ABBA (1972–1983) was a Swedish pop music group. They remain the most successful Swedish music act and were one of the most popular groups in the world. The group dominated charts worldwide during the mid-to-late 1970s and early 1980s, selling many hit singles and albums. Estimates of ABBA's total worldwide sales vary from 100 to 500 million (there seems to be no reliable source for this information) which could make them the second most successful band of all time after The Beatles. They were the first act from the European mainland ...

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• ABBA - Before ABBA
• ABBA - Early years
• ABBA - Eurovision and after
• ABBA - Later years
• ABBA - Fashion and videos
• ABBA - After ABBA
• ABBA - ABBA trivia

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The Bee Gees were a British band, formed in Australia. They are one of the most successful musical acts of all time. The Brothers Gibb, consisting of frequent lead vocalist Barry Gibb, and the twins, co-lead vocalist Robin Gibb, and keyboardist/guitarist Maurice Gibb, were born in the Isle of Man in the 1940s. Bee Gees - Early history. The Gibb brothers were born on the Isle of Man to English parents in 1946 (Barry, born Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, September 1) and 1949 (non-identical twins Robin and M ...

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• Bee Gees - Early history
• Bee Gees - 1960s in England
• Bee Gees - 1970s: Saturday Night Fever
• Bee Gees - 1980s and 1990s
• Bee Gees - Later years
• Bee Gees - Current news
• Bee Gees - Awards and success
• Bee Gees - Albums
• Bee Gees - Band
• Bee Gees - Parodies of the Bee Gees

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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945), is a singer, actress, and comedian. She is named after the legendary actress Bette Davis although Midler pronounces her name as one syllable, not two. Bette Midler - Biography. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii to Jewish parents, she majored in drama at the University of Hawaii but got her start singing in the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse in New York City, where she became friends with, among others, Barry Manilow, who was her piano accompanist. He produc ...

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• Bette Midler - Biography
• Bette Midler - Filmography
• Bette Midler - Albums

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Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an iconic Jewish American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, and film producer and director. She has won multiple Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Emmy Awards. Including a special Tony Award, she is one of the few people to have won all four awards. She is also a liberal Democratic Party political activist. Barbra Streisand - Early years. She was born Barbara Joan Streisand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York then moved to another are ...

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• Barbra Streisand - Early years
• Barbra Streisand - Early singing theater and television career
• Barbra Streisand - Singing career
• Barbra Streisand - Film career
• Barbra Streisand - Persona
• Barbra Streisand - Awards
• Barbra Streisand - Performances on Broadway
• Barbra Streisand - Television Specials
• Barbra Streisand - Filmography
• Barbra Streisand - Discography
• Barbra Streisand - Albums
• Barbra Streisand - Singles and US Hot 100 placings

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Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an iconic American gospel, soul and R&B singer born in Memphis, Tennessee, but raised in Detroit, Michigan. On January 3, 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Many have called her "The Queen Of Soul" and "Lady Soul". She is renowned for her soul and R&B recordings but is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, gospel, and even opera. She is generally regarded as one of the best vocalists ever by such industry publications/media outlets ...

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• Aretha Franklin - Biography
• Aretha Franklin - Interesting facts
• Aretha Franklin - Albums
• Aretha Franklin - Filmography

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Gordon Matthew Sumner, CBE (born October 2, 1951), universally known by his stage name Sting, is a British musician from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to a distinguished solo career, he was the lead singer, principal composer and bassist of the 1970s/1980s rock band The Police. Sting musician - Biography. Sumner was born in Wallsend, which is a suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, in North-East England to Audrey (a Protestant) and Ernest Sumner (a Catholic via his own mother, Agnes White, whose father was an ...

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• Sting musician - Biography
• Sting musician - The Police
• Sting musician - Solo
• Sting musician - Personal life
• Sting musician - Trivia
• Sting musician - Discography
• Sting musician - Singles
• Sting musician - Acting career

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Alicia Keys (born Alicia Augello Cook on January 25, 1981 in Manhattan, New York) is an American R&B/soul singer, composer, record producer, and pianist. Alicia Keys - Early Life. Alicia Keys - Family and musical background. Alicia was born on January 25, 1981 to a Italian American mother, Terri Augello, and a African-American father, Craig Cook, and was raised in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. She began playing piano when she was seve ...

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• Alicia Keys - Early Life
• Alicia Keys - Family and musical background
• Alicia Keys - Education and Early career
• Alicia Keys - Professional music career
• Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor 2001: The Debut
• Alicia Keys - The Diary of Alicia Keys 2003
• Alicia Keys - MTV Unplugged 2005
• Alicia Keys - Current activities
• Alicia Keys - Philanthropy
• Alicia Keys - Trivia
• Alicia Keys - Discography
• Alicia Keys - Albums
• Alicia Keys - Singles
• Alicia Keys - Books
• Alicia Keys - Tours
• Alicia Keys - Awards and nominations

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Bananarama is a British girl group that found worldwide fame with their melodic pop songs. The group was founded in London in 1981 by friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward, and Sarah Dallin (Woodward and Dallin were friends since age 13). In 1988 they got into the Guinness Book of World Records as the United Kingdom's best selling girl group ever (but currently best selling girl group ever is British group Spice Girls). In the same year (1988) Siobhan Fahey left the group after marrying Eurythmics' Dave S ...

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• Bananarama - Discography
• Bananarama - Albums
• Bananarama - Singles
• Bananarama - Tours

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Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American actress and singer of Armenian descent on her biological father's side and 1/16th Cherokee on her mother's side. With one of the most recognizable faces in the world, she rose to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the duo Sonny and Cher and sold over 80 million records worldwide, then as a solo artist when the duo ended in 1974. She has sold solo over 100 million records worldwide since the start of her career. Cher - Biography. Cher f ...

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• Cher - Biography
• Cher - Solo artist
• Cher - Acting
• Cher - Solo artist continued
• Cher - Fans keep believing
• Cher - The future
• Cher - As gay icon
• Cher - Political interests
• Cher - Discography
• Cher - Albums
• Cher - Separate compilations
• Cher - Singles
• Cher - US other charts
• Cher - Filmography
• Cher - TV work
• Cher - Awards
• Cher - Surveys & polls

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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953), better known as Cyndi Lauper, is a singer whose melodic voice and wild costumes have come to epitomize the 1980s, the decade in which she first came to fame. Cyndi Lauper - Biography. Cyndi Lauper was born in Queens, New York to Swiss German-American Fred Lauper and Sicilian Italian-American Catrine Dominique. She began her career in a cover band, but soon began performing her own songs - though she almost quit singing altogether due to strained voca ...

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• Cyndi Lauper - Biography
• Cyndi Lauper - Samples
• Cyndi Lauper - Trivia
• Cyndi Lauper - Discography
• Cyndi Lauper - Albums
• Cyndi Lauper - Singles
• Cyndi Lauper - Other artist's singles on which Lauper appears
• Cyndi Lauper - EPs
• Cyndi Lauper - Soundtracks and other albums
• Cyndi Lauper - Filmography

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U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, guitar and harmonica, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. on drums and vocals. U2 has been one of the most popular rock bands in the world since the 1980s. According to the RIAA, they have sold approximately 50.5 million albums in the U.S., had six #1 albums in the U.S. and are widely considered as one of the most successful groups of the last 25 years. The band is also very politically a ...

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• U2 - History
• U2 - Formation and breakthrough 1976 – 1980
• U2 - Boy and October 1980 – 1981
• U2 - War 1983
• U2 - The Unforgettable Fire and Live Aid 1984 – 1986
• U2 - The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum 1987 – 1989
• U2 - Achtung Baby Zoo TV and Zooropa 1991 – 1994
• U2 - Pop and Popmart 1996 – 1998
• U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind and Elevation 2000 – 2001
• U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Vertigo 2004 –
• U2 - Next album recordings 2006 – 2007
• U2 - Other projects
• U2 - Discography
• U2 - Studio albums
• U2 - Live albums
• U2 - Other projects
• U2 - Campaigning
• U2 - Sound samples

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David Bowie (born January 8, 1947) is an English rock musician and actor. David Bowie - Overview. He is commonly known as the chameleon of pop, predicting trends and adjusting his style and persona, while holding on to his own ideas and creativity. He first rose to prominence with the heady, 1969 folk rock single "Space Oddity" but is perhaps best known for the single "Changes" from Hunky Dory (1971), and the flamboyant, androgynous glam rock of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders ...

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• David Bowie - Overview
• David Bowie - History
• David Bowie - 1947 to 1967: Early years
• David Bowie - 1969 to 1973: Glam rock
• David Bowie - 1974 to 1976: Soul R&B and The Thin White Duke
• David Bowie - 1976 to 1980: Brian Eno and the Berlin era
• David Bowie - The 1980s: Bowie the superstar
• David Bowie - 1989 to 1991: Tin Machine
• David Bowie - 1992 to today: Contemporary Bowie
• David Bowie - Discography
• David Bowie - Bowie the actor
• David Bowie - Filmography

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Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963 in Millwood, New York) is a pop/R&B singer and actress who made history when she became the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America in September, 1983. She resigned close to the end of her reign on July 23, 1984, however, when it was discovered that she had posed nude for photographs that were later published in the September 1984 issue adult magazine Penthouse without her permission. The crown w ...

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• 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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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American Pop, R&B, Soul and Gospel singer, songwriter, record producer, film producer and actress. She was one of the most popular and successful singers of the 1980s and 1990s, receiving multiple Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and an MTV Movie Award and has conducted numerous and extensive tours throughout her career. She has influenced artists such as Kelly Price, Mariah Carey, Chr ...

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• Whitney Houston - Biography
• Whitney Houston - Early years
• Whitney Houston - 1983–1991: Early music career
• Whitney Houston - 1992–1997: Acting career
• Whitney Houston - 1997–2002: Career development and controversy
• Whitney Houston - 2003–present
• Whitney Houston - Discography
• Whitney Houston - Top ten singles
• Whitney Houston - Filmography
• Whitney Houston - Chart records and achievements

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Stevie Wonder (born May 13, 1950) is an African-American singer, songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist. Although his name at birth was Steveland Judkins, he later changed his name to Steveland Morris, his mother's maiden name. Wonder has recorded more than 30 Top 10 hits, won nearly two dozen Grammys, including one for lifetime achievement, and been inducted into b ...

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• Stevie Wonder - Biography
• Stevie Wonder - Artist career history
• Stevie Wonder - Producer and songwriter
• Stevie Wonder - Impact
• Stevie Wonder - Awards and recognition
• Stevie Wonder - Personal life
• Stevie Wonder - Discography
• Stevie Wonder - US and UK Top Ten singles
• Stevie Wonder - Studio albums

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Willard Christopher Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. He is one of few people who have enjoyed success in the three major entertainment media in the United States: film, television, and the music industry. Will Smith - Biography. Will Smith was born and raised in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of four children. He is a graduate of Overbrook High School. He started his career as The Fresh Prince, the vocalist of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazz ...

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• Will Smith - Biography
• Will Smith - Awards
• Will Smith - Discography
• Will Smith - Albums
• Will Smith - Hit singles
• Will Smith - Sitcoms
• Will Smith - Filmography
• Will Smith - Salary History

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Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas) is a popular American Contemporary R&B singer,songwriter, producer, and actress. She was the one of the founding members, the lead singer and chief songwriter for the singing group Destiny's Child. Beyoncé Knowles is usually referred to only by her first name, which she uses as her stagename, but many in the news media refer to her by her full name. Her debut solo album, 2003's Dangerously in Love, topped both the R&B and Billboard 200 charts in ...

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• Beyoncé Knowles - Early life
• Beyoncé Knowles - Destiny's Child
• Beyoncé Knowles - Solo Career
• Beyoncé Knowles - Acting
• Beyoncé Knowles - Music
• Beyoncé Knowles - Voice
• Beyoncé Knowles - Charity Work
• Beyoncé Knowles - Forthcoming Projects
• Beyoncé Knowles - Records and Facts
• Beyoncé Knowles - Solo awards
• Beyoncé Knowles - Solo tours
• Beyoncé Knowles - Solo discography
• Beyoncé Knowles - Filmography
• Beyoncé Knowles - Solo endorsements and products
• Beyoncé Knowles - Tommy Hilfiger fragrances
• Beyoncé Knowles - Reference

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Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American pop singer and dancer, occasional actor and songwriter, most popular in 1999 and the early 2000s. Her career encompasses chart-topping records, high-profile advertising, and forays into acting and reality television. She remains popular throughout the world despite controversy surrounding the perceived sexual nature of her music and image. Britney Spears - Biography. Britney Spears - Childhood and discovery. Born to Jami ...

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• Britney Spears - Biography
• Britney Spears - Childhood and discovery
• Britney Spears - 1998–2001: Early commercial success
• Britney Spears - 2001–2004: Artistic development
• Britney Spears - 2004-present: Career hiatus
• Britney Spears - Controversy
• Britney Spears - Career achievements
• Britney Spears - Voice
• Britney Spears - Trivia
• Britney Spears - Discography
• Britney Spears - Filmography
• Britney Spears - Miscellaneous
• Britney Spears - Books
• Britney Spears - DVDs
• Britney Spears - Select merchandise
• Britney Spears - Tours

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Lopez's debut album, On the 6, a reference to the subway line she used to take growing up in Castle Hill, was released on June 1, 1999 and reached the top ten of the Billboard 200. The album featured the multi-week #1 lead single, "If You Had My Love", as well as the top ten hit "Waiting for Tonight". It also contained the Spanish language, Latin-flavored duet "No me Ames" with Marc Anthony, which was an international DAN hit, though the song was never released as a single in the US. Despite this, the video received moderate airplay o ...

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Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Lopez - Music, Jennifer Lopez - Fashion, Jennifer Lopez - J. Lo Inc., Jennifer Lopez - Relationships, Jennifer Lopez - Derriere, Jennifer Lopez - Accomplishments, Jennifer Lopez - Discography, Jennifer Lopez - Awards & nominations, Jennifer Lopez - Filmography, Jennifer Lopez - Notes

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On June 13, 2005, it was announced the group will disband after their world tour ends in the fall of 2005. [1] It was decided that the split would occur after the very last concert in Vancouver, Canada. The group first appeared on MTV's Total Request Live on June 21, 2005 to officially confirm their split. Their management decided to document their final tour for a special farewell DVD to be released February 28, 2006. The group released their greatest hits album, # 1's on October 25, 2005, [2][3], which includes three new song ...

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Destiny's Child, Destiny's Child - Early Career, Destiny's Child - Destiny's Child, Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall, Destiny's Child - The New Girls, Destiny's Child - Rebirth of the Group, Destiny's Child - Survivor, Destiny's Child - Solo Projects After Survivor, Destiny's Child - Michelle Williams, Destiny's Child - Kelly Rowland, Destiny's Child - Beyoncé Knowles, Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled, Destiny's Child - Final Destiny and The Future, Destiny's Child - Future For Early Members, Destiny's Child - Discography, Destiny's Child - Awards, Destiny's Child - Grammy Award History, Destiny's Child - Endorsements/Enterprising, Destiny's Child - Philanthropy, Destiny's Child - Miscellaneous, Destiny's Child - Tours, Destiny's Child - Books, Destiny's Child - DVDs, Destiny's Child - Records and Facts

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