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2016 Summer Paralympics Closing Ceremony
The closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics was held at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 18 September 2016. The ceremony's cultural portions were structured as a concert featuring a number of mainstream Brazilian singers and bands, headlined by pop divas Ivete Sangalo and Gaby Amarantos. As per Paralympic protocol, the ceremony featured the official closing of the Games, including closing remarks by International Paralympic Committee president Philip Craven and the leader of the Games' organizing committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the handover of the Paralympic flag from Rio de Janeiro mayor Eduardo Paes to Yuriko Koike, governor of Tokyo—host of the 2020 Summer Paralympics, a cultural presentation by the next host city, and the extinguishing of the Paralympic flame and marked an end for this edition of the games. Synopsis Athletes were already seated in the stadium prior to the start of the ceremony. The opening segments featured deaf drummers guided by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maracanã Stadium
Maracanã Stadium ( pt, Estádio do Maracanã, standard Brazilian Portuguese: , local pronunciation: ), officially named Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho (), is an association football stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The stadium is part of a complex that includes an arena known by the name of ''Maracanãzinho'', which means "The Little Maracanã" in Portuguese. Owned by the Rio de Janeiro state government, the stadium is now managed by the clubs Flamengo and Fluminense. It is located at the Maracanã neighborhood, named after the Rio Maracanã, a now canalized river in Rio de Janeiro. The stadium was opened in 1950 to host the FIFA World Cup, in which Brazil was beaten 2–1 by Uruguay in the deciding game, in front of a still standing record attendance of 173,850 spectators, on 16 July 1950. The venue has seen attendances of 150,000 or more at 26 occasions, the last being on 29 May 1983, as 155,253 spectators watched Flamengo beat Santos, 3–0. The stadium has seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céu
Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, known professionally as Céu (; born 17 April 1980), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007. Career life She was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to a musical family. Her father being a composer, arranger and musicologist. It was from her father that she learned to appreciate Brazil's classical music composers, particularly Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ernesto Nazaré and Orlando Silva. By age fifteen she had decided to become a musician and by her late teens she had studied music theory, as well as the '' violão'' (nylon-stringed Brazilian guitar). Her songs reveal many influences, which include samba, ''valsa'', choro, soul, rhythm and blues, hip hop, afrobeat and electrojazz music. She cites as influences the music of African-Americans Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and Jorge Ben. Céu was performing onstage with major artists and exploring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1964 Summer Paralympics
The , originally known as the 13th International Stoke Mandeville Games and also known as Paralympic Tokyo 1964, dinf.ne.jp, March 17, 1999 were the second to be held. They were held in , Japan, and were the last Summer Paralympics to take place in the same city as the Summer Olympics until the . The 1964 Games, although still formally an edition of the International Stoke Mandeville Games, were the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Economy of Japan, Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Government of Japan, Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Temer
Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia (; born 23 September 1940) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 31 December 2018. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president of Brazil since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial. The Senate's 61–20 vote on 31 August 2016 to remove Rousseff from office meant that Temer succeeded her and served out the remainder of her second term. In his first speech in office, Temer called for a government of "national salvation" and asked for the trust of the Brazilian people. He also signaled his intention to overhaul the pension system and labor laws, and to curb public spending. A 2017 poll showed that Temer's administration had 7% popular approval, with 76% of respondents in favor of Temer's resignation. Des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calum Scott
Calum Scott (born 12 October 1988) is an English singer and songwriter. In April 2015, he rose to prominence after competing on the ITV (TV network), ITV talent contest ''Britain's Got Talent (series 9), Britain's Got Talent'', where he performed his version of Robyn's hit "Dancing on My Own". After coming sixth in the contest, he released Dancing on My Own#Calum Scott version, his version as a single the following year, which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and became Britain's best-selling single of summer 2016. Scott later signed with Capitol Records, Capitol and in 2017, released the single "You Are the Reason (Calum Scott song), You Are the Reason", which was included on his 2018 debut album ''Only Human (Calum Scott album), Only Human'', which reached number 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Later in 2018, he collaborated with Leona Lewis to release a duet version of the single "You Are the Reason". Early life Scott was born in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nego Do Borel
Nego do Borel, artistic name of Leno Maycon Viana Gomes (born 10 July 1992), is a Brazilian singer of funk ostentação, songwriter and actor. He is known for hits "Os Cara do Momento", "Diamante de Lama", "Bonde dos Brabos" and " Você Partiu Meu Coração", with Wesley Safadão and Anitta. Currently he has two albums released by Sony Music. Nego do Borel was the sixth Brazilian artist to enter the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Early life Leno Maycon Viana Gomes was born on 10 July 1992 in Rio de Janeiro and was raised in Morro do Borel, a slum in Rio. He was the only child of Roseli Vianna and Nelcir Gomes. He dropped out of school in fourth grade to become a funk artist. The name "Nego do Borel" (meaning "black man from Borel") emerged from a nickname given to him by one of his friends. Gomes would later adopt it as his stage name. Nego was raised an evangelical Christian and his mother baptised him Leno Maycon Viana Gomes after John Lennon and Michael Jackson. Due to ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nação Zumbi
Nação Zumbi (formerly Chico Science & Nação Zumbi) is a Brazilian band formed by Chico Science. They have been hailed as one of the most important groups to come out of the manguebeat movement in the 1990s. The musicians of the group continued as Nação Zumbi after Chico died in a car accident on February 2, 1997. In their songs they experiment with mixing of rock, punk, funk, hip hop, soul, Pernambuco's regional rhythms and Brazilian traditional music, with heavy use of percussion instruments. They released two albums before the time of Chico's death, '' Da lama ao caos'' (''From Mud to Chaos'') in 1994 and ''Afrociberdelia'' in 1996. Both received critical acclaim. In 1996, Nação Zumbi contributed ''Maracatu Atômico'' to the AIDS-Benefit Album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization. Members * Jorge Du Peixe - vocal, sampler (1998-present) alfaia (1992-1997) * Lúcio Maia - guitar, backing vocals * Alexandre Dengue - bass, backing vocals * Toca Ogam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnathan Bastos
Johnathan is a given name. It is an alternative spelling of Jonathan or a combination of the names John and Jonathan. Notable people with the name include: American football *Johnathan Abram (born 1996), American football player *Johnathan Gray (born 1993), American football running back *Johnathan Hankins (born 1992), American football defensive tackle *Johnathan Joseph (born 1984), American football cornerback *Johnathan Taylor (born 1979), American football defensive end Association football *Johnathan Aparecido da Silva (born 1990), Brazilian football player *Johnathan Carlos Pereira (born 1995), Brazilian footballer Basketball *Johnathan Loyd (born 1991), American professional basketball player *Johnathan Stove (born 1995), American basketball player for Hapoel Galil Elyon of the Israeli Basketball Premier League *Johnathan Williams (born 1995), American college basketball player Other *Johnathan Porter (born 1997), American rapper known professionally as Blueface *Johnat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
