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Minnie Julia Riperton ( November 8, 1947 – July 12, 1979 ) was an American singer-songwriter best known for her vocal range of five-and-a-half octaves, and her 1975 single " Lovin ' You ".
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During its 100-year history, the Academy produced many established actors of stage and screen, including Angela Lansbury, Penelope Keith, Julian Fellowes, Anthony Sher, Donald Sinden, Steven Berkoff, Hugh Bonneville, Helena Carroll, Minnie Driver, Amanda Root, Sue Johnston, Samantha Spiro, Julia Ormond, Tina Hobley and Terence Stamp.
He married on 28 January 1898 at Christ Church, Muzaffarpur, Tirhut, Bihar, India, Minnie Julia Wilson, later Lady Kerr, youngest daughter of James Minden Wilson, and Janet McKenzie, of Muzaffarpur, Tirhut, Bihar, India, and granddaughter of the Honourable James Wilson, Chief Judge of Mauritius.
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Indigo: Women of Song, a tribute album covering songs by female artists such as Joan Baez, the Carpenters, Doris Day, Nina Simone, Minnie Riperton and others, was released in 2004.
Stepney had previously worked with The Dells, The Rotary Connection, Terry Callier, Minnie Riperton, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio, to name a few.
Later members included Mable John, Merry Clayton, Clydie King, Minnie Riperton, Susaye Greene, Beverly LeSure and Rita Graham who recorded the album Rita Graham Vibrations produced by Ray Charles on his Tangerine label, the only major recording production Ray Charles produced on a single female artist on that label.
While it is mostly used by females, such as Mariah Carey and Minnie Riperton, there are a few male singers who use it.
Richard Rudolph wrote the song, " Now That I Have You " for Riperton, but she never got the chance to record it ; he gave the song to Teena Marie, who recorded it ( and coproduced it with Rudolph ) on Marie's second LP, Lady T. Finally, in 1981, Capitol Records released The Best of Minnie Riperton, a greatest hits collection.
* Minnie Riperton's song, " Alone in Brewster Bay ," refers to when Riperton and her husband, producer Dick Rudolph, vacationed on Cape Cod during the early 1970s, prior to the release of her 1975 hit single, " Lovin ' You ".
Epic's commercial success continued to grow in the 1970s with releases from ABBA, Boston, Cheap Trick, The Clash, Charlie Daniels, Heart, The Isley Brothers, The Jacksons, Labelle, Meat Loaf, Johnny Nash, Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, Minnie Riperton, Pegasus, Charlie Rich, Sly & the Family Stone, Steve Vai and Edgar Winter.
Mýa's musical influences include Sade Adu, Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Prince, Chaka Khan, Minnie Riperton, and Madonna.
Mýa calls Minnie Riperton her favorite female singer and Prince her musical hero, stating, " He's someone who takes risks.
Songs like ' Lovin ' You ' by Minnie Riperton and ' The Morning After ' by Maureen McGovern were topping the pop charts with alarming regularity, leaving many rock-and-roll fans feeling like they were left out in the cold without a jacket.
Actors Eddie Murphy and Denzel Washington were among the 120 wedding guests ; Shanice serenaded the couple by singing the Minnie Riperton classic " Lovin ' You ".
Sidney Barnes, a songwriter within the Chess organization, also joined, as did Judy Hauff and a Chess receptionist named Minnie Riperton, who would later be successful in her own solo career.
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Supercentenarian Minnie Kearby, once the oldest resident of Indiana, was also one of Jasper's best-known residents ; born in Ireland, Indiana, on April 14, 1893, she moved to a Jasper care facility in November 2004.
Paul and Beth Garon's 1992 biography on Memphis Minnie, Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues, makes no mention of a marriage to Weldon, but only says that she recorded two sides with him, in November 1935, for Bluebird Records.
Her mother, Minerva Buckner " Minnie " Machen ( November 23, 1860 – January 13, 1958 ), named her after characters in two little-known stories: Jane Howard's " Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony " ( 1866 ) and Robert Edward Francillon's " Zelda's Fortune " ( 1874 ).
They have three children together: two daughters, Pearl Minnie, born October 15, 2005, and Lucille, born November 6, 2009, and one son, Jack, born July 3, 2011.
Saturnino Orestes Armas " Minnie " Miñoso Arrieta (; ; born November 29, 1925 in Havana, Cuba ), is a former star left fielder in Major League Baseball.
Newton's mother Minnie was presented with her son's Victoria Cross by the Governor-General, the Duke of Gloucester, on 30 November 1945.
The opera was first seen in London ( with Patti and Mario ) on 11 July 1867 and in New York ( with Minnie Hauk ) at the Academy of Music on 15 November of that year.
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Kathleen Mary Margaret Bryant ( 8 March 1897 in Kingston upon Hull – 1 January 1988 in Manchester ) was an English actress, best known for playing Minnie Caldwell on the soap opera Coronation Street.
Born in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda on 8 June 1919, Bill Newton was the youngest child of dentist Charles Ellis Newton and his second wife Minnie.
He married Minnie ( Hale ) Angier on 8 August 1889 in Chicago, Illinois and they had two sons John and Benjamin.
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Robinson was one of only two players during the span of 1947 – 56 to accumulate at least 125 steals while registering a slugging percentage over. 425 ( Minnie Miñoso was the other ).
In the 1947 film Hi De Ho, Calloway includes the following lines in his song " Minnie the Moocher ": " Woe there ain't no more Smokey Joe / She's fluffed off his hi-de-ho / She's a solid jitterbug / And she starts to cut a rug / Oh Minnie's a hep cat now.
The Indians, who in 1947 had signed Larry Doby, thus becoming the first American League team to sign a black player, would by 1951 have Latino players such as Minnie Miñoso and Jesse Flores on the roster, in addition to Garcia and Ávila, and Lopez as manager.
On December 12, 1897, he married Minnie Myrtle Zumwalt ( October 24, 1870-April 20, 1947 ), the couple moved to Coalinga from Los Angeles in 1899.
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