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MTV Video Music Award winners
- David BowieDavid Bowie was born David Robert Jones on the 8th of January 1947 in Brixton, London, and he died two days after releasing his final album, on the 10th of…
- ColdplayColdplay are a British rock band who, over roughly two decades, went from pressing 500 copies of a self-financed EP to becoming the first band in history to…
- Lady GagaStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the 28th of March, 1986, at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She would grow up to sell an estimated 124…
- Taylor SwiftTaylor Alison Swift was born on the 13th of December 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, named after the singer-songwriter James Taylor by parents who chose…
- EminemEminem walked onto the stage at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2001 alongside Elton John, a gay icon performing with a rapper whose lyrics had drawn protests from…
- Black Eyed PeasBlack Eyed Peas were assembled on the dance floors of Los Angeles in 1988, when two high school students named William James Adams Jr and Allan Pineda Lindo…
- Jay-ZJay-Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on the 4th of December 1969, in Brooklyn, New York City, and grew up in the Marcy Houses, a public housing project in the…
- Katy PerryKaty Perry grew up in a household where the word "luck" was banned because it reminded her mother of Lucifer. Deviled eggs were called "angeled eggs".
- Drake (musician)Aubrey Drake Graham sold more than 170 million music units worldwide before the age of 40. He holds more Billboard Hot 100 records than any other solo male…
- 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, and by the time she turned 23, she had already done something no solo artist…
- Lil WayneLil Wayne left school in tenth grade because his mother found a gun in his school bag. He was fifteen years old, already signed to a major label, already…
- Justin BieberJustin Drew Bieber was born on the 1st of March 1994 at St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario, and he grew up in Stratford.
- Panic! at the DiscoPanic! at the Disco was a Las Vegas band that began as a Blink-182 cover group rehearsing in a grandmother's living room and ended nearly two decades later…
- David FincherDavid Andrew Leo Fincher was born on the 28th of August 1962, in Denver, Colorado, and grew up to become one of the most recognizable directors working in…
- ShakiraShakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll was four years old when her father took her to a Middle Eastern restaurant in Barranquilla, Colombia, and the sound of a…
- BTSBTS stepped onto a television stage on the 13th of June, 2013, performing their debut single "No More Dream" on M Countdown before a country that had barely…
- Missy ElliottMissy Elliott was born Melissa Arnette Elliott on the 1st of July, 1971, at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, Virginia.
- Kendrick LamarKendrick Lamar Duckworth was five years old when he watched a teenage drug dealer get killed in a drive-by shooting outside his apartment in Compton…
- M.I.A. (rapper)Mathangi Arulpragasam was born on the 18th of July 1975 in Hounslow, London, into a family that would spend the next decade running from a civil war.
- Snoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. was born on the 20th of October 1971, in Long Beach, California, to a Vietnam War veteran who walked out on the family just three…
- Bad BunnyBad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio on the 10th of March 1994, grew up not in San Juan but in the Almirante Sur barrio of Vega Baja, a small area…
- 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 JLL Cool J was four years old when he walked in on his father's act of violence. James Todd Smith found his mother and grandfather shot and bleeding inside…
- Kylie MinogueKylie Ann Minogue was born on the 28th of May 1968 at Bethlehem Hospital in Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
- Nicki MinajNicki Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on the 8th of December 1982, in the Saint James district of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Donald GloverDonald McKinley Glover Jr. was voted "Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons" in his high school yearbook at Stephenson High School in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
- 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.
- AtariAtari began not as a company but as a word from an ancient board game. On the 27th of June 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney incorporated Atari, Inc.