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Louise or Luise may refer to:

People with the given name Louise or Luise:

• Louise (given name)

Arts[link]

• Louise (opera), opera by Gustave Charpentier
• Louise (film), a 1939 French film based on the opera
• Louise (animated short), a 2003 Manitoba animated short by Anita Lebeau
• "Louise", a song by Paul Revere & the Raiders from the album The Spirit of '67.
• "Louise", a song sung by Maurice Chevalier
• "Louise", a song by Paul Siebel on his debut album Woodsmoke and Oranges
• "Louise" (song), a song by the band The Human League from their 1984 album Hysteria
• "Louise", a song by Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders
• Louise Redknapp (born 1974), singer professionally known simply as "Louise"
• Louise Glover (born 1983), English model and photographer
• "Louise", a song by Linda Ronstadt from her album "Silk Purse" (1970)

Places[link]

• Louise, Manitoba, a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada

Royalty[link]

• Louise of Savoy (1476–1531), mother to Francis I of France
• Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776–1810), queen of Prussia
• Princess Louise of Prussia (1838–1923), daughter of Wilhelm I of Germany
• Louise of Great Britain (1724–1751), youngest surviving daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach

Ships[link]

• USS Louise No. 2 (SP-1230), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

See also[link]

• Louis (disambiguation)
• Louisa (disambiguation)
• Lake Louise (disambiguation)

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Louise L. Hay
Louise L. Hay
Born	(1926-10-08) October 8, 1926 (age 85) Los Angeles, California USA
Pen name	Lulu
Occupation	Author, Professional speaker,
Nationality	American
Genres	Self-help, Motivational
www.louisehay.com

Louise Hay (born October 8, 1926) is an American motivational author, and the founder of Hay House, a publishing company. She has authored several New Thought self-help books, and is best known for her 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life.

Biography[link]

Hay recounted her life story in an interview with Mark Oppenheimer of the New York Times in May 2008.^[1] In it Hay stated that she was born in Los Angeles to a poor mother who remarried Louise’s violent stepfather. She recounted that when she was about 5, she was raped by a neighbor. At 15 she dropped out of high school without a diploma, became pregnant and, on her 16th birthday, gave up her newborn baby girl to be adopted. She then recalled she moved to Chicago, where she worked in low paying jobs. In 1950 she moved on again to New York. She explained that at this point she changed her name and began a career as a fashion model. She was successful at this, working for Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini and Pauline Trigère. In 1954 she married the English businessman Andrew Hay, but went on to tell how, after 14 years of marriage, she was devastated when he left her for another woman.^[1]

Hay said that about this time she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, that taught her the transformative power of thought. Hay revealed that here she studied the New Thought works of authors like Florence Scovel Shinn, who claimed that positive thinking could change people’s material circumstances, and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, who taught that the body could be healed through positive thinking.^{[citation needed]}

By Hay's account in the early 1970s she became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations, which she believes will cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader. She also recalled how she had studied Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa.^[2]

Hay described how in 1977 or 1978 she found she had cervical cancer, and how she came to the conclusion that by holding on to her resentment for her childhood abuse and rape she had contributed to its onset. She reported how she had refused conventional medical treatment, and began a regime of forgiveness, coupled with therapy, nutrition, reflexology and occasional enemas. She claimed in the interview that she rid herself of the cancer by this method, but declared that there is no doctor left alive who can confirm this story, while swearing to its truth.^[1]

In 1976, Hay wrote her first book Heal Your Body, which began as a small pamphlet, containing a list of different bodily ailments and their “probable” metaphysical causes.^[1] This pamphlet was later enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, published in 1984 ^{[3][broken citation]} As of February 2008, it was second on the New York Times miscellaneous paperback best sellers list.^[4]

Around the same time she began leading support groups for people living with H.I.V. or AIDS which she called "Hay Rides".^[1] These grew from a few people in her living room to hundreds of men in a large hall in West Hollywood. Her work with AIDS patients drew fame and she was invited to appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and “Donahue” in the same week, in March 1988. Following this, You Can Heal Your Life immediately landed on the New York Times best-seller list. More than 35 million copies are now in print around the world in over 30 languages ^[1][5] and it also has been made into a movie.^[6] You Can Heal Your Life is also included in the book 50 Self-Help Classics^[7] for being significant in its field. Some of these statistics are open to question however.

Louise Hay writes on page 225 of her book (December 2008 printing) that the book has ". . .sold more than thirty five million copies"^[8]. Given this it has been announced in 2011 than You Can Heal your Life book had reached 40 million sales^[9].

Publishing[link]

In 1984, Louise Hay established Hay House Publishing Firm. It took few years before Hay House had its roots grounded. In 1988 Reid Tracy joined the company as an accountant. The business flourished and attracted several writers. Now Hay House is the primary publisher of books and audio books by Deepak Chopra and Doreen Virtue, as well as many books by Wayne Dyer. Hay House also publishes the teachings of Abraham, channeled through Esther Hicks. Along with many others, Hay House Inc. is accounting for over 130 authors.^[10]

In addition to running her publishing company, Hay runs a charitable organization called the Hay Foundation, which she founded in 1985.^[11]

In 2008, a movie about Louise Hay's life was released, titled You Can Heal Your Life. In Louise's own words from the movie's official website: "This movie is the story of my life, my teachings, and how I've applied the principles of my teachings to my own life." The movie also features Gregg Braden, Wayne Dyer, Gay Hendricks, Esther & Jerry Hicks, and Doreen Virtue; it was directed by Emmy Award winning Director Michael Goorjian^[12]. In the same year Louise Hay had been presented with Minerva Award at The Women's Conference^[13]

In September 2011, Louise Hay and Cheryl Richardson released their book "You Can Create An Exceptional Life".

Bibliography[link]

• You Can Heal Your Life. Hay House Inc., 1984. ISBN 0-937611-01-8
• Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them. Hay House Inc., 1984. ISBN 0-937611-35-2
• Love Yourself, Heal Your Life Workbook. Hay House Inc., 1990
• The Power Is Within You. Hay House Inc., 1991
• Heart Thoughts. Hay House Inc., 1992 ISBN 978-1-4019-3720-1
• Loving Thoughts For Increasing Prosperity. Hay house Inc., 1993
• Gratitude: A Way Of Life. Hay House Inc., 1996
• Life! Reflections On Your Journey. Hay House Inc., 1996
• Living Perfect Love: Empowering Rituals For Women. Humantics MultiMedia Publishers, 1996 ISBN 978-0-9652851-0-0
• 101 Ways To Health And Healing. Hay House Inc., 1998 ISBN 978-1-56170-496-5
• 101 Ways To Happiness. Hay House Inc., 1998 ISBN 978-1-56170-495-8
• Love Your Body. Hay House Inc., 1998 ISBN 978-1-56170-602-0
• Inner Wisdom: Meditations for the Heart and Soul, 2000
• Meditations To Heal Your Life. Hay House Inc., 2001
• You Can Heal Your Life Companion Book. Hay House Inc., 2002 ISBN 978-1-56170-878-9
• I Can Do It. Hay House Inc., 2004 ISBN 978-1-4019-0219-3
• Everyday Positive thinking. Hay House Inc., 2004 ISBN 978-1-4019-0295-7
• Power Thoughts. Hay House Inc., 2005 ISBN 978-1-4019-0554-5
• The Adventures of Lulu: Three Stories to Help Build Self-Esteem and Courage in Children, 2005
• The Times Of Our Lives. Hay House Inc. 2006 ISBN 978-1-4019-1150-8
• The Present Moment. Hay House Inc. 2007 ISBN 978-1-4019-1194-2
• I Think I Am. Hay House Inc., 2008 ISBN 978-1-4019-2208-5
• Modern Day Miracles. Hay House Inc. 2010 ISBN 978-1-4019-2527-7
• Experience Your Good Now!. Hay House Inc., 2010 ISBN 97811401927483
• Letters to Louise. Hay House Inc. 2011 ISBN 978-1-4019-2727-1
• You Can Create An Exceptional Life. Hay House Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-1-4019-3538-2
• Painting The Future. Hay House Visions, 2012 ISBN 978-1-4019-3781-2

See also[link]

• Raymond Charles Barker
• Emmet Fox
• Stuart Grayson

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Leo Kottke
Kottke at the Clearwater Festival, 2007
Background information
Birth name	Leo Kottke
Born	(1945-09-11) September 11, 1945 (age 66) Athens, Georgia
Genres	Folk
Occupations	Guitarist
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1966–present
Labels	Capitol, Private Music, Oblivion Records
Associated acts	Mike Gordon, John Fahey
Website	Official website
Notable instruments
Gibson, Taylor, Bozo

Leo Kottke (born 11 September 1945, Athens, Georgia, U.S.) is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies. Kottke has overcome a series of personal obstacles including partial loss of hearing and a nearly career-ending bout with tendon damage in his right hand to emerge as a widely-recognized master of his instrument.

Focusing primarily on instrumental composition and playing, Kottke also sings sporadically, in an unconventional yet expressive baritone famously self-described as sounding like "geese farts on a muggy day".^[1] In concert, Kottke intersperses humorous and often bizarre monologues with vocal and instrumental selections from throughout his career, played solo on his signature 6- and 12-string guitars.

Biography[link]

Early life and career[link]

Born in Athens, Georgia, Kottke moved with his parents so frequently that he was raised in twelve different states.^[2] As a youth living in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Kottke was influenced by folk and delta blues music, notably that of Mississippi John Hurt.^[2] Kottke learned to play trombone and violin before trying the guitar and developing his own unconventional picking style. A mishap with a firecracker permanently damaged the hearing in his left ear,^[2] a condition that would be exacerbated due to exposure to loud noise during firing practice while serving in the United States Navy Reserve, when his other ear also was damaged.^[3]

After being discharged from the Naval Reserve due to his partial loss of hearing, Kottke attended St. Cloud State University in central Minnesota but left before completing his studies, choosing instead to hitchhike around the country, busking for a living, before finally settling in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. He arrived at the Scholar Coffeehouse in the Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis area in the autumn of 1966 and soon was a regular performer. There, he recorded his debut album, 12-String Blues, which was released on the independent Oblivion record label in 1969. He recorded 6- and 12-String Guitar (also known as the "Armadillo album" after the animal pictured on its cover) for John Fahey's Takoma Records later the same year. It remains one of the works most associated with Kottke and has been re-released many times on various record labels.

Fahey's agent Denny Bruce signed Kottke to Capitol Records and in 1971, Capitol released Kottke's first major label record, Mudlark.^[2]

Pressured in the early 1970s to be a folk singer-songwriter rather than an instrumentalist, he recorded with vocals and backing musicians on albums during this period. In 1972 he released Greenhouse, and in 1973, the live My Feet Are Smiling and Ice Water. These albums showed Kottke moving toward an eclectic mixture of musical genres, including folk, rock, jazz and bluegrass.

Kottke closed out his contract with Capitol with his seventh album, Chewing Pine, in 1975. By then he had also gained an international cult following thanks to his performances at folk festivals. With his 1976 eponymous release, he moved to Chrysalis Records.

Injury and new playing style[link]

In the early 1980s, Kottke began to suffer from painful tendonitis and related nerve damage caused by his vigorous and aggressive picking style (particularly on the 12-string guitar).^[3][4] As a result, he changed his picking style to a classical style, using the flesh of his fingertips and increasingly small amounts of fingernail rather than fingerpicks, and changing the positioning of the right hand to place less stress on the tendons. He also studied more classical and jazz-oriented compositional and playing techniques. He took a long break from recording and performing and simultaneously moved from his relationship with major labels to the smaller Private Music label. Private Music was considered a New Age music label in the Windham Hill style, and Kottke often found his music categorized as such during this period. After 1986's reflective A Shout Toward Noon, he took a brief break from recording before returning with Regards from Chuck Pink in 1988.

Later career[link]

Kottke released an album annually from 1989 to 1991, following My Father's Face with That's What and finally Great Big Boy, which featured a guest appearance from Lyle Lovett. Two years later, Kottke returned with Peculiaroso, which featured production by Rickie Lee Jones. The solo album One Guitar, No Vocals followed in 1999.

In 2002, Kottke and Mike Gordon (the bassist from the band Phish, which was on an extended hiatus) collaborated on Clone, an album featuring instrumental work and vocals from both musicians. A second album from the pair, Sixty Six Steps, followed in 2005. The duo has toured in support of both albums.^[5] In between these two duet albums, Kottke released a solo album, 2004's Try and Stop Me.

Leo Kottke received an honorary Doctorate in Music Performance from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee on May 18, 2008, where he gave the commencement address.^[6]

Tunings[link]

Kottke's guitars are often tuned unconventionally; early in his career he heavily used open tuning, while in recent years he has used more traditional settings but often tunes his guitars as many as two full steps below standard tuning.

Orchestral works, re-recordings and other collaborations[link]

In 1976, Kottke collaborated with arranger Jack Nitzsche on the release Leo Kottke which featured Kottke backed by a small orchestral section on a number of the tracks.

In the later part of his career Kottke has begun reworking and re-recording tunes he wrote and recorded in the early 1970s.^[3] For example, 1999's One Guitar No Vocals offered a new instrumental version of 1974's "Morning Is The Long Way Home", with the countermelody opened up from behind the vocal line, stripped of its original trippy lyrics.^[7] Kottke has also combined previously-recorded tunes into new compositions, notably the mini-suite "Bigger Situation", also released on One Guitar No Vocals.

In 1990 Kottke and composer Stephen Paulus created Ice Fields, a work for amplified acoustic guitar and orchestra in a concerto format. Ice Fields featured five movements, each based on an existing Kottke composition, with orchestral backing and interlude sections.^[8] It was premiered by Paulus' Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and has been performed occasionally since but has not been released on record, partly due to the high cost of producing a recording with a full orchestra.^[9]

Kottke has also collaborated on his records with his mentor John Fahey, as well as with Chet Atkins, Lyle Lovett, Margo Timmins, Mike Gordon, and Rickie Lee Jones. He has recorded tunes by Tom T. Hall, Johnny Cash, Carla Bley, Fleetwood Mac, The Byrds, Jorma Kaukonen, Kris Kristofferson, Randall Hylton, and many others.

He has toured with other guitarists playing both solo and ensemble pieces; notably he toured as part of the "Guitar Summit" with jazz guitarist Joe Pass, flamenco guitarist Paco Peña, and classical guitarist Pepe Romero. He is also a frequent guest on the radio variety program A Prairie Home Companion.

Discography[link]

Videography[link]

1. Home & Away (1988)
2. Home & Away Revisited (2006)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Leo Kottke website
• Unofficial Leo Kottke web site (fan site)
• All Music biography of Leo Kottke, by Jason Ankeny
• Latest Leo Kottke Concert Reviews and Photos on Concertology
• 1999 Leo Kottke interview by Anil Prasad
• "Kottke and Gordon: Calypso-Brushed Guitars" by David Dye, from NPR's World Cafe November 24, 2005
• The Leo Kottke/Procol Harum connection One of several Kottke mentions at www.procolharum.com
• Interview on Minnesota Public Radio November 9, 2007

The Belle Brigade is an American vocal and instrumental duo^[1] consisting of siblings Barbara Gruska (born c. 1983)^[2] on guitar, drums, and vocals,^[3] and her younger brother Ethan Gruska (born c. 1989)^[2] on guitar, piano, and vocals.^[3] The duo released its first album, The Belle Brigade, in 2011 to positive critical response.