- Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director and actress. Her debut was in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola and became the first recording act to have its first five singles top the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. - Chris Brown
Christopher Maurice Brown (born 5 May 1989), professionally known as Chris Brown, is a Grammy Award-nominated American R&B and pop singer, dancer, and occasional actor who released his "Billboard" Hot 100 number-one debut single "Run It!" in 2005, which was produced by Scott Storch and featured Juelz Santana. His self-titled debut album spawned four successful Top 10 and Top 20 hits in the United States. - Ne-Yo
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. - Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, actress, film producer, and former model. One of the most successful singers of all time, she has sold approximately 170 million albums and singles, and is ranked as the fourth best selling female artist is American music history according to the RIAA. She is well known for her vocal power, control, range and coloratura soprano voice. - Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American R&B, Pop and Gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist. She has been called for many years "The Queen Of Soul", but many also call her "Lady Soul," as well as the more affectionate "Sister Ree." She is renowned for her soul recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the greatest vocalists ever, … - James Blunt
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, … - Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English singer, songwriter, drummer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. He is also an accomplished actor, having starred in numerous films. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. - Barry Manilow
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. - Plies
Plies (born Algernod Lanier Washington on July 1,1976)) is a American rapper from Fort Myers, Florida signed to Slip-N-Slide Records. However, Plies chose to stay with Atlantic rather than move over to Def Jam. His first single, "Shawty" featuring T-Pain has charted on the U.S Hot 100, U.S. R&B and U.S. Rap charts. His debut album, "The Real Testament," is expected to be released August 7, 2007. - Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11 1977), better known as Ludacris, is an American rapper. A cousin of R&B singer Monica, Ludacris has received three Grammy Awards over the course of his career. He is the co-founder, along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. - Bobby Vinton
Bobby Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is an American pop music singer. Born Stanley Robert Vintula, Jr. in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh), he was the only child of a locally popular bandleader, Stan Vinton (Stanley Vintula, Sr.). At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he earned, Vinton helped finance his college education at Duquesne University, … - Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor (born Gloria Fowles September 7, 1949) is an American singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 #1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 #9, 1974), and "I Am What I Am" (Hot 100 #82, 1983). She was born in Newark, New Jersey. - Twista
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". - Sleepy Brown
Patrick "Sleepy" Brown is an R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is one-third of the successful Atlanta-based production team of Organized Noize, which has created hits for acts such as OutKast, Goodie Mob, and TLC. TLC's "Waterfalls", penned by Brown and Organized Noize's Rico Wade and Ray Murray, was a #1 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1995. Besides his production work, Brown also records as an artist himself, … - Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels (born October 28, 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American musician famous for his contributions to country and southern rock music. Daniels is a singer, guitarist, and fiddler, who began writing and performing in the 1950s. In 1964, Daniels co-wrote "It Hurts Me", a song which Elvis Presley recorded. He worked as a Nashville session musician, often for producer Bob Johnston, … - Brenda K. Starr
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. - Nelly
Cornell Haynes Jr. (born November 2 1974) is a rapper and singer from St. Louis, Missouri in the United States, who experienced popularity in the early 2000s. Best known by his stage name Nelly, he is one of the best-selling pop-rappers of all-time, with over forty million albums sold worldwide. - Robert John
Robert John, (born Robert John Pedrick, Jr. in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer/songwriter. He is best remembered for the 1979 song "Sad Eyes". This song, which features John's falsetto vocals, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 that summer. In addition, John had a #3 hit in 1972 with his version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. - Juvenile
Juvenile (born Terius Gray on March 25, 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) is an American rapper. At the age of 19, he began recording in a distinctive southern style with "Being Myself" (1994, Warlock Records). The album's hit song "Bounce for the Juvenile" gave name to the southern sing-songy rap style known as "bounce". In 1997, "Solja Rags", Juvenile's debut with Cash Money Records, was an underground hit. - Deborah Gibson
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". - Floyd Cramer
Floyd Cramer was an American Hall of Fame pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Cramer grew up in the small town of Huttig, Arkansas, teaching himself to play the piano. After finishing high school, he returned to Shreveport, where he worked as a pianist for the Louisiana Hayride radio show. In 1952, he made his way to Nashville at a time when the use of piano accompanists in country music was growing in popularity. - Paula Cole
Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968 in Rockport, Massachusetts) is an American Grammy Award-winning Singer/Songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997. - Raven-Symoné
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, … - Ashanti
Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13 1980), better known as Ashanti, is a Grammy Award-winning African American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, model and fashion designer who rose to fame in the early 2000s. She is most famous for her eponymous debut album "Ashanti" which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold 503,000 copies (gold) in its first week of release in the USA in April 2002, a record-breaking feat. - Al Martino
Al Martino (born October 7, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Alfred Cini) is an Italian-American singer and actor. After service with the U.S. Marines in World War II, including being a part of the Iwo Jima invasion where he was wounded, he commenced his singing career. His single "Here In My Heart" was number one in the first UK Singles Chart, published by the "New Musical Express" in 1952, putting him into the Guinness Book of World Records. - Vitamin C
Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick (born July 20, 1969 in Old Bridge, New Jersey) is an American pop music singer, dancer and actress, better known by her stage name, Vitamin C. Her singles include "Smile," "As Long As You're Loving Me," "Graduation (Friends Forever)" (which reached #38 on the Billboard Hot 100), and "The Itch." She was ranked #76 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001. Mattel released a Vitamin C Doll in 2000. - Gary Lewis
Gary Harold Lee Lewis, born July 31, 1945, is an American musician who performed in the band Gary Lewis & the Playboys. His father was film (and later television) comedian Jerry Lewis. His mother reportedly intended to name him after her favorite actor Cary Grant but the birth certificate recorded his name as "Gary" instead. He received a set of drums as a birthday gift in his early teen years. Around 1964 he formed Gary Lewis & the Playboys with four friends. - Debby Boone
Debby Boone (born Deborah Ann Boone, on September 22, 1956) is an American singer and theater actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit "You Light Up My Life", which spent 10 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and won her a Grammy award the following year for "Best New Artist". In the 80s, her career shifted in different directions, initially starting in Country music, and then switching over into Christian music, … - Wanda Jackson
Wanda Jackson (born Wanda Jean Jackson October 20, 1937, in Maud, Oklahoma) is sometimes called the first female Rock and Roll singer. She began recording (on the Decca label) in 1954. Jackson signed with Capitol in 1956. In 1960 she saw pop chart success when Capitol rereleased her 1958 rendition of "Let's Have a Party." She switched over to Country Music in the 1960s, racking up a few hits there as well. - Andy Kim
Andy Kim (born Andrew Youakim, December 5 1952, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a pop singer and songwriter. Youakim left home for New York to pursue a career in music. His stay was short-lived, but back home he worked on his music and in 1968 under the stage name Andy Kim, released the single "How'd We Ever Get This Way?" on the Steed label. That record made the U.S. Top Twenty. In 1969, Kim had two hit singles, "Rainbow Ride," which again made it into the U.S. Top Twenty, … - Bill Medley
William Thomas Medley (born September 19, 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers singing duo. Medley met his singing partner Bobby Hatfield while attending California State University, Long Beach. The pair began singing as a duo in 1962. Their first single was "Little Latin Lupe Lu"; their first hit was "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced by Phil Spector in 1964. - Ciara
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, … - Jake Owen
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. - Alannah Myles
Alannah Myles (born December 25, 1955 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. In 1989, she released her self-titled debut album called "Alannah Myles". The single from the album "Black Velvet" topped the Billboard Hot 100, and was also a hit in four other countries, including Canada. - Peter Brown
Peter Brown (born 11 July 1953, Blue Island, Illinois) is an artist, songwriter and record producer who was also a pioneer in home recording, having recorded his seminal hits in his bedroom. He signed with the record label Drive Records, a subsidiary of T.K. Records. He released his first album, "A Fantasy Love Affair" which was issued in September 1977 and hit the charts with the single "Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me", … - Bobby Day
Bobby Day (born July 1, 1928 - died July 27, 1990), was an early African American rock and roll and R&B musician. Born Robert James Byrd Snr, (making him, ironically because of his biggest hit, Bobby Byrd - not to be confused with the funk musician of the same name), in Fort Worth, Texas, he moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of fifteen. As a member of the R&B group, the Hollywood Flames, he used the stage name Bobby Day to perform and record. - Vikki Carr
Vikki Carr (born July 19 1941, in El Paso, Texas as Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona) is an American singer who has sung in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop and country, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish. - Patty Smyth
Patty Smyth (born 26 June 1957, New York, United States) first enjoyed mainstream success in 1982 as lead singer of the band, Scandal. That band's self-titled debut release became Columbia Records' biggest selling EP. In the mid 1980s, Smyth became friends with Valerie Bertinelli and her then husband, Eddie Van Halen. When David Lee Roth left the band Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen invited Smyth to replace Roth as the band's lead singer. Smyth declined the offer. - Aaliyah Dana Haughton
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), best known as Aaliyah, was an American singer, dancer, model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy Elliott & Timbaland and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Aaliyah soon joined Timbaland's R&B and hip hop collective, the Superfriends Clique. - Sophie B. Hawkins
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins is an American singer, songwriter, musician and painter, born November 1 1967, in Manhattan, New York City, USA. Her biggest hits are "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," "Right Beside You," and "As I Lay Me Down." Graduating from the Manhattan School of Music, Hawkins began crafting demos in a friend's home studio before being recruited as a percussionist for Bryan Ferry in the early 1980s.
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