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' Lovebug Starski, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Full Force, Russell Simmons and Wyclef Jean all have been produced by, or have worked with, Kurt.
* 1957 – Russell Simmons, American entrepreneur
In 1990, Russell Simmons gave Paul an imprint under his Def Jam label.
Def Jam co-founder Rick Rubin had already left the label by then ; taking his place alongside Russell Simmons was Lyor Cohen, the son of Israeli immigrants who had run Rush Artist Management since 1985.
As a teenager, Simmons was recruited into hip-hop by his older brother, Russell, who was then an up and coming hip-hop promoter.
Simmons appeared onstage as a DJ for rapper Kurtis Blow, who was managed by Russell.
Simmons soon wanted to record again —- this time with McDaniels, but Russell refused, citing a dislike for D's rhyming style.
After they completed high school and started college in 1982, Simmons and McDaniels finally convinced Russell to let them record as a duo, and they recruited Mizell ( who now called himself Jam-Master Jay ) to be their official DJ.
When Russell Simmons saw Jay's flashy, yet street b-boy style, he insisted the entire group follow suit.
were featured in the hip hop film Krush Groove, a fictionalized re-telling of Russell Simmons ' rise as a hip-hop entrepreneur and his struggles to get his own label, Def Jam Recordings, off the ground.
The film featured a young Blair Underwood as Russell, along with appearances by old-school legend Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys, teen pop act New Edition, LL Cool J, Prince protegee Sheila E., and hip hop's first successful white rap group the Beastie Boys, who were signed to Simmons ' Def Jam label.
Though the group itself was never signed to the label, they were managed by Russell Simmons, produced by Rick Rubin ( who was co-founder of Def Jam, along with Simmons ), and often shared concert tour spotlight with acts on the label's roster.
Conversely, Slam poetry movement founder Marc Smith has been critical of the commercially successful Def Poetry television and Broadway live stage shows produced by Russell Simmons, decrying it as " an exploitive entertainment that diminished the value and aesthetic of performance poetry ".
According to local legend, a horse belonging to settler Joseph Russell went lame, stranding Russell, who was offered a replacement horse by another settler, Samuel Simmons.
Simmons built a log cabin there, and in 1850, Russell and his brother also settled in the area.
* Russell Simmons ( born 1957 ), hip-hop entrepreneur.
* Russell Simmons ( born 1957 ), house is currently for sale because of divorce from Kimora Lee Simmons
John Crook, John Clapper, Henry Coons, John Warner, Major Thomas Frothingham, who was an officer in the Continental army during the War of the Revolution ; N. Smith, Reuben Underwood, David Arnold, and families bearing the names of Fethers, Ford, Davis, Cook, Emmons, Culver, Farrell, Pratt, Lewis, Wells, Huntley, Wickham, Fuller, Strope, Hegeman, Sheppard, Higgenbottom, De Freest, Rykert, Woodworth, Hayes, Townsend, Richmond, Cornwell, Carmichael, Stone, Russell, Frear ( probably Frere ), Guyot, Kelly, Kerner, Jacobs, Simmons, Comb, Calkins, Kilmer and others.
Among those who did not accept the apology was a longtime friend of Rivera, Russell Simmons.
However, because Russell Simmons felt that Slayer's music was not in line with Def Jam, and because Def Jam ’ s then-distributor, Columbia / CBS Records, refused to release it, it was released through Geffen Records, and Rubin took the rights of the release to the new label with him after the split.
South of Heaven was Slayer's second album to enter the Billboard 200, and its last to be released by Def Jam Recordings, although the album became an American Recordings album after Rick Rubin ended his partnership with Russell Simmons.
When label co-founders Russell Simmons and Rubin parted ways, Slayer signed to Rubin's newly founded Def American Recordings label.

Russell and joined
Georgia's Dick Russell objected politely, and the battle was joined.
In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons.
Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.
Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr ( who shared a square ), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of " The Poet Laureate of Television ".
In the 1990s, before Russell joined the cast, Bill Perry and Walter Bobbie were members.
Mark Benninghofer joined the cast as a substitute actor for a brief time after Russell broke his ankle in February 2009, forcing him to take medical leave for a full month.
Independents Russell Savage and Susan Davies were joined by a third Independent, Craig Ingram.
Karloff joined the Jeanne Russell Co. in 1911 and performed in towns like Kamloops, British Columbia and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
Mandated by state law, Gorham's public schools joined Russell County Schools ( USD 407 ) in 1967.
In 1965 Russell joined with neighboring towns to form Gateway Regional School District that now educates some 1300 students at an annual cost to taxpayers of about $ 15, 000 per student.
In the early 1970s, Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ joined the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute ( SRI ).
After returning briefly to New Orleans, where he worked with the bands of Fate Marable and Fats Pichon, he was offered a recording contract with Victor Records and returned to New York City, where he also joined the Luis Russell band, which was later fronted by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.
In April 2010 Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack joined the band for their UK tour and has since continued to tour with them worldwide throughout 2010.
* Fiona Russell Powell, who joined the group for ABC's 1985 album How To Be A Zillionaire, was part of the original line-up of the pre ABC band, Vice Versa.
Soon he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where his productions, many of them featuring Simon Russell Beale, included Troilus and Cressida, Richard III and The Tempest.
By 1916 Rutherford had become one of the seven directors of the Watch Tower Society ; when Russell died on October 31, 1916 he joined vice-President Alfred I. Ritchie and Secretary-Treasurer William E. Van Amburgh on a three-man executive committee that ran the Pennsylvania corporation until a new president was elected at the annual general meeting the following January.
Within a week of leaving Independence, the Reeds and Donners joined up with a group of 50 wagons nominally led by William H. Russell.
A national tour followed with Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and Scott joined by Nigel Macara ( ex-Tamam Shud, Ariel ) on drums and Brenton White ( Skintight ) on guitar.
In parallel with the Pugwash Conferences, Rotblat also joined with Einstein, Oppenheimer, Russell and other concerned scientists to found the World Academy of Art and Science which was proposed by them in the mid-1950s and formally constituted in 1960.
After the demise of the Crystal Set, Russell Kilbey joined up with David Thrussell of techno outfit Snog and formed an outfit called The Sex Industrie.
Upon Hooper's departure, Russell Kilbey assumed guitar duties and vocals and Luke Blackburn, a Melbourne musician, joined as bassist and vocalist.
In 1859, he joined the Russell, Waddell, & Majors freight company, the parent company of the Pony Express.
After time back in Chicago with Elgar, he joined the Luis Russell in Manhattan, then again returned to Chicago in 1928 to play with the Erskine Tate Orchestra.
After two years, Russell Harlow joined the Park City Festival as co-director.
After the war, Russell became an advocate of the peace movement and was one of the founder members of the CND, in which she joined with other prominent leftists ( Russell, J.

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