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Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo by Jo Koy

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397562 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397562] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mixed Plate: Chronicles of an All-American Combo Author: Jo Koy Narrator: Jo Koy Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 18 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 27 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A stunning, hilarious memoir displaying Koy’s “wide-ranging comedic talent and abundant wells of perseverance” (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Mixed Plate illuminates the burning drive and unique humor that make Jo Koy one of today’s most successful comedians. Well guys, here it is—my story. A funny, sad, at times pathetic but also kick-ass tale of how a half-Filipino, half-white kid whose mom thought (and still thinks) his career goal was to become a clown became a success. Not an overnight success, because that would have made for a really short read, but an All-American success who could give my immigrant mom the kind of life she hoped for when she came to this country, and my son the kind of life I wished I’d had as a kid. With all the details of what it felt like to get the doors closed in my face, to grind it out on the road with my arsenal of dick jokes, and how my career finally took off once I embraced the craziness of my family, which I always thought was uniquely Filipino but turns out is as universal as it gets. In this book, I’ll take you behind the mic, behind the curtain—OK, way behind it. From growing up with a mom who made me dance like Michael Jackson at the Knights of Columbus, to some real dark stuff, the stuff we don’t talk about often enough as immigrants. Mental health, poverty, drinking. And show you the path to my American Dream. Which was paved with a lot of failure, department store raffle tickets to win free color televisions, bad jokes, old VHS tapes, a motorcycle my mom probably still hates, the only college final I aced (wasn’t math), and getting my first laugh on stage.  In this book, I get serious about my funny. And I want to make you laugh a little while I do it. I’m like Hawaii’s favorite lunch—the mixed plate. Little bit of this, a little bit of that. My book Mixed Plate is too.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle by Rob Kenner

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400555 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400555] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle Author: Rob Kenner Narrator: Landon Woodson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.2 of Total 20 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This “beautiful tribute to a legendary artist” (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business savvy—before he was tragically shot down in the very neighborhood he was dedicated to building up. For Nipsey Hussle, “The Marathon” was more than a mixtape title or the name of a clothing store; it was a way of life, a metaphor for the relentless pursuit of excellence and the willpower required to overcome adversity day after day. Hussle was determined to win the race to success on his own terms, and he wanted to see his whole community in the winner’s circle with him. A moving and powerful exploration of an extraordinary artist, The Marathon Don’t Stop places Hussle in historical context and unpacks his complex legacy. Combining on-the-ground reporting and candid interviews, “Rob Kenner has given us the book the world—and hip-hop and pop culture—has been waiting for…one that should be celebrated alongside the best biographies ever about iconic figures we have loved—and lost” (Kevin Powell, author of When We Free the World).

The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary by Anne Midgette, Herbert Breslin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400678 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400678] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti's Rise to Fame by His Manager, Friend and Sometime Adversary Author: Anne Midgette, Herbert Breslin Narrator: Chris Lutkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 57 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: This is the story of the thirty-six-year-old business relationship between Luciano Pavarotti and his manager, Herbert Breslin, during which Breslin guided what he calls, justifiably, “the greatest career in classical music.” During that career, Breslin moved Pavarotti out of the opera house and onto the concert (and the world) stage and into the arms of a huge mass public. How he and Pavarotti changed the landscape of opera is one of the most significant and entertaining stories in the history of classical music, and Herbert Breslin relates the tale in a brash, candid, witty fashion that is often bitingly frank and profane. He also provides a portrait of his friend and client—“a beautiful, simple, lovely guy who turned into a very determined, aggressive, and somewhat unhappy superstar”—that is by turns affectionate and satirical and full of hilarious details and tales out of school, with Pavarotti emerging as something like the ultimate Italian male. The book is also enlivened by the voices of other players in the soap-opera drama that was Pavarotti’s career, and they are no less uncensored than Herbert Breslin. The last word, in fact, comes from none other than Luciano Pavarotti himself! The King and I is the ultimate backstage book about the greatest opera star of the past century—and it’s a delight to listen to as well.

This Is Not My Memoir by Todd London, André Gregory

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408914 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/408914] to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Is Not My Memoir Author: Todd London, André Gregory Narrator: André Gregory Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: 'The iconic stage director, writer, actor, and founder of The Manhattan Project, a 1960s-70s avant-garde theater company, delivers smart, clever observations with an actor's perfect timing. From harsh beginnings—never sentimentalized—to a series of adventures—sometimes funny, sometimes not—listening to Gregory is pure delight.' —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner This program is read by the author. The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This Is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theater director, writer, and actor. For the first time, André shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This Is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the listener from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This Is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between André and Todd London, who together create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life? A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound: A Memoir by Mike Doughty

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405101 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405101] to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound: A Memoir Author: Mike Doughty Narrator: Mike Doughty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 52 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A precise yet disorienting look at the exhilaration of music, the process of memory, and the moments when the world becomes new, by the acclaimed songwriter and author of The Book of Drugs '[Mike Doughty's writing is] astonishingly vital, energized, and natural. . . . acerbic and sometimes lacerating.'--RICK MOODY, author of The Long Accomplishment and The Ice Storm In this highly original gathering of autobiographical stories, the musician and writer Mike Doughty, in his inimitable voice, sends dispatches from a touring musician's peripatetic life, vividly recalling moments when profound musical experiences made him see the world anew. I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound consists of sometimes-surreal tales, drawing from conflations of memory, especially formative moments in New York City in the 1990s. It looks at how the avid nostalgia of fans is both a boon and a burden for an artist working to stay vital, and what it is to age while touring, and prolifically releasing new music. He examines the struggle to keep relationships alive while living on the road, and the strangeness of the disconnect between performer and audience. A unique narrative, unstuck in time, and an unforgettable examination of what it is to be an artist in this cultural moment, I Die Each Time I Hear the Sound is funny, vulnerable, and unsparing.