Orsi Kocsis (pronounced “OR-she KO-chish”; given birth name Orsolya “or-SHOL-yah”) is a Hungarian fashion, glamour, and art nude model and was 2005's Hungarian Playmate of the Year, which she won by audience election as a special prize. She has also been featured as a cover girl on Maxim, CKM and Penthouse.
Orsolya (Orsi) Kocsis was born in Debrecen, Hungary on September 6, 1984
Kocsis grew up as an only girl among younger male cousins and two brothers, Zoltan and Imre Kocsis. As a youth and teenager she was a tomboy since she was the only girl amongst neighborhood boys.
Kocsis moved to Budapest at 19 to attend the Heller Farkas College of Tourism Management program, where she improved her foreign language skills and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Tourism and Hospitality via their correspondence program. She speaks Hungarian, German and English.
Kocsis' modeling career began shortly after being discovered sitting in a hair salon by a photographer. Initially, she signed with the Budapest-based Starface Model Management. Orsi currently uses Open Casting KFT and ArtModels.hu as her modeling agencies.
Angel Joy Blue (born May 3, 1983 in California) is an American operatic soprano. Blue's voice has been recognized for its shining and agile upper register, "smoky" middle register, and beautiful timbre. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards such as Operalia and Miss Hollywood. Placido Domingo has described Angel as “the next Leontyne Price”.
Angel Blue has performed lead roles and as a featured soloist at Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Colburn School, Royce Hall, the Staples Center, Auditorio Nacional de Música, Seoul Arts Center.
Her operatic repertoire includes such roles as Violetta (La Traviata), Musetta (La Boheme), Micaela (Carmen), Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Liu (Turandot), Manon (Manon), Contessa Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Olympia and Antonia (Tales of Hoffmann), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni).
Blue has sung the National Anthem for the Border Governors Conference, hosted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and for the California Women's Conference, hosted by California First Lady Maria Shriver.
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Shirin Neshat شیرین نشاط (born March 26, 1957 in Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.
Neshat's father was a physician and her mother a homemaker. Neshat has stated about her father, “He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, and slowly rejected all of his own values; both my parents did. What happened, I think, was that their identity slowly dissolved, they exchanged it for comfort. It served their class”. As a part of Neshat’s “Westernization” she was enrolled in a Catholic boarding school in Tehran. Through her father’s acceptance of Western ideologies came an acceptance of a form of western feminism. Neshat’s father encouraged each of his daughters to “be an individual, to take risks, to learn, to see the world", and he sent his daughters as well as his sons to college to receive their higher education.
Shane 54 (Előd Császár, [ɛløːd tʃaːsaːr]) is a dance music producer and DJ based in Budapest. He's known for his mashups, bootlegs and remixes. He's remixed such leading acts as Paul Oakenfold, Above & Beyond, and Lange amongst others, and worked with labels like Vandit, Anjunabeats, Nebula, AVEX Japan, Logic US and Lost Language.
As a DJ, he long lost his record case; plays with a laptop, often creating his own mashups in clubs on the fly. He plays outside Hungary quite frequently. He's had gigs in Switzerland, USA, Finland, Germany, Holland, Slovenia, Spain and France. His weekly radio shows are broadcast on Hungary’s Roxy FM, ETN.FM in America & Trancetream.fm
He also has a TV show: “Laptop DJ” (broadcast on Cool TV Hungary). It's a mixture about the international dance music scene. Watch him traveling around the world to meet artists, DJ's and other interesting people.
He is a member of the group Myon & Shane 54.
He caused a car accident driving at around 100 km/h in Budapest on 17 December 1998, killing a 25-year-old police lieutenant. The jury declared that he was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the accident, but reprimanded him for drug abuse. He was sentenced to 1 year, 6 months of imprisonment suspended to 3 years. It also turned out that after the accident he tried to cheat with his insurance to get money for his ruined car. This resulted in public uproar and temporarily held back his career in Hungary. After this incident he has got the notorious nickname "Copkiller" in Hungary.