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International Recording Artist Neon Hitch Shares her Musical Journey - Talk Golden to Me Hosted by Evan Golden
Neon Hitch (born May 25, 1986 in Nottingham, United Kingdom) is an English singer, currently living in London.Hitch was raised in a romani family of circus performers. Prior to leaving at the age of 15, she traveled Europe performing as a fire dancer and a trapeze artist.
Hitch was previously the flatmate of Amy Winehouse.Hitch has performed alongside 50 Cent and The Streets. Along with Ke$ha, Sean Foreman, and Benny Blanco she wrote the song Blah Blah Blah. In 2010, she also collaborated with 3OH!3 on "Follow Me Down", for the Tim Burton Disney movie Alice in Wonderland.
Hitch is a client of American producer Benny Blanco and is currently working on her debut album tentatively titled "Beg, Borrow and Steal." Songfacts.com reports that the album's lead single, "Love U Betta", became her first #1 as a solo artist when the tune hit the top of the USA Dance Club Songs chart in its sixth week.
British singer-songwriter Neon Hitch’s life has been about as normal as her name would suggest. “The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15,” she says. “I have done my fair share of traveling, that’s for sure.” No kidding—she spent the majority of her younger years as a gypsy, circling the globe (and living in a bus) with her mom and sister as a street performer and trapeze artist, while her lighting-artist dad toured with the likes of David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Annie Lennox. “I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood (and my name),” she confesses. “I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.”
In December, Hitch took the stage at Madison Square Garden with Gym Class Heroes—quite a coup for any musician—but the road to that sacred stage was not an easy one. After the label she was signed with, The Beats Recordings, shut down in 2007, things started to fall apart for the songstress. Hitch found herself homeless, until her “long-lost sister” Amy Winehouse took her in. In a moment of luck, Benny Blanco’s manager James Johnson messaged her on MySpace when he liked what he heard. Cut to today, and her future is looking neon bright. She’s signed a recording deal and her catchy debut album (Beg, Borrow, and Steal), produced by Blanco (who has also worked with pop princesses Britney Spears, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry), is due out late this summer. She co-wrote “Blah Blah Blah” with Ke$ha for her No. 1 album Animal and has also worked with Miike Snow, Sky Ferreira, and Mike Posner. Currently, she’s touring with Gym Class Heroes, singing their iTunes chart-topping single, “Ass Back Home.” Today, her single “Fuck U Betta” [below] hits the pop radio airwaves. We caught up with the sassy Brit over the phone to hear about living with Winehouse (Hitch now has an “Amy” tattoo on her finger as a tribute), opening for 50 Cent, and whom she would like to collaborate with next.
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2. Bella Picard suffered a broken neck and temporarily paralysis on the right side of her body from a softball collision
37:26||Season 2, Ep. 2Undaunted by grim prognosis, college softball star vows to return to the fieldAn ever-driven college softball star was unwilling to accept her prognosis.On April 18th 2015, two former Division 1 college softball players were involved in a collision on the base paths during an A10 conference matchup. The collision between the two players resulted in a life changing injury for Bella Picard and a life changing perspective for Allie Bradian. Bella Picard broke her neck and was temporarily paralyzed on the right side of her body. Her hashtag became #BRINGBACKTHERIGHTSIDE in hopes of making a full recovery in gaining back function in her right side. Every post from Bella on Instagram and Facebook kept her friends and family updated on her progress and the many setbacks she was faced with during her long road to recovery. Bella Picard's determination and relentless spirit has now inspired the nation to view life from a completely different perspective, the perspective of an All-American athlete with a bright future who's entire identity was stripped away from her in seconds. Today, Bella can walk and use her right arm. Her injury has left her with right sided drop foot, neurologic toning in her right wrist, fingers, and both biceps, along with a neurogenic bladder and Autonomic Dysreflexia. She continues to fight for a full recovery today.Bella's injury took away what she thought she was born to do; become the greatest athlete she could possibly be. Over 3 years of fighting, Bella has came up with something even bigger than just her recovery, the #BRINGBACKTHERIGHTSIDE DIARY is an inspirational video series featuring the several amazing human beings who she has met since her life changing injury. The people who she will be featuring in each chapter are individuals who have positively influenced her recovery and those who significantly impacted and helped her get through some of the darkest moments in her recovery.This is CHAPTER 1 of the #BRINGBACKTHERIGHTSIDE DIARY series, starting with the player who she collided with. CHAPTER 1 captures the very first open discussion between the two former softball players about what happened that day, how both players healed from the tragedy, how their lives changed and how they individually chose to rise above the traumatic incident to seek a greater purpose: to help others who need healing, and to inspire athletes around the world to play for a bigger purpose, to play for those who can't and to play with gratitude and respect for their game.Bella Picard and Allie Bradian have now developed an unlikely friendship 3 years after the collision on the base paths. Please watch what these two strong women have to say about their experience and how they dealt with pain, heartache, guilt, sadness, and feeling a loss of identity after the game of softball became a sore subject from the result of the collision in April of 2015.1. Python Cowboy AKA Trapper Mike winner of the 2020 Python Bowl Joins the Talk Golden to Me Podcast Show Hosted by Evan Golden to spread awareness how #invasivespecies are ruining the #ecosystem and the #Everglades
39:08||Season 2, Ep. 1Python Cowboy AKA Trapper Mike winner of the 2020 Python Bowl Joins the Talk Golden to Me Podcast Show Hosted by Evan Golden to spread awareness how #invasivespecies are ruining the #ecosystem and the #Everglades The Pyhton Cowboy is accustomed to wading into the blackness of the Everglades at night searching for invasive Burmese pythons as a paid bounty hunter for the South Florida Water Management District.Owner/Operator of Martin County Trapping & Wildlife Rescue in swampy South Florida, SFWMD Invasive Species Contractor, FWC Alligator and Nuisance Animal Trapper; also 1 of 25 state contracted Python Hunters in the Florida Everglades and surrounding areas. Python Cowboy specializes in large/dangerous nuisance animal removal and wildlife rescue. State contracted invasive wildlife agent. He takes pride in his work and his name.The 2020 Python Bowl ended recently with 80 invasive Burmese pythons caught.Taking the grand prize for most pythons captured from a professional was Mike Kimmel, a trapper with Martin County Trapping, Removals and Wildlife Rescue. He is well known as @pythoncowboy on Instagram and YouTube.Kimmel caught eight pythons making up 10% of the total number of pythons caught during the bowl, it was his first Python Bowl. The longest and heaviest of these slithering beasts was 12 feet, 7 inches and 63 pounds. With more than 750 registered competitors from 20 states, Florida Python Challenge's 2020 Python Bowl came to a close during a ceremony Saturday at Bayfront Park in Miami, about a week after the hunting stopped on Jan. 19.Burmese pythons are taking over the historic Everglades. Hunts are held regularly, but the number of snakes removed is not on pace with the rate at which the snakes are spreading. They compete with and prey on native species.https://www.pythoncowboy.com/48. International Superstar Victoria Silvstedt reflects on her career in the entertainment industry - Talk Golden to Me Hosted by Evan Golden
28:04||Season 1, Ep. 48Just shy of six feet tall with crystal blue eyes and flaxen blonde hair, this ambitious glamazon from a quiet town in the north of Sweden has dreams of acting after a few more years of modeling. Victoria has graced the pages of Playboy magazine as Miss December 1996, and has just been named the 1997 Playboy's Playmate of the Year. She has also skied competitively in the giant slalom as a lithe Swedish athlete. In 1993, Victoria was the first runner-up in the Miss Sweden beauty pageant, and went on to represent Sweden in the Miss World contest. There, Victoria met a modeling agent from Paris and has been modeling ever since.1997 Spokesmodel for Guess jeansPlayboy (Germany): Playmate of the Month June 1997Recorded a CD "Girl on the Run" that topped the European Billboard charts and the corresponding video to her single "Hello Hey" reached number 1 on European MTV.Her husband, Chris Wragge, was a former Entertainment Tonight (1981) reporter. He is now the Sports Director for KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas.Has played characters named Inga 3 times and characters named Ingrid twice.Hobbies include horseback riding & downhill skiing.Playboy Playmate of the Month December 1996Playboy Playmate of the Year 1997First runner-up in the 1993 Miss Sweden beauty pageant, and went on to represent Sweden in the Miss World contest the same year.Named #39 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).Her best friend is her big sister, Veronica Silvstedt.Fluent in Swedish, English, French and Italian.She and her husband, Chris Wragge, separated in 2007 after 7 years of marriage, but they have not divorced.Has apartments in New York, Miami and Monaco.Filming a movie [February 2004]Roomed with Slovenian model Melanija Knavs (before she became Melania Trump) when both were struggling models in Paris in the mid 1990s.47. Recording Artist Cartel Prezzy talks about the Miami Music Scene
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28:32||Season 1, Ep. 46Grace Field was born in the little town of Austin Texas. From the get-go, everyone knew she was an artist; before she could ever speak she was either singing, plunking notes on the piano or creating artwork!Her love for theatre and performing grew as she started school and began to perform in school plays and musicals. Her musical debut was in the 4th grade, where she played the title role of Oliver in Oliver! She then continued her studies by attending conservatory schools in high school and college, and double majoring in Visual arts and Vocal performance minoring in dramatic studies.Since then, Grace has moved to the Tri-state area and has been in multiple musical theatre productions across the country. She has performed at theatres including Broadway's New Victory Theatre, Jazz at The Lincoln Center with Audra Mc Donald, Apollo Theatre with Tony winner Cynthia Erivo, Off Broadway’s June Havoc Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, The Fulton Theatre and more! She has had the privilege of working with Broadway's Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Rebecca Luker, Seth Rudetsky, and many others. Her favorite roles include Cosette (Les Miserables) Magnolia (Showboat) Laurey (Oklahoma!) Nellie (South Pacific) and Sandy (Grease). She is a proud new member of Grammy award winning group Broadway Inspirational Voices in New York City. Field also is a soloist at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.Not only does Grace perform professionally on the stage, but also is a professional pianist, artist and model.Field has a huge heart for charity and helping the world through the arts, and has founded Dare to Dream Art Charity which encourages people to donate to local or global charities through the gift of art. She recently released a Christmas CD where 100 percent of the sales go to Operation Christmas Child which aids third world country children.She is currently on tour as the lead female singer and keyboardist in Freddie Mercury Band "Mercury", and also is currently touring with platinum recording artist Geoff Sewell in his London based company Incognito artists and Bravo Amici. You can catch her this summer at Monmouth Theatre in the new Sinatra musical "My Way" and will be making her Public Theatre debut in Alan Menken's new Broadway bound Hercules.44. Yorvis Torrealba talks baseball, being kidnapped and the Parkland Shooting
25:29||Season 1, Ep. 44Yorvis Torrealba, years removed from nightmare kidnapping, gets chance to follow in dad’s footsteps with the Colorado Rockies. He graduated from Stoneman Douglas and we talk about the Parkland Shooting.43. João Franco from Below Deck Mediterranean on Bravo TV - Talk Golden to Me Hosted by Evan Golden
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24:23||Season 1, Ep. 42The MTV network is popular for its reality show, and among them, Siesta Key ranks quite good. The group of eight adults gathering and staying in one place is a trend that was once followed by Floribama Shore. The main reason for its popularity is the love triangles and romantic life of all full of dramas. Brandon Gomes is one of the cast members.Brandon Gomes’ hometown is in Sarasota, Florida. He holds American citizenship and is of mixed ethnicity. The 22 years old TV star is also a model and musician. His zodiac sign is Taurus. He started modeling when he was 16 years old, and now he is one of the ranked models. He is Sarasota native and went to Riverview High School.Follow Brandon Gomes on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/_brandongomes/Brandon Gomes Music:https://fanlink.to/leftcoast