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Biography of Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman, AC (born 20 June 1967 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrodatabank)) is an Australian actress, singer and film producer. Kidman's film career began in 1983. She starred in various Australian film and television productions until her breakthrough in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder (1990), Far and Away (1992), and Batman Forever (1995). She followed these with other successful films in the late 1990s. Her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge! (2001) earned her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours (2002) received critical acclaim and earned Kidman ...
Biography of Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, and computer programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books. Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014. Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased ...
Biography of Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian/American[1] actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee after marrying the drummer for Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the 1990s and for her large breast implants. After graduating from Highland Secondary School in 1985, Anderson moved to Vancouver and worked as a fitness instructor. During the summer of 1989, Pamela went with her friends to a Canadian football game; at some point during the game she was shown on the stadium screen wearing a Labatt's t-shirt, causing the crowd to cheer for the twenty one year old Anderson. She was taken down to the field to get an ovation from the crowd. Labatt's i...
Biography of Sophie Marceau
Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (French pronunciation: ; born 17 November 1966 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 39 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, including L'Étudiante (1988), Pacific Palisades (1990), Fanfan (1993), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), and the nineteenth James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Early life Sophie Marceau was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second child of Simone ...
Biography of Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, writer, actor, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier","Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). Morrison died in Paris at the age of 27. The circumstances of his death and burial are not fully known. Early years Morrison was born on 8 December, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, to Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister and a brother. Anne Robin Morrison was born in 1947 in Albuqu...
Biography of Céline Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, CC, OQ(French pronunciation: ( listen); born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian pop singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. Born to a large family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the anglophone album Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world. Dion had first gained international recognition in the 1980s by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest. Following a series of French albums in the early 1980s, she signed on to CBS Records Canada in 1986. During the 1990s, w...
Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 (birth time source: her birth certificate, Astrodatabank) – March 23, 2011), also known as Liz Taylor, was an English-American actress. A former child star, she grew to be known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor was considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood's golden age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list. Early years (1932–1942) Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of North West London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897–1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895–1994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor's older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Her pare...
Biography of Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger (born 26 July 1943 (birth time source: Astrodatabank)) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of the Rolling Stones. 1943–61: early years Mick Jagger was born into a middle-class family in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe "Joe" Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, of English descent, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was brought up to follow in his father's career path. In...
Biography of Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro (/dəˈnɪroʊ/; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973. Then in 1974, after not receiving the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather, he was cast as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, a role for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese began with Mean Streets, and later earned De Niro an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake LaMotta in the 1980 film Raging Bull. He earned nominations for Taxi Driver in 1976 and Cape Fear in 1991. De Niro received additional Academy Award nominations for Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), Penny Ma...
Biography of Katie Holmes
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978 (birth time source: Astrodatabank, LMR) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Since Dawson's Creek, Holmes' career has consisted of movie roles such as the blockbuster Batman Begins, art house films such as The Ice Storm, horror films such as Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and thrillers including Abandon. She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and had various guest roles on television programs such as How I Met Your Mother. Early life Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio. She is the fourth daughter and youngest child of five children born to Kathleen (née Stothers), a homemaker and philanthropist, and...
Biography of Françoise Hardy
Françoise Hardy (born Françoise Madeleine Hardy, January 17, 1944 in Paris) is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is considered an iconic figure in many respects (fashion, music style, personality) in the Francophile world. Biography Françoise Hardy signed her first contract with the record label Vogue in November 1961. In April 1962, shortly after finishing school, her first album Oh Oh Chéri appeared, with the title song written by Johnny Hallyday's writing duo. The flip side of the record, "Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles" became a huge success, riding the wave of Yé-yé music in France, with two million copies sold. Hardy sang in French, English, Italian, Spanish, and German occasionally. In 1963 she represented Monaco in the Grand Prix d'Eurovision de la Chanson with ...
Biography of Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968 (birth time source: The Complete Kylie Minogue by Simon Sheridan) is an Australian dance-pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the mid '80s through her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before she commenced her career as a pop artist in the late '80s. According to Warner Music Australia, Minogue has sold over 65 million records worldwide. Signed to a contract by British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman, she achieved a string of hit records throughout the world. Her popularity began to decline during the early 1990s, leading her to part company from Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992. Minogue distanced herself from her earlier work and attempted to establish herself as an inde...
Biography of Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve (October 22, 1943, in Paris, France (birth time source: Astrodatabank, Bordoni, birth certificate)), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress. A model of French elegance, cultivated lust object for art house filmgoers everywhere, and one of the best-respected actresses in the French film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. The daughter of French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve, Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, in Paris on October 22, 1943. She made her screen debut at the age of 13, with a role in the 1956 film Les Collegiennes, and went on to make a string of films with directors such as Roger Vadim (with whom sh...
Biography of Isabelle Adjani
Isabelle Adjani (born Isabelle Yasmina Adjani on 27 June 1955 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French film actress and singer. She is a five-time César Award winner and two-time Academy Award nominee. After success in the Comédie-Française, Adjani gained further fame in 1975 for her lauded performance as Adele Hugo in The Story of Adele H., which earned the then 20 year-old her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, making her the youngest nominee ever at the time. She won the first of a record five César Awards for Best Actress for the 1981 film Possession. Her subsequent wins were for One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot (1994) and Skirt Day (2009). Her 1988 Best Actress Academy Award nomination for Camille Claudel made her the first Fre...
Biography of Lucy Lawless
Lucy Lawless (born Lucille Frances Ryan on March 29, 1968 in Auckland (birth time source: Richard Nolle, Astrodatabank) is a New Zealand actress and singer best known for her role as Xena on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess from 1995 to 2001. Lucy Lawless was the fifth of seven children born to Frank and Julie Ryan. She has five brothers and one sister. Lucy began acting in secondary school. At Auckland University, she studied foreign languages for a year. She dropped out and left for Europe with her boyfriend, Garth Lawless, to travel in Germany and Switzerland. The couple then moved to Australia, where Lucy worked briefly as a gold miner. At 19, Lucy became pregnant. In 1988, Lucy and Garth married in Kalgoorlie, Australia. They returned to New Zealand and had a daughte...
Biography of Pink (singer)
Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8, 1979 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (birth time source: Imdb http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0600877/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm))), known by her stage name Pink (stylized as P!nk), is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress. In 2000, she released her first single "There You Go", from her debut album Can't Take Me Home. The song was a commercial success, peaking at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2001 she released her second studio album Missundaztood, which was critically acclaimed, and her most commercially successful album to date. The album produced the hit singles "Get the Party Started", "Don't Let Me Get Me", "Just Like a Pill" and "Family Portrait". In November 2003, Pink released her third studio album Try This, which produced the hit singl...
Biography of Ian Somerhalder
Ian Joseph Somerhalder (born December 8, 1978 (birth time source: his Twitter account)) is an American actor and model, best known for playing Boone Carlyle in the TV drama Lost and Damon Salvatore in the TV drama The Vampire Diaries. Early life Somerhalder was born and raised in Covington, Louisiana, the son of Edna, a massage therapist, and Robert Somerhalder, an independent building contractor. Raised Catholic, he attended St. Paul's, a private Catholic school in Covington. He embarked on a modeling career from age 10 to 13, and by the age of 17 he decided to go into acting. Career In the summer of 2000, Somerhalder starred in the short-lived WB series Young Americans, a spin-off of Dawson's Creek. He played Hamilton Fleming, the son of the dean of a prestigious boarding school...
Biography of Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Amanda Bleeth (born June 14, 1968 (birth time source: Paul Cerrito)) is an American actress. Her television roles include Caroline Holden in the long-running series Baywatch and Lee Anne Demerest on the soap opera One Life to Live. Early life and career Bleeth was born in New York City, the daughter of Carina, a model, and Philip Bleeth, a business proprietor. Her father is Jewish of Russian and German descent, her late mother Carina was of French and Algerian descent. Her earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age 10 months in 1969. At the age of six, she appeared on Candid Camera. Later that year she appeared in a Max Factor cosmetic advertising campaign with model Cristina Ferrare. Her work in this campai...
Biography of Vincent Cassel
Vincent Crochon (born November 23, 1966) is a French actor. Born in Paris as Vincent Crochon, he is the son of French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel. Vincent Cassel is a famous French actor known for tough guy roles. His breakthrough role was in Mathieu Kassovitz's critically acclaimed film La Haine where he played a troubled youth from the decrepit outskirts of Paris. Cassel has gone on to act in a variety of films such as the moody L'Appartement, the violent Dobermann, genre-bending Le Pacte des Loups and in the highly controversial Irréversible. Cassel has also done a few English language films, such as Ocean's Twelve, Derailed, Birthday Girl, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Elizabeth and Shrek (as the voice of Monsieur Hood). His newest film will be Sheitan, in which he pla...
Biography of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (born on May 3 (Gregorian calendar) (birth time source: Astrodatabank, April 23 (Julian Calendar), baptised 26 April 1564 (Julian calendar) – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language, and as the world's preeminent dramatist. He wrote approximately 38 plays and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. Already popular in his own lifetime, Shakespeare became more famous after his death and his work was adulated by many prominent cultural figures through the centuries. He is often considered to be England's national poet and is sometimes referred to as the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard") or the "Swan of Avon". Shakespeare produced most of his work between 1586 and 1612, although t...
Biography of Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams (born November 17, 1978 (birth time source: The Rachel McAdams Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Rachel McAdams by Emily Smith)) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles in the Hollywood films Mean Girls, The Notebook and Wedding Crashers, which all proved to be successful at movie theaters. Early life McAdams was born in London, Ontario and grew up in nearby St. Thomas. Her father, Lance, is a truck driver, and her mother, Sandra, is a nurse. She has a younger brother, Daniel, and a younger half-sister, Kayleen. She took up competitive figure skating at the age of four and acting at age thirteen at a summer theater camp in London, Ontario named Original Kids. When the company extended to a year-round company, she was invited to continue with them. Sh...
Biography of Jean-Pierre Danel
Jean-Pierre Danel (born 4 June 1968 in La Varenne-Saint-Hilaire) is a French self-taught guitarist, record producer and composer. Biography Danel started his career as a professional guitarist in July 1982, at the age of 14. He was then mainly influenced by the English guitarist Hank Marvin and The Shadows. After many tours and studio recordings with French session musicians, he released various guitar albums, 7 gold discs in Europe. In the US, his album Stratospheric was named Best Album of the Year 2000 by the Instrumental Rock Guitar Hall Of Fame, and Danel was also named Composer of the Year for his track "Ballad For a Friend". As a guitarist, the Instrumental Rock Guitar Hall Of Fame described him as "brilliant and expressive". In 2001, he was featured on the charitable Unic...
Biography of Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born February 21, 1979 (birth time source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001349/bio)) is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is well-known for her television and film roles in the Fox television series Party of Five and its spin-off Time Of Your Life, as Sarah Reeves, and also starred in I Know What You Did Last Summer and its sequel, as Julie James. Hewitt can currently be seen on the CBS top-rated television series Ghost Whisperer, as Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed who communicates with the dead. Early life and career Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Herbert Daniel Hewitt and Patricia Mae Shipp. Her father is a technician and her mother worked as a speech-language pathologist. Hewitt grew up in Harker Heights, Texas. After the divorce of her parents...
Biography of Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor who trained at the National Youth Theatre and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991, beginning his career on stage. His film debut was in the drama The Power of One (1992). Other early appearances were in the biographical film Elizabeth (1998) and the Disney family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), as well as in the historical war drama television series Sharpe's Eagle (1993) and the action-adventure drama series Zorro. Cast as the fictional British secret agent James Bond 007 in October 2005, his first film in the role, Casino Royale, was released in cinemas worldwide in November 2006. Craig's appearances in the British television film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon...
Biography of Eva Joly
Eva Joly (born December 5, 1943 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, BC) as Eva Gro Farseth) is a Norwegian-French magistrate. Born in Grünerløkka, Oslo, she moved to Paris at 18 to work as an au pair. Here, against the will of the parents, she married the son of the family, Pascal Joly (now deceased). Working as a secretary, she took her legal education at night school. Joly specialised in financial affairs, and in 1990 she joined the High Court of Paris as an investigating judge. Here she quickly made a mark with her tireless crusade against corruption, in particular taking on, among others, former minister Bernard Tapie and the bank Crédit Lyonnais. Her most famous case, however, was that of France’s leading oil company – Elf Aquitaine. In the face of death threats, she car...
Biography of Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh
Osho (11 December 1931 (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Astrodatabank, from memory. Source for latitude and longitude of Kuchwada, Madhya Pradesh: http://www.distancesfrom.com/Kuchwada-latitude-longitude-Kuchwada-latitude-Kuchwada-longitude/LatLongHistory/597896.aspx)) – 19 January 1990), born in India as Chandra Mohan Jain, and formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, was a mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher. The international Rajneesh movement has continued after his death. A professor of philosophy, he travelled throughout India in the 1960s as a public speaker. He was a critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and institutionalised religions. He advocated a more open attitude towards human sexuality, earning him the sobriquet "sex guru" in the Indian and later international press, altho...
Biography of Aaliyah
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 (birth time source: Aaliyah by Tim Footman) – August 25, 2001), known professionally as Aaliyah, was a Grammy Award winning American singer, dancer, model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy Elliott & Timbaland and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Aaliyah soon joined Timbaland's R&B and hip hop collective, the Superfriends Clique. Notable for recording several hit records, including several number one R&B hits, a number one pop hit, and nine top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. She also modeled for Tommy Hilfiger and starred in two motion pictures before dying in a plane crash in the Bahamas. On A...
Biography of Jason Statham
Jason Statham (/ˈsteɪθəm/ stay-thum; born 26 July 1967) is an English actor, producer, martial artist, and former diver. He is known for his roles in the Guy Ritchie crime films Revolver, Snatch, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. He has also appeared in films such as The Italian Job, The Transporter, Death Race, Crank, The Bank Job, War, The Expendables, and The Expendables 2. He usually performs his own stage combat and stunts, and is noted for being typecast as an antihero. Early life Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England, the son of Eileen (née Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street seller and lounge singer. He moved to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where he initially chose not to follow his father's career working the local market stalls...
Biography of Vin Diesel
Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate)), better known by his stage name Vin Diesel, is an American actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is well known for his portrayals of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious film series and Richard B. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick series. He was also a producer on sequels in both franchises. Diesel has also starred in films such as xXx (2002) and Find Me Guilty (2006). His voice acting work includes The Iron Giant (1999), the video game spin-offs from The Chronicles of Riddick franchise, and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). He wrote, directed, produced, and starred in a short film titled Multi-Facial and the feature-length drama film Strays. He is the founder of the pro...
Biography of Ed Sheeran
Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter who is currently signed to Asylum / Atlantic Records. Sheeran broke through commercially in June 2011, when his debut single "The A Team" debuted at number 3 on the UK chart. Life Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire to Irish and English parents, before moving to Framlingham, Suffolk; he is a cousin of TV journalist and presenter Gordon Burns. He learned guitar at a very young age, and began writing songs during his time at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. His early childhood memories, referred to in a interview on the Zane Lowe show, included listening to Van Morrison on his countless trips to London with his parents and going to an intimate gig with Damien Rice in Ireland when he wa...
Biography of Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist. He is considered one of the most well-known French Romantic writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. Among many volumes of poetry, Les Contemplations and La Légende des siècles stand particularly high in critical esteem. Outside France, his best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and Notre-Dame de Paris, 1831 (known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though a committed royalist when he was young, Hugo's views changed as the decades passed; he became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon most of the political and social issu...
Biography of Kris Jenner
Kristen Mary "Kris" Jenner (née Houghton, previously Kardashian; born November 5, 1955 (birth time source: Viktor E., Astrodatabank, birth certificate))) is an American television personality, socialite, and businesswoman. She is also the manager for all of her family members including Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian. She is the wife of Olympic Champion Bruce Jenner. Jenner was previously married to lawyer Robert Kardashian Sr. They divorced in 1990. Early Life Kristen Mary Houghton grew up in University City, a suburb of San Diego, and attended Clairemont High School. She is the daughter of Mary and David Houghton, who had two other daughters, Karen and Sarah. She was raised solely by her mother, because her parents went through a divorce when she was 7. Her...
Biography of Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from October 16, 1978, until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the (Low) German Adrian VI in the 1520s. He is one of only four people to have been named to the Time 100 for both the 20th century and for a year in the 21st. The official title of John Paul II was: Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Head of the College of Bishop...
Biography of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American, multi Grammy Award-winning influential American country and rock and roll singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter June Carter Cash. Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the boom-chick-a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his dark clothing, and demeanor, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black." He traditionally started his concerts with the simple introduction "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hurt" (a cover of the Nine Inch Nails so...
Biography of Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer and a founding member of the British musical group The Rolling Stones in 1962. With songwriting partner and Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, he has written, recorded and published hundreds of songs including "Satisfaction", "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Miss You" and "Start Me Up". Though he has had a solo career and appears as a guest artist on the recordings of other artists, his association with the Stones has defined his musical career. As a guitarist Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Richards #10 in its list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Public image and private life Photo by Sante D'Orazio, from Talk is Cheap album art work, ...
Biography of Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), born Jeffrey Scott Buckley and raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Known for his ethereal singing voice, Buckley was considered by critics to be one of the most promising artists of his generation after the release of his critically acclaimed 1994 debut album Grace. However, at the height of his popularity, Buckley drowned during an evening swim in 1997. His work and style continue to be highly regarded by critics and fellow musicians. Discography Albums Year Title Release Date 1993 Live at Sin-é November 23, 1993 1994 Grace August 23, 1994 1995 Live from the Bataclan October 1995 1998 Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk May 26, 1998 2000 Mystery White Boy May 9, 2000 2001 Live...
Biography of Jimmy Page
James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English guitarist and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds, from late 1966 to 1968, before founding English rock band Led Zeppelin. Page is credited as a forefather of heavy metal by not only turning up the accepted volume of the electric guitar but also with his anthemic riffs and meticulous studio production. Page is widely considered to be the first producer to truly create the "heavy" sound of rock music with the combination of new drum recording methods and revolutionary room. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #9 in their ranking of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Page also has the distinction of having been inducted...
Biography of Gordon Ramsay
Gordon James Ramsay, OBE, (born 8 November 1966 (birth time source: Paul Wright, Astrodatabank)) is a chef, television personality and restaurateur. He has been awarded a total of 16 Michelin Stars, and in 2001 became one of only three chefs in the United Kingdom to hold three Michelin stars at one time. Ramsay currently ranks 3rd in the world in terms of Michelin Stars behind Joël Robuchon and Alain Ducasse. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as Hell's Kitchen, The F Word and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. Early life Ramsay's father was, at various times, a swimming pool manager, welder, shopkeeper, and his mother and sister were nurses. Ramsay has described his early life as "hopelessly itinerant", as his family moved constantly d...
Biography of Julio Iglesias
Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva (born September 23, 1943 in Madrid) is Spain's best selling singer and the best-selling Spanish singer of all time. Julio Iglesias has sold over 250 million records in different languages and released 77 records. He thus far has performed approximately 5,000 concerts during his career and recorded albums in fourteen different languages. Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m) Julio is the eldest son of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Maria del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat; his younger brother is Carlos. At age 61, his 87 year old dad had more children. Half brother Jaime was born 18 May 2004, and half-sister Ruth on 26 July 2006. Julio's half-siblings were born from the second marriage of Dr. Julio Iglesias Puga and Ronna Keitt. If not for a car accident, on 22nd Sept...
Biography of Brigitte Lahaie
Brigitte Lahaie (born Brigade Van Meerhaegue on October 12, 1955, in Tourcoing, France) is a notable French porn actress who began her career at the age of 20 performing in pornographic films from 1976 through 1980. In 1980, having become a kind of idol of the French adult film industry's golden age, she decided to put an end to her hardcore career and appeared in more "traditional" movies and "big" productions, such as I comme Icare (Henri Verneuil, 1980) in which she played a stripper, and in Pour la peau d'un flic (Alain Delon, 1981) in which she played a nurse. However, she also made some softcore and Nazi exploitation "video nasties" during this time. At the end of her acting career, she became famous in the general public by participating in the famous French radio show, Les Gr...
Biography of Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" (referencing the Nathaniel Hawthorne story about the "Old Man of the Mountain" ). His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among the most innovative and important work in the history of cinema. He was recognized as the seventh greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. A 2002 world-wide poll by Sight and Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator. Early life in v...
Biography of Usher (entertainer)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American R&B/pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the mid-late 1990s. To date, he has sold approximately over 35 million albums worldwide and has won five Grammy Awards. Usher is also a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers National Basketball Association franchise. Albums Usher (1994) My Way (1997) Live (1999) 8701 (2001) Confessions (2004) The Masterpiece (2007) Filmography Movies 1998: The Faculty 1999: She's All That 1999: Light It Up 2001: Texas Rangers 2005: In the Mix 2006: The Ballad of Walter Holmes 2007: Mama, I Want To Sing! Television 1996: The Parent Hood 1997-1999: Moesha 1998: The Bold and the Beautiful 2000: Geppetto 2001: 7th Heaven 2002: The Twilight Zone 2003: Soul F...
Biography of Amélie Mauresmo
Amélie Simone Mauresmo (born on 5 July 1979) is a French professional tennis player and is a former World No. 1. She is currently the third ranked player in the world. She has won two Grand Slam singles titles, the 2006 Australian Open and 2006 Wimbledon. Mauresmo first attained the top ranking on September 13, 2004, holding it for five weeks on that occasion. She was the fourteenth World No. 1 in women's tennis since the computer rankings began. She is well known for her powerful one-handed backhand (a rarity in women's tennis) and her strong net play. She is coached by Loïc Courteau. Amélie Mauresmo was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Inspired by watching Yannick Noah win the 1983 French Open on television, Mauresmo began to play tennis at the age of 4. In 1996, Mauresmo captured...
Biography of James McAvoy
James Andrew McAvoy (pronounced MACK-uh-voy; born 21 April 1979 (birth time source: Caroline Gerard, Astrodatabank)) is an acclaimed BAFTA Scotland, ALFS Award, Rising Star Award and two-time BAFTA, European Film Award, Golden Globe nominated Scottish stage and screen actor best known for his starring roles in the Academy Award for Best Picture nominated film Atonement, Academy Award winning The Last King of Scotland, and the Emmy nominated and BAFTA winning British TV series Shameless. Early life McAvoy was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a psychiatric nurse, and James McAvoy, a builder. McAvoy's parents divorced when he was seven, and he subsequently lived with his maternal grandparents, Mary and James Johnstone in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow. His ...
Biography of Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist of Portuguese descent. The source for her birth time is http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/nellyfurtado.html. Furtado came to fame in 2000 with the release of her debut album Whoa, Nelly!, which featured her breakthrough Grammy Award-winning single "I'm Like a Bird". After becoming a mother and releasing the less commercially successful Folklore (2003), she returned to prominence in 2006 with the release of Loose and its hit singles "Promiscuous" ,"Maneater", "Say It Right", and "All Good Things (Come to an End)". Furtado is known for experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres, languages, and vocal styles. This diversity has been influenced by her wi...
Biography of Rita Ora
Rita Sahatçiu Ora (born November 26, 1990 (source for her time of birth: herself on Instagram, she answers a friend, copy at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Rita_Ora_time_if_birth.jpg), better known as Rita Ora, is a Kosovar-British mezzo-soprano, recording artist, and actress. In 2009, she appeared on the BBC's Eurovision: Your Country Needs You where she auditioned to be the British contestant for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Later in 2009 she signed to Roc Nation. She is of Kosovar Albanian ethnicity. Biography Early life and career beginnings Rita Ora was born in Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) and moved to the United Kingdom the same year of her birth. She grew up in West London and attended St Cuthbert with St Matthias CE Primary School in Earls Court, following which...
Biography of Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. rcpart of the subject matter for her first serious novel, which did not turn out to Beauvoir's liking. Later in life she split the manuscript from this novel into a series of short stories. Works L'Invitée (1943) (English – She Came to Stay) Pyrrhus et Cinéas (1944) Le Sang des autres (1945) (English ...
Biography of Sinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (born December 8, 1966 (birth time source: http://www.astrolreport.com/famous-o/oconnor.sinead.php)) is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's second biggest-selling female artist, after Enya. Early life O'Connor was born in Dublin and was named after Sinéad de Valera, wife of Irish President Éamon de Valera and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. She was the middle of five children, sister to Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin. Joseph O'Connor is now a notable novelist. Her parents were Jack O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister, and Marie O'Connor. The couple married young and had a troubled relationship, splitting up when O'Connor was eight. The three eldest ...
Biography of Iman (model)
Iman (born July 25, 1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia as Iman Abdulmajid, Somali: Iimaan Cabdimajiid) is a supermodel based in the United States. The daughter of the Somali ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Iman attended high school in Egypt and later lived in Nairobi, Kenya, where her parents still reside. Iman attended the University of Nairobi. Fluent in five languages, she studied political science and was recruited as a model by American photographer Peter Beard. Relocating to the United States, she married African American basketball player Spencer Haywood in 1977. Their daughter, Zulekha Haywood, was born in 1978; the couple divorced in 1987. She married British rock star and actor David Bowie in 1992. They have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born August 15, 2000. She is also the st...
Biography of Benoît Hamon
Benoît Hamon (French: ; born 26 June 1967 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)) is a French politician and a member of both the Socialist Party (PS), and the Party of European Socialists. He became the Socialist candidate for the 2017 French presidential election after defeating Manuel Valls in the second round of the party's primary on 29 January 2017. Hamon was Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of France from 2004 to 2009. He was also the leader of the left-wing of the PS during the 2008 Reims Congress and its candidate for the First Secretaryship. In May 2012, he was appointed as Junior Minister for the Social Economy at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and External Trade by President François Hollande, serving in that post for two years. He was Minister of Na... |
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