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| Single by Cuba feat. Shara Nelson | ||||
| from the album Leap Of Faith (Cuba) | ||||
| Released | 1999 | |||
| Label | 4AD | |||
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"Black Island" is a song by Cuba with vocals by Shara Nelson released as a single in 1999 on 4AD.
The Cuban dissident movement is a political movement in Cuba whose aim is to replace the current government with a liberal democracy. According to Human Rights Watch, the Marxist-Leninist Cuban government represses nearly all forms of political dissent.
Shara Nelson is an English singer and songwriter. She worked with Massive Attack in the early 1990s, and as a solo artist had five UK top 40 hit singles. Her 1993 debut album, What Silence Knows, was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize.
Air Cuba, previously known as Cuba, were a British electronic music duo formed by Christopher Andrews and Ashley Bates. They released two singles and an album, Leap of Faith, on 4AD in 1998 and 1999. Their sound demonstrated a range of electronic, pop, and rock influences, and they were frequently compared with Primal Scream.
"Safe from Harm" is the third single and opening track from Blue Lines, the 1991 debut album from British trip hop collective Massive Attack, with vocals by Shara Nelson and Robert Del Naja. The bass, guitar, and drums are sampled from the song "Stratus" by Billy Cobham, from his album Spectrum. Additional drums are sampled from "Good Old Music" by Funkadelic. Other samples come from Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon", and some of the background vocals are based on Johnny "Guitar" Watson's 1961 song Looking Back.
The 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships was the twenty second edition of the tournament and was held between 3 and 7 July in Havana, Cuba.
Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. McCallum is the author of four collections of poems, including Madwoman, which won the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the poetry category. She currently lives in Pennsylvania.
"Daydreaming" is a song by Massive Attack with vocals by Shara Nelson. The song samples "Mambo" by Wally Badarou, from his album "Echoes" (1984). "Daydreaming" was released as a single on 15 October 1990, six months before their debut album Blue Lines. It reached #81 in the UK Singles Chart.
What Silence Knows is the debut solo album by English singer Shara Nelson, released in September 1993 on Cooltempo Records. It includes five singles which reached the UK Singles Chart: "Down That Road", "One Goodbye in Ten", "Inside Out", "Uptight" and "Nobody". The album peaked at No. 22 on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 100,000 copies.
Friendly Fire is the second album by the British singer/songwriter Shara Nelson. It was released in 1995 on Cooltempo Records.
"Down That Road" is a song by British singer-songwriter Shara Nelson, released July 1993 on Cooltempo Records as the debut single from her first solo album, What Silence Knows (1993). It peaked at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart, reached number one on the European Dance Radio Chart, and became a top-20 hit on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart.
"One Goodbye in Ten" is a song by British singer-songwriter Shara Nelson, released in September 1993 by Cooltempo as the second single from the singer's first solo album, What Silence Knows (1993). Written by her with British band Saint Etienne, the song received critical acclaim and peaked at number 21 on the UK Singles Chart. Additionally, it was a top-30 hit in Austria and a top-50 hit in the Netherlands.
"Uptight" is a song by English singer and songwriter Shara Nelson, released as the fourth single from her first solo album, What Silence Knows (1993), in January 1994.
"Nobody" is a song by British singer-songwriter Shara Nelson, released in May 1994 as the fifth single from her first solo album, What Silence Knows (1993), through Cooltempo Records.
"Rough with the Smooth" is a song by British singer-songwriter Shara Nelson, released in September 1995 as the first single from her second solo album, Friendly Fire (1995). The song peaked at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart.
"I Fell " is a song by British singer Shara Nelson, released as a second single from her second solo album, Friendly Fire in 1996 on Cooltempo Records as a two CD set.
"Sense of Danger" is a song by Presence with vocals by Shara Nelson released as a single in 1998 on Pagan / Ark 21 Records.
"Right Now" is a song by Futurasound with vocals by Shara Nelson released as a single in 2003.
"Hari Up Hari" is a song by Adrian Sherwood featuring vocals by Shara Nelson released as a 12" single in 2003 on Real World Records.
The British singer and songwriter Shara Nelson made three studio albums and 19 singles between 1983 and 2008, in addition to compilations, videos, EPs and other works.
Adeh is a village in Tala Tappeh Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. The name Ada is believed to come from a Turkish word meaning "island," which itself is a Turkification of the village's previous name, Jazarta, meaning "island" in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic. In the 2006 census, its population was noted to be 151, in 41 families. As of 2014, there were only 3 Assyrian families remaining in Ada, down from 700 Assyrian families prior to the Assyrian genocide.
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