Gone Too Soon...
And they shouldn't have
left us at all...
LONDON (Reuters) - "This Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man. Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace. Her body was stuffed into a suitcase and taken about 100 miles to Birmingham where it was buried in the back garden of a house. Her badly decomposed body was found in April 2006, three months after the killing."
The body of Ali Hamed, who was killed in a raid in Baghdad by U.S. troops, is prepared to be washed for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. U.S. ground forces and attack helicopters killed an estimated 49 militants during a raid on Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite enclave to capture a militia chief who lead a kidnapping ring, the military said. Iraqi officials said at least 13 people were killed, including women and children. The military said ground forces were unaware of any civilians killed in the Sadr City strike, and the vast difference in reported death tolls could not immediately be reconciled. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
ÈVE COURNOYER
(1969-2012)
Click on the above image
for a voice straight from
the Great Beyond:
Ève singing a lullaby.
Courtesy of
Benoit Rocheleau
from Yamachiche, QC.
and Soundcloud.
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Labels: commemorative
2 Comments:
Hearing EVE COURNOYER is especially sad...
Yet I hope it is always playable... always heard... as long as time endures - and this blog, Blogger and Google themselves, the world wide web and the whole blamed planet itself!
EVE COURNOYER... was an artistic sister.
She and I --- as countless others all throughout the globe --- were plagued by the exact same thing: inhibition of action, lack of chances, poor support, zero encouragement for our artistic endeavors...
You name it.
She had tons of potential.
And raw, pure, very real talent.
In my own field, the same can be said about me --- as it can be said about so many others out there.
But you see now --- there can only be so many "stars" on this earth.
There can only be so many... who are given their chance to shine.
There can only be so many who are green-lit, approved, selected, noticed even...
And EVE COURNOYER was not of the lot.
In the world of music, she remained a struggling artist who went largely unnoticed - until the day she died.
In that cut-throat industry --- as in so many others --- there could be scores of them counted that it would still be but the tip of the iceberg in terms of a compilation of *brokenhearted tragic broken dreams* that continue to this day...
In many ways, I am the same too; but in the literary world.
The only notable difference being: I have not died yet.
Not yet.
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I had thought that the forty-eight seconds track had been removed from Soundcloud...
Whoever uploaded it - thank you.
May people finally get to know EVE COURNOYER...
And may her dream to sing have come true at last...
Now.
As she sings for THE LORD in the Heavens Above...
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