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President Rodrigo Duterte extends his hand to skater Margielyn Didal who showed a gesture of respect to the President on September 12, 2018. Mano is an "honouring-gesture" used in Filipino culture performed as a sign of respect to elders and as a way of requesting a blessing from the elder. Similar to hand-kissing, the person giving the greeting bows towards the hand of the elder and presses ...
French music history dates back to organum in the 10th century, followed by the Notre Dame School, an organum composition style. Troubadour songs of chivalry and courtly love were composed in the Occitan language between the 10th and 13th centuries, and the Trouvère poet-composers flourished in Northern France during this period.
French music originated as a unified style in medieval times, focusing around the Notre-Dame school of composers. This group developed the motet , a specific musical composition. Notable in the high Middle Ages were the troubadours and trouvères soon began touring France, composing and performing many original songs.
Mano Solo in 2007. Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010), born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer.He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, La Gueule ouverte.
By the mid-to-late 1930s, a large influx of English speaking people came for the oil fields in Southwest Louisiana. Also, a large migration of French speaking Cajuns expanded to Texas. It was common for performers to sing in both French and English and borrow heavily from the popular country music and Texas swing music on the radio.
The first distinct French pop music styles that emerged were the French rock and the yé-yé, which originated in France during the 1960s. They were influenced by the American rock & roll of the 1950s. In the early days, this style of French pop music was easily distinguishable from the earlier category of French music called chanson in English ...
Vernacular music among Louisiana Creole people combined African, French, Spanish, and Anglo-American influences. During the 19th century, this was expressed as a cappella juré music. After the Civil War, sharecroppers were able to purchase instruments and hold house parties. The music that developed into the early 20th century was called la la ...
The song "Pamulinawen" is perhaps the most well-known song in the Ilocos region of the Philippines that pre-dates the arrival of the Spanish in 1521. The scholar Leopoldo Yabes wrote in 1936 that it is actually possibly the oldest song still known from the pre-Spanish era.