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American LGBTQ singer-songwriters

  • Lady GagaLady Gaga's name may have come from a phone typo. Producer Rob Fusari said autocorrect turned "Radio Ga Ga" into "Lady".
  • Miley CyrusMiley Cyrus was eight years old when she grabbed her father's arm in a Toronto theatre. In 2001 the family lived in Toronto while Billy Ray Cyrus filmed the television series Doc. He took her to see a Mirvish production of Mamma Mia! at…
  • Frank OceanFrank Ocean, born Christopher Edwin Breaux, spent the summer of 2016 keeping fans guessing. At about 3 am on the 1st of August, a live stream surfaced on a website called boysdontcry.co. Apple Music sponsored it. The picture was shot in…
  • Billie EilishBillie Eilish was 18 years old when she left the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2020 holding all four of the ceremony's general field prizes. Only one person had done that before her, and no woman had. Not long before, she had been a…
  • Demi LovatoDemi Lovato, an American singer, songwriter and actress, sang the national anthem at Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Eighteen years earlier, in 2002, Lovato was a child playing a character named Angela on the children's series Barney & Friends.…
  • KeshaKesha's big break in 2009 came from walking into a recording session by accident.
  • Halsey (singer)Halsey, the stage name of Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, once looked at a bank account holding nine dollars. She spent it on a four-pack of Red Bull. The caffeine kept her awake for two or three days, because she judged sleeping somewhere…
  • Billie Joe ArmstrongBillie Joe Armstrong was five years old when he recorded a song called 'Look for Love' for a Bay Area label named Fiat Records. A teacher had pushed him to try it. Decades later, the band he fronts, Green Day, has sold over 60 million…
  • Chappell RoanChappell Roan stood in front of a crowd in June 2024 and admitted she was having a hard time that day. Her career, she told them, was going really fast and was hard to keep up with. Then she said the line that frames her whole story: "This…
  • Keke PalmerKeke Palmer's famous nickname has nothing to do with her real name. Lauren Keyana Palmer took it from an imaginary friend called Keke, invented by her older sister, Loreal, before Palmer was even born. In an interview with Glamour in 2022,…

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