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Taryn Southern (born July 16, 1985, Wichita, KS) was first introduced to the public in 2004 when she made American Idol season three's Top 50. She later went on to star in and executive produce DirecTV's first original series, Project MyWorld.
Born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Southern was extremely active in large-scale music theatre productions, starring in the pre-Broadway premieres of Jane Eyre and Violet. During her senior year of high school, she was offered the chance to host a regional teen talk show for The WB called Real ACTION, in which Southern discussed public awareness topics such as...
Boasting a love for music in all of its incarnations, Manning has been eager to explore the entirety of her music career. With an exceptional ear for music, DJ Taryn Manning has emerged as the club scene’s golden child. Manning has booked gigs including high profiled events such as the Rolling Stone Bacardi Event, House of Hype’s Sundance and Coachella parties, Rock The Vote Friends & Family Grammy Party, and Richard Bransons Rock The Casbah, to name a few. From swanky parties to New York Fashion Week and top premier clubs to gritty festivals, DJ Taryn Manning has worked along...
Władysław Szpilman (December 5, 1911 – July 6, 2000) was a Polish pianist, composer, and memoirist. He is best known as the protagonist of the Roman Polański film The Pianist, based on Szpilman's autobiographical book recounting how he survived the Holocaust.
Szpilman was born in Sosnowiec, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, to a Jewish family. After early piano lessons with his mother Esthera, he continued his piano studies in the early 1930s at the Warsaw Conservatory under Aleksander Michałowski and at the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) in Berlin under Artur Schnabel and Leonid Kreutzer. He also studied composition with...
