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Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly
Academy Award Winner and Golden Globe Award Winner

Film

Jennifer Connelly is an American actress who began her career as a child model. In 2002, she won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for her supporting role as Alicia Nash in Ron Howard's 2001 biopic drama "A Beautiful Mind".

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Maze
Maze
Recording Group

Music

Maze, also known as Maze featuring Frankie Beverly and Frankie Beverly & Maze, is an American quiet storm band established in San Francisco, California in the late 1970s.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music Composer

Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. He composed more than 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music.

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music Composer

Music

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Classical music, he remains one of the most recognised and influential of all composers.

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Stephen King
Stephen King
Author

Literature

Stephen King is an author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books.

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Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Professional Boxer

Sports

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is a professional boxing promoter and former professional boxer. He competed from 1996 to 2007 and 2009 to 2015, and made a one-fight comeback in 2017. During his career, he held multiple world titles in five weight classes.

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Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles
Actor and Filmmaker

Film

Melvin Van Peebles is most famous for creating (and starring in) the acclaimed film "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", which heralded a new era of African-American focused films. He is the father of actor and director Mario Van Peebles.

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50 Cent
50 Cent
Grammy Award Winner

Music

50 Cent is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman, and investor. During his career, he has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards, including a Grammy Award, and 13 Billboard Music Awards.

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John Cena
John Cena
Professional Wrestler

Sports

John Cena is an American professional wrestler, actor, rapper, and television host. He is currently signed to WWE, where he appears for both the "Raw" and "SmackDown" brands.

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Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen
Academy Award Nominee

Film

Sacha Baron Cohen has received two BAFTA Awards for "Da Ali G Show", several Emmy Award nominations, a nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, and a Golden Globe for Best Actor for his work in the feature film "Borat".

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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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Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan
Co-Host, "Good Morning America"

Sports

Michael Strahan is a former American football defensive end who spent his entire 15-year career with the New York Giants of the NFL. In 2014, he became a regular contributor on the ABC morning television show "Good Morning America".

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Smokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson
Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

Smokey Robinson is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and front man of the Motown Records vocal group The Miracles. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

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Kenny G
Kenny G
Ssaxophonist

Music

Kenny G is an American saxophonist. He is the biggest-selling instrumental musician of the modern era and one of the best-selling artists of all-time, with global sales totaling more than 75 million records.

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Jefferson Airplane
Jefferson Airplane
Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

Jefferson Airplane was one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and was presented with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.

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Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
Recording Artist

Music

Miranda Lambert is an American singer and songwriter. Outside her solo career, she is a member of the Pistol Annies alongside Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley. Lambert has been honored by the Grammy Awards, and the Academy of Country Music Awards.

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Pistol Annies
Pistol Annies
Recording Group

Music

Pistol Annies are an American country music supergroup composed of Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe, and Angaleena Presley. The trio released its debut album "Hell on Heels "in 2011 on Columbia Records Nashville.

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Jill Scott
Jill Scott
3-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Jill Scott is an American singer-songwriter, model, poet and actress. Her 2000 debut, "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1", went platinum, and the two follow-ups both achieved gold status.

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Leigh Nash
Leigh Nash
Lead Singer, Sixpence None the Richer

Music

Leigh Nash is an American singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist for the pop band Sixpence None the Richer and is also a member of Fauxliage and Movement Nashville. Her debut solo album, "Blue on Blue", was released on August 15, 2006.

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Richard Marx
Richard Marx
Recording Artist

Music

Richard Marx has sold over 30 million records. He placed himself in the record books by being the first solo artist to have his first seven singles hit the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4).

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Crazy Town
Crazy Town
Recording Group

Music

Crazy Town is an American rap rock band, formed in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer. Crazy Town is best known for their 2000 hit single, "Butterfly", which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Jim Croce
Jim Croce
Recording Artist

Music

Jim Croce was an American folk and rock singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and singles. His songs "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" reached no. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone
Academy Award Nominee

Film

Sharon Stone rose to international recognition when she starred in "Basic Instinct" (1992), for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination. She received further critical acclaim in "Casino" (1995), garnering an Academy Award nomination.

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Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise
Academy Award Nominee and Founder, Gary Sinise Foundation

Film

Gary Sinise is an American actor, director and musician. Among other awards, he has won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has been nominated for an Academy Award.

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Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy
7-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Buddy Guy is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues and has influenced eminent guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, and John Mayer.

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