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Robert (singer)
Myriam Roulet, known professionally as RoBERT (born 14 October 1964), is a French singer, composer, and lyricist. As an independent artist and songwriter, Robert's musical style is described as fairy-like, straddling the line between the tragic and the gothic, sometimes infused with a touch of absurdity. Themes of death, childhood, and love frequently feature in her songs, characterized by her crystalline, often delicate opera voice and the baroque (and occasionally electronic) musical arrangements. Often likened to Mylène Farmer, Barbara, or Marie Laforêt, she has achieved artistic success in France and Belgium, as well as in Japan, despite a certain level of media obscurity. Robert's live performances are often filled with hypnotic, euphoric, and at times dramatic moments. Early career In November 1990, Robert released her debut single, "Elle se promène," which was partially produced by Neal Aston in London. This initial song received significant airplay on French radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means (electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depend entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer: no acoustic waves need to be previously generated by mechanical means and then converted into electrical signals. On the other hand, electromechanical instruments have mechanical parts such as strings or hammers that generate the sound waves, together with electric elements including pickup (music technology), magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers that convert the acoustic waves into electrical signals, process them and convert them back into sound waves. Such electromechanical devices in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majandra Delfino
Maria Alejandra Delfino ( ), known professionally as Majandra Delfino, is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on ''Roswell (TV series), Roswell'', and as Andi on the CBS sitcom ''Friends with Better Lives''. Early life Delfino was born on in Caracas, Venezuela. Her father, Enrique Delfino, is Italian Venezuelan, and her mother, Mary Hellmund, is Cubans, Cuban. As a child, she lived in Caracas and Miami, Florida, before moving to Los Angeles as a teenager. Career Acting Delfino was cast in MGM's ''Zeus & Roxanne'' before winning the role of Tina Dimeo in NBC's ''The Tony Danza Show (1997 TV series), The Tony Danza Show'', where she played Danza's teenage daughter. After playing Natalie Sanford in the independent film ''The Secret Life of Girls'', Delfino was cast as Maria DeLuca on ''Roswell (TV series), Roswell''. On hiatus, she performed in the small role of Vanessa in ''Traffic (2000 film), Traffic''. She also acted in ''Reeseville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uma Thurman
Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress. She has performed in a variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. Following her appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of British ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', Thurman starred in ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988). She rose to international prominence with her performance as Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film ''Pulp Fiction'', for which she was nominated for an Academy Awards, Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. Often hailed as Tarantino's muse, she reunited with the director to play the main role in ''Kill Bill: Volume 1'' and ''Kill Bill: Volume 2, 2'' (2003, 2004), which brought her a BAFTA Award nomination and two additional Golden Globe Award nominations. Established as a Hollywood (California), Hollywood actress, Thurman's other notable film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company is Mirabai Films. Among her films are '' Mississippi Masala'', '' The Namesake'', the Golden Lion–winning '' Monsoon Wedding'', and '' Salaam Bombay!'', which received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. Early life and education Nair was born on 15 October 1957 in Rourkela, in Orissa, India. She grew up with her two older brothers and parents in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Her father, Amrit Lal Nair, was an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, and her mother, Praveen Nair, was a social worker. Her family is of Punjabi Sikh origin with roots from Delhi. Nair lived in Bhubaneswar until age 18 and attended English-medium high school at Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla, where she developed a fondness for English literature. She went on to study at highly ranked Miranda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Givenchy
Givenchy (, ) is a French luxury fashion and perfume house. It hosts the brand of haute couture and ready-to-wear clothing, accessories, perfumes and cosmetics of Parfums Givenchy. The house of Givenchy was founded in 1952 by designer Hubert de Givenchy and is a member of Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture et du Prêt-à-Porter. It is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH. History Creative directors and designers * Hubert de Givenchy (1952–1995) * John Galliano (1995–1996) * Alexander McQueen (1996–2001) * Julien MacDonald (2001–2004) * Riccardo Tisci (2005–2017) * Clare Waight Keller (2017–2020) * Matthew Williams (2020–2023) * Sarah Burton (2024–present) Formation and first years In 1952, Hubert de Givenchy founded his own luxury house and launched a new collection ''Les Séparables'' with some floaty skirts and puffy blouses made from raw cotton. Givenchy achieved critical acclaim with ''Vogue'' praising his "wonderful first collection" 14. The co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated spiritual (music), spirituals, work songs, field hollers, Ring shout, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballad (music), ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the Call and response (music), call-and-response pattern, the blues scale, and specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in Pitch (music), pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffle note, shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove (popular music), groove. Blues music is characterized by its lyrics, Bassline, bass lines, and Instrumentation (music), instrumen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Nomi
Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), known professionally as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona. In the 1970s, Nomi immersed himself in the East Village art scene. He was known for his bizarre and visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and a highly stylized signature hairdo that flaunted a receding hairline. His songs were equally unusual, ranging from synthesizer-laden interpretations of classical opera to post-punk covers of 1960s pop standards like Chubby Checker's " The Twist" and Lou Christie's " Lightnin' Strikes". Nomi was one of David Bowie's backing singers for a 1979 performance on ''Saturday Night Live''. Biography Early life and career Klaus Nomi was born Klaus Sperber in Immenstadt, Bavaria, on January 24, 1944. He was raised by his single mother, Bettina Sperber, who had fled Essen, Rhine Province, for the Allgäu due to Allied bom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, Dido and Aeneas, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' called The Fairy-Queen, ''The Fairy Queen''. Purcell's musical style was uniquely English, although it incorporated Music of Italy#Baroque and Classical, Italian and Music of France#Baroque, French elements. Generally considered among the greatest English opera composers, Purcell has been ranked alongside John Dunstaple and William Byrd in the pantheon of English early music. Life and work Early life Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster, in 1659. Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell was a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England. Henry the elder had three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris Olympia
The Olympia (; commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall) is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, equally distancing Madeleine church and Opéra Garnier, north of Vendôme square. Its closest métro/RER stations are , , , and . The hall was opened in 1893 by one of the two co-creators of the Moulin Rouge venue, and saw many opera, ballet, and music hall performances. Theatrical performances declined in the late 1920s and the Olympia was converted into a cinema, before re-opening as a venue in 1954 with Bruno Coquatrix as executive director. Since the 1960s, it has been a popular venue for rock bands. The Olympia was threatened with demolition in the early 1990s, but saved by a preservation order. Inevitably included in a group of buildings that were part of an extensive renovation project, the entire edifice was demolished and rebuilt in 1997. The venue's facade and its interi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Aghion
Gabriel Aghion (born 30 December 1955) is a French film director and screenwriter. Aghion was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955. He is openly gay."Bonjour, sweetie darling". ''The Advocate'', 20 November 2001. Selected filmography * '' La Scarlatine'' (1983) * '' Bras de Fer'' (1985) * ''Rue du Bac The Rue du Bac () is a street in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The street, which is 1,150 m long, begins at the junction of the quais Quai Voltaire, Voltaire and Quai Anatole-France, Anatole-France and ends at the Rue de Sèvres. Rue du Bac ...'' (1990) * '' Pédale douce'' (1996) * '' Belle maman'' (1999) * '' Le Libertin'' (1999) * '' Absolument fabuleux'' (2001) * '' Pédale dure'' (2004) * ''Un autre monde'' (TV) (2011) * ''Manon Lescaut'' (TV) (2013) * ''Avec le temps'' (TV) (2014) * ''Diabolique'' (TV) (2016) References External links * 1955 births Living people Writers from Alexandria French film directors French male screenwriters Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Bourdo
Aleksander "Sacha" Burdo (born 8 January 1962 in Oryol, Russia) is a Russian actor. He has appeared in films including ''The Science of Sleep'' (2006) by Michel Gondry and ''Western Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US *Western, New York, a town in the US *Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that id ...'' (1997) by Manuel Poirier. He also starred in '' L'étoile du soldat'' in 2006, earning acclaim for his portrayal of a Russian conscript in the Soviet Afghanistan war. References 1962 births Living people Russian male actors {{Russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarinet
The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell. Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches. The clarinet family is the largest woodwind family, ranging from the contrabass clarinet, BB♭ contrabass to the A-flat clarinet, A♭ piccolo. The B soprano clarinet is the most common type, and is the instrument usually indicated by the word "clarinet". German instrument maker Johann Christoph Denner is generally credited with inventing the clarinet sometime around 1700 by adding a register key to the chalumeau, an earlier single-reed instrument. Over time, additional keywork and airtight pads were added to improve the tone and playability. Today the clarinet is a standard fixture of the orchestra and concert band and is used in classical music, military bands, klezmer, jazz, and other styles. Etymol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
