Curated category
Epic Records artists
- Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson entered the world on the 29th of August 1958 inside a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana.
- A Tribe Called QuestIn the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens, New York City, Kamaal Fareed and Malik Taylor grew up as childhood friends before they ever stepped into a…
- 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…
- KornIn 1993, three musicians from Bakersfield, California named James Shaffer, Reginald Arvizu, and David Silveria stood at the edge of a new sound.
- George MichaelGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot…
- TimbalandIn 1986, a fourteen-year-old Timothy Zachery Mosley sat in the parking lot of a Red Lobster restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia.
- OutkastAntwan Patton and André Benjamin met in 1992 at the Lenox Square shopping mall in Atlanta. Both teenagers were sixteen years old when they crossed paths…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.