Persons

Son of Bazerk and No Self Control

Music

Son of Bazerk and No Self Control is an American hip-hop group consisting of Son of Bazerk, Almighty Jahwel, and ½ Pint. The group was formed by Hank Shocklee, a member of the production team Bomb Squad.

Sonjja Baram

Fashion

International fashion designer Sonjja Baram combines fragility and strength, tradition and modernity, passion and profundity in her creations.

Sonny Turner

Music

Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including four no. 1 hits, and were, for a period of time, the most successful vocal group in the world.

Collections: Black Music Month

Tags: The Platters • Legendary • Legendary Recording Artists • Doo-Wop • Lead Singer

Soul for Real

Music

Soul for Real (also known as Soul 4 Real and Soul IV Real) is an R&B group. The group were best known in the mid-1990s for their gold-certified singles "Candy Rain" and "Every Little Thing I Do".

Soul II Soul

Music

Soul II Soul are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and United States top five hit "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)", and "Keep On Movin'" which reached number 11 in the United States. They won two Grammy Awards.

Soulforge

Music

Soulforge is a 100% Australian metal band from the outback town of Broken Hill NSW. Influenced by bands such as Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Arch Enemy, Blind Guardian, Judas Priest, and many more. The band is continuously evolving with their original music.

Sounds of Blackness

Music

Sounds of Blackness is a Grammy Award winning vocal and instrumental ensemble from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota who perform music from several genres music including gospel, R&B, soul, and jazz.

Collections: Black Music Month

Space Cowboy

Music

Space Cowboy is a French-British singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer. He has recorded under various pseudonyms including: DJ Supreme, Kings of Rhythm, Loop Da Loop, and DJ Chrome.

Sparkle

Music

Sparkle is an American R&B singer. She began her career in 1998 as a protégé of fellow Chicago native R. Kelly. Sparkle is best known for her 1998 R&B debut hit single "Be Careful".

Special Ed

Music

Special Ed is a hip-hop musician. He is best known for the songs "I Got It Made", "Think About It", and "I'm The Magnificent", on the "Youngest in Charge" album, recorded when he was 16 years old. The album sold more than half a million copies.

Speech

Music

Speech is an American rapper and musician. He is a member of the progressive hip-hop group Arrested Development and has released a number of solo albums.

Spice 1

Music

Spice 1 is an American rapper from Hayward, California. He began releasing albums in 1992 and was ranked number 56 in The Source magazine's Top 115 Hip-Hop Artists from 1988 to 2003.

Spice Girls

Music

Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. Their debut album "Spice" sold more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in history. Their follow-up album "Spiceworld" sold over 20 million copies.

Spike Lee

Film

Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He has received two Academy Award nominations, a Student Academy Award and an Academy Honorary Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and won numerous other awards.

Spin Doctors

Music

Spin Doctors are an American rock band from New York City, best known for their early 1990s hits, "Two Princes" and "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong", which peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 7 and No. 17, respectively.

Stacey Abrams

Politics

Stacey Abrams is an American politician who served in the Georgia House of Representatives, and served as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.

Collections: Women's History Month

Stacy London

Fashion

Stacy London is an American stylist/fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor known primarily for her time as co-host on "What Not to Wear", a reality television program that featured wardrobe and appearance makeovers.

Stan Lee

Literature

Stan Lee is an comic-book writer, editor, and publisher. He was formerly editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and later its publisher and chairman before leaving the company to become its chairman emeritus, as well as a member of the editorial board.

Stars on 54

Music

Stars on 54 were a supergroup put together to record the song "If You Could Read My Mind" for the soundtrack of the 1998 film "54", which starred Mike Myers. The group consisted of recording artists Amber, Ultra Naté, and Jocelyn Enriquez.

Steely Dan

Music

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.

Steff Reed

Music

Steff Reed is a recording artist. In 2013, he was nominated for the Grammy Music Educator Award.

Stella Afari

Film

Stella Afari is known for "In Our Time with Sir Shefik".

Tags: Shefik • Television • In Our Time with Sir Shefik • Film Festivals • Annual Festival

Stephanie Graegin

Literature

Stephanie Graegin is an illustrator. Her clients include Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Beach Lane Books, Carus Publishing, Dial Books for Young Readers, Disney Hyperion, eeBoo, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Google, and Little Brown for Young Readers.

Stephanie Mills

Music

Stephanie Mills is an American R&B, soul, and gospel singer-songwriter and Broadway star. She rose to stardom as Dorothy in the original Broadway run of the musical "The Wiz" from 1975 to 1977. She won a Grammy Award for best R&B vocal performance.

Stephen Colbert

Television

Stephen Colbert is best known for hosting the satirical Comedy Central program "The Colbert Report" from 2005 to 2014, and the CBS talk program "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" beginning in September 2015.