Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	King David
Title	King of Israel
Caption	Statue of David by Nicolas Cordier, in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome
Reign	over Judah c.1010 - 1003 BC; over Judah and Israel c. 1003 - 970 BC
Predecessor	Saul (Judah), Ish-bosheth (Israel)
Successor	Solomon
Consort	Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and
Royal house	House of David (new house)
Father	Jesse
Mother	not named in the Bible; identified by the Talmud as Nitzevet daughter of Adael.
Date of birth	c. 1040 BC
Place of birth	Bethlehem
Date of death	c. 970 BC
Place of death	Jerusalem
Buried	}}

David (; Strong's Daveed; beloved) was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician and poet, traditionally credited for composing many of the psalms contained in the Book of Psalms.

Edwin Thiele dates his life to c.1040–970 BC, his reign over Judah c. 1010–1003 BC, and his reign over the united Kingdom of Israel c. 1003–970 BC.

David's succession

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Genealogy

According to , David is the tenth generation descendant from Judah, the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob (Israel). The genealogical line runs as follows: Judah → Pharez → Hezron → Ram → Amminadab → Nahshon → Salmon → Boaz (the husband of Ruth) → Obed → Jesse → David.

The New Testament traces the genealogy of Jesus back to David and Abraham, with three blocks of fourteen "generations" each being similarly schematic. In the ancient world each letter of the alphabet had a numerical value, the value for the name "David" being fourteen: the fourteen "generations" thus underscored Christ's Davidic descent and his identity as the expected Messiah.

David's family

David was born in Bethlehem, in the territory of the Tribe of Judah. His father was named Jesse. His mother is not named in the Bible, but the Talmud identifies her as Nitzevet daughter of Adael. David had seven brothers and was the youngest of them all. He had eight wives: Michal, the second daughter of King Saul; Ahinoam the Jezreelite; Abigail the Carmelite, previously wife of Nabal; Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; Haggith; Abital; Eglah; and Bathsheba, previously the wife of Uriah the Hittite.

The Book of Chronicles lists David's sons by various wives and concubines. In Hebron he had six sons : Amnon, by Ahinoam; Daniel, by Abigail; Absalom, by Maachah; Adonijah, by Haggith; Shephatiah, by Abital; and Ithream, by Eglah. By Bathsheba, his sons were: Shammua; Shobab; Nathan; and Solomon. His sons born in Jerusalem by other wives included: Ibhar; Elishua; Eliphelet; Nogah; Nepheg; Japhia; Elishama; and Eliada. According to , Jerimoth, who is not mentioned in any of the genealogies, is mentioned as another of David's sons. According to , David adopted Jonathan's son Mephibosheth as his own.

David also had at least one daughter, Tamar by Maachah, who was raped by Amnon, her half-brother. Her rape leads to Amnon's death. Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full-brother, waits two years, then avenges his sister by sending his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons.

Descendants of David

The following are some of the more notable persons who have claimed descent from the Biblical David, or had it claimed on their behalf:

Maimonides (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon of Spain/haRaMbaM apx. 1135-1204)

Judah Loew, Yehuda Loew ben Bezalel (c. 1525, Prague; 22 August 1609 Prague), also known as "The Maharal of Prague".

The Abravanel family

The Baal Shem Tov, and through him every Hassidic Rebbe descended from him

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, whose family is descended from Judah Loew.

Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

The Royal House of Georgia

Jesus Christ (see Gospel of Matthew chapter 1)

Legend & Legacy

In European Christian culture of the Middle Ages David was created a member of the Nine Worthies, a group of heroes encapsulating all the ideal qualities of chivalry. His life was thus proposed as a valuable subject for study by those aspiring to chivalric status. This aspect of David in the Nine Worthies was popularised firstly through literature, and was thereafter adopted as a frequent subject for painters and sculptors.

Representation in art and literature

Art

Famous sculptures of David include (in chronological order) those by:

Donatello (c. 1430 - 1440), David (Donatello)

Andrea del Verrocchio (1476), David (Verrocchio)

Michelangelo (1504), David (Michelangelo)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1624), David (Bernini)

Antonin Mercié (1873)

Literature

Dryden's long poem Absalom and Achitophel is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for his satire of the contemporary political situation, including events such as the Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Exclusion Crisis.

Elmer Davis's novel Giant Killer (1928, The John Day company) retells and embellishes the Biblical story of David, casting David as primarily a poet who managed always to find others to do the "dirty work" of heroism and kingship. In the novel, Elhanan in fact killed Goliath but David claimed the credit; and Joab, David's cousin and general, took it upon himself to make many of the difficult decisions of war and statecraft when David vacillated or wrote poetry instead.

Gladys Schmitt wrote a novel titled "David the King" (1946, Doubleday Books) which proceeds as a richly embellished biography of David's entire life. The book took a risk, especially for its time, in portraying David's relationship with Jonathan as overtly homoerotic, but was ultimately panned by critics as a bland rendition of the title character.

In Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy novel How are the Mighty Fallen (1974, DAW) David and Jonathan are explicitly stated to be lovers. Moreover, Jonathan is a member of a winged semi-human race (possibly nephilim), one of several such races co-existing with humanity but often persecuted by it.

Joseph Heller wrote a novel based on David, God Knows (1984, Simon & Schuster). Told from the perspective of an aging David, the humanity—rather than the heroism—of various biblical characters are emphasized. The portrayal of David as a man of flaws such as greed, lust, selfishness, and his alienation from God, the falling apart of his family is a distinctly 20th century interpretation of the events told in the Bible.

Juan Bosch, Dominican political leader and writer, wrote "David: Biography of a King" (1966, Hawthorn, NY) a realistic approach to David's life and political career.

Allan Massie wrote "King David" (1996, Sceptre), a novel about David's career which portrays the king's relationship to Jonathan and others as openly homosexual.

Madeleine L'Engle's novel Certain Women (1993, HarperOne) explores family, the Christian faith, and the nature of God through the story of King David's family and an analogous modern family's saga.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used the story of David and Bathsheba as the main structure for the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Crooked Man. The betrayal of the Crooked Man is paralleled with David's betrayal of Uriah the Hittite, carried out in order to win Bathsheba.

Stefan Heym's "The King David Report" (1998, Northwestern University Press) is a fiction depicting the writings of the Bible historian, Ethan, upon King Solomon's orders, of a true and authoritative report on the life of David, Son of Jesse.

Malachi Martin's 1980 factional novel King of Kings: A Novel of the Life of David relates the life of David, Adonai's champion in his battle with the Philistine deity Dagon.

Film

Gregory Peck played King David in the 1951 film David and Bathsheba, directed by Henry King. Susan Hayward played Bathsheba and Raymond Massey played the prophet Nathan.

Finlay Currie played an aged King David in the 1959 film Solomon and Sheba, directed by King Vidor. Yul Brynner played Solomon and Gina Lollobrigida played the Queen of Sheba.

Richard Gere portrayed King David in the 1985 film King David directed by Bruce Beresford.

Music

Josquin des Prez's Absalon fili mi is a polyphonic lamentation from David's perspective on the death of his son.

Arthur Honegger's oratorio, Le Roi David ('King David'), with a libretto by Rene Morax, was composed in 1921 and instantly became a staple of the choral repertoire; it is still widely performed.

Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" has references to David ("there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord", "The baffled king composing Hallelujah") and Bathsheba ("you saw her bathing on the roof") in its opening verses.

"Mad About You", a song on Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages explores David's obsession with Bathsheba from David's perspective.

Dead by the Pixies is a retelling of David's adultery and repentance.

Herbert Howells (1892–1983) composed an artsong for voice and piano called "King David".

Eric Whitacre wrote a song, "When David Heard," chronicling the death of Absalom and David's grief over losing his son.

mewithoutYou has a song from their album It's All Crazy! It's All False! It's All a Dream! It's Alright, entitled "The Angel of Death Came to David's Room," which tells the story of David struggle with the Angel of Death when his (David's) time of death has arrived. It is based on folk tradition of King David and some Hebrew Bible.

Pierce Pettis wrote and recorded a song on his album "Making Light of It" called "Absalom, Absalom," expressing David's feelings of grief over and responsibility for his son's death.

Musical theatre

King David, a modern oratorio, with a book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Alan Menken.

Television

Nathaniel Parker portrayed King David in the 1997 TV film "David", with Leonard Nimoy as Samuel and Jonathan Pryce as Saul.

In 2009, NBC introduced the series Kings, which was explicitly designed as a modern retelling of the David story.

In the PBS television series Wishbone the episode "Little Big Dog" recounts the story of David, his favor with Saul, and his triumphant battle over Goliath.

The season two episode of "" features David and his killing of Goliath.

Trivia

For a considerable period, starting in the 15th century and continuing until the 19th, French playing card manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. In this context, the King of Spades was often known as "David".

See also

David and Jonathan

King David's Palace site

King David's Tomb

Midrash Shmuel (aggadah)

Passover songs

Tel Arad

Notes

References

Kirsch, Jonathan (2000) King David: the real life of the man who ruled Israel. Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-43275-4.

See also the entry "David" in Easton's Bible Dictionary.

Dever, William G. (2001) What did the Bible writers know and when did they know it? William B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Cambridge UK.

Further reading

For a more complete summary of all the episodes in the Saul/David story in Samuel (but excluding Chronicles), see synopsis

External links

Complete Bible Genealogy David's family tree

Double Identity: Orpheus as David. Orpheus as Christ? Biblical Archaeology Review

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Guetta
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	David Pierre Guetta
Born	November 07, 1967Paris, France
Genre	House, Progressive House, Electro House, Hip House, Dance, French House
Occupation	Producer, DJ
Years active	1984–present| Label = EMI Music France, Virgin
Url

David Pierre Guetta ();was born 7 November 1967 in Paris, France, In 1990, he released "Nation Rap", a hip-hop collaboration with French rapper Sidney Duteil. Guetta's first single, a collaboration with American house vocalist Robert Owens titled "Up & Away", was a minor club hit. In 1995, David Guetta became the manager of Le Palace nightclub and he continued to organise parties there and in other clubs, such as the "Scream" parties in Les Bains Douches. Guetta's debut album Just a Little More Love was released in 2002 on Virgin Records and sold over 300,000 copies. The follow-up single, "Love Don't Let Me Go", was released in 2002. Guetta released a compilation, Fuck Me I'm Famous, in 2003, named after his party in Ibiza. It included "Just For One Day (Heroes)", a remix of David Bowie's song "Heroes". Later in his career, Guetta continued recording compilations under that title.

Guetta's second album, Guetta Blaster, was released in 2004 and contained "The World is Mine" featuring JD Davis. In 2006 "Love Don't Let Me Go" was released as a mash-up with the Tocadisco remix of "Walking Away" by The Egg. The mash-up single charted higher than the original release of the song.

2007–2008: Pop Life

In 2007, Guetta's third album Pop Life was released. The album was successful in the UK and Ireland as well as in mainland Europe. According to EMI in 2010, the album has sold a total of 530,000 copies worldwide. The lead single "Love Is Gone" reached Number 1 on the American Dance Chart and charted on the Billboard Hot 100.

He played in many countries around the world to promote the album. He played in Mauritius in January 2008, accompanied by French rapper JoeyStarr. In the same year, he and his wife Cathy also planned a new event which took place in the Stade de France on 5 July 2008. The event was called "UNIGHTED", he performed with Tiësto, Carl Cox, Joachim Garraud and Martin Solveig in front of a crowd of 40,000. |Record of the Year |"I Gotta Feeling"(with The Black Eyed Peas) | |- |Best Dance Recording |rowspan="2"|"When Love Takes Over"(with Kelly Rowland) | |- |Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical | |- |Best Electronic/Dance Album |One Love | |- |rowspan="3"|World Music Awards |Best DJ | | |- |Best Producer | | |- |Best Selling French artist | | |- ||NRJ Music Awards | International Album of the Year |One Love | |- |DJ Magazine |Top 100 DJs | |Second Place |}

References

External links

David Guetta Information at Ultra Records

Review of 'Memories' on the Daily Music Guide

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David Guetta in PACHA NEWS

David Guetta at Billboard.com

Review of 'Gettin Over you' on the Daily Music Guide

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Bowie
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	David Robert Jones
Born	January 08, 1947Brixton, London, England
Years active	1964–present
Occupation	Musician, actor, record producer, arranger, singer
Voice type	Baritone
Instrument	Vocals, guitar, saxophone, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, Mellotron, harmonica, Stylophone, xylophone, vibraphone, koto, drums, percussion
Genre	Rock, Pop, glam rock, art rock, blue-eyed soul
Associated acts	The Riot Squad, Tin Machine
Label	Deram, RCA, Rykodisc, Virgin, EMI, ISO, Columbia, BMG, Parlophone, Pye, Hanso
Url	Official Website

David Bowie ( ; The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single "Fame", co-written with John Lennon, and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as "plastic soul". The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low (1977)—the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years. The so-called "Berlin Trilogy" albums all reached the UK top five and garnered lasting critical praise.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes" and its parent album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). He paired with Queen for the 1981 UK chart-topping single "Under Pressure", then reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with the album Let's Dance, which yielded the hit singles "Let's Dance", "China Girl", and "Modern Love". Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles, including blue-eyed soul, industrial, adult contemporary, and jungle. His last recorded album was Reality (2003), which was supported by the 2003–2004 Reality Tour.

Biographer David Buckley says of Bowie: "His influence has been unique in popular culture—he has permeated and altered more lives than any comparable figure." In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie was placed at number 29. Throughout his career, he has sold an estimated 136 million albums. In the United Kingdom, he has been awarded 9 Platinum album certifications, 11 Gold and 8 Silver, and in the United States, 5 Platinum and 7 Gold certifications. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 39th on their list of the "100 Greatest Rock Artists of All Time", and 23rd on their list of the best singers of all-time.

History

1947–1962: Early years

David Bowie was born David Robert Jones in Brixton, London, on 8 January 1947. His mother, Margaret Mary "Peggy" (née Burns), of Irish descent, worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton "John" Jones, was a promotions officer for Barnardo's. The family lived at 40 Stansfield Road, located near the border of the south London areas of Brixton and Stockwell. A neighbour recalled that "London in the forties was the worst possible place, and the worst possible time for a child to grow up in." Bowie attended Stockwell Infants School until he was six years old, acquiring a reputation as a gifted and single-minded child—and a defiant brawler. The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard. Upon listening to "Tutti Frutti", Bowie would later say, "I had heard God". Failing his eleven plus exam at the conclusion of his Burnt Ash Junior education, Bowie joined Bromley Technical High School.

It was an unusual technical school, as biographer Christopher Sandford writes:

Bowie studied art, music and design, including layout and typsetting. After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician. "I Pity the Fool" was no more successful than "Liza Jane", and Bowie soon moved on again to join the Lower Third, a blues trio strongly influenced by The Who. "You've Got a Habit of Leaving" fared no better, signalling the end of Conn's contract. Declaring that he would exit the pop world "to study mime at Sadler's Wells", Bowie nevertheless remained with the Lower Third. His new manager, Ralph Horton, later instrumental in his transition to solo artist, soon witnessed Bowie's move to yet another group, the Buzz, yielding the singer's fifth unsuccessful single release, "Do Anything You Say". While with the Buzz, Bowie also joined the Riot Squad; their recordings, which included a Bowie number and Velvet Underground material, went unreleased. Ken Pitt, introduced by Horton, took over as Bowie's manager.

Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: "He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence. His day-to-day life was the most theatrical thing I had ever seen, ever. It was everything I thought Bohemia probably was. I joined the circus." Studying the dramatic arts under Kemp, from avant-garde theatre and mime to commedia dell'arte, Bowie became immersed in the creation of personae to present to the world. Satirising life in a British prison, meanwhile, the Bowie-penned "Over the Wall We Go" became a 1967 single for Oscar; another Bowie composition, "Silly Boy Blue", was released by Billy Fury the following year. Breaking up with Farthingale shortly after completion of the film, Bowie moved in with Mary Finnigan as her lodger. This soon morphed into the Beckenham Arts Lab, and became extremely popular. The Arts Lab hosted a free festival in a local park, later immortalised by Bowie in his song "Memory of a Free Festival". The shortcoming was underlined by his artistic rivalry with Marc Bolan, who was at the time acting as his session guitarist. Their initial studio work was marred by a heated disagreement between Bowie and Cambridge over the latter's drumming style; matters came to a head when Bowie, enraged, accused, "You're fucking up my album." Cambridge summarily quit and was replaced by Mick Woodmansey.

The studio sessions continued and resulted in Bowie's third album, The Man Who Sold the World (1970). Characterised by the heavy rock sound of his new backing band, it was a marked departure from the acoustic guitar and folk rock style established by Space Oddity. To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media. Exploiting his androgynous appearance, the original cover of the UK version unveiled two months later would depict the singer wearing a dress: taking the garment with him, he wore it during interviews—to the approval of critics, including Rolling Stones John Mendelsohn who described him as "ravishing, almost disconcertingly reminiscent of Lauren Bacall"—and in the street, to mixed reaction including laughter and, in the case of one male pedestrian, producing a gun and telling Bowie to "kiss my ass". A girlfriend recalled his "scrawling notes on a cocktail napkin about a crazy rock star named Iggy or Ziggy", and on his return to England he declared his intention to create a character "who looks like he's landed from Mars."

Hunky Dory (1971) found Visconti, Bowie's producer and bassist, supplanted in both roles, by Ken Scott and Trevor Bolder respectively. The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of "Space Oddity", with light fare such as "Kooks", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May. Dressed in a striking costume, his hair dyed red, Bowie launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars—Ronson, Bolder and Woodmansey—at the Toby Jug pub in Tolworth on 10 February 1972. The show was hugely popular, catapulting him to stardom as he toured the UK over the course of the next six months and creating, as described by Buckley, a "cult of Bowie" that was "unique—its influence lasted longer and has been more creative than perhaps almost any other force within pop fandom." Michael Lippman, Bowie's lawyer during the negotiations, became his new manager; Lippman in turn would be awarded substantial compensation when Bowie fired him the following year.

Station to Stations January 1976 release was followed in February by a three-and-a-half-month concert tour of Europe and North America. Featuring a starkly lit set, the Isolar – 1976 Tour highlighted songs from the album, including the dramatic and lengthy title track, the ballads "Wild Is the Wind" and "Word on a Wing", and the funkier "TVC 15" and "Stay". The core band that coalesced around this album and tour—rhythm guitarist Alomar, bassist George Murray, and drummer Dennis Davis—would continue as a stable unit for the remainder of the 1970s. The tour was highly successful but mired in political controversy. Bowie was quoted in Stockholm as saying that "Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader", and detained by customs on the Russian/Polish border for possessing Nazi paraphernalia. Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance—among fans and critics alike—to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member. In 1976 he earned acclaim for his first major film role, portraying Thomas Jerome Newton, an alien from a dying planet, in The Man Who Fell to Earth, directed by Nic Roeg. Just a Gigolo (1979), an Anglo-German co-production directed by David Hemmings, saw Bowie in the lead role as Prussian officer Paul von Pryzgodski, who, returning from World War I, is discovered by a Baroness (Marlene Dietrich) and put into her Gigolo Stable.

Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance. He played the part 157 times between 1980 and 1981. Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, a 1981 biographical film focusing on a young girl's drug addiction in West Berlin, featured Bowie in a cameo appearance as himself at a concert in Germany. Its soundtrack album, Christiane F. (1981), featured much material from his Berlin Trilogy albums. In a September 1976 interview with Playboy, Bowie said: "It's true—I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me."

In the recent biography David Bowie - A Biography, written by Marc Spitz and released in 2009, Spitz reveals Bowie had many homosexual experiences in his teens (and cites a line the singer said in the 1976 interview for Playboy: "When I was 14, sex suddenly became all-important to me. It didn't really matter who or what it was with, as long as it was a sexual experience. So it was some very pretty boy in class in some school or other that I took home and neatly fucked on my bed upstairs."), Through perpetual reinvention, he has seen his influence continue to broaden and extend: music reviewer Brad Filicky writes that over the decades, "Bowie has become known as a musical chameleon, changing and dictating trends as much as he has altered his style to fit", influencing fashion and pop culture to a degree "second only to Madonna". In the United Kingdom, he has been awarded 9 Platinum, 11 Gold and 8 Silver albums, and in the United States, 5 Platinum and 7 Gold.

Discography

David Bowie (1967)

Space Oddity (1969)

The Man Who Sold the World (1970)

Hunky Dory (1971)

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)

Aladdin Sane (1973)

Pin Ups (1973)

Diamond Dogs (1974)

Young Americans (1975)

Station to Station (1976)

Low (1977)

"Heroes" (1977)

Lodger (1979)

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)

Let's Dance (1983)

Tonight (1984)

Never Let Me Down (1987)

Black Tie White Noise (1993)

The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)

Outside (1995)

Earthling (1997)

'Hours...' (1999)

Heathen (2002)

Reality (2003)

See also

100 Greatest Britons

Best selling music artists

David Bowie filmography

Bowie Bonds

List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (US)

List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

List of David Bowie tours

List of number-one hits (United States)

List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States)

List of people who have declined a British honour

Low Symphony and Heroes Symphony

Notes

References

Further reading

Seabrook, Thomas Jerome, Bowie in Berlin: A New Career in a New Town, Jawbone Press, 2008.

Spitz, Marc, Bowie: A Biography, Crown Publishers, 2009.

Tremlett, George, David Bowie: Living on the Brink, Carroll and Graf, 1997.

Waldrep, Shelton, "Phenomenology of Performance", The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

Welch, Chris, David Bowie: We Could Be Heroes: The Stories Behind Every David Bowie Song, Da Capo Press, 1999.

Wilcken, Hugo, 33⅓: David Bowie's Low, Continuum, 2005.

External links

Official Myspace page

Official YouTube channel

Bowieart – paintings, printmakings, etc.

Charlie Rose interview (1998)

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Blaine
Caption	Blaine in April 2008
Birth name	David Blaine White
Birth date	April 04, 1973
Birth place	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Illusionist
Years active	1997–present
Website	David Blaine

David Blaine (born David Blaine White; April 4, 1973) is an American illusionist, magician, and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, stated, "the biggest break through done in our lifetime was David Blaine's 'Street Magic,' where his idea was to do really simple tricks but to concentrate... to turn the camera around on the people watching instead of the people doing. So to make the audience watch the audience, which that first special 'Street Magic,' is the best TV magic special ever done and really, really does break new ground." BBC News stated, "The 26-year-old magician has outdone his hero, Harry Houdini, who had planned a similar feat but died in 1926 before he could perform it." The Evening Standard reported that one man was arrested for attempting to spike the water supply to Blaine's box with monkey urine. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius satellite radio, Blaine spoke of the week-long fasting he did before the "drowning alive" stunt, to avoid having to be concerned with defecation.

Revolution

On November 19, 2006, Blaine announced his next stunt: he would be shackled to a rotating gyroscope. His goal was to escape from his shackles after the gyroscope had been spinning for 16 hours. The gyroscope was constantly spinning at a rate of eight revolutions per minute while hanging above an empty lot in Manhattan near Times Square.

The stunt began on November 21, 2006, with Blaine declaring, "This one's exciting for me. This one's a fun one." 52 hours later, without food or water, a dehydrated and weakened Blaine landed on a wooden platform 30 feet below after jumping from the hanging gyroscope. In the final minute, his heart rate became erratic and he started rising from the bottom of the water-filled sphere; and it stood for almost four and a half months, until surpassed by Tom Sietas on September 19, 2008.

During the following interview, Blaine stated: "I really thought I was not going to make it," claiming that he did so by staying in a meditative state which was helped by the studio lights reflecting off of the sphere. According to Blaine, besides the pressure of performing on television, the heart-rate monitor happened to be close enough to his ear so that he heard its beeping, and he had to keep his feet locked in holds at the bottom of the sphere — instead of just floating freely, as he did in the pool on Grand Cayman months earlier. Back then he said he was so relaxed he "wasn’t even there" during most of the breath-hold. But when he emerged from the sphere today, he told Oprah, "I was pretty much here the whole time."

Dive of Death

with David Blaine announcing Blaine's next event in the atrium of the Trump Tower.]] On September 18, 2008, Donald Trump and Blaine held a press conference at the Trump Tower in New York City to announce his latest feat, “The Upside Down Man.” Blaine was to hang upside down without a safety net for 60 hours above Central Park’s Wollman Rink, with a predicted end for 10:45 p.m. on September 24. Reportedly, Blaine risked blindness and other maladies in the stunt including having to repeatedly deficate in his own pants. Blaine attributed the problem to changes in weather conditions that occurred after the stunt was delayed due to an address by President Bush.

Charity and Private appearances

, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as well as President George W. Bush.]]

, Henry Kissinger and Michael Bloomberg.]]

Charity

Every year, David Blaine has traveled all across the country and the world to perform magic for children’s hospital wards, burn units and juvenile wards, including Spofford, Bridges, Horizon, and Crossroads. Blaine has spent time performing magic for Paul Newman and the children diagnosed with serious illnesses at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp.

Magic For Haiti

On Friday January 15, 2010 at 9 A.M. David Blaine started performing "Magic For Haiti" in Times Square until Monday January 18, 2010 at 9 A.M, performing for the course of 72 hours and raising nearly one hundred thousand dollars.

Private Appearances

David Blaine has traveled internationally performing magic privately for President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates and Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He has also performed magic for the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych, and the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. Additionally, David Blaine has performed for Lakshmi Mittal.

David has performed for many other public and private entities, including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, and Muhammad Ali. David has also performed magic alongside Michael Jackson and has performed during the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

See also

List of famous Puerto Ricans

Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico

Notes

References

Mysterious Stranger, Blaine's autobiography published by Vilard Books and Channel 4 books. ISBN 0-7522-1989-8.

BBC News on the Above the Below stunt:

Korbonits M., Blaine D., Elia M., Powell-Tuck J., "Refeeding David Blaine: studies after a 44-day fast", New England Journal of Medicine 2005 Nov 24; 353(21):2306–7. .

External links

David Blaine's official website

David Blaine Gyroscope Image Gallery

Below The Above official website

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min talk given at TED

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Bisbal Ferre
Landscape	no
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	David Bisbal Ferre
Born	June 05, 1979 in Almería, España
Origin	Almería, Spain
Instrument	Vocals
Genre	Latin pop, pop
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2001–present
Label	Signature Records, Wrasse Records (UK)
Url	http://www.davidbisbal.com/

David Bisbal Ferré (born in Almería, Spain on June 5, 1979) is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish pop singer. He gained his initial fame as a runner up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo produced by TJ Hall.

He has since released four studio albums, all of which topped the Spanish Albums Chart, in addition to recording a number of live albums. He's toured throughout Europe and Latin America and is now considered to be a crossover international artist.

Beginnings: Operación Triunfo

David Bisbal left school early and worked in a platinum and flower nursery. He was encouraged by his colleagues to audition for a music contest and he initially became part of Orquesta Expresiones where he continued singing and dancing.

In October 2001 he auditioned for the first ever edition of Operación Triunfo (Spanish equivalent of Star Academy) where he was accepted and was one of the 16 finalists. The grand prize was the chance of representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest. He came second in the final losing to Rosa López. She went on to sing Europe's Living a Celebration for Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 (ESC) competition.

Career

Bisbal signed a contract with Vale Music Record label and released his first album recorded in Miami under the title "Corazón Latino" with Kike Santander. The album became 7 times platinum by summer 2002 after having topped the Spanish charts. The first from the album, called Ave Maria had a phenomenal success. After winning the Latin Grammys, the album became platinum (over 1 million sales).

In February 2004, he released his second album entitled "Bulería" again produced by his friend Kike Santander. It found similar success in Spain and throughout Latin America turning diamond with more than 1 million albums sold in Spain alone, becoming the best Spanish seller of 2004.

In March 2005, he also released a DVD "Todo Por Ustedes" that contained live registrations of some of his concerts in the United States, Latin America and Spain.

"Premonición" became the third studio album by David Bisbal released on 3 October 2006. end of the week, it had achieved enough sales to be certified as 5 times platinum with sales over 400,000 copies in Spain alone. On October 20, 2009, Bisbal will release "Sin Mirar Atrás", which has been received with positive reviews.Spain sales: 1,300,000PROMUSICAE Spanish certification: 13x Platinum |- |2004 |Bulería

2nd Studio Album

Released: February 10, 2004 (Spain, United States, Latin America)

Formats: CD

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1st Live Album

Released: March 29, 2005 (Spain), May 24, 2005 (United States, Latin America)

Formats: 2 DVDs + CD

|align="center"|1 |align="center"|64 |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |Worldwide sales: 100,000Spain sales: 75,000PROMUSICAE Spanish certification: 1x Gold |- |rowspan="2"|2006 |David Bisbal

1st Greatest Hits Album

Released: April 4, 2006 (Worldwide)

Formats: CD

|align="center"|18 |align="center"| – |align="center"|134 |align="center"| – |align="center"| – |Worldwide sales: 150,000 Spain sales: 40,000PROMUSICAE Spanish certification: --- |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |Premonición

3rd Studio Album

Released: October 3, 2006 (Worldwide)

Formats: CD

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2nd Live Album

Released: November 25, 2007 (Worldwide)

Formats: 2 DVDs + 2CDs

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4th Studio Album

Released: October 20, 2009 (Worldwide)

Formats: CD

|align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|– |align="center"|81 |align="center"|– |Worldwide sales: 550,000+ Spain sales: 200,000+ PROMUSICAE Spanish certification: 3x Platinum |- | align="center" colspan="40" style="font-size:8pt"| "—" denotes the album failed to chart or not released |}

Singles

{|class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan="2"| Year ! rowspan="2"| Title ! rowspan="2"| Album ! colspan="11"|Chart positions |- ! width="20"| SPA ! width="20"| US Latin ! width="20"| GER ! width="20"| FRA ! width="20"| SWI ! width="20"| AUT ! width="20"| ARG ! width="20"| CHIL ! width="20"| IA ! width="20"| MEX ! width="20"| COL |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="4"|2002 |"Corazón Latino" |rowspan="6"|Corazón Latino |align="center"|Promo |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Ave María" |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |align="center"|8 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|12 |align="center"|7 |align="center"|18 |align="center"|29 |align="center"|24 |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Lloraré Las Penas" |align="center"|1 |align="center"|3 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|10 |align="center"|17 |align="center"| |align="center"|25 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Dígale" |align="center"|1 |align="center"|15 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|5 |align="center"| |align="center"|17 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="3"|2003 |"Quiero Perderme En Tu Cuerpo" |align="center"|24 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Cómo Será" |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Rosa y Espinas" (with David Civera) |La Chiqui Big Band |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="4"|2004 |"Bulería" |rowspan="7"|Bulería |align="center"|1 |align="center"|11 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|6 |align="center"| |align="center"|4 |align="center"|15 |align="center"|9 |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Oye El Boom" |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|5 |align="center"| |align="center"|7 |align="center"|17 |align="center"|13 |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" ||"Desnúdate Mujer" |align="center"| |align="center"|6 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|16 |align="center"| |align="center"|24 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Camina Y Ven" |align="center"|1 |align="center"|40 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="4"|2005 |"Me Derrumbo" |align="center"|5 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Cómo Olvidar" |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Esta Ausencia" |align="center"| |align="center"|7 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|18 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|13 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Todo Por Ustedes" |Todo Por Ustedes |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="4"|2006 |"Let’s Make History" (with Joana Zimmer) |David Bisbal |align="center"|5 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|48 |align="center"|23 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Quien Me Iba A Decir" |rowspan="6"|Premonición |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|1 |align="center"|11 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|33 |align="center"|13 |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Silencio" |align="center"|1 |align="center"|32 |align="center"|13 |align="center"| |align="center"|10 |align="center"|6 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|62 |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Soldado De Papel" (with Tomatito) |align="center"|Promo |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="3"|2007 |"Amar Es Lo Que Quiero" |align="center"| |align="center"|6 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|23* |align="center"|24* |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Torre De Babel" (with Vicente Amigo & Wisin & Yandel) |align="center"|1 |align="center"|10 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Premonición" |align="center"|6 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |2008 |"Hate That I Love You (Spanglish version)" (with Rihanna) |Premonición Live |align="center"|2 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|2 |align="center"|11 |align="center"|13 |align="center"|26 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="2"|2009 |"Esclavo de Sus Besos" |rowspan="2"|Sin Mirar Atrás |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|1 |align="center"|10 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Mi Princesa" |align="center"|1 |align="center"|35 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|34 |align="center"|12 |align="center"|90 |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |rowspan="3"|2010 |"Wavin' Flag (Coca Cola Spanish Celebration Mix) (with K'Naan) |Single-only release |align="center"|2 |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"| |align="center"|2 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"| |- bgcolor="#F0F8FF" |"Sin Mirar Atrás" |rowspan="2"|Sin Mirar Atrás(and 24 Horas edition) |align="center"|42 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Notes

External links

David Bisbal on Twitter

Official Website

David Bisbal Fans

Comunidad Gyggs

Portal Mix Fan Site

David's UK Label

Concerts, News and Videoclips of Bisbal

Portal Mix David Bisbal Site

David Bisbal UK Site (in English)

MTV's David Bisbal Site

Interview with David Bisbal about his new album Premonición

Dutch Fan Site

David Bisbal Spanish Fan Site

David Bisbal Browser

Official German Fanclub-David Bisbal-Siempre a tu lado

David Bisbal at Acceso Total Show

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	Chris Willis
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Christopher Willis
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, record producer, vocal producer
Genre	Gospel Contemporary R&B;, pop, dance, house, electronica
Instrument	Vocals, piano
Years active	1986–present
Associated acts	David Guetta, Marc Mysterio
Url

Christopher "Chris" Willis is an American singer, songwriter and producer. The label was bought out by a large corporation and Willis took that as a cue to move on. During this time he also worked to resolve the "angst" from being closeted about his sexuality, "I always felt like God really understood—but that wasn't the message I was receiving in the church. He cites his being gay as important to his transitioning out of gospel music,"I think there's this unspoken denial that you go through in gospel—maybe so in other musical art forms too—but I just felt for me it just wasn't easy to keep perpetuating that." Willis is now openly gay and resides in Atlanta, GA. He now sees both his color and sexuality as assets rather than liabilities. Guetta invited Willis to the studio and the next day they wrote 'Just a Little More Love.' Willis co-wrote and provided most of the vocals on Guetta's debut album Just a Little More Love, including the hit title track.(with David Guetta) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|19 |align="center"|29 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|59 |align="center"|38 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="left" rowspan="3"| Just a Little More Love |- |align="center" rowspan="2"|2002 |"Love Don't Let Me Go"(with David Guetta) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|46 |align="center"|4 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|13 |align="center"|19 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |- |"People Come, People Go"(with David Guetta) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|42 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|54 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |- |align="center" rowspan="2"|2004 |"Money"(with David Guetta & Mone) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|63 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|52 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="left" rowspan="2"|Guetta Blaster |- |"Stay"(with David Guetta) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|18 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|82 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |- |align="center" rowspan="1"|2006 |"Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)"(with David Guetta vs The Egg) |align="center"|— |align="center"|3 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|11 |align="center"|9 |align="center"|42 |align="center"|19 |align="center"|43 |align="center"|32 |align="center"|25 |align="left" rowspan="1"| Fuck Me I'm Famous International |- |align="center" rowspan="1"|2007 |"Love Is Gone"(featuring David Guetta) |align="center"|46 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|9 |align="center"|3 |align="center"|32 |align="center"|9 |align="center"|11 |align="center"|14 |align="center"|— |align="center"|9 |align="left" rowspan="3"|Pop Life |- |align="center" rowspan="1"|2008 |"Tomorrow Can Wait"(with David Guetta vs Tocadisco) |align="center"|— |align="center"|21 |align="center"|— |align="center"|8 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|44 |align="center"|21 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |- |align="center" rowspan="3"|2009 |"Everytime We Touch"(with David Guetta, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|68 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|19 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |- |"Gettin' Over"(with David Guetta) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|41 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center" rowspan="3"|One Love |- |"Sound of Letting Go" (with David Guetta & Tocadisco) |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |- |align="center" rowspan="1"|2010 |"Gettin' Over You"(with David Guetta, Fergie & LMFAO) |align="center"|40 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|1 |align="center"|— |align="center"|— |align="center"|15 |align="center"|14 |align="center"|47 |align="center"|5 |align="center"|28 |- |align="center" rowspan="1"|2010

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References

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:"Summerlove" redirects here. For the Justin Timberlake song, see Summer Love (Justin Timberlake song).

Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Tavaré
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	David Tavaré
Born	December 20, 1984
Origin	Spain
Genre	Dance, Eurodance
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2006–present
Url	Official site

David Tavaré (born in December 20, 1984 in Pollença, Spain) is a Spanish singer and House Music DJ . He is the son of a legendary Spanish guitar player. Two of his uncles are English comedian Jim Tavaré and former England Test cricketer Chris Tavaré.

David was brought up on a holiday island and the Mediterranean way of life inspired him. David had always dreamed of being a singer but when he saw Operacion Triunfo, the Spanish version of Pop Idol on television, he knew: “This is what I want, I want to sing on a stage”. The finalist of the successful television show, David Bustamante, was his singing teacher.

Music career

David Tavare is en-route for the Disco Estrella Tour Spain, 40 Principales Spain, World Dance Music Festival Sevilla and the Miami Latin Music Festival.

"Hot Summer Night (Oh La La La)" was his second song, featuring 2 Eivissa, released first in July 2007 in Spain, where it was a top two hit, then twelve months later in France where it was so successful, becoming one of the summer hits.

David Tavaré is going to release his first studio album "La vida viene y va" on November 24. The next single after "Hot Summer Night" is "Call Me Baby (If You Don't Know My Name)". The music video has been released in November 2008. A remix of the song was released by DJ Party Slayer aka Miguel Karam under the name "If You Don't Know My Name"; it is the second single off of DJ Party Slayer’s third studio album “I’m World War III”. It reached #1 on the "Party World Bubblegum Top 100 Singles Charts" and its promo video topped the "Party World Top 40 Videos"

Albums

2008: "La Vida Viene y Va" - French Edition

2009: "La Vida Viene y Va" - Spain Edition

Singles

References

External links

Official website

Category:2000s singers Category:2010s singers Category:Spanish male singers Category:Living people Category:1984 births

Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Sedaris
Caption	Sedaris in 2007
Birth date	December 26, 1956
Birth place	Binghamton, New York
Residence	London, England
Citizenship	United States of America
Known for	Humorist, comedian, radio contributor, writer
Influences	Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, Richard Yates, Kurt Vonnegut He began recording a monthly segment for NPR (based on entries in his diary, and edited and produced by Glass), considered adapting "SantaLand Diaries" into a screenplay for Touchstone Pictures, and signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown and Company. In 1993, he told The New York Times that he was publishing his first book, a collection of stories and essays, and had 70 pages written of his second book, a novel "about a man who keeps a diary and whom Mr. Sedaris described as 'not me, but a lot like me'".
Name	Sedaris, David
Date of birth	1956-12-26
Place of birth	Binghamton, New York

Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:American essayists Category:American expatriates in France Category:American expatriates in the United Kingdom Category:American humorists Category:American people of Greek descent Category:Gay writers Category:Kent State University alumni Category:Lambda Literary Award winners Category:LGBT writers from the United States Category:National Public Radio personalities Category:People from Binghamton, New York Category:People from Raleigh, North Carolina Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Category:This American Life personalities Category:Thurber Prize for American Humor winners

Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Gilmour
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	David Jon Gilmour
Alias	Dave Gilmour
Born	March 06, 1946Cambridge, England
Instrument	Guitar, vocals, steel guitar, bass, keyboards, synthesizer, saxophone, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, drums, talk box, percussion, programming, cümbüş
Genre	Rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock, art rock, blues rock
Occupation	Musician, singer-songwriter, producer
Years active	1963–present
Label	Capitol, Columbia, Sony, EMI
Associated acts	Pink Floyd, Joker's Wild, Deep End
Url	DavidGilmour.com
Notable instruments	Fender StratocasterFender TelecasterGibson Les PaulGretsch White Falcon

David Jon Gilmour, CBE (born 6 March 1946) He used it to express his feelings about a range of topics, from the murder of John Lennon, to his relationship with Waters. He has since admitted that he also used the album to distance himself from Pink Floyd. He toured Europe and the US along with support act The Television Personalities, who later disappeared from the line-up after revealing Syd Barrett's address on stage. Mason also made a guest appearance on the UK leg of the tour, which despite some cancellations eventually turned a profit. However, in 1986, Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason issued a press release stating that Waters had quit the band and they intended to continue without him. Gilmour assumed full control of the group and produced A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1987 with some contributions from Mason and Richard Wright. Wright officially rejoined the band after the release of the album for a lengthy world tour and helped create 1994's The Division Bell. Gilmour explained:

In 1986, Gilmour purchased the houseboat Astoria which is moored on the River Thames near Hampton Court, and transformed it into a recording studio. The majority of the two most recent Pink Floyd albums, as well as Gilmour's 2006 solo release On an Island, were recorded there.

On 2 July 2005, Gilmour played with Pink Floyd—including Roger Waters—at Live 8. The performance caused a temporary 1343% sales increase of Pink Floyd's album . Recorded live at London's Royal Albert Hall, the CD single featured versions of the song performed by Pink Floyd's keyboard player (and Gilmour's band member) Richard Wright and special guest artist David Bowie. The single entered the UK Top 75 charts at number nineteen and remained steady for three weeks. another reunion of the core group members became impossible. Gilmour said of Wright

In May 2010 Roger Waters told the Associated Press that Gilmour "is completely disinterested in anything like [another reunion]. After Live 8, I could have probably gone for doing some more stuff, but he's not interested, so it is what it is." for a wide variety of acts which included former bandmate Syd Barrett, Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Elton John, Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Seal, Sam Brown, Jools Holland, Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend, The Who, Supertramp, Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Alan Parsons, and various charity groups among others.

In 1985, Gilmour was member of Bryan Ferry's band. He played on Ferry's album Boys and Girls, as well as the song "Is Your Love Strong Enough" for the U.S. release of the Ridley Scott-Tom Cruise film Legend. A music video for the latter was created, incorporating Ferry and Gilmour into footage from the film (released as a bonus on the 2002 "Ultimate Edition" DVD release). Later that year, Gilmour played with Ferry at the London Live Aid concert; his first meeting with Ferry's keyboard player Jon Carin, later to tour with Pink Floyd.

David Gilmour also took part in a comedy skit titled "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from Motorhead, Mark King from Level 42, and Gary Moore. Guitar tech Phil Taylor explained in an interview that Knopfler used Gilmour's guitar rig and managed to sound like himself when performing in the skit. In 2003, Rolling Stone included Gilmour in the list of hundred greatest guitarists of all time at number 82. and a day later it was released in the US; it debuted at #1 in the UK charts. The album features David Crosby and Graham Nash on harmonies on the title track, Robert Wyatt on cornet and percussion and Richard Wright on Hammond organ and vocals. Other contributors include Jools Holland, Phil Manzanera, Georgie Fame, Andy Newmark, B. J. Cole, Chris Stainton, Willie Wilson, Rado ‘Bob’ Klose on guitar and Leszek Możdżer on piano. The album also features Gilmour's debut with the saxophone.

Gilmour toured Europe, US and Canada from 10 March to 31 May 2006 to promote On an Island. There were 10 shows in the US and Canadian leg of the tour. Pink Floyd alumnus Richard Wright, and frequent Floyd collaborators Dick Parry, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin also accompanied him on the tour. More shows were held in Europe during from July through August in 2006.

In a press release to promote the tour, David Gilmour stated:

On an Island peaked the UK charts by reaching number one. On 10 April 2006, the album was certified platinum in Canada, with sales of over 100,000 copies. The album also gave Gilmour his first US Top 10 album as a solo artist.

A video recording of a show from Gilmour's solo tour, entitled Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall The double DVD, directed by David Mallet, contains over five hours of footage, including an on-the-road documentary and guest appearances by David Bowie and Robert Wyatt. The two and a half hour concert features band members Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, Steve DiStanislao on drums, and various Pink Floyd regulars such as Dick Parry, Guy Pratt and Jon Carin. The 20-page booklet accompanying the DVD, features over 80 photos selected from studio recording and touring. The album is now available on Hi-Definition Blu-ray Disc with Dolby TrueHD surround sound. As TrueHD is not a mandatory format for Blu-ray players, and the disc carries no other surround channel, some players will only play it in stereo.

The final show of David Gilmour's On an Island tour was held at the Gdańsk Shipyard on 26 August 2006. The concert was held before a crowd of 50,000, and marked the twenty-sixth anniversary of the founding of the Solidarity trade union. The concert was notable for the inclusion of "A Great Day For Freedom" as part of the encore.

The show was recorded, resulting in a live album and DVD release; Live in Gdańsk. The concert was the only occasion on which Gilmour performed the tour material with an orchestra, using the 40-strong string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Preisner, who was responsible for On An Island's orchestral arrangements.

On 25 May 2009, he participated in a concert held at Union Chapel in Islington, London. The concert was of part of the 'Hidden Gigs' campaign against hidden homelessness that is organised by the Crisis, a UK-based national charity for people homelessness. There he appeared in a collaboration with the Malian musicians Amadou and Mariam. keyboards, synthesizer, banjo, harmonica, drums (as heard on the Syd Barrett solo track "Dominoes", and other songs where he opted to play all the instruments) and lately, the saxophone. The Lung Foundation, and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. He also donated £25,000 to the Save the Rhino foundation in exchange for Douglas Adams' name suggestion for the album that became The Division Bell.

Apart from music, Gilmour is also an experienced pilot and aviation enthusiast. Under the aegis of his company, Intrepid Aviation, he had amassed a collection of historical aircraft. He later decided to sell the company, as his venture, which had started as a hobby was becoming too commercial for him to handle. In a interview for the to BBC, he stated: }}

On 22 May 2008, Gilmour won the 2008 Ivor Novello Lifetime Contribution Award

On 11 November 2009, Gilmour received an honorary doctorate from the Anglia Ruskin University.

**Fender Champ lap steel

*Bass guitars

**Fender Bass VI. Used during The Wall recording sessions.

**Fender Precision bass guitar

**Fender Jazz Bass. Used during The Wall recording sessions.

Gibson

*A Gibson Les Paul Goldtop (P-90 pick-ups, Bigsby vibrato bridge). Used for the guitar solo on 'Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.

*Gibson: EH150 Lap steel guitar,

*"Chet Atkins" classical guitar,

J-200 Celebrity acoustic guitar

Ovation Legend 1613-4 nylon string guitar. Used during The Wall recording sessions.

Takamine acoustic guitar.

Martin acoustic guitars.

Martin D-35.

Martin D12-28 12-string acoustic guitar.

Martin D-18 acoustic.

Taylor acoustic guitars

*Taylor 312CE electro-acoustic

*Taylor 712CE electro-acoustic (used at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown Concert)

*Taylor K22 made from koa

*Taylor electro-acoustic nylon string (used for the song High Hopes at the AOL Sessions

Guild F-512 "antique burst" 12-string guitar.

Jose Vilaplana nylon string guitar

Steinberger GL. His main guitar during A Momentary Lapse of Reason recording sessions.

Charvel Fretless Fender Precision style bass guitar. Used during The Wall recording sessions.

Music Man Fretless Stingray bass guitar. Used by Gilmour while running the house band at the 1991 Amnesty International concert, during Spinal Tap's performance on "Big Bottom". (All guitarists played bass on this song, and Gilmour played a solo.)

Jedson lap steel guitars. One red (1977-tuned D-G-D-G-B-E for Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 6-9, 1987-2006: Tuned E-B-E-G-B-E for High Hopes) and one blonde. ZB pedal steel guitar.

Amplifiers

Hiwatt (main) DR 103 heads into WEM Super Starfinder 200 4x12 cabinets loaded with Fane Crescendo speakers

Fender '56 Tweed Twin amp (used for smaller concerts)

Fender Twin Reverb combos

Fender Twin Reverb II 1983 105 W heads

Fender Bluesmaster

Fender Blues Jr.

Mesa Boogie Mark II C+

Alembic F2-B bass preamp

Custom-built 'Doppola' rotating speakers (driven by the Hiwatt heads)

Gallien/Krueger 250 ML combo amp

Selmer Stereomaster 100 W

Maestro Rover rotating speaker

Leslie speaker 147 cabinet

Marshall Late 60s super lead 100 W head

Yamaha RA-200 revolving speaker cabinet

Orange OR50 Early 70s w 4x12 cab

Magnatone 280-A 50 W combo

Alessandro Bluetick Coonhound High-End, 20 W Tube Amp

Hiwatt SA212 combo

Effects

Electro-Harmonix/Sovtek Big Muff "Civil War" model

Vintage Electro-Harmonix Big Muff (early 70's "Triangle" and "Ram's Head" versions)

Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress & Small Stone phaser

MXR Dyna-Comp (pre-Dunlop 'Script' logo)

MXR Phase 90 (Used for the "four note" Syd riff on Shine On Pts. I-V, also used on Have a Cigar)

MXR Phase 100 (Used live, early during the 1977 In The Flesh tour)

MXR Noise Gate/Line Driver

MXR Digital Delay System II

Colorsound Power Boost

Demeter Compulator

AnalogMan Sun Face

Chandler Tube Driver

BK Butler Tube Driver

Boss CS-2 Compression Sustainer, GE-6 EQ Pedal, GE-7 EQ Pedal

Boss Blues Driver

T-Rex Replica Delay

Boss MZ-2 Digital Metalizer, HM-2 Heavy Metal Distortion, SD-1 Overdrive, DD-2 Digital Delay, CE-2 Chorus, CE-3 Chorus

TC Electronics Booster+ (Line Driver/Distortion), Electronic Sustain and Parametric Equalizer, TC-2290 Dynamic Digital Delay

Pro Co RAT Distortion, RAT 2

Heil Talk box

Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (first with NKT-275 transistors and then with BC-108 transistors)

Ibanez CP9 Compression Sustainer, Ibanez Tube Screamer, TS10 Tubescreamer

Uni-Vox Univibe

Vox Wah-Wah pedal

Morley EVO-1

DeArmond volume pedal

Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-wah pedal

Binson Echorec II, Echorec PE

Digitech Whammy

Ernie Ball Volume Pedal

Pete Cornish all tube Pedal Boards and Custom effects

Pete Cornish Soft Sustain, Soft Sustain 2, P-1, P-2, G-2, ST-2, Line Driver, Linear Boost

Pete Cornish Tape Echo Simulator (T.E.S), Custom Tube 6 Band EQ

Pete Cornish custom volume pedal

Pete Cornish custom vibrato pedal

EBow

Lexicon PCM70 Digital Effects Processor

Yamaha SPX-90 II Digital Effects Processors

Zoom multi effect

DigiTech IPS-33B Super Harmony pitch shifter

Dynacord CLS-222 Leslie simulator

Roland SDE 3000 digital delay

Miscellaneous

EMS Hi-Fli Prototype, Synthi-AKS, VCS3

GHS Boomer strings in a custom gauge 10-12-16-28-38-48 on his Stratocasters

GHS Boomer strings in a custom gauge 10.5-13-17-30-40-50 on his Gibson Les Paul Gold Top

D'Andrea 354 plectrums (picks)

Cross-stitched leather guitar strap used by Jimi Hendrix and bought for David by Polly Samson as a 60th birthday present

Shaffer-Vega wireless system for The Wall concerts 1980-81 and his 1984 About Face tour

Pete Cornish wireless system for the 1987-96 live Gilmour appearances

Evidence Audio Cables

Fender Signature Stratocaster

In November 2006, Fender Custom Shop announced two reproductions of Gilmour's "Black" Strat for release on 22 September 2008. Gilmour's website states the release date was chosen to coincide with the release of his Live in Gdansk album. |- |Ron Geesin and Roger Waters || "Give Birth to a Smile" on Music from The Body |- || 1974 || Unicorn || Blue Pine Trees |- || 1975 || Roy Harper || "The Game" from HQ |- || 1978 || Kate Bush || Executive producer for two tracks on The Kick Inside |- || 1979 || Wings || Back to the Egg |- || 1980 || Roy Harper || "Playing Games", "You (The Game Part II)", "Old Faces", "Short and Sweet" and "True Story" on The Unknown Soldier, credited to Harper/Gilmour. |- || 1982 || Kate Bush ||Vocals on "Pull Out The Pin" in The Dreaming‎ |- || 1983 || Atomic Rooster || Headline News |- || 1984 || Paul McCartney || No More Lonely Nights in Give My Regards to Broad Street |- |rowspan=9| 1985 || Supertramp || "Brother Where You Bound" |- | Bryan Ferry || "Is Your Love Strong Enough?" in Legend |- |Bryan Ferry||Boys and Girls |- |Bryan Ferry||Live Aid (Played with Bryan Ferry's band) |- |Nick Mason and Rick Fenn|| "Lie for a Lie" (vocals) in Profiles |- |Pete Townshend ||"Give Blood" and "White City Fighting" in "White City Fighting" credited to Townshend/Gilmour. Also performed live as Deep End. |- |Arcadia||So Red the Rose |- |The Dream Academy|| Co-produced The Dream Academy‎ |- |Roy Harper and Jimmy Page|| "Hope" on Whatever Happened to Jugula?, credited to Harper/Gilmour. |- |rowspan=2| 1986 || Berlin || Count Three & Pray |- |Pete Townshend || lead guitar in Pete Townshend's Deep End Live! |- || 1987 || Dalbello || "Immaculate Eyes" in she |- |rowspan=2| 1988 || Peter Cetera || "You Never Listen To Me" in One More Story |- |Sam Brown || Guitar on "This Feeling" and "I'll Be In Love" in Stop! |- |rowspan=4| 1989 || Kate Bush || "Love and Anger" and "Rocket's Tail" in The Sensual World |- |Paul McCartney|| "We Got Married" in Flowers in the Dirt |- |Rock Aid Armenia || Smoke on the Water in The Earthquake Album |- |Warren Zevon || Transverse City |- |rowspan=3| 1990 || Roy Harper || "Once" in Once (w/Kate Bush on backing vocals) |- |Propaganda || "Only One Word" in 1234 |- |Sam Brown || April Moon, vocals on "Troubled Soul" |- |rowspan=2| 1991 || All About Eve || "Are You Lonely" and "Wishing the Hours Away" in Touched by Jesus |- |Hale and Pace || Lead guitar on "The Stonk" |- |rowspan=2| 1992 || Elton John || "Understanding Women", in The One |- |Mica Paris || I Put a Spell on You on Later With Jools Holland'' |- || 1993 || Paul Rodgers || "Standing Around Crying" in |- || 1994 || Snowy White || "Love, Pain and Sorrow" in |- || 1996 || The Who || Quadrophenia (1996 Hyde Park concert) |- || 1997 || B. B. King || "Cryin' Won't Help You Babe" in Deuces Wild |- || 1999 || Paul McCartney || Run Devil Run |- || 2001 || The Triumph of Love soundtrack || Plays guitar over several chamber orchestra pieces |- || 2003 || Ringo Starr || Ringo Rama |- || 2004 || Alan Parsons || "Return to Tunguska" in A Valid Path |- || 2005 || Various artists || "Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)" |- || 2006 || Chris Jagger || "It's Amazing (What People Throw Away)" and "Junkman", in Act of Faith |- || 2009 || Nick Laird-Clowes || "Mayday" documentary, 'A Time Comes' (Free download from nicklairdclowes.com ) |- || 2010 || The Orb || Metallic Spheres, David contributes guitars and vocals to the album, as well as co-writing every track. The album is released as "The Orb featuring David Gilmour" |}

References

;Bibliography

External links

Official website

Official blog

The Tone From Heaven: A look into the effects used by David Gilmour

Gilmourish: The most comprehensive guide to all the equipment used on every album and tour

Audio interview with David Gilmour

David Gilmour's studio , Astoria, features in a video interview with his recording engineer, Andy Jackson

David Gilmour Interview 11.9.2008, about the Live in Gdansk Album, his Tour in 2006, the On An Island Album and more ...

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	David Belle
Birth date	April 29, 1973
Birth place	Fécamp, France
Nationality	French
Known for	Parkour, acting
Occupation	Physical educatorStuntmanActor
Parents	Raymond Belle (father)Monique Belle (mother)
Relatives	Jeff Belle (brother)
Website	Official blog

David Belle (born 29 April 1973) is a French soldier largely credited as the founder of parkour, a specialised physical discipline of training. He is also a physical educator, stuntman and actor. His military training and early athletic, climbing, gymnastic, and martial arts training acted as the foundations for the discipline he has developed.

Life

David Belle was born and raised in Fécamp, France. He descends from a modest family in the suburbs of Paris. His grandfather Gilbert Kitten, father Raymond Belle, and brother Jeff Belle have been highly skilled rescuers in the French military fire service.

He spent the first 14 years of his life in Fécamp and later in Les Sables d'Olonne, a time during which he demonstrated a taste for action and fast movement. He excelled in athletics, climbing, gymnastics and martial arts. He was strongly inspired by his maternal grandfather Gilbert Kitten who evoked in him a passion for heroism and helping other people.

In 1988, at the age of 15, Belle left school and moved to Lisses, Paris to begin his national service. In this time he obtained his French national First Aid certificate and UFOLEP certificate of gymnastics leadership. He made close friends with a group of teenagers with a similar physical passion, who later became the Yamakasi (Yann Hnautra, Frédéric Hnautra, David Balgogne, Sébastien Foucan and Kazuma). After joining the fire brigade with aspirations of following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps, he was temporarily discharged due to a wrist injury and did not return for personal reasons.

He later joined the Troupes de marine in Vannes, where he received a promotion, a gymnastic agility certificate of honour, and champion records for Regimental rope-climbing (which his father had once held) and the Essonne obstacle course. He has however said that his taste and love for adventure and freedom did not go well with the regimented life of the military.

Upon completing his national service, he worked in various professions including a warehouse worker, security guard and furniture salesman. He then flew to India and obtained a Black Belt in kung fu. After his return he began promoting his discipline by filming footage of his capabilities. In 1997 the Stage 2 team (Francis Marroto, Pierre Sleed and Pierre Salviac) were shown a video and decided to create a film about Belle and parkour, in a series of his collaborations with 'the speed-air man', 'catmen', 'la Relève' and 'les traceurs'. The word 'traceur' has since been used to define a practitioner of parkour.

Belle was first introduced to his acting career in a meeting with Hubert Koundé (La Haine), in order to discuss the success of parkour on the big screen. He then began developing his acting ability with the play Pygmalion, and has since been successful in obtaining a number of roles mostly in French films and promotions. Belle has been featured in promotional videos for Tina Turner, and Iam. He has starred in "Les gens du voyages" and "Un monde meilleur", followed by "L'Engrenages" and "Femme Fatale", as well as "Les rivières pourpres 2", starring Jean Reno. After filming several more advertisements and promotions for the BBC, Nissan, Coca-Cola, and Nike, Belle was contacted by Luc Besson (director of Nikita, and The Fifth Element) regarding co-starring as lead actor with Cyril Raffaelli in the action movie District 13, followed by the sequel .

He participated to the stunts coordination for Babylon A.D., in 2008 and .

Filmography

;Acting:

"Louis Page" as Laurent (1 episode, 2000)

Engrenage, L' as Le créancier (2001)

Femme Fatale as French cop (2002)

Divine Intervention (Also known as Yadon ilaheyya) as Marksman1 (2002)

District 13 (French: Banlieue 13) as Leïto (2004)

Un monde meilleur as main soldier (2006)

Babylon A.D. as the kid with tattoos (2008)

(French: Banlieue 13 Ultimatum) as Leïto (2009)

;Stunts:

BBC One's advertising campaign (2002)

Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2003)

Transporter 2 (2005)

''[[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (film)|Prince of Persia

: The Sands of Time]]'' (2010)

;Cinematographer:

Cons (2000)

David Belle's groups

Yamakasi (former member)

*A practitioner of this modality calls himself a traceur, or herself a traceuse. Many parkour groups exist to promote the discipline, some choosing to do so commercially, others sticking to the more purist form.

PAWA (former member)

*David helped form the Parkour World Association, but he stopped the group for lack of cohesion.

See also

Parkour

Free running

Sébastien Foucan

External links

David Belle's official blog

Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:French people of Vietnamese descent Category:Traceurs Category:French film actors Category:French stunt performers Category:Stunt actors Category:Parkour

Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	Sir David Attenborough
Caption	David Attenborough, May 2003
Birth date	May 08, 1926
Birth place	London, England
Residence	Richmond, London
Nationality	British
Alma mater
Occupation
Title
Spouse	Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel (1950–1997 (Deceased))
Children

Sir David Frederick Attenborough () OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS, FZS, FSA (born 8 May 1926 in London, England) is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has endured for more than 50 years. He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

In March 2009, Attenborough appeared on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Attenborough stated that he felt evolution did not rule out the existence of a God and accepted the title of agnostic saying, "My view is: I don't know one way or the other but I don't think that evolution is against a belief in God."

There have always been politicians or business people who have wanted to cut the BBC back or stop it saying the sort of things it says. There's always been trouble about the licence and if you dropped your guard you could bet our bottom dollar there'd be plenty of people who'd want to take it away. The licence fee is the basis on which the BBC is based and if you destroy it, broadcasting... becomes a wasteland.

In 2009, Attenborough commented on the general state of British television, describing the newly introduced product placement on commercial television as something he considered an "appalling" idea 20 years earlier:

I think it's in great trouble. The whole system on which it was built — a limited number of networks, with adequate funding — is under threat. That funding is no longer there. As stations proliferate, so audiences are reduced. The struggle for audiences becomes ever greater, while money diminishes. I think that's a fair recipe for trouble. Inevitably, this has an impact on the BBC … Fortunately, the BBC doesn't think natural history programmes must compete with Strictly Come Dancing in terms of audience. The BBC says, 'Make proper, responsible natural history programmes.'

Other causes

In May 2005, Attenborough was appointed as patron of the UK's Blood Pressure Association, which provides information and support to people with hypertension.

Attenborough is also an honorary member of BSES Expeditions, a youth development charity that operates challenging scientific research expeditions to remote wilderness environments.

Parodies and artistic portrayals

Attenborough's accent and hushed, excited delivery have been the subject of frequent parodies by comedians, most notably Spike Milligan, Marty Feldman and The Goodies. Attenborough is portrayed by Michael Palin in the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where he searches the African jungle for the legendary Walking Tree of Dahomey (Quercus Nicholas Parsonus), sweating excessively and accompanied by native guides wearing saxophones. David Attenborough has also been parodied in a series of GEICO insurance commercials, showing a nature show host, clearly patterned on Attenborough.

"Time Flies", a sketch by David Ives, features a pair of anthropomorphic mayflies engaging in a courtship ritual, while watching themselves on television in a documentary narrated by David Attenborough.

The character of Nigel Thornberry, a nature documentarian on Nickelodeon's The Wild Thornberrys is strongly influenced by Attenborough.

He has also been parodied by the Australia 1980s sketch show The Comedy Company where Ian McFadyen portrays a character called David Rabbitborough.

Discworld (video game), based on the series of books by Terry Pratchett, parodies his unique delivery to explain different aspects of Discworld Universe, such as L-Space.

Mythbusters host Adam Savage often imitates Attenborough when speaking about his co-host Jamie Hyneman, which Jamie verified in the YouTube Special Episode.

Filmography

Attenborough is known foremost for writing and presenting the nine Life series, which are presented in chronological order below:

Life on Earth (1979)

The Living Planet (1984)

The Trials of Life (1990)

Life in the Freezer (1993)

The Private Life of Plants (1995)

The Life of Birds (1998)

The Life of Mammals (2002)

Life in the Undergrowth (2005)

Life in Cold Blood (2008)

His voice is synonymous with wildlife documentaries for British audiences, and the principal series with which his narration is associated include:

Wildlife on One (1977–2005)

BBC Wildlife Specials (1995–2008)

The Blue Planet (2001)

Planet Earth (British version) (2006)

Nature's Great Events (2009)

''Life (2009)

The Frozen Planet (2011) (in production)

Books

Bibliography

Zoo Quest to Guyana (Lutterworth Press, 1956)

Zoo Quest for a Dragon (Lutterworth Press, 1957)

* (book club edition with 85 extra pages, Quest for the Paradise Birds, 1959)

Zoo Quest in Paraguay (Lutterworth Press, 1959)

* paperback (Penguin Books, 1982)

Quest in Paradise (1960)

People of Paradise (Harper & Brothers, 1960)

Zoo Quest to Madagascar (1961)

Quest Under Capricorn (1963)

Fabulous Animals (BBC, 1975) ISBN 0-563-17006-9

The Tribal Eye (1976)

Life on Earth (1979)

Discovering Life on Earth (1981)

Journeys to the past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the northern territory of Australia (1983) Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-00.64133

The Living Planet (1984)

The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man (1987)(Little Brown & Co (T); 1st American ed edition (March 1990))

The Atlas of the Living World (1989)

The Trials of Life (Collins, 1990) ISBN 0-00-219912-2

The Private Life of Plants (BBC Books, 1994) ISBN 0-563-37023-8

The Life of Birds (BBC Books, 1998) ISBN 0-563-38792-0

The Life of Mammals (BBC Books, 2002) ISBN 0-563-53423-0

Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster (autobiography; 2002) ISBN 0-563-53461-3

* paperback: ISBN 0-563-48780-1

* updated edition: ISBN 9781846076527

Life in the Undergrowth (BBC Books, 2005) ISBN 0-563-52208-9

Amazing Rare Things - The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery with Susan Owens, Martin Clayton and Rea Alexandratos (The Royal Collection, 2007) Hardback - ISBN 978 1 902163 46 8; Softback - ISBN 978 1 902163 99 4

Life in Cold Blood (BBC Books, 2007) ISBN 9780563539223

Life Stories, (HarperCollins Publishers, 2009) ISBN 9780007338832

Introductions

Attenborough has written the introduction or foreword for a number of books, including:

African Jigsaw: A Musical Entertainment, Peter Rose and Anne Conlon (published: 1986, Weinberger)

Tomorrow Is Too Late, Various (The Macmillan Press, 1990)

Life in the Freezer: Natural History of the Antarctic, Alastair Fothergill (BBC Books, 1993), ISBN 0-563-36431-9

Birds of Paradise: Paradisaeidae (Bird Families of the World series) Clifford B. Frith, Bruce M. Beehler, William T. Cooper (Illustrator) (Oxford University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-19-854853-2

The Blue Planet, Andrew Byatt, Alastair Fothergill, Martha Holmes (BBC Books, 2001) ISBN 0-563-38498-0.

Light on the Earth (BBC Books, 2005), two decades of winning images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, ISBN 0-563-52260-7

Planet Earth, Alastair Fothergill (BBC Books, 2006), ISBN 0-563-52212-7

Audio recordings

Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (available on audiocassette, 1978)

Yanomamo (musical entertainment, 1983) by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon; on-stage narration and published audio recording

Ocean World (musical entertainment, 1990) by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon; on-stage narration (including at The Royal Festival Hall), for audio recording and video broadcast (both published)

Peter and the Wolf for BBC Music Magazine (free CD with the June 2000 issue).

In addition, Attenborough has recorded some of his own works in audiobook form, including Life on Earth, Zoo Quest for a Dragon and his autobiography Life on Air: Memoirs of a Broadcaster.

References

External links

BBC Books David Attenborough website

BBC - David Attenborough Life on Air

BBC biography

BBC Archives

BBC interview with Attenborough in 1976

David Attenborough - Perception, deception and reality at the Royal Society

David Attenborough interview: 'Everyone likes Birds'

BBC Radio 4 programme interviewing Attenborough in Real Audio format

David Attenborough Studio campaign at the Natural History Museum

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Coordinates	51°30′26″N0°7′39″N
Name	Craig David
Landscape	yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Craig Ashley David
Born	May 05, 1981Southampton, Hampshire, England
Genre	R&B;, UK garage, hip hop, dance
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, MC
Years active	1999–present
Label	Universal (2009-Present)Warner / Atlantic (1999-2009)Sire (1999-2009)
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Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is an English UK Garage singer. He has released five studio albums: Born To Do It, Slicker Than Your Average, The Story Goes..., Trust Me, Signed Sealed Delivered and a Greatest Hits album.

Early life

David was born in Holyrood, Southampton, Hampshire, the son of Tina (née Loftus), a retail assistant at Superdrug, and George David, a carpenter. David's father is a Grenadian and David's mother is an English Jew related to the founders of the Accurist watch-making company; David's maternal grandfather was an Orthodox Jew and his maternal grandmother a convert to Judaism. David's parents separated when he was eight and he was raised by his mother. He attended Bellemoor School.

David's father played bass in a reggae band called Ebony Rockers. As a teen, David began accompanying his father to local dance clubs, where DJs let him take the microphone.

Career

David's earliest exposure came when he worked on a b-side to British group Damage's cover of "Wonderful Tonight". He then started doing vocals for a few tracks with garage act Artful Dodger. The song "Re-Rewind", from the Artful Dodger album It's All About the Stragglers, hit Number 2 on the UK charts in 1999; thus, paving the way for a solo career. David's first single, "Fill Me In", released on Colin Lester's and Ian McAndrew's Wildstar Records made him the youngest solo male artist ever to reach Number 1 in the UK (he was 19 years old at the time). This was the first of a string of four Top 10 singles from his debut album Born To Do It, which eventually sold more than seven million units worldwide, earning multi-platinum status in more than 20 countries. The song "Key To My Heart", taken from the US version of the album, was also featured on the award-winning Warner Brothers animated film Osmosis Jones.

2000–2001: Born to Do It

The success of David's debut, which was written almost entirely by David and Mark Hill of Artful Dodger, led to the United States release of "Fill Me In" in May 2001. It reached Number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100. Born to Do It was released in the United States on 17 July 2001, peaking at Number 11 on the Billboard 200 and sold over one million copies. The single "7 Days" hit the Top 10 in the U.S.; although "Walking Away", which had reached Number 3 in the UK and Number 5 in Australia, missed the Top 40 in the U.S. and was the last of his singles to chart there.

In April 2009, MTV viewers voted Born To Do It as Number 2 on their "Greatest Album of All-Time" poll, behind Michael Jackson's Thriller.

2002–2003: Slicker Than Your Average

The follow-up album, Slicker Than Your Average, was released in 2002. The albums' first four singles continued his streak of Top 10 hits in the UK, bringing a total of nine consecutive Top 10 hits until "World Filled with Love" peaked at Number 15 in 2003. None of the six singles released from the album charted in the U.S.. Although "What's Your Flava?" and "Rise & Fall" (duet with Sting) received airplay on the Urban Contemporary and Soft AC formats, they did not make the Hot R&B;/Hip-Hop Singles Tracks chart or the Adult Contemporary chart. However, "What's Your Flava?" made the Rhythmic Top 40 (Number 32), Top 40 Mainstream (Number 24) and the Top 40 Tracks (Number 37). According to the RIAA Slicker Than Your Average reached Gold Status in the USA.

2005–2006: The Story Goes...

David later signed on with Warner Music and put together his third album, The Story Goes..., which was released worldwide in August 2005 (excluding the U.S. where it was never released). The first single, "All The Way", returned him to the Top 3. The second single, "Don't Love You No More (I'm Sorry)", tied with "7 Days" as his longest running single in the charts since "Re-Rewind", spending 15 weeks inside the UK Top 75. The album's third single, "Unbelievable", debuted at Number 18 in March 2006.

2007–2008: Trust Me

In 2007, David collaborated with UK rapper Kano on his upcoming album London Town, for the single "This is the Girl". The track was released on 27 August 2007 and debuted at Number 18 on the UK charts.

The first single "Hot Stuff" from his album Trust Me, was released on 5 November 2007 . The single was a top ten hit, whilst the album charted at Number 18 on the UK Albums Chart. "6 of 1 Thing", the second single to be taken from Trust Me, charted at number 39 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming his third-lowest charting single to date.

"Officially Yours" was released on 23 June 2008 and peaked at Number 158 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming his lowest-charting single to date and was the final single from Trust Me.

In July, a new track titled "Are You Up For This" started receiving airplay on various radio stations as part of a promo with Ice Cream Records, which also featured a remix with Witty Boy called "Nutter Butter."

On 17 August, David performed at a birthday tribute concert for songwriter Don Black at the London Palladium. He performed the song "Ben", originally a hit for Michael Jackson.

David took part in Soccer Aid 2008 at Wembley Stadium on 7 September 2008. He picked up the "Man of The Match" award on the night and played in the same England side as ex-internationals such as Alan Shearer, Teddy Sheringham and David Seaman, and played against the likes of Romário, Paolo Di Canio, Jaap Stam, and Luís Figo.

David received two 2008 UK Urban Music Award nominations for Best Album with Trust Me and Best R&B; Act.

On 7 November, David was recognised for his 'contribution' to the music industry by receiving an honorary degree of Doctor of Music, from Southampton Solent University at a graduation ceremony held at Southampton Guildhall.

2008–2009: Greatest Hits

David released his first Greatest Hits album on 24 November 2008. In support of the release, David released two singles to promote the album. "Where's Your Love" featuring Tinchy Stryder and Rita Ora, a homage to his UK garage days, was digitally released on 10 November 2008. The second single, "Insomnia", produced by Jim Beanz from Timbaland productions, a dance track with hard bassline beats, was released the following week on 17 November 2008.

On 29 December, a new mix of "Insomnia", titled "Up All Night Mix", was made available for digital download.

As part of the Greatest Hits compilation, David re-recorded "Walking Away" with four different artists across Europe, Monrose from Germany, Nek from Italy, Lynnsha from France and Alex Ubago from Spain.

The album debuted at Number 48 on the UK Albums Chart.

From February to April 2009, David toured Russia, the Far East and performed one show in Los Angeles as part of a Greatest Hits tour. He met fans at a meet and greet session at Singapore Changi Airport before his show.

In April 2009, Born to Do It came second in a poll by MTV UK for the Greatest Album ever, which received over 40,000 votes, beaten by Michael Jackson’s album Thriller.

On 14 May 2009, David participated in the Hillsborough Memorial football match at Anfield.

On 26 July 2009, David participated in the Sir Bobby Robson Trophy match at St. James' Park, playing alongside boyhood hero Alan Shearer.

2009–2010: New label and Signed Sealed Delivered

On Friday 18 September 2009 fans got the first taste of the new album with an exclusive demo posted on his official website, a thirty second snippet covering Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours".

On 2 October, David revealed to his fans via Twitter and his website that he had signed a new record deal with Universal.

The UK edition of Jay Sean's new album All or Nothing which was released on 30 November 2009 features Craig on a track entitled "Stuck in the Middle".

David performed a bold new cover of "I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)" from Walt Disney's 1967 film The Jungle Book on the ITV programme Ultimate Movie Toons, broadcast 28 March 2010.

The new album Signed Sealed Delivered, finds Craig largely covering and sampling soul hits from the Motown era while giving them his own modern twist. Songs covered include Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; The Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone"; and Stevie Wonder's "For Once in My Life".

The first single from Craig's fifth studio album Signed Sealed Delivered was "One More Lie (Standing in the Shadows)" and it was released in the UK on 22 March 2010 where it made No.76 with the album following one week later on 29 March 2010, which entered the UK chart at number 13.

On 17 March 2010 Craig will be releasing a Garage compilation album titled 'Rewind Old Skool Classics' mixed with DJ Spoony featuring some of their favourite UK Garage hits from the last ten years.

Two weeks later on 31 May 2010, the second single to be taken from Signed Sealed Delivered, titled 'All Alone Tonight (Stop, Look, Listen)' will be released. The chorus of the single samples The Stylistics hit Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) but features completely new verses. In the weeks leading up to the release BBC Radio Two have backed the single by naming it their 'Record of The Week' and adding it to their 'A-List'.

On May 20, 2010 David appeared as a co-host on The Morning Show in Australia alongside Kylie Gillies, whilst regular male presenter Larry Emdur was on holidays.

On August 27, 2010 Swiss DJ Remady is releasing an album titled "No Superstar" on which Craig features on the House/Dance track "Do It On My Own".

David is nominated for 'Best Video' at the 2010 Urban Music Awards for the song "One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows)".

According to his Twitter he is now working on new music.

The 2010 Sunday Times Rich List indicated that Craig David is worth £8 million.

Discography

;Studio albums

Born To Do It (2000)

Slicker Than Your Average (2002)

The Story Goes... (2005)

Trust Me (2007)

Signed Sealed Delivered (2010)

;Compilation albums

Greatest Hits (2008)

Awards and nominations

2010- PFA Player of the Year(Winner)

BET Awards

*2002: Best R&B; Male Artist (Nominated)

*2002: Best New Artist (Nominated)

BRIT Awards

*2006: Best British Urban Act (Nominated)

*2003: Best British Urban Act (Nominated)

*2003: Best British Male Solo Artist (Nominated)

*2002: Best British Album: Born to Do It (Nominated)

*2002: Best British Dance Act (Nominated)

*2002: Best British Male Solo Artist (Nominated)

*2001: Best British Album: Born to Do It (Nominated)

*2001: Best British Dance Act (Nominated)

*2001: Best British Male Solo Artist (Nominated)

*2001: Best British Newcomer (Nominated)

*2001: Best British Single: "7 Days" (Nominated)

*2001: Best British Video: "7 Days" (Nominated)

Goldene Kamera

*2004: Pop International

Grammy Awards

*2003: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "7 Days" (Nominated)

*2002: Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: "Fill Me In" (Nominated)

Ivor Novello Awards

*2001: Best Contemporary Song: "7 Days"

*2001: Best Dance Single Award: "Woman Trouble", shared with Robbie Craig and Artful Dodger

*2001: Songwriter Of The Year, shared with Mark Hill

MOBO Awards

*2001: Best UK Act

*2001: Best R&B; Act (Nominated)

*2001: Best Album: Born to Do It (Nominated)

*2000: Best R&B; Act

*2000: Best UK Newcomer

*2000: Best UK Single of the Year: "Fill Me In"

*2000: Best Video: "7 Days" (Nominated)

*2000: Best UK Single of the Year: "Woman Trouble" (Nominated), shared with Robbie Craig and Artful Dodger

MTV Europe Awards

*2001: Best Male (Nominated)

*2001: Best New Act (Nominated)

*2001: Best R&B; Act

*2001: Best UK & Ireland Act

MTV Video Music Awards

*2002: Best Male Video: "Walking Away" (Nominated)

*2001: MTV2 Award: "Fill Me In" (Nominated)

MTV Video Music Awards Japan

*2006: Best R&B; Video: "All The Way" (Nominated)

*2003: Best Male Video: "What's Your Flava?"

Radio Music Awards

*2001: Most Requested Song: "Fill Me In" (Nominated)

Urban Music Awards

*2010: Best Video: "One More Lie (Standing In The Shadows)" (Nominated)

Other awards and honors

Honorary Degree, Doctor of Music, Southampton Solent University, 7 November 2008

Cultural impact

On March 24, 2010 (World TB Day), Craig David was named the newest Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis. He is lending his voice to the Stop Tuberculosis effort. Craig’s first activity as an Ambassador was to travel to South Africa to learn more about tuberculosis, where he met the people who have beaten the disease, people who are still fighting it, kids who face the threat of tuberculosis every day, and scientists who have dedicated their lives to making tuberculosis history. Craig stated that the mission is to help overcome the social stigma of TB in order to beat the disease.

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