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P!nk
P!nk
Recording Artist

Music

Pink, frequently stylized as P!nk, is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. Recognized for her strong signature vocals and acrobatic performances, she has sold over 47 million albums worldwide, including over 16 million albums in the United States.

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Quindon Tarver
Recording Artist

Music

Quindon Tarver is an American singer. He is best known for his cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" for the 1996 film "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet", starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the leading roles of Romeo and Juliet.

Chuck Jackson
Chuck Jackson
Recording Artist

Music

Chuck Jackson is an American R&B singer, who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully. As a songwriter, he is known for writing Whitney Houston's number one hit "Where Do Broken Hearts Go".

Michael Bivins
Michael Bivins
Member, New Edition and Member, Bell Biv DeVoe

Music

Michael Bivins is an American singer and rapper, and a founding member of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe.

Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig
Player, New York Yankees (1923 - 1939)

Sports

Lou Gehrig was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 through 1939. He was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association in 1969.

Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
28-Time Grammy Award Winner and Inductee, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Music

Quincy Jones has a career that spans six decades in the entertainment industry, a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, and 28 Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. In 2013, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Seal
Seal
4-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Seal is an English singer and songwriter. He has sold more than 20 million records worldwide. He has won multiple awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards and four Grammy Awards.

Paul Buckmaster
Arranger, Conductor, and Composer

Music

Paul Buckmaster is a Grammy Award-winning English artist, arranger, conductor and composer. He is best known for his orchestral collaborations with Elton John and with The Rolling Stones in the 1970s.

Common
Common
Recording Artist

Music

Common is an American rapper, actor, film producer and poet from Chicago, Illinois. He won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the 2015 Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his song "Glory" from the 2014 film "Selma".

Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey
Founder and CEO, Oprah Winfrey Network

Television

Oprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history.

Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
First Lady of the United States (2009 - 2017)

Politics

Michelle Obama is an American lawyer and writer who was First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady.

Barack Obama
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States (2009 - 2017)

Politics

Barack Obama is a politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He is the first African American to have served as president. He previously served in the United States Senate, representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008.

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
67th United States Secretary of State

Politics

Hillary Clinton is politician who was the 67th United States Secretary of State, United States Senator from New York, First Lady of the United States, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

Mikey Wax
Mikey Wax
Recording Artist

Music

Mikey Wax is an American pianist, guitarist and singer-songwriter, most recognized for his single "You Lift Me Up" featured in the Season 10 promo commercial of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" on E! Entertainment.

Spike Lee
Spike Lee
5-Time Academy Award Nominee

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.

Brian McKnight
Brian McKnight
Recording Artist

Music

Brian McKnight is a multi-instrumentalist, who plays eight instruments, including piano, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, trombone, tuba, flugelhorn and trumpet. His work has earned him 16 Grammy Awards nominations, though he has never won.

LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton
Actor

Television

LeVar Burton is best known for his roles as the host of the long-running PBS children's series "Reading Rainbow", Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and the young Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning ABC miniseries "Roots".

Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Apple

Technology

Steve Jobs was the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.; CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and Founder, Chairman, and CEO of NeXT.

Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Co-Founder, Microsoft

Technology

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. Since 1987, he has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007 (and again in 2009), and has been since 2014.

Usher
Usher
Recording Artist

Music

Usher is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He has sold 23.8 million albums and 38.2 million digital songs in the United States. To date, his worldwide sales stand at 43 million albums and 75 million records overall.

Johnny Gill
Johnny Gill
Member, New Edition

Music

Johnny Gill is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He is the sixth and final member of the R&B/pop group New Edition, and was also a member of the supergroup called LSG, with Gerald Levert and Keith Sweat.

Gregg Allman
Gregg Allman
Member, The Allman Brothers Band

Music

Gregg Allman was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for performing in The Allman Brothers Band. He has received numerous awards including several Grammys. Also, he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band
Recording Group

Music

The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band. The band has been awarded seven gold and four platinum albums, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.

Sir Roger Moore
Sir Roger Moore
Actor

Film

Sir Roger Moore was an English actor. He is best known for playing secret agent James Bond in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985. He also played Simon Templar in the television series "The Saint" between 1962 and 1969.

The Kentucky Headhunters
Recording Group

Music

The Kentucky Headhunters have released eight studio albums, three compilations, and twenty-three singles. In addition, the band has won three Country Music Association awards, an Academy of Country Music award and a Grammy Award.

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