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  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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  Edison, New Jersey
  Edison Township (usually known as Edison) is a township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, Edison had a total population of 97,687, making it the fifth largest municipality in New Jersey.
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  London
  London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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  Manhattan
  Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York. It consists of Manhattan Island and several small adjacent islands: Roosevelt Island, Randall's Island, Wards Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island, part of Ellis Island, and U Thant Island; as well as Marble Hill, a small section on the mainland adjacent to the Bronx. The original city of New York began at the southern end of Manhattan, and expanded in 1898 to include surrounding counties. It is the smallest, yet most urbanized of the five boroughs.
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  New York
  New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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• Paramus, New Jersey
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• The Bronx
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  United States
  The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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  112 (band)
  112 (pronounced "one-twelve") is an American R&B; quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly artists on Diddy's Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002. They had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, most notably winning a Grammy in 1997 with the song "I'll Be Missing You" with Puff Daddy and Faith Evans for Best Rap Performance by A Duo Or Group. The group has sold collectively a total of about 16+ million records world wide.
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  Adam Clayton
  Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is the bassist of the rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well-known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's . Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
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• Alfonzo Blackwell
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  Alicia Keys
  Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began to play classical music on the piano. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16 as valedictorian. She later attended Columbia University before dropping out to pursue her music career. Keys released her debut album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia and then Arista Records.
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  Amy Winehouse
  Amy Jade Winehouse (born 14 September 1983) is an English singer-songwriter, known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including R&B;, soul, jazz. Winehouse is best known for her powerful contralto vocals.
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  Angie Stone
  Angie Stone (born Angela Laverne Brown on December 18, 1961) is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter, keyboardist, record producer, and occasional actress.
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  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B; and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin No. 1 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.
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• Babyface (musician)
  Kenneth Brian "Babyface" Edmonds (born April 10, 1958) is an American R&B; and pop singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur.
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  Barbra Streisand
  Barbra Streisand ( ; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, director, and songwriter. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.
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  Bette Midler
  Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedian, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. She has starred in live-action films such as Ruthless People, Beaches and Hocus Pocus, as well as featuring in animated films such as Oliver & Company and Fantasia 2000.
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• Beyoncé
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• Beyoncé Knowles
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  Boney James
  Boney James, (born James Oppenheim, September 1, 1961 in Lowell, Massachusetts) is a saxophonist, songwriter and producer who popularized urban jazz (an updated version of contemporary jazz that contains elements of R&B; and hip-hop). He is one of the most successful instrumental artists of our time, with sales totaling over 3 million records.
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  Bono
  Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono ( ), is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
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• Celine Dion
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• Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan (born Yvette Marie Stevens; March 23, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the seventies as the front woman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career. Her signature hits, both with Rufus and solo, include "Tell Me Something Good", "Sweet Thing", "Ain't Nobody", "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire".
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• Cheryl Lynn
  Lynda Cheryl Smith (born March 11, 1957), better known by her professional name Cheryl Lynn, is a disco, R&B; and soul singer best known for her 1978 disco classic, "Got to Be Real".
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  Chris Martin
  Christopher Anthony John "Chris" Martin (born 2 March 1977) is an English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Coldplay. He is married to American actress Gwyneth Paltrow, with whom he has two children.
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  Craig Seymour
  Craig Seymour (born November 25, 1968) is an American writer, photographer, celebrity interviewer, music critic and former stripper. He was born in Washington, D.C.. He has written for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, and Spin, among other publications, and has served as pop music critic for The Buffalo News and the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in College Park. Seymour was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and is now Associate Professor of Journalism at Northern Illinois University. He lives in Chicago.
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  Dave Koz
  Dave Koz (born March 27, 1963) is an American saxophonist. Because they look and sound similar, Koz often draws comparisons to another well-known saxophonist, David Sanborn, and is sometimes billed as "the second coming of Sanborn." He usually plays soprano or alto saxophones, but sometimes plays tenor; he used to occasionally have parts in which a baritone saxophone would have predominance.
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  David Bowie
  David Bowie ( ; born David Robert Jones, 8 January 1947) is an English rock musician, who has also worked as an actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for five decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s, and is known for his distinctive voice and the intellectual depth of his work.
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• David Lasley
  David Lasley (born August 20, 1947 in Branch, Michigan) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his contributions as a background singer for such artists as Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and Luther Vandross.
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• Deniece Williams
  June Deniece Chandler (born June 3, 1950 in Gary, Indiana), known by her stage name Deniece "Niecy" Williams is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and record producer who achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s. Williams, whose music has been influenced by Soul and Funk, is known for her hits such as "Let's Hear It for the Boy", "It's Gonna Take a Miracle", and for her many vocal duets with Johnny Mathis.
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  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown sound as lead singer of The Supremes, before leaving the group for a solo career on January 14, 1970. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 150 million records.
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• Donna Summer
  LaDonna Adrian Gaines (born December 31, 1948), known by her stage name, Donna Summer is an American singer who gained prominence and notoriety during the disco era of the seventies with the majority of her early work produced by the team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Belotte.
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• El Debarge
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  Elton John
  Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer-songwriter, composer and pianist. He has worked with his songwriting partner Bernie Taupin since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.
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• Fantasia Barrino
  Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30, 1984) commonly known as Fantasia, is an American R&B;/pop singer, Broadway and television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series American Idol in 2004. She has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards. After playing the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, she has been cast to be in the film adaptation of the musical.
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  FiL Straughan
  FiL Straughan is a US/UK soul singer. He is known for his energetic performances and a rich smooth voice reminiscent of the legendary Luther Vandross. He has appeared with Hot Chocolate and Ray Lewis's Drifters since leaving the investment banking world and currently travels back and forth between New York and London.
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• Frank Sinatra
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• Gary Glitter
  Gary Glitter (born Paul Francis Gadd on 8 May 1944) is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.
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  Gerald Levert
  Gerald Levert (July 13, 1966 – November 10, 2006) was an American R&B; singer. Gerald Levert sang with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon in the R&B; trio LeVert. He was also a part of LSG, an R&B; supergroup comprising Keith Sweat, Johnny Gill, and Levert. His father, Eddie Levert, is the lead singer of the 1970s soul group The O'Jays.
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• Gregory Hines
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  Guy Berryman
  Guy Rupert Berryman (12 April 1978, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland) is a Scottish multi-instrumentalist best known as the bassist for the group Coldplay.
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• Hal David
  Harold Lane "Hal" David (born May 25, 1921) is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach.
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• Itaal Shur
  Itaal Shur is an American songwriter. One of his notable works is the hit song "Smooth", featured on Carlos Santana's Grammy-Award winning album Supernatural, and featuring Rob Thomas - who wrote the lyrics - on lead vocals.
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• Jacob Lusk
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• Jadakiss
  Jason Phillips (born May 27, 1975), better known as Jadakiss, is an American rapper. He is a member of the group The LOX. Jadakiss is one of the three owners of the imprint known as D-Block.
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  Jamie Foxx
  Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and singer. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing two albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, and Intuition.
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  Janet Jackson
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her family at the age of seven, and started her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976. She went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.
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• Jesse Harris
  Jesse Harris (born 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and guitarist. He is best known for his songwriting on Norah Jones' album Come Away with Me, including the single "Don't Know Why," for which Harris won a Grammy Award. He has contributed as a producer and/or songwriter on albums by more than a dozen artists, including Jones, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, Nikki Yanofsky, and Lizz Wright, and has worked as an instrumentalist with these and other artists. He has released ten full-length albums as a solo artist or group member with his latest,Through the Night, released in August 2010. He also wrote and produced the soundtrack to Ethan Hawke's movie The Hottest State. Harris's music has been described as "blend[ing] folk, rock, jazz, and world rhythms."
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• Jocelyn Brown
  Jocelyn Lorette Brown (born November 25, 1950, Kinston, North Carolina, sometimes credited as Jocelyn Shaw) is an American R&B; and dance music singer. Although she has only one Billboard Hot 100 chart entry in her name, she has an extensive background in the music industry and is well-known in the world of dance music.
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  John Legend
  John Stephens (born December 28, 1978), better known by his stage name John Legend, is an American recording artist, musician and actor. He is the recipient of six Grammy Awards, and in 2007, he received the special Starlight award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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  John Mayer
  John Clayton Mayer ( ; born October 16, 1977) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and music producer. Raised in Fairfield, Connecticut, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1997, where he refined his skills and gained a following. His first two studio albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things, did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. In 2003, he won a Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Award for "Your Body Is a Wonderland".
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• Johnny Gill
  Johnny Gill (born May 22, 1966) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter best known for his romantic ballads and as a member of New Edition. His signature song "My, My, My" has been included on numerous romantic compilations.
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• K (singer)
  Kang Yoon-sung (born November 16, 1983 in Goyang), better known by his stage name K, is a South Korean singer. After the failure of his first album in Korea in 2004, K crossed over to Japan. His first Japanese album, Beyond the Sea, has achieved a sales of over 300,000 copies.
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  Kenny Lattimore
  Kenny Lattimore (born April 10, 1967) is an American R&B; singer. Among his most popular hits were "Never Too Busy" and "For You".
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• Keyshia Cole
  Keyshia Miesha Cole (born October 15, 1981) is an American recording artist. She released her platinum selling debut album The Way It Is in June 2005, and her sophomore platinum album Just Like You in September 2007. Cole's third studio album, A Different Me was released on December 16, 2008, and is also certified platinum. She is also known for her reality/documentary series which aired on BET from 2006 to 2008, which depicted Keyshia navigating both her career and strained relationships with her biological mother and sister.
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  Larry Mullen, Jr.
  Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. (born 31 October 1961) is the drummer for the rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on numerous side projects during his career, including a collaboration with Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of R.E.M. to form Automatic Baby in 1993 and working with bandmate Adam Clayton on the re-recording of the theme to , in 1996. He and U2 have won many awards, including 22 Grammy awards.
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• Luther Vandross
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  Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller (born William Henry Marcus Miller Jr., June 14, 1959, Brooklyn, New York) is an American jazz musician, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
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  Mariah Carey
  Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American R&B; singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut, in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola and became the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola, in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. In 1998, Carey received the World Music Awards for becoming the "World's Best Selling Recording Artist of the 1990's" as well as the award for "World's Best Selling R&B; Artist."
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  Mary J. Blige
  Mary Jane Blige (surname ; born January 11, 1971), also known as Mary J. Blige, is an American singer, producer, songwriter, actress, and rapper. A recipient of nine Grammy Awards and many other honors, Blige has recorded eight multi-platinum albums. Blige has received the World Music Legends Award for combining hip hop and soul in the early 1990s. She was ranked number 100 in the list of 100 greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone magazine. As of 2010, Blige has sold over 50 million albums and 15 million singles. Blige has cited Anita Baker, Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin as influences.
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• Michael Jackson
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• Nat Adderley, Jr.
  Nat Adderley, Jr. (born May 23, 1955) is an American pop and rhythm and blues music arranger and pianist who spent much of his music career arranging for Luther Vandross. The scion of a famed jazz family, his father Nat Adderley (1931-2000) was a composer and jazz cornet and trumpet player, while his uncle Cannonball Adderley (1928-1975) was a jazz alto saxophonist.
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• Nuttin' But Stringz
  '''Nuttin' But Stringz, also known as N.B.S.''', consists of brothers Damien and Tourie Escobar who both play violin. The musicians from Jamaica, Queens play a blend of classical music, hip-hop, jazz and R&B.;
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  Patti LaBelle
  Patti LaBelle (born Patricia Louise Holte; May 24, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She fronted two groups, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, which received minor success on the pop charts in the 1960s, and Labelle, which received acclaim and a mainstream breakthrough in 1974 with their song "Lady Marmalade". She went on to have a solo recording career, earning another U.S. #1 single in 1986 with "On My Own", a duet with Michael McDonald.
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• Queen Pen
  Lynise Walters, better known by the stage name Queen Pen, (born in 1972) is a Grammy-nominated African-American female rapper.
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• Quincy Jones
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• Rell
  Rell Gaddis, known by his stage name Rell, is an American R&B; singer. He was the first male R&B; singer signed to Roc-A-Fella Records, where he recorded with artists such as Kanye West, Jay-Z, Consequence, and Young Gunz.
  http://wn.com/Rell
• Richard Marx
  Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American adult contemporary and pop/rock singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He had a string of hit singles in the late 1980s and 1990s, including "Endless Summer Nights", "Right Here Waiting", "Now and Forever", and "Hazard". Although most of his major hit songs were slow ballads, many of his songs had a classic rock style, such as "Don't Mean Nothing," "Should've Known Better," "Satisfied," and "Too Late To Say Goodbye". Marx placed himself in the record books by being the first solo artist to have his first seven singles hit the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4). His record sales worldwide exceed 30 million. Aside from songs that he has sung himself, he has written, co-written, and produced successful tracks for other artists such as "This I Promise You" by NSYNC and "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross. The latter song won several Grammy Awards.
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• Sharon Redd
  Sharon Redd (October 19, 1945 - May 1, 1992) was an American singer from New York. She was the half sister of R&B; singer Pennye Ford.
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  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born May 13, 1950), name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind from shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
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• Teddy Pendergrass
  Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American R&B;/soul singer and songwriter. Pendergrass first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982, he was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being paralyzed from the waist down. After his injury, the affable entertainer founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a foundation that helps those with spinal cord injuries. Pendergrass commemorated 25 years of living after his spinal cord injury with star filled event, Teddy 25 - A Celebration of Life at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. His last performance was on a PBS special at Atlantic City's Borgata Casino in November 2008.
  http://wn.com/Teddy_Pendergrass
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  The Edge
  David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is an Irish musician best known as the guitarist, keyboardist, and main backing vocalist of rock band U2. In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named him at #24 on its list of "The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time".
  http://wn.com/The_Edge
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  Todd Rundgren
  Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop-wunderkind, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, Rundgren's career has produced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during the seventies and eighties with the band Utopia. He has also been extremely active as a producer and engineer on the recorded work of other musicians.
  http://wn.com/Todd_Rundgren
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  Toto (band)
  Toto is an American rock band founded in 1977 by some of the most popular and experienced session musicians of the era. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1970's and 1980s, beginning with the band's self-titled debut released in 1978. With the release of 1982's critically acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV, Toto became one of the best-selling music groups of their era. They are best known for the Top 5 hits "Hold the Line," "Rosanna," and "Africa." Although their popularity in the United States diminished in the 1990s and 2000s, they continued to sell out arenas constantly internationally, only playing minimal shows in the USA.
  http://wn.com/Toto_(band)
• Tupac Shakur
  http://wn.com/Tupac_Shakur
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  Usher (entertainer)
  Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978; ), who performs under the mononym Usher, is an American recording artist and actor. He rose to fame in the late 1990s with the release of his sophmore album My Way, which spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit, "Nice and Slow". It also spawned two more successful singles "You Make Me Wanna...", and "My Way". Both reached number-two on the Hot 100. His followup album 8701 (2001) produced the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits "U Remind Me" and "U Got It Bad". As well "U Don't Have to Call" which reached number-three on the Hot 100. My Way has been certified six-times platinum by the RIAA and 8701 has been certified four-times platinum by the RIAA. Both albums sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
  http://wn.com/Usher_(entertainer)
• Whitney Houston
  Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American R&B;/Pop singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative of several soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, and close family friend Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven. After she began performing alongside her mother at night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. Houston has released studio albums and movie soundtrack albums throughout her career, all of which have had diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.
  http://wn.com/Whitney_Houston
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  Wyclef Jean
  Nel Ust Wyclef Jean (, ; born October 17, 1969)[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2012369,00.html Wyclef Dumped From Haiti's Presidential Ballot] - TIME, 21 Aug 2010. "Before he announced on August 5 that he was running for President of Haiti, Wyclef Jean was still listing his age as only 37 years old. But after declaring himself a presidential candidate, the Haitian-American hip-hop star also decided to come clean and confirm that he was really 40." is a Haitian musician, record producer and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group, the Fugees.
  http://wn.com/Wyclef_Jean
• Young Gunz
  The Young Gunz are a Grammy-nominated rap duo from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are composed of Young Chris (born Chris Ries in 1984) and Neef Buck (born Hanif Muhammad in 1984). They are members of Beanie Sigel's State Property collective and are formerly signed to Roc-A-Fella Records. Young Gunz' debut single, "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", was one of the top 20 on the Billboard charts of 2003.
  http://wn.com/Young_Gunz

• When You Call On Me (Baby That's When I Come Runnin')
• Once You Know How
• I Know You Want To
• Once Were Lovers
• You Stopped Loving Me
• The Impossible Dream
• Are You Using Me?
• Goin' Out Of My Head
• The Thrill I'm In
• Heart Of A Hero
• Buy Me A Rose
• I (Who Have Nothing)
• I'd Rather (Album Version & Radio Version)
• Like I'm Invisible
• You Really Started Something

• So Amazing
• Always and Forever
• Dance With My Father
• Endless Love (duet with Mariah Carey)
• Your Secret Love
• Never Too Much
• Give Me the Reason
• Take You Out
• Buy Me a Rose
• Got You Home
• Any Love
• Here and Now
• A House Is Not a Home
• Love Is on the Way (Real Love)
• Heaven Knows
• Power of Love/Love Power
• Love the One You're With

• Never Too Much
• Give Me the Reason
• Shine
• Your Secret Love
• Dance With My Father
• I Really Didn't Mean It
• Stop to Love
• Searching
• Take You Out
• Got You Home
• Power of Love/Love Power
• So Amazing
• Buy Me a Rose
• Love the One You're With
• Any Love
• Always and Forever
• The Closer I Get to You
• Endless Love
• Shine (Freemasons Mixshow radio edit)

• Are You Using Me
• Nights in Harlem
• Get It Right
• I'm Only Human
• When I Need You
• Keeping My Faith in You
• Isn't There Someone
• Religion
• I Know
• Dream Lover
• Are You Mad at Me
• Now That I Have You
• Nights in Harlem (A Darkchild extended mix)

• Any Love
• So Amazing
• Wait for Love
• Power of Love - Love Power
• For You to Love
• I Who Have Nothing (feat. Martha Wash)
• Anyone Who Had a Heart
• A House Is Not a Home
• Never Too Much
• Since I Lost My Baby
• Stop to Love
• It's Over Now
• Your Secret Love
• Superstar
• Here and Now

• Never Too Much
• Here and Now
• Take You Out
• Love Won't Let Me Wait
• Superstar
• Stop to Love
• If Only for One Night
• Creepin'
• I'd Rather
• A House Is Not a Home
• Glow of Love

• If I Didn't Know Better
• Think About You
• If It Ain't One Thing (feat. Foxy Brown)
• Buy Me a Rose
• The Closer I Get to You (Duet With Beyonce Knowles)
• Lovely Day (feat. Busta Rhymes)
• Dance With My Father
• She Saw You
• Apologize
• Hit It Again (feat. Queen Latifah)
• Right in the Middle
• Once Were Lovers
• Lovely Day, Part II (feat. Busta Rhymes)
• They Said You Needed Me

• The Glow of Love
• I Can't Wait No Longer (Let's Do This)
• Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
• Give Me the Reason
• Lady Lady
• Never Too Much
• I Can Tell You That
• Heaven Knows
• The Rush
• Stop to Love

• Searching
• The Glow of Love
• Never Too Much
• Sugar and Spice (I Found Me a Girl)
• She's a Super Lady
• Give Me the Reason
• Stop to Love
• See Me
• I Really Didn't Mean It
• Any Love
• Here and Now
• Love the One You're With
• Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (Morales remix)
• I Gave It Up (When I Fell in Love) (Marcus Miller mix)
• Power of Love - Love Power (dance radio mix)

• O' Come All Ye Faithful
• My Favorite Things
• What the World Needs Now
• With a Christmas Heart
• I Listen to the Bells
• Little Miracles
• Please Come Home for Christmas
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

• Bad Boy / Having a Party
• You're the Sweetest One
• Since I Lost My Baby
• Forever, for Always, for Love
• Better Love
• Promise Me
• She Loves Me Back
• Once You Know How

• Stop to Love
• See Me
• I Gave It Up (When I Fell in Love)
• So Amazing
• Give Me the Reason
• There's Nothing Better Than Love (feat. Gregory Hines)
• I Really Didn't Mean It
• Because It's Really Love
• Anyone Who Had a Heart

• Take You Out
• Grown Thangs
• Bring Your Heart to Mine
• Can Heaven Wait
• Say It Now
• Hearts Get Broken All the Time (But the Problem Is, This Time It's Mine)
• I'd Rather
• How Do I Tell Her
• Any Day Now
• If I Was the One
• Let's Make Tonight the Night
• Like I'm Invisible
• Are You There (With Another Guy)
• Love Forgot

• Give Me the Reason
• Never Too Much
• If This World Were Mine
• A House Is Not a Home
• Don't Want to Be a Fool
• So Amazing
• 'Til My Baby Comes Home
• There's Nothing Better Than Love
• Stop to Love
• Any Love
• Since I Lost My Baby
• Superstar
• Power of Love/Love Power
• The Rush
• It's Over Now
• Here and Now
• Love the One You're With

• Never Too Much
• Stop To Love
• Power Of Love/Love Power
• Heaven Knows
• Sometimes It's only Love
• Don't Want To Be A Fool
• Always And Forever
• I Can Make It Better
• 'Til My Baby Comes Home
• She Won't Talk To Me

• Never Too Much
• Don't Want to Be a Fool
• Here and Now
• Love the One You're With
• Any Love
• Superstar / Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
• A House Is Not a Home
• Give Me the Reason
• There's Nothing Better Than Love (feat. Gregory Hines)
• Creepin'
• So Amazing
• Stop to Love
• Power of Love / Love Power
• How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (feat. Dionne Warwick)

• Power of Love/Love Power
• Once You Know How
• Love the One You're With
• Come Back
• Sugar and Spice (I Found Me a Girl)
• Reflections
• Love Is on the Way (Real Love)
• Goin' Out of My Head
• I Gave It Up (When I Fell in Love)
• Here and Now

• Keeping My Faith in You
• Isn't There Someone
• Religion
• Get It Right (feat. Precise)
• I Know (feat. Stevie Wonder)
• I'm Only Human (feat. Cassandra Wilson and Bob James)
• Nights in Harlem (feat. Precise)
• Dream Lover
• When I Need You
• Are You Using Me?
• Are You Mad at Me?
• Now That I Have You
• Nights in Harlem (A Darkchild extended remix) (feat. Guru)

• A House Is Not a Home
• Since I Lost My Baby
• Superstar / Until You Come Back to Me
• Creepin'
• Anyone Who Had a Heart
• I (Who Have Nothing)
• If This World Were Mine
• Going Out of My Head
• Going in Cirlces
• Knocks Me Off My Feet
• Love Won't Let Me Wait
• Always and Forever

• When You Call on Me / Baby That's When I Come Runnin'
• One Night With You (Everyday of Your Life)
• I Won't Let You Do That to Me
• It's All About You
• The Rush
• I Gave It Up (When I Fell in Love)
• Don't Want to Be a Fool
• The Best Things in Life Are Free (Classic club edit)
• Little Miracles (Happen Every Day)
• Endless Love
• Always and Forever
• Hello
• Your Secret Love
• I Can Make It Better
• Love Don't Love You Anymore (TM's Urban mix)

• One Night With You (Everyday of Your Life)
• When You Call on Me / Baby That's When I Come Runnin'
• It's All About You
• I Won't Let You do That to Me
• Power of Love / Love Power
• Don't Want to Be a Fool
• The Best Things in Life Are Free (Classic Club edit) (From the Motion Picture Soundtrack Mo' Money) (feat. Janet Jackson)
• Little Miracles (Happen Every Day)
• Endless Love
• Always and Forever
• Love the One You're With
• Your Secret Love
• I Can Make It Better
• Love Don't Love You Anymore (TM's Urban mix)
• My Favorite Things

• Your Secret Love
• Love Don't Hurt You Anymore
• It's Hard for Me to Say
• Crazy Love
• I Can Make It Better
• Too Proud to Beg
• I Can't Wait No Longer (Let's Do This)
• Nobody to Love
• Whether or Not the World Gets Better
• This Time I'm Right
• Knocks Me Off My Feet
• Goin' Out of My Head

• Never Too Much
• Sugar and Spice (I Found Me a Girl)
• She's a Super Lady
• A House Is Not a Home
• Give Me the Reason
• So Amazing
• Stop to Love
• See Me
• I Really Didn't Mean It
• Any Love
• Here and Now
• Power of Love/Love Power
• The Best Things in Life Are Free (Classic 7" mix) (feat. Janet Jackson)
• Love the One You're With
• Power of Love/Love Power (the radio mix)
• The Thrill I'm In

• With a Christmas Heart
• This Is Christmas
• The Mistletoe Jam (Everybody Kiss Somebody)
• Every Year, Every Christmas
• My Favorite Things
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
• I Listen to the Bells (feat. Darlene Love)
• Please Come Home for Christmas
• A Kiss for Christmas
• O' Come All Ye Faithful

• Love the One You're With
• Killing Me Softly
• Endless Love
• Evergreen
• Reflections
• Hello
• Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
• Always and Forever
• Going in Circles
• Since You've Been Gone
• All the Woman I Need
• What the World Needs Now
• The Impossible Dream

• Little Miracles (Happen Every Day)
• Heaven Knows
• Love Me Again
• Can't Be Doin' That Now
• Too Far Down
• Love Is on the Way (Real Love)
• Hustle
• Emotion Eyes
• Lady, Lady
• Medley: How Deep Is Your Love / Love Don't Love Nobody
• Never Let Me Go

• She Doesn't Mind
• Power of Love / Love Power
• I'm Gonna Start Today
• The Rush
• I Want the Night to Stay
• Don't Want to Be a Fool
• I Can Tell You That
• Sometimes It's Only Love
• Emotional Love
• I Who Have Nothing (Duet With Martha Wash)

• I Wonder
• She Won't Talk to Me
• I Know You Want To
• Come Back
• Any Love
• Love Won't Let Me Wait
• Are You Gonna Love Me
• For You to Love
• The Second Time Around

• 'til My Baby Comes Home
• The Night I Fell in Love
• If Only for One Night
• Creepin'
• It's Over Now
• Wait for Love
• My Sensitivity (Gets in the Way)
• Other Side of the World

• I Wanted Your Love
• Busy Body
• I'll Let You Slide
• Make Me a Believer
• For the Sweetness of Your Love
• How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye (feat. Dionne Warwick)
• Superstar / Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)

• Never Too Much
• Sugar and Spice (I Found Me a Girl)
• Don't You Know That?
• I've Been Working
• She's a Super Lady
• You Stopped Loving Me
• A House Is Not a Home

• This Is for Real
• A Lovers Change
• Don't Take the Time
• The Jealousy in Me
• I'm Not Satisfied
• This Close to You
• Don't Wanna Be a Fool
• Come Back to Love
• Follow My Love

• Funky Music (Is A Part Of Me)
• The 2nd Time Around
• I’ll Get Along Fine
• Everybody Rejoice
• Emotion Eyes
• This Strange Feeling
• It’s Good For The Soul (Parts I And II)

• Searching
• The Glow of Love
• Never Too Much
• If This World Were Mine
• A House Is Not a Home
• Bad Boy / Having a Party
• Since I Lost My Baby
• Promise Me
• 'Till My Baby Comes Home
• If Only for One Night
• Creepin'

Born: ['1951-04-20']

Died: ['2005-07-01']

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