Katheryn Elizabeth Hudon better known as Katy Perry, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She was born October 25, 1984 and raised in Santa Barbara by Christian pastor parents and grew up listening only to gospel music. Katy rose to fame in 2007 with internet hit "Ur So Gay", and later scored in 2008 her breakthrough single "I Kissed A Girl".

At the age of 15, Katy's singing in church attracted the attention of rock veterans from Nashville, Tennessee, who brought her there to polish her writing skills. In Nashville, she started recording demos and was taught by country music veterans on how to craft songs and play guitar. Katy Perry signed to the Christian music label Red Hill, under which she recorded her first album at the age of 15. Using her real name, Katy Hudson, she released the self-titled Gospel-rock album in 2001. The album was unsuccessful, however, after the label ceased. She later changed her surname to Perry, her mother's maiden name, because "Katy Hudson" was too close to film actress Kate Hudson.

Among Katy Perry's musical influences are Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, Shirley Manson, and Freddie Mercury, the late frontman of the British band Queen. Growing up listening to gospel music, Katy had few references when she began recording songs.

In 2004, she recored an album with production team The Matrix, but it was never released. After signing on with Capitol Music Group in 2007, she took on stage name Katy Perry and released her first mainstream album, One of the Boys.

Katy is known for her unconventional style of dress. It is often humorous, bright in color, and reminiscent of different decades, and frequently uses fruit-shaped accessories, primarily watermelon, as part of her outfits. Her dark hair is signature to her look, but, as the music video to "Ur So Gay" shows, her hair is naturally blonde and she dyed her hair and eyebrows a darker color.

Having learned dancing at an early age, she fancied about having her own style. Katy's transformation into an artist began with fashion, inspired by American film actress Dominique Swain's portrayal in 1997 film adaptation of the novel Lolita. She defines her fashion "a bit of a concoction of different things". Johnny Wujek, Katy's stylist, described her style, upon meeting her for the first time, as "very colorful and vintage". Her fashion has caught the attention of designers, who were giving her nearly as much attention as fans of her music.

Kelly Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, model and television host. She rose to fame with the success of Destiny's Child during the late '90s. During that time, Destiny's Child catapulted into the new millennium as one of the best-selling female musical groups in history that sold more than 50 million records worldwide.

During the interval of the group, Kelly Rowland collaborated with rapper Nelly on the single "Dilemma", a worldwide number-one hit, and released her rock pop-influenced debut solo album Simply Deep in 2002. It became a commercial success, selling more than two million copies worldwide, and garnered three more or less successful singles, among "Stole" and "Can't Nobody". Following the formal disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Kelly's often-delayed second album, was released in 2007. Moderately successful on the charts, it spawned the hit singles "Like This" and "Work".

In February 2009 a duet with Italian singer Tiziano Ferro, "Breathe Gentle," this was released as a single in early 2009 and reached the top ten of the Dutch Singles Chart. Kelly Rowland ended her professional relationship with both manager Mathew Knowles and former label Columbia Records in order to explore other ventures. Although she’s currently still between labels and doesn't have concrete plans for another solo album, she hinted that her next effort may be affected by her collaboration on "When Love Takes Over," the lead single of David Guetta's upcoming album One Love. They performed the song in the recent Ms. Universe 2009.




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James Morrison is an award winning BRIT singer-songwriter and guitarist in Rugby, Warwickshire. His debut single "You Give Me Something” became a hit in Europe, Australia, and Japan, peaking in the top five in the UK and New Zealand in 2006. His debut album, Undiscovered which was released on 31st of July, 2006 was debuted at the top of the UK Albums Chart. He achieved worldwide success with debut single "You Give Me Something", which reached #2 in Holland and the #5 spot in the UK.

The album received generally positive reviews with the The Sun, claiming "There isn't a bad track on it". The album sold over 1 million copies around the world by the end of 2006, making James the best selling male solo artist of 2006 in the UK.

An equally positive review by The Times stated that "Undiscovered may prove to be the least apposite album title for years".

One of the most well-known characters in modern-day R&B, Beyoncé first rose to fame as the siren-voiced centerpiece of Destiny's Child before embarking on a multi-platinum solo career in 2001. Booming record sales, Grammy awards, movie roles, and a romance with rapper/CEO Jay-Z combined to heighten her profile in the 2000s, making the singer a virtual mainstay in the entertainment world. While some media outlets derisively championed Paris Hilton as "the next Marilyn Monroe," Beyoncé was a much better contender for the role, her glittering pop culture persona only matched by her success onscreen and on record.

Beyonce's most hotly anticipated new album releases of 2008's , I AM… SASHA FIERCE is her first new studio collection since her Grammy-winning multi-platinum-selling B'Day debuted at 1 on charts around the world shortly after its international release on September 4, 2006 (in celebration of Beyoncé's 25th birthday). Each of the discs on Beyoncé's new double album reveals a distinctly different side of her personality, character and sensibility, a forum for the yin-and-yang of her developing artistry.

One of the discs, titled I AM…, provides Beyoncé with a musical showcase for a group of intimate heartfelt ballads while the SASHA FIERCE disc gives voice to Beyoncé's up-tempo dance-oriented other side.

"SASHA FIERCE is my alter ego," says Beyoncé, "and now she has a last name. I have someone else that takes over when it's time for me to work and when I'm on stage, this alter ego that I've created that kind of protects me and who I really am. That's why half the record, I AM…, is about who I am underneath all the makeup, underneath the lights, and underneath all the exciting star drama. And SASHA FIERCE is the fun, more sensual, more aggressive, more outspoken side and more glamorous side that comes out when I'm working and when I'm on the stage. The double album allows me to take more risks and really step out of myself, or shall I say, step more into myself, and reveal a side of me that people only know me see."

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OutKast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia. OutKast consists of Antwan Patton a.k.a Big Boi, who was born on 1st February 1, 1975) and Andre Benjamin a.k.a Dre or Andre 3000, born on 27 May 1975. The two met while students at Tri-Cities High near Atlanta, Georgia.

The duo was originally known as The OKB (The OutKast Brothers) but later changed its name to OutKast. The group's original musical style was a mixture of Dirty South and G-Funk. Since then, however, funk, soul, pop, electronic music, rock, spoken word poetry, jazz, and blues elements have been added to the group's musical palette.

The duo is one of the most successful hip-hop groups of all time, having received six Grammy Awards. Over 25 million copies have been sold of OutKast's eight releases. With six studio albums, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below album was their greatest hits release, a double album containing a solo album from each member. The said album is one of only three hip-hop albums to be certified Diamond in the U.S. for shipping over 10 million units. Along with their commercial success, OutKast has maintained an experimental approach in their music and are widely praised for their originality and artistic content.

According in Wikipedia, on Nov 14, 2008, the Guardian reported that OutKast will release their follow-up to Idlewild in 2009 after Big Boi and Andre 3000 release their solo albums in the same year.

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Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna better known in her stage name as Kat DeLuna, is an American Pop and R&B singer of Dominican heritage. She was born November 17, 1987 in The Bronx, New York. At the age of 12, Kat DeLuna was invited by Milly Quezada to sing with her on stage. In her freshman year of high school at Arts High School in Newark, NJ (The Nations First Arts High School in the country for the Visual and Performing Arts), she responded to an audition in The Village Voice and was accepted into an all-Latina, Hip Hop/R&B group called Coquette.

At the age of 15, Kat entered a Coca-Cola sponsored karaoke competition and she won it. After the competition, Cuban salsa singer Rey Ruiz advised Kat DeLuna to start writing her own music. She signed a contract with the production label, Global Music Brand (GMB)founded by Tyrone Edmond. According to a brief interview she granted on HaitiXchange.com, she stated that she met Tyrone when she was 14, who was then scouting for talent

Kat is currently signed to Universal Motown, after previously being signed to Epic. She is noted for her Soprano vocal range and has won one Latin Billboard Music Award for her debut single Whine Up.

In 2009, her single "Unstoppable" featuring Lil' Wayne (featured on the soundtrack of the 2009 film Confessions of a Shopaholic starring Isla Fisher) was released. She released a video, and set out on a "Gay Club" tour in February 2009 in the United States. Currently Kat DeLuna released a new single entitled "Dance Bailalo", labelled "the single of the summer of 2009" by the popular pop culture blogger Perez Hilton. She is currently recording tracks for her 2-disc English/Spanish album, Inside Out. In June 2009, Kat DeLuna performed at a New York City high school prom, as the star of My Prom Style's official website feature: "Ultimate Prom" fashion reality series. Three aspiring teen designers are competing to design the dress she wears to prom, and the pattern of the winning dress will be produced and sold nationwide by Simplicity Patterns.



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2009: Inside Out
2007: 9 Lives

Usher Raymond IV was born on October 14, 1978, also known as Usher, he’s an American recording artist and actor. Usher also called as "R&B teen dream" by Rolling Stone, he was only 15 years old when he released his self-titled first album in 1994. Usher's 1997 hit single "You Make Me Wanna..." gained him international fame, and his album My Way earned him the 1998 Billboard Best Performer of the Year award. Usher’s success continued with the release of his breakthrough album, Confessions at 2004, which has sold over ten million copies in the United States, and been certified diamond by the RIAA. He has sold approximately 38 million albums worldwide and has won five Grammy Awards, to date. In 2008, Usher was ranked as the 21st most successful Hot 100 Singles Artist of all-time by Billboard magazine. He ranked higher than any other artist of his generation. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Usher has sold over 21.5 million albums in the United States.

Aside from recording, Usher ventured in to other business. He had established his own record label, US Records, and is a part owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers franchise. He has also been appearing in films, debuting in the 1998 The Faculty. Usher made his Broadway debut in August of 2006, playing slick lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running revival of Chicago for six weeks.

Usher founded US Records, a vanity label, in 2002. The label is a subsidiary of Clive Davis's J Records, which is distributed by Sony BMG. In late 2005, the first album released by US was the soundtrack to In the Mix, which was used to introduce the label's acts, such as rapper Rico Love, R&B vocal group One Chance, and singer Rayan. Usher served as songwriter-producer in the project.

Usher, whose group bought with a reported total purchase price of $375 million, is a part owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers franchise. He became the second pop artist to own a large stake in an NBA team. Also he has opened restaurants. Recently, Usher sang Gone Too Soon at the memorial of Michael Jackson last July 7, 2009.





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