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Miguel
Miguel
Recording Artist

Music

Miguel is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Miguel incorporates R&B, funk, hip hop, rock and electronic styles into his music, and has been compared to vocalists Babyface and Prince.

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Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman
Actor

Film

Gary Oldman is known for his role as Sirius Black in the "Harry Potter" series and Winston Churchill in "Darkest Hour" (2017), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Films in which he has starred have grossed over $10.9 billion.

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Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand
Actress

Film

Frances McDormand is an American actress. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Tony Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, which makes her one of the few performers to receive the Triple Crown of Acting.

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Andra Day
Andra Day
Grammy Award Nominee

Music

Andra Day is an American singer and songwriter. Her debut album, "Cheers to the Fall", was nominated for Best R&B Album and the album's main single, "Rise Up", was nominated for Best R&B Performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards.

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Keala Settle
Keala Settle
Recording Artist

Music

Keala Settle is an American actress and singer. The song "This Is Me" from the film, principally sung by Settle, won the 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

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Commodores
Commodores
Recording Group

Music

Commodores are a band, which was at its peak in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The group's most successful period was in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Lionel Richie was the co-lead singer. In 1986, the Commodores won their first Grammy.

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Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
Recording Artist

Music

Roberta Flack was the first, and remains the only, solo artist to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year on two consecutive years (1973 and 1974), for the songs "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly with His Song".

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Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist and Cosmologist

Science

Stephen Hawking was a theoretical physicist, author, and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. He was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.

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Craig Mack
Craig Mack
Recording Artist

Music

Craig Mack was an American rapper from Brentwood, New York. Although his first single was released under the name MC EZ in 1988, he is best known for his 1994 hit single "Flava In Ya Ear", which was released under his real name.

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Robert Downey, Jr.
Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor

Film

Robert Downey, Jr. is an actor. As of 2017, the U.S. domestic box-office grosses of his films total over $4.2 billion, with worldwide grosses surpassing $9.6 billion, making him the fifth highest-grossing U.S. domestic box-office star of all-time.

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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa (1994 - 1999)

Politics

Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa (1994 - 1999). He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

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Chris Evans
Chris Evans
Actor

Film

Chris Evans is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his superhero roles as the Marvel Comics characters Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Human Torch in "Fantastic Four" and its 2007 sequel.

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The Boys
The Boys
Recording Group

Music

The Boys are an American R&B quartet composed of the four Abdulsamad brothers, Khiry (born 1973), Hakeem (born 1975), Tajh (born 1976), and Bilal (born 1979). The group had three #1 singles on the R&B charts.

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Crystal Waters
Crystal Waters
Recording Artist

Music

Crystal Waters is an American house and dance music singer and songwriter, best known for her 1990s dance hits "Gypsy Woman" and "100% Pure Love". All three of her studio albums produced a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Scott Grimes
Scott Grimes
Actor

Television

Scott Grimes is an American actor, voice artist, singer, and songwriter. Some of his most prominent roles include appearances in "ER", "Party of Five", "Band of Brothers", "The Orville", and the animated sitcom "American Dad!", voicing Steve Smith.

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Otis Redding
Otis Redding
Recording Artist

Music

Otis Redding is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. He received many posthumous accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Ministry

Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jackson 5
Jackson 5
Recording Group

Music

Jackson 5 was one of the first groups of black American performers to attain a crossover following, preceded by The Supremes, The Four Tops and The Temptations. They were also the first group to debut with four consecutive number one hits.

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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.

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Chuck McDermott
Recording Artist

Music

Over the last 40 years, Chuck McDermott has left his musical mark on audiences on both coasts of the United States. Over the last few decades, he has devoted himself to energy and environmental policy issues, and working in government.

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Migos
Migos
Recording Group

Music

Migos is composed of three rappers, known by their stage names Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff. Migos released their three Billboard Hot 100 top 10 hits: "Bad and Boujee", peaking at #1; "MotorSport", peaking at #6; and "Stir Fry", peaking at #8.

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Angie Stone
Angie Stone
Recording Artist

Music

Angie Stone rose to fame in the late 1970s as member of the hip-hop trio The Sequence. Stone has been nominated for three Grammy Awards. She has been most successful on the R&B charts, with four top 10 albums, including a number one, and 10 singles.

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Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Recording Group

Music

Led Zeppelin are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording; various sources estimate the group's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide. With sales of 111.5 million units, they are the second-best-selling band.

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AC/DC
AC/DC
Recording Group

Music

AC/DC have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 71.5 million albums in the United States, adding them to the list of highest-certified music artists in the United States and the list of best-selling music artists.

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Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
3-Time Gramy Award Nominee

Music

Guns N' Roses has released six studio albums, accumulating sales of more than 100 million records worldwide, including 45 million in the United States, making them the 41st best-selling artist of all time. Guns N' Roses' debut album reached number one.

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