- Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, … - Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Coles in 1919 in Montgomery, Alabama. When Cole was four years old, his father, Edward, a Baptist minister, accepted a pastorship of a church in Chicago. The family, which included Cole's mother, Perlina, his older brother, Edward, and two sisters, Eddie Mae and Evelyn, moved north. Two younger brothers, Issac and Lionel (called Freddie), were born later in Chicago. - Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - June 15, 1996), also known as "Lady Ella" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century. With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, near faultless phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - Van Morrison
Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson , Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker . As a teenager he played guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups before forming an r&b band called Them in 1964. - Britney Spears
The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol . - Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history. After initial success in England, he achieved worldwide fame following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught guitarist, … - David Bowie
David Bowie (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. Active in five decades of rock music, and frequently re-inventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an influential innovator, particularly for his work through the 1970s. Bowie has taken cues from a wide range of fine art, philosophy and literature. He is also a film and stage actor, … - Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, … - 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. - James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933 – December 25 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," was an American entertainer recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style. As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, … - Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28 1987) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, producer, fashion designer, and spokesperson. She has an older sister, Haylie Duff, who is also an actress/singer. After gaining fame for her starring role on the television show "Lizzie McGuire", Duff went on to have a film career, and her most commercially successful pictures include "Cheaper by the Dozen" (2003), "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" (2003), … - Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake, (born January 31 1981), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop-R&B singer and actor. He came to fame as the frontman of pop boy band 'N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, "Justified", which sold over seven million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo release, "FutureSex/LoveSounds", was released in 2006 with the #1 U.S. hit singles "SexyBack", "My Love", … - Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10 1980) is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica". She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, a pop rock singer. - Rod Stewart
Roderick David Stewart, CBE (born January 10, 1945), is a British singer born and raised in London. He describes himself as a "Scottish rock singer", owing to his parentage. He considers himself as a true Scot. He was a member of the The Jeff Beck Group and the Faces. He was also briefly in a band entitled Roddy Rod and the Dynamic Duo with fellow band members Mark McCallister and Sammy Pierce before embarking on a solo career. His wife is model Penny Lancaster. - Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album "Come on Over" is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, … - Al Green
Albert Greene (born April 13, 1946), better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the early and mid 1970s. - Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera, born December 18 1980, is an American pop singer and songwriter. She was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film "Mulan". She came to prominence following her debut album "Christina Aguilera" (1999), which was a critical and commercial success. A Latin pop album "Mi Reflejo", and a Christmas album, "My Kind of Christmas", … - Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer and songwriter. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Diamond was one of the more successful pop music performers, scoring a number of hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. As critic William Ruhlmann writes, "as of 2001, he claimed worldwide record sales of 115 million copies, and as of 2002 he was ranked third, behind only Elton John and Barbra Streisand, … - Alicia Keys
Alicia Keys (born Alicia J. Augello-Cook on January 25 1980) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, philanthropist, and author who has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards, eleven Billboard Music Awards, and three American Music Awards. - Norah Jones
Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30 1979 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actress. Jones's career was launched with the massive success of her 2002 debut album "Come Away with Me", a contemporary pop album with a sensual, plaintive soul/folk/country tinge, that sold over twenty million copies worldwide and received six Grammy Awards, with Jones winning "Best New Artist". - Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez, popularly nicknamed J.Lo, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, and fashion designer. She is the richest Hispanic in Hollywood according to the website "A Socialite's Life" and the most influential Hispanic entertainer in America according to "People en Español"s list of 100 Most Influential Hispanics which pays tribute to Hispanics who have had an impact on their communities. - Tom Jones
Sir Thomas Jones Woodward, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, born 7 June, 1940, who is better known, especially in the United States, by his stage name, Tom Jones, is a Grammy Award-winning Welsh popular music singer. He was born in Treforest, Pontypridd, near Cardiff in South Wales. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is a nine-time Grammy award-winning American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. - George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Following the band's demise, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group where he was known as both Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury. - Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. Her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and even pop music. Her vocal style is characterized by passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Simone recorded over 40 live and studio albums, … - Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres. After having achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1950s and early 1960s, his career suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a remarkable comeback, however, in the late 1980s and 1990s, … - Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born November 26, 1939) is a 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. Turner's success, dominance and popularity in Rock and Roll garnered her the title, … - Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours. - Keith Urban
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, … - Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a nine-time Grammy-winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist, and songwriter. Her music blends country, pop, folk, and blues rock into one mainstream sound. Crow is also a noted political activist who uses her fame to promote causes she supports. - George Michael
Georgios-Kyriacos Panayiotou (born June 25, 1963), better known as George Michael, is an English singer-songwriter who performs soul influenced pop, and who (as a solo artist and half of the duo Wham!) has enjoyed global success since 1982. His biggest commercial success to date was in 1987 with his debut solo album "Faith" which has sold to date well over the 20 million mark worldwide. - Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker OBE (born John Robert Cocker, 20 May 1944, Sheffield) is an English rock/blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice and his cover versions of popular songs. - Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler (born May 8, 1975, in Madrid, Spain) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Spanish-born, Miami-based singer and is of Asian and european ancestry. His Asian ancestry comes from his mother's side of the family. Iglesias is the son of the famous Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and the Filipina socialite Isabel Preysler. - Lou Reed
Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed (born March 2 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965 - 1973). The band gained relatively little notice during its life, but is widely considered by some to be one of the seeds of alternative rock music. - Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942) is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter. Gil is also the current Minister of Culture of the country. Gil is best known for his late 1960s "tropicalismo" recordings, including "Roda", "Lunik 9", and "Domingo No Parque". Elis Regina has recorded many of the songs he wrote. He began his career as a "bossa nova" musician, …
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