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name	Mowgli
first	"In the Rukh" (1893)
last	"The Spring Running" (1895)
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Mowgli () is a fictional character from India who originally appeared in Rudyard Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in ''Many Inventions'', 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his fantasies, ''The Jungle Book'' and ''The Second Jungle Book'' (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.

The Mowgli stories, including ''In the Rukh'', were first collected in chronological order in one volume as ''The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book'' (1907) (''Volume VIII'' of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in ''All the Mowgli Stories'' (1933).

Mowgli stories

''In the Rukh'' describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in India at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skill at hunting and tracking, and asks him to join the forestry service. Later Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli's almost superhuman talents: he was raised by a pack of wolves in the jungle.

Kipling then proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli's childhood in detail. Lost by his parents in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, a human baby is adopted by the wolves Mother (Raksha) and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli the Frog because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still. Shere Khan the tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves. In the pack, Mowgli learned he was able to stare down any wolf, but his unique ability to remove the painful thorns from the paws of his brothers was deeply appreciated as well.

Bagheera (the black panther) befriends Mowgli, because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences, as Bagheera often mentions, he was "raised in the King's cages at Oodeypore" from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in The Law of the Jungle.

Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger — fire. After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger. We never find out for certain if Mowgli is the returned Nathoo, although a hint that he might be is provided in the Jungle Book story "Tiger! Tiger!" where we learn that the tiger who carried off Messua's son was lame, just as Shere Khan is lame. On the other hand, while Messua would like to believe that her son has returned, she herself realises that this is unlikely.

While herding buffalo for the village Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves he traps Shere Khan in a ravine, where the buffalo trample him. The tiger dies and Mowgli sets to skin him. Seeing this, Buldeo, a jealous hunter goads the villagers into persecuting Mowgli and his adopted parents as sorcerers. Mowgli runs back to the jungle with Shere Khan's hide but soon learns that Buldeo and the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband, so he rescues them and sends elephants, buffalo and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground.

In later stories in The Second Jungle Book Mowgli finds and then discards an ancient treasure (''The King's Ankus''), not realising that men will kill to own it; and with the aid of Kaa the python he leads the wolves in a war against the dhole (''Red Dog'').

Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua), is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans (''The Spring Running'').

Play adaptations

Kipling adapted the Mowgli stories for ''The Jungle Play'' in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage and the manuscript was lost for almost a century. It was finally published in book form in 2000.

Influences upon other works

Only five years after the first publication of ''The Jungle Book'', E. Nesbit's ''The Wouldbegoods'' (1899) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book., p. 204.

Mowgli has been cited as a major influence on Edgar Rice Burroughs' character Tarzan. Mowgli was also an influence for a number of other "wild boy" characters; see Feral Children in Mythology and Fiction.

Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson used the Mowgli stories as the basis for their humorous 1957 science fiction short story "Full Pack (Hokas Wild)". This is one of a series featuring a teddy bear-like race called Hokas who enjoy human literature but cannot quite grasp the distinction between fact and fiction. In this story a group of Hokas get hold of a copy of ''The Jungle Book'' and begin to act it out, enlisting the help of a human boy to play Mowgli. The boy's mother, who is a little bemused to see teddy bears trying to act like wolves, tags along to try to keep him (and the Hokas) out of trouble. The situation is then complicated by the arrival of three alien diplomats who just happen to resemble a monkey, a tiger and a snake. This story appears in the collection ''Hokas Pokas!'' (1998) (ISBN 0-671-57858-8), and is also available online: Prologue and Story

The Jungle Book and Cub Scouting

Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting, based Cub Scouting on a story in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book called "Mowgli's Brothers". Cub Scouts know it as "The Story of Akela and Mowgli". The words "Law of the Pack," "Akela," "Wolf Cub," "Grand Howl," "den," and "pack" all come from the Jungle Book.

In American Scouting, parts of the story are found in the Wolf Cub Scout Book, the Bear Cub Scout Book, and the Cub Scout Leader Book.

The Name Mowgli

In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog". Kipling made up the name, and it "does not mean 'frog' in any language other than the language of the forest."

Kipling stated that the first syllable of "Mowgli" should rhyme with "cow" and is pronounced this way in Britain, while in America it is almost always pronounced to rhyme with "go".

Mowgli stories by other writers

''The Third Jungle Book'' (1992) by Pamela Jekel (ISBN 1-879373-22-X) is a collection of new Mowgli stories in a fairly accurate pastiche of Kipling's style.

''Hunting Mowgli'' (2001) by Maxim Antinori (ISBN 1-931319-49-9) is a very short novel which describes a fateful meeting between Mowgli and a human hunter. Although marketed as a children's book it is really a dark psychological drama, and ends with the violent death of a major character.

Movies, television and radio

Mowgli has been portrayed on film by several actors:

Sabu in Alexander Korda's ''The Jungle Book'' (1942)

Jason Scott Lee in Disney's live-action ''The Jungle Book'' (1994)

Brandon Baker in ''Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story'' (1998)

There has also been a Japanese animated TV series ''Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli'' based on the Mowgli series and a US live-action series, ''Mowgli: the New Adventures of the Jungle Book''.

The best known of all portrayals of Mowgli is the musical version in Disney's ''The Jungle Book'' (1967), where he is voiced by Bruce Reitherman, son of the film's director Wolfgang Reitherman; and ''The Jungle Book 2'' (2003) in which Mowgli is voiced by Haley Joel Osment. Disney's Mowgli sometimes appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character, but very rarely. Around the same time – from 1967 to 1971 – five Russian short animated films were made by Soyuzmultfilm, collectively known as ''Adventures of Mowgli''. Chuck Jones's 1977 animated TV short ''Mowgli's Brothers'', adapting the first story in ''The Jungle Book'', is the adaptation that sticks most closely to the original plot and dialogue.

There was also a BBC radio adaptation in 1994, starring actress Nisha K. Nayar as Mowgli, Freddie Jones as Baloo and Eartha Kitt as Kaa. This has been released on audio cassette and has been re-run a number of times on digital radio channel BBC 7's ''Little Toe Show''.

Pop singer Marina and the Diamonds released a song titled "Mowgli's Road" which featured on her album "The Family Jewels".

Comic books

(Not counting the numerous comics based on the Disney version)

''Classics Illustrated'' #83 (1951) contains an adaptation of three Mowgli stories.

*Reprinted in 1997 in a digest size edition with new coloring, accompanied by notes on the original stories, as a ''Classics Illustrated Study Guide''.

Between 1953 and 1955 Dell Comics featured adaptations of six Mowgli stories in three issues (#487 , #582 and #620 ).

Some issues of ''Marvel Fanfare'' feature adaptations of the Mowgli stories by Gil Kane. These were later collected as an omnibus volume.

P. Craig Russell's ''Jungle Book Stories'' (1997) collects three stories, actually adapted from The Second Jungle Book, which originally appeared between 1985 and 1996.

''Fables'' features an adult Mowgli, as well as other characters classified as "the Kipling Fables". Mowgli is one of the "Tourists", a group of three Fables monitoring Fables who do not live in Fabletown. He first appears in ''Fables'' #39, where he meets up with Baloo and Bagheera, and discusses old times with them. In ''Fables'' #48 & 49, Mowgli is the protagonist of a two-part story arc in which he tracks down Bigby Wolf. He also arranged the meeting of Sinbad with Prince Charming to allow Fable refugees from Baghdad to become Fabletown citizens.

See also

Works of Rudyard Kipling

Feral children in mythology and fiction

The Jungle Book characters

Mowgli Syndrome

Other meanings

'Mowgli' and similar can also mean:

MoWGLI Mathematics On the Web: Get it by Logic and Interface

Mobile Office Workstations using GSM Links

A 5-piece music band from Merseyside

A radiography integration server

A rock music band

Mowgli C. Assor: a Network Security Engineer for the Office of the CIO at the Ohio State University

Mowgli Windos: he helped to develop Poser 3

References

External links

In the Rukh: Mowgli's first appearance from Kipling's Many Inventions

The Jungle Book Collection and Wiki: a website demonstrating the variety of merchandise related to the book and film versions of The Jungle Books, now accompanied by a Wiki on the Jungle Books and related subjects

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birth name	Marina Lambrini Diamandis
birth date	October 10, 1985
birth place	Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
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Marina Lambrini Diamandis (, pronounced ; born 10 October 1985), better known by her stage name Marina and the Diamonds (sometimes stylised as Marina & the diamonds), is a Welsh singer-songwriter. She rose to fame after reaching number two on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll list, coming second to Ellie Goulding. After releasing one private EP, Diamandis released her second extended play, ''The Crown Jewels EP'', with help from Neon Gold Records, in 2009. Now signed to 679 Recordings, she released her debut full length studio album, ''The Family Jewels'', followed by her third extended play, ''The American Jewels EP'', in 2010. In 2011, Marina announce that she was working on her second album, "Electra Heart", no date has been announced. The first single from the second album is called "Radioactive" and is to release in the UK, on 3rd October 2011.

Her stage name, "Marina and the Diamonds", consists of Diamandis's first name and the translation of her surname which means "Diamonds" in Greek. Although "The Diamonds" is often mistakenly believed to refer to her backing band, it in fact refers to Diamandis's fans: she explains this on her Myspace page by saying "I'm Marina Diamandis. You are my fans."

Diamandis's musical style ranges from keyboard-based ballads to more up-tempo New Wave-style songs with full band backing. She has cited a wide-range of influences such as Daniel Johnston, Blondie, The Distillers, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Yann Tiersen, Elliott Smith, Dolly Parton and Madonna.

Background

Diamandis was born in Abergavenny, Wales to a Greek father and a Welsh mother, and brought up in the village of Pandy with her parents and her older sister. She attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, of which she said "I sort of found my talent there... I was the one who always skived off choir, but I had an incredible music teacher who managed to convince me I could do anything." When her parents separated, Diamandis moved to Greece when she was sixteen years old to live with her father but returned to Wales two years later.

Diamandis moved to London at the age of eighteen where she attended dance school for only two months. Following this, in 2005 she took a one year singing course at Tech Music Schools. Diamandis enrolled on a degree in music at the University of East London, transferring in her second year of studies to Middlesex University, but she later dropped out. She went for many auditions including the West End musical, ''The Lion King''. Diamandis admitted that she auditioned for a reggae boy band, held by Virgin Records, in 2005 to try to make it into the music business. She said she was "delusional with drive" and ultimately decided to dress up in male attire to try to amuse the record label to sign her, but she was unsuccessful. However, she was called back by the record label a week later.

Diamandis has a synaesthetic condition that involves seeing musical notes and days of the week in different colours.

Musical career

2005–2009: Early career

In 2005, Diamandis created the name "Marina and the Diamonds". When describing the origin of the name, she said:

Early demos of Marina and the Diamonds' songs were self composed and produced on the Apple software application Garageband. Through Gumtree she found someone to produce a few tracks, for which she paid £500. These ended up on her debut extended play ''Mermaid Vs. Sailor EP'' which was released on 23 November 2007. The record was created on hand-made CD-Rs by Diamandis and sold through her MySpace page. An estimated seventy copies were sold overall.

In January 2008, Diamandis was first discovered by music scouter Derek Davies of Neon Gold Records. Davies booked Diamandis to open for Australian singer Gotye later that year where Warner Music Group first saw her and ended up signing her in October 2008 to 679 Recordings. Diamandis's debut single was a double a-side consisting of "Obsessions" and "Mowgli's Road" which was issued on Neon Gold Records in the United States on 19 November 2008, followed by her second extended play ''The Crown Jewels EP'' on 1 June 2009 featuring her second single "I Am Not a Robot". Her first major label single, a re-recording of "Mowgli's Road", was released on 13 November 2009 under 679 Recordings in the UK and through Atlantic Records in the USA. On 7 December 2009 she was listed on the longlist for the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, and on 7 January 2010 it was announced that she had taken second place.

2008–2010: The Family Jewels

Marina and the Diamonds' debut album ''The Family Jewels'' was released on 22 February 2010. It peaked at number five in the UK Albums Chart and was certified silver in the United Kingdom days before its release. A re-release of "Mowgli's Road" was released as the album's lead single on 13 November 2009. However, the song "Hollywood" was released as the first major single from the album on 1 February 2010. A re-release of "I Am Not a Robot" on the 26 April 2010 became the album's third single. Diamandis said she decided to re-release the song because "people seem to empathize and relate with the song, regardless of gender or age." thumb|right|150px|Marina and the Diamonds at The Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, NJ"Oh No!" became the album's fourth single on 2 August 2010. "Shampain" became the album's fifth single on 11 October 2010. She embarked on her first headlining tour on 14 February 2010, consisting of seventy dates around the United Kingdom, Ireland, mainland Europe, the United States and Canada.

Early on in 2010, Diamandis has been collaborating with producer Benny Blanco and guitarist Dave Sitek in Los Angeles on new material which she describes to be "a really great opportunity for me as a songwriter. [We are] such a weird threesome - a combination of super pop and really indie".

In March 2010, Atlantic Records signed Marina and the Diamonds to Chop Shop Records in the United States. Before the album's American release on 25 May 2010, Diamandis released her third extended play, ''The American Jewels EP'', digitally and exclusively for the United States on 23 March 2010. Diamandis made her North American debut on 14 March 2010 through a series of performances.

Marina and the Diamonds was nominated for Critics' Choice at the 2010 BRIT Awards and came fifth in ''SHREDnews''' "Ten Artists To Watch in 2010" list in March 2010. She also won the award for Best UK & Ireland Act at the 2010 MTV EMA awards, sending her into the Best European Act category, although she failed to reach the top 5 nominees.

2011–present: Electra Heart

Marina announced at a concert in Glasgow on the 1st of November, that she would be releasing new material as early as October 2011, although has since announced via her website that she is unsure how long it will take for the album to be completed. There is still no such indication as to date of release. In a January 2011 interview, she announced that her second album will mainly be about the female sexuality and feminism. On January 19, Diamandis was announced as a support act for the US leg of Katy Perry's "California Dreams Tour". Three early demos were leaked in early 2011, called "Sex, Yeah!", "Living Dead" and "Jealousy", each showing a more pop sound. A number of these previously unreleased tracks have been performed as part of the Burger Queen Tour. "Jealousy" made its television debut at the 2011 Glammy Awards in Germany. Of the leaked tracks it is so far the only to be confirmed for the new album, yet according to Diamondis "has nothing to do with the concept of the album". She is currently recording material with producers Guy Sigsworth, Labrinth, Greg Kurstin, Diplo, Dr. Luke, Stargate and Liam Howe.

On 8th August 2011 at 4pm, Diamandis uploaded a new video to her Youtube page titled "Part 1: Fear & Loathing". In an interview with Popjustice, Marina explained the whole concept of "Electra Heart" with the album to be under the same title and "Fear & Loathing" as an album track, and to be released on iTunes on September the 25th. However this will not be an official single. The high concept video for it sees Marina slowly transforming into the character of Electra Heart, a guise Marina says "epitomises and embodies the lies, illusions and death of American ideologies involved in the corruption of self." but will however not be an alter-ego as Marina says it is too "clichéd". Asked to describe just what Electra Heart is and stands for, Marina told Popjustice: "Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a whole concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that’s the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that’s anyone’s worst fear - is losing myself and becoming a vacuous person. And that happens a lot when you’re very ambitious." The second song, 'Radioactive' produced by Stargate premiered on BBC Radio 1 on 22 August 2011. It is set to be released on iTunes on 3rd October 2011. Further developing the Electra Heart concept "Part 2: Radioactive" the official music video for the single premiered.

Aside from music, Diamandis became the new face of Max Factor. The venture was confirmed early 2011 with a number of photoshoots since taking place.

Music style and influences

Marina and the Diamonds has been influenced by a wide-range of musicians from PJ Harvey to Britney Spears. Diamandis has also noted Daniel Johnston as one of her major influences saying:

Diamandis calls herself a "DIY musician" and describes her sound as an alternative to mainstream pop music. In an interview with ''ClashMusic'' Diamandis said that she does not come from a musical background and explained “I probably have a bit of a different sound because I don’t really know what I’m doing”. Lyrically, she says her music analyzes people and that if she wasn't a musician, she would be a psychologist.

Critics usually catalogue Marina and the Diamonds as a New Wave pop artist. In an interview with ''The Guardian'' she said, "I suppose I'm an indie artist with pop goals". Although Diamandis has urged that she never tries to sound like any other artist or copy a genre of music, she has been compared to a variety of artists such as Kate Bush and most commonly Florence and the Machine. ''PopMatters'' commented on her vocal delivery and attitude saying it "has a tendency to overshadow the music, which is often melodically inventive, but we are rarely given the chance to realise this." ''The Guardian'''s Paul Lester wrote that "her songs are hard to fathom. They veer between simple keyboards-based ballads and more upbeat and catchy, quirky new wave-inflected numbers enhanced by percussion, guitar and drums."

Public image

As well as her music, Marina and the Diamonds is also notable for her unique attire. When asked in an interview to describe her fashion style in three words, Diamandis said "vintage, cheerleader and cartoon". You can see an element of this style in the video for 'Oh No!' Which was released in June 2010.She has praised model/DJ Leigh Lezark's fashion style and called Gwen Stefani her definitive style icon calling her image "cartoonized but in a very fresh way". Diamandis has mentioned that she sometimes makes her own outfits with clothes she buys from charity shops. She also collects vintage cheer jackets. She has often been seen wearing clothes by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Laura Mackness, Beyond Retro, Motel Rocks, Jervoise Jackets amongst others. Diamandis has admitted that she would "like to do something in fashion, not designing, not one of those skanky celebrity lines, but being involved behind the scenes".

As part of Selfridges' "Sound of Music", Diamandis designed her own window display for the London's Oxford Street branch in May 2010. She also appeared as a "live mannequin" for the display. Marina was featured on VOGUE.CO.UK throughout November 2010 for a popular sartorial section called Today I'm Wearing - where she blogged her daily style choices for the fashion website. On 20 December 2010, Diamandis announced on her Twitter that she would be the new face of the new make up range "Max Factor Max Colour Effects" and performed an intimate gig at London's Cuckoo Club.

Discography

;Studio albums

2010: ''The Family Jewels''

2011: ''Electra Heart''

;Extended plays

2007: ''Mermaid Vs. Sailor EP''

2009: ''The Crown Jewels EP''

2010: ''The American Jewels EP''

Touring

In 2009, Marina and the Diamonds played at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Swindon early in May 2009, Glastonbury Festival in June 2009, and the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2009.

In promotion for her album and "Hollywood", Diamandis performed at Brand New: 10 for 10 at London's Dingwalls, had an eleven minute 4Music special - ''4Play: Marina and the Diamonds'' - on Channel 4, performed at T4's Outside-In Festival, New to Q Sessions in January 2010, was a musical guest on GMTV, ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'', ''The Review Show'' in February, 2010 and ''Later... with Jools Holland'' and T4's ''Frock Me!'' in April, 2010. She performed at the Isle of Wight Festival 2010 and Glastonbury Festival 2010 in June 2010 and is planned to appear at other music festivals across the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and North America.

Diamandis had already sold out the first leg of her first headlining tour, The Family Jewels Tour (including the third leg of her tour, The Gem Tour) before the release of her debut album. Her entire tour currently consists of seventy dates across six legs around the United Kingdom, North America, Ireland and mainland Europe. Diamandis was accompanied by support acts Clock Opera and Alan Pownall for the first leg of her tour and Spark on The Gem Tour.

;Tours

The Family Jewels Tour (February 2010 — September 2010)

The Burger Queen Tour (October 2010 - onwards)

California Dreams Tour (Supporting - 22 June - 9 July)

Backing band

;Current members

Peter Carr – electronic keyboard

Dan Gulino – bass

Jonathon Shone - keyboard

Sebastian Sternberg – drums

;Past members

Ben Epstein – bass

Nick Harsant – bass

Nick Johnson – drums

Tom Holdroyd – guitar

Chris Morris – drums

Awards and nominations

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References

External links

Marina and the Diamonds on BBC Wales

Fan news site .net

Fan news site .org

Fan site documenting Marina's live career

Review of Marina and the Diamonds, Deaf Institute Manchester February 2010 Contact Music

Marina and the Diamonds on VOGUE.COM's Today I'm Wearing

Marina and the Diamonds Videography

Marina and the Diamonds Discography and Collectors Guide

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