Word: groover
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...charts and prompted an 80-city tour of the U.S. and Europe as well as appearances at England's Reading and Glastonbury festivals. Now, with the release last month of his new album, Point, Oyamada is returning from a four-year hiatus to reaffirm his status as an international groover and shaker; artists ranging from Sting to k.d. lang to Beck are after him to do remixes...
...arcades to try their feet on a sensor pad that rated their hottest dance moves against a machine. Now, DDR, dubbed "karaoke for the feet," is electrifying the U.S., and no one is more entranced than Aldea, a 29-year-old data programmer whose alter ego is a cool groover named 8-ball. Aldea has been jamming to DDR for a year now, and he loves how his agile antics draw crowds at San Francisco's Metreon super-entertainment complex. "This is all about performing," he says. "It's about making eye contact with the crowd and feeling their energy...
Many who were at the kick-off are heavily involved in city afterschool programming, such as the Rev. Gregory Groover, Sr., who chairs the education committee of the Black Ministerial Alliance, a group whose 40 afterschool programs will likely benefit from the new funds...
...someone who grew up in the projects of New York...I was always aware that I could make it, partly because there was a community center in my housing development that enriched me with afterschool activities," Groover said, moving the crowd with his sermon-like speech...
...Through your commitment, President Rudenstine, our children will look across the Charles River to your institution and say 'I will study there one day,'" Groover said...