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Not everyone is blessed with musical talent but when someone has an extraordinary ability, he or she should get the chance to please others with it. Sometimes a career can be made out of musical endowment, and that is what Billie Holiday did. Billie had a life that she may not have dreamed of since it started out rough with her mistreatment from adults and discouraging misfortunes, but she was ambitious and that showed through her singing career. Billie could usually adapt to her life’s problems except for her drug addiction and alcohol abuse, which unfortunately led to her demise. She was a talented woman who sang and helped create hit songs that aided her to rise to fame. Billie Holiday bravely stood up to racism, showed the world her talent, and inspired many of her beloved fans, all while continuing to be herself and not allowing the issues in her life hold her back.

Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. He parents were UN married and separated after conception. Oprah had a difficult childhood, battling through poverty and sexual abuse at an early age.

After that song my daughter's fame was sealed, everyone knew my Aaliyah’s name. Now look at my daughter she’s writing songs for movies, right now she’s singing a song for Disney, Dr. Dolittle, and she got the part in, “Romeo must die.” I don’t know what my daughter can’t do. Even though there was that mishap with R.kelly and the marriage licence, i’m so very proud of my baby, my superstar but because Aaliyah is now a singer and actor.

She performed at top venues all over the world, and packed them to the hilt. Her audiences were as diverse as her vocal range. They were rich and

Something that rose her fame very much was when her song “Carousel was featured as the song in the TV show American Horror Story: Freak Show. Melanie also gained a lot of fame in 2015 when she released her album Cry Baby. Many people who did not know Melanie before this album began liking her and enjoying her music. Several people do not actually know that Melanie was on The Voice. She appeared in season 3 and was on team Adam. She did not win the show, though she made it to week 5. Melanie has worked very long for her fame and has come extremely far because of her hard work and

Whitney Houston was born to a family that were singers. She was the youngest of three children and was related or friends with lots of talented singers, Aretha Franklin was her grandmother. She began singing in a choir at church and soon went on to become a background singer. When she was 18 she had her first record deal. With her second album she had to first album by a women to enter the number 1 charts.

Viola Irene Desmond (born Davis) was a Canadian Black Nova Scotian and is one of the best trailblazers because she was successful, she wanted to make things right and she changed the world. She was strong, smart, entrepreneurial and generous. She was willing to change the dynamics of power and privilege and knew there was injustice in the system so she acted. Viola Desmond was born in Halifax on July 6 1914. She grew up with 10 siblings and had racially mixed parents.

She was very talented for her age. When she was 18 years old, she sang, tapped dance, and acted her way into the hearts of millions. Box office said she beat out the greatest adult stars of her day like Clark Gable and Bing Crosby. She was the top singer at the box

Oprah Winfrey’s past helped shape her into the influential person she is presently. According to achievement.org, the official website of a museum of living history in Washington D.C., Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi to mother, Vernita Lee and father Vernon Winfrey. Vernita was just a teenager when Oprah Winfrey was born. Winfrey was sexually abused by several of her mother’s friends and relatives while her mother was away working. The abuse lasted from ages nine to thirteen. When Winfrey tried to run away, she was sent to a juvenile detention home, but was denied admittance because all

When she decided to do music, many people that knew her didn’t realize that she could spit rhymes. It changed people’s perspective of her. She still faces some obstacles with some people and life, but she says her family and supporters help her overcome most of that.

It all started on January 12, 2001 when Carmen went to a party with some friends. One of Carmen's’ friends said,” Let me introduce you to someone.” Carmen’s friend introduced her to Rogelio. After that day, they started dating because they liked each others personalities. One day they went out for dinner and Rogelio asked,” Do you want to live with me?” And Carmen accepted, but they live in Guadalajara anymore.

Once Oprah entered kindergarten she was advanced, and skipped to the thrips grade, the teachers found out that she had "reading and writing abilities of an eighth grader" (21). Eventually Oprah's grandparents became old and couldn't take care of her anymore, so at seven years old, her mother Vernita agreed to take Oprah in. By this time Vernita was working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she has given birth to another daughter. Oprah didn't want to move with her mom, and she eventually got into trouble. She began to steal money from Vernita's purse, it wasn't too long once she started realizing her money was coming up missing so she sent Oprah to her fathers in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father Vernon Winfrey believed in discipline, work, education. Oprah said that life with her father and stepmother "was like a military school." (24). While living with her father her speaking ability grew stronger and stronger. Once her mother got Oprah back because her father didn't have parental rights her life spiraled downhill. Vernita gave birth to another child. From there on Oprah was lonely, she never seen her mother. She eventually got used to being lonely, and started getting sexually abused by her mother brother. She found comfort in books and speaking and that's what changed her life forever (Nicholson

Aaliyah created a path for singing artists who entertained the audience with her fabulous dance moves and fashion. Aaliyah started this new way to perform and is the reason for new artists like a Beyonce or Ciara. She is the true princess and one of the originals of R&B that every artist looked up too. Her spirit will always be carried in the music industry in every new singing dancing artist that emerges to the scene. She is a idol. Aaliyah was the one of the main artists that opened new doors to different ways of performing music, but as the famous actress Regina King stated in an interview about Aaliyah, “I know that people say that Janet opened a lot of doors for a lot of young black vocalists, but I think you know, we were ready for a

You may be hard pressed to find someone in the world who hasn’t heard what is now a brand name, Oprah. But not everyone may understand the inspiring details of her difficult childhood, and the many disadvantages she overcame to find global success. Oprah was born in 1954 in the American South to an unwed teenage mother who left her quickly after birth. She was raised by her Grandmother for her first six years in poverty in Mississippi – she was so poor she wore dresses made out of potato sacks.

Later that year, she was sent to her mother in Milwaukee. Oprah led a few painful years of her childhood at her mother’s. She was sexually abused by her male relatives and acquaintances. These experiences had a profound effect on her and she turned into a promiscuous and problematic teenager. Her mother tried to admit her in a home for troubled teens, but as the home was full, Oprah was sent