Question: What was the nationality of the person being paid tribute to in the single "Skeptic"?

Context articles: Ithobaal II
List of recipients of tribute from China
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2015)
Leaps and Bounds (song)
Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2014)
Cuban Marimba Band
VH1 Rock Honors
Hiram II
Paul Gray (American musician)
Skeptic (song)

Ithobaal II (also Itto-Baal, Ethobaal or Ethbaal, from "Tuba'il") was an eighth-century Phoenician king of Tyre.
 Nothing is known of his reign except that he paid tribute to the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III in 738.
 He was succeeded that year or the next by Hiram II, who continued the tribute to the Assyrians.
Chinese state entities have paid tribute to a number states and confederations throughout history.
 China also had a strong Confucian tradition, which believed that showing virtue and giving things/gifts/tribute would civilize "Barbarians".
 Many of them involved silk and tea, and during the Ming Dynasty, China's input of silver increased due to trade with Spanish merchants in Manila, so they could pay them off with silver.
"Homenaje a Dos Leyendas" 2015 (Spanish for "Homage to Two Legends") was a major professional wrestling event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as part of their annual "Homenaje a Dos Leyendas" event series that started in 1996.
 The 2015 event was the 20th event in the series and took place on March 20, 2015 in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, making it the first major CMLL event of 2015.
 The event paid tribute to CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth, who is always honored at "Dos Leyendas", and will also pay tribute to "luchador" El Faraón.
 The main event was a tag team "Lucha de Apuestas", or bet match, where each team bet their hair on the outcome of the match as the team of Máximo and Volador Jr. faced the team of El Terrible and Rey Bucanero, where the losing team would be shaved bald after the match.
 The show featured an additional "Luchas de Apuestas" match where both competitors wagered their masks on the outcome of the match.
 Mexican wrestler Dragon Lee faced Japanese wrestler Kamaitachi.
 The 2015 "Dos Leyendas" show was broadcast live in 60 Cinépolis theaters in Mexico, which was the first time this format was offered in Mexico.
"Leaps and Bounds" / "Bradman" is a double A-sided single by Australian rock group Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released in January 1987.
 "Leaps and Bounds" is from their debut double album, "Gossip" (1986).
 "Bradman" did not appear on a studio album until the international version of "Under the Sun" (1988).
 The single reached top 100 in the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart.
 Due to possible racist connotations the band changed its name, for international releases, to Paul Kelly and the Messengers.
 In 1997, Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, at the ceremony Crowded House paid tribute to Kelly and performed "Leaps and Bounds".
 In October 2003, Xanthe Littlemore covered "Leaps and Bounds" for the tribute album, "Stories of Me – A Songwriter's Tribute to Paul Kelly".
 In 2005, rock music writer, Toby Creswell described two of Kelly's songs: "Leaps and Bounds" and "From Little Things Big Things Grow" in his book, "1001 Songs".
 For the former, Creswell observed "The grand themes of [his] work are all there – Melbourne, football, transcendence and memory... [he] is a detail man – the temperature, the location , foliage".
 On 26 March 2006 Kelly performed at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Melbourne, singing "Leaps and Bounds" and "Rally Around the Drum".
 In February 2009 Patience Hodgson (of The Grates), Glenn Richards and Kelly performed "Leaps and Bounds" at the Myer Music Bowl for SBS-TV's concert RocKwiz Salutes the Bowl.
 On 29 September 2012 Kelly performed "How to Make Gravy" and "Leaps and Bounds" at the 2012 AFL Grand Final although most of the performance was not broadcast on Seven Network's pre-game segment.
"Homenaje a Dos Leyendas" 2014 (Spanish for "Homage to Two Legends") was a professional wrestling major event produced by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) and part of their annual "Homenaje a Dos Leyendas" event series that started in 1996.
 The 2014 event was the 19th event in the series and took place on March 21, 2014, in Arena México, Mexico City, Mexico, making it the first major CMLL event of 2014.
 The event paid tribute to CMLL founder Salvador Lutteroth, who is always honored at "Dos Leyendas", and for 2014 also paid tribute to "luchador" Carmelo Reyes González, better known under the ring name Cien Caras.
 The main event was a "Lucha de Apuestas" hair vs. hair match between long time rivals Rush and Shocker.
 The show featured an additional "Lucha de Apuestas" match on the undercard between female wrestlers Marcela and Dalys.
 The show also hosted the finals of the 2014 "Torneo Nacional de Parejas Increibles" tournament and three additional matches.
The Cuban Marimba Band (previously known as La Paloma) was an influential Tanzanian big band from the city of Morogoro.
 It was founded in 1948 by Salim Abdullah, who had previously created another band called Morogoro Jazz Band (which, somewhat ironically, later became Cuban Marimba's main rival).
Salum Abdallah was a prolific songwriter and musician.
 He was a "chotara" i.e. a person of mixed races.
 His band's name speaks volumes on the influence of Cuban music in the 40s and 50s in East Africa.
 He played guitar and mandolin.
 The main themes of his music were, the joy and pain of love, life wisdom, the good and evil of man kind and even politics.
 For about twenty years, until Abdullah's sudden death in a car accident in 1965, Cuban Marimba was one of the most popular muziki wa dansi (dance music) bands in Tanzania.
 One of his popular tunes is Mkono wa Idd, which is usually played in the radio during Idd festivities.
 Just before his death, he released a twist tune, a departure from his suave rumba style," Hapo zamani sana" about the horrible colonial days in South Africa.
 Then in another, he paid tribute to Tanzanian women, "Wanawake wa Tanzania wazuri sana."
 Abdullah was replaced by Juma Kilaza, but the band declined.
The VH1 Rock Honors were an annual ceremony paying homage to bands who influenced the sound of rock music.
 The events began in 2006, and the final event took place in 2008.
 The general format of each show is for modern bands to "pay tribute" to classic greats of the rock/metal world (by covering a song of theirs), after which time the artist being paid tribute to plays multiple songs.
 The 2006 and 2007 shows featured four inductees each, whereas the 2008 show featured one (The Who), albeit with multiple bands paying tribute.
 The shows were directed by David Mallet and produced by Paul Flattery.
 Currently, VH1 has no plans for a CD or DVD release of any show.
Hiram II ("Hi-ru-mu") was the Phoenician king of Tyre from 737 to 729 .
 In 738 he was listed as a tributary of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III.
 His predecessor, Itto-Baal II, was also stated to have paid tribute in that year.
 It is possible that the date in the Assyrian record is in error and Hiram's reign did not begin until 737.
 Hiram II should not be identified with the "Hiram, king of the Sidonians" who paid tribute to the Assyrians at an earlier date.
Paul Dedrick Gray (April 8, 1972 – May 24, 2010), also known as The Pig or by his number #2, was an American musician best known as the bassist, a backing vocalist, and a songwriter and one of the founding members of the Grammy Award-winning metal band Slipknot.
Skeptic is a promotional single by American metal band Slipknot from their fifth major label studio album "".
 The song was first released as a promo/digital single on October 17, 2014.
 It was released on the same day as "Killpop".
 It was the sixth promotional single and eighth overall single released from the album.
 The song is a tribute piece to late bassist Paul Gray who died of a drug overdose in May 2010.