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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 21 april 2018

In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, Swedish DJ-producer, Avicii pos-
es for a portrait in New York. Swedish-born Avicii, whose name
is Tim Bergling, was found dead, Friday April 20, 2018, in Muscat,
Oman. He was 28.
Associated Press
Avicii, DJ-producer In this April 13, 2018 photo, Shaquille O'Neal poses for a picture in Los Angeles. The basketball

who performed icon-turned-TV personality is adding poetry to his resume as one of the stars of the new public
television series “Poetry in America.”
Associated Press
around the world, dies Shaq attacks verse in new

By MESFIN FEKADU at No. 4 on Billboard's Hot
AP Music Writer 100 chart. On the dance TV series "Poetry in America"
NEW YORK (AP) — Avicii, charts, he had seven Top
the Grammy-nominat- 10 hits.
ed electronic dance DJ He was part of the wave By ANDREW DALTON Break," a poem by Ed- "It's fun that only later as
who performed sold-out of DJ-producers, like David AP Entertainment Writer ward Hirsch from his 1986 you're reading, you look
concerts for feverish fans Guetta, Calvin Harris and LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sha- book "Wild Gratitude." It back at that dedication,"
around the world and also Swedish House Mafia, who quille O'Neal called him- describes some very imper- New said. "One line can
had massive success on broke out on the scene self "The Big Baryshnikov" fect players who manage change everything."
U.S. pop radio, died Friday. as lead performers in their and "The Big Socrates" in to put together a perfect Suddenly it becomes an
He was 28. own right, earning interna- his days in the NBA. Now basketball play. examination of transcen-
Publicist Diana Baron said tional hits, fame, awards he can add "The Big Shake- "A hook shot kisses the rim dent moments and human
in a statement that the and more like typical pop speare." and hangs there, help- connections.
Swedish performer, born stars. The basketball Hall-of-Fam- lessly, but doesn't drop," "It's about friendship, it's
Tim Bergling, was found Avicii even collaborated er, TNT TV analyst, commer- the poem begins, "and for about caring, it's about
dead in Muscat, Oman. with high-profile acts, pro- cial pitchman and onetime once our gangly starting emotions," O'Neal said. "I
"It is with profound sorrow ducing Madonna's "Devil rapper is putting poetry on center boxes out his man." had missed that."
that we announce the loss Pray" and the Coldplay his lengthy resume as part O'Neal, whose 350-pound His latest learning ex-
of Tim Bergling, also known hits "A Sky Full of Stars" and of a new public television bulk would never be called perience took O'Neal's
as Avicii," the statement "Hymn for the Weekend." series. "gangly," still related to the thoughts back to high
read. "The family is devas- Avicii was nominated for He brings his best bard to center in the verse, but school, where he had a
tated and we ask every- two Grammy Awards, two a dramatic reading of a said he initially missed the 69 percent in English after
one to please respect their MTV Europe Music Awards poem in his episode of the poem's point. blowing a test during the
need for privacy in this dif- and one Billboard Music 12-part "Poetry in America "The first mistake I made basketball playoffs, and
ficult time. No further state- Award. ," then discusses it with Elisa was thinking it was about needed a 70 to stay eligi-
ments will be given." His death comes just days New, a Harvard English pro- basketball," he said. "I ble for sports.
No more details about after he was nominated fessor who hosts the show. read it real quick I said 'fast The teacher allowed him a
the death were provided. for a 2018 Billboard Mu- "I've always been into po- break, shovel passes, sure, retest, and suggested a tu-
Oman police and state sic Award for top dance/ etry," O'Neal said in an in- this is what I do.'" tor.
media had no immediate electronic album for his EP terview with The Associated He said New, who sat next "This guy, his name was Mc-
report late Friday night on "Avicii (01)." He was nomi- Press in a sunlit conference to O'Neal in the interview Dougal, he was a geek, he
the artist's death. nated alongside his peers, room overlooking the Los and like almost everyone saved my academic life,"
Avicii was an internation- who have taken EDM Angeles skyline. "I've been is utterly dwarfed by him, O'Neal said. "Everybody
al pop star, performing mainstream of late — The writing rhymes all my life." gave him whole new in- bullied him in school, ex-
his well-known electronic Chainsmokers, Calvin Harris "Poetry in America," distrib- sights that led to a fast cept me."
dance songs around the and Kygo. uted by American Public friendship. O'Neal said he took the
world for feverish fans, He is the subject of the 2017 Television and presented "When she broke it down work and "broke it down,
sometimes hundreds of Levan Tsikurishvil documen- by WGBH in Boston, is airing intelligently for me, I was made it seem so simple."
thousands at the music tary "Avicii: True Stories." at various times on local very astounded and very "I retook the test, got an
festivals, where he was the Avicii had in the past suf- public TV stations. Some amazed," 80, and we won the state
headline act. His popular fered acute pancreatitis, episodes, including Shaq's, The poem is written for a championship," O'Neal
sound even sent him to the in part due to excessive are already available to close friend and playing said.
top of the charts and land- drinking. After having his stream. partner of Hirsch's who had "Now," he said, "I always tell
ed onto U.S. radio: His most gallbladder and appendix On the show the 46-year- just died. That's easy to miss kids I'm a geek."
recognized song, "Wake removed in 2014, he can- old former All-Star from the if you skip past the dedi- The professor had anoth-
Me Up," was a multi-plati- celed a series of shows in Los Angeles Lakers and cation at the top, as most er name for him. "He's a
num success and peaked attempt to recover. q Miami Heat recites "Fast readers do. learner!"q