Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga

domingo, 13 de febrero de 2011

Lady Gaga

 Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta known as Lady Gaga was born in the city of New York on March 28, 1986. His father is an Internet businessman, and his mother, works as assistant of telecommunications. Having learned to touch the piano with four years, Stefani wrote his first ballad at the age of thirteen and began to take part in nights of live microphone at the age of fourteen. To the age of eleven years, Stefani joined the catholic and private school called Convent of the Sacred Heart, located in Manhattan. Nevertheless, the singer assured that it does not come from a rich family in spite of having gone to a private school.

Lady Gaga signed his first contract when he was nineteen years old. The first song that produced was " Boys Boys Boys " inspired by " Girls, Girls, Girls ". It began to act in clubs in New York with groups known in this epoch. At the same time, it began to take drugs and to take part in actions of type burlesque. One day, a musical producer, helped Gaga to compose someone of his first songs, and compared his vocal style with that of Freddie Mercury. In addition it nicknamed her with Gaga's nickname, which comes of the song of the group Queen, " Radio Ga Ga ". From this moment it began to use his nickname as pen name being known from then as Lady Gaga.


In August, 2008, the singer threw his first album, The Fame, and managed to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. The songs "Just Dance" and " Poker Face ", they had a great world repercussion, coming to the Nº1 on the principal musical markets. In addition " Poker Face " turned into the most successful song of 2009. For the promotion of the disc, the singer embarked in his first world tour, called The Fame Ball Tour.


In 2008, Gaga had moved to Los Angeles to work with his record stamp, The Fame. This album was received positively, the disc has it obtained a punctuation of 71 on 100. The Fame came to the number one in countries as Austria, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, between other countries, and to the number two in The United States.

domingo, 21 de noviembre de 2010

Thanksgiving Day

What is?
The Thanksgiving Day is a traditional celebration of North America (Except Mexico). In the United States it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, though originally it was done last Thursday. In Canada it is celebrated on the second Monday of October. It constitutes regularly a great familiar feast, in which the persons meet his relatives concerning the table, realizing traditional celebrations.

What do people do?

It is traditional for families and groups of friends to get together for a large meal. This often consists of a turkey, stuffing, different types of potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy and maize and other seasonal vegetables. The meal also often includes pumpkin pie. Many of these foods are native to the Americas and were not available in Europe at the time of the first settlers. This adds to their symbolism of giving thanks for a good harvest in a new country.
Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Many football games are played and watching them is a popular activity. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips out of town and to visit friends and family. 



The origin.


The holiday is related to the English settling. In 1620 a group of Christian settlers travelled to America on board of the ship Mayflower. They landed in November on the coast of Massachusetts to establish the Cologne of Plymouth. Without having time to be prepared for hard conditions of privation and cold. Of the hundred of Christians they did not survive the half of them. Those who achieved it, owed his luck to the help and food that the native ones of the zone.

Established and with the first gathered crop, the survivors decided to share his fruits with the Indians who helped them when they did not have resources. The governor of the colony proclaimed " one day of giving thanks to the Gentleman in order that we could in a more special way be glad after having gathered the fruit of our work ".


This pacific conviviality with the native ones lasted a few years, since the massive abundance of European colonists and the occupation of the territories of the aborigens would take them to constant clashes. The result of such confrontations was the almost total extermination of the Indians Wampanoag.


In 1789, the first president of the United States, George Washington, proclaimed the date as national day of Thanksgiving. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared that the celebration realized as national holiday of the United States. Nevertheless, it was not until 1941 that was established the date as official holiday.


The Thanksgiving Day is considered by many as the favorite bank holiday of the United States, in the main because it assembles all about the table for the dinner.