The band recorded works by many well-regarded Cuban composers, among them Eliseo Grenet, Miguel Matamoros, Ignacio Piñeiro, Pablo Cairo, José Claro Fumero, Severino " Refresquito " Ramos ( moreover, he was the primary arranger, as well as pianist, since 1939 and, as such, principal architect of the sonic identity of this conjunto until retiring in 1957 — Javier Vázquez then took on this role ), Luis Marquetti ( brother of the great sonero and bandleader Cheo Marquetti ), José Carbó Menéndez, Senén Suárez, Julio Blanco Leonard, Ñico Saquito, Rosendo Ruiz, Jr., José Antonio Méndez, Rodrigo Prats, José Casamor, Arsenio Rodríguez, Marcos Perdomo, Luis " Lilí " Martínez Griñán, Evaristo Aparicio, Estanislao Serviá, Jesús Martínez Leonard, Agustín Ribot, Juan Bruno Tarraza, Julio Gutiérrez, Justi Barreto, Calixto Callava, Javier Vázquez, Eduardo Davidson and Luciano " Chano " Pozo.

He is also considered Ecuador's first literary critic ; according to Spanish scholar Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Espejo's Nuevo Luciano is the oldest critical work written in South America.

Luciano Violante, a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, countered that " We do not find information about the Mafia among nuns.

Luciano, under the urging of former Chicago boss Johnny Torrio, set up the Commission to serve as the governing body for organized crime.

A short tour down the east coast included 2 sold out shows at City Winery in NYC, Ram's Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD and The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. John Lombardo has joined his former band mates on numerous occasions ; Buffalo-based singer / songwriter Maria Sebastian has also accompanied the band in 2011 and has been replaced in 2012 by Jamestown-based singer / songwriter Melanie Luciano on acoustic guitar and harmonies.

In 1927, Costello, Luciano, and former Chicago gangster John " Johnny the Fox " Torrio organized a group of top East Coast rum-runners into a large bootlegging operation.

: Casa del Vento, Fiamma Fumana led by Alberto Cottica ( electronic folk ); Caravane de Ville of Giovanni Rubbiani ; Ductia of Massimo Giuntini ; Paulem and La strana famiglia led by Luciano Gaetani ; and Cisco ( former singer of M. C. R.

* Lilia Luciano, former NBC News correspondent

In Istria, however, IDS is bitterly opposed by local branches of SDP, as well as their former member and first Istrian prefect Luciano Delbianco who had defected and formed a new party called Istrian Democratic Forum.

Ros-Lehtinen has defended former fugitive Velentin Hernández, convicted of murdering Luciano Nieves, a fellow Cuban exile who supported negotiations with the Cuban government, In the 1980s Ros-Lehtinen lobbied for the release and pardon of Cuban exile Orlando Bosch, who had been convicted of terrorist acts and has also been accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of Cubana Flight 455, which killed 73 people, helping organize an " Orlando Bosch day " to gain support for his release.

Costello's bitter rival was Vito Genovese, a former underboss for Luciano.

Other Luciano lieutenants working mainland Italy included American deportees, Frank Barone and Giuseppe Arena in Rome, Frank Pirico, Frank Saverino and Giovanni Maugeri in Milan, Salvatore DiBella in Naples, and former Mangano crime family soldier, Joseph " Joe Peachy " Pici in Milan and Genoa.

* Charlie " Lucky " Luciano, former Luciano family boss, former chairman, co-founder and member of the Commission.

* Hymie Marks, who played the bit part of a gangster named " Joe " in the film, attracted the attention of executive producer Hal B. Wallis, who felt that he didn't look menacing enough – this despite the fact that Marks was a former gangster and henchman of Lucky Luciano, who had been specifically cast by director Lloyd Bacon because of that connection.

Central Park West is the address of several famous residences, including The Dakota ( where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono, who still resides there, and outside of which he was murdered in 1980 ), The San Remo ( home to U2's Bono, Demi Moore, Diane Keaton, & Steve Martin ), The El Dorado, The Beresford ( home to Diana Ross & Jerry Seinfeld ), The Langham, The Century, 15 Central Park West ( home to Sting ), 41 Central Park West ( home to Madonna ), 455 Central Park West, The St. Urban, and The Majestic ( which was home to some of the former heads of the Genovese crime family, including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello.

More recent celebrity stays include Paul McCartney, the Spice Girls, the Beckhams, George Best, Tom Jones, Luciano Pavarotti, Mike Tyson, Jennifer Lopez, Prince Edward, former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as well as the current Prime Minister David Cameron.

Gambino, former Genovese bosses Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello, and Lucchese crime family boss Tommy Lucchese allegedly lured Genovese into a drug distribution scheme that ultimately resulted in his conspiracy indictment and conviction.

Extreme's former directors include Matt Zane, Ashlyn Gere, David Luger, Derek Newblood, Gene Ross, Jane Waters, Luis Cypher ( also known as Bobby Darlin ), Luciano ( Michael Stefano ), Scott Snot, Slain Wayne ( Eric Brummer ), Smiley Johnson, Tiffany Mynx, Tom Byron, Brandon Iron and Van Damage.

Praz was the son of Luciano Praz ( died 1900 ), a bank clerk, and his wife, the former Giulia Testa di Marsciano ( died 1931 ), daughter of Count Alcibiade Testa di Marsciano.

Her termination came on the heels of the end of her marriage to Peter Luciano, a business lawyer with Toronto firm McCarthy Tetrault and former member of Canadian boy band VIP.

Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.

His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

While there he was a member of the Juilliard Ensemble under the direction of Luciano Berio, performing with them not only in New York but also the University of Hawaii and Dartmouth College.

Yet conflicts between the so-called Darmstadt school, which included composers like Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Luciano Berio and Gottfried Michael Koenig, soon arose, receiving explicit expression in Adorno's 1954 lecture, " The Aging of the New Music ", where he argued that atonality's freedom was being restricted to serialism in much the same way as it was once restricted by twelve-tone technique.

His successor was Cardinal Albino Luciano, who took the name John Paul.

After this essay, he was called to assist Goffredo Alessandrini in making Luciano Serra pilota, one of the most successful Italian films of the first half of the 20th century.

In 1965, Luciano Benetton, the eldest of four children, was a 30-year-old salesman in Treviso.

The individual who has raised the most money in benefit performances and volunteer work on behalf of UNHCR was Luciano Pavarotti.

On the popular front, a big box office success was the appearance of Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House in 1983, with the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge ( the sister orchestra in Melbourne was known as the Elizabethan Melbourne Orchestra.

" This group of " Young Turk " mafiosi was led by Luciano and included Costello, Genovese, Adonis, Gambino and Anastasia on the Masseria side and Profaci, Gagliano, Lucchese, Magliocco and Magaddino on the Maranzano side.

Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland ; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti ( 1935 – 2007 ) and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself ; Enzo Ferrari ( 1898 – 1988 ), eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company ; the Catholic Priest and Senior Exorcist of Vatican Gabriele Amorth ; and the rock singer Vasco Rossi who was born in Zocca, one of the 47 comuni in the Province of Modena.

Lucien Bonaparte, Prince Français, 1st Prince of Canino and Musignano ( 21 May 1775 – 29 June 1840 ), born Luciano Buonaparte, was the third surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and his wife Letizia Ramolino.

SC Heerenveen winger Luciano Narsingh was brought in on a 5 year contract.

Luciano Rivera ( 1930 – 1988 ), was a local mechanic injured in the Prinair accident in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico, when the plane fell over an area where he and his friends were playing cards.

The town was a haven for gangsters in the 1930s, including longtime resident Owney Madden and Lucky Luciano.

A local post office that operated from 1879 to 1919 was named for Luciano Bulverdo, an early area landowner.

The Solti Ring was voted best recording of all time by readers of the influential magazine Gramophone and Luciano Pavarotti remained an exclusive Decca artist throughout his recording career.

By 1926, Luciano was considered to be a powerful gangster on the rise.

On April 15, 1931, Masseria was gunned down at Nuova Villa Tammaro restaurant in Coney Island by Luciano associates Anastasia, Adonis, Genovese, and Siegel.

In 1931, after the killings of Masseria and Maranzano, Luciano created The Commission, which was supposed to avoid big conflicts like the Castellammarese War.

Mangano was displeased with Anastasia's friendship with Luciano and Frank Costello, especially since they frequently used Anastasia's services without his permission.

Anastasia's violent ways could be contained as long as Luciano and Frank Costello pulled the strings, but certain mobsters, most notably Vito Genovese, doubted whether it was really possible to keep Anastasia reined in.

Luciano and Costello were horrified, but they could not take action against Anastasia since Genovese was angling to take over the Luciano family as well, and they needed Anastasia to counter Genovese's growing ambition and power.