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Hildegard Knef

actress and singerBorn: Dec. 28, 1925Birthplace: Ulm, Germany Knef, a German actress and smoky-voiced singer, earned fame in the U.S. for her performance as a Soviet commissar in Cole Porter's Silk…

Gavin Rossdale

singer, songwriterBorn: 10/30/1967Birthplace: London, England The lead singer for the British rock band Bush, Rossdale was painting houses before the group was discovered in 1994. Rossdale, the son…

Nelson Eddy

actor, singerBorn: 6/29/1901Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island Actor and singer known for his baritone voice. Nelson starred with Jeanette MacDonald in eight major musicals and operettas,…

Denny Doherty Biography

musician and singerBorn: Nov. 29, 1940Birthplace: Halifax, Nova ScotiaDied: Jan. 19, 2007 (Mississauga, Ontario) Founding member and lead singer of the 1960s pop-folk…

Sabbatai Zevi

(Encyclopedia) Sabbatai ZeviSabbatai Zevisäbätīˈ zāˈvē [key], 1626–76, Jewish mystic and pseudo-Messiah, founder of the Sabbatean sect, b. Smyrna. After a period of study of Lurianic kabbalah (see…

Bing Crosby

(Harry Lillis Crosby)singer, actorBorn: 5/2/1904Birthplace: Tacoma, Washington Academy Award-winning singer and actor. The crooner starred in dozens of films including Going My Way (1944) and…

Marvin Gaye

singer, songwriterBorn: 4/2/1939Birthplace: Washington D.C. Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and instrumentalist who was one of Motown's most successful recording artists and is remembered…

k.d. lang

(Kathryn Dawn Lang)country-rock singer, songwriterBorn: 11/2/1961Birthplace: Consort, Alberta, Canada Grammy Award-winning country-rock singer and songwriter known for her velvety, emotive voice…

Bob Marley

reggae singerBorn: 2/6/1945Birthplace: St. Ann, Jamaica Grammy Award-winning reggae singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music sparked an international interest in reggae music. In 1964, he…

Alanis Morissette

pop singerBorn: 6/1/1974Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada Grammy Award-winning pop singer who burst onto the American music scene in 1995 with her 11-million-selling Jagged Little Pill after a career as…