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Lolita Ritmanis is an American composer. Nominated for ten Emmy Awards, she won the award in 2001 for her work on the animated series Batman Beyond. Born on November 1, 1962, in Portland, Oregon, Ritmanis is the daughter of Dr. Andris Ritmanis and Asja Ritmanis, who left Latvia during World War II and immigrated to the US in 1949. Ritmanis has a sister, Brigita Ritmanis-Jameson, and a brother, Alberts Ritmanis. Throughout her childhood Ritmanis studied piano, flute, guitar and voice, performing in both jazz and classical music ensembles. Ritmanis composed her first song at age 11. By age 16 she...

Dave McKenna was a jazz pianist born in Woonsocket, RI in 1930 who eventually settled in Cape Cod, MA. He was known for a trademark left-hand bass style and mastery of a wide range of jazz styles, from big band to salon piano. McKenna began his career with the Boots Mussulli Band and then the Charlie Ventura band, followed by a stint with Woody Herman. After two years in the army, he returned to Charlie Ventura's band, then worked with Gene Krupa, Stan Getz, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. He often worked with Bobby Hackett, including some gigs at...

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) studied the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for a quarter century. He grew up in Paonia, Colorado. At age sixteen, he moved to Los Altos, California, where he was first introduced to psychedelics by Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception." Inspired by Huxley's rapturous depiction of the psychedelic experience, he "got started" on Heavenly Blue morning glory seeds. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, Terence emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he called the Archaic Revival. Poetically dispensing enlightened social criticism and new theories...

Lolita Storm is a digital hardcore band from the UK consisting of Nhung Napalm, Jimmy Too Bad and Spex. Romy Bonilla Medina left the band in 2004, after releasing an EP under the name Joan Of Ass. They released their single debute 'Goodbye America' / 'Get Back I'm Evil' in 1999 on the label Rabid Badger. NME subsequently made this Single Of The Week. In 2000 they released Girls Fucking Shit Up, their best known work to date, on Digital Hardcore Recordings. Digital Hardcore Recordings also released three singles from this album, 'Red Hot Riding Hood', 'Sick Slits' and 'Hot...

Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie (born 29 June, 1976 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a musician, actor, producer, writer and comedian, best known for being half of the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords with Jemaine Clement. McKenzie is a former member of The Black Seeds. He has released an album called Prototype as Video Kid and is a member of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. McKenzie attended Clifton Terrace Model School (model in the sense of a standard school for training teachers; not a school for models), Wellington College and then Victoria University of Wellington where he met Jemaine...