Shakira vs. Enrique Iglesias for Billboard Latin Music Awards Favorite Artist of the Year

21311073845_musiccharts.jpgWho do you think will shout victory on April 28? Will it be the shaky diva Shakira or the soul singer Enrique Iglesias? The final verdict depends on your votes!

The two indeed have a close fight in the nominations this year, as Enrique Iglesias tops the list with 14 nominations while Shakira got the second spot with 13 nominations and Chino y Nacho, the Venezuelan reggaeton duo landed on the third list with 9 nominations.

Enrique Iglesias album entitled Euphoria which was released in 2010 lifted his career on to a higher level and tagged him to be one of the best Latin artists for the year. This album is also his very first bilingual album with seven original English songs and six original Spanish songs.

The first song in the album “I Like It”, which was released on May 2010 and features the rapper Pitbull, became number one in the US Billboard Hot 100. After few weeks, it soared high to number 1 on the Billboard Hot/Dance Club Play making him the male singer with most number one hits in the Billboard and has the chance to tie with the two most renowned artists in the music industry: Prince and the legendary Michael Jackson.

On January 2011, another song from his album Euphoria made it again in the top ten on the Billboard charts after just a week of airing. As of March 2011, it soared high and peaked at number 1 on the US Pop Songs Chart, making Enrique as the only male single artist to have 8 number one songs on almost all billboard charts. And this time, he already passed by Prince and Michael Jackson.  Wow!  Really amazing.  At 35, and still a bachelor, he is now a living legend in the music industry.

Shakira- “the most downloaded Latin music artist”
More so, it seems Shakira has one sure category to win for the night, as OVI Music revealed that she will be getting again the award as the most downloaded Latin music artist for two consecutive years now. Shakira’s “Waka Waka” (This time for Africa) from her latest album entitled “Sale El Sol”tops the Top Ten Latin Music Artists Globally list, and not only that, her other four songs “She Wolf”,” Loca”,  Gypsy”, “Hips Don’t Lie” also made it in the top ten.

Second to her in the list for the most downloadable Latin music artist is the international pop star Pitbull.Undoubtedly, these two are both treasure in the music industry. But of course, there could only be one winner for the night! Who would it be? Well, cast your votes now, and watch the revelation on April 28!

Musicians Who Went to College

11311026081_new-york-city-record-store-by-c-mon.jpg Don’t you ever wonder if these people that make much more money than the college-educated people you know ever went to college? Well, here’s some musicians that went to college.

Albert Hammond Jr. (of The Strokes) went to New York University’s Tisch School of Fine Arts. Ooh.
Chris Martin (of Coldplay) went to University College London, majored in ancient world studies and graduated with honors in Greek and Latin. (Can he be more perfect?)
Jim Morrison (of the Doors) went to St. Petersburg Junior College, then transferred to Florida State University, and then transferred to University of California Los Angeles where, alas, he finally graduated with a major in Film.
Dexter Holland (of The Offspring) is a funny one. The man who brought us “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” actually holds a bachelor’s in Biology and a master’s in Molecular Biology from the University of South California.
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Wondering what to give to that recent college graduate? Check here for some interesting ideas and tips on what they might need, not just want.He coulda gone for his Ph.D in Molecular Bio at Cornell University, but chose not to so he could focus on The Offspring. Thank you, Mr. Holland!
Rivers Cuomo (of Weezer), on top of growing up on some farm and having a brother called Leaves (Rivers! Leaves! Dinner!) also went to Harvard and graduated with honors.
Brian May (of Queen) is — let’s see if I can say this without messing up — a bachelor of science in both physics and mathematics. Got his degree from Imperial College London. Similar to Dexter Holland, he could’ve gone for his Ph.D in Physics but Queen got big in the middle of his studies.
Lisa Loeb graduated from The Providence Institution with a degree in Comparative Literature.
Damian Kulash (of OK Go) graduted from Brown University. Yes, the guy that danced on the treadmills. He majored in Art Semiotics, of all things.

After those smarty-pants, here’s some honorable mentions:

Alicia Keys did graduate as high school valedictorian from New York Professional Performing Arts School, and got into Columbia University. However, she dropped out to pursue music, ironically, because she got signed to Columbia Records.
Pete Wentz (of Fall Out Boy) went to DePaul University and majored in Political Science, but dropped out senior year.
Davey Havok (of AFI) went to University of California Berkeley for a double major in English and Psychology, but alas, he dropped out.
Mick Jagger (of The Rolling Stones, fool!) went to the — ha, ha — London School of Economics for Accounting & Economics. He dropped out freshman year, though.
John Mayer went to Berklee College of Music for Guitar, but dropped out sophomore year.

Finally, we all love other people’s failures, right? Time for a hall of shame! Or, if you wanna look at it this way… proof you don’t need to go to college. Or even finish school.

Sir Elton John dropped out of high school so he would be a weekend pianist at a Pub.
Ringo Starr (of The Beatles!) apparently had a horde of medical troubles that led him to drop out of school. True story, according to my research — he ruptured his appendix, and was hospitalized and in a coma for 10 months. After he was all better (but not completely), he fell off the hospital bed, and had to spend an extra 6 months in the hospital. After that, he was so freakishly behind in school, he chose to just quit. Then some stuff happened, he met the Beatles, and he became part of a band “bigger than Jesus.”
Avril Lavigne dropped out of high school in 11th grade to pursue her musical career.
Not so much a “hall of shame,” but Jack White almost became a priest. He decided against the seminary, though, because they might’ve not accepted his guitar amp that he had just gotten.

Thanks to the Yahoo! Answers people, HowStuffWorks.com, the countless biographies of musicians on the web, and ilXor.com for keeping us entertained for a bit.

Grab Tips How To Hire Musicians

01311075008_ukele001.jpgBack in “the day”, you had to have a physical building and separate recording studio all housing your very real record label in order to have product to sell. You would hire musicians to come into the studio to record real songs that were chosen by a real Artist and Repertoire man whose sole purpose in life was to match a song to an artist.
You would then take that finished product and have literally hundreds of thousands of them pressed and shrink wrapped at a manufacturing plant and they would be shipped off to countless retail locations for sale and to the appropriate radio stations along with some payola to get some airplay to generate sales to repay the huge outlay of cash behind that release. In the interim you had more projects going that were doing the same things. It was an actual production line of hire musicians that followed that path.
Every once in a while an artist sold well and it made up for the money that was lost on the ones that didnt and people were happy.

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This article gives some tips on where to search for the best musicians in a certain place.A lot of pollution was generated and trees were lost in the name of hire musicians. Enter the age of the virtual Record Label. Today record labels still can function much the same way but the exception is that with the technology level where it is, you still do the recording but you can actually make the product AFTER it sells. So there are not huge stockpiles out there to clutter up the bargain bins and cut out racks and less of an ecological impact is felt, which a great thing is.
The promo copies of the songs going to the radio stations can now be emailed as a digital file so that the release can be live on the air only seconds after it is complete and ready to go to the buying public.
What once took an office building full of people to generate the business of hire musicians, can now be managed in a small room the size of a modest bedroom. That can cut the money needed in order to show a profit phenomenally so that instead of having to sell hundreds of thousands of CDs to break even, it can often be done on as little as a few thousand. As one of the singing poets of the sixties, Bob Dylan once said, “the times, they are a changing.”

Itunes Organizer That Rocks

01311025943_all.jpgAre you among the thousands of music lovers that download music files regularly? Do you care to organize such files properly according to your desired preference? If you’re nodding your head in affirmation, then you simply need to go for a quality iTunes organizer that can help you out.

The Reality of iTunes Organizers

Since the invention of iTunes by the famous Apple Company, iTunes organizers have continued to flood the music industry. They come in variety of kinds with unique nomenclatures. Among the best iTunes organizers you can always rely on is the one named Tidysongs. Let’s find out more pieces of information about this particular software.

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Your iTunes library will always remain tepid when you don’t know how to organize the files in it properly. Oftentimes, managing or organizing the music and video files manually may take you months, yet, you may not achieve the needed feat. This is exactly where quality iTunes organizing software comes in. It’s a unique software package meant to help you manage and organize music and video music filesThe software actually rocks in the wonderful styles it applies in managing music collections. It comes with wonderful features that can help you maximize the use of your music library.

Quality Features

Tidysongs is one unique iTunes organizer that comes with quality features. It has special menu options which help in organizing your music library. Basically, the software begins its job by scanning your music library thoroughly well. At the end of the scan, it comes up with all the found results. It detects duplicate music files which usually occur as a result of incessant downloads from multiple music sites once the duplicates are fished out, Tidysongs can equally delete them if you wish.

Capabilities of the iTunes Organizer

Tidysongs as a unique iTunes organizer is capable of organizing your music library in the right order. This makes you enjoy all the music files you download.  The software can detect broken and damaged songs and equally repair them if there is need for that. Moreover, the software locates missing songs details and adds them appropriately. One good thing about the iTunes organizer is that it is 100% automatic in the way it carries out its various task. You don’t need to type in anything. It works in a systematic and timely fashion. It also links you to iTunes music store online from where you can download quality music files.

Acquiring the iTunes Organizer

Just like every other software, Tidysongs is available online. You can easily locate it in its official websites. There are also other related websites that distribute the product. It’s true that some other iTunes organizers are totally for free, however, the case is quite different with Tidysongs. It comes with wonderful features that demand you pay some fees before you have the software. You don’t need to worry much about the price since you’ll have access to Tidysongs discount code, Tidysongs promo code and a lot more.

Finally, Tidysongs as a unique iTunes organizer is very easy to set up in your system. Once you’ve downloaded it, you simply run the installation package. Within few minutes, the software is up and running in your system. However, make sure you have a high capacity system with higher configurations in order to enjoy the various features of the software.



Itunes Song Titles

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iTunes is one of the most used programs for music and video playing. It does have problems such as making duplicate songs, loosing album artwork and labelling songs “track”. If you want to rename your iTunes Song Titles then it will take a lot of time to do it by hand.
About a week ago I was having quite a few problems with my iTunes library. I started searching online for a solution but all I could find were programs that either were very expensive or didn’t provide the options that I was after. Then I found the Tidy Songs iTunes organizer. I went on the website and got the Free Tidy Songs Download just to try it out.
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Fixing your iTunes song titles can take a very long time if you have a large iTunes library. In this article I will tell you exactly how to delete duplicates, add missing album artwork and fix the misspelled song titles.It solved all of my library problems in just a few minutes. The duplicate songs were deleted, the missing album artwork was added and the iTunes Song Titles were all correct.
I have since uploaded and downloaded hundreds of songs into my iTunes library and haven’t had a single problem. Overall I am very impressed with the service that Tidy Songs has to offer and I would defiantly recommend the program to anyone that is having troubles or has a large iTunes library.
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The Hues that Haunt the 2011 Latin Billboard Music Awards

11311073934_listeningtomusic.jpgAny red carpet event is anticipated by many as their favorite as celebrity fashionistas show off their gorgeous dresses and their beautiful smiles! Not only that! It’s a moment of eyeing for the best and worst dressed of the night!

It seems to that the recent 2011 Latin Billboard Music Awards night is the showcase of the best dressers in the women category, and no one had failed.

Here’s the proof!

Black Dress Rules! This is the night’s motif as Rashel Diaz, Katie Barberi, Maria Montoya and Gloria Estefan stepped in the red carpet all in a gorgeous floor sweeping black dress.

Rashel, Katie and Maria were one of the night’s presenters, while Gloria Estefan was awarded with the prestigious Billboard’s ‘Spirit of Hope’ Award for her philanthropic work.

Royalty Reigns: Angelica Maria, better known as the “Girlfriend of Mexico” donned an elegant royal blue dress with diamond sequence, while Carolina glitters in that long slit body hugging glittering royal blue dress as they both smiles in the red carpet.

Gorgeous in Green:  Azucene Cierco and Alexandra Villegas looked smookingly hot in their sultry green dress as they strike a nice pose on the red carpet.

Sexy Angels in White Dress:  Liannet Borrego and Gloria Trevi lit up the red carpet as they donned adorable white dresses that perfectly fit their awesome figures. They both emphasized their slim tummy that wowed the crowd!  Gloria Trevi’s live performance was also one of the night’s highlights.

Unique Dressers of the night! These three lovely women stole the night’s best dressed award as they are the ones that seemingly donned different color of dresses.

Gabi Espino matched the red carpet as she nailed a designer made strapless red dress. While Aylin Mujica throw a peace sign t her fans dresses in a lovely figure fitting yellow long gown; and Maritza Rodriguez took a confidence pose in her long flowing gray dress in V-neck.

Have you noticed one significant person is missing in the red carpet arrival shots? Yes! It’s Shakira! The night’s female big winner, yet she doesn’t have any picture in the event. I have browsed the net and still, don’t even see just one.
I was really puzzled on what the sexy Shakira donned during the Awards night.

But, all in all the night is perfectly glittering with lovely women in their lovely dresses. Who do you think is the best dressed of the night?

Linkin Park Reloaded

01310584298_keithurban2011billboardmusicawardsshowthpi2dmotf5l.jpgLINKIN PARK RELOADED

Origin         : Agoura Hills, California, USA( 1996 ) .
Genres       : Alternative rock, nu metal, rap rock, alternative metal, punk rock.
Labels        : Warner Bros, Machine Stop.
Associates : FortMinor, Dead By Sunrise, Jay Z, White Pegocorn, Tasty Snax, Relative Degrace.
Website     : http://www.linkinpark.com
Members   : ChesterBennington(Vocals)

                     Rob Bourdon (Drums)

                     Brad Delson (Lead Guitarist)

                     Dave PhoenixFarrell (Bassist)

                     Joe Hann ( Turnables, samples, keyboard )

                     Mike Shinoda (Rapper, vocal, keyboard, rhythm guitarist)

Emerging as one of the best American Band of the decade, LinkinPark’s foundation was anchored by three high school friends, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson and Rob Bourdon. After the learning session Mike Shinoda took more interest in the band and recruited Joe Hahn, Dave Phoenix Farrell and Mark Wakefield to form a heavy metal band called Xero.

Due to lack of resourced the band failed to sign for a record deal. Due to stress and mental havoc Mark Wakefield (that time vocalist) left the band in search of better opportunity. Later on Farrell left with Tasty Snax leaving the band restructured.

After a while, Mike was able to find Chester Bennington as a replacement for a lead vocalist. The sixth member was Jeff Blue referred to the band by the vice president of Zomba Music, and LinkinParkwas hence ready to rise.

Chester Bennington had a very unique singing style that gave him recognition among the music lovers. His voice had a sensitive crush, that could make him sing softly, melodiously and the other second screaming to death. The metal punk connection between Mike and Benningtonhelped revived the band. The band changed its name from Xero to Hybrid Theory.

After working on a new material the band’s renaissance was culminated again with a change in name from Hybrid Theory to LinkinParkin 1999, a play and homage to Santa Monica’s Lincoln Park.

After failing to deal with a lot of major record labels, LinkinParkseeked for help from Jeff Blue who was the vice president of Warner Bros Records helped the band to sign a deal with the company. Hence working hard right from the beginning of the new millennium, the band was able to release their first album, Hybrid Theory, on Oct 24, 2000edited by Don Gilmore.

Hybrid Theory rose to be a massive commercial success selling more than 4.8 million copies earning it the status of best selling album of 2001. The alternative rock style used in songs like Crawling and One Step Closer established themselves as staples among the radio play lists during the year. Many of the singles were featured in films such as Dracula 2000, Little Nicky and Valentine. Hybrid Theory won a Grammy Award for the Best Hard Rock Performance for the song crawling and was nominated for 2 other Grammy’s Best New Artist and Best Rock Album. MTV awarded the Best Rock Video and Best Direction award for the song, In the End. Hybrid Theory was a great success and gave them recognition worldwide.

Linkin Park started receiving much invitation to perform on many high profile tours like Ozzfest, Family Value Tour. But the band formed their own tour, Projekt Revolution. It featured other notable artists like Cupress Hill, Adema and Snoop Dogg. Within a year LP had performed about 320 concerts. Now reunited with the former bassist, Phoenix, the band debuted Reanimation in Nov 2001, which claimed the second spot on Billboard 200, sold 270,000 copies in a week. Hybrid Theory gained top ranking in RIAA’s Top 100 Albums.

Following the tremendous success of Hybrid Theory LP worked upon a new album, touring the whole United Stated. Inspired by the rocky region in Greece, a new album named Meteora emerged. It featured, NU Metal and Alternative Rock styles, with a mix of native music instruments (like Shakhuhachi, bamboo flute Japan).

LP’s second album debuted on March 25, 2003instantly earning worldwide praise, going to be the # 1 in US and UKand # 2 in Australia, selling almost 800,000 copies and rated as best selling album on Billboard charts. Whereby singles like Somewhere I Belong, Numb, Faint, Figure 09 and Breaking the Habit were addressed as the best songs ever. By October 2003 LinkinParksold 3 million copies worldwide. Additionally Metallic being inspired by LP’s glory invited them to play at Summer Sanctum Tour 2003.

In early 2004, band released a new album Live in Texas, which consisted of some video tracks from the band’s performance in Texas. Meteora earned the band multiple honor and awards like, MTV awards for the Best Rock Video and Viewer’s Choice Award for Somewhere I Belong and Breaking the Habit respectively, Radio Music Awards and Artist of the year and song of the year for Numb (2004).

Following Meteora’s success, the band postponed working on a new studio album for next 3 years (2004 – 2006). LP continued to tour and work on many side projects. Benningtonworked with DJ Lethal, Dead by Sunrisewhile Shinoda worked with Depeche Mode. In 2004 band began to work with the rapper Jay Z, producing a remix album Collision Course. Shinoda formed a new separate band FortMinorwhich released its debut album Rising Tied.

At the same time band’s relationship with Warner Bros Records was deteriorating due to several trust and financial issues. Linkin Park participated in many charitable events, to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Charlie 2004, and Katrina 2005. Band donated $ 75,000 to the Special Operation Warrior Foundation in March 2004. They helped relief efforts for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004, hence setting up an additional fund called Music for Relief.

Later in 2006, band worked with Jay Z during which they performed Numb-Encore winning a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung collaboration.

Linkin Park returned to the recording studios in 2006. After spending 14 months, producing over a 17 songs out of 52, LP released a new album Minutes to Midnighton May 15, 2007, produced by Rick Rubin. MTM sold over 625000 copies in the first week, again topping the Bill Board charts. Album’s single, What I’ve Done, topped the chart with first rand. The song was featured as sound track in 2007 action flick, Transformers. Later year the band won the Favorite Alterative Artist of America. Band’s rest singles Given Up, Bleed It Out, Leave out All the Rest and Shadow of The Day gained a lot of praises. Band collaborated Busta Rhymes on his single We Made It, on April 29, 2008.

Linkin Park’s tour included performances like Live Earth Japan(July 7, 07), DownloadFestivalDoningronPark, London, Edgefest in downs view park, Torontoand Arena in England.

Benningtonand Shinoda stated a release of new album in an interview with MTV officially released on 29 June, 2008named Road to Revolution. Now this was the time to release a big album but first they toured whole US for inspiration. In 2008, Ben announced LP’s fourth studio release will be a concept album. But the release was being continuously postponed. During this time Bennington’s Dead by Sunrisewas released. Mike released the song (Lock Jaw) with Bourdon produced by a software company (Pro Tools 8). On May 18, one the best LinkinPark’s single New Divide was released featured as the sound track for the movie Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen. The single was a great hit success of the year. On Jan 19, 2010LP released a new single entitled Not Alone, for a relief called download to donate to Haiti, Earthquake Crisis.

The band also produced a video game titled 8 bit Rebellion for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. The game includes a song Blackbird at the end of the game.

D and Blackout. Side by side a new album LP Underground was released which contained multiple demos. Though the band didn’t see any much glory from the album, it seems that fans are not satisfied. So the album was a kind of failure, not a total failure because songs like Waiting for the End are one the best hits. Currently the band is on a tour called A Thousand Sun US tour which ended on March 13, 2011.

The next upcoming songs are Iridescent and a single for the upcoming Transformers part 3, Dark of the Moon. While there is no official announcement of any further new album release, but Chester Bennington has reported their next album, Linkin Park Reloaded, in an interview with Times Magazine. Waiting for LinkinParkto Rock And Roll again…
An Article By:  HappyChappy And SumoPunk.Check out the official LINKIN PARK RELOADED Page on Face Book here

French Music

f_21311074902_music-writing.jpgFrance has always been known for its taste in fine arts, especially in theatre and music. Since the days of the French intellectual revolution, music has become an integral part of the culture of France. Movies of that period were quite musical and that great tradition has been carried on till today.

Music in France the origin and Influence

Music in France has very interesting history. It has even been influenced by aboriginal music and sounds as well! Sounds weird, right? France has always been good at accepting intellectuals and culturally rich tribes and people from all over the world. Over the years, this has formed the very basic structure of French music. In case, one is really into world music, they will find some resemblance from Latin America, Asia and even African sounds in French music! That is truly a rich and diverse form of French Music.

Modern day France though has slightly shifted from the folk and classical versions of the same and has brought some pop and hip-hop French style beats into the culture.

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French Classical and Folk Music

Purists attribute the beginning of French classical music from the sacred tunes of the Roman Catholic Church. History has it that the world famous French opera was first identified as classical music in the year 1646 performed in Carpentras. That was also the beginning of the French Opera! The great French musicians were also adept at composing ballads and songs of love that has this classical touch in them. Though they experimented with the classical fusion music by adding some ingredients of the folk music, purists preferred to stay with the original classical form which eventually became popular throughout the world!

The 19th century in France is heralded as the romantic era in the history of French music owing to the lot of passionate and romantic films released in that period. In the later half of the 20th century, some outstanding foreign composers had a major impact on Frances romantic era and that transformed the classical romantic era of music in France like no other.

Though, there are folk musicians in modern France, they have been sidelined to the mountainous region or even Corsica. You can on request find shows in Paris that cater to the tourists when they demand some folk music. All in all, modern French music still takes inspiration from the folk tunes! The most apparent usage of folk music is seen in the techno beats where the mixers take some part of the original French folk music, add some fusion beats and come out with a very hip hop kind of tune! Western France and the island of Corsica have been the major torch bearers of folk music and dance in France.

Moving over to the French classical music again, it bears close resemblance to Indian and Japanese classical and traditional music (read: notations) respectively. It is considered to be a less followed path but a more soul stirring music and hence is renowned, the world over. French music is really something to enjoy and cherish, especially if you have grown tired of loud music!

Arrange Itunes

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Trying to Arrange iTunes without any automatic programs is a nightmare. If you are a big music lover like myself then you will know that it could take hours or even days to sort everything out. Though a Tidy iTunes library makes the whole musical experience so much better.
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Trying to arrange iTunes without an automatic iTunes organizer can take a very long time. You can find free programs online that will do the job for you. In this article I’ll explain exactly how you can arrange iTunes automatically.It even solved problems I didn’t know about. My song names were all labelled right, any missing album artwork was added and the duplicate songs were gone. It even added band and album information too!
I would never try to Arrange iTunes without Tidy Songs now and since I have got the program I haven’t had a single problem. Even after downloading and uploading hundreds of song myself. I would recommend Tidy Songs to anyone that is having problems with their iTunes library. It has helped me save so much time and energy in the long run.
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Musicians Who Transitioned To Movies

21310584967_fenderlogo.jpgChange is indeed inevitable. This age old adage holds true to form for musicians who attempt to transition from the song recording to movies. Here is a list of ten recording stars who were not only successful at audio recording, but also for their acting acumen. You can catch the music of all of these stars on internet radio.
Whitney Houston – as young as eleven years of age, Whitney began singing in gospel choir at her New Jersey church. Her self-titled debut album became the best-selling album when it was released, while her second album became the first of her albums to top the US and UK album charts. Her music industry successes have helped to make it easier for other African-American performers to showcase their talents.
Apart from being a great music artist, Whitney also made it to the silver screen, starring in