"allan kozinn born 30 july 1954 is an american journalist music critic and teacherkozinn received bachelors degrees in music and journalism from syracuse university in 1976 he began freelancing as a critic and music feature writer for the new york times in 1977 and joined the papers staff in 19911 before joining the times he was a contributing editor to high fidelity and keynote magazines and a frequent contributor to guitar player keyboard pulse and other publications he was also the first music critic for the new york observer kozinn has written a number of books including guitar the history the music the players 1984 mischa elman and the romantic style 1990 the beatles 1995 and classical music a critics guide to the 100 most important recordings 2004kozinn joined the faculty of new york university in 2004 where he has taught courses in music criticism baroque music literature and the beatles he also taught a course in the history of musical interpretation at the juilliard schoolin september 2012 the new york times reassigned kozinn from his former duties as a classical music critic to general cultural reporting which caused controversy at the time in december 2014 kozinn left the times as part of the newspapers most recent round of layoffs and buyoutskozinn is married to the writer paula brochu the couple reside in manhattan new york"

— Allan Kozinn 🦆

"vernica romero is a spanish singer who rose to fame in 2001 after appearing on the reality singing contest operacin triunfo in which she finished in sixth place among the songs she performed on the program were youd better stop unbreak my heart regresa a m and one day ill fly awayhaving already sold more than 250000 albums in spain romeo is attempting successes in the american market since 2001 she has gained fans worldwide and has multiplatinum sales and several awardsin 2005 she moved to london where she studied drama and took dancing lessons she also improved her songwriting skills and wrote her third album serotonina that year she founded her label vk 48 music in 2006 she released serotonina and her single conectado a mi was given a platinum award by msn microsoft as the most downloaded single in msn history veronica is the winner of the golden minute in spain where 15 million viewers tuned in to watch her she is deeply involved in every single aspect of the creation of her work from singing all of her backing vocals to overseeing treatment of the instruments as well as their recording until to the final mix she moved to miami where she worked with rodolfo castillo santana bacilos chayanne julio iglesias iker gastaminza shakira chayanne daniel ricky martin bacilos dan warner madonna rihanna timbaland nelly furtado justin timberlake shakira mika lee levin shakira barbra streisand pnk julio iglesias and began cowriting and collaborating with nina ossof daughtry high school musical elsten torres luis fonsi julio iglesias jr jim camacho john legend alicia keys john m flacone shakira gloria estefan in january 2010 she moved to los angelesromeo is a voting member of naras and laras which presents the recording industrys most prestigious awards the grammy and latin grammy"

— Ver%C3%B3nica Romeo 🦆

"ron hayman born august 31 1954 was one of the first canadian cyclists to turn professional in the late 1970s inspiring those following like fellow canadian alex stieda hayman later became a canadian cycling coach and entrepreneur and was runnerup on the list of the 10 most important canadian cyclists of the twentieth centuryhayman competed on the canadian olympic cycling team in munich in the 1972 summer olympics in the pursuit and again in 1976 summer olympics in the team pursuit he was seven times canadian national champion on the road and track in 1979 still an amateur on an english team london australia archer road club he won the 1979 tour of ireland phil anderson stephen roche and robert millar finished 2nd 3rd and 4th behind hayman and all subsequently became successful professionals hayman was ranked top amateur in belgium 1979he raced as a professional from 1979 through 1988 his bestknown team of which he was one of seven founding members was the schwinn 7eleven cycling team that also featured eric heiden davis phinney and later alex stieda hayman won the 71000 proam great mohawk bicycle race in 1981 the richest purse for a professional race in north america at the time a stage win and second at the redlands bicycle classic in 1985 he also won three straight gastown grand prix 198119821983 a criterium race in vancouver won by riders like stieda 1980 chris carmichael 1985 and lance armstrong 1991 hayman is credited with 4 stage wins in the coors classic for many years the largest stage race in north americahaymans most dramatic win was his sprint victory over the italian sprinter silvestro milani of bottecchia in washington dc in the final stage of the 1983 tour of america the only stage not won by a european hayman was 711 team captain later that summer davis phinney narrowly beat steve bauer at the uspro criterium championship racing against european professional teams these wins foreshadowed the end of the european dominance of professional cycle racing"

— Ron Hayman 🦆

"iain cameron conn born 1962 is a british businessman he is currently group managing director at bp and will take up the position of group ceo at centrica plc on 1st january 2015 centrica is an integrated energy company focused on supplying energy and services to customers in the uk namerica and ireland and also on participating in the natural gas and power value chains with material positions in exploration and production power generation and midstream centrica markets under a number of brands including british gas direct energy and bord gaisfrom june 2007 until1st october 2014 he was chief executive refining and marketing for bp in which he had responsibility for bps customer facing activities in fuels lubricants and petrochemicals serving about 12 million customers daily in over 70 countries he had responsibility for retail and business to business marketing globally and associated manufacturing logistics and supply chains and bps product brands including castrol bp aral and arco in his role as an executive director of the bp group conn also had regional responsibility for europe southern africa and asia pacific and had group brand responsibility from 2004 to 2014conn has been on the board of bp plc since july 2004 prior to taking up his current role in 2007 from 2004 to 2007 he held functional responsibility for safety operations technology marketing human resources information technology procurement and supply chain management he also had regional responsibility for europe africa middle east russia caspian and asia pacific from 2002 to 2004 he was chief executive for petrochemicals since joining bp in 1986 he has held a variety of roles in oil trading marketing and exploration production"

— Iain Conn 🦆