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Paz Oil Company Ltd.

 
Artist: Suni Paz
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Ella Jenkins, Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Cotten, Leadbelly

Influenced By:

Atahualpa Yupanqui, Violeta Parra

Performed Songs By:

Rolando Alarcon
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s
  • Genres: Children
  • Instrument: Guitar, Vocals, Producer
  • Representative Albums: "ALERTA Sings Children's Songs In Spanish And English," "ALERTA Sings and Songs for the Playground/Canciones Para el Recreo," "Bandera Mía: Songs of Argentina"

Biography

Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and educator Suni Paz specializes in performing and recording children's songs in both Spanish and English, drawing upon indigenous folk styles from all over the Americas. Choosing her name, Suni, meaning "lasting," from the Quechua language (spoken in the Andean region of South America), while Paz came from the Spanish for "peace," she began recording in the 1960s on Barbara Dane's label, and did several albums for Folkways in the 1970s. Since the mid-'80s, she has collaborated with lyricist Alma Flor Ada, and in 1997 also began working with lyricist/poet Isabel Francisco Campoy, who wrote children's books on Latin America and Spain with Ada. Paz, Ada, and Campoy present their music and stories at conferences on education throughout the United States and Latin America, and Paz also sings for children at classrooms and other public spaces. In 2006, she released Bandera Mía: Songs of Argentina, a collection of traditional and original songs, to pay tribute to the music of her homeland. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide
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Paz Oil Company Ltd. (Hebrew: פז‎) is the largest Israeli fuels company. Its name means "gold" in Hebrew. Paz distributes gasoline and other oil products through a network of gas stations, as well as natural gas for home use (cooking and heating) through its subsidiary PazGaz. The company holds 30% of the Israeli fuel market and 31% of the Israeli gas stations.

History

Paz was founded in 1922, as Anglo-Asiatic Petroleum. From 1927 it operated as part of Royal Dutch Shell, under the name Shell Palestine. In 1958 Shell withdrew from Israel under economic pressure from Arab countries. The symbol of the company, a yellow triangle, still resembles that of Shell.

The company changed to the ownership of the Briton Isaac Wolfson and the French Nahmias brothers and changed its name to Paz Petroleum Company Ltd. Wolfson sold his company holdings in 1981 to the State of Israel, who sold it in 1988 to the Australian Jack Lieberman. Since 1999 Israeli Zadik Bino owns the majority of the shares, with Lieberman and other groups holding minority interests.

Also in 1999, Paz acquired 74 percent of the Israeli fast food chain Burger Ranch. In late 2001, Paz completed the acquisition, becoming 100 percent owners of the chain. New branches of Burger Ranch were opened at Paz gas stations. In 2006, Paz sold the chain to the Israeli businessman Yossi Hoshinski. Paz operates combined cafes and stores in many gas stations, through another subsidiary by the name "Yellow".

Trivia

Gas stations owned by Paz are the subject of a common joke among English-speaking Israelis. The name "Paz Gas" is very similar to the English colloquial "pass gas", slang for flatulence.

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