Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother once told me that she wasn't afraid to die, that she had accomplished everything as planned. My mother was not only a physican, but also a writer, pianist, runner and singer. What she achieved in her life exceeded most people's dreams...
Imagine you're listening to a male country-western singer describing his ideal woman. Take a guess as to what...
...King"--no intellectual slouch she. However, Raye's most feminist hit to date is "I Think About You," which won awards for raising awareness of spousal abuse and address all kinds of oppression women face, from safety issues to questions of pornography. (When was the last time a male singer in another genre "raised awareness" of these issues through positive publicity...
...band's new CD, A Thousand Leaves (Geffen), is one of its best. The quartet--singer-bassist Kim Gordon, drummer Steve Shelley and singer-guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Moore (who is married to Gordon)--has always been given to experimentation, but on this CD the Sonics bring it off with new vigor and maturity...
...native New Yorker, Smith, 43, has lived in Paris since 1991. He had kicked around the American entertainment industry as both a singer and an actor, playing nightclubs and doing bit parts in '80s brat-pack movies, but like too many jazz musicians before him, he has found a more receptive audience in Europe, where he has starred in musicals and performed regularly with French pianist Claude Bolling's big band. Smith describes being hounded for autographs by fans as young as 12 who can rattle off jazz history, whereas "kids back home don't even know who Billie Holiday...