“The family of David Bowie is currently making preparations for a private ceremony in memory of her beloved husband, father and friend,” says the text published in the official Facebook page of the musician. “They ask once again that their privacy is respected in this, the most sensitive time,” he adds, without giving further details.
The news of Bowie, 69, was released Monday morning, two days after the release of his 25th album, “Blackstar”. The details of his death, which took place on Sunday, remains a mystery is still unknown where he died and what type of cancer (not confirmed was liver cancer). “David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family following a 18 month courageous battle against cancer,” read a message dated Sunday and released Monday in Internet social networks.
Bowie lived in New York with his second wife Iman, former top model of Somali origin, whom he married in 1992, and his 15 year old daughter, Alexandria. A concert in his memory was announced for March 31 at Carnegie Hall in New York, while during the ceremony of the Brit Awards on February 24 in London the British will yield a “special tribute” to Bowie.
However, since the family said that none of these taxes is “official”.
The three family members who accompanied Bowie on his deathbed (his wife Iman, Alexandria, his 15 year old daughter, and son of 44, filmmaker Duncan Jones) are the beneficiaries of his considerable inheritance valued at $ 190 million.
It should be clarified that the startMan, besides being an avant-garde in art, so was in business. After being nearly bankrupt in 1974, in 1997 gave a twist to the music industry, inaugurating a financial model to measure: advised by experts issued backed by future sales of his music bonds, giving as collateral the repo royalties (royalties or payments to copyright for the commercial exploitation of his work) of his 25 albums recorded until 1990.
In the 90s, decided not to wait to obtain royalties for their albums if I could accelerate the process by issuing the Bowie-bonds, a bond sale to the public, signed by Fahnestock & amp; Co., maturing in ten years offer investors a yield of 7.9 percent per year and are supported by its music catalog. That operation would have earned him $ 55 million
The “China girl” Bowie. “It was beautiful”
In 1983 the New Zealand Geeling Ching had 23 years and was a waitress in a cafe in Sydney, Australia, when she was chosen to star in the video for “China Girl” by David Bowie. Now argues that the music video and the brief romance that emerged later with Bowie in the 1980s were like a surreal dream that changed his life.
The death of British rocker cancer this week at age 69 he shocked fans worldwide. Ching was watching a tennis tournament in Auckland, where he lives, when his phone began to vibrate, they asked is it true? It was a fan when he met Bowie. As a teenager had posters of Bowie in his room and bought one of his records.
“There was something otherworldly about him,” he said. “It was beautiful, just beautiful.”
The video is a parody of stereotypes about Asians and won an MTV award. In his time the unedited version was banned in New Zealand by a hot scene on the beach. Ching said she and Bowie, who by then had about 35 years, were naked to the scene but it was not romantic. “We got up at 3am to film that, to be ready for the dawn, and is the least sexy as ever in my life,” he said.
He said he was freezing and fighting so that you will not tuck the salt water in the mouth. Some people on the production team the curious away while others stood near robes for them. He said he head-butted Bowie accidentally, but fortunately it did not break his nose.
After a real romance video emerged, he said. She was impressed by the intelligence of Bowie, charm and how it was so relaxed when talking with fans.
After recording Bowie invited her to accompany him on a tour of Europe. He traveled by private jet and saw the frenzied fans.
But it did not last long and Ching, returned to Oceania. “He had the greatest influence in my life that I could have imagined, ” he said.
His appearance in the video opened other doors and led to other roles, including one in” Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome ” . But she loves the hospitality industry and now works as a restaurant manager.
Ching had no further contact with Bowie again until it was launched in New Zealand in 2004. He was making a photo session with executives behind the scenes when he saw her.
“His face lit up,” he said. “He walked away from the photos and said ‘Geeling, are here! Fantastic’”.
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