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...JDC: Soul, funk, hip-hop, jazz and neo-soul. I want the music to create a relaxed atmosphere. I also want it to echo the intimacy of the evening....
...A DJ played funk music outside a wedding hall on Snyder Avenue that had been converted to a polling place....
...Lisa Paus, finance policy spokeswoman for the German Greens, said: “The coming reforms should be used to improve the incentives in the stability and growth pact for state investments....
...Last year her song “Boo’d Up” became the first number one hit on the US R&B charts by a UK singer since Lisa Stansfield in 1992....
...The song is Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam’s “I Wonder If I Take You Home”, originally released in 1985....
...The album was the first to be recorded with Prince’s new backing band, The Revolution, and “1999” featured the voices of two them, Lisa Coleman and Dez Dickerson, who took it in turns with Prince to sing...
...Sonny Rollins recorded it first as an epic ballad on the 1962 album The Bridge, and later as a soulful canter over the new rhythms of funk on the 1973 album Horn Culture....
...For more in this series, as well as podcasts with clips from the songs, visit ft.com/life-of-a-song Listen to the podcast Photographs: Lisa Larsen/Getty Images; Peter Stackpole...
...It’s a wild guess, but this year’s festival must surely have marked the first time that Ginger Baker has shared a bill with Lisa Stansfield....
...They return this week for a pair of concerts on the South Bank, Beethoven (with Martha Argerich) and Strauss in the first, Tchaikovsky (with Lisa Batiashvili) and Elgar in the second....
...Ibeyi, February 21, Broadcast, Glasgow Ibeyi, named after the Yoruba word for twins, are sisters, Naomi and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz....
...Commodities and resource-based stocks, which have taken the brunt of the economic fretting, are looking to bounce off recent lows, while gold, whose plunge typified investors’ funk, has broken back above...
...See his Mona Lisa made from peanut butter....
...Sibelius and Lindberg: Violin Concertos (Sony Classical) is an intelligent pairing of a modern masterpiece – Lisa Batiashvili premiered Magnus Lindberg’s concerto only last year – with its spiritual godfather...
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