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Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby
Recording Artist

Music

Bing Crosby was an American singer and actor. His trademark warm bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist of the 20th century, having sold over one billion records, tapes, compact discs, and digital downloads around the world.

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Billy Sherwood
Bassist, YES and Bassist, Asia

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Billy Sherwood is mostly known for his time as a member of progressive rock band YES. He is also a member of the band Asia. Sherwood's godfather was the television icon Milton Berle, and his father was a famous musician, who has worked with Frank Sinatra.

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Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus
Recording Artist

Music

Having released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, Billy Ray Cyrus is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple-platinum status in Australia.

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Billy Preston
Billy Preston
2-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Preston was a musician, whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. He was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles.

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Billy Paul
Billy Paul
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Paul was a Grammy Award winning soul singer, known for his 1972 No. 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods", which blends his more conventional pop, soul, and funk styles.

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Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Ocean is a Trinidadian-English recording artist. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, "Caribbean Queen", and in 1987 was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist.

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Billy Lawrence
Billy Lawrence
Recording Artist

Music

Billy Lawrence is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and arranger.

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Billy Joel
Billy Joel
5-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

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Billie Myers
Billie Myers
Recording Artist

Music

Billie Myers is an English rock singer-songwriter. She is known principally for her 1998 transatlantic hit "Kiss the Rain".

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Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish
Recording Artist

Music

Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter, model and dancer. She has seven gold and three platinum singles in the United States. Eilish and her musician brother Finneas frequently collaborate on her music.

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Bill Withers
Bill Withers
3-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Bill Withers was a singer-songwriter. He recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977), and "Just the Two of Us" (1980).

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Bill Medley
Bill Medley
Member, The Righteous Brothers

Music

Bill Medley is an American singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers. Medley is a successful solo artist, and his million-selling #1 duet with Jennifer Warnes "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" won a number of awards.

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Big Wild
Big Wild
Recording Artist

Music

Big Wild is an electronic producer, composer, vocalist and sound engineer. As a performer, his live shows often consist of switching between multiple instruments (drum pads, synths, keyboards & live vocals).

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Bibi Bourelly
Bibi Bourelly
Recording Artist

Music

Bibi Bourelly is the writer (or co-writer) of several notable songs, including Rihanna's "Higher" and Nick Brewer's "Talk to Me". In 2018, she released her first single "Writer's Song" in preparation for the release of her debut studio album.

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Beyoncé
Beyoncé
Recording Artist

Music

Beyoncé is a singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, she has sold over 100 million records as a solo artist, and a further 60 million with Destiny's Child. She has won 22 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history.

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Betty Wright
Betty Wright
Recording Artist

Music

Betty Wright was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late–1960s as a teenager, she rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night".

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Betty Carter
Betty Carter
Recording Artist

Music

Betty Carter was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting, and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies.

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Bette Midler
Bette Midler
3-Time Grammy Award Winner and 3-Time Emmy Award Winner

Music

In a career spanning almost half a century, Bette Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide.

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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Empress of the Blues

Music

Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era.

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Berry Gordy
Berry Gordy
Founder, Motown Records

Music

Berry Gordy is an American record executive, record producer, songwriter, film producer, and television producer. He is best known as the founder of the Motown record label and its subsidiaries, which was the highest-earning African-American business.

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Benicio Bryant
Benicio Bryant
Recording Artist

Music

Benicio Bryant is a singer-songwriter from Maple Valley, Washington who came to national attention in 2019 as a finalist on the reality talent show "America's Got Talent" (AGT). In 2017, he placed second in the German singing competition "The Voice Kids".

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Ben E. King
Ben E. King
Recording Artist

Music

Ben E. King was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He was perhaps best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me" — a United States Top 10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986.

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Bell Biv DeVoe
Bell Biv DeVoe
Recording Group

Music

Bell Biv DeVoe, also known as BBD, is an American music group that branched off from New Edition. It consists of three members of New Edition: Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe.

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Belinda Carlisle
Belinda Carlisle
Lead Singer, The Go-Go's

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Belinda Carlisle gained worldwide fame as the lead singer of The Go-Go's, one of the most successful all-female bands of all-time, and went on to have a prolific career as a solo act. The Go-Go's have sold over 7 million records worldwide.

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Beenie Man
Beenie Man
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Beenie Man is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall singer. He was involved in the music industry from a young age, starting toasting at the age of five, and was encouraged by his uncle Sydney Knowles, who played drums for Jimmy Cliff.

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