Peter Moody (born 19 February 1976, is notable for his contribution to voice training. Moody has worked alongside high profile talent and lectured across the UK at major venues inc. The Royal Opera House, Edinburgh Highlands Centre . He has been a contributor to many UK TV shows inc. TRISHA GODDARD (ANGLIA, CHANNEL 5 and SHOWCASE TV (GRANADA). Moody's approach combines both 'Classical' and 'Modern' established vocal techniques to assist singers in their approach to contemporary music. He became thrust into the public eye after establishing the 'ten-minute challenge' where he made an audible improvement to a singing voice in ten minutes. Moody continues to lecture and teach across the UK.
Yorubeat is a fusion music of African and western styles. The word yorubeat is derived from the Yorubas of Nigeria. The drum pattern that is played in yorubeat music took its influence from both African and western drum patterns, with the strongest accent on the last beat rather than the first beat. The drum rhythms are mostly offbeat, the fusion of Yoruba music and western music styles such as pop, jazz, funk rhythms, and classical music fused with jùjú , apala, fuji, waka African percussion and African talking drums. The music was created and named yorubeat by Nigerian saxophonist Tunday Akintan in 2001 at Goldsmiths, University of London, when he studied pop and jazz music.
Origins of yorubeat
Yorubeat music is derived from music of many genres from Nigeria and western music such as jazz and pop.
Akintan started his music from the church, his family was a member of All Saint Anglican Church 6 Raimi Street, Off Oremula Street, Orile Agege, Lagos Nigeria. At the age of nine he started visiting Fela Kuti’s band rehearsals in Kalakuta Republic. His father sent him to London to study accountancy, but Akintan changed his mind and he started studying music at Goldsmiths university London. In 2001, Akintan collaborated with London-based musicians to create the style of what he called yorubeat in 2001. He started with a twelve piece band called the yorubeat band which went on touring round the United Kingdom and Europe. The yorubeat band consist of many music from different music styles. They released their first DVD called Genesis of Yorubeat: Live in London on 12 February 2007.
Characteristics of yorubeat
* The brass section starts the music before other music starts to create a counterpoint between singer and the rhythm section
* The yorubeat drum pattern is often the same all through the music
* The structure of improvisation are performed based on cue
* Performed mostly by a large group of musicians playing various instruments
* Energetic, exciting and with high tempo, polyrhythmic percussion
* The same musical movements are repeated many times
* Combination of various genres and musical influences
Origins of yorubeat
Yorubeat music is derived from music of many genres from Nigeria and western music such as jazz and pop.
Akintan started his music from the church, his family was a member of All Saint Anglican Church 6 Raimi Street, Off Oremula Street, Orile Agege, Lagos Nigeria. At the age of nine he started visiting Fela Kuti’s band rehearsals in Kalakuta Republic. His father sent him to London to study accountancy, but Akintan changed his mind and he started studying music at Goldsmiths university London. In 2001, Akintan collaborated with London-based musicians to create the style of what he called yorubeat in 2001. He started with a twelve piece band called the yorubeat band which went on touring round the United Kingdom and Europe. The yorubeat band consist of many music from different music styles. They released their first DVD called Genesis of Yorubeat: Live in London on 12 February 2007.
Characteristics of yorubeat
* The brass section starts the music before other music starts to create a counterpoint between singer and the rhythm section
* The yorubeat drum pattern is often the same all through the music
* The structure of improvisation are performed based on cue
* Performed mostly by a large group of musicians playing various instruments
* Energetic, exciting and with high tempo, polyrhythmic percussion
* The same musical movements are repeated many times
* Combination of various genres and musical influences
Vrillon, a representative of the purported extraterrestrial society, Ashtar Galactic Command, was the name used by an unidentified voice that was broadcast on the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom for six minutes at 5:10 PM on Saturday November 26, 1977. The strange incident attracted considerable publicity in the next day's Sunday newspapers, with the IBA immediately pronouncing that the broadcast was a hoax. It was the first time such a hoax transmission had been made.
The voice, which was disguised and accompanied by a deep buzzing, broke into the broadcast of the local ITV station Southern Television, over-riding the UHF audio signal of the early-evening news being read by Ivor Mills from ITN to warn viewers of "the destiny of your race" and "so that you may communicate to your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid a disaster which threatens your world and the beings on other worlds around you".
As the broadcast did not affect the video signal, it was difficult to detect its source, and the transmission disappeared at the end of what sounded like a prepared statement. Observers noted that the hoax could have been achieved by directing a powerful signal at the Hannington UHF transmitter. Hannington was unusual in being one of the few transmitters which received the signal it was broadcasting using radio frequency transmissions rather than a landline. The IBA stated that to carry out the hoax would take "a considerable amount of technical know-how".
At the end of the "rogue transmission", as the signal faded back, short bursts of the adverts playing after the news bulletin can be heard, then the Southern TV ident music, then a Looney Tunes cartoon, the Art Davis cartoon "The Goofy Gophers". The broadcast is presently a footnote in ufology and does not represent a particularly significant development in pirate television broadcasting, supplanted largely by the boom around 1984.
The voice, which was disguised and accompanied by a deep buzzing, broke into the broadcast of the local ITV station Southern Television, over-riding the UHF audio signal of the early-evening news being read by Ivor Mills from ITN to warn viewers of "the destiny of your race" and "so that you may communicate to your fellow beings the course you must take to avoid a disaster which threatens your world and the beings on other worlds around you".
As the broadcast did not affect the video signal, it was difficult to detect its source, and the transmission disappeared at the end of what sounded like a prepared statement. Observers noted that the hoax could have been achieved by directing a powerful signal at the Hannington UHF transmitter. Hannington was unusual in being one of the few transmitters which received the signal it was broadcasting using radio frequency transmissions rather than a landline. The IBA stated that to carry out the hoax would take "a considerable amount of technical know-how".
At the end of the "rogue transmission", as the signal faded back, short bursts of the adverts playing after the news bulletin can be heard, then the Southern TV ident music, then a Looney Tunes cartoon, the Art Davis cartoon "The Goofy Gophers". The broadcast is presently a footnote in ufology and does not represent a particularly significant development in pirate television broadcasting, supplanted largely by the boom around 1984.
Arjinderpal Singh "A.J." Sekhon, MD is a Punjab-born physician and Army Colonel who ran for Congress in in 2006.
He attended the Medical College in Amritsar, where he earned his medical degree. He also attended the Air University in 1979, and the University of Northern California, where he earned a Justice Degree.
He is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve's 36th Civil Affairs Brigade. He is one of only two bearded and turbaned Sikhs in U.S. Military. Sekhon has otherwise been self-employed as a medical doctor since 1979. He won the June 2006 Democratic primary to gain the nomination to run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, defeating Bill Falzett.
Sekhon opposes the Iraq War, and supports health care reform and environmental issues. Sekhon lost to Wally Herger in the November 2006 general election, garnering 33% to Herger's 64%.
Sekhon
currently lives in Yuba City, California.
Sekhon ran in the June 2008 Democratic primary to challenge Herger, against musician John Jacobson and Trinity County supervisor Jeff Morris. Sekhon was narrowly defeated by Morris, receiving about 34% of the vote, in an election that took weeks to resolve.
He attended the Medical College in Amritsar, where he earned his medical degree. He also attended the Air University in 1979, and the University of Northern California, where he earned a Justice Degree.
He is a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve's 36th Civil Affairs Brigade. He is one of only two bearded and turbaned Sikhs in U.S. Military. Sekhon has otherwise been self-employed as a medical doctor since 1979. He won the June 2006 Democratic primary to gain the nomination to run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, defeating Bill Falzett.
Sekhon opposes the Iraq War, and supports health care reform and environmental issues. Sekhon lost to Wally Herger in the November 2006 general election, garnering 33% to Herger's 64%.
Sekhon
currently lives in Yuba City, California.
Sekhon ran in the June 2008 Democratic primary to challenge Herger, against musician John Jacobson and Trinity County supervisor Jeff Morris. Sekhon was narrowly defeated by Morris, receiving about 34% of the vote, in an election that took weeks to resolve.