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Brooke Fraser wrote the song " Albertine " on her album Albertine about an eponymous orphan from the genocide which Fraser met time in Rwanda in 2005.
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In 2006, Neil and Tim Finn were both honoured by a slew of women re-recording and re-interpreting a selection of their songs with the album She Will Have Her Way which featured artists performing Neil Finn's songs such as Kasey Chambers, Clare Bowditch, Boh Runga with her band Stellar *, Renée Geyer, Brooke Fraser, Holly Throsby, Sarah Blasko, Amiel and Natalie Imbruglia.
During his writing career, by nature restless, he moved between a succession of homes in the English countryside and the expatriate colonies of pre-war Florence and Paris ; through Bohemian London and prohibition New York, to Palestine and the Arctic Circle, while navigating friendships with writers Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, Havelock Ellis, D. H. Lawrence ; poets Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Ferenc Békássy, the psychologist Helton Godwin Baynes, Geoffrey Keynes, Mabel Dodge Luhan, naturalist Frank Fraser Darling, and — in later life — Owen Barfield and Carl Jung.
The book Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser makes reference to her ( fictional ) love interest for James Brooke ( The White Rajah ); and his rejection of her due to his physical affliction.
Brooke Gabrielle Fraser Ligertwood, better known as Brooke Fraser ( born 15 December 1983 ) is a New Zealand folk-pop and Christian music recording artist.
" Brooke Fraser " has remained her stage name for her activity as a Sony BMG recording / touring artist.
Joni Mitchell's song ' Woodstock ' ( also covered by Eva Cassidy, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Ian Matthews, Richie Havens and Brooke Fraser ) was also referring to ' Yasgur's Farm ':
Notable former members include Che Ness, aka Che Fu, now with a successful solo career, Joe Lonie, a music video producer, and Paul Russell, who moved on to start the New Zealand band Eight ( who recently split ), and who still studio drums with Che Fu and Brooke Fraser.
' In past festivals the line up has included the likes of Mumsdollar, Steriogram, The Lads, Brooke Fraser, juliagrace, Kingston, Ruby Frost, Late 80's Mercedes, The Glory Sea, and many others.
Many songs for church use bear the title " Hosanna ", including songs written by New Zealand singer Brooke Fraser Ligertwood ( released on the 2007 Hillsong United albums All of the Above and live on Saviour King and covered by the Canadian group Starfield on their album I Will Go ); another song by Paul Baloche on his 2006 album A Greater Song ; another by gospel artist Kirk Franklin, and another by Andrew Peterson on his 2008 album Resurrection Letters II.
Forwards and defense: Joe Mullen, Curt Fraser, Corey Millen, Aaron Broten, Kelly Miller, Mark Johnson, Bob Brooke, Wayne Presley, Pat LaFontaine, Bobby Carpenter, Ed Olczyk, Joel Otto, Chris Nilan, Dave Ellett, Mike Ramsey, Kevin Hatcher, Rod Langway, Phil Housley, Gary Suter, Chris Chelios
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His housemaster, R. H. J. Brooke, whom Peel described as " extraordinarily eccentric " and " amazingly perceptive ", wrote on one of his school reports, " Perhaps it's possible that John can form some kind of nightmarish career out of his enthusiasm for unlistenable records and his delight in writing long and facetious essays.
Sullavan's older daughter, Brooke, in 1977 wrote about the breakdown in her autobiography Haywire: Sullavan had humiliated herself by begging her son to stay with her.
Sullavan's elder daughter, actress Brooke Hayward, wrote Haywire, a best-selling memoir about her family, which was made into a television movie starring Lee Remick as Margaret and Jason Robards as Hayward.
After his visit Alexander wrote to the CIGS, Alan Brooke, saying: Lucas wrote in his diary on February 15:
World War I gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote ( often paradoxically ), of their expectations of war, and / or their experiences in the trench.
At his death in 1960, The Montreal Gazette wrote that the Honourable Brooke Claxton “ faced death … with unbreakable courage .” He astounded associates by working hard right to the end and “ never relaxing his grip .”
He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell ( 1952 ), Virginia Woolf and her World ( 1975 ), Thrown to the Woolfs ( 1978 ) and Rupert Brooke ( 1980 ).
At Gallipoli he wrote his scores in his tent at base camp, including his tribute to Brooke, Elegy for String Orchestra: " In Memoriam Rupert Brooke " ( 1915 ), conceived in the wake of Brooke's death.
Because the Royal Navy proved unable to capture or reduce the fort in order to enter Baltimore harbor to bombard the main American defense line east of the city, British commander-in-chief Vice Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane wrote to British Army commander Colonel Arthur Brooke that it was up to him whether to decide to attack or withdraw.
Adams wrote and produced Made-Up, co-starring her younger sister and brother-in-law, Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub, as well as Eva Amurri, Gary Sinise and Lance Krall.
Gilmore's father became a Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) officer, and also wrote and acted on radio shows, a police public service ( the shows featured promising movie starlets as well as established performers like Bonita Granville, Ann Rutherford, the " jungle girl " Acquanetta, Joan Davis, Hillary Brooke, Ann Jeffreys, Brenda Marshall and other players young John Gilmore became acquainted with.
Explaining the aims and ideals of the first board of trustees, responsible for opening Dove Cottage to the public, Stopford Brooke wrote, in 1890:
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Similarly, season 7 contestant Brooke White performed the song during the Mariah Carey themed week, while season 8 contestant Danny Gokey performed the song in the top 36 performances.
Also in 2011, the song was featured in the finale episode of the third season of Drop Dead Diva ( performed by Brooke Elliott ).
In 2012 Brooke Shields revealed she thought the song was written for her, after she and Michael ended their relationship.
Brooke White covered this song on the seventh season of American Idol, during Andrew Lloyd Webber week.
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