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Vanessa-Mae
Vanessa-Mae
Recording Artist

Music

Vanessa-Mae is a violinist with album sales reaching several million, having made her the wealthiest entertainer under 30 in the United Kingdom in 2006. She competed under the name Vanessa Vanakorn (father's surname) for Thailand in alpine skiing.

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Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Williams
Recording Artist and Actress

Music

Vanessa Williams initially gained recognition as the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title. She received multiple Grammy Award nominations, including for her number-one hit and signature song, "Save the Best for Last".

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Van Morrison
Van Morrison
Recording Artist

Music

Van Morrison is a critically acclaimed singer and songwriter with a reputation for being at once stubborn, idiosyncratic, and sublime. In 2016, he was knighted for services to the music industry and to tourism in Northern Ireland.

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Valerie Simpson
Valerie Simpson
Member, Ashford & Simpson

Music

Ashford & Simpson were a husband and wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. As performers, Ashford & Simpson's best-known duets are "Solid" and "Found a Cure".

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Usher
Usher
Recording Artist

Music

Usher is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He has sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States. To date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall.

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Uncle Kracker
Uncle Kracker
Recording Artist

Music

Uncle Kracker is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, and musician known for his country and rock music. His singles "Follow Me" and "Drift Away" were top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

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UB40
UB40
4-Time Grammy Award Nominee

Music

UB40 have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records worldwide.

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U2
U2
Recording Group

Music

U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the world's best-selling music artists in history, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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U.S.A. for Africa
U.S.A. for Africa
Recording Group

Music

With the musical talents of Quincy Jones taking the lead, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, along with more than 40 other artists, embarked on the challenge to inspire people worldwide to use their collective power to make the world a better place.

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U.N.V.
U.N.V.
Recording Group

Music

U.N.V. (or Universal Nubian Voices) was an R&B group based out of Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of brothers John Powe and Shawn Powe, and members John Clay and Demetrius Peete. They are best known for their hit single, "Something's Goin' On".

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Tye Tribbett
Tye Tribbett
2-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Tye Tribbett is an American gospel music singer, songwriter and keyboardist. He is choir director and founder of the Grammy Award nominated and Stellar Award winning gospel group Tye Tribbett & G.A. (short for "Greater Anointing").

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Ty Dolla $ign
Ty Dolla $ign
Grammy Award Nominee

Music

Ty Dolla Sign (stylized as Ty Dolla $ign or Ty$) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. In November 2015, he released his debut studio album, "Free TC", which peaked at number 14 on the Billboard 200.

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Twisted Sister
Twisted Sister
Recording Group

Music

Twisted Sister was an American heavy metal band. Although the band is sometimes regarded as glam metal due to its use of makeup, frontman Dee Snider considers the term to be inappropriate.

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Twista
Twista
Recording Artist

Music

Twista (formerly Tung Twista) is an American rapper. He is best known for his chopper style of rapping and for once holding the title of fastest rapper in the world according to Guinness World Records in 1992.

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Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Twenty One Pilots (stylized in all lowercase or as twenty øne piløts) is an American musical duo from Columbus, Ohio. The group received a Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards for "Stressed Out".

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Turnpike Joe & the Traffic Jam
Recording Group

Music

Entertaining Long Island, New York since 1977, Turnpike Joe & the Traffic Jam presents its own "tight interpretations" of classic rock and pop tunes of the 60s and 70s, plus originals. Members of the band include Joanne "J-Bird" Phillips.

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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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Troop
Recording Group

Music

Troop is an R&B group. The group has had five number-one singles and ten top-ten singles on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. They have also completed five albums, which include three certified gold and one certified platinum album. 

Tags: R&B · Reggie Warren · Total Respect of Other People · All I Do Is Think of You · Sweet November · Atlantic Records · Steve Russell · John Harreld · Rodney Benford · Allen McNeil

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Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood
3-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Trisha Yearwood has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, and has won three Grammy Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, an American Music Award, and a Pollstar Industry Award for touring.

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Trisco Pearson
Member, Force M.D.'s

Music

Force M.D.'s is an American R&B vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Later, Trisco Pearson joined the group.

Tags: Force M.D.'s · RIP · Recording Artist · Singer · Group Member · Tender Love · Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Billboard Hot 100 · R&B · Music

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Trey Lorenz
Trey Lorenz
Grammy Award Nominee

Music

Trey Lorenz is best known for his duet with recording artist Mariah Carey on "I'll Be There", a cover of the Jackson 5 recording. The record topped the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles chart and earned Lorenz and Carey both a Grammy Award nomination.

Tags: Mariah Carey · TLC · Usher · Grammy Award Nominee · R&B · I'll Be There · Jackson 5 · Selena · Wilson High School · Billboard 200

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Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor
Founding Member, Nine Inch Nails

Music

Trent Reznor is best known as the founder, primary musician, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock project Nine Inch Nails, which he founded in 1988, and of which he was the sole official member until adding long-time collaborator Atticus Ross.

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Travis Scott
Travis Scott
Recording Artist

Music

Travis Scott (formerly stylized as Travi$ Scott), is a rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. In 2012, he signed his first major label deal with Epic Records. In November of the same year, he signed a deal with Kanye West's GOOD Music.

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Train
Train
Recording Group

Music

Train is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1993. Since their debut in the music industry, Train has sold over 10 million albums and 30 million tracks worldwide.

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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
4-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter, known for her hits "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist.

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