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Fania Weissmann-Kollmann
Fania may refer to: Music * "Fania", 1960 song by Estrellas de Chocolate * Fania Records, salsa label named after the song * Fania All-Stars, salsa band named after the label People * Stefania (name) * Fania Bergstein (1908–1950), Hebrew poet * Fania Borach (1891–1951), American entertainer, known as Fanny Brice * Fania Fénelon (1908–1983), French singer * Fania Marinoff (1890–1971), Russian-American actress * Fania Mindell (1894–1969), American activist * Fania Noël, Franco-Haitian author and activist * Fania Oz-Salzberger Fania Oz-Salzberger ( he, פניה עוז-זלצברגר; born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGE ... (born 1960), Israeli historian * Fania Weissmann-Kollmann (born 1916), Israeli botanist Other * ''Fania'' (moth) * Fania language {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estrellas De Chocolate
Estrellas de Chocolate is a Cuban son conjunto founded by ''conguero'' Félix "Chocolate" Alfonso in 1959. Its original lineup featured Niño Rivera (tres), Agustín Cabrera (vocals, guitar), David Palomares (piano), Armando Albertini "El Gorila" (trumpet), "Chino" León Lahera (lead vocals), Arístides Valmaseda (lead vocals), Filiberto Hernández (vocals), Sergio de Cuba (double bass) and Pichi (bongo). Albertini and Palomares directed the band, while Rivera was responsible for the arrangements. The style of the group was largely inspired by previous conjuntos such as Arsenio Rodríguez's (of which Alfonso had been a member between 1945 and 1950), Conjunto Chappottín (also a spin-off of Arsenio's) and Conjunto Casino. Throughout the early 1960s the band gained popularity in Cuba, releasing several albums nationally and to American Latin music markets. They enjoyed particular success in Curaçao and Aruba, which they toured in 1960. After the release of their first album, ''Fie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Records
Fania Records is a New York–based record label founded by Dominican-born composer and bandleader Johnny Pacheco and his Brooklyn-born Italian-American ex-New York City Police Officer turned lawyer Jerry Masucci in 1964. The label took its name from a popular luncheonette frequented by musicians in Havana, Cuba that Masucci frequented when he worked for a public relations firm there during the pre-Castro era. Fania is known for its promotion of salsa music. History Frustrated by the meager amount of money he was receiving for his recordings, Johnny Pacheco started Fania in 1964 and sold records to music stores out of the trunk of his car. To help finance the business, he consolidated with his Brooklyn-born Italian lawyer and promoter Jerry Masucci, and in 1964 founded the Fania label to produce, promote and market the music of Latinos in New York. The label started out as a small venture, but gained popularity after the success of Johnny Pacheco's first official record, ''Cañ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania All-Stars
The Fania All-Stars is a musical group formed in 1968 as a showcase for the musicians on Fania Records, the leading salsa music record label of the time. History Beginnings In 1964, Fania Records was founded in New York City by Jerry Masucci, an Italian-American lawyer with a love for Cuban music, and Johnny Pacheco, a flutist, percussionist and bandleader born in the Dominican Republic but raised in the South Bronx who had like minded musical tastes. Masucci later bought out his partner Pacheco from Fania Entertainment Group, Ltd. and was the sole owner until his death in December 1997. Throughout the early years, Fania used to distribute its records around New York. Eventually success from Pacheco's ''Cañonazo'' recording would lead the label to develop its roster. Masucci and Pacheco, now executive negotiator and musical director respectively, began acquiring musicians such as Bobby Valentín, Larry Harlow, and Ray Barretto. Success In 1968, Fania Records created a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefania (name)
Stefania n all languages except for Polish pronounced like Ste-pha-knee-ahis a female name in Belarusian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Stefánia Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Slovene, Ukrainian and Russian, originating from Old Greek meaning ''crowned'' or the ''winning''. People * Stefania Ascari (born 1980), Italian politician * Stefania Barr (born 1994), American actress and musician *Stefania Belmondo (born 1969), Italian cross country skier * Stefania Berton (born 1990), Italian pair skater *Stefania Calegari (born 1967), Italian competitive ice dancer * Stefania Dovhan, Ukrainian-American soprano * Stefania Elfutina (born 1997), Russian competitive sailor * Stefanía Fernández Krupij (born 1990), 2009 Miss Universe, a Venezuelan of Ukrainian and Galician descent * Stefania Follini (born 1961), Italian interior designer who holds the world record for the longest period in isolation by a woman *Stefania Górska (1907–1986), Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Bergstein
Fania Bergstein ( he, פניה ברגשטיין; April 11, 1908 – September 18, 1950) was an Israeli poet, lyricist and author who wrote and published for children and adults. Bergstein made a major contribution to the development of Modern Hebrew poetry for children.https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/childrens-literature-in-hebrew, "One cannot approach the task of describing children’s literature in pre-State Palestine, and later Israel, without addressing the century of children’s literature in Hebrew that first emerged in Europe." A number of her poems for both children and adults have become Israeli classics and are recognized as touchstones of Israel's literary and cultural heritage;https://www.kibutz-poalim.co.il/Fania_Bergstein , Muki Tsur, ''Fania Bergstein Poetess and Pioneer'' (''Fania Bergstein Sipura shel Meshoreret veKhalutza''), haKibbutz haMeuchad Publishing House, Tel-Aviv, 2014, 158 pages many have been set to music. Several of her books, including prose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Borach
Fania Borach (October 29, 1891 – May 29, 1951), known professionally as Fanny Brice or Fannie Brice, was an American comedienne, illustrated song model, singer, and theater and film actress who made many stage, radio, and film appearances. She is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series ''The Baby Snooks Show''. She was famously portrayed by Barbra Streisand in the stage musical '' Funny Girl''. Early life Fania Borach was born in Manhattan, New York City, United States, the third child of Rose (née Stern 1867–1941), a Jewish Hungarian woman who immigrated to the US at age 10, and Alsatian immigrant Charles Borach. The Borachs were saloon owners and had four children: Phillip, born in 1887; Carrie, born in 1889; Fania, born in 1891; and Louis, born in 1893. Under the name Lew Brice, her younger brother also became an entertainer and was the first husband of actress Mae Clarke. In 1908, Brice dropped out of school to work in a burlesque revu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Fénelon
Fania Fénelon (née Fanja Goldstein; 2 September 1908 – 19 December 1983) was a French pianist, composer and cabaret singer whose 1976 memoir, ''Sursis pour l'orchestre'', about survival in the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz during the Holocaust was adapted as the 1980 television film, '' Playing for Time''. Biography Fanja Goldstein was born in Paris in 1908 to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Her father, Jules Goldstein, was an engineer in the rubber industry. She had two brothers, Leonide and Michel Goldstein, both of whom also survived the war. Her marriage to Silvio Perla (a Swiss athlete, specialist in the 5000-metre run) ended in divorce, which was finalized after the war. Schooling She attended the Conservatoire de Paris, where she studied under Germaine Martinelli, obtaining a first prize in piano (despite her diminutive size and very small hands) and at the same time worked nights, singing in bars. War and After During the Second World War, she joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff (russian: Фаня Маринов; yi, פאַניאַ מאַרינאָוו) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was a Russian-born American actress. Life Marinoff was born in Odessa, Russia, on March 20, 1890. She was born into a Jewish household, and she was the thirteenth child and seventh daughter born to Mayer and Leah Marinoff, who died shortly after she was born. At age 6, Marinoff, who was nicknamed Fanny as a child, was smuggled onboard an overcrowded passenger ship headed to America. She arrived in Boston where she lived undernourished and uneducated. At the age of 8, Marinoff was sent to live with her older brother, Michael. While living with him and his wife, Marinoff was tortured on a regular basis. She was locked in dark rooms, which were infested with rats, for hours on end. A year later, Marinoff made her stage debut as a little boy in ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' at the El Itch Theater. This launched the beginning of what would be a 50-year care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Mindell
Fania Esiah Mindell (December 15, 1894July 18, 1969) was an American feminist, activist, and theater artist. __TOC__ Life and career Mindell was born in Minsk, Russia on December 15, 1894. She emigrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1906 with her parents and family, and became a US citizen in 1919. She was an accomplished artist, and became a set and costume designer for Broadway theaters in New York. She translated dramatic materials from Russian to English including her version of Maxim Gorky's play, "Night Lodging", which was performed at the Plymouth Theater in 1920. Edward G. Robinson was among the performers. Fania was also the proprietor of Little Russia, a small boutique in Greenwich Village, just off Washington Square which featured curios from Russia, but her true passion was for feminist and progressive causes. As a young political activist in 1916 she met the now famous feminist Margaret Sanger and her sister Ethel Byrne. Together, the three women opened the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Noël
Fania Noël, or Fania Noël-Thomassaint, is a Franco-Haitian author and an activist for Afro-feminist causes. Career Noël was born in Haiti, and she grew up in Cergy, France. Noël studied at the Sorbonne, obtaining a master's degree in political science there. Noël was a co-founder of the publication ''AssiégéEs'', which she became publication director of in 2015. Noël authored the book ''Afro-communautaire : Appartenir à nous-mêmes'' as well as the edited collection ''Afrofem'', both released with the publisher ''Éditions Syllepse'' ( Fr). In addition to writing and editing, Noël has also engaged in political and social activist work. Originally an activist with the French Socialist Party, she then moved to the Left Front, before disavowing these institutional affiliations and joining the activist collective ''Mwasi'' (which means "girl" or "woman" in Lingala). Noël was also a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Black Lives Matter (abbreviated BLM) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Oz-Salzberger
Fania Oz-Salzberger ( he, פניה עוז-זלצברגר; born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES). Biography Oz-Salzberger was born in 1960 in Kibbutz Hulda, the eldest daughter of writer Amos Oz and his wife Nily. She is the great-great-niece of historian and literary scholar Joseph Klausner. Oz-Salzberger was educated in kibbutz schools and served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces. She completed her B.A. in history and philosophy ( magna cum laude) and M.A. in modern history ( summa cum laude) at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral thesis, on the Scottish and German Enlightenments (1991), was written at the University of Oxford, supervised by Dr. John Robertson and mentored by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. She was a Senior Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1988–1990, and a Hornik Junior Research Fellow in Intellect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fania Weissmann-Kollmann
Fania may refer to: Music * "Fania", 1960 song by Estrellas de Chocolate * Fania Records, salsa label named after the song * Fania All-Stars, salsa band named after the label People * Stefania (name) * Fania Bergstein (1908–1950), Hebrew poet * Fania Borach (1891–1951), American entertainer, known as Fanny Brice * Fania Fénelon (1908–1983), French singer * Fania Marinoff (1890–1971), Russian-American actress * Fania Mindell (1894–1969), American activist * Fania Noël, Franco-Haitian author and activist * Fania Oz-Salzberger Fania Oz-Salzberger ( he, פניה עוז-זלצברגר; born 28 October 1960) is an Israeli historian and writer, Professor Emerita of history at the University of Haifa School of Law and the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGE ... (born 1960), Israeli historian * Fania Weissmann-Kollmann (born 1916), Israeli botanist Other * ''Fania'' (moth) * Fania language {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
