Lady Gaga - Pop Singer

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Well known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer. She began performing in the rock music picture of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and enroll at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She soon signed with rationalize Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her before time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the notice of Akon, who recognized her vocal ability, and signed her to his personal label, Kon Live Distribution.

Lady Gaga is enthused by glam rock artist such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also affirmed fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. Gaga was ranked the 73rd performer of the 2000 to 2010 decade by Billboard. As of August 2010, Gaga has sold extra than 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide. She gets a total of six Grammy Award nominations, won the awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording for "Poker Face".

Birth Name	Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Date Of Birth	March 28, 1986
Place Of Birth	New York City, United States
Genres	Pop, dance
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, performance artist, record producer, dancer, businesswoman
Instruments	Vocals, piano, synthesizer, keytar

Aretha Franklin - singer, songwriter

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist usually referred to as The Queen of Soul. Although famous for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B and gospel music. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Franklin Number one on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time. Aretha is one of the most pleased artists by the Grammy Awards, with 18 competitive Grammys to date, and two honorary Grammys. She has achieved a total of 20 No. 1 singles on the Billboard R&B Singles Chart, one of which also became her first number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100: "Respect" (1967).

"I Knew You Were Waiting" (1987), a duet with George Michael, became her second number one on the latter chart. Since 1961, Franklin has achieved a total of 45 "Top 40" hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She also has the majority million selling singles of any female artist with 14. Between 1967 and 1982 Aretha had 10 #1 R&B albums more than any additional female artist. In 1987, Franklin became the first female performer to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Aretha Franklin was the only characteristic singer at the 2009 presidential inauguration for Barack Obama.

Birth name	Aretha Louise Franklin
Date Of Birth	March 25, 1942
Place Of Birth	Memphis, Tennesee, U.S.
Genres	Soul, jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, rock
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, pianist
Instruments	Vocals, piano

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an American Pop/R&B singer -songwriter, actress and record producer. the first recording artist to have her first five singles top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola, in 1993, a series of hit records established her position as Columbia Records' highest-selling act. she introduced elements of hip hop into her album work, to much initial success. She signed a record $80 million dollar deal with Virgin Records, only to be dropped from the label and bought out of her contract in the following year. In 2002, Carey signed with Island Records, and, after a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of pop music, in 2005, with her album, The Emancipation of Mimi.

According to Island Def Jam, Carey has sold more than 200 million albums, singles and videos worldwide, which makes her one of the world's best-selling music artists. Carey was cited as the world’s best-selling recording artist of the 1990s at the 1998 World Music Awards and was also named the best-selling female artist of the millennium by the same award-giving body in 2000.In 2008, Carey earned her eighteenth number one single on the Hot 100, the most for any solo artist. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, she has earned five Grammy Awards and is known for her five-octave vocal range, power, melismatic style and use of the whistle register.

Date Of Birth	March 27, 1970
Place Of Birth	Huntington, New York, United States
Genres	R&B, pop
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, model, record producer, actress, film producer

Woody Guthrie - singer, songwriter and folk musician

Woody Guthrie is well known as an American singer - songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy include hundreds of political, customary and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He repeatedly performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best recognized song is "This Land Is Your Land", which is frequently sung in American schools. Guthrie travel with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and educated traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his experience in the Dust Bowl era through the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour".

Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and educated traditional folk and blues songs. Many of his songs are about his knowledge in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression, earning him the nickname the "Dust Bowl Troubadour". Throughout his life Guthrie was related with United States communist groups, though he was never an real member of any. Guthrie died from complication of Huntington's disease, a progressive inherited neurological disorder.

Birth name	Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Date Of Birth	July 14, 1912
Place Of Birth	Okemah, Oklahoma, United States
Genres	Folk, protest song
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Guitar, Vocal, Harmonica, Mandolin, Fiddle
Date Of Died	October 3, 1967
Place Of Died	New York City, New York, United States