Mahal

Wednesday, 02 January 2013

mas mahal na kita ngayon (young men) official music video

Mahal Kita Kasi - Nicole Hyala (w/ lyrics)

Guided tour of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India

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Malé
Malé (/ˈmɑːl.eɪ/; /məːle/; Dhivehi: މާލެ), is the capital and most populous city in the Republic of Maldives. It is located at the southern edge of North Malé Atoll (Kaafu Atoll). It is also one of the Administrative divisions of the Maldives. Traditionally it was the King's Island, from where the ancient Maldive Royal dynasties ruled and where the palace was located. The city was also called Mahal. Formerly it was a walled city surrounded by fortifications and gates (doroshi). The Royal Palace (Gan'duvaru) was destroyed along with the picturesque forts (kotte) and bastions (buruzu) when the city was remodelled under President Ibrahim Nasir's rule after the abolition of the monarchy. However, the beautifully decorated Malé Hukuru Miskiy remains. In recent years, the island has been considerably expanded through landfilling operations. Over the years there have been many coup attempts and protests centered in Male as a result of demand for greater democracy in the Maldives.^{[citation needed]}

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Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal ( /ˈtɑːdʒ/ or /ˈtɑːʒ məˈhɑːl/;Hindi: ताज महल, from Persian/Urdu: تاج محل "crown of palaces", pronounced [ˈt̪aːdʒ mɛˈɦɛl]; also "the Taj") is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.It coveres area about 221 hectare (552 Acres) which include 38 hectare taj mahal and 183 hectare taj protected forest are."
Taj Mahal is the finest example of Mughal architecture, a style that combines elements from Persian, Turkish and Indian architectural styles.
In 1983, the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While the white domed marble mausoleum is the most familiar component of the Taj Mahal, it is actually an integrated complex of structures. The construction began around 1632 and was completed around 1653, employing thousands of artisans and craftsmen. The construction of the Taj Mahal was entrusted to a board of architects under imperial supervision, including Abd ul-Karim Ma'mur Khan, Makramat Khan, and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. Lahauri is generally considered to be the principal designer.

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Al Jarreau
Alwin "Al" Lopez Jarreau (born March 12, 1940) is a seven-time Grammy Award winning American jazz singer.
Jarreau was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the fifth of six children. His website refers to Reservoir, Inc., the name of the street where he lived. His father was a Seventh-Day Adventist Church minister and singer, and his mother was a church pianist. He and his family sang together in church concerts and in benefits, and he and his mother performed at PTA meetings.
He was student council president and Badger Boys State delegate for Lincoln High School, going on to Ripon College, where he also sang with a group called the Indigos. Jarreau graduated in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. He went on to earn a master's degree in vocational rehabilitation from the University of Iowa, worked as a Rehabilitation Counselor in San Francisco and moonlighted with a jazz trio headed by George Duke.
In 1967, he joined forces with acoustic guitarist Julio Martinez. The duo became the star attraction at a small Sausalito night club called Gatsby's. This success contributed to Jarreau's decision to make professional singing his life and full-time career.

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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( /ɡɨˈlɛspi/; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer and, occasionally, singer.
Allmusic's Scott Yanow wrote, "Dizzy Gillespie's contributions to jazz were huge. One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead, and it was not until Jon Faddis's emergence in the 1970s that Dizzy's style was successfully recreated . . . Arguably Gillespie is remembered, by both critics and fans alike, as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time."
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unknown in jazz. His beret and horn-rimmed spectacles, his scat singing, his bent horn, pouched cheeks and his light-hearted personality were essential in popularizing bebop.
In the 1940s Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, became a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz. He taught and influenced many other musicians, including trumpeters Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Lee Morgan, Jon Faddis and Chuck Mangione.

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Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia, the child of a common-law marriage between William and Temperance "Tempie" Fitzgerald. The pair separated soon after her birth and she and her mother went to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with Tempie's longtime boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva. Fitzgerald's half-sister, Frances Da Silva, was born in 1923. She and her family were Methodists and were active in the Bethany African Methodist Episcopal Church and she regularly attended worship services, Bible study, and Sunday School.

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Elza Soares
Elza Soares (born June 23, 1937) is a Brazilian samba singer. She was married to Brazilian football player Garrincha.
Born and raised in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, Soares took part in a singing contest presented by the renowned Brazilian musician Ary Barroso, and received the highest marks. In the late 1950s, Soares spent one year touring Argentina with Mercedes Batista. Soares became popular with her first single "Se Acaso Você Chegasse", on which she introduced the scat à la Louis Armstrong, adding a bit of jazz to samba. She moved to São Paulo, where she performed at theaters and night clubs. Her husky voice became her trademark. After finishing her second LP record, A Bossa Negra, Elza went to Chile to represent Brazil in the 1962 Football World Cup. Her outgoing and over-the-edge style fascinated audiences in Brazil and abroad.
In the 1970s, she toured the U.S. and Europe. She has been singing for more than 40 years. In 2000, she was awarded "Best Singer of the Millennium" by the BBC in London, where she performed in a concert with Gal Costa, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and Virgínia Rodrigues. That same year, she played a series of avant-garde concerts directed by José Miguel Wisnik in Rio de Janeiro.

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Fela Kuti
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997), or simply Fela ([feˈlæ]), was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.
Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers. His brothers, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. Fela was a first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.
Fela was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music. While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife. In 1960, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola). In 1963, Fela moved back to Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He played for some time with Victor Olaiya and his All Stars.

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George Benson
George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is a ten time Grammy Award winning American musician, whose production career began at the age of twenty-one as a jazz guitarist.
Benson first came to prominence in the 1960s playing soul jazz with the likes of Jack McDuff. Benson then launched a successful solo career, alternating between jazz, pop, R&B singing, and scat singing. This one-time child prodigy topped the Billboard 200 in 1976 with the triple-platinum album, Breezin', He was also a major live attraction in the UK during the 1980s and continues to attract a large following today. Benson uses a rest-stroke picking technique similar to that of gypsy jazz players such as Django Reinhardt.
Benson was born and raised in the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the age of 7, Benson first played the ukulele in a corner drug store for which he was paid a few dollars; at the age of 8, he was playing guitar in an unlicensed nightclub on Friday and Saturday nights which was soon closed down by the police. At the age of 10, George recorded his first single record with RCA-Victor in New York, called 'She Makes Me Mad'.

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Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiɫˈbɛʁtu ʒiɫ]) or (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiu̯ˈbɛɾtʊ ʒiu̯]), is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Brazil's Minister of Culture in the administration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Gil's musical style incorporates an eclectic range of influences, including Rock music, Brazilian genres including samba, African music, and reggae.
Gil started to play music as a child and was still a teenager when he joined his first band. He began his career as a bossa nova musician, and then grew to write songs that reflected a focus on political awareness and social activism. He was a key figure in the Música Popular Brasileira and tropicália movements of the 1960s, alongside artists such as longtime collaborator Caetano Veloso. The Brazilian military regime that took power in 1964 saw both Gil and Veloso as a threat, and the two were held for nine months in 1969 before they were told to leave the country. Gil moved to London, but returned to state of Bahia in 1972 and continued his musical career, as well as working as a politician and environmental advocate.

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Jorge Ben Jor
Jorge Ben Jor (born March 22, 1945 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian popular musician. His characteristic style fuses samba, funk, and rock into samba rock, with lyrics that blend humor and satire with often esoteric subject matter.
Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he first took the stage name Jorge Ben after his mother's name (of Ethiopian origin) but in the 1980s changed it to Jorge Ben Jor (commonly written Benjor), allegedly in response to an incident where some of his royalties accidentally went to American guitarist George Benson.
Jorge Ben obtained his first pandeiro (Brazil's most popular type of tambourine) when he was thirteen, and two years later, was singing in a church choir. He also took part as a pandeiro player in the blocos of Carnival, and from eighteen years of age, he began performing at parties and nightclubs with the guitar his mother gave him.
It was at one of those clubs in which he performed that his musical career took off. In 1963, Jorge came on stage and sang "Mas Que Nada" (or "no way") to a small crowd that happened to include an executive from the recording company, Philips. One week later, Jorge Ben's first single was released.

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João Gilberto
João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒwɐ̃w ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; June 10, 1931), is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. His seminal recordings, including many songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, established the new musical genre of Bossa nova in the late 1950s.
João Gilberto was born in Juazeiro, Bahia. From an early age, music was a part of Gilberto's life. His grandfather bought him his first guitar at the age of 14. During high school, Gilberto teamed up with some of his classmates to form a small band. Gilberto, who led the band, was influenced by Brazilian popular songs, American jazz, and even some opera, among other genres. After trying his luck as a radio singer in Salvador, Bahia, the young Gilberto was recruited in 1950 as lead singer of the vocal quintet Garotos da Lua (Moon Boys) and moved to Rio de Janeiro. A year and a half later, he was dismissed from the group for his lack of discipline (he would often show up late to rehearsals or not at all).

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Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson CC CQ OOnt (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won eight Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career. He is considered to have been one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, having played thousands of live concerts to audiences worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years.
Peterson was born to immigrants from the West Indies; his father worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway. Peterson grew up in the neighbourhood of Little Burgundy in Montreal, Quebec. It was in this predominantly black neighbourhood that he found himself surrounded by the jazz culture that flourished in the early 20th century. At the age of five, Peterson began honing his skills with the trumpet and piano. However, a bout of tuberculosis at age seven prevented him from playing the trumpet again, and so he directed all his attention to the piano. His father, Daniel Peterson, an amateur trumpeter and pianist, was one of his first music teachers, and his sister Daisy taught young Oscar classical piano. Young Oscar was persistent at practising scales and classical etudes daily, and thanks to such arduous practice he developed his astonishing virtuosity.

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Rod Stewart
Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer-songwriter, born and raised in North London, England, and currently residing in Epping. He is of Scottish and English ancestry.
With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US: The Rod Stewart Album). His work with The Jeff Beck Group and Faces influenced heavy metal genres.
With his career in its fifth decade, Stewart has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best selling artists of all time. In the UK, he has had six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. He has had 16 top ten singles in the U.S, with four of these reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him the 17th most successful artist on the "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists". He was voted at #33 in Q Magazine's list of the top 100 Greatest Singers of all time, and #59 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Singers of all time. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and was inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012.

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Sérgio Mendes
Sérgio Santos Mendes (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɛχʒiu ˈsɐ̃tuʒ ˈmẽdʒiʃ]; born February 11, 1941 in Niterói, Brazil) is a Brazilian musician. He has over fifty-five releases, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2012 as co-writer of the song "Real In Rio" from the animated film Rio.
Mendes is married to Gracinha Leporace who has performed with her husband since the early 1970s. He has collaborated with many artists through the years, including the Black Eyed Peas, with whom he re-recorded a version of his original breakthrough hit "Mas Que Nada".
The child of a physician in Niterói, Brazil, Mendes attended the local conservatory with hopes of becoming a classical pianist. As his interest in jazz grew, he started playing in nightclubs in the late-1950s just as bossa nova, a jazz-inflected derivative of samba, was emerging. Mendes played with Antonio Carlos Jobim (regarded as a mentor) and many U.S. jazz musicians who toured Brazil.

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Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli Greene (October 3, 1975), better known as Talib Kweli, is an American rapper. Kweli hails from Brooklyn, New York. His first name in Arabic means "student" or "seeker" (طالب); his middle name in Swahili means "true". Kweli first gained recognition through Black Star, a collaboration with fellow MC Mos Def.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Kweli grew up in a highly educated household in Park Slope. His mother, Brenda Greene, is an English professor at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York and his father an administrator at Adelphi University. His younger brother, Jamal Greene, is a professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia Law School, and former clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. As a youth, he was drawn to Afrocentric rappers, such as De La Soul and other members of the Native Tongues Posse whom he had met in high school. Talib Kweli was a student at Cheshire Academy, a boarding school in Connecticut. He was also a student at Brooklyn Technical High School, before being academically dismissed. He later studied experimental theater at New York University.

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Wilson Simonal
Wilson Simonal Castro (Rio de Janeiro, February 23, 1938 - June 25, 2000) was a Brazilian singer very successful in the 1960s and 1970s, coming to lead a program on TV Tupi, Spotlight, and two programs on TV Record, "Show em Si...Monal .." and "Vamos S'imbora" and sign what was considered at the time the largest advertising contract for a Brazilian artist, with the British company Shell. Simonal saw his career go into decline after an episode in which his name was associated with DOPS, (The Department of Political and Social Order, a secret police agency in Brazil), involving the torture of accountant Raphael Viviani. [2] The singer was eventually prosecuted and convicted of extortion through kidnapping [1]. In the course of this process he drafted a document saying he was an informant, which eventually led to ostracism and pariah status of his popular music. [1] His main achievements are Balanço Zona Sul, Lobo Bobo, Mamãe Passou Açúcar em Mim, Nem Vem Que Não Tem, which was used in an IKEA TV commercial in the US, Tributo a Martin Luther King, Sá Marina (which came to be rewritten by Stevie Wonder, as Pretty World), País Tropical, Jorge Ben, who would be his greatest commercial success, and Life Is Just to sing. Simonal had a daughter, Patricia, and two sons, also musicians: Simoninha Wilson and Max de Castro.

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Zico
Arthur Antunes Coimbra (Portuguese pronunciation: [aʁˈtuʁ ɐ̃ˈtũnis koˈĩbɾɐ], born 3 March 1953 in Rio de Janeiro), better known as Zico ([ˈziku]), is a Brazilian coach and former footballer. He is the current head coach of the Iraq national football team. Often called the "White Pelé", he is commonly considered one of the most skilled finishers and one of the best passers ever and possibly the world's best player of the early 80's. He was also known as one of history's greatest free kick specialists, able to bend the ball with pace. The gifted midfielder was named by Pelé as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. Also according to Pelé, generally considered the best footballer ever, "throughout the years, the one player that came closest to me was Zico".
Zico scored 52 goals in 72 international matches for Brazil, and represented them in the 1978, 1982 and 1986 World Cups. They did not win any of those tournaments, even though the 1982 squad is considered one of the greatest Brazilian national squads ever. Zico is often considered one of the best players in football history not to have been on a World Cup winning squad. He was chosen 1981 and 1983 Player of the Year.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a ceremony to reopen the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012.

North Korea's leader calls for peace with South in New Year's speech

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

02 Jan 2013

SEOUL -- In a domestically televised New Year's Day speech, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un said he wanted to "remove confrontation" on this divided peninsula and called on "anti-reunification forces" in South Korea to cease their hostility toward the North. The lengthy address, which laid out the national goals for 2013, marked Mr ... Mr. Kim on Tuesday asked for a detente -- but with prerequisites that the conservative Ms ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)

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File - Ram Herder, 89, is shown on May 22, 2008 in his Sanders, Ariz. home that was provided by the federal government as part of a massive relocation project to move Navajos from land Congress said belonged to the Hopi Tribe.

A New Year's Resolution: An Apology Day?

WorldNews.com

01 Jan 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. For good reason Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, is deeply offended that buried on page 45 of the 2010 Defense Appropriation Act (after pages on the maintenance and operation of the United States Military) is an "official" apology to Native American People ... political leaders and officials find it extremely difficult in expressing remorse for past mistakes ... Escorted by the U.S....(size: 5.6Kb)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures while posing for photographs after recording her annual New Year's speech at the chancellery in Berlin Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012.

Merkel warns Germans of tough economic times ahead

BBC News

31 Dec 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that the German economic climate in 2013 will be "even more difficult". In her new year message, she also cautioned that the eurozone debt crisis was far from over. However, she did say that reforms designed to address the roots of the problem were beginning to bear fruit ... In a taped interview to be broadcast later on Monday, Mrs Merkel urged Germans to be more patient ... Voters 'wary' ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)

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An Ivory Coast troop stands next to the belongings of people involved in a deadly stampede in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Tuesday, Jan. 1 2013.

Stampede after fireworks kills 61 in Ivory Coast

The Guardian

01 Jan 2013

INZA BAKAYOKO. Associated Press= ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year's fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast's commercial center, killing 61 people — many of them youths — and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said. The death toll was expected to rise, the officials said ... Issa Sako of the fire department rescue team.....(size: 8.1Kb)

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Pakistani men carry the body of a teacher, who was killed by gunmen, from a hospital for burial in Swabi, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.

7 teachers, health workers gunned down in Pakistan

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

02 Jan 2013

ISLAMABAD -- Continuing a militant campaign of violence against aid workers in Pakistan, gunmen Tuesday shot dead seven Pakistani teachers and health workers, six of them women, police officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility ... The victims worked for the private Pakistani aid group Support With Working Solution, which works in the health and education sectors ... "One child, aged 7 to 8 years, miraculously survived." ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)

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Jungle Mahal home plan hits a wall - CPM cites Trinamul terror, Maoist menace and ...

The Telegraph India

02 Jan 2013

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Traffic jams likely today

The Times of India

02 Jan 2013

The procession will move from Pahari Bhojla through Chitli Qabar, Bazar Matia Mahal, Jama Masjid chowk, Chawri Bazar, Hauz Qazi, Ajmeri Gate, Pahar Ganj Bridge, Chelmsford Road, Connaught ......(size: 1.0Kb)

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Sacramento Bee

02 Jan 2013

Holes in one must be faxed on the golf course's stationery to The Bee at (916) 326-5503. Dec. 14 ... Dec. 24 ... Thursday ... Friday ... • Amripal Mahal, 178-yard second hole at Bradshaw, 4-iron....(size: 1.1Kb)

Second Pak panel visit likely by Jan-end

Indian Express

02 Jan 2013

The witnesses are Metropolitan Magistrate Rama Vijay Sawant-Waghule, who recorded the confessional statement of hanged terrorist Ajmal Kasab, Chief Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale and two doctors from the state-run Nair and JJ Hospitals, who had conducted autopsies of nine terrorists. The cross-examination of the four witnesses is required to take the ongoing 26/11 trial in a Rawalpindi court to its logical conclusion ... contd....(size: 1.9Kb)

Medical & Cancer camp to be held on Jan. 6

The Siasat Daily

02 Jan 2013

Hyderabad, January 02 .. A meeting of Minorities Development Forum was held at Siasat office located at Abids, in which it has been decided to conduct medical camp on Sunday, January 6, from 9 to 4 pm, at Sana Garden Function Hall opposite Sardar Mahal, Charminar ... Mr. Zahed Ali Khan editor Siasat, Mr ... Siasat news. Recommend Twitter. Comments(0)....(size: 2.1Kb)

Special drive to issue driving licences for students in Madurai

The Times of India

02 Jan 2013

MADURAI ... He was addressing students at the Mannar Thirumalai Naicker mahal during the inauguration of a week-long awareness campaign on road safety on the sidelines of 24th Road Safety Week campaign organised by The Citizen's Association for Traffic Improvement in Madurai (CATIM) along with Lions Club ... Accidents due to defects in the vehicle and bad road conditions are the causes for only 3.33% of the accidents." ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)

2013 bucket list

Sun Star

02 Jan 2013

IT'S the start of a new year and I am looking forward to another year of traveling, discovering and fulfilling the dreams of a man overwhelmed by wanderlust ... Two entries in the bucket list were ticked ... India. To Kerala, primarily, to take up a teacher’s course in yoga and do a side trip to Agra to see the Taj Mahal, New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore or wherever my feet and the train may take me ... Japan ... The Scandinavia ... Maybe I should climb Mt....(size: 3.0Kb)

26/11: Pak judicial panel to arrive in India by end of January

The Siasat Daily

02 Jan 2013

January 01 . ... The Home Ministry will approach the Bombay High Court within a day or two to seek its approval for the visit. The witnesses are Metropolitan Magistrate Rama Vijay Sawant-Waghule, who recorded the confessional statement of hanged terrorist Ajmal Kasab, Chief Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale and two doctors from the state-run Nair and JJ Hospitals who had conducted autopsies of nine terrorists ... Recommend Twitter....(size: 3.0Kb)

Utzurrum: The giving season is a blessing

Sun Star

02 Jan 2013

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Kite aficionados throng Old City markets

The Times of India

02 Jan 2013

HYDERABAD. With Sankranti barely a fortnight away, kite enthusiasts from all over the city are making a beeline for shops in the bustling patang markets of the Old City ... "What ensues is a battle of wit and skill among family members ... Venu Gopal Bajaj from Bajaj Patang Mahal in Gulzar Hauz says, "Thankfully, the tension in the Old City has eased before Sankranti which is why we expect good business," he says ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)

In the wake of the Delhi bus rape, what is the future for India?

The Guardian

02 Jan 2013

The gang rape and murder of a young woman last month has sparked furious protests in India – and given voice to an emerging political class. It has also highlighted the urban sprawl and violence that lie behind the country's booming economy ... Photograph ... The district may be only a few hours drive from the Taj Mahal but honour killings, banditry and violence between castes, the tenacious millennia-old social hierarchy, are endemic there ... ....(size: 14.9Kb)

In India, apathy towards women begins in the womb

Sydney Morning Herald

01 Jan 2013

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Pak judicial panel to arrive in India by end of January

Zeenews

01 Jan 2013

New Delhi ... The witnesses are Metropolitan Magistrate Rama Vijay Sawant-Waghule, who recorded the confessional statement of hanged terrorist Ajmal Kasab, Chief Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale and two doctors from the state-run Nair and JJ Hospitals who had conducted autopsies of nine terrorists ... PTI ... First Published ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)

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Look up mahal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Mahal may refer to:

1 Geography
2 Languages
3 Films
4 Other
5 See also

Geography [link]

Mahal, India, a small town in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, India
Malé, the capital of Maldives
Mahalle, Turkish language country subdivision or neighbourhood term
Mahalla, an Arabic language country subdivision or neighbourhood term
Măhal, a village in Sânmartin Commune, Cluj County, Romania

Languages [link]

Mahal dialect (also spelled 'Mahl') which is the dialect of Dhivehi language spoken on Minicoy Island, India.

Films [link]

Mahal (1949 film), Indian film directed by Kamal Amrohi and starring Ashok Kumar and Madhubala
Mahal (1969 film), Indian film directed by Shanker Mukherjee

Other [link]

Mahal (Israel), foreign military volunteers in Israel
Aulë, a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium also named Mahal

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Jorge Ben Jor
Jorge Ben Jor, April 27, 2008
Background information
Birth name	Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes
Born	(1945-03-22) March 22, 1945 (age 67)
Origin	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Genres	MPB, samba rock, samba, tropicália, funk, bossa nova, rock and roll
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician
Years active	1963–present
Website	http://www.jorgebenjor.com.br/

Jorge Ben Jor (born March 22, 1945 in Rio de Janeiro)^[1] is a Brazilian popular musician. His characteristic style fuses samba, funk, and rock into samba rock, with lyrics that blend humor and satire with often esoteric subject matter.^[2]

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 References
4 External links

Biography [link]

Early life and career [link]

Born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes, he first took the stage name Jorge Ben after his mother's name (of Ethiopian origin)^[3] but in the 1980s changed it to Jorge Ben Jor (commonly written Benjor), allegedly in response to an incident where some of his royalties accidentally went to American guitarist George Benson.

Jorge Ben obtained his first pandeiro (Brazil's most popular type of tambourine) when he was thirteen, and two years later, was singing in a church choir. He also took part as a pandeiro player in the blocos of Carnival, and from eighteen years of age, he began performing at parties and nightclubs with the guitar his mother gave him.

It was at one of those clubs in which he performed that his musical career took off. In 1963, Jorge came on stage and sang "Mas Que Nada" (or "no way") to a small crowd that happened to include an executive from the recording company, Philips. One week later, Jorge Ben's first single was released.

The hybrid rhythms that Jorge employed brought him some problems at the start of his career, when Brazilian music was split between the rockier sounds of the Jovem Guarda and traditional samba with its complex lyrics. But as that phase in Brazilian pop music history passed, and bossa nova became more well known throughout the world, Jorge rose to prominence.

Jorge Ben's first public appearances were in small festivals organised by his friends, where bossa nova and rock and roll predominated. As with most musicians of the time, Jorge was initially influenced by João Gilberto even though he was quite innovative in his own right. The aforementioned song, "Mas Que Nada", was his first big hit in Brazil, and remains to this day the most played song in the USA sung entirely in Portuguese. Outside of Brazil, the song is better known by its cover versions from both Sérgio Mendes and Tamba Trio. The song has also been reinterpreted by jazz luminaries such as Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie and Al Jarreau; as well as other samba artists of the time, such as Elza Soares. His song 1976 song about soccer, called"Umbabarauma", is a tune which is also frequently covered by many artists—of many genres.It was originally featured on his album África Brasil.

Success [link]

Jorge Ben at Live Earth in 2007

In 1969, Jorge Ben released his self-titled album amid the excitement of the cultural and musical Tropicália movement. The album featured Trio Mocotó as his backing band, who would go on to launch a successful career on the back of their association with Ben. The album was noted for "País Tropical," one of his most famous compositions, although it would be Wilson Simonal who would take his recording of the song to the top of the charts in Brazil that same year. Instead, the song "Charles, Anjo 45", also from the self-titled album, would become Ben's biggest self-performed chart hit of the year.

In the 1970s, Jorge Ben released his most esoteric and experimental albums, most notably "A Tábua de Esmeralda" in 1974, "Solta o Pavão" in 1975 and "África Brasil" in 1976; the latter album's track "Xica da Silva" receiving a single release in many territories in Europe but retitled as "Chica da Silva" for ease of pronunciation. These three albums were not greeted with much popular success at the time but are regarded as classics today.

In 1989, Jorge changed his recording label as well as his artistic name, becoming Jorge Benjor (or Jorge Ben Jor). At the time, it was said that there were numerological reasons for his change in name, although it did in fact have more to do with problems in relation to his rights as a composer of music. Nonetheless, from this point on, Jorge's music became more pop oriented even though it did manage to maintain its swing.

He is known internationally as the composer of the Sérgio Mendes hit "Mas Que Nada", his own hit single "Taj Mahal" is recognizable (and was legally recognized in a plagiarism lawsuit) as the source of the melody in Rod Stewart's hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?". "Taj Mahal" originally appeared on 1972's "Ben" album, becoming a big hit on the charts in Brazil that year. An alternative version of the track also appeared on the 1977 album "Tropical"; this was an attempt to add soul and disco to his sound, after which he reverted to more familiar ways. Additionally, versions appear on Ben's 1975 collaboration with Gilberto Gil and his 1976 África Brasil album.

Recent career [link]

In 2002, Jorge Ben contributed to the critically acclaimed Red Hot + Riot, a compilation CD created by the Red Hot Organization in tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, that raised money for various charities devoted to raising AIDS awareness and fighting the disease. He collaborated with fellow hip-hop artists Dead Prez, Talib Kweli, and Bilal to remake the famous song by Fela Kuti, "Shuffering and Shmiling," for the CD.

In 2006, a remake of Ben Jor's "Mas Que Nada" became an international chart hit for Sérgio Mendes with The Black Eyed Peas after being used by Nike in a global TV advertisement during the 2006 FIFA World Cup; this remake (the second time Mendes had covered the track) reached the Top 10 in several European countries, including the UK and Germany, in addition to reaching Number 1 in the Netherlands.

He is also a big fan of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, a Brazilian football club, located in Rio de Janeiro, where Zico, Junior and Leandro are among former stars. His passion is demonstrated in a song he wrote, called "Flamengo;" Flamengo's crest also features in the cover of the 1969 album "Jorge Ben." Ben's "Camisa 10 da Gávea" is an ode to Zico.

On 7 July 2007 he performed at the Brazilian leg of Live Earth in Rio de Janeiro.

Discography [link]

Jorge Ben in concert in Paris.

1963: Samba Esquema Novo
1964: Ben é Samba Bom
1964: Sacundin Ben Samba
1965: Big Ben
1967: O bidú-Silêncio no Brooklin
1969: Jorge Ben
1970: Força Bruta
1971: Negro é Lindo
1972: Ben
1973: 10 Anos Depois
1974: A Tábua de Esmeralda
1975: Solta o Pavão
1975: Jorge Ben à l'Olympia
1975: Gil e Jorge (with Gilberto Gil)
1976: África Brasil
1976: Samba Nova
1977: Tropical
1978: A Banda Do Zé Pretinho
1979: Salve Simpatia
1980: Alô, Alô, Como Vai?
1981: Bem Vinda Amizade
1983: Dadiva
1984: Sonsual
1986: Ben Brasil
1989: Ben Jor
1992: Live In Rio
1994: 23
1995: Homo Sapiens
1997: Musicas Para Tocar Em Elevador
2000: Puro Suingue
2002: Acústico MTV - Double CD release, available jointly or separately, consisting of Admiral Jorge V and Banda do Zé Pretinho
2004: Reactivus Amor Est (Turba Philosophorum)
2006: Sou da Pesada (7 Samurai Afroraduno Remix)/A Joven Samba *(Klasick Remix)
2007: Recuerdos de Assunción 443"
2008: Favourites: From Samba Esquema Novo 1963 - África Brasil 1976

References [link]

^ "Idade de Jorge Ben Jor gera polêmica na web". Território Eldorado
^ allmusic ((( Jorge Ben > Biography )))
^ http://www.farufyno.com.br/col_6.htm

External links [link]

Official Site
'Brazil's alchemist of funk' - 2004 interview with Jorge Ben Jor (in English)
1996 interview with Jorge Ben Jor from Brazilian Music Up to Date (in English and Portuguese)
Jorge Ben discography on Slipcue.com
Jorge Ben profiled by Bobby Brazuka

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Studio albums	Samba Esquema Novo Ben é Samba Bom Sacundin Ben Samba Big Ben A Tábua de Esmeralda Solta o Pavão Gil e Jorge África Brasil

Persondata
Name	Jor, Jorge Ben
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	March 22, 1942
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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Not to be confused with All Is Love.

For other uses, see Love Is All (disambiguation).

Love Is All
Origin	Gothenburg
Genres	Indie pop
Years active	2003–present
Labels	What's Your Rupture? Polyvinyl Record Co.
Members
Nicholaus Sparding Josephine Olausson James Ausfahrt Markus Görsch Johan Lindwall

Love Is All is a five-piece indie pop band from Gothenburg, Sweden. It releases songs in English. Paste Magazine has stated that it makes "infectiously lo-fi punk rock laced with saxophone and melodic vocals".^[1]

1 Biography
2 Discography
3 References
4 External links

Biography [link]

Swedish band Love Is All are composed of Josephine Olausson (vocals, keyboard), Johan Lindwall (bass), Markus Görsch (drums), James Ausfahrt (saxophone), and Nicholaus Sparding (guitar/vocals). Olausson, Sparding, and Görsch had previously been members of Girlfriendo. The trio promptly regrouped after that band's demise and added Lindwall, who had recorded in a side project with Olausson and Sparding called Cat Skills. They finally added the missing piece with saxophone player Fredrik Eriksson. While earning many rave reviews from the blogging community for their blend of art punk and indie rock, the band released several singles, one of which made single of the week in NME. The singles were collected on the debut LP Nine Times That Same Song, released by New York-based What's Your Rupture? in late 2005. After much touring through 2006 and 2007, Eriksson left the band and Love Is All continued on as a quartet. A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night and the remix album Love Is All Mixed Up arrived in 2008, along with Eriksson's replacement Åke Strömer (saxophone, keyboards). They are currently signed to Polyvinyl Record Co..

Discography [link]

Albums [link]

Nine Times That Same Song (What's Your Rupture?) (2005)
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (What's Your Rupture?) (2008)
Two Thousand and Ten Injuries (Polyvinyl Record Co.) (2010)

Remix Albums [link]

Love Is All...Mixed Up (What's Your Rupture?) (2008)

Singles and EPs [link]

"Spinning And Scratching / Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up / Ageing Hard / Never Been His Friend" 7" EP (2003)
"Lost Thrills" (Dolores Recordings)
"Felt Tip" (Smashing Time)
"Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up" (2006) (What's Your Rupture?) #133 UK
"Busy Doing Nothing" (2006) (What's Your Rupture?) #103 UK
"Used Goods" (What's Your Rupture?)
"Ageing Had Never Been His Friend / Nothing To Be Done" (2007) (What's Your Rupture?)
"Love is All Play 5 Covers" (2008) (self-released)
"Wishing Well & Covers" (2008) (Emusic)
"Last Choice" (EP) (2009) (What's Your Rupture?)

References [link]

^ http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2007/02/band-of-the-week-love-is-all.html

External links [link]

Love is All on MySpace
Punkcast#886 video of first USA show - Rockies, Brooklyn - Nov 15, 2005 (RealPlayer) (mp4)
Subculture Magazine review of Nine Times That Same Song
Subculture Magazine Interview / August 2006
Adequacy.net's review of Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
Pitchforkmedia.com's review of Nine Times That Same Song
Pitchfork interview
Official Website
Live Photos from London gig
Live Audio Melbourne, Australia February 2007
Revista O Grito! Interview
Love Is All at The Indie Music Database
Love is All at exclaim
Love is All interview
Love is All at Polyvinyl Record Co.

v t e Love Is All

James Ausfahrt Markus Görsch Johan Lindwall Josephine Olausson Nicholaus Sparding

Studio albums	Nine Times That Same Song A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night Two Thousand and Ten Injuries

EPs	Felt Tip Love is All Play 5 Covers Last Choice

Singles	"Lost Thrills" "Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up" "Busy Doing Nothing" "Used Goods" "Ageing Had Never Been His Friend”/”Nothing To Be Done" "Wishing Well & Covers"

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Jinder Mahal
Dhesi on 17th February 2011 at Florida Championship Wrestling arena.
Ring name(s)	Jinder Mahal Raj Singh Tiger Raj Singh Raj "The Future" Desi
Billed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)^[1]
Billed weight	222 lb (101 kg)^[1]
Born	(1986-07-19) July 19, 1986 (age 25) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Billed from	Punjab, India^[1]^[2]
Trained by	Rick Titan Bad News Allen^[3] Gama Singh Florida Championship Wrestling
Debut	2003

Yuvraj "Raj" Dhesi (born July 19, 1986), better known by his ring name Tiger Raj Singh, is an Indian-Canadian professional wrestler signed to WWE, competing on their SmackDown brand under the ring name Jinder Mahal.^[1]

1 Professional wrestling career
- 1.1 Early career
- 1.2 World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE
  - 1.2.1 Florida Championship Wrestling (2010–present)
  - 1.2.2 SmackDown (2011–present)
2 Personal life
3 In wrestling
4 Championships and accomplishments
5 External links
6 References

Professional wrestling career [link]

Early career [link]

While most Calgary wrestlers train at the infamous Dungeon, Dhesi began his wrestling career at the Martial Arts Fitness Center in Calgary, Alberta training with former WWE superstar "Razor" Rick Titan and Premier Martial Arts Wrestling (PMW) working as Raj "The Future" Dhesi. He then went on to train with "Champagne" Jerry Morrow and Bad News Allen at the New Japan Pro Wrestling dojo.^[3] In Canada's Stampede Wrestling, After working for a time with Hybrid Wrestling Coalition (HWC), Dhesi teamed with his cousin Gama Singh, Jr., as The Karachi Vice, and Sikh n' Destroy.^[3]^[4] In March 2005, the team won the Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship, holding it for eight months. They won the title for a second time in December of that year, holding it until November of the following year. He also worked for the Prairie Wrestling Alliance, where he was the PWA Champion from 2008 until January 2010,^[3] and also a three time tag team champion. Dhesi also competed for Great North Wrestling (GNW), where he feuded with such wrestlers as Samoa Joe and Hannibal.^[5] Dhesi wrestled his final match for GNW, a victory over McCully, on February 27.^[6]

World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE [link]

Florida Championship Wrestling (2010–present)[link]

In December 2009, he traveled to Tampa, Florida, to try out for WWE's developmental promotion Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW).^[3] At the try out Steve Keirn, Pat Patterson and Mike Rotunda saw him wrestle but Dhesi thinks that what sold him to the WWE was his ability to speak Punjabi and his authentic costume like his turban.^[3] He remembers that, "I think they needed an Indian guy, they were looking for one."^[3] In early 2010, he was signed to a developmental contract with FCW.^[3]

SmackDown (2011–present)[link]

Mahal in his pre-match attire

Jinder Mahal made his televised WWE debut on the April 29, 2011 airing of SmackDown, greeting fellow Indian superstar The Great Khali and his brother, Ranjin Singh backstage. During the segment, Mahal spoke in Punjabi that he was really happy and excited that Khali and Ranjin were there. On their part, both of them were happy too. The next week, Mahal, unimpressed by how Khali and Singh have been partaking in childish activities instead of winning matches, confronted Singh about his mismanagement of Khali. Mahal interrupted a Khali Kiss Cam segment the following week, slapping Khali twice to no response from the giant. On May 20, Mahal interrupted The Great Khali's match against Jey Uso. Khali left the ring to confront Mahal. Mahal slapped Khali again and gave him another lecture. Khali reentered the ring at the count of seven and finished off Jey Uso, taking out Jimmy Uso after the match much to Mahal's pleasure. On the May 27 edition of SmackDown, Ranjin accompanied Khali to the ring, only to be defeated by Kane. After the match, Khali turned on his brother Ranjin before leaving with Jinder, thus forming an alliance between the two and turning Khali heel in the process. On the September 5th edition of Raw, he suffered his first loss, when he and The Great Khali lost to WWE Tag Team Champions Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston in a non-title match. In a rematch on Smackdown, they lost again to Kingston and Bourne, when Khali pushed Mahal, after he was slapped by Mahal. Kofi Kingston hit a Trouble in Paradise on Mahal thus turning Khali into a face once again.^[7] On the September 16 edition of SmackDown, Mahal would attack Khali during his match with Heath Slater which Khali won. On the September 23, 2011 edition of SmackDown, Khali defeated Mahal in a singles match, thus suffering his first loss in a singles match.

Mahal choking Yoshi Tatsu against the ropes in April 2012.

On the September 27, 2011 episode of NXT, Mahal defeated Yoshi Tatsu, now with a new look, once again after Tatsu missed a diving spin heel kick and Mahal nails a full nelson slam on Tatsu. He then said in an interview that he doesn't need The Great Khali or anyone, and that he is all that matters as of now. Mahal did a promo on the October 3 edition of Raw only to be confronted by a returning Santino Marella, which Marella later defeated him in a match.^[8] On the October 7th edition of Smackdown, Mahal was defeated by Ezekiel Jackson in a singles match and on the October 14 tapings of SmackDown, Mahal came third place in a 41-man battle royal - the biggest in WWE history — only to be eliminated by the eventual winner Randy Orton. On the November 11, 2011 edition of SmackDown, Mahal was defeated by Ted DiBiase. After a brief return to the winning track on the November 24 edition of WWE Superstars, Mahal was defeated by Justin Gabriel the following SmackDown, after a distraction from DiBiase. On the December 9 edition of SmackDown, Mahal was again defeated by DiBiase. Mahal would continue his feud with DiBiase on the December 19 edition of SmackDown after he would attack DiBiase after a match and finally defeated DiBiase on the December 30 edition of SmackDown via submission.^[9]^[10] At the same time, Mahal began a feud with Sheamus after losing to him for weeks by attacking him on several occasions and distracting him during matches.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16] At the 2012 Royal Rumble event, he was eliminated in the Royal Rumble match by storyline his brother-in-law and nemesis, The Great Khali. On the February 17th edition of Smackdown he defeated Ezekiel Jackson. On April 2012, he started a winning streak on the show, WWE Superstars. On the April 18, 2012 edition of WWE Superstars, Mahal defeated Yoshi Tatsu. On the April 27th 2012 edition of WWE Smackdown, Mahal interrupted Randy Orton's interview and received an RKO.

Personal life [link]

Dhesi is of Indian Punjabi Sikh descent. He speaks Punjabi, English and Hindi.^[3] He is the nephew of wrestler Gama Singh,^[3] and has a degree in communications and culture from the University of Calgary.^[3]

In wrestling [link]

Mahal performing a high knee on Trent Barreta.

Finishing moves
- Camel clutch^[17]^[18] - 2011-present
- Full nelson slam^[19] - 2011
- Karachi Valley Driver^[20] (Death Valley driver) - Independent Circuit
- Sands of Time^[20] (Fireman's carry double knee gutbuster)^[2]^[21] – FCW

Signature moves
- Cravate^[22]
- Double underhook suplex^[17]^[23]
- High knee^[24]
- Knee drop^[24]
- Knee lift^[23]
- Neckbreaker^[22]

Entrance themes
- "Slow Burn" (FCW)
- "Main Yush Hum" by Jim Johnston (WWE;May 2011-present)

Championships and accomplishments [link]

Prairie Wrestling Alliance
- PWA Heavyweight Championship (1 time)^[3]^[25]

Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- PWI ranked him #336 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011^[26]

Stampede Wrestling
- Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Gama Singh, Jr.^[3]

External links [link]

References [link]

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Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder playing slide guitar in 2009 Photograph: Dani Canto
Background information
Birth name	Ryland Peter Cooder
Born	(1947-03-15) March 15, 1947 (age 65) Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Americana, roots rock, folk, blues, Tex-Mex, country, gospel, world music
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, film scorer, record producer, instructor
Instruments	Guitar, mandolin, vocals, array mbira
Years active	1967–present
Labels	Warner Bros., Nonesuch, Elektra
Associated acts	Taj Mahal, Captain Beefheart, Buena Vista Social Club, Ali Farka Toure
Website	Ry Cooder

Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947)^[1] is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.

His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing folk, blues, Tex-Mex, soul, gospel, rock, and much else. He has collaborated with many musicians, including Larry Blackmon, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Randy Newman, Earl Hines, Little Feat, Captain Beefheart, The Chieftains, John Lee Hooker, Pops and Mavis Staples, Flaco Jiménez, Ibrahim Ferrer, Freddy Fender, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ali Farka Touré. He formed the band Little Village with Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, and Jim Keltner.

Ry Cooder produced the Buena Vista Social Club album (1997), which became a worldwide hit. Wim Wenders directed the documentary film of the same name (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.

He was ranked eighth on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".^[2] A 2010 ranking by Gibson placed him at number 32.^[3]

1 Career
- 1.1 1960s
- 1.2 1970s
- 1.3 1980s
- 1.4 1990s
- 1.5 2000s
- 1.6 2010s
2 Awards
3 Discography
4 Written works
5 References
6 External links

Career [link]

1960s [link]

During the 1960s, Cooder briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon.^[4] Cooder first attracted attention in the 1960s, playing with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, after previously having worked with Taj Mahal and Ed Cassidy in the Rising Sons. He also played with Randy Newman at this time, including on 12 Songs.^[5] Van Dyke Parks worked with Newman and Cooder during the 1960s. Parks arranged Cooder's "One Meatball" according to Parks' 1984 interview by Bob Claster.

Cooder was a session musician on various recording sessions with the The Rolling Stones in 1968 and 1969, and his contributions appear on the albums Let It Bleed (mandolin on "Love in Vain"), and Sticky Fingers, on which he contributed the slide guitar on "Sister Morphine". During this period, Cooder joined with Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, and longtime Rolling Stones sideman Nicky Hopkins to record Jamming with Edward! Cooder also played slide guitar for the 1970 film soundtrack Performance, which contained Jagger's first solo single, "Memo from Turner". The 1975 compilation album Metamorphosis features an uncredited Cooder contribution on Bill Wyman's "Downtown Suzie."

Ry Cooder also collaborated with Lowell George of Little Feat, playing slide guitar on the original version of "Willin'".^[6]

1970s [link]

Throughout the 1970s, Cooder released a series of Warner Bros. Records albums that showcased his guitar work. Cooder explored bygone musical genres and found old-time recordings which he then personalized and updated. Thus, on his breakthrough album, Into the Purple Valley, he chose unusual instrumentations and arrangements of blues, gospel, calypso, and country songs (giving a tempo change to the cowboy ballad "Billy the Kid"). The album opened with the song "How Can You Keep on Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" by Agnes "Sis" Cunningham about the Okies who were not welcomed when they migrated west to escape the Dust Bowl in the 1930s – to which Cooder gave a rousing-yet-satirical march accompaniment. His later 1970s albums (with the exception of Jazz, which explored ragtime/vaudeville) do not fall under a single genre description, but his self-titled first album could be described as blues; Into the Purple Valley, Boomer's Story, and Paradise and Lunch as folk and blues; Chicken Skin Music and Showtime as a mix of Tex-Mex and Hawaiian; Bop Till You Drop as 1950s' R&B; and Borderline and Get Rhythm as rock-based. His 1979 album Bop Till You Drop was the first popular music album to be recorded digitally. It yielded his biggest hit, an R&B cover version of Elvis Presley's 1960s recording "Little Sister". Cooder is credited on Van Morrison's 1979 album, Into the Music, for slide guitar on the song "Full Force Gale". He also played guitar on Judy Collins' 1970 concert tour, and is featured on Living, the 1971 live album recorded during that tour.

1980s [link]

Cooder has worked as a studio musician and has also scored many film soundtracks including Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas (1984). Cooder based this soundtrack and title song "Paris, Texas" on Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)", which he described as "The most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music."^[7] Musician Dave Grohl has declared Cooder's score for Paris, Texas is one of his favorite albums.^[8]

"Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)" was also the basis for Cooder's song "Powis Square" for the movie Performance. His other film work includes Walter Hill's The Long Riders (1980), Southern Comfort (1981), Brewster's Millions (1985), Johnny Handsome^[9], Last Man Standing (1996), Hill's Trespass (1992) and Mike Nichols' Primary Colors (1998). Cooder dubbed all slide guitar parts in the 1986 film Crossroads, a take on blues legend Robert Johnson. In 1988, Cooder produced the album by his longtime backing vocalists Bobby King and Terry Evans on Rounder Records titled Live and Let Live. He contributed his slide guitar work to every track. He also plays extensively on their 1990 self-produced Rounder release Rhythm, Blues, Soul & Grooves. Cooder's music also appeared on two episodes of the television program "Tales From the Crypt" – "The Man Who Was Death" and "The Thing From the Grave" (http://www.allmusic.com/album/original-music-from-tales-from-the-crypt-w93724).

Also in 1988 he produced and featured in the Les Blank directed concert documentary film Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball where he plays in collaboration with a selection of musicians famous in their various musical fields.^[10] The following year, he played a janitor in the Jim Henson series The Ghost of Faffner Hall, in the episode "Music Is More Than Technique".^[11]^[12]

1990s [link]

In the early 1990s Cooder collaborated on two world music "crossover" albums, which blended the traditional American musical genres that Cooder has championed throughout his career with the contemporary improvised music of India and Africa. For A Meeting by the River (1993), which also featured his son Joachim on percussion, he teamed with Hindustani classical musician V.M. Bhatt, a virtuoso of the Mohan Veena, a modified 20-string archtop guitar of Bhatt's own invention. In 1995 he teamed with African multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Toure on the album Talking Timbuktu, which he also produced; the album also featured longtime Cooder collaborator Jim Keltner on drums, veteran blues guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, jazz bassist John Patitucci and African percussionists and musicians including Hamma Sankare and Oumar Toure. Both albums won the Grammy Award for 'Best World Music Album' in 1994 and 1995 respectively. Cooder also worked with Tuvan throat singers for the score to the 1993 film Geronimo: An American Legend.

In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a musical performance of the popular story at the Lincoln Center in New York to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and was issued on CD and video in 1996.

In the late 1990s Cooder played a significant role in the increased appreciation of traditional Cuban music, due to his collaboration as producer of the Buena Vista Social Club (1997) recording, which became a worldwide hit and revived the careers of some of the greatest surviving exponents of 20th century Cuban music. Wim Wenders, who had previously directed 1984's Paris Texas, directed a documentary film of the musicians involved, Buena Vista Social Club (1999), which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000.^[13]

2000s [link]

Cooder's 2005 album Chávez Ravine was touted by his record label as being "a post-World War II-era American narrative of 'cool cats', radios, UFO sightings, J. Edgar Hoover, red scares, and baseball"^[14]— the record is a tribute to the long-gone Los Angeles Latino enclave known as Chávez Ravine. Using real and imagined historical characters, Cooder and friends created an album that recollects various aspects of the poor but vibrant hillside Chicano community which no longer exists. Cooder says, "Here is some music for a place you don’t know, up a road you don’t go. Chávez Ravine, where the sidewalk ends."^[14]Drawing from the various musical strains of Los Angeles, including conjunto, R&B, Latin pop, and jazz, Cooder and friends conjure the ghosts of Chávez Ravine and Los Angeles at mid-century. On this fifteen-track album, sung in Spanish and English, Cooder is joined by East L.A. legends like Chicano music patriarch Lalo Guerrero, Pachuco boogie king Don Tosti, Thee Midniters front man Little Willie G, and Ersi Arvizu, of The Sisters and El Chicano.

Cooder's next record was released in 2007. Entitled My Name Is Buddy, it tells the story of Buddy Red Cat, who travels and sees the world in the company of his like-minded friends, Lefty Mouse and Rev. Tom Toad. The entire recording is a parable of the working class progressivism^[15] of the first half of the American twentieth century, and even has a song featuring executed unionist Joe Hill. My Name Is Buddy was accompanied by a booklet featuring a story and illustration (by Vincent Valdez) for each track, providing additional context to Buddy's adventures.

Cooder produced and performed on an album for Mavis Staples entitled We'll Never Turn Back, which was released on April 24, 2007. The concept album focused on Gospel songs of the civil rights movement and also included two new original songs by Cooder.^[16]

Ry Cooder's album I, Flathead was released on June 24, 2008. It is the completion of his California trilogy. Based on the drag racing culture of the early 1960s, the album is set on the desert salt flats in southern California. The disc was also released as a deluxe edition with stories written by Cooder to accompany the music.

In late 2009, Cooder toured Japan, New Zealand and Australia with Nick Lowe, performing some of Lowe's songs and a selection of Cooder's own material, mainly from the 1970s. Joaquim Cooder (Ry's son) provided percussion, and Juliette Commagere and Alex Lilly contributed backing vocals.

The song "Diaraby", which Cooder recorded with Ali Farka Touré, is used as the theme to The World's Geo Quiz. The World is a radio show distributed by Public Radio International.

In 2009, Cooder performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Cooder performed with Bob Dylan and Van Dyke Parks on the documentary broadcast on December 13, 2009 on the History Channel. They played "Do Re Mi" and reportedly a couple of other Guthrie songs that were excluded from the final edit. He also traveled with the band Los Tigres del Norte and recorded the 2010 album San Patricio with the Chieftains, Lila Downs, Liam Neeson, Linda Ronstadt, Van Dyke Parks, Los Cenzontles, and Los Tigres.^[17]^[18]

2010s [link]

In June 2010, responding to the passage of Arizona SB 1070, he released the single "Quicksand", which tells the story of Mexicans attempting to emigrate to Arizona through the desert.^[19]^[20] Cooder's critically acclaimed^[21]^[22] new album Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down, released on August 30, 2011, contains politically charged songs such as "No Banker Left Behind"^[23] which was inspired by a Robert Scheer column.^[24]

In 2011, he published a collection of short stories called Los Angeles Stories, written about people living in Los Angeles in the 40s and 50s. With story titles such as "La vida es un sueño" and "Kill me, por favor", the book has a Hispanic theme and deals partially with Latinos living in Los Angeles during this time.

Awards [link]

1988 Grammy Award – Pecos Bill (Rabbit Ears Productions)
1993 Grammy Award – A Meeting by the River
1995 Grammy Award – Talking Timbuktu with Ali Farka Toure
1998 Grammy Award – Buena Vista Social Club
2000 – Ry Cooder received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University, Canada
2001 – Ry Cooder received an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of the Arts

Discography [link]

Singles

"Little Sister" (1979; Warner Records)
"Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)" Recorded live, October 25, 1980 at Victoria Apollo, London / "If Walls Could Talk" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California / "The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California/ "Look At Granny Run Run" Recorded live, February 26, 1981 at Old Waldorf, San Francisco, California (1981; Warner Records)
"Gypsy Woman"/ "Alimony" (1982; Nonesuch Records)
"Get Rhythm"/ "Get Your Lies Straight/ "Down In Hollywood" (1988)
"Come Down" / "Get Rhythm" / "Little Sister" (1994)
"Quicksand" (June 2010)

Solo albums

Ry Cooder (December 1970)
Into the Purple Valley (February 1972)
Boomer's Story (November 1972)
Paradise and Lunch (May 1974)
Chicken Skin Music (October 1976)
Showtime (August 1977)
Jazz (June 1978)
Bop Till You Drop (August 1979)
Borderline (October 1980)
The Slide Area (April 1982)
Get Rhythm (November 1987)
Chávez Ravine (May 2005)
My Name Is Buddy (March 2007)
I, Flathead (June 2008)
Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (August 2011)

Compilations

Why Don't You Try Me Tonight (1986)
River Rescue – The Very Best Of Ry Cooder (1994)
Music by Ry Cooder (1995) (two-disc set of film music)
The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed (October 2008)

Collaborations

Tanyet (1967) (with The Ceyleib People)
Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's have a ball (1988)
Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder with Rising Sons (recorded 1965/66, released 1992)
Little Village (1992)
A Meeting by the River (1993) (with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt)
Talking Timbuktu (1994) (with Ali Farka Touré)
Buena Vista Social Club (September 1997)
Hollow Bamboo with Jon Hassell and Ronu Majumdar (bansuri) (2000)
Mambo Sinuendo (January 2003) (with Manuel Galbán)
San Patricio (March 2010) (with The Chieftains)

Soundtracks

Performance (1970)
The Long Riders (June 1980)
Southern Comfort (1981)
The Border (1982)
Streets of Fire (1984)
Paris, Texas (February 1985)
Music from Alamo Bay (August 1985)
Blue City (July 1986)
Crossroads (July 1986)
Cocktail (1988)
Johnny Handsome (October 1989)
Trespass (January 1993)
Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)
Last Man Standing (1996)
The End of Violence (1997)
Primary Colors (1998)

Performs on:

Safe as Milk (1967) with Captain Beefheart
Taj Mahal (album) (1968) with Taj Mahal
Neil Young (album) (1968) with Neil Young
Head (1968) with The Monkees
12 Songs (1970) with Randy Newman
The Candlestickmaker (1970) with Ron Elliott
Washington County (1970) with Arlo Guthrie
Stained Glass Morning (1970) with Scott McKenzie
Living (1971) with Judy Collins
Money and Cigarettes (February 1983) with Eric Clapton
Midnight Mission (1984) Carla Olson & The Textones (featured on two songs)
Bring the Family (1987) with John Hiatt
Live and Let Live (1988) with Bobby King & Terry Evans
King Cake Party (1994) with The Zydeco Party Band
Good Dog, Happy Man (1999) with Bill Frisell
The Wind (2003) with Warren Zevon (slide guitar on two tracks: "Dirty Life and Times" and "Prison Grove")

Written works [link]

Los Angeles Stories, City Lights Publishers (2011) [1]

References [link]

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^ "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 18, 2003. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
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^ Deming, Mark. "12 Songs – Randy Newman". AllMusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r14019. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
^ "Willin'". University of Vienna. http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/FeatWilling.htm. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
^ Corcoran, Michael. " "The Soul of Blind Willie Johnson:Retracing the life of the Texas music icon". austin360.com. http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/blindwilliejohnson_092803.html;COXnetJSessionID=1ITtL0zcaTYPiiTPLjP1a2lrfOo25kwasby2KrVda2n1BrlyX13b!-615020192?urac=n&urvf=10701094852420.8419290445454791". Retrieved September 5, 2011.
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^ Johnny Handsome:Original Motion PictureSoundtrack, Warner Bros. Records Inc. CD liner notes, 1989
^ IMDb listing
^ Episode 104: Music Is More Than Technique on Muppet Wiki
^ The Jim Henson Company YouTube Channel
^ "NY Times: Buena Vista Social Club". New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/176586/Buena-Vista-Social-Club/details. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "Chávez Ravine: About this album". Nonesuch Records. http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/chavez-ravine. Retrieved September 5, 2011.
^ "Cooder's 'Buddy' Revives Tales of a Bygone America". NPR Music. March 6, 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7719791. Retrieved August 30, 2011.
^ Cohen, Jonathan and Martens, Todd (December 19, 2006). "Mavis Staples Gets Personal On Anti-Debut". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003523229. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
^ Wilkinson, Alec (May 24, 2010). "Onward and Upward with the Arts, "Immigration Blues"". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/24/100524fa_fact_wilkinson. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
^ Wood, Mikael (March 5, 2010). "The Chieftains featuring Ry Cooder,"San Patricio"". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/new-releases/the-chieftains-featuring-ry-cooder-san-patricio-1004073182.story#/new-releases/the-chieftains-featuring-ry-cooder-san-patricio-1004073182.story. Retrieved June 3, 2010.
^ "Ry Cooder's "Quicksand," Response to Arizona Immigration Law, Now Available on iTunes; Proceeds Donated to MALDEF". Nonesuch Journal, Nonesuch Records. June 29, 2010. http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/ry-cooders-quicksand-response-arizona-immigration-law-available-itunes-proceeds-donated-maldef-2010-06-29. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
^ Gundersen, Edna (June 28, 2010). "The playlist: Sia's 'Fight,' Marah's 'Problem,' Cooder's 'Quicksand'". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/reviews/2010-06-28-playlist29_N.htm. Retrieved April 2, 2011.
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External links [link]

v t e Ry Cooder

Solo albums	Ry Cooder (1970) Into the Purple Valley (1972) Boomer's Story (1972) Paradise and Lunch (1974) Chicken Skin Music (1976) Showtime (1977) Jazz (1978) Bop till You Drop (1979) Borderline (1980) The Slide Area (1982) Get Rhythm (1987) Chávez Ravine (2005) My Name Is Buddy (2007) I, Flathead (2008) Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011)

Collaborative albums	Little Village (1992) A Meeting by the River (1993) Talking Timbuktu (1994) Buena Vista Social Club (1997) Hollow Bamboo (2000) Mambo Sinuendo (2003) San Patricio (2010)

Awards
Preceded by Kenny Vaughan	AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist 2007	Succeeded by Larry Campbell

Persondata
Name	Cooder, Ry
Alternative names
Short description	American guitarist, singer and composer
Date of birth	March 15, 1947
Place of birth	Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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