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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (Newark, 9 agosto 1963 – Beverly Hills, 11 febbraio 2012) è stata una cantante e attrice statunitense. Viene universalmente riconosciuta come una delle piú iconiche e popolari cantanti di tutti i tempi, spesso chiamata semplicemente “The Voice” per le caratteristiche uniche della sua voce, soprannome datole da Oprah Winfrey. Il suo grandissimo successo negli anni ottanta ha permesso l’apertura di mercati fino ad allora preclusi alle cantanti di colore. Con essi la cantante ha dominato le classifiche mondiali, in particolar modo la Billboard Hot 100, nella quale ha piazzato sette singoli consecutivi alla numero uno, battendo il...

The Avalons By Marv Goldberg Based on interviews with Bernard Purdie and George Cox © 2003 by Marv Goldberg The Avalons were one of the four R&B groups from Newport News, Virginia to record in the 50s (the others were the 5 Keys, the Leaders, and the Chateaus). Although both the Leaders and the Chateaus were highly influenced by the 5 Keys, the Avalons, as we'll see, were much more intertwined with them. Our story begins around 1947, with the formation of a group called the Chimes. Singing both gospel and R&B, they consisted of Charles “Bobby” Crawley (tenor/baritone), Ulysses...

Avalon Emerson is a producer and DJ based in San Francisco. Though she currently spends her days working as a software engineer (and previously paid the bills as a fashion photographer), it's her talent for music making that caught the attention of the ICEE HOT crew. Granted, Avalon has pretty much been a regular on the ICEE HOT dancefloor since the party began, although her involvement in the city's club scene certainly didn't stop there. Some of her first DJ gigs took place at clandestine warehouse parties—which Avalon herself often had a hand in throwing—and she's recently started up a...

Whitney Cummings (born September 4, 1982) is an American comedian and actress. She was formerly a cast member of the MTV television show Punk'd and is the creator and star of the NBC sitcom Whitney, as well as the co-creator of the CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls. Cummings moved to Los Angeles after college and worked on Punk'd on MTV in 2004 and the same year starred in a low-budget thriller, EMR, which was screened at Cannes. She began performing stand-up in 2004. Variety named Cummings one of 10 Comics to Watch in 2007. She appeared in the San Francisco...