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Cole Porter

Shahararren mawakin Amurka, wanda ya yi aiki musamman a cikin nau'ikan kiɗan kiɗa da kiɗan fina-finai, Porter ya bar ayyukan da aka bambanta ta hanyar fasaha na ƙwararru, zurfin ji, da wayo. Waƙarsa ba ta rasa sifofin hankali ba, amma wani lokacin takan hau zuwa matakin falsafa.

Cole Porter an haife shi a ranar 9 ga Yuni, 1893 a cikin ƙaramin garin Peru (Indiana). Ƙaunar kiɗa ya bayyana a cikinsa da wuri: yaron ya buga piano da violin, yana da shekaru goma ya tsara waƙoƙi da raye-raye. Matashin ya yi karatu a Makarantar Shari'a ta Jami'ar Yale, sannan a makarantar digiri na Harvard. A wannan lokacin, ya fahimci cewa ya kamata a haɗa hanyar rayuwarsa ta gaba da kiɗa, ya bar doka kuma ya tafi sashen kiɗa. Fusatattun dangi sun hana shi gadon miliyoyi.

A cikin 1916, Porter ya rubuta wasan kwaikwayo na farko na kiɗa. Bayan ta gaza, ya bar Amurka ya shiga cikin sojojin Faransa. Da farko yana hidima a Arewacin Afirka sannan kuma a Faransa. Paris kyakkyawa Porter. Bayan karshen yakin, ya koma Amurka a takaice, ya sake tafiya Faransa, inda ya yi karatu tare da shahararren mawaki Vincent d'Andy.

A 1928, a ƙarshe Porter ya koma Amurka. Ya rubuta waƙoƙi a kan rubutun kansa don gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Broadway, ya juya zuwa operetta (Paris, 1928), ya rubuta kida, wanda ke ƙara samun nasara.

A cikin 1937, Porter ya karya kafafunsa biyu a cikin fadowa daga doki. A cikin shekaru ashirin masu zuwa, an yi masa tiyata sama da talatin. Ya shafe shekaru na ƙarshe na rayuwarsa a New York, a sanannen otal ɗin Waldorf Astoria Millionaires. Col Porter ya mutu a ranar 16 ga Oktoba, 1964 a California.

Daga cikin ayyukansa akwai waƙoƙin wasan kwaikwayo fiye da ɗari biyar, adadi mai yawa na ra'ayoyin kiɗa da kiɗa, gami da "Look America First" (1916), "Hitchi-Koo 1919" (1919), "Paris" (1928), "Miliyan hamsin." Faransanci" (1929), "The New Yorker" (1930), "Merry Divorce" (1932), "Komai Tafi" (1934), "Jubilee" (1935), "Dubarry Was a Lady" (1939), "Wani abu ga Boys (1943), The Seven Fine Arts (1944), Around the World (1946), Kiss Me Kat (1948), Can-Can (1953), Silk Stockings (1955)), kiɗa don fina-finai, waƙoƙi, ballet. "A cikin Ƙimar" (1923).

L. Mikheva, A. Orelovich