Papaya (disambiguation)

Papaya is a fruit of the plant Carica papaya that is also known as "pawpaw."

Papaya can also refer to:

See also

Linnéa Handberg Lund

Linnéa Handber, (born Linnéa Handberg 22 October 1976 in Hillerød, Denmark) also known as Papaya and, Miss Papaya is a Danish Eurodance musician. She then specialized in bubblegum dance music, in the same vein as Aqua, Bambee, Smile.dk, and Toy-Box. She today, in 2014, writes rock, pop and alternative music. She has achieved gold and platinum status as a songwriter within Europe and Asia in the 2000s after her 2 albums releases as an Independent artist.

Several of her songs, including "Operator", "Hero", and "Pink Dinosaur", have appeared in the wildly popular Dance Dance Revolution video games. Papaya has also contributed the songs "No Princess" and "Spaceman" to In The Groove 2.

History

Papaya was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she currently resides.

She began her music career in the early 1990s, signing with record labels Maverick, Warner, and Scandinavian Records. After Aqua's success in influencing other artists with their upbeat, dancy music, Papaya decided to try it for herself (after teaming up with producers Honeycutt), using the same happy style as Aqua. The resulting "Miss Papaya Project" was at first a bit of a joke, intended to be quite silly and childish, as Papaya later admits "nobody expected Miss Papaya to get the success she did". Papaya released her first single, "Jingle Bells" in 1997. It was a small hit, but nothing extremely encouraging. Producers decided to release another single, "Hero" originally written by Ms. Handberg and Honeycutt. To everyone's surprise, "Hero" was a smash hit, and Papaya was cemented as a bubblegum artist in the same style as Aqua.

Cowboy (Kid Rock song)

"Cowboy" is a single by Kid Rock from his album Devil Without a Cause. The song's rapping style has been adapted by country artists like Toby Keith, Trace Adkins and Blake Shelton. Musicians inspired by this song include Uncle Kracker, Jason Aldean, Big & Rich, and Eric Church who parodies Kid Rock's song "Rock 'N Roll Jesus" with his song "Country Jesus". Kid Rock actually did this first in 1993 on the song "Desperate-Rado" on his independent release The Polyfuze Method, but "Cowboy" broke into the mainstream.

Kid Rock describes the song as "Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Run-D.M.C.." The song uses dobro, slide, banjo and a ragtime piano, which was a sample of The Doors' "L.A. Woman". The song was originally rejected by Atlantic Records, after Kid Rock told them it was the best song he had written to that point.

The song is about how Kid Rock had foreseen his move to Hollywood to become a star. Since then he has accomplished everything the song predicted. "Cowboy" peaked at 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, 34 on The Top 40, 5 on Mainstream Rock Chart, and 10 on the Modern Rock charts. The song is used as the walk-in music for UFC fighter Donald Cerrone. This song was used for the first promotional commercial for WrestleMania XXV. An instrumental remake of this song was used by Jeff Jarrett in WCW. "Cowboy" appeared in the movies Shanghai Noon, Ready To Rumble, Serving Sara, Matchstick Men and Coyote Ugly.

Freeway (rapper)

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Leslie Edward Pridgen (born August 6, 1978), better known by his stage name Freeway, is an American hip hop recording artist from North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is perhaps best known for his tenure on Roc-A-Fella Records and his affiliation with fellow East Coast rappers, Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel. Apart from his solo career, Freeway is also known as a member of the rap group, State Property. In 2009, Freeway was briefly signed to Cash Money Records.

Life and career

Early life and career beginnings

Freeway was born Leslie Pridgen, on August 6, 1978. He adopted his moniker from the name of the infamous drug trafficker "Freeway" Rick Ross. Freeway began his career by participating in freestyle battles in his high school and met fellow Philadelphia native Beanie Sigel, while rapping on stage at a hometown nightclub. Not long after being signed to Roc-A-Fella Records, Sigel put in a word for Freeway, who made his first appearance on The Dynasty: Roc La Familia, on the track "1-900-Hustler" with Beanie, Jay-Z, and Memphis Bleek. After the appearance, Jay-Z signed him to a deal; he was featured on "Think it's a Game", also alongside Jay-Z, on Beanie's second album The Reason. In 2001, he underwent a notorious freestyle battle with then-unsigned rapper Cassidy, hosted by Swizz Beatz and lost with a unanimous judges decision.

List of highways numbered 5

Route 5, or Highway 5, may refer to routes in the following countries:

International

Asian Highway 5

European route E05

European route E005

Australia

State Route 5 (Western Australia) – Stirling Highway, Mounts Bay Road, Riverside Drive, and The Causeway

Austria

Nord Autobahn

Burma

Cambodia

National Highway 5 (Cambodia)

Chile

Chile Highway 5 - Panamericana

Canada

Alberta Highway 5

British Columbia Highway 5

Manitoba Highway 5

Northwest Territories Highway 5

Nova Scotia Trunk 5

Ontario Highway 5

Prince Edward Island Route 5

Quebec Autoroute 5

Saskatchewan Highway 5

Yukon Highway 5

China

G5 Expressway

Czech Republic

D5 Motorway

Djibouti

Germany

Bundesautobahn 5 (A5)

Bundesstraße 5 (B5)

Hong Kong

Route 5 (Hong Kong)

India

NH 5

Indonesia

Iran

Freeway 5 (Iran)

Iraq

Highway 5 (Iraq)

Israel

Highway 5 (Israel)

Japan

Japan National Route 5

Route 5 (Nagoya Expressway)

Jordan

Highway 5

Malaysia

Malaysia Federal Route 5

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby is a 1999 exploitation film and the sequel to Freeway, written and directed by Matthew Bright. It stars Natasha Lyonne as Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter, and María Celedonio as Angela "Cyclona" Garcia. As the original film was partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, the second film is somewhat based on Hansel and Gretel. The film achieved little attention nor notoriety like its predecessor.

Plot

Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter is a 15-year-old prostitute who is sentenced to 25 years for a long list of crimes which include beating up and robbing johns. Transferred to a minimum security hospital to seek treatment for bulimia, White Girl teams up with Angela "Cyclona" Garcia, a teenage serial killer. Together, they escape from the hospital, despite White Girl injuring herself on a barbed-wire fence. Cyclona is convinced her beloved Sister Gomez can help "White Girl" with her eating disorder and they head to Tijuana. On the way, Cyclona murders a family and has sex with the dead bodies. "White Girl" is not happy that Cyclona has stopped taking her meds and insists she continue to take occasional doses should they continue together. They steal the family's car and make their way south. On the way, Cyclona reveals how Sister Gomez saved her from being molested by her father and possibly aliens. After drinking one too many beers and huffing some paint, they crash and fall down a hill laughing.

MIX (XM)

MIX, often branded on-air as Today's Mix, was a channel on XM Satellite Radio playing the Hot Adult Contemporary format. It was located on XM 12 (previously 22) and plays a mix of hit songs from 1980-present day, except for urban music. MIX was one of 5 channels on XM's platform that plays commercial advertisements, which amount to about 3–4 minutes an hour, and are sold by Premiere Radio Networks. The channel was programmed by Clear Channel Communications, and was Clear Channel's most listened to channel on XM Radio, in both cume and AQH, according to the Fall 2007 Arbitron book.

Artists heard on MIX included Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Lenny Kravitz, Jewel and Nelly Furtado; and groups like Maroon 5 and Blues Traveler. One can also hear top chart hits including songs from Train, Alanis Morissette, 3 Doors Down, Evanescence, Dave Matthews Band, No Doubt, Santana, Matchbox Twenty, and U2.

On June 8, 2011, this was replaced by a simulcast by WHTZ, licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York City area.