Jayceon Terrell Taylor (born November 29 1979 in Los Angeles, California), known by his stage name The Game, is an American rapper signed to Geffen Records. The Game rose to fame in 2005 following the success of his debut album, "The Documentary" and his two Grammy nominations. Since then, The Game is considered to be a driving force in bringing back the West Coast hip hop scene and competing with many of his East Coast counterparts.

Shaffer Chimere Smith (born October 18 1982), known professionally as "Ne-Yo", is an American R&B/pop singer-songwriter. He is of African-American and Chinese heritage. Ne-Yo's debut album, "In My Own Words", was released in early 2006, through Def Jam Records, and debuted at number one on Billboard 200, selling over 301,000 copies in the first week.

"'Avril Ramona Lavigne Whibley (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian rock singer and musician. She has sold over twenty-six million albums worldwide. In 2006, "Canadian Business Magazine" ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood. Although her parents are of Quebecois origin, she does not speak French and her birth surname is usually pronounced in an anglicized way as (in French it is commonly pronounced).

Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967, Australia), is an austrailian country music singer. Two of his albums, "Be Here" (2004) and "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing" (2006) have reached the Top 10 on the "U.S. Billboard 200" albums chart & #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Album charts. He has scored seven number one songs in the United States to date and a total of fifteen top ten hits, …

Fredric M. Bronson is an American journalist, author and writer. He is best known for the weekly "Chart Beat" column in "Billboard magazine", and as the author of books related to "Billboard" charts. Born on January 10,1949 to Irving and Mildred Bronson and raised in California, Bronson showed an early aptitude for gauging the popularity of artists and songs.

Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American country music singer and guitarist. Her debut album, "Here for the Party", topped the US country charts in 2004 and reached #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. Her two subsequent albums "All Jacked Up" and "One of the Boys" have also reached the top of the US country charts. She has won a Grammy Award for her music.

Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer, songwriter, actor and businessman. He has been very successful, charting more than 70 hit singles across various music genres and topping the country and pop album charts for more than 420 individual weeks in the United States alone.

Josh Otis Turner (born November 20, 1977 in Hannah, South Carolina) is an American country music singer.

Lisa Marie Presley (born February 1, 1968) is an American singer/songwriter. Lisa Marie is a close friend of her father's ex-girlfriend Linda Thompson. In 2003, after advice from Thompson's record producer and then-husband David Foster, she launched a career as a singer. Her debut album, "To Whom It May Concern," reached #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified gold. To promote it she presented a concert in the UK, something that her father never did.

LeToya Nicole Luckett (born in March 11 1981), known professionally as LeToya, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. She is a founding member of the R&B and world's best-selling female group of all time, Destiny's Child with whom she won two Grammy Awards and after prompting commercially successful releases with the group, she was forced to leave. After unsuccessful trying again to join another girl-group, …

Carl Terrell Mitchell (born on November 27, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois) is a rapper known as Twista (formerly Tung Twista), who once held the title of fastest rapper in the world. His 2004 album "Kamikaze" went to number-one on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart after the success of his number-one Billboard Hot 100 single, "Slow Jamz".

Aubrey Morgan O'Day (born February 11, 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, model, dancer, and a member of the musical group Danity Kane. O'Day was born in San Francisco, California, and is of Irish descent. As a teen, she performed in various theatrical productions with the On Stage Theatre Company. O'Day graduated in 2001 from La Quinta High School (La Quinta, California).

Raven-Symoné's debut album, "Here's to New Dreams", was released on June 22, 1993. It spawned two commercially released singles: "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" and "Raven Is the Flavor". "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" was Raven's most successful single, reaching number sixty-eight on the "Billboard" Hot 100, forty-seven on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, forty-three on the Hot Dance Singles Sales, and thirty-nine on the Rhythmic Top 40. Her record company, …

Brenda K. Starr (born Brenda Kaplan on October 15 1966 in New York City) is an American singer originally in dance-pop, but now mostly in salsa-based music. She is also well known for her 1980s work with Freestyle music.

Jake Owen is an American country music singer-songwriter. His debut album, "Startin' With Me", was released on July 25, 2006. Owen had planned to be a professional golfer and walked on to the Florida State University team before suffering a career-ending injury. Before long he was singing at a campus bar called Potbelly's and soon left to pursue a music career in Nashville, Tennessee.

Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is a British songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970. Hackett remained with the band for eight albums before leaving in 1977 to pursue a solo career. In 1986, Hackett co-founded the supergroup GTR with another progressive guitarist, Steve Howe of Yes and Asia. The group released a self-titled album that year, …

Ciara (born Ciara Princess Harris on October 25 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the "Billboard" number-one single "Goodies". The album "Goodies" was released the fourth quarter of 2004 and first quarter of 2005. It produced three top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over 2.6 million in the U.S., and 5 million worldwide, …

King Tee, also spelled King T, (born Roger McBride in Compton, California), is an American West coast rapper from Compton, California.

Teedra Shenita Moses is an African American R&B singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana and later moved to Los Angeles, California with her mother, Shirley Moses, a gospel singer, after her parents' divorce. Moses brought a little bit of that fervor to her own vocal style when she began singing professionally. The final song on her debut album, "I Think of You (Shirley’s Song)", is dedicated to her late mother.

Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1 1994) is an American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's "America's Got Talent". At age 11, the prodigy repeatedly performed to standing ovations from the studio audiences, …

Barry Adrian Reese (born July 7 1982), better known by his stage name Cassidy, is an American rapper. His most successful work to date is his 2004 album "Split Personality", which reached #2 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #1 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop albums chart. He won "BET's Rap City Best Booth".

Joanna Noëlle Levesque, known by her stage name JoJo, is an American platinum-selling pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She rose to fame in 2004 with her platinum-certified, self-titled debut album "JoJo" which reached number four on the U.S. "Billboard" 200 chart. JoJo has also begun a film career, starring in two 2006 Hollywood films: "Aquamarine" and "RV".

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 - July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Herbie Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets, but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960s.

David Lanz, (born June 28, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. He has released 13 albums, each having some chart success. His most famous album, "Cristofori's Dream", topped the new age charts in 1988, which was Number One on Billboard's first adult alternative/new age chart for 27 weeks and eventually sold platinum and "Natural States" peaked at place 125 on the Billboard 200.

Jaheim Hoagland (also known simply as Jaheim) is an American R&B singer. He was signed to Kaygee (of Naughty by Nature)'s Divine Mill Records in 2000 and released his debut album, "Ghetto Love", through the label in 2001. His second effort, "Still Ghetto", was released a year later, both to platinum success. Jaheim's third album, "Ghetto Classics", was released on February 14 2006, …

Amanda Perez, born in 1980 in Fort Wayne, Indiana is a R&B/Hip-Hop artist.

Tony Carey (b. October 16, 1953) was the keyboardist for the band Rainbow from 1975 to 1977, appearing on the studio album "Rainbow Rising" (1976) and on the live albums "On Stage" (1977) and " Live in Germany" (1994). He is particularly noted for the keyboard introduction to "Tarot Woman", the first cut on the "Rainbow Rising" album and the keyboard solo on "A Light in the Black" the last cut on the "Rainbow Rising" album.

M.O.P.'s fanbase was loyal but remained rather small until 2000, when they released "Warriorz", this time on Loud Records. Mainstream radio began playing the first single, "Ante Up", produced by DR Period whom they had not worked with since their debut. The single, containing a sample from Sam & Dave's "Soul Sister, Brown Sugar", was a major radio hit and propelled the album to #25 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.

Dana Dane (born Dana McLeese) is a hip-hop artist known for humorous lyrics (performed with a fake English accent) and for his fashion sense. He was born in the Walt Whitman housing project in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, in New York City, and began his career as part of the Kangol Crew with fellow emcee Slick Rick, to whom he sounded markedly similar, although Slick Rick's English lilt was actually genuine.

Eddie Schwartz (born December 22, 1949) is a Canadian musician and Juno Award winner who had moderate success as a recording artist in the early 1980s, before becoming a successful songwriter, and record producer in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Schwartz was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and attended Toronto's York University, where he graduated from in 1977, as a Music and English major.

Guy Penrod is a gospel music singer mostly known for his work as the lead singer of the Gaither Vocal Band, a position he has held since 1994. He grew up in Hobbs, New Mexico,where his father Rev. Joe Penrod was the pastor of Temple Baptist Church. He also is a graduate of Hobbs High School. Penrod is a graduate of Liberty University. Starting in the early 80's he worked as a studio singer, backing up voices such as Steve Green, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Garth Brooks, …

Steve Pavlovic (b.1967) is an Australian music promoter and runs Modular Recordings. Also simply known as "Pav", he famously (in the music industry) had Nirvana on tour in Australia when "Nevermind" went #1 on the US Billboard 200 chart in 1992. Having signed a strong share of Australia's successful musical exports, including Ben Lee, Wolfmother & The Avalanches, he has a reputation as an industry taste-maker.

Davina (born Davina Bussey) is an American R&B vocalist and musician. Davina grew up in Detroit, ran her own dance music record label, and worked as a recording engineer before signing with Loud Records. Her 1997 single "So Good" became the theme song for the film "Hoodlum". Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan and Xzibit each appeared on remixed versions of the song.