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  • Music Artist JoJo
    Joanna Noëlle Levesque (born December 20, 1990), better known as JoJo, is an American pop and R&B singer and actress. She came to fame in 2004 with her platinum-selling, self-titled debut album and became the youngest solo artist to have a #1 single in the United States with the song "Leave (Get Out)", which was one of three singles she released that year. JoJo has also begun a film career, and in 2006 starred in two Hollywood films, Aquamarine and RV.
  • Music Artist John Legend
    John Legend (born John Stephens on December 28, 1978 in Springfield, Ohio) is a Grammy winning American R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist. His debut album, the platinum selling Get Lifted, was released in late 2004. It features collaborations with rapper and producer Kanye West as well as rapper Snoop Dogg and the singles "Used To Love U" (US top 100, UK top 30) and "Ordinary People" (US and UK top 30).
  • Music Artists Jimmy Eat World
    Jimmy Eat World is an American rock group from Mesa, Arizona, formed in 1993.
  • Music Artist Jessica Simpson
    Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer who rose to fame during the late 1990s. In the following ten years she starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds, released her own line of Dessert Beauty and Dessert Treat beauty products and started a career as an actress, while continuing her music career.
  • Music Artist Jesse McCartney
    Jesse Arthur Abraham McCartney (born April 9, 1987) is an American pop singer and actor.
  • Music Artist Jennifer Ellison
    Jennifer Ellison (born May 30, 1983) is an English actress, singer and dancer. Ellison, who was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, when she became a pop singer.
  • Music Artist Jay Z
    Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), popularly known as Jay-Z or by a variety of nicknames (S-Dot Carter, Jigga, Jay-Hova, Hova, Hov, Young Hov, Sir Hova of Brooklyn, Iceberg Slim, The Big Homey, and President Carter), is an American hip-hop artist and current President of Def Jam and CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records. He has been one of the most prolific and successful American rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s, maintaining both commercial appeal and street credibility.
  • Music Artist Jadakiss
    Jadakiss (born Jason Phillips May 22, 1975 in Yonkers, New York) is a popular American rapper. He is also part of D-Block, formerly The L.O.X.
  • Music Artist Ja Rule
    Jeffery Atkins (born February 29, 1976 in Hollis, Queens, New York), better known as Ja Rule, is an American rapper and actor. Ja Rule is one of the best selling rap artists of all-time with 20 million albums sold worldwide, numerous awards and Grammy nominations.
  • Music Artist Hilary Duff
    Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and singer. After gaining fame for her starring role on the television show Lizzie McGuire, she has gone on to have a film career, with roles in high profile releases such as The Lizzie McGuire Movie, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and A Cinderella Story.
  • Music Artist Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is an American singer, fashion designer, and occasional actress; and is the frontwoman of the pop/ska/rock band No Doubt.
  • Music Artists Green Day
    Green Day is a musical group from California, consisting of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, Jason White, and Jason Freese. Green Day is widely credited, along with fellow California bands The Offspring and Rancid, with reviving mainstream interest in and popularizing punk rock in the United States during the mid 1990s. Their success has influenced other prominent pop punk bands like Sum 41, Good Charlotte and Blink-182.
  • Music Artists Good Charlotte
    Good Charlotte is a pop rock band from Waldorf, Maryland that was formed in 1996 by Joel and Benji Madden. They took the name 'Good Charlotte' from a children's book: Good Charlotte: The Girls Of Good Day Orphanage by Carol Beach York. They have released 3 albums, most notably 2002's multiplatinum seller The Young and the Hopeless, which spawned the chart topping singles, "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," "The Anthem," and "Girls and Boys."
  • Music Artist Gavin Degraw
    Gavin DeGraw is an American rock musician who found fame in 2003 after his track "I Don't Want To Be" was chosen as the title theme to the WB televison show One Tree Hill, which stars Chad Michael Murray. Of late, his song "We Belong Together" is featured on the soundtrack to Tristan & Isolde.
  • Music Artist Fergie
    Stacy Ann "Fergie" Ferguson (born March 27, 1975 in Whittier, California), is the female vocalist for The Black Eyed Peas. Ferguson is a two-time Grammy Award winner. She joined the Black Eyed Peas in 2003, replacing Kim Hill. In July 2005, She became engaged to actor Josh Duhamel.
  • Music Artist Fat Joe
    Fat Joe (born Jose Antonio Cartagena on August 19, 1970 in The Bronx, New York) is an American rapper of Puerto Rican and Cuban heritage. Joe was popular in the underground hip hop scene during the early and mid-1990s. He was also a member of the D.I.T.C. Crew ("Digging in the Crates"), along with well-respected rappers Diamond D, Lord Finesse, O.C., Showbiz and A.G., Big L (deceased), and Big Pun (deceased).
  • Music Artist Fantasia Barrino
    Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30, 1984 in High Point, North Carolina), or simply Fantasia, is an American, Grammy Award-nominated, R&B/Soul singer, who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol.
  • Music Artist Fabolous
    Fabolous (born John Jackson on November 18, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York) is a rapper of African-American and Dominican descent from Brooklyn who became a mainstream star after his debut single "Can't Deny It" from 2001 (see 2001 in music). Since then, he has gained popularity in the rap game for his mellow flow, crossover sensibilities, intricate lyrics, and witty punchlines (traits that have often compared his style to Harlem rapper Ma$e).
  • Music Artist Eminem
    Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972) is an American rapper best known by the stage name Eminem. He is one of today's most popular and controversial rappers, as well as a Grammy and Oscar winner. He is of mostly Scottish-American descent, and was raised in Warren, Michigan.
  • Music Artist Eamon
    Eamon Doyle (born circa 1984), professionally known as Eamon, is an American pop and R&B singer and songwriter.
  • Music Artists Destinys Child
    Destiny's Child was an American R&B group. Originally a duo and later a quartet, the group eventually became a trio, whose most famous (and final) members were Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group has record sales of 50 million albums and singles and they are the best-selling all-female group of all time, according to the World Music Awards. On June 12, 2005 they announced on tour in Barcelona, Barcelonès, Spain, that they will no longer be performing together,
  • Music Artist Clay Aiken
    Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American popular music singer who rose to fame on the American Idol television program, and who has become the most successful second-place finisher in that show's history. He has also become the most successful and famous contestant from season two of that show.
  • Music Artists Crossfade
    Crossfade is a post grunge band originating in Columbia, South Carolina. The group came together in 1999 with the merging of singer/guitarist Ed Sloan with bassist/backup singer Mitch James and drummer Brian Geiger as the power trio The Nothing and then the name was changed to Crossfade in 2002. The group added singer and DJ Tony Byroads from Buffalo, New York. The resulting quartet renamed itself Sugardaddy Superstar.
  • Music Artist Ciara
    Ciara Princess Harris (born October 25, 1985) is a Grammy Award winning American R&B and pop singer-songwriter and actress.
  • Music Artist Christina Milian
    Christina Milian (born Christine Flores on September 26, 1981) is a two time Grammy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter, actress, and record producer. She has had four solo top ten singles (and also a top ten featuring credit single) in the UK as well as hits in the rest of Europe and the U.S. She has starred in the 2003 film Love Don't Cost a Thing opposite Nick Cannon.
  • Music Artist Christina Aguilera
    Christina Maria Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop singer-songwriter. She is noted for her vocal abilities as well as her unorthodox sense of fashion. She began working in the entertainment industry at a relatively young age and rose to popularity through the critical and commercial success of her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which produced four hit singles.
  • Music Artist Chingy
    A former member of the Disturbing Tha Peace collective with Ludacris, Chingy came into the spotlight on his own with his single and with his friend Jizzy B "Right Thurr" (which has become a popularly used phrase world wide, despite being grammatically incorrect and coined by Nelly previously) from his album, Jackpot. After the success of "Right Thurr", "Holidae In", featuring Snoop Dogg and Ludacris, climbed the charts, followed by "One Call Away" featuring J-Weav.
  • Music Artist Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is a Grammy-winning American pop singer, songwriter, dancer, occasional actress, and author. She is best known for her studio albums, music videos, and pop songs such as "...Baby One More Time" and "Toxic".
  • Music Artist Brandy
    Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979) is an American actress, model, and Grammy Awards-winning R&B/pop singer, known professionally as Brandy. She is best known for her starring role in the UPN sitcom Moesha, and for hit songs such as "Sittin' Up in My Room," "Have You Ever," and "The Boy Is Mine."
  • Music Artists Bowling for Soup
    Bowling for Soup is a pop-punk band based in Denton, Texas (but originally from Wichita Falls, Texas) formed in 1994, best known for their singles "Girl All The Bad Guys Want" in 2002 (a 2003 Grammy Award nominee) and "1985" in 2004, a major commercial hit. The band's name is derived from comedian Steve Martin's "Bowling for Shit" routine from his 1978 comedy album, Wild and Crazy Guy, itself a reference to Bowling for Dollars.
  • Music Artist Bow Wow
    Bow Wow (born Shad Gregory Moss on March 9, 1987 in Reynoldsburg, Ohio), is an African-American rapper. He released his first album, Beware of Dog, under the alias Lil Bow Wow at the age of thirteen and became a successful recording artist, under the mentorship of record producer Jermaine Dupri. He eventually broke out on his own in 2003 with the album Unleashed, which was his first without Dupri's mentorship.
  • Music Artists Blink 182
    blink-182 is the name of a Southern California Punk Pop band that was formed in 1992 by Tom Delonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor in the northern San Diego suburb of Poway, California. Travis Barker replaced Raynor on drums in 1998, midway through blink-182's US tour. In 2005, its members announced that the band was on "indefinite hiatus."
  • Music Artist Beyonce Knowles
    Beyoncé Giselle Knowles (born September 4, 1981) is a popular American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and fashion designer. She sometimes performs under the stage name Beyoncé. Knowles rose to stardom as the founding member and lead singer of R&B supergroup Destiny's Child; the biggest selling all-female group in history.
  • Music Artist Avril Lavigne
    Avril Ramona Lavigne (born September 27, 1984) is a Canadian pop punk Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter and occasional actress who was originally known for her "skate punk" persona, but has since begun to shed that image. Her two albums, Let Go (2002) and Under My Skin (2004), topped the charts in numerous countries.
  • Music Artist Ashlee Simpson
    Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an American pop singer–songwriter and an occasional actress. She is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson.
  • Music Artist Ashanti
    Ashanti Shequoyia Douglas (born October 13, 1980), professionally known as Ashanti, is an American Grammy Award-winning R&B and pop singer-songwriter, record producer, actress, and author who rose to fame during the early 2000s.
  • Music Artist Amerie
    Amerie Mi Marie Rogers (born January 12, 1980), known professionally as Amerie, is an American R&B singer-songwriter.
  • Music Artist Alicia Keys
    Alicia Keys (born January 25, 1980) is an American R&B/soul singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, pianist, and actress. Keys is a renowned artist who has sold over twenty million albums and singles worldwide and won numerous awards, including nine Grammys, ten Billboard Music Awards and three American Music Awards.
  • Clarinet
    The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The name derives from adding the suffix -et meaning little to the Italian word clarino meaning a particular trumpet, as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed. (See Characteristics of the instrument.)
  • Saxophone
    The saxophone, (colloquially refered to as sax) is a conical-bored instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece like the clarinet. It was invented by Adolphe Sax around 1840. The saxophone is most commonly associated with popular music, big band music, and jazz, but it was originally intended as both an orchestral and military band instrument.
  • Music production
    The production of music


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