Santana was formed in 1966 in San Francisco and leaped to prominence after its appearance at Woodstock in 1969.
Masson leapt to prominence in the science-fiction world with his first published story, Traveller's Rest (1965).
Blanche McIntyre Since she first leapt to prominence with her unsettling production of Dawn King's Foxfinder in 2011, McIntyre has been regarded as one of the hottest directors around.
It leaped to prominence in the last year covering the Palestinian intifada, with viewers throughout the Arab world glued to its broadcasts.
Following last week's elimination ballots in parliament, about 150,000 Conservative party members now have to choose between May, the favourite with overwhelming support from the party establishment, and Andrea Leadsom, the energy minister who leapt to prominence as a Vote Leave campaigner.
Although Ball has leaped to prominence with some excellent performances for Nottinghamshire so far this season, he too has been impressive with the Lions, so is hardly a maverick choice.
campus, a player named Barry Bonds leapt to prominence ahead of him, taking the spot in the limelight that he coveted and going on to a career with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants.
—Fran Lebowitz, The Paris Review, 1993 Born in 1905 in Pennsylvania coal country, the son of a small-town doctor, John O'Hara leapt to prominence with his first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), about the downfall of a car dealer in the fictional town of Gibbsville, Pa.
However, that hasn't kept the company from leaping to prominence on the strength of two recent deals.
This year's Zeitgeist site lets users explore a map of the world or a point along a timeline to see when and where search topics leapt to prominence.
