#ardis

Ardis - Shotgun 1994

Ardis is a Dominican-Swedish former pop singer. She released her debut album Love Addict in 1994. All songs on the album were written by Ardis, with the exception of a cover track. The album went gold shortly after its release and Ardis was nominated for a Grammis, the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy Awards. Her big break was "Shotgun", a song which was chosen as the theme on the soundtrack to the Swedish 1995 film Vendetta. "Shotgun" became Ardis' second hit single and her breakthrough in the charts. Ardis also provided the theme to the 1998 sequel film Hamilton (starring Peter Stormare and Mark Hamill) with the song "No Man's Land" (poll #88).

"Shotgun" received a total of 55,3% yes votes.

Velimir Khlebnikov, Snake Train: Poetry and Prose, Edited by Gary Kern, Introduction by Edward J. Brown, Translated by Gary Kern, Richard Sheldon, Edward J. Brown, Neil Cornwell, and Lily Feiler, Ardis, Ann Arbor, MI, 1976 [Bendowa Books, Holyoke, MA]

Evgeny Popov, Vasilii Aksenov, and Viktor Erofeev [Erofeyev] holding the Ardis printed copy of their anthology: Metropol. The publishing of Metropol was a key moment for Soviet Writers as many would face punishment for going against the government’s censorship.

Join us next Thursday, 16 November between 4-6p for our next Third Thursdays at the Library event!

Drop by the Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor Hatcher Library, any time during this open house to learn about the Ardis Press and their involvement in publishing censored materials and smuggling them back into the Soviet Union for the masses. Light refreshments will be provided.

The event will feature materials from the Ardis Press Records. These materials have recently been re-processed by archivist Sarah Conrad, rehousing some materials into acid-free folders and boxes and creating a new arrangement for the collection. 

Come by to explore these materials, and be sure to check out the other Third Thursdays at