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Heitor Teixeira Pereira , or Heitor TP, is a Brazilian musician, who played with Simply Red and several famous musicians, like Elton John, Rod... Stewart, k.d. lang and Jack Johnson; and is currently working as a film music composer at Hans Zimmer's studio. In 1994 he released a solo album in the UK called Heitor TP which featured guest appearance from Mick Hucknall on the track "Manchester". Heitor left Simply Red to concentrate on his solo career. He played guitar and composed additional music for soundtracks like Gladiator, Mission Impossible 2, The Road to El Dorado, I Am Sam, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and Madagascar. In 2003, Pereira contributed the song "Remember Me" for the soundtrack for "Something's Gotta Give". In 2006, Heitor Pereira won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist on a version of the song What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? by Chris Botti and Sting.
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New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and... entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international affairs and is widely deemed the cultural capital of the world. The city is also referred to as New York City or the City of New York to distinguish it from the state of New York, of which it is a part. Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs which were consolidated in 1898: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. With a 2010 United States Census population of 8,175,133 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles , New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages could be spoken in New York, making it one of most linguistically diverse city in the World.
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