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Cung Le
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Cung Le (born May 25, 1972) is a Vietnamese-born American actor, retired mixed martial artist, Sanshou fighter and kickboxer. He competed as a middleweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), holding a record of 2–2 with the organization. In kickboxing and sanshou, he is a former International Kickboxing Federation Light Heavyweight World Champion, having a professional kickboxing record of 17–0 before moving to mixed martial arts. He defeated Frank Shamrock to become the second Strikeforce Middleweight Champion before vacating the title to further pursue his acting career. Le is perhaps best known in mixed martial arts for competing in Strikeforce, holding a record of 7–1 with the organization before its demise.
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Iggy
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Iggy Rose was a model and actress who was immortalized by Mick Rock at Syd Barrett's "The Madcap Laughs," his first solo album after Pink Floyd, released in 1969. She was known as Iggy the Eskimo back then as it was rumored she was part Inuit.
She was born Evelyn Laldawngliani Joyce on the 14th of December 1947 in Rawalpindi (Pakistan) to a British father, major Harry Charlton Joyce, an officer in the British army, and a Mizo woman, Chawngpuii (known as Angela in English).
Evelyn's parents had met at the end of the Second World War, when he was stationed in Mizoram - then, the the Lushai Hills (northeastern India, then still ruled by the British). Evelyn's middle name, Laldawngliani, means gift of the gods, in mizo, a language Iggy never spoke. Evelyn had two younger siblings, Stephen Lalungmuana, who was born in Dhaka (Bangladesh) in January 1949; and Elizabeth, who was born in Worthing, Sussex, around 1959.
For decades there were political and military troubles in Mizoram. One day a mob invaded Iggy's family home and burned it down. The family flew to Aden, Yemen, and later moved to England.
For an unknown reason, Evelyn was nicknamed Iggy or Ig. After moving to England Iggy was briefly an art student. She lived in Brighton but she ran away from home in 1961, when she was fourteen. She worked at Granny Takes a Trip, the "first psychedelic boutique in Groovy London of the 1960s," as a shop assistant, and was a regular at the Orchid Ballroom in Purley between 1963 and 1967. She spent a brief part of the 60s living in Croydon. When her mixed-race appearance was exoticised in the London of the 1960s, she gave the name "Eskimo" to an NME photographer as a joke, although she always said she was "from the Himalayas."
In 1967 she became involved with film director Anthony Stern, who took many pictures of the model and also made a film of her called "Iggy the Eskimo Girl." Stern said: "Iggy was my muse. [...] She was a lovely inspiration and free spirit. I never knew her real name. We used to hang out together, occasionally dropping acid, staying up all night, going for walks at dawn in Battersea Park. She entirely captures the spirit of the Sixties, living for the moment, completely carefree."
The most iconic images of her appear on Syd Barrett's solo album The Madcap Laughs, where she poses naked in the background, and were took by Mick Rock on the spring of 1969. She moved to Brighton soon after and left London in the 1970s.
In 1976 she acted in the experimental film "Central Bazaar" by the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin.
In the mid-seventies psychedelic tomfoolery was over and Iggy had to look for a job. She worked on a horse-farm and met her husband Andrew there. They relocated to a small village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, where she worked in a local supermarket.
While researching for his Pink Floyd biography, author Mark Blake quizzed everyone about Iggy's whereabouts. In September 2008, the Croydon Guardian managed to track her down. She inspired artist Anthony Stern, who took photographs of her, later released in the short documentary "Iggy The Eskimo Girl."
Iggy passed away aged 69 in the UK; she was survived by her husband Andrew.
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Todd Suttles
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In February 2014, the Gaither Vocal Band welcomed new baritone singer, Todd Suttles, to the line-up. Todd comes to us from Vanderbilt University, where he served for 20 years as a Sports Fitness Director. He also served as Vanderbilt’s CampVandy Youth Programs Director, and he holds both a Bachelors degree and a Masters of Science in Health, Wellness and Recreation.
Todd was a member of the Settles Connection prior to joining the Gaither Vocal Band, and his voice can be heard on recordings by numerous artists whom you know and love. His deep resonant voice is matched only by his quick sense of humor, infectious joy and authenticity. Todd has 3 lovely daughters. Currently, he and his wife Michelle live near Nashville Tennessee. They enjoy yard work and fishing, but usually are kept busy with their adorable toddler.
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Suzuka Ohgo
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Ohgo began acting in 2000 when she was seven, then she joined Sunflower (Himawari), which is a theatrical company. She debuted with the company at the Meiji-za in Story of a National Thief.
In early 2005, Ohgo debuted in her first major film, Kita No Zeronen (北の零年, a.k.a. Year One in the North), directed by Isao Yukisada, with the well-known actor Ken Watanabe, where she played the role of Tae Komatsubara. In December 2005, she debuted in Hollywood with Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall, where she played Sakamoto Chiyo, the child version of the main protagonist Nitta Sayuri (the adult version is played by Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi). During the same year, she also won the Japan Film Critics Award for Best Newcomer.
In 2006, Ohgo also starred in Baruto no Gakuen (バルトの楽園, a.k.a. Symphony of Joy), which was released in June 2006 and is set during World War I, where she plays a girl of mixed German-Japanese heritage trying to find her German father who may be held there.
In 2008, she began lending her voice to anime in Michiko to Hatchin as Hana (AKA: "Hatchin"). She also provided the voice Kaita in Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.
She worked at CATARMAN until 2013.
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Asif Ali
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Asif Ali is an Indian film actor and producer best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.
Asif Ali made his acting debut with the Malayalam film Ritu (2009) directed by Shyamaprasad. Later, he went on to act in successful films including Apoorvaragam (2010), Traffic (2011), Salt N' Pepper (2011), Ordinary (2012), Ozhimuri (2012), Honey Bee (2013), Sapthamashree Thaskaraha (2014),Nirnayakam (2015), Anuraga Karikkin Vellam (2016), and Sunday Holiday (2017). He made his debut as a producer with the film Kohinoor under his production company Adam's World of Imaagination, which also starred himself.
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Romain Grosjean
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Romain Grosjean (born 17 April 1986) is a French-Swiss racing driver, who competes under the French flag. He currently races in the NTT IndyCar series for the Juncos Hollinger Racing team. He is notable for previously racing in Formula One from 2009 to 2020, where he sustained a major crash during the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix when his car separated in two and caught fire after penetrating a metal guardrail on the first lap. Grosjean sustained minor burns and credited the 'halo' of the car with saving his life.
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Adolf Rosner
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Trumpeter, violinist, conductor, composer, orchestra leader. In 1925-1927 he studied at the Berlin Conservatory in the violin class, in 1928-1929 he studied composition and conducting. He mastered the pipe on his own; he considered Louis Armstrong, Harry James and Bunny Berigen his idols. In 1929–38, he played intermittently in one of the most popular European orchestras Weintraub Sincopators, then organized a band in Lodz (Poland), toured in many European countries. In 1939 he led the orchestra in Warsaw, after the Nazi Germany attacked Poland, together with a group consisting mainly of Jewish musicians, he fled to Bialystok, which departed to Belarus. A few months later, the orchestra received the status of a republican group, because at that time Belarus did not have its own jazz orchestra, and the party leader of the republic, Ponomarenko, was an avid fan of jazz. Over the next two years, Rosner toured in Moscow, Leningrad, in other cities and was recognized as one of the best trumpeters-soloists (improvisers). The hits of the program are “Caravan”, “Tales of the Vienna Woods”, Rosner’s song “Quiet Water”, two songs by Albert Harris (to the words of Yuri Zeitlin) “Cowboy” and “Mandolin, Guitar and Bass”. During the Great Patriotic War, he spoke at the fronts and in the rear. In 1946, in connection with the persecution of jazz, the orchestra was disbanded, Rosner was arrested for trying to leave for Poland, and convicted under article 58.10 (treason to the homeland). In 1946–53 he was in a camp in Magadan, where, at the request of his superiors, he formed a jazz orchestra of prisoners. After full rehabilitation, he headed the big band in Moscow. Arranger Yuri Saulsky wrote for the orchestra of fantasy Chapliniada, Duniada and the composition Solo Percussion for the brilliant drummer Boris Matveev. Rosner played the trumpet less and less (he suffered scurvy in Magadan), he was mainly conducting the orchestra. In the 1960s, the group was joined by Gennady Holstein, Konstantin Nosov, David Goloshchekin, arranger Vitaliy Dolgov, the orchestra performed at the Moscow festival in 1967 and toured with a modern pop-jazz program, which Rosner himself did not accept. In 1969, Rosner tried to assemble a new squad in Gomel. Having lost the ability to play the trumpet because of his health, experiencing a difficult creative and personal crisis, E. Rozner left the country in 1973 and died four years later, at the age of 66, in West Berlin.
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Carlos Chávez
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Originally from the Tepito neighborhood in Mexico City, in the film Canoa, the actor played the role of Miguel Flores Cruz and was part of several films including "Las razones del corazón", "El carnaval de Sodoma", "La virgen de la lujuria", "Azul Celeste", among others. He said that "Canoa" was one of the strongest films in which he participated alongside actors he considered idols. He was part of the film "Chin Chin el Teporocho", based on the book by Armando Ramírez, and in which he connected with his origins in the "Barrio bravo" of Tepito. During an interview with the YouTube channel La Tranza de Tepito in 2015, the actor assured that he has sometimes left the area, but that he usually returns to it because he feels it is part of him and of his formation as an individual.
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Eddie Deezen
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Eddie Deezen (born March 6, 1957) is an American character actor, voice actor and comedian, best known for his bit parts as nerd characters in 1970s and 1980s films such as Grease, Grease 2, Midnight Madness, 1941 and WarGames, as well as for larger roles in a number of independent cult films, including Surf II: The End of the Trilogy and I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
As a voice actor, he is easily recognizable for his distinctively high-pitched and nasally voice, most notably used for the characters of Mandark in the Cartoon Network series Dexter's Laboratory, Snipes the Magpie in Rock-A-Doodle, Ned in Kim Possible and Lenny the Know-It-All in The Polar Express.
He passed away at the age of 68 years old from motor neurone disease.
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Moby
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Known by his stage name Moby, Richard Melville Hall, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music and animal rights activism. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, and is considered one of the most important contributor to dance music in the early 1990s. His electronic dance music work, which experimented with techno, house, breakbeat, downtempo electronica,, and spoke-word layering helped introduce and popularize dance music in both the UK and America with his fifth studio album, Play. Originally released in mid-1999, the album sold 6,000 copies in its first week, and it re-entered the charts in early 2000 and became an unexpected hit, producing eight singles and selling over 10 million copies worldwide. Moby followed the album with 18 in 2002, to much success, selling over 5 million copies worldwide. His work spans eleven complete albums, while editing, producing, performing and remixing music for acts such as Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Britney Spears, New Order, Public Enemy, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Soundgarden, and others. Moby is considered by some to be a renaissance man, creating or supporting restaurants, artist collectives, animal activism groups, while writing and photographing for articles and books throughout his career. He is an advocate for network neutrality, along with other political causes such as art education and anti-violence campaigns.
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