Amanda Joy “AJ” Michalka was born the spring TEN, 1991 in Torrance, California. Michalka was raised in Seattle, and also sister Alyson (“Aly”) and by an early age showed an interest in music and acting. The sisters acquired their start singing in church and carrying out in school plays. AJ easily followed healthy when Aly began studying executing and working as a print model, and soon the sisters were carry ...

British singer Sandie Shaw had a string of girl group-styled singles in the mid-'60s before she retired in the early '70s. Shaw was discovered by pop singer Adam Faith in 1963, who led her to his manager, Eve Taylor; she released her debut single, "As Long as You're Happy," the following year. It didn't hit the charts, yet her next record, "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me," hit number one in t ...

While the landmark Tapestry album earned her superstar status, singer/songwriter Carole King had already firmly established herself as one of pop music's most gifted and successful composers, with work recorded by everyone from the Beatles to Aretha Franklin. Born Carole Klein on February 9, 1942, in Brooklyn, NY, she began playing piano at the age of four, and formed her first band, the vocal quartet the C ...

Kimberley Walsh is an English pop singer who is famous for being a member of multi-platinum selling girl band, Girls Aloud. Originally from Bradford, she starred in several commercials with her sister Sally, as well as a West End production of Les Misérables and ITV show, The Book Tower. In 2002 she appeared on ITV again, this time competing on reality competition Popstars The Rivals. She eventually won a p ...

Selena Gomez named her debut album Kiss & Tell for a reason! During a private dinner to celebrate her February NYLON magazine cover, the 20-year-old was informed that pop quintet One Direction had recently revealed they would like to kiss her more than any other female celebrity. The Spring Breakers actress giggled and asked, "When did they say that? That's really nice. I'm sure they said that for shock ...

Reared in Austin, TX, and schooled at Boston's Berklee College of Music, the fiddle-playing singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez made her recording debut in 2002 by contributing to Chip Taylor's Let's Leave This Town. Taylor had first heard Rodriguez at the 2001 South by Southwest conference and subsequently invited her to tour alongside him, which she did for several years. The duo also released several coll ...

When Carolyn Dawn Johnson was only five years old, she started to play the piano. In high school she added the clarinet, flute, and saxophone, then later the mandolin and even the guitar. She practiced her singing at church, doing hymns with her family. When Johnson hit her teens, she began writing songs and dreaming about a professional career in music. In 1995, young Johnson moved to Nashville, TN, to pur ...

Solo experimental electronic pop artist Caroline Lufkin sings delicate vocal melodies over glitched IDM beats and dreamy, understated sound beds. Born in Okinawa, Japan, she was inspired to write songs by her older sister, Olivia, who had made a name for herself as a J-pop singer. In 2003, Caroline graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Boston and moved to Los Angeles to pursue music as a full-time c ...

Carole Samaha is the very Unique complete Arabic artist who masters the rules of singing, acting and dancing. She is a Lebanese artist born in Beirut. Since she was a child, she has showed a great passion for acting. At school, she used to write plays and to gather her friends to act in them. She thus created her first plays. Her energy, inventiveness, and talent caught her teachers’ attention. Carole had t ...

Composer Carole Bayer Sager enjoyed one of the longest hit streaks in contemporary pop, with her chart success spanning across several decades. Born March 8, 1947, in New York City, she wrote her first songs while attending New York's High School of Music and Art during the early '60s; discovered by producer Don Kirshner, she signed to his Screen Gems publishing company and in 1966 authored her first hit, t ...