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Celeste (name)
Celeste or Céleste is a given name or surname which derives from the Latin ''caelestis'', meaning ''heavenly'' or ''celestial''. The name may refer to: Given name Performers * Celeste (singer), (born 1994), British-Jamaican singer-songwriter * Celeste Anderson (also known as BiiTTERSWEET), Filipino Canadian competitive gamer and reality television personality * Céleste Alkan (1812-1897), French musician * Celeste Bonin or Kaitlyn (wrestler) (born 1986), American model, bodybuilder and professional wrestler * Celeste Buckingham (born 1995), Slovak-American singer * Celeste Carballo (born 1956), Argentine singer-songwriter rock, blues, hard rock, punk and tango * Celeste Cid (born 1984), Argentine actress * Celeste Coltellini (1760-1828), Italian soprano * Celeste Cortesi (born 1997), Filipino-Italian model and beauty pageant titleholder * Celeste Dandeker (born c. 1952), British dancer * Celeste Dodwell, British and Australian actress who played Melody Jones in the Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste (singer)
Celeste Epiphany Waite (born 5 May 1994) is an American-British singer and songwriter. In 2019, she became the sixth artist to top the BBC's annual Sound of... poll and win the Rising Star Award at the Brit Awards in the same year. Her debut album ''Not Your Muse'' was released in 2021 and debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart. It earned her nominations for Album of the Year, Best Female Solo Artist and Best New Artist at the 2021 Brit Awards, as well as the 2021 Mercury Prize. In the same year, Celeste was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing "Hear My Voice" from the film ''The Trial of the Chicago 7'' (2020). Celeste began her career in 2014 providing vocals for electronic producers such as Avicii, Tieks and Real Lies, while also self-publishing content onto SoundCloud on the side. She made her solo debut via Lily Allen's vanity label Bank Holiday Records with the EP ''The Milk & the Honey'' (2017). After signing with Polydor Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Céleste Mogador
Élisabeth-Céleste Venard, countess of Chabrillan (27 December 1824 – 18 February 1909), better known by her stage name Céleste Mogador and often referred to simply as Mogador, was a French dancer and writer. Life and career The daughter of Anne-Victoire Vénard, she was born in Paris, France, on 27 December 1824. She states in her autobiography that her father died when she was six, though her book's translator Monique Fleury Nagem states that Celeste's father left her mother while she was pregnant and went off to join the army. According to her autobiography, she was a lovable child whose mother doted on her and protected her from an abusive stepfather in her early childhood and teen years. Her earliest memories are about how her mother ran away from her stepfather in order to protect her daughter. But according to some accounts she was neglected by her mother. Prostitution Before she turned 16, Celeste had to run away from home when her mother's lover made inappropriate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Celeste may refer to: Geography * Mount Celeste, unofficial name of a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada * Celeste, Texas, a rural city in North Texas ** Celeste High School, public high school located in the city of Celeste, Texas * Celeste Lake, Bolivia * Celeste River, Costa Rica * Celeste Center, a multipurpose arena in Columbus, Ohio Film, books and games * ''Céleste'' (1980 film), a German film about the life of Marcel Proust * Celeste (2018 film), an Australian film * ''Celeste'', a 2004 novel in the Gemini series of V. C. Andrews novels, ghostwritten by Andrew Neiderman * ''Celeste'' (video game), a 2018 puzzle platforming video game Music * Celeste (singer), American-born British singer-songwriter * Celeste Cruz, half of American pop duo Daphne and Celeste * Celeste Johnson, professionally known as Celeste, American performer in Italy * Celeste (band), a post-metal band from Lyon, France * ''Celeste'' (album), a 2012 album by My Tiger My Timing * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste West
Celeste (Celestia) West (November 24, 1942 – January 3, 2008) was an American librarian and lesbian author, known for her alternative viewpoints in librarianship and her authorship of books about lesbian sex and polyfidelity. She herself was polyamorous. Biography West was born in Pocatello, Idaho. She earned her BA in journalism from Portland State University, and her master's in Library Service from Rutgers University in 1968. She then moved to San Francisco, where she worked at the headquarters of the Bay Area Reference Center at the San Francisco Public Library. She was the second editor of its magazine, ''Synergy'', which won two ALA awards but lost its funding in 1973 after West published an unflattering photograph of Richard Nixon. In 1972, West co-founded Booklegger Press, the first woman-owned American library publisher, with her partner at the time, librarian Sue Critchfield, and Valerie Wheat. The press' first publication was an anthology edited by West and El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste Raspanti
Celeste Rita Raspanti (born 10 September 1928) is an American playwright who has published and produced several full-length and one-act plays. Raspanti was born in Chicago to an Italian immigrant father and Italian-American mother. She has a special interest in the Holocaust, which she first brought to the stage with ''I Never Saw Another Butterfly'', a play based on the real-life story of Holocaust survivor Raja Englanderova and stories from the Theresienstadt concentration camp. (A well-known book of drawings and poetry produced by children at Terezin has been published under the same title.) Subsequent plays on this topic include ''No Fading Star'' and ''The Terezin Promise''. Raspanti has been acclaimed for enriching her stories with firsthand information of the camps from visits, oral histories, and her friendship with survivors - most notably, with Raja Englanderova, the protagonist of ''I Never Saw Another Butterfly''. Celeste Raspanti first became interested in writing w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste Comegys Peardon
Mary Celeste Comegys Peardon (March 25, 1898 – December 29, 1988) was an American writer of books for children and classroom use. Early life Mary Celeste Comegys was born in Rock Island, Illinois, the daughter of Joseph Parsons Comegys (not the congressman of the same name) and Eliza (or Elsie) Virginia Thompson Comegys. Her father was a surgeon and a college professor. She graduated from Rock Island High School, and graduated from Barnard College in 1926. Her older sister Zelina Comegys Brunschwig was prominent in the interior design industry. Career Peardon wrote books for children, especially ''The Work-Play Readers,'' for classroom use. She was also credited as a consultant on the short film ''Adventures of Bunny Rabbit'' (1937). She worked on another film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, ''Navajo Children'', with her colleagues Arthur I. Gates and Ernest Horn. She was president of the Women's Faculty Club at Teachers College, Columbia University, and spoke at edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste Olalquiaga
Celeste Olalquiaga is a Venezuelan-born independent scholar. She is the author of ''The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience'' (1999) and ''Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities''. She received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1994 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996. She writes the column "Object Lesson" for the publication '' Cabinet''. References External linksOfficial website Venezuelan women writers Rockefeller Fellows Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{Venezuela-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng ( ) (born July 30, 1980) is an American writer and novelist. She has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals. Ng's first novel, '' Everything I Never Told You'', released on June 26, 2014 won the Amazon Book of the Year award as well as praise from critics. Ng's short story ''Girls at Play'' won a Pushcart Prize in 2012, and was a 2015 recipient of an Alex Award. Her second novel, '' Little Fires Everywhere,'' was published in 2017. Ng received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Her most recent novel, ''Our Missing Hearts'', was released on October 4, 2022. Early life and education Celeste Ng was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her parents moved from Hong Kong in the late 1960s. Her father Dr. Daniel L. Ng (d. 2004) was a physicist at NASA in the John H. Glenn Research Center (formerly known as the NASA Lewis Research Center). Her mother was a chemist who taught at Cleveland State University. When Ng was ten years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste McCollough
Celeste McCollough Howard (1926 – 2023) was an American psychologist who conducted research in human visual perception. She is best known for her discovery in 1965 of the first contingent aftereffect, known soon after as the McCollough effect. Career Celeste McCollough published her first paper from her dissertation research at Columbia University (McCollough, 1955). After teaching 1954–1956 at Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, she became the first woman appointed to a full-time position in the Department of Psychology at Oberlin College. In 1962–63 during her first sabbatical leave, she conducted research in Canada into the perceptual effects of wearing spectacles tinted with two colours (McCollough, 1965b). This led to her discovering the effect that bears her name (McCollough, 1965a). Her paper sparked hundreds of other scientific papers. In 1970 McCollough resigned her position at Oberlin and devoted her time to raising a daughter and son. In 1986, she returned to vision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste Katz
Celeste Katz Marston is a correspondent foWBAI FM New York radio Biography Celeste Katz Marston is a freelance reporter and investigator. She is the co-host of WBAI New York'"Driving Forces." Her freelance writing most recently appears in Nieman Reports, NBC Asian America, and ''Cosmopolitan''. She is also the co-author o''Is This Any Way to Vote? Vulnerable Voting Machines and the Mysterious Industry Behind Them''(WhoWhatWhy, 2020). Katz Marston graduated Brown University with a BA in International Relations, was an executive editor and later an alumni trustee of the ''Brown Daily Herald'', and frequently gave pool clinics at the GCB. She started her professional reporting career at the ''Providence Journal'' in 1995. During her five-year tenure, she wrote government, law enforcement and human interest stories, as well as a pop culture column. Katz Marston was a political correspondent, columnist and blogger for the New York Daily News from 2000 to 2015. Her assignments include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celeste De Blasis
Celeste De Blasis (May 8, 1946–April 13, 2001) was a successful American author of historical romance novels. Biography Celeste N. De Blasis was born on May 8, 1946, in Santa Monica, California. She grew up at the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California in the high Mojave Desert. She attended Wellesley College, later transferred to Oregon State University, and in 1968 was graduated from Pomona College where her longing to be back home at the ranch had drawn her. She continued to live on the ranch until her death from complications associated with lupus erythematosus on April 13, 2001. Celeste De Blasis was published in a number of poetry magazines, including ''Manifold'' (London), ''Kauri'', and ''Sandcutters''. In 1969 she was given the Southern Division National League of PEN Women Award for Letters for her poetry. In 1975, De Blasis published her first novel, ''The Night Child''. It was followed the next year by ''Suffer A Sea Change'' (1976). Her third book, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patric Walker
Patric William Walker (25 September 1931 – 8 October 1995) was an American-born, British astrologer. Walker's columns, famed for their literary style, appeared in numerous publications throughout the world, leading to claims that he had a readership of one billion. Raised in Whitby, England, Walker did his national service with the Royal Air Force before working as an accountant and a property developer, among other jobs. A chance meeting at a dinner party led to Walker learning astrology from Helene Hoskins. Hoskins later recommended Walker to ''Nova'', for whom he worked as an astrologer from the magazine's launch in March 1965 until taking over Hoskins' 'Celeste' column in ''Harpers & Queen'' in 1974. He later moved to ''The Daily Mirror'' then, in 1976, to Associated Newspapers, for whom he wrote astrology columns in the ''Evening Standard'' and ''The Mail on Sunday'' until the 1990s. Walker enjoyed the London social scene of the 1970s and counted Elton John and The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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