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Peppermint
The hardest working woman in show business, drag queen and recording artist Peppermint has conquered the New York scene with her high-energy and engaging personality. She was a finalist on "RuPaul's Drag Race" (Season 9).
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His Royal Highness Prince Emanuele Filiberto
HRH Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Prince of Venice is an Italian television personality, a member of the House of Savoy, and the son and heir of Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples. He is the only male-line grandson of Umberto II, the last King of Italy.
Tags: Royalty · Italy · Savoy · His Royal Highness · Prince · Naples · Television Personality · Umberto II · Grandson · Last King of Italy
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Yolanda Franklin-Moore
Yolanda Franklin-Moore is Fashion Designer and Owner of Xande Fadee, an innovative fashion and accessories line. She is a highly skilled fashion designer with a creative flare, and she has over 20 years of experience in the fashion industry.
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Tito Puente Jr.
Billboard Music Award winner Tito Puente Jr. is a Latin musician and bandleader. He is the son of legendary Mambo and Latin Jazz musician Tito Puente and the brother of New York City meteorologist Audrey Puente. Puente Jr. carries on his father's legacy.
Tags: Billboard Music Award Winner · Tito Puente · Mambo · Legacy · Audrey Puente · Richard Puente · Percussionist · Latin Music · Entertainment · Recording Artist
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Solo
Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded their gold-selling debut album in Minneapolis and released it in 1995, with production by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.
Tags: Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Recording Group · A&M Records · Perspective Records · Certified Gold · Heaven · R&B · Billboard Hot 100 · Angie Stone · Raphael Saadiq
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Ari Gold
Ari Gold regularly addressed being both Jewish and gay. He landed his first job as a professional singer by performing the lead role on the CBS Children's recording "Pot Belly Bear: Song and Stories". He also performed backing vocals for Diana Ross.
Tags: Recording Artist · Glam Award Winner · VH1 · MTV · BBC · Top of the Pops · Bravo · Diana Ross · Billboard · Boy George
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Sonny Turner
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
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Gerald Alston
Gerald Alston is an American R&B singer, and the lead singer with The Manhattans. Between 1988 and 1995, he left the group to record five albums (later recording his tribute to Sam Cooke in 2008) and ten solo singles.
Tags: The Manhattans · Shining Star · Kiss and Say Goodbye · Columbia Records · Grammy Award Winner · Motown Records · The Blind Boys of Alabama · Shirley Alston Reeves · The Shirelles · True Gospel
Force M.D.'s
Force M.D.'s is an American R&B vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Although the group has old school hip hop roots, it is perhaps best known for two tunes that are widely considered 1980s quiet storm classics.
Tags: Music · Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Staten Island, New York · Tender Love · Love Is a House · 1980s · Quiet Storm · R&B · Warner Bros. Records · Reprise Records
George Michael
Georgics Kyriacos Panayiotou, known professionally as George Michael, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He rose to fame during the 1980s and 1990s with his style of post-disco dance-pop.
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André Wallace
André Wallace was Mayor in 2019 and formerly City Council President at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, Creative Direction Construction & Design.
Tags: Mount Vernon, New York · City Council President · Mayor · Melba Moore · Construction · Creative Direction Construction & Design · Westchester County, New York · Inner Suburb of New York City · Democrat · Politician
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Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick is a 5-time Grammy Award winning legend. She is an American singer, actress, and television show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.
Collections: Black Music Month
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Kennedy Center Honoree · Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winner · Cissy Houston · Whitney Houston · The Drinkard Singers · Burt Bacharach · University of Hartford · Actress · Television Host
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes were an American R&B/Soul vocal group, one of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s. The group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Platters
The Platters was an American vocal group. They were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre.
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Trisco Pearson
Force M.D.'s is an American R&B vocal group that was formed in 1981 in Staten Island, New York. Later, Trisco Pearson joined the group.
Tags: Force M.D.'s · RIP · Recording Artist · Singer · Group Member · Tender Love · Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis · Billboard Hot 100 · R&B · Music
Tito Puente
Tito Puente was an American mambo musician and Latin jazz composer. The son of native Puerto Ricans Ernest and Ercilia Puente, living in New York City's Spanish Harlem community, Puente is often credited as "The Musical Pope".
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Alee Opuiyo
Alee Opuiyo is a 2005 Howard University School of Communications graduate. She majored in Broadcast Journalism and minored in Political Science. While Alee attended Howard, she interned with the cable network Fox News.
Tags: Publicist
Céline Dion
Céline Dion is a Canadian singer and businesswoman. She remains the best-selling Canadian artist and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million copies worldwide.
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt is an American blues singer, songwriter and slide guitar player. She has received 10 Grammy Awards. She is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Bette Midler
In a career spanning almost half a century, Bette Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide.
Jackie Wilson
Jackie Wilson was an American soul singer-songwriter and performer. Gaining fame in his early years as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes, he went solo in 1957 and recorded over 50 hit singles.
Whitney Houston
In 2009, Guinness World Records cited Whitney Houston her as the most awarded female act of all time. She is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170 - 200 million records sold worldwide.
Collections: Black Music Month
Tags: Arista Records · Clive Davis · Grammy Award Winner · Rock and Roll Hall of Fame · Bobby Brown · The Voice · Singer · MTV Video Music Award Winner · Billboard Music Award Winner · NAACP Image Award Winner
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