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Björn Afzelius
Björn Svante Afzelius (27 January 1947 – 16 February 1999 ) was a Swedish singer-songwriter and guitar player. He was an outspoken socialist, known for his support for Olof Palme. His songs are about love, politics and joys and sadness in life. Career Björn Svante Afzelius was born on 27 January 1947 in Huskvarna, Jönköping County. His father Svante Arnold Afzelius (1923–1976) was an engineer and his mother Ulla Afzelius (1926–1971) was a housewife. His only sibling is his brother Bengt (b. 1952) who is a music teacher. He came into contact with music from a very young age, because his mother and her side of the family were largely into music. In 1970, Afzelius formed the progg group Hoola Bandoola Band together with Mikael Wiehe. Wiehe and Afzelius became very close friends and worked together long after Hoola Bandoola had dissolved in 1975. Afzelius released his first solo album in 1974, his last one in 1999. Some of his most popular songs are "Ikaros", "Tusen bita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huskvarna
Huskvarna (; formerly spelled ''Husqvarna'') constitutes the eastern part of Jönköping, a city in the Sweden, Swedish province of Småland, and has a population of about 24,000. The distance to central Jönköping is about 5 km. The name Huskvarna translates to House Mill. Between 1911 and 1970, it was a Cities in Sweden, city municipality of its own. It geographically grew together with Jönköping in the 1950s. Since the local government reform in 1971, it is administratively within Jönköping Municipality. History A royal rifle manufacturer was established in Husqvarna, as it was originally spelled, in 1689, and lasted until 1757, when it was sold to private owners. It continued to supply the Swedish and Norwegian armies with rifles (for example, in 1870, some 10,000 rifles were finished), but the company later switched to the production of sewing machines and bicycles. Today, it is known as Husqvarna AB, an internationally known company with a variety of products. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahsa Vahdat
Mahsa Vahdat (in Persian مهسا وحدت) (born 29 October 1973, Tehran, Iran) is a Persian classical and world music vocalist. Mahsa Vahdat's music style is contemporary expression inspired by old traditional and folk and regional music of Persia/Iran that she developed for many years and it is the result of work with many musicians from Iran and other countries. She writes most of her songs. In her music she also developed dialogue between other cultures in a high artistic quality and she got a huge response internationally. The text of her work is mostly from classical and contemporary Persian poetry such as the works by Hafez and Rumi. She has released materials with her sister Marjan Vahdat (in Persian مرجان وحدت). as in albums ''Songs from a Persian Garden'', ''I Am Eve'' and ''Twinklings of Hope''. Life After learning to play piano, she studied traditional Persian singing under Pari Meleki and Mehdi Fallah. She also studied setar with Ramin Kakavand and Maso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Deaths
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the Year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome opens in London; online music downloading platform Napster is launched, soon a source of online piracy; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander; a destroyed T-55 tank near Prizren during the Kosovo War., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Death and state funeral of King Hussein rect 200 0 400 200 1999 İzmit earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Columbine High School massacre rect 0 200 300 400 Kosovo War rect 300 200 600 400 Year 2000 problem rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Climate Orbiter rect 200 400 400 600 Napster rect 400 400 600 600 Millennium Dome 1999 was designated as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fri Information
''Fri information'' is the fifth and final studio album by the Swedish progg and rock band Hoola Bandoola Band. It was recorded in August 1975 and released in October of the same year on the record label MNW. The album is the band's first with Björn Afzelius as a songwriter. Mikael Wiehe had previously written all of the songs, except for "Dansmelodi", which was written by Thomas Wiehe. The album was the band's last before their breakup in 1976. The album sold 43,000 copies, and its artwork was made by Tore Berger. Track listing ;Side one # "Tillbaka (Stures sång)" (Mikael Wiehe) - 4:50 # "Älska mej, Bill" (Wiehe) - 4:15 # "Birmingham" (Björn Afzelius) - 4:03 # "LTO-tango" (Afzelius) - 2:55 # "Victor Jara" (Wiehe) - 4:30 ;Side two # "Kvinnoförakt" (Afzelius) - 5:08 # "Huddinge, Huddinge" (Wiehe) - 4:20 # "Juanita" (Afzelius) - 4:53 # "Hur länge skall vi vänta" (Wiehe) - 6:53 Charts Personnel *Björn Afzelius - guitar, vocals *Mikael Wiehe - guitar, saxophone, flute, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zohra (orchestra)
Zohra (Arabic: زهرة, Persian: زهره) may refer to: People Given name *Zohra Al Fassiya (1905-1994), Moroccan singer and poet *Zohra Begum Kazi (1912–2007), Bangladeshi physician and activist *Zohra Bensalem (born 1990), Algerian volleyball player *Zohra Daoud (born 1954), American TV celebrity and model *Zohra Drif (born 1934), Algerian politician and lawyer *Zohra Lampert (born 1937), American actress *Zehra Nigah (born 1937), Urdu poet from Pakistan *Zohra Sarwari, Muslim American author, business coach, entrepreneur *Zohra Sehgal (born 1912), Indian stage and film actress *Zohra Aghamirova (born 2001), Azerbaijani rhythmic gymnast Middle name *Fatima Zohra Cherif (born 1986), Algerian volleyball player *Fatima Zohra Karadja (born 1949), Algerian Vice-President for the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council for Northern Africa *Fatima-Zohra Oukazi (born 1984), Algerian volleyball player Surname *Lalla Fatima Zohra (1929–2014), eldest daughter of King Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusians
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Lavon Volski
Leanid Arturavič Zejdel-Volski ( be, Леанід Арту́равіч Зэйдэль-Во́льскі; born on 14 September 1965 in Minsk), better known as Lavon Volski ( be, Ляво́н Во́льскі, ), is a Belarusian musician, writer, painter, and founder of the Belarusian rock groups Mroja, N.R.M., Zet (band), Zet, and Krambambula (band), Krambambula. Biography Lavon Volski is a Belarusian rock musician, an author of music and lyrics, poet, artist, group leader of N.R.M. and Krambambula, the owner of numerous musical awards, both personal and as a member of various collectives. Career He was a vocalist and a keyboard player of the Belarusian Rock-band Mroja. He wrote lyrics for ULIS, album Pa-nad dachami (1995) and was guitar player and the vocalist of Novaje Nieba. Now he is the rhythm guitar player and the vocalist of N.R.M., Zet (band), Zet and Krambambula (band), Krambambula. In 2008 he has also started a solo career and released a first album called "Bielaja jabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Au Désert
The Festival au désert (Festival in the Desert) was an annual concert in Mali, showcasing traditional Tuareg music as well as music from around the world between 2001 and 2012. It was founded and directed by Manny Ansar, and attracted thousands of visitors, bringing a huge boost to the economy. The first festival took place in 2001 in Tin Essako, then in Tessalit in 2002, and in Essakane from 2003 to 2009. From 2010 to 2012 it was held on the outskirts of Timbuktu. After an incursion of Timbuktu by Islamist militants in 2012, the festival was postponed, and has not been held since then since then due to security concerns. Several film documentaries have been made about or at the festival: ''Le Festival au Désert'' (2004), '' Dambé: The Mali Project'' (2008), ''The Last Song Before the War'' (2013), and ''Woodstock in Timbuktu'' (2013). The album ''Festival au Desert Live from Timbuktu'' (2013) has performances from the 2012 festival. From 2013, a collaborative venture kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square ( ar, ميدان التحرير ', , English language, English: Liberation Square), also known as "Martyr Square", is a major public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations in Cairo since the early 20th century; the city's previous central square was Salah al-Din Square. The 2011 Egyptian revolution and the resignation of President of Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak occurred at the Tahrir Square. History The square was originally called "Ismailia Square" ( '), after the 19th-century ruler Khedive Ismail, who commissioned the new downtown district's 'Paris on the Nile' design. After the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, the square became widely known as Tahrir (Liberation) Square. In 1933 Fuad I of Egypt, King Fuad I (r. 1922–1936), the son of Khedive Ismail, renamed the square officially to Khedive Ismail Square ('). Before the end of his reign in 1936, a roundabout with a garden was created at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab Spring
The Arab Spring ( ar, الربيع العربي) was a series of Nonviolent resistance, anti-government protests, Rebellion, uprisings and Insurgency, armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisian Revolution, Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation. From Tunisia, the protests then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain. Rulers were deposed (Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Ali Abdullah Saleh) or major uprisings and social violence occurred including riots, civil wars, or insurgencies. Sustained street demonstrations took place in Morocco, Iraq, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman and Sudan. Minor protests took place in Djibouti, Mauritania, State of Palestine, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and the Southern Provinces, Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. A major slogan of the demonstrators in the Arab world is ''Ash-shab yurid isqat an-nizam, ash-shaʻb yurīd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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