Operator may refer to:

Music

Operator (band), an American hard rock band

"Operator" (Motown song), a 1965 work recorded by Mary Wells and Brenda Holloway

"Operator" (That's Not the Way It Feels), a song on Jim Croce's 1972 album ''You Don't Mess Around with Jim''

"Operator" (Midnight Star song), a 1984 song by Midnight Star

"Operator" (A Girl Like Me), a 2008 song by Canadian pop/rock singer Shiloh

"Operator", a song on The Grateful Dead's 1970 album ''American Beauty''

"Operator", a song on The Manhattan Transfer's 1975 album ''The Manhattan Transfer''

"Operator", a song on Blue System's 1993 album ''Backstreet Dreams''

"Operator", a song on Real McCoy's 1995 album ''Another Night''

Computers

Operator (extension), an extension for the Firefox web browser, for reading microformats

Operator (programming), a type of computer program function

Operator YAPO, a portable implementation of the Opera web browser formerly known as OperaTor

Science and mathematics

Operator (mathematics), a function between vector spaces

Operation (mathematics), a mapping that has a special structural role in a theory

Arithmetic operation, symbols used in basic arithmetic operations

Operator (biology), a segment of DNA regulating the activity of genes

Operator (linguistics), a special category including wh- interrogatives

Operator (physics), mathematical operators in quantum physics

Fiction

Operator (Ghost in the Shell) a group of gynoids in the ''Ghost in the Shell'' series

Operator No. 5, a pulp fiction hero from the 1930s.

Operator (The Matrix), a crew position in ''The Matrix'' franchise

Other

Telephone operator, person or company offering telephone services

Operator (profession), a description of profession, as in telephone operator, computer operator, etc

Operator (military), a soldier in a special operations force

Network operator, a phone carrier

''Operator'' (sternwheeler), an early 20th century ship on the Skeena River

Operator, management of a company, including an owner-operator

See also

Operation (disambiguation)

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name	Big Daddy Kane
background	solo_singer
birth name	Antonio Monterio Hardy
alias	B.D.K., Dark Gable, King Asiatic Nobody's Equal, Blackanova, Count Macula
born	September 10, 1968Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
origin	Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
genre	Hip hop
occupation	Rapper, screenwriter, record producer, model
years active	1984–present
label	Cold Chillin' Records (1986-1993)MCA Records (1994)Mercury Records (1998)
associated acts	Juice Crew, Quincy Jones, Kool G. Rap, Easy Mo Bee, Prince Paul
website	officialbigdaddykane.com }}

Antonio Monterio Hardy (born September 10, 1968) better known by his stage name Big Daddy Kane, is an American rapper who started his career in 1986 as a member of the rap group the Juice Crew. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential and skilled MC's in Hip Hop. Regarding the name Big Daddy Kane, he said: "The Big Daddy part and the Kane part came from two different things. The Kane part came from my fascination with the martial arts flicks when I was young. The Big Daddy came from something that happened on a ski trip one time involving a young lady."

Biography

1980s

In 1984, Kane became friends with Biz Markie, and he would co-write some of Biz's best-known lyrics. Both eventually became important members of the Queens-based Juice Crew, a collective headed by renowned producer Marley Marl. Kane signed with Marl's Cold Chillin' Records label in 1987 and debuted the following year with the 12" single "Raw," an underground hit. Kane is known for his ability to syncopate over faster hip hop beats, and despite his asthmatic condition he is acknowledged as one of the pioneering masters of ''fast-rap''. His sense of style is renowned and set a number of late-1980s and early-1990s hip hop trends (high-top fades, velour suits, and four-finger rings). The backronym "King Asiatic Nobody's Equal" is often applied to his moniker.

He released his debut album under Cold Chillin' Records in the early summer of 1988 called ''Long Live the Kane'' which featured the hip hop hit, "Ain't No Half Steppin". The following year Kane released his second album and biggest hit to date ''It's a Big Daddy Thing'' which included 1970s sample throwbacks like "Smooth Operator" and the Teddy Riley produced track "I Get the Job Done" which hit the R&B; top 40 during the closing of the 1980s. He also had a memorable verse on the Marley Marl produced track "The Symphony" released in late 1988 which included Juice Crew member Craig G, Masta Ace, and Kool G Rap).

1990s

Big Daddy Kane appeared on Patti Labelle's 1991 effort, "Burnin'". He provided the rap chorus to the single "Feels Like Another One". He also appeared on the video release "Live in New York".

Widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers during the "golden age" of hip hop (1986–1993), Kane's experimentation with R&B; beats and his alignment to the Five Percent Nation drew criticism. Later albums, such as ''Looks Like a Job For…'', were acclaimed, but he was never able to return to the commercial and artistic success of ''It's a Big Daddy Thing''. However, he still tours extensively.

As an actor, he debuted in Mario Van Peebles' 1993 western, ''Posse'', and appeared in Robert Townsend's 1993 ''Meteor Man''. Big Daddy Kane also posed for ''Playgirl'' and Madonna's ''Sex'' book during the 1990s. In 1996, he collaborated with 2Pac on his song "Where Ever U R".

During the early 1990s, Jay-Z is known to have been Big Daddy Kane’s hype man, and Kane helped him early on in his career - Ice-T says, “I actually met Jay-Z with Kane. Kane brought Jay-Z over to my house”. Kane himself says that Jay-Z wasn’t technically his hypeman in the true sense of the term –“he wasn’t a hypeman, he basically made cameo appearances on stage. When I would leave the stage to go change outfits, I would bring out Jay-Z and Positive K and let them freestyle until I came back to the stage.”. Jay-Z was also featured on Big Daddy Kane’s track ‘Show & Prove’ from ''Daddy’s Home'' (1994), as well as in the video.

In 1995, Kane recorded with MC Hammer and Tupac Shakur on the rap song "Too Late Playa" (along with Danny Boy).

2000s

A rejuvenated Big Daddy Kane occasionally collaborated with a variety of hip-hop artists, including Jurassic 5, Little Brother, and DJ Babu of the Beat Junkies. He released two singles, the Alchemist-produced "The Man, The Icon", and the DJ Premier-produced "Any Type of Way" (on which he discusses urban collapse in post-9/11 New York City ("Giuliani got New York lookin' like it's Amistad") and the erosion of the middle class.)

Big Daddy Kane appeared on the trip-hop group Morcheeba's 2003 single "What's Your Name". In 2004, "Warm It Up, Kane" appeared on popular video game ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', playing on classic hip hop radio station Playback FM.

In 2005, Big Daddy Kane was honored during the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. After a medley of hits performed by T.I., Black Thought, and Common, he came out to perform "Warm It Up, Kane" with his old dancers, Scoob and Scrap. Kane and Kool G Rap can both be seen briefly in ''Dave Chappelle's Block Party'' documentary.

In 2006, he appeared as a guest MC on the track "Get Wild Off This", produced by The Stanton Warriors for their Stanton Sessions Vol. 2 breaks mix. He also appeared alongside the Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, and his longtime friends Busta Rhymes and Q-Tip in a segment of the 2006 Summer Jam concert (June 7, 2006), as part of an initiative by Busta Rhymes to honor the legacy of New York City hip hop.

In 2007, a new track, "BK Mentality", was released on the mixtape compilation ''Official Joints''. Kane also appeared on Joell Ortiz's ''The Brick: Bodega Chronicles'' mixtape.

Big Daddy Kane made a cameo in the 2008 video for "Game's Pain", a track by Compton rapper The Game. The video also featured appearances by Raekwon, Three Six Mafia and Ice Cube. The Game also referenced Jay-Z's former occupation as Kane's hypeman: "Ask a Jay-Z fan about Big Daddy Kane: Don't know him, Game gon' show 'em". He also appeared on the remix of "Don't Touch Me" by Busta Rhymes. Also in 2009 Kane played the role of Clay in the film ''Just Another Day''. The film is the tale of two rappers, one poor and young, one older and successful. The movie follows them through just another day of their lives.

As of 2010, Big Daddy Kane is working on a new album with his band Connie Price and the Keystones, and Darnell Chavis from the 90's R&B; group, Solo, called "The Last Supper". The project is said to have a classic Hip-Hop & R&B; vibe to it. No date is set for the release of the album.

Legacy

Big Daddy Kane is regarded as one of the most influential and skilled golden age rappers. MTV put him at No. 7 in their ''Greatest MCs Of All Time'' list, he is placed at No.4 in Kool Moe Dee’s book ''There's A God On The Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs'', and RZA lists him as one of his Top 5 best MCs. Allmusic says, “his best material ranks among the finest hip-hop of its era, and his sex-drenched persona was enormously influential on countless future would-be players”, and describes him as, “an enormously talented battle MC”, “one of rap's major talents”, refers to his, “near-peerless technique” ” and “first-rate technique and rhyming skills” and says he “had the sheer verbal facility and razor-clean dexterity to ambush any MC and exhilarate anyone who witnessed or heard him perform”. Kool Moe Dee describes him as “one of the most imitated emcees ever in the game” and “one of the true greatest emcees ever”, and Ice-T says:

"To me, Big Daddy Kane is still today one of the best rappers. I would put Big Daddy Kane against any rapper in a battle. Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, any of them. I could take 'Raw' right now and put it up against any record [from today]. Kane is one of the most incredible lyricists… and he will devour you on the mic. I don't want to try to out-rap Big Daddy Kane. Big Daddy Kane can rap circles around cats".

His first two albums are also considered Hip Hop classics and Rolling Stone says, “he has received consistent critical kudos”. In the book, ''Rap-Up: The Ultimate Guide To Hip-Hop And R&B;'', Cameron and Devin Lazerine say Big Daddy Kane is “widely seen as one of the best lyricists of his time and even today regularly gets name-checked by younger dudes”, and music journalist Peter Shapiro says Kane is “perhaps the most complete MC ever”. Eminem references Big Daddy Kane in the lyrics to his song ‘Yellow Brick Road’ from his Encore album, saying, “we (Eminem and Proof) was on the same shit, that Big Daddy Kane shit, where compound syllables sound combined” and he quotes the same lines in his book, ''The Way I Am'' – this illustrates how Big Daddy Kane had an influence on both Eminem’s and Proof’s rhyme technique.

Discography

''Long Live the Kane'' (1988)

''It's a Big Daddy Thing'' (1989)

''Taste of Chocolate'' (1990)

''Prince of Darkness'' (1991)

''Looks Like a Job For...'' (1993)

''Daddy's Home'' (1994)

''Veteranz' Day'' (1998)

References

External links

Official website

Big Daddy Kane bio The 411 on Big Daddy Kane

The Unkut Interview

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name	Barbara Morgenstern
background	solo_singer
born	1971
origin	Berlin, Germany
instrument	Vocals, piano, guitar
genre	Electronicsynthpop
occupation	Vocalist, remixer, producer
years active	1999—
label	Monika Enterprise
website	http://www.barbaramorgenstern.de
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Barbara Morgenstern (born March 19, 1971) is a German electronic music artist.

Biography

Born in Hagen, Germany, Morgenstern describes herself as self-taught, although she had piano lessons as a child and jazz lessons at the school of music in Hagen, in addition to having played in a band, she decided on a career in music in 1991 after completing her schooling at the Ernst Meister Gymnasium in Hagen-Haspe.

From 1992 until 1994 Barbara Morgenstern lived in Hamburg, working on her own music as well as singing in an a cappella group. She took part in a six-week popular music course at the Hamburg Hochschule. In 1994 she moved to Berlin, where she initially played keyboards in a band, and from 1996 onward she concentrated on her own music.

In early 1997 Morgenstern released the cassette ''Enter The Party'' through Hausfrau Im Schacht, a mail order label set up by former bandmate Florian Dietz (a.k.a. Jo Tabu). Later that same year she released the EP ''Plastikreport'', which she produced in tandem with Michael Mühlhaus, later to join Blumfeld. In the winter of 1998, she toured Germany with backing from Christian Obermaier and the aforementioned Mühlhaus on bass guitar, and in September of that year, she toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with other Berlin-based musicians including Quarks, Jo Tabu and Fuschimuschi. The following month saw the release of her first full-length album ''Vermona ET 6-1'' on the Monika Enterprise label. 1999 saw the release of a remix EP, ''Fan No.1''.

On her 2000 album ''Fjorden'', Morgenstern worked with Stefan Betke (Pole) and Robert Lippok of To Rococo Rot. The 2001 release of the EP ''Eine Verabredung'' was accompanied by gigs in Glasgow and London. Another EP followed in 2002, ''Seasons'', a collaboration with Robert Lippok, which was released in a limited run of 500 copies through Domino Records. Morgenstern later worked with Robert Lippok on a full-length album, 2005's ''Tesri''. Stefan Betke and Thomas Fehlmann assisted with the recording of ''Nichts Muss'', released in 2003.

Another noted collaboration came in 2002, when she remixed DNTEL's "This is the Dream of Evan and Chan" which featured Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie on the single released for the track.

In 2004, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, Morgenstern undertook a 34-date world tour together with Maximilian Hecker. Bill Wells' 2004 mini-album ''Pick Up Sticks'' featured contributions from Morgenstern on two tracks. She also joined Paul Wirkus and To Rococo Rot's Stefan Schneider in September Collective, a project which had its origins in encores that they joined together to play at their own individual concerts while on tour in Poland. September Collective's eponymous debut album was released on the Geographic label, an offshoot of Domino Records run by the Pastels' Stephen Pastel. Morgenstern's next solo album was ''The Grass Is Always Greener'' (2006).

Discography

Albums

''Vermona ET 6-1'' (1998)

''Fjorden'' (2000)

''Nichts Muss'' (2003)

''Tesri'' (with Robert Lippok, 2005)

''The Grass Is Always Greener'' (2006)

''BM'' (2008)

''Fan No.2'' (2010)

EPs

''Enter The Partyzone'' (cassette release, 1997)

''Plastikreport'' (1997)

''Fan No.1'' (1999)

''Eine Verabredung'' (10" vinyl, 2001)

''Seasons'' (with Robert Lippok, 2002)

''Himmelmixe'' (2003)

''Come To Berlin mixes'' (2008)

References

External links

Official website

MySpace page

Autobiography from the Monika Enterprise website

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