People

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Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Member, Simon & Garfunkel

Music

Paul Simon is an American singer-songwriter and actor. His musical career has spanned seven decades, with his fame and commercial success beginning as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, which was formed in 1964 with Art Garfunkel.

Miki Howard
Miki Howard
Recording Artist

Music

Miki Howard is an American singer and actress, who had a string of Top 10 hit songs in the mid–1980s and early–1990s, including "Baby, Be Mine (1987), "Come Share My Love" (1986), and "Love Under New Management" (1990).

Keith Washington
Keith Washington
Recording Artist

Music

Keith Washington is an American R&B vocalist, best known for his 1991 hit single "Kissing You". The song was also used as background music for an episode on the ABC television soap opera "General Hospital". "Kissing You" was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel
Member, Simon & Garfunkel

Music

Art Garfunkel is an American singer, poet, teacher, and actor. He is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Highlights of his solo music career include a top 10 hit, three top 20 hits, and six top 40 hits.

Sylver Logan Sharp
Sylver Logan Sharp
Lead Singer, Chic

Music

Sylver Logan Sharp has been lead vocalist with Nile Rodgers and Chic since the early 1990s and continued to tour with them until 2010. In 2005, her song "All This Time", written by Jonathan Peters, became a huge hit in clubs and dance stations.

Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby
Comedian

Television

Beginning in the 1980s, Bill Cosby produced and starred in a television sitcom, "The Cosby Show", which aired from 1984 to 1992 and was rated as the number one show in America for five years, 1984 through 1989.

The Dramatics
The Dramatics
Recording Group

Music

The Dramatics are best known for their 1970s hit songs "In the Rain" and "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get", both of which were Top 10 Pop hits, as well as their later 1993 collaboration "Doggy Dogg World" with Snoop Dogg, a top 20 hit on Billboard.

Ted Ross
Actor

Film

Ted Ross was an American actor, who was probably best known for his role as the Lion in "The Wiz", an all African-American reinterpretation of "The Wizard of Oz". He won a Tony Award for the original 1975 Broadway production.

Nipsey Russell
Nipsey Russell
Comedian

Comedy

Nipsey Russell was best known for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially "Match Game", "Password", and "Hollywood Squares". He also had a leading role in the film version of "The Wiz" as the Tin Man.

Stop the Violence Movement
Stop the Violence Movement
Recording Group

Music

Stop the Violence Movement was formed by rapper KRS-One in 1987. He assembled many contemporary East Coast hip-hop rap stars of the time to record a song about anti-violence. The product of the session was the chart-topping song "Self Destruction."

KRS-One
KRS-One
Recording Artist

Music

KRS-One rose to prominence as part of the hip-hop music group Boogie Down Productions, which he formed with DJ Scott La Rock in the mid-1980s. KRS-One is politically active, having started the Stop the Violence Movement, after the death of Scott La Rock.

Leon Russell
Leon Russell
Recording Artist

Music

Leon Russell was involved with numerous best-selling pop music records over the course of his 60-year career. His genres included pop, rock, blues, country, bluegrass, standards, gospel, and surf records. He was awarded six gold records.

Charisse Mills
Charisse Mills
Recording Artist

Music

Charisse Mills is a Trinidadian pop opera singer and songwriter. She is best known for her collaborations with artists Ne-Yo and French Montana, and for her vocal combinations of pop and opera, termed "pop'era".

Susanna Hoffs
Susanna Hoffs
Member, The Bangles

Music

Susanna Hoffs is an American vocalist, guitarist, and actress. She is best known as a co-founder of The Bangles.

Vicki Peterson
Vicki Peterson
Member, The Bangles

Music

Vicki Peterson is an American rock musician and songwriter. In 1981, she founded The Bangs, later renamed The Bangles, with her sister Debbi Peterson and Susanna Hoffs. After The Bangles disbanded in 1989, Peterson played with Continental Drifters.

Debbi Peterson
Debbi Peterson
Member, The Bangles

Music

Debbi Peterson is a musician and the drummer of the band The Bangles. She sang lead vocals on two of the band's released singles, "Going Down to Liverpool" (1984) and "Be with You" (1989). She is the younger sister of fellow Bangles member Vicki Peterson.

The Bangles
The Bangles
Recording Group

Music

The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles, in 1981. They scored several hit singles as that decade continued. The band's hits include "Walk Like an Egyptian", Billboard's number-one single of 1987.

Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill
Academy Award Nominee

Film

Jonah Hill is known for his comedic roles in films, such as "Get Him to the Greek" (2010) and "21 Jump Street" (2012), as well as his performances in "Moneyball" (2011) and "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013), for which he received Academy Award nominations.

Ian Ziering
Ian Ziering
Actor

Television

Ian Ziering is an American actor and voice actor best known for his role as Steve Sanders on the television series "Beverly Hills, 90210", which he played from 1990 to 2000. He is also the voice of Vinnie on "Biker Mice from Mars".

John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo
Actor

Film

John Leguizamo is an actor, voice artist, stand-up comedian, film producer, playwright and screenwriter. As of 2009, he has appeared in over 75 films, produced over 10 films, and starred on Broadway in several productions (winning several awards).

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N.K. Morton
Recording Artist and Multi-Platinum Songwriter

Music

N.K. Morton is a singer-songwriter. She wrote songs for Backstreet Boys, Mýa, and Karen Clark-Sheard, worked in television with Chris Rock, and was a featured lead or background vocalist for artists, ranging from Diana Ross to Rakim.

Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole
Recording Artist

Music

Nat King Cole was an American jazz pianist and vocalist. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts. His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole acted in films, on television, and performed on Broadway.

LaTocha Scott
LaTocha Scott
Member, Xscape

Music

LaTocha Scott is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. She is best known as a member of the multi-platinum selling R&B group Xscape, who rose to popularity in the 1990s.

Tameka "Tiny" Harris
Tameka "Tiny" Harris
Member, Xscape

Music

Tameka "Tiny" Harris (born Tameka Cottle) is best known as a member of the American multi-platinum R&B vocal group Xscape, and for her marriage to rapper T.I. She received a Grammy Award for her writing contributions on the TLC hit "No Scrubs".

Kandi Burruss
Kandi Burruss
Member, Xscape

Music

Kandi Burruss is an American singer-songwriter, television personality, actress, record producer, and business woman. She is a member of the group Xscape. She currently stars in the Bravo reality television series "The Real Housewives of Atlanta".

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