With his brother-in-law Frank Gérald, he began to write comic duets, which they performed in bars and cabarets.
If they landed atop their boards, the competitors faced a 27-foot quarter pipe on which they performed another trick.
Some ecclesiastics also held temporal lands for which they performed the required services.
In Beijing, both of my children had subjects or grades in which they performed poorly.
In 1961 the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, the name under which they performed, signed a $100,000 recording contract, a big deal at the time.
The Holmes Brothers saw no need to tweak the gospel lilt of "My City of Ruins," which they performed with the Young People's Chorus of New York City.
San Francisco's celebrated Kronos Quartet, themselves celebrating their 40th anniversary, acted as celebrity backing band for a set in which they performed "14 new songs in one day".
The ideal work to display the combination of their talents was Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), which they performed often and recorded.
In 1979, ghoulmeister Roger Corman hired them to appear in his film Rock'n'Roll High School, in which they performed the title track.
Rather than remixing better-known acts, they set out to find their audience through live shows, at which they performed their own music.
He also appears with Jay-Z on a recent remix of the 50 Cent single "I Get Money," which they performed near the show's end.
