 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have been surrounding themselves with nurturing connotations, Lisa Nuss observes, and casts the same light on some high-profile male politicians as well.
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 "Energy" and "Beauty' are the two words that Máiréad feels best describe what she strives for as a musician and as a person. A fiddle player since the age of 6, Máiréad 's Loughmore, Co.Tipperary background is steeped in music in the way that only those who grow up in a family of accomplished musicians can be.
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 Méav never imagined that music could take her this far. “Ireland has changed a lot in the few years since I graduated from university” she says. “There was no sign of the Celtic Tiger and I presumed that music for me would simply be a passionate hobby”.
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 Orla has a saying: “it’s a long way from Knockananna to Carnegie Hall.” The singer and harpist from the tiny village in the South East of Ireland ought to know because she’s made the journey. She’s won the International Feis Ceoil and International Pan Celtic competitions twice and has toured extensively in Europe and the USA as a soloist performing her renditions of haunting Irish airs along with her own original compositions.
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 Lisa Kelly might best be known to audiences as one of the soloists in ‘Celtic Woman’, but her background is purely steeped in the world of musical theatre. Her parents are both heavily involved in Ireland’s amateur theatre community and Lisa fit right in, staring in the musical “Bugsy Malone” at the age of 7. A talented actress as well as a singer, Lisa continued her studies in drama and was classically trained in both singing and piano.
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 If 16-year old singer Chloe Agnew ever writes a book she says that she’ll call it ‘From Carnegie Hall to Lunch Duty’. “That’s the way that my life turns anyway,” she laughs. “I played Carnegie Hall in New York one week with ‘Celtic Woman’ and the following week I was back at school on lunch duty, cleaning off tables and mopping the floor. But that’s life. I’m so fortunate to have this wonderful opportunity and I love every minute of it.”
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 Biography Birth name
Salma Hayek-Jimenez
Height 5' 2" (1.57 m)
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 Biography Birth name
Caryn Elaine Johnson
Nickname
Da Whoop
Height
5' 5" (1.65 m)
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 Hairstyles, they have always been a prominent factor when it comes to fashion and beauty, and has long since been the yardstick by which a man or women determines the rest of their look. Common but nevertheless captivating, hairstyles can truly fascinate the close observer. It is arguably a topic of great importance when it comes to being and feeling, beautiful - It signifies youth, health and vitality. But hairstyles are more than just looking good, they represent individuality and can tell much about the personality of a man or woman.
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 Sharon Stone has been a "Poster Woman" for Cigar Aficianado Magazine for some time now. She is also a member and smokes cigars regularly
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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is a popular American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and fashion designer. She sometimes performs under the stage name Beyoncé. Knowles rose to stardom as the founding member and lead singer of Destiny's Child, the most-successful all-female group in history. After a series of commercially successful records with the group, Knowles released her debut solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), which spawned the highly successful song "Crazy in Love", and topped both the R&B and Billboard 200 charts in the U.S., a...
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Given name Razia al-Din, (Urdu: رضیہ الدین) "throne name" Jalâlat ud-Dîn Raziyâ (Urdu:جلالت رضیہ الدین). She is usually referred to in history as Razia Sultan or Razia Sultana (Urdu: رضیہ سلطانہ ). She succeeded her father Iltutmish to the Sultanate of Delhi in 1236. Iltutmish appointed her his heir over many of his sons. But when Iltutmush died, Rukn-ud-din Firuz, one of his sons,...
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 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor) (born 21 April 1926) is Queen of 16 independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms. These are the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, and Saint Kitts and Nevis
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 Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. She is married to English sound engineer Mark Hawley, and they have one daughter together, Natashya "Tash" Lórien Hawley, born on September 5, 2000.
Amos was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and is noteworthy as one of the few modern pop music stars to use a Bösendorfer piano as her primary instrument. She is known for lyrically opaque but emotionally intense songs that tackle a wide range of subjects, including sexuality, religion, patria...
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 Björk Guðmundsdóttir (IPA: ['pjœr̥k 'kvʏðmʏnstoʊhtɪr]) was born November 21, 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland and is an Icelandic singer/songwriter and composer (formerly the lead singer of aletrnative rock band The Sugarcubes), with a great expressive range and an interest in many kinds of music including pop, trip hop, alternative rock, jazz, ambient music, electronica, folk, and classical music
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 Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an eight-time Grammy winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist and songwriter.
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 Céline Marie Claudette Dion, OC, OQ (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian Grammy and Juno award-winning pop singer, and occasional songwriter[1] and actress.[2] Dion became an adolescent star in Francophone Canada (Québec) after her manager and future husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home in order to finance her career. She also gained recognition in parts of Europe, the Middle East and Asia by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, and established a foothold in the Anglophone music market with the release of...
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 Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was an American singer, considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century, alongside Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan.
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 Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. She has been dubbed for years "The Queen Of Soul" and many also call her "Lady Soul". She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera.
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 Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American blues-influenced rock singer and occasional songwriter with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four albums as the frontwoman for several bands from 1967 to a posthumous release in 1971.
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