Showing posts with label Singers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Singers. Show all posts


About Lil Wayne

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager. Get It How U Live, released in 1997, was Lil Wayne’s first album with Hot Boys, and Tha Block is Hot, his solo debut, came out 1999.

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About Rihanna

Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), known as Rihanna (pronounced /riːˈɑːnə/), is a Barbadian singer, model, and former beauty queen. She also serves as the cultural ambassador for Barbados.[1] She is the first Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award.[2][3]a[›] Rihanna is currently signed to the Def Jam Recordings label.[4] She has attained five Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far (”SOS“, “Umbrella“, “Take a Bow“, “Disturbia” and T.I.’s “Live Your Life“).[5]

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About Akon

Aliaune Thiam (born April 16, 1977),[1] better known by his stage name Akon (pronounced /ˈeɪkɒn/)[2], is a Wolof[3]Senegalese-American hip hop singer-songwriter,and record producer. Akon rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of his single “Locked Up” from his debut album Trouble. His second album, Konvicted, earned him a Grammy Award nomination for the single “Smack That.” He is the founder of two record labels, Konvict Muzik and Kon Live Distribution. He is well known for singing hooks and has over 155 guest appearances and 23 Billboard Hot 100 songs to his credit. He is the first solo artist to ever accomplish the feat of holding both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice.

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About Kanye West

Kanye Omari West (pronounced /ˈkɑnjɛj/; born June 8, 1977)[1] is an American rapper, record producer and singer. He released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004, his second album Late Registration in 2005, his third album Graduation in 2007, and his fourth album 808s & Heartbreak in 2008. His first three albums have received numerous awards,[2][3][4] critical acclaim,[5] and commercial success. West also runs his own record label GOOD Music.[6] West’s mascot and trademark is “Dropout Bear,” a teddy bear which has appeared on the covers of three of his four albums as well as various single covers and music videos.[7]

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About T-Pain

Faheem Rasheed Najm (born September 30, 1985), better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American hip hop, R&B singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer known for his use of auto-tune. He began his career as a rapper in the group Nappy Headz. In 2005, his debut album Rappa Ternt Sanga was released and spawned the hits “I’m Sprung” and “I’m N Luv”. Since the release of that album, T-Pain has produced numerous hits of his own and for other rappers and R&B singers. T-Pain has also had over 10 top ten singles on Billboard Hot 100. In 2008, he won a Grammy with rapper Kanye West for the single “Good Life“.

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About Avril Lavigne

Avril Lavigne Whibley[11] (born September 27, 1984), better known by her birth name of Avril Lavigne (pronounced /ˈævrɨl ləˈviːn/), is a Canadian pop punk/modern rock singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and actress. In 2006, Canadian Business Magazine ranked her the seventh most powerful Canadian in Hollywood.[12] Avril Lavigne’s music contains element mixed of alternative rock, teen pop, post-grunge[13][14][15] [16], punk and pop rock music.

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About David Gray

David Gray (born 13 June 1968 in Sale, Greater Manchester) is an English singer-songwriter. Although he released his first studio album in 1993, he didn’t receive worldwide attention until the release of White Ladder six years later. It was the first of three UK chart-toppers in six years for Gray, the latter two of which also made the Top 20 in the US.

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About Joss Stone

Joss Stone (born Jocelyn Eve Stoker[1] on 11 April 1987) is an English soul and R&B singer-songwriter and actress. Stone emerged to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist. Her second album, the equally multi-platinum Mind, Body & Soul, topped the UK Albums Chart for one week and spawned the top ten hit “You Had Me“, Stone’s most successful single on the UK Singles Chart to date. Both album and single each received one nomination at the 2005 Grammy Awards, while Stone herself was nominated for Best New Artist. Stone’s latest album, Introducing Joss Stone, released in March 2007, has achieved gold status by the RIAA.

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About Gretchen Wilson

Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973 in Pocahontas, Illinois) is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single “Redneck Woman,” a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.

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About Ashanti

Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas (born October 13, 1980)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, and model who rose to fame in the early 2000s. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous Grammy Award-winning debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song “Foolish“, and sold over 504,000 copies in its first week of release in the U.S. in April 2002.

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About Norah Jones

Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar (Hindi: गीताली नोरा जोन्ज़ शंकर) on March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, keyboardist, guitarist, and occasional actress of Anglo-American and Indian-Bengali descent. She is the daughter of sitarist Ravi Shankar and half-sister of Anoushka Shankar.[1]

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About Shelby Lynne

Shelby Lynne (born Shelby Lynn Moorer, October 22, 1968, Quantico, Virginia) is an American country music singer, songwriter and actress. She won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best New Artist.

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About John Mayer

John Clayton Mayer (pronounced /ˈmeɪ.ər/ MAY-ər;[1] born October 16, 1977) is an American musician. Originally from Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award for “Your Body Is a Wonderland“.

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About Heather Headley

Heather Headley (born October 5, 1974) is a Trinidadian R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has won one Tony Award and received two Grammy Award nominations.

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About Sisqó

Mark Althavan Andrews (November 9, 1978 [1] better known by his stage name Sisqó, is a Grammy Award-nominated American R&B singer and actor. He is best known for being the lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, and also for “Thong Song,” a song from his first solo LP, Unleash the Dragon, that became an international hit.

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About Sean Paul

Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques[1] (born January 9, 1973),[1][2] simply known as Sean Paul, is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall musician.

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About Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, pianist, cellist and actress. Born in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York, she was raised by her mother and made a television appearance on The Cosby Show in 1985. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at sixteen. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.

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Visit Duffy Offical Website

Duffy (born Aimee Ann Duffy,[1] 23 June 1984) is a Welsh singer-songwriter. Her debut album Rockferry was released in March 2008 and entered the UK Album Chart at number one. It was the best selling album in the United Kingdom in 2008[2] and has sold over 5.5 million copies worldwide. In 2009 she won three BRIT Awards, British Breakthrough, Best Female Solo and Best British Album. She also won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, and she was nominated for two other Grammy awards.[3] Duffy was the first Welsh female to achieve a number one pop single in twenty-five years with her second single “Mercy“.[4]

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