Vanessa Williams is an American singer, actress, and television producer. She is best known for her roles in Ugly Betty, Soul Food, and Desperate Housewives; she is also a Grammy Award-winning singer.

The Alan Parsons Project consisted of Alan Parsons, Eric Woolfson, and an ever-evolving line of session musicians and vocalists. Active between 1975 and 1990, they never made too much headway in their ...

The Average White Band was a jazz-funk band from Scotland. Their musical style differed from the other contemporary funk acts by using traditional Scottish folk instruments, such as bagpipes and ...

In 1958, a Las Vegas booking agent spotted Wayne Newton (who was still in his junior year at high school at the time) and his brothers performing on a local TV show. He signed them up to perform in ...

Jerrod Niemann might have written hits for some of the biggest names in country music (Garth Brooks, Neal McCoy, Jamey Johnson, Blake Shelton, Lee Brice, The Cadillac Three… you name them, Niemann has ...

Sérgio Santos Mendes, a Brazilian Portuguese, was born on February 11, 1941. He’s a Brazilian musician with over 55 releases. He plays bossa nova heavily crossed with funk and jazz. He is one of the ...

The 4 Non Blondes were an alt-rock band from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. The original three members were a bassist named Christa Hillhouse, a guitarist named Shaunna Hall, and a drummer named ...

It’s not really that often that you find a pop singer who is also a country artist who just happens to also be a gospel singer. However, that is exactly what you get with self-made recording artist ...

Don McLean is an American singer-songwriter who is best known for his hits “American Pie” and “Vincent (Starry Starry Night).” McLean has released numerous iconic songs that have become staples of ...

Trevor Hall is an American musician who grew up in South Carolina and California. In the latter, he became familiar with yoga, meditation, and Hinduism, which influenced his music. Indeed, Hall has ...

Although Chingy has kept a low profile over the last couple of years, he was the king of pop-centric rap radio at one point in the mid-2000s. The St. Louis, Missouri rapper hit it big with songs such ...

In 1968, two music groups from Philadelphia, The Monarchs and the Percussions put their creative minds together to form one group, The Stylistics. Among the members was Russell Thompkins, Jr. whose ...