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Carolyn Coppola, known as Googie, was an American jazz and pop singer-songwriter.She is best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the jazz rock band Air, her collaborations with Flora Purim, Hermeto Pascoal, David Matthews, Jeremy Steig, Lenny White, and her partner Tom Coppola, together with whom she released the album "Shine The Light Of Love".
Tom Coppola began working as a musician in Manhattan in the 1960s, where he met Carolyn Brooks (soon to become Googie Coppola) and Air was formed. Air's self-titled first album was released in 1971. Air's self-titled first album was released in 1971.
Tom and Googie Coppola were both influenced by jazz and fusion, including time signature changes. They answered an advert in The Village Voice placed by Moogy Klingman, who introduced them to Siegler and Rosengarden. The group rehearsed in Great Neck, Long Island, working on songs written by Googie.
This stock character is based on Harpagon in The Miser and on Ebenezer Scrooge, main character from A Christmas Carol. An old, miserly and wealthy boss who refuses to spend money and prefers to hoard it. "Miser" characters range from excessively thrifty, but otherwise benign types, to avaricious, cold-hearted types who are willing to harm others.
Coppola is the only child of film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola and Jacqui de la Fontaine. Her father died in a speed boating incident while her mother was pregnant with her. [ 2 ] The credits of the 1996 film Jack , directed by her grandfather Francis Ford Coppola , include the dedication "for Gia 'When you see a shooting star...'" (with her ...
The movie's lead character, Jack Skellington, the chief marketing officer (CMO) for a successful company decides that his success is boring and he wants the company to have a different business plan. Some have wondered which real-life company failure the movie is based on: Sergio Zyman's New Coke or Merck's launch and subsequent withdrawal of ...
Director Sofia Coppola has helmed a lot of films about young women finding their way in life, and it seems like she speaks from experience. After a marriage to fellow director Spike Jonze in her ...
They Came to a City is a 1944 British black-and-white film directed by Basil Dearden and starring John Clements, Googie Withers, Raymond Huntley, Renee Gadd and A. E. Matthews. [1] It was adapted from the 1943 play of the same title by J. B. Priestley , and is notable for including a cameo appearance by Priestley as himself.