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Ashley had her seven hour long sex reassignment procedure on 12 May 1960 All her hair fell out and she was in a lot of pain, but the operation succeeded.) and winning a small role in the film The Road to Hong Kong, which starred Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Her credit, however, was dropped from the film after she was outed as transsexual by the Sunday People in 1961.
After a heart attack in London, Ashley retired for some years to the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye. Ashley was once great friends with fellow performer Amanda Lear. According to Ashley's book The First Lady, the two women had a major falling out and haven't spoken in years.
In the eighties, April married Jeffery West, on the retired cruise ship The Queen Mary in Long Beach California; and by all accounts is still married to same.
In 2005, Ashley was finally legally recognised as a female and issued with a new birth certificate after the introduction of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. The then Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Prescott who knew Ashley from the 1950s, helped her with the procedure. and on 18 February 2009 at the South Bank Centre.
April now lives on her own in Fulham, London.
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| Name | Ashley Tisdale |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Ashley Michelle Tisdale |
| Born | July 02, 1985West Deal, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Instrument | Vocals in the week of February 12, 2006, with "What I've Been Looking For" and "Bop to the Top", both songs from the first High School Musical soundtrack. |
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| Name | Tisdale, Ashley Michelle |
| Short description | American singer, actor |
| Date of birth | July 2, 1985 |
| Place of birth | Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States |
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Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan with Ross Lee Finney, at the Manhattan School of Music, and was later a musician in the US Army. After moving back to Michigan, Ashley worked at the University of Michigan's Speech Research Laboratories. Although he was not officially a student in the acoustic research program there, he was offered the chance to obtain a doctorate, but turned it down to pursue his music. The festivals invited European and jazz composers to participate, and were a major influence on contemporary music of the time.
Kate sees the security camera footage from the bank, which contains elements of Episodes 2 through 4 of Perfect Lives. She is, in effect, watching herself. Linda, Susie, and Jennifer see visions of the three suitors of Atalanta, Willard Reynolds, Bud Powell, and Max Ernst, who have accidentally appeared in a spaceship at the moment of the bank incident. Eleanor’s vision is conceptually of the four operas that bear her name, although Linda’s vision introduces its four characters (Linda, Eleanor, Don, and Junior Jr.) as a foursome. The first section of the opera "Now Eleanor's Idea", entitled Improvement, features a retelling of these events.
Ashley, along with Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, and Joan LaBarbara, performed the complete tetralogy in 1994 in Avignon and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Recordings of the operas have been released gradually, first with Improvement in 1992, followed by el/Aficionado in 1994, Foreign Experiences in 2006, and Now Eleanor’s Idea in 2007.
Ashley has also described the Now Eleanor’s Idea tetralogy as cataloging four American varieties of religion: Judaism in Improvement, Pentecostal Evangelism in Foreign Experiences, “corporate mysticism” in el/Aficionado, and Roman Catholicism as derived from Spain in Now Eleanor’s Idea.
Ashley was intrigued by his involuntary speech, and the idea of composing music that was unconscious. Seeing that the speech that resulted from having Tourette’s could not be controlled, it was a different aspect from producing music that is deliberate and conscious, and music that is performed is considered “doubly deliberate” according to Ashley.
Ashley engineered the first version of the piece using live electronics and reactive computer circuitry. He recorded his vocal part himself, with the mic barely an inch from his mouth and the recording level just shy of feedback. He then added “subtle and eerie modulations” to the recording, modifying his voice to the point that much of what he read could not be understood.
The piece included four vocal parts that changed over the life of the piece, but in the final recording, the pieces included Ashley’s monologue, a synthesized version, a French translation of the monologue, and a part produced by a Polymoog synthesizer.
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