Friday 26 October 2012
Tuesday 23 October 2012
Sunday 14 October 2012
Saturday 6 October 2012
Friday 5 October 2012
Elie Saab Spring 2013 – Paris Fashion Week.
Inspiration : “an artist, a photographer, a blogger or a philanthropist.”
Thursday 4 October 2012
Tuesday 2 October 2012
My Favourite Black ....Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she became a citizen of France in 1937. Fluent in both English and French, Baker became an international musical and political icon. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess".
Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, Zouzou, to integrate an American concert hall and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the unofficial leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II,and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French militaryhonor, the Croix de guerre.
and a soecial teate for those of you that want more here is the HBO movie of her life
My favourite Black....Ella Fitzgerald
It's Black history month so I'm just gonna have fun with it and feature my favourite influential black people....the first feature is the amazing singer Ella Fitzgerald.....
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz and song vocalist. With a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6), she was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
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