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| ARTICLES RELATED TO List of number-one hits (United States) | | | |  List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Earth Wind & Fire - History
Earth Wind & Fire - Early years.
Bandleader Maurice White began his recording career as a session drummer, working for Chess Records. After spending time as a member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, he formed a band called The Salty Peppers and signed to Capitol Records, releasing a regionally successful single called "La La Time".
White moved his band to Los Angeles, California and changed its name to "Earth, Wind & Fire". This was based on the fact that White's astrological sign sign was Sagittar ...
See also:Earth Wind & Fire, Earth Wind & Fire - History, Earth Wind & Fire - Early years, Earth Wind & Fire - Breakthrough success, Earth Wind & Fire - Later years, Earth Wind & Fire - Discography, Earth Wind & Fire - Studio Albums, Earth Wind & Fire - Compilations And Live Albums, Earth Wind & Fire - Singles Read more here: » Earth Wind & Fire: Encyclopedia II - Earth Wind & Fire - History |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Janet Jackson - Biography
Janet Jackson - Early life and career.
Janet was born the last of ten children in Gary, Indiana to parents Joseph and Katherine Jackson. Living in a two-bedroom shack with eight older siblings, Janet's father, Joseph, or Joe, worked as a crane operator in a steel mill and before she became a devout Jehovah's Witness, her mother Katherine worked as a store clerk for Sears. Before Janet's birth, her father decided to try a hand at a music career fronting the R&B band the Falcons, but never got as far as the top nightclubs in Indiana. According to reports, Janet's father was gregarious and stern while her moth ...
See also:Janet Jackson, Janet Jackson - Biography, Janet Jackson - Early life and career, Janet Jackson - Acting career, Janet Jackson - Early musical endeavors, Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson Dream Street Fame and James DeBarge, Janet Jackson - Control and Rhythm Nation, Janet Jackson - Poetic Justice and the janet. album, Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope, Janet Jackson - Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and All for You, Janet Jackson - The Super Bowl and Damita Jo, Janet Jackson - Jermaine Dupri controversies and the future, Janet Jackson - Discography, Janet Jackson - US and UK top ten singles, Janet Jackson - Top ten albums, Janet Jackson - Filmography, Janet Jackson - Awards and accolades Read more here: » Janet Jackson: Encyclopedia II - Janet Jackson - Biography |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Tears for Fears - Discography
Tears for Fears - Albums.
The Hurting 1983 Mercury; #1 UK, #73 US, #21 NL
Songs from the Big Chair 1985 Mercury; #2 UK, #1 US, #2 NL
The Seeds of Love 1989 Fontana; #1 UK, #8 US, #2 NL
Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92) 1992 Fontana; #2 UK, #53 US, #7 Germ., #15 NL
Elemental 1993 Mercury; #5 UK, #45 US, #26 Germ., #22 NL
Raoul and the Kings of Spain 1995 Epic; #41 UK, #79 US, #50 NL
Saturnine Martial & ...
See also:Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears - Discography, Tears for Fears - Albums, Tears for Fears - Singles Read more here: » Tears for Fears: Encyclopedia II - Tears for Fears - Discography |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Eurythmics - History
Eurythmics - Formation In The Garden 1980-1982.
The pair had first worked together as members of The Tourists. During this time, they were also romantic partners. This band achieved modest commercial success, but the experience was reportedly an unhappy one. Personal and musical tensions existed within the group, whose main songwriter was Pete Coombes, the band often received very negative critical press in the UK, and there were legal wranglings with the band's management, publishers and record labels. Lennox and Stewart felt the fixed band line-up was not a good vehicle to explore ...
See also:Eurythmics, Eurythmics - History, Eurythmics - Formation In The Garden 1980-1982, Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Touch and 1984 - For The Love Of Big Brother 1982-1985, Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight and Revenge 1985-1987, Eurythmics - Savage and We Too Are One 1987-1990, Eurythmics - Hiatus and solo years 1991-1998, Eurythmics - Reunion and Peace 1999-2005, Eurythmics - Discography, Eurythmics - Albums, Eurythmics - Singles, Eurythmics - Notes, Eurythmics - Video releases Read more here: » Eurythmics: Encyclopedia II - Eurythmics - History |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Jay-Z - Later years In 2003, Jay-Z toured with 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and Sean Paul while finishing work on what was announced as his final album, The Black Album (debuted #1). The album featured the Top 10 singles "Change Clothes" and "Dirt Off Your Shoulder," one of a number of Jay-Z singles produced by Timbaland. The Black Album featured many respected producers including Rick Rubin and Kanye West who has now distinguished himself as an popular (although sometimes criticized) rapper in his own right. The Black Album was an autobiographic album which took ...
See also:Jay-Z, Jay-Z - Early career, Jay-Z - Commercial success, Jay-Z - Later years, Jay-Z - Business interests, Jay-Z - Biting Accusations, Jay-Z - Grammy Award History, Jay-Z - Discography, Jay-Z - Top Ten US and UK Singles, Jay-Z - Albums, Jay-Z - Underground Releases & Remixes Read more here: » Jay-Z: Encyclopedia II - Jay-Z - Later years |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Ludacris - Biography
Ludacris - Early years.
Ludacris began his music career as a radio DJ personality, Chris Lova Lova, on Hot 97.5, an urban radio station in Atlanta, Georgia. He made his recorded debut on "Phat Rabbit", a track from Timbaland's 1998 album Tim's Bio: Life from the Bassment. Although both Timbaland and Jermaine Dupri showed interest in signing Ludacris, he decided to take matters into his own hands, and released the album Incognegro independently in 1999. The album sold over 50,000 copies, most of them sold out of the trunk of Ludacris' car. Def Jam Records signed Ludacris in 2000, and created a n ...
See also:Ludacris, Ludacris - Biography, Ludacris - Early years, Ludacris - Back for the First Time, Ludacris - Word of Mouf, Ludacris - Bill O'Reilly controversy, Ludacris - Chicken & Beer, Ludacris - The Red Light District, Ludacris - Acting career, Ludacris - Quoted in Court, Ludacris - Discography, Ludacris - Solo Albums, Ludacris - with Disturbing Tha Peace, Ludacris - Albums Featured, Ludacris - Singles, Ludacris - Filmography Read more here: » Ludacris: Encyclopedia II - Ludacris - Biography |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Hall & Oates - First Hits 1975-1977 Hall & Oates left Atlantic Records after the release of War Babies to join RCA. Their first album for the new label, Daryl Hall & John Oates, was their first legitimate success. It contained the ballad "Sara Smile," a song Daryl wrote for his girlfriend Sara Allen, and featured an album cover in which the two are overly made-up to the point where they (especially the then long-haired Hall) looked like women. Hall would later say in an interview for VH1 Behind the Music that he looked like "the ...
See also:Hall & Oates, Hall & Oates - First albums 1972-1974, Hall & Oates - First Hits 1975-1977, Hall & Oates - Leaner Years and Sacred Songs 1978-1980, Hall & Oates - Voices 1980, Hall & Oates - Private Eyes 1981, Hall & Oates - H2O 1982, Hall & Oates - Rock N' Soul 1983, Hall & Oates - Big Bam Boom 1984, Hall & Oates - Live at the Apollo! 1985, Hall & Oates - Daryl Hall's solo album 1986, Hall & Oates - The Arista Years 1988-1990, Hall & Oates - Later work, Hall & Oates - Legacy, Hall & Oates - Discography, Hall & Oates - Albums, Hall & Oates - Singles and US Hot 100 history, Hall & Oates - Bibliography Read more here: » Hall & Oates: Encyclopedia II - Hall & Oates - First Hits 1975-1977 |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Michael Jackson - Solo career
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall: 1978-1980.
In 1978, Michael appeared in The Wiz as the Scarecrow, with former labelmate Diana Ross as Dorothy. The musical film's songs were arranged and produced by famed producer Quincy Jones, who found a rapport with Jackson. After Jackson signed a solo contract with Epic in 1978, he began work on his first of several albums with Jones.
Michael Jackson's 1979 album Off the Wall was a worldwide hit, and spawned the number-one hit singles and music vide ...
See also:Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson - Early years, Michael Jackson - Childhood: 1958-1961, Michael Jackson - Beginnings: 1962-1966, Michael Jackson - The Jackson 5: 1967-1974, Michael Jackson - The Jacksons: 1975-1990, Michael Jackson - Solo career, Michael Jackson - Off The Wall: 1978-1980, Michael Jackson - Thriller: 1982-1985, Michael Jackson - Bad: 1986-1990, Michael Jackson - Dangerous: 1991-1993, Michael Jackson - HIStory: 1995-1999, Michael Jackson - Invincible: 2001-2003, Michael Jackson - One More Chance: 2003-2005, Michael Jackson - Visionary: 2005-present, Michael Jackson - Personal life, Michael Jackson - Relationships, Michael Jackson - Jackson's marriages and children, Michael Jackson - Controversies, Michael Jackson - Nicknames, Michael Jackson - Skin color, Michael Jackson - Plastic surgery, Michael Jackson - Finances, Michael Jackson - Alleged child sexual abuse, Michael Jackson - Alleged anti-Semitism, Michael Jackson - Post-trial lawsuits, Michael Jackson - Life in Bahrain, Michael Jackson - Discography, Michael Jackson - Regular studio albums, Michael Jackson - Compilations, Michael Jackson - Videography, Michael Jackson - Filmography, Michael Jackson - Films, Michael Jackson - Video games, Michael Jackson - Trivia Read more here: » Michael Jackson: Encyclopedia II - Michael Jackson - Solo career |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Mary J. Blige - Biography
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 ...
See also:Mary J. Blige, Mary J. Blige - Biography, Mary J. Blige - Early life, Mary J. Blige - Music career, 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 - Top Ten singles, Mary J. Blige - Solo singles, Mary J. Blige - Collaborations on other albums Read more here: » Mary J. Blige: Encyclopedia II - Mary J. Blige - Biography |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Marvin Gaye - Biography
Marvin Gaye - Early life and career.
Gaye was born in Washington, D.C. Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.; he later added the "e" to imitate Sam Cooke. His father, Reverend Marvin Gay, Sr., was an ordained minister in the House of God, a small, conservative sect spun off from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The church, borrowing some elements of Pentecostalism and Orthodox Judaism, has very strict codes of conduct and does not celebrate any holidays. Gaye got his start singing in the church choir and later learned to play the piano and drums to e ...
See also:Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye - Biography, Marvin Gaye - Early life and career, Marvin Gaye - Joining the Motown and Gordy families, Marvin Gaye - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On and follow-ups, Marvin Gaye - Later career and death, Marvin Gaye - Legacy and tributes, Marvin Gaye - Discography, Marvin Gaye - US and UK Top Ten Singles, Marvin Gaye - Top Ten Albums, Marvin Gaye - Sample, Marvin Gaye - Notes Read more here: » Marvin Gaye: Encyclopedia II - Marvin Gaye - Biography |
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| | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Madonna entertainer - Biography
Madonna was born to an Italian-American Chrysler engineer, Silvio "Tony" P. Ciccone, and Madonna Louise Fortin (from a French Canadian family in Bay City, Michigan) and identifies herself as an Italian American. She was raised in a Catholic family of twelve children in the Detroit suburbs of Pontiac and Rochester Hills.
Her mother died at the age of thirty, of breast cancer, on December 1, 1963, when Madonna was only five. The singer has frequently discussed the enormous impact her mother's death had on her life and career. Following his wife's death, Silvio brought in a housekeeper, Joan Gust ...
See also:Madonna entertainer, Madonna entertainer - Biography, Madonna entertainer - 1980s, Madonna entertainer - 1990s, Madonna entertainer - 2000s, Madonna entertainer - Personal life, Madonna entertainer - Italian influence, Madonna entertainer - Involvement with Kabbalah Centre, Madonna entertainer - Other Madonna related articles Read more here: » Madonna entertainer: Encyclopedia II - Madonna entertainer - Biography |
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| | | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Faith Evans - Biography After several years perfoming jazz standards at clubs and dropping out of college after her freshman year, the daughter of a white rocker and R&B backup singer decided to begin her music career, first with a young musician named Kiyamma Griffin, and later with rising hip-hop/R&B record producer Sean "Puffy" Combs, who was forming his own label, Bad Boy Records at the time.
The breadwinner of that label was a young rapper from Brooklyn, New York named Christopher Wallace. Evans, already a single mom to a young daughter, took a ...
See also:Faith Evans, Faith Evans - Biography, Faith Evans - Grammy Award History, Faith Evans - Discography, Faith Evans - Albums, Faith Evans - Singles, Faith Evans - Filmography Read more here: » Faith Evans: Encyclopedia II - Faith Evans - Biography |
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| | | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Gloria Estefan - Biography Known as the "Queen of Latin Pop", Estefan is one of the most recognized music artists in the world. Billions have heard her, millions have seen her perform — and with over 70 million albums sold worldwide, she is the single most successful crossover performer in Latin music history.
In addition to her music career, Estefan has appeared in two movies, Music of the Heart (1999) and For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000). She is slated to star as Connie Francis, a U.S. pop singer whose peak commercial succ ...
See also:Gloria Estefan, Gloria Estefan - Biography, Gloria Estefan - Early years, Gloria Estefan - Miami Sound Machine, Gloria Estefan - 1990 tour bus crash in Pennsylvania, Gloria Estefan - Comeback, Gloria Estefan - On tour with Evolution, Gloria Estefan - Unwrapped, Gloria Estefan - Work as an author, Gloria Estefan - Fans, Gloria Estefan - Charity, Gloria Estefan - Discography, Gloria Estefan - Singles, Gloria Estefan - Filmography, Gloria Estefan - Videography, Gloria Estefan - Tours Read more here: » Gloria Estefan: Encyclopedia II - Gloria Estefan - Biography |
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| | | | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Enrique Iglesias - Life and Career Enrique Iglesias album sales currently total forty million, making him one of the best-selling Spanish music artists in the world. Enrique has yet to overtake his father's great sales figures, but has outsold Julio in single-album sales, arguebly justifying the label his record company gave him as "best selling spanish artist in the world". He is the best-selling Spanish-language artist of the last decade. Enrique has said that if he has children and they wish to follow in his footsteps, he would ...
See also:Enrique Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias - Enrique Iglesias, Enrique Iglesias - Vivir, Enrique Iglesias - Cosas del Amor, Enrique Iglesias - Enrique, Enrique Iglesias - Escape, Enrique Iglesias - Quizas, Enrique Iglesias - Seven 7, Enrique Iglesias - Awards and Achievements, Enrique Iglesias - Life and Career, Enrique Iglesias - Discography, Enrique Iglesias - Albums, Enrique Iglesias - Singles, Enrique Iglesias - Miscellaneous Read more here: » Enrique Iglesias: Encyclopedia II - Enrique Iglesias - Life and Career |
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| | | | | | | List of number-one hits (United States): Encyclopedia II - Gwen Stefani - Biography
Gwen Stefani - Beginnings.
Gwen Stefani was born in Anaheim, California. Her father, Denis Stefani, is Italian American, and her mother Patti Flynn is of Irish and Scottish descent. She has a sister, Jill, and two brothers, Eric and Todd. Jill appeared in No Doubt's "Just A Girl" music video. Stefani attended California State University, Fullerton, and Loara High School (class of 1987), where she was on the swim team. Her first job was scrubbing floors at a Dairy Queen, and she once worked at a department store. ...
See also:Gwen Stefani, Gwen Stefani - Biography, Gwen Stefani - Beginnings, Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby., Gwen Stefani - Trivia, Gwen Stefani - Grammy Award History, Gwen Stefani - Discography, Gwen Stefani - Studio albums, Gwen Stefani - Singles, Gwen Stefani - Notes Read more here: » Gwen Stefani: Encyclopedia II - Gwen Stefani - Biography |
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