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Aaron

Joseph Neville (born January 24, 1941) is a

retired American R&B and soul vocalist

and musician. He has had four platinum

albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including

three that went to #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. "Tell It Like It Is", from 1966,

was #1 on the Soul chart for five weeks. He has

also recorded with his brothers Art, Charles and Cyril as The Neville Brothers and is the

father of singer/keyboards player Ivan Neville.

Neville is of mixed African-American, Caucasian, and Native American (Choctaw)

heritage.

The first of his singles that was given airplay outside of New Orleans was

"Over You" (Minit, 1960). Neville's first major hit single was "Tell It Like It Is", released on a

small New Orleans label, Par-Lo, co-owned by local musician/arranger George

Davis, a friend from school, and band-leader Lee Diamond. The song topped Billboard's R&B chart for five weeks in

1967 and also reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 (behind

"I'm a Believer" by the Monkees).

It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. It

was not the label's only release, as some sources claim. At least five other

Par-Lo singles, three of them by Neville himself, are known to exist. Neville released his first solo album since the late 60s in

1986 with the independent release Orchid in The Storm. In 1989,

Neville teamed up with Linda

Ronstadt on the album Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the

Wind which included four duets by the pair. Amongst them

were the #1 Grammy-winning hits "Don't Know

Much" and "All My Life".

"Don't Know Much" reached #2 on the Hot 100, and was certified Gold for selling a

million copies, while the album was certified Triple Platinum for US sales of

more than 3 million. In

return, Ronstadt produced his platinum-selling 1990 album Warm Your

Heart including the hit single "Everybody Plays the Fool", a cover of

the 1972 Main Ingredient song, which reached

#8 on the Hot 100 and another duet with Ronstadt "Close Your Eyes". During

1993 and 1994, Neville expanded his repertoire as a recording artist and

ventured into making country music. In 1993, Neville released the

platinum-selling The Grand Tour on A&M

Records with lead single "Don't Take Away My Heaven"

reach number 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart (where

previous hits "Don't Know Much," "All My Life," and

"Everybody Plays the Fool" all reached number one). Follow-up

single The Grand Tour, a cover of country music

legend George Jones 1974 hit, peaked at No.38 on the

Billboard country singles chart, and was highly acclaimed by fans and

critics, resulting in a nomination for the Grammy Award

for Best Male Country Vocal Performance at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards in 1994. He

followed the album up with another platinum seller Aaron Neville's

Soulful Christmas.

Nancy

Ann Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969) is

an American former figure skater and actress. She won bronze

medals at the 1991 World Championships and

the 1992 Winter Olympics,

silver medals at the 1992 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, and

she was the 1993 US National Figure

Skating Champion. Kerrigan was inducted into the United States

Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2004. In January 1994, an assailant used a police baton to strike Kerrigan on her landing knee;

the attacker was hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding.

The attack injured Kerrigan, but she quickly recovered. Harding and Kerrigan

both participated in the 1994 Winter Olympics, but

after the Games, Harding was permanently banned from competitive figure

skating. At the Olympics, Kerrigan won the silver medal in a controversial

showdown with gold medal winner Oksana Baiul.

She then started touring and performed with several ice skating troupes that

included Champions on Ice and Broadway on

Ice. In 2017, she was a contestant on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars. Kerrigan was born

in Stoneham, Massachusetts, the youngest

child and only daughter of welder Daniel Kerrigan (1939–2010) and

homemaker Brenda Kerrigan (née Schultz, b. 1940). She is of English, Irish and

German ancestry, and has stated: "There's very little Irish in me, just my

name." While her brothers Michael and Mark played hockey, she took up

figure skating at age six. She did not start private lessons until age

eight and won her first competition, the Boston Open, at age nine. Kerrigan's family was of modest means. Her father sometimes

worked three jobs to fund her skating career; he also drove the Zamboni at

the local rink in exchange for Nancy's lessons. Kerrigan

was coached by Theresa Martin until she was 16, then began working with Evy

and Mary Scotvold] after

a brief period with Denise Morrissey. The Scotvolds remained her coaches

through the rest of her competitive career. Kerrigan began to reach prominence at the

national level when she placed fourth at the junior level at the 1987 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

She made an early impression as a strong jumper, but was comparatively weak

in compulsory figures. She made her senior

debut the following season, moving up the national rankings each year: 12th in

1988, fifth in 1989, and fourth in 1990. She continued to be held back by

compulsory figures until they were eliminated from competitions after the 1990

season.