Jamiroquai are an English funk and acid jazz band from London. Formed in
1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the
London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on
their acid jazz sound in their early releases and later drew from rock,
disco, electronic and Latin music. Lyrically, they have addressed social
and environmental justice. The band made their debut under Acid Jazz
Records, but they subsequently found mainstream success under Sony.
Three of their albums have charted at number one in the UK under this
label: Emergency on Planet Earth, Synkronized and A Funk Odyssey. The
band's 1998 single "Deeper Underground" was also number one in their
home country. Jamiroquai has sold more than 26 million albums
worldwide. Their third album, Travelling Without Moving, received a
Guinness World Record for the best-selling funk album in history.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamiroquai>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1813:
War of 1812: British forces captured Buffalo, New York, and
engaged in considerable plundering and destruction.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buffalo>
1969:
Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos began his second term
after being re-elected by a landslide, but economic unrest led him to
declare martial law within a year.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_term_of_the_presidency_of_Ferdinand_Marcos>
2006:
Saddam Hussein, the former President of Iraq, was executed
after being found guilty of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special
Tribunal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hyperthymesia:
(neuroscience) A rare condition in which an individual possesses a
superior autobiographical memory and is able to recall the vast majority
of personal events and experiences in life.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperthymesia>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I said … unprepared, unscripted, that, "I know how to fight and
I know how to dance, and I'd much rather dance than fight." ... What I
didn't tell everybody was I was always a better fighter than dancer.
--Harry Reid
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_Reid>
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