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Franco De Vita (born January 23, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a singer-songwriter of Latin music. His first disc as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the Sony label in 1988, and in 1990, his album ''Extranjero'' had a song that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award. His 2004 album ''Stop'' reached the Top 10 throughout Latin America and on the U.S. Latin charts.

Career

1980s

Seeking wider international exposure, De Vita moved to the Sony label for the 1988 album ''Al Norte Del Sur''. The album showed his socially-conscious, adult-oriented pop, particularly through the tunes "Te Amo" and "Louis". The latter song, about a daydreaming cabbie who idolizes The Beatles, was promoted with a music video considered quite advanced for its time. De Vita's 1990 album ''Extranjero'' featured the song "No Basta", which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award.

1990s

2000s

In 2005, an expanded edition of ''Stop'' was released, titled ''Stop + Algo Más'', that included remixes and live recordings, as well as ''No Sé Lo Que Me Das'', De Vita's first recording in English. The following year saw the release of ''Mil y Una Historias En Vivo,'' a two-disc live album that also featured four studio tracks, including collaborations with Alejandro Fernández and Diego El Cigala. A DVD version was released simultaneously.

In 2007, De Vita collaborated on a single with reggaeton duo Wisin Y Yandel called "Oye Donde Esta El Amor", which borrowed the chorus from his composition "Donde Esta El Amor." They released an updated version of "Un Buen Perdedor" that peaked at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Latin Songs chart. In 2008, he re-recorded "Que No Muera La Esperanza" (originally featured on ''Voces A Mi Alrededor'') with Wisin y Yandel, as well as releasing a new studio album, Simplemente La Verdad.

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Early years

Singing career

In 1986, Santa Rosa formed his own band and signed with Combo Records; a string of hits followed, such as "''Good Vibration''", "''De Amor y Salsa''" (Of Love and Salsa), "''Punto de Vista''" (Point of View), "''Vivir Sin Ella''" (Living without Her) and "''Perspectiva''".

Santa Rosa was also the first singer of tropical salsa to carry out a concert at the Carnegie Hall Theater, in New York, where he performed as the opening number, his unique version of the salsa tune, "Represento" (I Represent), composed by Lou Briel. This event was recorded live at the hall, and later released as an album. A highlight of the night was the four-minute unscripted addition he made to his song "''Perdoname''" (Forgive Me), which solidified his improvisational talent. This live version became such a sensation thereafter that Santa Rosa had to memorize his own improvised lines for future concerts, and Perdoname became the closing song to his shows.

In 1990, Santa Rosa joined the all star "La Puertoriqueña" project which included Andy Montañez; in the same year he was awarded the Billboard Lo Nuestro Award for Best Male Singer. He also participated in the play "''La Pareja Dispareja''" (The Odd Couple) alongside Luis Vigoreaux and Rafo Muñiz. In 1995, Santa Rosa traveled to Japan as Puerto Rico's Good Will Ambassador, where he sang "''De Cara al Viento''" (Facing the Wind) in Japanese. In 1996, the greatest hits album "''Caballero de la Salsa, Vol 2''" was released and he also participated in the First "Festival Presidente" in the Dominican Republic (a Latin music festival sponsored by local Presidente beer). In 1997, he sang with Andy Montañez in New Yorks Lincoln Center and later that year, with Olga Tañon at the Universal Studios Amphitheater in Hollywood, California.

2000s

Santa Rosa has taken on himself the task of keeping Tito Rodríguez's musical legacy alive and has acquired much of Tito's memorabilia, including articles of clothing, music and furniture from his home in Puerto Rico. Santa Rosa has staged several concerts and dances honoring the late singer, and recorded an album of his where with the use of modern technology, he sings "En la Soledad" (In Solitude), composed by Puchi Balseiro in a duet with him . During the week of February 24, 2003 Santa Rosa organized a two-night concert at the Center of the Performing Arts in Caguas, Puerto Rico. As an introduction to the event, he arranged for his private collection of Tito Rodríguez memorabilia to be exhibited in the lobby of the center. In 2004, he released "Autentico".

In addition, he has long played an important role in the career of his friend and protege, Víctor Manuelle, who Santa Rosa discovered. The two released a joint live album late in 2005, "''Dos Soneros, Una Historia''." In 2006, he released, "Directo Al Corazon", and in 2007 he carried out a concert acknowledged by the critics, in Plaza Colón at Santo Domingo and released ''Contraste'' with ''Conteo Regresivo'' being a major album hit. Furthermore, he performs alongside Chucho Avellanet, a musical comedy club-act called, ''Cantando y Contando'', (''Singing & Telling Stories''), throughout the island.

On February 9, 2008 Santa Rosa participated in an event named "Concierto del amor" which was organized in the Madison Square Garden. In June 2008, "Contraste" received ''Gold'' and ''Platinum'' certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. According to the organization, the production has sold over 1,500,000 copies. At the moment of certification, the album's first single "Conteo regresive" had been sixteen weeks in the first place among Billboard's tropical list. Meanwhile "No te vayas" began gaining positions in the same list. After participating in New York City's Puerto Rican Day Parade, Santa Rosa prepared to begin an international tour beginning on June 13, 2008, in New Orleans before proceeding to Tampa, Florida, Ecuador, Chile, Spain, Colombia and Mexico. The concert in Chile, on June 28, 2008, was Santa Rosa's first ever in said country. the event took place in the Caupolicán Theatre and was attended by approximately 8,000 fans. On July 5, 2008, Santa Rosa became the first salsa singer to perform at the ''Palau de la Música'' in Barcelona. The event was a Sold Out, filling the venue with an attendance of 2,000. Santa Rosa was selected to perform at the "Balón de Oro" award ceremony, the most important condecoration in Mexican Football. Santa Rosa was selected to take part in "La Nueva Salsa", where he would perform along several young salsa artists. Santa Rosa has also contributed to improving Puerto Rico's public education system. He participated in Sapientis Week, an initiative sponsored by the non-profit Sapientis which brings distinguished public figures into classrooms in order to raise the public's awareness of the education crisis in Puerto Rico. On July 17, 2010, he participated in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.

Awards and recognition

Discography

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Firpo was born in the Flores district of Buenos Aires, where his father owned a grocery store. Firpo left school at 15 to work with his father and then several other companies, he eventually saved 200 Pesos (around US$100, at the time) to buy his first piano.

Around 1903 he began to have lessons with one of the greats of the period, Alfredo Bevilacqua. In 1907 he began composing and performing.

During his career Firpo played in most of the famous Buenos Aires tango venues such as the Armenonville, El tambito, Palais de Glace, Bar Iglesias, L’Abbaye, Teatro Buenos Aires, Teatro Nacional, Salón San Martín and Colonia Italiana.

In 1930 he gave up his tango career for a short while to try his hand at cattle ranching, but he was forced to return to tango after floods decimated his stock and he lost the rest of his fortune on the stock market.

Firpo retired in 1959 and died on June 14, 1969.

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Life and career

His roles in movies include ''White Line Fever'', ''The Terminator'', ''All The Right Moves'', ''Night of the Creeps'', ''Small Soldiers'', ''It Conquered the World'', ''Bucket of Blood'', ''The Little Shop of Horrors'', the ''Tales from the Crypt'' movie ''Demon Knight'', ''Amazon Women on the Moon'', ''Chopping Mall'', ''The Howling'', ''Piranha'' and ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand''. His best known role was in the movies ''Gremlins'' and ''Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' as Murray Futterman. He appeared in ''Pulp Fiction'' as Monster Joe, but his scene and a few others were deleted because of the length of the film.

His television credits include ''V: The Final Battle'' as Dan Pascal, and appearances on ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' in the season 1 episode "The Big Goodbye" as the newspaper stand man in the holodeck, ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' in the season 3 two-part episode "Past Tense" as Vin, ''Time of Your Life'', and he voiced the gangster Chuckie Sol in the animated feature film ''Batman: Mask of the Phantasm''. Miller has also directed television shows, including "The Fix" a 1986 episode of the series ''Miami Vice''.

In 2000, Miller was featured alongside former collaborators including Roger Corman, Sam Arkoff and Peter Bogdanovich in the documentary ''SCHLOCK! The Secret History of American Movies'', a film about the rise and fall of American exploitation cinema.

Walter Paisley

As of 2011, the character name has actually appeared seven times on film, with Miller providing six of these portrayals:

The name first appeared in the Roger Corman film ''A Bucket of Blood''. In that film, Paisley is a busboy who becomes an artist of sorts by killing his subjects and covering them in clay. In 1976, Miller once again played a character named Walter Paisley—this time a talent agent—in another Corman production, ''Hollywood Boulevard'', directed by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante.

Dante cast Miller as another character named Walter Paisley in the 1981 film ''The Howling''. This time, Paisley is the owner of an occult bookshop. Two years later, the name popped up again for another Miller character, the owner of a diner in the third segment of ''Twilight Zone: The Movie.'' 1986's ''Chopping Mall'' featured a janitor named Walter Paisley, and the 1994 made-for-TV remake of ''Shake, Rattle and Rock!'' had Miller playing a character named Officer Paisley. In 1995, ''A Bucket of Blood'' was remade, with Anthony Michael Hall as Walter Paisley.

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