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Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)


"Make Your Own Kind of Music" is a pop song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, first recorded in 1968 by the New York City-based trio the Will-O-Bees (Janet Blossom, Steven Porter, and Robert Merchanthouse), who regularly performed Mann/Weil compositions. After Cass Elliot had a hit in the summer of 1969 with Mann/Weil's "It's Getting Better", she recorded "Make Your Own Kind of Music" as the follow-up single, and her
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My Kind of Music


answers as possible in the minute. There wasn't such a thing as a third round, more like an opportunity for the studio audience and viewers at home to praise the singing abilities of the contestants, who would often appear solo, with the other standing out of this. A question would later be asked based on what the person sang. In the first few series, the non-singing team member would ask the question, and in the last few Michael Barrymore would instead. The team who just sang would sit
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Sureshbabu Mane


were laced with aesthetic embroidery through "kan" and "khatkas". His singing appeared to be very simple and easy, yet it was extremely difficult to imitate. He sang intricate phrases with such ease that one would seldom notice their complexity. He use to say " sing in such a way that after concert, your music eludes the memory of your audience. They should just be filled with the aura of the concert that lingers on " He was one of the few musicians in Maharashtra of that period who was drawn
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Service (Tenrikyo)


find." Each of them sang to his own tune. After listening to it, Oyasama said, "Thank you for your singing, but none of them will do. You should sing them this way." She sang loudly Herself. Then She told her attendants: "These are the songs of truth. So you must dance to the truth. Try dancing the best way you can." Each of them arranged the dance and showed it to Oyasama. Afterward, She said: "Thank you for your
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Nate Mendel


drum tracks, at times Mendel would have to remake his whole basslines. Mendel is known to use a pick almost exclusively. His preferred style was alternate picking, but on the fifth Foo Fighters album, "In Your Honor", he started to employ downpicking because "with this kind of music, you need the consistency and percussive sound you get from playing with downstrokes." For the acoustic shows, Mendel played fingerstyle. Nate is rarely seen singing. However he sang backup with Chris Shiflett on Monkey Wrench at the
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If We Ever Meet Again


I like it better with mistakes — I make mistakes. With me singing it, it gives it a different kind of swagger to it". Katy Perry sang the second verse, while Timbaland sang the first verse. In the chorus, both of them sang together. The last rap verse is performed by Timbaland's brother Sebastian, but he is uncredited. The music video was filmed in December 2009. It was directed by Paul "Coy" Allen, who directed "Morning After Dark" and "Say Something"
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Chen Da (singer)


in music. He did so “by … smashing a Coca Cola bottle on the stage,” shouting, "Why don't you sing your own songs? Sing your own songs!" before he started to sing during “a Tamkang Western Music Concert in 1976” – in Chinese! Obviously, he had been “taunting the audience(...)” because up to this point they had kept “favoring western songs.” It was the start of the "Sing Your Own Songs Movement". Opposing the westernized
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Simon Gilbert (tenor)


for the musical "Show Boat", he played lead man to the show's star, Cleo Laine. In 1972, he was contracted to be the singing voice for Peter O'Toole in The United Artists film, "Man of La Mancha", specifically to sing "The Impossible Dream" for O'Toole. In comparison, O'Toole's opposite number, Sophia Loren sang her own parts. He sang the complete part for O'Toole, who had realised that his voice 'was not up to the task of singing most of the
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Make Your Own Kind of Music (song)


album "Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama" was re-released as "Make Your Own Kind Of Music/It's Getting Better," the title cut having been added to the original track listing. However, Elliot's "Make Your Own Kind of Music" single only reached No. 36. The similar chart impact of the follow-up single, another Mann/Weil composition entitled "New World Coming," which reached No. 42, signaled Elliot's challenges in maintaining a profile as
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Laarni Lozada


feared that she lacked the eloquence to be part of that kind of milieu. Her musical talent, however, paved the way for her to become a university scholar while working as a student assistant of the school. Laarni sang both for passion and for a living. She sang in different social functions, particularly in weddings, joined singing competitions, and accepted guestings. She became a runner-up in the now-defunct "Sing Galing" of ABC5. She won the Rotary Club Intercollegiate/University singing contest, besting
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Open Your Heart (Madonna song)


Your Heart" would start with a dancer in a Japanese costume dancing behind her on a raised podium. As the music ends, Madonna starts singing "Nobody's Perfect" from her 2000 album "Music". In 2008, Madonna sang the first verse and chorus at two dates—Las Vegas and East Rutherford—of her Sticky & Sweet Tour. Madonna forgot the lyrics at the Vegas show and refused to sing the song in Boston; she performed "Express Yourself" instead. Madonna also performed an excerpt of the
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Una lacrima sul viso


"Una lacrima sul viso" (Italian for "A Tear on your Face") is a song composed by Mogol and Bobby Solo and performed by Bobby Solo. The song premiered at the fourteenth Sanremo Music Festival, with a double performance by Solo and Frankie Laine, who proposed an English version of the song with the title "For Your Love". The song entered the final, but Solo was affected by laryngitis. Unable to sing live, he sang with playback, being subsequently disqualified. The single peaked at
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Bohemian (band)


3, 2015, Kim appeared as a "skilled vocalist" participant on I Can See Your Voice, singing one of his Spring Day OSTs. After Kim Yong Jin joined Bohemian in 2012, the group released albums "Don't Hurt" and "There Is No Sun", followed by appearances on several music programs with singles, of the same titles. On variety shows, Park Sang Woo has done singing impressions, including Girls' Generation "The Boys". Also on variety shows, Bohemian members Park Sang Woo
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Giulio Caccini


dozens of musicians to sing in the new style, including the castrato Giovanni Gualberto Magli, who sang in the first production of Monteverdi's first opera "Orfeo". Caccini made at least one further trip to Rome, in 1592, as the secretary to Count Bardi. According to his own writings, his music and singing met with an enthusiastic response. However, Rome, the home of Palestrina and the Roman School, was musically conservative, and music following Caccini's stylistic lead was relatively rare there until after 1600.
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Live Concert at the Forum


"Where You Lead", medley of "Sing" and "Make Your Own Kind of Music", and "Didn't We" were released as the album's three singles, all throughout 1972. The lead single was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 15th Annual Grammy Awards in 1973. Music critics responded well to the album, with many commending Streisand's strong vocal performance. Commercially, "Live Concert at the Forum" peaked at numbers 17 and 19 on the album charts in Canada and the
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Indonesian Idol (season 7)


were then separated into five rooms, with two room of contestants being eliminated and one room of contestants that must perform again in front of judges. The remaining 27 contestants made it through to the final "Sing For Your Life" round. In that round, each contestant performed a song of their own choosing. Only 15 contestants made it through to the Top 15. After the 27 remaining contestants sang their final solo in Sing For Your Life round, they were called one by one to hear the final judgement. The
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Let the Music Heal Your Soul


"Let the Music Heal Your Soul" was released as a single by the Bravo All Stars on May 18, 1998. The band consisted of: Touché, The Boyz, The Moffatts, Scooter, Aaron Carter, The Backstreet Boys, Mr. President, Justin Timberlake, Sqeezer, Blümchen, R'n'G and Gil. The idea behind it was conceived by Alex Christensen, to benefit charity to the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation. Each artist took turns singing two lines from each verse, while all of the singers sang the
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Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments


special Barbra on record". The photography created for the album cover was tackled by Baron Wolman while Paul Perlow designed the inside cover and liner notes. Despite the live television special featuring additional songs not included on the album itself, the special in its entirety was released on August 29, 2006 by Rhino Entertainment as a DVD album. The new songs include a medley of "Sing" and "Make Your Own Kind of Music", "Look What They've Done to My Song Ma", "Crying Time"
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Music of Denmark


the Kind-Hearted. In the 13th and early 14th centuries, German minnesingers such as Tannhäuser and Frauenlob sang in the Danish courts. The Codex Runicus (c.1300) contains a verse written in runes with a non-rhythmic musical notation. The first line is "Drømdæ mik æn drøm i nat" (I Dreamed Me a Dream Last Night). There is also evidence that English monks came to Denmark to sing at a celebration commemorating St Canute, who died in 1086. In 1145, Lund Cathedral received Scandinavia's
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List of The X Factor finalists (British series 10)


used to live in Shipley, Bradford, where he attended Beckfoot School, before moving to Devon when he was 13. He then attended Coombeshead Academy. In July 2013, Friend won TeenStar 2013. Friend's room audition, in which he sang "Stand by Me", was the first audition of the series to be broadcast. Walsh commented "You have your own style, your own finish, love your voice. You're different." Friend's arena audition saw him sing "Too Much Love Will Kill You
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Mark Lindsay


#80 - January 1971), "Been Too Long on the Road" (#98 - June 1971) and "Are You Old Enough" (#87 - October 1971). Lindsay kept his profile up by appearing on The Carpenters television variety show "Make Your Own Kind of Music", as well as singing the themes to films "Something Big" (1971) and "Jody", the theme from "Santee" (1973 - credited to The Raiders). By the mid-seventies the
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Louise Gold


the gleefully statuesque, not-so-pure Gold ripped into the splendid trio of "Sing for your Supper", we would have believed anything"). Throughout the 1990s, Gold was a regular performer in the Lost Musicals concert productions, taking roles in fifteen of them and singing in associated BBC radio broadcasts. One of these was the British première of Kurt Weill's "One Touch of Venus" at the Barbican Centre in 1992, in which Gold sang the title character, which she reprised in another Lost Musicals
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Tender Mercies


he felt it was "too sweet" and sounded phony in the context of the film, although he acknowledged it as "very skillful". Duvall sang his own songs, a right he insisted be part of his contract. He commented, "What's the point if you're not going to do your own [singing]? They're just going to dub somebody else? I mean, there's no point to that." The film's financial backers were initially concerned about whether he could sing well enough
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NFTY


Convention is the largest convention of its kind. Music has been at the heart of NFTY since its beginnings. In NFTY's early years, traditional Jewish and Yiddish melodies were common as well as spirituals such as "Elijah Rock". In the 1950s, high school aged students sang songs composed by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer to promote social consciousness in young people, such as "Close Your Eyes and Point Your Finger" and "It Could Be a Wonderful World" and learned the dance steps and music then popular on
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Part of Your World


young girl, much like Ariel, sings about regularly watching Disney anthology series as a means of escaping her troubled childhood. Menken identified the musical motif he composed for the beginning of the ballad as his favorite part of the song. Ashman debuted "Part of Your World" for Clements and Musker at his apartment in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Only the directors' second time meeting Ashman and first time meeting Menken, Menken provided the piano accompaniment while Ashman sang Ariel's melody himself, instead of their traditional method of Menken singing
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Hopes Die Last


had their original line-up but, instead of "Becko" singing, it was Marco Mantovani who sang at the time and of course with Nicolò "Nick" with some singing and screaming. In 2008, they were able to break into the emocore scene with the release of the EP "Your Face Down Now". Thanks to their new album, the band sang in Germany, England, France, USA and Japan. The EP is considered the most influenced by emo sound work of the band and contains six
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Mukesh (singer)


, "That's strange, I don't recall singing that song". Mukesh created his own singing style with the help of music director Naushad Ali, who helped Mukesh to come out of his Saigal style and create his own style. Naushad gave him songs for the film "Andaz". Initially Mukesh was the ghost voice of Dilip Kumar in this movie and Mohammed Rafi sang for Raj Kapoor. He delivered many Hits for Naushad in films like: "Anokhi Ada" (1948), "Mela" (1948
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Muhammad Juman


was such a musician who brought out new colors, new ways and renovations to Sindhi music. He used to work hard and composed countless musical melodies. He had his own unique style of singing which was appreciated not only by public but also by other musicians. He sang the poetry of mystic poets but specially sang Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai with great love. One of the famous kafi song “Muhinjo Mulk Malir, Kotan Main Aaun Keean Guzariyan” was recorded for film Umer-Marvi. His famous and evergreen Kafi was “
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Original songs in Smash


(Mara Davi), who is subbing as The Diva for the night, perform the song for "Hit List", with Karen's character Amanda in her persona "Nina" and Daisy as The Diva performing at the Video Music Awards in a kind of sing-off. The song is available as a single. "Let Me Be Your Star" is an original song introduced in the first episode of the first season of the musical TV series "Smash", entitled Pilot. It was written by Marc Shaiman
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John Beal (composer)


ranging from Ed Sullivan to The Carpenters "Make Your Own Kind of Music", "The Captain & Tennille Songbook" and John Wayne's Emmy Award-winning "Sing Out Sweet Land," to "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". Beal was also the conductor and arranger for the vocal groups The Establishment, The Kids Next Door, The Nabors Kids, The King Cousins, and The Doodletown Pipers, and worked on stage in Las Vegas and on the showroom circuit with such icons of the day as Phyllis
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Pushing Daisies


Chenoweth sang "Hopelessly Devoted to You" from the movie musical "Grease". In "Pigeon", Chenoweth and Greene harmonized on the They Might Be Giants hit, "Birdhouse in Your Soul". Also in "Smell of Success", Greene sang "Morning Has Broken". Chenoweth asked to sing "Eternal Flame" in an episode, which Bryan Fuller agreed to accommodate. The song was sung in "Comfort Food". She performed a cover of Lionel Richie's "Hello" in "Window Dressed
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Udit Narayan


classical music at Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. Narayan started his Bollywood career in 1980 when he was noted by music director Rajesh Roshan, who asked Narayan to playback sing for the Hindi film "Unees-Bees". Narayan was given the opportunity to sing with the singer Mohammed Rafi. He sang for Devanand a couplet in Swami Dada.His first duet was in the film Sannata. Soon after, Narayan sang for a number of other movies, including "Bade Dil Wala" in 1983, where he sang a duet with senior
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Bee Gees


1978 for "How Deep Is Your Love" and one in 1979 for "Stayin' Alive"), and Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices for "Stayin' Alive". During this era, Barry and Robin also wrote "Emotion" for an old friend, Australian vocalist Samantha Sang, who made it a top 10 hit, with the Bee Gees singing backing vocals. Barry also wrote the title song to the film version of the Broadway musical "Grease" for Frankie Valli to perform, which went
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Shannon (South Korean singer)


Antenna Music. Shannon received high praise for her technical singing ability but was critiqued for her lack of emotion. She was selected into YG's group and sang songs such as "Man in the Mirror", "Who's Your Mama", "Happy", and "Ain't No Other Man". She advanced to the Top 4 (semi-finals) before she was eliminated. Shannon released her second digital single "Love Don't Hurt" on June 26, 2017. The single contains two version,
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It's Getting Better


in either territory. In the wake of the success of "It's Getting Better", Elliot's next two singles were recordings of Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil compositions: "Make Your Own Kind of Music" — which like "It's Getting Better" had been recorded by the Will-O-Bees in 1968 — and a new song, "New World Coming". Although both songs are now considered soft rock classics, their original chart success was fairly mild: "Make Your Own Kind of Music"
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At Folsom Prison


. Al Aronowitz of "Life" stated Cash sang the songs like "someone who has grown up believing he is one of the people that these songs are about." For "The Village Voice", Ann Fisher wrote that "every cut is special in its own way" and Richard Goldstein noted the album was "filled with the kind of emotionalism you seldom find in rock." Fredrick E. Danker of "Sing Out!" praised "At Folsom Prison" as "an album structured an aural experience for us
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Zella Jackson Price


was stolen. Price's music career began at the age of six, singing gospel music and playing piano accompaniment for her mother, Alberta (née Waterford) Cooper, who sang with the Waterford Sisters and Willie Mae Ford Smith. Price graduated from Sumner High School of St. Louis in 1957 and began her own career. By 1967, she had already made recordings and was touring Missouri singing gospel songs, having recorded with artists such as Oliver Sain Skeet Rogers, Denise Thimes and other artists. Price was a pioneer of gospel
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Bubblegum, Lemonade, and... Something for Mama


Bubblegum, Lemonade and… Something for Mama is the second solo album released by Cass Elliot under the billing "Mama Cass". It was recorded in 1969 and arranged and produced by Steve Barri. The album was originally released on July 5, 1969, with only 11 tracks. It was released again on December 6, 1969, under a new title and with a different album cover as Make Your Own Kind of Music/It’s Getting Better. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" had just become a hit
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I Like It (DeBarge song)


", to which Iris returned with, "you better thank your lucky stars if you sound even "close" to Bobby". According to Randy, who was also interviewed for the show, while he wrote lyrics to and sang lead on the song's verses, while Bunny wrote the bridge, which El sung, while Bunny said El "was the producer, he brought it all home". El composed the musical track and played piano. It also featured a sing-along type unified harmony which was arranged
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South Pacific (musical)


an older male. For the role of Nellie, Rodgers sought Mary Martin, who had nearly been cast to originate the role of Laurey in "Oklahoma!" Martin was playing the title role in the touring company of "Annie Get Your Gun". After Hammerstein and Rodgers saw her play in Los Angeles in mid-1948, they asked her to consider the part. Martin was reluctant to sing opposite Pinza's powerful voice; Rodgers assured her he would see to it the two never sang at the same time, a promise
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Paola Bruna


Paola Bruna (born 7 February 1973), previously Paola Åhlund, is a Swedish artist and singer of Chilean descent who grew up in Dalarna. Bruna was trained as a painter at Konstfack. Her efforts have included singing for Moder Jords Massiva, performing as DJ and releasing a solo album "Stockcity Girl". She also sang in the Teddybears single "Yours to Keep". In 2002, Bruna's song "Above the Candystore" was featured in the independent movie Spun with a corresponding music video. Her song "
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The Workshop (Smash)


sing in the episode. On March 15, 2012, it was revealed that Peters would sing "Everything's Coming Up Roses" from "", which she previously sang in the 2003 Broadway revival of the musical. In addition, another version of "Let Me Be Your Star" was heard as well as several other previous numbers heard on the show including "The 20th Century Fox Mambo", "History is Made at Night" and "The National Pastime". It also included a new number performed by Will
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History of music in Paris


The crowds on the streets, squares and markets of Paris were often entertained by singers of different kinds. The "goliards" were non-conformist students at the religious colleges, who led a bohemian life, and earned money for food and lodging by reciting poems and singing improvised songs, either love songs or satirical songs, accompanying themselves on medieval instruments. The "trouvéres" sang popular songs, romantic or humorous, largely borrowed in style and content from the troubadours of southern France. They often entertained crowds gathered on the
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Make Your Own Kind of Music (TV series)


Make Your Own Kind of Music was an American summer replacement television series starring The Carpenters that aired on NBC from July 20, 1971 to September 7, 1971. Some guest stars were Don Knotts, Herb Alpert, Al Hirt, Mark Lindsay, Patchett & Tarses, Helen Reddy, and the Doodletown Pipers. The key concept of the series was that each show starts off with the letter "A". The first show started off with "A is for Alpert", as Herb Alpert stood next to a big letter
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Kathy Troccoli


in 1986, in which year "Images" followed it. Troccoli then withdrew from her musical career returning to Long Island for a six-year sojourn, giving singing lessons and sang at weddings. In 1989, Troccoli was prominently featured on the selection "I'll Be Your Shelter", a Diane Warren-penned song which Taylor Dayne recorded for her album "Can't Fight Fate." "I'll Be Your Shelter" became a Top Ten single in 1990. After her mother's death, Troccoli returned to
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Vagaland


Martha (‘Pat’), daughter of the Reverend Robert Andrew, Church of Scotland minister in Walls for over 40 years, a girl he had known in childhood. She became a colleague and collaborator on many fronts, and together they edited "Da Sangs at A’ll sing ta Dee" (The Songs that I'll sing to you), a collection of dialect songs and music (1973). One of his own lyric poems, "Da Sang o da Papa Men", written from the perspective of the
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Cinderella (musical)


who the handsome traveler is until a page utters the words "Your Highness", kindly gives the Prince water from the well. After the Prince leaves, he sings "Loneliness of Evening", which had been composed for "South Pacific" in 1949 but not used in that musical. Cinderella sings "In My Own Little Corner" before there is any mention of the prince giving a ball. The names of the stepsisters were changed from the original production, and the "Royal Dressing Room Scene" was omitted.
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Melhem Barakat


song whose lyrics were taken from an article in the school journal and sang it first before his classmates and teachers, who appreciated his performance. Also in his school years, he used to sing in school parties and performed in various talent shows. Later, he joined the Rahbanis’ musical theater, where he sang in the choral and was the lead singer in the play Ar-rabih Assabeh (the seventh spring – 1984). Barakat then started producing his own songs in colloquial Lebanese - a dialect that he used exclusively
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Manuela Kraller


in a Finnish choir group, and discovered her new passion was singing. She began to take classical singing lessons and sang in more church and gospel choirs, and was soon asked to become a solo singer. She grew up with rock and metal music, and wanted to combine it with her classical background, and so began singing rock and metal music songs. While writing her own songs, she joined the Swiss band Nagor Mar, but shortly, she left and became a vocalist for German musical group Haggard. She only
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List of The X Factor finalists (Australia season 2)


singing at the age of seven, which helped her cope with the bullying she endured at school. Chatfield cited Jonny Craig as her musical influence and her family as her inspiration in life. She was the runner-up of the season. India-Rose Madderom was a contestant from Sydney, New South Wales who sang Joss Stone's version of "Some Kind of Wonderful" at her audition. Before entering "The X Factor", Madderom performed covers in pubs and worked as a waitress. She cited Beyoncé and Rihanna
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Reba Rambo McGuire


Southern gospel family group, The Singing Rambos, which was later shortened to The Rambos. As a teenager, she began her career as a solo artist in contemporary Christian music, becoming one of the innovators of this unique genre of music which merged Christian lyrics with modern styles of music. She toured with Andraé Crouch and the Disciples and sang at the Explo '72 festival (a kind of "Christian "Woodstock""). In 1976, Rambo won a Dove award for Contemporary Album of the Year for her album
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Lipstick on Your Collar (song)


"Lipstick on Your Collar" is a song written by Brill Building staff writers Edna Lewis (lyrics) and George Goehring (music) which was a 1959 hit single for Connie Francis. In a 1959 interview, Francis attributed her being the sole songstress then scoring rock and roll hits by saying: "Rock 'n' roll is a masculine kind of music" with its mindset of "'Come on out baby we're going to rock'...[best] suited for a man to sing...The mistake that many girl
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Martina McBride


brothers, Martin and Steve, who play in her concert band as of 2017, and a sister, Gina. Martina's parents, Daryl and Jeanne Schiff, owned a dairy farm. Daryl, who was also a cabinetry shop owner, exposed Martina to country music at a young age. Listening to country music helped her acquire a love for singing. After school, she sang for hours along to the records of such popular artists as Reba McEntire, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Jeanne Pruett, Connie Smith, and
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Sean McNamara (director)


N, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network. He collaborated with Shin Sang-ok to make "Galgameth" and "", starring Hulk Hogan. McNamara briefly appeared as the singing cowboy in the "Even Stevens" musical episode "Influenza: The Musical", and as an alleged alien abductee in the episode "Close Encounters of the Beans Kind". On "That's So Raven," McNamara had a cameo appearance as a plumber in the episode "Out of Control". In 2016, McNamara
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Ada Lee


Ada Lee is a singer from Springfield, Ohio, who has performed jazz, blues, gospel and soul music on stage and record in the United States and Canada since the late 1950s. Ada Lee was born in Springfield, Ohio and grew up there in a musical family. Her father was a professional trumpeter who played all over Ohio with his own band. Her mother also played piano and organ and sang. From the time Ada was in junior high school she took her singing seriously and studied intensively with teachers in Springfield
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Arabic literature


's poetry. The Umayyad and 'Abbasid periods saw professional singing slave girls ("qiyan", sing. "quayna") who sang love songs and accompanied these with music; alongside panegyric and competitive verse-capping, "qiyan" also sang love-poetry ("ghazal"). In his "Risalat al-Qiyan" ("Epistle of the Singing-Girls"), al-Jahiz (d. 255/868×69) reckoned that an accomplished singer might have a repertoire of 4,000 songs. Pre-eminent '
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Roger Miller


begin his musical career. He met with Chet Atkins, who asked to hear him sing, loaning him a guitar since Miller did not own one. Out of nervousness, Miller played the guitar and sang a song in two different keys. Atkins advised him to come back later, when he had more experience. Miller found work as a bellhop at Nashville's Andrew Jackson Hotel, and he was soon known as the "singing bellhop." He was finally hired by Minnie Pearl to play the fiddle in her band.
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Kadim Al-Saher


. Apart from his mother, Al Saher's family were never supportive of his direction in becoming a musician. They had no faith in him that he would become successful, and instead wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer. Saher's brother once took him to different places where people usually sang, and told him it's your choice to sing a respectful way or you can choose to do it the bad way. He said that the only way to achieve success is if you respect your music and respect yourself
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Kelly Clarkson


her to audition for the school choir. Clarkson told her that she had never received any professional vocal training. Clarkson graduated from Burleson High School in 2000, where she performed in several musicals, such as "Annie Get Your Gun", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" and "Brigadoon". She sang at her high school talent show, after which an audience member shared some inspiring words with her: "God has given you this gift. You've got to sing. You're destined to sing."
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George Beverly Shea


Tonight." Although Shea "impressed the critics and scores of fans", he still didn't feel he had discovered a direction for his life. In 1933 a network radio director heard Shea sing and arranged an audition to sing popular secular songs for "Your Hit Parade", a national program with the Lyn Murray Singers broadcast on the NBC network. Shea passed the audition and was offered a job, but reluctantly turned the position down because he didn't feel right about performing secular music. Shea sang regularly on radio
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Part of Your World


musical, Boggess was eventually replaced by actress Chelsea Morgan Stock, who performed "Part of Your World" for the remainder of the show's run, describing the song as her "favorite moment". Stock reprised her role as Ariel and performed "Part of Your World" in Dallas Summer Musicals' stage adaptation of "The Little Mermaid" at the Music Hall at Fair Park in 2014. As part of the production's remagining, Stock sang "Part of Your World" while attached to a harness and hoisted several
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Kobzar


A Kobzar (, pl. kobzari ) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment played on a multistringed bandura or kobza. Kobzars were often blind and became predominantly so by the 1800s. "Kobzar" literally means 'kobza player', a Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family, and more broadly — a performer of the musical material associated with the kobzar tradition. The professional kobzar tradition was established during the Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth century in Ukraine. Kobzars accompanied their singing with a musical instrument known
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Lucy Lawless


dirge music of her own composition; this made it into the episode "The Path Not Taken" as the dirge "Burial," which she sang for the first time in the episode. Two musically-oriented episodes, "The Bitter Suite" and "Lyre, Lyre, Heart's On Fire," also showcased not only her singing but also that of some of her castmates. ("See also" "for details.") Lucy was encouraged to pursue a singing career after being a contestant on "
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Martina Sorbara


at a Canadian music festival and forming an electropop duo with him. Initially named The Fuzz, that project evolved into Dragonette. She subsequently characterized her early solo music as sounding like it had been made for tampon commercials. Sorbara co-wrote and sang on the 2006 Basement Jaxx single "Take Me Back to Your House". She also appeared in the video for the song. She was credited as Martina Bang. In 2009, Sorbara was featured on The Henrys album "Is This Tomorrow", singing on the track
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Jackie Evancho


"Musical meets Symphony", and to give her own concert there with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. While there, she sang for the Imperial family. In February 2012, Evancho sang at the US National Prayer Breakfast. In April, Evancho appeared on "Dancing with the Stars", singing "Ave Maria" and "Dark Waltz" to accompany two dance teams. She performed as a guest star on the 2012 season finale of "Canada's Got Talent". In June, that year, she sang in Russia
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Button Up Your Overcoat


as "The Cold Diggers of 1969" sing and dance to "Button Up Your Overcoat" in a "Busby Berkeley"- style production number. Father Mulcahy and Hawkeye sing "Button Up Your Overcoat" in episode 20, season 6 of M*A*S*H, "Mail Call Three". In 1997, the Kidsongs Kids and the Biggles sang "Button Up Your Overcoat" as part of the "Kidsongs: I Can Do It!" VHS/DVD. Helen Kane's 1929 cover of the song appears anachronistically in the 2013 video
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Adventures in Your Own Backyard


. He also expressed a certain dissatisfaction with the previous album, saying that singing its songs didn't give him the "melodic goosebumps", and for this album wanted to write songs that just "felt really good to sing". Writing for "The Globe and Mail", music critic Brad Wheeler noted the band's stylistic changes, calling "Adventures in Your Own Backyard" "a dreamy bath of chamber-pop and fancy cabaret, less clacky without the kitchen-utensil or bike-wheel percussion of "Wooden
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Steve Jameson


Rutenberg used Jameson's artwork from his series "DADDY GOD" in his music videos "THIS IS NOTHING BUT YOUR LOVE" and "KINDNESS". In 2006, Jameson began "In God'S Hands", illustrations for the book "Just Imagine" that portray children playing in the hands of God. Jameson's brush name when painting landscapes is CEDAR. He studied with watercolorist Jeanne Dobie, AWS, NWS, who is the author of "Making Color Sing". He has won several national level-awards and
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Lori Watson


in Scots and English. Watson is from a musical Scots/Irish family. Her great grandfather Peter Augustus Meechan was a popular fiddle player in Glasgow, her grandfather Alexander Watson played accordion and everyone in the family sang. Today, her father sings and plays guitar, bouzouki and mandolin, and her mother sings and plays bodhran. Their small, independent record label, ISLE Music Scotland, owned and run by the family, issued the "Borders Young" Fiddles CD, a landmark in Scottish / Borders fiddle music, and
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(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)


"The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different. There were tons of guys singing along to 'Fight for Your Right' who were oblivious to the fact it was a total goof on them." The music video for "Fight for Your Right" begins as a mother and father tell their two sons to stay out of trouble while they're away. When they leave, the two boys decide to have a
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Can't Be Tamed


MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto (June 20), On "Good Morning America" she also sang "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" with Bret Michaels. In November, Cyrus flew to Europe to sing "Who Owns My Heart" on "Wetten, dass..?" (November 6) and 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards (November 7). On November 21, she performed "Forgiveness and Love" on American Music Awards of 2010 in Los Angeles. Cyrus launched her headlining Gypsy Heart Tour in April 2011,
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Eilistraee


teachings for her followers. Aid and protect all folks in need, of any race, weak and strong, kind or rude, promoting harmony and acceptance among all races. Lend your help to all those who fight for good whenever there are ways to do so. When not fighting evil, be always kind—even to those who show rudeness—and aid others in acts of kindness. Strangers are your friends. Hungry travelers are to be fed and the homeless are to be given shelter—under your own roof if
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National Treasures – The Complete Singles


the show. It featured guests, like Nina Persson from The Cardigans who sings with the band on the single Your Love Alone Is Not Enough and Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals who sang with the band that night on the track Let Robeson Sing. The Guardian reviewed the show, giving it a score of 5 out of 5, and stated that: "That the Manics can sell out an arena gig at which they perform all 38 of their singles (as compiled on the recent album National Treasures) proves they were
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Manic Street Preachers


in attendance, as well as guest performers including Nina Persson from the Cardigans who sings with the band on the single "Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" and Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals who sang with the band that night on the track Let Robeson Sing. In April and May 2012, the band embarked on a European greatest hits tour. The compilation was voted by "NME" magazine as the best re issue of 2011, beating Nirvana's deluxe and super deluxe edition of "Nevermind" to the top spot
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The Phoenix Singers


's Rainbow" and "Porgy and Bess". Member of The Belafonte Folk Singers and The Phoenix Singers. Appeared with Belafonte on many concerts over the years, notably heard as background voice in "Try To Remember". Tenor. Born in Ohio, educated at Oberlin College and the Juillard School of Music. Wright studied religious music but made his Broadway debut singing with Katherine Dunham. Later he sang with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and the Robert Shaw Chorale. Has also appeared in "Annie Get Your Gun" and "
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Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005


songs, the Greek musical group performed some of its songs, while several acts from other countries performed to both entertain and promote their own Eurovision songs. The 2005 representatives from the Netherlands and Andorra were present with Glennis Grace singing "My Impossible Dream" and Marian van de Wal singing "La mirada interior". Eurovision Song Contest 2004's runner-up Željko Joksimović sang "Lane moje" and the Swedish band Alcazar, which was still taking part in Melodifestivalen 2005, the Swedish national final, sang "Alcastar".
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Richard St. Clair


own symphony orchestra, a major university with an active music department, a concert series featuring prominent soloists, and a school system that emphasized music education. For years he sang in both the Centralian concert chorus of his high school (Grand Forks Central High School) and the sanctuary choir of the church (First Presbyterian) which he attended as a child and adolescent. He also sang in the Choral Union, a collaboration between the University of North Dakota and the Grand Forks community. It was these singing experiences that imbued him
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The True Story of Ah Q


he decides to sing on his own, but he sang for only one line. Gloria Davies, the author of an entry in "Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Volumes 13–15", said "[t]he protagonist Ah Q became a symbol of all that was backward, despicable and tragic in Chinese society and often served Chinese intellectuals of the 1920s as a kind of negative criterion against which they could measure China's and their own advance into modernity." In 1934 Lu Xun wrote to a periodical stating that
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William E. Martin


William E. "Bill" Martin (October 8, 1945 – January 27, 2016) was an American musician, songwriter, screenwriter, and voice actor. A friend of Monkee Michael Nesmith, Martin wrote the first song ("All of Your Toys") to be recorded with all four Monkees singing and playing. However, the song's copyright was owned by Tickson Music, for whom Martin worked; Screen Gems, who supervised music selection for the Monkees, had a rule that only Screen Gems-owned material could
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Kenny Rogers


Can Make It On My Own" (#3) all became Country standards. Of West, Rogers stated in a 1995 TNN interview: "She, more than anybody else I ever worked with, sang with such emotion that you actually believed what she sang. A lot of people sing words, Dottie West sang emotions." In a 1978 press release for their album "Every Time Two Fools Collide", Rogers credited West with further establishing and cementing his career with Country Music audiences. In the same release,
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Cory Monteith


pencils and Tupperware containers. Series creator Ryan Murphy took notice of the video, but pointed out that he had to be singing, as auditioning actors for "Glee" with no theatrical experience were required to prove they could sing and dance as well as act. Monteith submitted a second, musical tape, in which he sang, in his own words, "a cheesy '80s music video-style version" of REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling". He then attended a mass audition in Los Angeles
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Harriett Abrams


August 1831) was also a concert soprano and pianist. Other family relatives included Miss G. Abrams, who sang at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with Harriett's for two seasons and sang in concerts in the early 1780s; Jane Abrams, who first sang in a benefit concert organized by Harriet in 1782; William Abrams, who played the violin; and Charles Abrams, who played the cello. The violinist Flora Abrams may have also been a relative but the connection is uncertain. Abrams studied singing, music theory, and
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Kelly Willis


with her father and moved around the country to accommodate her father's military job. She spent her middle school years in North Carolina and her high school years in Annandale, Virginia. Heavily influenced by her mother, who used to sing in local musicals, Kelly became interested in music. One day during a high school visit to the beach, she entered a nearby pay recording booth and sang her own version of Elvis Presley's "Teddy Bear." With the demo in hand, Willis impressed her then boyfriend, drummer
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Judy Niemack


Judy Niemack (born March 11, 1954, Pasadena, California) is an American jazz vocalist. Niemack sang in a church choir from age seven. She decided on a professional career in singing at age 17, and soon after met Warne Marsh, who encouraged her to explore jazz. She studied jazz at Pasadena City College, and later at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her debut album was released in 1977; she has recorded several albums under her own name in addition to working
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Natasha Bedingfield


Bedingfield with the opportunity to explore different musical genres and expand her songwriting abilities. She provided vocals for the group which primarily performed dance-pop music about independence and empowerment, themes that would later be found in her own solo compositions. At age 14, Bedingfield sang vocals on Origins "Refined Intricacy" (Steelyard Records). Bedingfield attended a year at the University of Greenwich, where she studied psychology, then left to concentrate on singing and songwriting. At first she recorded demos in the garages of friends who had recording
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Riad Al Sunbati


Al Sunbati used to record most of his compositions for Umm Kulthum in his own voice on separate discs as his first musical career has been singing The song "Al-Atlal" الأطلال (The Ruins) is one of the Arab music classics. Many critics considered it 'The Crown of the Arab Song' and the best 20th century Arab song. It is considered by many the best of what Umm Kulthum sang, and the best of what Sunbati composed.Umm Kulthum sang Al-Atlal in 1966 after two years from
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Elnur Hüseynov


he received first prize in the musical competition "Sing Your Song" aired on Azerbaijan's Lider TV. Elnur Huseynov and Samir Javadzadeh were selected to represent Azerbaijan at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, marking the country's debut in this song contest. Identified as the duo Elnur and Samir, together they sang "Day After Day". They were placed eighth in the finals. Following the contest, the duo split. In December 2009, Elnur Hüseynov announced his intention to move permanently to Ukraine to further pursue his musical career
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Korea Spotlight


show off our own colors (as an artist). Some Asian artists tend to get timid in a foreign country, but the music is a language in itself." And Korean hip-hop's Tiger JK said, "There’s no exact answer (on how to be successful overseas), but I think trying your best to make your own kind of music would give you the best shot." The meet-and-greet artist experience included a "MU:CON K-Pop Industry Party,"
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List of The X Factor finalists (British series 10)


convicted cocaine dealer, Errol Gordon. In her room audition, Simpson sang "I Have Nothing" and Barlow told her afterwards, "It feels like you've been singing for 50 years". After performing "A Moment Like This" at her arena audition, Osbourne said "I do feel this is your time." At bootcamp she sang "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" and Barlow said, "That was the surprise performance of the night for me, that was sensational."
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Spice (album)


line and the girls would pick up on it or we'd pick up on it and construct around it and then Mel C [Chisholm] and Emma [Bunton] would be very active. They'd really like to sit and sing melodies and go off and come up with little sections." They ""conceptualised"" and sang bits of melody and wrote the lyrics. But in musical terms it was not a partnership of equals. Rowe commented: "We had to kind of steer it. It was very
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L.O.V.E. (Ashlee Simpson song)


you get your heart broken, who do you go to? You go to your friends." On November 21, 2005, she performed the song on the "Late Show with David Letterman", and on the November 22 episode of ABC's "The View". On December 6, Simpson sang "L.O.V.E." as part of a performance with Pretty Ricky at the Billboard Music Awards; the song was combined into a medley with Pretty Ricky's "Grind with Me". Simpson sang "L.O.V.E." on the
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Fred Masagazi


1963. Masagazi was an accomplished composer who sang for more than fifty years. He was among the few Kadongo Kamu musicians who could sing, play the guitar and dramatise his music on stage. He founded his own band, "UK Jazz Band" in 1963. His band disintegrated, forcing him to perform in various bands like "King Jazz Band", "Kampala City 6 Band" and "BKG Band". His song "Atanawa Musolo" was ranked by "Daily Monitor" as one of "The 50
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I'll Be Your Man


of Blunt's "Some Kind of Trouble" tour. Marc Hirsh from "Boston Globe" said that: "Blunt’s happy on those Train tracks: He pulls the same trick nine songs later (minus the whoas) on "I’ll Be Your Man.'’ (“So baby come over from the end of the sofa,’’ the romantic sings on that one, too lazy to move five feet on his own.) Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic was positive, saying that: "Blunt’s
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Falsetto


singer sang in the soprano range, the voice was called "falsetto". In a book by GB Mancini, called "Pensieri e riflessioni" written in 1774, falsetto is equated with ""voce di testa"" (translated as 'head voice'). The falsetto register is used by male countertenors to sing in the alto and occasionally the soprano range and was the standard before women sang in choirs. Falsetto is occasionally used by early music specialists today and regularly in British cathedral choirs by men who sing the
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Sauron


accordance with the original theme. "Straightway discord arose around him, and many that sang nigh him grew despondent ... but some began to attune their music to his rather than to the thought which they had at first." The discord Melkor created would have dire consequences, as this singing was a kind of template for the world: "The evils of the world were not at first in the great Theme, but entered with the discords of Melkor." However, "Sauron was not a beginner of discord; and
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Gigi D'Alessio


wedding reception, I'll cut your throat" and "If you don't sing your songs at my nephew's baptismal lunch, I'll bust your head." Some Camorra members preferred to make threats aimed at D'Alessio's nose, legs, tongue, and hands. At one point D'Alessio sang at 15 parties a day from lunch until dawn. After D'Alessio's 7 June 1997 concert at Napoli's San Paolo Stadium, he stopped singing at parties. On 4 March 2010 he debuted as a run of a television program
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List of The X Factor finalists (British series 6)


female act in the competition. She sang "Who Wants to Live Forever" where she received the most votes again. She received positive comments from the panel, with Louis Walsh saying "You look like a diva". Cheryl Cole said "That was stunning and you totally sang your socks off", while Simon Cowell told her "That was the performance of the night". Stacey went on to reach the last three, appearing in the penultimate show on 12 December, singing "What a Wonderful World" and
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Tom Hooper


Unlike other musical films, "Les Misérables" features the actors singing live on camera, rather than miming to backing vocals. Hooper told "Los Angeles Times" that he thought there was a "slightly strange falseness" when he saw musical films where the actors sang to recordings. The actors wore wireless earpieces on set so they could sing to accompanying piano music. Hooper believed this method allowed the actors to have emotional control over their songs: "When Annie [Hathaway, who plays Fantine] is singing 'I Dreamed
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The Blue Cat of Castle Town


song comes."br "It goes into tomorrow,"br "Sing your own song." ""With your life fashion beauty,"br "This too is the song."br "Riches will pass and power. Beauty remains."br "Sing your own song." ""All that is worth doing, do well," said the river.br "Sing your own song."br "Certain and round be the measure,"br "Every line be graceful and true."br "Time is the mold, time the weaver, the carver,"br "
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The Windmills of Your Mind


where the sun has never shone", singing the word "shone" British-style with a short vowel sound making the rhyme with "own" imperfect. Marilyn Bergman: "We said 'No, it's shone [long vowel sound].' And he said 'No, it's our language!' And we said: 'Yes, but it's our song.' So reluctantly, he sang shone [long vowel sound] and our rhyme was intact." However, Harrison evidently had the
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