The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Communications,
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David Lee
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Overall Influence
David Clark Lee is an American television producer, director, and writer. Lee grew up in Claremont, California, and went to college at the University of Redlands. He co-wrote and co-produced The Jeffersons and Cheers with Peter Casey for, respectively, six and four years. He and Casey co-created Wings and Frasier alongside the late David Angell under the Grub Street Productions.
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Karen Brooks Hopkins
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Overall Influence
Karen Brooks Hopkins is the president emerita of Brooklyn Academy of Music, having served as its president from 1999 to 2015. Previously she was an adjunct professor for the Brooklyn College Program for Arts Administration. In the spring of 1995, Hopkins served as the executive producer of the Bergman Festival, which celebrated the life and work of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
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Paul Moravec
#116490
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Paul Moravec is an American composer and a University Professor at Adelphi University on Long Island, New York and also a member of the composition department of the Mannes School of Music . Already a prolific composer, he has been described as a "new tonalist." He is best known for his work Tempest Fantasy, which received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Among his compositions are two operas: The Letter and The Shining .
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Marika Gombitová
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Marika Gombitová is a Slovak singer-songwriter and musician. Once a member of Modus, Gombitová started to gain early acclaim as a former female vocalist of the group. Nevertheless, she gradually developed her public image as a solo artist, making own debut on short play in 1977. Subsequently, after topping the local music charts with "Študentská láska" , her debut set entitled Dievča do dažďa saw its eventual results on OPUS Records. The album's lead "Vyznanie", earned several music awards; most notably at the 4th Intervision Song Contest held in Poland . In years to come later, the love ant...
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José Bragança de Miranda
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
José Augusto Bragança de Miranda, born in Lisbon, 1953 is licentiate in sociology, with a Ph.D. in communication, is professor at the Communications Sciences Department of New University of Lisbon, lecturing in "Political Theory" and "Cultural Criticism."
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John Mayer
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Overall Influence
1930 - 2004 (74 years)
John Henry Basil Mayer was an Indian composer known primarily for his fusions of jazz with Indian music in the British-based group Indo-Jazz Fusions with the Jamaican-born saxophonist Joe Harriott. Mayer was born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India, to an Anglo-Indian father and Tamil mother. After studying with Phillipe Sandre in Calcutta and Melhi Mehta in Bombay, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Music in 1952, where he studied composition with Matyas Seiber, as well as comparative music and religion in eastern and western cultures.
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Cecilia Ballí
#131925
Overall Influence
1976 - Present (50 years)
Cecilia Ballí is an American journalist and anthropologist who writes about the borderlands of Texas, security and immigration. She is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, and has been published in Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Magazine as an independent journalist. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1998 to 2000 was a staff writer at the San Antonio Express-News.
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James Hill
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Overall Influence
1919 - 1994 (75 years)
James Hill was a British film and television director, screenwriter and producer whose career spanned 52 years between 1937 and 1989, best remembered for his documentaries and short subjects such as Giuseppina and The Home-Made Car, and as director of the internationally acclaimed Born Free.
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Adria Bernardi
#167950
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Adria Bernardi is an American novelist and translator. Awards 2014 Independent Publisher Book Bronze Award, essay/creative nonfiction, Dead Meander Kore Press, 2012.2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship2009 “If looking up to God you find any way that’s pervious,” Margie: The American Journal of Poetry. First place. Lucia Perillo judge2008 Recommended Book Award, The Boston Authors Club, Openwork2007 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award2002 Worcester Cultural Commission, Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize recipient, selected by Frank Conroy19...
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Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch
#119447
Overall Influence
1933 - 2018 (85 years)
Ingedore Grünfeld Villaça Koch was a Brazilian linguist known for her work on text linguistics. She was a professor at the University of Campinas for almost three decades and an emerita researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Koch is considered "one of the most respected figures of Brazilian linguistics" and her works are viewed as fundamental to the development of text linguistics in Brazil. She was one of the founders of the Latin American Association of Discourse Studies.
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Susan Milan
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Susan Milan is an English professor of flute of the Royal College of Music, classical performer, recording artiste, composer, author and entrepreneur. Biography Susan Milan was born in London, the daughter of civil servants. Between 1958 and 1963, she became a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music. During 1960 to 1966, she was a member of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra. From 1963 to 1967, she was a scholar of the Royal College of Music, graduating with honours, where she became a professor of Flute in 1984. From 1966 to 1972, she attended Marcel Moyse master classes in Bo...
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S. Frederick Starr
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Stephen Frederick Starr is an American expert on Russian and Eurasian affairs, a musician, and a former president of Oberlin College. Founder and chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, he is fluent in Russian and is the author or editor of 20 books and more than 200 articles on Russian and Eurasian affairs. Starr's expertise is in Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Russia, and the rest of the former Soviet Union. He focuses on developing nations, energy and environment issues, Islamic faith, culture and law, and oil politics.
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Mary Ann Feldman
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Overall Influence
1933 - 2019 (86 years)
Mary Ann Feldman was an American music critic. Born Mary Ann Janisch in St. Paul, Minnesota, Feldman grew up in the Frogtown neighborhood of the city. Her parents were the proprietors of a small restaurant there. She was educated at the University of Minnesota, where she studied journalism and music history and received a BA in 1954. While there she wrote music reviews for the Minnesota Daily under the pseudonym "V. I. Olin". In 1957 she completed her MA in musicology at Columbia University, which she had chosen for the opportunity to study with Paul Henry Lang. In 1983 she received a Ph.D. f...
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Arthur Blythe
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Overall Influence
1940 - 2017 (77 years)
Arthur Murray Blythe was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was described by critic Chris Kelsey as displaying "one of the most easily recognizable alto sax sounds in jazz, big and round, with a fast, wide vibrato and an aggressive, precise manner of phrasing" and furthermore as straddling the avant garde and traditionalist jazz, often with bands featuring unusual instrumentation.
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Sally McConnell-Ginet
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Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University. She is known for her work on the language of gender and sexuality. Education and career McConnell-Ginet earned degrees in philosophy and mathematics before turning to linguistics, receiving a PhD from the University of Rochester in 1973. She joined the faculty of Cornell University in 1973, with a dual appointment in women's studies and philosophy. She went on to serve as director of Women's Studies and founding co-director of Cognitive Studies, and chair of Modern Languages and Linguistics, as well as the later ...
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Benjamin Lees
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Overall Influence
1924 - 2010 (86 years)
Benjamin Lees was an American composer of classical music. Early life Lees was born Benjamin George Lisniansky in Harbin, Manchuria, of Russian-Jewish descent. Lees was still an infant when his family emigrated to the United States and settled in California. He began piano lessons at 5 with Kiva Ihil Rodetsky of San Francisco. When he was seven years old, he became an American citizen. In 1939, he moved with his family to Los Angeles and continued studies in piano with Marguerite Bitter. In his early teens, he studied harmony and theory and began to compose.
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Eliot Fisk
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
Eliot Hamilton Fisk is an American classical guitarist. Music career Education and teaching Fisk was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia. He finished high school in DeWitt, New York, and then studied music at Yale University with harpsichordists Ralph Kirkpatrick and Albert Fuller. He received both B.A. and M.S. degrees, and in 1977 started Yale's guitar department. He was a student of guitarists Oscar Ghiglia, Alirio Díaz, and Andrés Segovia. He received private lessons from Segovia over the years and was his last private student. Segovia became his mentor and one of his biggest admi...
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Vladimir Tarnopolsky
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
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Margaret Rose Vendryes
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Margaret Rose Vendryes was a visual artist, curator, and art historian based in New York. Early life and education Vendryes was born on March 16, 1955, in Kingston, Jamaica. She began her studies in costume design before moving to fine art and earning a Bachelor's degree at Amherst College, graduating in 1984. She went on to earn her MA in Art History in 1992 from Tulane University and her PhD from Princeton University in 1997 where she focused on African American art history and was the first Black woman to earn a PhD in art history from Princeton.
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Bobby Eli
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Bobby Eli was an American musician, arranger, composer and record producer from Philadelphia. He was a founding member and lead guitarist of Philadelphia studio band MFSB. Overview Bobby Eli was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 2, 1946. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, songwriter and arranger, Eli's contributions can be heard on recordings by many artists, including Teddy Pendergrass, The Jacksons, Chris Brown, David Bowie, Jay-Z, Hall and Oates, Patti LaBelle, Elton John, Phyllis Hyman, B.B. King, Billy Paul, Wilson Pickett, George Clinton, The Spinners, The Temptations, The Stylistics, The Trammps, Curtis Mayfield, The Sapphires and Shaggy.
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André Gertler
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Overall Influence
1907 - 1998 (91 years)
André Gertler was a Hungarian classical violinist and teacher. Professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels , Professor at the Cologne Academy of Music , Professor at the College of Music in Hannover , founder and leader of the Gertler Quartet.
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Neill Borowski
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Overall Influence
1901 - Present (125 years)
Neill A. Borowski is an American journalist, and executive editor of Gannett's Central New York Media Group. He was executive editor of The Press of Atlantic City. from 2009 to 2013 when he joined the CNY Media Group. He won the 1994 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, with Gilbert M. Gaul. He was a Pulitzer finalist. The Central NY Media Group includes three daily newspapers and websites: the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, the Star-Gazette in Elmira and The Ithaca Journal.
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Rafael Marín
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Overall Influence
1959 - Present (67 years)
Rafael Marín Trechera is a Spanish novelist, translator, comic book writer and co-plotter. He is best known in the United States for his work with artist Carlos Pacheco on the Fantastic Four Vol.3 title in 2000 and 2001, and The Inhumans with José Ladronn and Jorge Lucas. For the Spanish market he wrote the mini-series Iberia Inc and Triada Vértice, as well as the 12-issue historical graphic novels, still in process, 12 del Doce. He is also a well-known scholar on comics history.
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Angelica Domröse
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Angelica Domröse is a German actress, who became famous in the role of Paula in Heiner Carow's film The Legend of Paul and Paula. Her biological father was a prisoner of war from France. Life After training as a shorthand typist Domröse worked in a state-run foreign trade enterprise in East Germany. In 1958 she was discovered by the director Slatan Dudow and in 1961 attended the film university Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1966 she joined the Berliner Ensemble, where among other things she performed in Brecht's Dreigroschenoper, Schwejk im zweiten Weltkrieg and Die Tage der Commune, as well as in Helmut Baierl's Frau Flinz.
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Renate Bartsch
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Renate Irmtraut Bartsch is a German philosopher of language. She was a professor at the University of Amsterdam between 1974 and 2004. Career Bartsch was born on 12 December 1939 in Königsberg. She earned her Doctor title at Heidelberg University in 1967 with a thesis titled: "Grundzüge einer empiristischen Bedeutungstheorie". Bartsch worked as professor of philosophy of language at the University of Amsterdam from 1974 until she retired in 2004.
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Peter Briggs
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Overall Influence
1970 - Present (56 years)
Peter Briggs is an English cinematographer, screenwriter and television writer. Although he has worked in the motion picture industry for more than 20 years, he is best known for the film Hellboy. His films draw heavily on sources as diverse as weird fiction, fantasy, and war.
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James Young
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
James Edward Young is a British musician and writer. Young grew up in Oldham, Lancashire and began learning piano at the age of 7. He studied Art History briefly at the University of East Anglia before moving to Oxford to study at the Polytechnic and in 1982 was accepted as an MPhil student at Oxford University. This period coincided with his meeting Nico and Young took the decision to work with her instead of continuing with academic life. Young toured and recorded as keyboard player and arranger with the group Faction until Nico's death in 1988. Since then Young has written books, recor...
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Leon Bibb
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Overall Influence
1922 - 2015 (93 years)
Leon Bibb was an American-Canadian folk singer and actor who grew up in Kentucky, studied voice in New York City, and worked on Broadway. His career began when he became a featured soloist of the Louisville Municipal College glee club as a student. He lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, after 1969.
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Henri Lazarof
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Overall Influence
1932 - 2013 (81 years)
Henri Lazarof was a Bulgarian-American composer. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, his formal musical training began in Israel under Paul Ben-Haim. After a short stint in Rome, Lazarof settled in the United States, studying with Harold Shapero and Arthur Berger at Brandeis University. After earning a master's degree in 1959, Lazarof began teaching composition at UCLA and was active in promoting the music of his contemporaries. In 1987 he was given the title Professor Emeritus at UCLA. He died of Alzheimer's Disease in Los Angeles on December 29, 2013.
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John Davis
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Overall Influence
1954 - Present (72 years)
John Andrew Davis is an American film producer and founder of Davis Entertainment. Background Davis was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He is the son of Barbara Davis , a philanthropist, and former 20th Century Fox owner and oil and media industrialist Marvin Davis . His interest in cinema began as a youth when his father purchased the neighborhood film theater, where he sold popcorn and subsequently viewed up to 300 films a year. Davis graduated from Bowdoin College, attended Amherst College, and received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Davis is of Jewish descent.
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Andrew Imbrie
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1921 - 2007 (86 years)
Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist. Career Imbrie was born in New York City and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study composition briefly with Nadia Boulanger and piano with Robert Casadesus. He returned to the United States the next year to attend Princeton University where he studied with Roger Sessions, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1942. His senior thesis there, a string quartet, was recorded by the Juilliard Quartet. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army as a Japanese translator.
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Rolf Gehlhaar
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Overall Influence
1943 - 2019 (76 years)
Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar was an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music. Life Born in Breslau, Gehlhaar was the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico. Although he took an interest in music from the age of eight or younger, in the post-war years the family could not afford for him to learn an instrument, and so Rolf only began to play the piano at the age of fifteen, and at about the same time began to compose for fun.
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Jimmy Raney
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Overall Influence
1927 - 1995 (68 years)
James Elbert Raney was an American jazz guitarist, born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, known for his work from 1951 to 1952 and then from 1953 to 1954 with the Red Norvo trio and, during the same time period, with Stan Getz. In 1954 and 1955, he won the DownBeat Critics' Poll for guitar. Raney worked in a variety of jazz mediums, including cool jazz, bebop, post bop, hard bop, and mainstream jazz.
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Copper Giloth
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Overall Influence
Copper Giloth is a new media artist based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Giloth's work involves digital media, mobile art, virtual environments, animations, videos, painting, and installations, and have been influenced by elements of her life such as her parents. She, along with Darcy Gerbarg, helped organize art exhibitions that showed alongside the SIGGRAPH conference, marking the exhibitions as the first to be shown at the conference. Giloth has been described as "one of the leading exponents of computer art".
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Bob Berg
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Overall Influence
1951 - 2002 (51 years)
Robert Berg was an American jazz saxophonist. Biography Berg was born in Brooklyn, New York. Berg started his musical education at the age of six when he began studying classical piano. He began playing the saxophone at the age of thirteen. He studied at the High School of Performing Arts and Juilliard before leaving school to tour. Berg was influenced by the late 1964–1967 period of John Coltrane's music.
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Mike Nock
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
Michael Anthony Nock is a New Zealand jazz pianist, currently based in Australia. Biography He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. Nock began studying piano at 11. He attended Nelson College for one term in 1955. By the age of 18, he was performing in Australia. In Sydney he played in The Three Out trio with Freddy Logan and Chris Karan who toured England in 1961 before Nock left to attend Berklee College of Music. He was a member of Yusef Lateef's group from 1963 to 1965.
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Ian Carr
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Overall Influence
Ian Carr is an English guitarist and record producer from Cumbria, who has performed with Swåp and The Kate Rusby Band. He learned to play mouth organ at the age of three before going on to learn piano, piano accordion and rock guitar at the age of 13, since when he has developed his highly original style of accompaniment. He cites one of his many influences as Peerie Willie Johnson.
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Michael Joncas
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Jan Michael Joncas is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, liturgical theologian, and composer of contemporary Catholic music best known for his hymn "On Eagle's Wings".
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István Kecskés
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
István Kecskés is a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York, USA. He teaches graduate courses in pragmatics, second language acquisition and bilingualism at SUNY, Albany. He is the President of the American Pragmatics Association and the CASLAR Association. He is the founder and co-director of the Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism , and the founder and co-director of Sorbonne, Paris – SUNY, Albany Graduate Student Symposium .
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Craig Abaya
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Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Craig Abaya is an American multi-artist who served as director of Digital Media & Entertainment Programs for San Francisco State University Extended Learning from 2000 to 2015. Early life Abaya is a native of San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood. He became involved in music during childhood, taking up the piano at age six, the drums at age eleven, and the guitar at age twelve. He became involved in film and photography at the age of nine.
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Eyran Katsenelenbogen
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Eyran Katsenelenbogen is an American jazz pianist. Background Katsenelenbogen was born in 1965 and was first taught by Aida Barenboim, mother and teacher of pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim. He went on to complete his music education at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he trained with Ran Blake, Paul Bley, Fred Hersch, Danilo Pérez, George Russell and Gunther Schuller.
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Thecla Schiphorst
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Thecla Schiphorst is a Canadian digital media artist and academic. Work Schiphorst was a founding developer of the dance and choreography software Lifeforms, alongside Tom Calvert. Using LifeForms, she collaborated over along period with the American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.
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Richard Cross
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Overall Influence
1935 - Present (91 years)
Richard Cross is an American bass-baritone who had an active international opera career from the late 1950s through the 1990s. Possessing a rich and warm voice, Cross sang a broad repertoire that encompassed works from a wide variety of musical periods and styles. He currently teaches on the voice faculties of the Yale School of Music, the Juilliard School, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Adam Phillips
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Overall Influence
Adam Phillips is a British guitarist. Career Phillips has performed and recorded with Tina Turner, Dave Lewis, Ricky Martin, Steps, Britney Spears, Ronan Keating, Laura Pausini, Celine Dion, Maxi Priest, The Corrs, Shayne Ward, Boyzone, Hamish Stuart, Lionel Richie, Renato Zero, Tom Robinson, Whitney Houston, Richard Ashcroft and Tony O'Malley.
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John Wyre
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2006 (65 years)
John Harvey Wyre was a U.S.-born Canadian percussionist, composer, and music educator. He worked as percussionist with a number of important orchestras in North America, notably serving for many years as the principal timpanist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He was a founding member of the percussion ensemble Nexus, with which he performed for over 30 years. He was also Artistic Director of World Drums with whom he organized and directed performances at several major international events. His music compositions have been performed by ensembles throughout the world, including the New York ...
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Alice Faye
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Overall Influence
1915 - 1998 (83 years)
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer. A musical star of 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s and 1940s, Faye starred in such films as On the Avenue and Alexander's Ragtime Band . She is often associated with the Academy Award–winning standard "You'll Never Know", which she introduced in the 1943 musical film Hello, Frisco, Hello.
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Steve Roach
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Overall Influence
1955 - Present (71 years)
Steve Roach is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space. His work has been influential in the trance and new-age genres.
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Alex Graves
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Overall Influence
1965 - Present (61 years)
Alexander John Graves is an American film director, television director, television producer and screenwriter. Early life Alex Graves was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His father, William Graves, was a reporter for The Kansas City Star and his mother, Alexandra "Sandy" Graves, worked for United States Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas. His family moved to his father's home town of El Dorado, Kansas when he was young, when his father became a partner in the family drug store business. He graduated from El Dorado High School in 1983. Graves attended University of Kansas and the University of S...
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Ray Anderson
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Overall Influence
1952 - Present (74 years)
Ray Anderson is an American jazz trombonist. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as someone who pushes the limits of the instrument, including performing on alto trombone and slide trumpet. He is a colleague of trombonist George E. Lewis. Anderson also plays sousaphone and sings. He was frequently chosen in DownBeat magazine's Critics Poll as best trombonist throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Christiane Lemke
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Christiane Lemke is a German politician and professor of political science. She holds the chair in international relations and European studies at Leibniz University Hannover. In 1991–1992, she was a Visiting Krupp Chair in the department of government at Harvard University and from 2010 to 2014 she held the Max Weber Chair at New York University. She is currently also a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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