Brian Douglas Wilson is a musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded The Beach Boys. He is widely known as
one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century.
Brian Douglas Wilson is a musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded The Beach Boys. He is widely known as
one of the most innovative and significant songwriters of the 20th century.
Gladys Maria Knight is a singer/songwriter,actress,
businesswoman, and author. A seven-time Grammy
Award–winner. Knight is known for the hits she
recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with
her group The Pips, which also included her brother
Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest
and Edward Patten.
Blind since shortly after his birth, Stevie Wonder was a child
prodigy who signed with Motown‘s Tamla label at the age of
11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie
Wonder. In 1963, the single "Fingertips" was a number-one
hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making
him the youngest artist ever to top the chart.
Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris)
Bono (Paul David Hewson)
Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Bono is the lead vocalist and
primary lyricist of the rock band U2. He has received 22 Grammy
Awards and has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame.
Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022)
(CBS) – Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas
honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy" and a
nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died.
Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped
run the Mickey Gilley Grand Shanghai Theatre. He had been
performing as recently as last month, but was in failing health
over the past week. His death was announced by Jeff Wagner,
mayor of Pasadena, Texas.