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  • Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson entered the world on the 29th of August 1958 inside a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana.
  • ColdplayChris Martin and Jonny Buckland met during their first week at University College London in September 1996. They began to write their first songs together in…
  • 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…
  • Queen (band)In 1963, Brian May built a guitar with his father that would become the signature sound of Queen. The group Smile formed shortly after with singer Tim…
  • EminemMarshall Bruce Mathers III arrived in the world on the 17th of October 1972, inside a hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri. His mother Deborah Nelson nearly died…
  • Black Eyed PeasIn 1988, William James Adams Jr and Allan Pineda Lindo met at the all-ages dance venue Club What? in Los Angeles. They formed a hip-hop dance and music crew…
  • Kanye WestKanye Omari West was born on the 8th of June 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents divorced when he was three years old, and he moved with his mother to…
  • Jay-ZShawn Corey Carter entered the world on the 4th of December 1969 within Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. He grew up inside the Marcy Houses public…
  • 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…
  • Drake (musician)Aubrey Drake Graham was born on the 24th of October 1986, in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Dennis Graham, is an African-American drummer from Memphis…
  • Spice GirlsIn February 1994, a trade paper called The Stage carried an advertisement seeking singers for an all-female pop band. Four hundred women showed up to…
  • AdeleAdele Laurie Blue Adkins was born on the 5th of May 1988 in Tottenham, London. Her mother Penny worked as a furniture maker while her father Marc Evans left…
  • 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…
  • Paul McCartneyPaul McCartney was born on the 18th of June 1942 at Walton Hospital in the Walton area of Liverpool. His mother Mary Patricia Mohin worked as a nurse and…
  • Ed SheeranEdward Christopher Sheeran was born on the 17th of February 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. His family moved to Framlingham, Suffolk, when he was four years…
  • GorillazIn 1998, musician Damon Albarn and comic artist Jamie Hewlett met to create a new project that would challenge the manufactured nature of pop music.
  • Amy WinehouseAmy Jade Winehouse was born at Chase Farm Hospital in Gordon Hill, Enfield, London, on the 14th of September 1983. Her father Mitchell Winehouse worked as a…
  • 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…
  • Justin BieberOn the 1st of March 1994, Justin Drew Bieber entered the world at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario. He grew up in Stratford, a small city where his…
  • Will SmithWillard Carroll Smith II arrived in the world on the 25th of September 1968. He grew up in the Wynnefield neighborhood of Philadelphia with his mother…
  • ShakiraOn the 2nd of February 1977, Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her father worked as a jeweler and her mother taught English.
  • Blur (band)In December 1988, bassist Alex James joined singer Damon Albarn's band Circus in London. The group initially adopted the name Seymour after J.D.
  • BTSIn 2010, Big Hit Entertainment CEO Bang Si-hyuk gathered seven young men to form a new hip hop group. The project began with RM, an underground rapper…
  • AerosmithIn 1970, five musicians gathered in Boston to forge a new sound that would eventually define American hard rock. Steven Tyler had formed his own band called…
  • 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…
  • Kendrick LamarKendrick Lamar Duckworth was born on the 17th of June 1987, in Compton, California. He grew up in Section 8 housing and relied on welfare and food stamps…
  • BjörkBjörk Guðmundsdóttir was born on the 21st of November 1965 in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her mother Hildur Rúna Hauksdóttir raised her alone after divorcing Björk's…
  • Snoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. arrived in Long Beach, California on the 20th of October 1971. His biological father left the family three months after his…
  • Depeche ModeIn 1977, schoolmates Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a band called No Romance in China at Nicholas School in Basildon, Essex.
  • Michel GondryMichel Gondry grew up in Versailles, France. He was the grandson of inventor Constant Martin. This family history of invention likely influenced his later…
  • 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…
  • Sigur RósIn January 1994, three musicians gathered in a small room in Reykjavík to begin what would become one of the most distinctive bands in modern music.
  • Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue was born on the 28th of May 1968 at Bethlehem Hospital in Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne. Her mother Carol Ann Jones had moved to…
  • Nicki MinajOnika Tanya Maraj was born on the 8th of December 1982, in the Saint James district of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.