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Valentino (surname)
Valentino is an Italian surname. Notable people with the name include: * Bobby Valentino (American singer) (born Robert Wilson, 1980), now known as Bobby V * Bobby Valentino (British musician) (born c. 1954), British violinist, singer, songwriter and actor * Henri Valentino (1785–1865), French conductor * Jim Valentino (born 1952), American comic book creator * Robert Valentine (composer) (c. 1671–1747), Anglo-Italian composer also known as Roberto Valentino * Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926), Italian-American silent film actor, known simply as Valentino * Sal Valentino (born 1942), lead singer of The Beau Brummels * Thomas J. Valentino (died 1986), American businessman, among the first to develop libraries of sound effects and taped music * Val Valentino (born 1956), American magician, illusionist, and actor using the stage name the Masked Magician See also * Valentino (given name) * * Valentine (name) * Valentini (surname) * Valentinov (russian: link=no, ВалентиР... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Valentino (American Singer)
Bobby Marcel Wilson (born February 27, 1980), better known by his stage name Bobby V (also known as Bobby Valentino), is an American R&B singer. He was first a member of the R&B group Mista in 1994, before signing to rapper Ludacris through his label imprint, Disturbing tha Peace under Def Jam Recordings in 2005. Bobby V's first single as a solo artist, "Slow Down", released in February 2005, peaked at number 8 on ''Billboard''s Hot 100 chart. The single was certified gold by the RIAA and became the lead single for his eponymous debut album (2005)—which peaked at number 3 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and had a follow up single, " Tell Me" (featuring Lil Wayne). His next album, '' Special Occasion'' was released in May 2007, and warranted success from its second single, " Anonymous" (featuring Timbaland). He has charted three No. 1 albums on '' Billboard''s U.S. Top R&B Chart since 2006. Life and career 1980–2004: Early life and career beginnings Bobby Marcel Wilson wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Valentino (British Musician)
Bobby Valentino (born Robert James Beckingham, 22 June 1954) is a British musician, violinist and singer. Career Born in Chatham, Kent, he adopted the stage name Bobby Valentino in 1975. Valentino's first success was as a founding member of The Fabulous Poodles, but he is most often recognised as the violinist and co-writer of the #1 hit single " Young at Heart", by The Bluebells. After leaving the Fabulous Poodles in the early 1980s, Valentino was a member of the Electric Bluebirds before joining the Hank Wangford Band at the beginning of 1984. The British country band already included pedal steel guitarist B. J. Cole (Cochise) and former Liverpool Scene/Scaffold/ guitarist Andy Roberts. Soon after joining the Hank Wangford Band, Valentino was performing with them in a pub when members of The Bluebells heard his playing, and asked him to join them in recording Young at Heart. In the five years that Valentino was part of Wangford's band they recorded three albums; filme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Valentino
Henri Valentino (14 October 1785 – 28 January 1865) was a French conductor and violinist. From 1824 to 1832, he was co-conductor (with François Habeneck) of the Paris Opera, where he prepared and conducted the premieres of the first two grand operas, Auber's ''La muette de Portici'' and Rossini's ''Guillaume Tell''. From 1832 to 1836, he was First Conductor of the Opéra-Comique, and from 1837 to 1841, conductor of classical music at the Concerts Valentino in a hall on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. Early life and career He was born Henri-Justin-Armand-Joseph Valentino in Lille. His father was an Italian army pharmacist, who wanted his son to become a soldier, but Henri exhibited such a great talent for music, he was allowed to pursue that instead. At twelve he was playing violin in the local theatre (probably in Lille), and at fourteen was asked to substitute for a conductor on short notice, thereafter mainly dedicating himself to conducting. Later he conducted in Rouen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Valentino
Jim Valentino (born October 28, 1952) is an American writer, penciler, editor and publisher of comic books, best known for his 1990–1992 work on ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' for Marvel Comics, and for co-founding Image Comics, a company publishing creator-owned comics. At Image Comics, Valentino produced books such as the superhero vigilante series ''ShadowHawk'', and the 1997 semi-autobiographical black and white book '' A Touch of Silver''. Valentino also served as publisher of Image from 1999 to 2003, during which he oversaw the diversification of Image's publication through his discovery of creators such as Robert Kirkman, who co-created the critically and commercially successful comic book '' The Walking Dead''. Early life Jim Valentino was born on October 28, 1952 in the Bronx, New York. Career 1970s–1992 Valentino began his career in the late 1970s,creating small press and mostly autobiographical comics. The early-mid-1980s saw ''normalman'', which first appeared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Valentine (composer)
Robert Valentine (c. 1671 – 26 May 1747), also known as Roberto Valentini and Roberto Valentino, was an English composer, recorder player, oboist and violinist, who moved to Rome and became a naturalised Italian. He is noted for his large number of compositions for the recorder. Biography Born c. 1671, he was baptized in Leicester on 16 January 1674.Lasocki (1999), p. 11 He was the son of Thomas Follentine or Follintine, who lived in Leicester from c. 1670 and worked as a town musician there accompanied by his elder sons Thomas and Henry. The family became a prominent one in the musical life of Leicester; descendants included John Valentine, who was the grandson of Robert's eldest brother Thomas, and John Valentine's daughter Ann Valentine.Drage. Robert Valentine seems to have spent little if any of his adult life in England before moving to Italy, where he became known by the Italian versions of his name. He settled in Rome and took a Roman wife, mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Valentino
Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,'' '' The Sheik,'' '' Blood and Sand,'' ''The Eagle'', and ''The Son of the Sheik.'' Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the "Latin Lover" (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls), the "Great Lover", or simply Valentino. His early death at the age of 31 caused mass hysteria among his fans, further cementing his place in early cinematic history as a cultural film icon. Early life Childhood and emigration Valentino was born in Castellaneta, Apulia, and named Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella. Birth name: Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi. His father, Giovanni Antonio Giusep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Valentino
Sal Valentino (born Salvatore Spampinato; September 8, 1942) is an American rock musician, singer and songwriter, best known as lead singer of The Beau Brummels, subsequently becoming a songwriter as well. The band released a pair of top 20 U.S. hit singles in 1965, "Laugh, Laugh" and " Just a Little". He later fronted another band, Stoneground, which produced three albums in the early 1970s. After reuniting on numerous occasions with the Beau Brummels, Valentino began a solo career, releasing his latest album, ''Every Now and Then'', in 2008. Career Valentino grew up in the North Beach section of San Francisco. In 1964, he received an offer to play a regular gig at a local club. Needing a band, he called childhood friend and songwriter/guitarist Ron Elliott, who recruited drummer John Petersen, rhythm guitarist/singer Declan Mulligan, and bassist Ron Meagher. They called themselves "The Stepping Stones", and played the Longshoreman's Hall in S.F., which led to a more lucrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas J
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Court and its longest-serving member since Anthony Kennedy's retirement in 2018. Thomas was born in Pin Point, Georgia. After his father abandoned the family, he was raised by his grandfather in a poor Gullah community near Savannah. Growing up as a devout Catholic, Thomas originally intended to be a priest in the Catholic Church but was frustrated over the church's insufficient attempts to combat racism. He abandoned his aspiration of becoming a clergyman to attend the College of the Holy Cross and, later, Yale Law School, where he was influenced by a number of conservative authors, notably Thomas Sowell, who dramatically shifted his worldview from progressive to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Valentino
Val Valentino (born Leonard Montano, June 14, 1956)Brownfield, Paul (October 31, 1998)"Fox Isn't Disillusioned as Masked Magician Series Ends". ''Los Angeles Times''. is an American magician. Valentino starred in a series of four television specials exposing the methods behind numerous classic magic tricks and illusions on the Fox network. In the specials, he used the stage name the Masked Magician and concealed his true identity by wearing a mask with a squid like design, being aware of the stigma amongst the magic community with publicly exposing tricks. As the finale to the final special, Valentino revealed his identity as the Masked Magician, garnering some notoriety amongst the magic community, and instigating several lawsuits. Valentino became well known in Brazil after his sketches were broadcast in Rede Globo's Sunday newsmagazine show ''Fantástico'' from 1999 to 2000, in which he was referred to by the alias Mister M. Life and career Valentino's first foray into mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentino (given Name)
Valentino is an Italian male given name, the masculine equivalent of the female givne name Valentina (given name), Valentina. It may be abbreviated as "Vale" or "Tino". The equivalent English male given name is Valentine (name), Valentine. A surname, Valentino (surname), Valentino, also exists. People named Valentino include: Given named * Valentino Argento (1901–1941), Italian Olympic fencer * Valentino d'Apreja (died 1539), Italian Roman Catholic bishop * Valentino Babini (1889–1952), Italian general * Valentino Balboni (born 1959), Italian test driver for Lambourghini * Valentino Baldi (1774–1816), Italian painter * Valentino Panciera Besarel (1829–1902), Italian sculptor * Valentino Bellucci (born 1975), Italian philosopher * Valentino Bertolini (1917–1967), Italian Olympic racewalker * Valentino Blake (born 1990), U.S. American football player * Valentino Bocca controversy, Valentino Bocca (born 2002/2003), Italian child who was the centre of an Italian court case ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine (name)
Valentine is a masculine given name, feminine given name, and a surname, derived from the Roman family name Valentinus, which was derived from the Latin word ''valens'', which means "strong and healthy." Valentine can be considered an English translation or adaptation of the names Valentinus or Valentinian. It was the name of several saints of the Roman Catholic Church. St. Valentine's Day was named for a third-century martyr. The usual feminine form of the name is Valentina. People with the given name * Saint Valentine, 3rd century Roman saint * Valentine of Passau (died 475), Catholic saint, monk, abbot, bishop and hermit * Pope Valentine (died 827), briefly Roman Catholic pope * Valentine Abt (1873–1942), American composer and mandolin player * Valentine Ackland (1906–1969), English poet * Valentine Berriochoa, one of the Vietnamese Martyrs * Valentine Colasante (born 1989), French ballet dancer * Valentine de Saint-Point (1875–1953), French poet, playwright and pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentini (surname)
Valentini is a surname and, less commonly, a given name, of Italian origin. It is etymologically related to the name, Valentine.Vivian Welch Sharit, ''Welch: South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas'' (2001), p. 43. People with the name include: People with the surname * Valentini, an aristocratic family, at one time owners of Canossa Castle * Alfredo Valentini (born 1946), Sammarinese sports shooter * Andrea Valentini (designer) (born 1961), American designer * Andrea Valentini (pentathlete) (born 1977), Italian modern pentathlete * Andrea Valentini, drummer for Blood, Sweat & Tears since 2001 * Antonio Valentini, president of Central Bank of San Marino * Antony Valentini, theoretical physicist * Carlo Valentini (born 1982), San Marinese footballer * Federico Valentini (born 1982), San Marinese footballer * Frank Valentini (born 1963), American television producer, executive producer for the ABC soap opera ''One Life to Live'', currently ''General Hospital'' * Gian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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