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Danny Jacob
Danny Jacob is an American composer, songwriter and guitarist. His credits include composing the score for the television series ''Phineas and Ferb'', and co-producing the music for the series ''Sofia The First''. He is a three-time Emmy-nominated composer. He also wrote the theme songs for '' Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', '' The Emperor's New School'', ''Kim Possible'', ''Sonny With A Chance'', and '' Jackie Chan Adventures''. As a featured guitarist, Jacob has performed on ''Shrek'', the Bette Midler HBO concert ''Diva Las Vegas'', and on Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin's "Heaven Help Us". Career Jacob started playing guitar at 13 years old, honing his skills in acoustic, electric, R&B, and jazz playing styles. At 16 years old he formed his own bands, performing in local bars and clubs in Los Angeles. Jacob has played and toured with recording artists: Bette Midler, George Michael, and Tower of Power, and said he has been inspired by Hans Zimmer, John Powell, and Harry Gregson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams (born 13 December 1961) is a British composer, conductor, orchestrator, and record producer. He has composed music for video games, television and films including the ''Metal Gear'' series, '' Spy Game'', '' Phone Booth'', '' Man on Fire'', '' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian'', ''Déjà Vu'', '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', '' The Martian'', '' Team America: World Police'', '' Antz'', '' The Tigger Movie'', '' Chicken Run'' and its sequel, the ''Shrek'' franchise, '' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas'', '' Flushed Away'', '' Arthur Christmas'', '' Early Man'', '' Catch-22'', and ''Gladiator II''. He is also the older brother of fellow composer Rupert Gregson-Williams. Gregson-Williams worked with several film directors such as Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, Joel Schumacher, Antoine Fuqua, Niki Caro, Nick Park, and Dan Ireland. Education Gregson-Williams won a musical scholar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Wilder
Matthew Wilder ( Weiner; January 24, 1953) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his 1983 hit single " Break My Stride", which hit No. 2 on the '' Cashbox'' chart and No. 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. He also wrote the music for the Disney animated feature film ''Mulan'' and provided the singing voice for the character Ling. Early life Matthew Wilder was born on Long Island, New York,Farance, Jeff (June 16, 2006). "Seeing Stars: Where's Wilder? With Waldo?" '' The Daytona Beach News-Journal''. p. E14. into a Jewish family. His mother was an opera singer and a Juilliard graduate, and his father was a press agent on Broadway. Wilder started studying classical piano at age four. He moved to Greenwich Village at age 16, and graduated from the New Lincoln School. Career Wilder was one-half of the Greenwich Village folk rock group Matthew & Peter in the 1970s. In 1978, he moved to Los Angeles, and sang for television commercial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley, known locally as the Valley, is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County, California. Situated to the north of the Los Angeles Basin, it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles, the Municipal corporation, incorporated cities of Burbank, California, Burbank, Calabasas, California, Calabasas, Glendale, California, Glendale, Hidden Hills, California, Hidden Hills and San Fernando, California, San Fernando, plus several unincorporated areas. The valley is the home of Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios, Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Disney Studios, and the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. Geography The valley of San Fernando is an area of , bounded by the San Gabriel Mountains in the northeast, the Verdugo Mountains in the east, the Santa Monica Mountains and Chalk Hills in the south, the Simi Hills in the west, and the Santa Susana Mountains in the northwest. The northern Sierra Pelona Mountains, northweste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge), is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. With a total enrollment of 36,848 students (as of Fall 2024), it has the fourth largest total student body in the California State University system. The size of CSUN also has a major impact on the California economy, with an estimated $1.9 billion in economic output generated by CSUN on a yearly basis. As of Fall 2024, the university has 2,173 faculty members, of which around 36% are tenured or on the tenure-track. California State University, Northridge, was founded first as the Valley satellite campus of California State University, Los Angeles. It then became an independent college in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College, with major campus master planning and construction. In 1972, the university adopted its current name of California State University, Northridge. The 1994 Northridge earthquake ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal News Service
Federal News Service (FNS) is a Washington, D.C.–based company providing transcription services. FNS produces on-demand verbatim transcripts of newsworthy events in DC (including speeches, congressional hearings, and interviews) for its clients."CQ Roll Call Acquires Federal News Service" (press release), CQ Roll Call (December 1, 2014). FNS "is one of the chief sources of transcripts from presidential appearances and events". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamster & Gretel
''Hamster & Gretel'' is an American animated superhero comedy television series created by ''Phineas and Ferb'' and '' Milo Murphy's Law'' co-creator Dan Povenmire that first aired on Disney Channel on August 12, 2022. In January 2023, the series was renewed for a second season that debuted on September 14, 2024. The series name is a pun on the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel". Plot A 16-year-old boy named Kevin must work with his sister Gretel when she and their pet hamster are given superpowers by aliens and become a superhero duo dedicated to protecting their city. Characters Main * Gretel Grant-Gomez (voiced by Meli Povenmire) is a 9-year-old girl and Kevin's excitable younger sister who gains superpowers and becomes a superheroine. While she means well, Gretel has a tendency to make problems worse by using brute force. * Kevin Grant-Gomez (voiced by Michael Cimino) is a 16-year-old boy and Gretel's older brother who tries to support Hamster and Gretel in being superheroes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candace Against The Universe
''Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe'' is a 2020 American animated musical science fiction comedy film based on the animated television series ''Phineas and Ferb'', created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh. Directed by Bob Bowen, who co-wrote it with Povenmire, Marsh, and several other writers, it is the second film based on the series following '' Across the 2nd Dimension'' (2011). Set at some point during the summer depicted in the original run of the series and before the fourth season finale, " Last Day of Summer", the film follows Phineas and Ferb as they rescue their sister Candace and Dr. Doofenshmirtz's daughter Vanessa from the planet Feebla-Oot. However, Candace becomes tempted to stay on the planet when she is treated with respect by its people, not knowing that they harbor a dark secret which involves her presence. While developing Disney+, Disney approached Povenmire and Marsh for a new ''Phineas and Ferb'' film. The film began wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Across The 2nd Dimension
''Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension'' is a 2011 American animated musical action-adventure comedy television film based on the animated TV series ''Phineas and Ferb''. The film premiered on Disney Channel on August 5, 2011, in the United States. It was first announced by Jeff "Swampy" Marsh during a January 2010 interview with the ''Daily Telegraph''. The events of the film take place during the third season of ''Phineas and Ferb''. It is the first feature-length film of the ''Phineas and Ferb'' series, and the third animated Disney Channel Original Movie, following '' Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama'' and '' The Proud Family Movie''. The film's premiere averaged 7.6 million viewers, making it one of the highest-rated animated programs on cable in more than three years. It later gained over 3 million viewers to become the second most watched animated basic cable telecast ever among kids 6–11 and teens 9–14, and cable's fifth highest viewership movie ever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milo Murphy's Law
''Milo Murphy's Law'' is an American animated comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series premiered on October 3, 2016, on Disney XD. It revolves around the title character, Milo Murphy, who is a descendant of the "Original Murphy" of Murphy's law, which states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The series takes place in the same universe as Povenmire and Marsh's previous series ''Phineas and Ferb'', with multiple references to the show occurring across the first season, culminating in a crossover at the start of the second season and continuing throughout with other plot threads from the former series. While working on '' Hamster & Gretel'', Povenmire stated that he and Marsh "...would both really love to do more ''Milo Murphy''...I'm willing to do more than one show at a time," and according to Povenmire, a possible third season hinged on its Disney+ viewership. Characters Main * "Weird Al" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringling Bros
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, also known as the Ringling Bros. Circus, Ringling Bros., the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Barnum & Bailey, or simply Ringling, is an American traveling circus company billed as The Greatest Show on Earth. It and its predecessor have run shows from 1871, with a hiatus from 2017 to 2023. They operate as Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. The circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Brothers Circus, Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. in 1907 following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919. After 1957, the circus no longer exhibited under its own portable "Big top (circus), big top" tents, instead using permanent venues such as sports stadiums and arenas. In 1967, Irvin Feld and his brother Israel, along with Houston j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm A Believer
"I'm a Believer" is a song written by Neil Diamond and recorded by the American band the Monkees in 1966 with the lead vocals by Micky Dolenz. The single, produced by Jeff Barry, hit the number-one spot on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart for the week ending December 31, 1966, and remained there for seven weeks becoming the last number-one hit of 1966 and the biggest-selling single for all of 1967. ''Billboard'' ranked the record as the number-five song for 1967. While originally published by Screen Gems-Columbia Music (BMI), it is now published by Stonebridge Music/EMI Foray Music (SESAC), with administration passed to Sony Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing Group. The song topped the UK Singles Chart for four weeks in January and February 1967. Also, it reached number one in several other countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Ireland. ''Billboard'' described the song as "an easy-go dance mover" that "will hit with immediate impact". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
