Curated category
American women pop singers
- 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…
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. Her parents were Cynthia Louise and Joseph…
- Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania. Her parents chose a unisex name hoping it would help her succeed in…
- Katy PerryKatheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born on the 25th of October 1984, in Santa Barbara, California. Her parents were Pentecostal pastors who had turned to religion…
- Aretha FranklinAretha Louise Franklin was born on the 25th of March 1942, at her family's home located at 406 Lucy Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.
- Judy GarlandFrances Ethel Gumm stood on the stage of her father's movie theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at the age of two. She sang a chorus of Jingle Bells…
- AaliyahAaliyah Dana Haughton was born on the 16th of January 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Her family moved to Detroit when she was five years old.
- Brie LarsonBrianne Sidonie Desaulniers was born on the 1st of October 1989, in Sacramento, California. Her parents were homeopathic chiropractors who ran a practice…
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey was born on the 27th of March 1969, in Huntington, New York. Her name came from the song They Call the Wind Maria, which appeared in the 1951…
- Missy ElliottMelissa Arnette Elliott was born on the 1st of July 1971, at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia. Her family lived in a manufactured home…
- Ariana GrandeAriana Grande-Butera was born on the 26th of June 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida. Her mother Joan Grande runs Hose-McCann Communications, a marine…
- Dolly PartonDolly Rebecca Parton was born on the 19th of January 1946, inside a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee.
- KeshaKesha Rose Sebert arrived in the world on the 1st of March 1987. Her mother Pebe Sebert struggled to raise her and older brother Lagan on welfare payments…
- Gloria GaynorGloria Fowles entered the world on the 7th of September 1943 at Beth Israel Hospital in Newark. Her family lived nearby with her grandmother playing a key…
- Diana RossDiana Ross was born on the 26th of March 1944, in Detroit, Michigan. Her family lived at 635 Belmont Street in the North End section of the city before…