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MTV Video Music Award winners
- David BowieDavid Robert Jones was born on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London. His mother worked as a waitress at a cinema while his father managed promotions…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Young ThugJeffery Lamar Williams was born on the 16th of August 1991, in Atlanta, Georgia. He grew up in the Jonesboro South projects near Cleveland Avenue as the…
- 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…
- Lil WayneDwayne Michael Carter Jr. arrived in the world on the 27th of September 1982 within the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans.
- 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…
- Panic! at the DiscoIn 2004, Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith met at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas. They began playing music together during their ninth grade year.
- David FincherDavid Andrew Leo Fincher was born in Denver on the 28th of August 1962. His family moved to San Anselmo, California when he was two years old.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- M.I.A. (rapper)Mathangi Arulpragasam was born on the 18th of July 1975 in Hounslow, London. Her family moved to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka when she was six months old.
- 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…
- Bad BunnyBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio was born on the 10th of March 1994, in Bayamón and raised in the Almirante Sur barrio of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
- 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…
- LL Cool JJames Todd Smith was born on the 14th of January 1968 in Bay Shore, New York. His childhood home became a crime scene when his father shot his mother and…
- 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.
- Donald GloverDonald McKinley Glover Jr. arrived at Edwards Air Force Base in California on the 25th of September 1983. His father worked as a postal worker stationed…
- 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.
- AtariOn the 27th of June 1972, two men named Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated a company in Sunnyvale, California. They chose the name Atari from the…