Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is a musician and Hawaiian sovereignty activist who was known for his absolute skill and talent with the ukulele along side with his beautiful vocal melodies and his incorporation of reggae and jazz. Israel also known as Bruddah Iz later became famous with for his album Facing Future which was released in 1993, his medley of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” and was featured on various television programs and movies.
Jarrod J. Rein is an eighteen-year-old with dark brown hair and brown eyes to match the brown arid dirt of Piedmont, Oklahoma. His skin is a smooth warm tan glow that opposes his white smile making his teeth look like snow. Standing a great height of six foot exactly, his structure resembles a bear. He is attending Piedmont high school where he in his last year of high school (senior year). He is studying to be a forensics anthropologist. Also he is studying early in the field of anatomy to be successful in his profession. While not always on the rise for knowledge Jarrod’s swimming for his high school. In a sense it’s like you see double.
Ringing in the New Year, we’ve chosen an individual who has created his own music and created interesting remixes of other songs over the course of (now) 16 years. We enjoy the twists he plays on his music and admire his efforts to take his music to live performance stage. Local to Brick Township, NJ, Brian Stewart (DJversion666) started out, born and raised, in Evansville Indiana, playing in a multitude of bands, playing bass and/or singing various genres of music. Upon moving to Nashville, he has done studio work, laying down bass tracks for commercials and advertisements. Continuing down the path of music Stewart attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He combines various genres and ties them all together with an industrial sound.
Akiba Drumer- Akiba is a well-known singer and a prisoner in Auschwitz. He sings Jewish music and moves the hearts of any whenever he uses his beautiful voice. In Auschwitz Akiba dies and so does his faith.
During the Genpei War, a young women who name was Tomoe Gozen was a Japanese women Samurai. She was born in 1157 to 1247 and in Japanese standards. She died at the age of ninety-one years old. Tomoe Gozen was one of the few women Samurai legends. She fought alongside her husband, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, then against her cousin Taira. Tomoe Gozen was famous as a swordswomen, a skilled ride, and a superd archer. She was her husband, Minamoto, first captain. Tomoe Gozen at least took one person head off during the battle of Awazu in 1184. Late in the Genpei war was a conflict between two Samari clans, the Minamoto clan and the Taira clan. Both of the families wanted to control the Shogunate. At the end, the Minamoto clan won and then established the Kamakura Shogunate in 1192. After the war, some people say that Tomoe stayed in the fight and died. Others say she rode away and carrying a man’s head. Still others says she married Wada Yoshimori, then she became a nun.
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You might have remembered him as the funky-looking stylist of Katniss Everdeen on the trilogy Hunger Games and have forgotten how great of an artist Lenny Kravitz is. With her edgy hairstyles, the occasional facial piercings and the soulful tracks he had released during his entire career, we can all surmise that he's one extraordinary soloist. Brought to mainstream fame during the 1990s after his iconic and relatable track Again, Kravitz has been very active in the music industry but on a low-key.
Rogovoy, Seth. The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant-Garde. Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonguin Books of Chapel Hill, 2000. Print.
Hi, my name is Ella Giovanna Oliva Tambussi. I was born in a small town in Connecticut called Windsor Locks on May 10, 1919. My dad is Giacomo (James) Tambussi, he is originally from Perledo, Italy. My mom is Natalina (Maria) (Oliva) Tambussi, she is originally from Voghera, Italy. Like many other Italians, they immigrated to the United States several decades after the civil war. They both departed from Genoa and arrived at Ellis island (my dad first, then my mom two years later), they then met up with some family and friends in Connecticut who had preceded them. My parents got married in 1911. They had limited
Joe Hisaishi was born on December 6, 1950 in Nagano, Japan under the name Mamoru Fujisawa. His musical training started early on, when he began to take violin lessons at age five. It was around this time that he first discovered his passion for music. Fujisawa truly began to explore this passion in the 70’s, during which, a cultural menagerie of Japanese popular music, new-age, and early electronic music flourished. Inevitably, those genres influenced Fujisawa's early compositions. (Wikipedia) Fujisawa was highly influenced by the new-wave of Japanese electronica such as the Yellow Magic Orchestra and Ryuichi Sakamoto group. It was not until 1975, that he made his first public performance, and it is not until a decade later that he dawns his stage name, Joe Hisaishi, on his first solo album Alpha Bet City. (Dasnoy & Tsong, 2013) Hisaishi developed his name from the American artist, Quincy Jones. The kanji for "Hisaishi" is read similarly to the Japanese pronunciation of "Quincy," and "Joe," came from "Jones."(IMDB)
On April 19, 1993, the fifty-one day standoff between the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and U.S. government law enforcement agencies ended in a tragic fire, leaving David Koresh and eighty of his followers dead (PBS). That final confrontation between the FBI and the Branch Davidians has sparked debate over the government's responsibility to oversee the actions of its agencies and to uphold the rights of its citizens, freedom of religion, and the right to bear arms.
Arieh Klein was a Jew born in 1927 in Zilina, Slovakia. During the Slovak National Uprising in 1944 Arieh’s parents got a phone call to escape Slovakia because the Germans were advancing. Arieh’s family moved to the village of Kaliste. The Germans, however, also arrived in Kaliste, and the Klein’s were advised to stay in a cottage with the rest of the village. However, Arieh’s father didn’t go out of fear of it being too dangerous with so many people in one place. He made a good decision because every person in that cottage was killed. A year had passed. Arieh went to the other side of the village and his leg was shot in some crossfire. He went to an abandoned house, occupied by 2 other boys, in order to bandage his wounds. The German’s then followed Arieh to the house, set it on fire, and shot the 2 other boys. Arieh escaped, barely, and went back to his parents, but his mom died of typhoid that day. Arieh then went to the hospital for his leg only to find out that it needed to be amputated. From these pictures we’re basically the same kids. We both have stuffed animals and we’re both are 3 in the pictures, but the boy on the left lost most of his family, his leg, and suffered only because he was a Jew.
Recently there was a school shooting at a high school in Florida, 17 were killed and many others were injured. This attack was carried out by a 19-year-old named Nikolas Cruz. Cruz was clearly mentally unstable and had his actions show for it. His family and friends all knew about his issues and so did schools, his fellow peers even made jokes about him shooting up the school way before the incident even occurred. Multiple tips had been received prior to the shooting and the FBI did not take action to stop this attack and warn the school.
A lot of controversies have surrounded the true identity of the birthplace of Olaudah Equiano with many publications publishing different statements regarding the whole issue. Olaudah Equiano sentiments did not help at all in coming up with the solution about his birthplace. On numerous occasions, Olaudah Equiano is quoted saying different statements regarding his exact birthplace either in Africa or South Carolina. However, the main issue that is much debatable as well is the fact that what would establish of Olaudah Equiano birthplace reflect on his narrative? I tend to think that his birthplace is very crucial in accepting his narrative. Thus this essay significantly acknowledges the theory that his exact birth place would
Koichi Shimizu was born in a small town in where he never mentioned the name only said that “nothing there”. When he was in twenties something he went to American and had an experience of New York’s underground music scene where he used to stay and studied there. In the late of 1990s, Koichi came to Bangkok when the first wave of Thai alternative movement was faded out, and then, he found that it was extremely difficult to invent new music space in Bangkok. As a music producer, Koichi worked as a freelancer for may advertisement companies and got an opportunity to meet Pen-Ek Ratanaruang; a Thai advertising director who turned to be one of Thai “new wave” film director, and arranged many music scores
Christopher Edwin Breaux, later Christopher Francis Ocean, and more formally known as, Frank Ocean, is one of the most inspiring artists of this generation. Frank Ocean speaks of many controversial social and cultural issues through his music and writings. Most artists are afraid to incorporate these issues into their music due to fear of backlash from their audience. Some issues in particular that Frank addresses are homosexuality and racism. Both of which are extremely eminent in today’s society, being real issues in that the majority of our population have to unfortunately experience.