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| Name | Didi |
|---|---|
| Cover | didi.jpg |
| Artist | Khaled |
| From album | Khaled |
| B-side | "Wajabek" |
| Released | 1992 |
| Format | 7" single, 12" maxi, CD single |
| Recorded | MicroPLANT, Los Angeles, United States |
| Genre | Raï |
| Length | 7:45 |
| Label | Barclay Records |
| Producer | Don Was, Michael Brook, Tim Simenon |
| Last single | N/A |
| This single | "Didi"(1992) |
| Next single | "Ne m'en voulez pas"(1992) |
; 7" single #"Didi" (edit version) — 3:20 #"Wajabek" (inédit) — 4:25
; 12" single #"Didi" (Simenon mix) — 6:29 #"Didi" (Edit version) — 3:20 #"Wajabek" (unreleased) — 4:25
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| Name | Didi Benami |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Vered Benami |
| Born | October 25, 1986 |
| Origin | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Instrument | Vocals, guitar, piano |
| Genre | Acoustic rock, pop |
| Occupation | Singer, musician, guitarist |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Label | Unsigned |
Vered "Didi" Benami (; born October 25, 1986) is an American singer/songwriter from Knoxville, Tennessee, who was the tenth place finalist on the ninth season of American Idol.
On American Idol, Benami said she was a cheerleader and mascot at Bearden Middle School.
Benami attended Nashville's Belmont University before moving to California. This move followed the death of her close friend and roommate, Rebecca Joy Lear, in an automobile accident driving from Nashville to her Kansas home during the Christmas holiday of her freshman year. They wrote songs together, mostly on Lear's album, but Benami recently said that she would pursue Lear's music first and would most likely upload Benami version of Lear's songs.
At Benami's audition she sang The Beatles' song "Hey Jude." The judges all loved her performance, including guest judge Avril Lavigne. She became a front-runner in the competition following her well-praised performance of Katharine McPhee's song "Terrified" (co-written by Idol judge Kara DioGuardi) on the first solo of Hollywood Week, where Simon Cowell said "she was good." During the group week of Hollywood week Benami's group sang Alicia Keys' "No One." On the second solo performance of hollywood week, she sang Sarah McLachlan's "Angel."
In the top 24 performances, Benami sang Ingrid Michaelson's "The Way I Am" where the judges did not love her rendition of it, saying she has a good voice but it was rather "sound-alike." In the top 20 performance, she sang Bill Withers's "Lean on Me," where once again the judges did not love her performance with Randy Jackson saying it was pitchy and Simon Cowell said it was like a screaching cat. During the top 16 performances however, she made a come back with the song Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon" with Kara DioGuardi adding that that performance has the "singer/songwriter" vibe that she loves on Benami's performance of "Terrified."
On March 31, 2010, Benami was eliminated from the competition and finished in 10th place. Despite an encore of "Rhiannon" for the judges' save, the judges chose not to save her, though, Simon Cowell stated it was "a million times better" than her performance the night before.
Benami attended interviews such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show after her elimination. She also appeared on various other shows during her post-Idol tour including The Late Show with David Letterman, The Today Show, and Access Hollywood. On The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Late Show, and Access Hollywood, Benami performed the Kara DioGuardi-penned "Terrified", her song made famous from American Idol's Hollywood Week.
Also, a track Benami recorded prior to participating on American Idol, "Sweet Rain", was uploaded onto YouTube after she was voted off the show. The track was co-written and produced by Rocco Guarino, who also produced American Idol alumna Amanda Overmyer's debut album. Benami stated via her Twitter page that she will be collaborating with producer Kyler England in the studio on 6th April 2010. On April 7, Benami had an interview with OK! Magazine. She stated, "I want to have a record out by this time next year. By the end of the year is my goal, but I don’t know how logistics will work out after the tour. I already started writing some songs, so I don’t know if I could get an EP out by the end of the year and then do a record the following year. I definitely want to do a compilation of Rebecca’s music. I would eventually like to act, that would be fun. I would love to do sitcoms, like Friends. I love Jennifer Aniston, I think she’s amazing. I would eventually like to write a book about all my experiences since I moved to L.A. About losing a friend, being an inspiration and turning something bad into something good."
In mid-April, Benami volunteered with "Idol Gives Back" along with various past Idol contestants including Elliott Yamin. They packed food for local underprivileged families. She stated via Twitter that she is currently practicing for the upcoming American Idol summer tour for which she will be performing along with the remainder of the top ten finalists.
Benami appeared as a guest in the If I Can Dream house. She sang Alicia Keys's "No One" with Katie Stevens, Andrew Garcia and Siobhan Magnus and Radiohead's "Creep" with Stevens and Magnus. She also sang "Terrified" inside the house, teaching it to former American Idol contestant and If I Can Dream cast mate Alex Lambert.
Benami also appeared with Jason Reeves on Jason's Official Twitter page where he thanked her for giving life to the song. They later sang "Terrified" with Jason on the guitar.
Promising to fulfill Rebecca's musical dream, Benami released and sang her version of Rebecca's songs "Lullaby" and "No Destination" on her official myspace page.
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| Name | The White Rabbit |
|---|---|
| Series | Alice |
| Caption | 1865 illustration by John Tenniel |
| First | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Creator | Lewis Carroll |
| Species | Rabbit |
| Gender | Male |
| Sexual orientation | Homosexual |
| Occupation | Page |
| Relatives | Yellow Rabbit |
| Religion | Pagan |
| Nationality | Wonderland |
Overall, the White Rabbit seems to shift back and forth between pompous behavior toward his underlings, such as his servants, and grovelling, obsequious behavior toward his superiors, such as the Duchess and King and Queen of Hearts, in direct contrast to Alice, who is reasonably polite to everyone she meets.
| Name | White Rabbit |
|---|---|
| Series | Disney |
| Color | #4B89E6 |
| Creator | Lewis Carroll |
| First | Alice in Wonderland (1951) |
| Species | Rabbit |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Page |
| Nationality | Wonderland |
Some believe the rabbit was late for the announcement of the Queen to the royal garden. The panic the rabbit showed was his fear of losing his head. Upon her arrival (where Alice has been helping to paint the roses red) the cards finish their song and the rabbit blows his trumpet (which he had been carrying for most of his lines) royally introducing the king and queen.
The Disney Rabbit made a few appearances on the Disney Channel original show, House of Mouse. His most noticeable appearance was when he confessed to Clarabelle Cow that "I'm not really late, and I don't really have a date. I'm a fraud!" He was voiced by Corey Burton, who would voice the Rabbit in all future speaking roles.
The White Rabbit also appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character.
| Color | #4B89E6 |
|---|---|
| Name | Nivens McTwisp, The White Rabbit |
| Series | Alice |
| First | Alice in Wonderland |
| Creator | Lewis Carroll/Tim Burton |
| Portrayer | Michael Sheen |
| Nickname | The White Rabbit |
| Species | Rabbit |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Page |
| Nationality | Underland |
The White Rabbit works for the Red Queen, but is also a secret member of the Underland Underground Resistance, and was sent by the Hatter to search for Alice. Sheen stated, "The White Rabbit is such an iconic character that I didn't feel like I should break the mould too much." In this film adaption, the white rabbit is given the name Nivens McTwisp.
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| Name | Tim Burton |
|---|---|
| Caption | Burton in the Venice Film Festival, in 2003 |
| Birthname | Timothy W. Burton |
| Birthdate | August 25, 1958 |
| Birthplace | Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer, writer, artist |
| Yearsactive | 1982–present |
| Spouse | Lena Gieseke (1989–1991) |
| Domesticpartner | Lisa Marie (1993–2001)Helena Bonham Carter (2001–present) |
| Website | http://timburton.com/ |
Burton has directed 14 films as of 2010, and has produced 10 as of 2009. His next films are a film adaptation of soap opera Dark Shadows, which is slated to begin production in January 2011 and a remake of his short Frankenweenie, which will be released on March 9, 2012.
After graduating from Burbank High School, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts to study character animation. Some of his classmates were John Lasseter, Brad Bird, John Musker and Henry Selick. (In the future, Selick and Burton would work together in The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach.)
As a student in CalArts, Burton made the shorts Stalk of the Celery Monster and King and Octopus. They remain only in fragments today.
While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six minute black and white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his (and Burton's) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration. The film was produced by Rick Heinrichs, whom Burton had befriended while working in the concept art department at Disney. The film was shown at the Chicago Film Festival and released, alongside the teen drama Tex, for two weeks in one Los Angeles cinema. This was followed by Burton's first live-action production Hansel and Gretel, a Japanese themed adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale for The Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung-fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch. Having aired once at 10:30 pm on Halloween 1983 and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, which contributes to the rumor that this project does not exist. In 2009, the short went on display in the Museum of Modern Art. Next was the live-action short Frankenweenie, starring Barret Oliver, Daniel Stern and Shelley Duvall (an early supporter of Burton's work). Burton and Duvall would once more work together in 1986, where Burton directed an episode of her Faerie Tale Theatre.
Although Burton's work had yet to see wide release, he began to attract the attention of the film industry. Producer Griffin Dunne approached Burton to direct After Hours (1985), a comedy about a bored word processor who survives a crazy night in SoHo. However, when Martin Scorsese faced delays in financing the The Last Temptation of Christ and wanted to direct After Hours, Burton bowed out.
When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US$250 million in the U.S. alone and $400 million worldwide (numbers not adjusted for inflation) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. The success of the film helped establish Burton as a major director and it also proved to be a huge influence on future superhero films, which eschewed the bright, all-American heroism of Richard Donner's Superman for a grimmer, more realistic look and characters with more psychological depth. It also became a major inspiration for the successful 1990s cartoon , in as much as the darkness of the picture and its sequel allowed for a darker Batman on television.
Burton claimed that was a major influence on his film adaptation of Batman:
"I was never a giant comic book fan, but I've always loved the image of Batman and The Joker. The reason I've never been a comic book fan—and I think it started when I was a child—is because I could never tell which box I was supposed to read. I don't know if it was dyslexia or whatever, but that's why I loved The Killing Joke, because for the first time I could tell which one to read. It's my favorite. It's the first comic I've ever loved. And the success of those graphic novels made our ideas more acceptable."
In 2004, Matthew Bourne came to Burton with the idea to turn the story of Edward into a ballet. In 2005, the ballet first aired. It has now toured the UK, the U.S., Canada, Australia and parts of Europe.
A deleted scene from The Nightmare Before Christmas features a group of vampires playing hockey on the frozen pond with the decapitated head of Burton. The head was replaced by a jack-o'-lantern in the final version.
In 1994, Burton and frequent co-producer Denise Di Novi produced the 1994 fantasy-comedy Cabin Boy, starring comedian Chris Elliott and directed/written by Adam Resnick. Burton was originally supposed to direct the film after seeing Elliott perform on Get a Life, but handed the directing responsibility to Resnick once he was offered Ed Wood. The film was almost entirely panned by critics, even earning Chris Elliott a 1995 Razzie Award for "Worst New Star". The film also has a 45% "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Tim Burton appeared at the 2009 Comic-Con in San Diego, California, to promote both 9 and Alice in Wonderland. When asked about the filmmaking process by an attendee, he mentioned his "imaginary friend" who helps him out, prompting Johnny Depp to walk on stage to the applause of the audience.
On January 19, 2010, it was announced that after Dark Shadows Burton's next project would be a -style adaption featuring the origin story and the past of the Sleeping Beauty antagonist Maleficent. In an interview with Fandango published February 23, 2010, however, he denied he was directing any upcoming Sleeping Beauty movie. However, on November 23, 2010, in an interview with MTV, Burton confirmed that he was indeed putting together a script for "Maleficent". Burton has also stated that there is a chance he will co-produce with Timur Bekmambetov, who he also co-produced 9 with, the movie Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which is based on the novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, also author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It has also been reported that Burton will be directing a 3-D stop-motion animation adaptation of The Addams Family, which was confirmed by Christopher Meledandri. On July 19, 2010, he was announced as the director of the upcoming film adaptation of Monsterpocalypse.
Burton and Bonham Carter have two children: Billy Ray, born October 4, 2003; and Nell, born December 15, 2007. Close friend Johnny Depp is a godfather of Burton's son. In Burton on Burton, Depp wrote the introduction, stating, "What more can I say about him? He is a brother, a friend, my godson's father. He is a unique and brave soul, someone that I would go to the ends of the earth for, and I know, full and well, he would do the same for me."
Burton was the President of the Jury for the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival, which was held from May 12 to May 24, 2010 in Cannes, France.
Danny Elfman has scored all of Burton's films, except for Ed Wood (scored by Howard Shore), which was filmed during a period of personal conflict between the two, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which was scored by the original play's creator, Stephen Sondheim, with those Burton co-produced being Batman Forever and James and the Giant Peach (scored by Elliot Goldenthal and Randy Newman respectively). Elfman also starred in Nightmare Before Christmas as Jack Skellington when singing, the singing skeletons in Corpse Bride, and the voice of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Richard D. Zanuck (Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy) has produced all of Burton's films since Planet of the Apes (except 9) (excluding Corpse Bride, where Burton served as producer).
Denise Di Novi once served as head of Tim Burton Productions, and co-produced six films with him (most notably Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas).
Colleen Atwood served as costume designer for nine of Burton's projects, her latest being Alice in Wonderland.
John August has written screenplays for three of Burton's films: Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride (co-written by Pamela Pettler and Caroline Thompson). He is currently in the process of writing the screenplays for Burton's upcoming films Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie.
Caroline Thompson has also written screenplays for three of Burton's films: Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.
Pamela Pettler has written screenplays for two of Burton's projects: Corpse Bride and 9.
Bo Welch served as production designer for Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and Batman Returns.
Philippe Rousselot has worked as director of photography for Planet of the Apes, Big Fish and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Peter Gruber produced Batman and Sleepy Hollow, and served as an executive producer for ''Batman Returns".
Stefan Czapsky has worked as director of photography for Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns and Ed Wood.
Chris Lebenzon has served as Burton's editor for every one of his films since Batman Returns, even earning the role of executive producer on Alice in Wonderland.
Susie Figgis served as casting director for Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Alice in Wonderland.
Crispin Glover starred in two of Burton's films: 9 and Alice in Wonderland.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; width:100%" |- style="vertical-align:bottom;" ! Actor ! class="collapsible" |Vincent(1982) ! class="collapsible" |Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985) ! class="collapsible" |Beetlejuice (1988) ! class="collapsible" |Batman (1989) ! Edward Scissorhands (1990) ! Batman Returns (1992) ! The Nightmare Before Christmas1 (1993) ! Ed Wood (1994) ! Mars Attacks! (1996) ! Sleepy Hollow (1999) ! Planet of the Apes (2001) ! Big Fish (2003) ! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) ! Corpse Bride (2005) ! (2007) ! Alice in Wonderland (2010) ! Dark Shadows(2011) ! Frankenweenie(2012) |- ! Helena Bonham Carter | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Johnny Depp | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Danny DeVito | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Danny Elfman2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Albert Finney | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Michael Gough | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Pat Hingle | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Jan Hooks | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Jeffrey Jones | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! O-Lan Jones | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Martin Landau | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Michael Keaton | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Christopher Lee | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Lisa Marie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Jack Nicholson | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Sarah Jessica Parker | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Catherine O'Hara | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Vincent Price | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Missi Pyle | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Paul Reubens | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Alan Rickman | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Deep Roy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Winona Ryder | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Diane Salinger | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Glenn Shadix | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Martin Short | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Timothy Spall | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Sylvia Sidney | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Christopher Walken | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Frank Welker | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |- ! Paul Whitehouse | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |}
1Burton isn't responsible for direction of Nightmare Before Christmas, but only for production''.
2While Danny Elfman is well known for composing music for most of Tim Burton's movies, he is credited in the above table for those movies in which he starred.
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
National Board of Review Awards
Producers Guild of America Awards
64th Venice International Film Festival
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(right), who was a great fan of Tucker, in 1958 after Tucker's Covent Garden debut. This was the first and only time they met.]]
Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913–January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.
On February 11, 1936, Tucker married Sara Perelmuth, the youngest child (and only daughter) of Levi and Anna Perelmuth, proprietors of the Grand Mansion, a kosher banquet hall in Manhattan's Lower East Side. At the time of Tucker's wedding to their daughter, the Perelmuths' musically-gifted eldest son, Yakob, had progressed from a part-time jazz violinist and lyric tenor vocalist to a national radio star who had already set his sights on an operatic career. Under the management of Sol Hurok, the eldest of the Perelmuth offspring, now renamed Jan Peerce, reached his goal when the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Edward Johnson, offered him a contract after an impressive audition. When Peerce made his much-acclaimed debut at the Met on November 29, 1941, his sister and her new husband were living with Peerce's parents while Tucker was trying to make a success as the sole proprietor (and only employee) of a silk-lining sales business while also officiating at Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx.
(c.1950)]] Two years after his Metropolitan debut, Tucker was invited to reprise his success in La Gioconda at the cavernous amphitheater in Verona, Italy, for which the retired tenor and Verona native, Giovanni Zenatello, had also engaged a young, overweight, unknown Greek-American soprano named Maria Callas. Contemporary reviews of the 1947 Verona performances of La Gioconda verify that Tucker's success considerably surpassed Callas's, a fact overshadowed by the soprano's eventual worldwide acclaim. Two years later, in 1949, Tucker's rapidly ascending career was confirmed when Arturo Toscanini, the most celebrated Italian conductor of the twentieth century, engaged Tucker to sing the role of Radames for the NBC simulcasts of a complete performance of Aida opposite Herva Nelli in the title role, an event heard and seen on radio and television, and eventually released on LP, CD, VHS, and DVD. This was the first full opera performance ever broadcast on national television.
In the ensuing years, Tucker's ample lyric voice evolved into a lirico-spinto voice of near-dramatic proportions. If his signature stylistic devices, especially his affection for Italianate sobs, were not always lauded by the critics, the distinctive timbre of his ringing voice, his unfailingly secure technique, impeccable diction, and native-sounding pronunciation were universally acclaimed in every role he undertook. A profusion of legendary tenors — including Jussi Björling, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mario del Monaco and, eventually, Jan Peerce) came and went during the years in which (Sir) Rudolf Bing led the Metropolitan. Tucker remained a dominant tenor and steadily took on new challenges. Although an indifferent actor throughout most of his career, Tucker made a strong dramatic impression with veteran critics when he reconceived the role of Canio in Pagliacci under the direction of Franco Zeffirelli in January 1970. The tenor was nearly 60 years old at the time.
Before and after each Metropolitan Opera season, Tucker appeared on concert stages through the U.S. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, his appearances in a series of "Puccini Night" open-air concerts at the landmark Lewisohn Stadium in New York City, under the direction of Alfredo Antonini, often attracted audiences of over 13,000 enthusiastic guests. Throughout his opera career, Tucker also officiated as a cantor during Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and other sacred events in the Jewish liturgical calendar. A devoted but strict patriarch, Tucker oversaw the religious development of his three sons (Berel [Barry] Tucker, b. 1938; David N. Tucker, M.D., b. 1941; and Henry R. Tucker, b. 1946), and arranged for them to sing with him on a popular television program hosted by Sam Levenson in the early 1950s.
Tucker had a long-running contract with Columbia Records, and eventually recorded for RCA Victor as well. But, measured against the sheer length of his career, Tucker's commercial recordings are proportionately sparse and inadequately convey the power and roundness of his voice, according to most of his artistic colleagues. Many of his commercial recordings, as well as private recordings of his concerts and broadcast performances, have been digitally remastered and are available in CD and online downloadable formats. A number of his national television appearances on "'The Voice of Firestone'" and "'The Bell Telephone Hour'" were preserved in kinescope and videotape form, and have been reissued in VHS and DVD format. Regrettably, a complete video performance of the tenor's searing portrayal of Canio in the Zeffirelli production of Pagliacci, which was to be paired with Cavalleria rusticana featuring Tucker's friend and tenor colleague Franco Corelli as Turiddu, was never telecast and has not been issued commercially, for legal reasons.
Although Tucker's well-crafted public image was that of a competitive, overwhelmingly self-confident performer, his offstage demeanor was that of an inherently private but unfailingly considerate man, especially where fans and colleagues were concerned. Never prone to looking back upon his career, Tucker always lived in the moment and maintained a boyish outlook on life. He also displayed a propensity for playing pranks on some of his fellow singers, often provoking a smile at some inappropriate moment in a performance. Once, during a broadcast of La forza del destino with baritone Robert Merrill, Tucker sneaked a nude photograph into a small trunk that Merrill opened onstage. In later years, Merrill described his tenor friend as "an original, right out of the pages of a Damon Runyon story."
Ironically, Tucker was touring with Merrill in a national series of joint concerts when, on January 8, 1975, he died of a heart attack while resting before an evening performance in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is the only person whose funeral has been held on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. In tribute to his legacy at the Met, the city of New York designated the park adjacent to Lincoln Center as Richard Tucker Square.
Shortly after his death, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation was established by his widow, sons, colleagues, and friends, "to perpetuate the memory of America's greatest tenor through projects in aid of gifted young singers." In the intervening decades, the Richard Tucker Foundation, whose annual televised concerts have been hosted by Luciano Pavarotti and other opera stars of the past and present, has consistently awarded the largest vocal-music grants and scholarships. Recipients include sopranos Renée Fleming, Deborah Voigt, tenors Richard Leech, Stephen Costello, James Valenti and other opera singers of international renown.
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| Name | Marty Balin |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Martyn Jerel Buchwald |
| Born | January 30, 1942 |
| Origin | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Instrument | Vocals, Guitar |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, Folk rock, Album oriented rock, Acid rock |
| Occupation | Musician, Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1965— |
| Label | Challenge Records, EMI America, GWE Records |
| Associated acts | Jefferson Airplane, KBC Band, Jefferson Starship |
As of 2008, Balin continues to perform part-time with Jefferson Starship and had intended to record lead vocals for two tracks for their latest album, Jefferson's Tree of Liberty. However, his art touring schedule conflicted with studio sessions and instead the track "Maybe for You" from the German release of Windows of Heaven was included.
On July 2, 2007, music publishing firm Bicycle Music, Inc. announced that it acquired an interest in more than 70 songs written or performed by Balin, including hits from his days with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.
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| Name | Dionne Bromfield |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Dionne Bromfield |
| Born | February 01, 1996 |
| Origin | London |
| Genre | Soul, R&B;, jazz, ska |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Label | Lioness Records, Island Records |
| Associated acts | Amy Winehouse |
| Website |
Dionne Bromfield (born 1 February 1996, London) is an English singer.
Bromfield's debut album, Introducing Dionne Bromfield was released in 2009 through Amy Winehouse's Lioness Records label. Winehouse is godmother to 14 year-old Dionne and says of her protégée, "She’s so much better than I was at her age." Bromfield's album features covers of 12 classic songs that reflect her love of vintage soul music and 1960s girl groups. Tracks include the Motown anthem "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", which Bromfield has recorded as a duet with Zalon, and "Foolish Little Girl", originally a hit for The Shirelles in 1963.
In September 2009, Bromfield was the first artist to be signed to Amy Winehouse's record label Lioness Records.
On 25 September 2009, Bromfield performed alongside Winehouse at the The Prince's Trust End of the Summer Ball and on 10 October Bromfield performed a cover of The Shirelles' 1960s hit "Mama Said", while Winehouse appeared as a backing singer on British television show Strictly Come Dancing. Bromfield also sings alongside British soul singer Zalon on the Motown-classic, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
Her debut album Introducing Dionne Bromfield was released on 12 October 2009 and first single "Mama Said" was released on 3 November 2009. Dionne has also made four music videos "Mama Said", "Foolish Little Girl", "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", and "I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus".
On 1 December 2010, Bromfield performed at the Young Voices concert at the Manchester M.E.N. Arena and on the 6 December 2010, she performed at the Young Voices concert in London at the O2 Arena.
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| Name | Diggy Simmons |
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| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Daniel Dwayne "Diggy" Simmons III |
| Born | March 21, 1995 |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Origin | Queens, New York, United States |
| Died | | Genre = Hip-hop |
| Occupation | Rapper |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Label | Atlantic Records |
| Url | Digs Life of the Jet Setter |
Daniel Dwayne "Diggy" Simmons III (born March 21, 1995) is an American reality star, fashion designer, and rapper. He is the second son of Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons, one of the founding members of influential hip hop group Run–D.M.C.. He released a mixtape, The First Flight, in December 2009. He eventually got his big break when he released freestyles to Drake's "Over" and subsequently Nas's "Made You Look", and was noticed by labels, eventually signing with Atlantic Records.
He was signed to Atlantic Records on March 22, 2010. He subsequently announced plans for his second mixtape, Airborne set for release on August 13th, 2010. On June 4, 2010 he released a song from the mixtape, "Great Expectations", featuring Bei Maejor. On July 15, 2010 freestyle from the mixtape was released called "Little Monster." On August 20, 2010 a song called “Oh Yeah!” was released from his mixtape "Airborne". The song featured Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell Williams. On September 2, 2010 a portion of the song “Super Hero Music” was leaked. The song was produced by Boi-1da.
Diggy released his mixtape "Airborne" on September 10, 2010.
AT&T; released a commercial featuring Diggy and a portion of his song "Great Expectations".
Simmons is a member of the Hip-Hop supergroup All City Chess Club along with Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, B.o.B, Blu, Pharrell Williams, Charles Hamilton, The Cool Kids, Wale and J. Cole.
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| Name | Amy Winehouse |
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| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Amy Jade Winehouse |
| Born | September 14, 1983Southgate, London, England |
| Genre | Soul, R&B;, jazz |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar |
| Occupation | Singer, songwriter |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Label | Island, Lioness, Universal Republic (U.S.) |
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Winehouse has been credited as being an influence in the rise in popularity of female musicians and soul music and revitalising British music. Winehouse's distinctive style has been the muse for fashion designers such as Karl Lagerfeld. The singer's problems with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as self-destructive behaviour, have become regular tabloid news since 2007. She and her former husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, were plagued by legal troubles that left him serving prison time. In 2008, Winehouse faced a series of health complications that threatened both her career and her life.
When Winehouse was nine years old, her grandmother, Cynthia, suggested she attend the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School for further training. At age ten, Winehouse founded a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour with childhood friend Juliette Ashby. She stayed at the Earnshaw school for four years before seeking full time training at Sylvia Young Theatre School, but was allegedly expelled at 14 for "not applying herself" and for piercing her nose. With other children from the Sylvia Young School, she appeared in an episode of The Fast Show in 1997. She later attended the BRIT School in Selhurst, Croydon and attended Southgate School and Ashmole School.
The album spawned a number of singles. The first single released from the album was the Ronson-produced "Rehab". The song reached the top ten in the UK and US. Time magazine named "Rehab" one of the 10 Best Songs of 2007, ranking it at number one. Writer Josh Tyrangiel praised Winehouse for her confidence, opining, "What she is mouthy, funny, sultry, and quite possibly crazy" and, "It's impossible not to be seduced by her originality. Combine it with production by Mark Ronson that references four decades worth of soul music without once ripping it off, and you've got the best song of 2007." The album's second single and lead single in the U.S., "You Know I'm No Good", was released in January 2007 with a remix featuring rap vocals by Ghostface Killah. It ultimately reached number 18 on the UK singles chart. The title track, "Back to Black", was released in the UK in April 2007 and peaked at number 25, but was more successful across mainland Europe. "Tears Dry on Their Own", "Love Is a Losing Game" and "Just Friends" were also released as singles, but failed to achieve the same level of success.
A deluxe edition of Back to Black was also released on 5 November 2007 in the UK. The bonus disc features B-sides, rare, and live tracks, as well as "Valerie". Winehouse's debut DVD was released the same day in the U.K. and 13 November in the U.S. It includes a live set recorded at London's Shepherds Bush Empire and a 50-minute documentary charting the singer's career over the previous four years. Frank was released in the United States on 20 November 2007 to positive reviews. The album debuted at number 61 on the Billboard 200 chart. In addition to her own album, she has collaborated with other artists on singles. Winehouse was a vocalist on the song "Valerie" on Ronson's solo album Version. The song peaked at number two in the UK, upon its October single release. The song was nominated for a 2008 Brit Award for "Best British Single". Her work with ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena, "B Boy Baby," was released on 17 December 2007. It served as the fourth single from Buena's solo debut album Real Girl.
in Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France on 29 June 2007]] A special deluxe edition of "Back to Black" topped the UK album charts on 2 March 2008. The original edition of the album resided at the number 30 position, in its 68th week on the charts, while "Frank" charted at number 35. By 12 March, the album had sold a total of 2,467,575 copies, 318,350 of those in the previous 10 weeks, putting the album on the UK's top 10 best-selling albums of the 21st century for the first time. On 7 April, "Back to Black" was residing at the top position on the pan-European charts for the sixth consecutive and thirteenth aggregate week. Back to Black was the world's seventh biggest selling album for 2008. These sales helped keep Universal Music's recorded music division from dropping to levels experienced by the overall music market.
At the 2008 Ivor Novello Awards, Winehouse became the first artist to receive two nominations for the top award, best song, musically and lyrically. She won the award for "Love Is a Losing Game" and was nominated for "You Know I'm No Good". "Rehab", a Novello winner for best contemporary song in 2006, also received a 2008 nomination for bestselling British song. Winehouse was nominated for a MTV Europe Award in the Act of The Year category. Amy Winehouse – The Girl Done Good: A Documentary Review, a 78-minute DVD, was released on 14 April 2008. The documentary features interviews with those who knew her at a young age, helped her gain success, jazz music experts, as well as music and pop culture specialists. A clip of Winehouse's music is included in the "Roots and Influences" area that looks at connections between different artists at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, which opened in December 2008. One thread starts with Billie Holiday continues with Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige and finishes with Winehouse. In a poll of United States residents conducted for VisitBritain by Harris Interactive that was released in March 2009, one fifth of those polled indicated they had listened to Winehouse's music during the previous year. Winehouse performed with Rhythms del Mundo on their cover of the Sam Cooke song "Cupid" for an Artists Project Earth benefit album that was released on 13 July 2009.
During her 2009 stay in St. Lucia Winehouse worked on new music with producer Salaam Remi. It has been confirmed by Island that a new album is due in 2010, Island co-president Darcus Beese said, "I've heard a couple of song demos that have absolutely floored me". In July 2010 Winehouse was quoted as saying her next album will be released no later than January 2011 saying “It’s going to be very much the same as my second album, where there’s a lot of jukebox stuff and songs that are… just jukebox, really.” Mark Ronson said he has not started to record the album.
The release of Back to Black and the emergence of Lily Allen has been credited by The Sunday Times as directly creating the market for the media proclaimed "the year of the women" in 2009 which has seen five female artists nominated for the Mercury Prize. After the album was released record companies sought out female artists with a similar sound and fearless and experimental female musicians in general. Adele and Duffy were the second wave of artists with a similar sound to Winehouse. A third wave of female musicians that has emerged since the album was released are led by VV Brown, Florence and the Machine, La Roux and Little Boots. In February 2010, rapper Jay-Z credited Winehouse with revitalizing British music, saying, "There's a strong push coming out of London right now, which is great. It's been coming ever since I guess Amy (Winehouse). I mean always, but I think Amy, this resurgence was ushered in by Amy."
Winehouse's tour, however, did not go as well. In November 2007, the opening night of a 17-date tour was marred by booing and walkouts at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham. A music critic for the Birmingham Mail said it was "one of the saddest nights of my life...I saw a supremely talented artist reduced to tears, stumbling around the stage and, unforgivably, swearing at the audience." Other concerts ended similarly, until she announced on 27 November 2007, that her performances and public appearances were cancelled for the remainder of 2007, citing doctor advice to take a complete rest. A statement issued by concert promoter Live Nation blamed "the rigours involved in touring and the intense emotional strain that Amy has been under in recent weeks" for the decision. On 20 February 2008, Winehouse performed at the 2008 BRIT Awards, performing "Valerie" with Mark Ronson, followed by "Love Is a Losing Game". She urged the crowd to "make some noise for my Blake." In Paris, she performed what was described as a "well-executed 40 minute" set at the opening of a Fendi boutique. Although her father, manager and various members of her touring team reportedly tried to dissuade her, Winehouse performed at the Rock in Rio Lisboa festival in Portugal in May 2008.
Winehouse performed at Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Party concert at London's Hyde Park on the 27 June, and the next day at the Glastonbury Festival. On 12 July at the Oxegen Festival she performed a well-received 50 minute set which was followed the next day by a 14 song set a T in the Park. On 16 August she played at the Staffordshire leg of the V Festival the following day played the Chelmsford leg of the festival. Organizers said that Winehouse attracted the biggest crowds of the festival. Audience reaction was reported as mixed. On 6 September she was the headliner at 'Bestival'. She performed what was described as a polished set which ended with her storming off the stage. Her hour late arrival caused her set to be cut off at the halfway point due to a curfew.
In May 2009 Winehouse returned to performing at a jazz festival in St. Lucia amid torrential downpours and technical difficulties. During her hour long set it was reported she was unsteady on her feet and had trouble remembering lyrics. She apologised to the crowd for being "bored" and ended her set by walking off the stage in the middle of a song. To a cheering crowd on 23 August at the V festival, Winehouse sang with The Specials on their songs "You're Wondering Now" and "Ghost Town". In July 2010 she performed "Valarie" with Mark Ronson at a movie premiere. She sang lead but forgot some of the songs lyrics. In December 2010 Winehouse played a 40 minute concert at a Russian oligarch's party in Moscow. Guests included other Russian tycoons and Russian show business stars. The tycoon hand picked the songs she played. She is scheduled to play in Dubai in February 2011 with other artists.
Winehouse was spotted with aspiring actor Josh Bowman on holiday in St. Lucia in early January 2009, saying she was "in love again, and I don't need drugs." She commented that the "whole marriage was based on doing drugs" and that "for the time being I've just forgotten I'm even married." On 25 February, Blake Fielder-Civil was quoted as saying that he planned to continue divorce proceedings to give himself a drug-free fresh start. Uncontested, Upon his request Fielder-Civil received no money in the settlement.
In October 2007, Winehouse and her ex-husband were arrested in Bergen, Norway for possession of seven grams of marijuana. The couple were later released and fined 3850 kroner (around £350). Winehouse first appealed the fines, claiming she was "duped" into confessing, but later dropped the appeal. On 2 December 2007, images of the singer outside her home in the early morning hours, barefoot and wearing only a bra and jeans, appeared on the internet and in tabloid newspapers. In a statement, her spokesperson blamed paparazzi harassment for the incident. The spokesperson reported that the singer was in a physician-supervised program and was channelling her difficulties by writing a lot of music. The British tabloid The Sun posted a video of a woman, alleged to be Winehouse, apparently smoking crack cocaine and speaking of having taken ecstasy and valium. Winehouse's father moved in with her, and Island Records, her record label, announced the abandonment of plans for an American promotion campaign on her behalf.
On 23 January 2008, the video was passed on to the Metropolitan Police, who questioned her on 5 February. To date no charges have been brought. On 26 March 2008, Winehouse's spokesperson said she was "doing well" and denied a published report in a British tabloid that consideration was being given to having her return to rehab. Her record company reportedly believed that her recovery remained fragile. By late April 2008, her erratic behaviour, including an allegation of assault, caused fear that her drug rehabilitation efforts have been unsuccessful, leading to efforts by Winehouse's father and manager to seek assistance in having her sectioned. Her dishevelled appearance during and after a scheduled club night in September sparked new rumors of a relapse. Photographers were quoted as saying she appeared to have cuts on her legs and arms. Pictures published by a magazine in July 2009 upon her return to the United Kingdom from her extended stay in St. Lucia appeared to show that Winehouse had gained weight and that her complexion was improved. In an October 2010 interview Winehouse said she had been drug free for three years saying "I literally woke up one day and was like, ‘I don’t want to do this any more.’”
Winehouse was released from The London Clinic 24 hours after returning from a temporary leave to perform at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday and at a concert in Glastonbury, and is now being treated as an outpatient. On 23 July Winehouse stated that she had been diagnosed with "some areas of emphysema" and said she is getting herself together by "eating loads of healthy food, sleeping loads, playing my guitar, making music and writing letters to my husband every day". Winehouse began precautionary testing on her lungs and chest on 25 October 2008, at The London Clinic for what has been reported as a chest infection. Winehouse who has been in and out of the facility has been granted permission to set her own schedule regarding home leave.
On 5 March 2009, Winehouse was arrested and charged with common assault following a claim by a woman that Winehouse hit her in the eye at a September 2008 Prince's Trust charity ball. Winehouse's spokesperson announced the singer has cancelled a scheduled United States Coachella Festival appearance in "light of current legal issues". Swearing in under her legal name of Amy Jade Civil, Winehouse appeared in court on 17 March to enter her plea of not guilty. On 23 July her assault trial began with prosecutor Lyall Thompson charging that Winehouse acted with "deliberate and unjustifiable violence" while appearing to be under the influence of alcohol or another substance. The woman, Sharene Flash, testified that Winehouse "punched me forcefully in my right eye. She used a fist, her right one. I started crying with shock. I couldn’t open my eye for a while.” Winehouse testified that she did not punch Flash, but tried to push Flash away from her because she was scared of Flash. Winehouse cited her worry that Flash would sell her story to a tabloid, Flash's height advantage, and Flash's "rude" behavior as reasons for her fear of Flash. On the 24 July, District Judge Timothy Workman ruled that Winehouse was not guilty of the charge. Workman cited the facts that all but two of the witnesses were intoxicated at the time of the incident and that medical evidence did not show "the sort of injury that often occurs when there is a forceful punch to the eye". On 19 December 2009, Winehouse was arrested again on charges of common assault, plus another charge of public order offence. Winehouse assaulted the front-of-house manager of the Milton Keynes Theatre after he asked her to move from her seat. On 20 January 2010, she admitted common assault and disorderly behaviour. She was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £85 court costs and £100 compensation to the man she attacked.
In January 2009 Winehouse announced that she was launching her own record label. The first act on her Lioness Records is Winehouse's 13-year-old goddaughter, Dionne Bromfield. Bromfield is scheduled to release her first album which features covers of classic soul records on 12 October. Winehouse is the backing singer on several tracks on the album and she performed backing vocals for Bromfield on the television programme Strictly Come Dancing on 10 October. Winehouse and her family are the subject of a 2009 documentary shot by Daphne Barak entitled Saving Amy. She entered into a joint venture in 2009 with EMI to launch a range of wrapping paper and gift cards containing song lyrics from her album Back to Black. On 8 January 2010 a television documentary My Daughter Amy aired on Channel 4. Saving Amy was released as a paperback book in January 2010. Winehouse has collaborated on a 17 piece fashion collection with the Fred Perry label. It was released for sale in October 2010. According to Fred Perry's marketing director "We had three major design meetings where she was closely involved in product style selection and the application of fabric, colour and styling details,” and gave "crucial input on proportion, colour and fit”. The collection consists of "vintage-inspired looks including capri pants, a bowling dress, a trench coat, pencil skirts, a longline argyle sweater and a pink-and-black checkerboard-printed collared shirt".
She's only 24 with six Grammy nods, crashing headfirst into success and despair, with a codependent husband in jail, exhibitionist parents with questionable judgement, and the paparazzi documenting her emotional and physical distress. Meanwhile, a haute designer Karl Lagerfeld appropriates her dishevelled style and eating issues to market to the elite while proclaiming her the new Bardot.
By 2008, her continued drug problems threatened her career. Even as Nick Gatfield, the president of Island Records, toyed with the idea of releasing Winehouse "to deal with her problems", he remarked on her talent, saying, "It’s a reflection of her status [in the U.S.] that when you flick through the TV coverage [of the Grammys] it’s her image they use." including Natalie Cole, who introduced Winehouse at the ceremony. Cole (who battled her own substance-abuse problems while winning a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1975 In an opinion newspaper commentary, Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said that the alleged drug habits of Winehouse and other celebrities sends a bad message "to others who are vulnerable to addiction" and undermines the efforts of other celebrities trying to raise awareness of problems in Africa, now that more cocaine used in Europe passes through Africa. Winehouse's spokesperson called Costa a "ludicrous man" and noted that "Amy has never given a quote about drugs or flaunted it in any way. She's had some problems and is trying to get better. The U.N. should get its own house in order." Graeme Pearson, the former head of Scotland's drug enforcement agency, criticised Winehouse and Kate Moss for making going to rehab a badge of honour, thus giving the false impression that quitting drugs is easy, because many can not afford to go to clinics.
Winehouse has become a staple in popularity polls. The 2008 NME Awards nominated Winehouse in the categories of "Villain of the Year", "Best Solo Artist", and "Best Music DVD"; Winehouse won for "Worst Dressed Performer". In its third annual list, Glamour magazine named Winehouse the third worst dressed British Woman. Winehouse was ranked number two on Richard Blackwell's 48th annual "Ten Worst Dressed Women" list, behind Victoria Beckham. In an April 2008 poll conducted by Sky News, Winehouse was named the second greatest "ultimate heroine" by the UK population at large, topping the voting for that category of those polled under 25 years old. Winehouse was voted the second most hated personality in the United Kingdom in a poll conducted one month later by Marketing magazine.
June 2008 brought a report that Winehouse, singing a disparaging chant about blacks, the disabled, and homosexuals, and containing racial epithets about Pakistanis and Indians, was taped by her former husband Fielder-Civil, despite assurances to her that he was not filming. Winehouse denied allegations that she was a racist, saying "I don't want to play anything down, but I'm the least racist person going." British singer and songwriter Lily Allen was quoted in a Scottish newspaper as saying "I know Amy Winehouse very well. And she is very different to what people portray her as being. Yes, she does get out of her mind on drugs sometimes, but she is also a very clever, intelligent, witty, funny person who can hold it together. You just don't see that side".
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