 after defeating Pirata Morgan.",
"He held the title for 23 days, but lost the belt to Scorpio, Jr.",
"In 1999 he introduced his son to the professional wrestling world.",
"In 2000 Super Parka, Halloween, and Damin 666 traveled to Japan to wrestle for All Japan Pro Wrestling.",
"Super Parka was teaming with La Parka.",
"Super Parka started working for the World Wrestling Association in Mexico.",
"He won the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship on March 31, 2000.",
"He lost to Super Kendo on April 30, 2002.",
"After a few months, Super Parka regained the title and held it until June 2004, when he lost it to Super Kendo.",
"Super Parka lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to El Hijo del Santo in the main event of a very successful WWA show in Tijuana.",
"When Super Parka lost to his nephew L.A. Park in 2005, he had his hair shaved.",
"In 2007, Super Parka made several appearances for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, paying off the fact that L.A. Park was one of CMLL's headline wrestlers.",
"He lost two Lucha de Apuesta matches in a row when he was shaved bald.",
"Super Parka stopped working for CMLL when he stopped working for various Mexican or US wrestling promotions.",
"When he wrestles in the United States, he wears the Super Parka mask, which is not allowed in Mexico, but he removes it before the match to comply with the rules of Lucha Libre.",
"Ibarra returned to CMLL after almost eight years.",
"Park was fired in the week leading up to the show for using profanity during a CMLL show, but he was originally set to team with his son and nephew.",
"Super Parka was joined by his son and Valiente for his return to CMLL.",
"Super Parka began working a storyline against Negro Casas, one of CMLL's resident veteran rudos.",
"The story line eventually led to the two captaining a team of three.",
"Super Parka collaborated with Mximo Sexy and Valiente while Casas collaborated with Kamaitachi and Brbaro Cavernario.",
"Super Parka and Casas challenged each other to a bet match after Super Parka's team won.",
"CMLL officials came to the ring to sign the contract for the next show.",
"Super Parka had his hair shaved off after Casas defeated him.",
"Volador Jr., who was in his father's corner, was upset that Casas' nephew helped his uncle win the match.",
"Volador Jr. said he would get revenge for the Casas family's cheating ways.",
"Ramn Ibarra has a family of wrestlers, including his son who wrestles as Volador Jr. and his grandson who works as Flyer.",
"Johnny Ibarra and El Desalmado wrestle under the ring names.",
"L.A. Park is a lucha libre legend and El Hijo de Cien Caras is a wrestler.",
"L.A. Park's son wrestles as El Hijo de L.A. Park.",
"The Mexican National Tag Team Championship with Misterioso Consejoal de Lucha Libre was the 2nd time."
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Remo Banda (1976–1990)
Ibarra made his professional wrestling debut in 1976 under the ring name "Remo Banda", wrestling without a mask. Early in his career he also worked as the enmascarado "Rayo Norteno" ("Northern Lightning") but lost the mask in a Lucha de Apuesta, or bet match against El Pantera (not the current Pantera) on July 18, 1976.From then on he wrestled as Remo Banda. Volador (1990–1997)
In late 1990 EMLL decided that it was time for Ramón Ibarra to work as an enmascarado again as they wanted to freshen his character up after having worked as "Remo Banda" for 14 years. Initially EMLL offered Ibarra the ring character and mask of Oro, but Ibarra turned the offer down since the mask had limited visibility due to the mesh over the eyes. EMLL found a young wrestler to play Oro while they created another mask and ring character for Ibarra called "Volador", the Spanish term for "Flyer", inspired by the Voladores of Mexico. Volador was teamed up with Ángel Azteca and together the team captured the Mexican National Tag Team Championship on March 9, 1991, when they defeated the team of Pierroth Jr. and Bestia Salvaje. The team held the championship for just 81 days before losing it to Los Destructores (Tony Arce and Vulcano) on May 29, 1991. Following the team loss Volador and Ángel Azteca broke up amicably, with each wrestler focusing on their own career from then on.In early 1992 Volador began teaming with a very talented young wrestler called Misterioso and together they won the Mexican National Tag Team title from Los Destructores on March 8, 1992. In mid-1992 EMLL booker Antonio Peña decided to break away from EMLL and form his own promotion Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA; now known as Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide) and took a number of EMLL wrestlers with him, included in the exodus were Volador and Misterioso who took the Mexican National Tag Team Championship with them to AAA The team held the belts until August 28, 1992, where they lost them to Los Destructores as part of a rivalry that had carried over from EMLL to AAA. Volador and Misterioso regained the championship, but ultimately lost the title on February 12, 1993. Following the title loss the team started a storyline that saw the two turn on each other, with Misterioso becoming a Rudo (bad guy) as he attacked Volador. The storyline between the two played out over a long period of time, culminating in a Lucha de Apuesta match on July 15, 1995, where both men put their masks on the line. The event drew a crowd of 16,000 people to El Torero de Tijuana for a very profitable show. During the match Misterioso's cornerman Blue Panther attempted to injure Volador (in storyline terms) with a Martinete (piledriver).Misterioso came to the aid of his former friend, saving him from Blue Panther but ended up knocked out by a chair shot to the head. Out of respect for his former partner and in appreciation of what he had just done Volador dragged the unconscious Misterioso on top of himself and allowed the referee to count to three. Following the match Misteriosos pleaded with Volador not to remove the mask but Volador was a man of his word and unmasked. <mask>a (1997–present)
In March 1997 Ramón Ibarra donned a new ring persona and mask, that of <mask>, a character inspired by his nephew Adolfo Tapia's very successful "La Parka" character. Going so far as to copying the mask and outfit except with an orange skeleton instead of a white and a large Superman "S" on the chest. Initially Ibarra wrestled as unmasked as Volador in AAA and masked as <mask> on the independent circuit. When Volador lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to Pimpinela Escarlata and had his hair shaved off he was suspended by the Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission for breaking the rules set for masked wrestlers.The suspension was not lifted until Ibarra stopped wrestling as Volador and worked as <mask>a full-time. While he had worked for AAA as Volador, <mask> did not work for AAA mainly because they themselves had created a "La Parka clone" in La Parka, Jr. to take the original's place (La Parka was wrestling full-time in the US). In 1999 <mask> worked for International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG) in Naucalpan, Mexico State where he defeated Pirata Morgan to win the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship. He held the title for 23 days, the shortes reign for any IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion, before losing the belt to Scorpio, Jr. In September 1999 he introduced his son to the professional wrestling world as he helped Volador Jr. make his debut. In 2000 <mask>, along with <mask>, Halloween, and Damián 666 toured Japan, wrestling for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in August and September 2000. <mask> would later return to AJPW, teaming with <mask>.In Mexico <mask> began to work for the Tijuana based World Wrestling Association around the turn of the millennia. On March 31, 2000, he defeated Halloween to win the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship. The reign WWA Junior Light Heavyweight Champion lasted until April 30, 2002, where he lost to <mask>. <mask> regained the title only a few months later and held it until June 2004, over 700 days, until he lost the title to <mask>. On October 9, 2003, <mask> was unmasked as he lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to El Hijo del Santo in the main event of a very successful WWA show in Tijuana. In 2005 <mask> had his hair shaved off when he lost to his nephew L.A. Park (forced to change his name for legal reasons) when they were the last two wrestlers left in a cage match that also included Dr. Wagner, Jr. and Perro Aguayo, Jr. In 2007 <mask> made several appearances for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; previously known as EMLL) as a freelance wrestler, paying off the fact that L.A. Park was one of CMLL's headline wrestlers at the time.In CMLL he lost two Lucha de Apuesta matches in quick succession being shaved bald by Héctor Garza and Último Guerrero. <mask> has subsequently stopped working for CMLL, working select dates for various Mexican or US wrestling promotions. When he wrestles in the United States he wears the <mask> mask, something that is not allowed in Mexico, while in Mexico he wears the mask to the ring, but removes it before the match to comply with the rules of Lucha Libre. On September 11, 2015, Ibarra returned to CMLL after an almost eight-year absence. He was originally set to team with his son Volador Jr. and his nephew L.A. Park, but Park was fired in the week leading up to the show for using profanity during a CMLL show. Instead of the Ibarra family trio <mask> teamed up with his son and Valiente for his CMLL return. A couple of months later <mask> began working a storyline feud against Negro Casas, one of CMLL's resident veteran rudos.The story line eventually led to the two captaining a team of three, facing off during the 2015 Infierno en el Ring. <mask> teamed with Máximo Sexy and Valiente while Casas teamed up with Kamaitachi and Bárbaro Cavernario. After <mask>'s team won the match both <mask> and Casas laid out a Lucha de Apuestas challenge, daring each other to put their hair on the line for a special "bet match" between the two. Moments later CMLL officials came to the ring to sign the contract for the following week's Sin Piedad ("No Mercy") show. Casas defeated <mask>, forcing <mask> to have all his hair shaved off as a result. Casas' nephew Puma helped his uncle win the match, much to the displeasure of Volador Jr. who was in his father's corner. Volador Jr. vowed to get revenge for what he described as the Casas family's cheating ways.Personal life
Ramón Ibarra is a part of an extended family of wrestlers, including his son who wrestles as Volador Jr. and his grandson who works as Flyer. His brothers also wrestle, they're known under the ring names Johnny Ibarra and El Desalmado. His nephews are lucha libre legend L.A. Park and wrestler El Hijo de Cien Caras. He's also the great-uncle of L.A. Park's son who wrestles as El Hijo de L.A. Park. Championships and accomplishments
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide
Mexican National Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Misterioso
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
Mexican National Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ángel Azteca
International Wrestling Revolution Group
IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
World Wrestling Association
WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
Luchas de Apuestas record
Notes
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
Masked wrestlers
Mexican male professional wrestlers
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He lost his mask in a Lucha de Apuesta, or bet match, against El Pantera on July 18, 1976, early in his career.He transitioned from MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE MzE After working as "Remo Banda" for 14 years, the EMLL decided that it was time for Ramn Ibarra to work as an enmascarado again. Ibarra turned down the offer of the ring character and mask of Oro because of the mesh over his eyes. The Voladores of Mexico inspired the creation of a mask and ring character for Ibarra called "Volador", the Spanish term for "Flyer". Volador and ngel Azteca won the Mexican National Tag Team Championship on March 9, 1991, when they defeated the team of Pierroth Jr. and Bestia Salvaje. Los Destructores defeated the team on May 29, 1991, to win the championship. 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Out of respect for his former partner, Volador dragged the unconscious Misterioso on top of himself and allowed the referee to count to three. Volador was a man of his word after Misteriosos begged him not to remove the mask. In 1997 Ramn Ibarra wore a ring persona and mask that was inspired by his nephew Adolfo Tapia's "La Parka" character. It was copying the mask and outfit except with an orange skeleton instead of a white and a large Superman "S" on the chest. Ibarra wrestled under the name <mask> on the independent circuit. The Mexico City Boxing and Wrestling Commission suspended Volador after he lost a Lucha de Apuesta match and had his hair shaved off.Ibarra worked as <mask> full-time after he stopped wrestling as Volador. <mask> did not work for AAA because they created a "La Parka clone" in La Parka, Jr. to take the original's place. <mask> won the IWRG Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship in 1999 after defeating Pirata Morgan. He held the title for 23 days, but lost the belt to Scorpio, Jr. In 1999 he introduced his son to the professional wrestling world. In 2000 <mask>a, Halloween, and Damin 666 traveled to Japan to wrestle for All Japan Pro Wrestling. <mask> was teaming with La Parka.<mask> started working for the World Wrestling Association in Mexico. He won the WWA World Junior Light Heavyweight Championship on March 31, 2000. He lost to <mask> on April 30, 2002. After a few months, <mask> regained the title and held it until June 2004, when he lost it to <mask>. <mask> lost a Lucha de Apuesta match to El Hijo del Santo in the main event of a very successful WWA show in Tijuana. When <mask> lost to his nephew L.A. Park in 2005, he had his hair shaved. In 2007, <mask> made several appearances for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, paying off the fact that L.A. 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1267698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Blatt | Melanie Blatt | Melanie Ruth Blatt (born 25 March 1975) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 1997 as a member of the girl group All Saints. The group have gained five number one singles, two multi-platinum albums, two BRIT Awards and have sold over 10 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, and the second best-selling girl group in the UK.
Blatt began recording a solo album in 2003, working with numerous producers including Xenomania and released her debut solo single "Do Me Wrong" in 2003. Blatt was later dropped by her record label, and her solo album was cancelled. In 2005, she made a return to music with her single "See Me", and began recording another album independently which was later shelved and cancelled in favour of the All Saints reunion. In 2013 and 2015, she was a judge on the television series The X Factor NZ.
Early life
Blatt was born at University College Hospital in the London Borough of Camden and is named after American country singer Melanie Safka. She has a French mother and an English father, David Blatt (known also as author of the book Manchester United Ruined My Wife), whose ancestors were from Poland and Russia and a younger sister named Jasmine. She was brought up in both the UK and France. In 1986, Blatt was diagnosed as having scoliosis. Since her parents were not satisfied with the treatment for the condition in the United Kingdom they decided to move to France, where a specialist inserted three metal rods in her back.
Blatt went to Fitzjohn's Primary School where her musical talent was immediately noticed by the music teacher David Joyner, who encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school. In 1986, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School where she met Nicole Appleton. The two girls became best friends. During this period, Blatt also played young Eponine in Les Misérables for six months, and was the understudy for Cosette together with fellow Sylvia Young student Denise van Outen.
Career
1993–2001: Career with All Saints
In 1993, Blatt sang under the name Melanie Guillaume in the band Drive with Julienne Davis. They released one single, "Curfew", together. She also did backing vocals for Dreadzone with Denise van Outen. Later that year, Blatt met Shaznay Lewis at the Metamorphosis recording studio in All Saints Road, London. Together, with Simone Rainford, they formed the group All Saints 1.9.7.5 which was later renamed to All Saints when Rainford left and Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined Blatt and Lewis.
In 1997 All Saints released their debut single "I Know Where It's At", and peaked at number 4 in the UK. The same year the group released a second single "Never Ever, which introduced the group to international success after topping the charts in the UK and Australia, and reaching the top ten across Europe, Canada and the United States. The single sold over 1.2 million copies in the United Kingdom and was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The same year the group released their debut album All Saints, it reached number two in the United Kingdom and was certified platinum five times for sales of 1.5 million. The group gained a further two number one singles the following year: "Under the Bridge / Lady Marmalade" and "Bootie Call". In 2000 the group released new single "Pure Shores", which was used in the film The Beach and reached number one in the UK. The single was certified platinum for sales over 600,000 copies. The single was followed by their fifth number one single "Black Coffee", their second album Saints & Sinners was released shortly after and topped the chart in the United Kingdom. The album was eventually certified double platinum by the BPI for sales over 600,000. In early 2001, following the release of their single "All Hooked Up", the group split and reasons for this were later explained by Shaznay Lewis, who revealed details of tensions between the group.
In 2000, Blatt appeared in the film Honest directed by Dave Stewart opposite Nicole and Natalie Appleton and in 2001 she played a small role in the independent British film Dog Eat Dog.
2002–06: Solo musical releases
Blatt's solo releases were of variable success; her most prominent being "TwentyFourSeven", a collaboration with the Artful Dodger, peaking at No 6 in September 2001. Melanie began recording on her debut solo album in 2002, working with numerous producers including Sony Music production team Xenomania. In late 2003 she released her debut single "Do Me Wrong", it reached number 18 in the UK and led to Blatt being dropped by her label due to its low charting. The album she was working on was scrapped, therefore the release of her upcoming single "Blue" was cancelled, but later included on British singer Amelia Lily's debut album Be a Fighter, on which she worked with Xenomania. In 2005 Blatt made a return to music with new single "See Me", which was used in the Robots movie. She began working on a new album with independent label Sowlen Ankle Ltd written with, and recorded by, Matt Hales from Aqualung. During 2005, Blatt played small venues in the UK which featured songs from the album she was working on at the time and included unreleased songs like "In Your Arms," "I Don't Mind," "Now You're Gone," "No Lullaby" and "Love Sweet Love." Blatt's solo record was shelved in favour of the All Saints reunion.
2006–07: All Saints reunion
On 24 January 2006, it was announced that the band had reformed and signed a record deal with Parlophone. They subsequently began work on their third studio album, Studio 1. The first single, "Rock Steady" (released in November 2006), reached number three on the UK Singles Chart. Studio 1 entered the albums chart at number forty and sold 60,000 copies according to the BPI, being certified silver. A second single, "Chick Fit" failed to reach the top 200. Blatt discussed the reunion's failure in an interview with i-D magazine in 2012: "I don't think it was done for the right reasons... I know that I did it for the money. We got signed before we had even made music again, it wasn't like we felt we had something to give back to the world... we were given an opportunity and took it, without really thinking about it too hard". She also said she never felt comfortable with the success the band had and that "it was not necessarily the plan at the beginning; there was a lot of compromise involved".
2007–2014: Television
Since 2007 Blatt presents the TV show The Hot Desk on ITV2 with co-hosts Nicole Appleton, Dave Berry, Emma Willis and Jayne Sharp. Between 2009 and 2010 she was reporter of Angela Griffin's show Angela and Friends. In January 2013 it was announced Melanie Blatt would join Daniel Bedingfield, Stan Walker and Ruby Frost as a judge/mentor on the New Zealand version of The X Factor: "I can't wait to see what kind of artists and voices we are going to find in New Zealand." Blatt will be mentoring the Groups category. It was reported that she and her daughter Lilyella will live in the country for the duration of the series. In February 2013, Blatt revealed she is "making music" and when asked about a solo comeback she said she is going to do something she never thought in a million years she would do.
On 11 September 2014 MediaWorks announced both Blatt and Stan Walker would return to judge the second season of the X Factor NZ alongside returning host Dominic Bowden. Blatt and Walker would be joined by new husband-wife duo Willy Moon and Natalia Kills until their sacking, and replaced by Natalie Bassingthwaite and Shelton Woolwright. Blatt mentored the Over 25's and placed 5th with her contestant Steve Broad.
2014–present: Second All Saints reunion
In 2014, All Saints reformed to support the Backstreet Boys for five dates across the UK and Ireland in 2014. On 27 January 2016, it was confirmed that All Saints will release their fourth studio album Red Flag on 8 April 2016. The lead single from the album, "One Strike", preceded the album on 26 February 2016.
Personal life
Blatt gave birth to daughter Lilyella on 20 November 1998, the father of whom is Stuart Zender, Jamiroquai's former bass player. They broke up in early 2006.
Filmography
Discography
Singles
Featured singles
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
All Saints (group) members
English film actresses
People from Camden Town
English people of French descent
English people of Polish descent
English people of Russian descent
Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School
Blatt, Melanie
Feminist musicians
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"She rose to fame in 1997 as a member of the girl group All Saints.",
"The group have gained five number one singles, two multi-platinum albums, two BRIT Awards and have sold over 10 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, and the second best-selling girl group in the UK.",
"Blatt began recording a solo album in 2003, working with numerous producers including Xenomania and released her debut solo single \"Do Me Wrong\" in 2003.",
"Blatt was later dropped by her record label, and her solo album was cancelled.",
"In 2005, she made a return to music with her single \"See Me\", and began recording another album independently which was later shelved and cancelled in favour of the All Saints reunion.",
"In 2013 and 2015, she was a judge on the television series The X Factor NZ.",
"Early life\nBlatt was born at University College Hospital in the London Borough of Camden and is named after American country singer Melanie Safka.",
"She has a French mother and an English father, David Blatt (known also as author of the book Manchester United Ruined My Wife), whose ancestors were from Poland and Russia and a younger sister named Jasmine.",
"She was brought up in both the UK and France.",
"In 1986, Blatt was diagnosed as having scoliosis.",
"Since her parents were not satisfied with the treatment for the condition in the United Kingdom they decided to move to France, where a specialist inserted three metal rods in her back.",
"Blatt went to Fitzjohn's Primary School where her musical talent was immediately noticed by the music teacher David Joyner, who encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school.",
"In 1986, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School where she met Nicole Appleton.",
"The two girls became best friends.",
"During this period, Blatt also played young Eponine in Les Misérables for six months, and was the understudy for Cosette together with fellow Sylvia Young student Denise van Outen.",
"Career\n\n1993–2001: Career with All Saints\n\nIn 1993, Blatt sang under the name Melanie Guillaume in the band Drive with Julienne Davis.",
"They released one single, \"Curfew\", together.",
"She also did backing vocals for Dreadzone with Denise van Outen.",
"Later that year, Blatt met Shaznay Lewis at the Metamorphosis recording studio in All Saints Road, London.",
"Together, with Simone Rainford, they formed the group All Saints 1.9.7.5 which was later renamed to All Saints when Rainford left and Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined Blatt and Lewis.",
"In 1997 All Saints released their debut single \"I Know Where It's At\", and peaked at number 4 in the UK.",
"The same year the group released a second single \"Never Ever, which introduced the group to international success after topping the charts in the UK and Australia, and reaching the top ten across Europe, Canada and the United States.",
"The single sold over 1.2 million copies in the United Kingdom and was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry.",
"The same year the group released their debut album All Saints, it reached number two in the United Kingdom and was certified platinum five times for sales of 1.5 million.",
"The group gained a further two number one singles the following year: \"Under the Bridge / Lady Marmalade\" and \"Bootie Call\".",
"In 2000 the group released new single \"Pure Shores\", which was used in the film The Beach and reached number one in the UK.",
"The single was certified platinum for sales over 600,000 copies.",
"The single was followed by their fifth number one single \"Black Coffee\", their second album Saints & Sinners was released shortly after and topped the chart in the United Kingdom.",
"The album was eventually certified double platinum by the BPI for sales over 600,000.",
"In early 2001, following the release of their single \"All Hooked Up\", the group split and reasons for this were later explained by Shaznay Lewis, who revealed details of tensions between the group.",
"In 2000, Blatt appeared in the film Honest directed by Dave Stewart opposite Nicole and Natalie Appleton and in 2001 she played a small role in the independent British film Dog Eat Dog.",
"2002–06: Solo musical releases\nBlatt's solo releases were of variable success; her most prominent being \"TwentyFourSeven\", a collaboration with the Artful Dodger, peaking at No 6 in September 2001.",
"Melanie began recording on her debut solo album in 2002, working with numerous producers including Sony Music production team Xenomania.",
"In late 2003 she released her debut single \"Do Me Wrong\", it reached number 18 in the UK and led to Blatt being dropped by her label due to its low charting.",
"The album she was working on was scrapped, therefore the release of her upcoming single \"Blue\" was cancelled, but later included on British singer Amelia Lily's debut album Be a Fighter, on which she worked with Xenomania.",
"In 2005 Blatt made a return to music with new single \"See Me\", which was used in the Robots movie.",
"She began working on a new album with independent label Sowlen Ankle Ltd written with, and recorded by, Matt Hales from Aqualung.",
"During 2005, Blatt played small venues in the UK which featured songs from the album she was working on at the time and included unreleased songs like \"In Your Arms,\" \"I Don't Mind,\" \"Now You're Gone,\" \"No Lullaby\" and \"Love Sweet Love.\"",
"Blatt's solo record was shelved in favour of the All Saints reunion.",
"2006–07: All Saints reunion\nOn 24 January 2006, it was announced that the band had reformed and signed a record deal with Parlophone.",
"They subsequently began work on their third studio album, Studio 1.",
"The first single, \"Rock Steady\" (released in November 2006), reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.",
"Studio 1 entered the albums chart at number forty and sold 60,000 copies according to the BPI, being certified silver.",
"A second single, \"Chick Fit\" failed to reach the top 200.",
"Blatt discussed the reunion's failure in an interview with i-D magazine in 2012: \"I don't think it was done for the right reasons...",
"I know that I did it for the money.",
"We got signed before we had even made music again, it wasn't like we felt we had something to give back to the world... we were given an opportunity and took it, without really thinking about it too hard\".",
"She also said she never felt comfortable with the success the band had and that \"it was not necessarily the plan at the beginning; there was a lot of compromise involved\".",
"2007–2014: Television\nSince 2007 Blatt presents the TV show The Hot Desk on ITV2 with co-hosts Nicole Appleton, Dave Berry, Emma Willis and Jayne Sharp.",
"Between 2009 and 2010 she was reporter of Angela Griffin's show Angela and Friends.",
"In January 2013 it was announced Melanie Blatt would join Daniel Bedingfield, Stan Walker and Ruby Frost as a judge/mentor on the New Zealand version of The X Factor: \"I can't wait to see what kind of artists and voices we are going to find in New Zealand.\"",
"Blatt will be mentoring the Groups category.",
"It was reported that she and her daughter Lilyella will live in the country for the duration of the series.",
"In February 2013, Blatt revealed she is \"making music\" and when asked about a solo comeback she said she is going to do something she never thought in a million years she would do.",
"On 11 September 2014 MediaWorks announced both Blatt and Stan Walker would return to judge the second season of the X Factor NZ alongside returning host Dominic Bowden.",
"Blatt and Walker would be joined by new husband-wife duo Willy Moon and Natalia Kills until their sacking, and replaced by Natalie Bassingthwaite and Shelton Woolwright.",
"Blatt mentored the Over 25's and placed 5th with her contestant Steve Broad.",
"2014–present: Second All Saints reunion\nIn 2014, All Saints reformed to support the Backstreet Boys for five dates across the UK and Ireland in 2014.",
"On 27 January 2016, it was confirmed that All Saints will release their fourth studio album Red Flag on 8 April 2016.",
"The lead single from the album, \"One Strike\", preceded the album on 26 February 2016.",
"Personal life\nBlatt gave birth to daughter Lilyella on 20 November 1998, the father of whom is Stuart Zender, Jamiroquai's former bass player.",
"They broke up in early 2006.",
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"One of the best-selling girl groups of all time, and the second best-selling girl group in the UK, the group gained five number one singles, two multi-platinum albums, two BRIT Awards and have sold over 10 million records worldwide.",
"Her debut solo single \"Do Me Wrong\" was released in 2003 after she began recording a solo album.",
"Her solo album was canceled after she was dropped by her record label.",
"In 2005, she made a return to music with her single \" See Me\", but later recorded another album on her own, which was later scrapped due to the All Saints reunion.",
"She was a judge on The X Factor in New Zealand.",
"Melanie Safka is an American country singer who was born at University College Hospital in London.",
"The author of the book Manchester United Ruined My Wife has a French mother and an English father, whose ancestors were from Poland and Russia.",
"She was born in the UK and France.",
"In 1986 he was diagnosed with Scoliosis.",
"Her parents decided to move to France because they were not happy with the treatment they received in the United Kingdom.",
"David Joyner encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school after he noticed her musical talent at Fitzjohn's Primary School.",
"She met Nicole Appleton at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.",
"Two girls became friends.",
"The understudy for Cosette in Les Misérables was also a Sylvia Young student.",
"In 1993 she sang under the name Melanie Guillaume in a band called Drive.",
"They released a single together.",
"She backed vocals for Dreadzone with van Outen.",
"At the Metamorphosis recording studio in All Saints Road, London, Blatt met Shaznay Lewis.",
"The group All Saints was formed with Simone Rainford and later renamed to All Saints when Rainford left and Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined.",
"All Saints peaked at number 4 in the UK with their debut single \"I Know Where It's At\".",
"The group reached the top ten in Europe, Canada and the United States with their second single, \"Never Ever\", after topping the charts in the UK and Australia.",
"The single was certified double Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom.",
"The group's debut album, All Saints, reached number two in the United Kingdom and was certified Platinum five times for sales of 1.5 million.",
"\"Bootie Call\" and \"Under the Bridge / Lady Marmalade\" were both number one singles the following year.",
"The group's new single \"Pure Shores\" was used in the film The Beach and reached number one in the UK.",
"The single sold over 600,000 copies.",
"Their second album Saints & Sinners was released shortly after and topped the chart in the United Kingdom, followed by their fifth number one single \"Black Coffee\".",
"The album was certified double Platinum by the BPI for sales over 600,000.",
"The group split in early 2001 after the release of their single \"All Hooked Up\", which was later explained by Shaznay Lewis.",
"In 2000 she appeared in the film Honest directed by Dave Stewart and in 2001 she played a small role in the British film Dog Eat Dog.",
"\"TwentySeven\", a collaboration with the Artful Dodger, peaked at No 6 in September 2001 and was her most prominent solo release.",
"Melanie recorded her first solo album in 2002, working with many producers.",
"Her debut single \"Do Me Wrong\" reached number 18 in the UK and led to her being dropped by her label due to its low charting.",
"The album she was working on was scrapped, so the release of her upcoming single \"Blue\" was canceled, but later included on British singer Amelia Lily's debut album Be a Fighter.",
"The new single \" See Me\" was used in the Robots movie.",
"A new album was written and recorded by Matt Hales from Aqualung.",
"\"In Your Arms,\" \"I Don't Mind,\" \"Now You're Gone,\" \"No Lullaby\" and \"Love Sweet Love\" were some of the songs that Blatt played in the UK in 2005.",
"The All Saints reunion was the reason for shelving Blatt's solo record.",
"On January 24, 2006 it was announced that the band had reformed and signed a record deal.",
"Studio 1 is their third studio album.",
"The first single, \"Rock Steady\", reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.",
"Studio 1 entered the albums chart at number forty and sold 60,000 copies.",
"\"Chick Fit\" didn't make the top 200.",
"The failure of the reunion was discussed in an interview with i-D magazine.",
"I knew I did it for the money.",
"It wasn't like we felt we had something to give back to the world when we got signed, we were given an opportunity and took it, without really thinking about it.",
"She said she never felt comfortable with the band's success and that there was a lot of compromise involved.",
"The Hot Desk has been on TV since 2007, with co- hosts Nicole Appleton, Dave Berry, Emma Willis and Jayne Sharp.",
"She was a reporter for the show.",
"\"I can't wait to see what kind of artists and voices we are going to find in New Zealand\" was the announcement made in January of this year that Melanie Blatt would join Daniel Bedingfield, Stan Walker and Ruby Frost as a judge/mentor on the New Zealand version of",
"He will be helping the Groups category.",
"She and her daughter will live in the country for the duration of the show.",
"When asked about a solo comeback, she said she is going to do something she never thought she would do.",
"The second season of the X Factor New Zealand was announced on 11 September by MediaWorks.",
"The new husband-wife duo of Natalia Kills and Natalie Bassingthwaite would be replaced by Shelton Woolwright and Willy Moon.",
"Her contestant Steve Broad was 5th in the Over 25's.",
"All Saints reformed to support the Backstreet Boys for five dates in the UK and Ireland.",
"All Saints will release their fourth studio album on April 8, 2016",
"\"One Strike\" was the lead single of the album.",
"Stuart Zender, Jamiroquai's former bass player, is the father of a daughter born on November 20, 1998.",
"In early 2006 they broke up.",
"All Saints is a group of English film actresses who are of French and Polish descent."
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<mask> was born at University College Hospital in the London Borough of Camden and is named after American country singer <mask>. She has a French mother and an English father, <mask> (known also as author of the book Manchester United Ruined My Wife), whose ancestors were from Poland and Russia and a younger sister named Jasmine. She was brought up in both the UK and France. In 1986, <mask> was diagnosed as having scoliosis. Since her parents were not satisfied with the treatment for the condition in the United Kingdom they decided to move to France, where a specialist inserted three metal rods in her back. <mask> went to Fitzjohn's Primary School where her musical talent was immediately noticed by the music teacher David Joyner, who encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school. In 1986, she attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School where she met Nicole Appleton.The two girls became best friends. During this period, <mask> also played young Eponine in Les Misérables for six months, and was the understudy for Cosette together with fellow Sylvia Young student Denise van Outen. Career
1993–2001: Career with All Saints
In 1993, <mask> sang under the name <mask> in the band Drive with Julienne Davis. They released one single, "Curfew", together. She also did backing vocals for Dreadzone with Denise van Outen. Later that year, <mask> met Shaznay Lewis at the Metamorphosis recording studio in All Saints Road, London. Together, with Simone Rainford, they formed the group All Saints 1.9.7.5 which was later renamed to All Saints when Rainford left and Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined <mask> and Lewis.In 1997 All Saints released their debut single "I Know Where It's At", and peaked at number 4 in the UK. The same year the group released a second single "Never Ever, which introduced the group to international success after topping the charts in the UK and Australia, and reaching the top ten across Europe, Canada and the United States. The single sold over 1.2 million copies in the United Kingdom and was certified double platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. The same year the group released their debut album All Saints, it reached number two in the United Kingdom and was certified platinum five times for sales of 1.5 million. The group gained a further two number one singles the following year: "Under the Bridge / Lady Marmalade" and "Bootie Call". In 2000 the group released new single "Pure Shores", which was used in the film The Beach and reached number one in the UK. The single was certified platinum for sales over 600,000 copies.The single was followed by their fifth number one single "Black Coffee", their second album Saints & Sinners was released shortly after and topped the chart in the United Kingdom. The album was eventually certified double platinum by the BPI for sales over 600,000. In early 2001, following the release of their single "All Hooked Up", the group split and reasons for this were later explained by Shaznay Lewis, who revealed details of tensions between the group. In 2000, <mask> appeared in the film Honest directed by Dave Stewart opposite Nicole and Natalie Appleton and in 2001 she played a small role in the independent British film Dog Eat Dog. 2002–06: Solo musical releases
<mask>'s solo releases were of variable success; her most prominent being "TwentyFourSeven", a collaboration with the Artful Dodger, peaking at No 6 in September 2001. <mask> began recording on her debut solo album in 2002, working with numerous producers including Sony Music production team Xenomania. In late 2003 she released her debut single "Do Me Wrong", it reached number 18 in the UK and led to <mask> being dropped by her label due to its low charting.The album she was working on was scrapped, therefore the release of her upcoming single "Blue" was cancelled, but later included on British singer Amelia Lily's debut album Be a Fighter, on which she worked with Xenomania. In 2005 <mask> made a return to music with new single "See Me", which was used in the Robots movie. She began working on a new album with independent label Sowlen Ankle Ltd written with, and recorded by, Matt Hales from Aqualung. During 2005, <mask> played small venues in the UK which featured songs from the album she was working on at the time and included unreleased songs like "In Your Arms," "I Don't Mind," "Now You're Gone," "No Lullaby" and "Love Sweet Love." <mask>'s solo record was shelved in favour of the All Saints reunion. 2006–07: All Saints reunion
On 24 January 2006, it was announced that the band had reformed and signed a record deal with Parlophone. They subsequently began work on their third studio album, Studio 1.The first single, "Rock Steady" (released in November 2006), reached number three on the UK Singles Chart. Studio 1 entered the albums chart at number forty and sold 60,000 copies according to the BPI, being certified silver. A second single, "Chick Fit" failed to reach the top 200. <mask> discussed the reunion's failure in an interview with i-D magazine in 2012: "I don't think it was done for the right reasons... I know that I did it for the money. We got signed before we had even made music again, it wasn't like we felt we had something to give back to the world... we were given an opportunity and took it, without really thinking about it too hard". She also said she never felt comfortable with the success the band had and that "it was not necessarily the plan at the beginning; there was a lot of compromise involved".2007–2014: Television
Since 2007 <mask> presents the TV show The Hot Desk on ITV2 with co-hosts Nicole Appleton, Dave Berry, Emma Willis and Jayne Sharp. Between 2009 and 2010 she was reporter of Angela Griffin's show Angela and Friends. In January 2013 it was announced <mask> would join Daniel Bedingfield, Stan Walker and Ruby Frost as a judge/mentor on the New Zealand version of The X Factor: "I can't wait to see what kind of artists and voices we are going to find in New Zealand." <mask> will be mentoring the Groups category. It was reported that she and her daughter Lilyella will live in the country for the duration of the series. In February 2013, <mask> revealed she is "making music" and when asked about a solo comeback she said she is going to do something she never thought in a million years she would do. On 11 September 2014 MediaWorks announced both <mask> and Stan Walker would return to judge the second season of the X Factor NZ alongside returning host Dominic Bowden.<mask> and Walker would be joined by new husband-wife duo Willy Moon and Natalia Kills until their sacking, and replaced by Natalie Bassingthwaite and Shelton Woolwright. <mask> mentored the Over 25's and placed 5th with her contestant Steve Broad. 2014–present: Second All Saints reunion
In 2014, All Saints reformed to support the Backstreet Boys for five dates across the UK and Ireland in 2014. On 27 January 2016, it was confirmed that All Saints will release their fourth studio album Red Flag on 8 April 2016. The lead single from the album, "One Strike", preceded the album on 26 February 2016. Personal life
<mask> gave birth to daughter Lilyella on 20 November 1998, the father of whom is Stuart Zender, Jamiroquai's former bass player. They broke up in early 2006.Filmography
Discography
Singles
Featured singles
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
All Saints (group) members
English film actresses
People from Camden Town
English people of French descent
English people of Polish descent
English people of Russian descent
Alumni of the Sylvia Young Theatre School
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Feminist musicians
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In 1986 he was diagnosed with Scoliosis. Her parents decided to move to France because they were not happy with the treatment they received in the United Kingdom. David Joyner encouraged her parents to send her to a stage school after he noticed her musical talent at Fitzjohn's Primary School. She met Nicole Appleton at the Sylvia Young Theatre School.Two girls became friends. The understudy for Cosette in Les Misérables was also a Sylvia Young student. In 1993 she sang under the name <mask> in a band called Drive. They released a single together. She backed vocals for Dreadzone with van Outen. At the Metamorphosis recording studio in All Saints Road, London, <mask> met Shaznay Lewis. The group All Saints was formed with Simone Rainford and later renamed to All Saints when Rainford left and Nicole and Natalie Appleton joined.All Saints peaked at number 4 in the UK with their debut single "I Know Where It's At". The group reached the top ten in Europe, Canada and the United States with their second single, "Never Ever", after topping the charts in the UK and Australia. The single was certified double Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom. The group's debut album, All Saints, reached number two in the United Kingdom and was certified Platinum five times for sales of 1.5 million. "Bootie Call" and "Under the Bridge / Lady Marmalade" were both number one singles the following year. The group's new single "Pure Shores" was used in the film The Beach and reached number one in the UK. The single sold over 600,000 copies.Their second album Saints & Sinners was released shortly after and topped the chart in the United Kingdom, followed by their fifth number one single "Black Coffee". The album was certified double Platinum by the BPI for sales over 600,000. The group split in early 2001 after the release of their single "All Hooked Up", which was later explained by Shaznay Lewis. In 2000 she appeared in the film Honest directed by Dave Stewart and in 2001 she played a small role in the British film Dog Eat Dog. "TwentySeven", a collaboration with the Artful Dodger, peaked at No 6 in September 2001 and was her most prominent solo release. <mask> recorded her first solo album in 2002, working with many producers. Her debut single "Do Me Wrong" reached number 18 in the UK and led to her being dropped by her label due to its low charting.The album she was working on was scrapped, so the release of her upcoming single "Blue" was canceled, but later included on British singer Amelia Lily's debut album Be a Fighter. The new single " See Me" was used in the Robots movie. A new album was written and recorded by Matt Hales from Aqualung. 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29775267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Wingfield%20%28diplomat%29 | Robert Wingfield (diplomat) | Sir Robert Wingfield (c.1464 – 18 March 1539) was an English diplomat.
Early life
Born about 1464, he was the seventh son of Sir John Wingfield (1428–1481) of Letheringham, Suffolk, a member of the Privy Council of Edward IV, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Elizabeth Fitzlewis (d.1500), daughter of Sir John Fitzlewis of West Horndon, Essex, by Anne Montacute. Humphrey Wingfield and Richard Wingfield were his brothers. He was brought up by Anne, Lady Scrope, his stepmother. He first rose to favour under Henry VII when he fought with his brother Richard against the Cornish rebels in 1497.
Diplomatic failure
He was employed by Henry VII on a mission to the Emperor Maximilian, returning in January 1508. On 2 July 1509 he is mentioned as a knight, the occasion being a grant to him by Henry VIII, part of the forfeitures of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk. Further grants followed, and on 10 February 1511 he is styled 'councillor and knight of the body.’
In the same month Wingfield was despatched again on a mission to Maximilian, and in August following he and Silvester de Giglis, bishop of Worcester, were nominated ambassadors to a council convoked by Pope Julius II at the Lateran. The intention of the pope was to form a league against France, which Henry joined on 17 November The council was not actually opened till May 1512. Wingfield remained with the Emperor at Brussels and elsewhere, and does not appear to have attended its sittings. On 30 Sep Maximilian, hearing that Julius II was ill, appointed Wingfield and the bishop of Gurk his envoys to support the candidature of his nominee at Rome; but, exasperated at being left without money, Wingfield unceremoniously disappeared from the court of Brussels, ostensibly on a pilgrimage, but in reality to join his brother Sir Richard at Calais. Meanwhile he had been ordered to go back to the Emperor, then in Germany, and on 9 March 1513 he was at the imperial court at Worms. On 18 April 1513 he was again at Brussels, on that day despatched back to the Emperor at Augsburg to secure his support for Henry VIII's scheme of a general confederation against France.
As a reward for his services he had already (14 July) received a joint grant in survivorship with his brother Sir Richard of the office of Marshal of Calais. During the early autumn of 1513 he paid a brief visit to England, but in May 1514 he was at Vienna, asking for money and for his recall. The military success of the French in Italy in 1515 meant that Henry was even more eager to bring Maximilian in a confederacy against France. Maximilian on his part was ready to sell himself to the highest bidder. Thomas Wolsey, seeing the ambassador as duped by Maximilian, sent Richard Pace to act as a check on Wingfield. An acrimonious correspondence ensued between Wolsey and Wingfield. Pace, too, ridiculed Wingfield's credulity, as Wingfield discovered by opening Pace's correspondence. He also feigned Pace's signature and seal to a receipt for money sent to Pace, and obtained sole control of its distribution. Maximilian dangled before Henry becoming Duke of Milan, with the resignation of the Empire in his favour. Henry in reply took Pace's advice and refused to provide any more money, and expressed his displeasure with Wingfield for having advanced sixty thousand florins to the Emperor on his own responsibility.
In the summer of 1516 Henry wrote to Wingfield a letter of censure. A treaty was, however, drawn up between Henry and the emperor, dated 29 October 1516, providing for a monetary advance by Henry, in return for the offer of the imperial crown, to be formally made by Wingfield and the Cardinal of Sion. Wingfield received the emperor's oath but then heard rumours that Maximilian had secretly subscribed to the obnoxious Treaty of Noyon.
Wolsey, however, continued to employ Wingfield, and despatched him, together with Cuthbert Tunstall and the Earl of Worcester, to Brussels to negotiate with Charles (the future Emperor Charles V). The mission succeeded in obtaining from Charles on 11 May 1517 a ratification of Henry's treaty with the emperor of the previous October. Wingfield left Brussels on 16 March to return to the imperial court, then in the Netherlands. On 5 June, having received instructions from Henry to follow Maximilian back to Germany, Wingfield wrote to the king a point-blank refusal. He was unpaid, his servants refused to remain with him, and he was under vows to make pilgrimages in England.
Return to diplomacy
On 18 August 1517 he was at Wenham Hall, Suffolk. During the next two and a half years Wingfield appears to have remained in retirement in England. In November 1520 he vacated his post of joint-deputy of Calais and apparently in December 1521 was appointed ambassador at Charles V's court. He was now not only a king's councillor but on the privy council, and vice-chamberlain. He arrived at Brussels on 8 February 1522. He apparently accompanied Charles to England in July. But on 14 Aug he again crossed the Channel as an ambassador, on this occasion to the court of Margaret of Savoy at Brussels. His instructions were to induce Margaret to lend active assistance to the projected operations of Charles and Henry against France. He returned to England in May 1523, but in August was appointed to a command in the Duke of Suffolk's army for the invasion of France. He seems to have taken no part in the campaign, remaining apparently in Calais, and he was appointed lieutenant of the castle by the influence of Wolsey.
After the battle of Pavia (23 February 1525) preparations were made by Henry for an invasion of France. Wingfield was nominated (11 April) to the council of war under the Duke of Norfolk, and was at the same time despatched, together with Sir William Fitzwilliam, to the court of Brussels to discuss concerted measures with the regent of the Netherlands. A series of evasive negotiations followed, and when Henry's projects of a joint invasion of France had given place to an alliance with the French (30 August), Wingfield had explained the change of policy by talking about on the necessity of international peace for the extirpation of Lutheranism.
Lord Deputy of Calais, and later
In May 1526 he returned to Calais, and was appointed Lord Deputy on 1 October 1526. His reform led to much dissatisfaction, into which Wingfield was in 1533 one of the commissioners appointed to inquire. In the autumn and winter of 1530–31 he expanded the defences. His successor, Lord Berners, was appointed deputy of Calais on 27 March 1531.
Wingfield continued to reside in Calais, of which he became mayor in 1534. He had a valuable property in the outskirts of the town, four thousand acres in extent, which he had rented from the English Crown; it had been a marsh, which Wingfield drained, so impairing the defences of the town. After the adverse report of a commission on the matter, the houses Wingfield had built were destroyed and the sea let in. Wingfield's grievance against Lord Lisle, who had succeeded Berners as deputy, culminated in a quarrel in December 1535 as to the relative rights of the mayor and deputy. The king supported Lisle, and Wingfield was threatened with expulsion from the council. This was followed in July 1536 by the introduction of a bill into parliament for the revocation of Wingfield's grant. The bill passed the commons, but with difficulty, and was withdrawn, but Wingfield was persuaded to surrender his patent to the king on 25 July. In return Wingfield received a grant of lands in the neighbourhood of Guisnes. Wingfield, however, now brought an action at Guisnes against minor officials concerned in the destruction of his property. Lisle stayed the proceedings, and Wingfield retaliated by procuring the election of Lisle's enemy, Lord Edmund Howard, as mayor of Calais. Howard was, however, displaced, and Wingfield in January 1538 renewed his action before the courts at Westminster.
Marriages
Wingfield married firstly Eleanor Raynsford (d. before 4 July 1519), daughter of Sir William Raynsford of Bradfield, Essex, Marshal of Calais, by whom he had no issue.
He married secondly Jane (or Joan) Poynings, one of the seven illegitimate children of Sir Edward Poynings (1459–1521) of Westenhanger, Kent, by whom he had no issue. She was the sister of Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings (d.1545), Edward Poynings (d.1546), and Sir Adrian Poynings. By her first marriage to Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton (d.1517), she was the mother of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (d.1585), Lord Admiral of England.
Death
Wingfield died on 18 March 1539. His widow survived him. He was patron of the college of Rushworth or Rushford, Norfolk. In 1520 he was specially admitted at Lincoln's Inn. During the greater part of his life he was an opponent of Lutheranism, but on 25 February 1539, shortly before his death, he wrote Henry a letter praising his ecclesiastical policy and lamenting his own former ignorance.
Works
He is said by Anstis to have caused to be printed at Louvain about 1513 a book entitled Disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici habita ab utriusque Oratoribus et Legatis in Concilio Constantiensi.
Notes
References
Attribution
External links
Wingfield, Sir Robert (c.1470–1539), History of Parliament. Retrieved 26 April 2013
1464 births
1539 deaths
16th-century English diplomats
15th-century English people
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
English knights
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"Sir Robert Wingfield (c.1464 – 18 March 1539) was an English diplomat.",
"Early life\nBorn about 1464, he was the seventh son of Sir John Wingfield (1428–1481) of Letheringham, Suffolk, a member of the Privy Council of Edward IV, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Elizabeth Fitzlewis (d.1500), daughter of Sir John Fitzlewis of West Horndon, Essex, by Anne Montacute.",
"Humphrey Wingfield and Richard Wingfield were his brothers.",
"He was brought up by Anne, Lady Scrope, his stepmother.",
"He first rose to favour under Henry VII when he fought with his brother Richard against the Cornish rebels in 1497.",
"Diplomatic failure\nHe was employed by Henry VII on a mission to the Emperor Maximilian, returning in January 1508.",
"On 2 July 1509 he is mentioned as a knight, the occasion being a grant to him by Henry VIII, part of the forfeitures of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.",
"Further grants followed, and on 10 February 1511 he is styled 'councillor and knight of the body.’\n\nIn the same month Wingfield was despatched again on a mission to Maximilian, and in August following he and Silvester de Giglis, bishop of Worcester, were nominated ambassadors to a council convoked by Pope Julius II at the Lateran.",
"The intention of the pope was to form a league against France, which Henry joined on 17 November The council was not actually opened till May 1512.",
"Wingfield remained with the Emperor at Brussels and elsewhere, and does not appear to have attended its sittings.",
"On 30 Sep Maximilian, hearing that Julius II was ill, appointed Wingfield and the bishop of Gurk his envoys to support the candidature of his nominee at Rome; but, exasperated at being left without money, Wingfield unceremoniously disappeared from the court of Brussels, ostensibly on a pilgrimage, but in reality to join his brother Sir Richard at Calais.",
"Meanwhile he had been ordered to go back to the Emperor, then in Germany, and on 9 March 1513 he was at the imperial court at Worms.",
"On 18 April 1513 he was again at Brussels, on that day despatched back to the Emperor at Augsburg to secure his support for Henry VIII's scheme of a general confederation against France.",
"As a reward for his services he had already (14 July) received a joint grant in survivorship with his brother Sir Richard of the office of Marshal of Calais.",
"During the early autumn of 1513 he paid a brief visit to England, but in May 1514 he was at Vienna, asking for money and for his recall.",
"The military success of the French in Italy in 1515 meant that Henry was even more eager to bring Maximilian in a confederacy against France.",
"Maximilian on his part was ready to sell himself to the highest bidder.",
"Thomas Wolsey, seeing the ambassador as duped by Maximilian, sent Richard Pace to act as a check on Wingfield.",
"An acrimonious correspondence ensued between Wolsey and Wingfield.",
"Pace, too, ridiculed Wingfield's credulity, as Wingfield discovered by opening Pace's correspondence.",
"He also feigned Pace's signature and seal to a receipt for money sent to Pace, and obtained sole control of its distribution.",
"Maximilian dangled before Henry becoming Duke of Milan, with the resignation of the Empire in his favour.",
"Henry in reply took Pace's advice and refused to provide any more money, and expressed his displeasure with Wingfield for having advanced sixty thousand florins to the Emperor on his own responsibility.",
"In the summer of 1516 Henry wrote to Wingfield a letter of censure.",
"A treaty was, however, drawn up between Henry and the emperor, dated 29 October 1516, providing for a monetary advance by Henry, in return for the offer of the imperial crown, to be formally made by Wingfield and the Cardinal of Sion.",
"Wingfield received the emperor's oath but then heard rumours that Maximilian had secretly subscribed to the obnoxious Treaty of Noyon.",
"Wolsey, however, continued to employ Wingfield, and despatched him, together with Cuthbert Tunstall and the Earl of Worcester, to Brussels to negotiate with Charles (the future Emperor Charles V).",
"The mission succeeded in obtaining from Charles on 11 May 1517 a ratification of Henry's treaty with the emperor of the previous October.",
"Wingfield left Brussels on 16 March to return to the imperial court, then in the Netherlands.",
"On 5 June, having received instructions from Henry to follow Maximilian back to Germany, Wingfield wrote to the king a point-blank refusal.",
"He was unpaid, his servants refused to remain with him, and he was under vows to make pilgrimages in England.",
"Return to diplomacy\nOn 18 August 1517 he was at Wenham Hall, Suffolk.",
"During the next two and a half years Wingfield appears to have remained in retirement in England.",
"In November 1520 he vacated his post of joint-deputy of Calais and apparently in December 1521 was appointed ambassador at Charles V's court.",
"He was now not only a king's councillor but on the privy council, and vice-chamberlain.",
"He arrived at Brussels on 8 February 1522.",
"He apparently accompanied Charles to England in July.",
"But on 14 Aug he again crossed the Channel as an ambassador, on this occasion to the court of Margaret of Savoy at Brussels.",
"His instructions were to induce Margaret to lend active assistance to the projected operations of Charles and Henry against France.",
"He returned to England in May 1523, but in August was appointed to a command in the Duke of Suffolk's army for the invasion of France.",
"He seems to have taken no part in the campaign, remaining apparently in Calais, and he was appointed lieutenant of the castle by the influence of Wolsey.",
"After the battle of Pavia (23 February 1525) preparations were made by Henry for an invasion of France.",
"Wingfield was nominated (11 April) to the council of war under the Duke of Norfolk, and was at the same time despatched, together with Sir William Fitzwilliam, to the court of Brussels to discuss concerted measures with the regent of the Netherlands.",
"A series of evasive negotiations followed, and when Henry's projects of a joint invasion of France had given place to an alliance with the French (30 August), Wingfield had explained the change of policy by talking about on the necessity of international peace for the extirpation of Lutheranism.",
"Lord Deputy of Calais, and later\n\nIn May 1526 he returned to Calais, and was appointed Lord Deputy on 1 October 1526.",
"His reform led to much dissatisfaction, into which Wingfield was in 1533 one of the commissioners appointed to inquire.",
"In the autumn and winter of 1530–31 he expanded the defences.",
"His successor, Lord Berners, was appointed deputy of Calais on 27 March 1531.",
"Wingfield continued to reside in Calais, of which he became mayor in 1534.",
"He had a valuable property in the outskirts of the town, four thousand acres in extent, which he had rented from the English Crown; it had been a marsh, which Wingfield drained, so impairing the defences of the town.",
"After the adverse report of a commission on the matter, the houses Wingfield had built were destroyed and the sea let in.",
"Wingfield's grievance against Lord Lisle, who had succeeded Berners as deputy, culminated in a quarrel in December 1535 as to the relative rights of the mayor and deputy.",
"The king supported Lisle, and Wingfield was threatened with expulsion from the council.",
"This was followed in July 1536 by the introduction of a bill into parliament for the revocation of Wingfield's grant.",
"The bill passed the commons, but with difficulty, and was withdrawn, but Wingfield was persuaded to surrender his patent to the king on 25 July.",
"In return Wingfield received a grant of lands in the neighbourhood of Guisnes.",
"Wingfield, however, now brought an action at Guisnes against minor officials concerned in the destruction of his property.",
"Lisle stayed the proceedings, and Wingfield retaliated by procuring the election of Lisle's enemy, Lord Edmund Howard, as mayor of Calais.",
"Howard was, however, displaced, and Wingfield in January 1538 renewed his action before the courts at Westminster.",
"Marriages\nWingfield married firstly Eleanor Raynsford (d. before 4 July 1519), daughter of Sir William Raynsford of Bradfield, Essex, Marshal of Calais, by whom he had no issue.",
"He married secondly Jane (or Joan) Poynings, one of the seven illegitimate children of Sir Edward Poynings (1459–1521) of Westenhanger, Kent, by whom he had no issue.",
"She was the sister of Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings (d.1545), Edward Poynings (d.1546), and Sir Adrian Poynings.",
"By her first marriage to Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton (d.1517), she was the mother of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (d.1585), Lord Admiral of England.",
"Death\nWingfield died on 18 March 1539.",
"His widow survived him.",
"He was patron of the college of Rushworth or Rushford, Norfolk.",
"In 1520 he was specially admitted at Lincoln's Inn.",
"During the greater part of his life he was an opponent of Lutheranism, but on 25 February 1539, shortly before his death, he wrote Henry a letter praising his ecclesiastical policy and lamenting his own former ignorance.",
"Works\nHe is said by Anstis to have caused to be printed at Louvain about 1513 a book entitled Disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici habita ab utriusque Oratoribus et Legatis in Concilio Constantiensi.",
"Notes\n\nReferences\n\n \n \n\nAttribution\n\nExternal links\nWingfield, Sir Robert (c.1470–1539), History of Parliament.",
"Retrieved 26 April 2013\n\n1464 births\n1539 deaths\n16th-century English diplomats\n15th-century English people\nPeople from Suffolk Coastal (district)\nEnglish knights\nRobert"
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"He was the seventh son of Sir John Wingfield and a member of the Privy Council.",
"His brothers were Humphrey and Richard Wingfield.",
"Lady Scrope was his stepmother.",
"He was favored by Henry VII when he fought with his brother against the Cornish rebels.",
"He was employed by Henry VII to go on a mission.",
"Henry VIII granted him a knighthood, part of the forfeitures of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.",
"Wingfield was made a knight of the body on 10 February 1511.",
"The pope wanted to form a league against France and Henry joined on 17 November.",
"Wingfield remained with the Emperor, but did not attend its sittings.",
"After hearing that Julius II was ill, Wingfield and the bishop of Gurk were appointed to support his nominee at Rome, but Wingfield disappeared from the court of Brussels, ostensibly on a pilgrimage.",
"On 9 March 1513 he was at the imperial court at Worms after being ordered to go back to the Emperor.",
"On 18 April 1513 he went back to the Emperor at Augsburg to get his support for Henry VIII's plan of a general confederation against France.",
"He received a grant in survivorship with his brother Sir Richard as a reward for his services.",
"He was at Vienna in May 1514, asking for money and for his recall, after visiting England in the autumn of 1513.",
"The military success of the French in Italy in 1515 meant that Henry was even more eager to bring Maximilian in a confederacy against France.",
"He was ready to sell himself to the highest bidder.",
"The ambassador was sent to act as a check on Wingfield by Thomas Wolsey.",
"There was an acrimonious correspondence between Wingfield and Wolsey.",
"Wingfield discovered his credulity by opening Pace's correspondence.",
"He pretended to have Pace's signature and seal on a receipt for money sent to him.",
"Henry became Duke of Milan with the resignation of the Empire.",
"Henry refused to provide any more money and expressed his displeasure with Wingfield for having advanced sixty thousand florins to the Emperor on his own responsibility.",
"Henry wrote a letter of censure to Wingfield.",
"A treaty was drawn up between Henry and the emperor, dated 29 October 1516, providing for a monetary advance by Henry, in return for the offer of the imperial crown, to be formally made by Wingfield and the Cardinal of Sion.",
"Wingfield received the emperor's oath and then heard about the Treaty of Noyon.",
"Wingfield was sent by Wolsey to negotiate with Charles, along with other people.",
"The mission succeeded in getting Charles to approve Henry's treaty with the emperor.",
"Wingfield returned to the imperial court in the Netherlands on 16 March.",
"Wingfield wrote to the king a refusal after receiving instructions from Henry to follow Maximilian back to Germany.",
"He was not paid and his servants refused to stay with him.",
"He returned to diplomacy on August 18th, 1517 at Wenham Hall.",
"Wingfield seems to have remained in England for the next two and a half years.",
"He was appointed ambassador at Charles V's court in December 1521 after vacating his post of joint-deputy of Calais in November 1520.",
"He was a vice-chamberlain on the council.",
"He arrived in Brussels on February 8th.",
"He was with Charles in July.",
"On 14 August he crossed the Channel again as an ambassador to the court of Margaret of Savoy.",
"Margaret was instructed to lend active assistance to the projected operations of Charles and Henry against France.",
"After returning to England in May 1523, he was appointed to a command in the Duke of Suffolk's army for the invasion of France.",
"He was appointed lieutenant of the castle by the influence of Wolsey, who seems to have taken no part in the campaign.",
"Henry made preparations for an invasion of France after the battle of Pavia.",
"Wingfield and Sir William Fitzwilliam were sent to the court of Brussels to discuss measures with the regent of the Netherlands after Wingfield was nominated to the council of war by the Duke of Norfolk.",
"Wingfield explained the change of policy by talking about the necessity of international peace for the extirpation of Lutheranism, when Henry's projects of a joint invasion of France had given place to an alliance with the French.",
"In May 1526 he returned to Calais and was appointed the Lord Deputy.",
"Wingfield was one of the Commissioners appointed to inquire after his reform.",
"During the autumn and winter of 1530–31, he expanded the defences.",
"On 27 March 1531, Lord Berners was appointed deputy of Calais.",
"In 1534, Wingfield became the mayor of Calais.",
"Four thousand acres of land in the outskirts of the town was rented from the English Crown and Wingfield drained it so as to impair the defences of the town.",
"The houses Wingfield had built were destroyed after the adverse report.",
"Wingfield had a dispute with Lord Lisle over the rights of the mayor and deputy.",
"Wingfield was threatened with expulsion from the council because he was supported by the king.",
"The bill for the revocation of Wingfield's grant was introduced in July of 1536.",
"Wingfield surrendered his patent to the king after the bill passed the commons but was withdrawn.",
"Wingfield got a grant of lands in the neighbourhood of Guisnes.",
"Wingfield brought an action at Guisnes against officials who were involved in the destruction of his property.",
"Wingfield retaliated by getting Lord Edmund Howard to be the mayor of Calais.",
"Wingfield renewed his action before the courts in January 1538 after Howard was displaced.",
"Wingfield married Eleanor Raynsford, daughter of Sir William Raynsford of Bradfield, Essex, on July 15, 1919.",
"He married Jane Poynings, one of the illegitimate children of Sir Edward Poynings, who was from Westenhanger, Kent.",
"Her siblings were Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings, Edward Poynings, and Sir Adrian Poynings.",
"She was the mother of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Lord Admiral of England, by her first marriage to Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton.",
"Death Wingfield passed away on 18 March 1539",
"His wife survived him.",
"He was the patron of the college.",
"He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1520.",
"He was an opponent of Lutheranism for most of his life, but before he died he wrote Henry a letter praising his policy.",
"He is said to have caused to be printed at Louvain a book called Disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici habita.",
"External links Wingfield, Sir Robert, History of Parliament.",
"16th-century English diplomats and English people died in the 16th century."
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Born about 1464, he was the seventh son of Sir <mask> (1428–1481) of Letheringham, Suffolk, a member of the Privy Council of Edward IV, and Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and Elizabeth Fitzlewis (d.1500), daughter of Sir John Fitzlewis of West Horndon, Essex, by Anne Montacute. <mask> and <mask> were his brothers. He was brought up by Anne, Lady Scrope, his stepmother. He first rose to favour under Henry VII when he fought with his brother Richard against the Cornish rebels in 1497. Diplomatic failure
He was employed by Henry VII on a mission to the Emperor Maximilian, returning in January 1508. On 2 July 1509 he is mentioned as a knight, the occasion being a grant to him by Henry VIII, part of the forfeitures of Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk.Further grants followed, and on 10 February 1511 he is styled 'councillor and knight of the body.’
In the same month <mask> was despatched again on a mission to Maximilian, and in August following he and Silvester de Giglis, bishop of Worcester, were nominated ambassadors to a council convoked by Pope Julius II at the Lateran. The intention of the pope was to form a league against France, which Henry joined on 17 November The council was not actually opened till May 1512. <mask> remained with the Emperor at Brussels and elsewhere, and does not appear to have attended its sittings. On 30 Sep Maximilian, hearing that Julius II was ill, appointed <mask> and the bishop of Gurk his envoys to support the candidature of his nominee at Rome; but, exasperated at being left without money, <mask> unceremoniously disappeared from the court of Brussels, ostensibly on a pilgrimage, but in reality to join his brother Sir Richard at Calais. Meanwhile he had been ordered to go back to the Emperor, then in Germany, and on 9 March 1513 he was at the imperial court at Worms. On 18 April 1513 he was again at Brussels, on that day despatched back to the Emperor at Augsburg to secure his support for Henry VIII's scheme of a general confederation against France. As a reward for his services he had already (14 July) received a joint grant in survivorship with his brother Sir Richard of the office of Marshal of Calais.During the early autumn of 1513 he paid a brief visit to England, but in May 1514 he was at Vienna, asking for money and for his recall. The military success of the French in Italy in 1515 meant that Henry was even more eager to bring Maximilian in a confederacy against France. Maximilian on his part was ready to sell himself to the highest bidder. Thomas Wolsey, seeing the ambassador as duped by Maximilian, sent Richard Pace to act as a check on <mask>. An acrimonious correspondence ensued between Wolsey and <mask>. Pace, too, ridiculed <mask>'s credulity, as <mask> discovered by opening Pace's correspondence. He also feigned Pace's signature and seal to a receipt for money sent to Pace, and obtained sole control of its distribution.Maximilian dangled before Henry becoming Duke of Milan, with the resignation of the Empire in his favour. Henry in reply took Pace's advice and refused to provide any more money, and expressed his displeasure with <mask> for having advanced sixty thousand florins to the Emperor on his own responsibility. In the summer of 1516 Henry wrote to Wingfield a letter of censure. A treaty was, however, drawn up between Henry and the emperor, dated 29 October 1516, providing for a monetary advance by Henry, in return for the offer of the imperial crown, to be formally made by Wingfield and the Cardinal of Sion. Wingfield received the emperor's oath but then heard rumours that Maximilian had secretly subscribed to the obnoxious Treaty of Noyon. Wolsey, however, continued to employ Wingfield, and despatched him, together with Cuthbert Tunstall and the Earl of Worcester, to Brussels to negotiate with Charles (the future Emperor Charles V). The mission succeeded in obtaining from Charles on 11 May 1517 a ratification of Henry's treaty with the emperor of the previous October.<mask> left Brussels on 16 March to return to the imperial court, then in the Netherlands. On 5 June, having received instructions from Henry to follow Maximilian back to Germany, <mask> wrote to the king a point-blank refusal. He was unpaid, his servants refused to remain with him, and he was under vows to make pilgrimages in England. Return to diplomacy
On 18 August 1517 he was at Wenham Hall, Suffolk. During the next two and a half years <mask> appears to have remained in retirement in England. In November 1520 he vacated his post of joint-deputy of Calais and apparently in December 1521 was appointed ambassador at Charles V's court. He was now not only a king's councillor but on the privy council, and vice-chamberlain.He arrived at Brussels on 8 February 1522. He apparently accompanied Charles to England in July. But on 14 Aug he again crossed the Channel as an ambassador, on this occasion to the court of Margaret of Savoy at Brussels. His instructions were to induce Margaret to lend active assistance to the projected operations of Charles and Henry against France. He returned to England in May 1523, but in August was appointed to a command in the Duke of Suffolk's army for the invasion of France. He seems to have taken no part in the campaign, remaining apparently in Calais, and he was appointed lieutenant of the castle by the influence of Wolsey. After the battle of Pavia (23 February 1525) preparations were made by Henry for an invasion of France.<mask> was nominated (11 April) to the council of war under the Duke of Norfolk, and was at the same time despatched, together with Sir William Fitzwilliam, to the court of Brussels to discuss concerted measures with the regent of the Netherlands. A series of evasive negotiations followed, and when Henry's projects of a joint invasion of France had given place to an alliance with the French (30 August), <mask> had explained the change of policy by talking about on the necessity of international peace for the extirpation of Lutheranism. Lord Deputy of Calais, and later
In May 1526 he returned to Calais, and was appointed Lord Deputy on 1 October 1526. His reform led to much dissatisfaction, into which <mask> was in 1533 one of the commissioners appointed to inquire. In the autumn and winter of 1530–31 he expanded the defences. His successor, Lord Berners, was appointed deputy of Calais on 27 March 1531. <mask> continued to reside in Calais, of which he became mayor in 1534.He had a valuable property in the outskirts of the town, four thousand acres in extent, which he had rented from the English Crown; it had been a marsh, which Wingfield drained, so impairing the defences of the town. After the adverse report of a commission on the matter, the houses Wingfield had built were destroyed and the sea let in. Wingfield's grievance against Lord Lisle, who had succeeded Berners as deputy, culminated in a quarrel in December 1535 as to the relative rights of the mayor and deputy. The king supported Lisle, and <mask> was threatened with expulsion from the council. This was followed in July 1536 by the introduction of a bill into parliament for the revocation of Wingfield's grant. The bill passed the commons, but with difficulty, and was withdrawn, but Wingfield was persuaded to surrender his patent to the king on 25 July. In return Wingfield received a grant of lands in the neighbourhood of Guisnes.<mask>, however, now brought an action at Guisnes against minor officials concerned in the destruction of his property. Lisle stayed the proceedings, and <mask> retaliated by procuring the election of Lisle's enemy, Lord Edmund Howard, as mayor of Calais. Howard was, however, displaced, and <mask> in January 1538 renewed his action before the courts at Westminster. Marriages
<mask> married firstly Eleanor Raynsford (d. before 4 July 1519), daughter of Sir William Raynsford of Bradfield, Essex, Marshal of Calais, by whom he had no issue. He married secondly Jane (or Joan) Poynings, one of the seven illegitimate children of Sir Edward Poynings (1459–1521) of Westenhanger, Kent, by whom he had no issue. She was the sister of Thomas Poynings, 1st Baron Poynings (d.1545), Edward Poynings (d.1546), and Sir Adrian Poynings. By her first marriage to Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton (d.1517), she was the mother of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln (d.1585), Lord Admiral of England.Death
<mask> died on 18 March 1539. His widow survived him. He was patron of the college of Rushworth or Rushford, Norfolk. In 1520 he was specially admitted at Lincoln's Inn. During the greater part of his life he was an opponent of Lutheranism, but on 25 February 1539, shortly before his death, he wrote Henry a letter praising his ecclesiastical policy and lamenting his own former ignorance. Works
He is said by Anstis to have caused to be printed at Louvain about 1513 a book entitled Disceptatio super dignitate et magnitudine Regnorum Britannici et Gallici habita ab utriusque Oratoribus et Legatis in Concilio Constantiensi. Notes
References
Attribution
External links
<mask>, Sir <mask> (c.1470–1539), History of Parliament.Retrieved 26 April 2013
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1539 deaths
16th-century English diplomats
15th-century English people
People from Suffolk Coastal (district)
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On 18 April 1513 he went back to the Emperor at Augsburg to get his support for Henry VIII's plan of a general confederation against France. He received a grant in survivorship with his brother Sir Richard as a reward for his services.He was at Vienna in May 1514, asking for money and for his recall, after visiting England in the autumn of 1513. The military success of the French in Italy in 1515 meant that Henry was even more eager to bring Maximilian in a confederacy against France. He was ready to sell himself to the highest bidder. The ambassador was sent to act as a check on <mask> by Thomas Wolsey. There was an acrimonious correspondence between <mask> and Wolsey. <mask> discovered his credulity by opening Pace's correspondence. He pretended to have Pace's signature and seal on a receipt for money sent to him.Henry became Duke of Milan with the resignation of the Empire. Henry refused to provide any more money and expressed his displeasure with Wingfield for having advanced sixty thousand florins to the Emperor on his own responsibility. Henry wrote a letter of censure to Wingfield. A treaty was drawn up between Henry and the emperor, dated 29 October 1516, providing for a monetary advance by Henry, in return for the offer of the imperial crown, to be formally made by Wingfield and the Cardinal of Sion. <mask> received the emperor's oath and then heard about the Treaty of Noyon. <mask> was sent by Wolsey to negotiate with Charles, along with other people. The mission succeeded in getting Charles to approve Henry's treaty with the emperor.<mask> returned to the imperial court in the Netherlands on 16 March. <mask> wrote to the king a refusal after receiving instructions from Henry to follow Maximilian back to Germany. He was not paid and his servants refused to stay with him. 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Henry made preparations for an invasion of France after the battle of Pavia.<mask> and Sir William Fitzwilliam were sent to the court of Brussels to discuss measures with the regent of the Netherlands after <mask> was nominated to the council of war by the Duke of Norfolk. <mask> explained the change of policy by talking about the necessity of international peace for the extirpation of Lutheranism, when Henry's projects of a joint invasion of France had given place to an alliance with the French. In May 1526 he returned to Calais and was appointed the Lord Deputy. <mask> was one of the Commissioners appointed to inquire after his reform. During the autumn and winter of 1530–31, he expanded the defences. On 27 March 1531, Lord Berners was appointed deputy of Calais. In 1534, <mask> became the mayor of Calais.Four thousand acres of land in the outskirts of the town was rented from the English Crown and Wingfield drained it so as to impair the defences of the town. 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1625597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Dorff | Daniel Dorff | Daniel Dorff (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical composer.
Biography and career
Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Roslyn, New York, graduating from Roslyn High School. He was first inspired to become a musician when he was a second grader at the Roslyn-Flower Hill Elementary School in Flower Hill, and was introduced to the recorder.
Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. Dorff served from 1996 through 2015 as composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey (USA). His works have been commissioned by such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists and clarinetists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz. He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.
Dorff has written many frequently-performed recital works for woodwinds, and music for orchestra, concert band, piano, chorus, and chamber ensembles, including often-neglected instruments such as contrabassoon, piccolo, and tenor saxophone – the best-known of which are Sonatine de Giverny and Flash!, both for piccolo and piano. In addition to his compositional career, Dorff is a clarinetist and saxophonist and was bass clarinetist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence. He frequently lectures on music engraving and notation, a subject in which he is expert. Dorff is currently vice president of publishing for music publisher Theodore Presser Company; his input has also been sought in the development of leading music notation software.
Works
Narrated works for young audiences
Dorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music; many of his works are written for young audiences, including Three Fun Fables, a setting for narrator and orchestra of familiar Aesop tales; Billy and the Carnival, a narrated guide to the instruments of the orchestra; Blast Off!, a travelog of a trip to outer space (the score to which was flown by NASA on the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle); and familiar stories such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and The Tortoise and the Hare, and Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Delicious Act which has enjoyed well over 1000 performances.
A Treeful of Monkeys for narrator and orchestra (or mixed quintet)
Billy and the Carnival - A Children's Guide to Musical Instruments for narrator and orchestra
Blast Off! for narrator and orchestra
Goldilocks and the Three Bears for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)
Old MacDonald Had an Orchestra for narrator and mixed quintet
Take The Orchestra Out to the Ballgame for narrator and orchestra (or mixed quintet)
The Adventures of Mary's Little Lamb for narrator and mixed quintet
The Bear Went Under the Mountain for narrator mixed quintet
The Three Little Pigs for narrator, violin, and cello
The Tortoise and the Hare for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)
Three Fun Fables for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)
Selected chamber music
Some chamber pieces composed by Dorff include:
9 Walks Down 7th Avenue for flute and piano
Allegro Volante for xylophone and piano
Andante con Variazioni for flute and clarinet
April Whirlwind for flute and piano
Atomic Turquoise for flute, C trumpet (or viola), and harp
August Idyll for solo flute
Ballade for alto flute, flugelhorn (or bass flute), and piano
BFF's for Eb clarinet and Bb clarinet
Cape May Breezes for wind quintet
Dance Music for Mr. Mouse for Eb clarinet and piano
Dark Romance for clarinet quartet
Deep Funk, Part 2, Dance Sonata for solo viola
Desert Dusk for alto flute and cello
Fanfare and Hustle for brass quintet
Fantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne for saxophone quartet
Fast Walk for saxophone quartet or clarinet quartet or bassoon quartet
Fireworks for flute orchestra
Flash! for piccolo and piano
Flower of St. Francis, five scenes for solo bass clarinet
Folk Song Suite for two flutes
For Elise for flute and piano
Hot Spots for Bb Clarinet and English Horn
In a Deep Funk dance set for solo contrabassoon (or bass clarinet)
Invention after BWV 1013 for two flutes
Invention on Mozart's 11-tone Surprise for flute and clarinet
It Takes Four to Tango for sax quartet or clarinet quartet (or many other instrumentations)
Pastorale (Souvenirs du Frög) for clarinet and piano
Perennials for flute, clarinet, and piano
Perfect Storm for piccolo, flute, and piano
Romanza on a theme of Rochberg for solo piano
Serenade for Flute and Harp
Serenade to Eve, After Rodin for flute and guitar
Shadows for solo timpani
Snow Angel for flute and piano
Sonata (Spirit of the Hudson) for bass flute and piano
Sonata (Three Lakes) for flute and piano
Sonatina d'Amore for two contrabassoons
Sonatine de Giverny for piccolo and piano
Spark for solo viola
Swans for 2 alto flutes and piano
The Day Things Went Wrong at the Pet Store - 11 Cartoons for Piano
The Flowers of St. Francis for solo bass clarinet
Three Dance Etudes for marimba duo or ensemble
The Seven Chakras for tenor saxophone and piano
The Three Little Pigs for narrator, violin, and cello
Three Romances for flute and clarinet
The Year of the Rabbit for flute quartet or ensemble
Through a Misty Arch for flute ensemble
Trees (after the poem by Joyce Kilmer) for solo flute with narration
Tweet for solo piccolo
The Seven Chakras for tenor saxophone and piano
Two Cats for flute and clarinet
Zoe & Xena for piccolo and bass clarinet
Selected orchestral music
Some orchestral pieces composed by Dorff include:
A Treeful of Monkeys for narrator with orchestra or mixed quintet
Allegro Volante for xylophone and orchestra (or band)
Billy and the Carnival: A Children's Guide to Musical Instruments for narrator and orchestra
Blast Off! for narrator and orchestra
Concertino for flute and orchestra (or piano)
Concerto for Contrabassoon with clarinet, horn, and strings
Flash! for piccolo and orchestra
Goldilocks and the Three Bears for narrator with orchestra or mixed octet
Pachelbel's Christmas (A Merry Melange) for orchestra
Philly Rhapsody for orchestra
Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Act, an opera for young audiences with soloists, mixed choir, and accompaniment
Summer Solstice Concerto for clarinet and string orchestra
Take the Orchestra Out to the Ballgame for narrator and orchestra
The Kiss (after a painting by Gustav Klimt) for orchestra
Three Fun Fables for narrator and orchestra or mixed octet
The Tortoise and the Hare for narrator and orchestra or mixed octet
Symphony of Delusions
Discography
Andante con Variazioni (Albany Records TROY 1404), Leonard Garrison flute, Shannon Scott clarinet
April Whirlwind (private label), Angela Massey flute, Vahan Sargsyan piano
August Idyll (Cantilena Records 66042-2), Laurel Zucker solo flute
August Idyll (private label), Kristen Stoner
Billy and the Carnival: A Children’s Guide to the Instruments (Bridge Records 9229), Ukee Washington narrator, Rossen Milanov conducting Symphony in C
Blast Off (Bridge Records 9229), Ukee Washington narrator, Rossen Milanov conducting Symphony in C
Dances and Canons (Albany Records TROY 1404), Leonard Garrison flute, Shannon Scott clarinet
Fast Walk (Meister Music MM-1016 and MM-1133), Harmo Saxophone Quartet
Flash! (90002, distr. Harmonia Mundi), Gudrun Hinze piccolo, Markus Zügehor piano
Flash! (private label), Kate Prestia-Schaub piccolo, Martin Kennedy piano
Flash! (Numar Un MM 52-16), Nicola Mazzanti piccolo, Ferdinando Mussutto piano
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Bridge Records 92292), Ann Crumb narrator, Rossen Milanov conducting Symphony in C
It Takes Four to Tango (Farao Classics B108011), Interclarinet Ensemble
It Takes Four to Tango (Meister Music MM-1016), Harmo Saxophone Quartet
It Takes Four to Tango (Sea Breeze Records SEAB 3059), The Miles Osland Saxophone Quartet
9 Walks Down 7th Avenue (Azica Records 71257), Pamela Youngblood flute, Gabriel Bita piano
Nocturne Caprice (private label), Mimi Stillman solo flute
Pastorale (Souvenirs du Frög) (Albany Records TROY 1404), Shannon Scott clarinet, Rajung Yang piano
Perennials (Albany Records TROY 1404), Leonard Garrison flute, Shannon Scott clarinet, Rajung Yang piano
Serenade to Eve (after Rodin) (Barking Dog Records), Deborah Harris flute, Mike Coates guitar
Serenade to Eve (after Rodin) (private label), Jenny Cline flute, Carlos Cuestas guitar
Sonata (Three Lakes) (Centaur Records CRC 3525), Patricia Surman flute, Kostas Chardas piano
Sonatina d’Amore (Crystal Records CD 349), Burl Lane and Susan Nigro contrabassoons
Sonatine de Giverny (Crystal Records CD 713), Lois Herbine piccolo, Charles Abramovic piano
Sonatine de Giverny (Talanton TAL 90002, distr. Harmonia Mundi), Gudrun Hinze piccolo, Markus Zügehor piano
The Three Little Pigs (New Focus Recordings FCR108), Auricolae Ensemble
Three Fun Fables (Bridge Records 92292), Ann Crumb narrator, Rossen Milanov conducting Symphony in C
Three Little Waltzes (Albany Records TROY 1404), Leonard Garrison flute, Shannon Scott clarinet
Three Romances (Albany Records TROY 1404), Leonard Garrison flute, Shannon Scott clarinet
Two Cats (Albany Records TROY 1404), Leonard Garrison flute, Shannon Scott clarinet
Zoe & Xena: A Romp in the Park (Albany Records TROY 1652), Leonard Garrison piccolo, Shannon Scott bass clarinet
References
External links
Daniel Dorff's website
Daniel Dorff's page at Theodore Presser Company
Daniel Dorff Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2010)
1956 births
Roslyn High School alumni
Flower Hill, New York
Musicians from New Rochelle, New York
Living people
21st-century classical composers
20th-century classical composers
American male classical composers
American classical composers
Cornell University alumni
Classical saxophonists
21st-century American composers
20th-century saxophonists
21st-century saxophonists
20th-century American composers
Classical musicians from New York (state)
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians | [
"Daniel Dorff (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical composer.",
"Biography and career \nDorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Roslyn, New York, graduating from Roslyn High School.",
"He was first inspired to become a musician when he was a second grader at the Roslyn-Flower Hill Elementary School in Flower Hill, and was introduced to the recorder.",
"Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick.",
"Dorff served from 1996 through 2015 as composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey (USA).",
"His works have been commissioned by such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists and clarinetists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz.",
"He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.",
"Dorff has written many frequently-performed recital works for woodwinds, and music for orchestra, concert band, piano, chorus, and chamber ensembles, including often-neglected instruments such as contrabassoon, piccolo, and tenor saxophone – the best-known of which are Sonatine de Giverny and Flash!, both for piccolo and piano.",
"In addition to his compositional career, Dorff is a clarinetist and saxophonist and was bass clarinetist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence.",
"He frequently lectures on music engraving and notation, a subject in which he is expert.",
"Dorff is currently vice president of publishing for music publisher Theodore Presser Company; his input has also been sought in the development of leading music notation software.",
"Works\n\nNarrated works for young audiences \nDorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music; many of his works are written for young audiences, including Three Fun Fables, a setting for narrator and orchestra of familiar Aesop tales; Billy and the Carnival, a narrated guide to the instruments of the orchestra; Blast Off!, a travelog of a trip to outer space (the score to which was flown by NASA on the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle); and familiar stories such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and The Tortoise and the Hare, and Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Delicious Act which has enjoyed well over 1000 performances.",
"A Treeful of Monkeys for narrator and orchestra (or mixed quintet)\nBilly and the Carnival - A Children's Guide to Musical Instruments for narrator and orchestra\nBlast Off!",
"for narrator and orchestra\nGoldilocks and the Three Bears for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)\nOld MacDonald Had an Orchestra for narrator and mixed quintet\nTake The Orchestra Out to the Ballgame for narrator and orchestra (or mixed quintet)\nThe Adventures of Mary's Little Lamb for narrator and mixed quintet\nThe Bear Went Under the Mountain for narrator mixed quintet\nThe Three Little Pigs for narrator, violin, and cello\nThe Tortoise and the Hare for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)\nThree Fun Fables for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)\n\nSelected chamber music \nSome chamber pieces composed by Dorff include:\n9 Walks Down 7th Avenue for flute and piano\nAllegro Volante for xylophone and piano\nAndante con Variazioni for flute and clarinet\nApril Whirlwind for flute and piano\nAtomic Turquoise for flute, C trumpet (or viola), and harp\nAugust Idyll for solo flute\nBallade for alto flute, flugelhorn (or bass flute), and piano\nBFF's for Eb clarinet and Bb clarinet\nCape May Breezes for wind quintet\nDance Music for Mr.",
"Mouse for Eb clarinet and piano\nDark Romance for clarinet quartet\nDeep Funk, Part 2, Dance Sonata for solo viola \nDesert Dusk for alto flute and cello \nFanfare and Hustle for brass quintet\nFantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne for saxophone quartet\nFast Walk for saxophone quartet or clarinet quartet or bassoon quartet\nFireworks for flute orchestra\nFlash!",
"for narrator and orchestra\nConcertino for flute and orchestra (or piano)\nConcerto for Contrabassoon with clarinet, horn, and strings\nFlash!",
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"Daniel Dorff was born on March 7, 1956.",
"Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Roslyn, New York.",
"He was introduced to the recorder when he was a second graders in Flower Hill and was inspired to become a musician.",
"Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania.",
"Dorff was the composer-in-residence for Symphony in C from 1996 to 2015.",
"His works have been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, as well as performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the Berlin Philharmonic.",
"He has created arrangements for several musicians.",
"Many frequently-performed recital works for woodwinds, and music for orchestra, concert band, piano, chorus, and chamber ensemble are written by Dorff.",
"Prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence, Dorff was a clarinetist and saxophonist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years.",
"He is an expert in the subject of music engraving and notation.",
"Theodore Presser Company has sought Dorff's input in the development of leading music software.",
"Dorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music and many of his works are written for young audiences.",
"Billy and the Carnival is a children's guide to musical instruments for the narrator and orchestra.",
"For narrator and orchestra Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Old MacDonald Had an Orchestra, and Take The Orchestra Out to the Ballgame.",
"Mouse for clarinet, piano, and cello, and Fanfare and Hustle for brass quintet Fantasy.",
"Concerto forContrabassoon with clarinet, horn, and strings flash!",
"There is a distr.",
"Markus Zgehor piano flash!",
"Kate Prestia-Schaub has a piccolo."
] | <mask> (born March 7, 1956) is an American classical composer. Biography and career
Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Roslyn, New York, graduating from Roslyn High School. He was first inspired to become a musician when he was a second grader at the Roslyn-Flower Hill Elementary School in Flower Hill, and was introduced to the recorder. Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania, studying composition with George Crumb, George Rochberg, Karel Husa, Henry Brant, Ralph Shapey, Elie Siegmeister, and Richard Wernick. Dorff served from 1996 through 2015 as composer-in-residence for Symphony in C (formerly The Haddonfield Symphony) in Camden, New Jersey (USA). His works have been commissioned by such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, and performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, Eastman Wind Ensemble, flutists and clarinetists of the Chicago Symphony and Berlin Philharmonic, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, and flutists Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jasmine Choi, Denis Bouriakov, and frequent collaborator Cindy Anne Broz. He has also created arrangements for Sir James Galway and pop musicians Keith Emerson and Lisa Loeb.Dorff has written many frequently-performed recital works for woodwinds, and music for orchestra, concert band, piano, chorus, and chamber ensembles, including often-neglected instruments such as contrabassoon, piccolo, and tenor saxophone – the best-known of which are Sonatine de Giverny and Flash!, both for piccolo and piano. In addition to his compositional career, Dorff is a clarinetist and saxophonist and was bass clarinetist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence. He frequently lectures on music engraving and notation, a subject in which he is expert. Dorff is currently vice president of publishing for music publisher Theodore Presser Company; his input has also been sought in the development of leading music notation software. Works
Narrated works for young audiences
Dorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music; many of his works are written for young audiences, including Three Fun Fables, a setting for narrator and orchestra of familiar Aesop tales; Billy and the Carnival, a narrated guide to the instruments of the orchestra; Blast Off!, a travelog of a trip to outer space (the score to which was flown by NASA on the 100th mission of the Space Shuttle); and familiar stories such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, and The Tortoise and the Hare, and Stone Soup: An Operatic Fable in One Delicious Act which has enjoyed well over 1000 performances. A Treeful of Monkeys for narrator and orchestra (or mixed quintet)
Billy and the Carnival - A Children's Guide to Musical Instruments for narrator and orchestra
Blast Off! for narrator and orchestra
Goldilocks and the Three Bears for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)
Old MacDonald Had an Orchestra for narrator and mixed quintet
Take The Orchestra Out to the Ballgame for narrator and orchestra (or mixed quintet)
The Adventures of Mary's Little Lamb for narrator and mixed quintet
The Bear Went Under the Mountain for narrator mixed quintet
The Three Little Pigs for narrator, violin, and cello
The Tortoise and the Hare for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)
Three Fun Fables for narrator and orchestra (or mixed octet)
Selected chamber music
Some chamber pieces composed by Dorff include:
9 Walks Down 7th Avenue for flute and piano
Allegro Volante for xylophone and piano
Andante con Variazioni for flute and clarinet
April Whirlwind for flute and piano
Atomic Turquoise for flute, C trumpet (or viola), and harp
August Idyll for solo flute
Ballade for alto flute, flugelhorn (or bass flute), and piano
BFF's for Eb clarinet and Bb clarinet
Cape May Breezes for wind quintet
Dance Music for Mr.Mouse for Eb clarinet and piano
Dark Romance for clarinet quartet
Deep Funk, Part 2, Dance Sonata for solo viola
Desert Dusk for alto flute and cello
Fanfare and Hustle for brass quintet
Fantasy, Scherzo and Nocturne for saxophone quartet
Fast Walk for saxophone quartet or clarinet quartet or bassoon quartet
Fireworks for flute orchestra
Flash! for narrator and orchestra
Concertino for flute and orchestra (or piano)
Concerto for Contrabassoon with clarinet, horn, and strings
Flash! (90002, distr. Harmonia Mundi), Gudrun Hinze piccolo, Markus Zügehor piano
Flash! (private label), Kate Prestia-Schaub piccolo, Martin Kennedy piano
Flash! | [
"Daniel Dorff"
] | <mask> was born on March 7, 1956. Dorff was born in New Rochelle, New York, and grew up in Roslyn, New York. He was introduced to the recorder when he was a second graders in Flower Hill and was inspired to become a musician. Dorff graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University and earned his master's degree in composition from the University of Pennsylvania. Dorff was the composer-in-residence for Symphony in C from 1996 to 2015. His works have been commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, as well as performed by groups and individuals including the Baltimore Symphony, the Chicago Symphony and the Berlin Philharmonic. He has created arrangements for several musicians.Many frequently-performed recital works for woodwinds, and music for orchestra, concert band, piano, chorus, and chamber ensemble are written by Dorff. Prior to Alan Gilbert appointing him composer-in-residence, Dorff was a clarinetist and saxophonist for the Haddonfield Symphony for 20 years. He is an expert in the subject of music engraving and notation. Theodore Presser Company has sought Dorff's input in the development of leading music software. Dorff has taken a particular interest in exposing young people to classical music and many of his works are written for young audiences. Billy and the Carnival is a children's guide to musical instruments for the narrator and orchestra. For narrator and orchestra Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Old MacDonald Had an Orchestra, and Take The Orchestra Out to the Ballgame.Mouse for clarinet, piano, and cello, and Fanfare and Hustle for brass quintet Fantasy. Concerto forContrabassoon with clarinet, horn, and strings flash! There is a distr. Markus Zgehor piano flash! Kate Prestia-Schaub has a piccolo. | [
"Daniel Dorff"
] |
32702473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annegret%20Kramp-Karrenbauer | Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer | Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (; born 9 August 1962), sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a German politician who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2021 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2018 to 2021.
On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she would resign her position as CDU leader later in the year and would not put herself forward as a candidate for chancellor for the 2021 federal election. She was succeeded by Armin Laschet at the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election.
Kramp-Karrenbauer previously served as secretary general of the party and as Minister President of Saarland from 2011 to 2018, the first woman to lead the Government of Saarland and fourth woman to head a German state government. Kramp-Karrenbauer is regarded as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy and has been described as a centrist. She is an active Catholic and has served on the Central Committee of German Catholics. She is the second woman to hold the office of German defence minister. She was succeeded by Christine Lambrecht.
In October 2021 she proposed for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia via a First-Strike capability as a deterrence against any "provocation" or aggression.
She resigned from Parliament after the 2021 federal election.
Life and education
Annegret Kramp was born in the small town of Völklingen and grew up in neighbouring Püttlingen, both located on the Saar River and the border with France, midway between Saarlouis and Saarbrücken and around 40 kilometres from Luxembourg. Her father was a special education teacher and a headmaster. She graduated from high school in 1982 and considered becoming a school teacher, but decided to study politics and law at the University of Trier and at Saarland University, where she earned a master's degree in 1990.
Early Political career
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the CDU while still in high school in 1981. In 1984 she was elected to the city council of Püttlingen, and in 1985 became chairwoman of the city's CDU association. From 1985 to 1988 she was also a member of the regional board of the Young Union in Saarland. From 1991 to 1998 she served as a policy and planning officer for the CDU in Saarland under environment minister Klaus Töpfer. In 1998, Kramp-Karrenbauer replaced Töpfer in the federal Bundestag, serving seven months before losing re-election in the SPD landslide the same year. In 1999, she was an advisor to Peter Müller, then chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saarland and later Minister-President. That same year she became a chairwoman of the Women's Union.
State Minister 1999–2011
Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to the Landtag of Saarland in 1999. She served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Peter Müller; the first woman to hold that office in Germany. She took on more responsibilities in 2004, and changed roles in 2007 following a cabinet reshuffle, becoming Minister of Education and again in 2009, becoming Minister of Labor in the so-called Jamaica coalition government. In 2008, she was elected chairwoman of the Kultusministerkonferenz. Throughout her time in state government, she also served at various times as minister responsible for women, sports, family, and culture. In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal election, Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the CDU–CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Annette Schavan and Andreas Pinkwart.
Minister-President of Saarland 2011–2018
In 2011, after months of difficult negotiations with the coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party and The Greens, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Minister-President of the Saarland in a special session of parliament, replacing Müller, who resigned to become a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Shortly afterwards, she ended the coalition and triggered an election, blaming the party for "dismantling itself" and arguing that the three-party coalition had lost the necessary "trust, stability, and capacity to act". Kramp-Karrenbauer and the CDU won the state election soon afterwards, in what was widely regarded as the first electoral test of Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis; meanwhile, the FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just 1.2% of the vote.
Under Kramp-Karrenbauer's leadership, the CDU won 40.7% of the vote in the 2017 state elections, up from 35.2% in 2012.
While serving as Minister-President, Kramp-Karrenbauer, who speaks French, was also Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation between 2011 and 2014. She continued to be a member of the German-French Friendship Group that was set up by the upper chambers of the German and French national parliaments, respectively the Bundesrat and the Senate. Furthermore, as one of the state's representatives at the federal Bundesrat, she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Defence. Kramp-Karrenbauer was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention to elect the president of Germany in 2012 and in 2017. She was also for a short time part of the CDU–CSU delegation's leadership team in the negotiations to form a "grand coalition" following the 2013 federal elections. She again played a role in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018, leading a working group on education policy alongside Stefan Müller, Manuela Schwesig and Hubertus Heil.
As Minister-President of Saarland, Kramp-Karrenbauer promoted the French language, aiming to make the state fully bilingual in German and French and thus promote Saarland as a bicultural European region similar to neighbouring Luxembourg. While Saarland had rejoined Germany five years before Kramp-Karrenbauer's birth when a majority voted against becoming an independent state, it has a long history of association with France dating back to the late 18th century.
Secretary General of the CDU, 2018
In February 2018, Merkel nominated Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new secretary general of the CDU. She was confirmed at the CDU party conference on 26 February, securing 98.87% of the vote. As secretary general, she managed the party and oversaw its election campaigns. She also embarked on a major listening tour of the country, holding more than 40 meetings with local CDU associations and working on a new political manifesto for the party.
2018 CDU leadership election
In October 2018, following bad results for the CDU/CSU in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, Chancellor Merkel announced she would not stand for re-election as party leader in the CDU convention at the end of the year, triggering a leadership election. Former Bundestag leader of the CDU and businessman Friedrich Merz jumped into the race immediately while Health Minister Jens Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer announced their bids shortly after. Kramp-Karrenbauer was perceived to be Merkel's chosen heir and a continuation of her style and centrist ideology while Merz was an old rival from Merkel's early days as party leader and was very open about his intention to move the party in a more conservative direction. Nevertheless, the Chancellor did not state her preferences.
As the vote approached, opinion polls showed that Kramp-Karrenbauer was favoured by CDU voters and the general public alike. The contest was held on 7 December and after coming out on top in the first round, Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Merz in a run-off, becoming the new leader of the CDU.
Leader of the CDU, 2018–2020
In the immediate aftermath of her election, surveys showed an increase in the CDU's vote share; however, it was short-lived. In the first months of her tenure, there were a series of gaffes and according to the press a failure to connect with voters. In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election, which was seen as her first major electoral test, the CDU's campaign was embroiled by a row between the party and YouTube personality Rezo. It was caused by a viral YouTube video posted by Rezo in which he called out the parties of the governing Grand Coalition (CDU/CSU and SPD) and urged viewers not to vote for them. Kramp-Karrenbauer reacted, stating that the electoral law should be changed to prevent social media personalities like Rezo from influencing the voters' choice in the midst of a campaign. The statement was harshly criticized as an attack on freedom of expression and damaged the image of Kramp-Karrenbauer among young people. Shortly afterwards, a Bloomberg report stated that Chancellor Merkel thought that her successor was not up to the job, further hindering her popularity.
The European Elections resulted in the CDU's worst national showing ever, below 30%. After the underwhelming result, rumors emerged that some CDU politicians planned to shun Kramp-Karrenbauer and put up another Chancellor candidate for the next Bundestag election. Tilman Meyer, a political scientist at University of Bonn, told Focus that the mounting pressure on Kramp-Karrenbauer could lead to the CDU going into the next election with a more conservative candidate such as Friedrich Merz, a former CDU parliamentary leader, in response to the rise of the far-right.
Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation as leader of the CDU on 10 February 2020 as a result of the 2020 Thuringian government crisis. The former plan was that she would resign in the summer and her successor would be elected, but this was postponed to December due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Minister of Defence, 2019–2021
When Ursula von der Leyen was elected President of the European Commission in July 2019, Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeded her as Federal Minister of Defence in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. This was the first time that she held a position in the federal government.
For the 2021 elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer was later elected to lead the CDU campaign in Saarland. Shortly after having been elected, she announced her decision to step down from the parliament and instead make room for Markus Uhl who had failed to secure a seat.
International crises
In November 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that in the disputed territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh, "the first real drone war in human history has just been conducted between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with devastating consequences for the losing side."
In April 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused Russia of taking provocative actions with its troop buildup in Crimea and along its western border, while rejecting Russia's claim that it was responding to a massive NATO-led military exercise called Defender-Europe 21, one of the largest NATO-led military exercises in Europe in decades, which began in March 2021.
In mid-2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer oversaw the German miliary's withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades. In July 2021, she sent the frigate Bayern off on a seven-month voyage that will take it to Australia, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, making it the first German warship to pass through the South China Sea since 2002.
Armed forces
During her time in office, Kramp-Karrenbauer publicly apologized to soldiers who for decades faced discrimination, discharge or convictions on the basis of their sexual orientation. In 2021, she successfully introduced legislation to rehabilitate those soldiers.
In 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer disbanded a company of the Special Forces Command (KSK) after police seized weapons and ammunition during a raid on the property of a KSK soldier. She later resisted calls for KSK to be disbanded altogether and instead pushed through the unit's reform.
In June 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer recalled 30 German soldiers from service at the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, with ringleaders facing immediate dismissal, after an article in Der Spiegel accused them of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks and of sexual violence.
Also in 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer opened the Bundeswehr's first-ever Air and Space Operations Centre (ASOC) in Uedem, expanding Germany's existing space situation center into the new structure.
Popularity
During Kramp-Karrenbauer's tenure as Minister-President of Saarland, she had constantly high approval ratings in the low to mid-70's among her constituents. She was the most popular politician in Saarland according to Infratest dimap from November 2010 until her departure as Minister-President. Kramp-Karrenbauer was considered one of the most popular state government leaders nationwide.
When entering federal politics, Kramp-Karrenbauer had a positive net approval rating from her election as CDU General Secretary in February 2018 until March 2019, just shortly after having been elected as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union. Her nationwide popularity peaked in January 2019, when she had a net approval of +17% and was seen as second-most popular politician overall. There was then a sharp decline in her popularity following gaffes and electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats in several elections. As of February 2020, she is one of the least popular German politicians.
Political positions
Domestic policies
Kramp-Karrenbauer is perceived as a moderate or centrist Christian Democrat. She has been described as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy. She is regarded as more conservative than Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, in the German press, her often used nickname during her party leadership was "Mini-Merkel", reflecting both her size and her political views.
Kramp-Karrenbauer opposes same sex marriage, having compared it to incest and polygamy. However, when the Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz submitted a motion for a mandatory gender quota for supervisory boards to the Bundesrat in 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats (the SPD), voting in favour of the draft legislation; in doing so, she supported an initiative opposed by Merkel and state governments controlled by the CDU.
Amid her party's campaign for the 2013 federal elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested Germany return to a top income tax rate of more than 53%, setting off a fierce debate in her party. In her view, Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder had gone too far in reducing the top rate from 53% to 42% in the 1990s. In May 2014, she was among leading members of Merkel's CDU who called for reductions to offset fiscal drag—the automatic increases in the tax-take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners further into their marginal higher tax-bracket.
When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of tax equality for same-sex couples in 2013, Kramp-Karrenbauer voiced her concerns about also granting full adoption rights for same-sex couples, stating: "The traditional family unit is the core of not only Germany but all nations". In 2015, she caused a public controversy by arguing that "if we open up [the definition of marriage] to become a long-term responsible partnership between two adults, then other demands can't be ruled out, such as a marriage between close relatives or between more than two people".
For the 2021 national elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer endorsed Armin Laschet as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Foreign policy
Kramp-Karrenbauer criticised the German-supported Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would allow Germany to effectively double the amount of gas it imports from Russia, saying that Nord Stream 2 "is not just an economic project but a political one". In January 2019, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to German companies involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2, threatening CAATSA sanctions. In response, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that "the American ambassador operates in a, shall I say, somewhat unusual diplomatic manner."
Kramp-Karrenbauer has supported arms exports to Saudi Arabia, which has been waging war in Yemen and was condemned for massive human rights violations. Kramp-Karrenbauer accused the Social Democrats (SPD) of jeopardising German industry and jobs, saying that, with Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, "Germany is not very credible at the moment" in European security and defence policy and was "making common European projects practically impossible".
In late 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer proposed that the European Union should try again to reach a trade agreement with the United States after the elections.
In October 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer had talked about the possibility of deploying nuclear arms against Russia.
Migrants and refugees
Kramp-Karrenbauer supports stricter immigration policies. Kramp-Karrenbauer supported Angela Merkel's refugee policies and her decision to let migrants into Germany in 2015–2016, many fleeing wars in the Middle East, but demanded more toughness in some cases. At the beginning of 2016, she declared herself against a unilateral closure of German borders, since she feared a break-up of the European Union. In December 2017, Kramp-Karrenbauer remarked: "Bei unbegleiteten Minderjährigen sollte eine verbindliche Altersprüfung eingeführt werden." (A mandatory age investigation should be initiated for all unaccompanied minors.) She said refugees may often provide a false age in order to be treated as youths rather than adult asylum-seekers. She added, "Jemand, der seine Identität verschleiert oder Papiere vernichtet hat, muss mit harten Konsequenzen rechnen." (Anyone who conceals their identity or has destroyed papers must face harsh consequences.) According to her, data sources like mobile phones should be checked, in order to establish a person's identity. Furthermore, instead of carrying out deportations with commercial airplanes, she said it may be necessary to use their separate aircraft. She demanded in November 2018 that after expulsion offenders must be refused re-entry for life, not only to Germany but also throughout the Schengen area, and cited the 2018 gang rape in Freiburg as an example.
Personal life
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic. She is married to Helmut Karrenbauer, a retired mining engineer, with whom she has three children, born in 1988, 1991 and 1998; they live in the city of Püttlingen. Kramp-Karrenbauer is an avid reader and speaks French.
Other activities
Munich Security Conference, Member of the Advisory Council (since 2019)
German Adult Education Association (DVV), president (since 2015)
Central Committee of German Catholics (ZdK), member
European Foundation for the Speyer Cathedral, Member of the Board of Trustees
Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), member
Max Planck Society, member of the Senate
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, member of the Board of Trustees
Talat Alaiyan Foundation, patron
German Foundation of School Sports, former Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
Foundation for the Cultural Heritage of Saarland, former ex officio Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees (2011–2018)
RAG-Stiftung, ex officio member of the Board of Trustees (2011–2018)
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, Member of the Board of Trustees
References
External links
1962 births
People from Völklingen
Women members of State Parliaments in Germany
German Roman Catholics
Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Defence ministers of Germany
Federal government ministers of Germany
Female defence ministers
Female members of the Bundestag
Members of the Bundestag for Saarland
Members of the Bundestag 1994–1998
Members of the Landtag of Saarland
Ministers-President of Saarland
Living people
20th-century German women politicians
21st-century German women politicians
Women federal government ministers of Germany
Women Ministers-President in Germany
Women ministers of State Governments in Germany | [
"Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (; born 9 August 1962), sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a German politician who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2021 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2018 to 2021.",
"On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she would resign her position as CDU leader later in the year and would not put herself forward as a candidate for chancellor for the 2021 federal election.",
"She was succeeded by Armin Laschet at the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer previously served as secretary general of the party and as Minister President of Saarland from 2011 to 2018, the first woman to lead the Government of Saarland and fourth woman to head a German state government.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer is regarded as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy and has been described as a centrist.",
"She is an active Catholic and has served on the Central Committee of German Catholics.",
"She is the second woman to hold the office of German defence minister.",
"She was succeeded by Christine Lambrecht.",
"In October 2021 she proposed for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia via a First-Strike capability as a deterrence against any \"provocation\" or aggression.",
"She resigned from Parliament after the 2021 federal election.",
"Life and education\n\nAnnegret Kramp was born in the small town of Völklingen and grew up in neighbouring Püttlingen, both located on the Saar River and the border with France, midway between Saarlouis and Saarbrücken and around 40 kilometres from Luxembourg.",
"Her father was a special education teacher and a headmaster.",
"She graduated from high school in 1982 and considered becoming a school teacher, but decided to study politics and law at the University of Trier and at Saarland University, where she earned a master's degree in 1990.",
"Early Political career\n\nAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the CDU while still in high school in 1981.",
"In 1984 she was elected to the city council of Püttlingen, and in 1985 became chairwoman of the city's CDU association.",
"From 1985 to 1988 she was also a member of the regional board of the Young Union in Saarland.",
"From 1991 to 1998 she served as a policy and planning officer for the CDU in Saarland under environment minister Klaus Töpfer.",
"In 1998, Kramp-Karrenbauer replaced Töpfer in the federal Bundestag, serving seven months before losing re-election in the SPD landslide the same year.",
"In 1999, she was an advisor to Peter Müller, then chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saarland and later Minister-President.",
"That same year she became a chairwoman of the Women's Union.",
"State Minister 1999–2011\nKramp-Karrenbauer was elected to the Landtag of Saarland in 1999.",
"She served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Peter Müller; the first woman to hold that office in Germany.",
"She took on more responsibilities in 2004, and changed roles in 2007 following a cabinet reshuffle, becoming Minister of Education and again in 2009, becoming Minister of Labor in the so-called Jamaica coalition government.",
"In 2008, she was elected chairwoman of the Kultusministerkonferenz.",
"Throughout her time in state government, she also served at various times as minister responsible for women, sports, family, and culture.",
"In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal election, Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the CDU–CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Annette Schavan and Andreas Pinkwart.",
"Minister-President of Saarland 2011–2018\nIn 2011, after months of difficult negotiations with the coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party and The Greens, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Minister-President of the Saarland in a special session of parliament, replacing Müller, who resigned to become a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court.",
"Shortly afterwards, she ended the coalition and triggered an election, blaming the party for \"dismantling itself\" and arguing that the three-party coalition had lost the necessary \"trust, stability, and capacity to act\".",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer and the CDU won the state election soon afterwards, in what was widely regarded as the first electoral test of Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis; meanwhile, the FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just 1.2% of the vote.",
"Under Kramp-Karrenbauer's leadership, the CDU won 40.7% of the vote in the 2017 state elections, up from 35.2% in 2012.",
"While serving as Minister-President, Kramp-Karrenbauer, who speaks French, was also Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation between 2011 and 2014.",
"She continued to be a member of the German-French Friendship Group that was set up by the upper chambers of the German and French national parliaments, respectively the Bundesrat and the Senate.",
"Furthermore, as one of the state's representatives at the federal Bundesrat, she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Defence.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention to elect the president of Germany in 2012 and in 2017.",
"She was also for a short time part of the CDU–CSU delegation's leadership team in the negotiations to form a \"grand coalition\" following the 2013 federal elections.",
"She again played a role in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018, leading a working group on education policy alongside Stefan Müller, Manuela Schwesig and Hubertus Heil.",
"As Minister-President of Saarland, Kramp-Karrenbauer promoted the French language, aiming to make the state fully bilingual in German and French and thus promote Saarland as a bicultural European region similar to neighbouring Luxembourg.",
"While Saarland had rejoined Germany five years before Kramp-Karrenbauer's birth when a majority voted against becoming an independent state, it has a long history of association with France dating back to the late 18th century.",
"Secretary General of the CDU, 2018\nIn February 2018, Merkel nominated Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new secretary general of the CDU.",
"She was confirmed at the CDU party conference on 26 February, securing 98.87% of the vote.",
"As secretary general, she managed the party and oversaw its election campaigns.",
"She also embarked on a major listening tour of the country, holding more than 40 meetings with local CDU associations and working on a new political manifesto for the party.",
"2018 CDU leadership election\nIn October 2018, following bad results for the CDU/CSU in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, Chancellor Merkel announced she would not stand for re-election as party leader in the CDU convention at the end of the year, triggering a leadership election.",
"Former Bundestag leader of the CDU and businessman Friedrich Merz jumped into the race immediately while Health Minister Jens Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer announced their bids shortly after.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was perceived to be Merkel's chosen heir and a continuation of her style and centrist ideology while Merz was an old rival from Merkel's early days as party leader and was very open about his intention to move the party in a more conservative direction.",
"Nevertheless, the Chancellor did not state her preferences.",
"As the vote approached, opinion polls showed that Kramp-Karrenbauer was favoured by CDU voters and the general public alike.",
"The contest was held on 7 December and after coming out on top in the first round, Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Merz in a run-off, becoming the new leader of the CDU.",
"Leader of the CDU, 2018–2020\nIn the immediate aftermath of her election, surveys showed an increase in the CDU's vote share; however, it was short-lived.",
"In the first months of her tenure, there were a series of gaffes and according to the press a failure to connect with voters.",
"In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election, which was seen as her first major electoral test, the CDU's campaign was embroiled by a row between the party and YouTube personality Rezo.",
"It was caused by a viral YouTube video posted by Rezo in which he called out the parties of the governing Grand Coalition (CDU/CSU and SPD) and urged viewers not to vote for them.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer reacted, stating that the electoral law should be changed to prevent social media personalities like Rezo from influencing the voters' choice in the midst of a campaign.",
"The statement was harshly criticized as an attack on freedom of expression and damaged the image of Kramp-Karrenbauer among young people.",
"Shortly afterwards, a Bloomberg report stated that Chancellor Merkel thought that her successor was not up to the job, further hindering her popularity.",
"The European Elections resulted in the CDU's worst national showing ever, below 30%.",
"After the underwhelming result, rumors emerged that some CDU politicians planned to shun Kramp-Karrenbauer and put up another Chancellor candidate for the next Bundestag election.",
"Tilman Meyer, a political scientist at University of Bonn, told Focus that the mounting pressure on Kramp-Karrenbauer could lead to the CDU going into the next election with a more conservative candidate such as Friedrich Merz, a former CDU parliamentary leader, in response to the rise of the far-right.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation as leader of the CDU on 10 February 2020 as a result of the 2020 Thuringian government crisis.",
"The former plan was that she would resign in the summer and her successor would be elected, but this was postponed to December due to the COVID-19 pandemic.",
"Minister of Defence, 2019–2021 \n\nWhen Ursula von der Leyen was elected President of the European Commission in July 2019, Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeded her as Federal Minister of Defence in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.",
"This was the first time that she held a position in the federal government.",
"For the 2021 elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer was later elected to lead the CDU campaign in Saarland.",
"Shortly after having been elected, she announced her decision to step down from the parliament and instead make room for Markus Uhl who had failed to secure a seat.",
"International crises\n\nIn November 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that in the disputed territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh, \"the first real drone war in human history has just been conducted between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with devastating consequences for the losing side.\"",
"In April 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused Russia of taking provocative actions with its troop buildup in Crimea and along its western border, while rejecting Russia's claim that it was responding to a massive NATO-led military exercise called Defender-Europe 21, one of the largest NATO-led military exercises in Europe in decades, which began in March 2021.",
"In mid-2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer oversaw the German miliary's withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades.",
"In July 2021, she sent the frigate Bayern off on a seven-month voyage that will take it to Australia, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, making it the first German warship to pass through the South China Sea since 2002.",
"Armed forces\n\nDuring her time in office, Kramp-Karrenbauer publicly apologized to soldiers who for decades faced discrimination, discharge or convictions on the basis of their sexual orientation.",
"In 2021, she successfully introduced legislation to rehabilitate those soldiers.",
"In 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer disbanded a company of the Special Forces Command (KSK) after police seized weapons and ammunition during a raid on the property of a KSK soldier.",
"She later resisted calls for KSK to be disbanded altogether and instead pushed through the unit's reform.",
"In June 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer recalled 30 German soldiers from service at the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, with ringleaders facing immediate dismissal, after an article in Der Spiegel accused them of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks and of sexual violence.",
"Also in 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer opened the Bundeswehr's first-ever Air and Space Operations Centre (ASOC) in Uedem, expanding Germany's existing space situation center into the new structure.",
"Popularity\n\nDuring Kramp-Karrenbauer's tenure as Minister-President of Saarland, she had constantly high approval ratings in the low to mid-70's among her constituents.",
"She was the most popular politician in Saarland according to Infratest dimap from November 2010 until her departure as Minister-President.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was considered one of the most popular state government leaders nationwide.",
"When entering federal politics, Kramp-Karrenbauer had a positive net approval rating from her election as CDU General Secretary in February 2018 until March 2019, just shortly after having been elected as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union.",
"Her nationwide popularity peaked in January 2019, when she had a net approval of +17% and was seen as second-most popular politician overall.",
"There was then a sharp decline in her popularity following gaffes and electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats in several elections.",
"As of February 2020, she is one of the least popular German politicians.",
"Political positions\n\nDomestic policies\n\nKramp-Karrenbauer is perceived as a moderate or centrist Christian Democrat.",
"She has been described as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy.",
"She is regarded as more conservative than Angela Merkel.",
"Nevertheless, in the German press, her often used nickname during her party leadership was \"Mini-Merkel\", reflecting both her size and her political views.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer opposes same sex marriage, having compared it to incest and polygamy.",
"However, when the Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz submitted a motion for a mandatory gender quota for supervisory boards to the Bundesrat in 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats (the SPD), voting in favour of the draft legislation; in doing so, she supported an initiative opposed by Merkel and state governments controlled by the CDU.",
"Amid her party's campaign for the 2013 federal elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested Germany return to a top income tax rate of more than 53%, setting off a fierce debate in her party.",
"In her view, Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder had gone too far in reducing the top rate from 53% to 42% in the 1990s.",
"In May 2014, she was among leading members of Merkel's CDU who called for reductions to offset fiscal drag—the automatic increases in the tax-take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners further into their marginal higher tax-bracket.",
"When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of tax equality for same-sex couples in 2013, Kramp-Karrenbauer voiced her concerns about also granting full adoption rights for same-sex couples, stating: \"The traditional family unit is the core of not only Germany but all nations\".",
"In 2015, she caused a public controversy by arguing that \"if we open up [the definition of marriage] to become a long-term responsible partnership between two adults, then other demands can't be ruled out, such as a marriage between close relatives or between more than two people\".",
"For the 2021 national elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer endorsed Armin Laschet as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.",
"Foreign policy\n\nKramp-Karrenbauer criticised the German-supported Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would allow Germany to effectively double the amount of gas it imports from Russia, saying that Nord Stream 2 \"is not just an economic project but a political one\".",
"In January 2019, U.S.",
"Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to German companies involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2, threatening CAATSA sanctions.",
"In response, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that \"the American ambassador operates in a, shall I say, somewhat unusual diplomatic manner.\"",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer has supported arms exports to Saudi Arabia, which has been waging war in Yemen and was condemned for massive human rights violations.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer accused the Social Democrats (SPD) of jeopardising German industry and jobs, saying that, with Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, \"Germany is not very credible at the moment\" in European security and defence policy and was \"making common European projects practically impossible\".",
"In late 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer proposed that the European Union should try again to reach a trade agreement with the United States after the elections.",
"In October 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer had talked about the possibility of deploying nuclear arms against Russia.",
"Migrants and refugees\nKramp-Karrenbauer supports stricter immigration policies.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer supported Angela Merkel's refugee policies and her decision to let migrants into Germany in 2015–2016, many fleeing wars in the Middle East, but demanded more toughness in some cases.",
"At the beginning of 2016, she declared herself against a unilateral closure of German borders, since she feared a break-up of the European Union.",
"In December 2017, Kramp-Karrenbauer remarked: \"Bei unbegleiteten Minderjährigen sollte eine verbindliche Altersprüfung eingeführt werden.\"",
"(A mandatory age investigation should be initiated for all unaccompanied minors.)",
"She said refugees may often provide a false age in order to be treated as youths rather than adult asylum-seekers.",
"She added, \"Jemand, der seine Identität verschleiert oder Papiere vernichtet hat, muss mit harten Konsequenzen rechnen.\"",
"(Anyone who conceals their identity or has destroyed papers must face harsh consequences.)",
"According to her, data sources like mobile phones should be checked, in order to establish a person's identity.",
"Furthermore, instead of carrying out deportations with commercial airplanes, she said it may be necessary to use their separate aircraft.",
"She demanded in November 2018 that after expulsion offenders must be refused re-entry for life, not only to Germany but also throughout the Schengen area, and cited the 2018 gang rape in Freiburg as an example.",
"Personal life \nAnnegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic.",
"She is married to Helmut Karrenbauer, a retired mining engineer, with whom she has three children, born in 1988, 1991 and 1998; they live in the city of Püttlingen.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer is an avid reader and speaks French."
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"Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a German politician who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2021, and as leader of the Christian Democratic Union.",
"On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she would step down as leader of the party later in the year and wouldn't be a candidate for chancellor in the federal election.",
"At the Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election, she was succeeded by Armin Laschet.",
"The first woman to head a German state government and the secretary general of the party, Kramp-Karrenbauer also served as Minister President of the Government of Saarland.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer is considered to be socially conservative but on the left wing of the party in economic policy.",
"She is a member of the Central Committee of German Catholics.",
"She is the second woman to hold the position.",
"Christine Lambrecht succeeded her.",
"She proposed for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia in October of 2021.",
"She left Parliament after the election.",
"Annegret Kramp was born in the small town of Vlklingen and grew up in the neighboring town of Pttlingen, both located on the border with France and around 40 kilometres from Luxembourg.",
"Her father was a teacher.",
"She studied politics and law at the University of Trier after graduating from high school and earned a master's degree in 1990.",
"Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer started her political career in high school.",
"In 1984 she was elected to the city council of Pttlingen, and in 1985 she became chairwoman of the city's CDU association.",
"She was a member of the regional board of the Young Union.",
"From 1991 to 1998 she worked for Klaus Tpfer as a policy and planning officer.",
"In 1998, Kramp-Karrenbauer replaced Tpfer in the federal Bundestag, but lost re-election in the same year.",
"She was an advisor to Peter Mller in 1999.",
"She became a chairwoman of the Women's Union that year.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to the Landtag in 1999.",
"She was the first woman to hold the office of Minister of the Interior in Germany.",
"She became Minister of Labor in the so-called Jamaica coalition government in 2009, after taking on more responsibilities in 2004.",
"She was elected chairwoman of the Kultusministerkonferenz in 2008.",
"She served as a minister for women, sports, family, and culture during her time in state government.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the delegation that worked on education and research policy in the negotiations to form a coalition government.",
"After months of difficult negotiations with the coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party and The Greens, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Minister- President of the Saarland in a special session of parliament.",
"She blamed the party for dismantling itself and argued that the three-party coalition had lost the necessary trust, stability and capacity to act.",
"The FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just one vote in the state election, in what was widely regarded as the first electoral test of the Chancellor's crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis.",
"The party won more votes in the state elections under Kramp-Karrenbauer's leadership.",
"The Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation was Kramp-Karrenbauer.",
"The upper chambers of the German and French national parliaments set up the German-French friendship group.",
"She served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Defence.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was a delegate to the Federal Convention for the election of the president of Germany.",
"She was part of the leadership team for the negotiations to form a \"grand coalition\" after the federal elections.",
"She led a working group on education policy in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer wanted to make the state bilingual in German and French and promote it as a bicultural European region similar to Luxembourg.",
"It has a long history of association with France dating back to the late 18th century, five years before Kramp-Karrenbauer's birth.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was nominated as the new secretary general of the CDU.",
"She was confirmed at the party conference in February.",
"She was the secretary general of the party.",
"She embarked on a major listening tour of the country and worked on a new political manifesto for the party.",
"In October of last year, after bad results for the CDU/CSU in state elections in Germany, Chancellor Merkel announced she would not stand for re-election as party leader in the party convention at the end of the year, triggering a leadership election.",
"Health Minister Jens Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer announced their bids shortly after Friedrich Merz jumped into the race.",
"Both Kramp-Karrenbauer and Merz were open about their intentions to move the party in a more conservative direction.",
"The Chancellor didn't state her preferences.",
"According to opinion polls, Kramp-Karrenbauer was favored by both the general public and the voters of the party.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Merz in a run-off after coming out on top in the first round.",
"In the immediate aftermath of her election, surveys showed an increase in the CDU's vote share; however, it was short-lived.",
"According to the press, she failed to connect with voters in the first months of her tenure.",
"In the run-up to the European Parliament election, which was seen as her first major electoral test, the CDU's campaign was overshadowed by a row between the party and Rezo.",
"It was caused by a viral video posted by Rezo in which he called out the parties of the governing Grand Coalition and urged viewers not to vote for them.",
"The electoral law should be changed to prevent Rezo from influencing the voters' choice in the midst of a campaign, according to Kramp-Karrenbauer.",
"The image of Kramp-Karrenbauer was damaged by the statement as it was an attack on freedom of expression.",
"The Chancellor thought that her successor was not up to the job, according to a report.",
"The worst national showing in the history of the party was below 30%.",
"There were rumors that Kramp-Karrenbauer would not be a Chancellor candidate in the next election.",
"Tilman Meyer, a political scientist at University of Bonn, told Focus that the mounting pressure on Kramp-Karrenbauer could lead to the CDU going into the next election with a more conservative candidate such as Friedrich Merz.",
"On February 10, 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned as leader of the CDU due to the Thuringian government crisis.",
"The plan was for her to resign in the summer and her successor to be elected in December.",
"When Ursula von der Leyen became President of the European Commission in July, Kramp-Karrenbauer became the Federal Minister of Defence.",
"She had never held a position in the federal government.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to lead the campaign for the 2021.",
"After being elected, she decided to step down from the parliament and make room for someone who didn't win a seat.",
"In November 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that in the disputed territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh, \"the first real drone war in human history has just been conducted between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with devastating consequences for the losing side.\"",
"In April 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused Russia of taking provocative actions with its troop build up in Crimea and along its western border, while rejecting Russia's claim that it was responding to a massive NATO-led military exercise.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer oversaw the German miliary's withdrawal from Afghanistan.",
"The first German ship to pass through the South China Sea since 2002 was sent off on a seven-month voyage that will take it to Australia, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer apologized to soldiers who were discharged or convicted on the basis of their sexual orientation.",
"Legislation was introduced to rehabilitate those soldiers.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer dissolved a company of the Special Forces Command in 2020 after police seized weapons during a raid on a soldier's home.",
"She pushed through the reform of the unit despite the calls for it to be abolished.",
"In June 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer recalled 30 German soldiers from service at the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, after they were accused of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks and of sexual violence.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer opened the first-ever Air and Space Operations Centre in Uedem, expanding Germany's existing space situation center into the new structure.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer had high approval ratings in the low to mid 70's among her people.",
"She was the most popular politician in the region until her departure as Minister- President.",
"One of the most popular state government leaders was Kramp-Karrenbauer.",
"After being elected as leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Kramp-Karrenbauer had a positive net approval rating from her election as general secretary of the party.",
"She was seen as the second-most popular politician overall when her nationwide popularity peaked in January 2019.",
"Her popularity plummeted after gaffes and electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats.",
"She is one of the least popular politicians in Germany.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer is seen as a moderate or centrist Christian Democrat.",
"She is described as socially conservative, but also on the left wing of the CDU's economic policy.",
"She is seen as more conservative than the German chancellor.",
"Her nickname during her party leadership was \"Mini-Merkel\", reflecting both her size and her political views.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer compared same sex marriage to incest and polygamy.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats in voting in favor of the draft legislation after the Mayor of Hamburg submitted a motion for a mandatory gender quota.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer's suggestion that Germany return to a top income tax rate of more than 50% set off a fierce debate in her party.",
"The top rate was reduced from 53% to 42% in the 1990s.",
"The automatic increases in the tax-take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners further into their marginal higher tax-bracket was called for reductions to offset fiscal drag by leading members of the CDU.",
"When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of tax equality for same-sex couples, Kramp-Karrenbauer voiced her concerns about also granting full adoption rights for same-sex couples.",
"In 2015, she caused a public controversy by arguing that if we open up the definition of marriage to include a long-term responsible partnership between two adults, then other demands can't be ruled out, such as a marriage between close relatives or more than two people.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer endorsed Laschet as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate for chancellor.",
"\"Nord Stream 2 is not just an economic project but a political one\", said Kramp-Karrenbauer in her foreign policy statement.",
"In January, the U.S.",
"Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to German companies threatening them with sanctions.",
"The American ambassador operates in a somewhat unusual diplomatic manner according to Kramp-Karrenbauer.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer supported arms exports to Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of massive human rights violations.",
"With Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused the Social Democrats of jeopardising German industry and jobs.",
"The European Union should try to reach a trade agreement with the United States after the elections, according to Kramp-Karrenbauer.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer talked about the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Russia.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer supports stricter immigration policies.",
"Many fleeing wars in the Middle East were allowed into Germany in 2015, but Kramp-Karrenbauer demanded harsher treatment in some cases.",
"She feared that a break-up of the European Union would lead to the closing of German borders.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer remarked in December 2017: \"Bei unbegleiteten Minderjhrigen sollte.\"",
"There should be a mandatory age investigation for all children.",
"She said refugees may give a false age in order to be treated more favorably than adult asylum-seekers.",
"She said, \"Deiner Identitt verschleiert, das Papiere vernichtet hat.\"",
"Anyone who hides their identity or has destroyed papers will face severe consequences.",
"In order to establish a person's identity, data sources like mobile phones should be checked.",
"She said it may be necessary to use their separate aircraft instead of carrying out deportations with commercial airplanes.",
"She demanded in November of last year that after expulsion offenders must be refused re-entry for life, not only to Germany but also throughout the Schengen area.",
"Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic.",
"She has three children with her husband, a retired mining engineer, and they live in the city of Pttlingen.",
"Kramp-Karrenbauer speaks French and is an avid reader."
] | <mask>-Karrenbauer (; born 9 August 1962), sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a German politician who served as Minister of Defence from 2019 to 2021 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2018 to 2021. On 10 February 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she would resign her position as CDU leader later in the year and would not put herself forward as a candidate for chancellor for the 2021 federal election. She was succeeded by Armin Laschet at the 2021 Christian Democratic Union of Germany leadership election. Kramp-Karrenbauer previously served as secretary general of the party and as Minister President of Saarland from 2011 to 2018, the first woman to lead the Government of Saarland and fourth woman to head a German state government. Kramp-Karrenbauer is regarded as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy and has been described as a centrist. She is an active Catholic and has served on the Central Committee of German Catholics. She is the second woman to hold the office of German defence minister.She was succeeded by Christine Lambrecht. In October 2021 she proposed for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia via a First-Strike capability as a deterrence against any "provocation" or aggression. She resigned from Parliament after the 2021 federal election. Life and education
<mask> Kramp was born in the small town of Völklingen and grew up in neighbouring Püttlingen, both located on the Saar River and the border with France, midway between Saarlouis and Saarbrücken and around 40 kilometres from Luxembourg. Her father was a special education teacher and a headmaster. She graduated from high school in 1982 and considered becoming a school teacher, but decided to study politics and law at the University of Trier and at Saarland University, where she earned a master's degree in 1990. Early Political career
<mask> Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the CDU while still in high school in 1981.In 1984 she was elected to the city council of Püttlingen, and in 1985 became chairwoman of the city's CDU association. From 1985 to 1988 she was also a member of the regional board of the Young Union in Saarland. From 1991 to 1998 she served as a policy and planning officer for the CDU in Saarland under environment minister Klaus Töpfer. In 1998, Kramp-Karrenbauer replaced Töpfer in the federal Bundestag, serving seven months before losing re-election in the SPD landslide the same year. In 1999, she was an advisor to Peter Müller, then chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saarland and later Minister-President. That same year she became a chairwoman of the Women's Union. State Minister 1999–2011
Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to the Landtag of Saarland in 1999.She served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Peter Müller; the first woman to hold that office in Germany. She took on more responsibilities in 2004, and changed roles in 2007 following a cabinet reshuffle, becoming Minister of Education and again in 2009, becoming Minister of Labor in the so-called Jamaica coalition government. In 2008, she was elected chairwoman of the Kultusministerkonferenz. Throughout her time in state government, she also served at various times as minister responsible for women, sports, family, and culture. In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal election, Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the CDU–CSU delegation in the working group on education and research policy, led by Annette Schavan and Andreas Pinkwart. Minister-President of Saarland 2011–2018
In 2011, after months of difficult negotiations with the coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party and The Greens, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Minister-President of the Saarland in a special session of parliament, replacing Müller, who resigned to become a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Shortly afterwards, she ended the coalition and triggered an election, blaming the party for "dismantling itself" and arguing that the three-party coalition had lost the necessary "trust, stability, and capacity to act".Kramp-Karrenbauer and the CDU won the state election soon afterwards, in what was widely regarded as the first electoral test of Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis; meanwhile, the FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just 1.2% of the vote. Under Kramp-Karrenbauer's leadership, the CDU won 40.7% of the vote in the 2017 state elections, up from 35.2% in 2012. While serving as Minister-President, Kramp-Karrenbauer, who speaks French, was also Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation between 2011 and 2014. She continued to be a member of the German-French Friendship Group that was set up by the upper chambers of the German and French national parliaments, respectively the Bundesrat and the Senate. Furthermore, as one of the state's representatives at the federal Bundesrat, she served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Defence. Kramp-Karrenbauer was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention to elect the president of Germany in 2012 and in 2017. She was also for a short time part of the CDU–CSU delegation's leadership team in the negotiations to form a "grand coalition" following the 2013 federal elections.She again played a role in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2018, leading a working group on education policy alongside Stefan Müller, Manuela Schwesig and Hubertus Heil. As Minister-President of Saarland, Kramp-Karrenbauer promoted the French language, aiming to make the state fully bilingual in German and French and thus promote Saarland as a bicultural European region similar to neighbouring Luxembourg. While Saarland had rejoined Germany five years before Kramp-Karrenbauer's birth when a majority voted against becoming an independent state, it has a long history of association with France dating back to the late 18th century. Secretary General of the CDU, 2018
In February 2018, Merkel nominated Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new secretary general of the CDU. She was confirmed at the CDU party conference on 26 February, securing 98.87% of the vote. As secretary general, she managed the party and oversaw its election campaigns. She also embarked on a major listening tour of the country, holding more than 40 meetings with local CDU associations and working on a new political manifesto for the party.2018 CDU leadership election
In October 2018, following bad results for the CDU/CSU in state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, Chancellor Merkel announced she would not stand for re-election as party leader in the CDU convention at the end of the year, triggering a leadership election. Former Bundestag leader of the CDU and businessman Friedrich Merz jumped into the race immediately while Health Minister Jens Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer announced their bids shortly after. Kramp-Karrenbauer was perceived to be Merkel's chosen heir and a continuation of her style and centrist ideology while Merz was an old rival from Merkel's early days as party leader and was very open about his intention to move the party in a more conservative direction. Nevertheless, the Chancellor did not state her preferences. As the vote approached, opinion polls showed that Kramp-Karrenbauer was favoured by CDU voters and the general public alike. The contest was held on 7 December and after coming out on top in the first round, Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Merz in a run-off, becoming the new leader of the CDU. Leader of the CDU, 2018–2020
In the immediate aftermath of her election, surveys showed an increase in the CDU's vote share; however, it was short-lived.In the first months of her tenure, there were a series of gaffes and according to the press a failure to connect with voters. In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election, which was seen as her first major electoral test, the CDU's campaign was embroiled by a row between the party and YouTube personality Rezo. It was caused by a viral YouTube video posted by Rezo in which he called out the parties of the governing Grand Coalition (CDU/CSU and SPD) and urged viewers not to vote for them. Kramp-Karrenbauer reacted, stating that the electoral law should be changed to prevent social media personalities like Rezo from influencing the voters' choice in the midst of a campaign. The statement was harshly criticized as an attack on freedom of expression and damaged the image of Kramp-Karrenbauer among young people. Shortly afterwards, a Bloomberg report stated that Chancellor Merkel thought that her successor was not up to the job, further hindering her popularity. The European Elections resulted in the CDU's worst national showing ever, below 30%.After the underwhelming result, rumors emerged that some CDU politicians planned to shun Kramp-Karrenbauer and put up another Chancellor candidate for the next Bundestag election. Tilman Meyer, a political scientist at University of Bonn, told Focus that the mounting pressure on Kramp-Karrenbauer could lead to the CDU going into the next election with a more conservative candidate such as Friedrich Merz, a former CDU parliamentary leader, in response to the rise of the far-right. Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation as leader of the CDU on 10 February 2020 as a result of the 2020 Thuringian government crisis. The former plan was that she would resign in the summer and her successor would be elected, but this was postponed to December due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Defence, 2019–2021
When Ursula von der Leyen was elected President of the European Commission in July 2019, Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeded her as Federal Minister of Defence in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. This was the first time that she held a position in the federal government. For the 2021 elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer was later elected to lead the CDU campaign in Saarland.Shortly after having been elected, she announced her decision to step down from the parliament and instead make room for Markus Uhl who had failed to secure a seat. International crises
In November 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that in the disputed territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh, "the first real drone war in human history has just been conducted between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with devastating consequences for the losing side." In April 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused Russia of taking provocative actions with its troop buildup in Crimea and along its western border, while rejecting Russia's claim that it was responding to a massive NATO-led military exercise called Defender-Europe 21, one of the largest NATO-led military exercises in Europe in decades, which began in March 2021. In mid-2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer oversaw the German miliary's withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades. In July 2021, she sent the frigate Bayern off on a seven-month voyage that will take it to Australia, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, making it the first German warship to pass through the South China Sea since 2002. Armed forces
During her time in office, Kramp-Karrenbauer publicly apologized to soldiers who for decades faced discrimination, discharge or convictions on the basis of their sexual orientation. In 2021, she successfully introduced legislation to rehabilitate those soldiers.In 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer disbanded a company of the Special Forces Command (KSK) after police seized weapons and ammunition during a raid on the property of a KSK soldier. She later resisted calls for KSK to be disbanded altogether and instead pushed through the unit's reform. In June 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer recalled 30 German soldiers from service at the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, with ringleaders facing immediate dismissal, after an article in Der Spiegel accused them of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks and of sexual violence. Also in 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer opened the Bundeswehr's first-ever Air and Space Operations Centre (ASOC) in Uedem, expanding Germany's existing space situation center into the new structure. Popularity
During Kramp-Karrenbauer's tenure as Minister-President of Saarland, she had constantly high approval ratings in the low to mid-70's among her constituents. She was the most popular politician in Saarland according to Infratest dimap from November 2010 until her departure as Minister-President. Kramp-Karrenbauer was considered one of the most popular state government leaders nationwide.When entering federal politics, Kramp-Karrenbauer had a positive net approval rating from her election as CDU General Secretary in February 2018 until March 2019, just shortly after having been elected as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union. Her nationwide popularity peaked in January 2019, when she had a net approval of +17% and was seen as second-most popular politician overall. There was then a sharp decline in her popularity following gaffes and electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats in several elections. As of February 2020, she is one of the least popular German politicians. Political positions
Domestic policies
Kramp-Karrenbauer is perceived as a moderate or centrist Christian Democrat. She has been described as socially conservative, but on the CDU's left wing in economic policy. She is regarded as more conservative than Angela Merkel.Nevertheless, in the German press, her often used nickname during her party leadership was "Mini-Merkel", reflecting both her size and her political views. Kramp-Karrenbauer opposes same sex marriage, having compared it to incest and polygamy. However, when the Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz submitted a motion for a mandatory gender quota for supervisory boards to the Bundesrat in 2012, Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats (the SPD), voting in favour of the draft legislation; in doing so, she supported an initiative opposed by Merkel and state governments controlled by the CDU. Amid her party's campaign for the 2013 federal elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer suggested Germany return to a top income tax rate of more than 53%, setting off a fierce debate in her party. In her view, Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schröder had gone too far in reducing the top rate from 53% to 42% in the 1990s. In May 2014, she was among leading members of Merkel's CDU who called for reductions to offset fiscal drag—the automatic increases in the tax-take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners further into their marginal higher tax-bracket. When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of tax equality for same-sex couples in 2013, Kramp-Karrenbauer voiced her concerns about also granting full adoption rights for same-sex couples, stating: "The traditional family unit is the core of not only Germany but all nations".In 2015, she caused a public controversy by arguing that "if we open up [the definition of marriage] to become a long-term responsible partnership between two adults, then other demands can't be ruled out, such as a marriage between close relatives or between more than two people". For the 2021 national elections, Kramp-Karrenbauer endorsed Armin Laschet as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel. Foreign policy
Kramp-Karrenbauer criticised the German-supported Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would allow Germany to effectively double the amount of gas it imports from Russia, saying that Nord Stream 2 "is not just an economic project but a political one". In January 2019, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to German companies involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2, threatening CAATSA sanctions. In response, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that "the American ambassador operates in a, shall I say, somewhat unusual diplomatic manner." Kramp-Karrenbauer has supported arms exports to Saudi Arabia, which has been waging war in Yemen and was condemned for massive human rights violations.Kramp-Karrenbauer accused the Social Democrats (SPD) of jeopardising German industry and jobs, saying that, with Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, "Germany is not very credible at the moment" in European security and defence policy and was "making common European projects practically impossible". In late 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer proposed that the European Union should try again to reach a trade agreement with the United States after the elections. In October 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer had talked about the possibility of deploying nuclear arms against Russia. Migrants and refugees
Kramp-Karrenbauer supports stricter immigration policies. Kramp-Karrenbauer supported Angela Merkel's refugee policies and her decision to let migrants into Germany in 2015–2016, many fleeing wars in the Middle East, but demanded more toughness in some cases. At the beginning of 2016, she declared herself against a unilateral closure of German borders, since she feared a break-up of the European Union. In December 2017, Kramp-Karrenbauer remarked: "Bei unbegleiteten Minderjährigen sollte eine verbindliche Altersprüfung eingeführt werden."(A mandatory age investigation should be initiated for all unaccompanied minors.) She said refugees may often provide a false age in order to be treated as youths rather than adult asylum-seekers. She added, "Jemand, der seine Identität verschleiert oder Papiere vernichtet hat, muss mit harten Konsequenzen rechnen." (Anyone who conceals their identity or has destroyed papers must face harsh consequences.) According to her, data sources like mobile phones should be checked, in order to establish a person's identity. Furthermore, instead of carrying out deportations with commercial airplanes, she said it may be necessary to use their separate aircraft. She demanded in November 2018 that after expulsion offenders must be refused re-entry for life, not only to Germany but also throughout the Schengen area, and cited the 2018 gang rape in Freiburg as an example.Personal life
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic. She is married to Helmut Karrenbauer, a retired mining engineer, with whom she has three children, born in 1988, 1991 and 1998; they live in the city of Püttlingen. Kramp-Karrenbauer is an avid reader and speaks French. | [
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She left Parliament after the election. <mask> Kramp was born in the small town of Vlklingen and grew up in the neighboring town of Pttlingen, both located on the border with France and around 40 kilometres from Luxembourg. Her father was a teacher. She studied politics and law at the University of Trier after graduating from high school and earned a master's degree in 1990. <mask> Kramp-Karrenbauer started her political career in high school.In 1984 she was elected to the city council of Pttlingen, and in 1985 she became chairwoman of the city's CDU association. She was a member of the regional board of the Young Union. From 1991 to 1998 she worked for Klaus Tpfer as a policy and planning officer. In 1998, Kramp-Karrenbauer replaced Tpfer in the federal Bundestag, but lost re-election in the same year. She was an advisor to Peter Mller in 1999. She became a chairwoman of the Women's Union that year. Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to the Landtag in 1999.She was the first woman to hold the office of Minister of the Interior in Germany. She became Minister of Labor in the so-called Jamaica coalition government in 2009, after taking on more responsibilities in 2004. She was elected chairwoman of the Kultusministerkonferenz in 2008. She served as a minister for women, sports, family, and culture during her time in state government. Kramp-Karrenbauer was part of the delegation that worked on education and research policy in the negotiations to form a coalition government. After months of difficult negotiations with the coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party and The Greens, Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected Minister- President of the Saarland in a special session of parliament. She blamed the party for dismantling itself and argued that the three-party coalition had lost the necessary trust, stability and capacity to act.The FDP was ejected from the state parliament after taking just one vote in the state election, in what was widely regarded as the first electoral test of the Chancellor's crisis-fighting policy since the beginning of the European debt crisis. The party won more votes in the state elections under Kramp-Karrenbauer's leadership. The Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany for Cultural Affairs under the Treaty on Franco-German Cooperation was Kramp-Karrenbauer. The upper chambers of the German and French national parliaments set up the German-French friendship group. She served on the Committee on Cultural Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Defence. Kramp-Karrenbauer was a delegate to the Federal Convention for the election of the president of Germany. She was part of the leadership team for the negotiations to form a "grand coalition" after the federal elections.She led a working group on education policy in the negotiations to form a fourth coalition government. Kramp-Karrenbauer wanted to make the state bilingual in German and French and promote it as a bicultural European region similar to Luxembourg. It has a long history of association with France dating back to the late 18th century, five years before Kramp-Karrenbauer's birth. Kramp-Karrenbauer was nominated as the new secretary general of the CDU. She was confirmed at the party conference in February. She was the secretary general of the party. She embarked on a major listening tour of the country and worked on a new political manifesto for the party.In October of last year, after bad results for the CDU/CSU in state elections in Germany, Chancellor Merkel announced she would not stand for re-election as party leader in the party convention at the end of the year, triggering a leadership election. Health Minister Jens Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer announced their bids shortly after Friedrich Merz jumped into the race. Both Kramp-Karrenbauer and Merz were open about their intentions to move the party in a more conservative direction. The Chancellor didn't state her preferences. According to opinion polls, Kramp-Karrenbauer was favored by both the general public and the voters of the party. Kramp-Karrenbauer narrowly defeated Merz in a run-off after coming out on top in the first round. In the immediate aftermath of her election, surveys showed an increase in the CDU's vote share; however, it was short-lived.According to the press, she failed to connect with voters in the first months of her tenure. In the run-up to the European Parliament election, which was seen as her first major electoral test, the CDU's campaign was overshadowed by a row between the party and Rezo. It was caused by a viral video posted by Rezo in which he called out the parties of the governing Grand Coalition and urged viewers not to vote for them. The electoral law should be changed to prevent Rezo from influencing the voters' choice in the midst of a campaign, according to Kramp-Karrenbauer. The image of Kramp-Karrenbauer was damaged by the statement as it was an attack on freedom of expression. The Chancellor thought that her successor was not up to the job, according to a report. The worst national showing in the history of the party was below 30%.There were rumors that Kramp-Karrenbauer would not be a Chancellor candidate in the next election. Tilman Meyer, a political scientist at University of Bonn, told Focus that the mounting pressure on Kramp-Karrenbauer could lead to the CDU going into the next election with a more conservative candidate such as Friedrich Merz. On February 10, 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned as leader of the CDU due to the Thuringian government crisis. The plan was for her to resign in the summer and her successor to be elected in December. When Ursula von der Leyen became President of the European Commission in July, Kramp-Karrenbauer became the Federal Minister of Defence. She had never held a position in the federal government. Kramp-Karrenbauer was elected to lead the campaign for the 2021.After being elected, she decided to step down from the parliament and make room for someone who didn't win a seat. In November 2020, Kramp-Karrenbauer stated that in the disputed territory of the Nagorno-Karabakh, "the first real drone war in human history has just been conducted between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with devastating consequences for the losing side." In April 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused Russia of taking provocative actions with its troop build up in Crimea and along its western border, while rejecting Russia's claim that it was responding to a massive NATO-led military exercise. Kramp-Karrenbauer oversaw the German miliary's withdrawal from Afghanistan. The first German ship to pass through the South China Sea since 2002 was sent off on a seven-month voyage that will take it to Australia, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. Kramp-Karrenbauer apologized to soldiers who were discharged or convicted on the basis of their sexual orientation. Legislation was introduced to rehabilitate those soldiers.Kramp-Karrenbauer dissolved a company of the Special Forces Command in 2020 after police seized weapons during a raid on a soldier's home. She pushed through the reform of the unit despite the calls for it to be abolished. In June 2021, Kramp-Karrenbauer recalled 30 German soldiers from service at the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, after they were accused of making racist and anti-Semitic remarks and of sexual violence. Kramp-Karrenbauer opened the first-ever Air and Space Operations Centre in Uedem, expanding Germany's existing space situation center into the new structure. Kramp-Karrenbauer had high approval ratings in the low to mid 70's among her people. She was the most popular politician in the region until her departure as Minister- President. One of the most popular state government leaders was Kramp-Karrenbauer.After being elected as leader of the Christian Democratic Union, Kramp-Karrenbauer had a positive net approval rating from her election as general secretary of the party. She was seen as the second-most popular politician overall when her nationwide popularity peaked in January 2019. Her popularity plummeted after gaffes and electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats. She is one of the least popular politicians in Germany. Kramp-Karrenbauer is seen as a moderate or centrist Christian Democrat. She is described as socially conservative, but also on the left wing of the CDU's economic policy. She is seen as more conservative than the German chancellor.Her nickname during her party leadership was "Mini-Merkel", reflecting both her size and her political views. Kramp-Karrenbauer compared same sex marriage to incest and polygamy. Kramp-Karrenbauer joined the state governments controlled by the Social Democrats in voting in favor of the draft legislation after the Mayor of Hamburg submitted a motion for a mandatory gender quota. Kramp-Karrenbauer's suggestion that Germany return to a top income tax rate of more than 50% set off a fierce debate in her party. The top rate was reduced from 53% to 42% in the 1990s. The automatic increases in the tax-take that occur as inflation and income growth push wage-earners further into their marginal higher tax-bracket was called for reductions to offset fiscal drag by leading members of the CDU. When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of tax equality for same-sex couples, Kramp-Karrenbauer voiced her concerns about also granting full adoption rights for same-sex couples.In 2015, she caused a public controversy by arguing that if we open up the definition of marriage to include a long-term responsible partnership between two adults, then other demands can't be ruled out, such as a marriage between close relatives or more than two people. Kramp-Karrenbauer endorsed Laschet as the Christian Democrats' joint candidate for chancellor. "Nord Stream 2 is not just an economic project but a political one", said Kramp-Karrenbauer in her foreign policy statement. In January, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell sent letters to German companies threatening them with sanctions. The American ambassador operates in a somewhat unusual diplomatic manner according to Kramp-Karrenbauer. Kramp-Karrenbauer supported arms exports to Saudi Arabia, which has been accused of massive human rights violations.With Germany's ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia, Kramp-Karrenbauer accused the Social Democrats of jeopardising German industry and jobs. The European Union should try to reach a trade agreement with the United States after the elections, according to Kramp-Karrenbauer. Kramp-Karrenbauer talked about the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Russia. Kramp-Karrenbauer supports stricter immigration policies. Many fleeing wars in the Middle East were allowed into Germany in 2015, but Kramp-Karrenbauer demanded harsher treatment in some cases. She feared that a break-up of the European Union would lead to the closing of German borders. Kramp-Karrenbauer remarked in December 2017: "Bei unbegleiteten Minderjhrigen sollte."There should be a mandatory age investigation for all children. She said refugees may give a false age in order to be treated more favorably than adult asylum-seekers. She said, "Deiner Identitt verschleiert, das Papiere vernichtet hat." Anyone who hides their identity or has destroyed papers will face severe consequences. In order to establish a person's identity, data sources like mobile phones should be checked. She said it may be necessary to use their separate aircraft instead of carrying out deportations with commercial airplanes. She demanded in November of last year that after expulsion offenders must be refused re-entry for life, not only to Germany but also throughout the Schengen area.<mask> Kramp-Karrenbauer is a Roman Catholic. She has three children with her husband, a retired mining engineer, and they live in the city of Pttlingen. Kramp-Karrenbauer speaks French and is an avid reader. | [
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2022825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko%20IV%20Tanglefoot | Mieszko IV Tanglefoot | Mieszko IV Tanglefoot () (c. 1130 – 16 May 1211) was Duke of Kraków and High Duke of Poland from 9 June 1210 until his death one year later. He was also Duke of Silesia from 1163 to 1173 (with his brother as co-ruler), Duke of Racibórz from 1173, and Duke of Opole from 1202.
His nickname "Tanglefoot" (Plątonogi) appeared in the chronicles from the 14th and 15th centuries. From Rocznik Sędziwoja, annals written in the mid-fifteenth century, the entry for the year 1192: "Cracovia civitas devastata est a Mescone loripede dicto Platonogy nepote ducis Kazimiriensis filio Wladislai exulis" (en: "The city of Kraków was devastated by Mieszko the bandy-legged, called Platonogy, nephew of Duke Casimir, son of Władysław the Exile").
Early life
Mieszko was the second son of Władysław II the Exile and Agnes of Babenberg. From 1146, after the deposition of his father, Mieszko and his family mainly lived in the town of Altenburg in Saxony, which was granted as a temporary possession to Władysław II by Agnes's half-brother King Conrad III of Germany. During his time in exile, Mieszko studied in Michaelsberg and Bamberg.
The exile for the deposed high duke turned out to be permanent; he died in Altenburg in 1159. His sons continued the fight to recover their inheritance, and finally three years later, in 1163, and thanks to the intervention of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Mieszko and his older brother Bolesław I the Tall returned to Silesia.
Duke of Racibórz
Mieszko and Bolesław I the Tall co-ruled the Duchy of Wrocław during the period 1163–1173. At first, their rule did not extend over the major Silesian cities, which remained under the control of Bolesław IV the Curly, then the high duke of Poland. The brothers retook them in the year 1165, taking advantage of Bolesław IV's involvement in a crusade against the Prussians.
Eventually, Mieszko began efforts to obtain his own Duchy, in part because his older brother Bolesław took all the government into his hands and left little participation for Mieszko there. In 1172, Mieszko began an open rebellion against his brother. He also supported Bolesław's eldest son, Jarosław, who was forced to become a priest thanks to the intrigues of his stepmother Christina, who wished for her sons to be the only heirs. The rebellion was a complete surprise to Bolesław, who was forced to escape to Erfurt, Germany. However, the intervention of the Emperor favored the return of Bolesław soon afterwards, but he was forced to give separate lands to both Mieszko (who received the towns of Racibórz and Cieszyn) and Jarosław (who received Opole).
Bytom and Oświęcim
In 1177 Mieszko supported his uncle and namesake Mieszko III the Old when he had to fight to maintain his rule over the Duchy of Kraków. This renewed the disputes between him and Bolesław I the Tall, who wished to obtain the Duchy and with this the Seniorate. However, Bolesław suffered an unexpected defeat by Mieszko and his own son Jarosław, who distracted him from his advance over Kraków. In his place was his younger uncle and ally, Casimir II the Just, who captured the city and was proclaimed the new High Duke of Poland. Mieszko III the Old found himself in exile in Racibórz and it seemed that a war between Mieszko Tanglefoot and Casimir II the Just was now just a matter of time. Casimir II, however, went a different route, and in order to gain the favor of the Duke of Racibórz, gave him the towns of Oświęcim and Bytom (with the fortress of Oświęcim, Bytom, Mikołów, Siewierz and Pszczyna, although some historians estimate that these fortress had belonged to Mieszko only since 1179). On the other hand, Bolesław the Tall suffered a further diminution of his authority when he was compelled to give Głogów to his youngest brother Konrad, who had recently returned from Germany and claimed his part over the Silesian inheritance.
In 1195 Mieszko and his nephew Jarosław supported Mieszko III the Old in his new attempt to recover Kraków and the Seniorate. The death of Casimir II the Just and the minority of his sons gave them the opportunity to attack and regain control over Lesser Poland. However, Kraków and the nobility of Sandomierz, led by the voivode Nicholas, had other plans and decided to support Casimir II's eldest son, Leszek the White. Both sides clashed in the bloody Battle of Mozgawa (Mozgawą) near Jędrzejów (13 September 1195), where Mieszko III was seriously injured and his son Bolesław of Kuyavia died. The Silesian troops, led by Mieszko and Jarosław, arrived to the battlefield too late, soon after Mieszko III withdrew to Kalisz. Over the forces of the Count palatine , who also arrived to help Leszek's troops, the Silesians obtained a great victory; however, because Mieszko III was not present, this victory only brought them benefits in terms of prestige and the ransoms obtained from captured Sandomierz nobles.
Duke of Opole
On 22 March 1201 Jarosław of Opole died. The Duchy of Opole was then inherited by his father Bolesław the Tall, with whom the late duke had recently reconciled. However, Bolesław died only nine months later, on 7/8 December 1201, leaving all his lands to only surviving son, Henry the Bearded.
Mieszko was determined to obtain Opole and made a surprise attack at the beginning of 1202. The Duke managed to obtain Opole, which was from then on definitively joined to his lands. Despite this victory, Mieszko wanted additional territories, but this was against the wishes of the Church, which strongly supported Henry I the Bearded. Thanks to the intervention of Henryk Kietlicz, Archbishop of Gniezno, and Cyprian, Bishop of Wroclaw, Henry I maintained his frontiers, but he had to pay 1000 pieces of silver to his supporters.
High Duke of Poland
On 9 June 1210, a papal bull was decreed by Pope Innocent III, under which all of the seniorate rulers (included High Duke Leszek the White) were deposed and excommunicated. The bull demanded that the Piast princes adhere to the testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth, which proposed that the most senior of the Piast dukes is the ruler in the seniorate. Strangely, in the bull an unnamed duke of Silesia (who was assumed to be Henry the Bearded, because he actually used that title) was exempted from the ban. The country was full of consternation, because nobody knew who had real power.
Archbishop Henryk Ketlicz decided to call the , where he tried to find a solution to this delicate issue. At the convention, in addition to the hierarchy of the Church, Henry I the Bearded and the other junior dukes attended. Leszek the White, wanting to ensure the support of the Church, along with other Piast princes, then gave a great privilege, which ensured the integrity of territorial possession of the bishops (the privilege was not signed by Henry I and Władysław III Spindleshanks, but they did comply with the provisions established there). Mieszko, however, was not present in Borzykowa; with the support of the Gryfici family, he decided to lead his army and march into Kraków, where the confusion among the citizens left him in total control over the capital without fighting. This was the zenith of Mieszko's career, as he died less than one year later, on 16 May 1211. According to Jan Długosz, he was probably buried in the Cathedral of Kraków (Wawel Cathedral). Only after Mieszko's death could Leszek the White return to Kraków without major difficulties.
Marriage and issue
By 1178, Mieszko married Ludmila (died after 20 October 1210), whose origins are unknown. Her name indicates that she may have a Bohemian origin, probably a member of the Přemyslid dynasty. According to the majority of historians, she could be the daughter of , Duke of Olomouc, by his wife . There are also minority hypotheses that put her as a daughter of Duke Soběslav I of Bohemia; ; or , son of Otto III Detleb (who would be her brother according to the majority opinion).
Mieszko and Ludmila had five children:
Casimir I (b. ca. 1179/80 – d. 13 May 1230).
Ludmilla (d. 24 January aft. 1200).
Agnes (d. 9 May aft. 1200).
Euphrosyne (d. 25 May aft. 1200).
Ryksa (d. aft. 24 September 1239).
Notes
References
Further reading
Rajman Jerzy, Mieszko Plątonogi,
See also
History of Poland (966–1385)
Dukes of Silesia
History of Silesia
1130s births
1211 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
13th-century Polish monarchs
Dukes of Opole
Dukes of Wrocław
Polish Roman Catholics | [
"Mieszko IV Tanglefoot () (c. 1130 – 16 May 1211) was Duke of Kraków and High Duke of Poland from 9 June 1210 until his death one year later.",
"He was also Duke of Silesia from 1163 to 1173 (with his brother as co-ruler), Duke of Racibórz from 1173, and Duke of Opole from 1202.",
"His nickname \"Tanglefoot\" (Plątonogi) appeared in the chronicles from the 14th and 15th centuries.",
"From Rocznik Sędziwoja, annals written in the mid-fifteenth century, the entry for the year 1192: \"Cracovia civitas devastata est a Mescone loripede dicto Platonogy nepote ducis Kazimiriensis filio Wladislai exulis\" (en: \"The city of Kraków was devastated by Mieszko the bandy-legged, called Platonogy, nephew of Duke Casimir, son of Władysław the Exile\").",
"Early life\nMieszko was the second son of Władysław II the Exile and Agnes of Babenberg.",
"From 1146, after the deposition of his father, Mieszko and his family mainly lived in the town of Altenburg in Saxony, which was granted as a temporary possession to Władysław II by Agnes's half-brother King Conrad III of Germany.",
"During his time in exile, Mieszko studied in Michaelsberg and Bamberg.",
"The exile for the deposed high duke turned out to be permanent; he died in Altenburg in 1159.",
"His sons continued the fight to recover their inheritance, and finally three years later, in 1163, and thanks to the intervention of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Mieszko and his older brother Bolesław I the Tall returned to Silesia.",
"Duke of Racibórz\nMieszko and Bolesław I the Tall co-ruled the Duchy of Wrocław during the period 1163–1173.",
"At first, their rule did not extend over the major Silesian cities, which remained under the control of Bolesław IV the Curly, then the high duke of Poland.",
"The brothers retook them in the year 1165, taking advantage of Bolesław IV's involvement in a crusade against the Prussians.",
"Eventually, Mieszko began efforts to obtain his own Duchy, in part because his older brother Bolesław took all the government into his hands and left little participation for Mieszko there.",
"In 1172, Mieszko began an open rebellion against his brother.",
"He also supported Bolesław's eldest son, Jarosław, who was forced to become a priest thanks to the intrigues of his stepmother Christina, who wished for her sons to be the only heirs.",
"The rebellion was a complete surprise to Bolesław, who was forced to escape to Erfurt, Germany.",
"However, the intervention of the Emperor favored the return of Bolesław soon afterwards, but he was forced to give separate lands to both Mieszko (who received the towns of Racibórz and Cieszyn) and Jarosław (who received Opole).",
"Bytom and Oświęcim\nIn 1177 Mieszko supported his uncle and namesake Mieszko III the Old when he had to fight to maintain his rule over the Duchy of Kraków.",
"This renewed the disputes between him and Bolesław I the Tall, who wished to obtain the Duchy and with this the Seniorate.",
"However, Bolesław suffered an unexpected defeat by Mieszko and his own son Jarosław, who distracted him from his advance over Kraków.",
"In his place was his younger uncle and ally, Casimir II the Just, who captured the city and was proclaimed the new High Duke of Poland.",
"Mieszko III the Old found himself in exile in Racibórz and it seemed that a war between Mieszko Tanglefoot and Casimir II the Just was now just a matter of time.",
"Casimir II, however, went a different route, and in order to gain the favor of the Duke of Racibórz, gave him the towns of Oświęcim and Bytom (with the fortress of Oświęcim, Bytom, Mikołów, Siewierz and Pszczyna, although some historians estimate that these fortress had belonged to Mieszko only since 1179).",
"On the other hand, Bolesław the Tall suffered a further diminution of his authority when he was compelled to give Głogów to his youngest brother Konrad, who had recently returned from Germany and claimed his part over the Silesian inheritance.",
"In 1195 Mieszko and his nephew Jarosław supported Mieszko III the Old in his new attempt to recover Kraków and the Seniorate.",
"The death of Casimir II the Just and the minority of his sons gave them the opportunity to attack and regain control over Lesser Poland.",
"However, Kraków and the nobility of Sandomierz, led by the voivode Nicholas, had other plans and decided to support Casimir II's eldest son, Leszek the White.",
"Both sides clashed in the bloody Battle of Mozgawa (Mozgawą) near Jędrzejów (13 September 1195), where Mieszko III was seriously injured and his son Bolesław of Kuyavia died.",
"The Silesian troops, led by Mieszko and Jarosław, arrived to the battlefield too late, soon after Mieszko III withdrew to Kalisz.",
"Over the forces of the Count palatine , who also arrived to help Leszek's troops, the Silesians obtained a great victory; however, because Mieszko III was not present, this victory only brought them benefits in terms of prestige and the ransoms obtained from captured Sandomierz nobles.",
"Duke of Opole\nOn 22 March 1201 Jarosław of Opole died.",
"The Duchy of Opole was then inherited by his father Bolesław the Tall, with whom the late duke had recently reconciled.",
"However, Bolesław died only nine months later, on 7/8 December 1201, leaving all his lands to only surviving son, Henry the Bearded.",
"Mieszko was determined to obtain Opole and made a surprise attack at the beginning of 1202.",
"The Duke managed to obtain Opole, which was from then on definitively joined to his lands.",
"Despite this victory, Mieszko wanted additional territories, but this was against the wishes of the Church, which strongly supported Henry I the Bearded.",
"Thanks to the intervention of Henryk Kietlicz, Archbishop of Gniezno, and Cyprian, Bishop of Wroclaw, Henry I maintained his frontiers, but he had to pay 1000 pieces of silver to his supporters.",
"High Duke of Poland\nOn 9 June 1210, a papal bull was decreed by Pope Innocent III, under which all of the seniorate rulers (included High Duke Leszek the White) were deposed and excommunicated.",
"The bull demanded that the Piast princes adhere to the testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth, which proposed that the most senior of the Piast dukes is the ruler in the seniorate.",
"Strangely, in the bull an unnamed duke of Silesia (who was assumed to be Henry the Bearded, because he actually used that title) was exempted from the ban.",
"The country was full of consternation, because nobody knew who had real power.",
"Archbishop Henryk Ketlicz decided to call the , where he tried to find a solution to this delicate issue.",
"At the convention, in addition to the hierarchy of the Church, Henry I the Bearded and the other junior dukes attended.",
"Leszek the White, wanting to ensure the support of the Church, along with other Piast princes, then gave a great privilege, which ensured the integrity of territorial possession of the bishops (the privilege was not signed by Henry I and Władysław III Spindleshanks, but they did comply with the provisions established there).",
"Mieszko, however, was not present in Borzykowa; with the support of the Gryfici family, he decided to lead his army and march into Kraków, where the confusion among the citizens left him in total control over the capital without fighting.",
"This was the zenith of Mieszko's career, as he died less than one year later, on 16 May 1211.",
"According to Jan Długosz, he was probably buried in the Cathedral of Kraków (Wawel Cathedral).",
"Only after Mieszko's death could Leszek the White return to Kraków without major difficulties.",
"Marriage and issue\nBy 1178, Mieszko married Ludmila (died after 20 October 1210), whose origins are unknown.",
"Her name indicates that she may have a Bohemian origin, probably a member of the Přemyslid dynasty.",
"According to the majority of historians, she could be the daughter of , Duke of Olomouc, by his wife .",
"There are also minority hypotheses that put her as a daughter of Duke Soběslav I of Bohemia; ; or , son of Otto III Detleb (who would be her brother according to the majority opinion).",
"Mieszko and Ludmila had five children:\n Casimir I (b. ca.",
"1179/80 – d. 13 May 1230).",
"Ludmilla (d. 24 January aft.",
"1200).",
"Agnes (d. 9 May aft.",
"1200).",
"Euphrosyne (d. 25 May aft.",
"1200).",
"Ryksa (d. aft.",
"24 September 1239).",
"Notes\n\nReferences\n\nFurther reading \nRajman Jerzy, Mieszko Plątonogi,\n\nSee also\n History of Poland (966–1385)\n Dukes of Silesia\n History of Silesia\n\n1130s births\n1211 deaths\nYear of birth uncertain\n13th-century Polish monarchs\nDukes of Opole\nDukes of Wrocław\nPolish Roman Catholics"
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"From 1163 to 11 73, he was also Duke of Silesia, Duke of Racibrz, and Duke of Opole.",
"His nickname was \"Tanglefoot\" in the chronicles from the 14th and 15th centuries.",
"The entry was written in the mid-fifteenth century.",
"Mieszko was the second son of Wadysaw II the Exile and Agnes of Babenberg.",
"After the deposition of his father, Mieszko and his family lived in the town of Altenburg in Saxony, which was granted as a temporary possession to Wadysaw II by his half-brother King Conrad III of Germany.",
"Mieszko studied in two places during his time in exile.",
"The deposed high duke died in Altenburg in 1159.",
"Mieszko and Bolesaw I the Tall were able to recover their inheritance in 1163 thanks to the intervention of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.",
"The Duke of Racibrz Mieszko and Bolesaw I the Tall co-ruled the Duchy of Wrocaw.",
"Bolesaw IV the Curly, the high duke of Poland, was in charge of the major Silesian cities.",
"The brothers retook them in the year 1165, taking advantage of Bolesaw IV's involvement in a crusade against the Prussians.",
"Mieszko's older brother, Bolesaw, took all the government into his hands and left little participation for Mieszko there.",
"Mieszko began a rebellion against his brother.",
"He supported Bolesaw's oldest son, Jarosaw, who was forced to become a priest because of the intrigues of his stepmother.",
"Bolesaw was surprised by the rebellion and had to flee to Germany.",
"The Emperor had to give separate lands to both Mieszko and Jarosaw because he favored the return of Bolesaw.",
"Mieszko supported his uncle and namesake Mieszko III the Old when he had to fight to maintain his rule over the Duchy of Krakw.",
"The disputes between him and Bolesaw I the Tall were renewed.",
"Mieszko and his son Jarosaw distracted Bolesaw from his advance over Krakw.",
"He was replaced by his nephew, who captured the city and became the new High Duke of Poland.",
"Mieszko III the Old found himself in exile in Racibrz and it seemed that a war between Mieszko Tanglefoot and Casimir II the Just was just a matter of time.",
"In order to get the favor of the Duke of Racibrz, Casimir II gave the towns of Owicim and Bytom.",
"Bolesaw the Tall lost his authority when he was forced to give Gogw to his younger brother Konrad, who had recently returned from Germany.",
"Mieszko III the Old and his nephew Jarosaw supported Mieszko in his attempt to recover Krakw and the Seniorate.",
"The death of the Just gave the minority of his sons the chance to regain control over Lesser Poland.",
"Krakw and the nobility of Sandomierz, led by the voivode Nicholas, decided to support Leszek the White.",
"Mieszko III, the father of Bolesaw of Kuyavia, was seriously injured in the battle and his son died.",
"Mieszko III withdrew to Kalisz after the Silesian troops arrived too late.",
"Because Mieszko III was not present, the victory over Leszek's troops only brought benefits to the Silesians in terms of prestige and money.",
"The Duke of Opole died on March 22, 1201.",
"Bolesaw the Tall was the father of the late duke of Opole.",
"All of Bolesaw's lands were left to his surviving son, Henry the Bearded, nine months after Bolesaw died.",
"Mieszko made a surprise attack at the beginning of 1202.",
"The Duke was able to join his lands after obtaining Opole.",
"Mieszko wanted additional territories despite the fact that the Church strongly supported Henry I the Bearded.",
"Henry I had to pay 1000 pieces of silver to his supporters, thanks to the intervention of Henryk Kietlicz, Archbishop of Gniezno, and Cyprian, Bishop of Wroclaw.",
"All of the seniorate rulers, including High Duke Leszek the White, were deposed and excommunicated on June 9, 1210, after Pope Innocent III ordered a papal bull.",
"Bolesaw III Wrymouth's testament proposed that the most senior of the Piast dukes is the ruler in the seniorate.",
"The duke of Silesia, who was assumed to be Henry the Bearded, was exempt from the ban because he actually used that title.",
"Nobody knew who had real power.",
"The archbishop tried to find a solution to this delicate issue.",
"Henry I the Bearded was one of the junior dukes who attended the convention.",
"In order to ensure the support of the Church, Leszek the White gave a great privilege, which ensured the integrity of territorial possession of the bishops.",
"Mieszko, who was not present in Borzykowa, decided to lead his army and march into Krakw, where the citizens were confused and he was in total control of the capital.",
"Mieszko died less than a year after this, on 16 May 1211.",
"He is thought to have been buried in the Cathedral of Krakw.",
"After Mieszko's death, Leszek the White could return to Krakw.",
"Marriage and issue took place in 1178, but the origins of Mieszko's wife are unknown.",
"Her name suggests that she may be a member of the Pemyslid dynasty.",
"She could be the daughter of the Duke of Olomouc and his wife.",
"According to the majority opinion, she is a daughter of Duke Sobslav I of Bohemia and son of Otto III Detleb.",
"Mieszko and Ludmila had five children.",
"13 May 1230) is the date of the death.",
"The date is 24 January.",
"1200).",
"The date is 9 May.",
"1200).",
"The date is 25 May.",
"1200).",
"There was a person named ryksa.",
"24 September",
"The History of Poland includes Rajman Jerzy, Mieszko Pltonogi and the Dukes of Opole Dukes."
] | <mask> IV Tanglefoot () (c. 1130 – 16 May 1211) was Duke of Kraków and High Duke of Poland from 9 June 1210 until his death one year later. He was also Duke of Silesia from 1163 to 1173 (with his brother as co-ruler), Duke of Racibórz from 1173, and Duke of Opole from 1202. His nickname "Tanglefoot" (Plątonogi) appeared in the chronicles from the 14th and 15th centuries. From Rocznik Sędziwoja, annals written in the mid-fifteenth century, the entry for the year 1192: "Cracovia civitas devastata est a Mescone loripede dicto Platonogy nepote ducis Kazimiriensis filio Wladislai exulis" (en: "The city of Kraków was devastated by <mask> the bandy-legged, called Platonogy, nephew of Duke Casimir, son of Władysław the Exile"). Early life
<mask> was the second son of Władysław II the Exile and Agnes of Babenberg. From 1146, after the deposition of his father, <mask> and his family mainly lived in the town of Altenburg in Saxony, which was granted as a temporary possession to Władysław II by Agnes's half-brother King Conrad III of Germany. During his time in exile, <mask> studied in Michaelsberg and Bamberg.The exile for the deposed high duke turned out to be permanent; he died in Altenburg in 1159. His sons continued the fight to recover their inheritance, and finally three years later, in 1163, and thanks to the intervention of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, <mask> and his older brother Bolesław I the Tall returned to Silesia. Duke of Racibórz
<mask> and Bolesław I the Tall co-ruled the Duchy of Wrocław during the period 1163–1173. At first, their rule did not extend over the major Silesian cities, which remained under the control of Bolesław <mask> Curly, then the high duke of Poland. The brothers retook them in the year 1165, taking advantage of Bolesław <mask>'s involvement in a crusade against the Prussians. Eventually, <mask> began efforts to obtain his own Duchy, in part because his older brother Bolesław took all the government into his hands and left little participation for <mask> there. In 1172, <mask> began an open rebellion against his brother.He also supported Bolesław's eldest son, Jarosław, who was forced to become a priest thanks to the intrigues of his stepmother Christina, who wished for her sons to be the only heirs. The rebellion was a complete surprise to Bolesław, who was forced to escape to Erfurt, Germany. However, the intervention of the Emperor favored the return of Bolesław soon afterwards, but he was forced to give separate lands to both <mask> (who received Opole). Bytom and Oświęcim
In 1177 <mask> supported his uncle and namesake <mask> III the Old when he had to fight to maintain his rule over the Duchy of Kraków. This renewed the disputes between him and Bolesław I the Tall, who wished to obtain the Duchy and with this the Seniorate. However, Bolesław suffered an unexpected defeat by <mask> and his own son Jarosław, who distracted him from his advance over Kraków. In his place was his younger uncle and ally, Casimir II the Just, who captured the city and was proclaimed the new High Duke of Poland.<mask> III the Old found himself in exile in Racibórz and it seemed that a war between <mask> Tanglefoot and Casimir II the Just was now just a matter of time. Casimir II, however, went a different route, and in order to gain the favor of the Duke of Racibórz, gave him the towns of Oświęcim and Bytom (with the fortress of Oświęcim, Bytom, Mikołów, Siewierz and Pszczyna, although some historians estimate that these fortress had belonged to Mieszko only since 1179). On the other hand, Bolesław the Tall suffered a further diminution of his authority when he was compelled to give Głogów to his youngest brother Konrad, who had recently returned from Germany and claimed his part over the Silesian inheritance. In 1195 <mask> and his nephew Jarosław supported <mask> III the Old in his new attempt to recover Kraków and the Seniorate. The death of Casimir II the Just and the minority of his sons gave them the opportunity to attack and regain control over Lesser Poland. However, Kraków and the nobility of Sandomierz, led by the voivode Nicholas, had other plans and decided to support Casimir II's eldest son, Leszek the White. Both sides clashed in the bloody Battle of Mozgawa (Mozgawą) near Jędrzejów (13 September 1195), where <mask> III was seriously injured and his son Bolesław of Kuyavia died.The Silesian troops, led by <mask> and Jarosław, arrived to the battlefield too late, soon after <mask> III withdrew to Kalisz. Over the forces of the Count palatine , who also arrived to help Leszek's troops, the Silesians obtained a great victory; however, because <mask> III was not present, this victory only brought them benefits in terms of prestige and the ransoms obtained from captured Sandomierz nobles. Duke of Opole
On 22 March 1201 Jarosław of Opole died. The Duchy of Opole was then inherited by his father Bolesław the Tall, with whom the late duke had recently reconciled. However, Bolesław died only nine months later, on 7/8 December 1201, leaving all his lands to only surviving son, Henry the Bearded. <mask> was determined to obtain Opole and made a surprise attack at the beginning of 1202. The Duke managed to obtain Opole, which was from then on definitively joined to his lands.Despite this victory, <mask> wanted additional territories, but this was against the wishes of the Church, which strongly supported Henry I the Bearded. Thanks to the intervention of Henryk Kietlicz, Archbishop of Gniezno, and Cyprian, Bishop of Wroclaw, Henry I maintained his frontiers, but he had to pay 1000 pieces of silver to his supporters. High Duke of Poland
On 9 June 1210, a papal bull was decreed by Pope Innocent III, under which all of the seniorate rulers (included High Duke Leszek the White) were deposed and excommunicated. The bull demanded that the Piast princes adhere to the testament of Bolesław III Wrymouth, which proposed that the most senior of the Piast dukes is the ruler in the seniorate. Strangely, in the bull an unnamed duke of Silesia (who was assumed to be Henry the Bearded, because he actually used that title) was exempted from the ban. The country was full of consternation, because nobody knew who had real power. Archbishop Henryk Ketlicz decided to call the , where he tried to find a solution to this delicate issue.At the convention, in addition to the hierarchy of the Church, Henry I the Bearded and the other junior dukes attended. Leszek the White, wanting to ensure the support of the Church, along with other Piast princes, then gave a great privilege, which ensured the integrity of territorial possession of the bishops (the privilege was not signed by Henry I and Władysław III Spindleshanks, but they did comply with the provisions established there). <mask>, however, was not present in Borzykowa; with the support of the Gryfici family, he decided to lead his army and march into Kraków, where the confusion among the citizens left him in total control over the capital without fighting. This was the zenith of <mask>'s career, as he died less than one year later, on 16 May 1211. According to Jan Długosz, he was probably buried in the Cathedral of Kraków (Wawel Cathedral). Only after <mask>'s death could Leszek the White return to Kraków without major difficulties. Marriage and issue
By 1178, <mask> married Ludmila (died after 20 October 1210), whose origins are unknown.Her name indicates that she may have a Bohemian origin, probably a member of the Přemyslid dynasty. According to the majority of historians, she could be the daughter of , Duke of Olomouc, by his wife . There are also minority hypotheses that put her as a daughter of Duke Soběslav I of Bohemia; ; or , son of Otto III Detleb (who would be her brother according to the majority opinion). <mask> and Ludmila had five children:
Casimir I (b. ca. 1179/80 – d. 13 May 1230). Ludmilla (d. 24 January aft. 1200).Agnes (d. 9 May aft. 1200). Euphrosyne (d. 25 May aft. 1200). Ryksa (d. aft. 24 September 1239). Notes
References
Further reading
Rajman Jerzy, <mask> Plątonogi,
See also
History of Poland (966–1385)
Dukes of Silesia
History of Silesia
1130s births
1211 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
13th-century Polish monarchs
Dukes of Opole
Dukes of Wrocław
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Bolesaw <mask> Curly, the high duke of Poland, was in charge of the major Silesian cities. The brothers retook them in the year 1165, taking advantage of Bolesaw <mask>'s involvement in a crusade against the Prussians. <mask>'s older brother, Bolesaw, took all the government into his hands and left little participation for <mask> there. <mask> began a rebellion against his brother.He supported Bolesaw's oldest son, Jarosaw, who was forced to become a priest because of the intrigues of his stepmother. Bolesaw was surprised by the rebellion and had to flee to Germany. The Emperor had to give separate lands to both <mask> and Jarosaw because he favored the return of Bolesaw. <mask> supported his uncle and namesake <mask> III the Old when he had to fight to maintain his rule over the Duchy of Krakw. The disputes between him and Bolesaw I the Tall were renewed. <mask> and his son Jarosaw distracted Bolesaw from his advance over Krakw. He was replaced by his nephew, who captured the city and became the new High Duke of Poland.<mask> III the Old found himself in exile in Racibrz and it seemed that a war between <mask> Tanglefoot and Casimir II the Just was just a matter of time. In order to get the favor of the Duke of Racibrz, Casimir II gave the towns of Owicim and Bytom. Bolesaw the Tall lost his authority when he was forced to give Gogw to his younger brother Konrad, who had recently returned from Germany. <mask> III the Old and his nephew Jarosaw supported <mask> in his attempt to recover Krakw and the Seniorate. The death of the Just gave the minority of his sons the chance to regain control over Lesser Poland. Krakw and the nobility of Sandomierz, led by the voivode Nicholas, decided to support Leszek the White. <mask> III, the father of Bolesaw of Kuyavia, was seriously injured in the battle and his son died.<mask> III withdrew to Kalisz after the Silesian troops arrived too late. Because <mask> III was not present, the victory over Leszek's troops only brought benefits to the Silesians in terms of prestige and money. The Duke of Opole died on March 22, 1201. Bolesaw the Tall was the father of the late duke of Opole. All of Bolesaw's lands were left to his surviving son, Henry the Bearded, nine months after Bolesaw died. <mask> made a surprise attack at the beginning of 1202. The Duke was able to join his lands after obtaining Opole.Mieszko wanted additional territories despite the fact that the Church strongly supported Henry I the Bearded. Henry I had to pay 1000 pieces of silver to his supporters, thanks to the intervention of Henryk Kietlicz, Archbishop of Gniezno, and Cyprian, Bishop of Wroclaw. All of the seniorate rulers, including High Duke Leszek the White, were deposed and excommunicated on June 9, 1210, after Pope Innocent III ordered a papal bull. Bolesaw III Wrymouth's testament proposed that the most senior of the Piast dukes is the ruler in the seniorate. The duke of Silesia, who was assumed to be Henry the Bearded, was exempt from the ban because he actually used that title. Nobody knew who had real power. The archbishop tried to find a solution to this delicate issue.Henry I the Bearded was one of the junior dukes who attended the convention. In order to ensure the support of the Church, Leszek the White gave a great privilege, which ensured the integrity of territorial possession of the bishops. <mask>, who was not present in Borzykowa, decided to lead his army and march into Krakw, where the citizens were confused and he was in total control of the capital. <mask> died less than a year after this, on 16 May 1211. He is thought to have been buried in the Cathedral of Krakw. After <mask>'s death, Leszek the White could return to Krakw. 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35988649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%20Xue | Can Xue | Deng Xiaohua (; born May 30, 1953), better known by her pen name Can Xue (), is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic. Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers. She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Can Xue has been described as "China’s most prominent author of experimental fiction", and some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.
Life
Deng Xiaohua was born in 1953, in Changsha, Hunan, China. Her early life was marked by a series of tragic hardships which influenced the direction of her work. She was one of six children born to a man who was once the editor-in-chief of the New Hunan Daily (). Her parents, like many intellectuals at the time, were denounced as rightists in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Her father was sent to the countryside for two years in retribution for allegedly leading an anti-Communist Party group at the paper. Two years later, the entire family was evicted from the company housing at the newspaper and moved to a tiny hut below the Yuelu Mountain, on the rural outskirts of Changsha. In the years that followed, the family suffered greatly under further persecution. Her father was jailed, and her mother was sent along with her two brothers to the countryside for re-education through labor. Deng was allowed to remain in the city because of her poor health. After being forced to leave the small hut, she lived alone in a small, dark room under a staircase. By the time of the Cultural Revolution, Deng was thirteen years old. Her formal education was permanently disrupted after completing primary school.
Can Xue describes the horrors of her youth in detail in her memoirs titled "A Summer Day in the Beautiful South" which is included as the foreword to her short story collection Dialogues in Paradise. Throughout this period, her entire family “struggled along on the verge of death.” Her grandmother, who raised her while her parents were gone, soon succumbed to hunger and fatigue, dying with severe edema, a grotesque swelling condition. While the family was forced to scavenge food, eventually eating all of the wool clothes in the house, Can Xue contracted a severe case of tuberculosis.
Later, she was able to find work as a metalworker. Ten years later, in 1980, after giving birth to her first son, she quit work at the factory. She and her husband then started a small tailoring business at home after teaching themselves to sew.
She began writing in 1983, and published her first short story Soap Bubbles in Dirty Water (污水上的肥皂泡) in January 1985 and then two other short stories, The Bull (公牛) and The Hut on the Hill (山上的小屋) in 1985, at which point she chose the pen name Can Xue. This pen name can be interpreted either as the stubborn, dirty snow left at the end of winter or the remaining snow at the peak of a mountain after the rest has melted. Publishing under a pen name allowed Can Xue to write without revealing her gender. According to Tonglin Lu (a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal) once critics found out she was a woman, her “subversive voice within the supposedly subversive order [of avant-garde fiction]” made them uncomfortable. (Tonglin Lu coined this "double subversion.") Not only was she writing avant-garde fiction, but she was also a woman—so male writers and critics attempted to analyze her works by psychoanalysis of the author, and some even went so far as to suggest she was certifiably insane. In 2002, she said, "Lots of [the critics] hate me, or at least they just keep silent, hoping I'll disappear. No one discusses my works, either because they disagree or don't understand.”
More recently, however, many critics have paid tribute to her work, drawn to the careful precision she uses to create such a strange, unsettling effect on the reader.
Work
Can Xue's abstract style and unconventional narrative form attracted a lot of attention from critics in the 1990s. A variety of interpretations of her work have been published, but political allegory has been the most popular way of understanding her early short stories. Many of the images in her stories have been linked to the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-rightist Movement and other turbulent political movements of the early People's Republic of China. However, direct references to these events are uncommon.
The author herself explicitly denies most forms of political commentary others claim to have found in her work, stating once in an interview, "There is no political cause in my work."
On the contrary, Can Xue says she treats each story as a kind of life experiment in which she is the subject. “In very deep layers,” she says, “all of my works are autobiographical.” As for those who struggle to find meaning in her stories, Can Xue says, "If a reader feels that this book is unreadable, then it's quite clear that he's not one of my readers."
Can Xue has also written part of the libretto for at least one opera. In 2010, Can Xue and Lin Wang ( web) co-wrote the libretto for a contemporary chamber opera Die Quelle (The Source) commissioned to Lin Wang by Münchener Biennale. The opera is based on Can Xue's published short story ″the Double Life″. In this opera, a young artist named Jian Yi was deconstructed into different aspects played by different roles. They crosstalk to each other on stage; drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one's own identity. Lin Wang composed the music for Die Quelle (85' in length). Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Die Quelle was premiered on May 9, 2010 in Munich Biennale and broadcast live.
Reception
Amanda DeMarco stated that the extent to which Can Xue's work is radical is overstated. DeMarco also claims the animals in Frontier "appear in such wild profusion that it would be impossible to assign them a symbology. Can Xue’s writing is not metaphorical in this sense. There is no organized system of correspondence or meaning within it that would allow individual elements to be explained back into the realm of the logical. Often her works are compared to performances, to dance, or to visual art." However, the reviewer still described the experience of reading the author's books as rewarding, explaining that the tools of literature used in experimental writing to chart the human being extend beyond the capacities of language as logic. DeMarco said that at "the sentence level, [Frontier] is a wonderful, carefully hewn thing, lucid and pure".
American novelist and editor Bradford Morrow has described her as one of the most "innovative and important" authors in contemporary world literature.
Bibliography
As of 2009, Can Xue had published a total of three novels, fifty novellas, 120 short stories, and six book-length commentaries. Only a few volumes of fiction, mostly short stories, have been translated into English.
Novels
突围表演 (1988); later published as 五香街 (2002). Five Spice Street, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2009).
最后的情人 (2005). The Last Lover, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2014).
边疆 (2008). Frontier, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2017).
新世纪爱情故事 (2013). Love in the New Millennium, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2018).
Novellas
苍老的浮云 (1986). Old Floating Cloud.
黄泥街 (1987). Yellow Mud Street.
种在走廊上的苹果树 (1987). Apple Tree in the Corridor.
Short story collections
天堂里的对话 (1988). Dialogues in Paradise, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1989).
Compilations in English
Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1991). Compiles Yellow Mud Street and Old Floating Cloud.
The Embroidered Shoes, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Henry Holt, 1997).
Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (New Directions, 2006).
Vertical Motion, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2011).
I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2020).
Purple Perilla, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Isolarii, Common Era Inc., 2021). Compiles “An Affair”, “Mountain Ants” and “Purple Perilla”.
Awards and honors
2015 Best Translated Book Award, winner, The Last Lover, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
References
External links
MIT Contemporary Chinese Writers: Can Xue
Chinese literary critics
Writers from Changsha
1953 births
Living people
Chinese women short story writers
International Writing Program alumni
Chinese women novelists
People's Republic of China novelists
People's Republic of China short story writers
Short story writers from Hunan
20th-century pseudonymous writers
21st-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers | [
"Deng Xiaohua (; born May 30, 1953), better known by her pen name Can Xue (), is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic.",
"Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957.",
"Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers.",
"She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka.",
"Can Xue has been described as \"China’s most prominent author of experimental fiction\", and some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.",
"Life \nDeng Xiaohua was born in 1953, in Changsha, Hunan, China.",
"Her early life was marked by a series of tragic hardships which influenced the direction of her work.",
"She was one of six children born to a man who was once the editor-in-chief of the New Hunan Daily ().",
"Her parents, like many intellectuals at the time, were denounced as rightists in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957.",
"Her father was sent to the countryside for two years in retribution for allegedly leading an anti-Communist Party group at the paper.",
"Two years later, the entire family was evicted from the company housing at the newspaper and moved to a tiny hut below the Yuelu Mountain, on the rural outskirts of Changsha.",
"In the years that followed, the family suffered greatly under further persecution.",
"Her father was jailed, and her mother was sent along with her two brothers to the countryside for re-education through labor.",
"Deng was allowed to remain in the city because of her poor health.",
"After being forced to leave the small hut, she lived alone in a small, dark room under a staircase.",
"By the time of the Cultural Revolution, Deng was thirteen years old.",
"Her formal education was permanently disrupted after completing primary school.",
"Can Xue describes the horrors of her youth in detail in her memoirs titled \"A Summer Day in the Beautiful South\" which is included as the foreword to her short story collection Dialogues in Paradise.",
"Throughout this period, her entire family “struggled along on the verge of death.” Her grandmother, who raised her while her parents were gone, soon succumbed to hunger and fatigue, dying with severe edema, a grotesque swelling condition.",
"While the family was forced to scavenge food, eventually eating all of the wool clothes in the house, Can Xue contracted a severe case of tuberculosis.",
"Later, she was able to find work as a metalworker.",
"Ten years later, in 1980, after giving birth to her first son, she quit work at the factory.",
"She and her husband then started a small tailoring business at home after teaching themselves to sew.",
"She began writing in 1983, and published her first short story Soap Bubbles in Dirty Water (污水上的肥皂泡) in January 1985 and then two other short stories, The Bull (公牛) and The Hut on the Hill (山上的小屋) in 1985, at which point she chose the pen name Can Xue.",
"This pen name can be interpreted either as the stubborn, dirty snow left at the end of winter or the remaining snow at the peak of a mountain after the rest has melted.",
"Publishing under a pen name allowed Can Xue to write without revealing her gender.",
"According to Tonglin Lu (a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal) once critics found out she was a woman, her “subversive voice within the supposedly subversive order [of avant-garde fiction]” made them uncomfortable.",
"(Tonglin Lu coined this \"double subversion.\")",
"Not only was she writing avant-garde fiction, but she was also a woman—so male writers and critics attempted to analyze her works by psychoanalysis of the author, and some even went so far as to suggest she was certifiably insane.",
"In 2002, she said, \"Lots of [the critics] hate me, or at least they just keep silent, hoping I'll disappear.",
"No one discusses my works, either because they disagree or don't understand.”\n\nMore recently, however, many critics have paid tribute to her work, drawn to the careful precision she uses to create such a strange, unsettling effect on the reader.",
"Work \nCan Xue's abstract style and unconventional narrative form attracted a lot of attention from critics in the 1990s.",
"A variety of interpretations of her work have been published, but political allegory has been the most popular way of understanding her early short stories.",
"Many of the images in her stories have been linked to the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-rightist Movement and other turbulent political movements of the early People's Republic of China.",
"However, direct references to these events are uncommon.",
"The author herself explicitly denies most forms of political commentary others claim to have found in her work, stating once in an interview, \"There is no political cause in my work.\"",
"On the contrary, Can Xue says she treats each story as a kind of life experiment in which she is the subject.",
"“In very deep layers,” she says, “all of my works are autobiographical.” As for those who struggle to find meaning in her stories, Can Xue says, \"If a reader feels that this book is unreadable, then it's quite clear that he's not one of my readers.\"",
"Can Xue has also written part of the libretto for at least one opera.",
"In 2010, Can Xue and Lin Wang ( web) co-wrote the libretto for a contemporary chamber opera Die Quelle (The Source) commissioned to Lin Wang by Münchener Biennale.",
"The opera is based on Can Xue's published short story ″the Double Life″.",
"In this opera, a young artist named Jian Yi was deconstructed into different aspects played by different roles.",
"They crosstalk to each other on stage; drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one's own identity.",
"Lin Wang composed the music for Die Quelle (85' in length).",
"Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used.",
"An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera.",
"Die Quelle was premiered on May 9, 2010 in Munich Biennale and broadcast live.",
"Reception \nAmanda DeMarco stated that the extent to which Can Xue's work is radical is overstated.",
"DeMarco also claims the animals in Frontier \"appear in such wild profusion that it would be impossible to assign them a symbology.",
"Can Xue’s writing is not metaphorical in this sense.",
"There is no organized system of correspondence or meaning within it that would allow individual elements to be explained back into the realm of the logical.",
"Often her works are compared to performances, to dance, or to visual art.\"",
"However, the reviewer still described the experience of reading the author's books as rewarding, explaining that the tools of literature used in experimental writing to chart the human being extend beyond the capacities of language as logic.",
"DeMarco said that at \"the sentence level, [Frontier] is a wonderful, carefully hewn thing, lucid and pure\".",
"American novelist and editor Bradford Morrow has described her as one of the most \"innovative and important\" authors in contemporary world literature.",
"Bibliography \nAs of 2009, Can Xue had published a total of three novels, fifty novellas, 120 short stories, and six book-length commentaries.",
"Only a few volumes of fiction, mostly short stories, have been translated into English.",
"Novels\n\n突围表演 (1988); later published as 五香街 (2002).",
"Five Spice Street, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2009).",
"最后的情人 (2005).",
"The Last Lover, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2014).",
"边疆 (2008).",
"Frontier, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2017).",
"新世纪爱情故事 (2013).",
"Love in the New Millennium, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2018).",
"Novellas\n\n 苍老的浮云 (1986).",
"Old Floating Cloud.",
"黄泥街 (1987).",
"Yellow Mud Street.",
"种在走廊上的苹果树 (1987).",
"Apple Tree in the Corridor.",
"Short story collections\n\n 天堂里的对话 (1988).",
"Dialogues in Paradise, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1989).",
"Compilations in English\n\n Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1991).",
"Compiles Yellow Mud Street and Old Floating Cloud.",
"The Embroidered Shoes, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Henry Holt, 1997).",
"Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (New Directions, 2006).",
"Vertical Motion, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2011).",
"I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2020).",
"Purple Perilla, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Isolarii, Common Era Inc., 2021).",
"Compiles “An Affair”, “Mountain Ants” and “Purple Perilla”.",
"Awards and honors \n\n2015 Best Translated Book Award, winner, The Last Lover, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links \n MIT Contemporary Chinese Writers: Can Xue\n\nChinese literary critics\nWriters from Changsha\n1953 births\nLiving people\nChinese women short story writers\nInternational Writing Program alumni\nChinese women novelists\nPeople's Republic of China novelists\nPeople's Republic of China short story writers\nShort story writers from Hunan\n20th-century pseudonymous writers\n21st-century pseudonymous writers\nPseudonymous women writers"
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"Two years later, the entire family was evicted from the company housing the newspaper and moved to a tiny hut below the Yuelu Mountain.",
"The family suffered a lot in the years that followed.",
"Her father and mother were sent to the countryside for re-education through labor.",
"Deng was allowed to stay in the city because of her poor health.",
"She lived alone in a dark room after being forced to leave the small hut.",
"Deng was thirteen years old at the time of the Cultural Revolution.",
"After finishing primary school, her formal education was disrupted permanently.",
"In her memoirs titled \"A Summer Day in the Beautiful South\" Can Xue describes the horrors of her youth, which is included in her short story collection Dialogues in Paradise.",
"Her familystruggled along on the verge of death, with her grandmother succumbing to hunger and fatigue and dying with a grotesque swelling condition.",
"Can Xue contracted a severe case of Tuberculosis while the family was forced to eat all of the wool clothes in the house.",
"She was able to find work as a metalworker.",
"After giving birth to her first child, she quit her job at the factory.",
"After teaching herself to sew, she and her husband started a small tailoring business at home.",
"In January 1985 she published her first short story, Soap Bubbles in Dirty Water, and then two more, The Bull and The Hut on the Hill, under the pen name Can Xue.",
"The pen name can be seen as either the stubborn, dirty snow left at the end of winter or the remaining snow at the peak of a mountain after the rest has melted.",
"Can Xue was able to write without revealing her gender by publishing under a pen name.",
"The critic's \"subversive voice within the supposedly subversive order of avant-garde fiction\" made them uncomfortable when they found out she was a woman.",
"\"double subversion\" was invented by Tonglin Lu.",
"Not only was she writing fiction, but she was also a woman, so male writers and critics tried to analyze her works by her mental state, and some even went so far as to suggest she was insane.",
"She said in 2002 that a lot of the critics hated her.",
"Many critics have paid tribute to her work, drawn to the careful precision she uses to create such a strange, unnerving effect on the reader.",
"In the 1990s, Work Can Xue's abstract style and unconventional narrative form attracted a lot of attention.",
"Political allegory is the most popular way to understand her early short stories.",
"Many of the images in her stories are related to the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-rightist movement and other political movements of the early People's Republic of China.",
"Direct references to these events are rare.",
"The author states in an interview that there is no political cause in her work.",
"Can Xue says that each story is a kind of life experiment in which she is the subject.",
"\"If a reader feels that this book is unreadable, then it's quite clear that he's not one of my works,\" she says.",
"At least one opera has been written by Can Xue.",
"Lin Wang was commissioned by the Mnchener Biennale to write the libretto for a contemporary chamber opera called Die Quelle (The Source).",
"The opera is based on a short story.",
"In this opera, a young artist named Jian Yi was played by many different roles.",
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"The music for Die Quelle was composed by Lin Wang.",
"The Chinese instruments were used.",
"English and Chinese pronunciations are combined in this opera.",
"The premiere of Die Quelle was broadcast live.",
"The extent to which Can Xue's work is radical is overstated.",
"It would be difficult to assign a symbology to the animals in Frontier.",
"Can Xue's writing is not a metaphor.",
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"Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories.",
"Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Vertical Motion.",
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Deng Xiaohua was born in 1953, in Changsha, Hunan, China. Her early life was marked by a series of tragic hardships which influenced the direction of her work.She was one of six children born to a man who was once the editor-in-chief of the New Hunan Daily (). Her parents, like many intellectuals at the time, were denounced as rightists in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Her father was sent to the countryside for two years in retribution for allegedly leading an anti-Communist Party group at the paper. Two years later, the entire family was evicted from the company housing at the newspaper and moved to a tiny hut below the Yuelu Mountain, on the rural outskirts of Changsha. In the years that followed, the family suffered greatly under further persecution. Her father was jailed, and her mother was sent along with her two brothers to the countryside for re-education through labor. Deng was allowed to remain in the city because of her poor health.After being forced to leave the small hut, she lived alone in a small, dark room under a staircase. By the time of the Cultural Revolution, Deng was thirteen years old. Her formal education was permanently disrupted after completing primary school. <mask>e describes the horrors of her youth in detail in her memoirs titled "A Summer Day in the Beautiful South" which is included as the foreword to her short story collection Dialogues in Paradise. Throughout this period, her entire family “struggled along on the verge of death.” Her grandmother, who raised her while her parents were gone, soon succumbed to hunger and fatigue, dying with severe edema, a grotesque swelling condition. While the family was forced to scavenge food, eventually eating all of the wool clothes in the house, <mask>e contracted a severe case of tuberculosis. Later, she was able to find work as a metalworker.Ten years later, in 1980, after giving birth to her first son, she quit work at the factory. She and her husband then started a small tailoring business at home after teaching themselves to sew. She began writing in 1983, and published her first short story Soap Bubbles in Dirty Water (污水上的肥皂泡) in January 1985 and then two other short stories, The Bull (公牛) and The Hut on the Hill (山上的小屋) in 1985, at which point she chose the pen name <mask>e. This pen name can be interpreted either as the stubborn, dirty snow left at the end of winter or the remaining snow at the peak of a mountain after the rest has melted. Publishing under a pen name allowed <mask>e to write without revealing her gender. According to Tonglin Lu (a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Montreal) once critics found out she was a woman, her “subversive voice within the supposedly subversive order [of avant-garde fiction]” made them uncomfortable. (Tonglin Lu coined this "double subversion.")Not only was she writing avant-garde fiction, but she was also a woman—so male writers and critics attempted to analyze her works by psychoanalysis of the author, and some even went so far as to suggest she was certifiably insane. In 2002, she said, "Lots of [the critics] hate me, or at least they just keep silent, hoping I'll disappear. No one discusses my works, either because they disagree or don't understand.”
More recently, however, many critics have paid tribute to her work, drawn to the careful precision she uses to create such a strange, unsettling effect on the reader. Work
<mask>e's abstract style and unconventional narrative form attracted a lot of attention from critics in the 1990s. A variety of interpretations of her work have been published, but political allegory has been the most popular way of understanding her early short stories. Many of the images in her stories have been linked to the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-rightist Movement and other turbulent political movements of the early People's Republic of China. However, direct references to these events are uncommon.The author herself explicitly denies most forms of political commentary others claim to have found in her work, stating once in an interview, "There is no political cause in my work." On the contrary, <mask>e says she treats each story as a kind of life experiment in which she is the subject. “In very deep layers,” she says, “all of my works are autobiographical.” As for those who struggle to find meaning in her stories, <mask>e says, "If a reader feels that this book is unreadable, then it's quite clear that he's not one of my readers." <mask>e has also written part of the libretto for at least one opera. In 2010, <mask> and Lin Wang ( web) co-wrote the libretto for a contemporary chamber opera Die Quelle (The Source) commissioned to Lin Wang by Münchener Biennale. The opera is based on <mask>e's published short story ″the Double Life″. In this opera, a young artist named Jian Yi was deconstructed into different aspects played by different roles.They crosstalk to each other on stage; drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one's own identity. Lin Wang composed the music for Die Quelle (85' in length). Chinese instruments Sheng, Guzheng and Sanxian were used. An unusual feature is combination of English pronunciation and Chinese intonation in this opera. Die Quelle was premiered on May 9, 2010 in Munich Biennale and broadcast live. Reception
Amanda DeMarco stated that the extent to which <mask>e's work is radical is overstated. DeMarco also claims the animals in Frontier "appear in such wild profusion that it would be impossible to assign them a symbology.<mask>e’s writing is not metaphorical in this sense. There is no organized system of correspondence or meaning within it that would allow individual elements to be explained back into the realm of the logical. Often her works are compared to performances, to dance, or to visual art." However, the reviewer still described the experience of reading the author's books as rewarding, explaining that the tools of literature used in experimental writing to chart the human being extend beyond the capacities of language as logic. DeMarco said that at "the sentence level, [Frontier] is a wonderful, carefully hewn thing, lucid and pure". American novelist and editor Bradford Morrow has described her as one of the most "innovative and important" authors in contemporary world literature. Bibliography
As of 2009, <mask>e had published a total of three novels, fifty novellas, 120 short stories, and six book-length commentaries.Only a few volumes of fiction, mostly short stories, have been translated into English. Novels
突围表演 (1988); later published as 五香街 (2002). Five Spice Street, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2009). 最后的情人 (2005). The Last Lover, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2014). 边疆 (2008). Frontier, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2017).新世纪爱情故事 (2013). Love in the New Millennium, translated by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (Yale, 2018). Novellas
苍老的浮云 (1986). Old Floating Cloud. 黄泥街 (1987). Yellow Mud Street. 种在走廊上的苹果树 (1987).Apple Tree in the Corridor. Short story collections
天堂里的对话 (1988). Dialogues in Paradise, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1989). Compilations in English
Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Northwestern, 1991). Compiles Yellow Mud Street and Old Floating Cloud. The Embroidered Shoes, translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang (Henry Holt, 1997). Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (New Directions, 2006).Vertical Motion, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Open Letter, 2011). I Live in the Slums, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Yale, 2020). Purple Perilla, translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping (Isolarii, Common Era Inc., 2021). Compiles “An Affair”, “Mountain Ants” and “Purple Perilla”. Awards and honors
2015 Best Translated Book Award, winner, The Last Lover, translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
References
External links
MIT Contemporary Chinese Writers: <mask>e
Chinese literary critics
Writers from Changsha
1953 births
Living people
Chinese women short story writers
International Writing Program alumni
Chinese women novelists
People's Republic of China novelists
People's Republic of China short story writers
Short story writers from Hunan
20th-century pseudonymous writers
21st-century pseudonymous writers
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Her father was sent to the countryside for two years for allegedly leading an anti-Communist Party group at the paper. Two years later, the entire family was evicted from the company housing the newspaper and moved to a tiny hut below the Yuelu Mountain. The family suffered a lot in the years that followed. Her father and mother were sent to the countryside for re-education through labor. Deng was allowed to stay in the city because of her poor health.She lived alone in a dark room after being forced to leave the small hut. Deng was thirteen years old at the time of the Cultural Revolution. After finishing primary school, her formal education was disrupted permanently. In her memoirs titled "A Summer Day in the Beautiful South" <mask>e describes the horrors of her youth, which is included in her short story collection Dialogues in Paradise. Her familystruggled along on the verge of death, with her grandmother succumbing to hunger and fatigue and dying with a grotesque swelling condition. <mask>e contracted a severe case of Tuberculosis while the family was forced to eat all of the wool clothes in the house. She was able to find work as a metalworker.After giving birth to her first child, she quit her job at the factory. After teaching herself to sew, she and her husband started a small tailoring business at home. In January 1985 she published her first short story, Soap Bubbles in Dirty Water, and then two more, The Bull and The Hut on the Hill, under the pen name <mask>e. The pen name can be seen as either the stubborn, dirty snow left at the end of winter or the remaining snow at the peak of a mountain after the rest has melted. <mask>e was able to write without revealing her gender by publishing under a pen name. The critic's "subversive voice within the supposedly subversive order of avant-garde fiction" made them uncomfortable when they found out she was a woman. "double subversion" was invented by Tonglin Lu.Not only was she writing fiction, but she was also a woman, so male writers and critics tried to analyze her works by her mental state, and some even went so far as to suggest she was insane. She said in 2002 that a lot of the critics hated her. Many critics have paid tribute to her work, drawn to the careful precision she uses to create such a strange, unnerving effect on the reader. In the 1990s, <mask> Xue's abstract style and unconventional narrative form attracted a lot of attention. Political allegory is the most popular way to understand her early short stories. Many of the images in her stories are related to the Cultural Revolution, the Anti-rightist movement and other political movements of the early People's Republic of China. Direct references to these events are rare.The author states in an interview that there is no political cause in her work. <mask>e says that each story is a kind of life experiment in which she is the subject. "If a reader feels that this book is unreadable, then it's quite clear that he's not one of my works," she says. At least one opera has been written by <mask>e. Lin Wang was commissioned by the Mnchener Biennale to write the libretto for a contemporary chamber opera called Die Quelle (The Source). The opera is based on a short story. In this opera, a young artist named Jian Yi was played by many different roles.drying and bubbling-up of the spring symbolize loss and regain of one's own identity as they crosstalk to each other on stage. The music for Die Quelle was composed by Lin Wang. The Chinese instruments were used. English and Chinese pronunciations are combined in this opera. The premiere of Die Quelle was broadcast live. The extent to which <mask>e's work is radical is overstated. It would be difficult to assign a symbology to the animals in Frontier.<mask>e's writing is not a metaphor. There is no organized system of meaning within it that would allow individual elements to be explained back into the logical realm. Her works are often compared to other artistic works. The reviewer explained that the tools of literature used in experimental writing to chart the human being extend beyond the capacities of language and logic. At the sentence level,Frontier is a wonderful, carefully hewn thing. She has been described as one of the most innovative and important authors in contemporary world literature by an American novelist and editor. <mask>e had published a total of three novels, fifty novellas, 120 short stories, and six book-length commentaries.There are a few volumes of fiction that have been translated into English. Novels were published as (2002). Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Five Spice Street. 2005 Annelise Finegan Wasmoen translated The Last Lover. 2008 Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Frontier. Annelise Finegan Wasmoen translated Love in the New Millennium. Novellas were written in 1986. There was an old floating cloud. 1987 There is a yellow mud street. 1987There is an apple tree in the corridor. There are short story collections. Dialogues in Paradise was translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang. The English Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas were translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang. Yellow Mud Street and Old Floating Cloud are included. The embroidered shoes were translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Blue Light in the Sky and Other Stories.Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Vertical Motion. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated I Live in the Slums. Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping translated Purple Perilla. 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Cáceres played in the Paraguayan national team for nearly 11 years, being part of the 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup squads.
Career
Olimpia
Cáceres' first club was Primera División de Paraguay club, Olimpia, where he helped the club become Paraguayan champions twice.
1998
On 12 April 1998, Caceres debuted for Olimpia aged 18 in a 1–0 loss against Guaraní.
1999
In 1999, after winning the Apertura tournament, and finishing third in the Clausura tournament they were crowned champions with a 4–2 aggregate win over Cerro Porteño in the National championship game. In the 1999 season, teammates in the Olimpia squad were Denis Caniza, Ruben Maldonado, Carlos Humberto Paredes, Gustavo Neffa, Roque Santa Cruz and Richart Baez.
2000
In 2000 they again won the Apertura tournament, and also won the Calusura tournament, thus were crowned champions.
2002
He was also part of the team that won the Copa Libertadores in 2002. Cáceres played in both legs of the 2002 Copa Libertadores Final as Olimpia defeated Brazilian club São Caetano in July. As Copa Libertadores winners, Olimpia faced Real Madrid in Yokohama in the 2002 Intercontinental Cup which they lost 2-0 as Caceres played an entire 90 minutes of the match.
2003
Caceres was part of the Olimpia team which then won the Recopa Sudamericana in 2003.
2004
On 24 May 2004, Caceres played his last game for Olimpia.
Caceres had played in 91 league games, converting 6 goals. He also played 32 games internationally for the club, which included matches in the Copa Libertadores, Copa Mercosur, the Intercontinental Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana.Caceres earned two Primera División Paraguaya league titles, one Copa Libertadores title and one Recopa Sudamericana title.
Nacional Asunción
In June 2004, Caceres briefly signed for Nacional Asunción prior to transferring to Nantes in France.
Nantes
In 2004, he signed for French Ligue 1 club Nantes. Caceres initially joined Nantes on a one-year provisional transfer issued by FIFA, due to a dispute between Olimpia Asunción and Cáceres at the time of still being in the team roster at Nacional Asunción.
He made his league debut on 14 August 2004 in a 1–1 draw with Bastia. However, he later suffered an injury and did not play for several months. By the time he had recovered, Nantes had a new coach who did not play Cáceres.
Loan to Mineiro
e was loaned to Brazilian Brasileirão club Atlético Mineiro for the 2005 season. His league debut came on 11 September 2005, a 2–0 defeat to Botafogo. He made fourteen league appearances, scoring two goals. However, the club finished in 20th place and were relegated to Brasileiro Série B.
Loan to River Plate
In January 2006, he moved to Argentina, signing for River Plate on loan, where he quickly became a key player and squad captain. He made his league debut in a 5–0 win at Tiro Federal on 29 January. He was also a part of the River Plate team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 Copa Libertadores. In July 2006, River Plate decided not to buy the transfer of Caceres and that he would be sold by his owner club, Nantes, to a Mexican club.
Loan to Gimnàstic
Later in 2006 he spent two months in Spain, from October to December, with Catalan club Gimnàstic de Tarragona in La Liga where he made eleven league appearances.
UANL Tigres
In January 2007 Cáceres moved to Mexico when he was signed by Tigres, with whom he maintained a regular starting position. He made his league debut in a 2–1 defeat at Tecos on 20 January 2007 and scored his first goal for the club on 3 March in a 3–2 win over Chiapas. He made a total of 32 league appearances, scoring two goals.
Boca Juniors
In January 2008 he moved again to Argentina, signing for Boca Juniors. He made his league debut on 10 February 2008 in a 1–1 draw with Rosario Central. On 14 May he scored Boca's first goal as they were held to a 2–2 home draw by Mexican club Atlas in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores
In October 2008 Cáceres had a very public conflict with Boca teammate Juan Román Riquelme, when in an interview on a Paraguayan radio station in Asunción, where he was training with his national team, Cáceres questioned Riquelme's motivation. He claimed that "In some matches, he is apparently running and in others he is passive. He seems to be mentally saturated. He seems to have more motivation when he plays for his country." However, Riquelme responded in a telephone interview on the Fox Sports cable channel, saying "He doesn't know what I feel for the club. I take part in pre-match concentration just like the other players and I didn't have a holiday because I chose to play in the (Olympic) Games. When we won the gold, I ran to the airport so I could play in the (Recopa Sudamericana 2008) final." And adding, "These things should be kept in the dressing-room, he's broken all the codes of football." However, after Boca won the Superclásico derby match over Buenos Aires rivals River Plate 1–0 at El Monumental on 21 October 2008, Cáceres said that the conflict "has been left behind", adding that the relationship between the two players had improved.
Caceres scored his first goal for Boca Juniors in a 2–1 win against Lanus 30 August 2009.
Atletico Mineiro
In January 2010 Cáceres left Boca Juniors to join Atlético Mineiro of Brazil.
Return to Olimpia
On 14 January 2011 Cáceres returned to his first professional club Olimpia from Atletico Mineiro when he signed a two-year contract.
Second return to Olimpia
In July 2018, Caceres re-joined Olimpia at age 38 after five and a-half seasons with Guaraní, informing that he wanted to be champion with Olimpia and then retire.
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Caceres performed his training routine from home. In October 2020, at 41 years of age, Caceres commented that he wanted to retire during the Torneo Apertura but was unable to, and that he would retire at the end of the year.
Coaching career
In June 2021, Última Hora announced that Cáceres would become reserve-team coach at Olimpia Asunción.
International career
In 2000, Caceres represented Paraguay U23 at the 2000 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament.
Cáceres made his international debut in April 2002 against England. He currently has 30 caps and has scored four goals for Paraguay. He played in both the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. On 8 June 2005 he scored Paraguay's third goal as they beat Bolivia 4–1 at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción in a South American qualification match for the 2006 World Cup. In 2007, he played in the Copa América
He played in all seven matches for Paraguay of the first rounds in the South American qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Honours
Olimpia
Paraguayan Primera División (2): 1999, 2000
Copa Libertadores (1): 2002
Recopa Sudamericana (1): 2003
Boca Juniors
Recopa Sudamericana (1): 2008
Argentine Primera División (1): 2008 Apertura
Atlético Mineiro
Campeonato Mineiro (1): 2010
References
External links
Profile at footballdatabase.com
Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI
1979 births
Living people
Paraguayan footballers
Association football defenders
Paraguayan expatriate footballers
Club Olimpia footballers
Clube Atlético Mineiro players
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Brazil
Expatriate footballers in Mexico
La Liga players
Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers
Expatriate footballers in Spain
FC Nantes players
Ligue 1 players
Expatriate footballers in France
Tigres UANL footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Paraguay international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
2007 Copa América players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
Argentine Primera División players
Paraguayan football managers
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"Julio César Cáceres López (; born 5 October 1979 in San José de los Arroyos, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a defender.",
"He is the current manager of Olimpia.",
"Cáceres played in the Paraguayan national team for nearly 11 years, being part of the 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup squads.",
"Career\n\nOlimpia\nCáceres' first club was Primera División de Paraguay club, Olimpia, where he helped the club become Paraguayan champions twice.",
"1998\nOn 12 April 1998, Caceres debuted for Olimpia aged 18 in a 1–0 loss against Guaraní.",
"1999\nIn 1999, after winning the Apertura tournament, and finishing third in the Clausura tournament they were crowned champions with a 4–2 aggregate win over Cerro Porteño in the National championship game.",
"In the 1999 season, teammates in the Olimpia squad were Denis Caniza, Ruben Maldonado, Carlos Humberto Paredes, Gustavo Neffa, Roque Santa Cruz and Richart Baez.",
"2000\nIn 2000 they again won the Apertura tournament, and also won the Calusura tournament, thus were crowned champions.",
"2002\nHe was also part of the team that won the Copa Libertadores in 2002.",
"Cáceres played in both legs of the 2002 Copa Libertadores Final as Olimpia defeated Brazilian club São Caetano in July.",
"As Copa Libertadores winners, Olimpia faced Real Madrid in Yokohama in the 2002 Intercontinental Cup which they lost 2-0 as Caceres played an entire 90 minutes of the match.",
"2003\nCaceres was part of the Olimpia team which then won the Recopa Sudamericana in 2003.",
"2004\nOn 24 May 2004, Caceres played his last game for Olimpia.",
"Caceres had played in 91 league games, converting 6 goals.",
"He also played 32 games internationally for the club, which included matches in the Copa Libertadores, Copa Mercosur, the Intercontinental Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana.Caceres earned two Primera División Paraguaya league titles, one Copa Libertadores title and one Recopa Sudamericana title.",
"Nacional Asunción\nIn June 2004, Caceres briefly signed for Nacional Asunción prior to transferring to Nantes in France.",
"Nantes\nIn 2004, he signed for French Ligue 1 club Nantes.",
"Caceres initially joined Nantes on a one-year provisional transfer issued by FIFA, due to a dispute between Olimpia Asunción and Cáceres at the time of still being in the team roster at Nacional Asunción.",
"He made his league debut on 14 August 2004 in a 1–1 draw with Bastia.",
"However, he later suffered an injury and did not play for several months.",
"By the time he had recovered, Nantes had a new coach who did not play Cáceres.",
"Loan to Mineiro\ne was loaned to Brazilian Brasileirão club Atlético Mineiro for the 2005 season.",
"His league debut came on 11 September 2005, a 2–0 defeat to Botafogo.",
"He made fourteen league appearances, scoring two goals.",
"However, the club finished in 20th place and were relegated to Brasileiro Série B.",
"Loan to River Plate\nIn January 2006, he moved to Argentina, signing for River Plate on loan, where he quickly became a key player and squad captain.",
"He made his league debut in a 5–0 win at Tiro Federal on 29 January.",
"He was also a part of the River Plate team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 Copa Libertadores.",
"In July 2006, River Plate decided not to buy the transfer of Caceres and that he would be sold by his owner club, Nantes, to a Mexican club.",
"Loan to Gimnàstic\nLater in 2006 he spent two months in Spain, from October to December, with Catalan club Gimnàstic de Tarragona in La Liga where he made eleven league appearances.",
"UANL Tigres\nIn January 2007 Cáceres moved to Mexico when he was signed by Tigres, with whom he maintained a regular starting position.",
"He made his league debut in a 2–1 defeat at Tecos on 20 January 2007 and scored his first goal for the club on 3 March in a 3–2 win over Chiapas.",
"He made a total of 32 league appearances, scoring two goals.",
"Boca Juniors\nIn January 2008 he moved again to Argentina, signing for Boca Juniors.",
"He made his league debut on 10 February 2008 in a 1–1 draw with Rosario Central.",
"On 14 May he scored Boca's first goal as they were held to a 2–2 home draw by Mexican club Atlas in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores\n\nIn October 2008 Cáceres had a very public conflict with Boca teammate Juan Román Riquelme, when in an interview on a Paraguayan radio station in Asunción, where he was training with his national team, Cáceres questioned Riquelme's motivation.",
"He claimed that \"In some matches, he is apparently running and in others he is passive.",
"He seems to be mentally saturated.",
"He seems to have more motivation when he plays for his country.\"",
"However, Riquelme responded in a telephone interview on the Fox Sports cable channel, saying \"He doesn't know what I feel for the club.",
"I take part in pre-match concentration just like the other players and I didn't have a holiday because I chose to play in the (Olympic) Games.",
"When we won the gold, I ran to the airport so I could play in the (Recopa Sudamericana 2008) final.\"",
"And adding, \"These things should be kept in the dressing-room, he's broken all the codes of football.\"",
"However, after Boca won the Superclásico derby match over Buenos Aires rivals River Plate 1–0 at El Monumental on 21 October 2008, Cáceres said that the conflict \"has been left behind\", adding that the relationship between the two players had improved.",
"Caceres scored his first goal for Boca Juniors in a 2–1 win against Lanus 30 August 2009.",
"Atletico Mineiro\nIn January 2010 Cáceres left Boca Juniors to join Atlético Mineiro of Brazil.",
"Return to Olimpia\nOn 14 January 2011 Cáceres returned to his first professional club Olimpia from Atletico Mineiro when he signed a two-year contract.",
"Second return to Olimpia\nIn July 2018, Caceres re-joined Olimpia at age 38 after five and a-half seasons with Guaraní, informing that he wanted to be champion with Olimpia and then retire.",
"During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Caceres performed his training routine from home.",
"In October 2020, at 41 years of age, Caceres commented that he wanted to retire during the Torneo Apertura but was unable to, and that he would retire at the end of the year.",
"Coaching career\nIn June 2021, Última Hora announced that Cáceres would become reserve-team coach at Olimpia Asunción.",
"International career\nIn 2000, Caceres represented Paraguay U23 at the 2000 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament.",
"Cáceres made his international debut in April 2002 against England.",
"He currently has 30 caps and has scored four goals for Paraguay.",
"He played in both the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.",
"On 8 June 2005 he scored Paraguay's third goal as they beat Bolivia 4–1 at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción in a South American qualification match for the 2006 World Cup.",
"In 2007, he played in the Copa América\nHe played in all seven matches for Paraguay of the first rounds in the South American qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.",
"Honours\nOlimpia\nParaguayan Primera División (2): 1999, 2000\nCopa Libertadores (1): 2002\nRecopa Sudamericana (1): 2003\nBoca Juniors\nRecopa Sudamericana (1): 2008\nArgentine Primera División (1): 2008 Apertura\nAtlético Mineiro\nCampeonato Mineiro (1): 2010\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n \n \n Profile at footballdatabase.com\n Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI \n \n\n1979 births\nLiving people\nParaguayan footballers\nAssociation football defenders\nParaguayan expatriate footballers\nClub Olimpia footballers\nClube Atlético Mineiro players\nClub Atlético River Plate footballers\nExpatriate footballers in Argentina\nExpatriate footballers in Brazil\nExpatriate footballers in Mexico\nLa Liga players\nGimnàstic de Tarragona footballers\nExpatriate footballers in Spain\nFC Nantes players\nLigue 1 players\nExpatriate footballers in France\nTigres UANL footballers\nBoca Juniors footballers\nParaguay international footballers\n2002 FIFA World Cup players\n2006 FIFA World Cup players\n2007 Copa América players\n2010 FIFA World Cup players\nArgentine Primera División players\nParaguayan football managers\nClub Olimpia managers"
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"He is the manager.",
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"Olimpia Cceres' first club was the Primera Divisin de Paraguay club, which he helped to win two titles.",
"Caceres made his debut for Olimpia in a 1–0 loss against Guaran.",
"In 1999, after winning the Apertura tournament and finishing third in the Clausura tournament, they were crowned champions with a 4–2 aggregate win over Cerro Porteo in the National championship game.",
"Denis Caniza was one of the teammates in the 1999 Olimpia squad.",
"They won the Apertura tournament in 2000 and also won the Calusura tournament.",
"He was part of the team that won the Libertadores.",
"Olimpia defeated So Caetano in July of 2002 in the second leg of the Libertadores Final.",
"In the 2002 Intercontinental Cup, Olimpia faced Real Madrid in Yokohama and lost 2-0 as Caceres played an entire 90 minutes.",
"The Olimpia team won the Recopa Sudamericana in 2003 and Caceres was a part of it.",
"Caceres played his last game for Olimpia on May 24, 2004.",
"Caceres had 6 goals in league games.",
"He played 32 games internationally for the club, which included matches in the Intercontinental Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana.",
"Caceres briefly signed for Nacional Asuncin before moving to France.",
"He joined French club Nantes in 2004.",
"The dispute between Cceres and Asuncin at the time of still being in the team roster at Nacional Asuncin resulted in a one-year transfer from Nantes to Nacional Asuncin.",
"On August 14, 2004, he made his league debut.",
"He did not play for a while because of an injury.",
"He had a new coach who didn't play Cceres.",
"The Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro lent the player to them for the 2005 season.",
"On September 11, 2005, he made his league debut.",
"He scored two goals.",
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"He moved to Argentina in January 2006 to join River Plate, where he became a key player and squad captain.",
"He made his league debut in a win.",
"He was part of the River Plate team that made it to the quarter-finals of the 2006 Copa Libertadores.",
"River Plate decided not to buy the transfer of Caceres in July of 2006 and he was sold to a Mexican club.",
"He spent two months in Spain in October and December of 2006 with Gimnstic de Tarragona, making eleven league appearances.",
"Cceres moved to Mexico when he was signed by Tigres, and he kept his starting position.",
"He scored his first goal for the club in a 3–2 win over Chiapas after making his league debut in a 2–1 defeat at Tecos.",
"He scored two goals in 32 league appearances.",
"He moved to Argentina in January of 2008 to join Boca Juniors.",
"On February 10, 2008, he made his league debut.",
"On 14 May he scored Boca's first goal as they were held to a 2–2 home draw by Mexican club Atlas in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores.",
"He claimed that in some matches he is running and in others he is passive.",
"He seems to be overwhelmed.",
"He seems to have more motivation when he plays for his country.",
"Riquelme said in a telephone interview that he didn't know what he felt for the club.",
"I didn't have a holiday because I chose to play in the Olympics, but I take part in pre-match concentration just like the other players.",
"I ran to the airport to play in the final after we won the gold.",
"He's broken all the codes of football, so these things should be kept in the dressing-room.",
"Cceres said that the relationship between the two players had improved after Boca won the Superclsico derby match.",
"In a 2–1 win against Lanus, Caceres scored his first goal for Boca.",
"Cceres joined Atlético Mineiro of Brazil in January 2010.",
"After signing a two-year contract, Cceres returned to his first club, Olimpia.",
"After five and a half seasons with Guaran, Caceres decided to return to Olimpia at the age of 38 and retire.",
"Caceres did his training routine from home.",
"At the age of 41, Caceres stated that he would retire at the end of the year, even though he wanted to retire during the Apertura.",
"Cceres would become a reserve-team coach at Olimpia Asuncin in June 2021.",
"Caceres was a member of the Paraguay U23 at the 2000 CON MEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament.",
"In April 2002 he made his international debut.",
"He has played in 30 caps and scored four goals.",
"He played in the 2002 and 2006 World Cup.",
"On June 8, 2005, he scored the third goal for Asuncin in a South American qualification match for the 2006 World Cup.",
"He played in all seven matches in the first round of the South American qualification for the 2010 World Cup.",
"There were honours in 1999 and 2000 of the Argentine Primera Divisin."
] | <mask> (; born 5 October 1979 in San José de los Arroyos, Paraguay) is a Paraguayan football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Olimpia. <mask> played in the Paraguayan national team for nearly 11 years, being part of the 2002, 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup squads. Career
Olimpia
Cáceres' first club was Primera División de Paraguay club, Olimpia, where he helped the club become Paraguayan champions twice. 1998
On 12 April 1998, Caceres debuted for Olimpia aged 18 in a 1–0 loss against Guaraní. 1999
In 1999, after winning the Apertura tournament, and finishing third in the Clausura tournament they were crowned champions with a 4–2 aggregate win over Cerro Porteño in the National championship game. In the 1999 season, teammates in the Olimpia squad were Denis Caniza, Ruben Maldonado, Carlos Humberto Paredes, Gustavo Neffa, Roque Santa Cruz and Richart Baez.2000
In 2000 they again won the Apertura tournament, and also won the Calusura tournament, thus were crowned champions. 2002
He was also part of the team that won the Copa Libertadores in 2002. Cáceres played in both legs of the 2002 Copa Libertadores Final as Olimpia defeated Brazilian club São Caetano in July. As Copa Libertadores winners, Olimpia faced Real Madrid in Yokohama in the 2002 Intercontinental Cup which they lost 2-0 as Caceres played an entire 90 minutes of the match. 2003
Caceres was part of the Olimpia team which then won the Recopa Sudamericana in 2003. 2004
On 24 May 2004, Caceres played his last game for Olimpia. Caceres had played in 91 league games, converting 6 goals.He also played 32 games internationally for the club, which included matches in the Copa Libertadores, Copa Mercosur, the Intercontinental Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana.Caceres earned two Primera División Paraguaya league titles, one Copa Libertadores title and one Recopa Sudamericana title. Nacional Asunción
In June 2004, Caceres briefly signed for Nacional Asunción prior to transferring to Nantes in France. Nantes
In 2004, he signed for French Ligue 1 club Nantes. Caceres initially joined Nantes on a one-year provisional transfer issued by FIFA, due to a dispute between Olimpia Asunción and Cáceres at the time of still being in the team roster at Nacional Asunción. He made his league debut on 14 August 2004 in a 1–1 draw with Bastia. However, he later suffered an injury and did not play for several months. By the time he had recovered, Nantes had a new coach who did not play Cáceres.Loan to Mineiro
e was loaned to Brazilian Brasileirão club Atlético Mineiro for the 2005 season. His league debut came on 11 September 2005, a 2–0 defeat to Botafogo. He made fourteen league appearances, scoring two goals. However, the club finished in 20th place and were relegated to Brasileiro Série B. Loan to River Plate
In January 2006, he moved to Argentina, signing for River Plate on loan, where he quickly became a key player and squad captain. He made his league debut in a 5–0 win at Tiro Federal on 29 January. He was also a part of the River Plate team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2006 Copa Libertadores.In July 2006, River Plate decided not to buy the transfer of Caceres and that he would be sold by his owner club, Nantes, to a Mexican club. Loan to Gimnàstic
Later in 2006 he spent two months in Spain, from October to December, with Catalan club Gimnàstic de Tarragona in La Liga where he made eleven league appearances. UANL Tigres
In January 2007 Cáceres moved to Mexico when he was signed by Tigres, with whom he maintained a regular starting position. He made his league debut in a 2–1 defeat at Tecos on 20 January 2007 and scored his first goal for the club on 3 March in a 3–2 win over Chiapas. He made a total of 32 league appearances, scoring two goals. Boca Juniors
In January 2008 he moved again to Argentina, signing for Boca Juniors. He made his league debut on 10 February 2008 in a 1–1 draw with Rosario Central.On 14 May he scored Boca's first goal as they were held to a 2–2 home draw by Mexican club Atlas in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores
In October 2008 Cáceres had a very public conflict with Boca teammate Juan Román Riquelme, when in an interview on a Paraguayan radio station in Asunción, where he was training with his national team, Cáceres questioned Riquelme's motivation. He claimed that "In some matches, he is apparently running and in others he is passive. He seems to be mentally saturated. He seems to have more motivation when he plays for his country." However, Riquelme responded in a telephone interview on the Fox Sports cable channel, saying "He doesn't know what I feel for the club. I take part in pre-match concentration just like the other players and I didn't have a holiday because I chose to play in the (Olympic) Games. When we won the gold, I ran to the airport so I could play in the (Recopa Sudamericana 2008) final."And adding, "These things should be kept in the dressing-room, he's broken all the codes of football." However, after Boca won the Superclásico derby match over Buenos Aires rivals River Plate 1–0 at El Monumental on 21 October 2008, Cáceres said that the conflict "has been left behind", adding that the relationship between the two players had improved. Caceres scored his first goal for Boca Juniors in a 2–1 win against Lanus 30 August 2009. Atletico Mineiro
In January 2010 Cáceres left Boca Juniors to join Atlético Mineiro of Brazil. Return to Olimpia
On 14 January 2011 Cáceres returned to his first professional club Olimpia from Atletico Mineiro when he signed a two-year contract. Second return to Olimpia
In July 2018, Caceres re-joined Olimpia at age 38 after five and a-half seasons with Guaraní, informing that he wanted to be champion with Olimpia and then retire. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Caceres performed his training routine from home.In October 2020, at 41 years of age, Caceres commented that he wanted to retire during the Torneo Apertura but was unable to, and that he would retire at the end of the year. Coaching career
In June 2021, Última Hora announced that Cáceres would become reserve-team coach at Olimpia Asunción. International career
In 2000, Caceres represented Paraguay U23 at the 2000 CONMEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament. Cáceres made his international debut in April 2002 against England. He currently has 30 caps and has scored four goals for Paraguay. He played in both the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals and the 2006 FIFA World Cup. On 8 June 2005 he scored Paraguay's third goal as they beat Bolivia 4–1 at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción in a South American qualification match for the 2006 World Cup.In 2007, he played in the Copa América
He played in all seven matches for Paraguay of the first rounds in the South American qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Honours
Olimpia
Paraguayan Primera División (2): 1999, 2000
Copa Libertadores (1): 2002
Recopa Sudamericana (1): 2003
Boca Juniors
Recopa Sudamericana (1): 2008
Argentine Primera División (1): 2008 Apertura
Atlético Mineiro
Campeonato Mineiro (1): 2010
References
External links
Profile at footballdatabase.com
Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI
1979 births
Living people
Paraguayan footballers
Association football defenders
Paraguayan expatriate footballers
Club Olimpia footballers
Clube Atlético Mineiro players
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Brazil
Expatriate footballers in Mexico
La Liga players
Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers
Expatriate footballers in Spain
FC Nantes players
Ligue 1 players
Expatriate footballers in France
Tigres UANL footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Paraguay international footballers
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2006 FIFA World Cup players
2007 Copa América players
2010 FIFA World Cup players
Argentine Primera División players
Paraguayan football managers
Club Olimpia managers | [
"Julio César Cceres López",
"Cáceres"
] | A football manager and a former player, who played as a defender, is <mask>z. He is the manager. Cceres was a member of the 2002 World Cup squad, as well as the 2006 and 2010 teams. Olimpia Cceres' first club was the Primera Divisin de Paraguay club, which he helped to win two titles. Caceres made his debut for Olimpia in a 1–0 loss against Guaran. In 1999, after winning the Apertura tournament and finishing third in the Clausura tournament, they were crowned champions with a 4–2 aggregate win over Cerro Porteo in the National championship game. Denis Caniza was one of the teammates in the 1999 Olimpia squad.They won the Apertura tournament in 2000 and also won the Calusura tournament. He was part of the team that won the Libertadores. Olimpia defeated So Caetano in July of 2002 in the second leg of the Libertadores Final. In the 2002 Intercontinental Cup, Olimpia faced Real Madrid in Yokohama and lost 2-0 as Caceres played an entire 90 minutes. The Olimpia team won the Recopa Sudamericana in 2003 and Caceres was a part of it. Caceres played his last game for Olimpia on May 24, 2004. Caceres had 6 goals in league games.He played 32 games internationally for the club, which included matches in the Intercontinental Cup and the Recopa Sudamericana. Caceres briefly signed for Nacional Asuncin before moving to France. He joined French club Nantes in 2004. The dispute between Cceres and Asuncin at the time of still being in the team roster at Nacional Asuncin resulted in a one-year transfer from Nantes to Nacional Asuncin. On August 14, 2004, he made his league debut. He did not play for a while because of an injury. He had a new coach who didn't play Cceres.The Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro lent the player to them for the 2005 season. On September 11, 2005, he made his league debut. He scored two goals. The club finished in 20th place, savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay savesay He moved to Argentina in January 2006 to join River Plate, where he became a key player and squad captain. He made his league debut in a win. He was part of the River Plate team that made it to the quarter-finals of the 2006 Copa Libertadores.River Plate decided not to buy the transfer of Caceres in July of 2006 and he was sold to a Mexican club. He spent two months in Spain in October and December of 2006 with Gimnstic de Tarragona, making eleven league appearances. Cceres moved to Mexico when he was signed by Tigres, and he kept his starting position. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3–2 win over Chiapas after making his league debut in a 2–1 defeat at Tecos. He scored two goals in 32 league appearances. He moved to Argentina in January of 2008 to join Boca Juniors. On February 10, 2008, he made his league debut.On 14 May he scored Boca's first goal as they were held to a 2–2 home draw by Mexican club Atlas in the quarter-finals of the 2008 Copa Libertadores. He claimed that in some matches he is running and in others he is passive. He seems to be overwhelmed. He seems to have more motivation when he plays for his country. Riquelme said in a telephone interview that he didn't know what he felt for the club. I didn't have a holiday because I chose to play in the Olympics, but I take part in pre-match concentration just like the other players. I ran to the airport to play in the final after we won the gold.He's broken all the codes of football, so these things should be kept in the dressing-room. Cceres said that the relationship between the two players had improved after Boca won the Superclsico derby match. In a 2–1 win against Lanus, Caceres scored his first goal for Boca. Cceres joined Atlético Mineiro of Brazil in January 2010. After signing a two-year contract, Cceres returned to his first club, Olimpia. After five and a half seasons with Guaran, Caceres decided to return to Olimpia at the age of 38 and retire. Caceres did his training routine from home.At the age of 41, Caceres stated that he would retire at the end of the year, even though he wanted to retire during the Apertura. Cceres would become a reserve-team coach at Olimpia Asuncin in June 2021. Caceres was a member of the Paraguay U23 at the 2000 CON MEBOL Men Pre-Olympic Tournament. In April 2002 he made his international debut. He has played in 30 caps and scored four goals. He played in the 2002 and 2006 World Cup. On June 8, 2005, he scored the third goal for Asuncin in a South American qualification match for the 2006 World Cup.He played in all seven matches in the first round of the South American qualification for the 2010 World Cup. There were honours in 1999 and 2000 of the Argentine Primera Divisin. | [
"Julio César Cceres Lpe"
] |
41443036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther%20Morales | Esther Morales | Esther Morales Ayma de Willacarani (13 November 1949 – 16 August 2020) was a Bolivian grocer, small businessperson and public figure. In 2006, she was designated to the role of First Lady of Bolivia by her younger brother, then-President of Bolivia Evo Morales, who was unmarried.
Biography
Morales was born in Orinoca, Oruro Department, on 13 November 1949, to a family from the indigenous Aymara people. One of seven children born to Dionisio Morales Choque and María Ayma Mamani, only Esther and two of her siblings, Evo and Hugo, survived past childhood. She was originally supposed to named "Estefanía Morales", but her father decided to name her Esther at the last minute. (Likewise, her brother, Evo Morales, was supposed to be called "Evaristo" before their father changed his mind.)
Her family were farmers and Morales spent her youth farming and herding llamas. Esther Morales, who had to leave elementary school when she was just 8-years old, was also responsible for raising her younger brothers, including Evo, when their mother died. Later in life, then-President Evo Morales said that he viewed her as his own mother.
Esther Morales continued to work in agriculture into adulthood. She eventually moved to Oruro, Bolivia, where she sold groceries and llama meat from a small store located in her home. Morales married Ponciano Willcarani, a musician, with whom she had three children - Ademar, Marcelo, and Roger.
In December 2005, her brother, Evo Morales, was elected president of Bolivia. President Evo Morales was unmarried throughout his presidency and questions arose if Bolivia would have an acting first lady, or its equivalent. Shortly before his 2006 presidential inauguration, Morales pointedly told reporters that "la primera dama es Bolivia", ("the first lady is Bolivia"), when asked about the position during a visit to Chapare. Still, in January 2006, he announced that his older sister, Esther Morales, who was still working as a small scale grocer at the time, would assume the role of acting First Lady of Bolivia for official functions and protocol events.
Esther Morales, then 55-years old, appeared at her first event as Bolivia's first lady-designate on 21 January 2006, one day before her brother's inauguration, when she visited Tiwanaku, a historic Pre-Columbian indigenous site near Lake Titicaca. On 8 March 2006, Esther Morales closed her store in Oruro and traveled by bus to the Casa Grande del Pueblo in La Paz to attend a presidential ceremony honoring Bolivian women. She told reporters at the event, "They told me it's my first official function, although I haven't been confirmed as First Lady yet... I've been having to learn all the protocol. I don't think I'll ever wear make-up or high heels. They'll just have to take me as I am." She also spoke of wanting to meet U.S. President George W. Bush, a frequent critic of President Morales and his policies, "I don't think [President George] Bush likes us. But I would like to meet him... I want to help all the poor people who live in America too. I always thought everyone there was rich. But now I've heard that's not true."
Observers noted that the appointment of his sister to acting First Lady indicated that President Morales wanted to focus on the poor and Indigenous peoples in Bolivia. The Daily Telegraph wrote in March 2006 that, "Her elevation is a strong indication that her brother aims to define his period in power as the peasant presidency. Dona Esther is expected to represent the feminine side of his project, to become a mother figure to the poor."
Average Bolivians were quick to embrace Morales as the country's new first lady, though there was some resistance to Esther Morales' position from members of the Morales government and critics within the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. She dismissed this criticism saying, "They don't want me there watching for the ones who are corrupt." Esther Morales spoke of her excitement at the prospect of official travel to represent Bolivia abroad, though she admitted she had much to learn in-role. Speaking of a forthcoming official trip to South Korea, she explained, "I didn't know there was a North and South. I thought it was all one thing."
In the 2000s and 2010s, Esther Morales actively participated in official domestic and international events as acting first lady in support of her brother's government. She met with foreign dignitaries, traveled to South Korea, and represented Bolivia at a women's conference in the United Kingdom. Morales also spoke in favor of Bolivia's maritime claims to territory in neighboring Chile.
In January 2012, First Lady Morales met with members of the at the in Barcelona, Spain. (There were an estimated 55,000 Bolivians in Catalonia and 200,000 immigrants across Spain in 2012). In her speech at the Casa Amèrica Catalunya, Morales defended many of Evo Morales policies, saying, "The landowners and businessmen of Bolivia are upset with Evo because he works for the poor. Before, the Constitution of the country only spoke of the rich who have money and now it speaks of the poor." She also noted that it is mainly Bolivian women who had emigrated to Spain and other countries in search of work.
In 2013, President Evo Morales suddenly reversed his earlier decision and largely removed Esther Morales from her most public, high-profile roles. In the announcement, Morales directly contradicted earlier statements that he had appointed his sister as first lady and called the title of first lady "an insult to women". Morales argued that he did not want to favor his sister over other family members, including his daughter, Eva Liz Morales, who sometimes filled in for her aunt. President Morales admitted that his decision made his sister cry.
Despite the president's public reversal, Esther Morales continued to serve as the acting first lady (or its equivalent) for several years, though in a diminished captivity. Morales retired from public life during the later years of her brother's presidency.
During the November 2019 Bolivian political crisis, which resulted in the exile of President Evo Morales, demonstrators set fire to Esther Morales' small home and store in Oruro. Esther Morales also fled the country following her brother's resignation on 10 November 2019. She briefly stayed in Mexico before returning to Bolivia.
In August 2020, Morales began exhibiting symtoms of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia, including breathing difficulties. She had initially been treated in the emergency room of San Juan de Dios General Hospital, but was not admitted due to a shortage of beds in the intensive care unit. Relatives unsuccessfully tried to have her admitted to several private clinics and hospitals, but they reportedly could not reach them due to road blocks and political unrest in the region. On August 9, 2020, Morales, who suffered from pre-existing health conditions, was finally admitted to Oruro Corea Hospital's intensive care unit, a public hospital, for treatment of COVID-19, but her condition continued to deteriorate. She suffered from severe complications associated with coronavirus, including respiratory failure, renal failure, septic shock, and sepsis.
Esther Morales died from complications of COVID-19 on Sunday, 16 August 2020, at the Oruro hospital at the age of 70. She was survived by her husband, Ponciano Willcarani and their three sons, Ademar, Marcelo, and Roger. Morales was buried in her hometown of Orinoca.
References
Bibliography
1949 births
2020 deaths
First Ladies and Gentlemen of Bolivia
20th-century Bolivian businesspeople
Bolivian women in business
Bolivian people of Aymara descent
People from Oruro, Bolivia
People from Oruro Department
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia | [
"Esther Morales Ayma de Willacarani (13 November 1949 – 16 August 2020) was a Bolivian grocer, small businessperson and public figure.",
"In 2006, she was designated to the role of First Lady of Bolivia by her younger brother, then-President of Bolivia Evo Morales, who was unmarried.",
"Biography\nMorales was born in Orinoca, Oruro Department, on 13 November 1949, to a family from the indigenous Aymara people.",
"One of seven children born to Dionisio Morales Choque and María Ayma Mamani, only Esther and two of her siblings, Evo and Hugo, survived past childhood.",
"She was originally supposed to named \"Estefanía Morales\", but her father decided to name her Esther at the last minute.",
"(Likewise, her brother, Evo Morales, was supposed to be called \"Evaristo\" before their father changed his mind.)",
"Her family were farmers and Morales spent her youth farming and herding llamas.",
"Esther Morales, who had to leave elementary school when she was just 8-years old, was also responsible for raising her younger brothers, including Evo, when their mother died.",
"Later in life, then-President Evo Morales said that he viewed her as his own mother.",
"Esther Morales continued to work in agriculture into adulthood.",
"She eventually moved to Oruro, Bolivia, where she sold groceries and llama meat from a small store located in her home.",
"Morales married Ponciano Willcarani, a musician, with whom she had three children - Ademar, Marcelo, and Roger.",
"In December 2005, her brother, Evo Morales, was elected president of Bolivia.",
"President Evo Morales was unmarried throughout his presidency and questions arose if Bolivia would have an acting first lady, or its equivalent.",
"Shortly before his 2006 presidential inauguration, Morales pointedly told reporters that \"la primera dama es Bolivia\", (\"the first lady is Bolivia\"), when asked about the position during a visit to Chapare.",
"Still, in January 2006, he announced that his older sister, Esther Morales, who was still working as a small scale grocer at the time, would assume the role of acting First Lady of Bolivia for official functions and protocol events.",
"Esther Morales, then 55-years old, appeared at her first event as Bolivia's first lady-designate on 21 January 2006, one day before her brother's inauguration, when she visited Tiwanaku, a historic Pre-Columbian indigenous site near Lake Titicaca.",
"On 8 March 2006, Esther Morales closed her store in Oruro and traveled by bus to the Casa Grande del Pueblo in La Paz to attend a presidential ceremony honoring Bolivian women.",
"She told reporters at the event, \"They told me it's my first official function, although I haven't been confirmed as First Lady yet...",
"I've been having to learn all the protocol.",
"I don't think I'll ever wear make-up or high heels.",
"They'll just have to take me as I am.\"",
"She also spoke of wanting to meet U.S. President George W. Bush, a frequent critic of President Morales and his policies, \"I don't think [President George] Bush likes us.",
"But I would like to meet him...",
"I want to help all the poor people who live in America too.",
"I always thought everyone there was rich.",
"But now I've heard that's not true.\"",
"Observers noted that the appointment of his sister to acting First Lady indicated that President Morales wanted to focus on the poor and Indigenous peoples in Bolivia.",
"The Daily Telegraph wrote in March 2006 that, \"Her elevation is a strong indication that her brother aims to define his period in power as the peasant presidency.",
"Dona Esther is expected to represent the feminine side of his project, to become a mother figure to the poor.\"",
"Average Bolivians were quick to embrace Morales as the country's new first lady, though there was some resistance to Esther Morales' position from members of the Morales government and critics within the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) party.",
"She dismissed this criticism saying, \"They don't want me there watching for the ones who are corrupt.\"",
"Esther Morales spoke of her excitement at the prospect of official travel to represent Bolivia abroad, though she admitted she had much to learn in-role.",
"Speaking of a forthcoming official trip to South Korea, she explained, \"I didn't know there was a North and South.",
"I thought it was all one thing.\"",
"In the 2000s and 2010s, Esther Morales actively participated in official domestic and international events as acting first lady in support of her brother's government.",
"She met with foreign dignitaries, traveled to South Korea, and represented Bolivia at a women's conference in the United Kingdom.",
"Morales also spoke in favor of Bolivia's maritime claims to territory in neighboring Chile.",
"In January 2012, First Lady Morales met with members of the at the in Barcelona, Spain.",
"(There were an estimated 55,000 Bolivians in Catalonia and 200,000 immigrants across Spain in 2012).",
"In her speech at the Casa Amèrica Catalunya, Morales defended many of Evo Morales policies, saying, \"The landowners and businessmen of Bolivia are upset with Evo because he works for the poor.",
"Before, the Constitution of the country only spoke of the rich who have money and now it speaks of the poor.\"",
"She also noted that it is mainly Bolivian women who had emigrated to Spain and other countries in search of work.",
"In 2013, President Evo Morales suddenly reversed his earlier decision and largely removed Esther Morales from her most public, high-profile roles.",
"In the announcement, Morales directly contradicted earlier statements that he had appointed his sister as first lady and called the title of first lady \"an insult to women\".",
"Morales argued that he did not want to favor his sister over other family members, including his daughter, Eva Liz Morales, who sometimes filled in for her aunt.",
"President Morales admitted that his decision made his sister cry.",
"Despite the president's public reversal, Esther Morales continued to serve as the acting first lady (or its equivalent) for several years, though in a diminished captivity.",
"Morales retired from public life during the later years of her brother's presidency.",
"During the November 2019 Bolivian political crisis, which resulted in the exile of President Evo Morales, demonstrators set fire to Esther Morales' small home and store in Oruro.",
"Esther Morales also fled the country following her brother's resignation on 10 November 2019.",
"She briefly stayed in Mexico before returning to Bolivia.",
"In August 2020, Morales began exhibiting symtoms of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia, including breathing difficulties.",
"She had initially been treated in the emergency room of San Juan de Dios General Hospital, but was not admitted due to a shortage of beds in the intensive care unit.",
"Relatives unsuccessfully tried to have her admitted to several private clinics and hospitals, but they reportedly could not reach them due to road blocks and political unrest in the region.",
"On August 9, 2020, Morales, who suffered from pre-existing health conditions, was finally admitted to Oruro Corea Hospital's intensive care unit, a public hospital, for treatment of COVID-19, but her condition continued to deteriorate.",
"She suffered from severe complications associated with coronavirus, including respiratory failure, renal failure, septic shock, and sepsis.",
"Esther Morales died from complications of COVID-19 on Sunday, 16 August 2020, at the Oruro hospital at the age of 70.",
"She was survived by her husband, Ponciano Willcarani and their three sons, Ademar, Marcelo, and Roger.",
"Morales was buried in her hometown of Orinoca.",
"References\n\nBibliography\n \n \n \n \n\n1949 births\n2020 deaths\nFirst Ladies and Gentlemen of Bolivia\n20th-century Bolivian businesspeople\nBolivian women in business\nBolivian people of Aymara descent\nPeople from Oruro, Bolivia\nPeople from Oruro Department\nDeaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia"
] | [
"Esther Morales Ayma de Willacarani was a public figure.",
"She was designated to the role of First Lady in 2006 by her brother, who was unmarried.",
"On November 13, 1949, Morales was born to a family from the Aymara people.",
"Esther was one of the seven children who were born to Dionisio and Mara Ayma Mamani.",
"She was supposed to be named Estefana, but her father decided to call her Esther.",
"Her brother was supposed to be called \"Evaristo\" before their father changed his mind.",
"She spent her youth farming and herding llamas.",
"When their mother died, Esther was responsible for raising her younger brothers, including Evo.",
"The President said that he viewed her as his own mother.",
"Esther worked in agriculture into adulthood.",
"She sold groceries and llama meat from a small store in her home.",
"She had three children with Ponciano Willcarani, who was a musician.",
"The president of her brother's country was elected in 2005.",
"There were questions if there would be an acting first lady for the country after the president was unmarried.",
"When asked about the position of the first lady during a visit to Chapare, the president pointedly told reporters that \"la primera dama es Bolivia\".",
"In January 2006 he announced that his older sister, Esther, who was still working as a small scale Grocer, would assume the role of the First Lady of Bolivia for official functions and protocol events.",
"One day before her brother's inauguration, Esther Morales visited Tiwanaku, a historic Pre-Columbian indigenous site near Lake Titicaca.",
"Esther Morales closed her store in Oruro and traveled by bus to La Paz to attend a ceremony for women in the country.",
"She told reporters that she hadn't been confirmed as First Lady yet, but that it was her first official function.",
"I have been learning the protocol.",
"I don't think I'll ever wear high heels.",
"They will have to take me as I am.",
"She said she wanted to meet the U.S. President George W. Bush.",
"I would like to meet him.",
"I want to help the poor people in America.",
"Everyone there was rich.",
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<mask> was born in Orinoca, Oruro Department, on 13 November 1949, to a family from the indigenous Aymara people. One of seven children born to <mask> and María Ayma Mamani, only <mask> and two of her siblings, Evo and Hugo, survived past childhood. She was originally supposed to named "<mask>", but her father decided to name her <mask> at the last minute. (Likewise, her brother, <mask>, was supposed to be called "Evaristo" before their father changed his mind.) Her family were farmers and <mask> spent her youth farming and herding llamas.<mask>, who had to leave elementary school when she was just 8-years old, was also responsible for raising her younger brothers, including Evo, when their mother died. Later in life, then-President Evo <mask> said that he viewed her as his own mother. <mask> continued to work in agriculture into adulthood. She eventually moved to Oruro, Bolivia, where she sold groceries and llama meat from a small store located in her home. <mask> married Ponciano Willcarani, a musician, with whom she had three children - Ademar, Marcelo, and Roger. In December 2005, her brother, Evo <mask>, was elected president of Bolivia. President Evo <mask> was unmarried throughout his presidency and questions arose if Bolivia would have an acting first lady, or its equivalent.Shortly before his 2006 presidential inauguration, <mask> pointedly told reporters that "la primera dama es Bolivia", ("the first lady is Bolivia"), when asked about the position during a visit to Chapare. Still, in January 2006, he announced that his older sister, <mask>, who was still working as a small scale grocer at the time, would assume the role of acting First Lady of Bolivia for official functions and protocol events. <mask>, then 55-years old, appeared at her first event as Bolivia's first lady-designate on 21 January 2006, one day before her brother's inauguration, when she visited Tiwanaku, a historic Pre-Columbian indigenous site near Lake Titicaca. On 8 March 2006, <mask> closed her store in Oruro and traveled by bus to the Casa Grande del Pueblo in La Paz to attend a presidential ceremony honoring Bolivian women. She told reporters at the event, "They told me it's my first official function, although I haven't been confirmed as First Lady yet... I've been having to learn all the protocol. I don't think I'll ever wear make-up or high heels.They'll just have to take me as I am." She also spoke of wanting to meet U.S. President George W. Bush, a frequent critic of President <mask> and his policies, "I don't think [President George] Bush likes us. But I would like to meet him... I want to help all the poor people who live in America too. I always thought everyone there was rich. But now I've heard that's not true." Observers noted that the appointment of his sister to acting First Lady indicated that President <mask> wanted to focus on the poor and Indigenous peoples in Bolivia.The Daily Telegraph wrote in March 2006 that, "Her elevation is a strong indication that her brother aims to define his period in power as the peasant presidency. Dona <mask> is expected to represent the feminine side of his project, to become a mother figure to the poor." Average Bolivians were quick to embrace <mask> as the country's new first lady, though there was some resistance to <mask>' position from members of the <mask> government and critics within the ruling Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. She dismissed this criticism saying, "They don't want me there watching for the ones who are corrupt." <mask> spoke of her excitement at the prospect of official travel to represent Bolivia abroad, though she admitted she had much to learn in-role. Speaking of a forthcoming official trip to South Korea, she explained, "I didn't know there was a North and South. I thought it was all one thing."In the 2000s and 2010s, <mask> actively participated in official domestic and international events as acting first lady in support of her brother's government. She met with foreign dignitaries, traveled to South Korea, and represented Bolivia at a women's conference in the United Kingdom. <mask> also spoke in favor of Bolivia's maritime claims to territory in neighboring Chile. In January 2012, First Lady <mask> met with members of the at the in Barcelona, Spain. (There were an estimated 55,000 Bolivians in Catalonia and 200,000 immigrants across Spain in 2012). In her speech at the Casa Amèrica Catalunya, <mask> defended many of Evo <mask> policies, saying, "The landowners and businessmen of Bolivia are upset with Evo because he works for the poor. Before, the Constitution of the country only spoke of the rich who have money and now it speaks of the poor."She also noted that it is mainly Bolivian women who had emigrated to Spain and other countries in search of work. In 2013, President Evo <mask> suddenly reversed his earlier decision and largely removed <mask> from her most public, high-profile roles. In the announcement, <mask> directly contradicted earlier statements that he had appointed his sister as first lady and called the title of first lady "an insult to women". <mask> argued that he did not want to favor his sister over other family members, including his daughter, Eva Liz <mask>, who sometimes filled in for her aunt. President <mask> admitted that his decision made his sister cry. Despite the president's public reversal, <mask> continued to serve as the acting first lady (or its equivalent) for several years, though in a diminished captivity. <mask> retired from public life during the later years of her brother's presidency.During the November 2019 Bolivian political crisis, which resulted in the exile of President Evo <mask>, demonstrators set fire to <mask>' small home and store in Oruro. <mask> also fled the country following her brother's resignation on 10 November 2019. She briefly stayed in Mexico before returning to Bolivia. In August 2020, <mask> began exhibiting symtoms of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia, including breathing difficulties. She had initially been treated in the emergency room of San Juan de Dios General Hospital, but was not admitted due to a shortage of beds in the intensive care unit. Relatives unsuccessfully tried to have her admitted to several private clinics and hospitals, but they reportedly could not reach them due to road blocks and political unrest in the region. On August 9, 2020, <mask>, who suffered from pre-existing health conditions, was finally admitted to Oruro Corea Hospital's intensive care unit, a public hospital, for treatment of COVID-19, but her condition continued to deteriorate.She suffered from severe complications associated with coronavirus, including respiratory failure, renal failure, septic shock, and sepsis. <mask> died from complications of COVID-19 on Sunday, 16 August 2020, at the Oruro hospital at the age of 70. She was survived by her husband, Ponciano Willcarani and their three sons, Ademar, Marcelo, and Roger. <mask> was buried in her hometown of Orinoca. References
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There were questions if there would be an acting first lady for the country after the president was unmarried.When asked about the position of the first lady during a visit to Chapare, the president pointedly told reporters that "la primera dama es Bolivia". In January 2006 he announced that his older sister, <mask>, who was still working as a small scale Grocer, would assume the role of the First Lady of Bolivia for official functions and protocol events. One day before her brother's inauguration, <mask> visited Tiwanaku, a historic Pre-Columbian indigenous site near Lake Titicaca. <mask> closed her store in Oruro and traveled by bus to La Paz to attend a ceremony for women in the country. She told reporters that she hadn't been confirmed as First Lady yet, but that it was her first official function. I have been learning the protocol. I don't think I'll ever wear high heels.They will have to take me as I am. She said she wanted to meet the U.S. President George W. Bush. 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3511618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim%20Lapierre | Maxim Lapierre | Maxim Lapierre (born March 29, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. Drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), he was selected 61st overall in 2003 by the Montreal Canadiens. He spent parts of his first three professional seasons with the Canadiens' minor league affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL), before playing his first full NHL season in 2008–09.
Lapierre spent five-and-a-half seasons in the Canadiens organization before being traded to the Anaheim Ducks in December 2010. Two months later, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks and helped the team to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Boston Bruins. On July 5, 2013, Lapierre signed with the St. Louis Blues as a free agent. On January 27, 2015, Lapierre was traded from St. Louis to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Marcel Goc.
Early life
Lapierre was born in Saint-Leonard, Quebec and grew up in Repentigny, Quebec. Beginning to play hockey at age nine, Lapierre's midget team was based out of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec. One of his teammates, Jean-François Jacques, went on to play with him on the Hamilton Bulldogs, as well.
Playing career
Junior
QMJHL
During the 2001–02 season, Lapierre made his Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) debut with the Montreal Rocket, appearing in nine games, during which time he scored two goals. Playing in his first full QMJHL season in 2002–03, Lapierre scored 22 goals and 43 points over 72 games. He added four points in seven playoff games. Following his rookie year in the juniors, Lapierre was selected in the second round, 61st overall, of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. Following his draft, Lapierre was returned to junior hockey early in the Canadiens' 2003 training camp. Upon returning, his QMJHL club had relocated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to become the P.E.I. Rocket in 2003–04. Lapierre recorded a junior career-high 61 points over 67 games in his third season with the Rocket. Remaining in junior ranks for a fourth season in 2004–05, he recorded 52 points over 69 games.
Professional
Montreal Canadiens
In the off-season, he was signed by the Canadiens to a three-year, entry-level contract on July 28, 2005. Lapierre played his first professional season in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Canadiens' minor league affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs. He was called up to the NHL in November 2005 for a five-day stint, playing his first NHL game on November 15 against the Florida Panthers. He registered three minutes of ice time in 4–3 Canadiens win, his lone NHL game during the 2005–06 season. In the AHL, Lapierre recorded 13 goals and 36 points over 73 games with the Bulldogs.
During the 2006–07 season, Lapierre received four separate call-ups from Hamilton. Playing in the first game of a call-up in December, he registered his first career NHL point in a 4–3 win against the Boston Bruins, earning the first assist on the game-winning goal by Guillaume Latendresse on December 12, 2006. The following game, he scored his first NHL goal in a 4–2 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning, tipping a Mike Komisarek shot past goaltender Marc Denis. In late-January 2007, he received his last call-up of the campaign, remaining with the club until the end of the NHL regular season. Over 46 NHL games, he recorded six goals and six assists, while also tallying 24 points over 37 games in the AHL.
With Montreal not qualifying for the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs, Lapierre was sent back to the Bulldogs for their 2007 playoff season. Hamilton advanced to the Calder Cup Finals, where they defeated the Hershey Bears in five games. Lapierre scored a goal and an assist in Hamilton's 2–1 win in the championship-deciding game. He totaled 12 points (six goals and six assists) in 22 playoff games.
After competing for a Canadiens roster spot in the 2007 NHL pre-season, Lapierre was returned to the Bulldogs to start the 2007–08 season. On December 5, 2007, he was recalled to the Canadiens, earning a role as the club's third or fourth line centre. His time with the Canadiens increased as he spent 53 games in the NHL with seven goals and 18 points, while registering 14 points over 19 games in the AHL.
By the 2008–09 campaign, Lapierre had established himself as a full-time NHLer and earned a roster spot with the Canadiens out of training camp for the first time in his career. Just over a month into the season, he was elbowed in the head by opposing forward Jarkko Ruutu during a game against the Ottawa Senators on November 11, 2008. Lapierre was not injured on the play, while Ruutu received a two-game suspension for the infraction. The following month, Lapierre recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick (a goal, an assist and a fight) in a 6–2 win against the New York Rangers on December 4, 2008. Later that month, on December 29, 2008, Lapierre recorded his first career NHL hat-trick during a 5–2 win against the Florida Panthers. Lapierre had a career year in 2008–09, finishing with 15 goals and 13 assists for 28 points over 79 games. After going scoreless in four playoff games, as the Canadiens were eliminated in the first round by the Boston Bruins, it was revealed that Lapierre had played the majority of the season in pain with an ankle injury. He underwent surgery in the off-season, recovering in time for the 2009 training camp.
Lapierre's offensive production decreased to 14 points in 2009–10, his lowest total in the NHL since his rookie season. On March 5, 2010, Lapierre was suspended four games for a hit against opposing forward Scott Nichol during a game against the San Jose Sharks the previous day. Nichol left the game injured after Lapierre pushed him from behind, causing him to crash into the end boards. In addition to the suspension, Lapierre lost approximately $14,000 in pay, which went to the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA)'s emergency fund. In the 2010 playoffs, Lapierre helped the Canadiens advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, scoring goals in Game 6 of the first round against the Washington Capitals and the second round against the Pittsburgh Penguins, both elimination games. However, the Canadiens were eliminated in the third round by the Philadelphia Flyers; Lapierre finished the playoff season with three goals and one assist in 19 games.
Anaheim and Vancouver
On December 31, 2010, after five-and-a-half seasons playing within the Canadiens organization, Lapierre was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenceman Brett Festerling and a fifth-round draft pick in 2012. He made his Ducks debut on January 5, 2011, in a 4–1 loss to the Nashville Predators. The following game, he recorded his first point as a Duck, assisting on a goal by Matt Beleskey in a 6–0 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Lapierre played 21 games with the Ducks, recording three assists in that span, before being dealt again prior to the NHL trade deadline on February 28, 2011. He was sent to the Vancouver Canucks, along with forward MacGregor Sharp, in exchange for minor-league forward Joël Perrault and a third-round draft pick in 2012.
Canucks' head coach Alain Vigneault had reportedly recommended Lapierre to general manager Mike Gillis, having coached Lapierre in the QMJHL. Upon his arrival in Vancouver, Lapierre's reputation as an agitator was addressed by Vigneault and he was asked to reduce activity in between whistles, such as trash talking and unnecessary hits. Lapierre scored his first goal as a Canuck on March 16, 2011, in a 4–2 win against the Colorado Avalanche. While the Canucks originally acquired Lapierre with the intention of playing him on the fourth line, he soon moved up to the third with the injury of Manny Malhotra late in the season. Between Montreal, Anaheim and Vancouver, he finished the season with six goals and six assists over 78 games. Centring the third line with wingers Raffi Torres and Jannik Hansen during the 2011 playoffs, Lapierre added three goals and five points over 25 games. He helped Vancouver reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 17 years. During the Finals, Lapierre scored the only goal of Game 5 against the Boston Bruins, helping Vancouver to a 1–0 win. With a 3–2 lead in the series, the Canucks went on to lose the next two contests, losing the Stanley Cup in seven games. Set to become a restricted free agent in the off-season, Lapierre was re-signed by Vancouver to a two-year, $2 million contract on June 27, 2011.
St. Louis Blues
After the completion of his contract with Vancouver, Lapierre agreed to a two-year, $2.2 million contract with the St. Louis Blues. On October 15, 2013 against the San Jose Sharks, Lapierre checked Dan Boyle into the boards, hospitalizing him and causing a fight between the two teams; Lapierre was ejected from the game. He was subsequently suspended, and a disciplinary hearing was held. Lapierre was suspended for five games by NHL director of player safety Brendan Shanahan on October 18, 2013.
Pittsburgh Penguins
On January 27, 2015, Lapierre was traded from the Blues to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Marcel Goc. Lapierre played a key role during the 2015 playoffs, getting under the skin of the New York Rangers by drawing penalties, instigating fights, taunting and most notably doing play-by-play towards the Rangers' bench. He played an important role on the face-off dot and on the penalty kill, frustrating the New York Rangers and his former head coach in Vancouver, Alain Vigneault.
MODO
On September 1, 2015, Lapierre signed a one-year contract with Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League. The contract comes with an option for a second year. On January 20, 2016 Lapierre's asked for his contract to be terminated with Modo. After beginning the season with head coach Larry Hurras who was later relieved of his duties as Modo coach. Andreas Johansson the new coach brought in a system that was not favourable for Lapierre's style of play. Maxim Lapierre who was leading Modo in scoring posting 8G, 11A, 19P in 34 games asked for his contract to be formally terminated. Lapierre was the third NHL player to leave Modo during the 2015–16 season, both Ryan Whitney and Kyle Wilson left prior to Lapierre's departure as well.
HC Lugano
On January 25, 2016, he signed a contract with HC Lugano of the Swiss National League for the remainder of the season.
On July 28, 2016, Lapierre, with ambition to make a comeback to the NHL, signed a professional try-out with the New York Rangers. At the completion of training camp and pre-season, Lapierre was released without a contract offer on October 5. On October 9, 2016, HC Lugano announced that Lapierre would be re-joining the team for the remainder of the season. At the conclusion of the 2017 playoffs, the team exercised Lapierre's option on his contract for the 2017–18 season. On October 5, 2017, Lapierre agreed to a one-year contract extension with HC Lugano, valid through the 2018–19 season.
On December 5, 2018, Lapierre agreed to a two-year contract extension with Lugano through the 2020–21 season. On July 13, 2019, Lapierre and HC Lugano mutually agreed to part ways, despite a valid contract for the next two seasons.
Eisbären Berlin
Lapierre opted to remain in Europe, continuing his career on a two-year contract with German outfit Eisbären Berlin of the DEL on July 14, 2019. On December 6, 2020, Lapierre announced his retirement from professional ice hockey.
International play
Lapierre earned a spot on the Canadian national team in the 2018 Winter Olympics after successful playing in the 2017 Spengler Cup tournament. Lapierre scored his first career Olympic goal in Canada's 4–0 win over the South Korean national team. Lapierre won a bronze medal during these Olympics.
Playing style
Lapierre is known primarily as a checking forward, centring either the third or fourth line. He has a reputation as an agitator, distracting and provoking opposing players to take penalties. He plays with an aggressive edge and led all Canadiens forward in hits in his last full season with the club. Defensively responsible, he earns time on the penalty kill. In 2008–09, he ranked third on the Canadiens in average short-handed time on ice per game.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
External links
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Living people
Anaheim Ducks players
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Modo Hockey players
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Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
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"Lapierre spent five-and-a-half seasons in the Canadiens organization before being traded to the Anaheim Ducks in December 2010.",
"Two months later, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks and helped the team to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Boston Bruins.",
"On July 5, 2013, Lapierre signed with the St. Louis Blues as a free agent.",
"On January 27, 2015, Lapierre was traded from St. Louis to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Marcel Goc.",
"Early life\nLapierre was born in Saint-Leonard, Quebec and grew up in Repentigny, Quebec.",
"Beginning to play hockey at age nine, Lapierre's midget team was based out of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec.",
"One of his teammates, Jean-François Jacques, went on to play with him on the Hamilton Bulldogs, as well.",
"Playing career\n\nJunior\n\nQMJHL\nDuring the 2001–02 season, Lapierre made his Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) debut with the Montreal Rocket, appearing in nine games, during which time he scored two goals.",
"Playing in his first full QMJHL season in 2002–03, Lapierre scored 22 goals and 43 points over 72 games.",
"He added four points in seven playoff games.",
"Following his rookie year in the juniors, Lapierre was selected in the second round, 61st overall, of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens.",
"Following his draft, Lapierre was returned to junior hockey early in the Canadiens' 2003 training camp.",
"Upon returning, his QMJHL club had relocated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to become the P.E.I.",
"Rocket in 2003–04.",
"Lapierre recorded a junior career-high 61 points over 67 games in his third season with the Rocket.",
"Remaining in junior ranks for a fourth season in 2004–05, he recorded 52 points over 69 games.",
"Professional\n\nMontreal Canadiens\n\nIn the off-season, he was signed by the Canadiens to a three-year, entry-level contract on July 28, 2005.",
"Lapierre played his first professional season in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Canadiens' minor league affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs.",
"He was called up to the NHL in November 2005 for a five-day stint, playing his first NHL game on November 15 against the Florida Panthers.",
"He registered three minutes of ice time in 4–3 Canadiens win, his lone NHL game during the 2005–06 season.",
"In the AHL, Lapierre recorded 13 goals and 36 points over 73 games with the Bulldogs.",
"During the 2006–07 season, Lapierre received four separate call-ups from Hamilton.",
"Playing in the first game of a call-up in December, he registered his first career NHL point in a 4–3 win against the Boston Bruins, earning the first assist on the game-winning goal by Guillaume Latendresse on December 12, 2006.",
"The following game, he scored his first NHL goal in a 4–2 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning, tipping a Mike Komisarek shot past goaltender Marc Denis.",
"In late-January 2007, he received his last call-up of the campaign, remaining with the club until the end of the NHL regular season.",
"Over 46 NHL games, he recorded six goals and six assists, while also tallying 24 points over 37 games in the AHL.",
"With Montreal not qualifying for the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs, Lapierre was sent back to the Bulldogs for their 2007 playoff season.",
"Hamilton advanced to the Calder Cup Finals, where they defeated the Hershey Bears in five games.",
"Lapierre scored a goal and an assist in Hamilton's 2–1 win in the championship-deciding game.",
"He totaled 12 points (six goals and six assists) in 22 playoff games.",
"After competing for a Canadiens roster spot in the 2007 NHL pre-season, Lapierre was returned to the Bulldogs to start the 2007–08 season.",
"On December 5, 2007, he was recalled to the Canadiens, earning a role as the club's third or fourth line centre.",
"His time with the Canadiens increased as he spent 53 games in the NHL with seven goals and 18 points, while registering 14 points over 19 games in the AHL.",
"By the 2008–09 campaign, Lapierre had established himself as a full-time NHLer and earned a roster spot with the Canadiens out of training camp for the first time in his career.",
"Just over a month into the season, he was elbowed in the head by opposing forward Jarkko Ruutu during a game against the Ottawa Senators on November 11, 2008.",
"Lapierre was not injured on the play, while Ruutu received a two-game suspension for the infraction.",
"The following month, Lapierre recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick (a goal, an assist and a fight) in a 6–2 win against the New York Rangers on December 4, 2008.",
"Later that month, on December 29, 2008, Lapierre recorded his first career NHL hat-trick during a 5–2 win against the Florida Panthers.",
"Lapierre had a career year in 2008–09, finishing with 15 goals and 13 assists for 28 points over 79 games.",
"After going scoreless in four playoff games, as the Canadiens were eliminated in the first round by the Boston Bruins, it was revealed that Lapierre had played the majority of the season in pain with an ankle injury.",
"He underwent surgery in the off-season, recovering in time for the 2009 training camp.",
"Lapierre's offensive production decreased to 14 points in 2009–10, his lowest total in the NHL since his rookie season.",
"On March 5, 2010, Lapierre was suspended four games for a hit against opposing forward Scott Nichol during a game against the San Jose Sharks the previous day.",
"Nichol left the game injured after Lapierre pushed him from behind, causing him to crash into the end boards.",
"In addition to the suspension, Lapierre lost approximately $14,000 in pay, which went to the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA)'s emergency fund.",
"In the 2010 playoffs, Lapierre helped the Canadiens advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, scoring goals in Game 6 of the first round against the Washington Capitals and the second round against the Pittsburgh Penguins, both elimination games.",
"However, the Canadiens were eliminated in the third round by the Philadelphia Flyers; Lapierre finished the playoff season with three goals and one assist in 19 games.",
"Anaheim and Vancouver \nOn December 31, 2010, after five-and-a-half seasons playing within the Canadiens organization, Lapierre was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenceman Brett Festerling and a fifth-round draft pick in 2012.",
"He made his Ducks debut on January 5, 2011, in a 4–1 loss to the Nashville Predators.",
"The following game, he recorded his first point as a Duck, assisting on a goal by Matt Beleskey in a 6–0 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets.",
"Lapierre played 21 games with the Ducks, recording three assists in that span, before being dealt again prior to the NHL trade deadline on February 28, 2011.",
"He was sent to the Vancouver Canucks, along with forward MacGregor Sharp, in exchange for minor-league forward Joël Perrault and a third-round draft pick in 2012.",
"Canucks' head coach Alain Vigneault had reportedly recommended Lapierre to general manager Mike Gillis, having coached Lapierre in the QMJHL.",
"Upon his arrival in Vancouver, Lapierre's reputation as an agitator was addressed by Vigneault and he was asked to reduce activity in between whistles, such as trash talking and unnecessary hits.",
"Lapierre scored his first goal as a Canuck on March 16, 2011, in a 4–2 win against the Colorado Avalanche.",
"While the Canucks originally acquired Lapierre with the intention of playing him on the fourth line, he soon moved up to the third with the injury of Manny Malhotra late in the season.",
"Between Montreal, Anaheim and Vancouver, he finished the season with six goals and six assists over 78 games.",
"Centring the third line with wingers Raffi Torres and Jannik Hansen during the 2011 playoffs, Lapierre added three goals and five points over 25 games.",
"He helped Vancouver reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 17 years.",
"During the Finals, Lapierre scored the only goal of Game 5 against the Boston Bruins, helping Vancouver to a 1–0 win.",
"With a 3–2 lead in the series, the Canucks went on to lose the next two contests, losing the Stanley Cup in seven games.",
"Set to become a restricted free agent in the off-season, Lapierre was re-signed by Vancouver to a two-year, $2 million contract on June 27, 2011.",
"St. Louis Blues \nAfter the completion of his contract with Vancouver, Lapierre agreed to a two-year, $2.2 million contract with the St. Louis Blues.",
"On October 15, 2013 against the San Jose Sharks, Lapierre checked Dan Boyle into the boards, hospitalizing him and causing a fight between the two teams; Lapierre was ejected from the game.",
"He was subsequently suspended, and a disciplinary hearing was held.",
"Lapierre was suspended for five games by NHL director of player safety Brendan Shanahan on October 18, 2013.",
"Pittsburgh Penguins \nOn January 27, 2015, Lapierre was traded from the Blues to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Marcel Goc.",
"Lapierre played a key role during the 2015 playoffs, getting under the skin of the New York Rangers by drawing penalties, instigating fights, taunting and most notably doing play-by-play towards the Rangers' bench.",
"He played an important role on the face-off dot and on the penalty kill, frustrating the New York Rangers and his former head coach in Vancouver, Alain Vigneault.",
"MODO\nOn September 1, 2015, Lapierre signed a one-year contract with Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League.",
"The contract comes with an option for a second year.",
"On January 20, 2016 Lapierre's asked for his contract to be terminated with Modo.",
"After beginning the season with head coach Larry Hurras who was later relieved of his duties as Modo coach.",
"Andreas Johansson the new coach brought in a system that was not favourable for Lapierre's style of play.",
"Maxim Lapierre who was leading Modo in scoring posting 8G, 11A, 19P in 34 games asked for his contract to be formally terminated.",
"Lapierre was the third NHL player to leave Modo during the 2015–16 season, both Ryan Whitney and Kyle Wilson left prior to Lapierre's departure as well.",
"HC Lugano\nOn January 25, 2016, he signed a contract with HC Lugano of the Swiss National League for the remainder of the season.",
"On July 28, 2016, Lapierre, with ambition to make a comeback to the NHL, signed a professional try-out with the New York Rangers.",
"At the completion of training camp and pre-season, Lapierre was released without a contract offer on October 5.",
"On October 9, 2016, HC Lugano announced that Lapierre would be re-joining the team for the remainder of the season.",
"At the conclusion of the 2017 playoffs, the team exercised Lapierre's option on his contract for the 2017–18 season.",
"On October 5, 2017, Lapierre agreed to a one-year contract extension with HC Lugano, valid through the 2018–19 season.",
"On December 5, 2018, Lapierre agreed to a two-year contract extension with Lugano through the 2020–21 season.",
"On July 13, 2019, Lapierre and HC Lugano mutually agreed to part ways, despite a valid contract for the next two seasons.",
"Eisbären Berlin\nLapierre opted to remain in Europe, continuing his career on a two-year contract with German outfit Eisbären Berlin of the DEL on July 14, 2019.",
"On December 6, 2020, Lapierre announced his retirement from professional ice hockey.",
"International play\n\nLapierre earned a spot on the Canadian national team in the 2018 Winter Olympics after successful playing in the 2017 Spengler Cup tournament.",
"Lapierre scored his first career Olympic goal in Canada's 4–0 win over the South Korean national team.",
"Lapierre won a bronze medal during these Olympics.",
"Playing style\nLapierre is known primarily as a checking forward, centring either the third or fourth line.",
"He has a reputation as an agitator, distracting and provoking opposing players to take penalties.",
"He plays with an aggressive edge and led all Canadiens forward in hits in his last full season with the club.",
"Defensively responsible, he earns time on the penalty kill.",
"In 2008–09, he ranked third on the Canadiens in average short-handed time on ice per game.",
"Career statistics\n\nRegular season and playoffs\n\nInternational\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\n \n\n1985 births\nLiving people\nAnaheim Ducks players\nEisbären Berlin players\nCanadian ice hockey centres\nCanadian expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland\nCanadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden\nFrench Quebecers\nHamilton Bulldogs (AHL) players\nIce hockey people from Quebec\nHC Lugano players\nModo Hockey players\nMontreal Canadiens draft picks\nMontreal Canadiens players\nMontreal Rocket players\nOlympic ice hockey players of Canada\nIce hockey players at the 2018 Winter Olympics\nOlympic bronze medalists for Canada\nMedalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics\nOlympic medalists in ice hockey\nP.E.I.",
"Rocket players\nPeople from Repentigny, Quebec\nPeople from Saint-Leonard, Quebec\nPittsburgh Penguins players\nSt. Louis Blues players\nSportspeople from Montreal\nVancouver Canucks players"
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"Lapierre is a former professional ice hockey player.",
"He was drafted out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League by the Montreal Canadiens.",
"He played his first full NHL season in 2008–09 after spending parts of his first three professional seasons with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League.",
"After five-and-a-half seasons in the Montreal organization, Lapierre was traded to the Anaheim Ducks.",
"He helped the team to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost to the Boston Bruins.",
"Lapierre was a free agent when he signed with the Blues.",
"Lapierre was traded from St. Louis to Pittsburgh in exchange for Goc.",
"Lapierre was born in Saint-Leonard, Quebec and grew up in Repentigny, Quebec.",
"Lapierre's hockey team was based out of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec.",
"One of his teammates, Jean-Franois Jacques, went on to play with him in Hamilton.",
"Lapierre made his Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) debut with the Montreal Rocket in 2001 and scored two goals.",
"In 2002–03, Lapierre scored 22 goals and 43 points in 72 games.",
"He had four points in seven playoff games.",
"Lapierre was selected in the second round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens.",
"After his draft, Lapierre was returned to junior hockey.",
"The P.E.I. was established in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, after he returned.",
"There was a rocket in 2003–4.",
"In his third season with the Rocket, Lapierre recorded a career-high 61 points.",
"He scored 52 points in 69 games for the fourth season in a row.",
"He signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Montreal Canadiens on July 28, 2005.",
"In his first season in the American Hockey League, Lapierre played for the Hamilton Bulldogs.",
"He was called up to the NHL in November 2005 and played his first game on November 15.",
"He played in one NHL game during the 2005–06 season, recording three minutes of ice time in a 4–3 Montreal win.",
"Lapierre had 13 goals and 36 points in 73 games in the American Hockey League.",
"Lapierre received four call-ups from Hamilton.",
"In the first game of a call-up in December, he registered his first career NHL point in a 4–3 win against the Boston Bruins, earning the first assist on the game-winning goal by Guillaume Latendresse.",
"He scored his first NHL goal in a 4–2 win against the Lightning, tipping a Mike Komisarek shot past Denis.",
"He remained with the club until the end of the NHL regular season in January 2007, after receiving his last call-up.",
"He had six goals and six assists in 46 NHL games and 24 points in 37 games in the AHL.",
"The Montreal didn't make the playoffs in 2007, so Lapierre was sent back to the Dogs.",
"The Hershey Bears were defeated in five games by Hamilton.",
"In the championship-deciding game, Lapierre scored a goal and an assist.",
"He had six goals and six assists in the playoffs.",
"In the pre-season of the NHL, Lapierre competed for a spot on the Montreal roster.",
"He became the club's third or fourth line centre on December 5, 2007, when he was recalled.",
"He spent 53 games in the NHL with seven goals and 18 points and 19 games in the American Hockey League with 14 points.",
"By the 2008–09 campaign, Lapierre had established himself as a full-time NHLer and earned a roster spot with the Canadiens out of training camp for the first time in his career.",
"He was hit in the head by an opposing player during a game against the Senators in November of 2008.",
"Lapierre was not hurt on the play, but he received a two-game suspension for the infraction.",
"In the month of December 2008, Lapierre recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick in a 6–2 win against the New York Rangers.",
"On December 29, 2008, Lapierre recorded his first career NHL hat-trick in a 5–2 win against the Florida panthers.",
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"After the Habs were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, it was revealed that Lapierre had played the majority of the season with an ankle injury.",
"He had surgery in the off-season and was ready for the training camp.",
"Lapierre's offensive production decreased to 14 points in 2009, his lowest total since his first season in the NHL.",
"On March 5, 2010, Lapierre was suspended for four games for a hit against Scott Nichol in a game against the San Jose Sharks.",
"Nichol crashed into the end boards after Lapierre pushed him from behind.",
"In addition to the suspension, Lapierre lost approximately $14,000 in pay, which went to the National Hockey League Players Association's emergency fund.",
"In the 2010 playoffs, Lapierre helped the Habs advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, scoring goals in Game 6 of the first round against Washington and in the second round against Pittsburgh.",
"In the playoffs, Lapierre had three goals and one assist in 19 games.",
"On December 31, 2010, after five-and-a-half seasons playing within the Montreal organization, Lapierre was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenceman Brett Festerling and a fifth-round draft pick in 2012",
"He made his Anaheim debut in a 5–1 loss to the Nashville Preds.",
"He assisted on a goal by Matt Beleskey in a 6–0 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets, his first point as a Duck.",
"Lapierre was dealt to the Anaheim before the NHL trade deadline on February 28, 2011, after recording three assists in 21 games.",
"He was sent to theVancouverCanucks along with forward MacGregor Sharp in exchange for minor-league forward Jol Perrault and a third-round draft pick in 2012",
"Lapierre was recommended by the head coach to the general manager.",
"Lapierre was asked to reduce activity in between whistles, such as trash talking and unnecessary hits, after he was asked to address his reputation as an agitator.",
"On March 16, 2011, Lapierre scored his first goal as a Canuck in a 4–2 win against the Colorado Avalanche.",
"Lapierre moved up to the third line with the injury of Malhotra, who was supposed to be on the fourth line.",
"Over the course of 78 games, he had six goals and six assists.",
"Over the course of 25 games, Lapierre added three goals and five points.",
"He was part of the team that reached the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 17 years.",
"The only goal of the series was scored by Lapierre in the fifth game.",
"The Stanley Cup was won by the Boston Bruins in seven games after the Canucks lost the next two contests.",
"In the off-season, Lapierre was set to become a restricted free agent, but he was re-signed by the team to a two-year, $2 million contract.",
"Lapierre agreed to a two-year, $2.2 million contract with the St. Louis Blues.",
"Lapierre was ejected from the game against the San Jose Sharks in October of last year after checking Dan Boyle into the boards and causing a fight.",
"A hearing was held after he was suspended.",
"The NHL director of player safety suspended Lapierre for five games.",
"Lapierre was traded from the Blues to the Pens in exchange for Goc.",
"During the playoffs, Lapierre played a key role, getting under the skin of the New York Rangers by drawing penalties, instigating fights, taunting and doing play-by-play towards the Rangers' bench.",
"He played an important role on the face-off dot and on the penalty kill, frustrating the New York Rangers and his former head coach.",
"Lapierre signed a one-year contract with Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League.",
"There is an option for a second year on the contract.",
"Lapierre asked for his contract to be terminated.",
"Modo coach Larry Hurras was relieved of his duties after the season began.",
"The new coach brought in a system that was not in line with Lapierre's style of play.",
"In 34 games, Lapierre scored 8G, 11A, 19P and asked for his contract to be terminated.",
"Ryan Whitney and Kyle Wilson both left Modo prior to Lapierre's departure.",
"He signed a contract with the Swiss National League's Lugano for the rest of the season.",
"On July 28, 2016 Lapierre signed a professional try-out with the New York Rangers.",
"Lapierre was released without a contract offer on October 5.",
"Lapierre would be rejoining the team for the rest of the season.",
"The team exercised Lapierre's option on his contract after the playoffs.",
"Lapierre agreed to a one-year contract extension in October of last year.",
"Lapierre agreed to a two-year contract extension with Lugano.",
"Despite a valid contract for the next two seasons, Lapierre and HC Lugano mutually agreed to part ways.",
"Lapierre signed a two-year contract with German outfit Eisbren Berlin of the DEL on July 14, 2019.",
"Lapierre retired from ice hockey on December 6, 2020.",
"Lapierre earned a spot on the Canadian national team in the Winter Olympics after playing in the Spengler Cup tournament.",
"In Canada's 4–0 win over the South Korean national team, Lapierre scored his first career Olympic goal.",
"Lapierre won a bronze medal.",
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Lapierre was born in Saint-Leonard, Quebec and grew up in Repentigny, Quebec. Beginning to play hockey at age nine, Lapierre's midget team was based out of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec. One of his teammates, Jean-François Jacques, went on to play with him on the Hamilton Bulldogs, as well. Playing career
Junior
QMJHL
During the 2001–02 season, Lapierre made his Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) debut with the Montreal Rocket, appearing in nine games, during which time he scored two goals. Playing in his first full QMJHL season in 2002–03, Lapierre scored 22 goals and 43 points over 72 games. He added four points in seven playoff games. Following his rookie year in the juniors, Lapierre was selected in the second round, 61st overall, of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens.Following his draft, <mask> was returned to junior hockey early in the Canadiens' 2003 training camp. Upon returning, his QMJHL club had relocated to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, to become the P.E.I. Rocket in 2003–04. Lapierre recorded a junior career-high 61 points over 67 games in his third season with the Rocket. Remaining in junior ranks for a fourth season in 2004–05, he recorded 52 points over 69 games. Professional
Montreal Canadiens
In the off-season, he was signed by the Canadiens to a three-year, entry-level contract on July 28, 2005. Lapierre played his first professional season in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Canadiens' minor league affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs.He was called up to the NHL in November 2005 for a five-day stint, playing his first NHL game on November 15 against the Florida Panthers. He registered three minutes of ice time in 4–3 Canadiens win, his lone NHL game during the 2005–06 season. In the AHL, Lapierre recorded 13 goals and 36 points over 73 games with the Bulldogs. During the 2006–07 season, Lapierre received four separate call-ups from Hamilton. Playing in the first game of a call-up in December, he registered his first career NHL point in a 4–3 win against the Boston Bruins, earning the first assist on the game-winning goal by Guillaume Latendresse on December 12, 2006. The following game, he scored his first NHL goal in a 4–2 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning, tipping a Mike Komisarek shot past goaltender Marc Denis. In late-January 2007, he received his last call-up of the campaign, remaining with the club until the end of the NHL regular season.Over 46 NHL games, he recorded six goals and six assists, while also tallying 24 points over 37 games in the AHL. With Montreal not qualifying for the 2007 Stanley Cup playoffs, <mask> was sent back to the Bulldogs for their 2007 playoff season. Hamilton advanced to the Calder Cup Finals, where they defeated the Hershey Bears in five games. <mask> scored a goal and an assist in Hamilton's 2–1 win in the championship-deciding game. He totaled 12 points (six goals and six assists) in 22 playoff games. After competing for a Canadiens roster spot in the 2007 NHL pre-season, <mask> was returned to the Bulldogs to start the 2007–08 season. On December 5, 2007, he was recalled to the Canadiens, earning a role as the club's third or fourth line centre.His time with the Canadiens increased as he spent 53 games in the NHL with seven goals and 18 points, while registering 14 points over 19 games in the AHL. By the 2008–09 campaign, Lapierre had established himself as a full-time NHLer and earned a roster spot with the Canadiens out of training camp for the first time in his career. Just over a month into the season, he was elbowed in the head by opposing forward Jarkko Ruutu during a game against the Ottawa Senators on November 11, 2008. Lapierre was not injured on the play, while Ruutu received a two-game suspension for the infraction. The following month, Lapierre recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick (a goal, an assist and a fight) in a 6–2 win against the New York Rangers on December 4, 2008. Later that month, on December 29, 2008, Lapierre recorded his first career NHL hat-trick during a 5–2 win against the Florida Panthers. Lapierre had a career year in 2008–09, finishing with 15 goals and 13 assists for 28 points over 79 games.After going scoreless in four playoff games, as the Canadiens were eliminated in the first round by the Boston Bruins, it was revealed that <mask> had played the majority of the season in pain with an ankle injury. He underwent surgery in the off-season, recovering in time for the 2009 training camp. <mask>'s offensive production decreased to 14 points in 2009–10, his lowest total in the NHL since his rookie season. On March 5, 2010, <mask> was suspended four games for a hit against opposing forward Scott Nichol during a game against the San Jose Sharks the previous day. Nichol left the game injured after Lapierre pushed him from behind, causing him to crash into the end boards. In addition to the suspension, Lapierre lost approximately $14,000 in pay, which went to the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA)'s emergency fund. In the 2010 playoffs, Lapierre helped the Canadiens advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, scoring goals in Game 6 of the first round against the Washington Capitals and the second round against the Pittsburgh Penguins, both elimination games.However, the Canadiens were eliminated in the third round by the Philadelphia Flyers; Lapierre finished the playoff season with three goals and one assist in 19 games. Anaheim and Vancouver
On December 31, 2010, after five-and-a-half seasons playing within the Canadiens organization, <mask> was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenceman Brett Festerling and a fifth-round draft pick in 2012. He made his Ducks debut on January 5, 2011, in a 4–1 loss to the Nashville Predators. The following game, he recorded his first point as a Duck, assisting on a goal by Matt Beleskey in a 6–0 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Lapierre played 21 games with the Ducks, recording three assists in that span, before being dealt again prior to the NHL trade deadline on February 28, 2011. He was sent to the Vancouver Canucks, along with forward MacGregor Sharp, in exchange for minor-league forward Joël Perrault and a third-round draft pick in 2012. Canucks' head coach Alain Vigneault had reportedly recommended Lapierre to general manager Mike Gillis, having coached Lapierre in the QMJHL.Upon his arrival in Vancouver, <mask>'s reputation as an agitator was addressed by Vigneault and he was asked to reduce activity in between whistles, such as trash talking and unnecessary hits. Lapierre scored his first goal as a Canuck on March 16, 2011, in a 4–2 win against the Colorado Avalanche. While the Canucks originally acquired Lapierre with the intention of playing him on the fourth line, he soon moved up to the third with the injury of Manny Malhotra late in the season. Between Montreal, Anaheim and Vancouver, he finished the season with six goals and six assists over 78 games. Centring the third line with wingers Raffi Torres and Jannik Hansen during the 2011 playoffs, Lapierre added three goals and five points over 25 games. He helped Vancouver reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 17 years. During the Finals, Lapierre scored the only goal of Game 5 against the Boston Bruins, helping Vancouver to a 1–0 win.With a 3–2 lead in the series, the Canucks went on to lose the next two contests, losing the Stanley Cup in seven games. Set to become a restricted free agent in the off-season, Lapierre was re-signed by Vancouver to a two-year, $2 million contract on June 27, 2011. St. Louis Blues
After the completion of his contract with Vancouver, Lapierre agreed to a two-year, $2.2 million contract with the St. Louis Blues. On October 15, 2013 against the San Jose Sharks, Lapierre checked Dan Boyle into the boards, hospitalizing him and causing a fight between the two teams; Lapierre was ejected from the game. He was subsequently suspended, and a disciplinary hearing was held. Lapierre was suspended for five games by NHL director of player safety Brendan Shanahan on October 18, 2013. Pittsburgh Penguins
On January 27, 2015, Lapierre was traded from the Blues to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Marcel Goc.Lapierre played a key role during the 2015 playoffs, getting under the skin of the New York Rangers by drawing penalties, instigating fights, taunting and most notably doing play-by-play towards the Rangers' bench. He played an important role on the face-off dot and on the penalty kill, frustrating the New York Rangers and his former head coach in Vancouver, Alain Vigneault. MODO
On September 1, 2015, Lapierre signed a one-year contract with Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League. The contract comes with an option for a second year. On January 20, 2016 <mask>'s asked for his contract to be terminated with Modo. After beginning the season with head coach Larry Hurras who was later relieved of his duties as Modo coach. Andreas Johansson the new coach brought in a system that was not favourable for Lapierre's style of play.<mask> who was leading Modo in scoring posting 8G, 11A, 19P in 34 games asked for his contract to be formally terminated. <mask> was the third NHL player to leave Modo during the 2015–16 season, both Ryan Whitney and Kyle Wilson left prior to Lapierre's departure as well. HC Lugano
On January 25, 2016, he signed a contract with HC Lugano of the Swiss National League for the remainder of the season. On July 28, 2016, Lapierre, with ambition to make a comeback to the NHL, signed a professional try-out with the New York Rangers. At the completion of training camp and pre-season, Lapierre was released without a contract offer on October 5. On October 9, 2016, HC Lugano announced that Lapierre would be re-joining the team for the remainder of the season. At the conclusion of the 2017 playoffs, the team exercised Lapierre's option on his contract for the 2017–18 season.On October 5, 2017, Lapierre agreed to a one-year contract extension with HC Lugano, valid through the 2018–19 season. On December 5, 2018, Lapierre agreed to a two-year contract extension with Lugano through the 2020–21 season. On July 13, 2019, Lapierre and HC Lugano mutually agreed to part ways, despite a valid contract for the next two seasons. Eisbären Berlin
Lapierre opted to remain in Europe, continuing his career on a two-year contract with German outfit Eisbären Berlin of the DEL on July 14, 2019. On December 6, 2020, Lapierre announced his retirement from professional ice hockey. International play
Lapierre earned a spot on the Canadian national team in the 2018 Winter Olympics after successful playing in the 2017 Spengler Cup tournament. Lapierre scored his first career Olympic goal in Canada's 4–0 win over the South Korean national team.<mask> won a bronze medal during these Olympics. Playing style
<mask> is known primarily as a checking forward, centring either the third or fourth line. He has a reputation as an agitator, distracting and provoking opposing players to take penalties. He plays with an aggressive edge and led all Canadiens forward in hits in his last full season with the club. Defensively responsible, he earns time on the penalty kill. In 2008–09, he ranked third on the Canadiens in average short-handed time on ice per game. Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
References
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Living people
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Eisbären Berlin players
Canadian ice hockey centres
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Switzerland
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Sweden
French Quebecers
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In 2002–03, Lapierre scored 22 goals and 43 points in 72 games. He had four points in seven playoff games. Lapierre was selected in the second round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens.After his draft, <mask> was returned to junior hockey. The P.E.I. was established in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, after he returned. There was a rocket in 2003–4. In his third season with the Rocket, Lapierre recorded a career-high 61 points. He scored 52 points in 69 games for the fourth season in a row. He signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Montreal Canadiens on July 28, 2005. In his first season in the American Hockey League, Lapierre played for the Hamilton Bulldogs.He was called up to the NHL in November 2005 and played his first game on November 15. He played in one NHL game during the 2005–06 season, recording three minutes of ice time in a 4–3 Montreal win. <mask> had 13 goals and 36 points in 73 games in the American Hockey League. Lapierre received four call-ups from Hamilton. In the first game of a call-up in December, he registered his first career NHL point in a 4–3 win against the Boston Bruins, earning the first assist on the game-winning goal by Guillaume Latendresse. He scored his first NHL goal in a 4–2 win against the Lightning, tipping a Mike Komisarek shot past Denis. He remained with the club until the end of the NHL regular season in January 2007, after receiving his last call-up.He had six goals and six assists in 46 NHL games and 24 points in 37 games in the AHL. The Montreal didn't make the playoffs in 2007, so <mask> was sent back to the Dogs. The Hershey Bears were defeated in five games by Hamilton. In the championship-deciding game, Lapierre scored a goal and an assist. He had six goals and six assists in the playoffs. In the pre-season of the NHL, Lapierre competed for a spot on the Montreal roster. He became the club's third or fourth line centre on December 5, 2007, when he was recalled.He spent 53 games in the NHL with seven goals and 18 points and 19 games in the American Hockey League with 14 points. By the 2008–09 campaign, Lapierre had established himself as a full-time NHLer and earned a roster spot with the Canadiens out of training camp for the first time in his career. He was hit in the head by an opposing player during a game against the Senators in November of 2008. Lapierre was not hurt on the play, but he received a two-game suspension for the infraction. In the month of December 2008, <mask> recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick in a 6–2 win against the New York Rangers. On December 29, 2008, <mask> recorded his first career NHL hat-trick in a 5–2 win against the Florida panthers. 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He had surgery in the off-season and was ready for the training camp. <mask>'s offensive production decreased to 14 points in 2009, his lowest total since his first season in the NHL. On March 5, 2010, <mask> was suspended for four games for a hit against Scott Nichol in a game against the San Jose Sharks. Nichol crashed into the end boards after Lapierre pushed him from behind. In addition to the suspension, <mask> lost approximately $14,000 in pay, which went to the National Hockey League Players Association's emergency fund. In the 2010 playoffs, Lapierre helped the Habs advance to the Eastern Conference Semi-finals, scoring goals in Game 6 of the first round against Washington and in the second round against Pittsburgh.In the playoffs, Lapierre had three goals and one assist in 19 games. On December 31, 2010, after five-and-a-half seasons playing within the Montreal organization, <mask> was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenceman Brett Festerling and a fifth-round draft pick in 2012 He made his Anaheim debut in a 5–1 loss to the Nashville Preds. He assisted on a goal by Matt Beleskey in a 6–0 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets, his first point as a Duck. <mask> was dealt to the Anaheim before the NHL trade deadline on February 28, 2011, after recording three assists in 21 games. He was sent to theVancouverCanucks along with forward MacGregor Sharp in exchange for minor-league forward Jol Perrault and a third-round draft pick in 2012 Lapierre was recommended by the head coach to the general manager.<mask> was asked to reduce activity in between whistles, such as trash talking and unnecessary hits, after he was asked to address his reputation as an agitator. On March 16, 2011, <mask> scored his first goal as a Canuck in a 4–2 win against the Colorado Avalanche. <mask> moved up to the third line with the injury of Malhotra, who was supposed to be on the fourth line. Over the course of 78 games, he had six goals and six assists. Over the course of 25 games, Lapierre added three goals and five points. He was part of the team that reached the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time in 17 years. The only goal of the series was scored by Lapierre in the fifth game.The Stanley Cup was won by the Boston Bruins in seven games after the Canucks lost the next two contests. In the off-season, <mask> was set to become a restricted free agent, but he was re-signed by the team to a two-year, $2 million contract. <mask> agreed to a two-year, $2.2 million contract with the St. Louis Blues. <mask> was ejected from the game against the San Jose Sharks in October of last year after checking Dan Boyle into the boards and causing a fight. A hearing was held after he was suspended. The NHL director of player safety suspended <mask> for five games. <mask> was traded from the Blues to the Pens in exchange for Goc.During the playoffs, Lapierre played a key role, getting under the skin of the New York Rangers by drawing penalties, instigating fights, taunting and doing play-by-play towards the Rangers' bench. He played an important role on the face-off dot and on the penalty kill, frustrating the New York Rangers and his former head coach. Lapierre signed a one-year contract with Modo Hockey of the Swedish Hockey League. There is an option for a second year on the contract. Lapierre asked for his contract to be terminated. Modo coach Larry Hurras was relieved of his duties after the season began. The new coach brought in a system that was not in line with Lapierre's style of play.In 34 games, Lapierre scored 8G, 11A, 19P and asked for his contract to be terminated. Ryan Whitney and Kyle Wilson both left Modo prior to <mask>'s departure. He signed a contract with the Swiss National League's Lugano for the rest of the season. On July 28, 2016 Lapierre signed a professional try-out with the New York Rangers. <mask> was released without a contract offer on October 5. Lapierre would be rejoining the team for the rest of the season. The team exercised Lapierre's option on his contract after the playoffs.Lapierre agreed to a one-year contract extension in October of last year. Lapierre agreed to a two-year contract extension with Lugano. Despite a valid contract for the next two seasons, Lapierre and HC Lugano mutually agreed to part ways. Lapierre signed a two-year contract with German outfit Eisbren Berlin of the DEL on July 14, 2019. Lapierre retired from ice hockey on December 6, 2020. Lapierre earned a spot on the Canadian national team in the Winter Olympics after playing in the Spengler Cup tournament. 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45552124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riky%20Rick | Riky Rick | Rikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado (20 July 1987 23 February 2022), known professionally as Riky Rick, was an iconic South African rapper, producer, singer, songwriter, and fashion designer. He was also the Founder and Owner of record label Cotton Club Records Riky Rick was also a member of Boyz N Bucks.
Boss Zonke, King Kotini as he was fondly known, was one of SA’s most respected producers and musicians. He came into the limelight around 2009, 2010, when he dropped mixtapes such as The Comeback Kid and Last Summer with Da L.E.S. He then took a bit of a break and went on to release "Nafukwa" in 2014. He received positive reviews across South Africa, from industry pundits to fans alike. Hailed for the graphics and flow in the single, it also marked the beginning of a long time collaboration with fellow South African artist Cassper Nyovest. The song’s music video, released in 2014, won an MTV Africa Music Award for Video of the Year.
Life and career
19872014: Early life and early career
Rikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado was born on 20 July 1987. He was raised in KwaMashu township near Durban, Natal. His childhood friends described him as a creative individual who was entrepreneurial, kind and artistically gifted, even at a young age.
Makhado's music career actually began at a recording studio session with Bongani Fassie. It was by Fassie's side that Makhado was inspired to make his own music. That is when he released his first single "Barbershop" featuring Da L.E.S.
20152022: Family Values, Scooby Snacks EP
On 3 April 2015, his debut studio album Family Values was released and received positive reviews from music critics. It featured guest appearances from Cassper Nyovest, Okmalumkoolkat, Zano and Black Motion.The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) with sales of over 50 000 units. Its success saw him nominated for eight South African Hip-Hop Awards (SAHHAs) that year, more than any other artist. This is the only studio album by Riky Rick. It was released and made available for purchase on iTunes by Makhado Makhado Agency on 3 April 2015. On 24 April 2016, his single "Sondela", featuring Zano was released, which was dedicated to his beloved wife Bianca. On 28 October 2016, the smash hit "Boss Zonke" was released, which peaked at number 3 on the SA Hip Hop Top Ten List. The music video, released in February 2015, was shot in two different cities, Durban and Johannesburg. The video also featured several musicians including Durban-based duo Dreamteam, Stilo Magolide and kwaito star L’vovo. Boss Zonke cemented Makhado's status as a Hip Hop legend in the Southern African music landscape. Soon after, he released another classic in South African hip hop " Fuseg," which featured Cassper Nyovest and Anatii.
One of the most popular tracks on the tracklist "Amantombazane" led to the "Amantombazane (Remix)" which featured fellow South African recording artists OkMalumkoolKat, Maggz, Kwesta, Ginger Bread Man, Kid X, Nadia Nakai and DJ Dimplez. The Amantombazane remix is one of the best remixes ever released in South African hip-hop. The track was nominated for Remix of the Year at the 2015 South African Music Awards (Samas). In June 2016, his single "Sidlukotini" was released. “Sidlukotini” directly translates from Zulu into: “We are eating Cotton”. This song spoke to Riky Rick’s love for fashion. For Sidlukotini, he won Best Hit Single at the 2016 Metro FM Music Awards, an award ceremony that infamously saw him take to the stage and criticise the awards for being rigged before encouraging upcoming musicians to forget the radio and make their songs “pop on the internet”.
He left independent record label Mabala Noise shortly after the awards. Although many thought his career was doomed after this move, Riky kept the wheels rolling. Makhado then released the Scooby Snacks EP that features only one artist, Frank Casino. It includes the tracks "Oh Lord", "Bandz Over Fans" and "Family" (featuring Frank Casino). He followed up his growing body of work when he released "Buy It Out" on 15 September 2017. Just a year later he released a new EP, Stay Shining, through a licensing deal between his new label Cotton Club Records and Sony Music Entertainment Africa. In November 2018, he announced his first concert called "Cotton Fest", which he personally headlined on 2 February 2019. In an interview in 2019, Riky described the festival as being “... for us, by us, for the people, for everybody. It’s not about me, “It’s not a one-man show." Over the coming years, he’d maintain relevance through the odd single release and a host of impressive guest verses, most notably on AKA’s F.R.E.E, Mr JazziQ and Busta 929’s Vsop, Costa Titch’s Nkalakhatha, Big Zulu’s Mail Eningi, Frank Casino’s Whole Thing and in early February 2022, Venom and Shishiliza’s chart-topping single Sondela.
Personal life
In early 2010, Makhado met his beloved wife Bianca Naidoo in Sandton. She had a daughter, Jordan from a previous relationship. After close to three years of dating, the couple got married in 2013. About a year later, they welcomed their first child together, a son whom they named Maik Daniel.
Through all this, depression was always lingering. He shared his struggles in his music and in various interviews. In 2020, in an interview with rapper Yanga on his Lab Live YouTube series, Riky opened up about his suicidal past. After battling alcohol and drug addiction in his youth, he practiced sobriety after going through a difficult time.
Death and Legacy
Makhado tragically passed away on 23 February 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The cause of death was reported as suicide after he experienced a lengthy battle with depression.
His passing sent shock waves throughout South Africa,and globally. The outpouring of grief from celebrities and fans illustrated what a strong impact he had on South African culture. He will be remembered as a businessman, cultural icon, and creative artist who inspired many through his fashion, positive energy, and willingness to support young and upcoming artists.
Discography
Studio albums
EPs
Mixtapes
Comeback Kid (2011)
Fear The Hunter(With Trinity) (2018)
Awards and nominations
References
1987 births
2022 deaths
2022 suicides
South African male actors
South African rappers
South African hip hop musicians
Zulu people
People from KwaZulu-Natal
Alumni of Hilton College (South Africa)
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"Rikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado (20 July 1987 23 February 2022), known professionally as Riky Rick, was an iconic South African rapper, producer, singer, songwriter, and fashion designer.",
"He was also the Founder and Owner of record label Cotton Club Records Riky Rick was also a member of Boyz N Bucks.",
"Boss Zonke, King Kotini as he was fondly known, was one of SA’s most respected producers and musicians.",
"He came into the limelight around 2009, 2010, when he dropped mixtapes such as The Comeback Kid and Last Summer with Da L.E.S.",
"He then took a bit of a break and went on to release \"Nafukwa\" in 2014.",
"He received positive reviews across South Africa, from industry pundits to fans alike.",
"Hailed for the graphics and flow in the single, it also marked the beginning of a long time collaboration with fellow South African artist Cassper Nyovest.",
"The song’s music video, released in 2014, won an MTV Africa Music Award for Video of the Year.",
"Life and career\n\n19872014: Early life and early career\n\nRikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado was born on 20 July 1987.",
"He was raised in KwaMashu township near Durban, Natal.",
"His childhood friends described him as a creative individual who was entrepreneurial, kind and artistically gifted, even at a young age.",
"Makhado's music career actually began at a recording studio session with Bongani Fassie.",
"It was by Fassie's side that Makhado was inspired to make his own music.",
"That is when he released his first single \"Barbershop\" featuring Da L.E.S.",
"20152022: Family Values, Scooby Snacks EP\n\nOn 3 April 2015, his debut studio album Family Values was released and received positive reviews from music critics.",
"It featured guest appearances from Cassper Nyovest, Okmalumkoolkat, Zano and Black Motion.The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) with sales of over 50 000 units.",
"Its success saw him nominated for eight South African Hip-Hop Awards (SAHHAs) that year, more than any other artist.",
"This is the only studio album by Riky Rick.",
"It was released and made available for purchase on iTunes by Makhado Makhado Agency on 3 April 2015.",
"On 24 April 2016, his single \"Sondela\", featuring Zano was released, which was dedicated to his beloved wife Bianca.",
"On 28 October 2016, the smash hit \"Boss Zonke\" was released, which peaked at number 3 on the SA Hip Hop Top Ten List.",
"The music video, released in February 2015, was shot in two different cities, Durban and Johannesburg.",
"The video also featured several musicians including Durban-based duo Dreamteam, Stilo Magolide and kwaito star L’vovo.",
"Boss Zonke cemented Makhado's status as a Hip Hop legend in the Southern African music landscape.",
"Soon after, he released another classic in South African hip hop \" Fuseg,\" which featured Cassper Nyovest and Anatii.",
"One of the most popular tracks on the tracklist \"Amantombazane\" led to the \"Amantombazane (Remix)\" which featured fellow South African recording artists OkMalumkoolKat, Maggz, Kwesta, Ginger Bread Man, Kid X, Nadia Nakai and DJ Dimplez.",
"The Amantombazane remix is one of the best remixes ever released in South African hip-hop.",
"The track was nominated for Remix of the Year at the 2015 South African Music Awards (Samas).",
"In June 2016, his single \"Sidlukotini\" was released.",
"“Sidlukotini” directly translates from Zulu into: “We are eating Cotton”.",
"This song spoke to Riky Rick’s love for fashion.",
"For Sidlukotini, he won Best Hit Single at the 2016 Metro FM Music Awards, an award ceremony that infamously saw him take to the stage and criticise the awards for being rigged before encouraging upcoming musicians to forget the radio and make their songs “pop on the internet”.",
"He left independent record label Mabala Noise shortly after the awards.",
"Although many thought his career was doomed after this move, Riky kept the wheels rolling.",
"Makhado then released the Scooby Snacks EP that features only one artist, Frank Casino.",
"It includes the tracks \"Oh Lord\", \"Bandz Over Fans\" and \"Family\" (featuring Frank Casino).",
"He followed up his growing body of work when he released \"Buy It Out\" on 15 September 2017.",
"Just a year later he released a new EP, Stay Shining, through a licensing deal between his new label Cotton Club Records and Sony Music Entertainment Africa.",
"In November 2018, he announced his first concert called \"Cotton Fest\", which he personally headlined on 2 February 2019.",
"In an interview in 2019, Riky described the festival as being “... for us, by us, for the people, for everybody.",
"It’s not about me, “It’s not a one-man show.\"",
"Over the coming years, he’d maintain relevance through the odd single release and a host of impressive guest verses, most notably on AKA’s F.R.E.E, Mr JazziQ and Busta 929’s Vsop, Costa Titch’s Nkalakhatha, Big Zulu’s Mail Eningi, Frank Casino’s Whole Thing and in early February 2022, Venom and Shishiliza’s chart-topping single Sondela.",
"Personal life\n\nIn early 2010, Makhado met his beloved wife Bianca Naidoo in Sandton.",
"She had a daughter, Jordan from a previous relationship.",
"After close to three years of dating, the couple got married in 2013.",
"About a year later, they welcomed their first child together, a son whom they named Maik Daniel.",
"Through all this, depression was always lingering.",
"He shared his struggles in his music and in various interviews.",
"In 2020, in an interview with rapper Yanga on his Lab Live YouTube series, Riky opened up about his suicidal past.",
"After battling alcohol and drug addiction in his youth, he practiced sobriety after going through a difficult time.",
"Death and Legacy\nMakhado tragically passed away on 23 February 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa.",
"The cause of death was reported as suicide after he experienced a lengthy battle with depression.",
"His passing sent shock waves throughout South Africa,and globally.",
"The outpouring of grief from celebrities and fans illustrated what a strong impact he had on South African culture.",
"He will be remembered as a businessman, cultural icon, and creative artist who inspired many through his fashion, positive energy, and willingness to support young and upcoming artists.",
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"\"We are eating cotton\" is what \"Sidlukotini\" means.",
"Riky Rick was fond of fashion.",
"Sidlukotini won Best Hit Single at the 2016 Metro FM Music Awards, an award ceremony that saw him take to the stage and criticize the awards for being rigged before encouraging upcoming musicians to forget the radio and make their songs pop on the internet.",
"He left Mabala Noise after the awards.",
"Many thought Riky's career was over after this move, but he kept going.",
"Frank Casino is the only artist on the Scooby Snacks EP.",
"\"Oh Lord\", \"Bandz Over Fans\" and \"Family\" are included.",
"He released \"Buy It Out\" in September of last year.",
"Stay Shining was released through a licensing deal between his new label Cotton Club Records and Sony Music Entertainment Africa.",
"He announced his first concert, \"Cotton Fest\", in November of last year.",
"Riky described the festival as being for everyone.",
"It is not a one-man show.",
"He had an impressive guest verse on Costa Titch's Nkalakha and on Mr JazziQ's F.R.E.E.",
"Makhado and Bianca Naidoo were married in early 2010.",
"Jordan was from a previous relationship.",
"The couple got married after three years of dating.",
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19872014: Early life and early career
Rikhado Muziwendlovu Makhado was born on 20 July 1987. He was raised in KwaMashu township near Durban, Natal. His childhood friends described him as a creative individual who was entrepreneurial, kind and artistically gifted, even at a young age. Makhado's music career actually began at a recording studio session with Bongani Fassie. It was by Fassie's side that Makhado was inspired to make his own music. That is when he released his first single "Barbershop" featuring Da L.E.S.20152022: Family Values, Scooby Snacks EP
On 3 April 2015, his debut studio album Family Values was released and received positive reviews from music critics. It featured guest appearances from Cassper Nyovest, Okmalumkoolkat, Zano and Black Motion.The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) with sales of over 50 000 units. Its success saw him nominated for eight South African Hip-Hop Awards (SAHHAs) that year, more than any other artist. This is the only studio album by <mask> <mask>. It was released and made available for purchase on iTunes by Makhado Makhado Agency on 3 April 2015. On 24 April 2016, his single "Sondela", featuring Zano was released, which was dedicated to his beloved wife Bianca. On 28 October 2016, the smash hit "Boss Zonke" was released, which peaked at number 3 on the SA Hip Hop Top Ten List.The music video, released in February 2015, was shot in two different cities, Durban and Johannesburg. The video also featured several musicians including Durban-based duo Dreamteam, Stilo Magolide and kwaito star L’vovo. Boss Zonke cemented Makhado's status as a Hip Hop legend in the Southern African music landscape. Soon after, he released another classic in South African hip hop " Fuseg," which featured Cassper Nyovest and Anatii. One of the most popular tracks on the tracklist "Amantombazane" led to the "Amantombazane (Remix)" which featured fellow South African recording artists OkMalumkoolKat, Maggz, Kwesta, Ginger Bread Man, Kid X, Nadia Nakai and DJ Dimplez. The Amantombazane remix is one of the best remixes ever released in South African hip-hop. The track was nominated for Remix of the Year at the 2015 South African Music Awards (Samas).In June 2016, his single "Sidlukotini" was released. “Sidlukotini” directly translates from Zulu into: “We are eating Cotton”. This song spoke to <mask> <mask>’s love for fashion. For Sidlukotini, he won Best Hit Single at the 2016 Metro FM Music Awards, an award ceremony that infamously saw him take to the stage and criticise the awards for being rigged before encouraging upcoming musicians to forget the radio and make their songs “pop on the internet”. He left independent record label Mabala Noise shortly after the awards. Although many thought his career was doomed after this move, <mask> kept the wheels rolling. Makhado then released the Scooby Snacks EP that features only one artist, Frank Casino.It includes the tracks "Oh Lord", "Bandz Over Fans" and "Family" (featuring Frank Casino). He followed up his growing body of work when he released "Buy It Out" on 15 September 2017. Just a year later he released a new EP, Stay Shining, through a licensing deal between his new label Cotton Club Records and Sony Music Entertainment Africa. In November 2018, he announced his first concert called "Cotton Fest", which he personally headlined on 2 February 2019. In an interview in 2019, <mask> described the festival as being “... for us, by us, for the people, for everybody. It’s not about me, “It’s not a one-man show." Over the coming years, he’d maintain relevance through the odd single release and a host of impressive guest verses, most notably on AKA’s F.R.E.E, Mr JazziQ and Busta 929’s Vsop, Costa Titch’s Nkalakhatha, Big Zulu’s Mail Eningi, Frank Casino’s Whole Thing and in early February 2022, Venom and Shishiliza’s chart-topping single Sondela.Personal life
In early 2010, Makhado met his beloved wife Bianca Naidoo in Sandton. She had a daughter, Jordan from a previous relationship. After close to three years of dating, the couple got married in 2013. About a year later, they welcomed their first child together, a son whom they named Maik Daniel. Through all this, depression was always lingering. He shared his struggles in his music and in various interviews. In 2020, in an interview with rapper Yanga on his Lab Live YouTube series, <mask> opened up about his suicidal past.After battling alcohol and drug addiction in his youth, he practiced sobriety after going through a difficult time. Death and Legacy
Makhado tragically passed away on 23 February 2022 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The cause of death was reported as suicide after he experienced a lengthy battle with depression. His passing sent shock waves throughout South Africa,and globally. The outpouring of grief from celebrities and fans illustrated what a strong impact he had on South African culture. He will be remembered as a businessman, cultural icon, and creative artist who inspired many through his fashion, positive energy, and willingness to support young and upcoming artists. Discography
Studio albums
EPs
Mixtapes
Comeback Kid (2011)
Fear The Hunter(With Trinity) (2018)
Awards and nominations
References
1987 births
2022 deaths
2022 suicides
South African male actors
South African rappers
South African hip hop musicians
Zulu people
People from KwaZulu-Natal
Alumni of Hilton College (South Africa)
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She was born into slavery and her freedom was purchased in 1778 by Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, with whom she had a long liaison and ten children. She and her descendants established the historical community of Isle Brevelle of Créoles of color along the Cane River, including what is said to be the first church founded by free people of color for their own use, St. Augustine Parish (Isle Brevelle) Church, Natchez, Louisiana. The church is included as a notable site on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
Early life and family
The family was enslaved by the Louisiana French Natchitoches post's founder and commandant, Chevalier Louis Juchereau de St. Denis. She was born as Coincoin in 1742 in Natchitoches (later known as Narchitoches Parish). Her parents were François and Marie Françoise, she was the fourth of eleven children.
As children, Coincoin and her sister Marie Louise ditte were trained in pharmacology and nursing. By these skills the women earned a livelihood after gaining freedom through manumission as adults. Their other nine siblings would remain enslaved at various colonial posts from Natchitoches to Pensacola.
Slavery and freedom
When still young, Coincoin had five children. Some records show that Coincoin's first five children were of full African blood and others suggest they were partially Native American, fathered by Chatta. About 1765 her mistress granted Coincoin to live with the young French merchant, Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, Coincoin had gained the interest of Métoyer during his many visits to the St. Denis household.
The efforts of a parish priest to break up their union in 1778, by filing charges that threatened her being sold away to New Orleans, prompted Métoyer to buy and manumit her. Together they moved from the post, to outlying lands, where their liaison continued until 1788. As his mixed-race children matured and married, Métoyer manumitted the eldest five of the ten children whom he had held in slavery after he purchased Coincoin and their children.
Business activity
As a free woman, Coincoin exploited a variety of economic enterprises. She manufactured medicine, planted tobacco, and trapped wild bears and turkeys, which were sent to the local market and shipping peltry and oil along with indigo that she sourced from the bear skins to New Orleans along with her cured tobacco. She became a landowner and a taxpayer. As a pious Catholic, she volunteered labor for the upkeep of the parish church. Like many other freed slaves in colonial Louisiana, she eventually acquired slaves in order to protect them from others in the parish purchasing them. Most were related to Coincoin or close friends, she labored alongside of them until her own health began to fail.
Some accounts state that she held one small farmstead of 67 acres. Other accounts show her as the owner of a plantation empire of 12,000 acres and a hundred slaves.
Surviving records document her ownership of somewhat over one thousand acres.
The liberal land-grant policies of the Spanish Crown provided a stake for her first farmstead on the Grand Coast of Red River (now Cane River), about ten miles below the town. That small tract of 80 arpents (67 acres), alluvial river-bottom land adjacent to Metoyer's plantation, was conceded by the local commandant in January 1787 and patented by the Crown in May 1794. It is identified on modern land maps as sections 18 and 89 of Township 8 North, Range 6 West.
On the heels of that patent, Coincoin applied for a significantly larger concession — 800 arpents of piney woods on Old River to the west of her farm — a tract identified today as section 55, Township 8 North, Range 7 West, where she established a vacherie (cattle range) and hired a Spaniard to operate it for her. In 1807, she bought a third tract of already developed farm land (the northern portion of sections 34 and 98, T8 North, Range 6 West).
That third holding, adjacent to her homestead, provided a stake for a younger son who had come of age after the Louisiana Purchase, too late to benefit from the more-liberal land policies of the Spanish regime. Coincoin has been credited with the founding of Cane River's fabled Melrose Plantation. However, this land has been documented as a grant to her son, Louis Métoyer, who built most of the surviving plantation buildings prior to his death.
Coincoin lived frugally and served others, investing all her income into the purchase of freedom for the children from the slave marriage of her youth. By the time of her death, she had manumitted three of those children and three grandchildren. Another daughter and many grandchildren remained enslaved, as their owners refused to manumit or sell them.
Legacy
Coincoin's died in 1816 and her grave is no longer marked.
Her eldest son Augustin Metoyer donated land for a church at Isle Brevelle, Natchez, Louisiana. In 1829 he commissioned his brother Louis to build the structure, St. Augustine Parish Church. It is believed to be America's first church built by free people of color for their own use.
The Coincoin–Prudhomme House, or Maison De Marie Therese, a small Creole-style cottage constructed of bousillage and half-timber still stands on her original c.1780s–1816 farmstead, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 6, 1979. The house is now known as the, Maison de Marie Thérèse Coincoin Museum, and is located one mile northwest of Bermuda, the museum is privately owned and open for tours via appointment.
African origin
Tradition holds that Coincoin's African-born parents retained much of their culture, and some evidence supports that. No known document identifies the African birthplace of either parent. Coincoin and four of her siblings carried African names as dits. One Africanist historian proposed in the 1970s that the African Coincoin (spelled variously in transliterations by French and Spanish scribes) was the name used for "second-born daughters" among those Ewe of coastal Togo who speak the Glidzi dialect.
Historians Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills found evidence that Coincoin was the second-born daughter in her birth family. Other possible origins of the name Coincoin, together with the names of her siblings as discovered by Elizabeth Shown Mills, are being studied by Africanist Kevin C. MacDonald at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
In popular culture
German, Norman. No Other World (novel based on Coincoin), Thibodaux, LA: Blue Heron Press, 1992; reprint, 2000, 2011; .
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Isle of Canes, , is an historical novel that follows Coincoin and the Metoyers across four generations.
Notes
Sources
Burton, H. Sophie. "Marie Thérèze dit Coincoin: A Free Black Woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier." In Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s. Edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010, pp. 89–112.
MacDonald, Kevin C.; David W. Morgan; Fiona J.L. Handley; Aubra L. Lee; and Emma Morley. "The Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism." In A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present. New York: Routledge Cavendish, 2006. Chapter 13.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage, and Origins(Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of 'Oral History'”, National Genealogical Society Quarterly 96 (December 2008): 246–66. Archived online at Historic Pathways
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "Marie Therese Coincoin: 1742-1816", KnowLa Encyclopedia of Louisiana.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "Marie Thérèse Coincoin (1742–1816): Slave, Slave Owner, and Paradox." Chapter 1 in Janet Allured and Judy Gentry, ed. Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2009).
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "Which Marie Louise Is 'Mariotte'? Sorting Slaves with Common Names", National Genealogical Society Quarterly 94 (September 2006): pp. 183–204.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "A Reader's Guide to the Study of Cane River Creoles" (an annotated bibliography of major sources treating Marie Thérèse and her Metoyer offspring)
Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B. "Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers" (a four-generation genealogy of the offspring of François and Marie Françoise, focusing on the Metoyer line), National Genealogical Society Quarterly 70 (September 1982): pp. 163–89
Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B. "Missionaries Compromised: Early Evangelization of Slaves and Free People of Color in North Louisiana", Cross, Crozier, and Crucible. Glenn R. Conrad. ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Historical Association and Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1993, pp. 30–47.
Mills, Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color (revised edition), Louisiana State University Press, 2013; .
Mills, Gary B. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976; .
Mills, Gary B. "Coincoin: An Eighteenth-Century 'Liberated' Woman", in Journal of Southern History 42 (May 1976): 203–22. Reprinted in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in United States History. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1990; .
Mills, Gary B. "Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin", Dictionary of Louisiana Biography. Glenn R. Conrad, ed. 3 vols. New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Association, 1988. Vol. 1: 189–90.
Ringle, Ken. "Up through Slavery", The Washington Post, May 12, 2002.
"The Louisiana Metoyers: Melrose's Story of Land and Slaves", American Visions (June 2000); written by the American Visions staff from Mills and Mills, "Slaves and Masters", cited above.
References
External links
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Historic Pathways website - offers a cache of published studies and papers relating to the Cane River National Heritage Area, Natchitoches, and the local Créoles of color.
Cane River Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
1742 births
1816 deaths
People from Natchitoches, Louisiana
African-American history
Louisiana African American Heritage Trail
American planters
People of Colonial Spanish Louisiana
18th-century American businesspeople
19th-century American businesspeople
Catholics from Louisiana
American slave owners
19th-century American businesswomen
18th-century slaves
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"Marie Thérèse Coincoin, born as Coincoin (with no surname), also known as Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin, and Marie Thérèse Métoyer, (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches Parish).",
"She was born into slavery and her freedom was purchased in 1778 by Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, with whom she had a long liaison and ten children.",
"She and her descendants established the historical community of Isle Brevelle of Créoles of color along the Cane River, including what is said to be the first church founded by free people of color for their own use, St. Augustine Parish (Isle Brevelle) Church, Natchez, Louisiana.",
"The church is included as a notable site on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.",
"Early life and family\nThe family was enslaved by the Louisiana French Natchitoches post's founder and commandant, Chevalier Louis Juchereau de St. Denis.",
"She was born as Coincoin in 1742 in Natchitoches (later known as Narchitoches Parish).",
"Her parents were François and Marie Françoise, she was the fourth of eleven children.",
"As children, Coincoin and her sister Marie Louise ditte were trained in pharmacology and nursing.",
"By these skills the women earned a livelihood after gaining freedom through manumission as adults.",
"Their other nine siblings would remain enslaved at various colonial posts from Natchitoches to Pensacola.",
"Slavery and freedom\n\nWhen still young, Coincoin had five children.",
"Some records show that Coincoin's first five children were of full African blood and others suggest they were partially Native American, fathered by Chatta.",
"About 1765 her mistress granted Coincoin to live with the young French merchant, Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, Coincoin had gained the interest of Métoyer during his many visits to the St. Denis household.",
"The efforts of a parish priest to break up their union in 1778, by filing charges that threatened her being sold away to New Orleans, prompted Métoyer to buy and manumit her.",
"Together they moved from the post, to outlying lands, where their liaison continued until 1788.",
"As his mixed-race children matured and married, Métoyer manumitted the eldest five of the ten children whom he had held in slavery after he purchased Coincoin and their children.",
"Business activity\nAs a free woman, Coincoin exploited a variety of economic enterprises.",
"She manufactured medicine, planted tobacco, and trapped wild bears and turkeys, which were sent to the local market and shipping peltry and oil along with indigo that she sourced from the bear skins to New Orleans along with her cured tobacco.",
"She became a landowner and a taxpayer.",
"As a pious Catholic, she volunteered labor for the upkeep of the parish church.",
"Like many other freed slaves in colonial Louisiana, she eventually acquired slaves in order to protect them from others in the parish purchasing them.",
"Most were related to Coincoin or close friends, she labored alongside of them until her own health began to fail.",
"Some accounts state that she held one small farmstead of 67 acres.",
"Other accounts show her as the owner of a plantation empire of 12,000 acres and a hundred slaves.",
"Surviving records document her ownership of somewhat over one thousand acres.",
"The liberal land-grant policies of the Spanish Crown provided a stake for her first farmstead on the Grand Coast of Red River (now Cane River), about ten miles below the town.",
"That small tract of 80 arpents (67 acres), alluvial river-bottom land adjacent to Metoyer's plantation, was conceded by the local commandant in January 1787 and patented by the Crown in May 1794.",
"It is identified on modern land maps as sections 18 and 89 of Township 8 North, Range 6 West.",
"On the heels of that patent, Coincoin applied for a significantly larger concession — 800 arpents of piney woods on Old River to the west of her farm — a tract identified today as section 55, Township 8 North, Range 7 West, where she established a vacherie (cattle range) and hired a Spaniard to operate it for her.",
"In 1807, she bought a third tract of already developed farm land (the northern portion of sections 34 and 98, T8 North, Range 6 West).",
"That third holding, adjacent to her homestead, provided a stake for a younger son who had come of age after the Louisiana Purchase, too late to benefit from the more-liberal land policies of the Spanish regime.",
"Coincoin has been credited with the founding of Cane River's fabled Melrose Plantation.",
"However, this land has been documented as a grant to her son, Louis Métoyer, who built most of the surviving plantation buildings prior to his death.",
"Coincoin lived frugally and served others, investing all her income into the purchase of freedom for the children from the slave marriage of her youth.",
"By the time of her death, she had manumitted three of those children and three grandchildren.",
"Another daughter and many grandchildren remained enslaved, as their owners refused to manumit or sell them.",
"Legacy\nCoincoin's died in 1816 and her grave is no longer marked.",
"Her eldest son Augustin Metoyer donated land for a church at Isle Brevelle, Natchez, Louisiana.",
"In 1829 he commissioned his brother Louis to build the structure, St. Augustine Parish Church.",
"It is believed to be America's first church built by free people of color for their own use.",
"The Coincoin–Prudhomme House, or Maison De Marie Therese, a small Creole-style cottage constructed of bousillage and half-timber still stands on her original c.1780s–1816 farmstead, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 6, 1979.",
"The house is now known as the, Maison de Marie Thérèse Coincoin Museum, and is located one mile northwest of Bermuda, the museum is privately owned and open for tours via appointment.",
"African origin\nTradition holds that Coincoin's African-born parents retained much of their culture, and some evidence supports that.",
"No known document identifies the African birthplace of either parent.",
"Coincoin and four of her siblings carried African names as dits.",
"One Africanist historian proposed in the 1970s that the African Coincoin (spelled variously in transliterations by French and Spanish scribes) was the name used for \"second-born daughters\" among those Ewe of coastal Togo who speak the Glidzi dialect.",
"Historians Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills found evidence that Coincoin was the second-born daughter in her birth family.",
"Other possible origins of the name Coincoin, together with the names of her siblings as discovered by Elizabeth Shown Mills, are being studied by Africanist Kevin C. MacDonald at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London.",
"In popular culture\n German, Norman.",
"No Other World (novel based on Coincoin), Thibodaux, LA: Blue Heron Press, 1992; reprint, 2000, 2011; .",
"Mills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"Isle of Canes, , is an historical novel that follows Coincoin and the Metoyers across four generations.",
"Notes\n\nSources\nBurton, H. Sophie.",
"\"Marie Thérèze dit Coincoin: A Free Black Woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier.\"",
"In Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s.",
"Edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton.",
"Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010, pp.",
"89–112.",
"MacDonald, Kevin C.; David W. Morgan; Fiona J.L.",
"Handley; Aubra L. Lee; and Emma Morley.",
"\"The Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism.\"",
"In A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present.",
"New York: Routledge Cavendish, 2006.",
"Chapter 13.",
"Mills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"\"Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage, and Origins(Marie Thérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of 'Oral History'”, National Genealogical Society Quarterly 96 (December 2008): 246–66.",
"Archived online at Historic Pathways \nMills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"\"Marie Therese Coincoin: 1742-1816\", KnowLa Encyclopedia of Louisiana.",
"Mills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"\"Marie Thérèse Coincoin (1742–1816): Slave, Slave Owner, and Paradox.\"",
"Chapter 1 in Janet Allured and Judy Gentry, ed.",
"Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2009).",
"Mills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"\"Which Marie Louise Is 'Mariotte'?",
"Sorting Slaves with Common Names\", National Genealogical Society Quarterly 94 (September 2006): pp.",
"183–204.",
"Mills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"\"A Reader's Guide to the Study of Cane River Creoles\" (an annotated bibliography of major sources treating Marie Thérèse and her Metoyer offspring)\nMills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B.",
"\"Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers\" (a four-generation genealogy of the offspring of François and Marie Françoise, focusing on the Metoyer line), National Genealogical Society Quarterly 70 (September 1982): pp.",
"163–89 \nMills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B.",
"\"Missionaries Compromised: Early Evangelization of Slaves and Free People of Color in North Louisiana\", Cross, Crozier, and Crucible.",
"Glenn R. Conrad.",
"ed.",
"Baton Rouge: Louisiana Historical Association and Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1993, pp.",
"30–47.",
"Mills, Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills.",
"The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color (revised edition), Louisiana State University Press, 2013; .",
"Mills, Gary B.",
"The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color.",
"Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976; .",
"Mills, Gary B.",
"\"Coincoin: An Eighteenth-Century 'Liberated' Woman\", in Journal of Southern History 42 (May 1976): 203–22.",
"Reprinted in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in United States History.",
"Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1990; .",
"Mills, Gary B.",
"\"Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin\", Dictionary of Louisiana Biography.",
"Glenn R. Conrad, ed.",
"3 vols.",
"New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Association, 1988.",
"Vol.",
"1: 189–90.",
"Ringle, Ken.",
"\"Up through Slavery\", The Washington Post, May 12, 2002.",
"\"The Louisiana Metoyers: Melrose's Story of Land and Slaves\", American Visions (June 2000); written by the American Visions staff from Mills and Mills, \"Slaves and Masters\", cited above.",
"References\n\nExternal links\n Mills, Elizabeth Shown.",
"Historic Pathways website - offers a cache of published studies and papers relating to the Cane River National Heritage Area, Natchitoches, and the local Créoles of color.",
"Cane River Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection \n\n1742 births\n1816 deaths\nPeople from Natchitoches, Louisiana\nAfrican-American history\nLouisiana African American Heritage Trail\nAmerican planters\nPeople of Colonial Spanish Louisiana\n18th-century American businesspeople\n19th-century American businesspeople\nCatholics from Louisiana\nAmerican slave owners\n19th-century American businesswomen\n18th-century slaves\n19th-century American landowners\n18th-century American landowners\nAmerican women landowners\nAfrican-American Catholics\nAmerican people of Togolese descent\nAmerican people of Ewe descent\nAmerican people of Ghanaian descent\nPeople of Louisiana (New France)\nBlack slave owners in the United States"
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"She was born into slavery and her freedom was purchased by Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, with whom she had a long liaison and ten children.",
"She and her descendants established the historical community of Isle Brevelle of Créoles of color along the Cane River, which is said to be the first church founded by free people of color for their own use.",
"The church is on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.",
"The family was enslaved by the Louisiana French Natchitoches post's founder and commandant.",
"She was born in Natchitoches in 1742.",
"She was the fourth child of Franois and Marie Franoise.",
"Marie Louise ditte was trained in nursing and pharmacology when she was a child.",
"After gaining freedom through manumission, the women earned a livelihood through these skills.",
"The other nine siblings were kept enslaved at various colonial posts.",
"When coin was young, it had five children.",
"Some records show that the first five children were of full African blood, while others show they were partially Native American.",
"During his many visits to the St. Denis household, Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer became interested in Coincoin.",
"The efforts of a parish priest to break up their union led to Métoyer buying her.",
"They moved from the post to the outlying lands.",
"As his mixed-race children matured and married, Métoyer manumitted the eldest five of the ten children whom he had held in slavery.",
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"She volunteered for the upkeep of the church.",
"She acquired slaves in order to protect them from other people buying them.",
"She worked alongside them until her own health began to fail.",
"According to some accounts, she held a small farmstead of 67 acres.",
"She owned a plantation empire of 12,000 acres and a hundred slaves.",
"Her ownership of over one thousand acres is documented in surviving records.",
"The first farmstead on the Grand Coast of Red River was given a stake by the Spanish Crown because of their liberal land-grant policies.",
"The local commandant conceded the small tract of 80 arpents in January 1787 and it was patented by the Crown in May 1794.",
"Modern land maps show sections 18 and 89 of Township 8 North, Range 6 West.",
"A tract identified today as section 55, Township 8 North, Range 7 West, is where she established a vacherie after applying for a larger concession.",
"She bought a third tract of farm land in 1807.",
"A younger son who had come of age after the Louisiana Purchase, too late to benefit from the more liberal land policies of the Spanish regime, was given a stake in that third holding.",
"Cane River's fabled Melrose Plantation was founded by coin coin.",
"The land was given to her son, Louis Métoyer, who built most of the surviving plantation buildings.",
"She invested all of her income into the purchase of freedom for the children from the slave marriage of her youth.",
"By the time of her death, she had three children and three grandchildren.",
"As their owners refused to manumit or sell them, another daughter and many grandchildren remained enslaved.",
"Her grave is no longer marked after 1816.",
"Augustin Metoyer donated land for a church.",
"Louis was commissioned by his brother to build the church.",
"It is thought to be America's first church built by free people of color.",
"The National Register of Historic Places has listed the Maison De Marie Therese as a historic place since December 6, 1979.",
"The museum is privately owned and open for tours, and is located one mile northwest of Bermuda.",
"Evidence supports the idea that the parents of Coincoin retained much of their culture.",
"The African birthplace of either parent is not known.",
"Four of her siblings had African names.",
"One Africanist historian proposed in the 1970s that the name African coin was used for \"second-born daughters\" among those Ewe of coastal Togo who speak the Glidzi dialect.",
"Historians Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills were able to prove that coin was the second child in her family.",
"Kevin C. MacDonald is an Africanist at the University College London's Institute of Archaeology.",
"In popular culture, Norman.",
"No Other World was published in 1992 by Blue Heron Press in Thibodaux, LA.",
"Elizabeth Mills.",
"Isle of Canes is a historical novel about the Metoyers and their descendants.",
"The sources are Burton and H. Sophie.",
"\"Marie Thérze is a free black woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier.\"",
"Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands is a book.",
"Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L.",
"University Press of Florida, 2010, pp.",
"8/12/12",
"MacDonald, Kevin C.; Morgan, David W.",
"Handley, Lee, and Morley are related.",
"Local myths and heritage tourism are Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism.",
"The past in the present is the topic of In A Future for Archaeology.",
"New York: Cavendish.",
"Chapter 13.",
"Elizabeth Mills.",
"\"Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage, and Origin\" is a test of oral history.",
"There is a history at Historic Pathways Mills.",
"KnowLa Encyclopedia of Louisiana has \"Marie Therese Coincoin: 1742-1816\".",
"Elizabeth Mills.",
"\"Marie Thérse coin coin was about slaves, owners and paradoxes.\"",
"Chapter 1 was written by Janet Allured and Judy Gentry.",
"The University of Georgia Press published Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times.",
"Elizabeth Mills.",
"Which Marie Louise Is 'Mariotte'?",
"The National Genealogical Society Quarterly 94 was about sorting slaves with common names.",
"183–4.",
"Elizabeth Mills.",
"\"A Reader's Guide to the Study of Cane River Creoles\" was written by Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B.",
"\"Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers\" is a four-generation genealogy of the offspring of Franois and Marie Franoise.",
"Gary B., Elizabeth Shown and Mills.",
"\"Missionaries Compromised: Early Evangelization of Slaves and Free People of Color in North Louisiana\"",
"Glenn R. Conrad.",
"ed.",
"The Louisiana Historical Association and Archdiocese of New Orleans were published in 1993.",
"30–47.",
"Mills, Gary B.",
"Louisiana State University Press published The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color.",
"Gary B. Mills.",
"Cane River's Creoles of Color are the forgotten people.",
"Louisiana State University Press was published in 1976.",
"Gary B. Mills.",
"\"An Eighteenth-Century 'Liberated' Woman', in Journal of Southern History 42, was published in 1976.",
"The book is called Black Women in United States History.",
"Carlson Publishing was in Brooklyn in 1990.",
"Gary B. Mills.",
"Dictionary of Louisiana Biography has \"Marie Thérse dite coincoin\".",
"Glenn R. Conrad was the author.",
"3 volumes.",
"The Louisiana Historical Association was in New Orleans.",
"There is a new edition of Vol.",
"1: 189–90",
"Ken Ringle.",
"The Washington Post wrote \"Up through Slavery\".",
"\"The Louisiana Metoyers: Melrose's Story of Land and Slaves\" was written by the American Visions staff from Mills and Mills.",
"External links Mills and Elizabeth shown.",
"There are published studies and papers about the Cane River National Heritage Area.",
"People from Natchitoches, Louisiana are from the Cane River Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection."
] | <mask>, born as Coincoin (with no surname), also known as <mask>hérèse dite Coincoin, and <mask>, (August 1742 – 1816) was a planter, slave owner, and businesswoman at the colonial Louisiana outpost of Natchitoches (later known as Natchitoches Parish). She was born into slavery and her freedom was purchased in 1778 by Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, with whom she had a long liaison and ten children. She and her descendants established the historical community of Isle Brevelle of Créoles of color along the Cane River, including what is said to be the first church founded by free people of color for their own use, St. Augustine Parish (Isle Brevelle) Church, Natchez, Louisiana. The church is included as a notable site on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. Early life and family
The family was enslaved by the Louisiana French Natchitoches post's founder and commandant, Chevalier Louis Juchereau de St. Denis. She was born as Coincoin in 1742 in Natchitoches (later known as Narchitoches Parish). Her parents were François and <mask>, she was the fourth of eleven children.As children, Coincoin and her sister <mask> ditte were trained in pharmacology and nursing. By these skills the women earned a livelihood after gaining freedom through manumission as adults. Their other nine siblings would remain enslaved at various colonial posts from Natchitoches to Pensacola. Slavery and freedom
When still young, Coincoin had five children. Some records show that Coincoin's first five children were of full African blood and others suggest they were partially Native American, fathered by Chatta. About 1765 her mistress granted Coincoin to live with the young French merchant, Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer, Coincoin had gained the interest of Métoyer during his many visits to the St. Denis household. The efforts of a parish priest to break up their union in 1778, by filing charges that threatened her being sold away to New Orleans, prompted Métoyer to buy and manumit her.Together they moved from the post, to outlying lands, where their liaison continued until 1788. As his mixed-race children matured and married, Métoyer manumitted the eldest five of the ten children whom he had held in slavery after he purchased Coincoin and their children. Business activity
As a free woman, Coincoin exploited a variety of economic enterprises. She manufactured medicine, planted tobacco, and trapped wild bears and turkeys, which were sent to the local market and shipping peltry and oil along with indigo that she sourced from the bear skins to New Orleans along with her cured tobacco. She became a landowner and a taxpayer. As a pious Catholic, she volunteered labor for the upkeep of the parish church. Like many other freed slaves in colonial Louisiana, she eventually acquired slaves in order to protect them from others in the parish purchasing them.Most were related to Coincoin or close friends, she labored alongside of them until her own health began to fail. Some accounts state that she held one small farmstead of 67 acres. Other accounts show her as the owner of a plantation empire of 12,000 acres and a hundred slaves. Surviving records document her ownership of somewhat over one thousand acres. The liberal land-grant policies of the Spanish Crown provided a stake for her first farmstead on the Grand Coast of Red River (now Cane River), about ten miles below the town. That small tract of 80 arpents (67 acres), alluvial river-bottom land adjacent to Metoyer's plantation, was conceded by the local commandant in January 1787 and patented by the Crown in May 1794. It is identified on modern land maps as sections 18 and 89 of Township 8 North, Range 6 West.On the heels of that patent, Coincoin applied for a significantly larger concession — 800 arpents of piney woods on Old River to the west of her farm — a tract identified today as section 55, Township 8 North, Range 7 West, where she established a vacherie (cattle range) and hired a Spaniard to operate it for her. In 1807, she bought a third tract of already developed farm land (the northern portion of sections 34 and 98, T8 North, Range 6 West). That third holding, adjacent to her homestead, provided a stake for a younger son who had come of age after the Louisiana Purchase, too late to benefit from the more-liberal land policies of the Spanish regime. Coincoin has been credited with the founding of Cane River's fabled Melrose Plantation. However, this land has been documented as a grant to her son, Louis Métoyer, who built most of the surviving plantation buildings prior to his death. Coincoin lived frugally and served others, investing all her income into the purchase of freedom for the children from the slave marriage of her youth. By the time of her death, she had manumitted three of those children and three grandchildren.Another daughter and many grandchildren remained enslaved, as their owners refused to manumit or sell them. Legacy
Coincoin's died in 1816 and her grave is no longer marked. Her eldest son Augustin Metoyer donated land for a church at Isle Brevelle, Natchez, Louisiana. In 1829 he commissioned his brother Louis to build the structure, St. Augustine Parish Church. It is believed to be America's first church built by free people of color for their own use. The Coincoin–Prudhomme House, or Maison De Marie Therese, a small Creole-style cottage constructed of bousillage and half-timber still stands on her original c.1780s–1816 farmstead, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 6, 1979. The house is now known as the, Maison de Marie Thérèse Coincoin Museum, and is located one mile northwest of Bermuda, the museum is privately owned and open for tours via appointment.African origin
Tradition holds that Coincoin's African-born parents retained much of their culture, and some evidence supports that. No known document identifies the African birthplace of either parent. Coincoin and four of her siblings carried African names as dits. One Africanist historian proposed in the 1970s that the African Coincoin (spelled variously in transliterations by French and Spanish scribes) was the name used for "second-born daughters" among those Ewe of coastal Togo who speak the Glidzi dialect. Historians Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills found evidence that Coincoin was the second-born daughter in her birth family. Other possible origins of the name Coincoin, together with the names of her siblings as discovered by Elizabeth Shown Mills, are being studied by Africanist Kevin C. MacDonald at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London. In popular culture
German, Norman.No Other World (novel based on Coincoin), Thibodaux, LA: Blue Heron Press, 1992; reprint, 2000, 2011; . Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Isle of Canes, , is an historical novel that follows Coincoin and the Metoyers across four generations. Notes
Sources
Burton, H. Sophie. "<mask>hérèze dit Coincoin: A Free Black Woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier." In Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, 1760s–1820s. Edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton.Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010, pp. 89–112. MacDonald, Kevin C.; David W. Morgan; Fiona J.L. Handley; Aubra L. Lee; and Emma Morley. "The Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism." In A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present. New York: Routledge Cavendish, 2006.Chapter 13. Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage, and Origins(<mask>hérèse Coincoin, 1742–1816): A Test of 'Oral History'”, National Genealogical Society Quarterly 96 (December 2008): 246–66. Archived online at Historic Pathways
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "<mask> Coincoin: 1742-1816", KnowLa Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "<mask> Coincoin (1742–1816): Slave, Slave Owner, and Paradox."Chapter 1 in Janet Allured and Judy Gentry, ed. Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 2009). Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "Which Marie Louise Is 'Mariotte'? Sorting Slaves with Common Names", National Genealogical Society Quarterly 94 (September 2006): pp. 183–204. Mills, Elizabeth Shown."A Reader's Guide to the Study of Cane River Creoles" (an annotated bibliography of major sources treating <mask>hérèse and her Metoyer offspring)
Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B. "Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers" (a four-generation genealogy of the offspring of François and <mask>e, focusing on the Metoyer line), National Genealogical Society Quarterly 70 (September 1982): pp. 163–89
Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B. "Missionaries Compromised: Early Evangelization of Slaves and Free People of Color in North Louisiana", Cross, Crozier, and Crucible. Glenn R. Conrad. ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana Historical Association and Archdiocese of New Orleans, 1993, pp.30–47. Mills, Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color (revised edition), Louisiana State University Press, 2013; . Mills, Gary B. The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976; . Mills, Gary B."Coincoin: An Eighteenth-Century 'Liberated' Woman", in Journal of Southern History 42 (May 1976): 203–22. Reprinted in Darlene Clark Hine, ed., Black Women in United States History. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, 1990; . Mills, Gary B. "Marie Thérèse dite Coincoin", Dictionary of Louisiana Biography. Glenn R. Conrad, ed. 3 vols.New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Association, 1988. Vol. 1: 189–90. Ringle, Ken. "Up through Slavery", The Washington Post, May 12, 2002. "The Louisiana Metoyers: Melrose's Story of Land and Slaves", American Visions (June 2000); written by the American Visions staff from Mills and Mills, "Slaves and Masters", cited above. References
External links
Mills, Elizabeth Shown.Historic Pathways website - offers a cache of published studies and papers relating to the Cane River National Heritage Area, Natchitoches, and the local Créoles of color. Cane River Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection
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People from Natchitoches, Louisiana
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Louisiana African American Heritage Trail
American planters
People of Colonial Spanish Louisiana
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Catholics from Louisiana
American slave owners
19th-century American businesswomen
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American people of Togolese descent
American people of Ewe descent
American people of Ghanaian descent
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Some records show that the first five children were of full African blood, while others show they were partially Native American. During his many visits to the St. Denis household, Claude Thomas Pierre Métoyer became interested in Coincoin. The efforts of a parish priest to break up their union led to Métoyer buying her.They moved from the post to the outlying lands. As his mixed-race children matured and married, Métoyer manumitted the eldest five of the ten children whom he had held in slavery. Coins exploited a variety of economic enterprises. She was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 She became 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 She volunteered for the upkeep of the church. She acquired slaves in order to protect them from other people buying them.She worked alongside them until her own health began to fail. According to some accounts, she held a small farmstead of 67 acres. She owned a plantation empire of 12,000 acres and a hundred slaves. Her ownership of over one thousand acres is documented in surviving records. The first farmstead on the Grand Coast of Red River was given a stake by the Spanish Crown because of their liberal land-grant policies. The local commandant conceded the small tract of 80 arpents in January 1787 and it was patented by the Crown in May 1794. Modern land maps show sections 18 and 89 of Township 8 North, Range 6 West.A tract identified today as section 55, Township 8 North, Range 7 West, is where she established a vacherie after applying for a larger concession. She bought a third tract of farm land in 1807. A younger son who had come of age after the Louisiana Purchase, too late to benefit from the more liberal land policies of the Spanish regime, was given a stake in that third holding. Cane River's fabled Melrose Plantation was founded by coin coin. The land was given to her son, Louis Métoyer, who built most of the surviving plantation buildings. She invested all of her income into the purchase of freedom for the children from the slave marriage of her youth. By the time of her death, she had three children and three grandchildren.As their owners refused to manumit or sell them, another daughter and many grandchildren remained enslaved. Her grave is no longer marked after 1816. Augustin <mask> donated land for a church. Louis was commissioned by his brother to build the church. It is thought to be America's first church built by free people of color. The National Register of Historic Places has listed the Maison De Marie Therese as a historic place since December 6, 1979. The museum is privately owned and open for tours, and is located one mile northwest of Bermuda.Evidence supports the idea that the parents of Coincoin retained much of their culture. The African birthplace of either parent is not known. Four of her siblings had African names. One Africanist historian proposed in the 1970s that the name African coin was used for "second-born daughters" among those Ewe of coastal Togo who speak the Glidzi dialect. Historians Gary B. and Elizabeth Shown Mills were able to prove that coin was the second child in her family. Kevin C. MacDonald is an Africanist at the University College London's Institute of Archaeology. In popular culture, Norman.No Other World was published in 1992 by Blue Heron Press in Thibodaux, LA. Elizabeth Mills. Isle of Canes is a historical novel about the Metoyers and their descendants. The sources are Burton and H. Sophie. "<mask>érze is a free black woman on the Louisiana-Texas Frontier." Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands is a book. Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L.University Press of Florida, 2010, pp. 8/12/12 MacDonald, Kevin C.; Morgan, David W. Handley, Lee, and Morley are related. Local myths and heritage tourism are Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism. The past in the present is the topic of In A Future for Archaeology. New York: Cavendish.Chapter 13. Elizabeth Mills. "Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage, and Origin" is a test of oral history. There is a history at Historic Pathways Mills. KnowLa Encyclopedia of Louisiana has "<mask> Coincoin: 1742-1816". Elizabeth Mills. "<mask>hérse coin coin was about slaves, owners and paradoxes."Chapter 1 was written by Janet Allured and Judy Gentry. The University of Georgia Press published Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times. Elizabeth Mills. Which <mask> Louise Is 'Mariotte'? The National Genealogical Society Quarterly 94 was about sorting slaves with common names. 183–4. Elizabeth Mills."A Reader's Guide to the Study of Cane River Creoles" was written by Mills, Elizabeth Shown and Gary B. "Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers" is a four-generation genealogy of the offspring of Franois and <mask>. Gary B., Elizabeth Shown and Mills. "Missionaries Compromised: Early Evangelization of Slaves and Free People of Color in North Louisiana" Glenn R. Conrad. ed. The Louisiana Historical Association and Archdiocese of New Orleans were published in 1993.30–47. Mills, Gary B. Louisiana State University Press published The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color. Gary B. Mills. Cane River's Creoles of Color are the forgotten people. Louisiana State University Press was published in 1976. Gary B. Mills."An Eighteenth-Century 'Liberated' Woman', in Journal of Southern History 42, was published in 1976. The book is called Black Women in United States History. Carlson Publishing was in Brooklyn in 1990. Gary B. Mills. Dictionary of Louisiana Biography has "Marie Thérse dite coincoin". Glenn R. Conrad was the author. 3 volumes.The Louisiana Historical Association was in New Orleans. There is a new edition of Vol. 1: 189–90 Ken Ringle. The Washington Post wrote "Up through Slavery". "The Louisiana Metoyers: Melrose's Story of Land and Slaves" was written by the American Visions staff from Mills and Mills. External links Mills and Elizabeth shown.There are published studies and papers about the Cane River National Heritage Area. People from Natchitoches, Louisiana are from the Cane River Collection at The Historic New Orleans Collection. | [
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50605491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20Glitsos | Laura Glitsos | Laura Glitsos (also known as Laura G) is a writer, academic and musician based in Perth, Western Australia. Glitsos continues as a performer and also works as an academic and lecturer at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.
Musical career
Glitsos formed Purrvert with drummer Nicholas Jonsson (End of Fashion, The Panda Band, Eskimo Joe), Roderick Tompkins (The Deaf Jefferies), and Troy "Spud" Anthony, in late 1999.
Purrvert gigged the Perth local circuit from 2000 to 2004, until Glitsos moved to Paris to work on the first English speaking radio station in the city, Paris Live Radio. Purrvert released two EPs entitled Tale Spinners and Weapons of Mass Production. Purrvert toured regionally, in Bunbury and Margaret River, and nationally, playing at St. Kilda's Espy Hotel with Dylan Lewis' alternative funk band Brown Hornet. Purrvert is remembered for playing in Perth with a diverse range of bands, such as The Panda Band, Rollerskates, Karnivool, and Spiderbait. In a 2002 Xpress Magazine review article, Brett Ladhams wrote,
The stunning Laura G anchors Purrvert to the hearts of men and the minds of girls with her strong, confident stage presence and inimitable hip hop style. While the band may be sick of hearing it, Purrvert sound unmistakably like the late, great Rage Against The Machine, which is a good thing. A little overbearing at time, Laura's vocals combine with the often-brilliant Purrvert band to create a stage show all its own in Perth.
Glitsos was featured on the cover of Perth's Inside Magazine in 2002, with a range of other notable female musicians including Katy Steele and Rachel Claudio. In 2004, Glitsos was also featured in The West Magazine, which covered her move to Paris to work in radio.
On her return, Glitsos returned to academia and received her Honours in Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, through which avenue she then went on to pursue a doctorate. However, Glitsos briefly returned to original music in 2009 with a new project titled Agent, Red formed with guitarist Rob Lawrence and drummer Ian Tyler (Tuxedo Pig). The band moved to Berlin for several months to write and rehearse but ultimately disbanded on return to Australia.
After several years, in 2015, Glitsos returned to the stage with a Rage Against The Machine tribute band for the purpose of protesting the Abbott Government's tertiary education policies and platform on asylum seekers. The tribute act, titled Rubble of Empire, continues to play shows around Perth and regional Western Australia. In an article on Toward Music, Glitsos is interviewed about the motivations for such a project, in which she says, All the members of Rubble of Empire were impassioned by the political ideals and influenced by the grooving, heavy style that Rage Against the Machine established. Most importantly, RATM continued a tradition of music to reach out into the very concrete world and cultivate change en masse.
Glitsos formed Rubble of Empire with three other notable Perth musicians Karl Hiller (The Witches, Wormhole), Scott Howard (Ruby Boots, The Witches), and Giles Lowe (Stu Orchard Band).
West Australian Music Industry Awards
The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM). Glitsos won two awards
(wins only)
|-
| 2001
| Laura Glitsos
| Most Popular Female Original Vocalist
|
|-
| 2002
| Laura Glitsos
| Most Popular Female Original Vocalist
|
|-
Writing and journalism career
Glitsos has written feature articles in the fields of music and science/medicine, and had content featured in a diverse range of publications including Xpress Magazine, The West Australian, Astronomy WA, ScienceNetwork WA, The Water Corp, Consult Magazine, Murdoch University's ECOS Magazine, Australasian Science, and SymbioticA Lab at UWA. Glitsos was the editor of Astronomy WA, a Perth-based astronomy science website run by the Department of Science and Innovation for several years.
In her role as a freelance music journalist for Xpress Magazine, Glitsos has interviewed a broad range of artists including Wayne-Static (Static-X), Kerry King (Slayer), Abe Cunningham (Deftones), and many others.
Academic career
Glitsos completed a doctoral research degree at Curtin University, where she lectured in popular music studies, communication studies, and Internet studies. Glitsos is currently a Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. Alongside Cain Cressall, she was invited to speak at Seattle EMP Museum for the annual EMP PopCon 2016, which featured other vocalists such as k.d lang and Valerie June. Glitsos co-presented a seminar with extreme metal vocalist Cain Cressall (The Amenta, Malignant Monster) on the "limits of vocality". In 2013, Glitsos also presented a refereed paper at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Aus-NZ Branch) entitled "The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music". Since this time, she has published a stream of peer-review research on musicianship and cultural studies.
Academic publications
Books
Glitsos, Laura. 2019. Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Peer Review Research Articles and Conference Proceedings
2021. “Covid-19 and the Perfectly Governed City.” Journal for Cultural Research. Forthcoming.
2021. “World-ready: A Journalism Capstone Unit Model with International Focus in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Landscape.” Asia Pacific Media Educator. 31(1): 1-15. doi: 10.1177/1326365X211003743
(with James Hall) "The Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd" in Journal for Cultural Research
"Ebbs and flows: Women as musicians in Perth popular music, 1980s–1990s" in Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
"From Rivers to Confetti: Reconfigurations of Time through New Media Narratives" in M/C Journal
"'An Examination of Female Musicians in the Context of Perth’s Metal Community" in the journal of Popular Music and Society.
"The Camera Phone in the Concert Space: Live Music and Moving Images on the Screen"
"Nice girls don't jive: the rise and fade of women in Perth music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s" in the journal of Continuum
"Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media" in the journal of Somatechnics
"Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls" in the journal of Popular Music
"The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music" in Communities, Places, Ecologies: Proceedings of the 2013 IASPM-ANZ Conference
Chapters in Edited Collections
"Sia, This Is Acting" in An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements, edited by Dale, Stratton, and Mitchell
"Frontierswomen and the Perth Scene: Female Metal Musicians on the 'Western Front' and the Construction of the Gothic Sublime." In Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and Cultures, Hoad, C., 91-107. Bingley: Emerald.
References
External Sources
Rubble of Empire, Live Music Video
Living people
Australian musicians
Australian writers
Australian women writers
Year of birth missing (living people) | [
"Laura Glitsos (also known as Laura G) is a writer, academic and musician based in Perth, Western Australia.",
"Glitsos continues as a performer and also works as an academic and lecturer at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.",
"Musical career \nGlitsos formed Purrvert with drummer Nicholas Jonsson (End of Fashion, The Panda Band, Eskimo Joe), Roderick Tompkins (The Deaf Jefferies), and Troy \"Spud\" Anthony, in late 1999.",
"Purrvert gigged the Perth local circuit from 2000 to 2004, until Glitsos moved to Paris to work on the first English speaking radio station in the city, Paris Live Radio.",
"Purrvert released two EPs entitled Tale Spinners and Weapons of Mass Production.",
"Purrvert toured regionally, in Bunbury and Margaret River, and nationally, playing at St. Kilda's Espy Hotel with Dylan Lewis' alternative funk band Brown Hornet.",
"Purrvert is remembered for playing in Perth with a diverse range of bands, such as The Panda Band, Rollerskates, Karnivool, and Spiderbait.",
"In a 2002 Xpress Magazine review article, Brett Ladhams wrote, \n\nThe stunning Laura G anchors Purrvert to the hearts of men and the minds of girls with her strong, confident stage presence and inimitable hip hop style.",
"While the band may be sick of hearing it, Purrvert sound unmistakably like the late, great Rage Against The Machine, which is a good thing.",
"A little overbearing at time, Laura's vocals combine with the often-brilliant Purrvert band to create a stage show all its own in Perth.",
"Glitsos was featured on the cover of Perth's Inside Magazine in 2002, with a range of other notable female musicians including Katy Steele and Rachel Claudio.",
"In 2004, Glitsos was also featured in The West Magazine, which covered her move to Paris to work in radio.",
"On her return, Glitsos returned to academia and received her Honours in Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, through which avenue she then went on to pursue a doctorate.",
"However, Glitsos briefly returned to original music in 2009 with a new project titled Agent, Red formed with guitarist Rob Lawrence and drummer Ian Tyler (Tuxedo Pig).",
"The band moved to Berlin for several months to write and rehearse but ultimately disbanded on return to Australia.",
"After several years, in 2015, Glitsos returned to the stage with a Rage Against The Machine tribute band for the purpose of protesting the Abbott Government's tertiary education policies and platform on asylum seekers.",
"The tribute act, titled Rubble of Empire, continues to play shows around Perth and regional Western Australia.",
"In an article on Toward Music, Glitsos is interviewed about the motivations for such a project, in which she says, All the members of Rubble of Empire were impassioned by the political ideals and influenced by the grooving, heavy style that Rage Against the Machine established.",
"Most importantly, RATM continued a tradition of music to reach out into the very concrete world and cultivate change en masse.",
"Glitsos formed Rubble of Empire with three other notable Perth musicians Karl Hiller (The Witches, Wormhole), Scott Howard (Ruby Boots, The Witches), and Giles Lowe (Stu Orchard Band).",
"West Australian Music Industry Awards\nThe Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM).",
"Glitsos won two awards\n\n (wins only)\n|-\n| 2001\n| Laura Glitsos\n| Most Popular Female Original Vocalist\n| \n|-\n| 2002\n| Laura Glitsos\n| Most Popular Female Original Vocalist \n| \n|-\n\nWriting and journalism career \nGlitsos has written feature articles in the fields of music and science/medicine, and had content featured in a diverse range of publications including Xpress Magazine, The West Australian, Astronomy WA, ScienceNetwork WA, The Water Corp, Consult Magazine, Murdoch University's ECOS Magazine, Australasian Science, and SymbioticA Lab at UWA.",
"Glitsos was the editor of Astronomy WA, a Perth-based astronomy science website run by the Department of Science and Innovation for several years.",
"In her role as a freelance music journalist for Xpress Magazine, Glitsos has interviewed a broad range of artists including Wayne-Static (Static-X), Kerry King (Slayer), Abe Cunningham (Deftones), and many others.",
"Academic career \nGlitsos completed a doctoral research degree at Curtin University, where she lectured in popular music studies, communication studies, and Internet studies.",
"Glitsos is currently a Lecturer at Edith Cowan University.",
"Alongside Cain Cressall, she was invited to speak at Seattle EMP Museum for the annual EMP PopCon 2016, which featured other vocalists such as k.d lang and Valerie June.",
"Glitsos co-presented a seminar with extreme metal vocalist Cain Cressall (The Amenta, Malignant Monster) on the \"limits of vocality\".",
"In 2013, Glitsos also presented a refereed paper at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Aus-NZ Branch) entitled \"The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music\".",
"Since this time, she has published a stream of peer-review research on musicianship and cultural studies.",
"Academic publications\n\nBooks \nGlitsos, Laura.",
"2019.",
"Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts.",
"New York: Palgrave MacMillan.",
"Peer Review Research Articles and Conference Proceedings \n\n 2021.",
"“Covid-19 and the Perfectly Governed City.” Journal for Cultural Research.",
"Forthcoming.",
"2021.",
"“World-ready: A Journalism Capstone Unit Model with International Focus in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Landscape.” Asia Pacific Media Educator.",
"31(1): 1-15. doi: 10.1177/1326365X211003743 \n (with James Hall) \"The Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd\" in Journal for Cultural Research \n\"Ebbs and flows: Women as musicians in Perth popular music, 1980s–1990s\" in Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture\n\"From Rivers to Confetti: Reconfigurations of Time through New Media Narratives\" in M/C Journal \n\"'An Examination of Female Musicians in the Context of Perth’s Metal Community\" in the journal of Popular Music and Society.",
"\"The Camera Phone in the Concert Space: Live Music and Moving Images on the Screen\"\n\"Nice girls don't jive: the rise and fade of women in Perth music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s\" in the journal of Continuum\n \"Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media\" in the journal of Somatechnics\n \"Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls\" in the journal of Popular Music\n \"The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music\" in Communities, Places, Ecologies: Proceedings of the 2013 IASPM-ANZ Conference\n\nChapters in Edited Collections \n\n \"Sia, This Is Acting\" in An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements, edited by Dale, Stratton, and Mitchell\n \"Frontierswomen and the Perth Scene: Female Metal Musicians on the 'Western Front' and the Construction of the Gothic Sublime.\"",
"In Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and Cultures, Hoad, C., 91-107.",
"Bingley: Emerald.",
"References\n\nExternal Sources \n\n Rubble of Empire, Live Music Video\n\nLiving people\nAustralian musicians\nAustralian writers\nAustralian women writers\nYear of birth missing (living people)"
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"Glitsos is an academic and lecturer at Edith Cowan University as well as a performer.",
"Purrvert was formed in late 1999 by Glitsos, Nicholas Jonsson, and others.",
"Purrvert gigged the Perth local circuit from 2000 to 2004, until Glitsos moved to Paris to work on the first English speaking radio station in the city.",
"The Tale Spinners and Weapons of Mass Production were released by Purrvert.",
"Purrvert played at the Espy Hotel with Dylan Lewis' band Brown Hornet.",
"Purrvert played in Perth with many different bands, such as The Panda Band, Rollerskates, and Spiderbait.",
"The stunning Laura G anchors Purrvert to the hearts of men and the minds of girls with her strong, confident stage presence and inimitable hip hop style according to a 2002 Xpress Magazine review article.",
"Purrvert sound like Rage Against The Machine, which is a good thing because the band may be sick of hearing it.",
"Laura's vocals combine with the Purrvert band to create a stage show all its own in Perth.",
"Glitsos was featured on the cover of Perth's Inside Magazine in 2002, along with a number of other female musicians.",
"The West Magazine featured Glitsos in 2004, when she moved to Paris to work in radio.",
"Glitsos went on to pursue a doctorate after receiving her honours in communications and cultural studies at Curtin University.",
"In 2009, Glitsos formed a new project called Agent, Red with guitarist Rob Lawrence and drummer Ian Tyler.",
"The band moved to Berlin for several months to write and rehearse, but ended up back in Australia.",
"In 2015, Glitsos returned to the stage with a Rage Against The Machine tribute band to protest the Abbott Government's tertiary education policies and platform on asylum seekers.",
"The Rubble of Empire tribute act plays shows in Perth and regional Western Australia.",
"In an article on Toward Music, Glitsos says that the members of Rubble of Empire were influenced by Rage Against the Machine's heavy style and political ideals.",
"The tradition of music continued to reach out into the concrete world and cultivate change.",
"Three notable Perth musicians, Karl Hiller, Scott Howard, and Giles Lowe formed Rubble of Empire.",
"The Western Australian Music Industry Awards are put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc.",
"Laura Glitsos won two awards.",
"The Department of Science and Innovation ran a Perth-based astronomy website for several years with the editor being Glitsos.",
"Wayne-Static (Static-X), Kerry King (Slayer), Abe Cunningham (Deftones), and many others have all been interviewed by Glitsos.",
"At Curtin University, she lectured in popular music studies, communication studies, and Internet studies.",
"Edith Cowan University has a lecturer named Glitsos.",
"She was one of two people invited to speak at Seattle EMP Museum for the annual EMP PopCon 2016, along with k.d lang.",
"The seminar was about the limits of vocality and was co-presented by Glitsos.",
"At the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Glitsos presented a paper entitled \"The ecology of'sacred space': independent music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music\".",
"She has published a lot of peer-review research on cultural studies.",
"Laura is the author of academic publications.",
"2019.",
"Popular music is found in digital contexts.",
"The book is in New York.",
"There are research articles and conference proceedings.",
"Covid-19 and the Perfectly Governed City was published in the Journal for Cultural Research.",
"There will be aForthcoming.",
"2021.",
"A journalism unit model with international focus in a pandemic and post-pandemic landscape.",
"The \"Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd\" was published in the Journal for Cultural Research.",
"\"Nice girls don't jive: the rise and fade of women in Perth music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s\" was written in the journal of Continuum.",
"In Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and Cultures.",
"Bingley was named Emerald.",
"External Sources of Empire, Live Music Video, Living people, Australian writers, Year of birth missing."
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Glitsos formed Purrvert with drummer Nicholas Jonsson (End of Fashion, The Panda Band, Eskimo Joe), Roderick Tompkins (The Deaf Jefferies), and Troy "Spud" Anthony, in late 1999. Purrvert gigged the Perth local circuit from 2000 to 2004, until Glitsos moved to Paris to work on the first English speaking radio station in the city, Paris Live Radio. Purrvert released two EPs entitled Tale Spinners and Weapons of Mass Production. Purrvert toured regionally, in Bunbury and Margaret River, and nationally, playing at St. Kilda's Espy Hotel with Dylan Lewis' alternative funk band Brown Hornet. Purrvert is remembered for playing in Perth with a diverse range of bands, such as The Panda Band, Rollerskates, Karnivool, and Spiderbait.In a 2002 Xpress Magazine review article, Brett Ladhams wrote,
The stunning <mask> anchors Purrvert to the hearts of men and the minds of girls with her strong, confident stage presence and inimitable hip hop style. While the band may be sick of hearing it, Purrvert sound unmistakably like the late, great Rage Against The Machine, which is a good thing. A little overbearing at time, <mask>'s vocals combine with the often-brilliant Purrvert band to create a stage show all its own in Perth. Glitsos was featured on the cover of Perth's Inside Magazine in 2002, with a range of other notable female musicians including Katy Steele and Rachel Claudio. In 2004, Glitsos was also featured in The West Magazine, which covered her move to Paris to work in radio. On her return, Glitsos returned to academia and received her Honours in Communications and Cultural Studies at Curtin University, through which avenue she then went on to pursue a doctorate. However, Glitsos briefly returned to original music in 2009 with a new project titled Agent, Red formed with guitarist Rob Lawrence and drummer Ian Tyler (Tuxedo Pig).The band moved to Berlin for several months to write and rehearse but ultimately disbanded on return to Australia. After several years, in 2015, Glitsos returned to the stage with a Rage Against The Machine tribute band for the purpose of protesting the Abbott Government's tertiary education policies and platform on asylum seekers. The tribute act, titled Rubble of Empire, continues to play shows around Perth and regional Western Australia. In an article on Toward Music, Glitsos is interviewed about the motivations for such a project, in which she says, All the members of Rubble of Empire were impassioned by the political ideals and influenced by the grooving, heavy style that Rage Against the Machine established. Most importantly, RATM continued a tradition of music to reach out into the very concrete world and cultivate change en masse. Glitsos formed Rubble of Empire with three other notable Perth musicians Karl Hiller (The Witches, Wormhole), Scott Howard (Ruby Boots, The Witches), and Giles Lowe (Stu Orchard Band). West Australian Music Industry Awards
The Western Australian Music Industry Awards (commonly known as WAMis) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc (WAM).Glitsos won two awards
(wins only)
|-
| 2001
| <mask>
| Most Popular Female Original Vocalist
|
|-
| 2002
| <mask>
| Most Popular Female Original Vocalist
|
|-
Writing and journalism career
Glitsos has written feature articles in the fields of music and science/medicine, and had content featured in a diverse range of publications including Xpress Magazine, The West Australian, Astronomy WA, ScienceNetwork WA, The Water Corp, Consult Magazine, Murdoch University's ECOS Magazine, Australasian Science, and SymbioticA Lab at UWA. Glitsos was the editor of Astronomy WA, a Perth-based astronomy science website run by the Department of Science and Innovation for several years. In her role as a freelance music journalist for Xpress Magazine, Glitsos has interviewed a broad range of artists including Wayne-Static (Static-X), Kerry King (Slayer), Abe Cunningham (Deftones), and many others. Academic career
Glitsos completed a doctoral research degree at Curtin University, where she lectured in popular music studies, communication studies, and Internet studies. Glitsos is currently a Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. Alongside Cain Cressall, she was invited to speak at Seattle EMP Museum for the annual EMP PopCon 2016, which featured other vocalists such as k.d lang and Valerie June. Glitsos co-presented a seminar with extreme metal vocalist Cain Cressall (The Amenta, Malignant Monster) on the "limits of vocality".In 2013, Glitsos also presented a refereed paper at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (Aus-NZ Branch) entitled "The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music". Since this time, she has published a stream of peer-review research on musicianship and cultural studies. Academic publications
Books
Glitsos, <mask>. 2019. Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Peer Review Research Articles and Conference Proceedings
2021.“Covid-19 and the Perfectly Governed City.” Journal for Cultural Research. Forthcoming. 2021. “World-ready: A Journalism Capstone Unit Model with International Focus in a Pandemic and Post-pandemic Landscape.” Asia Pacific Media Educator. 31(1): 1-15. doi: 10.1177/1326365X211003743
(with James Hall) "The Pepe the Frog meme: an examination of social, political, and cultural implications through the tradition of the Darwinian Absurd" in Journal for Cultural Research
"Ebbs and flows: Women as musicians in Perth popular music, 1980s–1990s" in Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
"From Rivers to Confetti: Reconfigurations of Time through New Media Narratives" in M/C Journal
"'An Examination of Female Musicians in the Context of Perth’s Metal Community" in the journal of Popular Music and Society. "The Camera Phone in the Concert Space: Live Music and Moving Images on the Screen"
"Nice girls don't jive: the rise and fade of women in Perth music from the late 1950s to the early 1970s" in the journal of Continuum
"Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media" in the journal of Somatechnics
"Vaporwave, or music optimised for abandoned malls" in the journal of Popular Music
"The ecology of 'sacred space': Indie music's exploration and construction of sacred space in the context of contemporary digital music" in Communities, Places, Ecologies: Proceedings of the 2013 IASPM-ANZ Conference
Chapters in Edited Collections
"Sia, This Is Acting" in An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements, edited by Dale, Stratton, and Mitchell
"Frontierswomen and the Perth Scene: Female Metal Musicians on the 'Western Front' and the Construction of the Gothic Sublime." In Australian Metal Music: Identities, Scenes, and Cultures, Hoad, C., 91-107.Bingley: Emerald. References
External Sources
Rubble of Empire, Live Music Video
Living people
Australian musicians
Australian writers
Australian women writers
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5681507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%20Dimas%20de%20Melo%20Pimenta | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta | Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (born in São Paulo, Brazil, 1957) is a Brazilian-Portuguese (Swiss resident since 2003) musician, architect, photographer and intermedia artist. His works, connecting art and sciences, have been included in art collections and have been recognized by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of New York, the Ars Aevi Contemporary Art Museum, the Venice Biennale, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris, the MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto and Trento, and the Shöyen Collection among others.
Emanuel Pimenta studied with Hans-Joachim Koellreuter, Conrado Silva, Eduardo Kneese de Mello, Decio Pignatari, Lygia Clark, and also with Kenzo Tange, Burle Marx, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Oscar Niemeyer among others.
Career
Pimenta develops music, architecture, and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies. His concerts of music integrate visual art and have been performed in various countries in the last twenty years, beginning with his concert at the São Paulo Art Biennial, in 1985, with John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Pimenta has collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham between 1986 and 2009, remaining composer for the Merce Cunningham Legacy Project until now. He has been composer for several companies such as the Appels Company in New York. His concerts have been performed at the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York, the Palais Garnier, Opera Bastille, La Fenice, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, the Festival of Aix en Provence, and the São Paulo Museum of Art among many others. In 2012, Emanuel Pimenta coordinated 38 events, in 11 countries, celebrating the centennial of John Cage.
In late 1970s, Emanuel Pimenta started developing a new graphic four dimensional musical notation inside Virtual Reality, which he called "virtual notations", which would characterize good part of his musical production over the years.
In the early 1980s, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept "virtual architecture", later largely used as specific discipline in universities all over the world. Since the end of the 1970s he has developed graphical musical notations inside virtual environments.
In 1980, Pimenta starts the first virtual planet in history, called Woiksed, for which he won the Lake Maggiore Prize (AICA, UNESCO, Council of Europe) in 1993, anticipating similar projects for over twenty years.
In 1993 he created, together with René Berger and Rinaldo Bianda, the Eurovideo Festival.
In 2000, Emanuel Pimenta began researching and creating space architecture design.
Pimenta's first opera is dated of 1984, titled Frankenstern, with libretto by Decio Pignatari and stage design by the Brazilian visual artist , at MASP Modern Art Museum of São Paulo.
In 2008, Pimenta creates DANTE, the first opera on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy of the history of music, which had its world première in that year at the Abstracta Festival, in Rome, Italy.
In 2016, he concluded his third opera, titled Metamorphosis, with libretto by René Berger, with world première at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, in New York City, under direction of the American composer Phill Niblock. In 2016 Pimenta was invited to the 1th edition of the Lisbon-based The New Art Fest.
In 2017, Pimenta received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris.
Since the 1970s, Emanuel Pimenta has been a prolific writer, with more than eighty books published in several countries.
Positions
He has served as a curator for the Biennale of São Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Triennial of Milan, and the Belém Cultural Center among others.
Pimenta is a founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, and of ISA International Symmetry Association, created by the Hungarian crystallographer Gyorgy Darvas, together with Dan Shechtman, Fritjof Capra, Francisco Varela, Douglas Hofstadter and Arthur Lee Loeb among others.
Between 1987 and 1996 he was one of the coordinators of the Locarno Video Art and Electronic Art Festivals, in Locarno, Switzerland, together with Rinaldo Bianda, Between 1995 and 2015 he was member of the jury of the BES Fellowship (Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, the Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), with the composer Phill Niblock. He is director of the art, sciences, music and philosophy Academy Holotopia, in the Amalfi Coast. which started with a contemporary music festival in 2004. He is also founder and director of the Foundation for Arts, Sciences and Technology – Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal.
He was editorial director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi from 1995 to 2005. He was also member of the advisory editorial board of the science magazine Forma, in Tokyo. He is member of the art and philosophy magazine Technoetic Arts, in Bristol, England, directed by Roy Ascott.
In 1991 he created the European Environmental Tribunal, a non profit entity oriented to culture under a transdisciplinary approach.
In 2000 he founded the Walden Zero Project, joining artworks, books, sounds and documents since the 14th century to the electronic age.
Emanuel Pimenta is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Society of Media Photographers, of the Portuguese Order of Architects and of the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urban Planning.
In 1990 he started working with Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness Durini in many art projects around the world.
In 2015, Emanuel Pimenta was director of the world contemporary art forum Free International Forum, in Abruzzo, Italy.
Since 2012, Emanuel Pimenta has been researcher associated to the University of Minho in Portugal, and USP University of São Paulo, in Brazil.
In 2018 he founds, together with Jean Olaniszyn, Liberio Bianchi and Davide Rossi the PAN Cinema and Photography Association Muralto, in the city of Muralto, Switzerland, as director of experimental cinema.
Some Projects
Abell 2218
Deep Ocean
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. X, in 2004
Kirkos
RAWWAR (random accelerating world, world and revolution)
Zyklus,
DEEP OCEAN
European Environmental Tribunal 2006
SETI
SOULS 35 Years
DANTE - opera, Rome 2008
CENTRAL PARK, New York, 20 Years
Space Architecture USP University of São Paulo, 2012
KAIROS
JOHN CAGE 100 Years
Publications
Some Books:
Fiat Lux - Light Museum (2018)
My Father and My Grandfather - A Hundred Years Journey in Time (2018)
The Grasshopper Man - and the Metamorphosis of the Electronic Society (2017)
Lucrezia: A Volcanic Voyage in Art (2017)
Decameron - A Dream with Boccaccio (2017)
Virtus - Design of the Infinite (2016)
René Berger - Knight of the Invisible (2016)
ARCHITECTS - Photographic Essay, 2000 Years of Architecture (2016)
WOIKSED - Virtual Planet, architecture and beyond (2015)
MUSIC - A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought (2014)
Mundo Metamorfose (2014) - Portuguese
Nemesis - Digital Art 1980 (2014)
PULSAR - Space Architecture on Earth (2014)
SOULS 40 Years - Volumes One, Two, Three, Four (Photography Essay 1973-2013) (2013)
The Free Waters' Mystery - The Magical Aqueduct of Lisbon (2013)
URBIS - The Skin of the Planet - Volumes One, Two and Three (2013)
Odyssey - a poetic voyage to Homer (2013)
SPACE ARCHITECTURE - Buildings for the Outer Space (2013)
UIRA Orbital Olympic Village (2012)
KAIROS - A Bird Orbiting Planet Earth - architecture, art, philosophy, technology (2012)
Morocco . One Thousand and One Lights (photography) (2011)
Mr. Chico - A Zen Master in the Forests (2012)
John Cage - Koan of Non-Violence (2012)
John Cage - The Silence of the Music, 100 Years (2012)
John Cage - How to Change the World (2012)
One Hundred Years with John Cage - A Celebration (2012)
30 Years of Architecture (2011)
Hidden Beings - Nine Texts, One Photographic Essay (2011)
LOW POWER SOCIETY - philosophy, social sciences, aesthetics (2011)
KIRKOS - A Dialogue Between Marcel Duchamp and Josqin Desprès (2011)
Art and Zen (2011)
MONDO - Literature and Democracy (2010)
crowdknowspear - on Walt Whitman (2010)
On Friendship - on Marcus Tullius Cicero (2010)
On Nature - on Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010)
Neapolis - the visual time of Naples (photography) (2010)
Ascona - a photographic essay (2010)
FIRENZE - mind battle fields of a magical city (photography) (2010)
KOELLREUTTER - the musical revolutions of a Zen master (2010)
LOGICAL TRAPS - 30 years of works in 15 years of interviews (2010)
Walden Zero - a transdisciplinary project (2010)
VIRTUAL NOTATIONS - 30 years of music inside virtual environments (2010)
MEDAUAR - o homem que sabia demais (2011) (Portuguese)
Teleantropos - A Desmaterialização da Cultura Material (1999) (Portuguese)
TAPAS - A Impermanência das Coisas e das Idéias, Arquitetura e Inconsciente (1985) (Portuguese)
Discography
Some cds:
CLUE-UP DUE ABYSS (piano: Marco Rapattoni) concert at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, celebrating 150 years of Claude Debussy (2014)
COLLISION (violoncello: Audrey Riley) concert at La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain (2012)
BEETHOVEN'S CAGE | M | OCEAN2, concert at EIF Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York City (2012)
STliz - to celebrate Franz Lizst's 200 years (2012)
MARS (piano: Emanuel Pimenta), concert at Palace Foz, Lisbon, Portugal (2011)
REED - music for Merce Cunningham, New York City (2009)
CANTO 6409 - music for the earthquake victims in Abruzzo, concert at the International Film Festival of Cannes, France (2009)
ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - music for Morse Code, New York City (2008)
LEONARDO IN LOCARNO - concert celebrating the 500 years of a Leonardo da Vinci's building in the city of Locarno, Switzerland (2007)
Movies
Since the 1970s, Emanuel Pimenta has written and directed movies, specially experimental ones. In 1975 he co-directed and co-edited a documentary movie with the French photographer and filmmaker , who was assistant to Orson Welles in Brazil, in the 1940s.
Some movies:
FLUXUS (1979)
As Time Goes By - Abstracta Festival 2011
KLEVE, at the Kunsthaus Zürich
CEJB, in Pescara, Italy
MUSIC - A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought
ALMEIDA
LUCREZIA
LA CONDITION HUMAINE
Pimenta's work has been featured or appeared in:
Encyclopædia Universalis (Britannica) since 1991
Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley)
Chronology of the Western Classical Music
Allmusic - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds
The New York Times
Le Monde
Le Parisien
O Estado de S. Paulo
O Globo
Il Sole 24 Ore
Domus (magazine)
Abitare
Jornal de Letras
The Wire (magazine)
References
External links
Official site
1957 births
Living people
Brazilian architects
Brazilian composers | [
"Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (born in São Paulo, Brazil, 1957) is a Brazilian-Portuguese (Swiss resident since 2003) musician, architect, photographer and intermedia artist.",
"His works, connecting art and sciences, have been included in art collections and have been recognized by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of New York, the Ars Aevi Contemporary Art Museum, the Venice Biennale, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris, the MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto and Trento, and the Shöyen Collection among others.",
"Emanuel Pimenta studied with Hans-Joachim Koellreuter, Conrado Silva, Eduardo Kneese de Mello, Decio Pignatari, Lygia Clark, and also with Kenzo Tange, Burle Marx, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Oscar Niemeyer among others.",
"Career\nPimenta develops music, architecture, and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies.",
"His concerts of music integrate visual art and have been performed in various countries in the last twenty years, beginning with his concert at the São Paulo Art Biennial, in 1985, with John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, and Robert Rauschenberg.",
"Pimenta has collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham between 1986 and 2009, remaining composer for the Merce Cunningham Legacy Project until now.",
"He has been composer for several companies such as the Appels Company in New York.",
"His concerts have been performed at the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York, the Palais Garnier, Opera Bastille, La Fenice, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, the Festival of Aix en Provence, and the São Paulo Museum of Art among many others.",
"In 2012, Emanuel Pimenta coordinated 38 events, in 11 countries, celebrating the centennial of John Cage.",
"In late 1970s, Emanuel Pimenta started developing a new graphic four dimensional musical notation inside Virtual Reality, which he called \"virtual notations\", which would characterize good part of his musical production over the years.",
"In the early 1980s, Emanuel Pimenta coined the concept \"virtual architecture\", later largely used as specific discipline in universities all over the world.",
"Since the end of the 1970s he has developed graphical musical notations inside virtual environments.",
"In 1980, Pimenta starts the first virtual planet in history, called Woiksed, for which he won the Lake Maggiore Prize (AICA, UNESCO, Council of Europe) in 1993, anticipating similar projects for over twenty years.",
"In 1993 he created, together with René Berger and Rinaldo Bianda, the Eurovideo Festival.",
"In 2000, Emanuel Pimenta began researching and creating space architecture design.",
"Pimenta's first opera is dated of 1984, titled Frankenstern, with libretto by Decio Pignatari and stage design by the Brazilian visual artist , at MASP Modern Art Museum of São Paulo.",
"In 2008, Pimenta creates DANTE, the first opera on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy of the history of music, which had its world première in that year at the Abstracta Festival, in Rome, Italy.",
"In 2016, he concluded his third opera, titled Metamorphosis, with libretto by René Berger, with world première at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, in New York City, under direction of the American composer Phill Niblock.",
"In 2016 Pimenta was invited to the 1th edition of the Lisbon-based The New Art Fest.",
"In 2017, Pimenta received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris.",
"Since the 1970s, Emanuel Pimenta has been a prolific writer, with more than eighty books published in several countries.",
"Positions\n\nHe has served as a curator for the Biennale of São Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Triennial of Milan, and the Belém Cultural Center among others.",
"Pimenta is a founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, and of ISA International Symmetry Association, created by the Hungarian crystallographer Gyorgy Darvas, together with Dan Shechtman, Fritjof Capra, Francisco Varela, Douglas Hofstadter and Arthur Lee Loeb among others.",
"Between 1987 and 1996 he was one of the coordinators of the Locarno Video Art and Electronic Art Festivals, in Locarno, Switzerland, together with Rinaldo Bianda, Between 1995 and 2015 he was member of the jury of the BES Fellowship (Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, the Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), with the composer Phill Niblock.",
"He is director of the art, sciences, music and philosophy Academy Holotopia, in the Amalfi Coast.",
"which started with a contemporary music festival in 2004.",
"He is also founder and director of the Foundation for Arts, Sciences and Technology – Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal.",
"He was editorial director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi from 1995 to 2005.",
"He was also member of the advisory editorial board of the science magazine Forma, in Tokyo.",
"He is member of the art and philosophy magazine Technoetic Arts, in Bristol, England, directed by Roy Ascott.",
"In 1991 he created the European Environmental Tribunal, a non profit entity oriented to culture under a transdisciplinary approach.",
"In 2000 he founded the Walden Zero Project, joining artworks, books, sounds and documents since the 14th century to the electronic age.",
"Emanuel Pimenta is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Society of Media Photographers, of the Portuguese Order of Architects and of the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urban Planning.",
"In 1990 he started working with Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness Durini in many art projects around the world.",
"In 2015, Emanuel Pimenta was director of the world contemporary art forum Free International Forum, in Abruzzo, Italy.",
"Since 2012, Emanuel Pimenta has been researcher associated to the University of Minho in Portugal, and USP University of São Paulo, in Brazil.",
"In 2018 he founds, together with Jean Olaniszyn, Liberio Bianchi and Davide Rossi the PAN Cinema and Photography Association Muralto, in the city of Muralto, Switzerland, as director of experimental cinema.",
"In 1975 he co-directed and co-edited a documentary movie with the French photographer and filmmaker , who was assistant to Orson Welles in Brazil, in the 1940s.",
"Some movies:\nFLUXUS (1979)\nAs Time Goes By - Abstracta Festival 2011\nKLEVE, at the Kunsthaus Zürich\nCEJB, in Pescara, Italy\nMUSIC - A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought\nALMEIDA\nLUCREZIA\nLA CONDITION HUMAINE\n\nPimenta's work has been featured or appeared in:\nEncyclopædia Universalis (Britannica) since 1991\nSloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley)\nChronology of the Western Classical Music\nAllmusic - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds\nThe New York Times\nLe Monde\nLe Parisien\nO Estado de S. Paulo\nO Globo\nIl Sole 24 Ore\nDomus (magazine)\nAbitare\nJornal de Letras\nThe Wire (magazine)\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\nOfficial site\n\n1957 births\nLiving people\nBrazilian architects\nBrazilian composers"
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"His works have been included in art collections such as the Whitney Museum of New York and the Ars Aevi Contemporary Art Museum.",
"Emanuel Pimenta studied with many people, including Conrado Silva, Eduardo Kneese de Mello, Decio Pignatari, Kenzo Tange, Burle Marx, Peter Cook, and Oscar.",
"Virtual reality and cyberspace technologies are used to develop music, architecture, and urban projects.",
"His concerts of music integrate visual art and have been performed in various countries in the last twenty years.",
"Between 1986 and 2009, Pimenta worked with John Cage on the Merce Cunningham Legacy Project.",
"He has composed music for several companies.",
"His concerts have been performed at the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York, the Palais Garnier, Opera Bastille, La Fenice, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, and the Festival of Aix en Provence.",
"In 2012 Emanuel Pimenta coordinated 38 events in 11 countries to celebrate the 100th birthday of John Cage.",
"Emanuel Pimenta started developing a new graphic four-dimensional musical notation inside Virtual Reality in the late 1970s, which would be used in his musical production over the years.",
"Emanuel Pimenta came up with the idea of \"virtual architecture\" in the early 1980s.",
"He developed graphical musical notations in virtual environments.",
"In 1980, Pimenta starts the first virtual planet in history, called woiksed, for which he won the Lake Maggiore Prize (AICA, UNESCO, Council of Europe) in 1993, anticipating similar projects for over twenty years.",
"The Eurovideo Festival was created in 1993 by him, René Berger and Rinaldo Bianda.",
"Emanuel Pimenta began researching and creating space architecture in 2000.",
"The first opera by Pimenta was titled \"Frankenstern\" in 1984 and was designed by the Brazilian visual artist.",
"DANTE, the first opera on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy of the history of music, had its world premire in Rome, Italy, in 2008.",
"He finished his third opera, titled Metamorphosis, with a world premire at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City.",
"The New Art Fest was held in Lisbon in 2016 and Pimenta was invited to attend.",
"The Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris gave the gold medal to Pimenta.",
"Emanuel Pimenta has written more than eighty books since the 1970s.",
"He has worked as a curator at many places, including the Triennial of Milan, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the Belém Cultural Center.",
"The International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry was founded by the Hungarian crystallographer Gyorgy Darvas, along with Dan Shechtman, Fritjof Capra, Francisco Varela, and Douglas.",
"He was one of the organizers of the Locarno Video Art and Electronic Art Festivals, in Locarno, Switzerland, between 1987 and 1996.",
"He is the director of the academy in the Amalfi Coast.",
"A contemporary music festival started in 2004.",
"He is the founder and director of the Foundation for Arts, Sciences and Technology.",
"He was the editorial director of RISK from 1995 to 2005.",
"He was a member of the editorial board of Forma.",
"He is a member of the art and philosophy magazine Technoetic Arts.",
"The European Environmental Tribunal was created in 1991 as a non profit entity.",
"Since the 14th century to the electronic age, artworks, books, sounds and documents have been joined by the Walden Zero Project.",
"Emanuel Pimenta is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Media Photographers, and the Portuguese Order of Architects.",
"He began working with Baroness Durini and Lucrezia De Domizio in 1990.",
"Emanuel Pimenta was the director of the world contemporary art forum in Abruzzo, Italy.",
"Emanuel Pimenta is a researcher at the University of Minho in Portugal.",
"He became the director of experimental cinema in the city of Muralto, Switzerland.",
"In 1975, he co-directed and co-edited a documentary movie with the French photographer and filmmaker, who was an assistant to the renowned film maker, Orson Welles.",
"Music - A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought is a movie."
] | <mask> (born in São Paulo, Brazil, 1957) is a Brazilian-Portuguese (Swiss resident since 2003) musician, architect, photographer and intermedia artist. His works, connecting art and sciences, have been included in art collections and have been recognized by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of New York, the Ars Aevi Contemporary Art Museum, the Venice Biennale, the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Bibliothèque nationale de France at Paris, the MART - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto and Trento, and the Shöyen Collection among others. <mask> studied with Hans-Joachim Koellreuter, Conrado Silva, <mask>, Decio Pignatari, Lygia Clark, and also with Kenzo Tange, Burle Marx, Yona Friedman, Peter Cook (Archigram) and Oscar Niemeyer among others. Career
Pimenta develops music, architecture, and urban projects using virtual reality and cyberspace technologies. His concerts of music integrate visual art and have been performed in various countries in the last twenty years, beginning with his concert at the São Paulo Art Biennial, in 1985, with John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Sandro Chia, and Robert Rauschenberg. <mask> has collaborated with John Cage, as commissioned composer for Merce Cunningham between 1986 and 2009, remaining composer for the Merce Cunningham Legacy Project until now. He has been composer for several companies such as the Appels Company in New York.His concerts have been performed at the Lincoln Center and The Kitchen in New York, the Palais Garnier, Opera Bastille, La Fenice, the Shinjuku Bunka Center in Tokyo, the Festival of Aix en Provence, and the São Paulo Museum of Art among many others. In 2012, <mask> coordinated 38 events, in 11 countries, celebrating the centennial of John Cage. In late 1970s, <mask> started developing a new graphic four dimensional musical notation inside Virtual Reality, which he called "virtual notations", which would characterize good part of his musical production over the years. In the early 1980s, <mask> coined the concept "virtual architecture", later largely used as specific discipline in universities all over the world. Since the end of the 1970s he has developed graphical musical notations inside virtual environments. In 1980, <mask> starts the first virtual planet in history, called Woiksed, for which he won the Lake Maggiore Prize (AICA, UNESCO, Council of Europe) in 1993, anticipating similar projects for over twenty years. In 1993 he created, together with René Berger and Rinaldo Bianda, the Eurovideo Festival.In 2000, <mask> began researching and creating space architecture design. <mask>'s first opera is dated of 1984, titled Frankenstern, with libretto by Decio Pignatari and stage design by the Brazilian visual artist , at MASP Modern Art Museum of São Paulo. In 2008, Pimenta creates DANTE, the first opera on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy of the history of music, which had its world première in that year at the Abstracta Festival, in Rome, Italy. In 2016, he concluded his third opera, titled Metamorphosis, with libretto by René Berger, with world première at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, in New York City, under direction of the American composer Phill Niblock. In 2016 Pimenta was invited to the 1th edition of the Lisbon-based The New Art Fest. In 2017, Pimenta received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters of Paris. Since the 1970s, <mask> has been a prolific writer, with more than eighty books published in several countries.Positions
He has served as a curator for the Biennale of São Paulo, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Triennial of Milan, and the Belém Cultural Center among others. <mask> is a founding member of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, and of ISA International Symmetry Association, created by the Hungarian crystallographer Gyorgy Darvas, together with Dan Shechtman, Fritjof Capra, Francisco Varela, Douglas Hofstadter and Arthur Lee Loeb among others. Between 1987 and 1996 he was one of the coordinators of the Locarno Video Art and Electronic Art Festivals, in Locarno, Switzerland, together with Rinaldo Bianda, Between 1995 and 2015 he was member of the jury of the BES Fellowship (Experimental Intermedia Foundation of New York, the Luso American Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation), with the composer Phill Niblock. He is director of the art, sciences, music and philosophy Academy Holotopia, in the Amalfi Coast. which started with a contemporary music festival in 2004. He is also founder and director of the Foundation for Arts, Sciences and Technology – Observatory, in Trancoso, Portugal. He was editorial director of the art and culture magazine RISK Arte Oggi from 1995 to 2005.He was also member of the advisory editorial board of the science magazine Forma, in Tokyo. He is member of the art and philosophy magazine Technoetic Arts, in Bristol, England, directed by Roy Ascott. In 1991 he created the European Environmental Tribunal, a non profit entity oriented to culture under a transdisciplinary approach. In 2000 he founded the Walden Zero Project, joining artworks, books, sounds and documents since the 14th century to the electronic age. <mask> is an active member of the New York Academy of Sciences, of the Space Architecture Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Society of Media Photographers, of the Portuguese Order of Architects and of the Brazilian Council of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 1990 he started working with Lucrezia De Domizio, Baroness Durini in many art projects around the world. In 2015, <mask> was director of the world contemporary art forum Free International Forum, in Abruzzo, Italy.Since 2012, <mask> has been researcher associated to the University of Minho in Portugal, and USP University of São Paulo, in Brazil. In 2018 he founds, together with Jean Olaniszyn, Liberio Bianchi and <mask> Rossi the PAN Cinema and Photography Association Muralto, in the city of Muralto, Switzerland, as director of experimental cinema. In 1975 he co-directed and co-edited a documentary movie with the French photographer and filmmaker , who was assistant to Orson Welles in Brazil, in the 1940s. Some movies:
FLUXUS (1979)
As Time Goes By - Abstracta Festival 2011
KLEVE, at the Kunsthaus Zürich
CEJB, in Pescara, Italy
MUSIC - A Brief History of the Western Musical Thought
ALMEIDA
LUCREZIA
LA CONDITION HUMAINE
Pimenta's work has been featured or appeared in:
Encyclopædia Universalis (Britannica) since 1991
Sloninsky Baker's Music Dictionary (Berkeley)
Chronology of the Western Classical Music
Allmusic - The Expert's Guide to the Best Cds
The New York Times
Le Monde
Le Parisien
O Estado de S. Paulo
O Globo
Il Sole 24 Ore
Domus (magazine)
Abitare
Jornal de Letras
The Wire (magazine)
References
External links
Official site
1957 births
Living people
Brazilian architects
Brazilian composers | [
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55800580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Chemay | Joe Chemay | Joe Chemay is an American bassist and background singer, known for his recording session work.
Biography
Chemay started out working as a session and touring support musician in Los Angeles, but moved to Nashville in 1989.
Chemay has worked with Elton John, Shania Twain, Bill Medley, Peter Cetera, Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, The Beach Boys, Leon Russell, Michael Nesmith, and others.
In 1980 and 1981, Chemay participated in Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour, providing backing vocals. Chemay also was a member of Roger Waters' Bleeding Heart Band, staging a 1990 production of The Wall.
In 2006, Chemay formed the Trifectone Music Group with Biff Watson and Ed Seay to write, develop and produce commercial music.
Discography
Solo recordings
2007: Unformattable (Trifectone Music Group)
With The Joe Chemay Band
1981: The Riper the Finer (Unicorn Records), "Proud" #68, US Hot 100
Also appears on
1976 - 1979
1976: Elton John - Blue Moves (MCA / Rocket)
1977: Eric Carmen - Boats Against the Current (Arista)
1977: Bruce Johnston - Going Public (Columbia)
1977: Helen Reddy - Ear Candy (Capitol)
1977: Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Caribou)
1978: Eric Carmen - Change of Heart (Arista)
1978: Michael Nesmith - Live at the Palais (Pacific Arts)
1978: Leon Russell - Americana (Paradise)
1978: Tanya Tucker - TNT (MCA)
1978: Nigel Olsson - Nigel Olsson (Columbia)
1979: The Beach Boys - L.A. (Light Album) ([Caribou / Brother)
1979: Michael Nesmith - Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma (Pacific Arts)
1979: Nigel Olsson - Nigel (Bang)
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall (Columbia)
1979: Geno Washington - That's Why Hollywood Loves Me (DJM)
1980 - 1984
1980: Elton John - 21 at 33 (MCA)
1980: Leon Russell - Life and Love (Warner Bros.)
1980: Toby Beau - If You Believe (RCA)
1981: Karla DeVito - Is This a Cool World or What? (Epic)
1981: Tom Johnston - Still Feels Good (Warner Bros.)
1981: Kenny Rogers - Share Your Love (Liberty)
1982: Laura Branigan - Branigan (Atlantic)
1982: Tom Jones - Country (Mercury)
1982: Juice Newton - Quiet Lies (Capitol)
1982: Eddie Rabbitt - Radio Romance
1982: Lionel Richie - Lionel Richie (Motown)
1982: Kenny Rogers - Love Will Turn You Around (Liberty)
1983: Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (Motown)
1983: Kenny Rogers - We've Got Tonight (Liberty)
1984: Laura Branigan - Self Control (Atlantic)
1984: Flashbeagle (Disneyland Records)
1984: Evelyn "Champagne" King - So Romantic (RCA)
1984: Smokey Robinson - Essar (Tamla)
1984: Kenny Rogers - What About Me? (RCA Victor)
1984: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Once Upon a Christmas (RCA Victor)
1985 - 1989
1985: Christopher Cross - Every Turn of the World (Warner Bros.)
1985: Kenny Rogers - The Heart of the Matter (RCA)
1985: Sheila Walsh - Don't Hide Your Heart (Sparrow)
1986: Juice Newton - Old Flame (RCA)
1986: Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling (Motown)
1987: Duane Eddy - Duane Eddy (Capitol)
1987: Julio Iglesias - Un Hombre Solo (CBS)
1987: Richard Marx - Richard Marx (Manhattan)
1987: Roy Orbison - In Dreams: The Greatest Hits (Virgin)
1988: Christopher Cross - Back of My Mind (Reprise)
1989: Animotion - Animotion (Polydor)
1989: Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow (Arista)
1989: Stan Ridgway - Mosquitos (I.R.S.)
1989: Stephen Bishop - Bowling in Paris (Atlantic)
1989: Kenny Rogers - Something Inside So Strong (Reprise)
1990 - 1994
1990: George Strait - Livin' It Up (MCA)
1990: Roger Waters - The Wall – Live in Berlin (Mercury)
1990: Kenny Rogers - Love Is Strange (Reprise)
1991: Collin Raye - All I Can Be (Epic)
1991: George Strait - Chill of an Early Fall (MCA)
1992: Holly Dunn - Getting It Dunn (Warner Bros.)
1992: Michael Nesmith - Tropical Campfires (Pacific Arts)
1992: Collin Raye - In This Life (Epic)
1992: George Strait - Holding My Own (MCA)
1992: Pam Tillis - Homeward Looking Angel (Arista)
1992: Joy Lynn White - Between Midnight & Hindsight (Lucky Dog / Epic)
1993: Christopher Cross - Rendezvous (Geronimo)
1993: Martina McBride - The Time Has Come (RCA)
1993: Bill Miller - The Red Road (Reprise)
1993: Kenny Rogers: If Only My Heart Had a Voice (Giant)
1994: Martina McBride - The Way That I Am (RCA)
1994: Michael Nesmith - The Garden (Rio)
1994: Collin Raye - Extremes (Epic)
1994: Michelle Wright - The Reasons Why (Arista)
1995 - 1999
1995: Deana Carter - Did I Shave My Legs for This? (Capitol Nashville)
1995: Ty Herndon - What Mattered Most (Epic)
1995: Martina McBride - Wild Angels (RCA)
1995: Collin Raye - I Think About You (Epic)
1996: James Bonamy - What I Live to Do (Epic)
1996: Ty Herndon - Living in a Moment (Epic)
1996: Engelbert Humperdinck - After Dark (Core)
1996: Reba McEntire - What If It's You (MCA Nashville)
1996: Collin Raye - Christmas: The Gift (Epic)
1996: Ricochet - Ricochet (Columbia)
1996: Kevin Sharp - Measure of a Man (Asylum)
1996: Chely Wright - Right in the Middle of It (Polygram)
1996: Michelle Wright - For Me It's You (Arista Nashville)
1996: Reba McEntire - The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection (MCA)
1997: Sherrié Austin - Words (Arista Nashville)
1997: Jan Berry - Second Wave (One Way)
1997: James Bonamy - Roots and Wings (Epic)
1997: Emilio - It's On the House (Capitol Nashville)
1997: Martina McBride - Evolution (RCA)
1997: Shania Twain - Come On Over (Mercury)
1997: Sherrié Austin - Love in the Real World (Arista Nashville)
1998: Deana Carter - Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Capitol Nashville)
1998: Dixie Chicks - Wide Open Spaces (Monument)
1998: Ty Herndon - Big Hopes (Epic)
1998: Martina McBride - White Christmas (RCA)
1998: Collin Raye - The Walls Came Down (Epic)
1998: Lionel Richie - Time (Mercury)
1998: Kevin Sharp - Love Is (Asylum)
1998: Daryle Singletary - Ain't It the Truth (Giant)
1998: Faith Hill - Faith (Faith Hill album) (Warner Bros.)
1998: Pam Tillis - Every Time (Arista Nashville)
1998: The Wilkinsons - Nothing but Love (Giant)
1998: Olivia Newton-John - Back with a Heart (Festival)
1999: Paul Brandt - That's the Truth (Warner / Reprise)
1999: Ty Herndon - Steam (Epic)
1999: Lace - Lace (143)
1999: Martina McBride - Emotion (RCA)
1999: Michael Nesmith - Live at the Britt Festival (Cooking Vinyl)
2000 - present
2000: Clay Davidson - Unconditional (Capitol)
2000: Marshall Dyllon - Enjoy the Ride (Dreamcatcher)
2000: The Kinleys - II (Epic)
2000: Neal McCoy - 24-7-365 (Giant)
2000: Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81 (EMI)
2000: Collin Raye - Counting Sheep (Sony)
2000: Collin Raye - Tracks (Epic)
2000: Daryle Singletary - Now and Again (Audium Entertainment)
2000: The Wilkinsons - Here and Now (Giant)
2001: John Anderson - Nobody's Got It All (Columbia)
2001: Tammy Cochran - Tammy Cochran (Epic)
2001: Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Room With a View (Arista)
2001: Georgia Middleman - Endless Possibilities (Giant)
2001: Charlie Robison - Step Right Up (Lucky Dog / Sony)
2002: Tammy Cochran - Life Happened (Epic / Sony)
2003: Billy Gilman - Music Through Heartsongs: Songs Based on the Poems of Mattie J.T. Stepanek (Epic)
2003: Kenny Rogers - Back to the Well (Dreamcatcher)
2003: Hank Williams, Jr. - I'm One of You (Curb)
2005: Billy Gilman - Everything and More (Image Entertainment)
2005: The Wilkinsons - Highway (Open Road Recordings)
2006: Jeff Bates - Leave the Light On (RCA)
2006: Billy Gilman - Billy Gilman (Image)
2006: Steve Holy - Brand New Girlfriend (Curb)
2006: Michelle Wright - Everything and More (Icon)
2007: Kevin Fowler - Bring It On (Equity)
2007: The Wilkinsons - Home (ABC / Universal)
2009: Luke Bryan - Doin' My Thing (Capitol Nashville)
2009: Billy Ray Cyrus - Southern Rain (Monument)
2009: Hank Williams, Jr. - 127 Rose Avenue (Curb)
2010: Matt King - Hard Country (Atlantic Nashville)
2014: Michael Nesmith - Movies of the Mind'' (Pacific Arts)
References
External links
Living people
American rock bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
American session musicians
20th-century American musicians
21st-century American musicians
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
Year of birth missing (living people) | [
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"Biography \nChemay started out working as a session and touring support musician in Los Angeles, but moved to Nashville in 1989.",
"Chemay has worked with Elton John, Shania Twain, Bill Medley, Peter Cetera, Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, The Beach Boys, Leon Russell, Michael Nesmith, and others.",
"In 1980 and 1981, Chemay participated in Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour, providing backing vocals.",
"Chemay also was a member of Roger Waters' Bleeding Heart Band, staging a 1990 production of The Wall.",
"In 2006, Chemay formed the Trifectone Music Group with Biff Watson and Ed Seay to write, develop and produce commercial music.",
"(Epic)\n 1981: Tom Johnston - Still Feels Good (Warner Bros.)\n 1981: Kenny Rogers - Share Your Love (Liberty)\n 1982: Laura Branigan - Branigan (Atlantic)\n 1982: Tom Jones - Country (Mercury)\n 1982: Juice Newton - Quiet Lies (Capitol)\n1982: Eddie Rabbitt - Radio Romance\n 1982: Lionel Richie - Lionel Richie (Motown)\n 1982: Kenny Rogers - Love Will Turn You Around (Liberty)\n 1983: Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (Motown)\n 1983: Kenny Rogers - We've Got Tonight (Liberty)\n 1984: Laura Branigan - Self Control (Atlantic)\n 1984: Flashbeagle (Disneyland Records)\n 1984: Evelyn \"Champagne\" King - So Romantic (RCA)\n 1984: Smokey Robinson - Essar (Tamla)\n 1984: Kenny Rogers - What About Me?",
"(RCA Victor)\n 1984: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Once Upon a Christmas (RCA Victor)\n\n1985 - 1989\n 1985: Christopher Cross - Every Turn of the World (Warner Bros.)\n 1985: Kenny Rogers - The Heart of the Matter (RCA)\n 1985: Sheila Walsh - Don't Hide Your Heart (Sparrow)\n 1986: Juice Newton - Old Flame (RCA)\n 1986: Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling (Motown)\n 1987: Duane Eddy - Duane Eddy (Capitol)\n 1987: Julio Iglesias - Un Hombre Solo (CBS)\n 1987: Richard Marx - Richard Marx (Manhattan)\n 1987: Roy Orbison - In Dreams: The Greatest Hits (Virgin)\n 1988: Christopher Cross - Back of My Mind (Reprise)\n 1989: Animotion - Animotion (Polydor)\n 1989: Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow (Arista)\n 1989: Stan Ridgway - Mosquitos (I.R.S.)",
"The Wall Live 1980–81 (EMI)\n 2000: Collin Raye - Counting Sheep (Sony)\n 2000: Collin Raye - Tracks (Epic)\n 2000: Daryle Singletary - Now and Again (Audium Entertainment)\n 2000: The Wilkinsons - Here and Now (Giant)\n 2001: John Anderson - Nobody's Got It All (Columbia)\n 2001: Tammy Cochran - Tammy Cochran (Epic)\n 2001: Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Room With a View (Arista)\n 2001: Georgia Middleman - Endless Possibilities (Giant)\n 2001: Charlie Robison - Step Right Up (Lucky Dog / Sony)\n 2002: Tammy Cochran - Life Happened (Epic / Sony)\n 2003: Billy Gilman - Music Through Heartsongs: Songs Based on the Poems of Mattie J.T.",
"Stepanek (Epic)\n 2003: Kenny Rogers - Back to the Well (Dreamcatcher)\n 2003: Hank Williams, Jr. - I'm One of You (Curb)\n 2005: Billy Gilman - Everything and More (Image Entertainment)\n 2005: The Wilkinsons - Highway (Open Road Recordings)\n 2006: Jeff Bates - Leave the Light On (RCA)\n 2006: Billy Gilman - Billy Gilman (Image)\n 2006: Steve Holy - Brand New Girlfriend (Curb)\n 2006: Michelle Wright - Everything and More (Icon)\n 2007: Kevin Fowler - Bring It On (Equity)\n 2007: The Wilkinsons - Home (ABC / Universal)\n 2009: Luke Bryan - Doin' My Thing (Capitol Nashville)\n 2009: Billy Ray Cyrus - Southern Rain (Monument)\n 2009: Hank Williams, Jr. - 127 Rose Avenue (Curb)\n 2010: Matt King - Hard Country (Atlantic Nashville)\n 2014: Michael Nesmith - Movies of the Mind'' (Pacific Arts)\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links \n \n \n \n\nLiving people\nAmerican rock bass guitarists\nAmerican male bass guitarists\nAmerican session musicians\n20th-century American musicians\n21st-century American musicians\n20th-century American male musicians\n21st-century American male musicians\nYear of birth missing (living people)"
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"Joe Chemay is a background singer and bassist.",
"Chemay moved to Nashville in 1989 after working as a session and touring support musician in Los Angeles.",
"The Beach Boys, Leon Russell, Michael Nesmith, and others have worked with Chemay.",
"Chemay provided backing vocals in Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour.",
"A member of Roger Waters' Bleeding Heart Band, Chemay staged a 1990 production of The Wall.",
"The Trifectone Music Group was formed in 2006 by Chemay, Biff and Ed Seay.",
"Tom Jones - Country (Mercury) 1982: Laura Branigan - Branigan (Atlantic) 1981: Kenny Rogers - Share Your Love (Liberty) 1982: Tom Jones - Still Feels Good (Warner Bros.)",
"1984: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Once Upon a Christmas. 1985: Christopher Cross - Every Turn of the World.",
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Chemay started out working as a session and touring support musician in Los Angeles, but moved to Nashville in 1989. Chemay has worked with Elton John, Shania Twain, Bill Medley, Peter Cetera, Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, The Beach Boys, Leon Russell, Michael Nesmith, and others. In 1980 and 1981, Chemay participated in Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour, providing backing vocals. Chemay also was a member of Roger Waters' Bleeding Heart Band, staging a 1990 production of The Wall. In 2006, Chemay formed the Trifectone Music Group with Biff Watson and Ed Seay to write, develop and produce commercial music. (Epic)
1981: Tom Johnston - Still Feels Good (Warner Bros.)
1981: Kenny Rogers - Share Your Love (Liberty)
1982: Laura Branigan - Branigan (Atlantic)
1982: Tom Jones - Country (Mercury)
1982: Juice Newton - Quiet Lies (Capitol)
1982: Eddie Rabbitt - Radio Romance
1982: Lionel Richie - Lionel Richie (Motown)
1982: Kenny Rogers - Love Will Turn You Around (Liberty)
1983: Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down (Motown)
1983: Kenny Rogers - We've Got Tonight (Liberty)
1984: Laura Branigan - Self Control (Atlantic)
1984: Flashbeagle (Disneyland Records)
1984: Evelyn "Champagne" King - So Romantic (RCA)
1984: Smokey Robinson - Essar (Tamla)
1984: Kenny Rogers - What About Me?(RCA Victor)
1984: Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Once Upon a Christmas (RCA Victor)
1985 - 1989
1985: Christopher Cross - Every Turn of the World (Warner Bros.)
1985: Kenny Rogers - The Heart of the Matter (RCA)
1985: Sheila Walsh - Don't Hide Your Heart (Sparrow)
1986: Juice Newton - Old Flame (RCA)
1986: Lionel Richie - Dancing on the Ceiling (Motown)
1987: Duane Eddy - Duane Eddy (Capitol)
1987: Julio Iglesias - Un Hombre Solo (CBS)
1987: Richard Marx - Richard Marx (Manhattan)
1987: Roy Orbison - In Dreams: The Greatest Hits (Virgin)
1988: Christopher Cross - Back of My Mind (Reprise)
1989: Animotion - Animotion (Polydor)
1989: Barry Manilow - Barry Manilow (Arista)
1989: Stan Ridgway - Mosquitos (I.R.S.) The Wall Live 1980–81 (EMI)
2000: Collin Raye - Counting Sheep (Sony)
2000: Collin Raye - Tracks (Epic)
2000: Daryle Singletary - Now and Again (Audium Entertainment)
2000: The Wilkinsons - Here and Now (Giant)
2001: John Anderson - Nobody's Got It All (Columbia)
2001: Tammy Cochran - Tammy Cochran (Epic)
2001: Carolyn Dawn Johnson - Room With a View (Arista)
2001: Georgia Middleman - Endless Possibilities (Giant)
2001: Charlie Robison - Step Right Up (Lucky Dog / Sony)
2002: Tammy Cochran - Life Happened (Epic / Sony)
2003: Billy Gilman - Music Through Heartsongs: Songs Based on the Poems of Mattie J.T. Stepanek (Epic)
2003: Kenny Rogers - Back to the Well (Dreamcatcher)
2003: Hank Williams, Jr. - I'm One of You (Curb)
2005: Billy Gilman - Everything and More (Image Entertainment)
2005: The Wilkinsons - Highway (Open Road Recordings)
2006: Jeff Bates - Leave the Light On (RCA)
2006: Billy Gilman - Billy Gilman (Image)
2006: Steve Holy - Brand New Girlfriend (Curb)
2006: Michelle Wright - Everything and More (Icon)
2007: Kevin Fowler - Bring It On (Equity)
2007: The Wilkinsons - Home (ABC / Universal)
2009: Luke Bryan - Doin' My Thing (Capitol Nashville)
2009: Billy Ray Cyrus - Southern Rain (Monument)
2009: Hank Williams, Jr. - 127 Rose Avenue (Curb)
2010: Matt King - Hard Country (Atlantic Nashville)
2014: Michael Nesmith - Movies of the Mind'' (Pacific Arts)
References
External links
Living people
American rock bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
American session musicians
20th-century American musicians
21st-century American musicians
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
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7127421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Carmichael | Ralph Carmichael | Ralph Carmichael (May 27, 1927 – October 18, 2021) was an American composer and arranger of both secular pop music and contemporary Christian music, regarded as one of the pioneers of the latter genre as well as the father of contemporary Christian music.
Life
Carmichael was born in Quincy, Illinois, the son of a Pentecostal minister who allowed his son to play the violin and listen to the radio. He said, "I was captivated by the chordal explosions I heard on the radio. I felt a sadness that we didn't have that in our church. Our church orchestra sounded weak and terrible by comparison. It was embarrassing. Why? Why did we have to settle? Why couldn't we use those gorgeous rhythms, sweeping strings, the brass, the stirring chords? That started to control everything I did."
As a teenager, Carmichael played the violin with the San Jose Civic Symphony. At 17, he enrolled at Southern California Bible College, now Vanguard University, to become a preacher like his father, grandfather, three uncles and five cousins. He started a campus men's quartet as well as ensembles and mixed groups of all kinds, blending jazz and classical music techniques with gospel songs and hymns. His musical "experiments" proved instantly controversial: his bands were unwelcome at many churches, and he was not allowed to store his baritone saxophone on campus because of its associations with big band music.
After college, Carmichael's band received mixed reactions from the Christian community. One church asked that they hide their drums behind a curtain; a pastor in Oakland stopped the band mid-song because the music sounded too "worldly." After a performance at a men's fellowship in Pasadena, however, Carmichael's band was invited to audition for television. The TV program drew so much response mail from Christians that the station asked for more shows.
In 1951, Carmichael was invited to score a film for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. In all, he scored twenty of the BGEA's films, including the funky urban soundtrack for the 1970 film The Cross and the Switchblade. By the late 1950s, secular producers had taken notice of Carmichael's radio and film work. He was invited to assist the composer at the television sitcom I Love Lucy and was soon arranging music for that show as well as Bonanza and The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show and for singer Rosemary Clooney. In 1958, Carmichael was hired by producer Jack H. Harris to score his science fiction film, The Blob. With the success of the film, Carmichael was brought back to score Harris' follow-up film, 4D Man. He arranged and composed music for a Bing Crosby Christmas special television program (which prompted his denomination to strongly discourage the renewal of his ordination). He also composed and conducted the theme music for the 1965 sitcom, My Mother the Car.
Nat King Cole
Carmichael's big break came in the late 1950s, when his work came to the attention of Capitol Records, who asked him to provide arrangements for an album of mainly sacred Christmas songs by one of the label's biggest stars, Nat King Cole. The result, The Magic of Christmas, was released for the 1960 festive season, by which time Capitol had already set Carmichael to work with Cole on more secular albums.
Carmichael duly became Cole's most regularly utilized arranger from then until the singer's death in early 1965. Their first mainstream pop collaboration was The Touch of Your Lips (also 1960), an album of romantic ballads backed by lush strings, and their final team-up was Cole's last album, L-O-V-E. Featuring jazzy big band arrangements, it was recorded in December 1964, only two months before Cole succumbed to the lung cancer which was already in its advanced stages.
Other performers
Carmichael wrote arrangements for many other top performers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Jack Jones, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Al Martino and Roger Williams. He arranged most of the carols on the 1961 Stan Kenton album A Merry Christmas!.
Christian music
It is in the field of Christian music that Carmichael was most prolific. In particular, his experiments in pop-rock style in the 1960s and 1970s brought him recognition as the "Father of Contemporary Christian Music". He founded Light Records in order to widen the audience for the music of the Jesus People. He was subject to controversy from within the church, being called a heretic for his use of guitars in worship and his adaptations of Gospel songs to big band stylings.
Manna Music Inc founders Tim and Hal Spencer introduced Andraé Crouch to Carmichael, helping to launch Crouch's recording career. Carmichael also provided the backing for a number of RCA albums by Gospel singer George Beverly Shea, including The Love of God in 1958, and How Great Thou Art in 1969. In 1969, Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser collaborated on Tell It Like It Is, a folk musical about God. The record album of the musical, which included the song "Pass It On", sold 2,500 copies, completely selling out the first run; it then completely sold out its second run of 100,000 copies. The Carpenters recorded Carmichael's song "Love is Surrender" on their 1970 album Close to You.
One of Carmichael's contemporary hymns, "Reach Out to Jesus", was recorded by Elvis Presley, on the singer's 1972 Grammy Award-winning album of sacred songs, He Touched Me. His album Strike Up the Band won a Dove Award for "Instrumental Album of the Year" at the 25th GMA Dove Awards in 1994.
Recognition
Carmichael was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1985 and into the National Religious Broadcasters' Hall of Fame in 2001.
Personal life
In 1948, Carmichael married singer Evangeline Otto; they divorced in 1964. Their daughter Carol Celeste Carmichael, later Carol Parks (1949–2010), was a vocalist and assistant record producer. He married his second wife, Marvella Price, in 1965.
Carmichael's autobiography, He's Everything To Me, was published by Word Books in 1986.
Death
Carmichael died on October 18, 2021, in Camarillo, California. He was 94.
References
External links
Archived version of official website from May 2017
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2021 deaths
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Jazz arrangers
American jazz composers
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"He said, \"I was captivated by the chordal explosions I heard on the radio.",
"I felt a sadness that we didn't have that in our church.",
"Our church orchestra sounded weak and terrible by comparison.",
"It was embarrassing.",
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"At 17, he enrolled at Southern California Bible College, now Vanguard University, to become a preacher like his father, grandfather, three uncles and five cousins.",
"He started a campus men's quartet as well as ensembles and mixed groups of all kinds, blending jazz and classical music techniques with gospel songs and hymns.",
"His musical \"experiments\" proved instantly controversial: his bands were unwelcome at many churches, and he was not allowed to store his baritone saxophone on campus because of its associations with big band music.",
"After college, Carmichael's band received mixed reactions from the Christian community.",
"One church asked that they hide their drums behind a curtain; a pastor in Oakland stopped the band mid-song because the music sounded too \"worldly.\"",
"After a performance at a men's fellowship in Pasadena, however, Carmichael's band was invited to audition for television.",
"The TV program drew so much response mail from Christians that the station asked for more shows.",
"In 1951, Carmichael was invited to score a film for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.",
"In all, he scored twenty of the BGEA's films, including the funky urban soundtrack for the 1970 film The Cross and the Switchblade.",
"By the late 1950s, secular producers had taken notice of Carmichael's radio and film work.",
"He was invited to assist the composer at the television sitcom I Love Lucy and was soon arranging music for that show as well as Bonanza and The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show and for singer Rosemary Clooney.",
"In 1958, Carmichael was hired by producer Jack H. Harris to score his science fiction film, The Blob.",
"With the success of the film, Carmichael was brought back to score Harris' follow-up film, 4D Man.",
"He arranged and composed music for a Bing Crosby Christmas special television program (which prompted his denomination to strongly discourage the renewal of his ordination).",
"He also composed and conducted the theme music for the 1965 sitcom, My Mother the Car.",
"Nat King Cole\nCarmichael's big break came in the late 1950s, when his work came to the attention of Capitol Records, who asked him to provide arrangements for an album of mainly sacred Christmas songs by one of the label's biggest stars, Nat King Cole.",
"The result, The Magic of Christmas, was released for the 1960 festive season, by which time Capitol had already set Carmichael to work with Cole on more secular albums.",
"Carmichael duly became Cole's most regularly utilized arranger from then until the singer's death in early 1965.",
"Their first mainstream pop collaboration was The Touch of Your Lips (also 1960), an album of romantic ballads backed by lush strings, and their final team-up was Cole's last album, L-O-V-E.",
"Featuring jazzy big band arrangements, it was recorded in December 1964, only two months before Cole succumbed to the lung cancer which was already in its advanced stages.",
"Other performers\nCarmichael wrote arrangements for many other top performers, including Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Jack Jones, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Al Martino and Roger Williams.",
"He arranged most of the carols on the 1961 Stan Kenton album A Merry Christmas!.",
"Christian music\nIt is in the field of Christian music that Carmichael was most prolific.",
"In particular, his experiments in pop-rock style in the 1960s and 1970s brought him recognition as the \"Father of Contemporary Christian Music\".",
"He founded Light Records in order to widen the audience for the music of the Jesus People.",
"He was subject to controversy from within the church, being called a heretic for his use of guitars in worship and his adaptations of Gospel songs to big band stylings.",
"Manna Music Inc founders Tim and Hal Spencer introduced Andraé Crouch to Carmichael, helping to launch Crouch's recording career.",
"Carmichael also provided the backing for a number of RCA albums by Gospel singer George Beverly Shea, including The Love of God in 1958, and How Great Thou Art in 1969.",
"In 1969, Carmichael and Kurt Kaiser collaborated on Tell It Like It Is, a folk musical about God.",
"The record album of the musical, which included the song \"Pass It On\", sold 2,500 copies, completely selling out the first run; it then completely sold out its second run of 100,000 copies.",
"The Carpenters recorded Carmichael's song \"Love is Surrender\" on their 1970 album Close to You.",
"One of Carmichael's contemporary hymns, \"Reach Out to Jesus\", was recorded by Elvis Presley, on the singer's 1972 Grammy Award-winning album of sacred songs, He Touched Me.",
"His album Strike Up the Band won a Dove Award for \"Instrumental Album of the Year\" at the 25th GMA Dove Awards in 1994.",
"Recognition\nCarmichael was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1985 and into the National Religious Broadcasters' Hall of Fame in 2001.",
"Personal life\nIn 1948, Carmichael married singer Evangeline Otto; they divorced in 1964.",
"Their daughter Carol Celeste Carmichael, later Carol Parks (1949–2010), was a vocalist and assistant record producer.",
"He married his second wife, Marvella Price, in 1965.",
"Carmichael's autobiography, He's Everything To Me, was published by Word Books in 1986.",
"Death\nCarmichael died on October 18, 2021, in Camarillo, California.",
"He was 94.",
"References\n\nExternal links\n Archived version of official website from May 2017\n \n \n\n1927 births\n2021 deaths\nAmerican music arrangers\nJazz arrangers\nAmerican jazz composers\nAmerican male jazz composers\nPeople from Quincy, Illinois\nVanguard University alumni\nJazz musicians from Illinois"
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"He said that he was enamored by the explosions on the radio.",
"I was sad that we didn't have that in our church.",
"The church orchestra sounded terrible.",
"It was not nice.",
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"The band received mixed reactions from the Christian community after college.",
"A pastor in Oakland stopped the band mid-song because the music sounded too \"worldly\", and a church asked that they hide their drums behind a curtain.",
"After a performance at a men's fellowship in Pasadena, the band was invited to try out for a show.",
"The station asked for more shows after the program drew so much response from Christians.",
"The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association invited Carmichael to score a film in 1951.",
"He scored the funky urban soundtrack for the 1970 film The Cross and the Switchblade.",
"Secular producers took notice of Carmichael's radio and film work.",
"He was invited to assist the composer at the television sitcom I Love Lucy and was soon arranging music for that show as well as The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show and for Rosemary Clooney.",
"Jack H. Harris hired Carmichael to score his science fiction film, The Blob.",
"Carmichael was brought back to score Harris' follow-up film, 4D Man, after the success of the film.",
"His denomination strongly discouraged the renewal of his ordination because he arranged and composed music for a Bing Crosby Christmas special television program.",
"The theme music for the sitcom My Mother the Car was composed and conducted by him.",
"When Nat King Cole Carmichael's work came to the attention of Capitol Records, they asked him to provide arrangements for an album of mostly sacred Christmas songs by one of the label's biggest stars, Nat King Cole.",
"The Magic of Christmas was released for the festive season in 1960 and was the result of a collaboration between Carmichael and Cole.",
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"Their first mainstream pop collaboration was The Touch of Your Lips, an album of romantic ballads backed by lush strings, and Cole's last album was L-O-V-E.",
"It was recorded in December 1964, two months before Cole died of lung cancer.",
"Many top performers, including Bing Crosby, Jack Jones, Julie London, Al Martino and Roger Williams, had arrangements written for them by other performers.",
"Most of the carols were arranged by him.",
"Carmichael was the most prolific in the field of Christian music.",
"His experimentation with pop-rock style in the 1960s and 1970s made him known as the \"Father of Contemporary Christian Music\".",
"Light Records was founded to widen the audience for the music of the Jesus People.",
"He was accused of being a heretic for his use of guitars in worship and his use of big band stylings.",
"Tim and Hal Spencer helped launch Andraé's recording career by introducing her to them.",
"The Love of God and How Great Thou Art are two of the albums that were backed by Carmichael.",
"Tell It Like It Is was a folk musical about God.",
"The first run of the musical's record album sold 2,500 copies, and the second run sold 100,000 copies.",
"The song \"Love is Surrender\" was recorded by the Carpenters.",
"Elvis Presley recorded a song called \"Reach Out to Jesus\" on his 1972 album, He Touched Me.",
"Strike Up the Band was nominated for \"Instrumental Album of the Year\" at the 25th GMA Dove Awards.",
"In 1985 and 2001 Carmichael was in the National Religious Broadcasters' Hall of Fame.",
"The personal life of Carmichael and Otto ended in divorce.",
"Carol Parks was a vocalist and assistant record producer.",
"In 1965, he married his second wife.",
"He's Everything To Me was published by Word Books.",
"The death of Death Carmichael took place in October of 2021.",
"He died at the age of 94.",
"There are links to External links on the official website."
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It is in the field of Christian music that <mask> was most prolific. In particular, his experiments in pop-rock style in the 1960s and 1970s brought him recognition as the "Father of Contemporary Christian Music".He founded Light Records in order to widen the audience for the music of the Jesus People. He was subject to controversy from within the church, being called a heretic for his use of guitars in worship and his adaptations of Gospel songs to big band stylings. Manna Music Inc founders Tim and Hal Spencer introduced Andraé Crouch to <mask>, helping to launch Crouch's recording career. <mask> also provided the backing for a number of RCA albums by Gospel singer George Beverly Shea, including The Love of God in 1958, and How Great Thou Art in 1969. In 1969, <mask> and Kurt Kaiser collaborated on Tell It Like It Is, a folk musical about God. The record album of the musical, which included the song "Pass It On", sold 2,500 copies, completely selling out the first run; it then completely sold out its second run of 100,000 copies. The Carpenters recorded <mask>'s song "Love is Surrender" on their 1970 album Close to You.One of <mask>'s contemporary hymns, "Reach Out to Jesus", was recorded by Elvis Presley, on the singer's 1972 Grammy Award-winning album of sacred songs, He Touched Me. His album Strike Up the Band won a Dove Award for "Instrumental Album of the Year" at the 25th GMA Dove Awards in 1994. Recognition
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Archived version of official website from May 2017
1927 births
2021 deaths
American music arrangers
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American jazz composers
American male jazz composers
People from Quincy, Illinois
Vanguard University alumni
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61714718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamun%20Al%20Mahtab%20%28Shwapnil%29 | Mamun Al Mahtab (Shwapnil) | Mamun Al Mahtab (August 22, 1970) is a Bangladeshi hepatologist, medical scientist, author, and columnist. With 290 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals to his credit, Mahtab is currently working as the Head, Division of Interventional Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). In 1998, he graduated from the University of London with an MSc in gastroenterology, and then in 2006, he obtained an MD in hepatology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University(BSMMU).
Mahtab is the chief investigator for the GBPD060 clinical study of the Bangladesh-developed SARS-CoV-2 mRNA candidate. He is also the lead researcher on NASVAC's Phase I/II and III clinical studies. Mahtab was jointly awarded the ‘Premio Nacional' from the Cuban Academy of Sciences for the discovery of NASVAC in 2019. He organizes awareness-raising programs on liver diseases across the country in addition to inventing the NASVAC drug aiming to offer an effective solution to Hepatitis B at an affordable price for mass people in Bangladesh.
Early life and education
He spent his early life in Dhaka. His schooling started in Rosy Ann Centre, an English medium kindergarten. He subsequently switched to Banani Bidyaniketan and passed Secondary School Certificate examination in 1985. He completed Higher Secondary Certificate from Dhaka College in 1987.
He then moved to Mymensingh where he was admitted to the Mymensingh Medical College for his undergraduate medical studies. He got involved in student politics of Bangladesh Chatra League there. He was a member of the Central Committee (i.e. Mainuddin Hassan Choudhury - Iqbalur Rahim - Mahbububul Haque Shakil committee) of the organization.
Mahtab graduated from Mymensingh Medical College in 1995. He gained an MSc in Gastroenterology from the University of London in 1998 and subsequently did an MD in Hepatology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Indian College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology. Mahtab obtained Doctor of Philosophy from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2021.
Career
Mahtab is currently working as the Head, Division of Interventional Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). He is the past chairman, Department of Hepatology of the same university. He worked as visiting professor at the Department of Gastroenterology & Metabology, Ehime University, Japan and Member, Board of Studies, Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India. He is member of the Strategic & Technical Advisory Group on Viral Hepatitis of World Health Organization-South-East Asia Region.
Mahtab is a PhD thesis co-supervisor and PhD examiner at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Tehran University, Iran, University of Madras and Dr. A P J Abul Kalam Technical University, India and University of Dhaka and Rajshahi University in Bangladesh.
He is member of Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Working Parties on hepatitis B, hepatitis C, acute on chronic liver failure and liver fibrosis, hepatitis B virus in pregnancy, Budd Chiari Syndrome and APASL COVID Task Force.
Mahtab is also a member of Regional Expert Panel on NAFLD/NASH and Survey Lead for Bangladesh of Global NAFLD Policy Review of European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).
Research
Mahtab is the principal investigator of the phase-I/II and III clinical trials of NASVAC, a new generic for chronic hepatitis B, which is already registered in Bangladesh, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Belarus and Angola. It is the first drug to be developed and registered in Bangladesh. NASVAC is also the ‘first novel molecule’ to be registered by the Directorate General of Drug Administration of the Bangladesh Government.
Mahtab is the principal investigator of the clinical trial of GBPD060, the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine candidate, developed in Bangladesh.
Publications
Mahtab has compiled six books, namely ‘Liver: A Complete Book on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases’, published by Elsevier (2009), ’Comprehensive Text Book on Hepatitis B’, published by Jaypee (2010), ‘Fatty Liver Disease’ (2012) and 'Hepatitis Management Update' (2015) published by McMillan and 'Text Book of Hepato-Gastroenterology' (2015) and 'Practical Hepato-Gastroenterology Prescriber' (2016) published by Jaypee.
He has more than 290 publications in international and national peer reviewed scientific journals. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he has published to date 19 scientific articles related to COVID-19. He has more than 350 international and national scientific conference talks to his credit.
Mahtab is serving on the Editorial Boards of several international journals in the fields of Hepatology and Gastroenterology including, Euro-Asian Journal of Hepato-Gastroenterology (Journal of Euro-Asian Gastroenterological Association) (Co-Editor-in-Chief), Hepatology International (journal of Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver) (Associate Editor) and Journal of Clinical, Experimental Hepatology (journal of Indian Association for the Study of the Liver) (Editorial Board Member), Hepatitis B Annual (Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India) (Co-Editor-in-Chief) to name a few.
He has published Bengali translations of 'White House Years: The Tilt-The India-Pakistan Crisis of 1971' (পাক ভারত যুদ্ধ ১৯৭১) (1993) by Henry Kissinger and 'Victory in Bangladesh' (একাত্তরের বিজয়) (1994) by Major General (Retd.) Lachman Singh. He has recently published four Bengali books, namely ‘Shekal Ekaler Korcha’ (সেকাল একালের কড়চা) (2018) ‘Ekhon Shomoy Bangladesher’ (এখন সময় বাংলাদেশের) (2019), ‘Poth Harabe Na Bangladesh (পথ হারাবে না বাংলাদেশে) (2020), ‘Bangabandhu, Muktijudhdha and Bangladesh’ (বঙ্গবন্ধু, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ ও বাংলাদেশ) (2021) from Mawla Brothers and ‘Liver Chikitshae Notun Sombhabona’(লিভার চিকিৎসায় নতুন সম্ভাবনা) (2018) from Mutkodhara, which are leading publication houses of the country.
Awards
1.‘Premio Nacional’ from Cuban Academy of Sciences in 2019
2.“Order of Merit” from Euro-Asian Gastroenterological Association (2014)
3."Blumberg Oration 2015" conferred by Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India, (2016)
4."Distinguished Scientist (Hepatology) Award" from Venus Research Foundation, India (2016)
5.“Albert Nelson Marquis Life Time Achievement Award” (2018) from Marquis Who's Who
6.“Bishuddhananda Gold Medal” from Bangladesh Bouddha Krishty Prochar Songho (2018)
Mahtab has received several awards for his contribution during COVID-19 pandemic including ‘Health Care Heroes Award 2020’ from Walton Group, Bangladesh, ‘Global Business CSR Award 2021’ from Bangladesh American Chamber of Commerce & Youth Commerce Communication International, ‘Wonca Global Healthcare Leadership Award 2021’ from World Organization of Family Physicians (Wonca), ‘COVID-19 Hero Award’ from Rotary International Zone 1B, Region 10.
Affiliations
He is four times elected Secretary General of Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases Bangladesh (ASLDB) (the national Hepatology Association of Bangladesh). He is also founder President of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hepatology Alumni Association and Executive Chairman of Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh.
He is the founder General Secretary of Bangladesh Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Society.
He has organized several ‘first time in Bangladesh’ medical conferences including the first STEMCON in 2017 (1st international conference on stem cell therapy in Bangladesh) and first EndoVasculoCon in 2019 (1st live conference from endoscopy suit and vascular lab in the region).
Mahtab played key role in organizing the First Padma-Ganga-Gomti Liver Conference 2019 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka. This is the first ever scientific conference of only Bengali Hepatologists. The conference was jointly organized by Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh, Liver Foundation West Bengal and Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura. It was organized as a token of respect of the Bengali Hepatologists to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Mahtab is the Vice President of Euroasian Gastroenterological Association, Secretary General of South Asian Association for the Study of the Liver (SAASL) and International Coordinator of Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL).
Mahtab is member of the APASL Working Parties on hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF), Budd Chiari Syndrome and liver fibrosis. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Patient Registry of Hepatitis Free Pahang Society, Malaysia.
He is only Bangladeshi Hepatologists who proclaimed June 12 as ‘International NASH Day’ through a joint deceleration released simultaneously from London, Paris and New York in 2018.
He is Member Secretary of Sampritee Bangladesh, Treasurer of Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Executive Member of Dhaka City North Awami League. Mahtab was Councilor at the 21st National Council of the party in 2016 and 2019.
Personal life
Mahtab comes from Sylhet. He is married to Dr. Nuzhat Choudhury. They have two children. His father late Mahtab Uddin Ahmed was an civil engineer of Bangladesh. He served the Government of Bangladesh in the capacity of Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department. His mother Mrs. Ayesha Mahtab is a house wife.
References
1970 births
Alumni of the University of London
Bangladeshi hepatologists
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Living people
People from Sylhet | [
"Mamun Al Mahtab (August 22, 1970) is a Bangladeshi hepatologist, medical scientist, author, and columnist.",
"With 290 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals to his credit, Mahtab is currently working as the Head, Division of Interventional Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).",
"In 1998, he graduated from the University of London with an MSc in gastroenterology, and then in 2006, he obtained an MD in hepatology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University(BSMMU).",
"Mahtab is the chief investigator for the GBPD060 clinical study of the Bangladesh-developed SARS-CoV-2 mRNA candidate.",
"He is also the lead researcher on NASVAC's Phase I/II and III clinical studies.",
"Mahtab was jointly awarded the ‘Premio Nacional' from the Cuban Academy of Sciences for the discovery of NASVAC in 2019.",
"He organizes awareness-raising programs on liver diseases across the country in addition to inventing the NASVAC drug aiming to offer an effective solution to Hepatitis B at an affordable price for mass people in Bangladesh.",
"Early life and education\nHe spent his early life in Dhaka.",
"His schooling started in Rosy Ann Centre, an English medium kindergarten.",
"He subsequently switched to Banani Bidyaniketan and passed Secondary School Certificate examination in 1985.",
"He completed Higher Secondary Certificate from Dhaka College in 1987.",
"He then moved to Mymensingh where he was admitted to the Mymensingh Medical College for his undergraduate medical studies.",
"He got involved in student politics of Bangladesh Chatra League there.",
"He was a member of the Central Committee (i.e.",
"Mainuddin Hassan Choudhury - Iqbalur Rahim - Mahbububul Haque Shakil committee) of the organization.",
"Mahtab graduated from Mymensingh Medical College in 1995.",
"He gained an MSc in Gastroenterology from the University of London in 1998 and subsequently did an MD in Hepatology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in 2006.",
"He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Indian College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology.",
"Mahtab obtained Doctor of Philosophy from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2021.",
"Career\nMahtab is currently working as the Head, Division of Interventional Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).",
"He is the past chairman, Department of Hepatology of the same university.",
"He worked as visiting professor at the Department of Gastroenterology & Metabology, Ehime University, Japan and Member, Board of Studies, Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India.",
"He is member of the Strategic & Technical Advisory Group on Viral Hepatitis of World Health Organization-South-East Asia Region.",
"Mahtab is a PhD thesis co-supervisor and PhD examiner at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Tehran University, Iran, University of Madras and Dr. A P J Abul Kalam Technical University, India and University of Dhaka and Rajshahi University in Bangladesh.",
"He is member of Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Working Parties on hepatitis B, hepatitis C, acute on chronic liver failure and liver fibrosis, hepatitis B virus in pregnancy, Budd Chiari Syndrome and APASL COVID Task Force.",
"Mahtab is also a member of Regional Expert Panel on NAFLD/NASH and Survey Lead for Bangladesh of Global NAFLD Policy Review of European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL).",
"Research \nMahtab is the principal investigator of the phase-I/II and III clinical trials of NASVAC, a new generic for chronic hepatitis B, which is already registered in Bangladesh, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Belarus and Angola.",
"It is the first drug to be developed and registered in Bangladesh.",
"NASVAC is also the ‘first novel molecule’ to be registered by the Directorate General of Drug Administration of the Bangladesh Government.",
"Mahtab is the principal investigator of the clinical trial of GBPD060, the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine candidate, developed in Bangladesh.",
"Publications \nMahtab has compiled six books, namely ‘Liver: A Complete Book on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases’, published by Elsevier (2009), ’Comprehensive Text Book on Hepatitis B’, published by Jaypee (2010), ‘Fatty Liver Disease’ (2012) and 'Hepatitis Management Update' (2015) published by McMillan and 'Text Book of Hepato-Gastroenterology' (2015) and 'Practical Hepato-Gastroenterology Prescriber' (2016) published by Jaypee.",
"He has more than 290 publications in international and national peer reviewed scientific journals.",
"During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he has published to date 19 scientific articles related to COVID-19.",
"He has more than 350 international and national scientific conference talks to his credit.",
"Mahtab is serving on the Editorial Boards of several international journals in the fields of Hepatology and Gastroenterology including, Euro-Asian Journal of Hepato-Gastroenterology (Journal of Euro-Asian Gastroenterological Association) (Co-Editor-in-Chief), Hepatology International (journal of Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver) (Associate Editor) and Journal of Clinical, Experimental Hepatology (journal of Indian Association for the Study of the Liver) (Editorial Board Member), Hepatitis B Annual (Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India) (Co-Editor-in-Chief) to name a few.",
"He has published Bengali translations of 'White House Years: The Tilt-The India-Pakistan Crisis of 1971' (পাক ভারত যুদ্ধ ১৯৭১) (1993) by Henry Kissinger and 'Victory in Bangladesh' (একাত্তরের বিজয়) (1994) by Major General (Retd.)",
"Lachman Singh.",
"He has recently published four Bengali books, namely ‘Shekal Ekaler Korcha’ (সেকাল একালের কড়চা) (2018) ‘Ekhon Shomoy Bangladesher’ (এখন সময় বাংলাদেশের) (2019), ‘Poth Harabe Na Bangladesh (পথ হারাবে না বাংলাদেশে) (2020), ‘Bangabandhu, Muktijudhdha and Bangladesh’ (বঙ্গবন্ধু, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ ও বাংলাদেশ) (2021) from Mawla Brothers and ‘Liver Chikitshae Notun Sombhabona’(লিভার চিকিৎসায় নতুন সম্ভাবনা) (2018) from Mutkodhara, which are leading publication houses of the country.",
"Awards \n1.‘Premio Nacional’ from Cuban Academy of Sciences in 2019\n\n2.“Order of Merit” from Euro-Asian Gastroenterological Association (2014)\n\n3.",
"\"Blumberg Oration 2015\" conferred by Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India, (2016)\n\n4.",
"\"Distinguished Scientist (Hepatology) Award\" from Venus Research Foundation, India (2016)\n\n5.“Albert Nelson Marquis Life Time Achievement Award” (2018) from Marquis Who's Who\n\n6.“Bishuddhananda Gold Medal” from Bangladesh Bouddha Krishty Prochar Songho (2018)\n\nMahtab has received several awards for his contribution during COVID-19 pandemic including ‘Health Care Heroes Award 2020’ from Walton Group, Bangladesh, ‘Global Business CSR Award 2021’ from Bangladesh American Chamber of Commerce & Youth Commerce Communication International, ‘Wonca Global Healthcare Leadership Award 2021’ from World Organization of Family Physicians (Wonca), ‘COVID-19 Hero Award’ from Rotary International Zone 1B, Region 10.",
"Affiliations \nHe is four times elected Secretary General of Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases Bangladesh (ASLDB) (the national Hepatology Association of Bangladesh).",
"He is also founder President of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hepatology Alumni Association and Executive Chairman of Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh.",
"He is the founder General Secretary of Bangladesh Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Society.",
"He has organized several ‘first time in Bangladesh’ medical conferences including the first STEMCON in 2017 (1st international conference on stem cell therapy in Bangladesh) and first EndoVasculoCon in 2019 (1st live conference from endoscopy suit and vascular lab in the region).",
"Mahtab played key role in organizing the First Padma-Ganga-Gomti Liver Conference 2019 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka.",
"This is the first ever scientific conference of only Bengali Hepatologists.",
"The conference was jointly organized by Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh, Liver Foundation West Bengal and Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura.",
"It was organized as a token of respect of the Bengali Hepatologists to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.",
"Mahtab is the Vice President of Euroasian Gastroenterological Association, Secretary General of South Asian Association for the Study of the Liver (SAASL) and International Coordinator of Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL).",
"Mahtab is member of the APASL Working Parties on hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF), Budd Chiari Syndrome and liver fibrosis.",
"He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Patient Registry of Hepatitis Free Pahang Society, Malaysia.",
"He is only Bangladeshi Hepatologists who proclaimed June 12 as ‘International NASH Day’ through a joint deceleration released simultaneously from London, Paris and New York in 2018.",
"He is Member Secretary of Sampritee Bangladesh, Treasurer of Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Executive Member of Dhaka City North Awami League.",
"Mahtab was Councilor at the 21st National Council of the party in 2016 and 2019.",
"Personal life \nMahtab comes from Sylhet.",
"He is married to Dr. Nuzhat Choudhury.",
"They have two children.",
"His father late Mahtab Uddin Ahmed was an civil engineer of Bangladesh.",
"He served the Government of Bangladesh in the capacity of Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department.",
"His mother Mrs. Ayesha Mahtab is a house wife.",
"References\n\n1970 births\nAlumni of the University of London\nBangladeshi hepatologists\nFellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland\nFellows of the Royal College of Physicians\nLiving people\nPeople from Sylhet"
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"Mamun Al Mahtab was born on August 22, 1970 in Bangladesh.",
"With over 300 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals to his credit, Mahtab is currently working as the Head of the Division of Interventional Hepatology.",
"In 1998, he graduated from the University of London with a degree in gastroenterology, and in 2006 he obtained a doctor of medicine degree from the BSMMU.",
"The chief investigator for the study is Mahtab.",
"He is the lead researcher on the clinical studies.",
"The Cuban Academy of Sciences gave the 'Premio Nacional' to Mahtab for his discovery.",
"He invented the NASVAC drug in order to offer an effective solution to Hepatitis B at an affordable price for mass people in Bangladesh.",
"He spent his formative years in Bangladesh.",
"His education began in an English medium kindergarten.",
"He passed the Secondary School Certificate examination in 1985.",
"He obtained a Higher Secondary Certificate from Dhaka College.",
"He was admitted to the Mymensingh Medical College for his undergraduate medical studies.",
"He was involved in student politics in Bangladesh.",
"He was a member of the committee.",
"There are two committees of the organization.",
"In 1995 he graduated from the Mymensingh Medical College.",
"He did an MD in Hepatology at the Medical University of Bangladesh in 2006 after obtaining an MSc in Gastroenterology from the University of London in 1998.",
"He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Indian College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology.",
"The University of Malaya, Malaysia has a Doctor of Philosophy.",
"The Head of the Division of Interventional Hepatology is Career Mahtab.",
"The Department of Hepatology was chaired by him.",
"He was a member of the Board of Studies in the Department of Gastroenterology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.",
"He is a member of the Strategic & Technical Advisory Group.",
"The University of Malaya, Malaysia, Tehran University, Iran, University of Madras, and Dr. A P J Abul Kalam Technical University are some of the places where he is a PhD thesis co-supervisor and PhD examiner.",
"He is a member of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver.",
"A member of the Regional Expert Panel on NAFLD/NASH and Survey Lead for Bangladesh of the Global NAFLD Policy Review of the European Association for the Study of the Liver.",
"Research Mahtab is the principal investigator of the phase-I/II and III clinical trials of the new generic for chronic hepatitis B, which is already registered in a number of countries.",
"It is the first drug to be developed in Bangladesh.",
"The first novel molecule was registered by the Drug Administration of the Bangladesh Government.",
"The principal investigator of the clinical trial is Mahtab.",
"The six books compiled by Publications Mahtab are 'Liver: A Complete Book on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases', 'Comprehensive Text Book on Hepatitis B', 'Fatty Liver Disease', and 'He'.",
"He has published in international and national peer reviewed journals.",
"He has published 19 scientific articles related to COVID-19.",
"More than 350 international and national scientific conference talks have been given by him.",
"Hepatology International and Euro-Asian Journal of Hepato-Gastroenterology are two international journals in the field of Hepatology and Gastroenterology.",
"He has published translations of Henry Kissinger's 'White House Years: The Tilt-The India-Pakistan Crisis of 1971' and Major General (Retd.)'s 'Victory in Bangladesh'.",
"The man is Lachman Singh.",
"He has published four books in Bengali.",
"The Cuban Academy of Sciences received an award in 2019.",
"\"Blumberg Oration 2015\" was given by the Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation.",
"\"Distinguished Scientist (Hepatology) Award\" from Venus Research Foundation, India.",
"He is the Secretary General of the national Hepatology Association of Bangladesh four times.",
"He is the founder President of the Medical University hepatology Alumni Association.",
"He is the founder of the Bangladesh Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Society.",
"The first international conference on stem cell therapy in Bangladesh was organized by him in 2017.",
"The First Padma-Ganga-Gomti Liver Conference was held in Bangladesh.",
"This is the first scientific conference of Bengali Hepatologists.",
"The conference was organized by the Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh.",
"It was a token of respect to the Bengali Hepatologists.",
"The Vice President of Euroasian Gastroenterological Association is also the Secretary General of the South Asian Association for the Study of the Liver.",
"A member of the APASL Working Parties is Mahtab.",
"He is a member of the Steering Committee.",
"Hepatologists in Bangladesh proclaimed June 12 as International NASH Day through a joint deceleration from London, Paris and New York.",
"He is an Executive Member of the Dhaka City North Awami League.",
"The 21st National Council of the party was held in 2016 and 2019.",
"Personal life is from Sylhet.",
"He is married to a doctor.",
"They have two children.",
"His father was a civil engineer.",
"He worked for the Government of Bangladesh as a Chief Engineer.",
"His mother is a house wife.",
"The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has a Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians living in Sylhet."
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He spent his early life in Dhaka. His schooling started in Rosy Ann Centre, an English medium kindergarten. He subsequently switched to Banani Bidyaniketan and passed Secondary School Certificate examination in 1985. He completed Higher Secondary Certificate from Dhaka College in 1987. He then moved to Mymensingh where he was admitted to the Mymensingh Medical College for his undergraduate medical studies. He got involved in student politics of Bangladesh Chatra League there. He was a member of the Central Committee (i.e.Mainuddin Hassan Choudhury - Iqbalur Rahim - Mahbububul Haque Shakil committee) of the organization. <mask> graduated from Mymensingh Medical College in 1995. He gained an MSc in Gastroenterology from the University of London in 1998 and subsequently did an MD in Hepatology at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in 2006. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Indian College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology. <mask> obtained Doctor of Philosophy from University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2021. Career
<mask> is currently working as the Head, Division of Interventional Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU). He is the past chairman, Department of Hepatology of the same university.He worked as visiting professor at the Department of Gastroenterology & Metabology, Ehime University, Japan and Member, Board of Studies, Department of Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, India. He is member of the Strategic & Technical Advisory Group on Viral Hepatitis of World Health Organization-South-East Asia Region. Mahtab is a PhD thesis co-supervisor and PhD examiner at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, Tehran University, Iran, University of Madras and Dr. A P J Abul Kalam Technical University, India and University of Dhaka and Rajshahi University in Bangladesh. He is member of Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) Working Parties on hepatitis B, hepatitis C, acute on chronic liver failure and liver fibrosis, hepatitis B virus in pregnancy, Budd Chiari Syndrome and APASL COVID Task Force. <mask> is also a member of Regional Expert Panel on NAFLD/NASH and Survey Lead for Bangladesh of Global NAFLD Policy Review of European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). Research
Mahtab is the principal investigator of the phase-I/II and III clinical trials of NASVAC, a new generic for chronic hepatitis B, which is already registered in Bangladesh, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Belarus and Angola. It is the first drug to be developed and registered in Bangladesh.NASVAC is also the ‘first novel molecule’ to be registered by the Directorate General of Drug Administration of the Bangladesh Government. Mahtab is the principal investigator of the clinical trial of GBPD060, the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine candidate, developed in Bangladesh. Publications
Mahtab has compiled six books, namely ‘Liver: A Complete Book on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases’, published by Elsevier (2009), ’Comprehensive Text Book on Hepatitis B’, published by Jaypee (2010), ‘Fatty Liver Disease’ (2012) and 'Hepatitis Management Update' (2015) published by McMillan and 'Text Book of Hepato-Gastroenterology' (2015) and 'Practical Hepato-Gastroenterology Prescriber' (2016) published by Jaypee. He has more than 290 publications in international and national peer reviewed scientific journals. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, he has published to date 19 scientific articles related to COVID-19. He has more than 350 international and national scientific conference talks to his credit. Mahtab is serving on the Editorial Boards of several international journals in the fields of Hepatology and Gastroenterology including, Euro-Asian Journal of Hepato-Gastroenterology (Journal of Euro-Asian Gastroenterological Association) (Co-Editor-in-Chief), Hepatology International (journal of Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver) (Associate Editor) and Journal of Clinical, Experimental Hepatology (journal of Indian Association for the Study of the Liver) (Editorial Board Member), Hepatitis B Annual (Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India) (Co-Editor-in-Chief) to name a few.He has published Bengali translations of 'White House Years: The Tilt-The India-Pakistan Crisis of 1971' (পাক ভারত যুদ্ধ ১৯৭১) (1993) by Henry Kissinger and 'Victory in Bangladesh' (একাত্তরের বিজয়) (1994) by Major General (Retd.) Lachman Singh. He has recently published four Bengali books, namely ‘Shekal Ekaler Korcha’ (সেকাল একালের কড়চা) (2018) ‘Ekhon Shomoy Bangladesher’ (এখন সময় বাংলাদেশের) (2019), ‘Poth Harabe Na Bangladesh (পথ হারাবে না বাংলাদেশে) (2020), ‘Bangabandhu, Muktijudhdha and Bangladesh’ (বঙ্গবন্ধু, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ ও বাংলাদেশ) (2021) from Mawla Brothers and ‘Liver Chikitshae Notun Sombhabona’(লিভার চিকিৎসায় নতুন সম্ভাবনা) (2018) from Mutkodhara, which are leading publication houses of the country. Awards
1.‘Premio Nacional’ from Cuban Academy of Sciences in 2019
2.“Order of Merit” from Euro-Asian Gastroenterological Association (2014)
3. "Blumberg Oration 2015" conferred by Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation, India, (2016)
4. "Distinguished Scientist (Hepatology) Award" from Venus Research Foundation, India (2016)
5.“<mask> Marquis Life Time Achievement Award” (2018) from Marquis Who's Who
6.“Bishuddhananda Gold Medal” from Bangladesh Bouddha Krishty Prochar Songho (2018)
Mahtab has received several awards for his contribution during COVID-19 pandemic including ‘Health Care Heroes Award 2020’ from Walton Group, Bangladesh, ‘Global Business CSR Award 2021’ from Bangladesh American Chamber of Commerce & Youth Commerce Communication International, ‘Wonca Global Healthcare Leadership Award 2021’ from World Organization of Family Physicians (Wonca), ‘COVID-19 Hero Award’ from Rotary International Zone 1B, Region 10. Affiliations
He is four times elected Secretary General of Association for the Study of the Liver Diseases Bangladesh (ASLDB) (the national Hepatology Association of Bangladesh).He is also founder President of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hepatology Alumni Association and Executive Chairman of Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh. He is the founder General Secretary of Bangladesh Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Society. He has organized several ‘first time in Bangladesh’ medical conferences including the first STEMCON in 2017 (1st international conference on stem cell therapy in Bangladesh) and first EndoVasculoCon in 2019 (1st live conference from endoscopy suit and vascular lab in the region). Mahtab played key role in organizing the First Padma-Ganga-Gomti Liver Conference 2019 at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University in Dhaka. This is the first ever scientific conference of only Bengali Hepatologists. The conference was jointly organized by Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh, Liver Foundation West Bengal and Hepatitis Foundation of Tripura. It was organized as a token of respect of the Bengali Hepatologists to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<mask> is the Vice President of Euroasian Gastroenterological Association, Secretary General of South Asian Association for the Study of the Liver (SAASL) and International Coordinator of Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL). <mask> is member of the APASL Working Parties on hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, acute on chronic liver failure (ACLF), Budd Chiari Syndrome and liver fibrosis. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Patient Registry of Hepatitis Free Pahang Society, Malaysia. He is only Bangladeshi Hepatologists who proclaimed June 12 as ‘International NASH Day’ through a joint deceleration released simultaneously from London, Paris and New York in 2018. He is Member Secretary of Sampritee Bangladesh, Treasurer of Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Executive Member of Dhaka City North Awami League. <mask> was Councilor at the 21st National Council of the party in 2016 and 2019. Personal life
<mask> comes from Sylhet.He is married to Dr. Nuzhat Choudhury. They have two children. His father late <mask> Uddin Ahmed was an civil engineer of Bangladesh. He served the Government of Bangladesh in the capacity of Chief Engineer, Roads & Highways Department. His mother Mrs. Ayesha <mask> is a house wife. References
1970 births
Alumni of the University of London
Bangladeshi hepatologists
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Living people
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He was admitted to the Mymensingh Medical College for his undergraduate medical studies. He was involved in student politics in Bangladesh. He was a member of the committee.There are two committees of the organization. In 1995 he graduated from the Mymensingh Medical College. He did an MD in Hepatology at the Medical University of Bangladesh in 2006 after obtaining an MSc in Gastroenterology from the University of London in 1998. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, the Indian College of Physicians and the American College of Gastroenterology. The University of Malaya, Malaysia has a Doctor of Philosophy. The Head of the Division of Interventional Hepatology is <mask>. The Department of Hepatology was chaired by him.He was a member of the Board of Studies in the Department of Gastroenterology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Strategic & Technical Advisory Group. The University of Malaya, Malaysia, Tehran University, Iran, University of Madras, and Dr. A P J Abul Kalam Technical University are some of the places where he is a PhD thesis co-supervisor and PhD examiner. He is a member of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver. A member of the Regional Expert Panel on NAFLD/NASH and Survey Lead for Bangladesh of the Global NAFLD Policy Review of the European Association for the Study of the Liver. Research Mahtab is the principal investigator of the phase-I/II and III clinical trials of the new generic for chronic hepatitis B, which is already registered in a number of countries. It is the first drug to be developed in Bangladesh.The first novel molecule was registered by the Drug Administration of the Bangladesh Government. The principal investigator of the clinical trial is Mahtab. The six books compiled by Publications Mahtab are 'Liver: A Complete Book on Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Diseases', 'Comprehensive Text Book on Hepatitis B', 'Fatty Liver Disease', and 'He'. He has published in international and national peer reviewed journals. He has published 19 scientific articles related to COVID-19. More than 350 international and national scientific conference talks have been given by him. Hepatology International and Euro-Asian Journal of Hepato-Gastroenterology are two international journals in the field of Hepatology and Gastroenterology.He has published translations of Henry Kissinger's 'White House Years: The Tilt-The India-Pakistan Crisis of 1971' and Major General (Retd.)'s 'Victory in Bangladesh'. The man is Lachman Singh. He has published four books in Bengali. The Cuban Academy of Sciences received an award in 2019. "Blumberg Oration 2015" was given by the Kalinga Gastroenterology Foundation. "Distinguished Scientist (Hepatology) Award" from Venus Research Foundation, India. He is the Secretary General of the national Hepatology Association of Bangladesh four times.He is the founder President of the Medical University hepatology Alumni Association. He is the founder of the Bangladesh Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Society. The first international conference on stem cell therapy in Bangladesh was organized by him in 2017. The First Padma-Ganga-Gomti Liver Conference was held in Bangladesh. This is the first scientific conference of Bengali Hepatologists. The conference was organized by the Forum for the Study of the Liver Bangladesh. It was a token of respect to the Bengali Hepatologists.The Vice President of Euroasian Gastroenterological Association is also the Secretary General of the South Asian Association for the Study of the Liver. A member of the APASL Working Parties is <mask>. He is a member of the Steering Committee. Hepatologists in Bangladesh proclaimed June 12 as International NASH Day through a joint deceleration from London, Paris and New York. He is an Executive Member of the Dhaka City North Awami League. The 21st National Council of the party was held in 2016 and 2019. Personal life is from Sylhet.He is married to a doctor. They have two children. His father was a civil engineer. He worked for the Government of Bangladesh as a Chief Engineer. His mother is a house wife. The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has a Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians living in Sylhet. | [
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8911332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20%C3%81ngel%20Virasoro%20%28physicist%29 | Miguel Ángel Virasoro (physicist) | Miguel Ángel Virasoro (; Buenos Aires, 9 May 1940 – Buenos Aires, 23 July 2021) was an Argentine theoretical physicist. Virasoro worked in Argentina, Israel, the United States, and France, but he spent most of his professional career in Italy at La Sapienza University of Rome. He shared a name with his father, the philosopher Miguel Ángel Virasoro. He was known for his foundational work in string theory, the study of spin glasses, and his research in other areas of mathematical and statistical physics. The Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, the Virasoro algebra, the super Virasoro algebra, the Virasoro vertex operator algebra, the Virasoro group, the Virasoro conjecture, the Virasoro conformal block, and the Virasoro minimal model are all named after him.
Biography
Early life in Argentina
Miguel Ángel Virasoro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in on May 9, 1940. He shared a name with his father, a noted Argentinian philosopher who founded dialectical existentialism. The younger Virasoro studied physics at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) from 1958 to 1966. He received his bachelor's degree in 1962 and his PhD in 1966.
Research in Israel and the United States
In 1966, Virasoro left Argentina after La Noche de los Bastones Largos, a violent dislodging of students and teachers from UBA who opposed the military government of Argentinian General Juan Carlos Onganía. The military dictatorship of Onganía would last from 1966 to 1970. After leaving Argentina, Virasoro worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel until 1968. He then worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) in the United States until 1969. After his time at UW-M, Virsasoro spent another year as a postdoc in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley.
Return to Argentina
Virasoro returned to Argentina after the end of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship in 1970. In 1971, he accepted a professorship at his alma mater UBA. Virasoro remained at UBA until 1975, at which time he accepted a year-long position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Then in 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla came to power in Argentina and established another military dictatorship. As a result, Virasoro was unable to return to his home country after his year in the United States and instead moved to Europe.
Professional career in Europe
In Europe, Virasoro took a temporary position at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France in 1976. Virasoro then moved to Italy in 1977 where he worked as a professor at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare at the University of Turin from 1977 until 1981. He then moved to La Sapienza University of Rome, where he remained for thirty years until his Italian retirement and his return to Argentina in 2011. At La Sapienza, Virasoro performed research in mathematical physics, string theory, and statistical mechanics and taught courses on electromagnetism and on physical-mathematical models for economics. He was also a director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy from 1995 until 2002.
Later years and death
In his later years, Virasoro received several awards, honors, and appointments. In 1987, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1993, he was awards the Rammal Award by the French Physical Society. In 1998, he was elected as an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society, which he shared with Greek physicist Dimitri Nanopoulos, for "the discovery of an infinite-dimensional algebra of primary importance for the construction of string theories." In 2020, he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP, which he shared with French physicists André Neveu and Pierre Ramond, "for their pioneering contributions to the inception and formulation of string theory which introduced new bosonic and fermionic symmetries into physics."
From 2011 until his death, Virasoro was an honorary professor at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in his home country of Argentina. Virasoro died on July 23, 2021, at the age of 81.
Research
String theory
Much of Virasoro's early work helped found a branch of theoretical particle physics which would later be understood as string theory. In 1968 while Virasoro was in Israel, his colleague Gabriele Veneziano discovered a formula (the Veneziano amplitude) which described the scattering of open strings. Then in 1969 during his time at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virasoro successfully generalized Veneziano's theory and discovered a formula (the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude) which described the scattering of closed strings. At the time, the formulas of Veneziano and Virasoro were understood in terms of so-called dual resonance models. Only later was their work understood to describe strings.
Soon after his discovery of the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, Virasoro introduced what became known as the Virasoro algebra. The Virasoro algebra is an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra which describes the conformal symmetry of the worldsheet of a string embedded in spacetime. A supersymmetric generalization of this algebra, the super Virasoro algebra, describes the super conformal symmetry of the worldsheet of a supersymmetric string (or superstring). Pedagogical introductions to the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude and the Virasoro algebra may be found in David Tong's introductory lectures on string theory.
Several mathematical concepts related to Lie algebras and conformal field theory are named after Virasoro. These include the Virasoro vertex operator algebra, the Virasoro group, the Virasoro conjecture, the Virasoro conformal block, and the Virasoro minimal model.
Spin glasses
While working in Italy, Virasoro studied spin glasses and other systems in statistical mechanics. Together with Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi and French physicist Marc Mézard, Virasoro discovered the ultrametric organization of low-temperature spin glass states in infinite dimensions.
References
1940 births
2021 deaths
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Argentine scientists
Argentine physicists
People from Buenos Aires
Sapienza University of Rome faculty
University of Buenos Aires alumni
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"Virasoro worked in Argentina, Israel, the United States, and France, but he spent most of his professional career in Italy at La Sapienza University of Rome.",
"He shared a name with his father, the philosopher Miguel Ángel Virasoro.",
"He was known for his foundational work in string theory, the study of spin glasses, and his research in other areas of mathematical and statistical physics.",
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"The military dictatorship of Onganía would last from 1966 to 1970.",
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"He then worked at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M) in the United States until 1969.",
"After his time at UW-M, Virsasoro spent another year as a postdoc in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley.",
"Return to Argentina \nVirasoro returned to Argentina after the end of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship in 1970.",
"In 1971, he accepted a professorship at his alma mater UBA.",
"Virasoro remained at UBA until 1975, at which time he accepted a year-long position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.",
"Then in 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla came to power in Argentina and established another military dictatorship.",
"As a result, Virasoro was unable to return to his home country after his year in the United States and instead moved to Europe.",
"Professional career in Europe \nIn Europe, Virasoro took a temporary position at the École normale supérieure in Paris, France in 1976.",
"Virasoro then moved to Italy in 1977 where he worked as a professor at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare at the University of Turin from 1977 until 1981.",
"He then moved to La Sapienza University of Rome, where he remained for thirty years until his Italian retirement and his return to Argentina in 2011.",
"At La Sapienza, Virasoro performed research in mathematical physics, string theory, and statistical mechanics and taught courses on electromagnetism and on physical-mathematical models for economics.",
"He was also a director of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy from 1995 until 2002.",
"Later years and death \nIn his later years, Virasoro received several awards, honors, and appointments.",
"In 1987, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.",
"In 1993, he was awards the Rammal Award by the French Physical Society.",
"In 1998, he was elected as an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.",
"In 2009, he was awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society, which he shared with Greek physicist Dimitri Nanopoulos, for \"the discovery of an infinite-dimensional algebra of primary importance for the construction of string theories.\"",
"In 2020, he was awarded the Dirac Medal of the ICTP, which he shared with French physicists André Neveu and Pierre Ramond, \"for their pioneering contributions to the inception and formulation of string theory which introduced new bosonic and fermionic symmetries into physics.\"",
"From 2011 until his death, Virasoro was an honorary professor at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento in his home country of Argentina.",
"Virasoro died on July 23, 2021, at the age of 81.",
"Research\n\nString theory \nMuch of Virasoro's early work helped found a branch of theoretical particle physics which would later be understood as string theory.",
"In 1968 while Virasoro was in Israel, his colleague Gabriele Veneziano discovered a formula (the Veneziano amplitude) which described the scattering of open strings.",
"Then in 1969 during his time at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virasoro successfully generalized Veneziano's theory and discovered a formula (the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude) which described the scattering of closed strings.",
"At the time, the formulas of Veneziano and Virasoro were understood in terms of so-called dual resonance models.",
"Only later was their work understood to describe strings.",
"Soon after his discovery of the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, Virasoro introduced what became known as the Virasoro algebra.",
"The Virasoro algebra is an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra which describes the conformal symmetry of the worldsheet of a string embedded in spacetime.",
"A supersymmetric generalization of this algebra, the super Virasoro algebra, describes the super conformal symmetry of the worldsheet of a supersymmetric string (or superstring).",
"Pedagogical introductions to the Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude and the Virasoro algebra may be found in David Tong's introductory lectures on string theory.",
"Several mathematical concepts related to Lie algebras and conformal field theory are named after Virasoro.",
"These include the Virasoro vertex operator algebra, the Virasoro group, the Virasoro conjecture, the Virasoro conformal block, and the Virasoro minimal model.",
"Spin glasses \nWhile working in Italy, Virasoro studied spin glasses and other systems in statistical mechanics.",
"Together with Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi and French physicist Marc Mézard, Virasoro discovered the ultrametric organization of low-temperature spin glass states in infinite dimensions.",
"References\n\n1940 births\n2021 deaths\nTheoretical physicists\nString theorists\nArgentine scientists\nArgentine physicists\nPeople from Buenos Aires\nSapienza University of Rome faculty\nUniversity of Buenos Aires alumni\nEnrico Fermi Award recipients"
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Early life in Argentina
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<mask> returned to Argentina after the end of Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship in 1970. In 1971, he accepted a professorship at his alma mater UBA. <mask> remained at UBA until 1975, at which time he accepted a year-long position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Then in 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla came to power in Argentina and established another military dictatorship. As a result, <mask> was unable to return to his home country after his year in the United States and instead moved to Europe. Professional career in Europe
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67828001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee%20Duponte | Dee Duponte | Dee Duponte (fully Adelia Ashby Duponte, died 1971) was an American politician. She was a Democratic Representative and later Senator for Maui in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. Her term as Territorial Senator ended in 1957. In 1958, she attempted suicide in her Waikiki apartment and was subsequently hospitalized until her death in 1971.
Born Adelia Ashby in Augusta, Indiana, Duponte moved to the Territory of Hawaii from Kentucky and held a supervisory position at the Maui Pineapple Company for 14 years. Her 1948 firing made her a household name on Maui after she claimed that it was motivated by her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat, and additionally led to an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were widely defeated. In 1950, Duponte was elected to the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature after beginning her campaign late in the election season. As of 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature. Her political views made her a controversial figure in the Territorial House.
In 1954, Duponte was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate. The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband after he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child. Her term in the Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957, and she and her husband were divorced in 1958. On November 20, 1958, she attempted suicide in her Waikiki apartment after discovering that her husband had remarried. She survived a self-inflicted gunshot to her head, and was hospitalized for over a decade before her eventual death, experiencing partial paralysis. She died in April 1971, at the age of 61 or 63.
Early life and career
Duponte was born Adelia Ashby in Augusta, Indiana. She moved to the Territory of Hawaii from Kentucky. In 1937 or 1931, she married Harold Duponte.
After moving to Hawaii, Duponte held a supervisory job at the Maui Pineapple Company for 14 years. In 1948, she was fired; she claimed that the firing was motivated by her support for her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat. The company denied her assertions, but they rapidly made her famous on Maui, and additionally led to public resentment of perceived "boss rule" which in turn caused an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were routed.
In politics
After being fired from the Maui Pineapple Company, Duponte went on to run the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Hawaii in Wailuku, serving as the county-level secretary as well as sitting on the executive committee and chairing the platform and education committees.
In 1950, Duponte began a campaign to enter the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature; the campaign started late in the election season and concluded with Duponte's election by a large margin to represent Maui. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Duponte in 1951 as a political "newcomer". In 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature, and was chairperson of Maui's Democratic County Committee. While in the Territorial House of Representatives, Duponte became a controversial figure as a result of her opinions about who should be appointed to legislative committees as well as her criticism of conditions at Kalaupapa Settlement. She gained the political support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Duponte served two terms in the Territorial House. She attended the 1952 Democratic National Convention as the National Committeewoman representing Hawaii.
In 1954, Duponte was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate. Her political views remained controversial and sometimes led her Democratic colleagues to openly disavow her. The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband Harold Duponte (then a Territorial Representative). Harold Duponte had recently fathered a child in an extramarital affair with another woman.
In 1957, Duponte was working as director of employee training for Hawaiian Pineapple Company in addition to her position in the Territorial Senate. 600 women employees staged a one-day walkout, reportedly in response to difficulties caused by her. The Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte responded to a report of the walkout by saying "Fiddlesticks!"
Duponte's term in the Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957. The following year, she and Harold Duponte were divorced on the advice of a Catholic priest; the couple had been married for 21 years. Testimony in a legal case after Duponte's death regarding her will and testament suggested that the couple had been arguing and had marital issues, but intended to remarry each other within the Catholic Church.
Later life and death
On November 20, 1958, a year after Duponte's term in the Territorial Senate ended and three months after she was divorced from Harold Duponte, she attempted suicide in her apartment in Waikiki by shooting herself in the head. The attempted suicide took place shortly after Harold Duponte married another woman; one of Dee Duponte's neighbors said that she had shut herself into her apartment since learning of the remarriage and seemed to be deeply distressed by it. She was 47 years old at the time of the attempt. After she was discovered lying on her bed dressed in a kimono and holding a pistol registered under her name, an ambulance rushed her to Queen's Hospital.
After the suicide attempt, Duponte was hospitalized for over a decade before her eventual death. She was initially in a coma for several weeks. In January 1959, the Star-Bulletin reported that she had come out of the coma, and that on January 10 she had spoken for the first time since entering it in response to a doctor routinely asking whether she recognized him; she answered with his name and said that she was tired of eating Jello, asking for ice cream instead. According to Duponte's doctor at the time, her cognition was not damaged by the gunshot wound in her brain, but she was largely paralyzed and could only move one arm slightly.
In September 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte had been transferred from Queen's Hospital to Maluhia Hospital and was awake, alert, and able to feed herself; she remained unable to walk and was paralyzed on her left side and partially paralyzed on her right. She was allowed to leave the hospital for short periods. Doctors reported that she seemed unaware of her suicide attempt as a result of amnesia or enforced amnesia, and that she had been told that she had experienced a stroke. She would be confined in the hospital for more than 12 years.
Duponte died of a heart attack at the age of 61 or 63 on April 22, 1971 at Maluhia Hospital. A Funeral Mass was held for her at St Anthony's Church in Wailuku, and her body was buried in a family plot at Kuau Cemetery.
References
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
Hawaii Democrats
Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature
People from Oahu
Women territorial legislators in Hawaii
1910s births
1971 deaths
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"Her term as Territorial Senator ended in 1957.",
"In 1958, she attempted suicide in her Waikiki apartment and was subsequently hospitalized until her death in 1971.",
"Born Adelia Ashby in Augusta, Indiana, Duponte moved to the Territory of Hawaii from Kentucky and held a supervisory position at the Maui Pineapple Company for 14 years.",
"Her 1948 firing made her a household name on Maui after she claimed that it was motivated by her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat, and additionally led to an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were widely defeated.",
"In 1950, Duponte was elected to the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature after beginning her campaign late in the election season.",
"As of 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature.",
"Her political views made her a controversial figure in the Territorial House.",
"In 1954, Duponte was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate.",
"The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband after he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child.",
"Her term in the Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957, and she and her husband were divorced in 1958.",
"On November 20, 1958, she attempted suicide in her Waikiki apartment after discovering that her husband had remarried.",
"She survived a self-inflicted gunshot to her head, and was hospitalized for over a decade before her eventual death, experiencing partial paralysis.",
"She died in April 1971, at the age of 61 or 63.",
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"In 1937 or 1931, she married Harold Duponte.",
"After moving to Hawaii, Duponte held a supervisory job at the Maui Pineapple Company for 14 years.",
"In 1948, she was fired; she claimed that the firing was motivated by her support for her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat.",
"The company denied her assertions, but they rapidly made her famous on Maui, and additionally led to public resentment of perceived \"boss rule\" which in turn caused an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were routed.",
"In politics \nAfter being fired from the Maui Pineapple Company, Duponte went on to run the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Hawaii in Wailuku, serving as the county-level secretary as well as sitting on the executive committee and chairing the platform and education committees.",
"In 1950, Duponte began a campaign to enter the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature; the campaign started late in the election season and concluded with Duponte's election by a large margin to represent Maui.",
"The Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Duponte in 1951 as a political \"newcomer\".",
"In 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature, and was chairperson of Maui's Democratic County Committee.",
"While in the Territorial House of Representatives, Duponte became a controversial figure as a result of her opinions about who should be appointed to legislative committees as well as her criticism of conditions at Kalaupapa Settlement.",
"She gained the political support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.",
"Duponte served two terms in the Territorial House.",
"She attended the 1952 Democratic National Convention as the National Committeewoman representing Hawaii.",
"In 1954, Duponte was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate.",
"Her political views remained controversial and sometimes led her Democratic colleagues to openly disavow her.",
"The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband Harold Duponte (then a Territorial Representative).",
"Harold Duponte had recently fathered a child in an extramarital affair with another woman.",
"In 1957, Duponte was working as director of employee training for Hawaiian Pineapple Company in addition to her position in the Territorial Senate.",
"600 women employees staged a one-day walkout, reportedly in response to difficulties caused by her.",
"The Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte responded to a report of the walkout by saying \"Fiddlesticks!\"",
"Duponte's term in the Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957.",
"The following year, she and Harold Duponte were divorced on the advice of a Catholic priest; the couple had been married for 21 years.",
"Testimony in a legal case after Duponte's death regarding her will and testament suggested that the couple had been arguing and had marital issues, but intended to remarry each other within the Catholic Church.",
"Later life and death \nOn November 20, 1958, a year after Duponte's term in the Territorial Senate ended and three months after she was divorced from Harold Duponte, she attempted suicide in her apartment in Waikiki by shooting herself in the head.",
"The attempted suicide took place shortly after Harold Duponte married another woman; one of Dee Duponte's neighbors said that she had shut herself into her apartment since learning of the remarriage and seemed to be deeply distressed by it.",
"She was 47 years old at the time of the attempt.",
"After she was discovered lying on her bed dressed in a kimono and holding a pistol registered under her name, an ambulance rushed her to Queen's Hospital.",
"After the suicide attempt, Duponte was hospitalized for over a decade before her eventual death.",
"She was initially in a coma for several weeks.",
"In January 1959, the Star-Bulletin reported that she had come out of the coma, and that on January 10 she had spoken for the first time since entering it in response to a doctor routinely asking whether she recognized him; she answered with his name and said that she was tired of eating Jello, asking for ice cream instead.",
"According to Duponte's doctor at the time, her cognition was not damaged by the gunshot wound in her brain, but she was largely paralyzed and could only move one arm slightly.",
"In September 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte had been transferred from Queen's Hospital to Maluhia Hospital and was awake, alert, and able to feed herself; she remained unable to walk and was paralyzed on her left side and partially paralyzed on her right.",
"She was allowed to leave the hospital for short periods.",
"Doctors reported that she seemed unaware of her suicide attempt as a result of amnesia or enforced amnesia, and that she had been told that she had experienced a stroke.",
"She would be confined in the hospital for more than 12 years.",
"Duponte died of a heart attack at the age of 61 or 63 on April 22, 1971 at Maluhia Hospital.",
"A Funeral Mass was held for her at St Anthony's Church in Wailuku, and her body was buried in a family plot at Kuau Cemetery.",
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"She married Harold Duponte in 1937 or 1931.",
"After moving to Hawaii, he held a job at the Maui Pineapple Company.",
"She claimed that she was fired because of her support for her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat.",
"The company denied her assertions, but they quickly made her famous on Maui, and additionally led to public resentment of perceived \"boss rule\" which in turn caused an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were routed.",
"After being fired from the Maui Pineapple Company, Duponte went on to run the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, serving as the county-level secretary as well as sitting on the executive committee and chairing the platform and education committees.",
"The campaign to enter the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature began late in the election season and ended with Duponte's election by a large margin to represent Maui.",
"In 1951, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Duponte as a newcomer.",
"She was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature in 1951.",
"While in the Territorial House of Representatives, she became a controversial figure due to her opinions about who should be appointed to legislative committees as well as her criticism of the conditions at Kalaupapa Settlement.",
"The International Longshore and Warehouse Union supported her.",
"The Territorial House had two terms for Duponte.",
"She was the National Committeewoman for Hawaii at the 1952 Democratic National Convention.",
"He was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate.",
"Her political views were unpopular with her Democratic colleagues.",
"She moved from Maui to Honolulu to separate from her husband.",
"The man fathered a child in an extramarital affair.",
"In 1957, she was the director of employee training for Hawaiian Pineapple Company, as well as her position in the Territorial Senate.",
"600 women employees staged a one-day strike in response to difficulties caused by her.",
"The Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte said \"Fiddlesticks!\" when he heard about the walk out.",
"The Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957.",
"After 21 years of marriage, she and Harold Duponte were divorced on the advice of a Catholic priest.",
"According to testimony in a legal case after Duponte's death, the couple had been arguing but intended to remarry in the Catholic Church.",
"After her term in the Territorial Senate ended, she attempted to take her own life by shooting herself in the head in Waikiki.",
"One of Dee Duponte's neighbors said that she had shut herself into her apartment since learning of the remarriage and seemed to be deeply distressed by it.",
"She was 47 years old at the time.",
"An ambulance took her to Queen's Hospital after she was found lying on her bed with a pistol in her hand.",
"She was hospitalized for over a decade after the suicide attempt.",
"She was in a coma for a while.",
"In January 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that she had come out of the coma, and that on January 10 she had spoken for the first time since entering it, and said that she was tired of eating.",
"According to her doctor, she was not damaged by the gunshot wound in her brain, but she was largely paralyzed and could only move one arm.",
"In September 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte had been transferred from Queen's Hospital to Maluhia Hospital and was awake, alert, and able to feed herself; she remained unable to walk and was partially paralyzed on her right side.",
"She could leave the hospital for a short time.",
"She had been told that she had experienced a stroke, and that she seemed unaware of her suicide attempt.",
"She was in the hospital for more than a decade.",
"On April 22, 1971 at Maluhia Hospital, Duponte died of a heart attack at the age of 61 or 63.",
"She was buried in a family plot at Kuau Cemetery after a funeral mass at St Anthony's Church.",
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] | <mask> (fully <mask>, died 1971) was an American politician. She was a Democratic Representative and later Senator for Maui in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. Her term as Territorial Senator ended in 1957. In 1958, she attempted suicide in her Waikiki apartment and was subsequently hospitalized until her death in 1971. Born Adelia Ashby in Augusta, Indiana, Duponte moved to the Territory of Hawaii from Kentucky and held a supervisory position at the Maui Pineapple Company for 14 years. Her 1948 firing made her a household name on Maui after she claimed that it was motivated by her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat, and additionally led to an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were widely defeated. In 1950, Duponte was elected to the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature after beginning her campaign late in the election season.As of 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature. Her political views made her a controversial figure in the Territorial House. In 1954, Duponte was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate. The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband after he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child. Her term in the Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957, and she and her husband were divorced in 1958. On November 20, 1958, she attempted suicide in her Waikiki apartment after discovering that her husband had remarried. She survived a self-inflicted gunshot to her head, and was hospitalized for over a decade before her eventual death, experiencing partial paralysis.She died in April 1971, at the age of 61 or 63. Early life and career
Duponte was born Adelia Ashby in Augusta, Indiana. She moved to the Territory of Hawaii from Kentucky. In 1937 or 1931, she married <mask>. After moving to Hawaii, Duponte held a supervisory job at the Maui Pineapple Company for 14 years. In 1948, she was fired; she claimed that the firing was motivated by her support for her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat. The company denied her assertions, but they rapidly made her famous on Maui, and additionally led to public resentment of perceived "boss rule" which in turn caused an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were routed.In politics
After being fired from the Maui Pineapple Company, Duponte went on to run the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Hawaii in Wailuku, serving as the county-level secretary as well as sitting on the executive committee and chairing the platform and education committees. In 1950, Duponte began a campaign to enter the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature; the campaign started late in the election season and concluded with <mask>'s election by a large margin to represent Maui. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Duponte in 1951 as a political "newcomer". In 1951, she was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature, and was chairperson of Maui's Democratic County Committee. While in the Territorial House of Representatives, Duponte became a controversial figure as a result of her opinions about who should be appointed to legislative committees as well as her criticism of conditions at Kalaupapa Settlement. She gained the political support of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Duponte served two terms in the Territorial House.She attended the 1952 Democratic National Convention as the National Committeewoman representing Hawaii. In 1954, Duponte was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate. Her political views remained controversial and sometimes led her Democratic colleagues to openly disavow her. The same year, Duponte moved from Maui to Honolulu, separating from her husband <mask> (then a Territorial Representative). Harold Duponte had recently fathered a child in an extramarital affair with another woman. In 1957, Duponte was working as director of employee training for Hawaiian Pineapple Company in addition to her position in the Territorial Senate. 600 women employees staged a one-day walkout, reportedly in response to difficulties caused by her.The Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte responded to a report of the walkout by saying "Fiddlesticks!" <mask>'s term in the Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957. The following year, she and <mask> were divorced on the advice of a Catholic priest; the couple had been married for 21 years. Testimony in a legal case after Duponte's death regarding her will and testament suggested that the couple had been arguing and had marital issues, but intended to remarry each other within the Catholic Church. Later life and death
On November 20, 1958, a year after Duponte's term in the Territorial Senate ended and three months after she was divorced from <mask>, she attempted suicide in her apartment in Waikiki by shooting herself in the head. The attempted suicide took place shortly after Harold Duponte married another woman; one of <mask>e's neighbors said that she had shut herself into her apartment since learning of the remarriage and seemed to be deeply distressed by it. She was 47 years old at the time of the attempt.After she was discovered lying on her bed dressed in a kimono and holding a pistol registered under her name, an ambulance rushed her to Queen's Hospital. After the suicide attempt, Duponte was hospitalized for over a decade before her eventual death. She was initially in a coma for several weeks. In January 1959, the Star-Bulletin reported that she had come out of the coma, and that on January 10 she had spoken for the first time since entering it in response to a doctor routinely asking whether she recognized him; she answered with his name and said that she was tired of eating Jello, asking for ice cream instead. According to Duponte's doctor at the time, her cognition was not damaged by the gunshot wound in her brain, but she was largely paralyzed and could only move one arm slightly. In September 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte had been transferred from Queen's Hospital to Maluhia Hospital and was awake, alert, and able to feed herself; she remained unable to walk and was paralyzed on her left side and partially paralyzed on her right. She was allowed to leave the hospital for short periods.Doctors reported that she seemed unaware of her suicide attempt as a result of amnesia or enforced amnesia, and that she had been told that she had experienced a stroke. She would be confined in the hospital for more than 12 years. Duponte died of a heart attack at the age of 61 or 63 on April 22, 1971 at Maluhia Hospital. A Funeral Mass was held for her at St Anthony's Church in Wailuku, and her body was buried in a family plot at Kuau Cemetery. References
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
Hawaii Democrats
Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature
People from Oahu
Women territorial legislators in Hawaii
1910s births
1971 deaths
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"Dee Dupont"
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She tried to kill herself in her Waikiki apartment after learning that her husband had remarried. She was hospitalized for over a decade before her death after shooting herself in the head.She died in 1971 at the age of 63. Early life and career Duponte was born in Augusta, Indiana. She moved to Hawaii from Kentucky. She married <mask> in 1937 or 1931. After moving to Hawaii, he held a job at the Maui Pineapple Company. She claimed that she was fired because of her support for her husband's campaign to be County Attorney as a Democrat. The company denied her assertions, but they quickly made her famous on Maui, and additionally led to public resentment of perceived "boss rule" which in turn caused an upset election the same year in which the Republicans were routed.After being fired from the Maui Pineapple Company, Duponte went on to run the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, serving as the county-level secretary as well as sitting on the executive committee and chairing the platform and education committees. The campaign to enter the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature began late in the election season and ended with Duponte's election by a large margin to represent Maui. In 1951, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin described Duponte as a newcomer. She was the only woman Democrat in the Territorial Legislature in 1951. While in the Territorial House of Representatives, she became a controversial figure due to her opinions about who should be appointed to legislative committees as well as her criticism of the conditions at Kalaupapa Settlement. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union supported her. The Territorial House had two terms for Duponte.She was the National Committeewoman for Hawaii at the 1952 Democratic National Convention. He was elected to the Hawaii Territorial Senate. Her political views were unpopular with her Democratic colleagues. She moved from Maui to Honolulu to separate from her husband. The man fathered a child in an extramarital affair. In 1957, she was the director of employee training for Hawaiian Pineapple Company, as well as her position in the Territorial Senate. 600 women employees staged a one-day strike in response to difficulties caused by her.The Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte said "Fiddlesticks!" when he heard about the walk out. The Hawaii Territorial Senate ended in 1957. After 21 years of marriage, she and Harold Duponte were divorced on the advice of a Catholic priest. According to testimony in a legal case after Duponte's death, the couple had been arguing but intended to remarry in the Catholic Church. After her term in the Territorial Senate ended, she attempted to take her own life by shooting herself in the head in Waikiki. One of <mask>'s neighbors said that she had shut herself into her apartment since learning of the remarriage and seemed to be deeply distressed by it. She was 47 years old at the time.An ambulance took her to Queen's Hospital after she was found lying on her bed with a pistol in her hand. She was hospitalized for over a decade after the suicide attempt. She was in a coma for a while. In January 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that she had come out of the coma, and that on January 10 she had spoken for the first time since entering it, and said that she was tired of eating. According to her doctor, she was not damaged by the gunshot wound in her brain, but she was largely paralyzed and could only move one arm. In September 1959 the Star-Bulletin reported that Duponte had been transferred from Queen's Hospital to Maluhia Hospital and was awake, alert, and able to feed herself; she remained unable to walk and was partially paralyzed on her right side. She could leave the hospital for a short time.She had been told that she had experienced a stroke, and that she seemed unaware of her suicide attempt. She was in the hospital for more than a decade. On April 22, 1971 at Maluhia Hospital, Duponte died of a heart attack at the age of 61 or 63. She was buried in a family plot at Kuau Cemetery after a funeral mass at St Anthony's Church. 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians Hawaii Democrats Members of the Hawaii Territorial Legislature | [
"Dee Duponte",
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11145229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Brown%20%28Scottish%20politician%29 | Keith Brown (Scottish politician) | Keith James Brown (born 20 December 1961) is a Scottish politician serving as Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2018 and Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans since 2021. He is a former Royal Marines commando and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2007, first representing the Ochil constituency from 2007 to 2011, then the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency since 2011.
Born in Edinburgh, Brown served in the Falklands War, while serving in the Royal Marines. Upon leaving, he graduated from the University of Dundee and studied abroad in Canada. He was elected to the Clackmannanshire Council, representing Alva, and later became the SNP's group leader. Following the party's win in the 2003 election, Brown served as the Leader of the Council. In the 2007 Scottish election, he was elected to served as the MSP for Ochil. He served as Minister for Schools and Skills from 2009 to 2010 and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure from 2010 to 2011. Brown was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament in the 2011 election, this time representing the newly drawn constituency of Clackmannanshire and Dunblane. He was appointed Minister for Housing and Transport and in 2012 he added Veterans affairs onto his portfolio.
After failing to win SNP Depute leadership in 2014, he was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities from 2014 to 2016 by Nicola Sturgeon. He was re-elected in 2016 and was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, a position he held from 2016 to 2018. In the 2018, Brown was elected Depute (Deputy) Leader of the SNP and left government to focus on his new position. Following the 2021 election, he was re-appointed to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans.
Early life
Early years and education
Keith James Brown was born on 20 December 1961 in Edinburgh, where he attended Tynecastle High School. He served in the Royal Marines and served in the Falklands War. After leaving, he attended the University of Dundee, graduating in Politics in 1988. During his time at university, he studied abroad at the University of Prince Edward Island from 1985 to 1986. He then went to work in local government administration in Stirling and was also an active trade union representative with UNISON.
Early political years
While studying at Dundee University, Brown joined the Scottish National Party. He was the SNP's candidate for the European Parliament for Lothians constituency in 1994, coming second with 53,324 votes. Brown was then elected to represent Alva on the Clackmannanshire Council in a by-election in 1996. He became group leader in 1997, and then Leader of the Council after the SNP took control of Clackmannanshire in the 2003 local elections.
Member of the Scottish Parliament
Brown was elected to the Scottish Parliament by Ochil constituency at the 2007 elections, increasing both absolute SNP vote and majority.
He was appointed to be Convener of both the Parliament's Standards & Public Appointments Committee and Procedures Committee, and after overseeing their merger now convenes the new Standards, Procedures & Public Appointments Committee.
In his maiden speech on the abolition of bridge tolls he declared that he still had an outstanding fine from the Skye Bridge protests of 1994. He has been an opponent of the proposals for an overhead electricity line from Beauly to Denny, arguing for an underground alternative. Brown has also been campaigning for Scotland football matches to be available on terrestrial television.
Junior Minister
On 12 February 2009, Brown was appointed Minister for Schools and Skills. On 8 December 2009, Brown became Minister for Schools and Skills In the first reshuffle of the SNP Government. In December 2010, he was appointed as Minister for Transport and Infrastructure in the Scottish government.
Brown won re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, representing the newly created Clackmannanshire and Dunblane. On 19 May 2011, Brown was named as the Minister for Housing and Transport. On 5 September 2012, he became Minister for Transport and Veterans.
SNP Depute leadership bid, 2014
Following defeat in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Scottish National Party leader and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond announced his resignation as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland. In the aftermath of his resignation, a leadership bid was launched, with Deputy First Minister of Scotland and SNP Depute leader Nicola Sturgeon widely tipped to become Salmond's successor.
On 25 September 2014, Brown officially launched his bid to become the Depute leader of the Scottish National Party, with the backing of several SNP MSPs, as well as several Scottish Government ministers. The results of the election were announced at the SNP Autumn Conference on the 14 November, with Brown losing the contest to Stewart Hosie, with 45.5% of the vote in the second round to Hosie's 55.5%.
Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities
On 21 November 2014, he was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities in Nicola Sturgeon's first reshuffle. Brown was re-elected to the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency in 2016.
Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work
On 18 May, he was reshuffled to the position of Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, while still maintaining responsibility for veterans affairs.
In December 2016, Brown led calls for Amazon to pay its employees the living wage after reports surfaced concerning the conditions of workers in the company's Dunfermline depot, holding talks with Amazon several days later in which he was told Amazon would "consider" paying the living wage.
In July 2017, Brown wrote to UK ministers on the need to continue legal protected status for the definition of Scotch whisky post-Brexit amid fears that in a future trade deal the USA “would support a relaxation of the definition of whisky, which would open the market up to a number of products which do not currently meet that standard.” Later on in 2017 he visited the US and Canada in a series of speaking engagements to promote economic ties between North American business communities and Scotland.
Depute leader of the Scottish National Party
On 8 June 2018, Keith Brown became the depute leader of the Scottish National Party, having contested and won the 2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election with 55% of votes in the second round. At his acceptance speech at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Brown told fellow SNP members to prepare for a second Scottish independence referendum. Brown also announced that he would chair three national assemblies to debate the SNP's 2018 Growth Commission report on an independent Scotland's economic prospects.
Although Brown was elected Depute Leader of the SNP, John Swinney remained as Sturgeon's Deputy First Minister despite Brown being a member of the Scottish Parliament. In the June 2018 reshuffle of the Scottish Government, Brown stood down as Economy Secretary to focus on his role as depute leader, He was replaced by Derek Mackay. He was subsequently given a role as the SNP's Campaign Manager.
Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans
Brown was re-appointed to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, in Nicola Sturgeon's third administration.
See also
Government of the 4th Scottish Parliament
References
External links
personal website
profile on Bannockburn SNP branch website
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"He is a former Royal Marines commando and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2007, first representing the Ochil constituency from 2007 to 2011, then the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency since 2011.",
"Born in Edinburgh, Brown served in the Falklands War, while serving in the Royal Marines.",
"Upon leaving, he graduated from the University of Dundee and studied abroad in Canada.",
"He was elected to the Clackmannanshire Council, representing Alva, and later became the SNP's group leader.",
"Following the party's win in the 2003 election, Brown served as the Leader of the Council.",
"In the 2007 Scottish election, he was elected to served as the MSP for Ochil.",
"He served as Minister for Schools and Skills from 2009 to 2010 and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure from 2010 to 2011.",
"Brown was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament in the 2011 election, this time representing the newly drawn constituency of Clackmannanshire and Dunblane.",
"He was appointed Minister for Housing and Transport and in 2012 he added Veterans affairs onto his portfolio.",
"After failing to win SNP Depute leadership in 2014, he was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities from 2014 to 2016 by Nicola Sturgeon.",
"He was re-elected in 2016 and was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, a position he held from 2016 to 2018.",
"In the 2018, Brown was elected Depute (Deputy) Leader of the SNP and left government to focus on his new position.",
"Following the 2021 election, he was re-appointed to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans.",
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"He served in the Royal Marines and served in the Falklands War.",
"After leaving, he attended the University of Dundee, graduating in Politics in 1988.",
"During his time at university, he studied abroad at the University of Prince Edward Island from 1985 to 1986.",
"He then went to work in local government administration in Stirling and was also an active trade union representative with UNISON.",
"Early political years \nWhile studying at Dundee University, Brown joined the Scottish National Party.",
"He was the SNP's candidate for the European Parliament for Lothians constituency in 1994, coming second with 53,324 votes.",
"Brown was then elected to represent Alva on the Clackmannanshire Council in a by-election in 1996.",
"He became group leader in 1997, and then Leader of the Council after the SNP took control of Clackmannanshire in the 2003 local elections.",
"Member of the Scottish Parliament\nBrown was elected to the Scottish Parliament by Ochil constituency at the 2007 elections, increasing both absolute SNP vote and majority.",
"He was appointed to be Convener of both the Parliament's Standards & Public Appointments Committee and Procedures Committee, and after overseeing their merger now convenes the new Standards, Procedures & Public Appointments Committee.",
"In his maiden speech on the abolition of bridge tolls he declared that he still had an outstanding fine from the Skye Bridge protests of 1994.",
"He has been an opponent of the proposals for an overhead electricity line from Beauly to Denny, arguing for an underground alternative.",
"Brown has also been campaigning for Scotland football matches to be available on terrestrial television.",
"Junior Minister \n\nOn 12 February 2009, Brown was appointed Minister for Schools and Skills.",
"On 8 December 2009, Brown became Minister for Schools and Skills In the first reshuffle of the SNP Government.",
"In December 2010, he was appointed as Minister for Transport and Infrastructure in the Scottish government.",
"Brown won re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, representing the newly created Clackmannanshire and Dunblane.",
"On 19 May 2011, Brown was named as the Minister for Housing and Transport.",
"On 5 September 2012, he became Minister for Transport and Veterans.",
"SNP Depute leadership bid, 2014\n\nFollowing defeat in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Scottish National Party leader and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond announced his resignation as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland.",
"In the aftermath of his resignation, a leadership bid was launched, with Deputy First Minister of Scotland and SNP Depute leader Nicola Sturgeon widely tipped to become Salmond's successor.",
"On 25 September 2014, Brown officially launched his bid to become the Depute leader of the Scottish National Party, with the backing of several SNP MSPs, as well as several Scottish Government ministers.",
"The results of the election were announced at the SNP Autumn Conference on the 14 November, with Brown losing the contest to Stewart Hosie, with 45.5% of the vote in the second round to Hosie's 55.5%.",
"Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities \nOn 21 November 2014, he was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities in Nicola Sturgeon's first reshuffle.",
"Brown was re-elected to the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency in 2016.",
"Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work \nOn 18 May, he was reshuffled to the position of Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, while still maintaining responsibility for veterans affairs.",
"In December 2016, Brown led calls for Amazon to pay its employees the living wage after reports surfaced concerning the conditions of workers in the company's Dunfermline depot, holding talks with Amazon several days later in which he was told Amazon would \"consider\" paying the living wage.",
"In July 2017, Brown wrote to UK ministers on the need to continue legal protected status for the definition of Scotch whisky post-Brexit amid fears that in a future trade deal the USA “would support a relaxation of the definition of whisky, which would open the market up to a number of products which do not currently meet that standard.” Later on in 2017 he visited the US and Canada in a series of speaking engagements to promote economic ties between North American business communities and Scotland.",
"Depute leader of the Scottish National Party\n\nOn 8 June 2018, Keith Brown became the depute leader of the Scottish National Party, having contested and won the 2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election with 55% of votes in the second round.",
"At his acceptance speech at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Brown told fellow SNP members to prepare for a second Scottish independence referendum.",
"Brown also announced that he would chair three national assemblies to debate the SNP's 2018 Growth Commission report on an independent Scotland's economic prospects.",
"Although Brown was elected Depute Leader of the SNP, John Swinney remained as Sturgeon's Deputy First Minister despite Brown being a member of the Scottish Parliament.",
"In the June 2018 reshuffle of the Scottish Government, Brown stood down as Economy Secretary to focus on his role as depute leader, He was replaced by Derek Mackay.",
"He was subsequently given a role as the SNP's Campaign Manager.",
"Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans \nBrown was re-appointed to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, in Nicola Sturgeon's third administration.",
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"Brown was born in Edinburgh and served in the Royal Marines.",
"He studied abroad in Canada after graduating from the University of Dundee.",
"He became the SNP's group leader after being elected to the Clackmannanshire Council.",
"Brown was the leader of the council after the 2003 election.",
"He was elected to serve as the MSP for Ochil in the Scottish election.",
"He was Minister for Schools and Skills from 2009 to 2010 and Minister for Transport and Infrastructure from 2010 to 2011.",
"Brown was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament in the new constituency of Clackmannanshire and Dunblane.",
"In 2012 he added Veterans affairs to his portfolio as Minister for Housing and Transport.",
"He was appointed as Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities after failing to win the leadership of the party.",
"He was re-elected in 2016 and was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work.",
"Brown left the government in order to focus on his new position as deputy leader of the SNP.",
"He was re-appointed to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans.",
"He attended Tynecastle High School in Edinburgh, where he was born on December 20, 1961.",
"He served in the war in the Royal Marines.",
"He graduated from the University of Dundee in 1988 with a degree in Politics.",
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"He was an active trade union representative with UNISON and worked in local government administration.",
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"After overseeing their merger, he was appointed to be the convener of the new Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee.",
"In his first speech on the abolition of bridge tolls, he claimed that he still had an outstanding fine from the protests of 1994.",
"He was against the proposal for an overhead electricity line from Beauly to Denny.",
"Brown wants Scotland football matches to be shown on television.",
"Brown was appointed the Minister for Schools and Skills.",
"On December 8, 2009, Brown became Minister for Schools and Skills.",
"He was appointed Minister for Transport and Infrastructure in the Scottish government.",
"Brown was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament in 2011.",
"Brown was named the Minister for Housing and Transport.",
"He became Minister for Transport and Veterans on September 5, 2012",
"Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland, resigned after the defeat in the Scottish independence referendum.",
"In the aftermath of Salmond's resignation, a leadership bid was launched, with the deputy First Minister of Scotland tipped to become Salmond's successor.",
"Brown launched his bid to become the leader of the Scottish National Party with the support of several Scottish Government ministers.",
"Brown lost the election to Stewart Hosie with 45.5% of the vote in the second round, compared to Hosie's 55.5%.",
"He was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities in the first reshuffle of the year.",
"Brown was re-elected to the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency.",
"The Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work was made the Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work on 18 May.",
"In December of 2016 Brown led calls for Amazon to pay its employees the living wage after reports surfaced concerning the conditions of workers in the company's Dunfermline depot, holding talks with Amazon several days later in which he was told Amazon would \"consider\" paying the living wage.",
"In July of last year, Brown wrote to the UK government about the need to continue legal protected status for the definition of Scotch whisky, fearing that the USA would support a relaxation of the definition in a future trade deal.",
"The depute leader of the Scottish National Party won the Scottish National Party depute leadership election with over 50% of the vote in the second round.",
"Brown told fellow SNP members to prepare for a second Scottish independence referendum at his acceptance speech.",
"Brown said he would chair three national assembly to debate the report on an independent Scotland's economic prospects.",
"Even though Brown was a member of the Scottish Parliament, John Swinney remained as the deputy First Minister.",
"Brown stepped down as Economy Secretary in June of last year to focus on his role as depute leader.",
"He became the SNP's Campaign Manager.",
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<mask> <mask> was born on 20 December 1961 in Edinburgh, where he attended Tynecastle High School. He served in the Royal Marines and served in the Falklands War. After leaving, he attended the University of Dundee, graduating in Politics in 1988. During his time at university, he studied abroad at the University of Prince Edward Island from 1985 to 1986. He then went to work in local government administration in Stirling and was also an active trade union representative with UNISON. Early political years
While studying at Dundee University, <mask> joined the Scottish National Party. He was the SNP's candidate for the European Parliament for Lothians constituency in 1994, coming second with 53,324 votes.<mask> was then elected to represent Alva on the Clackmannanshire Council in a by-election in 1996. He became group leader in 1997, and then Leader of the Council after the SNP took control of Clackmannanshire in the 2003 local elections. Member of the Scottish Parliament
<mask> was elected to the Scottish Parliament by Ochil constituency at the 2007 elections, increasing both absolute SNP vote and majority. He was appointed to be Convener of both the Parliament's Standards & Public Appointments Committee and Procedures Committee, and after overseeing their merger now convenes the new Standards, Procedures & Public Appointments Committee. In his maiden speech on the abolition of bridge tolls he declared that he still had an outstanding fine from the Skye Bridge protests of 1994. He has been an opponent of the proposals for an overhead electricity line from Beauly to Denny, arguing for an underground alternative. <mask> has also been campaigning for Scotland football matches to be available on terrestrial television.Junior Minister
On 12 February 2009, <mask> was appointed Minister for Schools and Skills. On 8 December 2009, <mask> became Minister for Schools and Skills In the first reshuffle of the SNP Government. In December 2010, he was appointed as Minister for Transport and Infrastructure in the Scottish government. <mask> won re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2011, representing the newly created Clackmannanshire and Dunblane. On 19 May 2011, <mask> was named as the Minister for Housing and Transport. On 5 September 2012, he became Minister for Transport and Veterans. SNP Depute leadership bid, 2014
Following defeat in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Scottish National Party leader and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond announced his resignation as SNP leader and First Minister of Scotland.In the aftermath of his resignation, a leadership bid was launched, with Deputy First Minister of Scotland and SNP Depute leader Nicola Sturgeon widely tipped to become Salmond's successor. On 25 September 2014, <mask> officially launched his bid to become the Depute leader of the Scottish National Party, with the backing of several SNP MSPs, as well as several Scottish Government ministers. The results of the election were announced at the SNP Autumn Conference on the 14 November, with <mask> losing the contest to Stewart Hosie, with 45.5% of the vote in the second round to Hosie's 55.5%. Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities
On 21 November 2014, he was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities in Nicola Sturgeon's first reshuffle. <mask> was re-elected to the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency in 2016. Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work
On 18 May, he was reshuffled to the position of Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work, while still maintaining responsibility for veterans affairs. In December 2016, <mask> led calls for Amazon to pay its employees the living wage after reports surfaced concerning the conditions of workers in the company's Dunfermline depot, holding talks with Amazon several days later in which he was told Amazon would "consider" paying the living wage.In July 2017, <mask> wrote to UK ministers on the need to continue legal protected status for the definition of Scotch whisky post-Brexit amid fears that in a future trade deal the USA “would support a relaxation of the definition of whisky, which would open the market up to a number of products which do not currently meet that standard.” Later on in 2017 he visited the US and Canada in a series of speaking engagements to promote economic ties between North American business communities and Scotland. Depute leader of the Scottish National Party
On 8 June 2018, <mask> became the depute leader of the Scottish National Party, having contested and won the 2018 Scottish National Party depute leadership election with 55% of votes in the second round. At his acceptance speech at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, <mask> told fellow SNP members to prepare for a second Scottish independence referendum. <mask> also announced that he would chair three national assemblies to debate the SNP's 2018 Growth Commission report on an independent Scotland's economic prospects. Although <mask> was elected Depute Leader of the SNP, John Swinney remained as Sturgeon's Deputy First Minister despite <mask> being a member of the Scottish Parliament. In the June 2018 reshuffle of the Scottish Government, <mask> stood down as Economy Secretary to focus on his role as depute leader, He was replaced by Derek Mackay. He was subsequently given a role as the SNP's Campaign Manager.Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans
<mask> was re-appointed to the Scottish Cabinet as Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, in Nicola Sturgeon's third administration. See also
Government of the 4th Scottish Parliament
References
External links
personal website
profile on Bannockburn SNP branch website
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104784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20XIII | Charles XIII | Charles XIII, or Carl XIII (, 7 October 1748 – 5 February 1818), was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 to his death. He was the second son (and younger brother to King Gustav III) of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great.
Though known as King Charles XIII in Sweden, he was actually the seventh Swedish king by that name, as Charles IX (reigned 1604–1611) had adopted his numeral after studying a fictitious history of Sweden. In Norway he is known as Charles II.
Early life
Prince Charles was placed under the tutelage of Hedvig Elisabet Strömfelt and then Ulrica Schönström. He was appointed grand admiral when he was but few days old. He was described as a good dancer at the amateur theatre of the royal court. Reportedly he was not very close to his mother. The Queen preferred her youngest children, Sophie Albertine and Frederick Adolf.
Charles was, however, his father's favorite, and similar to him in personality. He was also described as close to his brother Gustav during their childhood.
Because of his position as the heir to the throne after his elder brother Gustav, he was early targeted as a useful tool for the opposition to his brother: already in the 1760s, the Caps (party) tried to use him against his brother the crown prince through his then love interest countess Brita Horn, daughter of the Cap's politician Adam Horn. Gustav, however, was always careful to prevent Charles from being used by the opposition, which came to its first test during the December Crisis (1768), when Charles, ultimately, did not let himself be used by the Caps party. In 1770, he made a journey through Germany and France alone.
Reign of Gustav III
After the death of his father in 1771, when his brother the crown prince was abroad, the Caps once again attempted to use him against his brother, now King Gustav III of Sweden, and his mother Louisa Ulrika used this in order to have her own rights as a dowager queen respected by the Caps. Upon the departure of his mother to Prussia, and the return of his brother, however, Gustav III managed to win him to his side.
In 1772 he cooperated in the Revolution of 1772 of his elder brother, King Gustav. He was given the task of using his connections in the Caps party to neutralize it and secure the southern provinces by use of the military, tasks he performed successfully and for which the king rewarded him with the title Duke of Södermanland.
Duke Charles in early years was the object of his mother's plans to arrange political marriages for her children. On the wish of his mother, he was to be married to her niece, his cousin Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, a plan to which he had agreed in 1770. The government, however, refused to issue negotiations because of the costs. After the accession of Gustav III and the coup d'état which introduced absolute monarchy, his brother terminated these plans against their mother's will in October 1772, and began negotiations for a marriage between Charles and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. As King Gustav had not consummated his own marriage, he wished to place the task of providing an heir to the throne with his brother. Charles agreed to the marriage in August 1773, and the marriage took place the following year. After a false alarm of a pregnancy of Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte in 1775, the king finally consummated his own marriage. The royal couple lived separate private lives and each had extramarital affairs. During the great succession scandal of 1778, when queen dowager Louisa Ulrika questioned the paternity of the issue of Gustav III, Charles sided with his brother the king against their mother, this despite the fact that it was in fact he who had informed her of the rumors regarding the legitimacy, something he however withheld from the king.
Charles was described as dependent and easily influenced. His numerous affairs gave him the reputation of being a libertine. He was reputed for his "harem" of lovers, of which the more well known were Augusta von Fersen, Charlotte Eckerman, Françoise-Éléonore Villain, Mariana Koskull and Charlotte Slottsberg, the last one reputed to have had political influence over him. He unsuccessfully courted Magdalena Rudenschöld, and her refusal of his advances has been pointed out as the cause of the harsh treatment he exposed her to as regent during the Armfelt conspiracy.
After the late 1790s, when his health deteriorated as a result of a series of rheumatic attacks, his relationship to his consort improved and she gained more influence over him.
The Duke was known for his interest in the supernatural and mysticism, and he was engaged in several secret societies. He was a member of the Freemasons. He was reportedly a client of the fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson, and he also favored the medium Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou. In 1811, he founded the Order of Charles XIII, a Swedish order of chivalry awarded only to a maximum number of 33 knights, on the condition of confessing the Lutheran Evangelic Religion and being Freemasons. All Princes and Kings of the Bernadotte dynasty, the royal house of Sweden are from baptism, incorporate parts of the royal order of knights and freemasons. In addition are the order of merit granted to members of foreign Grand Lodges affiliated to the so-called Swedish System, such as the Grande Loge Nationale Française, if of royal rank. When the Swedish order of Freemason's states that "Freemasonry in Sweden has continued to develop under leadership of their Grand Masters, all of them belonging to the Royal House since more than 200 years", the origin of which arrives in large from King Charles II of Norway, XIII of Sweden.
Duke Charles was given several political tasks during his tenure as a duke. In 1777, he served as regent during Gustav III's stay in Russia. In 1780, he served as formal chief commander during the king's stay in Spa. The same year, Gustav III named him regent for his son should he succeed him while still a minor. However, he was not appointed regent during the journey of the king to Italy and France in 1783-84, and in the following years, he came under the influence of Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, who was in opposition to the monarch, and came to be less trusted by Gustav III.
In 1785, he was offered the Dukedom of Courland by the nobility of the Duchy and given the support of Gustav III. This however never materialized.
On the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distinction as admiral of the fleet, especially at the battles of Hogland (7 June 1788) and Öland (26 July 1789). On the latter occasion he would have won a signal victory but for the remissness of his second-in-command, Admiral Liljehorn.
The autumn of 1789, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte wished to depose Gustav III and place her husband Duke Charles upon the throne. Her ideal was the Swedish Constitution of 1772, which she saw as a good tool for an enlightened aristocracy, and the war and the Union and Security Act had made her a leading part of the opposition. She cooperated with Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm. The plan was to force Charles to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act when the time was right. When the time arrived to make Charles act, however, he refused, which effectively foiled the coup.
Charles was in close connection to the opposition against Gustav III, and it is debated whether he knew of and supported the plans to assassinate the king.
Reign of Gustav IV Adolf
On the assassination of Gustav III in 1792, Charles acted as regent of Sweden till 1796 on behalf of his nephew, King Gustav IV, who was a minor when his father was shot in the Stockholm opera. Gustav III had designated him regent in his earlier will. When he was dying, he altered the will, and while still appointing Charles regent of his minor son, he was no longer to rule absolute, but restricted by a government consisted of the supporters of Gustav III. After the death of the monarch, however, Charles successfully contested the will and was given unlimited power as sole regent.
The Duke-regent was in practice not willing or capable to manage the state affairs, reportedly because of his lack of energy and staying power. Instead, he entrusted the power of government to his favorite and adviser Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, whose influence over him was supreme.
These four years have been considered perhaps the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history; an Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold, as it has been called, and may be briefly described as alternations of fantastic jacobinism and the ruthless despotism. Reuterholm ruled as the uncontested regent de facto the entire tenure of the regency, "only seldom disturbed by other influences or any personal will of charles". The unexpectedly mild sentences of the involved in the regicide of Gustav III attracted attention. In 1794 the discovery of the Armfelt Conspiracy exposed the opposition of the Gustavian Party. The marriage negotiations of the young king disturbed the relationship to Russia, and the alliance with revolutionary France was greatly disliked by other powers.
On the coming of age of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden in November 1796, the duke's regency ended. His relationship to Gustav IV Adolf was cordial though never close, and he was not entrusted with much responsibility during the rule of his nephew. In 1797 and 1798, he and his consort had their first children, though in neither case the child lived. After this, the Duke and Duchess made a journey through Germany and Austria in 1798–99.
In 1803, the Boheman affair caused a severe conflict between Gustav IV Adolf and the ducal couple. The mystic Karl Adolf Boheman (1764–1831) had been introduced to the couple by Count Magnus Stenbock in 1793 and gained great influence by promising to reveal scientific secrets about the occult. Boheman inducted them into a secret society Yellow Rose in 1801, where both sexes where accepted as members, and to which the Counts and Countesses Ruuth and Brahe as well as the mother of the queen were introduced. Boheman was arrested upon an attempt to recruit the monarch, who accused him of revolutionary agendas and expelled him. The ducal couple were exposed in an informal investigation by the monarch, and the duchess was questioned in the presence of the royal council. In 1808, Charles was again chief commander during Gustav IV Adolf's stay in Finland. He is presumed to have been, if not involved, aware of the plans to depose Gustav IV Adolf in 1809. He kept passive during the Coup of 1809, and accepted the post of regent from the victorious party after having assured himself that the deposed monarch was not in mortal danger. Charles was initially not willing to accept the crown, however, out of consideration for the former king's son.
Reign
On 13 March 1809, those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf appointed Charles regent, and he was finally elected king by the Riksdag of the Estates. By the time he became king, he was 60 years old and prematurely decrepit. In November 1809, he was affected by a heart attack, and was not able to participate in government. The new constitution which was introduced also made his involvement in politics difficult. A planned attempt to enlarge the royal power in 1809–10 was not put into effect because of his indecisiveness and health condition.
His incapacity triggered a search for a suitable heir. The initial choice was a Danish prince, Christian August, who took the name Charles August upon being adopted by Charles. However, Charles August died only a few months after his arrival in Sweden. One of Napoleon's generals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was then chosen as his successor. The new crown prince took over the government as soon as he landed in Sweden in 1810. Charles's condition deteriorated every year, especially after 1812, and he eventually became but a mute witness during the government councils chaired by the crown prince, having lost his memory and no longer being able to communicate.
By the Union of Sweden and Norway on 4 November 1814 Charles became king of Norway under the name Carl II of Norway. After eight years as king only by title, Charles died without a natural heir on 5 February 1818, and Bernadotte succeeded him as King Charles XIV John.
Charles was the 872nd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain.
Family
He married his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818), on 7 July 1774 in Stockholm. Both of their children died in infancy:
Lovisa Hedvig (2 July 1797 in Stockholm). Stillborn; buried at Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church).
Carl Adolf, Duke of Värmland (4 July 1798 in Stockholm – 10 July 1798 in Stockholm). Lived six days; buried at Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church).
With Augusta von Fersen, he had an extramarital son:
Carl Löwenhielm 1772–1861
Adopted sons:
Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden
Charles XIV John of Sweden
Honours and arms
Honours
Sweden:
Knight of the Order of the Seraphim, 7 October 1748
Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword, 7 October 1748; Grand Cross, 1st Class, 27 July 1788
Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star, 7 October 1748
Commander Grand Cross of the Order of Vasa, 7 October 1748
Founder of the Order of Charles XIII, 27 May 1811
Kingdom of Prussia: Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, 18 October 1770
:
Knight of the Order of St. Andrew, 28 August 1796
Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, 28 August 1796
: Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 10 February 1810
Spain: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 23 September 1814
Arms
Ancestors
See also
Order of Charles XIII (Swedish Rite)
Notable Freemasons
Gustavian era
References
Citations
Sources
Further reading
ch 38 pp 221–48
Written sources
Signum svenska kulturhistoria: Gustavianska tiden
Ingvar Andersson: Gustavianskt (1979)
Signum Förlag: Frihetstiden
Lars Elgklou: Familjen Bernadotte. En kunglig släktkrönika
Herman Lindqvist: Historien om Sverige. Gustavs dagar
External links
Nordisk familjebok
http://www.historiesajten.se/visainfo.asp?id=51
1748 births
1818 deaths
19th-century Swedish monarchs
19th-century Norwegian monarchs
Charles 02 of Norway
House of Holstein-Gottorp
Swedish Freemasons
Regents of Sweden
Swedish monarchs of German descent
Burials at Riddarholmen Church
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword
Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star
Grand Crosses of the Order of Vasa
Grand Masters of the Order of Charles XIII
Knights of the Order of Charles XIII
Knights of the Golden Fleece of Spain
People of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)
Swedish admirals
Dukes of Södermanland
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"Charles XIII, or Carl XIII (, 7 October 1748 – 5 February 1818), was King of Sweden from 1809 and King of Norway from 1814 to his death.",
"He was the second son (and younger brother to King Gustav III) of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden and Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, sister of Frederick the Great.",
"Though known as King Charles XIII in Sweden, he was actually the seventh Swedish king by that name, as Charles IX (reigned 1604–1611) had adopted his numeral after studying a fictitious history of Sweden.",
"In Norway he is known as Charles II.",
"Early life\n\nPrince Charles was placed under the tutelage of Hedvig Elisabet Strömfelt and then Ulrica Schönström.",
"He was appointed grand admiral when he was but few days old.",
"He was described as a good dancer at the amateur theatre of the royal court.",
"Reportedly he was not very close to his mother.",
"The Queen preferred her youngest children, Sophie Albertine and Frederick Adolf.",
"Charles was, however, his father's favorite, and similar to him in personality.",
"He was also described as close to his brother Gustav during their childhood.",
"Because of his position as the heir to the throne after his elder brother Gustav, he was early targeted as a useful tool for the opposition to his brother: already in the 1760s, the Caps (party) tried to use him against his brother the crown prince through his then love interest countess Brita Horn, daughter of the Cap's politician Adam Horn.",
"Gustav, however, was always careful to prevent Charles from being used by the opposition, which came to its first test during the December Crisis (1768), when Charles, ultimately, did not let himself be used by the Caps party.",
"In 1770, he made a journey through Germany and France alone.",
"Reign of Gustav III\n\nAfter the death of his father in 1771, when his brother the crown prince was abroad, the Caps once again attempted to use him against his brother, now King Gustav III of Sweden, and his mother Louisa Ulrika used this in order to have her own rights as a dowager queen respected by the Caps.",
"Upon the departure of his mother to Prussia, and the return of his brother, however, Gustav III managed to win him to his side.",
"In 1772 he cooperated in the Revolution of 1772 of his elder brother, King Gustav.",
"He was given the task of using his connections in the Caps party to neutralize it and secure the southern provinces by use of the military, tasks he performed successfully and for which the king rewarded him with the title Duke of Södermanland.",
"Duke Charles in early years was the object of his mother's plans to arrange political marriages for her children.",
"On the wish of his mother, he was to be married to her niece, his cousin Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, a plan to which he had agreed in 1770.",
"The government, however, refused to issue negotiations because of the costs.",
"After the accession of Gustav III and the coup d'état which introduced absolute monarchy, his brother terminated these plans against their mother's will in October 1772, and began negotiations for a marriage between Charles and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.",
"As King Gustav had not consummated his own marriage, he wished to place the task of providing an heir to the throne with his brother.",
"Charles agreed to the marriage in August 1773, and the marriage took place the following year.",
"After a false alarm of a pregnancy of Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte in 1775, the king finally consummated his own marriage.",
"The royal couple lived separate private lives and each had extramarital affairs.",
"During the great succession scandal of 1778, when queen dowager Louisa Ulrika questioned the paternity of the issue of Gustav III, Charles sided with his brother the king against their mother, this despite the fact that it was in fact he who had informed her of the rumors regarding the legitimacy, something he however withheld from the king.",
"Charles was described as dependent and easily influenced.",
"His numerous affairs gave him the reputation of being a libertine.",
"He was reputed for his \"harem\" of lovers, of which the more well known were Augusta von Fersen, Charlotte Eckerman, Françoise-Éléonore Villain, Mariana Koskull and Charlotte Slottsberg, the last one reputed to have had political influence over him.",
"He unsuccessfully courted Magdalena Rudenschöld, and her refusal of his advances has been pointed out as the cause of the harsh treatment he exposed her to as regent during the Armfelt conspiracy.",
"After the late 1790s, when his health deteriorated as a result of a series of rheumatic attacks, his relationship to his consort improved and she gained more influence over him.",
"The Duke was known for his interest in the supernatural and mysticism, and he was engaged in several secret societies.",
"He was a member of the Freemasons.",
"He was reportedly a client of the fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson, and he also favored the medium Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou.",
"In 1811, he founded the Order of Charles XIII, a Swedish order of chivalry awarded only to a maximum number of 33 knights, on the condition of confessing the Lutheran Evangelic Religion and being Freemasons.",
"All Princes and Kings of the Bernadotte dynasty, the royal house of Sweden are from baptism, incorporate parts of the royal order of knights and freemasons.",
"In addition are the order of merit granted to members of foreign Grand Lodges affiliated to the so-called Swedish System, such as the Grande Loge Nationale Française, if of royal rank.",
"When the Swedish order of Freemason's states that \"Freemasonry in Sweden has continued to develop under leadership of their Grand Masters, all of them belonging to the Royal House since more than 200 years\", the origin of which arrives in large from King Charles II of Norway, XIII of Sweden.",
"Duke Charles was given several political tasks during his tenure as a duke.",
"In 1777, he served as regent during Gustav III's stay in Russia.",
"In 1780, he served as formal chief commander during the king's stay in Spa.",
"The same year, Gustav III named him regent for his son should he succeed him while still a minor.",
"However, he was not appointed regent during the journey of the king to Italy and France in 1783-84, and in the following years, he came under the influence of Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, who was in opposition to the monarch, and came to be less trusted by Gustav III.",
"In 1785, he was offered the Dukedom of Courland by the nobility of the Duchy and given the support of Gustav III.",
"This however never materialized.",
"On the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distinction as admiral of the fleet, especially at the battles of Hogland (7 June 1788) and Öland (26 July 1789).",
"On the latter occasion he would have won a signal victory but for the remissness of his second-in-command, Admiral Liljehorn.",
"The autumn of 1789, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte wished to depose Gustav III and place her husband Duke Charles upon the throne.",
"Her ideal was the Swedish Constitution of 1772, which she saw as a good tool for an enlightened aristocracy, and the war and the Union and Security Act had made her a leading part of the opposition.",
"She cooperated with Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm.",
"The plan was to force Charles to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act when the time was right.",
"When the time arrived to make Charles act, however, he refused, which effectively foiled the coup.",
"Charles was in close connection to the opposition against Gustav III, and it is debated whether he knew of and supported the plans to assassinate the king.",
"Reign of Gustav IV Adolf\nOn the assassination of Gustav III in 1792, Charles acted as regent of Sweden till 1796 on behalf of his nephew, King Gustav IV, who was a minor when his father was shot in the Stockholm opera.",
"Gustav III had designated him regent in his earlier will.",
"When he was dying, he altered the will, and while still appointing Charles regent of his minor son, he was no longer to rule absolute, but restricted by a government consisted of the supporters of Gustav III.",
"After the death of the monarch, however, Charles successfully contested the will and was given unlimited power as sole regent.",
"The Duke-regent was in practice not willing or capable to manage the state affairs, reportedly because of his lack of energy and staying power.",
"Instead, he entrusted the power of government to his favorite and adviser Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, whose influence over him was supreme.",
"These four years have been considered perhaps the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history; an Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold, as it has been called, and may be briefly described as alternations of fantastic jacobinism and the ruthless despotism.",
"Reuterholm ruled as the uncontested regent de facto the entire tenure of the regency, \"only seldom disturbed by other influences or any personal will of charles\".",
"The unexpectedly mild sentences of the involved in the regicide of Gustav III attracted attention.",
"In 1794 the discovery of the Armfelt Conspiracy exposed the opposition of the Gustavian Party.",
"The marriage negotiations of the young king disturbed the relationship to Russia, and the alliance with revolutionary France was greatly disliked by other powers.",
"On the coming of age of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden in November 1796, the duke's regency ended.",
"His relationship to Gustav IV Adolf was cordial though never close, and he was not entrusted with much responsibility during the rule of his nephew.",
"In 1797 and 1798, he and his consort had their first children, though in neither case the child lived.",
"After this, the Duke and Duchess made a journey through Germany and Austria in 1798–99.",
"In 1803, the Boheman affair caused a severe conflict between Gustav IV Adolf and the ducal couple.",
"The mystic Karl Adolf Boheman (1764–1831) had been introduced to the couple by Count Magnus Stenbock in 1793 and gained great influence by promising to reveal scientific secrets about the occult.",
"Boheman inducted them into a secret society Yellow Rose in 1801, where both sexes where accepted as members, and to which the Counts and Countesses Ruuth and Brahe as well as the mother of the queen were introduced.",
"Boheman was arrested upon an attempt to recruit the monarch, who accused him of revolutionary agendas and expelled him.",
"The ducal couple were exposed in an informal investigation by the monarch, and the duchess was questioned in the presence of the royal council.",
"In 1808, Charles was again chief commander during Gustav IV Adolf's stay in Finland.",
"He is presumed to have been, if not involved, aware of the plans to depose Gustav IV Adolf in 1809.",
"He kept passive during the Coup of 1809, and accepted the post of regent from the victorious party after having assured himself that the deposed monarch was not in mortal danger.",
"Charles was initially not willing to accept the crown, however, out of consideration for the former king's son.",
"Reign\n\nOn 13 March 1809, those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf appointed Charles regent, and he was finally elected king by the Riksdag of the Estates.",
"By the time he became king, he was 60 years old and prematurely decrepit.",
"In November 1809, he was affected by a heart attack, and was not able to participate in government.",
"The new constitution which was introduced also made his involvement in politics difficult.",
"A planned attempt to enlarge the royal power in 1809–10 was not put into effect because of his indecisiveness and health condition.",
"His incapacity triggered a search for a suitable heir.",
"The initial choice was a Danish prince, Christian August, who took the name Charles August upon being adopted by Charles.",
"However, Charles August died only a few months after his arrival in Sweden.",
"One of Napoleon's generals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was then chosen as his successor.",
"The new crown prince took over the government as soon as he landed in Sweden in 1810.",
"Charles's condition deteriorated every year, especially after 1812, and he eventually became but a mute witness during the government councils chaired by the crown prince, having lost his memory and no longer being able to communicate.",
"By the Union of Sweden and Norway on 4 November 1814 Charles became king of Norway under the name Carl II of Norway.",
"After eight years as king only by title, Charles died without a natural heir on 5 February 1818, and Bernadotte succeeded him as King Charles XIV John.",
"Charles was the 872nd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain.",
"Family\nHe married his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818), on 7 July 1774 in Stockholm.",
"Both of their children died in infancy:\n\n Lovisa Hedvig (2 July 1797 in Stockholm).",
"Stillborn; buried at Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church).",
"Carl Adolf, Duke of Värmland (4 July 1798 in Stockholm – 10 July 1798 in Stockholm).",
"Lived six days; buried at Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church).",
"En kunglig släktkrönika\n Herman Lindqvist: Historien om Sverige.",
"Gustavs dagar\n\nExternal links\n\n Nordisk familjebok\nhttp://www.historiesajten.se/visainfo.asp?id=51\n\n1748 births\n1818 deaths\n19th-century Swedish monarchs\n19th-century Norwegian monarchs\nCharles 02 of Norway\nHouse of Holstein-Gottorp\nSwedish Freemasons\nRegents of Sweden\nSwedish monarchs of German descent\nBurials at Riddarholmen Church\nKnights Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword\nCommanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star\nGrand Crosses of the Order of Vasa\nGrand Masters of the Order of Charles XIII\nKnights of the Order of Charles XIII\nKnights of the Golden Fleece of Spain\nPeople of the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)\nSwedish admirals\nDukes of Södermanland\nSons of kings"
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"Carl XIII was King of Sweden from 1805 to 1805 and King of Norway from 1814 to 1814.",
"He was the younger brother of King Gustav III of Sweden and the sister of Frederick the Great.",
"The seventh Swedish king by that name was Charles IX, who adopted his numeral after studying a fictional history of Sweden.",
"He is known in Norway as Charles II.",
"Prince Charles was placed under the care of Ulrica Schnstrm.",
"When he was a few days old, he was appointed grand admiral.",
"He was a good dancer at the amateur theatre.",
"He wasn't very close to his mother.",
"The Queen preferred her children the most.",
"Charles was similar to his father in personality.",
"He was very close to his brother.",
"The Caps tried to use him against his brother the crown prince because of his position as heir to the throne.",
"Gustav was careful to prevent Charles from being used by the opposition, which came to its first test during the December Crisis (1768), when Charles did not let himself be used by the Caps party.",
"He traveled through Germany and France alone.",
"After the death of his father, the Caps tried to use him against his brother, now King Gustav III of Sweden, in order to have his mother's rights.",
"Gustav III was able to win him over after his mother left Prussia and his brother came back.",
"He cooperated with his brother, King Gustav, in the Revolution of 1772.",
"He was given the task of using his connections in the Caps party to destroy it and secure the southern provinces by using the military and was rewarded with the title Duke of Sdermanland.",
"Duke Charles was the object of his mother's plans to arrange political marriages for her children.",
"He agreed to marry his cousin Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt on the wish of his mother.",
"The government refused to negotiate because of the costs.",
"After the accession of Gustav III and the coup d'état which introduced absolute monarchy, his brother terminated these plans against their mother's will, and began negotiations for a marriage between Charles and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp.",
"King Gustav wanted to provide an heir to the throne with his brother, as he hadn't finalized his own marriage.",
"The marriage took place the following year after Charles agreed to the marriage.",
"Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte was pregnant with the king's child after a false alarm.",
"The royal couple had extramarital affairs.",
"When queen dowager Louisa Ulrika questioned the legitimacy of Gustav III, Charles sided with his brother the king against their mother, despite the fact that he had informed her of the rumors.",
"Charles was described as dependent and easily influenced.",
"He had a reputation of being a libertine because of his many affairs.",
"Augusta von Fersen, Charlotte Eckerman, Franoise-léonore Villain, and the last one reputed to have had political influence over him were all rumored to be his \"harem\" of lovers.",
"He exposed her to harsh treatment during the Armfelt conspiracy due to her refusal of his advances.",
"When his health deteriorated as a result of a series of rheumatic attacks, his relationship to his consort improved and she gained more influence over him.",
"The Duke was well known for his interest in mysticism and the supernatural.",
"He belonged to the Freemasons.",
"He was a client of the fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson.",
"He founded the Order of Charles XIII, a Swedish order of chivalry, on the condition that he confess to the Lutheran Evangelic Religion and be a Freemason.",
"The royal house of Sweden is made up of the princes and kings from the Bernadotte dynasty.",
"The Grande Loge Nationale Franaise, if of royal rank, has the order of merit granted to members of foreign Grand Lodges affiliated to the Swedish System.",
"When the Swedish order of Freemason's states that \"Freemasonry in Sweden has continued to develop under leadership of their Grand Masters, all of them belonging to the Royal House since more than 200 years\", the origin of which arrives in large from King Charles II of Norway, XIII",
"Duke Charles was given several political tasks while he was a duke.",
"During Gustav III's stay in Russia, he served as regent.",
"He was the formal chief commander during the king's stay in Spa.",
"Gustav III named him regent for his son if he succeeded him while still a minor.",
"He came to be less trusted by Gustav III after he was not appointed regent during the journey of the king to Italy and France.",
"He was offered the Dukedom of Courland by the nobility of the Duchy and was supported by Gustav III.",
"This never materialized.",
"He served as admiral of the fleet at the battles of land and Hogland in 1789.",
"He would have won a signal victory if his second-in-command had done his job.",
"Charlotte wanted to place her husband Duke Charles on the throne.",
"Her ideal was the Swedish Constitution of 1772, which she saw as a good tool for an enlightened aristocracy, and the war and the Union and Security Act made her a leading part of the opposition.",
"She worked with Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden.",
"When the time was right, the plan was to force Charles to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act.",
"Charles refused to act when the time was right to foil the coup.",
"It is debated if Charles was aware of the plans to assassinate the king.",
"Charles acted as regent of Sweden until 1796 on behalf of his nephew, King Gustav IV, who was a minor when his father was shot.",
"He was designated regent in Gustav III's will.",
"He altered his will when he died, but still appointed Charles regent of his minor son, who was restricted by a government made up of supporters of Gustav III.",
"After the death of the monarch, Charles was given unlimited power as sole regent.",
"The Duke-regent was not able to manage the state affairs because of his lack of energy and power.",
"He gave the power of government to his adviser, who had a lot of sway over him.",
"An Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold is considered to be the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history.",
"\"Only rarely disturbed by other influences or any personal will of charles\", Reuterholm ruled as the uncontested regent.",
"The sentences involved in the regicide of Gustav III attracted attention.",
"The Armfelt Conspiracy exposed the opposition of the Gustavian Party.",
"The marriage negotiations of the young king disturbed the relationship to Russia, and the alliance with revolutionary France was disliked by other powers.",
"The duke's regency ended in November 1796 when Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden was born.",
"He had a good relationship with Gustav IV Adolf, but he was not given much responsibility during his nephew's rule.",
"In 1797 and 1798, he and his consort had their first children, but neither of them lived.",
"In 1798–99, the Duke and Duchess traveled through Germany and Austria.",
"The conflict between Gustav IV Adolf and the ducal couple was caused by the Boheman affair.",
"Count Magnus Stenbock introduced the couple to the mystic Karl Adolf Boheman in 1793 and he gained great influence by promising to reveal scientific secrets.",
"Both sexes were accepted as members of the secret society Yellow Rose, which also included the Count and the mother of the queen.",
"The monarch accused Boheman of being a revolutionary and expelled him.",
"The ducal couple were exposed in an informal investigation by the monarch, and the duke was questioned in the presence of the royal council.",
"During Gustav IV Adolf's stay in Finland, Charles was once again chief commander.",
"He is thought to have been aware of the plans to depose Gustav IV Adolf.",
"After assuring himself that the deposed monarch was not in danger, he accepted the post of regent from the victorious party.",
"Charles wasn't willing to accept the crown out of consideration for the former king's son.",
"The Riksdag of the Estates elected Charles regent after those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf.",
"He was 60 years old when he became king.",
"He had a heart attack in November and was unable to participate in government.",
"His involvement in politics was difficult because of the new constitution.",
"His indecisiveness and health condition made it impossible to enlarge the royal power in 1809–10.",
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Prince <mask> was placed under the tutelage of Hedvig Elisabet Strömfelt and then Ulrica Schönström. He was appointed grand admiral when he was but few days old. He was described as a good dancer at the amateur theatre of the royal court.Reportedly he was not very close to his mother. The Queen preferred her youngest children, Sophie Albertine and Frederick Adolf. <mask> was, however, his father's favorite, and similar to him in personality. He was also described as close to his brother Gustav during their childhood. Because of his position as the heir to the throne after his elder brother Gustav, he was early targeted as a useful tool for the opposition to his brother: already in the 1760s, the Caps (party) tried to use him against his brother the crown prince through his then love interest countess Brita Horn, daughter of the Cap's politician Adam Horn. Gustav, however, was always careful to prevent <mask> from being used by the opposition, which came to its first test during the December Crisis (1768), when <mask>, ultimately, did not let himself be used by the Caps party. In 1770, he made a journey through Germany and France alone.Reign of Gustav III
After the death of his father in 1771, when his brother the crown prince was abroad, the Caps once again attempted to use him against his brother, now King Gustav III of Sweden, and his mother Louisa Ulrika used this in order to have her own rights as a dowager queen respected by the Caps. Upon the departure of his mother to Prussia, and the return of his brother, however, Gustav III managed to win him to his side. In 1772 he cooperated in the Revolution of 1772 of his elder brother, King Gustav. He was given the task of using his connections in the Caps party to neutralize it and secure the southern provinces by use of the military, tasks he performed successfully and for which the king rewarded him with the title Duke of Södermanland. Duke <mask> in early years was the object of his mother's plans to arrange political marriages for her children. On the wish of his mother, he was to be married to her niece, his cousin Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt, a plan to which he had agreed in 1770. The government, however, refused to issue negotiations because of the costs.After the accession of Gustav III and the coup d'état which introduced absolute monarchy, his brother terminated these plans against their mother's will in October 1772, and began negotiations for a marriage between <mask> and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. As King Gustav had not consummated his own marriage, he wished to place the task of providing an heir to the throne with his brother. <mask> agreed to the marriage in August 1773, and the marriage took place the following year. After a false alarm of a pregnancy of Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte in 1775, the king finally consummated his own marriage. The royal couple lived separate private lives and each had extramarital affairs. During the great succession scandal of 1778, when queen dowager Louisa Ulrika questioned the paternity of the issue of Gustav III, <mask> sided with his brother the king against their mother, this despite the fact that it was in fact he who had informed her of the rumors regarding the legitimacy, something he however withheld from the king. <mask> was described as dependent and easily influenced.His numerous affairs gave him the reputation of being a libertine. He was reputed for his "harem" of lovers, of which the more well known were Augusta von Fersen, Charlotte Eckerman, Françoise-Éléonore Villain, Mariana Koskull and Charlotte Slottsberg, the last one reputed to have had political influence over him. He unsuccessfully courted Magdalena Rudenschöld, and her refusal of his advances has been pointed out as the cause of the harsh treatment he exposed her to as regent during the Armfelt conspiracy. After the late 1790s, when his health deteriorated as a result of a series of rheumatic attacks, his relationship to his consort improved and she gained more influence over him. The Duke was known for his interest in the supernatural and mysticism, and he was engaged in several secret societies. He was a member of the Freemasons. He was reportedly a client of the fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson, and he also favored the medium Henrik Gustaf Ulfvenklou.In 1811, he founded the Order of Charles XIII, a Swedish order of chivalry awarded only to a maximum number of 33 knights, on the condition of confessing the Lutheran Evangelic Religion and being Freemasons. All Princes and Kings of the Bernadotte dynasty, the royal house of Sweden are from baptism, incorporate parts of the royal order of knights and freemasons. In addition are the order of merit granted to members of foreign Grand Lodges affiliated to the so-called Swedish System, such as the Grande Loge Nationale Française, if of royal rank. When the Swedish order of Freemason's states that "Freemasonry in Sweden has continued to develop under leadership of their Grand Masters, all of them belonging to the Royal House since more than 200 years", the origin of which arrives in large from King <mask> of Norway, <mask> of Sweden. Duke <mask> was given several political tasks during his tenure as a duke. In 1777, he served as regent during Gustav III's stay in Russia. In 1780, he served as formal chief commander during the king's stay in Spa.The same year, Gustav III named him regent for his son should he succeed him while still a minor. However, he was not appointed regent during the journey of the king to Italy and France in 1783-84, and in the following years, he came under the influence of Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, who was in opposition to the monarch, and came to be less trusted by Gustav III. In 1785, he was offered the Dukedom of Courland by the nobility of the Duchy and given the support of Gustav III. This however never materialized. On the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he served with distinction as admiral of the fleet, especially at the battles of Hogland (7 June 1788) and Öland (26 July 1789). On the latter occasion he would have won a signal victory but for the remissness of his second-in-command, Admiral Liljehorn. The autumn of 1789, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte wished to depose Gustav III and place her husband Duke <mask> upon the throne.Her ideal was the Swedish Constitution of 1772, which she saw as a good tool for an enlightened aristocracy, and the war and the Union and Security Act had made her a leading part of the opposition. She cooperated with Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm. The plan was to force <mask> to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act when the time was right. When the time arrived to make <mask> act, however, he refused, which effectively foiled the coup. <mask> was in close connection to the opposition against Gustav III, and it is debated whether he knew of and supported the plans to assassinate the king. Reign of Gustav IV Adolf
On the assassination of Gustav III in 1792, <mask> acted as regent of Sweden till 1796 on behalf of his nephew, King Gustav IV, who was a minor when his father was shot in the Stockholm opera. Gustav III had designated him regent in his earlier will.When he was dying, he altered the will, and while still appointing <mask> regent of his minor son, he was no longer to rule absolute, but restricted by a government consisted of the supporters of Gustav III. After the death of the monarch, however, <mask> successfully contested the will and was given unlimited power as sole regent. The Duke-regent was in practice not willing or capable to manage the state affairs, reportedly because of his lack of energy and staying power. Instead, he entrusted the power of government to his favorite and adviser Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, whose influence over him was supreme. These four years have been considered perhaps the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history; an Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold, as it has been called, and may be briefly described as alternations of fantastic jacobinism and the ruthless despotism. Reuterholm ruled as the uncontested regent de facto the entire tenure of the regency, "only seldom disturbed by other influences or any personal will of charles". The unexpectedly mild sentences of the involved in the regicide of Gustav III attracted attention.In 1794 the discovery of the Armfelt Conspiracy exposed the opposition of the Gustavian Party. The marriage negotiations of the young king disturbed the relationship to Russia, and the alliance with revolutionary France was greatly disliked by other powers. On the coming of age of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden in November 1796, the duke's regency ended. His relationship to Gustav IV Adolf was cordial though never close, and he was not entrusted with much responsibility during the rule of his nephew. In 1797 and 1798, he and his consort had their first children, though in neither case the child lived. After this, the Duke and Duchess made a journey through Germany and Austria in 1798–99. In 1803, the Boheman affair caused a severe conflict between Gustav IV Adolf and the ducal couple.The mystic Karl Adolf Boheman (1764–1831) had been introduced to the couple by Count Magnus Stenbock in 1793 and gained great influence by promising to reveal scientific secrets about the occult. Boheman inducted them into a secret society Yellow Rose in 1801, where both sexes where accepted as members, and to which the Counts and Countesses Ruuth and Brahe as well as the mother of the queen were introduced. Boheman was arrested upon an attempt to recruit the monarch, who accused him of revolutionary agendas and expelled him. The ducal couple were exposed in an informal investigation by the monarch, and the duchess was questioned in the presence of the royal council. In 1808, <mask> was again chief commander during Gustav IV Adolf's stay in Finland. He is presumed to have been, if not involved, aware of the plans to depose Gustav IV Adolf in 1809. He kept passive during the Coup of 1809, and accepted the post of regent from the victorious party after having assured himself that the deposed monarch was not in mortal danger.<mask> was initially not willing to accept the crown, however, out of consideration for the former king's son. Reign
On 13 March 1809, those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf appointed <mask> regent, and he was finally elected king by the Riksdag of the Estates. By the time he became king, he was 60 years old and prematurely decrepit. In November 1809, he was affected by a heart attack, and was not able to participate in government. The new constitution which was introduced also made his involvement in politics difficult. A planned attempt to enlarge the royal power in 1809–10 was not put into effect because of his indecisiveness and health condition. His incapacity triggered a search for a suitable heir.The initial choice was a Danish prince, Christian August, who took the name <mask> upon being adopted by <mask>. However, <mask> died only a few months after his arrival in Sweden. One of Napoleon's generals, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was then chosen as his successor. The new crown prince took over the government as soon as he landed in Sweden in 1810. <mask>'s condition deteriorated every year, especially after 1812, and he eventually became but a mute witness during the government councils chaired by the crown prince, having lost his memory and no longer being able to communicate. By the Union of Sweden and Norway on 4 November 1814 <mask> became king of Norway under the name Carl II of Norway. After eight years as king only by title, <mask> died without a natural heir on 5 February 1818, and Bernadotte succeeded him as King <mask> John.<mask> was the 872nd Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain. Family
He married his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (1759–1818), on 7 July 1774 in Stockholm. Both of their children died in infancy:
Lovisa Hedvig (2 July 1797 in Stockholm). Stillborn; buried at Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church). Carl Adolf, Duke of Värmland (4 July 1798 in Stockholm – 10 July 1798 in Stockholm). Lived six days; buried at Riddarholmskyrkan (Riddarholm Church). En kunglig släktkrönika
Herman Lindqvist: Historien om Sverige.Gustavs dagar
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He traveled through Germany and France alone.After the death of his father, the Caps tried to use him against his brother, now King Gustav III of Sweden, in order to have his mother's rights. Gustav III was able to win him over after his mother left Prussia and his brother came back. He cooperated with his brother, King Gustav, in the Revolution of 1772. He was given the task of using his connections in the Caps party to destroy it and secure the southern provinces by using the military and was rewarded with the title Duke of Sdermanland. Duke <mask> was the object of his mother's plans to arrange political marriages for her children. He agreed to marry his cousin Philippine of Brandenburg-Schwedt on the wish of his mother. The government refused to negotiate because of the costs.After the accession of Gustav III and the coup d'état which introduced absolute monarchy, his brother terminated these plans against their mother's will, and began negotiations for a marriage between <mask> and his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. King Gustav wanted to provide an heir to the throne with his brother, as he hadn't finalized his own marriage. The marriage took place the following year after <mask> agreed to the marriage. Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte was pregnant with the king's child after a false alarm. The royal couple had extramarital affairs. When queen dowager Louisa Ulrika questioned the legitimacy of Gustav III, <mask> sided with his brother the king against their mother, despite the fact that he had informed her of the rumors. <mask> was described as dependent and easily influenced.He had a reputation of being a libertine because of his many affairs. Augusta von Fersen, Charlotte Eckerman, Franoise-léonore Villain, and the last one reputed to have had political influence over him were all rumored to be his "harem" of lovers. He exposed her to harsh treatment during the Armfelt conspiracy due to her refusal of his advances. When his health deteriorated as a result of a series of rheumatic attacks, his relationship to his consort improved and she gained more influence over him. The Duke was well known for his interest in mysticism and the supernatural. He belonged to the Freemasons. He was a client of the fortune teller Ulrica Arfvidsson.He founded the Order of Charles XIII, a Swedish order of chivalry, on the condition that he confess to the Lutheran Evangelic Religion and be a Freemason. The royal house of Sweden is made up of the princes and kings from the Bernadotte dynasty. The Grande Loge Nationale Franaise, if of royal rank, has the order of merit granted to members of foreign Grand Lodges affiliated to the Swedish System. When the Swedish order of Freemason's states that "Freemasonry in Sweden has continued to develop under leadership of their Grand Masters, all of them belonging to the Royal House since more than 200 years", the origin of which arrives in large from King <mask> of Norway, <mask> Duke <mask> was given several political tasks while he was a duke. During Gustav III's stay in Russia, he served as regent. He was the formal chief commander during the king's stay in Spa.Gustav III named him regent for his son if he succeeded him while still a minor. He came to be less trusted by Gustav III after he was not appointed regent during the journey of the king to Italy and France. He was offered the Dukedom of Courland by the nobility of the Duchy and was supported by Gustav III. This never materialized. He served as admiral of the fleet at the battles of land and Hogland in 1789. He would have won a signal victory if his second-in-command had done his job. Charlotte wanted to place her husband Duke <mask> on the throne.Her ideal was the Swedish Constitution of 1772, which she saw as a good tool for an enlightened aristocracy, and the war and the Union and Security Act made her a leading part of the opposition. She worked with Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden. When the time was right, the plan was to force <mask> to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act. <mask> refused to act when the time was right to foil the coup. It is debated if <mask> was aware of the plans to assassinate the king. <mask> acted as regent of Sweden until 1796 on behalf of his nephew, King Gustav IV, who was a minor when his father was shot. He was designated regent in Gustav III's will.He altered his will when he died, but still appointed <mask> regent of his minor son, who was restricted by a government made up of supporters of Gustav III. After the death of the monarch, <mask> was given unlimited power as sole regent. The Duke-regent was not able to manage the state affairs because of his lack of energy and power. He gave the power of government to his adviser, who had a lot of sway over him. An Age of Lead succeeding an Age of Gold is considered to be the most miserable and degrading period in Swedish history. "Only rarely disturbed by other influences or any personal will of charles", Reuterholm ruled as the uncontested regent. The sentences involved in the regicide of Gustav III attracted attention.The Armfelt Conspiracy exposed the opposition of the Gustavian Party. The marriage negotiations of the young king disturbed the relationship to Russia, and the alliance with revolutionary France was disliked by other powers. The duke's regency ended in November 1796 when Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden was born. He had a good relationship with Gustav IV Adolf, but he was not given much responsibility during his nephew's rule. In 1797 and 1798, he and his consort had their first children, but neither of them lived. In 1798–99, the Duke and Duchess traveled through Germany and Austria. The conflict between Gustav IV Adolf and the ducal couple was caused by the Boheman affair.Count Magnus Stenbock introduced the couple to the mystic Karl Adolf Boheman in 1793 and he gained great influence by promising to reveal scientific secrets. Both sexes were accepted as members of the secret society Yellow Rose, which also included the Count and the mother of the queen. The monarch accused Boheman of being a revolutionary and expelled him. The ducal couple were exposed in an informal investigation by the monarch, and the duke was questioned in the presence of the royal council. During Gustav IV Adolf's stay in Finland, <mask> was once again chief commander. He is thought to have been aware of the plans to depose Gustav IV Adolf. After assuring himself that the deposed monarch was not in danger, he accepted the post of regent from the victorious party.<mask> wasn't willing to accept the crown out of consideration for the former king's son. The Riksdag of the Estates elected <mask> regent after those who had dethroned Gustav IV Adolf. He was 60 years old when he became king. He had a heart attack in November and was unable to participate in government. His involvement in politics was difficult because of the new constitution. His indecisiveness and health condition made it impossible to enlarge the royal power in 1809–10. A search for a suitable heir was triggered by his incapacity.After being adopted by <mask>, Christian August took the name <mask>. <mask> died a few months after arriving in Sweden. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was Napoleon's successor. The new crown prince took over the government after arriving in Sweden. During the government council chaired by the crown prince, <mask> lost his memory and was no longer able to communicate, as his condition deteriorated every year after 1812. On November 4, 1814, <mask> became king of Norway under the name Carl II. After eight years as king only by title, <mask> died without a natural heir on February 5, 1818, and Bernadotte succeeded him as King <mask> John.<mask> was a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. On July 7, 1774, he married his cousin Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp. Both of their children died in infancy. The stillborn is buried at Riddarholmskyrkan. The Duke of Vrmland is Carl Adolf. 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14971597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario%20Escudero | Mario Escudero | Mario Escudero (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004), was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who, following on the footsteps of Ramon Montoya, helped spread flamenco beyond their Spanish homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. Along with others such as his Sabicas, Carlos Montoya and Juan Serrano, Escudero helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with lauded performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues. Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, Escudero was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him "the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation."
During the early part of his career, at the age of 15 (1944 - 1954), he began touring extensively with the best known flamenco companies throughout Spain and the rest of Europe (Rosario and Antonio, Vicente Escudero, Estrellita Castro, and Carmen Amaya), playing both as soloist and guitar accompanist. During this time, he made several records with Estrellita Castro, accompanied many of the best flamenco singers of the time, (including Niña de los Peines, Tomas Pavon, José Cepero, Juanito Mohama, Pepe de la Matrona, Jacinto Almadén, Rafael Farina, Pericón de Cadiz, Palanca, Chiquito de Triana, Canalejas de Puerto Real and others,. and provided the musical background to several films:
Brindis a Manolete (1948), with Paquito Rico, Jose Greco, Manolo Badajoz, Rafael Romero "El Gallina", Trio Escudero (Mario performs as one of the guitarists along with his father, mother and one of his aunts, Milagros). This is the first time Escudero would meet Jose Greco, with whom he would perform several years later.
Jalisco Canta en Sevilla (1949), with Jorge Negrete and Carmen Sevilla
Cafe Cantante (1951), with Imperio Argentina, Angel Pericet, Rafael Farina, Emilia Escudero. In this film, Mario Escudero is playing is the entire soundtrack.
After completing his obligatory military service in Spain, he toured Central and South America with Carmen Amaya, and in early 1955, the United States with both Vicente Escudero and Jose Greco as soloist and guitar accompanist (from 1950 - 1956).
From 1958 - 1961, he formed his own group "Capricho Español" and performed extensively in Central and South America. From 1961 onward, he settled in the United States to focus on what would become a very successful career as a flamenco concert guitarist. In total, his career as a performer and concert guitarist spanned 47 years, beginning with Vicente Escudero in 1944, and ending in 1991, with his last concert appearances in Spain and the United States. During all of this period, he had a very active concert schedule, performing on a regular basis in the United States and internationally, including several concert tours to Russia (then the Soviet Union), Japan, Hong Kong and Turkey, all as a private citizen; that is, not backed or sponsored by State-financed organizations in any way.
His career as a recording artist, however, was much shorter (17 years, from 1952 - 1969), essentially beginning with his first long play record in 1952 ("El Pili Flamenco", Esoteric-2001, 1952), in which he played guitar duos with Alberto Velez and accompanied the singer "El Pili"), and ending with his last double record album with the Musical Heritage Society in 1969 ("Mario Escudero Plays Classical Flamenco Music", MHS 994/995, 1969). He did not make any more records after 1969, as a result of his long lasting dislike over what he considered to be ongoing unfair commercial practices on the use of his original recordings by some record companies. Nevertheless, during this relatively brief 17 year period, Escudero made over 30 original long play records (both as Mario Escudero and as "El Niño de Alicante").
While he composed more than 250 of his own works, he regularly performed and recorded the works of other notable flamenco and classical guitar masters, like Niño Ricardo ("Almoradí", "Recuerdo a Sevilla"), Esteban de Sanlucar ("Castillo de Xauen", "Mantillas de Feria") or Tarrega ("Recuerdos de la Alhambra"). When he was not performing, he very much enjoyed teaching flamenco guitar to his many students, writing down his own compositions, and furthering his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, both on his own and studying with other teachers himself. Lastly, he loved listening to and learning from all types of music, including jazz, "soft" rock, all types of folk music and, of course, classical composers like Albeniz, Falla, Granados, Wagner, Beethoven and Bach (the latter of which he always referred to as "el payo Bach", as he regularly listened to Simon Preston´s album of his complete organ works).
He died November, 19th 2004, in Miami, Florida, USA.
Biography
Escudero was born in Alicante, Spain, on October 11, 1928. His mother was Alfonsa Valero Valverde (d. 1947, a/k/a "Josefina", which was her artistic pseudonym). She was a Spanish singer. His father was Jesus Escudero Jiménez (d. 1966), a gypsy. Jesus´s family originally came from Tudela, Navarre, Spain, although they also settled in Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragón). Escudero was an only child.
Settling in the Spanish city of San Sebastian, the family opened and ran a tailor shop. The breakout of the Spanish Civil War forced them to emigrate to southern France. While in France, Jesus formed the "Trio Escudero". The three members of the Trio Escudero were Mario´s father Jesus, his mother, and his aunt Milagros. They performed with artists like Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette. Escudero's first performance in 1937 at the age of 9 was with Chevalier at the Cinema Galia in Bordeaux, France.
After the war, the family returned to Spain and settled in Madrid, although they always lived between Madrid and San Sebastian, as Escudero would himself recalled in several interviews.
His father, while not a soloist, was a guitar accompanist.
Personal life
In 1952, Escudero married Maria Amaya, with whom he had a son.
Escudero and Maria separated after a few years, and they both remarried. Escudero eventually married his second wife, Anita Ramos, and the couple had three children.
Career
1944 - 1965
On April 15, 1944, Escudero gave his first performance as a soloist, and accompanied Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia at the Palacio de la Musica theater in Barcelona. On June 6, 1944, he debuted with them and his teacher in Madrid at the Teatro Español. For approximately the next 5 years, he frequently performed with Estrellita Castro, and Vicente Escudero. His early solo performances are well received by the public and critics. )
Escudero began to perform frequently with Carmen Amaya in early 1950, when he joined her to tour South America. In September, 1951, he again performed with her at the Teatro Fontalba in Madrid.
In 1952, Escudero made the record "El Pili" Flamenco.
In April 1953, he performed with Carmen Amaya again at the Teatro Quintero in Madrid, and was on tour with her again throughout Spain until September, 1951. He joined Estrellita Castro and her "Romeria" show to perform at La Zarzuela Theater, and remained with her until May 1954.
In 1955, Escudero made two records:
"Flamenco played by Mario Escudero"
"Fiesta Flamenca" - with "El Bailete"
Together with his new group "El Bailete", he rejoined Vicente Escudero for Vicente's farewell tour of the United States, starting in February 1955.
In April 1956 he rejoins Vicente Escudero at the Plaza Hotel Persian Room in New York for a 3-week engagement. In one of these performances at the Persian Room, Escudero tripped on someone´s foot, falling on top of his guitar, smashing it beyond repair. Escudero got up, went back stage, got a replacement guitar, and returned to complete the show to a standing ovation.
In 1956, Escudero made four records:
"Mario Escudero and his flamenco guitar"
"Guitar Variations - Mario Escudero with Domingo Alvarado"
"Danzas y Canciones de Andalucia"
"Luisa Triana, with Mario Escudero - Temas de España"
He performed again at Carnegie Hall, New York, with dancer Luisa Triana, and singer Chinin de Triana on June 9, 1956.
In 1957, Escudero made six records:
"Vicente Escudero. Flamenco!"
"Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars"
"Federico Garcia Lorca - Poemas del Cante Jondo", with Enrique Montoya
Juerga Gitana, Enrique Montoya with Mario Escudero
"Mario Escudero y su Ballet Flamenco"
"Flamenco Festival in Hi Fi"
At the end of 1956, Escudero decided not to return to Spain, but remain with his family in the United States. He performed at the Chateau Madrid, New York, with Tere Maya (January 4 -28, 1957), Palumbos, Philadelphia (February, 1957), The Orange Gardens of the Everglades Club (March, 1957), while he continued to his regular TV and radio performances as a solist, appearing on "The Vic Damone Show" (July and November, 1957), "The Ed Sullivan Show" (March, 1957), "The Johnny Carson Show" (June, 1957), "Jack Paar Show" (October, 1957), Channel 5, Baltimore (October 5, 1957), KCBH Radio (October 11, 1957), and others. Again he performed at Carnegie Hall, with Tere Amoros (November, 1957).
In 1958, he made five records:
Viva Flamenco!
The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero
Flamenco Carnival
Festival Gitana
Sabicas - Gypsy Flamenco
From early 1959 until the end of 1960, he performed with his own group "El Capricho Español" throughout Central and South America, and also performed with Miguel Molina on various occasions in theaters and television, in both Argentina and Uruguay.
1965 - 1981
On a few occasions, Escudero performed with orchestras. The Spanish composer, Federico Moreno Torroba, based his "Fantasia Flamenca" for guitar and orchestra on his themes, and Escudero premiered it at Carnegie Hall on November 28, 1976, with the American Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Almeida conducting. Upon special request, he also performed Rodrigo´s "Concierto de Aranjuez" on the 17th and the 18th of November, 1977, with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra under George Zack.
List of performances and concerts
1944 - 1954 (Spain, Europe and South America)
April 15, 1944, Palacio de la Musica, (Barcelona): Mario Escudero's first performance as a professional guitarist was at the age of 15. Cast: Includes Vicente Escudero, Carmita Garcia, Mario Escudero and Manuel Rivera. Palacio de la Musica.
June 6, 1944, Teatro Español (Madrid): Mario Escudero debuts with Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia in Madrid. Cast: Includes Vicente Escudero, Carmita Garcia, Ramon Montoya ("...a la guitarra de concierto). A repeat concert was scheduled for June 9th, but had to be suspended due to sickness of Carmita Garcia.
July 20, 1945, Plaza de Toros Arenas (Barcelona): Espectaculo "Grandioso Espectaculo Andaluz". Cast: Mario Escudero (as soloist), but also accompanies Canalejas, Palanca, Niño Leon and Chiquito de Triana.
In 1945, in San Sebastian, Mario records with Estrellita Castro, "Los Marismeños" (Bulerias) and "Niña Caracola" (Tanguillos) - (78 RPM, Columbia R 14333).
September 27, 28, 1946, Teatro Romea (Barcelona): Cast: Includes Pepe Blanco, Carmen Morell, Mario Escudero and Rosario Escudero. Critic comments "Mario Escudero...notable concertista ...".
January 8 and 9, 1947, Teatro Cómico de Madrid (Madrid): Show "Yo Soy un Señorito". Cast: Includes Pericon de Cadiz, Lola Ramos, Mario Escudero, Ricardo Alpuente, Rosita Cadenas and Charito Sainz de Mirras.
September 6, 1947, Teatro de La Zarzuela (Madrid): Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia. The reviewer says "hubo aplausos para todos...y para Mario Escudero en sus interpretaciones como solista", making it clear that, since the beginning, Mario´s interest was to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Ramon Montoya, and not only be a guitar accompanist.
January 17 - 24, 1948, Sala de Fiestas Madrigal (Madrid). The advertisement only mentions Mario Escudero "...el gran guitarrista"
Marzo 5, 1952, Teatro Alcazar (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera
Marzo, 14, 1952 - April 6, 1952, Teatro Español (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera.
June 16, 17, 1952, Plaza de los Aljibes de La Alhambra (Granada): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera
Julio 1 - 6, 1952, Teatro Maravillas (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera.
September 11, 1952, Theatre des Champs-Elysses (Paris): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera
September 24, 1953, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro."Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others. In May, 1953, Estrellita Castro announces her return to Spain after 5 years in South America .
October 7, 11, 1953, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro."Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others.
December 23, 1953 - 7/1/1954, Teatro Calderon (Madrid): Estrellita Castro."Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others
In 1954, in Barcelona, Mario records with Estrellita Castro, "Gitanos Falsificaos" and "La Salinera" - (78 RPM, Odeon 204523). Also with guitarist Antonio Serra.
In 1954, in Barcelona, Mario records with Estrellita Castro, "Tanguillos del Campo de Gibraltar" - (78 RPM, Odeon 204522). Also with guitarist Antonio Serra.
April 17, 1954, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro "Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Maria Amaya, Amalia Roman, Esperanza Ortiz, Josele, Paco Sanchez. This is an entirely new group, and Mario´s wife, Maria Amaya, joins the group.
May 5, 1954, Teatro Maravillas (Madrid): Estrellita Castro "Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Maria Amaya, Amalia Roman, Esperanza Ortiz, Josele, Paco Sanchez.
1955 - 1961 (United States, Central and South America)
January 25, 1955. Mario Escudero, together with his wife Maria Amaya, his cousin Rosario Escudero, and other members of his "Bailete", as well as members of Vicente Escudero´s own dance company, arrived in New York City on January 25, 1955 on board the USS Constitution.
Recordings
Escudero's first recordings date from 1945 when he was 16 years old, as an accompanist to Estrellita Castro.
He recorded three albums of guitar duets with Sabicas:
1957: "Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars"
1958: "The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero"
1959: "The Romantic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero"
Shortly before he died, a reporter asked Sabicas: "Which, of the many records you have made during your long career, is your favorite?" He did not have to wait too long for his reply: "Of all, I only like the one I made with the guitarist Mario Escudero." Be it as it may, the fact is that both Sabicas and Escudero listened to these records, especially the first two "Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars" and " The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero", practically in every family reunion.
Escudero liked the same two records he made with Sabicas. He was also fond of the ones he had made with ABC Paramount, and of the last double album he recorded with the Musical Heritage Society in 1969.
References
External links
Flamenco Guitar Solos Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways
SGAE
Miguel Borrull (hijo) recordings (Biblioteca Nacional de España.
Pepe Blanco "El Granate" and "Barquito de Vela" (Odeon 204151 SO 9811 / 9810, 1946), accompanied by Jesus Escudero.
"Patios de la Alhambra", by Mario Escudero (played by Mario Manuel Escudero, 2011)
1928 births
Spanish flamenco guitarists
Spanish male guitarists
People from Alicante
2004 deaths
20th-century Spanish musicians
20th-century guitarists
20th-century Spanish male musicians | [
"Mario Escudero (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004), was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who, following on the footsteps of Ramon Montoya, helped spread flamenco beyond their Spanish homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s.",
"Along with others such as his Sabicas, Carlos Montoya and Juan Serrano, Escudero helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with lauded performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues.",
"Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, Escudero was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him \"the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation.\"",
"During the early part of his career, at the age of 15 (1944 - 1954), he began touring extensively with the best known flamenco companies throughout Spain and the rest of Europe (Rosario and Antonio, Vicente Escudero, Estrellita Castro, and Carmen Amaya), playing both as soloist and guitar accompanist.",
"During this time, he made several records with Estrellita Castro, accompanied many of the best flamenco singers of the time, (including Niña de los Peines, Tomas Pavon, José Cepero, Juanito Mohama, Pepe de la Matrona, Jacinto Almadén, Rafael Farina, Pericón de Cadiz, Palanca, Chiquito de Triana, Canalejas de Puerto Real and others,.",
"and provided the musical background to several films: \n\n Brindis a Manolete (1948), with Paquito Rico, Jose Greco, Manolo Badajoz, Rafael Romero \"El Gallina\", Trio Escudero (Mario performs as one of the guitarists along with his father, mother and one of his aunts, Milagros).",
"This is the first time Escudero would meet Jose Greco, with whom he would perform several years later.",
"Jalisco Canta en Sevilla (1949), with Jorge Negrete and Carmen Sevilla \n Cafe Cantante (1951), with Imperio Argentina, Angel Pericet, Rafael Farina, Emilia Escudero.",
"In this film, Mario Escudero is playing is the entire soundtrack.",
"After completing his obligatory military service in Spain, he toured Central and South America with Carmen Amaya, and in early 1955, the United States with both Vicente Escudero and Jose Greco as soloist and guitar accompanist (from 1950 - 1956).",
"From 1958 - 1961, he formed his own group \"Capricho Español\" and performed extensively in Central and South America.",
"From 1961 onward, he settled in the United States to focus on what would become a very successful career as a flamenco concert guitarist.",
"In total, his career as a performer and concert guitarist spanned 47 years, beginning with Vicente Escudero in 1944, and ending in 1991, with his last concert appearances in Spain and the United States.",
"During all of this period, he had a very active concert schedule, performing on a regular basis in the United States and internationally, including several concert tours to Russia (then the Soviet Union), Japan, Hong Kong and Turkey, all as a private citizen; that is, not backed or sponsored by State-financed organizations in any way.",
"His career as a recording artist, however, was much shorter (17 years, from 1952 - 1969), essentially beginning with his first long play record in 1952 (\"El Pili Flamenco\", Esoteric-2001, 1952), in which he played guitar duos with Alberto Velez and accompanied the singer \"El Pili\"), and ending with his last double record album with the Musical Heritage Society in 1969 (\"Mario Escudero Plays Classical Flamenco Music\", MHS 994/995, 1969).",
"He did not make any more records after 1969, as a result of his long lasting dislike over what he considered to be ongoing unfair commercial practices on the use of his original recordings by some record companies.",
"Nevertheless, during this relatively brief 17 year period, Escudero made over 30 original long play records (both as Mario Escudero and as \"El Niño de Alicante\").",
"While he composed more than 250 of his own works, he regularly performed and recorded the works of other notable flamenco and classical guitar masters, like Niño Ricardo (\"Almoradí\", \"Recuerdo a Sevilla\"), Esteban de Sanlucar (\"Castillo de Xauen\", \"Mantillas de Feria\") or Tarrega (\"Recuerdos de la Alhambra\").",
"When he was not performing, he very much enjoyed teaching flamenco guitar to his many students, writing down his own compositions, and furthering his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, both on his own and studying with other teachers himself.",
"Lastly, he loved listening to and learning from all types of music, including jazz, \"soft\" rock, all types of folk music and, of course, classical composers like Albeniz, Falla, Granados, Wagner, Beethoven and Bach (the latter of which he always referred to as \"el payo Bach\", as he regularly listened to Simon Preston´s album of his complete organ works).",
"He died November, 19th 2004, in Miami, Florida, USA.",
"Biography\n\nEscudero was born in Alicante, Spain, on October 11, 1928.",
"His mother was Alfonsa Valero Valverde (d. 1947, a/k/a \"Josefina\", which was her artistic pseudonym).",
"She was a Spanish singer.",
"His father was Jesus Escudero Jiménez (d. 1966), a gypsy.",
"Jesus´s family originally came from Tudela, Navarre, Spain, although they also settled in Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragón).",
"Escudero was an only child.",
"Settling in the Spanish city of San Sebastian, the family opened and ran a tailor shop.",
"The breakout of the Spanish Civil War forced them to emigrate to southern France.",
"While in France, Jesus formed the \"Trio Escudero\".",
"The three members of the Trio Escudero were Mario´s father Jesus, his mother, and his aunt Milagros.",
"They performed with artists like Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette.",
"Escudero's first performance in 1937 at the age of 9 was with Chevalier at the Cinema Galia in Bordeaux, France.",
"After the war, the family returned to Spain and settled in Madrid, although they always lived between Madrid and San Sebastian, as Escudero would himself recalled in several interviews.",
"His father, while not a soloist, was a guitar accompanist.",
"Personal life \n\nIn 1952, Escudero married Maria Amaya, with whom he had a son.",
"Escudero and Maria separated after a few years, and they both remarried.",
"Escudero eventually married his second wife, Anita Ramos, and the couple had three children.",
"Career\n\n1944 - 1965 \n \nOn April 15, 1944, Escudero gave his first performance as a soloist, and accompanied Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia at the Palacio de la Musica theater in Barcelona.",
"On June 6, 1944, he debuted with them and his teacher in Madrid at the Teatro Español.",
"For approximately the next 5 years, he frequently performed with Estrellita Castro, and Vicente Escudero.",
"His early solo performances are well received by the public and critics. )",
"Escudero began to perform frequently with Carmen Amaya in early 1950, when he joined her to tour South America.",
"In September, 1951, he again performed with her at the Teatro Fontalba in Madrid.",
"In 1952, Escudero made the record \"El Pili\" Flamenco.",
"In April 1953, he performed with Carmen Amaya again at the Teatro Quintero in Madrid, and was on tour with her again throughout Spain until September, 1951.",
"He joined Estrellita Castro and her \"Romeria\" show to perform at La Zarzuela Theater, and remained with her until May 1954.",
"In 1955, Escudero made two records: \n\n\"Flamenco played by Mario Escudero\" \n \"Fiesta Flamenca\" - with \"El Bailete\" \n\nTogether with his new group \"El Bailete\", he rejoined Vicente Escudero for Vicente's farewell tour of the United States, starting in February 1955.",
"In April 1956 he rejoins Vicente Escudero at the Plaza Hotel Persian Room in New York for a 3-week engagement.",
"In one of these performances at the Persian Room, Escudero tripped on someone´s foot, falling on top of his guitar, smashing it beyond repair.",
"Escudero got up, went back stage, got a replacement guitar, and returned to complete the show to a standing ovation.",
"In 1956, Escudero made four records:\n\n \"Mario Escudero and his flamenco guitar\" \n \"Guitar Variations - Mario Escudero with Domingo Alvarado\" \n \"Danzas y Canciones de Andalucia\" \n \"Luisa Triana, with Mario Escudero - Temas de España\" \n\nHe performed again at Carnegie Hall, New York, with dancer Luisa Triana, and singer Chinin de Triana on June 9, 1956.",
"In 1957, Escudero made six records:\n\n \"Vicente Escudero.",
"Flamenco!\"",
"\"Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars\" \n \"Federico Garcia Lorca - Poemas del Cante Jondo\", with Enrique Montoya\n Juerga Gitana, Enrique Montoya with Mario Escudero\n \"Mario Escudero y su Ballet Flamenco\"\n \"Flamenco Festival in Hi Fi\"\n\nAt the end of 1956, Escudero decided not to return to Spain, but remain with his family in the United States.",
"He performed at the Chateau Madrid, New York, with Tere Maya (January 4 -28, 1957), Palumbos, Philadelphia (February, 1957), The Orange Gardens of the Everglades Club (March, 1957), while he continued to his regular TV and radio performances as a solist, appearing on \"The Vic Damone Show\" (July and November, 1957), \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" (March, 1957), \"The Johnny Carson Show\" (June, 1957), \"Jack Paar Show\" (October, 1957), Channel 5, Baltimore (October 5, 1957), KCBH Radio (October 11, 1957), and others.",
"Again he performed at Carnegie Hall, with Tere Amoros (November, 1957).",
"In 1958, he made five records:\n\n Viva Flamenco!",
"The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero \n Flamenco Carnival \n Festival Gitana \n Sabicas - Gypsy Flamenco \n\nFrom early 1959 until the end of 1960, he performed with his own group \"El Capricho Español\" throughout Central and South America, and also performed with Miguel Molina on various occasions in theaters and television, in both Argentina and Uruguay.",
"1965 - 1981 \n\nOn a few occasions, Escudero performed with orchestras.",
"The Spanish composer, Federico Moreno Torroba, based his \"Fantasia Flamenca\" for guitar and orchestra on his themes, and Escudero premiered it at Carnegie Hall on November 28, 1976, with the American Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Almeida conducting.",
"Upon special request, he also performed Rodrigo´s \"Concierto de Aranjuez\" on the 17th and the 18th of November, 1977, with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra under George Zack.",
"List of performances and concerts\n\n1944 - 1954 (Spain, Europe and South America) \n April 15, 1944, Palacio de la Musica, (Barcelona): Mario Escudero's first performance as a professional guitarist was at the age of 15.",
"Cast: Includes Vicente Escudero, Carmita Garcia, Mario Escudero and Manuel Rivera.",
"Palacio de la Musica.",
"June 6, 1944, Teatro Español (Madrid): Mario Escudero debuts with Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia in Madrid.",
"Cast: Includes Vicente Escudero, Carmita Garcia, Ramon Montoya (\"...a la guitarra de concierto).",
"A repeat concert was scheduled for June 9th, but had to be suspended due to sickness of Carmita Garcia.",
"July 20, 1945, Plaza de Toros Arenas (Barcelona): Espectaculo \"Grandioso Espectaculo Andaluz\".",
"Cast: Mario Escudero (as soloist), but also accompanies Canalejas, Palanca, Niño Leon and Chiquito de Triana.",
"In 1945, in San Sebastian, Mario records with Estrellita Castro, \"Los Marismeños\" (Bulerias) and \"Niña Caracola\" (Tanguillos) - (78 RPM, Columbia R 14333).",
"September 27, 28, 1946, Teatro Romea (Barcelona): Cast: Includes Pepe Blanco, Carmen Morell, Mario Escudero and Rosario Escudero.",
"Critic comments \"Mario Escudero...notable concertista ...\".",
"January 8 and 9, 1947, Teatro Cómico de Madrid (Madrid): Show \"Yo Soy un Señorito\".",
"Cast: Includes Pericon de Cadiz, Lola Ramos, Mario Escudero, Ricardo Alpuente, Rosita Cadenas and Charito Sainz de Mirras.",
"September 6, 1947, Teatro de La Zarzuela (Madrid): Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia.",
"The reviewer says \"hubo aplausos para todos...y para Mario Escudero en sus interpretaciones como solista\", making it clear that, since the beginning, Mario´s interest was to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Ramon Montoya, and not only be a guitar accompanist.",
"January 17 - 24, 1948, Sala de Fiestas Madrigal (Madrid).",
"The advertisement only mentions Mario Escudero \"...el gran guitarrista\" \nMarzo 5, 1952, Teatro Alcazar (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera \nMarzo, 14, 1952 - April 6, 1952, Teatro Español (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera.",
"June 16, 17, 1952, Plaza de los Aljibes de La Alhambra (Granada): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera\nJulio 1 - 6, 1952, Teatro Maravillas (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera.",
"September 11, 1952, Theatre des Champs-Elysses (Paris): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, Mario Escudero, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera \nSeptember 24, 1953, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro.\"Romeria\".",
"Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others.",
"In May, 1953, Estrellita Castro announces her return to Spain after 5 years in South America .",
"October 7, 11, 1953, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro.\"Romeria\".",
"Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others.",
"December 23, 1953 - 7/1/1954, Teatro Calderon (Madrid): Estrellita Castro.\"Romeria\".",
"Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others\nIn 1954, in Barcelona, Mario records with Estrellita Castro, \"Gitanos Falsificaos\" and \"La Salinera\" - (78 RPM, Odeon 204523).",
"Also with guitarist Antonio Serra.",
"In 1954, in Barcelona, Mario records with Estrellita Castro, \"Tanguillos del Campo de Gibraltar\" - (78 RPM, Odeon 204522).",
"Also with guitarist Antonio Serra.",
"April 17, 1954, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro \"Romeria\".",
"Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Maria Amaya, Amalia Roman, Esperanza Ortiz, Josele, Paco Sanchez.",
"This is an entirely new group, and Mario´s wife, Maria Amaya, joins the group.",
"May 5, 1954, Teatro Maravillas (Madrid): Estrellita Castro \"Romeria\".",
"Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Maria Amaya, Amalia Roman, Esperanza Ortiz, Josele, Paco Sanchez.",
"1955 - 1961 (United States, Central and South America) \n\n January 25, 1955.",
"Mario Escudero, together with his wife Maria Amaya, his cousin Rosario Escudero, and other members of his \"Bailete\", as well as members of Vicente Escudero´s own dance company, arrived in New York City on January 25, 1955 on board the USS Constitution.",
"Recordings \nEscudero's first recordings date from 1945 when he was 16 years old, as an accompanist to Estrellita Castro.",
"He recorded three albums of guitar duets with Sabicas: \n\n 1957: \"Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars\" \n 1958: \"The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero\" \n 1959: \"The Romantic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero\" \n\nShortly before he died, a reporter asked Sabicas: \"Which, of the many records you have made during your long career, is your favorite?\"",
"He did not have to wait too long for his reply: \"Of all, I only like the one I made with the guitarist Mario Escudero.\"",
"Be it as it may, the fact is that both Sabicas and Escudero listened to these records, especially the first two \"Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars\" and \" The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero\", practically in every family reunion.",
"Escudero liked the same two records he made with Sabicas.",
"He was also fond of the ones he had made with ABC Paramount, and of the last double album he recorded with the Musical Heritage Society in 1969.",
"References\n\nExternal links \n Flamenco Guitar Solos Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways\nSGAE\nMiguel Borrull (hijo) recordings (Biblioteca Nacional de España.",
"Pepe Blanco \"El Granate\" and \"Barquito de Vela\" (Odeon 204151 SO 9811 / 9810, 1946), accompanied by Jesus Escudero.",
"\"Patios de la Alhambra\", by Mario Escudero (played by Mario Manuel Escudero, 2011)\n\n1928 births\nSpanish flamenco guitarists\nSpanish male guitarists\nPeople from Alicante\n2004 deaths\n20th-century Spanish musicians\n20th-century guitarists\n20th-century Spanish male musicians"
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"One of the Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland was Mario Escudero, who migrated to the United States in the early 1950s.",
"Escudero helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues.",
"Escudero was invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, and was called the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation.",
"He began touring with the best known flamenco companies throughout Spain and the rest of Europe at the age of 15.",
"He made several records with Estrellita Castro, accompanied many of the best flamenco singers of the time, including Nia de los Peines.",
"The background to several films was provided by Mario and his father.",
"Escudero would meet Jose Greco for the first time later in his career.",
"Jalisco Canta en Sevilla has Imperio Argentina, Angel Pericet, Rafael Farina, and Emilia Escudero.",
"The entire soundtrack is played by Mario Escudero.",
"After completing his military service in Spain, he toured Central and South America and the United States with both Vicente Escudero and Jose Greco as soloist and guitar accompanist.",
"He formed a group called \"Capricho Espaol\" and performed in Central and South America.",
"He settled in the United States to focus on his career as a flamenco concert guitarist.",
"His career as a performer and concert guitarist spanned 47 years, beginning with Vicente Escudero in 1944 and ending in 1991, with his last concert appearances in Spain and the United States.",
"He had a very active concert schedule, performing on a regular basis in the United States and internationally, including several concert tours to Russia (then the Soviet Union), Japan, Hong Kong and Turkey, all as a private citizen.",
"His career as a recording artist spanned only 17 years from 1952 to 1969 and began with his first long play record in 1952.",
"He didn't make any more records after 1969 due to his dislike of unfair commercial practices on the use of his recordings by some record companies.",
"Escudero made over 30 original long play records, both as Mario Escudero and as \"El Nio de Alicante\".",
"While he composed more than 250 of his own works, he also performed and recorded the works of other flamenco and classical guitar masters.",
"He enjoyed teaching flamenco guitar to his many students, writing down his own compositions, and furthering his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, both on his own and studying with other teachers himself.",
"He loved listening to all types of music, including jazz, \" soft\" rock, all types of folk music, and classical composers like Albeniz, Falla, Granados, and Beethoven.",
"He died in Florida in 2004.",
"On October 11, 1928, Escudero was born in Alicante, Spain.",
"His mother's artistic name was \"Josefina\" and she died in 1947.",
"She was from Spain.",
"His father was a gypsies.",
"The family of Jesus came from Tudela, Navarre, Spain.",
"Escudero was the only child.",
"The family opened a tailor shop in San Sebastian.",
"They were forced to emigrate to southern France because of the Spanish Civil War.",
"Jesus formed the \"Trio Escudero\" in France.",
"Mario s father, mother, and aunt were members of the Trio Escudero.",
"Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette were some of the artists they performed with.",
"Escudero's first performance was at the Cinema Galia in Bordeaux, France, at the age of 9.",
"After the war, the family returned to Spain and settled in Madrid, although they always lived between San Sebastian and Madrid.",
"His father was a guitar teacher.",
"Escudero had a son with Maria Amaya.",
"Escudero and Maria both remarried after they separated.",
"Escudero had three children with his second wife.",
"Vicente Escudero gave his first performance as a soloist on April 15, 1944 at the Palacio de la Musica theater in Barcelona.",
"He made his debut with them and his teacher at the Teatro Espaol.",
"He frequently performed with Estrellita Castro and Vicente Escudero.",
"The public and critics like his early solo performances.",
"Escudero began to perform frequently with Carmen Amaya when they toured South America.",
"He performed with her again in September of 1951.",
"Escudero made a record in 1952.",
"He was on a tour with Carmen Amaya throughout Spain until September 1951.",
"He was with Estrellita Castro until May 1954.",
"In 1955, Escudero made two records, \"Flamenco played by Mario Escudero\" and \"Fiesta Flamenca\".",
"Vicente Escudero was at the Plaza Hotel Persian Room in New York for a 3-week engagement in April of 1956.",
"Escudero tripped on someone's foot and fell on top of his guitar at the Persian Room.",
"Escudero got up, went back stage, got a replacement guitar, and returned to complete the show.",
"\"Mario Escudero and his flamenco guitar\" was one of four records Escudero made.",
"Escudero made six records in 1957.",
"Flamenco!",
"\"Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars\"",
"He performed at the Chateau Madrid, New York, with Tere Maya, Palumbos, Philadelphia, and The Orange Gardens of the Everglades Club.",
"He performed at Carnegie Hall again.",
"He made five records.",
"From early 1959 until the end of 1960, he performed with his own group \"El Capricho Espaol\" throughout Central and South America.",
"Escudero performed with orchestras a few times.",
"The American Symphony Orchestra conducted the premiere of \"Fantasia Flamenca\" at Carnegie Hall in 1976, based on the themes of the Spanish composer.",
"On the 17th and 18th of November 1977, he performed \"Concierto de Aranjuez\" with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra.",
"Mario Escudero's first performance as a professional guitarist was at the age of 15.",
"Vicente Escudero and Mario Escudero are part of the cast.",
"There is a Palacio de la Musica.",
"Mario Escudero made his debut with Vicente and Carmita in Madrid.",
"Vicente Escudero, Carmita Garcia, Ramon Montoya are part of the cast.",
"The June 9th concert was canceled due to Carmita's illness.",
"\"Grandioso Espectaculo Andaluz\" was written on July 20, 1945, in the Plaza de Toros Arenas.",
"Mario Escudero accompanies Canalejas, Palanca, Nio Leon and Chiquito de Triana.",
"Mario recorded \"Los Marismeos\" (Bulerias) and \"Nia Caracola\" (Tanguillos) in San Sebastian in 1945.",
"The Teatro Romea in Barcelona had a cast that included Carmen Morell, Mario Escudero and Rosario Escudero.",
"The critic said \"Mario Escudero...notable concertista\".",
"The Teatro Cmico de Madrid had a show called \"Yo Soy un Seorito\".",
"The cast includes Pericon de Cadiz.",
"Vicente Escudero and Carmita Garcia were in the Teatro de La Zarzuela.",
"The reviewer said that Mario Escudero was interested in following in the footsteps of his mentor, Ramon Montoya.",
"The Sala de Fiestas Madrigal was in Madrid.",
"The advertisement only mentions Mario Escudero.",
"On June 17, 1952, the Plaza de los Aljibes de La Alhambra (Granada) had a cast.",
"The Theatre des Champs- Elysses in Paris had a cast that included Antonio, Mario Escudero, and Juan de la Mata.",
"The cast includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, and Laura Roman.",
"Estrellita Castro returned to Spain after 5 years in South America.",
"Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro.",
"The cast includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, and Laura Roman.",
"Teatro Calderon (Madrid): Estrellita Castro.",
"The cast includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza, Laura Roman, and Estrella Lopez.",
"Also with Antonio Serra.",
"Mario and Estrellita Castro recorded \"Tanguillos del Campo de Gibraltar\" in Barcelona in 1954.",
"Also with Antonio Serra.",
"Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid had Estrellita Castro \"Romeria\".",
"The cast includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero and El Granaino.",
"Mario s wife, Maria Amaya, joined the group.",
"Estrellita Castro \"Romeria\" was born on May 5, 1954.",
"The cast includes Estrellita Castro, Mario Escudero and El Granaino.",
"January 25, 1955 is the United States, Central and South America.",
"On January 25, 1955, Mario Escudero, his wife Maria Amaya, his cousin Rosario Escudero, and other members of his \"Bailete\", as well as members of Vicente Escudero's own dance company, arrived in New York City.",
"Escudero's first recordings were made when he was 16 years old.",
"He recorded three albums with Sabicas, \"Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars\" in 1957, \"The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero\" in 1959 and \"The Romantic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero\" in 1960.",
"He replied quickly, \"Of all, I only like the one I made with the guitarist Mario Escudero.\"",
"The first two records \"Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars\" and \" The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero\" were listened to by both of their families.",
"The two records Escudero made with Sabicas were the same ones he liked.",
"He liked the ones he made with ABC Paramount and the last double album he recorded with the Musical Heritage Society.",
"The Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa has Flamenco guitar solo recordings.",
"They were accompanied by Jesus Escudero.",
"The song \"Patios de la Alhambra\" was written in 1928 by Mario Escudero."
] | <mask> (October 11, 1928 – November 19, 2004), was one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who, following on the footsteps of Ramon Montoya, helped spread flamenco beyond their Spanish homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. Along with others such as his Sabicas, Carlos Montoya and Juan Serrano, <mask> helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with lauded performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues. Invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, <mask> was counted among the best in his era; Ramón Montoya called him "the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation." During the early part of his career, at the age of 15 (1944 - 1954), he began touring extensively with the best known flamenco companies throughout Spain and the rest of Europe (Rosario and Antonio, Vicente Escudero, Estrellita Castro, and Carmen Amaya), playing both as soloist and guitar accompanist. During this time, he made several records with Estrellita Castro, accompanied many of the best flamenco singers of the time, (including Niña de los Peines, Tomas Pavon, José Cepero, Juanito Mohama, Pepe de la Matrona, Jacinto Almadén, Rafael Farina, Pericón de Cadiz, Palanca, Chiquito de Triana, Canalejas de Puerto Real and others,. and provided the musical background to several films:
Brindis a Manolete (1948), with Paquito Rico, Jose Greco, Manolo Badajoz, Rafael Romero "El Gallina", Trio Escudero (<mask>). This is the first time Escudero would meet Jose Greco, with whom he would perform several years later.Jalisco Canta en Sevilla (1949), with Jorge Negrete and Carmen Sevilla
Cafe Cantante (1951), with Imperio Argentina, Angel Pericet, Rafael Farina, <mask>. In this film, <mask> is playing is the entire soundtrack. After completing his obligatory military service in Spain, he toured Central and South America with Carmen Amaya, and in early 1955, the United States with both <mask> and Jose Greco as soloist and guitar accompanist (from 1950 - 1956). From 1958 - 1961, he formed his own group "Capricho Español" and performed extensively in Central and South America. From 1961 onward, he settled in the United States to focus on what would become a very successful career as a flamenco concert guitarist. In total, his career as a performer and concert guitarist spanned 47 years, beginning with Vicente Escudero in 1944, and ending in 1991, with his last concert appearances in Spain and the United States. During all of this period, he had a very active concert schedule, performing on a regular basis in the United States and internationally, including several concert tours to Russia (then the Soviet Union), Japan, Hong Kong and Turkey, all as a private citizen; that is, not backed or sponsored by State-financed organizations in any way.His career as a recording artist, however, was much shorter (17 years, from 1952 - 1969), essentially beginning with his first long play record in 1952 ("El Pili Flamenco", Esoteric-2001, 1952), in which he played guitar duos with Alberto Velez and accompanied the singer "El Pili"), and ending with his last double record album with the Musical Heritage Society in 1969 ("<mask>dero Plays Classical Flamenco Music", MHS 994/995, 1969). He did not make any more records after 1969, as a result of his long lasting dislike over what he considered to be ongoing unfair commercial practices on the use of his original recordings by some record companies. Nevertheless, during this relatively brief 17 year period, Escudero made over 30 original long play records (both as <mask> Escudero and as "El Niño de Alicante"). While he composed more than 250 of his own works, he regularly performed and recorded the works of other notable flamenco and classical guitar masters, like Niño Ricardo ("Almoradí", "Recuerdo a Sevilla"), Esteban de Sanlucar ("Castillo de Xauen", "Mantillas de Feria") or Tarrega ("Recuerdos de la Alhambra"). When he was not performing, he very much enjoyed teaching flamenco guitar to his many students, writing down his own compositions, and furthering his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, both on his own and studying with other teachers himself. Lastly, he loved listening to and learning from all types of music, including jazz, "soft" rock, all types of folk music and, of course, classical composers like Albeniz, Falla, Granados, Wagner, Beethoven and Bach (the latter of which he always referred to as "el payo Bach", as he regularly listened to Simon Preston´s album of his complete organ works). He died November, 19th 2004, in Miami, Florida, USA.Biography
<mask> was born in Alicante, Spain, on October 11, 1928. His mother was Alfonsa Valero Valverde (d. 1947, a/k/a "Josefina", which was her artistic pseudonym). She was a Spanish singer. His father was <mask> Jiménez (d. 1966), a gypsy. Jesus´s family originally came from Tudela, Navarre, Spain, although they also settled in Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragón). <mask> was an only child. Settling in the Spanish city of San Sebastian, the family opened and ran a tailor shop.The breakout of the Spanish Civil War forced them to emigrate to southern France. While in France, Jesus formed the "Trio Escudero". The three members of the Trio Escudero were <mask>´s father Jesus, his mother, and his aunt Milagros. They performed with artists like Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette. Escudero's first performance in 1937 at the age of 9 was with Chevalier at the Cinema Galia in Bordeaux, France. After the war, the family returned to Spain and settled in Madrid, although they always lived between Madrid and San Sebastian, as <mask> would himself recalled in several interviews. His father, while not a soloist, was a guitar accompanist.Personal life
In 1952, <mask> married Maria Amaya, with whom he had a son. <mask> and Maria separated after a few years, and they both remarried. <mask> eventually married his second wife, Anita Ramos, and the couple had three children. Career
1944 - 1965
On April 15, 1944, <mask> gave his first performance as a soloist, and accompanied <mask> and Carmita Garcia at the Palacio de la Musica theater in Barcelona. On June 6, 1944, he debuted with them and his teacher in Madrid at the Teatro Español. For approximately the next 5 years, he frequently performed with Estrellita Castro, and <mask>. His early solo performances are well received by the public and critics. )Escudero began to perform frequently with Carmen Amaya in early 1950, when he joined her to tour South America. In September, 1951, he again performed with her at the Teatro Fontalba in Madrid. In 1952, Escudero made the record "El Pili" Flamenco. In April 1953, he performed with Carmen Amaya again at the Teatro Quintero in Madrid, and was on tour with her again throughout Spain until September, 1951. He joined Estrellita Castro and her "Romeria" show to perform at La Zarzuela Theater, and remained with her until May 1954. In 1955, Escudero made two records:
"Flamenco played by <mask>"
"Fiesta Flamenca" - with "El Bailete"
Together with his new group "El Bailete", he rejoined Vicente Escudero for Vicente's farewell tour of the United States, starting in February 1955. In April 1956 he rejoins <mask> at the Plaza Hotel Persian Room in New York for a 3-week engagement.In one of these performances at the Persian Room, Escudero tripped on someone´s foot, falling on top of his guitar, smashing it beyond repair. Escudero got up, went back stage, got a replacement guitar, and returned to complete the show to a standing ovation. In 1956, Escudero made four records:
"<mask> and his flamenco guitar"
"Guitar Variations - <mask> with Domingo Alvarado"
"Danzas y Canciones de Andalucia"
"Luisa Triana, with <mask> - Temas de España"
He performed again at Carnegie Hall, New York, with dancer Luisa Triana, and singer Chinin de Triana on June 9, 1956. In 1957, Escudero made six records:
"Vicente Escudero. Flamenco!" "Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars"
"Federico Garcia Lorca - Poemas del Cante Jondo", with Enrique Montoya
Juerga Gitana, Enrique Montoya with <mask>o
"Mario Escudero y su Ballet Flamenco"
"Flamenco Festival in Hi Fi"
At the end of 1956, Escudero decided not to return to Spain, but remain with his family in the United States. He performed at the Chateau Madrid, New York, with Tere Maya (January 4 -28, 1957), Palumbos, Philadelphia (February, 1957), The Orange Gardens of the Everglades Club (March, 1957), while he continued to his regular TV and radio performances as a solist, appearing on "The Vic Damone Show" (July and November, 1957), "The Ed Sullivan Show" (March, 1957), "The Johnny Carson Show" (June, 1957), "Jack Paar Show" (October, 1957), Channel 5, Baltimore (October 5, 1957), KCBH Radio (October 11, 1957), and others.Again he performed at Carnegie Hall, with Tere Amoros (November, 1957). In 1958, he made five records:
Viva Flamenco! The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero
Flamenco Carnival
Festival Gitana
Sabicas - Gypsy Flamenco
From early 1959 until the end of 1960, he performed with his own group "El Capricho Español" throughout Central and South America, and also performed with Miguel Molina on various occasions in theaters and television, in both Argentina and Uruguay. 1965 - 1981
On a few occasions, Escudero performed with orchestras. The Spanish composer, Federico Moreno Torroba, based his "Fantasia Flamenca" for guitar and orchestra on his themes, and Escudero premiered it at Carnegie Hall on November 28, 1976, with the American Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Almeida conducting. Upon special request, he also performed Rodrigo´s "Concierto de Aranjuez" on the 17th and the 18th of November, 1977, with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra under George Zack. List of performances and concerts
1944 - 1954 (Spain, Europe and South America)
April 15, 1944, Palacio de la Musica, (Barcelona): <mask>'s first performance as a professional guitarist was at the age of 15.Cast: Includes <mask>, Carmita Garcia, <mask> and Manuel Rivera. Palacio de la Musica. June 6, 1944, Teatro Español (Madrid): <mask> debuts with <mask> and Carmita Garcia in Madrid. Cast: Includes <mask>, Carmita Garcia, Ramon Montoya ("...a la guitarra de concierto). A repeat concert was scheduled for June 9th, but had to be suspended due to sickness of Carmita Garcia. July 20, 1945, Plaza de Toros Arenas (Barcelona): Espectaculo "Grandioso Espectaculo Andaluz". Cast: <mask> (as soloist), but also accompanies Canalejas, Palanca, Niño Leon and Chiquito de Triana.In 1945, in San Sebastian, <mask> records with Estrellita Castro, "Los Marismeños" (Bulerias) and "Niña Caracola" (Tanguillos) - (78 RPM, Columbia R 14333). September 27, 28, 1946, Teatro Romea (Barcelona): Cast: Includes Pepe Blanco, Carmen Morell, <mask> and <mask>. Critic comments "<mask>o...notable concertista ...". January 8 and 9, 1947, Teatro Cómico de Madrid (Madrid): Show "Yo Soy un Señorito". Cast: Includes Pericon de Cadiz, Lola Ramos, <mask>, Ricardo Alpuente, Rosita Cadenas and Charito Sainz de Mirras. September 6, 1947, Teatro de La Zarzuela (Madrid): <mask> and Carmita Garcia. The reviewer says "hubo aplausos para todos...y para <mask>o en sus interpretaciones como solista", making it clear that, since the beginning, <mask>´s interest was to follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Ramon Montoya, and not only be a guitar accompanist.January 17 - 24, 1948, Sala de Fiestas Madrigal (Madrid). The advertisement only mentions <mask> "...el gran guitarrista"
Marzo 5, 1952, Teatro Alcazar (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, <mask>, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera
Marzo, 14, 1952 - April 6, 1952, Teatro Español (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, <mask>, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera. June 16, 17, 1952, Plaza de los Aljibes de La Alhambra (Granada): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, <mask>, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera
Julio 1 - 6, 1952, Teatro Maravillas (Madrid): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, <mask>, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera. September 11, 1952, Theatre des Champs-Elysses (Paris): Cast: Includes Rosario y Antonio, El Pili, <mask>, Alberto Velez, Juan de la Mata, Angel Currás, Julian Perera
September 24, 1953, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro."Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others. In May, 1953, Estrellita Castro announces her return to Spain after 5 years in South America . October 7, 11, 1953, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro."Romeria".Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others. December 23, 1953 - 7/1/1954, Teatro Calderon (Madrid): Estrellita Castro."Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza Ortiz, Laura Roman, Estrella Lopez, among others
In 1954, in Barcelona, <mask> records with Estrellita Castro, "Gitanos Falsificaos" and "La Salinera" - (78 RPM, Odeon 204523). Also with guitarist Antonio Serra. In 1954, in Barcelona, <mask> records with Estrellita Castro, "Tanguillos del Campo de Gibraltar" - (78 RPM, Odeon 204522). Also with guitarist Antonio Serra. April 17, 1954, Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro "Romeria".Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Maria Amaya, Amalia Roman, Esperanza Ortiz, Josele, Paco Sanchez. This is an entirely new group, and <mask>´s wife, Maria Amaya, joins the group. May 5, 1954, Teatro Maravillas (Madrid): Estrellita Castro "Romeria". Cast: Includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Maria Amaya, Amalia Roman, Esperanza Ortiz, Josele, Paco Sanchez. 1955 - 1961 (United States, Central and South America)
January 25, 1955. <mask>, together with his wife Maria Amaya, his cousin <mask>, and other members of his "Bailete", as well as members of Vicente Escudero´s own dance company, arrived in New York City on January 25, 1955 on board the USS Constitution. Recordings
<mask>'s first recordings date from 1945 when he was 16 years old, as an accompanist to Estrellita Castro.He recorded three albums of guitar duets with Sabicas:
1957: "Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars"
1958: "The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero"
1959: "The Romantic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero"
Shortly before he died, a reporter asked Sabicas: "Which, of the many records you have made during your long career, is your favorite?" He did not have to wait too long for his reply: "Of all, I only like the one I made with the guitarist <mask>." Be it as it may, the fact is that both Sabicas and Escudero listened to these records, especially the first two "Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars" and " The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero", practically in every family reunion. Escudero liked the same two records he made with Sabicas. He was also fond of the ones he had made with ABC Paramount, and of the last double album he recorded with the Musical Heritage Society in 1969. References
External links
Flamenco Guitar Solos Album Details at Smithsonian Folkways
SGAE
Miguel Borrull (hijo) recordings (Biblioteca Nacional de España. Pepe Blanco "El Granate" and "Barquito de Vela" (Odeon 204151 SO 9811 / 9810, 1946), accompanied by <mask>."Patios de la Alhambra", by <mask> (played by <mask> <mask>, 2011)
1928 births
Spanish flamenco guitarists
Spanish male guitarists
People from Alicante
2004 deaths
20th-century Spanish musicians
20th-century guitarists
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] | One of the Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland was <mask>, who migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. <mask> helped forge the viability of solo flamenco guitar as a concert instrument, with performances at New York's Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and other venues. <mask> was invited to perform at the White House for President John F. Kennedy, and was called the best flamenco guitarist of this new generation. He began touring with the best known flamenco companies throughout Spain and the rest of Europe at the age of 15. He made several records with Estrellita Castro, accompanied many of the best flamenco singers of the time, including Nia de los Peines. The background to several films was provided by <mask> and his father. <mask> would meet Jose Greco for the first time later in his career.Jalisco Canta en Sevilla has Imperio Argentina, Angel Pericet, Rafael Farina, and <mask>. The entire soundtrack is played by <mask>. After completing his military service in Spain, he toured Central and South America and the United States with both <mask> and Jose Greco as soloist and guitar accompanist. He formed a group called "Capricho Espaol" and performed in Central and South America. He settled in the United States to focus on his career as a flamenco concert guitarist. His career as a performer and concert guitarist spanned 47 years, beginning with <mask> in 1944 and ending in 1991, with his last concert appearances in Spain and the United States. He had a very active concert schedule, performing on a regular basis in the United States and internationally, including several concert tours to Russia (then the Soviet Union), Japan, Hong Kong and Turkey, all as a private citizen.His career as a recording artist spanned only 17 years from 1952 to 1969 and began with his first long play record in 1952. He didn't make any more records after 1969 due to his dislike of unfair commercial practices on the use of his recordings by some record companies. Escudero made over 30 original long play records, both as <mask>o and as "El Nio de Alicante". While he composed more than 250 of his own works, he also performed and recorded the works of other flamenco and classical guitar masters. He enjoyed teaching flamenco guitar to his many students, writing down his own compositions, and furthering his knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, both on his own and studying with other teachers himself. He loved listening to all types of music, including jazz, " soft" rock, all types of folk music, and classical composers like Albeniz, Falla, Granados, and Beethoven. He died in Florida in 2004.On October 11, 1928, <mask> was born in Alicante, Spain. His mother's artistic name was "Josefina" and she died in 1947. She was from Spain. His father was a gypsies. The family of Jesus came from Tudela, Navarre, Spain. <mask> was the only child. The family opened a tailor shop in San Sebastian.They were forced to emigrate to southern France because of the Spanish Civil War. Jesus formed the "Trio Escudero" in France. <mask> s father, mother, and aunt were members of the Trio Escudero. Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguette were some of the artists they performed with. Escudero's first performance was at the Cinema Galia in Bordeaux, France, at the age of 9. After the war, the family returned to Spain and settled in Madrid, although they always lived between San Sebastian and Madrid. His father was a guitar teacher.<mask> had a son with Maria Amaya. <mask> and Maria both remarried after they separated. <mask> had three children with his second wife. <mask> gave his first performance as a soloist on April 15, 1944 at the Palacio de la Musica theater in Barcelona. He made his debut with them and his teacher at the Teatro Espaol. He frequently performed with Estrellita Castro and <mask>. The public and critics like his early solo performances.Escudero began to perform frequently with Carmen Amaya when they toured South America. He performed with her again in September of 1951. <mask> made a record in 1952. He was on a tour with Carmen Amaya throughout Spain until September 1951. He was with Estrellita Castro until May 1954. In 1955, Escudero made two records, "Flamenco played by <mask>" and "Fiesta Flamenca". <mask> was at the Plaza Hotel Persian Room in New York for a 3-week engagement in April of 1956.<mask> tripped on someone's foot and fell on top of his guitar at the Persian Room. <mask> got up, went back stage, got a replacement guitar, and returned to complete the show. "<mask> and his flamenco guitar" was one of four records <mask> made. <mask> made six records in 1957. Flamenco! "Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars" He performed at the Chateau Madrid, New York, with Tere Maya, Palumbos, Philadelphia, and The Orange Gardens of the Everglades Club.He performed at Carnegie Hall again. He made five records. From early 1959 until the end of 1960, he performed with his own group "El Capricho Espaol" throughout Central and South America. Escudero performed with orchestras a few times. The American Symphony Orchestra conducted the premiere of "Fantasia Flamenca" at Carnegie Hall in 1976, based on the themes of the Spanish composer. On the 17th and 18th of November 1977, he performed "Concierto de Aranjuez" with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra. <mask>'s first performance as a professional guitarist was at the age of 15.<mask> and <mask> are part of the cast. There is a Palacio de la Musica. <mask> made his debut with Vicente and Carmita in Madrid. <mask>, Carmita Garcia, Ramon Montoya are part of the cast. The June 9th concert was canceled due to Carmita's illness. "Grandioso Espectaculo Andaluz" was written on July 20, 1945, in the Plaza de Toros Arenas. <mask> accompanies Canalejas, Palanca, Nio Leon and Chiquito de Triana.<mask> recorded "Los Marismeos" (Bulerias) and "Nia Caracola" (Tanguillos) in San Sebastian in 1945. The Teatro Romea in Barcelona had a cast that included Carmen Morell, <mask> and <mask>. The critic said "<mask>o...notable concertista". The Teatro Cmico de Madrid had a show called "Yo Soy un Seorito". The cast includes Pericon de Cadiz. <mask> and Carmita Garcia were in the Teatro de La Zarzuela. The reviewer said that <mask> was interested in following in the footsteps of his mentor, Ramon Montoya.The Sala de Fiestas Madrigal was in Madrid. The advertisement only mentions <mask>. On June 17, 1952, the Plaza de los Aljibes de La Alhambra (Granada) had a cast. The Theatre des Champs- Elysses in Paris had a cast that included Antonio, <mask>, and Juan de la Mata. The cast includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, and Laura Roman. Estrellita Castro returned to Spain after 5 years in South America. Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid): Estrellita Castro.The cast includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, and Laura Roman. Teatro Calderon (Madrid): Estrellita Castro. The cast includes Estrellita Castro, <mask>, El Granaino, Laura Alonso, Esperanza, Laura Roman, and Estrella Lopez. Also with Antonio Serra. <mask> and Estrellita Castro recorded "Tanguillos del Campo de Gibraltar" in Barcelona in 1954. Also with Antonio Serra. Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid had Estrellita Castro "Romeria".The cast includes Estrellita Castro, <mask> and El Granaino. <mask> s wife, Maria Amaya, joined the group. Estrellita Castro "Romeria" was born on May 5, 1954. The cast includes Estrellita Castro, <mask> and El Granaino. January 25, 1955 is the United States, Central and South America. On January 25, 1955, <mask>, his wife Maria Amaya, his cousin <mask>, and other members of his "Bailete", as well as members of <mask>'s own dance company, arrived in New York City. <mask>'s first recordings were made when he was 16 years old.He recorded three albums with Sabicas, "Sabicas and Escudero, Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars" in 1957, "The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero" in 1959 and "The Romantic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero" in 1960. He replied quickly, "Of all, I only like the one I made with the guitarist <mask>." The first two records "Flamenco Styles on Two Guitars" and " The Fantastic Guitars of Sabicas and Escudero" were listened to by both of their families. The two records <mask> made with Sabicas were the same ones he liked. He liked the ones he made with ABC Paramount and the last double album he recorded with the Musical Heritage Society. The Biblioteca Nacional de Espaa has Flamenco guitar solo recordings. 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333738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Newman | Thomas Newman | Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores. In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre, Finding Dory and 1917.
Newman has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, tying him with fellow composer Alex North for the most nominations without a win. He has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award. Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music. His achievements have contributed to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.
Personal life
Born in Los Angeles, California, Newman is the youngest son of Martha Louis Montgomery (1920–2005) and composer Alfred Newman (1900–1970), who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score nine times. He is a member of a film-scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father Alfred, older brother David Newman, younger sister Maria Newman, uncles Lionel Newman and Emil Newman, cousin Randy Newman (also known as a singer and songwriter), and his first cousin, once removed, Joey Newman. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother was from Mississippi.
During their upbringing, Martha Newman took her sons to violin lessons in the San Fernando Valley every weekend. Newman later studied composition and orchestration for two years at the University of Southern California, before transferring to Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 and a Master of Music in 1978. While at Yale, he met composer Stephen Sondheim, who became an early mentor.
Newman and his wife Ann Marie have three children. They reside in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Career
At first, Newman was more interested in musical theater than in film composition, working with Sondheim in Broadway plays. Lionel, who succeeded Alfred as music director for 20th Century Fox, gave Thomas his first scoring assignment on a 1979 episode of the series The Paper Chase. In 1983, John Williams, who was a friend of both Alfred and Lionel, invited Newman to work on Return of the Jedi, orchestrating the scene where Darth Vader dies. Afterwards Newman met producer Scott Rudin in New York City and Rudin invited him to compose the score for Reckless (1984). Newman said that he thought "it was a tough job, at first" for requiring him to "develop vocabularies and a sense of procedure", only getting comfortable with writing scores "and not fraudulent in my efforts" after 8 years.
In 1992, Newman composed the score for Robert Altman's The Player and Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman.
In 1994, he received his first Academy Award nominations with the scores for Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption and Gillian Armstrong's Little Women. He also scored Jon Avnet's The War. In 1996, he scored Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes, receiving yet another Oscar nomination. In 1998, he scored Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer as well as Martin Brest's Meet Joe Black. In 1999, Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes' first feature film American Beauty, created using mainly percussion instruments. Newman believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the "moral ambiguity" of the script, saying "It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve that.". He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost again (to John Corigliano for The Red Violin), he did receive a Grammy and a BAFTA.
His critical and commercial success continued in the years to follow with his scores for films such as Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich, and Todd Field's In the Bedroom. He was nominated consecutively for a further three Academy Awards, for Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo (2003), and Brad Silberling's Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). However, he lost on each occasion to Elliot Goldenthal (for Frida), Howard Shore (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (for Finding Neverland).
In 2006, he teamed once again with Todd Field for Little Children and Steven Soderbergh for The Good German (he was nominated for latter). At the Oscar ceremony, he appeared in the opening segment by Errol Morris, who jokingly stated that Newman had been nominated for and failed to win an Oscar eight times. Newman replied: "No, I've failed seven but this will be my eighth", and indeed, he again lost, this time to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel.
His first score since The Good German was for Alan Ball's Towelhead. In 2008 he scored the animated film WALL-E, collaborating for the second time with director Andrew Stanton (with the first collaboration being Finding Nemo). The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (as had Nemo). Newman received two Oscar nominations: one for Best Original Score, and another for Best Original Song for "Down to Earth", which he co-wrote with Peter Gabriel. He was nominated in the Original Score category with two other veteran composers, James Newton Howard and Danny Elfman, both of whom have also been nominated for several Oscars but each time unsuccessfully. Newman lost both the score and song nominations to A R Rahman for his work on Slumdog Millionaire. He and Peter Gabriel did however win a Grammy for "Down to Earth".
In 2008 he also scored Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road. In 2009, he scored Jim Sheridan's Brothers (the remake of the Susanne Bier film). In 2011, he scored Tate Taylor's The Help, John Madden's The Debt, Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, and George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau.
In 2012, Newman scored John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. He also scored the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall, which celebrates the film franchise's 50th anniversary. His work on this film earned him his eleventh Oscar nomination and a second BAFTA win. During 2013, he scored Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects and John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks. The latter score was very well received by film music critics, earning Newman BAFTA and Oscar nominations for the second consecutive year, both of which he lost to Steven Price for Gravity.
Newman's 2014 projects included David Dobkin's The Judge and Tate Taylor's Get on Up. In 2015, he scored John Madden's The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, marking the first time Newman has scored a sequel to a film he also wrote the score for. Also that year, Newman returned to score Sam Mendes' 24th James Bond movie Spectre, the sequel to Skyfall and collaborated with Steven Spielberg for Bridge of Spies, marking Newman's first collaboration with Spielberg and the first Spielberg film not to feature a musical score from his long-time composer John Williams, since the production of The Color Purple in 1985. For his score on Bridge of Spies, Newman garnered additional Oscar and Grammy nominations.
In 2016, Newman scored the motion picture Morten Tyldum's Passengers starring Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, and Laurence Fishburne, for which he received his 14th Oscar nomination. Three years later, Newman reunited with Sam Mendes for his war film 1917, for which Newman received his 6th BAFTA and 15th Oscar nominations.
Newman likes to vary the instrumentation in his scores, ranging from full orchestra to percussion-only music. He is also fond of incorporating unusual instruments such as the zither, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and hammered dulcimer, or unexpected sounds, like Aboriginal chants and the chirping of cicadas. The composer declared that he has "an interest in mundane experimentation."
Filmography
Film
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Television
Additional soundtracks and music
2005: Brokeback Mountain (Trailer) (from The Shawshank Redemption)
2005: Corpse Bride (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2005: Madagascar (from American Beauty)
2005: Fun with Dick and Jane (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2006: Eight Below (Trailer) (from Finding Nemo)
2007: Sicko (from Little Children, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and In the Bedroom)
2007: No Reservations (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and American Beauty)
2009: Bigfoot (Trailer) (from WALL-E)
2010: Alice in Wonderland (Teaser Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Newman has also composed music for television, including theme music for the series Boston Public and the miniseries Angels in America. His theme music for the television show Six Feet Under won two Grammy Awards in 2003, for Best Instrumental Composition as well as Best Instrumental Arrangement. He also wrote the theme for the HBO series Newsroom.
Newman also wrote a commissioned concert work for orchestra, Reach Forth Our Hands, for the 1996 Cleveland Bicentennial. The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned an orchestral work by Newman, It Got Dark, which was performed by the Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Slatkin during the orchestra's 2009–2010 season.
He composed the incidental music for the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2014 production of As You Like It, directed by Michael Attenborough and starring Zoe Waites.
He also collaborated with composer and multi-instrumentalist Rick Cox in an electro-acoustic album 35 Whirlpools Below Sound; which is released under the label Cold Blue Music in 2014.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1955 births
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American composers
21st-century American male musicians
American film score composers
American male classical composers
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American television composers
Animation composers
Annie Award winners
Best Original Music BAFTA Award winners
Emmy Award winners
Grammy Award winners
Jewish American film score composers
Living people
American male film score composers
Male television composers
Musicians from Los Angeles
Thomas
Pixar people
Varèse Sarabande Records artists
La-La Land Records artists | [
"Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores.",
"In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, WALL-E, the James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre, Finding Dory and 1917.",
"Newman has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, tying him with fellow composer Alex North for the most nominations without a win.",
"He has also been nominated for four Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award.",
"Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards.",
"The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.",
"His achievements have contributed to the Newmans being the most nominated Academy Award extended family, with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.",
"Personal life\nBorn in Los Angeles, California, Newman is the youngest son of Martha Louis Montgomery (1920–2005) and composer Alfred Newman (1900–1970), who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score nine times.",
"He is a member of a film-scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father Alfred, older brother David Newman, younger sister Maria Newman, uncles Lionel Newman and Emil Newman, cousin Randy Newman (also known as a singer and songwriter), and his first cousin, once removed, Joey Newman.",
"His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother was from Mississippi.",
"During their upbringing, Martha Newman took her sons to violin lessons in the San Fernando Valley every weekend.",
"Newman later studied composition and orchestration for two years at the University of Southern California, before transferring to Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 and a Master of Music in 1978.",
"While at Yale, he met composer Stephen Sondheim, who became an early mentor.",
"Newman and his wife Ann Marie have three children.",
"They reside in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.",
"Career\nAt first, Newman was more interested in musical theater than in film composition, working with Sondheim in Broadway plays.",
"Lionel, who succeeded Alfred as music director for 20th Century Fox, gave Thomas his first scoring assignment on a 1979 episode of the series The Paper Chase.",
"In 1983, John Williams, who was a friend of both Alfred and Lionel, invited Newman to work on Return of the Jedi, orchestrating the scene where Darth Vader dies.",
"Afterwards Newman met producer Scott Rudin in New York City and Rudin invited him to compose the score for Reckless (1984).",
"Newman said that he thought \"it was a tough job, at first\" for requiring him to \"develop vocabularies and a sense of procedure\", only getting comfortable with writing scores \"and not fraudulent in my efforts\" after 8 years.",
"In 1992, Newman composed the score for Robert Altman's The Player and Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman.",
"In 1994, he received his first Academy Award nominations with the scores for Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption and Gillian Armstrong's Little Women.",
"He also scored Jon Avnet's The War.",
"In 1996, he scored Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes, receiving yet another Oscar nomination.",
"In 1998, he scored Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer as well as Martin Brest's Meet Joe Black.",
"In 1999, Newman composed the score to Sam Mendes' first feature film American Beauty, created using mainly percussion instruments.",
"Newman believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the \"moral ambiguity\" of the script, saying \"It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve that.\".",
"He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost again (to John Corigliano for The Red Violin), he did receive a Grammy and a BAFTA.",
"His critical and commercial success continued in the years to follow with his scores for films such as Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich, and Todd Field's In the Bedroom.",
"He was nominated consecutively for a further three Academy Awards, for Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo (2003), and Brad Silberling's Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).",
"However, he lost on each occasion to Elliot Goldenthal (for Frida), Howard Shore (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (for Finding Neverland).",
"In 2006, he teamed once again with Todd Field for Little Children and Steven Soderbergh for The Good German (he was nominated for latter).",
"At the Oscar ceremony, he appeared in the opening segment by Errol Morris, who jokingly stated that Newman had been nominated for and failed to win an Oscar eight times.",
"Newman replied: \"No, I've failed seven but this will be my eighth\", and indeed, he again lost, this time to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel.",
"His first score since The Good German was for Alan Ball's Towelhead.",
"In 2008 he scored the animated film WALL-E, collaborating for the second time with director Andrew Stanton (with the first collaboration being Finding Nemo).",
"The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (as had Nemo).",
"Newman received two Oscar nominations: one for Best Original Score, and another for Best Original Song for \"Down to Earth\", which he co-wrote with Peter Gabriel.",
"He was nominated in the Original Score category with two other veteran composers, James Newton Howard and Danny Elfman, both of whom have also been nominated for several Oscars but each time unsuccessfully.",
"Newman lost both the score and song nominations to A R Rahman for his work on Slumdog Millionaire.",
"He and Peter Gabriel did however win a Grammy for \"Down to Earth\".",
"In 2008 he also scored Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road.",
"In 2009, he scored Jim Sheridan's Brothers (the remake of the Susanne Bier film).",
"In 2011, he scored Tate Taylor's The Help, John Madden's The Debt, Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, and George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau.",
"In 2012, Newman scored John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.",
"He also scored the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall, which celebrates the film franchise's 50th anniversary.",
"His work on this film earned him his eleventh Oscar nomination and a second BAFTA win.",
"During 2013, he scored Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects and John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks.",
"The latter score was very well received by film music critics, earning Newman BAFTA and Oscar nominations for the second consecutive year, both of which he lost to Steven Price for Gravity.",
"Newman's 2014 projects included David Dobkin's The Judge and Tate Taylor's Get on Up.",
"In 2015, he scored John Madden's The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, marking the first time Newman has scored a sequel to a film he also wrote the score for.",
"Also that year, Newman returned to score Sam Mendes' 24th James Bond movie Spectre, the sequel to Skyfall and collaborated with Steven Spielberg for Bridge of Spies, marking Newman's first collaboration with Spielberg and the first Spielberg film not to feature a musical score from his long-time composer John Williams, since the production of The Color Purple in 1985.",
"For his score on Bridge of Spies, Newman garnered additional Oscar and Grammy nominations.",
"In 2016, Newman scored the motion picture Morten Tyldum's Passengers starring Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, and Laurence Fishburne, for which he received his 14th Oscar nomination.",
"Three years later, Newman reunited with Sam Mendes for his war film 1917, for which Newman received his 6th BAFTA and 15th Oscar nominations.",
"Newman likes to vary the instrumentation in his scores, ranging from full orchestra to percussion-only music.",
"He is also fond of incorporating unusual instruments such as the zither, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and hammered dulcimer, or unexpected sounds, like Aboriginal chants and the chirping of cicadas.",
"The composer declared that he has \"an interest in mundane experimentation.\"",
"Filmography\n\nFilm\n\n1980s\n\n1990s\n\n2000s\n\n2010s\n\n2020s\n\nTelevision\n\nAdditional soundtracks and music\n 2005: Brokeback Mountain (Trailer) (from The Shawshank Redemption)\n 2005: Corpse Bride (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n 2005: Madagascar (from American Beauty)\n 2005: Fun with Dick and Jane (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n 2006: Eight Below (Trailer) (from Finding Nemo)\n 2007: Sicko (from Little Children, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and In the Bedroom)\n 2007: No Reservations (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and American Beauty)\n 2009: Bigfoot (Trailer) (from WALL-E)\n 2010: Alice in Wonderland (Teaser Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n\nNewman has also composed music for television, including theme music for the series Boston Public and the miniseries Angels in America.",
"His theme music for the television show Six Feet Under won two Grammy Awards in 2003, for Best Instrumental Composition as well as Best Instrumental Arrangement.",
"He also wrote the theme for the HBO series Newsroom.",
"Newman also wrote a commissioned concert work for orchestra, Reach Forth Our Hands, for the 1996 Cleveland Bicentennial.",
"The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned an orchestral work by Newman, It Got Dark, which was performed by the Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Slatkin during the orchestra's 2009–2010 season.",
"He composed the incidental music for the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2014 production of As You Like It, directed by Michael Attenborough and starring Zoe Waites.",
"He also collaborated with composer and multi-instrumentalist Rick Cox in an electro-acoustic album 35 Whirlpools Below Sound; which is released under the label Cold Blue Music in 2014.",
"Awards and nominations\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\n \n\n1955 births\n20th-century American composers\n20th-century American male musicians\n21st-century American composers\n21st-century American male musicians\nAmerican film score composers\nAmerican male classical composers\nAmerican people of Russian-Jewish descent\nAmerican television composers\nAnimation composers\nAnnie Award winners\nBest Original Music BAFTA Award winners\nEmmy Award winners\nGrammy Award winners\nJewish American film score composers\nLiving people\nAmerican male film score composers\nMale television composers\nMusicians from Los Angeles\nThomas\nPixar people\nVarèse Sarabande Records artists\nLa-La Land Records artists"
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"Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer best known for his film scores.",
"In a career that has spanned over four decades, he has scored numerous classics including The Player, The Shawshank Redemption, Cinderella Man, American Beauty, The Green Mile, In the Bedroom, Angels in America, Finding Nemo, and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate",
"Newman has been nominated for fifteen Academy Awards, tying him with Alex North for the most nominations without a win.",
"He has been nominated for four Golden Globes and has won two of them.",
"The Richard Kirk award was presented to Newman.",
"A composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music is given the award annually.",
"The Newmans are the most nominated Academy Award extended family with a collective 92 nominations in various music categories.",
"Newman is the youngest son of Martha Louis Montgomery and Alfred Newman, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score nine times.",
"He is a member of a film- scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father Alfred, older brother David, younger sister Maria, uncle Lionel Newman, cousin Randy Newman, and his first cousin, Joey Newman.",
"His mother was from Mississippi and his paternal grandparents were Russian Jews.",
"Martha Newman took her sons to violin lessons when they were young.",
"Newman graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 and a Master of Music in 1978.",
"Stephen Sondheim became an early mentor when he met him at Yale.",
"Newman and his wife have three children.",
"The Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles is where they live.",
"Newman was more interested in musical theater than he was in film composition.",
"Lionel, who succeeded Alfred as music director for 20th Century Fox, gave Thomas his first scoring assignment on a 1979 episode of The Paper Chase.",
"John Williams invited Newman to work on Return of the Jedi because he was friends with Alfred and Lionel.",
"Rudin invited Newman to compose the score for Reckless after meeting him in New York City.",
"After 8 years, Newman got comfortable with writing scores and not fraudulent in his efforts, and he thought it was a tough job.",
"Newman composed the score for two films in 1992.",
"He received his first Academy Award nominations in 1994 for his work on The Shawshank Redemption and Little Women.",
"Jon Avnet's The War was also scored by him.",
"In 1996, he received an Oscar nomination for his work.",
"He scored Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer in 1998.",
"The score for American Beauty was composed by Newman in 1999.",
"The score helped move the film along without disturbing the moral ambiguity of the script, according to Newman.",
"He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost to John Corigliano for The Red Violin, he did receive a BAFTA and a gramophone.",
"His scores for films such as Steven Soderbergh'sErin Brockovich and Todd Field's In the Bedroom continued in the years to follow.",
"He was nominated for three more Academy Awards, for Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition, Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo, and Brad Silberling's A Series of Unfortunate Events.",
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Frida, and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek all lost to him.",
"He collaborated with Todd Field for Little Children and Steven Soderbergh for The Good German.",
"In the opening segment of the Oscar ceremony, Errol Morris joked that Newman had failed to win an Oscar eight times.",
"Newman said \"No, I've failed seven but this will be my eighth\", and he lost to Santaolalla for Babel.",
"Alan Ball's Towelhead was his first score since The Good German.",
"In 2008 he scored the animated film WALL-E, collaborating for the second time with director Andrew Stanton.",
"The film won an Academy Award.",
"There were two Oscar nominations for Newman, one for Best Original Score and one for Best Original Song for \"Down to Earth\".",
"He was nominated in the Original Score category with two other veteran composers, JamesNewton Howard and Danny Elfman, both of whom have also been nominated for several Oscars but each time unsuccessfully.",
"The score and song nominations for Slumdog Millionaire went to A R Rahman.",
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Born in Los Angeles, California, <mask> is the youngest son of Martha Louis Montgomery (1920–2005) and composer <mask> (1900–1970), who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score nine times. He is a member of a film-scoring dynasty in Hollywood that includes his father Alfred, older brother <mask>, younger sister <mask>, uncles <mask> and <mask>, cousin <mask> (also known as a singer and songwriter), and his first cousin, once removed, <mask>. His paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and his mother was from Mississippi. During their upbringing, <mask> took her sons to violin lessons in the San Fernando Valley every weekend. <mask> later studied composition and orchestration for two years at the University of Southern California, before transferring to Yale University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 and a Master of Music in 1978. While at Yale, he met composer Stephen Sondheim, who became an early mentor. <mask> and his wife Ann Marie have three children.They reside in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Career
At first, <mask> was more interested in musical theater than in film composition, working with Sondheim in Broadway plays. Lionel, who succeeded Alfred as music director for 20th Century Fox, gave <mask> his first scoring assignment on a 1979 episode of the series The Paper Chase. In 1983, John Williams, who was a friend of both Alfred and Lionel, invited <mask> to work on Return of the Jedi, orchestrating the scene where Darth Vader dies. Afterwards <mask> met producer Scott Rudin in New York City and Rudin invited him to compose the score for Reckless (1984). <mask> said that he thought "it was a tough job, at first" for requiring him to "develop vocabularies and a sense of procedure", only getting comfortable with writing scores "and not fraudulent in my efforts" after 8 years. In 1992, <mask> composed the score for Robert Altman's The Player and Martin Brest's Scent of a Woman.In 1994, he received his first Academy Award nominations with the scores for Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption and Gillian Armstrong's Little Women. He also scored Jon Avnet's The War. In 1996, he scored Diane Keaton's Unstrung Heroes, receiving yet another Oscar nomination. In 1998, he scored Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer as well as Martin Brest's Meet Joe Black. In 1999, <mask> composed the score to Sam Mendes' first feature film American Beauty, created using mainly percussion instruments. <mask> believed the score helped move the film along without disturbing the "moral ambiguity" of the script, saying "It was a real delicate balancing act in terms of what music worked to preserve that.". He received a fourth Oscar nomination for this score, and although he lost again (to John Corigliano for The Red Violin), he did receive a Grammy and a BAFTA.His critical and commercial success continued in the years to follow with his scores for films such as Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich, and Todd Field's In the Bedroom. He was nominated consecutively for a further three Academy Awards, for Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Andrew Stanton's Finding Nemo (2003), and Brad Silberling's Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004). However, he lost on each occasion to Elliot Goldenthal (for Frida), Howard Shore (for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), and Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (for Finding Neverland). In 2006, he teamed once again with Todd Field for Little Children and Steven Soderbergh for The Good German (he was nominated for latter). At the Oscar ceremony, he appeared in the opening segment by Errol Morris, who jokingly stated that <mask> had been nominated for and failed to win an Oscar eight times. <mask> replied: "No, I've failed seven but this will be my eighth", and indeed, he again lost, this time to Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel. His first score since The Good German was for Alan Ball's Towelhead.In 2008 he scored the animated film WALL-E, collaborating for the second time with director Andrew Stanton (with the first collaboration being Finding Nemo). The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (as had Nemo). <mask> received two Oscar nominations: one for Best Original Score, and another for Best Original Song for "Down to Earth", which he co-wrote with Peter Gabriel. He was nominated in the Original Score category with two other veteran composers, James Newton Howard and Danny Elfman, both of whom have also been nominated for several Oscars but each time unsuccessfully. <mask> lost both the score and song nominations to A R Rahman for his work on Slumdog Millionaire. He and Peter Gabriel did however win a Grammy for "Down to Earth". In 2008 he also scored Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road.In 2009, he scored Jim Sheridan's Brothers (the remake of the Susanne Bier film). In 2011, he scored Tate Taylor's The Help, John Madden's The Debt, Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, and George Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau. In 2012, <mask> scored John Madden's The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. He also scored the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall, which celebrates the film franchise's 50th anniversary. His work on this film earned him his eleventh Oscar nomination and a second BAFTA win. During 2013, he scored Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects and John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks. The latter score was very well received by film music critics, earning <mask> BAFTA and Oscar nominations for the second consecutive year, both of which he lost to Steven Price for Gravity.<mask>'s 2014 projects included David Dobkin's The Judge and Tate Taylor's Get on Up. In 2015, he scored John Madden's The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, marking the first time <mask> has scored a sequel to a film he also wrote the score for. Also that year, <mask> returned to score Sam Mendes' 24th James Bond movie Spectre, the sequel to Skyfall and collaborated with Steven Spielberg for Bridge of Spies, marking <mask>'s first collaboration with Spielberg and the first Spielberg film not to feature a musical score from his long-time composer John Williams, since the production of The Color Purple in 1985. For his score on Bridge of Spies, <mask> garnered additional Oscar and Grammy nominations. In 2016, <mask> scored the motion picture Morten Tyldum's Passengers starring Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen, and Laurence Fishburne, for which he received his 14th Oscar nomination. Three years later, <mask> reunited with Sam Mendes for his war film 1917, for which <mask> received his 6th BAFTA and 15th Oscar nominations. <mask> likes to vary the instrumentation in his scores, ranging from full orchestra to percussion-only music.He is also fond of incorporating unusual instruments such as the zither, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery and hammered dulcimer, or unexpected sounds, like Aboriginal chants and the chirping of cicadas. The composer declared that he has "an interest in mundane experimentation." Filmography
Film
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Television
Additional soundtracks and music
2005: Brokeback Mountain (Trailer) (from The Shawshank Redemption)
2005: Corpse Bride (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2005: Madagascar (from American Beauty)
2005: Fun with Dick and Jane (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2006: Eight Below (Trailer) (from Finding Nemo)
2007: Sicko (from Little Children, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and In the Bedroom)
2007: No Reservations (Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and American Beauty)
2009: Bigfoot (Trailer) (from WALL-E)
2010: Alice in Wonderland (Teaser Trailer) (from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
<mask> has also composed music for television, including theme music for the series Boston Public and the miniseries Angels in America. His theme music for the television show Six Feet Under won two Grammy Awards in 2003, for Best Instrumental Composition as well as Best Instrumental Arrangement. He also wrote the theme for the HBO series Newsroom. <mask> also wrote a commissioned concert work for orchestra, Reach Forth Our Hands, for the 1996 Cleveland Bicentennial. The Los Angeles Philharmonic commissioned an orchestral work by <mask>, It Got Dark, which was performed by the Kronos Quartet and Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Leonard Slatkin during the orchestra's 2009–2010 season.He composed the incidental music for the Washington Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2014 production of As You Like It, directed by Michael Attenborough and starring Zoe Waites. He also collaborated with composer and multi-instrumentalist Rick Cox in an electro-acoustic album 35 Whirlpools Below Sound; which is released under the label Cold Blue Music in 2014. Awards and nominations
References
External links
1955 births
20th-century American composers
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American composers
21st-century American male musicians
American film score composers
American male classical composers
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American television composers
Animation composers
Annie Award winners
Best Original Music BAFTA Award winners
Emmy Award winners
Grammy Award winners
Jewish American film score composers
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Biography
Mustonen studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975 and in 1987 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which led to his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall.
His debut solo piano recording for Decca, of the cycles of preludes by Shostakovich and Charles-Valentin Alkan, won both the Gramophone and Edison awards. In addition to Decca, he has also made recordings for RCA and Ondine, notably of works by Beethoven and various modern Russian composers. Mustonen has performed with numerous major international orchestras and is regarded as "one of the internationally best-known pianists of his generation."
He has been artistic director of the Korsholm Music Festival in 1988 and the Turku Music Festival from 1990–1992. He is co-founder and director of the Helsinki Festival Orchestra, and since 2003 has conducted the chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta.
He performed the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Four Russian Songs", 1998), which was dedicated to him, with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, on 11 October 1999.
As a composer, his work shows a "predilection for contrapunctally interwoven compositions and works of the 20th century which take up ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries (e.g. the Bach arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni and the cycles of preludes and fugues by Paul Hindemith or Shostakovich)."
Recordings
As pianist unless otherwise stated.
Stravinsky: The works for violin and piano (Isabelle van Keulen, violin) – Philips Records (1987/1988)
A Portrait of Olli Mustonen [as composer and pianist]: Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra/Juha Kangas); Six Bagatelles for Piano; Three Preludes for Piano; Ballade for Piano; On all Fours for Piano Four Hands (Raija Kerppo, hands 3 and 4); Three Simple Pieces for Cello and Piano (Martti Rousi, cello); Gavotte for Piano; Two Meditations for Piano; Toccata for Piano, String Quartet and Double Bass (Orion String Quartet; Esko Laine, double bass) – Finlandia Records (1989/1990)
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes, op.34; Charles-Valentin Alkan: 25 Preludes, op.31 – London Records (1991)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Children's Album; Balakirev: Islamey – Decca Records (1993)
Beethoven: Piano variations WoO 69, op.76, WoO 79, WoO 78, WoO 80, WoO 70, op.35, WoO 71 – Decca Records (1994)
Stravinsky: Piano Concerto; Capriccio; Movements for Piano & Orchestra (Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor; Deutscher-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin) – London Records (1994)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto, op.61a after the Violin Concerto; Bach: Piano Concerto BWV 1054 (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Jukka-Pekka Saraste) – Decca Records (1994)
Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas 1 & 2, Music for Violin and Piano (Joshua Bell, violin) – Decca Records (1995)
Grieg: Piano Concerto; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt) – Decca Records (1996)
Janáček/Shostakovich/Prokofiev: Works For Cello & Piano (Steven Isserlis, cello) – RCA Red Seal (1996)
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives; Hindemith: Ludus tonalis – Decca Records (1996)
Beethoven: Airs and variations, op.105; Ländler, WoO 11; Variations, WoO 77; Rondo, op.51/1; Variations, WoO 68; Minuet, WoO 82; Ecossaises, WoO 83; Bagatelles, op.126; Allegretto, WoO 61 – London Records (1996)
Bach: 12 Preludes & Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1; Shostakovich: 12 of 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87 – RCA Red Seal (1999)
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations – RCA Red Seal (1999)
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 (Michael Collins, clarinet; Joshua Bell, violin; Steven Isserlis, cello) – Decca Records (2000)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Image Entertainment DVD (2000)
Shchedrin: Cello Concerto, Seagull Suite (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)
Olli Mustonen: Triple Concerto; Petite Suite; Nonets Nos. 1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)
Mustonen plays Sibelius: Pieces, Op. 58; Jääkärien marssi, op.91a; Pieces, op.76; Rondinos, op.68; Bagatelles, op.34 – Ondine Records (2003)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3; Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (Helsinki Festival Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)
Bach & Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Vol.2 [completes the collections began in the 1999 recording] – Ondine Records (2004)
Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite, Music for Children – Ondine Records (2006)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1; Tchaikovsky: The Seasons – Ondine Records (2006)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Piano Concerto, op.61a (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2009)
Respighi: Concerto in modo misolydio (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Ondine Records (2010)
Scriabin: 12 Etudes, Op. 8, 6 Preludes, Op. 13, 5 Preludes, Op. 16, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70, Vers la flamme (Poème), Op. 72 – Ondine Records (2012)
Compositions
For a complete list, see the external link for the Finnish Music Information Centre.
Divertimento (1979) for piano and orchestra
Fantasia (1985) for piano and strings
Toccata (1989) for piano, string quartet and double bass
Two Nonets (1995, 2000) for two string quartets and double bass
Concerto for Three Violins (1998)
Sinuhe – sonata for solo oboe (2005–2006)
Jehkin Iivana – sonata for guitar (2004) or piano (2006)
Sonata for cello and piano (2006)
Symphony No. 1 Tuuri (2012) for baritone and orchestra
String Quintet No. 1 (2015)
String Quartet No. 1 (2017)
His composition style combines elements of the neo-classical, neo-baroque and romantic idioms, and he has also used minimalist patterns: 'The Baroque elements echo Stravinsky's Pulcinella or the stylizations of Martinů or Ottorino Respighi; these elements dominate the vivacious and rhythmic fast movements, whereas the slow movements are emphatically Romantic.'
References
External links
Music Finland: Olli Mustonen
Hazard Chase Management: Olli Mustonen
Ondine Records: Olli Mustonen
Schott Music: Olli Mustonen
Bach-Cantatas.com: Olli Mustonen
Interview with Olli Mustonen, May 14, 1991
1967 births
Living people
People from Vantaa
Finnish classical pianists
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Finnish classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Contemporary classical music performers
Sibelius Academy alumni
Eurovision Young Musicians Finalists
Finnish male classical composers
Male classical pianists
20th-century conductors (music)
21st-century conductors (music)
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20th-century male musicians
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"Biography \nMustonen studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen.",
"He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975 and in 1987 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which led to his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall.",
"His debut solo piano recording for Decca, of the cycles of preludes by Shostakovich and Charles-Valentin Alkan, won both the Gramophone and Edison awards.",
"In addition to Decca, he has also made recordings for RCA and Ondine, notably of works by Beethoven and various modern Russian composers.",
"Mustonen has performed with numerous major international orchestras and is regarded as \"one of the internationally best-known pianists of his generation.\"",
"He has been artistic director of the Korsholm Music Festival in 1988 and the Turku Music Festival from 1990–1992.",
"He is co-founder and director of the Helsinki Festival Orchestra, and since 2003 has conducted the chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta.",
"He performed the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No.",
"5 (\"Four Russian Songs\", 1998), which was dedicated to him, with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, on 11 October 1999.",
"As a composer, his work shows a \"predilection for contrapunctally interwoven compositions and works of the 20th century which take up ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries (e.g.",
"the Bach arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni and the cycles of preludes and fugues by Paul Hindemith or Shostakovich).\"",
"Recordings \n\nAs pianist unless otherwise stated.",
"1 (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt) – Decca Records (1996)\nJanáček/Shostakovich/Prokofiev: Works For Cello & Piano (Steven Isserlis, cello) – RCA Red Seal (1996)\nProkofiev: Visions fugitives; Hindemith: Ludus tonalis – Decca Records (1996)\nBeethoven: Airs and variations, op.105; Ländler, WoO 11; Variations, WoO 77; Rondo, op.51/1; Variations, WoO 68; Minuet, WoO 82; Ecossaises, WoO 83; Bagatelles, op.126; Allegretto, WoO 61 – London Records (1996)\nBach: 12 Preludes & Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1; Shostakovich: 12 of 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op.",
"87 – RCA Red Seal (1999)\nBeethoven: Diabelli Variations – RCA Red Seal (1999)\nMessiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No.",
"2 (Michael Collins, clarinet; Joshua Bell, violin; Steven Isserlis, cello) – Decca Records (2000)\nProkofiev: Piano Concerto No.",
"3 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Image Entertainment DVD (2000)\nShchedrin: Cello Concerto, Seagull Suite (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)\nOlli Mustonen: Triple Concerto; Petite Suite; Nonets Nos.",
"1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)\nMustonen plays Sibelius: Pieces, Op.",
"58; Jääkärien marssi, op.91a; Pieces, op.76; Rondinos, op.68; Bagatelles, op.34 – Ondine Records (2003)\nSibelius: Symphony No.",
"3; Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (Helsinki Festival Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)\nMozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; Olli Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)\nBach & Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Vol.2 [completes the collections began in the 1999 recording] – Ondine Records (2004)\nProkofiev: Cinderella Suite, Music for Children – Ondine Records (2006)\nRachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No.",
"1; Tchaikovsky: The Seasons – Ondine Records (2006)\nBeethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)\nBeethoven: Piano Concerto No.",
"3 & Piano Concerto, op.61a (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)\nBeethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2009)\nRespighi: Concerto in modo misolydio (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Ondine Records (2010)\nScriabin: 12 Etudes, Op.",
"8, 6 Preludes, Op.",
"13, 5 Preludes, Op.",
"16, Piano Sonata No.",
"10, Op.",
"70, Vers la flamme (Poème), Op.",
"72 – Ondine Records (2012)\n\nCompositions \nFor a complete list, see the external link for the Finnish Music Information Centre.",
"Divertimento (1979) for piano and orchestra\nFantasia (1985) for piano and strings\nToccata (1989) for piano, string quartet and double bass\nTwo Nonets (1995, 2000) for two string quartets and double bass\nConcerto for Three Violins (1998)\nSinuhe – sonata for solo oboe (2005–2006)\nJehkin Iivana – sonata for guitar (2004) or piano (2006)\nSonata for cello and piano (2006)\nSymphony No.",
"1 Tuuri (2012) for baritone and orchestra\nString Quintet No.",
"1 (2015)\nString Quartet No.",
"1 (2017)\n\nHis composition style combines elements of the neo-classical, neo-baroque and romantic idioms, and he has also used minimalist patterns: 'The Baroque elements echo Stravinsky's Pulcinella or the stylizations of Martinů or Ottorino Respighi; these elements dominate the vivacious and rhythmic fast movements, whereas the slow movements are emphatically Romantic.'",
"References\n\nExternal links \nMusic Finland: Olli Mustonen\nHazard Chase Management: Olli Mustonen\nOndine Records: Olli Mustonen\nSchott Music: Olli Mustonen\nBach-Cantatas.com: Olli Mustonen\nInterview with Olli Mustonen, May 14, 1991\n\n1967 births\nLiving people\nPeople from Vantaa\nFinnish classical pianists\nFinnish conductors (music)\nFinnish classical composers\n20th-century classical composers\n21st-century classical composers\nContemporary classical music performers\nSibelius Academy alumni\nEurovision Young Musicians Finalists\nFinnish male classical composers\nMale classical pianists\n20th-century conductors (music)\n21st-century conductors (music)\n21st-century classical pianists\n20th-century male musicians\n21st-century male musicians"
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"He is a pianist, conductor, and composer.",
"From the age of five, Mustonen studied piano and harpsichord with Eero Heinonen and Ralf Gothni.",
"He made his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall after winning the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.",
"His debut solo piano recording for Decca, of the cycles of preludes by Charles-Valentin Alkan, won both the Gramophone and Edison awards.",
"He has made recordings for both Decca and Ondine, as well as works by Beethoven and Russian composers.",
"One of the best-known pianists of his generation, Mustonen has performed with numerous major international orchestras.",
"From 1990 to 1992 he was artistic director of the Turku Music Festival.",
"Since 2003 he has conducted the chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta.",
"The world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No. was performed by him.",
"He was honored with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen on 11 October 1999.",
"His work shows a predilection for interwoven compositions and works of the 20th century which take up ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries.",
"The cycles of preludes and fugues by Paul Hindemith and Ferruccio Busoni are also included.",
"Unless otherwise stated, the recordings are pianists.",
"Janek/Shostakovich/Prokofiev: Works For Cello & Piano is on Decca Records.",
"Beethoven: Diabelli Variations; Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps.",
"2 (Michael Collins, clarinet; Joshua Bell, violin; Steven Isserlis, cello) was recorded by Decca Records.",
"Shchedrin: Cello Concerto, Seagull Suite (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Olli Mustonen, conductor) is a DVD.",
"Mustonen plays Sibelius: Pieces, Op.",
"Pieces, op. 76; Rondinos, op.68; Bagatelles, op.34; Jkrien marssi.",
"Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5 are on Ondine Records.",
"Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 are on Ondine Records.",
"Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 are on Ondine Records.",
"Preludes, Op. 8.",
"13 Preludes, Op.",
"The piano duet No. 16.",
"10, Op.",
"70, Vers la flamme (Pome), Op.",
"For a complete list, see the external link for the Finnish Music Information Centre.",
"Toccata (1989) for piano, string quartet and double bass and Two Nonets (1995) for two string quartets and double bass were written.",
"1 Tuuri is a string quintet.",
"1 is a string quartet.",
"His composition style combines elements of the neo-classical, neo-baroque and romantic idioms, and he has also used minimalist patterns.",
"There are external links to Music Finland, Hazard Chase Management, and Ondine Records."
] | <mask> (born 7 June 1967 in Vantaa, Finland) is a Finnish pianist, conductor, and composer. Biography
Mustonen studied harpsichord and piano from the age of five with Ralf Gothóni and then Eero Heinonen. He studied composition with Einojuhani Rautavaara from 1975 and in 1987 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which led to his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall. His debut solo piano recording for Decca, of the cycles of preludes by Shostakovich and Charles-Valentin Alkan, won both the Gramophone and Edison awards. In addition to Decca, he has also made recordings for RCA and Ondine, notably of works by Beethoven and various modern Russian composers. Mustonen has performed with numerous major international orchestras and is regarded as "one of the internationally best-known pianists of his generation." He has been artistic director of the Korsholm Music Festival in 1988 and the Turku Music Festival from 1990–1992.He is co-founder and director of the Helsinki Festival Orchestra, and since 2003 has conducted the chamber orchestra Tapiola Sinfonietta. He performed the world premiere of Rodion Shchedrin's Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Four Russian Songs", 1998), which was dedicated to him, with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, on 11 October 1999. As a composer, his work shows a "predilection for contrapunctally interwoven compositions and works of the 20th century which take up ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries (e.g. the Bach arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni and the cycles of preludes and fugues by Paul Hindemith or Shostakovich)." Recordings
As pianist unless otherwise stated. 1 (San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt) – Decca Records (1996)
Janáček/Shostakovich/Prokofiev: Works For Cello & Piano (Steven Isserlis, cello) – RCA Red Seal (1996)
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives; Hindemith: Ludus tonalis – Decca Records (1996)
Beethoven: Airs and variations, op.105; Ländler, WoO 11; Variations, WoO 77; Rondo, op.51/1; Variations, WoO 68; Minuet, WoO 82; Ecossaises, WoO 83; Bagatelles, op.126; Allegretto, WoO 61 – London Records (1996)
Bach: 12 Preludes & Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1; Shostakovich: 12 of 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op.87 – RCA Red Seal (1999)
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations – RCA Red Seal (1999)
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps; Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 (Michael Collins, clarinet; Joshua Bell, violin; Steven Isserlis, cello) – Decca Records (2000)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Image Entertainment DVD (2000)
Shchedrin: Cello Concerto, Seagull Suite (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; <mask> Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)
<mask> Mustonen: Triple Concerto; Petite Suite; Nonets Nos. 1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; <mask> Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2001)
Mustonen plays Sibelius: Pieces, Op. 58; Jääkärien marssi, op.91a; Pieces, op.76; Rondinos, op.68; Bagatelles, op.34 – Ondine Records (2003)
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3; Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (Helsinki Festival Orchestra; <mask> Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)
Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Pekka Kuusisto, violin; <mask> Mustonen, conductor) – Ondine Records (2003)
Bach & Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues Vol.2 [completes the collections began in the 1999 recording] – Ondine Records (2004)
Prokofiev: Cinderella Suite, Music for Children – Ondine Records (2006)
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1; Tchaikovsky: The Seasons – Ondine Records (2006)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; Olli Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 & Piano Concerto, op.61a (Tapiola Sinfonietta; <mask> Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2007)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4 & 5 (Tapiola Sinfonietta; <mask> Mustonen, piano & conductor) – Ondine Records (2009)
Respighi: Concerto in modo misolydio (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo) – Ondine Records (2010)
Scriabin: 12 Etudes, Op. 8, 6 Preludes, Op. 13, 5 Preludes, Op. 16, Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70, Vers la flamme (Poème), Op. 72 – Ondine Records (2012)
Compositions
For a complete list, see the external link for the Finnish Music Information Centre.Divertimento (1979) for piano and orchestra
Fantasia (1985) for piano and strings
Toccata (1989) for piano, string quartet and double bass
Two Nonets (1995, 2000) for two string quartets and double bass
Concerto for Three Violins (1998)
Sinuhe – sonata for solo oboe (2005–2006)
Jehkin Iivana – sonata for guitar (2004) or piano (2006)
Sonata for cello and piano (2006)
Symphony No. 1 Tuuri (2012) for baritone and orchestra
String Quintet No. 1 (2015)
String Quartet No. 1 (2017)
His composition style combines elements of the neo-classical, neo-baroque and romantic idioms, and he has also used minimalist patterns: 'The Baroque elements echo Stravinsky's Pulcinella or the stylizations of Martinů or Ottorino Respighi; these elements dominate the vivacious and rhythmic fast movements, whereas the slow movements are emphatically Romantic.' References
External links
Music Finland: <mask> Mustonen
Hazard Chase Management: <mask> Mustonen
Ondine Records: <mask> Mustonen
Schott Music: <mask> Mustonen
Bach-Cantatas.com: <mask> Mustonen
Interview with <mask> Mustonen, May 14, 1991
1967 births
Living people
People from Vantaa
Finnish classical pianists
Finnish conductors (music)
Finnish classical composers
20th-century classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Contemporary classical music performers
Sibelius Academy alumni
Eurovision Young Musicians Finalists
Finnish male classical composers
Male classical pianists
20th-century conductors (music)
21st-century conductors (music)
21st-century classical pianists
20th-century male musicians
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493057 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Morgan | Harry Morgan | Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades. Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985). Morgan also appeared in more than 100 films.
Early life and career
Morgan was born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, the son of Hannah and Henry Bratsberg. His parents were of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. In his interview with the Archive of American Television, Morgan spelled his Norwegian family surname as "Brasburg". Many sources, however, including some family records, list the spelling as "Bratsburg". According to one source, when Morgan's father Henry registered at junior high school, "the registrar spelled it Brasburg instead of Bratsberg. Bashful Henry did not demur."
Morgan was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion. He originally aspired to a J.D. degree, but began acting while a junior at the University of Chicago in 1935.
He began acting on stage under his birth name, in 1937, joining the Group Theatre in New York City formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg in 1931. He appeared in the original production of the Clifford Odets play Golden Boy, followed by a host of successful Broadway roles alongside such other Group members as Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, Sanford Meisner, and Karl Malden. Morgan also did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut.
Film work
Morgan made his screen debut (originally using the name "Henry Morgan") in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli. His screen name later became "Henry 'Harry' Morgan" and eventually Harry Morgan, to avoid confusion with the popular humorist of the same name.
In the same year, Morgan appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play. A few years later, still credited as Henry Morgan, he was cast in the role of pianist Chummy MacGregor in the 1954 biopic The Glenn Miller Story.
Morgan continued to play a number of significant roles on the big screen in such films as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Wing and a Prayer (1944), A Bell for Adano (1945), Dragonwyck (1946), The Gangster (1947), The Big Clock (1948), The Well (1951), High Noon (1952), Torch Song (1953), and several films in the 1950s for director Anthony Mann, including Bend of the River (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Far Country (1955), and Strategic Air Command (1955). In his later film career, he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960), How the West Was Won (1962) (as Ulysses S. Grant), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shootist (1976), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and as Captain Gannon in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.
Radio and television
Morgan hosted the NBC radio series Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in 1947. On CBS, he played Pete Porter in Pete and Gladys (1960–1962), with Cara Williams as wife Gladys. Pete and Gladys was a spin-off of December Bride (1954–1959), starring Spring Byington, a show in which Morgan had a popular recurring role. In 1950, Morgan appeared as an obtrusive, alcohol-addled hotel clerk in the Dragnet radio episode "The Big Boys".
1960s: Dragnet and other roles
After Pete and Gladys ended production, Morgan guest-starred in the role of Al Everett in the 1962 episode "Like My Own Brother" on Gene Kelly's ABC drama series, Going My Way, loosely based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name. That same year, he played the mobster Bugs Moran in an episode of ABC's The Untouchables, with Robert Stack. In 1963, he was cast as Sheriff Ernie Backwater on Richard Boone's Have Gun – Will Travel Western series on CBS, then worked as a regular cast member on the 1963–64 anthology series The Richard Boone Show.
In the 1964–1965 season, Morgan co-starred as Seldom Jackson in the 26-week NBC comedy/drama Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver, formerly of Gunsmoke.
Morgan is even more widely recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967–1970).
Morgan had also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in three film noir movies, Dark City (1950), Appointment with Danger (1951) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), and was an early regular member of Jack Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show. Morgan later worked on two other shows for Webb: 1971's The D.A. and the 1972–1974 Western series, Hec Ramsey. Morgan also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke ("The Witness" – aired 11/23/1970).
Morgan appeared in the role of Inspector Richard Queen, uncle of Ellery Queen in the 1971 television film Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You.
1970s: M*A*S*H
Morgan's first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show's third season (1974–1975), when he played the mentally unbalanced Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in "The General Flipped at Dawn", which first aired on September 10, 1974.
The following season, Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. A fan of the sitcom, Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson, who left the show at the end of the previous season. Unlike Stevenson's character Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer who was a firm yet good-humored, caring father figure to those under his command.
In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on M*A*S*H. When asked if he was a better actor after working with the show's talented cast, Morgan responded, "I don't know about that, but it's made me a better human being." After the end of the series, Morgan reprised the Potter role in a short-lived spinoff series, AfterMASH.
Morgan also appeared in several Disney movies throughout the decade, including The Barefoot Executive, Snowball Express, Charley and the Angel, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Cat from Outer Space (opposite McLean Stevenson) and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.
Later years
In 1986, he co-starred with Hal Linden in Blacke's Magic, a show about a magician who doubled as a detective solving unusual crimes. One season was made. Morgan's character, Leonard Blacke, was a semiretired con artist.
In 1987, Morgan reprised his Bill Gannon character, now a captain, for a supporting role in another film version of Dragnet, a parody and homage to the original series written by and starring Dan Aykroyd and costarring Tom Hanks and Christopher Plummer.
In 1987–1988, Morgan starred in the one-season situation comedy series You Can't Take It with You as family patriarch Martin Vanderhof.
In the 1990s, Morgan starred alongside Walter Matthau in a series of television movies for CBS as Stoddard Bell, a judge who is an acquaintance/nemesis/partner of Matthau's Harmon Cobb, an attorney (The Incident; An Incident in Baltimore, and Incident in a Small Town). He also lent his voice to an episode of The Simpsons from season seven, where he once again played Bill Gannon; in the episode "Mother Simpson", Gannon and Joe Friday (voiced by Harry Shearer) are FBI agents trying to track down Homer's mother, who is a fugitive from justice.
Morgan also had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter, a colleague of Dick Solomon's. Morgan directed episodes for several TV series, including two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, two episodes of Hec Ramsey, one episode of Adam-12, and eight episodes of M*A*S*H. Morgan had a guest role on The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond and a guest role on Grace Under Fire as Jean's pot-smoking boyfriend.
In 2006, Morgan was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Personal life
Morgan's first marriage was to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985. During Morgan's time on M*A*S*H, a photograph of Detchon regularly appeared on the desk of his character. A drawing of a horse, seen on the wall behind Potter's desk, was drawn by Morgan's grandson, Jeremy Morgan. In addition, Eileen was the name of the wife of Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet. Morgan had four sons with his first wife: Christopher, Charles, Paul, and Daniel (who died in 1989).
He then married Barbara Bushman Quine (granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman) on December 17, 1986. The marriage lasted until his death. In July 1996, he was arrested on domestic battery charges for striking his wife Barbara which caused her to be admitted to hospital. The case was later dismissed.
Morgan had two siblings, Marguerite and Arnold (both deceased).
Morgan was close friends with bandleader Glenn Miller, whom he met while filming Orchestra Wives in 1942, until Miller's death two years later. Morgan was later cast in the 1954 movie about his friend, The Glenn Miller Story, playing Chummy MacGregor.
Death
Morgan died peacefully in his sleep at 3:00 a.m. local time in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2011, at the age of 96. His son, Charles, said he recently had been treated for pneumonia. His body was cremated and his remains were given to his family.
Following Morgan's death, Mike Farrell, who played B.J. Hunnicutt opposite Morgan in M*A*S*H, released a statement:
Filmography
Films
The Kennel Murder Case (1933) as Gamble, the butler (uncredited)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) as Mouthy
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) as Ebenezer Burling
The Omaha Trail (1942) as Henchman Nat
Orchestra Wives (1942) as Cully Anderson
Crash Dive (1943) as Brownie
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) as Art Croft
Happy Land (1943) as Anton 'Tony' Cavrek
The Eve of St. Mark (1944) as Pvt. Shevlin
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) as Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon
Wing and a Prayer (1944) as Ens. Malcolm Brainard
Gentle Annie (1944) as Cottonwood Goss
A Bell for Adano (1945) as Capt. N. Purvis
State Fair (1945) as Barker
From This Day Forward (1946) as Hank Beesley
Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946) as Joe Patillo
Dragonwyck (1946) as Klaas Bleecker
Somewhere in the Night (1946) as Bath Attendant (uncredited)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946) as Gus Rivers
Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946) as Jervis (uncredited)
The Gangster (1947) as Shorty
The Big Clock (1948) as Bill Womack
All My Sons (1948) as Frank Lubey
Race Street (1948) as Hal Towers
The Saxon Charm (1948) as Hermy
Moonrise (1948) as Billy Scripture
Yellow Sky (1948) as Half Pint
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949) as Britton
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) as Hoodlum (uncredited)
Madame Bovary (1949) as Hyppolite
Strange Bargain (1949) as Lt. Richard Webb
Red Light (1949) as Rocky
Holiday Affair (1949) as Police Lieutenant
Hello Out There (1949) as The Young Gambler
Outside the Wall (1950) as Garth
The Showdown (1950) as Rod Main
Dark City (1950) as Soldier
Belle Le Grand (1951) as Abel Stone
When I Grow Up (1951) as Father Reed (modern)
Appointment with Danger (1951) as George Soderquist
The Highwayman (1951) as Tim
The Well (1951) as Claude Packard
The Blue Veil (1951) as Charles Hall
Boots Malone (1952) as Quarter Horse Henry
Scandal Sheet (1952) as Biddle
Bend of the River (1952) as Shorty
My Six Convicts (1952) as Dawson
High Noon (1952) as Sam Fuller
What Price Glory? (1952) as Sgt. Moran (uncredited)
Big Jim McLain (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Apache War Smoke (1952) as Ed Cotten
Toughest Man in Arizona (1952) as Verne Kimber
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952) as Innocence
Thunder Bay (1953) as Rawlings
Arena (1953) as Lew Hutchins
Champ for a Day (1953) as Al Muntz
Torch Song (1953) as Joe Denner
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) as Chummy
Prisoner of War (1954) as Maj. O.D. Hale
The Forty-Niners (1954) as Alf Billings
About Mrs. Leslie (1954) as Fred Blue
The Far Country (1954) as Ketchum
Strategic Air Command (1955) as Sgt. Bible (flight engineer)
Not as a Stranger (1955) as Oley
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) (uncredited)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) as Felix – Barkeep
Backlash (1956) as Tony Welker
Operation Teahouse (1956) as Himself
UFO (1956) as "Red Dog 1" (voice)
Star in the Dust (1956) as Lew Hogan
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) as Sgt. Gregovich
Under Fire (1957) as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
It Started with a Kiss (1959) as Charles Meriden
The Mountain Road (1960) as Sgt. 'Mike' Michaelson
Inherit the Wind (1960) as Judge Mel Coffey
Cimarron (1960) as Jesse Rickey
How the West Was Won (1962) as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo
Frankie and Johnny (1966) as Cully
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) as Maj. Pott
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) as Sheriff Slade
Star Spangled Salesman (1968) as TV Cop
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) as Olly Perkins
Viva Max! (1969) as Chief of Police Sylvester
The Barefoot Executive (1971) as E.J. Crampton
Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971) as Taylor
Scandalous John (1971) as Sheriff Pippin
Snowball Express (1972) as Jesse McCord
Charley and the Angel (1973) as The Angel formerly Roy Zerney
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) as Homer McCoy
The Shootist (1976) as Marshall Thibido
Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) as Toby Waites
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) as General Stilton
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) as Maj. T.P. Gaskill
Scout's Honor (1980) as Mr. Briggs
The Flight of Dragons (1982) as Carolinus (voice)
Sparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983) as Captain Kemp
Dragnet (1987) as Gannon
14 Going on 30 (TV, 1988) as Uncle Herb
The Incident (TV, 1990) as Judge Bell
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV, 1992) as Judge Stoddard Bell
Incident in a Small Town (TV, 1994) as Judge Bell
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
Family Plan (1997) as Sol Rubins
Crosswalk (1999) as Dr. Chandler
TV
Have Gun Will Travel (1958) A Snare for Murder as Fred Braus; (1963) American Primitive as Sheriff Ernie Backwater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959) Episode 159 Anniversary Gift as Hermie Jenkins
The Untouchables (1962) Episode 100 Double Cross as George Bugs Moran
Dragnet (1967 to 1971)The Bastard (1978) as Capt. CalebBackstairs at the White House (TV mini-series, 1979) as President Harry S. TrumanThe Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) as Robert T. MaloneMore Wild Wild West (1980) as Robert T. 'Skinny' MaloneMurder, She Wrote (4/19/1987) Season 3, Episode 21 "The Days Dwindle Down" as Retired Lt. Richard WebbYou Can't Take It with You (1987–1988) as Martin VanderhofThe Simpsons (1995) Episode 136 "Mother Simpson" as Bill Gannon3rd Rock from the Sun'' (1996) as Professor Suter
References
External links
1915 births
2011 deaths
American people of Scandinavian descent
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
American people of Norwegian descent
American people of Swedish descent
American television directors
Television personalities from Los Angeles
California Democrats
Deaths from pneumonia in California
Male actors from Detroit
Male actors from Los Angeles
Male Western (genre) film actors
Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners
People from Muskegon, Michigan
University of Chicago alumni | [
"Harry Morgan (born Harry Bratsberg; April 10, 1915 – December 7, 2011) was an American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades.",
"Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in both December Bride (1954–1959) and Pete and Gladys (1960–1962); Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet (1967–1970); Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey (1972–1974); and his starring role as Colonel Sherman T. Potter in M*A*S*H (1975–1983) and AfterMASH (1983–1985).",
"Morgan also appeared in more than 100 films.",
"Early life and career\nMorgan was born Harry Bratsberg in Detroit, the son of Hannah and Henry Bratsberg.",
"His parents were of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry.",
"In his interview with the Archive of American Television, Morgan spelled his Norwegian family surname as \"Brasburg\".",
"Many sources, however, including some family records, list the spelling as \"Bratsburg\".",
"According to one source, when Morgan's father Henry registered at junior high school, \"the registrar spelled it Brasburg instead of Bratsberg.",
"Bashful Henry did not demur.\"",
"Morgan was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion.",
"He originally aspired to a J.D.",
"degree, but began acting while a junior at the University of Chicago in 1935.",
"He began acting on stage under his birth name, in 1937, joining the Group Theatre in New York City formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg in 1931.",
"He appeared in the original production of the Clifford Odets play Golden Boy, followed by a host of successful Broadway roles alongside such other Group members as Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, Sanford Meisner, and Karl Malden.",
"Morgan also did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut.",
"Film work\n\nMorgan made his screen debut (originally using the name \"Henry Morgan\") in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli.",
"His screen name later became \"Henry 'Harry' Morgan\" and eventually Harry Morgan, to avoid confusion with the popular humorist of the same name.",
"In the same year, Morgan appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play.",
"A few years later, still credited as Henry Morgan, he was cast in the role of pianist Chummy MacGregor in the 1954 biopic The Glenn Miller Story.",
"Morgan continued to play a number of significant roles on the big screen in such films as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Wing and a Prayer (1944), A Bell for Adano (1945), Dragonwyck (1946), The Gangster (1947), The Big Clock (1948), The Well (1951), High Noon (1952), Torch Song (1953), and several films in the 1950s for director Anthony Mann, including Bend of the River (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Far Country (1955), and Strategic Air Command (1955).",
"In his later film career, he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960), How the West Was Won (1962) (as Ulysses S. Grant), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Support Your Local Sheriff!",
"(1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter!",
"(1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shootist (1976), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and as Captain Gannon in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.",
"Radio and television\nMorgan hosted the NBC radio series Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in 1947.",
"On CBS, he played Pete Porter in Pete and Gladys (1960–1962), with Cara Williams as wife Gladys.",
"Pete and Gladys was a spin-off of December Bride (1954–1959), starring Spring Byington, a show in which Morgan had a popular recurring role.",
"In 1950, Morgan appeared as an obtrusive, alcohol-addled hotel clerk in the Dragnet radio episode \"The Big Boys\".",
"1960s: Dragnet and other roles\n\nAfter Pete and Gladys ended production, Morgan guest-starred in the role of Al Everett in the 1962 episode \"Like My Own Brother\" on Gene Kelly's ABC drama series, Going My Way, loosely based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name.",
"That same year, he played the mobster Bugs Moran in an episode of ABC's The Untouchables, with Robert Stack.",
"In 1963, he was cast as Sheriff Ernie Backwater on Richard Boone's Have Gun – Will Travel Western series on CBS, then worked as a regular cast member on the 1963–64 anthology series The Richard Boone Show.",
"In the 1964–1965 season, Morgan co-starred as Seldom Jackson in the 26-week NBC comedy/drama Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver, formerly of Gunsmoke.",
"Morgan is even more widely recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967–1970).",
"Morgan had also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in three film noir movies, Dark City (1950), Appointment with Danger (1951) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), and was an early regular member of Jack Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show.",
"Morgan later worked on two other shows for Webb: 1971's The D.A.",
"and the 1972–1974 Western series, Hec Ramsey.",
"Morgan also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke (\"The Witness\" – aired 11/23/1970).",
"Morgan appeared in the role of Inspector Richard Queen, uncle of Ellery Queen in the 1971 television film Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You.",
"1970s: M*A*S*H\n\nMorgan's first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show's third season (1974–1975), when he played the mentally unbalanced Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in \"The General Flipped at Dawn\", which first aired on September 10, 1974.",
"The following season, Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter.",
"A fan of the sitcom, Morgan replaced McLean Stevenson, who left the show at the end of the previous season.",
"Unlike Stevenson's character Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer who was a firm yet good-humored, caring father figure to those under his command.",
"In 1980, Morgan won an Emmy award for his performance on M*A*S*H. When asked if he was a better actor after working with the show's talented cast, Morgan responded, \"I don't know about that, but it's made me a better human being.\"",
"After the end of the series, Morgan reprised the Potter role in a short-lived spinoff series, AfterMASH.",
"Morgan also appeared in several Disney movies throughout the decade, including The Barefoot Executive, Snowball Express, Charley and the Angel, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Cat from Outer Space (opposite McLean Stevenson) and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again.",
"Later years\nIn 1986, he co-starred with Hal Linden in Blacke's Magic, a show about a magician who doubled as a detective solving unusual crimes.",
"One season was made.",
"Morgan's character, Leonard Blacke, was a semiretired con artist.",
"In 1987, Morgan reprised his Bill Gannon character, now a captain, for a supporting role in another film version of Dragnet, a parody and homage to the original series written by and starring Dan Aykroyd and costarring Tom Hanks and Christopher Plummer.",
"In 1987–1988, Morgan starred in the one-season situation comedy series You Can't Take It with You as family patriarch Martin Vanderhof.",
"In the 1990s, Morgan starred alongside Walter Matthau in a series of television movies for CBS as Stoddard Bell, a judge who is an acquaintance/nemesis/partner of Matthau's Harmon Cobb, an attorney (The Incident; An Incident in Baltimore, and Incident in a Small Town).",
"He also lent his voice to an episode of The Simpsons from season seven, where he once again played Bill Gannon; in the episode \"Mother Simpson\", Gannon and Joe Friday (voiced by Harry Shearer) are FBI agents trying to track down Homer's mother, who is a fugitive from justice.",
"Morgan also had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter, a colleague of Dick Solomon's.",
"Morgan directed episodes for several TV series, including two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, two episodes of Hec Ramsey, one episode of Adam-12, and eight episodes of M*A*S*H. Morgan had a guest role on The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond and a guest role on Grace Under Fire as Jean's pot-smoking boyfriend.",
"In 2006, Morgan was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.",
"Personal life\nMorgan's first marriage was to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985.",
"During Morgan's time on M*A*S*H, a photograph of Detchon regularly appeared on the desk of his character.",
"A drawing of a horse, seen on the wall behind Potter's desk, was drawn by Morgan's grandson, Jeremy Morgan.",
"In addition, Eileen was the name of the wife of Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet.",
"Morgan had four sons with his first wife: Christopher, Charles, Paul, and Daniel (who died in 1989).",
"He then married Barbara Bushman Quine (granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman) on December 17, 1986.",
"The marriage lasted until his death.",
"In July 1996, he was arrested on domestic battery charges for striking his wife Barbara which caused her to be admitted to hospital.",
"The case was later dismissed.",
"Morgan had two siblings, Marguerite and Arnold (both deceased).",
"Morgan was close friends with bandleader Glenn Miller, whom he met while filming Orchestra Wives in 1942, until Miller's death two years later.",
"Morgan was later cast in the 1954 movie about his friend, The Glenn Miller Story, playing Chummy MacGregor.",
"Death\nMorgan died peacefully in his sleep at 3:00 a.m. local time in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2011, at the age of 96.",
"His son, Charles, said he recently had been treated for pneumonia.",
"His body was cremated and his remains were given to his family.",
"Following Morgan's death, Mike Farrell, who played B.J.",
"Hunnicutt opposite Morgan in M*A*S*H, released a statement:\n\nFilmography\n\nFilms \n\nThe Kennel Murder Case (1933) as Gamble, the butler (uncredited)\nTo the Shores of Tripoli (1942) as Mouthy\nThe Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) as Ebenezer Burling\nThe Omaha Trail (1942) as Henchman Nat\nOrchestra Wives (1942) as Cully Anderson\nCrash Dive (1943) as Brownie\nThe Ox-Bow Incident (1943) as Art Croft\nHappy Land (1943) as Anton 'Tony' Cavrek\nThe Eve of St. Mark (1944) as Pvt.",
"Shevlin\nRoger Touhy, Gangster (1944) as Thomas J.",
"'Smoke' Reardon\nWing and a Prayer (1944) as Ens.",
"Malcolm Brainard\nGentle Annie (1944) as Cottonwood Goss\nA Bell for Adano (1945) as Capt.",
"(1952) as Sgt.",
"Moran (uncredited)\nBig Jim McLain (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)\nApache War Smoke (1952) as Ed Cotten\nToughest Man in Arizona (1952) as Verne Kimber\nStop, You're Killing Me (1952) as Innocence\nThunder Bay (1953) as Rawlings\nArena (1953) as Lew Hutchins\nChamp for a Day (1953) as Al Muntz\nTorch Song (1953) as Joe Denner\nThe Glenn Miller Story (1954) as Chummy\nPrisoner of War (1954) as Maj. O.D.",
"Hale\nThe Forty-Niners (1954) as Alf Billings\nAbout Mrs. Leslie (1954) as Fred Blue\nThe Far Country (1954) as Ketchum\nStrategic Air Command (1955) as Sgt.",
"Bible (flight engineer)\nNot as a Stranger (1955) as Oley\nPete Kelly's Blues (1955) (uncredited)\nThe Bottom of the Bottle (1956) as Felix – Barkeep\nBacklash (1956) as Tony Welker\nOperation Teahouse (1956) as Himself\nUFO (1956) as \"Red Dog 1\" (voice)\nStar in the Dust (1956) as Lew Hogan\nThe Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) as Sgt.",
"Gregovich\nUnder Fire (1957) as Sgt.",
"Joseph C. Dusak\nIt Started with a Kiss (1959) as Charles Meriden\nThe Mountain Road (1960) as Sgt.",
"'Mike' Michaelson\nInherit the Wind (1960) as Judge Mel Coffey\nCimarron (1960) as Jesse Rickey\nHow the West Was Won (1962) as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant\nJohn Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo\nFrankie and Johnny (1966) as Cully\nWhat Did You Do in the War, Daddy?",
"(1966) as Maj. Pott\nThe Flim-Flam Man (1967) as Sheriff Slade\nStar Spangled Salesman (1968) as TV Cop\nSupport Your Local Sheriff!",
"(1969) as Olly Perkins\nViva Max!",
"(1969) as Chief of Police Sylvester\nThe Barefoot Executive (1971) as E.J.",
"Crampton\nSupport Your Local Gunfighter!",
"(1971) as Taylor\nScandalous John (1971) as Sheriff Pippin\nSnowball Express (1972) as Jesse McCord\nCharley and the Angel (1973) as The Angel formerly Roy Zerney\nThe Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) as Homer McCoy\nThe Shootist (1976) as Marshall Thibido\nManeaters Are Loose!",
"(1978) as Toby Waites\nThe Cat from Outer Space (1978) as General Stilton\nThe Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) as Maj. T.P.",
"Gaskill\nScout's Honor (1980) as Mr. Briggs\nThe Flight of Dragons (1982) as Carolinus (voice)\nSparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983) as Captain Kemp\nDragnet (1987) as Gannon\n14 Going on 30 (TV, 1988) as Uncle Herb\nThe Incident (TV, 1990) as Judge Bell\nAgainst Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV, 1992) as Judge Stoddard Bell\nIncident in a Small Town (TV, 1994) as Judge Bell\nWild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)\nFamily Plan (1997) as Sol Rubins\nCrosswalk (1999) as Dr. Chandler\n\nTV \nHave Gun Will Travel (1958) A Snare for Murder as Fred Braus; (1963) American Primitive as Sheriff Ernie Backwater\nAlfred Hitchcock Presents (1959) Episode 159 Anniversary Gift as Hermie Jenkins\nThe Untouchables (1962) Episode 100 Double Cross as George Bugs Moran\nDragnet (1967 to 1971)The Bastard (1978) as Capt.",
"CalebBackstairs at the White House (TV mini-series, 1979) as President Harry S. TrumanThe Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) as Robert T. MaloneMore Wild Wild West (1980) as Robert T. 'Skinny' MaloneMurder, She Wrote (4/19/1987) Season 3, Episode 21 \"The Days Dwindle Down\" as Retired Lt. Richard WebbYou Can't Take It with You (1987–1988) as Martin VanderhofThe Simpsons (1995) Episode 136 \"Mother Simpson\" as Bill Gannon3rd Rock from the Sun'' (1996) as Professor Suter\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\n \n \n \n \n \n\n1915 births\n2011 deaths\nAmerican people of Scandinavian descent\n20th-century American male actors\nAmerican male film actors\nAmerican male stage actors\nAmerican male television actors\nAmerican people of Norwegian descent\nAmerican people of Swedish descent\nAmerican television directors\nTelevision personalities from Los Angeles\nCalifornia Democrats\nDeaths from pneumonia in California\nMale actors from Detroit\nMale actors from Los Angeles\nMale Western (genre) film actors\nOutstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners\nPeople from Muskegon, Michigan\nUniversity of Chicago alumni"
] | [
"An American actor and director whose television and film career spanned six decades, Harry Morgan was born on April 10, 1915.",
"Morgan's major roles included Pete Porter in December Bride, Pete and Gladys, Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet, and Amos Coogan on Hec Ramsey.",
"Morgan appeared in more than 100 films.",
"Morgan was the son of Hannah and Henry and was born in Detroit.",
"His parents were from both Sweden and Norway.",
"Morgan spelled his family name \"Brasburg\" in an interview with the Archive of American Television.",
"Some family records list the spelling as \"Bratsburg\".",
"According to one source, when Henry registered for junior high school, he was told that it was Brasburg.",
"Henry didn't demur.",
"Morgan achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion after graduating from Muskegon High School in 1933.",
"He wanted to be a J.D.",
"While a junior at the University of Chicago, he began acting.",
"He joined the Group Theatre in New York City in 1931 under his birth name.",
"He appeared in the original production of Golden Boy, followed by a number of successful Broadway roles, including that of Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, and Karl Malden.",
"Morgan did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club.",
"Morgan's screen debut was in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli.",
"His screen name was changed to avoid confusion with a popular humorist of the same name.",
"Morgan appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play.",
"A few years later, he was cast in the role of a pianist in the movie The Glenn Miller Story.",
"Morgan played a number of important roles on the big screen in films such as The Ox-Bow Incident, Wing and a Prayer, and A Bell for Adano.",
"Inherit the Wind, How the West Was Won, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, and The Flim-Flam Man all starred him.",
"Support your local gunfighter.",
"In the film version of Dragnet, Captain Gannon was played by Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.",
"Mystery in the Air starred Peter Lorre and was hosted by Morgan.",
"Pete and Gladys was on CBS and he played Pete Porter.",
"Pete and Gladys was a spinoff of December Bride, a show in which Morgan had a recurring role.",
"In 1950, Morgan appeared as a hotel clerk in a radio show.",
"Morgan guest-starred in the 1962 episode \"Like My Own Brother\" on Gene Kelly's ABC drama series, Going My Way, which was based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film.",
"He played the mobster Bugs Moran in an episode of The Untouchables with Robert Stack.",
"He was cast as Sheriff Backwater on Have Gun - Will Travel Western series on CBS in 1963.",
"Morgan played Seldom Jackson in the NBC comedy Kentucky Jones, which starred Dennis Weaver, formerly of Gunsmoke.",
"The revived version of Dragnet featured Morgan and Bill Gannon, who were Joe Friday's partner.",
"Morgan was an early member of the stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show, as well as appearing in three film noir movies, Dark City, Appointment with Danger and Pete Kelly's Blues.",
"The D.A. was one of the shows Morgan worked on.",
"The 1972–1974 Western series was called Hec Ramsey.",
"Morgan appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke.",
"The role of Inspector Richard Queen was played by Morgan in the 1971 television film Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You.",
"In the third season of M*A*S*H, Morgan played the mentally unbalanced Major General Bartford Steele in \"The General Flipped at Dawn\".",
"Morgan joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter.",
"Morgan was a fan of the show and replaced Stevenson who left at the end of the previous season.",
"Potter was a career Army officer who was a good-humored, caring father figure to those under his command.",
"When asked if he was a better actor after working on M*A*S*H, Morgan responded, \"I don't know about that, but it's made me a better human being.\"",
"After the end of the series, Morgan reprised the role of Potter in a spinoff series.",
"Morgan appeared in several Disney movies during the decade, including The Barefoot Executive, The Apple Dumpling Gang, and The Cat from Outer Space.",
"Blacke's Magic was a show about a magician who was a detective and also a magician.",
"One season was made.",
"Morgan's character was a con artist.",
"In 1987, Morgan reprised his Bill Gannon character, now a captain, for a supporting role in another film version of Dragnet, a parody and homage to the original series written by and starring Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks.",
"You Can't Take It with You was a situation comedy series that Morgan starred in.",
"In the 1990s, Morgan starred alongside Walter Matthau in a series of television movies as Stoddard Bell, a judge who is an acquaintances/nemesis/partner of Matthau's.",
"He lent his voice to an episode of The Simpsons from season seven, where he once again played Bill Gannon, and in the episode \"Mother Simpson\", he and Joe Friday are FBI agents trying to track down Homer's mother, who is a fugitive from justice.",
"Professor Suter was a colleague of Dick Solomon's and Morgan had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun.",
"Morgan directed two episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, two episodes of Hec Ramsey, one episode of Adam-12, and eight episodes of M*A*S*H.",
"Morgan was in the Hall of Great Western Performers in 2006",
"Morgan's first marriage was to Eileen, who died in 1985.",
"The desk of Morgan's character on M*A*S*H had a photograph of Detchon on it.",
"There is a drawing of a horse on the wall behind Potter's desk.",
"Eileen was the wife of an officer on Dragnet.",
"Morgan had four sons with his first wife.",
"He married Barbara Bushman Quine on December 17, 1986.",
"The marriage lasted until his death.",
"His wife Barbara was admitted to the hospital after he was arrested on domestic battery charges.",
"The case was dismissed.",
"Marguerite and Arnold were Morgan's siblings.",
"Glenn Miller died two years after Morgan met him while filming Orchestra Wives.",
"The Glenn Miller Story was a movie about Morgan and his friend.",
"Death Morgan died peacefully in his sleep in Los Angeles at 3:00 a.m. on December 7, 2011.",
"Charles said he had been treated for pneumonia.",
"His remains were given to his family.",
"Mike Farrell played B.J. after Morgan's death.",
"In M*A*S*H, Hunnicutt played the role of Gamble, the butler, while Morgan played the role of Mouthy The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe.",
"Shevlin Roger Touhy played the role of Thomas J.",
"The 'Smoke' Reardon Wing and a Prayer is an Ens.",
"Annie was played by Malcolm Brainard as Cottonwood Goss A Bell.",
"(1952) was a sergeant.",
"Narrator, Ed Cotten Toughest Man in Arizona, and Verne Kimber Stop, You're Killing Me are uncredited.",
"The Forty-Niners were played by Hale and Fred Blue was played by Ketchum Strategic Air Command.",
"Oley Pete Kelly's Blues, The Bottom of the Bottle, and Himself as \"Red Dog\" are uncredited.",
"Gregovich was under fire.",
"It Started with a Kiss was written by Joseph C. Dusak.",
"'Mike' Michaelson Inherit the Wind' and 'Jesse Rickey How the West Was Won' are from 1960's.",
"The Flim-Flam Man was a TV cop who supported his local sheriff.",
"As Olly Perkins, Viva Max!",
"As Chief of Police, Sylvester The Barefoot Executive.",
"Support your local gunfighter!",
"As Taylor Scandalous John, Jesse McCord Charley and the Angel, The Apple Gang, and Marshall Thibido Maneaters Are Loose!",
"As Toby Waites The Cat from Outer Space, General Stilton The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, and Maj. T.P.",
"Gaskill Scout's Honor, The Flight of Dragons, and Captain Kemp Dragnet are just a few of the films that have been made.",
"The Wild Wild West Revisited is a TV mini-series."
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<mask> was born <mask> in Detroit, the son of Hannah and Henry Bratsberg. His parents were of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. In his interview with the Archive of American Television, <mask> spelled his Norwegian family surname as "Brasburg". Many sources, however, including some family records, list the spelling as "Bratsburg".According to one source, when <mask>'s father Henry registered at junior high school, "the registrar spelled it Brasburg instead of Bratsberg. Bashful Henry did not demur." <mask> was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, and graduated from Muskegon High School in 1933, where he achieved distinction as a statewide debating champion. He originally aspired to a J.D. degree, but began acting while a junior at the University of Chicago in 1935. He began acting on stage under his birth name, in 1937, joining the Group Theatre in New York City formed by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg in 1931. He appeared in the original production of the Clifford Odets play Golden Boy, followed by a host of successful Broadway roles alongside such other Group members as Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, Sanford Meisner, and Karl Malden.<mask> also did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut. Film work
<mask> made his screen debut (originally using the name "<mask>") in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli. His screen name later became "Henry '<mask>' <mask>" and eventually <mask>, to avoid confusion with the popular humorist of the same name. In the same year, <mask> appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play. A few years later, still credited as <mask>, he was cast in the role of pianist Chummy MacGregor in the 1954 biopic The Glenn Miller Story. <mask> continued to play a number of significant roles on the big screen in such films as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), Wing and a Prayer (1944), A Bell for Adano (1945), Dragonwyck (1946), The Gangster (1947), The Big Clock (1948), The Well (1951), High Noon (1952), Torch Song (1953), and several films in the 1950s for director Anthony Mann, including Bend of the River (1952), Thunder Bay (1953), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), The Far Country (1955), and Strategic Air Command (1955). In his later film career, he appeared in Inherit the Wind (1960), How the West Was Won (1962) (as Ulysses S. Grant), John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965), Frankie and Johnny (1966), The Flim-Flam Man (1967), Support Your Local Sheriff!(1969), Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971), Snowball Express (1972), The Shootist (1976), The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979), and as Captain Gannon in the film version of Dragnet (1987) with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. Radio and television
<mask> hosted the NBC radio series Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre in 1947. On CBS, he played Pete Porter in Pete and Gladys (1960–1962), with Cara Williams as wife Gladys. Pete and Gladys was a spin-off of December Bride (1954–1959), starring Spring Byington, a show in which <mask> had a popular recurring role. In 1950, <mask> appeared as an obtrusive, alcohol-addled hotel clerk in the Dragnet radio episode "The Big Boys". 1960s: Dragnet and other roles
After Pete and Gladys ended production, <mask> guest-starred in the role of Al Everett in the 1962 episode "Like My Own Brother" on Gene Kelly's ABC drama series, Going My Way, loosely based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film of the same name.That same year, he played the mobster Bugs Moran in an episode of ABC's The Untouchables, with Robert Stack. In 1963, he was cast as Sheriff Ernie Backwater on Richard Boone's Have Gun – Will Travel Western series on CBS, then worked as a regular cast member on the 1963–64 anthology series The Richard Boone Show. In the 1964–1965 season, <mask> co-starred as Seldom Jackson in the 26-week NBC comedy/drama Kentucky Jones, starring Dennis Weaver, formerly of Gunsmoke. <mask> is even more widely recognized as Officer Bill Gannon, Joe Friday's partner in the revived version of Dragnet (1967–1970). <mask> had also appeared with Dragnet star Jack Webb in three film noir movies, Dark City (1950), Appointment with Danger (1951) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), and was an early regular member of Jack Webb's stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show. <mask> later worked on two other shows for Webb: 1971's The D.A. and the 1972–1974 Western series, Hec Ramsey.<mask> also appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke ("The Witness" – aired 11/23/1970). <mask> appeared in the role of Inspector Richard Queen, uncle of Ellery Queen in the 1971 television film Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You. 1970s: M*A*S*H
<mask>'s first appearance on M*A*S*H was in the show's third season (1974–1975), when he played the mentally unbalanced Major General Bartford Hamilton Steele in "The General Flipped at Dawn", which first aired on September 10, 1974. The following season, <mask> joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. A fan of the sitcom, <mask> replaced McLean Stevenson, who left the show at the end of the previous season. Unlike Stevenson's character Henry Blake, Potter was a career Army officer who was a firm yet good-humored, caring father figure to those under his command. In 1980, <mask> won an Emmy award for his performance on M*A*S*H. When asked if he was a better actor after working with the show's talented cast, <mask> responded, "I don't know about that, but it's made me a better human being."After the end of the series, <mask> reprised the Potter role in a short-lived spinoff series, AfterMASH. <mask> also appeared in several Disney movies throughout the decade, including The Barefoot Executive, Snowball Express, Charley and the Angel, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Cat from Outer Space (opposite McLean Stevenson) and The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Later years
In 1986, he co-starred with Hal Linden in Blacke's Magic, a show about a magician who doubled as a detective solving unusual crimes. One season was made. <mask>'s character, Leonard Blacke, was a semiretired con artist. In 1987, <mask> reprised his Bill Gannon character, now a captain, for a supporting role in another film version of Dragnet, a parody and homage to the original series written by and starring Dan Aykroyd and costarring Tom Hanks and Christopher Plummer. In 1987–1988, <mask> starred in the one-season situation comedy series You Can't Take It with You as family patriarch Martin Vanderhof.In the 1990s, <mask> starred alongside Walter Matthau in a series of television movies for CBS as Stoddard Bell, a judge who is an acquaintance/nemesis/partner of Matthau's Harmon Cobb, an attorney (The Incident; An Incident in Baltimore, and Incident in a Small Town). He also lent his voice to an episode of The Simpsons from season seven, where he once again played Bill Gannon; in the episode "Mother Simpson", Gannon and Joe Friday (voiced by <mask>) are FBI agents trying to track down Homer's mother, who is a fugitive from justice. <mask> also had a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun as Professor Suter, a colleague of Dick Solomon's. <mask> Ramsey, one episode of Adam-12, and eight episodes of M*A*S*H. <mask> had a guest role on The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Raymond and a guest role on Grace Under Fire as Jean's pot-smoking boyfriend. In 2006, <mask> was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Personal life
<mask>'s first marriage was to Eileen Detchon from 1940 until her death in 1985. During <mask>'s time on M*A*S*H, a photograph of Detchon regularly appeared on the desk of his character.A drawing of a horse, seen on the wall behind Potter's desk, was drawn by <mask>'s grandson, <mask>. In addition, Eileen was the name of the wife of Officer Bill Gannon on Dragnet. <mask> had four sons with his first wife: Christopher, Charles, Paul, and Daniel (who died in 1989). He then married Barbara Bushman Quine (granddaughter of silent film star Francis X. Bushman) on December 17, 1986. The marriage lasted until his death. In July 1996, he was arrested on domestic battery charges for striking his wife Barbara which caused her to be admitted to hospital. The case was later dismissed.<mask> had two siblings, Marguerite and Arnold (both deceased). <mask> was close friends with bandleader Glenn Miller, whom he met while filming Orchestra Wives in 1942, until Miller's death two years later. <mask> was later cast in the 1954 movie about his friend, The Glenn Miller Story, playing Chummy MacGregor. Death
<mask> died peacefully in his sleep at 3:00 a.m. local time in Los Angeles, on December 7, 2011, at the age of 96. His son, Charles, said he recently had been treated for pneumonia. His body was cremated and his remains were given to his family. Following <mask>'s death, Mike Farrell, who played B.J.Hunnicutt opposite <mask> in M*A*S*H, released a statement:
Filmography
Films
The Kennel Murder Case (1933) as Gamble, the butler (uncredited)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) as Mouthy
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) as Ebenezer Burling
The Omaha Trail (1942) as Henchman Nat
Orchestra Wives (1942) as Cully Anderson
Crash Dive (1943) as Brownie
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) as Art Croft
Happy Land (1943) as Anton 'Tony' Cavrek
The Eve of St. Mark (1944) as Pvt. Shevlin
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) as Thomas J. 'Smoke' Reardon
Wing and a Prayer (1944) as Ens. Malcolm Brainard
Gentle Annie (1944) as Cottonwood Goss
A Bell for Adano (1945) as Capt. (1952) as Sgt. Moran (uncredited)
Big Jim McLain (1952) as Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Apache War Smoke (1952) as Ed Cotten
Toughest Man in Arizona (1952) as Verne Kimber
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952) as Innocence
Thunder Bay (1953) as Rawlings
Arena (1953) as Lew Hutchins
Champ for a Day (1953) as Al Muntz
Torch Song (1953) as Joe Denner
The Glenn Miller Story (1954) as Chummy
Prisoner of War (1954) as Maj. O.D. Hale
The Forty-Niners (1954) as Alf Billings
About Mrs. Leslie (1954) as Fred Blue
The Far Country (1954) as Ketchum
Strategic Air Command (1955) as Sgt.Bible (flight engineer)
Not as a Stranger (1955) as Oley
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) (uncredited)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956) as Felix – Barkeep
Backlash (1956) as Tony Welker
Operation Teahouse (1956) as Himself
UFO (1956) as "Red Dog 1" (voice)
Star in the Dust (1956) as Lew Hogan
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956) as Sgt. Gregovich
Under Fire (1957) as Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak
It Started with a Kiss (1959) as Charles Meriden
The Mountain Road (1960) as Sgt. 'Mike' Michaelson
Inherit the Wind (1960) as Judge Mel Coffey
Cimarron (1960) as Jesse Rickey
How the West Was Won (1962) as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965) as Secretary of State Deems Sarajevo
Frankie and Johnny (1966) as Cully
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) as Maj. Pott
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) as Sheriff Slade
Star Spangled Salesman (1968) as TV Cop
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969) as Olly Perkins
Viva Max! (1969) as Chief of Police Sylvester
The Barefoot Executive (1971) as E.J.Crampton
Support Your Local Gunfighter! (1971) as Taylor
Scandalous John (1971) as Sheriff Pippin
Snowball Express (1972) as Jesse McCord
Charley and the Angel (1973) as The Angel formerly Roy Zerney
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) as Homer McCoy
The Shootist (1976) as Marshall Thibido
Maneaters Are Loose! (1978) as Toby Waites
The Cat from Outer Space (1978) as General Stilton
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) as Maj. T.P. Gaskill
Scout's Honor (1980) as Mr. Briggs
The Flight of Dragons (1982) as Carolinus (voice)
Sparkling Cyanide TV Movie (1983) as Captain Kemp
Dragnet (1987) as Gannon
14 Going on 30 (TV, 1988) as Uncle Herb
The Incident (TV, 1990) as Judge Bell
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (TV, 1992) as Judge Stoddard Bell
Incident in a Small Town (TV, 1994) as Judge Bell
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996)
Family Plan (1997) as Sol Rubins
Crosswalk (1999) as Dr. Chandler
TV
Have Gun Will Travel (1958) A Snare for Murder as Fred Braus; (1963) American Primitive as Sheriff Ernie Backwater
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959) Episode 159 Anniversary Gift as Hermie Jenkins
The Untouchables (1962) Episode 100 Double Cross as George Bugs Moran
Dragnet (1967 to 1971)The Bastard (1978) as Capt. CalebBackstairs at the White House (TV mini-series, 1979) as President <mask>. TrumanThe Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) as Robert T. MaloneMore Wild Wild West (1980) as Robert T. 'Skinny' MaloneMurder, She Wrote (4/19/1987) Season 3, Episode 21 "The Days Dwindle Down" as Retired Lt. Richard WebbYou Can't Take It with You (1987–1988) as Martin VanderhofThe Simpsons (1995) Episode 136 "Mother Simpson" as Bill Gannon3rd Rock from the Sun'' (1996) as Professor Suter
References
External links
1915 births
2011 deaths
American people of Scandinavian descent
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
American people of Norwegian descent
American people of Swedish descent
American television directors
Television personalities from Los Angeles
California Democrats
Deaths from pneumonia in California
Male actors from Detroit
Male actors from Los Angeles
Male Western (genre) film actors
Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners
People from Muskegon, Michigan
University of Chicago alumni | [
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He appeared in the original production of Golden Boy, followed by a number of successful Broadway roles, including that of Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, John Garfield, and Karl Malden.<mask> did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club. <mask>'s screen debut was in the 1942 movie To the Shores of Tripoli. His screen name was changed to avoid confusion with a popular humorist of the same name. <mask> appeared in the movie Orchestra Wives as a young man pushing his way to the front of a ballroom crowd with his date to hear Glenn Miller's band play. A few years later, he was cast in the role of a pianist in the movie The Glenn Miller Story. <mask> played a number of important roles on the big screen in films such as The Ox-Bow Incident, Wing and a Prayer, and A Bell for Adano. Inherit the Wind, How the West Was Won, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home, and The Flim-Flam Man all starred him.Support your local gunfighter. In the film version of Dragnet, Captain Gannon was played by Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. Mystery in the Air starred Peter Lorre and was hosted by <mask>. Pete and Gladys was on CBS and he played Pete Porter. Pete and Gladys was a spinoff of December Bride, a show in which <mask> had a recurring role. In 1950, <mask> appeared as a hotel clerk in a radio show. <mask> guest-starred in the 1962 episode "Like My Own Brother" on Gene Kelly's ABC drama series, Going My Way, which was based on the 1944 Bing Crosby film.He played the mobster Bugs Moran in an episode of The Untouchables with Robert Stack. He was cast as Sheriff Backwater on Have Gun - Will Travel Western series on CBS in 1963. <mask> played Seldom Jackson in the NBC comedy Kentucky Jones, which starred Dennis Weaver, formerly of Gunsmoke. The revived version of Dragnet featured <mask> and Bill Gannon, who were Joe Friday's partner. <mask> was an early member of the stock company of actors on the original Dragnet radio show, as well as appearing in three film noir movies, Dark City, Appointment with Danger and Pete Kelly's Blues. The D.A. was one of the shows <mask> worked on. The 1972–1974 Western series was called Hec Ramsey.<mask> appeared in at least one episode of Gunsmoke. The role of Inspector Richard Queen was played by <mask> in the 1971 television film Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You. In the third season of M*A*S*H, <mask> played the mentally unbalanced Major General Bartford Steele in "The General Flipped at Dawn". <mask> joined the cast of M*A*S*H as Colonel Sherman T. Potter. <mask> was a fan of the show and replaced Stevenson who left at the end of the previous season. Potter was a career Army officer who was a good-humored, caring father figure to those under his command. 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His wife Barbara was admitted to the hospital after he was arrested on domestic battery charges. The case was dismissed.Marguerite and Arnold were <mask>'s siblings. Glenn Miller died two years after <mask> met him while filming Orchestra Wives. The Glenn Miller Story was a movie about <mask> and his friend. Death <mask> died peacefully in his sleep in Los Angeles at 3:00 a.m. on December 7, 2011. Charles said he had been treated for pneumonia. His remains were given to his family. Mike Farrell played B.J. after <mask>'s death.In M*A*S*H, Hunnicutt played the role of Gamble, the butler, while <mask> played the role of Mouthy The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe. Shevlin Roger Touhy played the role of Thomas J. The 'Smoke' Reardon Wing and a Prayer is an Ens. Annie was played by Malcolm Brainard as Cottonwood Goss A Bell. (1952) was a sergeant. Narrator, Ed Cotten Toughest Man in Arizona, and Verne Kimber Stop, You're Killing Me are uncredited. 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20858415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavali%C3%A9%20Mercer | Cavalié Mercer | Alexander Cavalié Mercer (28 March 1783 – 9 November 1868) was a British artillery officer. Although he rose to the rank of general, his fame is as commander of G Troop Royal Horse Artillery in the thick of the fighting at the Battle of Waterloo, and as author of Journal of the Waterloo Campaign.
Mercer's six-gun horse artillery troop arrived too late for the Battle of Quatre Bras, but it fought with the cavalry rearguard covering the army's retreat to Waterloo. The troop fought on the extreme right wing of Wellington's army at Waterloo, before being moved into the thick of the fighting nearer the centre of the line. There it beat off repeated charges by French heavy cavalry, disobeying orders to abandon the guns and retire inside nearby infantry squares as the enemy closed. The location of this action is marked by a memorial on the Waterloo battlefield. After the battle, Mercer's troop marched on Paris with the Allied armies, and formed part of the army of occupation.
Mercer's Journal is an important source for historians of the Waterloo campaign, as well as a detailed description of the landscape and people of Belgium and France in the early 19th century. It is one of the few accounts of the period written by an artillery officer.
Mercer remained in the peacetime army, twice serving in Canada. He was a painter of some merit, and a number of his watercolours of Canadian landscapes were purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s.
Before 1815
Mercer was born in 1783 at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, into a military family: his father was General Alexander Mercer of the Royal Engineers. The name Cavaillie was possibly inherited from his grandmother Margaret Cavaillie, wife of James Mercer overseer at Fort George. Margaret Cavaillie (1699, St Andrews – 1777, St Andrews) was the daughter of captain James Cavaillie, who it is said came to Britain in the army of William of Orange and settled in Fife as a wine merchant and died at Cupar Fife in 1716. He went to the Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1799 at the age of 16. He served in Ireland in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was promoted to second captain (a rank unique to the Ordnance) in 1806. Promotion in the Royal Artillery was very slow, especially in peacetime, as it relied solely on seniority. Unlike in the rest of the British Army of the time there was no opportunity for purchase of commissions in the Ordnance. Mercer was not breveted as a major until 1 March 1824, though this was then backdated to 12 August 1819.
Mercer was posted to G Troop Royal Horse Artillery around 1806 and joined Whitelocke's ill-fated Buenos Aires expedition in 1807. He did not serve in the Peninsular War and next saw war service in the Waterloo Campaign.
G Troop
In 1815 Mercer was acting commander of what was officially G (Dickson's) Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, but is usually referred to as Mercer's Troop or Mercer's Battery. Its modern successor is G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery, part of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, which currently serves in the field artillery role with 16 Air Assault Brigade, and is equipped with the L118 Light Gun.
G Troop served on the 1807 Buenos Aires expedition, but the G Troop of Waterloo was formed from the amalgamation of two other RHA troops before leaving Colchester for Belgium. It had the pick of the horses from each, and was therefore regarded as an exceptionally fine unit. When reviewing the cavalry at Grammont on 29 May 1815, Blücher is supposed to have said "there is not one horse in this battery that is not fit for a field marshal". The troop had five 9-pounder guns (which had recently replaced some of the RHA's 6-pounders) and a 5½" howitzer, 80 gunners, 86 drivers and 226 horses.
Waterloo Campaign
Mercer's Troop embarked for Belgium on 11 April 1815, a few days after hearing of Napoleon's escape from Elba. From 1 May until the French invasion on 15 June it led a quiet life in the small village of Strijtem, west of Brussels. G Troop rode all day on 16 June, but arrived too late to participate in the Battle of Quatre Bras. It covered the retreat from Quatre Bras on 17 June, narrowly escaping capture by French cavalry. It was in the action at Genappe later the same day with the cavalry rearguard.
Arriving on the field of Waterloo, Mercer's Troop briefly took up a firing position on the famous knoll behind the sandpit, which would feature in the fighting the following day. Mercer was still acting as rearguard for Wellington's army, not realising that the entire army had halted on the ridge immediately behind him. His troop exchanged fire with arriving French batteries before retiring.
After a miserable, hungry night in the mud and rain in the orchard of Mont St Jean farm, where Mercer is fabled to have drunk port from a chicken shaped goblet, Mercer found himself without orders in the opening phase of the battle, as d'Erlon's infantry attacked Wellington's left. He was about to lead his troop into action on his own initiative when he was ordered to the extreme right of the line. That was a quiet sector, but in common with much of Wellington's artillery, Mercer disobeyed orders to refrain from counter-battery fire. He engaged enemy guns, attracting heavy fire from superior enemy artillery in return.
In mid-afternoon Mercer's Troop was suddenly ordered into the hottest part of Wellingtons' line, between the crossroads and Hougoumont, where its position is now marked by a memorial. It deployed immediately behind the ridge road, which was on a low embankment. The bank provided excellent cover from enemy artillery and increased the effectiveness of Mercer's case-shot. The troop was between two squares of Brunswick infantry, whom Mercer regarded as unsteady. He was ordered to lead his men into the squares as cavalry closed, but decided they would be safer at their guns. Unlike all the other batteries in the sector, the troop's gunners never abandoned their guns to take refuge in the infantry squares.
Massed French heavy cavalry attacked repeatedly from about 3.15 pm. The Grenadiers à Cheval of the Imperial Guard were already emerging through the smoke at the trot as Mercer's guns deployed, so the troop opened fire with case-shot at close range, causing terrible casualties. The French hesitated, then the front ranks attempted to retreat as the rear ranks pushed forward, causing them to mill about under the execution of Mercer's guns before they eventually withdrew.
Before the second charge of the heavy cavalry, Mercer's Troop was harassed by close-range carbine fire from mounted French skirmishers, while Mercer held fire to conserve ammunition. To steady his men, Mercer promenaded across his troop's front on horseback, goading the enemy in French and attracting aimed but inaccurate carbine-fire in return.
The second main attack came on in columns, led by cuirassiers. Mercer's Troop waited for them, double-loaded with case-shot over ball, and fired at 50 or 60 yards. Mercer reported that the whole front rank of the enemy went down, with the round-shot tearing through the column behind. The ground became virtually impassable with dead and wounded horses and men, so the enemy could not close the gun-line. Under the rapid fire of Mercer's Troop and the Brunswick infantry, the enemy fell like "grass before the mower's scythe". The greatest danger to Mercer's men came between the charges, from French skirmishers and artillery.
The third and final charge stood little chance of reaching the guns. On each occasion individual cavalrymen passed between the guns, but only so as to escape to the British rear. As the third attack withdrew, the troop had to cease firing to allow the Duke of Wellington to pass along the road. Shortly afterwards Wellington's infantry advanced, leaving the guns on the ridge to engage masses of French troops in the valley below.
Towards the end of the action a battery established itself on the ridge to Mercer's left and fired into the flank of his troop, causing devastating casualties amongst the limber-horses. This battery was eventually driven off by fire from a newly arrived Belgian battery. The hostile battery may well have been Prussian but Mercer did not believe it, despite being told so by a Brunswick cavalry officer.
Due to its shortage of horses, the troop was unable to move when the general advance was ordered, and Mercer slept under a limber, amongst the dead and wounded.
The troop had 5 killed and 15 wounded and lost 69 horses at Waterloo. It expended 700 rounds of ammunition. Sir Augustus Frazer said, "I could plainly distinguish the position of G Troop from the opposite height by the dark mass of dead French cavalry which, even at that distance, formed a remarkable feature on the field."
After Waterloo
Mercer's Troop stayed on the battlefield until 3 pm the following day, and Mercer spent the day touring the field, visiting Hougoumont and talking to the wounded. Once it had been rejoined by its ammunition and supply wagons, the troop moved off towards Nivelles, leaving some guns and carriages behind for lack of horses. It rejoined the Army near Mons on 21 June, and marched with it to the gates of Paris without seeing further action. It was ordered into cantonments at Colombes early in July 1815. Apart from two months of leave in England, Mercer spent much of the rest of the year enjoying tourist pursuits in Paris.
Mercer was transferred to command D Troop RHA at Stains, also near Paris, in July 1815 and he returned with it to England in January 1816.
After the campaign Mercer was put on half-pay from 31 July 1816 until 1821. Recalled to the peacetime army, he served twice in British North America, first as commander of the 6th company of the 5th battalion Royal Artillery at Quebec from 1823. He was breveted major in 1824, backdated to 1819. He returned to England in 1829 and held commands at Woolwich and Devonport. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 5 June 1835. He served again in British North America from 1837 to 1842, commanding the artillery in Nova Scotia during the 1837 border dispute with the United States which became known as the Aroostook War. He was promoted to colonel on 2 April 1846, to major-general on 20 June 1854 and to lieutenant-general on 29 August 1857. He was commandant of the Dover garrison before he retired from active service, but he was appointed Colonel Commandant 9 Brigade Royal Artillery on 16 January 1859, and as such he was never officially placed on the retired list. He was promoted to full general on 9 February 1865.
During his service in Lower Canada (1828–29) and Nova Scotia (1840–42) Mercer painted the watercolours which were acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s.
In 2014, Glenn Devanney of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada wrote a book titled "Halifax in Watercolour: The Paintings of Alexander Cavalié Mercer 1838–1842." The ninety-six page book includes historical text and fifty-two paintings.
Mercer married Frances (or Fanny) Rice on 10 November 1813 at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire, while he was stationed in Woodbridge, Suffolk ; she travelled with him to France after his leave in November 1815. They had one son, Cavalié A. Mercer, who edited the Journal after his father's death. Mercer and Fanny lived in Berkshire at the time of the Waterloo campaign, but in later life Mercer lived at Cowley Hill near Exeter. He died there on 9 November 1868 and is buried at St. David's Church, Exeter.
Today a publicly funded project is underway to restore Mercer's grave for the Waterloo 200th commemorations, to provide informative signage and to build a fund to care for the condition of the grave for the next 100 years. The commemorations will be marked on 18 June 2015 at Mercer's graveside with a short service, the laying of a laurel and rose wreath, and the respect of current serving members of Mercer's G Troop.
His Journal of the Waterloo Campaign kept throughout the campaign of 1815 was published in 1870, after his death. It was written some 30 years earlier, from the original notes Mercer wrote contemporaneously, with additions and verifications from correspondence and other sources. It covers the period from April 1815 to January 1816, when Mercer returned to Canterbury with D Troop, with an interlude for his leave in England from September to November 1815. By Mercer's own admission he had little time to write his journal in the hectic few days before and after Waterloo, so his account may not be entirely reliable. The Journal is notable for its lengthy descriptions of the countryside and its people, and especially of Parisian life under the Allied occupation. Very little of it is devoted to military matters, and indeed Mercer does not seem to have devoted much time to command, spending most of his days in country walks, riding or tourism in Paris.
Notes
References
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign kept throughout the campaign of 1815, Cavalié Mercer, first published 1870, Da Capo Press 1995,
The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Todd Fisher and Bernard Cornwell, Osprey Publishing, 2004, , , pp 298–301
Biography in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Battle—A History of the Battle of Waterloo, Alessandro Barbero (trans. John Cullen), Atlantic Books,
Halifax in watercolour: the paintings of Alexander Cavalié Mercer 1838 – 1842, Glenn Devanney, Nimbus Publishing,
External links
Brief illustrated biography
1783 births
1868 deaths
British Army generals
British Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
English diarists
19th-century English painters
English male painters
British landscape painters
Royal Horse Artillery officers
People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Military personnel from Kingston upon Hull
English watercolourists
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"Alexander Cavalié Mercer (28 March 1783 – 9 November 1868) was a British artillery officer.",
"Although he rose to the rank of general, his fame is as commander of G Troop Royal Horse Artillery in the thick of the fighting at the Battle of Waterloo, and as author of Journal of the Waterloo Campaign.",
"Mercer's six-gun horse artillery troop arrived too late for the Battle of Quatre Bras, but it fought with the cavalry rearguard covering the army's retreat to Waterloo.",
"The troop fought on the extreme right wing of Wellington's army at Waterloo, before being moved into the thick of the fighting nearer the centre of the line.",
"There it beat off repeated charges by French heavy cavalry, disobeying orders to abandon the guns and retire inside nearby infantry squares as the enemy closed.",
"The location of this action is marked by a memorial on the Waterloo battlefield.",
"After the battle, Mercer's troop marched on Paris with the Allied armies, and formed part of the army of occupation.",
"Mercer's Journal is an important source for historians of the Waterloo campaign, as well as a detailed description of the landscape and people of Belgium and France in the early 19th century.",
"It is one of the few accounts of the period written by an artillery officer.",
"Mercer remained in the peacetime army, twice serving in Canada.",
"He was a painter of some merit, and a number of his watercolours of Canadian landscapes were purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s.",
"Before 1815 \n\nMercer was born in 1783 at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, into a military family: his father was General Alexander Mercer of the Royal Engineers.",
"The name Cavaillie was possibly inherited from his grandmother Margaret Cavaillie, wife of James Mercer overseer at Fort George.",
"Margaret Cavaillie (1699, St Andrews – 1777, St Andrews) was the daughter of captain James Cavaillie, who it is said came to Britain in the army of William of Orange and settled in Fife as a wine merchant and died at Cupar Fife in 1716.",
"He went to the Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1799 at the age of 16.",
"He served in Ireland in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.",
"He was promoted to second captain (a rank unique to the Ordnance) in 1806.",
"Promotion in the Royal Artillery was very slow, especially in peacetime, as it relied solely on seniority.",
"Unlike in the rest of the British Army of the time there was no opportunity for purchase of commissions in the Ordnance.",
"Mercer was not breveted as a major until 1 March 1824, though this was then backdated to 12 August 1819.",
"Mercer was posted to G Troop Royal Horse Artillery around 1806 and joined Whitelocke's ill-fated Buenos Aires expedition in 1807.",
"He did not serve in the Peninsular War and next saw war service in the Waterloo Campaign.",
"G Troop \n\nIn 1815 Mercer was acting commander of what was officially G (Dickson's) Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, but is usually referred to as Mercer's Troop or Mercer's Battery.",
"Its modern successor is G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery, part of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, which currently serves in the field artillery role with 16 Air Assault Brigade, and is equipped with the L118 Light Gun.",
"G Troop served on the 1807 Buenos Aires expedition, but the G Troop of Waterloo was formed from the amalgamation of two other RHA troops before leaving Colchester for Belgium.",
"It had the pick of the horses from each, and was therefore regarded as an exceptionally fine unit.",
"When reviewing the cavalry at Grammont on 29 May 1815, Blücher is supposed to have said \"there is not one horse in this battery that is not fit for a field marshal\".",
"The troop had five 9-pounder guns (which had recently replaced some of the RHA's 6-pounders) and a 5½\" howitzer, 80 gunners, 86 drivers and 226 horses.",
"Waterloo Campaign \n\nMercer's Troop embarked for Belgium on 11 April 1815, a few days after hearing of Napoleon's escape from Elba.",
"From 1 May until the French invasion on 15 June it led a quiet life in the small village of Strijtem, west of Brussels.",
"G Troop rode all day on 16 June, but arrived too late to participate in the Battle of Quatre Bras.",
"It covered the retreat from Quatre Bras on 17 June, narrowly escaping capture by French cavalry.",
"It was in the action at Genappe later the same day with the cavalry rearguard.",
"Arriving on the field of Waterloo, Mercer's Troop briefly took up a firing position on the famous knoll behind the sandpit, which would feature in the fighting the following day.",
"Mercer was still acting as rearguard for Wellington's army, not realising that the entire army had halted on the ridge immediately behind him.",
"His troop exchanged fire with arriving French batteries before retiring.",
"After a miserable, hungry night in the mud and rain in the orchard of Mont St Jean farm, where Mercer is fabled to have drunk port from a chicken shaped goblet, Mercer found himself without orders in the opening phase of the battle, as d'Erlon's infantry attacked Wellington's left.",
"He was about to lead his troop into action on his own initiative when he was ordered to the extreme right of the line.",
"That was a quiet sector, but in common with much of Wellington's artillery, Mercer disobeyed orders to refrain from counter-battery fire.",
"He engaged enemy guns, attracting heavy fire from superior enemy artillery in return.",
"In mid-afternoon Mercer's Troop was suddenly ordered into the hottest part of Wellingtons' line, between the crossroads and Hougoumont, where its position is now marked by a memorial.",
"It deployed immediately behind the ridge road, which was on a low embankment.",
"The bank provided excellent cover from enemy artillery and increased the effectiveness of Mercer's case-shot.",
"The troop was between two squares of Brunswick infantry, whom Mercer regarded as unsteady.",
"He was ordered to lead his men into the squares as cavalry closed, but decided they would be safer at their guns.",
"Unlike all the other batteries in the sector, the troop's gunners never abandoned their guns to take refuge in the infantry squares.",
"Massed French heavy cavalry attacked repeatedly from about 3.15 pm.",
"The Grenadiers à Cheval of the Imperial Guard were already emerging through the smoke at the trot as Mercer's guns deployed, so the troop opened fire with case-shot at close range, causing terrible casualties.",
"The French hesitated, then the front ranks attempted to retreat as the rear ranks pushed forward, causing them to mill about under the execution of Mercer's guns before they eventually withdrew.",
"Before the second charge of the heavy cavalry, Mercer's Troop was harassed by close-range carbine fire from mounted French skirmishers, while Mercer held fire to conserve ammunition.",
"To steady his men, Mercer promenaded across his troop's front on horseback, goading the enemy in French and attracting aimed but inaccurate carbine-fire in return.",
"The second main attack came on in columns, led by cuirassiers.",
"Mercer's Troop waited for them, double-loaded with case-shot over ball, and fired at 50 or 60 yards.",
"Mercer reported that the whole front rank of the enemy went down, with the round-shot tearing through the column behind.",
"The ground became virtually impassable with dead and wounded horses and men, so the enemy could not close the gun-line.",
"Under the rapid fire of Mercer's Troop and the Brunswick infantry, the enemy fell like \"grass before the mower's scythe\".",
"The greatest danger to Mercer's men came between the charges, from French skirmishers and artillery.",
"The third and final charge stood little chance of reaching the guns.",
"On each occasion individual cavalrymen passed between the guns, but only so as to escape to the British rear.",
"As the third attack withdrew, the troop had to cease firing to allow the Duke of Wellington to pass along the road.",
"Shortly afterwards Wellington's infantry advanced, leaving the guns on the ridge to engage masses of French troops in the valley below.",
"Towards the end of the action a battery established itself on the ridge to Mercer's left and fired into the flank of his troop, causing devastating casualties amongst the limber-horses.",
"This battery was eventually driven off by fire from a newly arrived Belgian battery.",
"The hostile battery may well have been Prussian but Mercer did not believe it, despite being told so by a Brunswick cavalry officer.",
"Due to its shortage of horses, the troop was unable to move when the general advance was ordered, and Mercer slept under a limber, amongst the dead and wounded.",
"The troop had 5 killed and 15 wounded and lost 69 horses at Waterloo.",
"It expended 700 rounds of ammunition.",
"Sir Augustus Frazer said, \"I could plainly distinguish the position of G Troop from the opposite height by the dark mass of dead French cavalry which, even at that distance, formed a remarkable feature on the field.\"",
"After Waterloo \n\nMercer's Troop stayed on the battlefield until 3 pm the following day, and Mercer spent the day touring the field, visiting Hougoumont and talking to the wounded.",
"Once it had been rejoined by its ammunition and supply wagons, the troop moved off towards Nivelles, leaving some guns and carriages behind for lack of horses.",
"It rejoined the Army near Mons on 21 June, and marched with it to the gates of Paris without seeing further action.",
"It was ordered into cantonments at Colombes early in July 1815.",
"Apart from two months of leave in England, Mercer spent much of the rest of the year enjoying tourist pursuits in Paris.",
"Mercer was transferred to command D Troop RHA at Stains, also near Paris, in July 1815 and he returned with it to England in January 1816.",
"After the campaign Mercer was put on half-pay from 31 July 1816 until 1821.",
"Recalled to the peacetime army, he served twice in British North America, first as commander of the 6th company of the 5th battalion Royal Artillery at Quebec from 1823.",
"He was breveted major in 1824, backdated to 1819.",
"He returned to England in 1829 and held commands at Woolwich and Devonport.",
"He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 5 June 1835.",
"He served again in British North America from 1837 to 1842, commanding the artillery in Nova Scotia during the 1837 border dispute with the United States which became known as the Aroostook War.",
"He was promoted to colonel on 2 April 1846, to major-general on 20 June 1854 and to lieutenant-general on 29 August 1857.",
"He was commandant of the Dover garrison before he retired from active service, but he was appointed Colonel Commandant 9 Brigade Royal Artillery on 16 January 1859, and as such he was never officially placed on the retired list.",
"He was promoted to full general on 9 February 1865.",
"During his service in Lower Canada (1828–29) and Nova Scotia (1840–42) Mercer painted the watercolours which were acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s.",
"In 2014, Glenn Devanney of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada wrote a book titled \"Halifax in Watercolour: The Paintings of Alexander Cavalié Mercer 1838–1842.\"",
"The ninety-six page book includes historical text and fifty-two paintings.",
"Mercer married Frances (or Fanny) Rice on 10 November 1813 at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire, while he was stationed in Woodbridge, Suffolk ; she travelled with him to France after his leave in November 1815.",
"They had one son, Cavalié A. Mercer, who edited the Journal after his father's death.",
"Mercer and Fanny lived in Berkshire at the time of the Waterloo campaign, but in later life Mercer lived at Cowley Hill near Exeter.",
"He died there on 9 November 1868 and is buried at St. David's Church, Exeter.",
"Today a publicly funded project is underway to restore Mercer's grave for the Waterloo 200th commemorations, to provide informative signage and to build a fund to care for the condition of the grave for the next 100 years.",
"The commemorations will be marked on 18 June 2015 at Mercer's graveside with a short service, the laying of a laurel and rose wreath, and the respect of current serving members of Mercer's G Troop.",
"His Journal of the Waterloo Campaign kept throughout the campaign of 1815 was published in 1870, after his death.",
"It was written some 30 years earlier, from the original notes Mercer wrote contemporaneously, with additions and verifications from correspondence and other sources.",
"It covers the period from April 1815 to January 1816, when Mercer returned to Canterbury with D Troop, with an interlude for his leave in England from September to November 1815.",
"By Mercer's own admission he had little time to write his journal in the hectic few days before and after Waterloo, so his account may not be entirely reliable.",
"The Journal is notable for its lengthy descriptions of the countryside and its people, and especially of Parisian life under the Allied occupation.",
"Very little of it is devoted to military matters, and indeed Mercer does not seem to have devoted much time to command, spending most of his days in country walks, riding or tourism in Paris.",
"Notes\n\nReferences \n\n Journal of the Waterloo Campaign kept throughout the campaign of 1815, Cavalié Mercer, first published 1870, Da Capo Press 1995, \n The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Todd Fisher and Bernard Cornwell, Osprey Publishing, 2004, , , pp 298–301\n Biography in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online\n The Battle—A History of the Battle of Waterloo, Alessandro Barbero (trans.",
"John Cullen), Atlantic Books, \n Halifax in watercolour: the paintings of Alexander Cavalié Mercer 1838 – 1842, Glenn Devanney, Nimbus Publishing,\n\nExternal links \n\n Brief illustrated biography\n\n1783 births\n1868 deaths\nBritish Army generals\nBritish Army commanders of the Napoleonic Wars\nEnglish diarists\n19th-century English painters\nEnglish male painters\nBritish landscape painters\nRoyal Horse Artillery officers\nPeople of the Irish Rebellion of 1798\nGraduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich\nMilitary personnel from Kingston upon Hull\nEnglish watercolourists\n19th-century male artists"
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"Alexander Cavalié Mercer was a British officer.",
"Although he rose to the rank of general, his fame is as commander of G Troop Royal Horse Artillery in the thick of the fighting at the Battle of Waterloo, and as author of the Journal of the Waterloo Campaign.",
"The army's retreat to Waterloo after the Battle of Quatre Bras was covered by the cavalry rearguard.",
"After fighting on the extreme right wing of Wellington's army at Waterloo, the troop was moved into the thick of the fighting nearer the centre of the line.",
"There it beat off repeated charges by French heavy cavalry, disobeying orders to abandon the guns and retire inside nearby infantry squares as the enemy closed in.",
"There is a memorial on the Waterloo battlefield.",
"The Allied armies formed part of the army of occupation after the battle.",
"A detailed description of the landscape and people of Belgium and France in the early 19th century can be found in Mercer's Journal.",
"It is one of the few accounts written by an officer.",
"He served in Canada twice in the peacetime army.",
"A number of his watercolors of Canadian landscapes were purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s.",
"His father was a general in the Royal Engineers and he was born at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, in 1783.",
"Margaret Cavaillie was the wife of the overseer at Fort George.",
"The daughter of a captain in the army of William of Orange came to Britain and settled in Fife as a wine merchant and died at Cupar Fife in 1716.",
"He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery at the age of 16.",
"He served in Ireland after the Irish Rebellion.",
"He was promoted to second captain in 1806.",
"In peacetime, it was very slow to be promoted in the Royal Artillery.",
"In the British Army of the time, there was no opportunity for purchase of commission in the Ordnance.",
"Mercer was breveted as a major on 1 March 1824, but this was backdated to August 1819.",
"Whitelocke's ill-fated Buenos Aires expedition was joined by Mercer, who was posted to G Troop Royal Horse Artillery around 1806.",
"He did not serve in the Peninsular War but did serve in the Waterloo Campaign.",
"Mercer's battery was the acting commander of G Troop in 1815 and is usually referred to as Mercer's Troop.",
"The G Parachute Battery is part of the 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and is equipped with the L118 Light Gun.",
"The G Troop of Waterloo was formed from the amalgamation of two other RHA troops before they left for Belgium.",
"It was considered to be an exceptional fine unit because it had the pick of the horses.",
"When reviewing the cavalry at Grammont on May 29, Blcher is said to have said \"there is not one horse in this battery that is not fit for a field marshal\".",
"The troop had five 9-pounder guns, a 512\" howitzer, 80 gunners, 86 drivers, and 226 horses.",
"After hearing of Napoleon's escape from Elba, the Waterloo Campaign's Troop embarked for Belgium a few days later.",
"The village of Strijtem was quiet until the French invaded on 15 June.",
"G Troop arrived late to the Battle of Quatre Bras and rode all day.",
"The retreat from Quatre Bras was covered on 17 June.",
"The cavalry rearguard was in action at Genappe.",
"Mercer's Troop took up a firing position on the famous knoll behind the sandpit after arriving on the field of Waterloo.",
"The entire army had stopped on the ridge behind him, not realizing that he was still acting as rearguard for Wellington's army.",
"His troop exchanged fire with the French batteries.",
"After a miserable, hungry night in the mud and rain at Mont St Jean farm, where he is said to have drunk port from a chicken shaped goblet, Mercer found himself without orders in the opening phase of the battle.",
"He was about to lead his troops into action when he was ordered to the extreme right of the line.",
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"Mercer's Troop was suddenly ordered into the hottest part of Wellingtons' line, between the crossroads and Hougoumont, where it is now marked by a memorial.",
"It deployed behind the ridge road.",
"The effectiveness of the case-shot was increased by the cover provided by the bank.",
"The troop was between two squares of infantry.",
"He was told to lead his men into the squares, but decided they would be safer at their guns.",
"The troop's gunners never abandoned their guns to take refuge in the infantry squares, unlike the other batteries.",
"The French cavalry attacked from about 3.15 pm.",
"The Imperial Guard's grenadiers opened fire with case-shot at close range, causing terrible casualties, because they were already emerging through the smoke at the trot.",
"The French hesitated, then the front ranks attempted to retreat as the rear ranks pushed forward, causing them to mill about under the execution of Mercer's guns before they eventually withdrew.",
"Before the second charge of the heavy cavalry, Mercer's Troop was harassed by close-range carbine fire from mounted French skirmishers.",
"In order to keep his men calm, Mercer wentaded the enemy in French and fired at them from his horse.",
"The second main attack took place in columns.",
"The troop waited for them and fired at 50 or 60 yards.",
"The whole front rank of the enemy went down, with the round-shot tearing through the column behind.",
"The enemy couldn't close the gun-line because of the dead and wounded horses and men on the ground.",
"The enemy fell like \"grass before the mower's scythe\" under the rapid fire of Mercer's Troop.",
"Between the charges, from French skirmishers, was the greatest danger to the men.",
"The third and final charges were not likely to reach the guns.",
"Individual cavalrymen passed between the guns in order to escape to the British rear.",
"The Duke of Wellington was allowed to pass along the road after the third attack ceased.",
"After Wellington's infantry advanced, they left the guns on the ridge to engage the French troops in the valley below.",
"A battery on the ridge to the left of Mercer's troop shot into the flank of his troops, killing many of them.",
"The battery was driven off by fire.",
"The hostile battery was told to Mercer by a cavalry officer, but he didn't believe it.",
"When the general advance was ordered, the troop was unable to move due to its lack of horses, and Mercer slept amongst the dead and wounded.",
"The troop lost 69 horses at Waterloo.",
"700 rounds of bullets were fired.",
"The dark mass of dead French cavalry, even at that distance, formed a remarkable feature on the field.",
"After Waterloo, Mercer's troop stayed on the battlefield until 3 pm the next day, where they toured the field and talked to the wounded.",
"Some guns and carriages were left behind when the troop moved off towards Nivelles after being rejoined by its supply wagons.",
"After rejoining the Army near Mons on 21 June, it marched with it to the gates of Paris.",
"It was ordered into cantonments in July of 1816.",
"The rest of the year was spent in Paris, apart from two months of leave in England.",
"After being transferred to command D Troop RHA at Stains, he returned to England in January 1816.",
"Mercer was put on half-pay after the campaign.",
"He was the commander of the 6th company of the 5th battalion Royal Artillery in Quebec from 1823 to 1823.",
"He was breveted major in 1824.",
"He held commands in England in the 19th century.",
"He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on June 5, 1835.",
"The 1836 border dispute between the United States and British North America became known as the Aroostook War.",
"He was promoted to colonel on April 2, 1846, to major-general on June 20, 1854, and to lieutenant-general on August 29, 1856.",
"He was the commandant of the garrison before he retired from active service, but he was never placed on the retired list.",
"On February 9, 1865, he was promoted to full general.",
"In the 1980s, the National Gallery of Canada acquired the watercolours painted by Mercer during his service in Lower Canada and Nova Scotia.",
"Glenn Devanney wrote a book about the paintings of Alexander Cavalié Mercer.",
"There are fifty-two paintings in the ninety-six page book.",
"He was stationed in Suffolk and Bourton on the Water when he married Rice on 10 November 1813, and she traveled with him to France after his leave in November 1815.",
"Cavalié A. Mercer edited the Journal after his father's death.",
"At the time of the Waterloo campaign, Mercer and his family lived in Berks, but in later life he lived at Cowley Hill.",
"He died there on November 9, 1868, and is buried at St. David's Church.",
"To restore the grave for the Waterloo 200th commemorations and to build a fund to care for it for the next 100 years, a publicly funded project is underway.",
"On 18 June 2015, there will be a short service, the laying of a wreath, and the respect of current serving members of Mercer's G Troop.",
"After his death, his Journal of the Waterloo Campaign was published.",
"The original notes were written 30 years ago, with additions and verifications from other sources.",
"It covers the period from April 1815 to January 1816, when Mercer returned to Canterbury with D Troop, with an interruption for his leave in England from September to November 1815.",
"His account may not be entirely reliable because he had little time to write his journal before and after Waterloo.",
"The Journal's lengthy descriptions of the countryside and its people are notable.",
"Mercer does not seem to have devoted much time to command, spending most of his days in country walks, riding or tourism in Paris.",
"The Journal of the Waterloo Campaign was first published in 1870, followed by The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire in 1995.",
"Glenn Devanney has an illustrated biography of Alexander Cavalié Mercer, a 19th-century English painter."
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<mask> was born in 1783 at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, into a military family: his father was General <mask> of the Royal Engineers. The name Cavaillie was possibly inherited from his grandmother Margaret Cavaillie, wife of <mask> overseer at Fort George. Margaret Cavaillie (1699, St Andrews – 1777, St Andrews) was the daughter of captain James Cavaillie, who it is said came to Britain in the army of William of Orange and settled in Fife as a wine merchant and died at Cupar Fife in 1716.He went to the Military Academy at Woolwich and was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1799 at the age of 16. He served in Ireland in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was promoted to second captain (a rank unique to the Ordnance) in 1806. Promotion in the Royal Artillery was very slow, especially in peacetime, as it relied solely on seniority. Unlike in the rest of the British Army of the time there was no opportunity for purchase of commissions in the Ordnance. <mask> was not breveted as a major until 1 March 1824, though this was then backdated to 12 August 1819. <mask> was posted to G Troop Royal Horse Artillery around 1806 and joined Whitelocke's ill-fated Buenos Aires expedition in 1807.He did not serve in the Peninsular War and next saw war service in the Waterloo Campaign. G Troop
In 1815 <mask> was acting commander of what was officially G (Dickson's) Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, but is usually referred to as Mercer's Troop or Mercer's Battery. Its modern successor is G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) Royal Horse Artillery, part of 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, which currently serves in the field artillery role with 16 Air Assault Brigade, and is equipped with the L118 Light Gun. G Troop served on the 1807 Buenos Aires expedition, but the G Troop of Waterloo was formed from the amalgamation of two other RHA troops before leaving Colchester for Belgium. It had the pick of the horses from each, and was therefore regarded as an exceptionally fine unit. When reviewing the cavalry at Grammont on 29 May 1815, Blücher is supposed to have said "there is not one horse in this battery that is not fit for a field marshal". The troop had five 9-pounder guns (which had recently replaced some of the RHA's 6-pounders) and a 5½" howitzer, 80 gunners, 86 drivers and 226 horses.Waterloo Campaign
Mercer's Troop embarked for Belgium on 11 April 1815, a few days after hearing of Napoleon's escape from Elba. From 1 May until the French invasion on 15 June it led a quiet life in the small village of Strijtem, west of Brussels. G Troop rode all day on 16 June, but arrived too late to participate in the Battle of Quatre Bras. It covered the retreat from Quatre Bras on 17 June, narrowly escaping capture by French cavalry. It was in the action at Genappe later the same day with the cavalry rearguard. Arriving on the field of Waterloo, Mercer's Troop briefly took up a firing position on the famous knoll behind the sandpit, which would feature in the fighting the following day. <mask> was still acting as rearguard for Wellington's army, not realising that the entire army had halted on the ridge immediately behind him.His troop exchanged fire with arriving French batteries before retiring. After a miserable, hungry night in the mud and rain in the orchard of Mont St Jean farm, where <mask> is fabled to have drunk port from a chicken shaped goblet, <mask> found himself without orders in the opening phase of the battle, as d'Erlon's infantry attacked Wellington's left. He was about to lead his troop into action on his own initiative when he was ordered to the extreme right of the line. That was a quiet sector, but in common with much of Wellington's artillery, <mask> disobeyed orders to refrain from counter-battery fire. He engaged enemy guns, attracting heavy fire from superior enemy artillery in return. In mid-afternoon Mercer's Troop was suddenly ordered into the hottest part of Wellingtons' line, between the crossroads and Hougoumont, where its position is now marked by a memorial. It deployed immediately behind the ridge road, which was on a low embankment.The bank provided excellent cover from enemy artillery and increased the effectiveness of <mask>'s case-shot. The troop was between two squares of Brunswick infantry, whom <mask> regarded as unsteady. He was ordered to lead his men into the squares as cavalry closed, but decided they would be safer at their guns. Unlike all the other batteries in the sector, the troop's gunners never abandoned their guns to take refuge in the infantry squares. Massed French heavy cavalry attacked repeatedly from about 3.15 pm. The Grenadiers à Cheval of the Imperial Guard were already emerging through the smoke at the trot as <mask>'s guns deployed, so the troop opened fire with case-shot at close range, causing terrible casualties. The French hesitated, then the front ranks attempted to retreat as the rear ranks pushed forward, causing them to mill about under the execution of <mask>'s guns before they eventually withdrew.Before the second charge of the heavy cavalry, <mask>'s Troop was harassed by close-range carbine fire from mounted French skirmishers, while <mask> held fire to conserve ammunition. To steady his men, <mask> promenaded across his troop's front on horseback, goading the enemy in French and attracting aimed but inaccurate carbine-fire in return. The second main attack came on in columns, led by cuirassiers. Mercer's Troop waited for them, double-loaded with case-shot over ball, and fired at 50 or 60 yards. <mask> reported that the whole front rank of the enemy went down, with the round-shot tearing through the column behind. The ground became virtually impassable with dead and wounded horses and men, so the enemy could not close the gun-line. Under the rapid fire of Mercer's Troop and the Brunswick infantry, the enemy fell like "grass before the mower's scythe".The greatest danger to <mask>'s men came between the charges, from French skirmishers and artillery. The third and final charge stood little chance of reaching the guns. On each occasion individual cavalrymen passed between the guns, but only so as to escape to the British rear. As the third attack withdrew, the troop had to cease firing to allow the Duke of Wellington to pass along the road. Shortly afterwards Wellington's infantry advanced, leaving the guns on the ridge to engage masses of French troops in the valley below. Towards the end of the action a battery established itself on the ridge to <mask>'s left and fired into the flank of his troop, causing devastating casualties amongst the limber-horses. This battery was eventually driven off by fire from a newly arrived Belgian battery.The hostile battery may well have been Prussian but <mask> did not believe it, despite being told so by a Brunswick cavalry officer. Due to its shortage of horses, the troop was unable to move when the general advance was ordered, and <mask> slept under a limber, amongst the dead and wounded. The troop had 5 killed and 15 wounded and lost 69 horses at Waterloo. It expended 700 rounds of ammunition. Sir Augustus Frazer said, "I could plainly distinguish the position of G Troop from the opposite height by the dark mass of dead French cavalry which, even at that distance, formed a remarkable feature on the field." After Waterloo
<mask>'s Troop stayed on the battlefield until 3 pm the following day, and <mask> spent the day touring the field, visiting Hougoumont and talking to the wounded. Once it had been rejoined by its ammunition and supply wagons, the troop moved off towards Nivelles, leaving some guns and carriages behind for lack of horses.It rejoined the Army near Mons on 21 June, and marched with it to the gates of Paris without seeing further action. It was ordered into cantonments at Colombes early in July 1815. Apart from two months of leave in England, <mask> spent much of the rest of the year enjoying tourist pursuits in Paris. <mask> was transferred to command D Troop RHA at Stains, also near Paris, in July 1815 and he returned with it to England in January 1816. After the campaign <mask> was put on half-pay from 31 July 1816 until 1821. Recalled to the peacetime army, he served twice in British North America, first as commander of the 6th company of the 5th battalion Royal Artillery at Quebec from 1823. He was breveted major in 1824, backdated to 1819.He returned to England in 1829 and held commands at Woolwich and Devonport. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 5 June 1835. He served again in British North America from 1837 to 1842, commanding the artillery in Nova Scotia during the 1837 border dispute with the United States which became known as the Aroostook War. He was promoted to colonel on 2 April 1846, to major-general on 20 June 1854 and to lieutenant-general on 29 August 1857. He was commandant of the Dover garrison before he retired from active service, but he was appointed Colonel Commandant 9 Brigade Royal Artillery on 16 January 1859, and as such he was never officially placed on the retired list. He was promoted to full general on 9 February 1865. During his service in Lower Canada (1828–29) and Nova Scotia (1840–42) <mask> painted the watercolours which were acquired by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s.In 2014, Glenn Devanney of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada wrote a book titled "Halifax in Watercolour: The Paintings of Alexander Cavalié <mask> 1838–1842." The ninety-six page book includes historical text and fifty-two paintings. <mask> married Frances (or Fanny) Rice on 10 November 1813 at Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire, while he was stationed in Woodbridge, Suffolk ; she travelled with him to France after his leave in November 1815. They had one son, <mask> A<mask>, who edited the Journal after his father's death. <mask> and Fanny lived in Berkshire at the time of the Waterloo campaign, but in later life <mask> lived at Cowley Hill near Exeter. He died there on 9 November 1868 and is buried at St. David's Church, Exeter. Today a publicly funded project is underway to restore <mask>'s grave for the Waterloo 200th commemorations, to provide informative signage and to build a fund to care for the condition of the grave for the next 100 years.The commemorations will be marked on 18 June 2015 at <mask>'s graveside with a short service, the laying of a laurel and rose wreath, and the respect of current serving members of <mask>'s G Troop. His Journal of the Waterloo Campaign kept throughout the campaign of 1815 was published in 1870, after his death. It was written some 30 years earlier, from the original notes <mask> wrote contemporaneously, with additions and verifications from correspondence and other sources. It covers the period from April 1815 to January 1816, when <mask> returned to Canterbury with D Troop, with an interlude for his leave in England from September to November 1815. By <mask>'s own admission he had little time to write his journal in the hectic few days before and after Waterloo, so his account may not be entirely reliable. The Journal is notable for its lengthy descriptions of the countryside and its people, and especially of Parisian life under the Allied occupation. Very little of it is devoted to military matters, and indeed <mask> does not seem to have devoted much time to command, spending most of his days in country walks, riding or tourism in Paris.Notes
References
Journal of the Waterloo Campaign kept throughout the campaign of 1815, Cavalié <mask>, first published 1870, Da Capo Press 1995,
The Napoleonic Wars: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Todd Fisher and Bernard Cornwell, Osprey Publishing, 2004, , , pp 298–301
Biography in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The Battle—A History of the Battle of Waterloo, Alessandro Barbero (trans. John Cullen), Atlantic Books,
Halifax in watercolour: the paintings of Alexander Cavalié <mask> 1838 – 1842, Glenn Devanney, Nimbus Publishing,
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He served in Canada twice in the peacetime army. A number of his watercolors of Canadian landscapes were purchased by the National Gallery of Canada in the 1980s. His father was a general in the Royal Engineers and he was born at Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, in 1783. Margaret Cavaillie was the wife of the overseer at Fort George. The daughter of a captain in the army of William of Orange came to Britain and settled in Fife as a wine merchant and died at Cupar Fife in 1716.He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery at the age of 16. He served in Ireland after the Irish Rebellion. He was promoted to second captain in 1806. In peacetime, it was very slow to be promoted in the Royal Artillery. In the British Army of the time, there was no opportunity for purchase of commission in the Ordnance. <mask> was breveted as a major on 1 March 1824, but this was backdated to August 1819. Whitelocke's ill-fated Buenos Aires expedition was joined by <mask>, who was posted to G Troop Royal Horse Artillery around 1806.He did not serve in the Peninsular War but did serve in the Waterloo Campaign. <mask>'s battery was the acting commander of G Troop in 1815 and is usually referred to as <mask>'s Troop. The G Parachute Battery is part of the 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery and is equipped with the L118 Light Gun. The G Troop of Waterloo was formed from the amalgamation of two other RHA troops before they left for Belgium. It was considered to be an exceptional fine unit because it had the pick of the horses. When reviewing the cavalry at Grammont on May 29, Blcher is said to have said "there is not one horse in this battery that is not fit for a field marshal". 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It deployed behind the ridge road.The effectiveness of the case-shot was increased by the cover provided by the bank. The troop was between two squares of infantry. He was told to lead his men into the squares, but decided they would be safer at their guns. The troop's gunners never abandoned their guns to take refuge in the infantry squares, unlike the other batteries. The French cavalry attacked from about 3.15 pm. The Imperial Guard's grenadiers opened fire with case-shot at close range, causing terrible casualties, because they were already emerging through the smoke at the trot. The French hesitated, then the front ranks attempted to retreat as the rear ranks pushed forward, causing them to mill about under the execution of <mask>'s guns before they eventually withdrew.Before the second charge of the heavy cavalry, <mask>'s Troop was harassed by close-range carbine fire from mounted French skirmishers. In order to keep his men calm, <mask> wentaded the enemy in French and fired at them from his horse. The second main attack took place in columns. The troop waited for them and fired at 50 or 60 yards. The whole front rank of the enemy went down, with the round-shot tearing through the column behind. The enemy couldn't close the gun-line because of the dead and wounded horses and men on the ground. The enemy fell like "grass before the mower's scythe" under the rapid fire of <mask>'s Troop.Between the charges, from French skirmishers, was the greatest danger to the men. The third and final charges were not likely to reach the guns. Individual cavalrymen passed between the guns in order to escape to the British rear. The Duke of Wellington was allowed to pass along the road after the third attack ceased. After Wellington's infantry advanced, they left the guns on the ridge to engage the French troops in the valley below. A battery on the ridge to the left of <mask>'s troop shot into the flank of his troops, killing many of them. The battery was driven off by fire.The hostile battery was told to <mask> by a cavalry officer, but he didn't believe it. When the general advance was ordered, the troop was unable to move due to its lack of horses, and <mask> slept amongst the dead and wounded. The troop lost 69 horses at Waterloo. 700 rounds of bullets were fired. The dark mass of dead French cavalry, even at that distance, formed a remarkable feature on the field. After Waterloo, <mask>'s troop stayed on the battlefield until 3 pm the next day, where they toured the field and talked to the wounded. Some guns and carriages were left behind when the troop moved off towards Nivelles after being rejoined by its supply wagons.After rejoining the Army near Mons on 21 June, it marched with it to the gates of Paris. It was ordered into cantonments in July of 1816. The rest of the year was spent in Paris, apart from two months of leave in England. After being transferred to command D Troop RHA at Stains, he returned to England in January 1816. <mask> was put on half-pay after the campaign. He was the commander of the 6th company of the 5th battalion Royal Artillery in Quebec from 1823 to 1823. He was breveted major in 1824.He held commands in England in the 19th century. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on June 5, 1835. The 1836 border dispute between the United States and British North America became known as the Aroostook War. He was promoted to colonel on April 2, 1846, to major-general on June 20, 1854, and to lieutenant-general on August 29, 1856. He was the commandant of the garrison before he retired from active service, but he was never placed on the retired list. On February 9, 1865, he was promoted to full general. In the 1980s, the National Gallery of Canada acquired the watercolours painted by <mask> during his service in Lower Canada and Nova Scotia.Glenn Devanney wrote a book about the paintings of Alexander Cavalié <mask>. There are fifty-two paintings in the ninety-six page book. He was stationed in Suffolk and Bourton on the Water when he married Rice on 10 November 1813, and she traveled with him to France after his leave in November 1815. Cavalié A<mask> edited the Journal after his father's death. At the time of the Waterloo campaign, <mask> and his family lived in Berks, but in later life he lived at Cowley Hill. He died there on November 9, 1868, and is buried at St. David's Church. To restore the grave for the Waterloo 200th commemorations and to build a fund to care for it for the next 100 years, a publicly funded project is underway.On 18 June 2015, there will be a short service, the laying of a wreath, and the respect of current serving members of <mask>'s G Troop. 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724069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Varick | Richard Varick | Richard Varick (March 15, 1753 – July 30, 1831) was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who has been referred to as "The Forgotten Founding Father." A major figure in the development of post-Independence New York City and State, Varick became the 45th Mayor of New York City in 1789 and served eleven consecutive one-year terms until 1801.
Previous to his terms as mayor, Varick served as the 14th Recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789. An office that no longer exists, it equates to 'Chief Legal Officer'. Along with Samuel Jones, Varick codified New York State's first statutes after Revolution in the Laws of New York (2 vols., 1789). This body of work laid legal groundwork for Varick to institute the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City during his terms as mayor. Additionally, under his leadership, the progenitors of the New York City Department of Health, the New York Stock Exchange, and many others would be created establishing the foundation of modern New York City.
During the Revolutionary War, he served as George Washington's aide-de-camp and private secretary. Varick's body of work from this era would lead to the Varick Transcripts which now live in the Library of Congress. The value of these documents has been noted throughout their lifetime as invaluable to the understanding of the formation of the United States.
Varick was a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Bible Society, and was a slaveholder. He was also a longtime trustee of Columbia University, where he was chairman of the board from 1810 - 1816.
Early life & family
He was born on March 15, 1753, at Hackensack in Bergen County, New Jersey to John Varick and Jane (née Dey) Varick. Both Varick's parents ancestors had emigrated with the Dutch West India Company in the early to mid 17th century and remained in the greater New York City area. Amongst Varick's ancestors are Joris Jansen Rapelje, a member of the Council of Twelve Men which was the first democratic body in the history of the United States (1641). Varick's maternal grandfather was a colonel in the Continental Army whose house, the Dey Mansion, which would go on to play a pivotal role in the American Revolution.
Varick was one of seven children, his siblings being: Abraham Varick (the great-grandfather of Anna Maria Romeyn Varick, who married George Lauder of the Lauder Greenway Family.); Dr. John Varick Jr.; Anne Elting; Sarah Froeligh; Jane De Witt (wife of Simeon De Witt); and Maria Gilbert.
Education
Little is known about the specifics of Varick's education before university, though surviving letters indicate that he was educated by private tutors and studied Latin, French, and other subjects. He enrolled in King's College (the original name of Columbia University) in New York City in 1771 where he studied under John Morin Scott. Varick clerked for Scott during his education and after being admitted into the New York Bar in October 1774, Scott made him an offer to be a partner in his firm. Unusually, Varick had not yet graduated from King's College despite having passed the bar and never formally graduated. Later in his career, Varick would become a trustee of King's College for over thirty years.
Military career
American Revolutionary War
Service under General Schuyler & Northern Army
Eight months into his career in private practice, the American Revolutionary War began. At the influence of his employer, John Morin Scott, Varick suspended his studies and enlisted in the militia. On June 28, 1775, he was appointed captain of the 1st New York Regiment and after only three days as field officer, was appointed military secretary under General Philip Schuyler who was in command of the Northern Army It was thought that Scott, understanding the administrative and intellectual value of his young partner, secured the appointment. Varick departed New York City with Schuyler on July 4, 1775, to head north to Fort Ticonderoga and launch the campaign to drive the British out of Canada. En route, the traveling party stopped in Albany briefly where Varick would first meet General Benedict Arnold, who would become a good friend, also played a significant role in Varick's life until Arnold's treason in 1780.
By the summer of 1776, Schuyler had been felled by multiple illnesses and was reeling from a series of losses on the battlefield. Varick, by this juncture, in part out of necessity, and in part by appointment, was performing three jobs at once: private secretary to Schuyler, quartermaster for all the northern forts held by the Continental Army, and the Northern Army's deputy muster master general. Laterally, actual battlefield commands had been outsourced to Arnold and General Horatio Gates. Schuyler, recognizing the burden Varick was carrying, promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel. Varick's almost total control of the administration for the Northern Army lead to an even closer friendship between Arnold and Varick.
That same summer, Arnold was planning his attack effort to stop the British advance down Lake Champlain in what would be one of the first battles in the history of the U.S. Navy. With a dearth of available ships, the armada was largely built from scratch by Varick who solved the crisis by contacting his wide network in New York City and the surrounding area to send materials and coastal men who were qualified for such work. While the Battle of Valcour Island ended in defeat for the navy, it succeeded in slowing the British advance for the winter as they retreaded to their Canadian bases.
Varick also faced run-ins with fellow officers who were not part of Schuyler's faction. General Anthony Walton White, who had briefly served at Washington's aide-de-camp, was accused by Schuyler of looting a private home on the frontier. After denying the charges, White barged into Varick's offices and challenged him to a duel, under the impression that Varick had spoken negatively to his character. Varick, unarmed, narrowly escaped White's attempt to murder him after Varick declined the challenge.
After the disastrous loss of Fort Ticonderoga, Schuyler was removed from duty by the Continental Congress in August 1777 and replaced by General Gates. With factionalism rife within the Northern Army, Varick was aligned with Arnold which pitted him against Gates, whom he disliked regardless. Varick and Arnolds circle of friendship had also grown to include Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson. Their camaraderie was rudely defined as "The New York Gang" by James Wilkinson, a partisan of General Gates'.
Varick would quietly and capably continue in his role as the Northern Army's deputy muster master general, though not as Gates' aide-de-camp or private secretary, until January 12, 1780 when the department was abolished by the Continental Congress in a larger reorganization.
Service under General Arnold
Varick briefly resumed his law in private practice, which proved challenging in his politically volatile hometown of New York City—which was under occupation by the enemy. In August 1780, Benedict Arnold approached Varick about joining his staff at his newly appointed position as commanding officer of West Point (then an active military instillation) as his aide-de-camp and inspector-general.
Within three months, Arnold's treason was discovered and he fled to British territory. Varick, along with David Franks, were arrested. Varick had been ill in bed when informed both of Arnold's treason and his own arrest. Contemporary reports described Varick as spending several days on the edge of madness about Arnold's defection. Despite Arnold writing to Washington personally to say that his aides were not complicit, both Varick and Franks were detained by Washington as a precautionary measure. After a court of inquiry completed its investigation, they found Varick not guilty, and delivered the following:
“That Lieutenant Colonel Varick’s conduct with respect to the base Peculations and Treasonable Practices of the late General Arnold is not only unimpeachable but think him entitled (throughout every part of his conduct) to a degree of Merit that does him great honor as an Officer and particularly distinguishes him as a sincere Friend to his Country…”
Service under General Washington
A by-product of the above was the introduction of Varick to George Washington, which would lead to the two working together for the rest of their careers, and lives. This relationship began in 1781 when Washington petitioned the Continental Congress to establish team of writers to record and preserve all of his, and the army's, papers, planning, and correspondence for use by future generations. This would be under the supervision “of a Man of character in whom entire confidence can be placed”. Washington appointed Varick in this role, which made use of his highly respected administrative skills, and would fully rehabilitate his name after the Arnold scandal. Establishing his office at Poughkeepsie, Varick and his assistants spent more than two years in compiling the forty-four folio volumes known as the Varick Transcripts. Varick served under Washington solely until Washington retired his commission in 1783.
Upon completing the assigned duties after years or work, General Washington wrote:
“I take this first opportunity of signifying my entire approbation of the manner in which you have executed the important duties of recording secretary; and the satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged, and so correctly recorded; and beg you will accept my thanks for the care and attention which you have given to this business and beg you be persuaded, that I shall take pleasure in asserting on every occasion, the sense of entertainment of the fidelity, skill and indefatigable industry manifested by you in the performance of your public duties."
After he retired from his service in the Continental Army, Varick would remain in service as a colonel in the New York State Militia until 1801.
The Varick Transcripts
The Varick Transcripts are deposited in the Library of Congress. The value of these documents has been noted throughout their lifetime as invaluable to the understanding of the formation of the United States.
As originally provisioned by Congress, the stated duties by General Washington to Colonel Varick as Recording Secretary would include categorizing, transcribing, and assembling all Washington's papers. The resulting 44 letterbooks contain copies of all documents dating from May, 1775 to June, 1785. Categories of papers, records, and correspondence are organized as follows;
Society of the Cincinnati
In 1783 the Society of the Cincinnati was founded of which Varick was an original member and president of the New York chapter from 1783 until his death in 1831. Membership was generally limited to officers who had served at least three years in the Continental Army or Navy. The first meeting of the Society was held in May at a dinner at Mount Gulian (Verplanck House) in Fishkill, New York, before the British evacuation from New York City. The meeting was chaired by Varick's friend Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton. The Society has three goals: "To preserve the rights so dearly won; to promote the continuing union of the states; and to assist members in need, their widows, and their orphans."
Varick would also be responsible for maintaining the legacy of George Washington. From 1790 to 1836, celebrations of Washington's birthday in the City included Tammany Hall dinners, Washington Benevolent Society parades, and an intimate open house held each February 22 by Mary Simpson (c. 1752 - March 18, 1836), at her John Street grocery.
Political career
Recorder & Attorney General of New York (1784 - 1789)
Varick was the Recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789. An office that no longer exists, it is equatable to 'Chief Legal Officer'. In this office, along with Samuel Jones, he codified New York State's first statutes after Revolution in the Laws of New York (2 vols., 1789). This body of work laid the whole foundation for the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City.
Concurrently to the above, he was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County from 1786 to 1788. During his term as a member of the New York State Assembly, he was Speaker during the sessions of 1787 and 1788. Varick was appointed the New York State Attorney General from 1788 to 1789.
Remarkably, due to the elitist nature of the New York State Constitution of 1777, almost all government positions in the city and state of New York were appointed by the Council of Appointment. Few, if any, general elections or other democratic functions would exist until 1802. Thus, in the year 1788, Varick was simultaneously the Recorder of New York City, a State Assemblyman representing New York City, the Speaker of the House of the State of New York, and the Attorney General of the State of New York. Though Varick is on record protesting the egregious nature of his occupying multiple offices, it was rationalized at the time that as both an expert administrator and lawyer, he was an ideal choice to fill these myriad offices and to build swiftly the various mechanisms of government. And, that the subsequent laws were codified quickly in the nascent days of an independent New York City and State to ensure the function, and growth, of both entities.
Mayor of New York City (1789 - 1801)
Varick would peak politically as the Mayor of New York City for twelve years during the formative post-Independence era from 1789 to 1801. While Mayor, he would continue his establishment of the technocratic structure that would ensure New York City’s place as the commercial capital of the United States, despite the political capital moving to Philadelphia, then Washington D.C. At this time in history, there was no precedent of commercial and political leadership split between two cities.
In 1791, the major financial crisis would hit the United States in New York due to a scheme to manipulate the financial markets, which had no formal structure of any kind. Varick would have to increase officers to protect the guilty parties from mobs gathering outside the prison. This would lead to a group of merchants making the "Buttonwood Agreement” in 1792 which was the seed of the New York Stock Exchange.
In the summer of 1793 a yellow fever epidemic sent New Yorkers "fleeing north" to nearby healthful Greenwich Village. This epidemic would lead to the creation of what would become the New York City Department of Health. This was timely as there were further epidemics in 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, and 1800.
In 1794, public anger at Federalist political ideals spilled into the streets with Varick’s support of the Jay Treaty. An angry mob would almost physically run him out of the city.
Varick ran into more trouble when he tried to pressure the city’s 1,000 or so licensed workers — tavern keepers, grocers, butchers and cartmen, all of whom had licenses to work for the city — to vote for Federalist candidates. “This went completely contrary to the egalitarian sentiment of the time,” Dr. Hodges said.
Varick’s heavy-handed ways, Dr. Hodges said, pushed many of the workers away from the Federalists, represented by Alexander Hamilton, and into the opposing Democratic-Republican faction, represented by Thomas Jefferson. In 1797, after losing his seat representing New York State in the U.S. Senate, Aaron Burr took control of Tammany Hall and used it to assail Varick for his use of marketing and tax-licensing fees. Burr would win the state's electoral vote in the 1800 presidential election leading to a wide sweeping rout of Federalist politicians across New York, including Varick in 1801.
Post-Political Life
Founding of Jersey City
In 1804, Varick, who was out of office and politically unpopular in New York City, joined his friend Alexander Hamilton to create the Associates of the Jersey Company which would lay the groundwork for modern Jersey City through private development. The consortium behind the company were predominantly Federalists who, like Varick and Hamilton, had been swept out of power in the election of 1800 by Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans. Large tracts of land in Paulus Hook were purchased by the company with the titles owned by Varick and his two cousins, Anthony Dey, a prominent attorney and major land owner, and Jacob Radcliff, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court who would later become mayor of New York City (twice) from 1810-1811 and again from 1815 - 1818. They laid out the city squares and streets that still characterize the neighborhood, giving them names also seen in Lower Manhattan or after war heroes (Grove, Varick, Mercer, Wayne, Monmouth and Montgomery among them).
In 1816, Colonel Varick purchased lots on the north side of Essex Street and built Prospect Hall overlooking the Hudson River. The property was landscaped with lawns and gardens to the waterfront. Varick would become the figurehead of the continuing development of Jersey City, inviting luminary friends such as Major General Marquis de Lafayette to visit while touring America in 1824 for special Fourth of July celebrations. Varick would live at Prospect Hall until he died on July 30, 1831.
Founding of the American Bible Society
Varick was a founder of the American Bible Society in 1816. He would later become president (succeeding John Jay) in 1828 until his death in 1831.
Personal life
He and his wife Maria Roosevelt, daughter of Isaac Roosevelt, were married on May 8, 1786 in New York City. His father-in-law was the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
On February 15, 2022, the Washington Post reported that Richard Varick is on the list of New York City mayors, composed by Sarah Cate Wolfson, a high school student in New York City, who owned slaves.
Varick and his wife initially resided at 52 Wall Street, then moved to a larger home on lower Broadway. They also owned a home at 11 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. Their final home was Prospect Hall on Essex Street in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Death and burial
Varick died on July 30, 1831 at Prospect Hall and is interred at the First Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Honorifics
Varick Street (where he once owned property) in Manhattan in the City of New York, Varick Street in Jersey City, and the Town of Varick, New York, all bear his name.
See also
References
External links
Varick Transcripts Library of Congress
Richard Varick Papers,1743-1871 New-York Historical Society
Photographs of gravesite
The Society of the Cincinnati
American Revolution Institute
Political Graveyard
1753 births
People from New York City
Mayors of New York City
Members of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) in the American Revolution
New York (state) militiamen in the American Revolution
Continental Army officers from New York (state)
BNY Mellon
New York (state) lawyers
American people of Dutch descent
Aides-de-camp of George Washington
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Speakers of the New York State Assembly
New York State Attorneys General
New York City Recorders
Politicians from Hackensack, New Jersey
People of New Jersey in the American Revolution
Burials at First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack
New York (state) Federalists
Columbia University people
19th-century American lawyers
19th-century American politicians
18th-century American politicians
1831 deaths | [
"Richard Varick (March 15, 1753 – July 30, 1831) was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who has been referred to as \"The Forgotten Founding Father.\"",
"A major figure in the development of post-Independence New York City and State, Varick became the 45th Mayor of New York City in 1789 and served eleven consecutive one-year terms until 1801.",
"Previous to his terms as mayor, Varick served as the 14th Recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789.",
"An office that no longer exists, it equates to 'Chief Legal Officer'.",
"Along with Samuel Jones, Varick codified New York State's first statutes after Revolution in the Laws of New York (2 vols., 1789).",
"This body of work laid legal groundwork for Varick to institute the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City during his terms as mayor.",
"Additionally, under his leadership, the progenitors of the New York City Department of Health, the New York Stock Exchange, and many others would be created establishing the foundation of modern New York City.",
"During the Revolutionary War, he served as George Washington's aide-de-camp and private secretary.",
"Varick's body of work from this era would lead to the Varick Transcripts which now live in the Library of Congress.",
"The value of these documents has been noted throughout their lifetime as invaluable to the understanding of the formation of the United States.",
"Varick was a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Bible Society, and was a slaveholder.",
"He was also a longtime trustee of Columbia University, where he was chairman of the board from 1810 - 1816.",
"Early life & family\nHe was born on March 15, 1753, at Hackensack in Bergen County, New Jersey to John Varick and Jane (née Dey) Varick.",
"Both Varick's parents ancestors had emigrated with the Dutch West India Company in the early to mid 17th century and remained in the greater New York City area.",
"Amongst Varick's ancestors are Joris Jansen Rapelje, a member of the Council of Twelve Men which was the first democratic body in the history of the United States (1641).",
"Varick's maternal grandfather was a colonel in the Continental Army whose house, the Dey Mansion, which would go on to play a pivotal role in the American Revolution.",
"Varick was one of seven children, his siblings being: Abraham Varick (the great-grandfather of Anna Maria Romeyn Varick, who married George Lauder of the Lauder Greenway Family.",
"); Dr. John Varick Jr.; Anne Elting; Sarah Froeligh; Jane De Witt (wife of Simeon De Witt); and Maria Gilbert.",
"Education\nLittle is known about the specifics of Varick's education before university, though surviving letters indicate that he was educated by private tutors and studied Latin, French, and other subjects.",
"He enrolled in King's College (the original name of Columbia University) in New York City in 1771 where he studied under John Morin Scott.",
"Varick clerked for Scott during his education and after being admitted into the New York Bar in October 1774, Scott made him an offer to be a partner in his firm.",
"Unusually, Varick had not yet graduated from King's College despite having passed the bar and never formally graduated.",
"Later in his career, Varick would become a trustee of King's College for over thirty years.",
"Military career\n\nAmerican Revolutionary War\n\nService under General Schuyler & Northern Army\n Eight months into his career in private practice, the American Revolutionary War began.",
"At the influence of his employer, John Morin Scott, Varick suspended his studies and enlisted in the militia.",
"On June 28, 1775, he was appointed captain of the 1st New York Regiment and after only three days as field officer, was appointed military secretary under General Philip Schuyler who was in command of the Northern Army It was thought that Scott, understanding the administrative and intellectual value of his young partner, secured the appointment.",
"Varick departed New York City with Schuyler on July 4, 1775, to head north to Fort Ticonderoga and launch the campaign to drive the British out of Canada.",
"En route, the traveling party stopped in Albany briefly where Varick would first meet General Benedict Arnold, who would become a good friend, also played a significant role in Varick's life until Arnold's treason in 1780.",
"By the summer of 1776, Schuyler had been felled by multiple illnesses and was reeling from a series of losses on the battlefield.",
"Varick, by this juncture, in part out of necessity, and in part by appointment, was performing three jobs at once: private secretary to Schuyler, quartermaster for all the northern forts held by the Continental Army, and the Northern Army's deputy muster master general.",
"Laterally, actual battlefield commands had been outsourced to Arnold and General Horatio Gates.",
"Schuyler, recognizing the burden Varick was carrying, promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel.",
"Varick's almost total control of the administration for the Northern Army lead to an even closer friendship between Arnold and Varick.",
"That same summer, Arnold was planning his attack effort to stop the British advance down Lake Champlain in what would be one of the first battles in the history of the U.S. Navy.",
"With a dearth of available ships, the armada was largely built from scratch by Varick who solved the crisis by contacting his wide network in New York City and the surrounding area to send materials and coastal men who were qualified for such work.",
"While the Battle of Valcour Island ended in defeat for the navy, it succeeded in slowing the British advance for the winter as they retreaded to their Canadian bases.",
"Varick also faced run-ins with fellow officers who were not part of Schuyler's faction.",
"General Anthony Walton White, who had briefly served at Washington's aide-de-camp, was accused by Schuyler of looting a private home on the frontier.",
"After denying the charges, White barged into Varick's offices and challenged him to a duel, under the impression that Varick had spoken negatively to his character.",
"Varick, unarmed, narrowly escaped White's attempt to murder him after Varick declined the challenge.",
"After the disastrous loss of Fort Ticonderoga, Schuyler was removed from duty by the Continental Congress in August 1777 and replaced by General Gates.",
"With factionalism rife within the Northern Army, Varick was aligned with Arnold which pitted him against Gates, whom he disliked regardless.",
"Varick and Arnolds circle of friendship had also grown to include Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson.",
"Their camaraderie was rudely defined as \"The New York Gang\" by James Wilkinson, a partisan of General Gates'.",
"Varick would quietly and capably continue in his role as the Northern Army's deputy muster master general, though not as Gates' aide-de-camp or private secretary, until January 12, 1780 when the department was abolished by the Continental Congress in a larger reorganization.",
"Service under General Arnold\n\nVarick briefly resumed his law in private practice, which proved challenging in his politically volatile hometown of New York City—which was under occupation by the enemy.",
"In August 1780, Benedict Arnold approached Varick about joining his staff at his newly appointed position as commanding officer of West Point (then an active military instillation) as his aide-de-camp and inspector-general.",
"Within three months, Arnold's treason was discovered and he fled to British territory.",
"Varick, along with David Franks, were arrested.",
"Varick had been ill in bed when informed both of Arnold's treason and his own arrest.",
"Contemporary reports described Varick as spending several days on the edge of madness about Arnold's defection.",
"Despite Arnold writing to Washington personally to say that his aides were not complicit, both Varick and Franks were detained by Washington as a precautionary measure.",
"After a court of inquiry completed its investigation, they found Varick not guilty, and delivered the following:\n\n“That Lieutenant Colonel Varick’s conduct with respect to the base Peculations and Treasonable Practices of the late General Arnold is not only unimpeachable but think him entitled (throughout every part of his conduct) to a degree of Merit that does him great honor as an Officer and particularly distinguishes him as a sincere Friend to his Country…”\n\nService under General Washington\nA by-product of the above was the introduction of Varick to George Washington, which would lead to the two working together for the rest of their careers, and lives.",
"This relationship began in 1781 when Washington petitioned the Continental Congress to establish team of writers to record and preserve all of his, and the army's, papers, planning, and correspondence for use by future generations.",
"This would be under the supervision “of a Man of character in whom entire confidence can be placed”.",
"Washington appointed Varick in this role, which made use of his highly respected administrative skills, and would fully rehabilitate his name after the Arnold scandal.",
"Establishing his office at Poughkeepsie, Varick and his assistants spent more than two years in compiling the forty-four folio volumes known as the Varick Transcripts.",
"Varick served under Washington solely until Washington retired his commission in 1783.",
"Upon completing the assigned duties after years or work, General Washington wrote:\n“I take this first opportunity of signifying my entire approbation of the manner in which you have executed the important duties of recording secretary; and the satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged, and so correctly recorded; and beg you will accept my thanks for the care and attention which you have given to this business and beg you be persuaded, that I shall take pleasure in asserting on every occasion, the sense of entertainment of the fidelity, skill and indefatigable industry manifested by you in the performance of your public duties.\"",
"After he retired from his service in the Continental Army, Varick would remain in service as a colonel in the New York State Militia until 1801.",
"The Varick Transcripts\nThe Varick Transcripts are deposited in the Library of Congress.",
"The value of these documents has been noted throughout their lifetime as invaluable to the understanding of the formation of the United States.",
"As originally provisioned by Congress, the stated duties by General Washington to Colonel Varick as Recording Secretary would include categorizing, transcribing, and assembling all Washington's papers.",
"The resulting 44 letterbooks contain copies of all documents dating from May, 1775 to June, 1785.",
"Categories of papers, records, and correspondence are organized as follows;\n\nSociety of the Cincinnati\n\nIn 1783 the Society of the Cincinnati was founded of which Varick was an original member and president of the New York chapter from 1783 until his death in 1831.",
"Membership was generally limited to officers who had served at least three years in the Continental Army or Navy.",
"The first meeting of the Society was held in May at a dinner at Mount Gulian (Verplanck House) in Fishkill, New York, before the British evacuation from New York City.",
"The meeting was chaired by Varick's friend Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton.",
"The Society has three goals: \"To preserve the rights so dearly won; to promote the continuing union of the states; and to assist members in need, their widows, and their orphans.\"",
"Varick would also be responsible for maintaining the legacy of George Washington.",
"From 1790 to 1836, celebrations of Washington's birthday in the City included Tammany Hall dinners, Washington Benevolent Society parades, and an intimate open house held each February 22 by Mary Simpson (c. 1752 - March 18, 1836), at her John Street grocery.",
"Political career\n\nRecorder & Attorney General of New York (1784 - 1789)\nVarick was the Recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789.",
"An office that no longer exists, it is equatable to 'Chief Legal Officer'.",
"In this office, along with Samuel Jones, he codified New York State's first statutes after Revolution in the Laws of New York (2 vols., 1789).",
"This body of work laid the whole foundation for the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City.",
"Concurrently to the above, he was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County from 1786 to 1788.",
"During his term as a member of the New York State Assembly, he was Speaker during the sessions of 1787 and 1788.",
"Varick was appointed the New York State Attorney General from 1788 to 1789.",
"Remarkably, due to the elitist nature of the New York State Constitution of 1777, almost all government positions in the city and state of New York were appointed by the Council of Appointment.",
"Few, if any, general elections or other democratic functions would exist until 1802.",
"Thus, in the year 1788, Varick was simultaneously the Recorder of New York City, a State Assemblyman representing New York City, the Speaker of the House of the State of New York, and the Attorney General of the State of New York.",
"Though Varick is on record protesting the egregious nature of his occupying multiple offices, it was rationalized at the time that as both an expert administrator and lawyer, he was an ideal choice to fill these myriad offices and to build swiftly the various mechanisms of government.",
"And, that the subsequent laws were codified quickly in the nascent days of an independent New York City and State to ensure the function, and growth, of both entities.",
"Mayor of New York City (1789 - 1801)\n\nVarick would peak politically as the Mayor of New York City for twelve years during the formative post-Independence era from 1789 to 1801.",
"While Mayor, he would continue his establishment of the technocratic structure that would ensure New York City’s place as the commercial capital of the United States, despite the political capital moving to Philadelphia, then Washington D.C. At this time in history, there was no precedent of commercial and political leadership split between two cities.",
"In 1791, the major financial crisis would hit the United States in New York due to a scheme to manipulate the financial markets, which had no formal structure of any kind.",
"Varick would have to increase officers to protect the guilty parties from mobs gathering outside the prison.",
"This would lead to a group of merchants making the \"Buttonwood Agreement” in 1792 which was the seed of the New York Stock Exchange.",
"In the summer of 1793 a yellow fever epidemic sent New Yorkers \"fleeing north\" to nearby healthful Greenwich Village.",
"This epidemic would lead to the creation of what would become the New York City Department of Health.",
"This was timely as there were further epidemics in 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, and 1800.",
"In 1794, public anger at Federalist political ideals spilled into the streets with Varick’s support of the Jay Treaty.",
"An angry mob would almost physically run him out of the city.",
"Varick ran into more trouble when he tried to pressure the city’s 1,000 or so licensed workers — tavern keepers, grocers, butchers and cartmen, all of whom had licenses to work for the city — to vote for Federalist candidates.",
"“This went completely contrary to the egalitarian sentiment of the time,” Dr. Hodges said.",
"Varick’s heavy-handed ways, Dr. Hodges said, pushed many of the workers away from the Federalists, represented by Alexander Hamilton, and into the opposing Democratic-Republican faction, represented by Thomas Jefferson.",
"In 1797, after losing his seat representing New York State in the U.S. Senate, Aaron Burr took control of Tammany Hall and used it to assail Varick for his use of marketing and tax-licensing fees.",
"Burr would win the state's electoral vote in the 1800 presidential election leading to a wide sweeping rout of Federalist politicians across New York, including Varick in 1801.",
"Post-Political Life\n\nFounding of Jersey City\n\nIn 1804, Varick, who was out of office and politically unpopular in New York City, joined his friend Alexander Hamilton to create the Associates of the Jersey Company which would lay the groundwork for modern Jersey City through private development.",
"The consortium behind the company were predominantly Federalists who, like Varick and Hamilton, had been swept out of power in the election of 1800 by Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans.",
"Large tracts of land in Paulus Hook were purchased by the company with the titles owned by Varick and his two cousins, Anthony Dey, a prominent attorney and major land owner, and Jacob Radcliff, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court who would later become mayor of New York City (twice) from 1810-1811 and again from 1815 - 1818.",
"They laid out the city squares and streets that still characterize the neighborhood, giving them names also seen in Lower Manhattan or after war heroes (Grove, Varick, Mercer, Wayne, Monmouth and Montgomery among them).",
"In 1816, Colonel Varick purchased lots on the north side of Essex Street and built Prospect Hall overlooking the Hudson River.",
"The property was landscaped with lawns and gardens to the waterfront.",
"Varick would become the figurehead of the continuing development of Jersey City, inviting luminary friends such as Major General Marquis de Lafayette to visit while touring America in 1824 for special Fourth of July celebrations.",
"Varick would live at Prospect Hall until he died on July 30, 1831.",
"Founding of the American Bible Society\n\nVarick was a founder of the American Bible Society in 1816.",
"He would later become president (succeeding John Jay) in 1828 until his death in 1831.",
"Personal life\nHe and his wife Maria Roosevelt, daughter of Isaac Roosevelt, were married on May 8, 1786 in New York City.",
"His father-in-law was the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.",
"On February 15, 2022, the Washington Post reported that Richard Varick is on the list of New York City mayors, composed by Sarah Cate Wolfson, a high school student in New York City, who owned slaves.",
"Varick and his wife initially resided at 52 Wall Street, then moved to a larger home on lower Broadway.",
"They also owned a home at 11 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan.",
"Their final home was Prospect Hall on Essex Street in Jersey City, New Jersey.",
"Death and burial\nVarick died on July 30, 1831 at Prospect Hall and is interred at the First Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.",
"Honorifics\nVarick Street (where he once owned property) in Manhattan in the City of New York, Varick Street in Jersey City, and the Town of Varick, New York, all bear his name.",
"See also\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n Varick Transcripts Library of Congress\n Richard Varick Papers,1743-1871 New-York Historical Society\nPhotographs of gravesite\n The Society of the Cincinnati\n American Revolution Institute\nPolitical Graveyard\n\n1753 births\nPeople from New York City\nMayors of New York City\nMembers of the New York State Assembly\nNew York (state) in the American Revolution\nNew York (state) militiamen in the American Revolution\nContinental Army officers from New York (state)\nBNY Mellon\nNew York (state) lawyers\nAmerican people of Dutch descent\nAides-de-camp of George Washington\nColumbia College (New York) alumni\nSpeakers of the New York State Assembly\nNew York State Attorneys General\nNew York City Recorders\nPoliticians from Hackensack, New Jersey\nPeople of New Jersey in the American Revolution\nBurials at First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack\nNew York (state) Federalists\nColumbia University people\n19th-century American lawyers\n19th-century American politicians\n18th-century American politicians\n1831 deaths"
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"Richard Varick (March 15, 1753 to July 30, 1831) was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician.",
"Varick was the 45th Mayor of New York City in 1789 and served eleven consecutive one-year terms until 1802.",
"Varick was the 14th recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789.",
"Chief Legal Officer is an office that no longer exists.",
"After the Revolution in the Laws of New York, Varick and Samuel Jones codified New York State's first statutes.",
"The groundwork was laid for the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City by this body of work.",
"The progenitors of the New York City Department of Health, the New York Stock Exchange, and many others would be created under his leadership.",
"He was George Washington's private secretary during the Revolutionary War.",
"The Varick Transcripts are housed in the Library of Congress.",
"The value of these documents to the understanding of the formation of the United States has been noted throughout their lifetime.",
"Varick was a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Bible Society.",
"He was the chairman of the board of Columbia University from 1812 to 1816.",
"He was the son of John Varick and Jane Dey Varick, who were born on March 15, 1753 in Bergen County, New Jersey.",
"Varick's parents had migrated from the Dutch West India Company to the New York City area in the early to mid 17th century.",
"The Council of Twelve Men was the first democratic body in the history of the United States.",
"The Dey Mansion, Varick's maternal grandfather's house, was a key part of the American Revolution.",
"Abraham Varick was the great-grandfather of Anna Maria Romeyn Varick, who married George Lauder.",
"Anne Elting is the wife of Dr. John Varick Jr.",
"Varick was educated by private tutors and studied Latin, French, and other subjects, according to surviving letters.",
"The original name of Columbia University was King's College in New York City.",
"Scott made Varick an offer to be a partner in his firm after Varick clerked for him during his education.",
"Varick had not yet graduated from King's College despite having passed the bar.",
"Varick was a Trustee of King's College for thirty years.",
"The American Revolutionary War began eight months into his career in private practice.",
"Varick enlisted in the militia after being influenced by his employer.",
"After only three days as a field officer, Scott was appointed military secretary under General Philip Schuyler who was in command of the Northern Army.",
"Varick and Schuyler left New York City on July 4, 1776, to start the campaign to drive the British out of Canada.",
"Varick had a significant role in his life until Arnold's treason in 1780, when he met General Benedict Arnold, who would become a good friend.",
"By the summer of 1776, Schuyler had been felled by multiple illnesses and was reeling from a series of losses on the battlefield.",
"Varick was performing three jobs at once: private secretary to Schuyler, quartermaster for all the northern forts held by the Continental Army, and the Northern Army's deputy muster master general.",
"The actual battlefield commands had been taken over by the Gates.",
"Varick was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel by Schuyler.",
"Arnold and Varick have a close friendship because of Varick's control of the administration for the Northern Army.",
"One of the first battles in the history of the U.S. Navy would take place that summer when Arnold planned to stop the British advance down Lake Champlain.",
"Varick was able to solve the crisis by contacting his wide network in New York City and the surrounding area to send materials and coastal men who were qualified for such work.",
"The Battle of Valcour Island slowed the British advance as they retreaded to their Canadian bases.",
"Varick had run-ins with other officers who were not part of Schuyler's group.",
"General Anthony White was accused of stealing from a private home on the frontier.",
"After denying the charges, White barged into Varick's offices and challenged him to a duel, under the impression that Varick had spoken negatively to his character.",
"Varick dodged White's attempt to murder him after he declined the challenge.",
"After the loss of Fort Ticonderoga, Schuyler was removed from duty by the Continental Congress and replaced by General Gates.",
"Varick was aligned with Arnold which made him dislike Gates even more.",
"Varick and Arnold have a circle of friends that include Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson.",
"James Wilkinson, a partisan of General Gates', defined their camaraderie as \"The New York Gang\".",
"Varick continued in his role as the Northern Army's deputy muster master general until January 12, 1780, when the department was abolished by the Continental Congress in a larger reorganization.",
"In his hometown of New York City, which was under occupation by the enemy, General Arnold Varick temporarily resumed his law practice.",
"Varick was offered the position of aide-de-camp and inspector-general by Benedict Arnold in August 1780.",
"Arnold fled to British territory after being discovered to be a traitor.",
"Varick and David Franks were arrested.",
"Varick was ill when he was told of Arnold's treason and his own arrest.",
"Varick was said to be on the edge of madness about Arnold's defection.",
"Varick and Franks were taken into custody by Washington as a precautionary measure despite Arnold writing to Washington to say that his aides were not involved.",
"The court of inquiry found Varick not guilty and delivered the following statement: \"Lieutenant Colonel Varick's conduct with respect to the base Peculations and Treasonable Practices of the late General Arnold is not only unimpeachable but think him entitled.\"",
"The relationship began in 1781 when Washington petitioned the Continental Congress to establish a team of writers to record and preserve all of his, and the army's, papers, planning, and correspondence for future generations.",
"This would be under the supervision of a man of character.",
"Varick was appointed in this role by Washington and used his administrative skills to rehabilitate his name after the Arnold scandal.",
"Varick and his assistants spent more than two years creating the Varick Transcripts.",
"Varick was the only one who served under Washington.",
"After completing the assigned duties, General Washington wrote to the recording secretary, \"I take this first opportunity of signifying my entire approbation of the manner in which you have executed the important duties of recording secretary; and the satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged, and so",
"Varick was a colonel in the New York State Militia after he retired from the Continental Army.",
"The Varick Transcripts are in the Library of Congress.",
"The value of these documents to the understanding of the formation of the United States has been noted throughout their lifetime.",
"The duties of General Washington to Colonel Varick as Recording Secretary were originally provided by Congress.",
"The 44 letterbooks contain copies of all the documents from May, 1775 to June, 1785.",
"The Society of the Cincinnati was founded in 1783 and Varick was an original member and president of the New York chapter until his death in 1831.",
"Membership was limited to officers who had been in the Continental Army or Navy for at least three years.",
"The first meeting of the Society was held at a dinner in Fishkill, New York, before the British evacuated from New York City.",
"Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton chaired the meeting.",
"To preserve the rights that were won, to promote the continuing union of the states, and to assist members in need are some of the goals of the Society.",
"Varick would be in charge of George Washington's legacy.",
"Washington's birthday in the City was celebrated from 1790 to 1836 with dinners, parades, and an intimate open house held by Mary Simpson at her John Street grocery.",
"Varick was the Attorney General of New York from 1784 to 1789.",
"Chief Legal Officer is equivalent to an office that no longer exists.",
"After the Revolution in the Laws of New York, he and Samuel Jones codified New York State's first statutes.",
"The foundation for the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City was laid by this body of work.",
"He was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County.",
"During his time as a member of the New York State Assembly, he was Speaker.",
"The New York State Attorney General was appointed by Varick.",
"Almost all government positions in the city and state of New York were appointed by the Council of Appointment.",
"General elections and other democratic functions would not exist until 1802.",
"Varick was the Recorder of New York City, a State Assemblyman representing New York City, the Speaker of the House of the State of New York, and the Attorney General of the State of New York.",
"Though Varick is on record protesting the egregious nature of his occupying multiple offices, it was rationalized at the time that he was an ideal choice to fill these offices and to build quickly the various mechanisms of government.",
"The function and growth of both entities were ensured in the early days of an independent New York City and State.",
"During the formative post-Independence era from 1789 to 1802, Varick was the Mayor of New York City for twelve years.",
"Despite the political capital moving to Philadelphia, New York City would continue to be the commercial capital of the United States.",
"A scheme to manipulate the financial markets in New York would cause a major financial crisis in the United States.",
"Varick would have to increase officers to protect the guilty parties.",
"TheButtonwood Agreement was a group of merchants that formed the New York Stock Exchange.",
"New Yorkers were \"fleeing north\" in the summer of 1793 because of a yellow fever epidemic.",
"The New York City Department of Health was created because of this epidemic.",
"There were more epidemics in 1795, 1796, 1798, and 1799.",
"Varick's support of the Jay Treaty caused public anger to spill into the streets.",
"He was almost run out of the city by an angry mob.",
"Varick was in trouble when he tried to get the city's licensed workers to vote for the Federalists.",
"The sentiment of the time was that of equality.",
"Varick pushed many of the workers away from the Federalists, represented by Alexander Hamilton, and into the opposing Democratic-Republican group, represented by Thomas Jefferson.",
"After losing his seat in the U.S. Senate, Burr took control of the hall and used it to attack Varick for his use of marketing and tax-licensing fees.",
"In the 1800 presidential election, Burr won the state's electoral vote, leading to a wide sweep of the Federalists in New York.",
"Varick, who was out of office and politically unpopular in New York City, joined his friend Alexander Hamilton to create the Associates of the Jersey Company which would lay the groundwork for modern Jersey City through private development.",
"Varick and Hamilton were both swept out of power in the election of 1800 by Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans.",
"Large tracts of land in Paulus Hook were purchased by the company with the titles owned by Varick and his two cousins, Anthony Dey, a prominent attorney and major land owner, and Jacob Radcliff, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court who would later become mayor of New York",
"They put out the city squares and streets that still exist in the neighborhood, giving them names that are familiar to Lower Manhattan or war heroes.",
"Colonel Varick builtProspect Hall overlooking the Hudson River after purchasing lots on the north side of Essex Street.",
"There were gardens and lawns to the waterfront.",
"Varick would become the figurehead of the continuing development of Jersey City, inviting luminary friends such as Major General Marquis de Lafayette to visit while touring America in 1824 for special Fourth of July celebrations.",
"Varick lived at Prospect Hall until he died.",
"The American Bible Society was founded in 1816 by Varick.",
"He succeeded John Jay as president in 1828.",
"On May 8, 1786, he and Maria Roosevelt were married in New York City.",
"The patrilineal great-great-grandfather of President Roosevelt was his father-in-law.",
"On February 15, 2022, the Washington Post reported that Richard Varick is on a list of New York City mayors who owned slaves.",
"Varick and his wife moved to a larger home on lower Broadway after initially residing at 52 Wall Street.",
"In Lower Manhattan, they owned a home at 11 Pearl Street.",
"They lived on Essex Street in Jersey City, New Jersey.",
"Varick was buried at the First Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in New Jersey after he died at Prospect Hall.",
"Varick Street in Manhattan, Varick Street in Jersey City, and the Town of Varick, New York are all named after him.",
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] | <mask> (March 15, 1753 – July 30, 1831) was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who has been referred to as "The Forgotten Founding Father." A major figure in the development of post-Independence New York City and State, Varick became the 45th Mayor of New York City in 1789 and served eleven consecutive one-year terms until 1801. Previous to his terms as mayor, Varick served as the 14th Recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789. An office that no longer exists, it equates to 'Chief Legal Officer'. Along with Samuel Jones, Varick codified New York State's first statutes after Revolution in the Laws of New York (2 vols., 1789). This body of work laid legal groundwork for Varick to institute the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City during his terms as mayor. Additionally, under his leadership, the progenitors of the New York City Department of Health, the New York Stock Exchange, and many others would be created establishing the foundation of modern New York City.During the Revolutionary War, he served as George Washington's aide-de-camp and private secretary. Varick's body of work from this era would lead to the Varick Transcripts which now live in the Library of Congress. The value of these documents has been noted throughout their lifetime as invaluable to the understanding of the formation of the United States. Varick was a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Bible Society, and was a slaveholder. He was also a longtime trustee of Columbia University, where he was chairman of the board from 1810 - 1816. Early life & family
He was born on March 15, 1753, at Hackensack in Bergen County, New Jersey to <mask> and Jane (née Dey) <mask>. Both Varick's parents ancestors had emigrated with the Dutch West India Company in the early to mid 17th century and remained in the greater New York City area.Amongst Varick's ancestors are Joris Jansen Rapelje, a member of the Council of Twelve Men which was the first democratic body in the history of the United States (1641). Varick's maternal grandfather was a colonel in the Continental Army whose house, the Dey Mansion, which would go on to play a pivotal role in the American Revolution. Varick was one of seven children, his siblings being: <mask> (the great-grandfather of Anna Maria Romeyn <mask>, who married George Lauder of the Lauder Greenway Family. ); Dr. <mask> Jr.; Anne Elting; Sarah Froeligh; Jane De Witt (wife of Simeon De Witt); and Maria Gilbert. Education
Little is known about the specifics of Varick's education before university, though surviving letters indicate that he was educated by private tutors and studied Latin, French, and other subjects. He enrolled in King's College (the original name of Columbia University) in New York City in 1771 where he studied under John Morin Scott. Varick clerked for Scott during his education and after being admitted into the New York Bar in October 1774, Scott made him an offer to be a partner in his firm.Unusually, Varick had not yet graduated from King's College despite having passed the bar and never formally graduated. Later in his career, Varick would become a trustee of King's College for over thirty years. Military career
American Revolutionary War
Service under General Schuyler & Northern Army
Eight months into his career in private practice, the American Revolutionary War began. At the influence of his employer, John Morin Scott, Varick suspended his studies and enlisted in the militia. On June 28, 1775, he was appointed captain of the 1st New York Regiment and after only three days as field officer, was appointed military secretary under General Philip Schuyler who was in command of the Northern Army It was thought that Scott, understanding the administrative and intellectual value of his young partner, secured the appointment. Varick departed New York City with Schuyler on July 4, 1775, to head north to Fort Ticonderoga and launch the campaign to drive the British out of Canada. En route, the traveling party stopped in Albany briefly where Varick would first meet General Benedict Arnold, who would become a good friend, also played a significant role in Varick's life until Arnold's treason in 1780.By the summer of 1776, Schuyler had been felled by multiple illnesses and was reeling from a series of losses on the battlefield. <mask>, by this juncture, in part out of necessity, and in part by appointment, was performing three jobs at once: private secretary to Schuyler, quartermaster for all the northern forts held by the Continental Army, and the Northern Army's deputy muster master general. Laterally, actual battlefield commands had been outsourced to Arnold and General Horatio Gates. Schuyler, recognizing the burden Varick was carrying, promoted him to Lieutenant Colonel. Varick's almost total control of the administration for the Northern Army lead to an even closer friendship between Arnold and Varick. That same summer, Arnold was planning his attack effort to stop the British advance down Lake Champlain in what would be one of the first battles in the history of the U.S. Navy. With a dearth of available ships, the armada was largely built from scratch by Varick who solved the crisis by contacting his wide network in New York City and the surrounding area to send materials and coastal men who were qualified for such work.While the Battle of Valcour Island ended in defeat for the navy, it succeeded in slowing the British advance for the winter as they retreaded to their Canadian bases. <mask> also faced run-ins with fellow officers who were not part of Schuyler's faction. General Anthony Walton White, who had briefly served at Washington's aide-de-camp, was accused by Schuyler of looting a private home on the frontier. After denying the charges, White barged into Varick's offices and challenged him to a duel, under the impression that Varick had spoken negatively to his character. Varick, unarmed, narrowly escaped White's attempt to murder him after Varick declined the challenge. After the disastrous loss of Fort Ticonderoga, Schuyler was removed from duty by the Continental Congress in August 1777 and replaced by General Gates. With factionalism rife within the Northern Army, Varick was aligned with Arnold which pitted him against Gates, whom he disliked regardless.Varick and Arnolds circle of friendship had also grown to include Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson. Their camaraderie was rudely defined as "The New York Gang" by James Wilkinson, a partisan of General Gates'. Varick would quietly and capably continue in his role as the Northern Army's deputy muster master general, though not as Gates' aide-de-camp or private secretary, until January 12, 1780 when the department was abolished by the Continental Congress in a larger reorganization. Service under General Arnold
<mask> briefly resumed his law in private practice, which proved challenging in his politically volatile hometown of New York City—which was under occupation by the enemy. In August 1780, Benedict Arnold approached Varick about joining his staff at his newly appointed position as commanding officer of West Point (then an active military instillation) as his aide-de-camp and inspector-general. Within three months, Arnold's treason was discovered and he fled to British territory. Varick, along with David Franks, were arrested.Varick had been ill in bed when informed both of Arnold's treason and his own arrest. Contemporary reports described Varick as spending several days on the edge of madness about Arnold's defection. Despite Arnold writing to Washington personally to say that his aides were not complicit, both Varick and Franks were detained by Washington as a precautionary measure. After a court of inquiry completed its investigation, they found Varick not guilty, and delivered the following:
“That Lieutenant Colonel <mask>’s conduct with respect to the base Peculations and Treasonable Practices of the late General Arnold is not only unimpeachable but think him entitled (throughout every part of his conduct) to a degree of Merit that does him great honor as an Officer and particularly distinguishes him as a sincere Friend to his Country…”
Service under General Washington
A by-product of the above was the introduction of Varick to George Washington, which would lead to the two working together for the rest of their careers, and lives. This relationship began in 1781 when Washington petitioned the Continental Congress to establish team of writers to record and preserve all of his, and the army's, papers, planning, and correspondence for use by future generations. This would be under the supervision “of a Man of character in whom entire confidence can be placed”. Washington appointed Varick in this role, which made use of his highly respected administrative skills, and would fully rehabilitate his name after the Arnold scandal.Establishing his office at Poughkeepsie, <mask> and his assistants spent more than two years in compiling the forty-four folio volumes known as the Varick Transcripts. Varick served under Washington solely until Washington retired his commission in 1783. Upon completing the assigned duties after years or work, General Washington wrote:
“I take this first opportunity of signifying my entire approbation of the manner in which you have executed the important duties of recording secretary; and the satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged, and so correctly recorded; and beg you will accept my thanks for the care and attention which you have given to this business and beg you be persuaded, that I shall take pleasure in asserting on every occasion, the sense of entertainment of the fidelity, skill and indefatigable industry manifested by you in the performance of your public duties." After he retired from his service in the Continental Army, Varick would remain in service as a colonel in the New York State Militia until 1801. The Varick Transcripts
The Varick Transcripts are deposited in the Library of Congress. The value of these documents has been noted throughout their lifetime as invaluable to the understanding of the formation of the United States. As originally provisioned by Congress, the stated duties by General Washington to Colonel Varick as Recording Secretary would include categorizing, transcribing, and assembling all Washington's papers.The resulting 44 letterbooks contain copies of all documents dating from May, 1775 to June, 1785. Categories of papers, records, and correspondence are organized as follows;
Society of the Cincinnati
In 1783 the Society of the Cincinnati was founded of which Varick was an original member and president of the New York chapter from 1783 until his death in 1831. Membership was generally limited to officers who had served at least three years in the Continental Army or Navy. The first meeting of the Society was held in May at a dinner at Mount Gulian (Verplanck House) in Fishkill, New York, before the British evacuation from New York City. The meeting was chaired by Varick's friend Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton. The Society has three goals: "To preserve the rights so dearly won; to promote the continuing union of the states; and to assist members in need, their widows, and their orphans." Varick would also be responsible for maintaining the legacy of George Washington.From 1790 to 1836, celebrations of Washington's birthday in the City included Tammany Hall dinners, Washington Benevolent Society parades, and an intimate open house held each February 22 by Mary Simpson (c. 1752 - March 18, 1836), at her John Street grocery. Political career
Recorder & Attorney General of New York (1784 - 1789)
Varick was the Recorder of New York City from 1784 to 1789. An office that no longer exists, it is equatable to 'Chief Legal Officer'. In this office, along with Samuel Jones, he codified New York State's first statutes after Revolution in the Laws of New York (2 vols., 1789). This body of work laid the whole foundation for the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City. Concurrently to the above, he was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County from 1786 to 1788. During his term as a member of the New York State Assembly, he was Speaker during the sessions of 1787 and 1788.<mask> was appointed the New York State Attorney General from 1788 to 1789. Remarkably, due to the elitist nature of the New York State Constitution of 1777, almost all government positions in the city and state of New York were appointed by the Council of Appointment. Few, if any, general elections or other democratic functions would exist until 1802. Thus, in the year 1788, Varick was simultaneously the Recorder of New York City, a State Assemblyman representing New York City, the Speaker of the House of the State of New York, and the Attorney General of the State of New York. Though Varick is on record protesting the egregious nature of his occupying multiple offices, it was rationalized at the time that as both an expert administrator and lawyer, he was an ideal choice to fill these myriad offices and to build swiftly the various mechanisms of government. And, that the subsequent laws were codified quickly in the nascent days of an independent New York City and State to ensure the function, and growth, of both entities. Mayor of New York City (1789 - 1801)
Varick would peak politically as the Mayor of New York City for twelve years during the formative post-Independence era from 1789 to 1801.While Mayor, he would continue his establishment of the technocratic structure that would ensure New York City’s place as the commercial capital of the United States, despite the political capital moving to Philadelphia, then Washington D.C. At this time in history, there was no precedent of commercial and political leadership split between two cities. In 1791, the major financial crisis would hit the United States in New York due to a scheme to manipulate the financial markets, which had no formal structure of any kind. Varick would have to increase officers to protect the guilty parties from mobs gathering outside the prison. This would lead to a group of merchants making the "Buttonwood Agreement” in 1792 which was the seed of the New York Stock Exchange. In the summer of 1793 a yellow fever epidemic sent New Yorkers "fleeing north" to nearby healthful Greenwich Village. This epidemic would lead to the creation of what would become the New York City Department of Health. This was timely as there were further epidemics in 1795, 1796, 1798, 1799, and 1800.In 1794, public anger at Federalist political ideals spilled into the streets with <mask>’s support of the Jay Treaty. An angry mob would almost physically run him out of the city. Varick ran into more trouble when he tried to pressure the city’s 1,000 or so licensed workers — tavern keepers, grocers, butchers and cartmen, all of whom had licenses to work for the city — to vote for Federalist candidates. “This went completely contrary to the egalitarian sentiment of the time,” Dr. Hodges said. Varick’s heavy-handed ways, Dr. Hodges said, pushed many of the workers away from the Federalists, represented by Alexander Hamilton, and into the opposing Democratic-Republican faction, represented by Thomas Jefferson. In 1797, after losing his seat representing New York State in the U.S. Senate, Aaron Burr took control of Tammany Hall and used it to assail Varick for his use of marketing and tax-licensing fees. Burr would win the state's electoral vote in the 1800 presidential election leading to a wide sweeping rout of Federalist politicians across New York, including Varick in 1801.Post-Political Life
Founding of Jersey City
In 1804, <mask>, who was out of office and politically unpopular in New York City, joined his friend Alexander Hamilton to create the Associates of the Jersey Company which would lay the groundwork for modern Jersey City through private development. The consortium behind the company were predominantly Federalists who, like <mask> and Hamilton, had been swept out of power in the election of 1800 by Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans. Large tracts of land in Paulus Hook were purchased by the company with the titles owned by <mask> and his two cousins, Anthony Dey, a prominent attorney and major land owner, and Jacob Radcliff, a Justice of the New York Supreme Court who would later become mayor of New York City (twice) from 1810-1811 and again from 1815 - 1818. They laid out the city squares and streets that still characterize the neighborhood, giving them names also seen in Lower Manhattan or after war heroes (Grove, Varick, Mercer, Wayne, Monmouth and Montgomery among them). In 1816, Colonel Varick purchased lots on the north side of Essex Street and built Prospect Hall overlooking the Hudson River. The property was landscaped with lawns and gardens to the waterfront. Varick would become the figurehead of the continuing development of Jersey City, inviting luminary friends such as Major General Marquis de Lafayette to visit while touring America in 1824 for special Fourth of July celebrations.<mask> would live at Prospect Hall until he died on July 30, 1831. Founding of the American Bible Society
Varick was a founder of the American Bible Society in 1816. He would later become president (succeeding John Jay) in 1828 until his death in 1831. Personal life
He and his wife Maria Roosevelt, daughter of Isaac Roosevelt, were married on May 8, 1786 in New York City. His father-in-law was the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On February 15, 2022, the Washington Post reported that <mask> is on the list of New York City mayors, composed by Sarah Cate Wolfson, a high school student in New York City, who owned slaves. Varick and his wife initially resided at 52 Wall Street, then moved to a larger home on lower Broadway.They also owned a home at 11 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. Their final home was Prospect Hall on Essex Street in Jersey City, New Jersey. Death and burial
Varick died on July 30, 1831 at Prospect Hall and is interred at the First Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey. Honorifics
Varick Street (where he once owned property) in Manhattan in the City of New York, Varick Street in Jersey City, and the Town of Varick, New York, all bear his name. See also
References
External links
Varick Transcripts Library of Congress
Richard Varick Papers,1743-1871 New-York Historical Society
Photographs of gravesite
The Society of the Cincinnati
American Revolution Institute
Political Graveyard
1753 births
People from New York City
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Members of the New York State Assembly
New York (state) in the American Revolution
New York (state) militiamen in the American Revolution
Continental Army officers from New York (state)
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Aides-de-camp of George Washington
Columbia College (New York) alumni
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Politicians from Hackensack, New Jersey
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The value of these documents to the understanding of the formation of the United States has been noted throughout their lifetime. <mask> was a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Bible Society. He was the chairman of the board of Columbia University from 1812 to 1816. He was the son of <mask> and Jane Dey <mask>, who were born on March 15, 1753 in Bergen County, New Jersey. Varick's parents had migrated from the Dutch West India Company to the New York City area in the early to mid 17th century.The Council of Twelve Men was the first democratic body in the history of the United States. The Dey Mansion, Varick's maternal grandfather's house, was a key part of the American Revolution. <mask> was the great-grandfather of Anna Maria Romeyn <mask>, who married George Lauder. Anne Elting is the wife of Dr. <mask> Jr. Varick was educated by private tutors and studied Latin, French, and other subjects, according to surviving letters. The original name of Columbia University was King's College in New York City. Scott made Varick an offer to be a partner in his firm after Varick clerked for him during his education.Varick had not yet graduated from King's College despite having passed the bar. Varick was a Trustee of King's College for thirty years. The American Revolutionary War began eight months into his career in private practice. Varick enlisted in the militia after being influenced by his employer. After only three days as a field officer, Scott was appointed military secretary under General Philip Schuyler who was in command of the Northern Army. <mask> and Schuyler left New York City on July 4, 1776, to start the campaign to drive the British out of Canada. Varick had a significant role in his life until Arnold's treason in 1780, when he met General Benedict Arnold, who would become a good friend.By the summer of 1776, Schuyler had been felled by multiple illnesses and was reeling from a series of losses on the battlefield. <mask> was performing three jobs at once: private secretary to Schuyler, quartermaster for all the northern forts held by the Continental Army, and the Northern Army's deputy muster master general. The actual battlefield commands had been taken over by the Gates. <mask> was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel by Schuyler. Arnold and Varick have a close friendship because of Varick's control of the administration for the Northern Army. One of the first battles in the history of the U.S. Navy would take place that summer when Arnold planned to stop the British advance down Lake Champlain. Varick was able to solve the crisis by contacting his wide network in New York City and the surrounding area to send materials and coastal men who were qualified for such work.The Battle of Valcour Island slowed the British advance as they retreaded to their Canadian bases. Varick had run-ins with other officers who were not part of Schuyler's group. General Anthony White was accused of stealing from a private home on the frontier. After denying the charges, White barged into <mask>'s offices and challenged him to a duel, under the impression that Varick had spoken negatively to his character. Varick dodged White's attempt to murder him after he declined the challenge. After the loss of Fort Ticonderoga, Schuyler was removed from duty by the Continental Congress and replaced by General Gates. Varick was aligned with Arnold which made him dislike Gates even more.<mask> and Arnold have a circle of friends that include Henry Brockholst Livingston and Matthew Clarkson. James Wilkinson, a partisan of General Gates', defined their camaraderie as "The New York Gang". Varick continued in his role as the Northern Army's deputy muster master general until January 12, 1780, when the department was abolished by the Continental Congress in a larger reorganization. In his hometown of New York City, which was under occupation by the enemy, General <mask> temporarily resumed his law practice. Varick was offered the position of aide-de-camp and inspector-general by Benedict Arnold in August 1780. Arnold fled to British territory after being discovered to be a traitor. <mask> and David Franks were arrested.Varick was ill when he was told of Arnold's treason and his own arrest. Varick was said to be on the edge of madness about Arnold's defection. <mask> and Franks were taken into custody by Washington as a precautionary measure despite Arnold writing to Washington to say that his aides were not involved. The court of inquiry found Varick not guilty and delivered the following statement: "Lieutenant Colonel <mask>'s conduct with respect to the base Peculations and Treasonable Practices of the late General Arnold is not only unimpeachable but think him entitled." The relationship began in 1781 when Washington petitioned the Continental Congress to establish a team of writers to record and preserve all of his, and the army's, papers, planning, and correspondence for future generations. This would be under the supervision of a man of character. Varick was appointed in this role by Washington and used his administrative skills to rehabilitate his name after the Arnold scandal.<mask>ck Transcripts. Varick was the only one who served under Washington. After completing the assigned duties, General Washington wrote to the recording secretary, "I take this first opportunity of signifying my entire approbation of the manner in which you have executed the important duties of recording secretary; and the satisfaction I feel in having my papers so properly arranged, and so Varick was a colonel in the New York State Militia after he retired from the Continental Army. The Varick Transcripts are in the Library of Congress. The value of these documents to the understanding of the formation of the United States has been noted throughout their lifetime. The duties of General Washington to Colonel Varick as Recording Secretary were originally provided by Congress.The 44 letterbooks contain copies of all the documents from May, 1775 to June, 1785. The Society of the Cincinnati was founded in 1783 and <mask> was an original member and president of the New York chapter until his death in 1831. Membership was limited to officers who had been in the Continental Army or Navy for at least three years. The first meeting of the Society was held at a dinner in Fishkill, New York, before the British evacuated from New York City. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Hamilton chaired the meeting. To preserve the rights that were won, to promote the continuing union of the states, and to assist members in need are some of the goals of the Society. <mask> would be in charge of George Washington's legacy.Washington's birthday in the City was celebrated from 1790 to 1836 with dinners, parades, and an intimate open house held by Mary Simpson at her John Street grocery. <mask> was the Attorney General of New York from 1784 to 1789. Chief Legal Officer is equivalent to an office that no longer exists. After the Revolution in the Laws of New York, he and Samuel Jones codified New York State's first statutes. The foundation for the Law of New York, the New York City Administrative Code, and the Rules of New York City was laid by this body of work. He was a member of the New York State Assembly from New York County. During his time as a member of the New York State Assembly, he was Speaker.The New York State Attorney General was appointed by Varick. Almost all government positions in the city and state of New York were appointed by the Council of Appointment. General elections and other democratic functions would not exist until 1802. Varick was the Recorder of New York City, a State Assemblyman representing New York City, the Speaker of the House of the State of New York, and the Attorney General of the State of New York. Though Varick is on record protesting the egregious nature of his occupying multiple offices, it was rationalized at the time that he was an ideal choice to fill these offices and to build quickly the various mechanisms of government. 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23809525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bina%20Sarkar%20Ellias | Bina Sarkar Ellias | Bina Sarkar Ellias (b. 1949) is a poet. She is editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, a global arts and ideas journal (www.gallerie.net) founded by her in 1997. She is also an art curator, having curated several important exhibits of renowned artists. https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/city-columns/bina-sarkar-the-cave-woman/articleshow/59865389.cms
Cultural Practitioner
In 1984, Bina Sarkar Ellias co-founded the advertising agency "Nucleus", with Rafeeq Ellias and worked for 12 years as its Creative Director. In 1997, she founded International Gallerie, a bi-annual arts and ideas magazine that she edits, designs and publishes.
In recognition of her efforts, she has been awarded a Woman Achiever's award by FICCI/FLO 2013, Woman Achiever of the year by TimesGroup & ITC, in 2008 and a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and Japan Foundation for research and development of the project: Unity in Diversity: Envisioning Community Building in Asia and Beyond, Tokyo, in 2007 in recognition of her work in encouraging knowledge, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity. She has also been recipient of the Prince Claus Awards.
Besides several shows she has curated are “Migration” at the Pune Biennale 2017. Her curation of a forthcoming show in New York, is a work in progress.
Sarkar Ellias has been invited to speak at various venues, chaired the New Moves Festival discussion with 10 Asian women artists in Glasgow as well as other fora in London, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Teheran, Dacca, Lahore, Karachi, Delhi, Santiniketan, Kolkata and Mumbai in the last many years. She has been a panelist at the 85th Congress of PEN International in Manila, Philippines (2019).
Poet, editor, designer, publisher, curator
Bina Sarkar soon after graduation with Honours in English at Scottish Church College, Calcutta University, began as a freelance writer to Desmond Doig's popular journal, Junior Statesman; she was employed next, as assistant editor to T.M. Ramachandran of [Film World], an eclectic Indian magazine on world cinema. She went on to be a sub-editor at Eve's Weekly, following which she contributed articles for The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindu and the Hindustan Times through the years.
She founded International Gallerie in 1997, an award-winning global arts and ideas journal that encourages understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity through excellence in the arts. For 22 years, Gallerie has upheld unity in diversity through artistic reflections via the visual and performing arts, poetry, essay, photography, cinema and travel stories, narratives that reveal a world that is essentially one, even as politicians divide us.
She taught herself graphic design and has been invited by artists, galleries, photographers and a poet to design their books and catalogues. To date, she has designed and edited, Fifty Years of Contemporary Indian Art, 1997, for the Mohile Parikh Centre for Visual Arts, Mumbai, 1997 . She has designed artist Jehangir Sabavala's catalogue for the 2002 show in Mumbai, Delhi and New York, artist Rekha Rodwittiya's catalogue, 2003 and recently in 2007, for shows in New York, Crossing Generations: diverge, the fortieth anniversary catalogue for Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2004, and a book on artist Tyeb Mehta, Svaraj by Ramchandra Gandhi. She has designed, edited and published an art book, Chinthala Jagdish:Unmasked, 2004, and The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, 2008, a book of poems, Rain, for Indian poet Sudeep Sen, 2005, Ayesha Taleyarkhan’s book of photographs:, Bombay Mumbai, 2005, American photographer, Waswo X. Waswo’s book, India Poems: The Photographs and his recent catalogue, A Studio in Rajasthan, 2008. She has edited and designed photographer, Leena Kejriwal’s book, Calcutta: Repossessing the City, 2006. And artist Surendran Nair’s book, Itinerant Mythologies, 2008.
Sarkar Ellias has curated several art shows: ‘Rain’ at Sakshi Art Gallery, Bombay, commissioning 32 Indian contemporary artists to make works on Rain; ‘Kashmir’ at Tao Art Gallery, Bombay, where artists from Jammu & Kashmir, long-marginilised, were invited to present their works with mainstream Indian artists in an awareness program of Kashmir, its history and conflict; and ‘The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, a show of the Hyderabad artist and his whimsical art works. She curated the online show of international art for Pen & Brush, New York, and launched her curatorial project 'Tagore Lost and Found' with 30 Indian artists at Siddhartha Tagore's Art Bull Gallery in New Delhi, 1 March 2013. She recently curated 'Migration' for the Pune Biennale 2017. It included photography, films and poetry mounted in six shipping containers with junk art created by Pune artists in the foreground.
A poet, her chapbook of poems, 'The Room' has been published by AarkArts, UK, besides having appeared in various magazines, anthologies and online poetry sites. Her book of poems 'Fuse' has been published by Poetry Primero, an imprint of Poetrywall, 2017. Poems from it have been translated into Arabic, Urdu, French, Greek and Chinese. A Chinese edition of FUSE was launched at the Formosa Poetry Festival in Tamsui, Taiwan, 2017. FUSE has also been taught at the Towson University in Maryland, USA. Her second book of selected poems responding to art and photographic images 'When Seeing Is Believing' has been launched recently in Mumbai and will be having a New York launch in July 2019.
International Gallerie
International Gallerie was conceived and founded by Bina Sarkar Ellias in 1997, as a platform for addressing universal socio-political/cultural issues as interpreted through excellence in the arts from global regions. Gallerie encourages unity in diversity in the belief that it is culture that ultimately humanises.
Quotes
“Gallerie draws my attention to what I didn't know or what I thought I never needed to know... it is positive and passionate.”
-Mel Gooding, noted art critic, UK.
“A magnificent production as well as an especially forceful presentation.” ——Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, India/USA/UK
“Reading Gallerie is like leafing through the contemporary Louvre... in your living room. For twenty years, it has nourished my awareness of the evolving global art and culture
situation. It’s an honour to be published in its pages.” ——Gulzar, poet, lyricist, filmmaker, India
“I didn’t see how Gallerie could possibly be better than its first issue, but each successive one proves me wrong!” ——Adrian Piper, philosopher and conceptual artist, Germany
Personal life
Bina Sarkar was married in Tokyo to photographer and award-winning documentary filmmaker Rafeeq Ellias and they have two children; Raoul Ellias, a successful IT professional in the US and Yuki Ellias, an actor-director, who played Hermea in Tim Supple's "Midsummer Night's Dream", and has received a "Best Actress Award" from her solo performance in "Elephant in the Room", which played at the Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, 2017, for three weeks. Bina Sarkar Ellias when not a wandering nomad, lives and works in Bombay.
References
External links
Rethinking Rain
Roving Eye
Bina Sarkar Ellias: Understanding Afghanistan
Bina Sarkar (India) Gallerie
German Authors in India
An Afghan Affair
Baggage of hate: Review of burning Gujarat
Inspired Poems
Indian magazine editors
Indian women designers
20th-century Indian designers
Living people
Scottish Church College alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
Indian women editors
Indian editors
Women magazine editors
Year of birth missing (living people)
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"1949) is a poet.",
"She is editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, a global arts and ideas journal (www.gallerie.net) founded by her in 1997.",
"She is also an art curator, having curated several important exhibits of renowned artists.",
"https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/city-columns/bina-sarkar-the-cave-woman/articleshow/59865389.cms\n\nCultural Practitioner\n\nIn 1984, Bina Sarkar Ellias co-founded the advertising agency \"Nucleus\", with Rafeeq Ellias and worked for 12 years as its Creative Director.",
"In 1997, she founded International Gallerie, a bi-annual arts and ideas magazine that she edits, designs and publishes.",
"In recognition of her efforts, she has been awarded a Woman Achiever's award by FICCI/FLO 2013, Woman Achiever of the year by TimesGroup & ITC, in 2008 and a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and Japan Foundation for research and development of the project: Unity in Diversity: Envisioning Community Building in Asia and Beyond, Tokyo, in 2007 in recognition of her work in encouraging knowledge, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.",
"She has also been recipient of the Prince Claus Awards.",
"Besides several shows she has curated are “Migration” at the Pune Biennale 2017.",
"Her curation of a forthcoming show in New York, is a work in progress.",
"Sarkar Ellias has been invited to speak at various venues, chaired the New Moves Festival discussion with 10 Asian women artists in Glasgow as well as other fora in London, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Teheran, Dacca, Lahore, Karachi, Delhi, Santiniketan, Kolkata and Mumbai in the last many years.",
"She has been a panelist at the 85th Congress of PEN International in Manila, Philippines (2019).",
"Poet, editor, designer, publisher, curator\n\nBina Sarkar soon after graduation with Honours in English at Scottish Church College, Calcutta University, began as a freelance writer to Desmond Doig's popular journal, Junior Statesman; she was employed next, as assistant editor to T.M.",
"Ramachandran of [Film World], an eclectic Indian magazine on world cinema.",
"She went on to be a sub-editor at Eve's Weekly, following which she contributed articles for The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindu and the Hindustan Times through the years.",
"She founded International Gallerie in 1997, an award-winning global arts and ideas journal that encourages understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity through excellence in the arts.",
"For 22 years, Gallerie has upheld unity in diversity through artistic reflections via the visual and performing arts, poetry, essay, photography, cinema and travel stories, narratives that reveal a world that is essentially one, even as politicians divide us.",
"She taught herself graphic design and has been invited by artists, galleries, photographers and a poet to design their books and catalogues.",
"To date, she has designed and edited, Fifty Years of Contemporary Indian Art, 1997, for the Mohile Parikh Centre for Visual Arts, Mumbai, 1997 .",
"She has designed artist Jehangir Sabavala's catalogue for the 2002 show in Mumbai, Delhi and New York, artist Rekha Rodwittiya's catalogue, 2003 and recently in 2007, for shows in New York, Crossing Generations: diverge, the fortieth anniversary catalogue for Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2004, and a book on artist Tyeb Mehta, Svaraj by Ramchandra Gandhi.",
"She has designed, edited and published an art book, Chinthala Jagdish:Unmasked, 2004, and The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, 2008, a book of poems, Rain, for Indian poet Sudeep Sen, 2005, Ayesha Taleyarkhan’s book of photographs:, Bombay Mumbai, 2005, American photographer, Waswo X. Waswo’s book, India Poems: The Photographs and his recent catalogue, A Studio in Rajasthan, 2008.",
"She has edited and designed photographer, Leena Kejriwal’s book, Calcutta: Repossessing the City, 2006.",
"And artist Surendran Nair’s book, Itinerant Mythologies, 2008.",
"Sarkar Ellias has curated several art shows: ‘Rain’ at Sakshi Art Gallery, Bombay, commissioning 32 Indian contemporary artists to make works on Rain; ‘Kashmir’ at Tao Art Gallery, Bombay, where artists from Jammu & Kashmir, long-marginilised, were invited to present their works with mainstream Indian artists in an awareness program of Kashmir, its history and conflict; and ‘The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, a show of the Hyderabad artist and his whimsical art works.",
"She curated the online show of international art for Pen & Brush, New York, and launched her curatorial project 'Tagore Lost and Found' with 30 Indian artists at Siddhartha Tagore's Art Bull Gallery in New Delhi, 1 March 2013.",
"She recently curated 'Migration' for the Pune Biennale 2017.",
"It included photography, films and poetry mounted in six shipping containers with junk art created by Pune artists in the foreground.",
"A poet, her chapbook of poems, 'The Room' has been published by AarkArts, UK, besides having appeared in various magazines, anthologies and online poetry sites.",
"Her book of poems 'Fuse' has been published by Poetry Primero, an imprint of Poetrywall, 2017.",
"Poems from it have been translated into Arabic, Urdu, French, Greek and Chinese.",
"A Chinese edition of FUSE was launched at the Formosa Poetry Festival in Tamsui, Taiwan, 2017.",
"FUSE has also been taught at the Towson University in Maryland, USA.",
"Her second book of selected poems responding to art and photographic images 'When Seeing Is Believing' has been launched recently in Mumbai and will be having a New York launch in July 2019.\n\nInternational Gallerie\n\nInternational Gallerie was conceived and founded by Bina Sarkar Ellias in 1997, as a platform for addressing universal socio-political/cultural issues as interpreted through excellence in the arts from global regions.",
"Gallerie encourages unity in diversity in the belief that it is culture that ultimately humanises.",
"Quotes\n“Gallerie draws my attention to what I didn't know or what I thought I never needed to know... it is positive and passionate.”\n-Mel Gooding, noted art critic, UK.",
"“A magnificent production as well as an especially forceful presentation.” ——Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, India/USA/UK\n\n“Reading Gallerie is like leafing through the contemporary Louvre... in your living room.",
"For twenty years, it has nourished my awareness of the evolving global art and culture\nsituation.",
"It’s an honour to be published in its pages.” ——Gulzar, poet, lyricist, filmmaker, India\n\n“I didn’t see how Gallerie could possibly be better than its first issue, but each successive one proves me wrong!” ——Adrian Piper, philosopher and conceptual artist, Germany\n\nPersonal life\n\nBina Sarkar was married in Tokyo to photographer and award-winning documentary filmmaker Rafeeq Ellias and they have two children; Raoul Ellias, a successful IT professional in the US and Yuki Ellias, an actor-director, who played Hermea in Tim Supple's \"Midsummer Night's Dream\", and has received a \"Best Actress Award\" from her solo performance in \"Elephant in the Room\", which played at the Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, 2017, for three weeks.",
"Bina Sarkar Ellias when not a wandering nomad, lives and works in Bombay.",
"References\n\nExternal links\n Rethinking Rain\n Roving Eye\n Bina Sarkar Ellias: Understanding Afghanistan\n Bina Sarkar (India) Gallerie\n German Authors in India\n An Afghan Affair\n Baggage of hate: Review of burning Gujarat\n Inspired Poems\n\nIndian magazine editors\nIndian women designers\n20th-century Indian designers\nLiving people\nScottish Church College alumni\nUniversity of Calcutta alumni\nIndian women editors\nIndian editors\nWomen magazine editors\nYear of birth missing (living people)\n20th-century Indian women"
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"The name of the person is Bina Sarkar Ellias.",
"He is a poet.",
"She is the editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, a global arts and ideas journal.",
"She is an art curator and has several important exhibits of renowned artists.",
"In 1984, the advertising agency \"Nucleus\" was co-founded by a woman.",
"In 1997 she founded International Gallerie, a bi-annual arts and ideas magazine.",
"In recognition of her efforts, she has been awarded a Woman Achiever's award by FICCI/FLO 2013, Woman Achiever of the year by Times Group & ITC in 2008 and a fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and Japan Foundation for research and development of the project: Unity in Diversity.",
"She received the Prince Claus Awards.",
"She has a lot of shows that she has organized.",
"A forthcoming show in New York is a work in progress.",
"The New Moves Festival discussion with 10 Asian women artists in Glasgow, as well as other fora in London, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Teheran, Dacca, Lahore, Karachi, Delhi, Santiniketan, was chaired by Sarkar Ellias.",
"She was a panelist at the 85th Congress of PEN International.",
"After graduating with a degree in English at Scottish Church College, Calcutta University, she began working as an assistant editor to T.M. Doig's popular journal, Junior Statesman.",
"An eclectic Indian magazine on world cinema.",
"She contributed articles to The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindu and the Hindustan Times through the years.",
"An award-winning global arts and ideas journal that encourages understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity through excellence in the arts was founded in 1997 by her.",
"The visual and performing arts, poetry, essay, photography, cinema and travel stories, narratives that reveal a world that is essentially one, even as politicians divide us, have been done by Gallerie for 22 years.",
"She has designed books and catalogues for artists, galleries, photographers and a poet.",
"Fifty Years of Contemporary Indian Art was designed and edited by her in 1997.",
"She designed the artist's catalogue for the 2002 show in Mumbai, Delhi and New York, as well as the artist's catalogue for the 2003 show in New York, and the fortieth anniversary catalogue for Gallery Che.",
"She has designed, edited and published an art book, Chinthala Jagdish:Unmasked, 2004, and The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, 2008, a book of poems and photographs.",
"Leena Kejriwal's book, Calcutta: Repossessing the City, was edited and designed by her.",
"Surendran Nair wrote a book called Itinerant Mythologies.",
"At the Sakshi Art Gallery, Bombay, 32 Indian contemporary artists were commissioned to make works on Rain, and at the Tao Art Gallery, Bombay, artists from Jammu and Kashmir were invited to make works on Kashmir.",
"She launched her curatorial project 'Tagore Lost and Found' with 30 Indian artists at the Art Bull Gallery in New Delhi on 1 March.",
"She was in charge of 'Migration' for the Pune Biennale.",
"The junk art created by the artists in the foreground was mounted in six shipping containers.",
"A poet, her chapbook of poems, 'The Room' has been published by AarkArts, UK, besides having appeared in various magazines, anthologies and online poetry sites.",
"Her book of poems has been published.",
"Poems from it have been translated into many other languages.",
"At the Formosa Poetry Festival in Taiwan, a Chinese edition of FUSE was launched.",
"FUSE was taught at the University of Maryland.",
"Her second book of poems responding to art and photographic images 'When Seeing Is Believing' was launched recently in Mumbai and will be having a New York launch in July 2019.",
"In the belief that it is culture that ultimately humanises, Gallerie encourages unity in diversity.",
"Mel Gooding, noted art critic, UK said, \"Gallerie draws my attention to what I didn't know or what I thought I never needed to know.\"",
"A magnificent production as well as an especially powerful presentation is what Amartya Sen described.",
"I have been aware of the evolving global art and culture situation for twenty years.",
"It is an honor to be published in the pages.",
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"External links include Rethinking Rain Roving Eye and An Afghan Affair Baggage of Hate."
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Cultural Practitioner
In 1984, <mask> co-founded the advertising agency "Nucleus", with Rafeeq Ellias and worked for 12 years as its Creative Director. In 1997, she founded International Gallerie, a bi-annual arts and ideas magazine that she edits, designs and publishes. In recognition of her efforts, she has been awarded a Woman Achiever's award by FICCI/FLO 2013, Woman Achiever of the year by TimesGroup & ITC, in 2008 and a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and Japan Foundation for research and development of the project: Unity in Diversity: Envisioning Community Building in Asia and Beyond, Tokyo, in 2007 in recognition of her work in encouraging knowledge, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.She has also been recipient of the Prince Claus Awards. Besides several shows she has curated are “Migration” at the Pune Biennale 2017. Her curation of a forthcoming show in New York, is a work in progress. <mask> <mask> has been invited to speak at various venues, chaired the New Moves Festival discussion with 10 Asian women artists in Glasgow as well as other fora in London, San Francisco, New York, Tokyo, Teheran, Dacca, Lahore, Karachi, Delhi, Santiniketan, Kolkata and Mumbai in the last many years. She has been a panelist at the 85th Congress of PEN International in Manila, Philippines (2019). Poet, editor, designer, publisher, curator
<mask> Sarkar soon after graduation with Honours in English at Scottish Church College, Calcutta University, began as a freelance writer to Desmond Doig's popular journal, Junior Statesman; she was employed next, as assistant editor to T.M. Ramachandran of [Film World], an eclectic Indian magazine on world cinema.She went on to be a sub-editor at Eve's Weekly, following which she contributed articles for The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindu and the Hindustan Times through the years. She founded International Gallerie in 1997, an award-winning global arts and ideas journal that encourages understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity through excellence in the arts. For 22 years, Gallerie has upheld unity in diversity through artistic reflections via the visual and performing arts, poetry, essay, photography, cinema and travel stories, narratives that reveal a world that is essentially one, even as politicians divide us. She taught herself graphic design and has been invited by artists, galleries, photographers and a poet to design their books and catalogues. To date, she has designed and edited, Fifty Years of Contemporary Indian Art, 1997, for the Mohile Parikh Centre for Visual Arts, Mumbai, 1997 . She has designed artist Jehangir Sabavala's catalogue for the 2002 show in Mumbai, Delhi and New York, artist Rekha Rodwittiya's catalogue, 2003 and recently in 2007, for shows in New York, Crossing Generations: diverge, the fortieth anniversary catalogue for Gallery Chemould, Mumbai, 2004, and a book on artist Tyeb Mehta, Svaraj by Ramchandra Gandhi. She has designed, edited and published an art book, Chinthala Jagdish:Unmasked, 2004, and The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, 2008, a book of poems, Rain, for Indian poet Sudeep Sen, 2005, Ayesha Taleyarkhan’s book of photographs:, Bombay Mumbai, 2005, American photographer, Waswo X. Waswo’s book, India Poems: The Photographs and his recent catalogue, A Studio in Rajasthan, 2008.She has edited and designed photographer, Leena Kejriwal’s book, Calcutta: Repossessing the City, 2006. And artist Surendran Nair’s book, Itinerant Mythologies, 2008. <mask> <mask> has curated several art shows: ‘Rain’ at Sakshi Art Gallery, Bombay, commissioning 32 Indian contemporary artists to make works on Rain; ‘Kashmir’ at Tao Art Gallery, Bombay, where artists from Jammu & Kashmir, long-marginilised, were invited to present their works with mainstream Indian artists in an awareness program of Kashmir, its history and conflict; and ‘The Curious World of Chinthala Jagdish, a show of the Hyderabad artist and his whimsical art works. She curated the online show of international art for Pen & Brush, New York, and launched her curatorial project 'Tagore Lost and Found' with 30 Indian artists at Siddhartha Tagore's Art Bull Gallery in New Delhi, 1 March 2013. She recently curated 'Migration' for the Pune Biennale 2017. It included photography, films and poetry mounted in six shipping containers with junk art created by Pune artists in the foreground. A poet, her chapbook of poems, 'The Room' has been published by AarkArts, UK, besides having appeared in various magazines, anthologies and online poetry sites.Her book of poems 'Fuse' has been published by Poetry Primero, an imprint of Poetrywall, 2017. Poems from it have been translated into Arabic, Urdu, French, Greek and Chinese. A Chinese edition of FUSE was launched at the Formosa Poetry Festival in Tamsui, Taiwan, 2017. FUSE has also been taught at the Towson University in Maryland, USA. Her second book of selected poems responding to art and photographic images 'When Seeing Is Believing' has been launched recently in Mumbai and will be having a New York launch in July 2019.
International Gallerie
International Gallerie was conceived and founded by <mask> <mask> <mask> in 1997, as a platform for addressing universal socio-political/cultural issues as interpreted through excellence in the arts from global regions. Gallerie encourages unity in diversity in the belief that it is culture that ultimately humanises. Quotes
“Gallerie draws my attention to what I didn't know or what I thought I never needed to know... it is positive and passionate.”
-Mel Gooding, noted art critic, UK.“A magnificent production as well as an especially forceful presentation.” ——Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, India/USA/UK
“Reading Gallerie is like leafing through the contemporary Louvre... in your living room. For twenty years, it has nourished my awareness of the evolving global art and culture
situation. It’s an honour to be published in its pages.” ——Gulzar, poet, lyricist, filmmaker, India
“I didn’t see how Gallerie could possibly be better than its first issue, but each successive one proves me wrong!” ——Adrian Piper, philosopher and conceptual artist, Germany
Personal life
<mask> <mask> was married in Tokyo to photographer and award-winning documentary filmmaker Rafeeq <mask> and they have two children; <mask>, a successful IT professional in the US and Yuki <mask>, an actor-director, who played Hermea in Tim Supple's "Midsummer Night's Dream", and has received a "Best Actress Award" from her solo performance in "Elephant in the Room", which played at the Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, 2017, for three weeks. <mask> <mask> Ellias when not a wandering nomad, lives and works in Bombay. References
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Rethinking Rain
Roving Eye
<mask> <mask> Ellias: Understanding Afghanistan
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German Authors in India
An Afghan Affair
Baggage of hate: Review of burning Gujarat
Inspired Poems
Indian magazine editors
Indian women designers
20th-century Indian designers
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Scottish Church College alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
Indian women editors
Indian editors
Women magazine editors
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988757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra%20Nat%C3%A9 | Ultra Naté | Ultra Naté Wyche (born March 20, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free", "If You Could Read My Mind" (as part of Stars on 54), and "Automatic".
Virtually all of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. Such singles include "Show Me", "Free", "Desire", "Get It Up (the Feeling)", "Love's the Only Drug", and her number-one hits "Automatic", "Give it All You Got" featuring Chris Willis, "Waiting On You" and "Everybody Loves the Night". In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 12th most successful dance artist of all-time.
Biography
Early life
Born Ultra Naté in Havre de Grace, Maryland, United States, she displayed her singing talent at an early age. Growing up, Naté enjoyed a wide variety of music; she enjoyed listening to artists such as Marvin Gaye and Boy George, who Naté later said helped her become more open to being more experimental with her style and production of music.
She is best known in her home country for her 1990s dance crossover track, "Free". She is also remembered in America for her team-up with Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez as Stars on 54 on a 1998 cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", which was a minor mainstream American hit. It reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and, especially, album sales success in Europe.
Career
Ultra Naté began her recording career on a major label, Warner Bros. Records, signed through its British offices. Through it, she released her first two albums. Her debut album, Blue Notes in the Basement (1991) was created along with the Basement Boys and it featured the singles "It's Over Now", "Deeper Love (Missing You)", "Is It Love", and the gospel-tinged "Rejoicing".
In 1993, the alternative dance/house One Woman's Insanity was released. Although it still featured the Basement Boys' production on several tracks, this time Ultra found herself working with Nellee Hooper, and D-Influence. At a time when soulful house music performers such as Robin S and Crystal Waters were scoring cross-over Top Ten Pop singles, it was believed that Ultra Naté would score a similar level of commercial success. Mainstream sales however were not achieved even though "Show Me" received moderate mainstream pop radio airplay. Singles included "How Long", "Show Me" (her first song to reach the top position on the US Dance charts) and "Joy". However, neither release sold very well, and she was dropped from the label.
In 1995, Ultra Naté contributed the song "Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)" to the soundtrack to the independent film starring Parker Posey. The single was commercially released by the King Street Sounds label.
When Warner Bros. tried to push her in another direction, Ultra Naté left the major label and moved to the independent dance label, Strictly Rhythm. It was here that "Free", her biggest mainstream hit, was released in 1997. The song, co-written by Naté, Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone while production was held by both Springsteen and Ciafone, enjoyed heavy airplay throughout the summer, not only in clubs, but on rhythmic and mainstream radio stations in America and Europe. "Free" peaked at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It became a substantial hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, helping its parent album 'Situation: Critical' reach number seventeen on the UK Albums Chart.
It was also successful in Canada, where it peaked at number ten on the Canadian Singles Chart.
It was with this album that Ultra Naté's greatest commercial success was achieved, particularly in Europe, where singles such as "Found a Cure" (No. 6 in the UK), and "New Kind of Medicine" (No 14 UK) also charted.
In 1998, a new single "Pressure" was released internationally. Taken from the soundtrack to the film The 24 Hour Woman, it contained three club mixes. The original version of the track was found on 'Situation: Critical" but listed as "Release the Pressure".
Her follow-up album Stranger Than Fiction, which was released in 2001, featured the production work of artists such as Attica Blues, 4 Hero, and Mood II Swing. Four singles were released: "Desire", "Get It Up (The Feeling)", "Twisted", and "I Don't Understand It".
Naté contributed the song "Wonderful Place" to the AIDS benefit compilation Keep Hope Alive: A Lifebeat Benefit Compilation. Additionally, in 2004, she released the singles "Feel Love", "Brass in Pocket", "Time of Our Lives" (released as "Ultra Devoted featuring Ultra Naté and Gerry DeVeaux"), and a new version of "Free" that features twelve new mixes. In 2005, she collaborated with Gaudino and released the single "Bitter Sweet Melody". Later in the same year she found herself again on the charts, when her featured vocals on the Stonebridge single "Freak On" became a successful dance hit. She also performed on the British show Hit Me Baby One More Time.
Having become a mother for the first time in the fall of 2005, Naté released her fifth album Grime, Silk, & Thunder on her newly created imprint Blufire in partnership with Tommy Boy Records. The first single released was "Love's the Only Drug", which became available through the US iTunes Store August 8, 2006 and reached number two on the American Hot Dance Club Play and made the Top 30 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart. The second single "Automatic" (a cover version of the Pointer Sisters hit) reached number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart (the week ending April 28, 2007). It also received airplay in the Rhythmic/Dance format radio where it reached the Top 30 of most playlists in this radio format. Following Automatic, Ultra released "Give It All You Got" which features Chris Willis in Dec 2007. The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play charts the week ending February 23, 2008.
In mid-2009 it was announced that US singer Michelle Williams, previously of Destiny's Child has collaborated on a song with Ultra called "I'm Waiting On You", for use on both of their next studio albums. In 2010 Ultra has released a Bob Sinclar remix of her hit "Free" on Strictly Rhythm. "Give It 2 U" in collaboration with Quentin Harris for his album "Sacrifice". She also released "Destination" in collaboration with Tony Moran which peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Dance Play chart. "Destination" was the second single off Tony's album, Mix Magic Music.
In 2010 she released an EP titled "Things Happen At Night" featuring Ultra's pop and soul melodies and vocals over percussive club beats done by Unruly productions. January 2011 is saw the release of Ultra's next single with Strictly Rhythm on her Deep Sugar label imprint called "Turn It Up" with a music video directed by Leo Herrera. "Turn It Up" was the first single to be released from her sixth studio album titled Hero Worship.
In September 2011, she submitted the song, "My Love" to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. However, though close, the song failed to reach the final.
In 2013, she held a residency spot at Cafe Ole at Space, Ibiza. Her spirited presence has graced the stages of New York's massive Summer Stage in Central Park, Nile Rodgers acclaimed FOLD Festival sharing the stage with the likes of CHIC, Duran Duran, Pharrell and Beck to Lincoln Center's annual Midnight Summer Swing and numerous Pride events around the world.
Ultra's 2017 album collaboration, Ultra Naté & Quentin Harris as Black Stereo Faith, reached the iTunes Top 10 upon release.
Awards and nominations
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | Award
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Category
! scope="col" | Nominee(s)
! scope="col" | Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"|
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! scope="row" rowspan=3|Billboard Music Awards
| 1997
| rowspan=2|Top Hot Dance Club Play Single
| "Free"
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1998
| "Found a Cure"
|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist
| Herself
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=5|International Dance Music Awards
| rowspan=3|1998
| Best Dance Solo Artist
| Herself
|
| rowspan=3|
|-
| Best House/Garage 12"
| rowspan=2|"Free"
|
|-
| Best Pop 12" Dance Record
|
|-
| 2008
| Best Dance Solo Artist
| Herself
|
|
|-
| 2011
| Best House/Garage Dance Track
| "Give It 2 U"
|
|
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Compilation albums
The Best Remixes, Vol. 1 (1997)
Best Remixes, Vol. 2 (1999)
Alchemy - G.S.T. Reloaded (2008)
Extended plays
Things Happen at Night (2010)
Singles
As featured artist
See also
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
References
External links
Ultra Naté — official website
1968 births
Living people
People from Havre de Grace, Maryland
African-American women singer-songwriters
American garage house musicians
American house musicians
American contemporary R&B singers
Warner Records artists
Tommy Boy Records artists
AM PM Records artists
American dance musicians
Singer-songwriters from Maryland
Deep house musicians
American women in electronic music
20th-century African-American women singers
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"Ultra Naté Wyche (born March 20, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as \"Free\", \"If You Could Read My Mind\" (as part of Stars on 54), and \"Automatic\".",
"Virtually all of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.",
"Such singles include \"Show Me\", \"Free\", \"Desire\", \"Get It Up (the Feeling)\", \"Love's the Only Drug\", and her number-one hits \"Automatic\", \"Give it All You Got\" featuring Chris Willis, \"Waiting On You\" and \"Everybody Loves the Night\".",
"In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 12th most successful dance artist of all-time.",
"Biography\n\nEarly life\nBorn Ultra Naté in Havre de Grace, Maryland, United States, she displayed her singing talent at an early age.",
"Growing up, Naté enjoyed a wide variety of music; she enjoyed listening to artists such as Marvin Gaye and Boy George, who Naté later said helped her become more open to being more experimental with her style and production of music.",
"She is best known in her home country for her 1990s dance crossover track, \"Free\".",
"She is also remembered in America for her team-up with Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez as Stars on 54 on a 1998 cover of Gordon Lightfoot's \"If You Could Read My Mind\", which was a minor mainstream American hit.",
"It reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.",
"Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and, especially, album sales success in Europe.",
"Career\nUltra Naté began her recording career on a major label, Warner Bros. Records, signed through its British offices.",
"Through it, she released her first two albums.",
"Her debut album, Blue Notes in the Basement (1991) was created along with the Basement Boys and it featured the singles \"It's Over Now\", \"Deeper Love (Missing You)\", \"Is It Love\", and the gospel-tinged \"Rejoicing\".",
"In 1993, the alternative dance/house One Woman's Insanity was released.",
"Although it still featured the Basement Boys' production on several tracks, this time Ultra found herself working with Nellee Hooper, and D-Influence.",
"At a time when soulful house music performers such as Robin S and Crystal Waters were scoring cross-over Top Ten Pop singles, it was believed that Ultra Naté would score a similar level of commercial success.",
"Mainstream sales however were not achieved even though \"Show Me\" received moderate mainstream pop radio airplay.",
"Singles included \"How Long\", \"Show Me\" (her first song to reach the top position on the US Dance charts) and \"Joy\".",
"However, neither release sold very well, and she was dropped from the label.",
"In 1995, Ultra Naté contributed the song \"Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)\" to the soundtrack to the independent film starring Parker Posey.",
"The single was commercially released by the King Street Sounds label.",
"When Warner Bros. tried to push her in another direction, Ultra Naté left the major label and moved to the independent dance label, Strictly Rhythm.",
"It was here that \"Free\", her biggest mainstream hit, was released in 1997.",
"The song, co-written by Naté, Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone while production was held by both Springsteen and Ciafone, enjoyed heavy airplay throughout the summer, not only in clubs, but on rhythmic and mainstream radio stations in America and Europe.",
"\"Free\" peaked at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100.",
"It became a substantial hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, helping its parent album 'Situation: Critical' reach number seventeen on the UK Albums Chart.",
"It was also successful in Canada, where it peaked at number ten on the Canadian Singles Chart.",
"It was with this album that Ultra Naté's greatest commercial success was achieved, particularly in Europe, where singles such as \"Found a Cure\" (No.",
"6 in the UK), and \"New Kind of Medicine\" (No 14 UK) also charted.",
"In 1998, a new single \"Pressure\" was released internationally.",
"Taken from the soundtrack to the film The 24 Hour Woman, it contained three club mixes.",
"The original version of the track was found on 'Situation: Critical\" but listed as \"Release the Pressure\".",
"Her follow-up album Stranger Than Fiction, which was released in 2001, featured the production work of artists such as Attica Blues, 4 Hero, and Mood II Swing.",
"Four singles were released: \"Desire\", \"Get It Up (The Feeling)\", \"Twisted\", and \"I Don't Understand It\".",
"Naté contributed the song \"Wonderful Place\" to the AIDS benefit compilation Keep Hope Alive: A Lifebeat Benefit Compilation.",
"Additionally, in 2004, she released the singles \"Feel Love\", \"Brass in Pocket\", \"Time of Our Lives\" (released as \"Ultra Devoted featuring Ultra Naté and Gerry DeVeaux\"), and a new version of \"Free\" that features twelve new mixes.",
"In 2005, she collaborated with Gaudino and released the single \"Bitter Sweet Melody\".",
"Later in the same year she found herself again on the charts, when her featured vocals on the Stonebridge single \"Freak On\" became a successful dance hit.",
"She also performed on the British show Hit Me Baby One More Time.",
"Having become a mother for the first time in the fall of 2005, Naté released her fifth album Grime, Silk, & Thunder on her newly created imprint Blufire in partnership with Tommy Boy Records.",
"The first single released was \"Love's the Only Drug\", which became available through the US iTunes Store August 8, 2006 and reached number two on the American Hot Dance Club Play and made the Top 30 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart.",
"The second single \"Automatic\" (a cover version of the Pointer Sisters hit) reached number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart (the week ending April 28, 2007).",
"It also received airplay in the Rhythmic/Dance format radio where it reached the Top 30 of most playlists in this radio format.",
"Following Automatic, Ultra released \"Give It All You Got\" which features Chris Willis in Dec 2007.",
"The song hit No.",
"1 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play charts the week ending February 23, 2008.",
"In mid-2009 it was announced that US singer Michelle Williams, previously of Destiny's Child has collaborated on a song with Ultra called \"I'm Waiting On You\", for use on both of their next studio albums.",
"In 2010 Ultra has released a Bob Sinclar remix of her hit \"Free\" on Strictly Rhythm.",
"\"Give It 2 U\" in collaboration with Quentin Harris for his album \"Sacrifice\".",
"She also released \"Destination\" in collaboration with Tony Moran which peaked at No.",
"10 on the Billboard Dance Play chart.",
"\"Destination\" was the second single off Tony's album, Mix Magic Music.",
"In 2010 she released an EP titled \"Things Happen At Night\" featuring Ultra's pop and soul melodies and vocals over percussive club beats done by Unruly productions.",
"January 2011 is saw the release of Ultra's next single with Strictly Rhythm on her Deep Sugar label imprint called \"Turn It Up\" with a music video directed by Leo Herrera.",
"\"Turn It Up\" was the first single to be released from her sixth studio album titled Hero Worship.",
"In September 2011, she submitted the song, \"My Love\" to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan.",
"However, though close, the song failed to reach the final.",
"In 2013, she held a residency spot at Cafe Ole at Space, Ibiza.",
"Her spirited presence has graced the stages of New York's massive Summer Stage in Central Park, Nile Rodgers acclaimed FOLD Festival sharing the stage with the likes of CHIC, Duran Duran, Pharrell and Beck to Lincoln Center's annual Midnight Summer Swing and numerous Pride events around the world.",
"Ultra's 2017 album collaboration, Ultra Naté & Quentin Harris as Black Stereo Faith, reached the iTunes Top 10 upon release.",
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"Ultra Nat Wyche is an American singer, DJ, record producer, and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as \"Free\", \"If You Could Read My Mind\", and \"Automatic\".",
"Most of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.",
"Her number-one hits include \"Automatic\", \"Get It Up\", and \"Love's the Only Drug\".",
"In December of 2016 she was ranked as the 12th most successful dance artist of all-time.",
"She displayed her singing talent at an early age.",
"Naté said that listening to artists such as Marvin Gaye and Boy George helped her become more open to being more experimental with her style and production of music.",
"She is best known for her 1990s dance track \"Free\".",
"Stars on 54 was a 1998 cover of Gordon Lightfoot's \"If You Could Read My Mind\", which was a minor mainstream American hit.",
"It was ranked #3 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.",
"Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and album sales success in Europe.",
"Warner Bros. Records signed Ultra Naté through its British offices.",
"Her first two albums were released through it.",
"\"It's Over Now\", \"Deeper Love (Missing You)\", \"Is It Love\", and \"Rejoicing\" were some of the singles on her debut album, Blue Notes in the Basement.",
"One Woman's Insanity was released in 1993.",
"The Basement Boys' production was still featured on several tracks, but Ultra found herself working with other people.",
"Ultra Naté was thought to score a similar level of commercial success as other house music performers such as Robin S and Crystal Waters.",
"Even though \"Show Me\" received moderate mainstream pop radio airplay, Mainstream sales were not achieved.",
"Her first song to reach the top position on the US Dance charts was \"Joy\".",
"She was dropped from the label after neither release sold well.",
"\"Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)\" was contributed to the soundtrack by Ultra Naté.",
"The King Street Sounds label released the single.",
"Ultra Naté moved to the independent dance label Strictly Rhythm after Warner Bros. tried to push her in another direction.",
"\"Free\", her biggest mainstream hit, was released here in 1997.",
"The song, co-written by Naté, Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone while production was held by both Springsteen and Ciafone, enjoyed heavy airplay throughout the summer, not only in clubs, but on rhythmic and mainstream radio stations in America and Europe.",
"\"Free\" was the number 75 on the US Hot 100.",
"It became a hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, helping its parent album 'Situation: Critical' reach number seventeen on the UK Albums Chart.",
"It peaked at number ten on the Canadian Singles Chart.",
"Ultra Naté's greatest commercial success was achieved in Europe, where singles such as \"Found a Cure\" were recorded.",
"\"New Kind of Medicine\" was also in the UK.",
"\"Pressure\" was released internationally in 1998.",
"The soundtrack to The 24 Hour Woman contained three club mixes.",
"The original version of the track was listed as \"Release the Pressure\".",
"The production work of artists such as Attica Blues, 4 Hero, and Mood II Swing were featured on her follow-up album.",
"\"Get It Up\", \"Twisted\", and \"I Don't Understand It\" were released.",
"The song \"Wonderful Place\" was written by Naté.",
"The singles \"Brass in Pocket\", \"Time of Our Lives\", and a new version of \"Free\" were released in 2004.",
"The single \"Bitter Sweet Melody\" was released in 2005.",
"She found herself again on the charts later in the year, when her vocals on the Stonebridge single \"Freak On\" became a successful dance hit.",
"She performed on the British show.",
"Naté's fifth album, Grime, Silk, &Thunder, was released in partnership with Tommy Boy Records, after she became a mother for the first time.",
"The first single to be released was \"Love's the Only Drug\", which reached number two on the American Hot Dance Club Play and made the Top 30 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart.",
"The second single \"Automatic\", a cover version of the Pointer Sisters hit, reached number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.",
"In the Rhythmic/Dance format radio, it reached the Top 30 of most playlists.",
"\"Give It All You Got\" was released in Dec 2007.",
"The song made it to the top of the charts.",
"1 is on the Dance Music/Club Play charts.",
"A song called \"I'm Waiting On You\" was written for use on two of Ultra's next studio albums by US singer Michelle Williams.",
"Ultra released a Bob Sinclar version of her hit \"Free\" in 2010.",
"\"Give It 2 U\" is a song on the album \"Sacrifice\".",
"She collaborated with Tony Moran on \"Destination\" which peaked at No.",
"There are 10 on the dance play chart.",
"\"Destination\" was the second single from Tony's album.",
"Ultra's pop and soul melodies and vocals were used in the \"Things Happen At Night\" EP.",
"Ultra's next single with Strictly Rhythm was released on her Deep Sugar label in January of 2011.",
"\"Turn It Up\" was the first single to be released from her sixth studio album.",
"She submitted a song called \"My Love\" to represent Switzerland in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest.",
"The song did not make it to the final.",
"She held a residency at Cafe Ole at Space.",
"Her spirited presence has graced the stages of New York's massive Summer Stage in Central Park, Nile Rodgers acclaimed FOLD Festival, as well as Lincoln Center's annual Midnight Summer Swing and numerous Pride events around the world.",
"Ultra's album collaboration, Ultra Naté & Quentin Harris as Black Stereo Faith, reached the iTunes Top 10 upon release.",
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"\"Free\" is a single by the Top Hot Dance Club Play.",
"The International Dance Music Awards have a best dance solo artist award.",
"The Best Remixes, Vol. 1 was published in 1997.",
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"There is a list of number-one dance hits ( United States) List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart."
] | <mask> (born March 20, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter who has achieved success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free", "If You Could Read My Mind" (as part of Stars on 54), and "Automatic". Virtually all of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the US Hot Dance Club Play chart. Such singles include "Show Me", "Free", "Desire", "Get It Up (the Feeling)", "Love's the Only Drug", and her number-one hits "Automatic", "Give it All You Got" featuring Chris Willis, "Waiting On You" and "Everybody Loves the Night". In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 12th most successful dance artist of all-time. Biography
Early life
Born <mask>é in Havre de Grace, Maryland, United States, she displayed her singing talent at an early age. Growing up, Naté enjoyed a wide variety of music; she enjoyed listening to artists such as Marvin Gaye and Boy George, who Naté later said helped her become more open to being more experimental with her style and production of music. She is best known in her home country for her 1990s dance crossover track, "Free".She is also remembered in America for her team-up with Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez as Stars on 54 on a 1998 cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", which was a minor mainstream American hit. It reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and, especially, album sales success in Europe. Career
<mask> Naté began her recording career on a major label, Warner Bros. Records, signed through its British offices. Through it, she released her first two albums. Her debut album, Blue Notes in the Basement (1991) was created along with the Basement Boys and it featured the singles "It's Over Now", "Deeper Love (Missing You)", "Is It Love", and the gospel-tinged "Rejoicing". In 1993, the alternative dance/house One Woman's Insanity was released.Although it still featured the Basement Boys' production on several tracks, this time <mask> found herself working with Nellee Hooper, and D-Influence. At a time when soulful house music performers such as Robin S and Crystal Waters were scoring cross-over Top Ten Pop singles, it was believed that <mask>é would score a similar level of commercial success. Mainstream sales however were not achieved even though "Show Me" received moderate mainstream pop radio airplay. Singles included "How Long", "Show Me" (her first song to reach the top position on the US Dance charts) and "Joy". However, neither release sold very well, and she was dropped from the label. In 1995, <mask> contributed the song "Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)" to the soundtrack to the independent film starring Parker Posey. The single was commercially released by the King Street Sounds label.When Warner Bros. tried to push her in another direction, <mask> left the major label and moved to the independent dance label, Strictly Rhythm. It was here that "Free", her biggest mainstream hit, was released in 1997. The song, co-written by <mask>, Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone while production was held by both Springsteen and Ciafone, enjoyed heavy airplay throughout the summer, not only in clubs, but on rhythmic and mainstream radio stations in America and Europe. "Free" peaked at number 75 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It became a substantial hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, helping its parent album 'Situation: Critical' reach number seventeen on the UK Albums Chart. It was also successful in Canada, where it peaked at number ten on the Canadian Singles Chart. It was with this album that Ultra Naté's greatest commercial success was achieved, particularly in Europe, where singles such as "Found a Cure" (No.6 in the UK), and "New Kind of Medicine" (No 14 UK) also charted. In 1998, a new single "Pressure" was released internationally. Taken from the soundtrack to the film The 24 Hour Woman, it contained three club mixes. The original version of the track was found on 'Situation: Critical" but listed as "Release the Pressure". Her follow-up album Stranger Than Fiction, which was released in 2001, featured the production work of artists such as Attica Blues, 4 Hero, and Mood II Swing. Four singles were released: "Desire", "Get It Up (The Feeling)", "Twisted", and "I Don't Understand It". <mask> contributed the song "Wonderful Place" to the AIDS benefit compilation Keep Hope Alive: A Lifebeat Benefit Compilation.Additionally, in 2004, she released the singles "Feel Love", "Brass in Pocket", "Time of Our Lives" (released as "Ultra Devoted featuring <mask> and Gerry DeVeaux"), and a new version of "Free" that features twelve new mixes. In 2005, she collaborated with Gaudino and released the single "Bitter Sweet Melody". Later in the same year she found herself again on the charts, when her featured vocals on the Stonebridge single "Freak On" became a successful dance hit. She also performed on the British show Hit Me Baby One More Time. Having become a mother for the first time in the fall of 2005, <mask> released her fifth album Grime, Silk, & Thunder on her newly created imprint Blufire in partnership with Tommy Boy Records. The first single released was "Love's the Only Drug", which became available through the US iTunes Store August 8, 2006 and reached number two on the American Hot Dance Club Play and made the Top 30 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart. The second single "Automatic" (a cover version of the Pointer Sisters hit) reached number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart (the week ending April 28, 2007).It also received airplay in the Rhythmic/Dance format radio where it reached the Top 30 of most playlists in this radio format. Following Automatic, Ultra released "Give It All You Got" which features Chris Willis in Dec 2007. The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play charts the week ending February 23, 2008. In mid-2009 it was announced that US singer Michelle Williams, previously of Destiny's Child has collaborated on a song with Ultra called "I'm Waiting On You", for use on both of their next studio albums. In 2010 Ultra has released a Bob Sinclar remix of her hit "Free" on Strictly Rhythm. "Give It 2 U" in collaboration with Quentin Harris for his album "Sacrifice".She also released "Destination" in collaboration with Tony Moran which peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Dance Play chart. "Destination" was the second single off Tony's album, Mix Magic Music. In 2010 she released an EP titled "Things Happen At Night" featuring Ultra's pop and soul melodies and vocals over percussive club beats done by Unruly productions. January 2011 is saw the release of Ultra's next single with Strictly Rhythm on her Deep Sugar label imprint called "Turn It Up" with a music video directed by Leo Herrera. "Turn It Up" was the first single to be released from her sixth studio album titled Hero Worship. In September 2011, she submitted the song, "My Love" to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, to be held in Baku, Azerbaijan.However, though close, the song failed to reach the final. In 2013, she held a residency spot at Cafe Ole at Space, Ibiza. Her spirited presence has graced the stages of New York's massive Summer Stage in Central Park, Nile Rodgers acclaimed FOLD Festival sharing the stage with the likes of CHIC, Duran Duran, Pharrell and Beck to Lincoln Center's annual Midnight Summer Swing and numerous Pride events around the world. Ultra's 2017 album collaboration, Ultra Naté & Quentin Harris as Black Stereo Faith, reached the iTunes Top 10 upon release. Awards and nominations
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | Award
! scope="col" | Year
!scope="col" | Category
! scope="col" | Nominee(s)
! scope="col" | Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=3|Billboard Music Awards
| 1997
| rowspan=2|Top Hot Dance Club Play Single
| "Free"
|
|
|-
| rowspan=2|1998
| "Found a Cure"
|
| rowspan=2|
|-
| Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist
| Herself
|
|-
! scope="row" rowspan=5|International Dance Music Awards
| rowspan=3|1998
| Best Dance Solo Artist
| Herself
|
| rowspan=3|
|-
| Best House/Garage 12"
| rowspan=2|"Free"
|
|-
| Best Pop 12" Dance Record
|
|-
| 2008
| Best Dance Solo Artist
| Herself
|
|
|-
| 2011
| Best House/Garage Dance Track
| "Give It 2 U"
|
|
Discography
Albums
Studio albums
Compilation albums
The Best Remixes, Vol. 1 (1997)
Best Remixes, Vol.2 (1999)
Alchemy - G.S.T. Reloaded (2008)
Extended plays
Things Happen at Night (2010)
Singles
As featured artist
See also
List of number-one dance hits (United States)
List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
References
External links
Ultra Naté — official website
1968 births
Living people
People from Havre de Grace, Maryland
African-American women singer-songwriters
American garage house musicians
American house musicians
American contemporary R&B singers
Warner Records artists
Tommy Boy Records artists
AM PM Records artists
American dance musicians
Singer-songwriters from Maryland
Deep house musicians
American women in electronic music
20th-century African-American women singers
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Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and album sales success in Europe. Warner Bros. Records signed Ultra Naté through its British offices. Her first two albums were released through it. "It's Over Now", "Deeper Love (Missing You)", "Is It Love", and "Rejoicing" were some of the singles on her debut album, Blue Notes in the Basement. One Woman's Insanity was released in 1993.The Basement Boys' production was still featured on several tracks, but <mask> found herself working with other people. <mask> Naté was thought to score a similar level of commercial success as other house music performers such as Robin S and Crystal Waters. Even though "Show Me" received moderate mainstream pop radio airplay, Mainstream sales were not achieved. Her first song to reach the top position on the US Dance charts was "Joy". She was dropped from the label after neither release sold well. "Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)" was contributed to the soundtrack by <mask>é. The King Street Sounds label released the single.<mask> Naté moved to the independent dance label Strictly Rhythm after Warner Bros. tried to push her in another direction. "Free", her biggest mainstream hit, was released here in 1997. The song, co-written by <mask>, Lem Springsteen and John Ciafone while production was held by both Springsteen and Ciafone, enjoyed heavy airplay throughout the summer, not only in clubs, but on rhythmic and mainstream radio stations in America and Europe. "Free" was the number 75 on the US Hot 100. It became a hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart, helping its parent album 'Situation: Critical' reach number seventeen on the UK Albums Chart. It peaked at number ten on the Canadian Singles Chart. Ultra Naté's greatest commercial success was achieved in Europe, where singles such as "Found a Cure" were recorded."New Kind of Medicine" was also in the UK. "Pressure" was released internationally in 1998. The soundtrack to The 24 Hour Woman contained three club mixes. The original version of the track was listed as "Release the Pressure". The production work of artists such as Attica Blues, 4 Hero, and Mood II Swing were featured on her follow-up album. "Get It Up", "Twisted", and "I Don't Understand It" were released. The song "Wonderful Place" was written by Naté.The singles "Brass in Pocket", "Time of Our Lives", and a new version of "Free" were released in 2004. The single "Bitter Sweet Melody" was released in 2005. She found herself again on the charts later in the year, when her vocals on the Stonebridge single "Freak On" became a successful dance hit. She performed on the British show. <mask>'s fifth album, Grime, Silk, &Thunder, was released in partnership with Tommy Boy Records, after she became a mother for the first time. The first single to be released was "Love's the Only Drug", which reached number two on the American Hot Dance Club Play and made the Top 30 on the Hot Dance Airplay chart. The second single "Automatic", a cover version of the Pointer Sisters hit, reached number one on the US Hot Dance Club Play chart.In the Rhythmic/Dance format radio, it reached the Top 30 of most playlists. "Give It All You Got" was released in Dec 2007. The song made it to the top of the charts. 1 is on the Dance Music/Club Play charts. A song called "I'm Waiting On You" was written for use on two of Ultra's next studio albums by US singer Michelle Williams. Ultra released a Bob Sinclar version of her hit "Free" in 2010. 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26680550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Boustead | Edward Boustead | Edward Boustead (1800–1888) was an English businessman and philanthropist, who founded Boustead & Co and played an active role in the development of Singapore as a business and trading centre. Boustead was born in Yorkshire, England. He was the great-grandfather of actor David Niven.
Beginnings of Boustead & Co
In 1828, Boustead arrived in Singapore on board the British ship Hindustan. In the same year, he established a trading company, Boustead & Co. Boustead & Co specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery.
Boustead commissioned Irish civil architect, George Drumgoole Coleman to design his company's headquarters alongside the Singapore River. The warehouse was known as "the house of seven and twenty pillars", located around the corner from High Street.
In 1834, Boustead partnered with German-born merchant, Gustav Christian Schwabe in the Singapore company. Schwabe and his cousin established Sykes Schwabe & Co in Liverpool. The Liverpool partner would export products like textiles, biscuits, brandies and steel to the East, while the Singapore partner would trade with Eastern produce such as coffee and spices. The freedom of port made Singapore an ideal market for trading among imported manufacturers.
Import of Western commodities such as textiles and machinery had to be balanced with exports of Eastern produce such as copra, coconut, pepper and tapioca. Boustead & Co had a "Balance of Trade", where demand for goods from the East had to be balanced with demand for goods from the West.
Singapore merchant, Tan Kim Seng, was a middleman in Boustead's trading activities. He was also a good friend of Boustead. Tan amassed small shipments of produce from local traders for Boustead, who would then ship the produce to the West.
With a wide trading network, trade credit and finance became increasingly important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders. Edward Boustead actively contributed to the Singapore's trading activities and economy. Boustead & Co was the first agent for Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Singapore, offering banking facilities to businesses. Brokers and sellers could draw a specific percentage of advances against the value of their goods stored in the Boustead warehouse. Such financing was called "trust receipts", where the merchant would hold the goods in trust for the banks.
In 1850, Boustead also set up a London office, Edward Boustead & Co, to oversee the other offices in Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore.
Between 1863 and 1877 Edward Boustead owned shares in vessels managed by Killick Martin & Company. Apart from the three main partners, James Killick, James Henry Martin and David William Ritchie, the next principal shareholder was Edward Boustead, who held shares in 11 vessels. Two of Boustead’s partners in Boustead & Company, William Wardrop Shaw and Jasper Young, also held shares in some of the vessels. Jasper Young owned 40 shares in Mabel Young presumably named after his wife or daughter.
During the late 1880s, Boustead & Co took advantage of the introduction of the rubber tree to Malaysia and eventually became a leading rubber plantation manager and owner of 49 rubber plantations with a total planted area of 141,629 acres. In 1892 Boustead & Co handled the first shipment of bulk oil to Penang and shortly after this the Shell Transport and Trading Company was formed with Isaac Henderson acting as one of its original directors. Boustead represented and operated on Shell’s behalf in Penang until 1920 when Shell opened its own branch. By 1899, Singapore had become the world’s main exporter of tin. Boustead & Co played a leading role as promoter and investor in the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, constructed by the Straits Trading Company. From that point forward, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of Boustead & Co. Over the decades, the excellent reputation of Boustead & Co allowed it to attract some of the world’s most famous brands to give it agency rights in Singapore and around the region. Some of the famous brand names that became synonymous with Boustead were Cadbury's, Nestle, Del Monte, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Nissan, Suzuki and Thomas Cook.
After his death in 1888, Boustead's associates took over the business. Boustead Plc (formerly known as Taiping Rubber Plantations Limited) was founded in 1910 and eventually listed as Boustead Plc on the London Stock Exchange. Having survived World War I, Boustead & Co played a significant role in the rise of Singapore as the world’s largest port, with a booming business in cargo, freight handling, insurance and ship services. Boustead & Co represented over 20 major shipping lines and numerous insurance agencies including the renowned Lloyd’s, which Boustead represented for more than one century. After World War II, Malaysia declared independence from the British in August 1957 and Singapore declared independence from Malaysia in 1965. This saw Boustead & Co split into three entities, Boustead plc in London, Boustead Holdings Berhad in Malaysia and Boustead Singapore Limited which listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange on 17 October 1975.
Boustead Limited formed out of Boustead plc and was renamed later Boustead & Co Limited, which is the holding company for financial services, including corporate finance, principal investing and asset management.
Role in development of Singapore
Boustead was a shareholder in the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company (now known as the Port of Singapore Authority). He was also a key investor in the Straits Trading Company, the first tin foundry in Singapore.
A pioneer in Singapore's newspaper industry, Boustead was a co-founder of the Singapore Free Press with architect George Drumgoole Coleman and William Napier. The newspaper was the forerunner of The Straits Times.
An enterprising businessman in the trading sector, Boustead was one of the founding members of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in 1837. The institution promoted trade in Singapore through establishing shipping, protecting trade on behalf of merchants and encouraging trade activities among merchants.
Boustead was active in community activities as well. He started the Horticultural Society, which supported the cultivation of pepper, cotton, sugar and other tropical produce. The Horticultural Society was responsible for pioneering the Singapore Botanic Gardens. In 1829, Boustead started the first Singapore Club, which was called the Billiards Club.
Edward Boustead's house, designed and built by George Drumgoole Coleman, was one of the exclusive villas on Singapore's Esplanade. It was later converted into a hotel, renamed the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. The site where Boustead's villa stood is now occupied by the old Supreme Court.
Philanthropy and Social Impact Investments
Many sailors were left homeless when they were sick or too old to work. Boustead was an altruistic man and he felt compassion for these sailors. He built the Boustead Institute, situated at Tanjong Pagar. The building came to be known as the Sailor's Home, providing accommodation for sailors of ships visiting the port as well.
Boustead also donated charitably to hospitals, schools and churches. Some of these buildings included Raffles Institution, Saint Joseph's Institution and the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.
In 2014 Boustead & Co co-founded Noble Tree Property Investment, a socially minded property company that develops, owns, lets and sells affordable housing and specialty supported housing developments across the United Kingdom.
In 2015 Boustead & Co founded Boustead Asset Management Limited in Mauritius to serve as the investment advisor to Boustead Investment Fund, a social impact investment fund with a focus on investing in socially conscious investments. The asset manager and fund are regulated by the Financial Services Commission in Mauritius and were granted a Collective Investment Scheme Manager Licence and Category 1 Global Business Licence by the Financial Services Commission.
Family
Boustead had a daughter, Helen Boustead, who was born in 1857. Helen Boustead married William Niven and the couple gave birth to a son, William Edward Graham Niven.
William Edward Graham Niven then married socialite Henrietta Julia Degacher. Their first child was James David Graham Niven, better known as David Niven. Niven's film career spanned over 90 films, and he was best known for his roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Pink Panther (1963) and Casino Royale (1967). There has been some dispute over Niven's paternity, with one biographer claiming that Niven himself believed his biological father to be Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, whom his mother later remarried after her first husband was killed on active service in 1915.
References
External links
Boustead and Co Website
Boustead Holdings Berhad Website
Boustead Singapore Limited Website
English philanthropists
British rule in Singapore
1800 births
1888 deaths
People of British Singapore
19th-century British businesspeople
19th-century British philanthropists
British people of colonial Malaya
19th-century English businesspeople | [
"Edward Boustead (1800–1888) was an English businessman and philanthropist, who founded Boustead & Co and played an active role in the development of Singapore as a business and trading centre.",
"Boustead was born in Yorkshire, England.",
"He was the great-grandfather of actor David Niven.",
"Beginnings of Boustead & Co\n\nIn 1828, Boustead arrived in Singapore on board the British ship Hindustan.",
"In the same year, he established a trading company, Boustead & Co. Boustead & Co specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery.",
"Boustead commissioned Irish civil architect, George Drumgoole Coleman to design his company's headquarters alongside the Singapore River.",
"The warehouse was known as \"the house of seven and twenty pillars\", located around the corner from High Street.",
"In 1834, Boustead partnered with German-born merchant, Gustav Christian Schwabe in the Singapore company.",
"Schwabe and his cousin established Sykes Schwabe & Co in Liverpool.",
"The Liverpool partner would export products like textiles, biscuits, brandies and steel to the East, while the Singapore partner would trade with Eastern produce such as coffee and spices.",
"The freedom of port made Singapore an ideal market for trading among imported manufacturers.",
"Import of Western commodities such as textiles and machinery had to be balanced with exports of Eastern produce such as copra, coconut, pepper and tapioca.",
"Boustead & Co had a \"Balance of Trade\", where demand for goods from the East had to be balanced with demand for goods from the West.",
"Singapore merchant, Tan Kim Seng, was a middleman in Boustead's trading activities.",
"He was also a good friend of Boustead.",
"Tan amassed small shipments of produce from local traders for Boustead, who would then ship the produce to the West.",
"With a wide trading network, trade credit and finance became increasingly important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders.",
"Edward Boustead actively contributed to the Singapore's trading activities and economy.",
"Boustead & Co was the first agent for Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Singapore, offering banking facilities to businesses.",
"Brokers and sellers could draw a specific percentage of advances against the value of their goods stored in the Boustead warehouse.",
"Such financing was called \"trust receipts\", where the merchant would hold the goods in trust for the banks.",
"In 1850, Boustead also set up a London office, Edward Boustead & Co, to oversee the other offices in Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore.",
"Between 1863 and 1877 Edward Boustead owned shares in vessels managed by Killick Martin & Company.",
"Apart from the three main partners, James Killick, James Henry Martin and David William Ritchie, the next principal shareholder was Edward Boustead, who held shares in 11 vessels.",
"Two of Boustead’s partners in Boustead & Company, William Wardrop Shaw and Jasper Young, also held shares in some of the vessels.",
"Jasper Young owned 40 shares in Mabel Young presumably named after his wife or daughter.",
"During the late 1880s, Boustead & Co took advantage of the introduction of the rubber tree to Malaysia and eventually became a leading rubber plantation manager and owner of 49 rubber plantations with a total planted area of 141,629 acres.",
"In 1892 Boustead & Co handled the first shipment of bulk oil to Penang and shortly after this the Shell Transport and Trading Company was formed with Isaac Henderson acting as one of its original directors.",
"Boustead represented and operated on Shell’s behalf in Penang until 1920 when Shell opened its own branch.",
"By 1899, Singapore had become the world’s main exporter of tin.",
"Boustead & Co played a leading role as promoter and investor in the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, constructed by the Straits Trading Company.",
"From that point forward, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of Boustead & Co. Over the decades, the excellent reputation of Boustead & Co allowed it to attract some of the world’s most famous brands to give it agency rights in Singapore and around the region.",
"Some of the famous brand names that became synonymous with Boustead were Cadbury's, Nestle, Del Monte, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Nissan, Suzuki and Thomas Cook.",
"After his death in 1888, Boustead's associates took over the business.",
"Boustead Plc (formerly known as Taiping Rubber Plantations Limited) was founded in 1910 and eventually listed as Boustead Plc on the London Stock Exchange.",
"Having survived World War I, Boustead & Co played a significant role in the rise of Singapore as the world’s largest port, with a booming business in cargo, freight handling, insurance and ship services.",
"Boustead & Co represented over 20 major shipping lines and numerous insurance agencies including the renowned Lloyd’s, which Boustead represented for more than one century.",
"After World War II, Malaysia declared independence from the British in August 1957 and Singapore declared independence from Malaysia in 1965.",
"This saw Boustead & Co split into three entities, Boustead plc in London, Boustead Holdings Berhad in Malaysia and Boustead Singapore Limited which listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange on 17 October 1975.",
"Boustead Limited formed out of Boustead plc and was renamed later Boustead & Co Limited, which is the holding company for financial services, including corporate finance, principal investing and asset management.",
"Role in development of Singapore\nBoustead was a shareholder in the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company (now known as the Port of Singapore Authority).",
"He was also a key investor in the Straits Trading Company, the first tin foundry in Singapore.",
"A pioneer in Singapore's newspaper industry, Boustead was a co-founder of the Singapore Free Press with architect George Drumgoole Coleman and William Napier.",
"The newspaper was the forerunner of The Straits Times.",
"An enterprising businessman in the trading sector, Boustead was one of the founding members of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in 1837.",
"The institution promoted trade in Singapore through establishing shipping, protecting trade on behalf of merchants and encouraging trade activities among merchants.",
"Boustead was active in community activities as well.",
"He started the Horticultural Society, which supported the cultivation of pepper, cotton, sugar and other tropical produce.",
"The Horticultural Society was responsible for pioneering the Singapore Botanic Gardens.",
"In 1829, Boustead started the first Singapore Club, which was called the Billiards Club.",
"Edward Boustead's house, designed and built by George Drumgoole Coleman, was one of the exclusive villas on Singapore's Esplanade.",
"It was later converted into a hotel, renamed the Grand Hotel de l'Europe.",
"The site where Boustead's villa stood is now occupied by the old Supreme Court.",
"Philanthropy and Social Impact Investments\nMany sailors were left homeless when they were sick or too old to work.",
"Boustead was an altruistic man and he felt compassion for these sailors.",
"He built the Boustead Institute, situated at Tanjong Pagar.",
"The building came to be known as the Sailor's Home, providing accommodation for sailors of ships visiting the port as well.",
"Boustead also donated charitably to hospitals, schools and churches.",
"Some of these buildings included Raffles Institution, Saint Joseph's Institution and the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd.",
"In 2014 Boustead & Co co-founded Noble Tree Property Investment, a socially minded property company that develops, owns, lets and sells affordable housing and specialty supported housing developments across the United Kingdom.",
"In 2015 Boustead & Co founded Boustead Asset Management Limited in Mauritius to serve as the investment advisor to Boustead Investment Fund, a social impact investment fund with a focus on investing in socially conscious investments.",
"The asset manager and fund are regulated by the Financial Services Commission in Mauritius and were granted a Collective Investment Scheme Manager Licence and Category 1 Global Business Licence by the Financial Services Commission.",
"Family\nBoustead had a daughter, Helen Boustead, who was born in 1857.",
"Helen Boustead married William Niven and the couple gave birth to a son, William Edward Graham Niven.",
"William Edward Graham Niven then married socialite Henrietta Julia Degacher.",
"Their first child was James David Graham Niven, better known as David Niven.",
"Niven's film career spanned over 90 films, and he was best known for his roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Pink Panther (1963) and Casino Royale (1967).",
"There has been some dispute over Niven's paternity, with one biographer claiming that Niven himself believed his biological father to be Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, whom his mother later remarried after her first husband was killed on active service in 1915.",
"References\n\nExternal links\n Boustead and Co Website\n Boustead Holdings Berhad Website\n Boustead Singapore Limited Website\n\nEnglish philanthropists\nBritish rule in Singapore\n1800 births\n1888 deaths\nPeople of British Singapore\n19th-century British businesspeople\n19th-century British philanthropists\nBritish people of colonial Malaya\n19th-century English businesspeople"
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"He was born in England.",
"He was the great-grandson of an actor.",
"The British ship Hindustan was on which Boustead arrived in Singapore in 1828.",
"He established a trading company that specialized in import and export of goods from South East Asia in exchange for Western products.",
"George Drumgoole Coleman was commissioned by the company to design their headquarters.",
"The house of seven and twenty pillars was located on the corner of High Street.",
"Gustav Christian Schwabe was a German-born merchant in the Singapore company.",
"The company was established by Schwabe and his cousin.",
"The Singapore partner would trade with Eastern produce such as coffee and spices, while theLiverpool partner would trade with textiles, biscuits, brandies and steel.",
"The market for trading among imported manufacturers in Singapore was made possible by the freedom of port.",
"Western commodities such as textiles and machinery had to be balanced with Eastern produce.",
"There was a \"Balance of Trade\" where the demand for goods from the East had to be balanced with the demand for goods from the West.",
"Tan Kim Seng was a middleman.",
"He was a good friend of the man.",
"The produce would be shipped to the West from local traders.",
"With a wide trading network, trade credit and finance became more important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders.",
"Edward contributed to the Singapore economy.",
"Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Singapore was the first bank to offer banking facilities to businesses.",
"The advances could be drawn against the value of the goods stored in the warehouse.",
"The merchant would hold the goods in trust for the banks.",
"Edward Boustead & Co., a London office, was set up in 1850 to oversee the other offices in Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore.",
"Edward was a shareholder in vessels managed by Killick Martin & Company.",
"Beside the three main partners, James Killick, James Henry Martin and David William Ritchie, the next principal shareholder was Edward Boustead, who held shares in 11 vessels.",
"William Wardrop Shaw and Jasper Young owned shares in some of the vessels.",
"Jasper Young's shares were named after his wife or daughter.",
"The introduction of the rubber tree to Malaysia led to the creation of a leading rubber plantation manager and owner of 49 rubber plantations with a total planted area of 141,629 acres.",
"The Shell Transport and Trading Company was formed after the first shipment of bulk oil was handled by Boustead & Co in 1892.",
"Shell opened its own branch in Penang in 1920.",
"Singapore became the world's main exporter of tin by 1899.",
"The Straits Trading Company built the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, which was promoted and invested by Boustead & Co.",
"Over the years, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of the company.",
"Some of the famous brand names that became synonymous with Boustead were Cadbury's, Del Monte, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Nissan, Suzuki and Thomas Cook.",
"The business was taken over by his associates after he died.",
"The company was formerly known as Taiping Rubber Plantations and was listed on the London Stock Exchange.",
"The rise of Singapore as the world's largest port, with a booming business in cargo, freight handling, insurance and ship services, was made possible by a business that survived World War I.",
"The renowned Lloyd's of London was represented for more than one century by Boustead & Co.",
"After World War II, Malaysia and Singapore became independent from the British and Malaysia in 1965, respectively.",
"The Singapore Stock Exchange listed on 17 October 1975, one of three entities that were split into by this.",
"The holding company for financial services, including corporate finance, principal investing and asset management, was renamed later after forming out of the company.",
"The Port of Singapore Authority was a shareholder in the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company.",
"He was an investor in the Straits Trading Company.",
"A pioneer in Singapore's newspaper industry, Boustead was a co-founding member of the Singapore Free Press.",
"The Straits Times was inspired by the newspaper.",
"He was a founding member of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce.",
"The institution promoted trade in Singapore by establishing shipping, protecting trade on behalf of merchants and encouraging trade activities among merchants.",
"The person was active in community activities.",
"The Horticultural Society supported the production of pepper, cotton, sugar and other tropical produce.",
"The Singapore Botanic Gardens were created by the Horticultural Society.",
"The first Singapore Club was called the Billiards Club.",
"One of the exclusive villas on Singapore's Esplanade was designed and built by George Drumgoole Coleman.",
"The Grand Hotel de l'Europe was later converted into a hotel.",
"The site is now occupied by the Supreme Court.",
"Sailors were left homeless when they were sick or old.",
"He felt compassion for the sailors and was an altruistic man.",
"The institute was built at Tanjong Pagar.",
"The Sailor's Home provided accommodations for sailors of ships visiting the port as well.",
"They donated to hospitals, schools and churches.",
"The Cathedral of the Good Shepherd was one of the buildings.",
"Noble Tree Property Investment is a socially minded property company that develops, owns, lets and sells affordable housing and specialty supported housing developments across the United Kingdom.",
"A social impact investment fund with a focus on investing in socially conscious investments was founded in 2015.",
"The asset manager and fund were granted a Collective Investment Scheme Manager Licence and Category 1 Global Business Licence by the Financial Services Commission.",
"Helen Boustead was a daughter of the family.",
"A son, William Edward Graham Niven, was born to Helen and William.",
"Henrietta Julia Degacher was married to William Edward Graham Niven.",
"David Niven was their first child.",
"He was best known for his roles in Around the World in 80 days, The Pink Panther and Casino Royale.",
"One biographer claims that Niven believes that he is the son of Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, who was killed on active service in 1915.",
"British rule in Singapore in the 1800s resulted in the deaths of many people."
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In 1828, <mask> arrived in Singapore on board the British ship Hindustan. In the same year, he established a trading company, Boustead & Co. Boustead & Co specialised in import and export, offering goods such as banca tin, spices, saps, rattan, medicinal herbs, silk and tea widely available in South East Asia in exchange for Western products like cloth, oil and machinery. Boustead commissioned Irish civil architect, George Drumgoole Coleman to design his company's headquarters alongside the Singapore River. The warehouse was known as "the house of seven and twenty pillars", located around the corner from High Street.In 1834, Boustead partnered with German-born merchant, Gustav Christian Schwabe in the Singapore company. Schwabe and his cousin established Sykes Schwabe & Co in Liverpool. The Liverpool partner would export products like textiles, biscuits, brandies and steel to the East, while the Singapore partner would trade with Eastern produce such as coffee and spices. The freedom of port made Singapore an ideal market for trading among imported manufacturers. Import of Western commodities such as textiles and machinery had to be balanced with exports of Eastern produce such as copra, coconut, pepper and tapioca. Boustead & Co had a "Balance of Trade", where demand for goods from the East had to be balanced with demand for goods from the West. Singapore merchant, Tan Kim Seng, was a middleman in Boustead's trading activities.He was also a good friend of Boustead. Tan amassed small shipments of produce from local traders for Boustead, who would then ship the produce to the West. With a wide trading network, trade credit and finance became increasingly important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders. <mask> actively contributed to the Singapore's trading activities and economy. Boustead & Co was the first agent for Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Singapore, offering banking facilities to businesses. Brokers and sellers could draw a specific percentage of advances against the value of their goods stored in the Boustead warehouse. Such financing was called "trust receipts", where the merchant would hold the goods in trust for the banks.In 1850, Boustead also set up a London office, Edward Boustead & Co, to oversee the other offices in Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai and Singapore. Between 1863 and 1877 <mask>ustead owned shares in vessels managed by Killick Martin & Company. Apart from the three main partners, James Killick, James Henry Martin and David William Ritchie, the next principal shareholder was <mask>ustead, who held shares in 11 vessels. Two of Boustead’s partners in Boustead & Company, William Wardrop Shaw and Jasper Young, also held shares in some of the vessels. Jasper Young owned 40 shares in Mabel Young presumably named after his wife or daughter. During the late 1880s, Boustead & Co took advantage of the introduction of the rubber tree to Malaysia and eventually became a leading rubber plantation manager and owner of 49 rubber plantations with a total planted area of 141,629 acres. In 1892 Boustead & Co handled the first shipment of bulk oil to Penang and shortly after this the Shell Transport and Trading Company was formed with Isaac Henderson acting as one of its original directors.Boustead represented and operated on Shell’s behalf in Penang until 1920 when Shell opened its own branch. By 1899, Singapore had become the world’s main exporter of tin. Boustead & Co played a leading role as promoter and investor in the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, constructed by the Straits Trading Company. From that point forward, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of Boustead & Co. Over the decades, the excellent reputation of Boustead & Co allowed it to attract some of the world’s most famous brands to give it agency rights in Singapore and around the region. Some of the famous brand names that became synonymous with Boustead were Cadbury's, Nestle, Del Monte, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Nissan, Suzuki and Thomas Cook. After his death in 1888, Boustead's associates took over the business. Boustead Plc (formerly known as Taiping Rubber Plantations Limited) was founded in 1910 and eventually listed as Boustead Plc on the London Stock Exchange.Having survived World War I, Boustead & Co played a significant role in the rise of Singapore as the world’s largest port, with a booming business in cargo, freight handling, insurance and ship services. Boustead & Co represented over 20 major shipping lines and numerous insurance agencies including the renowned Lloyd’s, which Boustead represented for more than one century. After World War II, Malaysia declared independence from the British in August 1957 and Singapore declared independence from Malaysia in 1965. This saw Boustead & Co split into three entities, Boustead plc in London, Boustead Holdings Berhad in Malaysia and Boustead Singapore Limited which listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange on 17 October 1975. Boustead Limited formed out of Boustead plc and was renamed later Boustead & Co Limited, which is the holding company for financial services, including corporate finance, principal investing and asset management. Role in development of Singapore
Boustead was a shareholder in the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company (now known as the Port of Singapore Authority). He was also a key investor in the Straits Trading Company, the first tin foundry in Singapore.A pioneer in Singapore's newspaper industry, <mask> was a co-founder of the Singapore Free Press with architect George Drumgoole Coleman and William Napier. The newspaper was the forerunner of The Straits Times. An enterprising businessman in the trading sector, <mask> was one of the founding members of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in 1837. The institution promoted trade in Singapore through establishing shipping, protecting trade on behalf of merchants and encouraging trade activities among merchants. <mask> was active in community activities as well. He started the Horticultural Society, which supported the cultivation of pepper, cotton, sugar and other tropical produce. The Horticultural Society was responsible for pioneering the Singapore Botanic Gardens.In 1829, Boustead started the first Singapore Club, which was called the Billiards Club. <mask>'s house, designed and built by George Drumgoole Coleman, was one of the exclusive villas on Singapore's Esplanade. It was later converted into a hotel, renamed the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. The site where Boustead's villa stood is now occupied by the old Supreme Court. Philanthropy and Social Impact Investments
Many sailors were left homeless when they were sick or too old to work. <mask> was an altruistic man and he felt compassion for these sailors. He built the Boustead Institute, situated at Tanjong Pagar.The building came to be known as the Sailor's Home, providing accommodation for sailors of ships visiting the port as well. Boustead also donated charitably to hospitals, schools and churches. Some of these buildings included Raffles Institution, Saint Joseph's Institution and the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. In 2014 Boustead & Co co-founded Noble Tree Property Investment, a socially minded property company that develops, owns, lets and sells affordable housing and specialty supported housing developments across the United Kingdom. In 2015 Boustead & Co founded Boustead Asset Management Limited in Mauritius to serve as the investment advisor to Boustead Investment Fund, a social impact investment fund with a focus on investing in socially conscious investments. The asset manager and fund are regulated by the Financial Services Commission in Mauritius and were granted a Collective Investment Scheme Manager Licence and Category 1 Global Business Licence by the Financial Services Commission. Family
Boustead had a daughter, <mask>, who was born in 1857.<mask> married William Niven and the couple gave birth to a son, <mask> Graham Niven. <mask> Graham Niven then married socialite Henrietta Julia Degacher. Their first child was James David Graham Niven, better known as David Niven. Niven's film career spanned over 90 films, and he was best known for his roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Pink Panther (1963) and Casino Royale (1967). There has been some dispute over Niven's paternity, with one biographer claiming that Niven himself believed his biological father to be Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt, whom his mother later remarried after her first husband was killed on active service in 1915. References
External links
Boustead and Co Website
Boustead Holdings Berhad Website
Boustead Singapore Limited Website
English philanthropists
British rule in Singapore
1800 births
1888 deaths
People of British Singapore
19th-century British businesspeople
19th-century British philanthropists
British people of colonial Malaya
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The market for trading among imported manufacturers in Singapore was made possible by the freedom of port. Western commodities such as textiles and machinery had to be balanced with Eastern produce. There was a "Balance of Trade" where the demand for goods from the East had to be balanced with the demand for goods from the West. Tan Kim Seng was a middleman.He was a good friend of the man. The produce would be shipped to the West from local traders. With a wide trading network, trade credit and finance became more important to banks, merchants, manufacturers and traders. <mask> contributed to the Singapore economy. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Singapore was the first bank to offer banking facilities to businesses. The advances could be drawn against the value of the goods stored in the warehouse. 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The Straits Trading Company built the tin smelting facility on Pulau Brani, which was promoted and invested by Boustead & Co. Over the years, Straits Tin became one of the leading businesses of the company. Some of the famous brand names that became synonymous with Boustead were Cadbury's, Del Monte, Gillette, Procter & Gamble, Johnnie Walker, Hennessy, Moet & Chandon, Nissan, Suzuki and Thomas Cook. The business was taken over by his associates after he died. The company was formerly known as Taiping Rubber Plantations and was listed on the London Stock Exchange.The rise of Singapore as the world's largest port, with a booming business in cargo, freight handling, insurance and ship services, was made possible by a business that survived World War I. The renowned Lloyd's of London was represented for more than one century by Boustead & Co. After World War II, Malaysia and Singapore became independent from the British and Malaysia in 1965, respectively. 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1293747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaco%20Jim%C3%A9nez | Flaco Jiménez | Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez (born March 11, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music. Jiménez has been a solo performer and session musician, as well as a member of the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven.
Over the course of his seven-decade career, he has received numerous awards and honors, including Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Grammys, Americana Music Awards, Tejano Music Awards, and Billboard magazine.
Early life
Jiménez was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1939. He is descended from a line of musicians, including his father Santiago Jiménez, Sr., and his grandfather Patricio Jiménez.
He began performing at the age of seven with his father, a pioneer of conjunto music, and began recording at age fifteen as a member of Los Caporales. Jiménez's first instrument was the bajo sexto, but he later adopted the accordion after being influenced by his father and zydeco musician Clifton Chenier.
He was given the nickname "Flaco" (which translates as "Skinny" into English), which was also his father's nickname.
Career
Jiménez performed in the San Antonio area for several years and then began working with Doug Sahm in the 1960s. Sahm, better known as the founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, played with Jiménez for some time. Jiménez later went to New York City and worked with Dr. John, David Lindley, Peter Rowan, Ry Cooder and Bob Dylan. He appeared on Cooder's world music album Chicken Skin Music and was a guest musician on the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge album. These appearances led to greater awareness of his music outside of America. After touring Europe with Cooder he returned to tour in America with his own band, and on a joint bill with Peter Rowan. Jiménez, Rowan and Wally Drogos were the original members of a band called the Free Mexican Airforce.
Jiménez appeared on the November 13, 1976 episode of NBC's Saturday Night with Cooder.
In 1988, he performed on the hit country single "Streets of Bakersfield" by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens. The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1988.
Jiménez won his first Grammy award in 1986 for his album Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, whose title song was composed by his father. His third Grammy was for another song written by his father, "Soy de San Luis", recorded by the Tejano fusion group Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender.
Starting in 1998, he was a member of Los Super Seven, a supergroup that won a Grammy Award for their eponymous album.
Jiménez was one of the featured artists in the 1976 documentary film Chulas Fronteras, directed by Les Blank. He also appeared as a band member in the 2000 movie Picking Up the Pieces, with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and was also featured on the film's soundtrack. His music has been featured on the soundtrack for other movies, such as Y Tu Mamá También, El Infierno, The Border, Tin Cup, Chulas Fronteras, and Striptease.
He was one of the artists featured in archival footage in the 2013 documentary film This Ain't No Mouse Music about Arhoolie Records and its founder Chris Strachwitz.
The Hohner company collaborated with Jiménez to create the Flaco Jimenez Signature series of accordions.
Personal life
His brother, Santiago Jiménez, Jr., is also an accomplished accordionist and has recorded extensively.
In March 2015, Jiménez suffered a broken hip and two rib fractures from two separate falls. By May of that year, he returned to performing and was one of the acts on closing night of the 34th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio.
Jiménez and his wife once owned a food truck in the San Antonio area, named Tacos Jimenez.
Discography
Studio albums
Una Sombra, 1972, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Papa Del Caminante, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Mis Polkas Favoritas, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Corridos Famosos, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Clavelito Clavelito, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
La Otra Modesta, 1974, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Rey De Texas, 1975, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
A Mis Amigos Cariñosamente, 1976, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Principe Del Acordeón , 1977, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Flaco Jiménez Y Su Conjunto, 1977, Arhoolie Records
Flaco ‘79, 1979, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Mis 25 Años, 1980, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Sonido de San Antonio, 1980, Arhoolie
Polkas De Oro, 1983, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, 1986, Arhoolie
Flaco's Amigos, 1988, Arhoolie
San Antonio Soul, 1991, Rounder Records
Partners, 1992, Warner Bros. Records
Flaco Jiménez, 1994, Arista Records
Buena Suerte Senorita, 1996, Arista
Said and Done, 1998, Virgin Records
Arriba el Norte, 1998, Sound Records
Sleepytown, 2002, Back Porch Records
Squeeze Box King, 2003, Compadre Records
Ya Volvi De La Guerra, 2009, Fiesta Records
Entre Humo y Botellas, 2009, Rounder
Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies, 2014, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Live albums
One Night at Joey's (Live), 1999, Sony Records
Compilations and re-releases
El Rancho de la Ramalada, [release year unknown], Joey Records
Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio y Más!, 1990, Arhoolie
Un Mojado Sin Licencia and Other Hits From the 1960s, 1993, Arhoolie
Flaco's First! (with Los Caminantes), 1995, Arhoolie
15 Exitos, 1995, Joey Records
Best of Flaco Jiménez, 1999, Arhoolie
Ultimo Tornado, 2001, Warner Bros.
20 Golden Hits, 2001, Hacienda Records
Flaco's Favorites: 14 Fabulous Tracks, 2002, Fab14 Records
Contiene Exitos, Prieta Case Se Me Olvido Otra Vez, 2003, Discos Ranchito
Fiesta Del Rio, 2006, Fiesta Records
Melodias, 2010, Joey Records
Polkas y Mas..., 2010, Joey Records
Featured on multi-artist compilation albums
Tex-Mex Conjunto Classics, 1999, Arhoolie
Singles
Guest singles
Participations
2007 : "My Name Is Buddy" (Nonesuch Records), by Ry Cooder, with Paddy Moloney, Van Dyke Parks, Mike & Pete Seeger, Bobby King & Terry Evans, Jim Keltner, Jacky Terrasson, Jon Hassell
1989 : Plays accordion on "New Pony" on the Orchestre Super Moth EP The World At Sixes And Sevens. Released on Rogue Records (12FMS 6–7).
Awards and honors
Between 1986 and 2015, Jiménez has won six Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, plus an additional three nominations.
In 1999, Jiménez was awarded the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2000, Jiménez won a Tejano Music Video of the Year award at the Tejano Music Awards for his song "De Bolon Pin Pon".
In 2001, both Flaco and his brother Santiago were included among the first group of recipients of the Texas Medal of Arts in the folk arts category.
Jiménez was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Tejano Music Awards ceremony in 2011.
In 2012, he received a National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.
In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist from the Americana Music Association. He received his plaque at the ceremony from longtime collaborator Ry Cooder, with whom he also performed at the event.
Jiménez was one of five artists to receive the inaugural Distinction in Arts honor from the City of San Antonio in 2015. Also in 2015, his collaborative album with Max Baca titled Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies won an award in the Latin Album category at the 14th Annual Independent Music Awards.
In 2017, a photograph of Jiménez taken by Al Rendon in 1987 was added to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Images in the Gallery "represent the numerous individuals who have made a significant impact on the history and culture of the United States".
In 2018, the Houston Chronicle listed him as number 19 of the Greatest 50 Texas Musicians of all time.
Jiménez received the Top of Texas Award from the Country Music Association of Texas in 2019. Earlier in the same year, he also received the History-Making Texas Award from the Texas State History Museum Foundation.
In 2020, Jiménez received the Chris Strachwitz Legacy Award from the Arhoolie Foundation.
In 2021, Jiménez's album Partners was selected as one of 25 works to be inducted into the National Recording Registry's class of 2020, with the registry calling Jiménez "a champion of traditional conjunto music and Tex-Mex culture who also is known for innovation and collaboration with a variety of artists."
Grammy awards
|-
! scope="row" | 1987
| Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
| Best Mexican-American Performance
|
| solo album
|-
! scope="row" | 1989
| Flaco's Amigos
| Best Mexican-American Performance
|
| solo album
|-
! scope="row" | 1991
| "Soy de San Luis"
| Best Mexican-American Performance
|
| song by the Texas Tornados
|-
! scope="row" | 1992
| Zone of our Own
| Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
|
| album by the Texas Tornados
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1996
| Flaco Jiménez
| Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
|
| solo album
|-
| "Cat Walk"
| Best Country Instrumental Performance
|
| Lee Roy Parnell song, featuring Jiménez
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1999
| Los Super Seven
| Best Mexican-American Music Performance
|
| album by Los Super Seven
|-
| Said and Done
| Best Tejano Music Performance
|
| solo album
|-
! scope="row" | 2015
| himself
| Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
|
|
|-
References
External links
Audio interview with Flaco Jiménez, May 28, 1986, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections
Living people
1939 births
20th-century accordionists
21st-century accordionists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
American accordionists
American country singer-songwriters
American male singer-songwriters
American musicians of Mexican descent
Musicians from San Antonio
Singer-songwriters from Texas
Country musicians from Texas
Tejano accordionists
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
National Heritage Fellowship winners
Texas Tornados members
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
Arhoolie Records artists
Arista Records artists
Rounder Records artists
Virgin Records artists | [
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"He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music.",
"Jiménez has been a solo performer and session musician, as well as a member of the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven.",
"Over the course of his seven-decade career, he has received numerous awards and honors, including Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Grammys, Americana Music Awards, Tejano Music Awards, and Billboard magazine.",
"Early life\nJiménez was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1939.",
"He is descended from a line of musicians, including his father Santiago Jiménez, Sr., and his grandfather Patricio Jiménez.",
"He began performing at the age of seven with his father, a pioneer of conjunto music, and began recording at age fifteen as a member of Los Caporales.",
"Jiménez's first instrument was the bajo sexto, but he later adopted the accordion after being influenced by his father and zydeco musician Clifton Chenier.",
"He was given the nickname \"Flaco\" (which translates as \"Skinny\" into English), which was also his father's nickname.",
"Career \nJiménez performed in the San Antonio area for several years and then began working with Doug Sahm in the 1960s.",
"Sahm, better known as the founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, played with Jiménez for some time.",
"Jiménez later went to New York City and worked with Dr. John, David Lindley, Peter Rowan, Ry Cooder and Bob Dylan.",
"He appeared on Cooder's world music album Chicken Skin Music and was a guest musician on the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge album.",
"These appearances led to greater awareness of his music outside of America.",
"After touring Europe with Cooder he returned to tour in America with his own band, and on a joint bill with Peter Rowan.",
"Jiménez, Rowan and Wally Drogos were the original members of a band called the Free Mexican Airforce.",
"Jiménez appeared on the November 13, 1976 episode of NBC's Saturday Night with Cooder.",
"In 1988, he performed on the hit country single \"Streets of Bakersfield\" by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens.",
"The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1988.",
"Jiménez won his first Grammy award in 1986 for his album Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, whose title song was composed by his father.",
"His third Grammy was for another song written by his father, \"Soy de San Luis\", recorded by the Tejano fusion group Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender.",
"Starting in 1998, he was a member of Los Super Seven, a supergroup that won a Grammy Award for their eponymous album.",
"Jiménez was one of the featured artists in the 1976 documentary film Chulas Fronteras, directed by Les Blank.",
"He also appeared as a band member in the 2000 movie Picking Up the Pieces, with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and was also featured on the film's soundtrack.",
"His music has been featured on the soundtrack for other movies, such as Y Tu Mamá También, El Infierno, The Border, Tin Cup, Chulas Fronteras, and Striptease.",
"He was one of the artists featured in archival footage in the 2013 documentary film This Ain't No Mouse Music about Arhoolie Records and its founder Chris Strachwitz.",
"The Hohner company collaborated with Jiménez to create the Flaco Jimenez Signature series of accordions.",
"Personal life\n\nHis brother, Santiago Jiménez, Jr., is also an accomplished accordionist and has recorded extensively.",
"In March 2015, Jiménez suffered a broken hip and two rib fractures from two separate falls.",
"By May of that year, he returned to performing and was one of the acts on closing night of the 34th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio.",
"Jiménez and his wife once owned a food truck in the San Antonio area, named Tacos Jimenez.",
"Discography\n\nStudio albums\nUna Sombra, 1972, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nEl Papa Del Caminante, 1973, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nMis Polkas Favoritas, 1973, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nCorridos Famosos, 1973, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nClavelito Clavelito, 1973, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nLa Otra Modesta, 1974, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nEl Rey De Texas, 1975, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nA Mis Amigos Cariñosamente, 1976, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nEl Principe Del Acordeón , 1977, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nFlaco Jiménez Y Su Conjunto, 1977, Arhoolie Records\nFlaco ‘79, 1979, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nMis 25 Años, 1980, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nEl Sonido de San Antonio, 1980, Arhoolie\nPolkas De Oro, 1983, D.L.B.",
"Records, San Antonio, TX\nAy Te Dejo en San Antonio, 1986, Arhoolie\nFlaco's Amigos, 1988, Arhoolie\nSan Antonio Soul, 1991, Rounder Records\nPartners, 1992, Warner Bros. Records\nFlaco Jiménez, 1994, Arista Records\nBuena Suerte Senorita, 1996, Arista\nSaid and Done, 1998, Virgin Records\nArriba el Norte, 1998, Sound Records\nSleepytown, 2002, Back Porch Records\nSqueeze Box King, 2003, Compadre Records\nYa Volvi De La Guerra, 2009, Fiesta Records\nEntre Humo y Botellas, 2009, Rounder\nFlaco & Max: Legends & Legacies, 2014, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings\n\nLive albums\nOne Night at Joey's (Live), 1999, Sony Records\n\nCompilations and re-releases\nEl Rancho de la Ramalada, [release year unknown], Joey Records\nAy Te Dejo en San Antonio y Más!, 1990, Arhoolie\nUn Mojado Sin Licencia and Other Hits From the 1960s, 1993, Arhoolie\nFlaco's First!",
"(with Los Caminantes), 1995, Arhoolie\n15 Exitos, 1995, Joey Records\nBest of Flaco Jiménez, 1999, Arhoolie\nUltimo Tornado, 2001, Warner Bros.\n20 Golden Hits, 2001, Hacienda Records\nFlaco's Favorites: 14 Fabulous Tracks, 2002, Fab14 Records\nContiene Exitos, Prieta Case Se Me Olvido Otra Vez, 2003, Discos Ranchito\nFiesta Del Rio, 2006, Fiesta Records\nMelodias, 2010, Joey Records\nPolkas y Mas..., 2010, Joey Records\n\nFeatured on multi-artist compilation albums\nTex-Mex Conjunto Classics, 1999, Arhoolie\n\nSingles\n\nGuest singles\n\nParticipations \n 2007 : \"My Name Is Buddy\" (Nonesuch Records), by Ry Cooder, with Paddy Moloney, Van Dyke Parks, Mike & Pete Seeger, Bobby King & Terry Evans, Jim Keltner, Jacky Terrasson, Jon Hassell\n 1989 : Plays accordion on \"New Pony\" on the Orchestre Super Moth EP The World At Sixes And Sevens.",
"Released on Rogue Records (12FMS 6–7).",
"Awards and honors\nBetween 1986 and 2015, Jiménez has won six Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, plus an additional three nominations.",
"In 1999, Jiménez was awarded the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award.",
"In 2000, Jiménez won a Tejano Music Video of the Year award at the Tejano Music Awards for his song \"De Bolon Pin Pon\".",
"In 2001, both Flaco and his brother Santiago were included among the first group of recipients of the Texas Medal of Arts in the folk arts category.",
"Jiménez was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Tejano Music Awards ceremony in 2011.",
"In 2012, he received a National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.",
"In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist from the Americana Music Association.",
"He received his plaque at the ceremony from longtime collaborator Ry Cooder, with whom he also performed at the event.",
"Jiménez was one of five artists to receive the inaugural Distinction in Arts honor from the City of San Antonio in 2015.",
"Also in 2015, his collaborative album with Max Baca titled Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies won an award in the Latin Album category at the 14th Annual Independent Music Awards.",
"In 2017, a photograph of Jiménez taken by Al Rendon in 1987 was added to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.",
"Images in the Gallery \"represent the numerous individuals who have made a significant impact on the history and culture of the United States\".",
"In 2018, the Houston Chronicle listed him as number 19 of the Greatest 50 Texas Musicians of all time.",
"Jiménez received the Top of Texas Award from the Country Music Association of Texas in 2019.",
"Earlier in the same year, he also received the History-Making Texas Award from the Texas State History Museum Foundation.",
"In 2020, Jiménez received the Chris Strachwitz Legacy Award from the Arhoolie Foundation.",
"In 2021, Jiménez's album Partners was selected as one of 25 works to be inducted into the National Recording Registry's class of 2020, with the registry calling Jiménez \"a champion of traditional conjunto music and Tex-Mex culture who also is known for innovation and collaboration with a variety of artists.\"",
"Grammy awards\n\n|-\n!",
"scope=\"row\" | 1987\n| Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio\n| Best Mexican-American Performance\n| \n| solo album\n|-\n!",
"scope=\"row\" | 1989\n| Flaco's Amigos\n| Best Mexican-American Performance\n| \n| solo album\n|-\n!",
"scope=\"row\" | 1991\n| \"Soy de San Luis\"\n| Best Mexican-American Performance\n| \n| song by the Texas Tornados\n|-\n!",
"scope=\"row\" | 1992\n| Zone of our Own\n| Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal\n| \n| album by the Texas Tornados\n|-\n!",
"rowspan=\"2\" | 1996\n| Flaco Jiménez\n| Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance\n| \n| solo album\n|-\n| \"Cat Walk\"\n| Best Country Instrumental Performance\n| \n| Lee Roy Parnell song, featuring Jiménez\n|-\n!",
"rowspan=\"2\" | 1999\n| Los Super Seven\n| Best Mexican-American Music Performance\n| \n| album by Los Super Seven\n|-\n| Said and Done\n| Best Tejano Music Performance\n| \n| solo album\n|-\n!",
"scope=\"row\" | 2015\n| himself\n| Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award\n| \n| \n|-\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n\nAudio interview with Flaco Jiménez, May 28, 1986, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections\n\nLiving people\n1939 births\n20th-century accordionists\n21st-century accordionists\n20th-century American male musicians\n21st-century American male musicians\nAmerican accordionists\nAmerican country singer-songwriters\nAmerican male singer-songwriters\nAmerican musicians of Mexican descent\nMusicians from San Antonio\nSinger-songwriters from Texas\nCountry musicians from Texas\nTejano accordionists\nGrammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners\nNational Heritage Fellowship winners\nTexas Tornados members\nHispanic and Latino American musicians\nArhoolie Records artists\nArista Records artists\nRounder Records artists\nVirgin Records artists"
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"He is known for playing music from Mexico.",
"Jiménez is a member of the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven.",
"He has received numerous awards and honors over the course of his seven-decade career.",
"Jiménez was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1939.",
"He is descended from a line of musicians, including his father and grandfather.",
"At the age of seven, he began performing with his father, a pioneer of conjunto music, and at fifteen, he began recording as a member of Los Caporales.",
"After being influenced by his father and zydeco musician, Jiménez adopted the accordion.",
"His father's nickname was \"Skinny\" and he was given the nickname \"Flaco\".",
"After performing in the San Antonio area for several years, Career Jiménez began working with Doug Sahm.",
"Jiménez played with the founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet.",
"Jiménez worked with many people in New York City.",
"He was a guest musician on the Rolling Stones' album.",
"His music was more widely known outside of America.",
"He went to America with his own band and 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611",
"The band was called the Free Mexican Airforce.",
"On November 13, 1976, Jiménez appeared on NBC's Saturday Night with Cooder.",
"He performed on the hit country song \"Streets of Bakersfield\" in 1988.",
"The song was number 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart.",
"The album Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio was written by Jiménez's father.",
"The song \"Soy de San Luis\" was written by his father and was recorded by the Texas Tornados.",
"He was a member of Los Super Seven, a group that won aGrammy Award for their eponymous album.",
"Jiménez was one of the featured artists in the film.",
"He was in a band with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone in the 2000 movie Picking Up the Pieces.",
"His music has been used in several movies, such as Y Tu Mam También, El Infierno, The Border, Tin Cup, and Striptease.",
"In the documentary film This Ain't No Mouse Music, he was one of the artists featured.",
"The Flaco Jimenez Signature series of accordions were created by the Hohner company.",
"Santiago Jiménez, Jr. is an accomplished accordionist and has recorded extensively.",
"Jiménez had a broken hip and two rib injuries after two separate falls.",
"He was one of the acts on the closing night of the 34th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio.",
"Jiménez and his wife used to own a food truck in the San Antonio area.",
"Discography studio albums in 1972, D.L.B.",
"El Papa Del Caminante was located in San Antonio, Texas.",
"Mis Polkas Favoritas, 1973, D.L.B. is located in San Antonio, TX.",
"Records in San Antonio, TX by Corridos Famosos.",
"Clavelito Clavelito was born in San Antonio, Texas.",
"La Otra Modesta, 1974, D.L.B. is located in San Antonio, Texas.",
"El Rey De Texas is located in San Antonio, Texas.",
"A Mis Amigos Cariosamente is located in San Antonio, Texas.",
"El Principe Del Acorden is located in San Antonio, Texas.",
"Flaco Jiménez Y Su Conjunto was recorded in San Antonio, Texas.",
"San Antonio, TX Mis 25 Aos, 1980, D.L.B.",
"Records in San Antonio, Texas, El Sonido de San Antonio, 1980, Arhoolie Polkas De Oro, 1983, D.L.B.",
"Records in San Antonio, Texas, Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, Arhoolie Flaco's Amigos, and Rounder Records Partners.",
"Flaco's Favorites: 14 Fabulous Tracks, 2002, Fab14 Records",
"It was released on Rogue Records.",
"Between 1986 and 2015, Jiménez has won sixGrammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award.",
"Jiménez received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.",
"Jiménez won a Tejano Music Video of the Year award in 2000 for his song \"De Bolon Pin Pon\".",
"The first group of recipients of the Texas Medal of Arts in the folk arts category included Flaco and his brother Santiago.",
"Jiménez received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Tejano Music Awards.",
"The United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts was given to him in 2012 by the National Endowment of the Arts.",
"He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association.",
"At the ceremony, he received a plaque from his long-time friend and co-conspirator, Ry Cooder.",
"Jiménez was one of five artists to receive the inaugural Distinction in Arts honor from the City of San Antonio.",
"Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies won an award in the Latin Album category at the 14th Annual Independent Music Awards.",
"A photograph of Jiménez taken by Al Rendon in 1987 was added to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.",
"There are many individuals who have made a significant impact on the history and culture of the United States.",
"He was listed in the Houston Chronicle as the 19th greatest Texas musician of all time.",
"The Top of Texas Award is given by the Country Music Association of Texas.",
"He received the History- Making Texas Award from the Texas State History Museum Foundation.",
"The Chris Strachwitz Legacy Award was given to Jiménez in 2020.",
"Jiménez's album Partners was selected as one of 25 works to be in the National Recording Registry's class of 2020.",
"The awards are called the Grammys.",
"Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio is the best Mexican-American performance.",
"Flaco's Amigos is the best Mexican-American performance.",
"\"Soy de San Luis\" is a song by the Texas Tornados.",
"The Zone of our Own is the Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.",
"Lee Roy Parnell song, featuring Jiménez, is the Best Country Instrumental Performance.",
"The Best Mexican-American Music Performance is by Los Super Seven.",
"Audio interview with Flaco Jiménez, May 28, 1986, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections Living people 1939 births 20th-century accordionists 21st"
] | Leonardo "<mask><mask> (born March 11, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter and accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. He is known for playing Norteño, Tex Mex and Tejano music. <mask> has been a solo performer and session musician, as well as a member of the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he has received numerous awards and honors, including Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Grammys, Americana Music Awards, Tejano Music Awards, and Billboard magazine. Early life
<mask> was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1939. He is descended from a line of musicians, including his father <mask>, Sr., and his grandfather <mask>. He began performing at the age of seven with his father, a pioneer of conjunto music, and began recording at age fifteen as a member of Los Caporales.Jiménez's first instrument was the bajo sexto, but he later adopted the accordion after being influenced by his father and zydeco musician Clifton Chenier. He was given the nickname "Flaco" (which translates as "Skinny" into English), which was also his father's nickname. Career
Jiménez performed in the San Antonio area for several years and then began working with Doug Sahm in the 1960s. Sahm, better known as the founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, played with Jiménez for some time. Jiménez later went to New York City and worked with Dr. John, David Lindley, Peter Rowan, Ry Cooder and Bob Dylan. He appeared on Cooder's world music album Chicken Skin Music and was a guest musician on the Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge album. These appearances led to greater awareness of his music outside of America.After touring Europe with Cooder he returned to tour in America with his own band, and on a joint bill with Peter Rowan. <mask>, Rowan and Wally Drogos were the original members of a band called the Free Mexican Airforce. <mask> appeared on the November 13, 1976 episode of NBC's Saturday Night with Cooder. In 1988, he performed on the hit country single "Streets of Bakersfield" by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens. The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1988. <mask> won his first Grammy award in 1986 for his album Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, whose title song was composed by his father. His third Grammy was for another song written by his father, "Soy de San Luis", recorded by the Tejano fusion group Texas Tornados with Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender.Starting in 1998, he was a member of Los Super Seven, a supergroup that won a Grammy Award for their eponymous album. <mask> was one of the featured artists in the 1976 documentary film Chulas Fronteras, directed by Les Blank. He also appeared as a band member in the 2000 movie Picking Up the Pieces, with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone, and was also featured on the film's soundtrack. His music has been featured on the soundtrack for other movies, such as Y Tu Mamá También, El Infierno, The Border, Tin Cup, Chulas Fronteras, and Striptease. He was one of the artists featured in archival footage in the 2013 documentary film This Ain't No Mouse Music about Arhoolie Records and its founder Chris Strachwitz. The Hohner company collaborated with Jiménez to create the Flaco Jimenez Signature series of accordions. Personal life
His brother, <mask>, Jr., is also an accomplished accordionist and has recorded extensively.In March 2015, Jiménez suffered a broken hip and two rib fractures from two separate falls. By May of that year, he returned to performing and was one of the acts on closing night of the 34th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio. <mask> and his wife once owned a food truck in the San Antonio area, named Tacos Jimenez. Discography
Studio albums
Una Sombra, 1972, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Papa Del Caminante, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Mis Polkas Favoritas, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Corridos Famosos, 1973, D.L.B.Records, San Antonio, TX
Clavelito Clavelito, 1973, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
La Otra Modesta, 1974, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Rey De Texas, 1975, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
A Mis Amigos Cariñosamente, 1976, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
El Principe Del Acordeón , 1977, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Flaco Jiménez Y Su Conjunto, 1977, Arhoolie Records
Flaco ‘79, 1979, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Mis 25 Años, 1980, D.L.B.Records, San Antonio, TX
El Sonido de San Antonio, 1980, Arhoolie
Polkas De Oro, 1983, D.L.B. Records, San Antonio, TX
Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, 1986, Arhoolie
Flaco's Amigos, 1988, Arhoolie
San Antonio Soul, 1991, Rounder Records
Partners, 1992, Warner Bros. Records
Flaco Jiménez, 1994, Arista Records
Buena Suerte Senorita, 1996, Arista
Said and Done, 1998, Virgin Records
Arriba el Norte, 1998, Sound Records
Sleepytown, 2002, Back Porch Records
Squeeze Box King, 2003, Compadre Records
Ya Volvi De La Guerra, 2009, Fiesta Records
Entre Humo y Botellas, 2009, Rounder
Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies, 2014, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Live albums
One Night at Joey's (Live), 1999, Sony Records
Compilations and re-releases
El Rancho de la Ramalada, [release year unknown], Joey Records
Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio y Más!, 1990, Arhoolie
Un Mojado Sin Licencia and Other Hits From the 1960s, 1993, Arhoolie
Flaco's First! (with Los Caminantes), 1995, Arhoolie
15 Exitos, 1995, Joey Records
Best of Flaco Jiménez, 1999, Arhoolie
Ultimo Tornado, 2001, Warner Bros.
20 Golden Hits, 2001, Hacienda Records
Flaco's Favorites: 14 Fabulous Tracks, 2002, Fab14 Records
Contiene Exitos, Prieta Case Se Me Olvido Otra Vez, 2003, Discos Ranchito
Fiesta Del Rio, 2006, Fiesta Records
Melodias, 2010, Joey Records
Polkas y Mas..., 2010, Joey Records
Featured on multi-artist compilation albums
Tex-Mex Conjunto Classics, 1999, Arhoolie
Singles
Guest singles
Participations
2007 : "My Name Is Buddy" (Nonesuch Records), by Ry Cooder, with Paddy Moloney, Van Dyke Parks, Mike & Pete Seeger, Bobby King & Terry Evans, Jim Keltner, Jacky Terrasson, Jon Hassell
1989 : Plays accordion on "New Pony" on the Orchestre Super Moth EP The World At Sixes And Sevens. Released on Rogue Records (12FMS 6–7). Awards and honors
Between 1986 and 2015, Jiménez has won six Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, plus an additional three nominations. In 1999, Jiménez was awarded the Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, Jiménez won a Tejano Music Video of the Year award at the Tejano Music Awards for his song "De Bolon Pin Pon".In 2001, both <mask> and his brother Santiago were included among the first group of recipients of the Texas Medal of Arts in the folk arts category. <mask> was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Tejano Music Awards ceremony in 2011. In 2012, he received a National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist from the Americana Music Association. He received his plaque at the ceremony from longtime collaborator Ry Cooder, with whom he also performed at the event. <mask> was one of five artists to receive the inaugural Distinction in Arts honor from the City of San Antonio in 2015. Also in 2015, his collaborative album with Max Baca titled Flaco & Max: Legends & Legacies won an award in the Latin Album category at the 14th Annual Independent Music Awards.In 2017, a photograph of Jiménez taken by Al Rendon in 1987 was added to the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Images in the Gallery "represent the numerous individuals who have made a significant impact on the history and culture of the United States". In 2018, the Houston Chronicle listed him as number 19 of the Greatest 50 Texas Musicians of all time. Jiménez received the Top of Texas Award from the Country Music Association of Texas in 2019. Earlier in the same year, he also received the History-Making Texas Award from the Texas State History Museum Foundation. In 2020, <mask> received the Chris Strachwitz Legacy Award from the Arhoolie Foundation. In 2021, <mask>'s album Partners was selected as one of 25 works to be inducted into the National Recording Registry's class of 2020, with the registry calling Jiménez "a champion of traditional conjunto music and Tex-Mex culture who also is known for innovation and collaboration with a variety of artists."Grammy awards
|-
! scope="row" | 1987
| Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
| Best Mexican-American Performance
|
| solo album
|-
! scope="row" | 1989
| <mask>'s Amigos
| Best Mexican-American Performance
|
| solo album
|-
! scope="row" | 1991
| "Soy de San Luis"
| Best Mexican-American Performance
|
| song by the Texas Tornados
|-
! scope="row" | 1992
| Zone of our Own
| Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
|
| album by the Texas Tornados
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1996
| <mask> Jiménez
| Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance
|
| solo album
|-
| "Cat Walk"
| Best Country Instrumental Performance
|
| Lee Roy Parnell song, featuring Jiménez
|-
! rowspan="2" | 1999
| Los Super Seven
| Best Mexican-American Music Performance
|
| album by Los Super Seven
|-
| Said and Done
| Best Tejano Music Performance
|
| solo album
|-
!scope="row" | 2015
| himself
| Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
|
|
|-
References
External links
Audio interview with <mask> <mask>, May 28, 1986, University of Texas at San Antonio: Institute of Texan Cultures: Oral History Collections
Living people
1939 births
20th-century accordionists
21st-century accordionists
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
American accordionists
American country singer-songwriters
American male singer-songwriters
American musicians of Mexican descent
Musicians from San Antonio
Singer-songwriters from Texas
Country musicians from Texas
Tejano accordionists
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
National Heritage Fellowship winners
Texas Tornados members
Hispanic and Latino American musicians
Arhoolie Records artists
Arista Records artists
Rounder Records artists
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His music was more widely known outside of America.He went to America with his own band and 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 888-270-6611 The band was called the Free Mexican Airforce. On November 13, 1976, Jiménez appeared on NBC's Saturday Night with Cooder. He performed on the hit country song "Streets of Bakersfield" in 1988. The song was number 1 on the Hot Country Singles chart. The album Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio was written by Jiménez's father. The song "Soy de San Luis" was written by his father and was recorded by the Texas Tornados.He was a member of Los Super Seven, a group that won aGrammy Award for their eponymous album. <mask> was one of the featured artists in the film. He was in a band with Woody Allen and Sharon Stone in the 2000 movie Picking Up the Pieces. His music has been used in several movies, such as Y Tu Mam También, El Infierno, The Border, Tin Cup, and Striptease. In the documentary film This Ain't No Mouse Music, he was one of the artists featured. The Flaco Jimenez Signature series of accordions were created by the Hohner company. <mask>, Jr. is an accomplished accordionist and has recorded extensively.<mask> had a broken hip and two rib injuries after two separate falls. He was one of the acts on the closing night of the 34th annual Tejano Conjunto Festival in San Antonio. <mask> and his wife used to own a food truck in the San Antonio area. Discography studio albums in 1972, D.L.B. El Papa Del Caminante was located in San Antonio, Texas. Mis Polkas Favoritas, 1973, D.L.B. is located in San Antonio, TX. Records in San Antonio, TX by Corridos Famosos.Clavelito Clavelito was born in San Antonio, Texas. La Otra Modesta, 1974, D.L.B. is located in San Antonio, Texas. El Rey De Texas is located in San Antonio, Texas. A Mis Amigos Cariosamente is located in San Antonio, Texas. El Principe Del Acorden is located in San Antonio, Texas. Flaco Jiménez Y Su Conjunto was recorded in San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio, TX Mis 25 Aos, 1980, D.L.B.Records in San Antonio, Texas, El Sonido de San Antonio, 1980, Arhoolie Polkas De Oro, 1983, D.L.B. Records in San Antonio, Texas, Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio, Arhoolie Flaco's Amigos, and Rounder Records Partners. Flaco's Favorites: 14 Fabulous Tracks, 2002, Fab14 Records It was released on Rogue Records. Between 1986 and 2015, <mask> has won sixGrammy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award. <mask> received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. <mask> won a Tejano Music Video of the Year award in 2000 for his song "De Bolon Pin Pon".The first group of recipients of the Texas Medal of Arts in the folk arts category included <mask> and his brother Santiago. <mask> received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Tejano Music Awards. The United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts was given to him in 2012 by the National Endowment of the Arts. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. At the ceremony, he received a plaque from his long-time friend and co-conspirator, Ry Cooder. Jiménez was one of five artists to receive the inaugural Distinction in Arts honor from the City of San Antonio. 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30064256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Angelakos | Michael Angelakos | Michael John Angelakos (born May 19, 1987) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman of the indietronica band Passion Pit.
Career
Passion Pit (2008–present)
The first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the Chunk of Change EP, were written by Angelakos at Emerson College as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend. At first, he wrote and performed all his material alone using a laptop. After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached Angelakos and expressed interest in creating and playing music collaboratively. They formed a group that consisted of Angelakos, Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Thom Plasse (bass), and Adam Lavinsky (drums). The band spent a considerable amount of time trying to flesh out a collaborative format and structure that would work best for them. Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer joined the band shortly after they signed to Frenchkiss in 2008, replacing Plasse and Lavinsky, respectively. In 2012, Adhamy was replaced by Xander Singh.
2007–09: Chunk of Change
The band's debut EP, Chunk of Change, was released on September 16, 2008. The first four tracks were those that Angelakos had written as a gift for his girlfriend, which had already become popular throughout the Emerson College campus, where Angelakos was attending classes at the time, and had been passing out his own, self-produced copies.
The first and only single to be released from the EP, "Sleepyhead", received a good deal of exposure through its use in numerous media campaigns and advertisements, while the video for the song, directed by The Wilderness, was included on Pitchfork's Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 list. The song contains samples of "Óró Mo Bháidín" by Irish singer and harpist Mary O'Hara.
Other songs from the EP received some exposure as well. "Cuddle Fuddle" was featured in E4's second series of The Inbetweeners and "I've Got Your Number" was used in an advertisement for the cash card from O2, Money in the UK.
2009–11: Manners
The band's first full-length studio album, Manners, was released on May 18, 2009 in the UK and May 19, 2009 in the United States and Canada. In celebration, the band played their record release party on the 18th in New York City on a Rocks Off boat cruise.
In order to obtain a specific background vocal accompaniment the band was looking for on Manners, Passion Pit enlisted the help of the PS22 chorus, who recorded vocals in-studio for three of the album's songs: "The Reeling", "Little Secrets", and "Let Your Love Grow Tall." "The Reeling" was the first single to be released from the album and found success on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the fall of 2009, where it peaked at number 34 in October and "Little Secrets" was the third single to be released and had success on the chart as well, topping out at number 39. "Let Your Love Grow Tall" was never released as a single but had some exposure being used in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the TV series Ugly Betty.
The album's second single, "To Kingdom Come", was used in the Rhapsody commercial for its iPhone application.
"Sleepyhead" was the only track from Chunk of Change to be included on the album and was made available from iTunes for free as a discovery download in 2009. The song continued to receive additional exposure through its appearances in advertisements. It was used in a season 3 episode of the teen-drama, Skins and most recently in the debut trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2, which led to the band's increased popularity amongst fans and players of the game, who eventually created an in-game instrumental version of the song to listen to in the first game. When the sequel was released, it came with the song's actual instrumental version used in the trailer.
The song "Moth's Wings" was used in the fourth episode of the third season of the CW teen drama Gossip Girl and in the closing credits of episode 36 of HBO's Big Love. It appeared in the FIFA 10 video game and was featured in the film Life as We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel. Additionally, the track has been used as a background theme for Sky Sports' coverage of the UEFA Champions League and as the music for a dance routine in Episode 5, Season 8, of the US television show So You Think You Can Dance, which received a standing ovation from the show's judges. It was also featured in MTV's show Awkward.
In June 2009, the band performed at the Glastonbury Festival 2009 in Pilton, Somerset, England, where they dedicated the final song of their set to festival headliner Jarvis Cocker, who was to perform on the same stage later that same day. Afterwards, NME, while favorably reviewing Passion Pit's performance, incorrectly reported the band as having dedicated their entire set to Cocker.
On April 13, 2010, the band reissued Manners in a deluxe edition format which contained new artwork and three additional tracks: stripped-down versions of "Sleepyhead" and "Moth's Wings" and a cover of The Cranberries' song "Dreams". The deluxe release coincided with the extension of their North American headlining tour.
The band released another cover in June 2010, this time offering up their take on The Smashing Pumpkins hit song "Tonight, Tonight" as part of a promotion with Levi's called "Pioneer Sessions".
In September 2010, Passion Pit toured with the English band Muse as their opening act for eight shows during their fall tour through parts of the U.S. Following those supporting shows, the band headlined the Campus Consciousness Tour, produced by Pretty Polly Productions in collaboration with Guster guitarist Adam Gardner's non-profit organization Reverb. The two-week tour featured stops at twelve college campuses and, in addition to the music, focused on promoting eco-friendly lifestyles. Opening acts for the tour included Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and K. Flay.
2011–14: Gossamer
In an August 2010 interview with NME, Angelakos stated that work had already begun on the follow-up to Manners and that the band intended to release the album in the spring of 2011. He then said that it will be released early in 2012, and finally that the release date was July 24.
On April 24, 2012, Angelakos announced the title of the album, Gossamer, and that it would be released on July 24, 2012.
On May 7, the first track from Gossamer was released, called "Take a Walk".
On June 12, the second track from Gossamer was released, called "I'll Be Alright". The track leaked early on June 11 and was released as an NME premiere on June 8.
On July 9, a third track from Gossamer, called "Constant Conversations", was reviewed and featured as "best new track" by Pitchfork. It was released with the review as streamed content. Gossamer was officially released on July 20, 2012.
On October 13, they performed on Saturday Night Live. They played "Take a Walk" and "Carried Away."
Angelakos, Kill The Noise and Fatman Scoop appeared on "Recess", the second single and title track from American record producer Skrillex's debut album Recess. The single was released on July 7, 2014.
2015–17: Kindred
On January 29, it was revealed that a new album, Kindred, was in the making. The album was released on April 21.
On February 16, the official track listing was released.
From the start of 2015, to the album's release on April 21, the official Passion Pit blog released clues to the new song's lyrics and melodies in the form of Morse-encoded lyrics with the track number and time code the lyrics appeared at, and 4 – 10 seconds of melody for a select few songs.
2017-present: Tremendous Sea of Love
On March 24 the album Tremendous Sea of Love was self-released. This came one month after the album had been available for free in exchange for retweets of a tweet describing the importance of science and research.
The official release of the album was announced on July 11 to be on July 28.
Personal life
At seven, he started his first band, Dead Grass, and made himself a canvas tote bag as personal merchandise, emblazoned with a painting of a meadow on fire and fake band members lying about. While living in Buffalo, he developed an appreciation for ska, forming a local ska band, Cherry Bing. He also experimented with a number of other musical ventures throughout his years at Nichols School, delving into different musical forms and composition expanding his musical acumen. During this time, he became proficient in putting his musical thoughts directly and quickly into sound. Within one hour, he wrote and recorded the music for a high school play. He performed onstage for that production, which was performed at the Fringe Festival in Scotland. While he attended Emerson College, in the 2000s, he developed a love for opera, the soprano voice, show tunes, and slowcore indie rock, continuing to compose scores for school film majors.
Angelakos married Kristina Mucci in 2013. On August 27, 2015, the couple announced that they were divorcing. In the same year, he came out as bisexual.
Mental health
On July 16, 2012, Angelakos posted on the Passion Pit website that the band had canceled the remaining July 2012 tour dates and suspended the tour in order for Angelakos to seek ongoing treatment for bipolar disorder. A Rolling Stone interview stated that Angelakos was diagnosed at 17, and had been receiving therapy, hospital care, and medication ever since. Two days later, Pitchfork ran a cover story explaining the nature of Angelakos' health issues and its ties to Passion Pit's second album. It was revealed he was on suicide watch. On March 4, 2013, The Huffington Post reported about Angelakos' evident recovery as Passion Pit performed a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on February 8, 2013. The article cited Angelakos as being "in one of the best places he's ever been".
Angelakos, with his company The Wishart Group, together with co-founder Bianca Campuued and neuroscientists David and Michael Wells, is working to bring changes in the music industry with regards to mental health.
References
1987 births
21st-century American guitarists
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
American male guitarists
American male singer-songwriters
American people of Greek descent
American rock guitarists
American singer-songwriters
Bisexual men
Bisexual musicians
Emerson College alumni
LGBT people from New Jersey
Living people
Passion Pit members
People with bipolar disorder
LGBT singers from the United States
20th-century LGBT people
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"Michael John Angelakos (born May 19, 1987) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.",
"He is best known as the frontman of the indietronica band Passion Pit.",
"Career\n\nPassion Pit (2008–present)\nThe first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the Chunk of Change EP, were written by Angelakos at Emerson College as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend.",
"At first, he wrote and performed all his material alone using a laptop.",
"After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached Angelakos and expressed interest in creating and playing music collaboratively.",
"They formed a group that consisted of Angelakos, Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Thom Plasse (bass), and Adam Lavinsky (drums).",
"The band spent a considerable amount of time trying to flesh out a collaborative format and structure that would work best for them.",
"Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer joined the band shortly after they signed to Frenchkiss in 2008, replacing Plasse and Lavinsky, respectively.",
"In 2012, Adhamy was replaced by Xander Singh.",
"2007–09: Chunk of Change\nThe band's debut EP, Chunk of Change, was released on September 16, 2008.",
"The first four tracks were those that Angelakos had written as a gift for his girlfriend, which had already become popular throughout the Emerson College campus, where Angelakos was attending classes at the time, and had been passing out his own, self-produced copies.",
"The first and only single to be released from the EP, \"Sleepyhead\", received a good deal of exposure through its use in numerous media campaigns and advertisements, while the video for the song, directed by The Wilderness, was included on Pitchfork's Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 list.",
"The song contains samples of \"Óró Mo Bháidín\" by Irish singer and harpist Mary O'Hara.",
"Other songs from the EP received some exposure as well.",
"\"Cuddle Fuddle\" was featured in E4's second series of The Inbetweeners and \"I've Got Your Number\" was used in an advertisement for the cash card from O2, Money in the UK.",
"2009–11: Manners\nThe band's first full-length studio album, Manners, was released on May 18, 2009 in the UK and May 19, 2009 in the United States and Canada.",
"In celebration, the band played their record release party on the 18th in New York City on a Rocks Off boat cruise.",
"In order to obtain a specific background vocal accompaniment the band was looking for on Manners, Passion Pit enlisted the help of the PS22 chorus, who recorded vocals in-studio for three of the album's songs: \"The Reeling\", \"Little Secrets\", and \"Let Your Love Grow Tall.\"",
"\"The Reeling\" was the first single to be released from the album and found success on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the fall of 2009, where it peaked at number 34 in October and \"Little Secrets\" was the third single to be released and had success on the chart as well, topping out at number 39.",
"\"Let Your Love Grow Tall\" was never released as a single but had some exposure being used in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the TV series Ugly Betty.",
"The album's second single, \"To Kingdom Come\", was used in the Rhapsody commercial for its iPhone application.",
"\"Sleepyhead\" was the only track from Chunk of Change to be included on the album and was made available from iTunes for free as a discovery download in 2009.",
"The song continued to receive additional exposure through its appearances in advertisements.",
"It was used in a season 3 episode of the teen-drama, Skins and most recently in the debut trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2, which led to the band's increased popularity amongst fans and players of the game, who eventually created an in-game instrumental version of the song to listen to in the first game.",
"When the sequel was released, it came with the song's actual instrumental version used in the trailer.",
"The song \"Moth's Wings\" was used in the fourth episode of the third season of the CW teen drama Gossip Girl and in the closing credits of episode 36 of HBO's Big Love.",
"It appeared in the FIFA 10 video game and was featured in the film Life as We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.",
"Additionally, the track has been used as a background theme for Sky Sports' coverage of the UEFA Champions League and as the music for a dance routine in Episode 5, Season 8, of the US television show So You Think You Can Dance, which received a standing ovation from the show's judges.",
"It was also featured in MTV's show Awkward.",
"In June 2009, the band performed at the Glastonbury Festival 2009 in Pilton, Somerset, England, where they dedicated the final song of their set to festival headliner Jarvis Cocker, who was to perform on the same stage later that same day.",
"Afterwards, NME, while favorably reviewing Passion Pit's performance, incorrectly reported the band as having dedicated their entire set to Cocker.",
"On April 13, 2010, the band reissued Manners in a deluxe edition format which contained new artwork and three additional tracks: stripped-down versions of \"Sleepyhead\" and \"Moth's Wings\" and a cover of The Cranberries' song \"Dreams\".",
"The deluxe release coincided with the extension of their North American headlining tour.",
"The band released another cover in June 2010, this time offering up their take on The Smashing Pumpkins hit song \"Tonight, Tonight\" as part of a promotion with Levi's called \"Pioneer Sessions\".",
"In September 2010, Passion Pit toured with the English band Muse as their opening act for eight shows during their fall tour through parts of the U.S.",
"Following those supporting shows, the band headlined the Campus Consciousness Tour, produced by Pretty Polly Productions in collaboration with Guster guitarist Adam Gardner's non-profit organization Reverb.",
"The two-week tour featured stops at twelve college campuses and, in addition to the music, focused on promoting eco-friendly lifestyles.",
"Opening acts for the tour included Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and K. Flay.",
"2011–14: Gossamer\nIn an August 2010 interview with NME, Angelakos stated that work had already begun on the follow-up to Manners and that the band intended to release the album in the spring of 2011.",
"He then said that it will be released early in 2012, and finally that the release date was July 24.",
"On April 24, 2012, Angelakos announced the title of the album, Gossamer, and that it would be released on July 24, 2012.",
"On May 7, the first track from Gossamer was released, called \"Take a Walk\".",
"On June 12, the second track from Gossamer was released, called \"I'll Be Alright\".",
"The track leaked early on June 11 and was released as an NME premiere on June 8.",
"On July 9, a third track from Gossamer, called \"Constant Conversations\", was reviewed and featured as \"best new track\" by Pitchfork.",
"It was released with the review as streamed content.",
"Gossamer was officially released on July 20, 2012.",
"On October 13, they performed on Saturday Night Live.",
"They played \"Take a Walk\" and \"Carried Away.\"",
"Angelakos, Kill The Noise and Fatman Scoop appeared on \"Recess\", the second single and title track from American record producer Skrillex's debut album Recess.",
"The single was released on July 7, 2014.",
"2015–17: Kindred\nOn January 29, it was revealed that a new album, Kindred, was in the making.",
"The album was released on April 21.",
"On February 16, the official track listing was released.",
"From the start of 2015, to the album's release on April 21, the official Passion Pit blog released clues to the new song's lyrics and melodies in the form of Morse-encoded lyrics with the track number and time code the lyrics appeared at, and 4 – 10 seconds of melody for a select few songs.",
"2017-present: Tremendous Sea of Love\nOn March 24 the album Tremendous Sea of Love was self-released.",
"This came one month after the album had been available for free in exchange for retweets of a tweet describing the importance of science and research.",
"The official release of the album was announced on July 11 to be on July 28.",
"Personal life\nAt seven, he started his first band, Dead Grass, and made himself a canvas tote bag as personal merchandise, emblazoned with a painting of a meadow on fire and fake band members lying about.",
"While living in Buffalo, he developed an appreciation for ska, forming a local ska band, Cherry Bing.",
"He also experimented with a number of other musical ventures throughout his years at Nichols School, delving into different musical forms and composition expanding his musical acumen.",
"During this time, he became proficient in putting his musical thoughts directly and quickly into sound.",
"Within one hour, he wrote and recorded the music for a high school play.",
"He performed onstage for that production, which was performed at the Fringe Festival in Scotland.",
"While he attended Emerson College, in the 2000s, he developed a love for opera, the soprano voice, show tunes, and slowcore indie rock, continuing to compose scores for school film majors.",
"Angelakos married Kristina Mucci in 2013.",
"On August 27, 2015, the couple announced that they were divorcing.",
"In the same year, he came out as bisexual.",
"Mental health\nOn July 16, 2012, Angelakos posted on the Passion Pit website that the band had canceled the remaining July 2012 tour dates and suspended the tour in order for Angelakos to seek ongoing treatment for bipolar disorder.",
"A Rolling Stone interview stated that Angelakos was diagnosed at 17, and had been receiving therapy, hospital care, and medication ever since.",
"Two days later, Pitchfork ran a cover story explaining the nature of Angelakos' health issues and its ties to Passion Pit's second album.",
"It was revealed he was on suicide watch.",
"On March 4, 2013, The Huffington Post reported about Angelakos' evident recovery as Passion Pit performed a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on February 8, 2013.",
"The article cited Angelakos as being \"in one of the best places he's ever been\".",
"Angelakos, with his company The Wishart Group, together with co-founder Bianca Campuued and neuroscientists David and Michael Wells, is working to bring changes in the music industry with regards to mental health.",
"References\n\n1987 births\n21st-century American guitarists\n21st-century American singers\n21st-century American male singers\nAmerican male guitarists\nAmerican male singer-songwriters\nAmerican people of Greek descent\nAmerican rock guitarists\nAmerican singer-songwriters\nBisexual men\nBisexual musicians\nEmerson College alumni\nLGBT people from New Jersey\nLiving people\nPassion Pit members\nPeople with bipolar disorder\nLGBT singers from the United States\n20th-century LGBT people\n21st-century LGBT people"
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"He is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.",
"He is the lead singer of the bandPassion Pit.",
"The first songs from Career Passion Pit were written as a gift to his girlfriend.",
"He used a laptop to write and perform his material.",
"After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached Angelakos and expressed interest in creating and playing music together.",
"They formed a group of people.",
"The band spent a lot of time trying to come up with a structure that would work best for them.",
"After signing to Frenchkiss in 2008, Jeff Apruzzese and Nathan Donmoyer joined the band.",
"Adhamy was replaced by a different person.",
"The band's debut album, Chunk of Change, was released on September 16, 2008.",
"The first four tracks were written as a gift for his girlfriend, which had already become popular throughout the college campus, where he was attending classes, and had been passing out his own, self-produced copies.",
"The video for the song, directed by The Wilderness, was included on the Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 list, as well as being used in numerous media campaigns and advertisements.",
"There are samples of \"r Mo Bhidn\" in the song.",
"The other songs received some exposure as well.",
"\"Cuddle Fuddle\" and \"I've Got Your Number\" were used in advertisements for O2 and Money in the UK, respectively.",
"The band's first full-length studio album, Manners, was released in the United States and Canada on May 19, 2009.",
"The band played their record release party on a boat cruise in New York City.",
"The PS22 chorus recorded vocals for three of the album's songs in order to get a specific background vocal accompaniment.",
"\"The Reeling\" was the first single to be released from the album and found success on the Alternative Songs chart in the fall of 2009, where it peaked at number 34 in October, and \"Little Secrets\" was the third single to be released and had success on the chart as well.",
"\"Let Your Love Grow Tall\" was used in the 16th episode of the fourth season of the show.",
"The second single from the album, \"To Kingdom Come\", was used in a commercial.",
"\"Sleepyhead\" was the only track from Chunk of Change to be included on the album and was made available for free as a discovery download in 2009.",
"The song received additional exposure through advertisements.",
"It was used in a season 3 episode of the teen-drama, Skins and most recently in the debut trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2, which led to the band's increased popularity amongst fans and players of the game, who eventually created an in-game instrumental version of the song",
"The song's actual instrumental version was used in the trailer for the sequel.",
"The song \"Moth's Wings\" was used in the fourth episode of the third season of Gossip Girl and in the closing credits of the 36th episode of Big Love.",
"It was in the video game and in the movie Life as We Know It.",
"The music for a dance routine in Episode 5, Season 8, of the US television show So You Think You Can Dance received a standing ovation from the show's judges.",
"It was in Awkward.",
"The final song of the band's set was dedicated to Cocker, who was to perform on the same stage later that day.",
"The band dedicated their entire set to Cocker, but they were wrongly reported as having done so.",
"The band released a new version of \"Sleepyhead\" and \"Moth's Wings\" as well as a cover of \"Dreams\" on April 13, 2010.",
"The extension of their North American tour coincides with the release of the deluxe.",
"The band released a cover of The Smashing Pumpkins hit song \"Tonight, Tonight\" in June 2010 as part of a promotion with Levi's called \"Pioneer sessions\".",
"During their fall tour through parts of the U.S., the English band Muse opened for Passion Pit.",
"The band was the headline of the Campus Consciousness Tour, which was produced by Pretty Polly and was in partnership with the non-profit organization Reverb.",
"The tour included stops at twelve college campuses and was focused on promoting eco-friendly lifestyles.",
"Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears opened the tour.",
"The band planned to release the follow-up to Manners in the spring of 2011.",
"He said that it will be released early in 2012 and that it will be on July 24.",
"The title of the album was announced on April 24, 2012 and will be released on July 24, 2012",
"\"Take a Walk\" was released on May 7.",
"\"I'll Be Alright\" was released on June 12.",
"The track was released as a premiere on June 8.",
"On July 9, a third track from Gossamer, called \"Constant Conversations\", was reviewed and featured as the best new track.",
"The review was streamed.",
"On July 20, 2012 Gossamer was released.",
"They performed on Saturday Night Live.",
"\"Take a Walk\" and \"Carried Away\" were played.",
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Passion Pit (2008–present)
The first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the Chunk of Change EP, were written by <mask> at Emerson College as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend. At first, he wrote and performed all his material alone using a laptop. After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached <mask> and expressed interest in creating and playing music collaboratively. They formed a group that consisted of <mask>, Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Thom Plasse (bass), and Adam Lavinsky (drums). The band spent a considerable amount of time trying to flesh out a collaborative format and structure that would work best for them.Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer joined the band shortly after they signed to Frenchkiss in 2008, replacing Plasse and Lavinsky, respectively. In 2012, Adhamy was replaced by Xander Singh. 2007–09: Chunk of Change
The band's debut EP, Chunk of Change, was released on September 16, 2008. The first four tracks were those that <mask> had written as a gift for his girlfriend, which had already become popular throughout the Emerson College campus, where <mask> was attending classes at the time, and had been passing out his own, self-produced copies. The first and only single to be released from the EP, "Sleepyhead", received a good deal of exposure through its use in numerous media campaigns and advertisements, while the video for the song, directed by The Wilderness, was included on Pitchfork's Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 list. The song contains samples of "Óró Mo Bháidín" by Irish singer and harpist Mary O'Hara. Other songs from the EP received some exposure as well."Cuddle Fuddle" was featured in E4's second series of The Inbetweeners and "I've Got Your Number" was used in an advertisement for the cash card from O2, Money in the UK. 2009–11: Manners
The band's first full-length studio album, Manners, was released on May 18, 2009 in the UK and May 19, 2009 in the United States and Canada. In celebration, the band played their record release party on the 18th in New York City on a Rocks Off boat cruise. In order to obtain a specific background vocal accompaniment the band was looking for on Manners, Passion Pit enlisted the help of the PS22 chorus, who recorded vocals in-studio for three of the album's songs: "The Reeling", "Little Secrets", and "Let Your Love Grow Tall." "The Reeling" was the first single to be released from the album and found success on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the fall of 2009, where it peaked at number 34 in October and "Little Secrets" was the third single to be released and had success on the chart as well, topping out at number 39. "Let Your Love Grow Tall" was never released as a single but had some exposure being used in the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of the TV series Ugly Betty. The album's second single, "To Kingdom Come", was used in the Rhapsody commercial for its iPhone application."Sleepyhead" was the only track from Chunk of Change to be included on the album and was made available from iTunes for free as a discovery download in 2009. The song continued to receive additional exposure through its appearances in advertisements. It was used in a season 3 episode of the teen-drama, Skins and most recently in the debut trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2, which led to the band's increased popularity amongst fans and players of the game, who eventually created an in-game instrumental version of the song to listen to in the first game. When the sequel was released, it came with the song's actual instrumental version used in the trailer. The song "Moth's Wings" was used in the fourth episode of the third season of the CW teen drama Gossip Girl and in the closing credits of episode 36 of HBO's Big Love. It appeared in the FIFA 10 video game and was featured in the film Life as We Know It, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel. Additionally, the track has been used as a background theme for Sky Sports' coverage of the UEFA Champions League and as the music for a dance routine in Episode 5, Season 8, of the US television show So You Think You Can Dance, which received a standing ovation from the show's judges.It was also featured in MTV's show Awkward. In June 2009, the band performed at the Glastonbury Festival 2009 in Pilton, Somerset, England, where they dedicated the final song of their set to festival headliner Jarvis Cocker, who was to perform on the same stage later that same day. Afterwards, NME, while favorably reviewing Passion Pit's performance, incorrectly reported the band as having dedicated their entire set to Cocker. On April 13, 2010, the band reissued Manners in a deluxe edition format which contained new artwork and three additional tracks: stripped-down versions of "Sleepyhead" and "Moth's Wings" and a cover of The Cranberries' song "Dreams". The deluxe release coincided with the extension of their North American headlining tour. The band released another cover in June 2010, this time offering up their take on The Smashing Pumpkins hit song "Tonight, Tonight" as part of a promotion with Levi's called "Pioneer Sessions". In September 2010, Passion Pit toured with the English band Muse as their opening act for eight shows during their fall tour through parts of the U.S.Following those supporting shows, the band headlined the Campus Consciousness Tour, produced by Pretty Polly Productions in collaboration with Guster guitarist Adam Gardner's non-profit organization Reverb. The two-week tour featured stops at twelve college campuses and, in addition to the music, focused on promoting eco-friendly lifestyles. Opening acts for the tour included Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears and K. Flay. 2011–14: Gossamer
In an August 2010 interview with NME, <mask> stated that work had already begun on the follow-up to Manners and that the band intended to release the album in the spring of 2011. He then said that it will be released early in 2012, and finally that the release date was July 24. On April 24, 2012, <mask> announced the title of the album, Gossamer, and that it would be released on July 24, 2012. On May 7, the first track from Gossamer was released, called "Take a Walk".On June 12, the second track from Gossamer was released, called "I'll Be Alright". The track leaked early on June 11 and was released as an NME premiere on June 8. On July 9, a third track from Gossamer, called "Constant Conversations", was reviewed and featured as "best new track" by Pitchfork. It was released with the review as streamed content. Gossamer was officially released on July 20, 2012. On October 13, they performed on Saturday Night Live. They played "Take a Walk" and "Carried Away."<mask>, Kill The Noise and Fatman Scoop appeared on "Recess", the second single and title track from American record producer Skrillex's debut album Recess. The single was released on July 7, 2014. 2015–17: Kindred
On January 29, it was revealed that a new album, Kindred, was in the making. The album was released on April 21. On February 16, the official track listing was released. From the start of 2015, to the album's release on April 21, the official Passion Pit blog released clues to the new song's lyrics and melodies in the form of Morse-encoded lyrics with the track number and time code the lyrics appeared at, and 4 – 10 seconds of melody for a select few songs. 2017-present: Tremendous Sea of Love
On March 24 the album Tremendous Sea of Love was self-released.This came one month after the album had been available for free in exchange for retweets of a tweet describing the importance of science and research. The official release of the album was announced on July 11 to be on July 28. Personal life
At seven, he started his first band, Dead Grass, and made himself a canvas tote bag as personal merchandise, emblazoned with a painting of a meadow on fire and fake band members lying about. While living in Buffalo, he developed an appreciation for ska, forming a local ska band, Cherry Bing. He also experimented with a number of other musical ventures throughout his years at Nichols School, delving into different musical forms and composition expanding his musical acumen. During this time, he became proficient in putting his musical thoughts directly and quickly into sound. Within one hour, he wrote and recorded the music for a high school play.He performed onstage for that production, which was performed at the Fringe Festival in Scotland. While he attended Emerson College, in the 2000s, he developed a love for opera, the soprano voice, show tunes, and slowcore indie rock, continuing to compose scores for school film majors. <mask> married Kristina Mucci in 2013. On August 27, 2015, the couple announced that they were divorcing. In the same year, he came out as bisexual. Mental health
On July 16, 2012, <mask> posted on the Passion Pit website that the band had canceled the remaining July 2012 tour dates and suspended the tour in order for <mask> to seek ongoing treatment for bipolar disorder. A Rolling Stone interview stated that <mask> was diagnosed at 17, and had been receiving therapy, hospital care, and medication ever since.Two days later, Pitchfork ran a cover story explaining the nature of <mask>' health issues and its ties to Passion Pit's second album. It was revealed he was on suicide watch. On March 4, 2013, The Huffington Post reported about <mask>' evident recovery as Passion Pit performed a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on February 8, 2013. The article cited <mask> as being "in one of the best places he's ever been". <mask>, with his company The Wishart Group, together with co-founder Bianca Campuued and neuroscientists David and <mask>, is working to bring changes in the music industry with regards to mental health. References
1987 births
21st-century American guitarists
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
American male guitarists
American male singer-songwriters
American people of Greek descent
American rock guitarists
American singer-songwriters
Bisexual men
Bisexual musicians
Emerson College alumni
LGBT people from New Jersey
Living people
Passion Pit members
People with bipolar disorder
LGBT singers from the United States
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The video for the song, directed by The Wilderness, was included on the Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 list, as well as being used in numerous media campaigns and advertisements. There are samples of "r Mo Bhidn" in the song. The other songs received some exposure as well."Cuddle Fuddle" and "I've Got Your Number" were used in advertisements for O2 and Money in the UK, respectively. The band's first full-length studio album, Manners, was released in the United States and Canada on May 19, 2009. The band played their record release party on a boat cruise in New York City. The PS22 chorus recorded vocals for three of the album's songs in order to get a specific background vocal accompaniment. "The Reeling" was the first single to be released from the album and found success on the Alternative Songs chart in the fall of 2009, where it peaked at number 34 in October, and "Little Secrets" was the third single to be released and had success on the chart as well. "Let Your Love Grow Tall" was used in the 16th episode of the fourth season of the show. The second single from the album, "To Kingdom Come", was used in a commercial."Sleepyhead" was the only track from Chunk of Change to be included on the album and was made available for free as a discovery download in 2009. The song received additional exposure through advertisements. It was used in a season 3 episode of the teen-drama, Skins and most recently in the debut trailer for LittleBigPlanet 2, which led to the band's increased popularity amongst fans and players of the game, who eventually created an in-game instrumental version of the song The song's actual instrumental version was used in the trailer for the sequel. The song "Moth's Wings" was used in the fourth episode of the third season of Gossip Girl and in the closing credits of the 36th episode of Big Love. It was in the video game and in the movie Life as We Know It. The music for a dance routine in Episode 5, Season 8, of the US television show So You Think You Can Dance received a standing ovation from the show's judges.It was in Awkward. The final song of the band's set was dedicated to Cocker, who was to perform on the same stage later that day. The band dedicated their entire set to Cocker, but they were wrongly reported as having done so. The band released a new version of "Sleepyhead" and "Moth's Wings" as well as a cover of "Dreams" on April 13, 2010. The extension of their North American tour coincides with the release of the deluxe. The band released a cover of The Smashing Pumpkins hit song "Tonight, Tonight" in June 2010 as part of a promotion with Levi's called "Pioneer sessions". During their fall tour through parts of the U.S., the English band Muse opened for Passion Pit.The band was the headline of the Campus Consciousness Tour, which was produced by Pretty Polly and was in partnership with the non-profit organization Reverb. The tour included stops at twelve college campuses and was focused on promoting eco-friendly lifestyles. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears opened the tour. The band planned to release the follow-up to Manners in the spring of 2011. He said that it will be released early in 2012 and that it will be on July 24. The title of the album was announced on April 24, 2012 and will be released on July 24, 2012 "Take a Walk" was released on May 7."I'll Be Alright" was released on June 12. The track was released as a premiere on June 8. On July 9, a third track from Gossamer, called "Constant Conversations", was reviewed and featured as the best new track. The review was streamed. On July 20, 2012 Gossamer was released. They performed on Saturday Night Live. "Take a Walk" and "Carried Away" were played."Recess" is the second single and title track from American record producer Skrillex's debut album. The single was released in July of last year. On January 29, it was revealed that a new album was in the making. The album was released on April 21. The official track listing was released on February 16. From the start of 2015, to the album's release on April 21, the official Passion Pit blog released clues to the new song's lyrics and melody in the form of Morse-encoded lyrics with the track number and time code the lyrics appeared at, and 4 - 10 seconds of melody for The album Tremendous Sea of Love was self-released on March 24.This came one month after the album had been made available for free in exchange for retweets of a message about the importance of science and research. The album was going to be released on July 28. He started his first band at seven years old and made himself a canvas tote bag with a painting of a meadow on fire and fake band members lying about. He formed a local ska band, Cherry Bing, while living in Buffalo. 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1650137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon%20Pearson | Landon Pearson | Landon Carter "Lucy" Pearson, (born November 16, 1930) is a Canadian former Canadian Senator and a children's rights advocate. She is the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, through her marriage to his son Geoffrey Pearson.
Pearson was appointed to the Senate of Canada on September 15, 1994 by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and sat with the Liberal caucus. She retired from the Senate on November 16, 2005 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
As an author
Her book, Children of Glasnost (1990) described growing up in the Soviet Union, and how that changed as Russian society became more open. A second book, Letters from Moscow ',a selection of her personal correspondence while living in Moscow while her husband was the Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union, was published in 2003. Most recently in 2010, in collaboration with Judy Finlay PhD, Pearson published Tibacimowin: A Gathering of Stories, which gathered and translated oral history stories from members of some Ontario First Nations elders peoples.
Child advocate
In 1974 she cofounded Children Learning for Living, a prevention program in children's mental health. It operated for 23 years through the Ottawa Board of Education until 1998.
She was a school trustee in both Canada and India; and has been involved in community-based programs such as Mobile Creches for Working Mothers' Children, a child care service for the children of nomadic construction workers in New Delhi and Bombay.
In 1979, she was Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child and edited the Commission's report, For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action. Among her recommendations were
increased financial support for battered women's shelters
funding for unwed mothers seeking to continue their education
amendments to the Income Tax Act to allow a greater deduction for child care costs
laws requiring car seat restraints for infants.
legislation to return Indian rights to Native women who married non-Indian men.
Many of these recommendations have been carried out.
From 1984 to 1990 she was President, then Chairperson of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth. She was a founding member and Chairperson of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children in 1989 until she was appointed to the Senate, September 1994.
She is a director of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk at McMaster University; a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995; a delegate to the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, August 1996; the alternate head of the Canadian delegation to the International Child Labour Conference in Oslo, October 1997; the co-chair of Out From the Shadows: International Summit of Sexually Exploited Youth in Victoria, British Columbia, March 1998; and the co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access which drafted the report entitled For the Sake of the Children, 1998.
In May 1996, Senator Pearson was named Advisor on Children’s Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. She provided advice to the Minister, on a regular basis, concerning children's issues in the foreign policy context and on the impact of domestic policies for children on our international commitments, notably the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In June 1999, she was named Personal Representative of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to the 2002 Special Session on Children of the United Nations General Assembly.
On November 3, 2006, Senator Pearson announced the opening of The Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights. The Centre’s mandate is to promote activities that address issues relating to children, childhood and communities, to make the resources available to students and faculty at Carleton University, to host events and speakers, and to secure the resources required to promote these activities. The Centre officially opened its doors on June 2, 2006, International Children's Day. In 2010 she retired as Director of the Resource Centre but it continues to run in affiliation with Carleton University in Ottawa. The centre is connected to the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Education and awards
Senator Pearson graduated from King's Hall, Compton in Quebec and Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1951 with a B.A. in Philosophy and English and from the University of Ottawa in 1978 with a M.Ed. in psychopedagogy. She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University in May 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria in November 2001, a Doctor of University (D.U.) from the University of Ottawa in June 2002, and an honorary Doctors of Law from Carleton University in June 2003 for her work on children's rights.
She has been honoured for her work on behalf of children from the United Way of Ottawa-Carleton, and through receipt of the Canadian Volunteer Award and the Norma V. Bowen Humanitarian Award of the Ontario Psychological Foundation. In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Family
She was married to Canadian diplomat Geoffrey Pearson, the son of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Maryon Pearson, until his death on March 18, 2008. Geoffrey and Landon's daughter Patricia Pearson is a notable Canadian writer.
Senator Pearson and her husband have five children and twelve grandchildren. As the wife of a former Canadian diplomat, she raised their five children in Canada, France, Mexico, India and the Soviet Union.
See also
List of Ontario senators
References
External links
Order of Canada citation
Landon Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights
North‐South Partnership for Children
PeaceWomen Across the Globe bio - collective nomination to Nobel Peace Prize
1930 births
Living people
Canadian senators from Ontario
Liberal Party of Canada senators
Officers of the Order of Canada
Politicians from Toronto
Writers from Toronto
Women members of the Senate of Canada
Trinity College (Canada) alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Bishop's College School alumni
University of Ottawa alumni
Women in Ontario politics
Landon
Children's rights activists
21st-century Canadian politicians
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"She is the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, through her marriage to his son Geoffrey Pearson.",
"Pearson was appointed to the Senate of Canada on September 15, 1994 by then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and sat with the Liberal caucus.",
"She retired from the Senate on November 16, 2005 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.",
"As an author \nHer book, Children of Glasnost (1990) described growing up in the Soviet Union, and how that changed as Russian society became more open.",
"A second book, Letters from Moscow ',a selection of her personal correspondence while living in Moscow while her husband was the Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union, was published in 2003.",
"Most recently in 2010, in collaboration with Judy Finlay PhD, Pearson published Tibacimowin: A Gathering of Stories, which gathered and translated oral history stories from members of some Ontario First Nations elders peoples.",
"Child advocate \n\nIn 1974 she cofounded Children Learning for Living, a prevention program in children's mental health.",
"It operated for 23 years through the Ottawa Board of Education until 1998.",
"She was a school trustee in both Canada and India; and has been involved in community-based programs such as Mobile Creches for Working Mothers' Children, a child care service for the children of nomadic construction workers in New Delhi and Bombay.",
"In 1979, she was Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child and edited the Commission's report, For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action.",
"Among her recommendations were\n\n increased financial support for battered women's shelters\n funding for unwed mothers seeking to continue their education\n amendments to the Income Tax Act to allow a greater deduction for child care costs\n laws requiring car seat restraints for infants.",
"legislation to return Indian rights to Native women who married non-Indian men.",
"Many of these recommendations have been carried out.",
"From 1984 to 1990 she was President, then Chairperson of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth.",
"She was a founding member and Chairperson of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children in 1989 until she was appointed to the Senate, September 1994.",
"She is a director of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk at McMaster University; a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995; a delegate to the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, August 1996; the alternate head of the Canadian delegation to the International Child Labour Conference in Oslo, October 1997; the co-chair of Out From the Shadows: International Summit of Sexually Exploited Youth in Victoria, British Columbia, March 1998; and the co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access which drafted the report entitled For the Sake of the Children, 1998.",
"In May 1996, Senator Pearson was named Advisor on Children’s Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.",
"She provided advice to the Minister, on a regular basis, concerning children's issues in the foreign policy context and on the impact of domestic policies for children on our international commitments, notably the Convention on the Rights of the Child.",
"In June 1999, she was named Personal Representative of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to the 2002 Special Session on Children of the United Nations General Assembly.",
"On November 3, 2006, Senator Pearson announced the opening of The Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights.",
"The Centre’s mandate is to promote activities that address issues relating to children, childhood and communities, to make the resources available to students and faculty at Carleton University, to host events and speakers, and to secure the resources required to promote these activities.",
"The Centre officially opened its doors on June 2, 2006, International Children's Day.",
"In 2010 she retired as Director of the Resource Centre but it continues to run in affiliation with Carleton University in Ottawa.",
"The centre is connected to the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)\n\nEducation and awards\nSenator Pearson graduated from King's Hall, Compton in Quebec and Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1951 with a B.A.",
"in Philosophy and English and from the University of Ottawa in 1978 with a M.Ed.",
"in psychopedagogy.",
"She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University in May 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria in November 2001, a Doctor of University (D.U.)",
"from the University of Ottawa in June 2002, and an honorary Doctors of Law from Carleton University in June 2003 for her work on children's rights.",
"She has been honoured for her work on behalf of children from the United Way of Ottawa-Carleton, and through receipt of the Canadian Volunteer Award and the Norma V. Bowen Humanitarian Award of the Ontario Psychological Foundation.",
"In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.",
"Family\n\nShe was married to Canadian diplomat Geoffrey Pearson, the son of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Maryon Pearson, until his death on March 18, 2008.",
"Geoffrey and Landon's daughter Patricia Pearson is a notable Canadian writer.",
"Senator Pearson and her husband have five children and twelve grandchildren.",
"As the wife of a former Canadian diplomat, she raised their five children in Canada, France, Mexico, India and the Soviet Union.",
"See also\n List of Ontario senators\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\nOrder of Canada citation\nLandon Pearson Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights\nNorth‐South Partnership for Children\n\nPeaceWomen Across the Globe bio - collective nomination to Nobel Peace Prize\n\n1930 births\nLiving people\nCanadian senators from Ontario\nLiberal Party of Canada senators\nOfficers of the Order of Canada\nPoliticians from Toronto\nWriters from Toronto\nWomen members of the Senate of Canada\nTrinity College (Canada) alumni\nUniversity of Toronto alumni\nBishop's College School alumni\nUniversity of Ottawa alumni\nWomen in Ontario politics\nLandon\nChildren's rights activists\n21st-century Canadian politicians\n21st-century Canadian women politicians"
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"She is the daughter-in-law of a former Prime Minister.",
"Pearson sat with the Liberal caucus when he was appointed to the Senate in 1994.",
"She retired from the Senate at the age of 75.",
"Growing up in the Soviet Union was described in her book as Russian society became more open.",
"A selection of her personal correspondence while living in Moscow while her husband was the Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union was published in 2003's Letters from Moscow.",
"Pearson collaborated with Judy Finlay PhD to publish Tibacimowin: A Gathering of Stories, a collection of oral history stories from members of some Ontario First Nations.",
"Children Learning for Living is a prevention program for children's mental health.",
"The board operated it for 23 years.",
"She has been involved in community-based programs such as Mobile Creches for Working Mothers' Children, a child care service for the children of nomadic construction workers in New Delhi and Bombay.",
"She edited the Commission's report, For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action, in 1979.",
"Increased financial support for battered women's shelters funding for unwed mothers seeking to continue their education was one of her recommendations.",
"Native women who married non- Indian men should be given Indian rights.",
"Many of the recommendations have been carried out.",
"She was the President of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth from 1984 to 1990.",
"In 1989 she was a founding member and chairperson of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children.",
"She is a director of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk, a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and an alternate head of the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.",
"The Minister of Foreign Affairs named Senator Pearson an advisor on children's rights.",
"She provided advice to the Minister on a regular basis on children's issues in the foreign policy context and on the impact of domestic policies for children on our international commitments, notably the Convention on the Rights of the Child.",
"She was the Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to the 2002 Special Session on Children of the United Nations General Assembly.",
"Senator Pearson opened a Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights.",
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Her book, Children of Glasnost (1990) described growing up in the Soviet Union, and how that changed as Russian society became more open. A second book, Letters from Moscow ',a selection of her personal correspondence while living in Moscow while her husband was the Canadian ambassador to the Soviet Union, was published in 2003. Most recently in 2010, in collaboration with Judy Finlay PhD, <mask> published Tibacimowin: A Gathering of Stories, which gathered and translated oral history stories from members of some Ontario First Nations elders peoples.Child advocate
In 1974 she cofounded Children Learning for Living, a prevention program in children's mental health. It operated for 23 years through the Ottawa Board of Education until 1998. She was a school trustee in both Canada and India; and has been involved in community-based programs such as Mobile Creches for Working Mothers' Children, a child care service for the children of nomadic construction workers in New Delhi and Bombay. In 1979, she was Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian Commission for the International Year of the Child and edited the Commission's report, For Canada's Children: National Agenda for Action. Among her recommendations were
increased financial support for battered women's shelters
funding for unwed mothers seeking to continue their education
amendments to the Income Tax Act to allow a greater deduction for child care costs
laws requiring car seat restraints for infants. legislation to return Indian rights to Native women who married non-Indian men. Many of these recommendations have been carried out.From 1984 to 1990 she was President, then Chairperson of the Canadian Council on Children and Youth. She was a founding member and Chairperson of the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children in 1989 until she was appointed to the Senate, September 1994. She is a director of the Centre for the Study of Children at Risk at McMaster University; a delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995; a delegate to the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, August 1996; the alternate head of the Canadian delegation to the International Child Labour Conference in Oslo, October 1997; the co-chair of Out From the Shadows: International Summit of Sexually Exploited Youth in Victoria, British Columbia, March 1998; and the co-chair of the Special Joint Committee on Child Custody and Access which drafted the report entitled For the Sake of the Children, 1998. In May 1996, Senator <mask> was named Advisor on Children’s Rights to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. She provided advice to the Minister, on a regular basis, concerning children's issues in the foreign policy context and on the impact of domestic policies for children on our international commitments, notably the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In June 1999, she was named Personal Representative of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien to the 2002 Special Session on Children of the United Nations General Assembly. On November 3, 2006, Senator <mask> announced the opening of The <mask> Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children's Rights.The Centre’s mandate is to promote activities that address issues relating to children, childhood and communities, to make the resources available to students and faculty at Carleton University, to host events and speakers, and to secure the resources required to promote these activities. The Centre officially opened its doors on June 2, 2006, International Children's Day. In 2010 she retired as Director of the Resource Centre but it continues to run in affiliation with Carleton University in Ottawa. The centre is connected to the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Education and awards
Senator <mask> graduated from King's Hall, Compton in Quebec and Trinity College in the University of Toronto in 1951 with a B.A. in Philosophy and English and from the University of Ottawa in 1978 with a M.Ed. in psychopedagogy. She received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Wilfrid Laurier University in May 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Victoria in November 2001, a Doctor of University (D.U.)from the University of Ottawa in June 2002, and an honorary Doctors of Law from Carleton University in June 2003 for her work on children's rights. She has been honoured for her work on behalf of children from the United Way of Ottawa-Carleton, and through receipt of the Canadian Volunteer Award and the Norma V. Bowen Humanitarian Award of the Ontario Psychological Foundation. In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Family
She was married to Canadian diplomat <mask>, the son of former Prime Minister Lester B<mask> and Maryon <mask>, until his death on March 18, 2008. Geoffrey and <mask>'s daughter <mask> is a notable Canadian writer. Senator <mask> and her husband have five children and twelve grandchildren. As the wife of a former Canadian diplomat, she raised their five children in Canada, France, Mexico, India and the Soviet Union.See also
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32878558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor%20Barras | Taylor Barras | Taylor Francis Barras (born January 1957) is an American accountant and banker from New Iberia, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 48, based in Iberia Parish. On January 11, 2016, as he began his third term in the chamber, Barras was elected House Speaker by his colleagues, who in what was considered a political upset on the second ballot rejected Representative Walt Leger, III, of New Orleans, the choice of incoming Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards. Barras received fifty-six votes; Leger, forty-nine. Since the days of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., legislators had confirmed the governor's choice for Speaker, but the Republican House majority instead elected Barras, despite the governor's wishes to the contrary.
Political biography
A New Iberia native, Barras (pronounced BAH RAH; French: /baʁa/) is the third of four children of Mazel Borel Barras (1924-deceased) and Elton Joseph Barras (1923-2007), a decorated United States Army first lieutenant in World War II, who operated a country grocery store from 1951 until 1969 and was then from 1969 to 1983 the chief deputy under Iberia Parish Tax Assessor Clegg J. LaBauve, Sr. (1906-1987). The senior Barras was elected to succeed LaBauve as tax assessor in 1983; he handily defeated Erland "Ticky" LaBauve (born May 1947) and held the position from 1984 until his retirement in December 2000.
Taylor Barras graduated in 1975 from New Iberia Senior High School, an entity of the Iberia Parish School System. In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is market president of Iberia Bank. He is married to the former Cheryl Lopez.
Elected in 2007 in his first political bid, as a Democrat like his father, Barras and Shane Romero led a four-candidate primary field to enter the November 17 general election. Barras received 5,436 votes (45.3 percent) to Romero's 3,191 (26.6 percent). The two other Democrats in contention, David N. Broussard and Raymond Lewis, shared the remaining but critical 28.5 percent of the vote. Barras then defeated Romero, 6,690 (62 percent) to 4,091 (38 percent)
In 2011, Barras became one of several members to switch to GOP affiliation. As a result of several special elections since 2010 and the party defections, Republicans gained a majority of the state House for the first time since Reconstruction. Barras is a candidate for a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary set for October 22, 2011.
In his first term, Barras served on these committees: (1) House and Governmental Affairs, (2) Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs, (3) Ways and Means, and (4) Joint Legislative Committee on Capital Outlay.
In 2010, Representative Barras was rated 100 percent by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, 82 percent by the Louisiana National Federation of Independent Business, and 89 percent by the Louisiana Family Forum. In 2011, Barras voted, unsuccessfully, to override then Governor Bobby Jindal's veto of an increase in his state's cigarette tax. He also voted to ban hand-held cellular devices while driving. He voted against a 2011 proposal to establish a commission to study how to end state corporate and personal income taxes over the next decade.
Role as Speaker
Barras predicted no shortcuts to the reconciliation of the state budget, the first agenda item in the special legislative session set for mid-February. "None of the choices are easy or ideal, but we have to face them," Barras said.
When Governor John Bel Edwards' proposed increase in the state gasoline tax failed in the House in 2017, key supporters of the governor questioned the effectiveness of Barras' leadership. The Louisiana Republican Party and conservatives in the state House, however, rallied to Barras' defense on the premise that without Barras' leadership, the tax increase may have succeeded. It required a supermajority of seventy votes in the chamber. In a June 1 editorial, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser even called upon Barras to resign: "It may be no one could lead these 105 elected representatives, but Barras has proven he cannot. Barras is a good man but a bad speaker." Ken Naquin, the chief executive officer of Louisiana Associated General Contractors, referred to "the toxic mix that is the House of Representatives as it exists today [with] the total lack of leadership in the House." Naquin said that "in reality" there are three House Speakers, including Barras, Lance Harris of Alexandria, the chairman of the House Republican Caucus, and Cameron Henry of Metairie, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Harris disputed Naquin's observation and said that Barras is "doing an awesome job."
In July 2017, Governor Edwards sent Barras a letter asking the Speaker to formulate his own plan for closing an estimated $1.3 billion budget shortfall for 2018. "If you remain unwilling to undertake comprehensive budget and tax reform, please identify your plan to solve the looming fiscal cliff," Edwards wrote. The governor said that he will not call a second special session to address fiscal matters unless bipartisan solutions are advanced: "At a cost of roughly $60,000 per day, it would be irresponsible to make Louisiana's taxpayers foot the bill for another special session without a firm commitment to act from the House," Edwards wrote.
Lanny Keller, a journalist for The Baton Rouge Advocate, wrote in reference to Barras's retirement as Speaker that the lawmaker, a compromise choice for the top position, is "a nice guy. But unfortunately, he's been a failure in many ways as Speaker, and one who left the House as an institution in far worse shape than he found it. The budget process is a mess, and Barras bears a large share of the responsibility. Some of that is direct and personal, because as a member of the numbers-crunching Revenue Estimating Conference, he blocked ordinary and reasonable budget forecasts in recent months."
See also
List of American politicians who switched parties in office
References
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21st-century American politicians
American accountants
American bankers
Businesspeople from Louisiana
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Louisiana Democrats
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Louisiana State University alumni
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"Taylor Francis Barras (born January 1957) is an American accountant and banker from New Iberia, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 48, based in Iberia Parish.",
"On January 11, 2016, as he began his third term in the chamber, Barras was elected House Speaker by his colleagues, who in what was considered a political upset on the second ballot rejected Representative Walt Leger, III, of New Orleans, the choice of incoming Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards.",
"Barras received fifty-six votes; Leger, forty-nine.",
"Since the days of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., legislators had confirmed the governor's choice for Speaker, but the Republican House majority instead elected Barras, despite the governor's wishes to the contrary.",
"Political biography\nA New Iberia native, Barras (pronounced BAH RAH; French: /baʁa/) is the third of four children of Mazel Borel Barras (1924-deceased) and Elton Joseph Barras (1923-2007), a decorated United States Army first lieutenant in World War II, who operated a country grocery store from 1951 until 1969 and was then from 1969 to 1983 the chief deputy under Iberia Parish Tax Assessor Clegg J. LaBauve, Sr. (1906-1987).",
"The senior Barras was elected to succeed LaBauve as tax assessor in 1983; he handily defeated Erland \"Ticky\" LaBauve (born May 1947) and held the position from 1984 until his retirement in December 2000.",
"Taylor Barras graduated in 1975 from New Iberia Senior High School, an entity of the Iberia Parish School System.",
"In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.",
"He is market president of Iberia Bank.",
"He is married to the former Cheryl Lopez.",
"Elected in 2007 in his first political bid, as a Democrat like his father, Barras and Shane Romero led a four-candidate primary field to enter the November 17 general election.",
"Barras received 5,436 votes (45.3 percent) to Romero's 3,191 (26.6 percent).",
"The two other Democrats in contention, David N. Broussard and Raymond Lewis, shared the remaining but critical 28.5 percent of the vote.",
"Barras then defeated Romero, 6,690 (62 percent) to 4,091 (38 percent)\n\nIn 2011, Barras became one of several members to switch to GOP affiliation.",
"As a result of several special elections since 2010 and the party defections, Republicans gained a majority of the state House for the first time since Reconstruction.",
"Barras is a candidate for a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary set for October 22, 2011.",
"In his first term, Barras served on these committees: (1) House and Governmental Affairs, (2) Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs, (3) Ways and Means, and (4) Joint Legislative Committee on Capital Outlay.",
"In 2010, Representative Barras was rated 100 percent by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, 82 percent by the Louisiana National Federation of Independent Business, and 89 percent by the Louisiana Family Forum.",
"In 2011, Barras voted, unsuccessfully, to override then Governor Bobby Jindal's veto of an increase in his state's cigarette tax.",
"He also voted to ban hand-held cellular devices while driving.",
"He voted against a 2011 proposal to establish a commission to study how to end state corporate and personal income taxes over the next decade.",
"Role as Speaker\nBarras predicted no shortcuts to the reconciliation of the state budget, the first agenda item in the special legislative session set for mid-February.",
"\"None of the choices are easy or ideal, but we have to face them,\" Barras said.",
"When Governor John Bel Edwards' proposed increase in the state gasoline tax failed in the House in 2017, key supporters of the governor questioned the effectiveness of Barras' leadership.",
"The Louisiana Republican Party and conservatives in the state House, however, rallied to Barras' defense on the premise that without Barras' leadership, the tax increase may have succeeded.",
"It required a supermajority of seventy votes in the chamber.",
"In a June 1 editorial, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser even called upon Barras to resign: \"It may be no one could lead these 105 elected representatives, but Barras has proven he cannot.",
"Barras is a good man but a bad speaker.\"",
"Ken Naquin, the chief executive officer of Louisiana Associated General Contractors, referred to \"the toxic mix that is the House of Representatives as it exists today [with] the total lack of leadership in the House.\"",
"Naquin said that \"in reality\" there are three House Speakers, including Barras, Lance Harris of Alexandria, the chairman of the House Republican Caucus, and Cameron Henry of Metairie, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.",
"Harris disputed Naquin's observation and said that Barras is \"doing an awesome job.\"",
"In July 2017, Governor Edwards sent Barras a letter asking the Speaker to formulate his own plan for closing an estimated $1.3 billion budget shortfall for 2018.",
"\"If you remain unwilling to undertake comprehensive budget and tax reform, please identify your plan to solve the looming fiscal cliff,\" Edwards wrote.",
"The governor said that he will not call a second special session to address fiscal matters unless bipartisan solutions are advanced: \"At a cost of roughly $60,000 per day, it would be irresponsible to make Louisiana's taxpayers foot the bill for another special session without a firm commitment to act from the House,\" Edwards wrote.",
"Lanny Keller, a journalist for The Baton Rouge Advocate, wrote in reference to Barras's retirement as Speaker that the lawmaker, a compromise choice for the top position, is \"a nice guy.",
"But unfortunately, he's been a failure in many ways as Speaker, and one who left the House as an institution in far worse shape than he found it.",
"The budget process is a mess, and Barras bears a large share of the responsibility.",
"Some of that is direct and personal, because as a member of the numbers-crunching Revenue Estimating Conference, he blocked ordinary and reasonable budget forecasts in recent months.\"",
"See also\n List of American politicians who switched parties in office\n\nReferences\n\n|-\n\n1957 births\n21st-century American politicians\nAmerican accountants\nAmerican bankers\nBusinesspeople from Louisiana\nLiving people\nLouisiana Democrats\nLouisiana Republicans\nLouisiana State University alumni\nMembers of the Louisiana House of Representatives\nPeople from New Iberia, Louisiana\nSpeakers of the Louisiana House of Representatives"
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"On January 11, 2016 as he began his third term in the chamber, Barras was elected House Speaker by his colleagues, who in what was considered a political upset on the second ballot rejected Representative Walt Leger, III, of New Orleans, the choice of incoming Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards.",
"Leger received forty-nine votes.",
"Legislators confirmed the governor's choice for Speaker, but the Republican House majority elected Barras despite the governor's wishes to the contrary.",
"The third of four children of a decorated United States Army first lieutenant is a native of New Iberia.",
"The senior Barras was elected to succeed LaBauve as tax assessor in 1983 and held the position until his retirement in 2000.",
"The New Iberia Senior High School is part of the Iberia Parish School System.",
"He received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in 1979.",
"He is the market president of the bank.",
"He is married to someone else.",
"As a Democrat like his father, he was elected in 2007, leading a four-candidate primary field to enter the general election.",
"5,436 votes were cast for Barras, compared to 3,191 for Romero.",
"David N. Broussard and Raymond Lewis shared 28.5% of the vote.",
"In 2011, Barras became one of several members to switch to GOP affiliation.",
"Republicans gained a majority of the state House for the first time since Reconstruction as a result of several special elections and party defections.",
"The nonpartisan blanket primary will be held on October 22, 2011.",
"The committees that Barras served on in his first term were House and Governmental Affairs, Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs, Ways and Means, and the Joint Legislative Committee on Capital Outlay.",
"The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the Louisiana National Federation of Independent Business, and the Louisiana Family Forum rated Representative Barras 100 percent in 2010.",
"The veto of an increase in his state's cigarette tax was defeated in 2011.",
"He voted to ban hand-held cellular devices while driving.",
"He voted against establishing a commission to study how to end state corporate and personal income taxes.",
"The first agenda item in the special legislative session will be the reconciliation of the state budget.",
"\"None of the choices are easy or ideal, but we have to face them,\" he said.",
"Key supporters of the governor questioned the effectiveness of Barras' leadership when the proposed increase in the state gasoline tax failed in the House.",
"The Louisiana Republican Party and conservatives in the state House argued that the tax increase may have succeeded if it wasn't for Barras' leadership.",
"The chamber needed a supermajority of 70 votes.",
"The Lafayette Daily Advertiser called on Barras to resign in an editorial on June 1.",
"There is a good man and a bad speaker.",
"Ken Naquin, the chief executive officer of Louisiana Associated General Contractors, referred to the House of Representatives as a toxic mix because of the lack of leadership.",
"There are three House Speakers, including Lance Harris of Alexandria, the chairman of the House Republican Caucus, and the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, according to Naquin.",
"Harris said that Barras is doing an awesome job.",
"The Speaker was sent a letter by the Governor asking him to come up with a plan for closing the budget shortfall.",
"Please identify your plan to solve the looming fiscal cliff if you remain unwilling to undertake comprehensive budget and tax reform.",
"It would be irresponsible to make Louisiana's taxpayers foot the bill for another special session without a firm commitment to act from the House, according to the governor.",
"Lanny Keller, a journalist for The Baton Rouge Advocate, wrote that the lawmaker, a compromise choice for the top position, is a nice guy.",
"He's been a failure as Speaker and one who left the House in worse shape than he found it.",
"The budget process is a mess, and Barras bears a large share of the responsibility.",
"He blocked budget forecasts in recent months because he was a member of the Revenue Estimating Conference.",
"There is a list of American politicians who switched parties in office."
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A New Iberia native, <mask> (pronounced BAH RAH; French: /baʁa/) is the third of four children of <mask> (1924-deceased) and <mask> (1923-2007), a decorated United States Army first lieutenant in World War II, who operated a country grocery store from 1951 until 1969 and was then from 1969 to 1983 the chief deputy under Iberia Parish Tax Assessor Clegg J. LaBauve, Sr. (1906-1987). The senior <mask> was elected to succeed LaBauve as tax assessor in 1983; he handily defeated Erland "Ticky" LaBauve (born May 1947) and held the position from 1984 until his retirement in December 2000. <mask> graduated in 1975 from New Iberia Senior High School, an entity of the Iberia Parish School System.In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He is market president of Iberia Bank. He is married to the former Cheryl Lopez. Elected in 2007 in his first political bid, as a Democrat like his father, <mask> and Shane Romero led a four-candidate primary field to enter the November 17 general election. <mask> received 5,436 votes (45.3 percent) to Romero's 3,191 (26.6 percent). The two other Democrats in contention, David N. Broussard and Raymond Lewis, shared the remaining but critical 28.5 percent of the vote. <mask> then defeated Romero, 6,690 (62 percent) to 4,091 (38 percent)
In 2011, <mask> became one of several members to switch to GOP affiliation.As a result of several special elections since 2010 and the party defections, Republicans gained a majority of the state House for the first time since Reconstruction. <mask> is a candidate for a second term in the nonpartisan blanket primary set for October 22, 2011. In his first term, <mask> served on these committees: (1) House and Governmental Affairs, (2) Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs, (3) Ways and Means, and (4) Joint Legislative Committee on Capital Outlay. In 2010, Representative <mask> was rated 100 percent by the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, 82 percent by the Louisiana National Federation of Independent Business, and 89 percent by the Louisiana Family Forum. In 2011, <mask> voted, unsuccessfully, to override then Governor Bobby Jindal's veto of an increase in his state's cigarette tax. He also voted to ban hand-held cellular devices while driving. He voted against a 2011 proposal to establish a commission to study how to end state corporate and personal income taxes over the next decade.Role as Speaker
<mask> predicted no shortcuts to the reconciliation of the state budget, the first agenda item in the special legislative session set for mid-February. "None of the choices are easy or ideal, but we have to face them," <mask> said. When Governor John Bel Edwards' proposed increase in the state gasoline tax failed in the House in 2017, key supporters of the governor questioned the effectiveness of <mask>' leadership. The Louisiana Republican Party and conservatives in the state House, however, rallied to <mask>' defense on the premise that without <mask>' leadership, the tax increase may have succeeded. It required a supermajority of seventy votes in the chamber. In a June 1 editorial, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser even called upon <mask> to resign: "It may be no one could lead these 105 elected representatives, but <mask> has proven he cannot. <mask> is a good man but a bad speaker."Ken Naquin, the chief executive officer of Louisiana Associated General Contractors, referred to "the toxic mix that is the House of Representatives as it exists today [with] the total lack of leadership in the House." Naquin said that "in reality" there are three House Speakers, including <mask>, Lance Harris of Alexandria, the chairman of the House Republican Caucus, and Cameron Henry of Metairie, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Harris disputed Naquin's observation and said that <mask> is "doing an awesome job." In July 2017, Governor Edwards sent <mask> a letter asking the Speaker to formulate his own plan for closing an estimated $1.3 billion budget shortfall for 2018. "If you remain unwilling to undertake comprehensive budget and tax reform, please identify your plan to solve the looming fiscal cliff," Edwards wrote. The governor said that he will not call a second special session to address fiscal matters unless bipartisan solutions are advanced: "At a cost of roughly $60,000 per day, it would be irresponsible to make Louisiana's taxpayers foot the bill for another special session without a firm commitment to act from the House," Edwards wrote. Lanny Keller, a journalist for The Baton Rouge Advocate, wrote in reference to <mask>'s retirement as Speaker that the lawmaker, a compromise choice for the top position, is "a nice guy.But unfortunately, he's been a failure in many ways as Speaker, and one who left the House as an institution in far worse shape than he found it. The budget process is a mess, and <mask> bears a large share of the responsibility. Some of that is direct and personal, because as a member of the numbers-crunching Revenue Estimating Conference, he blocked ordinary and reasonable budget forecasts in recent months." See also
List of American politicians who switched parties in office
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21st-century American politicians
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Louisiana State University alumni
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2058760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahito%2C%20Prince%20Mikasa | Takahito, Prince Mikasa | was a Japanese royal, member of the Imperial House of Japan. He was the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako) and was their last surviving child. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito). After serving as a junior cavalry officer in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, the prince embarked upon a post-war career as a scholar and part-time lecturer in Middle Eastern studies and Semitic languages.
With the death of his sister-in-law, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, on 17 December 2004, he became the oldest living member of the Imperial House of Japan. At his death at the age of 100, Prince Takahito was the oldest living royal and the oldest living prince in line of succession.
Early life
Prince Takahito was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace in the third year of his father's reign and a full fifteen years after the birth of his eldest brother, the future Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito). His childhood appellation was Sumi-no-miya. Prince Takahito attended the boys' elementary and secondary departments of the Gakushūin (Peers' School) from 1922 to 1932. By the time he began his secondary schooling, his eldest brother had already ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne and his next two brothers, Prince Chichibu and Prince Takamatsu, had already embarked upon careers in the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy, respectively. He enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1932 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and assigned to the Fifth Cavalry Regiment in June 1936. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College.
Upon attaining the age of majority in December 1935, Emperor Shōwa granted him the title Mikasa-no-miya (Prince Mikasa) and the authorization to form a new branch of the Imperial Family.
Military service
Prince Mikasa was promoted to lieutenant in 1937 and to captain in 1939, serving in China under the name of "Wakasugi". During his army career, he was harshly critical of the Japanese military's conduct in China. In a 1994 interview, he criticised the Imperial Army's invasion of and atrocities in China, and recalled having been "strongly shocked" when an officer informed him that the best way to train new recruits was to use living Chinese POWs for bayonet practice. According to Daniel Barenblatt, Prince Mikasa and his cousin Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda received a special screening by Shirō Ishii of a film showing airplanes loading germ bombs for bubonic plague dessemination over the Chinese city of Ningbo in 1940. He also was given a film of Japanese atrocities, possibly linked to the footage used in the American propaganda film, The Battle of China, and was so moved that he made his brother Emperor Hirohito watch the film.
In 1994, a newspaper revealed that after Prince Mikasa's return to Tokyo, he had written a stinging indictment of the conduct of the Imperial Japanese Army in China, where the Prince had witnessed Japanese atrocities against Chinese civilians. The Imperial Army General Staff suppressed the document, but one copy survived and surfaced in 1994. After the war, it was reported that while an officer, Prince Mikasa had taken a strict stance against lax discipline and the cruel actions of Japanese soldiers serving in China.
Promoted to major in 1941, Prince Mikasa served as a staff officer in the Headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army at Nanjing, China from January 1943 to January 1944. His role was intended to bolster the legitimacy of the Wang Jingwei regime and to coordinate with Japanese Army staff towards a peace initiative, but his efforts were totally undermined by the Operation Ichi-Go campaign launched by the Imperial General Headquarters.
Prince Mikasa served as a staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo until Japan's surrender in August 1945. After the end of the war, the Prince spoke before the Privy Council, urging that Hirohito abdicate to take responsibility for the war.
Marriage
On 22 October 1941, Prince Mikasa married Yuriko Takagi (born 4 June 1923), the second daughter of Viscount (kazoku, pre-war Japan's upper classes) Masanari Takagi. Prince and Princess Mikasa had five children. In addition to their five children, they had nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren as of 2015. The couple's two daughters left the Imperial Family upon marriage. All of their sons predeceased them.
Children
(formerly ; married on 16 December 1966 to Tadateru Konoe, younger brother of former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa and adopted grandson (and heir) of former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, currently President of the Japanese Red Cross Society; has a son, Tadahiro, who has three children.
; heir apparent; married on 7 November 1980 to Nobuko Asō (born 9 April 1955), third daughter of Takakichi Asō, chairman of Aso Cement Co., and his wife, Kazuko, the daughter of former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida; had two daughters.
; created Katsura-no-miya on 1 January 1988.
(formerly ; married on 14 October 1983 to Sōshitsu Sen (born 7 June 1956), the elder son of Sōshitsu Sen XV, and currently the sixteenth hereditary grand master (iemoto) of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony School; and has two sons, Akifumi and Takafumi, and a daughter, Makiko.
; created Takamado-no-miya on 1 December 1984; married on 6 December 1984 to Hisako Tottori (born 10 July 1953), eldest daughter of Shigejiro Tottori, former president, Mitsui & Co. in France; and had three daughters.
Post-war career
After the defeat of Japan in World War II, many members of the imperial family, such as Princes Chichibu, Takamatsu and Higashikuni, pressed Emperor Hirohito to abdicate so that one of the Princes could serve as regent until Crown Prince Akihito came of age. On 27 February 1946, Prince Mikasa even stood up in the Privy Council and indirectly urged the Emperor to step down and accept responsibility for Japan's defeat. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the most senior-ranking United States military commander in Japan at the time, insisted that Emperor Hirohito retain the throne. According to Minister of Welfare Ashida's diary, "Everyone seemed to ponder Mikasa's words. Never have I seen His Majesty's face so pale."
After the war, Prince Mikasa enrolled in the Literature Faculty of the University of Tokyo and pursued advanced studies in archaeology, Middle Eastern studies, and Semitic languages. From 1954 until his death in 2016, he directed the Japanese Society for Middle East Studies. He was honorary president of the Japan Society of Orientology. The Prince held visiting and guest faculty appointments in Middle Eastern studies and archaeology at various universities in Japan and abroad, including: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, the University of London, Hokkaido University and the University of Shizuoka. He made numerous radio and television appearances, speaking on cultural subjects, and was known as "the Imperial scholar". He was especially interested in Jewish studies, and believed "The truth incarnated in Judaism, a truth of being rather than of theory, is the central meaning of history. … History had brought him—Prince Mikasa—to the Jew, he said, and Judaism had brought him back to himself. For the Jew is not only the father of the West, he is the scion of the Orient. He is the holy bridge (a traditional and poignant Japanese symbol) between East and West. Through understanding Judaism, the Prince regained a sense of his dignity as a member of his people; he was again proud to be Japanese."
Final years and death
Towards the end of his life, due to his advanced age, Prince Mikasa rarely made public appearances, and regularly used a wheelchair. He and Princess Mikasa lived together at a residence in the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in Motoakasaka, Minato, Tokyo. He underwent heart surgery in 2012, and made a full recovery. His routine included exercising for about 30 minutes each day with his wife at their Tokyo residence, and he often went outdoors for a roll in his wheelchair. About once a week, he would leave his home for a haircut, or to attend various events for other family members. In October 2014, he attended the Tokyo wedding of his granddaughter Princess Noriko, the second daughter of his youngest son Prince Takamado. Palace staff noted that he appeared vigorous until his last days, and that he would always be seen helping his wife to get about. He continued to read newspapers, and enjoyed watching sumo and music programs on television.
In one of Prince Mikasa's memoirs, he wrote that he toured Unit 731's headquarters in China and was shown films showing Chinese prisoners "made to march on the plains of Manchuria for poison gas experiments on humans."
On 2 December 2015, Prince Mikasa became the first member of the imperial family to become a centenarian. On his 100th birthday, he said, "Nothing will change just because I turn 100 years old. I'd like to spend my days pleasantly and peacefully while praying for the happiness of people around the world and thanking my wife, Yuriko, who has been supporting me for more than 70 years." At his residence in April 2016, he met the Japanese ambassador to Turkey and took a stroll at the Akasaka Detached Palace.
On 16 May 2016, Prince Mikasa was admitted to the intensive-care unit of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, having contracted acute pneumonia. He remained in hospital for the remaining months of his life. His heart weakened in June, and fluid accumulated in his lungs. Princess Yuriko frequently visited him along with other Imperial family members, including the Emperor and Empress in June. During his last days, Prince Mikasa remained responsive to visitors. On 22 October, Prince Mikasa and his wife celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in his hospital room. His condition eventually stabilised to the point where he began to receive rehabilitation in his bed, which included stretching his arms and legs. At 7:40 a.m. on 27 October, however, his heart gradually slowed, stopping at 8 a.m. Prince Mikasa was pronounced dead at 8:34 a.m., with his wife at his side. At his death, he had outlived all of his siblings and all three of his sons. He was also the last surviving grandson of Emperor Meiji.
Prince Mikasa's funeral was held on 4 November 2016 at Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery. About 580 people including members of the Imperial Family, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, and former imperial family members Sayako Kuroda and Noriko Senge and their husbands, attended the funeral. Princess Mikasa hosted the ceremony as the chief mourner.
Honours
National
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum
Foreign
: Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross
: Commander of the Order of the Balkan Mountains
: Knight of the Order of the Elephant
Empire of Iran: Member 2nd Class of the Imperial Order of Pahlavi
Empire of Iran: Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the 2,500 year Celebration of the Persian Empire
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav
: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun
: Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim
: recipient of the Atatürk International Peace Prize
Honorary positions
Honorary President of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan
Honorary President of the Japan – Turkey Society
Honorary Vice-President of the Japanese Red Cross Society
Issue
Ancestry
Patrilineal descent
Imperial House of Japan
Descent prior to Keitai is unclear to modern historians, but traditionally traced back patrilineally to Emperor Jimmu
Emperor Keitai, ca. 450–534
Emperor Kinmei, 509–571
Emperor Bidatsu, 538–585
Prince Oshisaka, ca. 556–???
Emperor Jomei, 593–641
Emperor Tenji, 626–671
Prince Shiki, ???–716
Emperor Kōnin, 709–786
Emperor Kanmu, 737–806
Emperor Saga, 786–842
Emperor Ninmyō, 810–850
Emperor Kōkō, 830–867
Emperor Uda, 867–931
Emperor Daigo, 885–930
Emperor Murakami, 926–967
Emperor En'yū, 959–991
Emperor Ichijō, 980–1011
Emperor Go-Suzaku, 1009–1045
Emperor Go-Sanjō, 1034–1073
Emperor Shirakawa, 1053–1129
Emperor Horikawa, 1079–1107
Emperor Toba, 1103–1156
Emperor Go-Shirakawa, 1127–1192
Emperor Takakura, 1161–1181
Emperor Go-Toba, 1180–1239
Emperor Tsuchimikado, 1196–1231
Emperor Go-Saga, 1220–1272
Emperor Go-Fukakusa, 1243–1304
Emperor Fushimi, 1265–1317
Emperor Go-Fushimi, 1288–1336
Emperor Kōgon, 1313–1364
Emperor Sukō, 1334–1398
Prince Yoshihito Fushimi, 1351–1416
Prince Sadafusa Fushimi, 1372–1456
Emperor Go-Hanazono, 1419–1471
Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado, 1442–1500
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, 1464–1526
Emperor Go-Nara, 1495–1557
Emperor Ōgimachi, 1517–1593
Prince Masahito, 1552–1586
Emperor Go-Yōzei, 1572–1617
Emperor Go-Mizunoo, 1596–1680
Emperor Reigen, 1654–1732
Emperor Higashiyama, 1675–1710
Prince Naohito Kanin, 1704–1753
Prince Sukehito Kanin, 1733–1794
Emperor Kōkaku, 1771–1840
Emperor Ninkō, 1800–1846
Emperor Kōmei, 1831–1867
Emperor Meiji, 1852–1912
Emperor Taishō, 1879–1926
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Notes
References
Citations
Sources
External links
Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Mikasa and their family at the Imperial Household Agency website
1915 births
2016 deaths
Japanese centenarians
Japanese princes
Japanese historians
Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II
Members of the House of Peers (Japan)
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Men centenarians
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
People from Tokyo
Sons of emperors
Imperial Japanese Army officers
Military personnel of the Second Sino-Japanese War | [
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"With the death of his sister-in-law, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, on 17 December 2004, he became the oldest living member of the Imperial House of Japan.",
"At his death at the age of 100, Prince Takahito was the oldest living royal and the oldest living prince in line of succession.",
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"Prince Takahito attended the boys' elementary and secondary departments of the Gakushūin (Peers' School) from 1922 to 1932.",
"By the time he began his secondary schooling, his eldest brother had already ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne and his next two brothers, Prince Chichibu and Prince Takamatsu, had already embarked upon careers in the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy, respectively.",
"He enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1932 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and assigned to the Fifth Cavalry Regiment in June 1936.",
"He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College.",
"Upon attaining the age of majority in December 1935, Emperor Shōwa granted him the title Mikasa-no-miya (Prince Mikasa) and the authorization to form a new branch of the Imperial Family.",
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"During his army career, he was harshly critical of the Japanese military's conduct in China.",
"In a 1994 interview, he criticised the Imperial Army's invasion of and atrocities in China, and recalled having been \"strongly shocked\" when an officer informed him that the best way to train new recruits was to use living Chinese POWs for bayonet practice.",
"According to Daniel Barenblatt, Prince Mikasa and his cousin Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda received a special screening by Shirō Ishii of a film showing airplanes loading germ bombs for bubonic plague dessemination over the Chinese city of Ningbo in 1940.",
"He also was given a film of Japanese atrocities, possibly linked to the footage used in the American propaganda film, The Battle of China, and was so moved that he made his brother Emperor Hirohito watch the film.",
"In 1994, a newspaper revealed that after Prince Mikasa's return to Tokyo, he had written a stinging indictment of the conduct of the Imperial Japanese Army in China, where the Prince had witnessed Japanese atrocities against Chinese civilians.",
"The Imperial Army General Staff suppressed the document, but one copy survived and surfaced in 1994.",
"After the war, it was reported that while an officer, Prince Mikasa had taken a strict stance against lax discipline and the cruel actions of Japanese soldiers serving in China.",
"Promoted to major in 1941, Prince Mikasa served as a staff officer in the Headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army at Nanjing, China from January 1943 to January 1944.",
"His role was intended to bolster the legitimacy of the Wang Jingwei regime and to coordinate with Japanese Army staff towards a peace initiative, but his efforts were totally undermined by the Operation Ichi-Go campaign launched by the Imperial General Headquarters.",
"Prince Mikasa served as a staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo until Japan's surrender in August 1945.",
"After the end of the war, the Prince spoke before the Privy Council, urging that Hirohito abdicate to take responsibility for the war.",
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"On 27 February 1946, Prince Mikasa even stood up in the Privy Council and indirectly urged the Emperor to step down and accept responsibility for Japan's defeat.",
"General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the most senior-ranking United States military commander in Japan at the time, insisted that Emperor Hirohito retain the throne.",
"According to Minister of Welfare Ashida's diary, \"Everyone seemed to ponder Mikasa's words.",
"Never have I seen His Majesty's face so pale.\"",
"After the war, Prince Mikasa enrolled in the Literature Faculty of the University of Tokyo and pursued advanced studies in archaeology, Middle Eastern studies, and Semitic languages.",
"From 1954 until his death in 2016, he directed the Japanese Society for Middle East Studies.",
"He was honorary president of the Japan Society of Orientology.",
"The Prince held visiting and guest faculty appointments in Middle Eastern studies and archaeology at various universities in Japan and abroad, including: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, the University of London, Hokkaido University and the University of Shizuoka.",
"He made numerous radio and television appearances, speaking on cultural subjects, and was known as \"the Imperial scholar\".",
"He was especially interested in Jewish studies, and believed \"The truth incarnated in Judaism, a truth of being rather than of theory, is the central meaning of history.",
"… History had brought him—Prince Mikasa—to the Jew, he said, and Judaism had brought him back to himself.",
"For the Jew is not only the father of the West, he is the scion of the Orient.",
"He is the holy bridge (a traditional and poignant Japanese symbol) between East and West.",
"Through understanding Judaism, the Prince regained a sense of his dignity as a member of his people; he was again proud to be Japanese.\"",
"Final years and death\n\nTowards the end of his life, due to his advanced age, Prince Mikasa rarely made public appearances, and regularly used a wheelchair.",
"He and Princess Mikasa lived together at a residence in the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in Motoakasaka, Minato, Tokyo.",
"He underwent heart surgery in 2012, and made a full recovery.",
"His routine included exercising for about 30 minutes each day with his wife at their Tokyo residence, and he often went outdoors for a roll in his wheelchair.",
"About once a week, he would leave his home for a haircut, or to attend various events for other family members.",
"In October 2014, he attended the Tokyo wedding of his granddaughter Princess Noriko, the second daughter of his youngest son Prince Takamado.",
"Palace staff noted that he appeared vigorous until his last days, and that he would always be seen helping his wife to get about.",
"He continued to read newspapers, and enjoyed watching sumo and music programs on television.",
"In one of Prince Mikasa's memoirs, he wrote that he toured Unit 731's headquarters in China and was shown films showing Chinese prisoners \"made to march on the plains of Manchuria for poison gas experiments on humans.\"",
"On 2 December 2015, Prince Mikasa became the first member of the imperial family to become a centenarian.",
"On his 100th birthday, he said, \"Nothing will change just because I turn 100 years old.",
"I'd like to spend my days pleasantly and peacefully while praying for the happiness of people around the world and thanking my wife, Yuriko, who has been supporting me for more than 70 years.\"",
"At his residence in April 2016, he met the Japanese ambassador to Turkey and took a stroll at the Akasaka Detached Palace.",
"On 16 May 2016, Prince Mikasa was admitted to the intensive-care unit of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, having contracted acute pneumonia.",
"He remained in hospital for the remaining months of his life.",
"His heart weakened in June, and fluid accumulated in his lungs.",
"Princess Yuriko frequently visited him along with other Imperial family members, including the Emperor and Empress in June.",
"During his last days, Prince Mikasa remained responsive to visitors.",
"On 22 October, Prince Mikasa and his wife celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in his hospital room.",
"His condition eventually stabilised to the point where he began to receive rehabilitation in his bed, which included stretching his arms and legs.",
"At 7:40 a.m. on 27 October, however, his heart gradually slowed, stopping at 8 a.m.",
"Prince Mikasa was pronounced dead at 8:34 a.m., with his wife at his side.",
"At his death, he had outlived all of his siblings and all three of his sons.",
"He was also the last surviving grandson of Emperor Meiji.",
"Prince Mikasa's funeral was held on 4 November 2016 at Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery.",
"About 580 people including members of the Imperial Family, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, U.S.",
"Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, and former imperial family members Sayako Kuroda and Noriko Senge and their husbands, attended the funeral.",
"Princess Mikasa hosted the ceremony as the chief mourner.",
"Honours\n\nNational \n Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum\n\nForeign \n : Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross\n : Commander of the Order of the Balkan Mountains\n : Knight of the Order of the Elephant\n Empire of Iran: Member 2nd Class of the Imperial Order of Pahlavi\n Empire of Iran: Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the 2,500 year Celebration of the Persian Empire\n : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic\n : Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown\n : Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav\n : Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun\n : Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim\n : recipient of the Atatürk International Peace Prize\n\nHonorary positions\n Honorary President of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan\n Honorary President of the Japan – Turkey Society\n Honorary Vice-President of the Japanese Red Cross Society\n\nIssue\n\nAncestry\n\nPatrilineal descent\n\nImperial House of Japan\n\n Descent prior to Keitai is unclear to modern historians, but traditionally traced back patrilineally to Emperor Jimmu\n Emperor Keitai, ca.",
"450–534\n Emperor Kinmei, 509–571\n Emperor Bidatsu, 538–585\n Prince Oshisaka, ca.",
"556–???",
"Emperor Jomei, 593–641\n Emperor Tenji, 626–671\n Prince Shiki, ??"
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"He was a member of the Imperial House of Japan.",
"He was the last surviving child of Emperor Taish and Empress Teimei.",
"Emperor Shwa was his oldest brother.",
"After serving as a junior cavalry officer in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, the prince embarked upon a post-war career as a scholar and part-time lecturer in Middle Eastern studies and Semitic languages.",
"The death of his sister-in-law, Princess Takamatsu, on 17 December 2004, made him the oldest living member of the Imperial House of Japan.",
"Prince Takahito was the oldest prince in the line of succession at the age of 100.",
"After the birth of his brother, the future Emperor Shwa, Prince Takahito was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace in the third year of his father's reign.",
"His name was Sumi-no-miya.",
"The boys' elementary and secondary departments of the Gakushin were attended by Prince Takahito.",
"By the time he started secondary school, his brother had ascended the throne and his two brothers were already in the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy.",
"He joined the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1932 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in 1936.",
"He graduated from the college.",
"After attaining the age of majority in December 1935, Emperor Shwa granted him the title Mikasa-no-miya and the authorization to form a new branch of the Imperial Family.",
"Prince Mikasa was promoted to lieutenant in 1937 and to captain in 1939 while he was in China.",
"He was critical of the Japanese military's conduct in China.",
"In a 1994 interview, he criticized the Imperial Army's invasion of and atrocities in China, and recalled how shocked he was when an officer told him that the best way to train new recruits was to use living Chinese POWs.",
"A film showing airplanes loading germ bombs for bubonic plague dessemination over the Chinese city of Ningbo was shown to Prince Mikasa and his cousin.",
"He made his brother Emperor Hirohito watch the film because he was so moved by it.",
"In 1994, a newspaper revealed that after Prince Mikasa's return to Tokyo, he had written a stinging indictment of the conduct of the Imperial Japanese Army in China, where the Prince had witnessed Japanese atrocities against Chinese civilians.",
"The document was suppressed by the General Staff of the Imperial Army.",
"The cruel actions of Japanese soldiers in China were reported to have caused Prince Mikasa to take a strict stance against slack discipline.",
"From January 1943 to January 1944, Prince Mikasa was a staff officer in the Headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army.",
"His role was intended to bolster the legitimacy of the Wang Jingwei regime and to coordinate with Japanese Army staff towards a peace initiative, but his efforts were totally undermined by the Operation Ichi-Go campaign launched by the Imperial General Headquarters.",
"During Japan's surrender in August 1945, Prince Mikasa was a staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo.",
"The Privy Council was told by the Prince that Hirohito should take responsibility for the war.",
"Prince Mikasa married Yuriko Takagi, the second daughter of Viscount (kazoku, pre-war Japan's upper classes) Masanari Takagi, on 22 October 1941.",
"Prince and Princess Mikasa had five children.",
"As of 2015, they had five children, as well as nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.",
"The Imperial Family was left by the couple's two daughters.",
"All of their sons died.",
"The children were married on December 16, 1966 to Tadateru Konoe, younger brother of former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa and adopted grandson of former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe.",
"Nobuko As was the third daughter of Takakichi As, chairman of Aso Cement Co., and his wife, and had two daughters.",
"Katsura-no-miya was created on January 1, 1988.",
"The hereditary grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony School, Aki, is married to the elder son of SShitsu Sen, who was born on June 7, 1956.",
"Takamado-no-miya was created on December 1, 1984 and married on December 6, 1984.",
"After the defeat of Japan in World War II, many members of the imperial family, such as Princes Chichibu, Takamatsu and Higashikuni, pressed Emperor Hirohito to abdicate so that one of the Princes could serve as regent.",
"Prince Mikasa urged the Emperor to step down and accept responsibility for Japan's defeat in the Privy Council.",
"The most senior-ranking United States military commander in Japan at the time insisted that Emperor Hirohito retain the throne.",
"Everyone seemed to ponder Mikasa's words.",
"I have never seen His Majesty's face so pale.",
"Prince Mikasa pursued advanced studies in archaeology, Middle Eastern studies, and Semitic languages after the war.",
"He directed the Japanese Society for Middle East Studies.",
"He was a member of the Japan Society of Orientology.",
"Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, the University of London, Hokkaido University, and the University of Shi were all where the Prince held visiting and guest faculty appointments.",
"He was known as \"the Imperial scholar\" due to his appearances on radio and television.",
"The truth incarnated in Judaism, a truth of being rather than of theory, is the central meaning of history and he was especially interested in Jewish studies.",
"He said that history had brought him to the Jew and that Judaism had brought him back to himself.",
"The Jew is the father of the West and the scion of the Orient.",
"He is a bridge between East and West.",
"The Prince regained a sense of his dignity as a member of his people through understanding Judaism.",
"Prince Mikasa died at the end of his life due to his advanced age.",
"He and Princess Mikasa lived in the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo.",
"He made a full recovery after having a heart surgery.",
"He used to exercise for 30 minutes a day with his wife at their Tokyo residence, and he used to go outside for a roll in his wheelchair.",
"He would leave his home about once a week to get a haircut or attend an event for other family members.",
"He attended the wedding of Princess Noriko, the second daughter of his youngest son Prince Takamado.",
"Palace staff said that he appeared vigorous until his last days, and that he would always help his wife.",
"He liked to watch sumo and music programs on television.",
"In one of Prince Mikasa's memoirs, he wrote that he toured Unit 731's headquarters in China and was shown films showing Chinese prisoners being made to march on the plains of Manchuria for poison gas experiments on humans.",
"Prince Mikasa became the first member of the imperial family to be a centenarian.",
"He said nothing would change on his 100th birthday.",
"While praying for the happiness of people around the world and thanking my wife, Yuriko, who has been supporting me for more than 70 years, I would like to spend my days pleasantly and peacefully.",
"He took a stroll at the Akasaka Detached Palace after meeting the Japanese ambassador to Turkey.",
"Prince Mikasa was admitted to the intensive-care unit of St.luke's International Hospital in Tokyo's Chuo Ward after contracting acute pneumonia.",
"He was in the hospital for the rest of his life.",
"He had fluid in his lungs.",
"In June, Princess Yuriko visited him along with other Imperial family members.",
"Prince Mikasa was responsive to visitors during his last days.",
"Prince Mikasa and his wife celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in his hospital room.",
"He began to receive rehabilitation in his bed, which included stretching his arms and legs.",
"His heart stopped at 8 a.m. on 27 October.",
"Prince Mikasa died at 8:34 a.m. with his wife by his side.",
"He outlived all of his siblings and sons.",
"He was the grandson of Emperor Meiji.",
"The funeral of Prince Mikasa was held in Toshimagaoka.",
"Prime Minister Shinz Abe is a member of the Imperial Family.",
"The funeral was attended by former imperial family members Sayako Kuroda and Noriko Senge and their husbands.",
"The ceremony was hosted by Princess Mikasa.",
"The Knight of the Order of the Elephant Empire of Iran is a member of the 2nd Class of the Imperial Order of Pahlavi.",
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"556–?",
"Emperor Jomei, Emperor Tenji, and Prince Shiki."
] | was a Japanese royal, member of the Imperial House of Japan. He was the fourth and youngest son of Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) and Empress Teimei (Sadako) and was their last surviving child. His eldest brother was Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito). After serving as a junior cavalry officer in the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, the prince embarked upon a post-war career as a scholar and part-time lecturer in Middle Eastern studies and Semitic languages. With the death of his sister-in-law, Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, on 17 December 2004, he became the oldest living member of the Imperial House of Japan. At his death at the age of 100, Prince Takahito was the oldest living royal and the oldest living prince in line of succession. Early life
Prince Takahito was born at the Tokyo Imperial Palace in the third year of his father's reign and a full fifteen years after the birth of his eldest brother, the future Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito).His childhood appellation was Sumi-no-miya. Prince Takahito attended the boys' elementary and secondary departments of the Gakushūin (Peers' School) from 1922 to 1932. By the time he began his secondary schooling, his eldest brother had already ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne and his next two brothers, Prince Chichibu and <mask>su, had already embarked upon careers in the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy, respectively. He enrolled in the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1932 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant and assigned to the Fifth Cavalry Regiment in June 1936. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College. Upon attaining the age of majority in December 1935, Emperor Shōwa granted him the title Mikasa-no-miya (<mask>kasa) and the authorization to form a new branch of the Imperial Family. Military service
Prince Mikasa was promoted to lieutenant in 1937 and to captain in 1939, serving in China under the name of "Wakasugi".During his army career, he was harshly critical of the Japanese military's conduct in China. In a 1994 interview, he criticised the Imperial Army's invasion of and atrocities in China, and recalled having been "strongly shocked" when an officer informed him that the best way to train new recruits was to use living Chinese POWs for bayonet practice. According to Daniel Barenblatt, Prince Mikasa and his cousin Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda received a special screening by Shirō Ishii of a film showing airplanes loading germ bombs for bubonic plague dessemination over the Chinese city of Ningbo in 1940. He also was given a film of Japanese atrocities, possibly linked to the footage used in the American propaganda film, The Battle of China, and was so moved that he made his brother Emperor Hirohito watch the film. In 1994, a newspaper revealed that after Prince Mikasa's return to Tokyo, he had written a stinging indictment of the conduct of the Imperial Japanese Army in China, where the Prince had witnessed Japanese atrocities against Chinese civilians. The Imperial Army General Staff suppressed the document, but one copy survived and surfaced in 1994. After the war, it was reported that while an officer, Prince Mikasa had taken a strict stance against lax discipline and the cruel actions of Japanese soldiers serving in China.Promoted to major in 1941, <mask>a served as a staff officer in the Headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army at Nanjing, China from January 1943 to January 1944. His role was intended to bolster the legitimacy of the Wang Jingwei regime and to coordinate with Japanese Army staff towards a peace initiative, but his efforts were totally undermined by the Operation Ichi-Go campaign launched by the Imperial General Headquarters. <mask>a served as a staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo until Japan's surrender in August 1945. After the end of the war, the Prince spoke before the Privy Council, urging that Hirohito abdicate to take responsibility for the war. Marriage
On 22 October 1941, <mask>a married Yuriko Takagi (born 4 June 1923), the second daughter of Viscount (kazoku, pre-war Japan's upper classes) Masanari Takagi. <mask> and Princess Mikasa had five children. In addition to their five children, they had nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren as of 2015.The couple's two daughters left the Imperial Family upon marriage. All of their sons predeceased them. Children
(formerly ; married on 16 December 1966 to Tadateru Konoe, younger brother of former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa and adopted grandson (and heir) of former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, currently President of the Japanese Red Cross Society; has a son, Tadahiro, who has three children. ; heir apparent; married on 7 November 1980 to Nobuko Asō (born 9 April 1955), third daughter of Takakichi Asō, chairman of Aso Cement Co., and his wife, Kazuko, the daughter of former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida; had two daughters. ; created Katsura-no-miya on 1 January 1988. (formerly ; married on 14 October 1983 to Sōshitsu Sen (born 7 June 1956), the elder son of Sōshitsu Sen XV, and currently the sixteenth hereditary grand master (iemoto) of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony School; and has two sons, Akifumi and Takafumi, and a daughter, Makiko. ; created Takamado-no-miya on 1 December 1984; married on 6 December 1984 to Hisako Tottori (born 10 July 1953), eldest daughter of Shigejiro Tottori, former president, Mitsui & Co. in France; and had three daughters.Post-war career
After the defeat of Japan in World War II, many members of the imperial family, such as Princes Chichibu, Takamatsu and Higashikuni, pressed Emperor Hirohito to abdicate so that one of the Princes could serve as regent until Crown Prince Akihito came of age. On 27 February 1946, Prince <mask> even stood up in the Privy Council and indirectly urged the Emperor to step down and accept responsibility for Japan's defeat. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, the most senior-ranking United States military commander in Japan at the time, insisted that Emperor Hirohito retain the throne. According to Minister of Welfare Ashida's diary, "Everyone seemed to ponder Mikasa's words. Never have I seen His Majesty's face so pale." After the war, Prince <mask> enrolled in the Literature Faculty of the University of Tokyo and pursued advanced studies in archaeology, Middle Eastern studies, and Semitic languages. From 1954 until his death in 2016, he directed the Japanese Society for Middle East Studies.He was honorary president of the Japan Society of Orientology. The Prince held visiting and guest faculty appointments in Middle Eastern studies and archaeology at various universities in Japan and abroad, including: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, the University of London, Hokkaido University and the University of Shizuoka. He made numerous radio and television appearances, speaking on cultural subjects, and was known as "the Imperial scholar". He was especially interested in Jewish studies, and believed "The truth incarnated in Judaism, a truth of being rather than of theory, is the central meaning of history. … History had brought him—Prince Mikasa—to the Jew, he said, and Judaism had brought him back to himself. For the Jew is not only the father of the West, he is the scion of the Orient. He is the holy bridge (a traditional and poignant Japanese symbol) between East and West.Through understanding Judaism, the Prince regained a sense of his dignity as a member of his people; he was again proud to be Japanese." Final years and death
Towards the end of his life, due to his advanced age, Prince Mikasa rarely made public appearances, and regularly used a wheelchair. He and Princess Mikasa lived together at a residence in the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in Motoakasaka, Minato, Tokyo. He underwent heart surgery in 2012, and made a full recovery. His routine included exercising for about 30 minutes each day with his wife at their Tokyo residence, and he often went outdoors for a roll in his wheelchair. About once a week, he would leave his home for a haircut, or to attend various events for other family members. In October 2014, he attended the Tokyo wedding of his granddaughter Princess Noriko, the second daughter of his youngest son <mask>o.Palace staff noted that he appeared vigorous until his last days, and that he would always be seen helping his wife to get about. He continued to read newspapers, and enjoyed watching sumo and music programs on television. In one of Prince Mikasa's memoirs, he wrote that he toured Unit 731's headquarters in China and was shown films showing Chinese prisoners "made to march on the plains of Manchuria for poison gas experiments on humans." On 2 December 2015, Prince Mikasa became the first member of the imperial family to become a centenarian. On his 100th birthday, he said, "Nothing will change just because I turn 100 years old. I'd like to spend my days pleasantly and peacefully while praying for the happiness of people around the world and thanking my wife, Yuriko, who has been supporting me for more than 70 years." At his residence in April 2016, he met the Japanese ambassador to Turkey and took a stroll at the Akasaka Detached Palace.On 16 May 2016, <mask> was admitted to the intensive-care unit of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, having contracted acute pneumonia. He remained in hospital for the remaining months of his life. His heart weakened in June, and fluid accumulated in his lungs. Princess Yuriko frequently visited him along with other Imperial family members, including the Emperor and Empress in June. During his last days, Prince Mikasa remained responsive to visitors. On 22 October, Prince Mikasa and his wife celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary in his hospital room. His condition eventually stabilised to the point where he began to receive rehabilitation in his bed, which included stretching his arms and legs.At 7:40 a.m. on 27 October, however, his heart gradually slowed, stopping at 8 a.m. Prince <mask> was pronounced dead at 8:34 a.m., with his wife at his side. At his death, he had outlived all of his siblings and all three of his sons. He was also the last surviving grandson of Emperor Meiji. Prince Mikasa's funeral was held on 4 November 2016 at Toshimagaoka Imperial Cemetery. About 580 people including members of the Imperial Family, Prime Minister Shinzō Abe, U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, and former imperial family members Sayako Kuroda and Noriko Senge and their husbands, attended the funeral.Princess Mikasa hosted the ceremony as the chief mourner. Honours
National
Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum
Foreign
: Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross
: Commander of the Order of the Balkan Mountains
: Knight of the Order of the Elephant
Empire of Iran: Member 2nd Class of the Imperial Order of Pahlavi
Empire of Iran: Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the 2,500 year Celebration of the Persian Empire
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown
: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav
: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun
: Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim
: recipient of the Atatürk International Peace Prize
Honorary positions
Honorary President of the Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan
Honorary President of the Japan – Turkey Society
Honorary Vice-President of the Japanese Red Cross Society
Issue
Ancestry
Patrilineal descent
Imperial House of Japan
Descent prior to Keitai is unclear to modern historians, but traditionally traced back patrilineally to Emperor Jimmu
Emperor Keitai, ca. 450–534
Emperor Kinmei, 509–571
Emperor Bidatsu, 538–585
Prince Oshisaka, ca. 556–??? Emperor Jomei, 593–641
Emperor Tenji, 626–671
Prince Shiki, ?? | [
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By the time he started secondary school, his brother had ascended the throne and his two brothers were already in the Japanese Imperial Army and the Japanese Imperial Navy. He joined the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1932 and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant in 1936. He graduated from the college. After attaining the age of majority in December 1935, Emperor Shwa granted him the title Mikasa-no-miya and the authorization to form a new branch of the Imperial Family. Prince Mikasa was promoted to lieutenant in 1937 and to captain in 1939 while he was in China.He was critical of the Japanese military's conduct in China. In a 1994 interview, he criticized the Imperial Army's invasion of and atrocities in China, and recalled how shocked he was when an officer told him that the best way to train new recruits was to use living Chinese POWs. A film showing airplanes loading germ bombs for bubonic plague dessemination over the Chinese city of Ningbo was shown to Prince Mikasa and his cousin. He made his brother Emperor Hirohito watch the film because he was so moved by it. In 1994, a newspaper revealed that after Prince Mikasa's return to Tokyo, he had written a stinging indictment of the conduct of the Imperial Japanese Army in China, where the Prince had witnessed Japanese atrocities against Chinese civilians. The document was suppressed by the General Staff of the Imperial Army. The cruel actions of Japanese soldiers in China were reported to have caused Prince Mikasa to take a strict stance against slack discipline.From January 1943 to January 1944, <mask> was a staff officer in the Headquarters of the China Expeditionary Army. His role was intended to bolster the legitimacy of the Wang Jingwei regime and to coordinate with Japanese Army staff towards a peace initiative, but his efforts were totally undermined by the Operation Ichi-Go campaign launched by the Imperial General Headquarters. During Japan's surrender in August 1945, <mask> was a staff officer in the Army Section of the Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo. The Privy Council was told by the Prince that Hirohito should take responsibility for the war. <mask>a married Yuriko Takagi, the second daughter of Viscount (kazoku, pre-war Japan's upper classes) Masanari Takagi, on 22 October 1941. <mask> and Princess Mikasa had five children. As of 2015, they had five children, as well as nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.The Imperial Family was left by the couple's two daughters. All of their sons died. The children were married on December 16, 1966 to Tadateru Konoe, younger brother of former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa and adopted grandson of former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. Nobuko As was the third daughter of Takakichi As, chairman of Aso Cement Co., and his wife, and had two daughters. Katsura-no-miya was created on January 1, 1988. The hereditary grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony School, Aki, is married to the elder son of SShitsu Sen, who was born on June 7, 1956. Takamado-no-miya was created on December 1, 1984 and married on December 6, 1984.After the defeat of Japan in World War II, many members of the imperial family, such as Princes Chichibu, Takamatsu and Higashikuni, pressed Emperor Hirohito to abdicate so that one of the Princes could serve as regent. Prince Mikasa urged the Emperor to step down and accept responsibility for Japan's defeat in the Privy Council. The most senior-ranking United States military commander in Japan at the time insisted that Emperor Hirohito retain the throne. Everyone seemed to ponder Mikasa's words. I have never seen His Majesty's face so pale. Prince Mikasa pursued advanced studies in archaeology, Middle Eastern studies, and Semitic languages after the war. He directed the Japanese Society for Middle East Studies.He was a member of the Japan Society of Orientology. Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, the University of London, Hokkaido University, and the University of Shi were all where the Prince held visiting and guest faculty appointments. He was known as "the Imperial scholar" due to his appearances on radio and television. The truth incarnated in Judaism, a truth of being rather than of theory, is the central meaning of history and he was especially interested in Jewish studies. He said that history had brought him to the Jew and that Judaism had brought him back to himself. The Jew is the father of the West and the scion of the Orient. He is a bridge between East and West.The Prince regained a sense of his dignity as a member of his people through understanding Judaism. Prince <mask> died at the end of his life due to his advanced age. He and Princess <mask> lived in the grounds of the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo. He made a full recovery after having a heart surgery. He used to exercise for 30 minutes a day with his wife at their Tokyo residence, and he used to go outside for a roll in his wheelchair. He would leave his home about once a week to get a haircut or attend an event for other family members. He attended the wedding of Princess Noriko, the second daughter of his youngest son <mask>o.Palace staff said that he appeared vigorous until his last days, and that he would always help his wife. He liked to watch sumo and music programs on television. 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36255124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieran%20Joyce | Kieran Joyce | Kieran Joyce (born 4 April 1987) is an Irish hurler. His league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted seven seasons from 2011 until 2017.
Born in Portlaoise, County Laois, Joyce developed as a hurler during his secondary schooling at Good Counsel College in New Ross. While subsequently studying at the University of Limerick he captained the university hurling team to the Fitzgibbon Cup title.
At club level Joyce came to prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the Rower-Inistioge club, before eventually joining the club's adult team. An All-Ireland medal winner in the intermediate grade in 2014, Joyce also won Leinster and county championship medals.
Joyce made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected for the Kilkenny minor team. He enjoyed two championship seasons with the minor team and ended his tenure as an All-Ireland runner-up. He subsequently joined the Kilkenny under-21 team, winning two All-Ireland medals over the course of three years. After also winning an All-Ireland medal with the intermediate team, Joyce joined the extended Kilkenny senior panel in 2009, however, he didn't become a member of the regular panel until the 2011 championship. Over the course of the following seven seasons he won four All-Ireland medals, beginning with back-to-back championships in 2011 and 2012 and ending with back-to-back championships in 2014 and 2015. Joyce also won four Leinster medals and three National Hurling League medals. He announced his retirement on 26 October 2017.
After being selected for the Leinster inter-provincial team for the first time in 2013, Joyce was also selected on a number of subsequent occasions. He ended his career without an Interprovincial Championship medal.
Playing career
University
In 2011 Joyce was captain of the University of Limerick team that reached the final of the inter-varsities championship. Local rivals Limerick Institute of Technology provided the opposition and led by nine points on two separate occasions in the first half. UL were transformed in the second half, even after being reduced to fourteen men after the dismissal of Willie Hyland. A 1-17 to 2-11 victory gave Joyce a Fitzgibbon Cup medal.
Club
In 2013 Joyce's club Rower-Inistioge faced Emeralds in the intermediate championship decider. The Rower started and finished strongly as they got the better of Emeralds in a tense decider. The 2-13 to 2-11 victory gave Joyce a championship medal. The Rower subsequently secured the Leinster crown following a narrow 1-9 to 0-10 defeat of Buffers Alley. On 8 February 2014 Rower-Inistioge faced Kilnadeema-Leitrim in the All-Ireland decider. Extra time was needed to separate the sides, however, Joyce collected an All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship medal following a 1-16 to 1-9 victory.
Minor, under-21 and intermediate
Joyce first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny minor team in 2004. He won a Leinster medal that year following a heavy 1–15 to 1–4 defeat of Dublin. The subsequent All-Ireland decider on 12 September 2004 pitted Kilkenny against Galway. Richie Hogan proved to be the hero for Kilkenny, as his point, a minute into injury time, earned "the Cats" a 1–18 to 3–12 draw. The replay a week later was also a close affair, with Galway just about holding off the Kilkenny challenge. A 0–16 to 1–12 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship medal.
By 2006 Joyce had linked up with the Kilkenny under-21 team. He won a Leinster medal that year following a 2-18 to 2-10 defeat of Dublin before later lining out in the All-Ireland decider against Tipperary on 10 September 2006. A last second opportunist goal by Richie Hogan saved Kilkenny and secured a 2-14 apiece draw. The replay a week later was another close encounter, however, Paddy Hogan's first half goal helped Kilkenny claw their way to the title. The 1-11 to 0-11 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland medal.
After surrendering their provincial and All-Ireland crowns the following year, Joyce won a second Leinster medal in 2008 following a facile 2–21 to 2–9 defeat of Offaly. Old rivals Tipperary provided the opposition in the All-Ireland decider on 14 September 2008. Tipperary whittled down a six-point half-time deficit to just two with minutes to go, however, Kilkenny hung on to win by 2–13 to 0–15 and secure the Grand Slam of championship titles. It was also a second All-Ireland medal for Joyce.
Joyce was also a key member of the Kilkenny intermediate for a number of seasons. He won his first Leinster medal in this grade in 2006 following a 2-20 to 0-8 trouncing of Wexford. On 26 August 2006 Kilkenny faced Cork in the All-Ireland decider, however, a 3-15 to 1-18 defeat was Joyce's lot on that occasion.
Two years later in 2008 Joyce captured his second Leinster medal following a 4-26 to 3-15 trouncing of Dublin. On 30 August 2008 Kilkenny faced Limerick in the All-Ireland decider. A 1-16 to 0-13 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland medal in that grade.
Joyce won a third Leinster medal in 2011 following a 2-19 to 2-8 defeat of Wexford in the provincial decider.
Senior
Joyce first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team in 2009 when he was a member of the extended training panel. He spent two years in this capacity before becoming a member of the match-day panel in 2011. He was an unused substitute during Kilkenny's successful Leinster and All-Ireland campaigns that year. In spite of not playing, Joyce was still presented with winners' medals.
2012 began well for Joyce as he made his debut during the National Hurling League. He ended the campaign with a winners' medal following a 3–21 to 0–16 demolition of old rivals Cork. Kilkenny were later shocked by Galway in the Leinster decider, losing by 2–21 to 2–11, however, both sides subsequently met in the All-Ireland decider on 9 September 2012. Kilkenny had led going into the final stretch, however, Joe Canning struck a stoppage time equaliser to level the game at 2–13 to 0–19 and send the final to a replay for the first time since 1959. The replay took place three weeks later on 30 September 2012. Galway stunned the reigning champions with two first-half goals, however, Kilkenny's championship debutant Walter Walsh gave a man of the match performance. The 3–22 to 3–11 Kilkenny victory gave Joyce a second All-Ireland medal and his first on the field of play.
Kilkenny's dominance showed no sign of abating in 2013, with Joyce winning a second league medal following a 2–17 to 0–20 defeat of Tipperary in the decider.
In 2014 Joyce collected his third successive league medal, as Kilkenny secured a narrow one-point 2–25 to 1–27 extra-time victory over Tipperary. Joyce subsequently secured his first Leinster medal on the field of play, as a dominant Kilkenny display gave "the Cats" a 0–24 to 1–9 defeat of Dublin. On 7 September 2014 Kilkenny faced Tipperary in the All-Ireland decider. In what some consider to be the greatest game of all time, the sides were level when Tipperary were awarded a controversial free. John O'Dwyer had the chance to win the game, however, his late free drifted wide resulting in a draw. The replay on 27 September 2014 was also a close affair. Goals from brothers Richie and John Power inspired Kilkenny to a 2–17 to 2–14 victory. It was Joyce's third All-Ireland medal overall.
Joyce won a third Leinster medal in 2015 following a 1-25 to 2-15 defeat of Galway in the provincial decider. It was Kilkenny's 70th provincial title. Kilkenny and Galway later renewed their rivalry when they faced each other again in the All-Ireland final on 6 September 2015. The team struggled in the first half, however, a T. J. Reid goal and a dominant second half display, which limited Galway to just 1-4, saw Kilkenny power to a 1-22 to 1-18 victory. It was Joyce's fourth All-Ireland medal overall.
Kilkenny retained the Leinster title in 2016, with Joyce claiming a fourth winners' medal following a 1-26 to 0-22 defeat of Galway. Kilkenny subsequently qualified for an All-Ireland final meeting with Tipperary on 5 September 2016. While just two points separated the sides at the interval, Tipperary completely outplayed Kilkenny for the second half. A total of 2-21 for their inside forward line of Séamus Callanan, John McGrath and John O'Dwyer helped them to a huge 2-29 to 2-20 victory.
After disappointing league and championship campaigns in 2017, Joyce announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 26 October 2017.
Career statistics
Honours
University of Limerick
Fitzgibbon Cup (1): 2011 (c)
Rower-Inistioge
All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2014
Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2013
Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2013
Kilkenny
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (4): 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (4): 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
National Hurling League (3): 2012, 2013, 2014
All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2008
Leinster Intermediate Hurling Championship (3): 2006, 2008, 2011
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2006, 2008
Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2006, 2008
Leinster Minor Hurling Championship (1): 2004
References
1987 births
Living people
Rower-Inistioge hurlers
Kilkenny inter-county hurlers
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners | [
"Kieran Joyce (born 4 April 1987) is an Irish hurler.",
"His league and championship career with the Kilkenny senior team lasted seven seasons from 2011 until 2017.",
"Born in Portlaoise, County Laois, Joyce developed as a hurler during his secondary schooling at Good Counsel College in New Ross.",
"While subsequently studying at the University of Limerick he captained the university hurling team to the Fitzgibbon Cup title.",
"At club level Joyce came to prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the Rower-Inistioge club, before eventually joining the club's adult team.",
"An All-Ireland medal winner in the intermediate grade in 2014, Joyce also won Leinster and county championship medals.",
"Joyce made his debut on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he was selected for the Kilkenny minor team.",
"He enjoyed two championship seasons with the minor team and ended his tenure as an All-Ireland runner-up.",
"He subsequently joined the Kilkenny under-21 team, winning two All-Ireland medals over the course of three years.",
"After also winning an All-Ireland medal with the intermediate team, Joyce joined the extended Kilkenny senior panel in 2009, however, he didn't become a member of the regular panel until the 2011 championship.",
"Over the course of the following seven seasons he won four All-Ireland medals, beginning with back-to-back championships in 2011 and 2012 and ending with back-to-back championships in 2014 and 2015.",
"Joyce also won four Leinster medals and three National Hurling League medals.",
"He announced his retirement on 26 October 2017.",
"After being selected for the Leinster inter-provincial team for the first time in 2013, Joyce was also selected on a number of subsequent occasions.",
"He ended his career without an Interprovincial Championship medal.",
"Playing career\n\nUniversity\n\nIn 2011 Joyce was captain of the University of Limerick team that reached the final of the inter-varsities championship.",
"Local rivals Limerick Institute of Technology provided the opposition and led by nine points on two separate occasions in the first half.",
"UL were transformed in the second half, even after being reduced to fourteen men after the dismissal of Willie Hyland.",
"A 1-17 to 2-11 victory gave Joyce a Fitzgibbon Cup medal.",
"Club\n\nIn 2013 Joyce's club Rower-Inistioge faced Emeralds in the intermediate championship decider.",
"The Rower started and finished strongly as they got the better of Emeralds in a tense decider.",
"The 2-13 to 2-11 victory gave Joyce a championship medal.",
"The Rower subsequently secured the Leinster crown following a narrow 1-9 to 0-10 defeat of Buffers Alley.",
"On 8 February 2014 Rower-Inistioge faced Kilnadeema-Leitrim in the All-Ireland decider.",
"Extra time was needed to separate the sides, however, Joyce collected an All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship medal following a 1-16 to 1-9 victory.",
"Minor, under-21 and intermediate\n\nJoyce first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny minor team in 2004.",
"He won a Leinster medal that year following a heavy 1–15 to 1–4 defeat of Dublin.",
"The subsequent All-Ireland decider on 12 September 2004 pitted Kilkenny against Galway.",
"Richie Hogan proved to be the hero for Kilkenny, as his point, a minute into injury time, earned \"the Cats\" a 1–18 to 3–12 draw.",
"The replay a week later was also a close affair, with Galway just about holding off the Kilkenny challenge.",
"A 0–16 to 1–12 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship medal.",
"By 2006 Joyce had linked up with the Kilkenny under-21 team.",
"He won a Leinster medal that year following a 2-18 to 2-10 defeat of Dublin before later lining out in the All-Ireland decider against Tipperary on 10 September 2006.",
"A last second opportunist goal by Richie Hogan saved Kilkenny and secured a 2-14 apiece draw.",
"The replay a week later was another close encounter, however, Paddy Hogan's first half goal helped Kilkenny claw their way to the title.",
"The 1-11 to 0-11 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland medal.",
"After surrendering their provincial and All-Ireland crowns the following year, Joyce won a second Leinster medal in 2008 following a facile 2–21 to 2–9 defeat of Offaly.",
"Old rivals Tipperary provided the opposition in the All-Ireland decider on 14 September 2008.",
"Tipperary whittled down a six-point half-time deficit to just two with minutes to go, however, Kilkenny hung on to win by 2–13 to 0–15 and secure the Grand Slam of championship titles.",
"It was also a second All-Ireland medal for Joyce.",
"Joyce was also a key member of the Kilkenny intermediate for a number of seasons.",
"He won his first Leinster medal in this grade in 2006 following a 2-20 to 0-8 trouncing of Wexford.",
"On 26 August 2006 Kilkenny faced Cork in the All-Ireland decider, however, a 3-15 to 1-18 defeat was Joyce's lot on that occasion.",
"Two years later in 2008 Joyce captured his second Leinster medal following a 4-26 to 3-15 trouncing of Dublin.",
"On 30 August 2008 Kilkenny faced Limerick in the All-Ireland decider.",
"A 1-16 to 0-13 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland medal in that grade.",
"Joyce won a third Leinster medal in 2011 following a 2-19 to 2-8 defeat of Wexford in the provincial decider.",
"Senior\n\nJoyce first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team in 2009 when he was a member of the extended training panel.",
"He spent two years in this capacity before becoming a member of the match-day panel in 2011.",
"He was an unused substitute during Kilkenny's successful Leinster and All-Ireland campaigns that year.",
"In spite of not playing, Joyce was still presented with winners' medals.",
"2012 began well for Joyce as he made his debut during the National Hurling League.",
"He ended the campaign with a winners' medal following a 3–21 to 0–16 demolition of old rivals Cork.",
"Kilkenny were later shocked by Galway in the Leinster decider, losing by 2–21 to 2–11, however, both sides subsequently met in the All-Ireland decider on 9 September 2012.",
"Kilkenny had led going into the final stretch, however, Joe Canning struck a stoppage time equaliser to level the game at 2–13 to 0–19 and send the final to a replay for the first time since 1959.",
"The replay took place three weeks later on 30 September 2012.",
"Galway stunned the reigning champions with two first-half goals, however, Kilkenny's championship debutant Walter Walsh gave a man of the match performance.",
"The 3–22 to 3–11 Kilkenny victory gave Joyce a second All-Ireland medal and his first on the field of play.",
"Kilkenny's dominance showed no sign of abating in 2013, with Joyce winning a second league medal following a 2–17 to 0–20 defeat of Tipperary in the decider.",
"In 2014 Joyce collected his third successive league medal, as Kilkenny secured a narrow one-point 2–25 to 1–27 extra-time victory over Tipperary.",
"Joyce subsequently secured his first Leinster medal on the field of play, as a dominant Kilkenny display gave \"the Cats\" a 0–24 to 1–9 defeat of Dublin.",
"On 7 September 2014 Kilkenny faced Tipperary in the All-Ireland decider.",
"In what some consider to be the greatest game of all time, the sides were level when Tipperary were awarded a controversial free.",
"John O'Dwyer had the chance to win the game, however, his late free drifted wide resulting in a draw.",
"The replay on 27 September 2014 was also a close affair.",
"Goals from brothers Richie and John Power inspired Kilkenny to a 2–17 to 2–14 victory.",
"It was Joyce's third All-Ireland medal overall.",
"Joyce won a third Leinster medal in 2015 following a 1-25 to 2-15 defeat of Galway in the provincial decider.",
"It was Kilkenny's 70th provincial title.",
"Kilkenny and Galway later renewed their rivalry when they faced each other again in the All-Ireland final on 6 September 2015.",
"The team struggled in the first half, however, a T. J. Reid goal and a dominant second half display, which limited Galway to just 1-4, saw Kilkenny power to a 1-22 to 1-18 victory.",
"It was Joyce's fourth All-Ireland medal overall.",
"Kilkenny retained the Leinster title in 2016, with Joyce claiming a fourth winners' medal following a 1-26 to 0-22 defeat of Galway.",
"Kilkenny subsequently qualified for an All-Ireland final meeting with Tipperary on 5 September 2016.",
"While just two points separated the sides at the interval, Tipperary completely outplayed Kilkenny for the second half.",
"A total of 2-21 for their inside forward line of Séamus Callanan, John McGrath and John O'Dwyer helped them to a huge 2-29 to 2-20 victory.",
"After disappointing league and championship campaigns in 2017, Joyce announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 26 October 2017.",
"Career statistics\n\nHonours\n\nUniversity of Limerick\nFitzgibbon Cup (1): 2011 (c)\n\nRower-Inistioge\nAll-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2014\nLeinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2013\nKilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2013\n\nKilkenny\nAll-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (4): 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015\nLeinster Senior Hurling Championship (4): 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016\n National Hurling League (3): 2012, 2013, 2014\nAll-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2008\nLeinster Intermediate Hurling Championship (3): 2006, 2008, 2011\nAll-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2006, 2008\nLeinster Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2006, 2008\nLeinster Minor Hurling Championship (1): 2004\n\nReferences\n\n1987 births\nLiving people\nRower-Inistioge hurlers\nKilkenny inter-county hurlers\nAll-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners"
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"Joyce is an Irish hurler.",
"He spent seven seasons with the Kilkenny senior team.",
"Joyce was born in Portlaoise and attended Good Counsel College in New Ross.",
"He captained the University of Limerick hurlers to the Fitzgibbon Cup title.",
"Joyce was a member of the adult team at the Rower-Inistioge club.",
"Joyce won All-Ireland medals in the intermediate grade and county championship.",
"At the age of seventeen, Joyce was selected for the Kilkenny minor team.",
"He was an All-Ireland runner-up after two championship seasons with the minor team.",
"He joined the Kilkenny under-21 team and won two All-Ireland medals.",
"After winning an All-Ireland medal with the intermediate team, Joyce joined the Kilkenny senior panel in 2009, however, he didn't become a member of the regular panel until 2011.",
"He won four All-Ireland medals over the course of seven seasons, starting with back-to-back titles in 2011.",
"The National Hurling League medals were won by Joyce.",
"He announced his retirement in October.",
"Joyce was selected for the inter-provincial team a number of times after being selected for the first time.",
"He didn't have an Interprovincial Championship medal.",
"The captain of the University of Limerick team that reached the final of the inter-varsities championship was Joyce.",
"The Limerick Institute of Technology led by nine points on two separate occasions in the first half.",
"Even though they were reduced to fourteen men, the second half was a different story.",
"Joyce won a Fitzgibbon Cup medal.",
"Joyce's club Rower-Inistioge faced Emeralds in the intermediate championship decider.",
"The Rower got the better of Emeralds in a tense decider as they started and finished strong.",
"Joyce won a championship medal with the 2-13 to 2-11 victory.",
"The Rower won the Leinster crown with a narrow 1-9 to 0-10 victory over Buffers Alley.",
"Rower-Inistioge faced Kilnadeema-Leitrim in the All-Ireland decider.",
"Joyce collected an All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship medal after a 1-16 to 1-9 victory.",
"Joyce came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny minor team in 2004.",
"He won a medal after a heavy defeat of Dublin.",
"Kilkenny and Galway played in the All-Ireland decider in 2004.",
"As his point, a minute into injury time, earned \"the Cats\" a 1–18 to 3–12 draw, Richie Hogan proved to be the hero for Kilkenny.",
"The Kilkenny challenge was very close in the replay a week later.",
"Joyce won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship medal.",
"Joyce was a member of the Kilkenny under-21 team.",
"He lined out in the All-Ireland decider against Tipperary on September 10, 2006 after winning a Leinster medal that year.",
"A last second opportunist goal by Richie Hogan saved Kilkenny and secured a 2-14 apiece draw.",
"The first half goal of Paddy Hogan helped Kilkenny win the title in the replay a week later.",
"Joyce received an All-Ireland medal for the 1-11 to 0-11 victory.",
"Joyce won a second Leinster medal in 2008 after a facile 2–21 to 2–9 defeat of Offaly.",
"The All-Ireland decider was played on September 14, 2008.",
"Kilkenny won the Grand Slam of championship titles with a 2–13 to 0–15 victory over Tipperary.",
"It was Joyce's second All-Ireland medal.",
"Joyce was a member of the Kilkenny intermediate for a number of seasons.",
"He won his first medal in this grade in 2006 after trouncing Wexford.",
"Kilkenny faced Cork in the All-Ireland decider and lost 3-15 to 1-18.",
"In 2008 Joyce won his second Leinster medal after trouncing Dublin 4-26 to 3-15.",
"Kilkenny faced Limerick in the All-Ireland decider.",
"A 1-16 to 0-13 victory gave Joyce an All-Ireland medal.",
"Joyce won a third medal in the provincial decider after a 2-19 to 2-8 defeat of Wexford.",
"Senior Joyce was a member of the extended training panel when he joined the Kilkenny senior team.",
"He became a member of the match-day panel in 2011.",
"During Kilkenny's successful All-Ireland campaigns, he was an unused substitute.",
"Joyce was presented with winners' medals despite not playing.",
"Joyce made his debut in the National Hurling League.",
"He won a winners' medal after a demolition of old rivals.",
"Both sides met in the All-Ireland decider on September 9, 2012 after Kilkenny were shocked by Galway in the Leinster decider.",
"Kilkenny had led going into the final stretch, however, Joe Canning struck a last minute goal to level the game at 2–13 to 0–19 and send the final to a replay for the first time since 1959.",
"The replay took place three weeks later.",
"Kilkenny's championship debutant Walter Walsh gave a man of the match performance after his team's two first-half goals.",
"The Kilkenny victory gave Joyce a second All-Ireland medal and his first on the field.",
"Joyce won a second league medal after Kilkenny defeated Tipperary 2–17 to 0–20 in the decider.",
"Kilkenny secured a narrow one-point 2–25 to 1–27 extra-time victory over Tipperary, as Joyce collected his third successive league medal.",
"Joyce secured his first Leinster medal on the field of play, as a dominant Kilkenny display gave \"the Cats\" a 0–24 to 1–9 defeat of Dublin.",
"Kilkenny and Tipperary played in the All-Ireland decider.",
"The sides were level when Tipperary were awarded a controversial free.",
"John O'Dwyer had a chance to win the game, but his late free was wide.",
"The replay on 27 September was very close.",
"The Power brothers scored two goals in Kilkenny's victory.",
"It was Joyce's third All-Ireland medal.",
"Joyce won a third medal in the provincial decider after a 1-25 to 2-15 defeat of Galway.",
"It was Kilkenny's 70th provincial title.",
"The rivalry between Kilkenny and Galway was renewed when they faced each other in the All-Ireland final.",
"The team struggled in the first half, however, a T. J. Reid goal and a dominant second half display, which limited Galway to just 1-4, saw Kilkenny power to a 1-22 to 1-18 victory.",
"It was Joyce's fourth All-Ireland medal.",
"Following a 1-26 to 0-22 defeat of Galway, Joyce claimed a fourth winners' medal for Kilkenny.",
"Kilkenny will face Tipperary in the All-Ireland final on September 5.",
"The sides were tied at the half, but Tipperary dominated the second half.",
"A total of 2-21 for their inside forward line of Séamus Callanan, John McGrath and John O'Dwyer helped them to a huge 2-29 to 2-20 victory.",
"In October of last year, Joyce announced his retirement from inter-county Hurling.",
"The University of Limerick Fitzgibbon Cup was won by the Rower-Inistioge All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship."
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University
In 2011 <mask> was captain of the University of Limerick team that reached the final of the inter-varsities championship. Local rivals Limerick Institute of Technology provided the opposition and led by nine points on two separate occasions in the first half. UL were transformed in the second half, even after being reduced to fourteen men after the dismissal of Willie Hyland. A 1-17 to 2-11 victory gave <mask> a Fitzgibbon Cup medal. Club
In 2013 <mask>'s club Rower-Inistioge faced Emeralds in the intermediate championship decider. The Rower started and finished strongly as they got the better of Emeralds in a tense decider.The 2-13 to 2-11 victory gave <mask> a championship medal. The Rower subsequently secured the Leinster crown following a narrow 1-9 to 0-10 defeat of Buffers Alley. On 8 February 2014 Rower-Inistioge faced Kilnadeema-Leitrim in the All-Ireland decider. Extra time was needed to separate the sides, however, <mask> collected an All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship medal following a 1-16 to 1-9 victory. Minor, under-21 and intermediate
<mask> first came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny minor team in 2004. He won a Leinster medal that year following a heavy 1–15 to 1–4 defeat of Dublin. The subsequent All-Ireland decider on 12 September 2004 pitted Kilkenny against Galway.Richie Hogan proved to be the hero for Kilkenny, as his point, a minute into injury time, earned "the Cats" a 1–18 to 3–12 draw. The replay a week later was also a close affair, with Galway just about holding off the Kilkenny challenge. A 0–16 to 1–12 victory gave <mask> an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship medal. By 2006 <mask> had linked up with the Kilkenny under-21 team. He won a Leinster medal that year following a 2-18 to 2-10 defeat of Dublin before later lining out in the All-Ireland decider against Tipperary on 10 September 2006. A last second opportunist goal by Richie Hogan saved Kilkenny and secured a 2-14 apiece draw. The replay a week later was another close encounter, however, Paddy Hogan's first half goal helped Kilkenny claw their way to the title.The 1-11 to 0-11 victory gave <mask> an All-Ireland medal. After surrendering their provincial and All-Ireland crowns the following year, <mask> won a second Leinster medal in 2008 following a facile 2–21 to 2–9 defeat of Offaly. Old rivals Tipperary provided the opposition in the All-Ireland decider on 14 September 2008. Tipperary whittled down a six-point half-time deficit to just two with minutes to go, however, Kilkenny hung on to win by 2–13 to 0–15 and secure the Grand Slam of championship titles. It was also a second All-Ireland medal for <mask>. <mask> was also a key member of the Kilkenny intermediate for a number of seasons. He won his first Leinster medal in this grade in 2006 following a 2-20 to 0-8 trouncing of Wexford.On 26 August 2006 Kilkenny faced Cork in the All-Ireland decider, however, a 3-15 to 1-18 defeat was <mask>'s lot on that occasion. Two years later in 2008 <mask> captured his second Leinster medal following a 4-26 to 3-15 trouncing of Dublin. On 30 August 2008 Kilkenny faced Limerick in the All-Ireland decider. A 1-16 to 0-13 victory gave <mask> an All-Ireland medal in that grade. <mask> won a third Leinster medal in 2011 following a 2-19 to 2-8 defeat of Wexford in the provincial decider. Senior
<mask> first linked up with the Kilkenny senior team in 2009 when he was a member of the extended training panel. He spent two years in this capacity before becoming a member of the match-day panel in 2011.He was an unused substitute during Kilkenny's successful Leinster and All-Ireland campaigns that year. In spite of not playing, <mask> was still presented with winners' medals. 2012 began well for <mask> as he made his debut during the National Hurling League. He ended the campaign with a winners' medal following a 3–21 to 0–16 demolition of old rivals Cork. Kilkenny were later shocked by Galway in the Leinster decider, losing by 2–21 to 2–11, however, both sides subsequently met in the All-Ireland decider on 9 September 2012. Kilkenny had led going into the final stretch, however, Joe Canning struck a stoppage time equaliser to level the game at 2–13 to 0–19 and send the final to a replay for the first time since 1959. The replay took place three weeks later on 30 September 2012.Galway stunned the reigning champions with two first-half goals, however, Kilkenny's championship debutant Walter Walsh gave a man of the match performance. The 3–22 to 3–11 Kilkenny victory gave <mask> a second All-Ireland medal and his first on the field of play. Kilkenny's dominance showed no sign of abating in 2013, with <mask> winning a second league medal following a 2–17 to 0–20 defeat of Tipperary in the decider. In 2014 <mask> collected his third successive league medal, as Kilkenny secured a narrow one-point 2–25 to 1–27 extra-time victory over Tipperary. <mask> subsequently secured his first Leinster medal on the field of play, as a dominant Kilkenny display gave "the Cats" a 0–24 to 1–9 defeat of Dublin. On 7 September 2014 Kilkenny faced Tipperary in the All-Ireland decider. In what some consider to be the greatest game of all time, the sides were level when Tipperary were awarded a controversial free.John O'Dwyer had the chance to win the game, however, his late free drifted wide resulting in a draw. The replay on 27 September 2014 was also a close affair. Goals from brothers Richie and John Power inspired Kilkenny to a 2–17 to 2–14 victory. It was <mask>'s third All-Ireland medal overall. <mask> won a third Leinster medal in 2015 following a 1-25 to 2-15 defeat of Galway in the provincial decider. It was Kilkenny's 70th provincial title. Kilkenny and Galway later renewed their rivalry when they faced each other again in the All-Ireland final on 6 September 2015.The team struggled in the first half, however, a T. J. Reid goal and a dominant second half display, which limited Galway to just 1-4, saw Kilkenny power to a 1-22 to 1-18 victory. It was <mask>'s fourth All-Ireland medal overall. Kilkenny retained the Leinster title in 2016, with <mask> claiming a fourth winners' medal following a 1-26 to 0-22 defeat of Galway. Kilkenny subsequently qualified for an All-Ireland final meeting with Tipperary on 5 September 2016. While just two points separated the sides at the interval, Tipperary completely outplayed Kilkenny for the second half. A total of 2-21 for their inside forward line of Séamus Callanan, John McGrath and John O'Dwyer helped them to a huge 2-29 to 2-20 victory. After disappointing league and championship campaigns in 2017, <mask> announced his retirement from inter-county hurling on 26 October 2017.Career statistics
Honours
University of Limerick
Fitzgibbon Cup (1): 2011 (c)
Rower-Inistioge
All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2014
Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship (1): 2013
Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2013
Kilkenny
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (4): 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (4): 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
National Hurling League (3): 2012, 2013, 2014
All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship (1): 2008
Leinster Intermediate Hurling Championship (3): 2006, 2008, 2011
All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2006, 2008
Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2006, 2008
Leinster Minor Hurling Championship (1): 2004
References
1987 births
Living people
Rower-Inistioge hurlers
Kilkenny inter-county hurlers
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winners | [
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He announced his retirement in October. <mask> was selected for the inter-provincial team a number of times after being selected for the first time.He didn't have an Interprovincial Championship medal. The captain of the University of Limerick team that reached the final of the inter-varsities championship was <mask>. The Limerick Institute of Technology led by nine points on two separate occasions in the first half. Even though they were reduced to fourteen men, the second half was a different story. <mask> won a Fitzgibbon Cup medal. <mask>'s club Rower-Inistioge faced Emeralds in the intermediate championship decider. The Rower got the better of Emeralds in a tense decider as they started and finished strong.<mask> won a championship medal with the 2-13 to 2-11 victory. The Rower won the Leinster crown with a narrow 1-9 to 0-10 victory over Buffers Alley. Rower-Inistioge faced Kilnadeema-Leitrim in the All-Ireland decider. <mask> collected an All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling Championship medal after a 1-16 to 1-9 victory. <mask> came to prominence on the inter-county scene as a member of the Kilkenny minor team in 2004. He won a medal after a heavy defeat of Dublin. Kilkenny and Galway played in the All-Ireland decider in 2004.As his point, a minute into injury time, earned "the Cats" a 1–18 to 3–12 draw, Richie Hogan proved to be the hero for Kilkenny. The Kilkenny challenge was very close in the replay a week later. <mask> won an All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship medal. <mask> was a member of the Kilkenny under-21 team. He lined out in the All-Ireland decider against Tipperary on September 10, 2006 after winning a Leinster medal that year. A last second opportunist goal by Richie Hogan saved Kilkenny and secured a 2-14 apiece draw. The first half goal of Paddy Hogan helped Kilkenny win the title in the replay a week later.<mask> received an All-Ireland medal for the 1-11 to 0-11 victory. <mask> won a second Leinster medal in 2008 after a facile 2–21 to 2–9 defeat of Offaly. The All-Ireland decider was played on September 14, 2008. Kilkenny won the Grand Slam of championship titles with a 2–13 to 0–15 victory over Tipperary. It was <mask>'s second All-Ireland medal. <mask> was a member of the Kilkenny intermediate for a number of seasons. He won his first medal in this grade in 2006 after trouncing Wexford.Kilkenny faced Cork in the All-Ireland decider and lost 3-15 to 1-18. In 2008 <mask> won his second Leinster medal after trouncing Dublin 4-26 to 3-15. Kilkenny faced Limerick in the All-Ireland decider. A 1-16 to 0-13 victory gave <mask> an All-Ireland medal. <mask> won a third medal in the provincial decider after a 2-19 to 2-8 defeat of Wexford. 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2847217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive%20Borden | Olive Borden | Olive Mary Borden (July 14, 1906 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was nicknamed "the Joy Girl", after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title. Borden was known for her jet-black hair and stunning overall beauty.
At the peak of her career in the mid-1920s, Borden was earning $1,500 a week. In 1927, she walked out on her contract with Fox after refusing to take a pay cut. By 1929, her career began to wane due to her rumored reputation for being temperamental and her difficulty transitioning to sound films. She made her last film, Chloe, Love Is Calling You, in 1934 and moved on to stage work for a time. By the late 1930s, she had declared bankruptcy and stopped acting. During World War II, she joined the Women's Army Corps. She was later honorably discharged with distinction after sustaining a foot injury during service. Borden attempted a comeback in films, however, she was hindered by her alcoholism and health problems.
In 1945, she began working at the Sunshine Mission, a home for impoverished women located in the skidrow section of Los Angeles. She died there in October 1947 of a stomach ailment and pneumonia at the age of 41.
Early life
Borden was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 14, 1906. It was often erroneously reported that Sybil Tinkle was Borden's real name until the 1990s, when it was discovered that another woman had been confused with Borden. In a 1910 census report, her name is listed as Borden. Her father Harry Robinson Borden (1880–1907) died when she was a baby and she was raised by her mother Cecelia "Sibbie" Shields (1884–1959) in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Catholic boarding schools. Through her father, she was a fourth cousin of Lizzie Borden. As a teenager, she persuaded her mother to take her to Hollywood to pursue a career in show business. To support themselves they opened a candy store and Olive worked as a telephone operator.
Career
Borden began her career as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties in 1922 and was soon appearing as a vamp in Hal Roach comedy shorts. Producer Paul Bern chose her for an uncredited role in his film The Dressmaker from Paris (1925). She was signed by Fox after being named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1925 (along with her cousin, Natalie Joyce). Borden quickly became one of their most popular and highest paid stars earning a salary of $1,500 a week. She had starring roles in eleven films at Fox, including 3 Bad Men and Fig Leaves, both of which costarred her then-boyfriend George O'Brien. 3 Bad Men has also been featured at the Museum of Modern Art. During this time she worked with some directors who would go on to achieve major fame, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Leo McCarey.
Paramount Studios began a policy of 10% paycuts on any salary over $50 to recoup production costs, when Fox tried the same and cut her salary in 1927, Borden left the studio. By this point she was a major silent film star. In making the transition to "talkies" she worked with a voice coach (to suppress her Southern accent). She was less successful, but still remained in demand as an actress, continuing to work for Columbia and RKO. She had cut her trademark hair into a short bob, and turned herself into a modern flapper. But Borden had trouble with the new look, losing her identity; she couldn't find her audience and this confused her waning public.
She made few movies in the early 1930s and her once promising career stalled, producing but one picture in 1932 (The Divorce Racket), and three in 1933 (Leave it to Me, Hotel Variety, and The Mild West). Her last screen credit came in the 1934 film Chloe, Love Is Calling You, where she played a woman kidnapped at birth and raised as a child of mixed race. Some say that this once-lost film "is so bad it should've stayed lost." A pre-code movie made under Will Hays, it had little box office success and in some states (mostly southern) it was banned at the time of its release. Borden then moved to New York, where she had a brief stage career, and made a living on the waning vaudeville circuit.
Later years
During her acting career, Borden was one of the highest paid stars. She spent her money freely and by the late 1930s, she was broke. Borden then found work as a postal clerk and mail carrier and also worked as a nurse's aide. In December 1942, Borden joined the Women's Army Corps (the Women's Army Corps, the only place women could serve in the Army at that time) where she served as an ambulance driver and received an Army citation for bravery in turning over an enemy ammunition truck. Her Army career ended in 1944, with an honorable discharge after she was hospitalized in Walter Reed Medical Center with a severe foot injury. After her discharge, she attempted an unsuccessful comeback in films.
Borden struggled with alcoholism and numerous health problems. She spent her final years in the skid row section of Los Angeles working and living at the Sunshine Mission, a home for women alongside her mother Sibbie, who got Borden the work.
Personal life
Borden had several relationships with men, in and out of the motion picture industry. For the majority of her life, she lived with her mother, Sibbie, who was known as a "stage mother", helping Borden with most decisions and spending of money until Borden's death. From 1926 to 1930, Borden was romantically involved with actor George O'Brien and the press reported they were engaged. She also dated director Marshall Neilan, producer Paul Bern, and had a long affair with Arthur Benline, a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Construction Battalion.
Borden was married twice. Her first marriage was to stockbroker Theodore Spector, whom she married on March 28, 1931, in Harrison, New York. The marriage was rocky from the start, and the couple separated in early 1932 after news of scandal broke that she was involved in a love triangle. Spector had not divorced his first wife, Pearl, whom he married in 1919, and he was arrested for bigamy after his first wife came forward and claimed they were still married. In November 1932, Borden petitioned the court for an annulment, which was granted on November 22. Spector was ultimately cleared of bigamy, but Borden with the marriage annulled, moved on from the entire incident. She married her second husband, 26-year-old railroad technician, John Moeller, in November 1934 under the pseudonym Mary Borden. That marriage ended in divorce seven years later.
Death
Borden died on October 1, 1947, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 41. The only possession she had when she died was a signed photo of herself. Borden's funeral was held on October 3 at the Sunshine Mission home for women, where she had worked and lived since 1945. The mission's founder, Essie Binkley West, officiated at the service. Borden was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Her mother was interred in the grave next to her when she died of a heart attack in 1959.
For her contributions to the film industry, Borden has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. She was one of the first eight stars chosen to receive a star in 1958.
Selected filmography
Footnotes
Works cited
Ankerich, Michael G. (2010). Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen. BearManor.
External links
Olive Borden at Virtual History
1906 births
1947 deaths
20th-century American actresses
Actresses from Virginia
American film actresses
American silent film actresses
American stage actresses
Deaths from pneumonia in California
Actors from Norfolk, Virginia
Vaudeville performers
Actresses from Baltimore
WAMPAS Baby Stars
Women's Army Corps soldiers | [
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"She was nicknamed \"the Joy Girl\", after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title.",
"Borden was known for her jet-black hair and stunning overall beauty.",
"At the peak of her career in the mid-1920s, Borden was earning $1,500 a week.",
"In 1927, she walked out on her contract with Fox after refusing to take a pay cut.",
"By 1929, her career began to wane due to her rumored reputation for being temperamental and her difficulty transitioning to sound films.",
"She made her last film, Chloe, Love Is Calling You, in 1934 and moved on to stage work for a time.",
"By the late 1930s, she had declared bankruptcy and stopped acting.",
"During World War II, she joined the Women's Army Corps.",
"She was later honorably discharged with distinction after sustaining a foot injury during service.",
"Borden attempted a comeback in films, however, she was hindered by her alcoholism and health problems.",
"In 1945, she began working at the Sunshine Mission, a home for impoverished women located in the skidrow section of Los Angeles.",
"She died there in October 1947 of a stomach ailment and pneumonia at the age of 41.",
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"It was often erroneously reported that Sybil Tinkle was Borden's real name until the 1990s, when it was discovered that another woman had been confused with Borden.",
"In a 1910 census report, her name is listed as Borden.",
"Her father Harry Robinson Borden (1880–1907) died when she was a baby and she was raised by her mother Cecelia \"Sibbie\" Shields (1884–1959) in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Catholic boarding schools.",
"Through her father, she was a fourth cousin of Lizzie Borden.",
"As a teenager, she persuaded her mother to take her to Hollywood to pursue a career in show business.",
"To support themselves they opened a candy store and Olive worked as a telephone operator.",
"Career\n\nBorden began her career as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties in 1922 and was soon appearing as a vamp in Hal Roach comedy shorts.",
"Producer Paul Bern chose her for an uncredited role in his film The Dressmaker from Paris (1925).",
"She was signed by Fox after being named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1925 (along with her cousin, Natalie Joyce).",
"Borden quickly became one of their most popular and highest paid stars earning a salary of $1,500 a week.",
"She had starring roles in eleven films at Fox, including 3 Bad Men and Fig Leaves, both of which costarred her then-boyfriend George O'Brien.",
"3 Bad Men has also been featured at the Museum of Modern Art.",
"During this time she worked with some directors who would go on to achieve major fame, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Leo McCarey.",
"Paramount Studios began a policy of 10% paycuts on any salary over $50 to recoup production costs, when Fox tried the same and cut her salary in 1927, Borden left the studio.",
"By this point she was a major silent film star.",
"In making the transition to \"talkies\" she worked with a voice coach (to suppress her Southern accent).",
"She was less successful, but still remained in demand as an actress, continuing to work for Columbia and RKO.",
"She had cut her trademark hair into a short bob, and turned herself into a modern flapper.",
"But Borden had trouble with the new look, losing her identity; she couldn't find her audience and this confused her waning public.",
"She made few movies in the early 1930s and her once promising career stalled, producing but one picture in 1932 (The Divorce Racket), and three in 1933 (Leave it to Me, Hotel Variety, and The Mild West).",
"Her last screen credit came in the 1934 film Chloe, Love Is Calling You, where she played a woman kidnapped at birth and raised as a child of mixed race.",
"Some say that this once-lost film \"is so bad it should've stayed lost.\"",
"A pre-code movie made under Will Hays, it had little box office success and in some states (mostly southern) it was banned at the time of its release.",
"Borden then moved to New York, where she had a brief stage career, and made a living on the waning vaudeville circuit.",
"Later years\nDuring her acting career, Borden was one of the highest paid stars.",
"She spent her money freely and by the late 1930s, she was broke.",
"Borden then found work as a postal clerk and mail carrier and also worked as a nurse's aide.",
"In December 1942, Borden joined the Women's Army Corps (the Women's Army Corps, the only place women could serve in the Army at that time) where she served as an ambulance driver and received an Army citation for bravery in turning over an enemy ammunition truck.",
"Her Army career ended in 1944, with an honorable discharge after she was hospitalized in Walter Reed Medical Center with a severe foot injury.",
"After her discharge, she attempted an unsuccessful comeback in films.",
"Borden struggled with alcoholism and numerous health problems.",
"She spent her final years in the skid row section of Los Angeles working and living at the Sunshine Mission, a home for women alongside her mother Sibbie, who got Borden the work.",
"Personal life\nBorden had several relationships with men, in and out of the motion picture industry.",
"For the majority of her life, she lived with her mother, Sibbie, who was known as a \"stage mother\", helping Borden with most decisions and spending of money until Borden's death.",
"From 1926 to 1930, Borden was romantically involved with actor George O'Brien and the press reported they were engaged.",
"She also dated director Marshall Neilan, producer Paul Bern, and had a long affair with Arthur Benline, a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Construction Battalion.",
"Borden was married twice.",
"Her first marriage was to stockbroker Theodore Spector, whom she married on March 28, 1931, in Harrison, New York.",
"The marriage was rocky from the start, and the couple separated in early 1932 after news of scandal broke that she was involved in a love triangle.",
"Spector had not divorced his first wife, Pearl, whom he married in 1919, and he was arrested for bigamy after his first wife came forward and claimed they were still married.",
"In November 1932, Borden petitioned the court for an annulment, which was granted on November 22.",
"Spector was ultimately cleared of bigamy, but Borden with the marriage annulled, moved on from the entire incident.",
"She married her second husband, 26-year-old railroad technician, John Moeller, in November 1934 under the pseudonym Mary Borden.",
"That marriage ended in divorce seven years later.",
"Death\nBorden died on October 1, 1947, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 41.",
"The only possession she had when she died was a signed photo of herself.",
"Borden's funeral was held on October 3 at the Sunshine Mission home for women, where she had worked and lived since 1945.",
"The mission's founder, Essie Binkley West, officiated at the service.",
"Borden was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.",
"Her mother was interred in the grave next to her when she died of a heart attack in 1959.",
"For her contributions to the film industry, Borden has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.",
"She was one of the first eight stars chosen to receive a star in 1958.",
"Selected filmography\n\nFootnotes\n\nWorks cited\n\nAnkerich, Michael G. (2010).",
"Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen.",
"BearManor.",
"External links\n\nOlive Borden at Virtual History\n\n1906 births\n1947 deaths\n20th-century American actresses\nActresses from Virginia\nAmerican film actresses\nAmerican silent film actresses\nAmerican stage actresses\nDeaths from pneumonia in California\nActors from Norfolk, Virginia\nVaudeville performers\nActresses from Baltimore\nWAMPAS Baby Stars\nWomen's Army Corps soldiers"
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] | <mask> (July 14, 1906 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was nicknamed "the Joy Girl", after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title. Borden was known for her jet-black hair and stunning overall beauty. At the peak of her career in the mid-1920s, Borden was earning $1,500 a week. In 1927, she walked out on her contract with Fox after refusing to take a pay cut. By 1929, her career began to wane due to her rumored reputation for being temperamental and her difficulty transitioning to sound films. She made her last film, Chloe, Love Is Calling You, in 1934 and moved on to stage work for a time.By the late 1930s, she had declared bankruptcy and stopped acting. During World War II, she joined the Women's Army Corps. She was later honorably discharged with distinction after sustaining a foot injury during service. Borden attempted a comeback in films, however, she was hindered by her alcoholism and health problems. In 1945, she began working at the Sunshine Mission, a home for impoverished women located in the skidrow section of Los Angeles. She died there in October 1947 of a stomach ailment and pneumonia at the age of 41. Early life
Borden was born in Richmond, Virginia on July 14, 1906.It was often erroneously reported that Sybil Tinkle was <mask>'s real name until the 1990s, when it was discovered that another woman had been confused with <mask>. In a 1910 census report, her name is listed as Borden. Her father Harry Robinson <mask> (1880–1907) died when she was a baby and she was raised by her mother Cecelia "Sibbie" Shields (1884–1959) in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Catholic boarding schools. Through her father, she was a fourth cousin of <mask>. As a teenager, she persuaded her mother to take her to Hollywood to pursue a career in show business. To support themselves they opened a candy store and <mask> worked as a telephone operator. Career
<mask> began her career as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties in 1922 and was soon appearing as a vamp in Hal Roach comedy shorts.Producer Paul Bern chose her for an uncredited role in his film The Dressmaker from Paris (1925). She was signed by Fox after being named a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1925 (along with her cousin, Natalie Joyce). Borden quickly became one of their most popular and highest paid stars earning a salary of $1,500 a week. She had starring roles in eleven films at Fox, including 3 Bad Men and Fig Leaves, both of which costarred her then-boyfriend George O'Brien. 3 Bad Men has also been featured at the Museum of Modern Art. During this time she worked with some directors who would go on to achieve major fame, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Leo McCarey. Paramount Studios began a policy of 10% paycuts on any salary over $50 to recoup production costs, when Fox tried the same and cut her salary in 1927, Borden left the studio.By this point she was a major silent film star. In making the transition to "talkies" she worked with a voice coach (to suppress her Southern accent). She was less successful, but still remained in demand as an actress, continuing to work for Columbia and RKO. She had cut her trademark hair into a short bob, and turned herself into a modern flapper. But <mask> had trouble with the new look, losing her identity; she couldn't find her audience and this confused her waning public. She made few movies in the early 1930s and her once promising career stalled, producing but one picture in 1932 (The Divorce Racket), and three in 1933 (Leave it to Me, Hotel Variety, and The Mild West). Her last screen credit came in the 1934 film Chloe, Love Is Calling You, where she played a woman kidnapped at birth and raised as a child of mixed race.Some say that this once-lost film "is so bad it should've stayed lost." A pre-code movie made under Will Hays, it had little box office success and in some states (mostly southern) it was banned at the time of its release. Borden then moved to New York, where she had a brief stage career, and made a living on the waning vaudeville circuit. Later years
During her acting career, <mask> was one of the highest paid stars. She spent her money freely and by the late 1930s, she was broke. Borden then found work as a postal clerk and mail carrier and also worked as a nurse's aide. In December 1942, Borden joined the Women's Army Corps (the Women's Army Corps, the only place women could serve in the Army at that time) where she served as an ambulance driver and received an Army citation for bravery in turning over an enemy ammunition truck.Her Army career ended in 1944, with an honorable discharge after she was hospitalized in Walter Reed Medical Center with a severe foot injury. After her discharge, she attempted an unsuccessful comeback in films. Borden struggled with alcoholism and numerous health problems. She spent her final years in the skid row section of Los Angeles working and living at the Sunshine Mission, a home for women alongside her mother Sibbie, who got Borden the work. Personal life
Borden had several relationships with men, in and out of the motion picture industry. For the majority of her life, she lived with her mother, Sibbie, who was known as a "stage mother", helping Borden with most decisions and spending of money until Borden's death. From 1926 to 1930, Borden was romantically involved with actor George O'Brien and the press reported they were engaged.She also dated director Marshall Neilan, producer Paul Bern, and had a long affair with Arthur Benline, a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Construction Battalion. Borden was married twice. Her first marriage was to stockbroker Theodore Spector, whom she married on March 28, 1931, in Harrison, New York. The marriage was rocky from the start, and the couple separated in early 1932 after news of scandal broke that she was involved in a love triangle. Spector had not divorced his first wife, Pearl, whom he married in 1919, and he was arrested for bigamy after his first wife came forward and claimed they were still married. In November 1932, <mask> petitioned the court for an annulment, which was granted on November 22. Spector was ultimately cleared of bigamy, but <mask> with the marriage annulled, moved on from the entire incident.She married her second husband, 26-year-old railroad technician, John Moeller, in November 1934 under the pseudonym <mask>. That marriage ended in divorce seven years later. Death
Borden died on October 1, 1947, from complications of pneumonia at the age of 41. The only possession she had when she died was a signed photo of herself. Borden's funeral was held on October 3 at the Sunshine Mission home for women, where she had worked and lived since 1945. The mission's founder, Essie Binkley West, officiated at the service. Borden was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.Her mother was interred in the grave next to her when she died of a heart attack in 1959. For her contributions to the film industry, <mask> has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard. She was one of the first eight stars chosen to receive a star in 1958. Selected filmography
Footnotes
Works cited
Ankerich, Michael G. (2010). Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers, and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen. BearManor. External links
<mask> at Virtual History
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On July 14, 1906, <mask> was born in Virginia.When it was discovered that another woman had been confused with <mask>, it was reported that Sybil Tinkle was his real name until the 1990s. Her name was listed in a 1910 census report. When she was a baby, her father died and she was raised by her mother in Norfolk, Virginia, and Baltimore, Maryland, where she attended Catholic boarding schools. She was a fourth cousin of the man. She persuaded her mother to take her to Hollywood to pursue a career in show business. They opened a candy store in order to support themselves. She was one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties in 1922 and soon appeared in Hal Roach comedy shorts.She played an uncredited role in Paul Bern's film The Dressmaker from Paris. She was signed by Fox after being named a WAMPAS Baby Star. One of their most popular and highest paid stars was <mask>, who earned a salary of $1,500 a week. She co-starred with George O'Brien in three films at Fox, including 3 Bad Men. 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41735231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20J.%20Impastato | David J. Impastato | David John Impastato, M.D. – born January 8, 1903 (Mazara del Vallo, Sicily), died February 28, 1986 (Pasadena, California) – was a neuropsychiatrist who pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States. A treatment for mental illness initially called "electroshock," ECT was developed in 1937 by Dr. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, working in Rome. Impastato has been credited with the earliest documented use of the revolutionary method in North America, administered in early 1940 to a schizophrenic female patient in New York City. Soon after, he and colleague Dr. Renato Almansi completed the first case study of ECT to appear in a U.S. publication. Impastato spent the next four decades refining the technique, gaining recognition as one of its most authoritative spokesmen. He taught, lectured widely and published over fifty articles on his work. He called on ECT practitioners to observe the strictest protocols of patient safety, countered resistance to ECT from both the medical and cultural establishments, and met later challenges to electroconvulsive therapy from developments in psychopharmacology. Impastato would live to see ECT recommended by the American Psychiatric Association for a distinct core of intractable mental disorders. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took longer to respond to the treatment's potential. But in 2016 the FDA drafted guidelines for ECT similar to those of the APA, as well as proposing regulations for treatment with Class II and Class III devices. Though still not free of controversy, electroconvulsive therapy is the treatment of choice for an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the United States.
Life and works
Impastato was born in the Sicilian port town of Mazara del Vallo, the youngest in a family of ten children. In 1912, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nine, settling with his mother Rosaria and a number of his siblings in New York City's "Little Italy." His father Domenico, a schoolteacher, stayed behind in Mazara and died before he was able to join his wife and children in America. Early on it was decided that "Davide" would be the doctor in the family. His mother collected the paychecks of his older brothers and sisters, most of whom worked in New York's garment district, and redistributed the funds to family members according to need. A share of the money was set aside for young David's future education. When the family moved to Brooklyn, he was enrolled at Clason Point Military Academy, run by the Lasallian Christian Brothers, to avoid the uncertainties of the local schools. He went on to receive his pre-medical degree from Columbia University in 1925, and three years later, his Doctor of Medicine from the George Washington University Medical School.
During his general internship at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York, Impastato was drawn to neurology. In 1929, he began a year of residency at New York's Central Neurological Hospital, followed by two years as clinical attending neurologist at Postgraduate Hospital (later NYU Hospital Center). His presentation of spongioblastoma multiforme of the brain, published in 1932, reflects his neurological foundation. That year he began a residency in Bellevue Hospital's Psychiatric Department, foreshadowing his lifelong interest in the biomedical aspects of human behavior. After his residency, he remained at Bellevue as an assistant psychiatrist, gaining the experience of the city hospital's diverse patient population of "the great, the poor, the wealthy and the unfortunate." During his Bellevue tenure he was also appointed visiting neuropsychiatrist at Columbus Hospital.
In 1937, certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Impastato established his private practice in Manhattan. The same year, Drs. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, after experimentation with dogs, administered the first ECT to a catatonic patient in Rome. Though convulsive treatments for mental illness had been conducted earlier with the use of metrazol, this was the first therapeutic seizure in medical history induced by electric current. Impastato was later to describe the event in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
In September 1939, Dr. Renato Almansi, an Italian neuropsychiatrist and future colleague of Impastato's, emigrated to the United States to escape the rising anti-Semitism in Europe. He brought with him a version of the ECT machine that Cerletti and Bini developed for their work in Rome. Soon after arriving in New York, Almansi introduced the Cerletti-Bini device to Impastato, whose growing reputation in America had caught the attention of Dr. E. Secondari, one of Almansi's former psychiatry professors. Impastato had seen the promise of Cerletti's revolutionary technique from the outset. After conducting his own experiments with the device over the next few months, he administered his first electroconvulsive treatment on January 7, 1940, in his West 55th Street office (see "First ECT in America" below).
Almansi had been unable to persuade hospitals in Philadelphia, New York and Boston to sponsor a clinical trial of ECT. Impastato appealed to Columbus Hospital, where he had served in the Department of Neuro-Psychiatry for the prior half-dozen years. Founded by Mother (now Saint) Frances Xavier Cabrini and run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Columbus Hospital might have seemed an unlikely venue for the controversial treatment. But the medical establishment's aversion to controversy weighed less with a small private hospital, and the sisters had long admired Impastato's work with mental sufferers. Rev. Mother Enrica, Mother Superior of the hospital, gave Impastato the go-ahead. He and Almansi began a clinical trial there on February 6, 1940, the earliest ECT treatments reported by any hospital in the United States.
The five-month trial was conducted with male and female patients under the age of fifty. A total of 100 ECT treatments were completed "without a single complication." In September of that year, Impastato and Almansi released the account of their work in the New York State Journal of Medicine, the first case study of the treatment to appear in an American publication. Almansi commented later on the changed environment. "As word spread that the treatment was being administered," he recounted, "others felt encouraged and reassured." Early U.S. practitioners such as Victor Gonda, Douglas Goldman and Lothar Kalinowsky followed the landmark Impastato and Almansi article with their own published studies of ECT. During the war years in the 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy would become a fixture in psychiatric centers in the U.S. and abroad.
Impastato served the war effort as a psychiatric examiner, even as his practice during that period expanded rapidly into large offices on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and a private out-patient clinic. His clientele ranged from the immigrant population to the city's elite, mirroring his Bellevue experience. He described his therapeutic approach as "eclectic," offering biomedical care as well as psychotherapy and family counselling. "I am not for any one type of treatment," he explained, "I am only for the patient." Emphasizing the humanity of the doctor-patient encounter, he pointed out the "psychic component in any treatment situation, even if the therapy seems to be essentially somatic."
His work with ECT would continue to evolve. He authored more than fifty articles covering a range of subjects from his clinical findings, to historical notes, to his innovations in ECT technology. Impastato supplemented his published work with numerous lectures in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as with presentations on radio and television, becoming one of ECT's most respected voices in the international psychiatric community.
His appointments and professional affiliations included: Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine; Guest Lecturer in Psychiatry and Law at New York University School of Law; life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the New York Academy of Medicine; a founder of the American College of Psychiatrists; founder and first president of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association; life fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member of the Advisory Committee on Malpractice for The Medical Society of New York; life member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Medical Psychiatry, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the New York Neurologic Society, the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, and the International League Against Epilepsy; attending psychiatrist and member of the Medical Board of Gracie Square Hospital; consulting or attending neuropsychiatrist at Bellevue (now Bellevue Hospital Center), Columbus Hospital, City Hospital, Parkway Hospital, Goldwater Memorial Hospital (now Coler Specialty Hospital), Kings Park Psychiatric Center and West Hill Sanitarium, all in the New York City area.
Personal profile
Impastato was married to the former Jane Doris Justin, RN, whom he met at Bellevue and who served as his office manager and medical assistant in the first years of practice. They had three children and five grandchildren. He retained close ties with his extended Sicilian-American family, who made his achievements in medicine possible. His "genteel personality and manner," in the words of a contemporary, endeared him to those in both his personal and professional life.
He was a Latinist, a geology hobbyist, a gardener, a stamp and fine-art collector, a member and benefactor of the Salmagundi Art Club of New York (the annual Jane Impastato Award), the founder of Baseball International supporting youth baseball in Italy, a volunteer consultant and forensic psychiatrist for the NYPD, and a weekly house doctor for the Metropolitan Opera. He lived with his wife and children at "Five Acres," the family residence in Pelham Manor, New York.
Impastato's obituary in The New York Times incompletely cited his cause of death as pneumonia. At that time he was hospitalized in Pasadena, California, in the advanced stages of Parkinsonism, which had forced his retirement after nearly fifty years of practice. He is buried at Holy Mount Cemetery, Tuckahoe, New York.
Legacy
The first to administer an electroconvulsive treatment for mental illness in North America, Impastato was in the vanguard of pioneering neuroscientists who challenged the medical establishment's resistance to ECT. He also contended with negative representations of the treatment in popular culture such as those in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which portrayed ECT as a punishment for unruly asylum inmates. By the same token, he confronted his peers with the misapplications of the treatment that contributed to these stereotypes. In bracing articles published in Diseases of the Nervous System, he documented the complications that can result from ECT, including fatality, when treatment protocols are compromised. He reviewed methodologies and called for vigilance. Improper use of ECT could be observed especially in state-hospital settings.
Impastato's concern for the patient also guided his research. Early on he experimented with sodium amytol, a barbiturate derivative that managed patients' anxiety when preparing for ECT and helped to reduce the treatment's musculoskeletal complications. This line of investigation led to his breakthrough studies of the muscle-relaxant succinylcholine, which he presented in over a dozen of his articles and lectures in the early and mid 1950s. A neuromuscular blocker rather than a barbiturate depressant, succinylcholine preserves ECT's efficacy while eliminating its convulsive force in the patient. Impastato called it "the miraculous drug." It has since become a procedural standard in the treatment's administration.
By the 1960s, the pharmaceutical treatment of mental illness seemed poised to eclipse ECT entirely. Impastato was among those who affirmed the value of drug therapy for psychiatric disorders. At the same time, he continued to advocate electroconvulsive treatment for cases that proved resistant to pharmaceutical intervention alone. "There is no conflict of interest between drug therapy and the convulsive therapies," he insisted. "Each belongs in the therapy kit of the psychiatrist."
Impastato would live to see the American Psychiatric Association move beyond lingering controversy and adopt this pragmatic approach, recommending ECT in otherwise "untreatable" cases where drugs or psychotherapy remain ineffective. For the APA these include depression with psychotic features, manic delirium, and catatonia when low food or fluid intake threatens the patient's life. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was slower to back the evidence of favorable ECT outcomes. But in 2016 the agency acknowledged that the benefits of electroconvulsive therapy outweighed the risks, especially to memory which in clinical trials referenced by its Draft Guidelines was shown to "return to baseline" within three moneths after treatment. The FDA responsibly proposed restricting ECT to Class II and Class III devices, the highest level of regulatory control.
Both the APA and FDA guidelines confirm clinical observations dating from Impastato's earliest ECT research. "The most favorable results," he wrote with Almansi in 1940, "have been obtained in cases of recent onset, in catatonic and depressive stupor, and in the group of schizoid-depressives." This seminal appraisal was published within months of Impastato's historic first treatment, which had proceeded without the sanction of his North American peers. Today in the United States, a refined ECT is the frontline therapy for an estimated 100,000 patients a year.
First ECT in America
In his History of the Use of EST in the United States, Impastato describes his first treatment. The procedure takes place after experimentation has been completed and while the search for a hospital venue is underway. Impastato uses the older designation "EST," since at the time the terms "electroshock" and "electrofit" were not yet superseded by the "ECT" acronym for electroconvulsive therapy:
Zigmond Lebensohn, MD, provides specifics in his account of the event in Comprehensive Psychiatry:
"Dr Impastato's records reveal the following handwritten entry for January 7, 1940: 'Volts 70, T-.1 sec MA 400. Had delayed (15sec?) reaction during apnea, face flushed, eyes opened, normal expression–looking forward, no breathing.' This treatment was administered by Dr. Impastato on a Sunday morning in his office."
Impastato's 55th Street office also served as his residence, which offered a chance opportunity for Sunday callers. His colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, was not present during the procedure, arranged spontaneously after the unscheduled visit and the desperate plea of the patient's father. The facilities and patient's records were at hand for her examination and treatment. Impastato's wife Jane, a registered nurse, would have assisted. It was certainly not unlawful for Impastato to proceed with the controversial therapy outside an official clinical setting, but it required a high degree of confidence. Medical institutions on the east coast had so far denied support for ECT research, and he ran the risk of professional censure. Almansi later felt that the human urgency of the circumstances played a large part in the "precipitous" nature of the episode, among the more dramatic in the treatment's history.
The treatment itself matched the initial 70 volts given by Ugo Cerletti in his first ECT three years earlier in Rome. In both Impastato's and Cerletti's patients this voltage elicited a petit mal seizure. Cerletti's patient responded by speaking coherently for the first time in years. Cerletti went on to induce a grand mal seizure in the patient at a higher voltage before concluding the treatment. Impastato's single-stage petit mal procedure required only one assistant besides the operator to ensure patient safety.
Writing in the American Psychiatric Association's newsletter, Psychiatric News, Lucy Ozarin, MD, reviews the competing claims for the first ECT in the United States made by Drs. Douglas Goldman and Victor Gonda. She points out that "none of these claims is supported by historical documentation." By contrast, she cites the "compelling" case made by Impastato's chart for his first ECT patient, dated January 7, 1940, which is on file with his papers in the Library and Archives of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia. She concludes: "In the absence of primary-source evidence to the contrary, or a differing interpolation of Impastato's file, this document would appear to identify the first ECT treatment given to a human subject in the U.S."
See also
Electroconvulsive therapy
References
Biographical Directory of the Fellows and Members of the American Psychiatric Association. New York: Bowker, 1977. p. 619. Print.
Shorter, Edward and David Healy. Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Print.
Lebensohn, Zigmond M., MD. "The History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in the United States and Its Place in American Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir." Comprehensive Psychiatry 40:3, May/June 1999: pp. 175–76. Print.
Ozarin, Lucy D., MD. "The First Use of ECT in the United States." Psychiatric News (American Psychiatric Association) August 6, 1993: Sesquicentennial Update. Print.
Impastato, David J. and Renato Almansi, MD. "Electrically Induced Convulsions in the Treatment of Mental Illness." New York State Journal of Medicine vol. 98, September 1940. Print.
Impastato, David J. "Bibliography, Lectures, Meetings, Discussions, Films, Television, Radio, Exhibits." New York, NY: The Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College.
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"In 1929, he began a year of residency at New York's Central Neurological Hospital, followed by two years as clinical attending neurologist at Postgraduate Hospital (later NYU Hospital Center).",
"His presentation of spongioblastoma multiforme of the brain, published in 1932, reflects his neurological foundation.",
"That year he began a residency in Bellevue Hospital's Psychiatric Department, foreshadowing his lifelong interest in the biomedical aspects of human behavior.",
"After his residency, he remained at Bellevue as an assistant psychiatrist, gaining the experience of the city hospital's diverse patient population of \"the great, the poor, the wealthy and the unfortunate.\"",
"During his Bellevue tenure he was also appointed visiting neuropsychiatrist at Columbus Hospital.",
"In 1937, certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Impastato established his private practice in Manhattan.",
"The same year, Drs.",
"Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, after experimentation with dogs, administered the first ECT to a catatonic patient in Rome.",
"Though convulsive treatments for mental illness had been conducted earlier with the use of metrazol, this was the first therapeutic seizure in medical history induced by electric current.",
"Impastato was later to describe the event in The American Journal of Psychiatry.",
"In September 1939, Dr. Renato Almansi, an Italian neuropsychiatrist and future colleague of Impastato's, emigrated to the United States to escape the rising anti-Semitism in Europe.",
"He brought with him a version of the ECT machine that Cerletti and Bini developed for their work in Rome.",
"Soon after arriving in New York, Almansi introduced the Cerletti-Bini device to Impastato, whose growing reputation in America had caught the attention of Dr. E. Secondari, one of Almansi's former psychiatry professors.",
"Impastato had seen the promise of Cerletti's revolutionary technique from the outset.",
"After conducting his own experiments with the device over the next few months, he administered his first electroconvulsive treatment on January 7, 1940, in his West 55th Street office (see \"First ECT in America\" below).",
"Almansi had been unable to persuade hospitals in Philadelphia, New York and Boston to sponsor a clinical trial of ECT.",
"Impastato appealed to Columbus Hospital, where he had served in the Department of Neuro-Psychiatry for the prior half-dozen years.",
"Founded by Mother (now Saint) Frances Xavier Cabrini and run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Columbus Hospital might have seemed an unlikely venue for the controversial treatment.",
"But the medical establishment's aversion to controversy weighed less with a small private hospital, and the sisters had long admired Impastato's work with mental sufferers.",
"Rev.",
"Mother Enrica, Mother Superior of the hospital, gave Impastato the go-ahead.",
"He and Almansi began a clinical trial there on February 6, 1940, the earliest ECT treatments reported by any hospital in the United States.",
"The five-month trial was conducted with male and female patients under the age of fifty.",
"A total of 100 ECT treatments were completed \"without a single complication.\"",
"In September of that year, Impastato and Almansi released the account of their work in the New York State Journal of Medicine, the first case study of the treatment to appear in an American publication.",
"Almansi commented later on the changed environment.",
"\"As word spread that the treatment was being administered,\" he recounted, \"others felt encouraged and reassured.\"",
"Early U.S. practitioners such as Victor Gonda, Douglas Goldman and Lothar Kalinowsky followed the landmark Impastato and Almansi article with their own published studies of ECT.",
"During the war years in the 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy would become a fixture in psychiatric centers in the U.S. and abroad.",
"Impastato served the war effort as a psychiatric examiner, even as his practice during that period expanded rapidly into large offices on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and a private out-patient clinic.",
"His clientele ranged from the immigrant population to the city's elite, mirroring his Bellevue experience.",
"He described his therapeutic approach as \"eclectic,\" offering biomedical care as well as psychotherapy and family counselling.",
"\"I am not for any one type of treatment,\" he explained, \"I am only for the patient.\"",
"Emphasizing the humanity of the doctor-patient encounter, he pointed out the \"psychic component in any treatment situation, even if the therapy seems to be essentially somatic.\"",
"His work with ECT would continue to evolve.",
"He authored more than fifty articles covering a range of subjects from his clinical findings, to historical notes, to his innovations in ECT technology.",
"Impastato supplemented his published work with numerous lectures in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as with presentations on radio and television, becoming one of ECT's most respected voices in the international psychiatric community.",
"His appointments and professional affiliations included: Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine; Guest Lecturer in Psychiatry and Law at New York University School of Law; life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the New York Academy of Medicine; a founder of the American College of Psychiatrists; founder and first president of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association; life fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member of the Advisory Committee on Malpractice for The Medical Society of New York; life member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Medical Psychiatry, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the New York Neurologic Society, the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, and the International League Against Epilepsy; attending psychiatrist and member of the Medical Board of Gracie Square Hospital; consulting or attending neuropsychiatrist at Bellevue (now Bellevue Hospital Center), Columbus Hospital, City Hospital, Parkway Hospital, Goldwater Memorial Hospital (now Coler Specialty Hospital), Kings Park Psychiatric Center and West Hill Sanitarium, all in the New York City area.",
"Personal profile \nImpastato was married to the former Jane Doris Justin, RN, whom he met at Bellevue and who served as his office manager and medical assistant in the first years of practice.",
"They had three children and five grandchildren.",
"He retained close ties with his extended Sicilian-American family, who made his achievements in medicine possible.",
"His \"genteel personality and manner,\" in the words of a contemporary, endeared him to those in both his personal and professional life.",
"He was a Latinist, a geology hobbyist, a gardener, a stamp and fine-art collector, a member and benefactor of the Salmagundi Art Club of New York (the annual Jane Impastato Award), the founder of Baseball International supporting youth baseball in Italy, a volunteer consultant and forensic psychiatrist for the NYPD, and a weekly house doctor for the Metropolitan Opera.",
"He lived with his wife and children at \"Five Acres,\" the family residence in Pelham Manor, New York.",
"Impastato's obituary in The New York Times incompletely cited his cause of death as pneumonia.",
"At that time he was hospitalized in Pasadena, California, in the advanced stages of Parkinsonism, which had forced his retirement after nearly fifty years of practice.",
"He is buried at Holy Mount Cemetery, Tuckahoe, New York.",
"Legacy \nThe first to administer an electroconvulsive treatment for mental illness in North America, Impastato was in the vanguard of pioneering neuroscientists who challenged the medical establishment's resistance to ECT.",
"He also contended with negative representations of the treatment in popular culture such as those in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which portrayed ECT as a punishment for unruly asylum inmates.",
"By the same token, he confronted his peers with the misapplications of the treatment that contributed to these stereotypes.",
"In bracing articles published in Diseases of the Nervous System, he documented the complications that can result from ECT, including fatality, when treatment protocols are compromised.",
"He reviewed methodologies and called for vigilance.",
"Improper use of ECT could be observed especially in state-hospital settings.",
"Impastato's concern for the patient also guided his research.",
"Early on he experimented with sodium amytol, a barbiturate derivative that managed patients' anxiety when preparing for ECT and helped to reduce the treatment's musculoskeletal complications.",
"This line of investigation led to his breakthrough studies of the muscle-relaxant succinylcholine, which he presented in over a dozen of his articles and lectures in the early and mid 1950s.",
"A neuromuscular blocker rather than a barbiturate depressant, succinylcholine preserves ECT's efficacy while eliminating its convulsive force in the patient.",
"Impastato called it \"the miraculous drug.\"",
"It has since become a procedural standard in the treatment's administration.",
"By the 1960s, the pharmaceutical treatment of mental illness seemed poised to eclipse ECT entirely.",
"Impastato was among those who affirmed the value of drug therapy for psychiatric disorders.",
"At the same time, he continued to advocate electroconvulsive treatment for cases that proved resistant to pharmaceutical intervention alone.",
"\"There is no conflict of interest between drug therapy and the convulsive therapies,\" he insisted.",
"\"Each belongs in the therapy kit of the psychiatrist.\"",
"Impastato would live to see the American Psychiatric Association move beyond lingering controversy and adopt this pragmatic approach, recommending ECT in otherwise \"untreatable\" cases where drugs or psychotherapy remain ineffective.",
"For the APA these include depression with psychotic features, manic delirium, and catatonia when low food or fluid intake threatens the patient's life.",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was slower to back the evidence of favorable ECT outcomes.",
"But in 2016 the agency acknowledged that the benefits of electroconvulsive therapy outweighed the risks, especially to memory which in clinical trials referenced by its Draft Guidelines was shown to \"return to baseline\" within three moneths after treatment.",
"The FDA responsibly proposed restricting ECT to Class II and Class III devices, the highest level of regulatory control.",
"Both the APA and FDA guidelines confirm clinical observations dating from Impastato's earliest ECT research.",
"\"The most favorable results,\" he wrote with Almansi in 1940, \"have been obtained in cases of recent onset, in catatonic and depressive stupor, and in the group of schizoid-depressives.\"",
"This seminal appraisal was published within months of Impastato's historic first treatment, which had proceeded without the sanction of his North American peers.",
"Today in the United States, a refined ECT is the frontline therapy for an estimated 100,000 patients a year.",
"First ECT in America \nIn his History of the Use of EST in the United States, Impastato describes his first treatment.",
"The procedure takes place after experimentation has been completed and while the search for a hospital venue is underway.",
"Impastato uses the older designation \"EST,\" since at the time the terms \"electroshock\" and \"electrofit\" were not yet superseded by the \"ECT\" acronym for electroconvulsive therapy:\n\nZigmond Lebensohn, MD, provides specifics in his account of the event in Comprehensive Psychiatry:\n\n\"Dr Impastato's records reveal the following handwritten entry for January 7, 1940: 'Volts 70, T-.1 sec MA 400.",
"Had delayed (15sec?)",
"reaction during apnea, face flushed, eyes opened, normal expression–looking forward, no breathing.'",
"This treatment was administered by Dr. Impastato on a Sunday morning in his office.\"",
"Impastato's 55th Street office also served as his residence, which offered a chance opportunity for Sunday callers.",
"His colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, was not present during the procedure, arranged spontaneously after the unscheduled visit and the desperate plea of the patient's father.",
"The facilities and patient's records were at hand for her examination and treatment.",
"Impastato's wife Jane, a registered nurse, would have assisted.",
"It was certainly not unlawful for Impastato to proceed with the controversial therapy outside an official clinical setting, but it required a high degree of confidence.",
"Medical institutions on the east coast had so far denied support for ECT research, and he ran the risk of professional censure.",
"Almansi later felt that the human urgency of the circumstances played a large part in the \"precipitous\" nature of the episode, among the more dramatic in the treatment's history.",
"The treatment itself matched the initial 70 volts given by Ugo Cerletti in his first ECT three years earlier in Rome.",
"In both Impastato's and Cerletti's patients this voltage elicited a petit mal seizure.",
"Cerletti's patient responded by speaking coherently for the first time in years.",
"Cerletti went on to induce a grand mal seizure in the patient at a higher voltage before concluding the treatment.",
"Impastato's single-stage petit mal procedure required only one assistant besides the operator to ensure patient safety.",
"Writing in the American Psychiatric Association's newsletter, Psychiatric News, Lucy Ozarin, MD, reviews the competing claims for the first ECT in the United States made by Drs.",
"Douglas Goldman and Victor Gonda.",
"She points out that \"none of these claims is supported by historical documentation.\"",
"By contrast, she cites the \"compelling\" case made by Impastato's chart for his first ECT patient, dated January 7, 1940, which is on file with his papers in the Library and Archives of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.",
"She concludes: \"In the absence of primary-source evidence to the contrary, or a differing interpolation of Impastato's file, this document would appear to identify the first ECT treatment given to a human subject in the U.S.\"\n\nSee also \n Electroconvulsive therapy\n\nReferences \n Biographical Directory of the Fellows and Members of the American Psychiatric Association.",
"New York: Bowker, 1977. p. 619.",
"Print.",
"Shorter, Edward and David Healy.",
"Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness.",
"New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.",
"Print.",
"Lebensohn, Zigmond M., MD.",
"\"The History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in the United States and Its Place in American Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir.\"",
"Comprehensive Psychiatry 40:3, May/June 1999: pp.",
"175–76.",
"Print.",
"Ozarin, Lucy D., MD.",
"\"The First Use of ECT in the United States.\"",
"Psychiatric News (American Psychiatric Association) August 6, 1993: Sesquicentennial Update.",
"Print.",
"Impastato, David J. and Renato Almansi, MD.",
"\"Electrically Induced Convulsions in the Treatment of Mental Illness.\"",
"New York State Journal of Medicine vol.",
"98, September 1940.",
"Print.",
"Impastato, David J.",
"\"Bibliography, Lectures, Meetings, Discussions, Films, Television, Radio, Exhibits.\"",
"New York, NY: The Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College.",
"Notes \n\n1903 births\n1986 deaths\nPeople from Mazara del Vallo\nItalian emigrants to the United States\nItalian neuroscientists\nHistory of neuroscience\nPhysical psychiatric treatments\nScientists from Sicily"
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"David John Impastato is a doctor.",
"He was born on January 8, 1903 in Sicily and died on February 28, 1986 in Pasadena, California.",
"ECT is a treatment for mental illness that was developed in Rome in 1937.",
"The first documented use of the revolutionary method in North America was administered to a female patient in New York City.",
"The first case study of ECT appeared in a U.S. publication.",
"After four decades of refining the technique, Impastato became one of its most authoritative spokesmen.",
"He published over fifty articles on his work.",
"He called on ECT practitioners to observe the strictest protocols of patient safety, countered resistance to ECT from both the medical and cultural establishments, and met later challenges to electroconvulsive therapy from developments in psychopharmacology.",
"The American Psychiatric Association recommends ECT for a core of intractable mental disorders.",
"The FDA took longer to respond to the treatment's potential.",
"In 2016 the FDA drafted guidelines for ECT similar to those of the APA, as well as proposing regulations for treatment with Class II and Class III devices.",
"The treatment of choice for an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the United States is electroconvulsive therapy.",
"The youngest in a family of ten children, Impastato was born in the Sicilian port town of Mazara del Vallo.",
"He and his family moved to New York City's \"Little Italy\" at the age of nine.",
"His father died in Mazara before he could join his wife and children in America.",
"Davide would be the doctor in the family.",
"The money from his brothers and sisters' paychecks was given to family members according to need.",
"The money was set aside for David's education.",
"Clason Point Military Academy, run by the Lasallian Christian Brothers, was where he attended when the family moved to Brooklyn.",
"He received his pre-medical degree from Columbia University in 1925 and his Doctor of Medicine from the George Washington University Medical School three years later.",
"Impastato was drawn to neurology during his internship.",
"In 1929, he began a year of residency at New York's Central Neurological Hospital, followed by two years as clinical attending neurologist at Postgraduate Hospital.",
"His presentation of spongioblastoma multiforme of the brain is indicative of his neurological foundation.",
"His interest in the biomedical aspects of human behavior grew out of his residency in the Psychiatric Department at the hospital.",
"He gained the experience of the city hospital's diverse patient population of \"the great, the poor, the wealthy and the unfortunate\" while he was an assistant psychiatrist.",
"He was a visiting doctor at Columbus Hospital.",
"Impastato was certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1937 and established his private practice in Manhattan.",
"The year before that, Drs.",
"The first ECT was given to a catatonic patient in Rome.",
"This was the first time in medical history that electric current had been used to induce a seizure.",
"The event was described in The American Journal of Psychiatry by Impastato.",
"Impastato's future colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, left Italy in 1939 to escape the rising anti-Semitism in Europe.",
"He brought with him a version of the ECT machine that was developed in Rome.",
"After arriving in New York, Almansi introduced the device to Impastato, which caught the attention of Dr. Secondari, one of Almansi's former psychiatrists.",
"From the beginning, Impastato had seen the promise of the technique.",
"He administered his first ECT in America on January 7, 1940, in his West 55th Street office, after conducting his own experiments with the device over the next few months.",
"Hospitals in Philadelphia, New York and Boston were unable to sponsor a clinical trial of ECT.",
"Impastato had worked in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbus Hospital for six years.",
"Columbus Hospital is run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and was founded by Mother (now Saint) Cabrini.",
"The sisters had long admired Impastato's work with mental sufferers, and the medical establishment's aversion to controversy weighed less with a small private hospital.",
"Rev.",
"Mother Enrica was the Mother Superior of the hospital.",
"The earliest ECT treatments reported by any hospital in the United States were reported by He and Almansi on February 6, 1940.",
"The trial was done with patients under the age of fifty.",
"A total of 100 ECT treatments were done.",
"In September of that year, Impastato and Almansi released the account of their work in the New York State Journal of Medicine, the first case study of the treatment to appear in an American publication.",
"The changed environment was commented on by Almansi.",
"\"As word spread that the treatment was being administered, others were reassured and encouraged,\" he said.",
"The Impastato and Almansi article led to the publication of studies by early U.S. practitioners such as Victor Gonda, Douglas Goldman and Lothar Kalinowsky.",
"During the war years of the 1940s, psychiatrists in the U.S. and abroad began to use electroconvulsive therapy.",
"Even as his practice expanded rapidly into large offices on Fifth Avenue and a private out-patient clinic, Impastato served the war effort as a psychiatric examiner.",
"His clientele ranged from the immigrant population to the city's elite.",
"He described his approach as \"eclectic.\"",
"He said that he was only for the patient and not for any one type of treatment.",
"Emphasizing the humanity of the doctor-patient encounter, he pointed out the \"psychic component in any treatment situation, even if the therapy seems to be essentially somatic.\"",
"His work with ECT would continue to evolve.",
"He wrote more than fifty articles on a range of subjects, from his clinical findings to his innovations in ECT technology.",
"In addition to his published work, Impastato gave numerous lectures in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as presenting his work on radio and television.",
"He was an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a founder of the American College of Psychiatrists.",
"Impastato was married to a former nurse who served as his office manager and medical assistant in the first years of practice.",
"They have three children and five grandchildren.",
"His achievements in medicine were possible because of his close ties with his Sicilian-American family.",
"His \"genteel personality and manner,\" in the words of a contemporary, endeared him to those in both his personal and professional life.",
"He was a Latinist, a geology hobbyist, a gardener, a stamp and fine-art collector, a member and benefactor of the Salmagundi Art Club of New York, and the founder of Baseball International supporting youth baseball in Italy.",
"He lived with his family in New York.",
"Impastato's cause of death was not listed in The New York Times obituary.",
"He was hospitalized in Pasadena, California, in the advanced stages of Parkinsonism, which forced him to retire after nearly fifty years of practice.",
"He is buried in New York.",
"Impastato was the first to give a treatment for mental illness in North America.",
"He contended with depictions of the treatment in popular culture such as those in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which portrayed ECT as a punishment for unruly asylum inmates.",
"He confronted his peers about the treatment that contributed to the stereotypes.",
"In bracing articles published in Diseases of the Nervous System, he documented the consequences of ECT when treatment protocols are compromised.",
"He called for vigilance while reviewing methodologies.",
"In state-hospital settings improper use of ECT could be observed.",
"His research was guided by Impastato's concern for the patient.",
"He used a barbiturate derivative called sodium amytol to manage patients' anxiety when preparing for ECT.",
"His breakthrough studies of the muscle-relaxant succinylcholine were presented in over a dozen of his articles and lectures in the early and mid 1950s.",
"Succinylcholine preserves ECT's efficacy while eliminating its convulsive force in the patient, because it is a neuromuscular blocker rather than a barbiturate depressant.",
"It was called the miraculous drug by Impastato.",
"It has become a standard in the treatment's administration.",
"By the 1960s, the pharmaceutical treatment of mental illness seemed poised to surpass ECT entirely.",
"Drug therapy for psychiatric disorders was affirmed by Impastato.",
"He continued to advocate for the treatment of cases that were resistant to pharmaceutical intervention alone.",
"He insisted there was no conflict of interest between drug therapy and convulsive therapies.",
"Each is in the therapy kit of the psychiatrist.",
"Impastato would live to see the American Psychiatric Association move beyond controversy and recommend ECT in \"untreatable\" cases.",
"Depression with psychotic features, manic delirium, and catatonia are included in the APA.",
"Favorable ECT outcomes were not supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.",
"In 2016 the agency acknowledged that the benefits of electroconvulsive therapy outweigh the risks, especially to memory which in clinical trials referenced by its Draft Guidelines was shown to \"return to baseline\" within three moneths after treatment.",
"The highest level of regulatory control was proposed by the FDA.",
"Clinical observations from Impastato's earliest ECT research are confirmed by the APA and FDA guidelines.",
"In cases of recent onset, catatonic and depression, and in the group of schizoid-depressives, the most favorable results have been obtained.",
"Within months of Impastato's historic first treatment, this seminal appraisal was published.",
"100,000 patients a year are treated with a refined ECT in the United States.",
"In his History of the Use of EST in the United States, Impastato describes his first treatment.",
"While the search for a hospital venue is underway, the procedure takes place after experimentation has been completed.",
"Impastato uses the older designation \"EST,\" since at the time the terms \"electroshock\" and \"electrofit\" were not yet superseded by the \"ECT\" acronym for electroconvulsive therapy.",
"Had it been delayed 15 seconds?",
"The face was flushed, eyes opened, and there was no breathing.",
"Dr. Impastato gave this treatment in his office on Sunday.",
"A chance for Sunday callers was offered by Impastato's 55th Street office.",
"After an emergency visit by the patient's father, his colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, was not present for the procedure.",
"She was examined and treated at the facilities and patient's records were at hand.",
"Jane, Impastato's wife, was a registered nurse.",
"It wasn't illegal for Impastato to use the controversial therapy outside of an official clinical setting, but it needed a high degree of confidence.",
"He ran the risk of professional censure because medical institutions on the east coast denied support for ECT research.",
"The human importance of the circumstances played a large part in theprecipitous nature of the episode, among the more dramatic in the treatment's history.",
"The treatment was similar to the one Ugo gave in Rome three years before.",
"In both Impastato's patients there was a petit mal seizure.",
"The patient spoke coherently for the first time in years.",
"After inducing a grand mal seizure in the patient, the treatment was over.",
"The petit mal procedure required only one assistant to ensure patient safety.",
"Lucy Ozarin reviews the competing claims for the first ECT in the United States in the American Psychiatric Association's newsletter.",
"They are Douglas Goldman and Victor Gonda.",
"She says that none of the claims are supported by historical documentation.",
"She cites the \"compelling\" case made by Impastato's chart for his first ECT patient, dated January 7, 1940, which is on file with his papers in the Library and Archives of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia.",
"The document would appear to identify the first ECT treatment given to a human subject in the U.S.",
"New York: Bowker.",
"Print.",
"Edward and David are related.",
"There is a history of convulsive treatment for mental illness.",
"Rutgers University Press, 2007.",
"Print.",
"\"Zigmond M., MD\" is the name of the man.",
"The history of convulsive therapy in the United States and its place in American Psychiatry is a personal memoir.",
"The May/June 1999 edition of Comprehensive Psychiatry was pp.",
"175–75.",
"Print.",
"Lucy D. Ozarin is a doctor.",
"The first use of ECT in the US.",
"August 6, 1993: Sesquicentennial Update.",
"Print.",
"David J. and Renato Almansi are physicians.",
"\"Electrically Induced Convulsions in the Treatment of Mental Illness.\"",
"The New York State Journal of Medicine.",
"September 1940.",
"Print.",
"David J. Impastato.",
"\"Meetings, Films, Television, Radio, Exhibits.\"",
"The DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry is located in New York.",
"There were people from Mazara del Vallo who died in the United States."
] | <mask>, M.D. – born January 8, 1903 (Mazara del Vallo, Sicily), died February 28, 1986 (Pasadena, California) – was a neuropsychiatrist who pioneered the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in the United States. A treatment for mental illness initially called "electroshock," ECT was developed in 1937 by Dr. Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, working in Rome. <mask> has been credited with the earliest documented use of the revolutionary method in North America, administered in early 1940 to a schizophrenic female patient in New York City. Soon after, he and colleague Dr. Renato Almansi completed the first case study of ECT to appear in a U.S. publication. <mask> spent the next four decades refining the technique, gaining recognition as one of its most authoritative spokesmen. He taught, lectured widely and published over fifty articles on his work.He called on ECT practitioners to observe the strictest protocols of patient safety, countered resistance to ECT from both the medical and cultural establishments, and met later challenges to electroconvulsive therapy from developments in psychopharmacology. <mask> would live to see ECT recommended by the American Psychiatric Association for a distinct core of intractable mental disorders. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took longer to respond to the treatment's potential. But in 2016 the FDA drafted guidelines for ECT similar to those of the APA, as well as proposing regulations for treatment with Class II and Class III devices. Though still not free of controversy, electroconvulsive therapy is the treatment of choice for an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the United States. Life and works
<mask> was born in the Sicilian port town of Mazara del Vallo, the youngest in a family of ten children. In 1912, he emigrated to the United States at the age of nine, settling with his mother Rosaria and a number of his siblings in New York City's "Little Italy."His father Domenico, a schoolteacher, stayed behind in Mazara and died before he was able to join his wife and children in America. Early on it was decided that "<mask>" would be the doctor in the family. His mother collected the paychecks of his older brothers and sisters, most of whom worked in New York's garment district, and redistributed the funds to family members according to need. A share of the money was set aside for young <mask>'s future education. When the family moved to Brooklyn, he was enrolled at Clason Point Military Academy, run by the Lasallian Christian Brothers, to avoid the uncertainties of the local schools. He went on to receive his pre-medical degree from Columbia University in 1925, and three years later, his Doctor of Medicine from the George Washington University Medical School. During his general internship at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York, Impastato was drawn to neurology.In 1929, he began a year of residency at New York's Central Neurological Hospital, followed by two years as clinical attending neurologist at Postgraduate Hospital (later NYU Hospital Center). His presentation of spongioblastoma multiforme of the brain, published in 1932, reflects his neurological foundation. That year he began a residency in Bellevue Hospital's Psychiatric Department, foreshadowing his lifelong interest in the biomedical aspects of human behavior. After his residency, he remained at Bellevue as an assistant psychiatrist, gaining the experience of the city hospital's diverse patient population of "the great, the poor, the wealthy and the unfortunate." During his Bellevue tenure he was also appointed visiting neuropsychiatrist at Columbus Hospital. In 1937, certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, <mask> established his private practice in Manhattan. The same year, Drs.Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, after experimentation with dogs, administered the first ECT to a catatonic patient in Rome. Though convulsive treatments for mental illness had been conducted earlier with the use of metrazol, this was the first therapeutic seizure in medical history induced by electric current. <mask> was later to describe the event in The American Journal of Psychiatry. In September 1939, Dr. Renato Almansi, an Italian neuropsychiatrist and future colleague of <mask>'s, emigrated to the United States to escape the rising anti-Semitism in Europe. He brought with him a version of the ECT machine that Cerletti and Bini developed for their work in Rome. Soon after arriving in New York, Almansi introduced the Cerletti-Bini device to <mask>, whose growing reputation in America had caught the attention of Dr. E. Secondari, one of Almansi's former psychiatry professors. Impastato had seen the promise of Cerletti's revolutionary technique from the outset.After conducting his own experiments with the device over the next few months, he administered his first electroconvulsive treatment on January 7, 1940, in his West 55th Street office (see "First ECT in America" below). Almansi had been unable to persuade hospitals in Philadelphia, New York and Boston to sponsor a clinical trial of ECT. <mask> appealed to Columbus Hospital, where he had served in the Department of Neuro-Psychiatry for the prior half-dozen years. Founded by Mother (now Saint) Frances Xavier Cabrini and run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Columbus Hospital might have seemed an unlikely venue for the controversial treatment. But the medical establishment's aversion to controversy weighed less with a small private hospital, and the sisters had long admired Impastato's work with mental sufferers. Rev. Mother Enrica, Mother Superior of the hospital, gave Impastato the go-ahead.He and Almansi began a clinical trial there on February 6, 1940, the earliest ECT treatments reported by any hospital in the United States. The five-month trial was conducted with male and female patients under the age of fifty. A total of 100 ECT treatments were completed "without a single complication." In September of that year, Impastato and Almansi released the account of their work in the New York State Journal of Medicine, the first case study of the treatment to appear in an American publication. Almansi commented later on the changed environment. "As word spread that the treatment was being administered," he recounted, "others felt encouraged and reassured." Early U.S. practitioners such as Victor Gonda, Douglas Goldman and Lothar Kalinowsky followed the landmark Impastato and Almansi article with their own published studies of ECT.During the war years in the 1940s, electroconvulsive therapy would become a fixture in psychiatric centers in the U.S. and abroad. <mask> served the war effort as a psychiatric examiner, even as his practice during that period expanded rapidly into large offices on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and a private out-patient clinic. His clientele ranged from the immigrant population to the city's elite, mirroring his Bellevue experience. He described his therapeutic approach as "eclectic," offering biomedical care as well as psychotherapy and family counselling. "I am not for any one type of treatment," he explained, "I am only for the patient." Emphasizing the humanity of the doctor-patient encounter, he pointed out the "psychic component in any treatment situation, even if the therapy seems to be essentially somatic." His work with ECT would continue to evolve.He authored more than fifty articles covering a range of subjects from his clinical findings, to historical notes, to his innovations in ECT technology. <mask> supplemented his published work with numerous lectures in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as with presentations on radio and television, becoming one of ECT's most respected voices in the international psychiatric community. His appointments and professional affiliations included: Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine; Guest Lecturer in Psychiatry and Law at New York University School of Law; life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the New York Academy of Medicine; a founder of the American College of Psychiatrists; founder and first president of the Eastern Psychiatric Research Association; life fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; member of the Advisory Committee on Malpractice for The Medical Society of New York; life member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Medical Psychiatry, the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the New York Neurologic Society, the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry, and the International League Against Epilepsy; attending psychiatrist and member of the Medical Board of Gracie Square Hospital; consulting or attending neuropsychiatrist at Bellevue (now Bellevue Hospital Center), Columbus Hospital, City Hospital, Parkway Hospital, Goldwater Memorial Hospital (now Coler Specialty Hospital), Kings Park Psychiatric Center and West Hill Sanitarium, all in the New York City area. Personal profile
<mask> was married to the former <mask> <mask>, RN, whom he met at Bellevue and who served as his office manager and medical assistant in the first years of practice. They had three children and five grandchildren. He retained close ties with his extended Sicilian-American family, who made his achievements in medicine possible. His "genteel personality and manner," in the words of a contemporary, endeared him to those in both his personal and professional life.He was a Latinist, a geology hobbyist, a gardener, a stamp and fine-art collector, a member and benefactor of the Salmagundi Art Club of New York (the annual <mask>ato Award), the founder of Baseball International supporting youth baseball in Italy, a volunteer consultant and forensic psychiatrist for the NYPD, and a weekly house doctor for the Metropolitan Opera. He lived with his wife and children at "Five Acres," the family residence in Pelham Manor, New York. <mask>'s obituary in The New York Times incompletely cited his cause of death as pneumonia. At that time he was hospitalized in Pasadena, California, in the advanced stages of Parkinsonism, which had forced his retirement after nearly fifty years of practice. He is buried at Holy Mount Cemetery, Tuckahoe, New York. Legacy
The first to administer an electroconvulsive treatment for mental illness in North America, <mask> was in the vanguard of pioneering neuroscientists who challenged the medical establishment's resistance to ECT. He also contended with negative representations of the treatment in popular culture such as those in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which portrayed ECT as a punishment for unruly asylum inmates.By the same token, he confronted his peers with the misapplications of the treatment that contributed to these stereotypes. In bracing articles published in Diseases of the Nervous System, he documented the complications that can result from ECT, including fatality, when treatment protocols are compromised. He reviewed methodologies and called for vigilance. Improper use of ECT could be observed especially in state-hospital settings. <mask>'s concern for the patient also guided his research. Early on he experimented with sodium amytol, a barbiturate derivative that managed patients' anxiety when preparing for ECT and helped to reduce the treatment's musculoskeletal complications. This line of investigation led to his breakthrough studies of the muscle-relaxant succinylcholine, which he presented in over a dozen of his articles and lectures in the early and mid 1950s.A neuromuscular blocker rather than a barbiturate depressant, succinylcholine preserves ECT's efficacy while eliminating its convulsive force in the patient. <mask> called it "the miraculous drug." It has since become a procedural standard in the treatment's administration. By the 1960s, the pharmaceutical treatment of mental illness seemed poised to eclipse ECT entirely. <mask> was among those who affirmed the value of drug therapy for psychiatric disorders. At the same time, he continued to advocate electroconvulsive treatment for cases that proved resistant to pharmaceutical intervention alone. "There is no conflict of interest between drug therapy and the convulsive therapies," he insisted."Each belongs in the therapy kit of the psychiatrist." <mask> would live to see the American Psychiatric Association move beyond lingering controversy and adopt this pragmatic approach, recommending ECT in otherwise "untreatable" cases where drugs or psychotherapy remain ineffective. For the APA these include depression with psychotic features, manic delirium, and catatonia when low food or fluid intake threatens the patient's life. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was slower to back the evidence of favorable ECT outcomes. But in 2016 the agency acknowledged that the benefits of electroconvulsive therapy outweighed the risks, especially to memory which in clinical trials referenced by its Draft Guidelines was shown to "return to baseline" within three moneths after treatment. The FDA responsibly proposed restricting ECT to Class II and Class III devices, the highest level of regulatory control. Both the APA and FDA guidelines confirm clinical observations dating from <mask>'s earliest ECT research."The most favorable results," he wrote with Almansi in 1940, "have been obtained in cases of recent onset, in catatonic and depressive stupor, and in the group of schizoid-depressives." This seminal appraisal was published within months of <mask>'s historic first treatment, which had proceeded without the sanction of his North American peers. Today in the United States, a refined ECT is the frontline therapy for an estimated 100,000 patients a year. First ECT in America
In his History of the Use of EST in the United States, <mask> describes his first treatment. The procedure takes place after experimentation has been completed and while the search for a hospital venue is underway. <mask> uses the older designation "EST," since at the time the terms "electroshock" and "electrofit" were not yet superseded by the "ECT" acronym for electroconvulsive therapy:
Zigmond Lebensohn, MD, provides specifics in his account of the event in Comprehensive Psychiatry:
"Dr <mask>'s records reveal the following handwritten entry for January 7, 1940: 'Volts 70, T-.1 sec MA 400. Had delayed (15sec?)reaction during apnea, face flushed, eyes opened, normal expression–looking forward, no breathing.' This treatment was administered by Dr. <mask> on a Sunday morning in his office." <mask>'s 55th Street office also served as his residence, which offered a chance opportunity for Sunday callers. His colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, was not present during the procedure, arranged spontaneously after the unscheduled visit and the desperate plea of the patient's father. The facilities and patient's records were at hand for her examination and treatment. <mask>'s wife <mask>, a registered nurse, would have assisted. It was certainly not unlawful for <mask> to proceed with the controversial therapy outside an official clinical setting, but it required a high degree of confidence.Medical institutions on the east coast had so far denied support for ECT research, and he ran the risk of professional censure. Almansi later felt that the human urgency of the circumstances played a large part in the "precipitous" nature of the episode, among the more dramatic in the treatment's history. The treatment itself matched the initial 70 volts given by Ugo Cerletti in his first ECT three years earlier in Rome. In both <mask>'s and Cerletti's patients this voltage elicited a petit mal seizure. Cerletti's patient responded by speaking coherently for the first time in years. Cerletti went on to induce a grand mal seizure in the patient at a higher voltage before concluding the treatment. Impastato's single-stage petit mal procedure required only one assistant besides the operator to ensure patient safety.Writing in the American Psychiatric Association's newsletter, Psychiatric News, Lucy Ozarin, MD, reviews the competing claims for the first ECT in the United States made by Drs. Douglas Goldman and Victor Gonda. She points out that "none of these claims is supported by historical documentation." By contrast, she cites the "compelling" case made by <mask>'s chart for his first ECT patient, dated January 7, 1940, which is on file with his papers in the Library and Archives of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia. She concludes: "In the absence of primary-source evidence to the contrary, or a differing interpolation of <mask>'s file, this document would appear to identify the first ECT treatment given to a human subject in the U.S."
See also
Electroconvulsive therapy
References
Biographical Directory of the Fellows and Members of the American Psychiatric Association. New York: Bowker, 1977. p. 619. Print.Shorter, Edward and <mask>. Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Print. Lebensohn, Zigmond M., MD. "The History of Electroconvulsive Therapy in the United States and Its Place in American Psychiatry: A Personal Memoir." Comprehensive Psychiatry 40:3, May/June 1999: pp.175–76. Print. Ozarin, Lucy D., MD. "The First Use of ECT in the United States." Psychiatric News (American Psychiatric Association) August 6, 1993: Sesquicentennial Update. Print. <mask>, <mask>. and Renato Almansi, MD."Electrically Induced Convulsions in the Treatment of Mental Illness." New York State Journal of Medicine vol. 98, September 1940. Print. <mask>, <mask>. "Bibliography, Lectures, Meetings, Discussions, Films, Television, Radio, Exhibits." New York, NY: The Oskar Diethelm Library, DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College.Notes
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In 2016 the FDA drafted guidelines for ECT similar to those of the APA, as well as proposing regulations for treatment with Class II and Class III devices. The treatment of choice for an estimated 100,000 patients a year in the United States is electroconvulsive therapy. The youngest in a family of ten children, <mask> was born in the Sicilian port town of Mazara del Vallo. He and his family moved to New York City's "Little Italy" at the age of nine.His father died in Mazara before he could join his wife and children in America. <mask> would be the doctor in the family. The money from his brothers and sisters' paychecks was given to family members according to need. The money was set aside for <mask>'s education. Clason Point Military Academy, run by the Lasallian Christian Brothers, was where he attended when the family moved to Brooklyn. He received his pre-medical degree from Columbia University in 1925 and his Doctor of Medicine from the George Washington University Medical School three years later. <mask> was drawn to neurology during his internship.In 1929, he began a year of residency at New York's Central Neurological Hospital, followed by two years as clinical attending neurologist at Postgraduate Hospital. His presentation of spongioblastoma multiforme of the brain is indicative of his neurological foundation. His interest in the biomedical aspects of human behavior grew out of his residency in the Psychiatric Department at the hospital. He gained the experience of the city hospital's diverse patient population of "the great, the poor, the wealthy and the unfortunate" while he was an assistant psychiatrist. He was a visiting doctor at Columbus Hospital. <mask> was certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1937 and established his private practice in Manhattan. The year before that, Drs.The first ECT was given to a catatonic patient in Rome. This was the first time in medical history that electric current had been used to induce a seizure. The event was described in The American Journal of Psychiatry by <mask>. <mask>'s future colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, left Italy in 1939 to escape the rising anti-Semitism in Europe. He brought with him a version of the ECT machine that was developed in Rome. After arriving in New York, Almansi introduced the device to Impastato, which caught the attention of Dr. Secondari, one of Almansi's former psychiatrists. From the beginning, Impastato had seen the promise of the technique.He administered his first ECT in America on January 7, 1940, in his West 55th Street office, after conducting his own experiments with the device over the next few months. Hospitals in Philadelphia, New York and Boston were unable to sponsor a clinical trial of ECT. <mask> had worked in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbus Hospital for six years. Columbus Hospital is run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and was founded by Mother (now Saint) Cabrini. The sisters had long admired <mask>'s work with mental sufferers, and the medical establishment's aversion to controversy weighed less with a small private hospital. Rev. Mother Enrica was the Mother Superior of the hospital.The earliest ECT treatments reported by any hospital in the United States were reported by He and Almansi on February 6, 1940. The trial was done with patients under the age of fifty. A total of 100 ECT treatments were done. In September of that year, Impastato and Almansi released the account of their work in the New York State Journal of Medicine, the first case study of the treatment to appear in an American publication. The changed environment was commented on by Almansi. "As word spread that the treatment was being administered, others were reassured and encouraged," he said. The Impastato and Almansi article led to the publication of studies by early U.S. practitioners such as Victor Gonda, Douglas Goldman and Lothar Kalinowsky.During the war years of the 1940s, psychiatrists in the U.S. and abroad began to use electroconvulsive therapy. Even as his practice expanded rapidly into large offices on Fifth Avenue and a private out-patient clinic, <mask> served the war effort as a psychiatric examiner. His clientele ranged from the immigrant population to the city's elite. He described his approach as "eclectic." He said that he was only for the patient and not for any one type of treatment. Emphasizing the humanity of the doctor-patient encounter, he pointed out the "psychic component in any treatment situation, even if the therapy seems to be essentially somatic." His work with ECT would continue to evolve.He wrote more than fifty articles on a range of subjects, from his clinical findings to his innovations in ECT technology. In addition to his published work, <mask> gave numerous lectures in the U.S., Europe and Asia, as well as presenting his work on radio and television. He was an Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, a life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a founder of the American College of Psychiatrists. <mask> was married to a former nurse who served as his office manager and medical assistant in the first years of practice. They have three children and five grandchildren. His achievements in medicine were possible because of his close ties with his Sicilian-American family. His "genteel personality and manner," in the words of a contemporary, endeared him to those in both his personal and professional life.He was a Latinist, a geology hobbyist, a gardener, a stamp and fine-art collector, a member and benefactor of the Salmagundi Art Club of New York, and the founder of Baseball International supporting youth baseball in Italy. He lived with his family in New York. <mask>'s cause of death was not listed in The New York Times obituary. He was hospitalized in Pasadena, California, in the advanced stages of Parkinsonism, which forced him to retire after nearly fifty years of practice. He is buried in New York. <mask> was the first to give a treatment for mental illness in North America. He contended with depictions of the treatment in popular culture such as those in the novel and film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which portrayed ECT as a punishment for unruly asylum inmates.He confronted his peers about the treatment that contributed to the stereotypes. In bracing articles published in Diseases of the Nervous System, he documented the consequences of ECT when treatment protocols are compromised. He called for vigilance while reviewing methodologies. In state-hospital settings improper use of ECT could be observed. His research was guided by <mask>'s concern for the patient. He used a barbiturate derivative called sodium amytol to manage patients' anxiety when preparing for ECT. His breakthrough studies of the muscle-relaxant succinylcholine were presented in over a dozen of his articles and lectures in the early and mid 1950s.Succinylcholine preserves ECT's efficacy while eliminating its convulsive force in the patient, because it is a neuromuscular blocker rather than a barbiturate depressant. It was called the miraculous drug by Impastato. It has become a standard in the treatment's administration. By the 1960s, the pharmaceutical treatment of mental illness seemed poised to surpass ECT entirely. Drug therapy for psychiatric disorders was affirmed by <mask>. He continued to advocate for the treatment of cases that were resistant to pharmaceutical intervention alone. He insisted there was no conflict of interest between drug therapy and convulsive therapies.Each is in the therapy kit of the psychiatrist. <mask> would live to see the American Psychiatric Association move beyond controversy and recommend ECT in "untreatable" cases. Depression with psychotic features, manic delirium, and catatonia are included in the APA. Favorable ECT outcomes were not supported by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In 2016 the agency acknowledged that the benefits of electroconvulsive therapy outweigh the risks, especially to memory which in clinical trials referenced by its Draft Guidelines was shown to "return to baseline" within three moneths after treatment. The highest level of regulatory control was proposed by the FDA. Clinical observations from Impastato's earliest ECT research are confirmed by the APA and FDA guidelines.In cases of recent onset, catatonic and depression, and in the group of schizoid-depressives, the most favorable results have been obtained. Within months of <mask>'s historic first treatment, this seminal appraisal was published. 100,000 patients a year are treated with a refined ECT in the United States. In his History of the Use of EST in the United States, <mask> describes his first treatment. While the search for a hospital venue is underway, the procedure takes place after experimentation has been completed. Impastato uses the older designation "EST," since at the time the terms "electroshock" and "electrofit" were not yet superseded by the "ECT" acronym for electroconvulsive therapy. Had it been delayed 15 seconds?The face was flushed, eyes opened, and there was no breathing. Dr. <mask> gave this treatment in his office on Sunday. A chance for Sunday callers was offered by <mask>'s 55th Street office. After an emergency visit by the patient's father, his colleague, Dr. Renato Almansi, was not present for the procedure. She was examined and treated at the facilities and patient's records were at hand. <mask>, <mask>'s wife, was a registered nurse. It wasn't illegal for Impastato to use the controversial therapy outside of an official clinical setting, but it needed a high degree of confidence.He ran the risk of professional censure because medical institutions on the east coast denied support for ECT research. The human importance of the circumstances played a large part in theprecipitous nature of the episode, among the more dramatic in the treatment's history. The treatment was similar to the one Ugo gave in Rome three years before. In both Impastato's patients there was a petit mal seizure. The patient spoke coherently for the first time in years. After inducing a grand mal seizure in the patient, the treatment was over. The petit mal procedure required only one assistant to ensure patient safety.Lucy Ozarin reviews the competing claims for the first ECT in the United States in the American Psychiatric Association's newsletter. They are Douglas Goldman and Victor Gonda. She says that none of the claims are supported by historical documentation. She cites the "compelling" case made by <mask>'s chart for his first ECT patient, dated January 7, 1940, which is on file with his papers in the Library and Archives of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Virginia. The document would appear to identify the first ECT treatment given to a human subject in the U.S. New York: Bowker. Print.Edward and <mask> are related. There is a history of convulsive treatment for mental illness. Rutgers University Press, 2007. Print. "Zigmond M., MD" is the name of the man. 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3563159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20A.%20Spadoro | George A. Spadoro | George A. Spadoro is an American Democratic Party politician who served three terms as Mayor of Edison, New Jersey, and two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 18th Legislative District.
Early life and education
George A. Spadoro was born on March 27, 1948, in Jersey City, New Jersey. After moving to Edison, New Jersey he attended J. P. Stevens High School and graduated in 1966.
He attended college at the University of Connecticut for 4 years where he served as Chairman of the Student Senate and Vice President of the student government. He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in 1970. Spadoro then continued on to the University of California Hastings College of Law where he named to the Hastings Law Journal, was elected Student Government President of the Associated Students of Hastings (ASH) and served as an ex officio member of the law school Board of Governors.
As ASH president, Spadoro worked to implement a number of programs, such as The Placement Policy Committee, which was designed to aid the director in expanding job placement services for Hastings graduates and other operational difficulties.
He also developed and implemented the Judicial Clerkship Committee to assist students in determining the educational and career advantages of a post-graduate Judicial clerkship. At the same time he obtained assistance for this program from individual members of the Hastings Faculty. Another program Spadoro worked to develop and implement was The California Supreme Court Externship Program, which allowed for a carefully selected student to spend a considerable part of a full semester working as a judicial clerk under the auspices of a California Supreme Court judge.
George Spadoro graduated University of California Hastings College of Law with a J.D. in 1973.
Political career
Spadoro first ran for public office in 1978, challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Edward J. Patten in the primary election and receiving 41% of the vote. During the 1980s, Spadoro was a member of the Edison Township Council.
Mayor of Edison, NJ
Spadoro was elected mayor of Edison Township in November 1993. His campaign focused on the issues of job creation and tax stabilization, environmental protection and the preservation of open spaces, and open and accessible government. Mayor Spadoro took office on January 1, 1994. He won a second term in 1997, defeating seven challengers. In the landslide victory, Spadoro received 14,081 votes. His nearest competitor, Republican Eileen Germain Teffenhart, received 5,782.
Shortly after being sworn in as Mayor, Spadoro had the honor of hosting the visit of President Bill Clinton to Edison on February 16, 1994. The President had come to deliver an address to the American Association of Retired Persons in Edison.
On March 23, Spadoro led Edison and the regions response to Edison's most serious disaster—the Texas Eastern gas line explosion and fire at the Durham Woods Apartment Complex. He received national attention and was commended for his emergency response implementations and was also recorded banging on doors to help evacuate apartment residents in the nearby explosion. The explosion resulted in 1,500 residents were evacuated, 100 were residents were left homeless, 60 were injured and one died of a heart attack.
After the disaster, he fought to improve pipeline safety conditions and had become a nationally recognized figure for pipeline safety reform nationwide. The mayor cited the township's reverse 911 system, a "state-of-the-art" emergency communications center, improved public safety equipment, and the civilian emergency response team (ECERT) as examples of measures taken to make the township safer.
At the local level, budgets proposed by Mayor Spadoro included a stabilized tax rate for Edison's almost 100,000 residents. His commitment to reduce the tax burden on local residents was also manifested in several major efforts to create a business-friendly environment in Edison, including the establishment of the Edison Economic Development Corporation.
Other achievements include the establishment of the Edison Youth Service Corps. The Youth Service Corps features high school-age students who perform a wide range of community service activities in exchange for modest wages and college tuition assistance.
Also among George Spadoro's accomplishments as Mayor was the formation of a community-policing program. Under this program, law enforcement officers establish a closer bond with Edison residents and business establishments in an effort to better understand problems in the community and to stop crimes before they actually occur. Community Policing consisted of Edison's first Police Bike Patrol, Civilian Police Academy, and other programs to take a proactive approach to policing.
George Spadoro ran for re-election for Mayor in November 1997 and 2001 and was chosen by the people to continue to serve at the helm of the 5th largest municipality in the state. He began his third term on January 1, 2002.
The establishment of the Edison Arts Society marked a triumph for the Mayor, as he increased community awareness about the rich arts culture in Edison. The first Arts Summit, held in June 1998, included speaker Robert Pastorelli, an actor who has played 'Eldin' on Murphy Brown, and focused on the importance of the arts in Edison. Following the establishment of the Arts Society, a number of programs including the organization of the Edison Symphony Orchestra and an Annual High School Art Competition, Holiday Dance Extravaganza, Poetry readings, and Outreach Workshops in poetry, drama, and art.
In 1999, the Mayor announced the implementation of a new Defibrillator program for Edison. By increasing the number of Defibrillators in town and by training personnel in the use of them, Mayor Spadoro hoped to save lives. The program included training of police, fire, and municipal personnel as well as companies and citizens around Edison. He also introduced a police car take home program, reducing maintenance costs and increasing police visibility in the community.
Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Spadoro, along with many other New York municipalities, authorized members of the Edison Police and Fire Department to provide emergency response support at ground zero, the site of the attack.
Amongst Spadoro's post 9/11 efforts, he actively had the Edison Police Department work with the joint terrorism task force to help in anti terrorism efforts. Spadoro recognized that Edison, being one of the largest municipalities near New York City, was a target-rich environment, with such potential sites as warehouses, distribution centers, factories and chemical plants. He allocated $500,000/year in Edison's annual budget over five years for more police officers, training for first responders, new equipment to cope with terrorism, and the formation of a police intelligence unit. He participated in the coordinated network of intelligence gathering and emergency responses put together by the State and its counties. Also, among his post 9/11 efforts as mayor, he dealt with an anthrax attack at a city post-office and other safety concerns.
On December 9, 2001, Ford had announced their plans to close their assembly plant which was expected to impact 1,700 employees. Spadoro played a role in attempts to prevent the massive layoff when he urged an "economic summit" with Ford officials, the United Auto Workers and members of McGreevey's administration. His attempts extended further with James McGreevey and their traveling to Michigan to meet with Ford Executives. After the attempts to prevent the factory closing, Spadoro made plans for redevelopment of the land that was anticipated to have a positive impact on the town of Edison .
Mayor Spadoro led an initiative to purchase and preserve several parcels of open space important to the environment. Mayor Spadoro also explored the use of the seven miles of Raritan Riverfront, that wind through Edison, for recreational use and possible development. Also along the Raritan, the Mayor was actively pursuing the establishment of ferry service between Edison and lower Manhattan. George Spadoro continued his work with increasing senior citizen services by instilling programs such as one where senior citizens were introduced to the World Wide Web in a relaxed atmosphere at the Edison Senior Center and the creation of the Mr. Fix It service, which consisted of a free handyman service that provided a home safety inspection and common repair jobs.
On August 4, 2002, Spadoro made efforts to restore the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower by hiring its first full-time employee who helped restore the tower and its museum. The newly hired employees title was museum director and his job included everything from painting the base of the tower to persuading famous people, such as President Gerald R. Ford and Walter Cronkite, to record their voices on a 1909-cylinder phonograph invented by Edison.
During his tenure as Mayor, Spadoro served on the board of directors of Keep Middlesex Moving Inc., an organization dedicated to promoting transportation issues, opportunities, and alternatives in Middlesex County. He was also a member of the Garden State Games and the Environmental Management Hazardous Waste Institution.
Seeking a fourth term, he was defeated in the 2005 Democratic mayoral primary by Jun Choi. Reasons cited for Spadoro's loss include a split in the local Democratic party, the loss of union support due to the approval of a Walmart retail store, and a large turnout of first-time Asian voters due to the New Jersey 101.5 radio controversy.
New Jersey State Assemblyman
After being elected in 1987, from 1988 to 1991 (two terms), he represented District 18 in the New Jersey General Assembly. He became Chairman of the State Assembly Transportation Authorities, Telecommunications, and Technology Committee. During his term as chairman, George authored and was responsible for the passage of legislation that opened the door for the use of fiber optics. This legislation was hailed as marking the turning point in New Jersey's emergence as a leader in the telecommunications revolution.
One of Spadoro's major accomplishments as Assemblyman was his sponsorship of the New Jersey Bias Crimes Act, which has become the primary vehicle for the prosecution of bias-related crimes in New Jersey.
Through his leadership in the State Legislature, he authored and enacted New Jersey's strongest financial disclosure law which won him praise from many grassroots citizen organizations and government reform groups. The Director of New Jersey Common Cause, referred to Spadoro's legislation as "a real reform, not just cosmetic reform...a major milestone in reforming the way New Jersey State government operates."
During his tenure in the Assembly, George was also a member of the Insurance and Financial Institution Committee, the Veterans Committee, and the Special Committee on College Alcohol Abuse and Hazing in New Jersey.
Edison Councilman
George Spadoro served as an Edison Township Councilman for eight years between 1981 and 1988, serving as Council President from 1987 through 1988. Spadoro demonstrated an unending commitment to open government, the safety and security of Edison residents and senior citizens, and the preservation of the environment. His involvement with the shutting down and cleaning up of the Kin-Buc chemical waste landfill, a superfund site, extended through his political career into his days as Edison Mayor.
Among his accomplishments as Councilman, Spadoro created Edison's Senior Citizen Housing Agency and sponsored the unique Senior Citizens' Set Aside Ordinance, which required developers of multiple-unit dwellings to designate 10% of the total number of units for low and moderate income senior citizens. He led the fight to halt the construction of two co-generation incinerators in Edison and voted to save the Dismal Swamp, a 1,240-acre wetland that serves as the largest natural area in northern Middlesex County. In 1988, he organized the Edison Township Waterfront Recreation Area Study to evaluate the merits of recreational development along miles of the raritan river in Edison.
Legal career
Spadoro began his legal career as an associate with a well known and top ranking Wall Street Law Firm, Sullivan & Cromwell. He also spent several years as Assistant General Counsel for a large telecommunications company called Teleprompter Corporation.
Later, Spadoro became a senior partner in the law firm Spadoro & Hilson in Woodbridge Township, NJ and was well known and recognized in the Edison community as a leader and citizen activist.
On January 1, 2008, Spadoro joined as Senior Member of CSG Law where he counsels senior executives in financing, commercial litigation and strategic planning. His primary areas of practice includes general corporate, commercial and business matters, family-business law, financial matters and mergers and acquisitions. He works with accountants and other tax experts to advise U.S. clients on their domestic legal structures. Spadoro also advises on international matters and has experience negotiating cross-border transactions.
Current life
In addition to maintaining a full-time legal practice, Spadoro now provides expert television commentary on legal matters as well as current state and national political issues through multiple media outlets.
His wife is the Founder and CEO of Future Care Inc. His son, Michael Spadoro, works as a Political Director for U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and was featured in the Insider NJ 2018 Insider 100: Millennials. His Daughter, Katie Spadoro, is currently the President and Founder of CYB Human Resources LLC, a human resource management service company and CYBHR, an online HR company. His Daughter, Jasmine Spadoro, is a staff member at Pace University, a private University located in downtown Manhattan.
References
Living people
1948 births
J. P. Stevens High School alumni
Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
Mayors of Edison, New Jersey
New Jersey Democrats
Politicians from Jersey City, New Jersey
New Jersey lawyers
University of California, Hastings College of the Law alumni
University of Connecticut alumni | [
"George A. Spadoro is an American Democratic Party politician who served three terms as Mayor of Edison, New Jersey, and two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 18th Legislative District.",
"Early life and education\nGeorge A. Spadoro was born on March 27, 1948, in Jersey City, New Jersey.",
"After moving to Edison, New Jersey he attended J. P. Stevens High School and graduated in 1966.",
"He attended college at the University of Connecticut for 4 years where he served as Chairman of the Student Senate and Vice President of the student government.",
"He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in 1970.",
"Spadoro then continued on to the University of California Hastings College of Law where he named to the Hastings Law Journal, was elected Student Government President of the Associated Students of Hastings (ASH) and served as an ex officio member of the law school Board of Governors.",
"As ASH president, Spadoro worked to implement a number of programs, such as The Placement Policy Committee, which was designed to aid the director in expanding job placement services for Hastings graduates and other operational difficulties.",
"He also developed and implemented the Judicial Clerkship Committee to assist students in determining the educational and career advantages of a post-graduate Judicial clerkship.",
"At the same time he obtained assistance for this program from individual members of the Hastings Faculty.",
"Another program Spadoro worked to develop and implement was The California Supreme Court Externship Program, which allowed for a carefully selected student to spend a considerable part of a full semester working as a judicial clerk under the auspices of a California Supreme Court judge.",
"George Spadoro graduated University of California Hastings College of Law with a J.D.",
"in 1973.",
"Political career \nSpadoro first ran for public office in 1978, challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Edward J. Patten in the primary election and receiving 41% of the vote.",
"During the 1980s, Spadoro was a member of the Edison Township Council.",
"Mayor of Edison, NJ \nSpadoro was elected mayor of Edison Township in November 1993.",
"His campaign focused on the issues of job creation and tax stabilization, environmental protection and the preservation of open spaces, and open and accessible government.",
"Mayor Spadoro took office on January 1, 1994.",
"He won a second term in 1997, defeating seven challengers.",
"In the landslide victory, Spadoro received 14,081 votes.",
"His nearest competitor, Republican Eileen Germain Teffenhart, received 5,782.",
"Shortly after being sworn in as Mayor, Spadoro had the honor of hosting the visit of President Bill Clinton to Edison on February 16, 1994.",
"The President had come to deliver an address to the American Association of Retired Persons in Edison.",
"On March 23, Spadoro led Edison and the regions response to Edison's most serious disaster—the Texas Eastern gas line explosion and fire at the Durham Woods Apartment Complex.",
"He received national attention and was commended for his emergency response implementations and was also recorded banging on doors to help evacuate apartment residents in the nearby explosion.",
"The explosion resulted in 1,500 residents were evacuated, 100 were residents were left homeless, 60 were injured and one died of a heart attack.",
"After the disaster, he fought to improve pipeline safety conditions and had become a nationally recognized figure for pipeline safety reform nationwide.",
"The mayor cited the township's reverse 911 system, a \"state-of-the-art\" emergency communications center, improved public safety equipment, and the civilian emergency response team (ECERT) as examples of measures taken to make the township safer.",
"At the local level, budgets proposed by Mayor Spadoro included a stabilized tax rate for Edison's almost 100,000 residents.",
"His commitment to reduce the tax burden on local residents was also manifested in several major efforts to create a business-friendly environment in Edison, including the establishment of the Edison Economic Development Corporation.",
"Other achievements include the establishment of the Edison Youth Service Corps.",
"The Youth Service Corps features high school-age students who perform a wide range of community service activities in exchange for modest wages and college tuition assistance.",
"Also among George Spadoro's accomplishments as Mayor was the formation of a community-policing program.",
"Under this program, law enforcement officers establish a closer bond with Edison residents and business establishments in an effort to better understand problems in the community and to stop crimes before they actually occur.",
"Community Policing consisted of Edison's first Police Bike Patrol, Civilian Police Academy, and other programs to take a proactive approach to policing.",
"George Spadoro ran for re-election for Mayor in November 1997 and 2001 and was chosen by the people to continue to serve at the helm of the 5th largest municipality in the state.",
"He began his third term on January 1, 2002.",
"The establishment of the Edison Arts Society marked a triumph for the Mayor, as he increased community awareness about the rich arts culture in Edison.",
"The first Arts Summit, held in June 1998, included speaker Robert Pastorelli, an actor who has played 'Eldin' on Murphy Brown, and focused on the importance of the arts in Edison.",
"Following the establishment of the Arts Society, a number of programs including the organization of the Edison Symphony Orchestra and an Annual High School Art Competition, Holiday Dance Extravaganza, Poetry readings, and Outreach Workshops in poetry, drama, and art.",
"In 1999, the Mayor announced the implementation of a new Defibrillator program for Edison.",
"By increasing the number of Defibrillators in town and by training personnel in the use of them, Mayor Spadoro hoped to save lives.",
"The program included training of police, fire, and municipal personnel as well as companies and citizens around Edison.",
"He also introduced a police car take home program, reducing maintenance costs and increasing police visibility in the community.",
"Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Spadoro, along with many other New York municipalities, authorized members of the Edison Police and Fire Department to provide emergency response support at ground zero, the site of the attack.",
"Amongst Spadoro's post 9/11 efforts, he actively had the Edison Police Department work with the joint terrorism task force to help in anti terrorism efforts.",
"Spadoro recognized that Edison, being one of the largest municipalities near New York City, was a target-rich environment, with such potential sites as warehouses, distribution centers, factories and chemical plants.",
"He allocated $500,000/year in Edison's annual budget over five years for more police officers, training for first responders, new equipment to cope with terrorism, and the formation of a police intelligence unit.",
"He participated in the coordinated network of intelligence gathering and emergency responses put together by the State and its counties.",
"Also, among his post 9/11 efforts as mayor, he dealt with an anthrax attack at a city post-office and other safety concerns.",
"On December 9, 2001, Ford had announced their plans to close their assembly plant which was expected to impact 1,700 employees.",
"Spadoro played a role in attempts to prevent the massive layoff when he urged an \"economic summit\" with Ford officials, the United Auto Workers and members of McGreevey's administration.",
"His attempts extended further with James McGreevey and their traveling to Michigan to meet with Ford Executives.",
"After the attempts to prevent the factory closing, Spadoro made plans for redevelopment of the land that was anticipated to have a positive impact on the town of Edison .",
"Mayor Spadoro led an initiative to purchase and preserve several parcels of open space important to the environment.",
"Mayor Spadoro also explored the use of the seven miles of Raritan Riverfront, that wind through Edison, for recreational use and possible development.",
"Also along the Raritan, the Mayor was actively pursuing the establishment of ferry service between Edison and lower Manhattan.",
"George Spadoro continued his work with increasing senior citizen services by instilling programs such as one where senior citizens were introduced to the World Wide Web in a relaxed atmosphere at the Edison Senior Center and the creation of the Mr.",
"Fix It service, which consisted of a free handyman service that provided a home safety inspection and common repair jobs.",
"On August 4, 2002, Spadoro made efforts to restore the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower by hiring its first full-time employee who helped restore the tower and its museum.",
"The newly hired employees title was museum director and his job included everything from painting the base of the tower to persuading famous people, such as President Gerald R. Ford and Walter Cronkite, to record their voices on a 1909-cylinder phonograph invented by Edison.",
"During his tenure as Mayor, Spadoro served on the board of directors of Keep Middlesex Moving Inc., an organization dedicated to promoting transportation issues, opportunities, and alternatives in Middlesex County.",
"He was also a member of the Garden State Games and the Environmental Management Hazardous Waste Institution.",
"Seeking a fourth term, he was defeated in the 2005 Democratic mayoral primary by Jun Choi.",
"Reasons cited for Spadoro's loss include a split in the local Democratic party, the loss of union support due to the approval of a Walmart retail store, and a large turnout of first-time Asian voters due to the New Jersey 101.5 radio controversy.",
"New Jersey State Assemblyman \nAfter being elected in 1987, from 1988 to 1991 (two terms), he represented District 18 in the New Jersey General Assembly.",
"He became Chairman of the State Assembly Transportation Authorities, Telecommunications, and Technology Committee.",
"During his term as chairman, George authored and was responsible for the passage of legislation that opened the door for the use of fiber optics.",
"This legislation was hailed as marking the turning point in New Jersey's emergence as a leader in the telecommunications revolution.",
"One of Spadoro's major accomplishments as Assemblyman was his sponsorship of the New Jersey Bias Crimes Act, which has become the primary vehicle for the prosecution of bias-related crimes in New Jersey.",
"Through his leadership in the State Legislature, he authored and enacted New Jersey's strongest financial disclosure law which won him praise from many grassroots citizen organizations and government reform groups.",
"The Director of New Jersey Common Cause, referred to Spadoro's legislation as \"a real reform, not just cosmetic reform...a major milestone in reforming the way New Jersey State government operates.\"",
"During his tenure in the Assembly, George was also a member of the Insurance and Financial Institution Committee, the Veterans Committee, and the Special Committee on College Alcohol Abuse and Hazing in New Jersey.",
"Edison Councilman \nGeorge Spadoro served as an Edison Township Councilman for eight years between 1981 and 1988, serving as Council President from 1987 through 1988.",
"Spadoro demonstrated an unending commitment to open government, the safety and security of Edison residents and senior citizens, and the preservation of the environment.",
"His involvement with the shutting down and cleaning up of the Kin-Buc chemical waste landfill, a superfund site, extended through his political career into his days as Edison Mayor.",
"Among his accomplishments as Councilman, Spadoro created Edison's Senior Citizen Housing Agency and sponsored the unique Senior Citizens' Set Aside Ordinance, which required developers of multiple-unit dwellings to designate 10% of the total number of units for low and moderate income senior citizens.",
"He led the fight to halt the construction of two co-generation incinerators in Edison and voted to save the Dismal Swamp, a 1,240-acre wetland that serves as the largest natural area in northern Middlesex County.",
"In 1988, he organized the Edison Township Waterfront Recreation Area Study to evaluate the merits of recreational development along miles of the raritan river in Edison.",
"Legal career \nSpadoro began his legal career as an associate with a well known and top ranking Wall Street Law Firm, Sullivan & Cromwell.",
"He also spent several years as Assistant General Counsel for a large telecommunications company called Teleprompter Corporation.",
"Later, Spadoro became a senior partner in the law firm Spadoro & Hilson in Woodbridge Township, NJ and was well known and recognized in the Edison community as a leader and citizen activist.",
"On January 1, 2008, Spadoro joined as Senior Member of CSG Law where he counsels senior executives in financing, commercial litigation and strategic planning.",
"His primary areas of practice includes general corporate, commercial and business matters, family-business law, financial matters and mergers and acquisitions.",
"He works with accountants and other tax experts to advise U.S. clients on their domestic legal structures.",
"Spadoro also advises on international matters and has experience negotiating cross-border transactions.",
"Current life \nIn addition to maintaining a full-time legal practice, Spadoro now provides expert television commentary on legal matters as well as current state and national political issues through multiple media outlets.",
"His wife is the Founder and CEO of Future Care Inc. His son, Michael Spadoro, works as a Political Director for U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and was featured in the Insider NJ 2018 Insider 100: Millennials.",
"His Daughter, Katie Spadoro, is currently the President and Founder of CYB Human Resources LLC, a human resource management service company and CYBHR, an online HR company.",
"His Daughter, Jasmine Spadoro, is a staff member at Pace University, a private University located in downtown Manhattan.",
"References\n\nLiving people\n1948 births\nJ. P. Stevens High School alumni\nMembers of the New Jersey General Assembly\nMayors of Edison, New Jersey\nNew Jersey Democrats\nPoliticians from Jersey City, New Jersey\nNew Jersey lawyers\nUniversity of California, Hastings College of the Law alumni\nUniversity of Connecticut alumni"
] | [
"George A. Spadoro was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly where he represented the 18th Legislative District.",
"George A. Spadoro was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.",
"He graduated from J. P. Stevens High School in 1966.",
"He served as Chairman of the Student Senate and Vice President of the student government at the University of Connecticut.",
"He received his bachelor's degree in 1970.",
"Spadoro was elected Student Government President of the Associated Students of Hastings and served as an ex officio member of the law school Board of Governors at the University of California Hastings College of Law.",
"The placement policy committee was designed to aid the director in expanding job placement services for Hastings graduates and was implemented by Spadoro as ASH president.",
"The Judicial Clerkship Committee was created to assist students in determining the educational and career advantages of a post-graduate Judicial clerkship.",
"Individual members of the Hastings Faculty helped him with the program.",
"The California Supreme Court Externship Program allowed a carefully selected student to spend a considerable part of a full semester working as a judicial clerk under the auspices of a California Supreme Court judge.",
"George Spadoro attended the University of California Hastings College of Law.",
"In 1973.",
"Spadoro ran for public office for the first time in 1978 and received 42% of the vote.",
"Spadoro was a member of the council.",
"The mayor of New Jersey was elected in 1993.",
"His campaign focused on the issues of job creation and tax stabilization, environmental protection and the preservation of open spaces.",
"On January 1, 1994, Mayor Spadoro took office.",
"He won a second term in 1997.",
"Spadoro received 14,081 votes.",
"Eileen Germain Teffenhart received 5,782.",
"After being sworn in as Mayor, Spadoro hosted the visit of President Bill Clinton to Edison.",
"The President delivered an address to the American Association of Retired Persons.",
"On March 23, Spadoro led the response to the Texas Eastern gas line explosion and fire at the Durham Woods Apartment Complex.",
"He was praised for his emergency response and was also recorded banging on doors to help evacuate apartment residents in the nearby explosion.",
"The explosion caused 1,500 residents to be evacuated, 100 were homeless, 60 were injured, and one died of a heart attack.",
"After the disaster, he fought to improve the conditions for the safety of the pipes.",
"The mayor cited a number of measures taken to make the township safer, including the reverse 911 system, a state-of-the-art emergency communications center, and improved public safety equipment.",
"Mayor Spadoro proposed a tax rate that was stable for almost 100,000 residents.",
"The establishment of the Edison Economic Development Corporation was one of the major efforts to create a business-friendly environment in the area.",
"The establishment of the Youth Service Corps is one of the achievements.",
"In exchange for modest wages and college tuition assistance, high school students in the Youth Service Corps perform a wide range of community service activities.",
"The formation of a community-policing program was one of George Spadoro's accomplishments as Mayor.",
"The goal of the program is to better understand problems in the community and to stop crimes before they occur.",
"The first Police Bike Patrol, Civilian Police Academy, and other programs were part of Community Policing.",
"In 1997 and 2001 George Spadoro was re-elected as Mayor and the people voted to keep him there.",
"On January 1, 2002, he began his third term.",
"The establishment of the Edison Arts Society was a triumph for the Mayor, as he increased community awareness about the rich arts culture in the area.",
"Robert Pastorelli, who played Eldin on Murphy Brown, was the speaker at the first Arts Summit.",
"Following the establishment of the Arts Society, there were a number of programs, including an Annual High School Art Competition, Holiday Dance Extravaganza, Poetry readings, and Outreach Workshops in poetry, drama, and art.",
"The implementation of a new defibrillator program was announced in 1999.",
"Mayor Spadoro wanted to save lives by increasing the number of defibrillators and training personnel to use them.",
"The program included training of police, fire, and municipal personnel.",
"He introduced a police car take home program, reducing maintenance costs and increasing police visibility in the community.",
"Spadoro, along with many other New York municipalities, authorized members of the Edison Police and Fire Department to provide emergency response support to ground zero after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.",
"Spadoro had the Edison Police Department work with the terrorism task force after 9/11.",
"One of the largest towns near New York City was a target-rich environment with potential sites for warehouses, distribution centers, factories and chemical plants.",
"He allocated $500,000/year for five years for more police officers, training for first responders, new equipment to deal with terrorism, and the formation of a police intelligence unit.",
"He was involved in the coordinated network of intelligence gathering and emergency responses.",
"He dealt with an attack on a city post-office and other safety concerns after 9/11.",
"On December 9, 2001, Ford announced their plans to close their assembly plant, which was expected to impact 1,700 employees.",
"Spadoro played a role in attempts to prevent the massive layoff when he urged an \"economic summit\" with Ford officials, the United Auto Workers and members of McGreevey's administration.",
"James McGreevey and his family traveled to Michigan to meet with Ford executives.",
"After the attempts to prevent the factory closing, Spadoro made plans for redevelopment of the land that was anticipated to have a positive impact on the town of Edison.",
"Several parcels of open space important to the environment were purchased and preserved by the Mayor.",
"Mayor Spadoro explored the use of the seven miles of the Raritan Riverfront for recreation and possible development.",
"The Mayor was pushing for the establishment of ferry service between the two cities.",
"George Spadoro continued his work with increasing senior citizen services by instilling programs such as one where senior citizens were introduced to the World Wide Web in a relaxed atmosphere at the Edison Senior Center and the creation of the Mr.",
"Fix It service provided a home safety inspection and common repair jobs.",
"Spadoro hired its first full-time employee who helped restore the tower and its museum on August 4, 2002.",
"The museum director's job included everything from painting the base of the tower to persuading famous people, such as President Gerald R. Ford and Walter Cronkite, to record their voices on a 1909-cylinder phonograph.",
"Spadoro was on the board of directors of Keep Middlesex Moving Inc., an organization dedicated to promoting transportation issues, opportunities, and alternatives.",
"He was a member of the Environmental Management Hazardous Waste Institution.",
"He was defeated in the 2005 Democratic mayoral primary.",
"Spadoro's loss was attributed to a split in the local Democratic party, the loss of union support due to the approval of a Walmart store, and a large turnout of first-time Asian voters.",
"From 1988 to 1991 he represented District 18 in the New Jersey General Assembly.",
"The State Assembly Transportation Authorities, Telecommunications, and Technology Committee was chaired by him.",
"George was responsible for the passage of legislation that opened the door for the use of fiber optics.",
"The turning point in New Jersey's emergence as a leader in the telecommunications revolution was marked by this legislation.",
"The New Jersey Bias Crimes Act, which Spadoro sponsored, has become the primary vehicle for the prosecution of bias-related crimes in New Jersey.",
"He authored and enacted New Jersey's strongest financial disclosure law thanks to his leadership in the State Legislature.",
"The Director of New Jersey Common Cause referred to Spadoro's legislation as a major milestone in reform of the way New Jersey State government operates.",
"George was a member of the Insurance and Financial Institution Committee, the Veterans Committee, and the Special Committee on College Alcohol Abuse and Hazing in New Jersey.",
"George Spadoro served on the council for eight years between 1981 and 1988 and was the council president from 1987 to 1988.",
"The preservation of the environment, safety and security of residents and senior citizens were all demonstrated by Spadoro.",
"His involvement with the shutting down and cleaning up of the Kin-Buc chemical waste landfill extended through his political career.",
"The Senior Citizens' Set Aside Ordinance, which Spadoro sponsored, required developers of multiple-unit dwellings to designate 10% of the total number of units for low and moderate income senior citizens.",
"He led the fight to stop the construction of two co-generation incinerators in Edison and voted to save the Dismal Swamp, which is the largest natural area in northern Middlesex County.",
"He organized a study to evaluate the merits of recreational development along the raritan river.",
"Spadoro began his legal career as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell, a top ranked Wall Street Law Firm.",
"He was an assistant general counsel for several years at Teleprompter Corporation.",
"As a senior partner in the law firm Spadoro & Hilson, Spadoro was well known and recognized in the community as a leader and citizen activist.",
"On January 1, 2008, Spadoro joined as a senior member of the law firm.",
"He practices general corporate, commercial and business matters, family-business law, financial matters and mergers and acquisitions.",
"He works with accountants and other tax experts to advise U.S. clients on their domestic legal structures.",
"Spadoro has experience negotiating cross-border transactions.",
"In addition to maintaining a full-time legal practice, Spadoro now provides expert television commentary on legal matters as well as current state and national political issues through multiple media outlets.",
"His wife is the founder and CEO of Future Care Inc.",
"His daughter is the President and founder of a human resource management service company and an online HR company.",
"Jasmine Spadoro is a staff member at a private University located in Manhattan.",
"Members of the New Jersey General Assembly are alumni of J. P. Stevens High School, New Jersey Democrats are alumni of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and New Jersey lawyers are alumni of the University of Connecticut."
] | <mask><mask> is an American Democratic Party politician who served three terms as Mayor of Edison, New Jersey, and two terms in the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 18th Legislative District. Early life and education
<mask><mask> was born on March 27, 1948, in Jersey City, New Jersey. After moving to Edison, New Jersey he attended J. P. Stevens High School and graduated in 1966. He attended college at the University of Connecticut for 4 years where he served as Chairman of the Student Senate and Vice President of the student government. He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts in 1970. <mask> then continued on to the University of California Hastings College of Law where he named to the Hastings Law Journal, was elected Student Government President of the Associated Students of Hastings (ASH) and served as an ex officio member of the law school Board of Governors. As ASH president, Spadoro worked to implement a number of programs, such as The Placement Policy Committee, which was designed to aid the director in expanding job placement services for Hastings graduates and other operational difficulties.He also developed and implemented the Judicial Clerkship Committee to assist students in determining the educational and career advantages of a post-graduate Judicial clerkship. At the same time he obtained assistance for this program from individual members of the Hastings Faculty. Another program Spadoro worked to develop and implement was The California Supreme Court Externship Program, which allowed for a carefully selected student to spend a considerable part of a full semester working as a judicial clerk under the auspices of a California Supreme Court judge. <mask> graduated University of California Hastings College of Law with a J.D. in 1973. Political career
<mask> first ran for public office in 1978, challenging incumbent Democratic Congressman Edward J. Patten in the primary election and receiving 41% of the vote. During the 1980s, Spadoro was a member of the Edison Township Council.Mayor of Edison, NJ
<mask> was elected mayor of Edison Township in November 1993. His campaign focused on the issues of job creation and tax stabilization, environmental protection and the preservation of open spaces, and open and accessible government. <mask> took office on January 1, 1994. He won a second term in 1997, defeating seven challengers. In the landslide victory, <mask> received 14,081 votes. His nearest competitor, Republican Eileen Germain Teffenhart, received 5,782. Shortly after being sworn in as Mayor, Spadoro had the honor of hosting the visit of President Bill Clinton to Edison on February 16, 1994.The President had come to deliver an address to the American Association of Retired Persons in Edison. On March 23, <mask> led Edison and the regions response to Edison's most serious disaster—the Texas Eastern gas line explosion and fire at the Durham Woods Apartment Complex. He received national attention and was commended for his emergency response implementations and was also recorded banging on doors to help evacuate apartment residents in the nearby explosion. The explosion resulted in 1,500 residents were evacuated, 100 were residents were left homeless, 60 were injured and one died of a heart attack. After the disaster, he fought to improve pipeline safety conditions and had become a nationally recognized figure for pipeline safety reform nationwide. The mayor cited the township's reverse 911 system, a "state-of-the-art" emergency communications center, improved public safety equipment, and the civilian emergency response team (ECERT) as examples of measures taken to make the township safer. At the local level, budgets proposed by Mayor <mask> included a stabilized tax rate for Edison's almost 100,000 residents.His commitment to reduce the tax burden on local residents was also manifested in several major efforts to create a business-friendly environment in Edison, including the establishment of the Edison Economic Development Corporation. Other achievements include the establishment of the Edison Youth Service Corps. The Youth Service Corps features high school-age students who perform a wide range of community service activities in exchange for modest wages and college tuition assistance. Also among <mask>'s accomplishments as Mayor was the formation of a community-policing program. Under this program, law enforcement officers establish a closer bond with Edison residents and business establishments in an effort to better understand problems in the community and to stop crimes before they actually occur. Community Policing consisted of Edison's first Police Bike Patrol, Civilian Police Academy, and other programs to take a proactive approach to policing. <mask> ran for re-election for Mayor in November 1997 and 2001 and was chosen by the people to continue to serve at the helm of the 5th largest municipality in the state.He began his third term on January 1, 2002. The establishment of the Edison Arts Society marked a triumph for the Mayor, as he increased community awareness about the rich arts culture in Edison. The first Arts Summit, held in June 1998, included speaker Robert Pastorelli, an actor who has played 'Eldin' on Murphy Brown, and focused on the importance of the arts in Edison. Following the establishment of the Arts Society, a number of programs including the organization of the Edison Symphony Orchestra and an Annual High School Art Competition, Holiday Dance Extravaganza, Poetry readings, and Outreach Workshops in poetry, drama, and art. In 1999, the Mayor announced the implementation of a new Defibrillator program for Edison. By increasing the number of Defibrillators in town and by training personnel in the use of them, Mayor <mask> hoped to save lives. The program included training of police, fire, and municipal personnel as well as companies and citizens around Edison.He also introduced a police car take home program, reducing maintenance costs and increasing police visibility in the community. Following the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Spadoro, along with many other New York municipalities, authorized members of the Edison Police and Fire Department to provide emergency response support at ground zero, the site of the attack. Amongst Spadoro's post 9/11 efforts, he actively had the Edison Police Department work with the joint terrorism task force to help in anti terrorism efforts. Spadoro recognized that Edison, being one of the largest municipalities near New York City, was a target-rich environment, with such potential sites as warehouses, distribution centers, factories and chemical plants. He allocated $500,000/year in Edison's annual budget over five years for more police officers, training for first responders, new equipment to cope with terrorism, and the formation of a police intelligence unit. He participated in the coordinated network of intelligence gathering and emergency responses put together by the State and its counties. Also, among his post 9/11 efforts as mayor, he dealt with an anthrax attack at a city post-office and other safety concerns.On December 9, 2001, Ford had announced their plans to close their assembly plant which was expected to impact 1,700 employees. Spadoro played a role in attempts to prevent the massive layoff when he urged an "economic summit" with Ford officials, the United Auto Workers and members of McGreevey's administration. His attempts extended further with James McGreevey and their traveling to Michigan to meet with Ford Executives. After the attempts to prevent the factory closing, Spadoro made plans for redevelopment of the land that was anticipated to have a positive impact on the town of Edison . Mayor <mask> led an initiative to purchase and preserve several parcels of open space important to the environment. Mayor <mask> also explored the use of the seven miles of Raritan Riverfront, that wind through Edison, for recreational use and possible development. Also along the Raritan, the Mayor was actively pursuing the establishment of ferry service between Edison and lower Manhattan.<mask> continued his work with increasing senior citizen services by instilling programs such as one where senior citizens were introduced to the World Wide Web in a relaxed atmosphere at the Edison Senior Center and the creation of the Mr. Fix It service, which consisted of a free handyman service that provided a home safety inspection and common repair jobs. On August 4, 2002, Spadoro made efforts to restore the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower by hiring its first full-time employee who helped restore the tower and its museum. The newly hired employees title was museum director and his job included everything from painting the base of the tower to persuading famous people, such as President Gerald R. Ford and Walter Cronkite, to record their voices on a 1909-cylinder phonograph invented by Edison. During his tenure as Mayor, Spadoro served on the board of directors of Keep Middlesex Moving Inc., an organization dedicated to promoting transportation issues, opportunities, and alternatives in Middlesex County. He was also a member of the Garden State Games and the Environmental Management Hazardous Waste Institution. Seeking a fourth term, he was defeated in the 2005 Democratic mayoral primary by Jun Choi.Reasons cited for Spadoro's loss include a split in the local Democratic party, the loss of union support due to the approval of a Walmart retail store, and a large turnout of first-time Asian voters due to the New Jersey 101.5 radio controversy. New Jersey State Assemblyman
After being elected in 1987, from 1988 to 1991 (two terms), he represented District 18 in the New Jersey General Assembly. He became Chairman of the State Assembly Transportation Authorities, Telecommunications, and Technology Committee. During his term as chairman, <mask> authored and was responsible for the passage of legislation that opened the door for the use of fiber optics. This legislation was hailed as marking the turning point in New Jersey's emergence as a leader in the telecommunications revolution. One of <mask>'s major accomplishments as Assemblyman was his sponsorship of the New Jersey Bias Crimes Act, which has become the primary vehicle for the prosecution of bias-related crimes in New Jersey. Through his leadership in the State Legislature, he authored and enacted New Jersey's strongest financial disclosure law which won him praise from many grassroots citizen organizations and government reform groups.The Director of New Jersey Common Cause, referred to <mask>'s legislation as "a real reform, not just cosmetic reform...a major milestone in reforming the way New Jersey State government operates." During his tenure in the Assembly, <mask> was also a member of the Insurance and Financial Institution Committee, the Veterans Committee, and the Special Committee on College Alcohol Abuse and Hazing in New Jersey. Edison Councilman
<mask> served as an Edison Township Councilman for eight years between 1981 and 1988, serving as Council President from 1987 through 1988. Spadoro demonstrated an unending commitment to open government, the safety and security of Edison residents and senior citizens, and the preservation of the environment. His involvement with the shutting down and cleaning up of the Kin-Buc chemical waste landfill, a superfund site, extended through his political career into his days as Edison Mayor. Among his accomplishments as Councilman, Spadoro created Edison's Senior Citizen Housing Agency and sponsored the unique Senior Citizens' Set Aside Ordinance, which required developers of multiple-unit dwellings to designate 10% of the total number of units for low and moderate income senior citizens. He led the fight to halt the construction of two co-generation incinerators in Edison and voted to save the Dismal Swamp, a 1,240-acre wetland that serves as the largest natural area in northern Middlesex County.In 1988, he organized the Edison Township Waterfront Recreation Area Study to evaluate the merits of recreational development along miles of the raritan river in Edison. Legal career
Spadoro began his legal career as an associate with a well known and top ranking Wall Street Law Firm, Sullivan & Cromwell. He also spent several years as Assistant General Counsel for a large telecommunications company called Teleprompter Corporation. Later, Spadoro became a senior partner in the law firm Spadoro & Hilson in Woodbridge Township, NJ and was well known and recognized in the Edison community as a leader and citizen activist. On January 1, 2008, Spadoro joined as Senior Member of CSG Law where he counsels senior executives in financing, commercial litigation and strategic planning. His primary areas of practice includes general corporate, commercial and business matters, family-business law, financial matters and mergers and acquisitions. He works with accountants and other tax experts to advise U.S. clients on their domestic legal structures.Spadoro also advises on international matters and has experience negotiating cross-border transactions. Current life
In addition to maintaining a full-time legal practice, Spadoro now provides expert television commentary on legal matters as well as current state and national political issues through multiple media outlets. His wife is the Founder and CEO of Future Care Inc. His son, <mask>, works as a Political Director for U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and was featured in the Insider NJ 2018 Insider 100: Millennials. His Daughter, <mask>, is currently the President and Founder of CYB Human Resources LLC, a human resource management service company and CYBHR, an online HR company. His Daughter, <mask>, is a staff member at Pace University, a private University located in downtown Manhattan. References
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Individual members of the Hastings Faculty helped him with the program. The California Supreme Court Externship Program allowed a carefully selected student to spend a considerable part of a full semester working as a judicial clerk under the auspices of a California Supreme Court judge. <mask> attended the University of California Hastings College of Law. In 1973. Spadoro ran for public office for the first time in 1978 and received 42% of the vote. Spadoro was a member of the council.The mayor of New Jersey was elected in 1993. His campaign focused on the issues of job creation and tax stabilization, environmental protection and the preservation of open spaces. On January 1, 1994, <mask> took office. He won a second term in 1997. <mask> received 14,081 votes. Eileen Germain Teffenhart received 5,782. After being sworn in as Mayor, Spadoro hosted the visit of President Bill Clinton to Edison.The President delivered an address to the American Association of Retired Persons. On March 23, <mask> led the response to the Texas Eastern gas line explosion and fire at the Durham Woods Apartment Complex. He was praised for his emergency response and was also recorded banging on doors to help evacuate apartment residents in the nearby explosion. The explosion caused 1,500 residents to be evacuated, 100 were homeless, 60 were injured, and one died of a heart attack. After the disaster, he fought to improve the conditions for the safety of the pipes. The mayor cited a number of measures taken to make the township safer, including the reverse 911 system, a state-of-the-art emergency communications center, and improved public safety equipment. Mayor <mask> proposed a tax rate that was stable for almost 100,000 residents.The establishment of the Edison Economic Development Corporation was one of the major efforts to create a business-friendly environment in the area. The establishment of the Youth Service Corps is one of the achievements. In exchange for modest wages and college tuition assistance, high school students in the Youth Service Corps perform a wide range of community service activities. The formation of a community-policing program was one of <mask>'s accomplishments as Mayor. The goal of the program is to better understand problems in the community and to stop crimes before they occur. The first Police Bike Patrol, Civilian Police Academy, and other programs were part of Community Policing. In 1997 and 2001 <mask> was re-elected as Mayor and the people voted to keep him there.On January 1, 2002, he began his third term. The establishment of the Edison Arts Society was a triumph for the Mayor, as he increased community awareness about the rich arts culture in the area. Robert Pastorelli, who played Eldin on Murphy Brown, was the speaker at the first Arts Summit. Following the establishment of the Arts Society, there were a number of programs, including an Annual High School Art Competition, Holiday Dance Extravaganza, Poetry readings, and Outreach Workshops in poetry, drama, and art. The implementation of a new defibrillator program was announced in 1999. Mayor <mask> wanted to save lives by increasing the number of defibrillators and training personnel to use them. The program included training of police, fire, and municipal personnel.He introduced a police car take home program, reducing maintenance costs and increasing police visibility in the community. Spadoro, along with many other New York municipalities, authorized members of the Edison Police and Fire Department to provide emergency response support to ground zero after the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Spadoro had the Edison Police Department work with the terrorism task force after 9/11. One of the largest towns near New York City was a target-rich environment with potential sites for warehouses, distribution centers, factories and chemical plants. He allocated $500,000/year for five years for more police officers, training for first responders, new equipment to deal with terrorism, and the formation of a police intelligence unit. He was involved in the coordinated network of intelligence gathering and emergency responses. He dealt with an attack on a city post-office and other safety concerns after 9/11.On December 9, 2001, Ford announced their plans to close their assembly plant, which was expected to impact 1,700 employees. Spadoro played a role in attempts to prevent the massive layoff when he urged an "economic summit" with Ford officials, the United Auto Workers and members of McGreevey's administration. James McGreevey and his family traveled to Michigan to meet with Ford executives. 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46238740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Greaney%20%28novelist%29 | Mark Greaney (novelist) | Mark Greaney (born 1967) is an American novelist. He is best known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe following Clancy's death in 2013. He is also known for the "Gray Man" series of novels, which will be produced by Netflix into a feature film.
Early life and family
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he is the son of Ed Greaney, a presence at WMC-TV Memphis for over 50 years and the namesake for the station's current newsroom. Greaney has degrees in political science and international relations, which would later play a major part in his writing career. Mark continues to reside in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife Allison.
Writing career
The Gray Man
Greaney previously worked as a waiter and bartender for ten years, then later in a surgical technology company, while working on two novels in his spare time. After finishing one of them, titled Goon Squad and was primarily about the aftermath of the Bosnian civil war, he gave the first 20 pages of his work to his favorite author Ralph Peters's agent, Scott Miller, in a book conference in September 2006. Miller liked the book but later did not go forward with it, saying that "it was unmarketable," according to Greaney. But he urged Greaney to write another one based from a character in Goon Squad named Court Gentry, which would later be The Gray Man. After finishing this novel, Miller agreed to represent him, and later found a publisher, Jove Books.
The national success of The Gray Man made Greaney quit his job in the medical devices company and make the transition to becoming a full-time writer. He was later given a three-book deal by his publisher in 2009. In addition, The Gray Man's success spawned an equally successful series, with eight more sequels as of 2021: On Target (2010), Ballistic (2011), Dead Eye (2013), Back Blast (2016), Gunmetal Gray (2017), Agent in Place (2018), Mission Critical (2019), One Minute Out (2020), and Relentless (2021).
The film adaptation of The Gray Man is set to be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo for Netflix, with Ryan Gosling to star as Gentry and Chris Evans as nemesis Lloyd.
Working with Tom Clancy
Greaney has been a fan of Tom Clancy for years and has read all of his books, beginning with Patriot Games. So when Clancy was looking for a new co-author, Greaney found out that his editor at Berkley Books, Tom Colgan was also Clancy's editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons. His editor later referred to his agent, who asked Greaney to be Clancy's co-author. Commenting on the experience, Greaney recalled: "I wish I could say I was excited, but the truth is, I was terrified. After I caught my breath, I offered to 'try out' because there were some other authors also in the running. I wrote twenty-five pages, handed them in and soon thereafter, I was in Baltimore meeting with Tom Clancy." They later collaborated on Clancy's last three novels before his death in October 2013: Locked On (2012), Threat Vector (2013), and Command Authority (2013).
After Clancy's death, with the backing of his family and estate, Greaney continued the Jack Ryan and The Campus Universe left behind by Clancy, and has written four more novels as of 2016: Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (2014), Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect (2014), Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief (2015) and Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance (2016). Regarding the publisher's decision to feature Clancy's name at the top in massive letters and having his name in smaller letters for the covers of the post-Clancy novels, Greaney commented: "It really feels like a humongous honor to do it. I get pretty good billing. The Tom Clancy name is one thing you can put on your book that will make it stand out from across the room".
On 19 February 2017, Greaney announced that he will exit the Jack Ryan Universe franchise. Replacing Greaney will be novelist Marc Cameron, previously known for his Jericho Quinn series of thrillers. Greaney later said of his departure from the Jack Ryan universe:
Other works
Greaney's first standalone work, a military thriller titled Red Metal and co-authored with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV, USMC, was released on 16 July 2019. The novel debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list in August 2019. This was the first time Greaney appeared in the NYT Bestseller's list twice in the same calendar year. The book is notable for its comparisons to Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising (1986), which is also his first standalone novel that deals with a large scale military conflict between NATO and Russia.
In 2020, Greaney and Rawlings both announced via social media and web interviews that they had been contracted by Penguin Publishers to write the next in the Red Metal series. The release date was unspecified but was said to be sometime in 2021. Greaney's audiobook thriller Armored, will be released on December 9, 2021, and will be adapted by Sony Pictures and producer Michael Bay.
Bibliography
The Gray Man series
The Gray Man (2009)
On Target (2010)
Ballistic (2011)
Dead Eye (2013)
Back Blast (2016)
Gunmetal Gray (2017)
Agent in Place (2018)
Mission Critical (2019)
One Minute Out (2020)
Relentless (2021)
Sierra Six (2022)
Burner (2023)
Jack Ryan series
Featuring characters created by Tom Clancy
Locked On – with Tom Clancy (2011)
Threat Vector – with Tom Clancy (2012)
Command Authority – with Tom Clancy (2013)
Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (2014)
Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect (2014)
Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief (2015)
Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance (2016)
Standalone novels
Red Metal (with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV) (2019)
Unnamed sequel (with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV) (2021)
References
External links
Mark Greaney Books
Audio Interview with Mark Greaney Talking about "True Faith and Allegiance", 6 December 2016
Modern Signed Books BlogTalkRadio Interview with Mark Greaney Talking about "Gun Metal Gray", 28 March 2017
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"Mark Greaney (born 1967) is an American novelist.",
"He is best known as Tom Clancy's collaborator on his final books during his lifetime, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe following Clancy's death in 2013.",
"He is also known for the \"Gray Man\" series of novels, which will be produced by Netflix into a feature film.",
"Early life and family\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, he is the son of Ed Greaney, a presence at WMC-TV Memphis for over 50 years and the namesake for the station's current newsroom.",
"Greaney has degrees in political science and international relations, which would later play a major part in his writing career.",
"Mark continues to reside in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife Allison.",
"Writing career\n\nThe Gray Man \nGreaney previously worked as a waiter and bartender for ten years, then later in a surgical technology company, while working on two novels in his spare time.",
"After finishing one of them, titled Goon Squad and was primarily about the aftermath of the Bosnian civil war, he gave the first 20 pages of his work to his favorite author Ralph Peters's agent, Scott Miller, in a book conference in September 2006.",
"Miller liked the book but later did not go forward with it, saying that \"it was unmarketable,\" according to Greaney.",
"But he urged Greaney to write another one based from a character in Goon Squad named Court Gentry, which would later be The Gray Man.",
"After finishing this novel, Miller agreed to represent him, and later found a publisher, Jove Books.",
"The national success of The Gray Man made Greaney quit his job in the medical devices company and make the transition to becoming a full-time writer.",
"He was later given a three-book deal by his publisher in 2009.",
"In addition, The Gray Man's success spawned an equally successful series, with eight more sequels as of 2021: On Target (2010), Ballistic (2011), Dead Eye (2013), Back Blast (2016), Gunmetal Gray (2017), Agent in Place (2018), Mission Critical (2019), One Minute Out (2020), and Relentless (2021).",
"The film adaptation of The Gray Man is set to be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo for Netflix, with Ryan Gosling to star as Gentry and Chris Evans as nemesis Lloyd.",
"Working with Tom Clancy \nGreaney has been a fan of Tom Clancy for years and has read all of his books, beginning with Patriot Games.",
"So when Clancy was looking for a new co-author, Greaney found out that his editor at Berkley Books, Tom Colgan was also Clancy's editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons.",
"His editor later referred to his agent, who asked Greaney to be Clancy's co-author.",
"Commenting on the experience, Greaney recalled: \"I wish I could say I was excited, but the truth is, I was terrified.",
"After I caught my breath, I offered to 'try out' because there were some other authors also in the running.",
"I wrote twenty-five pages, handed them in and soon thereafter, I was in Baltimore meeting with Tom Clancy.\"",
"They later collaborated on Clancy's last three novels before his death in October 2013: Locked On (2012), Threat Vector (2013), and Command Authority (2013).",
"After Clancy's death, with the backing of his family and estate, Greaney continued the Jack Ryan and The Campus Universe left behind by Clancy, and has written four more novels as of 2016: Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (2014), Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect (2014), Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief (2015) and Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance (2016).",
"Regarding the publisher's decision to feature Clancy's name at the top in massive letters and having his name in smaller letters for the covers of the post-Clancy novels, Greaney commented: \"It really feels like a humongous honor to do it.",
"I get pretty good billing.",
"The Tom Clancy name is one thing you can put on your book that will make it stand out from across the room\".",
"On 19 February 2017, Greaney announced that he will exit the Jack Ryan Universe franchise.",
"Replacing Greaney will be novelist Marc Cameron, previously known for his Jericho Quinn series of thrillers.",
"Greaney later said of his departure from the Jack Ryan universe:\n\nOther works\nGreaney's first standalone work, a military thriller titled Red Metal and co-authored with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV, USMC, was released on 16 July 2019.",
"The novel debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list in August 2019.",
"This was the first time Greaney appeared in the NYT Bestseller's list twice in the same calendar year.",
"The book is notable for its comparisons to Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising (1986), which is also his first standalone novel that deals with a large scale military conflict between NATO and Russia.",
"In 2020, Greaney and Rawlings both announced via social media and web interviews that they had been contracted by Penguin Publishers to write the next in the Red Metal series.",
"The release date was unspecified but was said to be sometime in 2021.",
"Greaney's audiobook thriller Armored, will be released on December 9, 2021, and will be adapted by Sony Pictures and producer Michael Bay.",
"Bibliography\n\nThe Gray Man series\n The Gray Man (2009)\n On Target (2010)\n Ballistic (2011)\n Dead Eye (2013)\n Back Blast (2016)\n Gunmetal Gray (2017)\n Agent in Place (2018)\n Mission Critical (2019)\n One Minute Out (2020)\n Relentless (2021)\n Sierra Six (2022)\n Burner (2023)\n\nJack Ryan series\nFeaturing characters created by Tom Clancy\n Locked On – with Tom Clancy (2011)\n Threat Vector – with Tom Clancy (2012) \n Command Authority – with Tom Clancy (2013)\n Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (2014) \n Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect (2014)\n Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief (2015)\n Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance (2016)\n\nStandalone novels\n Red Metal (with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV) (2019)\n Unnamed sequel (with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV) (2021)\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links \n Mark Greaney Books\n Audio Interview with Mark Greaney Talking about \"True Faith and Allegiance\", 6 December 2016\n Modern Signed Books BlogTalkRadio Interview with Mark Greaney Talking about \"Gun Metal Gray\", 28 March 2017\n\n21st-century American novelists\nAmerican male novelists\nLiving people\n21st-century American male writers\n1967 births\n20th-century American novelists\n20th-century American male writers"
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"He is best known for his work on Tom Clancy's final books, and for continuing the Jack Ryan character and the Tom Clancy universe after Clancy's death.",
"He is the author of the \"Gray Man\" series of novels, which will be made into a feature film.",
"He is the son of Ed Greaney, a presence at WMC-TV Memphis for over 50 years and the name of the station's current newsroom.",
"Greaney has degrees in political science and international relations, which helped shape his writing career.",
"Mark and his wife Allison live in Memphis, Tennessee.",
"While working on two novels in his spare time, The Gray Man Greaney previously worked as a waiter and bartender for ten years.",
"He gave the first 20 pages of his work to Scott Miller, his favorite author, after finishing Goon Squad, a novel about the aftermath of the Bosnian civil war.",
"Greaney said that Miller didn't go forward with the book because it was unmarketable.",
"Greaney was urged to write another one based on a character in Goon Squad named Court Gentry.",
"Miller found a publisher after finishing the novel.",
"Greaney quit his job at the medical devices company to become a full-time writer after the national success of The Gray Man.",
"His publisher gave him a three-book deal in 2009.",
"The Gray Man's success spawned an equally successful series, with eight more sequels as of 2021.",
"The film adaptation of The Gray Man will be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans starring.",
"Greaney has been a fan of Tom Clancy for a long time and has read all of his books.",
"Tom Colgan was Clancy's editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons when Clancy was looking for a new co-author.",
"Greaney was asked to be Clancy's co-author by his agent.",
"Greaney said, \"I wish I could say I was excited, but the truth is, I was terrified.\"",
"I offered to try out because there were other authors in the running.",
"I was in Baltimore meeting with Tom Clancy after I wrote twenty-five pages.",
"Clancy's last three novels were collaborated on by them before he died.",
"After Clancy's death, with the backing of his family and estate, Greaney continued the Jack Ryan and The Campus Universe left behind by Clancy, and has written four more novels as of 2016: Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect, Tom Clancy: Support and Defend, and Tom Clancy",
"Greaney commented that it felt like a humongous honor to have Clancy's name on the covers of the post- Clancy novels.",
"I get good billing.",
"One thing you can do to make your book stand out is to put the Tom Clancy name on it.",
"Greaney announced on February 19th that he was leaving the Jack Ryan Universe franchise.",
"The novelist who will replace Greaney is known for his series of thrillers.",
"Greaney's first work, a military thriller titled Red Metal, was released on July 16, 2019.",
"The novel was on the New York Times list.",
"Greaney appeared in the NYT's list twice in the same year for the first time.",
"The book is similar to Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising, which deals with a large scale military conflict between NATO and Russia.",
"In 2020, Greaney and Rawlings both announced via social media and web interviews that they had been contracted by Penguin Publishers to write the next in the Red Metal series.",
"It was said that the release date was in 2021.",
"Greaney's audiobook thriller Armored will be released on December 9, 2021, and will be adapted by Sony Pictures and Michael Bay.",
"The Gray Man series was created by Tom Clancy."
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Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he is the son of <mask>, a presence at WMC-TV Memphis for over 50 years and the namesake for the station's current newsroom. Greaney has degrees in political science and international relations, which would later play a major part in his writing career. <mask> continues to reside in Memphis, Tennessee with his wife Allison. Writing career
The Gray Man
Greaney previously worked as a waiter and bartender for ten years, then later in a surgical technology company, while working on two novels in his spare time.After finishing one of them, titled Goon Squad and was primarily about the aftermath of the Bosnian civil war, he gave the first 20 pages of his work to his favorite author Ralph Peters's agent, Scott Miller, in a book conference in September 2006. Miller liked the book but later did not go forward with it, saying that "it was unmarketable," according to <mask>. But he urged <mask> to write another one based from a character in Goon Squad named Court Gentry, which would later be The Gray Man. After finishing this novel, Miller agreed to represent him, and later found a publisher, Jove Books. The national success of The Gray Man made <mask> quit his job in the medical devices company and make the transition to becoming a full-time writer. He was later given a three-book deal by his publisher in 2009. In addition, The Gray Man's success spawned an equally successful series, with eight more sequels as of 2021: On Target (2010), Ballistic (2011), Dead Eye (2013), Back Blast (2016), Gunmetal Gray (2017), Agent in Place (2018), Mission Critical (2019), One Minute Out (2020), and Relentless (2021).The film adaptation of The Gray Man is set to be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo for Netflix, with Ryan Gosling to star as Gentry and Chris Evans as nemesis Lloyd. Working with Tom Clancy
<mask> has been a fan of Tom Clancy for years and has read all of his books, beginning with Patriot Games. So when Clancy was looking for a new co-author, <mask> found out that his editor at Berkley Books, Tom Colgan was also Clancy's editor at G. P. Putnam's Sons. His editor later referred to his agent, who asked Greaney to be Clancy's co-author. Commenting on the experience, Greaney recalled: "I wish I could say I was excited, but the truth is, I was terrified. After I caught my breath, I offered to 'try out' because there were some other authors also in the running. I wrote twenty-five pages, handed them in and soon thereafter, I was in Baltimore meeting with Tom Clancy."They later collaborated on Clancy's last three novels before his death in October 2013: Locked On (2012), Threat Vector (2013), and Command Authority (2013). After Clancy's death, with the backing of his family and estate, <mask> continued the Jack Ryan and The Campus Universe left behind by Clancy, and has written four more novels as of 2016: Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (2014), Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect (2014), Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief (2015) and Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance (2016). Regarding the publisher's decision to feature Clancy's name at the top in massive letters and having his name in smaller letters for the covers of the post-Clancy novels, <mask> commented: "It really feels like a humongous honor to do it. I get pretty good billing. The Tom Clancy name is one thing you can put on your book that will make it stand out from across the room". On 19 February 2017, <mask> announced that he will exit the Jack Ryan Universe franchise. Replacing <mask> will be novelist Marc Cameron, previously known for his Jericho Quinn series of thrillers.<mask> later said of his departure from the Jack Ryan universe:
Other works
<mask>'s first standalone work, a military thriller titled Red Metal and co-authored with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV, USMC, was released on 16 July 2019. The novel debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list in August 2019. This was the first time <mask> appeared in the NYT Bestseller's list twice in the same calendar year. The book is notable for its comparisons to Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising (1986), which is also his first standalone novel that deals with a large scale military conflict between NATO and Russia. In 2020, <mask> and Rawlings both announced via social media and web interviews that they had been contracted by Penguin Publishers to write the next in the Red Metal series. The release date was unspecified but was said to be sometime in 2021. <mask>'s audiobook thriller Armored, will be released on December 9, 2021, and will be adapted by Sony Pictures and producer Michael Bay.Bibliography
The Gray Man series
The Gray Man (2009)
On Target (2010)
Ballistic (2011)
Dead Eye (2013)
Back Blast (2016)
Gunmetal Gray (2017)
Agent in Place (2018)
Mission Critical (2019)
One Minute Out (2020)
Relentless (2021)
Sierra Six (2022)
Burner (2023)
Jack Ryan series
Featuring characters created by Tom Clancy
Locked On – with Tom Clancy (2011)
Threat Vector – with Tom Clancy (2012)
Command Authority – with Tom Clancy (2013)
Tom Clancy: Support and Defend (2014)
Tom Clancy: Full Force and Effect (2014)
Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief (2015)
Tom Clancy: True Faith and Allegiance (2016)
Standalone novels
Red Metal (with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV) (2019)
Unnamed sequel (with Lieutenant Colonel H. Ripley Rawlings IV) (2021)
References
External links
Mark Greaney Books
Audio Interview with <mask> Talking about "True Faith and Allegiance", 6 December 2016
Modern Signed Books BlogTalkRadio Interview with <mask> Talking about "Gun Metal Gray", 28 March 2017
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Living people
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4532826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Bo%C5%BEi%C4%8Devi%C4%87 | Ivan Božičević | Ivan Božičević (born 27 May 1961 in Belgrade, Serbia) is a Croatian composer, pianist, organist and jazz musician.
Biography
Božičević was born in Belgrade. After initial piano studies, he joined the composition class of A. Obradović at the Belgrade Faculty of Music. He graduated in 1984, earning a master's degree in 1989. Until 2001 he occupied a teaching post for Harmony, Counterpoint and Analysis there and at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. In December 2001 he moved to Split, Croatia, where he started working as a free-lance artist. As of 2018, Ivan leads the newly formed composition class at the Split Academy of Arts.
From 1984 to 1988 he studied organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt with the renowned professor Edgar Krapp. His work encompasses a broad repertoire, with special emphasis on baroque and modern music. Specializes early organ music in Salamanca (with Guy Bovet and Montserrat Torrent). Gives many successful concerts in Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States.
His creative output encompasses three symphonies, orchestral, chamber, choir and soloistic works, as well as electronic compositions and jazz music. He received numerous composition awards, and his works are frequently played on radio, TV and concerts (performances in Croatia, Germany, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States).
After moving to Split, he widens his music activity to include organ and piano playing, composing, arranging and theatre music. His collaborations include top Croatian jazz and pop musicians (Dražen Bogdanović, Tedi Spalato, Hari Rončević) as well as Dalmatian klapa ensembles («Cambi»). Božičević runs a jazz-band called SplitMinders, whose repertoire is based on originals and arrangements of dalmatian folk songs. He also works with the fusion band "Waveform" and various other jazz, blues and bossa-nova formations. Božičević is a founding member of the Split society for contemporary music ("Splithesis", 2008). As of 2018, he leads a newly-formed composition class at the Academy of Arts in Split.
Awards and recognitions
Awards that Božičević has received for his compositions include: Stevan Hristić Award, Silver Medal of the Belgrade University of Arts (Serbia); Mandolina Imota, Cro Patria Golden Cathedral, Hrvatski sabor kulture (Croatia); CEC Artslink Fellowship Award, Garth Newel Award, Aliénor Award, AGO/ECS Publishing Award, AGO/Marilyn Mason Award, Random Access Music Award, (United States); Anton Stadler Award, John Clare Award (United Kingdom); Prague Philharmonic Choir Composition Award (Czech Republic); Premio Cristobal Halffter (Spain); Trio Anima Mundi Prize (Australia).
Selection of works
Symphony orchestra:
Music for big orchestra (1983)
Essercizi sinfonici (1986)
Five haiku after Bashô (1989)
Chamber ensembles:
Sonata (1981) for violin and piano
Three ‘female’ songs (1981) for soprano voice and piano
Pathways (1982) for string quartet
Rivers, like in a dream (1983) for bass-clarinet and organ
Play E.S. (1983) for two women's voices, bass-clarinet, piano, organ, synthesizer and percussion
Essercizi da camera (1985) for 13 string players
Chamber Music (1986) for soprano voice, violoncello and piano (poetry of J. Joyce, in English)
Mandorle dolce, mandorle amare (1999) for mandolin orchestra
Marittimo (2006) for oboe, piano and string orchestra; version for soprano saxophone, piano and string quintet (2008); version for trumpet, piano and string quintet (2010)
Airborne (2007) for bas clarinet and string quartet (or string orchestra); version for clarinet and string quartet (2008)
Pebbles (2008) for flute, oboe, double-bass and piano
Cascades classiques (2008) for string orchestra
Canto de la ave rapiega (2009) for violoncello and piano; version for bass clarinet and piano, version for bass clarinet and organ (2012)
A thousand pines, one Moon (2009) for chamber ensemble; version for two pianos (2012)
Lamento (2009) for alto flute and organ
Tracing (2010) for one harmony and three melody instruments
Sustainable development (2010) for chamber ensemble; version for two pianos (2016)
Raven's Pass (2010) for basset clarinet and piano
Monkey Face (2010) for violin, viola, cello and piano; version for string quartet and piano (2016)
Spring passes (2011) for piano four-hands and string quintet; version for two pianos (2013)
Alienor Courante (2011) for soprano (or choir), cello (or gamba) and harpsichord
Ascent to the Cold Mountain (2012) for string quartet
Prayer Wheel/Coiling Clouds (2013) for saxophone quartet
Shaken From a Crane's Bill (2014) for clarinet, violin and piano
Come, Sit With Me in the Clouds (2016) for violin, cello and piano
Ibis (2016) for flute, cello and piano
Circling (2017) for clarinet quartet; also version for guitar quartet
Cor mundum (2018) for soprano voice, flute and organ
Keyboard instruments:
Five haiku after Bashô (1987) for organ
Sotto voce (1994/2008) for piano
Behind the cloud (1996) for organ
Microgrooves (2011) for harpsichord; version for organ (2016)
Summer in the world (2013) for harpsichord
If There Is a Place Between (2014) for harpsichord
The Moonpiper (2015) for organ
Summer Triptych (2015) for organ
Radiance Triptych (2016) for organ
Ariel (2017) for two pianos
Computer-controlled electronics:
Senecio / Astrolabe (1992)
Sanza (1992)
Isle of voices (1992), cycle of 6 pieces
Moon's turning point (1993)
Weather Forecast of the Heart (2015) for clarinet and electronics
Hunter's Moon (2019) for flute, violoncello and electronics
Choral music:
Good Shepherd (2000), for women's choir and piano
Sundial (2003), for women's choir, percussion and piano
Veronica (2004), for women's choir and piano
The Everlasting Voices (2010), for women's choir; version for mixed choir (2010)
Kyrie eleison (2012), for mixed choir and organ
Spring passes (2012), for 8-part mixed choir and piano 4-hands; version for mixed choir a cappella ("Yuku haru ya")
With a glorious eye (2014), for mixed choir and organ
Cor mundum (2017), for mixed choir
Theoretical:
Technique and structure of fugue in organ works of D. Buxtehude (1995), dissertation paper
Introduction to Renaissance and Baroque ornamentation (1998)
References
External links
Home Page of Ivan Božičević
MySpace page of Ivan Božičević
MySpace page of SplitMinders
Hrvatsko društvo skladatelja - Ivan Božičević (in Croatian)
Diskografija.com - Ivan Božičević
Living people
1961 births
Croatian composers
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Awards that <mask> has received for his compositions include: Stevan Hristić Award, Silver Medal of the Belgrade University of Arts (Serbia); Mandolina Imota, Cro Patria Golden Cathedral, Hrvatski sabor kulture (Croatia); CEC Artslink Fellowship Award, Garth Newel Award, Aliénor Award, AGO/ECS Publishing Award, AGO/Marilyn Mason Award, Random Access Music Award, (United States); Anton Stadler Award, John Clare Award (United Kingdom); Prague Philharmonic Choir Composition Award (Czech Republic); Premio Cristobal Halffter (Spain); Trio Anima Mundi Prize (Australia). Selection of works
Symphony orchestra:
Music for big orchestra (1983)
Essercizi sinfonici (1986)
Five haiku after Bashô (1989)
Chamber ensembles:
Sonata (1981) for violin and piano
Three ‘female’ songs (1981) for soprano voice and piano
Pathways (1982) for string quartet
Rivers, like in a dream (1983) for bass-clarinet and organ
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50994312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ros%20Schwartz | Ros Schwartz | Ros Schwartz is an English literary translator, who translates Francophone literature into English. In 2009 she was awarded the Chevalier d’Honneur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to French literature.
Career
Alongside literary translation, Schwartz has served on the boards and committees of various literary and translation organisations: Vice-Chair of the Translators Association; Chair of the European Council of Literary Translators Associations (CEATL) from 2000 to 2009; Chair of the Advisory Panel to the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) from 2005 to 2009; and Chair of English PEN's Writers in Translation Programme from 2010 to 2014. She has worked to develop literary translation as a profession by supporting young translators, initiating mentoring schemes, summer schools (e.g. Translate in the City, first at Birkbeck College, then at City University London), workshops and masterclasses (e.g. at Goldsmiths College, the University of Middlesex, Universities of Westminster, East Anglia, Bath, Warwick, Leicester, Glasgow and Manchester).
Schwartz has also written about literary translation: see, for example, "A Dialogue: On a Translator's Interventions", by Ros Schwartz and Nicholas de Lange, in Susan Bassnett and Peter Bush (eds), The Translator as Writer (Continuum, London and New York, 2006), and articles published in The Linguist, the ATA Bulletin, The ITI Bulletin, Context (nos 20, 21, 21 - Dalkey Archive Press), and the British Council literary translation website. She is a regular contributor to In Other Words, the journal of the Translators Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation.
She was also a consultant on the revised Robert and Collins French-English/English-French Dictionary; a judge for the Larousse "Grand Prix de la Traduction", Paris, 1995; and a judge for the Aurora Borealis Prize of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs 1999.
Honours and Prizes
2009 - Chevalier d’Honneur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2006 - Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award 2006 for her translation (in collaboration with Amanda Hopkinson) of Dead Horsemeat, by Dominque Manotti
2008 - Winner of the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award 2008 for her translation of Lorraine Connection, by Dominque Manotti
2013 - Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award (BTBA) for her translation of Kite, by Dominique Eddé
2013 - Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for her translation of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2016 - Winner of a PEN Translates and a PEN Promotes award for Sur ma mère, by Tahar Ben Jelloun
2016 - Winner of a PEN Translates award for The Meteorologist, by Olivier Rolin
Honorary Member of the European Council of Literary Translators Associations (CEATL)
2017 - Awarded the 2017 John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence, by the Institute of Translating and Interpreting (ITI)
Translations from French
Schwartz has translated numerous French and Francophone authors including Catherine Clément, Georges Simenon, Régine Deforges, , Dominique Manotti, Claudine Vegh, Emmanuel Raynaud, Aziz Chouaki, Fatou Diome, Yasmina Khadra, Julien Neel, Jacqueline Harpmann, Olivier Roy, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She recently produced new translations of classic favourites, such as Le Petit Prince and has been part of the international team re-translating the novels of Georges Simenon into English.
Translations: fiction
The Blue Bicycle, Régine Deforges (W. H. Allen, 1985; Lyle Stuart, USA)
101 Avenue Henri Martin, Régine Deforges (W. H. Allen, 1986; Lyle Stuart, USA)
The Devil is still laughing, Régine Deforges (W. H. Allen, 1987; Lyle Stuart, USA)
Resting in Peace, Marta Caraion (2 Plus 2, 1986) – short story
Black Docker, Ousmane Sembène (William Heinemann, 1987) – novel
The Net, Ilie Nastase (W. H. Allen, June 1987) – novel
Desperate Spring, Fettouma Touati (The Women's Press, 1987) – novel
Return to Beirut, Andrée Chedid (Serpents Tail, 1989) – novel
The Passion of Women, Sébastien Japrisot (Crown, 1990)
Extracts from novels by Agnès Desarthe and Marie Desplechin, in ExCITÉs (Flamingo, 1999)
First Novel, Mazarine Pingeot (Harvill, 1999)
In the Name of God, Yasmina Khadra (Toby Press, 1999) (under nom de plume Linda Black)
Wolf Dreams, Yasmina Khadra (Toby Press, 2003) (under nom de plume Linda Black)
(with Lulu Norman) The Star of Algiers, Aziz Chouaki, (Graywolf Press, USA, 2005; Serpents Tail, London, 2006)
Belly of the Atlantic, Fatou Diome, with Lulu Norman (Serpents Tail, 2006)
Kite, Dominique Eddé (Seagull Press, 2012) – longlisted for the 2013 Best Translation Fiction Book Award (USA)
Kamal Jann, Dominique Eddé (Seagull Press, July 2014)
The People in the Photo, Hélène Gestern (Gallic Books, Feb 2014)
Zenith Hotel, Oscar Coop-Phane (March 2014)
The Reader on the 6.27, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, Mantle – Waterstones novel of the month, May 2106
Sur ma mère, Tahar Ben Jelloun (Telegram, 2016) – Winner of a PEN Translates and a PEN Promotes award
The Meteorologist, Olivier Rolin (Harvill Secker, 2016) – Winner of a PEN Translates award
The Rest of their Lives, Jean-Paul Didierlaurnet, PanMacmillan, 2017
The Book of Wonders, Julien Sandrel, Quercus, 2019
I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman, Vintage, 2019
The Girl who Reads on the Metro, Christine Feret-Fleury, PanMacmillan, 2019
A Long Way from Douala, Max Lobe (HopeRoad, 2020
Translations: drama
A Little Grain of Sand, by Christophe Allwright – performed New Orleans 2002 and White Bear Theatre, London, 2004
In Spitting Distance, by Taher Najib, based on the French translation from the Hebrew by Jacqueline Carnaud – selected for the 2012 HotInk festival in New York
A Play: The Mating Game
Translations: children's books
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Collectors Library, 2010) – Shortlisted for the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation 2013
Book of the Stars, Quadehar, Erik L’homme (Chickenhouse Publishers, Scholastic USA, 2003)
Book of the Stars, Lord Sha, Erik L’homme (Chickenhouse Publishers, Scholastic USA, 2004)
Book of the Stars, The Face of the Shadow (Chickenhouse Publishers, Scholastic USA, 2006)
Martine (4 albums) (Casterman, Brussels, 2006)
Jefferson, Jean-Claude Mourlevat, Andersen Press, 2020
Translations: crime fiction
Dead Horsemeat, Dominque Manotti (in collaboration with Amanda Hopkinson) (Arcadia, London, 2006) – Shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award 2006
Paris Noir (Serpents Tail, 2007)
Lorraine Connection, Dominque Manotti (Arcadia, 2007) – Winner of the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award 2008
Affairs of State, Dominique Manotti (Arcadia, 2009)
Escape, Dominique Manotti (Arcadia, June 2014)
15 Maigret titles by Georges Simenon for the new Penguin Classics Simenon series:
The Shadow Puppet (2014)
Maigret Gets Angry (2015)
Maigret (2015)
The Madman of Bergerac (2015)
Maigret`s First Case (2016)
Maigret`s Holiday (2016)
Maigret and the Old Lady (2016)
Maigret is Afraid (2017)
Maigret and the Minister (2017)
Maigret in Court (2018)
Maigret and the Ghost (2018)
Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse (2018)
Maigret in Vichy (2019)
Maigret and Monsieur Charles (2020)
Maigret and the Wine Merchant (2020)
Betty, Georges Simenon, 2021
Translations: graphic albums
Lou, albums 1, 2, 3, Julien Neel (Highland Books, 2007, 2008) – teenage graphic albums
Lou, albums 4 and 5, Julien Neel (Highland Books, 2011) – teenage graphic albums
Lou! (1) Dairy Dates
Lou! (2) Summertime Blues
Lou! (3) Down in the Dump
Lou! (4) Romances
Lou! (5) Laser Ninja
Translations: poetry
Metropolitain, Arthur Rimbaud (with Anthony Rudolf) in All that Mighty Heart, London Poems, ed. Lisa Russ Spaar (University of Virginia Press, 2008)
Translations: non-fiction
Holy Virility, Emmanuel Raynaud (Pluto Press, 1982) – Sociology/history
I Didn’t Say Goodbye, Claudine Vegh (Caliban Books 1984; E. P. Dutton, USA, 1985) – Interviews with Holocaust survivors
Cuisine Extraordinaire (Conran Octopus and Mcgraw Hill, April 1988)
The Reformation, ed. Pierre Chaunu (Alan Sutton, 1989) (co-translator) – history
The Book of Inventions and Discoveries (Queen Anne Press, 1990, 1991, 1992)
Women in Evidence, Sébastien Japrisot (Secker and Warburg 1991; Crown USA)
Dining with Proust, Anne Borel, Alain Senderens (Ebury Press, 1992)
The Gallimard Guidebook Series: Amsterdam, Vienna (Everyman's Library, 1993)
Russian Art Collectors, Christina Burrus (Tauris Parke Books, 1994)
Allah O Akbar, Abbas (Phaidon Press, 1994) (under nom de plume Linda Black)
A History of Scientific Thought, Michel Serres (Blackwell, 1995)
Pushing back the Horizons (Editions du Rouergue/Council of Europe, 1994)
Skopelos, a brief study of vernacular architecture, Marc Held (1994)
Nature, Artifice and Japanese Culture, Augustin Berque (Pilkington Press, 1996)
The Mistress of Silence, Jacqueline Harpman (Harvill, 1996; Seven Stories USA)
Orlanda, Jacqueline Harpman (Harvill, 1999; Seven Stories USA)
Theo’s Odyssey, Catherine Clément (Flamingo, 1999)
Visitor’s Guide to the Paris Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (1999)
La Prisonnière by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi (Transworld, July 2000; Talk Miramax USA) – Oprah's Book Club selection
Catalogue for the exhibition Paris en Relief, Musée Carnavalet (September 2000)
Catalogues for the Toulouse Lautrec, Miró, Braque and Artists of the 20th century exhibitions held at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
Chocolat mon amour, M. Richart (Somogy, 2001)
Inside the Mind of Killer, Jean-François Abgrall (Profile Books, 2004)
Alexander Villedieu’s Fountain Pen, Michel Guede (Editions la mesure du possible, Brussels, 2006)
Iran and the Bomb, Thérèse Delpech (Hurst & Co., 2007)
The Enigma of Islamist Violence, (co-translator), Amélie Blom, Laetitia Bucaille and Luis Martinez eds. (Hurst & Co., 2007)
The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, Olivier Roy (Hurst and Co. 2008)
Beckett before Beckett (Souvenir Press, 2008)
Holy Ignorance, Olivier Roy (Hurst & Co., 2010)
Russie, l’Envers du Pouvoir, Marie Mendras (Hurst, 2012)
The Crime of Jean Genet, Dominique Eddé (Seagull Press, 2016)
Translation as Transhumance, Mireille Gansel – winner of a February 2016 French Voices Award
Selfies, Sylvie Weil (Les Fugitives 2019)
Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel, Dominique Eddé, Verso, 2019
External links
Profile on WorldCat
Profile at English PEN Writers in Translation
Profile on Words Without Borders
Ros Schwartz and her authors
Ros Schwartz on YouTube
References
French–English translators
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Literary translators
British speculative fiction translators
Living people
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Lou! (2) Summertime Blues
Lou! (3) Down in the Dump
Lou! (4) Romances
Lou!(5) Laser Ninja
Translations: poetry
Metropolitain, Arthur Rimbaud (with Anthony Rudolf) in All that Mighty Heart, London Poems, ed. Lisa Russ Spaar (University of Virginia Press, 2008)
Translations: non-fiction
Holy Virility, Emmanuel Raynaud (Pluto Press, 1982) – Sociology/history
I Didn’t Say Goodbye, Claudine Vegh (Caliban Books 1984; E. P. Dutton, USA, 1985) – Interviews with Holocaust survivors
Cuisine Extraordinaire (Conran Octopus and Mcgraw Hill, April 1988)
The Reformation, ed. (Hurst & Co., 2007)
The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East, Olivier Roy (Hurst and Co. 2008)
Beckett before Beckett (Souvenir Press, 2008)
Holy Ignorance, Olivier Roy (Hurst & Co., 2010)
Russie, l’Envers du Pouvoir, Marie Mendras (Hurst, 2012)
The Crime of Jean Genet, Dominique Eddé (Seagull Press, 2016)
Translation as Transhumance, Mireille Gansel – winner of a February 2016 French Voices Award
Selfies, Sylvie Weil (Les Fugitives 2019)
Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel, Dominique Eddé, Verso, 2019
External links
Profile on WorldCat
Profile at English PEN Writers in Translation
Profile on Words Without Borders
<mask> <mask> and her authors
<mask> <mask> on YouTube
References
French–English translators
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Literary translators
British speculative fiction translators
Living people
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5756215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20T.%20Rogers | J. T. Rogers | J. T. Rogers is a multiple-award-winning, internationally recognized American playwright who lives in New York. Rogers has written several plays including Oslo, Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar.
In 2017, Rogers' Oslo won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work, the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play,.
Rogers' work has been staged at theaters including London's Royal National Theatre, New York's Lincoln Center Theater and Roundabout Theater, and Australia's Melbourne Theatre Company.
Rogers is now writing for television, including the upcoming HBO Max television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe and produced by Endeavor Content and HBO Max. Rogers has also written for film, including a filmed version of his Tony Award-winning Oslo for HBO, directed by Bartlett Sher and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.
Education
Rogers attended Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri, and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1990, where he studied acting. He also received an honorary doctorate from UNCSA in 2009. Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund.
Career
Rogers has indicated that his playwriting interests include: "stories... framed against great political rupture... [about people] who struggle with, and against... [unfolding] world events — and who are [permanently changed] through that struggle."
Rogers is known for plays that deal with what he called "theater that engages the public realm" in his much-discussed Laura Pels Keynote address to the New York theater community in 2008.
The speech was published as an essay in American Theatre magazine called "Writing Without Borders". His play The Overwhelming, in which an American family who arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 1994, must confront life-and-death realities of the Rwandan genocide, had its world premiere at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in association with Out of Joint, in May 2006. It then toured throughout the UK and was performed on BBC radio. Its American premiere was at the Roundabout Theatre in September 2007.
For the play, Rogers received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award at the 2007 William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas. The Overwhelming has since been done throughout the world, selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and the Chicago Tribune, and nominated for Best Play of the Year by London's South Bank Show and Boston's Elliot Norton Awards.
In 2009, Rogers was the sole American playwright along with 11 British authors to create The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre, London. The cycle of plays was a sensation, garnering an Olivier nomination for all involved.
Rogers wrote the full-length play Blood and Gifts, which debuted at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in September 2010, starring Lloyd Owen with direction by Howard Davies. The play premiered in the US Off-Broadway in October 2011 at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theater, directed by Bartlett Sher. Charles Isherwood, in his review in The New York Times, wrote that the play was "superb", with a "first rate production...the characters...really seem to be living in this turbulent history..." The reviewer for The Guardian, Michael Billington, criticised the writer's "advantage of hindsight which lends much of the action a self-conscious irony" but otherwise praised him for a "complex, demanding play." The play was nominated for the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Lead Actor, Jefferson Mays and the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Jefferson Mays.
J. T. Rogers' play Madagascar is set in a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome. It is about a mysterious disappearance that haunts the life of the play's three characters. It was commissioned by and had its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in November 2004. The play received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, which included its first publication by the University of Tampa Press and a related public dramatic reading. It was also a finalist for the ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award and performed at the Summer Play Festival in New York City in July 2005. The play had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 2010, directed by Sam Strong.<ref>Broadbent, Penelope. "Madagascar] australianstage.com.au, February 19, 2010</ref> The play had its European debut at London's Theatre 503 in May 2010, directed by Tom Littler and featuring Sorcha Cusack, Barry Stanton and Miranda Foster.
Rogers's other plays include White People, which had its world première at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and then received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle and John Barrymore Award nominations for "Best Play of the Year". The revised play was produced by Starry Night Entertainment Off-Broadway in 2009, and has been seen at the English Theatre of Berlin. The play was seen in repertory with Madagascar at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles in 2010. His Seeing the Elephant was nominated for the Joseph Kesselring Prize for "Best New American Play", and his play Murmuring in a Dead Tongue was produced by Epic Rep, in New York City, where he is a company member, in its 2003–2004 season. In 2008, it was mounted as part of the inaugural DC Theater Alliance.
His works have been staged in the United States at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, in London at the Royal National Theatre and on London's West End, and across the world, including: Israel, Australia, South Korea, Germany, Norway, and Canada. Rogers's plays are published by TCG Books and Nick Hern, and Dramatists Play Service in acting editions. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, and American Theatre.
Rogers has given speeches at London's JW3, in New York City at the Sayers & Doers and House of Speakeasy speakers series; and at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. He has taught master classes at Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, New York University, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Rogers' 2016 political drama Oslo became his most successful work to date, including a highly acclaimed Broadway run. Oslo premiered Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theatre to nearly universal acclaim. Oslo transferred to the Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre, a Broadway house, where it opened on April 13, 2017. Of the larger Broadway production, Ben Brantley of the New York Times wrote that "J. T. Rogers's Oslo, an against-the-odds story of international peacemaking, is undeniably a big play, as expansive and ambitious as any in recent Broadway history. So it is particularly gratifying to announce that it has been allowed to stretch to its full height in the thrilling production that opened on Thursday night, directed with a master's hand by Bartlett Sher." Oslo's cast features Jennifer Ehle and Jefferson Mays, who also appeared in the Off-Broadway production.
The Broadway production won seven awards for Best New Play, including the prestigious 2017 Tony Award for Best New Play. After Broadway, Oslo transferred to London for a September 2017 run at the Royal National Theater, followed by a three-month transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End.Oslo currently enjoys a healthy career in repertory theater, having played in 2018 at Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction, Vermont; at the ACT Theater in Seattle, Washington (October and November 2018).
Rogers was selected as one of ten playwrights in the United States to receive a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004–2005, through which he was playwright in residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company (Salt Lake City). In 2004 and 2008, Rogers was awarded playwriting fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His plays are published by Faber and Faber in the US and UK and in acting editions in the US through Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. Rogers is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. In 2012, he won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work.
Plays
Oslo (2016)
Blood and Gifts (2011)
The Overwhelming (2004)
Madagascar (2004)
Murmuring in a Dead Tongue (1998; 2003)
Seeing the Elephant White People Above the Beasts Bob Comes to Life Frankfurt Penetrating Malaysia Guy Talk Lionel's Blue Chicks 'N Beer The Saddest LinesFilm
Rogers wrote the screenplay for a filmed version of his Tony Award-winning play Oslo. The film starred Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott and was directed by Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, who helmed the Broadway play. Steven Spielberg and Marc Platt served as executive producers alongside Rogers, Sher, and Cambra Overend. It is a production of HBO and Endeavor Content.
Television
Rogers is currently writing a television series of the drama Tokyo Vice, based on the non-fiction book by Jake Adelstein. The ten-part series is being produced for HBO Max and stars Ansel Elgort, playing Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. The first episode is being directed by Michael Mann. The series will also feature Ken Watanabe, Odessa Young, and Ella Rumpf. It will chronicle Jake's daily descent into the underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing and no one is what or who they seem.
Rogers is currently writing a TV series for Netflix.
See also
Rwandan genocide
Bibliography of the Rwandan Genocide
References
External links
J.T. Rogers Official Website. March 2017.
American Theatre Critics Association press release. Online posting. 11 Feb. 2005.
Play Penn Press Release. 29 June 2006.
The Overwhelming, by J. T. Rogers. Production information. Online posting. The Overwhelming (Out of Joint) produced in association with the Royal National Theatre. World première, London. May 2006.
Rogers, J. T. Madagascar''. Tampa: U of Tampa Press, 2005. [http://www.new-theatre.org/rogers.php New Theatre (Florida) press release
Dramatists Play Service Company website
"White People" Official Website
New Dramatists Playwright Profile
J. T. Rogers - Laura Pels Keynote Address
The Independent - Ideas America Won't Entertain
J. T. Rogers - Studio 180 Essay on Rwandan Genocide
The Overwhelming - The New Statesmen (London)
1968 births
University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni
Works about the Rwandan genocide
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Writers from Columbia, Missouri
Rock Bridge High School alumni
Truman State University people
American male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights | [
"J. T. Rogers is a multiple-award-winning, internationally recognized American playwright who lives in New York.",
"Rogers has written several plays including Oslo, Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar.",
"In 2017, Rogers' Oslo won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the Obie Award for Best New American Theatre Work, the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play, and the Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Play,.",
"Rogers' work has been staged at theaters including London's Royal National Theatre, New York's Lincoln Center Theater and Roundabout Theater, and Australia's Melbourne Theatre Company.",
"Rogers is now writing for television, including the upcoming HBO Max television series Tokyo Vice, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe and produced by Endeavor Content and HBO Max.",
"Rogers has also written for film, including a filmed version of his Tony Award-winning Oslo for HBO, directed by Bartlett Sher and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.",
"Education\nRogers attended Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri, and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1990, where he studied acting.",
"He also received an honorary doctorate from UNCSA in 2009.",
"Rogers serves on the board of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund.",
"Career\nRogers has indicated that his playwriting interests include: \"stories... framed against great political rupture... [about people] who struggle with, and against... [unfolding] world events — and who are [permanently changed] through that struggle.\"",
"Rogers is known for plays that deal with what he called \"theater that engages the public realm\" in his much-discussed Laura Pels Keynote address to the New York theater community in 2008.",
"The speech was published as an essay in American Theatre magazine called \"Writing Without Borders\".",
"His play The Overwhelming, in which an American family who arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 1994, must confront life-and-death realities of the Rwandan genocide, had its world premiere at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in association with Out of Joint, in May 2006.",
"It then toured throughout the UK and was performed on BBC radio.",
"Its American premiere was at the Roundabout Theatre in September 2007.",
"For the play, Rogers received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award at the 2007 William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas.",
"The Overwhelming has since been done throughout the world, selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and the Chicago Tribune, and nominated for Best Play of the Year by London's South Bank Show and Boston's Elliot Norton Awards.",
"In 2009, Rogers was the sole American playwright along with 11 British authors to create The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre, London.",
"The cycle of plays was a sensation, garnering an Olivier nomination for all involved.",
"Rogers wrote the full-length play Blood and Gifts, which debuted at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in September 2010, starring Lloyd Owen with direction by Howard Davies.",
"The play premiered in the US Off-Broadway in October 2011 at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theater, directed by Bartlett Sher.",
"Charles Isherwood, in his review in The New York Times, wrote that the play was \"superb\", with a \"first rate production...the characters...really seem to be living in this turbulent history...\" The reviewer for The Guardian, Michael Billington, criticised the writer's \"advantage of hindsight which lends much of the action a self-conscious irony\" but otherwise praised him for a \"complex, demanding play.\"",
"The play was nominated for the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Lead Actor, Jefferson Mays and the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Jefferson Mays.",
"J. T. Rogers' play Madagascar is set in a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome.",
"It is about a mysterious disappearance that haunts the life of the play's three characters.",
"It was commissioned by and had its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in November 2004.",
"The play received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, which included its first publication by the University of Tampa Press and a related public dramatic reading.",
"It was also a finalist for the ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award and performed at the Summer Play Festival in New York City in July 2005.",
"The play had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 2010, directed by Sam Strong.<ref>Broadbent, Penelope.",
"\"Madagascar] australianstage.com.au, February 19, 2010</ref> The play had its European debut at London's Theatre 503 in May 2010, directed by Tom Littler and featuring Sorcha Cusack, Barry Stanton and Miranda Foster.",
"Rogers's other plays include White People, which had its world première at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and then received the L.A.",
"Drama Critics Circle and John Barrymore Award nominations for \"Best Play of the Year\".",
"The revised play was produced by Starry Night Entertainment Off-Broadway in 2009, and has been seen at the English Theatre of Berlin.",
"The play was seen in repertory with Madagascar at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles in 2010.",
"His Seeing the Elephant was nominated for the Joseph Kesselring Prize for \"Best New American Play\", and his play Murmuring in a Dead Tongue was produced by Epic Rep, in New York City, where he is a company member, in its 2003–2004 season.",
"In 2008, it was mounted as part of the inaugural DC Theater Alliance.",
"His works have been staged in the United States at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, in London at the Royal National Theatre and on London's West End, and across the world, including: Israel, Australia, South Korea, Germany, Norway, and Canada.",
"Rogers's plays are published by TCG Books and Nick Hern, and Dramatists Play Service in acting editions.",
"His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, and American Theatre.",
"Rogers has given speeches at London's JW3, in New York City at the Sayers & Doers and House of Speakeasy speakers series; and at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles.",
"He has taught master classes at Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, New York University, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.",
"Rogers' 2016 political drama Oslo became his most successful work to date, including a highly acclaimed Broadway run.",
"Oslo premiered Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theatre to nearly universal acclaim.",
"Oslo transferred to the Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre, a Broadway house, where it opened on April 13, 2017.",
"Of the larger Broadway production, Ben Brantley of the New York Times wrote that \"J. T. Rogers's Oslo, an against-the-odds story of international peacemaking, is undeniably a big play, as expansive and ambitious as any in recent Broadway history.",
"So it is particularly gratifying to announce that it has been allowed to stretch to its full height in the thrilling production that opened on Thursday night, directed with a master's hand by Bartlett Sher.\"",
"Oslo's cast features Jennifer Ehle and Jefferson Mays, who also appeared in the Off-Broadway production.",
"The Broadway production won seven awards for Best New Play, including the prestigious 2017 Tony Award for Best New Play.",
"After Broadway, Oslo transferred to London for a September 2017 run at the Royal National Theater, followed by a three-month transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End.Oslo currently enjoys a healthy career in repertory theater, having played in 2018 at Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction, Vermont; at the ACT Theater in Seattle, Washington (October and November 2018).",
"Rogers was selected as one of ten playwrights in the United States to receive a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004–2005, through which he was playwright in residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company (Salt Lake City).",
"In 2004 and 2008, Rogers was awarded playwriting fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts.",
"His plays are published by Faber and Faber in the US and UK and in acting editions in the US through Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts.",
"Rogers is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.",
"In 2012, he won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work.",
"Plays\n Oslo (2016)\n Blood and Gifts (2011)\n The Overwhelming (2004)\n Madagascar (2004)\n Murmuring in a Dead Tongue (1998; 2003)\n Seeing the Elephant White People Above the Beasts Bob Comes to Life Frankfurt Penetrating Malaysia Guy Talk Lionel's Blue Chicks 'N Beer The Saddest LinesFilm\n\nRogers wrote the screenplay for a filmed version of his Tony Award-winning play Oslo.",
"The film starred Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott and was directed by Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, who helmed the Broadway play.",
"Steven Spielberg and Marc Platt served as executive producers alongside Rogers, Sher, and Cambra Overend.",
"It is a production of HBO and Endeavor Content.",
"Television\n\nRogers is currently writing a television series of the drama Tokyo Vice, based on the non-fiction book by Jake Adelstein.",
"The ten-part series is being produced for HBO Max and stars Ansel Elgort, playing Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption.",
"The first episode is being directed by Michael Mann.",
"The series will also feature Ken Watanabe, Odessa Young, and Ella Rumpf.",
"It will chronicle Jake's daily descent into the underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing and no one is what or who they seem.",
"Rogers is currently writing a TV series for Netflix.",
"See also\n Rwandan genocide\n Bibliography of the Rwandan Genocide\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\n J.T.",
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"Tampa: U of Tampa Press, 2005.",
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"Rogers' work has been performed at several theaters, including London's Royal National Theatre, New York's Lincoln Center Theater, and Australia's Melbourne Theatre Company.",
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"Rogers has indicated that his playwriting interests include stories about people who struggle with politics and world events.",
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"The Overwhelming was nominated for Best Play of the Year by London's South Bank Show and Boston's ElliotNorton Awards, as well as being selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and the Chicago Tribune.",
"The Great Game: Afghanistan was created by Rogers and 11 other British authors for the Tricycle Theatre in London.",
"The cycle of plays was nominated for an award.",
"The full-length play Blood and Gifts was written by Rogers and was directed by Howard Davies.",
"The Lincoln Center Newhouse Theater hosted the premiere of the play in October 2011.",
"The reviewer for The Guardian, Michael Billington, was not a fan of the play.",
"The play was nominated for a number of awards, including the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play, Jefferson Mays.",
"The Spanish Steps in Rome are set in a hotel room in a play by J. T. Rogers.",
"The play's three characters are haunted by a mysterious disappearance.",
"It had its world premiere at the Salt Lake acting company.",
"The play received two awards, the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama.",
"It was a finalist for the ATCA's New Play Award and performed at the Summer Play Festival in New York City.",
"The play was directed by Sam Strong and had its Australian premiere in February 2010.",
"The play had its European debut at London's Theatre 503 in May 2010 and was directed by Tom Littler.",
"White People had its world premire at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and then received the L.A.",
"The John Barrymore Award nominations for \"best play of the year\" are from the Drama Critics Circle.",
"The English Theatre of Berlin has seen the revised play, which was produced by Starry Night Entertainment Off-Broadway in 2009.",
"The play was performed at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles.",
"His plays Seeing the Elephant and Murmuring in a Dead Tongue were both produced by Epic Rep in New York City, where he is a company member.",
"It was part of the inaugural DC Theater Alliance.",
"His works have been staged in the United States at Lincoln Center Theater, in London at the Royal National Theatre, and in London's West End.",
"Rogers's plays are published in acting editions by Dramatists Play Service.",
"He has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, and American Theatre.",
"Rogers has given speeches in London, New York City, and Los Angeles.",
"He taught at Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, New York University, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.",
"A highly acclaimed Broadway run of Rogers' 2016 political drama, Oslo, became his most successful work to date.",
"The Lincoln Center Newhouse Theatre was the site of the premiere of Off-Broadway.",
"The Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre opened in April of last year.",
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"It is gratifying to announce that it has been allowed to stretch to its full height in the thrilling production that opened on Thursday night.",
"The cast includes two people who appeared in the Off-Broadway production.",
"The Broadway production won seven awards, including the Tony Award for Best New Play.",
"After playing at Broadway, OSLO was transferred to the Royal National Theater in London for a three-month run.",
"Rogers was selected as one of ten playwrights in the United States to receive a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004–2005, through which he was playwright in residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company.",
"Rogers received a playwriting fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.",
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"Steven Spielberg was one of the executive producers.",
"It is a production of two companies.",
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"The ten-part series is being produced for HBO Max and will feature an American journalist who goes into the Tokyo Vice police squad to uncover corruption.",
"Michael Mann is directing the first episode.",
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<mask> attended Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri, and graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 1990, where he studied acting.He also received an honorary doctorate from UNCSA in 2009. <mask> serves on the board of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund. Career
<mask> has indicated that his playwriting interests include: "stories... framed against great political rupture... [about people] who struggle with, and against... [unfolding] world events — and who are [permanently changed] through that struggle." <mask> is known for plays that deal with what he called "theater that engages the public realm" in his much-discussed Laura Pels Keynote address to the New York theater community in 2008. The speech was published as an essay in American Theatre magazine called "Writing Without Borders". His play The Overwhelming, in which an American family who arrive in Kigali, Rwanda, in early 1994, must confront life-and-death realities of the Rwandan genocide, had its world premiere at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in association with Out of Joint, in May 2006. It then toured throughout the UK and was performed on BBC radio.Its American premiere was at the Roundabout Theatre in September 2007. For the play, <mask> received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award at the 2007 William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kansas. The Overwhelming has since been done throughout the world, selected as a Top 10 Play of the Year by Time Magazine, Time Out New York and the Chicago Tribune, and nominated for Best Play of the Year by London's South Bank Show and Boston's Elliot Norton Awards. In 2009, <mask> was the sole American playwright along with 11 British authors to create The Great Game: Afghanistan for the Tricycle Theatre, London. The cycle of plays was a sensation, garnering an Olivier nomination for all involved. <mask> wrote the full-length play Blood and Gifts, which debuted at the Lyttelton Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in September 2010, starring Lloyd Owen with direction by Howard Davies. The play premiered in the US Off-Broadway in October 2011 at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theater, directed by Bartlett Sher.Charles Isherwood, in his review in The New York Times, wrote that the play was "superb", with a "first rate production...the characters...really seem to be living in this turbulent history..." The reviewer for The Guardian, Michael Billington, criticised the writer's "advantage of hindsight which lends much of the action a self-conscious irony" but otherwise praised him for a "complex, demanding play." The play was nominated for the 2012 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Lead Actor, <mask>s and the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, <mask>s. J. T<mask>' play Madagascar is set in a hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome. It is about a mysterious disappearance that haunts the life of the play's three characters. It was commissioned by and had its world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company in November 2004. The play received the American Theatre Critics Association's 2004 M. Elizabeth Osborn Award and the 2005 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, which included its first publication by the University of Tampa Press and a related public dramatic reading. It was also a finalist for the ATCA's Steinberg New Play Award and performed at the Summer Play Festival in New York City in July 2005.The play had its Australian premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 2010, directed by Sam Strong.<ref>Broadbent, Penelope. "Madagascar] australianstage.com.au, February 19, 2010</ref> The play had its European debut at London's Theatre 503 in May 2010, directed by <mask> and featuring Sorcha Cusack, Barry Stanton and Miranda Foster. <mask>'s other plays include White People, which had its world première at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and then received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle and John Barrymore Award nominations for "Best Play of the Year". The revised play was produced by Starry Night Entertainment Off-Broadway in 2009, and has been seen at the English Theatre of Berlin. The play was seen in repertory with Madagascar at the Road Theatre in Los Angeles in 2010. His Seeing the Elephant was nominated for the Joseph Kesselring Prize for "Best New American Play", and his play Murmuring in a Dead Tongue was produced by Epic Rep, in New York City, where he is a company member, in its 2003–2004 season.In 2008, it was mounted as part of the inaugural DC Theater Alliance. His works have been staged in the United States at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, in London at the Royal National Theatre and on London's West End, and across the world, including: Israel, Australia, South Korea, Germany, Norway, and Canada. <mask>'s plays are published by TCG Books and Nick Hern, and Dramatists Play Service in acting editions. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, and American Theatre. <mask> has given speeches at London's JW3, in New York City at the Sayers & Doers and House of Speakeasy speakers series; and at Claremont McKenna College in Los Angeles. He has taught master classes at Yale University, Carnegie-Mellon University, New York University, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. <mask>' 2016 political drama Oslo became his most successful work to date, including a highly acclaimed Broadway run.Oslo premiered Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Newhouse Theatre to nearly universal acclaim. Oslo transferred to the Lincoln Center Beaumont Theatre, a Broadway house, where it opened on April 13, 2017. Of the larger Broadway production, Ben Brantley of the New York Times wrote that "J. T<mask>'s Oslo, an against-the-odds story of international peacemaking, is undeniably a big play, as expansive and ambitious as any in recent Broadway history. So it is particularly gratifying to announce that it has been allowed to stretch to its full height in the thrilling production that opened on Thursday night, directed with a master's hand by Bartlett Sher." Oslo's cast features <mask> and <mask>, who also appeared in the Off-Broadway production. The Broadway production won seven awards for Best New Play, including the prestigious 2017 Tony Award for Best New Play. After Broadway, Oslo transferred to London for a September 2017 run at the Royal National Theater, followed by a three-month transfer to the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End.Oslo currently enjoys a healthy career in repertory theater, having played in 2018 at Barrette Center for the Arts in White River Junction, Vermont; at the ACT Theater in Seattle, Washington (October and November 2018).<mask> was selected as one of ten playwrights in the United States to receive a NEA/TCG Theatre Residency for 2004–2005, through which he was playwright in residence at the Salt Lake Acting Company (Salt Lake City). In 2004 and 2008, <mask> was awarded playwriting fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His plays are published by Faber and Faber in the US and UK and in acting editions in the US through Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. <mask> is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. In 2012, he won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for his work. Plays
Oslo (2016)
Blood and Gifts (2011)
The Overwhelming (2004)
Madagascar (2004)
Murmuring in a Dead Tongue (1998; 2003)
Seeing the Elephant White People Above the Beasts Bob Comes to Life Frankfurt Penetrating Malaysia Guy Talk Lionel's Blue Chicks 'N Beer The Saddest LinesFilm
<mask> wrote the screenplay for a filmed version of his Tony Award-winning play Oslo. The film starred Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott and was directed by Tony-winner Bartlett Sher, who helmed the Broadway play.Steven Spielberg and Marc Platt served as executive producers alongside <mask>, Sher, and Cambra Overend. It is a production of HBO and Endeavor Content. Television
<mask> is currently writing a television series of the drama Tokyo Vice, based on the non-fiction book by <mask>. The ten-part series is being produced for HBO Max and stars Ansel Elgort, playing Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. The first episode is being directed by Michael Mann. The series will also feature Ken Watanabe, Odessa Young, and Ella Rumpf. It will chronicle <mask>'s daily descent into the underbelly of Tokyo, where nothing and no one is what or who they seem.<mask> is currently writing a TV series for Netflix. See also
Rwandan genocide
Bibliography of the Rwandan Genocide
References
External links
J.T. Rogers Official Website. March 2017. American Theatre Critics Association press release. Online posting. 11 Feb. 2005.Play Penn Press Release. 29 June 2006. The Overwhelming, by J. T<mask>. Production information. Online posting. The Overwhelming (Out of Joint) produced in association with the Royal National Theatre. World première, London.May 2006. <mask>, J. T. Madagascar''. Tampa: U of Tampa Press, 2005. [http://www.new-theatre.org/rogers.php New Theatre (Florida) press release
Dramatists Play Service Company website
"White People" Official Website
New Dramatists Playwright Profile
J. T<mask> - Laura Pels Keynote Address
The Independent - Ideas America Won't Entertain
J. T. <mask> - Studio 180 Essay on Rwandan Genocide
The Overwhelming - The New Statesmen (London)
1968 births
University of North Carolina School of the Arts alumni
Works about the Rwandan genocide
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Writers from Columbia, Missouri
Rock Bridge High School alumni
Truman State University people
American male dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American male writers
20th-century American male writers
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56103000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Pignatelli | Luca Pignatelli | Luca Pignatelli (born 22 June 1962) is an Italian artist.
Biography
Luca Pignatelli was born in 1962 in Milan, where he currently lives and works in a home studio, self- designed based on a pre-existing industrial building.
His work focuses on a constant process of gathering, recovery and elaboration of history and art. He combines and reworks a wide iconographic archive of universal images, both abstract and figurative, from antique and contemporary scenes, which the art critic Achille Bonito Oliva defined “Theatre of memory”.
Since the beginning of his artistic career, in 1987, Pignatelli has painted his now famous Roman and Greek statues, classical heads of Aphrodite and Diana, mythological figures of gods, heroes and emperors, besides skylines of New York skyscrapers, Renaissances squares, Alpine landscapes and icons of modernity such as Second-World-War airplanes, ocean-liners and steam trains.
Luca Pignatelli’s artistic journey is underpinned by his own fascination and exploration of archaeology and mythology. (…) From the faces of Attic statues to a Sixties Ferrari (…) Pignatelli could have been a film-maker, but he is an artist of material things”.
Pignatelli is also renowned for his research and use of railway wagon tarpaulins, woods, papers, metals and rugs: diverse and recovered materials which he reworks through tears, cuts and stitchings.
Since the Eighties he has become firmly established and his work has been exhibited in Italy and internationally, hosted by prestigious museums, showcasing impressive large-scale paintings and site-specific installations.
Among his exhibitions we cite: in 2009, his solo show “Atlantis” at Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain in Nice and the participation to the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2011, his works was exhibited in Rome at the National Institute for Graphic Art.
In 2014 the Capodimonte Museum in Naples hosted his show titled “Luca Pignatelli”, resulting in the donation of the large-scale painting Pompei to the permanent contemporary art collection of the museum. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence hosted “Migrants” in the Vasari Corridor in 2015.
Most recently, after John Currin’s and Glenn Brown’s monographic retrospectives, Bardini Museum in Florence hosted “Senza Data”, a breakthrough exhibition specifically conceived for the halls of the museum.
Through the decades the artist has received a wide recognition from the art world and respected critics have written about his artworks, including Donald Kuspit, Achille Bonito Oliva, Sergio Risaliti, Carlo Arturo Quintavalle, Marina Fokidis.
Work
Pignatelli's imagination feeds on antiquities, nature, and the connection between the concepts of Time and History. While his first production conveyed the perception of a looming menace, of the quiet moment announcing a disaster, his later work is often characterized by a sense of universality and a more complex historical reflection.
The City and the History of Art represent for the artist a sort of permanent setting to human events, but nonetheless a dimension where Pignatelli engages his artistic research, operating analogies as well as modifications.
The artist is driven to visit warehouses, storage areas, military depots and large building sites, towards which he has always harbored an attraction and curiosity.
He is fascinated by the anonymous architectures of port cities, with their construction sites and movement of goods; by the works of Vignola, Loos and Mies van der Rohe, encountered during his travels across European cities; by Milan, his native city and place of choice; and with New York, where he sojourned for long periods since 1986.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
"In un luogo dove gli opposti stanno", a cura di Sergio Risaliti. Galleria Poggiali, Firenze (2019);
Luca Pignatelli, Villa La Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta (2019);
"MuseOgrafica", Stamperia d'Arte Albicocco, Udine (2019);
Senza Data, Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence (2019);
Luca Pignatelli – Persepoli. Riflessi del residuo. La Fenice Theatre, Venice (2017);
Luca Pignatelli – Giorgio Conti Foundation (Cucchiari Palace), Carrara (2017);
Luca Pignatelli – Blue Note/Works on paper, GAM Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin (2015);
Luca Pignatelli – Migranti, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2015);
Luca Pignatelli – Capodimonte Museum, Naples (2014);
Luca Pignatelli – Off Paper, M77 Gallery, Milan (2014);
Luca Pignatelli – Icons Unplugged, National Institute for Graphic Art, Rome (2011);
Luca Pignatelli – Sculture/Analogie, Poggiali e Forconi Gallery, Florence (2010);
Luca Pignatelli – Atlantis, MAMAC, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice (2009);
Luca Pignatelli – National Archeological Museum, Naples (2008);
Luca Pignatelli – Paintings, India Theatre, Rome (2007);
Collective exhibitions
"Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection", New York Historical Society Museum, New York (2021);
"REVOLUTIONS 1989-2019. L'arte del mondo nuovo 30 anni dopo", Castel Sismondo, Rimini (2019);
"L'immagine è necessaria", Stamperia d'arte Albicocco, Udine (2019);
Porti Possibili. Sei artisti per l'accoglienza - Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia (2019);
Ascoltare bellezza, Biblioteca Classense - Sala del mosaico, Ravenna (2018);
WORK IN PROGRESS. San Patrignano, la collezione, La Triennale di Milano, Milano (2018);
Mediterraneo lo specchio dell'altro, Palazzo Reale, Milano (2018);
Arte contro la corruzione, Casa Testori Associazione Culturale, Novate Milanese (2017);
Imago Mundi - Contemporary Artist from Italy at Cini Foundation in Venice e Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2015);
Fuoco nero – Materia e struttura dopo Burri, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma (2014);
Ri-conoscere Michelangelo, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (2014);
The Jerusalem Foundation – Coexistence, Musei MAXXI, Rome (2010);
Opere scelte, MACRO Museum, Rome (2007);
50° International Art exhibition, Venice Biennal, Mostre Extra 50 (2003);
Sui Generis, PAC – Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan (2000);
Tokyo Travelling Exhibition, International Forum, Tokyo (1997); XII Quadriennale, Roma (1996);
Museums and Collections
Luca Pignatelli's works are included in the following permanent collections:
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, features Pompei (2014) in its collection dedicated to contemporary art.
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, features Autoritratto come Mitridate (2014-2015) among its selection of artists’ self-portraits.
CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivi della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma, Parma, houses Lotta (2014).
GAM – Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Turin, houses seven paper works from the series Standard (2000-2015).
PART – Palazzi dell’Arte di Rimini, Rimini, holds Astratto (2015) and Persepoli (2017) as part of the Fondazione San Patrignano Collection.
New–York Historical Society, New York, houses two artworks from the series New York, as part of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld’s Collection.
Other projects
Luca Pignatelli is often invited to participate in conferences and debates about art and architecture in universities and institutions. Some of his latest lectures include:
Galleria M77, Milan, May 2017, "The idea of a sustainable revolution". Speakers: Luca Pignatelli, Luca Beatrice, Michele Bonuomo.
Politecnico di Milano, January 2015, "Distruction of Construction". Speaker: Luca Pignatelli.
Naples' Academy of Fine Arts, May 2014, "The sense of classical in contemporary art". Speaker: Luca Pignatelli.
Bibliography
Luca Pignatelli. Senza Data. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Sergio Risaliti (Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence, january 25 - march 25, 2019), Florence, Forma Edizioni, 2019.
Luca Pignatelli, Migranti. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Antonio Natali, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 2015.
Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Fuoco Nero – Materia e struttura attorno e dopo Burri, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, Skira, 2014.
Achille Bonito Oliva, Michele Bonuomo, Angela Tecce, Fabrizio Vona, Luca Pignatelli, Catalogue of the exhibition at Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Arte’m Editore, Napoli, 2014.
Luca Beatrice, Marina Fokidis, Maria Antonella Fusco, Antonella Renzitti, Salvatore Veca, Icons Unplugged, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma, Allemandi Editore, Torino, 2011.
Marina Fokidis, Luca Pignatelli – Sculture/Analogie, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Firenze, Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori Editore Milano, 2010.
Achille Bonito Oliva, Luca Pignatelli, Catalogue of the exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Electa, 2007.
Achille Bonito Oliva, Luca Pignatelli – Paintings , Charta, Milano, 2007.
Donald Kuspit, Luca Pignatelli – Between Reverie and Dream, The Focus Group, New York, 2000.
References
1962 births
Living people
Italian male artists
Italian contemporary artists | [
"Luca Pignatelli (born 22 June 1962) is an Italian artist.",
"Biography \n\nLuca Pignatelli was born in 1962 in Milan, where he currently lives and works in a home studio, self- designed based on a pre-existing industrial building.",
"His work focuses on a constant process of gathering, recovery and elaboration of history and art.",
"He combines and reworks a wide iconographic archive of universal images, both abstract and figurative, from antique and contemporary scenes, which the art critic Achille Bonito Oliva defined “Theatre of memory”.",
"Since the beginning of his artistic career, in 1987, Pignatelli has painted his now famous Roman and Greek statues, classical heads of Aphrodite and Diana, mythological figures of gods, heroes and emperors, besides skylines of New York skyscrapers, Renaissances squares, Alpine landscapes and icons of modernity such as Second-World-War airplanes, ocean-liners and steam trains.",
"Luca Pignatelli’s artistic journey is underpinned by his own fascination and exploration of archaeology and mythology.",
"(…) From the faces of Attic statues to a Sixties Ferrari (…) Pignatelli could have been a film-maker, but he is an artist of material things”.",
"Pignatelli is also renowned for his research and use of railway wagon tarpaulins, woods, papers, metals and rugs: diverse and recovered materials which he reworks through tears, cuts and stitchings.",
"Since the Eighties he has become firmly established and his work has been exhibited in Italy and internationally, hosted by prestigious museums, showcasing impressive large-scale paintings and site-specific installations.",
"Among his exhibitions we cite: in 2009, his solo show “Atlantis” at Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain in Nice and the participation to the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.",
"In 2011, his works was exhibited in Rome at the National Institute for Graphic Art.",
"In 2014 the Capodimonte Museum in Naples hosted his show titled “Luca Pignatelli”, resulting in the donation of the large-scale painting Pompei to the permanent contemporary art collection of the museum.",
"The Uffizi Gallery in Florence hosted “Migrants” in the Vasari Corridor in 2015.",
"Most recently, after John Currin’s and Glenn Brown’s monographic retrospectives, Bardini Museum in Florence hosted “Senza Data”, a breakthrough exhibition specifically conceived for the halls of the museum.",
"Through the decades the artist has received a wide recognition from the art world and respected critics have written about his artworks, including Donald Kuspit, Achille Bonito Oliva, Sergio Risaliti, Carlo Arturo Quintavalle, Marina Fokidis.",
"Work \nPignatelli's imagination feeds on antiquities, nature, and the connection between the concepts of Time and History.",
"While his first production conveyed the perception of a looming menace, of the quiet moment announcing a disaster, his later work is often characterized by a sense of universality and a more complex historical reflection.",
"The City and the History of Art represent for the artist a sort of permanent setting to human events, but nonetheless a dimension where Pignatelli engages his artistic research, operating analogies as well as modifications.",
"The artist is driven to visit warehouses, storage areas, military depots and large building sites, towards which he has always harbored an attraction and curiosity.",
"He is fascinated by the anonymous architectures of port cities, with their construction sites and movement of goods; by the works of Vignola, Loos and Mies van der Rohe, encountered during his travels across European cities; by Milan, his native city and place of choice; and with New York, where he sojourned for long periods since 1986.",
"Exhibitions\n\nSolo exhibitions \n \"In un luogo dove gli opposti stanno\", a cura di Sergio Risaliti.",
"Galleria Poggiali, Firenze (2019);\nLuca Pignatelli, Villa La Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta (2019);\n\"MuseOgrafica\", Stamperia d'Arte Albicocco, Udine (2019);\nSenza Data, Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence (2019);\n Luca Pignatelli – Persepoli.",
"Riflessi del residuo.",
"La Fenice Theatre, Venice (2017);\n Luca Pignatelli – Giorgio Conti Foundation (Cucchiari Palace), Carrara (2017);\n Luca Pignatelli – Blue Note/Works on paper, GAM Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin (2015);\n Luca Pignatelli – Migranti, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2015);\n Luca Pignatelli – Capodimonte Museum, Naples (2014);\n Luca Pignatelli – Off Paper, M77 Gallery, Milan (2014);\n Luca Pignatelli – Icons Unplugged, National Institute for Graphic Art, Rome (2011);\n Luca Pignatelli – Sculture/Analogie, Poggiali e Forconi Gallery, Florence (2010);\n Luca Pignatelli – Atlantis, MAMAC, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice (2009);\n Luca Pignatelli – National Archeological Museum, Naples (2008);\n Luca Pignatelli – Paintings, India Theatre, Rome (2007);\n\nCollective exhibitions \n \"Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection\", New York Historical Society Museum, New York (2021);\n\"REVOLUTIONS 1989-2019.",
"L'arte del mondo nuovo 30 anni dopo\", Castel Sismondo, Rimini (2019);\n\"L'immagine è necessaria\", Stamperia d'arte Albicocco, Udine (2019);\nPorti Possibili.",
"Sei artisti per l'accoglienza - Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia (2019);\n Ascoltare bellezza, Biblioteca Classense - Sala del mosaico, Ravenna (2018);\n WORK IN PROGRESS.",
"San Patrignano, la collezione, La Triennale di Milano, Milano (2018);\n Mediterraneo lo specchio dell'altro, Palazzo Reale, Milano (2018);\n Arte contro la corruzione, Casa Testori Associazione Culturale, Novate Milanese (2017);\n Imago Mundi - Contemporary Artist from Italy at Cini Foundation in Venice e Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2015);\n Fuoco nero – Materia e struttura dopo Burri, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma (2014);\n Ri-conoscere Michelangelo, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (2014);\n The Jerusalem Foundation – Coexistence, Musei MAXXI, Rome (2010);\n Opere scelte, MACRO Museum, Rome (2007);\n 50° International Art exhibition, Venice Biennal, Mostre Extra 50 (2003);\n Sui Generis, PAC – Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan (2000);\n Tokyo Travelling Exhibition, International Forum, Tokyo (1997); XII Quadriennale, Roma (1996);\n\nMuseums and Collections \nLuca Pignatelli's works are included in the following permanent collections:\n\n Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, features Pompei (2014) in its collection dedicated to contemporary art.",
"Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, features Autoritratto come Mitridate (2014-2015) among its selection of artists’ self-portraits.",
"CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivi della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma, Parma, houses Lotta (2014).",
"GAM – Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Turin, houses seven paper works from the series Standard (2000-2015).",
"PART – Palazzi dell’Arte di Rimini, Rimini, holds Astratto (2015) and Persepoli (2017) as part of the Fondazione San Patrignano Collection.",
"New–York Historical Society, New York, houses two artworks from the series New York, as part of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld’s Collection.",
"Other projects \nLuca Pignatelli is often invited to participate in conferences and debates about art and architecture in universities and institutions.",
"Some of his latest lectures include:\n\n Galleria M77, Milan, May 2017, \"The idea of a sustainable revolution\".",
"Speakers: Luca Pignatelli, Luca Beatrice, Michele Bonuomo.",
"Politecnico di Milano, January 2015, \"Distruction of Construction\".",
"Speaker: Luca Pignatelli.",
"Naples' Academy of Fine Arts, May 2014, \"The sense of classical in contemporary art\".",
"Speaker: Luca Pignatelli.",
"Bibliography \n\n Luca Pignatelli.",
"Senza Data.",
"Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Sergio Risaliti (Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence, january 25 - march 25, 2019), Florence, Forma Edizioni, 2019.",
"Luca Pignatelli, Migranti.",
"Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Antonio Natali, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 2015.",
"Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Fuoco Nero – Materia e struttura attorno e dopo Burri, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, Skira, 2014.",
"Achille Bonito Oliva, Michele Bonuomo, Angela Tecce, Fabrizio Vona, Luca Pignatelli, Catalogue of the exhibition at Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Arte’m Editore, Napoli, 2014.",
"Luca Beatrice, Marina Fokidis, Maria Antonella Fusco, Antonella Renzitti, Salvatore Veca, Icons Unplugged, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma, Allemandi Editore, Torino, 2011.",
"Marina Fokidis, Luca Pignatelli – Sculture/Analogie, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Firenze, Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori Editore Milano, 2010.",
"Achille Bonito Oliva, Luca Pignatelli, Catalogue of the exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Electa, 2007.",
"Achille Bonito Oliva, Luca Pignatelli – Paintings , Charta, Milano, 2007.",
"Donald Kuspit, Luca Pignatelli – Between Reverie and Dream, The Focus Group, New York, 2000.",
"References \n\n1962 births\nLiving people\nItalian male artists\nItalian contemporary artists"
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"Luca Pignatelli was born on June 22, 1962 in Italy.",
"Luca Pignatelli was born in 1962 in Milan and currently lives and works in a home studio based on a pre-existing industrial building.",
"A constant process of gathering, recovery and elaboration of history and art is what his work focuses on.",
"A wide iconographic archive of universal images, both abstract and figurative, from antique and contemporary scenes are combined and reworked by him.",
"Roman and Greek statues, classical heads of Aphrodite and Diana, mythological figures of gods, heroes and emperors, as well as skylines of New York skyscrapers, Renaissances squares, Alpine landscapes and icons of modernity have all been painted by Pignatelli.",
"Luca Pignatelli has a fascination with archaeology and mythology.",
"Pignatelli could have been a film-maker, but he is an artist of material things.",
"Pignatelli is renowned for his research and use of railway wagon tarpaulins, woods, papers, metals and rugs: diverse and recovered materials which he reworks through tears, cuts and stitchings.",
"Since the Eighties he has become firmly established and his work has been exhibited in Italy and internationally, hosted by prestigious museums, showcasing impressive large-scale paintings and site-specific installations.",
"His solo show \"Atlantis\" was held in Nice in 2009, as well as his participation in the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale.",
"The National Institute for Graphic Art in Rome exhibited his works in 2011.",
"The large-scale painting Pompei was donated to the permanent contemporary art collection of the museum after a show titled \"Luca Pignatelli\" was hosted in Naples.",
"The Vasari Corridor was the location of the Uffizi Gallery's \"Migrants\" in 2015.",
"A breakthrough exhibition specifically conceived for the halls of the museum was hosted by the Bardini Museum in Florence after John Currin and Glenn Brown's monographic retrospectives.",
"The artist has received a wide recognition from the art world and respected critics have written about his artworks, including Donald Kuspit.",
"Pignatelli's imagination feeds on antiquities, nature, and the connection between the concepts of Time and History.",
"While his first production conveyed the perception of a looming menace, of a quiet moment announcing a disaster, his later work is often characterized by a sense of universality and a more complex historical reflection.",
"The City and the History of Art represent for the artist a sort of permanent setting to human events, but also a place where Pignatelli engages his artistic research, operating analogies as well as modifications.",
"The artist is driven to visit warehouses, storage areas, military depots and large building sites towards which he has always harbored an attraction and curiosity.",
"He is fascinated by the anonymous architectures of port cities, with their construction sites and movement of goods; by the works of Vignola, Loos and Mies van der Rohe, encountered during his travels across European cities; and by Milan, his native city and place of choice.",
"\"In un luogo dove gli opposti stanno\" is a solo exhibition.",
"Galleria Poggiali, Firenze; Luca Pignatelli, Villa La Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta; and Senza Data, Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence.",
"Riflessi del residuo.",
"GAM Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, Luca Pigna, and La Fenice Theatre, Venice.",
"\"L'immagine necessaria\", Stamperia d'arte Albicocco, Udine, and Porti Possibili.",
"Ascoltare bellezza, tteca Classense - Sala del mosaico, and Santa Giulia Museum are examples of work in progress.",
"San Patrignano, la collezione, La Triennale di Milano, Milano; Mediterraneo lo specchio dell'altro, Palazzo Reale, Milano.",
"The Galleria degli Uffizi has a selection of artists self-portraits.",
"CSAC houses the Comunicazione dell'Universit di Parma.",
"The Galleria civica d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea houses seven paper works from the Standard series.",
"Part of theFondazione San Patrignano Collection is the Palazzi dell'Arte di Rimini.",
"The New York Historical Society houses two artworks from the series New York.",
"Luca Pignatelli is often invited to participate in conferences and debates about art and architecture.",
"Galleria M77, Milan, May 2017: \"The idea of a sustainable revolution\".",
"The speakers were Luca Pignatelli, Luca Beatrice, and Michele Bonuomo.",
"January 2015, \"Distruction of Construction\".",
"Luca Pignatelli was the speaker.",
"The sense of classical in contemporary art was discussed in Naples' Academy of Fine Arts.",
"Luca Pignatelli was the speaker.",
"The author is Luca Pignatelli.",
"Senza data.",
"The exhibition will be at theStefano Bardini Museum in Florence from January 25 to March 25.",
"Luca Pignatelli is a migrant.",
"Antonio Natalicurated the exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.",
"Fuoco Nero is located at Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, Skira.",
"There is an exhibition at Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli.",
"Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma, Allemandi Editore, Torino, Luca Beatrice, Marina Fokidis, Maria Antonella Fusco.",
"Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Firenze, Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori Editore Milano, 2010, Marina Fokidis, Luca Pignatelli.",
"There is an exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.",
"The paintings by Luca Pignatelli are at Charta, Milano, 2007.",
"Donald Kuspit and Luca Pignatelli wrote Between Reverie and Dream for The Focus Group.",
"1962 births Living people Italian male artists Italian contemporary artists"
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<mask> was born in 1962 in Milan, where he currently lives and works in a home studio, self- designed based on a pre-existing industrial building. His work focuses on a constant process of gathering, recovery and elaboration of history and art. He combines and reworks a wide iconographic archive of universal images, both abstract and figurative, from antique and contemporary scenes, which the art critic Achille Bonito Oliva defined “Theatre of memory”. Since the beginning of his artistic career, in 1987, <mask> has painted his now famous Roman and Greek statues, classical heads of Aphrodite and Diana, mythological figures of gods, heroes and emperors, besides skylines of New York skyscrapers, Renaissances squares, Alpine landscapes and icons of modernity such as Second-World-War airplanes, ocean-liners and steam trains. <mask>’s artistic journey is underpinned by his own fascination and exploration of archaeology and mythology. (…) From the faces of Attic statues to a Sixties Ferrari (…) <mask> could have been a film-maker, but he is an artist of material things”.<mask> is also renowned for his research and use of railway wagon tarpaulins, woods, papers, metals and rugs: diverse and recovered materials which he reworks through tears, cuts and stitchings. Since the Eighties he has become firmly established and his work has been exhibited in Italy and internationally, hosted by prestigious museums, showcasing impressive large-scale paintings and site-specific installations. Among his exhibitions we cite: in 2009, his solo show “Atlantis” at Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain in Nice and the participation to the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. In 2011, his works was exhibited in Rome at the National Institute for Graphic Art. In 2014 the Capodimonte Museum in Naples hosted his show titled “<mask>natelli”, resulting in the donation of the large-scale painting Pompei to the permanent contemporary art collection of the museum. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence hosted “Migrants” in the Vasari Corridor in 2015. Most recently, after John Currin’s and Glenn Brown’s monographic retrospectives, Bardini Museum in Florence hosted “Senza Data”, a breakthrough exhibition specifically conceived for the halls of the museum.Through the decades the artist has received a wide recognition from the art world and respected critics have written about his artworks, including Donald Kuspit, Achille Bonito Oliva, Sergio Risaliti, Carlo Arturo Quintavalle, Marina Fokidis. Work
<mask>'s imagination feeds on antiquities, nature, and the connection between the concepts of Time and History. While his first production conveyed the perception of a looming menace, of the quiet moment announcing a disaster, his later work is often characterized by a sense of universality and a more complex historical reflection. The City and the History of Art represent for the artist a sort of permanent setting to human events, but nonetheless a dimension where Pignatelli engages his artistic research, operating analogies as well as modifications. The artist is driven to visit warehouses, storage areas, military depots and large building sites, towards which he has always harbored an attraction and curiosity. He is fascinated by the anonymous architectures of port cities, with their construction sites and movement of goods; by the works of Vignola, Loos and Mies van der Rohe, encountered during his travels across European cities; by Milan, his native city and place of choice; and with New York, where he sojourned for long periods since 1986. Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
"In un luogo dove gli opposti stanno", a cura di Sergio Risaliti.Galleria Poggiali, Firenze (2019);
<mask>, Villa La Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta (2019);
"MuseOgrafica", Stamperia d'Arte Albicocco, Udine (2019);
Senza Data, Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence (2019);
<mask> – Persepoli. Riflessi del residuo. La Fenice Theatre, Venice (2017);
<mask> – Giorgio Conti Foundation (Cucchiari Palace), Carrara (2017);
<mask> – Blue Note/Works on paper, GAM Galleria civica d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin (2015);
<mask> – Migranti, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (2015);
<mask>lli – Capodimonte Museum, Naples (2014);
<mask> – Off Paper, M77 Gallery, Milan (2014);
<mask> – Icons Unplugged, National Institute for Graphic Art, Rome (2011);
<mask> – Sculture/Analogie, Poggiali e Forconi Gallery, Florence (2010);
<mask> – Atlantis, MAMAC, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice (2009);
<mask> – National Archeological Museum, Naples (2008);
<mask> – Paintings, India Theatre, Rome (2007);
Collective exhibitions
"Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection", New York Historical Society Museum, New York (2021);
"REVOLUTIONS 1989-2019. L'arte del mondo nuovo 30 anni dopo", Castel Sismondo, Rimini (2019);
"L'immagine è necessaria", Stamperia d'arte Albicocco, Udine (2019);
Porti Possibili. Sei artisti per l'accoglienza - Santa Giulia Museum, Brescia (2019);
Ascoltare bellezza, Biblioteca Classense - Sala del mosaico, Ravenna (2018);
WORK IN PROGRESS. San Patrignano, la collezione, La Triennale di Milano, Milano (2018);
Mediterraneo lo specchio dell'altro, Palazzo Reale, Milano (2018);
Arte contro la corruzione, Casa Testori Associazione Culturale, Novate Milanese (2017);
Imago Mundi - Contemporary Artist from Italy at Cini Foundation in Venice e Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin (2015);
Fuoco nero – Materia e struttura dopo Burri, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma (2014);
Ri-conoscere Michelangelo, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (2014);
The Jerusalem Foundation – Coexistence, Musei MAXXI, Rome (2010);
Opere scelte, MACRO Museum, Rome (2007);
50° International Art exhibition, Venice Biennal, Mostre Extra 50 (2003);
Sui Generis, PAC – Contemporary Art Pavilion, Milan (2000);
Tokyo Travelling Exhibition, International Forum, Tokyo (1997); XII Quadriennale, Roma (1996);
Museums and Collections
Luca Pignatelli's works are included in the following permanent collections:
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples, features Pompei (2014) in its collection dedicated to contemporary art. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, features Autoritratto come Mitridate (2014-2015) among its selection of artists’ self-portraits.CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivi della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma, Parma, houses Lotta (2014). GAM – Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea, Turin, houses seven paper works from the series Standard (2000-2015). PART – Palazzi dell’Arte di Rimini, Rimini, holds Astratto (2015) and Persepoli (2017) as part of the Fondazione San Patrignano Collection. New–York Historical Society, New York, houses two artworks from the series New York, as part of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld’s Collection. Other projects
<mask> is often invited to participate in conferences and debates about art and architecture in universities and institutions. Some of his latest lectures include:
Galleria M77, Milan, May 2017, "The idea of a sustainable revolution". Speakers: <mask>, <mask>, Michele Bonuomo.Politecnico di Milano, January 2015, "Distruction of Construction". Speaker: <mask>. Naples' Academy of Fine Arts, May 2014, "The sense of classical in contemporary art". Speaker: <mask>. Bibliography
<mask>. Senza Data. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Sergio Risaliti (Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence, january 25 - march 25, 2019), Florence, Forma Edizioni, 2019.<mask>, Migranti. Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Antonio Natali, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 2015. Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Fuoco Nero – Materia e struttura attorno e dopo Burri, Palazzo della Pilotta, Parma, Skira, 2014. Achille Bonito Oliva, Michele Bonuomo, Angela Tecce, Fabrizio Vona, <mask>, Catalogue of the exhibition at Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli, Arte’m Editore, Napoli, 2014. <mask>, Marina Fokidis, Maria Antonella Fusco, Antonella Renzitti, Salvatore Veca, Icons Unplugged, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Roma, Allemandi Editore, Torino, 2011. Marina Fokidis, <mask> – Sculture/Analogie, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Firenze, Arnoldo Mosca Mondadori Editore Milano, 2010. Achille Bonito Oliva, <mask>, Catalogue of the exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Electa, 2007.Achille Bonito Oliva, <mask> – Paintings , Charta, Milano, 2007. Donald Kuspit, <mask> – Between Reverie and Dream, The Focus Group, New York, 2000. References
1962 births
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Roman and Greek statues, classical heads of Aphrodite and Diana, mythological figures of gods, heroes and emperors, as well as skylines of New York skyscrapers, Renaissances squares, Alpine landscapes and icons of modernity have all been painted by Pignatelli. <mask> has a fascination with archaeology and mythology. <mask> could have been a film-maker, but he is an artist of material things.<mask> is renowned for his research and use of railway wagon tarpaulins, woods, papers, metals and rugs: diverse and recovered materials which he reworks through tears, cuts and stitchings. Since the Eighties he has become firmly established and his work has been exhibited in Italy and internationally, hosted by prestigious museums, showcasing impressive large-scale paintings and site-specific installations. His solo show "Atlantis" was held in Nice in 2009, as well as his participation in the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. The National Institute for Graphic Art in Rome exhibited his works in 2011. The large-scale painting Pompei was donated to the permanent contemporary art collection of the museum after a show titled "<mask> Pignatelli" was hosted in Naples. The Vasari Corridor was the location of the Uffizi Gallery's "Migrants" in 2015. A breakthrough exhibition specifically conceived for the halls of the museum was hosted by the Bardini Museum in Florence after John Currin and Glenn Brown's monographic retrospectives.The artist has received a wide recognition from the art world and respected critics have written about his artworks, including Donald Kuspit. <mask>'s imagination feeds on antiquities, nature, and the connection between the concepts of Time and History. While his first production conveyed the perception of a looming menace, of a quiet moment announcing a disaster, his later work is often characterized by a sense of universality and a more complex historical reflection. The City and the History of Art represent for the artist a sort of permanent setting to human events, but also a place where Pignatelli engages his artistic research, operating analogies as well as modifications. The artist is driven to visit warehouses, storage areas, military depots and large building sites towards which he has always harbored an attraction and curiosity. He is fascinated by the anonymous architectures of port cities, with their construction sites and movement of goods; by the works of Vignola, Loos and Mies van der Rohe, encountered during his travels across European cities; and by Milan, his native city and place of choice. "In un luogo dove gli opposti stanno" is a solo exhibition.Galleria Poggiali, Firenze; <mask>, Villa La Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta; and Senza Data, Stefano Bardini Museum, Florence. Riflessi del residuo. GAM Galleria civica d'arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin, <mask> Pigna, and La Fenice Theatre, Venice. "L'immagine necessaria", Stamperia d'arte Albicocco, Udine, and Porti Possibili. Ascoltare bellezza, tteca Classense - Sala del mosaico, and Santa Giulia Museum are examples of work in progress. San Patrignano, la collezione, La Triennale di Milano, Milano; Mediterraneo lo specchio dell'altro, Palazzo Reale, Milano. The Galleria degli Uffizi has a selection of artists self-portraits.CSAC houses the Comunicazione dell'Universit di Parma. The Galleria civica d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea houses seven paper works from the Standard series. Part of theFondazione San Patrignano Collection is the Palazzi dell'Arte di Rimini. The New York Historical Society houses two artworks from the series New York. <mask> is often invited to participate in conferences and debates about art and architecture. Galleria M77, Milan, May 2017: "The idea of a sustainable revolution". The speakers were <mask>, <mask>, and Michele Bonuomo.January 2015, "Distruction of Construction". <mask> was the speaker. 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7230689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halsey%20Hall | Halsey Hall | Halsey Lewis Hall (May 23, 1898 – December 30, 1977) was a sports reporter and announcer in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area from 1919 until the 1970s.
Early life
Halsey Lewis Hall was born in New York City's Greenwich Village on May 23, 1898. His parents initially named him Smith Lewis Hall, but subsequently renamed him "Halsey" after his paternal grandfather, Halsey R. W. Hall.
Halsey Lewis Hall was the son of Smith B. Hall, a prominent Minneapolis newspaperman, and the New York stage actress Mary Hall. His great-uncle, Harlan P. Hall, founded the St. Paul Dispatch, which later merged with the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Hall's parents divorced when he was a small child and he was raised by his father's family in Minnesota. He spent his early years in the Ramsey Hill neighborhood of St. Paul. When he was eight, the family moved to Portland Avenue in Minneapolis. In June 1916, Hall graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis. After briefly attending the University of Minnesota, he joined the United States Navy during World War I. He spent his time in the service as a recruiter in Duluth, Minnesota.
Sports writing career
After his discharge from the Navy, Hall followed in the footsteps of his father and great-uncle and became a newspaper journalist. He began his career as a sports reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune in September 1919. He moved to the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1922 and then in 1926 he took a position as a sportswriter for the Minneapolis Journal.
Hall developed a large readership for his sports writing, especially his baseball writing. In 1927 he became the Minneapolis Journal'''s baseball beat writer covering the Minneapolis Millers, a AAA minor league baseball club. Although the Twin Cities did not have a Major League Baseball team until the Twins arrived in 1961, Hall covered the World Series for the Minneapolis Journal in the 1920s and 1930s. Hall witnessed Babe Ruth's famous "called shot" home run at Wrigley Field during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. In 1934 Hall received one of the great honors of his career when he was elected president of the American Association of Baseball Writers.
Hall's tenure at the Minneapolis Journal ended in 1939 when the newspaper was purchased by John Cowles, Sr. After acquiring the Journal, Cowles merged it with the Minneapolis Star, thus creating the Minneapolis Star-Journal. Cowles would rename the newspaper the Minneapolis Star in 1947.
Hall nevertheless remained a prominent and featured sports writer under the new ownership. In 1941 Cowles purchased the Minneapolis Tribune. With the Star and Tribune both owned by the Cowles family, Hall wrote a sports column for both newspapers until 1960. He gave up his Star and Tribune sports columns to become the full-time television and radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Twins.
Sports broadcasting career
In the spring of 1934 Hall became the radio broadcaster of the Minneapolis Millers.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 66 Hall announced Millers games for the next 27 years. During home games, he called the radio play-by-play from the press box at Nicollet Park, the team's home stadium. Like most radio broadcasters of the day, he did not travel with the team. Instead, he announced the Millers road games from WCCO's Minneapolis studio, reading the Western Union wire account of the game into a radio microphone.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 67 But Hall's impassioned description of events gave listeners the impression he was watching the game in person.
In the fall of 1934 Hall became the radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Gophers football team. Over the years Hall announced the games on KSTP radio, WCCO, and WLOL.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 70 He also hosted a Sunday morning radio show with Gopher Football Coach Bernie Bierman. Hall broadcast Gopher football games for nearly 40 years, retiring after the 1973 season.
Although Hall continued to write for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Star, radio broadcasting became his principal focus by the 1950s. Sid Hartman, a legendary Minnesota sports writer, served as Hall's sports editor at the Tribune. Although Hartman and Hall were close friends, Hartman did not like supervising Hall. "Deadlines did not mean a thing to Halsey," Hartman recalled years later.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Hall served as the sports anchor for the 10 p.m. news on WCCO radio alongside the news anchor, Cedric Adams. The Adams–Hall news program was exceptionally popular, commanding 70% of the radio audience in the state. According to Sid Hartman, "Airplane pilots would report that, flying over the Minnesota prairie, they could tell when it was 10:30 P.M. That was when the 'CCO news was over and the lights in all the farm houses would go out."
When the Washington Senators moved to Bloomington and became the Minnesota Twins in 1961, Hall was a member of the original WCCO radio broadcast team and WTCN television broadcast team along with Ray Scott and Bob Wolff. When Wolff left in 1962 to cover NBC's national baseball game of the week, Herb Carneal joined the Hall and Scott broadcast team. When Scott left to become the lead NFL announcer for CBS television, Merle Harmon joined the Hall–Carneal broadcast team.
Unlike his radio career with the Millers, Hall broadcast in person Twins road games as well as home games at Metropolitan Stadium. He reveled both in announcing Twins games and in traveling with the team across the country. As Sid Hartman put it, "Halsey was in heaven. He loved baseball, he loved the radio, and he loved the fact he was able to drink for free on the road."
A cigar smoker, Hall accidentally set his sport coat on fire during a 1968 Twins broadcast at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Jerry Zimmerman, the Twins catcher, said afterwards, "Halsey's the only man I know who can turn a sports coat into a blazer." Hall retired from Twins broadcasts after the 1972 season.
Family
In 1922 Hall married Sula Bornman in London, Wisconsin. Sula's brother, a Moravian minister, presided at the wedding ceremony.
The daughter of German immigrants, Sula grew up in Pennsylvania. Her father died when she was four, and her mother died when she was 13. Upon her mother's death, Sula moved to North Dakota to live with her sister, Katie Marcks.
A graduate of Fargo High School and Moorhead Normal School, Sula was a school teacher. She met Halsey in Duluth when she was teaching at Fairmount Elementary School and he was a Navy recruiter. After their marriage, Halsey and Sula lived in the same house on Ramona Avenue (later renamed Alabama Avenue) in St. Louis Park for 55 years, until Halsey Hall's death. They had a daughter, Suzanne "Sue" Eugenia Hall, who was born in 1928.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 193
Sue Hall married William "Bill" Charles Kennedy in 1949 at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis. Sue and Bill Kennedy had three children—William Halsey Kennedy, Kathryn Sula Kennedy, and Cynthia Eugenia Kennedy—and raised their family on Sunnyside Road in Edina, not far from Halsey and Sula's home.
Catch phrases
Halsey Hall originated the huzzah "Holy cow!" as a home run exclamation on WCCO radio long before Harry Caray and Phil Rizzuto used it.Thornley, Holy Cow!, pp. 7–8 Hall also originated the practice of adding "Golden" before "Gophers" when describing the University of Minnesota's football and basketball teams. Hall was inspired by the golden uniforms the Gopher football team adopted under Coach Bernie Bierman in the 1930s. Golden Gophers is now the official name of the University's athletic teams.
Death and legacy
Halsey Hall died of a heart attack at his home on December 30, 1977. He was buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. After his death, he was voted the most popular Minnesota sportscaster of the 1970s. As his biographer Stew Thornley explained, "Halsey Hall was an institution" for Minnesota sports fans. In the words of Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, Halsey Hall "was the most unforgettable man I ever knew."
Hall was inducted into the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2001 he was inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The Minnesota chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research is named after Halsey Hall.
Twenty years after Hall's death, Sid Hartman observed that "Halsey Hall was the most beloved character this area has ever had."
References
Further reading
Sid Hartman, Sid! The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends. Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 1997.
Don Swenson, Something in the Water. St. Louis Park, Minnesota: St. Louis Park Historical Society, 2001.
Stew Thornley, Holy Cow! The Life and Times of Halsey Hall. Minneapolis: Nodin Press, 1991.
Stew Thornley, On to Nicollet: The Glory and Fame of the Minneapolis Millers. Minneapolis: Nodin Press, 1988.
Stew Thornley, Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006.
1898 births
1977 deaths
American sportswriters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minnesota Golden Gophers football announcers
Minnesota Twins announcers
People from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area
United States Navy officers
Central High School (Minneapolis, Minnesota) alumni
External links
Society for American Baseball Research website
Interview with Stew Thornley, author of Holy Cow! The Life and Times of Halsey Hall, NORTHERN LIGHTS Minnesota Author Interview'' TV Series #177 (1991) | [
"Halsey Lewis Hall (May 23, 1898 – December 30, 1977) was a sports reporter and announcer in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area from 1919 until the 1970s.",
"Early life\nHalsey Lewis Hall was born in New York City's Greenwich Village on May 23, 1898.",
"His parents initially named him Smith Lewis Hall, but subsequently renamed him \"Halsey\" after his paternal grandfather, Halsey R. W. Hall.",
"Halsey Lewis Hall was the son of Smith B.",
"Hall, a prominent Minneapolis newspaperman, and the New York stage actress Mary Hall.",
"His great-uncle, Harlan P. Hall, founded the St. Paul Dispatch, which later merged with the St. Paul Pioneer Press.",
"Hall's parents divorced when he was a small child and he was raised by his father's family in Minnesota.",
"He spent his early years in the Ramsey Hill neighborhood of St. Paul.",
"When he was eight, the family moved to Portland Avenue in Minneapolis.",
"In June 1916, Hall graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis.",
"After briefly attending the University of Minnesota, he joined the United States Navy during World War I.",
"He spent his time in the service as a recruiter in Duluth, Minnesota.",
"Sports writing career\n\nAfter his discharge from the Navy, Hall followed in the footsteps of his father and great-uncle and became a newspaper journalist.",
"He began his career as a sports reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune in September 1919.",
"He moved to the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1922 and then in 1926 he took a position as a sportswriter for the Minneapolis Journal.",
"Hall developed a large readership for his sports writing, especially his baseball writing.",
"In 1927 he became the Minneapolis Journal'''s baseball beat writer covering the Minneapolis Millers, a AAA minor league baseball club.",
"Although the Twin Cities did not have a Major League Baseball team until the Twins arrived in 1961, Hall covered the World Series for the Minneapolis Journal in the 1920s and 1930s.",
"Hall witnessed Babe Ruth's famous \"called shot\" home run at Wrigley Field during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs.",
"In 1934 Hall received one of the great honors of his career when he was elected president of the American Association of Baseball Writers.",
"Hall's tenure at the Minneapolis Journal ended in 1939 when the newspaper was purchased by John Cowles, Sr. After acquiring the Journal, Cowles merged it with the Minneapolis Star, thus creating the Minneapolis Star-Journal.",
"Cowles would rename the newspaper the Minneapolis Star in 1947.",
"Hall nevertheless remained a prominent and featured sports writer under the new ownership.",
"In 1941 Cowles purchased the Minneapolis Tribune.",
"With the Star and Tribune both owned by the Cowles family, Hall wrote a sports column for both newspapers until 1960.",
"He gave up his Star and Tribune sports columns to become the full-time television and radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Twins.",
"Sports broadcasting career\nIn the spring of 1934 Hall became the radio broadcaster of the Minneapolis Millers.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 66 Hall announced Millers games for the next 27 years.",
"During home games, he called the radio play-by-play from the press box at Nicollet Park, the team's home stadium.",
"Like most radio broadcasters of the day, he did not travel with the team.",
"Instead, he announced the Millers road games from WCCO's Minneapolis studio, reading the Western Union wire account of the game into a radio microphone.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 67 But Hall's impassioned description of events gave listeners the impression he was watching the game in person.",
"In the fall of 1934 Hall became the radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Gophers football team.",
"Over the years Hall announced the games on KSTP radio, WCCO, and WLOL.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 70 He also hosted a Sunday morning radio show with Gopher Football Coach Bernie Bierman.",
"Hall broadcast Gopher football games for nearly 40 years, retiring after the 1973 season.",
"Although Hall continued to write for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Star, radio broadcasting became his principal focus by the 1950s.",
"Sid Hartman, a legendary Minnesota sports writer, served as Hall's sports editor at the Tribune.",
"Although Hartman and Hall were close friends, Hartman did not like supervising Hall.",
"\"Deadlines did not mean a thing to Halsey,\" Hartman recalled years later.",
"In the 1940s and 1950s, Hall served as the sports anchor for the 10 p.m. news on WCCO radio alongside the news anchor, Cedric Adams.",
"The Adams–Hall news program was exceptionally popular, commanding 70% of the radio audience in the state.",
"According to Sid Hartman, \"Airplane pilots would report that, flying over the Minnesota prairie, they could tell when it was 10:30 P.M. That was when the 'CCO news was over and the lights in all the farm houses would go out.\"",
"When the Washington Senators moved to Bloomington and became the Minnesota Twins in 1961, Hall was a member of the original WCCO radio broadcast team and WTCN television broadcast team along with Ray Scott and Bob Wolff.",
"When Wolff left in 1962 to cover NBC's national baseball game of the week, Herb Carneal joined the Hall and Scott broadcast team.",
"When Scott left to become the lead NFL announcer for CBS television, Merle Harmon joined the Hall–Carneal broadcast team.",
"Unlike his radio career with the Millers, Hall broadcast in person Twins road games as well as home games at Metropolitan Stadium.",
"He reveled both in announcing Twins games and in traveling with the team across the country.",
"As Sid Hartman put it, \"Halsey was in heaven.",
"He loved baseball, he loved the radio, and he loved the fact he was able to drink for free on the road.\"",
"A cigar smoker, Hall accidentally set his sport coat on fire during a 1968 Twins broadcast at Comiskey Park in Chicago.",
"Jerry Zimmerman, the Twins catcher, said afterwards, \"Halsey's the only man I know who can turn a sports coat into a blazer.\"",
"Hall retired from Twins broadcasts after the 1972 season.",
"Family\n\nIn 1922 Hall married Sula Bornman in London, Wisconsin.",
"Sula's brother, a Moravian minister, presided at the wedding ceremony.",
"The daughter of German immigrants, Sula grew up in Pennsylvania.",
"Her father died when she was four, and her mother died when she was 13.",
"Upon her mother's death, Sula moved to North Dakota to live with her sister, Katie Marcks.",
"A graduate of Fargo High School and Moorhead Normal School, Sula was a school teacher.",
"She met Halsey in Duluth when she was teaching at Fairmount Elementary School and he was a Navy recruiter.",
"After their marriage, Halsey and Sula lived in the same house on Ramona Avenue (later renamed Alabama Avenue) in St. Louis Park for 55 years, until Halsey Hall's death.",
"They had a daughter, Suzanne \"Sue\" Eugenia Hall, who was born in 1928.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 193\n\nSue Hall married William \"Bill\" Charles Kennedy in 1949 at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.",
"Sue and Bill Kennedy had three children—William Halsey Kennedy, Kathryn Sula Kennedy, and Cynthia Eugenia Kennedy—and raised their family on Sunnyside Road in Edina, not far from Halsey and Sula's home.",
"Catch phrases\n\nHalsey Hall originated the huzzah \"Holy cow!\"",
"as a home run exclamation on WCCO radio long before Harry Caray and Phil Rizzuto used it.Thornley, Holy Cow!, pp.",
"7–8 Hall also originated the practice of adding \"Golden\" before \"Gophers\" when describing the University of Minnesota's football and basketball teams.",
"Hall was inspired by the golden uniforms the Gopher football team adopted under Coach Bernie Bierman in the 1930s.",
"Golden Gophers is now the official name of the University's athletic teams.",
"Death and legacy\n\nHalsey Hall died of a heart attack at his home on December 30, 1977.",
"He was buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery.",
"After his death, he was voted the most popular Minnesota sportscaster of the 1970s.",
"As his biographer Stew Thornley explained, \"Halsey Hall was an institution\" for Minnesota sports fans.",
"In the words of Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, Halsey Hall \"was the most unforgettable man I ever knew.\"",
"Hall was inducted into the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame in 1989.",
"In 2001 he was inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame.",
"The Minnesota chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research is named after Halsey Hall.",
"Twenty years after Hall's death, Sid Hartman observed that \"Halsey Hall was the most beloved character this area has ever had.\"",
"References\n\nFurther reading\n Sid Hartman, Sid!",
"The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends.",
"Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 1997.",
"Don Swenson, Something in the Water.",
"St. Louis Park, Minnesota: St. Louis Park Historical Society, 2001.",
"Stew Thornley, Holy Cow!",
"The Life and Times of Halsey Hall.",
"Minneapolis: Nodin Press, 1991.",
"Stew Thornley, On to Nicollet: The Glory and Fame of the Minneapolis Millers.",
"Minneapolis: Nodin Press, 1988.",
"Stew Thornley, Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History.",
"St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006.",
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"The Life and Times of Halsey Hall, NORTHERN LIGHTS Minnesota Author Interview'' TV Series #177 (1991)"
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"The University of Minnesota's football and basketball teams were described before \"Gophers\" by Hall.",
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"The University's athletic teams have a new name.",
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"The close personal friends, the sports legends, and the inside scoops.",
"The Voyageur Press was published in 1997.",
"Something in the Water is a song by Don Swenson.",
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"The Minnesota Historical Society Press was published in St. Paul.",
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"The life and times of a Minnesota author."
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<mask> was born in New York City's Greenwich Village on May 23, 1898. His parents initially named him <mask>, but subsequently renamed him "<mask>" after his paternal grandfather, <mask>. W<mask>. <mask> was the son of Smith B<mask>, a prominent Minneapolis newspaperman, and the New York stage actress <mask>. His great-uncle, Harlan P<mask>, founded the St. Paul Dispatch, which later merged with the St. Paul Pioneer Press. <mask>'s parents divorced when he was a small child and he was raised by his father's family in Minnesota.He spent his early years in the Ramsey Hill neighborhood of St. Paul. When he was eight, the family moved to Portland Avenue in Minneapolis. In June 1916, <mask> graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis. After briefly attending the University of Minnesota, he joined the United States Navy during World War I. He spent his time in the service as a recruiter in Duluth, Minnesota. Sports writing career
After his discharge from the Navy, <mask> followed in the footsteps of his father and great-uncle and became a newspaper journalist. He began his career as a sports reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune in September 1919.He moved to the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1922 and then in 1926 he took a position as a sportswriter for the Minneapolis Journal. <mask> developed a large readership for his sports writing, especially his baseball writing. In 1927 he became the Minneapolis Journal'''s baseball beat writer covering the Minneapolis Millers, a AAA minor league baseball club. Although the Twin Cities did not have a Major League Baseball team until the Twins arrived in 1961, <mask> covered the World Series for the Minneapolis Journal in the 1920s and 1930s. <mask> witnessed Babe Ruth's famous "called shot" home run at Wrigley Field during Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. In 1934 <mask> received one of the great honors of his career when he was elected president of the American Association of Baseball Writers. <mask>'s tenure at the Minneapolis Journal ended in 1939 when the newspaper was purchased by John Cowles, Sr. After acquiring the Journal, Cowles merged it with the Minneapolis Star, thus creating the Minneapolis Star-Journal.Cowles would rename the newspaper the Minneapolis Star in 1947. <mask> nevertheless remained a prominent and featured sports writer under the new ownership. In 1941 Cowles purchased the Minneapolis Tribune. With the Star and Tribune both owned by the Cowles family, <mask> wrote a sports column for both newspapers until 1960. He gave up his Star and Tribune sports columns to become the full-time television and radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Twins. Sports broadcasting career
In the spring of 1934 <mask> became the radio broadcaster of the Minneapolis Millers.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 66 <mask> announced Millers games for the next 27 years. During home games, he called the radio play-by-play from the press box at Nicollet Park, the team's home stadium.Like most radio broadcasters of the day, he did not travel with the team. Instead, he announced the Millers road games from WCCO's Minneapolis studio, reading the Western Union wire account of the game into a radio microphone.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 67 But <mask>'s impassioned description of events gave listeners the impression he was watching the game in person. In the fall of 1934 <mask> became the radio broadcaster of the Minnesota Gophers football team. Over the years <mask> announced the games on KSTP radio, WCCO, and WLOL.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 70 He also hosted a Sunday morning radio show with Gopher Football Coach Bernie Bierman. <mask> broadcast Gopher football games for nearly 40 years, retiring after the 1973 season. Although <mask> continued to write for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Star, radio broadcasting became his principal focus by the 1950s. Sid Hartman, a legendary Minnesota sports writer, served as <mask>'s sports editor at the Tribune.Although Hartman and <mask> were close friends, Hartman did not like supervising <mask>. "Deadlines did not mean a thing to <mask>," Hartman recalled years later. In the 1940s and 1950s, <mask> served as the sports anchor for the 10 p.m. news on WCCO radio alongside the news anchor, Cedric Adams. The Adams–Hall news program was exceptionally popular, commanding 70% of the radio audience in the state. According to Sid Hartman, "Airplane pilots would report that, flying over the Minnesota prairie, they could tell when it was 10:30 P.M. That was when the 'CCO news was over and the lights in all the farm houses would go out." When the Washington Senators moved to Bloomington and became the Minnesota Twins in 1961, <mask> was a member of the original WCCO radio broadcast team and WTCN television broadcast team along with Ray Scott and Bob Wolff. When Wolff left in 1962 to cover NBC's national baseball game of the week, Herb Carneal joined the Hall and Scott broadcast team.When Scott left to become the lead NFL announcer for CBS television, Merle Harmon joined the Hall–Carneal broadcast team. Unlike his radio career with the Millers, <mask> broadcast in person Twins road games as well as home games at Metropolitan Stadium. He reveled both in announcing Twins games and in traveling with the team across the country. As Sid Hartman put it, "<mask> was in heaven. He loved baseball, he loved the radio, and he loved the fact he was able to drink for free on the road." A cigar smoker, <mask> accidentally set his sport coat on fire during a 1968 Twins broadcast at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Jerry Zimmerman, the Twins catcher, said afterwards, "<mask>'s the only man I know who can turn a sports coat into a blazer."<mask> retired from Twins broadcasts after the 1972 season. Family
In 1922 <mask> married Sula Bornman in London, Wisconsin. Sula's brother, a Moravian minister, presided at the wedding ceremony. The daughter of German immigrants, Sula grew up in Pennsylvania. Her father died when she was four, and her mother died when she was 13. Upon her mother's death, Sula moved to North Dakota to live with her sister, Katie Marcks. A graduate of Fargo High School and Moorhead Normal School, Sula was a school teacher.She met <mask> in Duluth when she was teaching at Fairmount Elementary School and he was a Navy recruiter. After their marriage, <mask> and Sula lived in the same house on Ramona Avenue (later renamed Alabama Avenue) in St. Louis Park for 55 years, until <mask> <mask>'s death. They had a daughter, Suzanne "Sue" Eugenia <mask>, who was born in 1928.Thornley, Holy Cow!, p. 193
<mask> married William "Bill" Charles Kennedy in 1949 at Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in Minneapolis. Sue and Bill Kennedy had three children—<mask> Kennedy, Kathryn Sula Kennedy, and Cynthia Eugenia Kennedy—and raised their family on Sunnyside Road in Edina, not far from <mask> and Sula's home. Catch phrases
<mask> <mask> originated the huzzah "Holy cow!" as a home run exclamation on WCCO radio long before Harry Caray and Phil Rizzuto used it.Thornley, Holy Cow!, pp. 7–8 <mask> also originated the practice of adding "Golden" before "Gophers" when describing the University of Minnesota's football and basketball teams.<mask> was inspired by the golden uniforms the Gopher football team adopted under Coach Bernie Bierman in the 1930s. Golden Gophers is now the official name of the University's athletic teams. Death and legacy
<mask> <mask> died of a heart attack at his home on December 30, 1977. He was buried at Fort Snelling National Cemetery. After his death, he was voted the most popular Minnesota sportscaster of the 1970s. As his biographer Stew Thornley explained, "Halsey Hall was an institution" for Minnesota sports fans. In the words of Minnesota Twins Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew, <mask> <mask> "was the most unforgettable man I ever knew."<mask> was inducted into the Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2001 he was inducted into the Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The Minnesota chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research is named after <mask> <mask>. Twenty years after <mask>'s death, Sid Hartman observed that "<mask> Hall was the most beloved character this area has ever had." References
Further reading
Sid Hartman, Sid! The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends. Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 1997.Don Swenson, Something in the Water. St. Louis Park, Minnesota: St. Louis Park Historical Society, 2001. Stew Thornley, Holy Cow! The Life and Times of Halsey Hall. Minneapolis: Nodin Press, 1991. Stew Thornley, On to Nicollet: The Glory and Fame of the Minneapolis Millers. Minneapolis: Nodin Press, 1988.Stew Thornley, Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006. 1898 births
1977 deaths
American sportswriters
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minnesota Golden Gophers football announcers
Minnesota Twins announcers
People from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area
United States Navy officers
Central High School (Minneapolis, Minnesota) alumni
External links
Society for American Baseball Research website
Interview with Stew Thornley, author of Holy Cow! The Life and Times of <mask> Hall, NORTHERN LIGHTS Minnesota Author Interview'' TV Series #177 (1991) | [
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62114944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherylyn%20Briller | Sherylyn Briller | Sherylyn H. Briller (born September 19, 1968) is an American cultural anthropologist, who specializes in medical anthropology and applied anthropology. Briller is a professor of anthropology, a faculty associate for the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC), an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor at Purdue University. Briller's research focuses on the cross-cultural study of health, aging, disability and end-of-life issues in Mongolia and various parts of the United States. She has completed work as a researcher and consultant for various public and private organizations, including the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Cultural Keys, LLC.
Her research studying health and aging has been published in numerous academic journals that focus on health, gerontology, and cultural studies. She has co-authored a book series titled Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (2001) and co-edited End of Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005). Her most recent co-authored book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise (2009), provides a series of exercises to encourage students to identify their career goals.
Biography
Briller received a bachelor's degree in Sociology & Anthropology from Carleton College in 1989. She completed her graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University where she earned a Master of Arts in Anthropology (1992), a Center on Aging & Health Graduate Certificate in Gerontology (1993), and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology (2000). Her doctoral research examined the impact of family and government support on elder-care in Mongolia. She found that retired, rural Mongolians reported high levels of overall life satisfaction when they had familial support and governmental support in the form of pensions.
During the completion of her doctoral work, Briller served as a consultant for numerous gerontological organizations and a lecturer at Wayne State University. Upon completion of her degree, she accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University as an assistant professor in anthropology and faculty associate in the Institute for Gerontology. While a professor at Wayne State University, Briller continued to work as an applied anthropologist studying health and aging.
In 2014, she became a professor of anthropology at Purdue University. Briller has assisted with the development and expansion of the Applied and Practicing Anthropology program. Additionally, she serves as a faculty associate in the Center on Aging & the Life Course (CALC), an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor at Purdue University.
Scholarship
Briller’s research focuses on gerontology, applied and practicing anthropology, and medical anthropology with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of aging, disability, human-centered design, and global health. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on her research and co-edited one academic book, End of Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005). She has co-authored five academic volumes, including Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (2001) series — a four-volume book series on dementia care settings. These volumes are described as providing "useful, implementable advice" in the form of a"rich collection of suggested starting point" to address the connection between dementia care and the physical environment. Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise (2009), has been described as "a practical, how‐to guide for job‐seeking anthropology majors that does well to present information that will help students think about, and talk their way into, their future careers".
Briller co-founded of the Space for Practice along with her colleagues, Zoe Nyssa, a professor in the department of anthropology at Purdue University, and Elizabeth K. Briody, a consultant from Cultural Keys, LLC and affiliate faculty member of anthropology at Purdue University. The Space for Practice is an applied anthropology lab at Purdue University whose "purpose is to facilitate applied anthropology pedagogy and to provide programming to foster student-practitioner interactions and networking". This lab provides students with hands-on experience working on applied anthropological projects and interaction with professionals and consultants who work in public and practicing anthropology.
Applied work
Briller is an active member of several national organizations, including the Society for Applied Anthropology, the National Association of Practicing Anthropology, the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs, and the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course. In 2018, she was elected as president of Society for Applied Anthropology. She is the former president of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course and chair of the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs.
In addition to her academic scholarship, Briller is an active practicing anthropologist. In 2014, she co-developed a community-engaged medical anthropology museum exhibit titled "Follow the Lines: Environmental Legacy, Health & Fishing the Detroit River" at the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology (Wayne State University). The exhibit was based on her work studying Detroit urban fishermen and explored the cultural significance of urban fishing along the Detroit River. This work occurred in partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Currently, Briller serves as a professional consultant for Cultural Keys, LLC — a firm that helps companies and non-profit organizations diagnose and solve organizational and cultural issues.
Publications
Briller, S. & Goldmacher, A. (2009) Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercises. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Gelfand, D. E., Raspa, R., Briller, S.H. and Schim, S.M., eds. (2005) End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries. New York: Springer.
Proffitt, M. and Briller, S. (2002) The Unit’s Edge: Exploring the Boundary Between Public and Private Domains in Residential Settings for Older Persons. Milwaukee, WI: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Center for Architecture & Urban Planning Research Publishers.
Briller, S. Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins,.M.P. (2001) Understanding the Environment Through Aging Senses, Vol. 2. In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series). Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.
Briller, S., Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins, M.P.(2001) Maximizing Cognitive and Functional Abilities, Vol. 3. In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series). Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.
Marsden, J.P, Briller, S., Calkins, M.P. and Proffitt, M. (2001) Enhancing Self and Sense of Home, Vol. 4. In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series). Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.
References
American anthropologists
Medical anthropologists
American gerontologists
1968 births
Purdue University faculty
Carleton College alumni
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Wayne State University faculty
American women anthropologists
Living people
21st-century anthropologists
American women academics
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"Sherylyn H. Briller (born September 19, 1968) is an American cultural anthropologist, who specializes in medical anthropology and applied anthropology.",
"Briller is a professor of anthropology, a faculty associate for the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC), an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor at Purdue University.",
"Briller's research focuses on the cross-cultural study of health, aging, disability and end-of-life issues in Mongolia and various parts of the United States.",
"She has completed work as a researcher and consultant for various public and private organizations, including the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and Cultural Keys, LLC.",
"Her research studying health and aging has been published in numerous academic journals that focus on health, gerontology, and cultural studies.",
"She has co-authored a book series titled Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (2001) and co-edited End of Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005).",
"Her most recent co-authored book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise (2009), provides a series of exercises to encourage students to identify their career goals.",
"Biography \nBriller received a bachelor's degree in Sociology & Anthropology from Carleton College in 1989.",
"She completed her graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University where she earned a Master of Arts in Anthropology (1992), a Center on Aging & Health Graduate Certificate in Gerontology (1993), and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology (2000).",
"Her doctoral research examined the impact of family and government support on elder-care in Mongolia.",
"She found that retired, rural Mongolians reported high levels of overall life satisfaction when they had familial support and governmental support in the form of pensions.",
"During the completion of her doctoral work, Briller served as a consultant for numerous gerontological organizations and a lecturer at Wayne State University.",
"Upon completion of her degree, she accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University as an assistant professor in anthropology and faculty associate in the Institute for Gerontology.",
"While a professor at Wayne State University, Briller continued to work as an applied anthropologist studying health and aging.",
"In 2014, she became a professor of anthropology at Purdue University.",
"Briller has assisted with the development and expansion of the Applied and Practicing Anthropology program.",
"Additionally, she serves as a faculty associate in the Center on Aging & the Life Course (CALC), an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor at Purdue University.",
"Scholarship \nBriller’s research focuses on gerontology, applied and practicing anthropology, and medical anthropology with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of aging, disability, human-centered design, and global health.",
"She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on her research and co-edited one academic book, End of Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005).",
"She has co-authored five academic volumes, including Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (2001) series — a four-volume book series on dementia care settings.",
"These volumes are described as providing \"useful, implementable advice\" in the form of a\"rich collection of suggested starting point\" to address the connection between dementia care and the physical environment.",
"Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise (2009), has been described as \"a practical, how‐to guide for job‐seeking anthropology majors that does well to present information that will help students think about, and talk their way into, their future careers\".",
"Briller co-founded of the Space for Practice along with her colleagues, Zoe Nyssa, a professor in the department of anthropology at Purdue University, and Elizabeth K. Briody, a consultant from Cultural Keys, LLC and affiliate faculty member of anthropology at Purdue University.",
"The Space for Practice is an applied anthropology lab at Purdue University whose \"purpose is to facilitate applied anthropology pedagogy and to provide programming to foster student-practitioner interactions and networking\".",
"This lab provides students with hands-on experience working on applied anthropological projects and interaction with professionals and consultants who work in public and practicing anthropology.",
"Applied work \nBriller is an active member of several national organizations, including the Society for Applied Anthropology, the National Association of Practicing Anthropology, the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs, and the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course.",
"In 2018, she was elected as president of Society for Applied Anthropology.",
"She is the former president of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course and chair of the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs.",
"In addition to her academic scholarship, Briller is an active practicing anthropologist.",
"In 2014, she co-developed a community-engaged medical anthropology museum exhibit titled \"Follow the Lines: Environmental Legacy, Health & Fishing the Detroit River\" at the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology (Wayne State University).",
"The exhibit was based on her work studying Detroit urban fishermen and explored the cultural significance of urban fishing along the Detroit River.",
"This work occurred in partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency.",
"Currently, Briller serves as a professional consultant for Cultural Keys, LLC — a firm that helps companies and non-profit organizations diagnose and solve organizational and cultural issues.",
"Publications \n\n \n \n \n Briller, S. & Goldmacher, A.",
"(2009) Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercises.",
"Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.",
"Gelfand, D. E., Raspa, R., Briller, S.H.",
"and Schim, S.M., eds.",
"(2005) End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries.",
"New York: Springer.",
"Proffitt, M. and Briller, S. (2002) The Unit’s Edge: Exploring the Boundary Between Public and Private Domains in Residential Settings for Older Persons.",
"Milwaukee, WI: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Center for Architecture & Urban Planning Research Publishers.",
"Briller, S. Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins,.M.P.",
"(2001) Understanding the Environment Through Aging Senses, Vol.",
"2.",
"In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series).",
"Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.",
"Briller, S., Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins, M.P.",
"(2001) Maximizing Cognitive and Functional Abilities, Vol.",
"3.",
"In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series).",
"Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.",
"Marsden, J.P, Briller, S., Calkins, M.P.",
"and Proffitt, M. (2001) Enhancing Self and Sense of Home, Vol.",
"4.",
"In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series).",
"Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.",
"References \n\nAmerican anthropologists\nMedical anthropologists\nAmerican gerontologists\n1968 births\nPurdue University faculty\nCarleton College alumni\nCase Western Reserve University alumni\nWayne State University faculty\nAmerican women anthropologists\nLiving people\n21st-century anthropologists\nAmerican women academics\n21st-century American women"
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"Briller is a professor of anthropology, a faculty associate for the Center on Aging and the Life Course, an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor.",
"The cross-cultural study of health, aging, disability and end-of-life issues is what Briller's research focuses on.",
"She worked as a researcher and consultant for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.",
"Her research focuses on health, gerontology, and cultural studies.",
"She co-authored a book series titled Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings and End of Life Stories: crossing Disciplinary Boundaries.",
"Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise, provides a series of exercises to encourage students to identify their career goals.",
"Briller received a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College in 1989.",
"She graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Master of Arts in Anthropology, a Center on Aging & Health Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology.",
"She looked at the impact of family and government support on elder-care.",
"She found that retired, rural Mongolians had high levels of life satisfaction when they had government support in the form of pensions.",
"Briller was a lecturer at Wayne State University and a consultant for many gerontological organizations.",
"She accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University as an assistant professor in anthropology and faculty associate in the Institute for Gerontology after finishing her degree.",
"Briller continued to work as an applied anthropologist while he was a professor at Wayne State University.",
"She became a professor at the university.",
"The expansion of the Applied and Practicing Anthropology program has been assisted by Briller.",
"She is a faculty associate in the Center on Aging & the Life Course, an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor.",
"Scholarship Briller's research focuses on gerontology, applied and practicing anthropology, and medical anthropology with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of aging, disability, human-centered design, and global health.",
"She has co-edited one academic book and published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on her research.",
"She co-authored five academic volumes, including a four-volume book series on dementia care settings.",
"These volumes provide useful, implementable advice in the form of a rich collection of suggested starting points to address the connection between dementia care and the physical environment.",
"Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise, was described as \"a practical, howto guide for jobseeking anthropology majors that does well to present information that will help students think about, and talk their way into, their future careers\".",
"The Space for Practice was founded by Briller, a professor in the department of anthropology at Purdue University, and Nyssa, a consultant from Cultural Keys.",
"The purpose of The Space for Practice is to facilitate applied anthropology pedagogy and to provide programming to foster student-practitioner interactions and networking.",
"The lab gives students hands-on experience working on applied anthropological projects and interaction with professionals and consultants who work in public and practicing anthropology.",
"Briller is an active member of several national organizations, including the Society for Applied Anthropology, the National Association of Practicing Anthropology, the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs, and the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course.",
"She was elected president of the Society for Applied Anthropology.",
"She was the former president of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology and the Life-Course.",
"Briller is an anthropologist as well as an academic.",
"She co-developed a community-engaged medical anthropology museum exhibit titled \"Follow the Lines: Environmental Legacy, Health & Fishing the Detroit River\" at the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology.",
"The cultural significance of urban fishing along the Detroit River was explored in the exhibit based on her work.",
"The work was done in partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency.",
"Briller is a professional consultant for Cultural Keys, a firm that helps companies and non-profit organizations diagnose and solve organizational and cultural issues.",
"Publications Briller and Goldmacher.",
"Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development exercises was published in 2009.",
"AltaMira Press is located in Walnut Creek, CA.",
"D. E., R., Briller, S.H.",
"And Schim, S.M.",
"End-of-Life Stories: crossing Disciplinary Boundaries was published in 2005.",
"New York: Springer.",
"The Unit's Edge: Exploring the Boundary Between Public and Private Domains in Residential settings for Older Persons was written by Proffitt and Briller.",
"The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Center for Architecture & Urban Planning Research Publishers is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.",
"Briller, S. Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins,.M.P.",
"Understanding the Environment Through Aging Senses was published in 2001.",
"2.",
"Creating successful dementia care settings is a series written by M. P. Calkins.",
"The Health Professions Press is located in Baltimore, MD.",
"Briller, Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins, M.P.",
"Maximizing cognitive and functional abilities was published in 2001.",
"3.",
"Creating successful dementia care settings is a series written by M. P. Calkins.",
"The Health Professions Press is located in Baltimore, MD.",
"J.P., Briller, S., Calkins, M.P.",
"Proffitt wrote Enhancing Self and Sense of Home.",
"4.",
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"American anthropologists include medical anthropologists, American gerontologists, American women anthropologists, and American women academics."
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Briller received a bachelor's degree in Sociology & Anthropology from Carleton College in 1989. She completed her graduate studies at Case Western Reserve University where she earned a Master of Arts in Anthropology (1992), a Center on Aging & Health Graduate Certificate in Gerontology (1993), and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology (2000). Her doctoral research examined the impact of family and government support on elder-care in Mongolia. She found that retired, rural Mongolians reported high levels of overall life satisfaction when they had familial support and governmental support in the form of pensions. During the completion of her doctoral work, Briller served as a consultant for numerous gerontological organizations and a lecturer at Wayne State University. Upon completion of her degree, she accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University as an assistant professor in anthropology and faculty associate in the Institute for Gerontology. While a professor at Wayne State University, Briller continued to work as an applied anthropologist studying health and aging.In 2014, she became a professor of anthropology at Purdue University. Briller has assisted with the development and expansion of the Applied and Practicing Anthropology program. Additionally, she serves as a faculty associate in the Center on Aging & the Life Course (CALC), an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor at Purdue University. Scholarship
Briller’s research focuses on gerontology, applied and practicing anthropology, and medical anthropology with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of aging, disability, human-centered design, and global health. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on her research and co-edited one academic book, End of Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (2005). She has co-authored five academic volumes, including Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (2001) series — a four-volume book series on dementia care settings. These volumes are described as providing "useful, implementable advice" in the form of a"rich collection of suggested starting point" to address the connection between dementia care and the physical environment.Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise (2009), has been described as "a practical, how‐to guide for job‐seeking anthropology majors that does well to present information that will help students think about, and talk their way into, their future careers". Briller co-founded of the Space for Practice along with her colleagues, Zoe Nyssa, a professor in the department of anthropology at Purdue University, and Elizabeth K. Briody, a consultant from Cultural Keys, LLC and affiliate faculty member of anthropology at Purdue University. The Space for Practice is an applied anthropology lab at Purdue University whose "purpose is to facilitate applied anthropology pedagogy and to provide programming to foster student-practitioner interactions and networking". This lab provides students with hands-on experience working on applied anthropological projects and interaction with professionals and consultants who work in public and practicing anthropology. Applied work
Briller is an active member of several national organizations, including the Society for Applied Anthropology, the National Association of Practicing Anthropology, the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs, and the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course. In 2018, she was elected as president of Society for Applied Anthropology. She is the former president of the Association for Anthropology, Gerontology, and the Life-Course and chair of the Consortium for Practicing and Applied Anthropology Programs.In addition to her academic scholarship, Briller is an active practicing anthropologist. In 2014, she co-developed a community-engaged medical anthropology museum exhibit titled "Follow the Lines: Environmental Legacy, Health & Fishing the Detroit River" at the Gordon L. Grosscup Museum of Anthropology (Wayne State University). The exhibit was based on her work studying Detroit urban fishermen and explored the cultural significance of urban fishing along the Detroit River. This work occurred in partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, Briller serves as a professional consultant for Cultural Keys, LLC — a firm that helps companies and non-profit organizations diagnose and solve organizational and cultural issues. Publications
<mask>, S. & Goldmacher, A. (2009) Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercises.Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. Gelfand, D. E., Raspa, R., <mask>, S.H. and Schim, S.M., eds. (2005) End-of-Life Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries. New York: Springer. Proffitt, M. and <mask>, S. (2002) The Unit’s Edge: Exploring the Boundary Between Public and Private Domains in Residential Settings for Older Persons. Milwaukee, WI: University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Center for Architecture & Urban Planning Research Publishers.<mask>, S. Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins,.M.P. (2001) Understanding the Environment Through Aging Senses, Vol. 2. In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series). Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press. <mask>, S., Proffitt, M., Perez, K. and Calkins, M.P. (2001) Maximizing Cognitive and Functional Abilities, Vol.3. In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series). Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press. Marsden, J.P, Briller, S., Calkins, M.P. and Proffitt, M. (2001) Enhancing Self and Sense of Home, Vol. 4. In M. P. Calkins, Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (series).Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press. References
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American gerontologists
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Carleton College alumni
Case Western Reserve University alumni
Wayne State University faculty
American women anthropologists
Living people
21st-century anthropologists
American women academics
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Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise, provides a series of exercises to encourage students to identify their career goals.Briller received a bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College in 1989. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a Master of Arts in Anthropology, a Center on Aging & Health Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Anthropology. She looked at the impact of family and government support on elder-care. She found that retired, rural Mongolians had high levels of life satisfaction when they had government support in the form of pensions. Briller was a lecturer at Wayne State University and a consultant for many gerontological organizations. She accepted a faculty position at Wayne State University as an assistant professor in anthropology and faculty associate in the Institute for Gerontology after finishing her degree. Briller continued to work as an applied anthropologist while he was a professor at Wayne State University.She became a professor at the university. The expansion of the Applied and Practicing Anthropology program has been assisted by Briller. She is a faculty associate in the Center on Aging & the Life Course, an affiliated faculty in the Critical Disabilities Studies Program, and an instructor for the Design and Innovation minor. Scholarship Briller's research focuses on gerontology, applied and practicing anthropology, and medical anthropology with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary study of aging, disability, human-centered design, and global health. She has co-edited one academic book and published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on her research. She co-authored five academic volumes, including a four-volume book series on dementia care settings. These volumes provide useful, implementable advice in the form of a rich collection of suggested starting points to address the connection between dementia care and the physical environment.Her most recent book, Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development Exercise, was described as "a practical, howto guide for jobseeking anthropology majors that does well to present information that will help students think about, and talk their way into, their future careers". The Space for Practice was founded by <mask>, a professor in the department of anthropology at Purdue University, and Nyssa, a consultant from Cultural Keys. The purpose of The Space for Practice is to facilitate applied anthropology pedagogy and to provide programming to foster student-practitioner interactions and networking. 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The cultural significance of urban fishing along the Detroit River was explored in the exhibit based on her work. The work was done in partnership with the Michigan Department of Community Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Briller is a professional consultant for Cultural Keys, a firm that helps companies and non-profit organizations diagnose and solve organizational and cultural issues. Publications Briller and Goldmacher. Designing An Anthropological Career: Professional Development exercises was published in 2009.AltaMira Press is located in Walnut Creek, CA. D. E., R., Briller, S.H. And Schim, S.M. End-of-Life Stories: crossing Disciplinary Boundaries was published in 2005. New York: Springer. The Unit's Edge: Exploring the Boundary Between Public and Private Domains in Residential settings for Older Persons was written by Proffitt and Briller. 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9033844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeimi%20Mafi | Lifeimi Mafi | Lifeimi Mafi (born 15 August 1982) is a Tongan-born, New Zealand former rugby union player.
Career in New Zealand
Born in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, Mafi initially played his club rugby with Kia Toa (Kia Toa is a Māori term which translates to "be brave"), based in the suburb of Awapuni, Palmerston North. It is one of the oldest clubs in Manawatu, and produced former Munster fullback Christian Cullen, Bristol number 8 Dan Ward-Smith, and former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer. He represented Manawatu in 2003, before moving to Taranaki in 2004 in time to play the British and Irish Lions in 2005. He made 25 appearances for Taranaki, and was named their "Back of the Season" in 2006. Mafi was also called into the Hurricanes squad in 2006 as replacement for the injured Conrad Smith, although he never took the field in a Super Rugby match.
Mafi represented New Zealand at U19 and U21 level. He played alongside players of the calibre of Ben Atiga, Jimmy Cowan, John Afoa, Stephen Donald and Sam Tuitupou in the 2003 U21 RWC against Australia. Mafi was also part of the 2005 New Zealand Sevens squad which won the World Series, and played alongside Maori captain Liam Messam, and All Blacks Joe Rokocoko, Isaia Toeava and Rudi Wulf.
Munster
Mafi's first appearance in a Munster jersey came during the close, hard fought win against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road in Round 1 of the 2006–07 Heineken Cup. Mafi was only on the pitch for a few minutes, but during that time he found himself on the wrong end of a trademark hit from Fijian centre Seru Rabeni. However, Mafi's home debut in Thomond Park, in the trouncing of French outfit Bourgoin, was more impressive. Sprung from the bench with 10 minutes to go, a scintillating break and hand-off resulted in a try for substitute hooker Andy Kyriacou.
Mafi first got on the scoresheet himself in the narrow away defeat to the Dragons, a game in which he scored two tries. He also finished a crucial score in the Heineken Cup round 5 game away to Bourgoin, and ran 50 metres to score his final try of the season at Musgrave Park in the end of season game against Glasgow Warriors. In all, Mafi scored 4 tries in 16 starts in his first season, but was criticised for his defensive decisions, often rushing out of the defensive line and leaving a space for opponents to exploit.
His second season in Munster was drastically more successful, even though he only managed 2 tries throughout. The presence of Māori Rua Tipoki had a calming effect on Mafi's defensive play, and the Munster centre partnership of Mafi-Tipoki was not exposed as much as the previous season's combination of Barry Murphy and Mafi, or Trevor Halstead and Mafi. Despite only scoring 3 tries between them in the victorious 2007–08 Heineken Cup campaign, their understanding of each other's play was crucial to Munster's success. Their attacking play was epitomised by Tipoki's score against Wasps in round 1 of the Heineken Cup at the Ricoh Arena, which was created by Mafi. Mafi himself scored a vital try away to French side Clermont, which secured a crucial losing bonus point which safe guarded Munster's passage to the quarter finals. Mafi and Tipoki formed Munster's vital centre partnership as they went on to capture their second Heineken Cup crown in May 2008. Mafi was nominated for Munster Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season, and in stark contrast to his debut in Welford Road, Toulouse centre Yannick Jauzion and Gloucester hooker Andy Titterell found themselves at the end of crunching tackles from the Kiwi Centre. However, Tipoki's departure at the end of the 2008–09 season led to a short lapse in Mafi's form for Munster.
The 2010–11 season saw a great deal of competition for places in the Munster team, with Sam Tuitupou, Johne Murphy and Keith Earls all competing with Mafi for centre places, and as a result Mafi spent some of the season either on the bench or dropped entirely. However, the latter half of the season saw a resurgence in his form on the pitch, and Mafi nailed down the 12 jersey. He often cooperated with Johne Murphy or Keith Earls, but, towards the end of the season, he played with Paul Warwick and Danny Barnes. The 2010–11 season also saw Mafi win his 100th cap for Munster, and he was an integral part of the team that triumphed over Ospreys and Leinster as Munster secured the 2010–11 Magners League.
Contrary to a persistent rumour, having played IRB 7s for New Zealand, Mafi was never be eligible to play for Ireland. He is however, considered an honorary Munsterman and is known as Larry Murphy to the Thomond faithful. He formerly represented New Zealand 7s, U19s & U21s before joining the Irish province in October 2006. The centre is a holder of a Tongan passport, meaning he is not regarded as an "overseas" player in either the Celtic League or Heineken Cup, which allowed him to take to the field alongside Munster's other "overseas" players such as New Zealand's top international try scorer Doug Howlett.
Perpignan
Mafi's move to French Top 14 side Perpignan was announced by then-Munster coach Tony McGahan in an interview on 22 March 2012. He joined Perpignan for the start of the 2012–13 season. Mafi made his debut for Perpignan on 18 August 2012, in the first round of the 2012–13 Top 14 against Toulon.
Return to New Zealand
Mafi and his family returned to New Zealand after he left Perpignan at the end of the 2017–18 Top 14 season, with Mafi rejoining Manawatu Turbos for the 2018 Mitre 10 Cup. He retired from rugby upon the conclusion of Manawatu's involvement in the competition.
Honours
Munster
Heineken Cup Winner : 2007–08
Celtic League Winner : 2008–09, 2010–11
References
External links
Munster Profile
ESPNscrum Profile
1982 births
Living people
People from Nukuʻalofa
Tongan rugby union players
Tongan expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand
Tongan expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in New Zealand
Manawatu rugby union players
Taranaki rugby union players
Munster Rugby players
USA Perpignan players
Rugby union centres | [
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"Career in New Zealand\nBorn in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, Mafi initially played his club rugby with Kia Toa (Kia Toa is a Māori term which translates to \"be brave\"), based in the suburb of Awapuni, Palmerston North.",
"It is one of the oldest clubs in Manawatu, and produced former Munster fullback Christian Cullen, Bristol number 8 Dan Ward-Smith, and former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer.",
"He represented Manawatu in 2003, before moving to Taranaki in 2004 in time to play the British and Irish Lions in 2005.",
"He made 25 appearances for Taranaki, and was named their \"Back of the Season\" in 2006.",
"Mafi was also called into the Hurricanes squad in 2006 as replacement for the injured Conrad Smith, although he never took the field in a Super Rugby match.",
"Mafi represented New Zealand at U19 and U21 level.",
"He played alongside players of the calibre of Ben Atiga, Jimmy Cowan, John Afoa, Stephen Donald and Sam Tuitupou in the 2003 U21 RWC against Australia.",
"Mafi was also part of the 2005 New Zealand Sevens squad which won the World Series, and played alongside Maori captain Liam Messam, and All Blacks Joe Rokocoko, Isaia Toeava and Rudi Wulf.",
"Munster\nMafi's first appearance in a Munster jersey came during the close, hard fought win against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road in Round 1 of the 2006–07 Heineken Cup.",
"Mafi was only on the pitch for a few minutes, but during that time he found himself on the wrong end of a trademark hit from Fijian centre Seru Rabeni.",
"However, Mafi's home debut in Thomond Park, in the trouncing of French outfit Bourgoin, was more impressive.",
"Sprung from the bench with 10 minutes to go, a scintillating break and hand-off resulted in a try for substitute hooker Andy Kyriacou.",
"Mafi first got on the scoresheet himself in the narrow away defeat to the Dragons, a game in which he scored two tries.",
"He also finished a crucial score in the Heineken Cup round 5 game away to Bourgoin, and ran 50 metres to score his final try of the season at Musgrave Park in the end of season game against Glasgow Warriors.",
"In all, Mafi scored 4 tries in 16 starts in his first season, but was criticised for his defensive decisions, often rushing out of the defensive line and leaving a space for opponents to exploit.",
"His second season in Munster was drastically more successful, even though he only managed 2 tries throughout.",
"The presence of Māori Rua Tipoki had a calming effect on Mafi's defensive play, and the Munster centre partnership of Mafi-Tipoki was not exposed as much as the previous season's combination of Barry Murphy and Mafi, or Trevor Halstead and Mafi.",
"Despite only scoring 3 tries between them in the victorious 2007–08 Heineken Cup campaign, their understanding of each other's play was crucial to Munster's success.",
"Their attacking play was epitomised by Tipoki's score against Wasps in round 1 of the Heineken Cup at the Ricoh Arena, which was created by Mafi.",
"Mafi himself scored a vital try away to French side Clermont, which secured a crucial losing bonus point which safe guarded Munster's passage to the quarter finals.",
"Mafi and Tipoki formed Munster's vital centre partnership as they went on to capture their second Heineken Cup crown in May 2008.",
"Mafi was nominated for Munster Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season, and in stark contrast to his debut in Welford Road, Toulouse centre Yannick Jauzion and Gloucester hooker Andy Titterell found themselves at the end of crunching tackles from the Kiwi Centre.",
"However, Tipoki's departure at the end of the 2008–09 season led to a short lapse in Mafi's form for Munster.",
"The 2010–11 season saw a great deal of competition for places in the Munster team, with Sam Tuitupou, Johne Murphy and Keith Earls all competing with Mafi for centre places, and as a result Mafi spent some of the season either on the bench or dropped entirely.",
"However, the latter half of the season saw a resurgence in his form on the pitch, and Mafi nailed down the 12 jersey.",
"He often cooperated with Johne Murphy or Keith Earls, but, towards the end of the season, he played with Paul Warwick and Danny Barnes.",
"The 2010–11 season also saw Mafi win his 100th cap for Munster, and he was an integral part of the team that triumphed over Ospreys and Leinster as Munster secured the 2010–11 Magners League.",
"Contrary to a persistent rumour, having played IRB 7s for New Zealand, Mafi was never be eligible to play for Ireland.",
"He is however, considered an honorary Munsterman and is known as Larry Murphy to the Thomond faithful.",
"He formerly represented New Zealand 7s, U19s & U21s before joining the Irish province in October 2006.",
"The centre is a holder of a Tongan passport, meaning he is not regarded as an \"overseas\" player in either the Celtic League or Heineken Cup, which allowed him to take to the field alongside Munster's other \"overseas\" players such as New Zealand's top international try scorer Doug Howlett.",
"Perpignan\nMafi's move to French Top 14 side Perpignan was announced by then-Munster coach Tony McGahan in an interview on 22 March 2012.",
"He joined Perpignan for the start of the 2012–13 season.",
"Mafi made his debut for Perpignan on 18 August 2012, in the first round of the 2012–13 Top 14 against Toulon.",
"Return to New Zealand\nMafi and his family returned to New Zealand after he left Perpignan at the end of the 2017–18 Top 14 season, with Mafi rejoining Manawatu Turbos for the 2018 Mitre 10 Cup.",
"He retired from rugby upon the conclusion of Manawatu's involvement in the competition.",
"Honours\n\nMunster\nHeineken Cup Winner : 2007–08\nCeltic League Winner : 2008–09, 2010–11\n\nReferences\n\nExternal links\nMunster Profile\nESPNscrum Profile\n\n1982 births\nLiving people\nPeople from Nukuʻalofa\nTongan rugby union players\nTongan expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand\nTongan expatriate rugby union players\nExpatriate rugby union players in New Zealand\nManawatu rugby union players\nTaranaki rugby union players\nMunster Rugby players\nUSA Perpignan players\nRugby union centres"
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"Mafi is a Mori term which means to be brave, and he played club rugby for the suburb of Awapuni.",
"It is one of the oldest clubs in the country, and has produced some of the best players in the world.",
"He played for the British and Irish Lions in 2005.",
"He was named the \"back of the season\" by Taranaki in 2006 after making 25 appearances.",
"Mafi was called into the Hurricanes squad in 2006 as a replacement for Conrad Smith, but he never took the field in a Super Rugby match.",
"Mafi was a member of New Zealand at U19 and U21 levels.",
"He was part of a group of players that played in the 2003 U21 RWC against Australia.",
"Mafi was part of the 2005 New Zealand Sevens squad which won the World Series, and played alongside All Blacks Joe Rokocoko, Isaia Toeava and Rudi Wulf.",
"In Round 1 of the 2006–07 Heineken Cup, Mafi made his first appearance in aMunster jersey.",
"Mafi was only on the pitch for a few minutes, but he found himself on the wrong end of a hit from Seru Rabeni.",
"Mafi's home debut, in the trouncing of French outfit Bourgoin, was more impressive.",
"With 10 minutes to go, a break and hand-off resulted in a try for substitute hooker Andy Kyriacou.",
"Mafi scored two tries in the narrow away defeat to the Dragons.",
"He ran 50 metres to score his final try of the season in the final game of the season against Glasgow Warriors.",
"Mafi scored 4 tries in 16 starts in his first season, but was criticized for his defensive decisions, often rushing out of the defensive line and leaving a space for opponents to exploit.",
"Even though he only managed 2 tries, his second season was more successful than his first.",
"The presence of Mori Rua Tipoki had a calming effect on Mafi's defensive play, and the centre partnership of Mafi-Tipoki was not exposed as much as the previous season's combination of Barry Murphy and Mafi.",
"They only scored 3 tries, but their understanding of each other's play was crucial to their success.",
"Their attacking play was typified by Tipoki's score against Wasps in round 1 of the Heineken Cup at the Ricoh Arena, which was created by Mafi.",
"A crucial losing bonus point was secured by Mafi when he scored a try away to French side Clermont.",
"The crucial centre partnership of Mafi and Tipoki was formed as they went on to win the second Heineken Cup crown.",
"Mafi was nominated for Munster Player of the Year for the 2008 season, and in stark contrast to his debut in Welford Road, Toulouse centre Yannick Jauzion and Gloucester hooker Andy Titterell found themselves at the end of crunching tackles from the Kiwi Centre.",
"At the end of the 2008–09 season, Tipoki's departure led to a short lapse in Mafi's form.",
"The 2010–11 season saw a lot of competition for places in the team, with Sam Tuitupou, Johne Murphy and Keith Earls all competing with Mafi for centre places, and as a result Mafi spent some of the season either on the bench or dropped entirely.",
"Mafi nailed down the 12 jersey after a resurgence in his form in the latter half of the season.",
"He played with Paul and Danny at the end of the season.",
"Mafi won his 100th cap for Munster in the 2010–11 season, and he was an important part of the team that won the Magners League.",
"Mafi was never eligible to play for Ireland because he played IRB 7s for New Zealand.",
"He is affectionately known as Larry Murphy to the Thomond faithful.",
"He represented New Zealand in 7s, U19s and U21s before joining the Irish province.",
"The centre is not considered an \"overseas\" player in either the Celtic League or the Heineken Cup because he is a holder of a Tongan passport.",
"Perpignan Mafi's move to French Top 14 side Perpignan was announced by then-Munster coach Tony McGahan in an interview.",
"He joined Perpignan in the beginning of the 2012–13 season.",
"Mafi made his debut for Perpignan in the first round of the 2012–13 Top 14.",
"Mafi and his family returned to New Zealand after he left Perpignan at the end of the Top 14 season.",
"After Manawatu's involvement in the competition, he retired from rugby.",
"Celtic League Winner : 2008–09, 2010–11 References External links"
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Born in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, <mask> initially played his club rugby with Kia Toa (Kia Toa is a Māori term which translates to "be brave"), based in the suburb of Awapuni, Palmerston North. It is one of the oldest clubs in Manawatu, and produced former Munster fullback Christian Cullen, Bristol number 8 Dan Ward-Smith, and former Black Ferns captain Farah Palmer. He represented Manawatu in 2003, before moving to Taranaki in 2004 in time to play the British and Irish Lions in 2005. He made 25 appearances for Taranaki, and was named their "Back of the Season" in 2006. <mask> was also called into the Hurricanes squad in 2006 as replacement for the injured Conrad Smith, although he never took the field in a Super Rugby match. <mask> represented New Zealand at U19 and U21 level.He played alongside players of the calibre of Ben Atiga, Jimmy Cowan, John Afoa, Stephen Donald and Sam Tuitupou in the 2003 U21 RWC against Australia. Mafi was also part of the 2005 New Zealand Sevens squad which won the World Series, and played alongside Maori captain Liam Messam, and All Blacks Joe Rokocoko, Isaia Toeava and Rudi Wulf. Munster
<mask>'s first appearance in a Munster jersey came during the close, hard fought win against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road in Round 1 of the 2006–07 Heineken Cup. <mask> was only on the pitch for a few minutes, but during that time he found himself on the wrong end of a trademark hit from Fijian centre Seru Rabeni. However, <mask>'s home debut in Thomond Park, in the trouncing of French outfit Bourgoin, was more impressive. Sprung from the bench with 10 minutes to go, a scintillating break and hand-off resulted in a try for substitute hooker Andy Kyriacou. <mask> first got on the scoresheet himself in the narrow away defeat to the Dragons, a game in which he scored two tries.He also finished a crucial score in the Heineken Cup round 5 game away to Bourgoin, and ran 50 metres to score his final try of the season at Musgrave Park in the end of season game against Glasgow Warriors. In all, <mask> scored 4 tries in 16 starts in his first season, but was criticised for his defensive decisions, often rushing out of the defensive line and leaving a space for opponents to exploit. His second season in Munster was drastically more successful, even though he only managed 2 tries throughout. The presence of Māori Rua Tipoki had a calming effect on <mask>'s defensive play, and the Munster centre partnership of <mask>-Tipoki was not exposed as much as the previous season's combination of Barry Murphy and Mafi, or Trevor Halstead and Mafi. Despite only scoring 3 tries between them in the victorious 2007–08 Heineken Cup campaign, their understanding of each other's play was crucial to Munster's success. Their attacking play was epitomised by Tipoki's score against Wasps in round 1 of the Heineken Cup at the Ricoh Arena, which was created by <mask>. <mask> himself scored a vital try away to French side Clermont, which secured a crucial losing bonus point which safe guarded Munster's passage to the quarter finals.<mask> and Tipoki formed Munster's vital centre partnership as they went on to capture their second Heineken Cup crown in May 2008. <mask> was nominated for Munster Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season, and in stark contrast to his debut in Welford Road, Toulouse centre Yannick Jauzion and Gloucester hooker Andy Titterell found themselves at the end of crunching tackles from the Kiwi Centre. However, Tipoki's departure at the end of the 2008–09 season led to a short lapse in <mask>'s form for Munster. The 2010–11 season saw a great deal of competition for places in the Munster team, with Sam Tuitupou, Johne Murphy and Keith Earls all competing with Mafi for centre places, and as a result <mask> spent some of the season either on the bench or dropped entirely. However, the latter half of the season saw a resurgence in his form on the pitch, and <mask> nailed down the 12 jersey. He often cooperated with Johne Murphy or Keith Earls, but, towards the end of the season, he played with Paul Warwick and Danny Barnes. The 2010–11 season also saw <mask> win his 100th cap for Munster, and he was an integral part of the team that triumphed over Ospreys and Leinster as Munster secured the 2010–11 Magners League.Contrary to a persistent rumour, having played IRB 7s for New Zealand, <mask> was never be eligible to play for Ireland. He is however, considered an honorary Munsterman and is known as Larry Murphy to the Thomond faithful. He formerly represented New Zealand 7s, U19s & U21s before joining the Irish province in October 2006. The centre is a holder of a Tongan passport, meaning he is not regarded as an "overseas" player in either the Celtic League or Heineken Cup, which allowed him to take to the field alongside Munster's other "overseas" players such as New Zealand's top international try scorer Doug Howlett. Perpignan
<mask>'s move to French Top 14 side Perpignan was announced by then-Munster coach Tony McGahan in an interview on 22 March 2012. He joined Perpignan for the start of the 2012–13 season. <mask> made his debut for Perpignan on 18 August 2012, in the first round of the 2012–13 Top 14 against Toulon.Return to New Zealand
<mask> and his family returned to New Zealand after he left Perpignan at the end of the 2017–18 Top 14 season, with <mask> rejoining Manawatu Turbos for the 2018 Mitre 10 Cup. He retired from rugby upon the conclusion of Manawatu's involvement in the competition. Honours
Munster
Heineken Cup Winner : 2007–08
Celtic League Winner : 2008–09, 2010–11
References
External links
Munster Profile
ESPNscrum Profile
1982 births
Living people
People from Nukuʻalofa
Tongan rugby union players
Tongan expatriate sportspeople in New Zealand
Tongan expatriate rugby union players
Expatriate rugby union players in New Zealand
Manawatu rugby union players
Taranaki rugby union players
Munster Rugby players
USA Perpignan players
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68362632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aar%C3%B3n%20Cruz | Aarón Cruz | Aarón Moisés Cruz Esquivel (born on 25 May 1991), is a Costa Rican professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper currently playing for Deportivo Saprissa and the Costa Rican national team.
Biography
Aarón Cruz was born on 25 May 1991.
Club career
A. D. San Carlos
Cruz made his professional debut on 22 January 2011, on the third day of the Summer Championship against Barrio México, as a local. On that occasion, he started the 90 minutes in the 2–1 victory. In all the competition he had two participations and in most of the times he was waiting from the substitution. On the other hand, the Sancarleños advanced to the eliminatory stage after finishing in second place in group B. In the quarterfinals they defeated Cartaginés, then in the semifinals they defeated Deportivo Saprissa, and were defeated in the finals against Alajuelense, obtaining the title runner-up.
At the 2011 Winter Championships, Cruz made 7 appearances, while his team finished in eighth place with 21 points. In Summer 2012 he only saw action for one game. On 19 January 2011, Cruaz he unexpectedly announced his retirement at age 20, to devote more time to his PE career.
On 14 January 2015, the team issued a press release and made Cruz's return official for the Closing Tournament in the Costa Rican Second Division. He appeared as a substitute on 21 January for matchday 3 in the visit to Generación Saprissa, the match that concluded tied at a goal. After waiting on the bench, he started on 8 April in the match that faced CD Liberia at the Carlos Ugalde Stadium. Cruz conceded a goal in the 0–1 defeat. At the end of the days, his group was in ninth place in group A, with 17 points and a long way from qualifying for the next round.
Pérez Zeledón
In mid-2015, Cruz signed with Pérez Zeledón, returning to the top flight. However, he never made his Winter Championship debut. Added to this, his team went through a performance crisis that was forced to separate several players, including Cruz himself. The other dismissed were Pedro Leal, Daniel Ramírez, Cristian Bermúdez, and Julián Pino.
C. F. Universidad de Costa Rica
During the transfer period, Cruz signed by C.D. Univesidad de Costa Rica to face the 2015 Winter tournament. He began as an academic on 25 October, in the match against Carmelita, at the Ecological Stadium. He started the 90 minutes in the 1–0 win. In total, he made 7 apperrances and his club was seventh with 27 points.
In the 2016 Summer Championship, Cruz acquired regularity in the starting lineups of the Portuguese coach Guilherme Farinha. He was for 21 games and conceded 29 goals. On the other hand, the university students finished in sixth place with 32 points.
Cruz missed the first round of the 2016 Winter Championship due to a broken finger. He returned on 21 September in the game against Deportivo Saprissa, and the score was a 4–0 in a defeat. In all the competition, he played 7 matches with 664 minutes of participation.
Deportivo Saprissa
On 20 December 2016, Deportivo Saprissa announced, through a press release, the incorporation of Cruz into the purple team. He signed the contract for a period of three and a half years.
Cruz as the starter on the first date of the Apertura 2017. For the start of the 2017 Summer Championship that took place on 8 January, the Saprissista team had a visit to the Carlos Ugalde Stadium, where they faced San Carlos. On his side, Cruz made his official debut with the number "22" and conceded a goal in the 1–0 defeat. The resumption of the Concacaf Champions League, in the first leg of the quarterfinals, took place on 21 February, the date on which his club hosted Pachuca de México at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium. He was left as a substitute and the process of the match was consumed in a draw without annotations. On 28 February was the second leg of the continental tournament, at the Hidalgo Stadium. The final score was 4–0 in favor of the Tuzos. On 12 April, in the rough game against Pérez Zeledón at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, his club was behind on the scoreboard due to the opponent's goal in just four minutes after starting the second half. The defensive block of the generals closed the spaces to the purple ones to deploy the offensive system of coach Carlos Watson, but at the 85th minute, his teammate, Daniel Colindres gave a filtered pass to the Uruguayan player Fabrizio Ronchetti for him to define with a leg shot left. Shortly before the end of the supplementary stage, defender Dave Myrie scored the winning goal 2–1. With this result, the Saprissistas secured the lead of the tournament in the absence of a qualifying round commitment. With a 1–2 loss at home against Santos de Guápiles, his team reached third place in the home run and therefore was established in the last instance by not having obtained the first place again. On 17 May, the first leg of the final against Herediano took place at the Rosabal Cordero Stadium. The goalkeeper saw no action in the 3–0 loss. In the return match on 21 May at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, the events that ended the tournament were a failure with a score of 0–2 in favor of the opponents, and an aggregate of 0–5 in the aggregate series.
His debut in the 2017 Apertura Tournament took place on July 30 at the "Fello" Meza de Cartago Stadium, where his team played at home against Carmelita. Cruz, for his part, appeared in the starting eleven, completed all the minutes and conceded two goals in the victory with the score of 4–2. The Saprissistas advanced to the home run in second place with 43 points, and at the end of it, the Tibaseño team was left without possibilities of opting for the title. Cruz counted eight appearances, executed nineteen interventions and managed to keep the goal at zero on one occasion.
With a view to the 2018 Closing Tournament, his team changed coaches due to the retirement of Carlos Watson, with Vladimir Quesada- who was the assistant last season, became the new coach of the club. Cruz appeared as a starter for the 90 minutes in the 0–3 victory over Liberia at the Edgardo Baltodano Stadium, where he had a relatively quiet game in his goal which kept him undefeated. On 20 May, he was proclaimed champion of the tournament with his club after beating Herediano in the penalty shootout. Cruz made 15 appearances, intervened 27 times and left his goal unbeaten 5 times. At the conclusion of the 2018 Apertura competition, he made a total of three appearances in which he did not receive any goals.
He faced his first match of the 2019 Clausura Tournament on 3 January, reaching all the minutes in the home draw at two goals against Limón. On 15 May, he obtained the runner-up of the contest.
He begins the 2019 Opening Tournament with the defeat of his team 1–0 against San Carlos, in which Cruz started.
On 28 July, he was sent off in the match against Santos de Guápiles, after having intercepted with his hands in a clear play of goal outside the area, for which he received a two-game suspension. On 26 November, he was proclaimed champion of the 2019 Concacaf League, after defeating Motagua from Honduras in the final.
He played the first date of the 2020 Closing Tournament on January 11 against San Carlos at the Carlos Ugalde Stadium. Cruz reached all the minutes and left the fence undefeated in the 1–0 win. In the competition he was the most regular player on the team with 23 appearances. On 29 June, he achieved the national title with Saprissa, after overcoming the final series of the championship over Alajuelense. On 7 July, Cruz signed his renewal contract until May 2023.
The new season began on 15 August 2020, for the first date of the Opening Tournament with a 4–0 home victory over Limón. In this competition he was the immovable goalkeeper and had 18 appearances.
He makes his debut on the first day of the 2021 Closing Tournament on 13 January, as a starter in the goalless draw against Municipal Grecia. On 21 February, he suffered a muscle tear and was out for two to three weeks. On 9 March, he was allowed to play after his recovery. His team entered the semifinals of the tournament in fourth place. On 16 May, he was the hero in stopping a penalty shot from Bryan Ruiz, for the first leg, and three days later he stopped a shot at Ruiz himself. The purple team made it to the final after defeating Alajuelense with a 5–6 aggregate. On 23 May, he started in the first leg of the final against Herediano, and also on May 26 in the second leg, where he was proclaimed champion by winning the series. Cruz had saved most penalties in the championship, reaching the tally of four. On 17 June 17, he was awarded the prize for the best goalkeeper of the contest.
International career
Youth career
On 23 November 2010, Cruz participated in the 2011 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship qualification held in Guatemala. The first match took place against Nicaragua, which ended 4–0 in favor of the Costa Ricans. Later they faced Panama, but the scoreboard ended with a 1–0 defeat. The Costa Rican team obtained second place in the table and played the playoffs against El Salvador. The round-trip games ended 1–0 and 1–1, with the victory of the Salvadorans, but due to FIFA regulatory issues they were disqualified by fielding a player who was ineligible to represent that country. Therefore, the Costa Rican squad won the series with score of 3–0 in both games, and subsequently qualified for the regional tournament.
The Costa Rican U20 team participated at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia, was place with Spain, Australia and Ecuador. The match between Costa Rica and Spain ended in a 1–4 win. On 3 August the match against the Australians was played, and Cruz was in the substitution and the result finished 2–3 in favor of the Sele. The last game of the group stage was against the Ecuadorians; the goalkeeper again waited from the bench in the 3–0 loss. With this performance obtained, the Costa Rican squad advanced to the next stage among the best third parties. At the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium in Bogotá, the game for the round of 16 against host Colombia took place on August 9. Cruz started and the score ended 3–2 in favor of the Colombians, leaving his country eliminated.
Senior team
On 14 March 2019, the player receives his first call up to the senior team by Gustavo Matosas, to face a couple of friendly matches of the month. On 24 March 23, a day after the game against Guatemala, Cruz was left on the bench, with a muscle injury that was confirmed in training that prevented him from continuing to concentrate. His place was taken over by Marco Madrigal.
On 23 January 2020, Cruz returns to the roster this time by Rónald González Brenes, with the purpose of making a blank on a non-FIFA date.
On 1 February, in a match against the United States at Dignity Health Sports Park. Cruz remained in the substitution and his country lost by the minimum 1–0.
On 9 May 2021, he was named in the preliminary squad to participate in the 2021 CONCACAF Nations League Finals. He was included in the final-23 of 25 May. However, Cruz was tested positive for COVID-19, and was replaced by Patrick Sequeira on 27 May.
References
1991 births
Living people
Costa Rican footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Deportivo Saprissa players
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"Aarón Moisés Cruz Esquivel (born on 25 May 1991), is a Costa Rican professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper currently playing for Deportivo Saprissa and the Costa Rican national team.",
"Biography\n\nAarón Cruz was born on 25 May 1991.",
"Club career\n\nA. D. San Carlos\n\nCruz made his professional debut on 22 January 2011, on the third day of the Summer Championship against Barrio México, as a local.",
"On that occasion, he started the 90 minutes in the 2–1 victory.",
"In all the competition he had two participations and in most of the times he was waiting from the substitution.",
"On the other hand, the Sancarleños advanced to the eliminatory stage after finishing in second place in group B.",
"In the quarterfinals they defeated Cartaginés, then in the semifinals they defeated Deportivo Saprissa, and were defeated in the finals against Alajuelense, obtaining the title runner-up.",
"At the 2011 Winter Championships, Cruz made 7 appearances, while his team finished in eighth place with 21 points.",
"In Summer 2012 he only saw action for one game.",
"On 19 January 2011, Cruaz he unexpectedly announced his retirement at age 20, to devote more time to his PE career.",
"On 14 January 2015, the team issued a press release and made Cruz's return official for the Closing Tournament in the Costa Rican Second Division.",
"He appeared as a substitute on 21 January for matchday 3 in the visit to Generación Saprissa, the match that concluded tied at a goal.",
"After waiting on the bench, he started on 8 April in the match that faced CD Liberia at the Carlos Ugalde Stadium.",
"Cruz conceded a goal in the 0–1 defeat.",
"At the end of the days, his group was in ninth place in group A, with 17 points and a long way from qualifying for the next round.",
"Pérez Zeledón\n\nIn mid-2015, Cruz signed with Pérez Zeledón, returning to the top flight.",
"However, he never made his Winter Championship debut.",
"Added to this, his team went through a performance crisis that was forced to separate several players, including Cruz himself.",
"The other dismissed were Pedro Leal, Daniel Ramírez, Cristian Bermúdez, and Julián Pino.",
"C. F. Universidad de Costa Rica\n\nDuring the transfer period, Cruz signed by C.D.",
"Univesidad de Costa Rica to face the 2015 Winter tournament.",
"He began as an academic on 25 October, in the match against Carmelita, at the Ecological Stadium.",
"He started the 90 minutes in the 1–0 win.",
"In total, he made 7 apperrances and his club was seventh with 27 points.",
"In the 2016 Summer Championship, Cruz acquired regularity in the starting lineups of the Portuguese coach Guilherme Farinha.",
"He was for 21 games and conceded 29 goals.",
"On the other hand, the university students finished in sixth place with 32 points.",
"Cruz missed the first round of the 2016 Winter Championship due to a broken finger.",
"He returned on 21 September in the game against Deportivo Saprissa, and the score was a 4–0 in a defeat.",
"In all the competition, he played 7 matches with 664 minutes of participation.",
"Deportivo Saprissa\n\nOn 20 December 2016, Deportivo Saprissa announced, through a press release, the incorporation of Cruz into the purple team.",
"He signed the contract for a period of three and a half years.",
"Cruz as the starter on the first date of the Apertura 2017.",
"For the start of the 2017 Summer Championship that took place on 8 January, the Saprissista team had a visit to the Carlos Ugalde Stadium, where they faced San Carlos.",
"On his side, Cruz made his official debut with the number \"22\" and conceded a goal in the 1–0 defeat.",
"The resumption of the Concacaf Champions League, in the first leg of the quarterfinals, took place on 21 February, the date on which his club hosted Pachuca de México at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium.",
"He was left as a substitute and the process of the match was consumed in a draw without annotations.",
"On 28 February was the second leg of the continental tournament, at the Hidalgo Stadium.",
"The final score was 4–0 in favor of the Tuzos.",
"On 12 April, in the rough game against Pérez Zeledón at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, his club was behind on the scoreboard due to the opponent's goal in just four minutes after starting the second half.",
"The defensive block of the generals closed the spaces to the purple ones to deploy the offensive system of coach Carlos Watson, but at the 85th minute, his teammate, Daniel Colindres gave a filtered pass to the Uruguayan player Fabrizio Ronchetti for him to define with a leg shot left.",
"Shortly before the end of the supplementary stage, defender Dave Myrie scored the winning goal 2–1.",
"With this result, the Saprissistas secured the lead of the tournament in the absence of a qualifying round commitment.",
"With a 1–2 loss at home against Santos de Guápiles, his team reached third place in the home run and therefore was established in the last instance by not having obtained the first place again.",
"On 17 May, the first leg of the final against Herediano took place at the Rosabal Cordero Stadium.",
"The goalkeeper saw no action in the 3–0 loss.",
"In the return match on 21 May at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, the events that ended the tournament were a failure with a score of 0–2 in favor of the opponents, and an aggregate of 0–5 in the aggregate series.",
"His debut in the 2017 Apertura Tournament took place on July 30 at the \"Fello\" Meza de Cartago Stadium, where his team played at home against Carmelita.",
"Cruz, for his part, appeared in the starting eleven, completed all the minutes and conceded two goals in the victory with the score of 4–2.",
"The Saprissistas advanced to the home run in second place with 43 points, and at the end of it, the Tibaseño team was left without possibilities of opting for the title.",
"Cruz counted eight appearances, executed nineteen interventions and managed to keep the goal at zero on one occasion.",
"With a view to the 2018 Closing Tournament, his team changed coaches due to the retirement of Carlos Watson, with Vladimir Quesada- who was the assistant last season, became the new coach of the club.",
"Cruz appeared as a starter for the 90 minutes in the 0–3 victory over Liberia at the Edgardo Baltodano Stadium, where he had a relatively quiet game in his goal which kept him undefeated.",
"On 20 May, he was proclaimed champion of the tournament with his club after beating Herediano in the penalty shootout.",
"Cruz made 15 appearances, intervened 27 times and left his goal unbeaten 5 times.",
"At the conclusion of the 2018 Apertura competition, he made a total of three appearances in which he did not receive any goals.",
"He faced his first match of the 2019 Clausura Tournament on 3 January, reaching all the minutes in the home draw at two goals against Limón.",
"On 15 May, he obtained the runner-up of the contest.",
"He begins the 2019 Opening Tournament with the defeat of his team 1–0 against San Carlos, in which Cruz started.",
"On 28 July, he was sent off in the match against Santos de Guápiles, after having intercepted with his hands in a clear play of goal outside the area, for which he received a two-game suspension.",
"On 26 November, he was proclaimed champion of the 2019 Concacaf League, after defeating Motagua from Honduras in the final.",
"He played the first date of the 2020 Closing Tournament on January 11 against San Carlos at the Carlos Ugalde Stadium.",
"Cruz reached all the minutes and left the fence undefeated in the 1–0 win.",
"In the competition he was the most regular player on the team with 23 appearances.",
"On 29 June, he achieved the national title with Saprissa, after overcoming the final series of the championship over Alajuelense.",
"On 7 July, Cruz signed his renewal contract until May 2023.",
"The new season began on 15 August 2020, for the first date of the Opening Tournament with a 4–0 home victory over Limón.",
"In this competition he was the immovable goalkeeper and had 18 appearances.",
"He makes his debut on the first day of the 2021 Closing Tournament on 13 January, as a starter in the goalless draw against Municipal Grecia.",
"On 21 February, he suffered a muscle tear and was out for two to three weeks.",
"On 9 March, he was allowed to play after his recovery.",
"His team entered the semifinals of the tournament in fourth place.",
"On 16 May, he was the hero in stopping a penalty shot from Bryan Ruiz, for the first leg, and three days later he stopped a shot at Ruiz himself.",
"The purple team made it to the final after defeating Alajuelense with a 5–6 aggregate.",
"On 23 May, he started in the first leg of the final against Herediano, and also on May 26 in the second leg, where he was proclaimed champion by winning the series.",
"Cruz had saved most penalties in the championship, reaching the tally of four.",
"On 17 June 17, he was awarded the prize for the best goalkeeper of the contest.",
"International career\n\nYouth career\n\nOn 23 November 2010, Cruz participated in the 2011 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship qualification held in Guatemala.",
"The first match took place against Nicaragua, which ended 4–0 in favor of the Costa Ricans.",
"Later they faced Panama, but the scoreboard ended with a 1–0 defeat.",
"The Costa Rican team obtained second place in the table and played the playoffs against El Salvador.",
"The round-trip games ended 1–0 and 1–1, with the victory of the Salvadorans, but due to FIFA regulatory issues they were disqualified by fielding a player who was ineligible to represent that country.",
"Therefore, the Costa Rican squad won the series with score of 3–0 in both games, and subsequently qualified for the regional tournament.",
"The Costa Rican U20 team participated at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia, was place with Spain, Australia and Ecuador.",
"The match between Costa Rica and Spain ended in a 1–4 win.",
"On 3 August the match against the Australians was played, and Cruz was in the substitution and the result finished 2–3 in favor of the Sele.",
"The last game of the group stage was against the Ecuadorians; the goalkeeper again waited from the bench in the 3–0 loss.",
"With this performance obtained, the Costa Rican squad advanced to the next stage among the best third parties.",
"At the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium in Bogotá, the game for the round of 16 against host Colombia took place on August 9.",
"Cruz started and the score ended 3–2 in favor of the Colombians, leaving his country eliminated.",
"Senior team\n\nOn 14 March 2019, the player receives his first call up to the senior team by Gustavo Matosas, to face a couple of friendly matches of the month.",
"On 24 March 23, a day after the game against Guatemala, Cruz was left on the bench, with a muscle injury that was confirmed in training that prevented him from continuing to concentrate.",
"His place was taken over by Marco Madrigal.",
"On 23 January 2020, Cruz returns to the roster this time by Rónald González Brenes, with the purpose of making a blank on a non-FIFA date.",
"On 1 February, in a match against the United States at Dignity Health Sports Park.",
"Cruz remained in the substitution and his country lost by the minimum 1–0.",
"On 9 May 2021, he was named in the preliminary squad to participate in the 2021 CONCACAF Nations League Finals.",
"He was included in the final-23 of 25 May.",
"However, Cruz was tested positive for COVID-19, and was replaced by Patrick Sequeira on 27 May.",
"References\n\n1991 births\nLiving people\nCosta Rican footballers\nAssociation football goalkeepers\nDeportivo Saprissa players\nCosta Rica international footballers"
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"Aarn is a Costa Rican professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper for the Costa Rican national team.",
"Aarn Cruz was born in 1991.",
"On the third day of the Summer Championship against Barrio México, A. D. San Carlos Cruz made his professional debut.",
"He started the 90 minutes in the victory.",
"He had two participations and in most of the times he was waiting for the substitution.",
"The Sancarleos advanced to the eliminatory stage after finishing second in their group.",
"They defeated Cartaginés in the quarterfinals, but were defeated in the semifinals and finals by Alajuelense.",
"Cruz made 7 appearances at the Winter Championships and his team finished in eighth place with 21 points.",
"In Summer 2012 he only saw one game.",
"He unexpectedly retired at the age of 20 to devote more time to his PE career.",
"On 14 January 2015, the team issued a press release and made Cruz's return official for the Closing Tournament in the Costa Rican Second Division.",
"The match that ended tied at a goal was on matchday 3 of the season.",
"He started in the match on April 8th after waiting on the bench.",
"Cruz conceded a goal.",
"At the end of the day, his group was in ninth place in group A with 17 points and a long way from the next round.",
"Cruz returned to the top flight after signing with Pérez Zeledn.",
"He didn't make his Winter Championship debut.",
"His team went through a performance crisis and had to separate several players, including Cruz.",
"The other people dismissed were Pedro Leal, Daniel Ramrez, Cristian Bermdez, and Julin Pino.",
"Cruz was signed by C.D. during the transfer period.",
"Costa Rica will play in the Winter tournament.",
"He started as an academic in the match against Carmelita.",
"The 90 minutes were started by him.",
"He made 7 apperrances and his club was seventh with 27 points.",
"Cruz was in the starting lineups of the Portuguese coach in the Summer Championship.",
"He gave up 29 goals in 21 games.",
"The university students finished in sixth place with 32 points.",
"Cruz missed the first round of the Winter Championship because of a broken finger.",
"The score was 4–0 in a defeat when he came back on 21 September.",
"He played 7 matches in the competition.",
"Cruz was added to the purple team on December 20, 2016 through a press release.",
"The contract was signed for three and a half years.",
"Cruz was the starter on the first date.",
"The start of the Summer Championship that took place on 8 January saw the Saprissista team visit the Carlos Ugalde Stadium, where they faced San Carlos.",
"Cruz made his official debut with the number 22 and conceded a goal in the 1–0 defeat.",
"The first leg of the quarterfinals took place on 21 February, the same day as the game between his club and Pachuca de México.",
"The process of the match was consumed in a draw without annotations after he was left as a substitute.",
"The second leg of the continental tournament was held at the Hidalgo Stadium.",
"The final score was 4–0 in favor of the Tuzos.",
"In the game against Pérez Zeledn, his club was behind on the basis of the opponent's goal in just four minutes after the start of the second half.",
"The defensive block of the generals closed the spaces to the purple ones to deploy the offensive system of coach Carlos Watson, but at the 85th minute, his teammate, Daniel Colindres gave a pass to the Uruguayan player to define with a leg shot.",
"Dave Myrie scored the winning goal shortly before the end of the supplementary stage.",
"The lead of the tournament was secured by the Saprissistas with this result.",
"His team reached third place in the home run and was established in the last instance by not having obtained the first place again, after a 2–1 loss at home against Santos de Gupiles.",
"The first leg of the final took place at theRosabal Cordero Stadium.",
"The goalkeeper didn't see anything in the loss.",
"The events that ended the tournament were a failure with a score of 0–2 in favor of the opponents, and an aggregate of 0–5 in the aggregate series.",
"His team played a home game against Carmelita at the \"Fello\" Meza de Cartago Stadium on July 30.",
"Cruz was in the starting eleven, played all the minutes, and conceded two goals in the victory.",
"The Tibaseo team was left without a chance of winning the title after the Saprissistas advanced to the home run in second place with 43 points.",
"Cruz was able to keep the goal at zero on one occasion.",
"His team changed coaches due to the retirement of Carlos Watson, who was the assistant last season, and he became the new coach of the club.",
"Cruz had a quiet game in his goal in the 90 minutes that he played in the 0–3 victory over Liberia at the Edgardo Baltodano Stadium.",
"He won the tournament with his club after beating Herediano in the penalty shoot out.",
"Cruz left his goal untouched 5 times.",
"He did not receive any goals at the end of the Apertura competition.",
"He played in the first match of the Clausura Tournament on January 3, reaching all the minutes in the home draw with two goals.",
"He was the runner-up of the contest.",
"He lost his team 1–0 against San Carlos in the opening tournament.",
"He received a two-game suspension after he was sent off in the match againstSantos de Gupiles for intercepting the ball with his hands outside the area.",
"He was declared the champion of the Concacaf League after defeating the team from Honduras in the final.",
"The first date of the 2020 Closing Tournament was against San Carlos on January 11.",
"Cruz left the fence untouched in the 1–0 win.",
"He played in the competition for 23 appearances.",
"He won the national title with Saprissa after overcoming the final series of the championship over Alajuelense.",
"Cruz renewed his contract on 7 July.",
"The season began on August 15, 2020 with a 4–0 home victory over Limn.",
"He had 18 appearances in this competition.",
"He starts in the goalless draw against Municipal Grecia on the first day of the closing tournament.",
"He was out for two to three weeks after he suffered a muscle tear.",
"After his recovery, he was allowed to play.",
"His team was fourth in the tournament.",
"On 16 May, he was the hero in stopping a penalty shot from Bryan Ruiz, and three days later he stopped a shot at him.",
"The purple team made it to the final after defeating Alajuelense.",
"He started in the first leg of the final against Herediano on May 23, and then in the second leg on May 26.",
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"He received the prize for the best goalkeeper on 17 June.",
"Cruz participated in the Under-20 Championship qualification in November of 2010.",
"The Costa Ricans defeated Nicaragua 4–0 in the first match.",
"They lost to Panama by a 1–0 score.",
"The Costa Rican team won the second place in the table and advanced to the playoffs.",
"The round-trip games ended 1–0 and 1–1 with the victory of the Salvadorans, but due to regulatory issues they were disqualified by fielding a player who was ineligible to represent that country.",
"The Costa Rican squad won the series with a score of 3–0 and qualified for the regional tournament.",
"The Costa Rican U20 team participated in the U-20 World Cup in 2011.",
"Costa Rica and Spain played a match.",
"The match against the Australians was played on 3 August and Cruz was in the substitution and the result was 2–1 in favor of the Sele.",
"The goalkeeper was on the bench in the 3–0 loss to the Ecuadorians in the last game of the group stage.",
"The Costa Rican squad advanced to the next stage after this performance.",
"The game for the round of 16 took place in Bogot on August 9.",
"Cruz's country was eliminated when the score ended in favor of the Colombians.",
"The player gets his first call up to the senior team on March 14th, to face a couple of friendly matches of the month.",
"Cruz was left on the bench a day after the game with a muscle injury that prevented him from concentrating.",
"Marco Madrigal took over his place.",
"Cruz will return to the roster on January 23, 2020, with the purpose of making a blank on a non-FIFA date.",
"There was a match against the United States at the park.",
"Cruz remained in the substitution and his country lost.",
"He was named to the preliminary squad on May 9, 2021.",
"He was included in the final 23.",
"Cruz was replaced by Patrick Sequeira on May 27th.",
"Football players from Costa Rica are referred to as living people."
] | <mask> (born on 25 May 1991), is a Costa Rican professional football player who plays as a goalkeeper currently playing for Deportivo Saprissa and the Costa Rican national team. Biography
<mask> was born on 25 May 1991. Club career
A. D. San Carlos
<mask> made his professional debut on 22 January 2011, on the third day of the Summer Championship against Barrio México, as a local. On that occasion, he started the 90 minutes in the 2–1 victory. In all the competition he had two participations and in most of the times he was waiting from the substitution. On the other hand, the Sancarleños advanced to the eliminatory stage after finishing in second place in group B. In the quarterfinals they defeated Cartaginés, then in the semifinals they defeated Deportivo Saprissa, and were defeated in the finals against Alajuelense, obtaining the title runner-up.At the 2011 Winter Championships, <mask> made 7 appearances, while his team finished in eighth place with 21 points. In Summer 2012 he only saw action for one game. On 19 January 2011, Cruaz he unexpectedly announced his retirement at age 20, to devote more time to his PE career. On 14 January 2015, the team issued a press release and made <mask>'s return official for the Closing Tournament in the Costa Rican Second Division. He appeared as a substitute on 21 January for matchday 3 in the visit to Generación Saprissa, the match that concluded tied at a goal. After waiting on the bench, he started on 8 April in the match that faced CD Liberia at the Carlos Ugalde Stadium. <mask> conceded a goal in the 0–1 defeat.At the end of the days, his group was in ninth place in group A, with 17 points and a long way from qualifying for the next round. Pérez Zeledón
In mid-2015, <mask> signed with Pérez Zeledón, returning to the top flight. However, he never made his Winter Championship debut. Added to this, his team went through a performance crisis that was forced to separate several players, including <mask> himself. The other dismissed were Pedro Leal, Daniel Ramírez, Cristian Bermúdez, and Julián Pino. C. F. Universidad de Costa Rica
During the transfer period, <mask> signed by C.D. Univesidad de Costa Rica to face the 2015 Winter tournament.He began as an academic on 25 October, in the match against Carmelita, at the Ecological Stadium. He started the 90 minutes in the 1–0 win. In total, he made 7 apperrances and his club was seventh with 27 points. In the 2016 Summer Championship, <mask> acquired regularity in the starting lineups of the Portuguese coach Guilherme Farinha. He was for 21 games and conceded 29 goals. On the other hand, the university students finished in sixth place with 32 points. <mask> missed the first round of the 2016 Winter Championship due to a broken finger.He returned on 21 September in the game against Deportivo Saprissa, and the score was a 4–0 in a defeat. In all the competition, he played 7 matches with 664 minutes of participation. Deportivo Saprissa
On 20 December 2016, Deportivo Saprissa announced, through a press release, the incorporation of <mask> into the purple team. He signed the contract for a period of three and a half years. <mask> as the starter on the first date of the Apertura 2017. For the start of the 2017 Summer Championship that took place on 8 January, the Saprissista team had a visit to the Carlos Ugalde Stadium, where they faced San Carlos. On his side, <mask> made his official debut with the number "22" and conceded a goal in the 1–0 defeat.The resumption of the Concacaf Champions League, in the first leg of the quarterfinals, took place on 21 February, the date on which his club hosted Pachuca de México at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium. He was left as a substitute and the process of the match was consumed in a draw without annotations. On 28 February was the second leg of the continental tournament, at the Hidalgo Stadium. The final score was 4–0 in favor of the Tuzos. On 12 April, in the rough game against Pérez Zeledón at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, his club was behind on the scoreboard due to the opponent's goal in just four minutes after starting the second half. The defensive block of the generals closed the spaces to the purple ones to deploy the offensive system of coach Carlos Watson, but at the 85th minute, his teammate, Daniel Colindres gave a filtered pass to the Uruguayan player Fabrizio Ronchetti for him to define with a leg shot left. Shortly before the end of the supplementary stage, defender Dave Myrie scored the winning goal 2–1.With this result, the Saprissistas secured the lead of the tournament in the absence of a qualifying round commitment. With a 1–2 loss at home against Santos de Guápiles, his team reached third place in the home run and therefore was established in the last instance by not having obtained the first place again. On 17 May, the first leg of the final against Herediano took place at the Rosabal Cordero Stadium. The goalkeeper saw no action in the 3–0 loss. In the return match on 21 May at the Ricardo Saprissa Stadium, the events that ended the tournament were a failure with a score of 0–2 in favor of the opponents, and an aggregate of 0–5 in the aggregate series. His debut in the 2017 Apertura Tournament took place on July 30 at the "Fello" Meza de Cartago Stadium, where his team played at home against Carmelita. <mask>, for his part, appeared in the starting eleven, completed all the minutes and conceded two goals in the victory with the score of 4–2.The Saprissistas advanced to the home run in second place with 43 points, and at the end of it, the Tibaseño team was left without possibilities of opting for the title. <mask> counted eight appearances, executed nineteen interventions and managed to keep the goal at zero on one occasion. With a view to the 2018 Closing Tournament, his team changed coaches due to the retirement of Carlos Watson, with Vladimir Quesada- who was the assistant last season, became the new coach of the club. <mask> appeared as a starter for the 90 minutes in the 0–3 victory over Liberia at the Edgardo Baltodano Stadium, where he had a relatively quiet game in his goal which kept him undefeated. On 20 May, he was proclaimed champion of the tournament with his club after beating Herediano in the penalty shootout. <mask> made 15 appearances, intervened 27 times and left his goal unbeaten 5 times. At the conclusion of the 2018 Apertura competition, he made a total of three appearances in which he did not receive any goals.He faced his first match of the 2019 Clausura Tournament on 3 January, reaching all the minutes in the home draw at two goals against Limón. On 15 May, he obtained the runner-up of the contest. He begins the 2019 Opening Tournament with the defeat of his team 1–0 against San Carlos, in which <mask> started. On 28 July, he was sent off in the match against Santos de Guápiles, after having intercepted with his hands in a clear play of goal outside the area, for which he received a two-game suspension. On 26 November, he was proclaimed champion of the 2019 Concacaf League, after defeating Motagua from Honduras in the final. He played the first date of the 2020 Closing Tournament on January 11 against San Carlos at the Carlos Ugalde Stadium. <mask> reached all the minutes and left the fence undefeated in the 1–0 win.In the competition he was the most regular player on the team with 23 appearances. On 29 June, he achieved the national title with Saprissa, after overcoming the final series of the championship over Alajuelense. On 7 July, <mask> signed his renewal contract until May 2023. The new season began on 15 August 2020, for the first date of the Opening Tournament with a 4–0 home victory over Limón. In this competition he was the immovable goalkeeper and had 18 appearances. He makes his debut on the first day of the 2021 Closing Tournament on 13 January, as a starter in the goalless draw against Municipal Grecia. On 21 February, he suffered a muscle tear and was out for two to three weeks.On 9 March, he was allowed to play after his recovery. His team entered the semifinals of the tournament in fourth place. On 16 May, he was the hero in stopping a penalty shot from Bryan Ruiz, for the first leg, and three days later he stopped a shot at Ruiz himself. The purple team made it to the final after defeating Alajuelense with a 5–6 aggregate. On 23 May, he started in the first leg of the final against Herediano, and also on May 26 in the second leg, where he was proclaimed champion by winning the series. <mask> had saved most penalties in the championship, reaching the tally of four. On 17 June 17, he was awarded the prize for the best goalkeeper of the contest.International career
Youth career
On 23 November 2010, <mask> participated in the 2011 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship qualification held in Guatemala. The first match took place against Nicaragua, which ended 4–0 in favor of the Costa Ricans. Later they faced Panama, but the scoreboard ended with a 1–0 defeat. The Costa Rican team obtained second place in the table and played the playoffs against El Salvador. The round-trip games ended 1–0 and 1–1, with the victory of the Salvadorans, but due to FIFA regulatory issues they were disqualified by fielding a player who was ineligible to represent that country. Therefore, the Costa Rican squad won the series with score of 3–0 in both games, and subsequently qualified for the regional tournament. The Costa Rican U20 team participated at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia, was place with Spain, Australia and Ecuador.The match between Costa Rica and Spain ended in a 1–4 win. On 3 August the match against the Australians was played, and <mask> was in the substitution and the result finished 2–3 in favor of the Sele. The last game of the group stage was against the Ecuadorians; the goalkeeper again waited from the bench in the 3–0 loss. With this performance obtained, the Costa Rican squad advanced to the next stage among the best third parties. At the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium in Bogotá, the game for the round of 16 against host Colombia took place on August 9. <mask> started and the score ended 3–2 in favor of the Colombians, leaving his country eliminated. Senior team
On 14 March 2019, the player receives his first call up to the senior team by Gustavo Matosas, to face a couple of friendly matches of the month.On 24 March 23, a day after the game against Guatemala, <mask> was left on the bench, with a muscle injury that was confirmed in training that prevented him from continuing to concentrate. His place was taken over by Marco Madrigal. On 23 January 2020, <mask> returns to the roster this time by Rónald González Brenes, with the purpose of making a blank on a non-FIFA date. On 1 February, in a match against the United States at Dignity Health Sports Park. <mask> remained in the substitution and his country lost by the minimum 1–0. On 9 May 2021, he was named in the preliminary squad to participate in the 2021 CONCACAF Nations League Finals. He was included in the final-23 of 25 May.However, <mask> was tested positive for COVID-19, and was replaced by Patrick Sequeira on 27 May. References
1991 births
Living people
Costa Rican footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Deportivo Saprissa players
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The match that ended tied at a goal was on matchday 3 of the season. He started in the match on April 8th after waiting on the bench. <mask> conceded a goal.At the end of the day, his group was in ninth place in group A with 17 points and a long way from the next round. <mask> returned to the top flight after signing with Pérez Zeledn. He didn't make his Winter Championship debut. His team went through a performance crisis and had to separate several players, including <mask>. The other people dismissed were Pedro Leal, Daniel Ramrez, Cristian Bermdez, and Julin Pino. <mask> was signed by C.D. during the transfer period. Costa Rica will play in the Winter tournament.He started as an academic in the match against Carmelita. The 90 minutes were started by him. He made 7 apperrances and his club was seventh with 27 points. <mask> was in the starting lineups of the Portuguese coach in the Summer Championship. He gave up 29 goals in 21 games. The university students finished in sixth place with 32 points. <mask> missed the first round of the Winter Championship because of a broken finger.The score was 4–0 in a defeat when he came back on 21 September. He played 7 matches in the competition. <mask> was added to the purple team on December 20, 2016 through a press release. The contract was signed for three and a half years. <mask> was the starter on the first date. The start of the Summer Championship that took place on 8 January saw the Saprissista team visit the Carlos Ugalde Stadium, where they faced San Carlos. <mask> made his official debut with the number 22 and conceded a goal in the 1–0 defeat.The first leg of the quarterfinals took place on 21 February, the same day as the game between his club and Pachuca de México. The process of the match was consumed in a draw without annotations after he was left as a substitute. The second leg of the continental tournament was held at the Hidalgo Stadium. The final score was 4–0 in favor of the Tuzos. In the game against Pérez Zeledn, his club was behind on the basis of the opponent's goal in just four minutes after the start of the second half. The defensive block of the generals closed the spaces to the purple ones to deploy the offensive system of coach Carlos Watson, but at the 85th minute, his teammate, Daniel Colindres gave a pass to the Uruguayan player to define with a leg shot. Dave Myrie scored the winning goal shortly before the end of the supplementary stage.The lead of the tournament was secured by the Saprissistas with this result. His team reached third place in the home run and was established in the last instance by not having obtained the first place again, after a 2–1 loss at home against Santos de Gupiles. The first leg of the final took place at theRosabal Cordero Stadium. The goalkeeper didn't see anything in the loss. The events that ended the tournament were a failure with a score of 0–2 in favor of the opponents, and an aggregate of 0–5 in the aggregate series. His team played a home game against Carmelita at the "Fello" Meza de Cartago Stadium on July 30. <mask> was in the starting eleven, played all the minutes, and conceded two goals in the victory.The Tibaseo team was left without a chance of winning the title after the Saprissistas advanced to the home run in second place with 43 points. <mask> was able to keep the goal at zero on one occasion. His team changed coaches due to the retirement of Carlos Watson, who was the assistant last season, and he became the new coach of the club. <mask> had a quiet game in his goal in the 90 minutes that he played in the 0–3 victory over Liberia at the Edgardo Baltodano Stadium. He won the tournament with his club after beating Herediano in the penalty shoot out. <mask> left his goal untouched 5 times. He did not receive any goals at the end of the Apertura competition.He played in the first match of the Clausura Tournament on January 3, reaching all the minutes in the home draw with two goals. He was the runner-up of the contest. He lost his team 1–0 against San Carlos in the opening tournament. He received a two-game suspension after he was sent off in the match againstSantos de Gupiles for intercepting the ball with his hands outside the area. He was declared the champion of the Concacaf League after defeating the team from Honduras in the final. The first date of the 2020 Closing Tournament was against San Carlos on January 11. <mask> left the fence untouched in the 1–0 win.He played in the competition for 23 appearances. He won the national title with Saprissa after overcoming the final series of the championship over Alajuelense. <mask> renewed his contract on 7 July. The season began on August 15, 2020 with a 4–0 home victory over Limn. He had 18 appearances in this competition. He starts in the goalless draw against Municipal Grecia on the first day of the closing tournament. He was out for two to three weeks after he suffered a muscle tear.After his recovery, he was allowed to play. His team was fourth in the tournament. On 16 May, he was the hero in stopping a penalty shot from Bryan Ruiz, and three days later he stopped a shot at him. The purple team made it to the final after defeating Alajuelense. He started in the first leg of the final against Herediano on May 23, and then in the second leg on May 26. <mask> was 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 800-273-3217 He received the prize for the best goalkeeper on 17 June.<mask> participated in the Under-20 Championship qualification in November of 2010. The Costa Ricans defeated Nicaragua 4–0 in the first match. They lost to Panama by a 1–0 score. The Costa Rican team won the second place in the table and advanced to the playoffs. The round-trip games ended 1–0 and 1–1 with the victory of the Salvadorans, but due to regulatory issues they were disqualified by fielding a player who was ineligible to represent that country. The Costa Rican squad won the series with a score of 3–0 and qualified for the regional tournament. The Costa Rican U20 team participated in the U-20 World Cup in 2011.Costa Rica and Spain played a match. The match against the Australians was played on 3 August and <mask> was in the substitution and the result was 2–1 in favor of the Sele. The goalkeeper was on the bench in the 3–0 loss to the Ecuadorians in the last game of the group stage. The Costa Rican squad advanced to the next stage after this performance. The game for the round of 16 took place in Bogot on August 9. <mask>'s country was eliminated when the score ended in favor of the Colombians. The player gets his first call up to the senior team on March 14th, to face a couple of friendly matches of the month.<mask> was left on the bench a day after the game with a muscle injury that prevented him from concentrating. Marco Madrigal took over his place. <mask> will return to the roster on January 23, 2020, with the purpose of making a blank on a non-FIFA date. There was a match against the United States at the park. <mask> remained in the substitution and his country lost. He was named to the preliminary squad on May 9, 2021. He was included in the final 23.<mask> was replaced by Patrick Sequeira on May 27th. Football players from Costa Rica are referred to as living people. | [
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