Welcome to Steve’s Celebrities, this is my first post. As a veteran from the music entertainment industry. I have most recently been involved in bringing celebrities to the telecom industry. I have found a niche whereby I set up prepaid long distance businesses for stars in music, major league baseball, professional football, cricket players, soccer players, and NBA basketball players. As much as the prepaid long distance business may appear to be a boring way for anyone to make a living, I find it fascinating. Growing up, one of my favorite places in the world has always been the international terminal at an airport. To look up at that giant board of destinations around the world, my thoughts were filled with the magical possibility of being anywhere in the world that I chose, in a few short hours.
As a business itself, prepaid long distance is as exciting as contracting shingles, but when you consider hundreds of millions of people from all parts of the world, speaking to loved ones oceans apart, it brings me back to that departure schedule at the airport. I can easily picture the student that has come to America with wide eyes, and a life of hopes and dreams, speaking to mom and dad back in India with heart pumping enthusiasm. Maybe it’s the boys and girls from a soccer team in Nigeria who have never left their village, and have now traveled to play against a team in Paris, one of them on the phone with grandma trying to explain the majesty of the Eiffel Tower.
Like many people I was once to lazy or uninterested as the ugly American, to consider the differences in cultures between peoples. Many of us still tend to lump people together by the way they look or sound. Everyone with slanted eyes is Chinese, everyone that speaks spanish all know each other, or or everyone with darker skin and a headdress is a terrorist. Of course I am exaggerating and simplifying, but the bigger picture here is that Pakistan is not Afghanistan. Yes, some people worship the same god, and yes some people where similar attire, and it is a place where fundamentalist and anti-western groups tend to live, but for better or for worse they are two distinct cultures made up of good and decent people that at the core are just like you and me.
The celebrities that I work with come from all parts of the world. From Guatemala to India, from Mexico to Africa, from Russia to Argentina. It is my intention, and ambition in this blog, to shine a light on each of these countries, and others, words and thoughts unlike most of what is readily available to us in the news and on TV. To speak to people all over the world through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and this blog and talk about what is going on, beyond politics, beyond religion and beyond war. There are plenty of cool blogs that offer sports statistics and gossip, and websites where you can get video and download the latest hit song. I will make sure that all of that is accessible from here as well, but my focus will not be on how many points Tracy McGrady scored last night, but what he is doing to create awareness around the world about the circumstances in Darfur.
Fedor Emelianenko is the baddest man on the planet, the undisputed best MMA fighter in the world. However, when he wins a fight we hear him speaking in Russian and cannot necessarily relate too him and appreciate who he is because he sounds different and comes from a place which as been publicized here in America in a negative light since the 1950’s. Fedor is a national hero in Russia and in many parts of the world, who lives an extremely modest life with his family in a small apartment, in the town he grew up in. The millions of MMA fight fans around the world may sound different, may look different, and maybe even live within the axis of evil, but by enlarge are the same bright, young dreamers that make up the MMA fight fans in America. Wether they speak Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Tibeto-Burman, Malayo-Polynesian, Oghuz or just plain English, we all cheer and raise our hands at the same moment when Fedor puts another opponent on the canvas.
Well enough of me for now. I hope you will enjoy my blog, and send me interesting stories from around the world so we can all better understand the world around us.
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I am definitely bookmarking this page and share it with my friends.
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Thanks for sharing. If you hear of any great stories of Celebrities doing the right thing let me know.
Steve
I’m just a gossip hound but I consider it fair game. It’s all about being in the public eye and taking responsibility for your own actions…
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I will give it to my friends.
Cheers
Thanks for your thoughts. I hope to keep things interesting with the things that interest me
I somehow dont agree with a few things, but its great anyways.
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Thanks
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The message here is very important.
I will give it to my friends.
Cheers
Very great website.
The message here is very important.
I will give it to my friends.
Cheers
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Always yours Mr. Cialis