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Arista Records artists
- 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.
- Prince (musician)Prince Rogers Nelson entered the world at Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota on the 7th of June 1958. His father John Lewis Nelson was a pianist…
- Monty PythonOn the 11th of May 1969, six men gathered in a Kashmiri tandoori restaurant in Hampstead, London, to change the course of comedy forever.
- Brand NubianIn 1988, Grand Puba stood in a recording studio at Jazzy Jay Studios. He needed to find new members after his group Masters of Ceremony dissolved.
- The Notorious B.I.G.Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on the 21st of May 1972. He grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood…
- Run-DMCIn 1983, three young men from Hollis, Queens formed a group that would change music history. Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels met Jason Mizell at…
- TLC (group)In 1990, record producer Ian Burke and a teenager named Crystal Jones conceived a girl group with a tomboyish image in Atlanta.
- 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.
- Gil Scott-HeronGilbert Scott-Heron arrived in Chicago on the 1st of April 1949. His mother Bobbie Scott was an opera singer who performed with the Oratorio Society of New…