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Akon
Akon
5-Time Grammy Award Nominee

Music

Akon is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 twice. He has had four songs certified as 3x platinum, three songs certified as 2x platinum, and more than ten songs certified as 1x platinum.

Jess Glynne
Jess Glynne
Recording Artist

Music

Jess Glynne is an English singer and songwriter, signed to Atlantic Records. She rose to prominence as a featured artist on British band Clean Bandit's Grammy Award-winning single, "Rather Be" and British DJ Route 94's "My Love".

Carole King
Carole King
4-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Carole King is an American composer and singer-songwriter. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1960 and 1999.

Hootie & The Blowfish
Hootie & The Blowfish
2-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Hootie & the Blowfish is a rock band. As of July 2010, the band had charted 16 singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five studio albums. Their debut album, "Cracked Rear View" (1994), is the 14th-best-selling album of all-time.

Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks
Recording Artist

Music

Garth Brooks is the best-selling solo albums artist in the United States with 148 million domestic units sold, ahead of Elvis Presley, and is second only to The Beatles in total album sales overall. He is also one of the world's best-selling artists.

The Go-Go's
The Go-Go's
Recording Group

Music

The Go-Go's rose to fame during the early 1980s, as an all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments, rising to the top of the Billboard album charts. The Go-Go's have sold over 7 million records worldwide.

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

Music

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.

Marko Penn
Recording Artist

Music

Marko Penn is a recording artist from Los Angeles, California.

Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole
9-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

In the 1990s, Natalie Cole re-recorded standards by her father, Nat King Cole, resulting in her biggest success, "Unforgettable... with Love", which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole seven Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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.

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.

Collections: Women's History Month

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Collections: Black History Month

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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