People

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The Four Tops
The Four Tops
Recording Group

Music

The Four Tops are a vocal quartet, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. Lead singer Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades.

Whodini
Whodini
Recording Group

Music

Whodini is a hip-hop group. The trio consisted of vocalist and main lyricist Jalil Hutchins; co-vocalist John Fletcher, a.k.a. Ecstasy (who wore a Zorro-style hat as his trademark); and turntable artist DJ Drew Carter, a.k.a. Grandmaster Dee.

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The Masqueraders
Recording Group

Music

The Masqueraders is a recording group, who scored a minor hit in 1968 with "I Ain't Got to Love Nobody Else".

LaTavia Roberson
LaTavia Roberson
Former Member, Destiny's Child

Music

LaTavia Roberson rose to fame in the late 1990s, as an original member of the R&B group Destiny's Child, one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all-time. Roberson has sold over 25 million records with Destiny's Child.

Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Member, Fugees

Music

Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip-hop group the Fugees. Jean has won three Grammy Awards for his musical work.

Jagged Edge
Jagged Edge
Recording Group

Music

Jagged Edge is an American mainstream R&B group signed through Jermaine Dupri's So So Def Recordings. The group has had a number of hit singles, many of which are produced by Dupri.

T-Boz
T-Boz
Member, TLC

Music

Tionne Watkins, better known by her stage name T-Boz, is an American singer, songwriter, model, dancer, actress, author, and executive producer. She rose to fame in the early 1990s as the lead singer of the girl-group TLC. She has won four Grammy Awards.

Nelsan Ellis
Nelsan Ellis
Actor

Television

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
Founding Member, The Rolling Stones

Music

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
Recording Group

Music

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: FunkR&BNona HendryxSarah DashPatti LaBelle

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Mr. Every Day
Godson of Gil Scott-Heron • Recording Artist and CEO, Past Life Entertainment

Music

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 WonderGil Scott-HeronCherokee IndianClive DavisPublic Enemy

The O'Jays
The O'Jays
Recording Group

Music

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.

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AJ Woodson
Editor-in-Chief at Black Westchester

Literature

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: FatherAuthorWriterRapperRadio Personality

Maroon 5
Maroon 5
Recording Group

Music

Maroon 5 is an American pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. The band has sold more than 20 million albums and 70 million singles worldwide.

The Police
The Police
Recording Group

Music

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
Recording Artist

Music

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
Recording Artist

Music

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.

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Randy Gill
Recording Artist

Music

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.

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II D Extreme
Recording Group

Music

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".

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Michael Alig
Artist and Party Promoter

Art

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.

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Augostina Mallous
Miss New Jersey's Outstanding Teen 2017 (Miss America's Outstanding Teen)

Pageantry

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).

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Haley Smith
Recording Artist

Music

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.

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Chäs Bronxson
CEO, M.O.U.N. Records

Music

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.

Meredith Collins
Meredith Collins
Co-Founder, Hookist

Music

Meredith Collins is Co-Founder at Hookist.

Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson
Recording Group

Music

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.

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