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The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main solo vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually believed to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in (though this is not necessarily true), often the spokespersons in interviews and before the public. On some occasions, the frontman of the band is someone other than the lead vocalist (e.g. Rainbow, Manfred Mann, The Dave Clark Five and AC/DC.)
In certain types of music, notably Soul and Motown, there is a line-up of a lead vocalist with a named group of backing vocalists (Gladys Knight & the Pips, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles). Such line-ups can be very fluid, with both the lead vocalist and the backing group pursuing independent careers; and frequent personnel changes are not uncommon.
Some rock groups, such as The Beatles, Linkin Park, Hollywood Undead, Eagles, Gomez, Pink Floyd, The Beach Boys, KISS, Blink-182, Anti-Flag, 311, 10cc, The Band, Zebrahead, Atreyu, Mastodon, New Politics, Mushroomhead, Alkaline Trio, Lacuna Coil, Flobots, Slightly Stoopid, Crazy Town, Hüsker Dü, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Great Big Sea, Just Surrender, They Might Be Giants, The Monkees, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Barenaked Ladies have or had more than one featured vocalist, making it difficult to establish a single "lead singer" or "front man."
Stanley Eisen (born January 20, 1952), better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. Also known for his wailing vocals and high-energy on-stage antics. He is of Hungarian and Austrian ancestry.
He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's highest-charting hits. Stanley established the "Starchild" character for his Kiss persona. Hit Parader ranked him 18th on their list of Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Gibson.com Readers Poll also named him 13th on their list of Top 25 Frontmen.
Before Kiss, Paul Stanley was in a local band, Rainbow (not to be confused with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow) and was also a member of Uncle Joe and Post War Baby Boom. Through a mutual friend of Gene Simmons', Stanley joined Simmons' band Wicked Lester in the early 1970s. The band recorded an album in 1972, but as of 2010 it has not been officially released (although songs from the album appeared on Kiss's 2001 box set). Wicked Lester soon fell apart and Stanley and Simmons placed ads for a drummer and a guitarist in various New York papers. This resulted in Peter Criss and Ace Frehley joining the group, and they named themselves Kiss. Kiss released their self-titled debut album in February 1974.
Oprah Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and was for a time the world's only black billionaire. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world.
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee neighborhood. She experienced considerable hardship during her childhood, claiming to be raped at age nine and becoming pregnant at 14; her son died in infancy. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime-talk-show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place, she launched her own production company and became internationally syndicated.
Actors: Renato Basile (producer), Ron Andreassen (director), Toby Allen (actor), Andrew Tierney (actor), Michael Tierney (actor),
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Keywords: achilles-tendon-cut, airboat, arm-cut-off, bare-chested-male, bear-trap, biology, blood, blood-on-camera-lens, blood-spatter, body-in-a-fridgeActors: Ralph Brunjes (editor), Shawn Ashmore (actor), Christina Jennings (producer), David Suchet (actor), Jordan Canning (miscellaneous crew), Scott Garvie (producer), Joanne Whalley (actress), Gigi Morin (miscellaneous crew), Janice Fowlie (miscellaneous crew), Mark Caven (actor), Liisa Repo-Martell (actress), John Duncan (miscellaneous crew), Gary Koftinoff (composer), Laura Harbin (producer), Jan Peter Meyboom (producer),
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Keywords: baseball, baseball-team, gay-interest, male-frontal-nudity, male-full-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, nudity, showerActors: John Barker (writer), John Barker (director), John Barker (producer), Andrew Wessels (actor), Dzino (writer), John Barker (actor), Izak Bergh (editor), Cesare Cassarino (actor), Mizchif (actor), Dave Williams (actor), Chris Vermaak (producer),
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