She started singing at Mount Mariah Baptist Church. She inspired millions of listeners and released many gold-certified albums. She released hits like "How I Got Over," which won a Grammy Award. She was...
Gospel singer who was known as the King of Gospel music, won four Grammy Awards, and has worked with several other acts during his career. He help build a unique choir style that featured large vocal power...
Soul and funk singer who released "Outa-Space" and "Nothing from Nothing" and played the keyboard for The Beatles on "Let It Be" in 1970. He and Ray Charles worked together, including playing jazz organ...
Growing up, Starr expressed early interest in art, drama and mechanics. We’re guessing that the “drama” part probably served him well during his Beatles years. In the ‘90s, he began...
Her first album Song to a Seagull, produced by David Crosby (Crosby, Stills Nash and Young), was dedicated to her 7th grade English teacher, who Joni says “taught [her] to love words”.In 2002,...
Sweet-voiced folk singer of "Both Sides Now." She has won Grammy Awards, as well as being awarded a Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute. At age thirteen, she performed Mozart's Concerto...
Grammy Award-winning country and folk singer who released the hit single At age thirteen, she performed Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos. She was inspired to pursue a career in music after hearing the...
Grammy Award-winning American who played with Emmylou Harris' Hot Band.At height of his career he had five #1 singles in a row, including "I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried."He also wrote several hit songs...
Grammy Award-winning American country singer whose career spanned more than four decades. His song "El Paso" charted at #1 and was used in the final Breaking Bad episode.He was an avid race car driver...
The country singer’s mom was a fan of Loretta Young, an Academy Award-winning actress with a long career spanning the 1920s to the early ’50s, and named Loretta after the movie star. She's...
A young Al Pacino starred as a herion addict in "The Panic in Needle Park", the nickname for a place around the Upper West Side of Manhattan where junkies congregated,1971.