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A biographical film, or biopic ( /ˈbaɪɵpɪk/; abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.
Because the figures portrayed are actual people, whose actions and characteristics are known, biopics are considered some of the most demanding films of actors and actresses. Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, and Jamie Foxx all gained respect as dramatic actors after starring in biopics: Depp as Edward D. Wood, Jr. in Ed Wood (1994), Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999), and Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004).
In rare cases, sometimes called autobiopics, the subject of the film plays himself or herself: Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story; Muhammad Ali in The Greatest; Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back; Patty Duke in Call Me Anna; Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant; and Howard Stern in Private Parts.
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist. He is the originator of funk music and is a major figure of 20th century popular music and dance.
In a career that spanned decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres. Brown moved on a continuum of blues and gospel-based forms and styles to a profoundly "Africanized" approach to music making. Brown performed in concerts, first making his rounds across the Chitlin' Circuit, and then across the country and later around the world, along with appearing in shows on television and in movies. Although he contributed much to the music world through his hitmaking, Brown holds the record as the artist who charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 without ever hitting number one on that chart.
For many years, Brown's touring show was one of the most extravagant productions in American popular music. At the time of Brown's death, his band included three guitarists, two bass guitar players, two drummers, three horns and a percussionist. The bands that he maintained during the late 1960s and 1970s were of comparable size, and the bands also included a three-piece amplified string section that played during ballads. Brown employed between 40 and 50 people for the James Brown Revue, and members of the revue traveled with him in a bus to cities and towns all over the country, performing upwards of 330 shows a year with almost all of the shows as one-nighters. In 1986, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), better known by her stage name Nina Simone /ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. Simone aspired to become a classical pianist while working in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop.
Born the sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Simone aspired to be a concert pianist as a child. Her musical path changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition. Simone was later told by someone working at Curtis that she was rejected because she was black. She then began playing in a small club in Philadelphia to fund her continuing musical education to become a classical pianist and was required to sing as well. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendition of "I Loves You Porgy" became a smash hit in the United States in 1958. Over the length of her career, Simone recorded more than 40 albums, mostly between 1958 — when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue — and 1974.
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[verse 1:]
When I'm out on the road
Going from show to show
Told my homie romeo
How much I miss you so
I don't know how much longer it'll be
I'm missing you, wanting you
And I really want to talk to you
(Oh no) I left my 2-way at home
Still sitting on the charger
(Oh no) my battery is dead on my cell phone
And I really want to call ya
J-boog gotta let me use your phone
gotta call my baby back home
Let her know what she means to me
Cause we gotta be
[chorus 2x:]
Your my (your my) angel (angel)
Your my (your my) heart girl
Cause your my everything (your everything I want in a woman)
Girl your my everything (your everything I need in a woman)
[verse 2:]
I got cha on the phone
You saying you wish I was home
But then you flip the script
Tryna put me in the wrong
And you think I'm lying when I been trying all day to talk to you
Juggling videos and photo shoots
(Baby girl don't think) that when your calls go by and by I don't really want to call ya
(Don't think) got me screening my calls while checking my caller I'd tryna dodge ya girl
Trying be all I can be
A young man in this industry
You mean the world to me
You are my everything I
[chorus 2x:]
Your my (your my) angel (angel)
Your my (your my) heart girl
Cause your my everything (your everything I want in a woman)
Girl your my everything (your everything I need in a woman)
[hook:]
Girl
I want you to know
Nothing will come between you and me
Girl I want you to know
you'll always be
My everything
[rap:]
Baby girl I'm missing
Can't wait to get home so I can hold you
Planets loves when it comes to you
Faithful and true is what I stay to you
Your my homie when I chill with you
Throw on some sweats with some nike shoes
All gifts are diddy from me
Louie skirt with the mini tee
See times been hard for me
Being on the road without my wifey
Lookin at my watch as the time go by
Lookin at the skies as the days go by
Wishing on these days you could fly
Til the next time you'll be by my side
For you I ride
For you I ride
Me and you girl like bonnie and clyde
[chorus 2x:]
Your my (your my) angel (angel)
Your my (your my) heart girl
Cause your my everything (your everything I want in a woman)