Ezra Koenig
Ezra Michael Koenig (born April 8, 1984) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Vampire Weekend.
Early life
Koenig was born in New York City, and was the son of Bobby Bass, a psychotherapist, and Robin Koenig, a set dresser on film and TV productions. His parents lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan before moving to Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His family is Jewish, and came to the U.S. from Europe (including Romania and Hungary). He grew up in Northern New Jersey and attended Glen Ridge High School. Ezra has a younger sister, Emma Koenig, who is the author of the blog and book "FUCK! i'm in my twenties" and a writer on the ABC-TV comedy, Manhattan Love Story. Ezra began writing music around the age of ten, and his first song ever was titled "Bad Birthday Party." Koenig attended Columbia University, where he majored in English literature.
After graduating he taught English through Teach for America at Junior High School 258 in Brooklyn, New York. Students recalled Koenig bringing his guitar with him to class despite him trying to hide it and his music career. He was described as a "laid-back" teacher who successfully made bonds with his students. In the fall of 2007, a deal with XL Recordings cut short Koenig's teaching career.
Get Ready! (2 Unlimited album)
Get Ready! is the first studio album by 2 Unlimited, a Eurodance project founded in 1991 by Belgian producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde and fronted by Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and Dutch vocalist Anita Doth.
Release and reception
The exclamation mark was dropped for the US and UK releases of Get Ready!
The album reached #12 in the Netherlands and #37 in the UK.
Despite the moderate chart success, 2 Unlimited was one of the few Dutch bands to gain access to the difficult American market. Although peaking at just #197 on the Billboard 200, the album still proved consistent in sales, eventually going Gold for sales in excess of 500,000.
Content
The original album is divided in three parts: Vocal, Instrumental and Romantic. The US and UK versions of the album deleted most of the instrumental tracks in favor of two extended versions of the main singles. The US and Canadian versions of Get Ready! contained the track "Pacific Walk" which was omitted from the European releases.
Get Ready
Get Ready may refer to:
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Get Ready (Mase song)
"Get Ready" was the only single released from Mase's second album, Double Up. It was released on May 25, 1999, produced by Sean "Puffy" Combs, Teddy Riley and Andreao "Fanatic" Heard" and featured R&B group, Blackstreet, it contains a sample of "A Night to Remember", performed by Shalamar.
"Get Ready" was Mase's poorest performing single, due in large part to the fact that the rapper retired from music before the song's official release and did not promote or perform the song publicly. It failed to match the success as his previous three singles, only making it to 25 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (125 on the U.S. Charts) and #50 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.
Single track listing
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Ezra
Ezra (/ˈɛzrə/; Hebrew: עזרא, Ezra; fl. 480–440 BC), also called Ezra the Scribe (עזרא הסופר, Ezra ha-Sofer) and Ezra the Priest in the Book of Ezra, was a Jewish scribe and a priest. According to the Hebrew Bible he returned from the Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem (Ezra 7–10 and Neh 8). According to 1 Esdras, a Greek translation of the Book of Ezra still in use in Eastern Orthodoxy, he was also a high priest.
Several traditions have developed over his place of burial. One tradition says that he is buried in al-Uzayr near Basra (Iraq), while another tradition alleges that he is buried in Tadif near Aleppo, in northern Syria.
His name may be an abbreviation of עזריהו Azaryahu, "God-helps". In the Greek Septuagint the name is rendered Ésdrās (Ἔσδρας), from which the Latin name Esdras comes.
The Book of Ezra describes how he led a group of Judean exiles living in Babylon to their home city of Jerusalem (Ezra 8.2-14) where he is said to have enforced observance of the Torah. He was described as exhorting the Israeli people to be sure to follow the Torah Law so as not to intermarry with people of particular different religions (and ethnicities), a set of commandments described in the Pentateuch.
Uzair
Uzayr - most often identified with the Judeo-Christian Ezra (عزير, 'Uzair) - is a figure mentioned in the Qur'an, in the verse 9:30, which states that he was revered by the Jews as "the son of God". Jews do not agree on that statement. Historically, Muslim scholars have interpreted this verse as referring to a small group of Jews making such a reverence.
Ezra lived between the times of King Solomon and the time of Zachariah, father of John the Baptist. Although not explicitly mentioned in the Quran among the prophets, Ezra is considered as one by some Muslim scholars, based on Islamic traditions. On the other hand, Muslim scholars such as Mutahhar al-Maqdisi and Djuwayni and notably Ibn Hazm and al-Samaw'al accused Ezra (or one of his disciples) of falsification of the Torah. Several sources state that the Qur'an refers to Jews who began to call Ezra a "son of God" due to his religious achievements.
Gordon Darnell Newby states it may due to misunderstanding of Ezra's position in the Jewish faith as a Bene Elohim. Other Western scholars, relying on exegetical material from Ibn Abbas and Ibn Qutaybah, consider Uzair not to be Ezra but Azariah, mentioned in the Book of Daniel as Abednego.
Ezra (disambiguation)
Ezra is a male biblical name derived from Hebrew (עזרא) and must not be confused with the Turkish female name Esra. In a biblical context, Ezra refers to:
Ezra may also refer to:
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Ezra Koenig
ALBUMS
- Ministry of Sound: The Annual 2015 released: 2014
- Wonder Where We Land released: 2014
- The Junior Mint released: 2014
- White Women released: 2014
- The Moon Song released: 2014
- Nova Tunes 2.8 released: 2013
- Nova Tunes 2.8 released: 2013
- Free the Universe released: 2013
- Now Hear This! The Independent Music Awards 9th Annual Winners released: 2010
- NovaTunes 2.1 released: 2010
- Warm Heart of Africa released: 2009
- LP released: 2009
- I Could Be Wrong released:
Ministry of Sound: The Annual 2015
Released 2014- I'm Not The Only One (Armand Van Helden Remix edit)
- Lionhearted (Arty Remix)
- Virus (How About Now)
- Prayer In C (Stefan Dabruck Remix)
- Freaks
- Koala
- No Heroes
- Lovers On The Sun (Showtek Remix)
- Heart Weighs A Ton (Laidback Luke Remix)
- Back In Time
- Outlines
- Take Me Over
- Sleepless (A-Trak Remix)
- Won't Look Back
- Can't Stop Playing (Oliver Heldens & Gregor Salto Remix)
- HEX
- Pick Up The Pieces
- Through The Night (Chris Lake Remix)
- Soundwave
- Everybody Together
- Wasted Love
- Seeya
Now Hear This! The Independent Music Awards 9th Annual Winners
Released 2010- All the Pretty Girls
- Warm Heart of Africa
- My .45
- All Babes Are Wolves
- Until We Meet Again
- Yekeke
- Burgundy Red
- You, Me and the Bourgeoisie
- 100mph
- The Life You Save May Be Your Own
- La Media
- Calling All Crows
- Ads for Feelings
- Beautiful Freak
- 4newk
- My Block
- Two Weeks
- Follow Me
- A Long Way From Home
- Righteous People
- Becoming Blue
- Hornet's Nest Blues
- Allegro Garotte
- Frog Song
- Drag n Fly
- My Career as a Ghost
- Relaxed Groove
- Little Sister
- Locked In
- Melodies
- Berlin
- We Here
- Coast to Coast
- Superhero
- Anything but Fail
- Ffoles Llantrisant
- Unforgiven
- Death
- Palm Reader Blues
- Spin
- Mi Salsa Vocal
- Troubles Won't Last
- Glorify
- Platone
- Walking in the Faith
- Thoughts Are Us
- I'm Me!
- Throw Your Hands Up
- Umbrella
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by Swizzle Tree
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by Blue
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by Mae
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by Rare Earth
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by Amy Winehouse
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by Get Ready
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by Los Pericos
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by Anastacia
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by L.G. Wise
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by Anti-nowhere League
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by Twiztid
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by Supremes
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by A Knight's Tale soundtrack
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by Danny Gokey
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by Anointed
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by Earth Rare
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by The Anti-Nowhere League
Get Ready
by: Eric Claptonby Eric Clapton and Yvonne Elliman
Ready, get ready. Ready.
He's a man who's going to break your heart.
Ready, get ready. Ready.
He's a man who's going to break your heart.
Well, you've been fooling 'round and I don't know why.
Left me on my own, sitting high and dry.
But I'm going to get you back, just you wait and see;
You can't do those things that you're doing to me.
Chorus
I've never needed a running 'round pissing hound,
Checking out the bitches in heat.
You've got a lot of nerve, dishing out what you serve,
Waggling your piece of meat.
Chorus
I want to get revenge on your sinful sins.
I got to get you back for what you did back then.
And now you've got it back, life is misery.
Well, ha ha ha to you, ha ha to me.
Ready, get ready. Ready.
He's the one that's going to break your heart.
Ready, get ready. Ready.
He's the one that's going to break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart.
Get ready, get ready, get ready.
He's the one who's going to break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart.
Get ready, get ready, get ready.
'Cause he's the one who's going to break your heart, break your heart,
Break your heart, break your heart.