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Jamie Foxx

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A major star on television (In Living Color, The Jamie Foxx Show), the big screen (Any Given Sunday, Collateral, Ray), and radio (his second album, Unpredictable, went platinum), Jamie Foxx — born Eric Morlon Bishop, Jr., in Terrell, TX — started out as a comedian and went through years of gradua...
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Luther Vandross

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Added October 11, 2008
Signed to Epic Records in 1981, Luther Vandross released his debut album, Never Too Much, to both critical and commercial acclaim resulting in platinum sales and establishing him as a new force in R&B. Throughout the ‘80s, Vandross went on to produce albums by Aretha Franklin and many others whil...
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Clay Aiken

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Added October 10, 2008
As the runner-up to Fox TV’s second American Idol: The Search for a Superstar competition, vocalist Clay Aiken wowed television audiences in 2003 with his Southern charm, sweet demeanor, and bright, glorious voice, and became a pop star. Originally, Aiken planned to try out for the reality TV ser...
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Frankie J

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Added October 03, 2008
Tijuana-born and San Diego-raised contemporary R&B artist Frankie J was raised on a steady diet of Latin music and American artists like Michael Jackson and Run-D.M.C. At the age of 15, he was involved with the Latin freestyle scene and released a series of singles on a Canadian dance label. A 19...
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Sara Bareilles

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Added October 02, 2008
Bareilles was born and raised in Eureka, California. She participated in the high school choir, Limited Edition, and local community theater musical productions, including her high school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors as Audrey.She graduated from Eureka Senior High School in June 1998, h...
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Toni Braxton

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Added July 28, 2008
Toni Braxton (born Toni Michelle Braxton on October 7, 1967) is an American R&B/adult contemporary singer-songwriter and actress. Known for her husky alto voice, Braxton has won six Grammy Awards and has sold over forty million records worldwide. Her US number-one hit “Un-Break My Heart” is the s...
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Ashanti

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Added July 23, 2008
With hitmaker Irv Gotti at the helm, Ashanti blasted into the urban music scene in 2002, topping the charts with multiple singles at once. She quickly became a sensation, gracing the covers of magazines and dominating urban radio. Ashanti built her reputation with duets, where she would complemen...
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Blu Cantrell

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Added July 23, 2008
As she grew up in Providence, R.I., with her five siblings, Blu Cantrell was toted from one jazz performance to another to watch her mother sing. From that point forward, she knew what she wanted to do, and began auditioning for vocal gigs and displaying her dynamic alto at talent shows. On a vis...
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John Mayer

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Added July 19, 2008
John Mayer was one of those multiple-threat music talents that made most other players’ lives and career paths seem simple. Born in India, to Anglo-Indian parents, he studied classical music and had a successful career as an orchestral violinist, but gave it up to work as a composer and, later, i...
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Chris Brown

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Added June 23, 2008
Less than two years ago, he was the 16-year-old boy next door, a teenager from the small town of Tappahannock, VA (population: 2,000), with a world of talent and big dreams, fueled by the artists he grew up with, from Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder and Donnie Hathaway to Michael Jackson and Usher. Now,...
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Kenny G

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Added June 04, 2008
Kenny G has long been the musician many jazz listeners love to hate. A phenomenally successful instrumentalist whose recordings make the pop charts, Kenny G’s sound has been a staple on adult contemporary and smooth jazz radio stations since the mid-’80s, making him a household name. ...
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Bryan Michael Cox

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Added July 03, 2008
Having jumpstarted the careers of Mariah Carey (Emancipation of Mimi) and Mary J. Blige (The Breakthrough) and currently in the studio with Whitney Houston, Bryan-Michael Cox is the head coach of the “Comeback Kids”! With his help Blige moved nearly 730,000 units in Week One, marking her best fi...
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Mario

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Added June 26, 2008
Natural can be described as innate or instinctive in essence, disposition or temperament. Quite simply, natural can be summed up as God-given or God-inspired because it comes so easily. When 20 year-old Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, actor Mario realized that his talents came to him natural...
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The Dixie Chicks

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Added June 26, 2008
The Dixie Chicks rose from relative obscurity in 1998 to become one of the most popular acts in contemporary country music. Their origins date back nearly a decade earlier, to 1989, when fiddler Martie Seidel and her banjo-playing sister Emily Erwin formed the group in Dallas with bassist Laura L...
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Amerie

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Added June 24, 2008
Singer Amerie is the daughter of a Korean mother and an African-American father who was a career military member. She grew up on bases from Alaska to Germany, meanwhile gaining an appreciation of the classical arts from her mother and of R&B music from her father. She studied dance from an early ...
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Goapele

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Added June 18, 2008
Born Goapele Mohlabane in Oakland, CA, this singer grew up in a socially conscious and politically active family. Her mother married South African political exile Douglas Mohlabane while studying in Nairobi, Kenya. At an early age, Goapele attended the Berkeley Arts Magnet School where she led a ...
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Taylor Hicks

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Added June 14, 2008
With his raspy, soulful voice and salt-and-pepper hair, Taylor Hicks was one of the unlikeliest contestants to make it to the final round of American Idol, but his quirky charm and rousing delivery of songs like “Takin’ It to the Streets” won Hicks a devoted legion of fans calle...
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Kanye West

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Added June 13, 2008
In a short span of time, Kanye West went from hitmaking producer to just plain hitmaker, as his stellar production work earned him a solo record deal and soon his beats were accompanied by his own witty raps on a number of critically and commercially successful releases. His flamboyant personalit...
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Harry Connick, Jr.

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With very few exceptions, the career of Harry Connick, Jr., can be divided in half — his first two albums encompassed straight-ahead New Orleans jazz and stride piano while his later career (which paralleled his rising celebrity status) alternated between more contemporary New Orleans music and p...
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Jessica Simpson

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Added October 01, 2008
Jessica Simpson has taken the music, fashion, and beauty and entertainment industries by storm. A talented artist with universal appeal, she has become an international star and shows no signs of slowing down.With the release of Do You Know, her first album on Epic/Columbia Nashville, the doe-eye...
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Kirk Franklin

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Added July 26, 2008
Since his debut, 1993’s Kirk Franklin & the Family, Kirk Franklin has been one of the brightest stars in contemporary gospel music. The album spent 100 weeks on the gospel charts (some of those on top), crossed over to the R&B charts, and became the first gospel debut album to go platinum. His se...
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Justin Timberlake

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Added June 30, 2008
As both a member of *NSYNC and a solo artist, Southern superstar Justin Timberlake has played a major role in the teen pop explosion of the ’90s and 2000s. Like similar teen pop favorites — who have included the Backstreet Boys, C-Note, Christina Aguilera, Hanson, the Spice Girls, and...
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