Nicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-born American musician, Rapper, singer-songwriter. She was born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to the New York borough of Queens when she was five.
After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009 and being signed to Young Money Entertainment in August 2009, Minaj released her debut album, Pink Friday, in November 2010. It quickly became a commercial success, peaking at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) a month after its release. Nicki Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. Her second single, “Your Love”, reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart, making Minaj the first female artist to top the chart unaccompanied since 2002. She also became the first female artist to be included on MTV’s Annual Hottest MC List. Nicki Minaj was named the 2011 Rising Star by Billboard. Her second studio album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded will be released on April 3, 2012.

Date of Birth
December 8, 1982 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago

Birth Name
Onika Tanya Maraj

Nickname
Nicki Lewinski

Nicki Minaj Height is
5’4″ (162.5cm)

Nicki Minaj website: mypinkfriday.com

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Tony Kanal is a English musician, record producer and songwriter. Kanal is the bassist for the American rock band No Doubt. His musical work outside of the band includes producing and songwriting with artists such as reggae singer Elan Atias and fellow No Doubt bandmate Gwen Stefani, among others.

Date of Birth
August 27, 1970 in Kingsbury, London, England

Birth Name
Tony Ashwin Kanal

Tony Kanal Height is
5′ 6″ (168cm)

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Bruno Mars is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Mars raised in Honolulu, Hawaii by a family of musicians and began making music at a young age. After performing in various musical venues in his hometown throughout his childhood, he decided to pursue a musical career and moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school. Bruno Mars’ music is noted for displaying a wide variety of styles and influences. He has worked with an assortment of artists from different musical genres; Mars acknowledges the influences that his collaborations have had on his own music.

Date of Birth
October 8, 1985 in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Birth Name
Peter Gene Bayot Hernandez

Bruno Mars Height is
5′ 5″ (165cm)

Bruno Mars official website: www.brunomars.com

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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer-songwriter. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City’s Lower East Side in 2003 and enrolled at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Lady Gaga soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which was a commercial success and achieved international popularity with the singles “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”. The album reached number one on the record charts of six countries, accomplished positions within the top-ten worldwide, and topped the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart while simultaneously peaking at number two on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States. Achieving similar worldwide success, the follow-up EP The Fame Monster (2009) produced a further two global chart-topping singles “Bad Romance” and “Telephone” and allowed her to embark on a second global headlining concert tour, The Monster Ball Tour, just months after having finished her first, The Fame Ball Tour. The upcoming third studio album by Lady Gaga, Born This Way, is scheduled to be released on May 23rd, 2011.

Date of Birth
March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City, United States

Birth Name
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Lady Gaga Height is
5′ 1″ (155cm)

Lady Gaga official website: ladygaga.com

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Lady Gaga Facebook: www.facebook.com/ladygaga

Jordin Brianna Sparks is аn American R&B & Pop singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol. Sparks wоn when she was 17 years old, making her thе youngest winner. She followed her American Idol victory with the release of her self-titled debut album in 2007, which has gone Platinum in thе United States, having sold about 2 million copies worldwide. Due to thе success of her debut album and its singles, shе has won an American Music Award in 2008 and received her first Grammy nomination in 2009.

Date of Birth
December 22, 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

Birth Name
Jordin Brianna Sparks

Jordin Sparks Height is
6′ (183cm)

Jordin Sparks’s Web site: www.jordinsparks.com

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Kelendria “Kelly” Rowland is аn American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, model and television host. Rowland rose to fame in thе late 1990s as one of the founding members of the girl group Destiny’s Child. Shе has sold more than 50 million records worldwide with thе group.

During the hiatus оf the group, Rowland collaborated with rapper Nelly оn the single “Dilemma,” a worldwide number-one hit, аnd released her rock pop-influenced debut solo album Simply Deep in 2002. It became a commercial success, selling more than two million copies worldwide, and garnered three more or less successful singles, among “Stole” and “Can’t Nobody.” Following the fоrmal disbandment of Destiny’s Child in 2005, Rowland’s оften-delayed second album, Ms. Kelly, was released in 2007. Moderately successful on the charts, it spawned thе hit singles “Like This” and “Work.” In 2009, she scored another number-one hit with her contribution on French DJ David Guetta’s single “When Love Takes Over.”

In 2002, Rowland branched into acting, which led tо guest stints on sitcom series such as The Hughleys and Girlfriends, аnd leading roles in big-screen movies like Freddy vs. Jason (2003) and The Seat Filler (2004). In 2009, she became thе host of the Bravo competition series The Fashion Show alongside Isaac Mizrahi.

Date of Birth
February 11, 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.

Birth Name
Kelendria Trene Rowland

Kelly Rowland Height is
5′ 8″ (173cm)

Kelly Rowland’s Web site: www.kellyrowland.com

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Beyoncé Knowles, often referred tо mononymously as Beyoncé, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and wаs first exposed to singing аnd dancing competitions аs a child. Knowles rose tо fame in the late 1990s as the lеad singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child.

Date of Birth
September 4, 1981 in Houston, Texas, United States

Birth Name
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles

Beyonce Height is
5′ 7″ (170cm)

Beyonce’s Web site: www.beyonceonline.com

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Cher is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People’s Choice Award for her work in film, music and television.

Date of Birth
May 20, 1946 – El Centro, California, United States

Birth Name
Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere

Cher Height is
5′ 8½” (174cm)

Cher web site: www.cher.com

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Barry Manilow is an American singer-songwriter, musician, arranger, producer, conductor, entertainer, and performer, best known for such recordings as “I Write the Songs”, “Mandy”, “Weekend in New England” and “Copacabana”. In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equaled only by Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and Johnny Mathis. He has recorded a string of Billboard hit singles and multi-platinum albums that have resulted in his being named Radio & Records number one Adult Contemporary artist and winning three straight American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist. Several well-known entertainers have given Manilow their “stamp of approval,” including Sinatra, who was quoted in the 1970s regarding Manilow, “He’s next.” In 1988, Bob Dylan stopped Manilow at a party, hugged him and said, “Don’t stop what you’re doing, man. We’re all inspired by you.” Arsenio Hall cited Manilow as a favorite guest on The Arsenio Hall Show and admonished his audience to respect him for his work.

As well as producing and arranging albums for other artists, such as Bette Midler, Dionne Warwick and Rosemary Clooney, Manilow has written songs for musicals, films, and commercials.

Since February 2005, he has been the headliner at the Las Vegas Hilton, and has performed hundreds of shows.

Date of Birth
June 17, 1943 – New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name
Barry Alan Pincus

Barry Manilow Height is
6′ (183cm)

Barry Manilow web site: www.manilow.com

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Patrick Wayne Swayze (August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter. He was best-known for his roles as romantic leading men in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost and as Orry Main in the North and South television miniseries. He was named by People magazine as its “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1991.

Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early 2008. He continued acting until 2009, when he became too ill to do so. Later the same year he died from the disease.

Date of Birth
August 18, 1952 – Houston, Texas, USA

Birth Name
Patrick Wayne Swayze

Patrick Swayze Height
5′ 10″ (178cm)

Patrick Swayze web site: www.patrickswayze.net

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