At an early age Angelou was raped by a friend of her mother’s while visiting her mother in St. Louis. This violent act left the young girl traumatized. When her uncle’s heard about what happen they killed the man who raped her. She felt as though his death was her fault and she did not speak for five years. When Angelou was 12 years old an educated black woman from Stamps by the name of Bertha Flowers helped her to break this silence.
Then she studied shortly at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before she stopped to pursue her music career. She wrote songs for various artists until being discovered by R&B singer Akon. In 2008 she released her debut album, The Fame, which was a big success and the hit song "Poker Face" reached the top of the charts in almost every category, in almost every country. Her parents are Cynthia and Joseph Germanotta. Lady Gaga was skilled , she was accepted to The Juilliard School, but instead went to a catholic private school.
She is the second child of Lynne Irene and James Parnell | |Spears. She began performing as a happy and energetic child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. | When Britney was 17 years old, she released her debut album “Baby One More Time” in early 1999. it was an instant success, becoming a pop hit around the globe as it was sold 13 million copies worldwide. For the next few years, she became the only female in music history to have her first four studio albums debut at number one. Already becoming a world's pop phenomenon, She won numerous awards internationally, including Grammy Award and Billboard Music Awards.
(Miley Cyrus Biography, 1). Having a childhood with her father being Billy Ray Cyrus and her Godmother, Dolly Parton, who is also very famous, Miley, with any motivation of her own, was bound to be successful. Miley was around music since the day she was born, not many kids get that experience. “People don't rise from nothing. We do owe something to parentage and patronage,” (Gladwell, 19).
Whitney Elizabeth Houston, born on 9th August 1963, in Newark, New jersey. The daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, and the goddaughter of soul legend diva Aretha Franklin. She started her first singing experience in the choir at her church, The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. After graduating, she continued to model and sing, backing up Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan. When she was 19, Whitney Houston was discovered in a nightclub by the renowned Clive Davis of Arista Records, who signed her immediately and took the helm of her career as she navigated from gospel to pop stardom.
She began her recording career in 1960, and achieved immediate success. Her first three albums, Joan Baez, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, and Joan Baez in Concert all achieved gold record status, and stayed on the charts of hit albums for two years. [2] Baez has had a popular hit song with "Diamonds & Rust" and hit covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Other songs associated with Baez include "Farewell, Angelina", "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word", "Joe Hill", "Sweet Sir Galahad" and "We Shall Overcome".
Maya Angelou who real name is Marguerite Johnson was born on April 4, 1928 in St.Louis, Missouri. The African American Activist spent many difficult years moving back and forth between her mother’s and grandmother’s. At age seven, she was raped by her mother boyfriend. After this tragic even Maya didn’t talked for six years, and her teens and early twenties were spent as a dancer, which was filled with isolation and experimentation. (Maya Angelou.
In 1963, he had a relationship with Joan Baez, an American folk singer and songwriter known for her soprano style and three-octave vocal range, that lasted two years. However, this relationship was favorable to both because it promoted them with more fans; Bob Dylan wrote songs that Baez composed whereas Joan Baez introduced Dylan to most of her admirers. Because of her, by 1964, he was already playing about 200 concerts a year (RealNetworks). In 1965, most of his fans were shocked with the new album “Bringing It All Back Home” with two distinct genres: acoustic and electric (A&E). When he played his electrical songs in the Newport Folk Festival for the first time in his life on July 25, the audience ridiculed him surprisingly (A&E).
Inocencia Mr. Williams Theatre arts, Hour 4 11, June 2013 Ariana Grande-Butera It feels amazing having a role model like Ariana Grande-Butera, mostly known as just Ariana Grande, which some people pronounce her name as “Airiana Granade”. Grande This girl was born on June 26 1993, in Boca Ratón Florida currently living on L.A California This young girl is just 19 years old but has already done many things that impress many people. For example, she has recorded songs, is on Tv shows, has performed three times on stage, and has won awards, also was in the Dream Magazine as the cover girl for August 2011. Their is many things people dont know about her, some think she is dumb and annoying like her character on Vicorious. 2013 is Ariana Grande's year, her single when platinum, she is on a new show, will be in a movie, and her album will be released.
Julie Andrews was born on October 1, 1935 in Walton on Thames, Surrey, England to Barbara and Edward C. Wells. Her mother was a piano player and travelled around performing constantly during Julie’s childhood. She was never very close to her mother because she was always away at some performance, but to this day her mother remains one of the most influential people of her life. It was from her mother that she inherited her musical awareness and her infamous perfect pitch. When Julie was very young her parents separated, and her mother remarried a man named Ted Andrews who she had performed in a musical act with for couple of years.