The Pointer Sisters

Tuesday, 04 December 2012

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Pointer Sisters: Slow Hand - Live on BBC's Russell Harty 1981

The Pointer Sisters: Fire - Live on Midnight Special 1979

The Pointer Sisters- I'm So Excited (Live)

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Billings, Montana
Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in over 500 miles (800 km). With a trade area of over half a million people it is the largest metropolitan area between Denver and Calgary and between Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Spokane, Washington.
Billings is located in the south-central portion of the state and is the county seat of Yellowstone County, 2011 population of 150,069. The 2010 Census put the Billings population at 104,170, the only city in Montana to surpass 100,000 people. The city is experiencing rapid growth and a strong economy; it has had and is continuing to have the largest growth of any city in Montana. Parts of the metro area are seeing hyper growth. From 2000 to 2010 Lockwood, a southeastern suburb of the city saw growth of 57.8% the largest growth rate of any community in Montana. Billings has avoided the economic downturn that affected most of the nation 2008-2012 as well as avoiding the housing bust. With the Bakken oil play in eastern Montana and western North Dakota, the largest oil discovery in U.S. history, as well as the Heath shale oil play just north of Billings, the city's already rapid growth rate is expected to escalate.

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California
California (pronounced ⁱ/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.

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Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings November 28, 1925, as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of legends and contemporary chart-toppers performing country, bluegrass, folk, gospel, and comedic performances and skits. Considered an American icon, it attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio and Internet listeners. The Opry, today part of the American landscape, is "the show that made country music famous" and has been called the "home of American music" and "country’s most famous stage."
In the 1930s, the show began hiring professionals and expanded to four hours; and WSM-AM, broadcasting by then with 50,000 watts, made the program a Saturday night musical tradition in nearly 30 states. In 1939, it debuted nationally on NBC Radio. The Opry moved to a permanent home, the Ryman Auditorium, in 1943. As it developed in importance, so did the city of Nashville, which became America's "country music capital".

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Italy
Italy ⁱ/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km² (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.

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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home to a large number of colleges and universities. It is most notably known as a center of the music industry, earning it the nickname "Music City".
Nashville has a consolidated city–county government which includes seven smaller municipalities in a two-tier system. As of the 2010 census the population of the city of Nashville, not including the semi-independent municipalities, stood at 601,222. The population of Davidson County as a whole, including all municipalities, was 626,681. Nashville is the second largest city in Tennessee, after Memphis, and the fourth largest city in the Southeastern United States. The 2010 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,589,934, making it the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state. The 2010 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,670,890.

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Oakland, California
Oakland ( /ˈoʊklənd/) is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state and the 47th-largest in the U.S. with a population of 390,724 according to the 2010 census. Incorporated in 1852, Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County and is a central hub city for a region of the San Francisco Bay Area known as the East Bay. The city lies directly across the bay from San Francisco.
Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Oakland served as a rich resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco, and Oakland's fertile flatland soils helped it become a prolific agricultural region. During the California Gold Rush, Oakland became the main staging post for passengers and cargo journeying between the Bay Area and the Sierra foothills. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the western terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. It continued to grow into the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile industry. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Franciscans left that city's destruction, and a great number of Oakland's homes were built during the 1910s and 1920s. An extensive streetcar network connected most of Oakland's neighbourhoods to inter-city rail lines, most of whose routes continue as bus lines today. Ferry lines connected Oakland to San Francisco and other cities.

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San Jose, California
San Jose ( /ˌsæn hoʊˈseɪ/; Spanish: St. Joseph) is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. The San Jose/Silicon Valley area is a major component of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people and the sixth largest metropolitan area (CSA) in the United States. It is also the most populous city in Northern California.
San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777, as El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civilian town in the Spanish colony of Nueva California, which later became Alta California. The city served as a farming community to support Spanish military installations at San Francisco and Monterey. When California gained statehood in 1850, San Jose served as its first capital.
After more than 150 years as a small farming city, San Jose and the surrounding Santa Clara Valley became the last (and largest) contiguous area of undeveloped land surrounding the San Francisco Bay. San Jose experienced increased demand for housing from soldiers and veterans returning from World War II. San Jose then continued its aggressive expansion during the 1950s and 1960s by annexing more land area. The rapid growth of the high-technology and electronics industries further accelerated the transition from an agricultural center, to an urbanized metropolitan area.

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UK
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.

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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) 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 Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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Anita Pointer
Anita Pointer (born January 23, 1948, Oakland, California, United States) is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and a member of The Pointer Sisters.
Pointer quit a job as a secretary to join her younger sisters Bonnie and June to form the Pointer Sisters in 1969.^{[citation needed]} After two failed singles between 1971 and 1972 for Atlantic Records, the trio convinced their eldest sister Ruth to join the group in 1972. The sisters found fame with the Anita-led "Yes We Can Can" in 1973. It was Anita's co-writing duties for their 1974 hit, "Fairytale", that helped the group make music history when the song hit the country charts, winning the group its first Grammy for Best Country Performance by a duo or group and Anita and Bonnie a Grammy nod for the best country song of the year in 1975.
After Bonnie left the Pointer Sisters in 1977, Ruth, Anita and June rose to higher levels of success with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), "Slow Hand" (1981) and "I'm So Excited" (1982).

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Bill Conti
William "Bill" Conti (born April 13, 1942) is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.
Conti, an Italian American, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Lucetta and William Conti. He graduated from North Miami High School in 1959. He is a past winner of the Silver Knight Award presented by the Miami Herald. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University, and also studied at the Juilliard School of Music.
His big break into celebrity came in 1976, when he was hired to compose the music for a small United Artists film called Rocky. The film became a phenomenon, and Conti's training montage tune, "Gonna Fly Now" topped the Billboard singles chart in 1977. He also composed music for the sequels Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky V (1990) and Rocky Balboa (2006).
Conti also worked for some other films and, eventually, for television series. In 1981, he wrote the music for the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, when John Barry was unwilling to return to the United Kingdom for tax reasons, and provided the score for playwright Jason Miller's film version of his Pulitzer Prize winning play That Championship Season the following year.

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Bonnie Pointer
Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer (born July 11, 1950) is an American R&B and disco singer, most notable for being the next-to-youngest member of the 1970s and 1980s family music group, The Pointer Sisters. She scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointers in 1977, including a disco cover of The Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" which became a U.S. top 20 pop hit on September 1, 1979.
Bonnie and youngest sister June began singing together as teenagers and in 1969 the duo had co-founded The Pointers (otherwise known as The Pair). After Anita joined the duo that same year, they changed their name to The Pointer Sisters and recorded several singles for Atlantic Records between 1971 and 1972. In December 1972, they recruited oldest sister Ruth and released their debut album as The Pointer Sisters in 1973. Their self-titled debut yielded the hit "Yes We Can Can".
Between 1973 and 1977, the Pointers' donned 1940s fashions and sang in a style reminiscent of The Andrews Sisters; they also melded the sounds of R&B, funk, rock and roll, gospel, country and soul. Anita and Bonnie who wrote the group's crossover country hit, "Fairytale," in 1974, which also became a Top 20 pop hit and won the group their first Grammy for Best Vocal by a Duo or Group, Country. Anita and Bonnie also were nominated for Best Country Song at the same ceremony.

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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.

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Carly Patterson
Carly Rae Patterson (born February 4, 1988 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American singer and former gymnast. She is the 2004 Olympic All-Around Champion and a member of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. She currently lives in Allen, Texas.
Patterson was at her cousin's birthday party at Baton Rouge's Elite Gymnastics club in 1994 when coach Johnny Moyal, a three-time Israeli Olympian, noticed her talent and suggested that she begin to take lessons. Originally, her mother was hesitant about it, but Carly started tumbling and jumping around her house. There was not much room, and as her mom did not want her to get hurt, she enrolled her in gymnastics. In 2000, Patterson participated in the Top Gym Tournament in Belgium and won the silver medal in the all-around and the bronze medal for balance beam, her favorite event.
At the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, she was ranked second in the all-around before the final rotation. She missed three landings on the floor exercise, however, and finished seventh overall. "I don't know what happened," she said. "I can't give up, I will keep going. I was happy with my first three rotations, especially beam."

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Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, best known for hosting American television's longest-running variety show, American Bandstand, from 1957 to 1987. He also hosted the game show Pyramid and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations worldwide.
As host of American Bandstand, with his strong communication skills, Clark was a "primary force in legitimizing rock and roll," not only to teenagers, but also to America's adult population. The show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Ike and Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Talking Heads and Simon & Garfunkel. His shows were among the first where blacks and whites performed on the same stage and the live audience seating was desegregated. Singer Paul Anka claimed that Bandstand was responsible for creating a "youth culture." Due to his youthful appearance, Clark was often referred to as "America's oldest teenager".

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Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.
Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was ten years old. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. Upon graduation, he moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend school, where he majored in physics. In 1963, he met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, with whom he remained for five years. Their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, takes its name from Bishop's nickname. In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also performing with Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. The group signed with Fillmore Records, which was owned by Bill Graham, who also owned the music venues of the same name.

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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was the most important popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll with a series of network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs, many from African American sources, and his uninhibited performance style made him enormously popular—and controversial. In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender.

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Fats Waller
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.
He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.

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Grace Slick
Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer, songwriter, and former model, best known as one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, as well as for her work as a solo artist from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick was an important figure in the 1960s psychedelic rock movement, known for her witty lyrics and powerful contralto vocals.
Grace Barnett Wing was born in Evanston, Illinois, to Ivan W. Wing (1907–1987) and Virginia (née Barnett; 1910–1984), the latter a direct descendant of passengers of the Mayflower). In 1949, a month before her tenth birthday, her brother Chris Wing was born. Her father was transferred several times when she was a child and, in addition to the Chicago area, she lived in Los Angeles and San Francisco before her family finally settled in Palo Alto, California, south of San Francisco, in the early 1950s. She attended Palo Alto Senior High School before switching to Castilleja High School, a private all-girls school in Palo Alto. Following graduation she attended Finch College in New York from 1957 to 1958 and the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, from 1958–1959.

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Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy (born 25 October 1941) is an Australian-American singer and actress often referred to as the "Queen of 70s Pop". In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10 and three of those songs reached No. 1, including her signature hit "I Am Woman." She also placed 25 singles on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts. Fifteen of those singles made the Top 10 and 8 of those reached No. 1. She was also the first Australian to win a Grammy Award and to have three #1 hits in the same year. In television, Helen was the first Australian to host her own one-hour weekly primetime variety show on an American network, along with several specials that were seen in over forty countries. Helen retired from live performance in 2002 and now practices as a clinical hypnotherapist and motivational speaker. In 2011, Billboard named her the #28 AC artist (#9 among women) of all time. She lives in Australia.

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Issa Pointer
Issa Pointer (born Issa Kuren Edwards Pointer on January 22, 1978 in California) is the daughter of Pointer Sisters member Ruth Pointer and former Temptations member Dennis Edwards, from their relationship in 1977. Brought up under the guidance of her mother and her aunts, Pointer first embarked in music while on the road with the Pointer Sisters during the group's 1985 tour. Later on, she contributed to some songs with the group for various albums. In 2002, she started replacing group founder June Pointer, who left initially for drug problems and then decided to carry out a solo career, with Issa Pointer permanently replacing her aunt in 2004. Together with her mother and aunt Anita Pointer, the Pointers enjoyed a successful revival in Europe with their duet single with Natalia on a cover of Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox's "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves", which reached number 2 on the charts in Belgium. Issa will be featured as the title character in Jacksonville State University's production of Aida in February 2011.

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June Pointer
June Antoinette Pointer Whitmore (November 30, 1953 – April 11, 2006) was an American pop/R&B singer and was a founding member and lead vocalist of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters.
Born the youngest of six to minister parents Reverend Elton and Sarah Pointer, Pointer shared a love of singing with her sisters. In 1969, she and sister Bonnie founded The Pointers - A Pair. The duo sang at several clubs, then became a trio later on that year when Anita quit her job as a secretary to join them. The group changed its name to The Pointer Sisters. The trio scored a record deal with Atlantic Records and released a few singles, none of which made any substantial impact on the charts. After a few single releases, sister Ruth joined the group in 1972, making it a quartet. The group then signed with Blue Thumb Records and their careers finally began taking off.
Releasing their self-titled debut album in 1973, the Pointer Sisters found fame with pop hit singles such as "Yes We Can Can", the country hit, "Fairytale", and the R&B hits, "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)" and "You Gotta Believe" before Bonnie exited from the group to forge a solo career in 1977. June briefly left the group in 1976 to sort out a growing problem with an addiction to cocaine.

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Lara Saint Paul
Silvana Savorelli (b. 1946 in Asmara from Italian father and Eritrean mother), professionally known as Lara Saint Paul, is an Italian Eritrean singer, entertainer, impresario and record producer.
Lara Saint Paul's first public performance was in 1962 at the Festival della canzone italiana, also known as the Sanremo Music Festival, in Italy. She went by the name of Tanya and performed the ballad I colori della felicità.
Adopting the stage name Lara Saint Paul, she performed in the 1966 Festival delle Rose with the song Il pieno and was a finalist in the 1967 Festival della Canzone Napoletana for her performance of Te faie desidera'.
Her first big success arrived when she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival in 1968 as one of the two performers of the song Mi va di cantare. The other performer was Louis Armstrong, and they performed alongside Lionel Hampton. She also participated in Sanremo in 1972 with Se non fosse tra queste mie braccia lo inventerei and in 1973 with Una casa grande. She was a finalist three times in the Sanremo Music Festival.

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Leon Ware
Leon Ware is a soul music singer, songwriter and producer. Best known for crafting the hit album, I Want You, originally recorded for Ware, until friend and Motown icon Marvin Gaye was assigned to the album in 1976. Ware also is notable for writing the Top 5 R&B single, "I Wanna Be Where You Are", for a young Michael Jackson in 1972, and creating the Body Heat album along with Quincy Jones. He also collaborated with Maxwell on his debut album Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.

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Natalia Druyts
Natalia Druyts (born 3 December 1980), best known by her stage name Natalia, was the first runner-up of the first season of Idool 2003, the Flemish version of Idols, in which she lost to Peter Everard who got 50.7% of the votes.
Natalia was born in Westerlo, Belgium. She has graduated as translator English-Spanish. Before participating in Idool 2003 she sang with a cover-group called Secret Me. They sang at lots of weddings. Natalia also performed as opening act for Belgian singer Raymond van het Groenewoud.
After Idool 2003 Natalia released a CD-Single "Without You", who included the three songs she sang during the Finals of the show. The single peaked at #2 in the charts, and Natalia won some Awards. One of them was the "Tien Om Te Zien Trofee 2003". Not much later, Idool-jury Jan Leyers wrote two songs for her, which she performed in the Belgian movie Team Spirit II, releasing "I've Only Begun To Fight" as second single, while she recorded her full-album, This Time. The CD was released, and Natalia started her tour. At the same time, she performed at the Preselections for the Eurovision with "Higher Than The Sun".

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Ray Parker Jr.
Ray Erskine Parker, Jr. (born May 1, 1954), is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer and recording artist. Parker is known for writing and performing the theme song to the motion picture Ghostbusters, for his solo hits, and performing with his band Raydio as well as Barry White.
Parker was born in Detroit to Venolia and Ray Parker, Sr. He has two siblings: his brother Opelton and his sister Barbara. His father died on March 12, 1992 at age 82; his mother died on December 18, 1993 at age 83.
Parker is a 1972 graduate of Northwestern High School in the Motor City. He was raised in the Dexter-Davison neighborhood on its West Side.
Parker gained his reputation during the late 1960s as a member of the house band at the legendary 20 Grand nightclub. This Detroit hot-spot often featured Tamla/Motown acts, one of which the (Detroit) Spinners, was so impressed with the young guitarist's skills that they added him to their touring group. Parker was also employed as a teenaged studio musician for the emergent Holland-Dozier-Holland's Invictus/Hot Wax stable and his choppy style was particularly prevalent on 'Want Ads', a number one single for Honey Cone.

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Richard Perry
Richard Perry (born June 18, 1942) is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982. From 1978 to 1983, he ran his own record label, Planet Records, but continued after its sale to RCA as an independent producer. With hit records stretching from the 1960s through the 2000s, Perry's more successful modern releases includes albums by Rod Stewart and Carly Simon.
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Perry came to his interest in rock music young. In 1955, at the age of 12, he attended the first of Alan Freed's live rock shows at the Paramount Theatre. He began his career in rock music as a local performer during his adolescence. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he shifted into songwriting briefly, collaborating with Kenny Vance. Perry was launched on his career as a producer, with early projects including Captain Beefheart's debut Safe as Milk and Fats Domino's Fats Is Back. In 1967, Perry moved to Los Angeles and in 1968 produced God Bless Tiny Tim, the debut album of Reprise Records artist Tiny Tim. The album was Perry's first charting hit, reaching #7 on Billboard magazine's Pop Albums chart.

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Ruth Pointer
Ruth Pointer (born March 19, 1946) is an American R&B singer, best known for being the eldest member of The Pointer Sisters.
Pointer was born in Oakland, California. She began her vocal training as a director of a junior choir in her father's church.^{[citation needed]}
Joining her sisters in 1972, the Pointer Sisters released their first album in 1973. The group eventually found fame with songs like "Yes We Can Can" (1973), their country crossover hit, "Fairytale" (1974) and "How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side)" before Bonnie's exit in 1977. Continuing as a trio, the group found their biggest success covering tunes of rock, pop and New Wave with singles such as "Fire" (1978), "He's So Shy" (1980), and "Slow Hand" (1981). The group found its biggest success with the release of the Break Out album in 1983 which featured hits such as "Automatic", "Jump (For My Love)", a re-released version of "I'm So Excited", "Neutron Dance", and "Baby Come And Get It". It's notable for featuring Ruth's lead vocals on "Automatic" and "Neutron Dance", which hit the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and led to the group winning two Grammy Awards. Of the original members, Ruth, along with her sister Anita, are still active with The Pointer Sisters. They were joined by Ruth's daughter, Issa, in the 1990s. The group was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.

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Sylvester James
Sylvester James (September 6, 1947 – December 16, 1988), better known as Sylvester, was an American disco and soul singer, and a drag performer. Sylvester was sometimes known as the "Queen of Disco," although this moniker has also been bestowed on some of the women of the disco era (i.e. Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer). His most significant works are the songs "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", "Dance (Disco Heat)" (both 1978) and "Do You Wanna Funk" (1982).
On September 20, 2004, Sylvester's anthem record, "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)", was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame. A year later, on September 19, 2005, Sylvester himself was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame for his achievement as an artist.
Sylvester James was born in Los Angeles, California, into a low-income family, and he was raised by his mother, Letha. According to TV One's Unsung, he lived in a tiny two-room house, where he and his brother shared a bunk bed. He was the oldest of six children. His father was not in his family's life. Many of the facts of his early life are uncertain, and birth dates from 1944 to 1948 have surfaced.

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Thomas Anders
Thomas Anders (born Bernd Weidung, 1 March 1963) is a German singer, composer and record producer. Anders was the lead singer of Germany's popular pop-duo Modern Talking in 1984–1987 and in 1998–2003.
Anders was born in Koblenz, West Germany. He began showing interest in music as a child, he did his first stage-performance at age of 7. Anders first studied music at Koblenz Eichendorff-Gymnasium, and then he studied musicology for five semesters at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. After having performed at several clubs and discothèques, in 1979, he participated in a music contest organized by the radio station Radio Luxembourg which he walked away from without earning enough points. Two days after the contest, Anders was offered a record contract by the same jury members of the radio contest.
It was then that his career officially began when in 1980, at age of 17, he released his debut single "Judy". Anders released several other singles produced by Daniel David including "Du weinst um ihn", which he performed on Michael Schanze's TV show Hätten sie heut' zeit für uns. In 1983, he met Dieter Bohlen who produced "Was macht das schon", the German cover version of F. R. David's "Pick Up the Phone" and also "Heißkalter Engel", the German cover version of Real Life's "Send Me an Angel". From late 1983 to the mid of 1984 Bohlen produced other tracks for Anders including "Wovon träumst du denn", "Endstation Sehnsucht" and "Es geht mir gut heut' Nacht". The success, however, came when in late 1984, Anders and Bohlen formed the successful duo Modern Talking, which they started things off by a worldwide hit single "You're My Heart, You're My Soul".

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Ultra Naté
Ultra Naté is an American house music, dance-pop and sometimes R&B musician who has achieved a respectable amount of success on the pop charts with songs such as "Free" and "If You Could Read My Mind" as part of Stars on 54.
Virtually all of her singles have reached the Top 10 of the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart. Such singles include "Show Me", "Free", "Desire", "Get it Up (the Feeling)", "Love's the Only Drug", and her most recent back-to-back number-one hits "Automatic" and "Give it All You Got" featuring Chris Willis.
Born Ultra Naté Wyche in March 20, 1968 in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Ultra Naté displayed her singing talent at an early age. Growing up, Naté enjoyed a wide variety of music; she enjoyed listening to artists such as Marvin Gaye and Boy George, whom Naté would later say helped her become more open to being more experimental with her style and production of music.
She is best known in her home country for her classic 1990s dance crossover track, "Free". She is also remembered in America for her team-up with Amber and Jocelyn Enriquez as Stars on 54 on a 1998 cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind", which was also a mainstream American hit. It reached #52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Though she has had club success in America, she has found the majority of her singles and, especially, album sales success in Europe.

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The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters performing at the 10th annual fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Nov. 4, 2006 Photo: Rick Kramer
Background information
Also known as	Pointers, a Pair
Origin	Oakland, California, United States
Genres	R&B, soul, pop, dance, Soft Rock, jazz, country, gospel
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Blue Thumb ABC Planet RCA Motown SBK
Website	thepointersisters.com
Members
Issa Pointer Ruth Pointer Sadako Johnson
Past members
Bonnie Pointer June Pointer Anita Pointer

The Pointer Sisters are an American R&B recording act from Oakland, California that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Spanning over three decades, their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country and rock.

The group had its early origins when sisters June and Bonnie Pointer began performing in clubs in 1969 as "Pointers, a Pair". The line-up grew to a trio when sister Anita Pointer joined them. They scored a record deal with Atlantic Records and released several unsuccessful singles. The trio grew to a quartet when sister Ruth joined in December 1972. They then signed with Blue Thumb Records, recorded their debut album, and began seeing more success. The group achieved its greatest commercial success as a trio during the 1980s consisting of the line-up of June, Ruth, and Anita. Bonnie had left the group in 1978 to commence a solo career with only modest success.

1 History
2 Awards
- 2.1 Grammy Awards
- 2.2 American Music Awards
3 Discography
- 3.1 US and UK Top Twenty singles
- 3.2 US and UK Top 40 albums
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

History [link]

Early days [link]

As children in West Oakland, California, the Pointer sisters and brothers were encouraged to listen to and sing gospel music by their parents Reverend Elton and Mrs Sarah Pointer. However, they were told rock and roll and the blues were "the devil's music", and it was only when they were away from their watchful parents that they could sing these styles. They regularly sang at the Church Of God (Anderson, IN) in West Oakland, but as the sisters grew older their love of other styles of music began to grow. When June, the youngest sister, brought home a copy of the Elvis Presley record All Shook Up, she was surprised that her mother allowed her to play it, until discovering that her mother had been pacified by the song "Crying in the Chapel" on the "B" side of the record.

After leaving school Ruth, the oldest sister, was already married with two children Faun (born 1965) and Malik (born 1966),^[1] Anita, the second oldest sister, also was married with a child Jada. Bonnie, the third oldest sister, and June sought a show business career and they formed a duo, "Pointers, A Pair". Later, Anita quit her job to join the group. They began touring and performing and provided backing vocals for artists such as Grace Slick, Sylvester James, Boz Scaggs and Elvin Bishop, and it was while supporting Bishop at a nightclub appearance in 1971, that the sisters were signed to a recording deal with Atlantic Records. The resulting singles that came from their Atlantic tenure failed to become hits but, nevertheless, the sisters were enjoying their newfound recording career. The temptation to join them finally overwhelmed Ruth and, in December 1972, she joined the group. The quartet signed to Blue Thumb Records and began to record their first full-fledged album.^[2]

Upon signing, they agreed that they did not want to follow the current trend of pop music but wanted to create an original sound that combined jazz music, jazz singing, and be-bop music. In searching of a visual style for their act, they remembered the poverty of their childhood and their ability to improvise, and used their experience to assemble a collection of vintage 1940s clothes from thrift shops, that would comprise their costumes and give them the distinctive look they were searching for.

In 1972, they were asked to record "Pinball Number Count" for a series of educational cartoons teaching kids how to count. It made its debut on Sesame Street in 1977 and was a feature on the show for many years.

They made their television debut performance at the Troubadour nightclub in Los Angeles on The Helen Reddy Show. In 1974 they joined Reddy on the track "Showbiz" which appeared on her "Free and Easy" album.

First success as recording artists [link]

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The Pointer Sisters on the cover of their self-titled debut album, which was released in 1973 and yielded the hit "Yes We Can Can".

Their self titled first album, was released in 1973 and received positive reviews, with the group being lauded for their versatility and originality. The group was backed up at this time by Bay Area stalwarts, the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils. The first single from this album, "Yes We Can Can", reached number 11 on the pop charts, and would go on to establish itself as an R&B classic. The Allen Toussaint penned song had been a small R&B hit for Lee Dorsey in 1970. The album's second single was a cover of Willie Dixon's Blues stomper "Wang Dang Doodle". It reached the R&B top 40 and the group's thrift shop style began to catch on with fans, many of whom would attend their shows in similar attire.

The following year they released their second album titled That's a Plenty. It continued in the jazz and be-bop style of its predecessor but provided one exception that caused a great deal of interest. The song "Fairytale", written by Anita and Bonnie, was a country song that reached #13 on the pop charts, and #37 on the country charts. Based on this success, the group was invited to Nashville, Tennessee where they achieved the singular distinction of becoming the first black female singers to perform at the Grand Ole Opry. In 1975, the quartet won a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Fairytale". Anita and Bonnie were also nominated as songwriters for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. The song would later be covered by Elvis Presley.

Their fourth album, Steppin' was released in 1975. Steppin' produced their Grammy-nominated number one R&B single, "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)", which was later sampled by female rap icons Salt-N-Pepa a decade later. The Pointer Sisters also scored another R&B hit from the album with "Going Down Slowly", another Allen Toussaint cover, and in 1976 appeared in the classic blaxploitation film Car Wash. Their song from the movie, "You Gotta Believe", made the R&B top 20 in early 1977.

They were featured on the 1977 album Saffo Music by Italian R&B singer Lara Saint Paul and produced by Leon Ware, with bass by Chuck Rainey, guitar by Ray Parker Jr. and mixed by Bill Conti.^[3] It was released in Italy under LASAPA records.

Their last album as a quartet was the Jazz/Funk album Having a Party, released in 1977. Though this album neither produced any major hits nor had strong sales, it did feature the Bonnie-led "Don't It Drive You Crazy," which would become a cult hit in the UK as part of the Rare Groove phenomenon.

The quartet becomes a trio [link]

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The Pointer Sisters on the cover of their 1978 album, Energy, which revived their popularity with their cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Fire".

By 1977, both June and Bonnie had left the group. June wanted to take a break and Bonnie left to start a solo career. Bonnie married Motown Records producer Jeffrey Bowen in 1978. She subsequently signed a contract with Motown and this led to a brief moderately successful solo career. Her first self-titled album produced the disco song "Heaven Must Have Sent You". The album was produced by Jeffrey Bowen (her husband at the time) and Berry Gordy. The song became a top 20 pop hit in September 1979.

On January 22, 1978, Ruth had given birth to her second daughter and, now a duo, Ruth and Anita cut back their schedules and concentrated on raising their families. They began talking about the future of the group and what direction it should take. They agreed to dispense with the 1940s nostalgia and go in a contemporary direction. Later in July of that year, June married William Oliver Whitmore II.

The two sisters now signed a deal with producer Richard Perry's Planet Records, which was distributed by Elektra Records. After contributing guest vocals on the group's cover of Sly Stone's "Everybody Is A Star", June was convinced to return to the group, making it a trio. With Perry, the trio began working on an album of west coast soft rock which was released in 1978 with the title Energy. The first single, a cover version of Bruce Springsteen's "Fire" climbed to #2 on the US singles charts in early 1979, and a third Allen Toussaint cover, "Happiness", also charted.

In 1979 they released an album with a harder edged rock sound entitled Priority, and while it was not a huge commercial success, it received very positive critical reviews and further strengthened the group's reputation for being versatile.

The height of their success [link]

Over the next few years they achieved their greatest commercial success and continued to demonstrate their versatility. In 1980 the soulful pop single, "He's So Shy", reached number three on the charts, and the following year a slow, sultry ballad, "Slow Hand", reached number two. The follow-up, "Should I Do It" was classic girl-group. Perry switched distribution of Planet to RCA in 1982. The first release from this new union was "American Music", a patriotic-themed. modernised take on the girl-group sound while "I'm So Excited" was an influential, exuberant dance track. All these singles were significant hits in the US and were also successful in Australia, where all but "American Music" reached the Top 20.

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The Pointer Sisters on the cover of their landmark release, Break Out. Released in 1983, the album would go on to become the group's biggest seller to date.

In 1983, the Pointer Sisters released what became their biggest-selling album ever with Break Out. That year Ruth became a grandmother for the first time. With the advent of MTV the sisters were able to exploit their visual style and extend their audience. In 1984 they achieved four Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in a row. "Automatic" reached #5; "Jump (for My Love)" reached #3; a remix of "I'm So Excited" was added to the album almost a year into its shelf life and reached #9; and another single from the album, "Neutron Dance", also featured on the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack, reached #6.

"I Need You" had been the lead single from the album, and was a significant R&B hit, peaking at #13 on the Black Singles charts. The album's last single, "Baby Come And Get It", did well on the Black Singles charts too but missed cracking the pop Top 40 by a hair. (It would be brought to life again in the next millennium through its use in Burger King television commercials.) They received Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for "Jump (For My Love)", and Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices for "Automatic". These songs also followed "Slow Hand" into the UK Top 10, with "Automatic" peaking at number 2 in that country.

These Planet singles marked the end of their run of Top 10 hits in the US, with their subsequent RCA releases "Dare Me" in 1984 (the Sisters' last Australian Top 10 hit), and "Goldmine" in 1986, reaching numbers 11 and 33 respectively. In 1985 Ruth became a grandmother for the second time.

The sisters eventually left RCA Records to record for Motown and SBK, releasing several group albums and individual solo albums along the way, but these projects did not achieve the level of success of their earlier work.

Subsequent years [link]

In recent years the sisters have maintained a lower public profile but have continued to perform. Anita became a grandmother in 1990 when her only child Jada gave birth to Roxie. On September 8, 1990 Ruth married a man named Michael Sayles (born 1957). The sisters entertained US troops in the Persian Gulf in 1991 with Bob Hope. By 1991, June Pointer had ended her thirteen year marriage to William Oliver Whitmore II. In August, 1993 at age 47 Ruth Pointer gave birth to twins Ali and Conor Sayles. In 1994 the Pointer Sisters were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and began touring with a production of the Fats Waller-based musical Ain't Misbehavin'. In 1995 Pointer Sisters recorded "Feel for the Physical" as a duet with Thomas Anders (of Modern Talking fame) for his album Souled. They were also one of the featured acts at the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics.

In 1995-96 the Pointer Sisters returned to their original jazzy incarnation touring nationally in Ain't Misbehavin': during this tour issues with June Pointer came to the fore as June Pointer missed many performances - understudy Wendy Edmead replaced her on these occasions - and in 2002 Ruth Pointer's daughter Issa Pointer began performing with the Pointer Sisters in June Pointer's stead with Issa Pointer. On June 9 2002 June Pointer and Bonnie Pointer performed as a duo on the bill at the San Jose Gay Pride Celebration the pair having been recruited by a promoter who had failed to recruit the official Pointer Sisters trio for the event: the June/Bonnie Pointer duo's appearance at San Jose Pride was promoted as a "Pointer Sisters" gig with pictures of June Pointer performing with Anita Pointer and Ruth Pointer utilized in its promotion, causing Anita Pointer and Ruth Pointer to sue the promoter and other affiliates of the June/Bonnie Pointer duo's San Jose Pride gig (neither Bonnie Pointer nor June Pointer was named in the suit).^[4] Bonnie Pointer and June Pointer subsequently performed as a duo at other Gay Pride celebrations and participated in the Get Up 'n' Dance disco music tour in the summer of 2003, the duo being officially billed as "Bonnie and June Pointer, formerly of the Pointer Sisters".

In 2004 Issa Pointer officially replaced June Pointer in the Pointer Sisters trio being featured on the live album The Pointer Sisters - Live in Billings recorded April 2004 at the Alberta Bair Theatre in Billings MT. The first studio recording by the Pointer Sisters to feature Issa Pointer was "Christmas in New York" recorded in the summer of 2005 for release for the multi-artist seasonal release Smooth & Soulful Christmas Collection on YMC Records: "Christmas in New York" afforded the Pointer Sisters their last appearance on a Billboard chart to date, the track reaching #21 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The group's next recording was a remake of the Eurythmics' "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" recorded with Natalia: this track spent sixteen weeks in the Top 20 of Belgium's Flemish chart from October 2005 with a peak of #2. In 2008 Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer and Issa Pointer recorded the last Pointer Sisters album to date The Pointer Sisters Favorites consisting of remakes of ten of the group's biggest hits: recorded in response to the group's failure to receive royalties from the inclusion of any Pointer Sisters' hits on multi-artist hits compilations, "...Favorites" has been sold exclusively at the group's live gigs and at the website ThePointerSisters.com . ^[5]

In recent years many Pointer Sisters songs have been covered by contemporary artists, such as "Jump (for My Love)" by Girls Aloud, which reached number two at the UK singles chart in 2003, "Dare Me" was turned into the dance smash "Stupidisco" by Belgian DJ Junior Jack, indie band Le Tigre covered in 2004 "I'm So Excited" on their third album This Island, and French DJ Muttonheads sampled "Back In My Arms" on his 2005 club hit "I'll Be There". Most recently in 2007, Tommy Boy recording artist Ultra Naté has released a dance-pop cover of "Automatic" that reached #1 at the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts. In 2005, "Pinball Number Count" was re-edited for Coldcut's Ninja Tune label, becoming a surprise dance hit. The same song has also been remixed by Venetian Snares of the Planet Mu record label.

The Pointer Sisters have maintained a high international profile as performers: in 2002 they participated at the annual Night of the Proms, a highly successful series of concerts combining pop and classical music, taking place in the Benelux, France and Germany: the Pointer Sisters received the highest audience ratings of all participating Night of the Proms acts in 2002. In January 2006 the Pointer Sisters concert collaboration with Natalia resulted in ten sold out dates in Antwerp with the "Natalia Meets The Pointer Sister" concerts, selling out 130.000 tickets for the 10 date concert run.

On June 7, 2006 Anita Pointer guest-starred on Celebrity Duets singing with Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson on "I'm So Excited": on the following night's results show the duo's encore was "Jump (For My Love)".

Since August 2009 Ruth, Anita and Bonnie Pointer have reunited. On August 4, 2009 they stopped by The Kibitz Room at Canter's in LA and jammed with the band and Ruth's son Malik Pointer. They sang "Fire," "Yes We Can Can," and "Going Down Slowly."^[6]^[7] On November 4, 2009, The Pointer Sisters played "I'm So Excited" and "The Neutron Dance" on CBS morning show The Early Show with Ruth's granddaughter, Sadako Johnson. Issa Pointer is currently pursuing a solo career.

In November 2011 the Pointer Sisters toured Australia and played one gig in New Zealand with a lineup consisting of Ruth Pointer, Sadako Johnson and Issa Pointer; the last-named was a last minute and presumably temporary replacement for Anita Pointer, who did not feel up to travel due to an unnamed health concern.^[8] (Sources close to Anita Pointer have denied the assertion by Bonnie Pointer that Anita has been diagnosed with cancer.)^{[citation needed]} Ruth Pointer, Sadako Pointer and Issa Pointer were also the personnel for a February 11, 2012 Pointer Sisters concert in Metairie LA.

The Pointer Sisters were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2005.

Vice City Dance [link]

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, The Malibu club in the game featured a Village people tribute in which they danced to "Automatic". This dance involved the dancers crossing the hands by their knees for two beats then raising the roof for another two. This has subsequently gained a cult following.^{[citation needed]}

Tragedy and controversy [link]

In November 2000, the sisters lost their mother Sarah; in 2003, sister Anita lost her only child Jada to cancer. Jada was the subject of the 1973 song "Jada". On April 11, 2006, June Pointer died of lung cancer at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, California. According to an official family statement she was surrounded by her sisters Ruth and Anita as well as brothers Aaron Pointer and Fritz. On May 4, 2006, sister Bonnie appeared on Entertainment Tonight saying the other sisters had not fulfilled the burial wishes for June, instead having her cremated because it was cheaper. Bonnie also stated the sisters had not let her ride in the family car at the funeral. Anita and Ruth responded that Bonnie had demanded to be let back in the group and was upset that she had not been allowed to, and that June had left no instructions for her burial. The sisters seemed estranged from Bonnie until she joined Anita Pointer on the Idol Radio Show in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Bonnie Pointer was arrested for allegedly possessing crack cocaine Friday, November 18, 2011 in South Los Angeles after the car she was riding in was pulled over for a mechanical malfunction.^[9]

Current Line-Up [link]

As of March 2012, the current Pointer Sisters line-up consists of: Ruth Pointer, Issa Pointer, and Sadako Pointer; granddaughter of Ruth Pointer.^{[citation needed]}

Awards [link]

Grammy Awards [link]

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. The Pointer Sisters have received three awards from nine nominations.^[10]

Year	Nominated work	Award	Result
1975	"Fairytale"	Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group	Won
1976	"How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)"	Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus	Nominated
1976	"Live Your Life Before You Die"	Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group	Nominated
1981	"He's So Shy"	Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated
1982	"Slow Hand"	Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated
1982	Black & White	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated
1985	"Jump (For My Love)"	Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Won
1985	"Automatic"	Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices	Won
1986	Contact	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	Nominated

Anita Pointer and Bonnie Pointer received an additional nomination as songwriters when "Fairytale" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song.

American Music Awards [link]

The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973. The Pointer Sisters have received three awards from four nominations.^[11]

Year	Award	Result
1982	Favorite Band, Duo or Group (Pop/Rock)	Nominated
1985	Favorite Band, Duo or Group (Soul/R&B)	Won
1985	Favorite Group Video Artist (Soul/R&B)	Won
1986	Favorite Group Video Artist (Soul/R&B)	Won

Discography [link]

Main article: The Pointer Sisters discography

US and UK Top Twenty singles [link]

The following singles reached the Top Thirty on either the United States Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart or the United Kingdom UK Singles Chart.^[12]^[13]

1973: "Yes We Can Can" (US #11)
1974: "Fairytale" (US #13)
1975: "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)" (US #20)
1979: "Fire" (US #2)
1979: "Happiness" (US #30)
1980: "He's So Shy" (US #3)
1981: "Slow Hand" (US #2; UK #10)
1982: "Should I Do It" (US #13)
1982: "American Music" (US #16)
1984: "Automatic" (US #5; UK #2)
1984: "Jump (For My Love)" (US #3; UK #6)
1984: "I'm So Excited" (remix) (US #9; UK #11)
1984: "Neutron Dance" (US #6)
1985: "Dare Me" (US #11; UK #17)

US and UK Top 40 albums [link]

The following albums reached the Top Forty on either the United States Billboard 200 pop albums chart or the United Kingdom UK Albums Chart.^[13]^[14]

1973: The Pointer Sisters (US #13)
1975: Steppin' (US #22)
1978: Energy (US #13)
1980: Special Things (US #34)
1981: Black & White (US #12; UK #21)
1982: So Excited! (#24 R&B)
1983: Break Out (US #8; UK #9)
1985: Contact (US #25; UK #34)
1989: Jump: The Best of the Pointer Sisters (UK #11)

References [link]

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^ www.discogs.com Lara Saint Paul: Saffo Music
^ "The Pointer Sisters News - Yahoo! Music". Music.yahoo.com. 2002-08-20. http://music.yahoo.com/pointer-sisters/news/two-pointer-sisters-sue-promoter-over-use-of-name--12046107. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
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^ Pointer Sister arrested for crack possession
^ The Pointer Sisters Grammy Awards
^ The Pointer Sisters American Music Awards
^ "US Singles Charts > The Pointer Sisters". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5161/charts-awards/billboard-singles. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
^ ^a ^b "UK Charts > The Pointer Sisters". The Official Charts Company. http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/pointer%20sisters/. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
^ "US Album Charts > The Pointer Sisters". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5161/charts-awards. Retrieved 2011-11-14.

External links [link]

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Live albums	Live at the Opera House

Compilation albums	The Best of the Pointer Sisters

Singles	"Yes We Can Can" "Wang Dang Doodle" "Steam Heat" "Fairytale" "How Long (Betcha' Got a Chick on the Side)" "Fire" "He's So Shy" "Slow Hand" "I'm So Excited" "Automatic" "Jump (for My Love)" "Neutron Dance" "Dare Me"

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Russell Harty
Portrait by Allan Warren
Born	Fredric Russell Harty (1934-09-05)5 September 1934 Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Died	8 June 1988(1988-06-08) (aged 53) Leeds, England
Cause of death	Hepatitis
Occupation	Talk show host

Russell Harty (5 September 1934 – 8 June 1988) was an English television presenter of arts programmes and chat shows.

1 Early life
2 Career
3 References
4 External links

Early life [link]

Born Fredric Russell Harty in Blackburn, Lancashire, he was the son of a Fred Harty, a fruit and vegetable stallholder on the local market, and Myrtle Rishton. He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School on West Park Road and Exeter College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class degree in English Literature.

Career [link]

On leaving university, Harty became an English and drama teacher in Giggleswick, North Yorkshire. In 1964, he started a year lecturing in English Literature at the City University of New York, and finally began his broadcasting career a few years later, when he became a radio producer for the BBC Third Programme, reviewing arts and literature.

He got his first break in 1970 presenting the arts programme Aquarius that was intended to be London Weekend Television's response to the BBC's Omnibus. A memorable programme involved a typically bizarre clash of cultures as Harty travelled to Italy to unite on camera the singer Gracie Fields and the classical composer William Walton.

In 1973 he was given his own series Russell Harty Plus on ITV which placed him against the BBC's Parkinson, conducting lengthy celebrity interviews. Parts of Russell Harty's interview with The Who in 1973 were included in Jeff Stein's 1979 film The Kids Are Alright, providing some of its most memorable moments, such as Pete Townshend and Keith Moon ripping off each other's shirt sleeves. The show lasted until 1981.

In 1975, Harty moved to the BBC with an early evening celebrity chatshow, which gained some unwelcome notice when he was smacked in the face by Jamaican-American singer Grace Jones on live TV on 18 November 1980. Jones appeared to be offended^{[citation needed]} by Harty's turning away from her to talk to another guest. This show ended in 1982.

Harty began working on a new series Russell Harty's Grand Tour for the BBC in 1987; the few interviews completed before his death included Salvador Dalí and Dirk Bogarde.

Harty had a distinctly camp turn of phrase; his name has been used as Cockney rhyming slang for party. One of his catchphrases was "you were, were you not...?".

Russell Harty was a good friend of the playwright Alan Bennett, who talks about him and his family, in relation with Bennett's own family, in the episode "Written on the Body", taken from his semi-biography Untold Stories.

Harty had strong connections with the village of Giggleswick in North Yorkshire: before beginning his TV career he worked as an English teacher at Giggleswick School, where one of his pupils was Richard Whiteley, the future TV presenter and host of Countdown. Harty subsequently lived in the heart of Giggleswick village. Following his death in 1988 (from Hepatitis B) in a Leeds hospital aged 53, he was buried in the churchyard of St Alkelda, Giggleswick.

References [link]

External links [link]

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Name	Harty, Russell
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	5 September 1934
Place of birth	Blackburn, Lancashire, England
Date of death	8 June 1988
Place of death	Leeds, England

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Romeo Miller
Miller in 2009
Background information
Birth name	Percy Romeo Miller, Jr.^[1]
Also known as	Lil' Romeo, Rome, Romeo
Born	(1989-08-19) August 19, 1989 (age 22)^[1] New Orleans, Louisiana, United States^[1]
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper Model Basketball player Entrepreneur Actor
Years active	2001–present
Labels	No Limit (2001–2002) Priority (2001–2002) The New No Limit (2002–2004) Universal (2002–2003) E1 (2004–2005) Guttar Music (2005–2006) Take A Stand (2007–present) The Next Generation (CEO) (2010–present) No Limit Forever (CEO) (2010–present)
Website	romeoforever.com

Percy Romeo Miller, Jr. (born August 19, 1989),^[2] better known by his stage name Romeo (previously Lil' Romeo), is an American rapper, actor, basketball player, entrepreneur, and model. As a rap musician, Miller has released three studio albums and two compilation albums.

1 Early life
2 Music career
3 Other ventures
4 Personal life
5 Discography
6 Filmography
7 Awards and nominations
8 References
9 External links

Early life [link]

Romeo Miller was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of rapper and entrepreneur Master P and former rapper Sonya C. He is the nephew of rappers C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker and the brother of singer Cymphonique. Romeo was signed to No Limit at the age of 5 after he wrote a rap to his dad.

Music career [link]

[edit] Lil' Romeo (2001)

He then released his debut album 7 years later titled after his original alias Lil' Romeo. This offering contained the hit single "My Baby" that charted No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-hop Singles. The album peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and No. 5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums,selling more than 500,000 copies the first week out making it certified Gold. The album is now certified certified Platinum by the RIAA for the sales of 1,300,000. Also in 2001 he was featured on his uncle Silkk the Shocker's remix single of "That's Kool", which was also featured on his own album.

[edit] Game Time (2002–2003)

In 2002, a year later after his debut album, Miller put out his second studio album, Game Time. It peaked at No. 33 on the Billboard 200 and No. 10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums selling close to a 110,000 copies the first week .^[1] It spawned the billboard charting single "2-Way" that charted to No. 66 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. It also spawned the album second single "True Love" which charted at No. 16 under the Hot 100 Singles. Though not as successful on the charts as Miller's debut album It still was successful in sales certified 2x Platinum, selling 2,430,785 copies making this Miller's highest selling album.

[edit] Romeoland (2004–2007)

In 2004, miller released his third studio album Romeoland, which was not as successful as his last two albums selling 50,000 the first week, but still managed to be certified Gold selling over 459,000 copies in the United States.^[1] It was also the last studio album to feature Miller billed as Lil' Romeo. In 2005 Romeo along with his brother Valentino Miller who was known as Young V at that time and their three cousins C-Los, Lil' D & Willie J formed the group Rich Boyz & released their debut album Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us. In 2006 Miller released a compilation album entitled Greatest Hits the album featured all of his hit songs when Miller was billed as Lil' Romeo. In 2006 Romeo released the two albums Lottery & God's Gift on the new label owned by himself and his father Master P, entitled Guttar Music. Lottery served as Millers first independent release while God's Gift served as a soundtrack to a movie with the same name. God's Gift was also Miller's first album to use the name Romeo and to have explicit language.^[1] The two albums were also known for containing Miller's single "U Can't Shine Like Me" which was a direct response to Bow Wow, who fans thought dissed Miller in his song "Fresh Azimiz". In 2007 Miller released a collaboration album with his father Master P titled Hip Hop History it sold 32,000 records worldwide.

[edit] Intelligent Hoodlum (2008–present)

In 2008 Miller stated he was working on his fourth studio album entitled Gumbo Station.^[3] On June 17, 2008 Miller released the first single from the album which was "Get Low wit It" which featured Akon & his brother Valentino Miller it failed to gain success on the Billboard charts.^[4]

On March 3, 2009 Romeo released a compilation entitled Get Low LP that contained songs that were supposed to be on Gumbo Station. It debuted at No. 149 on the Billboard 200 and as of May 5, 2009 it has sold over 20,000 copies. In 2010 Romeo confirmed that he was still working on his fourth studio album but he changed the name of the album to The College Boy. Romeo then announced that the title of the album was going to be I Am No Limit.

On January 19, 2010 Romeo released the first promotional single for the album entitled "Tell Me A Million Times" that featured Tempo.^[5] Then on January 26, 2010 Romeo released the second promotional single for the album entitled "Ice Cream Man Jr." which was a tribute to his dad Master P.^[6] On February 16, 2010 Miller released his debut mixtape Patience Is A Virtue to promote the album.^[7] Then on March 2, 2010 Romeo released two EPs to promote the album which were the Famous Girl & Monster/Practice.^[8]^[9] Also In 2010 Miller debuted his newly founded record label The Next Generation Entertainment with his new group the College Boyys.^[10] They released a collaboration album on May 25, 2010 entitled Spring Break which sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.^[11]^{[dead link]} Miller also on this day released three singles which were "You" that featured D'Anna & Lil Twist, "She Bad" that featured Millers cousins Lil' D & Black Don & "They Dont Know" but all of the singles failed to reach the charts.^[12]^[13]^[14] Romeo also performed at the 2010 Hip Hop Honors along with his brother Valentino Miller, his cousins Lil' D & Black Don, & his uncle Silkk The Shocker, along with Trina, Gucci Mane & Mystikal to honor his dad Master P & No Limit Records.^[15] In late 2010 Romeo relaunched No Limit as No Limit Forever Romeo also confirmed that he has changed the name of the album from I Am No Limit to Intelligent Hoodlum.^[16]

In 2011 It was confirmed that Romeo is going on a new tour with his dad Master P & his uncle Silkk the Shocker the tour is entitled ”No Limit Forever International".^[17] On January 11, 2011 Romeo released his EP Dont Push Me.^[18] On May 3, 2011 Romeo released the first official single from Intelligent Hoodlum which is "Famous Girl (Remix)" which is really the mastered version of the original it still features appearances from Sean Kingston & Miller's cousin Black Don.^[19] On August 19, 2011 Romeo released his I Am No Limit mixtape which was originally supposed to be his fourth studio album before it got changed but Miller just decided it would be best to just release it as a mixtape for his fans.^[20]^[21]^[22]

In 2012 Romeo formed a new group called RESQ3 they released their first single "The Only One" & supposed to be releasing a album in some time.^[23] Even though Romeo has created his new group he is still working & planning on releasing his fourth studio album Intelligent Hoodlum. On April 12, 2012 he released his first single from the album entitled "Hug Me Forever" which features his brother Valentino & his artist Kyros & has already shot the official music video for it.^[24] On May 19, 2012 Romeo released the music video for "Hug Me Forever" it was directed by Corey Molina of Creative Dream Productions.^[25]

Other ventures [link]

Acting career [link]

Miller started his acting career with a cameo appearance in the 2001 film Max Keeble's Big Move, as himself.^[26] He later co-starred with Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer and Zachary Isaiah Williams in the film Honey (2003). In Honey, his character was Benny, a young boy looking for a break.^[27] Also in 2003, he voiced himself on an episode of the animated series, Static Shock, to which he had performed the theme song.^[28] He co-starred with his dad in a movie called Uncle P in 2005.^{[citation needed]} He also starred in another movie with Zachary Isaiah Williams, God's Gift, which came out in 2006. Recently, he made a cameo appearance, as himself, in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide as a rapping coach for the teachers. Then in 2007 he starred in film ASL as himself, Rome, alongside Forrest Lipton and Zachary Isaiah Williams who played the young Romeo; Lil Romey and had also previously starred with Romeo in Honey and Nickelodeon's Romeo!. He guest-starred as a rapper accused of murder in the 2010 CBS series, The Defenders and acted in the highly successful film, Jumping the Broom, released in May 2011. In 2011, he also starred in TV commercials for McDonald's & ICDC Colleges.

Fashion designer [link]

On July 24, 2010 Romeo launched his own clothing line titled "College Boyys", which has also been promoted by Miller & his new group the College Boyys. It has also been promoted by artists such as Justin Bieber, Big Time Rush & Jaden Smith.^[29] Romeo stated

“

"When I was a kid, i used to lick markers on my t-shirt ‘I’m going to college’ and that imprint stuck in my head and made a difference to me in my life, turning it into a reality. I want to implant the same positive message to young boys as they dress themselves each day with a feeling of success. They can look in the mirror at themselves with a positive goal in mind for their bright future knowing that going to college can make a big difference in their lives.” College Boyys clothing style is classy, cool, and urban with a message: “It’s actually cool to be smart."

”

Basketball career [link]

Percy Miller, Jr.

College	USC
Conference	Pac-10
Sport	Basketball
Position	Point guard
Jersey #	15
Nickname	Romeo, Prince P
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Nationality	American
Born	(1989-08-19) August 19, 1989 (age 22) New Orleans, Louisiana
High school	Beverly Hills High School
Tournaments
2009 NCAA Tournament

Romeo was invited, in the summer of 2006, to the Reebok-sponsored ABCD Camp, which is considered the premier basketball camp in the United States. The Teaneck, New Jersey-based ABCD Camp is an invitation-only basketball showcase previously attended by high-profile players including Kobe Bryant, Stephon Marbury, Tracy McGrady, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. Surrounded by future NBA players such as O. J. Mayo, Derrick Rose, and Kevin Love, Miller looked out of place and averaged less than 2 points a game throughout the camp. The Wall Street Journal made an article on March 8, entitled "A Hot Prospect," cites Sonny Vaccaro, the longtime director of the ABCD Camp, as explaining, "he invited Romeo Miller to the 2006 camp, primarily as a favor to Percy Miller, whom he knew from the club basketball circuit." In the article, Vaccaro indicated, "If you're looking for the profile of an athlete who plays basketball at USC, he's not it."^[30]

On April 13, 2007, Miller verbally committed to the University of Southern California (USC) and signed a letter of intent on November 19, 2007.

Miller, a 5'11" point guard, was a four year starter at Beverly Hills High School. As a junior during the 2005–2006 high school season he averaged 13.9 points and 5.6 assists per game.^[31]^[32] As a senior during the 2006–2007 high school season he averaged 8.6 points and 9.0 assists per game.^[30]^[31]

According to The Wall Street Journal, it appears the decision to grant Miller a full scholarship at USC was largely driven by his relationship with friend and teammate Demar DeRozan, the 6-foot-6 All-American forward who was rated as the number five prospect in the country on Scout.com. The Wall Street Journal reported Coach Tim Floyd as saying, "Last April...Percy Miller called while driving both players from a tournament in Fayetteville, Ark...Percy Miller said 'Demar and Romeo are ready to make their decision, and would you like to have them both on scholarship?'...'I said absolutely.'"^[30] Miller and DeRozan began playing in the 2008–2009 season.

Modeling career [link]

On December 27 Romeo modeled for a new 2011 calendar.^[33] On April 10, 2011 Miller modeled for the April issue of TROIX magazine.^[34] On April 12, 2011 Miller modeled again for some new pictures.^[35] He also modeled with the singer-songwriter Chynna Terrell.

Dancing with the Stars [link]

After originally withdrawing from season two of Dancing with the Stars due to an injury,^[36] Romeo competed in season twelve.^[37] He was partnered with professional dancer, Chelsie Hightower. They were eliminated from the show on May 10, 2011 and finished in the Top 5, one week before the semi-final.

Week #	Dance/Song	Judges' score			Result
Week #	Dance/Song	Inaba	Goodman	Tonioli	Result
1	Cha-Cha-Cha/ "Romeo"	7	6	6	No Elimination
2	Quickstep/ "You're the One That I Want"	7	8	8	Safe
3	Rumba/ "I'll Be There"	7	6	7	Safe
4	Paso Doble/ "Palladio, First Movement"	7	8	8	Safe
5	Foxtrot/ "New York, New York"	9	8	9	Safe
6	Waltz/ "My Heart Will Go On"	10	9	9	Safe
7	Cha-Cha-Cha/ ""Born This Way"" Samba/ "Say Hey (I Love You)"	8/8 7/8	7 7	7 8	Safe
8	Tango/"Hold It Against Me" Salsa/"Tequila"	9 8	9 9	9 8	Eliminated

In week 7, Donnie Burns was the guest judge and scored the dances.

Personal life [link]

Miller attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California. Romeo sponsors "Loco Tonic", an energy drink he mentions in his newer songs. In 2008, Romeo was ranked No. 18 in the most fit men in the world. Miller was born on Aug. 19, 1989 in New Orleans, La. He is the oldest of seven children from parents Percy, Sr. and Sonya Miller. His father is a business entrepreneur and musician. His father also shares a passion for the game of basketball and signed contracts with the Charlotte Hornets and Toronto Raptors. Percy wears the No. 15 because that is the number his father wore in high school. Miller also believes in giving back to the community and is involved in a variety for charity endeavors and in 2008 along with his father received the key to the city in Memphis in recognition of their "Let the Kids Grow" educational program.

Discography [link]

Main article: Romeo discography

Studio albums

Lil' Romeo (2001)
Game Time (2002)
Romeoland (2004)
Intelligent Hoodlum (2012)

Independent albums

Lottery (2006)

Soundtrack albums

God's Gift Soundtrack (2006)

Collaboration albums

Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us (2005) (with Rich Boyz)
Hip Hop History (2007) (with Master P)
Spring Break (2010) (with College Boyys)
TBA (2012) (with College Boyys)
TBA (2012) (with Resq3)

Mixtapes

Patience Is A Virtue (2009)
I Am No Limit (2011)

Filmography [link]

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Max Keeble's Big Move	Himself	Cameo
2003	Honey	Benny	Main Role
2004	Still 'Bout It	M.J.	Main Role
2004	Decisions	Jamal	Main Role
2006	God's Gift	Romeo	Main Role
2006	Don't Be Scared	Stevie	Main Role
2007	Uncle P	Corey Miller	Main Role
2007	Crush On U	Romeo	Main Role
2009	The Pig People	TJ	Main Role
2010	Down and Distance	Darren Sheehan	Main Role
2011	Jumping the Broom	Sebastian	Support Role
2011	Wolf Boy	2120	Main Role
2012	Madea's Witness Protection	Jake	Main Role

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Brothers García	Ty	"Band on the Run" (episode 5, season 2)
2001	Oh Drama!	Musical Guest	Television special
2001	The Hughleys	Himself
2001	Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration	Himself
2002	Raising Dad	Marvin
2002	The 29th Annual American Music Awards	Himself
2002	Proud Family	Himself	"A Hero For Halloween" (episode 24, season 1)
2003	One on One	Eric	"Spy Games"
2003	Static Shock	Himself	Recorded the final theme song for the series.
2003	All Grown Up!	Lil Q	"It's Cupid, Stupid" (episode 8, season 1)^[38]
2003–2006	Romeo!	Romeo "Ro" Miller	Main Role/Starring as Romeo.
2005	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	Rapping teacher	"Guide to: Emergency Drills and Late Bus" (episode 21, season 2)
2008	Out of Jimmy's Head	Himself	"Lunch Tables" (episode 13, season 1)^[39]
2010	The Defenders	Killa Diz	"The Defenders – Nevada v. Killa Diz"^[40]
2011	The Bad Girls Club: Season 6	Himself	Guest appearance on the reality show (episode 10)
2011	Dancing With the Stars: Season 12	Contestant	Romeo was originally supposed to be competing in season 2 but due to a injury he was unable & his dad Master P filled in for him
2011	The Cape	Gangster	Season 1, Episode 9 – "Razer".
2011	Reed Between the Lines	Darius	Season 1, Episode 5 – "Let's Talk About Competition"
2011	Charlie's Angels	Royal's son	Season 1, EpisRode 7 – "Royal Angels"

Felipe Solis is schedule to appear in Romeo's new reality show Romeo & Juliet

Awards and nominations [link]

Billboard Music Awards
- 2001, Rap Artist of the Year (Winner)
- 2001, Music Videos: My Baby (Winner)
- 2002, R&B/Hip-Hop: My Baby (Winner)
Kids Choice Awards
- 2004, Favorite Television Actor – Male for: Romeo! (Nominated)
- 2005, Favorite Television Actor – Male for: Romeo! (Winner)
- 2006, Favorite Television Actor – Male for: Romeo! (Nominated)
Teen Choice Awards
- 2004, Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male for: Honey (Nominated)
Black Reel Awards
- 2004, Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male for: Honey (Nominated)
Young Artist Awards
- 2005, Best Performance in a TV Series (Comedy or Drama) – Leading Young Actor: Romeo! (Nominated)
NAMIC Vision Awards
- 2005, Best Comedic Performance: Romeo! (Nominated)
Image Awards
- 2005, Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children's Program – Series or Special: Romeo! (Nominated)

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f http://www.billboard.com/search/?keyword=romeo&x=0&y=0#/artist/romeo/bio/812607
^ Romeo on MSN Music MSN. Accessed July 31, 2008.
^ "Romeo Interview | Chat | Li'l Romeo | USC | Gumbo Station | Master P | Pic". Kidzworld.com. http://www.kidzworld.com/article/10347-romeo-interview. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ Side, My (June 17, 2008). "Get Low Wit It (feat. Akon) – EP by Romeo – Download Get Low Wit It (feat. Akon) – EP on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/get-low-wit-it-feat-akon/id280745904?i=280745990. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Tell You a Million Times (feat. Tempo) – Single by Romeo – Download Tell You a Million Times (feat. Tempo) – Single on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. January 19, 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/tell-you-million-times-feat/id353904479. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Ice Cream Man Jr. (feat. Valentino & Black Don) – Single by Romeo – Download Ice Cream Man Jr. (feat. Valentino & Black Don) – Single on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. January 26, 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ice-cream-man-jr-feat-valentino/id353938007. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ Posted by Shaïfizz (February 18, 2010). "Romeo: Go Download "Patience Is A Virtue"". Percyromeomiller.blogspot.com. http://percyromeomiller.blogspot.com/2010/02/go-download-patience-is-virtue.html. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Monster (feat. Tempo) / Practice – Single by Romeo – Download Monster (feat. Tempo) / Practice – Single on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. March 2, 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/monster-feat-tempo-practice/id362887340. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Connecting to the iTunes Store". iTunes Music Store. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/famous-girl-feat-sean-kingston/id362885123. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ » by Danielle Canada January 8, 2010, 13:30 pm (January 8, 2010). "Romeo Leaves Basketball Behind, Focuses On New Music « Hip-Hop Wired: Keeping You Informed With The Latest on Hip-Hop Culture, Rappers, Hip Hop News, Rap and Entertainment New". Hiphopwired.com. http://hiphopwired.com/2010/01/08/romeo-leaves-basketball-behind-focuses-on-new-music/. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ Up for Discussion Jump to Forums. "Lil Wayne Cracks 1 Million With 'Tha Carter III'". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003817568#/album/college-boyys/spring-break/1329575/review. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "You (feat. D'anna & Lil' Twist) (Single) by Romeo – Download You (feat. D'anna & Lil' Twist) (Single) on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. May 25, 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/you-feat-lil-twist-danna/id377043640?i=377043656. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "She Bad (feat. Black Don & Lil' D) – Single by Romeo – Download She Bad (feat. Black Don & Lil' D) – Single on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. May 25, 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/she-bad-feat-black-don-lil-d/id377043642?i=377043661. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "They Don't Know (Prod. by Riley J) (Single) by Romeo – Download They Don't Know (Prod. by Riley J) (Single) on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. May 25, 2010. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/they-dont-know-prod-by-riley/id377043709. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ Posted 6/7/10. ""2010: Hip Hop Honors Tribute Performance: Master P" | Show Clip". VH1. http://www.vh1.com/video/shows/2010-hip-hop-honors/525475/2010-hip-hop-honors-tribute-performance-master-p.jhtml. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "ROMEO: Intelligent Hoodlum". No Limit Forever Records. http://nolimitforeverrecords.com/?p=27. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ NO LIMIT FOREVER INTERNATIONAL TOUR – COMING IN 2011! UGHHH! Ft Master P, Silkk , Rome & more! – TTS – Master P, No Limit Records, TRU & No Limit Forever Records^{[dead link]}
^ "Don't Push Me by Romeo – Download Don't Push Me on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. January 11, 2011. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dont-push-me/id413309165. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Famous Girl (Remix) [feat. Sean Kingston] – Single by Romeo – Download Famous Girl (Remix) [feat. Sean Kingston] – Single on iTunes". iTunes Music Store. May 3, 2011. http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/famous-girl-remix-feat-sean/id434317312. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Video: Romeo – I Am No Limit [Behind The Scenes Footage]". Ilovepwnage.com. http://www.ilovepwnage.com/video.php?v=MjM5Mjk. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Romeo – I Am No Limit Hosted by No Limit // Free Mixtape @". Datpiff.com. August 19, 2011. http://www.datpiff.com/Romeo-I-Am-No-Limit-mixtape.262809.html. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ (August 19, 2011). "Romeo – I Am No Limit @ HotNewHipHop". Hotnewhiphop.com. http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/en/view-album/21222-i-am-no-limit. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0rLW0saOpA
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgKkAynLb78
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ywpEALPCU
^ Max Keeble's Big Move (2001) – Full cast and crew IMDB. Accessed August 29, 2008.
^ (November 19, 2002). It's a Wrap for "Honey" About.com. Accessed August 29, 2008.
^ IMDB
^ "Romeo Miller’s College Boyys Designs Offer Affordable Clothing With A Message For Young Boys". Hip Hop Press. July 24, 2010. http://www.hiphoppress.com/2010/07/romeo-millers-college-boyys-designs-offer-affordable-clothing-with-a-message-for-young-boys.html. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jon Weinbach (March 7, 2008). A Hot Prospect? The Wall Street Journal. Accessed July 28, 2008.
^ ^a ^b Player Bio: Percy Miller USC Trojans' Men's Basketball. Accessed May 21, 2010.
^ Antracia Merrill-Moorings, Lil Romeo to shoot hoops for USC, Frost Illustrated. Accessed May 6, 2007.
^ Posted by Shaïfizz (December 7, 2010). "Romeo: Buy Romeo's New Calendar 2011!!!". Percyromeomiller.blogspot.com. http://percyromeomiller.blogspot.com/2010/12/buy-romeos-new-calendar-2011.html. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "Behind the scenes video w/ Romeo Miller in the APRIL issue of TROIX available 4/11! Romeo is featured in this issue with the famous Bulldog puppy "ShrinkAbull Titan Of Troix"". Romeo Forever. http://romeoforever.com/?p=291. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "New Romeo Pics". Romeo Forever. http://romeoforever.com/?p=299. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ "ABC's 'Dancing with the Stars 2' replaces Romeo with Master P". Realitytvworld.com. December 14, 2005. http://www.realitytvworld.com/news/abc-dancing-with-stars-2-replaces-romeo-with-master-p-1006564.php. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ Barrett, Annie (February 28, 2011). "'Dancing with the Stars' cast revealed: Ralph Macchio, Kirstie Alley, Kendra Wilkinson and more". Entertainment Weekly. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/28/dancing-with-the-stars-cast-ralph-macchio/. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ Lil' Romeo
^ "Out of Jimmy's Head" Lunch Tables (TV episode 2008) – IMDb
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v t e Romeo Miller

Albums	Lil' Romeo Game Time Romeoland Lottery Intelligent Hoodlum

Soundtrack albums	Romeo! TV Show God's Gift Crush On U

Collaboration albums	Young Ballers: The Hood Been Good to Us Hip Hop History Spring Break

Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Get Low LP

Singles	"My Baby" "The Girlies" "2-Way" "True Love" "Play Like Us" "My Cinderella"" "My Girlfriend" "Hug Me Forever"

Collaboration singles	"Cutt" "My Life" "Im So Fly" "Black History" "Foot Work" "Hold Me Down"

Featured singles	"Tell Me a Story (About the Night Before)" "Hush Lil' Lady" "I Need Dubs"

Related articles	Discography College Boyys Rich Boyz

v t e No Limit Forever Records

Founders	P. Miller Romeo Miller Valentino Miller

Current artists	Black Don Cymphonique Miller G5-J Krazy Lil' D Silkk the Shocker Suni Black

v t e Guttar Music Entertainment

Founders	P. Miller Romeo Miller

Current artists	Bengie B Black Don (CEO) C-Los Gangsta Lil' D (President) Playa T.A.N.K

Former artists	Master P Romeo Valentino Rich Boyz Cognito

Guttar Music Films	God's Gift (2006) Crush On U (2007) Sweetwater (2008)

v t e No Limit Records

Founder	P. Miller

Former artists	504 Boyz Beats By the Pound Big Ed Choppa C-Murder Curren$y E-A-Ski Fiend Full Blooded Gambino Family Ghetto Commission Kane & Abel Krazy Lil Italy Lil Ric Lil Romeo Lil Soldiers Mac Magic Mercedes Mia X Mo B. Dick Mr. Serv-On Mr. Marcelo Mystikal Prime Suspects Silkk the Shocker Skull Duggery Snoop Dogg Sons of Funk Soulja Slim Steady Mobb'n Tre-8 TRU Young Bleed

No Limit Films	I'm Bout It (1997) Da Game of Life (1998) I Got the Hook Up (1998) MP da Last Don (1998) No Tomorrow (1999) Foolish (1999) Hot Boyz (2000) Lockdown (2003)

No Limit Sports	Ricky Davis Ron Mercer Ricky Williams

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Hines Ward Kirstie Alley Chelsea Kane Ralph Macchio Romeo Kendra Wilkinson Chris Jericho Petra Němcová Sugar Ray Leonard Wendy Williams Mike Catherwood

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Name	Miller, Romeo
Alternative names
Short description	American rapper, actor and basketball player
Date of birth	August 19, 1989
Place of birth	New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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SoShy
Birth name	Deborah Epstein
Born	(1979-09-14) September 14, 1979 (age 32) Paris, France
Origin	France
Genres	R&B, pop, soul
Occupations	singer, songwriter
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Mosley Music Group Interscope Records Universal Music Group Daylight Records
Associated acts	Timbaland, Nelly Furtado
Website	myspace.com/soshymusic

SoShy is a French-born American singer and songwriter.^[1]

1 Early life
2 Career
3 Discography
4 References
5 External links

Early life [link]

She was born Deborah Epstein in Paris on September 14, 1979, to a French-Argentine-Italian mother and a French father of Russian-Jewish ancestry. Her early childhood was spent in New York City and Los Angeles.^[2]

Career [link]

SoShy, who began singing in clubs at the age of fifteen, started to work with Lone, a French writer/producer in 2003, and from there signed a deal with Right Bank Management. Since signing, SoShy has traveled the world for her debut album, co-writing with artists including BloodShy, Sam Waters, Walter Turbitt, Mark Ronson, Cool and Dre, Steve Kipner and Estelle. She was also featured at the 2007 MUSEXPO music conference.

SoShy wrote "Strike the Match" for the ECHO Music Awards nominated German all-female pop band Monrose and "Appetite For Love" for Belgian singer Natalia. In addition, she wrote a song for the American pop / rock singer Chris Cornell on his new album "Scream. Also in 2009 she wrote the song "Elvis" for the Belgian group Leki & The Sweet Mints.

SoShy was signed to Timbaland's Mosley Music Group/Interscope/Universal Music Group. She can be heard on "Morning After Dark" along with Nelly Furtado, the first single from Timbaland's 2009 album Shock Value II.^[1] Her single "Dorothy" was featured on the FIFA 10 soundtrack and her song "The Way I" was featured on The Official Soundtrack of FIFA 06. They soon after intensively promoted the hit single by performing live on TV for the MTV MUSIC AWARDS, CONAN O'BRIEN Tonight Show, followed by many live shows, such as House of Blues Los Angeles, and throughout the world also.

Discography [link]

Solo singles [link]

Year	Song	Album(s)
2005	"The Way I"	FIFA 10 soundtrack
2009	"Dorothy"	FIFA 10 soundtrack

As featured artist [link]

Year	Song	Chart positions											Album
Year	Song	US	UK	AUS	NZ	GER	FRA	CAN	NET	IRE	NOR	EU	Album
2009	"Morning After Dark" (with Timbaland and Nelly Furtado)	61	6	19	—	6	13	8	21	11	13	8	Shock Value II

Solo songs [link]

Year	Song	Album(s)
2004	"Over Again"	TBA
2004	"What If"	TBA

Other appearances [link]

Year	Song	Artist	Album(s)	Notes
2006	"Strike The Match"	Monrose	I Am	writer of the song
2006	"Appetite For Love"	Natalia	Everything and More	writer of the song
2009	"Ease Off The Liquor"	Timbaland	Shock Value II	(additional vocals)
	"Lost Cause" ^[3]	Chris Cornell	Scream	writer of the song
	"Elvis" ^[4]	"Leki & The Sweet Mints"	Leki & The Sweet Mints	writer of the song

Remixes [link]

"Morning After Dark (Chew Fu 2016 B-Boy Fix Remix)" (with Nelly Furtado & SoShy)
"Morning After Dark (French Version) (with Nelly Furtado & SoShy)

References [link]

^ ^a ^b Reid, Shaheem (September 16, 2009 (2009-09-16)). "Timbaland's Shock Value 2 Inspired By 'Twilight'". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1621727/20090916/timbaland.jhtml.
^ SoShy
^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(Chris_Cornell_album)
^ http://austriancharts.at/showperson.asp?name=Deborah+Epstein

External links [link]

SoShy on Myspace

Persondata
Name	Epstein, Deborah
Alternative names	SoShy
Short description	French-American musician
Date of birth	September 14, 1982
Place of birth	Paris, France
Date of death
Place of death

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