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Vulture Prince
''Vulture Prince'' is the third album by Pakistani musician Arooj Aftab, released by New Amsterdam Records on April 23, 2021. Thematically, the album discusses stories of people, relationships, and lost moments and is dedicated to the memory of her younger brother, Maher. "Mohabbat" won the Best Global Music Performance at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Critical reception Bhanuj Kappal of ''Pitchfork'' called the album a "heartbreaking, exquisite document of the journey from grief to acceptance." ''Vulture Prince'' was named the best album of 2021 by Netherlands newspaper ''de Volkskrant'', topping their year-end list. Brenna Ehrlich ranked the album sixth on ''Rolling Stone''s "Best Music of 2021" staff list. It was ranked number twenty by ''The Guardian'' on their list of the "50 best albums of 2021", and Laura Snapes named Aftab " e year's biggest musical revelation". While ''Vulture Prince'' did not rank on the ''Los Angeles Times'' top ten "Best Albums of 2021", it was, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arooj Aftab
Arooj Aftab (; born March 11, 1985) is a Pakistani singer, composer, and producer based in the United States. She works in various musical styles and idioms, including jazz, minimalism, and neo-Sufi. Aftab was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Best New Artist award and won the Grammy Award for Best Global Music Performance, Best Global Music Performance award for her song "Mohabbat (song), Mohabbat" at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards in April 2022. She became the first-ever Pakistani artist to win a Grammy Award. On the 75th diamond jubilee anniversary of Pakistan, President Arif Alvi awarded to Aftab, the Pride of Performance, Pride of Performance Award, the highest literary award for showing excellence in the field of art and music. Early life and education Aftab was born to Pakistani parents expatriated in Saudi Arabia. When she was about 10 years old, they returned to their native Lahore, Pakistan. She learned to play the guitar in autodidact and graduall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and previously worked as a civil rights lawyer before entering politics. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the '' Harvard Law Review''. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Albums
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Gyan Riley
Gyan Riley (born 1977) is an American guitarist and composer. He is a son of minimalist composer Terry Riley. They frequently collaborate, including a tour in Europe in September 2016. Gyan Riley studied at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He released his solo album ''Stream of Gratitude'' in 2013 on John Zorn's Tzadik Records. He has also performed with Zakir Hussain, Dawn Upshaw, Arooj Aftab, and the San Francisco Symphony, among others. In 2015, he released ''Nayive Eviyan'', a collaboration with Czech violinist Iva Bittová. Discography As leader * ''Food for the Bearded'' (New Albion, 2002) * ''Melismantra'' (Self-released, 2007) * ''New York Sessions'' (Agyanamus Music, 2010) * ''Stream of Gratitude'' (Tzadik, 2011) * ''Terry Riley & Gyan Riley Live'' with Terry Riley (Sri Moonshine Music, 2011) *''Sprig'' (National Sawdust Tracks, 2018) As sideman With John Zorn * ''John Zorn’s Olympiad Volume 1: Dither Plays Zorn'' (Tzadik, 2015) with Dither * ''Midsummer Moon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamey Haddad
Jamey George Haddad (born July 2, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American percussionist who works primarily in the fields of jazz and world music and specializes in hand drums. Biography Haddad is of Lebanese ancestry. From the age of four, he began playing Lebanese percussion instruments, such as the goblet drum. He later studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in New York City for over 20 years. In 2002, he and his family moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio. He teaches at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. He is also artistic director of the Friday's at 7 series at Cleveland's Severance Hall. This series features the Cleveland Orchestra and a secondary performance of folk artists from around the world. Music career For five years, Haddad studied Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music, with Ramnad Raghavan. He received a Fulbright Fellowship, which allowed him to study South Indian Carnatic music, including the mri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadje Noordhuis
Nadje Noordhuis is an Australian trumpeter, composer and educator based in New York. Noordhuis is from Sydney, Australia where she attended The Forest High School. She briefly studied sound engineering before moving to Melbourne to study trumpet and improvisation at the Victorian College of the Arts. She then travelled to New York where she completed her master's degree at Manhattan School of Music. She runs music label Little Mystery Records. In 2007 Noordhuis was a semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition. She was then selected as a Carnegie Hall Young Artist in 2010, where she studied with Dave Douglas. She has collaborated with Geoffrey Keezer, Maria Schnieder Jazz Orchestra and Arooj Aftab. As a composer, she has also been commissioned by Sara Caswell, ThoroughBass, ExhAust, the Festival of New Trumpet Music. Discography Albums She has also featured on albums by Arooj Aftab, the Awakening Orchestra, Zoe Guigueno, Anat Cohen and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magda Giannikou
Magda Giannikou is a Greek composer, film scorer, singer, pianist and accordionist. Early life and education Giannikou was born 27 January 1981, in Athens, Greece. She taught in Greek elementary schools and composed music for TV and theater productions in Athens. In Greece, she participated in over 50 children's productions and began her training in classical music and jazz. Giannikou graduated from the National Conservatory of Greece with a Certificate of Excellence. She also studied at the Philippos Nakas Conservatory in Athens. Giannikou went on to study film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, graduating in 2008. In 2009, Giannikou was selected to be a Fellow at the Sundance Institute Composers Lab. Career In 2010, Giannikou formed Banda Magda, a New York-based band, with an international group of musicians, including some fellow Berklee alumni. Their multilingual music is influenced by Latin American styles (such as samba), French ''chansons' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petros Klampanis
Petros Klampanis (born July 15, 1981), is a Greek bassist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator. Named a “Bass Ace” by Bass Player Magazine, composer and bassist Petros Klampanis grew up in Greece. In addition to his appearances in the US, he has performed at the JazzAhead Festival in Bremen, XJazz Festival in Berlin, and others. His 3rd album, Chroma, released by Motema records, was awarded as the best Live album of 2017, by the Independent Music Awards and was featured in radio and press outlets including WBGO. Since 2011, he has recorded 5 albums as a leader. His debut album “Contextual” was released by Inner Circle Music, while his second album “Minor Dispute”, was selected as one of the best jazz records in 2015 by NPR (National Public Radio USA). His music has been performed by Greek Public Symphonic Orchestra and by MOYSA the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of Thessaloniki. His 4th album 'Irrationalities' was released in October 2019 by Enja/Yellowbird. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maeve Gilchrist
Maeve Gilchrist is a Scottish harpist and composer currently living in New York City. She is known for combining traditional folk music, jazz, improvisation, and experimentation. Early life and education Gilchrist grew up in Edinburgh, where she was immersed in folk music due to her Scottish father and Irish mother, who were both musicians and frequently hosted music sessions in their home. Two of her mother's sisters are also professional harpists in Ireland. Around the age of ten, Gilchrist began studying classical piano at the City of Edinburgh Music School. Her studies broadened to include jazz and the harp. At age 17, she moved to the United States to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she received a full scholarship. She "met musicians from all over the world there, which I found so exciting – Colombian and Venezuelan musicians, for example, who used the harp in completely different ways." Career In 2019, ''The Irish Times'' called Gilchrist "the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Ali Khan
Quratulain “Annie” Ali Khan (; 1980 – 21 July 2018) was a Pakistani model, free-lance journalist, and author. Her book, ''Sita under the Crescent Moon'' was published by Simon and Schuster in 2019. Her work addressed gender inequality and social inequality in Pakistan and the United States, and she wrote about topics such as colorism, religious persecution, cultural assimilation, and violence against women. She died on 21 July 2018 in Karachi. Career Ali Khan began modeling after submitting her portfolio to popular photographer Tapu Javeri. Ali Khan worked as a fashion model to several top designers and brand names, and her first break came in a commercial for Lipton Tea. She also worked as a model for the television network MTV and starred in the MTV video ''Saali Tu Maani Nahin'' alongside Pakistani singer Shehzad Roy, which became popular at that time and gained positive reviews in Pakistan. While in New York for a video shoot, she met film director Sofian Kh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badi Assad
Badi Assad (born 23 December 1966) is a Brazilian singer, composer and guitarist in the jazz and worldbeat genres. Early life and education Assad was born in São João da Boa Vista in the state of São Paulo, but lived in Rio de Janeiro until she was twelve. Her father, Jorge Assad, of Lebanese descent, plays bandolim ( mandolin), and her two older brothers are classical guitarists Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad of Duo Assad. Career Assad studied classical guitar at the University of Rio de Janeiro and won the Young Instrumentalists Contest ("Concurso Jovens Instrumentistas for Young Musicians") in Rio de Janeiro in 1984. In 1986, she joined the Guitar Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro, headed by guitarist Turíbio Santos as conductor. In 1987, she was named "Best Brazilian Guitarist" of the International Heitor Villa-Lobos Festival. By 1987 she had played in Europe, Israel and Brazil with guitarist Françoise-Emmanuelle Denis under the name Duo Romantique. In 1988 she wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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