Paul Sérusier: Formally called Landscape at the Bois d’Amour at Pont-Aven (1888), it was known to the Nabis as The Talisman, and it is considered the first Nabi painting. Although by the summer of 1889 Sérusier’s enthusiasm for Gauguin’s work had begun to subside, he joined Gauguin at Pont-Aven…

garden and landscape design, the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other types of areas. Garden and landscape design is used to enhance the settings for buildings and public areas and in recreational areas and parks. It is one of the decorative arts and is

garden and landscape design, the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other types of areas. Garden and landscape design is used to enhance the settings for buildings and public areas and in recreational areas and parks. It is one of the decorative arts and is

horticulture: …plants for ornament (floriculture and landscape horticulture). Pomology deals with fruit and nut crops. Olericulture deals with herbaceous plants for the kitchen, including, for example, carrots (edible root), asparagus (edible stem), lettuce (edible leaf), cauliflower (edible flower buds), tomatoes (edible fruit), and peas (edible seed).

Sesshū: Mature years and works of Sesshū: …or “Sansui chōkan” (formally titled Landscape of Four Seasons, 1486), is generally considered Sesshū’s masterpiece and is often regarded as the greatest Japanese ink painting. Depicting the four seasons, beginning with spring and ending with winter, it extends more than 50 feet (15 metres). Though based in both theme and…

landscape painting, the depiction of natural scenery in art. Landscape paintings may capture mountains, valleys, bodies of water, fields, forests, and coasts and may or may not include man-made structures as well as people. Although paintings from the earliest ancient and Classical periods included

Peter Paul Rubens: Later career of Peter Paul Rubens: …1635, Rubens painted his glowing Landscape with a Rainbow (1636) and its pendant Landscape with Het Steen (1636). These complementary views of a countryside teeming with life celebrate the natural order of creation and present an Arcadian vision of humankind in harmony with nature. Such pictures alone, permeated with shimmering…

Claude Lorrain: Life and works: His first dated work is Landscape with Cattle and Peasants. Painted in 1629, it hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Soon after, in the early 1630s, he rose to fame. He did this partly on the basis of two or three series of landscape frescoes (all but one, a…

Pieter Bruegel, the Elder: Life: …earliest signed and dated painting, Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias. The holy figures in this painting were probably done by Maarten de Vos, a painter from Antwerp then working in Italy.

Peter Paul Rubens: Later career of Peter Paul Rubens: …Rainbow (1636) and its pendant Landscape with Het Steen (1636). These complementary views of a countryside teeming with life celebrate the natural order of creation and present an Arcadian vision of humankind in harmony with nature. Such pictures alone, permeated with shimmering colour and light, would ensure Rubens’s fame as…

Joachim Patinir: 1515–24), and Landscape with St. Jerome (1516–17) was much reduced in scale and immersed in the phenomena of the natural world.

Wassily Kandinsky: Munich period: In Landscape with Tower (1909) similar tendencies are evident, together with the beginning of what might be called an explosion in the composition. By 1910 Improvisation XIV is already, as its somewhat musical title suggests, practically abstract; with the 1911 Encircled, there has definitely developed a

Nicolas Poussin: The Raphael of our century: …Poussin portrays the body of Phocion being carried out of Athens in a landscape of unparalleled grandeur and majesty, elevating that traditionally “inferior” genre of painting to the level of his most exalted history pictures.

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, oil painting long attributed to the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, but now believed by some scholars to be a copy likely painted in the 1560s of Bruegel’s original work from about 1558, which is thought to be lost. Nonetheless, the composition of the

Claude Lorrain: Stylistic development of Claude Lorrain: …as can be seen in Landscape: The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah (also called The Mill), dated 1648.

Liu Songnian: …paintings attributed to him are Landscapes of the Four Seasons and Traveling in Autumn Mountains. Even though the figures in these works are small, the idea of a human in harmony with nature is clear. Landscapes of the Four Seasons, which was remounted as a hand scroll, echoes the new…

Ben Okri: …Flowers and Shadows (1980) and The Landscapes Within (1981), employ surrealistic images to depict the corruption and lunacy of a politically scarred country. The short-story collections Incidents at the Shrine (1986) and Stars of the New Curfew (1988) portray the essential link in Nigerian culture between the physical world and…

Sir Edwin Landseer was a British painter and sculptor best known for his paintings of animals. Landseer learned drawing from his father, an engraver and writer, and also studied at the Royal Academy. His paintings of animals were based on sound anatomical knowledge and, at first, were marked by

Sir Edwin Landseer was a British painter and sculptor best known for his paintings of animals. Landseer learned drawing from his father, an engraver and writer, and also studied at the Royal Academy. His paintings of animals were based on sound anatomical knowledge and, at first, were marked by

canton: …their ancient democratic assemblies (Landsgemeinden), in which all citizens of full age meet annually for the purpose of legislation, taxation, and the election of an annual administrative council and of the members of the cantonal supreme court. In the remaining cantons the legislature (Kantonsrat, Grosser Rat, or Grand Conseil)…

Landshut, city, Bavaria Land (state), southeastern Germany. It lies on the Isar River northeast of Munich. Named for its early position as the protector (Hut) of the neighbouring district, it was founded in 1204, when the duke of Bavaria built a fortress there, and was chartered in 1279. It

airport: Modern airports: Landside facilities are the passenger and cargo terminals and the access system, which includes parking, roads, public transport facilities, and loading and unloading areas.

landskap, traditional subdivision (province) of Sweden. The 25 landskap (provinces) developed during the pre-Viking and Viking eras and were independent political units with their own laws, judges, and councils. The division was based on geographical and cultural characteristics with which many

Landsknecht, German mercenary pikeman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. At the height of their success, the Landsknechte ranked among the most-effective foot soldiers in the world. Though there is no consensus on the origins of the word Landsknecht, it likely meant “servant of the land.”

Landsknecht, German mercenary pikeman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. At the height of their success, the Landsknechte ranked among the most-effective foot soldiers in the world. Though there is no consensus on the origins of the word Landsknecht, it likely meant “servant of the land.”

Landsknecht, German mercenary pikeman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. At the height of their success, the Landsknechte ranked among the most-effective foot soldiers in the world. Though there is no consensus on the origins of the word Landsknecht, it likely meant “servant of the land.”

Landskrona, town and port, Skåne län (county), southern Sweden, on The Sound (Öresund), north-northwest of the city of Malmö. It has the only natural harbour on The Sound. The town was founded by Erik of Pomerania, king of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, and chartered in 1413. Although it was

Ugo Betti: , Landslide, 1964), the story of a natural disaster and collective guilt; Delitto all’Isola delle Capre (first performed 1950; Eng. trans., Crime on Goat Island, 1960), a violent tragedy of love and revenge; La regina e gli insorti (first performed 1951; Eng. trans., The Queen and…

landslide, the movement downslope of a mass of rock, debris, earth, or soil (soil being a mixture of earth and debris). Landslides occur when gravitational and other types of shear stresses within a slope exceed the shear strength (resistance to shearing) of the materials that form the slope. Shear

Stevie Nicks: Fleetwood Mac: “Landslide,” and “Gypsy.” Her romance with Buckingham fueled many of her compositions. The pair broke up in advance of Fleetwood Mac’s seminal album Rumours (1977), and their acrimonious split inspired much of the record’s content. “Dreams,” a song Nicks composed in ten minutes and that…

landslide, the movement downslope of a mass of rock, debris, earth, or soil (soil being a mixture of earth and debris). Landslides occur when gravitational and other types of shear stresses within a slope exceed the shear strength (resistance to shearing) of the materials that form the slope. Shear

Norwegian language: …called Dano-Norwegian, or Riksmål) and New Norwegian (Nynorsk).

Norway: Labour and taxation: …influential labour union is the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (Landsorganisasjonen i Norge; LO), which was established in 1899 and has more than 800,000 members. Other important labour unions are the Confederation of Vocational Unions (Yrkesorganisasjonenes Sentralforbund; YS) and the Federation of Norwegian Professional Associations (Akademikerne).

Baltic Sea: Physiography: …(459 metres) is reached in Landsort Deep; between Gotland and Latvia in Gotland Deep (817 feet [249 metres]); and also in the Gulf of Bothnia in the Åland Sea between Sweden and the Åland Islands. A deepwater channel also extends along most of the Gulf of Finland. The Baltic Sea…

waterspout: …some of which are called landspouts because of this similarity. The rotation occurs at low levels in the atmosphere, so the resulting vortex does not extend very far up into the cloud. Indeed, the rotation is not often detectable by radar, another indication that waterspouts are a phenomenon largely confined…

Magnus Brostrup Landstad was a pastor and poet who published the first collection of authentic Norwegian traditional ballads (1853). After ordination, Landstad served in several parishes in the Telemark district, an area known for its rich folk tradition, before going to Christiania (later

Germany: The princes and the Landstände: In the various principalities the outcome of the struggle between the territorial princes and the assemblies of estates (Landstände) was not fully decided by 1500. The vigour of the conflict arose partly out of the contrasting conceptions of government held by the protagonists. The…

Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian American immunologist and pathologist who received the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the major blood groups and the development of the ABO system of blood typing that has made blood transfusion a routine medical practice. After

Denmark: The liberal movement: …chambers: the Folketing and the Landsting. Both were elected by popular vote, but seats in the Landsting had a relatively high property-owning qualification. The parliament shared legislative power with the king and the cabinet, while the courts independently exercised judicial power. The constitution also secured the freedom of the press,…

Rhineland-Palatinate: Geography: …to the state parliament, the Landtag. The Landtag elects a prime minister. Under the state’s judicial system, civil and criminal cases are tried by the provincial court of appeal and the county courts.

Rhineland-Palatinate: Geography: …to the state parliament, the Landtag. The Landtag elects a prime minister. Under the state’s judicial system, civil and criminal cases are tried by the provincial court of appeal and the county courts.

Italy: The south, 774–1000: The gastald of Capua, Landulf I (815–843), also was interested in independence, and by the end of the century Capua was in effect a third state in the old Beneventan principality.

Landuma, group of some 20,000 people located principally in Guinea, 30 to 60 miles (50 to 100 km) inland along the border of Guinea-Bissau. Their language, also called Landuma or Tyapi, belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family and is related to Baga. The Landuma are

Landuma: Their language, also called Landuma or Tyapi, belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo family and is related to Baga. The Landuma are agriculturalists—corn (maize), millet, groundnuts (peanuts), and rice being the major crops. Social organization centres in a paramount chief, with villages governed by subordinate chiefs. Marriage…

Lando was the pope from July/August 913 to early 914. He reigned during one of the most difficult periods in papal history—from c. 900 to 950. The Holy See was then dominated by the relatives and dependents of the senior

Germanic religion and mythology: Guardian spirits: …good deal is told of land spirits (landvœttir). According to the pre-Christian law of Iceland, no one must approach the land in a ship bearing a dragonhead, lest he frighten the land spirits. An Icelandic poet, cursing the king and queen of Norway, enjoined the landvœttir to drive them from…

Paul Giamatti: …2 and a manipulative psychologist Eugene Landy in the Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy.

Jonathan Homer Lane: His solar studies culminated in Lane’s law, which states that as a gaseous body contracts (under the influence of gravity, for example), the contraction generates heat. He used this law to explain how the Sun built up its intense heat over the eons. His most important publication is On the…

Ann Petry was an African-American novelist, journalist, and biographer whose works offered a unique perspective on black life in small-town New England. Born into a family of pharmacists in a small Connecticut town, Petry graduated in 1931 with a degree in pharmacy from the University of

Carrie Chapman Catt was an American feminist leader who led the women’s rights movement for more than 25 years, culminating in the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (for women’s suffrage) to the U.S. Constitution in 1920. Carrie Lane grew up in Ripon, Wisconsin, and from 1866 in Charles City,

Dame Elizabeth Kathleen Lane was a British jurist who was the first woman judge appointed to the British High Court. Lane also headed a controversial inquiry (1971–73) that upheld the 1967 Abortion Act. Coulborn attended McGill University, Montreal, and became interested in a legal career while

Richard Gere: …with his Unfaithful (2002) costar Diane Lane in Nights in Rodanthe, a romantic drama based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks. Gere’s later films include Amelia (2009), a biopic about the American aviator Amelia Earhart (played by Hilary Swank), and the crime drama Brooklyn’s Finest (2009). During that same

Dick Lane was an American gridiron football player who is widely considered one of the greatest cornerbacks in National Football League (NFL) history. Lane was named to seven Pro Bowls over the course of his career, and his 14 interceptions during the 1952 season are an NFL record. Abandoned by his

sabermetrics: Early analytic efforts: …Baseball Magazine about 1911, writer F.C. Lane began railing about the inadequacy of batting average as an indicator of performance. As Lane noted, it made little sense to count a single the same as a home run, and eventually he devised his own (generally accurate) values for singles, doubles, triples,…

Fitz Henry Lane was an American painter and lithographer known for his marine and coastal scenes of Massachusetts and Maine. His work came to represent the “luminist” style, an offshoot of the Hudson River School and a strain of realism that was known for its meticulous brushwork and an

Fitz Henry Lane was an American painter and lithographer known for his marine and coastal scenes of Massachusetts and Maine. His work came to represent the “luminist” style, an offshoot of the Hudson River School and a strain of realism that was known for its meticulous brushwork and an

Franklin K. Lane was a U.S. lawyer and politician who, as secretary of the interior (1913–20) made important contributions to conservation. The Lane family moved from Canada to California in 1871. Lane worked as a journalist to finance his college education and later (1891) became a part owner and

Franklin K. Lane was a U.S. lawyer and politician who, as secretary of the interior (1913–20) made important contributions to conservation. The Lane family moved from Canada to California in 1871. Lane worked as a journalist to finance his college education and later (1891) became a part owner and

audism: …American psychologist and speech researcher Harlan L. Lane. Lane described audism as a way for the hearing to dominate the deaf community. This notion was supported by the fact that environments tailored for deaf persons were limited in their visual stimulation and continued to give advantage to hearing persons. Thus,…

Harriet Lane was the acting American first lady (1857–61), niece of bachelor James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States. For both her popularity and her advocacy work, she has been described as the first of the modern first ladies. Harriet Lane was the youngest child of Elliott Tole Lane,

Harriet Lane was the acting American first lady (1857–61), niece of bachelor James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States. For both her popularity and her advocacy work, she has been described as the first of the modern first ladies. Harriet Lane was the youngest child of Elliott Tole Lane,

typography: Mechanical composition: Companies such as those of John Lane and Elkin Mathews, who published Oscar Wilde and the periodical The Yellow Book; J.M. Dent, who commissioned Aubrey Beardsley to illustrate Malory and who used Kelmscott-inspired endpapers for his Everyman’s Library; Stone and

Jonathan Homer Lane was a U.S. astrophysicist who was the first to investigate mathematically the Sun as a gaseous body. His work demonstrated the interrelationships of pressure, temperature, and density inside the Sun and was fundamental to the emergence of modern theories of stellar evolution.

Nathan Lane is an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his work in musical comedies, notably the Broadway production of The Producers. Lane discovered his flair for musical comedy when he appeared in a high-school production of No, No, Nanette, and after graduation he embarked

United States presidential election of 1860: The conventions: Joseph Lane of Oregon as his running mate. Both Douglas and Breckinridge claimed to be the official Democratic candidates.

Church of England: Gender and sexuality: Libby Lane, was consecrated in January 2015.

Superman: The Man of Steel in the Golden Age: …romantic interest in fellow reporter Lois Lane (a character modeled in part on Siegel’s future wife, Joanne). She, however, dazzled by the courageous crime-fighting exploits of Superman and unaware of his dual identity, continually rejects Kent’s overtures. The audience, privy to the secret that continually eluded Lois, identified with Clark…

Louisa Lane Drew was a noted American actress and manager of Mrs. John Drew’s Arch Street Theatre company in Philadelphia, which was one of the finest in American theatre history. Louisa Lane was the daughter of actors and at an early age began playing child parts. In June 1827 she arrived in New

Lupino family: …under the stage name of Lupino Lane. Lane became a well-known cockney comedian and toured extensively in variety, musical comedy, and pantomime. In 1937 he scored a tremendous success as Bill Snibson in the British musical Me and My Girl, in which he created the “Lambeth walk,” a ballroom dance…

Nathan Lane is an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his work in musical comedies, notably the Broadway production of The Producers. Lane discovered his flair for musical comedy when he appeared in a high-school production of No, No, Nanette, and after graduation he embarked

Fitz Henry Lane was an American painter and lithographer known for his marine and coastal scenes of Massachusetts and Maine. His work came to represent the “luminist” style, an offshoot of the Hudson River School and a strain of realism that was known for its meticulous brushwork and an

Curtis Bernhardt: Early years in Hollywood: …romance starring Ronald Reagan and Priscilla Lane. Reagan also appeared in Juke Girl (1942), playing, with Ann Sheridan, exploited fruit pickers charged unjustly with murder. On loan to Paramount, Bernhardt made Happy Go Lucky (1943), a pleasant though not very memorable musical featuring Dick Powell, Mary Martin, and

Dick Lane was an American gridiron football player who is widely considered one of the greatest cornerbacks in National Football League (NFL) history. Lane was named to seven Pro Bowls over the course of his career, and his 14 interceptions during the 1952 season are an NFL record. Abandoned by his

Sir Allen Lane was a 20th-century pioneer of paperback publishing in England. His belief in a market for high-quality books at low prices helped to create a new reading public and also led to improved printing and binding techniques. In 1919 Lane was apprenticed to his uncle, publisher John Lane of

Sir Hugh Percy Lane was an Irish art dealer known for his collection of Impressionist paintings. Lane travelled extensively in Europe as a boy. He began to work in art galleries in London in 1893, and in 1898 set up his own. He established a gallery of modern art in Dublin to advance Irish

road: Alignment and profile: A traffic lane is the portion of pavement allocated to a single line of vehicles; it is indicated on the pavement by painted longitudinal lines or embedded markers. The shoulder is a strip of pavement outside an outer lane; it is provided for emergency use by…

Master Juba was known as the “father of tap dance” and the first African American to get top billing over a white performer in a minstrel show. He invented new techniques of creating rhythm by combining elements of African American vernacular dance, Irish jigs, and clogging. William Henry Lane was

Sidney Lanfield was an American film and television director who specialized in comedies—notably a series of Bob Hope movies—but his best work was arguably the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939). (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) Trained on

Lanfranc was an Italian Benedictine who, as archbishop of Canterbury (1070–89) and trusted counsellor of William the Conqueror, was largely responsible for the excellent church–state relations of William’s reign after the Norman Conquest of England. Originally a lawyer, Lanfranc won a reputation as

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter, an important follower of the Bolognese school. He was a pupil of Agostino Carracci in Parma (1600–02) and later studied with Annibale Carracci in Rome. A decisive influence on his work, however, was not just the Baroque classicism of the Carracci brothers

Da Lat: …on a lake on the Lam Vien Plateau at 4,920 feet (1,500 metres) above sea level, Da Lat sits among pine-covered hills with picturesque waterfalls nearby. Founded in the 19th century and named for the Da (now Cam Ly) River, which traverses the city, and the Lat population, it was…

Langjökull, large ice field, west-central Iceland. Langjökull is 40 miles (64 km) long and 15 miles (24 km) wide and covers an area of 395 square miles (1,025 square km). It rises to 4,757 feet (1,450 metres) above sea level in the centre and feeds several rivers, including the Hvítá and Ölfusá.

Lang Lang is a Chinese virtuoso pianist who won international acclaim while a teenager and whose expressiveness and charisma made him one of the most sought-after performers in the early 21st century. Lang began taking piano lessons at age three and gave his first public recital two years later. In

Lang Mountains, mountainous area lying south and west of the Dovre Mountains in west-central Norway. The Lang Mountains include the Jotunheim Mountains, the Jostedals Glacier, the Hardanger Ice Cap, the Hardanger Plateau, the Bykle Hills, and many lesser features. The highest mountains in

Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang was an influential and versatile Anglican priest who, as archbishop of Canterbury, was a close friend and adviser to King George VI. He also played a role in the abdication in 1936 of King Edward VIII, whose relationship with the American divorcée Wallis Simpson would,

Lang Ping is a volleyball player and coach who was the lead spiker on the Chinese national teams that dominated women’s international volleyball in the early 1980s. Known as the “Iron Hammer,” she was revered for her elegant athleticism, fierce spiking, and tactical brilliance. Lang began playing

Chinese architecture: The Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12): …the Jesuit missionary and artist Giuseppe Castiglione (known in China as Lang Shining) designed for Qianlong a series of extraordinary Sino-Rococo buildings, set in Italianate gardens ornamented with mechanical fountains designed by the Jesuit priest Michel Benoist. Today the Yuanmingyuan has almost completely disappeared, as the foreign-style buildings were burned…

Hay, town, south-central New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Murrumbidgee River. The settlement originated in 1840 as a coach station known as Lang’s Crossing Place. It was surveyed in 1858 and became a town the following year, named for John Hay, a district parliamentary representative.

Matheson Lang was an English romantic actor and dramatist whose imposing presence, commanding features, and fine voice were as well suited to Othello as to such popular and picturesque characters as Mr. Wu and the Wandering Jew. Lang began his career as a Shakespearean actor in 1897, first played

Andrew Lang was a Scottish scholar and man of letters noted for his collections of fairy tales and translations of Homer. Educated at St. Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford, he held an open fellowship at Merton College until 1875, when he moved to London. He quickly became famous for

Samuel Fuller: Films of the 1960s and ’70s: …by a woman played by Christa Lang. (Lang was Fuller’s real-life wife; Fuller himself played a U.S. senator.)

Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang was an influential and versatile Anglican priest who, as archbishop of Canterbury, was a close friend and adviser to King George VI. He also played a role in the abdication in 1936 of King Edward VIII, whose relationship with the American divorcée Wallis Simpson would,

Eddie Lang was an American musician, among the first guitar soloists in jazz and an accompanist of rare sensitivity. Lang began playing violin in boyhood; his father, who made fretted stringed instruments, taught him to play guitar. In the early 1920s he played with former schoolmate Joe Venuti in

Fritz Lang was an Austrian-born American motion-picture director whose films, dealing with fate and people’s inevitable working out of their destinies, are considered masterpieces of visual composition and expressionistic suspense. Lang had already created an impressive body of work in the German

collective behaviour: Panic: sociologists Kurt Lang and Gladys E. Lang view panic as the end point in a process of demoralization in which behaviour becomes privatized and there is a general retreat from the pursuit of group goals.

Jack Lang was an Australian statesman and Labor premier of New South Wales (1925–27, 1930–32) whose defiance of Australia’s Labor prime minister James Henry Scullin’s economic policies contributed to Scullin’s defeat in 1931 and to the decline of the Labor Party from national power. After entering

Riot in Cell Block 11: …involving producers Walter Wanger and Jennings Lang. In 1951 Wanger suspected Lang of having an affair with his wife, Joan Bennett, and shot him. Lang survived and went on to produce a number of hit films, and Wanger served four months in prison, where he was appalled by the horrendous…

John Dunmore Lang was an Australian churchman and writer, founder of the Australian Presbyterian Church, and an influence in shaping colonization of that continent. Lang studied at the University of Glasgow, was ordained in September 1822, and was sent to Australia in 1823 on behalf of the

Jack Lang was an Australian statesman and Labor premier of New South Wales (1925–27, 1930–32) whose defiance of Australia’s Labor prime minister James Henry Scullin’s economic policies contributed to Scullin’s defeat in 1931 and to the decline of the Labor Party from national power. After entering

k.d. lang is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for her androgynous “cowpunk” style and for her pure, plaintive, mezzo-soprano voice and award-winning country-pop music. Lang grew up in the village of Consort, Alberta, Canada. She became interested in music at a young age and began performing