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Mr Loverman is a British TV series starring Lennie James based on the novel of the same name by Bernardine Evaristo. Synopsis. Antiguan-born Londoner Barrington ...
"Mr. Loverman" is a song by Jamaican dancehall artist Shabba Ranks, released in 1992 and 1993 as a single by Epic Records. [1] It reached number 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the UK Singles Chart , as well as becoming a top-20 hit in France, Germany and Ireland.
Mr Loverman is the seventh novel written by British-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo.Published by Penguin Books, UK, in 2013 [1] and Akashic Books, US, in 2014, [2] [3] Mr Loverman explores the life of Britain's older Caribbean community, through the perspective of a 74-year-old Antiguan-Londoner and closet homosexual.
Shabba Ranks was born in Sturge Town, Saint Ann, Jamaica, and raised in Seaview Gardens, Kingston. [4] [5]His father, Ivan Gordon, was a mason who died in 1990. [6] His mother, Constance "Mama Christie" Christie, remained in Seaview after Shabba's success, feeding the community with money sent from her son after his emigration.
A nightcore (also known as sped-up song, sped-up version, sped-up remix, or, simply, sped-up edit) is a version of a music track that increases the pitch and speeds up its source material by approximately 35%. This gives an effect identical to playing a 33⅓-RPM vinyl record at 45 RPM.
In late 2005, a sped-up version of the song was posted by a DJ named Speedycake to 4chan. According to an interview with Ruakuu, Speedycake said the speed-up came from a mixing mistake while transitioning the "Caramelldansen" song to a faster BPM, and it ended up being "squeaky and high pitched", but that people were requesting for it anyway.
Evaristo was born in Eltham, south-east London, and christened Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo. [13] She was raised in Woolwich, the fourth of eight children born to an English mother, Jacqueline M. Brinkworth, of English, Irish and German heritage, [14] who was a schoolteacher, [15] and a Nigerian father, Julius Taiwo Bayomi Evaristo (1927–2001), known as Danny, born in British Cameroon ...
YouTube Live was a 2008 event streamed live on the Internet from San Francisco and Tokyo. It was launched November 22–23, 2008. It was hosted by a variety of YouTube celebrities, including The Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am, Tom Dickson of Will It Blend, Michael Buckley, The Happy Tree Friends, Fred, Smosh, Esmée Denters, Bo Burnham and singer Katy Perry among others. [1]