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Harlem School Of The Arts
Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) is an art school in Harlem, New York, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Harlem School of the Arts was founded in 1964, by soprano Dorothy Maynor. Maynor was succeeded by mezzo-soprano Betty Allen as President in 1979, when a new 37,000 square foot facility designed by Ulrich Franzen was completed. Other presidents included Allicia Adams, Camille Akjeu, and Daryl Durham. Since August 2015, Eric G. Pryor has been the president and CEO. In 2005, the school was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Despite the Great Recession of 2010, the Harlem School of the Arts stabilized its fiscal position following a $6 million gift. Courses The school offers courses in four disciplines; music, theatre, visual arts, and dance. Courses in music include Classical music, classical, jazz ...
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''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant s ...
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Yaya DaCosta
Camara DaCosta Johnson (born November 15, 1982), better known as Yaya DaCosta, is an American actress and model. She was the runner-up in Cycle 3 of ''America's Next Top Model''. DaCosta eventually went to star in ABC's daytime drama series ''All My Children'' (2008), ABC's comedy-drama ''Ugly Betty'' (2009), and NBC's medical drama ''Chicago Med'' (2015–2022)''.'' DaCosta starred in the Lifetime television film ''Whitney'' (2015) as singer Whitney Houston and received praise for her performance. Early life and education DaCosta was born on November 15, 1982, in New York City and is of Brazilian and Black-American descent. She was raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. In addition to English, she speaks Portuguese, French, Spanish and conversational Japanese. She attended the elite Northfield Mount Hermon School during high school before attending Brown University, where she majored in Africana studies and international relations. Career After finishing second o ...
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Noah Stewart
Noah Stewart (born 1978) is an American operatic tenor. He released his debut album ''Noah'' in March 2012; it peaked at number 14 on the UK Albums Chart and number 1 on the UK Classical Album Chart. Early life Stewart was born in Harlem, New York. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, and subsequently won a scholarship to The Juilliard School. Noah Stewart's musical development started in Harlem, where he studied classical music at The Harlem School of the Arts. At age 12, his choir teacher encouraged him to pursue a music career. He began doing voice-overs for Sesame Street and television school specials and won first place in the New England Music Competition in Boston. Stewart attended Fiorello LaGuardia High School, where he performed his first opera (La Costanza in amor vince l'inganno). He also sang back-up vocals for pop artists such as Hootie and the Blowfish and Coolio. During this time, Stewart developed a passion for opera, langua ...
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Harolyn Blackwell
Harolyn Blackwell (born November 23, 1955) is an American lyric coloratura soprano who has performed in many of the world's finest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters in operas, oratorios, recitals, and Broadway musicals. Initially known for her work within musical theater during the early 1980s, Blackwell moved into the field of opera and by 1987 had established herself as an artist within the soubrette repertoire in many major opera houses both in the United States and in Europe. Feeling that she was being "type cast" into one particular kind of role, Blackwell strove to establish herself within the lyric coloratura repertoire beginning in the mid-1990s. With the aid of such companies as Seattle Opera, Blackwell successfully made this move and is now an interpreter of such roles as Lucia in Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' and Olympia in Offenbach's ''Les contes d'Hoffman''. She has also periodically returned to musical theater performances throughout her career in s ...
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Shannon Tavarez
Shannon Skye Tavarez (January 20, 1999 – November 1, 2010) was an American child actor, child actress and singer. She played List of The Lion King characters#Nala, young Nala in the Broadway theatre production of ''The Lion King (musical), The Lion King'' by Walt Disney Theatrical. Background Shannon Tavarez was the only child of Odiney Brown, a human resources administrator, and one of the daughters of a Dominican Republic, Dominican man with the surname of "Tavarez". She was a native and resident of Bellerose, Queens, and she was an honors student at State school, P.S. 176 as well as a student of vocals and piano at the Harlem School of the Arts. She was chosen to play the role of young Nala after a cattle call audition at the Apollo Theater, and she became one of two girls who split the role, with each of the girls performing four shows per week. Illness and death Several months after her September 2009 debut in ''The Lion King'', she was forced to leave the show after b ...
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Ray Chew
Ray Chew is an American musician who specializes in keyboards and contemporary and orchestral arranging. He is the music director of ABC's Dancing with the Stars (2014–present). Chew was music director for Fox's American Idol from 2010 to 2013. In 2014, Chew musically directed the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. He has also served as music director for the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants since 2010. Chew was a member of the Saturday Night Live Band from 1980 to 1983. During the 90s & 2000s, he was music director for the syndicated television series ''Showtime at the Apollo'' and the bandleader on '' The Singing Bee''. Chew was the bandleader during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, and at the Barack Obama Neighborhood Ball at the First inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009.Lustig, Jay"New Jersey musician kicks off festival paying tribute to African-American culture" ''The Star-Ledger'', February 26, 2009. Accessed February 26, 2009. Chew grew up in the Grant ...
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Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'', from 2009 to 2011, and in its prequel series ''Better Call Saul'', from 2017 to 2022. For this role, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Esposito's other television roles include Federal Agent Mike Giardello in the NBC police drama series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC supernatural drama series ''Once Upon a Time'' (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC science-fiction series ''Revolution'' (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Dear White People'' (2017–2021), Stan Edgar in the Amazon Prime Video superhero drama series '' The Boys'' (2019–pre ...
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Caleb McLaughlin
Caleb Reginald McLaughlin (born October 13, 2001) is an American actor. He gained recognition for playing Lucas Sinclair in the Netflix series ''Stranger Things'' (2016–present). McLaughlin began his career on the Broadway stage as Young Simba in the musical ''The Lion King'' followed by small roles in television. Following his breakthrough with ''Stranger Things'', he appeared in the films '' High Flying Bird'' (2019) and ''Concrete Cowboy'' (2020), his first starring feature film role. His work also includes the miniseries ''The New Edition Story'' (2017) and various television voice acting roles. Early life Caleb Reginald McLaughlin was born on October 13, 2001 in Carmel, New York. He was born to parents April and Corey McLaughlin. He attended Kent Primary School and later attended George Fischer Middle School for one year. He studied dance for a year at Happy Feet Dance School in Carmel, New York and then attended Seven Star School of Performing Arts in Brewster Hill, New Yo ...
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De'Adre Aziza
De'Adre Danielle Aziza (; born June 14, 1977) is an American actress and singer. Early life and education Aziza was born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Donna Avery, retired part-time assistant professor and textiles specialist at Parsons The New School for Design. She attended the Harlem School of the Arts for eleven years and the Dance Theater of Harlem for five. She is a graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Career She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for ''Passing Strange'', in which she played "teenage goddess" Edwina Williams, Dutch neo-hippie Marianna, and German revolutionary/filmmaker Sudabey. She appeared again on Broadway in ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ''Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'' ( es, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) is a 1988 Spanish black comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Mau ...
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Betty Allen
Betty Allen (March 17, 1927 – June 22, 2009) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s. In the latter part of her career her voice acquired a contralto-like darkening, which can be heard on her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s ''Alexander Nevsky'' with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was known for her collaborations with American composers, such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, and Virgil Thomson among others. Allen was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world. She was greatly admired by Bernstein and the conductor notably chose her to be the featured soloist for his final performances as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1973. After her singing career ended, sh ...
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NFCC
The PFF National Challenge Cup is an annual semi-professional Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in men's domestic Football in Pakistan, Pakistani football within the Pakistan football league system. It is organized by and named after the Pakistan Football Federation. Khan Research Laboratories F.C., Khan Research Laboratories have won the most titles (six). WAPDA F.C., WAPDA are the current champions, winning the 2020 PFF National Challenge Cup, 2020 edition courtesy of a 1-0 win against SSGC F.C. in the final. Background Although it is an annual competition, it has not been held on a few occasions. The competition was not held from (1980–83, 1986, 1988–89, 1995, 1997, 2004, 2006–07, 2017, 2021–22). The tournament has seen various name changes throughout its establishment. Names Finals ;Wins by club Results by team Since its establishment, the National Challenge Cup has been won by 15 different teams. Teams shown in ...
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