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Frenchie Davis

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Franchell "Frenchie" Davis (born May 7, 1979) is an American Broadway performer and a soul, dance/electronica, and pop singer. [1]

80 relations: Actor, Ain't Misbehavin' (musical), American Idol, American Idol (season 2), American Idol (season 6), Antonella Barba, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Berkeley, California, Beverly McClellan, Beyoncé, Bisexual community, Bisexuality, Broadway theatre, Casey Weston, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Christina Aguilera, Cinderella, Dance music, David Guetta, Dia Frampton, Dreamgirls, Dumbbells (film), Electronica, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever, Graduate Center, CUNY, Grammy Award, Gregory Charles Royal, Guitar, Howard University, I Kissed a Girl, James A. Forbes, Javier Colon, Jesus Christ Superstar, José Esteban Muñoz, Katy Perry, KDKA-TV, Kelly Rowland, LGBT, Like a Prayer (song), Little Shop of Horrors (musical), Los Angeles, Madonna (entertainer), Mahalia Jackson, Matthew Shepard, Melisma, Mezzo-soprano, Nakia, Nathan Lee Graham, National LGBTQ Task Force, ..., National Newspaper Publishers Association, Person of color, Piano, Playbill, Pop music, Queen Latifah, Rent (musical), Rhythm and blues, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Rosie O'Donnell, Ruben Studdard, Saturday Night Live, Schwäbisch Hall, Seasons of Love, Shooting of Jordan Davis, Singing, Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), Soul music, The Smoking Gun, The View (talk show), The Voice (U.S. TV series), Tony Moran, Trayvon Martin, Trenyce, United States, UpStairs Lounge arson attack, Vicci Martinez, When Love Takes Over, Wilson Cruz, Xenia (singer). Expand index (30 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Ain't Misbehavin' (musical)

Ain't Misbehavin is a musical revue with a book by Murray Horwitz and Richard Maltby, Jr., and music by various composers and lyricists as arranged and orchestrated by Luther Henderson.

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American Idol

American Idol is an American singing competition television series created by Simon Fuller, produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, and distributed by FremantleMedia North America.

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American Idol (season 2)

The second season of American Idol premiered on January 21, 2003, and continued until May 21, 2003.

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American Idol (season 6)

The sixth season of American Idol premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company as a two-night, four-hour premiere special on January 16 and January 17, and ran until May 23, 2007.

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Antonella Barba

Antonella Maria Barba (born November 26, 1986) is an American singer who placed in the top 16 on the sixth season of American Idol.

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Bachelor of Fine Arts

A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA, B.F.A.) is the standard undergraduate degree for students in the United States and Canada seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Beverly McClellan

Beverly McClellan is an American singer and a contestant in the first season of the American TV series The Voice, reaching the final four.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Bisexual community

The bisexual community (also known as the bisexual/pansexual, bi/pan/fluid community) includes members of the LGBT community who identify as bisexual, pansexual, or sexually fluid.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Casey Weston

Casey Weston (born December 4, 1992) is a singer-songwriter.

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Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies

CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies (formerly known as Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies or CLAGS) was founded in 1991 by professor Martin Duberman as the first university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals and communities.

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Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Cinderella

Cinderella (Cenerentola, Cendrillon, Aschenputtel), or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta (born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer who has sold over nine million albums and thirty million singles worldwide.

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Dia Frampton

Dia Frampton (born October 2, 1987), is an American singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of the band Meg & Dia.

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Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen.

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Dumbbells (film)

Dumbbells is a 2014 comedy film directed by Christopher Livingston and starring Brian Drolet, Hoyt Richards, Mircea Monroe, Jaleel White, Taylor Cole, Jay Mohr, Tom Arnold, and Andy Milonakis, with a rare film appearance by Nancy Olson (her first film in 17 years).

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Elisabeth DelPadre Hasselbeck (née Filarski; born May 28, 1977) is a retired American television personality and talk show host.

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God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever

God Doesn't Mean You Get To Live Forever is a Gospel Stage Play written by trombonist Gregory Charles Royal.

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Graduate Center, CUNY

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York is a public American research institution and post-graduate university based in New York City.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gregory Charles Royal

Gregory Charles Royal, also known as Chuck Royal (born October 10, 1961, in Greensboro, North Carolina), is an American musician, trombonist, composer, writer, founder of the New York Jazz Film Festival, a judge on America's Hot Musician.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Howard University

Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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I Kissed a Girl

"I Kissed a Girl" is a song recorded by American singer Katy Perry for her second studio album, One of the Boys (2008).

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James A. Forbes

James Alexander Forbes, Jr. (born 1935) is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church, an interdenominational (American Baptist and United Church of Christ) church on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.

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Javier Colon

Javier Colon (alternately styled Javier Colón, born April 29, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

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José Esteban Muñoz

José Esteban Muñoz (August 9, 1967 – December 3, 2013) was a Cuban American academic in the fields of performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory.

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Katy Perry

Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge.

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KDKA-TV

KDKA-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 25), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Kelly Rowland

Kelendria Trene Rowland (born February 11, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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Like a Prayer (song)

"Like a Prayer" is a song by American singer Madonna, recorded for her fourth studio album of the same name.

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Little Shop of Horrors (musical)

Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, about a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Mahalia Jackson

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American gospel singer.

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Matthew Shepard

Matthew Wayne "Matt" Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998.

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Melisma

Melisma (Greek:, melisma, song, air, melody; from, melos, song, melody, plural: melismata) is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Nakia

Nakia Reynoso (born February 20, 1975), known professionally as Nakia, is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor living in Austin, Texas.

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Nathan Lee Graham

Nathan Lee Graham (born September 9, 1968) is an American actor and singer.

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National LGBTQ Task Force

The National LGBTQ Task Force is an American social justice advocacy non-profit organizing the grassroots power of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community.

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National Newspaper Publishers Association

The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), was founded in 1940 when John H. Sengstacke, of the Chicago Defender, organized a meeting with other African-American publishers intended for "harmonizing our energies in a common purpose for the benefit of Negro journalism." The group decided to form the National Negro Publishers Association. In 1956, the trade association was renamed the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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Person of color

The term "person of color" (plural: people of color, persons of color; sometimes abbreviated POC) is used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actress, and producer.

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Rent (musical)

Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team.

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Rosie O'Donnell

Roseann O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American comedian, actress, author and television personality. She has been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, a lesbian rights activist, a television producer, and a collaborative partner in the LGBT family vacation company, R Family Vacations. O'Donnell started her comedy career while still a teenager. Her big break was on the talent show Star Search in 1984. After a TV sitcom and a series of movies introduced her to a larger national audience, she hosted The Rosie O'Donnell Show from 1996 to 2002, which won multiple Emmy Awards. During this time, she wrote her first memoir, Find Me, and developed the nickname "Queen of Nice", as well as a reputation for philanthropic efforts. She used the book's $3 million advance to establish her For All Kids foundation and promote other charity projects, encouraging celebrities on her show to take part. In 1997, O'Donnell did the voice of Terk in the Disney animated film Tarzan. In 2002, two months before finishing her talk show run, O'Donnell came out, stating "I'm a dyke!" and saying that her primary reason was to bring attention to gay adoption issues. O'Donnell is a foster and adoptive mother. She was named The Advocate 2002 Person of the Year; in May 2003, she became a regular contributor to the magazine. In 2006, O'Donnell became a moderator on The View. Her strong opinions resulted in some controversies, including an on-air dispute regarding the Bush administration's policies with the Iraq War, resulting in a mutual agreement to cancel her contract. In 2007, O'Donnell released her second memoir, Celebrity Detox, which focuses on her struggles with fame and her time at The View. From 2009 to 2011, she hosted Rosie Radio on Sirius XM Radio. In 2011, O'Donnell signed on with the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network to return to daytime TV with The Rosie Show. On March 16, 2012, the network cancelled the show due to low ratings, and the last show aired on March 29, 2012. In July 2014, O'Donnell was rehired to join The View as a co-host for the series' eighteenth season. O'Donnell announced in February 2015 her decision to depart the series again, this time citing personal reasons for her departure. In November 2016, Showtime announced that O'Donnell had joined the cast of the comedy pilot SMILF, which premiered on November 5, 2017.

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Ruben Studdard

Christopher Ruben Studdard (born September 12, 1978) is an American R&B, pop and gospel singer and actor.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Schwäbisch Hall

Schwäbisch Hall, or Hall for short is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and capital of the district of Schwäbisch Hall.

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Seasons of Love

"Seasons of Love" is a song from the Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson.

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Shooting of Jordan Davis

The shooting of 17-year-old high school student Jordan Davis occurred on Friday, November 23, 2012, at a Gate gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, United States by Michael David Dunn, a 47-year-old software developer, following an argument over the loud music played by Davis and his three friends.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

"Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" is a song from American singer Beyoncé's third studio album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008).

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis.

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The View (talk show)

The View is an American talk show that was conceived by broadcast journalist Barbara Walters and television producer Bill Geddie.

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The Voice (U.S. TV series)

The Voice is an American singing competition television series broadcast on NBC.

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Tony Moran

Anthony "Tony" Moran is a two-time Grammy nominated remixer/producer/singer-songwriter and DJ known for remixing popular songs.

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Trayvon Martin

Trayvon Benjamin Martin (February 5, 1995 – February 26, 2012) was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.

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Trenyce

Lashundra Trenyce Cobbins (born March 31, 1980) is an American singer and actress best known as a finalist on the second season of American Idol and for her work in musical theatre.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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UpStairs Lounge arson attack

The UpStairs Lounge arson attack occurred on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.

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Vicci Martinez

Vicci Martinez (born September 21, 1984) is an American singer/songwriter from Tacoma, Washington.

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When Love Takes Over

"When Love Takes Over" is a song by French DJ-music producer David Guetta with vocals by Kelly Rowland from his fourth studio album, One Love.

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Wilson Cruz

Wilson Cruz (born Wilson Echevarría; December 27, 1973) is an American actor known for playing Rickie Vasquez on My So-Called Life, Angel in the Broadway tour production of Rent and the recurring characters Junito on Noah's Arc and Dr.

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Xenia (singer)

Xenia Edith Martinez (born December 17, 1994), known mononymously as Xenia, is an American singer who came in second place on Blake Shelton's team on the first season of The Voice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenchie_Davis

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