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Omar Akram is an Afghan-American producer, composer, and pianist. In 2013, he became the first Afghan-American to win a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album for his fourth studio album, Echoes of Love.[ 1] Omar’s most recent album release, Moments Of Beauty, was nominated for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant album at the Grammy Awards in ...
"Free as a Bird" is a single released in December 1995 by English rock band the Beatles. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon . In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon's murder , his then surviving bandmates Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr released a studio ...
Edward FitzGerald (poet) Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald[ a] (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer. His most famous poem is the first and best-known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s.
Brandon Wright (season 1) Dante (seasons 2–3) Renaldo (seasons 4–5) Omar Devone Little is a fictional character on the HBO crime drama series The Wire, portrayed by Michael K. Williams. He is a notorious Baltimore stick-up man, who frequently robs street-level drug dealers.
Omar Sharif[ a ] ( Arabic: عمر الشريفEgyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʕomɑɾ eʃʃɪˈɾiːf], born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub[ 1 ] [miˈʃel dɪˈmitɾi ʃælˈhuːb]; 10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015) was an Egyptian actor, generally regarded as one of his country's greatest male film stars. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] He began his career in ...
Calligraphic rendition of a ruba'i attributed to Omar Khayyam from Bodleian MS. Ouseley 140 (one of the sources of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam).. A rubāʿī (Classical Persian: رباعی, romanized: rubāʿī, from Arabic رباعيّ, rubāʿiyy, 'consisting of four, quadripartite, fourfold'; [a] plural: رباعيّات, rubāʿiyyāt) or chahārgāna (Classical Persian ...
Qais Akbar Omar (born November 18, 1982) is an Afghan-American writer. Omar is the author of A Fort of Nine Towers , an autobiography of his childhood in Afghanistan during the years of the civil war and the Taliban from 1992 to 2001.
Free as a Bird. Free as a Bird is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in October 1987, and their last album of new music for A&M Records . The album was a turn of direction of sorts, with most of the songs stepping back from their progressive rock sound, employing synthesised dance beats and rhythms.