The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders in 2006, by order of first appearance. 2006 was a year when many families joined EastEnders. First, Deano Wicks, his sister Carly Wicks and father Kevin Wicks joined. Then, the Fox family appeared, with the characters of Denise Fox, Chelsea Fox and Libby Fox as members. The Branning family was extended with Max Branning, Tanya Branning, Abi Branning and Lauren Branning all joining. Also, May Wright, Jay Brown and Shirley Carter, the biological mother of Deano and Carly, all joined the show. Also, Owen Turner, Denise's abusive ex-husband, and his mother Liz both arrived in this year.
Dean "Deano" Wicks, played by Matt Di Angelo, arrives in Walford and is taken in by Kevin's in-law Pat Evans (Pam St. Clement) after he lies that his father, Kevin Wicks (Phil Daniels), has died. Deano is soon joined by Kevin and his sister, Carly Wicks (Kellie Shirley). He is also unwittingly reunited with his estranged mother, Shirley Carter (Linda Henry), during a family holiday in Dorset. Deano is imprisoned for framing Sean Slater (Robert Kazinsky) for an assault. He finds prison hard, and when he is released, Deano has changed vastly.
Reik is the debut eponymous album from Mexican pop group Reik, released on May 24, 2005 through Sony Music. The album features the singles "Yo Quisiera", "Qué Vida La Mía", "Noviembre Sin Ti", "Niña" and "Levemente". The song "Noviembre Sin Ti" is also featured on the compilation album Now Esto Es Musica! Latino, while "Levemente" is featured on Now Esto Es Musica! Latino 2.
Nina, o sia La pazza per amore (Nina, or the Girl Driven Mad by Love) is an opera, described as a commedia in prosa ed in verso per musica, in two acts by Giovanni Paisiello to an Italian libretto by Giambattista (also Giovanni Battista) Lorenzi after Giuseppe Carpani's translation of Benoît-Joseph Marsollier's Nina, ou La folle par amour, set by Nicolas Dalayrac in 1786.
The work is a sentimental comedy with set numbers, recitative and spoken dialog. It is set in Italy in the 18th century.
Nina was first performed in a one act version at the Teatro del Reale Sito di Belvedere in Caserta, San Leucio on 25 June 1789. A revised two-act work was presented at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in the autumn of 1790.
Nina is a Nina Simone tribute album recorded by Xiu Xiu. It was released on Graveface Records on December 3, 2013 to generally favorable reviews.
The idea for the album came while Jamie Stewart was on tour with Swans.Nina was recorded in a day. The album features Jamie Stewart's voice, Ches Smith on drums, Tim Berne and Tony Malaby on saxophones, Andrea Parkins on accordion, and Mary Halvorson on guitar. The latter four had experience in avant jazz. The album reimagines rather than recreates Nina Simone's songs. It was released on Graveface Records on December 3, 2013.
Nina received a "generally favorable" score of 65 (out of 100) from the ratings aggregator Metacritic. Nate Chinen from The New York Times described the album as accentuating Simone's "spooky, unsettling side". He adds that Stewart's vocals add to the "psychodrama" in "Four Women" and "the wildness" in "Wild Is the Wild". Chinen thought the art rock Nina Simone covers field was already crowded before Nina. Heather Phares of AllMusic considered Stewart's stylistic choices "provocative" and the album Stewart's "most avant-garde ... in years". She added that the album considered the "more progressive aspects" of Simone's music. Kyle Fowle of Slant Magazine thought the album to be Xiu Xiu's "most ambitious ... in years". He thought Stewart's vocal style was out of place on "Don't Explain" and "Just Say I Love Him". Billy Hamilton of Under the Radar wrote that Simone would approve of the album. Mark Richardson of Pitchfork noted a mystical connection between Xiu Xiu and Simone as artists who perform raw emotions, but described the album as a "wasted opportunity" and "weirdly conservative". For this, he blamed Stewart's vocals for being "theatrical" and insincere. Richardson praised the album's selection of songs covered.
The world, Brooklyn to the day I die
Coming to the pen wearing green, show
Now I feel bigger than nino
Champagne days of patron nights
God help me, I've been up the past 5 nights
Caught up in the hype and I'm still clubbing
Bands hanging acting out while we're in the public
You see me still... gotta love... surviving
Cause I done made a... and not a bread crumbs
Eddie told me stay focus watch the bread come
Proof that anything is possible
Standing in the phantom screaming I'm unstoppable
Shooting for the stars dog, feels like I landed on Mars dog
Still living like I have no fear, middle finger's in the air like yeah
It's about to go down, look at me, bigger than Nino Brown
I'm bigger than Nino Brown, I'm bigger than Nino Brown
The realest realest in the town, look at me, bigger than Nino Brown
I'm everything the little homies wanna be
Magazines, I'm a young girl's fantasy
Doing things that the og's never dream
Seeing things that my dead friends never seen
Different night, different girls, new city
Man the whole world is a new jack city
From crack money to that Puff Daddy jury
Foreign cars got a good broad with me
So this is for my dawgs in the war zone
Still banging... in the group holes...
Ex con, tell the truth, who'd you thought I be?
I'm standing on sand that's Caribbean
Penthouse sweet just me and some 2 women friends
Look at me, seen expectation, still don't give no fuck with no explanation
Still living like I have no fear, middle finger's in the air like yeah
It's about to go down, look at me, bigger than Nino Brown
I'm bigger than Nino Brown, I'm bigger than Nino Brown
The realest realest in the town, look at me, bigger than Nino Brown
Yeah, the realest, realest, in the country
Any hood, just look at how they love me
From the top to the bottom where them thugs be
Bullet proof confidence, haters can't touch me
If I ain't loosing then I gotta be a winner
Threesomes for breakfast, my young girl for dinner
Lord please, forgive me I'm a sinner
Got the spirit of a old drug dealer
Feeling like I'm the king of the whole block
Now I park... on my own block
Look around, this is Maino's town
I'm bigger than Nino Brown
Still living like I have no fear, middle finger's in the air like yeah
It's about to go down, look at me, bigger than Nino Brown
I'm bigger than Nino Brown, I'm bigger than Nino Brown