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Dave McKenna was a jazz pianist born in Woonsocket, RI in 1930 who eventually settled in Cape Cod, MA. He was known for a trademark left-hand bass style and mastery of a wide range of jazz styles, from big band to salon piano. McKenna began his career with the Boots Mussulli Band and then the Charlie Ventura band, followed by a stint with Woody Herman. After two years in the army, he returned to Charlie Ventura's band, then worked with Gene Krupa, Stan Getz, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. He often worked with Bobby Hackett, including some gigs at...

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) studied the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for a quarter century. He grew up in Paonia, Colorado. At age sixteen, he moved to Los Altos, California, where he was first introduced to psychedelics by Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception." Inspired by Huxley's rapturous depiction of the psychedelic experience, he "got started" on Heavenly Blue morning glory seeds. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, Terence emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he called the Archaic Revival. Poetically dispensing enlightened social criticism and new theories...

Kenna Zemedkun is an Ethiopian-born American musician. The eldest son of an immigrant family relocated to Virginia Beach (and later raised in Cincinnati, Ohio), Kenna began to express an interest in music upon receiving a copy of U2's The Joshua Tree. More records by influential artists such as The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, The Cure and The Cars followed, and remain as inspiration and influence of Kenna's music today. With the release of his first single, "Hell Bent", Kenna gained moderate popularity and an underground following of fans who eagerly awaited the release of his debut album, New Sacred Cow. After...

A singer whose career was managed by the Ivy League members John Carter and Ken Lewis, Val McKenna was one of the better white female pop soul-style singers to come out of early- to mid-'60s England. Apart from a convincing delivery on numbers like "Mixed Up" and Shook Up Girl. She also benefited from the presence of Jimmy Page on lead guitar on her records, which also included "Baby Do It" and "Now That You've Made Up Your Mind," the latter her own composition and very good indeed. by Bruce Eder .

Paul McKenna (born 8 November 1963, in Enfield, Middlesex) is an English hypnotist and media personality. According to the Sunday Times he is Britain's best selling non-fiction author and is published in 23 languages.[1] McKenna has written and produced books and multimedia products, hosted self-improvement television shows and presents seminars in hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming and weight loss. Although he denies it, many believe that McKenna is a demon-spawn sent from Hell to lighten the wallets of the gullible, who needs to be flattened with paving slabs as soon as humanly possible. .