From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #45 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, February 25 2000 Volume 05 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Ofra Haza, 1958(?) - 2000 ["Stephen M. Tilson" Subject: Alloy: Ofra Haza, 1958(?) - 2000 From The New York Times On-Line via Associated Press February 24, 2000 OFRA HAZA, ISRAELI POP SINGER WHO CROSSED CULTURAL BOUNDS, DIES AT 41 By JON PARELES Ofra Haza, one of Israel's leading pop singers and songwriters, died yesterday at a hospital in Tel Aviv, where she was admitted 13 days ago. She was 41. She suffered massive organ failure, The Associated Press reported. A hospital staff member, Dr. Zeev Rortenstein, refused to say why she had been hospitalized or what had caused the organ failure, the report said. Ms. Haza crossed cultural boundaries with her voice, a tender mezzo-soprano that was equally at home with the finely turned ornaments of Middle Eastern music and the phrasing of Western-style pop. She had club hits in Europe, Asia and the United States, and sang the theme song for the movie "Prince of Egypt." Even as her audience became an international one, Ms. Haza proudly asserted her background as a Yemenite Jew, performing in elaborately beaded and brocaded traditional clothing. She sang in Hebrew, Arabic and English, with a repertory that spanned traditional songs, pop anthems and dance music. Ms. Haza was born in the poor Hatikva district of Tel Aviv, one of nine children. Her parents had left Yemen in 1949 to escape religious persecution. She learned old Yemenite songs from her parents, while also soaking up Israeli folk songs, the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Israel's prime minister, Ehud Barak, said she represented the Israeli success story. "Ofra emerged from the Hatikva slums to reach the peak of Israeli culture," he said. "She has left a mark on us all." Ms. Haza began performing in a local theater company, Hatikva, when she was 13. As a teenager, she entered a national singing contest and won; she also appeared in television variety shows and in Israeli movies. She released her first album when she was 18. After two years in the army, she returned to singing, releasing pop albums that were best-sellers in Israel; in all, she had 16 gold and platinum albums there. One of her early hits, in 1979, was "The Tart's Song," a defiant assertion of a young woman's prerogatives. She won the Israeli equivalent of the Grammy Award for best female singer in 1980, 1981 and 1986, and won second prize in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest. But in 1985 she decided to change direction. She returned to songs she had learned from her parents, modernizing them for her album "50 Gates of Wisdom: Yemenite Songs" (Shanachie), based on poetry by a 17th-century rabbi. "I wanted to do an album to make my parents happy," she said. Dance-music remixes of the songs "Galbi" and "Im Nin'alu" became international club hits. The album was a hit in Europe and Asia, and was released in the United States in 1987. Hip-hop producers discovered it; samples of her voice showed up in the remix of Eric B. and Rakim's "Paid in Full" and on MARRS' "Pump Up the Volume." On Feb. 3, 1987, she survived an airplane crash on the Israel-Jordan border, and afterward celebrated the date as a second birthday. She toured the United States in 1988 as Sire Records released her album "Shaday," which sold a million copies worldwide. Her 1990 album, "Desert Wind," featured songs in English, and her 1992 album, "Kirya," included a guest appearance from Lou Reed. "Kirya" was nominated for a Grammy Award in the World Beat category. In 1994 Ms. Haza sang at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat. She married Doron Askhenazi, who survives her, in 1997. Through the 1990's, Ms. Haza performed on recordings by British and American performers. ********************************************************************* So follow me Across the sand To where the music's playing Dance for me Taw Shi The sands will blow A thousand years The rhythm still remains Dance for me Taw Shi --- an excerpt of "Taw Shi" words and music by Ofra Haza Thomas Dolby Bazalel Aloni ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:02:18 MST From: "teresa adams" Subject: Re: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V5 #40 LOL..Oh and I thought woman only spoke of shampoos. Did you ever read the book 'The peanut butter solution'. A most ingenious cure for balding indeed. Well..sort of. >From: Dennis S Alexander >Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org >To: alloy@smoe.org >Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V5 #40 >Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:45:33 -0700 > > > > Jammy wrote: > > >And, electrix picture surprised me (or am I sticking my foot in my > > mouth? > > > Hope not,) but you appear to a little older than I originally > > thought! > > > > Ha,ha,ha...I am full of surprises, you should know that by now JAMs! > >Yes you are! > > > >Or is the hairline just receeding at a rapid pace in your youth? > > > > Your comment reminds me of Sebastian in Blade Runner... genetic > > anomaly of aging quickly. It has always been a receding hairline > > even back then I think what you are noticing it more because my > > grey/white hair are blossoming by the bunch and its displaying more > > of my thining hairline. I can, I suppose, blame it on my stressful > > job. > >I'm not sure if mine's related to stress or that stupid Pert Plus I used >to use. (y'know, the cheap all-in-one shampoo for cheap guys) I used it >for years then all of a sudden at about 25 my hair started falling out, >in the same pattern as my dad, with two 'holes' appearing at the top-back >of my head. Suppose I'll have a Mr. T hairdo eventually, with the mohawk >and the two bushes sticking out the side. Mind you, it won't look quite >as good on me! More like a Bozo the Clown gone punk sort of 'do. > >After I stopped using that shampoo, for two weeks I had little balls of >wax (one of the ingredients) coming out of my scalp pores. Yeah, I know, >sounds gross, but since then (it's been about 7 years now) my hair >stopped falling out, but it's never grown back in either. I only use >high-quality shampoos like Nioxin now (hoping it'll encourage regrowth. >Yeah right!) > > > Not me... e differentiate me from the signal processinfg company > > called Electrix with a capital e. It also humbles me. Although, at > > work the tendency of people is to call me Big O, an in other e-mail > > exchanges Big E. Don't know why....I can only guess that I put out > > those vibes. > > > > electrix > >I have people always calling me Big D as well, and these are people >who've never seen each other! I must be putting out those same vibes >too, or something. Maybe it's the gut. > >___________ >JAMac (Dennis S. Alexander) > www.dennisa.com - Nutrition/Income Opportunities >"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - >Eleanor Roosevelt > >________________________________________________________________ >YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! >Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! >Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:29:35 -0800 From: "electrix" Subject: Alloy: The Great Peanut Butter Experiment! - ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "teresa adams" Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:02:18 MST > >LOL..Oh and I thought woman only spoke of shampoos. Did you ever read the >book 'The peanut butter solution'. A most ingenious cure for balding indeed. >Well..sort of. > Hmmmmmmm... the peanut butter solution, heh? Tell us about it. My ears just perked up... I have heard of so many methods that it boarders on insanity... Pigs Lard, Rosemary Oil, Nettles, Horsetail, Silica, Sulfur, and that prescription wonder drug that must be continually used... forgot the name. But peanut butter... well I guess if that doesn't work I can make peanut butter sandwiches with the leftovers... :-) electrix ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #45 **************************