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Aaron Pritchett (born August 2, 1970 Terrace, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian country music singer.
Pritchett got his start as a DJ at Rooster's Country Cabaret bar in Pitt Meadows, BC, and played in a house band performing cover tunes. Pritchett co-writes much of his own material and he eventually put together some independently produced songs and released a couple of CDs. Since 2002, local radio station JRfm has picked up Pritchett's songs. His exposure has also grown with a number of videos getting airplay on CMT Canada.
He is signed to 604 Records, production company of Nickelback's Chad Kroeger.
Pritchett most recently toured Western Canada with Toby Keith and fellow 604 Record artist Jessie Farrell this fall to promote his album, Thankful, which was released on September 9, 2008. He also released His newest album "In the Drivers Seat" on November 9th 2010 with Decibel Records.
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.
Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.
Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.