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American music industry executives
- MadonnaMadonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on the 16th of August 1958. Her mother died of breast cancer when Madonna was five years old on the…
- EminemMarshall Bruce Mathers III arrived in the world on the 17th of October 1972, inside a hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri. His mother Deborah Nelson nearly died…
- Kanye WestKanye Omari West was born on the 8th of June 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and he moved with his mother to…
- Jay-ZShawn Corey Carter entered the world on the 4th of December 1969 within Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. He grew up inside the Marcy Houses public…
- Dr. DreAndre Romell Young was born on the 18th of February 1965 in Compton, California. His parents married in 1964 and divorced four years later.
- Ewart AbnerEwart Gladstone Abner, Jr. was born on the 11th of May 1923 in Chicago. His father served as a minister while young Ewart attended Englewood High School…
- Birdman (rapper)Bryan Christopher Brooks was born on the 15th of February 1969 at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. His mother Gladys Brooks died when he was five…
- Rick RossWilliam Leonard Roberts II was born on the 28th of January 1976, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He grew up in Carol City, Florida, where he attended Miami Carol…
- Lil WayneDwayne Michael Carter Jr. arrived in the world on the 27th of September 1982 within the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans.
- Sean CombsSean John Combs was born on the 4th of November 1969, in Harlem, New York City. His father Melvin Earl Combs worked at a hair salon and served in the U.S.
- Snoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. arrived in Long Beach, California on the 20th of October 1971. His biological father left the family three months after his…
- 50 CentCurtis James Jackson III was born on the 6th of July 1975 in Queens, New York City. He grew up in the South Jamaica neighborhood after his mother died in a…
- Magic JohnsonEarvin Johnson Jr. was born on the 14th of August 1959 in Lansing, Michigan. His father worked at General Motors while his mother cleaned homes and prepared…
- Suge KnightMarion Hugh Knight Jr. arrived in the world on the 19th of April 1965 within the city limits of Compton, California. His father was named Marion Knight Sr…
- Herb AlpertHerb Alpert was born on the 31st of March 1935, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. He grew up as the youngest of three children to Tillie and…
- Lupe FiascoWasalu Muhammad Jaco arrived in Chicago on the 16th of February 1982. He grew up as one of nine children born to Shirley and Gregory Jaco.
- Lil JonJonathan H. Smith was born on the 17th of January 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in Southwest Atlanta as the oldest of five children.
- Russell SimmonsRussell Wendell Simmons was born in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens on the 4th of October 1957. His father worked as a public school administrator while…
- Sylvia RobinsonSylvia Vanterpool entered the world on the 29th of May 1935, within the vibrant streets of Harlem, New York. Her father Herbert worked for General Motors…
- Brown MeggsBrown Moore Meggs was born on the 20th of October 1930 in Los Angeles. His father Charles Winfield Meggs worked as an art director for Paramount Pictures and…
- Tech N9neAaron Dontez Yates was born on the 8th of November 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri. He began rapping at a very early age to spell out his own name letter by…