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Morris Day
Morris Day
Lead Singer, The Time

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Morris Day is an American musician, composer, and actor. He is best known as the lead singer of The Time.

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Luci Martin
Luci Martin
Lead Singer, Chic (1978 - 1983)

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Luci Martin was a Lead Singer of Chic, alongside Alfa Anderson. Martin's voice could also be heard on many of the top selling records of such artists as Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Deborah Cox, and Sheila B.

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Alfa Anderson
Alfa Anderson
Lead Singer, Chic (1978 - 1983)

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Alfa Anderson is a soul and dance music icon whose voice defines an entire era of popular music. She is of the original lead vocalists in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominated group Chic.

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Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood
7-Time Grammy Award Winner and 12-Time American Music Award Winner

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Carrie Underwood rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of "American Idol", in 2005. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, 10 Billboard Music Awards, 14 ACM Awards, and 12 American Music Awards.

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Norma Jean Wright
Norma Jean Wright
Lead Singer, Chic (1977 - 1978)

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Norma Jean Wright is an American singer and was the lead vocalist of the American group Chic, a soul, R&B and disco band, from 1977 to 1978.

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Claudja Barry
Recording Artist

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Claudja Barry is a singer, songwriter, and actress. Her successful songs were "Down and Counting", "Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes", and others. As an actress, she is known for performing in the European versions of the musicals "AC/DC" and "Catch My Soul".

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The Marvelettes
The Marvelettes
Recording Group

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The Marvelettes was recording group that achieved popularity in the 1960s. The group has received several honors including induction into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, as well as receiving the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

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Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey
Recording Artist

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Lana Del Rey is a singer and songwriter. Her music has been noted by critics for its stylized cinematic quality, its preoccupation with themes of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia. As of 2018, she has sold over 15 million albums worldwide.

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Iggy Azalea
Iggy Azalea
Recording Artist

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Iggy Azalea was featured on Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which peaked at No. 2 while "Fancy" was No. 1. Azalea joined The Beatles as the only acts to rank at numbers one and two simultaneously with their first two Billboard Hot 100 entries.

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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Pulitzer Prize Special Award Winner

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Duke Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.

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Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow
Recording Artist

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Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, musician, and producer with a career that has spanned more than 50 years. He has sold more than 80 million records as a solo artist worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists.

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Method Man
Method Man
Grammy Award Winner

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Method Man is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He is known as a member of the East Coast hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan. He is also one half of the hip-hop duo Method Man & Redman. He took his stage name from the 1979 film "Method Man".

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Redman
Redman
Member, Method Man & Redman

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Redman is a rapper, DJ, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an artist on the Def Jam label. He is also well known for his collaborations with his close friend Method Man, as one-half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman.

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EPMD
EPMD
Recording Group

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EPMD's name is a concatenation of the members' names "E" and "PMD" or an acronym for "Erick and Parrish Making Dollars", referencing its members: emcees Erick Sermon ("E" a.k.a. E Double) and Parrish Smith ("PMD" a.k.a. Parrish Mic Doc).

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Das EFX
Das EFX
Recording Group

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Das EFX is an American hip-hop duo. It consists of emcees Dray (also known as Krazy Drayz) and Skoob (also known as Books). They named themselves "DAS" standing for "Dray and Skoob" and "EFX" meaning "effects". They rose to popularity in the early 1990s .

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Kurupt
Kurupt
Member, Tha Dogg Pound

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Kurupt began his career in the early 1990s, when he was signed to Death Row Records and shortly after formed the duo Tha Dogg Pound with Daz Dillinger. After leaving Death Row in 1996, he signed with A&M and released his debut studio album, "Kuruption!".

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Parliament-Funkadelic
Parliament-Funkadelic
Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American funk music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the individual bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s.

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Funkadelic
Funkadelic
Recording Group

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Funkadelic is a band that was most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, pioneered the funk music culture of that decade. Relative to its sister act, Funkadelic pursued a psychedelic sound.

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Parliament
Parliament
Recording Group

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Parliament is a funk band formed in the late 1960s by George Clinton as part of his Parliament-Funkadelic collective. Less rock-oriented than its sister act Funkadelic, Parliament drew on science-fiction and outlandish performances in their work.

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George Clinton
George Clinton
Member, Parliament-Funkadelic

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George Clinton is a singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective (which primarily recorded under the distinct band names Parliament and Funkadelic) developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music.

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Troye Sivan
Troye Sivan
Recording Artist

Music

Troye Sivan is a South African-born Australian singer, songwriter, actor, and YouTube personality. As a YouTube personality, Sivan used to upload video blogs regularly and, as of 2016, has over 4 million subscribers and over 241 million total views.

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BBMak
BBMak
Recording Group

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BBMak is an English pop group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns, and Stephen McNally. Together, they sold three million albums, and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded.

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Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon
Grammy Award Winner and Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Willie Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He received a Grammy Award and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Rickey Minor
Rickey Minor
Musical Director ajnd Bandleader

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Rickey Minor is best known as the musical director and bandleader on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". In addition to his work as musical director for "American Idol", he served as bandleader on Fox's "Don't Forget the Lyrics!".

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Taylor Dayne
Taylor Dayne
3-Time Grammy Award Nominee and American Music Award Winner

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Taylor Dayne is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She has sold over 75 million albums and singles worldwide, earned three Grammy Award nominations, an American Music Award, and multiple New York Music Awards.

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