- Takashi Murakami
is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist. Murakami works in both fine arts media, such as painting; as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture, then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, "Superflat" paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies. Murakami attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, … - Shirin Neshat
Shirin Neshat is a contemporary visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Shirin Neshat (b. 1957) was born in Qazvin, Iran. Her parents were upper middle-class. Her father was a well-respected physician and her mother, a homemaker. She grew up in a westernized household that adored the Shah of Iran and his ideologies. Neshat has stated about her father, “He fantasized about the west, romanticized the west, … - Dawn Upshaw
Dawn Upshaw, is an American soprano. The recipient of several Grammy- Gramophone-, and Edison Prize-winning discs, Upshaw is at home both in opera and art song, and in repertoire from Baroque to contemporary; many composers, including John Harbison have written for her, and she has worked repeatedly with the director Peter Sellars, in his staging of Händel's "Theodora" at Glyndebourne, his Paris production of Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" (1996), … - John Patitucci
John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz double bass and electric bass player, specializing in post-bop, jazz fusion and Brazilian jazz. - Trey Songz
Trey Songz (born Tremaine Aldon Neverson in Petersburg, Virginia on November 28, 1984) is a American contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. His debut album was "Gotta Make It", released by Atlantic Records in 2005. Inspired musically by R&B artists from the 1960s and 1970s such as Smokey Robinson and Aretha Franklin as well as contemporary artists such as Luther Vandross and R. Kelly, the young star debuted in 2005. - Danny Tidwell
Danny Tidwell (born August 1, 1984 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American dance choreographer, contemporary dancer, known for being one of the contestants on Fox's third season of "So You Think You Can Dance". He is the adopted brother of Travis Wall, runner-up of the second season of "So You Think You Can Dance". He is often confused with Taimak, known as "Bruce Leroy", from the movie "The Last Dragon". - Phineas Newborn Jr.
Phineas Newborn, Jr. (born December 14, 1931 in Whiteville, Tennessee-died May 26, 1989 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Bud Powell. Newborn came from a musical family with his father being a blues musician and his brother (Edwin) Calvin Newborn (born April 27, 1933) being a jazz guitarist. Phineas studied piano as well as trumpet, tenor and baritone sax or horn. - Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. - Aaron Jay Kernis
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis , who has enjoyed a close association with the Minnesota Orchestra since 1992, was named new music advisor in 1998. In that role-one of the longest ongoing positions of its kind in the U.S.-he advises the music director in commissioning and supporting contemporary music for Orchestra concerts, education programs and special projects. - Arthur Price
Arthur Price in recent years ---- Since its creation in 1902 right up to the mid 1980s, Arthur Price & Co only manufactured classic, English cutlery. This was a very limited product range, but had successfully sustained the company for over 80 years. However, the market was changing in the 1980s and the company started to add to its product range quite significantly over the next 20 years to what we see today. - Matthieu Laurette
Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions. He lives and works in Paris, Amsterdam and New York. - Brian Hughes
Brian Hughes (born 1955) is a Canadian guitarist whose work draws from both the smooth jazz and world music genres. (Of the latter, his influences have thus far been primarily Latin.) Not restricted entirely to conventional guitars, Hughes has also been known to employ the oud, bouzouki and balalaika. He has for over fifteen years worked in the studio with singer/songwriter Loreena McKennitt, co-produced many of her recordings, and leads her touring band. - Neil Haskell
Neil Haskell (born April 16 1987 in Clarence Center, New York) is an American contemporary dancer. In 2005, he was chosen as the American Dance Awards' Dancer of the Year. He is now known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance". - Sabra Johnson
Sabra Elise Johnson is an American contemporary dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance". == So You Think You Can Dance== She was paired up with hip hop dancer Dominic Sandoval. On the premiere of the show they danced a Doriana Sanchez disco routine to "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Donna Summer. She and Dominic placed in the bottom three and were required to dance solos for the three judges. - Susan Bordo
Susan Bordo, a modern feminist philosopher, is well known for her contributions to the field of contemporary cultural studies, particularly in the area of “body studies.” - Nune Yesayan
Nune Yesayan/Նունե commonly known simply as Nune and Nouné is a popular Armenian pop singer who began singing with an Armenian jazz band in the early 1990s before becoming a lounge singer at resorts in the Middle East. While performing in Damascus, she observed that young Syrians knew the words to old folk songs performed by contemporary singers, which was not true of young Armenians. - Joe Sun
Joe Sun (born James Joseph Paulsen on September 25, 1943 in Rochester, Minnesota) is a country music singer, songwriter of Danish descent living in Nashville, Tennessee. His musical style is strongly influenced by a wide variety of artists: Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Waylon Jennings and Bob Dylan, spanning such diverse musical genres as soul, blues, honky tonk, rock 'n' roll, contemporary and traditional country. - Vadim Repin
Vadim Repin (born Novosibirsk, Western Siberia, 31 August 1971) is a Russian violinist. In his youth Repin studied with Zakhar Bron and was revered throughout Russia as a child prodigy. At the age of 17, he became the youngest winner of the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, the world's premier violin competition. Vadim Repin played under such leading conductors as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Boulez, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Michael Tilson Thomas, … - Sam Maloof
Sam Maloof (born January 24 1916 in Chino, California) is a furniture designer and maker. His work has been displayed in museums around the United States. All his pieces are custom-made, and there is currently a several-year waiting period for customers who have placed orders. One of his rockers typically sells for about $25,000. In 1985 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Presidents Carter and Reagan have both owned Maloof rockers. - Aulis Sallinen
Aulis Sallinen (born April 9, 1935) is a Finnish contemporary classical music composer. He writes in a modern, though tonal and not experimental music style. He studied at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers included Joonas Kokkonen. He has had works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, and has also written 6 operas, 8 symphonies, a Violin Concerto and any number of chamber works. - Kameron Bink
Kameron David Bink is an American contemporary/hip hop dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, So You Think You Can Dance. - Lauren Gottlieb
Lauren Gottlieb is an American contemporary/hip hop dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance". - Jaimie Goodwin
Jaimie Goodwin is an American contemporary dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance". - Jin Hi Kim
Jin Hi Kim (born Incheon, South Korea, February 6, 1957) is a "geomungo" player and composer. She is known for introducing the "geomungo" (a Korean bass zither, also spelled "komungo") to the wider world through her contemporary chamber and orchestral compositions and large-scale multimedia pieces, as well as her extensive work in avant-garde and cross-cultural free improvisation. - Steve Mumford
Steve Mumford (born 1960) is a contemporary realistic American artist inclined to document events by huge paintings oil on canvas and painted watercolors on paper in the place of live events and wars. The works of these drawings published on the internet site or book with the text tells the story of events. One of the most important themes he works about is the Iraq war, … - Patrick Yandall
Patrick Yandall is a contemporary/smooth jazz guitarist with six international releases. His 2004 "From the Ashes" on Apria Records, features Randy Brecker, Will Lee, Joel Rosenblatt, Scott Wilkie, Kimo Cornwell, and more. He has been featured in "JAZZIZ" and "Smooth Jazz News" and his music has been aired worldwide. - Julian Joseph
Julian Joseph is a jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger and broadcaster. Over the past two decades, Julian has established himself as a jazz performer, whether it be solo, in his all-star big band, trio, quartet, forum project band or electric band. Julian's style combines a respect for the modern developments in jazz piano with its history. He works in both contemporary and traditional situations with his music. - Shauna Noland
Shauna Noland is an American contemporary dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, So You Think You Can Dance. - Sarah Clarke
Sarah Clarke (born February 16 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a contemporary American actress best known for her role as Nina Myers on "24". After minor roles in film and television, including guest starring on "Ed" and "Sex and the City", and an Outstanding Performance award at the Brooklyn Film Festival (for her short film "Pas de Deux"), Clarke auditioned for the role of CTU agent Nina Myers, on "24" in 2001. - Mary Beth McKenzie
Mary Beth McKenzie, N.A. ; is an American painter of contemporary figures in the realism style. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio and currently resides in New York City where she teaches art at National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York. Her works of art are currently in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, … - Jeremy Wilson
Jeremy Wilson is the author of "Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T.E. Lawrence", published in 1989. The book is notable for being the first to deliberately limit itself to "contemporary" sources, thus obviating after-the-fact speculation about Lawrence's actual motives, actions and achievements. - April Greiman
April Greiman (born 1948) is a contemporary designer. She is recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool starting in 1984 and, to a lesser extent, for introducing the New Wave aesthetic to the United States. Presently, she heads Los Angeles-based design consultancy Made in Space. Her work evolved from her graduate education at Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland. - Manfred Schoof
Manfred Schoof is a German jazz trumpet player. He studied music in Kassel and Cologne. He is a founder of European free jazz and collaborated with Albert Mangelsdorff, Peter Brötzmann, Mal Waldron, and Irène Schweizer. He is an interpreter of the works (Die Soldaten) of the contemporary composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Schoof won various jazz prices and is involved in the German musical rights association. He is professor in Cologne since 1990. - Jane Frank
Jane Frank the American artist, was born Jane Babette Schenthal on July 25,1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died in Baltimore on May 31, 1986. She is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist. A pupil of Hans Hofmann, she can in much of her work be categorized stylistically as an abstract expressionist, but one who draws primary inspiration from the natural world, particularly landscape — landscape "as metaphor", … - Marc Awodey
Marc Awodey (born November 4 1960) is an American contemporary artist and poet. His poetry collections include "Telegrams from the Psych Ward" (1999), and "New York; a haibun journey" (2002). His paintings are in many public and private collections throughout the United States. Awodey studied painting under George Ortman at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and received an MFA from Cranbrook in 1984. - Robert Coates
Robert Coates is a record producer and recording engineer. Robert soon discovered his unique ability to create music. Since the age of five years old he became an accomplished musician. Mr. Coates currently owns and operates Coates Entertainment Group, Inc. and Westwind Studios located in Tampa Bay, Florida. - Ashok Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born February 7, 1964) is a novelist born and living in Mumbai, India. - Jeremy White
Jeremy White is an English bass, with an international career in opera, concerts and recording. He is noted for the wide range of his repertoire, which ranges from early to contemporary music. Jeremy was born in Liverpool, and studied at Queen’s College, Oxford. He has worked as a professional musician since graduation, spending may years as a member of the BBC Singers. He debuted at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1991 and has sung at each subsequent season. - Jason Gedrick
Jason Gedrick (born Jason Michael Gedroic on February 7, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is a contemporary American actor best known for his work on the television series "Murder One" and "Boomtown", as well as the motion picture "Iron Eagle". Gedrick began his career as an extra in films such as "Bad Boys" (1983) and "Risky Business" (1983). After roles in "The Heavenly Kid" (1985), "Iron Eagle" (1986), … - Loren Munk
The artist Loren Munk is a maker of contemporary paintings. He is known among New York artists primarily for his cubistic paintings of urban imagery. Munk also has received accolades for his drawings and mosaics. He differs from traditional mosaic artists by the manner in which he incorporates glass into his decorative paintings.
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