2017 Worlds Pairs LP Vanessa James & Morgan Cipres The Sound of Silence by Disturbed

Good R.E.D. Mid-Friday Afternoon my RP Brothers and Sisters!

For this afternoon's Music Interlude, I have chosen to do something a little off beat... I have chosen a great song by the Group called "Disturbed and Lead singer, David Draiman. This song originated, I believe, with Simon and Garfunkle, but Draiman's rendition is more powerful due in part to his husky voice... I will add some background info on the group shortly.

This particular song rendition was used by the 2017 WOrld's Pairs LP Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres with a winning performance I think you will see why as you watch this total performance with Draiman's rendition of the Sound of Silence as the music that these two awesome people skate to... I urge you all to watch this full screen with sound up for a very exciting skating performance before a packed stadium in France.

I hope you enjoy this performance and perhaps watch it more than once..., Kerry

Background - DIsturbed:

David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1973) is an American singer; he is the lead singer of Disturbed and of Device. Draiman has a distorted, operatic baritone voice and percussive singing style. In November 2006, Draiman was voted number 42 on the Hit Parader's "Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time". Draiman has written some of Disturbed's most successful singles, such as "Stupify", "Down with the Sickness", "Indestructible", and "Inside the Fire".

In October 2011, Disturbed went on hiatus, and Draiman worked on an industrial rock/metal project with Geno Lenardo (former guitarist of Filter), which was later named Device; they released one album, in 2013. In June 2015, Disturbed returned with a single and a new album, Immortalized. In 2018, Disturbed released Evolution.

Background - Vanessa James - Morgan Cipres:
Vanessa James (born 27 September 1987) is a French pair skater. With her skating partner, Morgan Ciprès, she is the 2019 European Champion, the 2018 World bronze medalist, the 2017 European bronze medalist, the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion and a six-time French national champion. They have also won medals in Grand Prix and Challenger Series competitions. James and Ciprès represented France at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

Morgan Ciprès (born 24 April 1991) is a French pair skater. With partner Vanessa James, he is the 2019 European Champion, the 2018 World bronze medalist, the 2017 European bronze medalist, the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion and a six-time French national champion. They have also won medals in Grand Prix and Challenger Series competitions. James and Ciprès represented France at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

2018–2019 season
The duo's programs were both choreographed by ice dancers, with retired Olympic gold medalist Charlie White working on the free skate and fellow French Olympian Guillaume Cizeron developing the short programme.

James/Ciprès won gold at their first event of the season, the 2018 CS Autumn Classic International and obtained their first victory at a Grand Prix event, at 2018 Skate Canada International, setting a new world record in the free skate. James said that they "gave so much emotion, and at the end, it was just magic for us." In mid-November they competed at the 2018 Internationaux de France where they won their second Grand Prix gold medal of the season, albeit with a somewhat rockier performance in the short program that left them in third before winning the free skate. These results qualified them for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final, their first. Ciprès said "it's the first time for us to win two Grand Prix in the season and to go to the Grand Prix Final. We have a lot of work to do for these next two weeks." In fourth after the short program in the Final, they again set a world record to win the free skate and the gold medal. James expressed the hope that "having this long program so solid and strong will just help when we have a good short program. I know we have to fight every time after our short program to make up the points, but feeling more free and not having to try and try to make a comeback, I think will just liberate us a little bit more, I am hoping."

After winning another national title, their sixth, James/Ciprès at the 2019 European Championships in Minsk. After a first place finish in the short program, ahead of Tarasova/Morozov. They won the free skate as well, taking the European pairs title, only the second French team to do so, and the first since Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet in 1932. James called the result "a dream come true", while he called it "a dream when we were children to be here one day." In March at the 2019 World Championships in Saitama, during the short program warm-up, James had a collision with Italy's Matteo Guarise, in which both skaters fell onto the ice. James/Ciprès placed a very unexpected seventh in the short program after unusual mishaps, James had an uncharacteristic fall on her throw triple flip, while Ciprès doubled his planned triple toe loop. In the free program they placed third, and fifth overall. They finished off the top of podium for the first time of the season, but took a small bronze medal for the free program. At the end of their free program, James/Ciprès announced that they will continue to keep skating until they get the World title. To finish off the season, they competed at the 2019 World Team Trophy in Fukuoka, Japan, where they earned a new personal best in the free skate to earn first in the pairs event and fourth overall as a team.