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JAQ (b-boy)
Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum is an American professional b-boy, writer and MC, also known as JQ and JAQ. He performs with his brother, GQ, also a B-Boy professional, as the "Q Brothers." Biography Qaiyum was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He is of mixed ethnic background, having a Pakistani father and a European American mother of German descent. Qaiyum later moved to New York City, where he honed his skills as a producer and MC. He was the composer and DJ for the off-broadway musical comedy, ''The Bomb-itty of Errors''.Bruce Weber.The Bomb-itty of Errors. ''The New York Times Theatre Reviews 1999–2000''. Taylor & Francis, 2001. 227. He was the composer and co-star of MTV's ''Scratch and Burn'', which he created with his brother GQ and two other colleagues from ''The Bomb-itty of Errors'', Dragon and Jordan. He wrote the score for the New York indie film ''Just Another Story'', which aired on Showtime. His brother GQ wrote, directed and starred in the movie, and the Q broth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scratch And Burn
MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel dedicated to music, music industry and history in the United States upon its founding in 1981. MTV Networks has since produced various original television shows, many of which concern genres unrelated to music. This is an incomplete list of MTV shows that have aired. Current programming Music shows *''MTV Unplugged'' (since 1989) *''Fresh Out Playlist'' (since 2020) News and documentary shows *''Fresh Out Live'' (since 2020) *'' The Challenge: Untold History'' (since 2022) Reality shows *'' Catfish: The TV Show'' (since 2012) *''Siesta Key'' (since 2017) *'' Jersey Shore: Family Vacation'' (since 2018) *''Ex on the Beach'' (since 2018) *'' Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant'' (since 2018) *''16 and Pregnant'' (2009–2014; since 2020) *'' Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D and Vinny'' (since 2019) *'' Teen Mom: Family Reunion'' (since 2022) *''Teen Mom: Girls' Night In'' (since 2022) *''Help! I'm i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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American People Of German Descent
German Americans (german: Deutschamerikaner, ) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the United States Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. German Americans account for about one third of the total population of people of German ancestry in the world. Very few of the German states had colonies in the new world. In the 1670s, the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia. The Mississippi Company of France moved thousands of Germans from Europe to Louisiana and to the German Coast, Orleans Territory between 1718 and 1750. Immigration ramped up sharply during the 19th century. There is a "German belt" that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. Pennsylvania, with 3.5 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Of Pakistani Descent
Pakistani Americans ( ur, ) are Americans who originate from Pakistan. The term may also refer to people who also hold a dual Pakistani and U.S. citizenship. Educational attainment level and household income are much higher in the Pakistani-American diaspora in comparison to the general U.S. population. In 2019, there were an estimated 954,202 self-identified Pakistani Americans, representing about 0.187% of the Demography of the United States, U.S. population, and about 2.50% of Asian Americans; more specifically, around 8% of South Asian Americans. History in the United States Immigrants from areas that are now part of Pakistan (formerly northwestern British India) and the Mughal Empire had been migrating to America as early as the eighteenth century, working in agriculture, logging, and mining in the western states of California, Oregon, and Washington (state), Washington. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saints Row (2006 Video Game)
''Saints Row'' is a 2006 action-adventure game developed by Volition and published by THQ for the Xbox 360. It was released in North America on August 29, 2006, followed by an Australian release two days later and a European release on September 1, 2006 (the same day the mobile version was also released). Set within the fictional city of Stilwater (modeled after Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore), the single-player story follows a player-created character who joins the 3rd Street Saints gang after they save his life, and helps them rise to prominence by undermining enemy criminal syndicates, while slowly building up his own reputation within the gang. The storyline is non-linear, and divided into three separate story arcs for each rival gang that the player must defeat. Story missions are unlocked by trading in "Respect" points, currency earned by completing minigames and side-missions. Outside of the main story, players can freely roam Stilwater, consisting of two ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bomb-itty Of Errors
''The Bomb-itty of Errors'' is a hip hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's ''The Comedy of Errors''. Written and performed by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, GQ, and Erik Weiner, the show has been performed in New York City (Off-Broadway), London ( West End), Chicago, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florida, Aspen, Syracuse, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Victoria BC, and Los Angeles. It was nominated alongside Stephen Sondheim for Best Lyrics at the Drama Desk Awards, nominated for Outer Critics Circle Awards, and received the Jefferson Award in Chicago and the Grand Jury Prize at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival The Comedy Festival, formerly known as the US Comedy Arts Festival, was a comedy festival that ran from 1995 to 2008. The festival included stand-up comedy performances, appearances by the casts of television shows, and has a film component calle ... in Aspen. The show lasts one hour and thirty minutes and is part play and part rap concert. The four actors play all the characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writer
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White American
White Americans are Americans who identify as and are perceived to be white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. As of the 2020 Census, 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were white alone. This represented a national white demographic decline from a 72.4% share of the US's population (white alone) in 2010. As of July 1, 2021, United States Census Bureau estimates that 75.8% of the US population were white alone, while Non-Hispanic whites were 59.3% of the population. White Hispanic and Latino Americans totaled about 12,579,626, or 3.8% of the population. European Americans are the largest panethnic group of white Americans and have constituted the majority population of the United States since the nation's founding. The US Census Bureau uses a particular definition of "white" that differs from some colloquial uses of the term. The Bureau defines "White" people to be those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
