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Amy Leverenz
Amy Leverenz (born 1951 in Riverside, California) is an American dramatic soprano living in Germany. Life After studying medicine in the US, Leverenz studied singing with Karl Tuttner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna from 1972. Her repertoire focuses on contemporary music, jazz and rock. From 1973 to 1978, she was a member of the Ensemble Contraste for contemporary music, and from 1976 to 1978 she was a guest soloist with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir. After and alongside concert tours in the early 1980s with musicians and bands such as Udo Jürgens, Eloy, Drahdiwaberl, Hansi Lang and Milva, Leverenz increasingly turned to her own projects. With the pianist Olaf Joksch she gave cabaret evenings in Frankfurt and Offenbach in the 1980s (among others ''(K)ein Liederabend - Liederbissen von Bach bis Zappa'' at the 1985-1986 and ''500 Jahre Filmmusik'' at the Alte Oper 1986–1988). In 1980-1981 she gave 120 performances of ''Sie singen unser Lied'' at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is about southeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Riverside is the 61st-most-populous city in the United States and 12th-most-populous city in California. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 314,998. Along with San Bernardino, Riverside is a principal city in the nation's 13th-largest Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA); the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (pop. 4,599,839) ranks in population just below San Francisco (4,749,008) and above Detroit (4,392,041). Riverside was founded in the early 1870s. It is the birthplace of the California citrus industry and home of the Mission Inn, the nation's largest Mission Revival Style building. It is also home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca ( ), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with '' Romancero gitano'' (''Gypsy Ballads'', 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. His poetry incorporated traditional Andalusian motifs and avant-garde styles. After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in ''Poeta en Nueva York'' (''Poet in New York'', 1942)—-he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, ''Blood Wedding'' (1932), ''Yerma'' (1934), and ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1936). García Lorca was gay and suffered from depression after the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Sopranos
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Weidner
Stefan Weidner (born 1967 in Cologne) is a German Islamic studies scholar, writer, and translator. Due to his contributions to the reception of Arabic and other Middle Eastern literatures, the Islamic scholar described him as a "leading mediator of Middle Eastern poetry and prose into German". Life Already as a schoolboy, Weidner travelled to North Africa and made his first experiences with Islam. He later studied Islamic studies, German and philosophy at the universities of Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of Damascus, University of California, Berkeley, and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Weidner works as an author, translator, literary critic. From 2001 until the last issue in 2016, he was editor-in-chief of the journal '' Fikrun wa Fann,'' which was published by the Goethe-Institut and aimed to contribute to the dialogue between Western and Islamic-influenced cultures. He has translated numerous poems from Arabic, including Adonis and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Russell (musician)
Kevin Richard Russell (born 12 January 1964) is a German singer and one of the three founding members of the rock band Böhse Onkelz. Biography His father is British, his mother is German. He was the band's lead singer from 1980 until the group broke up in 2005. Since 2012, he is the lead singer of the new band Veritas Maximus. In 2014, Böhse Onkelz reunited with Russell as their lead singer again. In October 2010, Russell was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for his role as driver in a hit-and-run accident near Frankfurt, driving under the influence of drugs and seriously injuring two people. Since 1986 Russell works as a tattoo artist. For example, the tattoo illustration on the cover of the 1992 album The Madman's Return of the German Eurodance group Snap! came from him. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadja Benaissa
Nadja Benaissa (born 26 April 1982) is a German singer and television personality. She rose to fame in late 2000 when she auditioned for the German adaption of the reality television show ''Popstars'' and became a member of the girl group No Angels, one of the best-selling girl groups of European origin of all time. During their hiatus, Benaissa released her solo album, '' Schritt für Schritt'' (2007), which produced the single " Ich hab dich", and represented Hesse in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 with the song, finishing in fourth place. No Angels reunited in 2007. Benaissa announced her departure from the group in 2010 after she was found guilty of one count of causing grievous bodily harm and two counts of attempted bodily harm and given a two-year suspended sentence. The charges stemmed from Benaissa having unprotected sex with people who were not aware of her HIV-positive status. Months later, Benaissa released ''Alles wird gut'', her first autobiography, and reloca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bela B
Dirk Albert Felsenheimer (born 14 December 1962),''Die Ärzte. Ein überdimensionales Meerschwein frisst die Erde auf'', p. 80 better known under his stage name Bela B (formerly Bela B.), is a German musician, songwriter, actor and author, best known for being the drummer and one of the singers of punk rock band Die Ärzte. In 2006, he released his first solo album entitled ''Bingo''. He is also an actor and has done several voice-overs for television and film. Early life Dirk Albert Felsenheimer was born in Spandau, the westernmost borough of Berlin. He has a twin sister named Diana and his parents separated when he was five years old. Felsenheimer graduated from the Carlo-Schmid-Oberschule in Berlin. Afterwards he joined the police force, partly due to boredom and partly because of the influence of his uncle, who was also a police officer. However, shortly before joining the force Bela became punk, which seemed at odds with the conformity required of him in the police. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Kaufmann
Christine Maria Kaufmann (; 11 January 1945 – 28 March 2017) was a German-Austrian actress, author, and businesswoman. The daughter of a German father and a French mother, she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for ''Town Without Pity'' in 1961, the first German to be so honoured. Life and career Kaufmann was born in Lengdorf, Styria, Austria. Her mother, Geneviève Kaufmann (née Gavaert), was a French make-up artist; her father, Johannes Kaufmann, was a German Luftwaffe officer and engineer. Growing up in Munich, Bavaria, Kaufmann became a ballerina at the Munich Opera. She began her film career at the age of seven in ''The White Horse Inn'' (1952) and appeared as a lead actress in ''Der Schweigende Engel'' the same year, but gained big attention with ''Rose-Girl Resli'' in 1954. She achieved international recognition when she starred with Steve Reeves in ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' (1959) and with Kirk Douglas in ''Town Without Pity'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Hämer
Sebastian Hämer (born 17 March 1979 in Prerow Prerow is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This Baltic seaside resort on the Darß peninsula is located about halfway between the historic Hanseatic towns of Rostock and Stralsund. ...) is a German singer and songwriter. Discography Albums Solo singles ;Featured in References 1979 births Living people 21st-century German male singers Participants in the Bundesvision Song Contest {{Germany-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Setlur
Sabrina Setlur (born 10 January 1974), formerly known as Schwester S., is a German singer, rapper, songwriter and occasional actress. Her debut was in 1995 under the guidance of 3p Records executive and mentor Moses Pelham, producer of her breakthrough single "Ja Klar." Following the drop of her pseudonym and a number-one single, "Du Liebst Mich Nicht," in 1997, a series of hit records established her position as Germany's "best known and highest-selling female rap act" to date. Setlur is the only artist to date to have ever won three ECHO Awards for "Best National Female Artist." According to several sources, she has sold more than two million albums and singles domestically. Her most recent album was released in 2007. Early life Setlur is the elder of two sisters born to Krishnan Setlur, a Kannadiga banker, and his wife Theresa, a Malayali nurse, in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. She and her four-years-younger sister Yvonne were primarily raised in Bad Soden am Taunus, where Setlur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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