Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record.

Barry Manilow is an American singer and songwriter best known for his recordings "I Write the Songs", "Mandy" and "Copacabana". His career achievements include selling more than 75 million records worldwide. In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis.

James Blunt is a BRIT Award-winning and Grammy-nominated, English singer-songwriter whose debut album, "Back to Bedlam", and single releases — especially the number one hit "You're Beautiful" — brought him to fame in 2005. His style is a mix of pop and acoustic rock. Along with vocals, James Blunt plays a wide variety of instruments including the piano, guitar, organ, marimba, and mellotron. He is signed to Linda Perry's American label Custard, …

Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), better known as Michael Bolton, is an American singer-songwriter, known for his soft rock ballads and powerful singing vocals. His achievements include selling 53 million albums, eight top ten albums, two number one singles on the Billboard charts, and awards from both the American Music Awards and Grammy Awards.

Kenny Loggins (born Kenneth Clark Loggins on January 7, 1948 in Everett, Washington) is an American singer and songwriter best known for a number of soft rock and adult contemporary hit singles beginning in the 1970s. Originally a part of the duo Loggins and Messina, he has also recorded as solo artist and written hit songs for other artists.

Frankie J (born Francisco Javier Bautista Jr. on December 7, 1978) is a Mexican R&B, Latin Pop, Contemporary R&B, and Adult Contemporary singer. He has had several hits in the US, including "Don't Wanna Try" in 2003 and "Obsession" in 2005. His album "The One" debuted at #3 on the Billboard album charts in April 2005 & later became platinum.

Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Winnetka, Illinois) is an adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter and record producer. He had a string of highly successful hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting" and "Hazard". Although most of his major hit songs were slow ballads like these, many of his songs had a classic rock style, …

Chaka Khan (born March 23, 1953) is an American singer known for her 1984 cover of Prince's "I Feel For You", for her smash hit "I'm Every Woman" and as a member of the funk band Rufus, with whom she recorded the legendary soul record "Ain't Nobody". In her career she has earned many accolades, including eight Grammy awards. Though regarded an R&B singer, she has in fact explored numerous musical genres including funk, disco, jazz, ballads, hip hop, adult contemporary, …

Billie Holiday (born in Ottawa, Ontario) is the professional name of a Canadian radio and television personality. Her real name is Amanda Dunn. The daughter of a retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, Holiday first became involved in radio at the age of 15. She later attended Humber College's TV and Film Production and Radio Broadcasting programs. She began her professional radio career at CKDX, then a marginal dance music station in Newmarket, Ontario, …

Kimberley Dawn Locke (born January 3 1978 in Hartsville, Tennessee) is an American adult contemporary pop/R&B singer and plus-size fashion model. In recent years, Locke has had five consecutive top 10 Adult Contemporary hits, including two #1 songs. She gained fame with her participation in the 2003 "American Idol" television series, and is currently garnering media attention for her participation in "Celebrity Fit Club".

Anne Murray, CC, ONS (born Morna Anne Murray June 20, 1945), is a Canadian singer born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, known for her rich alto voice and her taste in choosing songs that appeal to Pop, Country and Adult Contemporary listeners alike. For many, her fame as the representative Canadian singer is rivalled only by Gordon Lightfoot. Unlike many internationally-renowned Canadian singers, she has always resided in Canada and now lives in Toronto, …

Regina Belle (born July 17, 1963) is Grammy award winning singer who sings Adult Contemporary, Quiet Storm, Smooth Jazz, Urban contemporary, and Contemporary R&B songs.

Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Italian pop singer, popular in some European and Latin American countries, famed for her soulful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs. She has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.

Dave Mason (born David Thomas Mason, May 10 1944) is a musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, England, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. In his long career, Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Mama Cass Elliot. Mason's best known song is "Feelin' Alright", recorded by Traffic in 1968 and covered by dozens of artists, including Joe Cocker, …

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970), is an American singer-songwriter who was a teen pop icon. Her popularity with her dedicated fanbase remains today. At age seventeen (and ten months), Gibson was the youngest person to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit single (in the U.S.) with her song "Foolish Beat".

Brenda Russell (born April 8 1949 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African American singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Known for her eclectic musical style, her recordings have encompassed several different genres, including pop, soul, jazz and adult contemporary. As well as composing her own material, Russell's songwriting talents are often in demand by many other artists who, over the years, have included Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Sting.

Beth Nielsen Chapman (born on 11 September 1958 in Harlington, Texas, USA) is an American singer-songwriter. Beth has had several popular songs on the Adult Contemporary charts in the 1990's, such as "I Keep Coming Back To You", "Walk My Way", "The Moment You Were Mine" and "All I Have". In 1993, she sang a popular duet with Paul Carrack, "In The Time It Takes". Co-songwriter of Faith Hill's hit song, "This Kiss", …

Fernando Ortega is an adult contemporary singer-songwriter in contemporary Christian music. He is noted for his interpretations of traditional hymns and songs, such as "Give Me Jesus", "Be Thou My Vision", and many others, but also for writing clear and accessible songs, such as "This Good Day".

Jennifer Rush is an New York, American based Pop/Rock and Adult Contemporary singer, best known for the million-selling single "The Power of Love" (1985).

Helen Folasade Adu (born 16 January 1959), MBE, better known as Sade, is a Nigerian born Grammy Award-winning English soul, jazz, R&B, and adult contemporary singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer, noted for her soulful, smoky contralto. She has achieved success in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Grammy Award-winning English group Sade.

Barbara Lewis (b. February 9 1943), is an American singer and songwriter whose smooth style influenced rhythm and blues. Born and raised in Salem, Michigan, near Ann Arbor, Barbara Lewis was writing and recording by her teens with producer Ollie McLaughlin (a black DJ at Ann Arbor radio station WHRV, now WAAM, who is also credited with discovering Del Shannon). Lewis' first single release in 1962, the uptempo "My Heart Went Do Dat Da," did not chart nationally, …

B.E. Taylor (born William Edward Taylor, 1954 in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, USA) was the lead singer of the successful pop rock band B.E Taylor Group, and is currently a solo artist. During his solo career, B.E has recorded 5 albums and amassed a major following in the adult contemporary market with his annual Christmas tours. He had also performed for many popular television programs in the 90s, including the award-winning LightMusic, …

Kristy Starling is a Contemporary Christian Music singer, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After marrying husband Adam in the fall of 2002, she came second in a national singing competition, "Today's Superstar", NBC News' morning show. She signed to Warner Brothers, working with successful producer David Foster, and released her self-titled debut album on 22 April 2003.

Reuben Morgan is a worship leader, music pastor and songwriter at the Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia. He is well known for such songs as "Eagles Wings", "I Give You My Heart", "My Redeemer Lives" and "Touching Heaven, Changing Earth". In 2005, his first solo worship album, "World Through Your Eyes", debuted at #3 in the Australian Christian Charts. This album was also released in Canada.

Suede is an American pop, cabaret and jazz singer. She was born in Nyack, New York and went to high school in Severna Park, Maryland. She began playing music in high school, getting bar gigs before she even graduated. She lived in Baltimore for the majority of the 80's and became a fixture at many local clubs. Suede's popularity in the adult contemporary circles steadily increased and she began playing sold-out shows in some of the US's most respected concert halls.

Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor. He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow Is On the Roses". He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers.

Joey Scarbury (born June 7 1955) is an adult contemporary singer who had a hit song, "Theme from "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It or Not)," in 1981. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, California, Scarbury was continually encouraged in his ambition to sing by his mother. At the age of 14, after being spotted by songwriter Jimmy Webb's father, he was signed to a recording contract, and seemed to be destined for stardom.

Jenna Drey is a female singer/songwriter who is a dance-pop, adult contemporary and dance music artist. She was born in Los Angeles, California, but currently resides in Miami, Florida. The classically trained 3-octave vocalist is also the daughter of TV actress Margaret Teele.

"Jordan Hill" (born April 17, 1981 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American singer. In 1994, She was signed by producer David Foster to his own label 143 Records, a division of Warner Music Group. The first song "Remember Me This Way", which is produced by David Foster, became the film "Casper"'s theme song and released as single. But it only peaked #80 in Billboard Hot 100. Jordan Hill's self-titled debut album appeared in May 21, 1996.

Mike S. Cooper is a Canadian radio personality, with Erin Davis hosting the 98.1 CHFI morning show. Cooper was born in Hamilton, Ontario and was the lead morning host at CHFI's adult contemporary competitor CJEZ until 2005. He was an announcer at 1050 CHUM from 1974 to 1976. During this period, he set the world record for riding a Ferris Wheel during the Canadian National Exhibition. From 1976 to 1978 Cooper was a broadcaster at Montreal's CKGM.

Peppino di Capri (born Giuseppe Faiella in Naples, Italy on July 27, 1939) is an Italian popular music singer, songwriter and pianist. Peppino began singing and playing the piano at age 4, entertaining the American army troops stationed on the island of Capri with a repertoire of American standards. After 6 years of classical studies and playing at nightclubs around Capri, Peppino and his group "The Rockers" released their first single, …

Teri DeSario is a singer/songwriter from Miami, Florida. DeSario worked within several music genres out of high school. She was vocalist, played recorder and harp from 1970 - 1977 with a Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Early Music Consort, headed by scholar and Pro Musica member Arnold Grayson. She began her popular career as a singer songwriter in the folk genre and later expanded her love of folk music with her passion for jazz.

Diane Renay (born Renee Diane Kushner on July 13, 1945 in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American pop singer, best known for her 1964 hit song "Navy Blue." Renee Diane Kushner started singing at an early age and took voice lessons from Artie Singer, a voice teacher who also managed Danny and the Juniors (of "At the Hop") fame. Singer encouraged Renee to pursue a recording career.

Issa (pronounced "eeee-sah") (formerly known as Jane Siberry, born October 12, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario), is a Canadian singer-songwriter known for such new wave hits as "Mimi on the Beach", "I Muse Aloud" and "One More Colour", as well as her adult contemporary hit "Calling All Angels" from her 1993 album "When I Was a Boy".

Alyson's debut album "Take A Good Look" released on her own label, PM Media, was released on May 17, 2005. The album features the hits "Baby Come Back", "What're Your Gonna Do", "Nothin' More To Say", "Feel You", "Take A Gook Look" and "Forever", her current single. "Forever" is the 5th song from her debut album to hit the Top 10 on the Hot Dance Club Play and to become Hot Dance Airplay hits, and just hit # 1 on the World Dance/Trance Singles Chart (www.Top40-charts.com).

Bob Magee (born December 13, 1949) is the professional name of Denny O'Neil, a Canadian radio personality and host of the afternoon drive time show on Toronto's CHFI-FM since 2003. From late 1999 to 2003, he co-hosted CHFI's morning show with Erin Davis. Magee first joined Toronto's legendary top 40 powerhouse 1050 CHUM briefly in the early 1970s, before heading to Western Canada.

Gale Zoë Garnett, born on July 17, 1942, in Auckland, New Zealand, is best known for her Grammy-winning folk hit "We'll Sing in the Sunshine." Gale Garnett has since carved out a career as a writer and actress. When Gale was 11, her family moved to Canada, and she made her public singing debut in 1960, while at the same time pursuing an acting career making guest appearances on television shows such as "77 Sunset Strip".

Laura Smith is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is best known for her 1995 single "Shade of Your Love", one of the year's biggest hits on adult contemporary radio stations in Canada, and for her rendition of the Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean". Smith was born and raised in London, Ontario. She was encouraged in her early writing by poet Margaret Avison, then writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario.