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Beverly Ann Johnson [1] [3] (born October 13, 1952) [4] is an American model, actress, singer, and businesswoman. Johnson rose to fame when she became the first Black model to appear on the cover of American Vogue in August 1974, after Donyale Luna was the first Black model to appear on the cover of British Vogue in 1966.
Teigen became engaged to singer John Legend in December 2011, after four years of dating. [47] The couple first met while filming his 2006 music video for the song "Stereo", in which she played his love interest. [48] They married in September 2013, [48] celebrating their wedding on September 14 in Como, Italy. [1]
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In 2017, she married Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit. ... D.C. native and Howard University graduate Taraji P. Henson has made her mark as one of the most famous female Black celebrities ...
Marsha A. Hunt – African-American model, singer, novelist, and actress. Beverley Heath Hoyland – Jamaican-British model and businesswoman. Whitney Houston - second African-American model to appear on the cover of Seventeen (November 1981) and first black singer to appear on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar (January 1996).
Famous Black Singers from the 1950s 1. Little Richard. Little Richard leads an all-star group at the taping of “American Bandstand’s 50th…A Celebration” at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in ...
Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican singer, songwriter, model and actress. [13] Born in Jamaica, she and her family moved to Syracuse, New York , when she was a teenager. Jones began her modelling career in New York state, then in Paris , working for fashion houses such as Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo , and appearing on the ...
In 2022, he became the first Black singer to sing the role of Radames in “Aida” at the Met — the first in its 240-year history. In 2023 he made his Carnegie Hall debut in “The Ordering of ...