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Elvis Presley

 

Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley is the undeniably the King of Rock and Roll. He goes up from modest status to begin the rock and roll revolution with his superior voice and fascinating stage presence. Presleys calling as an entertainer and singer redefined popular music in the words of the historical indicator.

After five revolutionary singles, Presleys contract was sold to RCA Records and his career promptly took off. Heartbreak Hotel, an unforgettable ballad, became his first across-the-board hit, holding down the top spot for eight weeks. I Forgot to Remember to Forget – his last single for Sun and first for RCA – went to #1 on the country charts. Presleys hip-shaking performances on a series of TV variety shows, counting Ed Sullivans, generated madness and debate. From scorching rockers to sensitive balladry, Presley obsessed and enlightened the teenage viewers. His historic string of hits in 1956 and 57 included Dont Be Cruel, Love Me Tender, All Shook Up Hound Dog, and Jailhouse Rock.

Statistically, he holds records for the most Top 10 hits (38), the most Top 40 hits (104), and the most weeks at Number One (80). As far as his standing as an edifying icon, which persists to grow even in death, writer Lester Bangs said it best: I can guarantee you one thing – we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis.

Elvis Presley’s Love Me Tender




Celine Dion

One of the Celine Dionbest Hollywood singers around the world is Celine Dion, whose music has influenced people by genres, collection from pop, gospel and soul, and rock to classical. Celine was born on 30th of March in 1968 with the name Celine Marie Claudette Dion and is initially from Canada who first achieved global recognition in the 1980s. Formerly she used to sing in French and luckily in 1986 she was signed on by Sony Records where she was recognized internationally through many of her English and French albums. In addition to being one of the most victorious singers of the 1980s Celine Dion was also songwriter and actress having marked in films like Touched by an Angel and The Nanny. It was in 1999; Celine Dion had announced a provisional break from the entertainment world to pay concentration to her private life.

Celines popular albums include Unison, Lets Talk about Love, Falling into You, One Heart, A New Day Has Come, Miracle, Taking Chances, and many more. She has also attended numerous world music tours like Celine Dion Tour, Unison Tour, Falling into You Tour and others. Celine Dion has received several awards for her international success in the entertainment and music industry and some of them consist of 7 American Music Awards, 10 World Music Awards, and 5 Grammy Awards among others. The best thing about Hollywood is if you have talent you make it gigantic despite of where you come from.

Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On




Madonna

Madonna is definitely an American vocalist, songwriter, and celebrity as well as business owner. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983. She chased it with a series of albums that achieved enormous recognition through pressing the actual limitations associated with musical content material within popular well-liked songs as well as symbolism within the woman’s songs movies that grew to become the light fixture upon MTV. Throughout her career, many of her songs have hit number one on the record charts, including “Like a Virgin”, “Papa Don’t Preach”, “Like a Prayer”, “Vogue”, “Frozen”, “Music”, “Hung Up”, and “4 Minutes”. Critics have praised Madonna for her varied musical productions while at one fell swoop serving as a lightning rod for religious argument.

Madonna has held out greater than 3 hundred million of information internationally and was recognized by the Guinness World Records to be the worlds top-selling female recording artist of all time. She has been also recognized as the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century as well as the 2nd top-selling female artist in the United States with more than 64 million certified copies released. By the year 2008, Madonna indisputably ranked as the second in the Billboard Magazine, which put The Beatles behind on the Billboard Hot 100 Top Artists of All Time and this made her the most triumphant solo performing artist in the charts history. She was also introduced in the same year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For being a prominent figure in the contemporary music, she was regarded as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century. She was too widely known for always on the go of recreating both music and image and for always holding on to a benchmark of independence in the music industry.

Madonna Like A Virgin




David Beckham

One of the most influential football players in the world, David Beckham was born on May 2nd 1975 in
Leytonstone, East London. He began playing for Manchester United in 1995 and shot to stardom during
the 1996 season, especially gaining attention for making a goal all the way from the halfway line in a
match.

On September 23, 1992, David Beckham made his first team debut as a substitute in the Rumbelows
Cup tie at Brighton and Hove Albion. During the two-and-a-half year wait to make his League debut,
he collected a runners-up medal in the 1993 FA Youth Cup and a reserve team championship medal in
1994. David Beckham also played five matches on loan for Preston North End, scoring two goals for the
Lancashire Club.

In the 1998-99 season, Manchester United enjoyed a tremendously successful year when they won
the ‘treble’ of league, FA Cup and Champions League – a unique feat in English football. David Beckham
was pivotal in United’s FA Cup final win over Newcastle United and for the 1999 UEFA Champions
League Final against Bayern Munich. This led to him finishing as runner up to Rivaldo at the European
Footballer of the Year and FIFA World Player of the Year awards in 1999.

In January 1998, David Beckham became engaged to Victoria Beckham Adams (former member of the
Pop group Spice Girls) and exchanged wedding vows on July 4, 1999.

At the 2002 World Cup, in another tense matchup with Argentina, David Beckham redeemed himself in
the eyes of English fans when he converted a penalty kick that eventually gave England the victory.
In the summer of 2003, David Beckham was awarded an OBE (Order Of British Empire Honor) in Queen
Elizabeth II’s honors list.

David Beckham




Whitney Houston: A Superstar Worth To Be Remembered

Whitney Houston

One of the very well-known true superstars, Whitney Houston, has really touched and even changed people’s lives. She is one of the most admired women in the entertainment industry. Her music connotes the genuine meaning of life. Her music is so much appreciated by billions of people for she also had the voice that can make billions proud.

Houston existed for success. She is the child of the gospel vocalist Cissy Houston, the cousin of 1960s diva Dionne Warwick, and also the goddaughter of Aretha Franklin. She began performing in the chapel in her younger years up to her teenage years. She had been the support vocalist of Chaka Khan as well as Jermaine Fitzgibbons.

Houston had been among the planet’s best-selling artist within the 80s as well as 90s, promoting a lot more than 170 million albums. Amongst her countless awards, she received 2 Emmys and 6 Grammys known for hit songs like “I Wanna Dance With Somebody and “Saving All My Love For You”, to globally film achievement with “The Bodyguard” — together with the striking hit “I Will Always Love You”.

Houston is the only artist to graph 7 consecutive absolutely no. 1 Billboard 100 strikes “Saving All My Love for You, How Will I Know, Greatest Love of All, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Didn’t We Almost Have It All, So Emotional and Where Do Broken Hearts Go”. She is next to Elton John and also the only woman artist to possess 2 number-one Billboard and 200 Recording Awards about the Billboard journal year-end graphs.




Patricia Field

An Emmy award-winning stylist and costume designer, Patricia field is probably best known for her
work as the much-talked-about and influential costume stylist on HBOs now defunct series Sex and the
City (1998-2004). The flame-haired fashion guru applied her trademark New York style to the hit series,
creating one of the most fashion-forward television series to date. A boutique owner with her own line
of fashion, Patricia Field rose to the top of her fame becoming one of the most sought-after designers in
the industry. By 2006, she had made enough of a name for herself even outside the insular TV wardrobe
world that she was chosen to style the very fashion-focused hit film, The Devil Wears Prada for which
she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Designer. During Patricia Fields tenure as a costume
designer on Sex and The City, the show became famous for the fashions showcased. For her work on
this film, she was nominated for 5 Emmy Awards, with one win, and nominated for 6 Costume Designers
Guild Awards, with 4 wins. She is one out of six Honorees of the 2008 Reel Time Film Festival. She went
on to return as Costume Designer for Sex and The City: The Movie (2008) and the sequel Sex and The
City 2 (2010). Patricia Field has even worked in the Asian market by creating the fashion behind the
Chinese feature film Go Lala Go (2010).

Sex and the City, The Fashion Behind the Movie




Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse, nicknamed as Wino, was a stunning English singer and lyricist. Her professional career took off early when she was her teens. At the age of 12, she was accepted into the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School. When she was 16, she caught her first big break when the pop singer, Tyler James, passed her demo tape to his label, A&R, who was searching for a jazz vocalist. Amy Winehouses debut album, Frank, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize as well as two BRIT awards for Best Female Solo Artist and Best Urban Act. The album hit double platinum. She won the Best Contemporary Song for Stronger Than Me. The song Rehab became an instant Top 10 hit in the UK and earned her Best Contemporary Song. Amy Winehouse became the first British female to win five Grammy Awards on the same night, including Best New Artist and Record of the Year for Rehab.

In the blink of an eye, she became a rage for her fashion statement and musical concoction. In April 2008, she was voted the ultimate heroine by her British fans. Amy Winehouse died at the age of 27, on 23 July 2011, in her London Home. Her experimentation with various genres like jazz and R&B not only captured millions of hearts, but ruled them completely.

Amy Winehouse – Rehab




Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

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Stevie Wonder, born Steveland Hardaway Judkins (later taking the name of Steveland Morris when his mother married), was made blind as the result of a hospital error soon after his birth. He began playing the harmonica at five, started piano lessons at six and then took up the drums at eight.

While performing for some friends in 1961, Stevie Wonder was discovered by Ronnie White of the Miracles. Ronnie White quickly arranged an audition for Stevie Wonder at Motown records, where Berry Gordy signed the child prodigy on the spot. Stevie Wonders first two albums were released in 1962: A Tribute to Uncle Ray, which consisted of covers of Stevie’s idol Ray Charles, and The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, a jazz album showcasing his instrumental skills on piano, harmonica, and percussion. His album The 12 Year Old Genius, featuring the single “Figertips, Pt. 2″ shot to the top of both pop and R&B charts, making the album Motown’s first chart-topping LP and establishing Stevie Wonder’s commercial success.

Throughout the early 1970s, Stevie Wonder practically swept all possible Grammy awards, winning Best R & B Artist, Best Album, Best Song, and Best Male Vocal. The 1980′s saw Wonder scoring his biggest hits and reaching an unprecedented level of fame, evidenced by increased album sales, high-profile collaborations and television appearances. Hotter than July (1980) became his first platinum selling album, and its single ‘Happy Birthday’ was actually used in a campaign to establish Dr Martin Luther King’s birthday as a US national holiday.

Overall, Stevie Wonder has had 10 number one hits on the pop charts, and 20 R&B number one hits, and album sales totaling more than 100 million units.

Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You




Patrick Swayze

 

American actor Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Texas. His mother was a choreographer and his father was an engineering draftsman. Patrick Swayze appeared in various stage productions like Disney on Parade and Grease and made his big screen debut in 1979, with the movie Skatetown U.S.A.. In the movie, the actor impressed everyone with his performance and screen presence.

 

Patrick Swayze’s Broadway debut was as Danny Zuko in the stage version of Grease. This was followed by his film debut as Ace in the film Skatetown U.S.A. in 1979. He then appeared in a number of successful films such as The Outsiders (1983), Red Dawn (1984), and Youngblood (1986).

 

1987 became a landmark year for Patrick Swayze when Dirty Dancing was released. The movie was a huge commercial success. It grossed $170 million worldwide and became one of the highest grossing films of the year. He was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for his role. Patrick Swayze starred another international hit when he starred in Ghost alongside Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. The next year, he joined up with his co-star in Youngblood, Keanu Reeves in Point Break, a big-budget action film.

 

On September 14th 2009 Patrick Swayze lost his battle with cancer. He is survived by his wife of more than thirty years, Lisa Niemi.

 

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Frank Sinatra

 

One of the most sought-after performers in the entertainment industry, Francis Albert Frank Sinatra, often hailed as the greatest American singer of 20th-century popular music. He was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Frank Sinatra got his first break in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group, The Three Flashes, to let him join. The group was known as the Hoboken Four, and they sufficiently impressed Edward Bowes.

In May 1941, Frank Sinatra was at the top of the male singer polls in the Billboard and Down Beat magazines. His appeal to bobby soxers, as teenage girls of that time were called, revealed a whole new audience for popular music. The rebirth of Frank Sinatra’s career began with the eve-of-Pearl Harbor drama From Here to Eternity (1953), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. By the end of the year, Billboard had named “Young at Heart” Song of the Year; Swing Easy!, with Nelson Riddle at the helm, was named Album of the Year; and he was named “Top Male Vocalist” by Billboard, Down Beat and Metronome. Frank Sinatra recorded the retrospective September of my Years, starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music, and scored hits with “Strangers in the Night” and “My Way”. In 1980, Frank Sinatra’s first album in six years was released, Trilogy: Past Pesent Future, garnered six Grammy nominations, winning for best liner notes, and peaked at number 17 on Billboard’s album chart.

Frank Sinatra began to show signs of senility in his last years and after a heart attack in February 1997, he made no further public appearances. After suffering another heart attack, he died at 10:50 pm on May 14, 1998 at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, with his wife Barbara by his side.

Frank Sinatra- My Way







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