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Leigh-Anne
Leigh-Anne Pinnock (born 4 October 1991) is an English singer, actress and songwriter. She rose to prominence in the 2010s as a member of the girl group Little Mix, one of the world's best-selling girl groups ever. With Little Mix, she released six studio albums and achieved five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart. While in Little Mix, Pinnock released her documentary '' Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power'' (2021), which was met with critical acclaim. At the 26th National Television Awards, it received a nomination for "Best Authored Documentary". In the same year, she made her acting debut in the film ''Boxing Day'', which became the first British festive rom-com to be led by an all-black cast. Besides music, she is also known for her activism in fighting against racism and in 2020, she won the Equality Award in recognition for her work towards racial equality in the UK. Early life Leigh-Anne Pinnock was born on 4 October 1991, to black mixed-race parents Deborah Thornhill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jade Thirlwall
Jade Amelia Thirlwall (born 26 December 1992) is an English singer-songwriter. She rose to prominence in the 2010s as a member of Little Mix, one of the world's best-selling girl groups. With Little Mix, she released six studio albums and achieved five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart. In addition to her solo work, Thirlwall signed a songwriter's publishing deal in 2019 with Sony/ATV Music, and shares songwriting credits for Little Mix, Twice, Billy Porter, Britney Spears, Iggy Azalea, and Nayeon. Aside from music and songwriting she is an ambassador for Stonewall, and noted for her political reviews and social activism, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, ban against transgender conversion therapy in the UK, Black Lives Matter and her involvement with charity work which earned her the ''Gay Times'' Honour for Allyship in 2021. In 2022, she signed a solo record deal with RCA Records. Early life Jade Amelia Thirlwall was born on 26 December 1992 and raised in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxing Day (2021 Film)
''Boxing Day'' is a 2021 British romantic-comedy Christmas film written, directed by and starring Aml Ameen in his directorial debut. The film also stars Aja Naomi King and is the acting debut of Leigh-Anne Pinnock. Notably, it is the first British Christmas Romantic Comedy with an almost entirely Black cast. Taking place primarily in London, the film follows Melvin Mckenzie (Aml Ameen) as he returns home to London after two years to launch his new book and introduce his fiancée to his family. Ameen created Boxing Day to represent his own experiences growing up in England with his own Caribbean-British family. He draws on commonly seen tropes from other famous Christmas movies like Love Actually. Plot Melvin "Smelly" Mckenzie ( Aml Ameen) is a British immigrant living in Los Angeles. After the release of his new book he is prompted to go back home to London for the first time in two years in order to promote his book. Melvin and his American almost-fiancée Lisa Dixon (A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Mix
Little Mix are a British girl group, composed of group members Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall, and Perrie Edwards. Jesy Nelson was originally part of the group before she left in 2020. After becoming the first group to win the British version of ''The X Factor'' in its eighth series, the group signed with Syco Music in 2011. The group released their debut album '' DNA'' (2012), which was the highest chart entry for a debut album by British girl group in the United States. Although their first and second album ''Salute'' (2013) brought them mainstream success, it was after the release of "Black Magic", the lead single from their third studio album ''Get Weird'' (2015) that led them into national stardom. "Black Magic" went onto become Little Mix's third number-one in the UK, after "Cannonball" in 2011 and "Wings" in 2012. It spent three weeks at number-one, the most for a girl group song since 2007, and in 2017, Billboard ranked it as one of The 100 Greatest Girl Group Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perrie Edwards
Perrie Louise Edwards (born 10 July 1993) is an English singer. She rose to prominence in the 2010s as a member of the British girl group Little Mix, one of the world's best-selling girl groups. With Little Mix, she released six studio albums and achieved five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart. In 2021, she became the first female ambassador for the brand "Supreme Nutrition", and in the same year launched her own fashion brand called Disora. Early life Perrie Louise Edwards was born on 10 July 1993, to parents Deborah "Debbie" Duffy and Alexander Edwards, who separated when she was young and both remarried. Edwards was raised in the Whiteleas area of South Shields, Tyne and Wear. alongside her brother named Jonnie Edwards and paternal half-sister named Caitlin Edwards. She is of English, Scottish, Irish and Swedish heritage. Edwards attended Radipole Primary School in Weymouth, Dorset before moving back to South Shields. She attended St. Peter and Paul RC Primary Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andre Gray
Andre Anthony Gray (born 26 June 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Super League Greece club Aris. Born in England, he represents the Jamaica national team. A product of the Shrewsbury Town youth system, Gray came to prominence after scoring 57 goals in 111 appearances in a two-season spell with Luton Town. He made six appearances for England C from 2012 to 2014, before being called up to the Jamaican national team and making his debut in March 2021. Club career Shrewsbury Town Gray began his career in the academy at hometown club Wolverhampton Wanderers, but was released at age 13. Gray joined the youth system at League Two club Shrewsbury Town in 2004, signing his first professional one-year contract prior to the start of the 2009–10 season. Awarded the number 20 shirt, he made his debut on the opening day of the season, coming on as an 89th-minute substitute for Nathan Elder in a 3–1 win over Burton Albion. An injury crisis saw Gray make f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesy Nelson
Jessica Louise Nelson (born 14 June 1991) is an English singer who rose to prominence as a member of the girl group Little Mix from 2011 to 2020, one of the world's best-selling girl groups. With Little Mix, she released six studio albums and achieved five number-one singles on the UK Singles Chart. Nelson auditioned as a solo act for the eighth series of ''The X Factor,'' and successfully made it through to bootcamp stage, before being eliminated. Following her elimination, she was placed into a group with three other contestants to form the girl group Little Mix, making history by becoming the first group to win the British version of the series. In 2019, Nelson featured in a BBC documentary based on her experiences with body image and online bullying, titled ''Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out.'' Since leaving Little Mix, Nelson signed to American label Republic Records and was formerly signed to Polydor Records in 2021 but left a year later due to creative differences. In October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Blades
Jason Blades (born 21 February 1970) is a British Conservation and restoration of wooden furniture, furniture restorer and television presenter. He grew up in Hackney, London, Hackney, which in his childhood was a working class area of Inner London, and now lives in Ironbridge in Shropshire. Early life Blades was born in London Borough of Brent, Brent, North London and raised in Hackney, London, Hackney, East London with his mother and maternal half-brother. As an adult he learned that his father had 25 other children, from different mothers, in a number of different countries. He has dyslexia, which was not diagnosed at school. He experienced Racism in the United Kingdom, racism at school and from the police. As a young man he worked as a labourer and in factories. He enrolled in Buckinghamshire New University as a mature student to study Criminology. It was only then, aged 31, that he was diagnosed with the reading ability of an 11-year old.Report by Dominic Robertson. Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Jamaicans
British Jamaicans (or Jamaican British people) are British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent. The community is well into its third generation and consists of around 300,000 individuals, the second-largest Jamaican population, behind the United States, living outside of Jamaica. The majority of British people of Jamaican origin were born in the United Kingdom as opposed to Jamaica itself. The Office for National Statistics estimates that in 2015, some 137,000 people born in Jamaica were resident in the UK. The number of Jamaican nationals is estimated to be significantly lower, at 49,000 in 2015. Jamaicans have been present in the UK since the start of the 20th century; however, by far the largest wave of migration occurred after the Second World War. During the 1950s, Britain's economy was suffering greatly and the nation was plagued with high labour shortages. The British government looked to its overseas colonies for help and encouraged migrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black British
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British citizens of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent.Gadsby, Meredith (2006), ''Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival'', University of Missouri Press, pp. 76–77. The term ''Black British'' developed in the 1950s, referring to the Black British West Indian people from the former Caribbean British colonies in the West Indies (ie, the New Commonwealth) now referred to as the Windrush Generation and people from Africa, who are residents of the United Kingdom and are British. The term ''black'' has historically had a number of applications as a racial and political label and may be used in a wider sociopolitical context to encompass a broader range of non-European ethnic minority populations in Britain. This has become a controversial definition. ''Black British'' is one of various self-designation entries used in official UK ethnicity classifications. Black residents constituted around 3 per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Wycombe
High Wycombe, often referred to as Wycombe ( ), is a market town in Buckinghamshire, England. Lying in the valley of the River Wye surrounded by the Chiltern Hills, it is west-northwest of Charing Cross in London, south-southeast of Aylesbury, southeast of Oxford, northeast of Reading and north of Maidenhead. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, High Wycombe's built up area has a population of 127,856, making it the second largest town in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire after Milton Keynes. The High Wycombe Urban Area, the conurbation of which the town is the largest component, has a population of 140,684. High Wycombe is mostly an unparished area. Part of the urban area constitutes the civil parish of Chepping Wycombe, which had a population of 14,455 according to the 2001 census – this parish represents that part of the ancient parish of Chepping Wycombe which was outside the former municipal borough of Wycombe. There has been a market he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Confetti Tour
The Confetti Tour was the seventh concert tour held by British girl group Little Mix, in support of their sixth studio album, Confetti (Little Mix album), ''Confetti'' (2020). The tour began on 9 April 2022 at the Odyssey Complex#SSE Arena, Belfast, SSE Arena in Belfast, and concluded on 14 May 2022 at The O2 Arena, The O2 Arena in London. The tour consisted of 28 sold-out shows across the United Kingdom and Ireland. On 27 April 2022, the group announced that the final show will be livestreamed. On 14 May 2022, the band live streamed their final tour date at the The O2 Arena, O2 Arena, in London titled: ''Little Mix: The Last Show (For Now...)''. The Confetti Tour received positive critical acclaim from critics. It is the group's first tour without former member Jesy Nelson, who departed from the group in 2020, and was their last before the group went on hiatus in 2022. The ticketing fees from the tour was distributed between two charities, the Black Minds Matter UK and Nordoff†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east and Hertfordshire to the east. Buckinghamshire is one of the Home Counties, the counties of England that surround Greater London. Towns such as High Wycombe, Amersham, Chesham and the Chalfonts in the east and southeast of the county are parts of the London commuter belt, forming some of the most densely populated parts of the county, with some even being served by the London Underground. Development in this region is restricted by the Metropolitan Green Belt. The county's largest settlement and only city is Milton Keynes in the northeast, which with the surrounding area is administered by Milton Keynes City Council as a unitary authority separately to the rest of Buckinghamshire. The remainder of the county is administered by Buck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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