Curated category
21st-century American women singers
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone arrived in New York City in 1978 with thirty-five dollars in her pocket. It was the first time she had ever flown on a plane or ridden…
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She would grow up to sell an estimated 124…
- Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor by parents who chose…
- Katy PerryKaty Perry grew up in a household where the word "luck" was banned because it reminded her mother of Lucifer. Deviled eggs were called "angeled eggs".
- Aretha FranklinAretha Franklin heard Otis Redding's reaction to her own version of his song "Respect": "That little girl done took my song away from me." She had added a…
- Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow was born on the 27th of September 1972 into a family already at home in Hollywood: her mother, Blythe Danner, was a stage and screen…
- Mary Elizabeth McGlynnMary Elizabeth McGlynn was born on the 16th of October 1966, and over the decades that followed she became one of the most versatile figures in…
- Queen LatifahQueen Latifah chose her name at age eight, pulling it from a book of Arabic names. The word latifah means "delicate" and "very kind", but Dana Elaine Owens…
- Brie LarsonBrie Larson walked onto the stage of the 89th Academy Awards, accepted the envelope, and deliberately did not clap during a standing ovation for the winner.
- Missy ElliottMissy Elliott was born Melissa Arnette Elliott on the 1st of July, 1971, at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.
- Scarlett JohanssonScarlett Johansson was born on the 22nd of November 1984 in the Manhattan borough of New York City, and by the time she was nine years old she had already…
- Ariana GrandeAriana Grande-Butera was born on the 26th of June 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida, and by age eight she was singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at a Florida…
- Dolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton was born on the 19th of January 1946 in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee.
- Megan Thee StallionMegan Jovon Ruth Pete arrived in the world on the 15th of February 1995, inside a hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Her mother Holly Thomas moved the family to…
- KeshaKesha Rose Sebert was born on the 1st of March 1987, in Los Angeles, and by the time she was 22 years old her debut single had broken the record for the…
- St. Vincent (musician)Anne Erin Clark arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 28th of September 1982. Her parents divorced when she was three years old.
- Diana RossDiana Ross was born on the 26th of March 1944, and her very name was an accident. Her mother intended to call her Diane, but whoever filled out the birth…