Nicole Minetti  is a former profession showgirl and profession dental hygienist who became a profession politician under Berlusconi. Minetti's mother is an English dance instructor and her father an Italian businessman. Minetti worked for a while as a dancer on Colorado Cafe, a comedy-variety show on television. She then went on to train as a dental hygeinist. In 2009 prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was ...

Swedish siren Ann-Margret immigrated to the U.S. with her family at the age of seven, settling in a Chicago suburb and later studying Drama at Northwestern University. Despite an innate bashfulness, the girl set out to become a musical entertainer, making her professional debut as a singer at the age of 17. Fortunately, she was spotted by comedian George Burns, who hired her for his Las Vegas show and arran ...

Since firmly establishing herself as a force to be reckoned with in the Australian and international DJ world, Havana Brown’s hustle hasn’t slowed for a minute and the results are in! As the only female DJ to sign a major label recording deal in Australia, Havana has delivered on Universal Music’s expectations with multiple releases of her Crave compilation series all charting and spurning successful nation ...

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Vanessa Lengies has been pursuing a career as an actress from an extremely young age.  While other girls her age were playing with dolls and braiding each other's hair, Vanessa was auditioning for anything and everything she could find. Vanessa's hard work and perseverance paid off fairly quickly when she landed her first professional gig at the tender age of 9 -- she was hired to ...

Tata Amita Marie Young is another ethnic mix gone fantastically right. Born on December 14, 1980 to an American father and a Thai mother, she grew up in the land of Siam immersed in music and dance. At age 11, Tata beat no fewer than 5,300 kids to win the Thailand Junior Singing Contest. Yamaha Music took the young prodigy under its wing and prepped her for a life in entertainment. When she turned 14, Gramm ...

Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo was born on July 25, 1988, in Quezon City, Philippines. Her professional performing career began at the age of 3 when she joined the cast of Pen pen de Sarapen, a popular children's program. As a child, she also appeared on shows such as For Kids Only, Hiraya Manawari, Ang TV, and NEXT. In 1995, she was one of the performers chosen to sing for Pope John Paul II when he visited her h ...

German pop singer and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Connor grew up listening to soul music, mostly influenced by her grandfather who was born in New Orleans. A church chorus became her first experience in the gospel music field at a very young age. After participating in different musicals while still attending middle school, Sarah Connor started sending demos to different record labels. The opportunity to ac ...

Born in the close-knit town of Buffalo, New York, Rebecca Grant grew up worshipping the local professional sports teams, and her love for athletics only grew with time. With a major in psychology and a minor in communications at the State University of New York at Buffalo, her goal was to somehow become involved in television and sports. After graduating, she was fortunate enough to get a job in her hometow ...

Born October 30, 1970, in Brooklyn, New York, Nia Long (nee Nitara Carlynn Long) showed an interest in acting at an early age. Nia, whose name comes from one of the seven days of Kwanzaa and means "life purpose," was instructed by Betty Bridges, better known as the mother of Diff'rent Strokes child star Todd Bridges. Nia's acting career began on television in 1991, with a role on the soap opera Guiding Ligh ...

Namie Amuro is Japanese pop's most resilient idol. Debuting in 1992 with the all-girl five-piece Super Monkey's, where she first caught the attention of Tetsuya Komuro, the producer/songwriter who would go on to shape her early career, Amuro has bounced back from hurdles that have felled lesser J-pop idols (namely raising a family and divorce) to remain on top. And like any J-pop starlet worth a theme song ...