Rudolph

[roo-dolf]

noun

1. Paul (Marvin), 1918–97, U.S. architect.

2. Wilma (Glodean) 1940–1994, U.S. track and field athlete.

3. a male given name, form of Rolf.

Example Sentences

He’s reoriented the story and its characters around race, and it’s worth mentioning that Bob and Perfidia’s blended family looks a bit like Anderson’s own with wife and actor Maya Rudolph.

From Los Angeles Times

The next-to-last cut on Riperton’s album “Perfect Angel” — which Wonder co-produced with the singer’s husband, Richard Rudolph — is a radically stripped-down ballad about romantic devotion that makes you feel as though you’re eavesdropping on a couple in their home.

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Says Rudolph, whose two children with Riperton include the actor and comedian Maya Rudolph, “It really touches my heart that the younger generation of musicians is still moved by Minnie and what she did.”

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Riperton met Rudolph in a stairwell of the rock club he was managing — “It was one of those moments you see in the movies,” he says now — and the two quickly fell in love; Rudolph began writing songs with Stepney for what became Riperton’s solo debut, 1970’s ornately trippy “Come to My Garden,” which Stepney produced.

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“Charles and I thought we were gonna be the next Burt Bacharach and Hal David,” says Rudolph, who recalls writing the words to “Les Fleurs” as he did his rounds as a bus driver for a Chicago nursery school.

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