Showing posts with label Walt Disney company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walt Disney company. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Christina Aguilera - Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, television personality,actress

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera is a famous American recording artist andactress. Aguilera first appear on national television in 1990 as a competitoron the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's televisionseries The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. Aguilera sign to RCA Records afterrecording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan. In1999, Aguilera came to fame following her debut album Christina Aguilera, whichwas a commercial victory spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot100 "Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and"Come On Over Baby."

Her sophomore and her entrance Latin-pop album, Mi Reflejo(2000), a Christmas third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and manycollaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success, though shewas displeased with her require of input in her music and image. After partingfrom her management, Aguilera took imaginative control over her fourth studioalbum, Stripped (2002). Aside from being known for her vocal skill, musicvideos and image, musically, she include themes of dealing with publicscrutiny, her childhood, and female empowerment in her music. Apart from herwork in music, she has also committed much of her time as a philanthropist for charity,human rights and world issue which include her work as a UN ambassador for theWorld Food Programme.

Christina Aguilera


She made her feature film debut in the musical Burlesque(2010), earning Aguilera a Golden Globe suggestion for Best Original Song.Aguilera's work has earn her numerous awards and accolades, including a star onthe Hollywood Walk of Fame, four Grammy Awards and one Latin Grammy Award, amongfifteen and three nominations respectively.  She was ranked the 20th Artist of the 2000–09decade by Billboard and is the second top selling single performer of the 2000sbehind Madonna. Aguilera's albums sales are predictable at around 50 millionunits worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Birth name
Christina María Aguilera
Date Of Birth
December 18, 1980
Place Of Birth
Staten Island, New York, US
Origin
Wexford, Pennsylvania, US
Genres
Pop, R&B, soul, dance
Occupations
Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, television personality,actress

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

The Walt Disney Company - media conglomerate, production, television, and travel

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/The Walt Disney Company is the biggest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Establish on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, the company was reincorporate as Walt Disney Productions, Ltd. in 1929, and became exposure traded as Walt Disney Productions in 1938. Walt Disney Productions established itself as a chief in the American animation industry before diversify into live-action film production, television, and travel. Taking on its present name in 1986, The Walt Disney Company expanded its existing process and also started division focused upon theatre, radio, publishing, and online media. In addition, it has formed new divisions of the company in order to market more mature content than it classically associates with its flagship family-oriented brands.

The company is best recognized for the products of its film studio, the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, and today one of the biggest and best-known studios in Hollywood. Disney also owns and function the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, and ABC Family; publishing, merchandising, and theatre divisions; and own and licenses 11 theme parks around the world. The company has been a part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6, 1991. An early and well-known cartoon making of the company, Mickey Mouse, is the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company.

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/

Industry

Media conglomerate

Founded In

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Founded On

October 16, 1923

Founder(s)

Walt and Roy Disney

Employees

149,000

Divisions

Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group,

Disney Music Group,

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts,

Disney-ABC Television Group,

Disney Interactive Media Group,

Disney Consumer Products

Subsidiaries

Walt Disney Pictures,

Walt Disney Animation Studios,

Walt Disney Theatrical,

Pixar Animation Studios,

Marvel Entertainment, LLC,

ABC Inc.,

ESPN (80%),

A&E Television Networks (42.5%),

Radio Disney

Revenue

increase US$ 38.063 billion

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Steve Jobs - business magnate, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc,


Steven Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs also before served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became an associate of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as a managerial producer. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others. After down a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and established NeXT, a computer platform development company concentrate in the higher education and business markets.

Apple's later 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since 1997. In 1986, he obtains the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and mass shareholder at 50.1% until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's major individual shareholder at 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On March 2, 2011 Steve Jobs complete an appearance at the iPad 2 launch event.


Born Name

Steven Paul Jobs

Date Of Birth

February 24, 1955

Place Of Birth

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Nationality

American

Alma mater

Reed College

Occupation

Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc

Net worth

increase$8.3 billion

Board member

The Walt Disney Company

Religion

Buddhism

Spouse

Laurene Powell