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Big Bang (Korean: 빅뱅) is a South Korean boy band formed by YG Entertainment. With members G-Dragon, T.O.P, Taeyang, Daesung, and Seungri, they are often cited as one of the most influential acts to shape the K-pop industry, helping spread the Korean Wave internationally and dubbed the "Kings of K-pop" by the media.Their experimental blend of hip hop, EDM, and rock elements in their music, personal involvement in producing their own records,[9] and stage performances have been admired by music critics and served as influence to several K-pop and international artists.

 

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Despite their debut album, Bigbang Vol.1 (2006), receiving lukewarm receptions, success followed with a string of notable hits credited to the quintet, including "Lies" (Korean: 거짓말; Revised Romanization: Geojitmal), which topped major Korean music charts for a record-breaking six consecutive weeks, and won Song of the Year at the 9th Mnet Korean Music Festival, "Last Farewell" (Korean: 마지막 인사; Revised Romanization: Majimak Insa), "Day by Day" (Korean: 하루하루, Revised Romanization: Haru Haru) and "Sunset Glow" (Korean: 붉은노을; Revised Romanization: Byulkeun Noeul). After receiving the Artist of the Year award from the 2008 Mnet Korean Music Festival and the 2008 Seoul Music Awards, the group expanded their endeavors to Japan, releasing the gold certified albums Big Bang (2009), Big Bang 2 (2011), Alive (2012) and Made Series (2016).

 

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A two-year hiatus in South Korea saw forth increasingly critically acclaimed albums. The number one EP Tonight (2011) lead to their emergence as the inaugural Best Worldwide Act winner at the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards. The Korean EP Alive (2012) earned their second Artist of the Year Award at the 2012 Mnet Asian Music Awards, and also became the first Korean album to chart on the Billboard 200, with the group embarking on their first world tour that concluded in early 2013. Their widely acclaimed third album Made (2016) was preceded by several chart-topping singles, winning the group their third Artist of the Year award at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards and their first at the 2015 Melon Music Awards. The supporting world tour gathered 1.5 million people in attendance, making it the most attended concert tour headlined by a Korean act in history.

 

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Big Bang has a record eighteen number one songs that have remained atop South Korean's biggest online music service Melon for 51 weeks, more than any other act.

 

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The quintet have sold over 140 million records, making them one of the biggest-selling boy-bands in the world.

 

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           GDragon: Kwon Ji Yong 

 

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          TOP: Choi Seunghyun

 

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          Taeyang: Dong Yong Bae

 

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          Daesung: Kang Daesung

 

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         Seunggri: Lee Seung Hyun

 

They were also the first Korean artists to enter Forbes's Celebrity 100 and the 30 under 30 list of most influential musicians in the world, in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

                  

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Pitt (/dʒoʊˈliː/ joh-LEE; née Voight; born June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

 

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She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).

 

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Jolie's starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. She continued her successful action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting, and producing, starting with the wartime dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) and Unbroken (2014). Her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent (2014).

 

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In addition to her film career, Jolie is noted for her humanitarian efforts, for which she has received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and an honorary damehood of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG), among other honors. She promotes various causes, including conservation, education, and women's rights, and is most noted for her advocacy on behalf of refugees as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry. For a number of years, she was cited as the world's most beautiful woman by various media outlets, and her personal life is the subject of wide publicity. Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, she separated from her third husband, actor Brad Pitt, in September 2016. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally.

 

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Emma Watson

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is a British actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. She rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, having acted only in school plays previously. Watson appeared in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, earning worldwide fame, critical accolades, and around $60 million.

 

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Watson continued to work outside of the Harry Potter films, lending her voice to The Tale of Despereaux (2008) and appearing in the 2007 television adaptation of the novel Ballet Shoes. Following the last Harry Potter film, she took on starring and supporting roles in My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) and The Bling Ring (2013), made a brief appearance as an exaggerated version of herself in This Is the End (2013), and portrayed the title character's adopted daughter in Noah (2014). In 2017, she starred as Belle in a live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. Her other roles include Regression (2015), Colonia (2015) and The Circle (2017).

 

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From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time between working on film projects and continuing her education, studying at Brown University and Worcester College, Oxford and graduating from Brown with a bachelor's degree in English literature in May 2014. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. As a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree. She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year. That same year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality.

 

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Watson was born in Paris, France, the daughter of English lawyers Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. Watson lived in Paris until the age of five. Her parents separated when she was young; following their divorce, Watson moved back to England to live with her mother in Oxfordshire while spending weekends at her father's house in London. Watson has stated that she speaks some French, though "not as well" as she used to.[18] After moving to Oxford with her mother and brother, she attended the Dragon School in Oxford, remaining there until 2003. From the age of six, she wanted to become an actress, and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing, and acting.

By the age of ten, Watson had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince, but she had never acted professionally before the Harry Potter series. Following the Dragon School, Watson moved on to Headington School. While on film sets, she and her peers were tutored for up to five hours a day. In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades.

 

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Leona Chin Becomes Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia Brand Ambassador

Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia (MMM) announced that it has appointed Malaysian motorsports talent Leona Chin as its brand ambassador.

Tomoyuki Shinnishi, CEO of MMM said that she was appointed due to her active involvement in motorsports – something that Mitsubishi can relate to as many of the brand’s vehicles are rally inspired models.  

 

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Prior to the official appointment, Leona has joined Mitsubishi Motors in promoting models like the new Triton by participating in this year’s Borneo Safari Challenge.

She was also the star of the popular "Sales Girl Drifts Customers in Pickup Truck" prank video which has more than 7.3 million views on YouTube, in which she poses as a Mitsubishi salesperson and takes customers on test drive sessions where she drifts and pulls various stunts behind the wheels of the new Triton, shocking the customers.  

“It was an exciting journey for me last year, as the Triton product ambassador and owner. Most of the extreme events which I’ve been with Mitsubishi have proved the strength, durability and endurance of the Triton. I wish to thank Mitsubishi Motors Malaysia for the opportunity to work together again and I am looking forward to represent the brand overall this time,” said Leona Chin.

 

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As the Mitsubishi Motors’ brand ambassador, Leona Chin will appear in several campaigns in the media, roadshows and also on social media campaigns.

She will also be appearing at the Outlander CKD preview roadshow at Mid Valley Megamall from today to 1 October from 10.00am-10.00pm.

 

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Bgirl Asia One

 

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Asia One is one of the bgirl legends that’s still active in the game. She’s originally from Denver, Colorado, then moved to the West Coast where she trained with the Rock Steady Crew and the Zulu Nation..She’s been in many videos and has worked with artists like the Black Eyed Peas, Tribe Called Quest and the late Malcolm McClaren. She’s also in Vibe’s Hip-Hop Divas book and the We B*Girlz book by Martha Cooper and Nika Kramer.

 

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Asia’s been into Hiphop since the 80’s, doing some of all the elements, being a good writer as well, and started breaking in 1991. She started the BBoy Summit in 1994, one of the first big and dope International Hip Hop gatherings around.. Bboy Summit 4 is one of the first DVD’s I saw when I started breaking. So by the time I was starting, Asia had already builded an event, started her organisation No Easy Props and owned a reputation as a dancer. Hello inspiration!

No Easy Props is her motto and the name of her company. Currently the two main entities of NEP, Inc. are the Hip-Hop 101 after-school dance and art program where she’s working with the local youth, and The B-Boy Summit annual event.

Below here is a short documentary called Asia One: Expect the Unexpected from 2013. It’s about her life, put together by long time writer, film maker, racial justice activist J-Love Calderon who is also from Denver, Colorado. The film was an official selection of 2013 Hollywood Film Festival and has been getting rave reviews.

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Sierra Prescott

Sierra Prescott’s genuine smile and energy usually can’t help but charm and disarm her subjects. But if neither of those things works, she’ll roll in the dirt, challenge you to a skateboarding contest, or call for an on-set dance-off. She’s committed.

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She’s committed to capturing candid moments that breathe character. She’s committed to everyone having a good time and getting what they came for and more. Her work is fresh and alive, expressing a youthful point of view.

Her fashion photography has the same quality as her portraits: the energy dominates, personalities are evident and people look real (albeit while wearing someone else’s fancy clothes).

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Her folks recognized early that they had either a photographer or a potential felon on their hands when Sierra shoplifted her first Kodak at the age of four. Though they made her return that one, they rolled the dice on her future and bought her a camera. Her brother became her first subject and she snapped him incessantly for years. Somehow, he doesn’t hate her.

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After establishing herself in Los Angeles in her early teens as a professional sports photographer, she was contracted to photograph the Kentucky Derby for BloodHorse Magazine at the age of seventeen. Personal highlights of this experience were meeting one of her idols, esteemed Sports Illustrated photographer Heinz Kluetmeier, and landing the cover of the local newspaper. After high school she attended Brooks Institute, where as a sophomore she joined Peggy Sirota’s team as her in-house studio tech.  After graduating from Brooks with special recognition, she continued to work with Peggy for two more years before joining Williams + Hirakawa as their studio manager.

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Now solo, Sierra's work is in demand by leading brands, publications, actors, services and tradework. For client list, please request. 

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Avril Lavigne Helped Me Embrace The Shit-Kicking Teenage Girl I Always Was

She may not have been 2002’s answer to Throbbing Gristle, but she filled a gap where teenage girls had yet to see themselves, and gave them a voice.

Most people I know will claim that their musical entry point to feminism came in the form of an old Bikini Kill tape or a Sleater-Kinney interview – objectively cool beacons of subculture handed down from the generations before. But I’ll just come right out and say that mine was Avril Lavigne: the most popular pop-star to ever wear a pair of fingerless gloves.

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It all started back in 2002: a particularly shitty year for me. I had been beaten up by a bunch of 16-year-old boys for riding a skateboard in my local park, meaning I never really went near a skateboard again. I’d lost a bunch of friends because I wasn’t up for going to the local 14+ “nightclub” (bowling alley with an alcohol license) to drink WKD and snog someone in the year above. I didn’t wear make-up, I didn’t wear dresses, and I was forever lovingly coined a ‘tomboy’. It’s not that I didn’t feel like a girl – but most people had already made their minds up about what that version of a girl should be, and I guess I didn't fit it.

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Growing up in the early 00s meant I had already been subjected to the glory years of manufactured pop. Now, I love me some Britney, but as much of a banger as it is, “Born to Make You Happy” sends the wrong message to an impressionable tween. That's not to say the spectrum of female representation in turn-of-the-century pop didn't stretch further than a blonde-haired, virginial pop-star, though – because it did. We were treated to Missy Elliott’s “Get Ur Freak On” in 2001, Pink had driven her deadbeat boyfriend’s motorcycle into the window of his apartment the year before, Peaches was all about fucking the pain away, and I’d even entered my Destiny's Child dance routine into the pioneer camp talent competition. These were all badass women, going against the norm of the sugary-sweet pop that had dominated the airwaves in the years previous. But despite having them on my Walkman, I didn’t relate to any of them. I didn’t know how to pay a bill, I couldn’t see myself with short electric-pink hair, and as a 12-year-old yet to understand the real world, I had no idea what pain Peaches was talking about.

You needn’t look further than American Pie – an entire franchise about hormonally frenzied high schoolers and their potholed quest for third base – to see the difference between what was marketed towards teenage boys and what was marketed towards teenage girls at the time. The films were almost synonymous with the pop-punk that littered the soundtrack, and although I enjoyed Blink-182 and Stifler jokes as much as my older brother, this was music that was aggressively marketed towards boys, with girls placed firmly on the sidelines. I obsessed over the latest Jimmy Eat World song or wrote ‘Sum 41 4eva’ across my school diary, but I never felt as though those bands, or that music, belonged to me. And then along came Avril.

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I first saw Avril Lavigne on an episode of Total Request Live. They were doing one of their video countdowns and there she was, all straightened hair and baggy pants, gliding on her skateboard over to a bunch of boys and uttering “Life’s like this”, before shredding on her guitar. It felt like the first sign in mainstream culture that I could be who I wanted to be. That I could wear a Green Day hoodie without my punk-pop credentials coming into question, that I could finally quit my classical piano lessons and pick up a guitar without the raised-eyebrows of my music teacher.

While most of the girls in my year seemed to welcome puberty like a seamless next chapter, I was a braces-clad, glasses-wearing dork who gasped at the sight of a thong in the changing rooms. So, the thing that struck me the most about the “Complicated” video was how Avril Lavigne was feminine without embodying any of the stereotypes that had been shoved in my face for so long. She wore make-up, sang about love, and took up as much space as she damn-well pleased in that skate-park – a typically male-dominated setting where girls were monumentally disregarded, as I was.

In an early interview, Avril responds to a question about her critics with a resounding, “If you don’t like me for who I am then you don’t like me for who I am, but all you’re going to get is who I am.” It’s a quote that pretty much sums up the message of her debut album, Let Go. Much like the unapologetic call outs on “Complicated,” the vulnerable-yet-vengeful “Unwanted” and the giant f-you chorus of “Nobody’s Fool”, the ballad-like beginnings of the album's opening track fall away as she roars: "That's when I decided, why should I care?". There was no fluffy forgiveness in Avril's songwriting, which is something I brought into my own life, too.

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Avril attended awards shows in cargo pants and plain vest tops, her token tie swinging from her neck; she gave refreshing interview answers no other pop star would dream of uttering – “Wow! You’re so honest,” a presenter would gush, “Why wouldn’t I be?” Avril would shrug. She wore backwards caps; she yelled; she included skate tools and plectrums in her tour merch; she was taking control of a genre in a way I hadn’t seen before. Pop punk was (and unfortunately, still is) a male-dominated genre, but seeing a woman at the forefront of its success – even just for a little while – allowed me to witness that we could not only hold our own among the boys, but that we could do it bigger and better. Even if it was a huge marketing ploy, at least it was one that liberated me.

While I was used to watching pop stars gather to pray before they took to the stage during one of MTV’s finest day-in-the-life-of programmes, Avril punched her bandmates, flashed her bra, and called everyone a bunch of motherfuckers. She never once referred to herself as a punk or a skater, but read just about any interview or review from 2002 and most question Avril’s authenticity – how punk is she really? Did you know she doesn’t really write all of her songs herself? Why is she so difficult to deal with? Sure, she was still a mainstream artist and she may not have been 2002’s answer to Throbbing Gristle, but to teenage girls everywhere, she showed us that we didn’t have to stay quiet, we didn’t have to like what we were told to like, and we didn’t have to smile. She screamed in spaces reserved for boys, she told us to pick up a guitar, and she told us it was okay to like stuff that guys had hoarded for themselves.

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Her first headline tour was called Try and Shut Me Up. The words appeared ablaze behind her before she launched into the performance, which included covers of Metallica’s “Fuel” and Green Day’s “Basket Case”. Teenage girls gathered at the front of her shows, singing along to the songs that were never allowed to be theirs. She gave us the voice we needed. She didn't just resonate with me, she was filling a gap where teenage girls had yet to see themselves. She was invading the pop-punk space that had been so carefully curated by men and forever marketed towards boys. She was a commercial pop icon, yes, but also a sweary, gum-chewing 17-year-old who didn’t play up to the idea that in order to be a mainstream artist you had to live up to unreasonable expectations of girlhood. In short: she helped me embrace the shit-kicking teenage girl that I always was.

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