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Marva (given Name)
Marva is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Marva Beck (born 1944), American politician * Marva Collins (1936–2015), American educator *Marva Dawn (1948-2021), American Christian theologian, author, musician and educator *Marva Hicks * Marva Jean Brooks *Marva Josie, American jazz singer * Marva Mollet (born 1943), the Belgian singer known professionally as Marva *Marva Smith, American judge * Marva Whitney (1944–2012), American funk singer *Marva Wright (1948-2010) American blues singer See also * * Marwa (name) Marwa or Marwah (Arabic: ) is an Arabic female given name derived from the word () with the meaning of either minerals, 'flint(-stone)', 'quartz' or 'a hard stone of nearly pure Silica Mineral, silica'. However, the Arabic name for quartz is (). ... * Marwah (other) {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Beck
Marva Black Beck (born November 21, 1944) was a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 57. Personal life Marva Black was born on November 21, 1944 in Centerville, Texas. Beck grew up in Houston's 5th Ward, she graduated from San Jacinto High School She married Melvin S. Beck II on December 4, 1970 in Harris County, Texas, they had 3 sons James, Rick, and Trey. Beck attends First Methodist Church of Centerville and is the church treasurer. Becks son Rick died in a boating accident and her son James died in a motor vehicle accident. Becks husband Melvin died of cancer on March 13, 2004, six months after the death of her son James. Trey works in the construction industry in Houston, Texas. Political career Beck represented District 57 in the Texas House of Representatives during the 82nd legislature. While in the state house she served on the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee and the Natural Resources Committee. She also served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Collins
Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator. Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975. Early life Collins was born in Monroeville, Alabama, to father, Henry Knight, a businessman who owned a funeral home and worked with cattle, and to mother, Bessie Knight (née Nettles). She grew up in Atmore, Alabama, a small town near Mobile, Alabama, during the time of segregation in the American South. When she was young, Collins went to a strict elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse in Atmore, Alabama, an experience which influenced her later in life. She graduated from Clark College (now known as Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia. Career Collins taught school for two years in Alabama, then moved to Chicago in 1959, where she taught as a full–time substitute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Dawn
Marva J. Dawn (August 20, 1948April 18, 2021) was an American Christian theologian, author, musician and educator, associated with the parachurch organization Christians Equipped for Ministry in Vancouver, Washington. She also served as Teaching Fellow in Spiritual Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dawn was generally perceived as a Lutheran evangelical. She often wrote in a paleo-orthodox style, stressing the importance of Christian tradition and the wisdom of the Church through the centuries. Biography Born in Napoleon, Ohio as Marva Gersmehl, she later took the surname Dawn as a pseudonym. After completing a B.A. (1970) from Concordia Teachers College, she completed a M.A. (1972) in English from the University of Idaho, an M.Div. (1978) in New Testament from Western Evangelical Seminary, and a Th.M. (1983) in Old Testament from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. She then completed an M.A. (1986) and Ph.D. (1992) in Christian Ethics and the Scrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Hicks
Marva Denise Hicks (May 5, 1956 – September 16, 2022) was an American R&B singer and actress. She signed with Polydor in the late 1980s, recorded her self-titled album in 1991,Biography at AllMusic/ref> and later worked in Broadway theatre and on television. Life and career Hicks was born and grew up in Petersburg, Virginia, and studied at Howard University. Initially a gospel singer, she recorded commercial secular music in the 1980s, and scored her biggest chart hit with the single "Never Been in Love Before", written and produced by Jimmy Scott. The record peaked at number seven on the R&B charts in 1991, while two singles followed. On July 16, 1996, she performed as a background singer for Michael Jackson in a free concert at the Jerudong Park Amphitheatre in Bandar Seri Begawan. The concert was in celebration of the fiftieth birthday of Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei and was attended by the Brunei Royal Family. As part of the set list, Hicks sang the female par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Jean Brooks
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post- war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude". Muddy Waters grew up on Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi, and by age 17 was playing the guitar and the harmonica, emulating the local blues artists Son House and Robert Johnson."His thick heavy voice, the dark colouration of his tone, and his firm, almost solid, personality were all clearly derived from House," wrote the music historian Peter Guralnick in ''Feel Like Going Home'', "but the embellishments, which he added, the imaginative slide technique and more agile rhythms, were closer to Johnson." He was recorded in Mississippi by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress in 1941. In 1943, he moved to Chicago to become a full-time prof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Josie
Marva Josie (born Marva Josie Spurling, December 9, 1939) is an American jazz singer who was the longtime vocalist for Earl Hines. In 1976 they both played at the White House for President Gerald Ford and later for President Jimmy Carter. Josie has a -octave range. Josie was born on December 9, 1939 in Clairton, Pennsylvania to a Jamaican father and a mother from Duquesne, Pennsylvania. Discography * 1973: Marva Josie With Earl Hines And His Orchestra - This Is Marva Josie * 1977: ''An Evening With Earl Hines'': with Tiny Grimes, Hank Young, Bert Dahlander and Marva Josie: Disques Vogue VDJ-534 * 1977: Earl "Fatha" Hines and Marva Josie – Jazz Is His Old Lady... And My Old Man * 1982: Earl Hines With Marva Josie And The 150 Band - Fatha's Birthday * 1984: Forever Love * First Church Of Deliverance Choir Featuring Earl "Fatha" Hines*, Marva Josie - Songs Of Deliverance, Volume IV Singles & EPs * 1962: You Lied * 1963: I Don't Care * 1965: I Love New York / "Don't" * 1965: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Mollet
Marva Mollet, known professionally as Marva (born 23 March 1943, in Vlissegem), is a Belgian singer who was very popular between 1963 and 1980 in Flanders. Her best-known songs are "Eiland in groen en blauw" ("Island Green and Blue"), "Oempalapapero" and "Rode rozen in de sneeuw" ("Red Roses in the Snow"). Life She was born Marva Mollet and grew up in Blankenberge. At age 20 she recorded her debut single, "Geef me nog een kans" ("Give me another chance") in 1963. In 1964 she married her manager and brought a son into the world. Between 1963 and 1980 she scored hits in Flanders with "Eiland in groen en blauw" (1967), "Fiesta" (1969), "Niemand wil je als je ongelukkig bent" ("Nobody Wants You if You Are Unhappy") (1974), "Rode rozen in de sneeuw" ("Red Roses in the Snow") (1975) and "Oempalapapero" (1975). In 1980 she left her audience and her music career with the song "Herinneringen" ("Memories"). She wanted some more time for her private life. Since then she has released n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Smith
Marva J. Smith, was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on October 28, 1999. Law career Smith obtained her law degree from the University of Manitoba in 1976, earning the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law gold medal. She also has a Master of Laws degree from the University of London (London School of Economics) in England. She practiced law for 21 years, including six years in private practice, three years as a consultant in labour relations and pay equity with Manitoba Labour and 13 years with the Constitutional Law Branch of Manitoba Justice. Smith served as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba for two years and has been involved in a variety of community organizations, including the Robert A. Steen Community Centre board, the Westminster Tot Lot board and the Community Unemployed Help Centre. She also served as senior counsel with the federal Department of Justice and as vice-president of the Manitoba branch of the Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Whitney
Marva Whitney (born Marva Ann Manning; May 1, 1944 – December 22, 2012) was an American funk singer commonly referred to by her honorary title, Soul Sister #1. Whitney was considered by many funk enthusiasts to be one of the "rawest" and "brassiest" music divas. Biography Early life Born in Kansas City, Kansas, her performing career started as early as three years old while touring with her family's gospel group, the Manning Gospel Singers. At the age of 16 she joined the Alma Whitney Singers and two years later she married Harry Olander Whitney with whom she had a daughter Sherrie Whitney. She began singing R&B music for the first time in 1963 at a Kansas City venueEccentric Soul: The Forte label, Sleeve notes by Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, published May 2013 and studied music at college. Whilst working at a garment factory, she continued performing in nightclubs and at local talent competitions, and by the mid-1960s had joined local group Tommy (Gadson) & The Derbys as their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marva Wright
Marva Wright (born Marva Maria Williams, March 20, 1948 – March 23, 2010) was an American blues singer. Biography Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, to mother Mattie P. Gilbert, and father Reverend Arthur Williams on March 20, 1948. Wright's first public singing efforts were heard in church at the age of 9, with her mother Mattie Gilbert, a piano player and gospel singer as her accompanist in which they recorded "I Walk With The King". Top honors in a school-sponsored singing competition followed. Mahalia Jackson, the esteemed gospel singer, was an early friend of the family. Marva graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1965 and attended Southern University of Baton Rouge. When Wright was discovered she was working as a secretary at Eleanor McMain Junior High in New Orleans. Wright did not turn professional until 1987, when she was almost forty years old. Even then, she only began singing as a way to support her family with a second job, the song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marwa (name)
Marwa or Marwah (Arabic: ) is an Arabic female given name derived from the word () with the meaning of either minerals, 'flint(-stone)', 'quartz' or 'a hard stone of nearly pure Silica Mineral, silica'. However, the Arabic name for quartz is (). The name is written ''Marva'' in the Persian language, Persian form. During the Ottoman period, Ottoman Period, the name was written ''Mervat'' (Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: ) or ''Marwa'' (Ottoman Turkish language, Ottoman Turkish: ), or ''Merve'' in the modern Turkish language, Turkish form. For the Kuria people, ''Marwa'' is used as a masculine name, reserved for the firstborn male in a family, along with names Chacha or Mwita. Firstborn girls are called either Bhoke, Robi, or Gati. The male variant of this given name is Marwan. Marwa is also a surname. Given name *Marwa Abidi (born 1990), Tunisian footballer *Marwa Amri (born 1989), Tunisian freestyle wrestler *Marwa Arsanios (born 1978), Lebanese artist, research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
