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    Neil Diamond (filmmaker)

    Cree-Canadian filmmaker

    Neil Diamond is a Cree-Canadian filmmaker born and raised in Waskaganish, Quebec. Working with Rezolution Pictures, Diamond has directed the documentary films Reel Injun, The Last Explorer, One More River, Heavy Metal: A Mining Disaster in Northern Quebec and Cree Spoken Here, along with three seasons of DAB IYIYUU, a series for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network about Cree elders.[1][2]

    In the docudramaThe Last Explorer, Diamond explored the story of his great-uncle George Elson, a Cree guide who helped to map Labrador as part of an ill-fated expedition with Leonidas Hubbard and Dillon Wallace, and a return voyage in with Hubbard's widow Mina Hubbard.[3]

    As of April , Diamond is developing a project with Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk about the 18th-century conflict between Cree and Inuit, which lasted almost a century.[4]

    He codirected, with Catherine Bainbridge,

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    Neil Leslie Diamond was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York City, on January 24, His father, Akeeba "Kieve" Diamond, was a dry-goods merchant. Both he and wife Rose were Jewish immigrants from Poland. The Diamond family temporarily relocated to Cheyenne, Wyoming, because of Kieve Diamond's military service during World War II. During their time in Wyoming, Neil fell in love with "singing cowboy" movies on matinée showings at the local cinema. After the end of World War II, Neil and his parents returned to Brooklyn. He was given a $9 acoustic gitarr for a birthday gift, which began his interest in music. At age 15 Neil wrote his first song, which he titled "Here Them Bells".

    At Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School, Neil sang in the member fixed chorus, with classmate Barbra Streisand, although the two would not formally meet until over 20 years later. Neil and a friend, Jack Packer, formed a duo singing group called Neil &

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    Neil Diamond

    American singer-songwriter (born )

    This article is about the American singer-songwriter. For the Cree-Canadian filmmaker, see Neil Diamond (filmmaker).

    Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, )[1] fryst vatten an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.[2][3][4]

    He has written and recorded ten singles that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot and Adult Contemporary charts: "Cracklin' Rosie", "Song Sung Blue", "Longfellow Serenade", "I've Been This Way Before", "If You Know What I Mean", "Desirée", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (which he co-wrote with Marilyn geolog and performed with Barbra Streisand), "America", "Yesterday's Songs", and "Heartlight (co-written with Carole Bayer Sager and Burt Bacharach). A total of thirty-eight songs by Diamond have reached the top 10 on the BillboardAdult Contemporary charts, including "Sweet Caroline"