* 1966 – Michael Franti, American singer, musician, composer, and poet ( The Beatnigs and The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy )

This list encompasses U2, Moby, Cliff Richard, Bruce Cockburn, Martyn Joseph, Steve Taylor, Daniel Amos, Phatfish, Midnight Oil, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Over the Rhine, Iona, Amy Grant, Miles Cain, Lamb, Kevin Max, Lambchop, Goldie, Jamelia, After the Fire, Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, Asian Dub Foundation, The Polyphonic Spree, Aqualung, Dum Dums, The Proclaimers, Daniel Bedingfield, Eden Burning, Duke Special, Why ?, Athlete, Sixpence None the Richer and Delirious ?.

KPFA supporters Alice Walker, the late June Jordan, Joan Baez, Michael Franti, Michael Moore, the late Grace Paley, United Farm Workers of America founder Dolores Huerta, Ani DiFranco, and others rallied to oppose the sale of the listener-supported radio stations.

Seven-person ensemble New Monsoon opened the festival's shows, which included acts such as Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and Keller Williams.

The Bay Area's thriving underground rap scene has produced literally hundreds of artists, some of the better known being Andre Nickatina, The Coup, Michael Franti, Paris, Blackalicious, Ya Boy, San Quinn, and Emcee Lynx.

* Michael Franti & Spearhead

Michael Franti and Spearhead played at the Bash in Yerba Buena Gardens on June 9.

Hellman Hollow also plays host to a number of large-scale events such as the 911 Power to the Peaceful Festival held by musician and filmmaker Michael Franti with Guerrilla Management.

It features contributions from Dennis Hopper, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Stipe, Robbie Williams, Eddi Reader, Tom Robbins, Brian Eno, Baaba Maal, Speech, Asha Bhosle, Neneh Cherry, Anita Roddick, Michael Franti, Zap Mama, and other artists and authors.

* " Habibi ", a song Michael Franti sang wherever he visited promoting his documentary film called I Know I'm not Alone

* Michael Franti and Spearhead's Stay Human

* John Mayer-March 10, 2010, with Michael Franti & Spearhead

The band was formed in 1990 by Michael Franti and Rono Tse, who had been in the Beatnigs, and introduced the work of guitarist Charlie Hunter.

Michael Franti formed Spearhead, who ( to date ) have released seven albums and are still a going concern, while Tse worked with the Mystik Journeymen.

* www. stayhuman. org: Spearhead & Michael Franti website

* Spearhead, a musical group founded by Michael Franti

Michael Franti ( born April 21, 1966 ) is an American poet, musician, and composer.

He is the creator and lead vocalist of Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock.

Michael Franti was born in Oakland, California to an Irish-German-French mother and an African-American and Native American father.

In addition to Michael Franti and Ron Tse, the band included Henry Flood on percussion, Andre Flores on keyboards, and Kevin on vocals.

Michael Franti and Spearhead performing at Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival | Wakarusa 2006.

Since Capitol Records owned the rights to the name " Spearhead ", subsequent albums were all released as " Michael Franti & Spearhead.

* Jennings Michael Burch-Spent his childhood going through multiple foster homes and wrote the 1984 best selling novel They Cage the Animals at Night which is a memoir of that period of his life.

Michael Mehaffy wrote an introductory essay on Christopher Alexander's built work in the online publication " Katarxis 3 ", which includes a gallery of Alexander's major built projects to date ( September 2004 ).

Heritage Foundation Africa expert Michael Johns wrote that " there are some modestly encouraging signs that the front intends to abandon Mengistu's autocratic practices.

* Christian artist Michael Card wrote a song " Hound of Heaven ," basing the lyrics on parts of Thompson's poem.

In a July 2001 article for Scientific American titled " The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis ", Michael Nash wrote:

In 2001, Michael Behe wrote: " here is an asymmetry between my current definition of irreducible complexity and the task facing natural selection.

He wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, Michael, two verse plays, and quantities of romantic poetry.

de Trie wrote down that " his proper name is Michael Servetus, but he currently calls himself Villeneufve, practising medicine.

Historian Michael Morrison wrote:

In Burma, a royal library called the Pitaka Taik was legendarily founded by King Anawrahta ; in the 18th century, British envoy Michael Symes, upon visiting this library, wrote that " it is not improbable that his Birman majesty may possess a more numerous library than any potentate, from the banks of the Danube to the borders of China ".

In 1974, Michael Stewart and Jerry Herman wrote the musical Mack & Mabel, chronicling the romance between Sennett and Mabel Normand.

From 1974 to 1980 he wrote, designed, narrated and presented the children's television programme Michael Bentine's Potty Time and made one-off comedy specials.

The term was popularized by the Soviet dissident Michael Voslenski, who in 1970 wrote a book titled Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class ().

Michael Specter wrote that Singer is among the most influential of contemporary philosophers.

At first the Eastern Roman Emperor Michael II showed himself tolerant towards the image-worshippers, and their great champion, Theodore the Studite, wrote to him to exhort him " to unite us Church of Constantinople to the head of the Churches of God, Rome, and through it with the three Patriarchs " and to refer any doubtful points to the decision of Old Rome in accordance with ancient custom.

He also wrote " Technopolis " ( 1979 ), which contributed to the development of techno, and the international hit " Behind the Mask " ( 1978 ), a synthpop song for which he sang the vocals through a vocoder and which would later be covered by a number of international artists, including Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton.

In 1963 Michael Moorcock wrote:

" Michael Thomson from Bbc. co. uk wrote that: " Unfortunately, after the two leads become less wired in each other's presence, and the sexual tension begins to droop, everyone seems to be reading an autocue.

In 1983 Vangelis wrote the music for Michael Cacoyannis ' staging of the Greek tragedy Elektra which was performed featuring Irene Papas at the open-air amphitheater at Epidavros in Greece.

VH1 executive vice president Michael Hirschorn wrote that the plots and subject matters on reality television are more authentic and more engaging than in scripted dramas, writing that scripted network television " remains dominated by variants on the police procedural ... in which a stock group of characters ( ethnically, sexually, and generationally diverse ) grapples with endless versions of the same dilemma.

Michael VIII Palaeologus was greatly alarmed at the prospect: he wrote to King Louis, suggesting that he was open to a voluntary union of the Roman and Latin churches, and pointing out the interference a descent on Constantinople would pose to Louis ' own crusading plans.

In 1893, Michael Ahern, the Chicago Republican reporter who wrote the O ' Leary account, admitted he had made it up as colorful copy.

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana ( Dorothy Catherine ) wrote using her abbreviated own name and also under the pen names Michael Richards and J. Michael Bingham.

He wrote an original score for director Michael Langham's production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada which opened on July 29, 1963.