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2016/04/27
2016/04/14
Biography: Mikel Laboa, by Txaro Bolinaga
Mikel Laboa
was born on 15th June 1934 in Donostia, Gipuzkoa.
He was one of
the most important songwriters in Basque language of the XX. Century, he was
considered the patriarch of Basque music. And his music has influenced young
people.
In the 1950s
he studied medicine and psychiatry in Pamplona-Iruña. During his student years
he became interested in music and he always balances his artistic career with his
medical career.
Laboa would
identify himself as a “political artist” and he play music for the first time
in Gayarre theatre in Pamplona in 1958.
He worked as a doctor in the unit of
child neuropsychiatry of the Patronato San Miguel in Donostia.
During the
1960s he, with other Basque artist, founded the cultural group “Ez dok Amairu. They
dedicated their focus on the revival and social status of the Basque language.
Laboa´s music can be described as a
combination of tradition, poetry and experimentalism, with a strong personal
touch and unique voice.
One of his
most well-known song, “Txoriak txori”, has been sung by other famous singers.
Laboa was
creative force for 35 years, continuing well into his old age, until his
fragile health kept him away from the stage.
Mikel Laboa died on 1 December 2008 at
the hospital in Donostia-San Sebastian at the age of 74.
In 2009, the gipuzkoan town of Usurbil dedicated a square and one of the squares in the
Leioa campus also has his name.
My favourite song is Bi Kate
2016/04/07
Biography: Audrey Hepburn, by Mirari Guridi
Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4,
1929 in Brussels, Belgium. Her mother, Ella van Heemstra, was a Dutch baroness,
and her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston, was born in Úzice, Bohemia. After
her parents divorced, Audrey went to London with her mother where she went to a
private girl’s school. While she was on holiday with her mother in Arnhem,
Netherlands, Hitler's army took over the city. Audrey suffered malnutrition
After the liberation, she went to a ballet school in
London and later began a modelling career. In 1953 make the role in the film of
“ Rome vacations” (1957)”. This film
turned out to be a smashing success, and she won an Oscar as Best Actress.
On 25 September 1954, she married in Bürgenstock (Switzerland)
while she was preparing to record together in the film “War and Peace (1955)”. Hepburn had two children, Sean, with Mel Ferrer, born on 17 July of
1960 and Luca, with Andrea Dotti,
born on 8 February of 1970.
In 1988, Audrey became a special ambassador to the
United Nations UNICEF fund helping children in Latin America and Africa, a
position she retained until 1993. After returning from Somalia in 1992 Audrey
Hepburn developed cancer of the colon. The disease proved to be untreatable in
January 1993 she died in Switzerland at the aged of 63.
2016/03/02
2016/02/18
BIOGRAPHY: Amelia Mary Earth, by Pili Azkarateazkazua
Amelia was an American aviator who disappeared in the Pacific Ocean, famous for being the first woman to fly around the world.
She was born in Atchison, Kansas, on 24th July 1897.
She received her first flying lesson from Neta Suak, another pioneering pilot. In 1922 she got her first record, flying at 14,000 feet and in 1923 she obtained a pilot's license.
In 1935 she began to plan a trip around the world.
What happened to Amelia is an unsolved mystery. Although there are three theories of what happened:
The first theory says that In 1939 there was a plane crash on the island of Nikumaro in the Pacific Ocean with two survivors, a man and a woman that fit with the descriptions of Amelia and her co-driver.
The second theory says that Amelia crashed near her destination, in Howland island. And the third theory says that they didn’t find Howland island and they went to Marshall islands, at that time occupied by the Japanese. There they were accused of being American spies.
Other theory says that they didn’t find Howland island and returned to the US with false names.
The official US version is that the plane ran out of fuel and crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
Pili Azkarateazkazua
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