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Calling All Dawns
''Calling All Dawns'' is a classical crossover album by Christopher Tin released in 2009. The album won two Grammys at the 53rd Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for the song " Baba Yetu", the theme for the 2005 video game ''Civilization IV''. The win marks the first time in history that a Grammy has been awarded to a composition written for a video game. The album is a song cycle in three movements: day, night, and dawn, corresponding to life, death, and rebirth, respectively. Twelve songs are featured on the album, each sung in a different language. Many of the lyrics find their sources in important pieces of world literature, including excerpts of long works such as the Hebrew Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, and ''The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'', and also smaller verses such as the Lord's Prayer, Māori proverbs, and Japanese haiku. The album features a similarly diverse set of vocal traditions, including Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baba Yetu
"Baba Yetu" (Swahili language, Swahili: "Our Father") is the main theme song for the 2005 video game ''Civilization IV''. It was composed by Christopher Tin and performed by Ron Ragin and the Stanford Talisman. For its re-release in Tin's debut album ''Calling All Dawns'', it was performed by the Soweto Gospel Choir. The song, when rereleased, became the first piece of video game music to be nominated for and to win a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award. Composition Creation Being a fan of the ''Civilization'' series, Tin reconnected with his former roommate Soren Johnson during his five-year college reunion at Stanford University; both had been part of an overseas program during their studies at Oxford University, with Johnson studying history and Tin studying music. Johnson told Tin at the reunion he had been working on ''Civilization III'', and Tin expressed his love of the series to him. Some months after the reunion, Johnson contacted Tin and told him they were looking for music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Tin
Christopher Chiyan Tin (born May 21, 1976) is an American composer of art music, composing for film, television, and video game soundtracks. His work is primarily orchestral and choral, often with a world music influence. He is a two-time Grammy Award winner. Tin is best known for his work on title themes for the ''Civilization'' video game series, specifically the main theme '' Baba Yetu'' from the video game ''Civilization IV'', which, at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011, became the first piece of video game music to win a Grammy Award. This Grammy win has been considered a significant milestone for the critical acceptance of music from video games, and following this win the Recording Academy retitled their visual media categories to become more inclusive of video game soundtracks, before eventually creating a dedicated Grammy award for 'Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media' in 2022. Early life and education Tin was born May 21, 1976 in Palo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keening
Keening (, ) is a traditional form of vocal lament for the dead in the Gaelic Celtic tradition, known to have taken place in Ireland and Scotland. Keening, which can be seen as a form of sean-nós singing, is performed in the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages (the Scottish equivalent of keening is known as a coronach). Keening was once an integral part of the formal Irish funeral ritual, but declined from the 18th century and became almost completely extinct by the middle of the 20th century. Only a handful of authentic keening songs were recorded from traditional singers. Etymology "Keen" as a noun or verb comes from the Irish and Scottish Gaelic term ("to cry, to weep"), and references to it from the 7th, 8th, and 12th centuries are extensive. Probably at the origin of "couiner" in French. Melody and text The tune and lyrics rely on the repetition of a couple of basic motifs which can be variably extended or shortened. It seems that there was never an established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or ) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau. Portuguese-speaking people or nations are known as Lusophone (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Gallaecian language, Celtic phonology. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 17 million second language speakers, Portuguese has approximately 267 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the List of languages by number of native speaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulce Pontes
Dulce José Silva Pontes (; born 8 April 1969) is a Portuguese songwriter and singer who performs in many musical styles, including pop, folk, and classical music. She is usually defined as a world music artist. Her songs contributed to the 1990s revival of Portuguese urban folk music called fado. Biography Pontes was born in 1969 in Montijo, a town in the District of Setúbal, near Lisbon. She trained as a pianist, and started a career in singing after entering a competition in her hometown at the age of 18. She soon became an actress on Portuguese television and theatre.Allmusic ..., Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, George Dalaras">Eleftheria Arvanitaki">Allmusic ..., Eleftheria Arvanitaki, George Dalaras, Andrea Bocelli (''O Mar e Tu'', duet sung by Pontes in Portuguese and Bocelli in Neapolitan language">Neapolitan, for his 1999 album ''Sogno)'', Joan Manuel Serrat">Sogno.html" ;"title="Neapolitan language">Neapolitan, for his 1999 album ''Sogno">Neapolitan la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. Its spread is generally attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas. Many varieties of Mandarin, such as Southwestern Mandarin, those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly one billion). Because Mandarin originated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jia Ruhan
Jia Ruhan () is a Chinese soprano who performs in plays, as well as in musicals, films, and solo recitals. She was born in Shijiazhuang and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She sang the roles of Queen Mother of Heaven and Guan Yin in the world premiere performance of Damon Albarn's rock opera, '' Monkey: Journey To The West'' on 28 June 2007 at the Palace Theatre, Manchester and later reprised the roles at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in September and October of that year. In March 2008, she recorded the BBC Olympic Theme Song for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, also composed by Albarn. Awards and prizes In May 2009, she won the First Prize at the XVIII edition of the Discovery International Pop Music Festival in Varna. The following July, she won the Second Prize in the solo vocal competition at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod (UK). In July 2009, American Chinese producer, Christopher Tin, invited Ruhan to rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many Classification of the Japonic languages, attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu languages, Ainu, Austronesian languages, Austronesian, Koreanic languages, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic languages, Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Omura
Kaori ( "scent/aroma, fabric/weave" and occasionally rendered "perfume", ) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *Kaori (voice actress) (born 1976), Japanese voice actress and singer *, musician known as Bonnie Pink *Kaori Asoh (born 1967), Japanese actress and voice actress * Kaori Chiba (born 1981), field hockey player *, Go player *, author *, Japanese voice actress * Kaori Hamura, artist and illustrator *, Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese sport wrestler *, musician and former Morning Musume member *, Japanese volleyball player *Kaori Ito (伊藤 郁女, born 1979), Japanese dancer and choreographer *Kaori Ishihara (born 1993), idol, actress, voice actress and singer *, Japanese ski jumper *, Japanese swimmer * Kaori Kato (born 1977), Japanese women cricketer * Kaori Kawamura (1971–2009), Japanese singer * Kaori Kobayashi, Japanese jazz saxophonist and flautist *, Japanese voice actress *Kaori Manabe (born 1981), Japanese televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aoi Tada
is a Japanese singer and former voice actress. She formerly belonged to the Gekidan Himawari theatre group. She voiced the role of Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV in ''Cowboy Bebop'' and performed an insert song to the series, "Wo Qui Non Coin". In March 2005, she signed on to Moon-Bunny Entertainment and began her singer-songwriting career. She has performed the theme songs for '' Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino'' and ''Angel Beats!''. She is also affiliated with the group Veil. She is credited for her Veil-related songs as Veil ∞ Aoi. Discography Singles *"Doll/Human" (Released 30 January 2008) **Split single with Lia, theme song for the '' Gunslinger Girl -Il Teatrino-'' anime series. *"Shirley" (Released 9 May 2008) *" My Soul, Your Beats!/Brave Song" (Released 26 May 2010) #3 on Oricon **Split single with Lia, theme song for the ''Angel Beats!'' anime series. *" Bravely You / Yake Ochinai Tsubasa" (Released 26 August 2015) #4 on Oricon **Split single with Lia, theme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia (Japanese Singer)
Lia (born December 20; also stylized in all caps as LIA) is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Lia recorded " Tori no Uta" for Key's 2000 visual novel ''Air'', which was reused in its 2005 anime adaptation and became influential in popular culture. She additionally recorded two other tracks for the visual novel, which were commercially successful. Lia has continued to work with Key by performing songs for their 2004 visual novel ''Clannad'' and its 2008 anime adaptation, '' Clannad After Story'', the 2005 adult visual novel '' Tomoyo After: It's a Wonderful Life'', as well as the opening themes for Key's original anime series ''Angel Beats!'' in 2010 and '' Charlotte'' in 2015. Her other songs used in anime include ''RF Online'' and '' Initial D Fourth Stage''. In 2012, the Vocaloid software IA was released, which sampled Lia's voice and earned a large fanbase. Career Lia graduated from the Berklee College of Music. Afterwards, she lived in Los Angeles and recorded demo tap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swahili Language
Swahili, also known as as it is referred to endonym and exonym, in the Swahili language, is a Bantu languages, Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, vary widely. They generally range from 150 million to 200 million; with most of its native speakers residing in Tanzania and Kenya. Swahili has a significant number of loanwords from other languages, mainly Arabic, as well as from Portuguese language, Portuguese, English language, English and German language, German. Around 40% of Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, including the name of the language ( , a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coasts'). The loanwords date from the era of contact between Arab slave trade, Arab traders and the Northeast Bantu languages, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
