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Rachel Crow
Rachel Crow
Recording Artist

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Rachel Crow is an American singer, comedian, and actress from Mead, Colorado. She participated in the first season of the United States version of "The X Factor" in 2011 and she finished in 5th place overall.

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Anita Baker
Anita Baker
8-Time Grammy Award Winner

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Anita Baker is regarded as one of the most popular singers of soulful romantic ballads. She has won eight Grammy Awards and has five platinum albums and one gold album to her credit. Her vocal range is contralto.

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Patti LaBelle
Patti LaBelle
Godmother of Soul

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Patti LaBelle began her career in the early 1960s. In a career that has spanned 50 years, she has sold more than 50 million records worldwide. She has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Mary Mary
Mary Mary
2-Time Grammy Award Winner

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Mary Mary is a contemporary gospel duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Tina Atkins-Campbell. The duo are often credited for broadening the fan base of urban contemporary gospel. They have sold over 8 million albums worldwide.

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Nas
Nas
13-Time Grammy Award Nominee

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Nas is a rapper. He has released eight consecutive platinum and multi-platinum albums and has sold over 30 million records worldwide. His 11th studio album "Life Is Good" was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.

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The Coasters
The Coasters
2-Time Grammy Award Nominee

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The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s. Although The Coasters originated outside of mainstream doo-wop, their records were so frequently imitated.

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The System
The System
Recording Group

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The System is an American synthpop duo who debuted in the 1980s, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Mic Murphy and seasoned session keyboardist David Frank. The group is sometimes referred to as being "emotio-electro".

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Son of Bazerk and No Self Control
Critically-Acclaimed Recording Group

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Son of Bazerk and No Self Control is an American hip-hop group consisting of Son of Bazerk, Almighty Jahwel, and ½ Pint. The group was formed by Hank Shocklee, a member of the production team Bomb Squad.

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Jodeci
Jodeci
Recording Group

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Jodeci is an American R&B quartet with members DeVante Swing, Mr. Dalvin, K-Ci, and JoJo. Each album released by the group during during the 1990s attained platinum certification. Jodeci has sold more than 20 million records worldwide to date.

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Mista
Recording Group

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Mista was an American R&B group in the mid-1990s from Atlanta, Georgia. Under the production of Organized Noize, the group released their self-titled debut album, which produced the hit single "Blackberry Molasses".

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Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz
4-Time Grammy Award Winner

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Lenny Kravitz is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. He won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category.

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Destiny's Child
Destiny's Child
Recording Group

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Destiny's Child was an American girl group whose final and best-known line-up comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams. Destiny's Child has sold more than sixty million records worldwide to date.

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The Four Tops
The Four Tops
Recording Group

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The Four Tops are a vocal quartet, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. Lead singer Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades.

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Whodini
Whodini
Recording Group

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Whodini is a hip-hop group. The trio consisted of vocalist and main lyricist Jalil Hutchins; co-vocalist John Fletcher, a.k.a. Ecstasy (who wore a Zorro-style hat as his trademark); and turntable artist DJ Drew Carter, a.k.a. Grandmaster Dee.

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The Masqueraders
Recording Group

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The Masqueraders is a recording group, who scored a minor hit in 1968 with "I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else".

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LaTavia Roberson
LaTavia Roberson
Former Member, Destiny's Child

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LaTavia Roberson rose to fame in the late 1990s, as an original member of the R&B group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all-time. Roberson has sold over 25 million records with Destiny's Child.

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Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Member, Fugees

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Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip-hop group the Fugees. Jean has won three Grammy Awards for his musical work.

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Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge
Recording Group

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Jagged Edge is an American mainstream R&B group signed through Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. The group has had a number of hit singles, many of which are produced by Dupri.

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T-Boz
T-Boz
Member, TLC

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Tionne Watkins, better known by her stage name T-Boz, is an American singer, songwriter, model, dancer, actress, author, and executive producer. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as the lead singer of the girl-group TLC. She has won four Grammy Awards.

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Keith Richards
Keith Richards
Founding Member, The Rolling Stones

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Keith Richards is an guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists.

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Labelle
Labelle
Recording Group

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Labelle is an American all-female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The founding members were Patti LaBelle, Cindy Birdsong, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash.

Tags: Patti LaBelle · Nona Hendryx · Cindy Birdsong · Sarah Dash · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · R&B · Soul Music · Rock · Funk · Disco

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Mr. Every Day
Recording Artist and CEO, Past Life Entertainment

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Mr. Every Day came into the world by way of a Cherokee Indian mother and a Bahamian father. At the age of three, Mr. Every Day toured with Stevie Wonder and his godfather Gil Scott-Heron, who was the first recording artist signed by Clive Davis.

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The O'Jays
The O'Jays
Recording Group

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The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958. Numerous hits followed through the 1970s and into the 1980s and 1990s, and The O'Jays were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.

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Maroon 5
Maroon 5
Recording Group

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Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. The band has sold more than 20 million albums and 70 million singles worldwide.

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The Police
The Police
Recording Group

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The Police were an English new wave band formed in London in 1977. The band has won a number of music awards, including six Grammy Awards, and in 2003 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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