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    Jeff Buckley

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    Buckley was born in Orange County‚ California‚ in 1966 to Mary Guibert and Tim Buckley. He was trained in guitar and music theory at a year-long program at the Musicians’ Institute in Hollywood. Whilst there he listened to and experimented with reggae‚ jazz‚ metal and different genres of rock music. Some of his major musical influences were: Led Zeppelin‚ Robert Johnson and Nusrat Fati Ali Khan. At the age of 23 after completing his program in California‚ he moved to New York and slowly built

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    "My Heritage Experience in America. Who Am I and Where Did I Come From?" An Interview of Barbara Lyons In my quest to interview someone for this research‚ I decided to interview Barbara Lyons. Barbara’s heritage is Jamaican. Barbara was aware of her Jamaican heritage in the early stages of her life since her father was born in Jamaica. He came to the U.S. in the early sixties and later joined the U.S. Air Force. Barbara said that she has been to her father’s hometown of Hayes once. There

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    Defining the Caribbean

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    Topic: Defining the Caribbean Thesis: The Caribbean‚ also known as the West Indies is defined as a broad crescent of tropical islands extending from the Bahamas and Cuba southwards to Trinidad with varied history resulting from the various races of people and various cultures characterized by different languages‚ music and dance. Topic | Sentence | The physical landscape | The crescent shaped physical landscape of the Caribbean is located between ten and twenty degrees north and eighty

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    Rasta

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    The Rastafari movement is an African-based spiritual ideology that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica. It is sometimes described as a religion but is considered by many adherents to be a "Way of Life".[1][2] Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I‚ Emperor of Ethiopia (ruled 1930–1974)‚ some as Jesus in his Second Advent‚ or as God the Father. Members of the Rastafari way of life are known as Rastas‚ or The Rastafari. The way of life is sometimes referred to as "Rastafarianism"‚ but this term is considered

    Free Rastafari movement Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

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    Morrison’s voice comes blaring in sounding slurred and Irish. After the first verse is sung‚ there is another drum roll that connects the chorus. The piano is now playing upon the intervals of the signature 8th notes on the hi-hat on the upbeat‚ in a reggae staccato fashion‚ so the beat on the hi-hat and the strikes on the piano keys alternate to make a 16nth note tempo. Every full note‚ I hear a banjo chord played in accordance with the piano still plating the 8th notes. The acoustic guitar is playing

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    rastafarian movement

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    Alexander Powell 2 December 2013 Brewer Rastafarian Movement (Bob Marley) Thirty-six years spanned Bob Marley ’s life and involvement with the Rastafarian movement and left an impact still felt around the world. Marley ’s music was a result of what he saw in himself‚ what he loved‚ and how he saw his people get treated. Followers of the Rastafarian movement are known as Rastafarians‚ the movement is named for Ras Tafari Makonnen‚ who was crowned Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia in 1930

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    pupil

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    from classical music to rock and even folk music. One of my favorite musicians is Sting‚ he is a great singer‚ bass/doublebass player‚ a great song writer and an actor too. His style is a mixture of many styles‚ such as pop‚ jazz‚ blues‚ soul‚ reggae and much more. One of my favorite songs is "Shape of my heart"‚ Sting is a brilliant and clever musician‚ a great song writer and one hell of a performer. I love the mood‚ emotion and passion of Sting’s music‚ and there are so many songs you can

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    This Charming Man

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    No one else wrote like he did‚ and in my opinion‚ noone ever could. I also find the way he carries himself to help show why he is the greatest entertainer. He had a knack for pissing people off. He would often make remarks such as "reggae is vile". Morrissey was never afraid to push his opinions over his work. He was a very strong vegan and chose to release an album by the title "Meat is Murder" (1985). Unfortunately‚ this outgoing

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    Lost Ones When The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill dropped‚ most had no knowledge of the love affair conundrum that went wrong between Lauryn and her Refugee partner Wyclef Jean. One thing people did know was there was a lack of Jean’s involvement in her new project. In the most genius way‚ Lauryn addressed the situation and spit some fire barz (diss) about her former band mate. Hill says that money and hunger for fame was Jean’s problem and the reason why the split. But other sources say the Jean was

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    Derek Meade Mills History of Rock December 4‚ 2011 Final Term Paper RUN-DMC RUN-DMC I was in the first semester of my senior year in high school. It was 1986 and “Walk This Way” was on the airways. I found myself really enjoying this “Rap” song by this group Run-D.M.C.. I would later find out that it was an Aerosmith song re-made. At the time I didn’t and couldn’t believe it because I had never heard of Aerosmith before or any of their songs. I actually

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