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Merli
Merli is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adalberto Maria Merli (born 1938), Italian actor * Danio Merli (born 1956), Italian sprint canoeist *Francesco Merli (1887–1976), Italian opera singer *Franco Merli (born 1956), Italian actor *Gino J. Merli (1924–2002), United States Army Medal of Honor recipient *Maurizio Merli (1940–1989), Italian actor * Corrado Merli (1959), Italian footballer *Reidar Merli (1917–2007), Norwegian wrestler * Simone Merli, Italian Electronic musician and Music producer *Merli is also the name of a Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2000 and was not originally intended to b ... character. * Merlí is a television series produced by Catalan channel TV3. {{surname, Merli Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Merli
Franco Merli (born 31 October 1956) is an Italian actor, who is best known for his role in ''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom''. Early life Very little is known about Franco Merli, who appeared in several Italian films throughout the 1970s. He was born on 31 October 1956 in Rome, Italy. In 1973, famous Italian poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini discovered Merli. The 16-year-old was working as a petrol station attendant at that time (as Ninetto Davoli, a friend of Pasolini and actor in most of his films, recounts). Pasolini was searching for a young man to play the lead in his upcoming feature ''Arabian Nights'' (''Il fiore delle mille e una notte''). The director immediately knew that Franco Merli, with his small but muscular physique, dark Mediterranean looks, and ready smile, was the perfect choice for the role of Nur Ed Din. Or, as he once said: "(...) a boy from Corleone (in Sicily) who has the innocence of his sixteen years in the physique of an eighteen-year-old." Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merli (software)
was produced by Yamaha Corporation with i-style Project for Vocaloid 3. Her voice is provided by a contest winner, Japanese female, Misaki Kamata. Merli was developed as the elder sister to Aoki Lapis. She is named after the stone "Merlinite", which was the chosen name out of many suggestions put forward by fans of Vocaloid. Development Merli was first announced in April 2012 as "i-style 2nd Project". A competition was held to find the name of the VOCALOID. At the end of June 2012, an i-style video event featured a silhouette of her in profile in a live stream and confirmed details of her were due soon. At the end of July 2012, i-style Project released illustrations of her on their official website, and on early August 2012, i-style Project started an open recruitment for a voice provider for Merli. The deadline of the recruitment was set on September 10, 2012. Later this was extended to the November 30, 2012. On November 30, 2012, the auditions were over and the process o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adalberto Maria Merli
Adalberto Maria Merli (born 14 January 1938) is an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Rome, Merli is active on film and television and he has appeared in over 27 films since 1965. He had his breakout role in the 1968 RAI television series ''La freccia nera''. After some further television success through the TV series ''Le terre di Sacramento'' and ''E le stelle stanno a guardare'' Merli made his film debut in the 1971 Miklós Jancsó's drama film ''La tecnica e il rito'', then he became quite active in films of "poliziottesco" or political genre, often in leading roles. Merli is also active as a voice actor. He is known for having dubbed over the voices of Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, David Carradine, Brian Cox, Malcolm McDowell and Michael Caine in some of their films. In his Italian dubbed animation roles, he voiced James P. Sullivan in ''Monsters, Inc.'', Mr. Incredible in ''The Incredibles'', The Spirit of the West in '' Rango ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Merli
Maurizio Merli (February 8, 1940 – March 10, 1989) was an Italian film actor and a star of many Italian police thrillers. Career After a decade of minor film roles, 1974 saw a breakthrough for Merli with his first starring role in a remake of romantic drama '' Catene'', and brought in as lead in the third of a franchise for '' White Fang to the Rescue'', in part due to his resemblance to Franco Nero. However the following year became a true banner one for Merli when he made ''Violent Rome'' which was an enormous success, and made him the star of ''poliziotteschi'' genre. He went on to make 11 more, two as Commissario Betti, Merli's character in ''Violent Rome''. Betti is a detective who metes out apoplectic violence, and in some way the character was an exploitative imitation of American police thrillers like Dirty Harry and a film of Nero. However, distinctive elements in ''Violent Rome'' reflected Italian law enforcement of the era. Similar to Luigi Calabresi, a real lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corrado Merli
Corrado Merli (; born 17 October 1959) is an Italian former footballer. Club career After his 1977 debut with Mantova, in the autumn of 1978 he joined Rimini. The team was relegated to Serie C in the 1978–1979 season, but Merli secured a spot amongst the reserves until Rimini was promoted again to Serie B in 1979–1980. He then joined the first team for the next two Serie B seasons, until he transferred to Brescia to play two more seasons of Serie C1. His careers continued in Serie C1, playing three years with Carrarese and then with Fidelis Andria, winning the Serie C2 Championship in 1988–1989. He then played another year in Serie C2 with Giulianova until finishing his career in Serie D with Santegidiese in 1993. During his Serie B career with Rimini, he achieved a total of 65 appearances and 2 goals, with a grand total of 364 appearances and 8 goals throughout his professional football career. After Retirement Despite retiring from professional football, Merli h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Merli
Francesco Merli (28 January 188711 December 1976) was an Italian opera singer, particularly associated with heavy roles such as Otello, Canio and Calaf. He ranks as one of the finest dramatic tenors of the inter-war period. Life and career Francesco Merli was born Francesco Cova in Corsico (Milan), son of Luigi and Emilia Cova. and studied in Milan, with Carlo Negrini and Adelaide Borghi. In 1914, he won second prize at a singing competition in Parma, being edged out of first place by the great Beniamino Gigli. He made his debut at La Scala, Milan, in 1916, as Alvaro in Spontini's ''Fernand Cortez''. Merli would sing widely in Italy and South America during the next decade, and also toured Australia in 1928 with an opera company composed of leading La Scala singers and sponsored by Dame Nellie Melba (who also sang during that tour, in roles such as Mimi in ''La bohème'', despite being 67 years old). The tour included Merli singing Calaf in the Australian premiere of Puccini's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocaloid
is a singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2000 and was not originally intended to be a full commercial project. Backed by the Yamaha Corporation, it developed the software into the commercial product "Vocaloid" that was released in 2004. The software enables users to synthesize "singing" by typing in lyrics and melody and also "speech" by typing in the script of the required words. It uses synthesizing technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors or singers. To create a song, the user must input the melody and lyrics. A piano roll type interface is used to input the melody and the lyrics can be entered on each note. The software can change the stress of the pronunciations, add effects such as vibrato, or change the dynamics and tone of the voice. Various voice banks have been released for use with the Voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reidar Merli
Reidar Merli (1 April 1917 – 29 December 2007) was a Norwegian wrestler. He was born in Aurskog-Høland, and represented the club Kolbotn IL. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he placed sixth (shared), and at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ..., where he placed fifth. References External links * 1917 births 2007 deaths People from Aurskog-Høland Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Norwegian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of Norway Sportspeople from Viken (county) 20th-century Norwegian people 21st-century Norwegian people {{Norway-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danio Merli
Danio Merli (born June 9, 1956) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. He won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1975 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Belgrade. Merli also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of ninth in the K-2 1000 m event at Moscow in 1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – .... Now he is a gym teacher and one of three coaches of the Canoe Team of Canottieri Baldesio in Cremona, Lombardy. References * *Sports-reference.com profile 1956 births Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Italian male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists of Italy ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak 20th-century Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Merli
Soundwalk Collective is an international experimental sound art collective founded in 2001 by Stephan Crasneanscki, who was joined by Simone Merli in 2008. The group is based in Berlin and New York. They have engaged in collaborations with other musicians such as the American singer Patti Smith on the ''Perfect Vision'' Trilogy. Work Composition Soundwalk Collective’s musical work emerges from a multidisciplinary approach rooted primarily in psycho- geography and in the exploration of recording and synthesis. Elements of observation of nature, non-linear narrative, ethnography, and anthropology are intertwined in their work. In order to create following this approach they have travelled across the world from cities to remote locations for long periods of investigation and fieldwork to source the unique materials that form the core of their work. Notable Collaborations Since their foundation, Soundwalk Collective have collaborated with numerous musicians including American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merlí (TV Series)
''Merlí'' is a Spanish television series produced by the Catalan channel TV3 about a philosophy teacher of the same name who encourages students to think freely using philosophy. The series, created and written by Hector Lozano and directed by Eduard Cortés, premiered on 14 September 2015 in prime time and reached a share of 17.7% with 566,000 viewers. The second season of the series premiered on TV3 on 19 September 2016 and ended on 12 December 2016, and the series' third and final season began airing on 18 September 2017 and ended on 15 January 2018. Each episode is named after a different philosopher or school of thought. Influenced by films like ''Dead Poets Society'', ''Merlí'' attempts to bring philosophy to the public. Each episode includes the approaches of a great thinker or school, such as the Peripatetics, Nietzsche or Schopenhauer, linking their teachings with fictional events and characters. The theme song is a version of " Flight of the Bumblebee". The first sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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