texts: "Orfeo 9". In 1974, producers Alfredo Cerruti and Enrico Riccardi persuaded <mask> to record her first album, Streaking. Berté's second album, "Normale o Super" included "Sei Bellissima", Berté's first domestic hit. In 1978, Berté started a relationship with Ivano Fossati. Fossati produced the single "E la luna bussò", which is considered one of the early minstream reggae songs in Italy. In the early 1980s Berté spent a year in New York to work on her next album.Elio Fiorucci introduced her to Andy Warhol at the Factory. Warhol and Berté collaborated on the music video for her song "Movie". In 1982 she won Festivalbar with "Non sono una signora". In 1985 she recorded the album Carioca in collaboration with Djavan. In 1986 she participated to the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Re". In 1988 she met and married Bjorn Borg. The marriage would end in 1992.In 1993 Berté and Mia Martini, collaborated on the song "Stiamo come stiamo". On May 12, 1995, Martini was found unresponsive in her apartment in Rome. Martini's death proved to be a devastating moment in Berté's life. In the early 2000s <mask> returned to theatre, performing with Carla Fracci in "Gerusalemme" at the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. She entrusts the direction of the three video clips that are part of the mini-CD "Dimmi che mi ami" of 2002. Two years later she took part in "Music Farm", the first reality show on Italian TV involving famous singers. Thanks to the show's proceeds, she produced the new album "Babybertè" (2005) by herself.In April 2010 she suffered a bad fall, and the related surgery forced her to a lengthy

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 hospitalization. She returned to the Sanremo Music Festival the following year, finishing fourth with the Gigi D'Alessio song "Respirare". Her following tour, "Bandabertè", ended up in Russia, where she participated in the international White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. In 2015 she played the judge's role in the talent "Friends of Maria De Filippi". In 2017 she recorded the songs "Allegria" with J-Ax and Fedez and "Occhi di Gatto" with Cristina D'Avena. In 2016 Berté staged a big show at the Verona Arena called "Amiche in Arena", performing a series of duets with other Italian female artists, including Fiorella Mannoia, Gianna Nannini, Patty Pravo and Irene Grandi. Berté's song "J'adore Venise" was included in Luca Guadagnino's Oscar-winning film's soundtrack, Call Me By Your Name (2017).In 2018 she topped the Italian charts with "Non ti dico no", a song made in collaboration with the raggae dancehall band Boomdabash. She also duetted with Fabio Rovazzi and J-Ax in "Senza pensieri". (2004)
 "Strade di fuoco" (2006) Italy: Gold
 "Musica e parole" (2008) Italy: Gold
 "Cattiva" (Loredana Errore feat. <mask> <mask>) (2011)
 "Respirare" (with Gigi D'Alessio) (2012) Italy: Gold
 "Ma quale musica leggera" (2012)
 "Non ti dico no" (with Boomdabash) (2018) Italy: 2x Platinum
 "Cosa ti aspetti da me" (2019) Italy: Platinum
 Tequila e San Miguel (2019)
 Senza Pensieri (2019) Italy: Platinum
 Figlia di... (2021) Italy: Gold
 Tuttapposto (2021)
 Che sogno incredibile (2021) Italy: Gold

Filmography

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1950 births
Living people
People from Bagnara Calabra
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<mask> ( 1161–1230), known as el Viejo ("the Old"), was a nobleman of Castile and a participant in the key Reconquista battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. He was the second Lord of Meneses, Lord of Cea, Grajal, Montalbán, and, through his second wife, first Lord of Alburquerque. Family
His father was <mask>, a powerful noble in Tierra de Campos and Cea, founder, with his wife Gontrodo, of the Monastery of Santa María de Matallana, and three hospitals for lepers and pilgrims in Cuenca, Villamartín, and in San Nicolás del Real Camino. Although mistakenly considered the founders of the Monastery of Santa María de Trianos because of the donation that the couple made in 1185 with the consent of their five children, the monastery had been founded before 1125 the year in which Pope Honorius II issued a Papal bull appointing the abbot and the prior of this religious establishment. The mother of <mask> was Gontrodo García of the Fláinez family who married <mask> around 1161, the year in which he granted her arras. Gontrodo was the daughter of García Pérez, tenente in Cea who distinguished himself in the conquest of Baeza and Almería, and of Teresa Pérez. Gontrodo's parents founded the Cistercian convent of Santa María la Real in Gradefes, which she joined after she was widowed and where she eventually became the abbess.Life
In 1209 King <mask> ceded to <mask> <mask> the village of Montalbán. The following year he received as a gift of the king the village of Navahermosa, its castle Dos Hermanas, and the village of Malamoneda and its eponymous castle, splitting them off from the jurisdiction of the Knights

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texts: 1217 was one of great tension, such as never had occurred in Castile before. Álvaro Núñez <mask> refused to renounce the power he had gained thereto and harassed the forces that remained loyal to Berengaria, laying waste to the valley of Trigueros and besieging Autillo de Campos, where Berengaria and her partisans were located, as well as Cisneros and Frechilla. Circumstances changed suddenly when King Henry died on 6 June 1217 after receiving a head wound from a roof tile that came loose accidentally while he was playing with other children in the palace of the Bishop of Palencia, <mask>o Téllez de Meneses. Álvaro Núñez de Lara, as the young king's guardian, tried to keep the matter quiet, bringing the king's body to the castle of Tariego, but he could not prevent the news from reaching Queen Berengaria.Immediately, Berengaria charged Lope <mask> Haro, Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, and <mask> <mask> with the task of discreetly fetching her son Ferdinand, who at the time was in Toro with his father King <mask>, using as pretext the possibility of an attack on Autillo and without revealing the news of her brother's death. Despite the hesitation of the infantas Sancha and Dulce, the nobles were able to convince the King that King Henry was alive and well, thereupon leaving Toro with Ferdinand. Berengaria, the legitimate heiress to the throne of Castile, renounced it in favor of her son Ferdinand, who shortly thereafter was proclaimed king in Autillo de Campos on 14 June 1217. On 20 September of that year, <mask> <mask> took Álvaro Núñez <mask> prisoner, and Álvaro was obliged to hand over some

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 fortresses. On 11 November a generous truce was signed, allowing members of the House of Lara to recover their liberty and privileges. As soon as he was released from prison, however, Álvaro once again defied his enemies <mask> <mask>, Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón, and Lope <mask> Haro, but he died while laying siege to them in the fortress of Castrejón de Trabancos, where they had taken refuge after an initial defeat. His brother Fernando Núñez <mask> made his way to Morocco, where he placed himself in the service of Caliph Yusuf II.The Pact of Toro of 26 August 1218 ratified the truce and put an end to the conflict. <mask> <mask> died in 1230 while accompanying King Ferdinand on his way to his coronation as King of León, the occasion of the union of the two crowns upon the death of <mask> of León. He was buried, according to tradition, in the Monastery of Santa María de Palazuelos which he had founded. Marriage and children
<mask> married twice. His first wife was Elvira Rodríguez Girón (? – after 22 February 1211), daughter of Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón. They had four children:

<mask>o <mask> <mask>, subject of chivalric romances on account of his defense of Martos and Córdoba.He died without issue, leaving his brother <mask> to succeed him as Governor of Cordoba and Lord of Meneses. <mask> <mask> "el Mozo", ("the Young"; ? –  1257), who married María Anes <mask>ia, daughter of <mask>, tenant-in-chief in Limia y Monterroso, and Maria Pais Ribeira "a Ribeirinha". <mask> and María had three children, including, <mask> <mask>, the wife of infante <mask> Molina, and mother of Queen <mask> Molina and

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 her brother <mask> <mask>, Lord of Meneses and alférez to the king. <mask>, married to Rodrigo Gómez <mask>, son of Count Gómez González <mask> and Elvira Pérez. <mask>, married to Menendo <mask> Sousa, and by him the mother of <mask> <mask>usa who married <mask>, illegitimate son of <mask> of León and Teresa Gil <mask>. Between February 1211, the year in which his first wife died, and before July 1213 when he first appears with his second wife, he married the young Portuguese Teresa Sanches, the illegitimate daughter of Sancho I of Portugal and Maria Pais Ribeira, who later married <mask>, tenant-in-chief in Limia and Monterroso.<mask> probably succeeded to the Lordship of Alburquerque thanks to his second marriage to Teresa, since it was inherited by the children of this marriage, while the Lordship of Meneses passed to his firstborn, <mask>, the son of his first wife. The children of this second marriage were:

<mask> (died after 15 June 1285), who married Mencia Rodríguez. Martín left a will dated 15 June 1285, leaving instructions for his wife Mencia, his sister <mask>, and his five children, Teresa, María, <mask>, <mask>, and Gil Martínez. He also mentions his brother-in-law Gómez Rodríguez who must be Mencía's brother. <mask> <mask> "Tizón", (died after 1252), who according to some authors married Mayor González Girón, daughter of Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón. <mask> (died before 15 June 1285). <mask> (?–1268), married to Elvira or Berenguela González Girón, daughter of Gonzalo Rodríguez Girón.References

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Castilian nobility
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<mask> (30 July 18484 October 1922), known as <mask>, was a well-known Australian artist and botanical illustrator. She also did a series of illustrations on birds, butterflies and insects. Life
Marian, the daughter of Marian and Charles Ryan, principal of stock agents Ryan and Hammond, was born at "Killeen" near Longwood, Victoria, one of her father's pastoral stations in Victoria. Her family was well-connected: sister Ada Mary married Admiral Lord Charles Scott, son of the Duke of Buccleuch; brother Sir Charles Ryan was a noted Melbourne surgeon and for a time Turkish consul in London (and whose daughter became Baroness Casey). Another niece was Joice NanKivell Loch. She was educated at Miss Murphy's private school in Melbourne, and in 1873 married Captain <mask>, who had fought in the New Zealand wars. Her husband was interested in botany and he encouraged her to paint wild flowers.She had had no training but working conscientiously and carefully in water-colour; her work is noted for being botanically informative as well as artistic. <mask> returned to Melbourne in 1877, and for many years travelled in Australia painting the flora of the country, at times in the company of her painting companion, Margaret Forrest. <mask> exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She published in 1898 A Flower-Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand, largely based on letters to her husband and friends. About this time she went to North America and provided the illustrations, many in colour, to A Guide to the Wild Flowers, by Alice Lounsberry, published in New York in 1899 as well as Guide to the Trees (1900), and Southern Wild Flowers and Trees (1901) also by Lounsberry. It was while in America, travelling with Lounsberry, that <mask> received news that her son Russell (called "Puck") had been killed in the Second Boer War. In 1905 she held a successful exhibition in London.She returned to Australia and held exhibitions of her work which sold at comparatively high prices. In 1916 she made a trip to New Guinea, the first of several during which she produced a

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 huge volume of illustrations. She contracted malaria during these journeys. In 1920 she held the largest solo exhibition seen in Australia at the time, when she exhibited 1000 of her works in Sydney. She died at Macedon, Victoria, her husband and her only son having predeceased her (her husband died in 1892, aged 47, possibly by suicide; and her son died of nephritis in Africa, aged 22, while in jail awaiting trial on charges of forgery). Other books by <mask> published in Australia were Bill Baillie, his Life and Adventures, The Queensland Flora, and Sketches in Black and White in New Zealand. Several accounts of her career have been published including:

Australia's Brilliant Daughter <mask>: Artist, Naturalist, Explorer 1848–1922 (1984) by Margaret Hazzard.Flower Paintings of <mask> from the Collection of the National Library of Australia (1982) by M. Hazzard and H. Hewson. <mask>: A Flower-Hunter in Queensland (1990) by J. McKay. The Flower Hunter: <mask> (2002) by Patricia Fullerton. Wild Flower Hunter—the story of <mask> (1961) by her niece, H. J. (Helen Jo) Samuel. The Australian Club in Melbourne, one of that city's oldest and most venerable establishments, has a room with the walls entirely covered in murals by her, painted as a result of a commission from the Club. Despite winning several gold medals judged by international artists against some of Australia's leading male artists, a disdain for her ability, artistry, and capacity due to her gender resulted in a bias against her art that lasted decades.Her art was housed in the National Library, not the National Gallery. National Library of Australia - Rowan Collection
In 1923, a year after her death, her surviving collection of 952 paintings was offered to the Australian government by her estate. The offer was debated in the House of Representatives. Parliament eventually agreed on a price of 5000 pounds for the paintings, half the asking price, and they became the property of the Australian Commonwealth. The collection was stored in the vaults of the Federal Treasury in Melbourne until 1933, when custody was transferred to the Commonwealth

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 National Library, and to date, the major purchase by the Australian government had either been mostly hidden from public view, or her art was farmed out to overseas government offices. The remaining 919 paintings are now housed at the National Library of Australia. <mask>'s Memorial portrait is also here.Queensland Museum Collection

The Queensland Museum's collection of 125 botanical paintings by <mask> has been in accessible to the public for almost half a century. By 1912, her collection was taken from the old Brisbane Town Hall to the Queensland Museum after <mask>'s victorious Exhibition. 1. Painting techniques

<mask> painted most of her Queensland paintings indoor, she always worked into the night to drawn plants that she collected on her journey. On the other hand, <mask> was a rapid and direct painter who made her botanical paintings outdoor, which usually without the under-drawing of the pencil. She painted and traveled with her curiosity and personal interests, and she did not intend to be a serious botanical illustrator. She wrote of her Queensland Paintings:

'The collection is painted with a view of showing the general public how the flowers grow with their surroundings—while they are all botanically correct you cannot in the one drawing make a picture of the flower and also show it scientifically drawn in sections which is quite a different study.'<mask> desired to make artistic compositions, which generally represented with bold close-up form. The colorful and vivid flora painted by her were not in the conventional way but placed in the varies native habitats, extending beyond the picture frame. It is said that her composition was influenced by the Thornton's Temple of Flora. <mask> sometimes added insects and even snakes to her artworks, like some of Thornton's artists, in order to achieve the dramatic effect. Claiming herself a self-taught painter, <mask> combined traditional watercolor techniques with opaque paints that she used to illustrate detail. She produced multiple copies of her paintings, and this non-professional and peculiar practice resulted in the difficulty of classifying

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 the quantity of her output. 2.Plants

For today's botanists, <mask>'s painting has limited scientific research value because they are lacking the critical details that is necessary for the botanical illustrations. However, these flora drawings are accurate and clear enough to help people identify most of the plants she drew. Although <mask> confessed that she knew very little about plants, she maintained her passion and love to discovering the botanical world, dried many specimens as her collections. In the early year of her career, there was the trend that depicting the flower or fruit as an isolated part or branch, but her later career showed a change which was inclined to put plants in their own environment rather than in a studio-like space. <mask> created her botanical world more than paint every detail of her observation. There are some ‘new species’ plants created by <mask>, which often added one part of a plant to another, the most surprisingly, the arrangement of these different types plants presented a pleasing combination. There is another reason why <mask>’ paintings are not strong enough to be called the scientific illustration.It seems that <mask> had her own taste when she choosing the object, which resulted in the limitation of botanical species in her painting. She preferred colorful and showy species rather than many small-flowered herbaceous species, for example, waterlilies were her most favorite flowers, and there was no depicting of the large and significant sunflower family in her artworks. 3. Animals

In spite of the spectacular botanical paintings, <mask> is also good at depicting animals and insects. The series about New Guinea bird and butterfly drawings are her major exploration into animal paintings. One-third of <mask>’ paintings which collected in the Queensland Museum were illustrated plenty of species of animal, such as beetles, butterflies, snakes and dragonflies. These insects or animals in <mask>’ works probably added later after the plants, because most of <mask> paintings finished indoor and the flower was often picked by herself or given to her by the local people.it

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 has been questioned that whether the representation of these real species was accurate in their context. It is probably that <mask> combined plants and insects at random, without thinking carefully about the relationship between them. <mask>’ interest with animals was derived from her early experience with her family, as recollected by her niece Lady Casey:

‘She had inherited the interest of her grandfather John Cotton not only in flora and fauna but in insects and even reptiles; she enjoyed the accident of life, the fusion of one aspect of nature with another. … Some of our family, the Le Souefs, actually had a feeling for shakes. They liked running their warm fingers over those long cold exquisite bodies.’

<mask> full of enthusiasm with her artistic creation, which enabled herself to observe the insect world and animal life. These magical creatures brought her entertainment and helped her escaped from her busy business of botanical   painting. In spite of observing insects, <mask> also a collector of them.Her letters which wrote during her journey always mentioned collecting activities, and some of them were the adventurous stories of snakes. There were sheets of paper painted with rows and rows butterflies leaning on <mask>’ studio wall. They indicate the study that <mask> down as a source of adding to the flower paintings. However, the adding of these animals and insects were more for the artistic effect rather than the realistic illustration. Though the scientific value of <mask>’ botanical Paintings is limited, they are as the excellent record of history of some Queensland's flora drawn by an artist who was in search of the aesthetic expression and picturesque beauty. Royal Worcester
Rowan was commissioned to do a series of paintings to be used as designs on Royal Worcester tea sets. A collection of this porcelain is held at the National Trust of Australia property Saumarez Homestead.A collection of the original drawings is held at the Museum of Royal Worcester. Selected list of medals awarded Ellis <mask>
 International Exhibition Melbourne, 1873
 Sydney International Exhibition, 1879
 Special

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 Merit, <mask>, Macedon. Flower Painting, International Exhibition, Sydney, 1879
 International Colonial and Export Exhibition, Amsterdam, 1883
 Calcutta International Exhibition, 1833-1884
 Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886
 Melbourne International Exhibition (1880), ‘Vitam Excolvere per Artem’
 London International Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1884
 Centennial International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1888
 World Columbian Exposition in Commemoration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Landing of Columbus, 1892-1893

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography

Bibliography
A Flower Hunter in Queensland and New Zealand (London, John Murray, 1898)
[With Alice Lounsberry] A guide to the wild flowers (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1899)
[With Alice Lounsberry] A guide to the trees (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1899)
[With Alice Lounsberry] Southern wild flowers and trees (New York, F.A. Stokes, 1901)
Bill Baillie, his life and adventures (Melbourne, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1908)
[With Herbert P. Dickins] Australian wild-flowers : a popular introduction to the wild-flowers of Australia, with notes on their characteristics and the localities where they may be found. (Melbourne, Robertson and Mullens, 1944)

Source: Worldcat.org

Memorials

Portrait
Her portrait by Sir John Longstaff, paid for by public subscription, was unveiled in 1929.It was the first national portrait of an Australian woman. <mask> Street
A street in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named in her honour. <mask> Building
The first building in the Australian National Botanic Gardens was named in her honour. See also
 List of Australian botanical illustrators

References

Sources

The National Library of Australia. The Flower Hunter: <mask>
Australian Women Biography Entry
Australian National Botanic Gardens Biography
Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry

Further reading

External links

1848 births
1922 deaths
Australian illustrators
Australian naturalists
Flower artists
Australian bird artists
Artists from Melbourne
19th-century Australian painters
20th-century Australian painters
People from Longwood, Victoria
19th-century Australian women
20th-century

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Antoine Reed (born December 24, 1987) is an American rapper better known by his stage name <mask> or <mask>. He started his music career in 2005 as a member of the hip hop duo The Cool Kids, and later joined the groups All City Chess Club, the "super group" P.O.C. (Pulled Over by the Cops), and The Toothpick Clique. The Cool Kids released their debut album When Fish Ride Bicycles in 2011, which features production by The Neptunes and artists such as Ghostface Killah. The album peaked at No. 76 on the Billboard 200, and No. 9 on Top Rap Albums.Starting in 2011 <mask> began releasing a number of free mixtapes, also contributing as a guest artist to tracks by Mac Miller, Dom Kennedy, Jeremih, Curren$y, Freddie Gibbs, Ski Beatz, and more. In April 2014 he contributed to the Chuck Inglish album Convertibles. His first commercial solo album, Banco, was released on July 29, 2014, and features guest appearances by artists such as Too $hort, Mac Miller, Twista, Iamsu, and Pouya. Early life
Antoine "Mikey <mask>" Reed was born in 1987 in the Chicago suburb of Matteson, Illinois, where he was raised. At a young age he listened to artists such as Nas, Jay-Z, Slick Rick, and Eric B. and Rakim, and he started rhyming at the age of ten. Despite an interest in sports, academics, and graphic art, he has stated that even at age ten he knew he would go into hip hop. "I never had a backup plan or plan B. I’ve always known that this was what I was supposed to be doing.As far as time goes, I’ve put all my time into it." As a teenager he began producing his own music, also working on rhymes and making music with friends, including his future collaborators Tris J and Shorty K.  He attended Rich South High School and Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago. Beyond music he had an early interest in zoology, stating he would specializing in reptile and mammal

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 studies if not rapping. He began producing under the moniker <mask> <mask>, also going by Mikey <mask>. Music career

The Cool Kids

2005–07: Founding

In mid-2005 <mask> was mostly working on music production, and doing some rapping as well. He soon founded the hip hop duo The Cool Kids, when <mask> was still sixteen. He met co-founder Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll on Myspace in 2005, after <mask> found a beat that Ingersoll had produced.The two met to discuss terms of the beat's sale, and eventually ended up recording for two hours. Stated Inglish, "One day we just met up--I came over to his house with some CDs, and that's all she wrote. We were both, like, searching for each other without searching for each other." They discovered common influences (Outkast, Gorillaz, and 1980s hip hop) and a shared sense of retro fashion. Inspired by golden age hip hop and artists like LL Cool J and Eric B. & Rakim, they formed a production duo The Cool Kids that year. The band stated they "originally were only going to make beats and produce for other artists."However, "<mask> himself rapped during a session and wound up as the temporary 'voice' of the Cool Kids", though the two soon began sharing vocal duties. The group was soon booked by Josh Young of Flosstradamus for a DJ performance, where they encountered DJ Diplo. Diplo offered to release a mixtape of their unreleased tracks titled Totally Flossed Out on his label Mad Decent, though it was eventually released on C.A.K.E. Recordings in 2007 instead. Also in 2007 the group collaborated with Lil Wayne and DJ Benzi through the Internet on a track entitled "Gettin' It". As of summer 2007 all of their material had been released solely on their MySpace page—their recording contract with Chocolate Industries and C.A.K.E. came after performances at the CMJ Music Festival and Pitchfork Music

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 Festival that July.They were listed in Rolling Stone's Ten Artists to Watch in 2008. According to Rolling Stone, "since "Black Mags" debuted, the Cool Kids have gone from an underground sensation in their native Chicago to the hottest ticket at New York's CMJ festival." In 2007 they opened for  M.I.A. on her KALA Tour, and the band performed at the 2008 Rock the Bells hip hop festival. 2008–09: Touring, singles

In January 2008 the duo put up their very first for-profit single, selling the track online. Devoted to their love of BMX bikes, "Black Mags" led to a black and white music video, and was featured in a Rhapsody TV commercial along with Sara Bareilles. The group toured across Australia in February 2008 and also appeared at the Laneway Festival.The group also appeared at SUNY Purchase's Culture Shock event in April 2009. Their sophomore EP, The Bake Sale, was their first commercially available disc, released in June 2008. As of 2008, an unofficial bootleg mixtape of their music, titled Totally Flossed Out, was being circulated online. In August 2008 The Cool Kids became the first hip hop group signed to the Green Label Sound imprint, a label backed by Mountain Dew and devoted only to singles. The duo was then endorsed by Mountain Dew for their single, "Delivery Man", to which commercials and the music video have aired on MTV2. In 2008 they headlined the "NBA 2K Bounce Tour" along with Q-Tip. Also in 2008, the group had a number of their singles featured in video games and television episodes.They were featured in the video games NBA Live 08 and MLB 2K8 with the song "88", in Need for Speed Nitro, with The Bloody Beetroots in the song "Awesome," and in the episode "The First Cut Is the Deepest" from HBO's TV series Entourage with the song "Mikey Rocks". The group's song "Bassment Party" was featured in the September 21, 2008


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 episode of the HBO comedy Entourage. They also recorded an original track, "2K Pennies", for the soundtrack of NBA 2K9. 2009–11: Albums

The group's second official mixtape, Gone Fishing was released on May 5, 2009. A new mixtape called Tacklebox came out on May 31, 2010. Tacklebox was assembled by the LA Leakers, and featured new singles and "leftovers" from When Fish Ride Bicycles, with freestyles from both members of The Cool Kids. The band also received an offer from the DJ A-Trak to sign to his Fool's Gold Records label, which they did for one single in 2011, titled "Gold and a Pager."Their debut studio album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, was released July 12, 2011 on Green Label Sound. The album had originally been slated for release in 2009, only to be delayed by legal issues with Chocolate Industries. The album features production by The Neptunes and also features artists such as Bun B, Chip tha Ripper, and Ghostface Killah. The album peaked at No. 76 on the Billboard 200, and No. 9 on Top Rap Albums. The album's song "A Little Bit Cooler" was used in a "Most Valuable Puppets" commercial from Nike with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant entitled "Mrs.Lewis." 2010–11: New groups
The Cool Kids are  members of the hip-hop collective All City Chess Club founded in 2010. Also in 2010, Mikey <mask> teamed up with Chuck Inglish, Gary, Indiana's Freddie Gibbs and Cleveland's Chip tha Ripper to form the "super group" P.O.C. (Pulled Over by the Cops). The crew had first worked together on the 2010 track "Oil Money" by Freddie Gibbs, and kept working afterwards. Their first single, "Authority", was produced by Blended Babies and featured singer Nate Santos. Around 2011 <mask> co-founded The Toothpick Clique with his friends Tris J and Shorty K, collaborators from his teenage years.They were working on new material as of 2012. 2011–13: Solo

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In 2011 both <mask> and Inglish began working on solo material separate from The Cool Kids. However, they continued to help each other on their various projects and continued to tour together as the band. On March 14, 2011, Sir <mask> released his debut solo album, the Rocks Report mixtape, which featured twenty five original songs and skits. Guest appearances include Like and Mibbs of Pac Div, <mask>, and Trademark Da Skydiver, with production by Ski Beatz, Madlib, and others. This mixtape was followed on October 2, 2011, by Premier Politics. The album features sixteen tracks with <mask> doing most of the writing on all.About the production process, <mask> stated "It didn’t take too long because I’m a studio rat, so I’ll be in the lab for 2 weeks straight, 10 hours a day, and just grind out non-stop." A number of different producers besides <mask> contributed, including the Alchemist. He also released a collection of sweatshirts and T-shirts with the release of the Premier Politics, promoting various independent designers. On October 23, 2011, it was announced that <mask> joined forces with the independent label Jet Life Recordings, a Warner Bros. imprint owned by fellow rap artist Curren$y, who <mask> had first had befriended over Myspace around 2008. <mask> appeared as a featured artist on a number of the albums released by the label. In 2011, this included "1st Place" (featuring Currensy, Trademark Da Skydiver, Young Roddy & Mikey <mask>), which appeared on the album Jet World Order. <mask> toured in late 2011 on the Smoker's Club Tour, which featured Curren$y, Method Man, Smoke DZA and Big K.R.I.T.While working on solo material he also continued to work on music with The Cool Kids. On April 6, 2012, he released the mixtape Premier Politics 1.5, which included songs he'd originally intended for Premier Politics.

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 Contributing producers and featured artists included Cardo, Tye Hill, Brandun DeShay, Cookin' Soul, Like, his close friend Tris J, Shorty K, and Chuck Inglish. Stated Hot New Hip Hop, Sir <mask>'s future brightens with every new release, and Premier Politics 1.5 certainly isn't an exception. It's a fitting addition to a solid catalogue." His mixtape Lap of Lux was released on August 2, 2012. Lap of Lux feature appearances from Mac Miller, Rockie Fresh, and Casey Veggies along with production from Hit-Boy and Inglish.For the Lap of Lux track "Reservations" he collaborated with actress and singer Teyana Taylor to shoot a music video, which later premiered on MTV in December 2012. He toured in the fall of 2012 with Mac Miller, and for the second part of the year toured with Pac Div. Rocks released an 8-track follow-up mixtape, Lap of Lux 1.5, in December 2012, with producer Harry Fraud also contributing. Stated Hip Hop Vibe in February 2013, "Though he is overlooked in the wake of Chief Keef, Rockie Fresh, and Lil Reese, it is highly likely that Sir <mask> is Chicago's biggest newer artist. He performed at SXSW 2013 in Austin, having performed at the festival annually since 2007. As of February 2013 he was associated with but not signed to Jet Life Recordings, instead remaining independent. On May 30, 2013 he released the mixtape While You Wait..., a ten track project with guest appearances by artists such as Ab-Soul, Mac Miller, and Larry Fisherman, who also contributed to production.2013–14: Banco, guest appearances
His debut album Banco was released on July 29, 2014. The album features guest appearances from Twista, Casey Veggies, Iamsu!, Mac Miller, Trinidad James, Too Short and Chuck Inglish. <mask> continues to be active as a guest artist, and he has contributed to tracks by artists such as Dom Kennedy, Ski Beatz, Sean O'Connell,

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Entering a new musical era. The artist has linked up with Owen Bones to create a new group called MYSTERY SCHOOL to form an experimental electronic hip-hop duo. released their self-titled debut, Mystery School EP.The whole campaign leading up to this release has led to Owen Bones and Sir <mask> on Twitch for these "Sudden Death" segments. Where they give themselves a half hour to create a beat from scratch with at least one verse on it. Style and genre
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As a music producer, <mask> has been known to use the music software program Reason from Propellerhead Software. Sound, lyrics and influences

Stated by Hot New Hip Hop in May 2012, "His laidback flow is definitely a good fit for Curren$y's Jet Life Recordings... but you really can't compare Mikey <mask> to other rappers because his flow and sound are so different from what is constantly heard nowadays; staying with the fresh theme, listening to Sir <mask>' rap is like a breath of fresh air." He stated in late 2012 about his rhymes, "I just write something that I or my friends would listen to. Nine out of ten times if we like it, other people will fuck with it." Genres
Sir <mask> has referenced local Chicago rappers as influences on his sound.Stated Rocks in 2011, "of course, [Chicago] classics like Twista, Crucial Conflict, Kanye, Common and Lupe was a big influence on what I am doing now. A lot of Chicago music has definitely raised me to be who I am." Stated Chicago Reader in 2007, "Over the past year and a half, a new crowd of omnivorous, beat-obsessive DJs and rappers--Flosstradamus, Kid Sister,

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As of September 2012, <mask> was the face of the clothing line Mariani. In an interview with magazine Ruby Hornet, "Mac Miller mentions [The Cool Kids] not getting enough credit for what they’ve done in style, music, and fashion."According to All Hip Hop in 2012, "All gold everything, Retro J's, and a Neiman Marcus wardrobe – these are all things hot in popular hip-hop fashion culture today, but nothing that is extremely new. In 2007, The Cool Kids strutted out all of the above fashion trends and rocked it all years before it was mentioned in recent songs. There is no doubt that Sir <mask> and Chuck Inglish pioneered modern swag." Personal life
As of May 2012 he was living in both Chicago and Los Angeles, moving between the two. Discography

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Rami Sebei (born July 12, 1984) is a Canadian professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name <mask>. He is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion in his third reign. Prior to joining WWE, Sebei wrestled for Ring of Honor under the ring name El Generico, using the character of a luchador from Mexico with the catchphrase "Olé!" He wrestled while masked from his debut in 2002 until 2013. Upon signing with WWE, he began wrestling without a mask and became a one-time world champion in the company by winning the NXT Championship. Sebei achieved much success in Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) as a two-time PWG World Champion and five-time World Tag Team Champion. He is the only person to have won both of PWG's annual tournaments, the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament in 2010 and the Battle of Los Angeles in 2011.He has also held the ROH World Television Championship and the ROH World Tag Team Championship as part of a team with Kevin Steen, with whom he later earned the 2010 Feud of the Year award from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He is also a two-time IWS World Heavyweight Champion for the Montreal-based International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS). Having wrestled internationally, he won the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship in Germany and DDT Pro-Wrestling's KO-D Openweight Championship in Japan. Early life
Rami Sebei was born on July 12, 1984, in Laval, Quebec. Both of his parents are Syrian immigrants to Canada, having relocated from Homs in the 1970s. Professional wrestling


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He trained under Jerry Tuite and Savio Vega. He made his professional wrestling debut on March 1, 2002 for the FLQ promotion in Quebec as Stevie McFly.On July 14, 2002, as El Generico, he made his International Wrestling Syndicate (IWS) debut at the Scarred For Life event in a count out victory. On October 18, 2003 at Blood, Sweat and Beers, Generico lost to Carl Ouellet in a three-way match also involving Kevin Steen. On November 15 at Payback's A Bitch, Generico defeated Steen in their first-ever singles match against each other. IWS held its fifth-anniversary show "V" on June 15, 2004 at Le SPAG, where Generico defeated PCO in an IWS title match for his first IWS World Heavyweight Championship only to have Kevin Steen reclaim his number one contendership won earlier in the night against Excess 69. Generico lost to Steen for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship. On September 11 at CZW High Stakes II, Generico, Steen and Excess 69 lost to SeXXXy Eddy in an IWS four-way match which was unofficially chosen as "CZW Match of the Year". On August 20, 2005 at Extreme Dream II, Generico lost to Chris Bishop in the Extreme Dream Tournament final match for the IWS Canadian Championship.On February 16, 2008, Generico defeated Kevin Steen for the IWS World Heavyweight Championship at Violent Valentine. On March 22, at Know Your Enemies, Generico lost the IWS World Heavyweight Championship to Steen a three-way match also involving Max Boyer. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (2004–2013)
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texts: started making appearances in the popular independent company Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG). After that, Generico became a PWG regular. He has held the PWG World Tag Team Championship five times with four different partners: with Human Tornado as 2 Skinny Black Guys, Quicksilver as Cape Fear, Kevin Steen, and Paul London as ¡Peligro Abejas!. Generico is also the only participant to consecutively appear in the first eight Battle of Los Angeles tournaments from 2005. On February 24, 2007, Generico defeated former partner Tornado to win the PWG World Championship during his title run with Cape Fear.Later that year, while Generico was still World Champion, he and Steen defeated PAC and Roderick Strong for the belts, making Generico the only man in PWG history to hold both the World and World Tag Team titles not once, but twice at the same time. In mid-2009, Generico entered a lengthy feud with the tag team Men of Low Moral Fiber, consisting of Kenny Omega and Chuck Taylor, recruiting Colt Cabana, referee Rick Knox, and former partner Human Tornado (effectively reuniting 2 Skinny Black Guys) to stand by his side. At PWG's 6th anniversary event, Threemendous II, 2 Skinny Black Guys defeated current champions The Young Bucks in a non-title match, giving the Bucks their first tag team loss in almost a year and a half. On November 21 during the second night of the 2009 Battle of Los Angeles, Generico and Kevin Steen lost a title match against the Bucks. Later, he and Cabana saved the new PWG World Champion Kenny Omega from Brian Kendrick and the Bucks and made peace with


texts: him as they now had a common enemy. On May 9, 2010, Generico teamed up with "Intrepid Traveler" Paul London to form a duo introduced as ¡Peligro Abejas! (literal translation: Danger Bees!)in the fourth annual DDT4 eight-team tag tournament. After defeating Chuck Taylor and Scott Lost in the first round and the Briscoe Brothers (Jay and Mark) in the semifinals, Generico and London defeated the Young Bucks in the finals of the tournament to not only win DDT4, but also the PWG World Tag Team Championship, Generico's fifth time he has held the title. On December 11, 2010, El Generico earned himself a shot at the PWG World Championship, when ¡Peligro Abejas! successfully defended the PWG World Tag Team Championship against Chris Hero and the PWG World Champion, Claudio Castagnoli, the team known collectively as The Kings of Wrestling. Generico received his shot at the PWG World Championship on January 29, 2011, during the WrestleReunion 5 weekend, but was defeated by Castagnoli. On April 9, El Generico teamed with Ricochet, who filled in for London who was unable to appear at the event, in a match, where they lost the PWG World Tag Team Championship back to The Young Bucks. On August 20, Generico entered the 2011 Battle of Los Angeles, defeating Claudio Castagnoli and Willie Mack in his first round and semifinal matches.Later that same night, Generico defeated old rival Kevin Steen in the finals to win the tournament, becoming the first person to have won the PWG World and World Tag Team championships as well as the DDT4 and Battle of Los Angeles tournaments. In the


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 process, Generico also earned himself a match for Steen's PWG World Championship. On October 22, El Generico defeated Steen in a ladder match, following outside interference from The Young Bucks, to win the PWG World Championship for the second time. On March 17, 2012, El Generico re-lost the title to Steen in a three-way match, which also included Eddie Edwards. After agreeing to a deal with WWE, El Generico made his farewell appearance for PWG on January 12, 2013, when he and Kevin Steen entered the 2013 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament. After wins over the Briscoe Brothers and Future Shock (Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly), El Generico and Steen were defeated in the finals of the tournament by The Young Bucks. Chikara (2005–2012)

On February 19, 2005, El Generico made his debut for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–based Chikara, taking part in the 2005 Tag World Grand Prix, where he teamed with Kevin Steen as Team IWS.The team made it to the quarterfinals of the tournament, before being defeated by the SuperFriends (Chris Hero and Mike Quackenbush). El Generico returned to Chikara three years later to take part in the 2008 King of Trios, where he teamed with Player Uno and Stupefied, again, as Team IWS. After defeating the F1rst Family (Arik Cannon, Darin Corbin and Ryan Cruz) in their first round match on March 1, Team IWS was eliminated from the tournament later that same day by Los Luchadores de Mexico (Incognito, Lince Dorado and El Pantera), who went on to win the entire tournament. The following year, on March 27, El Generico returned for the 2009


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El Generico first wrestled for


texts: Ring of Honor (ROH) in 2005, earning a spot in a Four Corner Survival match at Do Or Die IV. He teamed with the Ring Crew Express (Dunn and Marcos) in the Trios Tournament 2005, losing to the Rottweilers. At Stalemate, he lost to Roderick Strong, then teaming with Sal Rinauro against The Embassy at New Frontiers (and losing). He only received a few more matches, losing to Austin Aries at Fate of an Angel and getting his first win against fellow IWS alumnus Kevin Steen at The Homecoming (a match that didn't even make it to the event's DVD).His final ROH match of this run was a loss to Homicide at Dragon Gate Invasion. Generico returned to ROH in late 2006, making an appearance at Dethroned, where he was defeated by Brent Albright. Following this, he took part in (and lost) a Four Corner Survival match to Jimmy Rave at Final Battle 2006. In 2007, El Generico formed a permanent team with Kevin Steen, taking on the Briscoe Brothers at the Fifth Year Festival: Philly. Much like many previous matches, they were defeated in this encounter, but the two men had a memorable showing that eventually earned them a full-time spot on the roster. Throughout 2007, the two teams feuded with one another, having several memorable matches including (but not limited to) a great match on the Driven pay-per-view, ROH's second-ever. Their feud came to an end following a brutal Street Fight at Death Before Dishonor V: Night 1, a steel cage match at Caged Rage, a two out of three falls match at Manhattan Mayhem 2 and a ladder match advertised as a "Ladder War" at Man Up.This final match


texts: became the Main Event of ROH's third pay-per-view. Also during this time, Generico broke out as a singles competitor, having a strong run in the Race to the Top Tournament of 2007. He defeated (in order) Delirious, Chris Hero and Davey Richards, only to lose in the final match of the tournament to Claudio Castagnoli. After the feud with the Briscoes ended, Generico and Steen spent several months feuding with the Hangmen Three in an inconclusive feud that carried on into 2008. They also worked through the tag ranks and attempted to win the tag titles, but came up short in a tag title tournament at Up For Grabs. Generico took ROH World champion Nigel McGuinness to the limit at Age of Insanity, but eventually lost. On September 19, 2008, Generico and Steen finally won the ROH World Tag Team Championship by beating The Age of the Fall at Driven.Generico lost a second match to McGuinness at Glory by Honor VII. Generico was booked in another match against McGuinness at Caged Collision, which he lost. On April 10, 2009, at a television taping, Generico and Steen lost the ROH World Tag Team Championship to The American Wolves (Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards). Generico then suffered a knee injury, sustaining damage to his Medial collateral ligament. On December 19, 2009 at Final Battle 2009, ROH's first live pay-per-view, after a loss to The Young Bucks, Steen turned heel by attacking El Generico. He then formed a team with Colt Cabana and together the two of them started a feud with Steen and his new partner Steve Corino. At the following pay-per-view, The Big Bang!,


texts: Generico and Cabana defeated Steen and Corino via disqualification when Steen used a chair on his former partner.On June 19 at Death Before Dishonor VIII, Steen defeated El Generico in a singles match. On September 11 at Glory By Honor IX Generico and Cabana defeated Steen and Corino in a Double Chain match, when Cabana forced Corino to tap out. After the match Steen attacked El Generico and unmasked him. On December 18 at Final Battle 2010 El Generico and Steen ended their year-long feud in an unsanctioned Fight Without Honor, where Generico put his mask on the line against Steen's ROH career. In the weeks leading up to the event, Generico debuted a new darker character and an all-black outfit. In the end El Generico won the match and thus forced Steen out of Ring of Honor. On March 2, 2011, ROH announced that El Generico had signed a new contract with the promotion.On April 1 at the first night of Honor Takes Center Stage, El Generico was defeated by Michael Elgin from the House of Truth following interference from a masked man, led by Truth Martini. The following day, El Generico defeated another member of the House of Truth, Roderick Strong, but after the match was attacked by Elgin and Martini. Colt Cabana came out to make the save but was stopped by the House of Truth's advantage in numbers. This led to Christopher Daniels coming out, but he ended up turning heel and hitting El Generico with the Book of Truth and Cabana with the Angel's Wings, thus joining the House of Truth and revealing himself as the man who had cost El Generico his match against Elgin.


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 On June 26 at Best in the World 2011, Generico defeated Daniels to win the ROH World Television Championship. He lost the title to Jay Lethal on August 13 at the first Ring of Honor Wrestling tapings under the Sinclair Broadcast Group banner. On March 30, 2012 at Showdown in the Sun, El Generico faced the reinstated Kevin Steen in a losing effort in a Last Man Standing match and then disappeared from ROH.After Steen successfully defended the ROH World Championship on October 13 at Glory By Honor XI: The Unbreakable Hope, he received a parcel containing Generico's mask. El Generico returned to ROH on December 16 at Final Battle 2012: Doomsday, where he unsuccessfully challenged Steen for the ROH World Championship in a ladder war. This was his last appearance with ROH before signing with WWE. Dragon Gate (2007–2009)
Generico travelled to Japan during the summer of 2007, where he worked for the Dragon Gate (DG) promotion as the gaijin (foreign) representative of the New Hazard stable. He returned to the promotion in July 2008, where he was announced as Tozawa-juku's "foreign exchange student." El Generico made his third tour of Dragon Gate in October 2009, when he wrestled as a member of the Kamikaze stable. DDT Pro-Wrestling (2011–2012)
In early 2011, El Generico began making semi-regular appearances for the Japanese DDT Pro-Wrestling sister-promotion Union Pro Wrestling, making his debut on January 3 with a win over Shinichiro Tominaga.On September 19, El Generico won his first title in Japan, when he defeated Isami Kodaka for the DDT Extreme Championship.


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 After successful title defenses against Shuji Ishikawa and Sanshiro Takagi, he re-lost the title to Kodaka on January 3, 2012. El Generico has also made some appearances for Union Pro's parent promotion, DDT Pro-Wrestling, most notably defeating Kota Ibushi in Ibushi's return match from a shoulder injury on May 4, 2012. On August 18, El Generico wrestled his first match in the Nippon Budokan, defeating the debuting Konosuke Takeshita. On September 30, El Generico defeated Kota Ibushi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship, DDT's top title. El Generico made his first successful title defense on October 21 in a rematch against Ibushi. On November 25, El Generico defeated KO-D Tag Team Champion Mikami for his second successful defense of the KO-D Openweight Championship.On December 23, El Generico lost the KO-D Openweight Championship to Kenny Omega in his third defense. Dragon Gate USA and Evolve (2012)
On March 31, 2012, El Generico made his debut for Dragon Gate USA (DGUSA), when he defeated Chuck Taylor, Cima, Lince Dorado, Rich Swann and Samuray del Sol in a six-way match. On April 13, El Generico made his debut for Evolve, a promotion closely affiliated with DGUSA, losing to Low Ki. After another loss to Ricochet on May 11, El Generico picked up his first win in the promotion on May 12 by defeating <mask>. El Generico then had two singles matches against Samuray del Sol; the first on June 28 at Evolve 14 was won by El Generico and the rematch the following day at Evolve 15 was won by Samuray. El Generico returned to Dragon Gate USA on July 28, when he and


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From 2005 onwards, El Generico has made several appearances for the German Westside Xtreme Wrestling (wXw) promotion. On March 4, 2012, El Generico defeated Tommy End to win wXw's 2012 16 Carat Gold Tournament. On May 19, El Generico defeated Big van Walter to also win the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship. On August 12, 2012, he lost the title to Axel Tischer in a four-way match, which also included Bad Bones and Karsten Beck. In October 2009 El Generico traveled to Poland to take part in Do or Die Wrestling's event in Warsaw, defeating Michael Kovac in the main event of the show.In May 2010, Generico competed in the main-event of Capital City Championship Combat's show, Stand Alone. On October 23, Generico competed at Pro Wrestling Superstars' inaugural show in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where he teamed with Paul London to defeat Joey Silvia and Jake Manning. On January 11, 2011, El Generico wrestled in a tryout dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) at the promotion's Impact! tapings, losing to Amazing Red. The following day he defeated T.J.


texts: Perkins in another dark match. On April 20, 2011, El Generico made his South American debut, when he wrestled for Peruvian promotion Leader Wrestling Association (LWA), facing Apocalipsis, Axl and Kaiser in a number one contender's match to determine a challenger for Caoz, the promotion's "Campeón Máximo". In the end, Kaiser came out of the match victorious.On April 24, El Generico wrestled for Chilean promotion Xplosion Nacional de Lucha (XNL), losing to Crazy Sid in an XNL Championship number one contender's three-way match, which also included XL. On February 26, 2012, El Generico visited Russia for the first time, making his debut for the Independent Wrestling Federation (IWF), where he faced Ivan "Locomotive" Markov and won. Later in the year, on September 16, they wrestled in a rematch and this time Markov was victorious. On September 8, 2012, Generico made an appearance for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), unsuccessfully challenging Masada for the CZW World Heavyweight Championship. After signing with WWE, El Generico made his final Canadian independent appearance on January 18, 2013, when he worked for the Hart Legacy Wrestling (HLW) promotion in Calgary. In the opening four-way elimination match, El Generico and Samuray del Sol were victorious over Cam!kaze and Pete Wilson, Brian Cage and Trent Barreta, and Andrew Hawkes and Ryan Rollins. As a result, the two earned a spot in the main event ten man tag team match, where they teamed with Barreta, Davey Boy Smith, Jr. and Jack Evans in a losing effort against the team of Teddy Hart, Brian Cage, Cam!kaze, Flip


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NXT Champion (2013–2015)

In January 2013, Sebei signed with WWE after passing all medical tests. On February 13, Sebei made his debut for WWE's developmental territory NXT, but did not wrestle. Sebei's NXT in-ring debut took place at a live event on March 7 in Tampa, Florida, where he wrestled a tag team match while working unmasked and under his real name. Sebei eventually settled on the ring name <mask>. Zayn made his televised debut on the May 22 episode of NXT by defeating two former champions in WWE, first defeating Curt Hawkins in the opening match and then challenging and scoring an upset win over Antonio Cesaro later in the show. The following week he took part in an 18-man battle royal to determine the number one contender to the NXT Championship, but was eliminated by Mason Ryan. On the June 12 episode of NXT, Zayn suffered his first pinfall loss in NXT in a rematch with Cesaro.On the July 17 NXT, Zayn failed to win another number one contender's match also involving Cesaro and Leo Kruger. On the July 31 episode of NXT, Zayn teamed with NXT Champion Bo Dallas against Cesaro and Kruger; after Cesaro and Zayn brawled to the back, Dallas lost the match and later blamed Zayn for the loss. On the August 21 episode of NXT, Zayn lost to Cesaro in a two-out-of-three falls match to conclude the feud. On September 6, Zayn made his WWE debut at a house show in his hometown of Montreal, where he defeated Cesaro. When Zayn targeted Dallas' NXT Championship, Dallas cost Zayn his match


texts: against Cesaro's fellow Real American Jack Swagger. Dallas held an open challenge to determine the next title contender, but he banned Zayn from competing. However, Zayn masqueraded as the masked El Local and defeated Dallas to earn his title shot.The match occurred on the October 16 episode of NXT, but NXT General Manager John Bradshaw Layfield restarted the match when Zayn won despite Dallas' foot being on the ropes and then Dallas sent Zayn into an exposed turnbuckle to retain his title. In November 2013, after tying a Beat the Clock challenge with Adrian Neville by defeating Leo Kruger, Zayn lost a number one contender's match to Neville on the November 27 episode of NXT. Zayn moved on to feud with Kruger and the feud culminated in Zayn winning a two-out-of-three falls match on the January 1, 2014 episode of NXT. After that, Zayn's obsession with his loss to Cesaro the previous year led to him challenging Cesaro to a rematch at NXT Arrival; At the event, Zayn was defeated again, but Cesaro showed respect to Zayn after the match. Zayn then feuded with Corey Graves, with Zayn losing to Graves via referee stoppage on the April 3 episode of NXT after Graves capitalized on Zayn's head injury. On the May 8 episode of NXT, Zayn participated in a 20-man battle royal for an NXT Championship shot, with Zayn being involved in a triple threat match tie. As a result, Zayn faced the other two winners, Tyler Breeze and Tyson Kidd in a triple threat match on the next episode of NXT, where Kidd won to become number one contender.At NXT TakeOver, Zayn lost to Breeze in another


texts: number one contender's match. In June 2014, Zayn went on to feud with Tyson Kidd after Kidd abandoned him during their match against NXT Tag Team Champions The Ascension. After Zayn defeated Justin Gabriel, both Kidd and Gabriel attacked Zayn, who was saved by his friend, NXT Champion Adrian Neville. Zayn later defeated Kidd twice to end the feud, once in a singles match on the July 17 episode of NXT as well in a tag match with Adam Rose against Gabriel and Kidd, which was the first round of a tournament for an opportunity at the NXT Tag Team Championship. Zayn and Rose lost in the second round to The Lucha Dragons (Kalisto and Sin Cara). When Zayn, Kidd and Tyler Breeze each staked a claim for an NXT Championship match, champion Neville agreed to face all three in a fatal-four-way match at the next NXT TakeOver event. To hype that match, Zayn and Neville appeared on the September 8 episode of Raw, defeating Breeze and Kidd while making their main roster debuts.At NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way, Zayn nearly won the four-way match and the NXT Championship, but champion Neville stopped him by dragging the referee out of the ring as he went on to win and retain his title. This caused tension within Neville and Zayn's friendship. After Zayn lost another match, this time to Titus O'Neil, he vowed to start a "road to redemption" leading to the NXT Championship, which saw him defeat Tyson Kidd, Titus O'Neil and Tyler Breeze in singles matches. Zayn was rewarded with a title match against Neville on the November 13 episode of NXT in which Neville appeared to injure himself


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 during the match, but he took advantage on Zayn checking on him to win the match and retain the title. Neville agreed to Zayn's request for a title rematch, with Zayn vowing to quit NXT if he lost. On December 11 at the NXT TakeOver: R Evolution live special, Zayn defeated Neville to win the NXT Championship. After the win, Zayn was congratulated by many other NXT wrestlers, including Neville and Kevin Owens (the former Kevin Steen).The show ended with Owens powerbombing Zayn onto the ring apron to ruin their reunion. In his first title defense, Zayn defeated Neville in a rematch on the January 14, 2015, episode of NXT, but suffered another post-match attack by Owens. After an irate Zayn demanded a match against Owens, even if it meant putting the title on the line, a title match was set for NXT TakeOver: Rival. At the event, Owens captured the title from Zayn via referee stoppage, having powerbombed a disorientated Zayn five times, ending his NXT Championship reign at 62 days. Feud with Kevin Owens (2015–2017)

On the May 4 episode of Raw, Zayn was introduced by Bret Hart as John Cena's opponent for his weekly "U.S. Open Challenge" for his United States Championship; taking place in his hometown of Montreal, Zayn was heavily favored by the crowd over Cena, but ultimately lost the match. After the match, Cena let Zayn have the ring to an outstanding ovation from the live crowd following the match. However, Zayn had injured his shoulder before the match and underwent an MRI for further analysis.At NXT TakeOver: Unstoppable, Zayn's NXT Championship rematch against


texts: Kevin Owens ended in a no contest when Zayn was unable to continue the match. Owens continued assaulting Zayn until the debuting Samoa Joe made the save. After a seven-month hiatus, Zayn returned from injury on the December 23 episode of NXT (taped at the NXT TakeOver: London event on December 16) and defeated Tye Dillinger. On April 1, Zayn lost to Shinsuke Nakamura in the latter's debut match at NXT TakeOver: Dallas, after which both were given a standing ovation and while Nakamura left the ring he was left waving goodbyes to the NXT fans, signaling his final appearance in NXT. On January 24, 2016 at the Royal Rumble, Zayn competed in the Rumble match as the number 20 entrant, eliminating Kevin Owens before being eliminated by Braun Strowman. On the March 7 episode of Raw, Zayn made a surprise return to the main roster and attacked Owens, who was attempting to attack Neville after their match. This led to a tag team match, on SmackDown, in which Zayn and Neville defeated Owens and The Miz.Zayn continued to score victories against the likes of The Miz and Stardust. At WrestleMania 32, Zayn competed against Owens, Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, Stardust, Sin Cara and Zack Ryder in a ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship, which was won by Ryder. On the April 4 episode of Raw, Zayn was scheduled to compete in a fatal four-way match against Owens, AJ Styles, and Chris Jericho to determine the number one contender for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, but was attacked by Owens, who attacked him with a Powerbomb through a table backstage, and replaced by a


texts: returning Cesaro. Because of the actions of Owens, Shane McMahon gave Zayn another opportunity on the April 11 episode of Raw to become a number one contender by having him face Styles, who had won the contender's match the week before, but Zayn lost to Styles. On the April 18 episode of Raw, McMahon booked Zayn and Owens in a match at Payback, which Owens won. On the May 9 episode of Raw, Zayn defeated The Miz to enter a fatal four-way match for the Intercontinental Championship at Extreme Rules, but Miz retained the title. On the May 23 episode of Raw, Zayn defeated Sheamus to qualify for the 2016 Money in the Bank ladder match, but he was unsuccessful as the briefcase was won by Dean Ambrose.On July 19 at the 2016 WWE draft, Zayn was drafted to Raw. At Battleground, Zayn defeated Owens. At SummerSlam, Zayn and Neville defeated The Dudley Boyz on the Kickoff Show. On the September 12 Raw, Zayn appeared on Chris Jericho's Highlight Reel segment, where he was attacked by Jericho, leading to a match at Clash of Champions, where Zayn lost to Jericho. On the October 17 episode of Raw, Zayn began a feud with Braun Strowman after preventing him from confronting Raw General Manager Mick Foley. On the October 31 episode of Raw, Zayn participated in a battle royal to qualify for Team Raw at Survivor Series, but was last eliminated by Strowman. On the November 1 episode of SmackDown Live, Intercontinental Champion Dolph Ziggler made an open challenge to any wrestler from the Raw brand.On the November 7 episode of Raw, Zayn stated that Mick Foley wanted him to face


texts: Ziggler, but Commissioner Stephanie McMahon, who preferred Rusev, made Zayn face Rusev with the winner going on to face Ziggler for the title and he then defeated Rusev to earn the title match. On the November 15 episode of SmackDown Live, The Miz defeated Ziggler for the championship and Zayn instead faced The Miz for the Intercontinental Championship at Survivor Series, which Zayn lost (had Zayn won, the championship would have transferred to Raw). On the November 21 episode of Raw, Mick Foley ordered Zayn to compete in a match with Braun Strowman as punishment for failing to bring the Intercontinental Championship to Raw. Strowman attacked Zayn before the match and attacked him until Foley came out to stop the match. On the November 28 episode of Raw during Stroman's match, Zayn attacked Strowman, which led to a faceoff between him and Foley. On the December 12 episode of Raw, after Zayn defeated Jinder Mahal, he refused to be traded to SmackDown and wanted a match with Strowman—the match was made for Roadblock: End of the Line with a time limit of 10 minutes, which Zayn won after completing 10 minutes. On the January 2, 2017 episode of Raw, Zayn lost a Last Man Standing match to Strowman, ending the feud.On the January 23 episode of Raw, Zayn defeated Seth Rollins to win Rollins' opportunity in the Royal Rumble match after Rollins was distracted by Triple H. In the 2017 Royal Rumble, Zayn entered at number 8 and lasted over 47 minutes before being eliminated by The Undertaker. On the January 30 episode of Raw, Zayn defeated United States Champion Chris


texts: Jericho in a non-title match, but failed to win the title the following week. On the February 13 episode of Raw, Zayn defeated Rusev. After the match, Zayn responded to comments made by Samoa Joe during a backstage interview. Zayn was cut off by Joe's music, and the latter ambushed him, attacking Zayn before applying the Coquina Clutch on him. Zayn faced Joe at Fastlane in a losing effort and continued feuding with Joe the next night. On the next Raw, Zayn and Jericho defeated Owens and Joe by disqualification after Owens and Joe attacked Jericho.On the March 20 episode of Raw, when then Raw General Manager Mick Foley was fired by Stephanie McMahon, Zayn stood up for Foley and said McMahon should feel ashamed of herself, prompting her to book Zayn in a match with Joe, which Zayn lost by submission. On the March 27 episode of Raw, Zayn defeated Owens in a no disqualification match to end their feud, saving his job and qualifying for Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at WrestleMania 33, which he failed to win. On April 11, Zayn was traded to SmackDown as part of the Superstar Shake-up. The following week on SmackDown Live, Zayn failed to become the number one contender for WWE Championship after losing a six-pack challenge match. Zayn defeated Baron Corbin at Backlash. Zayn was later announced as one of the participant in Money in the Bank ladder match at the Money in the Bank pay-per-view along with AJ Styles, Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler, Kevin Owens and Shinsuke Nakamura in which he was unsuccessful. Zayn later participated in the Independence Day battle


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On October 8, at the October 10 episode of SmackDown Live, Zayn referred to Owens as his "brother" and explained that his actions were due to McMahon not giving Zayn opportunities despite the SmackDown brand being dubbed the "Land of Opportunity". On the October 24 episode of SmackDown Live, Zayn was defeated by Randy Orton for a spot on Team SmackDown to face Team Raw at Survivor Series. At the Survivor Series kick-off show, Zayn and Owens defeated Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango). Later that night, Owens and Zayn interfered in the main event and attacked Shane, but it backfired after Shane attacked both with a steel chair and Orton delivered an RKO to Owens. Owens and Zayn faced Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura in a tag team match at Clash of Champions with SmackDown Commissioner Shane McMahon and SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan as special guest referees and their jobs on the line. At the event, they defeated Orton and Nakamura after a fast count by Bryan.Later on, <mask> and Owens both scored non-title victories over WWE Champion AJ Styles on respective episodes of SmackDown Live, thus earning a title opportunity against Styles in a handicap match at the Royal Rumble. Both men failed to win the title at the event. Zayn later stole Tye Dillinger's number 10 spot at the Royal Rumble match but was eliminated by the eventual winner Shinsuke Nakamura. Zayn later


texts: walked out on Kevin Owens during a tag team match against Styles and Nakamura two nights later on SmackDown Live. Zayn faced Owens on the February 6 episode of SmackDown Live to determine who will face Styles for the WWE Championship at Fastlane. The match ended in a double disqualification after Styles, who was on commentary, attacked Zayn and Owens. This led to SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan scheduling a triple threat match for the WWE Championship involving both Owens and Zayn.Zayn then said that he would lay down for Owens but in a fatal five-way match, Zayn ended up pinning Owens after a Helluva Kick. At Fastlane, AJ Styles was victorious in the six-pack challenge. On the March 20 episode of SmackDown, Zayn and Owens were (kayfabe) fired by Bryan as punishment for an attack against McMahon the week prior. Zayn and Owens attacked Bryan after the announcement. At WrestleMania 34, Owens and Zayn were defeated by Bryan and McMahon (had Zayn and Owens won, they would have been rehired to SmackDown). On the Raw following WrestleMania, Zayn and Owens, as free agents, would ask Raw General Manager Kurt Angle for a job, Though reluctant, Angle would make a match between the two, with the winner earning a Raw contract, however, the match would end in a no contest, leaving Zayn and Owens free agents. On the April 16 episode of Raw, Zayn and Owens would be awarded Raw contracts by Raw Commissioner Stephanie McMahon.Later that night, they would be put in a 10-man tag team match, teaming with The Miz and the Miztourage (Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel) against Braun


texts: Strowman, Bobby Lashley, Finn Bálor, Seth Rollins and Bobby Roode in a losing effort. Zayn then entered a short feud with Bobby Lashley where Zayn mocked Lashley's family and questioned his military service. At Backlash, Zayn and Owens lost to Lashley and Strowman. At Money in the Bank, Zayn lost to Lashley. After the event, it was reported that Zayn had surgery to repair both of his rotator cuffs. He was later reported to have undergone a successful double shoulder surgery. In December, WWE begun airing vignettes to promote Zayn's return.As of early 2019, Zayn was training at the WWE Performance Center preparing for his return to action. After ten months of inactivity due to injury, Zayn returned on the April 8, 2019 episode of Raw, losing to Intercontinental Champion Finn Bálor. After losing the match, Zayn got on the microphone and said that he felt like the crowd missed him, but he reassured them that he did not miss them at all, and Zayn went on to ridicule the fans and ended his promo with, "see you in hell" before he went backstage. Zayn continued these type of promos over the following weeks, with Zayn ranting to the audience and this led to Braun Strowman attacking him on the May 6 episode of Raw. The following week, Zayn defeated Strowman with the help of Baron Corbin and Drew McIntyre, earning Strowman's spot in the Money in the Bank ladder match. At Money in the Bank, Zayn was attacked backstage and left unable to compete by what was believed to be Braun Strowman, however it was later revealed to be Brock Lesnar, who took Zayn's place in the match.


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 After this event, Zayn reformed his tag team with Kevin Owens, where they defeated The New Day (Big E and Xavier Woods) at Stomping Grounds.However, the team of <mask> and Owens drifted apart again, after Owens turned face and reignited his feud with Shane McMahon. After their team disbanded, Zayn lost to Rey Mysterio twice, first at Raw Reunion, and second in the gauntlet match the following week. Zayn then competed in the King of the Ring tournament, but lost in the first round to Cedric Alexander. By that point, Zayn had lost fifteen out of his last sixteen televised singles matches. Artist Collective and Intercontinental Champion (2019–2020)

On the August 20 episode of SmackDown Live, Zayn joined forces with Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, as they attacked The Miz on an episode of Miz TV. Zayn was positioned as Nakamura's mouthpiece. Zayn then managed Nakamura against Miz at Clash of Champions, where he involved himself in the finish securing the win for Nakamura.As part of the 2019 draft, Zayn was drafted to the SmackDown brand. Following the draft, he would also become the manager of Cesaro. At Survivor Series, Zayn accompanied Nakamura in a non-title match against United States Champion AJ Styles and NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong, which was won by Strong. On the January 31, 2020 episode of SmackDown, Nakamura lost the title to Braun Strowman, despite interferences from Zayn and Cesaro. At the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view on March 8, Zayn, along with Nakamura and Cesaro, defeated Braun Strowman in 3-on-1 handicap match to


texts: win the Intercontinental Championship, ending his 5-year WWE title drought since he won the NXT Championship.On the March 13 episode of SmackDown, <mask>n began a feud with Daniel Bryan, during which Bryan and Drew Gulak faced Zayn's Artist Collective partners Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro in various matches. Eventually, Bryan and Zayn would face each other at WrestleMania 36, where Zayn defeated Bryan to retain the title. His reign would end at 65 days on May 12, when he was stripped of the championship after refraining from competing during the COVID-19 pandemic.On August 28 episode of SmackDown, <mask> returned with his Intercontinental title, the title he refused to drop, following Jeff Hardy's successful title defense against Nakamura and attacked Hardy declaring himself the "real" Intercontinental Champion. Later at the show, Zayn reunited with Cesaro and Nakamura backstage; however, Cesaro dismissed him from the locker room so that he and Nakamura could have some discussion by themselves. At Clash of Champions on September 27, Zayn defeated Hardy and AJ Styles in a triple threat ladder match to reclaim the Intercontinental Championship by handcuffing both with the ladders. On the October 2 episode of SmackDown, Zayn defeated Hardy to retain the title. On the November 13 episode of SmackDown, Zayn defeated Apollo Crews by countout to retain the title. On November 22 at Survivor Series, Zayn was defeated by United States Champion Bobby Lashley. On December 25 episode of SmackDown, he lost the Intercontinental title to Big E, thus ending his second reign at 89

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 days.Conspiracy theorist (2021–present)
At the Royal Rumble event on January 31, 2021, Zayn competed in his fourth Royal Rumble match but was eliminated by Big E. On the February 12 episode of SmackDown, Zayn teamed with King Corbin to defeat The Mysterios (Rey Mysterio and Dominik Mysterio) to qualify for the Elimination Chamber match at the namesake event. At the event, Zayn was the second man eliminated in the match by Kevin Owens. Following the event, his gimmick would be tweaked into a deranged conspiracy theorist who believed that WWE bosses were holding him down. Soon after, he would reignite his feud with Owens after trying unsuccessfully to convince Owens to believe in the conspiracy theories. Owens challenged Zayn to a match at WrestleMania 37, which Zayn accepted. At WrestleMania 37, Zayn would be defeated by Owens. Over the following weeks, Zayn and Owens would rekindle their feud leading to a match at Hell in a Cell in which Zayn defeated Owens.Their rivalry would end on the July 2 episode of SmackDown in a Last Man Standing match to qualify for the men's Money in the Bank Ladder match at the namesake event, which Owens won the match. In October, Zayn entered the King of the Ring tournament, where he defeated Rey Mysterio in the first round but lost to Finn Bálor in the semi-finals. On November 6, Zayn was announced as a part of Team SmackDown at Survivor Series, however, on the November 12 episode of SmackDown, Zayn faced Jeff Hardy in a match with the stipulation that whoever lost was removed from the Smackdown Survivor Series team, which Zayn


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 lost, thus removing him. On the November 26 episode of SmackDown, Zayn would compete in a battle royal to determine the number one contender for the Universal Championship and he would last eliminate Jeff Hardy to win the match. On the December 3 episode of SmackDown, Zayn would face the champion Roman Reigns for the title, but lost in 15 seconds due to Brock Lesnar attacking him before the match. On the December 24 episode of SmackDown, Zayn won a 12-man gauntlet match to become the number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship. On the January 7, 2022 episode of SmackDown, Zayn would enter a short feud with Johnny Knoxville, after Knoxville announced he would be entering the Royal Rumble match.At the Royal Rumble event, Zayn would enter the Royal Rumble match, eliminating Knoxville before being eliminated by AJ Styles. On the February 18 episode of SmackDown (taped on February 11), Zayn defeated Shinsuke Nakamura to win the Intercontinental Championship for the third time in his career. In other media
Zayn is a playable character in the video games WWE 2K15, WWE 2K16, WWE 2K17, WWE 2K18, WWE 2K19, WWE 2K20, WWE 2K Battlegrounds and WWE 2K22. Personal life
Sebei is known for being quiet about his private life. He is married and has a child. He is a Muslim and a vegan, and is fluent in English, Arabic, and French. Sebei is also best friends with fellow professional wrestler Kevin Steen, better known currently in WWE as Kevin Owens.Their friendship has been well documented, dating back to 2002. In July 2017, Sebei set up a fund called Sami for Syria


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 to support the Syrian American Medical Society. Sebei endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Championships and accomplishments

 Association de Lutte Féminine
 Sensational Sherri Memorial Cup Tournament (2007) – with LuFisto
 The Baltimore Sun
 WWE Match of the Year (2016)
 Britannia Wrestling Promotions
 PWI:BWP World Catchweight Championship (1 time)
 Chikara
 Rey de Voladores (2011)
 DDT Pro-Wrestling / Union Pro Wrestling
 DDT Extreme Championship (1 time)
 KO-D Openweight Championship (1 time)
 Best Foreigner Award (2012)
 Elite Wrestling Revolution
 Elite 8 Tournament (2004)
 GBG Wrestling
 GBG Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 International Wrestling Syndicate
 IWS World Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 IWS World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Twiggy
Monteregie Wrestling Federation
MWF Provincial Championship (1 time)
 North Shore Pro Wrestling
 NSPW Championship (1 time)
 Pro Wrestling Guerrilla
 PWG World Championship (2 times)
 PWG World Tag Team Championship (5 times) – with Human Tornado (1), Quicksilver (1), Kevin Steen (2), and Paul London (1)
 Battle of Los Angeles (2011)
 Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (2010) – with Paul London
 Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 Ranked


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<mask> (born 26 April 1992 in Bridgetown) is a Barbadian tennis player. He has a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) singles ranking of world No. 106 achieved on 8 May 2017, and a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 156 achieved on 21 October 2019. He has represented Barbados at the Davis Cup and at the 2016 Olympics. His first Grand Slam appearance came at the 2017 US Open, where he lost to fourth seed Alexander Zverev in straight sets. Personal life
<mask> was born on April 26, 1992 in Bridgetown, Barbados where he currently resides.His father played field hockey and his mother played net ball and died of pancreatic cancer in 2010. He has 3 siblings; 2 brothers and 1 sister. One of the brothers, Christopher, is <mask>'s current head coach. He is good friends with many tennis players Frances Tiafoe, Dustin Brown, Noah Rubin, Taylor Townsend, and Sloane Stephens. His favorite athlete is Usain Bolt. Career

Junior career
<mask> began playing tennis at the age of 8 and grew up idolizing Gaël Monfils, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Dustin Brown (now good friends with <mask>). He played his first junior match in April 2006 at the age of 13 at a grade 4 tournament in Barbados.During his junior career, <mask> made both the singles and doubles draw in 3 of the 4 boys grand slams in 2010 where he failed to make it past the first round once in the singles and made it to the second round twice in the doubles. In one tournament, he defeated future world No. 3 and 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem. He ended his junior career with a high ranking of 47 in both the singles and the doubles (both attained on January 4, 2010) and a record

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 of 78–47 in singles and 81–35 in doubles. Junior Grand Slam results - Singles:

Australian Open: A (-)
French Open: 1R (2010)
Wimbledon: 1R (2010)
US Open: 1R (2010)

Junior Grand Slam results - Doubles:

Australian Open: A (-)
French Open: 2R (2010)
Wimbledon: 2R (2010)
US Open: 1R (2010)

Professional career
<mask> officially turned pro in 2010 at the age of 17. He was considering on playing college tennis at UCLA but made the decision to turn pro instead. Between 2011-2016, <mask> would go on to make 22 ITF futures finals, winning 13 of them.These results would continuously improve his year-end ranking. In 2014 at the Charlottesville Challenger, <mask> threw his racket at a lineswoman which got him defaulted. The incident went widespread throughout the tennis community and internet. In 2015 at the Citi Open, <mask> became the first Barbadian to qualify for an ATP event. He lost to Go Soeda in the first round in straight sets. In 2016, <mask> made his first challenger final at the 2016 Milo Open Cali. In the final, he defeated top seed Victor Estrella Burgos in three sets to win his first challenger title.Two weeks later, he won another challenger title at the 2016 Levene Goulding and Thompson Tennis Challenger defeating Mitchell Krueger in the final in straight sets. Two months later, he would win his third challenger title of the year at the 2016 Tiburon Challenger defeating Michael Mmoh in the final in straight sets. This would also be the year that <mask> played in the 2016 Summer Olympics having been invited to play in the main draw in the singles. He lost to eventual quarterfinalist Steve Johnson in the first round in straight

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 sets. In 2017, <mask> became the first Barbadian to win an ATP match at the Memphis Open when he won against 5th seed Bernard Tomic in straight sets. He would then follow this up with back to back second round appearances at Indian Wells and the Miami Open, losing to his idol Gaël Monfils in Indian Wells in three sets and to David Goffin in Miami both in straight sets. He reached his career high-ranking of 106 on May 8, 2017.He then went into the 2017 Wimbledon qualifying as 8th send and made it to the qualifying competition before being eliminated by Lukáš Rosol in 4 sets. He qualified for the 2017 US Open for his first and only grand slam. He lost to 4th seed Alexander Zverev in very close straight sets. He finished 2017 with a fourth challenger final at the 2017 Stockton Challenger where he lost to Cameron Norrie in straight sets. Throughout 2018-2021 his ranking would slowly start to decline. He made two more challenger finals at the 2018 Indian Wells Challenger and the 2019 Orlando Open but lost both. He also made three more qualifying competitions at Grand Slams.Twice at the Australian Open (2018), (2019) and once at the US Open (2019). He would once again lose every single one. He did have some success in doubles, however. In the doubles, he would make 26 ITF futures finals and win 18 of them. In the challenger tour, he made seven challenger finals and won four of them. He's also known for partnering with Peter Polansky on numerous occasions. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, <mask> underwent wrist surgery which would keep him inactive until February 2021.Davis Cup
<mask> made his Davis Cup debut in 2009 at the age of 16.

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 During his time with the Barbadian Davis Cup team, he posted a win-loss record of 29–11 in singles, 11–11 in doubles, and 40–22 overall. Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 28 (16–12)

Doubles: 33 (22–11)

Performance timelines

Singles
Current through the 2021 San Diego Open. Record against other players
<mask>'s match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who have been ranked No. 1 in boldface. ATP Tour matches and qualifying matches, ATP Challenger Tour matches and qualifying matches, ITF Tour matches and qualifying matches, and Davis Cup all count on record. Marcos Baghdatis 1–1
  David Goffin 0–1
  Jürgen Melzer 0–1
  Gaël Monfils 0–1
  Alexander Zverev 0–1
  Lucas Pouille 0–2

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External links

1992 births
Living people
Barbadian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Bridgetown
Tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic tennis players of Barbados
Tennis players at the 2015 Pan American Games
Pan American Games competitors for Barbados
Tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Tennis players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Tennis players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for


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<mask> (born August 30, 1945) is an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Originally a session player on guitar, mandolin, and trumpet, he is best known as a member of the band Little Feat. In addition to his work with Little Feat, <mask> has played and recorded with many notable artists, Bob Dylan and Jimmy Webb among them. He had an additional side project with another member of Little Feat; he performed as part of a duo with Paul Barrere, as Paul and <mask>. Association with Little Feat

<mask>'s association with Little Feat goes back to a friendship with the founder of the band, Lowell George, at the time of its inception. Working as a session player for other musicians, he continued his friendship with the bandmates, and contributed a song Fool Yourself to their third album Dixie Chicken as well as acoustic guitar. He also contributed guitar to their sixth album Time Loves a Hero.In 1979 he co-wrote songs with Lowell George for both George's first (and only) solo project Thanks, I'll Eat It Here,  and Little Feat's album Down on the Farm. It was during work on the latter that the group's break-up was announced. Lowell George died shortly afterwards. In 1983, he performed on the Antilles Records release Swingrass '83. Joining Little Feat

In 1988 Little Feat reformed despite the absence of their former front man, and prolific singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist, Lowell George. The regrouped Little Feat included former members Paul Barrere, Richie Hayward, Bill Payne, Kenny Gradney, and Sam Clayton, with the addition of <mask> and Craig Fuller. All had been former members of Little Feat, except Fuller and <mask>, who had previously made songwriting contributions and session work for the band.Fuller left in 1993, to be replaced by female vocalist Shaun Murphy who remained with the group, until 2009. <mask> has remained with Little Feat since the day he

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 joined, and has become an integral member of the band. <mask> has played a pivotal role in Little Feat's music. In addition to his guitar work, he plays trumpet and mandolin and has co-written several of their songs, forging an active and regular writing partnership with Paul Barrere which has produced such songs as "Marginal Creatures" and "Night On The Town". The 2003 album Kickin' It at the Barn featured <mask>'s debut as a lead vocalist on his own song "In A Town Like This" which was also the title track from his solo debut album released that year. Paul and <mask>

<mask>'s writing partnership with Barrere has developed into a separate act where the two performed as a duo. This has produced two live albums and a DVD.They have also spent time between gigs when touring to perform in local radio stations, playing songs that do not require a lot of changing of instruments, to travel as lightly as possible. (RCA Records, 1984)
 The Heart of the Matter (RCA Records, 1985)
 I Prefer the Moonlight (RCA Records, 1987)

With Johnny Rivers
 Outside Help (Big Tree Records, 1977)

With Van Dyke Parks
 Jump! 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981 (Columbia Records, 2017)

With Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
 Once Upon a Christmas (RCA Records, 1984)

References

External links
http://www.littlefeat.net/ Little Feat official
Paul Barrere and <mask> Acoustic Duo collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive

1945 births
Living people
Musicians from Little Rock, Arkansas
Guitarists from Arkansas
American rock guitarists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Little Feat members
American session musicians
American male songwriters
American male singers
Lead guitarists
Rhythm guitarists
American blues guitarists
American male guitarists
American mandolinists
American trumpeters
American male trumpeters
Oklahoma City University alumni
20th-century American guitarists
Relix Records

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<mask> (Russian: Казас, Илья Ильич, Hebrew: אליהו בן אליה קזז: Eliyahu ben Eliya Kazaz) b.11(23) March 1832 Armyansk – d.14(27) January 1912 Yevpatoria, was an outstanding educator, teacher and poet among the Crimean Karaites. Despite coming from a simple family background, he became one of the most prominent members of Crimea's Karaim community in his era. <mask> was a highly educated man who knew 11 languages, including 4 ancients. Biography
After graduating from the model Aben-Yashar Lutsk's school and "writing a poem on the majestic language of the Bible" he worked for 6 months as a clerk in one of the most fashionable stores in Odessa. From 1853 to 1855 <mask> studied at Moscow University, but in October 1855 before completing his studies, he entered the Faculty of Oriental Languages of St. Petersburg University. On September 16, 1859, <mask> graduated from the course, by defending his Ph.D., and became the first of the Crimean Karaites to be educated to that level with a scientific higher education degree. From St. Petersburg, <mask> moved to Odessa where, in 1859, he opened a private school, working there only for a short time.In 1863 he moved to Simferopol taking up a position as a history teacher at Simferopol gymnasium №1, where he worked for 18 years. In 1872, <mask> was

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 the author of the project to create Simferopol Tatar Teachers' School. From 1881 to 1894 he worked as an inspector. Furthermore, he held the post of censor the newspaper "Переводчик-Терджиман" (before 1905) and chaired the "Tsar Alexander Karaim Spiritual Academy". His high prestige among the Crimean Karaites is clearly evidenced by the fact that he was an adviser to Hakham S. M. Pampulov. He has published books such as "לרגל הילדים" ("Guide for children") (written in Hebrew in 1868–1869) and "Russian textbook for elementary schools Tatar", written in 1873–1875. <mask> Ilyich distinguished himself vividly as a brilliant translator.Thanks to his efforts his contemporary compatriots gained access to many famous literary works, such as "Torat Gaadam" ("Principles of Ethics") and "Kivshono Shel Olam" ("World Secrets"), in which Kazas summarized and processed the works of French authors Paul Janet and Jules Simon. He edited the Odessa published Karaim Journal "Davul" ("Drum") and Simferopol newspaper "Tauris". He died in Yalta on the 14th of January 1912 and was buried in the Yevpatorian Karaim cemetery. The tombstone from the grave of Kazas is located in the lapidarium Karaim Kenesa in Yevpatoria. Family
He was married to Byubyush Berahovne Panpulovoy a cousin of Hakham S. M. Pampulov.