Her father died when Tanya was six, leaving Mariya Savicheva with five children — three girls, Tanya, Zhenya ( Eugenia ) and Nina and two boys, Mikhail and Leka ( Leonid ).

King Zog lived at Parmoor House with his wife Queen Geraldine, their son Crown Prince Leka ( now King Leka ), and the King's sisters, nephews and nieces.

After a falling out with the government of Robert Mugabe, the couple moved again, this time to South Africa where their son, Leka, was born in 1982.

However, it was The Lemon Pipers who gave Buddah its first # 1 hit with " Green Tambourine ," produced by Paul Leka, in February 1968.

When the song failed to make the charts, the label asked Leka and his songwriting partner, Shelley Pinz, who were working out of a Brill Building office on Broadway, to come up with a song.

In addition he has had a dozen other books published, most recently a young adult novel, A Dog Called Leka, which deals with a young lad sailing the Aegean islands in the company of an exceptional dog.

Category: Albums produced by Paul Leka

Category: Albums produced by Paul Leka

The success of " Green Tambourine " caused the label to put pressure on the group to stay in the bubblegum genre, and in March 1968 the band released another Leka / Pinz song, " Rice Is Nice ", which peaked at No. 46 in the US and No. 41 in the UK in May.

Produced by Leka, the album contained five Leka / Pinz songs, as well as two extended tracks written by the band, " Fifty Year Void " and " Through With You " ( the latter, written by Bartlett, bearing influences of The Byrds and, according to the original LP label, running 8: 31 in length ).

The band recorded a second album for Buddah, Jungle Marmalade, which again showed both sides of the band – another Leka / Pinz bubblegum song, " Jelly Jungle ", ( released as a single and peaking at No. 51 in the US ), a version of the Carole King / Gerry Goffin penned song " I Was Not Born to Follow ," and an 11 minute, 43 second epic, " Dead End Street "/" Half Light ".

Unwilling to become an Italian puppet, King Zog, his wife, Queen Geraldine Apponyi, and their infant son Leka fled to Greece and eventually to London.

Paul Leka, an East Coast record producer, brought the band to his recording studio in Bridgeport, Connecticut where it recorded original material for its first album.

However, the Fosen peninsula, and the most northern coast ( Leka ) is more dominated by mountains and more narrow valleys.

Baudouin of Belgium was the godfather of Prince Leka of Albania.

Their only child, HRH Crown Prince Leka, was born in Albania on 5 April 1939.

Prior to the birth of Prince Leka, the position of Heir Presumptive was held by Prince of Kosova ( Kosovo ) Tati Esad Murad Kryziu, born 24 December 1923 in Tirana, who was the son of the King's sister, Princess Nafije.

On his death, his son Leka was pronounced H. M. King Leka of the Albanians by the exiled Albanian community.

Albania's communist rulers abolished the monarchy in 1946, but, even in exile, the royal family insisted that Leka Zogu was Albania's legitimate ruler until his death on 30 November 2011.

Leka, believing the result to be fraudulent, attempted an armed uprising: he was unsuccessful and was forced into exile, although he later returned and lived in Tirana until his death on 30th November 2011.

Leka is a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway.

Primarily a fishing and farming community, Leka is the northernmost municipality in Trøndelag.

The municipality of Leka was established on 1 October 1860 when it was separated from the large municipality of Kolvereid.

Initially, the population of Leka was 1, 702.

On 1 January 1909, the southern district of Leka ( population: 881 ) was separated from Leka to form the new municipality of Gravvik.

This left Leka was 1, 209 residents.

The borders of Leka have not changed since then.

The Old Norse form of the name was Leka.

The Church of Norway has one parish ( sokn ) within the municipality of Leka.

In the bushes, Blacky is approached by Partisan messenger who just arrived from the high command informing / threatening him that comrade Leka plans on taking disciplinary action against him if the weapons do not arrive soon.

While at Villanova he became friends with singer / songwriter Jim Croce.

Also that year, Abdul co-wrote the song " Spinning Around " with songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi, who became a fellow judge on American Idol in 2009.

Webb's success as a new songwriter underscored what became the central dilemma in his career.

The city has also produced many other musicians, including singer and songwriter John Waite, who first became known as lead singer of The Babys in the 1970s ; Paul James, better known as The Rev, former guitarist of English punk band Towers Of London who is now in the band Day 21 and plays guitar live on tour for The Prodigy, Chris Acland, drummer of the early 1990s shoegaze band Lush ; Tom English, drummer of North East indie band Maxïmo Park and Steve Kemp, drummer of the indie band Hard-Fi.

The song became the eleventh UK number-one single with Melanie Chisholm as a songwriter.

This became a landmark album for the songwriter and was voted " 3rd most important contemporary Christian album " in a mid-1980s poll of Christian music critics.

Norman became the band's principal songwriter, sharing lead vocals with Gene M. Mason.

He also became a fatherly figure for Barbara Belle, a songwriter and secretary for Louis.

In the late 70s and early 80s, there was a new sound emerging with up and coming groups like McAllen's Espejismo, led by songwriter / lead singer Rudy Valdez, and more notably Brownsville natives Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y El Grupo Mazz introduced the keyboard sound to Tejano which was influenced by the Disco sound of the era, and during that period, La Mafia became the first Tejano band to put on Rock Style shows for their generation.

She then became a prolific songwriter, as she found it easier to write songs than cover them.

Williams became recognized as a songwriter, Sheppard became his manager and occasionally accompanied him on duets in some of his live concerts.

They decided to form a group, calling themselves The Vibra-Naires, and aspiring songwriter Deborah Chessler became their manager.

As their fame grew, The Beach Boys ' songwriter Brian Wilson experimented with new studio techniques and became associated with the counterculture.

Beginning in the later 1970s, the rock singer and songwriter Bruce Springsteen became a major star, with anthemic songs and dense, inscrutable lyrics that celebrated the poor and working class.

" No Good Woman " became a small hit in Louisiana in 1962, while the flip side, " You Ain't Nothing But Fine " brought him his first national attention as a songwriter.

Initially, Fahey effectively " was " Shakespears Sister, though American singer / songwriter Marcella Detroit later became an official member making the outfit a duo.

After the break-up, Hopkins continued as a songwriter, O ’ Hara became a recording engineer and de Lone played as a session musician with Bonnie Raitt, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and others.

* Herbert Grönemeyer ( b. 1956 ), actor, singer, songwriter, who became famous with the song " Bochum "

In May 1923, he met Jelly Roll Morton at the store, and Morton became the company's chief songwriter and arranger.

He was a successful songwriter ; one of his most famous compositions is " Every Beat of My Heart ", first recorded by The Royals in 1952 on Federal Records but which became a hit for Gladys Knight and the Pips then just ' Pips ' in 1961.

Gallagher became so influential that a June 1996 NME article argued that " If Noel Gallagher, the most successful songwriter of his generation, champions a group, then said group are guaranteed more mainstream kudos and, quite possibly, more sales.

He became a full member in 1979 and performed as a vocalist, songwriter, percussionist and backup drummer for live shows.

Van Zandt subsequently became a songwriter and producer for fellow Jersey shore act Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes in the mid-to late-1970s, penning their signature song " I Don't Wanna Go Home ", co-writing other songs for them with Springsteen, and producing their most-acclaimed record, Hearts of Stone.

* Southern Gospel singer and songwriter Bill Gaither ( born March 28, 1936 ), winner of five Grammy Awards and 28 Dove Awards, and a 1982 inductee to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, grew up in a Nazarene family, and became a member of the denomination at his home church in Alexandria, Indiana.