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La Roux (/ l ɑː ˈ r uː / lah-ROO) are an English synth-pop act formed in 2008 by singer Elly Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid. The act's debut album La Roux (2009) was a critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy Award and producing hit singles such as "In for the Kill" and "Bulletproof".
Eleanor Virden Jackson Piel (September 22, 1920 – November 26, 2022) was an American civil rights lawyer. She entered civil rights law after United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara, a case where interned Japanese Americans were tried for declining to be drafted. She practiced law until she was in her early 90s.
[1] [3] She went on to release her debut album entitled Jungle Wave in 1987 on Columbia Records. Singer Maurice White also guested on the album. From the LP the 1988 single "Adventure" rose to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Academia also released another album, Global Conversations on Epic Records. [3] [2] [4] [5]
Jackson contracted polio at age two, which left her with a noticeable limp. In 1934, her father changed his surname to Scruse and renamed her Katherine Esther Scruse. [2] [3] As a child, Jackson aspired to become an actress or a country singer, but was dismayed to find no notable Black country stars. Her parents divorced when she was still a child.
According to MGM records, the film earned $280,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $275,000 in other markets, resulting in a loss of $154,000. [ 1 ] Shirley Jackson, the author of the novel on which Lizzie was based, was reportedly unimpressed with the screenplay, writing "I have read the screen play and it sounds a little like Ma and Pa Kettle , or ...
A Publishers Weekly review says: "The author/artist focuses on Eleanor's emotional life as a childhood ""ugly duckling"": ""From the beginning the baby was a disappointment to her mother,"" Cooney begins. The tale ends with Eleanor's years at Allenswood, the English boarding school whose gifted headmistress helped transform Eleanor into a ...
Doris Coley (August 2, 1941 – February 4, 2000) [1] [2] was an American musician, who was best known as a member (and occasional lead singer) of the Shirelles. Doris was the lead singer on their biggest hit, "Dedicated to the One I Love". [3] She initially left the group in 1968, but returned in 1975 after original lead singer, Shirley Owens ...
Eleanor McEvoy (born 22 January 1967) is an Irish singer-songwriter. [1] She composed the song "Only a Woman's Heart", title track of A Woman's Heart , the best-selling Irish album in Irish history. [ 2 ]