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Vanessa Lee Carlton was born on August 16, 1980. She is an American soft rock/Piano pop singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for the Billboard top five, Grammy-nominated single "A Thousand Miles" from her debut album, Be Not Nobody which was released April 30, 2002, and certified platinum in the U.S.

Carlton dated singer/producer Stephan Jenkins of the rock band Third Eye Blind from 2002 until 2007. Jane magazine in the U.S. named Carlton one of the "eleven people you’d most like to see naked"; she posed for the magazine’s July 2005 issue.

Ashton Kutcher Punk’d Carlton in November 2004 during a rehearsal for her performance on The Tonight Show. In 2005, Vanessa Carlton completed the New York City Marathon and donated the pledge money she collected to Musicians on Call, a nonprofit organization that brings live and recorded music to patients’ bedsides. She currently resides in an apartment in New York City, Manhattan.
 

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Ciara Princess Harris she was born on October 25, 1985. She professionally known as Ciara, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, fashion model, music video director, actress and fashion designer. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the Billboard number-one single "Goodies". The album Goodies was released in the United States on September 28, 2004, and in the UK on January 24, 2005. It produced three top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100, selling over three million in the U.S., and over five million worldwide, and earned various awards and nominations.

In May 2005, Ciara made her acting debut in the MTV Films coming-of-age film All You’ve Got, as Becca Watley, the queen bee of a high school volleyball team; the Little Madonnas. The film was released on DVD May 23, 2006.

Ciara performed twice at the 2008 BET Awards on June 24, 2008, once with R&B singer Chris Brown  and the other with rapper Nelly.

She recently signed a deal with the modeling agency Wilhelmina Models. The deal will allow Wilhelmina to focus on casting Ciara in various different photo shoots and commercials. In addition to that, she also has her eyes set on beginning a new clothing line. She’s currently in talks with the department store Steve & Barry’s, who are already home to a clothing line for Sarah Jessica Parker’s "Bitten" line as well as New York Knicks’ star Stephon Marbury’s "Starbury" collection, to create a reasonably priced clothing line that would combine her style with affordable prices.

Ciara is starring with Patti LaBelle in the upcoming film Mama, I Want to Sing!, which is based on the worldwide hit off-Broadway musical. Ciara is playing a preacher’s daughter in the church choir who becomes a pop star.

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This cute boy was given the nickname " Curly ". Justin gained his first stage experience through various talent shows. When he was twelve he was discovered at an audition for the " Mickey Mouse Club " kids show. He moved with his mother to Orlando, where he not only gained more showbiz experience but also got to know JC.

Curly is the natural comic in the group and he takes enormous pleasure in making others laugh. This skill is only aided by his ability to act goofily. As well as being an excellent dancer and talented musician Justin is also very sporty. His favourite sport is basketball but, because of his hectic schedule with ‘N SYNC he has admittedly little time to devote to his hobby.

Advanced for his age, Justin is a purposeful and ambitious young man, who knows exactly what he wants. This must explain why, despite all the stress, he still has enough energy to successfully continue his schooling through a special correspondence course for young artists. His favourite subjects are maths and physics.

At the beginning of ‘N SYNC’s career, on those rare occasions when he made a mistake during the dance routines, this smart young man, being the perfectionist that he is, often reacted by pulling sweet, tormented faces. As frontman alongside JC, he carries a heavy load on his young ( albeit broad ) shoulders being the main focus for the cameras. His likeable, friendly smile has captured the hearts of the majority of ‘N SYNC fans. Despite his great success Justin remains modest and can’t quite come to terms with his effect on girls. He simply can’t understand why the fans become speechless when he looks at them.

IDEAL WOMAN : " She definitely has to have a sense of humor. But she has to be intelligent. I want to be able to talk to her. I guess I want just an all - over picture. Everyone deserves the best and everyone has somebody out there for them. The first thing I notice is the way she presents herself and carriers herself. If she’s confident, then she’s true to herself, and that’s something that attracts me to a girl. "
 

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Latifah was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Rita, a schoolteacher who worked at Irvington High School, and Lancelot Owens, a policeman. Her parents divorced when Latifah was ten. Latifah performed the number "Home" from the musical The Wiz in a high school play. Her stage name, Latifah (لطيفة), meaning "kind" in Arabic, was given to her when she was eight by her cousin. Latifah was raised in the Baptist church, and, while in high school, was a power forward on her basketball team.[

Latifah started her career beatboxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh. Latifah was one of the members of the original version of the Flavor Unit, which, at that time, was a crew of emcees grouped around producer DJ Mark the 45 King. In 1988, DJ Mark the 45 King heard a demo version of Latifah’s single "Princess of the Posse" and gave the demo to Fab Five Freddy, who was the host of Yo! MTV Raps. Freddy helped Latifah sign with Tommy Boy Records, which released Latifah’s first album All Hail the Queen in 1989, when she was nineteen. That year, she appeared as Referee on the UK label Music of Life album "1989—The Hustlers Convention (live)". Her debut managed to be both a critical and a commercial success and was followed by the albums Nature of a Sista and Black Reign, which contained the Grammy Award winning hit single, U.N.I.T.Y. In 1998, Co Produced by Ro Smith now CEO of Def Ro Inc. she released her fourth hip-hop album Order in the Court.

Raised in East Orange, New Jersey, she has been a resident of Rumson, New Jersey. Latifah’s older brother Lancelot Jr. was killed in 1992 in an accident involving a motorcycle that Latifah had recently bought him. Latifah still wears the key to the motorcycle around her neck, which can be seen throughout her performance in her sitcom Living Single. She also dedicated Black Reign to him. In 1993, Latifah was the victim of a carjacking, which also resulted in the shooting of a friend. In 1996 she was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana and posession of a loaded handgun, resulting in a fine and two years’ probation[citation needed]. In her 1999 autobiography, Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman, Latifah discussed how her brother’s death led to a bout of depression and drug abuse, from which she later recovered.

Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll (Arabic: شاكِرة ايسابل مبرك ريبول ) (born: February 2, 1977), known simply as Shakira is Colombian contralto singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer and philanthropist who has been a major figure in the pop music scene of Latin America since the mid-1990s. She is a native Spanish speaker and also speaks fluent English, Portuguese, and some Arabic. In 2001, she broke through into the English-speaking world with the release of Laundry Service, which sold over twenty million copies worldwide. Shakira is the highest-selling Colombian artist of all time, having sold more than 70 million albums worldwide, according to BMI. She has also won numerous awards worldwide, including two Grammy Awards, eight Latin Grammy Awards, fifteen Billboard Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, a People’s Choice Award and receiving a Golden Globe nomination. She is also the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, the United World Chart and the UK Singles Chart. Additionally, she is one of the only artists to have 10 Spanish singles chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

According to the United World Chart, Shakira is as of 2008 the 4th most successful artist so far for the last decade, in terms of single sales. She is also the only artist to have two songs in the top ten of the most successful singles since 1999.

During an online chat with her fans in "El Heraldo", she revealed that she was going to start writing her New Album in February 2008. No official release date has been announced. Furthermore, at the CD release party for Shakira’s singer-songwriter cousin Isa Mebarak in Colombia, Shakira’s father William Mebarak stated that Shakira is currently at work beginning to write and produce new songs for her upcoming album. This is being done in "her own studio,"

Early in the morning on April 3, Shakira arrived at Miami International Airport and told a waiting reporter who asked about the album that she was "still cooking" and would be heading to her studio in the Bahamas later that week. She also said she was preparing a trip to China, although whether this is album-related or for other reasons is unknown. On April 27, 2008, Shakira arrived in her hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia to help oversee the plans for the new, massive school her foundation is building there. She told reporters in an interview with RCN news that because of her visits to Washington D.C. before the U.S. Congress, she has been very busy and has only worked on the new album for "exactly four days" in the month of April. She confirmed the album should be out in the upcoming year (2009).

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After an unsuccessful try-out for the Mickey Mouse Club at the age of 12, Jessica returned to her hometown to perform on the Christian Youth Concert Circuit.  Her voice attracted the attention of Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records/ Sony Music for which she debuted her first album Sweet Kisses in 1999.

In 2001, she released her second album Irresistible, which was a smash hit going as high as # 3 on the Top 40 mainstream chart. 

Simpson’s fifth album A Public Affair will be released this year on August 29 with Epic Records.

Prior to her marriage, Jessica also served as a role model for Christian girls throughout the world, promoting abstinence until marriage. Simpson is currently one of the main faces of Pro-Active Acne Treatment products, appearing in commercials along with celebrities such as Sean John and Kelly Clarkson.

She is in the process of finishing 2006 movie Employee of the Month and will soon begin filming Dallas, expected to appear in theaters in 2007.
 

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Even though Kylie Minogue was quite a shy child her mother had already decided they(both sister’s)would not follow her footsteps and become dancers.'’I was never very keen on them taking up dancing becauseit’s such a hard life'’.It was when Kylie turned 11 that her debut part inAustralian television show ‘’The Sullivans'’ began to pave an incredible rise to fame within the Australian television industry.Kylie always balanced her studies with her acting career and it was after she passed her HSc that Kylie decided she was going to give acting a go…Naturally though the schoolgirl Kylie and the child star made it difficult for Kylie and her friends to adjust to the rising fame. In February 1986, Kylie auditioned and got the part of feisty, fiery girl next door mechanic Charlene Mitchell in the reletively new soap, ‘’Neighbours'’. A deluge of fanmail and rising viewing figures saw them extend the 12 week contract and ‘’Charlene'’ with on and off screen love ‘’Scott Robinson'’(played by JasonDonovan) took the show to the number one ratings spot in Australia and the United Kingdom. A record 23.8 million witnessed there marriage and this for a daytime soap!! the frenzy caused by neighbours was also casuing kids to bunk off schools and take televisions with them just to keep up with the show. Looking back only Russell Crowe(Gladiator) and Guy Pearce(L.A.Confidential) have also found fame. It was no surprise that Kylie went on to win 5 logies(television awards) including Most Popular Television Actress the same year. In 1987 Kylie performed with the cast for a charity function and an opportunity arose to sing a solo of Little Eva’s sixties smash ‘’The Locomotion'’. The reception was crazy and Kylie was swept into the studio to record and release the song within days. The single was released and went to number one in Australia for 7 weeks during 1987. Kylie decided that this was a direction that was now calling her, so in 1988 when Kylie finished filming her last Neighbours scenes, she flew to England to meet with reknowned producers Stock, Aitken+ Waterman.

Immediately the potential was seen in kylie and she was signed for a 5 year four album deal including a Greatest Hits.Pete Waterman states, ‘’She has a great voice.I love working with her because she has a terrific sense of humour, a fabulous personality and she knows how to really sell a song.'’ Kylie’s first release musically in the UK was to be a newly penned song, ‘’I Should Be So Lucky'’, it climbed the charts slowly to reach No.1 and it stayed there for 5 weeks, selling over 800,000 copies and the album, ‘’Kylie'’ went 7x platinum with sales of over 1.85 million. her string of hits and her record over the next five years has placed Kylie in the Guiness Book Of Records and within Music history forever. ‘’The Locomotion'’ incidentally peaked at No.3 in the USA with sales of 500,000, but Europe too was loving every minute. The first four singles went No.1 in Finland (a record) and the album ‘’Kylie'’ went on to sell over 7.3 million worldwide. This was one of the most successful starts to a pop career ever. In 1989 a second album was released, ‘’Enjoy Yourself'’ and Kylie decided that she was missing her acting and the lifestyle that entailed so she began lookign for a dceent Australian script, Kylie wanted a small film to try and find her feet in the movie world. the problem was/is Kylie is such a huge star within the music scene the media were on the case and made her acting debut asuccess but also a carefully watched baptism. The character ‘’Lola'’ in the ‘’The Delinquents'’ with Charlie Schlatter told the stroy of a young girl growing up in the 50’s. It was soon a No.1 box office smash in both the UK and AUS, mostly thanks to Kylie’s growing number of supporter’s. No rest period though and ylie was intent on moving her musical career forward, some call it a huge leap as the bubblegum pop turned into bubblegum classics as her third album ‘’Rhythm Of Love'’ spawned the golden quartet of singles, Step Back n Time, Shocked, What Do I Have To Do? and Better The Devil You Know. This album handed the opportunity to work with Stephen Bray(Madonna) and also begin to write her own songs, the new sexier look was also inpired from a relationship with late rock legendMichael Hutchence of INXS.Never before had a teenager been watched and written about so much, Kylie was beginning to see her health suffer and also her family life become non existent as life on the road away from Australia was taking it’s toll on the 21 year old star. ‘’Let’s Get To It'’ her fourth album was opportunity for Kylie to stage her second world tour and close off her deal with S/A/W paving the future for, what us fans remember was a very uncertain time in the life and career of Kylie Minogue….September 24th 1994, ‘’Kylie Minogue'’ was released, the huge successful single ‘’Confide In Me'’ helped it to debut at No.4. Confide meanwhile was being hailed as one of the coolest songs of the year.At home Kylie enjoyed a 5 week reign at No.1…The critics and the press ate humble pie. Streetfighter although not critically acclaimed was still a box office smash taking over $100 statesside. It was in 1994 that Kylie’s army of gay fans began to emerge and lift her up to an iconic Queen of Pop, she was cool, camp and kitcsh, in just three minutes bursts her videos could stun a room to silence, her beauty equalled only by Rita Hayworth or Bette Davis.Kylie was moving away from appearences on Smash Hits and would now be seen on ‘’The Face'’, ‘’Q'’ and ‘’NME'’, everyone was suddenly interested in Deconstructing the 1994 Kylie.Life after Michael Hutchence was proving somewhat difficult for her and I think she began to lose a little of the motivation which kept her nonstop lifestyle on full speed.After a relativley successful album Kylie was conscious that music was again moving and changing, she went home to Melbourne after filming Bio-Dome(another bad movie) and it was clear that the direction and the inspiration had all but disappeared after years of demanding workloads and press commitments. It was vital that somehow someone had to walk into her life and inject some sense of achievement and credibility.

Adam Garcia(Coyote Ugly,Saturday Night Fever) was a special guest in this Saturday night extravanganza.Kylie had been given her own hour long show to entertain and present songs from the new album ‘’Fever'’. ‘’Can’t Get You Out Of My Head'’ was dominating every chart in the world, and spending it’s 12th week on top of the Worldpop global chart, it was more of a celebration.Very few artists get given there own primetime show and the press were reporting that Madonn’a had said her kids were in love with the new song.It seems in 2001 no-one could get Kylie out of their heads. A performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards left crowds in Berlin breathless and subsequent awards were won at the Top Of The Pop awards in Manchester and4 nominations for 2002 Brit Awards. The song has topped charts all over the world and ‘’Fever'’ has already sold in excess of 3 million copies worldwide after just 3 months of sales.The Kylie star has never shone so brightly. On a more personal level Kylie has suffered from emotional exhaustion this year due to the punishing workloads and promotional schedules and her dad was also diagnosed with Cancer, which it seems he has beaten as I write this. So as 2001 comes to a close and the news that ‘’Can’t Get You Out Of My Head'’ is No.1on the USA dance charts with a full American release of ‘’Fever ‘’ due in February, it’s is time that the world took note of the first lady of pop music in the 21st century…step forward Miss Kylie Minogue.
 

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During the ’90s, Jack Black hopped from movie set to movie set, landing small parts in both popular and not-so-popular films. The list includes Demolition Man, Waterworld, Dead Man Walking, The Cable Guy, The Jackal, and the Will Smith vehicle, Enemy of the State. When Black wasn’t perfecting his acting skills, he was at band practice, cultivating the spoof duo Tenacious D, which he fronts.

The comedy High Fidelity with John Cusack provided Black with the breakthrough performance of his career in 2000. He finally received a more prominent role and he shone — even as a singer in the film. His roles were increasingly more significant from them on, as he was great in Saving Silverman and became a leading man in Shallow Hal (both in 2001). Just as Tenacious D had real hits with "Wonderboy" and "Tribute," Black continued on his successful run with Orange County, Ice Age and, most notably, 2003’s The School of Rock.

The comedian was front and center in the bomb, Envy, and then provided the voice of Lenny in Shark Tale, but his projects in 2004 were merely a prelude to bigger things. In 2005, he starred in the big budget, Peter Jackson-directed remake of King Kong. He follows this with his own Tenacious D movie, as well as two big films in 2006, Nacho libre and Master of Space and Time.

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Ludacris is one of the most notable names in music today.  He is a former Grammy Award winner for Best Rap Collaboration.  Ludacris has also been seen acting in numerous movies.

Ludacris began his career in music as a radio personality and DJ in Atlanta, Georgia.  While working as a radio personality, Ludacris began to record music and in 1999, he released his first album "Incognegro."  The album was an instant success.  The album sold over 50,000 copies and he was immediately signed by Def Jam Recordings. 

Since then, Ludacris has released 8 different music albums.  Besides the music, Ludacris is also an actor.  He has appeared in "The Wash," "Hustle & Flow," "Crash," "2 Fast 2 Furious," and the series "Law & Order." 

Ludacris attended Georgia State University and still resides in Atlanta, Georgia.