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Biography
“Smither is an American original – a product of the musical melting pot and one of the absolute best singer-songwriters in the world.”
—Associated Press.
Born in Miami, during World War II, Chris Smither grew up in New Orleans where he first started playing music as a child. The son of a Tulane University professor, he was taught the rudiments of instrumentation by his uncle on his mother’s ukulele. “Uncle Howard,” Smither says, “showed me that if you knew three chords, you could play a lot of the songs you heard on the radio. And if you knew four chords, you could pretty much rule the world.” With that bit of knowledge under his belt, he was hooked. “I’d loved acoustic music – specifically the blues – ever since I first heard Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Blues In My Bottle album. I couldn’t believe the sound Hopkins got. At first I thought it was two guys playing guitar. My style, to a degree, came out of trying to imitate that sound I heard.”
In his early twenties, Smither turned his back on his anthropology studies and headed to Boston at the urging of legendary folk
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Chris Brown
American singer (born 1989)
For the album, see Chris Brown (album). For other people with similar names, see Chris Brown (disambiguation).
Christopher Maurice Brown (born May 5, 1989) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and actor. A pop and hip hop-influenced R&B musician who works in a variety of genres,[2][3][4][5][6][7] he has been called the "King of R&B" by some of his contemporaries.[8][9][10][11] His lyrics often address emotional and hedonistic themes.[12][13][14][15] His singing and dancing skills have often been compared favorably to those of Michael Jackson.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
In 2004, Brown signed with Jive Records. The following year, he released his eponymous debut studio album, which went triple platinum.[26][27] Brown topped the Billboard Hot
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Chris Hemsworth
Australian actor (born 1983)
Christopher HemsworthAM (born 11 August 1983) is an Australian actor. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria and Bulman, Northern Territory, he rose to prominence playing Kim Hyde in the Australian television series Home and Away (2004–2007) before beginning a film career in Hollywood. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Hemsworth starred as Thor in the 2011 film of the same name and reprised the role in several subsequent installments, which established him among the world's highest-paid actors.[1][2]
His other film roles include the action films Star Trek (2009), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and its sequel The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016), Red Dawn (2012), Blackhat (2015), Men in Black: International (2019), Extraction (2020) and its 2023 sequel, the thriller A Perfect Getaway (2009), and the comedy Ghostbusters (2016). Hemsworth's most critically acclaimed films include the comedy horror The Cabin in the Woods (2012), the biographical sports film Rush (2013) in which he po
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