Curated playlist
American choreographers
- Michael JacksonMichael Jackson bought a music catalog with most of the Beatles's material in 1985. He paid 47.5 million dollars.
- Janet JacksonJanet Jackson was seen at the 1983 American Music Awards wearing a hoop earring with a key attached to it. She has worn variations of that earring in music videos and live shows ever since. The pair she wore between 1987 and 1990 is now on…
- BeyoncéOn the 13th of December 2013, Beyoncé released a complete album on the iTunes Store with no warning and no promotion. Within six days it had sold one million digital copies, a record for any album on iTunes at the time. The artist behind…
- Tina TurnerTina Turner crossed a Texas freeway on foot on the 1st of July 1976 with 36 cents and a Mobil credit card in her pocket. She had slipped out of a hotel suite in Dallas after a fight, while her husband slept. Her destination was a nearby…
- MC HammerMC Hammer started out as an 11-year-old selling baseballs in a parking lot. The Oakland A's owner hired him on the spot.
- Usher (musician)Usher, the American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor, drew 123 million viewers within the United States to his Super Bowl LVIII halftime show in 2024. Very few performers ever stand in front of a crowd that size. Fewer still get there…
- Paula AbdulPaula Abdul is an American singer, dancer, choreographer and television personality, and one sentence she spoke to a record executive changed the shape of her career. Years afterward, Jeff Ayeroff recalled it this way: "She said, 'I can…
- Jennifer LopezJennifer Lopez wore a plunging green Versace silk chiffon dress to the Grammy Awards in February 2000, and a single outfit changed how people used the internet. The dress became the most popular search query in Google's history. That flood…
- Teyana TaylorTeyana Taylor was 15 years old in September 2006 when her name appeared in the credits as choreographer of Beyoncé's hit single "Ring the Alarm." A teenager from Harlem was shaping the movement of one of the biggest stars in music. That…
- Abby Lee MillerAbby Lee Miller, the Pittsburgh dance teacher who became a fixture of reality television, once described what she had parted with in a very particular way. In December 2022, a newspaper reported that she had sold her original Pittsburgh…