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<mask> (born 1973) is a critically acclaimed American artist, musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-songwriter who has released eight albums and five EPs. She has performed with artists such as Mark Knopfler, John Prine, Amos Lee, Justin Vernon and Calexico. Although she's considered a folk/indie singer-songwriter, <mask> also names country blues and jazz as strong influences on her musical style. Early life
<mask> was born in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Her early "bohemian" upbringing was in rural Iowa in a house with no running water, heat, or indoor bathroom. There, <mask> was exposed to traditional and rural folk music through her father, singer-songwriter <mask>. <mask>'s parents separated when she was very young and at age 8 she moved to Birmingham, Alabama with her single working mother.Pieta spent her childhood living in 17 different residences between Iowa and Alabama with a short time in St. Paul, Minnesota. While living with her mother in Alabama, <mask> began writing poetry and composing instrumental songs on piano. Career
Pieta released her self-titled debut record in 2002, co-produced with Grammy Award-winning producer Bo Ramsey, which NPR Music heralded as "a ghostly collection of largely melancholy songs rooted in the blues." Her 2005 follow-up In The Cool was named one of the year's best by Amazon Music who called it "calming, hypnotic, and seductive." Her next album, Remember The Sun, was released in 2007 and was cited as one of the year's best by The Wall Street Journal. In 2009, <mask> released an EP called Shimmer, which was produced by Don Was after hearing her on his car radio in a live solo

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<mask> DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. It was co-produced with S. Carey of Bon Iver and recorded at Justin Vernon’s April Base Studios.In addition to Carey, who also plays on the album, it features bassist Mike Lewis (Bon Iver, Andrew Bird) and guitarist Jeremy Ylvisaker (Andrew Bird, Alpha Consumer). Freeway was recorded mostly live over the course of just three days with Carey, Lewis, and Ylvisaker hearing the songs for the first time on the spot in the studio while recording. Of the experimental process, Pieta said “it allowed them to rely on their gut instincts and to react to the tunes (and each other) in real time.” Freeway was met with widespread critical acclaim from NPR Music, Stereogum, Paste, Billboard, Flood Magazine, and American Songwriter among many others. Don Was also participated by writing the liner notes for the album. In 2020, Pieta released the collaborative EP/digital triptych We Are Not Machines via the artist collective label 37d03d. The 3-track release centers around the single “We Are Not Machines” which features Ani DiFranco and S. Carey. It was originally recorded in November 2019 at Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner’s annual HIVER Festival in Eaux Claires, WI.The other two tracks on the EP expand on the single’s original theme, featuring contributions from

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 William Brittelle, Holland Andrews, Jenn Wasner, The Metropolis Ensemble, knotahaiku, Limit Infrared, and Grammy-nominated visual artist Eric Timothy Carlson. Throughout her career to date, <mask> has toured and shared stages with Mark Knopfler, John Prine, Brandi Carlile, JJ Cale, Emmylou Harris, Richard Thompson, Ani DiFranco, Calexico, Neko Case, Mason Jennings, Shawn Mullins, Carrie Rodriguez, Howe Gelb and Jim Lauderdale among many others. She has performed at festivals around the world, including Bonnaroo, Mountain Jam, Edmonton Folk Music Festival, Celtic Connections, and more. Pieta has also co-written songs with Amos Lee, Iris Dement, Calexico, Lucie Thorne, Bo Ramsey, and Bertrand Belin among others. Film career
In 2017, Pieta relocated to Europe for the better part of a year to star in the leading role of the feminist/indie Swiss foreign film (in French) Autour de Luisa ("Around Luisa"). <mask> also co-wrote several original songs that were featured in the film with French pop singer-songwriter Bertrand Belin, who also appeared in the film. This debut led to an invitation to appear in the underground experimental zombie short film The Bride, directed by Vincent Parronaud featuring the music of Thomas De Pourquery and

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<mask> (December 30, 1819February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania. Early years
Geary was born near Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County—in what is today the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. He was the son of <mask>, an ironmaster and schoolmaster of Scotch-Irish descent, and <mask>, a native of Maryland. Starting at the age of 14, he attended nearby Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, studying civil engineering and law, but was forced to leave before graduation due to the death of his father, whose debts he assumed. He worked at a variety of jobs, including as a surveyor and land speculator in Kentucky, earning enough to return to college and graduate in 1841. He worked as a construction engineer for the Allegheny Portage Railroad.In 1843, he married Margaret Ann Logan, with whom he had several sons, but she died in 1853. Geary then married the widowed Mary Church Henderson in 1858 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Geary was active in the state militia as a teenager. In December 1846, during the Mexican–American War, he was commissioned in the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry, serving as lieutenant colonel. He led the regiment heroically at Chapultepec, and was wounded five times in the process. Geary was an excellent target for enemy fire: a huge man for that era, he stood six feet six inches tall, 260 pounds (118 kg) and solidly built. Altogether, he was wounded at least ten times in his military career.Geary's exploits at Belén Gate earned him the rank of colonel and he returned home a war hero. California politics
Moving west, Geary was appointed postmaster of San Francisco by President James K. Polk on January 22, 1849, and on January 8 1850, he was elected the city's alcalde, before California became a state, and then the first mayor of the city. He

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 holds the record as the youngest mayor in San Francisco history. As alcalde, he served as the city's judge in addition to the city's mayor. Geary returned to Pennsylvania in 1852 because of his wife's failing health. After her death, President Franklin Pierce wanted to appoint him governor of the Utah Territory, but Geary declined. Territorial Governor of Kansas
Geary accepted Pierce's appointment as governor of the Kansas Territory on July 31, 1856.Proslavery forces opposed Geary, favoring instead either acting governor <mask> or Surveyor General <mask> (an Illinois politician). Geary spent a month preparing for his new position and then left for the territory. While traveling up the Missouri River, his boat docked at Glasgow, Missouri, where he happened upon recently fired governor <mask>. They briefly discussed the "Bleeding Kansas" crisis and Geary had previously met with Missouri governor Sterling Price, who promised Geary that Free-staters would be allowed safe passage through Missouri. Geary arrived at Fort Leavenworth on September 9 and went to the territorial capital at Lecompton the following day, becoming the youngest territorial governor of Kansas. He believed that his previous administrative experience in government would help bring peace to the territory, but he was unable to stop the violence. He told his first audience, "I desire to know no party, no section, no North, no South, no East, no West; nothing but Kansas and my country."Geary disbanded the existing Kansas militia, organized a new state militia, and relied heavily on federal troops to help keep order. On October 17, he started a twenty-day tour of the territory and spoke to groups everywhere he stopped to gain their opinions. Despite his efforts to be a neutral peacemaker, Geary and the proslavery legislature clashed. Geary stopped a large force of Missouri border ruffians who were heading to Lawrence to once again burn the town. Additionally, he vetoed a bill which would provide for an

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texts: election of delegates to the Lecompton constitutional convention. This bill would have bypassed any referendum on a constitution before being submitted to the U.S. Congress for ratification. The legislature, however, overrode the veto.Geary also angered Free-staters when he turned away $20,000 from the Vermont legislature that was intended to help the suffering from the harsh winter of 1856–57. Geary wrote in his response, "[there is] doubtless some suffering ... consequent upon the past disturbances and the present extremely cold weather; but probably no more than exists in other territories or in either of the states of the Union." Initially, Geary solidly abhorred the proposals he received from Kansas abolitionists. By the time of the 1856 presidential election, however, he had completely reversed his position and had become intimate friends with Charles Robinson and Samuel Pomeroy. Additionally, he totally distrusted the proslavery forces and in letters to President Pierce, he blamed them for the deprivations in the territory. Geary even went so far as to reject his candidacy from the Democratic party of Kansas for the U.S. Senate. Instead, he worked with the Free-staters to create a plan for Kansas to be admitted to the Union under the Topeka constitution as a free state, with himself as governor of a Democratic administration.Support for this plan in Congress was lacking. Geary soon began to fear for his personal safety after his private secretary, Dr. <mask>, was assaulted by proslavery ruffians. Geary submitted his resignation to incoming President James Buchanan, expecting that he would be reappointed. Instead, Buchanan fired Geary on March 12, 1857, with an effective date of March 20. In his farewell message to the territory, Geary stated that he had not sought the office and "[that it] was by no means desirable." He added, "most of the troubles which lately agitated the territory, were occasioned by men who had no especial interest in its welfare... The


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 great body of the actual citizens are conservative, law-abiding and peace-loving men, disposed rather to make sacrifices for conciliation and consequent peace, than to insist for their entire rights should the general body thereby be caused to suffer."Armed with two guns, Geary left the territory during the night on March 21 and returned to Washington, D.C. Afterward, he spoke at many public meetings about the dangers in Kansas. Although he did not bring peace to the territory, Geary's administration did leave the territory more peaceful than it had been before his arrival. Geary returned to his Pennsylvania farm and remarried. Civil War
At the start of the Civil War, Geary raised the 147th and 28th Pennsylvania Infantry regiments and became colonel of the latter. Commanding the district of the upper Potomac River, he was wounded and captured near Leesburg, Virginia, on March 8, 1862, but was immediately exchanged and returned to duty. On April 25, 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier General, U.S.Volunteers and the command of a brigade in Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks's corps, which he led in the Shenandoah Valley against Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. His brigade joined Maj. Gen. <mask>'s Army of Virginia in late June. He led it at the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862, where he was seriously wounded in the arm and leg. He returned to duty on October 15 as the division commander; the corps was now part of the Army of the Potomac, designated the XII Corps, under the command of Maj. Gen. Henry W. Slocum. Geary's division was heavily engaged at Chancellorsville, where he was knocked unconscious as a cannonball shot past his head on May 3, 1863. (Some accounts state that he was hit in the chest with a cannonball.)At the Battle of Gettysburg, Slocum's corps arrived after the first day's (July 1, 1863) fighting subsided and took up a defensive position on Culp's Hill, the extreme right of the Union line. On the second day, heavy fighting on the Union left demanded


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After the war, Geary served two terms as the Republican governor of Pennsylvania, from 1867 to 1873. He established a reputation as a political independent, attacking the political influence of the railroads and vetoing many special interest bills. On February 8, 1873, less than three weeks after leaving the governor's post, Geary was fatally stricken with a heart attack while preparing breakfast for his infant son in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was 53 years old.He was buried in Harrisburg with state honors in Mount Kalmia Cemetery, now, the Harrisburg


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Geary was made a Mason at Sight on January 4, 1847, in Pennsylvania (Philanthropy Lodge #255), just before he left with his troops to fight in the Mexican War. During the Civil War, he was the commanding Union general at the fall of Savannah, Georgia. He placed Federal troops about the quarters of Solomon's Lodge No. 1 to save it from looting and damage. Later, while Geary was governor of Pennsylvania, the Lodge sent him a resolution of thanks. He answered by claiming it was the principles and tenets of Freemasonry that helped Reconstruction to be as successful as it finally turned out to be.In this reply, he said: "... I feel again justified in referring to our beloved institution, by saying that to Freemasonry the people of the country are indebted for many mitigations of the suffering caused by the direful passions of war." In memoriam
Geary County, Kansas, was renamed in honor of <mask><mask> in 1889 (previously named Davis County for Jefferson Davis, it was renamed at the insistence of its citizens; in 1893, the county electorate rejected an attempt to restore the Davis County name), as is Geary Boulevard in San Francisco, a major artery in that city, Geary Avenue on the field at Gettysburg, Geary Street in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania (where Geary owned a home), Geary Street in Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, and Geary Hall, an undergraduate dorm building in East Halls at Pennsylvania State University. There is a monument to Geary in the town center of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Geary, Kansas (in Doniphan County) was also named in his honor, but the town ceased to exist in 1905. In 1914, a monument to Geary was erected on Culp's Hill at Gettysburg, but it was not formally dedicated until August 11, 2007. See also

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 Blackmar, Frank W. Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History.2 vols. Chicago: Standard Publishing, 1912. .
 Eicher, <mask>., and David J. Eicher. Civil War

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 High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
 <mask>, <mask>. A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of <mask> <mask>. Edited by <mask> Blair. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. .
 Gihon, <mask><mask> and Kansas: Governor <mask>'s Administration in Kansas with a Complete History of the Territory until July 1857. Philadelphia: Charles C. Rhodes, 1857. .
 <mask>, Samuel A.The Battle Cry of Freedom: The New England Emigrant Aid Company in the Kansas Crusade. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1954. .
 Socolofsky, Homer E. Kansas Governors. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990. .
 Tagg, Larry. The Generals of Gettysburg. Campbell, CA: Savas Publishing, 1998. .
 <mask>, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. .External links

 Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission description of <mask>'s governorship
 The <mask><mask> Letters at the Georgia Historical Society. The Geary Family Papers, including correspondence and <mask><mask>'s diary, are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. <mask>. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas

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<mask> (September 4, 1926 – November 16, 2015) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League (NHL). <mask> began his career with the Black Hawks in 1949. In December 1950, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens via Detroit. <mask> had his best statistical years playing for Montreal, leading the league in assists in 1954–55 with 48, and setting a league record for assists with 56 the following season. During this time he frequently played on Montreal's top line with Jean Beliveau and Bernie Geoffrion. <mask> was claimed in an Intra-League Draft by Toronto Maple Leafs in 1958, and played there until his retirement in 1962. In the 1967–68 season, <mask> served as coach of the expansion Oakland Seals.<mask> played in the Stanley Cup final in 11 of his 14 seasons in the NHL, winning it five times. He won it four times with Montreal, in 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, and once with Toronto, in 1962, which was his last season. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. Early life
<mask> was born in Sceptre, Saskatchewan, a small village with a population of less than 200, in southwestern Saskatchewan. In 1944, at the age of 18, he moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to play junior hockey. In his first year, <mask> and the Moose Jaw Canucks challenged for the Memorial Cup, after finishing the playoffs with a 15–1 record. They were unsuccessful in the series against the St. Michael's Majors.<mask> had 10 goals and eight assists in the 17 playoff games he played. He played another season in Moose Jaw, before being

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Olmstead played three full seasons for Kansas City, and part of another, later in 1950, for the Milwaukee Sea Gulls. In the 1946–47 season, <mask> joined the Pla-Mors, finishing the season with 42 points in 60 games. In 1948–49, the Canadiens, who had originally sponsored him and owned his rights, traded him to the Chicago Black Hawks. The same season, <mask> made his NHL debut, called up after scoring 33 goals and 44 assists, for 77 points, in 52 games with the Pla-Mors. He played nine games for the Black Hawks and collected two assists.<mask> played the entire following season for the Black Hawks, appearing in 70 games and scoring 20 goals. <mask> split the 1950–51 season between four teams, playing for all but one of them. He began the season playing for the Black Hawks franchise, playing 15 games in the NHL and 12 in the USHL, for the Milwaukee Sea Gulls. On December 2, 1950, <mask>, with Vic Stasiuk, was traded to the Detroit Red Wings, in exchange for Lee Fogolin and Steve Black. On December 19, 1950, 17 days after the trade to Detroit, he was traded again, without ever suiting up for the Red Wings, to Montreal, for Leo Gravelle. <mask> would never leave the NHL until his retirement in 1962, playing 39 games that season on a line with Maurice Richard and Elmer Lach, scoring 38 points. <mask> also appeared in 11 playoff games, collecting six points, as the Canadiens lost the best-of-seven Stanley Cup finals to the Toronto Maple Leafs in five games.Montreal Canadiens
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Early in the 1958–59 season, Punch Imlach, the assistant general manager of the Leafs, fired Reay, installed himself as head coach, and appointed <mask> as the playing assistant coach. This meant that while Imlach coached the team during games, <mask> was in charge of the practices; however, <mask> only lasted three months as assistant coach, resigning to devote more time to improving his play. The same season, the Leafs went on a long winning streak in order to qualify for the playoffs, but they lost to the Canadiens in the finals. After losing in the Finals the next season, and falling short of the Finals the next season, <mask> won his fifth and final Stanley Cup in 1962, missing two months of the season with a broken shoulder, and being limited to only four out of the 12 playoff games. Retirement
Following his fifth Stanley Cup win, with Toronto, the New York Rangers claimed <mask> in the Intra-League Draft on June 4, 1962. This came as a surprise to <mask>, who refused to report to the team.The Canadiens offered to acquire him from the Rangers, within a month; <mask> demanded an immediate trade. Since no deal came, he retired at the age of 35. During his 14-year NHL career, <mask> scored 181 goals and 421 assists, for 602 points; in the playoffs, he collected 59 points, in 115 games. In his 14 seasons, <mask> appeared in the Stanley Cup final 11 times. He won five times, four of them with the Montreal Canadiens, and once with the Toronto Maple

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Known as "Dirty Bertie" because of his physical playing style, <mask> was a power forward, making hard hits and winning battles in the corners. He was not a very good skater, and thus he had to compensate by bodychecking. <mask> was not regularly involved in fights, but in the ones he participated, the majority were started with his hits. <mask> was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1985. <mask>, with his wife Nora, visited the town of Okotoks, Alberta on August 13, 2005, with the Stanley Cup.He had previously declined to spend a day with it, believing that it was being given to much older winners only because of the lockout. <mask> also noted, at the end of the day, that he was happy to have the Stanley Cup again. <mask> died at his home in High River, Alberta on November 16, 2015, due to complications from a stroke. Career statistics

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 Ivan the Terrible killing his own son in a rage caused a scandal, resulting in the painting being removed from exhibition. But this was followed by a series of major successes and new commissions.In 1898, with his second wife, he purchased a country house, The Penates, in Kuokkala, Finland (now Repino, Saint Petersburg), close to St. Petersburg, where they entertained Russian society. In 1905, following the violent repression of street demonstrations by the Tsarist government, he quit his teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts. He welcomed the February Revolution in 1917, but was appalled by the violence and warfare that followed in the October Revolution. Finland broke away from Russia in 1917, and <mask> was unable to travel to St. Petersburg, even for an exhibition of his own works in 1925. The government of Joseph Stalin insisted that <mask> give up his Finnish residence and citizenship, and return to the city, but he refused. <mask> died on 29, September, 1930, at the age of 86, and was buried at the Penates. His home is now a museum and a UNESCO World Heritage site.Biography

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<mask> was born on 24 July 1844 in the town of Chuguyev, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire, in the heart of the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. His father, Yefim Vasilyevich <mask> (1804—1894) served in the Uhlan Regiment of the Imperial Russian Army. He fought in the Russo-Persian War (1826–1828), the Russo-Turkish War (1828–29) and the Hungarian campaign (1849). When his father retired from the army, after twenty-seven years of service, he became an itinerant merchant selling horses. His father was of Cossack

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texts: origin, In later life <mask> would draw on his origins for the subject matter in works such as The Zaporozhe Cossacks Writing a Reply to the Turkish Sultan. <mask>'s mother, Tatiana Stepanovna <mask> (née Bocharova) (1811—1880), was also the daughter of a soldier in a local Cossack Regiment. She had family ties to noblemen and officers; the Repins had six children and were moderately well-off.As a boy <mask> was educated at the local school where his mother taught. His mother introduced him to Russian literature through readings of Pushkin and Lermontov. In 1855, at the age of eleven, he was enrolled in a local military school to study surveying and military topography. He preferred art to topography, and when he was thirteen, his father enrolled him in the workshop of Ivan Bunakov, an icon painter. He restored old icons and painted portraits of local notables. At the age of sixteen, as his talent became evident, he became a member of an artel, or cooperative of artists, the Society for the Encouragement of Artists, which traveled around Voronezh province to paint icons and wall paintings. Repin had much higher ambitions.In October 1863 he competed for admission to the Imperial Academy of Arts in the capital, Saint Petersburg. He failed in his first attempt, but persevered, rented a small room in the city, and took courses in academic drawing. In January 1864 he succeeded and was allowed, without fee, to attend classes. At the academy he met the painter Ivan Kramskoi, who became his professor and mentor. When Kramskoi founded the first independent union of Russian artists, <mask> became a member. In 1869 he was awarded a gold medal

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In 1870, with two other artists, <mask> traveled to the Volga River to sketch landscapes and studies of barge haulers (The Repin House in Tolyatti and the Repin Museum on the Volga commemorate this visit). When he returned to Saint Petersburg, the quality of his Volga boatmen drawings won him a commission from Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich for a large scale painting on the subject. The painting, Barge Haulers on the Volga was completed in 1873. The following year he was awarded a gold medal first-class for his painting The Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus

In May 1872 he married Vera Alexeievna Shevtsova. (1855-1917). She joined him on his travels, including a trip Samara, where their first child, Vera, was born. They had three other children; Nadia, Yuri, and Tatyana.The marriage was difficult, as <mask> had numerous affairs, while Vera cared for the children. They were married for fifteen years. In an 1872 letter to Stasov, <mask> wrote: "Now it is the peasant who is the judge and so it is necessary to represent his interests. (That is just the thing for me, since I am myself, as you know, a peasant, the son of a retired soldier who served twenty-seven hard years in Nicholas I's army.)" In 1873 <mask> traveled to Italy and France with his family. His second daughter, Nadezhda, was born in 1874. Paris and Normandy

<mask>'s painting Barge Haulers of the Volga, shown at the Vienna International Exposition, brought him his first International attention.It


texts: also earned him a grant from the Academy of Fine Arts which allowed him to make an extended tour of several months to Austria, then Italy, and finally in 1873, to Paris. He rented an apartment in Montmartre at 13 rue Veron, and a small attic studio under a mansard roof at number 31 on the same street. He remained in Paris for two years. described his subjects as "the principal types of Parisians, in the most typical settings." He painted the street markets and boulevards of Paris, and especially the varied faces and costumes of the Parisians of every class. His major Russian work created in Paris was Sadko (1876), a mystical allegory of an undersea kingdom, which included elements of Art Nouveau. He gave the young heroine a Russian face, surrounded by a strange and exotic setting.He wrote to his friend the civic Stasov: "This idea describes my present situation, and perhaps, the situation of all of our Russian art". In 1876, His Sadko painting won him a place in the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. He was in Paris in April 1874, when the first Impressionist exhibition was held. In 1875, he wrote to Stasov about "The liberty of the "impressionalists", Manet, Monet et the others, and their infantile truthfulness." In 1876 He painted a portrait of his wife Vera in the exact style of Berthe Morisot's portrait by Édouard Manet. as a tribute to Manet and Morisot. Though he admired some impressionist techniques, especially their depictions of light and color, he felt their work lacked moral or social purpose, key factors in his own art.Following the ideas of the Impressionists, he spent two months at Veules-les-Roses in Normandy, painting landscapes


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<mask> returned to Russia in 1876.His son Yury was born the following year. He moved to Moscow that year, and produced a wide variety of works including portraits of the painters Arkhip Kuindzhi and Ivan Shishkin. He became involved with the "Wanderers", an artistic movement founded in St. Petersburg in 1863. The style of the Wanderers was resolutely realistic, patriotic, and politically engaged, determined to break with classical models and to create a specifically Russian art. It involved not only painters, but sculptors, writers and composers. <mask> created a series of major historical works, including the Religious Procession in Kursk Governorate (1883), which was presented at the 12th annual exposition of the Wanderers. It was notable both for its extraordinary crowd of realistic figures, including surly policemen, weary monks, children and beggars, each expressing a vivid personality.He also experimented with outdoor sunlight effects, apparently influenced by the impressionists and his outdoor studies in France. His next major work of this period was Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan. This painting, depicting the tsar, his face full of horror, just after he has killed his son with his sceptre in a demented rage. It caused a scandal. Some critics saw it as a veiled criticism of Tsar

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In 1880 Lev Tolstoy came to <mask>'s small studio on Bolshoi Trubny street in Moscow to introduce himself. This developed into a friendship between the 36-year-old painter and the 52-year-writer that lasted thirty years until Tolstoy's death in 1910. <mask> regularly visited Tolstoy at his Moscow residence, and his country estate at Yasnaya Polyana. He painted a series of portraits of Tolstoy in peasant dress, working and reading under a tree at Yasnaya Polyana Tolstoy

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In addition to his portraits of Tolstoy and Russian writers, <mask> painted portraits of the major Russian composers of his time, His images, like his paintings of Tolstoy and other writers, became an integral part of the image of these composers. His portrait of Modest Moussorgsky was particularly famous. The composer suffered from alcoholism and depression. <mask> painted him in four sittings, beginning four days before his death. When Moussorgsky died, <mask> used the proceeds of the sale of the painting to erect a monument to the composer.His portrait of Mikhail Glinka, composer of the opera "Ruslan and Ludmilla" (1887) was an unusual work for <mask>. it was painted after Glinka's death; <mask> never met him, and based on drawings and recollections of others. Other composers painted by <mask> included Alexander Glazunov who had just completed Borodin's opera "Prince Igor", and Anton Rubenstein the founder of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory of Music. His third daughter, Tatyana, was born in 1880. He frequented the

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 art circle of Savva Mamontov, which gathered at Abramtsevo, his estate near Moscow. Here <mask> met many of the leading painters of the day, including Vasily Polenov, Valentin Serov, and Mikhail Vrubel. In 1882 he and Vera divorced; they maintained a friendly relationship afterwards.<mask>'s contemporaries often commented on his special ability of capturing peasant life in his works. In an 1876 letter to Stasov, Kramskoi wrote: "<mask> is capable of depicting the Russian peasant exactly as he is. I know many artists who have painted peasants, some of them very well, but none of them ever came close to what Repin does." Leo Tolstoy later stated that Repin "depicts the life of the people much better than any other Russian artist." He was praised for his ability to reproduce human life with powerful and vivid force. Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

In 1883 he traveled around Western Europe with Vladimir Stasov. <mask>'s painting Religious Procession in Kursk Province was shown at the eleventh Itinerants' Society Exhibition.In 1886, he traveled to the Crimea with Arkhip Kuinji, and produced drawings and sketches on Biblical subjects. In 1887 he visited Austria, Italy, and Germany, and retired from the board of the Wanderers, painted two portraits of Leo Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana and painted Alexander Pushkin on the Shore of the Black Sea (in collaboration with Ivan Aivazovsky). In 1888 he traveled to Southern Russia and the Caucasus, where he did sketches and studies of descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Many of <mask>'s finest portraits were produced in the 1880s. Through the presentation of real faces, these portraits express the


texts: rich, tragical, and hopeful spirit of the period. His portraits of Aleksey Pisemsky (1880), Modest Mussorgsky (1881), and others created throughout the decade have become familiar to whole generations of Russians. Each is completely lifelike, conveying the transient, changeable nature of the sitter's state of mind.They give an intense embodiment of both the physical and spiritual life of the people who sat for him. In 1887 he was separated from his wife Vera. He visited Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, and painted his portrait, and then took a long trip along the Volga and the Don, to the Coassack regions. This trip gave him material for his most famous historical work, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. The painting depicts an event in 1678, when a group of cossacks amused themselves by drafting a highly insulting letter to the Turkish sultan, addressing him as "The Grand Imbecile." <mask> worked on this painting periodically between 1880 and 1891, creating an extraordinary ensemble of expressive faces. The finished work was so popular that he painted a second version.He also became interested in teaching, In 1894 the head of the painting workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. He remained in this position until 1905, when he resigned in protest against the firing by government soldiers into a crowd of demonstrators outside the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. <mask> describes 1905 as "a year of disaster and shame". In 1890 he was given a government commission to work on the creation of a new statute for the Academy of Arts. In 1891 he resigned from the Wanderers in protest against a new statute that restricted the rights of


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In 1890 <mask> met Natalia Nordman (1863-1914), who became his common-law wife. She was the daughter of an admiral, a writer and feminist, an activist for the improvement of working conditions. She advocated a simple life close to nature.In 1899 he acquired land near a village of Kuokkala, about forty kilometres north of St. Petersburg, and they built a country house, called the Penates,


texts: which became his home for the next thirty years. It was located in the Grand Duchy of Finland, then part of the Russian Empire. about an hour by train from St. Petersburg. At first he used it only as a summer house, but after he resigned from the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts in 1907, it became his full-time home and studio. It was a rather eccentric estate, including a studio covered with a pyramidal lantern roof, a landscape garden with a "Pushkin alley" of trees, a multicoloured music kiosk in the Egyptian style, and a telescope overlooking the Gulf of Finland. He hosted vegetarian breakfasts for his guests (a practice he adapted from Tolstoy), and very elaborate receptions on Wednesdays. His Wednesday guests included the opera singer Chaliapin, the writer Maxim Gorky, the composer Alexander Glazunov the writer Aleksandr Kuprin; artists Vasily Polenov, Isaak Brodsky and Nicolai Fechin as well as poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, philosopher Vasily Rozanov and scientist Vladimir Bekhterev.In 1900 he took Nordman to the World Exhibition in Paris, where he served as a painting judge. They visited Munich, the Tyrol, and Prague, His painting Get Thee Behind Me, Satan! was shown at the 29th Exhibition of the Wanderers. In 1901 he received from the Tsar one of his largest commissions, for sixty portraits of the members of State Council. He proceeded with the help of photographs and the aid of two of his students. One of the subjects in the series was Alexander Kerensky, the Russian president before the Bolshevik seizure of power. In addition to his government commissions, he found time for a light work on an entirely different theme; a painting


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The small movements toward democracy in the early 20th century inspired <mask>, He joined the Constitutional Democratic Party, was offered the rank of Councillor of State, and was invited to take a seat in the Duma, the national assembly. He made a colourful painting of the celebration of the new Russian Constitution of 1905. Later, he painted the portrait of the newly-elected Russian President, Alexander Kerensky. However, the brutal repression of popular demonstrations in front of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in 1905 quickly disillusioned him, He called 1905 "the year of disaster and shame". He resigned from his teaching post at the Academy of Fine Arts, and concentrated on painting. <mask> concentrated on writing his memoirs, which he finished in 1915.He visited St. Peterburg to see expositions, including a 1909 show of works by the modernist Kandinsky. <mask> was not impressed; he described it as "the swamps of artistic corruption." In 1900 he took his common-law wife Natalia Nordman to the World Exhibition in Paris, where he served as a painting judge. He visited Munich, the Tyrol, and Prague, and painted Natalia Nordman in a Tyrolese Hat and In the Sunlight: Portrait of Nadezhda <mask>. In 1901 he was awarded the Legion of Honor. His painting Get Thee Behind Me, Satan! was shown at the 29th Itinerants' Society Exhibition.In 1902–1903 his works included the paintings Ceremonial Meeting of the State Council and What a Freedom!, over forty portrait studies, and

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against bloodshed and Tsarist repressions, and tried to convey his impressions of these emotionally and politically charged events in his paintings. He also did sketches for portraits of Maxim Gorky and Vladimir Stasov and two portraits of Natalia Nordman.In 1907 he resigned from the Academy of Arts, visited Chuguyev and the Crimea, and wrote reminiscences of Vladimir Stasov. In 1908 he publicly denounced capital punishment in Russia. He illustrated Leonid Andreyev's story The Seven Who Were Hanged, and his painting The Cossacks from the Black Sea Coast was exhibited at the Itinerants' Society Exhibition. In 1909 he painted Gogol Burning the Manuscript of the Second Part of Dead Souls, and in 1910, portraits of Pyotr Stolypin, and the children's writer and poet Korney Chukovsky. War, the Bolshevik Revolution and later years (1917-1930)

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 brought a series of setbacks and tragedies to <mask>. His wife became ill with tuberculosis, and departed for treatment in Locarno, Switzerland. She refused assistance from


texts: her family and died in Switzerland in 1914.Then, following the October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Finland, including the Penates, declared its independence from Russia. The border was closed, and <mask> was cut off from St. Petersburg. He turned to Finland for new clients, painting a large group portrait of notable Finnish leaders and artists, including the architect Eliel Saarinen, the composer Jean Sibelius, and the future Finnish President Carl Gustav Mannerheim. Repin included the back of his own head in the painting. In 1916 <mask> worked on his book of reminiscences, Far and Near, with the assistance of Korney Chukovsky. He welcomed the early phases of the Russian Revolution of February 1917. In 1919 he donated his collection of works by Russian artists and his own works to the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, and in 1920 honorary celebrations of Repin were held by artistic circles in Finland.In 1921–1922 he painted The Ascent of Elijah the Prophet and Christ and Mary Magdalene (The Morning of the Resurrection). After end of the war in 1918, <mask> could travel again. In 1923 <mask> held a one-man exhibition in Prague. Celebrations were given in 1924 in Kuokkala to mark <mask>'s 80th birthday, and an exhibition of his works was held in Moscow. In 1925 a jubilee exhibition of his works was held in the Russian Museum in Leningrad, The rising Soviet leader, Josef Stalin, sent a delegation of Soviet artists, including a former student of <mask>, Isaak Brodsky, to persuade <mask> to return to St. Petersburg, and to give up his residence in Finland. But <mask> did not want to be under the thumb of Stalin, and refused, though he donated

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Repin particularly excelled at portrait painting.He produced more than three hundred portraits in his career. He painted most of the notable political figures, writers and composers of his time. One exception was Dostoevsky, whose mysticism <mask> did not appreciate at all. He preceded each portrait with six or seven sketches. He had to persuade a reluctant Tolstoy to be portrayed working in a field with bare feet, as he usually did. Repin persistently searched for new techniques and content to give his work more fullness and depth. <mask> had a set of favorite subjects, and a limited circle of people whose portraits he painted.But he had a deep sense of purpose in his aesthetics, and had the great artistic gift to sense the spirit of the age and its reflection in the lives and characters of individuals. <mask>'s search for truth and for an ideal led him in various directions artistically, influenced by hidden aspects of


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 social and spiritual experiences as well as national culture. Like most Russian realists of his times, <mask> often based his works on dramatic conflicts, drawn from contemporary life or history. He also used mythological images with a strong sense of purpose; some of his religious paintings are among his greatest. Drawings and sketches

With some of his paintings, <mask> made one hundred or more preliminary sketches. He began his works with sketches in pencil or charcoal, using lines and cross-hatching. Often he would rub the drawing with his finger or an eraser to get the precise shading that he desired.He sometimes used drawings or paintings of his children to experiment with different points of view. For his large paintings, he made very detailed studies, experimenting with the composition and judging the overall impression. Genre Painting

No Russian painter of the 19th or 20th century was more skilled at genre painting, portraying scenes of daily life in a sympathetic and perceptive way, giving each character a distinct purpose and personality. His works ranged from domestic scenes to small dramas, such as policemen arresting a young militant for distributing revolutionary tracts. Repin and Ukraine

In the 1870s to 1880s he visited Chuguyev and gathered materials for his future works. There, he painted his Archdeacon. Paintings of Repin inspired by Ukrainian culture include:

The Repin Museum in his birthplace of Chugeev presents objects and works from his early life in Ukraine.Man with a bad eye (1876)
 Ukrainian girl by the fence (1876)
 Mohnachi village near Chuguyev (1877)
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 Taras Shevchenko's portrait (1888)
 Haydamaka (1902)
 Cossacks on the Black Sea (1908)
 Prometheus (1910, after T. Shevchenko's poem)
 Hopak (1930)

<mask> was a member of the committee, set up to create a monument to painter-poet Taras Shevchenko whom he called an "apostle of freedom". He illustrated novels such as Taras Bulba and Sorochinsky Fair by Nikolai Gogol (1872–82) and Zaporissya in the remains of ancient legends and people by Dmytro Yavornytsky (1887), and drew numerous sketches of architecture as well as different popular aspects of Ukrainian culture. <mask>'s sphere of knowledge included a number of prominent thinkers of the time, including Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Mykola Murashko, and Dmytro Yavornytsky. Repin helped the committee of the Visual Arts Union in Mykolaiv. He was also an honorary member of Literature and Art Union, as well as Union of the Antiquities and Art in Kiev. He supported numerous painters, Murashko's art schools in Kiev, M. Rajevska-Ivanova in Kharkiv, and the Art school in Odessa. In one of his last letters he wrote: "kind, dear compatriots [...] I ask you to believe in the sense of my devotion and endless regret that I can't move to live in a sweet, joyful Ukraine [...] Loving you from the childhood, Ilya Repin".The painter was buried by the "Chuguyev's hill", a place at the end of his property in Penates. Style and technique

Repin persistently searched for new techniques and content to give his work more fullness and depth. <mask> had a set of favorite subjects, and a limited


texts: circle of people whose portraits he painted. But he had a deep sense of purpose in his aesthetics, and had the great artistic gift to sense the spirit of the age and its reflection in the lives and characters of individuals. <mask>'s search for truth and for an ideal led him in various directions artistically, influenced by hidden aspects of social and spiritual experiences as well as national culture. Like most Russian realists of his times, <mask> often based his works on dramatic conflicts, drawn from contemporary life or history. He also used mythological images with a strong sense of purpose; some of his religious paintings are among his greatest.His method was the reverse of the general approach of impressionism. He produced works slowly and carefully. They were the result of close and detailed study. He was never satisfied with his works, and often painted multiple versions, years apart. He also changed and adjusted his methods constantly in order to obtain more effective arrangement, grouping and coloristic power. <mask>'s style of portraiture was unique, but owed something to the influence of Édouard Manet and Diego Velázquez. <mask> was the first Russian artist to achieve European fame using specifically Russian themes.His 1873 painting Barge Haulers on the Volga, radically different from previous Russian paintings, made him the leader of a new movement of critical realism in Russian art. He chose nature and character over academic formalism. The triumph of this work was widespread, and it was praised by contemporaries like Vladimir Stasov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The paintings show his feeling of personal responsibility for the

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References

Bibliography

Further reading

Jackson, David, The Russian Vision: The Art of <mask> <mask> (Schoten, Belgium, 2006)
Karageorgevich, Prince Bojidar, "Professor <mask>," in the Magazine of Art, xxiii. p. 783 (1899)
Prymak, Thomas M., "A Painter from Ukraine: <mask> <mask>," Canadian Slavonic Papers, LV, 1–2 (2013), 19–43. Prymak, Thomas M., "Message to Mehmed: <mask> Creates his Zaporozhian Cossacks," in his Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021), pp.173–200. Шишанов, В.А. «Ниспровержение на пьедестал»: Илья Репин в советской печати 1920–1930-х годов / В.А. Шишанов // Архип Куинджи и его роль в развитии художественного процесса в ХХ веке. Илья Репин в контексте русского и европейского искусства. Василий Дмитриевич Поленов и русская художественная культура второй половины XIX – первых десятилетий XX века : материалы научных конференций. – М. : Гос.Третьяковская галерея, 2020. – С. 189–206. 1844 births
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<mask> is an American writer and television producer in Hollywood. As a screenwriter and executive producer for the long-running television program Cheers, he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. <mask> created the television show George and Leo, among others. In addition to his television work, <mask> is a contributing editor for National Review, as well as a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He hosts the syndicated weekly radio commentary Martini Shot, and appears regularly on political commentary shows. In May 2010, he took part in launching a new center-right commentary site, Ricochet. <mask> received an award from the Writers Guild of America, and is on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects.His published works include Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke. Education
<mask> graduated from Phillips Academy (1983) and Yale University in 1987. After graduation, he studied for two years at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, where he later served as an Adjunct Professor of screenwriting

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<mask> started his career as a screenwriter for the television show Cheers in 1990, and became an executive producer for the show in 1992. During his tenure, the show won two Emmys and two Golden Globes. <mask> received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 1992 and 1993. After Cheers ended in 1993, <mask> formed a television production company with his Cheers collaborator and fellow Emmy nominee Dan Staley. Together, they created the television show George and Leo, starring Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsch, for CBS.They also created Love & Money for CBS and Men, Women & Dogs for The WB. In addition to their show creation work, <mask> and his partner served as creative consultants on numerous shows. <mask> took over as show runner for Kevin James vehicle Kevin Can Wait after Bruce Helford left the CBS show. Political and social commentary
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 in 1993, <mask> wrote a fortnightly political satire column for National Review titled Letters from Al. Written anonymously, the majority of these columns purported to be personal letters from Vice President Al Gore to his friend "Rusty", an academic researcher living in a Brazilian rainforest. The letters revealed insider information about government figures, as well as humorous speculation on their roles in public controversies. Occasionally the letters were from other political figures, such as George Bush and Dick Morris, and on occasion the column purported to be the transcript of a police wiretap.National Review maintained the author's anonymity throughout the Clinton presidency, revealing <mask>'s identity only after George Bush was inaugurated in 2001. <mask> is now a contributing editor for National Review, where he writes the fortnightly column The Long View. He comments on political and social topics, especially mass media and Hollywood politics. He is also a contributor to TIME, Newsweek International, The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. <mask> hosts the syndicated radio show Martini Shot, where he provides news and opinion on the film industry, as well as interviews with notable subjects. Broadcast weekly, the show originates at Los Angeles NPR station KCRW. The show's title is a Hollywood term for the final scene of the day on a film production set.In addition, <mask> regularly appears on political commentary shows. Ricochet
In 2008, <mask> started a political news and commentary website, RobinsonandLong.com, in collaboration with <mask>, author and former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. In 2010, <mask> and <mask> launched a new, more interactive website, Ricochet, featuring a news feed in the model of Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr. The site features approximately 40 contributors from conservative publications, such as National Review and The Weekly Standard, who start conversation threads open to commentary and discussion. In order to encourage earnest and respectful discussion, only paying members of the site are allowed to comment, and a code of

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<mask> is the author of two books. His first, Conversations with My Agent, is a memoir of his early career.Published in 1998, it provides extensive advice for aspiring scriptwriters, and has become a "cult classic". His second book, Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, is a further memoir of his entertainment industry experiences, and was published in 2005. <mask> is mentioned and quoted extensively in the book The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Toby Young. <mask> serves on the board of directors of The American Cinema Foundation, a "Los Angeles-based non-profit arts organization created to nurture and reward television and feature-film projects that promote democratic pluralism and inclusion." He is also president of the Board of Directors of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Associated television shows
 Cheers (1990–1993)
 Pig Sty (1995)
 Good Company (1996)
 George and Leo (1997–1998)
 Love & Money (1999)
 Men, Women & Dogs (2001–2002)
 Sullivan & Son (2012–2014)
 Kevin Can Wait (2016–2018)

Published works
 Conversations with My Agent (1998)
 Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke (2005)
Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse  (2017)

Awards and nominations
 Nomination, Primetime Emmy Award (1992)
 Nomination, Primetime Emmy Award (1993)
 Nomination, Golden Globe Award (1992)
 Nomination, Golden Globe Award (1993)
 Writers Guild of America Award

See also
 Cheers
 Sullivan & Son
 George & Leo
 KCRW

References

External links
 Martini Shot at KCRW Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Letters from America on Newsweek Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Q+A with <mask> at LAist Retrieved 2010-01-05

 <mask>'s blog Retrieved 2009-10-30
 <mask> search at NPR Retrieved 2010-01-05
 The American Cinema Foundation Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Cheerful <mask> on National Review Online Retrieved 2009-10-30
 Book Review on The Guardian Retrieved 2009-10-30
 In-depth podcast interview

American television writers
American television producers
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American male screenwriters
Yale University alumni
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Emily "<mask><mask> (née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Roy Hamilton, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, <mask> embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work. <mask> is the mother of superstar singer <mask>, the aunt of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and a cousin of opera singer Leontyne Price. Early life
Born Emily Drinkard in Newark, New Jersey, to Nitcholas "Nitch" Drinkard (1895-1952) and Delia Mae Drinkard (née McCaskill) (1901-1941), she was the eighth and final child; older siblings were brothers William (1918–2003), Hansom (1924–deceased), Nicky (1929–1992), and Larry (1931–2012); and sisters Lee (1920–2005), Marie (1922–2007), and Anne (1927–2003). <mask>'s father Nitcholas Drinkard was born to Susan Bell (called Delia) Drinkard (née Fuller), of Dutch and African-American descent. His father John Drinkard, Jr., was of Native American descent. The Drinkards had owned a substantial amount of farmland in Blakely, Georgia, at a time when it was unusual for black people to have large landholdings.The asset was gradually depleted as they sold small portions of land over time, to resolve the continued legal troubles of a close relative. After <mask>'s three oldest siblings were born, the family relocated to New Jersey during the Great Migration. Her parents emphasized the children getting educated and being involved in the church, and her father encouraged <mask> and her siblings to sing. In

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The Drinkard Singers
<mask>'s singing career began in 1938 when she joined her sister Anne and brothers Larry and Nicky in the gospel singing group the Drinkard Four. Lee (who would later become the mother of singers Marie Dionne Warrick and Delia Juanita (Dee Dee) Warrick, later joined the group along with Anne Drinkard Moss and Marie Drinkard Epps, and the group was renamed The Drinkard Singers. It was while performing on Drinkard Singers that <mask> <mask> made her television debut on TV Gospel Time. <mask> and the Drinkard Singers regularly performed at New Hope Baptist Church and later recorded a live album for RCA called A Joyful Noise.Sweet Inspirations
In 1963, then about to give birth to daughter <mask>, she formed the Sweet Inspirations with Doris Troy and niece Dee Dee Warwick. Later, under contract to Atlantic Records, Sylvia Shemwell, Estelle Brown and Myrna Smith form the line-up. During the mid-1960s, the Sweet Inspirations provided backup vocals for a variety of artists,

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 including Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Lou Rawls, The Drifters, Dusty Springfield, and <mask>'s niece Dionne Warwick. They appeared on Van Morrison's single Brown Eyed Girl. <mask> Franklin hit "Ain't No Way". In 1967, The Sweet Inspirations sang background vocals for The Jimi Hendrix Experience on the track "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". In 1969, they were hired to sing backing vocals for American singer Elvis Presley in Las Vegas on his return to live performances during July and August 1969.Presley often introduced them at shows by saying, "They really live up to their name, ladies & gentlemen: The Sweet Inspirations!" Many of these performances can be heard on the All Shook Up and Live In Las Vegas live records. Performing with Elvis Presley was <mask>'s final gig with The Sweet Inspirations. As her children were growing bigger, she decided to stop touring and focus on her career as a recording artist. Solo career
As Cecily Blair she cut her first secular solo record "This Is My Vow" on M'n'M Records in 1963 following this up in 1966 with "Bring Him Back" b/w "World Of Broken Hearts" on Congress. Her final solo single before recording with The Sweet Inspirations was "Don't Come Running To Me" b/w "One Broken Heart For Sale" released on Kapp Records in 1967. On these early singles her name is spelled as Sissie <mask>.In 1969, <mask> signed a recording contract with Commonwealth United Records and recorded her solo debut LP Presenting Cissy <mask> which was released in 1970. It contained several well received singles, including covers of

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 "I'll Be There" and "Be My Baby", both of which made the R&B charts. Following the release of her debut album, <mask>'s contract was sold to Janus Records in 1970. She recorded another album and several more singles in the early 1970s, which included the original recording of Jim Weatherly's "Midnight Train to Georgia" in 1972, later a number one hit for Gladys Knight & The Pips. She continued to record with Janus Records until 1975. In 1977, <mask> was signed by Private Stock Records, working with arranger/producer Michael Zager on three albums. The second included her big disco hit "Think It Over", which climbed to No.32 on the Billboard R&B chart in 1979. She represented USA at the World Popular Song Festival in 1979 with a track called "You're the Fire", landing second place and winning the "Most Outstanding Performance Award". This also appeared on her 1980 disco-flavored album, Step Aside for a Lady, again produced by Zager, but released on Columbia Records (on EMI in the United Kingdom). Session musician

<mask>'s versatile cross-genre singing style has kept her highly in demand as a session musician with some of the world's most successful recording artists. <mask>, along with Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, sang the background vocals on the original recording of Time Is On My Side by Kai Winding, released by Verve Records in October 1963. She was one of the backup singers on the Paul Simon song "Mother and Child Reunion" (1972)

<mask> sang back-up on Bette Midler's 1972 debut album, The Divine Miss M. In 1974, <mask> sang back-up

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In 1996, <mask> received the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album for Face to Face, an album that contained a Gospel version of "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)". The same year, she contributed one song to the gospel soundtrack album for the film The Preacher's Wife, which starred her daughter <mask>. In 1998, she won her second Grammy for her album He Leadeth Me.She has also continued to record infrequent secular material and in 1987, <mask> and her daughter Whitney recorded a duet titled "I Know Him So Well", a cover of the

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 original by Barbara Dickson and Elaine Paige from the Broadway show, Chess. This song also became a single in early 1989 as the 6th and last single release (in selected European countries) from Whitney's album Whitney. In 1992 she teamed up with Chuck Jackson for an album of solo and duet recordings entitled I'll Take Care of You. In 2006, she recorded the song "Family First" with niece Dionne Warwick and daughter <mask> for the soundtrack to the movie Daddy's Little Girls. In 2010, <mask> attended the third annual BET Honors with her daughter Whitney, who received the entertainment award. In 2012, Cissy performed "Bridge over Troubled Water" at the tribute for her daughter at the BET Music Awards. On September 29, 2014, at 80 years old,  Cissy sang backup to a standing-ovation performance with Aretha Franklin of  Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" on The Late Show with David Letterman.New Hope Baptist Church Youth Inspirational Choir
For more than fifty years, <mask> has led the 200-member Youth Inspirational Choir at the New Hope Baptist Church (Newark). She is a driving force behind and performs annually at the McDonald's Gospelfest. Personal life
In 1955, <mask> married Freddie Garland and had a son, Gary Garland, an NBA basketball player and DePaul University Athletic Hall of Famer. In the spring of 1957, when she was 24, <mask> met John Russell <mask>. and embarked on a romance that led to the births of son Michael (born August 14, 1961), a songwriter and road manager, and daughter Whitney (August 9, 1963 -

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<mask> (born Baldwin Chiu, May 17, 1974 in San Francisco, California) is an American rapper, actor, producer and stunt performer. As a hip hop artist, he writes/performs rap, beatboxing, and singing. He is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild involved in acting and choreographing stunt work. <mask> started rapping professionally in 1991 after being influenced by hip hop pioneers Run DMC, Will Smith, dcTalk, and T-Bone. Because he started rapping in both English and Cantonese, some consider him to be the first Chinese American bilingual rapper. "This Chinese American rapper has a refreshing and unique sound with a message born out of experience, having been in the game since '91." At one point, he was labeled the "Christian" version of "Jin the MC".Career
Among these things, <mask> is also a professionally licensed mechanical engineer with a PE License deeming him the "Lyrical Engineer". The title track of his LP (The Lyrical Engineer), provides an exposition of the life and livelihood of a professional engineer. It demonstrates <mask>'s technological acumen as well as his lyrical wit and dexterity. <mask> is also a favored guest speaker at conventions, schools, and youth events challenging and encouraging the next generation to pursue their dreams and passions while maintaining an education and focus on God. Signed in 2009 under Los Angeles record label, LOG Records. <mask> has appeared as both a host and musical guest on JCTV and has been featured on collaboration albums. <mask>'s release, "The Lyrical Engineer" is produced by Grammy nominated group Dynamic Twins, Billboard winner Maximillian and Larissa Lam.The music video was directed and edited by Emmy Award-winning director, Marlon Jones. <mask> and Larissa Lam launched a viral music video title "Cantonese Boy" which was a parody of the Grammy winning song American Boy by Kanye West and Estelle. After being seen performing "Cantonese Boy" in Chinatown, <mask> was asked to perform at the 2010 Green Globe Film Awards as they honored Asians in film and entertainment. As an actor and member of SAG, he appears in many feature films

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 such as The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, xXx2: State of the Union, Twisted, and Pursuit of Happyness. He has also provided music for the soundtrack of Dead Man Down and the animated film, "The Monkey Prince". He is also an advanced level martial artists having trained under the lineage of Kanbun Uechi and <mask>-Fai. He is a 3 time UC Berkeley Wushu Champion in tai chi, weapons, and push hands  and teaches Tai Chi in Hollywood.He has used some of his skills in choreographing fight scenes in movies and doing stunt work for Ang Lee in the movie Hulk. On April 29, 2010, California State University, Sacramento, honored high-achieving alumni at an annual award ceremony called the "Distinguished Service Awards". This is the highest recognized award for CSU Sacramento. Baldwin was recognized for his contributions in engineering, his performances as <mask> Won: The Lyrical Engineer and other entertainment industry endeavors as well as his work with youth. He received this award alongside KXTV ABC News anchor Cristina Mendonsa. On Pi day 2012, Intel asked <mask> to be part of President Barack Obama's national White House campaign titled, Stay With It, designed to boost retention of students in undergraduate engineering programs. Only Won releases

Other work
Tai Chiu Music was set up in 2008.After moving its location from Sacramento, California, TCM joined forces with LOG Records and producer Larissa Lam in Los Angeles. In 2011, Only Won released a "Geeked out" remix video of the hit song "Billionaire", titled "I Wanna Be An Engineer", which was a parody that reached viral status and caught the attention of CNN, Discovery Channel, The Pentagon, and FIRST Robotics Competition. The song became the anthem to those in the engineering, technology, and science community. It also reached No. 2 on Reddit.com on the viral hits list, gaining over 400,000 views in less than two weeks. The song "Crush 'em Like Godzilla" was inspired by Ed Wang, the first NFL player of full Chinese descent. In summer 2012, Only Won released two songs on the video game Sleeping Dogs.In Spring 2013, the song "JUN

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LOG Records issued the 2010 release of Only Won-The Lyrical Engineer tracks for download, through major outlets (Amazon, iTunes, CD Baby, Nimbitmusic, etc.). Also featured with Holland music collaborating with One Truth. Filmography

Film Maker
In 2015, Only Won produced a Documentary short titled, Finding Cleveland with Larissa Lam as the director and music composer. It garnished multiple nominations for Best Documentary. In 2016, Finding Cleveland won Best Documentary at the Oxford Film Festival. The story started as a journey for him to search for his family roots, but instead of taking him to the far east, it took him into the deep south of Cleveland, MS.While the 12-minute documentary focuses on the family's discoveries about their roots, it also touches on a broader history, such as the treatment of Asian immigrants in the region and the role the Chinese Exclusion Act played in that. Awards
Distinguished Service Award 1st ever Rising Star Award (2010). Personal life
In March 2008, he married American talk show host, Singer/songwriter, director and producer Larissa Lam. The couple currently reside in Los Angeles, California. Outreach and Community Work
Only Won has worked with the community and uses his platform as an entertainer and engineer to encourage people to continue to seek out their dreams without giving up their education. He strives to use his music to bridge a culture that needs to hear and feel the love of God. See also
 JCTV

References

External links
Hear It First
Cross Rhythms

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Living people
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Jyrki Juhani Järvilehto (; born 31 January 1966), better known as "<mask>", is a Finnish racing driver. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, in 1995 and 2005. He is also a former Formula One driver. He was a protégé of Finnish 1982 Formula One World Champion Keke Rosberg, who first suggested that Jyrki Järvilehto should abbreviate his name to the more manageable <mask>. Early career
Like many racing drivers <mask> began in karts at age 8, winning numerous events, before graduating to Formula Ford at the early age of 15. A switch to single seaters saw him dominate the Scandinavian Formula Ford. He then won the British and European Formula 2000 championship in 1987 and went on to win the coveted British Formula 3 title in 1988, driving for Pacific Racing.In 1989 Lehto drove in Formula 3000, again for Pacific Racing. The season was not successful and he failed to score any podium finishes. He did not participate in the last race which was held in Dijon-Prenois. Formula One career
In 1989 Lehto tested for Ferrari before making his Formula One debut for the Onyx team as a late-season replacement for Bertrand Gachot. Though he failed to prequalify for his first race at Estoril he impressed with his speed in the tough sessions and made his first start in the following meeting. In the wet season finale at Adelaide he ran as high as 5th before retiring with waterlogged electrics. Over the summer Onyx were sold to Swiss racer turned businessman Peter Monteverdi.Lehto, marked by many as a star of the future, was paired with Gregor Foitek but financial difficulties hampered his season, leading to the team's withdrawal after the Hungarian Grand Prix (one of five events the Finn failed to qualify for – though he had been hindered by the team's poor preparation, including a driveshaft being fitted the wrong way around for several meetings, and

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 3rd in Spain before an engine failure and scoring a point in Canada (after the disqualification of Christian Fittipaldi) it was clear his injuries had not healed fully and he was replaced once again by Verstappen for the French Grand Prix. He returned to the cockpit for the Italian and Portuguese rounds in place of the suspended Schumacher but did not impress and was released entirely soon afterwards when the team signed Johnny Herbert. This freed him up to drive in the last two rounds for Sauber – Wendlinger's injuries from an accident in practice before the 1994 Monaco GP had failed to heal and his previous replacement Andrea de Cesaris was unreachable. Post-Formula One career

After his Formula One career stalled, and advised by his manager Keke Rosberg, Lehto joined the German Touring Car Championship, DTM, in 1995 and 1996. Even though rated highly, victories eluded him, but this loss was probably made up by his successes in GT and sports car racing. He was a late addition to the 1995 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a McLaren F1 GTR, but he won the race outright, at his third attempt, sharing the car with Yannick Dalmas and Masanori Sekiya. <mask> was an integral part of the win, gaining the lead for the team by driving a few stints during the rainy night.While others were driving cautiously, <mask> was seen to be sliding the car, lapping at times 30sec faster than everyone else. He had three more guest appearances in the same car the next year, winning another race, before he got picked up by BMW to join the factory squad in the inaugural FIA GT season, partnering Steve Soper. Even though success came initially easily, including a win in front of his home crowd at the Thunder In Helsinki event, the might of Mercedes-Benz caught up with the McLarens and left <mask> conceding the title to former DTM rival Bernd

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 was finally able to reap full rewards in 2004 and score his first championship success since his 1988 title in the British Formula Three, picking up six victories on the way. A disappointing second half of the 2005 season prevented him from scoring double championship success, but nonetheless he managed to end his last year in full-time racing on an impressive note when winning both the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans again.In 2006 it was announced the Solaroli team would purchase two Porsche RS Spyders to be entered in the ALMS series. One car would be driven by Lehto, partnered by Johnny Herbert. However, even though getting confirmation about the deal going through in early 2007, nothing ever materialised. Lehto did show up at the 2007 edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona to team up with Colin Braun and Max Papis in the Krohn Racing Pontiac-Riley. His first participation in the event was not a success though as the car suffered from a misfire, and after having spent a long time in the pits, finished 17th. In 2008 he made an unexpected return to the race tracks when he showed up at the Malaysian Grand Prix to drive in the Speedcar support race, taking over the No. 90 car previously vacated by Narain Karthikeyan.In 2001 <mask> joined Finnish television as an expert race commentator and remained a mainstay at MTV3's Finnish Formula One race broadcasts (and also for the pay-channel MTV3 MAX) until 2010, alongside Oskari Saari. Boating accident

On 17 June 2010, <mask> was involved in a boating accident in Ekenäs. The accident happened when the boat carrying <mask> and his friend, whose identity was not released, hit the base of a bridge in a canal. Lehto was injured and the other man was killed in the accident. <mask> had been drinking throughout the day and was heavily intoxicated at the time of the accident. In

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