DUNCAN LAURENCE OF THE NETHERLANDS CROWN
AL EUROVISION 2019
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They were 26 to claim the glass trophy promised to the winner.
Dutch singer Duncan Laurence, 25, won on Saturday night at the 64th Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with his song "Arcade".
In a languorous and emotional voice, the 25-year-old sang a refined ballad, inspired by the passing of a loved one, which contrasted with the festive and glittering atmosphere that reigned in Tel Aviv, Israel , where was the final of the contest.
Bilal Hassani finishes in the soft belly of the classification in 14th place but says "happy.».
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DEATH OF LEOH MING PEI ARCHITECT GENIUS
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| At the age of 102, Sino-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei leaves behind architectural masterpieces. Most major American cities have Pei buildings, and they have left their mark around the world.
Between 1961 and 2009, he signed more than 40 major projects, from the commercial complex to the museum and office towers.
 Leoh Ming Pei was born in 1917 in Suzhou, the Venice of China, into a wealthy family. His father is a banker, his mother is a musician. She dies young. Pei is sent to the United States for his studies. He graduated from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in architecture in 1940 and a design degree from Harvard University (1948) where he was a pupil of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and one of the theoreticians of the international style. In 1955, he opened his first agency in New York, which in 1989 became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
In France he is best known for the Louvre Pyramid, emblematic because it bears his mark, both in the choice of shapes and the materials used than in the way he had to finally accept it after the reluctance of Parisians. He stated in the 1980 edition of American Archictecture Now that "The important thing is to know how the building affects life".
Before imposing a building, it is a question of knowing what it fits. His architectural work is the fruit of a dialogue between landscape but also sociology and history, between meeting with the inhabitants and elected officials. Thus the pyramidal form and the glass, fruit of a reflection on the light, respond as much to the roofs of the Louvre Palace as to the Egyptian Obelisk of the Place de la Concorde. He designed with his team a very large hall acting agora, bathed in light. The new museum opened in March 1989, becoming an architectural model.
Pei's style, based mainly on abstract forms, is a harmonious blend of tradition and modernity. Pei has always wanted his projects to balance a futuristic vision with places marked by history. Stone, concrete, glass and steel are the main materials of his constructions, which in form, go to the essential, without depriving themselves of technological innovation. Pei notably cultivated the use of reflective glass: on the Bank of China towers in Hong Kong, on the Louvre pyramid or on the east building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington
He was then selected to design in Hong Kong the tower of the Bank of China, an asymmetrical glass structure.
In 1997, he signed, in particular, the Miho Museum in Shiga, Japan, a building, essentially underground, integrated into the environment. Another major work was the German Historical Museum in Berlin in 2003, followed by the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, in 2008 on an artificial island he built.
In his projects in Asia and China in particular, he was keen to go back to basics and draw inspiration from the gardens of his childhood. In Japan, for example, for the Miho Museum near Kyoto, a museum devoted to the tea ceremony, it is inspired by the interior design of ancient temples.
Pei leaves a huge work.
He was recognized during his lifetime and was awarded the most prestigious awards, such as, in 1979, the gold medal for architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the big medal for He graduated from the Academy of Architecture (Paris) in 1981. In 1983, he received the Pritzker Prize, considered the Nobel Prize in Architecture and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (United States) in 1992.
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FAREWELL TO DORIS DAY STAR HOLLYWOOD
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Doris Day, the sweet-voiced singer and actress whose innocent drama, musicals and romantic comedies made her a star in the 1950s and 1960s, passed away. She was 97. "[Doris] Day was in excellent physical health for her age, until she recently contracted severe pneumonia, which resulted in her death," the foundation said in a statement.
 It will be remembered for, among others, What will be, will be, a global hit that has allowed him to bring together the two major axes of his career: song and cinema.
She also has a star for each of them on the "Boulevard of glory" in Hollywood.
The American is 32 years old when, in 1956, Alfred Hitchcock gives her the moving role of a mother whose child is kidnapped by spies coming from the cold in The man who knew too much. 
Alongside James Stewart and Daniel Gélin, Doris Day plays a tailor-made role: that of a famous singer who interprets Que sera, will be at the top of her voice to signal to her son that the time of liberation is near.
The song, signed Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, won the Oscar for Best Original Song.
She represented a time of innocence and love for the general public, a universe parallel to that of her contemporary Marilyn Monroe. A recurring joke attributed to Groucho Marx and actor and composer Oscar Levant was that they had known Doris Day "before she was a virgin".
In Pillow Talk, released in 1959 and her first of three films with Rock Hudson, she proudly caught up with what she called
"The contemporary in me".
His reference book, Doris Day: Her Own Story, published in 1976, recounted his money problems and three failed marriages, contrasting with the happy image of his career in Hollywood.
"I have the sad reputation of being a kind girl, the virgin of America, and all that, so I'm afraid it's shocking to some people to say it, but I firmly believe that no one should get married before have lived together, "she wrote.
Despite forty films and public adoration, Doris Day has never won an Oscar. She will have to settle for a Grammy Award for her singing career, with 650 titles to her credit.
But she received a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, when George W. Bush said it was "a good day for America when Doris Marianne von Kappelhoff of Evanston, Ohio, decided to become a artist ".
In 2011 she received an award of excellence from the Association of Los Angeles Film Critics.
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DEATH OF SINGER DICK RIVERS
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Dick Rivers, the yéyés crooner, died on April 24, 2019, at the age of 74, from cancer.
The singer - his real name Hervé Forneri- should have celebrated his 74th birthday today.
 It was during several trips to the United States that he discovered blues and rock'n'roll and his symbols - Elvis, Gene Vincent or Vince Taylor. 
He is inspired by the character Elvis Presley in the movie Loving You for his stage name.
He started as leader of his group created in 1961 with Jack Regard, Jean-Claude and Gerard Roboly chaining successes and Hey Pony!
It's not serious, Twist in Saint-Tropez.
But a year later, he embarked on a solo career for a career of fifty years and many tours in France and across the Atlantic and to lead the charts with titles such as Va t'en Go and come and make me forget.
While remaining faithful to his crooner fan of American blues, the interpreter has been able to renew itself and seduce his audience.
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