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Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958) is an American rock guitarist, singer, producer and actress. She is best known for her hit single "I Love Rock N' Roll," which was #1 on the Billboard charts from March 20 to May 8, 1982, … - 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. - 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", … - Apache Indian
Apache Indian is the stage name of the reggae dee jay/toaster, Steven Kapur (born 11 May 1967, Handsworth, Birmingham). - Roy Brown
Roy Brown (10 September 1925 - 25 May 1981) was a blues musician who brought a soul singing style (from gospel music) to the emerging genre of rock and roll. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Brown started as a gospel singer. His mother was an accomplished singer and organist in church. After a move to Los Angeles, California some time in the 1940s, and a brief period spent as a professional boxer in the welterweight category, … - Gwen McCrae
Gwen McCrae is an American R&B singer, best known for her 1975 hit "Rockin’ Chair". She grew up singing in her pentecostal church and later discovered secular singers like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. She began performing in local clubs as a teenager, and singing with local groups like the Lafayettes and the Independents. In 1963, she met a young sailor named George McCrae, whom she married within a week. From 1963 she recorded as a duo with her husband George, … - Billy Swan
Billy Swan (born Billy Lance Swan, 12 May 1942, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is an American songwriter and singer, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help". Swan's role in the music industry was, originally, largely invisible. His first big break was in 1962 when Clyde McPhatter recorded "Lover Please", a song written by Swan that quickly became a Top Ten hit. Moving to Nashville allowed Swan to write hit country songs for numerous artists, including Conway Twitty, … - Arthur Conley
Arthur Lee Conley was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit, "Sweet Soul Music". It shot to the number two spot on both the pop and R&B charts, earning Conley the number eleven male artist ranking for 1967. The song paid homage to other soul singers like Lou Rawls, Wilson Pickett and James Brown. - Maxine Brown
Maxine Ella Brown (born 18 August 1939, in Kingstree, South Carolina) is an American soul singer. She began singing as a child, performing with two New York based gospel groups when she was a teenager. In 1960, she signed with the small Nomar record label, who released the smooth soul ballad "All in My Mind" late in the year. The single became a hit, climbing to number two on the R&B charts (number 19 pop), and it was quickly followed by "Funny", … - Candee Jay
Candee Jay (real name Ilze Lankhaar, born on 1 September, 1981, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch electronica artist. She is produced by Pronti and Kalmani, the production duo who worked with fellow Dutch artist, Alice Deejay. Together with Jezebel Zwiers and Elske Cinibulk as backgrounddancers, the Candee Jay project had to be as successful as the dance act Pronti & Kalmani became famous with: Alice Deejay. - Billie Jo Spears
Billie Jo Spears (born Billie Jean Spears January 14 1937, in Beaumont, Texas) is an American Country Music Singer. In the 1970s, Billie Jo Spears landed a few big Country hits. Her best known hit by far is the 1975 song "Blanket On the Ground". She is known for Bluesy voice. - Kiprich
Kiprich (born Marlon Plunkett in Waterhouse, Jamaica), formerly known as "Crazy Kid", is a popular dancehall deejay. He, like his mentor Elephant Man, is a member of the Alliance, a group of Gangsta-themed deejays. His first hit was "Leggo Di Bwoi"; later followed "Mad Sick Head No Good" together with fellow deejay Predator (deejay). Also, he wrote the lyrics for Elephant Mans "Jook Gal", whose remix together with Kiprich himself, … - Bob Style
Bob Style was born in Aachen, Germany in 1978. The young artist travelled to the United States frequently to learn from American musicians in Nashville and throughout the country and has also performed in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and of course in Europe. He has also been nominated for the Horizon Award of a magazine. - Debra Byrne
Debra Byrne, born in Melbourne, Australia on 30 March, 1957, is an Australian entertainer. Byrne made her television debut on "Brian and the Juniors", an early predecessor of "Young Talent Time", which was hosted by a young Brian Naylor. She stayed with the show for 12 months. In 1971 she was cast as one of the original six "Young Talent Time" cast members. - Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas (born Paul Oscar Beuselinck, 3 December 1945 in Peterborough, England) is an English actor and singer who has had considerable success on stage, screen and in the pop charts. Nicholas's father Oscar Beuselinck was a music business lawyer. During the 1970s, his father's family home was at Letchmore Heath, Watford opposite the Bhaktivedanta manor, whose clients included Jack Hilton, Robert Stigwood, The Who. - Johnny Bond
Johnny Bond (1 June 1915 - 12 June 1978) born Cyrus Whitfield Bond in Enville, Oklahoma, was a popular country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Bond got his first break working for Jimmy Wakely in the late 1930s and went on to join Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in 1940. - Leroy van Dyke
Leroy Van Dyke is billed as “The World’s Most Famous Auctioneer”. Leroy was catapulted into country music recording fame in 1956 by his own composition “Auctioneer,” which has to date sold an estimated three million records. He wrote the song about the life of his cousin, National Auctioneers Association Hall of Famer Ray Sims, also a Missourian. - Linda Scott
Linda Scott was a pop singer active in the early to mid 1960s. Her biggest hit was the 1961 million-selling single, "I've Told Every Little Star". She went on to place twelve songs on the charts over the next four years, the last being "Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed," which was one of the first collaborations between the legendary writing team of Hal David and Burt Bacharach. - Esther Ofarim
Esther Ofarim (born Esther Zaied, 13 June 1941 in Safed) is an Israeli female vocalist. She met Abi Ofarim, a guitarist and dancer, in 1959 and subsequently married him. With her husband and without him she began to sing Hebrew and international folk songs. In 1960 Esther got a small role in the film "Exodus". In 1961 Esther won the Song Festival in Tel Aviv, where she sang "Saeni imcha bemachol" and "Neama". - Ketty Lester
Ketty Lester (born Revoyda Frierson, 16 August 1934, Hope, Arkansas) is an American singer and television actress, who is probably best known for her 1962 hit single, "Love Letters", which reached the Top 5 of the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Lester began her singing career after studying music at San Francisco State College and performed in the city's Purple Onion club in the early 1950s. - Johnny Wakelin
Johnny Wakelin (born 1939, Brighton, Sussex, England) is a British Pye Records recording artist. He had his first outings in clubs in his hometown but without big success. Then he got the idea of writing a homage to the boxing champion Muhammad Ali who fought on 30 October 1974 in Kinshasa against George Foreman gaining victory in the eighth round. In January 1975 Wakelin's "Black Superman" reached the charts. - Mel Carter
Mel Carter (born 22 April 1939, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer. Carter's work was, whilst not the perfect companion to the soul music produced by others during his active artistic output, still representative of the tenor of the genre/time in and of which he sung. Although he did record for Sam Cooke's SAR record label in the early 1960s, by the time he reached his commercial peak with Imperial Records in the middle of the decade, … - Cheryl Pepsii Riley
Cheryl "Pepsii" Riley (born in Brooklyn, New York) is an American R&B/gospel singer and actress, best known for her 1988 ballad, "Thanks For My Child". Riley, who worked as a nurse for handicapped children for ten years before beginning her singing career, topped the R&B charts with the heart-stirring ballad "Thanks for My Child," a song written by Full Force. - André Tanneberger
André Tanneberger aka ATB is a DJ, musician and producer of trance and dance music. Among his most famous songs is "9pm (Till I Come)", which topped the United Kingdom music charts in 1999 and is widely regarded as the UK's first Trance number one. The track features a guitar riff which became hugely popular. This guitar sound, which he accidentally found while experimenting with a new producing deck, became the trademark of his early hits. - Mary Kiani
Mary Kiani is a Scottish singer who first had hit songs as vocalist for dance music act The Time Frequency in the early 1990s and later a failed solo career. Before TTF, Mary was Session/Backing vocalist and has toured with artists such as Donny Osmond and performs vocals on The Simpsons' Yellow Album. - Sharon Bryant
Sharon Bryant (born 14 August 1956, Westchester County, New York) is an American R&B singer. She began her career as the lead singer of the R&B group Atlantic Starr in 1976. Bryant sang lead on songs such as "When Love Calls" and "Circles". Bryant left the group in pursuit of a solo career in 1984, but did not achieve any success on her own until five years later, when the ballad "Foolish Heart" made the Billboard R&B charts. "Let Go" was also a moderate pop hit#, … - Jenifer Bartoli
Jenifer Yaël Dadouche-Bartoli, better known as simply Jenifer, is a pop singer who has, since 2002, had a number of hit singles in the French and Swiss charts. - John Hornsby
John Hornsby was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, and is a composer, musician and actor. He is the brother of and collaborator with musician/composer Bruce Hornsby. He co-wrote seven of nine songs on the album "The Way It Is", which went multi-platinum. The single, "The Way It Is" topped the American charts in 1986. The album contained another top five hit with "Mandolin Rain". "Every Little Kiss" also did respectably well. - Mr Nick Nasty
Mr. Nick Nasty is a British musician, promoter, and internet figure who began his career in the UK punk scene during the late 70's & early 80's. He has topped the Soundclick internet charts and has caused a short lived global media stir with the second Punk Jubilee Gig "Out-Rage 2002" endorsed by Glen Matlock. - Russell Arms
Russell Arms (born 3 February 1922, Berkeley, California) is an American actor and singer. He is best-known for his 1957 country music hit single, "Cinco Robles (The Five Oaks)". "Cinco Robles" entered the charts on 12 January 1957 and stayed for fifteen weeks, peaking at #22. From 1952 to 1957, Arms was best known as a vocalist and host of "Your Hit Parade", … - Tony Bellus
Tony Bellus (born Anthony J. Bellusci, 17 April 1936, Chicago, Illinois) is a vocalist and musician, whose greatest claim to fame was a self-composed song he recorded in Chicago in 1959, called "Robbin' The Cradle". Much has been said about the uniqueness of the recording. It contained a number of styles and unheard-of musical combinations. It combined an Italian pop singer playing an accordion a la Dick Contino, … - Nanda Lwin
Nanda Layos Lwin (born August 31, 1971 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian author, music historian, journalist, and educator. He writes the weekly ChartTalk column, a commentary of the current Canadian music charts; it appeared on canoe.ca from 1997 to 2002 and has appeared in "The Hamilton Spectator" since 2003. - Simon Dawbarn
Simon Dawbarn (born Simon James Dawbarn, 5 August 1974, Warrington, England) aka Spike Dawbarn, is a British dancer and pop singer. He was a member of the boyband 911, who had 10 consecutive Top Ten hits between 1996 and 2000. Although he attended some dance college afterwards, his secondary education ended at the age of sixteen when he could not get a grant to go to a London stage school. He had a brief spell as a bricklayer on a building site, … - Mike Mike Bailey To Number 1 In The Charts
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