Trending
Popular people
Bettina Köster
Biography
Bettina Köster (born 15 June 1959 in Herford) is a German musician, saxophonist, composer, singer, songwriter and producer.
Fall 1978, Köster, student of the Berlin art school Hochschule der Künste, began playing Saxophone for the Berlin underground band DIN A Testbild. In May 1979 Köster started with Karin Luner, Beate Bartel, Eva Gossling and Gudrun Gut an all-girls-band project Mania D. In Fall 1979 Mania D performed in New York at Arleen Schloss A's, and in the Club Tier 3.
In the same year she opened with Gudrun Gut the store Eisengrau (metalgrey), showing underground fashion, Super 8-movies and artwork as part of the concept. Köster's Eisengrau-concept emerged to a scene hot-spot for Tabea Blumenschein, Alexander von Borsig, Blixa Bargeld and others. 1980 Eisengrau began publishing small editions of tapes with the musical works of underground bands, classifying thereby Eisengrau to a medium for music.
Bettina Köster belonged to a group of Berlin artists named genius dilettantes, who, starting in 1980, performed in quick changing band-formations such as Liebesgier, Nachdenkliche Wehrpflichtige and Einstürzende Neubauten among others. Wolfgang Müller from Die Tödliche Doris invented the characterizing term of the "genius dilettantes" in his book about the Berlin scene published at the Merve-Verlag. The British radiohost John Peel referred to Köster, Gut and Beate Bartel who meanwhile had separated, during a show on 25. July 1981, as his "Queens of Noise". Mania D's production track 4 was chosen by Peel in his Radio-Show to as the single of the year.
In the same year Köster and Gudrun Gut started the Indie band Malaria! Malaria! gained international recognition with their song "Kaltes klares Wasser", they performed at the New Yorker Studio 54 and Mudd Club. Malaria toured with Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Birthday Party among others. As a lyricist Köster influenced succeeding girl Bands, such as Chicks on Speed, who released a cover version of Malaria's 1981 Hit "Kaltes Klares Wasser". In Playboy Magazine January 1985 "The Girls of Rock 'n' Roll", she is model together with Grace Jones, Tina Turner, Pat Benatar and Diana Ross.
Köster lived in New York from 1983 to 2001, where she worked as a film author and producer with the director Isabel Hegner. In 1997, Köster composed the music for the film Peppermills, which won 1998 at the Berlinale the Teddy Award in the category Best Short Film. The film was directed by the Swiss Isabel Hegner, later producing a 2003 released documentary "Burma: Anatomy of Terror" which was co produced by Köster. While researching Burma for the film, Köster came across material about the drug princess Olive Yang, laying the foundation for the thriller Mandalay Moon, which she wrote together with Martin Schacht, published 2007 by Rowohlt. In 2005 Köster performed with the musician Jessie Evans in the supporting program of The Vanishing. This led to the music project Autonervous, releasing an album in 2006.
Since 2009, when "Queen of Noise" was published on Assinela Records, Vienna, Köster performs regularly with the Viennese drummer Ines Perschy in Clubs and on Festivals like Waregem in Belgium, Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig/Germany. She lives in southern Italy.
Read more
Nijah Brenea
Biography
Nijah Brenea has lived in most of the southeast of the U.S., but was raised in Columbus Ga. She has always been a shining star catching the attention of her family and peers since she was an adolescent. She graduated from the University of West Ga with a 3.9 GPA majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Mass Communications. While in college she participated in a poetry showcase where she fell in love with the craft.
Shortly after college in 2017, she started training and honing her skills learning audition technique, camera work, improv, and much more. She dove into voice acting where she has worked with companies such as Nike, Adidas, Hpnotiq, and Merrell. Now, you can catch her on P-Valley, Rap Sh!t, Atlanta, and BMF. Nijah stars in Kold & Windy on WeTV and AllBlk.
When Nijah is not on set or studying the craft she enjoys time with close friends and family. She will hop on a plane the first chance she gets to travel to a place she has never been or somewhere she enjoys. She loves to laugh as well as make others laugh.
Nijah wholeheartedly believes that persistence, consistency, and hard work pays off. She sets goals and takes them a step or day at a time.
Read more
Vivian Maier
Biography
Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed around the world.
During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never developed. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Maier's photos in 2007, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Maier's prints and negatives in her boxes and suitcases around the same time. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went viral, with thousands of people expressing interest. Maier's work subsequently attracted critical acclaim, and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited around the world.
From Wikipedia.
Read more
Janae Palmer
Biography
Janae Palmer was born and raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to Janet Palmer, a school teacher, and James Palmer, CEO and founder of a family owned contracting business. Her heritage is of Italian decent. Palmer was home schooled by her mother from early childhood education to twelfth grade. During her last two years of high-school, she was enrolled as a part-time student at her local college. Being home schooled enabled Palmer to begin her acting education at the age of thirteen at an organization called HST. She studied acting techniques, dance, and voice with HST and performed two main stage shows per year from the age of thirteen to eighteen.
Palmer continued her education at Messiah College where she received two Bachelor of Arts degrees (Theatre & Dance). During her junior year of college, Palmer studied abroad at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. She studied acting, scene study, movement, and voice under the instruction of Patrick Sutton and several guest teachers. During Palmer's senior year of college, she produced, directed, choreographed, danced, and acted in her senior showcase titled "If It Were You". During Palmer's junior year of college, she discovered her love for acting on screen. She auditioned and was cast in six short films from the Film and Media Arts department at Messiah College. After building connections and gaining experience, Palmer decided she wanted to make her life long career as a film actress.
Shortly after graduation, Palmer was cast in her first role on an episode of Gone (2017) for the Investigation Discovery Channel. After recognition and favor, Palmer soon began getting cast as lead roles for the Investigation Discovery Channel, the Reelz Channel, and the Travel Channel. After building a favorable background and reputation, Palmer started acting in local and nation-wide commercials as well. Her success in the TV industry soon brought on bigger roles on feature films. She landed a lead role in The Fallen (2019), filmed in D.C by The Make-A-Wish Foundation for a wish kid. Not long after, Palmer was cast in The Special (2020), a feature horror film directed by B. Harrison Smith
Palmer's most recent work was for Lionsgate's film Where the Scary Things Are (2022) directed by B. Harrison Smith. She is also proud of being hired as the Stand In and Photodouble for Natalie Portman on Lady in the Lake (2024) directed by Alma Har'el.
Read more
Peter Fonda
Biography
Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019) was an American actor. He was the son of Henry Fonda, younger brother of Jane Fonda, and father of Bridget and Justin Fonda. Fonda was a part of the counterculture of the 1960s.
He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Easy Rider (1969), and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Ulee's Gold (1997). For the latter, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. Fonda also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film for The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999).
Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Fonda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Read more
Irma González
Biography
Irma Morales Muñoz, best known by her ring name Irma González, is a Mexican retired luchadora (or professional wrestler). During her over forty-year career, from the 1950s to the 1990s, she also competed at various times under the masked characters Flor Negra ("Black Flower"), Rosa Blanca ("White Rose"), La Tirana ("The Tyrant"), La Dama del Enfermero ("The Nurse Lady"), La Enfermera ("The Nurse") and La Novia del Santo ("The Bride of El Santo").
She is one of the pioneers of women's professional wrestling in Mexico, part of the first wave of Mexican women who made their debuts in the early 1950s, at a time where virtually no women's matches were promoted in Mexico. She is a five-time holder of the Mexican National Women's Championship, a two-time winner of the UWA World Women's Championship, and won both a US-based and an Indonesian-based world championship. She and her daughter Irma Aguilar were the first team to win the Mexican National Women's Tag Team Championship when introduced in 1990.
In 2020, she was selected as The Greatest Female Wrestler in Lucha Libre History by LuchaWorld.
Read more
Joel Richardson
Biography
A son of Massachusetts’ south shore, Joel came to faith in 1991 and almost immediately became both confronted and burdened by the fact that while roughly half of all unreached people worldwide are Muslim, less than half of 1% of all missionaries are sent to the Muslim world. He heard the testimony of a disciple-maker living in Kazakhstan as a young believer, and committed his life that evening to serving Muslims worldwide with a faithful testimony of Jesus. He moved to Kansas City in 1993, just before spending the better part of 1994 living and working in Israel, while traveling regularly to Egypt and Jordan. It was in this time he truly fell in love with the Middle East, and returned to KC to pursue an engineering degree at UMKC.
It would be difficult to summarize Joel’s ministry and history in a paragraph; he launched a campus ministry devoted to international students in 1996, founded a decorative painting business in 1998 (which was his 9-5 before shifting into full-time ministry in 2016), and has consistently reached out to Muslims locally and internationally since the mid-90s. Joel is the author of eight books (including one New York Times bestseller), has produced several Christian films and documentaries, hosts the popular YouTube program, The Underground with Joel Richardson, and co-pastored a home church fellowship in Kansas City for five years.
Joel serves on the board of three ministries dedicated to reaching Muslims, including FAI, bringing more than twenty-five years’ experience in Muslim-related ministry to the table. His passion to see a faithful witness of the Gospel of the Kingdom reach the Middle East underscores his ministry worldwide as a teacher, conference speaker, and as a friend and brother we are tremendously grateful for. We are privileged to have him on the Frontier Alliance International Board of Directors, where he served for years before becoming Board Chairman in 2021. His clarity on and commitment to the faithful testimony of the prophets and apostles helps preserve the integrity of our messaging and our life as a body, community, and family.
Joel and his wife Amy, married since 1997, remain in the greater Kansas City area with their five children. If he’s not traveling, he starts his mornings with an early forest jog, winds down in the evenings with his family listening to gospel, bluegrass, and jam bands on his back patio—but he especially enjoys getting to serve as a parent assistant at his son’s football practices.
Read more
Tim Noakes
Biography
Timothy David Noakes is a South African scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He is also a member of the National Research Foundation, who list him as one of their highest-rated members.
He has run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons, and is the author of several books on exercise and diet. He is known for his work in sports science and for his support of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) diet, as set out in his books The Real Meal Revolution and Lore of Nutrition: Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs.
Read more
Lena Dunham
Biography
Lena Dunham (/ˈliːnə ˈdʌnəm/; born May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy.
In 2013, Dunham was included in the annual Time100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2014, Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned". In 2015, along with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, Dunham created the publication Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter. The publication ran for three years before its discontinuation in late 2018.
Dunham briefly appeared in films such as Supporting Characters, This Is 40 (2012), and Happy Christmas (2014). She voiced Mary in the 2016 film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Aside from Girls, she has played guest roles on television in Scandal and The Simpsons (both 2015). In 2017, she portrayed Valerie Solanas in American Horror Story: Cult.
Dunham's work and her outspoken presence on social media and in interviews have attracted significant controversy, praise, criticism, and media scrutiny throughout her career.
Read more
Denzell Dandridge
Biography
Denzell Dandridge, born Denzell Manning, is an American actor, model, and influencer from Detroit, Michigan. He was born in 1994 to Linda Moorlet and Dezvon Dandridge, the eighth of nine children. Known for entertaining his family from a young age, he discovered his passion for acting in high school.
At Bethune Cookman University, he switched his major from Criminal Justice to theater, balancing football and academics. When his football career ended in 2017, he focused fully on acting. In four years, he has appeared in over 20 movies, including "Street Code Broken" (2022) and "Absence of Innocence" (2022), and has been featured in music videos and magazines.
Denzell, the great-nephew of Dorothy Dandridge, changed his last name to honor her legacy. He is dedicated to building his own career while honoring his family's history in the entertainment industry.
Read more
