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.

Youssou N'Dour (born October 1, 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer and percussionist. He helped develop popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as "mbalax", a blend of the country's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban arrangements and flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s and have flourished in West Africa ever since.

Daniel Lavoie is a French-Canadian singer and songwriter. Born in Dunrea, Manitoba, Canada, his mother was a musician and he learned to play piano at a young age. In 1967, Lavoie won a singer-songwriter competition for the Société Radio-Canada French language television program, "Jeunesse oblige" which gave him his first major publicity.

Sandra Caldarone, better known as Sandra Kim, is a Belgian singer of Italian descent who won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Bergen, Norway, on 3 May 1986. She was born in Montegnée, near Liège, and started singing when she was seven. At the time of her Eurovision win, she was only 13 years old, despite claiming in the lyrics of her song "J'aime La Vie" ("I love life") to be 15.

Luz Casal (born November 11, 1958 at Boimorto, Galicia) is a Spanish pop singer. She grew up in Asturias, took singing, piano and ballet classes, and moved to Madrid to pursue a career as a musician. She became famous in the early 1980s, and remained as an important figure in Spanish pop music all through said decade and beyond, with her sound gradually maturing towards soft adult pop.

Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, is a French pop singer and actress. She is well known in France, Switzerland and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. Her first success was "Toute première fois" in 1984. This song was simultaneously released in the United Kingdom in English. Two of her singles charted at number one in France: "Johnny, Johnny" and "En rouge et noir" in 1985 and 1986, respectively.

Julie Masse is a Canadian pop singer. Masse released her self-titled debut album in 1990. That French language album made her a star in Quebec and France with the singles "C'est Zéro", "Billy", "Sans t'oublier" and "Prends bien garde". Her second album, "À Contre Jour", followed in 1992. In 1993, she won the Juno Award for Best New Female Artist. That year, she also married Sylvain Brault. In 1994, she released her debut English album, "Circle of One", …

Ana Torroja (born December 28, 1959) is a Latin Grammy Award-nominated Spanish vocalist and lead singer of the trio Mecano, which has sold millions of albums. She was born in Madrid and is the daughter of a noted engineer.

Sylvain Cossette is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Grand-Mère, Mauricie, Quebec. Sylvain along with his brother François, Denis Lavigne and Jean-Francois Houle formed the Quebec-based English language band Paradox in 1984, before becoming a French language solo artist by 1992. He is currently performing in Bruno Pelletier's musical Dracula - Entre l'amour et la mort in the part of Jonathan (2006).

Camillo Jean Nicolas Felgen was a Luxembourgian singer, lyricist, DJ, and television presenter.

Kim Bingham is a Canadian singer-songwriter. She began her career in music as a member of the legendary Montreal, Quebec third wave ska band Me Mom and Morgentaler. In 1996, after that band broke up, Bingham moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and formed the band Mudgirl, who had a Canadian radio hit that year with "This Day", and performed on some Lilith Fair dates. (The band also featured Kevin Spencer, Joe Hrechka and Niko Quintal.) However, in 1999, …