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Linda (singer)
Svetlana Lvovna Geiman (; born 29 April 1975/1977), known professionally as Linda (), is a Russian singer and songwriter. Her style incorporates trip hop, electronic, and ethnic music. In January 2012, she married Greek composer Stefanos Korkolis, but they later separated in 2014. Biography Svetlana Geiman was born in Kazakh SSR. Her father is Lev Isaakovich, and mother, Alexandra Vasilyevna. She has an elder sister, Elena. She studied at Gnessin State Musical College The Gnessin State College of Music () and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music () comprise a music school in Moscow.Moisenko, Rena. (1949) ''Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers,'' London: Meridian Book, Ltd. History Originally known as the Gnessi .... Discography Studio albums Remix albums Compilation albums Singles References External links * First non-official websiteSecond non-official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Linda 1970s births Kazakhstani emigrants to Russia Living people Musicians fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiman
Haiman is a surname. Notable persons with the surname include: *John Haiman (born 1946), American linguist *Mark Haiman, mathematician *Robert J. Haiman, journalist *Jamitofu Haiman, a character from "Zeta Gundam", see List of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam characters See also *Hayman *Heiman *Heyman *Aiman *Hyman {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gnessin State Musical College
The Gnessin State College of Music () and Gnessin Russian Academy of Music () comprise a music school in Moscow.Moisenko, Rena. (1949) ''Realist Music: 25 Soviet Composers,'' London: Meridian Book, Ltd. History Originally known as the Gnessin Institute, it was established on February 15, 1895, by three sisters: Evgenia Fabianovna, Elena Fabianovna, and Maria Fabianovna Gnessin. Each of the Gnessin sisters had studied piano and graduated with distinction from the Moscow Conservatory.Phillips, Anthony & Prokofiev, Sergey. (2006). "Sergey Prokofiev Diaries, 1907–1914: Prodigious Youth", p. 498 Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Construction of the modern building began in 1937, interrupted during the war and resumed in 1943. The main part of the academy was built in 1946. The college quickly became, and remains, an elite music school, considered second only to the Moscow Conservatory. Founders The Gnessin sisters were born in Rostov-on-Don, the children of Rostov Rabbi Fabian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassette Tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog audio, analog magnetic tape recording format for Sound recording and reproduction, audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Netherlands, Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either containing content as a prerecorded cassette (''Musicassette''), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although List of magnetic tape cartridges and cassettes, other tape cassette formats have also existed—for example the Microcassette—the generic term ''cassette tape'' is normally used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. From 1983 to 1991 the cassette tape was the most popular Timeline of audio formats, audio format for new Record sales, music sales in the United States. Compact Cassettes con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxi Single
A maxi single, maxi-single, or maxi CD (sometimes abbreviated to MCD or CDM) is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an A-side song and a B-side song. Maxi singles are often mistaken for extended plays (EPs), especially in the digital era such as the categorization on iTunes, Apple Music, or Spotify. An EP usually consists at least four different "songs" without any specific A-side, while a maxi-single may contain four or more tracks but only in form of remixes to complement one or two songs as the A-side. ''Billboard'' considers EPs for albums chart ( ''Billboard'' 200) and considers maxi-singles for songs chart ( ''Billboard'' Hot 100). First maxi singles Mungo Jerry's first single, " In the Summertime", was the first maxi single in the world. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, where it usually referred to 7-inch vinyl singles featuring one track on the A-side and two on the B-side. The 1975 reissue of David Bowie's " Space Oddity", where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. It employs the Compact Disc Digital Audio (CD-DA) standard and was capable of holding of uncompressed stereo audio. First released in Japan in October 1982, the CD was the second optical disc format to reach the market, following the larger LaserDisc (LD). In later years, the technology was adapted for computer data storage as CD-ROM and subsequently expanded into various writable and multimedia formats. , over 200 billion CDs (including audio CDs, CD-ROMs, and CD-Rs) had been sold worldwide. Standard CDs have a diameter of and typically hold up to 74 minutes of audio or approximately of data. This was later regularly extended to 80 minutes or by reducing the spacing between data tracks, with some discs unofficially reaching up to 99 minutes or which falls outside established specifications. Smaller variants, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promotional Recording
A promotional recording, promo, or plug copy is an audio or video recording distributed free, usually in order to promote a recording that is or soon will be commercially available. Promos are normally sent directly to broadcasters, such as music radio and television stations, and to tastemakers, such as DJs, music journalists, and critics, in advance of the release of commercial editions, in the hope that airplay, reviews, and other forms of exposure will result and stimulate the public's interest in the commercial release. Promos are often distributed in plain packaging, without the text or artwork that appears on the commercial version. Typically a promo is marked with some variation of the following text: "Licensed for promotional use only. Sale is prohibited." It may also state that the promo is still the property of the distributor and is to be "returned upon demand." However, it is not illegal to sell promotional recordings, and recalls of promos are extremely rare and u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. These videos are typically shown on music television and on streaming video sites like YouTube, or more rarely shown theatrically. They can be commercially issued on home video, either as video albums or video singles. The format has been described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip", "video clip", or simply "video". While musical short, musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airplay
Airplay is how frequently a song is being played through broadcasting on radio stations. A song which is being played several times every day (spins) would have a significant amount of airplay. Music which became very popular on jukeboxes, in nightclubs and at discotheques between the 1940s and 1960s would also have airplay. Background For commercial broadcasting, airplay is usually the result of being placed into rotation, also called adding it to the station's playlist by the music director, possibly as the result of a Pay for Play sponsored by the record label. For student radio and other community radio or indie radio stations, it is often the selection by each disc jockey, usually at the suggestion of a music director. Geography Most countries have at least one radio airplay chart in existence, although larger countries such as Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, and Brazil have several, to cover different genres and areas of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skor-Piony
''Skor-Piony'' (;Scorpions or Scor-Peonies) is Linda's seventh studio album (sixteenth overall), released in Russia on March 28, 2008. ''Skor-Piony'' was the second album to be recorded with legendary Greek producer Stefanos Korkolis. The album presents an overall harder and more varied sound than the previous '' AleAda''. The title, ''Skor-Piony'', is a word play in Russian that translates to "Scor-Peonies", a blend of scorpion and peonies. The first letter has been interchanged with the Latin S instead of the Cyrillic С, hence the true Russian spelling being 'Скор-Пионы'. Without the hyphen, the title spells out 'scorpions'. Meanwhile, "пионы" (''Piony'') translates to 'peonies'. Although some meaning will be lost through translation, the Russian title in its entirety can be interpreted as "peonies like dangerous scorpions". Linda explained that she came up with this play on words to show the danger in beauty, and also the beauty in danger: ''“I like contras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AleAda
''AleAda'' () is Linda's sixth studio album (fifteenth overall), released in Russia on October 16, 2006. ''AleAda'' was recorded in Cyprus along with Greek producer Stefanos Korkolis. The title, ''AleAda'', was an amalgamation of Linda's mother's name, Alexandra, and Korkolis' mother's name, Ada. Of the album, Linda said: “AleAda is a word from Stefanos Korkolis' and my language. The album deals with people very close to us. Analogous to the name is the word "infinity" - the cardiogram of heart, which is always beating and always bears its message for each person. "AleAda" can be considered the catalyst that one aspires to achieve internal harmony within; one who knows what warmth, love, and a mother is.” The first single from ''AleAda'' was released in March 2006, and unveiled as "Ya ukradu". This song became the biggest radio single since "Begi" from '' AtakA''. Formats * Russian Standard Release. The initial release of ''AleAda'' including two additional remix tracks. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AtakA (album) on the Yangtze River in the 1930s and during the Second Sino-Japanese War
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Ataka may refer to: *Attack (political party), Bulgarian nationalist political party *Ataka (play), a Japanese play used as a source for the film ''The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail'' *9M120 Ataka, a Russian-made anti-tank guided missile * Japanese Gunboat Ataka was a river gunboat of the Imperial Japanese Navy that operated on the Yangtze River in China during the 1930s, and during the Second Sino-Japanese War. On 20 May 1933 ''Ataka'' was incorporated into the 3rd Fleet, as flagship of the 11th Gunb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
