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Mari may refer to:

• Mari (given name)
• Mari language, Uralic language
• Mari people, Volga-Finnic people

Places

• Mari El Republic, a federal subject of Russia
• Mari Autonomous Oblast (1920–1936), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
• Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1936–1990), an administrative division of the Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
• Mari, Syria, ancient near eastern city
• Mari, Cyprus, a village
• Mari, Punjab, a town and a union council in Pakistan

Religion

• Mari (goddess) of Basques
• Māri, India goddess a.k.a. Mariamman

People

• Saint Mari (fl. c. 100?), Mesopotamian religious leader
• José Mari (born 1978), Spanish football player
• Mari (1903–1987), Japanese novelist a.k.a. Mori Mari
• Mari Possa (born 1980), Salvadoran actress
• Mari Alkatiri (born 1949), Prime Minister of East Timor from 2002 to 2006
• Marianne Steinbrecher, known as Mari (born 1983), Brazilian volleyball player

Other uses

• Mari Iyagi, fictional character in My Beautiful Girl, Mari

See also[link]

• Mary (given name)

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Lisa "Elle" Fowler (born May 25, 1988)^[1] and Laura Elizabeth "Blair" Fowler (born April 1, 1993)^[2] are sisters who post beauty and style-related tutorials on YouTube under the monikers AllThatGlitters21 (Elle) and juicystar07 (Blair). Elle first stumbled into the beauty and fashion world of YouTube the summer of 2008, and soon convinced Blair to begin filming videos as well. Their videos of makeup tutorials and clothing hauls quickly garnered a large audience and rose in popularity. As of July 2011, Elle's videos on AllThatGlitters21 have been viewed more than 82 million times, while Blair's channel juicystar07 has received over 142 million views.^[3][4]

Both sisters also post vlogs under the monikers EllesGlitterGossip and otherjuicystar07, allowing subscribers to keep track of their daily lives outside of the YouTube community.^[5] Their respective second YouTube channels move away from purely beauty and fashion-related videos and branch into other topics such as health & fitness, their daily musings, and other random interests.^[6][7]

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Elle Fowler was born Lisa Sylvia Fowler on May 25, 1988 to Dr. Scott Fowler, a physician, OB/GYN, with Holston Medical Group, and Melisa Fowler.^[8] Elle is the eldest of three: Blair Fowler was born Laura Elizabeth Fowler on April 1, 1993 in Augusta, Georgia and the family's youngest, "Hannah Fowler" born Emily Fowler, was born several years later.^[1][9] After Blair's fifth birthday, the family relocated from New Orleans to Kingsport, Tennessee,^[10] where Blair attended Dobyns-Bennett High School.^[8]

They recently moved to Los Angeles, California. A joint video gained over 500,000 views,^[11] and by August 2010 they together had 130 million views combined on all of their videos.^[12] They have appeared in Seventeen, where Elle had previously interned, as a Beauty and Hair Smarties. The sisters have also appeared in teen fashion magazine, Teen Vogue. Most recently, the two created an online lifestyle website titled elleandblair.com.^[13] In 2011, Blair was the youngest ever makeup artist at New York City Fashion Week, where she and Elle also modelled in a show.^[14] In 2010 they signed an agreement with Kinectic Content to star in a reality TV show.^[15] .^[1][2]

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Elle and Blair got their first exposure outside of YouTube when Seventeen invited them to become "Beauty Smarties" for the magazine, featuring them in a few issues so they could offer makeup tips to readers. Their first media appearance came not long after, when Good Morning America interviewed them for a segment on hauling. Elle said in the interview, "I think it's really fun for a girl to live vicariously through someone else and see what other cute girls that they relate to are buying." According to the segment, their YouTube careers have become so successful that Blair had to leave high school and become homeschooled, allowing her more time to focus on her videos.^[16] Elle and Blair are at the forefront of the "hauling" phenomenon, and have been featured in a number of news segments and interviews on the subject after their Good Morning America appearance. They were featured on a KTLA segment on hauling alongside macbarbie07, a friend of Blair's and fellow beauty guru. The girls claimed to have a combined number of 9,000,000 subscribers, and Elle pointed out that a watch she showed in a video sold out almost immediately after mentioned it—a testament to the popularity of their videos. Another KTLA segment featuring Elle and Blair pointed out that despite their growing number of fans, they've also encountered a great deal of backlash. "The Fowler sisters have gotten lots of criticism for being fake and for hiding the fact that they were being compensated by some of these big companies."^[17] Other segments have also been critical of the hauling trend, using Elle and Blair's videos as examples of how haul videos have become extremely influential and may fuel shopping addiction and cultural idealizations of consumption and materialism.^[18]

With features in Marie Claire,^[19] Glamour,^[20] Seventeen,^[8] and other national publications, as well as prominent news outlets such as Good Morning America, ABC News with Diane Sawyer,^[21] the New York Times Style Section^[22] and the Wall Street Journal, Elle and Blair Fowler have a wide-reaching influence.

In 2011, Blair was contacted by Disney and offered a background role as Leah in Prom. This was Blair's first film role, and she is not sure whether or not she would like to pursue acting. However, she and her sister are currently working on other projects, including a cell phone accessory line, a reality television show and a book.^[23]

Most recently, the sisters were nominated as a duo for the 2011 Teen Choice Awards' "Choice Web Star" category, but lost to Rebecca Black.

Elle and Blair currently serve as the hosts and main judges of the webseries, Beauty Vlogger Boot Camp. The show revolves around young men and women who are aspiring to be online gurus. Contestants compete in a beauty-related challenge in each episode, with one person getting eliminated before the next round begins.^[24]

In May 2012, Elle and Blair announced that, in conjuction with Blush.com, they would be releasing their first make up line called Skylark. The sisters have said that the products with be released as soon as they are completed which is due to be Fall 2012. TeenVogue revealed that the first 2 products to be released will be 2 lip glosses named after the 2 main characters from "Beneath The Glitter", Ava and Sophia.

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Florin Stoian (born 1979, Bucharest), better known under the stage name of Florin Salam and (previously) Florin Fermecătoru, is a Gypsy singer of manele from Romania. He is one of the best known and appreciated manele performers.

Stoian has been singing since he was a child; his first contact with music took place at age of four. His father and uncle were well-known lăutari. He debuted in 2002 with help from bandleader Dan Bursuc. His first hit single was "Ce gagică şmecherită" (Romanian: "Such a picky chick"). He played an important part when the smash hit "Of, viaţa mea" (Romanian: "Oh, my life") was released in 2000, sung by Adrian Minune and Costi Ioniţă. In 2002 Florin Stoian changed his stage name from Fermecătoru (Romanian: "The Glamorous") to Salam (Arabian: "peace", cf. Hebrew "shalom", and Romanian: "salami" ).

In 2008 he performed a song together with pop singer Paula Seling and the Bucharest Symphonic Orchestra. The show host described their performance as a reconciliation between manele and mainstream pop music; in the same respect, the song's lyrics raised the problem of ethnic intolerance.

Florin Stoian is the vice-president of Asociaţia Artiştilor, Muzicanţilor şi Lăutarilor Romi din România (Romanian: "The association of Romani artists, musicians and lăutari from Romania".) In December 2005 he was announced the best manele performer of the year. According to the daily paper Libertatea, politician Mădălin Voicu and footballer Marius Niculae count among his fans.

Florin's parents are Maria and Robert Stoian. In September 2007 he married Ştefania Victoria, his first wife according to the Romani law; the best man was manele singer Adrian Minune. The wedding took place in the Anatolia Resort (Turkey.) The couple gave birth to two children. On April 12, 2009, Ştefania (aged 27) died from hepatic cirrhosis.

References[link]

• Florin Salam at starmania.ro
• Florin Salam Bio
• Salam Fermecatorul at libertatea.ro