Alexia
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Alexia Vassiliou
Alexia Vassiliou (Greek: Αλέξια Βασιλείου; born 5 February 1964), better known as Alexia, is a Cypriot singer, vocalist, musician, performer, composer, lyricist, and activist, associated with voice improvisation.
She has had a series of gold and platinum records, including one in Scandinavia, and a top 100 hit in the US, while she was still a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her first album, Alexia, started a new wave of pop music in Greece and Cyprus, and sold over 500,000 copies, making it the most successful debut album by a Greek artist.
Alexia has collaborated with a number of distinguished artists, including Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Olympia Dukakis, Andreas Vollenweider, and Milva. For 10 years, she teamed up with Mikis Theodorakis, composer of Zorba the Greek. Alexia recorded a double album showcasing some of the composer's most consummate musical creations. In her jazz album, In a Jazz Mood, Alexia collaborated with Chick Corea and bassist John Patitucci. Alexia has also performed songs for the soundtracks of three films, Sacred Whispers, The Road to Ithaca and Safe Sex.
Alexia (Italian singer)
Alexia (born Alessia Aquilani, 19 May 1967) is an Italian singer. Before recording in Italian in the 2000s, she made records in English in the 1990s. Many of those were international hits. Before her solo career she was the vocalist of Ice Mc.
In her career she has sold over 6 million records with 10 top-ten single, of which 4 number-one hits and numerous international sales certifications. She has performed at the Festivalbar for nine times, and four times at the Sanremo Music Festival in which she has earned, besides several music critic awards, three second-places, and has won one in the 2003.
Career
Early work
Alexia was born in La Spezia, Liguria, and from a young age regularly entered singing talent competitions.
She started working for Italian label Euroenergy (by Disco Magic) in 1989 with the singles (Eurobeat/Hi NRG style) Alexia Cooper - Boy and Lita Beck – It's All Right. One year later she gave "Backing Vocals" in the singles Cinema and Scream by Ice Mc. Later she worked with producer Roberto Zanetti (better known as Robyx) in 1990, as a back-up singer to several of Zanetti's eurodance acts on his DWA label, including Double You and Ice MC and notably featured on many of the latter's biggest hits such as "Think About The Way" (on the Trainspotting soundtrack), "It's A Rainy Day" and "Russian Roulette". When Ice MC left DWA, Robyx turned his attention to Alexia, and the pair wrote the song "Me And You", which included the vocals of "Double You". The song was a big international hit and was followed the next year by "Summer Is Crazy" and "Number One", which again were international hits.
Nowhere
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Nowhere, Norfolk
According to 19th-century directories, Nowhere or No-Where is a marshy area by the River Bure where the villagers of Acle, Norfolk had salt-pans to produce salt for food preservation, etc. Originally an extra-parochial liberty it was formally incorporated into Acle parish in 1862 and the name no longer appears in maps and gazetteers. In 1861 there were four inhabited houses and 16 people.
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Coordinates: 52°36′49″N 1°38′39″E / 52.61365°N 1.64417°E / 52.61365; 1.64417
Hitomi no Kakera
"Hitomi no Kakera" (瞳の欠片, Fragments of a Gaze) is the debut single of J-pop duo FictionJunction Yuuka, from their debut album Destination. It was composed by Yuki Kajiura and released on May 8, 2004. The single debuted at #22 on the Oricon Weekly Charts and had 20 weeks on chart. Both Hitomi no Kakera and its B-side, nowhere, featured in the Bee Train anime series Madlax.
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Madlax Soundtrack
Hitomi no Kakera was originally composed by FictionJunction Yuuka as a theme song for the anime Madlax. The song originally featured on the OST for the series before it was released as a single, which gained the band significant fame on the J-pop scene. Both Hitomi no Kakera and its B-side track nowhere were used throughout the anime, Hitomi no Kakera being opening theme for the series, and nowhere being used mainly during the fights and action scenes. Both songs feature on the series' OST as well as on FictionJunction Yuuka's album.
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