Dennis DeYoung was a member of Styx specializing in keyboarding and vocalizing. He is currently 71 years old and still living the dream. He started his career as a vocalist in 1961 by teaming up with his neighbors in a 3 piece combo. He stayed in Styx from 1970 until middle of 1999. He alone has a net worth of $25 million as an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Although he was a part of Styx, he longed to have a solo career of his own and started as early as 1984, producing 4 albums. These 4 albums were Desert Moon, Back to the World, Boomchild, and the fourth produced after disbanding, 10 on Broadway. 10 on Broadway highlighted influences in his life such as George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Andrew Lloyd
Normally, when you think of Metallica, you think of the heavy metal sound the band is famous for. But, if you think that's the only kind of music the band members, and former band members, enjoy making, you are sorely mistaken.
Diane Ritchie is an experienced attorney and an active member of several professional organizations including the Consumer Attorneys of California and the California Employment Lawyers Association. After earning her bachelor of arts from the University of California at Berkeley, she matriculated at the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California. Diane Ritchie earned her juris doctorate and began helping elderly and disabled clients through the Senior Adult Legal Assistance and Disability Law Center. Shifting her professional focus to the field of employment law, she subsequently served successful tenures with the Law Office of Steven W Valdes and Phillip J Griego & Associates.
A high school music teacher and band director, Dwight Asberry provides valuable instruction in both specific instrument training and general music appreciation and history. He also excels as a composer and arranger. Over the course of his career in music education, Dwight Asberry has directed a number of college, high school, middle school, and youth organization performance ensembles including symphonic and concert band, jazz band, pep band, marching band, drum line, wind ensemble, string orchestra, and choir.
I usually do one line of my mother's side, and once my road block was cleared of who my 3rd great grandfather's father was, that arrived in Canada via New York and Albany in August 1785, the line was very well documented in Clan and Peer books. Other lines are obscured with the lack of records when they arrived, born, married, lived and died all before regular census records. So the quilt has many holes.
Band, a group of introverted geeks who blow instruments, hit things, and depending in where and when it is, getting hit by things is also an option. Occasionally, band kids can be bullied or made fun of for being introverted, geeks, and unathletic. The band room is a safe haven for band kids, but outside of the band room, it’s hell. Many people think that the Musical Lives by Gary Soto is a story about mean bullies making fun of kids, but it really is about how you don’t always have to fight back to win and the people you hang out with will define what people think about you.
From his hometown of Congo town, Sierra Leone, to the soft grass of the soccer pitch at Dunn School, High School senior Dennis Cole has proven his academic and athletic abilities to many.
Dieuson Octave was born and raised in Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida. Better known as his rapper name Kodak Black he has been in and out of jail. I consider him as a hero to his county because in big cities like where he is from not everyone makes it, it is either you make it by making music or playing sports.
The Monkees band was started in 1966 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider. Bob and Bert were influenced by the huge success of The Beatles Films A Hard Day's Night and Help. They wanted to copy what the Beatles did into a TV show. “They envisioned a show built around a real rock and roll band whose members would play themselves” (Pendergast 854). And in 1965 Bob and Bert put out an ad for a band called The Monkees. Over 400 people responded to the ad seeking young men (The Monkees 1). Out of the 400 people, David Jones, George Michael, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork were chosen for their cute looks adequate acting skills and above average pop-singing abilities (Pendergast 854). The show was extremely successful.
In 1967 the Beatles were in Abbey Road Studios putting the finishing touches on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. At one point Paul McCartney wandered down the corridor and heard what was then a new young band called Pink Floyd working on their hypnotic debut, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. He listened for a moment, then came rushing back. "Hey guys," he reputedly said, "There's a new band in there and they're gonna steal our thunder." With their mix of blues, music hall influences, Lewis Carroll references, and dissonant experimentation, Pink Floyd was one of the key bands of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, a pop culture movement that emerged with American and British rock,
The music of the sixties went through tremendous change. It shaped mush of the music we hear today. From New Orleans came Jazz, from the East Coast came rock, from the West Coast came Psychedelic rock, and from England came the Invasion.
In Stephen Dobyns’s “Loud Music,” the speaker describes the differences between him and his step-daughter’s thoughts on loud music, which shows that music really describes a person’s personality. Throughout the poem the speaker explains how his step-daughter likes soft and more meaningful music more than loud music and their different music types shows in their difference in personalities and the way they see things. People all over the world let the music they listen to describe their personalities.
Some people suggest that everyone between the ages of 18 and 21 should be required to perform one year of community or government service. Such service might include the Peace Corps, Environmental Conservancy Corps, a hospital, the military, a rural or inner-city school, or other community outreach projects. I believe forcing the service of any group of people is a bad idea. In this case, three reasons come to mind as to what makes this idea bad. First, I see this as a form of indentured servitude, even though the folks may earn a paycheck. Second, I feel that this idea takes away from the idea of the United States being a free place to live. And third, much like the idea
Through submerging poetic language into the story Dundun, the author, Denis Johnson, transforms a story imbedded with numerous counts of violence into one that causes the reader to undergo a feeling of understanding and sympathy towards the characters involved. At the end of the story the narrator states, "If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that" (Johnson 58). Johnson's use of diction in this statement creates a vivid image that compels the audience to feel compassion and understanding towards Dundun. In addition, prior to that statement the narrator asks the audience, "Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart?
Michael DeBakey Was born September 7,1908 in Louisiana. His influences was his mom, dad. His mother taught sewing classes. His father was a businessman whose enterprises included several drugstores. He had one brother and three sisters and his name was Ernest and his sister name was Lois, Selma, and Selena. He studied biology and other great things he could study. He played a instrument and that was a saxophone, he was in a Boy Scout troop, and raised vegetables in his father's large garden. He and his brother took apart car engines, and his mother taught him to knit and sew. When he turned ten he could cut his own shirts from pattern.
There is no denying that the drug problem in our country today has reached an epidemic proportion. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control and or solve it. Trying to end the drug war may not seen to be the best answer in the beginning, but those so-called wars on drugs have not been very successful at stopping the drug wars. I feel that there should be some different options. The legalization of marijuana is an option which hasn’t received much of a chance, but should be given one. Given that marijuana has known important medical uses, such as the alleviation of nausea, and the treatment of glaucoma,