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Profile - Renato Manfredini Jr. (Renato Russo)

Renato Manfredini Jr. was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 27, 1960, son of the economist Renato Manfredini an official of “Banco do Brasil” and Dona Maria do Carmo an English teacher. He learned English since childhood, when he lived, from 7 to 10 years, in New York. New transfer the father took the boy, now aged 13, who both scored in Brasilia your music. Renato had a childhood and adolescence of the middle class. Between 15 and 17 years faced several operations, where three pins placed in the body and lived between bed and wheelchair, fighting a rare bone disease called epifisiolise.

At 78, inspired by Sex Pistols, Joy Division, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and other bands, Renato formed “Aborto Elétrico”, that the coming and going of members, featured appearances by Flavio has done and Lemos (after the Capital Inicial), Ico Ouro Preto and Andre Pretorius. In 82 abandoned by "Aborto Elétrico" fights with Fê Lemos became solo works. This period became known as "The Lone Troubadour." When the legendary "scene of Brasilia" was already a recognized underground force, Renato Russo created “Legião Urbana” with Marcelo Bonfa, Eduardo Paraná and Eduardo Paulista. A year later, Paraná and Paulista left the band and went Dado Villa-Lobos.

When Renato Rocha joined the band in 84, “Legião Urbana” had already presented several times in Brasilia, notably in the famous Flying Circus shows in Rio de Janeiro and Napalm in Sao Paulo. The success of his shows quickly led to a contract with EMI-Odeon. On the first day of the following year came the first album, “Legião Urbana”, which spawned the hits "Geração Coca-cola", "Ainda é cedo” and "Será".

With its powerful choruses and lyrics that spoke of emotional insecurities and nihilism generation grown during the military regime, “Legião Urbana” hit bottom in the aspirations of young Brazilians. The recipe was perfected in the next album, “Dois”, played better, better written and more elaborate. Successes like "Eduardo e Mônica" and "Quase sem querer" spoke a language that any young urban Brazilian 80s could understand and identify with.

Two consolidated Renato Russo as one of the biggest pop stars in the country. Already on tour this second album began appearing Renato Russo star: his shows included speeches preachers and a high consumption of drugs and alcohol.

In 1987 comes the third album, “Que país é esse”, generating hits like "Faroeste Cabloclo," a national tour and more crowded. In 89 out “Quatro Estações” that opens the band's more mature phase, both in sound and in lyrics, addressing issues such as AIDS and homosexuality. In “Meninos e Meninas", Renato suggests bisexuality. Soon after, a story Bizz magazine interview, Renato confirmed the fact.

"V", album released in 91, came loaded with a sadness that reflected the emotional and psychological instability experienced by Renato. The tour that followed had to be stopped due to his poor health.

“O Descobrimento do Brasil”, 93. After the album, Renato gave vent to his solo projects and released “The Stonewall Celebration Concert”, “Equilibrio distante”.

The first, sung in English. Renato then makes her hard to the more militant proud to be gay, to the sound of Broadway and Madonna covers. Stonewall is the name of a New York bar where a famous event in 69, gays rebelled against political action. Balance brings distant songs by Renato Italian music, one of the latest crazes singer.

Renato was HIV positive since 1989, but never publicly took the disease. Since the time of "Descobrimento do Brasil," Renato walked reclusive and aloof and avoided the press. The suspicions were confirmed on October 11, 1996 to her death from complications of AIDS, weighing only 45 pounds.

Adapted from http://www.casadobruxo.com.br/renato/biografia.htm
 Acessado em: 01/10/2012

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Miley Cyrus

Miley Ray Cyrus as she likes to be called as birth name is Destiny Hope Cyrus, was born on November 23, 1992, in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. American 19 years old is already an actress, singer, songwriter, fashion designer, author and dancer, began her acting career in 2003, but became world famous in 2006 when she played Miley Stewart / Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel series, Hannah Montana. In 2008, Miley was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the famous 100 highest paid in the world. As a singer, has sold over 20 million albums worldwide.

At age nine she became interested in acting, then began, acting classes at Armstrong Acting Studio, where her family lived in Toronto. Her first role was a small Kylie, on the television series Doc, which starred her father. In 2003, Cyrus was credited with her birth name for her role as "Young Ruthie" in the film Big Fish, Tim Burton.

At 12, Miley auditioned for the role of "best friend" in a Disney Channel show about a "secret pop star". Disney Channel executives judged her for being too young, but Cyrus persisted, resulting in a call for future hearings. She did then auditioned for the lead role, Zoe Stewart. When she won the role, the character's name was changed to Miley Stewart. According to the president of the channel, Gary Marsh, Cyrus won for its energy and its operations. She tried to lose her Southern accent, but Disney decided to include it in the story. Then Cyrus auditioned with her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, for the role of his father's character.

The Hannah Montana star has become popular among children and adolescents, leading it to a successful music career. Her musical debut took place on April 4, 2006, when it launched the fourth edition of Disney Mania. Cyrus did a cover of the song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" by James Baskett, the original animated film of 1946, Song of the South. On 24 October the same year, Walt Disney Records released the first album of Hannah Montana, was one of eight best-selling albums in the U.S. in 2006, selling nearly two million copies.

In July 2008, Cyrus released her second studio album, the first who had no connection with the character Hannah Montana, titled Breakout. At the time, she said Breakout was inspired by "what happened in her life last year." The album debuted at # 1 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., selling 371,000 in its first week copies. "7 Things" was the first single from this album. The single debuted at # 84 on the Billboard Hot 100. Two weeks after the launch, it jumped from # 70 to # 9.

In June 2009 Miley Cyrus began recording her movie, “The Last Song”, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, in which she plays a young rebel who will spend the summer with her father in a quiet seaside town. The film opened in several countries in 2010, was designed with the intention of introducing Cyrus to adult audiences.

Cyrus starred in The Last Song, which was released on March 31, 2010, and received several poor reviews, as well as the performance of Miley. However, the film was commercially successful, grossing over 88 million dollars in worldwide booffice. According to box-office analyst Exhibitor Relations, the film marked "a successful transition to adult roles for Miley Cyrus."

Cyrus's career has been full of controversies, which extend up to date. Under the spotlight from a young age, the attitudes of the singer and actress are observed and analyzed constantly by the media. In December 2007, a controversy began when Cyrus posted some pictures on her private MySpace account, which were leaked to the public. The photos showed the singer and a girlfriend sharing a sweet and almost kissing, which led to rumors on the Internet, generating rumors of lesbianism.

The performance of the Cyrus singing "Party in th USA" during the Teen Choice Awards 2009 also caused controversy, with some viewers criticizing provocative clothing used by the singer and the inclusion of a brief pole dance, inappropriate for their age (sixteen at the time) and for her young fans.

In early 2011, in an interview with GQ magazine, Miley's father, Billy Ray Cyrus said that the relationship with the family was badly affected because the Hannah Montanna serie. "Everything is falling apart and people just want to blame Miley for everything. [The serie] destroyed my family ... That drug program destroyed my family.It´s so sad." When asked if he was sorry that you let her enter the program, he replied: "I hate to say it, but yes, I am. Would have changed everything if I could. For my family to be well and all being well, happy and safe and seem normal It is .... I erase it all in a second if I could. "

Miley filmed two more films: LOLA and So Undercover in 2010. The first to debut in August 2012 and the second also with debut slated for the second half of 2012.

Having spent nearly a year away from the spotlight, Cyrus has confirmed that this time has passed and she is now back. Miley can release a new single in November 2012. In April, Miley began recording their fourth studio album, no release date scheduled.

Miley Cyrus announced her engagement with Liam Hemsworth in early June 2012. The actress and singer is focused on raising a family, which currently consists of five dogs.

Personal Profile Cornelia Funke

      The German author, Cornelia Funke was born 1958 in Dorsten, in the German region of Westphalia. As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut and/or a pilot, but then decided to study pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. After finishing her studies, Funke worked for three years as a social worker. During her social work she focused on working with children who came from deprived backgrounds.

      Following university, she worked for three years as a social worker in an educational project, working with children from difficult backgrounds. Following a post-graduate course in book illustration at the Hamburg State College of Design, she worked as a designer of board games and as an illustrator of children's books. Disappointment in the way some of the stories were told, combined with her desire to draw fabulous creatures and magical worlds, rather than familiar situations of school and home, she was inspired to write her own stories for young readers.

      During the late 1980s and the 1990s, Funke established herself in Germany with two children's series, namely the fantasy-oriented Gespensterjäger (Ghosthunters) and the Wilde Hühner (Wild Chicks) line of books. Funke has been called "the J. K. Rowling" of Germany; although she was highly successful in Germany, the first of her books to be translated into English was Herr der Diebe in 2002.[9] It was subsequently released as The Thief Lord by Scholastic and made it to the number 2 spot on The New York Times Best Seller list. The fantasy novel Dragon Rider (2004) stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 78 weeks. Following the success of The Thief Lord and Dragon Rider, her next novel was Inkheart(2003), which won the 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award. Inkheart was the first part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005), which won Funke her second BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006). The trilogy was concluded in Inkdeath (published in Germany in 2007, English version Spring 2008, American version Fall 2008).

           Funke also worked as a producer on the film adaptation of Inkheart.

          On her personal homepage, Funke states that the vital starting point for a good book is an "idea", and if that idea is worth it, to research on interesting topics which support the idea, and to search for appropriate places and characters. She said of ideas that "they come from everywhere and nowhere, from outside and inside. I have so many, I won't be able to write them down in one lifetime." The characters, Cornelia Funke elaborates, "Mostly they step into my writing room and are so much alive, that I ask myself, where did they come from. Of course, some of them are the result of hard thinking, adding characteristics, manners, etc., but others are alive from the first moment they appear", and pointed out that Dustfinger from "Inkheart" was one of the most vivid characters who ever popped into her mind. For aspiring authors, Funke says: "Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word."

        As a reader, Cornelia has always loved good fantasy, particularly British fantasy authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, C. S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia, and J. M Barrie's Peter Pan. Cornelia Funke's own success is now international, demonstrating the universal appeal – and power – of her storytelling.

       Cornelia Funke researches for each novel meticulously. For example, before writing Inkheart, she researched about booksellers, book collectors, book thieves and even book murderers as well as reading about martens and fire eaters. She then imagined the characters and the places they might go, writes down plot lines for the first 20 chapters. Then, and only then - after about six months – she writes the first sentence. A major novel will take her about a year to write. She always does her own sketches – in pen and ink (her grandfather was a famous etcher), she creates a picture of her own characters to help her write about them.

             She married printer Rolf Funke in 1981. They have two children, Anna (b. 1989) and Ben (b. 1994). Up until 2005 the Funke family lived in Hamburg, Germany, when they moved to Los Angeles. Sadly, in March 2006, Rolf died of cancer.

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COLBIE AND JASON INTERVIEW

Colbie Caillat

Colbie Maria Caillat is a singer and songwriter of North-America. Born in 28 of May 1985. Your first successful was in Myspace social network where she put some music, for example “Bubbly”

That leave her to get the album “Coco” the 5° place position on the Billboard. She is from Malibu but grow up Newbury Park, California. When she was eleven years old she start to sing professionally but play piano.

In 2010 she was indicate for the Gammy Awards with the song “Lucky” in the category  “Best vocal pop collaboration” in the case with Jason Mraz and won.

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Jason Mraz

Jason Mraz is one of the most famous pop music singer of the world. He was born in the state of Virginia in 23 of June 1977. Jason is not just a good. He is a songwriter and violin player too. In your musical’s influences there is reggae, rock, jazz, pop and folk music.

He had a lot of Grammy indications and he get be in the 50° Best Billboard’s albums. ”I’m Yours” can be considered your best ever song of your career. It was released in 2008 and today is played radio

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