Singer Biography Essay Examples

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A Biography of Dario Fo (965 words, 2 pages)

Dario Fo's plays were written in Italy during the 60's and 70's. During this time there was widespread dissatisfaction throughout Italy towards the government and various factions within the country , the nation seethed with discontent. Dario Fo was born in 1926 in the Italian state of Lombardy. During the ... Read More

A Biography of Vogadro (596 words, 1 pages)

A vogadro was born on June 9, 1776 in Turin, Italy. He began his career in 1796 by obtaining a doctorate in law and practicing as a lawyer for three years after. In 1800, he began to take private lessons in mathematics and physics and decided to make the natural ... Read More

A Biography of H.G. Wells (3117 words, 4 pages)

H.G. Wells (Full name Herbert George Wells) was born on September 21 1866. In 1883, he obtained a scholarship to the Normal School of Science of London and studied biology under T.H. Huxley. Huxley was a believer of Darwinism which involves around Theory of Evolution and survival of the fittest. ... Read More

A Biography of Pat Garret (840 words, 2 pages)

On June 5th, 1850 Pat Garrett is born in Chambers County, Alabama. One of seven children, he was the son of John Lumpkin Garrett and Elizabeth Ann Jarvis Garrett. In 1873, John Garrett purchased a Louisiana plantation in Claiborne Parish. Pat went to school and grew up there. On January ... Read More

A Biography of John Philip Sousa (966 words, 2 pages)

Zeitgeist John Philip Sousa Artists do not create in a vacuum. They reflect their times or at the very least are affected by the lives they lead which are also influenced by the public sphere. The term for this reflection is Zeitgeist. It literally means spirit of the times. John ... Read More

A Biography of Vince Lombardi (1032 words, 3 pages)

Vince Lombardi was a father, and a husband, and he had a great impact on todays view on professional football as well as other sports. On Jun 11, 1913 born (and grew up) in Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, NY first of five children (2 sisters, 2 brothers) to Henry ... Read More

A Biography of Sylvia Plath (1463 words, 2 pages)

Everyone's life is filled with unique experiences, either positive or negative. It is often helpful to express those experiences and thoughts through writing. Sylvia Plath, a famous novelist, has adapted this method of expressing her thoughts and feelings. She gives life to her character by reflecting her own personal happy ... Read More

A Biography of Queen Victoria (607 words, 1 pages)

Queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, London, on May 24th, 1819. She was the only child of Edward Duke of Kent. Her father died before Victoria was a year old and was brought up by her strict German mother. She was christened Alexandria Victoria and was not permitted to ... Read More

A Biography and Life Work of Pat Boone, an American Singer (342 words, 1 pages)

Pat Boone Born June 1st, 1934 in Jacksonville Florida, Boone was born to an American frontier hero Daniel Boone. HE went to high school in Nashville and was voted student body president. After graduating he married Red Foleys daughter Shirly. He then attended Texas State University, there he started singing ... Read More

A Biography of Christina Aguilera an American Singer, Songwriter, and Actress. In the Early 1990s (779 words, 1 pages)

Music in Society Project Christina Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, NY. She first began performing at talent shows at the age of six. At eight, she was on the show Star Search, where she was the runner-up. When she was ten, she sang the National ... Read More

A Biography of Max Dupain (865 words, 2 pages)

He has been dubbed the "Godfather" of black and white photography, Australia's answer to Ansell Adams, but Dupain creates a league of his own. Through raw emotional content, and majestic composition, Max Dupain captured and interpreted the rarity and strange beauty of Australia. Dupain was given a Box Brownie Camera ... Read More

A Biography of Kurt Gerstein (1429 words, 3 pages)

Kurt Gerstein is a anti Nazi who was born on August 11 1905 in Munster, Germany. When Kurt was young he was taught by his father to follow orders without question. When Kurt grew up he attended college and became involved in Christian Youth. He graduated in 1931 as a ... Read More

A Discussion of Biography (991 words, 2 pages)

Biographies are easy to write. You always know what will happen. The only hard part is to give it a voice. To make it come alive to the reader. To make it sound human and not written by some machine. The other hard part is to figure out where to ... Read More

A Biography of Napoleon Bonaparte (772 words, 1 pages)

Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte, who is also known as the "little Corsican", was born on August 15,1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. The year before his birth, France had bought Corsica from the Italian city-state of Genoa. Napoleon was the fourth child and second son of Carlo and Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte (later ... Read More

A Biography of Dorothea Dix, a Humanitarian (1441 words, 3 pages)

Born in 1802, Dorothea Dix played an important role in changing the ways people thought about patients who were mentally-ill and handicapped, originally cast-off as being punished by God, as well as the way facilities handled and treated them. She believed that that people of such standing would do better ... Read More

A Biography of Mark Dayton (1781 words, 4 pages)

When Mark Dayton was sworn in as Minnesota's newest U.S. Senator in January 2001, it was the latest stop in a career that has kept public service to Minnesota and to the nation as its top priority. In more than three decades of service, in a variety of capacities, Mark ... Read More

A Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann (1773 words, 3 pages)

The German romantic composer Clara Wieck Schumann (l8l9-l896) was one of the most famous pianists of her time, one of the great stars of 19th-century musical Europe. She premiered new works by Frederic Chopin, Johannes Brahms, and her husband Robert Schumann. While she composed prolifically from the age of nine, ... Read More

An Analysis of The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer (1459 words, 2 pages)

In Bryan Singers The Usual Suspects we are presented with a number of different situations where character opinion and manipulation alters the view we get of a scene. A prime example of this is the contradictory manifestations that arise from the character of Keyser Soze, whose true identity is shown ... Read More

A Biography of Carl Gustav Jung (2773 words, 3 pages)

Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a son of a minister in Switzerland. He was born on July 26, in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. He was named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the University of Basel. He was the oldest child ... Read More

A Biography Paper of Israel Lopez (1358 words, 3 pages)

Cachao His name is Israel Lopez, but he is known as Cachao. His real name is music though. Born into a family who were all bass crazy, at least thirty five members of the Cachao clan have played the double bass at one time or another, either with the Havana ... Read More

A Biography of Brian Mulroney (1422 words, 2 pages)

To many Canadians, Brian Mulroney seems an open book a politician of the old school who owes his triumphs more to the opposition's weakness than to his own intrinsic strength. But behind the "jutting jaw, the smile that seems a little too self-satisfied, and the artful rhetoric is a man ... Read More

A Biography of Dawn Fraser (845 words, 1 pages)

Dawn Fraser was born into a poor family on the 4th of September 1937 she was the youngest of eight children, three brothers and four sisters. She lived in a house in Balmain, Australia. Dawn was a very sick child, and had chronic asthma and other chest diseases, it got ... Read More

A Biography of Berry Gordy Jr. (2261 words, 3 pages)

Berry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20's and traveled to ... Read More

A Biography of Aristotle (1453 words, 2 pages)

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist, who shared with Plato the distinction of being the most famous of ancient philosophers. Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, the son of a physician to the royal court. At the age of 17, he went to Athens to study at Plato's ... Read More

A Biography of Aristotle (950 words, 2 pages)

Aristotle was a famous Greek philosopher and scientist that lived from 384 to 322 BC. He is ranked with Socrates and Plato to be one of the most famous philosophers. Aristotle was born at Stagira, in Macedonia, as the son of a physician to the royal court. At the age ... Read More

A Biography of Archimedes (814 words, 1 pages)

Archimedes is considered one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time along with Newton and Gauss. In his own time, he was known as "the wise one," "the master" and "the great geometer" and his works and inventions brought him fame that lasts to this very day. He was ... Read More

A Biography of Andrew Warhol (1106 words, 2 pages)

When considering the life and works of Andy Warhol, one thing is agreed upon for good or bad, he changed the visual construction of the world we live in. By the time of his death in 1987 he was ranked on the same level with Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock ... Read More

A Biography of Edgar Allan Poe (1279 words, 2 pages)

1. Introduction Edgar Allen Poe was born 1809 as the son of the teenage actors Elisabeth Arnold and David Poe Junior in Richmond, Virginia. Since both parents died when he was young, he was raised by the merchant John Allen. Poe studied at the University of Virginia, but left it ... Read More

A Biography of Aaron Douglas (854 words, 2 pages)

Aaron Douglas was born on May 26, 1899 in Topeka, Kansas. He was the son of a baker and his mother was from Alabama. He had several brothers and sisters. Douglas's family struggled financially all through his childhood. But insisted that their children educated themselves. He was encouraged at an ... Read More

A Biography of Michael Mann (1725 words, 5 pages)

Michael Manns life is not as open and public as many of his colleagues and rivals in Hollywood, but over the last few years he has been brought into the forefront through his increasingly impressive work, which will hit a peak this year with the release of his latest offering, ... Read More