Look up connection, connexion, connected, or connectivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Connect, connection, connections, connected, or connectivity may refer to:

Mathematics[link]

• Connection (mathematics), a way of specifying a derivative of a geometrical object along a vector field on a manifold
  • Levi-Civita connection, used in differential geometry and general relativity; differentiates a vector field along another vector field
  • Connection (vector bundle), differentiates a section of a vector bundle along a vector field
  • Connection form, a manner of specifying a connection using differential forms
  • Connection (principal bundle), gives the derivative of a section of a principle bundle
  • Ehresmann connection, gives a manner for differentiating sections of a general fibre bundle
  • Cartan connection, achieved by identifying tangent spaces with the tangent space of a certain model Klein geometry
• Connectedness, a property of topological space, graph or category (with different meanings)
  • Connected category, a category for which, for every two objects, there is at least one morphism connecting them
  • Connected space, a topological space which cannot be written as the disjoint union of two or more nonempty open spaces
  • Connectivity (graph theory)
  • Pixel connectivity
  • Connected sum
• Galois connection, a type of correspondence between two partially ordered sets
• Connection (algebraic framework)

Technology[link]

• The effect of a fastener
• Electrical connection, allows the flow of electrons
• Interconnectivity, the redundant interaction of many small parts to form a greater whole
• Landscape connectivity
• Telecommunication circuit, the complete path between two terminals
• Computer network connections:
  • Database connection
  • Virtual circuit or connection
  • Connection-oriented
  • Connectionless-mode transmission
• Connect (trade union), a union for technology workers in the United Kingdom
• Connect (users group), the worldwide users group for Hewlett-Packard
• Connectivity, a parameter describing the topology of porous media
• To make a connection, oil drilling lingo: "to add an additional segment of drill pipe"
• Connected, a software product from Iron Mountain Incorporated for computer data backup and archiving
• connect() a function provided by the Berkeley sockets API
• Kinect controller for Xbox

Media[link]

• Connect with Mark Kelley, a Canadian news talk show
• Sportsnet Connected, a sports news program that airs in Canada
• Connections (journal), a military/defense periodical
• Connections (TV series), James Burke's documentary television series
• The Connection (radio program), former Boston public radio call-in program
• Connections (Canadian documentary), a documentary on organized crime in Canada
• Connections (game show), a British game show of the 1980s
• Connected (film), a 2008 Hong Kong remake of the American movie Cellular
• Connected: An Autoblogography About Love, Death & Technology, a 2011 documentary film

Music[link]

• "Connected" (Ayumi Hamasaki song)
• "Connection" (Elastica song), 1994
• Connected (The Foreign Exchange album)
• "Connected" (Hoobastank song)
• "Connected" (RBD song)
• "Connection" (The Rolling Stones song), 1967
• Connected (Stereo MCs album), 1992
• "Connected" (Stereo MCs song)
• "Connection", a song by Can on the 1976 album Unlimited Edition
• "Connection", a song by Avail from their album Satiate
• Connect Music Festival, held in Inveraray, Scotland
• Sony Connect, an online music store
• ReConnected, British boyband previously part of Connected
• Myles and Connor, British duo previously part of Connected
• Connection (EP), a split EP by Home Grown and Limbeck
• "Reconnect" (song), the debut single of Irish art rock quartet, Director

Other uses[link]

• Connections Academy, a free public school that students attend from home
• Connection (dance), the primary means of communication between the lead and the follow
• Connect (game)

See also[link]

• CONNECT (disambiguation)
• Connectionalism
• Connexion (disambiguation)
• Contiguity
• Kinect
• Link (disambiguation)
• Musical form
• Permeability (spatial and transport planning)
• Rapport
• Six degrees of separation

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Jude Law
Law at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
Born	David Jude Heyworth Law (1972-12-29) 29 December 1972 (age 39) Lewisham, London, UK
Occupation	Actor, producer, director
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Sadie Frost (1997–2003; 3 children)

David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.^[1][2]

He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2000 he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for his work in the film. In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in another Minghella film, Cold Mountain.

In 2006, he was one of the top ten most bankable movie stars in Hollywood.^[3] In 2007, he received an Honorary César and he was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.^[4][5] He was a member of the main competition jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[6]

Early life[link]

Law was born in Lewisham, South London, the second child of comprehensive school teachers Margaret Anne (née Heyworth) and Peter Robert Law; his father later became, according to Law, "the youngest headmaster in London".^[1][7] He has a sister, Natasha.^[7] Law was named after a "bit of both" the book Jude the Obscure and the song Hey Jude.^[7] He grew up in Blackheath, an area in the Borough of Lewisham,^[8] and was educated at John Ball Primary School in Blackheath and Kidbrooke School, before attending the Alleyn's School.^[7]

Career[link]

1980s–1990s[link]

In 1987, Law began acting with National Youth Music Theatre.^[9] He played various roles in the Edinburgh Fringe-awarded play The Ragged Child. One of his first major stage roles was Foxtrot Darling in Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock In The Universe. Law went on to appear as Michael in the West End production of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les Parents terribles, directed by Sean Mathias.^[7] For this play, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Newcomer, and he received the Ian Charleson Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

Following a title change to Indiscretions, the play was reworked and transferred to Broadway in 1995, where Law acted opposite Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees, and Cynthia Nixon.^[10][11] This role earned him a Tony Award nomination^[12] and the Theatre World Award.^[13] In 1989, Law got his first television role, in a movie based on the Beatrix Potter children's book, The Tailor of Gloucester. After minor roles in British television, including a two-year stint in the Granada TV soap opera Families and the leading role in the BFI /Channel 4 short The Crane, Law had his breakthrough with the British crime drama Shopping, which also featured his future wife, Sadie Frost.

In 1997, he became more widely known with his role in the Oscar Wilde bio-pic Wilde.^[7] Law won the "Most Promising Newcomer" award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards for his role as Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, the glamorous lover of Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde.^[14] In Andrew Niccol's science fiction film Gattaca, Law played the role of a disabled former swimming star living in a eugenics-obsessed dystopia.^[7] In Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, he played the role of the ill-fated hustler murdered by an art dealer, played by Kevin Spacey.

For The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, he learned to play saxophone and earned a MTV Movie Award nomination with Matt Damon and Fiorello for performing the song "Tu vuò fà l'americano" by Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno.

2000s[link]

In 2001, Law starred as Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev in the film Enemy At The Gates, and learned ballet dancing for the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).^[15] In 2002, he played a mob hitman in Sam Mendes's 1930s period drama Road to Perdition. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, and then again for the Academy Award for Best Actor for Cold Mountain in 2003. Both films were directed by Anthony Minghella.^[7]

Law at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

Law, an admirer of Laurence Olivier, used the actor's image in the 2004 film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Using computer graphics, footage of the young Olivier was merged into the film, playing Dr. Totenkopf, a mysterious scientific genius and supervillain.^[16][17] Also in 2004, he portrayed the title character in Alfie, the remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 film, playing the role originated by Michael Caine.^[7] Law was one of the Top Ten 2006 A-list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood, following the criteria of James Ulmer in the Ulmer Scale.^[3] On 1 March 2007, he was honoured with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres conferred by the French government, in recognition of his contribution to World Cinema Arts. He was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.^[4]

He took on another of Caine's earlier roles in the 2007 film Sleuth, adapted by Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter, while Caine played the role originated by Sir Laurence Olivier.^[18]

Law is one of three actors who took over the role of actor Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Along with Law, actors Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell portray "three separate dimensions in the film."^[19][20] He appeared opposite Forest Whitaker in the dark science fiction comedy Repo Men and as Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie's adaption of Sherlock Holmes, alongside Robert Downey, Jr. and Rachel McAdams, as well as the 2011 sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Law starred as a celebrity supermodel in the film Rage,^[21] and blogger and "prophet" Alan Krumwiede in the 2011 medical thriller Contagion.

[edit] Hamlet

In May 2009, Law returned to the London stage to portray the title role in Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's Theatre. The BBC reported "a fine and solid performance" but included other reviews of Law's interpretation that were mixed.^[22] There was a further run of the production at Elsinore Castle in Denmark from 25–30 August 2009.^[23] In September 2009 the production transferred to the Broadhurst Theatre in New York. Again, the critics failed to agree on the merit of Law's interpretation: London's Daily Mail found only positive reviews,^[24] but The Washington Post felt that the much-anticipated performance was "highly disappointing".^[25] Nonetheless, he was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.^[26] In January 2010 at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards ceremony he was presented with the John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his 2009 Hamlet.^[27]

Other projects[link]

Advertising[link]

Law is the face of the male perfume of Dior, Dior Homme Sport.^[28][29][30] Since 2005, he has represented Dunhill as an "apparel ambassador" in Asia.^[31] In 2008, he became the international face of Dunhill and appears in the worldwide advertising campaigns.^[32]

In 2002, he directed a Respect for Animals anti-fur cinema commercial. The commercial, titled "Fur and Against", used music composed by Gary Kemp, and included appearances by Law, Chrissie Hynde, Moby, George Michael, Danny Goffey, Rhys Ifans, Sadie Frost, Helena Christensen, Sir Paul McCartney, Mel C, and Stella McCartney.^[33]

[edit] Realtime Movie

In early 2007 Law shot the Jason Martin-directed short film "Realtime Movie Trailer" at Borough Market, South London. Instead of promoting a film, this "trailer", which appeared among regular trailers in selected cinemas across London starting 19 November 2007, advertised a live event, Realtime Movie, by Polish artist Paweł Althamer. Hundreds turned up for this–unfilmed–re-enactment in real time of the sequence of events shown in "Realtime Movie Trailer" by the same actors, including Althamer as a Polish laborer, held at Borough Market on 30 November 2007. The performance was commissioned by Tate Modern as part of its "The World as a Stage" exhibition which explored the boundaries between arts and reality.^{[34][35][36][37]}

Charity activities[link]

In 2004, Law launched a campaign to raise £2.5 million towards the Young Vic Theatre's £12.5 million redevelopment project.^[38][39] He is currently Chair of the Young Vic committee and has said that he is proud to help make the Young Vic "a nurturing bed" for young directors.^[40] In 2006, he joined Robbie Williams in the "Soccer Aid" celebrity football match to benefit UNICEF.^[41]

In 2006, he starred in an anthology of Samuel Beckett readings and performances directed by director Anthony Minghella. With the Beckett Gala Evening at the Reading Town Hall, more than £22,000 was donated for the Macmillan Cancer Support.^[42] Also in 2006, Frost and Law directed a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage. He travelled to Durban with Frost and their children in order to help children who have lost their parents to AIDS. In July 2007, as patron of the charity, he helped kick off the month-long tour of the AIDS-themed musical Thula Sizwe by The Young Zulu Warriors.^[43] Also in 2007, he encouraged the Friends of the Earth/The Big Ask campaign, asking British Government to take action against climate change.^[44][45][46]

Law does charity work for organizations such as Make Poverty History, the Rhys Daniels Trust, and the WAVE Trauma Centre.^[47] He supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Pride of Britain Awards.^{[48][49][50][51]}

He is the chair of the Music For Tomorrow Foundation to help rebuild Katrina-devastated New Orleans.^[52][53]

Jude Law is an ambassador of HRH The Prince of Wales' Children and the Arts Foundation.^[54] He supports Breast Cancer Care,^[55] and in December 2008 he supported the Willow Foundation with a small canvas for their campaign Stars on Canvas.^[56] In April 2009 he supported the charity Education Africa with the gift of a mask he had painted and signed himself. The campaign was launched on eBay by Education Africa.^[57]

Stars including Dame Judi Dench and Jude Law have helped save St Stephen's Church in Hampstead. The celebrities supported the campaign, which raised £4.5 million to refurbish the Victorian church in north London. The building reopened in March 2009 as an arts and community centre.^[58][59]

Peace activities[link]

In July 2007, Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley were in Afghanistan over a period of 10 days to document peace commitments and activities there for an upcoming film and for marking the UN International Day of Peace.^[60][61] Accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue, they travelled and filmed in dangerous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a film crew, interviewing children, government ministers, community leaders and UN officials.^[62][63] They also filmed at schools and visited various UNICEF-supported programmes inside and outside the capital Kabul.^[64][65] The efforts of Peace One Day are coordinated in celebration of the annual International Day of Peace, on 21 September.^[66][67] The film, named The Day After Peace, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.^[68][69][70] On 21 September 2008, the film was shown at a gala screening at the Royal Albert Hall.^[71]

On 30 August 2008, Law and Gilley returned to Afghanistan to help keep a momentum around Peace Day. They met President Hamid Karzai, top NATO and UN officials, and members of the aid community. They also screened the new documentary about the efforts in support of peace. The documentary features activities that took place throughout Afghanistan in 2007. It also highlights support from UNICEF and the WHO for the peaceful immunization of 1.4 million children against polio in insecure areas.^{[72][73][74][75]}

Belarus[link]

In 2011 Law joined street protests against Alexander Lukashenko and Lukashenko's brutal crackdown on the Belarusian democracy movement.^[76]

Personal life[link]

Law's parents live in Vaudelnay, France, where they run their own drama school and theatre.^[77] His sister Natasha is an illustrator and artist, living in London.^[78][79]

Law met actress Sadie Frost while working on the film Shopping. They married on 2 September 1997 and divorced on 29 October 2003. He has a stepson, Finlay Munro (born 20 September 1990), and three biological children with Frost: son Rafferty (born 6 October 1996), daughter Iris (born 25 October 2000), and son Rudy (born 10 September 2002).^[80][81]

While making the film Alfie in late 2003, Law and co-star Sienna Miller began a relationship, becoming engaged on Christmas Day 2004.^[82] Miller and Law separated in November 2006.^[83]

On 29 July 2009, it was announced that Law would become a father for the fourth time following a brief relationship with American model Samantha Burke in 2008.^[84][85] Burke gave birth to a daughter, Sophia, on 22 September 2009 in New York.^[86][87]

In December 2009, it was reported that Law and Miller had rekindled their relationship after starring in separate shows on Broadway in late 2009.^[88] They spent Christmas 2009 in Barbados, along with three of Law's children.^[89] They announced they had split again in February 2011.^[90]

Filmography[link]

Soundtrack[link]

• "Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine", (The Pirates of Penzance), performed in Wilde, (1997)
• "Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano", performed in The Talented Mr. Ripley, with Matt Damon, Fiorello and The Guy Barker International Quintet, (1999)
• "Avenues and Alleyways", the 1973 Tony Christie song, performed with other crew members in Love, Honour and Obey, (2000)
• "Rock On", the David Essex song, performed in Love, Honour and Obey, (2000)
• "Opening song", performed in NBC's Saturday Night Live, with Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Ashlee Simpson, (2004)

Theatre[link]

Theatre awards and nominations[link]

Laurence Olivier Award
1994 Nominated Laurence Olivier Award as Best Newcomer in a Play for: Les Parents terribles (1994)
2010 Nominated Laurence Olivier Award as Best Leading Actor in a Play for: Hamlet (2010)
2012 Nominated Laurence Olivier Award as Best Leading Actor in a Play for: Anna Christie (2012)

Ian Charleson Award
1994 Won Ian Charleson Award as Outstanding Newcomer for: Les Parents terribles (1994)
1995 Won Ian Charleson Award as Best Young Classical Actor for: Ion (1995)
1999 Nominated Ian Charleson Award for: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1999)

Tony Award
1995 Nominated Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play for: Indiscretions (1995)
2010 Nominated Tony Award as Best Leading Actor in a Play for: Hamlet (2010)

Theatre World Award
1995 Won Theatre World Award for: Indiscretions (1995)

Critics' Circle Theatre Award
2010 Won The John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for: Hamlet (2010)

South Bank Show Award
2010 Won South Bank Show Award as Best Leading Actor for: Hamlet (2010)

Whatsonstage.com Award
2010 Won Whatsonstage.com Award as Best Leading Actor for: Hamlet (2010)
2012 Nominated Whatsonstage.com Award as Best Leading Actor for: Anna Christie (2011)

Falstaff Award
2010 Won Falstaff Award as Best Leading Actor for: Hamlet (2010)

Outer Critics Circle Award
2010 Nominated Outer Critics Circle Award as Best Leading Actor for: Hamlet (2010)

Drama League Award
2010 Nominated Drama League Award for Best Performance for: Hamlet (2010)

Drama Desk Award
2010 Nominated Drama Desk Award for Best Performance for: Hamlet (2010)

Personal awards and nominations[link]

MTV Movie Award
2003 Nominated MTV Movie Award as Best Trans-Atlantic Breakthrough Performer

ShoWest Award
2004 Won ShoWest Award as Male Star of the Year

People's Choice Award
2005 Nominated People's Choice Award as Favorite Leading Man

César Awards
2007 Won César Awards as Honorary César

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
2010 Won President’s Prize

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Jude Law at the Internet Movie Database
• Jude Law at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jude Law at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• Filmography Jude Law at the British Film Institute (BFI). Accessed 25 May 2008.

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Raheem DeVaughn
DeVaughn performing in September 2010
Background information
Birth name	Raheem DeVaughn
Born	May 5, 1975 (age 37) Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Genres	R&B, Neo-soul
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Zomba, Jive

Raheem DeVaughn (born May 5, 1975) is an American singer and songwriter.^[1] His debut album, The Love Experience (2005), reached No. 46 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It featured the singles "Guess Who Loves You More" and "You". His second album Love Behind the Melody was released in January 2008. It features the singles "Woman", and "Customer".

DeVaughn was nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 2008 Grammy Awards for the single "Woman".

Early life[link]

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DeVaughn was born in Newark, New Jersey on May 5, 1975, the son of jazz cellist Abdul Wadud. He was raised in Maryland (Montgomery and Prince George's counties) by his mother, Imani Smith, a now retired federal worker. He is a cousin of singer Chrisette Michele. His mother states that her son first expressed an affinity towards music in preschool, recalling how whenever the class had musical events, he would conduct them. DeVaughn's love for music solidified during his early teens, when he began to envision his career path. One of his favorite artists was Babyface, and Smith recalls that her son once begged her to visit the Waxie Maxie's record store in the District to buy a promotional picture of the singer. DeVaughn visited his father during the summer, mainly in New Jersey. With his father, DeVaughn attended gigs and experienced his first taste of the life of a working musician.

He graduated from High Point High School in Beltsville, Maryland, an unincorporated section of Prince George's County. DeVaughn had an epiphany early in his college career at Coppin State University in Baltimore City, when he saw a group of street corner singers and began harmonizing with them. DeVaughn said his focus became music: "Before I knew what was going on, I was... cutting class to write lyrics and record". His focus turned to becoming a professional singer.

Career[link]

DeVaughn in October 2005

DeVaughn took up a job at Tower Records, where while putting price tags on CDs, he began working the D.C. music circuit—performing with various groups, the most prominent of which being Urbanave31, and at venues such as the State of the Union and Bar Nun on U Street NW, all while having CDs of his songs ready at hand. Locally in the DC Metro area he attained relatively quick success, winning local awards and successfully releasing some independent work over the next few years. He won $2,000 from the Washington DC nightclub Bar Nun talent show.^[2] CEO Cliff Jones and partner Jerry Vines, now the singer's longtime manager, met DeVaughn while managing the Baltimore-based quartet Dru Hill and asked him to write a song for the group. DeVaughn ultimately gained the attention of veteran producers DJ Jazzy Jeff (as Rahiem) and Kenny Burns (known as former A&R for Roc-A-Fella Records) and with the help of Jones and Vines they signed a recording contract with Jive Records in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

DeVaughn's first solo single released on a major label was the song entitled "Guess Who Loves You More", his second single was "You". DeVaughn's first Jive Records release "The Love Experience", was acclaimed, selling around 250,000 units.^{[citation needed]} While promoting the album, DeVaughn took to wearing a crown and cape at shows, a ploy to make himself stand out, calling himself the "Underground King." Around this time, DeVaughn also began making appearances at different shows in D.C. with artists such as W. Ellington Felton and Asheru of Unspoken Heard, hiding his face behind a hooded sweatshirt performing under the alias Chronkite. Felton comments that that alter ego was engendered for complicated reasons: "Chronkite represents that part of every artist who started what they're doing singing in front of a mirror as a child with a brush in their hand. At that time, it was based love, the initial attraction that draws you to music. In his business, unfortunately, your passion, your love, your individuality as an artist, can be stripped away the further you get into it."^{[citation needed]}

DeVaughn has been compared to Dwele, Van Hunt, D'Angelo, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder. DeVaughn has described himself as a "R&B hippie neo-soul rock star," a take on the difficulty media types have classifying him. Although Jive has been thrown considerable weight behind his recent album, DeVaughn doesn't leave promotion duties entirely to his label: "I'm my best marketing tool. I'm building the brand Raheem DeVaughn. I have to do it." He worked on the street to spread the word around, sold mixtapes of unreleased material to build hype, and provided impromptu shows at local venues. In another act of self-promotion, DeVaughn made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in late January, wearing a shirt that read "Grammy Nominated on the front" and "Love Behind the Melody-- In Stores Now" on the back. He also appeared on the late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, performing "Woman" on January 18, 2008. 1123

His song "Woman" was featured as iTune's single of the week the week of January 27, 2008 and received a nomination for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the 2008 Grammy Awards.

In 2008, he was featured on T-Pain's song; Reality Show from the album Thr33 Ringz. The song also featured Jay Lyriq and Musiq Soulchild.

His song "You" was featured in the Grand Theft Auto IV video game.

DeVaughn was nominated for "Best R&B Album" in the 2011 Grammy Awards.^[3]

Filmography[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

• BET Awards
  • 2008, Best Male R&B Artist (Nominated)
  • 2008, BETJ Award (Won)
  • 2010, Best Male R&B Artist (Nominated)

• BET J Virtual Awards
  • 2008, Album of the Year: Love Behind the Melody (Won)
  • 2008, Song of the Year: "Woman" (Nominated)
  • 2008, Live Performer of the Year (Nominated)
  • 2008, Male Artist of the Year (Won)

• Grammy Awards
  • 2008, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "Woman" (Nominated)
  • 2009, Best R&B Song: "Customer" (Nominated)
  • 2011, Best R&B Album "The Love & War Masterpeace" (Nominated)

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

 "Guess Who Love's You More" is featured with samples from Earth, Wind & Fire's "Can't Hide Love".

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Raheem DeVaughn on Myspace
• Raheem DeVaughn at Allmusic
• Raheem DeVaughn interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' May 2010
• Raheem DeVaughn Interview 1/18/10
• Byrd, Shayla (August 16, 2006). "20 Things You Should Know About: Raheem Devaugh". Vibe. Retrieved on January 21, 2008.
• Mitchell, Gail (January 4, 2008). "Raheem Devaughn's 'Love' Revolution". Billboard. Retrieved on January 21, 2008.

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Leonard Grant, better known by his stage name, Uncle Murda, is an American rapper from the Pink Houses section of East New York.

Biography[link]

Musical career[link]

In 2007 his manager and DJ Green Lantern introduced Uncle Murda's music to Jay-Z.^{[citation needed]} The Brooklyn born rapper/CEO signed Uncle Murda to Roc-A-Fella Records soon after.^{[citation needed]} They started to promote him immediately by placing him on a track with popular label-mates Fabolous and Jay-Z for the song "Brooklyn" (Featured on From Nothin' to Somethin' album) and everything seemed to be going well for the rapper.^{[citation needed]} However in late 2008 rumors that Uncle Murda left Def Jam came about.^{[citation needed]} In an interview with DJ Vlad, Uncle Murda confirmed the rumors that he has split from Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella Records claiming everything went downhill since Jay-Z's departure.^{[citation needed]}

On January 22, 2008, Uncle Murda was shot in the head while in a parked car on Linden Blvd in East New York but was not seriously hurt.^[1]

In February 2011, it was revealed that he would take part in a new Hiphop/Pro Wrestling collaboration, the Urban Wrestling Federation with taping of the first bout "First Blood" taking place in June 2011.^[2]

Controversy[link]

Papoose[link]

After releasing diss songs back and forth the two rappers with their managers decided to end the conflict. On May 9, 2008, Papoose's DJ, DJ Kay Slay, announced that the two rappers had ended the feud on his radio show.^[3] Soon after, the two rappers appeared on the same song together for the remix of "Don't Take It There" also featuring Junior Reid, Tony Yayo, Jim Jones, and Sheek Louch.adam green from croydon london said he's lookin to kill uncle murda and claimed that uncle murda was a phoney uncle murda got the airplane to heathrow and caught a train to east croydon were adam joseph green was waiting for him uncle murda left croydon with one leg

Albums[link]

• 2006: Say Uncle (2 Hard For Hip Hop Volume 01)

Mixtapes[link]

• 2008: Uncle Murda - Hard To Kill

• 2009: Uncle Murda - Summer Time Shootouts

[edit] Singles^[4]

• 2007: "Bullet Bullet"
• 2007: "Run The City"
• 2007: "Children's Story"
• 2007: "Hard to Kill"
• 2008: "Still Run The City"
• 2009: "Murdera" (featuring Akon)
• 2011: "Warning"
• 2011: "Warning (remix)" (featuring French Montana, Jadakiss, Styles P, Jim Jones, Vado & Cam'ron)
• 2011: "Warning (remix)" (featuring 50 Cent, Mariah Carey & Young Jeezy)

Guest Appearances[link]

• 2007: "Ya Heard" (French Montana featuring Uncle Murda)
• 2007: "En Why Cee" (Juganot featuring Tess, Joell Ortiz & Uncle Murda)
• 2007: "Brooklyn" (Fabolous featuring Jay-Z & Uncle Murda)
• 2007: "G Sh*t" (Statik Selektah featuring Jadakiss, Sev-One, Termanology & Uncle Murda)
• 2007: "Let it Off" (Memphis Bleek featuring Uncle Murda)
• 2008: "Shooters for hire" (Tony Yayo featuring Uncle Murda)
• 2008: "Don't Take It There" (Papoose featuring Junior Reid, Tony Yayo, Jim Jones, Sheek Louch & Uncle Murda)
• 2009: "Who Shot Ya 2009" (Maino featuring Red Cafe & Uncle Murda)
• 2009: "MurderGram 2k9" (Busta Rhymes featuring Maino, Red Cafe & Uncle Murda)
• 2009: "Stick Up Muzik" (Raekwon featuring Busta Rhymes & Uncle Murda)
• 2009: "Watch How You Talk" (Busta Rhymes featuring Raekwon, The Game & Uncle Murda)
• 2012: "Ghetto Boy" (Young Buck featuring French Montana & Uncle Murda) off Bond Money