- Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24 1982) is an American pop singer from Texas. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the highly publicized first season of the television series "American Idol" in 2002. She was originally marketed as a pop musician with her debut album "Thankful" (2003). With the release of her multi-platinum second album "Breakaway" (2004), Clarkson moved to a more pop rock-oriented style of music, … - 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", … - Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program "American Idol" in 2003. After placing second, RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album "Measure of a Man" was released in October 2003. - Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s. - Clive Davis
Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is a Grammy Award winning record producer and a leading music industry executive. From 1967-72 he was the President of Columbia Records, was the founder and president of Arista Records in the late 1970s through late 1990s, founded J Records and is the President of RCA Records as well as J Records and Arista which makes up the RCA Music Group which he runs. In 2004 he was made chairman of the North American division of BMG. - Kellie Pickler
Kellie Dawn Pickler (born June 28, 1986) is an American country music singer and songwriter who finished sixth on the fifth season of the Fox television series "American Idol". Despite being eliminated, Pickler signed a recording contract with the record company BNA Records, a country label owned by RCA Records and Sony BMG Music Entertainment in conjunction with "Idol" series creator Simon Fuller's 19 Recordings Limited. - Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18 1912 - May 12 2001) was an American crooner. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. He sold millions of records for RCA and also pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. - Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler (real name Gaynor Hopkins born on June 8, 1951 in Skewen, Neath) is a pop/rock singer with a distinctive, powerful husky voice, with worldwide record sales in excess of 80 million - Norma Jean
Norma Jean, born Norma Jean Beasler January 30 1938 in Wellston, Oklahoma, recorded and sang professionally simply as "Norma Jean". She is also well-known by the nickname "Pretty Miss Norma Jean", her regular introduction by Porter Wagoner on his television series, on which she was a regular from 1961-67. - Jeff Bates
Jeff Bates (born March 30, 1961) is an American country singer from Bunker Hill, Mississippi. - Roger McGuinn
James Roger McGuinn (known professionally as Roger McGuinn and born James Joseph McGuinn III on July 13, 1942) is a popular rock American singer-songwriter and guitarist of the 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist on many of The Byrds' hit records, the pioneering folk-rock band of the 1960s, contributing much to the band's unique sound. - Gary Stewart
Gary Stewart, a country musician known for his drinking songs, was one of the first so-called "outlaw" country performers of the 1970s. A singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, he was born in the Letcher County, Kentucky town of Jenkins, the son of a coal miner. His father sustained in 1958 an injury while working in the mines, and shortly after the family moved to Fort Pierce, a city on Florida's Atlantic coast. - Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, Felix Slatkin, and his mother was Eleanor Aller, the cellist with the quartet. His brother, Frederick Zlotkin, is a cellist. He studied at Indiana University and Los Angeles City College before attending the Juilliard School where he studied conducting under Jean Paul Morel. His conducting debut came in 1966, and in 1968, … - Charlotte Martin
Charlotte Ann Martin is an American singer-songwriter, who performs predominantly on the piano. She has written several studio albums, two of which have received mainstream commercial releases, 2004's "On Your Shore" and 2006's "Stromata". - Jack Jones
Jack Jones (born January 14, 1938) is an American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s. - K. T. Oslin
Kay Toinette "K. T." Oslin, (born May 15, 1941, Crossett, Arkansas) is a country music singer and songwriter. Kay T. Oslin was born in Crossett, Arkansas, but soon after her birth her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee and then to Houston, Texas. Oslin considers Houston her hometown. Oslin initially performed as a folk singer with Guy Clark and then moved to New York where she performed as a chorine in Off Broadway and Broadway shows. - Hugo Peretti
Hugo Peretti (December 6 1916 - May 1 1986) was an American songwriter and record producer. Born in New York City, as a teenager, Hugo Peretti began his music career playing the trumpet in the Borscht Belt in upstate New York. He graduated to playing with orchestras then in the 1950s partnered with his cousin Luigi Creatore to form the Hugo & Luigi songwriting team that evolved to producing records. - Slim Whitman
Slim Whitman (born January 20, 1924 in Tampa, Florida) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Whitman lives in Middleburg, Florida. Born Otis Dewey Whitman, Jr., he is one of the best-selling and most influential artists in country music history and yet at the same time is one of the most unrecognized by the American public at large. - Luigi Creatore
Luigi Creatore (born December 21 1920 in the Hell's Kitchen section of New York City) is a retired American songwriter and record producer. From a musical family, Creatore began his career as a writer. After serving with the United States military during World War II, in the 1950s he became a writer then partnered with his cousin Hugo Peretti to form the songwriting team of Hugo & Luigi that evolved to producing records. - Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor, the Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for Service to American Music; the George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America, … - Jeff Barry
Jeff Barry (born April 3, 1938) is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer. Barry was born Joel Adelberg in Brooklyn, New York. His parents divorced when he was seven, and his mother moved him and his sister to Plainfield, New Jersey, where they resided for several years before returning to New York. After graduating from Erasmus Hall High School, Barry did a stint in the Army and then returned to New York where he attended City College, … - John Pizzarelli
John Pizzarelli, Jr. (born April 6, 1960) is an Italian-American jazz guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader born in Paterson, New Jersey. He is married to torch singer Jessica Molaskey who he has recorded with on each of her albums, and is also the son of fellow jazz guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli. Pizzarelli has had a lengthy career as a recording artist, performing for a variety of labels that include Telarc Records, RCA Records and Chesky Records, among others. - David Mead
David Mead is an American singer-songwriter known for crafting songs in classic pop music style and possessing a uniquely high voice. Born in 1973 in Syosset, New York to David Mead Sr. and Sheryll Mead, he moved often during his childhood, mostly residing within the Southern United States. He eventually settled in Nashville, Tennessee, where he spent the early part of his career in bands such as Verdant Green and Blue Million. - Razzy Bailey
Erastus Michael "Razzy" Bailey is an American country-western singer-songwriter. He was born February 14, 1939 in Hugley, Alabama and raised on a farm in Lafayette, Alabama. Bailey got his first experience of musical performance as a member of his high school's Future Farmers of America string band. After graduation, he married and had children immediately, and had little time to pursue his career, … - Tommy Sands
Tommy Sands (born Thomas Adrian Sands, 27 August 1937, Chicago, Illinois) is an American pop music singer and actor. - Michael Rose
Michael Rose started his recording career as a solo artist for producers Yabby You and Niney the Observer. He joined Black Uhuru in 1974? after the departure of Don Carlos & Garth Dennis. He led them to international success in the early 1980s, having written most of their popular material. They won the first-ever Grammy Award for Reggae in 1985 for the album "Anthem" with the hallmark voice of Michael Rose in the forefront. - Lou Monte
Lou Monte, born Louis Scaglione on (April 2, 1917 – June 12, 1989), was an Italian-American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Records and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Monte's first big hit came in 1954, with the release of his version of "Darktown Strutters' Ball". In 1962, Monte would release his first million-seller, "Pepino, the Italian Mouse". - Kathie Baillie
Kathie Baillie is an American country music singer. Baillie made her first appearance in the country music scene singing background on projects for Moe Bandy, Dan Seals, Lynn Anderson, Randy Travis and others. In the mid-80s, Baillie trademarked her sound as the lead singer of the RCA recording group, Baillie & the Boys. Known for their dynamic harmonies and Baillie’s signature vocals, … - Gisele MacKenzie
Gisèle MacKenzie was a Canadian singer, most famous for her performances on the popular television program "Your Hit Parade". She was born Gisèle Marie-Louise Marguerite LaFlèche in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and studied violin and voice at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Ontario. She had her own Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio program, "Meet Gisele", before moving to the Los Angeles, California area in 1951. - Stephen H. Sholes
Stephen H. Sholes (February 12, 1911 - April 22, 1968) was a prominent recording executive with RCA Victor. He was born in Washington D.C.. His family moved to Camden, New Jersey, where his father worked in the RCA plant. Steve started work at RCA as a messenger boy in 1929. He worked part time for the firm while a student at Rutgers University. He worked for a time in RCA's radio division, … - Fran Warren
Fran Warren (born March 4, 1926) is an American popular singer. She was born as Frances Wolfe to a Jewish family in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City. After some time on a chorus line at New York's Roxy Theater, she auditioned with the big band of Duke Ellington at age 16; though she never made it onto Ellington's band, she soon became a singer with bands led by Randy Brooks, Art Mooney, Billy Eckstine, Charlie Barnet, and Claude Thornhill. - Bonnie Brown
Bonnie Brown (born Bonnie Jean Brown, 31 July 1937, Sparkman, Arkansas) is an American country music singer. From a musical family, in 1955 Bonnie Brown joined her older sister Maxine Brown, and brother Jim Ed Brown to form the musical group, The Browns. Signed by RCA Records in 1956, the highly successful trio were members of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee until disbanding in 1967. - Ethel Gabriel
Ethel deNagy Gabriel (b. Nov. 16, 1921) is one of America's first female record producers in American music business and enjoys legendary acclaim for producing and representing some of the best known music entertainers during her 4-decade career at RCA Records. Growing up around Philadelphia, she learned the music business from the ground up as a trombone player who lead her own dance band in the 1930s and later started in RCA's record factory in Camden, … - John Verity
John Verity, was born on 3rd July 1949 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He was notably a member of the 1970s band Argent from 1973 to 1976. When Argent split up he formed Phoenix with Bob Henrit and Jim Rodford from Argent. The band recorded three albums with CBS Records and toured Europe before disbanding amicably. Jim Rodford joined the Kinks, John and Bob joined Charlie, to record an album with RCA Records. - Taco Ockerse
Taco Ockerse (born 21 July, 1955) is a singer popularly known as Taco. Taco gained international stardom when in 1982 he recorded a distinctive cover record of the old Irving Berlin favorite, "Puttin' on the Ritz" in Germany, which made him famous early the next year (United States Billboard chart number 4). It has been reported that he did not speak any English at all and merely read the lyrics from transliterations. - Stacy Earl
Stacy Earl is a female dance/pop singer who had a string of Top 40 hits in 1992. Her singles "Love Me All Up", "Romeo & Juliet" (a duet with The Wild Pair), and "Slowly" all reached the Top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart. She released her self-titled debut album, which featured all 3 singles, on RCA Records the same year. The album featured production work by Glen Ballard, Walter Afanasieff, … - Joan Weber
Joan Weber (December 12, 1935 - May 13, 1981) was an American popular music singer. Weber was raised in Paulsboro, New Jersey, and married to a young bandleader. She was pregnant in 1954 when she was introduced to Eddie Joy, a manager, who in turn introduced her to Charles Randolph Grean, an A&R worker for RCA and Dot Records in New York. Grean gave a demo of Weber's singing a song called "Marionette" to Mitch Miller, the head of A&R at Columbia Records. - Sarah Whatmore
Sarah Whatmore (born 1981 in Manchester, England) is a singer best known from the British TV series "Pop Idol". Having previously worked with Billboard #1 dance producer 'Chris Brophy' she became a contestant on "Popstars". She made it to the final 50 contestants, and was spotted by 19 Entertainment's Simon Fuller who offered her a global management deal. He later signed her to a global label deal with RCA Records. - Alfred Lion
Alfred Lion (1909-1987) was a German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939. Blue Note recorded many of the biggest names in jazz throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Alfred Lion began his lifelong fascination with jazz at the age of 16 when he saw a jazz concert given by Sam Wooding's Orchestra in his native Berlin. In 1929 Alfred Lion migrated to the United States, but a physical attack necessitated hospital treatment, … - Gus Hardin
Gus Hardin (born Carolyn Ann Blankenship on April 9, 1945 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States; died February 17, 1996) was a country music singer. Hardin's rise to country music popularity began in 1983 with her first RCA Records single, the top 10 hit "After The Last Goodbye". Other hits, such as "Fallen Angel," "I Pass," "Lovin' You Hurts" and "If I Didn't Love You" soon followed, as well as "All Tangled Up in Love", a duet with Earl Thomas Conley.
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