Short Biography of ERIC UNDERWOOD, EUGENE HÜTZ, EVONNE GOOLAGONG CAWLEY, | 200 Words | in English

Biography of ERIC UNDERWOOD in Short

ERIC UNDERWOOD
ERIC UNDERWOOD

(BORN 1984)

Eric first learned to dance with his sisters. As the radio played pop music, they’d have street dance contests outside their house in suburban Maryland. But it was a dangerous neighborhood. When gunshots echoed through the streets. his mother would make Eric and his sisters drop to the floor.

One day his mum made Eric go to an acting audition at a performing arts school. It didn’t go well. Eric found himself forgetting all the lines he’d rehearsed.

‘Is there anything else you might be suited to?” the teachers asked. Eric quickly realized he wouldn’t get a place if he didn’t think of something Through an open door, he glimpsed a group of girls limbering up before a ballet lesson.

I’ll try that, he said, uncertainly.

They gave him a trial and soon Eric was taking regular classes, spending hours going to different parts of the city to train.

Eric would watch videos of famous ballets on YouTube, over and over, trying to master the moves. He’d balance his legs on his bunk bed to stretch.

At fifteen, he won a scholarship to the School of American Ballet.

Sometimes Eric was treated differently because he was black, whereas ballet traditionally attracted white people. Ballet shoes had always been light pink, to disguise them against pale skin and, as no shoes for black dancers existed, Eric had to cover his in dark makeup before every show.

Despite that, Eric has gone on to become the star of The Royal Ballet in London. Thanks to him, a company have finally released a ballet shoe for people with darker skin. It’s called Eric Tan.

When he visited a boys’ school, Eric met two kids that had clear talent. One of the boys was encouraged by his parents and went on to train. The other was told by his dad that he had to play football instead. That upset Eric.

He wants people to realize that ballet is for everyone: rich and poor, men and women, young and old. It’s just another way of expressing yourself, and of entertaining the world.

Biography of EUGENE HÜTZ in Short

EUGENE HÜTZ
EUGENE HÜTZ

(BORN 1972)

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, releasing radioactive particles into the air of the Ukraine. Eugene was thirteen. His family fled Kyiv to live with his grandmother, a Romany gypsy who had settled in the city Traditionally the gypsies had lived nomadic lifestyles, always traveling, but that had been made illegal and so most had been forced into apartment blocks and government jobs.

After some time, Eugene’s family moved between camps for asylum seekers in Poland, Austria, and Italy. They eventually settled in Burlington, Vermont in America. It was impossible to go back to Kyiv, as Eugene’s father was being threatened by the Soviet government, who was suspicious of the rock band in which he played the guitar.

Eugene’s father passed on his love of music, taking him to see punk rock bands and teaching him to play a guitar they built together out of scrap wood.

When Eugene got older, he moved to New York, where he met a group of other immigrants from all over the world who were obsessed with gypsy music, either through their roots or their passion. Together they formed a band called Gogol Bordello. They played loud, raucous music, influenced by gypsy, folk, rock, punk, and the nationalities of everyone in the band.

Sergey from Russia played violin, Tommy from Ethiopia played bass, Pedro from Ecuador rapped, Ori from Israel played saxophone, and huge numbers of other musicians from all walks of life have jammed with the band

Their first big album was called Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike.

On his yearly trip back to the gypsy camps of the Ukraine, Eugene played it to some Romany people. They laughed, not knowing what to make of their traditional melodies being played with electric guitars and computer drum machines.

In an America divided by prejudice, Eugene’s wild and joyful celebrations of immigration and international friendship are more important than ever.

Biography of EVONNE GOOLAGONG CAWLEY in Short

EVONNE GOOLAGONG CAWLEY
EVONNE GOOLAGONG CAWLEY

(BORN 1951)

As a child, Evonne would spend hours and hours hitting a ball against a water tank with a piece of wood. She was told to join the tennis club and she did, signing up with a coach and even moving in with his family.

Evonne is a Wiradjuri Indigenous Australian. Her people had lived in Australia for thousands of years before white settlers arrived from England, taking their lands and killing them until their numbers dwindled and their lives were uprooted.

The Indigenous Australian people believe that everything in existence from rivers to mountains and people to kangaroos was created by their ancestors during the Dreaming at the very beginning of everything. They play music using didgeridoos and clapsticks, two of the oldest musical instruments ever to be invented, and create intricate artworks, once on the walls of caves or rock, now in an array of different ways.

Despite the legacy of discrimination that faces Indigenous Australians in modern Australia, Evonne triumphed as an athlete representing the Wiradjuri Nation and Australia.

She moved to America and excelled at tennis, being crowned the number one player in the world on two occasions She won fourteen Grand Slams, was named Australian of the Year, and even had her face appear on a postage Stamp. For nine years, she was ranked in the top ten players in the world. She became only the second woman ever to win Wimbledon as a mother.

After her own mother died, Evonne went home to Australia, wanting to explore her Indigenous Australian heritage. She set up the Evonne Goolagong Foundation, which aims to use tennis camps as a way of improving education, health, and create opportunities for Indigenous Australian kids. For twenty-two years now, the foundation has helped kids achieve their potential, just the way Evonne did.

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