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Shandi (album)
Shandi may refer to: People * Shandi Finnessey, Miss USA winner and game show host * Shandi Mitchell, Canadian novelist * Shandi Sinnamon, the American singer, songwriter Places * Shandi, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran * Shendi Shendi or Shandi ( ar, شندي) is a small city in northern Sudan, situated on the southeastern bank of the Nile River 150 km northeast of Khartoum. Shandi is also about 45 km southwest of the ancient city of Meroë. Located in the R ... the city of Shandi (or Shendi) in Sudan Other uses * "Shandi" (song), a song by the American hard rock band Kiss {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandi Finnessey
Shandi Ren Finnessey (born June 9, 1978) is an American actress, model, TV host and beauty queen. She is best known for winning the Miss USA title, as Miss Missouri USA. She previously held the title of Miss Missouri 2002 and competed in Miss America, where she won a preliminary award. She placed as first runner-up at the Miss Universe 2004 competition. She is one of three women to have been both Miss Missouri USA and Miss Missouri and the only Missourian to have been Miss USA. Her first runner-up finish at Miss Universe was the best placement in the 2000s and was the best United States placement between Brook Mahealani Lee's Miss Universe 1997 competition victory and Olivia Culpo's Miss Universe 2012 pageant win. In 2002, Finnessey authored an award-winning children's book, ''The Furrtails'', on individuality and disabilities. In the mid-2000s, she was Chuck Woolery's co-host for the game show ''Lingo'' on the Game Show Network. Finessey has also hosted '' PlayMania'' as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandi Mitchell , ''Under This Unbroken Sky''
*2008: Victor Martin-Lynch Staunton Endowment in Media Arts, Canada Council
Shandi Mitchell is a Canadian novelist and filmmaker. Her first novel ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' won a 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and other awards. She graduated from Dalhousie University. Her newest novel, ''The Waiting Hours'', is slated for publication in 2019. Awards and honors *2012: Kobzar Literary Award, ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' *2010: Commonwealth Writers' Prize (first novel, Canada and the Caribbean), ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' *2010: Thomas Head Raddall Award The Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award is a Canadian literary award administered by the Atlantic Book Awards & Festival for the best work of adult fiction published in the previous year by a writer from the Atlantic provinces. Works Literary *2011 - ''Under This Unbroken Sky'' () *2019 - ''The Waiting Hours'' Film *2002 ''Baba ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandi Sinnamon
Shandi Sinnamon (born 1952) is an American singer and songwriter. Career Shandi was born to a Huguenot family as Shandra Sinnamon in Miami, Florida. After dropping out of high school, she left home for Big Sur, California. Her ambition was to become a singer and songwriter. After a bicycle accident in L.A., she went back to Florida for recuperation. While recovering, she studied music and drama at a community college. While she was singing in a local restaurant, a disc jockey noticed her talent and introduced her to Elektra/Asylum Records. In 1976, she released her first album, ''Shandi Sinnamon'', on Asylum Records. Around the same time in Los Angeles, California, Mike Chapman discovered her. In 1980, they released her second album '' Shandi'' from his Dreamland Records, with Chapman producing. Shandi and Ronald Magness wrote and performed the song "He's a Dream" that was used in the 1983 film ''Flashdance'', the soundtrack of which won the Grammy Award for Best Album of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandi, Khuzestan
Shandi ( fa, شندي, also Romanized as Shandī) is a village in Seyyed Abbas Rural District, Shavur District, Shush County, Khuzestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 44, in 5 families. References Populated places in Shush County {{Shush-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shendi
Shendi or Shandi ( ar, شندي) is a small city in northern Sudan, situated on the southeastern bank of the Nile River 150 km northeast of Khartoum. Shandi is also about 45 km southwest of the ancient city of Meroë. Located in the River Nile state, Shandi is the center of the Ja'alin tribe and an important historic trading center. It's principal suburb on the west bank is Matamma. A major traditional trade route across the Bayuda Desert connects Matamma to Merowe and Napata, 250 km to the northwest. The city is the historical capital of the powerful Arabised Nubian Ja'alin tribe whom most of its denizens belong to. The village of Hosh Bannaga, where former President Omar al-Bashir's hometown is, is located on the outskirts of the city. Etymology The narrations and interpretations differed about the meaning of the word “Shendi” and the reason for naming the city with it. Sudan in the sixth century and thereafter constitutes a large market slavery in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
