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Jackson (bottom row) in a 1977 CBS photo on the set of The JacksonsJanet Damita Jo Jackson was born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. [9] She was the youngest of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street. [10]
Francis was born to an Italian-American family (one of her grandfathers having immigrated from Reggio Calabria in 1905) [7] in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey, the first child of George Franconero (1911–1996) and Ida (née Ferrari-di Vito; 1911–2000), spending her first years in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn area (Utica Avenue/St. Marks Place) before the family moved to New ...
Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) [2] is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13.During her career Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience; she had a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits. [3]
Despite her late 1970s decline on the music charts, Reddy still had sufficient star power in 1979 to host The Helen Reddy Special, broadcast that May on ABC-TV, of which Jeff Wald was the producer. In September 1981, Reddy announced she would be shooting the pilot for her own TV sitcom, in which she would play a single mother working as a ...
Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) [1] is an American retired singer-songwriter. She was one of the first female artists in America to compose and produce her own material. [3] [4] Gentry rose to international fame in 1967 with her Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe". [5]
In 1995 her flamenco album Guitar Passion (1994) was awarded Female Pop Album of the Year at the Billboard International Latin Music Conference, and was named Best Female Latin Pop Album by Billboard Magazine. [2] [8] In an interview, Charo has said, "Around the world I am known as a great musician. But in America I am known as the cuchi-cuchi ...
Tonight Alive, Skyway Australia 1–16 July 2011 Rockvolution Tour Rufio, The Datsuns, Marky Ramone, Tonight Alive: Indonesia: 23–24 July 2011 An Evening with Anberlin Anberlin, Tonight Alive: Australia 26 August – 2 September 2011 Get Your Heart On! Tour Simple Plan, Tonight Alive, New Empire: Australia 30 September – 5 October 2011
Bessie Regina Norris (December 21, 1953 – May 10, 2020), [1] [2] better known by her stage name Betty Wright, [3] was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late 1960s as a teenager, Wright rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as " Clean Up Woman " and "Tonight Is the ...