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The Grace (band)

The Grace (Korean: 천상지희 더 그레이스; hanja: 天上智喜 The Grace ) is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment in 2005. The group consisted of Lina, Dana, Sunday and Stephanie. In 2011, they formed a sub-unit duo group The Grace - Dana & Sunday.

Names

The band had been known as TSZX prior to the promotion of their third Korean single around the end of 2006, at which time the group added The Grace to the name. TSZX was the romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, Tiān Shàng Zhì Xǐ which was also simplified to CSJH, the romanization of the Korean pronunciation, Cheon Sang Ji Hee and the simplifications are still sometimes used to refer to the band despite the change in the official name. In Japan, the group is still officially known as Tenjōchiki, which is also abbreviated (albeit less frequently) as TJCK.

History

2005: Debut with Too Good and Boomerang

The Grace's first official performance occurred on April 29, 2005, in China. They performed their new songs "Too Good" and "Boomerang", and it was broadcast weeks later by the Chinese channel CCTV. The verses in Boomerang were also sung in Chinese. The quartet debuted with "Too Good" on SBS's music program Inkigayo on May 1, 2005. They promoted the song for a few months before switching to "Boomerang".

Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King".

Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, as a twinless twin, and when he was 13 years old, he and his family relocated to Memphis, Tennessee. His music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was an early popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who managed the singer for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the leading figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines that coincided with the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, made him enormously popular—and controversial.

Andy Grammer

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Andrew Charles "Andy" Grammer is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is signed to S-Curve Records. His debut album, Andy Grammer, was released in 2011 and spawned the hit singles "Keep Your Head Up" and "Fine by Me". His second album Magazines or Novels was released in 2014, with "Back Home" as the first single. The album's second single, "Honey, I'm Good.", is his most successful song to date, peaking at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. This single has been certified triple-platinum by the RIAA and was ranked one of the ten best-selling songs of 2015 by Soundscan. He is also most recently known for performing the National Anthem at the Patriots-Broncos AFC Championship game in Denver in January 2016.

Personal life

Andrew Charles Grammer was born in Los Angeles, the son of Kathryn (Willoughby) and recording artist Robert Crane "Red" Grammer, He grew up in Chester, New York, graduating from Monroe-Woodbury High School. As a child, he learned to play the trumpet and later the guitar and piano. He began writing songs at 15. At 20, he left Binghamton University after unsuccessfully auditioning for the Binghamton Crosbys and returned to the Los Angeles area, where he currently resides. In 2007, he graduated from California State University, Northridge, with a B.A. in Music Industry Studies.

Fine By Me

Fine By Me was an organization in the United States, and now a project of Atticus Circle, with a mission to give voice to friends and supporters of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The organization developed a project to print T-shirts bearing the phrase "gay? fine by me" and then worked with communities to distribute and wear the T-shirts to show acceptance and support for LGBT people and publicly demonstrate against homophobia.

The organization began at Duke University in spring 2003. The idea behind Fine By Me started from a dinner conversation between ten friends, both gay and straight. The group came up with the idea to distribute free T-shirts with an anti-homophobic message. In less than two weeks, the group distributed nearly 2,000 T-shirts to students, faculty and staff. Even then university president, Nannerl 'Nan' Overholser Keohane, wore a T-shirt.

The idea continues to spread to schools all over the country, including traditionally conservative and religious institutions such as the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, and Texas A&M University.