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Biography of the Music Band U2

U2 is an Irish rock and roll band formed in Dublin in 1976. Originally, the band was composed of founding members Larry Mullen Jr., Paul Hewson, David Evans, Dik Evans, Adam Clayton, Ivan McCormick, and Peter Martin. Later on, some of the original founding members quitted leaving Clayton Mullen, Hewson, and David Evans to sing and play for the band.
The earliest history of the band can be traced back to as early as September of 1976 when Larry Mullen Jr. posted a notice on their school’s bulletin board signifying his interest in looking for musicians to form a ...

Born in the picturesque town of the Figueres in Spain, in 1904 Salvador Dali P was the second child of Salvador Dali Y Cusi and Felipa Domenech Ferres. Dali’s father Salvador Dali Y Cusi was a lawyer and a notary, he believed in raising children in strict discipline in contrast to that of Dali’s mother who was kind hearted and comforted Dali when scolded by his father (Salvador Dalí Biography 2016). The family would go to spend summers to Cadaques, a village situated at the seaside. As a young boy Dali looked forward to go the summer ...

There are very few artists who could transform their pain and suffering into a work of art, and it would not be wrong to say that Frida Kahlo is one of them. She was born in Mexico in the year 1907, on July 6th to Matilde Calderon and Guillermo Kahlo (Haye 1). Her mother was from Spain and father had a Hungarian German origin. Frida was infected with polio when she was around seven years old which left a limp in her right leg. The major setback in her life was caused by an accident at the age of ...

Ai Weiwei is one of the most influential Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Born in the year 1957 to an intellectual poet Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei spent his childhood in the hinterlands, firstly, in the bitterly cold lands of Heilongjiang, and then in the western Xinjiang province of China. In Weiwei’s childhood, living conditions were very harsh and education was non-existent. However, Weiwei grew up within the Cultural Revolution studying criticism and the political works of various famous personalities, such as Mao, Lenin, Karl Marx and many others . By the end of the Cultural Revolution, Weiwei’s ...

When one hears the name “Pablo Picasso”, or just “Picasso”, one is reminded of vivid and abstract colors that form odd shapes or cubes depicting the subject. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in the Andalusian city known as Málaga to parents Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He is the eldest of three with him as the only son in the family. Picasso’s father is a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts in Andalusia, while his mother watched over their children. Picasso easily displayed his interest in art ...

Menacekeys was born in Fort Worth, Texas. The oldest of two sons, he was raised by his father while his mom served a 12-year prison term for child-abuse for almost killing both his younger brother and him. Consequently, music was always an escape from the reality of his troubled childhood. He discovered a passion for the piano at age five, and learned various other instruments throughout his youth, including drums and saxophone.

At age 15, Menacekeys gained his first taste of the music business with an internship through a House and Electronic based group, Oracale of Dallas, TX (Inertia Records). However, near ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”.
He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique ...

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer, teacher and one of the most prominent representatives of the Second Viennese musical expressionism and composer school. Alan Berg was a student and a follower of A. Schoenberg, who was Alban Berg’s teacher in years 1904 - 1911.
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his works characteristic of expressionist artists thoughts, feelings and images: dissatisfaction with the social life, feelings of helplessness and loneliness. The hero of his works can be expressed asa little man, driven to despair by a hostile environment of bourgeois society. Ground for ...

With the exception of the Bible, no literary work has had a greater impact on Western culture than the plays of William Shakespeare. The celebrated “Bard of Avon” captured the human condition, revealed the inner-workings of the human heart and the conflicts of the psyche like no other author in history. Countless lines and soliloquies from Shakespeare’s plays today stand as hallmarks of the English language and have been translated into every known spoken language. The themes of his greatest works - love, power and deception – continue to resonate in the present, making timeless, cautionary tales out of MacBeth, ...

Biography of Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in 1948, in a place called Riga. In 1960, he started his ballet studies in the same place. He is a co founder of White Oak Project and a dance director. Mikhail Baryshnikov won a top prize in the junior division at a very tender age, an achievement that brought him into the lime light. He was named the ‘the most perfect dancer’ in Pushkin class, a characteristics that many others had not fitted in, in the history of that school. His unique talent and skills were noted right from then as his performance in dance industry was exclusive. ...