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Candida (given Name)
Candida, Cândida or Cándida is a feminine given name from Latin ''candidus'' (white). It may refer to : * Cándida Arias (born 1992), Dominican Republic volleyball player * Cândida Branca Flor (1949–2001), Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer * Candida Cave, British artist and writer * Candida Donadio (1929-2001), American literary agent * Candida Doyle (born 1963), Irish keyboard player with the band Pulp * Candida Gertler (born 1966/67), British art collector * Candida Lycett Green (born 1942), Irish-born British author * Candida Höfer (born 1944), German photographer * Candida Royalle, American pornographic producer-director and actress * Candida Thompson (born 1967), English violinist * Candida Tobin (1926–2008), author of a music education system * Saint Candida the Elder (died 78 AD), early Christian saint from Naples * Cándida María de Jesús (1845–1912), Spanish nun * Maria Candida of the Eucharist (1884–1949), Roman Catholic Carmelite nun, beat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cándida Arias
Cándida Estefany Arias Pérez (born March 11, 1992 in Yaguate, San Cristóbal) is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the bronze medal with her native country at the 2008 NORCECA Girls' U18 Volleyball Continental Championship in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico wearing the number 15 jersey. Career She debuted with her senior national team in June 2009, at the 2010 World Championship NORCECA Qualification Pool H, at Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, helping her team to qualify to the world event. With her U-18 team she won the 11th place at the 2009 Girls Youth Volleyball World Championship held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, and shortly afterwards, won the silver medal with the National Junior Team at the 2009 Women's U20 Volleyball World Championship. Arias played in Chiapas, Mexico, with her National Senior Team, helping her team to win the 2010 Final Four Cup gold medal. In June 2011, Arias played with her National Junior Team at the U-20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cândida Branca Flor
Cândida Branca Flor (12 November 1949 – 11 July 2001) was a famous Portuguese entertainer and traditional singer whose career spanned four decades. Biography Cândida Branca Flor was born on 12 November 1949 in Beringel, Beja municipality, Alentejo region, in southern Portugal, and became one of the most recognized Portuguese singers. She went to song classes with Maria do Rosário Coelho and was a member of Banda do Casaco in the 1970s. She took her artistic name from a song by this group, called "''Romance de Branca Flor''". She was an idol to Portuguese children in the 1970s and 1980s as the conductor, with Júlio Isidro, and the singer of the soundtrack, of the TV program "Fungagá da Bicharada". She participated three times in the Portuguese selection for the Eurovision Song Contest: in 1979 with the song "''A Nossa Serenata''", in 1982 with the song "''Trocas Baldrocas''" and in 1983 with the song "Vinho do Porto (Vinho de Portugal)", a duet with Carlos Paião. Between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Cave
Candida Cave is a practising painter, playwright and art historian. In 1978, she and artist Nicholas Cochrane founded Hampstead Hampstead Fine Arts College, an independent sixth form college specialising in the study of Arts and Humanities, where she is Principal. Crewe studied painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. She paints in oil and tempera and her work is inspired by medieval miniatures, illuminated manuscripts and Gothic stained glass. Her work has been exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London and the Limetree Kitchen and in the ARTWAVE Visual Arts Festival. Her plays include ''Still Lives'', ''Savonarola'', ''Bonfires and Vanities'' and ''Lotte's Journey'' Her most recent play, about the Mitford sisters, had a rehearsed reading at the Lyric Studio, Hammersmith. Cave’s plays are often set in an historical context and have been performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Museum, Tate Britain Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Donadio
Candida Donadio (October 22, 1929 - January 20, 2001) was an American literary agent. She represented many writers, including postmodern novelists Joseph Heller, William Gaddis, and Thomas Pynchon. And Cormac McCarthy: McCarthy goes on to tell Woolmer, “My agent for several years was Candida Donadio …” source: https://www.texasobserver.org/unpacking-cormac-mccarthy/ Life Donadio was born on October 22, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York City. Her parents were immigrants from Italy. Donadio began her career by working as a secretary for Herb Jaffe. She eventually founded her own literary agency, and she represented Bruce Jay Friedman, William Gaddis, Joseph Heller, Michael Herr, Thomas Pynchon, Mario Puzo, and Robert Stone. Heller's ''Catch-22'' was initially called ''Catch 18'', and it was changed to her birthday to avoid confusion with Leon Uris's ''Mila 18''. In 1984, Donadio sold 120 letters written by Pynchon to herself between 1962 and 1983 to Carter Burden for $45 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Doyle
Candida Mary Doyle (born 25 August 1963) is an English musician who is keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist with the band Pulp, which she joined in 1984. She joined her brother, drummer Magnus Doyle in the line-up replacing the previous keyboard player, Tim Allcard who had left the band. Biography Doyle attended piano lessons from age 8, but did not practise despite finding the experience enjoyable. At age 16 Doyle was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. During Doyle's first few years in the group, Pulp were not enjoying financial success; she has been recorded as saying that she spent more money on the band than she made from it. She kept jobs in two toy shops in Manchester, before being sacked from one for a "lack of dedication". Although Pulp "sort of split up" in the period around 1986, they went on to release '' Freaks'' in 1987 with Doyle on board for her first album. When playing live with the band Doyle has used Farfisa Compact Professional and Roland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Gertler
Candida Gertler (born 1966/1967) is a British/German art collector, philanthropist, and former journalist. Early life She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Romanian Jewish immigrant parents. She studied journalism and law. Career In 2003 Gertler and Yana Peel founded the Outset Contemporary Art Fund Outset Contemporary Art Fund is an arts charity established in 2003, and based in London, England. The charity was the first organisation to utilise cross-institution collective patronage to fund artistic projects in the UK. It has raised over £ .... In June 2015, she was given an OBE "for services to Contemporary Visual Arts and Arts Philanthropy". She is a member of the Tate International Council. Personal life She is married to Zak Gertler. They are Jewish, and have two children.https://parkeastsynagogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Annoucements-02-15-19.pdf He has been called "one of London's leading property developers". In 2009, Zak Gertler and family had an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Lycett Green
Candida Rose Lycett Green (née Betjeman; 22 September 194219 August 2014) was a British author who wrote sixteen books including ''English Cottages'', ''Goodbye London'', ''The Perfect English House'', ''Over the Hills and Far Away'' and ''The Dangerous Edge of Things''. Her television documentaries included ''The Englishwoman and the Horse'', and ''The Front Garden''. ''Unwrecked England'', based on a regular column of the same name she wrote for ''The Oldie'' from 1992, was published in 2009. Green has been described as "the finest writer of our time on the English countryside". She edited and introduced the letters and prose of her father John Betjeman which were published in three volumes. She was a commissioner of English Heritage for nine years and her proudest achievement was the role she played in the regeneration of Chatterley Whitfield Colliery, Stoke-On-Trent. She was a member of the Performing Rights Society through her writing of lyrics for songs and was a Contrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer (born 4 February 1944) is a German photographer. She is a former student of Bernd and Hilla Becher. Like other Becher students, Höfer's work is known for technical perfection and a strictly conceptual approach. From 1997 to 2000, she taught as professor at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe. Höfer is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Photography award, as part of the Sony World Photography awards. She is based in Cologne. Early life and education Candida Höfer was born in 1944 in Eberswalde, Province of Brandenburg. Höfer is a daughter of the German journalist Werner Höfer. From 1964 to 1968 Höfer studied at the Kölner Werkschulen (Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts). After graduation, she began working for newspapers as a portrait photographer, producing a series on Liverpudlian poets. From 1970 to 1972, she studied daguerreotypes while working as an assistant to in Hamburg. She later attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Royalle
Candida Royalle (born Candice Marion Vadala; October 15, 1950 – September 7, 2015) was an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography, pornographic actress, sex educator, and sex-positive feminist. She was a member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame. Early life and education Royalle was born Candice Marion Vadala in New York City on October 15, 1950. Initially trained in music, dance and art in New York City, she studied at the High School of Art and Design, Parsons School of Design and the City University of New York. Career After graduating from Parsons School of Design, she began performing with the avant-garde theater group The Cockettes and in 1975 played Divine's daughter in the play ''The Heartbreak of Psoriasis''. In 1975, she began her career as a pornographic performer, appearing in about 25 movies before retiring in 1980 with ''Blue Magic'', which she also wrote. Royalle quit as a performer because she got married, and was uncomfortable bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Thompson
Candida Thompson is a British violinist. Biography Thompson was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She has been living in Amsterdam since 1992. She studied with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she received her soloist's graduation diploma with honour. She developed her qualities further at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She also participated in various national and international competitions and received several prizes. Currently she plays a Guarneri 'del Gesù violin on loan from a private collector. Career Ensemble work Thompson has been involved in chamber music and string orchestras most of her playing life. She has directed orchestras in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the UK. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with musicians such as Isaac Stern, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, David Kuyken and performed at many festivals such as Kuhmo (Finland), Gubbio (Italy), International Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida Tobin
Candida Tobin Hon FTCL, LTCL (5 January 1926 – 14 December 2008) was the author of the Tobin Method, a music education system for teaching music theory and practice to students of all ages and abilities. Personal life Tobin was born Doreen E. Pugh in Chingford, Essex on 5 January 1926 and grew up there with elder sisters Phyllis and Barbara. Tobin was married twice, firstly to Derrick Llewelyn Mason (1924-1989) in 1949, and divorced soon after without any issue. She subsequently married John M. Tobin in 1960, and had two children, Penelope A. and David Richard Tobin. Tobin died at her UK home in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire Hertfordshire ( or ; often abbreviated Herts) is one of the home counties in southern England. It borders Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire to the north, Essex to the east, Greater London to the south, and Buckinghamshire to the west. For govern ... on 14 December 2008, aged 82, of cancer. References External linksTobinmusic.co.uk, including an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Candida The Elder
Saint Candida the Elder ( it, Candida la Vecchia) (died 78 AD) was a supposed early Christian saint and resident of Naples, Italy. According to her legend, Candida was an elderly woman who hospitably welcomed Saint Peter the Apostle, when he was passing through Naples on his way to Rome. The woman was cured of an illness by Saint Peter and converted to Christianity. She was baptized by Peter and later converted Aspren, the first bishop of Naples, to Christianity. She is one of the patron saints of Naples The city of Naples has more than 50 official patron saints, although its principal patron is Saint Januarius. Second in terms of importance is Saint Aspren (''Sant'Aspreno''), first bishop of Naples. Co-patrons of Naples and years of designation .... Basil Watkins OSB says she probably never existed. Her name has been deleted from the revised Roman Martyrology. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
