Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leningrad State University, Gontarev was known for his imitations of French singer Yves Montand. One night, Gontarev was asked to perform before an audience of administrators and faculty, and it changed his life...
...music of Hootie & the Blowfish gets its charge from rock 'n' roll, but it's grounded in the blues. The quartet got together when its members were party-happy students at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Lead singer Darius Rucker says the band was formed "to make a bit of money, drink a few beers and meet a lot of girls." That was nine years ago. On their major label debut, Cracked Rear View (Atlantic), the band still plays with frat- party swagger -- big, bearish guitar work, brawny drumming -- but Rucker's expressive, doleful vocals reveal an admirably...
...this time, Madonna has far overplayed her role as a sexual shockmistress. On Bedtime Stories the sexual content is more subtle, less brazen. With the fluid, soulful opening track, Survival, the singer even offers an apologia of sorts for her bad-girl antics: "I'll never be an angel/ I'll never be a saint, it's true." Of course, she doesn't leave it at that, and on Human Nature she lashes out at her critics. "Did I stay too long?" she mocks over a deep bass groove. "Oops, I didn't know I couldn't speak my mind...
...this disjointed collection of essays and articles, as in earlier books, O'Rourke assumes the role of libertarian praise singer, extolling the virtues of free markets and heaping scorn on the evils of clumsy, intrusive Big Government. He takes the position that despite the whining of enviros, people throughout the world have never been better off and that doomsayers who exaggerate the threat of ecological collapse are motivated by self-interest and a socialist agenda. In essence, he is offering the Wall Street Journal editorial page with a laugh track...
...museum's opening is a prelude to the much larger, $60 million | Smithsonian Indian edifice to be opened in Washington in 2001. And it coincides with the vast, vastly earnest, 6-hr. recasting of Indian history on Ted Turner's TBS (the sound track, featuring Mohawk singer-songwriter Robbie Robertson, forms the basis of a critically acclaimed CD). In Buena Vista, California, Disney artists are shaping the studio's next big-ticket animated film: Pocohantas...