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Evan Rachel Wood – actress and singer

Evan Rachel Wood - actress and singer

Evan Rachel Wood – actress and singer

Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and singer, Emmy and Golden Globe awards nominee.
Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7, 1987 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The girl was born in the acting family of German and French origin. Evan’s mother, Sara Lynn Moore, is an actress and director and her father is an actor, director, screenwriter, theater director and singer. Wood’s brother is also an actor.
Wood began her acting career in the late 1990s. She played in the television series Once and Again with Sela Ward.
In 2002, she played her first leading role in the film Little Secrets and won the Young Hollywood award in the same year.
One of her most significant roles was the role of the teenager in the drama Thirteen. Evan received several awards, including Golden Globe nomination for this role. In the film-musical Across the Universe Wood performed several songs of The Beatles.
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Tila Tequila – actress and singer

Tila Tequila – actress and singer

Tila Tequila – actress and singer

Tila Tequila is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, actress, model and television host of French-Vietnamese origin.
Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen (her real name) was born on October 24, 1981 in Singapore. Her parents emigrated from Vietnam after the Vietnam War. Tila is the third and the youngest child in the family. She has brother Daniel (born in 1976) and sister Terry (born in 1979). After the emigration her family lived in Houston (Texas, USA). Then they joined a closed Buddhist commune, and left it when Tila was 8 years old.
Her career began when she was 17 years old. The girl was seen by Playboy agent in Sharpstown Mall and was invited to take part in the photo shoot. So she moved to Northern California. On April 22, 2002 Tila became Playboy Cyber Girl of the week and then became the first Asian Cyber Girl of the month.
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Ed Sheeran – British singer-songwriter

Ed Sheeran - British singer-songwriter

Ed Sheeran – British singer-songwriter

Ed Sheeran is a British singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
Edward Christopher Sheeran was born on February 17, 1991 in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. He spent his childhood in Framlingham, the County of Suffolk. At the age of 16 he dropped out of school, and the next year he moved to London to build a career as a musician. At an early age he learned to play guitar and began writing songs while studying at Thomas Mills High School. In 2005, he made his first recording, released a mini-album The Orange Room. Sheeran released two more mini-albums: Ed Sheeran (2006) and Want Some? (2007).
In 2009, Sheeran played 312 concerts. In the same year he released a mini-album You Need E’s and soon went on tour with Just Jack.
In early 2011, Sheeran released independent mini-album No. 5 Collaborations Project, which attracted the attention of Elton John and Jamie Foxx.
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Dolly Parton – Queen of Country music

Dolly Parton - Queen of Country music

Dolly Parton – Queen of Country music

Dolly Parton is an American country music performer and actress. She has written more than six hundred songs. Dolly is recognized as one of the most successful singers in the genre and is named Queen of Country Music. Only she and Reba McEntire are performers who rose to the top of the charts in four different decades. In 2016, Parton became the only singer whose hits have appeared in the Top-20 country music chart Hot Country Songs all recent 6 decades in a row (1960, 70th, 80th 90th, 00th & 10th).
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in Locust Ridge, Sevier County, Tennessee. She was the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee (1921-2000) and his wife Avie Lee Parton (1923-2003). Parton’s grandfather Robert Jake Owens (1899-1992) was a preacher in a Pentecostal church and the family all played music and sang in the church. Dolly began writing music and playing the guitar when she was seven years old. When she was ten years old, Parton sang on the show in front of a live audience in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a year later she recorded Puppy Love, a song she had written on Gold Band, a small label.
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Adele – brilliant British singer

Adele – brilliant British singer

Adele – brilliant British singer

Adele is a British singer, songwriter and poet. After graduating from the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a contract with XL Recordings. In 2007, Adele won in the category Critics Choice at the Brit Awards and was recognized as the best new performer in the BBC Sound 2008, according to the survey. Her debut album 19 was released in 2008 and became commercially successful. In 2009 Adele won two Grammy awards. Adele released her second studio album, 21, in early 2011. The album was well received by critics. In 2012, Adele won numerous awards, including six Grammy awards, two Brit Awards and three American Music Awards. The album has received 16 platinum certifications in the UK and is the fourth best-selling album in the UK of all time. In the US, the album has a diamond certification. More than 31 million copies of the album were sold worldwide.
Adele was placed in the Guinness World Records book and was awarded the Order of the British Empire.
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Rita Ora – actress and singer

Rita Ora - actress and singer

Rita Ora – actress and singer

Rita Ora is a British actress and singer of Albanian origin. In 2009, she appeared on BBC in the show Eurovision: Your Country Needs Youruen. A little later, she signed a contract with Roc Nation.
Rita Sahatçiu Ora was born on November 26, 1990 in Yugoslavia. In the same year her family moved to the UK. She lived in West London and attended St Matthias CE primary school. Then she studied in youth theater school and St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College. Her mother is a psychiatrist, and her father is the owner of the pub. Rita has elder sister Elena and younger brother Don. The girl became interested in music at an early age.
In 2007, Rita took part in recording of Craig David’s single Awkward, which was the first release of the singer. In 2009 Craig David offered her to record Where’s Your Love together. Ora appeared in the music video for this song.
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Ariana Grande – beautiful actress and singer

Ariana Grande – beautiful actress and singer

Ariana Grande – beautiful actress and singer

Ariana Grande is an American film and television actress, singer, composer, songwriter and model.
She began her career with the Broadway musical 13, even before she received the main role in the television series Victorious in 2009 and Sam & Cat in 2013. Grande also participated in the recording of soundtracks and dubbing of cartoons, such as Winx Club. In 2015 she played in the TV series Scream Queens.
Ariana’s musical career began in 2011 with the recording of the soundtrack for the TV series Victorious. In the same year the singer signed a contract with Republic Records. In 2013, Grande released her debut album Yours Truly, which debuted at number one in the US charts Billboard 200. The first single from the album The Way was among top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.
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