Maria & Yesenia

The Romani are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas. Romani are widely known in the English-speaking world by the exonym "Gypsies" (or Gipsies) and also as Romany, Romanies, Romanis, Roma or Roms; in their language, Romani, they are known collectively as Romane or Rromane (depending on the dialect).

Romani are widely dispersed. They originated from India and arrived in the Middle East first and then in Europe by the 14th century, either separating from the Dom people or, at least, having a similar history; the ancestors of both the Romani and the Dom left North India sometime between the 6th and 11th century.

Since the 19th century, some Romani have also migrated to the Americas. There are an estimated one million Roma in the United States; and 800,000 in Brazil, most of whose ancestors emigrated in the nineteenth century from eastern Europe. Brazil also includes Romani descended from people deported by the government of Portugal during the Inquisition in the colonial era. In migrations since the late nineteenth century, Romani have also moved to Canada and countries in South America.

Side Note: The mystery girl Maria found in Greece was abandoned by her mother, raised by Roma couple. It might be good for her to return to her Roma parent or better foster family.

Yesenia is a very old love story movie about Gypsy. Yesenia is a beautiful gypsy who lives different situations in an aimlessly fixed way with the company of her caravan. In one of her many trips she meets a military man Oswaldo Moncada and falls in love with him. They will have to prove that their love is stronger than their differences and social prejudice that separate them. One of the opponents of their relationship is Rashay, the patriarch of the gypsies, who opposes the relationship because the military youth does not belong to the Gypsy tribe.

Yesenia is actually a girl born out of wedlock abandoned by her rich family and brough up by a poor gypsy woman. Her birth mother is white. She and her half sister fall in love with the same man. And her half sister can not live longer because of fatal disease. After learned that Yesenia is her sister, the half sister left so that Yesenia and Oswaldo can be together. Yesenia later reunited with her birth mother and the rest of her family.

It is a happy ending movie. Do we always have happy ending in life?

Not very happy lately ......if you care ......

Lana: Beautiful and Sad

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1986), known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Del Rey started writing at the age of 18, releasing her first digital album Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant in January 2010. Del Rey's music has been noted for its cinematic sound and its references to various aspects of pop culture, particularly that of the 1950s and 1960s Americana. The singer has described herself as a "self-styled gangsta Nancy Sinatra." Before signing to a major record label, Del Rey provided sole production of her music videos. Musically, she draws influence from what she deems to be the masters of each genre, including Elvis Presley, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Nirvana, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, and Britney Spears, as well as from poetry and film noir.

She is so beautiful with such a sad voice.

Summertime Sadness

Without You


Lucky Ones

There were the Days

"Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put English lyrics to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", lit. "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevskii. It deals with reminiscence upon youth and romantic idealism.

Georgian singer Tamara Tsereteli (1900–1968) and Russian singer Alexander Vertinsky made what were probably the earliest recordings of the song, in 1925 and in 1926 respectively.

The song is best remembered, however, in English-speaking countries, for Mary Hopkin's 1968 recording, which was a top-ten hit in both the US and the UK. On most recorded versions of the song, Raskin is credited as the writer, even though he wrote only the later English lyrics and not the melody.

Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti, is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were The Days".

Hopkin was born in Pontardawe, Wales into a Welsh-speaking family; her father worked as a housing officer. She took weekly singing lessons as a child and began her musical career as a folk singer with a local group. She released an EP of Welsh-language songs for a local record label called Cambrian, based in her home town, before signing to The Beatles' Apple Records.

Her debut single, "Those Were the Days", produced by McCartney, was released in the UK on 30 August 1968 (catalogue number APPLE 2). Despite competition from a well-established star, Sandie Shaw, who released her version of the same song as a single that same year, Hopkin's version became a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart, and reached number two in the US Billboard Hot 100. It sold over a million and a half copies in the United States alone, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A.. Global sales topped eight million.

Joan Baez: Diamond and Rust

"Diamonds & Rust" is a song written and performed by Joan Baez. Released in 1975.

In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a "crummy" hotel in Greenwich Village; she recalls giving him a pair of cuff-links, and summarizes that memories bring "diamonds and rust." The song, which was a top-40 hit for Baez on the U.S. pop singles chart, is regarded by a number of critics, as well as by Baez fans, as one of her best compositions. It served as the title song on Baez's gold-selling Diamonds & Rust album in 1975.

In 1975 live, the original line is:

Ten years ago I bought you some cufflinks 

You brought me something 

We both know what memories can bring 

They bring diamonds and rust

In 2007 live performance, the line becomes forty years ago..... She has changed to 20, 30 40 years ago after the first release.

1975 Live (10 years ago)

2007 Grammy Live (40 years ago)

With Bob Dylan

Love Song to a Stranger

Gift of Forgiveness

Angel Contact (30 minutes)