Showing posts with label actress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label actress. Show all posts

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Britney Spears - Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, record producer

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Britney Spears is an American recording performer and entertainer. She began performing as a child, landing acting character in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her presentation album ...Baby One More Time in 1999. During her initial decade within the music industry, she became a famous figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much exposed personal life. Femme Fatale album was debuted at #1 on Billboard 200. This finished Spears the only female artist ever to have six number one debut albums, and have seven albums debut in the top two spots.

Spears have sold over 100 million records worldwide; make her one of the best selling music performer in the history of contemporary music. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the eighth top-selling female artist in the United States, with 32 million qualified albums. Spears is also known as the best selling female artist of the first decade of the 21st century, as well as the fifth overall. She was grade the 8th Artist of the 2000s by Billboard. In June 2010, Spears was ranked sixth on Forbes list of the 100 Most Powerful and powerful celebrities in the world; she is also the third most mention musician on the internet, according to Forbes.

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Birth name

Britney Jean Spears

Date of Birth

December 2, 1981

Place Of Birth

McComb, Mississippi, U.S.

Genres

Pop, dance-pop

Occupations

Singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, record producer, author, fashion designer, video director

Instruments

Vocals, piano

Monday, January 31, 2011

Maya Angelou - American autobiographer and poet, professor

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Maya Angelou is one of the American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is well known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early on adult experiences. The first and most greatly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international respect, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degree and was selected for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie.

Angelou was a member of the Harlem Writers Guild in the late 1950s, was active in the Civil Rights movement, and served as Northern Coordinator of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. A Tony Award nomination for her position in the 1973 play Look Away, and three Grammys for her spoken word albums. In 1995, Angelou's publishing company, Bantam Books, known her for having the longest running record on The New York Times Paperback factual Bestseller List. In 1998, she was induct into the National Women's Hall of Fame. She has provide on two presidential committees, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008. Musician Ben Harper has privileged Angelou with his song "I'll Rise", which include words from her poem, "And Still I Rise." She has been awarded above thirty honorary degrees.

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Born

Marguerite Ann Johnson

Date Of Birth

April 4, 1928

Place Of Birth

Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Occupation

Poet, civil rights activist, dancer, film producer, television producer, playwright, film director, author, actress, professor

Ethnicity

African American

Literary movement

Civil rights

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Kelly Clarkson - actress, pop rock singer and songwriter

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Kelly Clarkson is an American actress, pop rock singer and songwriter. Clarkson rose to celebrity after winning the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later symbolize the United States in the World Idol competition in 2003. She has out four albums to date under RCA Records, her latest album All I Ever Wanted (2009) (which was chosen for a Grammy Award). Her album have sold above 10.5 million copies in the United States. Clarkson is the only American Idol competitor to have reach number one in the UK.

She claim number one on March 1, 2009, while "My Life Would Suck Without You" debuted number one on downloads by yourself. Clarkson is ranked on the top 200 album seller of the Nielsen SoundScan era at number 187. Eleven of Clarkson's singles become Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Her single, "My Life Would Suck Without You", higher from No. 97 to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its primary week of release, breaking the record for the major leap to the top position in chart history. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Clarkson is the maximum selling Idol winner worldwide, with approximately 36 million singles and 23 million albums sold around the world.

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Birth name

Kelly Brianne Clarkson

Date Of Birth

April 24, 1982

Place Of Birth

Fort Worth, Texas

Origin

Burleson, Texas, United States

Occupations

Singer-songwriter, actress

Genres

Pop rock, adult contemporary

Instruments

Vocal

Monday, December 27, 2010

Miley Cyrus - American actress and pop singer

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Miley Cyrus is an famous American actress and pop singer. She attain wide fame for her position as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. Cyrus proof music for the soundtracks, Hannah Montana (2006) and Hannah Montana 2/Meet Miley Cyrus (2007), out by Walt Disney Records. With the success of the Hannah Montana franchise she recognized herself as a teen idol. In 2007, Cyrus sign to Hollywood Records to follow a solo career. She go on the Best of Both Worlds Tour the same year, in which she achieve as both herself and in character as Hannah Montana. In July 2008, Cyrus released her initial solo album, Breakout (2008), which was commercially successful.

Cyrus receive a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for her presentation of Bolt's theme song, "I Thought I Lost You". She also reprised her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana in Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009). She initiate to cultivate an adult image in 2009 with the release of The Time of Our Lives (2009), an comprehensive play which presented a more normal pop sound, and by filming The Last Song (2010), a coming of age drama film. The music video and words of the album's lead single, "Can't Be Tamed", portrays a additional sexualized image for the entertainer. Cyrus ranked figure thirteen on Forbes' 2010 famous person 100.

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Birth name

Destiny Hope Cyrus

Date Of Birth

November 23, 1992

Place Of Birth

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Genres

Pop, pop rock, teen pop, country pop

Occupations

Actress, author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, singer, songwriter, model, musician, dancer

Instruments

Vocals, guitar, piano