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Mohamed Iguerbouchène
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Mohamed Iguerbouchène (in Kabyle: Muḥend Igerbucen, in Arabic: محمد اقربوشن) is an Algerian composer born November 13, 1907 in Aït Ouchène (Wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou, Kabylia, Algeria).
Mohamed Iguerbouchène was the eldest of eleven children born to Saïd Ben Ali and Sik Fatma Bent Areski. He attended an English primary school in Algiers. It was there that he first studied music theory and where he was seen and heard by Bernard Fraser (later Bernard Fraser Ross), a wealthy Scottish bachelor, who spent his winters in Algiers and had served eight years from prison as a pimp for Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea and other aristocrats. Ross convinced Iguerbouchène's parents to allow him to take the boy to England for his musical education. A musical prodigy, these early works included Kabylia Rapsodie n. 9 and Arab rhapsodie n.7. When Fraser Ross died in 1929, Iguerbouchène inherited all his property in Algeria. Fraser Ross also left him a further £1,500 on condition that he did not marry a girl of European origin. However, Iguerbouchène married a French citizen of Algeria, Louise Gomez. The marriage will fail, although they have not divorced.
In 1934, Iguerbouchène was presented to the SACEM as a songwriter, and that same year he was also presented as a member of the SACD. In Paris, he studied Berber dialects: Tamahaq, Tachawit and Tashelhit. In the early 1930s, Iguerbouchène composed music for Algerian documentaries and a short film "Dzaïr". Julien Duvivier asked him to collaborate with Vincent Scotto on the soundtrack of the 1937 film "Pépé Le Moko" with Jean Gabin. He was credited there as “Mohamed Ygerbuchen”. The remake of the film was made in 1938 in Hollywood under the name "Algiers", this time it was credited to "Mohammed Igarbouchen".
In the 1930s, Iguerbouchène became co-owner of the cabaret-restaurant "El Djazaïr", rue de la Huchette in the Latin Quarter of Paris. In 1938, he met the singer Salim Halali (originally from Annaba) in Paris, with whom he composed around fifty songs, mainly in a Spanish-Arabic style. The collaboration was crowned with success in Parisian clubs, Europe and North Africa. In 1937, he notably wrote the score for the film “Terre Ideale” in Tunisia. In 1939 the BBC broadcast one of his orchestral works, a "Moorish Rhapsody", conducted by Charles Brill.
During the Second World War, Iguerbouchène had to manage the musical direction of propaganda broadcasts of the occupying Paris Mondial regime for North Africa. He is in a relationship with a German-Belgian, Iwane 'Yvonne' Vom Dorp, with whom he had five illegitimate children. At the beginning of 1945, Iguerbouchène composed around a hundred songs based on poems by Rabindranath Tagore. In 1946, he composed the music for "Les Plongeurs Du Désert" by Tahar Hannache, then for the French short film "Le Songe De Chevaux Sauvages", directed by Albert Lamorisse in 1962.
In 1957, Iguerbouchène returned to Algeria, where he worked for Algerian radio, composed and directed the orchestra of the Algiers Opera. He died of diabetes in Algiers on August 21, 1966.
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Ailee
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Amy Lee (born May 30, 1989), known professionally as Ailee, is a Korean-American singer and songwriter based in South Korea. Amassing digital sales success in South Korea, she has released two studio albums, five extended plays, twenty one singles, six of which charted within the top five of the Gaon Digital Chart. Following a short stint at Muzo Entertainment in New York City, she moved to South Korea in 2010, signing to YMC Entertainment. Ailee debuted in 2012 with her first single "Heaven", peaking at number three on Gaon, earning her Best New Artist Awards at Melon Music Awards, Golden Disc Awards, Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards and the Seoul Music Awards. Through the years, she has won four Mnet Asian Music Award for Best Female Vocal Performance titles from "U&I" in 2013, "Singing Got Better" in 2014, "Mind Your Own Business" in 2015, to "If You" in 2016. Her OST, "I Will Go to You Like the First Snow" released in 2017 won various awards and was the most digitally successful song of that year, becoming the best selling record in movies and dramas in the Korean sound record market.
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Ornella Muti
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Ornella Muti (born March 9, 1955) is an Italian actress. She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. She has an older sister, Claudia (1951).
Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).
She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.
Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996).
Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.
Since 1998, Muti has been living with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.
Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.
In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery. She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty. She insured her breasts for $350,000.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer. He won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, Connery died at the age of 90.
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Barbara Crampton
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Barbara Crampton (born December 27, 1958) is an American actress. She made her screen debut on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives (1983), and her film debut in 1984's Body Double before starring in the horror comedy Re-Animator (1985). Crampton grew up in Vermont, was raised Catholic, and spent summers while growing up traveling the country with the carnival, as her father was a carny. After taking up acting, Crampton starred in a variety of films including Chopping Mall (1986), From Beyond (1986), Castle Freak (1995), You're Next (2011), We Are Still Here (2015), and Little Sister (2016), becoming a fan favorite Scream Queen.
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Koji Yusa
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Koji Yusa (遊佐 浩二, Yusa Kōji, August 12, 1968) is a freelance Japanese voice actor and narrator. He is from Yodo, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
He made his debut as a voice actor in 1993 (at the age of 25), after working as a 7th gen member of Katsuta Voice Actor's Academy, in the anime The Brave of Gold Goldran. At the time of his debut, he belonged to Office Kaoru, and after leaving the company, he has been working as a freelancer. He mainly works voicing anime, drama CDs, and dubbing foreign films, and often narrates information programs. In addition to his main job as a voice actor, he has increased his work on events and radio. He was married to voice actress Kanako Mitsuhashi from February 2007 to June 2012.
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Marilyn Hanold
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Lovely brunette Marilyn Hanold was born the second of six children on June 9, 1938 in Jamaica, Long Island, New York. She's of German descent. Her father was a lieutenant with the New York City police department. Hanold graduated from the World Secretarial School in New York and worked as a legal secretary for a big league patent attorney for 18 months. In August, 1957 Marilyn joined the chorus line of the El Rancho in Las Vegas, Nevada -- she went on to be featured in the tabloid revue "Scandalettes" at the El Rancho -- and was a showgirl at Ciro's. Marilyn was working as a showgirl at Frank Sennes' "Moulin Rouge" in Hollywood, California when she was spotted by a William Morris Agency representative for George Gobel's new stage production "Riviera Revue." Hanold graced the cover of the February, 1959 issue of "Photo Life" magazine and was the Playmate of the Month in the June, 1959 issue of "Playboy." Moreover, she also acted in a handful of films and TV shows throughout the 50s and 60s. Hanold married oil tycoon Rulon Keaton Neilson in 1967; the couple had three daughters altogether. Marilyn now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah and remains prominent in charities and gala events held in the Salt Lake City area.
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Spouse Rulon Keaton Neilson (1967 - 1 February 1993) (his death) (3 children)
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As of Nov. 2010 she was living in Salt Lake City, UT.
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Carole Fredericks
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Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5, 1952 – June 7, 2001) was an American singer best known for her work in French music. She was the younger sister of Taj Mahal.
Between 1990 and 1996 she was in the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones alongside singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman and Welsh–French guitarist Michael Jones.
Carole Denise Fredericks was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 5, 1952, the youngest of Mildred and Harry Fredericks' five children. She and her siblings were raised in Springfield and were educated in the public school system. Her mother who was originally from Bennettsville, South Carolina, sang with Big Bands and on Sundays was the lead singer for a local gospel choir. Her father, the son of immigrants from the island of Saint Kitts, was a pianist and wrote arrangements for jazz trios. Growing up in her household, Fredericks was exposed to music from around the world. Her parents encouraged creative expression in all their children. Fredericks' brothers and sister developed careers in art, music, dance and theatre. Her eldest brother is Grammy-winning blues musician, Taj Mahal.
Her parents, who came of age during the Harlem Renaissance, instilled in their children a sense of pride in their West Indian and African ancestry through their stories. Fredericks never got to know her father. When she was two years old, he was killed in a construction accident, crushed by a tractor when it flipped over. Although her mother would remarry later, the loss of her father left Fredericks with grief that remained with her the rest of her life.
By the time she was 20, Fredericks was living in Oakland, California. A year after her graduation from Classical High School, she persuaded Taj Mahal to send for her. Upon her arrival in San Francisco, He put Fredericks to work as a background vocalist on a number of his albums – Mo' Roots; Music Fuh Ya'; Together; and Evolution. To supplement the income from session work, Carole was employed as a receptionist for the Pacific Personnel Services. She was one of 71 voices in the New Generation Singers Gospel Choir (Oakland, California) and performed with Odetta in the stage play Look What A Wonder. Fredericks organized a trio – piano, bass and voice – and booked singing engagements on the weekends.
In an interview from OH LA! Magazine she said: "I was part of a choir for three years and I was doing backup work. It was not enough to sustain a comfortable lifestyle and I started to get sick and tired of this life. I refused to get by on my brother's name. During this period, I was working in San Francisco at a French restaurant, La Belle Helene. Some of the patrons would often suggest that I go to France. They said I would do very well there. They were very convincing and without knowing a bit of French, I left it all. I bought a one-way ticket and I was off to Paris. Everyone thought I was crazy."
Fredericks arrived in France to pursue a singing career in January 1979. Fredericks met the owner of La Belle Helene at the airport.
"He called his friends and I found myself working almost immediately. I started to sing everywhere. It was barely three weeks after my arrival that I was signed with Carla Music to record a disco album entitled Black Orchid." ...
Source: Article "Carole Fredericks" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Minka Kelly
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Minka Dumont Kelly (born June 24, 1980) is an American actress and model, best known for her roles as Lyla Garrity on the NBC series Friday Night Lights, Samantha on Euphoria, Dawn Granger / Dove on HBO's Titans, Miranda Frank on The Path, Detective Valerie Stahl on Almost Human, Eve French on the 2011 remake series Charlie's Angels, and a recurring role as Gaby on the drama series Parenthood. She also portrayed Jackie Kennedy in the film The Butler, and Autumn at the end of (500) Days of Summer.
She is the only child of former Aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay and the late Maureen Dumont Kelly.
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Jessie Diepeveen
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Jessie Diepeveen is a Cape Town and Johannesburg based performer, writer, director, and all round lover of bringing interesting stories to life. She is a graduate of the University of Cape Town, where she received a distinction in her Performance-Making degree. Though her career is only just launching, Jessie's recent work includes a lead role, Candice, on SABC2's Signal High 2 (2021) directed by Vincent Moloi, as well as a lead in the short film, Around Again (2022). In early 2023, Jessie debuted as a professional writer and director with her play, Patisserie Femme. When Jessie has a moment to spare, she is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fanatic, water sports enthusiast, a singer, and an avid South African wildlife-goer.
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