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<mask> is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography
Attended Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome where he earned a Bachelor of Music, summa cum laude, in Composition and a 1st class honors Master of Music in Film Scoring degree. He studied Conducting with Cesare Croci and Ennio Nicotra and holds a BA, magna cum laude, in Anthropology and Political Science with a published dissertation on Richard Wagner. He was a student of Giorgio Caproni, one of the greatest 20th century Italian poet, his teacher at the primary school, who influenced his musical and artistic training. Professor of Music Composition for Film and Theatre at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, <mask> is one of the founders of the ACMF, the Italian Association of Music Composers for Films. Writes music for cinema, theatre and television. Works in Italy and the United States."Personalità Europea - Oscar dei Giovani" in Rome (1983) for the theme of "TG l'Una" on "Rai Uno", and prize "Agimus" (1996) for the best original soundtrack for the short film Sera. One of the two composers who wrote the music for the CD Abbà Pater,. Work in the United States includes writing and conducting the music for films such as The Shooter (1995 film)   directed by Ted Kotcheff, Silent Trigger and Tale of the Mummy
(Best Soundtrack award at the 18th Fantafestival), both films directed by Russell Mulcahy. "Cinemusic Ravello Festival award" in 2005 for best soundtrack of the Italian TV series Orgoglio (Pride). In 2006 and 2007 he was a member of the panel in the Sanremo Music Festival. In 2006 winner of the "Anica Award" for the soundtrack of the film "A voce alta". In 2007 was awarded the "Salvo Randone" prize for his career.From 2007 to 2010 composed and conducted the music for The Word of Promise the US audio drama of the Bible in 79 CDs with the voices of Jim Caviezel, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael York, Jon Voight, Max von Sydow, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Terence Stamp, Louis Gossett Jr. and 600 other actors. In 2009 was one of the composers of the music for the CD Alma Mater, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This work received a nomination as "Album of the Year" at the Classic Brit Awards in London 2010. In 2011 he composed and produced Tu es Christus  a Sony Music cd for the beatification of Pope John Paul II in which featured, amongst others, the voices of Andrea Bocelli and Plácido Domingo. "International Euro Mediterraneo Award" in Campidoglio, Rome and "Napoli Cultural Classic Award" for Best Italian Musician in 2011. In 2014, for Musa Comunicazione, he published the book "La politica musicale nazista e l'influenza del culto wagneriano". In 2021 he was co-author, together with Simone Corelli e Gilberto Martinelli, of the treatise “Dialoghi, Musica, Effetti: il Suono nell’audiovisivo”.The book, published by Lambda, won the critics’ award at the “Premio Letterario Internazionale Città di Cattolica”. <mask> is the author of "Rendering Revolution". The project was presented at the MAXXI National Art Museum in Rome on 12 June 2017, an “augmented music” experience in which music, painting, dance and video art are blended together in a spatial setting. The project aims to be a new synthesis and fusion among different art forms. A modern melodrama, in the most extended sense of the term, a non linear process in which the result is superior to the sum of the parts and in which each component - music, dance, painting and video art - concurs in creating an augmented reality that engrosses the spectator on a multi sensory level. "Rendering Revolution", presented by the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, took two years of planning and has received the honorable mention award from Santa Cecilia Conservatory for its exceptional scientific and artistic achievement. He is among the Italian personalities participating in the Charte 18-XXI, a collective of artists, scientists and philosophers brought together by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, artistic director of the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, with the aim of promoting international theatre, with young people and for young people, through a working method and a comparison never made before in the theatrical panorama.As a demonstration of the desire shared by various cultural personalities to create a new space for discussion and dialogue, productions from all over the world participate in the project, including the Teatro della Pergola in Florence. Private life
He is married with the actress Elena Sofia Ricci.

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<mask> was born in Olympia, Washington to <mask> and Felice Moskowitz, a dance teacher. <mask> is Jewish and is an only child. When she was 9 years old, her parents divorced and she moved to the Portland, Oregon area. In 1995, <mask> graduated from Beaverton High School. In 1999, <mask> received a B.F.A.in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Career

Theatre
Shortly after moving to New York City in 2000, <mask> was cast in the 2000 Off-Broadway revival of Godspell at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's Church in Midtown Manhattan. In 2001, <mask> performed in the national tour of Leader of the Pack. In 2002, <mask> made her Broadway debut as an original cast member in the role of Shelley, Denizen of Baltimore, which she originated, in the Tony Award-winning production of Hairspray. She was also an understudy for the roles of Tracy Turnblad, Velma Von Tussle, and Prudy Pingleton. In 2004, <mask> joined the Broadway production of the smash-hit musical Wicked as a replacement standby for Elphaba, which was played by Idina Menzel. On January 8, 2005, a day before Menzel's scheduled end of her run as Elphaba, Menzel fell through a trap door and cracked a lower rib.<mask> went on to perform that show. On January 11, 2005, <mask> took over as Elphaba full-time, where she performed opposite Jennifer Laura Thompson and then Megan Hilty as Glinda, until her last show on January 8, 2006. On January 10, she was replaced by Eden Espinosa as Elphaba. In 2006, <mask> reprised the role of Elphaba in the first national tour of Wicked. Her limited engagement ended on December 30. In 2009, <mask> joined the new production of Peepshow in Las Vegas in the role of Peep Diva alongside Holly Madison. She replaced Spice Girls singer, Mel B.In 2011, <mask> wrote and starred in the musical Dear John Mayer, with music and lyrics by <mask> and book by fellow CCM graduate Eydie Faye. In 2015, <mask> portrayed the role of CeeCee Bloom in the musical adaptation of the book and movie Beaches at the Drury Lane Theater in Chicago. In 2017, <mask> played Fanny Brice in North Shore Music Theatre's production of Funny Girl. In 2018, <mask> performed in the New York City Center Encores! production of Songs for a New World. On March 18, 2019, <mask> returned to Broadway in the role of Jenna in the production of Waitress for a limited engagement through May 2019. On May 13, 2019, it was announced that <mask>'s run was extended through July 21, 2019.Singer
On December 2, 2008, <mask> released her debut solo album, Superhero, on her own label Shotime Records. The record has been described as pop rock. In February 2013, <mask>'s second album, O'Farrell Street, was released. It was produced by Tim K (Madonna, Celine Dion, Brandy), and incorporates 1960s-era soul. The record reached No. 3 on the iTunes R&B charts. In December 2014, <mask> released an EP album of blues called Shadows to Light.The record was produced by <mask> and Jake Schaefer. It reached No. 1 on the iTunes Blues charts. She performed her single "Runaway Train" on The Queen Latifah Show. Beginning in 2015, <mask> has performed with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox (PMJ), performing Justin Bieber's "Sorry" and Backstreet Boys's “I Want It That Way,” among others. In the spring of 2016, she joined the PMJ European Tour. In February 2018, <mask>'s third album, Spectrum, was released.The songs are in the genre of rhythm and blues. The record release was accompanied by a tour, which included concerts at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, which featured an 18-piece orchestra, as well as a string of other dates including in London at Cadogan Hall, Las Vegas and Dallas. <mask> has said that inspirations for the record were the music of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, and Frank Sinatra. In August and September 2019, <mask> performed selected songs at a series of residency concerts at Feinstein's/54 Below. <mask>'s music has been featured on MTV's The Hills, Mercy, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Bad Girls Club and Showtime's The Big C, and she arranged the vocals for Jennifer Lopez's performance of her 2014 song "I Luh Ya Papi" on American Idol. <mask> has appeared on film soundtracks to Hairspray, Enchanted, the Wayans Brothers' Dance Flick, and the 2016 animated musical Sing. <mask> has performed around the world in cabarets and concerts.She has sung with artists such as Bebe Winans, Brian McKnight, Ariana Grande, David Foster, and Jason Robert Brown, Michael Jackson, among others. Theatre

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Discography

LPs
 2008: Superhero (Shotime Records)
 2013: O' Farrell Street (Shotime Records)
 2018: Spectrum (Shotime Records)

EPs
 2014: Shadows to Light - EP (Shotime Records)
 2020: Selah - EP

Singles
 2011: "A Little Hope" (Billy-Boo)
 2012: "O Holy Night" (Shotime Records)
 2012: "Runnin' Out Of Days" (Shotime Records)
 2013: "Skywriter" (Shotime Records)
 2014: "Runaway Train" (Shotime Records)
 2015: "Jealous" (Shotime Records) – cover of the Labrinth song
 2015: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Shotime Records)
 2017: "One Way to Go" (Shotime Records) – written by <mask> and Britten Newbill. Soundtracks and cast recordings
 2001: Godspell – Off-Broadway Revival Cast Recording (Varese Sarabande)
 2002: Hairspray – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Sony Classical)
 2007: Hairspray – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New Line Records)
 2008: Enchanted – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records)
 2015: Are You Joking?, "Ain't Life Funny" – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Barb & Associates Records)
 2018: Songs for a New World -  2018 New York City Center Encores! (TV Series short) vocals in 1 episode: "A Tiny Urban Zoo"
 2017: Bloodline (TV Series) as Shayna in 1 episode: "Part 30"
 2020: Bill & Ted Face the Music as First Noble

Awards and honors
 2010: Independent Music Award, Best R&B Song for "Superhero" from Superhero
 2015: Jeff Award, Best Lead Actress in a Musical, nominee, for her role as CeeCee Bloom in the musical Beaches at Drury Lane Theater, Chicago
 2017: IRNE Award for her role as Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl at North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, Massachusetts

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People from Beaverton, Oregon
Independent Music Awards winners
Jewish American actresses
Jewish American songwriters
Jewish singers
LGBT rights activists from the United States
Singer-songwriters from Oregon
Beaverton High School alumni
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American women

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<mask> (; born December 29, 1958) is an American video game developer and cryptologist. <mask> worked at Simutronics Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri from 1990–2014, and in 2015 was Senior Producer at Black Gate Games in Nashville, Tennessee. She is Chairperson Emerita and one of the founders of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games group, has contributed or been editor in chief on multiple IGDA State of the Industry white papers, and was one of the Directors of the Global Game Jam from 2011–2014. As of 2020 she works as a management consultant at Accenture. <mask> has published a book of exercises on classical cryptography, and maintains cryptography-related websites about topics such as Kryptos, a sculpture at the Central Intelligence Agency containing an encrypted message, and another on the world's most famous unsolved codes. She has given several lectures on the subject of cryptography, and according to the PBS series NOVA scienceNOW she is "generally considered the leading Kryptos expert in the world." In 2010, bestselling author Dan Brown named a character, Nola Kaye, in his novel The Lost Symbol after her, in an anagram pattern.Early life and education
<mask> was born in Santa Monica, California, the older of two children to <mask>, a Polish-American mathematician, and Elsie Ivancich, a Croatian-American dance ethnologist at UCLA. <mask> graduated in 1976 from University High School, and then enrolled as an undergraduate at UCLA, but dropped out near the end of her freshman year. <mask> joined the United States Air Force, working as an avionics technician at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom and Beale Air Force Base in California. After choosing not to re-enlist, she studied digital electronics at Yuba College—a two-year community college—but did not obtain a degree. Career

Online games
In the 1980s, she became involved with the growing BBS culture. In 1989, while she was working as a temporary legal secretary in Los Angeles, this interest overlapped into the early multiplayer games, such as British Legends on CompuServe and Simutronics' GemStone II on GEnie. In 1990, <mask> moved to St. Louis and began working for the online game company Simutronics.Simutronics launched its own website, play.net, in 1997 with <mask> as General Manager of Online Games, managing Simutronics' online community. <mask> was the product manager for GemStone III, executive producer for the Hercules and Xena: Warrior Princess-based multiplayer game Alliance of Heroes, and worked in a variety of production and development roles on most of Simutronics' other products, including CyberStrike, Modus Operandi, DragonRealms, HeroEngine, Fantasy University, and Tiny Heroes. She is a founding member of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games SIG and edited four of their annual White Papers on various aspects of the online game industry, such as "Web and Downloadable Games" and "Persistent Worlds." Games
<mask> held a variety of production and development roles during her 24 years at Simutronics. Games that she worked on include:
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 DragonRealms
 CyberStrike
 CyberStrike 2
 Alliance of Heroes (originally Hercules & Xena: Alliance of Heroes)
 Modus Operandi
 Orb Wars
 Fantasy University
 Tiny Heroes

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<mask> has written books and articles about cryptography, and been interviewed on radio and television about related subjects such as Kryptos, the Smithy Code, and Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes. In an interview with GIGnews.com, <mask> said that in the year 2000 she cracked the PhreakNIC v3.0 Code, an amateur cryptographic puzzle created by a hacker group, and that this launched her public interest in high-profile ciphers. Because of the location of Kryptos on CIA grounds, physical access to the sculpture is restricted.According to Wired News, in 2002, <mask> gave a presentation to CIA analysts about steganography and Al-Qaeda, and "[i]n 2002, <mask> was one of the lucky few who saw [Kryptos] in person", and "she also made rubbings of the text". Based on her visit, she launched the beginnings of what became a comprehensive website about the sculpture, and also became co-moderator of a Yahoo Group that is attempting to decipher the encrypted messages on the sculpture. In 2003, <mask> organized a team which solved the ciphers on Kryptos'''s sister sculpture, the Cyrillic Projector. Alt URL Alt URL

When Kryptos sculptor Jim Sanborn chose to release information about an error on the sculpture in 2006, he contacted <mask> to make the announcement. In July 2007, <mask> appeared on the PBS program NOVA scienceNOW, as an expert on Kryptos, and in 2009, contributed two articles about the sculpture for the book Secrets of The Lost Symbol: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel, a companion book to author Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol. <mask> had assisted Brown with the research for the novel, and Brown named a character in the novel after her. The character "Nola Kaye" is an anagrammed form of "Elonka".In 2006, <mask> compiled a book of several hundred exercises in classical cryptography, which was published in the United States as The Mammoth Book of Secret Codes and Cryptograms, and in the UK as The Mammoth Book of Secret Code Puzzles. The book also includes a few details about several unsolved codes, such as Kryptos. In 2013, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by <mask>, the NSA released documents which show the NSA became involved in attempts to solve the Kryptos puzzle in 1992, following a challenge by Bill Studeman, Deputy Director of the CIA. The documents show that by June 1993, a small group of NSA cryptanalysts had succeeded in solving the first three parts of the sculpture. Public speaking
<mask> has given talks on Kryptos and the Cyrillic Projector'' at the National Security Agency's Cryptologic History Symposium, Def Con, Shmoocon, Notacon, PhreakNIC, and Dragon*Con, and has also given lectures at the International Game Developers Conference. She has been invited to be a co-host on the Binary Revolution webcast three times. In October 2012, she was the guest of honor at Archon.In 2021, she gave a TEDx talk on cryptography, "2000 years of ordinary secrets". Personal life
<mask> is a Wikipedia editor who has made tens of thousands of edits. Works and publications
 (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2002. PDF
 (editor) IGDA Online Games White Paper, 2003. PDF
 (editor) IGDA Web & Downloadable Games White Paper, 2004. PDF
 (editor-in-chief) IGDA Persistent Worlds White Paper, 2004. PDF

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American information and reference writers
American people of Croatian descent
American video game designers
Living people
MUD developers
Recreational cryptographers
People from Santa Monica, California
Puzzle designers
University High School (Los Angeles) alumni
United States Air Force airmen
American people of Polish descent
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<mask> (, born 24 August 1987) is a Slovene professional ice hockey centre and captain for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). The 11th overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> became the first Slovene to play in the NHL upon making his debut in 2006. <mask> has spent his entire NHL career with the Kings, has led the team in scoring in all but two seasons and is fourth in franchise history in points, goals, and assists, scoring his 1,000th career point in 2021. Following the 2015–16 season, he was named the Kings' captain. Noted for both his offensive and defensive play, <mask> was awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the best defensive forward in the NHL in 2016, as well as the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for gentlemanly play the same year. He won his second Selke trophy in 2018. Kopitar played junior hockey for his hometown team HK Acroni Jesenice before moving to Sweden at age 16 to play in a more competitive league.He spent one season with the junior teams of the Södertälje SK organization, and then with the senior team of the top-level Elitserien. He moved to North America to join the Kings in 2006, one year after he was drafted, and finished fourth in the Calder Memorial Trophy voting for the league's top rookie. <mask>'s offensive talent was immediately apparent when he joined the Kings, though his defensive style developed in later seasons and he has become recognized for his two-way play, being a finalist for the Selke Trophy 3 times, winning twice. In 2018 he was a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy. Praised as one of the best players in the League, <mask> won the Stanley Cup championship with the Kings in 2012 and 2014, leading the playoffs in points on both occasions (tied with teammate Dustin Brown in 2012). Internationally, <mask> has represented the Slovenian national team in several junior and senior tournaments, as well as at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He also played for Team Europe at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.Playing career

European career
In 2002, <mask> began playing for the youth team of his hometown, HK Acroni Jesenice. He split the year between the team's under-18 and junior clubs, and also appeared in 11 games for the senior team HK Kranjska Gora of the Slovenian Ice Hockey League. <mask> had four goals and four assists in the senior league, and recorded 76 points in 14 games for the Jesenice under-18 team and 27 points in 20 games for the junior club. He led the Slovenian Ice Hockey League in scoring at the age of 16, and Swedish scout Lars Söder recruited Kopitar for the Elitserien in 2004 (Söder had originally discovered Kopitar when he was 13 at the 2001 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in Vuokatti, Finland). The Slovenian Ice Hockey League did not have a high enough skill level, so Kopitar decided that if he wanted to improve his career prospects, he would have to leave the country. He was offered a chance to play in Sweden for Södertälje SK, eventually joining their junior team where he led the League in scoring, with 49 points (28 goals, 21 assists) in 30 games. Prior to the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, <mask> was ranked the top European skater by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau.After his first season in Sweden, he was chosen 11th overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the 2005 Draft. Unlike most top-ranked prospects, <mask> was not at the draft, but in Sweden playing in preseason games. Some members of the team had a party for the draft, including Niclas Bergfors, who was selected 23rd overall by the New Jersey Devils. Prior to the NHL Draft, <mask> was also selected in the CHL Import Draft by the Regina Pats of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He declined to move to North America, however, hoping to further his development by continuing to play against professionals in the Elitserien, rather than against major junior players in the WHL. Los Angeles Kings (2006–present)

Early career in Los Angeles (2006–2011)
<mask> signed an entry-level contract with the Kings on 7 September 2005, but returned to play in Sweden for another season. The next year, 2006, he accepted an invitation to Los Angeles' rookie camp.He made his NHL debut on 6 October 2006, against the Anaheim Ducks and scored two goals in the game. In January 2007, he was named to the NHL YoungStars Game, an event included at the All-Star Game festivities; <mask> recorded two goals and three assists. <mask> completed his first NHL season third among rookies in scoring, behind Evgeni Malkin and Paul Šťastný, with 20 goals and 41 assists for 61 points. It marked the fifth-highest point total by a Kings rookie, and the highest since Luc Robitaille in 1986–87. He finished fourth in voting for the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year. <mask> was awarded the Mark Bavis Memorial Award as the best first-year member of the Kings and was also named the Kings' Most Popular Player. The following season, 2007–08, <mask> was selected to represent the Western Conference at the 56th NHL All-Star Game in Atlanta, his first all-star game appearance.He was the youngest player in the game, nearly two years younger than the second-youngest player, Paul Stastny (Sidney Crosby was younger, but had to withdraw prior to the game due to injury). <mask> finished the regular season with 32 goals and 45 assists for 77 points; he led the Kings in assists and points and was second in goals. <mask> won the Bill Libby Memorial Award as the most valuable player on the Kings. Early in the 2008–09 season, on 11 October 2008, <mask> signed a seven-year contract extension with the Kings worth $47.6 million. The contract would keep <mask> with the team until the conclusion of the 2015–16 season. He finished the season with 66 points in 82 games, leading the Kings in both assists and points, while again finishing second in goals scored. The following season, <mask> scored his first career NHL hat-trick (3 goals in one game) on 22 October 2009 against the Dallas Stars.He finished the 2009–10 season with a career-high 34 goals and 81 points. For the second time in his career, <mask> won the Bill Libby Memorial Award as the Kings' most valuable player, and led the team in scoring for the third-straight year. <mask> made his Stanley Cup playoff debut that season, as the Kings qualified for the postseason for the first time since 2002. The Kings lost in the Western Conference Quarterfinals to the Vancouver Canucks, and Kopitar finished tied for third on the team with five points in six games. The 2010–11 season saw <mask> play in his 325th consecutive NHL game, which set a new Kings team record, passing Marcel Dionne on 15 March 2011. However eleven days later, <mask>'s season and ironman streak came to an abrupt end at 330 games after he suffered a broken ankle. Despite the injury setback, <mask> led the team in scoring for the fourth straight season with 73 points, and was named the team's most valuable player for the second time.Stanley Cup titles (2012–2014)
In the 2011–12 season, <mask> led the Kings in scoring with 76 points, including a career-best 51 assists. The Kings won the Stanley Cup as playoff champions, their first title in team history. <mask> finished tied with Kings captain Dustin Brown to lead the team in playoff scoring, with each having 20 points from 20 games played. <mask> became the first Slovenian-born player to win the Stanley Cup. In recognition of this, <mask> was named as the 2012 Slovenian male Athlete of the Year. The 2012–13 NHL season was delayed due to the NHL lockout, so <mask> joined his younger brother Gašper on Mora IK of the Swedish second-tier league HockeyAllsvenskan, signing a contract with the team for the 2012–13 season. He played 31 games for Mora, scoring 34 points, before the NHL lockout ended in January 2013.A shortened, 48-game NHL season commenced, <mask> recorded 42 points in 47 games to once again lead the Kings in scoring, and was named the team's best defensive player. The 2013–14 season saw <mask> lead the team in scoring for the seventh consecutive season, with 70 points, and was named both the team's most valuable player and best defensive player. He also was a finalist for the Frank J. Selke Trophy as best defensive forward in the NHL for the first time. In the playoffs, <mask> led the entire league in scoring, recording 26 points in 26 games, as the Kings won their second Stanley Cup championship. Selke Trophy wins and continued success (2015–present)
The next season saw Kopitar tie Marcel Dionne as the only player in Kings history to lead the team in scoring eight times, having scored 16 goals and 48 assists for 64 points. Kopitar was a finalist for the Selke Trophy again, and also for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy, awarded for sportsmanship. During the 2015–16 season <mask> signed an eight-year contract extension with the Kings.It would pay him an average of $10 million per season until the end of the 2023–24 season. He finished the season with 74 points, setting a team record by leading the Kings in scoring for a ninth consecutive season. <mask> also was awarded both the Lady Byng and Frank J. Selke Trophies, the first player from the Kings to win either award. He also won the Bill Libby Memorial Award as the most valuable player on the Kings for the fifth time. On 16 June 2016, <mask> was named the captain of the Kings, replacing Dustin Brown. In his first season as captain of the Kings, <mask> saw his production drop, and he finished with 52 points, second on the team and ending his nine-year streak of leading the team in scoring. <mask> returned to form in the 2017–18 season scoring a career-high 35 goals and 57 assists for 92 points, helping the Kings get back to the playoffs.After the season, <mask> was a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy and was awarded the Frank J. Selke Trophy for the second time in his career. The following season, on April 1, 2019, in a game against the Calgary Flames, Kopitar played his 1,000th NHL game. On May 5, 2021, <mask> recorded his 1,000th career point, becoming the 91st player to reach the mark. On October 14, 2021, <mask> kicked off the Kings' home opener scoring 3 goals and 2 assists for 5 points against the Vegas Golden Knights, setting a franchise record for most points in a home opening game; the feat was last achieved by Jari Kurri in the 1991-92 home opener. <mask> would get the first star for NHL player of the week, after scoring a goal for the next 3 games following the home opener. International play

<mask> first played in an international tournament when he participated in the Division I (second level) tournament of the 2003 IIHF World U18 Championships for the Slovenian national junior team. He appeared in five games and recorded three points.The following year he appeared in the 2004 U18 tournament and the 2004 World Junior Championships. Slovenia competed in Division I at both tournaments, one level below the top division. <mask> scored six goals and eight points in five games during the under-18 tournament and finished second overall for goals scored and third for points, leading Slovenia in both categories; at the World Juniors he had one goal and one assist in five games. In 2005 <mask> appeared in three international tournaments for Slovenia; he took part in the U18 Championship, World Juniors, and the senior World Championship, his first tournament with the Slovenian national team. Slovenia competed at the Division I level for both junior tournaments, but at the top level for the senior championship. He would play his last junior tournament in 2006 at the Division I level, with six points in five games. At the 2006 World Championship he played for Slovenia at the top level and recorded three goals and nine points in six games, tying for fifth among scoring leaders.Slovenia was relegated to Division I for 2007, where <mask> had 13 assists and 14 points, leading the tournament in both categories. Back in the top division for the 2008 IIHF World Championship, <mask> appeared in five games and had four points to lead his team, though Slovenia was once again relegated. Slovenia qualified for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi; as the qualifying games were held during the NHL season <mask> was unable to participate, though his father Matjaž coached the team and Gašper played in the matches. Though Gašper was part of the team that secured qualification for Slovenia, he was not named to the Olympic roster. <mask> helped Slovenia reach the quarterfinals of the tournament by scoring two goals and one assist. <mask> was also named to play in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey for Team Europe, which includes players from most of Europe (the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, and Sweden have their own teams). Prior to the announcement <mask> had expressed excitement towards the concept, which was to be introduced during the tournament, noting that as a Slovenian he had few opportunities to play in tournaments like this.Playing style

<mask> is known in the NHL as one of the most effective two-way forwards, in that he is effective both as an offensive and defensive player. He won the Frank J. Selke Trophy, which is given to the best defensive forward in the NHL, in 2016, after being a finalist for the award in both 2014 and 2015. He is known for being skilled at taking faceoffs, with one of the highest averages in the league during his career. He is also skilled at offence, and currently leads the Kings in team scoring from 2008 to the present (except 2016-17). Personal life
<mask> was born in Jesenice, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia) to Matjaž and Mateja <mask>. Matjaž played hockey for HK Acroni Jesenice, winning the league title three times, and was a member of the Yugoslav and Slovenian national teams. He also coached HK Acroni Jesenice of the Austrian Hockey League during the 2006–07 season and the Slovenian national team from 2010 until 2015.Mateja worked at the family restaurant, Hrušica, a village about five kilometres from Jesenice. When Kopitar was four, his father first taught him how to skate; Matjaž built an ice rink in their backyard in Hrušica, and Kopitar would play there whenever he could. Kopitar has a brother, Gašper, who is five years younger. Gašper also plays hockey; when the <mask> family moved to Los Angeles, Gašper joined a junior team sponsored by the Kings. He then played for the Portland Winterhawks of the major junior Western Hockey League (WHL) and the Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League (USHL), before turning professional with Mora IK in Sweden. Kopitar's grandmother taught English at a local high school, and both Kopitar and his brother learned to speak English from her. Kopitar speaks five languages: Slovene, Serbian, German, Swedish, and English.He enjoys playing soccer and is a declared supporter of Slovenian soccer club NK Maribor. Kopitar is renowned in Slovenia due to his hockey exploits, with a government-sponsored website declaring that after he won the Stanley Cup in 2012 he was "the most recognised Slovenian sportsman." As a youth, he played in the 2000 and 2001 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a team from Slovenia. He also hosts an annual charity golf tournament that benefits various groups, mainly youths. <mask> lived with his parents until moving to Sweden, where he lived alone in an apartment. After his first season in the NHL, the rest of <mask>'s family joined him in Los Angeles; Kopitar bought a home in Manhattan Beach in 2014. <mask> met Ines Dominc in Slovenia in 2005; they married in July 2013.Their first child, a daughter named Neža, was born on 14 March 2015. Their second child, son Jakob, was born 5 October 2016. Career statistics

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A. C<mask> (born <mask>.; 4 Nov 1923 – 5 April 2002) was an American writer – important in Texas literary matters as a memoirist, fiction writer, historian, poet, and influential book critic in Dallas. As a newspaper journalist, he had been a book critic and editor of the Editorial Page for the Dallas Times Herald when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, which galvanized his role at the paper to help untangle and lift a demoralized city in search of its soul. Leaving full-time journalism in 1968, <mask> went on to become a prolific author of books, notably on Texas lore and history. His notoriety led to stints in radio and TV as talk-show host. By the 1980s, his commentaries were being published by major media across the country. He had become a sought-after source for Texas history, anecdotes, cultural perspective, facts, humor, books, and politics. When the 1984 Republican National Convention was held in Dallas, <mask> granted sixty-three interviews about Texas topics to major media journalists.<mask>'s 1990 book, Taking Heart – which examines the experiences of the first patient in a new heart transplant center (himself) – made The New York Times Editors Choice list. Career

In 1948, <mask> began working as a cub reporter for the Abilene Reporter-News and wrote book reviews and articles for the entertainment section. From 1952 to 1957, <mask> owned and operated the Abilene Book Store, located at 365 Cypress Street, across the street from the Paramount Theater – its slogan: "The Book Center of West Texas." In 1957, he began teaching journalism at Hardin-Simmons University. <mask>, in his teens, was known as "A. C." So, in 1953, he legally changed his name from <mask> to A. C. and dropped the Jr. In 1960, <mask> became a book editor for the Dallas Times Herald; and in 1963, the Times Herald promoted him as Editor of the Editorial Page, a role he performed until 1965. Of the Kennedy assassination, <mask> wrote:

<mask> left the Times Herald in 1968 to pursue a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin and to devote more time to writing books.From 1968 to 1969, <mask> was the executive editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, a publication of the Texas State Historical Association. In 1969, he served as President of the Texas Institute of Letters while working on his doctorate at The University of Texas at Austin. In 1968, <mask> was awarded a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin which included a six-month stay at Paisano, a ranch 14 miles southwest of Austin purchased by J. Frank Dobie for use as a writer's retreat. The award and retreat led to <mask>'s first book, A Personal Country. In the 1980s, <mask> wrote a weekly column on Texas history for the Dallas Morning News. From 1986 to 1992, <mask> served as Founding Coordinating Director of the Center for Texas Studies at the University of North Texas in Denton. He retired as emeritus director.James Ward Lee, PhD (born 1931) – an author, professor of English at North Texas since 1958, former chairman of the English Department, and co-director of the center – called <mask> "The Dean of Texas Letters." Annually, <mask>'s hometown of Abilene, Texas presents the A.C. Greene Award to a distinguished Texas author for lifetime achievement during the West Texas Book Festival. Past winners include John Graves, Sandra Brown, Elmer Kelton, <mask>, John Erickson, and many others. Family and growing up
<mask> gave much credit for his love of reading, writing, and storytelling to his maternal grandmother, Maude E<mask> (1879–1961). Besides being a writer and poet, she was also an amateur painter. She was a prize-winning and published poet and author, and from 1926 to 1946, a librarian at the Carnegie Library in Abilene, Texas. She was a pioneer in the Texas literary scene.Maude was born Maude Elfie <mask> in 1879 in Youngsport, Texas.. Later, she changed her name from Elfie to Elizabeth and used Maude E<mask> as her name the rest of her life] and, in 1921, became a widow of <mask> <mask> (1872–1921). She remarried in 1945 to <mask> Tileston (1871–1952). Maude, known to the family as "Mibby", regularly took A. C<mask> to the library for full days while she worked. <mask> claims that the library had been his babysitter. Maude's mother, <mask> Dockray <mask> Longley, had become a widow of John Lytle <mask> in 1888 and remarried <mask> (1816–1907), a veteran of the Texas Revolution and father of three sons by a previous marriage, one of whom was gunman Bill Longley. A. C. was married twice, first in 1950 to Betty Jo Dozier (1925–1989). They had three sons and a daughter: <mask>, <mask> (1955–2005), Eliot Bruce, and Meredith Elizabeth.<mask>'s parents – <mask> <mask>. (born in Wills Point, Texas, in 1902), and Johnnie <mask> (born in Beaumont, Teas, in 1906) – were killed in 1964 in a two-vehicle accident while traveling from Beaumont to Dallas (after visiting their son <mask> and his new wife, Mary Welch, in New Orleans). Their car had been hit by an 18-wheel truck doing 80 mph on U.S. 69, five miles south of Rusk, Texas. <mask> was  at the time. His only living sibling, David Michael <mask> (1938-2015), who later moved to New York City, was . A. C. and David had a brother John Lytle, but he had died  months of age in 1935. A. C.'s four children ranged from  to . In 1989, <mask>'s wife Betty lost her battle with cancer.He subsequently remarried Judy Dalton Hyland (née Julia Hall Dalton; 1933–2012), who in 1979 had divorced John Walton Hyland, M.D. Judy was the daughter of the former governor of Missouri, John Montgomery Dalton. Through that marriage, he gained two stepdaughters: Julia "Julie" Elizabeth Hyland and <mask> Hyland. Judy died 8 August 2012 in Austin. Selected published works

Books (1st editions)

Literary criticism by Greene

Poetry

Stage plays, screenplays and opera
The last captive: A Screenplay Manuscript (1991)
A Cherished Design: The Creation of the University of Texas (1981)
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery: A Screenplay (1989)

Oral histories
 Transcript: Dallas Mayors Oral history Project, No. 7, co-authored with <mask>, Oral History Program, East Texas State University

Selected articles
 Upwardly Mogul: Move Over, Hollywood. Make Way for <mask>.<mask>? Texas Monthly November 1976 pps. It is a feather of the West Texas Book Festival and is sponsored by Friends of the Abilene Public Library, the Abilene Reporter-News, and the Scripps Howard Foundation. Chautauqua Award for lifetime achievement in preserving history, Dallas County Heritage Society
 1998 – Lifetime Achievement Award, Texas Book Festival, hosted by Laura Bush

Formal education
 1940 – Graduated from Abilene High School
 Attended Phillips University
 1948 – Bachelor of Arts, Abilene Christian University
 1968 – Did post-grad work at The University of Texas at Austin, towards a PhD

References
General references
Talking with Texas Writers: Twelve Interviews by Patrick Bennett (interviews with Larry McMurty), A. C<mask>, John Graves, et al., Texas A&M University Press (1980)
Biography Index: A Cumulative Index to Biographical Material in Books and Magazines, H.W. Wilson Company, New YorkVol. 17: September 1990—August 1992 (1992)  Vol. 29: September 2003—August 2004 (2004)
Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields, Gale Research, DetroitVolumes 37–40, 1st revision (1979)  New Revision Series: Volume 14 (1985)  New Revision Series: Volume 92 (2001)

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Robert Louis "<mask><mask>, Jr. (March 5, 1956 – August 16, 1995) was an American singer and musician. DeBarge was the lead singer of the Motown R&B/soul vocal group Switch and was noted for his falsetto vocals. Later on, he served as both mentor and a co-producer of his siblings' band, DeBarge, eventually joining them to fill in for departing members El and Bunny. Personal problems, including substance abuse which eventually led to drug trafficking charges in 1988, plagued DeBarge in later years, taking focus away from his musical career. He contracted HIV in the 1980s, and died of AIDS complications in 1995, at age 39. Life and career

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DeBarge was born to Etterlene (née Abney) and Army soldier <mask>, Sr. in Detroit. He blamed an unhappy childhood on his father's abusiveness.At 15, <mask> was introduced to heroin, which became his lifelong addiction. After his parents separated and divorced in the early 1970s, <mask> and his family relocated to Grand Rapids. A talented instrumentalist and vocalist, he began playing in local bands, along with his younger brother Tommy. Music career

In 1975, after teaming up with fellow Grand Rapids musician Gregory Williams, the duo began a group with several other Midwestern musicians and successfully auditioned for Barry White's background group, White Heat, helping to produce and release their debut album that year. The following year, White dropped all but one musician from the band due to tax issues. The group – which consisted of <mask>, Williams, Phillip Ingram, <mask>, TC Brown, Stanley Brown, Jody Sims, Arnett Hayes, Adam Frye, Darnell Wyrick, MC Clark and Stanley Hood – then recorded an album in 1976 under the name Hot Ice, entitled Pall Mall Groove, which included <mask>'s incredible singing and piano performance on his composition, "Please Don't Let Me Go," released in 1977 on Polydor/Germany, in 1979 in the USA/Canada as SMASH on Source Records/MCA, and in 2005 on Burndsman Records worldwide. That year, <mask> returned to Grand Rapids, despondent that his career hadn't progressed; he ventured deeper into a heroin addiction.After the break up of White Heat, Gregory Williams remained in Akron, and sought out new musicians [including <mask>, Phillip Ingram, Jody Sims, Eddie Fluellen, MC Clark and Arnett Hayes] to start a new band. After completing a demo tape, he took it to Motown Records; the label wanted to sign the group, who were now calling themselves Switch, because of their ability to "switch" instruments. At Williams' invitation, <mask>, seeking a chance to find musical stardom, vowed to get clean from his heroin addiction. Motown soon signed the act, which now included <mask>'s brother Tommy. A year after their signing, the band released their debut album in 1978. The album, which featured production from Jermaine Jackson, reached gold status thanks to "There'll Never Be," which was solely written by DeBarge, and also featured a favorite ballad of theirs, "I Want to Be Closer", on which Phillip Ingram and DeBarge shared lead. The following year, the group hit gold again with Switch II, another Jermaine Jackson-produced album, which included another DeBarge-penned hit, "I Call Your Name."Switch became a recording and performing attraction, not only due to the band's overall musicianship but also due to DeBarge's multi-octave vocal range. In 1980, the group had their third gold-selling album, This Is My Dream, which was the group's first album to not include input from Jackson and which the band's founding members – DeBarge, Jody Sims and Gregory Williams – co-produced. The album included the hit "Love Over and Over Again." By then, DeBarge had returned to using heroin after several years of sobriety and also began using cocaine, which caused tension between DeBarge and Switch group members. Things came to a head in 1981 when, following the release of Switch's fifth album Switch V, <mask> suddenly left the group after Motown offered him a solo recording deal, later finalized in 1983. By then, <mask> was overseeing the production of his siblings' albums. <mask> co-produced their debut album, and co-wrote with younger brother El the song, "Queen of My Heart", in which he performed falsetto ad-libs near the end of the recording.The track later re-appeared on DeBarge's third album, In A Special Way, on which El himself produced, creating a more polished version. By 1987, perhaps taking their cue from <mask> splitting from his own group, El and their sister Bunny had left DeBarge to pursue solo careers, with El finding the most success. <mask> had troubles producing his solo debut, and his solo career failed to pick up, so he curtailed his aspirations and joined his siblings' group, forming a revamped DeBarge quartet that recorded the album, Bad Boys. <mask> and younger brother James split vocal leads on the project. However, <mask>'s career halted in 1988 after he was convicted on drug trafficking charges in Grand Rapids and was sentenced to five years in prison. Following his release, he returned to performing and recording, all the while struggling with AIDS, which he contracted sometime in the late 1980s prior to his prison sentence. He finished his last musical work, It's Not Over shortly before his death but was not alive when the album was distributed independently.Personal life
For several years, he pursued La Toya Jackson of the Jackson family. He mentioned Jackson's song "Night Time Lover" in the Switch ballad "You & I", a song he wrote in response to Jackson's single. By 1984, <mask> had split from Jackson and later married Teri, with whom he had two children, Christian and <mask>. <mask>'s heroin addiction started in the early 1970s and, later, DeBarge developed addictions to cocaine and crack. <mask> and former Switch bandmate Gregory Williams discussed <mask>'s bisexuality in Switch's episode of the Unsung series on TV One. Prison sentence, illness, and death
In 1988, he was sentenced to five years in a Wisconsin prison for drug trafficking charges. Following his release in 1993, he vowed to stay clean, signing a management agreement with Bernd Lichters (for whom DeBarge, with Hot Ice, recorded the Pall Mall Groove album years earlier, as well as signing a management agreement as partnership with Ed Wright in 1985), who guided him during 1994 to record songs he wrote in prison.The resulting album, released in August 1995 on A&E Records just before his death, was entitled It's Not Over. Throughout that year, he was lying low in Gregory Williams' California home, before he returned to Michigan for his final days. While in prison, <mask> confided to his family that he had contracted HIV. When he became gravely ill, his family sent him to a hospice in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He died of AIDS complications there on August 16, 1995 at age 39. He is buried in Garfield Park Cemetery in Grand Rapids. In popular culture
In June 2019, nearly two years after TV One had first aired Switch's installment of the Unsung series, the network released a biopic about <mask>.<mask> was portrayed by Disney alum Roshon Fegan in this film. Discography

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 White Heat (1975)
 Pall Mall Groove (1977)
 Switch (1978)
 Switch II (1979)
 Reaching for Tomorrow (1980)
 This Is My Dream (1980)

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 Bad Boys (1987)

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<mask> (born 1958) is an American theatre, television and film actor, singer, librettist, composer, director and theatre producer best known for creating and producing Off-Broadway's From My Hometown. As an actor, <mask> was nominated for the 2018 Audelco Award for 'Best Featured Actor in a Musical,' for "On Kentucky Avenue" – which he also directed and won the 2018 Audelco Award for 'Best Director of a Musical.' <mask> has appeared on Broadway and in numerous TV/Film roles, such as Core FOI (Fruit of Islam) in Malcolm X, a neurosurgeon on Law & Order; a turn-of-the-century cook on Boardwalk Empire, and as a Police Sergeant, opposite Tom Selleck on Blue Bloods. Early life and career

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, <mask>' first professional job was performing on the Showboat at Opryland USA while enrolled at Tennessee State University. An opportunity to tour singing the role of "Porgy" in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess prompted <mask> to leave TSU during his senior year. After the tour, <mask> moved to New York (1980) where, on his first night in Manhattan, he'd meet choreographer Michael Peters (Dreamgirls, Beat It). After a couple of years performing in numerous Off and Off-Off Broadway shows, <mask> made his Broadway debut in the original production of Dreamgirls.Years later, <mask> reprised the role he played in the Original Dreamgirls for the Dreamgirls 20th Anniversary Benefit Concert with Lillias White, Billy Porter, Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and Heather Headley. Later, at the invitation of Broadway vocal arranger Chapman Roberts (Five Guys Named Moe), <mask> performed at Carnegie Hall. In 1986, after a stint performing in Monte Carlo with Jenifer Lewis, <mask> returned to work on a one-man show in Indiana, where when traveling one night he suffered a near-fatal car accident. On his journey to a full recovery, his voice as a stage writer emerged, leading to his creating and performing in what would become the Off-Broadway hit, From My Hometown. Writing led to <mask> joining the Dramatists Guild of America, and his work or incarnations thereof, have been produced and presented On and Off-Broadway, at numerous regional theatres such as the Milwaukee Repertory, where <mask> collaborated with Kevin Ramsey to premiere their original tap-dance musical, If These Shoes Could Talk, which starred Harold Nicholas, of the legendary Nicholas Brothers, in his farewell stage performance. Other venues and regional theatres where <mask>' works have been produced include The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, The Ensemble Theatre, Karamu Theatre, The Phoenix Theatre, The Meadow Brook Theatre, The Madison Theatre at Molloy College, Theaterworks in Palo Alto, California, The Triad Theatre, New World Stages, AMAS Musical Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, RACCA's Seaport Salon, The Kirk Theatre, Gramercy Theatre, Radio City Music Hall's workshop spaces, The Kennedy Center and many others. Other notable projects in development include <mask> as librettist, co-lyricist and co-composer (with Timothy Graphenreed) for Yo' Alice (Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland) which was conceived by Maurice Hines.<mask> also collaborated with Hines on an Ella Fitzgerald musical, Ella: First Lady of Song for which <mask> is book writer. Ella: First Lady of Song premiered at New Jersey's Crossroads Theatre in 2004 and in 2014, was produced in Alexandria, VA starring Freda Payne (Hit record: Band of Gold) and most recently in Wilmington, Delaware 2018, directed by Maurice Hines. <mask>' funk musical, The Funkentine Rapture, was selected for the 2005 National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival (NAMT) starring Tony Award Winner Billy Porter and presented in workshop at Theatreworks (Silicon Valley), directed by Robert Kelly. The Funkentine Rapture was presented in concert at 54 Below in June 2017, starring Tony Award Winners, James Monroe Iglehart and Lillias White. <mask> made his producing debut in 2003—partnering with Amas Musical theatre and Ben Blake for the developmental production of From My Hometown. The production transferred commercially to the Gramercy Theatre in 2004 with <mask> as Lead Producer. As a director, <mask> won the 2018 Audelco Award for 'Best Director of a Musical' for "On Kentucky Avenue."<mask> has worked in venues ranging from New York's Urban Stages, AMAS Musical Theatre, The John Houseman Theatre, New World Stages, The Triad Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, The Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Cell Theatre, Harlem Repertory Theatre, The Pearl Theatre Company to name a few. <mask> directed the World Premiere of "Acappella The Musical" for the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) garnering three "Excellence Awards" in 2015. In 2016 <mask> celebrated the 10th Anniversary of his Just A Piano Concert Series, which has presented countless artists benefiting numerous charities, such as Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Actors Fund of America, MusiCares and others. <mask> studied Communications and Theatre at Tennessee State University and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dramatic Writing from SUNY Empire State College. He has an MFA in musical theatre writing from New York University/Tisch School of the Arts. Stiles

Stage actor and singer

 1981 Dreamgirls (Original Broadway Production)
 2001 Dreamgirls 20th Anniversary(Broadway Event)
 2001 Little Ham(Off-Broadway)
 2010 Winds of Change(Cabaret – Bistro Award Winner)

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<mask>' works have received critical acclaim along with such honors as The New Professional Theatre's "Our Voices Award" (1996) eight AUDELCO Award nominations including "Best Musical" (2003), selection and presentation in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals(2005), TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, California (2005), a developmental workshop at Radio City Musical Hall (1999), developmental support from the Shubert Organization (2003), a [[Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla]] Theatre Foundation Commendation for his body of work in American Musical Theater (2003), New York's Bistro Award(2010) and four Michigan 2012 Wilde Award nominations and a recent win for Best Ensemble (2012). 2010 Bistro Award winner 'Outstanding Achievement, Entertainer'

2018 Audelco Award Nomination and Winner for 'Best Director of a Musical,' for "On Kentucky Avenue"

2018 Audelco Award Nomination for 'Best Featured Actor in a Musical,' for "On Kentucky Avenue"

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<mask> (December 2, 1922 – December 26, 2000) was an American character actor and writer. During more than 40 years in film and television he was most frequently cast as a supporting actor playing brutish bad guys but occasionally played more sympathetic roles just as effectively. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Brooklyn in New York City on December 2, 1922. Reared by his father in dire poverty, <mask> grew up during the Great Depression. He left school in the eighth grade, went to work in construction and demolition, and then joined the New Deal agency, the Civilian Conservation Corps, in which he participated in various public works projects. After the United States entered World War II in 1941, <mask> enlisted in the U.S. Army, in which he served for two years and received an undesirable discharge. <mask> was in southern California where he and a cohort attempted to rob a bar and its patrons with a pistol.He was shot in the stomach by one of the officers making the arrest. Convicted of armed robbery, he served five years in San Quentin Prison, where he furthered his education by reading nearly every book in the library. <mask> took advantage of the benefits accorded him as part of the G.I. Bill and began taking acting lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (ADA). During his time at the ADA, <mask> was enrolled with several future screen legends including Grace Kelly and Anne Bancroft. For a time, Jason Robards, later a two-time Academy Award winner, was <mask>'s instructor. It was there where he also met his future wife, Lynn Cartwright, who would have a sporadic but lengthy career as a character actor, mainly in television (though her most famous role came in the 1992 movie A League Of Their Own when she played Geena Davis's aging character "Dottie Hinson").They were married in 1950 and remained together until his death a half century later. They had one child, a daughter named Tara. Actor in film and television
<mask> started his career on the stage and worked with fellow actors Edward G. Robinson and Tyrone Power. He was soon discovered by a Hollywood agent in a Los Angeles production of Darkness at Noon. Over the course of his career <mask> would appear in more than 170 film and television productions from the early 1950s to the mid-1990s. In 1954 <mask> portrayed the outlaw Bill Doolin, a native Arkansan who founded the Wild Bunch gang and operated primarily in Kansas, on the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis. In 1955 he was cast on the ABC religion anthology series Crossroads in the role of Sergeant Leroy in "All My Love".In 1958 he appeared as Joe Brock in the episode "Desert Fury" of CBS's Tales of the Texas Rangers. That same year <mask> was cast as Zip Wyatt in "Three Wanted Men" of Rex Allen's syndicated Western series Frontier Doctor. He also played a gunslinging professional killer in the pilot for the television version of Gunsmoke; but many changes were later instituted on the series, such as the marshal's office and Long Branch Saloon looking markedly different and the relationship between Matt Dillon and Kitty being subtly more formal as well, so the episode was buried deep in the season in the hope that viewers would not notice, which apparently worked. This pilot likely was S1E26's “Hack Prine”. <mask> was often cast to make the most of his  height, intense features, deep menacing voice, and icy stare. He had radiant light blue eyes. One of his earliest films was Riot in Cell Block 11, shot at Folsom prison.The film's director, Don Siegel, who worked with such screen tough guys as Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, related that "<mask> was the scariest man I have ever met." Other notable roles included that of John Dillinger in Siegel's Baby Face Nelson, opposite Mickey Rooney as the crazed protagonist. <mask> may be most noted for his recurring character Big Mike McComb on the ABC/Warner Brothers Western television series Maverick, working from 1957 to 1960 alongside James Garner and Jack Kelly. <mask>'s five appearances in the role include the much remembered episode "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres", "According to Hoyle", as well as "War of the Silver Kings", the first installment broadcast. Garner later recalled in his videotaped interview for the Archive of American Television that <mask> purposely punched him for real in one of their first scenes together and that Garner hit him back when filming the next scene. Garner and <mask> reunited in the 1970s when <mask> appeared as a dimwitted bodyguard on four episodes of NBC's The Rockford Files. <mask> appeared in multiple roles on Robert Stack's 1959 ABC crime drama The Untouchables.<mask> also guest-starred on the ABC/WB western series The Alaskans opposite Roger Moore. He was cast as Damian in the 1961 episode "Million Dollar Suit" of the ABC/WB crime drama The Roaring 20s. He also appeared on the NBC Western series Empire and Laredo. One of <mask>'s best-remembered television appearances on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show in the episode "High Noon in Mayberry", in which he portrays an ex-convict who appears destined for revenge against Sheriff Andy Taylor of fictitious Mayberry. The screenwriters for the episode, Jim Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, borrowed heavily from <mask>'s brief criminal career and subsequent incarceration in order to supplement the role. In 1964, <mask> won an Emmy in The Defenders for "Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role". There he played the condemned convict Joey Tassili in an episode titled "The Madman".Perhaps <mask>'s single most memorable film scene occurred in McLintock! (1963), during which John Wayne knocks him down a long mudslide after uttering the famous line "Somebody oughta belt you in the mouth. But I won't! I won't! The hell I won't." Another notable role was in the 1966 western The Night of the Grizzly opposite Clint Walker, one of the very few actors who could match <mask>'s intense screen presence regarding physical size and strength. <mask> played bounty hunter Cass Dowdy, who had a soft spot for his enemy's son but would, as one character said, "...hunt anything for a price, man or animal."Somehow, <mask> managed to make his character as sympathetic as he was frightening, and in his final scene he gives his life to save the boy. <mask> portrayed sympathetic parts when called upon to do so, including his performances in the Western Black Patch (1957), a film that he wrote, and in Roger Corman's civil rights drama The Intruder (1962), opposite a young William Shatner. In 1965, he was cast as the troublemaker Bender in the syndicated western series Death Valley Days in the episode "No Gun Behind His Badge", a dramatization of the Abilene, Kansas, marshal Thomas J. Smith, depicted in the segment by Ronald W. Reagan. The episode also starred Michael Witney as Wild Bill Hickok, who succeeded Smith as marshal. In 1970 <mask> appeared as Loma Bartender on The Men From Shiloh (rebranded name for The Virginian) on the episode titled "Hannah." <mask> also appeared as aging wrestler Milo Stavroupolis on NBC's Little House on the Prairie, starring Michael Landon. <mask>'s final role was as Wyatt Earp in a 1994 episode of the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.He also appeared in the film Maverick that same year with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, and James Garner. Screenwriter and novelist
<mask> was also a prolific screenwriter and novelist. Usually credited as "<mask><mask>", he wrote dozens of scripts for television series and movies, sometimes writing a good role for himself. His first successful film script, The Cry Baby Killer, featured a young and unknown Jack Nicholson. Among the more notable feature films he wrote was You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) starring Tony Curtis and Charles Bronson. He also wrote the screenplay and appeared in Tobruk (1967), which starred Rock Hudson and George Peppard and was directed by Arthur Hiller. As a television screenwriter he wrote nearly 50 scripts apiece for Bonanza, Cheyenne and Maverick, in the episodes in which he was not a guest star.In the 1970s he appeared frequently as well on the popular police drama Adam-12, another show that he often scripted. <mask> once told an interviewer that because of his imposing size he never felt he was fully accepted as a screenwriter: "Writing is more rewarding than acting, but look at my face. Nobody believes I’m a writer. I should be 5' 8", 142 pounds, wear patches on my elbows and horn-rimmed glasses and smoke a pipe. That's a writer!" In addition to his script work for films and television <mask> wrote or co-wrote several novels, including the historical Western Powderkeg. Later life and personal life
In contrast to his screen persona <mask> was a quiet, thoughtful and intelligent man who generally avoided the Hollywood spotlight.He was widely regarded by his fellow actors and his directors as a well-prepared professional. In 1997 he received the Golden Boot Award for his many years of work in westerns. In accepting the award the actor simply flashed a smile for his fans and remarked, "Thank God for typecasting!" After struggling with a brief illness, <mask> died of cardiac failure in his sleep, aged 78, at his home in Los Angeles, California, on December 26, 2000. His ashes and those of his wife, who died in 2004, are interred together in a memorial display in a columbarium at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. Complete filmography

China Venture (1953) as Sgt. (1959) as Jake Barton
Noose for a Gunman (1960) as Link Roy
The Nun and the Sergeant (1962) as Dockman
The Intruder (1962) as Sam Griffin
Tarzan Goes to India (1962) as Bryce, Head Engineer
The Raven (1963) as Grimes (uncredited voice)
The Haunted Palace (1963) as Edgar Weeden / Ezra Weeden
McLintock!(1963) as Jones
Kings of the Sun (1963) as Hunac Ceel
Kitten with a Whip (1964) as Enders
The Girls on the Beach (1965) as Second Waiter (uncredited)
The Dictator's Guns (1965) as Morrison
The Night of the Grizzly (1966) as Cass Dowdy
Beau Geste (1966) as Krauss
Tobruk (1967) as Sgt. Krug
Devil's Angels (1967) as Sheriff Henderson
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) as Heitler
Hostile Guns (1967) as Hank Pleasant
Buckskin (1968) as Travis
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) as Bolek
The Trackers (1971, TV Movie) as Higgins
Bonnie's Kids (1973) as Charley
My Name Is Nobody (1973) as Red
Nashville Girl (1976) as Burt
The Lucifer Complex (1978) as Norris (uncredited)
Son of Hitler (1978) as Tuennes
Bog (1979) as Dr. John Warren
Rage! (1980, TV Movie) as Cal's Father
M.A.D.D. (1965) as Moose
 Daniel Boone – episode "A Rope for Mingo" (1965) as Silas Morgan
 Laredo – episode "The Land Slickers" (1966) as Wayne Emerson
 Rango – episode "The Daring Holdup of the Deadwood Stage" (1967) as Slade
 McCloud – episode "Horse Stealing on Fifth Avenue" (1970) as Officer Shannen
 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury – episode "Operation: Hijack" (1971) as Harry Wilson
 Alias Smith and Jones – episode "Smiler with a Gun" (1971) as Ebenezer
 Hec Ramsey – episode "The Mystery of Chalk Hill" (1973) as Shaneley
 The F.B.I. – episode "Diamond Run" (1974) as Drunk Driver
 Adam-12 - five episodes (1971-1975)
 Cannon – episode "A Touch of Venom" (1975) as Jack Danvers
 The Rockford Files - four episodes (1978-1979)
 Little House on the Prairie – episode "The King Is Dead" (1979) as Milo Stavroupolis
 Fantasy Island - two episodes (1980-1981)
 The Winds of War (1983 TV miniseries) as General "Train" Anderson
 Magnum, P.I. – episode "The People vs. Orville Wright" (1987) as Croquet Player
 The Dukes of Hazzard – episode "Deputy Dukes" (1979) as Rocky Marlowe

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American male film actors
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Male actors from New York City
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Civilian Conservation Corps people
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American people convicted of robbery
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<mask> (28 December 1889 – 13 May 1944) was a French war correspondent, writer, press photographer, military aviator and member of the French Resistance. Early life
<mask> was born on 28 December 1889 in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), France. He was the son of <mask> (2 September 1857, Rouen, Normandy – 9 December 1930, Paris) and Céline Blanche "Léonie" Daix (1871–1942). The couple had three children. In 1902, <mask> obtained a government scholarship to attend the prestigious  Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. On 7 February 1911, <mask> married Hélène Vitivilia in Paris, at the townhall of the 16e arrondissement in Paris. <mask> studied in the faculty history at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in 1912.It was likely there that he met his future wife, Hélène, who graduated from the same faculty in 1909. War correspondent (First Balkan War)
<mask> travelled to the Balkans as a journalist (grand reporter) for the Parisian newspaper L'Illustration during the First Balkan War in 1912–1913. He and his wife arrived in Greece in mid-October 1912 to cover the imminent war. After temporarily residing in Athens, the couple left that city on 27 October for Larissa to follow the Greek Army. After the Greek Army took Thessaloniki, <mask> and his wife travelled to Preveza to follow the Army of Epirus. The Leunes arrived in Preveza on 24 November 1912. The Leunes accompanied the Greek Army in the field in different campaigns, and their many articles and photographs provide a vivid testament to the valor, horrors and hardship of that war from the perspective of both combatants and civilians.In 1913, <mask> and Hélène both contributed chapters to the book Dans les Balkans, 1912–1913 : récits et visions de guerre, that describe their wartime expériences. The following year, <mask> wrote Une revanche, une étape : avec les Grecs à Salonique par Athènes et la Macédoine, campagne de 1912. Military career (World War I)
<mask> was an Infantry Captain with the French Army during World War I, serving in the technical service of aviation (capitaine d'infanterie au service au service technique de l'aéronautique). He was mobilized on 2 August 1914. After spending the first part of the campaign in France, he was sent to the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient, where he flew reconnaissance missions and organized a battalion of Greek volunteers in Moudros. Hélène accompanied <mask> to Greece, and she served as a volunteer nurse with the Red Cross in the hospitals of Thessaloniki and Moudros. Hélène gave birth to their daughter Irène in Thessaloniki in 1917.In 1942, Irène <mask> married baron Alfred Testot-Ferry (1914–1947), aviator and member of the French Resistance. Irène became one of the first women race car drivers using the pseudonym "Irène Terray," and she won many rally competitions during the 1950s (e.g. Coupe des Dames à Liège–Rome–Liège, Monte-Carlo Rally). Hélène <mask>, who had been serving as a Red Cross nurse, died in Vitry-le-François (Marne), France during the bombardment that took place in that town on 18 May 1940. <mask> was a remarkable observer and he performed a series of aerial reconnaissance missions with the Corps expéditionnaire d'Orient that yielded valuable information every time. He received one injury during the war and received two citations from the French Army. As part of a military aerial competition, in August–September 1919, Captain <mask> flew from Paris-Marseille-Pisa-Rome-Vallona-Thessaloniki-Constantinople, covering 5,500 km in 50 hours of flight time.He made the voyage with a mechanic, Perrin, and a radio operator, Dugré, aboard the Chimère, a Farman F.50 twin-engine bomber (275 h.p. Lorraine motors) equipped with 4 seats and a wireless radio. In December 1919, he was serving as a Capitain-aviator in Constantinople. Novelist in France
<mask> became an aviation Reserve Officer in France after the war. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 2 August 1920. <mask> was an experienced press photographer and he also experimented with aerial photography (e.g. during his Paris-Constantinople flight).In 1921, he promoted the use of aerial photography for geography. On 3 November 192[3?] <mask> married his second wife, Germaine Berthe Emilie Fougères, at the townhall of the 5eme arrondissement in Paris. <mask> wrote three novels during the 1920s: L'Éternel Ulysse, ou la Vie aventureuse d'un Grec d'aujourd'hui, a satirical depiction of contemporary Greek society (1923); Le Malfaisant, an allegorical story about good and evil set during World War I (1927); and
Au temps des Vikings : Nora la blonde, vierge, au bouclier, a historical adventure set in Scandinavia around 1000 A.D. (1928). On 12 May 1925, as a captain in the Reserve Officers, <mask> was transferred to the 34e régiment d’aviation au 3e groupe d’ouvriers d’aéronautique. Leune actively promoted the cause of World War I veterans. In 1930, he participated in a commemoration ceremony in Gallipoli along with 450 French veterans, descendants, wives and orphans.He was the vice president of the Association nationale des anciens combattants des Dardanelles during 1938–1939. Journalist in Algeria
On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the French colonisation of Algeria, <mask> was sent to Algeria in 1930 as a correspondent for Le Temps. He stayed there for six months and travelled extensively, writing a series of articles favorable to the colony. <mask>'s new wife Germaine accompanied him to Algeria. On 29 January 1930, the couple flew on the maiden flight of the airborne postal service from Alger to El Goléa, established by the Compagnie aéropostale. Later that year, <mask> published the book Le miracle algérien, based on the articles he had written for Le Temps. In 1931, Leune published Les Ailes ardentes, a novel about aviation.French Resistance and arrest (World War II)
In response to the German invasion of Poland, France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and <mask> was mobilised as a Reserve Officer that same month. On 10 May 1940, Germany began its invasion of the Low Countries and France in what became known as the Battle of France. After the armistice was signed on 22 June 1940, France was divided into a German occupation zone in the north and west and a Zone Libre (Free Zone) in the south. <mask> was demobilised at the end of 1940 and he remained in the Free Zone until July 1942. <mask> continued to serve his country as a sous-lieutenant in the French Resistance. The Vichy authorities arrested him on 15 January 1943 and on 6 October 1943 they sentenced him to a year in prison and a fine of 1,200 francs for "actes de nature à nuire à la Défense nationale." In March 1944 he was taken by the Germans and placed in detention at the Drancy internment camp, and then transferred to the Compiègne internment camp.On 10 May 1944 he left the Compiègne internment camp by train headed towards the Buchenwald concentration camp. <mask> died from suffocation on 13 May 1944 on board the train convoy travelling from Compiègne to Buchenwald. His body was burned in the crematory at Buchewald on 15 May 1944. Posthumous honors
On 7 November 1958, the Légion d'honneur issued a certificate recognizing that <mask> died for France. <mask>'s name is also inscribed in the Panthéon of Paris as one of the writers who died for France. Bibliography

Books
 Dans les Balkans, 1912–1913 : récits et visions de guerre / récits de Mme Hélène <mask> et de MM. Gustave Cirilli, René Puaux; Gustave Babin, Georges Rémond, Capitaine de frégate Nel, <mask>, Alain de Penennrun (Paris: M. Imhaus et R. Chapelot, 1913)
 Une revanche, une étape : avec les Grecs à Salonique par Athènes et la Macédoine, campagne de 1912 (Paris : M. Imhaus et R. Chapelot, 1914)
 L'Éternel Ulysse, ou la Vie aventureuse d'un Grec d'aujourd'hui (Paris: Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1923)
 Le Malfaisant (Paris: la Vraie France, 1927)
 Au temps des Vikings : Nora la blonde, vierge, au bouclier (Nancy: Berger-Levrault, 1928)
 Le miracle algérien (Nancy-Paris-Strasbourg: impr.-édit.Berger-Levrault, 1930)
 Les Ailes ardentes (Paris-Nancy-Strasbourg: impr.-édit. Berger-Levrault, 1931)

Selected articles
 “Comment Salonique s'est rendue à l'armée grecque.” Le Correspondant (Paris), 10 Juillet 1913, pp. 42–62. “En campagne avec l'armée grecque.” L'Illustration (Paris), No. 3674, 26 Juillet 1913. "De Paris à Rome et à Constantinople." Le Monde illustré (Paris), 25 October 1919, pp 804–805."Impressions Aériennes." Le Correspondant (Paris), 10 Juillet 1920, volume 280, pp 340–355. Speaking engagements
 20 May 1921, to the Société de géographie in Paris. References

French military personnel of World War I
War correspondents of the Balkan Wars
20th-century French non-fiction writers
French people who died in Buchenwald concentration camp
People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne
1944 deaths
French Resistance members
20th-century French male writers
Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps
French civilians killed in World War II
Drancy internment camp prisoners
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<mask> (born 29 December 1959) is a Mexican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. Born and raised in Ario de Rosales, Michoacán, <mask> began his musical career at the age of six, performing part of Los Hermanitos Solís. In 1975  he co-founded Los Bukis, of which he was the lead vocalist and guitarist. The band split up after nearly two decades of success, with <mask> pursuing a solo career. <mask> released his first solo album, En Pleno Vuelo in 1996 by Fonovisa Records. <mask> has been awarded five Latin Grammy Awards, two Lo Nuestro Awards, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has been inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame. Early life and career
<mask> began performing at age six as part of "Los Hermanitos Solís" with his cousin, <mask>.In the mid-1970s he formed "Los Bukis" with whom he achieved success  in Mexico, Central America, South America, and the United States. As lead singer and chief songwriter of Los Bukis, <mask> became known in the industry for outside writing and producing for popular singers such as Marisela and Rocío Dúrcal. In 1995, after almost 20 years of working with the group, he decided to pursue a solo career. As a solo artist he has remained popular in his native Mexico as well throughout Latin America and Spain, and the United States with more than thirty entries on Billboard's Hot Latin Tracks chart, including multiple number one hits. He has worked with Olga Tañón, Ana Bárbara, Enrique Iglesias, Chayanne, Marc Anthony and Anaís, among others. On 5 August 2010, <mask> received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. <mask> <mask> appeared as a vocal coach in the third season of La Voz... México and won the competition.He went on tour to promote his album Gracias Por Estar Aqui a few weeks after. His album, "Gracias Por Estar Aquí", was released 22 October 2013 and debuted at #1 on Billboards Top Latin Albums chart. <mask> provided the Spanish-dubbing of Ernesto de la Cruz, the main antagonist of the 2017 Disney-Pixar film Coco. <mask> returned to Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart for the first time in over two decades as “Se Veía Venir” climbed to No. 1 on the ranking dated October 2, 2021. Discography

Studio albums
 1996: En Pleno Vuelo
 1997: <mask>
 1999: Trozos de Mi Alma
 2001: Más de Mi Alma
 2003: Tu Amor o Tu Desprecio
 2004: Razón de Sobra
 2006: Trozos de Mi Alma, Vol. 2
 2008: No Molestar
 2010: En Total Plenitud
 2013: Gracias Por Estar Aquí

Compilations, duets and live albums
 1998: Los Grandes Éxitos de Marco Antonio Solís y Los Bukis: Recuerdos, Tristeza y Soledad
 2000: En Vivo
 2001: En Vivo, Vol.2
 2002: Los Grandes (with Joan Sebastian)
 2003: La Historia Continúa...
 2004: Dos Grandes (with Joan Sebastian)
 2005: La Historia Continúa... Parte II
 2005: Dos Idolos (with Pepe Aguilar)
 2007: La Historia Continúa... Parte III
 2007: La Mejor... Colección
 2008: Una Noche en Madrid (en vivo)
 2009: La Más Completa Colección
 2009: Más de Marco Antonio Solís
 2012: La Historia Continúa... Parte IV
 2012: Una Noche de Luna (en vivo)
 2014: Antología
 2015: 15 Inolvidables
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 Each year is linked to the article about the Latin Grammy Awards held that year. Lo Nuestro Awards
The Lo Nuestro Awards are awarded annually by the television network Univision in the United States. Solís has received two awards from thirteen nominations. References

External links
Universal Music Latin Entertainment | Marco Antonio Solís
 Official site (Spanish)

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Fonovisa Records artists
Mexican male singer-songwriters
Mexican singer-songwriters
Mexican Roman Catholics
Latin pop singers
Latin Grammy Award winners
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Universal Music Latin Entertainment artists
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Lars "<mask><mask> (born 1 September 1956 in Stockholm) is a Swedish conductor and professor in music performance. He studied choral conducting with Professor Eric Ericson at the  Royal College of Music, Stockholm 1976–1987. Biography
<mask> has been the leader of numerous choirs, including the YMCA choir in Stockholm and the Oslo Philharmonic choir. He has also been guest conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir, Pro Coro Canada, Coro Nacional de España och Coro Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, Jauna Muzika in Lithuania and artist in residence at Wollongong University in Australia 1997. In 2018 he was appointed conductor of the Swedisch Youth Choir. <mask> was the founder of the project "Choral Singing for Peace and Justice": during the millennium celebrations, 8,000 choristers in 56 countries were involved in this project, singing the twelve-year old Irishman Shaun McLaughlin's poem "Across the Bridge of Hope", set to music by Jan Sandström. Also, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble first held a concert with this centerpiece at Tonga, the first country in the world to enter the new millennium.Then, the morning after, they flew to Samoa – the last country to enter the new millennium and therefore "they arrived the day before they left" – and once again the Vocal Ensemble held the concert, as a symbol for the encircling of time. The Tonga concert was broadcast by the BBC and the transmission was seen by more than 500 million people. The project was supported, by the past present, Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Kofi Annan, President of Ireland Mary McAleese, Queen Silvia of Sweden, and King Tāufaʻahau Tupou IV of Tonga. <mask> initiated the Barents International Centre for Choral Music 2003 which was inaugurated by the minister of culture Marita Ulvskog and the Barents International Chamber Choir, a professional choir with singers from Norway, Sweden, Finland och Russia. 2008 <mask> was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Autumn 2009 he was a visiting professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA. Together with Benny Andersson, Orsa spelmän and Gunnar Idenstam, <mask> conducted The University Chamber Choir in Piteå when they premiered Benny Andersson's, for the occasion commissioned work, En skrift i snön [Scriptures in the snow] (lyrics by Kristina Lugn) during the inauguration ceremony of Organ Acusticum in Studio Acusticum 2012.With The University Chamber Choir in Piteå and the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, he has performed over 50 tours to Europa, North- and South America and Asia. With the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble he has premiered over 60 works by, among others: B Tommy Andersson, Gunnar <mask>, Mats Larsson Gothe, Paula af Malmborg Ward, Jan Sandström, Sven-David Sandström and Arvo Pärt. His audio catalog includes more than twenty recordings from the record labels Studio Acusticum Records, Opus3, Naxos, and Caprice, several of which has received excellent reviews. Since 1990, <mask> has primarily worked at Luleå University of Technology/School of Music in Piteå as professor in music performance. Conducting activities
The YMCA choir in Stockholm (1982–1987)
Oslo Philharmonic choir (1987–1989)
The University Chamber Choir in Piteå (1990-)
Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble (1993-)
Barents International Chamber Choir, the Barents International Vocal Ensemble (2003–2007)
Swedish Youth Choir, (2018-2021)
Arctic Male Voices, (2018)

Discography
 1994 – En hälsning från Musikhögskolan i Piteå, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå, etc. Luleå University of Technology. 1995 – Fancy's Child, Pro Coro Canada, conductors Eric Ericson and <mask>.Arktos. 1996 – Musica Sacra, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Mattias Wager (organ) and Anders Paulsson (soprano saxophone). Opus3. 1999 – Den blomstertid nu kommer, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå. Luleå University of Technology. 2000 – Across the Bridge of Hope, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, Carmina Slovenica (Slovenia), Pritcha, Tatarstan (Russia). Luleå University of Technology.[DVD]
 2002 – Across the Bridge of Hope, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble. Opus3. 2003 – Music for a while, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå. Luleå University of Technology. 2004 – A Star is Shining, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, Mattias Wager (organ), Anders Åstrand and Daniel Saur (percussion), Daniel Pettersson (key fiddle). Opus3. 2005 – In Concert, Barents International Chamber Choir. .
 2007 – En ny himmel, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå with Markus Rupprecht, organ.Luleå University of Technology. 2009 – Peterson-Berger, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå. Naxos Records. 2009 – Shiloh, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with band, orchestra, etc. Usiogope. 2010 –  Korall, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå, conductors Anders Nyberg and <mask>. Peace of Music.2010 – Pater Cælestis – Terra Mater – Vox Humana (CD-box), the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Matti Hirvonen (piano), Lars Nilsson (organ), Mårten Landström (piano) and David Wahlén (ackordeon), Studio Acusticum Records. 2012 – Arabesques, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Norrbotten NEO. Studio Acusticum Records. 2013 – Dreamlike, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Helge Kjekshus, piano. Studio Acusticum Records. 2014 – Acqua Alta, Serikon, music director Daniel Stighäll, conductor <mask>. Footprint Records.2014 – Originals, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Mattias Wager (organ) and Carl-Henrik Fernandi (soprano saxophone). Studio Acusticum Records. 2015 – To see a World, The University Chamber Choir in Piteå with Gabriel Kopparmark, piano. Studio Acusticum Records. 2015 – Vita Nuova, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Helge Kjekshus (piano), Daniel Saur (percussion) and Mattias Wager (organ). Studio Acusticum Records. 2017 – Chorus Gloriosus, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble with Helena Holmlund (organ).Studio Acusticum Records. 2018 – Amor Vita Mors, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble. Studio Acusticum Records. 2019 – A Voice for Humanity, Swedish Youth Choir. Studio Acusticum Records. 2019 – The Voice of the Viola, the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble. Studio Acusticum Records
 2019 – J.S.2017 – Governor Kari Marklund's scholarship
2018 – Piteå Walk of Fame
2020 – Price of Interpretation to Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble from the Society of Swedish Composers

References

External links
 Luleå University of Technology: Erik Westberg
 Chamber Choir of the School of Music in Piteå
 the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble homepage

Swedish choral conductors
1956 births
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music
Living people
Musicians from Stockholm
Royal College of Music, Stockholm alumni
21st-century conductors (music)
Luleå University of Technology faculty
YMCA leaders

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