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Laine
Laine is Finnish and Estonian for "wave", and a surname in various languages. Laine as a surname originates in Finland, where it is the seventh most common"Most common surnames" (English version), verkkopalvelut.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu surname. In , it is also a female given name. Geographical distribution In Finland, the frequency of the surname ''Laine'' was in 2014 higher than national average (1:297) in the following regions:Laine surname distribution/ref> * 1. |
Laine Hardy
Laine Hardy (born September 12, 2000) is an American singer from Livingston, Louisiana, and the season 17 winner of ''American Idol.'' Early life Hardy was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Livingston, Louisiana. His father Barry is a general contractor for a construction company, and his mother Cindy Lou is a real estate agent. He has a brother Kyle, and an older sister, Brittany Banta. His maternal grandmother is a Korean immigrant from Seoul. He attended French Settlement High School and graduated in 2018. He learned to play the guitar when he was eight, and by the time he was 14, he was performing in a band with his brother and cousins called the Band Hardy in local bars and restaurants. Although initially he did not sing, he was encouraged by his brother to sing. ''American Idol'' Laine Hardy first auditioned for the 2018 season 16 of ''American Idol'', but did not go far in that season, making it only to the top 50. He did not intend to audition for the 2019 sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio; March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007) was an American Singing, singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned nearly 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire (1931 song), That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as "America's Number One Song Stylist", his other nicknames include "Mr. Rhythm", "Old Leather Lungs", and "Mr. Steel Tonsils". His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Jezebel (Frankie Laine song), Jezebel", "High Noon (song), High Noon", "I Believe (1953 song), I Believe", "Hey Joe (1953 song), Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water (song), Cool Water", "Rawhide (song), Rawhide", and "You Gave Me a Mountain". He sang well-known theme songs for many western (genre), Western film soundtracks, including ''3:10 to Yuma (1957 film), 3:10 To Yuma'', ''Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film), Gunfight at the O.K. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laine Mägi
Laine Mägi (born Laine Michelson-Adamson; 3 February 1959) is an Estonian stage, film and television actress, dancer and choreographer and dance pedagogue who began her career as a teenager. She is the founder of the Laine Mägi School of Dance, based in Pärnu. Early life Laine Michelson-Adamson was born in Kehra to Peeter and Elli-Anniki Michelson-Adamson (''née'' Pennie). She has one brother who is two years younger. Her first cousin is actress Terje Pennie-Kolberg. She became interested in ballet at an early age and began taking lessons at the Tallinn Ballet School at age nine, taking the train from Kehra to Tallinn. She made her debut at the Estonia Theatre at the age of ten in a stage production of Astrid Lindgren's ''Pippi Longstocking''. She later had to abandon ballet classes in 1973 due to poor health. From 1976 until 1981, she performed as a dancer in various venues throughout Tallinn. She attended secondary school in Tallinn, graduating in 1977, then enrolling in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erkki Laine
Erkki Juhani Laine (13 September 1957 – 22 August 2009) was a Finnish professional ice hockey forward. A two time Olympian, he won a silver medal with the Finnish national team at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. He is the Lahti Pelicans franchise top all-time career point earner and goal scorer. Playing career As a child, Erkki Laine began playing ice hockey with the youth department of Kiekkoreipas in his hometown of Lahti. The first full season of his professional career was spent with the senior men’s representative team of Kiekkoreipas in the 1975–76 I-divisioona season. He led the team in scoring, earning 47 points (40 goals + 7 assists) in 36 regular season games, and ranked second for most goals scored in the I-divisioona (behind Markku Perkkiö‘s 45 goals with Kärpät). With the infusion of Laine’s goal scoring, Kiekkoreipas finished the season at the top of the league and gained promotion to the top-tier SM-liiga. The winger spent the subsequent two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Laine
James W. Laine is an American academic and writer notable for his controversial book on the 17th-century Indian king Shivaji, ''Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India''.James W. Laine: Faculty page at Macalester College: Religious Studies Department Background James Laine is the Arnold H. Lowe Professor of Religious Studies and the chair of the Religious Studies department at in , |
Denny Laine
Denny Laine (born Brian Frederick Hines, 29 October 1944) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, known as a founder of two major rock bands: the Moody Blues, with whom he played from 1964 to 1966, and Wings, with whom he played from 1971 to 1981. Laine has worked with a variety of artists and groups over a six-decade career, and continues to record and perform as a solo artist. In 2018, Laine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues. Early years Laine was born in Tyseley, Birmingham, England, where he attended Yardley Grammar School, and took up the guitar as a boy, inspired by gypsy jazz musician Django Reinhardt. He gave his first solo performance as a musician at the age of 12, and began his career as a professional musician, fronting Denny Laine and the Diplomats, which also included Bev Bevan, future drummer with Move and Electric Light Orchestra. Laine changed his name because he felt 'Brian Frederick Hines and the Diplom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Bullock; 28 October 1927)Cleo Laine birth registry in Uxbridge via Free UK Genealogy CIO, a charity registered in England and Wales, Number 1167484, under the auspices of the General Register Office of England and Wales Accessed 22 November 2022. is an English and pop singer and an actress, known for her and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janne-Pekka Laine
Janne-Pekka Laine (born 25 January 2001) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Turkish Süper Lig club Çaykur Rizespor. Club career Laine signed a 2-year contract with Haka on 12 December 2020.Laine made his league debut for Haka against HIFK on 3 May 2021. On 9 September 2022, Laine extended his contract with Haka for 1 year. On 15 September 2023, Laine signed a three-year deal with Turkish club Çaykur Rizespor Çaykur Rizespor Kulübü is a Turkish professional football club based in Rize. The club play in the TFF First League. The club was founded on May 19, 1953, with green-yellow as club colours, but later changed to blue-green. Since 1990, the team .... References External links * Footballdatabase Profile* 2001 births Footballers from Tampere Living people Finnish men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Ilves (football) players FC Haka players Veikkausliiga players Kakkonen players {{Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laine Mesikäpp
Laine Mesikäpp (27 February 1917 – 5 May 2012) was an Estonian film, radio and stage actress, singer and prolific collector and cataloguer of Estonian folk music. Early life and education Laine Mesikäpp was born in the small village of Adila in Kohila Parish, Rapla County, to Hans Mesikäpp Jr. and Ann Mesikäpp (''née'' Rammus) and grew up on a farm in the small neighboring borough of Hageri. She was the youngest of nine children. Her interest in traditional Estonian folklore and Estonian folk music began early in her childhood; her father Hans was a locally known storyteller and singer who always kept a pencil in his pocket to transcribe all local traditions, songs and stories. Later, the family home became a gathering place for folklorists, musicians and singers from all parts of Estonia, which left a lasting impression on her and added numerous songs from other regions to her repertoire. Beginning in 1932, she studied at Tallinn 1st Girls' Gymnasium, graduating in 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laine
Laine is Finnish and Estonian for "wave", and a surname in various languages. Laine as a surname originates in Finland, where it is the seventh most common"Most common surnames" (English version), verkkopalvelut.vrk.fi/Nimipalvelu surname. In , it is also a female given name. Geographical distribution In Finland, the frequency of the surname ''Laine'' was in 2014 higher than national average (1:297) in the following regions:Laine surname distribution/ref> * 1. |
Emma Laine
Emma Johanna Laine (born 26 March 1986) is a former tennis player from Finland. Laine won 11 singles and 44 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 7 August 2006, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 50. On 30 October 2006, she peaked at No. 64 in the doubles rankings. Playing for Finland Fed Cup team, Laine has a win–loss record of 56–21. Biography Emma's mother Erika was a swimmer, while her father Erkki Laine was an ice hockey player, winning a silver medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games (french: XVes Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and commonly known as Calgary 1988 ( bla, MohkÃnsstsisi 1988; sto, Wîchîspa Oyade 1988 or ; cr, Otôskwanihk 1998/; srs, Guts†.... Emma was born in Sweden because Erkki was playing there at the time. He died in 2009. Emma was introduced to tennis at age five by her parents. She is a baseliner who prefers hardcourts. She is coached by Olli Leppänen. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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