Amanda Martinez is a Canadian singer-songwriter of jazz and Latin music. In 2010 she performed in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the FIFA Fan Fests during the World Cup celebrations. She recently released her second album, Amor, produced by George Seara (who also has worked with Holly Cole, Herbie Hancock, and Sting). Amor reached… Read more »
Amanda Martinez is a Canadian singer-songwriter of jazz and Latin music. In 2010 she performed in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of the FIFA Fan Fests during the World Cup celebrations. She recently released her second album, Amor, produced by George Seara (who also has worked with Holly Cole, Herbie Hancock, and Sting). Amor reached… Read more »
(Read Parts I, II, III, and IV of this series.) ?Standin at the crossroad, babe, risin sun goin down . . . I believe to my soul now, Poor Bob is sinkin down . . . Robert Johnson, ?Cross Road Blues? The most immediate interpretation of the crossroads metaphor is that it signifies the juncture… Read more »
Read Parts I, II, and III of this series.) ?If you want to learn how to . . . make songs yourself, you take your guitar and you go to where a road crosses that way, where a crossroads is. Get there, be sure to get there just a little ?fore 12:00 that night so… Read more »
(Read Parts I and II of this series.) ??The desert is beautiful,? the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams . . . ?What makes the desert beautiful,? said… Read more »
?The blues is at the root of all the music I grew up loving . . . At the root of the blues is Africa, and at the root of the African root of the blues is Mali.? Markus James (Read Part I of this series here.) It would be easy to hypothesize that the… Read more »
Have you ever gone on a sound quest? That’s when You’re drawn to a specific musical genre and something drives you to keep on digging through it until you find the quintessence?the performance or the recording that represents the culmination of listening pleasure for that genre. My early music listening involved moving from one thrilling… Read more »
?Dear Dr. Katie, I always hear the phrase ?Exercise is good for you.? However, I’m having trouble keeping to my gym schedule because I don’t have a concrete idea of exactly why this is the case! Can you please elaborate?? Priyanka Dear Priyanka, Great question! Sometimes knowing what happens in our body when we perform… Read more »
Entrevue avec Kamal AMARI, militant pour la démocratie en Algérie, ex-syndicaliste, membre fondateur et ex-vice-président de l?association culturelle Tahar Djaout de Tizi N? Berber, actuellement résident permanent au Canada. Un Gouvernement De Transition Démocratique Actuellement, un gouvernement idéal c?est un gouvernement de transition démocratique, formé de démocrates qui ont pour mission de préparer et mettre… Read more »
Entrevue avec Kamal AMARI, militant pour la démocratie en Algérie, ex-syndicaliste, membre fondateur et ex-vice-président de l?association culturelle Tahar Djaout de Tizi N? Berber, actuellement résident permanent au Canada. Pour Mettre Fin À L?injustice Toute notre jeunesse est dévouée à la lutte pour les libertés individuelles et collectives ? ou en un mot pour l?application… Read more »