Whitney Houston
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Whitney The Greatest Hits
Born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey.
Whitney Houston was an American recording artist, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, the Guinness World Records cited her as the most-awarded female act of all time. Her awards include two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards in her lifetime. Houston was also one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide.
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012 (aged 48) in Beverly Hills, California.
David Peaston
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Introducing
Born on March 13, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri.
David Peaston was an American R&B and gospel singer who in 1990 won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. He is mostly known for the singles, “Two Wrongs (Don’t Make it Right)” and “Can I?”, the latter of which was originally recorded by Eddie Kendricks.
Peaston died from complications of diabetes in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 1, 2012, at the age of 54.
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Like Wow [Single]
Born on June 6, 1986 in Tampa, Florida.
Leslie Carter was an American pop singer best known as the sister of fellow singers Nick and Aaron Carter.
Carter died on January 31, 2012 (aged 25) in Westfield, New York due to an overdose follow up.
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The Dreamer
Born on January 25, 1938 in Los Angeles, U.S.
Etta James was an American singer whose style spanned a variety of music genres including blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, gospel and jazz. Starting her career in the mid-1950s, she gained fame with hits such as “Dance With Me, Henry”, “At Last”, “Tell Mama”, and “I’d Rather Go Blind” for which she claimed she wrote the lyrics. She faced a number of personal problems, including drug addiction, before making a musical resurgence in the late 1980s with the album The Seven Year Itch.
Etta James died on January 20, 2012 (aged 73) in Riverside, California, U.S.
Comments OffFred Milano
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Dion & Belmonts – Greatest Hits
Born on August 26, 1939 in New York.
Fred Milano was an American doo-wop singer. Born in New York, he was a member of The Belmonts who became successful in the late 1950s as Dion and the Belmonts, and in the early 1960s. Milano was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.
Milano died on January 1, 2012 from lung cancer in New York. He was 72.
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THE GRASS WILL SING FOR YOU (VINYL LP)
Born on July 21, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Kaye Steven’s big break in show business came at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, when the headliner for the night, Debbie Reynolds, became ill and Stevens filled in for the night. She then went on to do small shows at the Plaza Hotel’s Persian Room, New York’s Waldorf Astoria, and Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip near Las Vegas, Nevada. She went on to appear on such television game shows as Match Game, Hollywood Squares, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Price is Right, and Password.
Stevens died on December 28, 2011, aged 79, after battling breast cancer and blood clots.
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Drift Away / Loving Arms
Born on July 26, 1940 in Simonton, Texas, U.S.
Dobie Gray was an African American singer and songwriter, whose musical career spanned soul, country, pop and musical theater. His hit records included “The ‘In’ Crowd” in 1965, and “Drift Away”, which was one of the biggest hits of 1973, sold over one million copies, and remains a staple of radio airplay.
Dobie Gray died on December 6, 2011. He was 71.
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Born on January 13, 1930.
Liz Anderson was an American country music singer/songwriter and the mother of country singer Lynn Anderson. She was a successful country singer with two Grammy Award nominations in 1967, for “Best Female Country Vocal Performance” for her Top 5 hit, the self-penned “Mama Spank” and with Bobby Bare and Norma Jean for “Best Country Vocal – Group” for another top 5 hit “The Game of Triangles”. She wrote the Merle Haggard hits “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers” and “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive”. Haggard later named his band “The Strangers” after the hit, “All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers”.
Liz Anderson died on October 31, 2011 (aged 81) in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
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Born on March 6, 1936 in New York, New York.
Sylvia Robinson was an American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive, most notably known for her work as founder/CEO of the hip hop label, Sugar Hill Records. She is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the genre. The first was “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang, which was the first rap song to be released by a hip hop act. The second was “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.
Robinson died on the morning of September 29, 2011, aged 75, at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus, New Jersey from congestive heart failure.
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Born on December 1, 1957 in Coshocton, Ohio.
Vesta Williams was an American R&B singer. Originally credited as Vesta Williams, she was sometimes simply billed as Vesta beginning in the 1990s. She was known for her four-octave vocal range. Although Williams never had any albums certified gold nor any Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, she scored six Top 10 hits on the US Billboard R&B chart from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. Williams was known for the hits “Once Bitten, Twice Shy,” “Sweet Sweet Love,” “Special”, and her 1989 #1 hit and signature song, “Congratulations”.
On September 22, 2011, Williams was found dead in a hotel room in El Segundo, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. An official cause of death has not been released.
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