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SDC DIGITAL, Welcome to our newsletter. Here are stories from around Africa that you might find interesting and helpful. Call for applications: DJ workshop for women in Uganda Call for applications: 2020 Hub@Goethe mentorship programme in SA Call for applications: 2020 MTN Bushfire short film festival Call for applications: Traditional music and technology workshop in Tanzania Call for applications: British Council FestivalConnect 2020 grant Call for applications: Midemlab 2020   Call for applications: Pro Helvetia studio residency for Arab countries Call for applications: World Performance Week in Kenya

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star,^[1] as well as the first Chinese American actress to gain international recognition.^[2] Her long and varied career spanned silent film, sound film, television, stage, and radio.

Born in Los Angeles to second-generation Toisonese Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color, and in Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Wong became a fashion icon and had achieved international stardom in 1924. Frustrated by the stereotypical supporting roles she reluctantly played in Hollywood, Wong left for Europe in the late 1920s, where she starred in several notable plays and films, among them Piccadilly (1929). She spent the first half of the 1930s traveling between the United States and Europe for film and stage work. Wong was featured in films of the early sound era, such as Daughter of the Dragon (1931) and Daughter of Shanghai (1937) and with Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932).^[3]

In 1935 Wong was dealt the most severe disappointment of her career, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer refused to consider her for the leading role of the Chinese character O-Lan in the film version of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, choosing instead the white actress Luise Rainer to play the leading role. Wong spent the next year touring China, visiting her family's ancestral village and studying Chinese culture. In the late 1930s, she starred in several B movies for Paramount Pictures, portraying Chinese and Chinese Americans in a positive light. She paid less attention to her film career during World War II, when she devoted her time and money to helping the Chinese cause against Japan. Wong returned to the public eye in the 1950s in several television appearances.

In 1951, Wong made history with her television show The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong, the first ever U.S. television show starring an Asian American series lead.^[4] She had been planning to return to film in Flower Drum Song when she died in 1961, at the age of 56 from a heart attack. For decades after her death, Wong was remembered principally for the stereotypical "Dragon Lady" and demure "Butterfly" roles that she was often given. Her life and career were re-evaluated in the years around the centennial of her birth, in three major literary works and film retrospectives.

The Zombies - The Chris White Experience Volume 3

Artist: The Chris White Experience
Title: Volume 3
Genre(s): Pop / Rock / Classic Rock
Label: Sunfish Records

* A THIRD STUNNING COLLECTION OF NEW RECORDINGS FROM HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE *

This year (2019) The Zombies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in a British invasion alongside Radiohead and The Cure. On stage with the rest of the band was Chris White; the man who co-produced and wrote more than half of the seminal Odessey & Oracle album, who composed (the now standard) This Will Be Our Year and who penned and co-produced the worldwide hit Hold Your Head Up for Argent. His acceptance speech from the night, widely quoted in Rolling Stone, beautifully summarised the golden age of recording: “Music and songs are the bookmarks in all our lives, it’s the language that binds us all together”. The Chris White Experience is an incredible collection of unreleased recordings from the last 50 years.

Most of these songs have never been heard, with Volume Three spanning half a century from an unreleased 1969 Zombies demo, right up to an October 2019 recording from Et Tu Brucé. With collaborations featuring Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone (Unhappy Girl) and London band Et Tu Brucé (Can’t Seem To Fall In Love) as well as performances from Joe Lee Wilson (Archie Shepp) Russ Ballard (Argent) Stuart Elliott (Cockney Rebel, Kate Bush) and many more. Following on from the much-celebrated Volumes One and Two, it is a brilliant and vital document in the history of British music and analog recording.

thechriswhiteexperience.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/thechriswhite

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Old Skool QueenE

HERE COMES OLD SCHOOL!  

(Old Skool) QueenE goes back to the basics to learn how to play a musical instrument, the Lead Guitar. She was born back in the times and era when instrumental music drove the dance moves on the dance floor. Her teenage years were influenced by Junk Yard Band, Chuck Brown, Earth, Wind & Fire, EU and other bands and show. So why not take to learning an instrument?  

QueenE has released several Singles this year and last year released her new Album November 2018.. Hear on her website (oldskoolqueene.com) her recent Single releases called Shut My Mouth, Dark Chocolaty, Keep It Right and Here Comes Old School part 1 & 2 that is making its way up all the music charts and is available on iTunes, Amazon, & GooglePlay.

Named “QueenE” due to being named Esther after her mother Esther and her Aunt Esther in her family.  QueenE added Old Skool to differentiate from all the Queens in the world and was told from her mother Esther that she has an old soul because she danced, mimicked and sang Rhythm & Blues songs from Doo Wop groups while growing up as a child. She and her brothers performed in talent shows and sung in their creative neighborhood bands as teens.

(Old Skool) “QueenE” started pursuing her dreams of becoming a Songwriter and Entertainer back in 2013 after writing and producing a few Singles for other Artists. She wrote and produced a Compilation Album called “We Are One” and then released her first solo Album in 2014 called “Victory Is Mine.”  This album showcases her creative writing style and shows off her ability to mix words and phrases as
a Poet and Rapper and it featured her gospel Singer mother on a song who is now deceased.

Her 2nd Solo Album was released in 2018 and includes First Go-Go Christmas song called Christmas Cheer along with her hot new Club Banger LaLaLa The Look and a Line Dance song called Here Comes Old School, pt. 1 & 2.

She is a Poet and Songwriter that has written songs in the past for others. QueenE acquired her talent from her late R&B/Gospel Bass Singer Father who once sung with DC's Doo Wop group called Glow Tones and her Gospel Singer Mother who sung and traveled around with a professional D.C. Gospel Choir called Jubilee Majestic directed by Kirdell Minor. And it is the very reason why she took her then 88 year old mother into the studio with her to cut the first track called “Victory Is Mine” to open and be the first song on her first album that adds the Gospel genre.

QueenE discovered iTunes in 2013 and appreciates ITunes for allowing her to self-publish and distribute through her Independent Small Promotion Business This Is 4 U; and she has released her second album, called Here Comes Old School November 2018.  This new Album includes a mix genre of music that has some tracks already released ahead  it as a Single namely Shut My Mouth, Dark Chocolaty, Here Comes Old School, Pt. 1 and LaLaLa, The Look.

QueenE is seeking to promote, highlight and bring positive messages of love and camaraderie with music with the added Go-Go flavored beats from the East Coast. She wants to shine the spotlight on the Washington D.C. area to show that there is talent here that has been brewing since the early days in the late 1970s when she was a teenager screaming for Stacey Lattisaw, Chuck Brown and Marvin Gaye, Blackbirds, Johnny Gill and Back Yard Band to name a few.

QueenE got the 411 for other genres such as this hip-hop Rap single she released a few years ago called “It’s All About Money” where she created a YouTube video to point to Donald’s Sterling’s excuse for Dementia. And her first solo album includes a couple of Holiday song tracks for Valentine Day and for Thanksgiving.

Go to your Digital store to get downloads of any of her Singles and new Album called “HERE COMES OLD SCHOOL” and her new Christmas Singles called CHRISTMAS CHEER and Ho Ho Ho Christmas that includes Apple & Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, Xbox, etc.

www.oldskoolqueene.com

Straight out of D.C. comes the creative sounds of Poet, Singer-Songwriter, Old Skool QueenE. She writes mixed genre songs from her heart with R&B, Pop with Go-Go drum beats and flavor.

Leah Dou

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