For all his frustrations, sulks and cancellations, a life spent bringing music to mankind was the greatest joy imaginable: singing, and then the crowd's adoration for his singing, as he jumped from the kitchen table and the cheese, the wine, the pasta and the sausages were lavishly spread before him.
He achieved his gorgeous tone and singing, swinging sense of melody by keeping his fingers near to the keys, not lifting them off and striking the poor ivories as some showier pianists do.
When I was 9 and 10 years old I would spend hours singing his songs and imitating the way he played the guitar.
Sitting on a panel here yesterday at the ISPCon trade show with the Red Hat CEO, his new investor friends, a local TV anchorwoman and a devoted crowd singing his praises, Torvalds certainly didn't mind the attention, nodding playfully at suggestions that he was approaching "God-like" status among developers.
Baritone Peter Mattei seemed to be living the agony of Amfortas, both in the fierceness of his singing and his halting, excruciating attempts to walk.
The California native served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and tried his hand at singing before moving to acting, according to the Internet Movie Database.
For the past 10 years, he's the guy you've seen on the sidewalk, with the great body, strumming his guitar and singing, dressed in a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and underwear -- and nothing else, even in the dead of winter.
But that theory was quickly shot down in flames by a squadron of hacks keen to point out that Mr Zuma - a man of great personal charm who can also wow a crowd with his singing and dancing - is simply not much of a wordsmith and that no grander conclusions should be drawn.
Howard Andrew Williams was born in Iowa and started singing professionally with his three brothers as the Williams Brothers Quartet.
As a young boy, Mtukudzi joined choirs to improve his singing talent and taught himself how to play a three-string guitar.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Rothstein was an intellectually gifted student who sang in the high school chorus and was recognized for his extraordinary singing voice.
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Barry Cheetham, senior lecturer in The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, is combining his academic expertise in communications, networks and digital signal processing with his love of choral singing.
He felt a pleasure beyond his ability to contain as he writhed with ecstasy, the flames singing to him and dancing in his eyes.
Miguel had close 70, 000 tweets with his handle embedded following the incident, and saw only about 26, 000 after singing his heart out at the Grammys.
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His self-pity is not deep enough to wipe out his inspiration for writing and singing, though.
Woodward also testified that she enjoyed her job, describing reading and singing to Matthew and his brother.
In 1966, when he was 8, he joined his brothers in the band his father put together and started singing lead with brother Jermaine.
"That was Berry Gordy's strategy, too -- taking his black singing groups and getting them to a white audience, " Covach says, referring to the Motown Records founder.
It is not immediately clear that this film will come out right from the opening montage, which features actors Mr. Allen has directed, fellow directors, film critics, collaborators and many others, all singing his praise.
Mr Trimble has been on holiday, and in his absence his colleagues have been singing different tunes.
Disarmingly measured and charming in conversation, Mr Blocher shows the fire in his belly when out on the campaign, singing patriotic folk songs and bellowing at rallies, especially in the German-Swiss valleys.
Fela Kuti was imprisoned and beaten for singing about the same things his son now sings about.
He played stripped-down versions of songs from Go, singing in his mesmerizing falsetto and accompanying himself on three-stringed tenor ukulele, guitar and piano.
There was a happy and relaxed atmosphere in the household on that sunny Sunday in the house and Aamir's father was singing when his mother noticed someone at the door.
The influence of Serge Gainsbourg is audible in the opulent sonic textures, in the cheeky wordplay of Leon's French lyrics and, especially, in his whispery talk-singing a vocal style pioneered by Gainsbourg that gives every song the feel of a slightly scandalous confession.
Male Chorus: (Singing) It was a lover and his lass, that o'er the green cornfield did pass.
The lady takes the strap around her forehead, derides his weakness and plunges off into the bush, singing.
As TV news helicopters circled the hospital a huge crowd gathered outside, singing Jackson's hits and chanting his name.
He actually got his start singing on cruise ships, and entered the business world in construction in the 1960s.
The narrator seems to be a veteran of war, and Waits gives the song his stereotypical Waits treatment, singing as though he had no vocal cords but plenty of nodes.
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