Look up real in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Real may also refer to:

• Reality, the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be.

Finance[link]

• Inflation adjusted amounts

Currencies:

• Brazilian real

Former currencies:

• Central American Republic real
• Mexican real
• Portuguese real
• Spanish real

See also:

• Riyal and rial, various currencies in the Arab world (names derived from the Spanish real)
• Cambodian riel, currency of Cambodia (also derived from the Spanish real)

Geography[link]

• Real, Quezon, a municipality in the Philippines
• Several parishes in Portugal
  • Real (Braga) parish, located in Braga
• Réal, a commune in southern France
• Real (Ribera alta), a municipality in the Valencian Community
• Real (Ponce), a barrio in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Media and entertainment[link]

• Real (L'Arc-en-Ciel album)
• Real (Michael Sweet album)
• Real (Ednita Nazario album)
• Real (Israel & New Breed album)
• Real (Ivy Queen album)
• Real (IU album)
• "Real" (James Wesley song)
• "Real" (Goo Goo Dolls song)
• "Real" (Plumb song)
• Real (manga)
• RealNetworks, an Internet media provider
• Real, a member of the band F.I.R.
• "Real" (television moniker of reality star Ahmad Givens)
• "Real," a song by James Wesley

Wesley Maynor

Sports[link]

Real (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal]), translated from Spanish as "royal", is a title historically used by sports clubs to designate a royal status.

• Real Madrid C.F., a Spanish multi-sports club whose football section is most commonly associated with the title
  • Real Madrid Castilla, first reserve team
  • Real Madrid C, second reserve team
  • Real Madrid Baloncesto, the club's basketball section

Other football (soccer) teams:

• Bolivia
  • Municipal Real Mamoré

• Brazil
  • Associação Esportiva Real
  • Real Noroeste Capixaba Futebol Clube

• Honduras
  • Real España
    • Real España Las Vegas, reserve team
  • Real Maya
  • Real Sociedad

• Mexico
  • Real Club España
  • Real Sociedad de Zacatecas

• Nicaragua
  • Real Estelí
  • Real Madriz

• Spain
  • Real Aranjuez CF
  • Real Ávila CF
  • Real Avilés Industrial
  • Real Betis
    • Real Betis B, reserve team
  • Real Burgos CF
  • Real Club Celta de Vigo
  • Real Club Recreativo de Huelva
    • Real Club Recreativo de Huelva B, reserve team
  • Real Jaén
  • Real Murcia
  • Real Oviedo
    • Real Oviedo Vetusta, reserve team
  • Real Racing Club de Santander (Racing de Santander)
    • Real Racing Club de Santander B (Racing de Santander B), reserve team
  • Real Sociedad
    • Real Sociedad B, reserve team
  • Real Sporting de Gijón
  • Real Unión
  • Real Valladolid
    • Real Valladolid B, reserve team
  • Real Zaragoza
    • Real Zaragoza B, reserve team
  • Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña
  • Real Club Deportivo Mallorca
  • Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol
    • Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol B, reserve team

• United States
  • Real Atlantico, a Puerto Rican club
  • Real Colorado Cougars, a women's soccer (football) club based in Colorado
  • Real Colorado Foxes, a soccer (football) club based in Colorado
  • Real Maryland, a soccer (football) club based in Maryland
  • Real Salt Lake, a soccer (football) club based in Utah
  • Real San Jose, a soccer (football) club based in California
  • Real Shore FC, a soccer (football) club based in New Jersey

Other meanings[link]

• Real (galley), the flagship of Don Juan de Austria
• Real (hypermarket)
• The Real, an aspect of human psychic structure
• REAL ID Act, a piece of legislation of the United States Congress
• the "Revised European-American Lymphoma classification" (REAL), an international classification of lymphomas
• Real number, a concept in mathematics
• REAL, Réseau Express de l'Aire urbaine Lyonnaise is the name of the railroads in Lyon's agglomeration.
• REAL Crisps A brand of potato crisp manufactured in Newport, Wales.
• Real, a motorcycle constructed by Manfred Herweh.

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Lynda Cheryl Smith (born March 11, 1957), known better by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a female African-American disco, R&B and soul singer known best for her 1978 disco song, "Got to Be Real".

Biography[link]

Early career[link]

Lynn's singing career began when she was a young girl with her church choir. However, her professional singing career started during 1976 when she obtained a job as a backing vocalist for the national touring company of the musical drama The Wiz. Eventually she would obtain the role of Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West, during the six month national tour.

Prior to her appearance on The Wiz, Cheryl taped an episode of the Gong Show during the early part of 1976. She won the competition while singing Joe Cocker's "You Are So Beautiful". After the episode was broadcast, during the autumn of 1976, record industry executives were calling to contract her.

Success and later career[link]

After her performance on The Gong Show, Ahmed Ertegun of Atlantic Records company couldn't come to an initial meeting with Lynn, with the result that she was contracted with Columbia Records company. Lynn released her first and best-known song, "Got to Be Real," which was composed by keyboardist David Paich (of the band Toto), David Foster and Lynn. The song scored #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart and #1 on the Rhythm & Blues chart. The success of the single album prompted a full scale debut album. Named Cheryl Lynn, it was produced by Paich. The album sold more than a million copies and scored #5 on Billboard magazine's R&B albums chart and #23 on Billboard's top 200 album charts. The next single album, "Star Love"', also became a success.

During this time, members of the rock music group Toto were producing their debut album. During the production Lynn was asked to provided the female backing vocal for the single album, "Georgy Porgy,". The single scored #48 on Billboard's popular music charts. Although Toto would go on to chart more than a dozen popular music successes throughout the years, it was Lynn's vocal for "Georgy Porgy" that aided the group in charting their only R&B (#18) and Dance (#80) on the Billboard charts.

During 1981, Ray Parker, Jr. produced "Shake It Up Tonight", a major dance & R&B success from Lynn's third album, In the Night. The next year, Luther Vandross was asked to produced Lynn's fourth album, Instant Love. The 2nd single from the album, "If This World Were Mine" - a 1982 duet with Luther Vandross that cover-versioned a Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell song, has become a classic. For her fifth album, Preppie, Lynn produced most of the tracks with the exception of the single "Encore" (#1 R&B ) - which was written and produced by the Minneapolis funk music duo, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. It became Lynn's second #1 single . During 1989, Lynn released the top 10 single, "Every Time I Try To Say Goodbye", from her eighth album, Whatever It Takes.

The 1990s[link]

Lynn began the 1990s without a record contract. She did mostly session work for Richard Marx albums, Rush Street and Paid Vacation as well as Luther Vandross' Your Secret Love album. But during 1995, after a six year hiatus from recording her own material, Lynn teamed with producer/songwriter Teddy Riley, (formerly of the New Jack Swing music group Guy), to record her Ninth album, Good Time. It was released in Japan, the United Kingdom and later in the United States as an imported CD and featured the nightclub favorite single album "Guarantee For My Heart". During 1996, Sony Records/Legacy released Got to Be Real – The Best Of Cheryl Lynn, which included Lynn's most successful recordings from her years with Columbia Records. This was followed soon by another compilation CD named, The Real Thing, which featured other recordings from Lynn's first six albums. Two years later she performed on HBO's Sinbad's Summer Soul Jam 4 (1998), hosted by comedian Sinbad.

2000 to present[link]

During the new millennium Lynn toured Japan and did an occasional gig in the U.S., performing at charity events in her hometown of Los Angeles. During 2000 she worked with hip-hop musician J Supreme on his single "Your Love (Encore)", which was an update of her #1 1984 song "Encore." She performed on ABC's The Disco Ball...A 30-Year Celebration, which was broadcast during January 2003. During 2004 she recorded the song "Sweet Kind of Life," which was also written and produced by Jam & Lewis, for the animated film and soundtrack to Shark Tale.

On September 19, 2005, Lynn's song "Got to Be Real" was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame. On May 23, 2006 Collectables Record Label re-released her 1981 album In The Night and 1982's Instant Love, in twin CD package form. It was the first time ever that either album was released as a CD in the U.S.

Lynn is considered an influence on some of today's R&B female singers, including Mary J. Blige, who, along with Will Smith, covered Lynn's song ("Got to Be Real"), also for the soundtrack of the animated movie Shark Tale.^{[citation needed]} Japanese popular music singer Kumi Koda cover-versioned the song for her July 2010 single album "Gossip Candy" as well.

On 11 April 2010, "Got to Be Real" charted for the first time in the UK, peaking at number 70.^[1][2]

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 1978: Cheryl Lynn (Columbia) - US Pop #23, US R&B #5
• 1979: In Love (Columbia) - US Pop #167, US R&B #47
• 1981: In the Night (Columbia) - US Pop #104, US R&B #14
• 1982: Instant Love (Columbia) - US Pop #133, US R&B #7
• 1983: Preppie (Columbia) - US Pop #161, US R&B #8
• 1985: It's Gonna Be Right (Columbia) - US Pop #202, US R&B #56
• 1987: Start Over (Manhattan) - US R&B #55
• 1989: Whatever It Takes (Virgin) - US R&B #42
• 1995: Good Time (Avex Trax)

Compilation[link]

• 1996: Got to Be Real: The Best of Cheryl Lynn (Columbia)
• 1996: The Real Thing (Sony)
• 1996: Got to Be (Remix) (Avex Trax)

Singles[link]

As featured performer[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Cheryl Lynn at Soul Legends
• Cheryl Lynn at MySpace
• Cheryl Lynn at the Internet Movie Database

B-Real
B-Real at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival.
Background information
Birth name	Louis Freese
Also known as	B-Real
Born	(1970-06-02) June 2, 1970 (age 42)[1]
Origin	South Gate, California
Genres	Hip hop
Instruments	Rapping
Years active	1988–present.[2]
Labels	Columbia Ruffhouse Duckdown Records Goliath
Associated acts	Cypress Hill, Soul Assassins, Psycho Realm, Kush, Everlast, La Coka Nostra, Young De, Slash, Adil Omar, Fergie, House of Pain, Tom Morello, Fear Factory, Deftones, Fredwreck, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Xzibit, Ice Cube

Louis Freese, (born June 2, 1970) better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor.^[3] He is best known for being the lead rapper in hip hop group Cypress Hill.

Early life and career[link]

Born to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother, B-Real moved with his sister and mother out of his father's home to South Gate before ending up in South Central Los Angeles.^[3] Before dropping out of Bell High School, he befriended future Cypress Hill members Sen Dog and Mellow Man Ace (who forwent staying with the group to go solo).^[3] Sen Dog, who was affiliated with a Bloods gang set known as "Neighborhood Family", later introduced B-Real into the set.^[3] B-Real's career as a drug dealer and gangbanger ended after he was shot in the lung in 1988.^[2]

After being introduced to DJ Muggs by Julio G the KDAY Mixmaster, B-Real and Sen gained interest in Muggs' concept of an album based on experiences from Cypress Ave in South Gate.^[3] The group was signed with Ruffhouse/Columbia records in 1991, and made their influential debut that year. B-Real would use his life-threatening experiences as material for the group's self-titled debut album, and subsequent releases.

Cypress Hill's trademark sound - an eccentric combination of B-Real's exaggeratedly high-pitched nasal vocals and DJ Muggs' distinctive beats - led to the trio becoming the first Latin rap group to have Platinum and Multi-Platinum albums.^[3] They remain the best selling Latin rap group to date.^[4] Speaking in March 2010 to noted UK urban writer Pete Lewis - Deputy Editor of the award-winning Blues & Soul - B-Real stated: "Fortunately I guess the fact we were able to achieve what we achieved, being Latino but without really exploiting that side of it, showed like a whole generation behind us how you could have that success without being labelled as just one THING. Because back in the day, when you were labelled 'a Latino rapper', the record companies would only try to market you to that Latin fan-base which didn't really EXIST yet!... So yeah, it feels good to see people recognizing us as some of the pioneers that opened the doors for a lotta these other Latino rappers to come through."^[5]

Aside from Cypress Hill, B-Real has been involved in several other musical projects. In 1996 he contributed to the soundtrack for the movie Space Jam. In 2002, he teamed up with Mellow Man Ace and Son Doobie for the short-lived Serial Rhyme Killas, which released one 12" single in 2002.^[6] The group recorded a full-length debut album, entitled Deluxe Rapture, but it was never released. B-Real formed a rap metal group, Kush, with Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter and Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera.^[7][8] According to B-Real, Kush is more aggressive than other bands in the genre.^[8] He was also previously a member of the group The Psycho Realm,^[9] and in 2007 announced that he would collaborate with Sick Jacken once again on a new album.^[2] He recently^[when?] revealed in an interview that he plans on recording a "V.S." album of Cypress member DJ Muggs. In 1998, he appeared as a newborn baby singer for The Rugrats Movie, reported as a minor role.^[10]

Production work[link]

In addition to his career as an MC, B-Real has worked as a music producer for six years, with clients ranging from Proof of D12 to the WWE.^[2] He intentionally kept his production for Cypress Hill down to a minimum, as not to interfere with DJ Muggs' involvement in the group, but has produced several tracks for his own solo projects. B-Real also manages a team of music producers known as the "Audio Hustlaz."^[2] B-Real personally produced three tracks on his solo album Smoke N Mirrors, 'Don't Ya Dare Laugh', 'Fire' and 'Dr. Hyphenstein', looking to outside producers for the other tracks. B-Real and his production crew will be working alongside DJ Muggs and others on the upcoming Cypress Hill album.^[11]

Solo projects[link]

B-Real has released three mixtapes as a solo artist "Gunslinger", "Gunslinger Vol. II" and "Gunslinger Vol. III".^[12] He released his first solo album, entitled Smoke N Mirrors and has teamed up with Snoop Dogg in a single called Vato for Snoop Dogg's album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment.

Discography[link]

Solo[link]

• 2009: Smoke N Mirrors

Cypress Hill[link]

• 1991: Cypress Hill
• 1993: Black Sunday
• 1995: Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom
• 1996: Unreleased and Revamped
• 1998: Cypress Hill IV
• 2000: Skull & Bones
• 2001: Stoned Raiders
• 2004: Till Death Do Us Part
• 2010: Rise Up

Mixtapes[link]

• 2005: The Gunslinger
• 2006: The Gunslinger Part II: Fist Full of Dollars
• 2007: The Gunslinger Part III: For a Few Dollars More
• 2010: The Harvest Vol. 1: The Mixtape

Collaborations[link]

Throughout his career, B-Real has had an extensive list of collaborations including Kottonmouth Kings, Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg, Psycho Realm, Eminem, Ice Cube, DJ Quik, Pearl Jam, Chino XL, Dr. Dre, Apathy, Mike Shinoda, Malverde, Fear Factory, Nas, KRS One, Adil Omar, Xzibit, Young De, RBX, LL Cool J, Warren G, Busta Rhymes, Tony Touch, Kool G Rap, Big Pun, OutKast, Prozak, Nina Sky, Fat Joe, Method Man & Redman, RZA, Kurupt, D12, Proof, Everlast, House of Pain, Ill Bill, La Coka Nostra, Deftones, MC Ren, King T, Sonic Youth, Funkdoobiest, Bitza (from Romania), Rusko (musician) (from the U.K.) and many more.

Guest appearances[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• B-Real at the Internet Movie Database

For Real was an American R&B and soul quartet, that formed in 1993.^[1] In the latter part of that decade they were nominated for a Grammy, Billboard Music Award, and Soul Train Music Award.

Biography[link]

For Real secured their recording contract by accident. "We were picking up our manager from the airport. So we decided to greet him with an acappella song. Someone from A&M Records just happened to be in the airport and heard them perform. Not long after, they were signed," said Latanyia Baldwin.^[2]

The band released their debut album, It's a Natural Thang, with production from Brian McKnight on A&M Records in 1994, and it became a critical success, including a rare four stars from Rolling Stone magazine.^[3] Their first single, "You Don't Wanna Miss" hit #28 on the Billboard chart, courtesy of a danceable new jack swing remix by Steve "Silk" Hurley, which was featured in the song's video. A second single, "Easy to Love", peaked at #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album scored another chart hit with the a cappella love song, "You Don't Know Nothin'", which was written and produced by Mervyn Warren, and which peaked at #27. The song peaked at #54 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1995.^[4] The album sold over one million copies worldwide, and peaked at #80 on the Billboard 200.

In 1995, the band appeared in Italian Vogue, modeling men's suits. They toured alongside Stevie Wonder,^[5] and lent their voices to the Martin Scorsese film project Grace of My Heart. The foursome also forayed into acting with appearances in the film Shake, Rattle and Rock! starring Renée Zellweger and Howie Mandel^[6] on Showtime.

They also hit the US Top 20 with the single "Freedom (Theme from Panther)" featuring Aaliyah, TLC, En Vogue, BlackGirl, SWV, and Vanessa Williams from the film Panther. They also recorded a duet with Stevie Wonder called "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", which appeared on the Marvin Gaye tribute album, Inner City Blues: The Music of Marvin Gaye.^[7] For Real also recorded songs for the soundtracks of the films Waiting to Exhale and Fled.

After a label change from A&M to Dallas Austin's Arista imprint Rowdy Records in 1996, For Real struck again with the Austin-produced, 60s-leaning single "Like I Do", from their second album Free. "Like I Do" hit #10 on the Billboard singles chart. The video also earned a Billboard nomination for Best R&B Clip; the album made the Top 100, and sold nearly 400,000 copies in the US. The album's next and last single was the Diane Warren-penned pop ballad "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard" which hit #65 on the Top 100 singles chart. The band performed "Saddest Song" on the TV series All That. Free included production from top R&B/pop producers like Babyface, Mario Winans, and Jon B..

The band also recorded three songs ("I Do", "Born to Love That Boy" and "Unwanted Number") and appeared in the critically acclaimed film Grace of My Heart. The film's soundstrack won a Satellite Award in 1997.^[9][10]

In January 1997, the band won an American Music Award for their work on the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack, in Summer 1997, the group earned a Soul Train Award nomination for Album of the Year (By a Group, Band or Duo) for Free.

In 1999, Wendi Williams lent her voice to the Emmy-winning film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge with Halle Berry, in which Berry plays a singer but Williams is behind her singing voice.^[11]

In 2002, their song "Love Will Be Waiting at Home" appeared in the film Two Can Play That Game, which starred Vivica A. Fox and Morris Chestnut.

In 2009, CoryLavel began to work with Josina Elder on her new album.

Discography[link]

• It's a Natural Thang (1994)
• Free (1996)

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• SingingFool.com Streaming music videos for "Like I Do" and "The Saddest Song I Ever Heard"
• Allmusic^{[dead link]} Discography, biographies, and pictures
• IUMA Group photos, lyrics, message board, audio streams, and biography
• Google Album info, photos, and lyrics

Lisa Hall
Personal information
Full name	Lisa Ann Hall (née Hackney)
Born	(1967-09-24) 24 September 1967 (age 44)
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Nationality	England
Spouse	Martin Hall
Career
College	University of Florida
Turned professional	1991
Current tour(s)	Ladies European Tour
Former tour(s)	LPGA Tour Futures Tour
Professional wins	6
Number of wins by tour
Ladies European Tour	4
Futures Tour	1
Other	1
Best results in LPGA Major Championships
Kraft Nabisco C'ship	T5: 1997
LPGA Championship	T2: 1998
U.S. Women's Open	T5: 1997
du Maurier Classic	T9: 1997
Women's British Open	T58: 2007
Achievements and awards
Kosaido Asian Circuit Order of Merit winner	1995
LPGA Rookie of the Year	1997

Lisa Ann Hall (born 24 September 1967), née Lisa Ann Hackney, is an English professional golfer who was previously a member of the LPGA Tour and currently plays on the Ladies European Tour.

College career[link]

Hall received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where she played for coach Mimi Ryan's Florida Gators women's golf team from 1987 to 1990. Following the 1990 season, she was recognized as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Golfer of the Year, and was a first-team All-SEC selection and a second-team All-American. Hall graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1990.

Professional career[link]

Hall turned professional on 8 January 1991, and joined the Ladies European Tour (LET) that year. In 1995 she won the Indonesia Open and topped the Kosaido Asian Circuit Order of Merit. She won her first LET title at the 1996 Women's Welsh Open and played for Europe in the Solheim Cup that year and for a second time in 1998. In 1997 she joined the United States-based LPGA Tour. She finished in the top ten in three of the four majors in her rookie season and was named Rookie of the Year. However, soon after that, she began to struggle and by 2005 had ceased playing tournament golf. In 2006 she made a comeback on the LET, and won the Northern Ireland Ladies Open in 2007. In 2008 she shot a final round 66 to win the ANZ Ladies Masters.

She married English-born professional golfer Martin Hall in 1998.

Professional wins[link]

Ladies European Tour wins[link]

• 1996 Women's Welsh Open
• 2007 Northern Ireland Ladies Open, Nykredit Masters
• 2008 ANZ Ladies Masters

Futures Tour wins[link]

• 2002 Greater Kansas City FUTURES Charity Golf Classic

Other wins[link]

• 1995 Indonesia Open

See also[link]

	Biography portal
	Golf portal

• Florida Gators
• List of Florida Gators golfers
• List of University of Florida alumni

External links[link]

• Lisa Hall at the Ladies European Tour official site
• BBC article on Hall's 2006 comeback

v t e European Solheim Cup team – 1996 Helen Alfredsson  • Laura Davies  • Marie-Laure de Lorenzi  • Lisa Hackney  • Trish Johnson  • Kathryn Marshall  • Joanne Morley  • Liselotte Neumann  • Alison Nicholas  • Catrin Nilsmark  • Dale Reid  • Annika Sörenstam Mickey Walker (non-playing captain) Lost: 11 – 17

v t e European Solheim Cup team – 1998 Helen Alfredsson  • Laura Davies  • Marie-Laure de Lorenzi  • Sophie Gustafson  • Lisa Hackney  • Trish Johnson  • Catriona Matthew  • Liselotte Neumann  • Alison Nicholas  • Catrin Nilsmark  • Annika Sörenstam  • Charlotta Sörenstam Pia Nilsson (non-playing captain) Lost: 12 – 16