Adele, born on May 5th, 1988 in Tottenham, London, England, is a singer and songwriter. She became a mainstream success at age 19. Although she went through some very dark times in her life, such as her disastrous relationships, with both her boyfriends and father, and alcohol abuse. Overall, she was able to recover from her bad habits and become the iconic singer that we all dearly admire. Adele's passion with singing began when she was just four years of age as well as her "father, Mark Evans, left Adele's mother, Penny Adkins, to raise her on her own in a numerous amount of working class neighborhoods." (thefamouspeople.com, ) Although Mark abandoned Penny, he kept in touch with Adele up until her teenage years. In fact, it was in her teens when she "began to seriously consider singing" (watchmojo.com, ) as a career choice. She was "enrolled at BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croudon." (thefamouspeople.com, ) Including that when she was attending BRIT, she would compose songs and post them on a social media …show more content…
She was discovered by a label who heard demo online because she was able to "generate enough buzz to catch the attention of independent record label XL Recordings." (watchmojo.com, ) In addition, Adele had the potential to become an outstanding artist/songwriter. "In 2006, she began supporting other artists as an opener. Thanks to these shows and releases, Adele became a headlining act by 2007." (watchmojo.com, ) Although extremely talented, Adele faced a dreadful addiction to alcohol. Her "hangovers were affecting her voice as she stated her voice as she stated her voice was 'never in form' It seemed that everything she had worked for, including her gifted voice was slipping away due to her alcohol abuse." ( , ) She would drink so much that she would even forget her songs right before performing, and end up having to cancel. All of this made her risk losing her
Annie Jean Easley was born April 23, 1933 to Mary Melvina Hoover and Samuel Bird Easley, in Birmingham Alabama. She was raised, along with her older brother, by a single mom. Annie attended schools in Birmingham and graduated high school valedictorian of her class. Throughout high school Annie wanted to be a nurse because she thought that the only careers that were open to African American women at the time were nursing and teaching and she definitely did not want to teach so she settled on being a nurse but as she studied in high school she began thinking about becoming a pharmacist.
Since then her music has been featured on various TV shows including her video “Catch Me If You Can” being featured on The Family Channel, airing in winter
This helped her develop her vocal skills. She then graduated at the age of 16 and was valedictorian of her class. She began working with Columbia records and ever since then she has had continuous success with her career (Alicia Keys). Alicia keys had many musical influences. Some of those people include, Nina Simone, Barbara Streisand,Marvin Gaye, and Willa Cather (Fiore Raymond).
Mariel Margaret Hamm was born on March 17th, 1972 in the small town of Selma, Alabama. As the fourth of six children born into this military family, Mia moved around constantly and spent her early years as a toddler in Florence Italy, where she was initially introduced to her life passion of women’s soccer. However, Mia was born with clubfoot and wore corrective braces as a toddler, thus preventing her to participate in any sport at a young age. Her love for sports truly began at the age of five on a soccer team her dad coached, continued throughout middle school as a played on the boy’s football team and then in high school as a starting forward in soccer. Her soccer life began to excel when at age 15 she joined the United States Women’s national soccer team – thus becoming the youngest in history to be selected to join such an elite group of soccer stars.
She then moved to New York and became an activist in many social justice organizations and worked other jobs to make ends meet (“Who Was Ella Baker?”, 2015). In 1930, still early in
Alanis Morissette is a well known name in the musical industry. She has brought a passion for self expression into every song that she produces. Her musical career began in Canada in the early 90s and with a two-album recording contract with MCA Records; she released two successful dance pop albums Alanis and Now Is the Time. After producing these two albums she wanted to take her career to the next level but that was not the direction of the recording company. So they parted ways, and Morissette was introduced to Scott Welch.
In actuality, Selena reached a pinnacle of success long before she broke into
Born as Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, in Saint Louis. Her mother had dreams of becoming a music-hall dancer, but gave them up to become a mother and washerwoman and her father abandoned them when she was an infant. Most of her time as a youth was spent in poverty. To help support her family, she started cleaning houses and babysitting at the age of eight often being mistreated. At the age of 13 she ran away from home, found work as a waitress at a club where she met her first husband Willie Wells, who she divorced only weeks later.
Even though Selena was murdered, she achieved many great things throughout her lifetime. She is remembered today for her wonderful accomplishments. Selena was one of many Mexican-Americans to achieve crossover success with her music to become a global artist. Selena was born on April 16, 1971, in a small town called Lake Jackson, Texas. She was born to Mexican-American parents, Marcella and Abraham Quintanilla.
“Sometimes within the mistakes made, good things can come through it all.” - Amy Winehouse. Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, Southgate England 1983. Even before Winehouse was born she was destined to a musician like few, but very special, family members. Aunts and uncles as professional jazz artists, it was hard not to like music in the Winehouse family.
Hamidah Waldron Dr. Tennyson HUM 209 25 March 2015 Angela Bassett Angela Bassett is a Yale trained, Academy nominee, and a Golden Globe winning actress. She’s best known for her dramatic roles. Angela Bassett breakthrough role was playing Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It. Bassett worked hard to fight through stereotypical roles African American women were usually given and she excelled tremendously.
Hayley grew up as a small town girl. She wanted to be in a band but the fact that she became this famous is amazing. Going from a eighteen year old girl to a famous celebrity is a big jump. Though when you are a celebrity with thousands of fans you also have thousands of people that dislike you. The more unique you are the more people hate you and at the same time even more love you.
A brief history of the entrepreneur: Robyn Rihanna Fenty (better known as Rihanna) was born on the 20th of February 1988 in Barbados. She is the eldest of three children who were born into a family were drug and alcohol abuse was prevalent. Rihanna turned to singing to release the stress of her family life which became worse after her parents’ divorce. At a very young age of 16 she was signed to Def Jam records and started producing and releasing music hereafter. Despite Rihanna’s harsh family life and intense migraines, she managed to work her way up to the top of the cultural ladder without ever letting go of her traditions from home in the Caribbean Island.
Beyoncé and Rihanna are two of the most successful R&B singers right now. They are very strong, black, powerful women. They influence, inspire and empower many people. Many young women look up to them and strive to look and be like the two successful stars. Many men drool over them and dream of having a woman that is as beautiful as the two.
She was an English song writer and singer who impacted the music industry with her powerful and soulful vocals. It was said that she even created a new genre of music by fusing other genres of music such as soul, jazz, R&B and pop music. My celebrity diagnosis is on no other than the famous English singer, Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse was born to her parents Mitch and Janis Winehouse on September 14th 1983. As a child, her parents exposed her to different types of music which sparked up her interest in music and helped her in improving her musical ability.