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  Biddu Appaiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He also released largely famous instrumental tracks under the name Biddu Orchestra, including a rendition of "I Could Have Danced All Night" from "The King and I" and a remake of Neil Diamond's "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon".
Biddu did not take the song as a very significant one and so put it on the B-side of an album.
Biddu is also known for composing Alisha Chinoy's dance album "Made in India" and Sonu Nigam's "Kismat".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biddu   (382 words)

  
 (DV) Reinhart: Biddu -- The Struggle Against the Wall
Biddu, and the ten villages around it, are allowed only one option - to sit quietly and watch as the fruit orchards that they have nourished from one generation to another, turn into the real-estate reserves of the Jerusalem corridor.
But since Israel is still, officially, a democracy, it is not permissible for the army to be the body that determines the limits of the freedom to protest.
It is necessary to form an independent committee of inquiry into the army’s violence in Biddu, and to bring those responsible to justice.
www.dissidentvoice.org /May2004/Reinhart0506.htm   (942 words)

  
 Biddu's Tribute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
To his amazement, Biddu was deluged with calls from all and sundry (including Vinod Khanna, the dashing star of the movie) congratulating him on the brilliance of his creation.
Biddu said in tribute to her as an artiste: “She was a very talented woman.
Biddu regrets not working with Nazia again, especially for the Made in India album, which he produced with her in mind, but which shot Alisha Chinoy to fame instead.
www.megspace.com /arts/naziazoheb/biddutribute.html   (584 words)

  
 Diplomatic Traffic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The misfortune of Biddu is that its lands border the ‘Jerusalem corridor’ — a sequence of Israeli neighborhoods to the north of Jerusalem.
Biddu, and the 10 villages around it, are allowed only one option — to sit quietly and watch as the fruit orchards that they have nourished from one generation to another, turn into the real estate reserves of the Jerusalem corridor.
The people of Biddu have called on Israelis to join them: “Raise the voice of reason, the voice of logic, above the sound of the bullets and the sound of the oppression,” they wrote in an open letter to the settlements and Israeli neighborhoods around them.
www.diplomatictraffic.com /debate_archives.asp?ID=266   (787 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Biddu
Biddu, a music producer, worked with popular English-language disco and funk artists like Tina Charles ("I Love to Love", 1976) and Carl Douglas ("Kung Fu Fighting", 1974) during the 1970s.
He also released largely instrumental tracks under the name Biddu Orchestra and these included a rendition of "I Could Have Danced All Night" from "The King and I" and a remake of Neil Diamond's "Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon".
In 1995, Biddu produced Alisha Chinoy's dance album "Made in India".
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Biddu   (195 words)

  
 Nazia Zoheb: Biddu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Biddu went on to write a majority of tunes for Nazia/Zoheb's albums: Star (1982), Young Tarang (1984) and Hotline (1987).
Biddu has worked with Anu Malik on "I Yai Yo" a Hindi Pop Album project which was an average affair.
It is a fantastic testimony to Nazia/Zoheb and Biddu that their tunes are still being heard in the 21st century and despite the 16 year gap still sound fresh and new.
www.megspace.com /arts/naziazoheb/biddu.html   (780 words)

  
 3to6 A Complete Movie Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It took Feroz Khan to notice and bring Biddu with his sound to India and to that avenue of music that was larger than life- Film.
Biddu had found her a sound that could hold its own in a film dominated musical culture and that could sell her thousands of records.
And in one of life's interesting parallels, it was Biddu who recommended A.R. Rehman to Sony as one of the first artistes they should sign up with on their entry to India.
www.3to6.com /final_music/bidu.htm   (574 words)

  
 Environmentalists Against War
BIDDU, NW JERUSALEM (April 4, 2004) -- Today was the first day that the bulldozers were allowed to return to work on the apartheid wall in this area after nearly 5 weeks when no work was allowed because of the pending court case in the Israeli High Court.
Another man who had been attempting to negotiate with the soldiers for some time was shot in the thigh with a tear gas canister while sitting with a group of approximately 10 men on the land from less than 15 meters away.
Alaa Kan'an Mahmoud Badwan, 15 years old, a relative of Mohammed Badwan who was killed by the Israeli military during demonstrations in Biddu a month ago, was shot in the head by a tear gas canister (fired out of a gun) and is currently in the hospital in Ramallah with a fractured skull.
www.envirosagainstwar.org /know/read.php?itemid=1303   (762 words)

  
 The Arab American News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But what sets apart the Biddu demonstrations is that they are driven by Palestinians directly affected by the fence who espouse nonviolence as a tactic amid the shootings, suicide bombings, and calls for revenge that have characterized three-plus years of conflict.
Four Palestinians have died in Biddu at the hands of security forces since February, three from gunfire and one, 72-year-old Abdul Rahman Abu Eid, apparently from the effects of tear gas.
In another incident three days later, Dia Abu Eid, a Biddu resident, was fatally shot while in a field after Palestinians staged a demonstration in which he was not involved, Mr.
www.arabamericannews.com /newsarticle.php?articleid=94   (1008 words)

  
 Guardian | Israelis kill two villagers in barrier protests
The two men killed in Biddu were the first to die in sporadic demonstrations in the past few months against the West Bank barrier - a project Israel says keeps suicide bombers out of its cities, but which Palestinians have branded as a means of seizing land.
Yesterday Ziad Mansoor, 23, from Biddu, said he had witnessed the shooting dead of Zacharia Eid, a father of three from a nearby village.
Besides the unrest in Biddu, angry protests flared in the neighbouring villages of Beit Surik and Beit Iksa.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4868061-103552,00.html   (593 words)

  
 Biddu's back : Music News : IndiaExpress.Com
The London-based music composer Biddu and the aspiring Indipopper Shail join hands one more time after their first album 'Hello' fizzled out without a trace in the music circuits last year.
Biddu, who is adept in amalgamating western instruments with the eastern melody, has used traditional instruments like flute and clarinet quite imaginatively in some of the songs in the album.
Biddu, who is better known for his composition 'Made In India' that catapulted Indipopper Alisha Chinai to dizzy heights overnight, has propped many a young aspiring singers into Popdom with his eclectic range of music.
www.apunkachoice.com /scoop/music/20010110-0.html   (252 words)

  
 Biddu: the struggle against the wall
Tanya Reinhart highlights the plight of the Palestinian village of Biddu, which stands in the way of an Israeli plan to annex a chunk of territory in the occupied West Bank.
She tells the story of how the Palestinians of this village as well as Israeli sympathizers joined together in non-violent protest, only to be met by tear gas, stun grenades and bone-breaking Israeli policemen.
In response to the violence of the army, the women of Biddu called for a quiet and small protest demonstration of women only, on Sunday 25 April.
www.redress.btinternet.co.uk /treinhart6.htm   (955 words)

  
 The World: Global Hit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Biddu says it was just supposed to be a joke.
Biddu took the reel to reel tape to the A & R man at the record company, and played the first song for him...the love song.
Even though Biddu had his hand in a couple of the remixes, he says he's not crazy about revisiting his old music.
www.theworld.org /globalhits/2004/10/15.shtml   (875 words)

  
 Planet Bollywood: Music Review: Farebi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Biddu's new album is entitled "Farebi" and features a variety of songs sung by several different singers.
Though the beat is catchy and the song is essentially a dance mix, Biddu's vocals seem out of tune, and the lyrics by a Prith Nihal seem forced and haphazard.
Biddu and Swati, however, are in better form in their slow love duet "Romani", where they seem to be more suited to the style of the number.
www.planetbollywood.com /music/farebi.html   (515 words)

  
 Gerry Shury
For Biddu, his key man on the musical front was Gerry Shury and on the technical front was myself.
Biddu might have been able to write a few things, but he had to have someone put it together for him.
That's when it all fell apart for Biddu and me really, was when Gerry Shury died, because it's okay to produce something but you have to have something there to produce, and what Gerry did was write the most beautiful arrangements.
www.loadofold.com /boots/shury.html   (576 words)

  
 Scoop: ISM: Women's demo in Biddu and other reports
[Biddu, NW Jerusalem] Around 11 o'clock this morning about 60 women of Biddu, Israeli women from different organizations such as The Women's Coalition and Bat Shalom and internationals met at the Biddu village council for a joint protest against the construction of the Apartheid Wall in the NW Jerusalem area.
In their march back, the group of Palestinian, Israeli and international women turned down a path where the women of Biddu were able to show their sisters where their land had already been destroyed and point out the dozens of olive trees that had been uprooted by Israeli bulldozers but replanted by Palestinian farmers.
The residents of Biddu’s neighborhoods near where the wall is being built regularly find their homes taken over by soldiers or inundated by teargas, and are questioned and harassed by the soldiers who maintain a constant presence.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0405/S00129.htm   (1852 words)

  
 SANSARA
The name of course is exotic, their song, composed by Biddu, has an exotic sound to it, then their video too has the exotic look (shot in the exotic locales of Andaman and Nicobar), and the girls with exotic names like Sophia, Shinata and Monica, have been made to look exotic in the video.
These Biddu discoveries, are all from UK, have set their eyes on the whole sansar, and not without reason, since they have had solid foundation in music.
Biddu became an instant hit when he introduced pop music, disco music to be precise, in India, with the super-hit album Disco Deewane, in which he introduced teen singing sensations Nazia and Zoheb Hassan.
www.screenindia.com /feb11/music1.htm   (960 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary: Biddu: The Struggle Against The Wall.
ZNet Commentary: Biddu: The Struggle Against The Wall.
Biddu is a beautiful Palestinian village, surrounded with vines and fruit orchards, a few miles to the east of the Israeli border of 1967.
In the last couple of months, the village, that has lived in peace with its Israeli neighbors even during the present Intifada, has become yet another symbol in the history of Israel/Palestine.
www.zmag.org /Sustainers/Content/2004-05/07reinhart.cfm   (856 words)

  
 Further non-violent demonstrators injured in Biddu, clashes in Nablus - The Palestine Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Israeli troops injured five more in Biddu this morning, as demonstrations continued against the construction of the Separation Wall outside the village.
Four Palestinians and one Spanish photojournalist were hit by rubber bullets, as villagers tried to prevent Israeli contractors from confiscating their land to prepare ground for the Wall.
Dr Khaled Ayash from the medical center in Biddu, said that the two men appeared to have been hit by an unfamiliar type of bullet which fragmented to cause an effect like shrapnel, making it impossible to remove all the shards of metal from the victims’ bodies.
www.palestinemonitor.org /updates/biddu_nablus_demonstrations.htm   (300 words)

  
 Biddu: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
With his Biddu Orchestra, he recorded and released the remarkable instrumental LP Blue Eyed Soul, and watched his own star rise even further as the album's first single, "Summer of “42"", climbed to #14 on the U.K. chart, ultimately spending a full two months there.
In 1979, Biddu returned home to India armed with ideas, fueled by the electric spark of Western style disco, and launched a new era in local pop, first scoring some songs for the Indian Film Qurbani.
With a seemingly endless supply of ideas and vision, Biddu spent the rest of the 1990s working with a variety of musicians, including the Indian girl group the Models, and Sonu Nigam, as well as continuing his collaboration with Chinoy on her Dil Ki Rani LP.
www.music.com /person/biddu/1   (902 words)

  
 Mik's corner in Cyberspace - travel weblog - India, 2004
Biddu grew up in this village, had a career in the army which took him all over India, and now has settled here permanently.
Biddu's 93-year old mother who has given birth to nine children was very happy to see us and was singing for us.
Biddu brings his gun along because there are wild elephants and tigers in the forest.
mikaidt.dk /india/coorg.html   (1555 words)

  
 Israeli and Palestinian Women Non-Violently Protest Wall
We moved through the streets of Biddu to the site of the Separation Wall, where earthmoving machinery was seen working.
Walking through the narrow streets of Biddu, many of the marchers still remembered the violent attack of the police just two weeks earlier.
On a narrow street of Biddu stood two groups, the soldiers and the women, facing each other for a long time.
www.peacewomen.org /resources/OPT/BatWallBiddu0504.html   (425 words)

  
 Putumayo World Music
Producer and multi-instrumentalist Biddu has had a long and notable career both in his native India and the U.K., to which he emigrated in the late 1960s.
After struggling for a few years, Biddu teamed up with Jamaican singer Carl Douglas to record the smash hit “Kung Fu Fighting,” which went on to sell 9 million copies and earn a place as a novelty disco funk classic.
Biddu produced a number of film soundtracks and successful pop and disco songs before moving back to India in 1979.There, Biddu became one of Bollywood’s hottest composers and a pioneer in Indian electronica and dance music.
www.putumayo.com /artist_info.php?artist_id=00034   (170 words)

  
 Peace and Conflict Monitor, Biddu: The struggle against the wall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
On Sunday April 25, a group of 25 Palestinian women met at Biddu’s city council to have peaceful women’s march against the destruction of their land, the ghettoization of their community and the persisting escalation of violence from the Israeli army against nonviolent demonstrators.
In Biddu the army has already placed snipers on the roofs, used live ammunition and killed five Palestinians.
Please note that all opinions expressed in the Peace and Conflict Monitor are those of the author only and do not represent the official position of the University for Peace.
www.monitor.upeace.org /innerpg.cfm?id_article=190   (1041 words)

  
 Military Repression in Beit Surik/Biddu
The people’s resistance continues in Biddu and Beit Surik and as you may have heard, yesterday, live ammunition was fired at unarmed protesters in these villages.
Perhaps the four deaths in Biddu were mentioned somewhere in the news after the word “clashes” by most of the mainstream, corporate media who seem to resist the fact that the Israeli Army uses brute, military force against unarmed, nonviolent Palestinians.
I was put under arrest for objecting to the abduction and terms of release and taken to the Beit El settlement station and the boys were taken to the Ofer military base.
www.ccmep.org /2004_articles/palestine/022704_military_repression_in_beit_suri.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Biddu and the Orchestra Funky Tropical (12") DiscoMusic.com
Biddu and the Orchestra Funky Tropical (12") DiscoMusic.com
Biddu also did "Funky Tropical" and "Summer of 42." IMO a very under-appreciated artist and definitely worth a listen.
UK disco producer BIDDU wrote for many British disco acts, including Carl Douglas, Tina Charles and Jimmy James, often exactly the same music would be used, with different vocals.
www.discomusic.com /records-more/126_0_2_330_C   (170 words)

  
 ISRAELI MILITARY ARRESTS 11 NONVIOLENT ACTIVISTS IN BIDDU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
[Biddu, West Bank] On Thursday, April 15th, in the Palestinian village of Biddu, eleven people, including a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, were arrested by the Israeli military when Palestinian, international, and Israeli activists made an effort to stop the work on the Wall that will isolate the village from its land.
Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and concussion grenades directly at the line of the nonviolent protesters, which dispersed the demonstration as it approached an Israeli military barricade at the edge of the village preventing the activists from reaching the site where the work on the Wall is currently under way.
Mohammed Said Beduan, a 12 year-old-boy from Biddu, was released and has returned to his family in Biddu.
www.williambowles.info /isrl-pal/biddu.html   (467 words)

  
 Two reports on Biddu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Two reports on Biddu: IWPS and from Gila Svirsky in Jerusalem.
The Palestinian national was released with unknown conditions and the British national with the condition that she not enter the Biddu area for 15 days.
There is anarchy in the soul of Israel today, and it won't be gone until we uproot the occupation from our land and from our hearts.
www.jfjfp.org /news56/56biddu.htm   (1020 words)

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