Daisy Lumini

Desy Lumini, best known as Daisy Lumini (18 August 1936 - 18 August 1993), was an Italian composer, singer and stage actress.

Born in Florence, at young age Lumini graduated in piano and composition, and began her career as a composer of soundtracks and songs; she later came to fame by participating in numerous Italian television shows.

Lumini, who spoke five languages fluently, during her career also toured in the United States (where she participated at The Perry Como Show and sang at Carnegie Hall), France and Germany. In the sixties, after a brief period in the cabaret, she devoted herself to the research and the diffusion of Tuscan folk music, recording many albums with the popular repertoire and put it on shows with the stage company of Beppe Chierici. After working in contemporary musical theater, in the eighties Lumini started a successful collaboration with Salvatore Sciarrino, winning the Prix Italia Award in 1985. In 1993, the day of her birthday, she killed herself with her husband Tino Schirinzi, struck by an incurable disease, by jumping from the viaduct under construction on the Bilancino dam near Barberino di Mugello.

Daisy

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Daisy Marie

Daisy Marie (born February 6, 1984) is a retired American pornographic actress,nude model and featured dancer.

Early life

Marie was born in Oregon and she moved to East Los Angeles, California when she was 3 years old.

Career

After starting out in bikini modeling, Marie began her career in pornography in 2002, a day after her 18th birthday. She has since appeared in over 400 adult movies, made various appearances on The Howard Stern Show, posed for various adult magazines (such as Chéri), and worked with photographers such as Suze Randall. Marie has also worked with Suze’s daughter Holly Randall for the mainstream sports brand Fantasy Fitness. A sports enthusiast, she has shared that she’s a “die-hard Laker fan” with AIP Daily.

She has also appeared in two music videos: in 2005, she appeared in the controversial 50 Cent music video "Disco Inferno", and, in 2007, she was one of the participants in the video for Nickelback's Rockstar.

Marie was one of the finalists on the second season of Playboy TV's reality competition show, Jenna's American Sex Star. She later hosted the Playboy TV series All Nite Party Girls.

Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy

Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (Italian: Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita, DL), commonly known simply as The Daisy (La Margherita), was a centristpolitical party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties: the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal. The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition, within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote.

The Daisy became a single party in February 2002. It was set up by former left-leaning Christian Democrats, centrists,social-liberals (former Liberals and former Republicans), as well as other left-wing politicians from the former Italian Socialist Party and Federation of the Greens.

On 14 October 2007 DL merged with the Democrats of the Left to form the Democratic Party (PD).

History

The idea of uniting the centrist components of The Olive Tree coalitions, which were divided in many parties, was discussed at least since 1996. In the 1996 general election there were actually two centrist lists within the Italian centre-left: the Populars for Prodi, including the Italian People's Party (PPI), Democratic Union (UD), the Italian Republican Party (PRI) and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), and that of Italian Renewal (RI), including the Italian Socialists (SI), which later merged into the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) in 1998, and the Segni Pact (PS). In 1998 splinters from the centre-right coalition formed the Democratic Union for the Republic (UDR), later transformed into Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR), in order to support the D'Alema I Cabinet. In 1999 splinters of PPI, UD and other groups formed The Democrats (Dem).