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Swirsky
Swirsky (feminine: Swirskaya) is an East Slavic-language surname, a variant of the Polish surname Åšwirski. Another Russian-language form is Svirsky. Notable people with this surname include: * Chuck Swirsky (b. 1954) - sports commentator. * David Swirsky - vocalist for the Moshav Band * Rachel Swirsky (b. 1982) - science fiction & fantasy author. * Robert Swirsky (b. 1962) - computer scientist, author, pianist. * Seth Swirsky (b. 1960) - songwriter, recording artist, author. * Thamara Swirskaya (1888-1961), Russia-born dancer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seth Swirsky
Seth A. Swirsky (born August 5, 1960) is an American pop music songwriter (including the Grammy-nominated "Tell It to My Heart (Taylor Dayne song), Tell It to My Heart"), an author, a recording artist, a filmmaker, a political writer and a noted sports memorabilia, baseball memorabilia Collecting, collector. Songwriter After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1982, Swirsky wrote the Grammy-nominated hit "Tell It to My Heart (Taylor Dayne song), Tell It to My Heart" with Ernie Gold for Taylor Dayne. The song was on the Billboard charts, Billboard Pop Singles Chart for six months in 1988, reaching No. 7. The song was also a No. 1 hit in Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden and No. 3 in the UK. In 2002, Kelly Llorenna’s version of the song went to No. 9 on the British charts. The song won Swirsky an ASCAP songwriter's award for being one of the most performed songs of the year. In 2006, the song was recorded by the Royal Gigolos and spent two weeks on the Swiss charts at No. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Swirsky
Chuck Swirsky (born January 30, 1954) is an American–Canadian radio sports announcer. He is the play-by-play voice of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Swirsky's association with Chicago sports started in 1979 with his WCFL AM 1000 talk show, which debuted on August 27 of that year. Outside Chicago, Swirsky called play-by-play for both University of Michigan basketball and football and was formerly the play-by-play voice of the Toronto Raptors. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Swirsky grew up in Bellevue, Washington, and is a graduate of Interlake High School. Broadcasting and career Swirsky began his broadcasting career on Cleveland radio with WWWE-AM. Starting in 1979, Swirsky hosted a nightly sports radio show on WCFL (AM 1000) where he talked Chicago sports with callers. Swirsky then moved to WLUP (The Loop), where he provided afternoon sports updates and hosted a Sunday sports radio show from 9 to 11pm through 1981. In 1980 Swirsky was named the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Swirsky
Rachel Swirsky (born April 14, 1982, in San Jose, California) is an American literary, speculative fiction and fantasy writer, poet, and editor living in Oregon. She was the founding editor of the ''PodCastle'' podcast and served as editor from 2008 to 2010. She served as vice president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2013. She has been published in such literary publications as ''PANK'', the ''Konundrum Engine Literary Review'', and the '' New Haven Review''. Her speculative fiction work has appeared in numerous markets including ''Tor.com'', ''Subterranean Magazine'', ''Beneath Ceaseless Skies'', ''Fantasy Magazine'', '' Interzone'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', and ''Weird Tales'', and collected in a variety of year's best anthologies, including Gardner Dozois's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction'', Rich Horton's ''The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy'', Jonathan Strahan's ''Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year,'' and Jeff & Ann VanderM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Swirsky
Robert Swirsky (born December, 1962, Brooklyn, NY) is a computer scientist, author and pianist. In the early 1980s, he was one of the first regular contributors to the nascent computer magazine industry, including Popular Computing, Kilobaud Microcomputing, and Interface Age to Creative Computing. Swirsky holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Hofstra University, and is one of Hofstra'Alumni of Distinction While there, he met VOIP pioneer Jeff Pulver who attended Hofstra as an undergraduate student. After graduating, Swirsky worked on projects ranging from aircraft avionics to one of the first all-software digital radio receivers for a VLF submarine application. In 1989, Swirsky moved to California and joined Olivetti Advanced Technology's Unix group. He was a frequent speaker at Uniforum, Usenix, and other Unix shows, and hosted parties where he entertained people with song parodies about the Unix computer operating system, some of which were featured i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshav Band
Moshav, formerly known as Moshav Band, is an Israeli-American Jewish rock band originating from Moshav Mevo Modi'im. Founded in 1996 by Yehuda Solomon and Duvid Swirsky, the group moved to Los Angeles in 2008 and have released ten studio albums. With a sound incorporating elements of alternative rock, folk, funk, and reggae, they were credited, alongside Soulfarm and Blue Fringe, with advancing Jewish rock in the early 2000s. History 1996–2000: Formation and ''The Things You Can't Afford'' Moshav was formed in Israel by neighbors Yehuda Solomon and Duvid Swirsky. The children of American-born parents, Solomon and Swirsky were raised in Mevo Modi'im, a moshav founded by musician and spiritual leader Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who lived in the community and became a role model and mentor for the boys. Solomon is the son of Ben Zion Solomon, a founding member of 1970s Jewish rock group Diaspora Yeshiva Band, and his siblings include Noah Solomon, who had previously started t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Åšwirski
Świrski is the name two different Polish noble families who do not share same descents. It is a toponymic surname literally meaning "of Świr", in the case of Świrskis of Lis clan () or "of Świrz", in the case of Świrskis of Szaława clan, see Svirzh Castle (). Belarusian-language form: Swirsky, Russian: Svirsky, Lithianian: Svirskis. Notable persons with this surname include: * Jerzy Świrski (1882-1959), Polish vice admiral and officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and later the Polish Navy * Peter Swirski Peter Swirski is a Canadian novelist, scholar, and literary critic featured in '' Canadian Who's Who''. He is the author and editor of 19 nonfictions, including the prize-winning ''Ars Americana, Ars Politica'' (2010) and the staple of American ... (born 1966), Canadian scholar and literary critic See also * Swirski mite * {{surname, Swirski Polish-language surnames Toponymic surnames Polish toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svirsky
Svirsky (feminine: Svirskaya) is a Russian-language toponymic surname literally meaning "of Svir"/"from Svir". Another transliteration is Swirsky. The Polish-language equivalent is Świrski. Notable people with this surname include: * Grigory Svirsky *Alexander Svirsky Alexander Svirsky () or Alexander of Svir (1448–1533) was an Eastern Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodox saint, monk, and hegumen of the Russian Orthodox Church. Amos (his Given name, baptismal name) was born to a peasant family in the Novgorod Republ ... {{surname Russian-language surnames category:Toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
