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<mask> (born July 8, 1961) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. <mask> released his first four studio albums—1993's <mask>, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package—for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned Gold or higher certification, and produced several Top Ten singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was the most-played country song of the 1990s. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated. Signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 1998, <mask> released his breakthrough single "How Do You Like Me Now?!" in late 1999. This song, the title track to his 1999 album of the same name, was the number one country song of 2000, and one of several chart-toppers during his tenure on DreamWorks Nashville.His next three albums, Pull My Chain, Unleashed, and Shock'n Y'all, produced three more number ones each, and all of the albums were certified 4x Platinum. A second Greatest Hits package followed in 2004, and after that, he released Honkytonk University. When DreamWorks closed in 2005, <mask> founded the label Show Dog Nashville, which merged with Universal South Records to become Show Dog-Universal Music in December 2009. He has released ten studio albums through Show Dog/Show Dog-Universal: 2006's White Trash with Money, 2007's Big Dog Daddy, 2008's That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy, 2009's American Ride, 2010's Bullets in the Gun, 2011's Clancy's Tavern, 2012's Hope on the Rocks, 2013's Drinks After Work, 2015's 35 MPH Town, 2017's The Bus Songs, and 2021’s Peso In My Pocket, as well as the compilation 35 Biggest Hits in 2008. <mask> also made his acting debut in 2006, starring in the film Broken Bridges, and co-starred with comedian Rodney Carrington in the 2008 film Beer for My Horses, inspired by his song of the same name. <mask> has released 19 studio albums, 2 Christmas albums, and 5 compilation albums, totaling worldwide sales of over 40 million albums. He has charted 61 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including 20 number one hits and 21 additional top 10 hits.His longest-lasting number one hits are "Beer for My Horses" (a 2003 duet with Willie Nelson) and "As Good as I Once Was" (2005), at six weeks each. <mask> was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Donald Trump in a closed ceremony alongside Ricky Skaggs on January 13, 2021. Early life
<mask> was born in Clinton, Oklahoma, to Carolyn Joan (née Ross) and Hubert K. Covel, Jr. and is of English ancestry. He has a sister and a brother. The family lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for a few years when <mask> was in grade school, but moved to Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City), when he was still young. Before the family moved to Moore, he visited his grandmother in Fort Smith during the summers. His grandmother owned Billie Garner's Supper Club in Fort Smith, where <mask> became interested in the musicians who came there to play.He did odd jobs around the supper club and started getting up on the bandstand to play with the band. He got his first guitar at the age of eight. After the family moved to Moore, <mask> attended Highland West Junior High and Moore High School, where he played defensive end on the football team. <mask> graduated from Moore High School and worked as a derrick hand in the oil fields. He worked his way up to become an operation manager. When <mask> was 20, he and his friends Scott Webb, <mask>, David "Yogi" Vowell and Danny Smith, with a few others, formed the Easy Money Band, which played at local bars as he continued to work in the oil industry. At times, he would have to leave in the middle of a concert if he was paged to work in the oil field.In 1982, the oil industry in Oklahoma began a rapid decline and <mask> soon found himself unemployed. He fell back on his football training and played defensive end with the semi-pro Oklahoma City Drillers while continuing to perform with his band. (The Drillers were an unofficial farm club of the United States Football League's Oklahoma Outlaws; <mask> tried out for the Outlaws but did not make the team.) He then returned to focus once again on music. His family and friends were doubtful he would succeed, but, in 1984, Easy Money (various other band members included Mike Barnes, T.A. Brauer, and David Saylors) began playing the honky-tonk circuit in Oklahoma and Texas. Musical career

In the early 1990s, <mask> went to Nashville, Tennessee, where he hung out and busked on Music Row and at a place called Houndogs.He distributed copies of a demo tape the band had made to the many record companies in the city. There was no interest by any of the record labels, and <mask> returned home feeling depressed. He had promised himself and God to have a recording contract by the time he was 30 years old or give up on music as a career. A flight attendant and fan of his gave a copy of <mask>'s demo tape to Harold Shedd, a Mercury Records executive, while he was traveling on a flight she was working. Shedd enjoyed what he heard, went to see <mask> perform live and then signed him to a recording contract with Mercury. 1993–1995: <mask> and Boomtown
<mask>'s debut single, "Should've Been a Cowboy", went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1993, and it reached number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100.This song led off his self-titled debut album. By the end of the decade, "Should've Been a Cowboy" received more than three million spins at radio, thus making it the most-played country song of the 1990s. Certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of one million copies, the album produced three more Top 5 hits on the country charts with "He Ain't Worth Missing" (at #5), "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action" (originally the B-side of "Should've Been a Cowboy") and "Wish I Didn't Know Now" (both at #2). Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic wrote of the album, "It is given a production that's a bit too big, clean, glossy and cavernous for <mask>'s good—it fits the outsized sound of early-'90s radio, but not his outsized talent—but beneath that sheen the songs are very strong." He also thought that it showed the signs of the style that <mask> would develop on subsequent albums. The album's success led to <mask> touring with then-labelmates Shania Twain and John Brannen. <mask> and Twain also appeared in Tracy Lawrence's music video for "My Second Home" in 1993.<mask> then signed with Polydor Records Nashville and released his second album, Boomtown, in September 1994. Also certified platinum, this album was led off by the number one single "Who's That Man". After it, "Upstairs Downtown" and "You Ain't Much Fun" both made the Top 10, while "Big Ol' Truck" peaked at number 15. By late-1995, he released his first Christmas album, Christmas to Christmas, via Mercury. Composed entirely of original songs, the album produced one chart entry in "Santa I'm Right Here", which reached as high as number 50 based on Christmas airplay. 1996–1998: Blue Moon, Dream Walkin and Greatest Hits Volume One
<mask> then signed with the short-lived Nashville division of A&M Records to release his third album Blue Moon in April 1996. That album received a platinum certification and produced three singles.Its first single, "Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You", which <mask> wrote in 1987, peaked at number 2. Following it were "A Woman's Touch" at number 6, and "Me Too", which became his third number one hit in March 1997. <mask> also appeared on The Beach Boys' now out-of-print 1996 album Stars and Stripes Vol. 1 performing a cover of their 1963 hit "Be True to Your School" with the Beach Boys themselves providing the harmonies and backing vocals. Following a corporate merger, <mask> returned to Mercury in 1997. His fourth studio album, Dream Walkin', was also his first produced by James Stroud, who would also serve as <mask>'s co-producer until 2005. It produced two consecutive number 2 hits with "We Were in Love" and a cover of Sting's 1996 single "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying".Sting also sang duet vocals and played bass guitar on it, and the two also performed the song at the 1997 Country Music Association awards. After this song, the album's title track reached number 5, while "Double Wide Paradise" peaked at number 40. <mask>'s last Mercury release was Greatest Hits Volume One in October 1998. The album included twelve of his prior singles and two new songs: the country rap "Getcha Some" and "If a Man Answers". Both were released as singles, with "Getcha Some" reaching the Top 20, but "If a Man Answers" became his first single to miss the Top 40. According to <mask>, these two songs were originally to be put on a studio album, but Mercury executives, dissatisfied with the album that <mask> had made, chose to put those two songs on a greatest hits package, and asked him to "go work on another album". After he recorded two more songs which the label also rejected, he asked to terminate his contract with the label.After exiting Mercury, <mask> co-wrote Shane Minor's debut single "Slave to the Habit" with Chuck Cannon and Kostas. 1999–2002: How Do You Like Me Now?! and Pull My Chain
In 1999, <mask> moved to DreamWorks Records' Nashville division, of which Stroud served as president. His first release for the label was "When Love Fades", which also failed to make Top 40. Upon seeing the single's poor performance, <mask> requested that it be withdrawn and replaced with "How Do You Like Me Now?! ", a song that he wrote with Chuck Cannon, and which had previously been turned down by Mercury. It also served as the title track to his first DreamWorks album, How Do You Like Me Now?!The song spent five weeks at number 1 on the country charts, and became his first top 40 pop hit, with a number 31 peak on the Hot 100. It was also the top country song of 2000 according to the Billboard Year-End chart. The album, which was certified platinum, produced a Top 5 hit in "Country Comes to Town" and another number 1 in "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This". It was also his first album to feature songs co-written by Scotty Emerick, who would be a frequent collaborator of <mask>'s for the next several albums. Steve Huey wrote that this album "had a rough, brash attitude that helped give <mask> a stronger identity as a performer." In 2001, <mask> won the Academy of Country Music's Top Male Vocalist and Album of the Year awards. Following this album was Pull My Chain, released in August 2001.The album's three singles—"I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight", "I Wanna Talk About Me", and "My List"—all went to number 1 on the country charts, with the latter two both holding that position for five weeks. "I Wanna Talk About Me", written by Bobby Braddock, also displayed a country rap influence with its spoken-word lyrics. The Country Music Association named "My List" as Single of the Year in 2002. Of Pull My Chain, Erlewine wrote that "this is a bigger, better record than its predecessor, possessing a richer musicality and a more confident sense of humor". 2002–2004: Unleashed and Shock'n Y'all
In 2002, he released the Unleashed album which included four singles. First was "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)", which <mask> wrote in 20 minutes as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The song references <mask>'s father, a United States Army veteran who died that March in a car accident.Both this song and "Who's Your Daddy?" were number 1 hits, with "Rock You Baby" reaching number 13. The last single was "Beer for My Horses", a duet with Willie Nelson which six weeks at the top of the country charts. At the time, it was also <mask>'s highest entry on the Hot 100, at number 22. In July 2003, <mask> made a guest appearance on Scotty Emerick's debut single "I Can't Take You Anywhere", which was previously recorded by <mask> on Pull My Chain. Emerick's version of the song was his only top 40 country hit, at number 27. Shock'n Y'all, his eighth studio album, was released in November 2003.The album's title is a pun on the military term "shock and awe". It became his second album from which all singles went to number 1: "I Love This Bar", "American Soldier", and "Whiskey Girl". Also included on the disc were "The Taliban Song" and "Weed with Willie", two live songs recorded with Emerick. The album was followed in late 2004 by Greatest Hits 2, which included three new songs: "Stays in Mexico", "Go with Her", and a cover of Inez and Charlie Foxx's "Mockingbird", recorded as a duet with his daughter, Krystal <mask>. "Stays in Mexico" was a number 3 hit on the country charts, while "Mockingbird" peaked at number 27. <mask>'s final DreamWorks album was Honkytonk University in early 2005. Lead-off single "Honkytonk U" peaked at number 8, followed by "As Good as I Once Was", which spent six weeks at number 1, and "Big Blue Note" at number 5.After the release of the latter, DreamWorks Records ceased operations. 2005–present: After DreamWorks
On August 31, 2005, <mask> founded a new label, Show Dog Nashville. Its first release was his 2006 album White Trash with Money, followed by the soundtrack to Broken Bridges. He also abandoned Stroud as co-producer in favor of Cannon's wife, Lari White. The album included three singles: "Get Drunk and Be Somebody", "A Little Too Late", and "Crash Here Tonight". Big Dog Daddy followed in 2007, with <mask> serving as sole producer. Its singles were "High Maintenance Woman", "Love Me If You Can", and "Get My Drink On"."Love Me If You Can" became <mask>'s first number 1 hit since "As Good as I Once Was" more than two years prior. A two-disc Christmas album, A Classic Christmas, followed later in 2007. In 2008, <mask> completed his Biggest and Baddest Tour. On May 6, 2008, he released 35 Biggest Hits, a two-disc compilation featuring most of his singles to date, as well as the new song "She's a Hottie", which peaked at number 13. <mask> released "She Never Cried in Front of Me", which went to number 1 in 2008. Its corresponding album, That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy, followed on October 28, 2008. It was followed by "God Love Her", also a number 1 hit, and "Lost You Anyway".American Ride, in 2009, produced another number 1 in its title track. It was followed by the Top 10 hit "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)", a tribute to basketball player and jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale, a friend of <mask>'s who died in May 2009. The album's final single was "Every Dog Has Its Day". Bullets in the Gun was released on October 5, 2010. This was <mask>'s first album not to produce a top 10 hit, with "Trailerhood" reaching number 19, followed by the title track and "Somewhere Else" both at number 12. <mask> produced the album with session guitarist Kenny Greenberg and recording engineer Mills Logan. On October 25, 2011, Clancy's Tavern was released.The album included the single "Made in America", written by <mask> along with Bobby Pinson and Scott Reeves, which went to number 1. Following it was "Red Solo Cup", which had previously been made into a music video which became popular. Upon release as a single, "Red Solo Cup" became <mask>'s best-peaking crossover, reaching number 15 on the Hot 100. The album's final single was "Beers Ago" at number 6 in 2012. In December 2011, <mask> was named "Artist of the Decade" by the American Country Awards. <mask>'s sixteenth album, Hope on the Rocks, was released in late 2012. It produced only two singles, both of which are top 20 hits: "I Like Girls That Drink Beer" reached at number 17 and the title track peaked at number 18.In mid-2013, he entered the charts with "Drinks After Work", the first single from his seventeenth album, also titled Drinks After Work. The album's second single is "Shut Up and Hold On". In October 2014, <mask> released "Drunk Americans", the lead single from his eighteenth studio album, 35 MPH Town. In April

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 2015, <mask> released "35 MPH Town", the album's title track and second single. In 2015, <mask> was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In September 2017, <mask> released the compilation album, The Bus Songs. The album contains twelve songs: two new, five re-recorded, and five previously released songs.The new songs on the album are "Shitty Golfer" and "Wacky Tobaccy". In the U.S. The Bus Songs topped the Billboard Comedy Albums chart for 11 weeks. It also reached number 6 on the Top Country Albums chart and 38 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2021, <mask> featured on the Brantley Gilbert single "The Worst Country Song of All Time" with Hardy. Acting career

Television appearances
<mask> performed on a series of television advertisements for Telecom USA for that company's discount long-distance telephone service 10-10-220. He also starred in Ford commercials, singing original songs such as "Ford Truck Man" and "Field Trip (Look Again)" while driving Ford trucks.<mask> made an appearance at the first Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (then NWA-TNA) weekly pay-per-view on June 19, 2002, where his playing of "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was interrupted by Jeff Jarrett. He would later enter the Gauntlet for the Gold main event, suplexing Jarrett and eliminating him from the match. A short video of the suplex is seen in the clip package when he goes onstage. He appeared the next week, on June 26, and helped Scott Hall defeat Jarrett in singles action. In 2009, <mask> participated in the Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy, which aired on March 14, 2009. <mask> received the "Colbert Bump" when he appeared on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. He holds the distinction of being the only musical artist to have received a five star rating from Stephen Colbert on iTunes.<mask> furthered this connection when he appeared in Colbert's 2008 Christmas special as a hunter. <mask> also made an appearance as a musical guest on the October 27, 2011 episode of the Colbert Report. On October 29, 2011, <mask> appeared on Fox Channel's Huckabee with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. He played "Bullets in the Gun" and he joined with Huckabees house band to play a song at the end of the show. In December 2018, <mask> will appear as a guest on Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas. Acting
In the Autumn of 2005, he filmed Broken Bridges, written by Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld, and directed by Steven Goldmann. This feature film from Paramount/CMT Films was released on September 8, 2006.In this contemporary story set in small-town Tennessee, <mask> plays Bo Price, a washed-up country musician. The movie also stars Kelly Preston, Burt Reynolds, Tess Harper, and Lindsey Haun. <mask> wrote and starred in the 2008 movie Beer for My Horses, which is based on the 2003 hit song of the same name recorded by <mask> and Willie Nelson. He was also set to star in the film Bloodworth, but later dropped out. Business ventures
In 2005, <mask> opened <mask>'s I Love This Bar & Grill in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as well as Syracuse, New York and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and now also has restaurants in Thackerville, Oklahoma; Auburn Hills, Michigan; Kansas City; Las Vegas; Mesa, Arizona; Peoria, Arizona; St. Louis Park, Minnesota; Foxborough, Massachusetts; Cincinnati, Ohio; Newport News, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado. <mask> does not actually own the new restaurants; the new restaurant is the first in a franchise under Scottsdale, Arizona-based Capri Restaurant Group Enterprises LLC, which purchased the master license agreement to build more Toby Keith restaurants nationwide. Capri Restaurant Group is owned by Frank Capri, who opened the restaurant in Mesa in the shopping center known as Mesa Riverview and is planning on opening multiple locations across the country.In 2009, Capri Restaurant Group announced that it will open another "I Love this Bar & Grill" location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's South Side Works shopping and entertainment district. In 2009, <mask> also established a line of clothing, TK Steelman. February 2010 marked the opening of the <mask>'s I Love This Bar & Grill in the Winstar World Casino, exit 1 on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma. Other locations opened in 2010 by the Capri Restaurant Group included those in Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills, Michigan and in the Shops at West End in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Both of which closed in 2015. In 2011, <mask> introduced a new drink named “Wild Shot". At first it was only available in Mexico, but now is sold and served in America.It is a featured drink in his restaurant chain, I Love this Bar and Grill. <mask>'s music career and his various other business ventures have made him one of the wealthiest celebrities in the United States. The July 15. 2013, edition of Forbes magazine features <mask> on the cover with the caption "Country Music's $500 million man". The article titled "Cowboy Capitalist" by Zack O'Malley Greenburg also contains information regarding <mask>'s earnings as a musician over the course of his career, such as earning $65 million in the past 12 months, which surpasses the earnings of even more well known musicians such as Jay-Z and Beyoncé and that he hasn't earned less than $48 million a year over the past 5 years. <mask> has written at least one #1 country single over the past 20 years and the partnership between his own label, Show Dog-Universal, and Big Machine Records, which <mask> also helped found in 2005. Political beliefs

Since 2002, <mask> has made numerous trips to the Middle East to bring entertainment and encouragement to U.S. men and women serving on or near the front lines.“My father was a soldier. He taught his kids to respect veterans,” said <mask>. “It's that respect and the thank-you that we have a military that's in place and ready to defend our nation; our freedom.”

In 2004, <mask> called himself "a conservative Democrat who is sometimes embarrassed for his party". He endorsed the re-election of President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election and performed at a Dallas, Texas, rally on the night before the election. <mask> also endorsed Democrat Dan Boren in his successful run in Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district and is good friends with former Democratic New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. In a January 2007 interview with Newsday, <mask> was asked whether he supported the Iraq War. He responded with "Never did," and said he favors setting a time limit on the campaign.He also said, "I don't apologize for being patriotic... If there is something socially incorrect about being patriotic and supporting your troops, then they can kiss my ass on that, because I'm not going to budge on that at all. And that has nothing to do with politics. Politics is what's killing America." In April 2008, <mask> said that Barack Obama "looks like a great speaker and a great leader. And I think you can learn on your feet in there, so I don't hold people responsible for not having a whole bunch of political background in the House and Senate." His remarks continued, "I think [John] McCain is a great option too."In August 2008, he called Obama "the best Democratic candidate we've had since Bill Clinton". In October 2008, <mask> told CMT that he had left the Democratic Party and has re-registered as an independent. "My party that I've been affiliated with all these years doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore," he says. "They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in. So I'm going independent." He also told CMT that he would likely vote for the Republican ticket, partially because of his admiration for Sarah Palin. In March 2009, <mask> received the Johnny "Mike" Spann Memorial Semper Fidelis Award during a New York ceremony held by the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.The trophy is named for the CIA operative (and former Marine Corps captain) who was the first U.S. casualty in the war in Afghanistan. "Spending time with our soldiers around the world is something I've always regarded as a privilege and honor," he said. "I'm certainly happy to accept this award, but I won't forget for a second who's really doing the heavy lifting to keep this country safe. And that's why I'll keep going back and spending time with those good folks every chance I get." In April 2009, he voiced support for Obama on Afghanistan and other decisions: "He hired one of my best friends who I think should run for president someday...Gen. James Jones as a national security adviser. He's sending troops into Afghanistan, help is on the way there. And I'm seeing some really good middle range stuff.I'm giving our commander in chief a chance before I start grabbing. So far, I'm cool with it." Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue

On March 24, 2001, <mask>'s father, H.K. Covel, was killed in a car accident. That event and the September 11 attacks in 2001 prompted <mask> to write the song "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue", a song about his father's patriotism and faith in the United States. At first, <mask> refused to record the song and sang it only live at his concerts for military personnel. The reaction to the song, the lyrics of which express clear nationalistic and militaristic sentiments, was strong in many quarters, even to the point that the Commandant of the Marine Corps James L. Jones told <mask> it was his "duty as an American citizen" to record the song.As the lead single from the album Unleashed (2002), "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue" peaked at number one over the Fourth of July weekend. ABC invited <mask> to sing "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue" on a 2002 Fourth of July concert it was producing, then rescinded the invitation after host Peter Jennings heard the song and vetoed it. Jennings said the song "probably wouldn't set the right tone". <mask> said his statement to the press of Jennings was, "Isn't he Canadian? ", and "I bet Dan Rather wouldn't kick me off his show." Feud with the Dixie Chicks
<mask> had a public feud with the Dixie Chicks over the song "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue", in 2002, as well as over comments they made about President George W. Bush on stage during a concert in London, in March 2003. The lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, Natalie Maines, publicly stated that <mask>'s song was "ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant".<mask> responded by pointing out that Maines did not write her music and he does, and by displaying a backdrop at his concerts showing a doctored photo of Maines with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. On May 21, 2003, Maines wore a T-shirt with the letters "FUTK" on the front at the Academy of Country Music Awards. While a spokesperson for the Dixie Chicks said that the acronym stood for "Friends United in Truth and Kindness," many, including host Vince Gill, took it to be a shot at <mask> ("Fuck You Toby <mask>"). In an October 2004 appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maines finally confessed that it was indeed a shot at <mask>, and that she "thought that nobody would get it". In August 2003, <mask>'s representation publicly declared he was done feuding with Maines "because he's realized there are far more important things to concentrate on". <mask> was referring specifically to the terminal illness of a former bandmate's daughter, Allison Faith Webb. However, he continues to refuse to say Maines' name, and claims that the doctored photo was intended to express his opinion that Maines' criticism was an attempt to squelch <mask>'s free speech.In April 2008, a commercial spot to promote Al Gore's "We Campaign", involving both <mask> and the Dixie Chicks, was proposed. However, the idea was eventually abandoned due to scheduling conflicts. Donald Trump
On January 19, 2017, <mask> performed at the pre-Inaugural "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" held at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in celebration of the beginning of the presidency of Donald Trump. <mask> thanked outgoing president Barack Obama for his service and thanked president-elect Trump at the start of the celebration. <mask> then played several of his patriotic songs, including "American Soldier", "Made in America", "Beer For My Horses", and "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue". On January 13, 2021, it was reported that <mask> had been awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Trump.The award was given in a closed ceremony, alongside fellow country musician Ricky Skaggs. Personal life
<mask> has an honorary degree from Villanova University, which he attended from 1979 to 1980. He planned to be a petroleum engineer. An avid University of Oklahoma sports fan, <mask> is often seen at Oklahoma Sooners games and practices. He is also a fan of professional wrestling, being seen in the front row of numerous WWE shows that take place in Oklahoma, as well as performing "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)" live at the first ever TNA Wrestling show on June 19, 2002. He is also a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. He is a Free Will Baptist.On March 24, 1984, <mask> married Tricia Lucus. He is the father of three children—two daughters, Shelley Covel Rowland (born 1980, adopted by <mask> in 1984) and Krystal "Krystal <mask>" LaDawn Covel Sandubrae (born September 30, 1985; signed a contract with Show Dog-Universal in 2013), and one son (Stelen <mask>, born 1997). He also has four grandchildren. On March 24, 2001, <mask>'s father was killed in a car accident on Interstate 35. On December 25, 2007, the Covel family was awarded $2.8 million for the wrongful death of H.K. Covel. Elias and Pedro Rodriguez, operators of Rodriguez Transportes of Tulsa, and the Republic Western Insurance Co. were found liable as they failed to equip the charter bus with properly working air brakes.Philanthropy
<mask> supports Ally's House, a non-profit organization in Oklahoma designed to aid children with cancer. Of the charity, <mask> said:

<mask> filmed a PSA for Little Kids Rock, a national nonprofit that works to restore and revitalize music education in disadvantaged U.S. public schools. As of 2015, Forbes estimated <mask>'s annual income at $53 million. (1999)
 Pull My Chain (2001)
 Unleashed (2002)
 Shock'n Y'all (2003)
 Honkytonk University (2005)
 White Trash with Money (2006)
 Big Dog Daddy (2007)
 That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy (2008)
 American Ride (2009)
 Bullets in the Gun (2010)
 Clancy's Tavern (2011)
 Hope on the Rocks (2012)
 Drinks After Work (2013)
 35 MPH Town (2015)
 Peso in My Pocket (2021)

Compilation albums
 Greatest Hits Volume One (1998)
 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection (2003)
 Greatest Hits 2 (2004)
 35 Biggest Hits (2008)
 The Bus Songs (2017)

Christmas albums
 Christmas to Christmas (1995)
 A Classic Christmas (2007)

Number one singles
 "Should've Been a Cowboy"
 "Who's That Man"
 "Me Too"
 "How Do You Like Me Now?!" "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This"
 "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight"
 "I Wanna Talk About Me"
 "My List"
 "Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)"
 "Who's Your Daddy?" "Beer for My Horses"
 "I Love This Bar"
 "American Soldier"
 "Whiskey Girl"
 "As Good as I Once Was"
 "Love Me If You Can"
 "She Never Cried in Front of Me"
 "God Love Her"
 "American Ride"
 "Made in America"

Notable awards

Filmography
 Broken Bridges (2006) also starring Kelly Preston and Lindsey Haun
 CMT Music Awards (2003–2012) Co-Host With Pamela Anderson and Kristen Bell
 Beer for My Horses (2008)

References

External links

 Toby Keith official website

1961 births
Male actors from Oklahoma
American baritones
American country singer-songwriters
American country record producers
American people of English descent
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DreamWorks Records artists
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title: Clare Maclean

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<mask> (born 1958 on the South Island of New Zealand, at Timaru) is a New Zealand composer. She received her formative musical training under Gillian Bibby at the Wellington Polytechnic. She then moved to Australia, where she studied composition in Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe. Singing with the Sydney University Chamber Choir under the direction of Nicholas Routley introduced her to the intricate Renaissance polyphony that affected her early compositions. Early compositions
In 1985 <mask> composed Christ the King, a setting of New Zealand poet James K. Baxter, which has received numerous performances in both Australia and North America, as well as several recordings. Conceived as several interpolations for a performance of John Taverner's "Westron Wynde" Mass, the composer subsequently tied them together to create a single work that combines elements of plainchant and hymnody with polyphonic passages. The composer's ingenious weaving and re-ordering of two Baxter poems, 'Song to the Father' and 'Song to the Lord God on a Spring Morning,’ was an early indication (in 1984) of her acute sensitivity to text, a trait that runs through all her subsequent works.In the same year, <mask> also revised four solo settings of Baxter’s verse. Over the next four years she composed two other major commissions for the Sydney Chamber Choir, "Et Misericordia" (1986) and "A West Irish Ballad" (1988). These three works formed the basis for a CD devoted entirely to her music, performed by the Sydney Chamber Choir and released in 1995 on the Tall Poppies label (TP 073). Maturing style
During the 1990s <mask> continued to absorb and process a wide range of influences, from the aleatoric effects in "Hope There Is" (1990), to the use of folksong and chant in Leise rieselt der Schnee (1996). Other significant works from this period include "Love Was His Meaning" (1992) and "We Welcome Summer" (1996). Music from this period reveals <mask>'s growing use of repetitive, almost hypnotic phrases, as well as the overlaying of different rhythms and even text. Nowhere is this more apparent than the short piece, commissioned for the Sydney Children's Choir, titled "Rain" that comprises a series of onomatopoeic syllables to suggest a rain shower.Since her early success <mask> has continued to write to commission, but her appeal has extended beyond her 'alma mater,’ the Sydney Chamber Choir that had evolved from its original association with the university. She has written for The Macquarie Singers, the Tasmanian Consort (1990), and The Australian Voices of Brisbane (1995). She wrote her 2002 setting of "Aunque Es De Noche" for the Sydney Philharmonia Chorus, and in 2003 she wrote "In The Year That King Uzziah Died" for the Adelaide-based vocal quartet, SYNTONY. More recently, her orchestral work "Panah" was selected as one of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's Readings in 2008, under the direction of conductor Scott Parkman. In an odd twist of coincidence, Parkman had previously served as Assistant Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (USA), a city that has hosted more Maclean performances and commissions than any other. This is explained by the relationship <mask> has enjoyed with the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, a professional chamber choir for which she has served as Composer-in-Residence since 2005. For this ensemble she composed first "Os Anthos Chortou: As the flowers of grass"– setting Sappho in the original ancient Greek; then in 2007 "Misera ancor do Loco" (a conclusion in Italian to Monteverdi's fragmentary sequence, "Lamento d'Arianna," 2007) and "Vive in Deo!"(a series of ancient Greek and Latin epitaphs) and Psalm 137 (in Hebrew, 2009). The St Louis Chamber Chorus has also recorded several of her works on compact disc. Future commissions for this choir include performances in November 2009 and December 2010. At the APRA Music Awards of 2012 she won an Art Music Award in the category Work of the Year – Vocal or Choral for Osanna Mass. Recordings
<mask>, the Complete choral music. The Sydney Chamber Choir, conducted by Nicholas Routley. Tall Poppies, Sydney, Australia, TP073, 1995
Australia Sings a New Song (Hope There is, sung by the Sydney Chamber Choir, conducted by Nicholas Routley).Australian National Choral Association ANCACD1001, 1996
The Listening Land (We Welcome Summer). The Australian Voices, conducted by Graeme Morton. Australian Voices, Brisbane, Australia, VOICESCD002, 1996
Our Time and Place (Hope There Is). The St Peter's Chorale, conducted by Graeme Morton. The St Peter's Chorale, Brisbane, Australia, 1997
Different Angels: Contemporary Australian Choir Music (Christ the King; Et Misericordia). The Adelaide Chamber Singers, conducted by Carl Crossin. The Adelaide Chamber Singers, Australia, ACSCD 002, 1998
O Magnum Mysterium (Christ the King).The Adelaide Chamber Singers, conducted by Carl Crossin. The Adelaide Chamber Singers, Australia
One World, Many Voices (Hope There Is, sung by the Sydney Chamber Choir). Earthsongs, Corvallis, Oregon, CD 02, 1998
One (Christ the King). Ensemble de la Rue, conducted by William Kempster. Arktos Recordings ltd, CD 20041, 2000
Evensong from York Minster (Christ the King). The Brighton School Choir. Brighton School, Adelaide, Australia, 2000
Rejoicing in His Birth (Leise Rieselt der Schnee).The St Louis Chamber Chorus, conducted by Philip Barnes. The St Louis Chamber Chorus, SLCC 007, 2003
The Sydney Chamber Choir and Kampin Laulu Chamber Choir, Finland (We Welcome Summer). ABC Classic FM, Sydney, Australia, 2003
Resonance: Contemporary Choral Music from Australia and the United States (Christ the King). University of New Hampshire Singers, conducted by William Kempster. University of New Hampshire Music Department, UNHCS 0104, 2004
Songs of the Soul (Aunque es de Noche). The St Louis Chamber Chorus, conducted by Philip Barnes. Guild GmbH, Switzerland, GMCD 7272, 2005
Jo-Wha (Oneness) (Kyrie, sung by the Sydney Chamber Choir, conducted by Paul Stanhope).Publications by Wirripang, Wollongong, Australia, 2006
Music for the Soul Lumina Vocal Ensemble conducted by Anna Pope (Christ the King), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, LVE001 2007
St. Louis Commissions (Os Anthos Chortou: As the flowers of grass). The St Louis Chamber Chorus, conducted by Philip Barnes. Regent Records, Great Britain, REGCD 255, 2008
Australian Soundscapes Lumina Vocal Ensemble conducted by Anna Pope (Hope there is and Rain) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, LVE005, 2009
Osanna (Osanna Mass, In the Year That King Uzziah Died, os anthos chortou, Vive in Deo, We Welcome Summer". Sydney Chamber Choir conducted by Paul Stanhope. Tall Poppies, Sydney Australia, TP218 2011. References

1958 births
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title: Gayatri Devi

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<mask> (born as Princess <mask> of Cooch Behar; 23 May 1919 − 29 July 2009) was the third Maharani consort of Jaipur from 1940 to 1949 through her marriage to Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II. Following her husband's signature for the Jaipur State to become part of the Union of India and her step-son's assumption of the title in 1970, she was known as <mask>, Rajmata of Jaipur. Ethnically born in a Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, her father was Maharaja Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, and her mother was Maratha Princess, Indira Raje of Baroda, the only daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, and she was sister to Jagaddipendra Narayan, informally known as 'Bhaiya', who became the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. Following India's independence and the abolition of the princely states, she became a successful politician in the Swatantra Party. <mask> was also celebrated for her beauty and became something of a fashion icon in her adulthood. She served 12 years in Swatantra Party, during which she was a prominent critic of Indira Gandhi's government. After her departure from politics, she lived a quiet life in her large estate, spending time with her grandchildren and on hobbies and leisure.She died on 29 July 2009 in Jaipur, at the age of 90. She was suffering from paralytic ileus and a lung infection. She left an estate estimated at , which was passed on to her grandchildren. Early life

Ethnically born in a Koch Rajbongshi Hindu family, her father, Prince Jitendra Narayan of Cooch Behar, presently in West Bengal, was the younger brother of the Yuvaraja (Crown Prince). Her mother was Maratha Princess Indira Raje of Baroda, the only daughter of Maratha King, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III, an extremely beautiful princess and a legendary socialite. Early in her life, her uncle's death led to her father ascending the throne (gaddi). Gayatri studied at Glendower Preparatory School in London, Patha Bhavana of Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, and later in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she travelled with her mother and siblings, then studied secretarial skills in London School of Secretaries; Brillantmont and Monkey Club London.She first met Sawai Man Singh II when she was 12 and he had come to Calcutta to play polo and stayed with their family. She married Sawai Man Singh II Bahadur on 9 May 1940. Gayatri was a particularly avid equestrienne. She was an excellent rider and an able Polo player. She was a good shot and enjoyed many days out on 'Shikars'. <mask> was fond of cars and is credited with importing the first Mercedes-Benz W126, a 500 SEL to India which was later shipped to Malaysia. She also owned several Rolls-Royces and an aircraft.<mask> had one child, Prince Jagat Singh of Jaipur, late Raja of Isarda, born on 15 October 1949, who was granted his uncle's fief as a subsidiary title. Jagat Singh was the half-brother to Bhawani Singh, who was the eldest son of his father born by his father's first wife. <mask> was once included in Vogue magazine's Ten Most Beautiful Women list. She started two schools in Jaipur,  Maharani Gayatri Devi Girls’ Public School established in 1943  and the other one being Maharaja Sawai Man Singh Vidyalaya, Jaipur which is a co-educational school opened in the memory of her husband Maharaja Sawai Man Singh of Jaipur. She revived and promoted the dying art of blue pottery. Political career
After partition and independence of India in 1947, <mask> <mask> ran for Parliament in 1962 and won the constituency in the Lok Sabha in the world's largest landslide, winning 192,909 votes out of 246,516 cast. She continued to hold this seat on 1967 and 1971 as a member of the Swatantra Party founded by C. Rajagopalachari, running against the Indian National Congress party.In 1965, during a meeting with Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, <mask> was again asked to join Congress. This was the time when, despite the fact that her husband was being made ambassador to Spain, she stuck to her principles and decided not to join the party. In 1967 the Swatantra party joined hands with Jan Sangh that was led by Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. The alliance won a large number of seats in the 1967 election. In the assembly election <mask> lost to Damodar Lal Vyas, in Malpura constituency, but won the Lok Sabha election. The privy purses were abolished in 1971, terminating all royal privileges and titles. <mask> was arrested during the Emergency due to an alleged political vendetta on the false accusation of violating tax laws, and served 5 months in Tihar Jail.She retired from politics and published her biography, A Princess Remembers, written by Santha Rama Rau, in 1976 (this biography also published in Marathi language as A Princess Remembers: <mask> <mask>). She was also the focus of the film Memoirs of a Hindu Princess, directed by Francois Levie. There were rumours that she might re-enter politics as late as 1999, when the Cooch Behar Trinamool Congress nominated her as their candidate for the Lok Sabha elections, but she did not respond to the offer. Family
<mask> <mask> had one son, Prince Jagat Singh, Raja of Isarda (15 October 1949 – 5 February 1997), who was granted his paternal uncle's (father's elder brother) fief of Isarda as a subsidiary title. Jagat Singh was married on 10 May 1978 to Mom Rajawongse Priyanandana Rangsit (b. 1952), daughter of Prince Piyarangsit Rangsit and Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (née Rajani) of Thailand. The married couple had two children:
 Rajkumari Lalitya Kumari (b.1979)
 Maharaj Devraj Singh, Raja of Isarda (b. 1981)
Today, they are her only surviving descendants, and as such, have claimed to be heirs of their paternal grandmother. Maharaj Jagat Singh was, thus, half-brother to Bhawani Singh of Jaipur, the eldest son of the late Maharaja by his first wife, a Jodhpur princess. Family relationships

<mask> <mask> was related to several other erstwhile royal families in India. She was herself not from the Rajput community, but from a dynasty native to Cooch Behar in Bengal, and was daughter of Maharaja Jitendra Narayan and Maharani Indira Raje, who was daughter of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III and Maharani Chimnabai, belonging to the Gaekwad dynasty of the Marathas. Her grand-nephew, along with his wife, Poonam Singh Mewar, and 2 sons died in a car crash. Her paternal grandparents were Nripendra Narayan Bhup Bahadur and Suniti <mask> of Cooch Behar.Maharani Suniti <mask> was the daughter of the Brahmo social reformer Keshab Chandra Sen.

She had two brothers, Jagaddipendra Narayan and Indrajitendra Narayan of whom Jagaddipendra Narayan became the Maharaja of Cooch Behar in his infancy after the death of their father in 1922. Thus, maternally, she was closely connected to Gaekwads of Baroda State. Further, her sister Ila <mask> was married into the Tripura royal family, and her younger sister, Menaka <mask>, was married into the royal family of Dewas State. Thus, through various interconnections, she was related to the royal houses of Kota, Sawantwadi, Akkalkot State, Jath State, Dewas Jr., Jasdan State, and Sandur, Tehri-Garhwal, Mayurbhanj, Dhar State, Kolhapur, Lunawada State, Baria and Raja of Payagpur, which was considered normal amongst the royalties of India. Polo sport
<mask> <mask> is known for her equestrian skills and polo-playing abilities. She was associated with polo since childhood. In 1933, she participated in her first Polo match in Calcutta.She was the chief patron of Jaipur Riding and Polo Club during her later years. After her death in 2009, both her and her quintessential polo skills were honoured by "Rajmata Gayatri Devi Memorial Cup", sponsored by Rambagh Palace, and "Maharani Polo Club", which is celebrated every year in Argentina. Death
<mask> <mask> developed gastric problems in Tihar jail during the infamous state of emergency imposed by Congress Party, then led by PM Indira Gandhi. Later, her gastric problem grew worse, so she was admitted to King Edward's Hospital in London. She was being treated for the gastric disorder there, when she had expressed her desire to return to Jaipur. She was flown in an air ambulance to Jaipur. She was admitted at Santokba Durlabhji Memorial hospital (SDMH) on 17 July 2009.She died at the age of 90 on 29 July 2009, reportedly due to lung failure. Filmography
 Stephane Bern. Gayatra <mask>, une princesse au pays des Maharajas. Documentary by Roland Portiche and Vanessa Pontet. 1h45'. 2013. First broadcast on 26 December 2013, FR2 (French TV).References

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title: William Isaac

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<mask>. "Bill<mask> (born 1943 in Bryan, Ohio) was the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from August 3, 1981 through October 21, 1985. He was appointed to the FDIC Board of Directors by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 at the age of 34 and was named Chairman of the FDIC in 1981 by President Reagan. In 1986, <mask> founded the regulatory consulting firm The Secura Group LLC which became part of FTI Consulting, Inc., a global consulting firm. <mask> served as Chairman of the Board of Fifth Third Bancorp from 2009 through 2014. <mask> left FTI Consulting at year end 2019 and joined The Isaac-Milstein Group as Co-Chairman with New York financier and philanthropist Howard Milstein who is Chairman & CEO of New York Private Bank & Trust which in turn owns Emigrant Bank. <mask> sits on a number of corporate boards (including New York Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank and is Chairman of Sarasota Private Trust and Cleveland Private Trust and speaks and writes regularly on financial and regulatory issues. Early life and education
<mask><mask> was born in 1943 to parents Charles and <mask>.He grew up in Bryan, Ohio. <mask> earned his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1966. While a student at Miami, he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the Student Senate, and served as Treasurer of his class. He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree (LL.D) from Miami University in 1984. He also received a Doctorate of Law (summa cum laude) from the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University in 1969. Career
After earning his law degree, <mask> went to work for the law firm Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee. Witnessing incredible changes rippling through the banking sector at the time, he worked on the forefront of the vast expansion of bank holding companies and the difficulties posed by the recession and real estate collapse of 1972-1974.Making a move to focus his career on the banking industry, <mask> departed Foley & Lardner in 1974 to join the First Kentucky National Corporation in Louisville, KY, the largest banking company in the state. He served as vice president and general counsel of the corporation and its subsidiaries, which included the First National Bank of Louisville and First Kentucky Trust Co. There, he got his first taste of dealing with shareholders and reporting to regulatory agencies, including the FDIC, and learned to deftly navigate the economic waters of the mid-1970s. In 1978, at age 34, <mask> was tapped by President Jimmy Carter to serve as the youngest-ever member of the board of the FDIC. The position proved to be full throttle from day one – in fact, on his first day in office at the FDIC, <mask> was called down to Puerto Rico, where one of the territory's largest banks, Banco Credito, was set to fail. <mask> was named Chairman of the FDIC in 1981 following the election of President Ronald Reagan. He served in that position through 1985 and is credited of preparing the FDIC for an onslaught of bank failures throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.<mask> served as FDIC Chairman during the Reagan Administration from 1981 through 1985, a very tumultuous period in U.S. banking, which has recently been a point of comparison to the financial crisis of 2008. He was appointed to the three-member board of directors of the FDIC on March 16, 1978 by President Carter. Some of the major challenges during <mask>'s tenure at the FDIC were sky-high interest rates (the U.S. prime rate reached 21.5 percent); widespread bank failures and massive insolvencies in the thrift industry; the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act deregulating interest rates; a major recession in 1981-1982 with unemployment reaching 11 percent in 1983; the collapse of Continental Illinois, then the seventh largest bank in the US; the third world debt crisis; a depression in the agricultural sector; a collapse of the bubble in the energy sector; and a severe nationwide collapse in the real estate sector. Altogether during the crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s some 3,000 banks and thrifts failed, including many of the largest banks in the country and nine of the ten largest banks in Texas. <mask> is widely credited, including by President Reagan and former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, with helping to maintain stability in the financial system during a period of severe stress. While at the FDIC, <mask> served as a member of the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, Chaired the Financial Institutions Examination Council, and served on the Vice President's Task Force on Regulation of Financial Services.After his service at the FDIC, <mask> founded The Secura Group, a consulting firm providing regulatory counseling, risk management services, strategic studies, expert testimony, and management consulting for financial institutions, law firms, and governments. LECG acquired the Secura Group in 2007 at which time <mask> became an integral part of the financial services group at LECG, which was later acquired by FTI Consulting. <mask> is involved extensively in thought leadership relating to the financial services industry and policy makers worldwide. His articles are published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, American Banker, and other leading publications. He also appears regularly on leading television and radio programs in the US and abroad, is a contributor to CNBC, testifies before Congress, and is a frequent speaker throughout the world on finance and regulatory matters. <mask> served as Senior Managing Director for FTI Consulting.until the end of 2019  In May 2010, <mask> was elected chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp, and in 2014 was elected to the board of directors of Total System Services, Inc. (TSYS). He is a regular commentator on banking and financial issues for CNBC TV and regularly contributes opinion pieces for American Banker magazine and Forbes.His book Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America, about the financial crisis of 2008, with foreword by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, was published in June 2010 by Wiley & Sons. <mask> left FTI Consulting and partnered with New York banker and philanthropist Howard Milstein at the end of 2019, both serving as Co-Chairman of The Isaac-Milstein Group, a global financial services consulting firm. <mask> serves on the boards of New York Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank in New York City and is Chairman of Sarasota Private Trust and Cleveland Private Trust, both part of the Milstein family of companies. References

External links
 http://www.williamisaac.com/
 Wiley book webpage

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title: Edu (footballer, born 1978)

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<mask> (born 16 May 1978), known as <mask>, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking or central midfielder. He is the technical director at Arsenal. Club career

Early career
<mask> started his career in Série A with Corinthians. While with Corinthians, <mask> won the 1998 and 1999 Brasileiro championships, and the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship. Arsenal
After initially planning to join Arsenal in 2000, his transfer was put on hold after it was realised that he was in possession of a fake Portuguese passport. Months later, after qualifying for a European Union (EU) passport (aided by Italian lineage on his father's side), he signed for Arsenal on 16 January 2001 for £6 million. He had a turbulent time early on as his sister was killed in a car accident.His Arsenal debut came in 2001 in a goalless draw tarnished by an injury after 15 minutes against Leicester City. He had replaced Freddie Ljungberg at half time only to be replaced by Dennis Bergkamp minutes later. It was an unfortunate start and he only managed to play in four more matches for the club during that season, one of which was a 0–3 defeat at home to Middlesbrough in which he contributed an own goal. His first goal for the club came against Grimsby in the League Cup on 27 November 2001. He went on to make a substitute appearance in the 2002 FA Cup Final as Arsenal emerged victorious. He also contributed 14 league appearances, and a goal against Aston Villa, as Arsenal won the 2001–02 Premier League, with <mask> becoming the first Brazilian to win the Premier League. In 2002–03 <mask> made 18 appearances in the Premier League and featured heavily as Arsenal got to the FA Cup final for the third year running.<mask> scored in Arsenal's fifth round win against Manchester United at Old Trafford, however injury issues in the latter part of the season meant he was left out of the squad for the final. 2003–04 season in midfield for Arsenal was seen as his finest season so far in football, he was part of the team which went 49 games unbeaten, (the whole 2003–04 Premier League season without defeat). He appeared in 30 League games and scored 2 goals, both against Chelsea, he scored the fourth of Arsenal's 5 in a 5–1 historic win against Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League in November 2003, he made a career high 48 appearances and 7 goals for Arsenal in all competitions. <mask> was on the pitch as Arsenal clinched the 2003–04 Premier League title at White Hart Lane on 25 April 2004. During the season, he made his 100th appearance for Arsenal. <mask> enjoyed mixed fortunes in the 2004–05 season. He missed the start of the season because he was away with Brazil at the Copa América.This was followed by speculation over his future at the club as he was in the last year of his contract with Arsenal. Talks with Valencia of Spain in January 2005 failed as the Mestalla outfit were not able to pay the fee Arsenal demanded. <mask> only scored two goals for Arsenal in 2004–05 – one was a fine chip in the 2–0 away win at West Bromwich Albion in May 2005, and the other a penalty kick in a 7–0 win over Everton in 2005. He did however come on as an extra time substitute as Arsenal won the 2005 FA Cup Final. Valencia
In May 2005, it was confirmed that he would leave Arsenal in the summer on a Bosman ruling free transfer. Valencia, Juventus, Inter Milan, and Barcelona were hot favourites to secure the signature of <mask>, and on 30 May, Valencia announced it had signed him to a five-year deal. Shortly after signing, <mask> suffered a pre-season injury that ruled him out of first-team action until 4 April 2006, when he made his debut in the 5–3 victory over Cádiz.On 3 July 2009, the Brazilian midfielder left Valencia through contractual termination. Corinthians
After being released in Spain, <mask> signed a contract with his former club, the Corinthians, on 6 August 2009, which was to last until 31 December 2011. After playing four matches during the 2010 season, his contract was terminated by mutual consent, and <mask> announced his retirement from professional football. International career
<mask> initially considered playing for the England national team upon gaining a British passport as he did not think he would be picked for Brazil. He finally got a call-up to the Brazilian national team in 2004 and made his debut on 28 April 2004 in a friendly match against Hungary. He played for them in the 2004 Copa América and 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, which were both won by Brazil. In the final of the Copa América 2004 he scored one of the penalties in the shootout as Brazil defeated Argentina.Post-playing career
On 17 March 2011, Corinthians announced that <mask> would take over from William Machado as the club's director of football. He also assisted Carlos Queiroz's Iranian national team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. From 2016 to 2019, he was the general coordinator of the Brazilian national team. On 9 July 2019, it was announced that <mask> had become Arsenal's first ever technical director. The club's director of football, Raul Sanllehi said: "We're very excited that <mask> is joining the team. He has great experience and technical football knowledge and most importantly is a true Arsenal man. He understands the club and what we stand for to our millions of fans around the world."Honours
Corinthians
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 1998, 1999
FIFA Club World Championship: 2000

Arsenal
Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04
FA Cup: 2001–02, 2004–05
FA Community Shield: 2002

Valencia
Copa del Rey: 2007–08

Brazil
Copa América: 2004
FIFA Confederations Cup: 2005

Individual
Premier League Player of the Month: February 2004

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Copa América-winning players
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Brazilian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Expatriate footballers in Spain
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in England
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Arsenal F.C. non-playing staff
FA Cup Final players

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title: Mary Ann O'Brian Malkin

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<mask>'<mask>, editor and collector of books on dance notation. <mask>'<mask> (1913–2005) collected books on dance notation, the shorthand used by choreographers to make detailed records of their work. Especially strong in 18th-century European material, her collection, given to Penn State in 2003, was the best in private hands. Career
She was born 13 March 1913 (or, as she liked to say, on 3/13/13) in Altoona, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Agnes (Lynch) and Lawrence O'Brian, who worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad. A 1937 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, she married Donald Woodward Lee, an instructor at Penn State, and the couple moved to New York City so that Lee could pursue a doctorate at Columbia University; this marriage ended in divorce. While working at the R. R. Bowker Company in the mid-1940s, she met Sol.M<mask>, editor of the Antiquarian Bookman (AB). <mask> purchased this weekly magazine from Bowker in 1953, by which time it had become a prime source for timely news, book reviews, and coverage of trade and library conventions. It attracted a large subscription list of dealers, both those especially concerned with selling used books and those primarily engaged in the sale of new books but who ran an out-of-print search service for their customers. She worked for the magazine, which later renamed itself AB Bookman’s Weekly, as administrative assistant, copy editor and – as “Grandma Lynch” – a features writer, posing as a book collector who lived in the mountains of Frugality, PA, and who kept her books in caves (good humidity) with bear traps in front of each cave (inexpensive security). <mask> O'Brian married Sol. <mask> in 1953. She was a frequent book reviewer in AB especially of needlepoint and cook books (AB’s readers got quite accustomed to these reviews, madly irrelevant though they were to the concerns of most of the magazine’s subscribers).She signed her reviews with her initials, MAM –  and it was as MAM that she was known to her many friends in the book and dance worlds. Sol<mask> sold the magazine in 1972; a year later, the Malkins were jointly awarded the Clarence Day Award of the American Library Association, an award annually made to a librarian or other individual for outstanding work in encouraging the love of books and reading. The <mask> were the first non-librarians to receive this honor. Philanthropy

In 1985, MAM established an annual lecture under the auspices of the Book Arts Press at Columbia University in honor of her husband Sol., who died in March 1986, a few months after Michael Winship gave the first lecture. The Malkin lecture, later renamed the Sol. M. and <mask> O'Brian Malkin Lecture in Bibliography, moved with the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School (RBS) to the University of Virginia in 1992.MAM was a frequent attendee of RBS courses during the school's Columbia days, and a regular visitor to the school after its move to Charlottesville, Virginia. From 1999 through 2004, MAM funded the New Scholars Program of the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA); each year the BSA invited three early-career scholars to present 20-minute papers at a panel preceding the annual meeting in New York City in late January. The program gave participants an opportunity to present unpublished research and to acquaint members of the Society with new work on bibliographical topics. After MAM's death, the BSA raised endowment funds to institutionalize her annual subsidy; one of the New Scholars grants is named in her honor. Though never a professional dancer herself, MAM always had an interest in both contemporary ballroom dancing and the history of dance, and she was a supporter of many dance groups and societies, including the American Dance Guild (ADG). In 2003, the ADG and Columbia University co-sponsored a Mary Ann Malkin Gala Concert of dance at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City in honor of her generous support of dancing and dance history. Collecting Dance Books

MAM began to collect dance books in the mid-1970s: "Neither Sol.nor I collected books seriously during our AB days," she wrote in recollections published in the newsletter of The Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies. "Sol. felt deeply that it would have been unfair to our subscribers for us to do so." In the 1970s, MAM acquired an 18th-century book on the history of dance that used a visual shorthand system of dance step notation. "I had trouble reading this book: stenochoregraphic dance notation has an alarming resemblance to chicken tracks," she said, but she decided to collect books showing the history of dance notation as three-dimensional objects that could be loved for themselves, as well as for their contents. She soon had a substantial collection of dance notation books, thanks in large part to the English dealer Richard Macnutt, who represented her at the 1979 Jack Cole Sotheby's sale in London. Other dealers who helped her form her collection include Bennett Gilbert, Gordon Hollis of Golden Legend, the Lubranos, Bruce McKittrick, the Sallochs, and Stephen Weissman.Some of MAM's dance books were exhibited at the Grolier Club in New York City in 1986 and at the Houghton Library at Harvard in 1987. She was the principal lender to Madison U. Sowell's 1993 exhibition at Brigham Young University, The Art of Terpsichore: From Renaissance Festivals to Romantic Ballets, mounted in conjunction with a meeting of the Society of Dance History Scholars. In her heyday as a collector, it was a treat to see her at an antiquarian book fair. She loved to go into a strange dealer's booth, spot an old book dealing with the history of dance, and ask to see it. The dealer would obligingly take the book out of the case and show it to her, with no thought of selling such an expensive book to a little old lady with bright orange hair. MAM would then whip out her checkbook and write a four- and sometimes even a five-figure check on the spot, handing it to the astonished but gratified dealer. In 2002, she mounted a solo show of her books at the Grolier Club and then gave her collection to her alma mater, Penn State, which mounted an exhibition of the books in October 2003.In 2003, she privately published the substantial Dancing by the Book, a catalog of her collection of dance notation books. In the Introduction to this book, MAM wrote: "We could have (and should have) done more -- and worked longer and harder -- before publishing this catalogue. But I am now 90 years old, and it seems an appropriate time to show the results of our work thus far." The book, distributed by Golden Legend and by the Lubranos, was designed by Jerry Kelly, with photographs by Ropbert Lorenzson. Toward the end of her life, MAM's eyesight began to fail, and she became unsure on her feet. She fell twice in 2004, breaking first one hip and then the other. Mentally she remained alert, however, and with help from home care worker Ceceal Sergeant, she graduated to a three-wheeled walker and then to a cane.In July 2005, MAM took a train to Charlottesville to attend the 21st annual Sol. M. and <mask> O'<mask> Lecture in Bibliography, given on July 27 by Richard Wendorf, then the Director of the Boston Athenaeum, and to attend a dinner in her honor. She seemed tired but well when she returned to New York City on Friday, 30 July, and in a telephone conversation on Sunday night she gave a lively account of her visit to RBS to a friend; but she died, apparently in her sleep, later that evening. She was 92 years old. There were no near surviving relatives. MAM's temperament was a sunny one. She was remarkably without self-pity of any kind, and she was always good company.In later life, she was glad that she had the means to support generously two of her principal interests: dance and the history of the book. Her residual estate was divided between the Grolier Club and Rare Book School. References

Dance notators
1913 births
Pennsylvania State University alumni
2005 deaths
20th-century American philanthropists

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title: Swami Purushottamananda

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<mask> (14 June 1931 – 25 February 2005) was a monk of the Ramakrishna Mission. He was a prolific writer and orator in Kannada. He was also known as singer. Biography

Birth
<mask> was born on 14 June 1931 at Moodahadu, a village near Saligrama in the undivided district of Dakshina Kannada, Karnataka as Ramachandra Bayari. He completed matriculation and served as a teacher in Malpe and Madikeri. Work as Sannyasi of Ramakrishna Mission
He joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1960 as a brahmacharin at Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama (presently Ramakrishna Math), Bangalore. He was an initiated disciple of <mask>da, the then president of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Bangalore and the Vice President of the Ramakrishna Order.He, as brahmachari Mukunda Chaitanya, underwent probationer's training at the Belur Math, headquarters of Ramakrishna Mission for two years. He served at the Bangalore centre (now known as Ramakrishna Math, Basavanagudi) for about 33 years (up to 1993), managing several of its activities, including Vivekananda Balaka Sangha and Vivekananda Yuvaka Sangha (the twin organizations for the character development of youth). During May 1993 – November 2000, <mask> served as the President of the Ramakrishna Saradashram at Ponnampet, Kodagu; and conducted a number of spiritual retreats and other programmes. The shrine and the prayer-halls were renovated and Sadhu-nivas (monks' quarters) constructed. In November 2000 he took over as the President of the newly affiliated Ramakrishna Mission ashrama at Belgaum. The historic building in Belgaum, where <mask> stayed in 1892 for 12 days, was gifted to the Ramakrishna Mission by the Govt. of Karnataka.<mask> was instrumental in renovating this building, and constructing the Ramakrishna Universal Temple in the adjacent land in January 2004. He has authored several books, mainly in Kannada, including three biographies: on Ramakrishna, Sarada Devi and <mask>. One of his famous books — A letter to a student, focuses on  students elaborating various techniques to help them achieve all-round excellence. The biography of Vivekananda won him the Vishwamanava literary award of the De.Ja.Gou. Trust. The Swamiji was instrumental in the setting up of several voluntary organizations, Satsangs, as well as independent Ramakrishna Ashramas throughout Karnataka. He took a very active role in the Ramakrishna Mission activities — through his discourses, bhajans, and Satsang programmes.He is also well known for his singing and composing the bhajans, and for inspiring others to take monastic vows. His music
Swami <mask>ji was a noted singer and could allegedly transport the satsang into a spiritual trance. The most notable Bhajanas sung by him were Shraddeya sarovaradi, Tayi durgeya, kabir doha "Theertha yaatrage" etc. His most well-known songs are:

<mask>nda : Sanyassi Geetay. Ananta Roopini, <mask>nda
Swami Purushottamananda Bhajan : Prema Roopa Sri Ramakrishna

Death
<mask> died on Friday 25 February 2005 at the Narayana Hrudayalaya, due to a massive heart attack at the age of 73. Books, Cassettes and CDs

Books

In Kannada

Biographies
 Veerasanyasi-, Vishwa Vijeta-, and Vishwamanava-Vivekananda – the three volumes of a comprehensive biography of <mask>
 Yugavatara Shri Ramakrishna (Vol. I to Vol.IV) – a biography of Sri Ramakrishna in Kannada
 Shri Sharadadevi Jeevanaganga – a biography of the Holy Mother Shri Sharadadevi
 Brahmananubhavi – a biography of <mask>mananda

Booklets
 ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗೊಂದು ಪತ್ರ - Vidyarthigondu Patra
 ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಏಕಾಗ್ರತೆ - Adhyayanadalli Ekagrate
 Dheerateya Dundhubhi
 ಕಬೀರ ಬೀರಿದ ಬೆಳಕು - Kabeera Beerida Belaku
 ಸದ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇಷ್ಟು ಸಾಕು - Sadyakke Ishtu Saaku (a minimalist Kannada dictionary for beginners)
 ತಪಸ್ಸು ಯಶಸ್ಸು - Tapassu Yashassu
 ಶಾಂತಿಯ ಹರಕೆ - Shaantiya Harake
 ಪ್ರಯತ್ನವೇ ಪರಮೇಶ್ವರ - Prayatnave Parameshwara
 ಶಕ್ತಿಶಾಲಿ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿತ್ವ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣ - Shanktishaali Vyakthitva Nirmaana
 ಚಿಂತನ ಮಂಥನ - Chintana Manthana
 ಯುವ ಶಕ್ತಿಯ ರಹಸ್ಯ - Yuva Shaktiya Rahasya
 ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗಾಗಿ - Vidhyaarthigaagi. ಶಾಂತಿಯ ಮಂತ್ರಗಳು - Shaanti Mantragalu. English
 Letter to A Student
 Secret of Concentration
 Man and Money
 Youth and Vitality
 Useful thoughts for youths
 Build your personality
 Gospel of Strength

Music in CDs and Cassettes
 Prarthana Pushpanjali – recording of his live performance at Ramakrishna Institute of Culture, Kolkota
 Bhakthi Geetam – Live Performance at Ramakrishna math, Chennai
 Bhakthi Sudha – assorted bhajans and namavalis
 Bhajana Mala – assorted bhajans and namavalis
 Shiva Shakti Mala – Sanskrit and Hindi devotional songs
 Sri Ram Aradhana – Sanskrit and Hindi devotional songs
 Sri Krishna Bhajans – Sanskrit and Hindi devotional songs
 Bhajans(Vol-4) – Hindi devotional songs
 Bhajans(Vol-5) – Hindi and Sanskrit devotional songs
 Stotras and Bhajans
 Arati & Sankirtana – Sanskrit devotional songs
 Bhajanakusumanjali – Kannada & Hindi devotional songs
 Baarenna Thaayi – Kannada devotional songs
 Kabeera Beerida Belaku (vol. I & II) – Hindi & Kannada

Lectures in Audio Cassettes and CDs
 Vachana-Veda (16 CDs)
 Vishnusahasranama (3 CDs)
 Tittiriya Upanishad (2 CDs)
 Bhakti Yoga (1 CD)
 Chintana Part 1 & 2 (2 CDs)
 Pavitrateyatta payaNa (1 CD)
 Manassinante Mahadeva
 Yugakke Takka Saadhane (1 CD)
 Vinoda-Sunaada (1 CD)
 Sarvatomukha BeLavaNige(1 CD)
 PrItiya Riti (1 CD)
 Dhyana Yoga (1 CD)
 Vishwaroopa Darshana (1 CD)
 Sarada Devi Sandesha (1 CD)
 Satsanga Sourabha Bhaga 1(1 CD)
 Satsanga Sourabha Bhaga 2(1 CD)
 Sri Sharadadevi Mahatmya (1 DVD audio)
 Prayatnave Parameshwara (1 CD)
 Bharata Pravaasa Kathana (1 CD)
 Adhyatma & Mantradeekshe (1 CD)

References

External links

Video Collections
prarthana_pushpa
Satsanga – Swami Purushottamananda
A Day with Swami Purushottamananda – 1
A day with Swami Purushottamananda – 2
A Day with Swami Purushottamananda – 3. Audio Collections
Collection at esnips
Sri Ramakrishna Vachanaveda Lecture Kannada
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Devi
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Rama
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Composed by Swamiji
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Vividh Bhajans
Bhajans by Swami Purushottamanandaji_Krishna
Bhajana Mala 1
Arati_and_Bhajans_Ramakrishna_Mission

Monks of the Ramakrishna Mission
1931 births
2005 deaths
People from Dakshina Kannada district

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Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Yatiswaranan
Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Purushottamananda
Swami Vivekananda
Purushottamananda
Swami Purushottamana
Swami Purushottamana
Swami Purushottamanandaji
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Brah


title: Anders Nelsson

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<mask> is an actor and musician who emerged in the 1960s Hong Kong music scene. He was a member of the popular Hong Kong group The Kontinentals as well as the front man for <mask> & The Inspiration. In later years he became an actor and in an early role he played a thug in the movie Way of the Dragon that starred Bruce Lee. Early life
<mask> was born in California, USA, to Swedish missionaries. His family moved to Hong Kong in 1950 when he was 4 years old. He studied at King George V School between 1958 and 1965. Older kids in KGV allowed him to play in their bands in school hall.They played on Friday afternoons

Music career

1950s and 1960s

In the late 1950s, <mask> was in a band called  The Cagey 5 which was a twist around of the name of their school King George V. In a few years the band had become The Kontinentals. In 1963 <mask>'s school band The Kontinentals, signed their first recording contract and shortly afterwards released I Think Of Her and I Still Love You, released on the Orbit Records label. Both were chart-topping hits in Hong Kong. He was entertainment editor for sensationalist newspaper The Star in 1968. 1970 to 1976

In the 1970s, Nelson was the front man in a successful band called Ming

which was signed to EMI records. It was formed in 1973 and lasted until 1976. Most of the recordings the band made were composed by <mask>.Some of the band's releases that did very well in the 1970s included "Never Coming Home" and "Reasons Why". Due to a few things he'd seen with other bands that included drinking backstage and taking drugs, also not wanting to sing past 30, he decided on a change of direction and as a result, he broke up Ming. 1976 onwards
In 1976 he switched to composing and producing and has written many jingles and film soundtracks, including the main theme for the award-winning Cantonese movie Mr. Vampire. From 1976 to 1979 he worked for EMI (HK) Ltd as Artist & Repertoire Manager and in 1979 started his own group of Companies, The Melody Bank which became a successful production and publishing house, and The Entertainment Company, which managed several successful Hong Kong artists, including Rowena Cortes and Louie Castro. 10 years later he sold The Melody Bank to BMG Pacific Limited and joined this newly emerging 'major' in the music industry as Managing Director. In this role he set up BMG's music publishing operations in the Asian Region as well as running the record company in Hong Kong. After completing his three-year contract <mask> was headhunted by the well-known Hong Kong Swaine family (patriarch of this family, Sir John Swaine QC was at the time chairman of both the Royal HK Jockey Club and the Legislative Council.)A new company called The Media Bank was set up under the Chairmanship of elder son John Swaine Junior, with <mask> as MD. Through <mask>'s music industry contacts the company acquired representation of several indie labels and publishing catalogues. <mask> left the company shortly after the Handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997 to pursue China-related opportunities as a consultant. Over the decades <mask> has also presented concerts by and booked major international artists such as Kenny G,

Elton John, Bob Dylan, INXS, Bananarama and Michael Bolton. He still books artists for corporate events and charity events. He still enjoys singing and in mid-2005 started a new concept band…..the concept being that it can range in size from just <mask> and a pianist up to as many musicians as a client can afford or accommodate on a stage! In view of this flexibility, he named the band INFINITY and the group has performed at many high-profile events including the 2005 Macau Grand Prix, the final New Year's Eve party at the legendary, now-closed, Hyatt Regency Hotel, the Canadian Community Ball (2004, 2005, 2006), the Jailhouse Rock party at the historical Victoria Prison to raise funds for the Community Chest and many private parties and events.In September 2006 a Guangzhou, China-based record company released an album of Chinese favorites sung in English by <mask>. He is also recording a CD of some of his favorite songs for release in 2010 which will be the 60th anniversary of <mask>'s arrival in Hong Kong as a child in 1950 with his parents. Producer
The artists that Nelsson has produced include Gracie Rivera, Mona Richardson, Carole and Perry Martin. Acting
His acting career started with a small role in Bruce Lee's Way of The Dragon

in 1972. He got the part as a result of knowing Lee via his brother Robert Lee who was a fellow musician. He has appeared in countless Hong Kong-made TV dramas since then, for all the Hong Kong channels, CTV, RTHK, HK-TVB and RTV/ATV. Among his roles have been Divine Retribution (ATV), Wiselee (TVB) and feature film Journey To The West with Nicholas Tse, released in late 2005.During late 2005 and early 2006 he taped several drama serials for HK-TVB including Stanley Story, which went on air on May 15, 2006 and Land of Wealth, which was screened in October 2006. He has also appeared as a guest in Jade Solid Gold and is currently seen as an expert promoting HK-TVB's HD-TV channels. He finds that having his face appear on TV on a regular basis opens many doors, especially in China, and keeps this aspect of his career as a business tool as well as hobby. Other business interests
He is currently a well-respected entertainment industry and PR consultant doing work for prestigious Asian companies, including some of the major record companies, Hong Kong's popular restaurant and bar district Knutsford Terrace, and his native country of Sweden, through his group of companies, which include a music production company, a music publishing company and a PR company. <mask> is considered somewhat of an expert in music-related copyright matters and in a more serious side to his career has been engaged by the Hong Kong government as an expert witness from time to time. He has in the past served several terms as a director on the boards of both the Music Publishers Association (M.P.A.) and The Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (C.A.S.H.)Honors and awards

 Order of the Knights of Rizal - (October 25, 2019).

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Anders Nelsson
Anders Nelson
Nelsson
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title: Hubert von Goisern

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<mask> (born <mask>, 17 November 1952) is an Austrian singer-songwriter and world musician. With his mix of rock music and elements of traditional Volksmusik he has become a prominent exponent of the so-called New Volksmusik and Alpine Rock in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. His stage name <mask>isern refers to his hometown. <mask> has won numerous record certifications and several national and international awards. Biography
He was born in Bad Goisern. Already interested in music as a youth, he joined the local brass band where he learned playing the trumpet as his first instrument. When conflicts arose with the band leader about the band's repertoire and <mask>'s long hair, he had to leave the band and return the trumpet.He then learned to play guitar starting with an acoustic guitar and then expanding his skills to a self-purchased electric guitar. He also took lessons in trumpet and clarinet. Other instruments like the Steirische Harmonika that was introduced to him by his grandfather were learned in private study. South Africa, Canada, Philippines (1972–1983)
Aged 20, he left Austria with his girlfriend and relocated to South Africa where he worked in a chemical laboratory. He became involved in the struggle against apartheid but returned to Austria five years later. There he married his Canadian wife and adopted her surname Sullivan. At the age of 27 he decided to become a professional musician.He studied guitar in Toronto for two years and learned to play flamenco music. After separating from his wife, he went on another journey and learned to play the nose flute on the Philippines. This was also where he began to develop his own musical style by incorporating elements of a foreign traditional music into the traditional music of his home country Austria. Austria: the Alpinkatzen (1984–1995)
Back in Austria in 1984, he worked as a freelance musician and composer and studied electroacoustics and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. In 1986 he and Wolfgang Staribacher founded the band Original Alpinkatzen. At this time he also adopted his stage name <mask> Goisern while Staribacher was <mask> Wien. Beginning with small performances in clubs and pubs, they published a studio album Alpine Lawine [Alpine Avalanche] in 1988 on CBS using the moniker "Alpinkatzen featuring <mask> Goisern".Together with Wolfgang Ambros, Joesi Prokopetz and Manfred Tauchen the Alpinkatzen performed the Watzmann tour, a stage adaption of the audio drama Der Watzmann ruft [Mount Watzmann is calling]. Afterwards the band parted with Wolfgang Staribacher. <mask> Goisern kept his stage name and continued the project with a number of new musicians: Stefan Engel (keys), Wolfgang Maier (drums), Reinhard Stranzinger (guitar) and Sabine Kapfinger (vocals). Kapfinger became later known as "Alpine Sabine" and eventually "Zabine". At first she participated in studio recordings only, but taught <mask>n how to yodel. The band had a breakthrough in 1992 with their album Aufgeigen stått niederschiassen [Striking up instead of shooting down] that featured the tracks "Heast as nit" (Austrian German for "don't you hear it"), "Weit, weit weg" [far, far away], and "Koa Hiatamadl" (dialectal for "no herder girl"). "Koa Hiatamadl" received extended airplay and peaked at No.2 in the Austrian singles charts. The Alpinkatzen toured across German language countries and became one of the most successful Alpenrock bands. In 1994, the second album Omunduntn (dialectal for "Up and down") was released. It contains the track "Goisern" which is a German language adaption of Ray Charles' song "Georgia", and also reworked versions of the songs "Cocaine" and "Kren & Speck" [horse radish and bacon] from the Alpinkatzen's first album Alpine Lawine. A new tour was conducted through Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Another quick tour included performances in Paris, San Antonio and Austin, Texas, and New York City. It was the last concert tour by the Alpinkatzen.Their last concert was given on 1 November 1994. Shortly before, a performance at the Circus Krone Building had been filmed by director Joseph Vilsmaier and his wife Dana Vávrová. The documentary Wia die Zeit vergeht [how time passes by] was presented at the 1995 Munich Festival and was later published on VHS and DVD. The concert at Circus Krone was declared the farewell performance by the band. Fashion and film
Apart from his musical activities, <mask>n had created two fashion lines together with his friend Klaus Höller, which were produced by Modehaus Meindl. Like his music, these collections were meant to interpret traditional elements in a modern way. <mask> made his debut as an actor in the 1995 television drama Hölleisengretl by director Jo Baier.He played the husband of protagonist Gretl (Martina Gedeck), and wrote the film score together with Austrian singer-songwriter Stefan Melbinger. Due to the Omunduntn tour he was unable to accept another acting offer for the role of Elias in Vilsmaier's film Brother of Sleep (German title: Schlafes Bruder), but he wrote the film score together with Winfried Grabe and Enjott Schneider. Other film music by <mask> Goisern includes the scores for two films by Austrian actor and director Julian Pölsler in 1991, and a television film Die Fernsehsaga – Eine steirische Fernsehgeschichte [the TV saga – a Styrian television tale] (1995). The soundtrack for the children's television film Ein Rucksack voller Lügen [A backpack full of lies] was published in 1996 as Ein Sack voller Lügen [A bag full of lies]. Africa and Tibet (1997–1998)
<mask> Goisern had been introduced to anthropologist Jane Goodall by their common friend, publisher Michael Neugebauer. Intrigued by her work and eventually invited by her for a visit to Gombe Stream National Park, <mask>n travelled to Tanzania in 1996 for the first time. During another voyage, a documentary film was made in cooperation with the Austrian ORF and German Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasters: Von Goisern nach Gombe [From Goisern to Gombe].The soundtrack Gombe was published on CD in 1998. Tseten Zöchbauer, chairwoman of the Austrian organisation Save Tibet introduced <mask>n to artists of the India-based Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts (TIPA). Subsequently, he accompanied and presented their Austrian tour. Afterwards he planned a voyage to Tibet and invited Zöchbauer, who had left her native country aged two, to come along. For six weeks they travelled through Tibet and later, in an ORF interview, reported on the status of the Tibetan people, culture, and relationship with their Chinese national government. Together with Wolfgang Spannberger he later travelled to Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, where the Central Tibetan Administration is located. There they met Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.With a mobile sound studio they recorded traditional Tibetan music performed by artists of TIPA. These recordings and other songs from a recording session with Tibetan guest musicians in Salzburg, Austria, were released in 1998 on the album Inexile [in exile]. The Dalai Lama followed an invitation by <mask> Goisern and visited him in Bad Ischl in 1998. Restart (1999–2006)
In 1999, <mask> Goisern worked again on recordings for an album of his own. The tracks for Fön [Foehn wind] were recorded with a new band in the summer of 2000. The album was released the same year. In early 2001, the band went on a promotional tour starting in Linz, and Trad, a compilation of Austrian folk songs, was released.In May 2001, <mask> Goisern received his first Amadeus Austrian Music Award as best national rock/pop artist. In his acceptance speech, which turned out to have been edited by ORF prior to airing, he criticised the Austrian music industry for a lack in supporting Austrian artists. Following the Fön tour, <mask> Goisern played a number of concerts in Egypt and West African countries. In Assiut he shared the stage with Mohamed Mounir, one of the best-known Egyptian musicians, who fuses elements of traditional Sufi music and modern rock. During his tour through West Africa, <mask>n was accompanied by a film team that recorded a documentary Grenzenlos [Without Borders] about connecting the meetings of the Austrian musicians with various African artists. In the summer of 2002, a concert tour was made in Germany, and the album Iwasig [Above] was released. The same year, when the Dalai Lama performed a kalachakra ceremony in Graz, Austria, <mask> <mask> and Tseten Zöchbauer presented several Sounds of Tibet concerts with TIPA artists.After an indoors concert tour through Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, the band recorded the album Trad II in a studio that had been custom-built in an abandoned hotel on Mount Krippenstein in the Dachstein Mountains. The subsequent concerts included locations in Sarajevo and Cape Verde. In 2003, <mask>n toured with Mohamed Mounir through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After presenting Trad II on Mount Krippenstein in October 2003, <mask>n went on the Trad II tour in 2004. In January 2005, <mask> <mask> and his band performed at the Festival au Désert in Mali together with balafon player Kele Tigi. Again, this trip was recorded on film and was later shown as Warten auf Timbuktu (Waiting for Timbuktu). After the numerous tours of the past years, <mask>n turned to different activities.Examples include the presentation of a sound installation in a cave of the Dachstein mountains. In November 2005 he recorded the duet Rita mir zwei with Wolfgang Niedecken which was released on the anniversary album of the German band Bap: Dreimal zehn Jahre [Three times ten years]. In April 2006, the Freedom Party of Austria used <mask>n's song "Heast as nit" [Don't you hear it?] in an election campaign. <mask> <mask> then published an open letter to party leader Heinz-Christian Strache, demanding that the Freedom Party stopped using his songs. The letter included a statement: "I stand for an open, tolerant society, for the destruction of fear of the unknown and new, and not for the fomentation thereof. I stand for looking changes in the eye and looking forward, not for the attempt to stop time, or to even turn it back; that is the content of 'Heast as nit...'."Linz Europe Tour 2007–2009

In 2007, <mask>n started the Linz Europe Tour 2007–2009 which was a promotional tour for Linz as European Capital of Culture 2009. The planning had already begun in 2005. Until 2009, he navigated several European rivers with a convoy of three ships, including a cargo ship converted to a floating stage, a towboat MS Wallsee, and a houseboat. This included concerts with local musicians in numerous towns along the route. Performances were made at the 2007 Donauinselfest in Vienna (featuring Willi Resetarits), The first part of the tour lead down the river Danube to its delta at the Black Sea. In 2008, a documentary DVD of this tour was released: Goisern goes East. In 2008, the second leg of the tour went upstream the Danube via Passau and Regensburg, through the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, and downstream the Rhine to Rotterdam in the Netherlands.Simultaneously the album s'Nix [The Void] was released. The river tour ended with a three-day-long celebration in Linz, the ships' homeport. Participating musicians included Klaus Doldinger, Bap, Haindling, Konstantin Wecker and Xavier Naidoo. Von Goisern wrote a logbook Stromlinien [Streamlines] about this tour. It was published in 2010. Entwederundoder
From late 2010 to spring 2011, <mask> Goisern toured pubs and inns in Austria and Germany. Live recordings and a documentary were broadcast by the Salzburg-based station Servus TV in August 2011.Soon after, the album Entwederundoder [Either and or] was released that reached the top 20 charts in Austria and Germany. Hitradio Ö3 put the track "Brenna tuat's guat" [It burns well] on the playlist. The single reached position No. 1 in the Austrian within a few weeks, outperforming the previous success "Koa Hiatamadl". "Brenna tuat's guat" got a platinum certification in Austria in 2012 and was also a success in Germany where it was <mask>n's first single in the charts. The album was awarded three platinum certifications in Austria and gold in Germany. Music

Style
<mask> Goisern is counted among the exponents of the so-called "Neue Volksmusik", lit."New Traditional Music". He is however more often associated with "Alpenrock" or "Alpine rock". His music fuses modern rock and traditional Alpine music. His style is significant for stressing the sound of the harmonica which is then balanced by electric guitars. Other influences include traditional African music as recorded on Gombe as well as Brazilian samba and also funk. The latter genres have helped <mask>n develop from Alpine music towards world music. Lyrics
The lyrics of <mask> Goisern's songs are often political and critical of society.An example are the references to far right politician Jörg Haider who hailed also from Goisern, and whose Freedom Party enjoyed high polls during the late 20th century and early 2000s. Discography

Albums

Alpinkatzen feat. <mask> Goisern
1988: Alpine Lawine [Alpine avalanche]

<mask> Goisern und die Alpinkatzen

<mask> Goisern
Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

Soundtracks

DVD
2003: Iwasig [Above] (live)
2003: Grenzenlos [Without borders]
2005: Ausland [Overseas] (live)
2008: Goisern goes EastBibliography

Awards and nominations

Von Goisern has won multiple Amadeus Austrian Music Awards by IFPI Austria, and RUTH, the German World Music Prize. In 2004, he was granted an honorary citizenship by his hometown Bad Goisern. Further reading

References

External links

 Official website

  Interview with <mask> Goisern, partially published in Die Presse'' on 20 February 1993. 1952 births
Living people
Austrian singer-songwriters
People from Bad Goisern

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