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<mask> (born 21 May 1984), better known by his ring name Andy Boy Simmonz, is a British professional wrestler. He is currently working in the independent circuit in the United Kingdom for several promotions. <mask>' most high-profile work in the UK came in the Frontier Wrestling Alliance under the face gimmick of <mask> the Butler. <mask> later returned to the FWA under the ring name <mask> but remained face. He is the current CWL Heavyweight Champion in the Championship Wrestling League. The Boy in <mask>' ring name comes from his idol Davey Boy Smith, best known as WWF's British Bulldog. <mask> has taken on many elements of the Bulldog character including the ring gear and the finishing move.He now teaches classes in Portsmouth at the revolution pro wrestling school on Saturdays, Sundays and Wednesdays. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in his childhood. Professional wrestling career
He went to school in Liphook, Hampshire. <mask> first planned to train to become a wrestler at the NWA-UK Hammerlock training school, but not long after securing a week-long training session in August 2000 <mask> received news of a new training centre starting up in Portsmouth, The FWA Academy, which was 30 minutes away from him. During 2004, <mask> would wrestle in Italy for the Italian Championship Wrestling promotion, and around the rest UK for All Star and Premier Promotions before finally leaving the FWA Academy for good. In May, <mask> defeated Tommy Stevens in a Tables Match to win a one night tournament for the EWF trophy at the Weymouth Pavilion in Weymouth, Dorset. Outside of the more mainstream promotions <mask> competes for many independent promotions in the UK, most notably All Star, Real Quality Wrestling, Varsity Pro Wrestling and abroad on various European tours.During his time on the UK indies <mask> would begin teaming with Eamon O'Neill under the team name Irish Connection and later, The United Lions. During a tour of Italy in September 2006, <mask> suffered a broken ankle in a rumble match. <mask> was flown back early from the tour to have surgery which should have put him out of action until 2007. Frontier Wrestling Alliance
<mask>' debut for the company was on 20 January 2001 at FWA Unknown Quantity 2 where he faced of in a Rookies Match against Dave Crispin, <mask> won the match with a victory roll, which he would later be named his Simmonz Roll. After this well received debut <mask> went undefeated for 18 months, but after his first defeat in the FWA Academy <mask> took time away to wrestle in The Wrestling Alliance. After time away in the independent circuit, <mask> returned to the FWA Academy in 2003. During <mask>' time in the academy he wrestled against many of the up-and-coming British stars like James Tighe, Raj Ghosh, Mark Sloan, and Paul Burchill.<mask> also took part in the final TWA tour facing British wrestling superstars "The Anarchist" Doug Williams, Jody Fleisch, and Robbie Brookside. <mask> came up into the FWA main roster with the gimmick of a stereotypical English butler, in the style of Jeeves in the Jeeves and Wooster novels. Within a year as The Duke of Danger's trusty butler sidekick, <mask> would become one of the most popular wrestlers in the FWA's history. As part of the tag-team Hampton Court with the Duke of Danger, and their valet "Buttercup". He would soon go on to hold the tag titles in the company with the Duke for a short time, before losing them to the team of Stixx & Martin Stone. After another absence away from the FWA <mask> split away from Hampton Court but returned under the name Andy Boy <mask>x and Stone.<mask> return to FWA with new tag team partner, Eamon O'Neill, as The United Lions. International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom
<mask> has also appeared regularly in International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom (IPW:UK) shows from late 2004 right through into 2006. During a show on 21 November 2004, Robbie Brookside defeated The International Man of Mystery 2–1 in a British Rules match after the match the Man of Mystery was unmasked as <mask>, but Brookside was then attacked by Stevie Douglas, Douglas went on to say that he was the real International Man of Mystery. In 2005, Andy Boy Simmonz entered into IPW:UK's heavyweight division and became a fan favourite. In July 2005, Simmonz would also make his mark in IPW:UK's tag team division teaming with the British Bulldog's son, Harry "Bulldog" Smith as "British Beef". On 18 February 2006, however, Simmonz turned on the company's mainly internet based fans who regularly "booed" him and unsuccessfully attempted to de-throne IPW:UK Champion Martin Stone at the event in Orpington, Kent. Simmonz soon fell back into his heel persona in IPW:UK and even had a bodyguard for a short time in June.Around this time, Simmonz won an over-the-top rumble at Battle Royale to earn himself any match of his choice in IPW:UK. However, by September, Simmonz had left IPW:UK (due to the injury he suffered on tour) claiming he was retiring without ever utilizing the stipulation. On 22 October 2006, while still incapacitated and in a wheelchair Simmonz used the stipulation to gain himself a No DQ, Falls Count Anywhere bout for the IPW:UK title. After help from Aviv Maayan and <mask>' former bodyguard, LT Summers, as well as a steel crutch, Simmonz became the third IPW:UK Champion. The team are known as the "Hated Heroes". It was announced that at the cross over event IPW:UK vs New Generation Wrestling in Hull on Friday 13 February 2009, Simmonz would represent IPW to take on NGW's "Prima Donna" Nathan Cruz, a match which saw Simmonz win, thus earning the first point for team IPW, Simmonz later wrestled in an IPW vs NGW 6-man elimination tag team match which was won by NGW's Alex Cyanide when Cyanide pinned Simmonz. 1 Pro Wrestling
<mask> would also become one of the British stars in the 1 Pro Wrestling roster from its inception in 2005, competing under his heel persona.<mask> appeared in 1PW's inaugural match the Proving Ground Battle Royal but didn't appear again on a 1PW card for several months for a brief stint before leaving the company once again. In 2006, <mask> would make a return to 1PW as the surprise tag team partner from Lance Storm before working a pro wrestling storyline in which he would take open challenges from any competitor for a match. Simmonz's open challenges resulted in a long losing streak for Simmonz in 1PW. Real Quality Wrestling
<mask> would also make appearances in Real Quality Wrestling as both a face and a heel. As a heel, <mask> would team with Aviv Maayan as The Hated Heroes. They participated in the RQW British Tag Team Tournament to have a chance of becoming RQW British Tag Team Champions. They made it to the final but were defeated by Team Charming.<mask> is also known for teaming with James Tighe as The Iron Lions. World Wrestling Entertainment
During World Wrestling Entertainment shows held in London, England, <mask> has participated as an enhancement talent. <mask> was a part of WWE's 2006 tour of the United Kingdom where he worked for the company, competing on both its WWE Velocity and WWE Heat shows. <mask> would compete against Matt Hardy in a singles match on Velocity and teamed with Eric Schwarz to face the team of Goldust and Snitsky during Heat. On 15 October 2007 Birmingham, England edition of WWE Raw, <mask> competed in a few squash matches against Umaga. He was put through 3 types of matches by Mr. McMahon: a Street Fight, a First Blood Match, and a Steel Cage Match. <mask> lost all three matches.Irish Whip Wrestling
In June 2008, <mask> took part in an Irish Whip Wrestling Show in the ESB Arena in Dublin where he beat Chad Collyer. Fightstar Sports Entertainment
On 16 November 2010, <mask> competed in a Championship Tournament for Fightstar Sports Entertainment's vacant All-Counties Championship at the Barrington Centre in Ferndown, Dorset. After beating X-Con in the first round, he went on to win the title in the main event Triple Threat match that night, beating Jivin' Jay Knox and 'Iron Hulk' Karl Atlas to lift the title. Revolution Pro
Simmons is an active competitor and trainer in Revolution Pro Wrestling at the FWA's former training facility. Championships and accomplishments
British Real Attitude Wrestling League
BRAWL Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
Catch Wrestling Council
CWC All-In Championship (1 time)
Celtic Wrestling
CW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Thomas Bassey
Championship Wrestling League
CWL Heavyweight Championship (1 time, current)
European Wrestling Federation
EWF Trophy (2004)
Extreme World Wrestling
EWW St. George's Championship (1 time)
Fightstar Sports Entertainment
All-Counties Championship (1 time)
Frontier Wrestling Alliance
FWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Duke of Danger
International Pro Wrestling: United Kingdom
IPW:UK Championship (2 times)
Italian Championship Wrestling
ICW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with James Tighe
Revolution Pro Wrestling
Dirty 24/7 championship (1 time)

References

External links
IPW:UK profile
Interview regarding The Wrestler (2008)

1984 births
English male professional wrestlers
Living people
People from Liss
Professional wrestling trainers
British men podcasters
British podcasters

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Andrew Simmons
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<mask> (born November 26, 1940) is an American investment manager, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Renowned for his stock-picking acumen, <mask> is the founder and president of Brown Capital Management, a Baltimore-based firm that's amassed more than $10 billion under management since it opened for business in 1983. An avid traveler and jazz aficionado, <mask> and his wife, Sylvia, have given millions to various charitable causes under the aegis of the Baltimore-based Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation. Early life

<mask> was born to 13-year-old <mask> in Apopka, Florida, a rural hamlet in the central part of the state where agriculture dominated the local economy and Jim Crow laws kept blacks and whites rigidly ensconced in their separate, unequal, worlds. <mask>’s mother left town when she was 15. From that point forward, <mask>’s grandparents Jake and <mask>. and his uncle, <mask>. – took over his socialization. <mask>’s proclivity for academic excellence first manifested itself in elementary school, prompting his grandmother to pay for a typewriter and typing lessons for her grandson.She was determined to have him avoid performing manual labor in the Apopka citrus groves that supported his grandparents. To this day, <mask> still types proficiently enough to dash out 60 error-free words per minute. When <mask> was six, his entrepreneurial Uncle Jake taught him how to drive a flatbed truck, enabling fruit pickers to load boxes of oranges, grapefruit, and tangerines in Apopka’s citrus groves. Jake also ran a thriving moonshine enterprise in central Florida and under his tutelage, <mask> was piloting hotrods filled with white lightning by the time he was 11. A disapproving relative quietly contacted <mask>’s mother, who snatched her son out of Apopka and relocated him to Allentown, Pennsylvania. <mask> attended an integrated high school in Allentown where he continued to be a top academic performer. He graduated with honors from Allentown High School, one of five African Americans out of a class of 760 students.Still <mask> had no realistic prospect of attending college, until a white Allentown woman who owned a casket making business offered to subsidize his higher education. <mask> never met his benefactor, whose offer was made through a proxy. One of his lifelong regrets is never having thanked her face-to-face. But her legacy lives on because her kindness triggered in <mask> a passionate interest in philanthropy. His benefactor’s largesse allowed <mask> to earn a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1961, which he received from Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

Career

After graduating from Howard, <mask> worked for a few months with defense contractor Martin Marietta in Orlando, Florida, where he did quality control work on Titan Intercontinental ballistic missiles. That ended after <mask> was called into Army service as a lieutenant at Ft. Monmouth County, New Jersey, to satisfy a military obligation <mask> incurred when he joined the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Howard University.Following two years on active duty as a Signal Corps officer, <mask> joined IBM’s Systems Development Division in Poughkeepsie, New York. <mask> spent five years designing computer circuits for large mainframe computers while employed by IBM, and also earned a master’s degree in electrical engineering from New York University. During his time at IBM <mask> became increasingly fascinated with finance and investing, so he opted to take advantage of an IBM management development program that allowed him to earn an MBA degree from Indiana University in 1970. Eager to learn everything he could about wealth creation and use it for his family’s benefit, <mask> joined Irwin Management Co., in Columbus, Indiana, eventually becoming a member of the money management firm’s marketable securities group. In 1973 <mask> moved to Baltimore to take a position as a portfolio manager with investment firm T. Rowe Price. A decade later <mask> left to start Brown Capital Management, which initially operated out of his suburban Baltimore home. A valuation-conscious investor, <mask> put his  company’s focus on stocks offering growth-at-a-reasonable-price, or GARP.Brown Capital Management caters to high-net-worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations and corporations. In the early years of Brown Capital Management, <mask>’s ability to attract investors received a welcome boost when he became a regular panelist on the PBS financial television program Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser, which was popular during the 1980s and 1990s. “Ed is one of the most careful, and successful, students of securities alive today, and he gives us the specifics of what’s on his list,” Rukeyser noted. Brown Capital Management celebrated its 30th year in business in 2013, occupies a three-story building at 1201 North Calvert Street in downtown Baltimore and employs 37 workers. <mask> continues to find money management a compelling and invigorating exercise, and remains an active and highly engaged participant in the day-to-day operations of the company he founded. “This is the kind of business that, if you really enjoy it, like I do, it’s not like work, it’s like fun,” <mask> says. Personal life

<mask> married his college sweetheart from Howard University, the former Sylvia Thurston, on August 11, 1962, in King William, Virginia.The Browns have two daughters and three grandsons. Possessing a longtime interest in aviation, <mask> tried to attend helicopter flight school while he was a lieutenant in the Army, but was rejected after the vision in one eye failed to pass visual acuity standards. Years later <mask> got a private pilots license for civilian fixed-wing aircraft, but stopped flying after his flights started to become too infrequent for him to remain proficient. A golf enthusiast who is also an avid photographer, <mask> is a major collector of African-American art. <mask>’s primary residence is in suburban Baltimore, and he maintains homes in Florida and Maine. Recognition

<mask> has received an impressive number of awards and encomiums, to include the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service. <mask> was also Maryland Life magazine’s 2006 Maryland of Distinction, an honor former Republican Maryland Gov.Robert Ehrlich Jr., said stemmed from <mask>’s “tireless dedication to improving the lives of others and making your communities better places to live.”

The founder of Brown Capital Management was also recognized in Black Enterprise magazine’s 40th Anniversary Issue in a 2010 article that ran under the headline “Titans: 40 Most Powerful African Americans in Business.”  <mask> and his wife, Sylvia, were also the recipients of the 2011 Ronald H. <mask> American Journey Award by the Ron Brown Scholars Program, a national college scholarship program. <mask> and his wife, C. <mask>, were jointly awarded Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from the Johns Hopkins University on May 23, 2013. The degrees were bestowed during the University’s Commencement ceremony in Baltimore. Politics

<mask> has been a stalwart supporter of Democratic Party politicians and policies over the years, to include the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Philanthropy

<mask> and his wife, Sylvia, have faithfully backed causes that improve inner-city Baltimore paradigms, usually through an association with health care, education, or the arts. The Browns’ contributions are typically funneled through the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation. One beneficiary has been the Turning the Corner Achievement Program (TCAP), which focuses on attaining improved educational and social outcomes for inner-city Baltimore youths.The Browns’ foundation has committed $5 million to TCAP since 2002. Books and articles about <mask>
An autobiographical book about <mask> titled Beating the Odds: <mask>’s Investing and Life Strategies was released in May 2011 (John Wiley & Sons, 240 pages). <mask> is also the subject of an article titled “Where to Find Reasonably Priced Growth Stocks” written by <mask>. Williams and published by Barrons on January 11, 2010. References

External links
 <mask><mask> Website
 Brown Capital Management Website
 Johns Hopkins University: Brown Community Health Scholarship Website
Baltimore Times: Top Money Manager <mask><mask> speaks about his Autobiography, ‘Beating the Odds,’ at BCCC
 <mask><mask> of Brown Capital Management named Loyola's Business Leader of the Year 2010
2011 Marylanders of the Year, <mask>. and S. <mask>

1940 births
Living people
American investors
American nonprofit businesspeople
American philanthropists
Howard University alumni
African-American investors
New York University alumni
Indiana University alumni
People from Apopka, Florida
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people

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<mask>-<mask> (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional pseudonym. His output includes operas, ballets, four symphonies (1945, 1949, 1955, 1971), concertos, chamber and choral music and numerous songs, as well as film music. Although he experimented with musique concrète and expanded tonality, he remained opposed to particular systems and his music evolved little: he developed tonal or modal ideas in smooth curves, producing an art of clarity, simplicity and restraint. Career
Sauguet started learning the piano at home when he was five years old. Later he was taught by the organist of the church of Sainte-Eulalie de Bordeaux. On the mobilization of his father in 1914, he was required to earn a living at a very young age.Eventually employed by the Prefecture of Montauban in 1919–1920, he formed a friendship with Joseph Canteloube, a former pupil of Vincent d'Indy. Together they collected and harmonized traditional songs under the title Chants d'Auvergne (Songs of Auvergne). During this period too he continued his musical education with local organists and himself served as organist at the small church of St-Vincent de Floirac just outside the city (1916–22). Sacred music, and especially organ arrangements, were to influence him for the rest of his life. One may instance the pieces he later wrote for organ and various combinations of instruments: Oraisons, with four saxophones (1976); Ne moriatur in aeternum, with trumpet (1979); Church Sonata, with string quintet (1985). When <mask> dubbed a group of Paris-based composers Les Six, Sauguet started writing to one of its members, Darius Milhaud. He also began to refer to himself and two Bordeaux friends, Louis Emié and Jean-Marcel Lizotte (another composer and a poet-musician), as 'Les Trois'.Their first concert took place on 12 December 1920. This included performances of works by 'Les Six' (Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc), together with "Erik Satie et la jeune musique française". Among compositions by all three local exponents of 'the young French music' were <mask>'s four-handed Danse nègre and his Pastorale pour piano. <mask>'s correspondence with Milhaud led to the composer asking to see some of his works. He wrote a piano suite called Trois Françaises (Three Frenchwomen) which so impressed Milhaud that he encouraged the young man to move to Paris. Arriving in October 1921, he found work as a secretary at the Guimet Museum. For some six years he studied composition with Charles Koechlin, whom he credits with helping him understand music within its own context and find his own voice.In 1923, together with three other admirers of Satie's music (<mask>-Pleyell, Roger Désormière, Maxime Jacob), Sauguet formed the 'School of Arcueil', named after the location of Satie's home. With his support, they had their first concert on 25 October 1923 at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. In 1924 Erik Satie introduced Sauguet to Serge Diaghilev, the flamboyant impresario of the Ballets Russes, and he wrote his first ballet, Les Roses (Roses) that year. In 1927 Diaghilev's company produced the ballet La Chatte (The Cat) with music by Sauguet, which premiered in Monte Carlo on April 30. The story is about a young man who falls in love with a cat, which assumes a human form through the intervention of Aphrodite. As they make love, the cat-woman sees a mouse and cannot resist chasing it, whereupon she changes back into a cat. The work was choreographed by the young George Balanchine.Sauguet gained his greatest popularity with his ballets, of which he wrote over twenty. The best of these, and the work by which he is most known outside France, was Les Forains (1945) about a talented, slightly tattered, but ultimately hopeful travelling circus troupe. He also wrote numerous works for radio, television, stage, and film, and a large quantity of chamber and other instrumental works, including solos for harmonica and musical saw, but his particular talent was vocal music. He worked ten years on La chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1936) - based on Stendhal's novel - an opera that had a reputation in France as his most important work. Internationally, however, it was considered to be short on emotion and drama. Other operatic works include La Contrebasse (1930), La Gageure Imprévue (1942), Les Caprices de Marianne (1954) and Boule de Suif (1978). The war period brought a change to Sauguet's work, which had previously been marked by his high spirits.He used his reputation during this time to help his Jewish friends but lost the oldest-established among them, Max Jacob, who died in the Drancy internment camp. At the war's end he completed his Symphony No. 1, known as Expiatoire (Expiatory), in tribute to the war's innocent victims. This was followed by his 2nd Symphony, known as The Allegorical or The Seasons, in 1949. His 3rd Symphony is known as I.N.R. and his 4th, a meditation on old age written as he approached the age of seventy, as Du Troisième Age (The Third Age). In 1945 he contributed incidental music to the premiere of La Folle de Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux.Sauguet worked as a music critic throughout the 1930s and 1940s. He founded the Composers Union, also devoting his time to Una Voce, an organization that works to preserve Latin and traditional chant in the Roman Catholic liturgy. Final years
In 1956 Sauguet was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour and succeeded his friend Milhaud into the French Academy in 1976. Sauguet's personal partnership with a set designer and decorator of French theatre, Jacques Dupont, endured until the latter's death in 1978. When Sauguet died in Paris in 1989, he was buried at the Montmartre Cemetery in the same grave as Dupont and next to that of André Jolivet in Section 27, near the grave of Hector Berlioz. Sauguet's autobiography Musique, ma vie (Music, my life) was published posthumously in 1990. Selected recordings
 Les Forains and Tableaux de Paris - Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, Michel Plasson.His Master's Voice – C 069-16220
 Symphonies (complete) - Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida. Marco Polo (Naxos) - recorded 1994 and 1995
 Piano Concerto N° 1 in A minor - Vasso Devetzi (piano) - USSR Radio Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky & Les Forains - Lamoureux Orchestra, composer conducting. Le Chant Du Monde – LDX 78300
 Divertissement de Chambre - soloists directed by the composer; Lune inconstante - Suzanne Lafaye (soprano), Paul Derenne (tenor), Sauguet (piano); Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes - Suzanne Lafaye (soprano), Sauguet (piano); Neiges - Paul Derenne (tenor), Sauguet (piano). Disques André Charlin CCPE 2
 Les Caprices de Marianne - Andrée Esposito, Camille Maurane, Michel Sénéchal, Orchestre Radio-Lyrique, Manuel Rosenthal. Solstice SOCD 98/99

References

External links

Sauguet's biography, accessed 12/10/2008

1901 births
1989 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century French composers
20th-century French male musicians
French male classical composers
French ballet composers
French opera composers
Ballets Russes composers
Burials at Montmartre Cemetery
LGBT musicians from France
LGBT classical composers
Male opera composers
Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)
Musicians from Bordeaux
20th-century LGBT people

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<mask> (born February 10, 1992), also known by his online alias CaptainSparklez, is an American YouTuber, Twitch streamer, gamer, and electronic musician. Maron is primarily known for playing the video game Minecraft, which is featured on his main channel, CaptainSparklez, and the channel CaptainSparklez 2. His main channel is currently the 755th most-subscribed channel on YouTube with over 11.2 million subscribers as of August 2021. <mask>'s first channel, ProsDONTtalkSHIT, was created in February 2010 and featured gameplay from the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Maron later created his main channel CaptainSparklez in July 2010, uploading both Minecraft and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 gameplay before focusing mainly on Minecraft. Maron has produced several Minecraft-themed songs and music videos, most notably "Revenge", a parody of "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" by Usher, featuring vocals from himself and TryHardNinja. Other notable Minecraft music videos include his Fallen Kingdom tetralogy and "TNT".On his other channels, <mask> also uploads reaction videos and gameplay of various other games including Fortnite and Trials Fusion. <mask> is an electronic music enthusiast, having used tracks from the label Monstercat on gameplay videos. He has experimented with music production himself. On March 27, 2016, he created Maron Music, a music promotion channel where he would share other artists' music, as well as his own original music. "Moonbeam" was the first of his tracks to be uploaded to the channel. Beginning in early 2017, Maron uploaded videos featuring his reactions and commentary to various communities on Reddit. This led to a temporary decrease in Minecraft-related content.<mask> ultimately decided they were not what his core audience enjoyed watching. He proceeded to create the channel Jordan Reacts, where he continued to upload Reddit reaction videos, and refocused on making Minecraft videos for his main channel. In January 2020, <mask> announced his official clothing brand, Quality Content Athletics. Throughout 2020, it has sold various workout and lifestyle apparel. In July 2021, he rebranded QC Athletics to Quality Content. Early life
<mask> was born in Los Angeles, California. At four years old, he and his mother moved to Santa Barbara.He attended Santa Barbara High School, beginning in ninth grade. Maron then went to the University of California, Santa Barbara as a chemical engineering major. He decided to switch his major to computer science midway through his freshman year, based on his interest in video games. After the first quarter of his sophomore year, he dropped out. In December 2011, he made YouTube his full-time job. Career
Maron owns a total of eleven YouTube channels. Four of his channels are currently active.On February 9, 2010, he created his first channel titled ProsDONTtalkSHIT (PDTS) where he primarily uploaded gameplay videos of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. When PDTS began to become more popular, Maron decided he wanted a less vulgar name. He created a new channel named CaptainSparklez on July 20, 2010, and left PDTS inactive. Nearly two years later in April 2012, the CaptainSparklez channel reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube. In September 2013, CaptainSparklez reached 1 billion video views, becoming the fifth solo YouTube gaming channel to reach the milestone behind PewDiePie, SkyDoesMinecraft, UberHaxorNova and TobyGames. On May 15, 2015, he created a channel called CaptainSparklez 2, where he uploaded unedited Twitch live streams and videos and other content he felt did not belong on his main channel. On March 27, 2016, he created Maron Music, a music promotion channel where he would share other artists' music, as well as his own original music.On February 9, 2017, <mask> created a dedicated channel for personal vlogs. Maron later created "Fortnite Cinema", a channel which featured short films created in the game Fortnite Battle Royale. In early 2017, Maron began to upload videos featuring his reactions to top Reddit posts to his main channel. These reaction videos gained popularity, but Maron ultimately decided they were not what his core audience enjoyed watching. As a result, <mask> created a new channel called Jordan Reacts on August 11, 2018, where he continued to upload Reddit reaction videos, and refocused on making Minecraft videos for his main channel. <mask>'s next channel is Jordan Games, where he uploads gameplay videos that would be irrelevant on his main channel. His newest channels are Jordan Lifts, featuring him lifting weights in his home gym, and SparkleShorts, containing small shots from various videos from the CaptainSparklez YouTube and Twitch channels.<mask> was featured in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. In June 2016, he made an appearance in the sixth episode of Minecraft: Story Mode. XREAL
Maron started a mobile gaming company called XREAL with Howard Marks, co-founder and former CEO of Activision and co-founder of Acclaim Games and StartEngine. XREAL released their game Fortress Fury in May 2015, which received over 1.5 million downloads within its first month of launch. Fortress Fury was originally titled Fortress Fallout; however, ZeniMax Media, parent company of Bethesda Softworks, known for the Fallout series, sent a cease and desist letter which requested that XREAL "immediately expressly abandon the application for Fortress Fallout and cease any and all current or proposed use of any mark incorporating the term Fallout." The letter was sent to prevent competition in the mobile game market for their game Fallout Shelter. Maron and the XREAL's legal team were not informed of this, because Bethesda kept Shelter a secret at the time and did not reveal its existence until its release on June 14, 2015.Discography

"TNT"
On February 26, 2011, he released his first Minecraft music video, "TNT", a parody of Taio Cruz's "Dynamite", with vocals from singer TryHardNinja. In late 2015, the video was made private at the request of Maron's network and replaced by a new video with original music. In May 2018, the original video was made public again. The video is currently the fourth-most-viewed video on Maron's channel with over 106 million views, surpassing the number of views of the original song. "Revenge"
On August 19, 2011, he released his second Minecraft music video titled "Revenge", which is a parody of Usher's "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love". The video has over 250 million views, making it the most viewed video on Maron's channel as well as the most viewed Minecraft-related video on YouTube. In late 2015, along with "TNT", it was made private and replaced by a new video with original music.In May 2018, along with "TNT", the original video and audio were restored. In July 2019, following the 10th anniversary of Minecraft, the song received renewed attention as an internet meme. This has led to "Revenge" reaching the number one spot on Genius' Top Songs chart. <mask> acknowledged the song's popularity in November 2019, releasing a parody of Genius' lyric videos about "Revenge". Maron created a parody video called "Minecraft Style", based on "Gangnam Style" by South Korean entertainer PSY, that used animated Minecraft models. According to MSN, within a few days, it had more than a million views. The video was referenced in technology and gaming articles published by NBC, The Daily Telegraph, Mashable and the Huffington Post.Since its upload, the video has gained over 17 million views. Fallen Kingdom series
<mask> is also known for his Fallen Kingdom series of four Minecraft music videos. They depict a storyline of a king and his son of a fictional kingdom in the Minecraft universe. The first installment of the series, "Fallen Kingdom", was released on April 1, 2012. The video's music is a parody of the Coldplay song "Viva la Vida," with lyrics changed to fit elements of Minecraft as well as to tie into the narrative of the video, which shows a king wandering through a ruined town he once ruled, interspersed with flashbacks revealing what happened to the town. The video currently is the third-most-viewed video on Maron's channel, with over 122 million views. The second video in the series, "Take Back the Night", was released on August 31, 2013.The video, at over 130 million views, is the second-most-viewed video on Maron's channel, after "Revenge". The video contains the titular track, an original song by TryHardNinja, and tells the story of what happened to the son of the king from "Fallen Kingdom". It shows a prince, the son of the king in "Fallen Kingdom", being taken in and raised by villagers due to his father's absence, later pursuing and defeating the character Herobrine after an attack on the village. The third video in the series, "Find The Pieces", was released on April 25, 2015. The video currently has over 36 million views and is the fifth-most-viewed video on Maron's channel. The video contains another original song by TryHardNinja, called "Pieces", and is a continuation of the story of the king's son, who is looking for his father. In the course of the song, he leaves his village, and battles a Wither.He is reunited with his father at the music video's end. The fourth and final video in the series, "Dragonhearted", was released on November 19, 2016. The video currently has over 25 million views. The video contains yet another original TryHardNinja song, for which the video is named, and brings the tale of the king and his son to completion. The song ends with the self-sacrifice of the son. Various Minecraft music videos

On May 27, 2017, Maron released a Minecraft music video for the song "Rush Over Me" by Seven Lions, Illenium, and Said the Sky, featuring vocalist Haliene. The video has gained over 3.2 million views.On September 9, 2017, <mask> released a Minecraft music video for the song "We Are the Night” by Madison Mars, featuring vocalist Sanjana Ghosh. The upload has received over 3.1 million views. "Turn It Up"
On January 13, 2018, <mask> released "Turn It Up", an original Minecraft music video, again featuring vocals from TryHardNinja. Unlike his previous music videos, "Turn It Up" appears to take place in a modern city setting within Minecraft. Music released as <mask>on

Singles

Remixes

Music released as featured artist

Maron Music
The following lists rank tracks and songs promoted under the Maron Music channel by views and plays. Top 10 YouTube uploads by views

Top 10 SoundCloud tracks by plays

Awards
Nominated in 2016 Shorty Awards

Notes
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References

External links
CaptainSparklez, his main channel
CaptainSparklez 2, his channel for archiving streams
Jordan Maron, his vlog channel
Maron Music, his music channel

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American YouTubers
Gaming YouTubers
Living people
Maker Studios people
Male YouTubers
Music YouTubers
People from Santa Barbara, California
Twitch (service) streamers
Video game commentators
Forbes 30 Under 30 recipients
YouTube channels launched in 2010
Minecraft YouTubers

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<mask> (; born February 3, 1965, in Memphis, TN) is an American guitarist. He has played guitar for a variety of bands, most notably Racer X, The Scream, DC-10, and Epidemic. Bouillet is known for his technically proficient playing style and speed. Early life
<mask> was born on a naval base in Memphis, Tennessee, and relocated to Vincennes, Indiana at a very young age. His father, a bluegrass player, exposed him early on to country and bluegrass music. At age 12, Bouillet saw Judas Priest open for KISS on the Unleashed in the East Tour, thinking they were a religious band, and immediately committed himself to becoming a guitar player with the full support of his parents. Shortly afterwards, his parents bought him his first guitar and amp.A problem child who spent most of his time at home, <mask> spent a commanding amount of his time practicing the guitar. After gaining a presence in the local rock scene, he desired to seek greater success in Los Angeles (dissuaded by the cold winter climates of Chicago and New York City). As he was nearing his high school graduation, he saw an ad in a guitar magazine for the GIT (Guitar Institute of Technology) at Musician's Institute in Hollywood and moved west. Racer X
In the mid-1980s, <mask> was a student at GIT. On his first day, he saw Racer X guitarist Paul Gilbert, then 17 years old, playing his graduation performance with the first Racer X lineup. <mask>, starstruck, filled out a questionnaire and demanded to learn the techniques that he'd seen onstage. Shortly after, Gilbert became an instructor at GIT and was assigned to <mask> as his private tutor.<mask> would rigorously practice the sequences that Gilbert demonstrated to him, and they became friends due to their similar senses of humor. One day, he passed by an open counseling that Gilbert was giving and was subsequently invited in. Gilbert was demonstrating a difficult and innovative string-skipping sequence, and <mask> was able to harmonize it on the spot. <mask> would later refer to this performance as "the luckiest break I've ever had." He was immediately given a copy of Street Lethal by Gilbert and invited to an audition as the second guitar player in Racer X. Despite his confidence that he would not get the job, <mask> was assisted by Gilbert when he had difficulty figuring out guitar parts on the record. Finally, in 1986, <mask> was added as the second guitarist and began touring the local club scene.While touring with Racer X, <mask> was also a sought-after instructor at GIT alongside Gilbert and Russ Parrish. In winter of 1986, Racer X recorded their sophomore album, Second Heat, with compositions relying more on harmonized and dueling guitar solos. In order to perform these songs live, Paul and <mask> would often practice for 8 hours a day due to the technically demanding nature of the lead parts. During touring for Second Heat, the band recorded the Extreme Volume live album and Paul Gilbert was approached by Talas bassist Billy Sheehan with the proposition of forming a band. Their union would later crystallize into Mr. Big, and Paul quit Racer X shortly after. Racer X continued without Gilbert for a short time, his replacement being Guitar Spotlight guitarist Chris Arvan. However, Bouillet later became jaded at Racer X's marketability when they failed to sell out a 1200-seat club on a weekday.Additionally, he had become afflicted with both tinnitus and carpal tunnel syndrome and missed several Racer X shows towards the end of their original run. With all the members of Racer X ready to move on to other projects, the band played its final show at the Omni in Oakland, California and broke up. <mask> played on Racer X's Second Heat, Live Extreme - Vol.I, and Live Extreme - Vol. II. After leaving the band, he joined former Angora singer John Corabi, and his former Racer X bandmates John Alderete and Scott Travis to form the band The Scream. Scott Travis soon left to join Judas Priest and was replaced by Walt Woodward III. During a tour in Europe, John Alderete showed Bruce albums by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana, leading him to realize that the musical landscape was changing in a way that would not bode well for a Los Angeles rock band.That day, <mask> and Alderete got into a significant fight with Woodward and Corabi about the band's future marketability. The Scream broke up shortly after. 2001-present
<mask> formed the band Epidemic on Elektra Records in 2001. In June 2002, the band released their self-titled album. They toured as the opening act for Breaking Benjamin, Hatebreed, Seether, Jerry Cantrell, and other bands. They also released a single off that album, titled "Walk Away", which cracked the Top 40 Active Rock chart higher than acts like Tonic, and Eighteen Visions. "Walk Away" also appeared on the Madden NFL: 2003 video game.That same year, the group disbanded. After Epidemic, Bouillet produced theme music for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler, Triple H. The WWE album went gold. In 2005, <mask> won a Grammy for his work with Bob Kulick on the production, recording, and mixing Motörhead's cover of Metallica's "Whiplash". From 2005-2007, he joined with Bottom Dwellerz Productions and co-produced the Bottom Dwellerz album. It was announced on 8/9/2011 that Bouillet had become the new guitarist of Asia, featuring John Payne. In 2013, he released an Instrumental album The Order Of Control on Mascot Records. G3 Tour
Bouillet completed a G3 tour that featured Paul Gilbert, John Petrucci, and Joe Satriani.<mask> was in Gilbert's band for the tour. Personal life
<mask> has two brothers, Aaron and Brian. He has a daughter, Tara, two nieces, Anna and Danielle, and three nephews, Evan, Chandler, Blair. Discography

With Racer X
 Second Heat (1987)
 Extreme Volume Live (1988)
 Extreme Volume II Live (1992)

With The Scream
 Let It Scream (1991)
 Takin' It To The Next Level (unreleased)

With DC-10
 Co-Burn (1995)

With Paul Gilbert solo
 King of Clubs (1998)
 Flying Dog (1998)

With Epidemic
 "Epidemic"

With The Bottom Dwellerz
 "Cracks Of The Concrete" (2006)
 "Old New Orleans - Autographed Charity Edition" (2006)

Solo
 Unspoken (2007)
 Interventions (2008)
 Interventions (Japan Release, 2009)
 The Order of Control (2013)

References

American heavy metal guitarists
Racer X (band) members
The Scream (band) members
Living people
Musicians from Memphis, Tennessee
1965 births
Guitarists from Tennessee
American male guitarists
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians

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<mask> (born January 29, 1993) is an American football quarterback who is a free agent. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was their starting quarterback from 2013 to 2015. He holds the record for most career wins at Michigan State. <mask> was selected in the fourth round of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. After initially serving as the third-string backup to Derek Carr and Matt McGloin, <mask> played in his first NFL game in the Raiders' last regular season game of the 2016 NFL season after Carr and McGloin suffered injuries. Following this, he was named the starter for the Raiders' playoff game against the Houston Texans and became the first quarterback in NFL history to make his first career start in a playoff game. Early years
<mask> was born in Parma Heights, Ohio, on January 29, 1993.<mask> is from an athletic family: His father, Chris, played football at Indiana; his mother, Donna, played basketball at Cincinnati; and his older sister, Jackie, played basketball at Old Dominion. <mask> attended Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He was ranked as the nation's 13th best quarterback recruit by Rivals.com. College career
Upon enrolling at Michigan State, <mask> was redshirted as a freshman in 2011. He spent the 2012 season as a backup to Andrew Maxwell. After Maxwell was benched, <mask> helped lead the team to a win in the 2012 Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, completing four of 11 passes for 47 yards and a touchdown. Overall, he appeared in three games, completing nine of 17 passes for 94 yards with a touchdown and an interception.He entered the 2013 season as the backup to Maxwell again. After Maxwell struggled, <mask> took over as the starter after the first game and remained the starter the rest of the year. He led Michigan State to a 34-24 victory over the Ohio State Buckeyes in the Big Ten Championship Game and was named MVP after throwing for 304 yards with three touchdowns. He then led the Spartans to a 24–20 victory over Stanford in the 2014 Rose Bowl. He was named the offensive MVP after throwing for 332 yards and two touchdowns. <mask> finished the season with 2,755 passing yards and 22 touchdowns. As a junior in 2014, <mask> passed 3,214 yards with 24 touchdowns.He led the Spartans to 2015 Cotton Bowl, where they defeated the higher-ranked Baylor Bears, 42–41. As a senior in 2015 <mask> led the Spartans to a 16–13 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Big Ten Championship Game and was named MVP for the second time in three years. The victory in that Big Ten Championship Game earned them a spot in the College Football Playoff (2015 Cotton Bowl), where they lost to the Alabama Crimson Tide, 38–0. <mask> finished the season with 3,131 passing yards and 24 touchdowns,  completing 56% of his passes. He won the 2015 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award as the nation's outstanding senior or fourth year quarterback. For his career, he completed 673 of 1,170 passes for a school record 9,194 yards with 71 touchdowns and 22 interceptions. College statistics

Professional career

Oakland Raiders
<mask> was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the fourth round with the 100th pick in the 2016 NFL Draft.He was the seventh quarterback chosen in the draft. On May 9, 2016, the Raiders signed <mask> to a 4-year, $2.95 million contract with a signing bonus of $619,890. <mask> began his rookie season for the Raiders as the third-string quarterback on the depth chart behind starter Derek Carr and second-stringer Matt McGloin. On December 24, 2016, <mask> was raised to backup quarterback after Carr suffered a season-ending right fibula injury. On January 1, 2017, <mask> made his NFL debut, entering the game late in the first half after starter McGloin suffered a shoulder injury. He played for the remainder of the game. In the third quarter, he threw his first NFL touchdown, a 32-yard pass to wide receiver Amari Cooper.He completed 14 of 21 passes for 150 passing yards, a touchdown, and an interception as the Raiders lost to the Denver Broncos by a score of 24–6. On January 4, <mask> was named the starter for the AFC Wildcard Game against the Houston Texans. McGloin was limited in practice due to his injury but was still active as <mask>'s backup for the playoff game. <mask> became the first quarterback in the Super Bowl era to make his first career start in a playoff game. On January 7, 2017, in the AFC Wildcard Game against the Texans, in a game plagued by drops by Raider receivers, <mask> completed 18 of 45 passes for 161 yards, one touchdown, and three interceptions as the Raiders lost 27–14. In the loss, he threw his first career postseason touchdown to Andre Holmes in the fourth quarter. <mask> saw no action in 2017 as the third-string quarterback behind Carr and new second-stringer EJ Manuel.He was only active for one game the whole season. On September 1, 2018, <mask> was released after the Raiders traded for A. J. McCarron. Carolina Panthers
On September 6, 2018, <mask> was signed to the Carolina Panthers' practice squad. He was released on October 9, 2018. Cincinnati Bengals
<mask> was signed by the Cincinnati Bengals to their practice squad on November 5, 2018. Detroit Lions
On January 1, 2019, <mask> signed a reserve/future contract with the Detroit Lions. In June 2019, the Lions released <mask> and signed Quarterback David Fales.Houston Roughnecks
<mask> was drafted in the 1st round with the second pick of the 2020 XFL Draft by the Houston Roughnecks. However, <mask> lost the quarterback competition to assigned player P.J. Walker and assumed the backup position. He had his contract terminated when the league suspended operations on April 10, 2020. Career statistics

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References

External links

 Michigan State Spartans bio

1993 births
Living people
People from Hinckley, Ohio
Sportspeople from Greater Cleveland
Players of American football from Ohio
American football quarterbacks
Michigan State Spartans football players
Oakland Raiders players
Carolina Panthers players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Detroit Lions players
Houston Roughnecks players

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Olukayode Ishmael "<mask>" <mask> (born 21 February 1982) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker, most recently for Guiseley. He is a former Nigeria international. Club career
Born in Ibadan, Oyo State, <mask> started his career as a trainee at Bristol City and then moved on to Football Conference side Forest Green Rovers in 2002. 2002–03 turned out to be one of Rovers' best ever season since their foundation in 1890, and <mask> was a key figure, scoring 13 goals as the club finished ninth. Cheltenham Town
Bobby Gould signed <mask> in the summer of the 2002/03 season for Cheltenham Town. His first two seasons were a struggle but in his third season (2005–06) he played almost every game as Cheltenham went on to reach the play-off final, winning 1–0 against fancied Grimsby Town. He came to national attention in January 2006 when Cheltenham faced Newcastle United in the FA Cup 4th round.<mask> gained plaudits after the game and he was linked with a move to Championship team Plymouth Argyle however the move never materialised. Barnsley
On 31 May 2007, <mask> moved to Barnsley for a fee of £200,000, a Cheltenham record for a sale of a player. Forest Green Rovers received a windfall from the transfer as part of the terms of <mask>'s Cheltenham deal. He scored in the Reds' first friendly against Morecambe in a 2–1 defeat. He then bagged a brace against Portuguese side Louletano DC in a 3–2 win. In a 3–1 victory against Buxton he bagged his fourth goal in three. <mask> netted his first competitive goal for Barnsley against Scunthorpe United which effectively sealed a 2–0 victory for the Reds.<mask> was booed off by his own fans against Southampton, after he missed a string of chances at goal. He himself admitted about his poor performances and promised the fans he would step it up and he did in the FA Cup, scoring of one of the most important goals in the club history when he secured a 1–0 victory at Oakwell, in the quarter finals of the FA Cup 2008 against Chelsea. On 6 April 2008 in the FA Cup semi-final against Cardiff City he missed an absolute sitter to score when he was put clean through on goal only to shoot wide, costing Barnsley the chance to equalise and possibly reach the FA Cup Final for the first time since 1912. In January 2009, there was talk of him being pursued by Barnsley's South Yorkshire neighbours, Rotherham United. Scunthorpe United (loan)
On 26 February he was loaned to Scunthorpe. He played in 6 games scoring 1 goal against Walsall. Colchester United (loan)
He was loaned to Colchester United on 16 September 2009 on a three-month emergency loan.He made a big impression at the Weston Homes Community Stadium, winning two penalties in his first game against Hartlepool United and then scoring a brace against high flying Charlton Athletic. He also went on to score against Huddersfield Town, Leyton Orient, Wycombe Wanderers, Bromley and Oldham Athletic. He set up John-Joe O'Toole's first Colchester goal in a 1–1 draw at Tranmere Rovers, whilst <mask> also assisted Simon Hackney's goal against Bromley in the FA Cup. His loan spell ended on 19 December with him having scored seven goals in sixteen games, six of which came in the Football League. When the January transfer window opened, <mask>'s loan form resulted in him being signed by Aidy Boothroyd on a permanent deal, thus also becoming Aidy's first permanent signing for Colchester United. Colchester United
On 24 December 2009 it was announced that <mask> had signed for an undisclosed fee on a deal that would end in June 2012. <mask> scored his first goal as a full-time Colchester player in a 2–1 win against Carlisle where he came off the bench to score the winner in stoppage time to keep the U's in their promotion hunt.He added two further goals against Bristol Rovers and Yeovil before getting an injury after coming on as a sub against Walsall. <mask> was named as Colchester United's official player-of-the-season for the 2011–12 season, having led the front-line with power and strength all campaign. Rotherham United
On 15 May, Rotherham United completed the much-rumoured signing of <mask> after talks with Steve Evans. He joined the Millers officially on 1 July. His first goal for the club came in the 3–0 win against Burton Albion on 18 August 2012, this was also the opening day of the New York Stadium, and, on his league debut for the club. His second came soon after to gain a point against Chesterfield, on 25 August 2012. However, only 5 goals all season grew to fans frustration as Alex Revell and Daniel Nardiello became the preferred striking partnership.On 10 September 2013, <mask> joined League Two side Accrington Stanley on a three-month loan. On 1 January 2014, the loan was extended till the end of the 2013–14 League Two season. Tranmere Rovers
On 26 June 2014, following <mask>'s departure from Rotherham United, he signed a one-year deal with Tranmere Rovers. At the end of the season, that saw Tranmere Rovers relegate out of League Two, <mask> was released by the club. Stockport County
Following <mask>'s release from Tranmere, he signed for National League North side Stockport County on 15 July 2015. Guiseley
In July 2017 he signed for Guiseley. International career
In May 2008, <mask> made his first appearance for the Nigerian national team, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 friendly draw against Austria.Career statistics

Club

International

Honours
Cheltenham Town
Football League Two play-offs: 2005–06

Rotherham United
Football League Two runners-up: 2012–13

Individual
Colchester United Player of the Year: 2011–12

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ibadan
Yoruba sportspeople
Nigerian footballers
Nigeria international footballers
Association football forwards
Expatriate footballers in England
Bristol City F.C. players
Forest Green Rovers F.C. players
Cheltenham Town F.C. players
Barnsley F.C. players
Scunthorpe United F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Rotherham United F.C.players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Guiseley A.F.C. players

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<mask> is an Australian theatre and film director, producer, writer and teacher. He is the Artistic Director & Creative Producer of independent theatre company If Theatre which was established in 2006. Career
Scholten studied Drama and English Literature at the University of Melbourne performing in student theatre productions and earning a Bachelor of Education in 1992. He went on to study directing and writing at the Australian Nouveau (Antill) Theatre  and a career as a Drama Teacher. In 2006 he was accepted into the Victorian College of the Arts where he studied directing under the tutelage of Richard Murphet,  Jenny Kemp  and then Head of the School of Drama Lindy Davies. In 2007, If Theatre's debut production was A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter and was followed later that year by Three Short Plays by Jack Hibberd produced for the 40th Birthday La Mama Theatre. Beginning in 2008, Scholten collaborated with playwright Daniel Keene on a theatre practice based primarily in Melbourne's western suburbs,  launching The Dog Theatre  in Footscray with a production of Keene's Half & Half.In 2009, The Cove (eight short plays including four world premieres)  was directed by Scholten and had three Green Room Award nominations for actors Majid Shokor, Jan Freidl and Bruce Myles. The Cove  featured the following plays: Cafe Table, Somewhere in the Middle of the Night, To Whom It May Concern, A Glass of Twilight, The Morning After, A Death, Two Shanks and The First Train. <mask>'s production of Daniel Keene's The Nightwatchman starring Roger Oakley was part of Theatreworks' Selected Works programme in 2010  and also that year he was Assistant Director to Peter Evans at the Melbourne Theatre Company on Keene's debut there, Life Without Me. If Theatre has commissioned and co-produced two further works written by Daniel Keene and directed by Scholten:

 2011 Boxman  (commissioned by Big West Festival 2011  and then presented by Regional Arts Victoria on a Victorian and NSW tour in 2013). Boxman was shortlisted for the Louis Esson Prize for Drama in the 2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. 2015 Mother  a one-woman play written for Noni Hazlehurst which began a national tour at the Gasworks Theatre and was published by Currency Press. For the Melbourne Theatre Company, Scholten has directed The Heretic written by Richard Bean featuring Noni Hazlehurst & Andrew McFarlane and directed readings of Rejkavijk by Paul Galloway  and Daniel Keene's The Curtain  with Helen Morse and Alex Menglet.He was Assistant Director to Julian Meyrick for the 2007 Hard Lines Play Readings season. Other directorial works include:

The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
Mr. Kolpert by David Geislemann
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Dying City by Christopher Shinn
Europe by Michael Gow

Along with his extensive work directing plays by Keene, other new Australian work Scholten has directed includes:

 Blindingly Obvious Facts by Ben Ellis (playwright) for the 2007 Short and Sweet Festival
Human Resources by Chris Aronsten
Crossed by Chris Summers
Black Box 149 by Rosemary Johns
Here We All Are. Assembled by Kathryn Ash

Scholten is also a teacher of acting and directing, working at the Victorian College of the Arts from 2007–2014 as a Teaching Artist and Director and was Head of Acting and Head of Theatre Arts at Goulburn Ovens TAFE in Benalla from 2010–2014. For television, in 2013 he completed a Directorial Attachment with Channel Seven on the television drama A Place to Call Home and in 2017 was Acting Coach on Magpie Pictures' Grace Beside Me. In 2013, Scholten programmed the theatre season for Benalla Performing Arts Centre and in 2014 he was appointed as resident Artistic Director there,  launching the theatre seasons in 2014 and 2015. At BPACC, Scholten wrote and directed the play The Drums of Time, developed an Australia Council for the Arts funded workshop programme for female regional playwrights  and hosted the Victorian College of the Arts first FRISK! Festival.In 2015, Scholten toured with the production of Mother throughout Victoria and Tasmania and then relocated to South East Queensland taking up a position lecturing and directing  at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. At USQ his work included his adaptation of Lysistrata,  Tartuffe by Moliere adapted by Justin Fleming,  Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind adapted by Jonathan Franzen and The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. In 2016, Mother  toured New South Wales and Queensland and was nominated for two Helpmann Awards for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Play and Best Regional Touring Production. Scholten was one of the keynote speakers at the 2016 Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA)  Conference. Mother was presented at Belvoir Street Theatre in early 2018  and was presented at QPAC in August 2018. Noni Hazlehurst won the 2019 Matilda Award for Best Female Actor in a Leading Role for Mother for the QPAC season. The Campaign by Campion Decent,  a verbatim play that dramatised the fight for gay law reform in Tasmania   was produced and directed by Scholten  premiering at Salamanca Arts Centre in October 2018 co-produced by If Theatre, Tasmanian Theatre Company & Blue Cow Theatre,  winning the 2019 Best New Writing Award at the Tasmanian Theatre Awards.The development of The Campaign was supported by a Playwriting Australia grant. <mask> is currently lecturing in acting and is a guest director at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University and at Queensland University of Technology. His debut film as writer/director,  a short documentary supported by Screen Australia  and Network Ten called Belonging  had its world premiere at the 2020 Queer Screen Film Festival as part of the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and will be screened on TenPlay  later in 2020. Belonging screened at the 2020 Melbourne Queer Film Festival and won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short. Mother was presented in early 2020 at Home of the Arts, Gold Coast and in an encore season at QPAC. References

External links

 <mask> on Aus Stage

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Living people
University of Melbourne alumni
Victorian College of the Arts alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)

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<mask> (born September 23, 1978) is an American actor. <mask> made his acting debut starring in the semi-biographical drama film 8 Mile (2002); he was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor for his performance in the LGBT drama Brother to Brother (2004), and in the same year, appeared in psychological thriller The Manchurian Candidate and the sports film Million Dollar Baby. <mask> starred in Half Nelson (2006); in 2008, Mackie both appeared in the action thriller Eagle Eye, and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Hurt Locker. He portrayed Tupac Shakur in Notorious (2009), and later starred in Night Catches Us (2010), and The Adjustment Bureau and Real Steel (both 2011). He achieved global recognition for portraying Sam Wilson / Falcon / Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in the films Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Ant-Man (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as starring in the Disney+ exclusive miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). During this period, <mask> also starred in the period crime film Detroit (2017), The Hate U Give (2018), the science fiction film Synchronic (2019), and The Banker (2020). Away from film, <mask> has performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway adaptations, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002.<mask> portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO television film All the Way (2016), and portrayed Takeshi Kovacs in Netflix series Altered Carbon (2020). Early life
<mask> was born on September 23, 1978, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Martha (née Gordon) and <mask> Sr., a carpenter who owned a roofing business, Mackie Roofing. His brother, <mask>, is a former associate professor of engineering at Tulane University who now works at the Louisiana Recovery Authority. <mask> attended Warren Easton Sr High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and graduated from the high school drama program at the North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) in 1997. He later graduated from the Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 30 (1997–2001), which also included actors Tracie Thoms and Lee Pace. Career

In 2002, Mackie worked as an understudy to Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks' play Topdog/Underdog and won an OBIE Award for his role in Carl Hancock Rux's play Talk. He appeared in the 2002 film 8 Mile as the main antagonist, Papa Doc.His first starring role in a feature film was the 2003 independent film Brother to Brother, where he played Perry, a young artist who struggles to adjust to the world as a gay black man. The following year, <mask> appeared in Million Dollar Baby, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and starred in Spike Lee's She Hate Me. In 2006, <mask> starred in Half Nelson, and Crossover, We Are Marshall. In March 2008, <mask> starred in three plays by playwright August Wilson at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and Jitney – all part of "August Wilson's 20th Century", a month-long presentation of ten staged readings of Wilson's "Century Cycle". <mask> has participated several times in the "24-Hour Plays" held in New York City each fall. In mid-2009, he played the role of Pentheus in the New York City Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bacchae. He starred with Christopher Walken in A Behanding in Spokane on Broadway in February 2010.<mask> portrayed late American rapper Tupac Shakur in the 2009 film Notorious. He had previously portrayed Shakur in the play Up Against the Wind in 2001, while attending Juilliard. In 2009, he appeared in The Hurt Locker. <mask> also narrated The Best That Never Was, a documentary about football player Marcus Dupree. He appeared in the 2011 film The Adjustment Bureau as Harry Mitchell, a sympathetic member of a shadowy supernatural group that controls human destiny. <mask> co-starred, as Sam Wilson / Falcon, in the Marvel Studios sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). He reprised the role in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe films over the next several years, including 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, 2016's Captain America: Civil War, 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, and 2019's Avengers: Endgame.In 2016, <mask> portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO TV drama All the Way. In 2018, <mask> appeared as gang leader King in The Hate U Give, a film adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name. In 2019, <mask> had a role in the Netflix science-fiction film, IO. In July 2018, it was announced that <mask> was cast in the role of Takeshi Kovacs for the second season of Netflix's science-fiction series, Altered Carbon. In March 2019, it was announced that <mask> was cast in the fifth season of Netflix's science-fiction anthology series, Black Mirror. The following month, Disney confirmed a Marvel television series starring <mask> and Sebastian Stan, called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, would be aired on their upcoming Disney+ streaming service, debuting on March 19, 2021. Mackie starred in and produced the science fiction film Outside the Wire which was released by Netflix on January 15, 2021.In August 2021, <mask> closed the deal to reprise the role in Captain America 4. In January 2022, it was announced that <mask> will helm the drama film Spark, starring Saniyya Sidney, as his directorial debut project. In February 2022, he was set to lead action film Ending Things along with Priyanka Chopra Jonas, directed by Kevin Sullivan and star in a live-action series adaptation of Twisted Metal game at Peacock. Personal life
In 2014, <mask> married his long-time girlfriend and childhood sweetheart Sheletta Chapital. They divorced in 2018. The couple have four children together. <mask> opened a bar called NoBar in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn in the summer of 2011.He had plans to open a second NoBar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2013, but closed all NoBar locations in 2015. Filmography

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<mask><mask> (born 1951) is a civil rights attorney in Ohio who has been litigating since 1976. While he is best known nationally as lead counsel for James Obergefell in the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision Obergefell v. Hodges, he has been an advocate on behalf of prisoners, victims of police misconduct and women seeking reproductive freedom throughout his career, in addition to LGBTQ causes like same-sex marriage. He has recovered millions of dollars for victims of official misconduct. He is also the founder of the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a nonprofit agency that advocates and litigates for criminal justice reform. Early life
<mask> was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Carolyn and <mask>. His father was the manager of a commercial chicken farm for over ten years, then lost both his job and the pension he had been promised. In an interview on WCET, the local Cincinnati PBS affiliate, <mask> described how this experience and its effect on his family deeply impressed upon him the plight of powerless individuals in the face of powerful corporations.He attended Beloit College, class of '73, where he met and married Mimi Gingold, the daughter of juvenile court judge Archie Gingold of St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended New York University School of Law on a Root-Tilden public interest scholarship and earned his Juris Doctor in 1976. Legal career
<mask> began his legal career as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, Ohio. After two years, he joined Robert Laufman, a leading civil rights attorney, practicing primarily in the areas of employment discrimination, police misconduct and prisoner rights. After Laufman's retirement in 2004, Jennifer Branch joined him as a partner and the firm became Gerhardstein and Branch, LPA. The firm states its mission as advocating on behalf of those without power. Civil rights practice

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Gerhardstein commented in a Frontline interview that prisoners have no political base, only the power of the courts to redress grievances.He has sought to redress those grievances through litigation. In 1994, <mask> was named lead counsel in a class action against the state officers, administrators and staff of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, on behalf of inmate victims of the riot that occurred there in 1993. The plaintiffs were awarded a record $4.1 million as part of a class action settlement that included sweeping reforms of the practices and procedures at that maximum security prison. <mask> and fellow attorney Robert Laufman had previously sued the state of Ohio for cruel and unusual punishment on behalf of several mentally ill prisoners. After filing the legal action, he worked with the defendant Director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections to address the underlying problems. That collaboration resulted in a court enforced consent decree providing for reforms based on a treatment-oriented approach to mentally ill inmates in all Ohio state prisons. He also filed a class action challenging the level of medical and dental services provided for inmates by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in 2003.That challenge resulted in a settlement agreement that provided for a five-year supervised plan to substantially improve those services. From 2008–2015, Gerhardstein worked with the Children's Law Center of Covington, Kentucky and achieved significant reforms in the Ohio juvenile justice system by entering into an agreed order in cooperation with the defendant administrators of the Ohio Department of Youth Services on behalf of incarcerated juveniles. That agreement eventually resulted in a dramatic reduction of the inmate population, closure of several juvenile prisons, elimination of solitary confinement and improved mental health, educational and recreational services for the children in the juvenile detention facilities throughout the state. Police misconduct
"There are lots of different strategies that don't rely on arresting black people and feeding more mass incarceration, and that's what we've worked so hard on." <mask> is quoted as saying in an article published in The Atlantic. In 2001, <mask> and co-counsel filed a class action on behalf of the Cincinnati Black United Front and Ohio ACLU challenging the use of excessive force and racial profiling by the Cincinnati Police Department. The case was resolved through a collaborative plan, a mediation process that was markedly different from the approach taken in similar actions filed in other jurisdictions.<mask> explained, "[w]e went to court because we've tracked 30 years of promises by the city. We need to have a set of promises that are enforceable." One month after that action was filed, an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a Cincinnati police officer, sparking riots throughout the city. Continuing his approach to resolve serious underlying systemic problems, <mask> participated along with city officials, the police union, and citizens in the creation of a collaborative agreement that established wide reaching reforms in the department that has become a model for other jurisdictions. One of <mask>'s areas of focus has been taser reform. He has litigated cases and published a white paper seeking policies and training that require officers to avoid chest shots and other tactics that increase the risk of injury. The local county sheriff's association responded to the white paper, opening a valuable local dialogue.Significant federal court decisions involving tasers include Goodwin, Brown (two cases challenging chest shots), and Peabody (challenging taser discharge at man on top of fence). Reproductive freedom
<mask> has represented the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Cincinnati and other Ohio abortion providers since 1985. After the Planned Parenthood clinic was firebombed in December, 1985, he secured an order requiring the hundreds of protesters to respect the women arriving as patients at the temporary clinic and to respect their right of access. His lawsuits challenged numerous Ohio laws restricting abortion and many were held to be unconstitutional. LGBT rights
<mask> has also been an active advocate for the rights of the LGBT community. In 1994, for example, he sued the city of Cincinnati unsuccessfully for five years in an effort to strike down an infamous Cincinnati Charter provision that prohibited the enactment of any law that protected the gay community. After the Supreme Court's decision in Romer v. Evans, striking down a Colorado law with almost identical language to that in the Cincinnati Charter, the case was remanded to the Sixth Circuit to be considered in light of the new precedent.However, the Sixth Circuit upheld the amendment for the second time, and it stood until overturned by Cincinnati voters in 2004. He and his law partner, Jennifer Branch, have also represented individual gay and transgender persons in employment discrimination actions. An opportunity to further the cause of gay rights arrived when <mask> was first introduced to James Obergefell and his dying husband, John Arthur, in 2013. He met with them and explained that Ohio would not recognize their Maryland same-sex marriage. As a result, when he died, the death certificate for John would state that he was a single person with no surviving spouse. Changing that would require immediate legal action against the state. Obergefell said that <mask> was the perfect attorney for them and is unsure they would have gone forward with anyone else.<mask> filed suit in federal court seeking an emergency injunction prohibiting the state of Ohio from issuing a death certificate for John that listed the deceased as single and without a surviving spouse. The trial court decided in their favor, holding that "[u]nder the Constitution of the United States, Ohio must recognize on Ohio death certificates valid same-sex marriages from other states." Other rulings soon followed. A similar case was decided in favor of married same-sex parents who had given birth following in-vitro conception and who adopted children and wanted both parents listed on their children's birth certificates. The state of Ohio appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Those cases were consolidated with others from district courts within the Sixth Circuit that were more broadly and directly challenging gay marriage bans. The appellate court reversed the trial courts' decisions and held that states could indeed ban same-sex marriage.Ultimately, <mask> and other lawyers whose cases had been consolidated petitioned the United States Supreme Court for a hearing, which was granted. <mask> observed in a televised interview in April, 2015, that this was a civics lesson for the country that core constitutional principles are not up to the majority to decide. On June 26, 2015 the Court announced its historic decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that established same-sex marriage, finding that same-sex couples had a constitutional right to marry in all fifty states. That decision has been called "the sweetest victory in <mask>'s career." Referenced cases
In re Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, 173 F.R.D. 205 (S.D. Ohio 1997).Fussel et al. v. Wilkinson, Case No. 1-03-CV-704, 2005 WL 3132321, (S.D. Ohio Nov. 22, 2005). Dunn v. Voinovich, Case No. C1-93-0166 (S.D. Ohio 2000).S.H. v. Taft, No. 2:04-cv-1206, 2007 WL 1989753 (S.D. Ohio July 9, 2007). In re Cincinnati Policing, 209 F.R.D. 395 (S.D. Ohio 2002).Goodwin v. City of Painesville, 781 F.3d 314 (6th Cir. 2015). Brown v. Chapman, 814 F.3d 447 (6th Cir. 2016). Peabody v. Perry Twp., Ohio, No. 2:10-cv-1078, 2013 WL 1327026 (S.D. Ohio 2013).Planned Parenthood Ass'n. of Cinti., Inc. v. Project Jericho, 556 N.E.2d 157 (Ohio St. 1990). Women’s Medical Professional Corp v. Taft, 114 F. Supp. 2d 664 (S.D. Ohio 2000). Cincinnati Women’s Services v. Taft, 468 F.3d 361 (6th Cir. 2006).Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region v. Hodges, USDC, SDOH, Case No. 2:15-cv-3079. Glover v. Williamsburg Local School Dist. Bd. of Educ., 20 F.Supp.2d 1160 (S.D. Ohio 1998). Barnes v. City of Cincinnati, 401 F.3d 729 (6th Cir.2005). Obergefell v. Kasich, No. 13-cv-501, 2013 WL 3814262  (S.D. Ohio July 22, 2013). DeBoer v. Snyder, 772 F.3d 388 (6th Cir. 2014). Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S.Ct.2584, 192 L.Ed.2d 609 (2015). Publications*
<mask> <mask>, Making a Buck While Making a Difference, 21 Michigan Journal of Race & Law 251 (2016). <mask> <mask> & David Krings, Uncomfortably True, Police Misconduct Cases, Keys to Appropriate Methods of Resolution, 10 Public Management (2012). <mask> <mask>, Can Effective Apology Emerge Through Litigation? 72 Law and Contemporary Problems No. 2, Spring 2009. <mask> <mask>, Leveraging Maximum Reform While Enforcing Minimum Standards, XXXVI Fordham Urban Law Journal No.1, January 2009. <mask> <mask>, A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful Jury Trials on Behalf of Prisoner-Plaintiffs, 24 Pace Law Rev. No. 2 Spring 2004. <mask> <mask>, PLRA Can Affect Private Practitioner’s Ability to Represent Inmates, XIII Correctional Law Reporter 66 (Feb/Mar 2002).

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Lura (born Maria de Lurdes Assunção Pina; 31 July 1975, Lisboal) is a Portuguese singer and musician, of Cape Verdean descent. Her compositions are based on traditional Cape-Verdean music as for example the Morna, Funaná and Batuque, and influenced by African and contemporary Western music. Biography
The Portuguese voice that leads us to the Cape Verdean nostalgia

Maria de Lurdes Assunção Pina – which artistic name is Lura – was born in 31 July 1975, in Alfredo da Costa Maternity, Lisbon. She is a daughter of Cape Verdean parents, her mother was born in Santo Antão and her father in Santiago. Lura was the first of 4 brothers and was the only artist in the family. Her soul is imbue with two cultures that are present in her life, her melodies and in her artist path: the Portuguese and the Cape Verdean. Being the eldest daughter and child of divorced parents Lura became a fighter.She always felt the need to be at her mother side and fight to give her brothers a better life, even if she had to give up a bit her of childhood. But she passes through the hardest moments of her life with a permanent smile in her face, and without bitterness or pain. Growing up in social neighbourhood she believes that the place where she lived wouldn't made her a looser or a resigned person. On the other and she gain the perspective that the persistence, hard work and determination would be the key for a future wonderful life. The Athlete, Dance or Singer

Lura's determination, focus and hard work will only position her as one of the best in any field of her life and because of this characteristic the world almost lost an international singer (and maybe one of the biggest expressions of the Cape Verdean culture) to win an athlete or a dancer. But for the disgrace of the dancers and swimming lovers she followed the path of the musical notes. Everything started with Juka, a São Tomé singer that invited her to participate in his album.Lura remembers: “I had only seventeen years old and was supposed to do some chorus but at the end Juka asked me to perform a duo with him. I’ve never dreamed of singing but he insisted and…” This was the moment when she discovers her profound and sensual voice! But she didn't feel the need to take the music serious and preferred to follow her sports and dance dream, even with the tremendous success of the Hit. At the age of 21 a Portuguese producer help her to record her first album. This was an album with a strong commercial component and with a musical style more directed for dance and her generation. The song “Nha Vida” (My life) turned into a Hit when it was included in the album Red Hot + Lisbon, in 1997. At this is the moment Lura's life turns definitely into the music and performing (also due to a sports injury).The “Na Ri Na" Success

It was the year of 2000 when Lura does a duo with Bonga in the song "Mulemba Xangola" and the recording company of the well-kwon Cesária Evora - Lusafrica - discovers her talent. They signed with the artist and in 2004 and they produced the album Di Korpu Ku Alma (From Body and Soul). This was the  first truly Cape Verdean Lura's album, that quickly goes across borders and was released in more than 10 countries including USA, Italy and UK – where it was nominated for the BBC World Music Awards. The famous writer José Eduardo Agualusa quotes about the album Di Korpu Ku Alma: "… The future of the Cape Verdean music has a name and that name is Lura”. At the same time the Britannic journal, The Independent states: "… when she starts with her international career this girl will fill-up the stadiums”. In November 2006 was released the new album M’bem di Fora (I came from outside) and in France, Lura was nominated for the “Victoires de la Musique", in the best album category. She also does a World tour with this album and conquers an audience more and more faithful and attentive to her music.Three years later, the album Eclipse confirms the singer enormous success, turning Lura into the pearl of new generation of the Cape Verdean music. At this time Lura states: “My career is a constant surprise, since the discovery of my own voice in my teenager times until today. I live day by day, but one thing I can't deny: I will sing until the last day of my life”. In 2010, Lusafrica releases the album The Best of Lura that collects her best songs and includes the hit “Moda Bô” – a song that she wrote to honour the diva Cesária Évora featuring the diva herself. The Best of also includes a DVD with a Lura's Concert. As any other artist, Lura was heartbroken when Cesária Évora passed away in December 2011. One year after she made her a tribute to Cesária with the song “Nós Diva”, only released on the YouTube.Returning to her Cape Verdean Roots and coming back to Lisbon

Lura decided to move to Praia City to experience the Cape Verdean reality. She consolidates her relationship with Cape Verdean musicians and Composers but for her fans joy she continues to perform all over the World. She returns to the studios to record her album Herança in 2015. This album has strong Cape Verdean influence: is vibrant and frankly danceable with songs like “Maria di Lida”, “Sabi di Más” and “Ness Tempo di Nha Bidjissa” with the rhythm of Funaná and imbue with the Island real energy, retreating  the Cape Verdean Intensity, their people, traditions in the most charismatic and melodic voice of her generation: Lura's voice. In 2016 Lura gives birth to her beautiful daughter Nina and in 2018 returns to her hometown, Lisbon. Also in 2018 an EP was released with the song “ALguem di Alguem” (a frenetic and rhythmic funana) and “Crespuscular Solidão” a song featuring Gael Faye as a tribute to Cesária Évora. This theme was performed for the first time at the Festival Sakifo in La Réunion Island.In January 2021 Lura initiates a revolution in her life: She changes her manager and team to Miguel Garcia (manager) and Lisboa Amsterdam. This revolutions starts with the conception and recording of her new album that has the production of the young but already promising Portuguese producer Agir. This album promises to celebrate the Luso-African culture with one of its more important and actual identity: the singer <mask>. October 2021 is the planned date for the release of the so expected new album. In 2021 Lura also celebrates 25 years of career.


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<mask> is an American photographer. She was the first African-American female photographer whose work was acquired by the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City. Biography
<mask> was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Columbus, Ohio. After graduating from Howard University in 1973, she moved to New York City, where she found work modeling. While in New York she met photographer Anthony Barboza, who was an early influence. Artistic style
<mask>'s approach to photography has included in-camera techniques such as playing with focus, darkroom techniques like double exposure, collage techniques and paint on prints. Her work is less engaged with documentation of events than with expression of experience.It has been described as surreal and ethereal, as the New York Times observed: "Her work, personal and expressive, draws from a number of artistic sources, preeminently surrealism. She has employed a range of surrealist techniques: photographing her subjects from oblique angles, shooting out of focus or through such atmospheric effects as fog and shadow, playing on unusual juxtapositions, even altering or painting over prints." <mask>'s early work was composed of photos that were shot quickly to produce elaborate scenes, and due to this process many of her photos have double dates. She has used the technique of hand-tinting in some of her work, notably her Transcendence series. Some of <mask>'s work displayed in the Museum of Modern Art depicts motherhood in Harlem. These photos are taken using a documentary style way of photographing these subjects. Career

<mask> has photographed many important black cultural figures during her career, including Alvin Ailey and Nina Simone.In 1973 <mask> was featured in the first volume of the Black Photographers Annual, a publication closely affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. <mask> had her first exhibition at Cinandre, a hairdressing salon, in 1973 as well. At Cinandre, she met Grace Jones, whom she photographed wearing a black and white tutu on occasion. <mask> recalls that she and Jones would talk about surviving as black artists. <mask> reflects on the memories by saying: "We came out of Jim Crow. And so just coming to New York and trying to be a model or anything was new." Two years later (1975), <mask> became the first female member of the Harlem-based photography collective Kamoinge, under director Roy DeCarava.The Kamoinge Workshop was founded in New York in 1963 to support the work of black photographers in a field then dominated by white men. The collective, which still exists today, has undertaken a range of initiatives, including exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and the publishing of portfolios for distribution to museums. <mask> participated with Kamoinge in three groups shows in New York and Guyana. <mask> dropped off a portfolio at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), where the receptionist mistook her for a messenger. When she returned, she was taken into the curator's office. Susan Kismaric named a price for <mask>'s work, which <mask> declined due to the price not paying off her bills. Kismaric asked <mask> to reconsider, which she eventually did.Shortly after, she became the first Black woman photographer to be included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. In addition to the MOMA, <mask>'s art has been featured at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum & Center for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

<mask> has twice exhibited at the Bellvue Hospital Centre in Morristown, New Jersey, through their Art in the Atrium exhibitions. The first was in 1995, for Cultural Images: Sweet Potato Pie, an exhibit curated by Russell A. Murray. In 2008 she contributed as part of the exhibition New York City: In Focus, part of Creative Destinations 2008 Exhibition of African American Art. <mask>'s photographs are included in the 2004 Ntozake Shange book The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family and Life. In 2010, her work was included in MOMA's exhibition Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography. This exhibition recontextualized <mask>'s work alongside that of Diane Arbus and marked a growing interest in <mask>'s work.Organized by curator Roxana Marcoci, it was curated by Sarah Meister through the Department of Photography. In 2017, a major survey exhibition of <mask>'s work was held at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York. The exhibition featured 75 vintage black-and-white prints that represented <mask>'s career. <mask> has collaborated with filmmaker Arthur Jafa in the Serpentine Sackler Gallery's 2017 show, Arthur Jafa: A Series of Utterly Improbable, yet Extraordinary Renditions (Featuring <mask>, Frida Orupabo and Missylanyus). That same year, she was featured in the Tate Modern group exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, curated by Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley. The show received international acclaim before traveling to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, The Broad, the de Young Museum of San Francisco and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Since then, <mask>'s work was featured in solo presentations by Jenkins Johnson Gallery both at Frieze New York and Frieze Masters in 2019, the former of which receiving the Frieze Stand Prize.In 2020, <mask>'s work will be included in the group exhibition Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, VA. From there, the exhibition will travel to The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. <mask>'s work is in museum collections including the National Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. <mask>) on the African American Visual Artists Database

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