Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian classical musician and playback singer.
Yesudas sings Indian classical, devotional, and popular music. He has recorded more than 50,000 songs in many languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tulu, Malay, Russian, Arabic, Latin and English during a career spanning five decades. He has performed in most Indian languages except Assamese, Konkani and Kashmiri. He also composed a number of Malayalam film songs in the 1970s and 1980s. Yesudas is fondly called Gana Gandharvan (English: The Celestial Singer)
He has won the National Award for the Best Male Playback Singer seven times (the most by any Indian singer) and the State Award for the Best Playback Singer 43 times, which consists of awards by the state governments of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and West Bengal. He was awarded Padma Shri in 1975 and Padma Bhushan in 2002 by the Government of India for his contributions towards the arts.
Miss Monday (born 1976) is a Japanese hip-hop and R&B artist. She sings as well as raps, and has collaborated with other artists such as Sowelu, JAMOSA, and Youngshim. She began her career in 2000, releasing singles on the I.D. Records label before being signed by the Japanese arm of Epic Records, for whom she recorded several albums before parting company with them in 2007.
Rip Slyme (often stylized as RIP SLYME) is a Japanese hip hop group. It is composed of four MCs; Ryo-Z, Ilmari, Pes & Su, and a DJ, Fumiya. Their sound derives its influences from old school hip hop and other Hip Hop such as The Pharcyde, De La Soul, Public Enemy, Jurassic 5, the Beastie Boys, DJ Premier, Leaders of the New School.
The group was formed in 1994 by Ryo-Z and Ilmari, who were later joined by Pes (he attended the same school as Ilmari). The Rip in Rip Slyme stands for their initials. Slyme was a popular children's toy at that time. Their name is also a pun on the phrase "lips' rhyme". Winning an amateur rapping contest "Young MCs In Town", they started their musical career with their first album Lips Rhyme in 1995. Later they added DJ Fumiya (who had studied under East End X Yuri's DJ Yoggy) and Su (previously a backup dancer for East End X Yuri). In 1998 they released their second album, "Talkin' Cheap" and also took part in Dragon Ash's Total Communication event.
They became ever more successful and signed to Warner Music Group in 2000. By then they had release several indie singles include their EP "Underline No. 5" and "Mata Au Hi Made" which had received the help of Fantastic Plastic Machine. "Mata Au Hi Made" was released on Warner Music Group's Indies label. Their first major single was "Stepper's Delight" released 22 March 2001. The title was a play on The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight".
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A romance blossoms between a peculiar woman who ties people's shoes for a living and an unusual businessman who never speaks. When the businessman encourages her to take her shoe tying business to the next level, she must decide whether or not she has what it takes to tie shoes in the big leagues.
A lot can happen on the corner.
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After completing a string of high-profile robberies, a group of beautiful but deadly biker girls led by the fearless Lady (Stacey Dash) collide with a bar full of mysterious robots disguised as humans. The androids capture half of the biker gang to aid in their quest for world domination. As the girls fight for their freedom, they uncover a scheme more sinister than anyone could have imagined.
Keywords: bank-robbery, cyborg, independent-film, motorcycle-gang
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"Karma", loosely based on William Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet" , is a tale of love, betrayal, and friendship. "Karma" explores love and how it can easily lead to hatred. It's a story of two friends, one rich and one poor, who live in Guyana. They both fall in love with the same girl, unbeknownst to the other. When they do find out that they love the same woman it causes their friendship to end in the most brutal way. Years later, their children end up falling in love with each other, but the hatred that these men have for each other overpower that love and lead to their children's imminent death. Only after the death of their children do they realize that their sins from the past came back to haunt them through their children's demise.
A Tale of Love, Betrayal, and Friendship
A love story that spans generations from Guyana to New York City.
Tragedy looms when two best friends from Guyana fall in love with the same girl.