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Beverly Jo Scott
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Born in Deer Park, Alabama, Beverly Jo Scott grew up nearby in Bay Minette, where, as a teen, she began singing. She moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, then to California and, ultimately, in 1982, to Europe after a trip to Brussels, Belgium, resulted in her living there.[1] In Europe, she has regularly performed in France and Germany at festivals and large music halls. She has been developing Planet Janis, a tribute show to the late Janis Joplin. Another project she's developed is "Swamp Cabaret," a one-woman multimedia show focusing on the Gulf Coast. In June 2011, after living 30 years abroad, Scott performed in her home state at the Saenger Theatre in Mobile, Alabama, as part of a "Live at Space" concert series. In September 2011,Chickfest's featured artists included Scott, who Press-Register Entertainment described as building "a thriving career in Belgium over the last three decades, but maintains a legion of fans back home, thanks to the earthy passion of her music.
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BEVERLY JO SCOTT Née en Alabama, le Sud profond des USA, bercée par les sonorités du blues, du gospel, de la country et du rock, BEVERLY JO SCOTT décide très jeune de sillonner l’Amérique. Les chemins mouvementés de cette éternelle vagabonde la conduiront finalement à s’installer en Europe et plus particulièrement en Belgique. Elle y joue tout d’abord dans la rue, dans les bars, puis dans les clubs et très vite, la sensualité et la sensibilité de sa voix en font une des « backing vocalists » les plus prisées du vieux continent. On ne compte plus ses collaborations en duo ou vocaliste avec de nombreux artistes tels que MAURANE, PAUL PERSONNE, CABREL, SOUCHON, LAVILLIERS, HIGELIN, BERTIGNAC, ADAMO, ELLIOTT MURPHY, EDDY MITCHELL, MATMATAH, etc. sans oublier ARNO avec le célèbre duo « Jean Balthazar ». De sa carrière solo, on retiendra une dizaine d’albums (studio et live) dont le dernier (une compilation qui retrace ses 20 ans de carrière) sorti en 2012, ainsi que de très nombreux concerts et le spectacle « Planet Janis » dédié à JANIS JOPLIN. Le grand public l’a découverte grâce à THE VOICE (5 concerts sold-out au spirit of 66 au printemps dernier) où ses qualités professionnelles en tant que coach mais surtout sa sympathie et ses qualités de cœur ont été tout naturellement mises en avant. THE QUEEN OF AMERICANA IS BACK IN TOWN
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Oscar Bakhteev
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BAKHTEEV OSCAR VADIMOVICH
Born on August 10, 1971, in Tashkent. Uzbek and Kazakh film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, and film editor. He worked at the Uzbek Television and Radio Company as a television program author and at the "Uzbekfilm" film studio. He directed music videos, commercials, documentaries, and short films. Since 2006, he has been living and working in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Since 2016, he has been the artistic director of "CINEMA ART" LLP. Author, producer, and director of television projects for the "KAZAKH TV" channel (JSC "Khabar Agency"): "Connecting Cultures," "Aghain," "Home Is Best," "Accent," "ART FOCUS," and "How It's Made" (Discovery Channel).
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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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Ji-young Yoo
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SunHee Seo (Korean: 서선희; born on January 1, 1999) known professionally as Ji-young Yoo (Korean: 유지영), is an American actress. She first appeared in the 2021 Netflix comedy-drama film Moxie, credited by her birth name. In the same year, she adopted the stage name Ji-Young Yoo, which consists of Korean syllables that she believed would be easier for English speakers to pronounce. She also provided the voice of Zoey in the 2025 animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters.
In 2023, Yoo won the Best Performance in a U.S. Narrative Feature accolade at the Tribeca Festival. She dropped out of her degree program at the University of Southern California to film the 2024 Amazon Prime Video original miniseries Expats, for which she earned an Outstanding Performance in a Limited Series nomination at the Gotham Awards. In 2025, she portrayed Megan, one of the main characters in Until Dawn, a horror film set in the same universe as the 2015 video game of the same name. The film received generally mixed reviews, but various critics praised Yoo's character and performance.
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Tasha de Vasconcelos
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Tasha de Vasconcelos (born 1966 in Beira) is a Mozambiquan - Canadian model, occasional actress and humanitarian. Her father is of Portuguese descent and her mother of British origin. She is a noted humanitarian, working for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund in South Africa, as a Goodwill Volunteer for UNICEF in Bolivia and Algeria and with UNAIDS in Mozambique as Special Campaigner for Children. In 2003 she played Countess Alexandra, an exotic woman in Johnny English. She is a friend of Bryan Ferry, attending the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross together in 2009 and other events since.
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Solomon Burke
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Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a "key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues" (Irwin Stambler 1974). He had a string of hits including "Cry to Me", "If You Need Me", "Got to Get You Off My Mind", "Down in the Valley" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love". Burke was referred to as "King Solomon", the "King of Rock 'n' Soul", "Bishop of Soul" and the "Muhammad Ali of soul". Due to Burke's minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Burke is often described as the genre's "most unfairly overlooked singer" of its golden age. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler once referred to Burke as "the greatest male soul singer of all time".
Burke's most famous recordings, which spanned five years in the early 1960s, bridged the gap between mainstream R&B and grittier R&B. Burke was "a singer whose smooth, powerful articulation and mingling of sacred and profane themes helped define soul music in the early 1960s." He drew from his roots - gospel, jazz, country and blues - as well as developing his own style at a time when R&B, and rock were both still in their infancy. Described as both "Rabelaisian" and also as a "spiritual enigma," "perhaps more than any other artist, the ample figure of Solomon Burke symbolized the ways that spirituality and commerce, ecstasy and entertainment, sex and salvation, individualism and brotherhood, could blend in the world of 1960s soul music."
During the 55 years that he performed professionally, Burke released 38 studio albums on at least 17 record labels and had 35 singles that charted in the US, including 26 singles that made the Billboard R&B charts. In 2001, Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a performer. His album Don't Give Up on Me won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 45th Grammy Awards in 2003. By 2005 Burke was credited with selling 17 million albums. Rolling Stone ranked Burke as #89 on its 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time."
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Katsuya Kondo
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Katsuya Kondō (近藤 勝也, born June 2, 1963, in Ehime Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, animator, and animation director. He is best known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films Kiki's Delivery Service and Ocean Waves, as well as the PlayStation game Jade Cocoon. His character designs are considered the epitome of the Studio Ghibli style.
After graduating from high school, he began working for Osamu Dezaki and Akio Sugino at their Studio Annapuru. Under the direction of Shinji Ōtsuka, Kondō worked as a key animator of the TV anime series Cat's Eye. He then worked as a free agent on such shows as The Mighty Orbots, Rainbow Brite, and Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears. His first work with Studio Ghibli was as a key animator on Castle in the Sky. After working on the Gainax film The Wings of Honneamise and the OVAs Devilman and Meikyū Bukken File 538, Kondō began to be known for the high quality of his work.
Kondō collaborated with Ken'ichi Sakemi on a manga retelling of the Joan of Arc story, as well as doing the character designs for the Jade Cocoon video game series. He also collaborated with Sakemi by creating the character designs for the 1990 NTV TV movie Like the Clouds, Like the Wind (based on Sakemi's novel Kōkyū Monogatari), which tells the story of a young country girl who is chosen to become one of the Emperor's concubines. He also worked with Tomomi Mochizuki on the NHK Minna no Uta music video titled Kaze no Tōri Michi, produced by Ajia-do Animation Works for Sayuri Horishita. In 2007, he was announced as the supervising animator of the Studio Ghibli film Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. He also wrote the lyrics for the film's theme song.
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Willem Frederik Hermans
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Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as booklength studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are Het Behouden Huis (The House of Refuge), De Donkere Kamer van Damokles (The Darkroom of Damocles) and Nooit meer slapen (Beyond Sleep). He is regarded as one of the greatest Dutch writers of the 20th century.
In 1977 he received the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren, the most prestigious literary award available for writers in the Dutch language, handed out every three years alternately by the reigning Dutch and Belgian monarchs to a writer of the other country, the Belgian king Boudewijn handing the prize to Hermans. Hermans is considered one of De Grote Drie ('The Big Three'), the three most important authors in the Netherlands in the postwar period, along with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve.
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Nidhi Subbaiah
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Nidhi was born on 16 February 1985 in the Kodagu district of Karnataka as the only child to Bollachanda Subhash Subbaiah and Jhansi Subbaiah. Soon afterwards, her family later moved to Gokulam in the historic city of Mysore, where she spent most of her childhood and pursued her education. Nidhi had made her mark in sports by winning gold medals at national level sports meets in sailing while she was studying II PUC in Mysore. She also has the credit of winning three gold medals in a calendar year at the sports meet in sailing events at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and at Chilka Lake in Orissa. Besides being a sports person of repute, Nidhi was also a Naval NCC cadet who won the best cadet award in the year 2004. An alumnus of St. Joseph's Central, Mysore, she went on to study Civil Engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (SJCE), Mysore. She quit in the 2nd year as her modelling career took off and this ultimately led her to pursue a career in acting. Currently, she lives in Mumbai, after getting offers from Bollywood.
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Gregory Marasciulo
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Gregory "Greg" Marasciulo is an American professional wrestler, currently working on the independent circuit under the ring names Trent? and Trent Baretta. He is best known by his work in WWE under the ring name Trent Barreta. He was one half of the Dude Busters with Caylen Croft, before Croft was released from his WWE contract. Marasciulo also wrestled for the New York Wrestling Connection as Plazma and used to work in Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) in drag as The Girl from Mexico. He is currently working for promotions such as Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) and Full Impact Pro (FIP).
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