Hakki obadia biography templates

You have found The GO Mechanism; an audio odyssey that will take you to places you didn’t know existed. It is hosted by Phast Phreddie the Boogaloo Omnibus and it initially airs on the Luxuria Music interweb streaming hustle as a Saturday Night Special. This one will first appear on May 18. In order to receive the complete and total GO Mechanism experience, it is recommended that one listen to the initial airing on Luxuria Music, follow along with this Boogaloo Bag post as your score card (no one stops to back announce records) and join us in the Luxuria Music chat room where the host will announce each selection as it airs. After its first air date, the show will be available as a podcast on the Luxuria Music website—look for the Saturday Night Special dated 5/19/2024. However you listen to The GO, it is imperative that this blog post is referenced while doing so.

In the middle of the program there is a Science Corner, a segment of the show where The GO Mechanism producers discuss an interesting music-related topic. For this GO, we will be discussing an aspect of the music publishing business using a song by the British rock group Spooky Tooth as an example.

In 1967, a British, arty, psychedelic band called Art added Gary Wright as a member and changed its name to Spooky Tooth. Wright was an American musician who was lured to London by the owner of Island Records, Chris Blackwell. Art’s lone album was produced by Jimmy Miller and issued on Island Records. Miller was also called on to produce the first Spooky Tooth album, called It’s All About. Also an American, Miller’s previous experience included other Chris Blackwell projects, such as Traffic, The Spencer Davis Group and Wynder K. Frog. Anyway, the Spooky Tooth album was released in England where it did pretty good business, then licensed to Bell Records in America (where it wasn’t given a name!). Around this time, Island Records started licensing

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Eddie "the Sheik" Kochak parlayed a childhood penchant for drumming eventually into lessons with top New York percussionist Henry Adler. He performed for troops during World War II as a member of the Army, and on his return performed steadily at charity events, supper clubs, and concert stages. He played the Green Grove Manor in Asbury Park, New Jersey for a decade as well as at Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, and Town Hall in New York City. Kochak has been credited for his comedic talent, fine support with the dirbakee (Arabic tom-tom), and resurrecting the debke, native dance of the Middle East. He had long associations with Dean Martin and Danny Thomas (Thomas and Kochak are both of Lebanese extraction). For decades, as a maker and producer of records, not to mention live performances, he ruled the Brooklyn and to a lesser extent the New England "Mecca East" scenes. In the 1980s he played the percussion for Anthony Quinn in the Broadway production of "Zorba." In the twenty-first century the Sheik has conducted musicians and dancers on stage at an Atlantic Avenue festival in Brooklyn.

Born in Bagdad, Hakki Obadia was a child prodigy who won most of the badges of master musicianship by the age of ten. He founded and led the first symphony orchestra of Bagdad and conducted the symphony orchestra of the University of California, where he studied under Roger Sessions and Ernest Bloch. Considered a genius in both eastern and western music, Obadia mastered the violin, oud, piano, guitar, and mandolin. Besides teaching music and performing, he accompanied Mohammed El-Bakkar throughout the latter's career. In 1953 he met Eddie Kochak, beginning a long, subsequent collaboration of recording.

Violinist (and oudist/pianist) Fred Elias was born in New Hampshire of Lebanese descent and attained a Master's degree from the Boston Conservatory of Music. (Many U.S. belly-dance performers hail fr

  • Born in Bagdad, Hakki
  • Hanaan or Hanan was born Jeanette

    • Collecting area: African American

    Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. Includes personal and professional correspondence; administrative and teaching records; research data; manuscripts of published and unpublished speeches, articles and books; photographs; and Bond family papers, especially those of Horace Bond’s father, James Bond. Fully represented are Bond’s two major interests: black education, especially its history and sociological aspects, and Africa, particularly as related to educational and political conditions.

    Correspondents include many notable African American educators, Africanists, activists, authors and others, such as Albert C. Barnes, Claude A. Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Bunche, Rufus Clement, J. G. St. Clair Drake, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edwin Embree, John Hope Franklin, E. Franklin Frazier, W. C. Handy, Thurgood Marshall, Benjamin E. Mays, Pauli Murray, Kwame Nkrumah, Robert Ezra Park, A. Phillip Randolph, Lawrence P. Reddick, A. A. Schomburg, George Shepperson, Carter G. Woodson and Monroe Work.

    Subjects

    Africa--Description and travelAfrican American educatorsAfrican Americans--Education--History--20th centuryAmerican Society of African CultureAtlanta UniversityDillard UniversityFort Valley State CollegeInternational African American CorporationJulius Rosenwald FundLincoln UniversityRace relations--United States

    Contributors

    Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951Bond, Horace Mann, 1904-1972Bond, James, 1863-1929Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972

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  • Eddie 'The Sheik' Kochak (born in

    • Hanan/ Hanaan

    (Jeanette Hayek Harouni)

    Hanan/Hanaan, Caravan 12 January 1956. Courtesy of Newspapers.com

    Only a handful of Arab or Arab American singers were known and are remembered by a single name. There was Asmahan, Karawan, Kahraman, and, of course – Hanan or Hanaan!

               Hanaan or Hanan was born Jeanette Nehme Hayek on 8 November 1929 in Beirut, Lebanon. She was one of five children born to Jacob Hayek and Wadiha Atik Hayek. Ironically, the same year Jeanette’s birth the first Lebanese film, The Adventures of Mabrouk, was released. Jeanette displayed the talents of an actor and singer early on and received classical Arabic music training. Jeanette first traveled to Brazil in 1947 and again in 1948 to perform in concert with Wadih Saffi. Jeanette's mother accompanied her on the trip. 


    Compare and contrast two of Hanan's four identity documents for Brazil. One gives her birth year as 1922 and the other, the more commonly accepted 8 November 1929. A different card in 1948 also lists her as single. She was not married in 1947, but married in 1953. She did not list her occupation as a singer in 1953. Courtesy of Ancestry.com

    Upon her return to Beirut, she married Michel Harouni in 1948. She and Michel travelled to and from Brazil and Argentina in the 1950s as haflas took her a tours of cities throughout the Lebanese and Syrian diaspora. In the the period from 1890 to 1930, some 370,000 Arab immigrants settled in Argentina and some 130,000 immigrated to Brazil. Interest in Jeanette’s singing and acting abilities grew and in 1950 she appeared in the movie “The Bride of Lebanon” starring Mahmud Fawezi Ellas, Mohamed Salman, and Hagar Hamadi.  At the time, the entire country of Lebanon boasted some 60 total movie theaters and approximately, 23 of these operated in Beirut. Theaters imported most feature films shown in Lebanon in 1950 from