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...contention is that everybody does, you just may not know it,” says Mike Doughty, former guitarist and lead singer of Soul Coughing. Doughty’s deep rhythmic voice and lyrical creativity helped carry Soul Coughing’s alternative-meets-sugarfree-jazz sound through an eight-year run, best known for tracks such as “Super Bon Bon” and “Circles.” I had a chance to speak with the newly turned soloist recently about his upcoming tour, his thoughts on music, and a critique of the music...
...time and the remainder of the band are nearly, if not as, talented as the other members. The band’s only noticeable flaw is the lead singer’s voice. Classically trained to sing opera, his voice lacks the timbre and character of a heavy metal singer. This does, of course, give Theater a unique sound, making it more than just a metal band...
...Lisbon Traviata, excessive enjoyment of opera represents an escape from the mediocrity of life into the magnificence of art. The masterful opera singer Maria Callas is the divine artistic ideal, offering deliverance to the unfulfilled characters. Callas provides them with insight into the finer points of existence...
...Soviet Union and China, Morath spent over half a century with the Magnum photo agency. She produced more than two dozen books, including several collaborations with her husband. DIED. HILDEGARD KNEF, 76, gravel-voiced German star of post-WWII era films who found later success as a singer in musicals and as an author; in Berlin. Perhaps best known for her role in Germany's first movie after the war, Die M?rder Sind Unter Uns (The Murderers Are Among Us), the versatile blond leading lady went by the name Hildegard Neff in Hollywood, where she starred with Gregory Peck...
...shoes to fill, charismatically speaking. Until last November, the Social Democratic and Labour Party was led by John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner, singer of songs with President Clinton, darling of the world's press since he staked out a nonviolent Irish nationalism at the start of the Troubles. Durkan, the youngest of seven children raised on a police widow's pension, was Hume's detail man for two decades, turning the great leader's big but fuzzy visions into political reality. His skill at listening and bridging divides won him respect, and when Hume finally stepped down, Durkan...