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Epic Records artists
- Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson was born on the 29th of August 1958 in Gary, Indiana, the eighth of ten children in an African-American working-class household…
- A Tribe Called QuestA Tribe Called Quest was born on the streets of Queens, New York City, in 1985, when two childhood friends from St. Albans started making music over pause…
- Rick RossRick Ross was born William Leonard Roberts II on the 28th of January 1976 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and grew up in Carol City, Florida.
- KornKorn walked into a recording studio in Huntington Beach in 1993 and started playing a riff that would stop strangers in their tracks.
- George MichaelGeorge Michael died on Christmas Day 2016, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. He was 53. His partner, Fadi Fawaz, found him in bed in the early…
- TimbalandTimbaland was fourteen years old when a co-worker accidentally shot him at a local Red Lobster restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia, and left him partially…
- OutkastOutkast stood onstage at the 1995 Source Awards and got booed. André Benjamin walked up to accept the award for Best New Rap Group, and the crowd in New York…
- Mariah CareyMariah Carey walked into a music executive's party in December 1988 as an unknown backup singer and left without speaking to anyone important.
- TLC (group)TLC formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1990, and within a few years had become one of the most commercially successful groups in American music history.
- Sean CombsSean Combs was born on the 4th of November 1969, in Harlem, New York City, and by the time he reached his mid-twenties he had reshaped American popular music…
- Lil JonLil Jon was born Jonathan H. Smith on the 17th of January, 1971, in Atlanta, Georgia, and he grew up to reshape American club music from the ground up.
- Barbara DicksonBarbara Ruth Dickson was born on the 27th of September 1947 in Dunfermline. Her family moved to Rosyth before settling back in Dunfermline during the 1950s.