Word: musician
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...biography is dramatic enough for a Bollywood epic: poor boy loses dad, hits the road, studies at Oxford, becomes star! He was born in Madras, on January 6, 1966, with a Bollywood star's soundalike name, A.S. Dileep Kumar. His musician father died when the boy was nine, and to support his family this precocious child left home to become a touring tyro musician with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain...
Hardened veterans of the nocturnal lifestyle seldom report such problems, and quite a few of them, like Tony Warren, claim they have drastically reduced their need for sustained periods of pillow time. Jason Hensel, 32, a Dallas magazine editor and musician, admits to occasionally daydreaming at work but otherwise has few complaints about a routine that others would find grueling. After putting in nine hours at his day job, Hensel rehearses with his band until 10 p.m. or so and then either heads out for nightclubs or settles in for a late night of DVD viewing. For Hensel, four hours...
When asked about the difficulties of balancing a career in the music industry with a more conventional occupation, Eggers replied that “almost every musician has a day job of some kind…for example, I have a day job that’s really flexible and I’m a grad student, but really everybody does something along those lines.” Regardless of their burgeoning musical career, the bills still have to be paid...
...Ideally,” says Pasternack, “I’d find something that would allow me to unite all of my interests, and the only way I see that happening is if I become an experimental musician-slash-recycling collector, slash documentarian, slash also working for an international humanitarian organization...
...musician known for his capacity to stray from audience expectations, the concert can be called nothing short of an intensely pleasurable retrospective of Dylan’s greatest hits and most captivating recent pieces. The 14 song set, plus unforgettable encores of “All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” combined a perfect balance of old and new Dylan, including five from the most recent album Love and Theft (2001), as well as recognizable classics such as “Forever Young?...