Britney Spears – Pop Idol

Britney Spears is an American pop singer, dancer, songwriter, and actress. Her debut album Baby One More Time made her worldwide famous, and the eponymous single topped Billboard Hot 100. The Daily Yomiuri called her “the most gifted pop idol of recent years”. For the single Toxic, Spears got her first Grammy award. For the song Piece of Me she received three awards – best pop song, best female video and video 2007. In December 2008, her single Womanizer topped Billboard Hot 100. Spears was recognized the best-selling female singer of the last decade in the United States and took the 12th place in the list of the richest women in the world.
In 2002, Spears starred in the film Crossroads. In 2008 Phil Griffin released biopic Britney: For the Record. In 2012, Spears became a judge of the second season of The X Factor USA. At the end of May 2012 Forbes magazine named her the highest paid singer in Hollywood.
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Tina Turner – Queen of Rock and Roll

Tina Turner is an American singer, songwriter, actress and dancer. She is the winner of eight Grammy awards. Tina was in the list of top ten dancers in the world. Rolling Stone magazine named her one of the greatest singers of our time.
Anna Mae Bullock (her real name) was born on November 26, 1939, Natbush, Tennessee. Her parents divorced when Anna was 10 years old. After that, Anna and her elder sister, Ruby Ellen, were brought up by their grandmother. After grandmother’s death, sisters and their mother moved to St. Louis. Elder sister often took her to the nightclubs of the city. Once in the club Imperial Anna met rhythm and blues musician Ike Turner. At the age of 18, she became a lead singer in his band Kings of Rhythm. Ike changed Anna’s name to Tina Turner and named his band Ike & Tina Turner Revue. In 1962, the couple got married in Tijuana, Mexico. Turner raised four boys – Ike Jr. and Michael (Ike’s sons from a previous relationship) and two her own children – Craig (Anna’s son born in 1958 from her relationship with Raymond Hill, a saxophone player from Ike’s band) and Ronald (the only child they have together, born in 1961).
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Bob Dylan – Folk Troubadour

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist, writer and film actor. He has been a cult figure in rock music for five decades. Many of his songs, such as Blowin ‘in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin’, became the anthem of the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement in the United States. In 2016 he was awarded Nobel Prize in literature. According to Rolling Stone survey he is the second (after The Beatles) leading performer in the history of music.
Robert Allen Zimmerman (his real name) was born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota into the family of a merchant. His ancestors are immigrants from the Russian Empire. In 1947, Robert’s father contracted polio, and the family moved to the nearby town Hibbing. As a child, Robert was fond of music and Woody Guthrie greatly influenced him. At the age of ten Robert wrote his first poems.
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Mick Jagger – British rock musician

Mick Jagger is a British rock musician, actor, producer, vocalist of the rock band The Rolling Stones.
Philip Michael Jagger was born on July 26, 1943 in Dartford (Kent). His father worked in Döner Kebab.
Michael studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He had no interest in studying and was fond of singing. His favorite and most influential musicians were Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Fats Domino. Michael tried to sing as loudly as possible, and once he even bit off the tip of his tongue. Soon he left school due to the fact that he together with Brian Jones and Keith Richards formed The Rolling Stones which became more and more popular.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met on the playground. In 1958, Jagger became a member of the blues band Little Boy Blue & The Blue Boys. Keith entered the School of Art, where he met Mick’s old friend and his colleague Dick Taylor. In 1961, Brian Jones left The Ramrods and moved to London. He became guitarist in Blues Incorporated, dreaming of creating his own group. At the end of the year Brian acquainted with Mick and Keith.
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Nicole Kidman – Australian and American actress

Nicole Kidman is an Australian and American actress, singer and producer. She was a winner of Oscar in 2003 for her role in The Hours (the first actress from Australia to receive the award in Best Actress category). Nicole also received three Golden Globe awards (1996, 2002, 2003).
Nicole Mary Kidman was born on June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her parents were born in Australia. For a while Nicole’s father worked as a specialist in the study of cancer cells in the Washington, DC, USA. When the future actress was 4 years old, her family moved back to Australia: Nicole’s father got a job at the Technical University of Sydney. She has a younger sister – Antonia Kidman (born in 1970) – journalist and television presenter.
At the age of four Nicole started practicing ballet. Passion for dance led her to the Australian Theatre for Young People and then to Philip Street Theater. Nicole had to leave school as her mother fell ill with breast cancer, and the girl was forced to devote herself to the care of the family.
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Vanessa Paradis – French actress and singer

Vanessa Paradis is a French actress, singer and model.
Vanessa Chantal Paradis was born on December 22, 1972 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Paris. She was born to filmmakers André and Corinne Paradis. Vanessa has sister Allison Paradis, who also became an actress. Since childhood, Vanessa was fond of singing and dancing. At the initiative of her uncle, actor and producer Didier Payne, 7-year-old girl appeared on French television in a TV contest L’école des fans with the song Emilie Jolie. In 1987, at the age of 14, Vanessa won European fame with the song Joe le taxi. The following year she released her debut album M&J, which became platinum.
In 1989, Vanessa made her debut in the film Noce Blanche by Jean-Claude Brissot where she played the main female role. It is said that this role brought the actress the hate of French female population for erotic scenes. For five years Vanessa didn’t play in films, but recorded three albums Variation Sur Le Même T’aime (1990), Vanessa Paradis (1992), Vanessa Paradis Live (1994).
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Sharon Osbourne – British TV presenter

Sharon Osbourne is a British TV presenter, writer, music producer and entrepreneur. She is the wife of the famous British rock musician Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon became famous after the TV reality show The Osbournes, which tells about the home life of Ozzy Osbourne and his family.
Sharon Rachel Osbourne (nee Sharon Rachel Arden, at birth Levy) was born on October 9, 1952 in Brixton, Devon. The girl was born into the family of music producer Don Arden (born Harry Levy, 1926-2007) and his wife Hope Shaw, a former ballet dancer. Her paternal grandparents, Lazarus Levy and Sarah Blake, immigrated to Britain from Russia during the First World War.
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