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Zarif Davidson, known professionally as Zarif, is a British singer-songwriter of Anglo-Scottish-Iranian descent whose music ranges from soul to funk to pop. She performs with a nine piece band and sometimes plays keyboard and guitar.
Zarif grew up in Harrow, London with her Scottish father and her Iranian Jewish mother. As a child, Zarif loved listening to music and some of her favourite artists are Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Aretha Franklin. She wrote her first song as an entry to a Blue Peter Competition and formed a girl band with her friends called Girls of Tomorrow. Zarif was educated at North London Collegiate and then went on to University College London where she graduated with a Human Sciences degree.
Before starting her solo career, Zarif was a backing singer in the funk and soul band Retrogression as well as working as a nanny, secretary, shop assistant and an occasional member of Scarlet's Well. As a solo artist, she performed in a series of venues in London in the city's soul singer-songwriter open mic circuit. The Nextmen saw her at one of these gigs and asked her to perform on three tracks on their critically acclaimed album, This Was Supposed To Be The Future as well as tour with them over the summer of 2007.
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior United States Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to then President George W. Bush.
The son of an Army Air Corps serviceman, Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado. He attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and went on to graduate from Yale University class of 1966, where he majored in political science. He enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966 and, during 1968-1969, served a four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service he was awarded several combat medals that include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. After returning to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesperson and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam war. During that period, he appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of "war crimes".
CALIFORNIA
I ain’t the person I’m supposed to be he said to all of his friends
It wasn’t that I wasn’t born like me it’s just that’s where similarity ends
And he took on a different style of life he thought required for
The new identity he made disregarding all that went before
So he packed his bags and went where dreams made up the air
So he could breathe the thoughts that he could never share
And it makes me wish that you were still here with me
But I know that this is where you should be
Won’t you tell California I got more time on my hands
Won’t you leave a little stardust to make me feel at home
Take a little inside out to the cold with me
So when I step outside it’s warm
Leave a little of you here till I’m old with me
You’re face’ll never change from the picture on my soul
You’re face’ll never change from the picture on my soul
And he slowly faded out of sight and out of mind
Leaving friends imagining alone what he would find
And this is my way of saying that it’s all alright
Cos I know that I won’t see you for a long long while
Won’t you tell California I got more time on my hands
Won’t you leave a little stardust to make me feel at home
Take a little inside out to the cold with me
So when I step outside it’s warm
Leave a little of you here till I’m old with me
You’re face’ll never change from the picture on my soul