Name	Capri
Image name	Wyspa Capri.JPG
Image caption	View of Capri from the sea
Locator map	Capri and Ischia map.png
Location	Tyrrhenian Sea
Area km2	10.4
Highest mount	Monte Solaro
Elevation m	589
Country	Italy
Country admin divisions title	Region
Country admin divisions	Campania
Country admin divisions title 1	Province
Country admin divisions 1	Naples
Country largest city	Capri
Country largest city population	7,278
Population	12,200
Population as of	2002
Density km2	1170

Capri (, pronounced in English) is an Italian island in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples, in the Campania region of Southern Italy. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic.

Features of the island are the Marina Piccola (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara, which is a high panoramic promenade lined with villas, the limestone crags called sea stacks that project above the sea (the Faraglioni), Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), and the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas.

Capri is part of the region of Campania, Province of Naples. The town of Capri is the main centre of population on the island. It has two harbours, Marina Piccola and Marina Grande (the main port of the island). The separate commune of Anacapri is located high on the hills to the west.

The etymology of the name Capri can be traced back to the Greeks, the first recorded colonists to populate the island. This means that "Capri" was probably not derived from the Latin "Capreae" (goats), but rather the Greek "Kapros" (wild boar).

History

Ancient and Roman times

According to the Greek geographer Strabo, Capri was once part of the mainland. This has been confirmed by geological surveys and archaeological findings.

The city has been inhabited since very early times. Evidence of human settlement was discovered during the Roman era; according to Suetonius, when the foundations for the villa of Augustus were being excavated, giant bones and 'weapons of stone' were discovered. The emperor ordered these to be displayed in the garden of his main residence, the Sea Palace. Modern excavations have shown that human presence on the island can be dated back to the Neolithic and the Bronze Age.

In his Aeneid, Virgil states that the island had been populated by the Greek people of Teleboi, coming from the Ionian Islands. Strabo says that "in ancient times in Capri there were two towns, later reduced to one." (Geography, 5, 4, 9, 38). Tacitus records that there were twelve Imperial villas in Capri (or Capreae, as it was spelled in Latin). Ruins of one at Tragara could still be seen in the 19th century.

Augustus's successor Tiberius built a series of villas at Capri, the most famous of which is the Villa Jovis, one of the best preserved Roman villas in Italy. In 27 CE, Tiberius permanently moved to Capri, running the Empire from there until his death in 37 CE.

In 182 CE, Emperor Commodus banished his sister Lucilla to Capri. She was executed shortly afterwards.

Middle and Modern Ages

. ]] After the end of the Western Roman Empire, Capri returned to the status of a dominion of Naples, and suffered various attacks and ravages by pirates. In 866 Emperor Louis II gave the island to Amalfi. In 987 the first Caprese bishop was consecrated by Pope John XV.

In 1496, Frederick IV of Naples established legal and administrative parity between the two settlements of Capri and Anacapri. The pirate raids reached their peak during the reign of Charles V: the famous Turkish admirals Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis captured the island in 1535 and 1553 for the Ottoman Empire, respectively.

The first recorded tourist to visit the island was the French antiques dealer Jean Jacques Bouchard in the 17th century. His diary, found in 1850, is an important information source about Capri.

Recent history

In January 1806, French troops occupied the island. The British ousted the French troops that May; Capri was turned into a powerful naval base (a "Second Gibraltar"), but the building program caused heavy damage to the archaeological sites. The French reconquered Capri in 1808, and remained there until the end of the Napoleonic era (1815), when Capri was returned to the Bourbon ruling house of Naples.

In the 19th century, the natural scientist Ignazio Cerio catalogued the flora and fauna of the island. This work was continued by his son, the author and engineer Edwin Cerio, who wrote several books on life in Capri in the 20th century.

Norman Douglas, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Emil von Behring, Curzio Malaparte, Axel Munthe, and Maxim Gorky are all reported to have owned a villa there, or to have stayed there for more than three months. Swedish Queen Victoria often stayed there. Rose O'Neill, the American illustrator and creator of the Kewpie, owned the Villa Narcissus, formerly owned by the famous Beaux Art painter Charles Caryl Coleman. Gracie Fields also had a villa on the island, though her 1934 song "The Isle of Capri" was written by two Englishmen. Mariah Carey owns a villa on the island.

Capri in art and literature

, Capri, a look from Santa Serafina, 1840]]

In the latter half of the 19th century, Capri became a popular resort for European artists, writers and other celebrities.

John Singer Sargent and Frank Hyde are among the prominent artists who stayed on the island around the late 1870s. Sargent is known for his series of portraits featuring local model Rosina Ferrara. Claude Debussy refers to the island's hills in the title of his impressionistic prélude Les collines d'Anacapri (1910). Capri is the setting for "The Lotus Eater" (1945), a short story by Somerset Maugham. In the story, the protagonist from Boston comes to Capri on a holiday and is so enchanted by the place he gives up his job and decides to spend the rest of his life in leisure there. British novelist Compton Mackenzie lived there from 1913 to 1920, with later visits, and set some of his work on the island, e.g. Vestal Fire (1927)

As well as being a haven for writers and artists, Capri served as a relatively safe place for foreign gay men and lesbians to lead a more open life; a small nucleus of them were attracted to live there, overlapping to some extent with the creative types mentioned above. One of the island's most famous foreign gay exiles was Norman Douglas; his novel South Wind (1917) is a thinly fictionalised description of Capri's residents and visitors.

Memoirs set on Capri include The Story of San Michele (1929) by the Swedish royal physician Axel Munthe (1857–1949), who built a villa of that name.

Main sights

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Villa San Michele

Grotta Azzurra, the Blue Grotto

Villa Lysis

Villa Jovis

La Piazzetta

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Via Krupp

Arco Naturale

Villa Malaparte

Torre Materita

Certosa di San Giacomo (Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach museum)

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Faraglioni

Monte Solaro

Punta Carena Lighthouse

Marina Grande

Capri Philosophical Park

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Annual events

Capri Art Film Festival (every April since 2006) Festival of San Costanzo (Capri patron saint) – May 14 Festival of Sant’Antonio (Anacapri patron saint) – June 13 Settembrata Anacaprese (Anacapri harvest festival) – September

Tourism

Capri is a tourist destination for both Italians and foreigners. In the 1950s, Capri became a popular destination. In summer, the island is heavily visited by tourists, especially by day trippers from Naples and Sorrento.

Transportation

Capri is served by ferry or hydrofoil from Naples, Sorrento, Positano or Amalfi as well as by boat services from the ports of the Bay of Naples and the Sorrentine Peninsula. Naples is served by two ports, Mergellina and Molo Beverello. Molo Beverello has a higher frequency of departures and a larger selection of boats than Mergellina.

From Naples, the ferry takes 80 minutes, and the hydrofoil 40 minutes. From Sorrento, the ferry takes about 40 minutes while the hydrofoil takes about 20 minutes.

Boats call at Marina Grande, from where a funicular goes up to Capri town. From Anacapri town, a chair lift takes passengers to the top of the island.

Gallery

See also

Anacapri

Blue Grotto

City of Capri

Ischia

References

External links

Capri on Wikitravel

Capri 360 panoramas

Category:Islands of Campania Category:Colonies of Magna Graecia

Name	Colbie Caillat
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Colbie Marie Caillat
Born	Newbury Park, California
Origin	Malibu, California, United States
Genre	Pop, Acoustic, Country pop, Folk rock
Occupation	Singer-songwriter, guitarist, pianist
Years active	2007–present
Instrument	Vocal, guitar, ukulele, piano
Voice type	Contralto
Label	Universal Republic Records
Associated acts	Juanes, Jason Mraz, Taylor Swift, Jason Reeves, John Mayer, Justin Young, Tim Fagan
Url	www.colbiecaillat.com

Colbie Marie Caillat (; born May 28, 1985) is an American pop singer-songwriter and guitarist from Malibu, California. She debuted in 2007 with Coco, which included hit singles "Bubbly", "Realize", and "The Little Things". In 2008, she recorded a duet with Jason Mraz, "Lucky", which won a Grammy. Caillat released her second album, Breakthrough, in August 2009.

On December 2, 2009, Breakthrough was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards. She was also nominated twice for Best Pop Collaboration, for her featured vocals on Mraz's "Lucky" and her background vocals and writing on Taylor Swift's "Breathe", and was part of the group that won Album of the Year for her background vocals and writing on Swift's Fearless. The combined US sales of her first two albums is about 2.5 million with 4 million sold worldwide, and ten million singles in US. In 2010 she performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway in honour of 2010 Nobel Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo

Biography

Caillat was born in Newbury Park, California, and grew up in Malibu, California. Her father, Ken Caillat, co-produced Fleetwood Mac's Rumours (1977) and Tusk (1979) albums. Producer Mikal Blue hired a teenaged Caillat to sing on background techno music to be used for fashion shows. Caillat began writing songs with Blue in 2004.

Music career

2007–2008: Coco

The popularity of Caillat's MySpace profile led her to become the number-one unsigned singer in her genre for four consecutive months. Her debut single was "Bubbly" and peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Pop 100. "Bubbly" also reached #58 in the UK Singles Chart in September 2008 after 11 months in the chart. Two other singles followed, "Realize" (#20, Hot 100) and "The Little Things" (#94, Pop 100).

In May 2008, Caillat recorded a duet with Jason Mraz, called "Lucky," on his album, We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things. The same month, Caillat recorded a cover of the song "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid for Disney's DisneyMania 6 CD. After touring with The Goo Goo Dolls and Lifehouse in 2007, she was the supporting act for John Mayer on his 2008 Summer Tour.

In August 2008, Caillat released a song and video for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics called "Somethin' Special" and released another music video for her song "The Little Things" for the U.S. market. Caillat also sings on "You" by Schiller and appears in the music video. Colbie has been involved in the soundtrack of the movie Imagine That; she and Mikal Blue cover the George Harrison song "Here Comes the Sun". She is also featured in Colombian singer Juanes album La vida... es un ratico (en vivo) in the song "Hoy Me Voy".

In October 2008, the song "Midnight Bottle" was included in the soundtrack of Brazilian soap opera "Três Irmãs", and despite not being released as a single yet, the song has received a lot of airplay in Brazil. She also participated in the role of herself on this soap opera. Caillat provided background vocals and co-wrote with Taylor Swift, for Swift's song called "Breathe", on her album, Fearless, which was released November 11, 2008. Caillat released a French version of "The Little Things" ("Ces petits riens") as a single.

2009–2010: Breakthrough

Caillat's second album, entitled Breakthrough, was released on August 21, 2009, in Germany; August 24 in the rest of Europe; and a day after that in the US. Most of the album was co-written by Jason Reeves, an American songwriter signed to Warner Bros. Records and features world-renowned guitarist David Becker on two tracks. Becker has worked with the singer's father Ken on several of his own recordings. The first single from Breakthrough, "Fallin' for You", was released on June 29, 2009. On August 4, 2009, the album was made available to pre-order through iTunes with the bonus song "Hold Your Head High". This configuration also comes with a reggae version of "Begin Again". During "Breakthrough" Colbie had writer's block so she enlisted her friends, Kara DioGuardi, Jason Reeves and they went to Hawaii for three weeks, rented a beach house and wrote songs about love, relationships and breakups. Caillat released two Christmas songs for the 2009 holiday season, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Merry Christmas, Baby." She and collaborator Stacy Blue (who co-wrote Caillat's 2007 holiday single "Mistletoe") are also planning to write some new Christmas songs. Archie Comics released an issue with her as guest star.

Caillat told Broken Records Magazine in Volume 1 Issue 3 that she "is so honored to be recognized as BMI's songwriter of the year and it is an amazing accomplishment that I never expected! Getting to travel the world and play my songs has to be one of the best jobs in the world."

The second single, "I Never Told You," was released February 16, 2010.

According to her official website, Caillat is currently writing and recording songs for her third studio album. Her father Ken Caillat is again at the producing helm for part of the recording, and guitarist David Becker is also on board.

In June 2010, Caillat recorded a song for Levi's Pioneer's Sessions, a remake of Blondie's song, "Maria." The track is available as a free download from the official site.

In July 2010, Caillat performed God Bless America during the seventh inning stretch at the 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. She is currently dating Justin Kawika Young, the guitarist and other vocalist in her band, who helped inspire her upcoming third album. In the same article, a song titled "Shadow" was confirmed to be on her upcoming album.

In September 2010, Caillat performed the national anthem in the season opener game of the National Football League in New Orleans and a Monday Night Football game in Chicago.

In December 2010, Caillat performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway.

Present–2011: Third Studio Album

On September 12, 2010 at her Pechanga Resort & Casino concert, Caillat announced her upcoming album is being recorded and will be released in February 2011. She also played 5 songs from the upcoming album for the first time in public. The songs, and their stories she described behind them, are as follows:

"I Do" – Caillat said it is supposed to be sort of a joke but it is hard to explain and it is about marriage.

"Dream Life" – Caillat said that her friends always talk about this dream life they wish they had where they spend their days by the pool drinking cocktails.

"Shadow" – Caillat explained that this song was about and directed toward a friend of hers who has been with the same guy for a year and he refuses to call her his girlfriend so the song is about what she should say to him.

"Before I Let You Go" – Caillat said she wrote this when she was angry at someone and it is about how they should change their ways before they are out of her life.

"Let's Make It Rain" – Caillat said she wrote this last summer, 2009 and it is about doing what you want and not caring what other people think.

"What If" – Originally featured in the movie "Letters to Juliet," Caillat described the song as "about day dreaming about being in love."

Recently Caillat did a music video for "25 Days Of Christmas" for the ABC channel. She mentioned it is likely that the song will be on her new album.

It has been reported by several news outlets that the album would be titled "Swing" but Caillat has reiterated that she has not reached a final decision yet. In an interview on Artisan News, it was revealed that the first single for the album will be out in January and is "I Do".

On January 10, 2011, Caillat performed "Bubbly" at the Detroit Auto Show at the Mercedez-Benz Press Event.

Discography

Coco (2007)

Breakthrough (2009)

TBN (2011)

Tours

2008: John Mayer 2008 Summer Tour

2008: Coco Summer Tour

2008: Coco World Tour

2009/2010: Breakthrough World Tour

Awards and nominations

Name	Colbie Caillat
Awards	4
Nominations	11

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Caillat has won two awards from four nominations, including Album of the Year, she featured artist.

|- |rowspan="4"|2010 |Fearless |Album of the Year | |- |rowspan="1"|Breakthrough |Best Pop Vocal Album | |- |"Lucky" |rowspan="2"|Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals | |- |"Breathe" |

Others awards and nominations

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Colbie Caillat made a guest star appearance on the popular webseries "Crash Coarse to Stardom" with the band Bascom Hill.

April 28 – May 2, 2011, from Tampa to Cozumel, Mexico, Caillat and other artists like Train and Lifehouse will be performing on the VH1 Best Cruise Ever.

References

External links

Colbie Caillat at Universal Republic

French Website

Colbie Caillat on the cover of the March 19th, 2008 issue of iProng Magazine

Colbie Caillat cover story in the January 2009 issue of International Musician

AOL Sessions Performance & Interview

Category:1985 births Category:2000s singers Category:2010s singers Category:American child singers Category:American female guitarists Category:American female singers Category:American folk guitarists Category:American folk singers Category:American musicians of French descent Category:American pop guitarists Category:American pop singers Category:American singer-songwriters Category:English-language singers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Living people Category:Musicians from California Category:People from Los Angeles County, California Category:People from Ventura County, California

Name	Kid Capri
Background	solo_singer
Born	February 07, 1967
Genre	Hip hop
Occupation	Musician
Years active	1991-present
Associated acts	Big L, DJ AM, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Nas, KRS-One, Warren G, Big Pun, The Lox, Foxy Brown

David Anthony Love, Jr (born February 7, 1967), also known by his stage name Kid Capri, is an American musician.

He was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is the son of David Love Sr., a Musician/Singer. He is of African-American and Italian descent.

In the 1970s, Kid Capri began to attend block parties, starting his DJ career at the age of 8. He eventually garnered widespread attention at Studio 54 and began selling his sets with his partner at the time Starchild. Kid Capri has deejayed for seven seasons of Def Comedy Jam. He's also produced tracks for Boogie Down Productions, Heavy D, Big L, Grand Puba, and Quincy Jones. He eventually released an LP on Warner Brothers Records titled The Tape in 1991. He appeared in the 1993 movie Who's the Man? alongside Doctor Dre, Colin Quinn, KRS-One, Ice-T, Pete Rock, CL Smooth, Eric B, Flavor Flav, Kris Kross, Melle Mel, Busta Rhymes and many others. In 1997, Kid Capri switched from Warner Brothers to Trackmasters after he appeared on the 1997 Puff Daddy And The Family World Tour. He has subsequently released Soundtrack to the Streets in 1998.

Recently Kid Capri has been busy working with his very own label, 'No Kid'n Records'. Also, he was featured on a show called The Breakdown on itshiphop.tv where he talked about his current and future projects, his views on Japan's hip hop scene, and the origin of his DJ Name. On July 29, 2007, Kid Capri made a special appearance during Rock The Bells 2007 as Rakim's DJ. Kid Capri also made a special appearance as Rakim's DJ during the Rock The Bells 2008 show on July 19, 2008 in Tinley Park, Illinois. Kid Capri is also a legendary DJ member of the The worldwide DJ organization, The Core DJ's

Discography

Releases

The Tape (1991)

52 Beats (1992)

Soundtrack to the Streets (1998)

Singles

Apollo (1991)

Joke's On You Jack (1991)

Put It On (With Big L) (1995)

Unify (1998)

Videos

Put It On (1995)

Cameos and roles in film

Who's the Man? as himself (1993)

A Get2Gether as Dee Jay (2005)

References

External links

Official website

Kid Capri Interview with HipHopRuckus.Com

Category:1970 births Category:Living people Category:Hip hop DJs Category:People from the Bronx Category:Rappers from New York City Category:African American rappers Category:American people of Italian descent Category:Cold Chillin' Records artists

Name	Kelly Osbourne
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne
Born	October 27, 1984Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom
Instrument	Vocals
Genre	Pop rock, new wave revival, pop punk
Occupation	Singer, Author, actress, television personality, radio presenter, fashion designer
Years active	2002–present
Label	Epic (2002–2003)Sanctuary (2003–2007)Universal (2007–present)
Associated acts	Ozzy Osbourne, Miley Cyrus
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Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is a British media personality, television personality, host, judge, fashion designer, singer, and actress, best known for being the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on the reality series The Osbournes with her family, for which they won a 2002 Emmy award for Outstanding Reality Programme. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, in which she and professional dance partner Louis van Amstel took third place, and has made forays into music, acting, theater, fashion, writing, radio agony aunt, columnist and television presenting.

Early life

Osbourne was born in Westminster, London. She has an elder sister, Aimee, and a younger brother, Jack. She has two half-siblings: Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne from Ozzy's first marriage. She had an unofficially "adopted" brother, Robert Marcato, whom Sharon and Ozzy took in after Marcato's mother died. Kelly grew up travelling with her father as he went on tour, and lived in more than 20 homes between the UK and the USA.

Career

The Osbournes

Osbourne and the rest of her immediate family (without Aimee) were thrust into the international spotlight with the MTV reality show The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005. The series chronicled their day-to-day life, and the show became a hit for its portrayal of a dysfunctional, though close-knit family in which metal music, profanity and other harshness were a daily part of life. Kelly, the middle child, emerged (according to Rolling Stone) as "a wickedly funny, brutally honest, pint-size, potty-mouthed spitfire." The series started when she was around the age of sixteen, ending around the ages of eighteen or nineteen. Kelly said in an interview for The Osbournes DVD that the crew were only actually supposed to be there for a few weeks but ended up staying for a few months and that the constant cameras focusing on her and her family was stressful.

Both she and the Osbournes family have been parodied in Channel 4 comedy, Bo' Selecta. In which the rubber-masked Kelly, played by Leigh Francis, has her own show and is always being censored for swearing with bleeps.

In March 2009, Osbourne returned to television with the rest of the Osbourne family on .

Music

Her debut album, Shut Up!, was released in 2002 to moderate American sales, but good European sales, which was debuted with Houston rock band Pure Rubbish at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards. Osbourne's 2002 debut with Epic Records, "Shut Up!", debuted at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. The album was met with mixed critical reviews and, by May 2003, Osbourne was dropped from Epic Records. By autumn she was on the Sanctuary label, later recording a duet of "Changes" (a Black Sabbath song) with her father. The duet hit #1 on the UK charts. Changes was one of a few tracks to have fallen down the charts (From 1 - 3) whilst selling more copies than the week it reached number 1. Osbourne was the first artist to top all three of the Billboard charts dance surveys in the same week with the "Chris Cox Club Remix" of "One Word". The album "Sleeping In The Nothing" was not without controversy, due to its reportedly heavily-altered album cover, in which Osbourne appeared slimmer, despite her previous assertions of being happy with her size.

During an interview in late 2005, Osbourne denied reports she was ending her music career, saying: "I don't know where the quit rumours came from - I've just recorded a version of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" with Cyndi Lauper".

Osbourne was forced to back out of her final performance in West End musical Chicago after the 31 October 2007 incident that injured her back. She later went on to win theatre actress of the year at the glamour awards in the UK. On the same night, she attended the Sony Radio Academy Awards, where she was nominated for the Rising Star Award, which she did not win.

Acting

Osbourne made her debut as an actress with a starring role on 7 October 2004 on the ABC high school teen drama Life As We Know It, where she played the supporting role of Deborah Beatrice Tynan. In June 2006, Osbourne played the role of Wendy from Peter Pan in The Queen's Handbag. In 2006, Osbourne provided a voice for the animated film Live Freaky Die Freaky. In July 2007, it was announced Osbourne was to take on the role of prison matron Mama Morton in the musical drama Chicago. Her seven-week run (from 10 September) in the musical at the Cambridge Theatre would be her stage debut, London's The Stage performing arts weekly reported.

In 2008 she features in the short musical film The Town that Boars Me by photographer Ben Charles Edwards . The film also features Sadie Frost, Jodie Harsh, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Zandra Rhodes amongst others. The film is set to debut in late summer at the Portobello Film Festival. Osbourne will be starring alongside David Chokachi and Brooke Hogan in horror film Devour, set for US release in 2010. The film is currently in post production. In 2009 she appeared in an episode of Hotel Babylon, a British TV show aired on BBC One. She played Jo, a character very similar to herself. In August 2010, Osbourne began filming on new comedy "Should Have Been Romeo," Her first major role in Hollywood, She plays "Nicole" a funloving groupie. The film is due for release in the U.S on April 7th 2011. In December 2010 it was confirmed that Osbourne would be starring alongside Disney Star Miley Cyrus in So Undercover, she plays the sorority sister to undercover Private eye Miley Cyrus, The movie began filming in December 2010 and is set for a 2011 release.

Presenting

Since her rise to fame, Osbourne has been called on to present for various events. Osbourne co-hosted the 2006 edition of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! Now, a spin-off show of the main ITV1 programme. She hosted alongside Jeff Brazier in Australia, and Mark Durden-Smith in the London studio. Her one-off gigs include the 2002 MTV Movie Awards, Top of the Pops Saturday, MTV's Isle of MTV, MTV UK and Ireland's red carpet coverage of the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards, Popworld, The Sunday Night Project, the 2005 MTV Australia Video Music Awards and Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. In spring 2006, Osbourne was one of the judges on Making Your Mind Up.

Osbourne presented ITV2's coverage of the National Television Awards with her brother Jack, and a documentary on Japanese pop culture called Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese for the same channel.

In January 2007, Osbourne began presenting Project Catwalk for Sky1. In Autumn 2007, Osbourne signed to BBC Radio 1 to host the Sunday night show, Radio 1's The Surgery, and on 7 October 2007 she went on air for the first time with the issue of self harm. She was scheduled to return to the show in early 2009 and whilst she was away, Aled Haydn Jones from The Chris Moyles Show presented the show. Aled has now been confirmed as a full time presenter. In spring 2008, she began contributing a teenage advice column to the tabloid newspaper The Sun, "Kelly Confidential", where she is billed as "the teen trouble shooter".

She appeared in Dancing with the Stars as a contestant, from September to November 2009. She and partner Louis Van Amstel took third place. The judges said Kelly was the contestant who grew the most and surprised them most, and they would be sorry to see her go.

Osbourne has presented on The Surgery with Kelly Osbourne on BBC Radio 1.

In August 2010, it was confirmed that Osbourne was signed up to appear alongside Joan Rivers as a fellow judge on Weekly Fashion show Fashion Police, Osbourne said "Its' a dream come true... and I can't fucking wait to work with Joan Rivers every week", she will offer up style comments following major red carpet events alongside Rivers and stylist George Kotsiopoulos on U.S. cable network E!

Fashion

After her appearance on the reality show, Osbourne quickly began to be noted for her varied and trendy style among fashion commentators like Steven Cojocaru In 2004, Osbourne launched her own fashion line, Stiletto Killers, with her friend and former sponsor, Ali Barone. Stiletto Killers was a rock-inspired line of tees, knickers, hoodies, and sweatpants designed by Osbourne and Barone, emblazoned with cartoonish designs and punk rock phrases. There was also a more sophisticated couture branch, The SK Collection. Stiletto Killers closed in April 2006.

In 2006, Osbourne became the face of the high street chain Accessorize in a campaign which was seen across Europe, Canada, Russia, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and the Middle East. In the spring of that year, Osbourne modeled for Heatherette in a catwalk show which also featured Naomi Campbell. In 2010, she modelled a Chris Benz dress for Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief runway show for The White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti.

Writing

On September 1, 2009, Osbourne released her 1st autobiography: Fierce via Virgin Books. Though the book contains autobiography elements, it also has been written to give people advice, strength and guidance through tough periods. As of September 9, 2009 the book reached no. 1 on many of Amazon's charts (music, film, television, styles and biography), and a current peak of 17 on the bestsellers chart. Kelly conducted a book tour throughout the UK to promote Fierce. As of September 2009 she will write a weekly column giving advice and celebrity gossip in UK magazine closer.

Dancing with the Stars

Osbourne appeared on the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars with Louis van Amstel. She made it to the finals and eventually took home third place.

Performances

Personal life

On 2 April 2004, Osbourne entered the Malibu rehab facility Promises after admitting to family that she was addicted to painkillers. Over a year later, on June 2, she checked into Las Encinas Hospital, a drug treatment centre in Pasadena, California after a relapse. She entered another drug treatment facility in January 2009; she stayed for a month and later acknowledged that she had suffered a relapse of her addiction to painkillers. After 30 days Kelly was released and has been quoted that this was the first time she really thought it had helped her.

In September 2006, at the Electric Picnic festival in Ireland, Osbourne and her boyfriend, Matty Derham of the band Fields, held a wedding ceremony. Her representative denied that the ceremony was legally binding, because it did not meet Irish legal requirements, as in Ireland, at the time, a couple couldn't get married in an outdoor venue. She later went on to date Matt Emerson, drummer from rock band Trash Fashion.

Osbourne appeared at an HIV charity benefit in February 2007, a cause she revealed stemmed from the HIV positive status of her cousin Terry Longden, of the reality show The Salon.

On January 19, 2009, Osbourne was arrested for assault after allegedly slapping Daily Mirror columnist Zoe Griffin at a club in August 2008 after Griffin wrote a story that mocked then boyfriend Luke Worrall.

In March 2009, Osbourne was engaged to model Luke Worrall. In July 2010, she split from him after it was alleged he cheated on her.

Activism

On April 1, 2010, Kelly Osbourne (along with Sharon Osbourne) joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the GLBT community as part of her True Colors Fund. The campaign is to bring straight people to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered community and stop the discrimination. Other names included in the campaign are Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Mraz, Elton John, Judith Light, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Kardashian, and Clay Aiken. Anna Paquin is also part of the campaign and came out as bisexual. This news clogged the Give A Damn website.

Discography

Albums

Singles

DVDs

Kelly Osbourne: Live at the Electric Ballroom (23 March 2004)

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

2002 - Teen Choice Awards - TV - Choice Breakout Star, Female (The Osbournes) - Won

2003 - Teen Choice Awards - Favorite TV Personality - Nominated

2003 - Teen Choice Awards - Choice TV Reality/Variety Star - Female (The Osbournes) - Won

2007 - Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards - Best Takeover in a Role (Chicago at the Cambridge) - Nominated

2008 - Sony Radio Academy Awards - Rising Star Award - Nominated

2008 - LK Today High Street Fashion Awards - Best Dressed Celebrity in High Street Fashion - Won

2008 - Glamour Awards - Theatre Actress of the Year (Chicago) - Won

See also

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. dance chart

Notes

References

External links

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Hans Heyer (born March 16, 1943 in Mönchengladbach, Germany) is a racing driver from Wegberg, the site of the Grenzlandring, a former high speed race track oval. He mainly raced touring cars, being popular with the fans for his rather funny style.

at the Nürburgring in 1973.]] Very unusual for his Western German origin, Heyer's sign is his so-called Tirolerhut, a hat from Tyrol or Bavaria which would fit better to drivers from these Alpine regions, like Hans-Joachim Stuck or Niki Lauda.

Living close to the Netherlands and not yet allowed to race in Germany at the age of 16, he started his career there in 1959 with Karts and won the 1962 Dutch Championship.

For many years, Heyer was associated with Zakspeed, racing their Group 2 Ford Escorts in the European Touring Car Championship (champion 1974) and the Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (champion 1975 and 1976). Heyer attempted two European F2 races in 1976, finishing sixth at Hockenheim, but non-qualifying the race after.

In 1980 he won the DRM again, this time for Lancia in a Group 5 Lancia Monte Carlo Turbo, a car he also helped developing. He crashed his 480hp car badly at the Norisring in Nuremberg, rolling several times. He escaped unhurt, but returned immediately to the wreck to recover his famous hat. In the following medical exam, the doctor was said to have been more nervous than him.

Heyer was also successful in sportscar racing, winning the 1984 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 935.

In his single attempt at Formula One, he entered the 1977 German Grand Prix on July 31, 1977 with the second Penske car of the new German team ATS. With little experience in single seaters and a bad car, he did not qualify. This did not stop him from racing, however; as he was well known with the marshals at Hockenheim, they looked the other way when he put his car at the end of the starting grid and joined the race anyway, to the surprise of everyone. His Formula One career didn't last long, though, for after 10 laps the car's gearbox broke down, and he was disqualified from this race, as well as disqualified from starting the next. But Heyer had his 15 minutes of fame – as well as one more story to tell.

Heyer retired in 1989 after 999 races in 30 years.

In 2004, Volkswagen director Kris Nissen found out about the number and invited Hans Heyer (and his hat) to drive his 1000th race in the ADAC Volkswagen Polo Cup at the Norisring against youngsters.

His son Kenneth Heyer is also a racing driver, currently involved in the ADAC GT Masters series driving a Ford GT for the Swiss Matech team.

Complete Formula One results

(key) * Started illegally after failing to qualify.

External links

Hans Heyer Website

Website with Results

Profile on F1 Rejects

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