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Joyce "Baby Jean" Kennedy was born in Anguilla, MS, in 1948, and raised in Chicago. It's unclear how Andre Williams became her early mentor, but he produced nearly all her early sides on Ran Dee, Fontana, and Blue Rock Records. She notched a local hit with "Darling I Still Love You," which was co-written by Williams. Released in 1963, it received little airplay anywhere else. A second release on Ran Dee, "Can't Take a Chance," also failed to perform. Kennedy then appeared on Fontana Records with "Paddle My Own Canoe." With Williams still at the helm, she released "I'm a...

Joyce DiDonato (born February 13, 1969) is an American operatic coloratura mezzo-soprano particularly admired for her interpretations of the works of Handel, Mozart, and Rossini. She has performed with many of the world's leading opera companies and orchestras and in 2012 won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo. More on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_DiDonato Official website: http://www.joycedidonato.com/ Joyce DiDonato consistently earns ecstatic reviews wherever she sings. Among the world’s most charismatic performers, she is winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Beverly Sills Award, among many other honors. “The buoyant progress of DiDonato’s career has been one of the happiest opera events of...

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, still widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the modernist avant-garde movement in the twentieth century. He is best known for Ulysses (1922), a seminal work in which the episodes of Homer's sprawling epic The Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these, the stream-of-consciousness technique he pioneered and perfected. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and...

Joyce Irene Grenfell, OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English film and television actress, comedienne and singer-songwriter. Born in London, she was the daughter of architect Paul Phipps (the grandson of Charles Paul Phipps and a second cousin of Ruth Draper) and an eccentric American mother, Nora Langhorne, the daughter of Chiswell Langhorne, an American railroad millionaire. Nancy Astor, neé Nancy Witcher Langhorne, was her mother's sister. As such, Joyce Phipps grew up around money and privilege. She attended the Francis Holland School in Central London. Wanting to pursue a career in the theatre,...

Fiona Joyce has currently released four solo albums of her own songs: Behind Closed Doors (1991), This Eden (1994), Lifting The Veil (1997) & Sacred Space (2001). Several songs taken from these albums are included in a variety of compilation albums, such as Celtic Woman released through Valley Entertainment, and which includes tracks by Loreena McKennitt, Rita Connolly and others. Putumayo Records in New York have also featured three of Fiona's songs on their highly succesful compilations: Women of the World: Celtic, along with Mary Black, Maire Brennan (of Clannad), Maura O'Connell and others, A Celtic Collection along with Dougie...