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Pura (given Name)
Pura is the given name of: * Pura Belpré (1899–1982), first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City * Pura Fé, Native American singer, songwriter, musician, poet, artist, dancer, teacher and social activist * Pura Lopez (born 1962), Spanish shoe designer * Pura López Colomé Pura López Colomé (born November 6, 1952) is a Mexican poet and translator. She has contributed to various magazines and cultural supplements with poetry, essays, and translations of poetry and prose from English into Spanish. Her awards include ... (born 1952), Mexican poet, translator * Pura Santillan-Castrence (1905—2007), Filipino writer and diplomat {{given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pura Belpré
Pura Belpré (February 2, 1899 – July 1, 1982) was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City. She was also a writer, collector of folktales, and puppeteer. Life Belpré was born in Cidra, Puerto Rico. p.58. There is some dispute as to the date of her birth which has been given as February 2, 1899, December 2, 1901 and February 2, 1903. Belpré graduated from Central High School in Santurce, Puerto Rico in 1919 and enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras, where she originally planned on becoming a teacher. But, in 1920, Belpré interrupted her studies to attend her sister Elisa's wedding in New York City, where she was recruited by a public library effort to hire young women from ethnically diverse backgrounds. This first job led to an remarkable career that had Belpré travel the city, from the Bronx to the Lower East Side, telling stories in both English and Spanish, something that hadn't been done before. Belpré broke the barriers that led the Spani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pura Fé
Pura Fé (born Pura Fé Antonia "Toni" Crescioni) Tuscarora/Taino, is an Indigenous singer-songwriter-musician, story teller, instructor, seamstress, artist and reviver of Canoe song/dance and woman's drum. Pura Fe is the founding member of the Native women's a cappella Trio Ulali. Personal life Pura Fé was born in New York City and brought up by her mother, grandparents and family of women singers. They count eight generations of singing sisters through their maternal bloodline as Indigenous Tuscarora Deer Clan of North Carolina, and have Black and Scot-Irish ancestry as well. The family moved to New York from North Carolina in the 1930s.''Southern Cultures''; Vol 15, No. 3, "Blues Power in the Tuscarora Homeland: The Music of Pura Fe", 2009 Her mother, Nanice Lund, was a classically trained opera singer who toured with Duke Ellington and his Sacred Concert Series. Her father, Juan Antonio Crescioni-Collazo, was born in Maunabo, Puerto Rico. His maternal roots are Indigenous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pura Lopez
Pura Lopez (born 29 September 1962 in Elche, Spain) is a Spanish shoe designer, director of the design department of the Pura Lopez brand. She is a shoe designer for Royal Family members and Spanish cinema. Early life Pura Lopez was born in Elche, Alicante, Spain, the daughter of Antonio Lopez Moreno, a shoe manufacturer who founded his company as a family business in 1964 during the rapid growth of the shoe industry in pain Lopez was growing surrounded by shoes and everything related to shoe production. Her observations and attention to the techniques gave her deep knowledge of the shoe construction and design concepts. Later, in the interview for the Spanish Magazine '' Surrealista'', Lopez admitted that she was always attracted by art and creative process but she never really thought to work neither in the shoe industry nor in fashion. In 1979 Lopez entered the School of Applied Arts and Creative Careers of Alicante to study the Interior Design. In 1981 she proceeds with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pura López Colomé
Pura López Colomé (born November 6, 1952) is a Mexican poet and translator. She has contributed to various magazines and cultural supplements with poetry, essays, and translations of poetry and prose from English into Spanish. Her awards include the Alfonso Reyes National Essay Award, the National Poetry Translation Prize, and the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. Biography Pura López Colomé was born on November 6, 1952, in Mexico City. Most of her childhood was lived between the Federal District and Mérida, Yucatán, where her family is originates. At the age of twelve, after the loss of her mother, she was sent to a Catholic boarding school for Benedictine nuns located in South Dakota, United States. The boarding school had a library which offered a large selection. Thanks to the nun who taught her English class, Lopez Colome became interested in poetry, mainly Irish and poetry in general. In boarding school, she wrote her first poems and translated Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
