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Cleo is a given name that is short for Cleopatra or Cleophalus and an alternate spelling of Clio. It is a Greek prefix often translated to mean 'pride', 'fame' or 'glory'.

Cleo may refer to:

People[link]

• Cléo, nickname of professional soccer player Cleverson Gabriel Córdova
• Cleo Patra Brown (1909-1995), American blues and jazz vocalist and pianist
• Cleo Fields (born 1962), American lawyer and politician, former member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
• Cleo Higgins (born 1982), of the vocal group Cleopatra
• Cleo Laine (born 1927), jazz singer and actress
• Cleo Lemon (born 1979), Canadian football quarterback
• Cleo Madison (1883-1964), American stage and silent film actress
• Cléo de Mérode (1875-1966), French dancer
• Cleo Miller (born 1951), American former football player
• Cleo Moore (1924-1973), American actress
• Cleo A. Noel, Jr. (1918-1973), American ambassador to Sudan killed by Black September terrorists
• Cleo A. O'Donnell (c. 1886–1953), American football player and coach
• Cleo Pineau (1893-1972), American World War I flying ace and businessman
• Cleo Ridgely (1893-1962), American film actress
• Cleo Rocos (born 1962), British comedian
• Miss Cleo, self-proclaimed psychic

Fictional characters[link]

• Cleo Finch, in the television show ER
• Cleo Babbitt, in the U.S. soap opera As the World Turns
• Cleo Bellows, a main character in the OPB TV show MythQuest
• Cleo, an animated goldfish who first appeared in Pinocchio (1940 film)
• Cleo, a purple poodle in the book Clifford the Big Red Dog and the television program Clifford the Big Red Dog (2000 animated series)
• Cleo, the mother lion in the OPB children's TV program Between the Lions
• Cleo, a clone of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt in the American TV series Clone High
• Cleo, one of The Catillac Cats, an animated TV series
• Cleo, a fictional character in Mischief City
• Cleo Sertori, from H2O: Just Add Water
• Cleo Farr, from Scream Street
• Cleo Carter, from Tutenstein

In entertainment[link]

• Cleo (film), a 2011 Steven Soderbergh film
• Cleo (magazine), an Australian magazine established in 1972
• Cleo (TV series), a Swedish comedy TV series broadcast during 2002 and 2003
• "Cleo", a song from the 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love by Built to Spill
• Cleo (band), a Korean pop music girl group

In science and technology[link]

• CLEO (particle detector), operated by physicists at Cornell University
• CLEO (router), a satellite payload extending the Internet into space
• "CLEO" (Clear Language for Expressing Orders), the programming language for the LEO computer
• CLEO, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Other uses[link]

• Hurricane Cleo (disambiguation)
• USS Cleo (SP-232), a United States Navy patrol vessel in service from 1917 to 1918

See also[link]

• Clio (disambiguation)
• Cleopatra (disambiguation)

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Cleopatra Madonna "Cleo" Higgins (born 30 April 1982, Manchester, England) is an English R&B/soul and pop singer, dancer, songwriter and actress. Higgins is the lead singer of the girl group, Cleopatra.

Solo career[link]

Since leaving Cleopatra, Higgins has released her debut single "Feelin' Like This" and is currently working on her debut album. Higgins has recorded two duets with tenor Russell Watson. The first duet "Someone Like You" was featured on Watson's multi-platinum debut album The Voice and topped the U.S classical charts.^[1][2] She performed the duet both on tour with Watson, and on the National Lottery, at which time she was five months pregnant with her first child, Chika. Higgins and Watson collaborated again with a track called "The Best That Love Can Be", on his third album, Reprise.

In 1990, Higgins headlined the Young Voices in Concert tour. 15,000 people attended the MEN Arena to watch Higgins and almost 7,000 choir members break the Guinness World Record for the largest choir ever assembled in the UK. There were 6,846 voices.^[3] The performance was aired on the BBC Television's Songs of Praise

Higgins joined ITV1's Songs Of Bond, a tribute to the songs of James Bond. She covered "For Your Eyes Only". She has toured with Joe Budden, Russell Watson, Jagged Edge, Blue, Girls Aloud and also embarked on a university tour. Higgins has covered Kym Sims' "Too Blind To See It". Higgins has worked as a spokeswoman for CoverGirl.

It was reported recently that Cleopatra are to reform and are working on new material.

Personal life[link]

Higgins has two children, Chika Li Ché who was born in Sep 2001 and Taylor James McKenzie (TJ), with her long term partner, Marlon McKenzie who has appeared on the X-Factor. Cleo and Marlon have broken up they have "Come to the end of the road" and are still good friends and share time with both of their children.^[4]

Singles[link]

"Feelin' Like This"

"Someone Like You"

"The Best That Love Can Be"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Myspace page
• Cleo Higgins at the Internet Movie Database

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Youree Dell Harris (born August 12, 1962)^[1] better known as Miss Cleo, is an American psychic and shaman who achieved fame as a spokeswoman for a psychic pay-per-call service from 1997 - 2003. Harris has allegedly used numerous aliases throughout her career, including Cleomili Harris and Youree Perris.^[2]

Early life and career[link]

In 1996, in Seattle, Washington, Harris and her partner opened a production company which produced several of her plays.^[2] She acted in her first project, an autobiographical play entitled Women Only: A Celebration of Love, Life and Healing. Her last project, Supper Club Cafe, was not successful and she "left town with a trail of debts and broken promises".^[2]

Some of the cast of her productions claimed that they were never paid, and that Harris "told her cast members she had bone cancer" and "her medical costs would prevent her from paying people immediately", but she wrote each actor and crew member a letter telling him or her how much money she owed them.^[2]

Psychic Readers Network[link]

In the late 1990s, Harris began to work for the Psychic Readers Network under the name Cleo. She appeared as a television infomercial psychic in which she claimed she was from Jamaica.

The Psychic Readers Network is said to have coined the title "Miss Cleo" and sent unsolicited e-mails,^[3] some of which stated, "[Miss Cleo has] been authorized to issue you a Special Tarot Reading!... it is vital that you call immediately!" Charges of deceptive advertising and of fraud on the part of the Psychic Readers Network began to surface around this time.^[4]

In 2001, Access Resource Services d/b/a Psychic Readers Network was sued in various lawsuits brought by (among others) Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Florida, and the Federal Communications Commission, although reports later said that "many customers were satisfied with the service".^[5]

In 2002, the FCC charged the company's owners and Harris' promoters, Steven Feder and Peter Stotz, with deceptive advertising, billing and collection practices; Harris was not indicted.^[6] Her promoters agreed to settle for a fraction of the amount they took in.^[7] It emerged that Harris was actually born in Los Angeles, and that her parents were U.S. citizens.^[5]

Personal life and subsequent career[link]

In 2003, the New York Daily News reported that TV music network Fuse had signed Harris as a spokeswoman.^[8] In early 2005, Harris was reportedly appearing on television as Cleo in advertisements for a used car dealership in Florida, according to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.^[9] In an interview the October 2006 issue of The Advocate magazine, Harris said she was a lesbian.^[10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Youree Dell Harris at the Internet Movie Database

Looptroop Rockers
Looptroop Rockers performing in 2006
Background information
Origin	Västerås, Sweden
Genres	Hip hop
Years active	1991–present
Labels	David Vs Goliath Burning Heart Records Bad Taste Records
Website	Official website
Members
Promoe Supreme Embee Cos.M.I.C

Looptroop Rockers is a hip hop group from Västerås, Sweden. The members are rappers Promoe (Mårten Edh), Supreme (Mathias Lundh-Isen), DJ/Producer Embee (Magnus Bergkvist) and CosM.I.C (Tommy Isacsson). In February 2007 CosM.I.C, who had been a member of the group since the beginning in 1993, decided to focus on designing and maintaining looptrooprockers.com and not to be an active member of the group. He however rejoined the group in 2010 as Promoe announced at a concert in Helsinki on May 19, it was officially announced on their website ^[1] on May 21. On their fourth album, Good Things, the group changed its name from Looptroop to Looptroop Rockers, a name they've used unofficially for some years prior to the change.

Biography[link]

Looptroop was formed in 1991 by Promoe and Embee. The two had met while attending school in Västerås and were still in their teens at the time of the group's inception. Cos.M.I.C joined shortly thereafter and in 1993 the group independently released their cassette-only debut EP Superstars, which was followed in 1995 by Threesicksteez. By the time they released their third cassette, From The Wax Cabinet (1996), long-time associate and frequent collaborator Supreme had become a permanent member of the group. It was in the pre-DVSG time when Promoe and Cos.M.I.C were also part of a group of graffiti writers called the "BIF" (Babylon Is Falling) crew in Västerås.

In 1998, Looptroop started their own record label, David Vs. Goliath (commonly referred to as DVSG), and with distribution handled by the Swedish punkrock label Burning Heart Records they released their full-length debut album Modern Day City Symphony in 2000. The album managed to sell reasonably well despite limited media exposure and spawned the underground hit single "Long Arm of the Law," which took a critical stance towards the Swedish police force and has since become one of Looptroop's signature songs.

In 2001, Promoe became the first member of the group to launch a solo career, with his debut solo album, Government Music. In 2002 Looptroop released their second album The Struggle Continues.

Embee's solo album Tellings From Solitaria was released in 2004 and featured contributions from several notable Swedish artists, including José González, Timbuktu and Daniel Lemma. The album was critically acclaimed and won a Swedish grammy award for best hiphop/soul in 2004.

Their third full-length studio album, Fort Europa, was released in 2005. On the track "Fort Europa," the group takes a particularly critical tone towards their country's immigration policy. In the video, an image of a TV screen reading "Welcome SWE" is smashed by a golf club as the beat drops. In the first verse, Promoe compares immigration policy to the Berlin Wall.^[2]

On February 9, 2007 Cos.M.I.C announced that he was leaving the group indefinitely. He stated that there had been no falling-out between him and the rest of the group and mentioned that the group's busy schedule, which prevented him from spending time with his family, prompted this decision. Cos.M.I.C then contributed to two songs on the group's 2008 album "Good Things". After Cos.M.I.C left the group, they have also officially changed the group name from Looptroop to Looptroop Rockers!

Looptroop Rockers released their fourth album Good Things on 23 April 2008. Cos.M.I.C is featured on one of the tracks on the album. 2008 was also the year that DVSG was celebrating its 10th anniversary. Looptroop Rockers worked with artists like Rakaa Iriscience of the Dilated Peoples, Cunninglynguists, Timbuktu and Adam Tensta for this album.

On 21 May 2010 Looptroop Rockers announced on their website ^[3] that they were working on a new album. Promoe said it to be slated for a February 2011 release at a gig in Helsinki on May 19. On the same occasion it was announced that Cos.M.I.C. rejoined the group as a full member working on the new album.

In March 2011, the group released their fifth album "Professional Dreamers".

Discography[link]

Looptroop[link]

Main Albums

• Superstars (1993)
• Threesicksteez (1995)
• From the Waxcabinet (1996)
• Punx Not Dead (1998)
• Modern Day City Symphony (2000)
• The Struggle Continues (2002)
• Fort Europa (2005)
• Good Things (2008)
• Professional Dreamers (2011)