Filtered Tags: Grammy Award Winner
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Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, and ambassador. In 1964, he was the first African-American and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He also received two competitive Golden Globe Awards.
Collections: In Requiem · Black History Month
Tags: Academy Award Winner · Queen Elizabeth II · Diahann Carroll · Grammy Award Winner · Actor · Ambassador · British Academy of Film and Television Arts · American Negro Theater · Golden Globe Award Nominee · The Walt Disney Company
Steven Curtis Chapman
Steven Curtis Chapman is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist. As of 2014, he has sold more than 10 million albums and has 10 RIAA-certified Gold or Platinum albums.
Tags: Adoption · Grammy Award Winner · Dove Award Winner · Christian · Honorary Doctorate of Music · Anderson University · Certified Platinum · Short Form Music Video of the Year · Social Activist · Author
Tamela Mann
Tamela Mann is an American gospel singer, and actress. She began her career as a singer with the gospel group Kirk Franklin and The Family. She was a featured soloist on several tracks while with Franklin's group.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Gospel · David Mann · Kirk Franklin · TBS · BET · Tyler Perry's Assisted Living · Meet the Browns · Tilly Mann Music Group · Fort Worth, Texas
The Carpenters
The Carpenters were an vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen (1950 - 1983) and Richard Carpenter (b. 1946). During their 14-year career, The Carpenters recorded ten albums, along with numerous singles and several television specials.
Tags: Duo · Universal Music Group · Grammy Award Winner
BeBe & CeCe Winans
BeBe & CeCe Winans are an American gospel music brother and sister duo. BeBe and CeCe Winans are the seventh and eighth of the Winans family's ten children, most of whom have had gospel music careers. Together, they have received several awards.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · BeBe Winans · CeCe Winans · Sparrow Records · EMI Records · Capitol Records · Winans Family · PTL Records · Soul Train Music Award Winner · NAACP Image Award Winner
CeCe Winans
CeCe Winans is an American gospel singer, who has sold over 12 million records worldwide and won 15 Grammy Awards. She is the best-selling female gospel artist of all time, as of 2015.
Tags: Winans Family · Grammy Award Winner · Gospel · Detroit, Michigan · Sparrow Records · BeBe Winans · Church of God in Christ · Brownsville, Tennessee · Bobbi Kristina Brown · On a Positive Note
Britney Spears
Britney Spears is credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s. She became the best-selling teenage artist of all-time, selling over 150 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all-time.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Jive Records · Billboard 200 · Guinness World Records · MTV Video Music Award Winner · Billboard Music Award Winner · Radio Disney Icon Award Winner · Hollywood Walk of Fame · Pop Icon · Elizabeth Arden
Karen Clark-Sheard
Karen Clark-Sheard is an American gospel four-time Grammy Award-winning singer, musician, and songwriter. She began her career as a member of the legendary Grammy Award winning female gospel group The Clark Sisters.
Tags: The Clark Sisters · Gospel · Grammy Award Winner · Church of God in Christ · Faith Evans · Kierra Sheard · Detroit, Michigan · Island Black Music · Donald Lawrence · Vocalist
LL Cool J
LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James) is known as one of the forefathers of pop rap. He has released 13 studio albums and two greatest hits compilations. His twelfth album "Exit 13" (2008), was his last for his deal with Def Jam Recordings.
Tags: Def Jam Recordings · Rock and Roll Hall of Fame · Kennedy Center Honors · NCIS: Los Angeles · CBS · Paramount Network · Lip Sync Battle · Actor · Rapper · Grammy Award Winner
Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse's debut album, "Frank" (2003), was a critical success. Her follow-up album, "Back to Black" (2006), led to five 2008 Grammy Awards, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · National Youth Jazz Orchestra · Soul Music · R&B · Jazz · 100 Greatest Women in Music · Best Pop Vocal Album · London, England · United Kingdom · RIP
Tina Turner
Tina Turner is a recording artist, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Her combined album and single sales total approximately 180 million copies worldwide.
Tags: R&B · Ike Turner · Billboard Hot 100 · Ike & Tina Turner · Anna Mae Bullock · Brownsville, Tennessee · Singer · Actress · Hollywood Walk of Fame · Grammy Award Winner

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Laurence Juber
Laurence Juber is often considered most famous for playing lead guitar in Paul McCartney & Wings from 1978 to 1981, with whom he won a Grammy Award. Juber has since had a distinguished career as a solo fingerstyle guitarist and studio musician.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner
Carly Simon
Carly Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author. She first rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records. Her 13 Top 40 United States hits include "You're So Vain" (#1) and "Nobody Does It Better" (#2).
Tags: Author · Singer · Songwriter · Grammy Award Winner · Songwriters Hall of Fame · Grammy Hall of Fame · Working Girl · Billboard Adult Contemporary · Billboard 200 · Elektra Records
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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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

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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
Madonna
Madonna is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. Having sold more than 300 million records worldwide, she is recognized as the best-selling female recording artist of all time by Guinness World Records.
Tags: Singer · Actress · Queen of Pop · Controversy · Critical Acclaim · Golden Globe Award Winner · Guinness World Records · Greatest Artists of All Time · Grammy Award Winner · MTV Video Music Award Winner
Missy Elliott
Missy Elliott launched her solo career with her debut album "Supa Dupa Fly", which spawned the hit singles "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" and "Sock It 2 Me". The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Timbaland · Billboard 200 · Aaliyah · 702 · Total · SWV · Woodrow Wilson High School · Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award Winner · 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time
Gerald Levert
Gerald Levert is best known for singing with Sean Levert and Marc Gordon of the vocal group LeVert. Levert was also a member of LSG, comprising Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, and himself. Levert is the son of Eddie Levert, who is the Lead Singer of The O'Jays.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Rude Boys · Men at Large · Black Men United · Eddie Levert · LeVert · LSG · The O'Jays · BET Award Winner · American Music Award Nominee
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige is an American singer, songwriter, model, record producer, and actress. As of 2013, she has sold more than 50 million albums and 25 million singles worldwide.
Tags: Grammy Award Winner · Emmy Award Winner · Academy Award Nominee · Golden Globe Award Nominee · Mudbound · Uptown Records · Father MC · Jeff Redd · Yonkers, New York · Savannah, Georgia
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