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Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of consumer sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac M. Singer with New York lawyer Edward C. Clark. Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then the Singer Company in 1963. It is based in La Vergne, Tennessee, near ...
Taylor Alison Swift was born on December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. [1] She is named after singer-songwriter James Taylor. [2] Her father, Scott Kingsley Swift, was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch, and her mother, Andrea Gardner Swift (née Finlay), worked as a mutual fund marketing executive briefly. [3]
sunrecords.com. Sun Records is an American independent record label founded by producer Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee on February 1, 1952. [3][2] Sun was the first label to record Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Prior to that, Sun had concentrated mainly on African-American ...
The "Edge of Seventeen" singer's latest solo tour, the 24 Karat Gold tour, grossed an estimated $25 million. Nicks reunited with her old bandmates for a European tour in 2018, and is still touring ...
Motown is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on January 12, 1959, [2][3] and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. [4] Its name, a portmanteau of motor and town, has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered.
Dr. Dre currently holds the record for the highest annual earnings for a musician, collecting $620 million in 2014, mainly through the sales of his headphone-manufacturing company, Beats Electronics. [9] Madonna is the first woman in music to earn $100 million for a year (2009) and has become the highest-paid female musician a record 11 times.
Bono has been recognised by music critics on several rankings of greatest singers and frontmen. Among singers, Q ranked him the 26th-greatest, [221] Consequence of Sound ranked him the 32nd-greatest, [222] and Mojo ranked him 57th-greatest. [223] Rolling Stone ranked him the 32nd-greatest singer in 2008, [124] and the 140th-greatest in 2023. [224]
James Brown. James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "King of Soul", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business", "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk ...