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Prior to his religious conversion, after successfully performing in California clubs, Gibson's first record deal as a secular artist was with SOLAR Records in 1983 where he worked with both Stevie Wonder ( including being introduced by and performing " Ebony and Ivory " on stage with Wonder at a San Francisco Bay Area concert between 1983-1984 ) and Michael Jackson ( singing backup vocals on the song " So Shy " but not appearing in the video ), in addition to keyboardist Bill Wolfer.
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Prior to this time, Judah had been a vassal of the Assyrian empire, but the rapid decline of Assyria after c. 630 led Josiah to assert his independence and institute a religious reform stressing loyalty to Yahweh, the national God.
Prior to translating Averroes ' commentaries, Anatoli had occupied himself with the translation of astronomical treatises by the same writer and others ; but at the instance of friends he turned his attention to logic and the speculative works, realizing and recommending theimportance of logic, in particular, in view of the contemporary religious controversies.
Prior to 1890, traditional religious beliefs included Wakan Tanka.
Prior to this, states were described and justified in terms of religious myths.
Prior to this, the European medieval organization of political authority was based on a vaguely hierarchical religious order.
Prior to the admission of Missouri to statehood in 1821, several new migrations altered the religious composition of the future county.
The Discalced friars became an independent religious congregation with their own Prior General in 1592, and were raised to the status of a separate mendicant Order in 1610.
Prior to his death, he took monastic vows and was given the religious name of Alexis.
Prior to Wodziwob's religious movement, a devastating typhoid epidemic struck in 1867.
During this period, about the year 1279, as the purposes of the Order shifted from that of religious hospitallers to a more military role, the position of Prior, the Order's religious head, lost its pre-eminent position.
Prior to the start of his career as a playwright, Ford wrote other non-dramatic literary works — the long religious poem Christ's Bloody Sweat ( 1613 ), and two prose essays published as pamphlets, The Golden Mean ( 1613 ) and A Line of Life ( 1620 ).
Prior to the 1999 elections the party was taken over by TV celebrity Tommy Lapid, who was known for his fierce rhetoric against religious coercion.
Prior to his capture Ghezali attended a Muslim religious school and mosque in the United Kingdom before travelling to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and finally ended up in Pakistan where he was captured.
Prior to that they had been reported in the religious census as part of the movement that had its roots in the several independent movements that occurred through the leadership of people such as Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, and Barton W. Stone.
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, indigenous music was played with rattles, drums, flutes and conch-shell horns as part of religious celebrations.
Prior to the advent of Chinese civilization and world religions in the region generally known today as East Asia including the territorial boundaries of modern-day China ; tribal totemistic and animistic religious practices were the way in which prayers, sacrifices or offerings were communicated to the spiritual world by groups or mediatory individuals such as shamans.
Prior to that, paintings had been primarily of religious scenes or of human beings.
Prior to that, English settlers led by Anne Hutchinson ( seeking religious freedom ) settled in an area nearby on the river ( now known as the Hutchinson River ) in 1642.
Prior to the inclusion of the Bill of Rights, this was the only mention of religious freedom in the Constitution.
Prior to the purchase by its current owners, the station showed a variety of programs, the bulk of which were old public-domain movies, old cartoons, and current religious programs.
" Prior to that song, most recordings ( cylinders ), were opera, religious or patriotic in nature.
Prior to the Council in Toledo, King Reccared had convened informal assemblies of bishops to resolve the religious schism in his kingdom.
Prior to this decision the First Amendment words, " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion " imposed limits only on the federal government, while many states continued to grant certain religious denominations legislative or effective privileges.
Prior to the loss of her son, she had not been very religious, but his death brought her to consider religion more and more.
Prior and conversion
Prior to the Akkadian period the progressive salinisation of the soils, produced by poorly drained irrigation, had been reducing yields of wheat in the southern part of the country, leading to the conversion to more salt-tolerant barley growing.
Prior to its conversion into a museum, it was a residence.
Prior to their conversion, the Kalmyks practiced shamanism.
Prior to the 2007 season, Gagné had converted 161 saves out of 168 save opportunities for a conversion rate of 96. 6 %, the highest in Major League Baseball history for a pitcher with at least 100 saves.
Prior to its conversion as a park, the land was used primarily for animal grazing, although much of it was wooded.
Prior to this, Evanston shuttle trains had to be equipped with trolley poles and power collected through overhead catenary wires ( similar to the Yellow Line before its conversion to third rail in 2004 ).
Prior to the opening night's transmissions, WIN-4 undertook a television conversion program, aimed at encouraging residents to acquire new tuning equipment and converting television sets in the area to receive the station's allocated frequency.
Prior to his conversion to Christianity in November 1962, Copeland was a recording artist on the Imperial Records label, having one Billboard Top 40 hit (" Pledge of Love ", which charted in the Top 40 on April 20, 1957, stayed on the charts for eight weeks, and peaked at # 12 ).
Prior to his conversion to Islam in 2005, Yousuf was one of only a few Christians to play for the Pakistan cricket team.
Prior to the French Revolution, the Catholic Church had been the official state religion of France since the conversion to Christianity of Clovis I, leading to France being called " the eldest daughter of the Church.
Prior to 2006, the company had already undergone reorganisation, procuring also a new company ( SIA Lattelecom Technology ), whereby the change of the brand name marked the termination of said conversion process – the new brand name combined into one great whole all Groups companies that were directly engaged in providing customer services, client business process outsourcing and IT & T and content services.
Prior to his conversion he was the leader of a New York City gang, The Mau-Maus.
Prior to conversion they had a custom of erecting megaliths and digging ditches in honour of notable individuals.
Prior to the Reformation, Norwegians were part of the Catholic Church with the conversion to Protestantism commencing in 1536.
Prior to its conversion to become the Queen's Gallery the building was used as a storeroom.
Prior to its conversion to a municipality, five appointed District Mayors had served Kidapawan.
Prior to their conversion, the Ammonites were Lamanites, traditional enemies of the Nephites, and they had taken part in wars and battles against the Nephites.
A Prior provides the design to the Rand Protectorate on Tegalus in exchange for their conversion to Origin.
Prior to KGCW's digital conversion, its Burlington-based analog signal only operated at an effective radiated power of 200 kilowatts at a height of only 96 meters.
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