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Joi Ito, Circa 1981
Joi may refer to: People * Jóhannes Ásbjörnsson (born 1979; nicknamed Jói), Icelandic TV and radio show host * Joi (singer) (born 1971), American singer, songwriter, and record producer Given name * Joi Arcand (born 1982), nehiyaw photo-based artist * Joi Barua, Indian singer and music composer * Joi Cardwell (born 1967), American singer-songwriter, author, holistic health coach * Joi Chua (born 1978), Singaporean female pop singer * Joi Ito (born 1966), Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist * Joi Lansing (1929–1972), American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer * Joi Srivastava (1930–2003), North Indian violinist of the Senia Gharana * Joi Williams (born 1966), former head coach of the UCF Knights women's basketball team Surname * Marilyn Joi (born 1945), American actress Other uses * Joi (band), British alternative dub/dance music DJ team * Joi (TV channel), an Italian Entertainment TV channel owned by Mediaset * Joi Internet, a dial-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jóhannes Ásbjörnsson
Jóhannes Ásbjörnsson (born 28 November 1979), nicknamed Jói, is an Icelandic TV and radio show host. TV career Ásbjörnsson was born in Reykjavik. In 1999, he started a radio morning show with his collaborator of nine years, which became the most popular morning show in Iceland. In 2001, he started the TV show ''70 minutes'', which was modelled on their former radio show and ran for five consecutive years. Jóhannes and Sigmar Vilhjálmsson, Simmi hired Sveppi and Auddi to the ''70 minutes'' show, who have been on the air in Iceland since then. In 2003 Jóhannes and Simmi D started hosting Idol Stjörnuleit on the Stöð 2 station, which ran for three consecutive years and became the most popular TV program in Icelandic TV history. Today Jóhannes and Simmi host the morning program on Saturday mornings at Bylgjan 98.9, an Icelandic radio station. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi (singer)
Joi Elaine Gilliam (born January 25, 1971), better known mononymously as Joi, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer associated with the Dungeon Family collective based in Atlanta, Georgia, and as such often performs with OutKast, Organized Noize, and Goodie Mob (her ex-husband, Big Gipp, is a member of the latter group). Her signature songs include " Sunshine & the Rain", " Lick", and "Freedom". Biography Joi is the daughter of NFL Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Joe Gilliam and granddaughter of Tennessee State Tigers football coach Joe Gilliam, Sr. Music career ''The Pendulum Vibe'' (1994) In 1994, Joi released her debut album, '' The Pendulum Vibe'', on EMI with Dallas Austin as the executive producer. While the lead single " Sunshine & the Rain" received heavy airplay on video outlets such as VH1 and MTV, the single failed to become a hit and album sales were disappointing, selling only 76,000 copies in the U.S. Even though album sales were low, Joi receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Arcand
Joi T. Arcand (born 1982) is a nehiyaw photo-based artist from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Saskatchewan, who currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario. In addition to art, Arcand focuses on publishing, art books, zines, collage and accessibility to art. Early life and education Arcand was born in 1982 in Hafford, Saskatchewan. She grew up on Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in central Saskatchewan. She spent many summers working in the Muskeg Lake Archives which gave Arcand her love of old photographs and history. Arcand later attended the University of Saskatchewan where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with Great Distinction in 2005. She began making artwork that addressed her identity in the second year of her studies at the University, at which point she decided to focus on photography and printmaking. Her first photography projects were in direct response to the images of photographer Edward S. Curtis, who was working in the early 1900s. Work Arcand has served as chair of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Barua
Joi Barua ( as, জয় বৰুৱা) is an Indian singer and music composer. Born in Digboi, Assam, he started his career by singing advertising jingles and later did playback singing for Hindi, Assamese and Telugu films. He is also the lead vocalist of the band ''Joi''. Barua has a mixed musical style incorporating elements of rock, soul, jazz, folk and world music. Early life Joi was born in Digboi, Assam, the younger of the two children to Ranjana Barua and Rohini Dhar Barua. His father gave him a violin when he was four years old and that triggered his lifelong passion for music. His family moved to Jorhat when he was in junior school. When he was seven years old, his sister pushed him to join a singing competition and taught him the popular Cliff Richard song 'Bachelor Boy'. Even though ignorant about singing at that age, he won the competition. It was a defining moment. His school principal, Sister Mabilia, understood his passion for music and since then she never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Cardwell
Joi Cardwell (born October 8, 1967) is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she performed in various singing competitions as a child and rose to fame in the early 1990s as a guest vocalist for Lil Louis on the number 1 Dance singles "Club Lonely" and "Saved My Life". The release of Cardwell's debut album, '' The World Is Full of Trouble'' (1995), established her as a solo artist worldwide and featured the ''Billboard'' Dance top-five singles number-one singles "Jump for Joi" and "Love & Devotion". Her second album, ''Joi Cardwell'' (1997), spawned the top-charting singles "Soul to Bare", "Run to You", and "Found Love". In 1999, she released her third album, ''Deliverance'', on her own record label, No-Mad Industries. Her fourth album, '' The Plain Jane Project'' (2005), yielded the top-ten singles "Freedom" and "It's Over". She continued to release albums on her recording label including ''Wanderlust (The Soundtrack)'' (2009) and ''Must Be the Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Chua
Joi Chua (, born 3 August 1978) is a Singaporean female pop singer. Her most famous songs are "Waiting for a Sunny Day" (《等一个晴天》), "Watching the Sunrise With Me" (《陪我看日出》), the Chinese version of " Nada Soso" and "Wind Chimes" (《风铃》). She is also well known in Mainland China and Taiwan. Early life Chua was educated at Raffles Girls' Primary School, Clementi Town Secondary School, and Singapore Polytechnic majoring in optometry. Her original major was business administration, but she shifted her major into optometry 3 months later. She was influenced by her elder brother to pick up singing from a young age. She joined and led the choir in her Secondary school and later joined budding singers in The Ark, a café with live performances, which molded the most important part of Chua's singing career. Her mother died when she was 19. Both her mother and one of her aunts died from breast cancer. " 蔡" ("Chua" or "Tsai", pinyin: Cài) is her fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Ito
is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at the Harvard Law School. Ito has received recognition for his role as an entrepreneur focused on Internet and technology companies and has founded, among other companies, PSINet Japan, Digital Garage, and Infoseek Japan. Ito is a strategic advisor to Sony Corporation and general partner of Neoteny Labs. Ito wrote a monthly column in the Ideas section of Wired. Following the exposure of his personal and professional financial ties to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, Ito resigned from his roles at MIT, Harvard, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Knight Foundation, PureTech Health, and The New York Times Company on September 7, 2019. Early life and education Ito was born in Kyoto, Japan. His family moved to Canada and then to the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Lansing
Joi Lansing (born Joy Rae Brown, April 6, 1929 – August 7, 1972) was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening "tracking shot" in Orson Welles' 1958 crime drama ''Touch of Evil''. Lansing was often cast in roles similar to those played by her contemporaries Jayne Mansfield and Mamie Van Doren. She frequently was clad in skimpy costumes and bikinis that accentuated her figure (34D bust), but she never posed nude. Publicity reports claimed that Lansing practiced yoga for relaxation and was a devout Mormon. Early life Lansing was born at Salt Lake Regional Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1929 to Jack Glen Brown (also known as Glen Jack Brown and Glenn Jack Brown), a shoe salesman and orchestra musician, and Virginia Grace (née Shupe) Brown, a housewife. Other birth years given include 1928 (held by the Utah Historical Society reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Srivastava
Pt Joi Srivastava was a well-known North Indian violinist of the Senia Gharana. Early life and training Joi Srivastava was born in Allahabad on 1 January 1930. He learned Hindustani classical violin from Gagan Chandra Chatterjee, a violinist who is credited with introducing the gat-style of violin playing in North India. After his teacher died, Joi Srivastava learnt from the celebrated Ustad Alauddin Khan as well for a few years. Career He was a prodigy who became a master of the instrument even before he turned 20. He started teaching at the University of Allahabad and also at Kala Bharati Allahabad. Around 1957 he moved to Delhi and joined the All India Radio where he was a regular artiste till his retirement in 1987. After that he taught violin at the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Delhi till 1994. Music for documentaries * ''Saarang - the Peacock'' (features Raag Megh and Raag Vrindavani Saarang played by him on the violin) * ''Lime Buildings Breathe'' (features Raag Dhani, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi Williams
Joi Williams (born November 5, 1966) is the former head coach of the UCF Knights women's basketball team. Career Williams arrived at UCF in 2007 and during her tenure, she has taken the Knights to two C-USA championships. As of March 7, 2016, Williams and the school agreed to part ways. On March 14, 2017, Williams was announced as a new assistant coach for the WNBA's San Antonio Stars The San Antonio Stars were a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, as the Utah Starzz before the .... Personal life In August 2004, she married Herman Felton Jr. Head coaching record Source References External links Official Athletics Site {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Joi 1966 births Living people American women's basketball coaches Basketball coaches from Florida Basketball players from Jacksonville, Florida Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Joi
Marilyn Joi (born May 22, 1945) is an American actress who appeared in a number of exploitation films during the 1970s. Career Joi starred in several films by Al Adamson including '' The Naughty Stewardesses'' (1974), ''Blazing Stewardesses'' (1975) and ''Black Samurai'' (1977), and played the henchwoman Velvet in ''Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks'' (1976), and Cleopatra Schwartz in ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' (1977). Among her other film credits were roles in ''Hit Man'' (1972), ''Mean Mother'' (1974), ''The Candy Tangerine Man'' (1975), '' Mansion of the Doomed'' (1976), ''The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington'' (1977), ''Nurse Sherri'' (1978) and ''Galaxina ''Galaxina'' is a low-budget 1980 American science fantasy-comedy film written and directed by William Sachs. The film stars 1980 ''Playboy'' Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her husband shortly after the film's rele ...'' (1980). She was often credited as Tracy King, Tracy Ann King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joi (band)
Joi is a British alternative dub/dance music DJ team of Bangladeshi origin, originally composed of brothers Farook and Haroon Shamsher. Haroon died on 8 July 1999, and the remaining brother has continued Joi alone. Background Joi were brothers Farook (born 24 October 1968) and Haroon Shamsher (14 November 1965 – 8 July 1999), born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England and brought up in the East End of London to a Bangladeshi father and an Indian mother. Their passion for music developed at a young age as their father was Joi: Farook Shamser a professional flautist who had a shop in Brick Lane selling saris and musical instruments he imported from India. He also had Hindi, Indian classical and traditional Bengali music records, and ran a traditional music shop. Their father would organise sessions and record with Baul artists, and sell the tapes. Farook and Haroon grew up watching Indian musicians record in a makeshift studio in their father's retail store. They grew up listen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
