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Leya (band)
Leya may refer to: * Grupo Leya, a Portuguese publishing company * Leya language, a language of Zambia and Zimbabwe * Ella Leya, Azerbaijani American composer, singer, and writer * Leya Buchanan (born 1996), Canadian athlete * Leya Evelyn (born 1937), Canadian artist * Leya (musicians), New York-based musicians See also * Prémio Leya, a Portuguese literary award * Leia (other) * Laya (other) * Lea (other) Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a set ... * Leya (other) {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grupo Leya
Grupo Leya is a Portuguese multinational book publishing company established in January 2007 as a holding company incorporating some of the biggest Portuguese and Brazilian publishers and two of the largest African publishers. LeYa is the largest general-interest trade book publisher but it also publishes fiction, nonfiction and children’s books, being also one of the most important Portuguese textbook and study book publisher. Isaías Gomes Teixeira, a board member, has announced in 2008 that Leya's revenue target was circa 90M Euros and that they aimed to publish around 1,000 different books in 2008. Some of the notable authors Grupo Leya represents are some of the most renowned writers in the Portuguese-speaking world, including Lobo Antunes, José Eduardo Agualusa amongst others. Subsidiaries *Texto Editores created in 1977, based in Amadora, Portugal. *Edições Asa, founded in 1951 and acquired in 2007 *Editorial Caminho, founded in 1975, acquired in 2007 and best kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leya Language
Tonga (''Chitonga''), also known as ''Zambezi'', is a Bantu language primarily spoken by the Tonga people (''Batonga'') who live mainly in the Southern province, Lusaka province Central Province and Western province of Zambia, and in northern Zimbabwe, with a few in Mozambique. The language is also spoken by the Iwe, Toka and Leya people, and perhaps by the Kafwe Twa (if they are not Ila), as well as many bilingual Zambians and Zimbabweans. In Zambia tonga is taught in schools as first language in the whole of Southern Province, Lusaka and Central Provinces. It is one of the major lingua francas in Zambia, together with Bemba, Lozi and Nyanja. The Tonga of Malawi, which is classified by Guthrie as belonging to zone N15, is not particularly close to Zambian Tonga, which is classified as zone M64, and can be considered a separate language. The Tonga-speaking inhabitants are the oldest Bantu settlers, with the Tumbuka, a small ethnic group in the east, in what is now known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Leya
Ella Leya is an Azeri-United States, American composer, singer, and writer born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Her album releases include "Queen of Night," "Russian Romance" and "Secret Lives of Women." "Queen of Night" — and especially the songs Kabbalistic Prayer and He’s Just A Little Boy — was a tribute to the memory of her son Sergey. "Russian Romance" dug into her cultural heritage, combining classic Russian poetry, Middle Eastern rhythms and her atmospheric melodies. "Secret Lives of Women" celebrates six of history’s most famous and infamous femme fatales: Princess Diana * Mata Hari * Cleopatra * Anne Boleyn * Sappho * Sarah Bernhardt. Ella Leya has toured with her Jazz orchestra SELAH across Europe and the United States. Her songs have appeared in a variety of movies and TV shows, such as Ocean's Twelve, PU-239, My Sassy Girl, Dirty Sexy Money, Samantha Who. Ella Leya's debut novel "The Orphan Sky" was published in 2015. References External linksElla Leya's Offici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leya Buchanan
Leya Buchanan (born 17 August 1996) is a Canadian sprinter from Mississauga, Ontario. She competed in the women's 100 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics Seventeen or 17 may refer to: * 17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japane .... References External links * * * 1996 births Living people Canadian female sprinters Track and field athletes from Mississauga World Athletics Championships athletes for Canada Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games track and field athletes for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games {{Canada-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leya Evelyn
Leya Evelyn () is a Canadian artist. Life and work Born in Washington, DC, Evelyn attended Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ... and Yale University (studying under Josef Albers). She emigrated to Nova Scotia in the 1980s. She is noted for her abstract art integrating pieces of photographs. Evelyn teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2011. Her paintings are shown by galleries in Halifax, Calgary, Edmonton, San Francisco, New York, Switzerland and Denmark. References Canadian women painters Living people Artists from Washington, D.C. Canadian abstract artists Brown University alumni Yale University alumni Academic staff of NSCAD University 20th-century Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leya (musicians)
Leya, stylized as LEYA, is the New York based collaboration of harpist Marilu Donovan and violin/vocalist Adam Markiewicz. Career LEYA have released two full-length albums. ''The Fool'' (2018) and ''Flood Dream'' (2020) were released on New York-based label NNA Tapes. LEYA's work has earned acclaim from notable publications including ''Pitchfork, Document Journal, i-D, Noisey'', and ''The New York Times.'' Reviewing their second album for ''Pitchfork,'' contributor Jonathan Williger described the project: ''"The duo traverses the art world and DIY noise scenes, and their music revels in the tension between elegance and disquiet, subverting the stereotypes associated with their chosen instruments. It can sound equally gorgeous or unsettling, depending on mindset and circumstance; it asks more questions than it answers."'' In 2018, the group wrote and performed a full-length soundtrack to "I Love You," a PornHub-produced erotic film directed by American rapper Brooke Candy that a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prémio Leya
The Prémio Leya is a Portuguese literary award established in 2008 and awarded annually by the Portuguese book publishing company Leya to an unpublished Portuguese-language novel. The winner receives €100,000, making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. Winners *2008: Murilo Antônio de Carvalho (Brazil), for ''O Rastro do Jaguar''. *2009: João Paulo Borges Coelho (Mozambique), for ''O Olho de Hertzog''. *2010: not assigned *2011: João Ricardo Pedro (Portugal), with the book ''O teu rosto será o último''. *2012: Nuno Camarneiro (Portugal), for ''Debaixo de algum céu''. *2013: Gabriela Ruivo Trindade, ''Uma Outra Voz''. *2014: Afonso Reis Cabral (Portugal), ''O Meu Irmão''. *2015: António Tavares (Portugal), ''O Coro dos Defuntos''. *2016: not assigned *2017: João Pinto Coelho (Portugal), ''Os Loucos da Rua Mazur''. *2018: Itamar Vieira Júnior (Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leia (other)
Princess Leia is a fictional character of ''Star Wars''. Leia may also refer to: People *Leia Dongue (born 1991), Mozambican basketball player *Léia Scheinvar (born 1954), Brazilian-Mexican botanist *Léia Silva (born 1985), Brazilian volleyball player * Leia Meow (born 1976), professional wrestling valet * Peter de Leia (died 1198), Welsh bishop * Leia (Degrassi), fictional character from a Canadian TV series * Leia Rolando, character in the ''Tales of Xillia'' video games Other uses * LEIA Inc, a Silicon Valley startup company developing an interactive holographic display for mobile devices * ''Leia'' (fly), a genus of fungus gnats *'' Eilema leia'', a moth of the family Erebidae See also * Leya (other) * Lea (other) Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laya (other)
Laya or Layah may refer to: People * Laya (surname), a Chinese Indonesian surname * Laya Francis (born 1963), former Test and One Day International cricketer who represented India * Laya Raki (born 1927), former dancer and film actress popular in Germany in the 1950s and early 1960s * Layah (singer) (born 1989), Ukrainian singer * The Layap people of the Himalayas * Jean-Louis Laya (1761–1833), dramatist Places * Laya, Bhutan, a town in Gasa District in northwestern Bhutan * Laya, Guinea, a village in the Forécariah Prefecture in the Kindia Region of Guinea * Layah, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran * Layyah, a city in Punjab province, Pakistan Other uses * ''Laya'', a term for tempo in Indian classical music * ''Heteropoda venatoria'', a spider of family Sparassidaeknown, known as ''laya'' in some places * Laia (tool), a farming implement known in Spanish as ''laya'' * Laya Healthcare, a health insurance company in Ireland * ''Laya, the Witch of Red Pooh ''Laya, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea (other)
Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a settlement in the civil parish of Dethick, Lea and Holloway * Lea, Devon, a location * Lea, Herefordshire, a village and civil parish * Lea, Lancashire, a village * Lea, Lincolnshire, a small village and civil parish * Lea, Lydham, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Pontesbury, a location in Shropshire * Lea, Wiltshire, a village * River Lea, a tributary of the Thames Spain * Lea, a river in Biscay, Basque Country United States * Lea County, New Mexico People * Lea (given name) * Lea (surname) * Lea (musician), a German singer-songwriter and keyboardist * Lea baronets, a title in the baronetage of the United Kingdom * Lea Salonga, a Filipina singer, actress, and columnist Arts and entertainment * Liberian Entertainment Awards (LEA), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |