Ergebnis für "Celia" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Celia Paul has felt a lifelong connection to the artist Gwen John. There are extraordinary parallels in their lives and work. Both have always made art on their own terms. Both were involved with older male artists. Both worked hard to keep themselves and the sacred flame of their creativity from being extinguished by others. Letters to Gwen John is Paul's imagined correspondence with Gwen John, whose life and work have loomed so large in hers. 

Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this intimate short smemoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at 16, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practises of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art.

A cien años de su nacimiento, celebra el inigualable legado de «la Reina de la Salsa». En los años sesenta, Celia Cruz emprendió una nueva vida lejos de su Cuba natal, el lugar donde brilló por primera vez. Exiliada y con el corazón dividido entre la nostalgia y la esperanza, Celia...

Abarcando desde 1925 hasta 1962, el tiempo que Celia pasó en Cuba, esta es una biografía completa de Celia Cruz, la Reina de la Salsa, como nunca antes se la había visto. En esta primera entrega de la biografía de Celia Cruz, la autora explora con minucioso detalle sus primeros años como...

Nació el 21 de octubre de 1925, en el barrio Santo Suárez de La Habana, Cuba. Fue una de los cuatro hijos que tuvieron sus padres, Catalina Alfonso y Simón Cruz. Conocida como La reina de la salsa y La guarachera de oriente comenzó su carrera artística en La...

Celia was only fourteen years old when she was acquired by John Newsom, an aging widower and one of the most respected citizens of Callaway County, Missouri. The pattern of sexual abuse that would mark their entire relationship began almost immediately. Over the next five years, Celia bore Newsom two children; meanwhile, she became involved with a slave named George and resolved at his insistence to end the relationship with her master. When Newsom refused, Celia one night struck him fatally with a club. Her act quickly discovered, Celia was brought to trial.

Su vida fue un ejemplo a seguir para todos, tanto en lo personal como en lo profesional. El periodista puertorriqueño, radicado en Nueva York, Juan Moreno Velázquez, presenta un acercamiento real y certero a la Celia que todos conocieron, revelando a su vez, importatntes facetas de su vida que nunca salieron a la luz pública. Este es un título que analiza con certeza periodística la carrera de la Guarachera de Cuba.

How does a kid raised by atheists end up in a convent? In her forties, Celia McBride abandoned her worldly life to follow a “sense of call” and explore the idea of becoming a Catholic nun. There was only one problem: she wasn’t Catholic. Discerning the call to become something she wasn’t turned into the greatest spiritual challenge of her life, as she was forced to confront her deepest values and beliefs and make a humble decision.

Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Gerald Durrell's much-loved comic gem. My Family and Other Animals is the classic tale of naturalist Gerald Durrell's magical 1930s childhood on pre-war Corfu. His descriptions of his eccentric family and his encounters with...

La obra hace recuento nostálgico de muchos de los cantantes estelares a quien la Sonora Matancera grabó, incluyendo Celia Cruz, Bobby Capó y otros grandes de la música tropical. Los seguidores de la música tropical podrán disfrutar de la historia de la legendaria orquesta La Sonora Matancera contada por sus protagonistas en el libro Mis mejores entrevistas de radio: Celia Cruz, La Sonora Matancera y sus estrellas, un importante legado de la autora Gilda Mirós.

An established actress across stage, screen and radio, Celia Imrie is most well known for her collaborations with Victoria Wood, including the spoof Acorn Antiques. With notable film appearances including Bridget Jones’s Diary, Calendar Girls and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Imrie has now narrated and published her latest audiobook, Sail Away. Celia Imrie talks to us about her new book, what we can expect from it and her successful and varied career as an actress.

One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf Nureyev. Now she has become one of our finest and funniest performers, on stage, TV and screen - adored for her roles in 'Acorn Antiques' and 'dinnerladies', as well as films including 'Calendar Girls' and 'Nanny McPhee'. In her hugely entertaining autobiography, Celia Imrie recounts a life hurtling (not always intentionally) into adventures both on stage and off.

As a young reporter, Celia Walden receives an unusual assignment: track down a global superstar and keep him away from all other journalists. That man is soccer player George Best, who made his debut for Manchester United at age 17 and was the star of a star team throughout the 1960s. Enormously skilled and ruggedly handsome, idolized by men and women alike, he was referred to as 'the fifth Beatle', and still holds a firm place among the world's all-time best players. But in 2004, George Best is nearing 60 and deteriorating like a much older man....

Zona de desastre está compuesto por crónicas, testimonios, relatos y entrevistas. Cristina Pacheco —figura clave para entender el México contemporáneo— da cuenta en este libro de la enorme capacidad de los mexicanos para sobreponerse a la desgracia y al dolor; un testimonio invaluable de...

No matter what side of the Mason-Dixon line you live on, you will find Celia Rivenbark's hilarious observations about Southern living as easy as a tall drink of sweet tea on a hundred degree day. In this latest collection of laugh-out-loud essays, you'll experience: *The joys of Remodeling Tara...

A common theme in life is death. Those who lose someone to death must find a way to continue living. Grief was not something for me to understand or even question. Grief was something I had to experience. For a long time after Ricky’s death, I woke up unable to see the morning sun. Two questions overwhelmed my mind: Why did Ricky die? What am I supposed to do now? One day, the morning sun found me.

Three young Jewish sisters from Leipzig, Germany huddle together in the cold darkness of night waiting for their smugglers to rescue them and bring them to freedom in Belgium. Their mother, in a state of shock following Kristallnacht, is left behind, sedated in a psychiatric hospital. November 1938 begins the four year ordeal of the seven member Kroch family who endure unfathomable conditions in their fight for survival: imprisonment in French internment camps, hiding in a tiny tool shed, and adapting to the deplorable conditions of a Nazi prison.

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Bienvenidos al true crime en estado puro, vamos a ver y analizar casos resueltos y sin resolver, comentar, especular y todo lo que se nos pase por la mente, vamos a sentirnos criminólogos por un ratito. Acompáñame a ver la realidad y el misterio.

Et si un choix pouvait tout changer ?Vous êtes sur Choices, le podcast de celles et ceux qui refusent de rester dans les cases. Expatriation, reconversion, ruptures, voyages… Ici, on parle de décisions fortes, celles qui bouleversent une vie.Je suis Célia, et toutes les deux semaines, je pars à la rencontre de personnes inspirantes qui ont osé casser les codes et écrire leur propre histoire.Parce que derrière chaque choix se cache un désir de liberté. Et si toi aussi tu aimerais partager ton histoire, tes choix, ou simplement échanger, n’hésite pas à me contacter :📸 ...