See also: 1995 in music, other events of 1996, 1997 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1996 in music - Events. January 8 - Madonna's stalker, Robert Hoskins is found guilty and convicted on 5 charges of assault, stalking, and threatening to kill her. January 16 - Jamaican authorities open fire on Jimmy Buffett's seaplane, mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. U2 singer Bono was also on the plane, but neither singer was injured. January 18 - Lisa Marie Pre ...

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For a full listing of albums and singles, see Mary J. Blige discography Mary J. Blige - Albums. Mary J. Blige - Singles. Mary J. Blige - Collaborations on other albums. ...

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See also: 1996 in music, other events of 1997, 1998 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1997 in music - Events. January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, with the opening act Placebo. Proceeds from the concert went to the Save The Children fund. January 10 - Jame ...

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See also: 1994 in music, other events of 1995, 1996 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1995 in music - Events. January 18 - Jerry Garcia wrecks his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California. Garcia is not injured in the accident. February 1 - Welsh Rock Band Manic Street Preachers Band Member Richey James Edwards Goes Missing after leaving the London Embassy Hotel at 7AM. February 6 - Rapper Tupac Shakur is sentenced to 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 years in p ...

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Mary J. Blige - Early life. Born in the Bronx, New York to a jazz musician and a schoolteacher as the second of two daughters, Mary was into music from an early age. Life was difficult for the Blige family. After Mary's father, Thomas, left the family when Mary was 4, Mary, her sister LaTonya and mother Cora, fell on hard times. By the time Mary was 7, the family had to relocate from the Bronx to Yonkers living in one of the most dangerous projects of the city where crime, violence and drugs were a way of life. M ...

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Mary J. Blige, Mary J. Blige - Biography, Mary J. Blige - Early life, Mary J. Blige - Music career, Mary J. Blige - The What's The 411? Era: 1990-1993, Mary J. Blige - The My Life Era: 1994-1996, Mary J. Blige - The Share My World Era: 1997-1998, Mary J. Blige - The Mary Era: 1999-2000, Mary J. Blige - The No More Drama Era: 2001-2003, Mary J. Blige - The Love & Life Era: 2003-2004, Mary J. Blige - The Breakthrough Era: 2005-present, Mary J. Blige - Personal, Mary J. Blige - Influence and impact, Mary J. Blige - Grammy Award History, Mary J. Blige - Discography, Mary J. Blige - Albums, Mary J. Blige - Singles, Mary J. Blige - Collaborations on other albums

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Career Stats Wins: 3 Nominations: 15 Best Pop Collaboration w/ Vocals "Whenever I Say Your Name" w/ Sting WON 2004 Best Contemporary R&B Album Love & Life Nominated 2004 Best R&B Female Vocal Performance "Ooh!" Nominated 2004 "He Think I Don't Know" WON 2003 "Family Affair" Nominated 2002 "All That I Can Say" Nominated 200 ...

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"Stupid Girl" was nominated for an MTV Europe Music Award for 'Best Song' in 1996, a Danish Grammy in 1996 for 'Best Song, and US Grammies in 1997 for 'Best Rock Song' and 'Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal'. "Stupid Girl" won a BMI Award for Best Pop Song in 1998. ...

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Anita Baker (born January 26, 1958, in Toledo, Ohio) is an African American soul and adult contemporary Rhythm and blues singer. She was raised in Detroit, Michigan. Anita Baker won Grammy Awards in 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1996. Her music has been referred to in the soul subcategories of Quiet Storm and Urban contemporary and she has also forayed into gospel music and R&B. Baker is perhaps best known for her Billboard #1 hit "Sweet Love". She appeared as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live twice in 1987 and 1988. Anita Baker is revered among other musicians, a ...

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Céline Marie Claudette Dion, OC, OQ (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian Grammy, Juno, and Oscar award-winning pop singer and songwriter. Dion became an adolescent star in Francophone Canada after her manager and future husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home in order to finance her career. She also gained recognition in parts of Europe and Asia by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, and established a foothold in the Anglophone music market with the release of her first English albu ...

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Céline Dion - Image Céline Dion - Other activities Céline Dion - Selected discography
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Silver Awards May, 1986 - What Have You Done For Me Latley (Single) Apr, 1987 - Let's Wait Awhile (Single) Nov, 1987 - Control - The Remixes (Album) Oct, 1989 - Rhythm Nation 1814 (Album) Sep, 1992 - The Best Things In Life Are Free (Single) May, 1993 - Janet. (Album) Jun, 1993 - That's The Way Love Goes (Single) Jul, 1995 - Scream (Single) Oct, 1995 - Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (Album) Oct, 1995 - Janet. Remixed (Album) Oct, 1997 ...

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Paul Thomas Anderson has stated that the screenplay was written largely around the songs of Aimee Mann. Two songs were written expressly for the film: "You Do," which was based on a character later cut from the film, and "Save Me," which closes the film; the latter was nominated in the 2000 Academy Awards and Golden Globes and in the 2001 Grammys. Most of the remaining seven Mann songs were demos and works in progress; "Wise Up," which is at the center of a sequence in which all of the characters sing the song, was originally written for the 1996 film Jerry Maguire. The song of the film that plays in th ...

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Magnolia film, Magnolia film - Overview, Magnolia film - Themes, Magnolia film - Script vs Final Cut, Magnolia film - Music and Soundtracks, Magnolia film - Documentary, Magnolia film - Featured Cast, Magnolia film - Awards, Magnolia film - 2000 Academy Awards, Magnolia film - 2000 Golden Globe Awards, Magnolia film - 2000 Berlin Film Festival, Magnolia film - 2001 Grammy Awards

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Johnny Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. In 1996, he was honored with a Kennedy Center Award and he has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6320 Hollywood Blvd. He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Cash was one of the initial recipients of the Library of Congress Living Legend medal in 2000. In 2002, he was honored at the Americana Awards show with a "Spirit of Americana Free Speech Award". He shares the honor with Hank Williams Sr. for being a full member of the three major music halls of fame: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of F ...

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Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash - Biography, Johnny Cash - Early life, Johnny Cash - Early career, Johnny Cash - Drug addiction, Johnny Cash - The Man in Black, Johnny Cash - Highwaymen, Johnny Cash - American recordings, Johnny Cash - Sickness and death, Johnny Cash - Legacy, Johnny Cash - Trivia, Johnny Cash - Albums, Johnny Cash - Awards, Johnny Cash - Grammys, Johnny Cash - MTV Video Music Awards, Johnny Cash - Sample

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After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek decided to focus on music videos and signed on with Satellite Films, a boutique division of David Fincher's Propaganda Films. His subsequent work has come to be regarded as among the best of the medium. He has worked with many top-selling recording artists from different genres of popular music, and his videos have been given credit for making stars out of some. Romanek was given his first Grammy Award for Best Short Form Video in 1996 for "Scream," a much-hyped collaboration between the ...

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Mark Romanek, Mark Romanek - Background, Mark Romanek - Music video career, Mark Romanek - Feature films, Mark Romanek - Feature film filmography, Mark Romanek - Music video filmography

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Mariah Carey - Early life and discovery. Carey was born in Huntington, New York. She is the third and youngest child of Patricia Hickey, a Catholic opera singer and voice coach of Irish-American descent, and Alfred Roy Carey (né Núñez), an aeronautical engineer of Afro-Venezuelan descent. She was named after the song "And They Call the Wind Maria", from the musical Paint Your Wagon. Carey's siblings include her older sister Alison, and her older brother Morgan. As a multiracial family, the Carey househo ...

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Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey - Biography and music career, Mariah Carey - Early life and discovery, Mariah Carey - 1990–1992: Early commercial success, Mariah Carey - 1993–1996: Worldwide success, Mariah Carey - 1997–2000: Independence and a new image, Mariah Carey - 2001–2004: Personal and career struggles, Mariah Carey - 2005–present: Return of the Voice, Mariah Carey - Acting career, Mariah Carey - Voice, Mariah Carey - Other activities, Mariah Carey - Discography, Mariah Carey - Albums, Mariah Carey - Number-one singles, Mariah Carey - Notes

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Carey, who had participated in theatre workshops as a child, made her big screen debut as an opera singer and one of the ex-girlfriends of Jimmie (Chris O'Donnell) in The Bachelor (1999), a romantic comedy starring O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger. Critical response to Carey's cameo appearance, which reportedly took over thirty takes to film, was lukewarm: Paul Tatara from CNN derisively said Carey's casting as a talentless diva was "letter-perfect", a ...

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Carey is credited as having between a five and six-octave vocal range; she can cover all the notes from the alto range leading to those of a coloratura soprano. [7] Her vocal trademark is her ability to sing in the whistle register. She has often been incorrectly credited as having a seven or eight-octave vocal range. It has been suggested that Carey's publicists falsely claimed this at the start of her career, [8] although it may also be a misstatement of the fact that Carey frequently accesses the notes situated in the seventh octave, her highest so far being a G#7, hit in two li ...

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Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey - Biography and music career, Mariah Carey - Early life and discovery, Mariah Carey - 1990–1992: Early commercial success, Mariah Carey - 1993–1996: Worldwide success, Mariah Carey - 1997–2000: Independence and a new image, Mariah Carey - 2001–2004: Personal and career struggles, Mariah Carey - 2005–present: Return of the Voice, Mariah Carey - Acting career, Mariah Carey - Voice, Mariah Carey - Other activities, Mariah Carey - Discography, Mariah Carey - Albums, Mariah Carey - Number-one singles, Mariah Carey - Notes

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Carey is a philanthropist who has donated both time and millions of dollars to organizations such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the National Adoption Center, VH1's Save the Music Foundation, and the Fresh Air Fund among many others. Carey is well-known nationally for her work with the Make-A-Wish Foundation in granting the wishes of the terminally ill Caleb Boulter, who called her "a very real person who overflows with compassion and love for others". As part of her involvement with the Fresh Air Fund, she is the co-founder of a camp locate ...

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Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey - Biography and music career, Mariah Carey - Early life and discovery, Mariah Carey - 1990–1992: Early commercial success, Mariah Carey - 1993–1996: Worldwide success, Mariah Carey - 1997–2000: Independence and a new image, Mariah Carey - 2001–2004: Personal and career struggles, Mariah Carey - 2005–present: Return of the Voice, Mariah Carey - Acting career, Mariah Carey - Voice, Mariah Carey - Other activities, Mariah Carey - Discography, Mariah Carey - Albums, Mariah Carey - Number-one singles, Mariah Carey - Notes

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Mariah Carey - Albums. Mariah Carey (1990) · Emotions (1991) · MTV Unplugged (1992) · Music Box (1993) · Merry Christmas (1994) · Daydream (1995) · Butterfly (1997) · #1's (1998) · Rainbow (1999) · Glitter (2001) · Greatest Hits (2001) · Charmbracelet (2002) · The Remixes (2003) · < ...

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Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1983. Crowned Miss America 1984 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Prior to the final night of competition, Williams won both the Preliminary Talent and Swimsuit Competitions earlier in the week. Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1988. 1988 Nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best New Artist and Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("The Right Stuff"). Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1989. 1989 Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues ...

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Vanessa Lynn Williams, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Music, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Billboard Hot 100 Chart History, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Film, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Television, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Awards, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1983, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1988, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1989, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1991, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1992, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1993, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1994, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1995, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1996, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 1997, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 2000, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 2001, Vanessa Lynn Williams - 2002, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Personal Life, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Discography, Vanessa Lynn Williams - Filmography

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