Ron Knight (Sirius, The Travel Channel, Chapala Radio, ABC) yucks up the talk with writers, talent n' topics in contemporary media, of the world, subjects of newest releases in book, ebook, audiobook, working titles and works in progress. Covering certain world views and a touch on geopolitics, everything from media, film, screenplay, music, book, interactive, animation, even prose, poetry and essay get an even, open crack.
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The end of the 80s marked the beginning of the career of DJ MA. Like most brazilian DJs, started doing parties using the old tapes recorded from the radio stations. In 1990, bought his first vinyl records, building a good collection of midbacks, whether in R&B, House Music and Miami Bass. After the era of dance music in the 90s, has focused his career in Deep House Music and Brazilian Rare Grooves. O final da década de 80 marcou o início da carreira do DJ MA. Como a maioria dos DJs, começou ...
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Episode 46: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 45
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IZA - Nunca Mais Mahmundi - Versos Não Jackson Do Pandeiro - Cacungaruquê (Dj Farrapo Edit) Gilberto Gil - Pretinha (Remix) Sócrates e As Garotas - Flauta Do Macaco (Marco Buscema Flute Mix) Hermeto Pascoal - Gaio da Roseira (Tahira Edit) Gal Costa - Azul (Banana Gold Remix)
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Episode 45: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 44
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1 - Azymuth - Tá Nessa Ainda Bicho 2 - Rachel Reis - Som 3 - Adriana Calcanhotto, Fran e Ubunto - Vumbora Amar 4 - Russo Passapusso e Antonio Carlos & Jocafi - Mirê Mirê 5 - Tulipa Ruiz - Samaúma (Cafuné Funky Mix) 6 - Clara Anastacia - MEU ILÊ (Gaspar Muniz edit) 7 - Jorge Ben Jor - Palco (Tahira Edit) 8 - Djavan - Aquele um…
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1 - After The Cutt - îl De Ré, Pt.1 (Original Mix) 2 - Sir Mos Feat. Nelisiwe - Colourful Design 3 - ARTWORK - Time is Now (feat. V Underground & Nutownsoul) 4 - Caetano & Gal - Sorte (Lucio K & Dogg Scar Remix) 5 - Saison, Miss Yankey - Making Shapes (Scott Diaz Remix) 6 - Diephuis feat. Ursula Rucker – Listen To This Drum (Turbojazz & Sean McCabe…
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Episode 43: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 43 - O Brasil do futuro
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1 - Iza - Fé ( ESM REMIX ) 2 - Emicida - Cananéia, Iguape e Ilha Comprida 3 - Gloria Groove - Radar (Dudumix Version) 4 - BaianaSystem - Duas cidades (Lucio K Remix) 5 - Gilberto Gil - Andar com fe (Guss edit mix) 6 - Fran - afro futurista 7 - Milton Nascimento - Para Lennon e McCartney 8 - Elza Soares - Hoje É Dia De Festa 9 - Simone - Tô Voltando…
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Episode 42: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 42 - Homenagem a Gal Costa
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Gal Costa - Saudação aos povos africanos Gal Costa - A falsa baiana Gal Costa - Caminhos do Mar Gal Costa - rainha do mar Gal Costa - É D'Oxum Gal Costa - Bahia Minha (Joutro Mundo Rework) Gal Costa - Que pena Gal costa - barato total Gal Costa - Flor de Maracujá Gal Costa - Pontos De Luz Gal Costa - Chiclete com banana Gal Costa - Tuareg…
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1 - The 8 Beat Quartet - Soirée Lounge (David Devilla Remix) 2 - Erdi Irmak - Rakuyou (Original Mix) 3 - Beyoncé, - Break my Soul (Terry Hunter Remix) 4 - Oliver & Tom - Bruges (Original Mix) 5 - Dolls Combers feat. Kafele Bandele - A Star Supreme (DC Supreme Vocal Mix) 6 - Leon Lobato, Davka - Vagalume (Ilias Katelanos Remix)…
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Episode 41: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 42 - Gilberto Gil 80 anos
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1 - Ela 2 - Marina 3 - Ile aye 4 - Marginália II 5 - Procissão 6 - Baba Alapala 7 - Parabolicamará 8 - Domingo No Parque 9 - Ojú Obá 10 - Andar com fe (Guss edit mix) 11 - Maracatu Atômico (Fatboy Slim Presents Gilberto Gil) 12 - Refazenda (Guss edit) 13 - Toda Menina Baiana (Tahira Re-Edit) 14 - Gilberto Gil - Palco ( Remix ) 15 - Gilberto Gil - E…
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Episode 41: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 41 - Gilberto Gil Junino
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1 - Despedida de solteira 2 - Onde o Xaxado tá 3 - O Xote das Meninas 4 - O livre-atirador e a pegadora 5 - Aprendi com o rei 6 - Vendedor de carangueijo 7 - O Canto Da Ema 8 - Madalena 9 - Sao Joao, Xango Menino 10 - Olha Pro Céu 11 - São João carioca 12 - A volta da Asa Branca 13 - Isso Aqui Tá Bom Demais…
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Episode 40: Deeper Grooves from Brazil - 40 - Homenagem a Elza Soares
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0 - De que planeta você veio? 1 - Estatutos De Gafieira 2 - Chamego de Crioula 3 - Canoa Furada 4 - Deusa do Rio Niger 5 - Samba, Minha Raiz 6 - Tenha pena de mim 7 - Edmundo 8 - Mas Que Nada 9 - Saltei de Bamba 10 - Quero Morrer No Carnaval 11 - Salve A Mocidade
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From a prior broadcast at Sirius New York, Ron gets to travel to Brazil to talk with author and instructor Luciano Alves, in the historic village of Parati. One of the activities of Luciano Alves in the field of teaching music is his research into methods that streamline the learning process, writing books showing the uses of chords and scales, as …
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Bandoleros Songwriting Mixes Up the World Beat
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Chicago-based Bandoleros sit down with Ron Knight in the New York City Studios to talk about their unique, local but global fusion, a true World Music phenomenon, known for its spicy blend of musical styles that get people up on their feet. With Middle Eastern, Spanish flamenco and Latin flavors, with a unique, eclectic repertoire in such diverse l…
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Gal Costa, reigning queen of Brazil's Bossa Nova on Jobim and tropicalismo
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What is it about the writings and music of Antonio Carlos Jobim that so defined the beauty and nature of what we think of Brazil. Ron is joined by legendary Brazilian Superstar Gal Costa in this historic interview, to talk of the music, the Bossa Nova, the writings of Jobim, and the flavors and love... of Brazil.…
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What is the brilliance and meaning of The Magic Box? Reflecting on the story of the first guitar brought into an African village in the homeland, renown Classical Guitarist John Williams shares his story behind "The Magic Box" on Sony Classical. The piece works as tribute to the impact of Francis Bebey, awarded journalist, as the Cameroonian-born w…
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Top Tech Toys and Get Your Stuff Together - Advocacy, with Laura Greenwald
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How to Keep from Losing the Things that Make Your Life, Your Life. Your home, family, and the things that you love, safe and secure. Laura Greenwald joins Ron on this episode, to talk about Top Tech Toys, and how to Get Your Stuff Together in today's multiple potentials for emergency. Laura, along with her mother Janet, is one half of only mother/d…
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How to Relax in 60 Seconds or Less? Join us as Ron chats with Robert Lawrence Friedman, MA, president of Stress Solutions, Inc. author, professional speaker/trainer, and psychotherapist, who has appeared on national and international television shows, including The Discovery Health Channel program, The Morning Show on Today (NBC), Fox News, and E! …
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How a police officer, was overtaken by Spirit through his boots. Can Spirit from Mbira cause you to jump out of your boots, to look inside at what you are doing? A visit with Stella Chiweshe, Queen of Mbira and cultural ambassador of Zimbabwe; a talk with Ron about the spiritual, medicinal healing power of mbira, which she learned from a time it wa…
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Honoring Black History Month - All Year, Every Year - Black Comics Matter
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Film Historian, writer, comic actor, and author of "For the Love of Laughter, and the fortchcoming book "Comedy Crazy", Nick Santa Maria drops in once again to talk with Ron about the older black comedians in the film industry, Hollywood's perpetuation of the portrayed sterotypical roles, and yet as the only game in town, the rich, rewarding legacy…
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Though many music fans will be glad to see the end of 2020, the ongoing breakout years for career artist Colin Hay, veritable song writer of the 80's hit machine Men at Work, still carries on. Colin chats with Ron from a time not so long ago. “When you’re in your 20s, you think you’ve got all the time in the world,” Hay has said. “You get older, an…
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Sur O No Sur - How songwriter Kevin Johansen tells stories to meter and across culture.
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What is the genre, when the song writer's work is essentially a mini-script with a story to tell, to meter, and across cultures? When you're born Alaskan raised in Argentina, are you South or No South, multicultured, when you're described as Continental Post Folk (?) Ron has a chat, and a kick or two, with Kevin Johansen, a songwriter who mixes sev…
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A talk with Master Storyteller Teng Wenji, most prominent director from the People's Republic of China
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Being as it's Chinese New Year, what better than a talk with master storyteller Teng Wenji, tracing the fascinating, real-life saga of one of China’s most revered composers. Join us in a talk about his film, Rhapsody of Spring, a look into China’s intellectual and artistic coming of age during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). As a young composer,…
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"The Invisible Artist" - Who are the hitters behind the hits?
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Who really created the Wall of Sound? Now that Phil Spector has passed, can the truth be told? Who created the sound of rock, the soul of Motown? What was Berry Gordy's secret? Composer, producer, songwriter, educator and BBC broadcaster, Dr. Richard Niles has worked with stars such as Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, Tina Turner, Cher, Pet Shop Boys, …
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Andy Babiuk: Beatles Fab Gear to Rolling Stones Gear
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What is the value of real Beatles Gear, Rolling Stones Gear, and are you left with empty wallets or the best of Empty Hearts? Ron chats with Andy Babiuk, musician, author, consultant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as well as legacy auction houses. Founding member of the supergroup The Empty Hearts featuring players from the Cars, Blondie and The…
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Caitlin Rother - Author, & True Crime Writer
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The Mystery on True Crime - Or Murder She Wrote: When New York Times Bestselling Author Caitlin Rother left a successful career as a newspaper reporter to become a novelist of the true crime thriller, and why her books are just killing it.By Ron Knight
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How do Kinsey Sicks do Quarantine? With Quarantunes...
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Ron Knight chats with Trixie and Winnie from America's Favorite Dragapella® Beautyshop Quartet - The Kinsey Sicks; about writing content for social activism, their lockdown release "Quarantunes" and the premier primed for the pandemic, lamenting the dormant state of performing arts - with lush harmonies and nods to your favorite holiday tunes and m…
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The Writer's Block - How Art Bell started Comedy Central and Lost His Sense of Humor
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Ron Knight gets to talk with Art Bell, author of Constant Comedy - the story of how Art started Comedy Central (originally called The Comedy Channel) in 1990, and how he helped make the fledgling channel a success. The book is his first person account of the birth and development of a channel that went on to become a powerhouse in comedy entertainm…
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The Writer's Block - Which Animation stars become the Greatest Cartoon Classics, and why?
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Join host Ron Knight with animation historian and cartoon producer Jerry Beck. With over fifteen books on the subject of cartoon classics, as well as editor and writer for two popular animation blogs, Cartoon Research and Animation Scoop; what defines the choices and picks for which cartoon franchise films become the benchmark of greatness? In a wo…
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The Writer's Block - How spending more than 30 years on a sailboat along 1,000 miles of the remote Pacific Northwest led Canadian author R.J. McMillen to her renowned and widely popular Dan Connor Mystery ...
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Host Ron Knight talks it up over virtual coffee with renowned Canadian author R.J. McMillen - born in England, raised in Australia, ESL teacher in Greece before spending over 30 years sailing the remote Pacific Northwest on a 36-foot sailboat she and her husband built. Visiting with the remote coastal communities where her family worked in the earl…
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The Writer's Block - Stand Up to Sit Com; Talk to Toons; Why a Writer Can't Have a Bad Day.
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Ron Knight gets to catch up with Jayne Hamil, Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Award Winner known for her work on WordGirl (2007), The Nanny (1993) and Vice Academy motion pictures. From her work in formats of Talk Show, Sit Com, Cartoons. Movies, Reality Game Shows and more, Jayne touches on how your stories, and your life, is always fodder for content:…
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The Writer's Block - How to Beat Your Writing Blocks and Uncover Your Creativity, with Kelly Hayes-Raitt
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Ron has a chat with award-winning Kelly Hayes-Raitt, a writer who also coaches authors, on how to Beat Your Writing Blocks and Uncover Your Creativity. For 30 years, Kelly Hayes-Raitt advocated for civil justice, women's rights and environmental protection through political campaigns in California. After running for elected office herself (and gett…
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The Writer's Block - Who's on First, for the best Scare take in the business. Abbott & Costello
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The versatile and multi-talented Nick Santa Maria joins Ron Knight on the podcast. Nick created the original role of the Genie in Disney's Aladdin on Broadway, starred in Mel Brook's stage shows of The Producers, and is the author of the forthcoming book The Annotated Abbott and Costello published by McFarland Publishing in academic non-fiction. Sc…
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The Writer's Block - Pre-Pandemic: How Rhythm Melts the Physiology of Separatedness: and Builds Immunity
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Ron Knight interviews author and facilitator Arthur Hull, recognized as the father of the drum circle movement. discussing Rhythmaculture, community, team building, personal growth and religious groups, to major corporations, what's been known on rhythm events and how human participation Melts our Separatedness. Shown to boost T cells in fighting c…
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The Writer's Block - Halloween - Dancing Zombies in the Streets
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Ron Knight talks with John Ward, writer, director and producer of film "Thriller in Ajijic" where a community of elder expats in a 14th century village in Mexico recreate the Thriller of Michael Jackson annually, in the global charity event.By Ron Knight
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