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• the plural of tale
• Tales (series), a series of role-playing games
• Tales (album), an album by Marcus Miller
• Tales of Silversleeve, an album by Cathy Davey
• Tales of the Unexpected (TV series), an Anglia television series
• Alternate title for the song "Tales from the Forest of Gnomes" from Wolfmother's debut self-titled album
• Tales Schutz, Brazilian footballer, currently playing for South China
• Tales Tlaija de Souza, Brazilian footballer, currently playing for Internacional

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Rip Slyme (often stylized as RIP SLYME) is a Japanese hip hop group. It is composed of four MCs; Ryo-Z, Ilmari, Pes & Su, and a DJ, Fumiya. Their sound derives its influences from old school hip hop and other Hip Hop such as The Pharcyde, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Jurassic 5, the Beastie Boys, DJ Premier, Leaders of the New School.

Members[link]

• Ryo-Z: Ryouji Narita (成田亮治 Narita Ryouji), b. July 15, 1974
• Ilmari: Keisuke Ogihara (荻原恵介 Ogihara Keisuke), b. June 17, 1975
• Pes: Masatsugu Chiba (千葉昌嗣 Chiba Masatsugu), b. December 27, 1976
• Su: Kazuto Otsuki (大槻一人 Ōtsuki Kazuto), b. November 20, 1973
• Fumiya: Fumiya Takeuchi (竹内文也 Takeuchi Fumiya), b. March 14, 1979

Biography[link]

The group was formed in 1994 by Ryo-Z and Ilmari, who were later joined by Pes (he attended the same school as Ilmari). The Rip in Rip Slyme stands for their initials. Slyme was a popular children's toy at that time. Their name is also a pun on the phrase "lips' rhyme". Winning an amateur rapping contest "Young MCs In Town", they started their musical career with their first album Lips Rhyme in 1995. Later they added DJ Fumiya (who had studied under East End X Yuri's DJ Yoggy) and Su (previously a backup dancer for East End X Yuri). In 1998 they released their second album, "Talkin' Cheap" and also took part in Dragon Ash's Total Communication event.

They became ever more successful and signed to Warner Music Group in 2000. By then they had release several indie singles include their EP "Underline No. 5" and "Mata Au Hi Made" which had received the help of Fantastic Plastic Machine. "Mata Au Hi Made" was released on Warner Music Group's Indies label. Their first major single was "Stepper's Delight" released 22 March 2001. The title was a play on The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".

In general, Fumiya composes most of the music, while Ryo-Z, Pes, Ilmari, and Su write their own lyrics. However, before Fumiya became a member, Pes composed most of the songs. Each member has tried their hand at composing music for Rip Slyme, and Pes occasionally plays guitar on some tracks (Such as Home and More & More, for example). Allegedly, Pes was in a rock band before being introduced to hip hop music by Ilmari and Ryo-Z.

In 2002 they received MTV Video Music Awards Japan for "Best Newcomer" and "Best Hip-hop Group".

The same year they released a big-budget album "Tokyo Classic", which became Japan's first million-selling hip-hop album, with a sound compared to James Brown's soul and funk. Two singles from the album, "Funkastic" and "Rakuen Baby" collected MTV awards in 2003. "Super Shooter", featured as a B-side to their single "Galaxy", is the theme song for the anime Gantz.

To date they have released 6 indies singles with 17 major singles. They as well have released 2 indie albums, 7 major albums, 1 live album, 1 indies collection album, and 1 best of album.

From late 2005 (after the release of Good Job in August) through 2006, DJ Fumiya has been on extended break, citing illness. For performances, a friend of the band by the name of DJ Soma has been standing in. Fumiya's break has led to several interesting side projects and collaborations from other members. Fumiya is supposed to have returned to activity for concerts in late summer 2006. He has returned for the latest Rip Slyme release, Epoch.

On 7 July 2007 Rip Slyme performed their single "Nettaiya" at Live Earth in Kyoto, Japan. Later that year, they would go on to release their fifteenth major single, Speed King, and their seventh Warner album, Funfair, shortly after.

In summer 2008, they released Taiyou to Bikini, their only single that year. Later that year, three digital singles would debut, all of which would be on the February 2009 single Stairs. Rip Slyme released their eighth album, Journey, on June 10, 2009.

Rip Slyme has provided voiceover work as well as the ending theme for the Japanese dub of SpongeBob SquarePants.^[1] The episode aired on May 6, 2009.

Discography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

2002

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Hip Hop Artist (Winner)
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best New Artist (Winner)
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Live Performance

2003

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Video of the Year - Rakuen Baby (Winner)
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Group Video - Rakuen Baby (Winner)
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Hip Hop Video - Funktastic (Winner)
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Album of the Year - Tokyo Classic

2004

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Group Video - Joint
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Hip Hop Video - Joint
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best buzzASIA Japan - Joint

2006

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Collaboration Video - Hotei x Rip Slyme - Battle Funkastic (Winner)

2007

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Collaboration Video - Quruli feat. Rip Slyme - Juice

2008

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Hip Hop Video - I.N.G (Winner)
• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Group Video - I.N.G

2009

• MTV Video Music Awards Japan - Best Pop Video - Taiyou to Bikini

Notes[link]

References[link]

• http://metropolis.japantoday.com/tokyo/437/music_beat.asp

Connections[link]

• Teriyaki Boyz
• Dragon Ash
• Steady & Co.
• M-Flo
• Rhymester
• Fantastic Plastic Machine
• East End X Yuri
• Speed
• Da Pump
• kaela kimura

External links[link]

• Official site
• Warner's Rip Slyme Page
• Rip Locks! Radio Show
• Rip Slyme discography at MusicBrainz

Isabel Allende
Allende in Barcelona, 2008
Born	(1942-08-02) 2 August 1942 (age 69) Lima, Peru
Occupation	Author, journalist
Nationality	Chilean, American
Notable work(s)	The House of the Spirits
Notable award(s)	National Prize for Literature
www.isabelallende.com

Isabel Allende Llona (born in Lima, Peru, on 2 August 1942) is a Chilean American writer. ^{[1] [2]} Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author".^[3] In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters,^[4] and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize.^[5]

Allende's novels are often based upon her personal experience and pay homage to the lives of women, while weaving together elements of myth and realism. She has lectured and toured many American colleges to teach literature. Fluent in English as a second language, Allende was granted American citizenship in 2003, having lived in California with her American husband since 1989.

Biography[link]

Allende was born in Lima, Peru, the daughter of Francisca Llona Barros and Tomás Allende, who was at the time the Chilean ambassador to Peru. Her father was a first cousin of Salvador Allende, President of Chile from 1970 to 1973; so Salvador is her first cousin once removed.^[6][7][8] Many sources cite Allende as being Salvador Allende's niece (without specifying that the relationship is that Tomas and Salvador are cousins);^[9] the confusion stems from Allende herself often referring to Salvador as her "'uncle" (tío) in her private life and public interviews.^[10] This is because in Spanish a "first cousin once removed" is translated as "second degree uncle" (tío en segundo grado).

Isabel Allende at the Miami Book Fair International in 1990

In 1945, after Tomás had disappeared,^[6] Isabel's mother relocated with her three children to Santiago, Chile, where they lived until 1953.^[11][12] Between 1953 and 1958, Allende's mother married Ramón Huidobro and moved often. Huidobro was a diplomat appointed to Bolivia and Beirut. In Bolivia, Allende attended a North American private school; and in Beirut, Lebanon she attended an English private school. The family returned to Chile in 1958. Allende was also briefly home-schooled. In her youth, she read widely, particularly the works of William Shakespeare.

In 1970 Salvador Allende appointed Huidobro as ambassador to Argentina.^[12]

While living in Chile, Allende finished her secondary studies and met engineering student Miguel Frías whom she married in 1962.^[12] Reportedly, "Allende married early, into an Anglophile family and a kind of double life: at home she was the obedient wife and mother of two; in public she became, after a spell translating Barbara Cartland, a moderately well-known TV personality, a dramatist and a journalist on a feminist magazine."^[6]

From 1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization in Santiago, Chile, then in Brussels, Belgium, and elsewhere in Europe. For a brief while in Chile, she also had a job translating romance novels from English to Spanish.^[10] However, she was fired for making unauthorized changes to the dialogue of the heroines to make them sound more intelligent as well as altering the Cinderella endings to let the heroines find more independence and do good in the world.^[13]

Allende and Frías' daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende again returned to Chile and her son Nicolás was born there that year.

Reportedly, "the CIA-backed military coup in September 1973 (that brought Augusto Pinochet to power) changed everything" for Allende because "her name meant she was caught up in finding safe passage for those on the wanted lists" (helping until her mother and stepfather, a diplomat in Argentina, narrowly escaped assassination). When she herself was added to the list and began receiving death threats, she fled to Venezuela, where she stayed for 13 years.^[6][14] In Venezuela she was a columnist for El Nacional, a main newspaper. In 1978 she began a temporary separation from Miguel Frías. She lived in Spain for two months, then returned to her marriage.^[15]

Current life[link]

During a visit to California in 1988, Allende met her second husband, attorney Willie Gordon. In 1994, she was awarded the Gabriela Mistral Order of Merit, the first woman to receive this honor. Allende currently lives in San Rafael, California. Most of her family lives near her, with her son living "with his second wife and her grandchildren just down the hill; her son and his family live in the house she and her second husband, San Francisco lawyer and novelist William Gordon, vacated."^[6]

In 2006, she was one of the eight flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.^[16] In 2008, Allende received the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from San Francisco State University for her "distinguished contributions as a literary artist and humanitarian."^[17]

Foundation[link]

Allende started the Isabel Allende Foundation on 9 December 1996 to pay homage to her daughter, Paula Frías Allende who experienced a coma after complications of the disease porphyria led to her hospitalization.^[18] Paula was only 28 years old when she died in 1992.^[19] The foundation is "dedicated to supporting programs that promote and preserve the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected."^[20]

Literary career[link]

Isabel Allende (in red), 2007, California

Beginning in 1967, Allende was on the editorial staff for Paula magazine, and from 1969 to 1974 for the children's magazine Mampato, where she later was the editor.^[21] She published two children's stories, La Abuela Panchita (Grandmother Panchita) and Lauchas y Lauchones, as well as a collection of articles, Civilice a Su Troglodita. She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 (humorous programs) and 13 from 1970 to 1974.^[21] As a journalist, she once sought an interview with Pablo Neruda, a notable Chilean poet. While Neruda accepted the interview, he told her that she had too much imagination to be a journalist and should be a novelist instead.^[10] He also advised her to compile her satirical columns in book form.^[22] She did so, and this became her first published book. In 1973, Allende's play El Embajador played in Santiago, a few months before she was forced to flee the country due to the coup.

In Allende's time in Venezuela, she was a freelance journalist for El Nacional in Caracas from 1976 to 1983 and an administrator of the Marrocco School in Caracas from 1979 to 1983.^[21]

In 1981, when Allende learned that her grandfather, aged 99, was on his deathbed, she started writing him a letter that later evolved into a book manuscript, The House of the Spirits (1982); the intent of this work was to exorcise the ghosts of the Pinochet dictatorship. The book was a great success; Allende was compared to Gabriel García Márquez as an author of the style known as magical realism.^[6]

Allende's books have since become known for their vivid storytelling. Although Allende is often lumped together with the literary style of magical realism, her works often display elements of post-Boom literature, and as such her style cannot be described as purely adhering to magical realism. Allende also holds to a very methodical literary routine.^[23] She writes using a computer, working Monday through Saturday, 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M. "I always start on 8 January", Allende stated; "a tradition she began in 1981 with a letter she wrote to her dying grandfather that would become the groundwork for her first novel, The House of the Spirits."^[24]

Allende's book Paula (1995) is a memoir of her childhood in Santiago, Chile and the following years she spent in exile. It is written in the form of a letter to her daughter Paula, who was being treated at a hospital in Spain following a porphyria-induced coma. In 1991, an error in medication resulted in severe brain damage and left Paula in a persistent vegetative state. Allende had her moved to a hospital in California where she died on 6 December 1992.

Allende's novels have been translated from Spanish into over 30 languages and sold more than 56 million copies.^[25][26] There are three movies based on her novels currently in production — Aphrodite, Eva Luna and Gift for a Sweetheart.^[20] Her 2008 book, The Sum of Our Days is a memoir. It focuses on her recent life with her immediate family, which includes her grown son, Nicolás; second husband, William Gordon; and several grandchildren.^[25] A novel set in New Orleans was published in 2010, The Island Beneath the Sea. In 2011 came El Cuaderno de Maya ("Maya's Notebook"), a novel in which the setting alternates between Berkeley, California, and Chiloé in Chile.

Literary criticism[link]

Despite her commercial success, Allende has been the subject of biting negative criticism from other authors and literary critics — among them Roberto Bolaño and Giannina Braschi who declared in her novel "Yo-Yo Boing!" that Isabel Allende is "killing García Márquez a little more each day the same way Michael Jackson's sisters are killing Michael Jackson."^[27] In an article published in Entre paréntesis, Bolaño writes that Allende's literature is anemic and compares it to a person on his deathbed.^[28] Bolaño has been one of her harshest critics, saying that it is to give her credit to call her a writer and that she is rather a "writing machine".^[29] Literary critic Harold Bloom concurs with Bolaño that Allende is a bad writer, and adds that she only reflects a determinate period and that afterwards everybody will have forgotten her.^[29][30] Of Bolaño, Allende said to El Clarín that she is honoured to be represented by him as a Chilean, although she remembered Bolaño regarded her as trash.^[31] In the same interview, Allende recognises that she has rarely had good criticism in Chile and that Chilean intellectuals "detest" her. Novelist Gonzalo Contreras says that "she commits a grave error, to confuse the commercial success with literary quality".^[32] Allende disagrees with these assessments of her, and she has also been quoted as saying:

The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. There was a review of my last book in one American paper by a professor of Latin American studies and he attacked me personally for the sole reason that I sold a lot of books. That is unforgivable.^[33]

Alternatively, it has been noted^{[by whom?]} that "Allende's impact not only on Latin American literature but also on world literature cannot be overestimated."^[20] The Los Angeles Times has called Allende "a genius,"^[20] and she has received many international awards, including the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize,^[20] granted to writers "who have contributed to the beauty of the world."^[20] She has recently been called a "literary legend" by Latino Leaders Magazine, which in its 2007 article named Allende as the third most influential Latino leader in the world.^[20]

Awards[link]

• Novel of the Year (Chile, 1983)
• Panorama Literario (Chile, 1983)
• Author of the Year (Germany, 1984)
• Book of the Year (Germany, 1984)
• Grand Prix d'Evasion (France, 1984)
• Grand Prix de la Radio Télévision Belge (Point de Mire, 1985)
• Best Novel (Mexico, 1985)
• Colima Literary Prize (Mexico, 1986)
• Quality Paperback Book Club New Voice (United States; 1986 nominee)
• Author of the Year (Germany, 1986)
• XV Premio Internazionale I Migliori Dell'Anno (Italy, 1987)
• Premio Mulheres a la Mejor Novela Extranjera (Portugal, 1987)
• Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominee (United States, 1987)
• Library Journal's Best Book (United States, 1988)
• Before Columbus Foundation Award (United States, 1989)
• Orden al Mérito Docente y Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1990)
• XLI Bancarella Literary Prize (Italy, 1993)
• Independent Foreign Fiction Award (England, June–July 1993)
• Brandeis University Major Book Collection Award (United States, 1993)
• Feminist of the Year Award, The Feminist; Majority Foundation (United States, 1994)
• Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres distinction (France, 1994)
• Critics' Choice (United States, 1996)
• Books to Remember, American Library Assoc. (United States, 1996)
• Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature (United States, 1996).^[34]
• Malaparte Amici di Capri (Italy, 1998)
• Donna Citta Di Roma (Italy, 1998)
• Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (United States, 1998)
• Sara Lee Foundation (United States, 1998)
• Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso, University of Talca (Chile, 2003)
• Premio Honoris Causa, Università di Trento en "lingue e letteratura moderne euroamericane" (Trento, Italy, May 2007)
• Chilean National Prize for Literature (Chile, 2010)
• Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award (Denmark, 2011)

Works[link]

• The House of the Spirits (1982) La casa de los espíritus
• The Porcelain Fat Lady (1984) La gorda de porcelana
• Of Love and Shadows (1985) De amor y de sombra
• Eva Luna (1987) Eva Luna
• The Stories of Eva Luna (1989) Cuentos de Eva Luna
• The Infinite Plan (1991) El plan infinito
• Paula (1995) Paula
• Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses (1998) Afrodita
• Daughter of Fortune (1999) Hija de la fortuna
• Portrait in Sepia (2000) Retrato en sepia
• City of the Beasts (2002) La ciudad de las bestias
• My Invented Country: A Memoir (2003) Mi país inventado
• Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004) El reino del dragón del oro
• Zorro (2005) El Zorro: Comienza la leyenda
• Forest of the Pygmies (2005) El bosque de los pigmeos
• Ines of My Soul (2006) Inés del alma mía
• The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (2008) La suma de los días
• The Island Beneath the Sea (2010) "La isla bajo el mar"
• Maya's Notebook (2011) "El Cuaderno de Maya"

Other contributions[link]

• "Afterword", Tales of Zorro, edited by Richard Dean Starr, Moonstone Books, 2008

"La Gorda de Porcelana" 1973

• Santiago Files, 2011 (Interviewee). [Feature Documentary]

See also[link]

• Allende family
• American literature in Spanish

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Isabel Allende, Award-Winning Latin American Author by Mary Main (2005) – ISBN 0-7660-2488-1
• Bautista Gutierrez, Gloria and Corrales-Martin, Norma; Pinceledas Literarias Latinoamericanas, John Wiley and Sons, 2004

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External links[link]

• Isabel Allende's Personal Website
• Isabel Allende's IMDb Site
• Isabel Allende Foundation
• Isabel Allende speaker profile at The Lavin Agency
• JUST 10 Questions for Isabel Allende at JUST CAUSE Magazine.
• Write TV Public Television Interview with Isabel Allende
• Guardian Books "Author Page"
• Isabel Allende at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Memories, Fight and Fantasy at the Hand of the Great Superhero of the Spanish Narrative – a 2006 interview
• Interview on The Ledge
• Biography from the international literature festival in Berlin
• TED Talks: Isabel Allende tells tales of passion at TED in 2007
• 'The Knife by the Handle at Last' Tim Parks review of The Sum of Our Days from The New York Review of Books
• Isabel Allende at the California Film Institute
• KCTS 9 Television Interview
• Allende on Her New Novel Island Beneath the Sea – video interview by Democracy Now!
• Interviewed for the first season of The Artist Toolbox