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Anastasia Rogozhina
Anastasia Rogozhina (born 26 August 2008) is a Finnish individual rhythmic gymnast and former aesthetic group gymnast. On the national level, she is the 2023 Junior all-around champion. Career Up until 2021, she simultaneously competed in rhythmic gymnastics and aesthetic group gymnastics. In 2019, she was part of Team Minetit 10-12 age group. They competed at the IFAGG Trophy in Cartagena, Spain and won the bronze medal. Junior In 2021, she was part of Minetit Junior team, which competed at the 2021 European Championships in Aesthetic Group Gymnastics in Moscow, Russia, and took the bronze medal in the Junior category. In rhythmic gymnasts, she won the bronze medal in the all-around at the Junior National Championships as well as silver in the hoop and clubs finals. In 2022, she was the silver medalist in the all-around at the Junior National Championships, and she also won four medals in the event finals (gold with ball and bronze with clubs, hoop and ribbon). She represen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ylöjärvi
Ylöjärvi () is a town in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the west of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Ylöjärvi is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous municipality in Finland, and the third largest in the Pirkanmaa region after Tampere and Nokia. Ylöjärvi is located northwest of Tampere and north of the capital city of Helsinki in Finland. Ylöjärvi has an area of of which is water. The population density is . Ylöjärvi is mainly a rural town. It does not have a clear centre; the Tampere-Vaasa highway ( E12) and the Tampere- Seinäjoki railway divide the centre of the municipality into two large distinct parts: the Church Village and Soppeenmäki. The railway, completed in 1971, has no passenger seats in the Ylöjärvi area, so buses provide all public transport. The population has grown in recent years. In 1990 it was about 18,000, in 2011 it was about 30,000, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmi Piiroinen
Emmi Piiroinen (born 8 August 2007) is a Finnish rhythmic gymnast who represents Finland internationally. She is a two-time (2023, 2024) Finnish National all-around champion and the 2025 all-around silver medalist. Career Piiroinen took up rhythmic gymnastics at age three. In 2019 she won silver with rope and clubs at the Marina Lobach Cup in Belarus. The following year she won gold in the All-Around and with ribbon as well as bronze with rope and clubs at the Finnish Championships. In 2021 she retained her national title and also son all the gold medals in the four event finals. In 2022, she competed at the International Sofia Cup ending 11th overall, 5th with hoop and 7th with ribbon. In May she won bronze in the All-Around and silver at the Nordic Championships in Uppsala. At nationals she took 3rd place in the All-Around, getting bronze also with ribbon as well as silver with clubs and gold with hoop and with ball. At the Portimão International Tournament she was 7th in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Quixote (ballet)
''Don Quixote'' is a ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the famous novel ''Don Quixote, Don Quixote de la Mancha'' by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and first presented by Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet on . Petipa and Minkus revised the ballet into a more elaborate and expansive version in five acts and eleven scenes for the Mariinsky Ballet, first presented on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of St. Petersburg. All modern productions of the Petipa/Minkus ballet are derived from the version staged by Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky, Alexander Gorsky for the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in 1900, a production the ballet master staged for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in 1902. History Earlier versions The two chapters of the novel that the ballet is mostly based on, were first adapted for the ballet in 1740 by Franz Hilverding in Vienna, Austria. In 1768, Jean Georges Noverre mounted a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Setzer
Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and returned to the music scene in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra. In 1987, he made a cameo appearance as Eddie Cochran in the film ''La Bamba (film), La Bamba''. In February 2025, Setzer shared that he has an autoimmune disease which prevents him from playing guitar. Career Stray Cats Setzer was born April 1959 in Massapequa, New York, Massapequa, New York. He started on the euphonium and played in jazz bands when he was in school. He found a way to hear jazz at the Village Vanguard, though as he got older he became more interested in rock, punk, and rockabilly. He was a member of the Bloodless Pharaohs and the Tomcats, which he began with his brother, Gary. The Tomcats became the Stray Cats when double bassist Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kids United
Kids United were a French pop band between 2015 and 2021 that consisted of six, later five, children born between 2000 and 2009. It was created to support UNICEF campaigns and is sponsored by Hélène Ségara and Corneille, two Francophone singers. The first album ''Un monde meilleur'' (A better world) was launched on Universal Children's Day in 2015, it received gold certification in France. The second album ''Tout le bonheur du monde'' was certified 2× platinum. It won a Felix Award for best pop album; making it the band's first award. On 30 May 2018, it was announced that three of the remaining four members were to leave the group for a solo career, and the one remaining member, Gloria, would continue with other young singers under the name Kids United Nouvelle Génération (Kids United New Generation). In 2020, Kids United Nouvelle Génération joined ''Green Team'': a group of artists who sing to raise awareness of ecological issues. Original members Erza Muqoli Erza w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindsey Stirling
Lindsey Stirling (born September 21, 1986) is an American violinist, songwriter and dancer. She presents choreographed violin performances, in live and music videos found on her official YouTube channel, which she created in 2007. Stirling performs a variety of music styles, from Classical music, classical to Pop music, pop and rock music, rock to electronic dance music. Aside from original work, her discography contains covers of works by other musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Antonio Vivaldi and various soundtracks. Her music video Crystallize (Lindsey Stirling song), "Crystallize" finished as the eighth-most watched video of 2012 on YouTube, and her cover version of "Radioactive (Imagine Dragons song), Radioactive" with Pentatonix won Response of the Year in the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013. Stirling achieved one million singles sold worldwide by August 2014. As of May 10, 2023, her ''Lindseystomp'' YouTube chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shigeru Umebayashi
(born February 19, 1951) is a Japanese composer. Once the leader and bass player of Japan's new wave rock band EX, Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 30 Japanese and Chinese film scores to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's '' Yumeji''), included in director Wong Kar-wai's '' In the Mood for Love'' (2000). Umebayashi scored most of Wong Kar-wai's follow-up film, ''2046'' (2004), and '' House of Flying Daggers''. Discography 1980s * ''Itsuka Darekaga Korosareru'' (1984) * ''Tomoyo Shizukani Nemure'' (1985) * '' Sorekara'' (1985) * '' Sorobanzuku'' (1986) * ''Shinshi Domei'' (1986) * ''Kyohu no Yacchan'' (1987) * ''Getting Blue in Color'' (1988) 1990s * '' Hong Kong Paradise'' (1990) * ''Tekken'' (1990) * '' Yumeji'' (1991) * ''Ote'' (1991) * ''Goaisatsu'' (1991) * ''Arihureta Ai ni Kansuru Chosa'' (1992) * ''Byoin he Iko 2 Yamai ha Kikara'' (1992) * '' Nemuranai Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofi Tukker
Sofi Tukker (stylized in all caps) is a musical duo based in New York City, consisting of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern. They are known for their songs "Drinkee", "Best Friend (Sofi Tukker song), Best Friend", and "Purple Hat". "Best Friend" was featured in a commercial during Apple's unveiling of the iPhone X, while "Drinkee" was nominated for a Grammy at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, 2017 Grammy Awards. In December 2018, their album ''Treehouse (Sofi Tukker album), Treehouse'' was nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album. History Sofi Tukker is the duo of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern. Sophie Hawley-Weld was born in Frankfurt, Germany, but grew up in rural Canada and Atlanta. She then attended United World College of the Adriatic, a United World Colleges, UWC in Duino, Italy. While in college Hawley-Weld studied Portuguese; her love for Brazilian culture and the Portuguese language inspired a move to Brazil afterwards, to further learn the langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Rodriguez
Maxime Rodriguez, born in Colombes, France, is a French composer. Many of his works, such as ''Esperanza'', ''Child of Nazareth'', and ''Tango Volver'', ''D'Artagnan'', ''Coeur Brave'', ''L'enfant pur'', have been used for figure skating programs and rhythmic gymnastics routines. He made compositions and musical productions for international figure skaters such as Philippe Candeloro Philippe Candeloro (born 17 February 1972) is a French former competitive Figure skating, figure skater. He is a two-time Figure skating at the Olympic Games, Olympic bronze medalist (1994, 1998), a two-time World Figure Skating Championships, Wo ..., Sarah Abitbol / Stephane Bernadis, Stanick Jeannette, Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat, Johnny Weir, Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder, Stephane Lambiel, Brian Joubert and many others. His first CD : "Synphonie sur Glace" Edited by EMI Music in 2000. He also made original soundtrack for film documentaries diffused on Canal+, Sport+ an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raul Midón
Raul Midón (born March 14, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Mexico. Biography Early life Midón was born prematurely in a rural hospital in Embudo, New Mexico, Embudo, New Mexico, to parents of Argentines, Argentine and African Americans, African-American descent. His father was a folkloric dancer from Argentina. Midón was raised Catholic Church, Catholic. Midon and his twin brother Marco were blind as infants after spending time in an wikt:incubator, incubator without adequate eye protection. The sound of music became integral to Midon's life at age four when his father introduced him to the drum. Midon learned how to play guitar while performing in educational programs at a school for the blind, then at Santa Fe Preparatory School while completing his last two years of high school in 1984. Midon then attended the University of Miami, which he selected for its jazz curriculum. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1990. Career Mido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer, who has won five Grammy Awards for her albums. Early life and education Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family. Her father sang, her mother played trumpet, her uncle is bassist Charles Burrell, and her cousin is George Duke. Her father died when she was two years old, and she was raised in Denver, Colorado, by her mother, Vada Swanson, and maternal family. Reeves was raised Catholic and attended Cure D'Ars Catholic School in Denver for much of her early schooling. Career In 1971, she started singing and playing piano. She was a member of her high-school band and while performing at a convention in Chicago was noticed by trumpeter Clark Terry, who invited her to sing with him. "He had these amazing all-star bands, but I had no idea who they all were! The thing I loved about it was the way they interacted with each other – the kind of intimate exchange that I wasn't part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Kallio
Lia is a feminine given name. In the Spanish-speaking world, it is accented Lía. In English-speaking countries, the name may be a variant of Leah or Lea. Lia may be a diminutive of various names including Julia, Cecilia, Amelia, Talia, Cornelia, Ophelia, Rosalia / Roselia, Natalia, Aurelia, Adalia / Adelia, Ailia, Apulia, Alia / Aleah. In Hebrew, the name means ''to me, God'' and is also the Israeli version of the English pronunciation of Leah or Lea. It can also be a surname. People with the given name Lia * Lia (artist), Austrian software artist * Lia (Japanese singer) * Lia (South Korean singer) * Lia Andrea Ramos (born 1981), Filipino model * Lia Ashmore (born 1995), Paraguayan model * Lía Bermúdez (1930–2021), Venezuelan sculptor * Francesca Lia Block (born 1962), American writer * Lia Block (Born 2006), American racing driver * Lia Franca (1912-1988) Italian actress * Lía Borrero (born 1976), Panamanian beauty queen * Lia Boysen (born 1966), Swedish actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
