DAC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple uses:

Culture[link]

• Danish Architecture Centre
• Deutsche Alternative Charts, a listing of the most popular alternative albums and singles in Germany
• David Allan Coe, a country singer

Sports[link]

• Dakota Athletic Conference, an athletic conference.
• Daskalakis Athletic Center, the indoor sports and recreation facility for Drexel University
• Detroit Athletic Club, an exclusive athletic club in Detroit, MI
• DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda, a slovak football team

Technology[link]

• Design Automation Conference, a yearly conference on electronic design automation
• Diamond anvil cell, an instrument used for producing very high pressures
• Double Acting Cylinder, a type of pneumatic cylinder
• Double-Address Cycle, 64-bit addressing mode for DMA
• Digital-to-analog converter
• Discretionary Access Control is a type of access control in computer security
• Domain Assurance Council, a trade association started in 2006 for DKIM reputation
• Derived Air Concentration, a regulatory limit for radiation exposure

Politics[link]

• Democratic Action Congress, a political party in Trinidad and Tobago
• Development Assistance Committee, a sub-organisation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), responsible for development issues and development policies

Other[link]

• DAC (vehicle manufacturer), a Romanian truck manufacturer
• Deputy Assistant Commissioner, a rank in the London Metropolitan Police
• Decitabine, or 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine, a DNA-demethylating agent
• Deferred Acquisition Costs, in the insurance industry, when a company defers the sales costs that are associated with acquiring a new customer over the term of the insurance contract
• Districtus Austriae Controllatus, a classification for Austrian wine
• Star Trek DAC, a Star Trek video game
• Shahjalal International Airport (IATA airport code: DAC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Defense Ammunition Center in McAleseter, Oklahoma
• Dac, the fictional Mon Calamari homeworld
• Department of the Army Civilians Civilian Personnel of Department of the Army, USA
• Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches (DAC), an organisation in each Church of England diocese

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David Allan Coe
Coe performing in March, 2009
Background information
Birth name	David Alan Coe
Born	(1939-09-06) September 6, 1939 (age 72)
Origin	Akron, Ohio
Genres	Country
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter, Actor
Instruments	Vocals Guitar
Years active	1956–present
Labels	Columbia, D.A.C., Plantation
Associated acts	Confederate Railroad, Bob Wayne and the Outlaw Carnies, Rebel Meets Rebel, Pantera

David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. As a singer, his biggest hits were "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile," "The Ride," "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," "She Used to Love Me a Lot," and "Longhaired Redneck." His best-known compositions are the #1 successes "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)," which was covered by Tanya Tucker; and "Take This Job and Shove It," which was later covered by Johnny Paycheck that was later a hit movie (both Coe and Paycheck had minor parts in the film).

Biography[link]

Coe was born in Akron, Ohio on September 6, 1939.^[1] His favorite singer as a child was Johnny Ace.^[2] After being sent to a reform school at the age of 9, he spent much of the next 20 years in correctional facilities. Coe received encouragement to begin writing songs from Screamin' Jay Hawkins, with whom he had spent time in prison.^[3] Coe was treated poorly by racist inmates because he was friends with African American prisoners.^[3] After concluding another prison term in 1967, Coe embarked on a music career in Nashville, living in a hearse which he parked in front of the Ryman Auditorium, where the Grand Ole Opry was located, and caught the attention of the independent record label Plantation Records, and signed a contract with the label.^[1]

After the Internal Revenue Service seized his home in Key West, Florida, Coe lived in a cave in Tennessee, and later remarried and got back on his feet.^[1]

Music career[link]

Early career[link]

In 1968, Coe released his debut album, Penitentiary Blues, followed by a tour with Grand Funk Railroad.^[1] Although he developed a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success, but other performers achieved charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears' 1972 recording "Souvenirs & California Mem'rys" and Tanya Tucker's 1973 single "Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)," which was a number one hit, and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records.^[1] Coe recorded his own version of the song for his second Columbia album, Once Upon a Rhyme, released in 1975.^[4] Allmusic writer Thom Jurek said of the song, "The amazing thing is that both versions are definitive."^[4] The album also contained a cover of Steve Goodman's and John Prine's "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," which was a Top Ten Billboard hit, and was followed by a string of moderately successful hits.^[1]

Coe was a featured performer in Heartworn Highways, a 1975 documentary film by James Szalapski. Other performers featured in this film included Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Steve Young, Steve Earle, and The Charlie Daniels Band. In 1977 Johnny Paycheck released a cover of Coe's "Take This Job And Shove It," which was a number one hit and Coe's most successful song.^[1]

Underground albums[link]

While Coe lived in Key West, Shel Silverstein played his comedy album Freakin' at the Freakers Ball for Coe, spurring him to perform his own comedic songs for Silverstein, who encouraged Coe to record them, leading to the production of the independently released Nothing Sacred.^[5] Jimmy Buffett accused Coe of plagiarizing the melody of "Divers Do It Deeper" from Buffett's "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes," stating "I would have sued him, but I didn't want to give Coe the pleasure of having his name in the paper."^[6] In response to the success of Buffett's song, Coe wrote a song insulting Buffett, and it appeared on Nothing Sacred.^[6] The album was released by mail order in 1978, through the back pages of the biker magazine Easyriders.^[5] Coe's 1979 Columbia album Spectrum VII contained a note stating "Jimmy Buffett doesn't live in Key West anymore," a lyric from a song from Nothing Sacred.^[6]

In 1982, Coe released another independent album, Underground Album, which contained his most controversial song, "Nigger Fucker," which resulted in Coe being accused of racism.^[7][8] Coe responded to the accusations by stating "Anyone that hears this album and says I'm a racist is full of shit."^[3] Coe's drummer at the time, Kerry Brown, is African American and married to a white woman, as was Brown's late father, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.^[5]

Later career[link]

During the 1980s, Coe enjoyed a resurgence in mainstream popularity, twice hitting the top 10 of the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart with "The Ride" (1983) and "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile" (1984). "The Ride" recounts a drifter's encounter with the ghost of country music legend Hank Williams. "Mona Lisa" is a mid-tempo ballad about a broken love affair, featuring allusions to the iconic Da Vinci painting. He also just missed the top 10 in early 1985 with "She Used to Love Me a Lot."

In 1990, Coe reissued his independent albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album on compact disc, as well as the compilation 18 X-Rated Hits.^[5] Throughout the 1990s, Coe had a successful career as a concert performer in the United States and Europe.^[1] In 1999, Coe met Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in Fort Worth, Texas, and the two musicians, struck by the similarity of the approaches between country and heavy metal, agreed to work together, and began production on an album.^[3][9]

In 2000, Coe toured as the opening act for Kid Rock, and The New York Times published an article by journalist Neil Strauss, who described the material on Nothing Sacred and Underground Album as "among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter."^[10] During the writing of the article, Coe contacted Strauss, but Strauss did not acknowledge any interaction between the two in his article, which only stated that Coe's manager refused to speak on the record.^[5][10]

In 2003, Coe wrote a song for Kid Rock, "Single Father," which appeared on Kid Rock's self-titled album, and was released as a single, which peaked at #50 on the Billboard Country Singles chart.^[11][12] Rebel Meets Rebel, with Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown, recorded sporadically between 1999 and 2003, was released in 2006, two years after Dimebag Darrel's murder.^[3][9] Allmusic described it as a "groundbreaking" country metal album.^[13]

Style[link]

Coe's musical style derives from blues, rock and country music traditions.^[1][14] His vocal style is described as a "throaty baritone."^[14] His lyrical content is often humorous or comedic, with William Ruhlmann describing him as a "near-parody of a country singer."^[15] Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes Coe as "a great, unashamed country singer, singing the purest honky-tonk and hardest country of his era [...] He may not be the most original outlaw, but there's none more outlaw than him."^[16]

Coe's lyrics frequently include references to alcohol and drug use, and are often boisterous and cocky.^[13] Coe's debut album, Penitentiary Blues was described as "voodoo blues" and "redneck music" by Allmusic's Thom Jurek.^[17] It focused on themes such as working for the first time, blood tests from veins used to inject heroin, prison time, hoodoo imagery and death.^[17] The album's influences included Charlie Rich, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Tony Joe White.^[17]

Coe's first country album, The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy, has been described as alt-country, "pre-punk" and "a hillbilly version of Marc Bolan's glitz and glitter."^[18] Credited influences on the album include Merle Haggard.^[18]

Coe's albums Nothing Sacred and Underground Album contained profane, sexually explicit material, including songs making reference to an orgy in Nashville's Centennial Park, sex with pornographic film star Linda Lovelace and insults directed at Jimmy Buffett and Anita Bryant.^[6][7] The album Rebel Meets Rebel featured an anti-racist song, "Cherokee Cry," which criticizes the United States government's treatment of Native Americans.^[13]

In his early career, Coe was known for his unpredictable live performances, in which he would ride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle onto the stage and curse at his audience.^[1] Coe has also performed in a rhinestone suit and a mask which resembled that of The Lone Ranger, calling himself the "Masked Rhinestone Cowboy."^[1]

Discography[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Just for the Record...the Autobiography
• The Book of David
• Ex-Convict
• Poems, Prose and Short Stories
• Psychopath
• Whoopsy Daisy (audio book)

References[link]

General

Specific

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Aria Daniella Hernandez Clemente (born on August 29, 1995), also known as Aria Clemente, is a Filipina singer and actress. Aria is currently a contract artist under ABS-CBN's Star Magic.

Career[link]

Aria Clemente is a Filipina teen singer, who was the second Filipino to win the World Championships of the Arts (WCOPA) award, also known as the "Hollywood Olympics". She won the 2007 junior singer WCOPA in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

STAGES and Star Records have come up with this concept album for the fifteen-year-old performer not only to officially launch her as a recording artist, but for children her age to have something they can use to sing along with.

Aria joined Little Big Star in 2007 but she didn't win, she was the 5th eliminated contestant of the talent show. She was twelve years old when she was given honor by winning the WCOPA. WCOPA is the first global competition that gathers the best performers from 50 countries around the world. There, participants can show their talents in dancing, singing, modeling, acting and others.

The song that became the reason of her success is the shortened version of "Do not Rain On My Parade" from the musical Funny Girl. Four best participants from the countries South Africa, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago and Russia has been her opponent in the Junior award vocalists.

Since she was the winner in 2007 WCOPA, many opportunities abroad and here in the Philippines opened for her unique talent and craftsmanship. She is invited practicing without a license from television, recordings, theater, product endorsements and corporate projects show. She also posted videos of her singing and playing with her ukelele in youtube. She is best known as her role Jin Jin in the TV show Mara Clara.

Television[link]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• ClickTheCity
• Official website of WCOPA

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André Isaac (August 15, 1893-February 9, 1975), better known as Pierre Dac was a French humorist and Résistance activist.

He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne and died in Paris.

During the German occupation of France in World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of Radio Londres.

See also[link]

• La Famille Anodin (film 1956)
• La Belle Américaine (1961)
• Le Petit Baigneur (1968)

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