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Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis was an American film and television actor and playwright. He was well known for his role as Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO series "True Blood", which he played from 2008 until the series' completion in 2014.
Keith Richards
Keith Richards is an guitarist and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the rock band The Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone credited Richards for "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him 4th on its list of 100 best guitarists.
Labelle
Labelle is an American all-female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The founding members were Patti LaBelle, Cindy Birdsong, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash.
Tags: Funk • R&B • Nona Hendryx • Sarah Dash • Patti LaBelle
Mr. Every Day
Mr. Every Day came into the world by way of a Cherokee Indian mother and a Bahamian father. At the age of three, Mr. Every Day toured with Stevie Wonder and his godfather Gil Scott-Heron, who was the first recording artist signed by Clive Davis.
Tags: Stevie Wonder • Gil Scott-Heron • Cherokee Indian • Clive Davis • Public Enemy
The O'Jays
The O'Jays are an American R&B group from Canton, Ohio, formed in 1958. Numerous hits followed through the 1970s and into the 1980s and 1990s, and The O'Jays were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
AJ Woodson
AJ Woodson is Editor-In-Chief at Black Westchester and Co-Owner at Urban Soul Media Group, the parent company. He is a father, author, writer, rapper, radio personality, hip-hop historian, and a freelance journalist.
Tags: Father • Author • Writer • Rapper • Radio Personality
The Police
The Police were an English new wave band formed in London in 1977. The band has won a number of music awards, including six Grammy Awards, and in 2003 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American singer. Known for her rich vocals, she has sold over 37 million records worldwide, with 20.3 million album sales in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Billboard ranked her 17th artist of the 1990–2000 decade.
Sheryl Crow
Sheryl Crow is a singer-songwriter. She has released ten studio albums, two compilations, a live album and has contributed to a number of film soundtracks. She has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, and has garnered nine Grammy Awards.
Randy Gill
Randy Gill is an R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and advocate for R&B music. He is a member of the successful mid-1990s R&B group II D Extreme, which includes the members D'Extra Wiley, Jermaine Mickey, and (as of 1998) rapper Sage Lee.
II D Extreme
II D Extreme was an American new jack swing/urban R&B group from the early 1990s that included D'Extra Wiley, Randy Gill (Johnny Gill's brother), and Jermaine Mickey. They are known for the songs "Cry No More" and "Up On The Roof".
Michael Alig
Michael Alig is an artist and party promoter, who served almost 17 years in prison for manslaughter. He was a co-founder and ringleader of the Club Kids, a group of New York City clubgoers that became a cultural phenomenon during the 1980s and 1990s.
Augostina Mallous
Augostina Mallous was the reigning Miss New Jersey's Outstanding Teen 2017 through Miss New Jersey's Outstanding Teen Scholarship Program (Miss America's Outstanding Teen).
Haley Smith
Haley Smith is a 15-year-old songstress/recording artist from the Bronx in New York City, discovered at the age of nine. She is of Jamaican-American descent. Smith has performed on various stages throughout New York, such as the Apollo Theater.
Chäs Bronxson
Chäs Bronxson is a songwriter and arranger, who tailors and customizes the lyrical content of songs, so that its message is correctly implied through the writing process. Thus, enabling the listener to connect to the intent of the song immediately.
Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson is a rock band formed by singer Marilyn Manson and guitarist Daisy Berkowitz. The band is widely regarded as being one of the most iconic and controversial figures in heavy metal music, and they have sold in excess of 60 million records.
Lacy Darryl Phillips
Lacy Darryl Phillips has a career in the entertainment industry which spans four decades. He has worked with recording artists, such as Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, Vanessa Williams, Grace Jones, Sheena Easton, Peabo Bryson, CeCe Peniston, and James Ingram.
Tags: Choreographer
Charles Valentino
Charles Valentino is a Broadway actor, ballet dancer, teacher, songwriter, and choreographer. He has appeared on the television show "CSI" (CBS), and he has worked with Joni Mitchell, Anjelica Huston, Barbra Streisand, Steve Tyrell, and Barry Mann.
Gayle Turner
Gayle Turner was nominated for the Colorado Theatre Guild's Henry Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical. The role was Geneva Lee Brown, in "1940's Radio Hour", directed by Bev Newcomb Madden, at the Arvada Center.
George Faison
George Faison is an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and theater producer, and winner of a 1975 Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a 1991 nominee for an Emmy Award for choreography.
Suze Orman
Suze Orman is an American author, financial advisor, motivational speaker, and television host. Her program "The Suze Orman Show" began airing on CNBC in 2002. In 2006, she won a Gracie Award for Outstanding Program Host on "The Suze Orman Show" on CNBC.
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