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Singers from California

  • Michael JacksonMichael Jackson bought a music catalog with most of the Beatles's material in 1985. He paid 47.5 million dollars.
  • Dean MartinDean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, delivered one of his sharpest hometown jokes in a 1967 spy spoof. In The Ambushers, his secret agent Matt Helm is about to be executed and is offered a last cigarette. Helm tells the man who hands it…
  • Ginger RogersGinger Rogers and Fred Astaire were only supporting players in Flying Down to Rio, a film meant for other stars.
  • Sammy Davis Jr.Sammy Davis Jr. once answered a simple golf question with a line that became his signature. Playing a round with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. Davis replied, "Handicap?" and then went on: "Talk about handicap. I'm a…
  • Zac EfronZac Efron, born on the 18th of October 1987, became a teen idol on the strength of a singing role in which most of the singing was not his. In the Disney Channel film High School Musical, the voice behind many of his character's songs…
  • Vanessa HudgensVanessa Hudgens is an American actress and singer, born on the 14th of December 1988. In August 2007, a Disney Channel sequel starring her drew more than 17.2 million viewers in the United States. That made it the most-watched Disney…
  • Paula AbdulPaula Abdul is an American singer, dancer, choreographer and television personality, and one sentence she spoke to a record executive changed the shape of her career. Years afterward, Jeff Ayeroff recalled it this way: "She said, 'I can…
  • Karen CarpenterKaren Carpenter was pronounced dead at 9:51 on the morning of the 4th of February 1983, at the age of 32. Paramedics had found her unconscious and in cardiac arrest, her heart beating about once every ten seconds. She had spent the 1970s…
  • Eddie VedderEddie Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III on the 23rd of December 1964 in Evanston, Illinois. The surname the world knows him by was not the one he was born with. He grew up to become the lead vocalist, primary lyricist and one of…
  • Dick Van DykeDick Van Dyke walked onto the stage of The Masked Singer in 2023 disguised as a character called Gnome, and he was the first contestant eliminated. The show had promoted his unmasking as "the most legendary, decorated and beloved unmasking…
  • Ice-TIce-T got his stage name when friends heard him recite novels by Iceberg Slim.

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