Rachel Z

Rachel Carmel Nicolazzo, better known as Rachel Z, is one of the most influential and versatile jazz and rock pianists of her generation. "Her characteristic musical intelligence and development of her genre has made her one of the most exciting female jazz musicians of the twenty-first century." She trailblazed an interesting top level sideman career on keyboards while also recording 10 solo CDs as a jazz musician.

Early life

She attended the Berklee College of Music Summer School and Manhattan School of Music pre-college, where she launched the quintet, Nardis, whilst studying with Joanne Brackeen, Fred Hersch and Richie Beirach in New York City. Later Rachel Z graduated from the New England Conservatory with a 'Distinction in Performance' award. Meanwhile she was playing professionally in and around Boston in small groups and her own bands which that featured George Garzone , Bob Moses, Billy Hart, Randy Brecker, David Mann, George Coleman, Igor Butman, and many other interesting players.

Help Me!! (Morning Musume song)

"Help Me!!" (Help me!!) is the 52nd single by the Japanese female idol group Morning Musume, released in Japan on January 23, 2013.

Release details

"Help Me!!" will be the first single by Morning Musume on which Sakura Oda participates.

The single will be released in eight versions: regular editions A and B and six limited editions: A, B, C, D, E, and F. The Limited Editions A, B, and C will come with a bonus DVD, all the other edition will be CD-only. Also, all the limited editions will include an entry card for the lottery to win a launch event ticket.

Members at time of single

Track listing

Regular Edition A

All songs written and composed by Tsunku. 

Limited Editions A, B, C, Regular Edition B

Limited Edition D

Limited Edition E

Limited Edition F

Help Me (Joni Mitchell song)

"Help Me" is a love song written, produced, and performed by Joni Mitchell, from her 1974 album Court and Spark. The song was recorded with jazz band Tom Scott's L.A. Express as the backing band. "Help Me" was Mitchell's biggest hit single: it peaked at #7 in June 1974 on the Billboard Hot 100, her only top 10 hit; it hit #1 on the easy listening chart.

Critical acclaim

The song is ranked #288 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Covers

Artists who have recorded cover versions of the song include:

Esperanza Spalding sang "Help Me" in her encores on the d plus evolution tour spring and summer 2015.

Pop cultural references

The Prince song "Ballad of Dorothy Parker" (from his 1987 album Sign o' the Times) mentions the song in the lyrics. A reference to "Help Me" - "Joni, help me; I think I'm falling" - can also be heard in "Looking Through Patient Eyes" by P.M. Dawn.

Help Me (Nick Carter song)

"Help Me" is the first single by American singer, Nick Carter. It was written by Matthew Gerrard and M. Vice for Carter's first studio album, Now or Never. "Help Me" was released on June 24, 2002, did reach #9 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Formats and track listings

Charts

References

External links

Rachel Bluwstein

Rachel Bluwstein Sela (September 20 (Julian calendar), 1890 – April 16, 1931) was a Hebrew-language poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1909. She is known by her first name, Rachel, (Hebrew: רחל‎) or as Rachel the Poetess (Hebrew: רחל המשוררת‎).

Biography

Rachel was born in Saratov in Imperial Russia on September 20, 1890, the eleventh daughter of Isser-Leib and Sophia Bluwstein, and granddaughter of the rabbi of the Jewish community in Kiev. During her childhood, her family moved to Poltava, Ukraine, where she attended a Russian-speaking Jewish school and, later, a secular high school. She began writing poetry at the age of 15. When she was 17, she moved to Kiev and began studying painting.

At the age of 19, Rachel visited Palestine with her sister en route to Italy, where they were planning to study art and philosophy. They decided to stay on as Zionist pioneers, learning Hebrew by listening to children’s chatter in kindergartens. They settled in Rehovot and worked in the orchards. Later, Rachel moved to Kvutzat Kinneret on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where she studied and worked in a women's agricultural school. At Kinneret, she met Zionist leader A. D. Gordon who was to be a great influence on her life, and to whom she dedicated her first Hebrew poem. During this time, she also met and had a romantic relationship with Zalman Rubashov—the object of many of her love poems —who later became known as Zalman Shazar and was the third president of Israel.

Rachel (singer)

Rachel, born in Cavaillon, Vaucluse, is a French singer best known in Europe for representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.

Biography

She entered a singing competition organised by Mireille Hartuch who had invited Rachel to her 'Petit Conservatoire'.

She went on to sign a contract with the Barclay Records label, and released her first (45 rmp) recording entitled Les Amants Blessés in 1963.

In 1964, she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen with her entry called "Le Chant de Mallory", which was her greatest hit. She did not win, but scored 14 points and finished in fourth place.

Discography

45 rpm

References

Rachel (given name)

Rachel (Hebrew: רָחֵל, Standard Raḥel Tiberian Rāḫēl, Rāḥēl‎), Arabic: راحیل, Rāḥīl‎); also spelled Rachael, meaning "ewe") is a feminine given name. The name ranks in the top hundred most popular names for girls in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia as well as in Israel. According to United States Social Security card applications in 2005, the name Rachel ranked 38th out of the top 100 names chosen by parents for their baby girls. Statistics for England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics show a decline in popularity of the name: it was the 9th most popular name given to baby girls in 1984, but only 235th in 2014.

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