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Encyclopedia > Cecilia

"Cecilia" is a song by Simon and Garfunkel, from their 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. When released as a single, it reached #4 in the US charts. The "Cecilia" of the title is an apparently capricious lover, causing both anguish and jubilation to the singer. It begins "Cecilia, you're breaking my heart/ You're shaking my confidence daily..." then ends with "Jubilation!/ She loves me again..." Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends Simon and Garfunkel are an American popular music duo comprising Paul Simon and Arthur Art Garfunkel. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Bridge Over Troubled Water is an album by Simon and Garfunkel released on January 26, 1970. ...


The song was banned in Malawi because "Cecilia" (Cecilia Tamanda Kadzamira) was the name of the wife of president Hastings Banda. Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda (1898? - November 25, 1997) was the founding President and former dictator of Malawi. ...


A cover version by Suggs of UK ska band Madness became his most successful single and sold more than 500,000 copies. [1] Graham McPherson, - born 13 January 1961 - (more widely known as Suggs) is the vocalist of the popular second wave ska band, Madness. ... Album cover of One Step Beyond Madness were a British ska band of the 1980s. ...


In 1998, Swedish pop band Ace of Base released a motown track titled "Cecilia" from their album Flowers, which continues the story of the Simon and Garfunkel character. Jenny Berggren, lead vocalist for the band, sings, "This is a song about a well known girl," then tells of Cecilia's continuous bouncing back and forth between lovers. Ace of Base is a Swedish dance/pop band that consists of Jonas Berggren (Joker), Ulf Ekberg (Buddha), Linn Berggren and Jenny Berggren; the three Berggrens are siblings. ... Flowers is the name of the third album of Ace of Base, a pop music group based in Sweden. ...


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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Cecilia (1974 words)
The oldest historical account of St. Cecilia is found in the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum"; from this it is evident that her feast was celebrated in the Roman Church in the fourth century.
De Rossi located the burial-place of Cecilia in the Catacomb of Callistus in a crypt immediately adjoining the crypt or chapel of the popes; an empty niche in one of the walls contained, probably, at one time the sarcophagus with the bones of the saint.
The oldest representations of St. Cecilia show her in the attitude usual for martyrs in the Christian art of the earlier centuries, either with the crown of martyrdom in her hand (e.g.
Cecilia Bartoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (487 words)
The Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli (born 4 June 1966) is a popular opera singer and recitalist.
Her first public performance was at age nine as a shepherd boy in Tosca.
In contrast to most opera singers, Bartoli came to prominence in her early twenties, unusual in a profession where vocal maturity is typically not achieved until the thirties.
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