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| Please help improve this article.The discussion page may contain suggestions.Her first album, Free Yourself, was certified double platinum and received four Grammy nominations.On April 10, 2007, Fantasia made her stage debut as Celie in the Broadway musical, The Color Purple.Family Ties
3 Discography
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4.Early life
Barrino was born and raised in High Point, North Carolina, to Diane and Joseph Barrino.The Spanish slave masters gave their black slaves their Spanish surnames.Fantasia's singing style was shaped by the example of gospel singers like Shirley Caesar and The Clark Sisters.Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Chaka Khan also left a strong impact on young Fantasia.In a later relationship, she became pregnant and, at age 17, on August 8, 2001, Fantasia gave birth to her daughter, Zion Quari.Other concerns were raised over her as a single mother being a poor role model.This would include the over seventy Idol champions crowned nationally and internationally since the show began its first global incarnations.It was the highest finale vote in the show's history until the May 23, 2007 American Idol 6 finale.Jordin Sparks won the title.Barrino participated in the U.American Idol finalists and appeared in the 2004 Christmas special, Kelly, Ruben and Fantasia: Home For the Holidays.Fantasia the first artist in history to achieve this with a first single.The CD single, "I Believe", went on to become the top selling single of 2004 in the U.Barrino's debut studio album, Free Yourself, was released in November 2004.It debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 pop album chart, selling 240,000 copies in its first week.In 2006, Fantasia was nominated for four Grammy Awards.Sly and the Family Stone during the Grammy Awards.She played Aretha Franklin in an episode of the series American Dreams, singing "Respect", guest voiced on The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Torn", and guest starred as herself in a cameo role on the sitcom All of Us.Barrino appeared three times as a musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.She also appeared as a headliner at several music festivals including the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival and the Reggae Sumfest in Jamaica.In October 2005, she received good notices as an opening act for Kanye West's Touch the Sky Tour.The book quickly became a New York Times Bestseller, reaching number seven on the list.In it she revealed that she was functionally illiterate.Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story has also become Lifetime's second most viewed program of all time.In summer 2006, Barrino discontinued work with 19 Management and fired all of her advisors from the American Idol company.The singer eventually found a new management team with Violator Management, and soon released her album, Fantasia, on December 12, 2006."Baby Makin' Hips", was produced by the up and coming Philly team of Don Cheegro and Dirty Harry.In 2007, Barrino left her new management company and found new management back at 19 Management.In 2006 Barrino was featured on Coko of SWV gospel album "Grateful".Barrino, Faith Evans, Lil Mo and Coko did a remake of "Endow Me" (originally done by the Clark Sisters.She also was featured on the Live version of the song, which was performed in January of 2007 on the annual "Celebration of Gospel".On January 27, Barrino was featured on the nationally televised United Negro College Fund's An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Aretha Franklin where she performed, "Baby, I Love You" and "Rock Steady" in front of Aretha.In February 2007, Barrino appeared and performed on American Idol, and announced that she would be starring in the Broadway musical The Color Purple beginning April 10, 2007.Leading up to Barrino's first performance the play garnered a total of 6.Fantasia earned rave reviews for her performance in The Color Purple, the hit musical based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker.She won the 2007 Theater World Award, an honor given in recognition of an outstanding stage debut performance, and was invited to perform "I'm Here" from The Color Purple at the 2007 Tony Awards.Fantasia was initially scheduled for a limited six month engagement ending in October, 2007 but had her run extended until January 6, 2008.However, recent reports have claimed that Fantasia has missed up to 50 performances of the musical.Her management has reportedly stated that Fantasia can't keep up with the hectic scheduling of the performances.Star Duets With The Queen on the song "Put You Up On Game" which hit radio on October 1.The duet became the number one most added song on Urban AC radio the following week.JoJo of the group Jodeci."The Color Purple"
2007 Broadway.This page was last modified 18:53, 9 January 2008.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.For other uses, see Fantasia.Walt Disney Productions
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.Fantasia is a 1940 animated film produced by Walt Disney, and is the third film in the Disney animated features canon.Fantasia is an experiment in animation and music, consisting of classical music presented against the backdrop of animation and does not feature any dialogue.The music is recorded under the direction of Leopold Stokowski; seven of the eight pieces were performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra.Fantasia was notable for being the first major film released in stereophonic sound, using a process dubbed "Fantasound".Fantasia was eventually picked up by RKO for release in 1941 and edited drastically to a running time of 81 minutes in 1942.The original version of Fantasia was never released again after 1941, and although some of the original audio elements no longer exist, a 2000 DVD release version attempted to restore as much of the original version of the film as possible.Fantasia, despite its initial commercial failure, is today considered a classic film.Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
2.Fantasia theatrical release history
5.Critical reception and legacy
7 Updates
7.Production history
During the time of production, Disney had been financially successful with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Pinocchio (1940) and was relatively comfortable in producing Fantasia.The Sorcerer's Apprentice, based on Goethe's story of the same name, was planned as a special Mickey Mouse short, and would be completely silent save for the classical music piece by Paul Dukas.The story artists who developed The Sorcerer's Apprentice originally suggested Dopey from Snow White for the title role, but Disney insisted upon using Mickey.As work began on The Sorcerer's Apprentice in 1938, Disney happened to meet famed conductor Leopold Stokowski at a Hollywood restaurant.The unnamed sorcerer in The Sorcerer's Apprentice was nicknamed "Yen Sid": "Disney" spelled backwards.Walt Disney, and especially his brother and business partner Roy, knew they could never make back from the release of one short film.Stokowski suggested the title Fantasia (which literally means "A medley of familiar themes, with variations and interludes."With The Sorcerer's Apprentice nearing completion, the rest of Fantasia entered production in early 1939, and the same attention to detail that was given to The Sorcerer's Apprentice was given to the other segments as well.Program description
Most of the works played in the film are program music; that is, instrumental music that depicts stories in sound.However, the Disney program is generally not the same as the original.This criticism was addressed in the film itself.The host and narrator of the film, Deems Taylor, introduces each piece in the program and gives background on the original intent of the composer.Of the eight pieces, four are presented virtually complete: Toccata and Fugue, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the Dance of the Hours (which is actually extended from its usual arrangement by repeating a portion of the "morning" segment, with lower instruments, for the "afternoon" segment), and the Ave Maria.Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV 565 (Stokowski's own transcription for symphony orchestra)
Directed by Samuel Armstrong
Story development: Lee Blair, Phil Dike, and Elmer Plummer
Art direction: Robert Cormack
Visual development: Oscar Fischinger
Animation: Cy Young, Art Palmer, Daniel MacManus, George Rowley, Joshua Meador, and Cornett Wood
Fantasia begins immediately (there are no opening credits or logos of any sort) with the stage doors being opened to reveal an orchestra stand.Stokowski appears and begins conducting the first strains of the Toccata and Fugue.Toccata and Fugue was inspired primarily by the work of German abstract animator Oscar Fischinger, who worked for a brief time on this segment.Stokowski as the piece concludes, setting the precedent for the rest of the musical numbers.Los Angeles musicians and Disney studio employees like James Macdonald and Paul J.Smith, who mime to the prerecorded tracks by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.Holland, Norman Wright, Albert Heath, Bianca Majolie, and Graham Heid
Art direction: Robert Cormack, Al Zinnen, Curtiss D.Perkins, Arthur Byram, and Bruce Bushman
Animation supervisors: Fred Moore and Vladimir Tytla
Animation: Art Babbitt, Les Clark, Don Lusk, Sy Young, and Robert Stokes
Choreography: Jules Engel
The Nutcracker Suite is a personified depiction of the changing of the seasons; first from summer to autumn, and then from autumn to winter.It features a variety of dances, just as in the original, but danced by animated fairies, fishes, flowers, mushrooms, and leaves; no actual nutcracker is ever seen in this version.Many elements are rendered carefully and painstakingly using techniques such as drybrush and airbrush.Afterwards, Mickey and Leopold, seen in silhouette, congratulate each other.William Martin, Leo Thiele, Robert Sterner, and John Fraser McLeish
Art direction: McLauren Stewart, Dick Kelsey, and John Hubley
Animation supervision: Wolfgang Reitherman and Joshua Meador
Animation: Philip Duncan, John McManus, Paul Busch, Art Palmer, Don Tobin, Edwin Aardal, and Paul B.The Rite of Spring is a condensed version of the natural history of the Earth from the formation of the planet, to the first living creatures, to the age, reign, and extinction of the dinosaurs.The sequence showcased realistically animated prehistoric beasts, and utilized extensive and complicated special effects to depict volcanoes, boiling lava, and earthquakes.The large carnivorous dinosaur attacking the Stegosaurus is a Tyrannosaurus according to the preliminary introduction to the segment by Deems Taylor, and concept sketches by the artists.The musicians are seen departing the orchestra stand, and the doors close to reveal a title card.In a proper roadshow of Fantasia, the theater's curtains would close simultaneously with the closing doors on the screen, and the title card would remain projected for fifteen minutes while the guests are briefly excused.Following the intermission, the film would be started again.After the intermission there is a brief Meet the Soundtrack sequence which gives audiences a stylized example of how sound is rendered as waveforms to record the music for Fantasia."Pastorale"
Directed by Hamilton Luske, Jim Handley, and Ford Beebe
Story development: Otto Englander, Webb Smith, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Bill Peet, and George Stallings
Art direction: Hugh Hennesy, Kenneth Anderson, J.Gordon Legg, Herbert Ryman, Yale Gracey, and Lance Nolley
Animation supervision: Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Eric Larsen, Art Babbitt, Oliver M.Youngquist, and Harry Hamsel
The Pastoral Symphony utilized delicate color styling to depict a mythical ancient Grecian world of centaurs, centaurettes (a Disney studio creation), a pegasus and his family, the gods of Mount Olympus, fauns, cherubs and other creatures and characters of classical mythology.It tells the story of the mythological creatures gathering for a festival to honor Bacchus, the god of wine riding his horned donkey, Jacchus, which is interrupted by Zeus, who decides to have a little fun by throwing lightning bolts at the attendees.This portion of the film was criticized for brief yet blatant nudity on the part of the centaurettes.Other criticisms center on the racial images of a centaurette servant named Sunflower, who is part African human, part donkey, and two attendants to Bacchus who are part African Amazons, part zebra.La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours.The animals are introduced to match the hours in an order corresponding to the times of day.At midday, the hippos take over.Chernabog summons the spirits of the dead in the Night on Bald Mountain sequence of Fantasia.Directed by Wilfred Jackson
Story development: Campbell Grant, Arthur Heinemann, and Phil Dike
special English lyrics for Ave Maria by Rachel Field
Operatic solo: Julietta Novis
Animation supervision: Vladymir Tytla
Animation: John McManus, William N.Tytla and his unit to use as a reference.It is Walpurgis Night and, using the powers of darkness, he raises ghosts, skeletons, demons, witches, dragons, goblins, and zombies from a nearby town and cemetery.In one part he picks up a handful of demons and transforms them first into naked women, then into demonic animals.Ultimately, he drops them into the lava which seals their fiery doom.The horror of the demons, ghosts, skeletons, witches, harpies, and other evil creatures in Night on Bald Mountain comes to an abrupt end with the sound of church bells, which send Chernabog and his followers back into hiding, and the multiplane camera tracks far, far away from Bald Mountain to reveal a line of faithful townfolk with lighted torches, and the camera slowly follows them as they walk slowly and solemnly through the forest and ruins of a cathedral to the sounds of the Ave Maria.The animation of the worshipers is some of the smallest animation ever done: the camera had to be so close to some of the work that it had to be rendered at only an inch or so high.The multiplane camera then finally tracks through the trees to reveal a sunrise as the film fades to its conclusion.Virgin Mary as can be seen on the Fantasia Anthology bonus disc.Ultimately, this ending was deemed too overly religious by Walt, and he opted for a more natural setting instead.However, the forest design in the segment still mimics that of a cathedral with an overtly gothic motif.The Sorcerer's Apprentice conducted by Leopold Stokowski, performed by an ensemble of Hollywood studio musicians.Narrative introductions by Deems Taylor
Production supervisor: Ben Sharpsteen
Story direction: Joe Grant and Dick Huemer
Musical direction: Edward H.After the completion of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Stokowski enlisted the Philadelphia Orchestra, of which he was the conductor, to record the music for the six remaining segments.Walt Disney was present on the sound stage during an early session, and was very pleased with what he was hearing until he heard the playback from the recording engineers.He felt the recorded version of the music sounded tinny and undynamic, and asked his engineers to see what they could do about developing a better sound system.The engineers, led by William E.Fantasound, making Fantasia the first commercial film ever to be produced in stereophonic sound.Nutcracker Suite, but those plans were never carried out.Poster for the original release of Fantasia.Walt Disney intended Fantasia to be more than just a film.It was to be an event, complete with reserved seating and fancy dress.Special program books were prepared for the film, featuring production artwork and photographs, dedications by both Walt and Stokowski, and the credits and synopsis for each segment.The format of the film follows that of a concert rather than a motion picture.Unusual for an American animated film, Fantasia had no opening or closing credits in its original version.During the film's intermission, a solitary title card was to be played over the movie theater's closed curtain, reading:
"Fantasia.Copyright 1940 by Walt Disney Productions (Inc).This was the way the film was shown until 1990, when closing credits, listing the entire technical staff and those involved with the 1990 restoration, were added to the end of the film.Release history
Fantasia was originally released in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions itself as a roadshow release, since Disney's distributor RKO Radio Pictures backed out of the film.Starting with the January 29, 1941 play date in Los Angeles, California, RKO assumed distribution of Fantasia.Fantasia was edited once again in 1946, restoring Toccata and Fugue, but still keeping the Deems Taylor sequences to a minimum.This is the version most familiar to the public and the version most future releases of Fantasia would be based upon, and is therefore called the "General Release Version".By then, Fantasia had become immensely popular among teenagers and college students, many of whom would take illegal drugs such as marijuana and LSD to "better experience" the film.American girl in the Pastoral Symphony segment.According to the Memory Hole, "Performing menial duties for the blonde, white female centaurs, Sunflower is a racial stereotype along the lines of Amos and Andy, Buckwheat, and Aunt Jemima."For its 1982 reissue, as motion picture sound technology was advancing, the 1956 Fantasia sound master was deemed both unusable and unsalvageable.Disney decided to completely rerecord the film's soundtrack, and a new digitally recorded score arranged and conducted by Irwin Kostal was made.This marked the first time a motion picture's score was recorded entirely using digital technology.However, judicial edits were made, including replacing Deems Taylor's original narration with that of Hugh Douglas.For Fantasia's 50th anniversary in 1990, Disney decided to go back to the original Stowkowski recording.In the meantime, Peter Comandini at YCM Laboratories worked on restoring the picture from original camera negatives, edited and duplicate negatives, and, in the cases of some scenes, archival prints.General Release Version, save for the retention of the 1969 censorship edit and the addition of an end credits sequence (played over footage from the original roadshow version's intermission).This restored version of Fantasia was released on home video in 1991.The restored roadshow version of Fantasia debuted in June 2000 at the Animation Film Festival in Annecy, France; accompanying its sequel, Fantasia 2000.Ray Disc reissue of Fantasia is scheduled to be released no earlier than 2009.Brazil: December 9, 1940
Argentina: December 25, 1940
Australia: July 17, 1941
U.For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia (certificate).For their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form (certificate).Critics to this day differ in their evaluation of the film.There are certainly many critics who admire the film greatly, particularly the animation work, and as an American animated feature film made with an unprecedented level of artistic ambition.The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.Others have taken a more negative view, sometimes labeling it as kitsch.Disney, but the total effect is grotesquely kitschy."The Sorcerer's Apprentice is often considered the best sequence in the film, and was the only sequence from the original film carried over into Fantasia 2000.Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice has become such an iconic role for the character that he is regularly depicted as such in the Disney parks.Disneyland and Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World.Disney Animation building at the Disney Studios in Burbank, California (and can be easily seen from both Riverside Drive and the 134 Freeway).Updates
Disney had wanted Fantasia to be an ongoing project, ideally with a new release each year.Clair de Lune
One segment intended for the original Fantasia was completely animated, and then left out of the first release.Clair de Lune, based on Claude Debussy's piano piece, was a casualty of Fantasia's excessive length: the sequence made it to the final pencil test stages before being deleted.This version of Clair de Lune can be found on disc 3 of the Fantasia Legacy DVD box set, or on the Disney Classic Fantasia DVD (released in 2000) as a special feature.Other proposed sequences and Fantasia 2000
Other segments such as Ride of the Valkyries, Swan of Tuonela, Flight of the Bumblebee, Invitation to the Dance, and Adventures in Perambulator were storyboarded but never fully animated, and thus were never put into production for inclusion in a future Fantasia release.Both World War II and overseas costs prevented Disney from revising Fantasia during his lifetime.Don Quixote, Hary Janos, La Mer, The Love for Three Oranges, The Magic Flute, Mosquito, The Planets, Pop Goes the Weasel, Roman Carnival Overture, Schwanda the Bagpiper, and Till Eulenspiegel.Disney's dream was belatedly and finally realized with the release of Fantasia 2000 in IMAX theaters on January 1, 2000.The film was put into general release half a year later.Fantasia 2000 repurposed The Sorcerer's Apprentice sequence with Mickey Mouse, but otherwise consisted entirely of new material.In 1943, Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros.Also in the same year, Robert Clampett did a Fantasia spoof short film, A Corny Concerto, with Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck acting out the musical segments (and Elmer Fudd doing an impression of Deems Taylor).In 1976, Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto released his own Fantasia parody called Allegro Non Troppo.The season five episode "Treehouse of Horror IV", in the story, "The Devil and Homer Simpson", there is a scene where Flanders (who, ironically, is cast as The Devil) transforms into a red version of the demonic character Chernabog from Night on Bald Mountain and disappears in a cloud of smoke after Homer taunts him with "I'm smarter than the Devil" after realizing that if Homer doesn't eat the entire doughnut, the Devil doesn't get his soul.The Comedy Central animated series South Park parodied the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of Fantasia in the episode "Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls", in which Mr.The Disney animated series Timon and Pumbaa parodied Fantasia with the musical segments "Bumble In The Jungle" and "Beethoven's Whiff".In the sequence leading up to the fight, the villains continuously look towards Mickey's direction, mimicking the same sequence in The Rite of Spring segment.In Big Daddy (2000), Steve Buscemi's homeless character explains that he became homeless in part because he "watched Fantasia a lot," presumably while using psychedelic mushrooms.The ostriches and hippos from "Dance of the Hours" and the brooms from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" appear as R.Maroon's employees in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.Fantasia at All Movie Guide; accessed December 7, 2007.Fantasia at Film Site; accessed December 7, 2007.Gelder, Peter Van (1990).Disney's Art of Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast.Aldred, John (Winter 1995)."New Rating for 'Fantasia':PC", Entertainment Weekly, November 29, 1991.Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons.Norman Wasserman "Special Projection Process Gives 'Fantasia' New Look" International Projectionist (March 1956, pp.This page was last modified 02:18, 8 January 2008."Are you sure you want to block this user?SIGN ME UP FOR THE FANTASIA'S EMAIL LIST!InfluencesAretha Franklin, Diana RossSounds Like
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was intended to be included in Fantasia, but it was cut due to length.So our picture opens with a series of impressions of the conductor and the
players.They might be, oh, just masses of color, or they may be cloud forms or great
landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.The ends of violin bows
become silver streaks darting through the heavens.Music is projected as yellow streaks of light.Strings are suspended in air played with soaring bows.The goldfish become coquettish chorines with pink eyelids
and fluttering lashes.Waltz of the Flowers: the change of seasons from
fall to winter is beautifully illustrated in four dances.The Autumn Fairies also touch milkweed pods which burst, releasing
their silky milkweed seeds.The seeds resemble classical ballerina
dancers with white bouffant skirts and smooth, sleek black hair.Bluish Frost Fairies decorate nature with tiny needles of bluish
white ice.Sign in to get personalized recommendations.Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.See all 116 customer reviews...Ships from and sold by Amazon.Day Shipping at checkout.Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?This item is part of The American Idol Series.Maybe the best thing about American Idol is that, once it launches its stars, it sets them free.With its skittering Supremes sample and Big Boi rap, it does for refried '70s soul what Fantasia did for Idol: it makes you want to pay attention.Buy the sheet music for Fantasia at Sheet Music Plus.Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.Seldom in recent music history has talent been this misplaced.One of the few impressive vocalists to emerge in recent years, Fantasia can sink her teeth into a song like it's no one else's business.Lead single "Hood Boy" featuring Big Boi blares out of the speakers with a sharp, scatty performance and downright catchy sampling of "The Happening" by the Supremes.Even more hypocritical are the overwhelming batch of tracks that make Fantasia sound like the spokeswoman for NOW.Subject matter aside, "Fantasia" strikes many a bland key."Baby Makin' Hips" is lyrically hazy.The few shining moments, however, glitter better than gold.While it is a no runaway success, "Fantasia," like her 2004 debut "Free Yourself," is full of promise.She may be a formidable talent full of tremendous potential and her own sense of style, but a good career is built on solid material.With more of that next time around, she will be better equipped to release a solid LP.Was this review helpful to you?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours.""When I See U" is a mellow track that describes her shyness when she sees a certain someone come around.Nominate U" is a standout ballad that should easily be her next commercial single if the label heads have any clue what they're doing."Baby Makin Hips" and "Not The Way That I Do" are both rather annoying, with both the singing and production.Feel Beautiful" is a great possibility for a future single considering the powerful message Fantasia puts forth on this record."Sunshine" but then saves face with the raw street ballad "Bump What Ya Friends Say."Fantasia has a hard time balancing between being both a Pop superstar and the sistah who still reps for the hood.Fantasia might want to consider sticking to one thing the next time out or she could be looking at a rather unsatisfying singing career.Was this review helpful to you?FANTASIA, the artist during her American Idol days and have not been disappointed thus far.Fantasia is an old school performer who puts her whole soul into every performance, grabs the audience by the heart and makes every person FEEL something (a la the great Patti LaBelle)!I'M NOT THAT TYPE are excellent, they both have catchy musical arrangements but the lyrics are "meh".Missy Elliott produced because I am not a fan of hers but she was able to get beautifully subtle performances out of Fantasia on the ballads and not drown out her vocals on the uptempo tracks by overproducing.From the beautiful cover shots to her growth as a vocalist, FANTASIA is a step up from her debut album and shows that if given time and the ability to work with more gifted songwriters in the future, Fantasia is an artist who I will continue to support and enjoy.PS: I wish her all the success in the world with her upcoming Broadway debut in 'The Color Purple'!!Fantasia's voice and her humbleness...Fantasia outdoes herself on her second album.Hood Boy and Like the Way that I Do.AMAZING 2ND ALBUM 5 STARS
This cd is amazing.But overall, the cd consists of some pretty decent songs.Sorry Fantasia, I guess I should have bought the first one instead.When I See You
Interesting CD.Fantasia's first CD was better.Published 5 months ago by Booker T.Published 6 months ago by Q.Nothing fantastic about Fantasia
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