The former Plaid Cymru president, Dafydd Iwan, when he looked more like he did in the days of this picture than he does now, used to sing - in Welsh - of school days that were filled with "lessons history, lessons geography" and "lessons English " all the time.
But biographer Boris Gorelik, for this forthcoming book "Incredible Tretchikoff, " came from Russia to South Africa in search of the inspiration for the painting, and in 2010 discovered Monika Sing-Lee in Cape Town.
In an interview posted at an online blogspot, Gorelik comments on the unmistakable resemblance between the painting and photographs of Sing-Lee in 1952.
Elsewhere, 32 towns and cities will host 200 hours of festivities including an aerial tightrope walk in Coventry, a world record sing-a-long attempt in Manchester and the UK's biggest tea dance in Plymouth.
The 23-year-old receptionist from north London lost out in a "sing-off" performance against girl group Hope.
In the 1930s and '40s, it would have been impossible for an African-American singer, however extraordinary, to sing Wagner's lily-white heroine in an opera production.
He then leads 50 of the comic's most famous characters in a sing-along version of Hey Jude.
The soprano needs no prompting to name the roles she expects to sing in the not-too-distant future.
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Even now some non-Teutonic bands sing in German, says Mr Akstinat, pointing to Ich Troje, which represented Poland in last year's Eurovision song contest.
And my producer, who was in the room - this was in 1970s - said to me, you've got to sing a song.
But after trading tries, Greenshields towered above full-back Matt Sing to take in Bosc's kick and score under the posts.
And it basically ruined her career inasmuch that it--they took away her cabaret card, her right to sing in New York, anywhere with a liquor license, because--basically, because of singing that song.
Children sing a rap song in the pot-holed street, piles of rubbish on each corner.
Hull picked up from where they left in the second half as, putting the ball through hands when feigning to kick, Radford then Tickle sliced through Bradford for Sing to touch down in the right-hand corner.
Penate is one of several young, buzzed-about pop musicians who proudly sing in their London accents.
Elena Piskunova likes to sing melancholic Russian folk songs in traffic jams - she claims it's the best way to relax muscles and relieve stress.
Thriller Live's cast will also attend the event and, before Friday night's performance, six of the youngsters who have played Jackson in the production will sing Speechless - The Tribute.
But they complicate the mix by throwing in some jangly, uptempo sing-alongs, all of which makes their latest CD, Good Things Come and Go Like Bad Things an intriguing listen.
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To litigate against Ciba Vision, Rembrandt acquired a patent from husband and wife inventors Sing-Hsiung and Mei-Zyh Chang, in return for granting the Changs a net of 50% of the proceeds Rembrandt generates from the patent.
"There's no bowling alley sing-alongs, " executive producer Joshua Safran tells EW in his first interview since replacing creator Theresa Rebeck as showrunner of the series last spring.
To start her show, Madonna emerged from a giant glitter ball to sing first number Hung Up, dressed in an all-purple ensemble of jacket, velvet pedal pushers and knee-high boots.
His team-mates were queuing up to sing his praises as they basked in the glory of a long overdue trophy success.
If he's worried he didn't look it, smiling from behind his wrap-around shades as women dressed in the Somali flag sing traditional songs of welcome.
"Since the three of us come from three different parts of Afghanistan and speak in three different languages - Pashto, Dari and Uzbek - we thought it would be a good idea to sing in English, " says Ahmad.
She used to sing in a choir under the direction of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, and was a profound influence on Nascimento's long career as one of Brazil's music heroes.
Like we said, that HD Super AMOLED display makes the Windows Phone 8 aesthetic really sing -- although we wonder whether Nokia's latest flagship may well beat in outdoor performance.
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Fifteen seconds - a good thing to remember is you could sing "Happy Birthday" twice in that period of time.
"I sing in the shower as they say, and I can carry a tune - but even my ability to carry a tune deserted me under pressure, " he says.
The cable goes on to present a tale of lavish living, including a six-figure sum for Elton John to sing at a birthday party and a palace in the United Arab Emirates.
His model was Monika Sing-Lee, then 17, whom he spotted working at her uncle's launderette in Sea Point, Cape Town.
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