Harry Houdini - American magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer

Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer well-known for his sensational escape acts. He was also a skeptic who set out to depiction frauds purport to be supernatural phenomena. He performed in dime museums and sideshows, and still doubled as "The Wild Man" at a circus. Houdini focused originally on traditional card tricks. At a point, he billed himself as the "King of Cards". But he soon began experiment with escape acts.

He was never cleared how Houdini control to escape from his bonds. Arthur Conan Doyle counts him a medium that only perform as a prestidigitator. It is unspecified that Houdini swallowed the key to the handcuffs and won it back through vomiting unseen by his audiences, as he forever escaped from his bonds in a hidden place. Harry Houdini died of peritonitis, secondary to a rupture appendix. Eyewitnesses to an event in Montreal gave rise to speculation that Houdini's death was caused by a McGill University student, J. Gordon Whitehead, who delivered many blows to Houdini's abdomen to test Houdini's claim that he was capable to take any blow to the body above the waist without injury.

Born Name	Erik Weisz
Date Of Birth	March 24, 1874
Place Of Birth	Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Occupation	Magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, historian, film producer, pilot, debunker
Date Of Death	October 31, 1926
Place Of Death	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Kesha - American pop singer and songwriter

Kesha Rose Sebert, better recognized by the mononym Kesha, is an American pop singer and songwriter. In 2005, at eighteen, Kesha was sign to Dr. Luke's record label, Kemosabe Entertainment, and publish company. Although an active musician since then, singing background vocals and writing songs for further artists, her breakthrough only came in early 2009 after show on Flo Rida's number one single, "Right Round." Her entrance single, "Tik Tok", released in late 2009, attain number one in eleven countries. Her debut album, Animal, was out in January 2010 and debuted at number one in the US, Canada and Greece.

By September, Kesha had sold two million album worldwide and out three more top ten singles from Animal. The album was re-released with a companion extensive play, Cannibal, in November, precede by the chart topping guide single, "We R Who We R". Kesha has quote artists such as Madonna, Debbie Harry, Queen, Johnny Cash, Aaron Neville, Bob Dylan and Beastie Boys as musical power. Her music incorporates fundamentals of dance-pop, and she uses a spoken word rapping style on several songs.

Birth name	Kesha Rose Sebert
Date Of Birth	March 1, 1987
Place of Birth	Los Angeles, California, United States
Genres	Electropop, dance-pop
Occupations	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar

Esperanza Spalding - jazz bassist and singer, winner of Grammy Award

Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best recognized as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon several genres in her own compositions. In 2011, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 53rd Grammy Awards, creation her the initial jazz artist to win the award. Spalding has record 3 albums Junjo (2006), Esperanza (2008) and Chamber Music Society (2010). The first was formed to display the dynamic that she felt among her trio.

On December 10, at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies, Spalding achieve at Oslo City Hall in honor of the 2009 Laureate President Barack Obama and again at the Nobel Peace Prize performance the following day. She was personally chosen by Obama, as per the tradition of one laureate-invited-artist to perform. On February 7, 2010, Spalding became the nearly all searched person and second most searched item on Google as a effect of her look the previous evening on the PBS television program Austin City Limits.

Year of Born	1984
Place of Birth	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion, bossa nova, neo soul
Occupations	Musician, composer, educator, bandleader
Instruments	Vocals, upright bass, bass guitar, violin, oboe, clarinet

Tony Award - Award for Excellence in Theatre

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more usually known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live American theatre. The awards are offered by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an yearly ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway making and performance, and an award is given for regional theatre. Several discretionary non competitive awards are also given, with a Special Tony Award, the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, and the Isabelle Stevenson Award. The prize are name after Antoinette Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.

The rules for the Tony Awards are set forth in the official certificate "Rules and Regulations of The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards", which relate for that season only. It measured the highest U.S. theatre honor, the U.S. theatre industry's equal to the Academy Awards (Oscars) for motion pictures, the Grammy Awards for music and the Emmy Awards for television. In British theatre, the equal of the Tony Award is the Laurence Olivier Award. Since 1997, the Tony Awards ceremony has regularly been held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in June and transmit live on CBS television. The 64th Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 13, 2010, at Radio City Music Hall, with a three-hour televise on CBS television.

Awarded for	Excellence in Broadway theatre
Presented by	American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League
Country	United States
First awarded	1947