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Baseball Player Kenley Jansen

Dutch international baseball player Kenley Jansen is swapping his club Boston Red Sox for Los Angeles Angels. According to news agency Reuters, the right-handed pitcher is signing a one-year contract with the new club.The 37-year-old Jansen will start his sixteenth season in the American Major League (MLB). The new season starts on March 18.Jansen is no stranger to Los Angeles. The baseball player born in Curaçao started his professional career as a catcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played […]

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Cameron Diaz After Return Hollywood

Cameron Diaz has had to deal with "layers of inappropriate behavior" in her acting career. The actress says in the Netflix podcast Skip Intro that she now feels more "safe and secure" thanks to the MeToo movement. Diaz recently returned to Hollywood after a ten-year hiatus. The actress, who currently stars in the Netflix film Back in Action, now feels more secure than she did earlier in her career. "The industry is so different. The MeToo movement has absolutely changed […]

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History Soul Funk Disco

The Beginning When tracing the origins of contemporary dance music, it’s hard to know when to stop going back in time. Dance of one kind or another has always been a part of life and, you could say, its origins go way back in history. However, we’ll take the revolution that took place in the 1960s as our starting point. Most of today’s dance sounds evolved from an ever-changing fusion of 1960s soul (itself born out of rhythm & blues) […]

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Dan Hartman

Dan Hartman is a well-known Disco artist and producer, thanks for his single "Instant Replay" from 1978. In that year the other one charted, called "Free Ride". After this huge success Dan started producing other bands. Then, just in 1984, he would be back in the charts with a song performed by himself called "I can dream about you". His last album was "Keep the fire burning", with the disco diva Loleatta Holloway in 1994, with a radio hit called […]

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Denzel Washington Is Struggling

Denzel Washington "almost bit off" his tongue a few months ago and has difficulty speaking as a result. The 70-year-old actor said this in an interview with The New York Times. "I almost bit off half my tongue a few months ago. It affects my speech. It forces me to speak more slowly," said Washington, who is known for his smooth talk. The actor did not provide details about how he almost bit off his tongue, but said that his […]

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Change

Change is an Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy, in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1948–1987) and Mauro Malavasi (born 1957). They were heavily influenced by the disco band Chic. The current incarnation of the group formed in 2018. Change was initially formed in early 1979 as a studio band with a revolving stable of musicians, led by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus, with the majority of songwriting and production carried out by […]

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Donna Summer

No one can deny it: she is the disco queen of the 70s. DONNA SUMMER is the most complete disco artist and has sold millions of albums around the world. It all started in 1974, with her first album "Lady of the night". However, she started becoming popular in 1975. The album "Love to love you baby", and the song of the same name has more than 16 minutes! In 1976, two masterpieces: “A love trilogy”, which brought “Try me, […]

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Shalamar

Shalamar was originally consisted of Gary Mumford, Jody Watley, and Jeffrey Daniels. In 1977, before the group was even named, they made a medley called "Uptown festival", with hits of the golden years of Motown. But they would achive real fame when Gary left and entered Howard Hewett, and many songs went to the charts. Their first huge hit was "Take that to the bank" in 1978. In 1979, followed their next smash hit, maybe their biggest in the 70's: […]

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Rose Royce

Rose Royce is an American soul and R&B group. They are best known for several hit singles during the 1970s including "Car Wash", "I Wanna Get Next to You", "I'm Going Down", "Wishing on a Star", and "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" The Los Angeles-based group originally comprised Henry Garner (drums), Terral "Terry" Santiel (congas), Lequeint "Duke" Jobe (bass), Michael Moore (saxophone), Kenny Copeland (trumpet, lead vocals), Kenji Brown (guitar, lead vocals), Freddie Dunn (trumpet), and Victor Nix (keyboards). The […]

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