Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Randall Hornsby (* 23. November 1954 in Williamsburg, Virginia) Is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. His music combines different styles of Pop and Jazz until Bluegrass.

Life and work

Hornsby has been known throughout the world in 1986 with his hit The Way It IsThat in the U.S. # 1 reached. For the eponymous album, which he and the followers Scenes From The Southside (1988) and A Night on the Town (1990) with his band The Range He received his first recorded Grammy Best New Artist. In the 1990s, Hornsby continued his career as a solo artist and released several albums.

In addition to his solo projects Hornsby also worked together with many other famous musicians, such as Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, Don Henley or Bonnie Raitt. For Huey Lewis he wrote in 1986 hit Jacob's Ladder and Henley The End Of The Innocence. In the early 1990s, he joined as a keyboardist of the Grateful Dead on. 2007 created in collaboration with the well-known country and bluegrass musicians Ricky Skaggs Album Ricky Skaggs & Bruce HornsbyAnd in collaboration with the famous drummer Jack DeJohnette and bassist Christian McBride The acclaimed jazz album Camp Meeting.

Especially for his instrumental music, he was repeatedly for a Grammy nominated and twice awarded:

Privacy

Hornsby and his wife Kathy have two sons.

Discography

• 1986: The Way It Is
  
• 1988: Scenes From The Southside
  
• 1990: A Night on the Town
  
• 1993: Harbor Lights
  
• 1995: Hot House
  
• 1998: Spirit Trail
  
• 2002: Big Swing Face
  
• 2004: Halcyon Days
  
• 2007: Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby
  
• 2007: Camp Meeting (with Jack DeJohnette, Christian McBride)
  
• 2009: Levitate

Katy Perry

Katy Perry (* 25. October 1984 in Santa Barbara, CaliforniaStage name Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson) Is a U.S. Singer and songwriter. She was known worldwide for its hit single I Kissed a Girl.

Careers 

The love of music, discovered the pastor's daughter during a church feast, as her uncle brought her to, in the local Gospel Choir . sing[1] Later, she discovered the band Queen for himself and was immediately by the voice of front man Freddie Mercury smitten ( "When I first saw [his] voice heard, it was as if the heavens opened.").[2]

In 2001, Perry received a contract with the label Red Hill Records. Shortly thereafter she published under her real name Katy Hudson The eponymous debut album, which remained commercially unsuccessful, although it "broad appeal in the Christian music scene"[1] found. After the publication of her first album, she changed her stage name to the Birth name from her mother to the future not to the actress Kate Hudson to be confused.

2004 Perry worked for the label The Matrix, Where she began work on her first mainstream album, which was published in 2005. Some of the titles were on their official MySpacePage published Simple is on the soundtrack of A for 4 included.[3] In the music metropolis Nashville she learned the Producers Glen Ballard to know even for the No Doubt has been active. This deliberately fostered her talent and got her in the first professional recording with advice and practical help.[2] From then on, Perry became more and more into focus of the influential production companies, such as Capitol Records, And the media.

In 2005 she made the video clip Cupid's Chokehold by Gym Class Heroes attention to themselves,[4] where the girlfriend of lead singer Travis McCoy plays. Even privately, the two were long a pair of three years until they separated from each other in 2008.

In May 2008 the first single was I Kissed a Girl from their next album One Of The Boys published in the U.S., which they appeared on the Warped Tour presented. To reach the title # 1 in Canada and in June the Head of the U.S. and Australian Charts.[5] On 1 August was also the title Germany released, debuting at # 2 on the Media Control single charts.[6] In the third week, the song captured in Germany place 1 Mid-September, the album One Of The Boys published. The second single was the song Hot N Cold, On 22 November 2008 as the first pure downloadable titles on the chart entry position 2 abolished in Germany.[7] Reached with the publication on CD Hot N Cold A week later the head of the German charts and was able to stay there for eight weeks continuously. Thus, the success was I Kissed a Girl in Germany, even surpassed.

For the computer game "Sims 2 - Apartment Life"Perry took her song Hot N Cold new, in fantasy language SimlischOn.

On 6 November 2008 hosted Katy Perry MTV Europe Music Awards 2008 and won the award as Best Newcomer. For ECHO 2009 Katy Perry was in the category of "Hit of the Year" nomination. After rather modest success of the third single release Thinking of you Perry published from mid-2009, the Single Waking up in Vegas, From shortly after the publication in the U.S., the success Thinking of you has exceeded.

Larry Norman

  Larry David Norman (* 8. April 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas, † 24. February 2008 in Portland, Oregon) Was a U.S.American Singer and Composer. He was considered one of the main pioneers contemporary Christian music.

Life

Larry Norman grew up in the black ghetto in San Francisco on and later explained that this was the reason why he with the traditional white Church could not start. He was a member of the Rockband People!. This band released its first record in 1968 and landed in the top 20 in the U.S. charts with the song I Love You. Norman left the band in 1969 and released his first solo album, Upon This Rock.

Vasco da Gama

Dom Vasco da GamaCount of Vidigueira (Born around 1469 Sines, † 24. December 1524 in Kochi, India) Was a Portuguese Sailor and discovered the sea route to India.

Biography

About the historical origin of the name Gama are represented by different versions of historians. One theory is that this name goes back to the Knights Lopo de Olhoa Rodrigues, who accompanied the Portuguese as a national hero and "counterpart" to the Cid, Geraldo Sem Pavor, In retaking the city Évora by the Moors in 1166 by a tame Doe (Portuguese: gama) was accompanied. From the nickname for the Knights Gama will later be made to the family of his descendants.

Maura Tierney

Maura Lynn Tierney (* 3. February 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) Is a U.S. Actress. In Germany it was mainly for her role as Dr. Abby Lockhart in hospital series Emergency Room - The Emergency Room and the American sitcom NewsRadio the 15th since January 2007 to Comedy Central sent is known.
Tierney parents are Pat and Joseph Tierney, a former Boston politicians. She has two younger siblings.
In 1994 she married the producer and cameraman Billy Morrissette, and lived with him in New York and Los Angeles. Children from this marriage did not proceed. After 13 years of marriage, Tierney filed for divorce in July 2006.

Bill Gates

William "Bill" Henry Gates III CFU [Wɪljəm bɪl hɛnɹɪ geɪts] (* 28. October 1955 in Seattle) Is a American Entrepreneurs and Programmers. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world again in 2009, after 2008, against only the No. 3[1]. He founded in 1975, together with Paul AllenWhich Microsoft Corporation. He has about 1.1 billion Shares Microsoft (approximately U.S. $ 41 billion), which is over 10% of Capital equivalent, serves as chairman until 2006 and was the Head of Development Department ( "Chief Software Architect") of the company. Since December 2004 he is also a member of the Supervisory (Board of Directors) By Berkshire Hathaway.
On 12 September 2007 he took his leave on the company's Assembly officially by Microsoft and the 27th June 2008 was his last day there.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Mustafa KemalSince 1934 Atatürk (* 1881 in Thessaloniki Former Selanik; † 10. November 1938 in Istanbul) Was the founder of modern Turkey and first President after the WWI from Ottoman Empire resulting Republic.
His services as an officer in the Defense of the Gallipoli peninsula 1915 against Allied troops, the Dardanelles were brought under control, the defensive struggle in 1921 against the invading Greeks in Anatolia and the offensive in the east with Armenia[1][2] have made him a symbol Turkish national pride and self-assertion. As a power politician from his own nature, propelled the modernization of his country western-style persistent, he is aware of the abolition Sultanate and Caliphate and create far-reaching social reform is unique in this form type of state. Be based - in spite of some downsides of his work - the personenkultartige Worship, which is met with him in Turkey until today, and the undisputedness of him in 1934 by the Turkish Parliament conferred surname "Atatürk" (Father of Turks).