Word: musician
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...Four other newsmakers in the spotlight The Soviet Union's answer to the Great Communicator; an "implacable enemy of this world"; a symbol for South Africa's blacks; a rock musician who believes...
...real Bob Geldof is, in fact, a fullhearted rock musician with a stalled career and a tempestuous conscience who launched, almost casually, a musical mobilization to aid starving people in Africa. What he pulled off, and what he inspired, still seems something like a fantasy. A single record by a group of British rock stars organized by Geldof under the rubric Band Aid raised $11 million. The Live Aid concert, held in London and Philadelphia the same July day and broadcast live around the world, brought in an additional $72 million. The success of these projects, as well as Geldof...
...popular as any modern artist in America could then be; and despite his German name, his years of teaching at the Bauhaus and his flight from Nazi Germany, he was American, having been born in New York City and emigrated to Europe in 1887. He longed to be a musician, supported himself by drawing caricatures and illustrations and did not start painting until he was 36. Naturally, Feininger did not begin with the style he is known for. But until lately, little was known of his early efforts. Most of them remained in East Germany...
...group usually does a song in the language of or by a musician from the country it is visiting, whether it's Take on Me by Norway's rock gods A Ha or Olivia Newton-John's Let's Get Physical in Australia...
...senior left fielder Lauren Stefanchik, growing up in New Jersey meant several things. Featured prominently among them were her favorite sport of softball and the state’s most famous musician...