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Frida (given Name)
Frida (with variants Freda, Frieda, Frinta and Freida) is a feminine given name. In central and eastern Europe, Frida is a short form of compound names containing the Germanic element ''fried'' meaning "peace". People Freda * Freda Betti (1924–1979), French opera singer *Freda Corbet (1900–1993), British politician *Freda Dowie (1928–2019), English actress * Freda Du Faur (1882–1935), Australian mountaineer *Freda Dudley Ward (1894–1983), English socialite and mistress of future king Edward VIII *Freda Foh Shen (born 1948), American film, television and theatre actress * Freda Gardner (1929–2020), former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) *Freda Jackson (1907–1990), British actress *Freda James (1911–1988), British tennis player * Freda Koblick (1920–2011), American acrylic artist and sculptor * Freda Josephine McDonald (1906–1975), American-born French entertainer, known as Joséphine Baker *Freda Payne (born 1942), American sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freda Betti
Freda Betti (26 February 1924 – 13 November 1979), whose birth name was Frédérique Thérèse Augusta Betti, was a French mezzo-soprano singer whose career was mainly confined to France.''Central Opera Service bulletin'', Volume 23, No. 1 (1981). Obituary: Freda Betti. p. 39 She left a range of recordings representative of her repertoire. Biography Freda Betti was born at 52 rue des Ponchettes in the district of ''Vieux-Nice'' in a modest family : her father was a house painter and her mother a fishmonger. His paternal family originates from the region of in |
Frida Benneche
Frida Katherina Benneche (June 10, 1880 – after 1943), sometimes written as Frida Bennèche or Freda Benneche, also known as Frida Windolph, was an American coloratura soprano. Early life Benneche was born in New York City. Her mother was Magdalena Goelz Benneche. Her German-born father Edward Benneche was a businessman, and was president of the Arion Society, a German-American musical club in New York. She attended Miss Jaudon's School, studied violin and piano as a young woman, trained with Eugenie Pappenheim in New York, and studied voice with Theresa Seehofer in Berlin. Career As Frida Windolph, she sang at musicales hosted by Pappenheim, and made some recordings for Phono-Cut Records early in her career. Benneche, a coloratura soprano, sang in concerts and church festivals in Europe, including at the Hamburg Summer Opera. She moved back to the United States in 1914. She toured in the United States, and made recordings of German-language songs on the Victor label in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Hempel
Frieda Hempel (26 June 1885 – 7 October 1955) was a German lyric coloratura soprano singer in operatic and concert work who had an international career in Europe and the United States. Life Hempel was born in Leipzig and studied first at the Leipzig Conservatory and afterwards at the Stern Conservatory, Berlin, where she was a pupil of Selma Nicklass-Kempner. She later studied singing with Sarah Robinson-Duff and Estelle Liebling in New York City; both of whom had been trained by Mathilde Marchesi. Her earliest appearances were in Breslau, singing Violetta, the Queen of the Night and Rosina. She made a debut in Schwerin in 1905, and was engaged there for the next two years, singing also Gilda, Leonora (''Il trovatore'') and Woglinde. She made such a success that the Kaiser Wilhelm II requested the Schwerin theater to release her so she could sing also in Berlin. She made a debut there in 1905 as Frau Fluth (in Nicolai's '' The Merry Wives of Windsor'') and also sang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Dänzer
Frieda Dänzer (16 November 1930 – 21 January 2015) was a Swiss Alpine skier, successful in the second half of the 1950s. At the 1956 Winter Olympics, she won silver in the downhill event. At Bad Gastein in 1958, she became world champion in Alpine Combined and won the silver medal in downhill and bronze in giant slalom. She was born in Adelboden, Canton of Bern. Dänzer developed into one of Switzerland's most successful female skiers in the 1950s. The start of her sporting career, however, was fraught with a number of hurdles. In January 1950, she suffered a compound fracture of her right tibia and fibula in a fall that put her out of action for six months. After her recovery, Dänzer did manage to rejoin the Swiss national team. In 1954, however, she was not taken to the World Championships in Åre, although she had shortly before become Swiss champion in the downhill on the Lauberhorn in Wengen Wengen () is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Belinfante
Frieda Belinfante (May 10, 1904 in Amsterdam – March 5, 1995 age 91 when she died in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a Portuguese Sephardic-Dutch cellist, philharmonic conductor, a prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. After the war, Belinfante immigrated to the United States and continued her career in music. She was the founding artistic director and conductor of the Orange County Philharmonic. Genealogy The daughter of Aron Belinfante and Georgine Antoinette Hesse, Frieda descended from a line of Sephardic Jews who arrived in Holland in the 17th century and whose ancestry can be traced back to 16th-century Portugal. Other well-known descendants include the writers Emmy Belinfante, Isaac Cohen Belinfante, and Moses Cohen Belinfante, and the journalist Emilie Belinfante (the younger). Many of the Belinfante descendants perished during the Holocaust. Early career Belinfante was born into a musical family. Her father, Aron, was a prominent p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frieda Arnold
Frieda Arnold (floruit, fl. 1854 – fl. 1859), was a British courtier. She was a ''dresser'' (lady's maid) to Queen Victoria between 1854 and 1859. She is known for her correspondence, which gives a valuable historic insight in the life of Queen Victoria's household, and is one of few published of a queen's dresser.Frieda Arnold: ''My Mistress the Queen: The Letters of Frieda Arnold, Dresser to Queen Victoria, 1854-9'', Orion Publishing Group, Limited, 1994 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Westman
Frida Westman (born 10 January 2001) is a Swedish ski jumper who competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She was the first Swedish female ski jumper at an Olympic Games. Westman has the best finish by any Swedish female ski jumper at a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup event. Career Westman competes for IF Friska Viljor, and has been coached by Andreas Arén and Isak Grimholm. In 2015, Westman won the Swedish Youth Championship 55 metre hill event. In 2019, she suffered two cruciate ligament injuries. In September 2020, she won two Norway Cup events in Lillehammer. In February 2021, she made her FIS Ski Jumping World Cup debut in an event in Oberstdorf, Germany. She finished 35th in the competition. At the 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup summer event in Oslo, Norway, she finished fifth. At the 2021–22 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, Westman finished 18th in the event in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. It was the best ever result for a Swedish women at a World Cup event. The weekend after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Topno
Frida Topno (20 September 1925 – 6 February 2018) was an Indian politician from Odisha. She was elected as member of Lok Sabha from Sundergarh in Odisha in 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 and 11th Lok Sabha in 1996 as Indian National Congress Party candidate. She died on 6 February 2018 at the age of 92.ANI She was elected to Upper House of India Parliament - the Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ... for the term 1998–2002 from Odisha. References 1925 births 2018 deaths Munda people Rajya Sabha members from Odisha India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 Lok Sabha members from Odisha Women in Odisha politics People from Sundergarh district 20th-century Indian women politicians 20th-century Indian politicians Women members of the Lok Sabha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Stéenhoff
Helga Frideborg "Frida" Maria Stéenhoff, née ''Wadström'' (11 December 1865, in Stockholm – 22 June 1945, in Stockholm), was a Swedish writer and women's rights activist. She was a leading participant of the public debate of gender equality and a contributor of several radical progressive publications. She was engaged in the women suffrage movement and several humanitarian organisations. During World War II, she participated in anti-fascist work. Frida Stéenhoff was a leading central figure of the free love movement in Sweden, for birth control, sex and romance without marriage, and critical toward the institution of marriage, subjects for which she became controversially known by her debut novel: ''Lejonets unge'' (Lion's Child) from 1896. She is credited with having introduced the modern concept of feminism in Sweden with her publication ''Feminismens moral'' (Feminist Morality) from 1903. She used the male pseudonym Harald Gate. She was among the contributors to the fem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Princess Anni-Frid Synni Reuss, Countess of Plauen (born Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad on 15 November 1945), also known by her nickname "Frida", is a Norwegian-born Swedish singer, songwriter and environmentalist, who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the Swedish pop band ABBA. Born in Bjørkåsen (Ballangen), Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden, and started her first solo career there, as a jazz singer in 1967, through a talent competition called ''New Faces''. She won the competition with her song, "'' En ledig dag''", leading to a television appearance on ''Hylands Hörna'' on Dagen H; as a result, she was signed by EMI, and in turn was signed by Stig Anderson's record label, Polar Music, after years of releasing several singles and an album, ''Frida'' under the earlier record label. Although she had moderate success in Sweden, as she was a contestant for Melodifestivalen 1969 with her song "''Härli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary ''Mexicayotl'' movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain. Born to a German father and a ''mestiza'' mother, Kahlo spent most of her childhood and adult life at La Casa Azul, her family home in Coyoacán – now publicly accessible as the Frida Kahlo Museum. Although she was disabled by polio as a child, Kahlo had been a promising st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frida Hyvönen
Frida Hyvönen (born Anna Frida Amanda Hyvönen; 30 December 1977) is a Swedish singer-songwriter. Personal life Hyvönen grew up in Robertsfors, located outside Umeå in the north of Sweden (which is also the hometown of her cousin Josephine Forsman's band ''Sahara Hotnights''). Her Finnish grandfather was from Rovaniemi. She moved to Stockholm in 1995. Between 2010 and 2012, she resided in Paris. Today, she shares her time between Stockholm and her house in Västerbotten. Career Hyvönen's first record, '' Until Death Comes'', was recorded at Stockholm's Atlantis Studios and co-produced with Jari Haapalainen of The Bear Quartet. The record was released in the EU in 2005 on The Concretes record label Licking Fingers, in the United States in 2006 on Secretly Canadian and in Australia in 2007 on Chapter Music. Hyvönen received the 2005 ''Stockholmspriset'' ("The Stockholm Prize") by the Swedish publication ''Nöjesguiden'' for her debut album. Her first single, "I Drive My F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
