Yvonne Elliman (born Yvonne Marianne Elliman, December 29, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaii)[1] is an American singer and actress. Her father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese and Chinese ancestries. She was born and raised in Honolulu, and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970.
Elliman’s singing career began in 1969 in London where she performed as a vocalist at various bars and clubs. This led to a recording contract and later, in Miami, a close association as a backing vocalist for Eric Clapton. She performed on many of his 1970s hits including “I Shot the Sheriff” and “Lay Down Sally”. She sang the role of Mary Magdalene in the original album of Jesus Christ Superstar and in the subsequent Broadway and film version, and achieved her first hit single with the ballad “I Don’t Know How to Love Him”.[1] The song was her first entry on the U.S. charts, peaking at #28 pop in 1971, although a cover version by Helen Reddy was a bigger hit. This performance led to a 1974 Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.[1]
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Yvonne De Carlo (September 1, 1922 ? January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television actress, dancer and singer. In her six-decade career, her most prolific appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as Salome Where She Danced and The Ten Commandments, opposite Charlton Heston. In the 1960s, she gained a whole new generation of fans, playing “Lily Munster” on CBS television series The Munsters, opposite Fred Gwynne.
The daughter of an aspiring actress, Marie De Carlo, and a salesman, William Middleton, De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. “I was named Margaret Yvonne – Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.”[1] Her maternal grandfather, Michael de Carlo, was Sicilian-born, and her maternal grandmother, Margaret Purvis, was Scottish-born. Margaret’s mother ran away from home, when she was 16 to become a ballerina, after a couple of years working as a shop girl, she was finally married in 1924. Little Margaret was just a toddler when her father beat a hasty departure only one step ahead of the law. Her father abandoned her family when she was 3. While her mother was away with her boyfriends, Margaret lived with her grandparents. She found a secure spot with them; however, she wanted some attention, very desperately. The little girl inherited her mother’s personality. By the time she entered grade school, she found that her strong singing voice brought her the attention she longed for. Although her mother recognized Margaret’s talent for singing, she had decided long ago that any daughter of hers would be a dancer. As a teenager, ?Peggy? was taken by her mother to Hollywood where she enrolled her in dancing school, also attending Le Conte Middle School in Hollywood. Margaret also lived in a downtown apartment, with her mother, where Marie took on odd jobs such as a waitress. Margaret was uprooted again when her visa expired, she would have to make three trips, the first of which is from Los Angeles, California to Vancouver, within a few years, where she and her mother both returned, because she was unable to find work. Despite of all the traveling she went to, her ballet had already continued. It was also noted that her body was also not supple enough to withstand the rigors of ballet.
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Yvette Michele (born Michele Yvette Bryant,[1] 1972,[2] New York) is an Amercian R&B singer who released her debut album, My Dream, on August 26, 1997 on the RCA record label, which peaked at number 20 on the Billboard 200.[3] From 1996-1998 she released three Top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart, “Everyday & Everynight” (#3),[4] “I’m Not Feeling You” (#5) [5] and “DJ Keep Playin’ (Get Your Music On)” (#19).[6]
On March 5, 1997 “I’m Not Feeling You” was awarded the Billboard ‘Greatest Gainer Sales’ award for the biggest sales gain of the week.[7]
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Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He entered the public consciousness in 1965 as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, along with longtime artistic partner Art Garfunkel. Simon solely wrote most of the duo’s songs, including such memorable songs as “The Sound of Silence”, “The Boxer”, “Mrs. Robinson”, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. In 1970, at the height of their popularity, the duo split and Simon began a successful solo career, highlighted by his 1986 experiment with African music on the album Graceland, which was decisive in the introduction of world music into the mainstream. Simon’s work has been generally praised by critics and the public, and has enjoyed notable commercial success for over four decades of production. In 2006, Time magazine called him one of the 100 “people who shape our world.”[1]
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Wynter Gordon (born Diana Gordon) is an American Bubblegum Pop singer/songwriter. She is currently signed to Atlantic Records.
Wynter wrote the song “Gonna Breakthrough” for Mary J. Blige’s album The Breakthrough, and two songs for Danity Kane’s second album Welcome to the Dollhouse, “2 of You” and “Do Me Good”. She is currently writing for Jennifer Lopez and Rihanna.
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Maurice White (born December 19, 1941) is a Grammy Award winning African-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger. He is the older brother of Verdine White and the leader and founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire Maurice has won seven Grammys and he has been Grammy nominated 21 times.[1][2][3]
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William Thomas “Billy” Murray (25 May 1877 ? 17 August 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century. While he received star billings on Vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era.
Billy Murray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Patrick and Julia (Kelleher) Murray, immigrants from Ireland.[1][2] His parents moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1882, where he grew up. He became fascinated with the theater and joined a traveling vaudeville troupe in 1893. He also performed in minstrel shows early in his career. He made his first recordings for a local phonograph cylinder company in San Francisco, California, in 1897. In 1903 he started recording regularly in the New York City and New Jersey area, when the nation’s major record companies as well as the Tin Pan Alley music industry were concentrated there.
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Will Oakland (January 15, 1880?May 15, 1956) was an American countertenor famed for his exceptionally high vocal range. He was born Herman Hinrichs in Jersey City, New Jersey, to German-American immigrant parents.
Oakland began his musical career after leaving the United States Army in 1905, joining Lew Dockstader’s minstrels in Rochester, New York. He began recording for Edison Records in 1908, soon after Richard Jose’s retirement. In addition to appearing as a solo performer, Oakland recorded duets with Billy Murray, sometimes singing the female part in love songs. He often sang woeful, sentimental songs that contrasted with Murray’s usually upbeat reportoire.
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Wilbert Harrison (January 5, 1929 ? October 26, 1994) was an American singer/pianist/guitarist/harmonica player.
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Harrison had a Billboard No.1 record in 1959 with the song “Kansas City”. The song was written in 1951 and was one of the first credited collaborations by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.[1] Harrison recorded “Kansas City” for Harlem music entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, which caused a furor with Herman Lubinsky and Savoy Records.[citation needed]
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is an American singer, actress, and former fashion model. A relative to several prominent soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick, and godmother Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing at her New Jersey church as a member of a junior gospel choir at age eleven. After she began performing alongside her mother at night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis.
Houston released her debut album Whitney Houston in 1985, which became the best-selling debut album by a female artist at the time of release.[1] Her second studio album Whitney (1987) became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.[1] Houston’s crossover appeal on the popular music charts as well as her prominence on MTV enabled several African-American women to follow in her success.[2][3]
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