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Ray Charles
Ray Charles was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer. He pioneered the genre of soul music during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records.
Nancy Wilson
Nancy Wilson was an American singer with more than seventy albums, and three Grammy Awards. She has been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul — a "consummate actress", and "the complete entertainer".
Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman, whose cancer cells were the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line will reproduce indefinitely.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States.
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson is an American singer-songwriter, actress and author. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural season of the television series "American Idol". Clarkson has sold over 25 million albums and 36 million singles worldwide.
Drew Carey
Drew Carey is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring in his own sitcom, "The Drew Carey Show".
Damon Wayans
Damon Wayans is an actor, comedian, writer and producer, and member of the Wayans family of entertainers. He has starred in a number of films and television shows, some of which he has co-produced or co-written, including the sitcom "My Wife and Kids".
George Clooney
George Clooney has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting in "Syriana" (2006) and the other for co-producing "Argo" (2012).
Faye Dunaway
Faye Dunaway is an American actress. She has won an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, a BAFTA, an Emmy, and was the first recipient of a Leopard Club Award that honors film professionals whose work has left a mark on the collective imagination.
Tags: Academy Award Winner • Network • The Happening • Primetime Emmy Award Winner • Peter Wolf
George Lopez
George Lopez is an American comedian and actor. He is known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom "George Lopez". His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican-American culture. He has received several honors.
Steely Dan
Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band, founded by Walter Becker (guitars, backing vocals) and Donald Fagen (keyboards, lead vocals). They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
Walter Becker
Walter Becker was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was best known as the co-founder, guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter of Steely Dan. Following an undisclosed illness, Becker died on September 3, 2017.
Kierra Sheard
Kierra Sheard is an American gospel singer, fashion designer, and radio host. She is the daughter of gospel singer Karen Clark-Sheard (member of gospel singing group The Clark Sisters) and the granddaughter of gospel choral director Mattie Moss Clark.
David Daughtry
David Daughtry is an American gospel musician, actor, and worship leader at West Angeles Church of God in Christ, while he is an urban contemporary gospel and a traditional black gospel recording artist and singer.
Karen Clark-Sheard
Karen Clark-Sheard is an American gospel four-time Grammy Award-winning singer, musician, and songwriter. She began her career as a member of the legendary Grammy Award winning female gospel group The Clark Sisters.
Tags: Vocalist • Donald Lawrence • Kierra Sheard • The Clark Sisters • Church of God in Christ
LL Cool J
LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James) is known as one of the forefathers of pop rap. He has released 13 studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. His twelfth album "Exit 13" (2008), was his last for his deal with Def Jam Recordings.
Tags: Kennedy Center Honors • CBS • Paramount Network • Def Jam Recordings • NCIS: Los Angeles
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and record producer. In the late 1990s, he rose to prominence as one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of *NSYNC, which eventually became one of the best-selling boy bands of all-time.
Chris Kirkpatrick
Chris Kirkpatrick is an American singer, dancer, and voice actor who is best known for his work as a founding member of the pop group *NSYNC, in which he sang countertenor. He has also provided voices for numerous kids shows.
Joey Fatone
Joey Fatone is an American singer, dancer, actor and television personality. He is best known as a member of the boy band *NSYNC, in which he sang baritone. In 2007, he came in second place on the ABC reality show "Dancing with the Stars".
Lance Bass
Lance Bass is an American pop singer, dancer, actor, film and television producer, and author. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band *NSYNC. The band's success led Bass to work in film and television.
Guy
Guy is an American hip hop, R&B and soul band, and were the creators of the new jack swing style of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Tags: Teddy Riley • Aaron Hall • Timmy Gatling • Soul Music • New Jack Swing
Teddy Riley
Through his production work with artists, including Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Doug E. Fresh, Today, Keith Sweat, Heavy D, Usher, and Jane Child, and his membership of the groups Guy and BLACKstreet, Teddy Riley is credited with having a major impact.
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