Profession/ Career – Actor and Singer

Nationality – Korean

Kim Hyun Joong is a famed Korean actor and singer but do not confuse him with Kim Hyung-jun, another famous Korean celebrity. Kim hyun is also an entertainer and the leader and main rapper of boyband SS501. He is best known for his role in Boys Over Flowers as Yoon Ji-hoo. Not only this, Kim Hyun joong is also a style icon member of the charity football team FC MEN in South Korea.

Instruments – Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Drums and Violin

Early life and Career

The style icon was born on June 6, 1986, in Seoul, South Korea. Hyun Joong used to play bass guitar in a band during his school years. To become a singer he was dropped out of the school though he was a diligent student, but soon rejoined it and completed his education after making his debut in band SS501 in 2005.  He is the eldest member of the band SS501. Soon after his debut in band he released his debut album titled Warning and after 5 months they released their second mini album, Snow Prince. The group earned popularity and established a fan club called “Triple S” in Korea and “Triple S Japan” in Japan. The band SS501 released several albums, Kokoro, Distance, Deja Vu and Lucky Days albums. Kim also worked as a waiter in a family restaurant located at Jamsil-dong. After completing his graduation in 2006 he enrolled himself for the course stage production management in Chungwoon University in 2011. In 2012, he also studied applied music in Kongju Communication Arts (KCAU).

Kim got his first leading role (Yoon Ji-hoo) in the Korean drama Boys Over flowers. While promoting Boys Over flowers in Yokohama, Japan, he got diagnosed with H1N1.Kim appeared in various television dramas (sitcoms and drama). Starting from 2005, he initially worked in two sitcoms – Nonstop 5 and Can Love Be Refilled? After 2005 he starred in various dramas, Hotelier (2007), Spotlight (2008), Boys Over Flowers (2009), Playful Kiss (2010), Dream High (20011) and Inspiring Generation (2014). The singer Kim Hyun Joong also sang various TV show Theme songs viz. My Head is Bad & Making a Lover with SS501 and A Thing Called Happiness for Boys Before Flowers OST (2009), One More Time for Mischievous Kiss OST in 2010, If You are Like Me for The Marriage Plot OST (2012) and in 2014 When Today Passes for Inspiring Generation OST. He also worked as a voice actor by giving his voice (Korean version) in the movie Shark Bait / Pi’s Story (2006).

2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou invited Kim to perform “Sunshine Again”. In 2011, he released his solo album titled Break Down. The album sold more than 70,000 pre-ordered copies in just 10 days. It was placed at #1 on Gaon Weekly Album Chart. In the same year he released his next solo album Lucky. In addition to these Kim also released his first Japanese single Kiss Kiss / Lucky Guy in 2012.after one week it sold more than a million copies in Japan and acquired a gold status there. In 2012 he released another Japanese single known as Heat and Tonight in 2013. In 2012 Kim released a full length Japanese album having 14 tracks. Besides these he released a few more alums – Round3 (Korean mini album, 2013), Korean Singles- Thank You (2008), Marry Me / Marry You (2011) and in 2013 The Reason I Live and a Japanese studio album Unlimited in 2013.

His charming looks attracted a number of companies who wanted him to advertise their products. Hence Kim appeared in various endorsements approximately 20 such as Lotte Milkshake, Samsung Anycall Haptic Pop, Dinamic Kin (Coca Cola), Hotsun Chicken etc. He is also an Honorary Ambassador of the United Nations Millennium Development, March 2012.

Nickname – Kim DogCow

Personal Life

The South Korean entertainer has a nuclear family. His family consists of his parents and an older brother (Allen Kim).

Genres -K-pop, J-pop, Dance and R&B

Awards

Talented Kim got awards in every field he worked from music to drama to acting. First talking about his music awards, Kim received his first few awards in the year 2009 at Yahoo! Asia Buzz Awards for the categories Korea’s Top Buzz Male Artist, Taiwan’s Top Buzz Korean Artist and Asia’s Top Buzz Male Artist. He won the same award in year 2010 for Hong Kong’s Top Buzz Korean Artist, Taiwan’s Top Buzz Korean Artist and The Best Search Asia Buzz Award 2010. He again received the Yahoo! Award for the third consecutive year for Taiwan’s Top Buzz Solo Artist, Korea’s Top Buzz Solo Artist and Asia’s Top Buzz Solo Artist. For next two consecutive years too he won the same awards for Hong Kong’s Top Buzz Solo Artist, Taiwan’s Top Buzz Solo Artist, Asia’s Top Buzz Solo Artist, Most Popular Artist of the Decade and Top Idol Award (2013).  He also received Mnet 20′s Choice Awards for most influential star in 2010. In 2012 he won Asia Song Festival Award for the categories Best Asian Artist Award and Best Artist Award- South Korea.  In the same year he won Miguhui Awards for Most Popular Overseas Awards. In 2013 he won the award for Male Solo Singer at Korean Entertainment Awards in Japan. For break down he won Best Male Solo Artist at Mnet Asian Music Awards in 2011 and for Heat Kim received Tower Records’ K-Pop Lovers! Awards for the category Single Daesang in 2012.

Hobbies: Playing the guitar, piano, dancing

Now switching over to his acting awards, Kim mostly won awards for his two popular shows viz. Boys Over Flowers and Playful Kiss. He won TV Drama Newcomer Award at Korea Junior Star Awards, Male Popularity Award at Paeksang Arts Awards, Popular Actor at Seoul International Drama Awards for Boys Over Flowers (2009). For drama Playful Kiss (2010) he earned Male Popularity Award at MBC Drama Awards. He also received the best dresser award in year 2010 at Sky Perfect TV awards.

Besides these he is the owner of a number other awards. He also won awards for “We Got Married” and “Lucky”.

Assets owned by him

He is known to have the most expensive house ranked no. 4, located at Changdamdong in a Europian style villa. He purchased the house after his tremendous success of concerts in Japan worth $1.7 Million.

He also owns a white Ferrari, which he rarely drives.

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Profession – Actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, activist entrepreneur, philanthropist and voice actress.

Lauren Keyana Palmer is a famed American actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, activist, entrepreneur, voice actress and philanthropist. Palmer was born in Harvey, Illinois on August 26, 1993 and raised in Robbins, Illinois. Palmer is famously known as “Keke Palmer” as she was nicknamed “Keke” by her older sister, Loreal at a young age. She was best known for her role as the titular protagonist on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP from 2009 to2011 and became the fourth highest paid child star on television at the time. Now also she is one of the highest paid-actress in the world.

Genres - R&B hip hop pop
Instruments - Vocals
Early life and career

Palmer got her acting skills in her blood. Her parents, Sharon and Larry Palmer met in drama school, had both worked as professional actors before settling into full-time jobs. Her father works for a polyurethane company, and her mother is a high school teacher who works with children with mental disabilities. Keke started her career at a young age of 5 by singing at a church’s choir. Palmer earned valuable experience and exposure at a popular Chicago tourist destination by performing a stage show. At the age of nine Palmer auditioned for a stage production of The Lion King .
In 2004, soon after her first film debut, the Palmers uprooted themselves and moved to the Los Angeles, California to help her pursue a career in show business. This proved to be a wise decision for her as within six weeks Palmer landed a guest role on the TV show Cold Case, a K-Mart commercial, and starred opposite William H. Macy in Wool Cap, a TNT original movie. She made her acting debut in the film Barbershop 2: Back in Business, in which she played the niece of American rapper and actress Queen Latifah.
Soon after acting, Palmer followed her passion of singing. She participated in American Juniors, the American Idol spin-off series in 2003, but the show was canceled that year as her audition scenes were edited out. Palmer signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and was featured in the television film Knights of the South Bronx, as well as starring in three television programs Second Time Around, ER, and Keke & Jamal in 2005..
Keke auditioned for Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 5 times and got selected because of the emotion in her crying . Palmer played an inspirational starring role in Akeelah and the Bee alongside Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett for which she received great acclaim when she starred as the title character in the Lionsgate Films/Starbucks Entertainment sleeper hit. Also, “All My Girlz”, Palmer’s debut single, is featured in the Akeelah and the Bee soundtrack.
Palmer appeared in Tyler Perry’s, Medea’s Family Reunion, which was number #1 at the box office for two consecutive weeks in the same year. She later stared in the DCOM “Jump In!” alongwith Corbin Bleu.
In 2007, Palmer starred in many movies, she was a supporting act in the thriller Cleaner alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Mendes.
Afterwards, Keke appeared in films like The Longshots (2008), Shrink (2009). Keke starred in various movies in 2012- Ice Age: Continental Drift, Joyful Noise alongside Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah and Winx Club. She produced and starred in Rags, a Nickelodeon musical film. Besides these, Palmer also performed voice characters in Ice Age: Continental Drift and Winx Club.
In 2012, Palmer spoke on the direction of the album saying “It’s definitely a progression. What you would think I’d sound like at my age is what it is. It’s a record I can say is truly my own. I was there from the beginning to the end. I was in full control of it, and it represents who I am.” Keke recently finished filming the movie, Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012), for the Lifetime Network. Keke Palmer is currently starring as Chilli in the TLC biopic VHI film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013).

Music

She released her debut album, So Uncool, in 2007 after performing at the Save the Music Battle of the High School Marching Bands in 2006 but failed to chart on US Billboard 200. She also recorded a song entitled “Tonight” which was featured as the first song in the end credits of Night at the Museum in 2006. The “Awaken”, Palmer’s first mixtape was released in 2011. Keke released a self-titled mixtape in the next year with her new singles “You Got Me” & “Dance Alone” which have already been released. Since then, her mixtape has over 35,000 downloads. Keke sang two songs for her movie Jump In!, one called It’s My Turn Now, the other called Jumpin. She also can be heard on DisneyMania 5 singing Reflection from Mulan.
Palmer as well as her album was heavily influenced by contemporary R&B and its singers, R.Kelly, Brandy, Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Ciara, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Whitney Houston and girl group TLC, respectively.
Awards

Keke fetched 19 nominations and 10 awards till date. Palmer won a Special Award for Rising Star of the Year in 2006. Also she got Black Movie award for her movie released that very year. In 2007, she won Young Artist Award, category Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress and Image Award Category Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Akeelah and the Bee (2006). In the same year she fetched Black Reel awards category best actress for the movie Akeelah and the Bee (2006). She earned an Image award category Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children’s Program (Series or Special), True Jackson, VP (2008) for the four consecutive years (2009-2012).

Causes she supports:-

1. Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Enabling all young people, especially those who need most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

2. BrittiCares International
BrittiCares International is a non-profit organization, committed to making a difference in the lives of children diagnosed with cancer and their families. The inspiration of the organization came from a little girl named Brittiana Henderson.

3. I Have a Dream Foundation
The “I Have A Dream” Foundation is working to ensure that all children have the opportunity to pursue higher education. They work to empower children in low-income communities to achieve higher education.

4. A Place Called Home
Helping inner city youth find their dreams through educational enrichment .

5. Urban Farming
Works to eradicate hunger while increasing diversity, motivating youth and seniors and optimizing the production of unused land for food and alternative energy.

Assets owned by her

Palmer owns a Mercedes Benz Matte white E550.

Facts about her

• Her favorite actor is William H. Macy.
• Favorite TV Show: Moesha, Fresh Prince, Degrassi and Disney Channel!
• Favorite Celebrity: She loves Brandy!
• Favorite Food: Bacon Cheeseburger with fries.
• Favorite Music: R&B, Hip Hop and Pop.
• Favorite Movies: Mean Girls and Wish Upon A Star.
• Favorite Sports: Basketball, Volleyball and Soccer.
• Favorite Books: The Bailey School Kids.
• Favorite Hobbies: Double Dutch, Shopping, Talking on the phone, going to the movies with friends, playing SIMS 2 and other computer games and traveling.
• She’s the youngest person ever nominated for the SAG award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

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“I get paid for what most kids get punished for.”

– Jerry Lewis

 Profession – Actor, Singer, Film Producer, Comedian, Screenwriter, Film Director and Philanthropist

Jerry Lewis is famously known as “The King of Comedy”. Besides this, he has also known by two more names viz. Le Roi du Crazy and Picchiatello. He is popularly known for his farce in film, television, stage and radio.

Medium – Stage, film, television, radio

Early Life and Career

Jerry Lewis was born as Jerome Levitch in Newark, New Jersey, USA on March 16, 1926 to the proud parents Daniel Levitch and Rae Lewis. His parents are Russian-Jewish. Lewis father was a master of ceremonies and vaudeville entertainer. Danny Lewis, a professional name, was used by Daniel Levitch (his father). His mother Rachel Levitch aka Rae Lewis worked in a radio station (New York City, WOR) as a piano player and also as Danny’s musical director. Starting from his early age he often used to work with his parents in the Catskill Mountains in New York State. At age 5 he made his debut from the song “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?” Before he became famous as Jerry Lewis he used his professional name as Joey Lewis. He made this change to avoid confusion with comedian Joe E.Lewis and heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis. Irvington High School dropped Lewis out of the school when he was in tenth grade.

Lewis also applied for military services during World War II but was rejected because of the heart murmur.

Genres –character comedy, physical Comedy

 Career

Lewis and Martin

Till the year 1946 he worked alone or with his parents but in the 1946 he paired with the Dean Martin and became popular by working with him. Dean Martin is a popular singer. Soon they formed a comedy team Martin and Lewis which became very popular. Not only this, the duo also starred in a comic series for Paramount Pictures. The king of Comedy is also a well known host for about more than 40 years. Unlike other comedy acts, their acts are not scripted but are based on the interaction together. They both appeared in many films such as in My Friend Irma and its sequel My Friend Irma Goes West (1950). They ended their career with paramount films with the movie Hollywood or Bust. Consequently the role of martin became less important and this lead to the fading away of the team Martin and Lewis. In addition the look magazine in 1954 added its cover photo of Lewis without Martin (cropped the photo) that made their relations strained.  Finally the duo ended as team in July 1956.

This became a great story for the DC comics as they released the best selling comic named “The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis ”.

After Splitting

After splitting with Martin, Lewis again started working with Paramount films and became a major comedy star with The Delicate Delinquent (1957). Lewis also released solo music in 1950, “Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody” and the song, “It All Depends on You” in 1958. Eventually he released his own album “Jerry Lewis Just Sings”.

After working in The Delicate Delinquent he also appeared in Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958) and The Geisha Boy (1958). In 1959, Lewis signed a contract with Paramount. Besides these, Jerry also directed several films (followed The Bellboy) such as The Ladies Man (1961), The Errand Boy (1961), The Patsy (1964) and the well-known comedy, The Nutty Professor (1963).

He packed up with Paramount and moved to Columbia Pictures as Paramount didn’t renew his profit sharing contract. Lewis also took film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Both of them were again paired when Martin’s son Dean Paul Martin passed away in 1987. Also, after that Lewis bought a cake for Martin on his 72 birthday and sang birthday song for him.

Awards

Comedian, actor and director Jerry Lewis has earned a number of awards and nominations. Till date he has received 16 awards and 13 nominations. In 1952 he received his first award viz. Photoplay Award. In the same year he was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award under the category- Best Comedian. In 1954 he received Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actor and Golden Laurel, Special Award for Family Comedy Kingin 1965. In 1978 Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged was given to him by Jefferson Awards. British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominated him for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The King of Comedyin 1983. The year 1997 was a remarkable year for Lewis as he was honored with the American Comedy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1999 he won Golden Lion Honorary Award. After lifetime achievement award he was now awarded with Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Career Achievement Award in 2004. He won a Primetime Emmy awards and Goldene Kamera Honorary Award in the year 2005. In the next consecutive year he obtained a Satellite Award for Outstanding Guest Star on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In 2009, Jerry won Academy awards, USA and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 81st Academy Awards. And recently in 2011 he received Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Personal life

Jerry got married twice. His first wife was Patti Palmer, a former singer with Ted Fio Rito. He married Patti Palmer in 1944. Jerry has 6 sons, 5 biological and 1 adopted with Patti Palmer. Their children are Gary Harold Lee Levitch (legally changed his name to Garry Lewis), Scott Anthony Lewis, Scott Anthony  Lewis, Christopher Joseph Lewis , Anthony Joseph Lewis , Joseph Christopher Lewis (now died due to the narcotics overdose)  and Ronald Steven “Ronnie” Lewis (adopted). Jerry and Patti got separated in 1980. After 3 years he again got married in 1983 to a 32 year old Las Vegas dancer. His current spouse is SanDee Pitnick. Jerry with Pitnick has a daughter Danielle Sara Lewis (adopted).

His idol is Al Jolson.

Assets owned by him

• Jerry’s (a Restaurant)

In 1958, Martin and his business partner, Maury Samuels, opened a restaurant called The Alpine Lodge, at 8524 Sunset Boulevard. Dean’s brother Bill was hired to manage the place, and renamed it Dino’s Lodge. In late 1961, Lewis opened Maury’s copycat restaurant and it Jerry’s. Unlike Dino’s Italian-based menu, Jerry’s would serve “American and Hebrew viands.”

• House

Lewis wrote out of the house “On the front door we placed a gold plaque: Our house is open to Sunshine, Friends, Guests and God”.  It consists of a living room, library and dining room having Asian touches like red-lacquered cabinets.

• Jerry Lewis Cinemas

Jerry Lewis Cinemas has the seating capacity of between 200 and 350. Jerry Lewis Cinema bore a sign with a cartoon logo of Lewis in profile.

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Profession- Actor, comedian, writer, director and producer

Nationality- American

Born as Roseanne Cherrie Barr, is a lady of many hats. She is not only an actor and comedian but also she works as a director, producer and writer. She is popularly known as Roseanne Barr.

Early life and career

Roseanne was born on November 3, 1952 in the Salt Lake City, Utah, United States to Helen (née Davis) and Jerome Hershel “Jerry” Barr. She basically belongs to a Jewish family. Her grandparents were immigrants from Europe and Russia.  Roseanne’s mother was a bookkeeper and cashier whereas her father Jerome worked as a salesman. Helen and Jerry gave birth to four children. Among all four children, Roseanne was the oldest. Barr’s maternal grandmother was of orthodox nature and because of this orthodox nature her upbringings was influenced. Even her parents hid their Jewish culture from others. “Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning I was a Jew; Sunday afternoon, Tuesday afternoon, and Wednesday afternoon we were Mormons”, Roseanne Barr stated. Barr attended Salt Lake High School East.

She started her career in Colorado. She reached there after experiencing an accident at the age of 16. The accident she suffered caused her a traumatic brain injury. Her injury was so severe that she was kept at Utah State Hospital, her behavior was changed radically. But soon in 1970 she made a excuse of visiting her friend in Colorado for two weeks to her parents and then never returned. In Colorado and Denver she worked as stand-up comedian at various clubs. After working as a stand-up comedian she tried her skill in various shows such as The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, The Tonight Show in 1985, Late Night with David Letterman (1986) and The Roseanne Barr Show. With her last work she was highly appreciated and after receiving so much appreciation she released her own sitcom on ABC titled “Roseanne”.  The phrase “domestic goddess” was also popularized by this stand-up comedian. The phrase was used to refer to a homemaker or housewife. In 1987, she was signed for the play Roseanne Conner, which was written to bring “no-perks family comedy” to television. This play became the highest-rated debut of that season attracting 21.4 million households.

Barr’s sitcom became very famous and was aired until its nine seasons starting from the year 1988 and ending in 1997. In the year 1989 she released her autobiography, Roseanne—My Life As a Woman. She also worked as a voice actress in Look Who’s Talking Too for a baby Julie in 1991. Her second book named My Lives was released in 1994. Apart from working in various shows, the comedian also made guest appearances in many shows like 3rd Rock from the Sun and The Nanny in 1987. Then the next year she appeared on The Roseanne Show, her own talk show. Her talk show lasted for two years and after that in 2005 she again stared working as a comedian. Then in England she performed a first live dates in 2006. Then in year 2007 the third season of  The Search for the Funniest Mom in America on Nick at Nite was hosted by Barr. Starting from year 2008 she got combined with Johnny Argent to host a radio show known as “The Roseanne and Johnny Show”, which was aired on Sundays only.

Besides hosting comedy based shows she also hosted political theme based radio show from 2009 to 2010. In 2010 she also appeared in a documentary of Jordan Brady’s titled I Am Comic. The following year she released Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm, her third book.

Barr worked as an actress in several movies such as She-Devil (1989), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), Blue in the Face (1995), Joe Dirt (2001), Home on the Range (2004) and A Diary Tale in 2004.

Personal life

Barr married a motel clerk, Bill Pentland in 1974. The couple met in Colorado. Barr has three children with Pentland; Jessica, Jennifer, and Jake. Before meeting and marrying Pentland, Roseanne was pregnant when she was 17. She placed the girl child (Brandi) for adoption but was later reunited. Bill’s and Barr’s marriage got ended in the year 1990. Soon after divorcing with Pentland, Barr again got married just after four days of her divorce. This time she got married to Tom Arnold, her fellow comedian. After marrying him she was known as Roseanne Arnold. Both Roseanne and Arnold met in Minneapolis in 1983. Arnold opened a stand-up comedy act for her in Minneapolis. And in 1988, Arnold worked as a writer in Barr’s sitcom “Roseanne”. She introduced the gay characters in Roseanne, her sitcom. She got this idea and inspiration from his brother, Ben Barr and her sister, Geraldine Barr. This was so because both her brother and sister were a gay and lesbian, respectively. Barr also was in a favor of gay marriage, as stated by her.

She soon gave divorce to the Arnold because of the irreconcilable differences between them. Roseanne didn’t give birth to any child with Arnold. In the year 1995, Roseanne Barr got married for the third time. This time Barr got married to her one-time personal security guard, Ben Thomas. During this she got pregnant through in-vitro fertilization and gave birth to a baby boy, Buck. They both got separated in the year 2002.

After one year, in 2003 Roseanne started dating Johnny Argent, whom she met online in 2002 while running a writing competition on her blog.

Also the actress Roseanne Barr has undergone various cosmetic surgeries such as breast reduction, tummy tuck, nose job and gastric bypass surgery.

Awards

The comedian and actress, Roseanne has won many awards. She got her first award (American Comedy Award) in 1988 for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Special. She then received a number of awards for her sitcom Roseanne, American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Series in 1989, People’s Choice Awards for Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program (1989), People’s Choice Awards (1990) for Favorite Female TV Performer and Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer, 1993 American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Performer in a TV Series, GLAAD Media Awards for Vanguard Award in the same year, Emmy Award in the same year 1993 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and Golden Globe Award again in 1993 for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In 1994, she again won the People’s Choice Awards category Favorite Female TV Performer for Roseanne. She again received People’s Choice Awards in 1995 for her sitcom Roseanne under the category Favorite Female TV Performer. Apart from winning so many awards she was also nominated for her other works such as The Roseanne Show, Look Who’s Talking Too.

Assets owned by her

• She presently has her residence in Big Island, Hawaii, U.S.

• She had her former residence in El Segundo, California.

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Profession- Entrepreneur and Businessperson

“An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.”

- Sheldon Adelson

Nationality- American

Born as Sheldon Gary Adelson, is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. Presently, Adelson is the chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the parent company of Venetian Macao Limited.  The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and the Sands Expo and Convention Center are operated by the Venetian Macao Limited. Sheldon is one of the richest people in the world. Sheldon also owns Israel HaYom, the Israeli daily newspaper.

Early life and career

Sheldon Gary Adelson is better known as Sheldon Adelson. He was born on August 4, 1933 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Sheldon belongs to a Ukrainian Jewish background. His parents are Sarah (née Tonkin) and Arthur Adelson. Sheldon’s father was a taxi driver and sold advertisements and his mother was the owner of the knitting shop. Sheldon grew up in the neighborhood of Boston, Dorchester.

Adelson started his business career by selling the newspaper at the age of 12.  He was able to start this business by borrowing the amount of two hundred dollars from his uncle and with that money he purchased the license for the same. He continued with the newspaper selling business for 4 years. Then at the age of 16, Sheldon set up a business of candy vending machine. Sheldon wished to become a court reporter, so he attended the trade school for that. Moreover, he also joined the army after that. But soon he was discharged from army. After that he again started a new business of toiletry kits. Soon he changed his business, named De-Ice-It. This company sold the chemical spray helpful in clearing frozen windshields.

Sheldon’s alma mater is City College of New York, from which he decided to drop out. Then Adelson started a charter tours business in 1960. Sheldon Adelson, the business minded personality has created over approximately 50 of his own businesses. In a time being he became a millionaire. Ironically in his 30s he had built and lost a fortune twice.

The millionaire along with his partners developed COMDEX (computer trade show) for the computer industry in late 1970s. However the first computer trade show was in 1979. the Interface Group Show Division, including the COMDEX shows  was sold to a Japan company, SoftBank Corporation, for $862 million in 1995 by Adelson and his partners, having his share over $500 million.

“Entrepreneurship is essentially identifying the path that everyone takes; and choosing a different, better way”

Then Adelson in 1998 purchased a casino in Las Vegas, Sands Hotel and Casino, again with his partners. He then constructed Sands Expo and Convention Center, the only privately owned and operated convention center in the US. Adelson then got inspiration for a mega-resort hotel in Vennice during his second honeymoon in 1991. To accomplish this he spent $1.5 billion to construct The Venetian, Venice-themed resort hotel and casino and knocked his Sands to pieces. In the year 2000, Adelson decided to build a casino resort, one of five stand-alone casinos in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The casino was opened in 2009.  In 2003, The Venetian was upgraded by adding 1,013-suite Venezia tower – giving the hotel 4,049 suites; 18 restaurants and a shopping mall with canals, gondolas and singing gondoliers. In 2007, he opened the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel on Cotai worth $2.4 billion. Sheldon also planned to open various hotels such as Four Seasons, Sheraton and St. Regis. Now Adelson wanted to expand his Sands in other countries. He started it with Macau, the Chinese gambling city. Sands Macau was opened in May 2004 and became the People’s Republic of China’s first Las Vegas-style casino. With the opening of Sands Macau, Sheldon’s wealth was multiplied more than fourteen times.

In the year 2010, he opened the new casino Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. It is the most expensive building in the world which includes a shopping mall, convention center, and 2,500 luxury hotel rooms.

Sheldon didn’t limit his business to casinos and hotels. Now he wanted to buy a Israeli newspaper Maariv but all his planning failed. Then he decided to compete with Israeli by publishing free daily newspaper. In 2007, the first edition of Israel HaYom (new newspaper) was published. Also, initially this newspaper was distributed for free. Recently in March 2014, Sheldon was officially permitted to purchase the Maariv and the conservative religious Zionist newspaper Makor Rishon from a Jerusalem court.

Besides business, Sheldon also contributed in politics to the Republican National Committee.

 Personal Life

The successful business man has been married twice. His first wife was Sandra. They got separated in 1988. Sheldon had three adopted children (Mitchell, Gary and Shelley) with Sandra. Then in the year 1991, he again got married, to Miriam Ochshorn. She was previously married to Tel Aviv physician, Dr. Ariel Ochshorn and had two daughters with him.

Awards

In 2008, Adelson and his second wife Miriam Adelson, won the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution. The Nevada Policy Research Institute also awarded Adelson the Chairman’s Award for his efforts to advance free market principles in Nevada.

The entrepreneur also served the Honorary Delegation and accompanied President George W. Bush to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel (2008).

Philanthropy

Adelson, best known for his casino and hotel magnate is a lifelong donor. He donated over $25 million to the The Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas to build a high school and $25 million to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in 2006. In 2007, he established the Adelson Family Charitable Trust, which is expected to donate $200 million to Jewish and Israeli causes.

Assets owned by him

• Besides various casinos and hotels he also owns a house which is situated in Las Vegas, US. He purchased this house in 2005 for $5.5M.

• He also owns a private jet and 16 Las Vegas Sands aircraft.

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Profession- Musician, songwriter and singer

“The Beatles were the soundtrack to my life. When the Beatles came along, life changed, the planets all shifted somehow.”

—Don Henley

Born as Donald Hugh Henley, is best known as a founding member of the Eagles. He is better known as Don Henley. Don is an American Singer, songwriter and a drummer.

Early life and career

Henley, the son of Hughlene (McWhorter) and C. J. Henley, was born on July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas, United States. He grew up in Linden (small Texas town in northeast).  His father was the owner of an auto parts store and his mother was a teacher. Henley’s father was dying from heart and arterial disease so he left his school to spend time with him. Henley graduated from high school in 1965. In his high school he formed a band called The Four Speeds with his childhood friends Richard Bowden and Jerry Surratt. Then he attended the Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. After that Henley enrolled himself in North Texas State University in Denton, Texas, from 1967 to 1969. After completing his education in North Texas State University he transferred to Los Angeles in 1970. Don in Los Angeles recorded an album with Shiloh, his early band. Soon after that Don Henley met Glenn Frey. Meeting her proved to be the turning point in his life. Initially, Don and Glen became the member of the Linda Ronstadt’s backup band. After two months of joining Linda Ronstadt’s backup band they formed Eagles along with Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.

Eagle’s released their first album including “Take it easy” in 1972, which was formed in September 1971. As Henley is a singer, so he also performed as a lead vocalist in many Eagles popular songs. The list includes “Desperado”, “Witchy Woman”, “Best of My Love”, “One of These Nights”, “Hotel California”, “The Long Run”, “Life in the Fast Lane” and “Wasted Time”. With this, the band became so popular and became the history as they were the highest selling American band in U.S. history. They also made their home among the top 5 overall best-selling bands of all time in America.

Unfortunately in 1980 during the recording of The Long Run, the band Eagles was knocked to pieces because of the personal tensions among them. But consequently in the year 1994, the band Eagles again reunited and again started releasing albums. Their latest album released was Long Road Out of Eden in 2007.

Instruments- Vocals, Drums, Keyboard, Guitar, synthesizers and percussions.

After splitting up with Eagles, Henley alone started his career as a solo artist. He with his then girlfriend Stevie Nicks in 1981 had duetted on “Leather and Lace” (her Adult Contemporary hit). Henley’s first solo album I Can’t Stand Still was released in 1982. His first album didn’t become so popular and was a moderate seller. Don’s single Dirty Laundry” became so popular that it earned a Gold-certified single in 1983 by selling over a million copies in the US. It also reached #3 on Billboard Hot 100. Henley also sang a song for the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) titled “Love Rules”. His next single release was “The Boys of Summer”, which was again a hit reaching the number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. His several other hits are All She Wants to Do Is Dance” (reaching # 9 on Hot 100), “Not Enough Love in the World” ( reached #34 on Hot 100) and “Sunset Grill” (reached #22 on Hot 100).  Henley then sang a song “Who Owns This Place?” for movie The Color of Money in 1986. The soundtrack of movie The Color of Money became so popular and was positioned #3.

After three years in 1989, Don released his next album named The End of the Innocence.  After that he released “The Heart of the Matter”, “The Last Worthless Evening” and “New York Minute” which again gained a lot of popularity. In addition with his singing Don Henley also appeared on on MTV’s Unplugged series. In 1995, to promote his album Actual Miles: Henley’s Greatest Hits, he released a next single titled “The Garden of Allah”.

Henley’s singing career got a pause when Geffen Records company filed a case against him. During that hiatus Don didn’t stop singing and recorded a few songs such as “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” for the film Leap of Faith, provided background vocals for country star Trisha Yearwood’s hit single “Walkaway Joe”, and duetted with Patty Smyth on “Sometimes Love Just Ain’t Enough” and Roger Waters on “Watching TV” on Waters’ Amused to Death album, in 1992.

In 2000 he released his next album Inside Job and after two years a live DVD entitled Don Henley: Live Inside Job was also released in 2002.

Genres- Rock, Pop

Personal life

Don Henley, the most recognizable voices in the world of music got in his first relationship with Stevie Nicks in late 1970s. After breaking up with Nicks, Don dated actress/model Lois Chiles for three long years. He then got committed to actress Maren Jensen. Moreover, he dedicated his first solo I Can’t Stand Still to his then girlfriend Maren. They broke up in the year 1986. After this he didn’t get into any relationship. After a long time, in the year 1995, he got married to Sharon Summerall (former model, Texas). He also wrote a song for Sharon titled “Everything Is Different Now” from the album Inside Job. Don has three children (two girls and 1 boy) with Sharon. Also, he has a daughter from his previous relationship.

Awards

The Henley’s band Eagles have won six Grammy awards. Besides receiving awards for his band albums, Don received awards for his solo albums too. He won two Grammy awards and five MTV Video Music Awards. His single “The Boys of Summer” received several MTV Video Music Awards including Best Video of the Year. His first Grammy award was for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance for the song “The Boys of Summer”. Henley’s second Grammy award was for the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance  in 1990 for the album The End of Innocence.

Assets owned by him

He has a house of worth $7,609,610 located in Dallas, Texas. According to dmagazine, Don Henley’s house has been ranked 99 in the list of 100 most expensive houses in Dallas. It has 6-bed rooms, 10-bath rooms and is a 13,845 sq ft home built in 1996.

Rich quotes

• “I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don’t know why.”
• “I have things that I am interested in, and that’s usually what comes out on the album.”
• “I would rather take a long time and make a record with eight or ten good songs on it than to rush one out with only one or two good songs on it, which is what I find to be the case most of the time.”
• “I’m always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I’ve got pieces of paper all over my house.”
• “I’m not scary; I’m just opinionated.”

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Profession- Singer, songwriter, actress, television and record producer

Nationality- American

The famous singer and actress Reba McEntire was born as Reba Nell McEntire on March 28, 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma, U.S. to the proud parents Jacqueline (née Smith) and Clark Vincent McEntire. she is also known as Reba. McEntire, reportedly, tops annual list of highest-paid singers. Reba’s work fetched her a few nicknames. They are The Queen of Country Music, Big Red and Country Music’s Queen!

Childhood

Jacqueline and Clark Vincent McEntire named their daughter Reba after her maternal grandmother, Reba Brassfield. Reba’s father got the talent to play steer ropers in his ancestry (from his father). Both her father and grandfather (John Wesely) were the champion Steer ropers. Her father was a World Champion Steer Roper three times (1957, 1958, and 1961). Reba’s mother wanted to be a country singer but she could not accomplish her dream and decided to be a school teacher. But Reba’s mother lives her dream by teaching the students the art of singing. At an early age Reba taught herself to play guitar and completed her high school from Kiowa High School. Jacqueline and Clark Vincent McEntire, gave birth to four children. They were Alice, Reba, Pake and Susie. Her parents taught their children songs and their own harmonies. Eventually, all their children except Alice formed a group called “Singing McEntires”. In this group, Reba used to write all songs and played the guitar too. The vocal group used to sing at rodeos and recorded “The Ballad of John McEntire”. She graduated in 1976 from Southeastern Oklahoma State University.  In 1974, McEntire performed the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City. The same year she signed a contract with Mercury Records.

Genres- Country

Music career

As Reba signed a deal with Mercury Records in 1974, she made her first debut by singing “I Don’t Want to Be a One Night Stand” for Mercury in 1976. However, her first single didn’t get much success. In September 1976 she released her second single, “(There’s Nothing Like The Love) Between a Woman and Man” which again became a moderate seller reaching 86 position on the board. Then she recorded her third album titled “Glad I Waited Just for You” in April 1977 which was positioned on #88. The same year, Mercury released her self-titled debut album which again didn’t experience fame. After that, Reba recorded two singles with Jacky Ward- “Three Sheets in the Wind” b/w “I’d Really Love to See You Tonight”; and “That Makes Two of Us”. After recording with Ward, the company Mercury released her second album Out of a Dream in 1979. McEntire’s first album entering into Top 20’s list was Patsy Cline’s “Sweet Dreams”. Then in year 1980, Reba’s next release made into Top 10 list, which was “You Lift Me Up (To Heaven)”. Her third studio album Feel the Fire was released that same year in October. In 1981, her fourth studio album was released named Heart to Heart. This was her first studio album that reached to 42 position on the the Billboard Top Country Albums list. “Today All Over Again”, her lead single then became popular and became a top five country hit. After this her fifth album got released, Unlimited in 1982 and “Can’t Even Get the Blues” and “You’re the First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving” in 1983. In next year Behind the Scene, her sixth album was released. But in year 1983, McEntire got separated with Mercury Records.

Instruments- Vocals and Acoustic guitar

She then joined hands with MCA Nashville Records and in 1984 she released her seventh album titled Just a Little Love. After this she recorded My Kind of Country, highest-peaking album on the Top Country Albums chart. Her third MCA album is Have I Got a Deal for You, the first album produced by Reba herself in 1985. Her success got upgraded day by day. In 1986, McEntire became a member of the Grand Ole Opry show in Nashville, Tennessee. Her ninth studio album Whoever’s in New England was then released in 1986. She then released a number of albums such as What Am I Gonna Do About You (1986), The Last One to Know (1987), Reba (1988), Sweet Sixteen (1989), Rumor Has It (1990), For My Broken Heart (1991), It’s Your Call (1992), Read My Mind (1994), Starting Over (1995), What If It’s You (1996), If You See Him (1998), So Good Together (1999), Room to Breathe (2003), Reba: Duets (2007), Keep On Loving You (2009) and All the Women I Am (2010). Besides these she also released two Christmas albums- Merry Christmas to You (1987) and The Secret of Giving: A Christmas Collection in 1999.

Acting Career

Apart from a prolific singer, Reba developed her interest in acting from the year 1980. Eventually, in the year 1989, she co-hosted  a show on ABC network -Good Morning America. In 1990 McEntire made her first debut in movie with the Tremors, horror comedy film. She also appeared in various movies such as Maverick (1994), North (1994), The Little Rascals (1994), One Night at McCool’s (2001), Tha Fox and the Hound 2(2006) and Charlotte’s Web (2006). In addition to movies, she was also starred in many television dramas. The list goes as The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (1991), The Man From Left Field (1993), Frasier (1994), Is There Life Out There (1994), Buffalo Girls (1995), Forever Love (1998), Hercules (1998), Secret of Giving (1999), Reba (2001-2007), Better With You (2010), Working Class (2011), Malibu Country (2012-2013), Blake Shelton’s Not So Family Christmas(2012)and Kelly Clarkson’s (Cautionary) Christmas Tale in 2013.

Personal life

Except Reba’s older sister Alice, all her siblings including her started their career in singing. Along with Reba, his brother and younger sister also became singers. Her brother Pake McEntire, was a successful country artist from 1980-1990 and her sister Susie Luchsinger, is a successful Christian music singer. In the year 1976, Reba McEntire tied a knot with national steer wrestling champion and rancher Charlie Battles. The couple got separated in 1987 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. After her divorce, she again got married in 1989 to Narvel Blackstock, her manager and former steel guitar player. McEntire did not have any child with his former husband. His latter husband has three children with his previous wife. However, McEntire and Narvel together have one son, Shelby Steven McEntire Blackstock.

Awards

The Queen of Country Music has won several awards. She made the record by winning the Academy of Country Music for Top Female Vocalist Awards and American Music Awards for Favorite Country Female Artist for seven and twelve times respectively. McEntire is even the first person to receive the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year Award four times consecutively. Reba in 2000 was Named the #2 Best-selling Female Artist (of all genres) of All Time and the #1 Best-selling Female Country Singer of All Time. Also, she has received two Grammy Awards, nine People’s Choice Awards (for singing and acting), seven CMA (Country Music Association) Awards, two Country Radio Awards, 11 ACM (Academy of Country Music) Awards, 14 American Music Awards, five TNN/Music City News Awards, three International Awards and the 2001 Drama Desk Award for “Annie Get Your Gun”.

Assets owned by her

• Reba McEntire’s Beverly Hills home.

Reba and Narvel, spends most of their time at their massive Beverly Hills home, which they purchased in January of 2003. The house has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms. It is spreaded in 9,242 square feet area. It has a worth of $10 million.

• Reba McEntire’s Lebanon, Tennessee home

It is situated on the Cumberland River and the home has a current value of just under $2 million. The Lebanon house has a tennis court and a swimming pool too.

Citations

• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”
• “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.”
• “It’s very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.”
• “When you’re a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren’t as enthusiastic.”
• “Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.”
• “I don’t think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.”
• “Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.”
• “My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.”
• “Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.”
• “I use all my skills that I can muster up, but the fun thing is that I find some untapped skills every once in a while. I get that from my daddy.”

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Neil Diamond also known as “Jewish Elvis” is a prolific American songwriter and singer who started his career in the early 1960′s. his real name is Neil Leslie Diamond. Neil Diamond tops annual list of highest-paid singers, according to the sources. The successful singer led a very illustrious and colourful career in the music industry for the last five decades. Diamond has sold 160 million records worldwide during his career with hits including Song Sung Blue, Cracklin’ Rosie, Love On The Rocks and You Don’t Bring Me Flowers. By scoring a number of hits during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, Neil Diamond is best known as a successful pop music singer. He is a Father of musician-turned-photographer Jesse Diamond. Neil is the third most successful adult contemporary artist on the Billboard charts behind Barbra Streis and Elton John.

Childhood
Diamond was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, in the year 1941, January 24 to be exact, to the proud parents Rose (née Rapaport) and Akeeba “Kieve” Diamond. His parents emigrated from Europe to the United States and settled in New York. Kieve Diamond operated and owned a series of dry goods stores in the New York City borough. His father also served in military. Neil attended Abraham Lincoln High School from which he received his high school diploma. Also he was a top fencer during his time at New York University. He grew up as most other kids but at the age 16, he received a guitar for his birthday, who knew that gift would forever change his life.
His life ambition was in medicine, as explained in a live interview with TV talk show host Larry King:
I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
But during his senior years he got an offer from a music publishing company which he could not refuse-writing songs for $50 a week started him on the road to stardom.

Personal life
Diamond got married three times. Firstly, Neil got married to the gorgeous Jaye Posner, his school sweetheart (school teacher) in the year 1963 with whom he had two daughters, Marjorie and Elyn. They got separated in 1967 and his first marriage ended in 1969. The same year Neil then married Marcia Murphey, a production assistant. They had two sons Jesse and Micah. They got divorced in 1995. He was forced to pay $150,000,000 to former wife Marcia Murphey in their divorce settlement. This holds the record as the most expensive divorce in history. In 2011, he made engagement announcement the same day he learned he was to be a Kennedy Center Honoree. The twice-divorced singer, who in 2012 tied the knot with his third wife 41 year old Katie McNeil, his manager and producer of the documentary Neil Diamond: Hot August Nights NYC.

Career
Daimond’s first song was “Hear them bells”, which he wrote for his girlfriend but he didn’t record it. At age 18, Neil wrote his fifth song “Blue Destiny”.
Brooklyn Erasmus High School was the first to give Neil an exposure to music. There he sang for a fixed choir group with then classmate Barbra Streisand and totally obscure her. After that Neil with his friend Jack Packer, formed a duo singing group called Neil & Jack and recorded a single for Shell Records. However, the duo soon broke up as the record failed to sell. His first success as a songwriter came with “Sunday and Me” in November 1965. After that he worked with many other companies till 1996, when Diamond signed a deal with Bert Berns’s Bang Records. His first hit, “Solitary Man”, was his first release on that label. That same year, he penned the Monkees’ No. 1 hit “I’m a Believer.” After that Neil moved to the Los Angeles in 1970. He wrote three blockbusters- Sweet Caroline, Holly- Holly and “Brother’s Love…” after the slump. “Sweet Caroline” was the most popular, peaking out at #4 on the billboard charts. His next major release was “Cracklin Rosie” which was inspired by his trip to an Indian reservation. This release rose to #1 position on the billboard charts. Besides that Neil could also record emotional songs, one of them was “I Am….I said”, which took him 4 months to complete. Yet this song reached the top 5 positions on the billboard.
Diamond once recorded a simple tune with a simple message and didn’t think that it would be a hit but on contrary, the song led the billboard with #1 position. Some movies also gave the opportunity to Neil to write like “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, fetching him a few awards.
Apart from that the “Jewish Elvis” also remake the movie “The Jazz Singer” that again fetched him awards. He wrote three greatest hits for this. They were “Love on the Rocks”, “Hello Again” and “America”. Each of them is positioned among top 10 on billboards.
Neil gave many hits year by year. His recent major release was “Home Before Dark” in 2008. In 2009 he released two albums viz. “Hot August Night/NYC” and Cherry Cherry Christmas. In 2012 Neil released The Very Best Of Neil Diamond – The Original Studio Recordings.

Awards
Diamond has earned various rewards for his work. In 1974 he won the Golden Globe and Grammy award for the Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973). In 1990 he got the award of merit. In 1991 he was awarded with ASCAP ward for the song America, The Jazz Singer. In 1981 he won the worst actor Razzie award again for The Jazz Singer. In 2000, he won the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award at Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2007 he won the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. He was awarded with the Icon Award at Billboard Music awards and was an honoree at Kennedy Center in 2011. Recently In august 2012, Sweet Caroline singer Neil Diamond was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Besides them he was also named as the 2009 MusiCares Person of the Year.

Personal Quotes
It’s very difficult for me to say ‘I love you’ but to sing ‘I love you’ for me is easier.

My voice is unadorned. I don’t try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don’t fix them. That’s the way it is.

I’m not there to entertain people. We’re there to do something together.

I never expected that I would be doing this for as long as I’ve been doing it. So looking back and seeing that it’s been over 40 years since the first hits makes you think, ‘Is there a time that you stop?’ But I don’t think I’m ever going to stop. It’s the only challenge I have left in my life.

I want to know what marathon runners do. Because I do the same thing. I run a two-hour marathon every time onstage. So I have my electrolytes kept at a certain level, and I do my carb-loading after the shows for the next night.

Somehow it’s dawning on me that I’m a more mature individual and I’m not a kid writing ‘Cherry, Cherry’ anymore.

I already have “Sweet Caroline”. Most of these people haven’t heard “Hell Yeah” or “Man of God”, but I see them and they’re listening, and that’s really all I want.
This is my job. Someone much greater than me gave me that job. He said, “You, you with that stupid look on your face – go out and sing until I tell you to stop”. I haven’t heard the word yet so I’m just going to keep doing it.

Love is the elixir of eternal youth.

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Profession- Stand-up Comedian, Television host, Actor, Blogger and Radio personality
Rickey Smiley claims to fame prank phone calls. He is popularly known for making millions laugh for over 25 years. Also, he is best known as host of the 2000 season of BET’s “ComicView”. Rickey led the show to its highest jump in ratings in the show’s ten-year history. He has established himself as a clean comedian by not using any profanity or sexual innuendo in his shows, thus appealing to audiences of all ages. According to the sources, Comedian Rickey Smiley has been hailed as “one of the funniest people in America” by Jamie Jackson Lambert of the New Pittsburgh Courier.
Early life and Career
Smiley was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, in the year 1970, January 1 to be exact. He is an alumnus of Woodlawn High School in Birmingham and then went to Tuskegee Job Corps Center, and attended college at Alabama State University , Montgomery, Alabama.
Smiley faced a few hardships in his early life. At the age of 6, Ricky lost his father (shot to death). Since then his mother leaned on her extended family to help raise Smiley. After all this, his grandparents took care of smiley. His grandfather had talk with him on almost every topic.
The entertainer Rickey Smiley is also a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity as well as the Kappa Psi National Band fraternity. These fraternities are known for informing the audience of his membership in his acts. Aside from these things, he is also a pianist and organist that he often plays on his shows and also in church.
After the great success of the BET’s “ComicView”, BET then quickly signed him to host “The Way We Do It” placing itself among the top five shows on the network.
Smiley together with veteran TV producer/director Roger Bobb created The Rickey Smiley Show, a sitcom starring Smiley as a comedian in 2004. The show is a sitcom based on his life, the attempts he had taken to raise his children. “The Rickey Smiley Show” is one of the funniest and most compelling morning shows in the United States. The show features the trademark prank calls, as well as news, information and the latest hip hop music. In addition, he also uses live bands in his shows. In 2008, to take his show nationwide he signed a deal with Syndicated One and now his show, “The Rickey Smiley Show” can be heard on a number of mainstream urban radio stations. Apart from these two shows, Rickey appeared in various other shows such as “Showtime at the Apollo”, HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam” and “Snaps”, “Comic Escape”, “The Nashville Network”, and also “Uptown Comedy Club”. Rickey imitates people who he grew up knowing, such as 90-year-old Sister Bernice Jenkins, Coach McClainy and Lil Darrl. Moreover, Smiley has also worked in a few movies – Friday After Next (2002), Latham Entertainment Presents: An All New Comedy Experience (2003), Comedy Central Represents (2006), Kingdom Comedy (2007) and First Sunday(2008).
Besides these, smiley has also released several humorous songs based on his bits, such as “Roll Tide” and “We Miss Robert”.

Prank calls
Some of Smiley’s most notable calls include:
• “Buried Alive” – Smiley plays a narcoleptic who works at a funeral home and “fell asleep in one of these caskets” who calls a cemetery claiming that “they done buried me alive” and insists he is calling from inside a casket on his cell phone. He then requests that someone come and “dig all these graves open”.
• “Uncle Melvin” – Smiley prank calls his uncle, as a man who believes his girlfriend has left him, and who punctuates every remark with the word “dawg” (“Is my girl over there dawg…tell her I love her, dawg”).
• “Pray For Me” – Using his “Granny” voice again, Smiley calls “Miss Ola Mae Benton Carter Jackson Glenn”, and asks her to pray for a member of her church, who had been:
• stabbed
• involved in an ambulance crash
• hit by a train
• had a leg cut off by the Jaws of Life
• shot “in the right eye”
Smiley then gets the woman to lead her in several verses of “Walk With Me, Lord”, each verse increasing in silliness.
• “She P-E-E-D” – Smiley prank calls an elderly woman using his “Granny” voice; the aftermath of the call causes the woman to laugh so hard that she ends up urinating on herself.
• “Is My Daddy Over There” – Smiley plays Lil’ Daryl and his brother Brandon as they call a lady claiming their father was supposed to return home with milk for their cereal.

Smiley has released six albums of his prank calls till now. They are:
• The Best of Comedian Rickey Smiley Vol. I
• Rickey Smiley: Prank Calls Vol. II
• Rickey Smiley: Vol. III
• Rickey Smiley “Off The Hook Volume 4″
• Rickey Smiley: Vol. V
• Rickey Smiley: Vol. 6

Personal life
Smiley is a proud father of 10 kids, two of them are biological children and the rest are adopted children. They all live in Birmingham. He visits them every weekend. He also finds time to devote to church, to charities, to the Big Brother Program and to family.
Marital Status- single

Quotes by him
. “I want people to leave my show knowing that I’m more than comedy…. I want to give them something to think about,” Smiley told Lambert.
. “All my characters are real, and they still go to my home church. Lil Darrl is real. I want everybody to know that. He’s real. His real name is Derrick, but I changed his name to Lil Darrl, but he’s real … and Bernice is a mix of my great-grandma and my mother all mixed together,” Smiley told James Causey of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Profession – Actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, activist entrepreneur, philanthropist and voice actress.

Lauren Keyana Palmer is a famed American actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, fashion designer, activist, entrepreneur, voice actress and philanthropist. Palmer was born in Harvey, Illinois on August 26, 1993 and raised in Robbins, Illinois. Palmer is famously known as “Keke Palmer” as she was nicknamed “Keke” by her older sister, Loreal at a young age. She was best known for her role as the titular protagonist on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP from 2009 to2011 and became the fourth highest paid child star on television at the time. Now also she is one of the highest paid-actress in the world.

Genres – R&B hip hop pop
Instruments – Vocals
Early life and career

Palmer got her acting skills in her blood. Her parents, Sharon and Larry Palmer met in drama school, had both worked as professional actors before settling into full-time jobs. Her father works for a polyurethane company, and her mother is a high school teacher who works with children with mental disabilities. Keke started her career at a young age of 5 by singing at a church’s choir. Palmer earned valuable experience and exposure at a popular Chicago tourist destination by performing a stage show. At the age of nine Palmer auditioned for a stage production of The Lion King .
In 2004, soon after her first film debut, the Palmers uprooted themselves and moved to the Los Angeles, California to help her pursue a career in show business. This proved to be a wise decision for her as within six weeks Palmer landed a guest role on the TV show Cold Case, a K-Mart commercial, and starred opposite William H. Macy in Wool Cap, a TNT original movie. She made her acting debut in the film Barbershop 2: Back in Business, in which she played the niece of American rapper and actress Queen Latifah.
Soon after acting, Palmer followed her passion of singing. She participated in American Juniors, the American Idol spin-off series in 2003, but the show was canceled that year as her audition scenes were edited out. Palmer signed a record deal with Atlantic Records and was featured in the television film Knights of the South Bronx, as well as starring in three television programs Second Time Around, ER, and Keke & Jamal in 2005..
Keke auditioned for Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 5 times and got selected because of the emotion in her crying . Palmer played an inspirational starring role in Akeelah and the Bee alongside Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett for which she received great acclaim when she starred as the title character in the Lionsgate Films/Starbucks Entertainment sleeper hit. Also, “All My Girlz”, Palmer’s debut single, is featured in the Akeelah and the Bee soundtrack.
Palmer appeared in Tyler Perry’s, Medea’s Family Reunion, which was number #1 at the box office for two consecutive weeks in the same year. She later stared in the DCOM “Jump In!” alongwith Corbin Bleu.
In 2007, Palmer starred in many movies, she was a supporting act in the thriller Cleaner alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Eva Mendes.
Afterwards, Keke appeared in films like The Longshots (2008), Shrink (2009). Keke starred in various movies in 2012- Ice Age: Continental Drift, Joyful Noise alongside Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah and Winx Club. She produced and starred in Rags, a Nickelodeon musical film. Besides these, Palmer also performed voice characters in Ice Age: Continental Drift and Winx Club.
In 2012, Palmer spoke on the direction of the album saying “It’s definitely a progression. What you would think I’d sound like at my age is what it is. It’s a record I can say is truly my own. I was there from the beginning to the end. I was in full control of it, and it represents who I am.” Keke recently finished filming the movie, Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012), for the Lifetime Network. Keke Palmer is currently starring as Chilli in the TLC biopic VHI film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013).

Music

She released her debut album, So Uncool, in 2007 after performing at the Save the Music Battle of the High School Marching Bands in 2006 but failed to chart on US Billboard 200. She also recorded a song entitled “Tonight” which was featured as the first song in the end credits of Night at the Museum in 2006. The “Awaken”, Palmer’s first mixtape was released in 2011. Keke released a self-titled mixtape in the next year with her new singles “You Got Me” & “Dance Alone” which have already been released. Since then, her mixtape has over 35,000 downloads. Keke sang two songs for her movie Jump In!, one called It’s My Turn Now, the other called Jumpin. She also can be heard on DisneyMania 5 singing Reflection from Mulan.
Palmer as well as her album was heavily influenced by contemporary R&B and its singers, R.Kelly, Brandy, Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Ciara, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Whitney Houston and girl group TLC, respectively.
Awards

Keke fetched 19 nominations and 10 awards till date. Palmer won a Special Award for Rising Star of the Year in 2006. Also she got Black Movie award for her movie released that very year. In 2007, she won Young Artist Award, category Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress and Image Award Category Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Akeelah and the Bee (2006). In the same year she fetched Black Reel awards category best actress for the movie Akeelah and the Bee (2006). She earned an Image award category Outstanding Performance in a Youth/Children’s Program (Series or Special), True Jackson, VP (2008) for the four consecutive years (2009-2012).

Causes she supports:-

1. Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Enabling all young people, especially those who need most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

2. BrittiCares International
BrittiCares International is a non-profit organization, committed to making a difference in the lives of children diagnosed with cancer and their families. The inspiration of the organization came from a little girl named Brittiana Henderson.

3. I Have a Dream Foundation
The “I Have A Dream” Foundation is working to ensure that all children have the opportunity to pursue higher education. They work to empower children in low-income communities to achieve higher education.

4. A Place Called Home
Helping inner city youth find their dreams through educational enrichment .

5. Urban Farming
Works to eradicate hunger while increasing diversity, motivating youth and seniors and optimizing the production of unused land for food and alternative energy.

Facts about her

• Palmer owns a Mercedes Benz Matte white E550.
• Her favorite actor is William H. Macy.
• Favorite TV Show: Moesha, Fresh Prince, Degrassi and Disney Channel!
• Favorite Celebrity: She loves Brandy!
• Favorite Food: Bacon Cheeseburger with fries.
• Favorite Music: R&B, Hip Hop and Pop.
• Favorite Movies: Mean Girls and Wish Upon A Star.
• Favorite Sports: Basketball, Volleyball and Soccer.
• Favorite Books: The Bailey School Kids.
• Favorite Hobbies: Double Dutch, Shopping, Talking on the phone, going to the movies with friends, playing SIMS 2 and other computer games and traveling.
• She’s the youngest person ever nominated for the SAG award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

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