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Luba may refer to:
- Slavic origin feminine name which means "someone who has love"
- Luba, Equatorial Guinea
- Luba, Abra, a municipality in the Philippines
- Ľubá, a village and municipality in the Nitra region of south-west Slovakia
- Luba people, an ethnic group in Central Africa, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Luba Empire, a pre-colonial Central African empire
- Tshiluba language
- Luba (comics), a comic book character created by Los Bros Hernandez
- Luba (singer) (born 1958), music artist from Canada
- Luba (EP), a 1982 extended play album by Canadian singer Luba
- Luba Goy (born 1945), Canadian actress and comedian
- Luba Group, a Dutch staffing company
- Luba Marks, an American fashion designer and former French-Russian ballet dancer
- Luba Mason, American singer and actress
Luba is a comic book character created by Los Bros Hernandez, featured mainly in the Love and Rockets series by these authors. She first appeared in "BEM", found in the Love and Rockets collection "Music for Mechanics."
Created by Gilbert Hernandez, Luba was the protagonist for his main contribution to Hernandez Brothers groundbreaking indie comic Love and Rockets. Based largely in a small Central American village named Palomar, the Luba stories follow the progress of Luba and her ever increasing family through the years. Luba was ranked 60th in Comics Buyer's Guide's "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.
From the outset Luba is portrayed as a beautiful, fiery-tempered woman with enormous breasts and an eye for younger men, often depicted in random panels inexplicably carrying a hammer. This, in conjunction with Jaime Hernandez' 'Maggie and Hopey' tales, differentiated Love And Rockets from other comics in that the principal characters were all strong women who, whilst being independent, were also fallible. Through some twenty odd years Gilbert has taken the character of Luba through her infancy as the illegitimate child of a woman married into organized crime, through to life as a middle-aged migrant to America.
Some of the Luba tales take place in Palomar where Gilbert developed a rich cast of residents, who over the years developed an intricate series of relations with each other. The bulk of the tales dealt with what happened after Luba and her family moved from Palomar to California to escape the mafia and be near her half sisters Fritz and Petra. These stories comprise the books that make up the Luba Trilogy: Luba in America, The Book Of Ofelia and The Three Daughters.
Luba (born Lubomyra Kowalchyk , 1958, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter and recording artist from Ukrainian descent. She was commercially active from 1980 to 1990, 2000 to 2001 and is active again from 2007 to present. She was initially the vocalist for a band named Luba before signing as a solo artist under that name. She has released five full-length albums and two EPs as a solo artist. (Two albums were released as a member of a band – 1973's Zorya, (Via Zorya) and 1980's "Chain Reaction" – with a band named "Luba".) Two of her albums are certified platinum by the Canadian music industry (sales in excess of 100,000 units). She has nine top-40 hits on the Canadian pop charts. Her signature song is "Everytime I See Your Picture" (1983). Her most successful song is a cover of Percy Sledge's " When a Man Loves a Woman" which reached No. 6 on the Canadian pop chart and No. 3 on the Canadian adult contemporary chart (1987). She is a three-time winner of the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year (1985–1987). Her success is limited to her native Canada as she has never charted in the US or elsewhere. In addition to her Juno Awards, Luba has also received CASBY and Félix Awards, and a Black Music Association Award for "Female Entertainer of the Year". Most recently, her music has been featured on Canadian Idol. She continues to record music under her own independent label.
Luba is a four song EP debut on Capitol-EMI of Canada by Canadian singer, Luba and band. Included is the hit single "Everytime I See Your Picture," a popular song in Canada at that time which eventually jumpstarted her major singing career. The album was available on vinyl record and cassette tape.
Usage examples of "luba".
The room was more formal than Jake liked, but Luba was comfortable in it, so it was there they sat most often.
This was more temper than Luba had shown when William threw up on her cashmere bathrobe.
She and William had come home as soon as the fence was done, but Luba had lingered on the continent.
Cafe, a warehouse on Third Avenue that had been converted into a soup kitchen, and inquired after Luba Hardt.
A slender dark-haired woman with a calm, pretty face knew the name and told her that Luba had been in the previous Monday for lunch.
Now, she left him at the door like a servant, with orders to give the cats to Luba Washington.
Before he could provide care-of-the-cat guidelines, Luba Washington disappeared on a waft of roast goose.
Mayakin, in a hoarse voice, and Foma, sitting beside Luba on the lounge in the corner of the room, knew beforehand that soon his godfather would become silent and pat his bald head with his hand.
Sitting somewhere in a dark corner of the garden or lying in bed, he conjured up before him the images of the fairy-tale princesses--they appeared with the face of Luba and of other young ladies of his acquaintance, noiselessly floating before him in the twilight and staring into his eyes with enigmatic looks.
He felt sad and oppressed at the consciousness of being unable to talk so much and so fluently as all these people, and here he recalled that Luba Mayakina had more than once scoffed at him on this account.
Though Luba was not older than her god-brother, she nevertheless treated him as an older person would treat a little boy.
Foma that whatever Luba had to say was foreign to him and unnecessary to her, and at the same time he clearly saw that his awkward words did not at all interest her, and that she did not care to understand them.
He liked Luba, but at the same time she seemed suspicious and dangerous for him.
Thinking of Wylat toiling on the Great Highway or the fiery furnaces of Luba, Kharl had shaken his head.
As I knew we could not take the wagons beyond a certain point where there was a river called the Luba, unfordable by anything on wheels, I requested him, moreover, to send a hundred bearers with whatever escort might be necessary, to meet us on the banks of that river at a spot which was known to both of us.