Khalil or Halil may refer to:

People[link]

• Khalil (given name)
• Khalil (surname)
• Khalil (singer)
• Khalil (tribe), a Pashtun tribe found in Pakistan

Other uses[link]

• Halil River
• Khalil (music)
• Khalil, alternate name of Qaleh-ye Khalileh, a village in Iran
• Al-Khalil, the Arabic name of Hebron

See also[link]

• Khalili, surname

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Lil Mama
Lil Mama performing at the Ed Hardy Fashion Show in March 2008.
Background information
Birth name	Naitia Jessica Kirkland
Born	(1989-10-04) October 4, 1989 (age 22)
Origin	New York, New York, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop, R&B
Occupations	Rapper, singer-songwriter
Labels	Jive, RCA

Niatia Jessica Kirkland (born October 4, 1989) professionally known as Lil Mama, is an American rapper and singer-songwriter.

Early life[link]

Lil Mama was born in Harlem in 1989. She was raised in Brooklyn, New York where she attended Edward R. Murrow High School. In 2006, Kirkland signed a recording contract with Jive Records. Her mother Tara died on December 15, 2007 following a four-year battle with colon cancer.Her father died before she was born. Kirkland faced personal and financial struggles at an early age. As one of eight brothers and sisters, she started to express herself artistically through poetry and dance.

2006-2008[link]

Her first studio album VYP (Voice of the Young People) was released in late April 2008. The album spawned four singles: "Lip Gloss", "G-Slide (Tour Bus)", "Shawty Get Loose" and "What It Is (Strike a Pose)" The album sold 19,000 copies in the first week, debuting at number 25 on the Billboard 200.

2009-2011[link]

VMA incident[link]

On September 13, 2009, at the MTV Video Music Awards, Lil Mama came onstage during Jay-Z and Alicia Keys's performance of "Empire State of Mind". And while Jay-Z was ending his final verse, Lil Mama came from her seat in the crowd onto the stage and started bobbing her head to the beat. Jay-Z was surprised but continued to perform. Jay-Z patted Lil Mama on the leg to fall back and threw in a quick joke, saying, "You T-Paining right now," a reference to a similar incident at Summer Jam two months earlier when T-Pain jumped onstage with Jay-Z at Summer Jam during his performance of "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)". At the end of the performance, Lil Mama came to the front and posed alongside Jay-Z and Keys.

Present[link]

Since the release of her first album, Lil Mama has been in the studio working on new music. She released the singles "Dough Boy" featuring Mishon, "On & On & On", and "NYNYLALA" featuring Snoop Dogg, all of which failed to chart. She has since released two singles entitled "Scrawberry" and "Hustler Girl" featuring Clyde McKnight. In 2009 she announced the title of her proposed new album as 'Voice Of The Young People: I Am That', although this has not been released.^[1]

On October 7, RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records. With the shutdown, Lil Mama (and all other artists previously signed to these three labels) will release her future material on the RCA Records brand.^[2][3]

Television[link]

She is currently a judge on the dance contest show America's Best Dance Crew. She joined the judging in 2008 at the age of nineteen. She has also appeared in Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model with Benny Ninja.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 2008: VYP (Voice of the Young People)

Singles[link]

Other appearances[link]

• "Girlfriend (Dr. Luke Remix)" by Avril Lavigne off the Limited Edition of her 2007 album, "The Best Damn Thing", as well as some editions of Lil Mama's debut.
• "Amazed" by Vanessa Hudgens off her 2008 album, "Identified".
• "Block Party" by Lisa Lopes off of her 2009 posthumous album, "Eye Legacy".
• "Video Chat", "Big Boy Rims" and "Cupid" by College Boyys off of their 2010 debut album, "Spring Break".
• "Sexiest" a song by Colombian singer "Yahaira" and featured by her.

Awards and nominations[link]

• BET Awards
  • 2009, Best female Hip-Hop Artist (Nominated)
  • 2008, Best female Hip-Hop Artist (Nominated)
• MTV Video Music Awards
  • 2007, Monster Single of the Year: "Lip Gloss" (Nominated)
• Teen Choice Awards
  • 2008, Choice Rap/Hip-Hop Track: "Shawty Get Loose" (Winner)
  • 2008, Choice TV Personality: Randy Jackson's America's Best Dance Crew (Nominated)
  • 2007, Choice Rap Artist (Nominated)
  • 2007, Choice Summer Song: "Lip Gloss" (Winner)
  • 2007, Choice Music Hookup: "Shawty Get Loose" (Nominated)
• MTV Asia Awards
  • 2008, Best Hook-up: "Girlfriend" - featured by Avril Lavigne (Nominated)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lil Mama

• Lil Mama at MTV
• Lil Mama at the Internet Movie Database

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Khalil Abdul-Rahman, better known by his stage name DJ Khalil, is a Los Angeles based American hip hop/soul record producer, and is the instrumental half of the hip hop duo Self Scientific, together with rapper Chace Infinite. He is perhaps best known for his production work on rapper Eminem's 2010 album Recovery, producing four tracks.

He is the third born son of former UCLA player and coach and NBA player Walt Hazzard.

Production[link]

References[link]

John Noel William "Sam" Newman (born 22 December 1945) is a retired Australian rules football player and current television personality. He is a featured presenter on the AFL version of The Footy Show.

VFL career[link]

Recruited straight from school, Newman made his debut for Geelong in 1964 and was fortunate to have Graham "Polly" Farmer in the side as a role model. During the first semi-final against Collingwood in 1967, Newman suffered a serious injury which forced surgeons to remove part of his kidney, but he bounced back to win his club's "best and fairest" award in 1968 and 1975. He was also selected as an All-Australian player in 1969 and played for the Victorian State team eight times. Newman retired in 1980, having polled 100 Brownlow Medal votes throughout his career. In 2002, he was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

After retirement[link]

In December 2005, Newman was appointed as ruck coach for the Melbourne Football Club to mentor players such as Jeff White, Mark Jamar and Paul Johnson.

On 6 July 2010, Newman made a comeback playing for Victoria in the annual EJ Whitten Legends Game. Newman kicked four goals from four kicks and three marks to be named best on ground, despite his team losing to the All Stars by seven points.

Media career[link]

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Newman joined radio station 3AW as a football commentator in 1981 and appeared on World of Sport on Channel 7 for seven years.

Newman has been a regular on the AFL version of The Footy Show since it first aired in 1994 on the Australian Nine Network. He acts as sidekick and resident clown. He regularly hosts "Street Talk", a vox populi segment in which he interviews people on the streets, usually in Melbourne, as well as Sam's Mailbag where he reads out random correspondence, shows funny footage and the occasional humorous lookalike of Garry Lyon (co-host).

His other media appearances have included the Sunday sports show Any Given Sunday in 2005, World of Sport, The Sunday Footy Show and also co-hosting the short lived Sam and The Fatman with Paul "Fatty" Vautin. On radio station Triple M, Newman previews Friday night and Saturday afternoon matches. He formerly provided special comments during AFL games on Triple M, as well as 3AW previously.

From April 2010, he was a part of the MTR (Melbourne Talk Radio) lineup, providing opinion and participating in talkback between 9.00am and 9.30am, during the Steve Price breakfast programme. Newman quit the station in January 2012, after the breakfast producer censored Newman's profanity.^[2]

Personal life[link]

Newman attended Geelong Grammar.^[3] His father's aim for him was to become a barrister. His mother and two older sisters prefer to call him by his birth name of John.^[4]

Newman's former house built in St Kilda, featuring an image of Pamela Anderson's face

He has been married three times and has three sons, aged 11, 26 and 30 (as of March 2009).^[5]

Newman currently lives in an apartment in Melbourne's Docklands^[6] where he also berths a luxury yacht. He also owns four vintage cars and a warehouse.^[7]

Motor sport[link]

Newman took up motor racing in the GT Production Car class in the late 1990s ^[8] and subsequently competed in the Australian Nations Cup Championship in Lamborghinis and Ferraris. He also competed in the Mini Challenge series at the 2010 Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park. This was a one off drive in the series.

Controversy[link]

Newman has been involved in several incidents of public controversy.^[9] Reports indicate that Newman is deliberately controversial, and that his on-air persona is nothing like his true self.^[10] Particular incidents include:

• 1997 – Newman's 25 year old girlfriend, Leonie Jones, drove his own car into him outside his house, breaking his leg and an ankle.^[11]
• 1999 – On The Footy Show Newman blacked up his face to impersonate indigenous footballer Nicky Winmar, at a time when racial vilification charges were being levelled at certain AFL players.^[12]
• 2005 – A female fan broke a window whilst trying to break in to his Brighton house.^[11]
• 2008 – Mocking television personality and The Age writer Caroline Wilson regarding how she was dressed on Footy Classified three days earlier by bringing a mannequin model onto stage and stapling a cardboard cut-out of Wilson on the face of the model and 'experimenting' with different outfits. Newman then recklessly moved the model about.^[13] Wilson brought the issue up on Footy Classified the following Monday, telling of her disappointment to Newman's co-star Garry Lyon.^[14]
• 2008 - Joking that attractive Tasmanian MP Paul Wriedt was "Worth coming on her", after an interview featuring Ms Wriedt was aired on The Footy Show.
• 2009 – The Nine Network and Newman were sued for defamation by a female board member of the Western Bulldogs football team after he said on air that she was a "liar" and "hypocrite". They settled for $220,000 plus costs.^[15]
• 2009 – 17 September. During the Footy Show broadcast Newman likened a Malaysian man to a monkey, being "not long out of the forest". The Australian Communications and Media Authority ruled Newman was likely to have "provoked severe ridicule on the basis of the man's colour and race". Newman's employer channel Nine has offered to donate $200,000 to charity in the event of any future code breach and had "agreed to a number of other provisions in the enforceable undertaking, including significant senior management overview of the materials to be used by Mr Newman and a broad-ranging reporting regime and training obligation".^[16]
• 2010 – 30 June. Newman was criticised for disrespect to Aboriginal beliefs when he revealed on a radio show that he had hit a golf ball off the summit of Uluru.^[17]

Cancer diagnosis[link]

On 5 March 2008 it was revealed that Newman was in hospital, undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.^[18][19] On 6 March he underwent a procedure at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne to have the cancerous prostate removed. Newman asked that television cameras from Channel Nine's program 60 Minutes have full access to the procedure, as he believed it could help raise awareness of the issue amongst the greater public. Channel Nine personality and close friend Eddie McGuire covered the story for the program.

The program went to air on 9 March 2008. It contained footage filmed earlier that day in which Newman's urologist, Laurence Harewood, told him that the operation had been a success and that he had been cleared of the cancer. Newman had since made a full recovery.^[20]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Player profile on the official AFL website of the Geelong Football Club
• Player bio at Full Points Footy
• AFL statistics
• Sam Newman's statistics from AFL Tables
• Sam Newman at the Internet Movie Database
• The Footy Show AFL official website

Rabih Abou-Khalil
Cactus of Knowledge concert in Bonn, Germany, with Luciano Biondini
Background information
Born	(1957-08-17)August 17, 1957
Origin	Beirut, Lebanon
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician, composer, bandleader
Instruments	Oud, flute
Years active	1980–present
Labels	Enja Records

Rabih Abou-Khalil (Arabic: ربيع أبو خليل‎, born August 17, 1957 in Lebanon)^[1] is an oud player and composer.

Life[link]

Rabih Abou-Khalil grew up in Beirut and moved to Munich, Germany during the civil war in 1978. He lives part-time in Munich and part-time in the South of France with his wife and two children.

Music[link]

From early on, he learned to play the oud, a fretless string instrument, similar to the European lute. He studied in the Beirut conservatory from oud virtuoso Georges Farah. After moving to Germany, he studied classical flute at the Academy of Music in Munich under Walther Theurer.

He has often blended traditional Arab music with jazz, rock and classical music, and has earned praise such as "a world musician years before the phrase became a label—makes the hot, staccato Middle Eastern flavour and the seamless grooves of jazz mingle as if they were always meant to."^[2] Together with Anouar Brahem he has helped highlight the oud as a vehicle of eclectic "world jazz". Abou-Khalil's oud playing style has often been likened to jazz guitar: "Abou-Khalil spins more oud notes in 10 seconds than most jazz guitarists do in their short commercial lifespans".^[3]

Abou-Khalil's music uses elements from Arab music traditions, together with many jazz, rock and classical references, particularly to the school of Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, which itself broke ground in terms of introducing new global influences. Other influences include Frank Zappa, Bela Bartok, and such unexpected musicians as the Mighty Sparrow and Lord Kitchener from Trinidad. Jazz elements are present in most of his recorded work, for instance in the use of the acoustic pizzicato bass, generally played by recognized jazz musicians like Steve Swallow and Glen Moore. At the Beijing Jazz Festival of 2003 he performed to great acclaim accompanied by tuba and clarinet as well as the percussion he has always favoured.

Albums[link]

In his first CD release for the ECM company, Nafas (1988), largely traditional Arabic elements are to the fore, although a combination of drums of different national origin signals the eclecticism to come. In Al-Jadida and Blue Camel (1992), the former with alto saxophonist Sonny Fortune and the latter with alto saxophonist Charlie Mariano and flugelhorn player Kenny Wheeler, Turkish influence comes to the fore, in the form of complex time signatures (like 11/4 for the composition "Sahara"). Classical Turkish metres like 10/8 (phrased as 3+2+2+3), are found widely in Abou-Khalil's opus ("Nightfall" on Between Dusk and Dawn, "Ziriab" on Blue Camel, "After Dinner" on Tarab, and "On a Bus " on Yara). In recent years mixtures of these metres have emerged, setting new standards in complexity while retaining freshness, wit and the jazz value of swing.

Nafas and Tarab make use of the ney, the Turkish end-blown flute. 1995's Arabian Waltz featured Abou-Khalil's compositions for string quartet (performed by the Balanescu Quartet), along with oud, tuba (or serpent), and frame drums.

Morton's Foot (2004) brings in Luciano Biondini on accordion and Sardinian singer Gavino Murgia whose bass vocals evoke Tibetan throat singing to create a bizarre, exotic blend of European and Eastern traditions.

Journey to the Centre of an Egg (2005) features a trio of oud, piano (Joachim Kühn, who doubles on alto saxophone) and drums.

In 2008, Abou-Khalil released an album entitled "Em Português" ("In Portuguese"), where he mixes Fado with Arabic music, with the participation of the fadista Ricardo Ribeiro.

Visions of Music[link]

Rabih Abou-Khalil hosted the television series Visions of Music. This 13-part documentary series produced by EuroArts Entertainment set out to explore the blending of jazz with traditional music (Caribbean salsa, Brazilian samba, Argentine tango, French musette, Spanish flamenco, Jewish klezmer, New Orleans R&B and Mississippi blues, as well as West African, South African, Indian and Middle Eastern music) through historical footage and interviews of musicians (by Abou-Khalil). The music of the TV-series was released on the album Visions of Music - World Jazz by Enja Records in 1998.

Humor[link]

Humor is a very important ingredient in Abou-Khalil's art and live performances. For instance, the song Dr. Gieler's Wiener Schnitzel (Morton's Foot, 2004) is inspired by an alleged Austrian dentist who settles in Abu-Dhabi to open a restaurant where his Wiener schnitzel soon establishes a reputation for healing the blind and deaf. The restaurant, however, is banned and closed by the authorities which forces Dr. Gieler back to Austria where he is now selling ties to businessmen. Various compositions are inspired by such humorous stories, common to many is the absurdity of "commuting between cultures".

CD cover design[link]

Rabih Abou-Khalil's CDs are conspicuous for their high quality covers depicting Arabic non-figurative art, some designed by the author himself.

Major/recent collaborators[link]

• Howard Levy (harmonica)
• Glen Velez (frame drums, percussions)
• Milton Cardona (conga)
• Sonny Fortune (alto saxophone)
• Glen Moore (bass)
• Steve Swallow (bass)
• Gabriele Mirabassi (clarinet)
• Luciano Biondini (accordion)
• Michel Godard (tuba)
• Mark Nauseef (percussion)
• Gavino Murgia (vocals, tenor saxophone)
• Jarrod Cagwin (drums)
• Selim Kusur (vocals, nay)
• Setrak Sarkissian (darabukka)
• Joachim Kühn (piano, alto saxophone)
• Ramesh Shotham (Indian percussion)
• Alexander Balanescu (violin)
• Nabil Khaiat (percussion)
• Charlie Mariano (alto saxophone)
• Gevorg Dabagyan (duduk)
• Kenny Wheeler (Flugelhorn)
• ARTE Quartett (saxophone quartet)

Discography[link]

• Compositions & Improvisations (MMP, 1981)
• Bitter Harvest (MMP, 1984)
• Between Dusk and Dawn (MMP, 1987; Enja Records, 1993)
• Bukra (MMP, 1988; Enja Records, 1994)
• Nafas (ECM, 1988)
• Roots & Sprouts (MMP/Enja Records, 1990)
• World Music Orchestra: East West Suite (Granit Records, 1990)
• Al-Jadida (Enja Records, 1990)
• Blue Camel (Enja Records, 1992)
• Tarab (Enja Records, 1992)
• The Sultan's Picnic (Enja Records, 1994)
• Arabian Waltz (Enja Records, 1996)
• Odd Times (Enja Records, 1997)
• Yara (Enja Records, 1998)
• The Cactus of Knowledge (Enja Records, 2001)
• Il Sospiro (Enja Records, 2002)
• Morton's Foot (Enja Records, 2004)
• Journey to the Centre of an Egg (Enja Records, 2005)
• Songs for Sad Women (Enja Records, 2007)
• Em Portugues (Enja Records, 2008)
• Selection (Enja Records, 2009)
• Trouble in Jerusalem (Enja Records, 2010)

As guest musician[link]

• Chris Karrer: Dervish Kish (Schneeball/Indigo, 1990/91)
• Michael Riessler: Heloise (Wergo, 1992)
• Charlie Mariano & Friends: Seventy (veraBra records, 1993)
• Glen Moore: Nude Bass Ascending (Intuition, 1996/97)
• Ramesh Shotam: Madras Special (Permission Music, 2002)

Other[link]

• Jakob Wertheim & Rabih Abou-Khalil: KopfKino (cassette, Ohrbuch-Verlag, 1988)
• The Jazz Club Highlights (DVD, TDK JAZZ CLUB, 1990)
• Rabih Abou-Khalil presents Visions of Music - World Jazz (accompanying TV series, Enja Records, 1999)

References[link]

External links[link]

• [1]
• The Official myspace.com Page
• Official website
• Rabih Abou-Khalil page at ENJA Records
• Rabih Abou Khalil at All About Jazz
• RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - LIST OF ISSUED RECORDS compiled by Johann Haidenbauer
• Rabih Abou-Khalil
• Fotos Rabih Abou Khalil & Termites at work - 2007 jazzit
• Portrait of Rabih About-Khalil on Qantara.de by Lewis Gropp