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Corina
Corina is a female given name of ancient Greek origin, derived from κόρη (''korē'') meaning "girl, maiden". ''Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon'' Variants and diminutives include , Cori, Corri, Corinne, Corine, Kora, Korina and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina (Romanian Singer)
Corina Bud () ( Satu Mare, January 26, 1980), better known as Corina, is a Romanian singer and fashion icon. She debuted in 2004 with the album Noi Doi, produced by Marius Moga. The lead single from the album, also titled "Noi Doi", reached fourth place in the Romanian Top 100. The second album, named Îmi Place La Tine Tot (2005) produced two great singles, "Îmi Place La Tine Tot" and "Fără Tine", becoming the most broadcast Romanian hits in 2005, giving her the nickname "Corina Hits". Her third album Face Off represents a significant change in the artist's singing style having dancehall, reggae, R&B, drum ‘n bass, hip hop, house and electro influences, but still remaining a pop/dance album. The album produced two big singles, "Quieres Una Aventura" and "Overdrive". In parallel in discussion with Warner Music, Corina released her fourth album " Gimme Your Love" in July 2008, which received critical acclamation. The album was produced and recorded in Germany, in a Hamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina (American Singer)
Corina Katt Ayala, known mononymously as Corina, is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She released her self-titled album on Atco Records in 1991, and charted a string of dance hits in the U.S. between 1989 and 1997. The highest charting of these was the summer 1991 hit "Temptation", which peaked at No. 6 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Biography Early life Corina Katt Ayala was born to Puerto Rican parents in Spanish Harlem, New York and raised in South Bronx. In her teens, she became Miss Hispanic America and became runner-up for Miss Puerto Rico. Ayala spent years of formal training in ballet, voice, and theatre before landing a contract with Cutting Records, going under the name "Corina". Music career Corina released her debut single "Out of Control" in 1987. A year later, her second single "Give Me Back My Heart" peaked at No. 26 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. In 1991, Corina released her self-titled debut album through Atco Records. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Crețu
Corina Crețu (born June 24, 1967 in Bucharest) is a Romanian politician and a former European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms. Crețu is a member of the Romanian PRO Romania and Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). Between June 2014 and October 2014, she served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament. Political career Crețu studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, graduating in 1989. She spent a year working as an economist at a factory in Blaj until 1990. She then worked as a journalist and political commentator between 1990 and 1992 for newspapers ''Azi'', ''Curierul Național'', and ''Cronica Română'' before joining the Spokesperson's office of the Cabinet of President Ion Iliescu (1992-1996). In 1996, she became a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PDSR). Between 2000 and 2004, Crețu was Presidential Advisor, Presidential Spokesperson and Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina (Belgian Singer)
Corina is a singer from Belgium. She has recorded in the past under the name of Laurena. She was one half of the duo Tony Servi & Corina who had two hits in the 1990s with My Love and "Mijn Avontuur" (My Adventure). Background Her real name is Corina Braemt and in the past she was known as Laurena. In the 1990s she was one half of the duo Tony Servi & Corina who in 1993 had a hit with "My Love" which some years seventeen years earlier was a hit for Netherlands based duo Rosy & Andres Rosy & Andres were a Dutch musical duo made up of Rosy Pereira and Dries Holten. They recorded together from the mid to late 1970s. Their best known song is " My Love". History Rosy Pereira was born in 1951 and is the daughter of steel guitaris .... It stayed in the Flemish Top Ten for 10 weeks, peaking at no. 3. In Belgium's national charts it peaked at no. 34. In April 1994, their song "Mijn Avontuur" stayed in the Flemish Top 10 for 7 weeks, peaking at no.8. Between 2012 and 2015 she has had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Brussaard
Corina Brussaard is a leading scientist for Antarctic viral ecology working for the Royal Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) and is a Special Professor of Viral Ecology at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Early life and education Brussaard was educated at University of Groningen (RUG), The Netherlands, studying marine biology, and microbial ecology. She defended her PhD thesis on 'Phytoplankton cell lysis and ecological implications' in 1997. She was awarded a Marie Curie TMR-grant supplied by the EC for 2 year Post Doctoral research at the University of Bergen, Norway. In 2000 she started as Independent Research Fellow at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research where she was involved in the EC-FP5 project BIOHAB (Biological Control of Harmful Algal Blooms - role of eutrophication) studying the growth and mortality of HAB-species, while at the same time setting up a virus ecology research program. She became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Freire
Corina Freire (1897 – ), was a Portuguese singer, actress and impresario. Early life Corina Carlos Freire was born on 14 December 1897 in Silves in the Algarve region of Portugal. She was the illegitimate daughter of João José Freire, a pharmacy owner, and Bazília Nunes de Sousa. She was legitimized by her parents' marriage, which took place on 19 August 1905 in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. She grew up in an affluent family, which had a taste for the arts, allowing her to develop singing and musical skills from an early age. She, her five brothers and her father formed a chamber music group, in which she played the piano and her father the violin. Some of her brothers went on to have musical careers. Career After a brief marriage at the age of 17 in Portimão, causing Freire to briefly suspend her musical life, she moved from the Algarve to Lisbon in 1921, where she worked as a pianist and singer at Valentim de Carvalho, a leading music publishing company. She played in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Căprioriu
Corina Căprioriu (; born 18 July 1986) is a Romanian judoka. She has competed under the name Corina Ștefan since her 2016 marriage to Romanian wrestler Gheorghiță Ștefan. Căprioriu won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She lost in the final against Japan’s Kaori Matsumoto after being disqualified (hansoku) during the golden score period in the women's -57 kg weight class. She also won the bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 2011 World Judo Championships. Caprioriu was European Champion in 2010 and bronze in 2011. She booked multiple World cup titles since 2010. She managed to qualify in the final at the 2015 World Judo Championships where she met her opponent from the 2012 Summer Olympics, Kaori Matsumoto. She lost after the Japanese scored a waza-ari is the second highest score a fighter can achieve in a Japanese martial arts ''ippon'' or ''waza-ari'' contest, usually judo, karate or jujutsu. ''Waza-ari'' in judo A ''waza-ari'' is the sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Del Parral
Corina del Parral Durán (b. 25 January 1905, Bahía Blanca – d. 8 February 1979, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine writer, poet, pianist, and composer. Married to President José María Velasco Ibarra, she served four terms as the First Lady of Ecuador. Biography Corina del Parral Durán was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina to Ernst Patrick Parral López-Chacón and Corina Eulogia Durán Peña on 25 January 1905. She began basic studies at the French Institute of Jeanne d'Arc and music at the Williams Conservatory, both in Bahía Blanca. She graduated from the latter with high marks, then went to Buenos Aires to continue her music and piano studies. Using her musical education, del Parral composed classical pieces for the piano and orchestra, and Argentine and Ecuadorian folk music. Her Ecuadorian musical folk songs were interpreted by the group Los Brillantes to raise funds for the Ecuadorian institution she founded herself, while she was the First Lady of Ecuador, to suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Constantin
Oana Corina Constantin (born 12 November 1991 in Constanța, Romania) is a retired senior Romanian aerobic gymnast.Federation Internationale de Gymnastique Oana Corina Constantin She is the 2013 World Games Champion in Individual Woman, 2016 World Champion in Individual Woman, 2014 World Champion in Trio and Group, as well as 2015 and 2011 European Champion in Individual Woman.European Union of Gymnastics Statistics Aerobic Gymnastics She has been called Romania's most successful aerobic gymnast since [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Brouder
Corina Brouder is an American singer and harpist, born in The Bronx, New York City. As a child, her sister, Christina, spent some time in hospital after a hit and run incident, and Corina and her other siblings started entertaining her recovering sister and the other children in the ward. Eventually the family found themselves in demand to perform at similar venues, and, calling themselves The Spirits of Gilbride, began performing professionally. The group consists of Corina, Christina, Cornelia, Neil and Mary Catherine. Corina and Cornelia do most of the singing and between them the band play keyboards, violin, harp, guitar, drums, tin whistle, bagpipes and accordion. The group released an album, two videos and singles for Universal Music, and sang the title track on the European version of '' The Little Vampire'' (2000) soundtrack album. Brouder was discovered by John Barry and sang "To Love and be Loved" on his '' Swept from the Sea'' (1997) soundtrack with lyrics by Tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Apostol
Dr. Corina L. Apostol is an art curator and writer from Constanța, Romania. Having been a curator at Tallinn Art Hall since 2019, she is the curator of the Estonian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale held in 2022. Her work has been recognised with nominations for the 2015 Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize, the 2016 Kandinsky Prize, and the 2020 Sergey Kuryokhin Award. Education Corina Apostol received a Bachelor of Art major in Art History, History and minor in Visual Studies at the Duke University. She obtained a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University. Career Apostol is a curator at the Tallinn Art Hall. She is the cofounder of the activist publishing collective ArtLeaks. Between 2010 and 2017 she was the Norton Dodge Curatorial Fellow at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, researching and exhibiting The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art. She contributed to the 2014 book ''Truth is Concrete: A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corina Chiriac
Corina Chiriac (born 26 October 1949) is a Romanian singer, composer, lyricist, television director and actress. She was one of the most successful Romanian singers of the 1970s and 1980s. So far she has recorded over 500 songs and performed in many Romanian TV variety shows. She toured Eastern Europe extensively during the 70s and early 80s (the former East Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, the former Czechoslovakia etc.). She graduated from the National Theatre Institute in 1972. She is the daughter of Romanian composer Mircea Chiriac (1919–1994). Between 1988 and 1994 she lived in the US. For being very popular in Romania, she received an offer from Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit ..., and provides the voice of Ursula in 1994 , 2005 and Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |