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Terri is an alternative spelling of Terry. It is a common feminine given name and is also a diminutive for Teresa.

People with the name Terri include:

• Terri Allard, an American country/folk singer/songwriter
• Terri Blackstock, a Christian fiction writer
• Terri Brosius, an American musician and voice actor
• Terri Lyne Carrington, a jazz drummer, composer, and record producer
• Terri Clark, a Canadian country music artist
• Terri Colombino, an American actress
• Terri Lynn Doss, an American model and actress
• Terri Dwyer, an English actress
• Terri-Rae Elmer, a radio news announcer
• Terri Farley, an American writer
• Terri Fields, an American book writer and teacher
• Terri Garber, an American actress
• Terri Gibbs, a Grammy Award-nominated American country music artist
• Terri Hardin, a Muppet puppeter, actress and stand-up comedienne
• Terri Hawkes, a Canadian actress
• Terri Hendrix, contemporary folk singer-songwriter from Texas
• Terri Irwin, an Australian, American-born naturalist, author, and owner of Australia Zoo at Beerwah, Queensland, Australia
• Terri Ivens, an American actress
• Terri Jentz, an American writer
• Terri Kimball, an American model and Playmate of the Month
• Texas Terri (formerly Terri Laird), a punk rock singer and songwriter from Texas
• Terri Lynn Land, a Michigan Secretary of State
• Terri McCormick, a Wisconsin State Representative
• Terri Minsky, an American television writer and producer
• Terri Nunn, an American singer and actress
• Terri O'Connell, a former motorsports racing champion
• Terri Poch, an American bodybuilder and former professional wrestler
• Terri Psiakis, an Australian comedienne and a presenter on radio and television
• Terri Rogers, a transsexual English ventriloquist and magician
• Terri Runnels, a former World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation professional wrestling manager, television host and occasional wrestler
• Terri Schiavo, diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) for several years
• Terri Seymour, a British television presenter
• Terri Treas, an American actress, writer and director
• Terri Utley, a beauty queen and motivational speaker
• Terri J. Vaughn, an American film and television actress
• Terri Walker, an English R&B and soul singer-songwriter
• Terri Sue Webb, an activist
• Terri Welles, an American actress and adult model
• Terri Windling, an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults

Fictional characters[link]

• Terri Alden, Three's Company
• Terri Johnstone, River City
• Terri McGreggor, Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Terri Schuester, Glee
• Terri Stivers, Homicide: Life on the Street
• Terri Webber, General Hospital
• Sherri and Terri, The Simpsons

People with the last name Terri[link]

• Jan Terri, a former musician from Chicago
• Salli Terri, a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter

See also[link]

• Teri (given name)

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Janice Spagnolia,^[2] known most commonly by her stage name Jan Terri, is a musician from Chicago, Illinois. She recorded two albums, Baby Blues^[3] in 1993 and High Risk^[4]. Terri graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 1983 with a degree in broadcast communications and arts and entertainment management.

Rock musician Marilyn Manson had Terri perform at one of his parties, and Terri had opened for some of his concerts. Some footage of her can be viewed in Manson's God is in the TV collection.^[5] In 2000, Terri appeared on The Daily Show.

Terri took a hiatus from recording in 2000 to care for her mother. In December of 2011 Terri released her first single in over a decade, with an accompanying video titled "Excuse My Christmas". The single appears on the forthcoming album "Wild One".^[6]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Daily Show Appearance
• Jammed Online's article about Jan Terri
• Chicago Reader Blogs
• Losin' You (music video)

Demetri Martin
Demetri Martin at Northeastern University on April 11, 2007
Born	(1973-05-25) May 25, 1973 (age 39) New York City, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Years active	Since 2002
Genres	Observational comedy, surreal humor, musical comedy, wit/wordplay, sketch comedy
Subject(s)	Everyday Life, American Culture, Random Subjects
Influences	Steven Wright, Eddie Izzard, Emo Philips, Mitch Hedberg, Socrates
Notable works and roles	· Demetri Martin. Person.  · Correspondent on The Daily Show  · Himself/Various on Important Things with Demetri Martin  · Elliot Tiber in Taking Woodstock (2009)
Website	www.demetrimartin.com

Demetri Martin (born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin.

Early life[link]

Demetri Martin was born to a Greek American family^[1] in New York City, New York, and grew up in Toms River, New Jersey. He is the son of Lillian, a nutritionist, and Dean C. Martin, now deceased, a Greek Orthodox priest.^[2] Martin graduated from Yale University in 1995. Although he was accepted into Harvard Law School, he went to New York University School of Law after he received a full scholarship.^[3]

Career[link]

In 2001, Martin caught his first big break in stand-up comedy when he appeared on Comedy Central's stand-up showcase Premium Blend. At the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe he won the Perrier award with his show If I....^[4] The show was turned into a British television special in 2004. From 2003 to 2004, Martin wrote for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.^[5] In 2004, Martin had his own Comedy Central Presents stand-up special. His special was divided into three parts. In the first, he performed in traditional stand-up comedy fashion. In the second segment, he used humorous drawings as visual aids, which would serve either as the punchline or a background. During the third segment, he played a guitar and put on a pseudo-play where he would strum his guitar while alternating between playing harmonica and talking; some of his comedian friends dressed as fairies and dragons acted according to the story he was telling, detailing the magical land where his jokes came from. Martin's mother and grandmother also appeared.

Since late 2005, he has been credited as a contributor on The Daily Show, on which he has appeared as the named "Senior Youth Correspondent" and on which he hosts a segment called "Trendspotting". He has used this segment to talk about so-called hip trends among youth such as hookahs, wine, guerilla marketing and Xbox 360. A piece about social networking featured his profile on MySpace.^[6] On March 22, 2007, Demetri made another appearance on The Daily Show, talking about the Viacom lawsuit against Google and YouTube.

He has recorded a comedy CD/DVD titled These Are Jokes, which was released on September 26, 2006. This album also features Saturday Night Live member Will Forte and stand-up comedian Leo Allen.

Martin returned to The Daily Show on March 22, 2006, as the new Youth Correspondent, calling his segment "Professional Important News with Demetri Martin". In 2007, he starred in a Fountains of Wayne music video for "Someone to Love" as Seth Shapiro, a character in the song. He also starred in the video for the Travis single "Selfish Jean", in which he wears multiple t-shirts with lyrics written on them.

On September 2, 2007, Martin appeared on the season finale of the HBO series Flight of the Conchords. He appeared as a keytar player named Demetri.^[7]

He also had a part in the movie The Rocker (2008) starring Rainn Wilson. Martin played the part of the videographer when the band in the movie was making their first music video.

In 2009, he hosted and starred in his own television show called Important Things With Demetri Martin on Comedy Central. Later in June, it was announced his show had been renewed for a second season.^[8] The second season premiered, again on Comedy Central, on February 4, 2010. Martin has stated that Important Things will not return for a third season.

Prior to completing work on his second season, Martin starred in the comedy-drama film Taking Woodstock (2009), directed by Ang Lee, which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In the film Martin plays Elliot Tiber, a closeted gay artist who has given up his ambitions in the city to move upstate and help his old-world Jewish family run their Catskill Mountains motel. The film is based on the book written by Tiber.

On April 25, 2011, Martin released his first book, titled This Is a Book by Demetri Martin.

Martin was slated to portray Paul DePodesta as Oakland Athletics assistant GM to Billy Beane in the 2011 movie Moneyball, however was dropped and Jonah Hill took his place in the movie.

Plans[link]

Martin sold his movie concept Will to DreamWorks; he is expected to play a key supporting role.^[9] He will play the lead in the film Moon People, a pitch that he sold to Columbia Pictures.

Martin also signed a blind script deal with CBS in October 2010 to produce, write, and star in his own television series.^[10]

After CBS was shown the pilot for the series, they decided not to air it.^[11]

On August 11, 2011, Fox ordered a presentation of a new animated show they might air.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] If I

If I is a Perrier Comedy Award-winning comedy one-man show written and performed by Demetri Martin at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[12] It was also aired on British television as a special. The show is an autobiographical examination of Martin's life, as seen through various definitions of the word "if."

The title of the special comes from a lengthy palindromic poem that Martin wrote; the words "if I" are at the center of the poem.^[13]

Comedic style[link]

Martin is known for being an unconventional stand-up comic. He uses one-liners and drawings on a "large pad", as well as accompanying his jokes with music on either guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboard, glockenspiel, toy bells, ukulele, or tambourine, sometimes all at once.^[14] He has cited comedian Steven Wright as an important influence (both use deadpan one-liners in their acts) and he is also a fan of Bill Cosby.^[15]

Personal life[link]

According to a July 2011 interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Demetri had a short-lived marriage to a girl he knew from high school. They began dating after high school and got married when he was in NYU Law School and she was attending NYU Medical School. He was aged 25 and in the end of his marriage when his stand-up career began.^[3]

He is extremely allergic to nuts and peanuts.^[16]

Martin moved to Santa Monica, California in 2009.^[17]

Filmography[link]

• Invite Them Up (2005)
• These Are Jokes (2006)
• Demetri Martin. Person. (2007)
• Important Things with Demetri Martin (2009–2010)

Filmography and television work[link]

Written works[link]

• This Is a Book, April 2011, ISBN 978-0446539708.

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Official website
• Demetri Martin on Myspace
• Demetri Martin at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview from November, 2006, in Onion AV Club
• Interview from October 2006, in The DePaulia
• Article, in The Scotsman
• Article, in Gelf Magazine
• Interview by Brian M. Palmer
• MP3 Audio Interview on The Sound of Young America public radio show and podcast
• Interview Believer Mag
• New Jersey Monthly Magazine
• Fresh Air, NPR.org

Teresa Fay "Terri" Gibbs (born June 15, 1954) is an American country music artist who was born blind. Between 1980 and 1990, she recorded seven studio albums, including four for MCA Records and one for Warner Bros. Records. She also charted thirteen singles on the Billboard country singles charts in that timespan, including her debut single "Somebody's Knockin'", which reached #8 on the country charts, #13 on the pop charts and #3 on the Adult Contemporary charts. She also entered the country top 20 with "Rich Man", "Mis'ry River", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Anybody Else's Heart but Mine."

Biography[link]

Teresa Fay Gibbs was born in Miami, Florida but raised in the Augusta, Georgia suburb of Grovetown.^[1] Born blind, she learned to play piano at age three.^[1] As a child, she sang in the church choir and at talent contests, and at age seventeen, she opened for Bill Anderson.^[2] Eventually, she met Chet Atkins, who advised her to move to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a country music career, which she did at age eighteen.^[1] After failing to find a record deal, she returned to Miami and joined a band called Sound Dimension.^[1] She continued to perform locally, later forming a band called the Terri Gibbs Trio, which performed at a Steak & Ale in Augusta, Georgia.^[2] Gibbs then sent a demo tape to record producer Ed Penney of MCA Records, signing to the label in 1980.^[1]

Musical career[link]

Gibbs' first single release was "Somebody's Knockin'", which was also the title of her debut album. This song was a crossover hit upon its 1981 release, reaching #8 on the U.S. country charts, #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the Adult Contemporary charts.^[3] It was followed by "Rich Man", a #19 country hit which also entered the pop charts.^[3] Her debut album won her the Academy of Country Music's Top Female Vocalist award.^[1] She was also the first winner of the Country Music Association's Horizon Award (which is awarded to emerging artists),^[4] and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Song for "Somebody's Knockin'."^[2] Gibbs performed on the Grand Ole Opry as well.^[2]

MCA released her second album, I'm a Lady, later in 1981. This album was less successful,^[1] although it produced a #12 hit in "Mis'ry River,"^[3] its second and final single. 1982's Some Days It Rains All Night Long produced a Top 20 hit in "Ashes to Ashes" and a #45 in its title track.^[5] Also in 1981 and 1982, Gibbs toured with George Jones and sang duets with him onstage.^[1] Her final MCA album, Over Easy, also produced a minor hit in "Anybody Else's Heart but Mine", and after releasing a compilation called The Best of Terri Gibbs, she left the label.^[6]

Gibbs switched to Warner Bros. Records for her fifth album, 1985's Old Friends.^[7] All three of this album's singles — "A Few Good Men" (which featured Kathy Mattea on backing vocals^[5]) "Rockin' in a Brand New Cradle" and "Someone Must Be Missing You Tonight" — missed the country Top 40.^[5]

Gibbs later shifted her focus to Contemporary Christian music, recording Turn Around and Comfort the People in 1987 and 1988, respectively, on Canaan Records.^[6] The former gave Gibbs her second Grammy nomination.^[6] What a Great Day, her third Christian album, followed in 1990 on the Morning Gate label.^[6] Gibbs then retired from the music industry.^[1]

Personal life[link]

Gibbs married Grovetown, Georgia city councilman David Daughtry on April 28, 1988, and remained married to him until his death in February 2008.^[6][8] They had one son, David Wayne Daughtry II, born October 20, 1989.^[8]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Terri Lyne Carrington
Background information
Born	(1965-08-04) August 4, 1965 (age 46)
Origin	Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, R&B
Occupations	Drummer, singer, songwriter, record producer
Years active	1983–present
Labels	Concord Jazz, E1 Entertainment, Video Arts Music, Verve Forecast, ACT, GrooveJazz Media
Website	http://www.terrilynecarrington.com/

Terri Lyne Carrington (born 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a Grammy-Award winning jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more. For example, she has toured with each of Hancock's musical configurations (from electric to acoustic) between 1997 and 2007.

In 2007 she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music, where she received an honorary doctorate in 2003.

Carrington also serves as Artistic Director of the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival.

Childhood[link]

At 7, Carrington was given a set of drums which had belonged to her grandfather, Matt Carrington, who had played with Fats Waller and Chuck Berry. After studying privately for three years, she played her first major performance at the Wichita Jazz Festival with Clark Terry. At age 11 she received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music. At 12 years old she was profiled on the PBS kids' biography program Rebop.

At Berklee College of Music she played with leading musicians such as Kevin Eubanks, Donald Harrison, Greg Osby and others. She also studied under master drum instructor Alan Dawson and made a private recording entitled, TLC and Friends, with Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, George Coleman and her father, Sonny Carrington, before turning 17.

Throughout high school she traveled across the country doing clinics at various schools and colleges.

Professional career[link]

In 1983, encouraged by her mentor, Jack DeJohnette, Carrington moved to New York, where she worked with Stan Getz, James Moody, Lester Bowie, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, David Sanborn, and others.

In the late 1980s she relocated to Los Angeles, where she gained recognition on late night TV as the house drummer for "The Arsenio Hall Show", then again in the late 1990s as the drummer on the late night TV show "VIBE", hosted by Sinbad. In 1996 she collaborated with Peabo Bryson on "Always Reach For Your Dreams," a song commissioned for the 1996 Olympic Games.

Terri Lyne Carrington and Herbie Hancock

Bandleader[link]

Notably, in recent years, she has included Esperanza Spalding, Geri Allen, Helen Sung, James Genus, Bob Hurst, Patrice Rushen, Tineke Postma, Ingrid Jensen, Nona Hendryx, Chihiro, Everette Harp, Greg Phillinganes, Lori Perry, Robert Irving III, Dwight Sills, Lawrence Fields, Randy Runyon, Gary Thomas, Aruan Ortiz, and Munyungo Jackson in her band configurations. In Summer 2011, she appeared with Wayne Shorter (with John Pattituci and Danilo Perez) in South America, and is the Musical Director of the international "Sing The Truth" Tour ... featuring Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright and Angelique Kidjo (with Romero Lubambo, Geri Allen, James Genus and Munyungo Jackson).^{[citation needed]}

Recording artist[link]

As a recording artist, in 1988 Carrington started concentrating her efforts on writing and producing her own works ... resulting in Real Life Story, her 1989 Grammy-nominated debut CD featuring Carlos Santana, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington, Jr., Gerald Albright, John Scofield, Hiram Bullock, Patrice Rushen, Greg Osby, and Dianne Reeves, Jazz is a Spirit, her 2002 European CD featuring Herbie Hancock, Wallace Roney, Terence Blanchard, Kevin Eubanks and Gary Thomas, and Structure, her 2004 European CD with Jimmy Haslip, Greg Osby and Adam Rogers. Also, after a 20 year hiatus from U.S. recording, Carrington released the 2009 CD More to Say ... Real Life Story: NextGen, a sequel to her 1989 debut "Real Life Story" CD. The album features Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, George Duke, Kirk Whalum, Everette Harp, Christian McBride, Jimmy Haslip, Greg Phillinganes, Robert Irving III, Patrice Rushen, Chuck Loeb, Walter Beasley, Anthony Wilson, Lawrence Fields, Ray Fuller, Dwight Sills, Lori Perry and Chris Walker, with a special appearance by Sonny Carrington.^[1] Most of the 15 tracks on the CD are written or co-written by Carrington. In 2011 The Mosaic Project, her fifth album overall and her first on Concord Jazz, which featured a number of singers, was released in 2011. It won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.^[2]

Entrepreneur[link]

As an entrepreneur, Carrington is a partner in Hebert-Carrington Media (HCM). Founded in 2007 and based in Atlanta, Boston, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, HCM's^[3] origins can be traced to the long-term relationships with company co-founder Robert A. Hebert, Esq., high-tech entrepreneurs Frank White, Jr. and Dr. Bernard Yaged, and top media and communications advisor Don Lucoff of DL Media. HCM has relationships with Concord Music, E1 Entertainment, Pony Canyon (Japan), Video Arts Music (Japan), Herbie Hancock, Toninho Horta, Oscar Castro-Neves, Arthur Maia, Romero Lubambo, Robert Irving III, Mitchel Forman, Helen Sung, Darryl Jones, and Vince Wilburn/Miles Davis Properties.

Partial discography[link]

• Real Life Story (1989)
• Jazz is a Spirit (2002)
• Structure (2004)
• More to Say (2009)
• The Mosaic Project (2011)

As drummer

• Herbie Hancock : Gershwin's World
• Rufus Reid : Seven Minds
• Mulgrew Miller : Work, Chapters 1 & 2: Keys to the City
• Michele Rosewoman : Quintessense
• Dianne Reeves : I Remember, Art & Survival, Quiet After The Storm, That Day
• Niels Lans Doky : Daybreak
• Doky Brothers : Doky Brothers, Vol 1 & 2
• John Scofield : Flat Out, Liquid Fire
• Cassandra Wilson : Blue Skies
• Rachel Z : Room Of One's Own
• Wayne Shorter : Joy Ryder, High Life
• Patrice Rushen : Anything But Ordinary
• John Patitucci : Sketchbook
• Eric Marienthal : Crossroads
• John Beasley : Change of Heart
• Nino Tempo : Live At Cicada
• Michael Wolff : 2 AM
• James Moody : Moody's Birthday Celebration, Live At The Blue Note, Moody Plays Mancini
• Esperanza Spalding : Radio Music Society

References[link]

External links[link]

• Terri Lyne Carrington website