Sentence examples for yacub from inspiring English sources
The defensive midfielder injured knee ligaments in a slide tackle on Claudio Yacub, and in his absence Arsenal conceded two goals they really shouldn't have.
If you are a believer (and very few are these days), the origins of the Nation of Islam stretch back thousands of years, to a time when blacks, the "original people," were assaulted by a mutant white race created by an evil "Big Head" scientist named Yacub.
9 P.M. (13) WYNTON AT 50 In this "Live From Lincoln Center" presentation, taped on Thursday, Wynton Marsalis celebrates his 50th birthday with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and guests including the tap dancer Jared Grimes, the vocalist Gregory Porter, the pianist Marcus Roberts, the violinist Mark O'Connor, Yacub Addy and Odadaa!, and Damien Sneed and Chorale Le Chateau.
I was surprised because Yacub is a traditional Ghanaian drummer of the Ga ethnic group.
I couldn't visualise him working with this classically trained trumpeter, although Wynton is known for jazz, which Yacub loved since he was a teenager in Ghana, dancing to American big band hits on the streets of Accra.
In January 1993, more than a decade after we had seen him on television, Yacub and I met Wynton in the dressings rooms at President Clinton's Inaugural Festival on the Washington Mall.
Yacub wanted to visit New Orleans since he heard Louis Armstrong talk about his hometown during his visits to Accra in 1953 and 56.
In the first rehearsal for Africa Jazz, the idea to combine it with Wynton's new orchestral piece came immediately to Yacub, who started playing the master or lead drum part on the very instrument used by his father's drummers all those years ago – a white obrenten drum that is older than he is.
"I'm going to work with this man," my husband Yacub Addy said.
Most fantastic is the story of Doctor Yacub.
The program features sacred and secular works in traditional styles and new works by Yacub Addy, the company's master drummer, composer and choreographer.
