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Danoff
Danoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bettye Danoff (1923–2011), American golfer * Bill Danoff (born 1946), American songwriter and singer *Owen Danoff Owen Danoff (born November 3, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. He was a contestant on season 10 of NBC's ''The Voice'' where he reached the top 11. Life and career Owen Danoff was exposed to music from an early age ... (born 1989), American singer-songwriter * William Danoff (born 1959/1960), American money manager See also * Daroff {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Danoff
Owen Danoff (born November 3, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter from Washington, D.C. He was a contestant on season 10 of NBC's '' The Voice'' where he reached the top 11. Life and career Owen Danoff was exposed to music from an early age. His father is Grammy award winner Bill Danoff, a songwriter and original member of the Starland Vocal Band. As a child, he was immersed in his family's musical culture and can recall joining his father onstage at shows. At the age of 15, Danoff wrote and self-produced his first original song using an audio recorder given to him that same day. He attended Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C. After high school, Danoff studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating with a degree in film scoring. Owen Danoff returned to the D.C. music scene after college, performing at venues such as the Birchmere, the Kennedy Center and the 9:30 Club. In 2012, he released an EP titled ‘Never Trust a Man’. Following the EP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Danoff
William Thomas Danoff (born May 7, 1946) is an American songwriter and singer. He is known for “ Afternoon Delight", which he wrote and performed as a member of the Starland Vocal Band, and for writing multiple hits for John Denver, including "Take Me Home, Country Roads". Early life and education Danoff is a graduate of Cathedral High School in Springfield, Massachusetts, and of Georgetown University. Career Starland Vocal Band On the strength of their track record as songwriters, Danoff and Taffy Nivert recorded several albums before forming the Starland Vocal Band with local musicians Jon Carroll and Margot Chapman. The group recorded " Afternoon Delight" which became a hit in July 1976, reaching #1 on the Hot 100 on July 10. The ''Starland Vocal Band Show'' replaced ''Rhoda'' as a half-hour weekly series that same summer. Danoff and Nivert also worked with director Robert Altman and producer Jerry Weintraub on the film ''Nashville'', doing research with screenwriter J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bettye Danoff
Bettye Jane Danoff (née Mims; May 21, 1923 – December 22, 2011) was an American professional golfer. She was one of the 13 founding members of the LPGA, in 1950. Danoff began playing golf at age 6. Her parents had opened a driving range and nine-hole golf course in Grand Prairie Texas. She also played under the names Bettye Mims White and Bettye Mims Danoff. The LPGA Tour was not founded until 1950. Before then, she won four straight Dallas Women's Golf Association Championships in addition to two Texas Women's Amateur Championship. In 1947, she defeated Babe Zaharias, 1 up, in the Texas Women's Open. Zaharias had won 17 consecutive tournaments before losing to Danoff. Also before her LPGA days, Danoff played exhibitions with PGA Tour The PGA Tour (stylized in all capital letters as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in the United States and North America. It organizes most of the events on the flagship annual series of tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Danoff
William Danoff (born 1959–60) is known for being a vice-president and portfolio manager of Fidelity Contrafund. At US $129 billion, Contrafund is the largest actively managed stock or bond mutual fund run by one person. Education and early career Danoff has a degree in history from Harvard and an MBA from Wharton. First joining Fidelity as an analyst in 1986, Danoff trained under Peter Lynch, who managed Fidelity's Magellan Fund from obscurity in the 1970s to the world's largest mutual fund in the 1980s. Fidelity Contrafund William Danoff is the single manager of the Fidelity Investments' flagship mutual fund Contrafund. Contrafund is one of Fidelity's largest mutual funds holding over $129 billion in assets, making it the largest single-manager mutual fund in the world. Danoff's Contrafund mutual fund outperformed the S&P 500's trailing one year, three year, five year, ten year and fifteen year total returns, making the mutual fund one of only three to accomplish such an ach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |