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Nash launched her music career in 2005. Her 2007 single "Foundations" became a hit and brought her to public attention in the UK. Her debut album, Made of Bricks, peaked at No. 1 in the UK and was a moderate international success. Nash subsequently won the award for Best British Female Artist at the 2008 Brit Awards.
Kirstin Taylor Maldonado (born May 16, 1992) is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for being a vocalist in the a cappella group Pentatonix.With the group, she has released seven studio albums, won three Grammy Awards, and sold over six million albums.
Gibson was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 31, 1970, the third of Diane (née Pustizzi) and Joseph Gibson's four daughters. [1] [9] [10] Her father, who enjoyed singing, was originally named Joseph Schultz and was abandoned by his mother as a boy; [11] his biological mother married a man with the surname Gibson before putting Joseph in an orphanage. [12]
Leach was born in Harlem [2] and grew up in the Morrisania neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. As a child she sang in church and in talent shows. In 1953, at the age of 16, she met Harold Johnson, John Wilson and Norman "Polecat" Brown at a party; they were singing in harmony, and she joined in. [3] When the young men asked her to join their singing group, she was shocked: "Girls didn ...
Cherry was born in 1953 [3] to an African-American family in Woodlawn, a working-class neighbourhood on the south side of Chicago.Her father was a postal worker and trumpet player who worked long hours, "from four o'clock in the morning [until] nine o'clock at night", and she rarely saw him; her mother worked in the administration department for Playboy Enterprises. [4]
Lists of women in music cover different categories of women in music, including composers, conductors, groups, musicians and singers. They are organized by instrument, nationality, style and so on. They are organized by instrument, nationality, style and so on.
Claudia Lennear (born Claudia Joy Offley; 1946) is an American soul singer and educator.Lennear began her performing with the Superbs before becoming an Ikette in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term girl group is also used in a narrower sense within English-speaking countries to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups that flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s between the decline of early rock and roll and the ...