Linda smith comedian
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There are at least two artists named Linda Smith:
1. Linda Helen Smith was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer 2. Linda Smith is a female singer songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland
1. Linda Helen Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer. She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. She met her partner, Warren Lakin, at university, and they were together for nearly 30 years until her death.
2. Linda Smith was a singer/songwriter with roots that could be traced back to the very beginnings of the lo-fi home-recording movement. After a series of cassette releases and singles, Smith made her digital debut in 1995 with the album Nothing Else Matters.
Linda Smith recorded and released her music from 1986 to 2001 on her own Preference label and on other labels such as Harriet, Slumberland, and Feel Good All Over.
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Linda Smith (comedian)
English comedian
Linda Helen Smith (29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006) was an English comedian and comedy writer. She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002. From 2004 to 2006 she was head of the British Humanist Association.
Life and career
Smith was born in Erith, Kent, in 1958 and was educated at Erith College of Technology (now Bexley College) and at the University of Sheffield where she graduated in English and Drama. She was a founder member of the theatre company Sheffield Popular Theatre before turning to comedy.[2] She never joined a political grouping, claiming that The Tufty Club was the only outfit she ever joined. Her early stand-up appearances were with her university friend Ann Lavelle in a double act called Token Women and then Tuff Lovers. They performed at small comedy clubs and many solidarity benefit shows on the Pit Stop Tour which stopped off at miners' welfare clubs during the latter stages of the 1984/85 national miners' strike. She became a fu
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith
New Zealand academic (born 1950)
Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina SmithCNZM (née Mead; born 1950), previously a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand,[2][3][4] is now a distinguished professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. Smith's academic work is about decolonising knowledge and systems. The Royal Society Te Apārangi describes Smith’s influence on education as creating "intellectual spaces for students and researchers to embrace their identities and transcend dominant narratives."[5]
Early life and education
Smith was born in Whakatāne,[6] New Zealand. Her father is Sidney Moko Mead of Ngāti Awa, also a professor, and her mother is June Te Rina Mead, née Walker, of Ngāti Porou.[7] She was given the name Tuhiwai as an adult.[7] Smith affiliates with the MāoriiwiNgāti Awa and Ngāti Porou from the east cape of the North Island in New Zealand.[5]
When Smith was a teenager, she moved to the United States while her father wa
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