Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an American singer in the genre of rock music and an actress whose career spanned 50 years.
Born on 26th November 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) was the younger of two girls to her mother-Zelma Bullock.
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Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng was probably one of the most famous singers amongst the Chinese people worldwide. She was known to be very influential and popular Chinese pop singers. She mostly sang romantic ballad and folk songs.
Born in Baojhon, Taiwan, to a Mainland Chinese family from Hebei province, Teresa Teng was educated at Gin ling Girls High School. As a child she would win many awards for singing at school events. She won her first major award at an event held by the Broadcasting Corporation of China. Soon she quit her high school to pursue this talent as a career.
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George Strait
George Strait is an American country music singer. He is also called the King of Country. Strait has an exceptional style of traditional western country music, western swing music, and honky-tonk style barroom ballads.
George Harvey Strait was born on May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas. His parents separated in his childhood. He and his siblings then lived with their father from then on. His father was a schoolteacher who also operated a 100-year-old family-owned ranch. Strait began playing music when he attended Pearsall High school. He played the guitar and the piano. He joined a rock ‘n’ roll garage band while he was still in school.
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Four Tops
The four tops are an American vocal group. The members are Levi Stubbs, Renaldo Obie Benson, Lawrence Payton, and Abdul Duke Fakir.
In the year 1954, the quartet met at a friends’ party in Detroit, Michigan. This was where they first sang together. They then named themselves The Four Aims. As a group, the four Aims t sang Jazz songs. (more…)
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Celine Dion
The story of Celine Dion is not just any rags-to-riches fairytale. This is how she began her music career:
Celine Marie Claudette Dion was born on 30 March 1968 in Charlemagne, Quebec. She is the Canadian singer and entrepreneur who moved even the stoniest of hearts with ‘My Heart will go on’, the hit song from the movie Titanic.
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Julio Iglesias
Smooth, smart and savvy, that’s Julio Iglesias for you. But he’s one star you can go beyond the looks and personality and look right into his soul just by listening to him sing.
Amongst the most popular and successful Latin singers of the 70s and 80s, the Grammy Award winner has sold more than 300 million albums in 14 different languages.
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