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This article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the...
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Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in...
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- Dec 2, 1981 (age 28 years)
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BT
Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is a music producer, composer, audio technician, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name, BT. He is a pioneering artist in the trance genre. As a producer, he has...
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- Oct 4, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Coldcut
Coldcut are an English dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music.
In 1986, computer...
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (FGTH) were an English dance-pop band that was extremely popular in the mid-1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson (vocals), supported by Paul Rutherford (vocals, keyboards), Peter Gill (drums, percussion),...
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- Aug 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Apr 1987
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez was born in July 24, 1969 in the Bronx, NYC. Currently married to Hispanic singer Marc Anthony, she is the mother of two. Jennifer Lopez, also known as “J Lo” is a singer, actress, dancer, song writer, record producer,...
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- Jul 4, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1999
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours...
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- May 28, 1968 (age 41 years)
Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and became the first recording artist to have her...
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- Mar 27, 1970 (age 39 years)
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- 1990
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Paula Abdul
Paula Julie Abdul (pronounced /ˈæbduːl/; born June 19, 1962) is an American pop singer, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality.
In the 1980s, Abdul rose from cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers to highly sought...
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- Jun 19, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Spice Girls
The Spice Girls are a British pop girl band formed in 1994. They consist of Victoria Beckham (née Adams), Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm, and Geri Halliwell. They are the most successful girl group of all time.
They were signed to...
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- 1996
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2001
Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie (born 19 September 1965) is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist, and actor. As a musician he works mainly within the jungle and drum and bass genres, and has helped to promote...
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- Sep 1965 (age 44 years)
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Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams (born 13 February 1974) is a BRIT Award-winning English singer and musician. His career started in 1990, at the age of 16, as a dancer and singer with the pop band Take That. He left the band in 1995 to launch his solo...
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- Feb 13, 1974 (age 35 years)
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Roxette
Roxette is a Swedish pop music duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle. They enjoyed worldwide success, from the late 1980s until the mid 1990s, gaining nineteen UK Top 40 hits and four US #1 singles with, "The Look", "Listen to Your...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Brave Combo
Brave Combo are a polka/rock band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist/keyboardist/accordionist Carl Finch, they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than twenty-five years. Their music, both originals and...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1979
Dannii Minogue
Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer and actress. Minogue rose to prominence in the early 1980s for her roles in the Australian television talent show, Young Talent Time and the soap opera Home and Away,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1971 (age 38 years)
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are a British electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasionally guitar and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally backing vocals.
Pet Shop Boys have sold close to 100 million...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Aug 1981
Tina Arena
Tina Arena (born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer, songwriter and musical theatre actress, her international debut album in 1994 Don't Ask was very successful, it was certified 10 x platinum in Australia alone even though the album only...
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- Nov 1, 1967 (age 42 years)
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Janet Jackson
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana, and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She first performed on stage with her...
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- May 16, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Per Gessle
Per Håkan Gessle (Swedish pronunciation: [pɛːr ˈɡɛslɛ]; born 12 January 1959 in Halmstad) is a Swedish pop Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He is the lead singer of the Swedish pop group Gyllene Tider and formed Roxette with Marie...
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- Jan 12, 1959 (age 50 years)
'N Sync
'N Sync (sometimes stylized as *NSYNC) was an American Boy Band. Since 1997, 'N Sync has sold over 56 million records worldwide.
Formed in Orlando, Florida in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich, NSYNC consisted of Justin Timberlake,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) is an American pop musician and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney...
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- Jan 31, 1981 (age 28 years)
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CHIC
Chic (pronounced /ˈʃiːk/ "sheek", sometimes fully capitalized as CHIC) is an American disco and R&B; band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1976
Hilary Duff
Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress and recording artist. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, Duff gained fame for playing the title role in the television series Lizzie...
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- Sep 28, 1987 (age 22 years)
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Bananarama
Bananarama are an all-female pop group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1981
Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne (born 27 October 1984) is an English media personality, fashion designer, singer, actress, and model, known for being the daughter of Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne. She was thrust into the limelight after appearing on...
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- Oct 27, 1984 (age 25 years)
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Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American model, singer, songwriter and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal caused her to relinquish her title. Williams...
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- Mar 18, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
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2 Live Crew
2 Live Crew is a hip hop group from Miami, Florida. They caused considerable controversy with the sexual themes in their work, particularly on their 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.
2 Live Crew was created by David "Treach DJ Mr. Mixx" Hobbs in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1985
Chumbawamba
Chumbawamba are a British band. Over a 27-year career, the band plays music ranging from anarcho-punk, pop-influenced dance music, a cappella/choral music and world music to acoustic folk music.
The band are best known for their song "Tubthumping" ...
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Donna Summer
Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines; December 31, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter who gained prominence during the disco era of music, earning the title "The Queen of Disco".
Summer was trained as a gospel singer before her...
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- Dec 31, 1948 (age 61 years)
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La Toya Jackson
La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American singer–songwriter, musician, author, television personality and actress. She is the fifth child of the famous Jackson family. She had a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and...
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- May 29, 1956 (age 53 years)
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Holly Valance
Holly Valance (born Holly Rachel Vukadinovic; Serbian Cyrillic: Холи Рејчел Вукадиновић, 11 May 1983) is an Australian model, actress and ARIA nominated singer.
Valance was born in New Zealand to a Serbian father Rajko and a British mother, Rachel....
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- May 11, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Rolf Harris
Rolf Harris, CBE, AM (born 30 March 1930), is an Australian/British musician, singer, composer, painter, and television host and personality.
Named after Rolf Boldrewood, an Australian writer his mother admired, he was born in Bassendean, a suburb...
Date of birth:
- Mar 30, 1930 (age 79 years)
Erasure
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell.
Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That". Following the release of their fourth single...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1985
Gwen Stefani
Gwen Stefani was born in October 3, 1969 in Fullerton, California. She is a singer, actress, songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani was part of the group "No Doubt", a group that she joined in 1986, but the group split and she began her...
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- Oct 3, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
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Lords of Acid
Lords of Acid is a Belgian acid house band from the 1990s that started as a spinoff of Praga Kahn with the controversial New Beat single "I Sit on Acid" in 1988. Created by Jade 4U, Praga Khan, and Oliver Adams; their debut album, 1991's Lust (along...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
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Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio Dosamantes (born June 17, 1971) is a nominated Grammy and Latin Grammy and six-time winner of Billboard Latin Music Awards Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina (2000),...
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- Jun 17, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli was a pop/dance music project formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The group's debut album achieved high sales internationally which earned them a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990....
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Missy Elliott
Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known by her stage name Missy Elliott, is an American recording artist, producer, actress and former member of the band Sista. With record sales of over seven million in the United States, she is...
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- Jul 1, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Patti LaBelle
Patricia Louise Holte (born May 24, 1944), best known by her stage name of Patti LaBelle, is an American R&B; and soul singer-songwriter and actress. She fronted two groups, Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, which received minor success on the pop...
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- May 24, 1944 (age 65 years)
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Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio (Hansjoerg) Moroder (on record sleeves often only Giorgio) (born on April 26, 1940 in Urtijëi (Ortisei), Italy) is a three-time Oscar-winning and three-time Grammy Award-winning Italian record producer, songwriter and performer. His work...
Date of birth:
- Apr 26, 1940 (age 69 years)
Orbital
Orbital are a British electronic duo from Sevenoaks, England, consisting of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll. Their career initially ran from 1989 until 2004, but in 2008 they announced that they would be reforming and headlining The Big Chill, in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2004
Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin, 3 July 1960, South Woodford, London) is an English pop musician and songwriter, who has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure.
Raised in...
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- Jul 3, 1960 (age 49 years)
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The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas (abbr. BEP) are a hip hop band that formed in Los Angeles in 1995. The group is composed of vocalist and multi-instrumentalist will.i.am and vocalists apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie. Since their album Elephunk in 2003, the group's...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer–songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the New Wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she also performed and...
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- Jul 1, 1945 (age 64 years)
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Salt-N-Pepa
Salt-N-Pepa is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from Queens, New York, that came onto the music scene in 1985.
The group, consisting of Cheryl James ("Salt", now Cheryl Wray), Sandra Denton ("Pepa"), and Deidra "Dee Dee" Roper ...
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Exposé
Exposé is an American vocal group. Primarily consisting of lead vocalists Ann Curless, Jeanette Jurado, and Gioia Bruno, the group achieved much of their success in the late 1980s and early 1990s, becoming the first group to have four top ten hits...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
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IiO
iiO (pronounced "eye-oh") is a New York City based house music act composed solely of producer and songwriter Markus Moser. Former member, vocalist and songwriter Nadia Ali, left in 2005 to pursue a solo career.
iiO are best known for their 2001 hit...
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LeAnn Rimes
Margaret LeAnn Rimes, known simply as LeAnn Rimes, (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for her work in country music. She is best known for her rich vocals similar to legendary country music singer Patsy...
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- Aug 28, 1982 (age 27 years)
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- 1991
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Ginuwine
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin (born October 15, 1975), better known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American R&B; singer and performer. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s, Ginuwine has released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums...
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- Oct 15, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Play
Play is a popular Swedish pop girl group that made its debut on the music scene in 2001. Four young women in total have been Play members - Faye Hamlin, Anna Sundstrand, Anaïs Lameche, and Rosie Munter formed Play's original line-up from the band's...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2001
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2004
Utada Hikaru
Hikaru Utada (宇多田 ヒカル Utada Hikaru), known by her stage name Utada (English pronunciation: /uˈtɑːdə/) in America and Europe, and as Hikki (ヒッキー, Hikkī), is a Japanese American singer and songwriter, arranger, and record producer.
Before her First...
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- Jan 19, 1983 (age 26 years)
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Irene Cara
Irene Cara (born March 18, 1959) is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and...
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- Mar 18, 1959 (age 50 years)
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Information Society
Information Society (also known as InSoc) is a U.S. band originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, primarily consisting of Kurt Larson (aka Kurt Valaquen/Kurt Harland), Paul Robb, and James Cassidy; the latter two reconvened the band in 2006,...
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Kava kava
Kava Kava is the rock band / live dance act from Huddersfield in the UK featuring the soulful vocals of Pat Fulgoni, Matt Bond guitarist, Jason Riley on bass guitar alongside drums, electronica, brass, strings and beats
They originally starting out...
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The Future Sound of London
The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a prolific British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of...
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Neil Tennant
Neil Francis Tennant (born 10 July 1954) is an English musician, singer and songwriter, who, with partner Chris Lowe, make up the successful electronic dance music duo Pet Shop Boys.
Neil Tennant was born on 10 July 1954, North Shields, near...
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- Jul 10, 1954 (age 55 years)
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Jemini
Also a sign of prosperosy among South-Indian
Jemini were a British pop group from Liverpool, best known for scoring "nul points" and finishing in last place with their song "Cry Baby" at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest in Latvia.
Chris Cromby and...
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Sarit Hadad
Sarit Hadad (Hebrew: שרית חדד) (born Sara Hudadatov (Hebrew: שרה חודדטוב) on September 20, 1978) is an acclaimed Israeli singer. In October 2009 the Israeli Music TV Channel (Channel 24) crowned Hadad "best female singer of the 2000s".
Hadad was...
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- Sep 20, 1978 (age 31 years)
The Pussycat Dolls
The Pussycat Dolls (sometimes abbreviated as PCD) are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble founded by choreographer Robin Antin. The group originated during 1995 as a burlesque troupe based in Los Angeles, California. After attracting...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2004
Rosa López
Rosa López, (born 14th January 1981, Granada Province, Spain), is a Spanish singer. She came to fame in 2001 as part of the reality show "Operación Triunfo", she represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. She has subsequently released...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1981 (age 28 years)
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx are a UK house music duo. The duo consists of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe. They first rose to popularity in the late 1990s.
Basement Jaxx started in Brixton, South London in 1994, where they held a regular night club called Rooty,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
