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American women singer-songwriters

  • 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…
  • Billie HolidayEleanora Fagan was born on the 7th of April 1915, in Philadelphia to an unwed teenage couple named Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan.
  • Ella FitzgeraldElla Jane Fitzgerald was born on the 25th of April 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her mother Temperance Fitzgerald and father William Ashland Fitzgerald…
  • Queen LatifahDana Elaine Owens arrived in the world on the 18th of March 1970 within the city limits of Newark, New Jersey. Her childhood unfolded primarily in nearby…
  • 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.
  • 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 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…
  • 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.