Michael James Way (born September 10, 1980), most commonly known as Mikey Way, is the bass guitarist for the alternative rock band My Chemical Romance and is the younger brother of frontman Gerard Way.

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.

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress. Latifah's work in music and film has earned her a Grammy Award, five additional Grammy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination as well.

Anwar Farid Robinson (born April 21, 1979) is an American singer/songwriter/musician who was the 7th place finalist on the fourth season of "American Idol". Robinson grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He first started to sing when he was eight and was accepted to the Newark Boys' Chorus School. He later trained as a tenor in classical technique in college for about four years under Dr. Scott J. McCoy.

Frankie Valli (born May 3, 1934 in the First Ward of Newark, New Jersey as Francis Stephen Castelluccio) is best known as the lead singer of The Four Seasons, a music act of the 1960s, which continued from then to the 1970s disco scene to the present day. Valli scored over 25 Top-40 hits with The Four Seasons, a handful of Top-40 hits dubbed as a solo act in the late 1960s, one dubbed as "The Wonder Who?" in 1965 and again in the mid to late 1970s.

Faith Renée Evans is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She is also the widow of the Notorious B.I.G. For over a decade, she has worked with numerous successful artists such as Tupac Shakur, Mary J. Blige, Diddy, Kelly Price, Usher, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Nas, Twista, and Carl Thomas.

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. In 2006, "Time" magazine called him one of the "100 people who shape our world". He currently resides in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Tracy Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by stage name Ice-T, is an American rapper, rock musician, author, and actor. He was instrumental in creating gangsta rap and rapcore. Much of his music is politically oriented, like that of Public Enemy, although this has declined with time. Since 2000, he has played the role of Det. Fin Tutuola on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". As of 2007, Marrow resides in North Bergen, New Jersey.

Rah Digga (born December 18, 1972) is an American rapper. Well known as a long time member of the Flipmode Squad, a hip hop group led by Busta Rhymes, she parted ways amicably with the group in 2007.

Connie Francis (born December 12, 1938 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American pop singer best known for international hit songs such as "Who's Sorry Now?", "Where The Boys Are", and "Everybody's Somebody's Fool".

Marc Ribot (born 21 May 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American guitarist, composer and singer. Ribot has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, and Susana Baca. His work is featured on Waits's "Rain Dogs", "Franks Wild Years", "Mule Variations" and "Real Gone".

Wayne Shorter (born August 25 1933) is an American jazz composer and saxophonist. Commonly regarded as one of the more important American jazz sax players and composers since the 1960s, Shorter has recorded dozens of albums as a leader, and appeared on dozens more with others. Many of his compositions have become standards.

Lady Luck born Shanel Jones in Newark, New Jersey, USA on 4 September 1981.

Cissy Houston (born Emily Drinkard on September 30, 1933) is a gospel and soul singer. She led a successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist. She is the mother of singer and actress Whitney Houston. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Houston was the youngest of eight children of parents Nicholas (aka Nitch) and Delia Drinkard.

Intense is the word for Ray Liotta. He specializes in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. Liotta maintains a steady stream of work, completing multiple projects per year.

Sarah Lois Vaughan (nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One") (March 27 1924, Newark, New Jersey - April 3 1990, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz singer, described as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century

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.

Miss Nana (formerly Lil' Miss Nana, born Tanyshwia D. Stokes on May 10, 1991) is an American rapper from Newark, New Jersey.

Woody Herman Shaw II (December 24, 1944 - May 10, 1989) (United States) was a jazz trumpeter and composer who performs in a variety of jazz mediums. Shaw grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and began his study of music at the age of 11. Early in his career he was influenced by Clifford Brown, Fats Navarro, Booker Little, Dizzy Gillespie (whom Woody Jr's father had gone to high school with), Freddie Hubbard, amongst others, yet the influence of saxophonist Eric Dolphy, …

John Gorka (born 1958, Newark, New Jersey) is a contemporary American folk musician. Upon the release of his first album in 1987, "Rolling Stone" magazine dubbed him "the voice of 'new folk'."

Treach is the stage name of Anthony Criss (born December 2, 1970), an American rapper and actor. He is best known as the lead rapper of the hip hop group Naughty by Nature. His chiseled physique has helped him land roles in crime films, television crime dramas and as a leading man in romance films. Criss was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He was married to Sandy Denton (Pepa of the rap group Salt-n-Pepa), but they divorced in 2001.

Dee Dee Warwick (b. September 25 1945, Newark, New Jersey as Delia Mae Warrick) is an African-American soul singer. Following the example of her elder sister, Dionne Warwick, she changed her surname from Warrick to Warwick in the early 1960s. She may be best-known for her hits during the 1960s, including the #13 R&B hit "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me", …

Nick Lucas (August 22, 1897-July 28, 1982) was an American singer and pioneer jazz guitarist, remembered as "the grandfather of the jazz guitar", whose peak of popularity lasted from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s. Nick Lucas was born Dominic Nicholas Anthony Lucanese in Newark, New Jersey. In 1922, at the age of 25, he gained renown with his hit renditions of "Picking the Guitar" and "Teasing the Frets" for Pathe Records.

Keshia Knight Pulliam (born April 9, 1979 in Newark, New Jersey, USA) is an American actress.

Reginald "Reggie" Noble (born April 17 1970), better known by his stage name Redman, is an American rapper. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and came to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label.

Michael Tree, violist, was born in Newark, New Jersey. Tree's principal viola studies were with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music. Subsequent to his Carnegie Hall recital debut, Mr. Tree has appeared as violin and viola soloist with major orchestras, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New Jersey. As a founding member of the Marlboro Trio and Guarneri Quartet, …

Mia Cox is a female singer/songwriter from Newark, New Jersey. She was the featured vocalist on DJ Disciple's "Caught Up" (from the "Queer As Folk" soundtrack), which went to number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2002.

Faye Adams (born Faye Tuell, circa 1923/1925, Newark, New Jersey) is an American vocalist best known for a string of hits in the 1950s, including "Shake A Hand", "Hurts Me To My Heart", "I'll Be True" and "Anything For A Friend". She was the daughter of David Tuell, a gospel singer and a key figure in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). At the age of five she joined her sisters to sing spirituals, regularly appearing on Newark radio shows.

Mutah Wassin Farquad Habir Shabazz Beale (born in Newark, New Jersey on October 7 1977) is an African-American former rapper more commonly known as Napoleon. He was born to Muslim parents, his mother Aquillah Beale, and his father, Salek Beale. When he was three years old his parents were murdered and his brother, Seike Beale, committed suicide. Napoleon claims that the Nation of Islam were responsible for the murder of his parents.

Steve Swell (born in Newark, NJ, December 6, 1954) is an American free jazz trombonist and composer. Swell moved to New York City in 1975 where he began his musical life, playing in top 40 bands, salsa bands, big bands (most notably those of Buddy Rich and Lionel Hampton) and performed on Broadway in Bob Fosse's "Dancin". He then became a member of Makanda Ken McIntyre's band which led to tours and recordings with Tim Berne, Joey Baron, Herb Robertson, Jemeel Moondoc, …

Fred Schneider (born Fred Schneider III on July 1, 1951 in Newark, New Jersey) is best known as the frontman of the rock band The B-52's, of which he is a founding member. Schneider is well-known for his sprechgesang.

My name is Gerard. Addictions basically run my system, but I love my life. I am a musician for a band that some may basically know of and spend time on the road touring. I would never change my life because I am liking the way its going now. I've been an outcast, suicidal, fat, and hopeless in my early years never thinking I have a future.

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Hi my name is Ron...........I am a professional Singer/Entertainer/Musician - Born in East Orange, New Jersey, at 16yrs I moved to California to attend UCLA and create some of the hottest bands of the time - "May thru November" and the "Social Security Band", Performing with Ike and Tina Turner, Chaka Chan and became good friends with Lou Rawles(RIP)&;amp;amp; and Stevie Wonder.

Im Gerard Arthur Way I'm in a Band Called My Chemical Romance. I have a brother who is in my band aswell his full name is Michael James Way He was born in Sept. 10 1980. My Eye Colour is Green, Golden brown Natural Hair colour was Brown. Im 1/2 Scottish from my Father and Im 1/2 Italian from My Mother. My Father's name Is Donald Way and My Mother's Name is Donna Way. I was Addicted to drugs and alcohol.

What can I say.....Im a God fearin musician who is always up for a challenge. Im a college student just tryin to make a name for myself in the world. Im not afraid of change and im always ready to work.